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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, MOAB, UTAH st _ U. S. Defenses Pin Hopes on Detroit: Auto Plants ‘Key' to Mechanized Needs | SPEAKING OF SPORTS By ROBERT ‘ McSHANE Released by Western Newspaper Union By ROY OLMSTEAD ~ HE phrase ‘‘Kentucky rifleman"' is authentic, for I have eaten the venison that followed in the wake of Raul Derringer's unerring aim on the trail of a deer. In the last few years any number of batters have had a harder time in the wake of his fast ball, curve and control. Paul Derringer has played a leading role in the Red drive for the last two years, despite the fact that seven years ago he was rated all through and on his way over the hill. That was the year that pitching for both Cardinals and Reds he won 7 games and lost 27, for the meager average of 206, far below tail-end form. Six years after this dashing debacle Paul won 25 and lost 7, one of the most startling reversals I know in all sport. Paul Derringer was born in Springfield, Ky., 34 years ago this (Released Hascall and Conscription HAT will happen to competitive sports if conscription comes? Will football, baseball, boxing and all the rest be things of the past if the nation again calls upon its young men for compulsory military service? These questions are bothering quite a few people just now. And well they might. It is taken for granted that every form of competitive sport, whether professional or amateur, is completely secondary to the call for national defense. It is just as certain that an athlete, trained to meet opposition and kept in fine physical condition, is the best teuipped individual for military purposes. It is very unlikely that any form of conscription will have much effect on this year's sports program. Baseball's regular season will be completed and the World series a thing of the past before the full force of any draft measure is felt. The same is likely to be true of football. The effect of conscription on baseball is a much-discussed subject- largely because baseball, more than any other, is the great national pastime. Authorities hold that the age range of the proposed first draft class-21 to 31-will take in more than 80 per cent of baseball's hired hands. Of course, it is improbable -though not impossible-that all eligibles would be called at once. Different Story for '41 PAUL DERRINGER coming October. He is around feet 4, weighing 210 pounds. 6 He began unveiling his right arm in Danville in 1927, 13 years ago. In 1933 St. Louis traded Paul to Cincinnati for Leo Durocher and others now unknown. Both teams got star men. Mandarin Durocher, now guarding the destinies of the Dodgers, would just as soon that Derringer had been traded to another club, preferably Brooklyn. The Serious Athlete Paul is what you would call a mene te a a om nenioenenatiy pinta " < ee eae en tT ne ee seemed entail = poe CR es tga ge serene ~ etna oe - oe nee ano sweet S SA ae rt = "Te he ewe Se te IE IOS REE SE ee monensin nen caseg gee tne ange enemas tian nie eens et 2 no nee tnecag - 2 s ea inenna " PME 2 Sorgen IS ED a ad ° 5 as pnenscneeneeeseriesnn Fe a serious athlete. There is no great amount of levity in his nature. Those who don't know him might call him surly or sulky, but he isn't. Quiet people are often thrown into this class, when they should be awarded chaplets of laurel or wild apple blossoms. Outside of baseball he likes to hunt and he doesn't mind being alone. Today Paul Derringer comes close to being the best all-around pitcher in baseball. He is certainly the smartest. Six years after he turned in his .206 average with the Reds he gave the same city a winning average of .781. This upward leap of 575 points is close to the high-jump record of all time. But it still belongs to Paul Derringer. He was on his way over the high hill seven years ago. He had made three World series starts and had lost them all. He had taken more than his share of hammering. But a year ago in his older age he won 25 games and he'll win 25 or more this season. His main specialty seems to be one and two-hitters. He has been closer to more no-hit games than any pitcher in the trade. Unless some peculiar series of episodes takes place, the same Derringer will be heard from in loud tones in the next World series. Another Entry You can add the name of Freddy Fitzsimmons to this all-star list. Freddy was 39 years old on Sunday. The Dodger star began pitching for Muskegon in the Central league just 20 years ago. ‘He stuck with the Giants for 13 years until Bill Terry decided there was no longer any winning stuff left in Freddy's right arm. So Terry traded him to Brooklyn. This season, after 20 years of pitching, Fitzsimmons has already won 10 games for Brooklyn against a lone defeat. He has the highest pitching percentage in baseball. Having packed away 202 major league victories, Fitz is just warming up. He has an all-time life average around .600, which is nothing to leer at after you have been around since 1920. Fitz is one of the fine characters of baseball. He is one of the main credits to the game that has