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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH OUR COMIC SECTION New York Post. Guitar-Strummin- WNU Service. g Cards Practice Up on Victory Theme MORNING among the Mndcats: wonder, said the reporter, If any of the Cards are up. I You wonder! There was infinite scorn mingled with baffled rage in the hotel clerks voice. Ask some of those gays there. Ask There was a pause while the clerk sought to soothe another sleepy-eye-d gentleman who had come down NOT IN THE BOX SCORE: VTOUNG Lee Handleys hitting and 1 fielding undoubtedly have helped Pittsburghs Pirates this season, hut his most important contribution seems to have been neglected by the public commentators. I refer to his fine clear voice, which he is not afraid to raise in whoops of encouragement and protest. Before he injected some elan into the i Pittsburgh pitchers used to have to look around every few seconds to make sure they had a team on the field with them. Just to prove that there is a common denominator for all of us, Glenn Cunningham, who holds the indoor and outdoor records for the mile, stenoglooks like a knock-knee- d a for when subway running rapher train in New York. Sometimes he doesnt even make it and gets sore like the rest of us, too. For instance there was that day recently when a Grand Central guard accomplished that which Gene Venzke has been trying to do for years with scant success closing a door in front of Glenns flushed face. n When Van Mungo staged his two-da- y rebellion last summer a Dodger director explained to me why the pitched just had to quit on his teammates. It was because Van is a fast ball pitcher and that Stengel makes him keep trying to , throw curves when hes never had to throw curves before. Now National League players are explaining why Mungo is having such rare success this season. It is because Van, who used to be nothing but a fast ball thrower, now has a swell and well controlled curve to fool you with.. . .Frank Keogh, international riding star, now is a patrol judge on metropolitan courses . . . Rigan McKinney will not ride in any steeplechases this year. He is on a world tour. Like Pete Bostwick, also on the sidelines, McKinney is said to have received retirement orders. Walter E. OHara, who frankly styles himself as a promoter and not as a sportsman, pays all hospital bills for jockeys injured at his park. Theres no insurance gag either, the money coming right out of his own jeans. . . . The real name of Tony Malinosky, recruit infielder of the Dodgers, is Malununus. . . . Tony, a Lithuanian, changed the name, explaining that he had taken Malinosky for short and did not notice until some time later that both names have nine letters. . . . Art Lasky, former heavyweight title contender, is trying to get a job as a referee in California. . . . Gilly Brack, hitting sensation of the National league, who several days this spring led the league in batting, works in a Louisville bat factory in the off season. When signed by the Dodgers . he threw away the bats with which he batted .229 in the American association and designed twelve new models especially adapted for hitting major league pitching. one-ma- . the stairs. The reporter glanced at the horde of other similarly attired and irate gentlemen galloping through the lobby. Now and then one of them would collapse exhausted on a lounge. A moment later tired eyes would close in grateful slumber. The reporter wished he had been built in the Richard Harding Davis mold so that he could get a line on such unseemly doings in the lobby of a great hostelry at the unearthly hour of 9 a. m. The clerks, voice had Okay. lapsed into that sad, sweet resignation which comes to men who have encountered the worst and have resolved no longer to combat it. Go on up. Where? Just get on the elevator and use your own judgment. Thatll be them. The reporter did and it was. But even then he was surprised. It scarcely seemed, even judging from the increasing tempo of the advance warnings all the way from the first r, to the that all that noise could be made by a mandolin and three guitars. He hesitated in the doorway. After all if the Gas House boys could take on a journalist before dinner what chance would a little gee have Impelled by a blind loyalty to his stumbled in. The swarthy gentleman in cerise pajamas waved one languid hand while continuing to pick energetically at his mandolin with the other Schalk Picks Best paw. The unshaven Ray and hairy chested Athletes of Diamond gentleman made a similar gesture of Ray Schalk, famous White Sox greeting with a flaf-tis- h catcher of other days, says that foot. It was not Everett Scott, old to meant that he be Yankee shortstop, is impolite. Even Pepthe best bowler to per Martin has difficulty keeping up come out of basewith the conventions when standing ball; Carl HubbeU is on his head playing a guitar. a better pitcher than Would you mind playing someDizzy Dean; Ty Cobb thing soothing, asked the reporter. was the greatest J player of all time, Frenchy Bordagaray patted his and Joe Jackson was cerise pajamas. Well give you the best natural hitour theme song, he offered. They ter . Ohio State did. athletes hold seven "We are mud cats, tough as wild cats, of the 15 Big Ten Our ears are made of leather outdoor track recAud they Sop in windy weather. Gosh all hemlocks ords. Four of them belong to Jesse Were as tough as pine knots. Owens. . . .. They also stand as Were irom Oklahoma, cant you see" world records . . . Mrs. Paul Nice song , the reporter inter- Bowser, wife of the wrestling imrupted by crashing a bureau to the presario, was the woman wrestfloor after the forty-nint- h repetition ling champion of the world as Cora of the verse. Got it all over those Livingston years ago. . . Harry things Berlin and Gershwin do. Kipke predicts that Minnesotas footThose birds handicap themselves by ball team will be in a class by itself next fall. He gives his own Michigan sticking to a special tune. Shucks, Pepper Martin, who eleven as good a chance as any had been trying to introduce a vari- other to finish second in the Big Ten. ation by playing his guitar with one Ten years ago seven specialists hand while hanging from outside told Freddie Steele, middleweight the window ledge with the other, boxing champion, he would have chinned himself back into the room. to quit the ring because of a kidney I can write em with one hand tied ailment. . . . Because the sun was behind my back. I can. Say, I bad in Shibe park during the first think thats Frisch rooming below game of a double-headJim here. You gotta treat the manager once tried to use outfieldersDykes sun right. Im gonna serenade him. glasses while playing third base for He disappeared over the window the Athletics. He tossed them ledge again. away after losing a couple of pop Soccer is the major remarked the reporter fouls. Well, after a while. It looks like youve sport in Shanghai. . . . The Shang-h- ai Football association is affiliated lost a good guitar. with Association of EngTut, dont mention it, said land.the Football All pliyers in Chinn Msieu Bordagaray. We can get are registered with the British group plenty more of them. Theres a music store that feeds em to us. . . . Johnny Baldwin, captain of This Bob Weiland hes up there now Notre Dames 1933 basketball team, is working for the American airgetting a guitar. Thatll lines. Earl Brucker, the Athget us some place. letics slugging rookie, and Pid PurProbably the hotel complaining dy, the old Cincinnati outfielder, were again, said the ever polite Msieu the same age when they broke into Those travelling baseball Bordagaray.; . . . Now Purdy salesmen havent any appreciation is thirty-fou- r together. and Brucker thirty-twof art. according to the Athletics roster. Nar-ragans- F I N N twenty-first-floo- 250-pou- nd y OF THE F O R C E By Ted OLoughlin WNlf 99 , .. The F E , A T H E R H E A D er ... ... left-hand- ed ... ... , Osborne o, ( WHt; s ett , |