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Show Thursday, February 21, 193&. iTTTT DA T)t? TJTTrTmn Speaking of Sports 100 Get Trials In Americai League Camps 1 By GEORGE A. BARCLAY MORE than 100 rookies are being taken to the various American league spring train ing camps this year. How many of them will make good and stay in fast company? .That is a question that eigh American league managers would like to be able to answer right now. But looking over the records of these recruits and gathering dope Irom the minor league managers who tutored them in 1937, it is evi dent that a very competent bunch of new men are getting tryouts in the junior circuit. The Boston Red Sox seem likely to retain at least eight of the players brought in from Minneapolis and Little Rock, Ark. Among these are Catcher John Peacock, Pitcher Charles Wagner and Outfielder'IIen ry Caffke of Minneapolis; Pitchers Emerson Dickman and Dick Mid kin, Infielder Jim Tabor and Out fielders Deal and Nonnekamp of Lit tle Rock. Mike's New Pitchers Mickey Cochrane, who recently announced his definite retirement as an active player at Detroit, appears to have some likely recruits. Detroit's De-troit's roster is long on pitchers. Mickey will have 17 to choose from. Elton Benton, who starred with Memphis last year, seems ready. Among other good prospects are Pitchers Harry Eisenstat and Jack VS.: mil Alickey Cochrane Corbett, Infielder Frank Croucher and Outfielder Roy Cullenbine. The Chicago White Sox will de pend largely on Gerald Walker and Marv. Owens, acquired in the trade with Detroit to bolster them, but Pitcher Bill Cox from St. Paul and Outfielder Rupert Thompson from San Diego look like the goods. Cleveland has considerable new material, ma-terial, with Pitcher John Humphrey of New Orleans, Outfielder Geoffrey Heath and Third Baseman Kenny Keltner of Milwaukee out in front. The acquisition of Catcher Rollie Hemsley from the St. Louis Browns, should help. The New York Yankees' rookies come from Newark, which won the International league pennant by 24 games last year. Pitchers Joe Beggs, Atlee Donald and Second Baseman Joe Gordon seem ready to step into the lineup and make good. Connie Mack is believed to have four recruits who will give the Athletics Ath-letics considerable aid and comfort this season. These include Pitchers Bill Potter from Columbus, Ohio, Steve KaLfass from Trenton, N.-J., First Baseman Bill Hasson of Wil-liamsport Wil-liamsport and Second Baseman Lod-igiani Lod-igiani of Oakland, Calif. The St. Louis Browns appear to have strengthened themselves not only in their recent major league trades, but by the acquisition of Pitcher Vito Tamuulis and First Baseman George McQuinn of Newark, New-ark, and Pitcher Muncrief of San Antonio. Several of Bucky Harris Washington Wash-ington recruits appear to lack experience, ex-perience, but Outfielder Frank Case and Pitcher Mike Krakakaus of Trenton and Pitchers Leonard of Atlanta and Phebus of Chattanooga are highly touted as being able to deliver the goods in big-league style. Diamond Flashes Fifty nationalities, or combinations of nationalities, are represented in the A'a- tional league. Three have Indian strains: Guy Bush of the Cardinals is English-In dian; Roy Johnson of lioston, ftorwegiaw Indian; Tom Baker of the Giants, Irish Indian ... Lee Crissom, Cincinnati south paw rookie, was unable to beat either Pittsburgh or St. Louis last year, losing four to the Pirates and five to the Cards. But he beat Boston four times and Brooklyn Brook-lyn thrice ... Lou Fette of Boston defeated Brooklyn six times last season, losing one game. It was the most victories any pitcher chalked up over one team . . . IS'ine players in the league have hit more than 100 home runs m their Pi. L. careers, nineteen play ers still in the league have driven in more than 500 runs. Ttventy-six have made more than 1,000 hits . . . Biggest margin held by any club over another since 1900 is the tubs lead over boston, 519 to 301. I! A School for Umps yOU see and hear a lot of things and you likewise learn a few odds and ends in thirty-six years of major and minor league umpiring. "Brick" Owens, famed American league arbiter who retired a few weeks ago, could tell you that. So out of the fullness of his experience, Brick is preparing to conduct a correspondence cor-respondence school for umpires. Looking back over the years, Owens has seen some great ball clubs and some great players. The best team of all, he says, was the White Sdk of 1919 and 1920 that turned into the "Black Sox." Among pitchers, Brick considers Walter Johnson's delivery as deceptive as Bob Feller Lefty Grove any he ever saw. He says Lefty Grove was one of the three or four fastest pitchers in history. Bob Feller, Fel-ler, the schoolboy sensation of Cleveland, Cleve-land, is rated by Brick as a faster pitcher than Lefty Grove and as fast as Johnson. "Feller has something few pitch ers ever had," says Brick. lie throws his curve ball almost as fast as his speed ball. During his officiating career, Owens umpired more than 5,700 games and believes he encountered every tough problem possible. Not once in his career did he permit a game to get out of hand. He officiated 