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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM. UTAH OOSTERBAANWAS EXCEPTIONAL END A Aa Flagstead Rates as Great C C v C third saeker, shortstop, outfielder, lumberman, steam fitter, raiser of game chickens and English call ducks, and addicted to sightseeing with an X ambition to make a trip around the world. Put on Mythical All-Ameri-c- an Team Three Times. Benny Oosterbaan ended his college days with the satisfaction of having accomplished what few college men ever succeeded In doing. He carried away with him a solid gold football studded with three diamonds, Jeweled evidence that he was elevated to the mythical give his employer the best be had in him eleven three times. and that's why the Boston fans remembered His name will go down in foot! all summer. with a him last X "Flagstead day" history along with those of Shevlin Flaggy is more than a mere center fielder. and Hlnkey of Yale and a few othJ For several years be has been flanked by ers. He will be remembered and rerookie or crude gardeners at Fenway field ferred to as one of the great ends of and it has been Iras voluntary task to try to all time, writes H. G. Salsinger in the X In till in them some idea of bow to play the outfield without wearing News. Detroit In mask to a balls. and hit avoid X fact, fiy misjudged by being protector J Here, indeed, was a football player Sox Outfield. him to as the X Boston writers often have referred $ a man who stood head and shoulJ And, yet Flagstead was everything but an outfielder before he X ders above his fellows. .It may be X became one of the best fly catchers in the land. There was a ball field a long stretch of seasons before nls X across the street from his home in his native town of Montague, Mich.. at of sixteen. town was team's he catcher the and the X equal appears on the horizon. age He was possessed of mechanical X Then, he listened to Horace Greeleys advice and went West He $ skill and football intuition, a man X mill moved In to a in In lumber Little two Rock, Wash., years $ put born to the game, with every natural X Olympia, Wash., first as a mill worker, then as a steam fitter. Incident- talent for It. These talents be demuch twenty-fouat of the JX ally, be kept on catching. age Finally, later in life than the average player breaks Into the pro game, he X veloped and polished to the last X signed with the Tacoma team of the Northwestern league and caught He came Into the game when the ' X $ and played third base and the outfield. X He batted .3S1 and found his way to Detroit, which farmed him out $ end position had been made more him behind the bat in one exhibition game X and more difficult and important, 0V to Chattanooga after .using . . . . . .. . A after a succession of seasons saw an n .I i ever increasing number of duties piled upon the wingmen. How Oosterbaan compared with Hinkey and Shevlin will never be es tablished, for end play in the days of Hinkey and Shevlin was comparatively simple with what end play is today. There was no forward passing in the days of Hinkey and Shevlin, no open play. No one will ever know whether either Hinkey and Shevlin could have done as many things as well as Oosterbaan did them. It may be said without qualification that Oosterbaan Is the best end the game has produced since the introduction of the forward pass. He, better than any other end in the last 20 years, solved the difficulties of the Creation Cub Machine Is position. He was not content to be of Pilot Joe McCarthy merely an end; he extended his du ties to forward passing and ball carThe Cub machine, which appears to have been almost perfectly finished There Is more bawl in football than rying. Heralded as the greatest receiver and polished by the acquisition of baseball. of forward passes in the game dur Rogers Hornsby, is largely the creaing his first year of collegiate foottion of the astute Joe McCarthy. Commercializing sport doesnt pay. Oosterbaan became one of the Since he left the minor leagues to $uzanne fengien has quit tennis for ball, best forward passers of all time in team has of the the Cubs take charge all time. his last year of football. He was been almost entirely rebuilt, and eyery a master at both ends of the air atmove made in the rebuilding was engiThe Rockwood Hall Country club of tack in his final season of college neered by McCarthy. Tarrytown, N. Y is building a second competition. back He brought Riggs Stephenson golf course. , i from the miners when every other New Cardinal Pilot in the couldnt Jack major leagues manager Quinn, veteran with the AthBee him. letics, pitched his first game in 1903, j He pulled a fast one on the New and 'be is still at it. York Giants when he slipped in a Harry Dillon, light heavyweight of draft claim for Hack Wilson. He brought Woody English and Winnipeg, is said to resemble Jack Freddy Maguire up from the minor Dillon, the giant killer. 