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Show UINTAH BASIN KECORD, DUCHESNE, UTAH SPORT LIGHT Fight Game Is Like Box ol Pretzels By resiliency of younger years and appear to be waiting for the axe. GRANTLAND RICE YOUNG MAN ONLY the expanding energy of Jim Norris, International Boxing Club president, would even tackle the fight game tangle as it is toA SMART The Television Angle Back around the hazy year known as 1893 in Baltimore there was a move on the part of the ball club to keep baseball writers out of the park. The idea was that people had to come to the park to find out day. It happens to be twisted into a greater number of knots than a subject. The grouping is about as follows Television will wreck baseball, starting with the minor No. 1 leagues. Television will hurt the weaker clubs. It wont affect the stronger clubs. No. 3 Television will make little difference one way or another after good weather and better baseball No. 2 medley of pretzels. Here is a game who won.. arrive. This suggestion was quickly without a heavyNo. 4 Television will help base thrown out. Who would go to weight who can ball in the long run. It brings the a ball game when he could sit fight, a snarl in games to thousands of new homes. at home and hear every play the stronger midIt will be even more help than for no cost? Larry MacPhail dleweight division radio was. was one of the first to prove and two good fightAs Larry MacPhail was the first this theory was incorrect. Raers in Pep and to dio was a big baseball boost. give radio a real trial, I asked Saddler who want the former Yankee owner, or one Now television comes under two mints for what Grantland Rice of them, how he felt about it. now gating to heavy fire. When you are able thfe to I dont think it will make much see and both hear game to be doubtful entertainment. Baseball he said. difference, it is something different. Here is just one example. In the well. Id rather I have never heard as many dif- doesnt televise middleweight set the worst two called over radio. fighters are the ones elected to ferent opinions expressed on one hear a game meet for the title LaMotta, and Graziano. I doubt very much that either could handle Ray Robinson, THE Robert champion, welterweight FICTION Villemain or Laurent Dauthuille. Robinson and Villemain are CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson both much above the LaMotta-Grazian-o LaMotta average. is who the middleweight some queer dicament to him and he shrugged IVE INVESTIGATED champ, has slipped a long, long but the jewel robbery up indifferently. Then Tracy flashed way downhill since he was at Rivers End Lodge topped them a $20 bill and he changed his mind. fighting Robinson years ago He took the twenty, and a promall. Tracy and I were dumb; and Rocky Graziano has dipped ise of two more after a weeks were ready to admit that, but, just as far. This was the diviafter all, were city cops not primi- work, and went away. He came sion that was supposed to feative wilderness back the next morning dressed up ture all boxing programs for in new high-lace- d boots, riding natives. 1950. Or at least feature most a checked shirt and a we breeches, reason The of them since the middle-weight- s were called in big hat. He was mighty proud, and had more stuff to ofwas because looked like the pictures you see of fer. Homer Liver- northwoods guides. Philadelphia has grabbed off the Well, sir, we started out. We best show of the lot in Robinson mores wife had lost $50,000 worth trekked through the woods for a and Villemain so far as actual of gems, and neither she nor whole day. Then Bronco Pete led in had or Homer faith trusted ring skill is concerned, but there Eben Jackson, the local constable. us to a deserted shack. Outside is no title involved. Jackson met us at the station, we found a set of fresh footprints, It is an odd angle that a fighter the heels of which were marked of the LaMotta" type should be and it wouldnt take a sleuth to with a common iron cleat. the sore he at Livermores. was see able to tie up the one good division Chances are, said Eben, if left to a game that seems to be 'Til show you what I alwe find the owner of these here ready found out, he told us reeling in the dark. The two boot-marwell have us the thief. Frenchmen have been tossed briefly, then let you smarties I seen like that around the tracks around and yet either is a better dope out the rest." the window. beneath fighter than LaMotta is today. The He took us up to the lodge and lodge set off Pete Philadelphia show is about as good showed where a ladder had been iike a hound onthrough the brush the scent. Tracy as the game can offer right now placed against the house. Then he and followed I wearily. but what it means in the way of allowed the