3,450 games in the Amer ican league, 1,512 in the American Association and several hundred more in other minor leagues. Here and There f IKE GIBBONS, one of the lead-ing lead-ing contenders for the middle weight title 25 years ago, came out of retirement to referee the match" between John Henry Lewis and Fred Lenhart in St. Paul recently . . . Spug Meyers, who fought Mushy Callahan for the junior welterweight title in Chicago in 1929, now is op erating a tavern in Pocatello, Idaho . Bennie Oosterbaan, who led Big Ten basketball scorers in 1928 with 129 points, returned to his alma mater as a football coach the following season and has remained there ever since. Mickey Walker says he would not pick professional boxing as a career, ca-reer, if he had his life to live over . the Michigan-Yale football game next fall will mark the first contest between the two elevens in 55 years, Yale having won their last meeting, 64 to 0, In 1883 . . . Char ley JoneSj manager of Sammy An- gott, lightweight boxer, had com pleted three years of college study at the Louisville Institute of Technology Tech-nology when the World war broke out. Seventeen years later he returned re-turned to the same school. Wade Killifer, last year's Indian apolis manager, will be the highest paid pilot in the Pacific Coast league next season. He will lead the Hollywood club. His 'brother, Bill, will be at Sacramento . . . Notre Dame and Marquette began their basketball series on the old dirt floor at Notre Dame in 1920, resumed re-sumed it on ths concrete floor in Milwaukee's auditorium the follow ing year, and have continued it on hardwood. New David Harum ABBY STREET, foxy old man-J man-J ager of the St. Louis Browns, has earned himself the undisputed title of the David Harum of the American league with three deals this winter which have brought him seven first class players in return for the three he traded, plus abut $20,000 in cash. In the first trade, the Browns ob tained Pitcher Buck Newsom, Out fielder Buster Mills and Infielder Ralph Kress from the Boston Red Sox in return for Joe Vosmik. In the Rollie Hemsley. second deal they sent Rollie Hemsley, Hems-ley, veteran catcher whose play has ranked with that of the game's greatest backstops, to the Cleveland Indians for Catcher Billy Sullivan, Infielder Roy Hughes and Pitcher Ed Cole. In their third trade they swapped Shortstop Bill Knickerbocker Knicker-bocker to the New York Yankees for Utility Infielder Don Heffner and are said to have also received $20,000 in cash from the Yanks. Western Newspaper Union. a u j. ADVENTURERS' HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF? "Under the leer By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter HELLO, EVERYBODY: Do you like hunting? If you do, take a page out of the adventure book of today's winner and always carry a waterproof water-proof box of matches with you. Such a box of matches, boys and girls, saved the life of Lloyd D. Henderson of Paterson, N. J., on a hunting trip in the province of Quebec Que-bec in 1926. Lloyd was up in the Canadian wilds after moose in the late fall of that year and got more than he was looking for. You travel with snow shoes and sled in that season up in that hard country, and Lloyd's party consisted of himself, an Indian guide named Eli and the guide's dog, Muro. They had been in the woods two weeks and were on their way from one branch cabin, on a desolate lake, known as Kidney lake, to another cabin. It was 30 degrees below zero as they mushed their way slowly along the shore ice of the lake. Muro, a big powerful Eskimo dog, as gentle as he was strong, pulled their sled over the treacherous ice. The sled, loaded with everything they had, weighed over 300 pounds. Lloyd is no lightweight himself and tips the scales at 250. Luck had been bad, Lloyd says, and he and the guide were trudging along disconsolately. Even the dog seemed to understand and gazed at his master sadly as he stopped now and then to bite the clusters of crippling ice that gathered between the pads of his paws. Plunged Into the Icy Waters. Once the dog stopped and whined a little as though asking his master to go no further. In the thinks the dog had a premonition back before it was too late. But the pushed on. The dog led the way, pulling the sled, the guide followed and Lloyd came on a few feet behind. "Suddenly," Lloyd writes, "I stopped horror-stricken in my tracks. A loud cracking came from the ice and before my eyes it broke and the sled and Eli disappeared from view. I had no time, however, to act, because the next second the ice gave way under me and I plunged into the icy waters of the lake. "The shock was terrific as the water numbed me to the bone. 1 thought it was all over with me as I went under and expected to come up under the ice, but I rose to the surface and was able to hang on to the jagged edge. Eli, I saw then, had not gone completely under. He had caught on the edge by his arms as he fell and was clinging to the slippery slip-pery ice as I was. The plight of Muro next concerned me and the sight The Dog Was Pulling With All His Strength. Of the terrible predicament of that brave dog is one I can never forget. "He was still on the