4i leagues, took Art Nehf when he was aired in Cincinnati and arranged the Hurry Wolverton, former outfielder transfer of Hal Carlson from the witn the New York Yankees, is now Phillies. selling automobiles in Los Angeles. He secured Kiki Cuyler when he heard that the Pirates had decided to - Arlie Mucks, the old shot putter, is get rid of him, and he was the first now a football official. He stands 6 one to the counter when a friendly tip feet 6 Inches and weighs 206 pounds. brought the Information that nornsby was no longer considered an essential Jack Hendricks, for the last five In Boston. years manager of the Cincinnati Reds, signed a contract to pilot the club in out-5 Thats Ira Flagstead, star fielder of the Boston Red Sox. Rated as one of the greatest outfielders X in the game today, Flagstead works hard X because he knows no other way. He always has worked hard. He always has tried to hard-workin- g r, de-gre- m a , . Honor for Brundage 1029. George Knothe, shortstop for i the Tulsa Oilers, started 78 double plays for his team and figured in 167 during the year. John J. OBrien, president of the new National Basket Bail league, for years has headed court leagues around New York. ,V. Hub Pruett of the Philadelphia Na tionais says he wili';not pitch in 1029. He plans to spend aB'hft time practic- J , ; ing medicine . v. Some one mentioned the Boxer uprising the other nighlahcl Dora thought that was when Tunney ghf mad at the' photographers. V! Purchase of Milton Gordon, young third baseman froiri; b'e Wilkes-Barr- e club of the NewJ . , league, was anriounced. . r . . Joe Munson, iTulsa obtfietder who led the Western lehguq, ip, hitting, nev- er missed a single, one of the 163 games played by his club. , Avery Brundage, Chicago contracathletic champion, who was elected president of the National Amateur Athletic union by unanimous vote, of the 1028 convention. Brundage threw down the gauntlet to commercialism in before he had been in the sport chair two minutes. tor and former 5 Joe Sewell, Cleveland shortstop, led the American league last season in of times. striking out the In 153 games Joe whiffed only seven times. ' V'--' .. .,. i ' Warren Brown, writes tha( Qtto von Porat has that- most pfedous of all qualities in a heavy wdhtj he gets up. Except possibly the precious quality of staying' up: least-numbe- ' .. , 4 Dobbs probably lasted ng-ethan any other fighter, listed in the record books, according to Fight Stories Magazine. He has engaged in years and ring warfare for thirty-fiv- e at the age of sixty still boxes every day in the gymnasium with youngsters a third his years. Bob Fitzsimmons was In the ring for thirty years, and Frank Craig, the Harlem coffee cooler, as long. Dobbs, slim and lean, still has some of his old speed. It was a Peat to watch him with sluggers like BobThe old fellow tried to by Barrett. teach the Clifton Heights redhead something of his boxing skill, but never succeeded. Barrett was just a slugger and could have stopped Dobbs any time he landed on him; hut in their short training bouts he never could land. Bobby r 0JASKETBALl. Eari Averhlli;- cratfk Outfielder of the San Francisco Seals,-- has been sold to the Ciejidla'nd' Americans for an unannounced (price, but believed to be around $50,000 and' fwi pla'yers. : The fans who pocketed base X balls knocked Into the bleachers Tang,' a John Hopki'ns stu! by lusty hitters were contribut dent,. plays outside' right1' tor the Bal4 Ing factors to a move that may X timore Soccer clubi-- . He-a- a 'an X propel Harrisburg out of the $ selection' in ' 1925 phd Starred league. X for three years on the''Tsifig,'Hue col0 New X Fans captured $1,000 worth oi $ ' " lege soccer team, , X baseballs last season, an official ! c. J report said. That is part of the X After one season orVxpeiTent-- with X $0,740.31 indebtedness of the it, directors, of the Pacific CVla'sCBase-,- , club and a committee has been X ball league in annul.session tyjfeiMto X appointed to decide whether the 'abandon the split sq'asfinVand; return X to the old straight-throug- h franchise shall be kept , y schedule V A of 28 weeks of play. C Bobby Dobbs Is Still Boxing at Age of 60 . - $ Big Deficit Due to $ Stolen Baseballs $ Appointment of Billy Souihworib as manager of the National league champions, the St. Louis Cardinals, is announced by President Sam Bread-on- . He succeeds Bill McKechnie. McKechnie, who led the 1928 team to a league championship, will pilot the Rochester club next season. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Drawing by Ray Walters) 8 EVERY child knows, Santa Claus makes his rounds on Christmas eve In a sleigh drawn by eight and their tiny reindeer names are Dasher, Vix"Dancer," Prancer," en,". "Comet, Cupid, "Donder" and Blitzen." I he team, however, was not always Eriss Kringles motive power. Time was when he made his visits mounted on a snowy white horse. That was when he was known as Sinterklass, the pet name of the little Dntcb children for their friend. Bishop St. Nicholas, who, they believed, brought them gifts on 3t Nicholas eve, December 5. When Sinterklass came to New Amsterdam and became Americanized, his name was changed to Santa Clans and he began using a little wagon drawn by a fat. pony, for his visits on New Years eve Instead of December 5. Then in 1822 Clement Clark Moore wrote the famous poem which he called "A Visit From SL Nicholas," but which later became famous as "The Night Before Christmas." In this poem Santas equipage was the miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer" and the sleigh, and reindeer it has been ever since. Just- - as Santa Claus is an "immigrant and a "naturalized American," so are the steeds which he drives. No doubt .it will be a surprise to many Americans to learn just how there many of these "immigrants are In America now as well as to know that the reindeer Is not only a part of the symbolism of Christmas but in one part of this continent he is an Important economic factor. Dp In Alaska there are more than 700.000 of these animals grazing on the frozen tundra of the North and their rapid increase, despite the fact that more than 250,000 have been slaughtered for food since they were first Introduced here, is Americas protection against a meat famine caused by the rapid diminishing of our beef herds. . All of which Is due to an exg Uncle periment which our Sam embarked upon some thirty-seve- n years ago. The story of that experiment and the part which a Wisconsin professor had in it Is told by a writer in the Milwaukee Journal as follows: Reindeer are caribou, domesticated through many centuries. The average n animnl is, 150 weight of a pounds, but by crossing with the larger wools .caribou, it is hoped to develop ar. nimal of 250 pounds. Through the centuries of domestication its flesh has lost the game flavor until now it Is said to, resemble a cross between duck and mutton. The animals are more docile than cattle. A man b safe in p. milling herd, he may appear to a watcher although to ; be In imminent danger of being the feet or impaled on trampled under the horns of- - the deer. This docility, together with, knowledge of their hab eight-reinde- er full-grow- Santa Claus a Bishop Pei-Sun- g The' uame-o- f Santa Claus is merely slurring . the Dutch San Nicholas, which is, of course. Saint Nicholas. American children are probably the only ones in the world who sny it just a - . - that e . BASKET THIS is Shooting- - NOT DONE IN MANNER.. NO sm. a Way. Nicholas was an actual person. He was Bishop of Myra, in Lycia, Asia Minor, in the first part of the Fourth century of the Christian era. He was the yourige'stf bishop' in the history of its, makes them the easiest, to rhandle of all domestic animals. The tundup is simplified by the fact that t a mosquitoes in summer drive the .peer to the sea coast, where they are protected by ocean breezes. Herding is made easy by their attachment to their grazing ground. A. reindeer turned loose many days journey from the pasture of Its own herd will find Its way sure- -' ly and quickly home. Reindeer were introduced to Alaska Jn 1831. In that year sixteen were brought from Siberia at the instigation of Dr. Sheldon lackson. When Doctor Jack-so- n was sent to Alaska by the government to establish schools among the natives, he found his wards threatened with starvation as a result of the slaughter by white fnen of the game animals on which the natives had depended for rood. He conceived the idea of replacing the fast disappearing game with reindeer, the principal domestic animal of Lapland and Siberia, the climate and vegetation of which resembled that of Alaska, Returning to the states and unable to Interest congress in the venture. Doctor Jackson sought contributions from the public. He obtained $2,148 with which the first animals were procured in Siberia. At the same time Siberian herdsmen were brought over to care for them. In 1892 150 more reindeer were ImCongress then became mildly ported interested and small appropriations made possible importations through the next ten years until, In 1902, when the Russian government put an embargo on further exportations from Siberia, 1,280 animals had been taken into Alaska. The Siberian herdsmen proved Incompetent as teachers for the Eskimos, and for a time the venture was threatened with failure. It was then that Doctor Jackson went for advice to Prof Rasmus B. Anderson of Msd-isoWls., who, while