carried him along into middle age- middle age as far as active competition is concerned. And with 10 out of 11 for 1940 he is now headed for his greatest year. Present plans call for training to begin October 1. It is unlikely, however, that the program will be so far advanced on that date. But a far different story is likely to be written in 1941. There will be many, many changes next year. The average person's blood pressure would ascend several notches if any attempt was made to exempt ball players from the draft. No attempt will be made. Bob Feller will be just another soldier's name to the powers behind the draft. That is as it should be. Athletes, professional or simon-pure, claim no special privileges. Baseball occupies an important place in the everyday scheme of things. More than 18,000,000 people paid to see the minor leagues play last season, and more than 15,000,000 paid to see the big league teams in action. All of which proves that the game is important to a lot of people. Millions of people who can't afford to join a golf club, sail a boat or engage in other recreational activities, find their amusement in the country's ball parks. Regardless of one's personal feelings, it would be a difficult situation if conscription put an end to the amusement of so large a share of the population. And that by no means is meant to infer that ball players should be exempted from the proposed draft. Training Period Suggested Rather, it leads up to a suggestion made by a New York sports writer -Joe Williams. His suggestion is that immediately after the season is ended every baseball eligible should be placed in an army camp and képt there until spring training starts. Williams' suggestion-if adopted -would give the players five months of intensive military training. That, of course, would be less than the usual conscript receives, but the trained athlete has quite a few advantages with which to begin-both in physical and mental conditioning. The public would likely look upon the plan with favor. Every ball player of military age would be ready to take his proper place in time of conflict. And in the meantime the nation's ball parks would provide an outlet for John Q. Public's inhibitions. There is always the chance that the country's position will remain as it is. Then the ball player could be sent back to military camp at the end of the next season. But if any conflict occurred during that time,. the next step would be obvious. The nation's parks would be closed and no one would object, Sport Shorts ee PRATT, Alex Shibicky and Al Collings of the New York Rangers hockey team have enlisted with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles... Paul Christman, Missouri's football star, and Bill DeCorrevont, Northwestern's gridiron luminary, both spent part of the summer in a hospital-the former for a tonsillectomy and the latter for an appendectomy. Bill Mitterman, center fielder of Jonesboro, Ark., White Sox farm club, walked away with honors Those VW ho Come Back in the Northeast Arkansas league. He The most somber line ever writ- | t opped the circuit in batting averten in sport was this: "They don't age, runs scored, extra bases, most come back."' hits and stolen bases. He tied for Nothing was ever farther from the first in home runs and led in fielding truth. No other line has ever had - Don Faurot of the Univer a more depressing effect on some sity of Missouri, an All-Star coach, stars. holds a master The true fact is they keep on comof arts degree in agriculing back. We have - The record field for a related the | t ure , two cases of Derrinjust ger and Fitz. | steeplechase was the 66 which faced simmons. Then there is Schoolboy the barrier in the 1929 Grand NaRowe. tional race at Aintree, Englan d. by Western Newspaper ) Union MR. FARLEY MAKES A Jim Farley has retired as chairman to Democratic Eight New York Yankees. football have been enough. DETROIT, MICH.-A man sat in the great office of a big corporation in New York th e other day opening letters. Suddenly he was galvanized The letter he into action. just had opened warned of a plot to bomb the office in which he was sitting. His first act was to call the company's own police and have the building searched. Even while this was going on, the long distance phones were working and the firm's extensive plants in Detroi t were being warned and much more elaborate precautions were being taken there, al though the letter said noth ing about the Detroit factory * Jim to U. S. coach to bat, field and the same time. in*a s at one and 8 For nearly a decade he has been head over heels in national politics, where use of the "bean ball' is strictly ethical, and that's been long enough to convince him that life is more satisfactory in a business where its use is at least officially discouraged. s ca A locomotive puffs out of a blast furnace with a string of ladle cars filled with slag. This scene is being enacted in all the automotive plants in the Detroit area now, with the additional push being given the na- tional defense program. Right, .is a view from above of the new armytype bomber. neers to determine