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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Grab a Mask Speaking of Sports -- TF YOURE an ambitious young 1 Football Is ball player bent on breaking into the major leagues, grab a mask and mitt, pull on a and get behind the plate. Theres a catchers and shortage of first-claan abundance of opportunities' for. youngsters who have promise. Thats the opinion of Charley BarBy GEORGE A. BARCLAY rett, senior scout of the St. Louis DESSIMISM time is here. It's Cardinals who has spent the last 1 that preseason mourning period quarter of a century combing the when football coaches pine over the countryside in search of talented games theyre going to drop and la- young ball players. ment over the stars theyve lost from last years squad. From the West to the East and back again it is a tale of woe. Out on the Pacific coast Stub Allison, coach of the University of Californias Golden Bears, will tell you with considerable justification that the remnants of last years great eleven will face stronger opposition from at least three schools Stanford, Washington and Southern California Graduation robbed the team of six g men who were picked on one or more teams. Among them were the mighty Sam Chapman, now outfielding for Connie Macks Philadelphia Athletics, his cagy quarterback, John Meek and linemen Bob Herwig, Vard Stockton and Claude Evans. But Allison still has Vic Bottari at left half and Dave Anderson at full, as well as a number of new luminaries who promise to shine. chest-protect- Game of Woe, Wail Coaches Traffic Culprits Face Bicycle Court or ss first-strin- an Same Old Story STARTS NEW LINER Maharajah Is Handy With a Camera BILL DICKEY As you move east its much the same story. At Nebraska Coach Biff Jones will remind you that the Huskers lost their entire g line with the exception of mighty Charles Brock, center, as well as Quarterback Johnny Howell and Halfback Harris Andrews. But observers agree that the squad this year will be better balanced than last year. In their own Big Six circle the Huskers rate as the team to beat. Oklahoma, hard hit by graduations; will present a heavy, fighting team, Kansas is expected to be better and Iowa State a threat in any game. In the Big Ten of the Middle West, Bernie Bierman, coach of the Uni- first-strin- Twenty-fiv- e years ago every major league club held it an absolute necessity to have at least two star catchers on the squad, Barrett But today you can pointed out. recount the number of first-claceivers on the fingers of one hand. As a matter of fact there are only two or three outstanding catchers in active service at present Bill Dickey of the New York Yankees, Gabby Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs and Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinss nati Reds. Reason for the dearth of catching material, according to Barrett, is g craze ushered in the by Babe Ruth and subsequent home run sluggers. About six years ago I made a survey of this condition among youngsters starting out in the class D minor leagues, he said. I advised them to try their hand at catching, but they scoffed at the idea. They wanted to become home run sluggers. They practiced batting to the exclusion of practically everything else and they refused to put on a mask and mitt. fence-bustin- high-pric- ed Here and There r ISCOVERING hitherto unchart- ed lakes filled to the brim with black bass and speckled trout is the summer hobby of Bob Becker, hunt- BO McMILLIN versity of Minnesota, shakes his head over the prospects and predicts that the Gophers reign will be over for a spell. His pessimism is generally accepted, for most football folks agree that Ohio State has by far the best material in the conference, if all the talent Francis Schmidt now has lives up to expectations. Coaches around the conference will be wary of the team Bo McMil-liwho was head coach of the colgame, lege boys in the sends out for Indiana university. But material or no material, the man who beat Harvard almost when he was down in Centre college in Kentucky is a smart coach and hell show his opponents plenty of skill in the conference schedule. Purdue and Northwestern figure to be fairly tough. The sad story of losses by graduation is repeated at Notre Dame when Elmer Layden is asked about his teams prospects. We wont have a great team, It will probably kick he says. some games away through lack of experience. Of one thing Im sure, however, it wont be because they n, All-St- Whenever a youngster on a bicycle in Laporte, Ind., is caught violating a traffic rule, he is haled into the bicycle court to appear before Judge Joseph Daley, a high school junior who metes out fines up to 60 cents, forbids use of the bike or makes the culprit attend a safety motion picture depending on the seriousness of the offense. Photograph shows a batch of youngsters who have been summoned to court. ar Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the United States maritime commission, drives the first rivet in the keel of a new liner which is to be the biggest and fastest ever constructed in this country. The vessel is being built to replace Squinting through his camera finder is His Highness Raoi Shri the old Leviathan in the the maharajah of Bhawnagoe, who with his wife, the service. The ceremony took maharanee, was a spectator at a swimming meet at San Francisco, Calif. The maharanee carries a diamond in her nose. place at Newport News, Va. Krishn-kamursing- hi, trans-Atlant- ic Submarine Depot Ship for Britain er, explorer, fisherman, and authority on dogs. Among the half dozen lakes he turned up this year is one in the Kenora region of Ontario, Canada, to be called Lake Becker in his honor. In the fall and winter Becker varies his program in Chicago of writing about fishing and hunting by conducting a radio series entitled Chats About Dogs. On his fishing and exploring trips he usually takes along his champion terrier, Redlands Defiance, as a companion. Hack Wilson, who blasted out 58 home runs for the Cubs back in 1930, is still box office in Chicago. He proved it recently by drawing 8,000 customers into a semi-pr- o park to watch him play with a team from McKeesport, Pa. . . . Winter fishing is not harmful to summer fishing, as is generally supposed, according to a survey of the Institute of Fisheries Research of the University of Michigan. single-- handed Castoff Stars ASTOFFS from the St. Louis Car dinals farm chain far-flun- g minor league are popping up all over Emphasizing Britains determination to be prepared for war eventualities, the new H. M. S. Forth, a the major leagues in the role of submarine depot ship built at a cost of $10,000,000, is launched at Clydebank, Scotland. She was built alongstars and in numerous instances side the giant liner Queen Elizabeth, now under construction. theyre proving a plague to their former employers. Four key players with the Pittsburgh Pirates were at one time in Faces in the Headlines: Youth and Age Just because his names Michael, Michael Hanlon will receive $177,000 on his twenty-fift- h birthday. He is tbe heir of the late Judge Michael Hyland, of San Jose, Calif., who never saw the child. The dont try. Coaches in the East are a bit chary about confiding their prospects, but Lou Little, coach at Columbia, will tell you that he has been devoting a lot of serious time to exploring the possibilities of the new football rules. He concludes that the changes will produce live- lier formations and higher scores. The changes, two in number, are as follows: One moves the ball in 15 yards from the sideline, instead of 10 as in the past. The other permits three unrestricted forward passes over the goal line instead of one as has been the custom hitherto. parents named him after the judge, because distant relation that he was, they loved the judge, the baby looked like him ; besides, Mike is a swell name. great-grand-uncl- the Cardinal organization Cy Blanton, Bob Klinger and Mace Brown, pitchers and Johnny Rizzo, hardhitting outfielder. Union. Western Newspaper e, William T. Marshall, who has served as private librarian to Presidents in the White House since 1899 and is now retiring. Mr. Marshall, who is seventy-tw- o years old, has been a member of the White House staff for 40 years. |