minister to Denmark, had visited the reindeer herds of Lapland. Doctor Jacksons early interest In the animals had been aroused by a report on the Industry there made by the professor. In pursuance of Professor Anderson's advice, Lapp herders were engaged to replace the Siberians as Instructors to the Eskimos. Each was tent 100 animals from the government herd for a period of years, at the end of which an equal number of reindeer were required to be returned to the government. The Lapps were permitted to retain the Increase. The Eskimos were apprenticed to the Lapps for a period of four years. At the end of the first year each was given six reindeer, at the end of the second, eight, at the end of the third year, ten, and ten more at the end of his fourth year of training. With normal increases, each mans herd would be almost 100 head by the time he had completed his apprenticeship. He was well equipped to start in business for himself. Today, more than of the reindeer of Alaska are owned by natives, of whom some 6,000 have been ., trained in their care. The effect of this .training on the Eskimos s one of the most important two-thir- the church. From the day of his birth Nicholas revfealed his piety und grace. He refused on fast days to take the natural nourishment of a child. But Nicholas was not a barefoot recluse vowed to poverty. His father was a wealthy merchant, and his riches. Inherited by the magic wand which fairy godfathers wield, enabled him to be a' dispenser of the good things of fife as earthly representative of the Supreme Giver of Gifts. The bankers and brokers wished to give sanctity and dignity to their busi , results of the enterprise. Within less than a generation thd reindeer industry has advanced the natives of Alaska through one entire stage of civilization from the primitive to the pastoral, from nomadic hunters to civilized men, independent, responsible, assured of support for themselves and an opportunity to acquire wealth. They have bank accounts, purchase American clothing and food, have adopted I-in mproved methods of sanitation and, some instances, have built fram- ehouses from Imported lumber. Between 1918 and 1925 more than 1,875,000 pounds of reindeer meat whs shipped to the United States from AlaTwo hundred thousand pounds, ska. was shipped tn 1923, while by 1925, the export had Increased to 680,000 pounds. aThe export for 1927 was expected lmost to. double that of 1925, the amount Reidepending on shipping facilities.15 to !9 ndeer meat sells In Nome for cents a pound. It can' be delivered it Seattle for 15 cents a pound, and. wit Increased shipments and improved methods of handling, even this price can be reduced. While the only reindeer on this co- tentinent now are In Alaska, and the oy restricted Is rritorys production million head, there pasturage o four are millions of acres in Canada where an ten times as many can be fed, an vast stretches in northern Europeram Asia where reindeer have been for centuries, but never on an extema y nsive. scale, where ten times as can be grazed as In Canada beInsuthen, 444,000,000 reindeer could Eurasia, pported nv Alaska, Canada and t assuring a substantial contribution B the worlds supply of food and lization of what otherwise would ivfi et a Iflnd The reindeer roundup rivals. J scene of picturesque activity the st cattle roundups of the western a com Reindeer, like cattle, mill about a mon center, but unlike cattle, will mill in one direction only bran habit simplifies the work of theare ers and tally, keepers. Chutes structed at intervals about the their mouths formed by sbort. insid tM fences or horns projecting d corral at an angle opposed to the tion of the herds motion. the edge Against these horns by motion in the herd, kept off and, one a herders, is sliced h the animals are driven downis bn d d row chute. If the animal . one of the men at the chute th out the brand. If nbranded mal will be seized as It mera the chute and either a bra"dl",pped applied to its hip or a in one of its ears. a tb. neverf Reindeer are prolific. At double rate of increase, herds b sPmle three years. Even under plan of killing off the c 10 per amounting to about animals a herd, each ..ear, the five every doubling in numbers wm Within fifteen or twenty h ,orJ present rata of growth, oftheth hay reached the limits s9.fj to feed and' it will then b j1 t the further to increase the slaught animals. ness and also adopted the Nicholas as their heavenly Pr0 af P He was, In fact, the most saint in the caiander. aJ The feast of Saint Ich0 ber $ Dece originally celebrated on in But when church people Middle ages tried to suppress. reason or another, the festivit Sa n grew up around the Boy Slve to refused the children asSin)and gradually his festival day. j0jui Hated with Christmas - |