how fast they could be produced, and the results are encouraging. Plans at Ford Plant. Ford, for one, knows the precision requirements of aircraft engine construction differ materially from the ordinary volume-produced automobile motor, but precision is routine in the automobile industry. Even in the average car motor measurements for less than onethousandth of an inch are a standard requirement. The basic colors are gray, green and tan, which will harmonize with the exterior color. For example, if the purchaser selects tan, not only the exterior but also the upholstery, headlining, trim, carpets and instrument panel will be in harmonizing shades of tan. There will be two color choices in the low-price class and three in the medium. Meanwhile, Hudson also is making plans for armament orders. In the last war they made tanks, Liberty motors for planes, shells, transmissions for tanks and four-wheel drive trucks. Officials, however, are not revealing what the present plans contemplate. * * After what he has been through in the last few years, it is understood that Big Jim has a terrific yen for a business where team play will be welcomed, where not more than one pitcher is used in the box at the same time and where the use of amateur coaches is barred. * 6 * James M. Cox, chief backer of Mr. Farley in the baseball deal, is Miami's Number One Citizen, and it may be that he has decided this is the only way to get the Yanks to train in Miami as an added winter attraction. Miami has everything else. + * " Governor Cox's chief sporting inJust 22 years ago Ford was asterest is in golf. But it may be sembling 105 ‘Liberty'? motors a that, like most golfers, he would like day for World war planes. Ford is to get his mind off it and thinks it going to make some British-designed worth a couple of million to do it. Rolls-Royce engines regardless of * s * Preparations for production of a whether he gets an order from the Big Jim Farley has been the most new all-metal ‘‘flivver plane' deUnited States government. He may Set for Special Calls. underpaid man in politics. That signed eventually to sell for $1,000 even make a complete airplane powwouldn't Much of this, of course, calls for also is occupying attention. The idea ered with one of the motors. be so bad material adjustment in the precihas the backing of Fred J. Fisher, Plans, in fact, have been drawn except sion machinery now in operation. eldest of the family of Fisher brothat the Ford plant for the additional that of One Detroit body factory which nevers and a founder of Fisher corpobuildings and floor space that would late he er thought. of airplanes six months ration. be required for airplane and plane ago, already has signed an experihasn't Fisher confirmed that he is asengine output. mental contract with an eastern aireven been sociated in the venture with William A single item of the preliminary plane maker to produce wings. At allowed to B. Stout, a pioneer aeronautical and work illustrates how Ford proposes least two other plants are getting argue automotive engineer. A spokesman to speed up engine production in ready for any call not only to airwith the for Fisher said the plane still was in the event of an emergency. He plane engines but parts as well. umpire. the experimental stage and plans for plans to cast the crankshaft instead *x* * * One entire plant of a General Momass production would not be made of forging it. The shaft of the Rollstors corporation subsidiary now is until the trial model is tested and And it] Royce in its finished state weighs engaged in airplane engine making, licensed, probably after the first of has proba103 pounds. In the rough stage, as although it is encountering difficulnext year. bly been a produced abroad, it weighs 261 ties in getting into large-scale proThe plane was said to be designed pounds. Cast in the Ford foundry, terrific duction. If the international situafor simplified flying with its engine it weighs 135 pounds. strain for tion continues to be critical, time mounted in the rear driving a pushThus in the Ford shops only 32 anol will be the essence of the problem, er propellor. It was said to be a pounds of metal is machined off as baseball and the automobile industry has the two-seater with a range of 500 miles, against 158 pounds in the British player to be in a position where he habit of telescoping hours into mina cruising speed of 110 miles per factories. can't find out whether his star pitchutes. hour and a landing speed of 35 miles Meanwhile tooling is being surer intends to keep pitching or to But it will require several months an hour, and a wingspread of 35 veyed in all plants for 1942 models take a job as coach at third. of intense preparation, even under feet. and sales departments are getting = + a the pressure of war, for the automotheir 1941 production into high gear. bile companies There is a rumor that one of his to swing into the As in all other years there are inlast acts as postmaster-general will mass production of aircraft. ovations that will quicken the eye A good deal of preliminary work be to design a DiMaggio postage of the