ice fighting for all he was worth to keep his footing. The heavy sled made heavier still by the water was slowly dragging him after it. Although all our food, supplies and guns were on that sled, I know we were both thinking only of the dog at that moment. Dog Perished Doing His Best. "He would dig his toes claws spread wide into the ice and pull with all his strength, but little by little the brave dog was- being dragged closer to his death. Nothing would save him, I knew, once he was in that water." Well, sir, Lloyd goes on to say that suddenly it occurred to him to cut the dog loose from his traces. He reached for his knife. But the intense in-tense cold had already done its work. A coating of firm ice covered Lloyd's gloved hand. The glove was frozen stiff to his hand. Eli had thought of the same thing, only to find his hands likewise helpless. Lloyd says he could see the tears on his guide's face start and freeze on his wan cheeks as the dog he loved like a child slipped slowly after the sled. Muro's hind legs were now only inches from the edge of the ice. The dog looked around at his master, whined plaintively and the next second slid over the edge and disappeared forever. The men sobbed aloud, but the fate of the poor dog brought them both back to their own deadly danger. Lloyd's 250 pounds made it impossible im-possible for him to pull himself up on the ice. The edge of the ice broke at each effort and each effort made him weaker from the cold. He finally stopped trying and hung frozen to the edge waiting for the end. Eli was a lighter man, and after what seemed hours he was able to draw himself up on the ice. He crawled on his stomach to shore and Lloyd through glazed eyes saw him go and did not blame him. Saved by His Faithful Guide. But Lloyd's Indian guide had no intention of deserting him. Back he came cautiously on his stomach, pushing a small pine, tree in front of him. Lloyd was able to wrap his arms around the tree and was soon on shore. And then their troubles really began. With clothes soaking wet and freezing fast in the deadly cold they began their fight for circulation. They ran eight miles in that condition. Lloyd says the guide's face was black from the cold and he had to hit him to keep him awake. Cold kills by making its victim sleepy, but Lloyd wouldn't let the guide rest. More dead then alive they reached the cabin, and that's where Lloyd's waterproof matches come in. His frozen hands finally got a blaze started, and the two lay before the fire and thawed out. No food was in the place, but they heated water and drank it hot throughout the long night. They stripped and dried their clothes and at dawn started the long trek back to their permanent camp. Both men made it and Lloyd was soon on his way home. But the guide, Eli, took to his bed and never got up. Pneumonia set in and the brave Indian went to join his beloved dog in the Happy Hunting Ground. Copyright. WNU Service. Aklavik, Inside Arctic Circle j Aklavik, well inside the Arctic j circle, is almost as far north as I Point Barrow, Alaska, northernmost j point of civilization, says the Na- tional Geographic society. Aklavik ! is the largest trading post on the Mackenzie river delta. Tempera-jtures Tempera-jtures sometimes reach 65 below zero. j. Saint John's Wort I Saint John's Wort (Hypericum) is j supposed to show red spots on Aug-just Aug-just 29, the day St. John was be-; be-; headed, says a writer in the Rural J New-Yorker. It is supposed to keep ; away evil spirits, ghosts or thunder-i thunder-i bolts, and if hung in the bedroom of a young maid she can dream of her i future husband. Could Not Use Platinum Platinum could not be used in ancient times because of its high melting point. CLUB light of what happened later Lloyd of death and wished them to turn men, lacking the instinct of animals, "Arkansas" Name Used by Indians "Arkansas" was the name formerly for-merly used by the Illinois Indians to designate the Quapaw tribes living liv-ing near the mouth of the Arkansas river and was probably derived from the name of a Sioux clan division divi-sion of which the present Omaha, Ponca, Osage and Kansa tribes were part. Weapons Displayed by Museum Guns, pistols, revolvers, cutlasses, swords, and bayonets, graphic evidences evi-dences of the increased mtirderous-ness mtirderous-ness of man from pre-Revolutionary days up to the World war, are contained con-tained in the notable collection of small firearms on exhibition at the Fort McHenry National museum, Baltimore, Md. Thoroughbred Racers' Usefulness The term of racing usefulness of thoroughbreds is usually between five and eight years. V 4 , Thought Precious Stones Protection From Disease In earlier times precious stones were supposed to have supernatural and medicinal powers. Certain stones gave protection from sorcerers sorcer-ers or vampires, disease, poison or evil spirits. Others put a spell on enemies, enabled their owners to see distant events, cure illnesses, and look into the past or future. They were also believed to insure good luck. Practically the only ideas of this kind surviving in Britain, says Pearson's Pear-son's London Weekly, are that pearls bring tears, that opals are unlucky and