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Show mi BULLETIN BINGH M I WYON. UTAH THE two somewhat weird and pennant races in the two big .leagues belong to the factors that make sport what it is This means its unoer-- j aVaVabfPaSi tainty, its various breaks of luck, its' IttddW and baffU& swings. Without this uncertainty, sport would be a drab af-fair. Several 1 e 1 1 e r i I have come our way I recently, asking us to explain why it is ' that the Cardinals. Grant-lan- Rl.-- worId' tampions have been in last place with the tail-en- d Giants of 1946 battling for the top? Why the pennant winning Red Sox of last year have been working their tongues out to get a toe hold in the first division? Why the Athletics, who finished 55 games behind last year, are only a few games from the top of the American league? Why Bob Feller and Hal Newhous-er- , the two star pitchers of the last few years, have taken so much pun-ishment? Why Stan Muslal, a nor-- 1 mal .365 hitter, has been trying to pass .200? Why the Dodgers with so many erratic pitchers and only one .300 hitter have been leading or challenging for the top? This fusillade of queries goes on ana on. The Erratic Element The answer It simple enough. It Is the uncertainty of sport and the uncertainty of the human and oth- - erwise animal race, including race horses, harness horses or grey- - hounds. For example, the Cardinals were rated at 3 to 5 this year, the best team In baseball. But who could tell In advance that Musiai, a great ball player, would first have an appendix ailment and later on an eye attack? After spending a month with the team in St. Petersburg, we rated the Red Birds the best team, and also the team, we had seen leave the south In years. So did most of the big league managers, Joe Cronin included, and baseball experts who were In the west coast vicinity. Neither Cronin nor Eddie Dyer, two pennant - winning managers, could slip us any angle on the de-bacle. "Why don't you figure it out?" was their comeback. Which had us stopped in our tracks. Both Red Sox pitching and hitting took the same dive the Cardinals ran across. They were practically the same pitchers and hitters who won both nags a year ago. mhLub: ogauj i In. what makes sport what it is. Leading Rule Breakers An argument came up reeently ai to what sport, game or competition has more rule infractions baseball, football, boxing, golf, tennis, racing, hockey, basketball or what? In our opinion the two worst offenders are football, college and pro, and golf. Basketball and hockey are not so far behind, judging from the penal-.ie- s inflicted, but they are not quite up to the two we have named. "Hurry-up- " Yost told me once that he doubted there was ever a single football play without a foul that might have been called. This sounds reasonable. In football we have 22 young active athletes, all under tension, body to body. The four officials are usually high grade, doing their best. But four men can't watch 22 men, scattered all over the field. Holding is the main offense. There is illegal use of hands and arms. There is off-- : side. There is starting too quickly. There are any number of offenses that a player can commit, often with no Intent of breaking any rule. In g, holding espe-cially, the pros are subtler than the collegians. They know more. They know how to grab an opponent and let go in the fraction of a second. I get this from who have just turned pro. "We can't match the pros In holding," all of them say. "They are much faster and smarter." Yet if officials begin calling too many penalties they ruin the game. They are accused of trying to hog the spotlight. So most of them try to call only the penalties that count. They'll overlook an offside or a holding penalty that had no effect on the play. This sounds reason-able enough, unless the sound of the whistle dominated the play. In the matter of rule breaking, football leads them all. It Is the type of competition that leads to rule breaking, a big part of it unin-tentional through overeagerness that leads to holding, offside or start-ing ahead of the ball; also illegal use of hands. Basketball and Hockey Baseball players have little chance to break rules with four tough umpires. Otherwise they probably would be the leaders. j The basketball whistle is a mourn-ful sound in the land and hockey has Its share of offenders. Track and field is close to 100 per cent clean. It is that type of sport. Polo neeiis good officiating, for like foot-ball lt is a contact game, with a horse or pony thrown in. Change Your Weight For Beauty's Sake Eat and Be Slim WHO said you can't have your and eat it, too? You can actually change from the well-padde- d matron on the left to the slim miss on the right without skipping any meals. It's all a matter of equating calories. 