prospective purchaser and stamp and a Babe Ruth memorial has been done. The spotwelding of open his pocketbook. aluminum alloys, up to now a tickpost card. Hudson was two weeks ahead of What do you know about dollar lish and largely unsatisfactory methothers in the usual starting date bills? About fives, tens or twenties? od of building airplanes, is being We wish Jim lots of luck in the for assembling new models. Their Perhaps you are aware that the studied. baseball world. Two makes of European And we hope he feature this year will be "symphonic picture of George Washington ap"aircraft engines have been torn doesn't find the change so confusing styling,'' a harmonizing of interior pears on all one-dollar bills. But down by automobile factory engithat he will signal for a caucus indo colors with those of the exterior. you know that the first President's stead of the hit and run play. likeness appears only on one-dole oe 2 lar bills? Can you say without lookAdd similes: As forgotten as a ing whose portrait is printed on platform a week after its adoptwenty-dollar bills, or tens, or fives? tion, If you know these things you have e w a made a beginning, even if it is a BRITAIN EV ANY WAR small one, toward protecting yourROUND 1-John self against counterfeit money, (‘Kid') Bull MILK PRODUCTION, PASTURES, acrushes in, chin out, and is floored cording to officials of the HAN LAST YEAR United five times. States secret service. SLIGHTLY SMALLER WHEAT SUPPLY FOR ROUND 2-He is groggy and Educating America on how REOUCEO FRUIT deto deLAST HALF OF 1940 CS aS YE EXPORTS MEAN fenseless, but Manages to weather tect spurious money is one of the FRUIT SUPPLIES SAME PERIOD OF 1939. aT HOME. the round. jobs that occupies the attention of the secret ROUND 3-He is knocked all & service. AUG UST WEATHER It has been over 6 DAMAGES CORN PRICES, EXPECTED steadily on this job for MODERATE INCREASE the ring. He takes a count cRO > NEXT MARKETING nearly 80 - EXPECTED IN CIGAR, of nine. YEAR . CIGARETTE CONSUmP. years. The bell saves him. FEWER YOUNG CHICKENS Ce SITUATION UNFAVORABLE "Know your Money"' is ON FARMS, FEWER LAYERS ROUND 4-He waddles around the sloiM PROSPECT. gan of this educational without landing a single punch. campaign, FACED BY GLOOMY The EXPORT PROSPECTS, It is being carried to people bell finds him cut and bleeding, COTTON GROWERS LOOK everyTO DOMESTIC MARKETS where by movies, ROUND the radio, lec. 5-He is floored five tures, newspapers. times. There are cries of "Stop it!" y A short-subject motion FARM INCOME FIRST ROUND 6-He is struck by picture, HALF OF 1940 UP) every"Know 292 MILLIONS OVER Your thing except the water bucket, Money," iM PROSPECT " | SPEC has FIRST HALF LAST been TRUCK CROP SUPPLIES and YEAR shown to more than 25,000,00 PLENTIFUL, MARKET SUPPLY OF ‘ finishes the round on his hands POTATOES ONE-FOURTH LARGER, 0 perand eit sons in the last six AUGUST 1940 knees. months. Thousands of money ROUND 7-He Manages to handlers-tellers get one clerks, cashiers-have hand up and Stagger through Issued by U. S. Department of Agricult béen taught ure, the by secret service agents round, with both eyes closed. Released by WNU Service. how to detect counterfeit bills LAST ROUND and coins. 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Mainly because that city and its outlying municipal brothers-in-industry -Flint, Pontiac and Lansing-are fast becoming the key to America's defense program, the Ruhr of the United States. The eyes of the army and navy, as well as the National Defense com mission, are on Detroit. Here are going many of the millions of dollars that make up the billions Uncle Sam is spending to modernize and equip services. An expert of the National defense council, looking up from a mass of figures in his Washington office re -| cently announced that Detroit and its neighboring automotive towns would be able by this time next year, to fulfill all orders for army trucks, tanks, caissons, plate parts and motors for airplanes and small boats, for both sides of the European war at the war's present rate of consumption. And while this was going on the factories would be able to turn their usual quota of civilian automobiles as well. Certainly Detroit is preparing to do just that, and the preparations take into consideration the use of only the present available manpower. Virtually no additional employees, beyond those now on the payrolls, need to be added, although the number of work days and hours may be increased to the present legal maximum. it a relief to be will find \ Economy "I will have 20 candles on s field where the pitcher doesn't want = Key " SHIFT National head the years of OF TOBACCO AGRICULTURAL Calendar EXPORT ECONOMICS ge VERTISINGG ‘Facts of - @4 ¢ ADVERTISING represents the leadership ¢ a nation. It points the way We merely follow-followt Note} new heights of comfort, ¢ $Q| convenience, of happines Timh As time goes on advertis Deg, ing is used more and morepla, ,.° and as it is used more ¥ all profit more. It's the wal advertising has- 0 (eis of bringing a profit Sin everybody concerned), on the consumer included)", he = Mo - ) |