Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-03-02 | Page 12 | Backseat Driving

PRANK K BAKER k Unless the ball is retrieved the average Industrial league team loses 1 every time a a. a batter fouls one out of tl the park for that's approximately what each pellet costs S the clubs 0 According to Claude Engberg ma manager of the Holsum Bakery franchise which will be taken over this ye year r by Pinney Bev Bev te e ge it costs at least each season fo for baseballs alone 1 i And that mind you is only a small item in the cost of running running run run- ii ning g a t team am in the league which averaged about 1800 for the i. i different clu clubs s last year New bats traveling expenses and and- meals fg for the play players rs on th the out of town trips rips provide the her 5 1 major expenses r The The gathered at the gate is therefore highly esS cs- cs S if the club wants to keep n a team in the field The of 1800 does not include what it costs toS to average expense t usually provide the suits uniform a team sponsors J S and get two two or three years years' service out of a set before makIn making mak- mak S In big ing wholesale replacements S. S La Lake City's ity in the Industrial league will b t e ty entry try far balls are concerned concerned con con- usually get by a little cheaper so as because of the grassed a at Community park The turf t rf offers considerable protection to the ball which 1 is equivalent n. n to I lengthening ing its life The skinned infields I n th the other parks permit a ball to be scuffed and cut quicker than it normally would be on a grassed inner dia dia- dia- dia mond S p S' S A 4 Peach bowl football contest on Labor day is planned I at EBe Benton tOn Harbor Andre French heavyweight I now o in ip the Unit United d States S at can do doth dothe the meters in 11 2 J 2 seconds j He Hell ll need d all that speed if he ever eve enters the ring with h J Joe e Louis Jack Blackburn says ays that the 1 Bomber never will get any better than han he is right now S When cn Frank Gentile Gentilc S swivel hipped quarterback led Salia Salida Sa- Sa school grid championship cham- cham lia lida to its third consecutive Colorado high 5 Jast last season he be en ended cd four years years of p prep ep play without without with with- k out having played on a losing team t am Salida Sa lid a lost its only game after Gentile joined the team and team and on that parti particular ular day dayS Frank hank was was' ill in in a h hospital S v f Bill Smith 1936 Notre Dame football ll captain sat on o- othe the bench ench all last season due to injuries A A. cinder track has been laid parallel to the dirt track at Syracuse and harness racing rac rac- Sing ing will go on there rain or shine Jim Jiin Londos is said to be S forming his own wrestling ring to operate in competition with Jack Curleys Pittsburgh and Brooklyn are re copying Madison Madi Madi- son lIOn Square Gardens Garden's basketball doubleheaders between college i teams ams which idea is due to spread nationwide if it keeps coining g money for Ned Irish and his New New- York New York associates at at the theS S Garden G den Branch B anch boss Rickey of the Cardinals pulled down i last year year- 1 of which was was wasa a bonus for the penant- penant year winning of 1934 i i- i 5 t o f S 2 c S. r T V r 1 Frozen F razen E Ears ars S ft t Frankie Frankie Gaul Gaut S captain of Notre Dames Dame's baseball team is isled led ed forever with tell telling the boys how cold it gets in his home borne homeS Ta of Waterville Man Maine ai Walking a quarter o of a mile on the S at South South Bend Bend during subzero weather he froze both ears S 5 III Campus Wayne Martin national collegiate wrestling champion of S the of Oklahoma homa suffered a a leg fracture last fall In tr training ining again he found running too painful Coach Paul Keen jt got th him hin a bicycle and prescribed riding as as' as asa builder as a Now the champ i is back ack in condition conditio S