los.e their brilliance while the person wearing them is ill. Many a French bride will not wear pearls on- her wedding day, believing them to be omens of tears to come. There is an Egyptian belief that the surest way to test an emerald is to offer it to a snake; if it is genuine the snake will at once begin be-gin to lick it with its flickering tongue. The ancient scientist Cardanus advised ad-vised people' to wear jet, to avoid nightmares; and Albertus Magnus declared that the emerald split as soon as it touched the skin of an adulterer. The French used to believe that sapphires soaked in vinegar made a wonderful remedy for fevers, and that powdered sapphires cured inflamed in-flamed eyes. A topaz, they thought, lost its transparency when brought into contact with poisons. To this day, the Burmese have the same name, chein, for arsenic and diamond, dia-mond, believing both to be deadly poisons. . The diamond was said in medieval medi-eval Europe to have sex; the male stones glittered more brightly than the females, and brought higher prices. There is a saying in India that it is strengthening to wear amethysts. am-ethysts. First Color of French Flag While it is not usual to associate red with the French monarchy, it was really the first color of the king's flag, called the oriflamme. It is only because red was also adopted by the English king that the French gave it up for blue. It was under the blue flag that Huguenots Hugue-nots came to America first as loyal subjects of the king of France. However, How-ever, the red flag was preserved on the galleys of the Mediterranean fleet where terrible suffering was endured by the unhappy men who could not understand the injustice of the king. Spelling "Coconut" The people of Trinidad spell cocoa-nut cocoa-nut without an "a" that is, coconut. coco-nut. The original derivation comes from the Spanish word "coco," applied ap-plied to a monkey's face, the three eyes on the nut giving it the appearance appear-ance of a monkey's face, the lower eye seeming to resemble a mouth. The coconut tree, bare to within a few feet of the tassel-like top, is one of tne most beautiful in the West Indies. The trade winds keep it always waving. HALF-PINT PINT QUART is 1 OlSTlUtO BY SO PROOF 3s jfSwiSKEYls? YEARS OuTjj If"''.. "."r""" ' """" ' t HIRAM WALKER & SONS, PEORIA, ILLINOIS ' WALKERVILLE, ONT.; GLASGOW, SCOTLAND Thought Precious Stones Protection From Disease! In earlier times precious stonesi were supposed to have supernatural and medicinal powers. Certain stones gave protection from sorcerers sorcer-ers or vampires, disease, poison or evil spirits. Others put a spell on enemies, enabled their owners to see distant events, cure illnesses, and look into the past or future. They were also believed to insure good Iuck. Practically the only ideas of this kind surviving in Britain, says Pearson's Pear-son's London Weekly, are that pearls bring tears, that opals are unlucky and lose their brilliance while the person wearing them is ill. Many a French bride will not wear pearls on her wedding day, believing them to be omens of tears to come. There is an Egyptian belief that, the surest way to test an emeraldl is to offer it to a snake; if it isj genuine the snake will at once be-i gin to lick it with its flickering tongue. ' The ancient scientist Cardanus ad-i vised people to wear jet, to avoidi nightmares; and Albertus Magnusj declared that the emerald split as( soon as it touched the skin of ani adulterer. The French used to believe that; sapphires soaked in vinegar madej a wonderful remedy for fevers, and; that powdered sapphires cured in-, flamed eyes. A topaz, they thought' lost its transparency when brought into contact with poisons. To this; day, the Burmese have the same name, chein, for arsenic and diamond, dia-mond, believing both to be deadly; poisons. The diamond was said in medi-t eval Europe to have sex; the mala stones glittered more brightly than the females, and brought higher prices. There is a saying in India that it is strengthening to wear amethysts. am-ethysts. Arizona Crater a Wonder ' Near Winslow, Ariz., the great meteor crater ;s an object of unflagging un-flagging interest. This tremendous hole, a mile in diameter, was formed by the impact of the head of a small comet that plunged into the earth ages ago and now lies buried more than a thousand feet beneath the surface. The bottom of; the crater is about 50 stories deep, and around the rim is an even hill as white as snow, that indicates the intense heat that scorched the earth all around as the flaming comet struck. First Free Rural Mail The first free rural mail delivery in the United States is said to have originated from the postoffice at Thibodaux, La., 60 miles, west of New Orleans. It comprised territory terri-tory between Thibodaux and Laba-dieville Laba-dieville Crossing, and also on both banks of the bayou. The service was established as an experiment and proved successful, due to the dense population of the section. The territory from Thibodaux to Race-land, Race-land, along the south bank of Bayou Lafourche, is the most thickly settled set-tled rural population in the world. CODE NO. 143 CODE NO. Ill CODE NO. 110 li 'I l |