thief had probably Pete' led us straight back to the dissolving Jake LaMotta is another taken his loot and skun off in the lodge, and there, sure enough, guess. woods to hide. were marked footprints beneath Both LaMotta and Graziano Then Tracy had an idea. If we the bedroom window. were much higher in the scale gotta browse around through the The thing to do, Eben told some years ago. Neither could bushes we ought to have a native is for yon two nannies to ns, ever be accused of being an-guide. make yourselves comfortable other Benny Leonard or anothEben recommended Bronco Pete, in the sback, an nab the thief er Greb. But in their own who, it seemed, was a guide who when he comes home. didnt have enough money to buy rough and rowdy way they knew how to be effective. a license for himself, hence was IT WASNT a pleasant prospect, it seemed like the only bet. Both have lost the reflexes and out of work. We explained our pre So Tracy and I bought ourselves some supplies, and moved into the . CITY COPS . STAR DUST Dan Seymour Heads 1950 D, For National Cancer Foundal By INEfc GERHARD was wrecked, and DAN SEYMOUR, despite his busy paired, for $25,000. and television . SIPQEDMXDIP shack. The their Save been featsd GAMES in THE U'GA BASKBALLT' or than 2000 in Mp MEXlCO and 'always PLMtP 'I t 0 Lst once P3TTIT in baseball history have THE 9 MEN IN A LINEUP MADE CONSECUTIVE HITS IN ONE INNING WITH EACH SCORING A RUN. CAN YOU NAME THE TEAM SETTING THIS RECORD? AWWa wm'&oa Nl L0H19O iSNlVW-ONVKAr- O the $100,000 PIRATE BABY, HURLED 6 BONU NO-HI- T GAMES IN HIS AND SANDLOT CAREERS OF THEM COMING IN A ROW I HIGH-SCHO- cook But book paring for publication, his wifes best recipes. mu doorman i Chinese theater ago, spent his evenings ticket stubs to John. Garf other Hollywood celebritk he's playing an important posite Garfield in 'The Point. Its his third pick a Los Angeles boy, a he Hollywood High, where i I Alexia In class plays with son I who Tommy Summers, Alan Ladds stand-i- k for n a break ai DAN SEYMOUR . to be the national chairman of its 1950 fund drive. This on top of his active participation with the Boys Clubs of America and other public organizations. And Seymour- has no intention of being merely an honorary chairman and letting, pther people do the work. Hes busy as a beaver, lining up to peoples in all fields tp act as his assistants; theyre accepting gladly. - third day, Eben dropped around to see how we were doing. We told him in no uncertain terms, and if he wanted to spell us for a day wed split the reward. Mean it? he said. Bonita Granville plays the piano In Sure we mean it. You lay your Eagle-Lion- s Guilty of Treason, hands on the thief, you get $2500 and actually plays! No e cash. double performs for her, as is usCome with me, he said. ually the case. Originally she InHe took us directly to the Jail tended to be a concert pianist; exand pointed through the bars at a perienced musicians say she easily could become one now. if she would prisoner, Bronco Pete. Well, sir, this was it: Bronco give up her motion career and had committed the theft all buckle down to practising and right, but It didnt do him studying. much good, because he coudnt Eve Arden, winding op her dispose of the jewels. Nor could he spend the $50 in cash stint in Warners Tea for hed swiped along the rocks, Two, has both eyes on. Broadbecause he hadnt worked for way. Richard Whorf has written' months, and to do so would a comedy about life in a Boston have aroused suspicion. Then The Birds boarding house, we came along and advanced Were Up All Night; she wants him $20 and he bought himself to play In It. a new outfit with it, including .a new pair of boots with cleat The newspaper plant operated by marks on the heels. Macdonald Carey in the Eben was suspicious because he in The Lawless, which is knew you couldnt buy a fancy cos- wrecked by a mob, was a real one. tume like Pete had for less than Bill Pine, on location, saw that.it $50. But Eben let us go ahead with was what he wanted, told the ownthe case, as per the request of the ers hed have to wreck it for the Livermores, till we got fed up; till, picture, but would rebuild it afterin fact, we offered to ward. They agreed. So he went split the ahead with scenes in the plant, it Pine-Thom-- P interest is the The thief mans off-stag- barnstorming David Brian Is a the screen, a killer in Cont Cry, a jewel Great Jewel Robber. John Close, as ks By JOE MAHONEY had1 schedule, still manages to find time to lend a helping hand to those in need. The emcee of NBCs. We the People, CBSs Sing It Again and other programs has accepted the invitation of the National Cancer Foundation . P. he five years, gets on his own in George Stevi and Mrs. Anonymous" mount. 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