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Five Are Saved From Plane on Lake Michigan Engine Afire and Propeller Gone, Navy Heroes to Rescue in Time. CHICAGO. - The navy's valiant Catalina, heroine of many a night patrol off Guadalcanal, was a prize heroine again to five fliers who crashed into the tossing waters of Lake Michigan. One of the clumsy-lookin- g flying boats, her starboard engine blazing and one propeller gone, hit the lake three miles off Winnetka. She Bounced Around. She bounced on the surface, rode out the heavy seas, and gave up her crew uninjured. Ensign Richard Brooks of Louis-ville, the pilot who brought her safely down, told his story with an affectionate word for the scarred veteran. "We were patrolling the naval station bombing range at 1,000 feet," he related. "Fire broke out in the starboard engine and I headed her down. "It was too rough to land, but we didn't have any choice. "We hit with a terrific crash," he said. "Then we bounced back into the air and the fire was out. "I thought for a bit we were going under but the old girl rode out the waves like an ocean liner. Saw the Crash. John Muresan, seaman first class, saw the crash from his look-out post at the Wilmette coast guard station and reported it to Harry Hibbert, boatswains mate. Hibbert ordered the station's crash boat out. "We couldn't see the plane at first because of the heavy seas," Mure-san said. "Then a couple of marine planes started circling and we knew they were marking it for us. "When we got there the crew was shivering under blankets on top of the wing. We passed a line and be-gan towing her in." Lt. (j.g.) John R. Bicknell of St. Elmo, one of the plane's crewmen, was washed overboard as the tow-ing started, but was rescued by Brooks. Other members of the crew were Lt. (j.g.) Donald Egly of Petro-leum, Ind.; Bob Merriman of Chi-cago, and Earl Singleton of Spring-field, aviation machinist's mates. All were given dry clothing and coffee at the coast guard station. aK Hi il i ii. JL 1 11 i v J? i Mw'jffiia. Mr' ''1$ '''van M EAK oN CONTINENT . . . Mighty Mount McKinley ' Covered head high Into the clouds, reaching an altitude Tel above sea level. The peak is the major attraction of BcKinle National park, one of the two parks located outside Tropics, Frozen Arctic laced in Overseas Parks Hfthe great national parks, which belong to the people Kited States, lie in our territories overseas Hawaii Vnark on the islands of Hawaii and Maui in the Hawai-oelag- o and Mount McKinley National park in Alaska. parks present a study in contrasts. Hawaii, within Hcs basks in perpetual spring. Its forests with lush Beet high are gay with birds of brilliant plumage. Mc-R- n the other hand, enjoys a brief summer season of during most of the K in Arctic silence. Here 'some of the birds and mals even don white travel like spectres over landscape. Hational park was estab-c- t of congress on August I, 1916, and B was placed Si Parks under ad-- I ministration B of National Series Park service W which also was created Bne month. Main features Aare two spectacular active, Kilauea Ba Loa on the island of B one of the world's larg-B- - volcanoes, Haleakala and of Maui. The total B the two sections of the out 275 square miles. B probably older than its towering Mauna Loa, cre- - impression of being a I the side of the higher I although it is itself a with an altitude of 4,090 illusion is the result of a Hression at P ano" ' H slopes, caused by lava H.. ., i ,...) Within these gorgeously col-ored walls lies a superb vol-canic spectacle. Covering thi floor are giant red, black and orange cinder cones which, al though hundreds of feet high, are dwarfed by the Immensity of their surroundings. The crater has a circumference of 21 miles and an area of 19 square miles. Both sections of the park are reached from Honolulu by island boat or airplane. From Hilo, port of Hawaii island, one may rent an au- - tomobile for the trip to Kilauea or tain a regular bus. MOUNT McKINLEY National park, situated in south-centr- Alas- - ka, was created by act of congress in 1917. It contains an area of a little more than 3,000 square miles. Principal scenic feature of the park is mighty Mount McKinley, highest pak on the North American con-tinent. This majestic mountain rears its snow-covere- d head high into the clouds, reaching an altitude of 20,300 feet above sea level, and rises 17,000 above the timber line. On its north and west sides McKin-ley springs abruptly from a plateau only 2,500 to 3,000 feet high. llldiij' laiciai iwiwi depression is a vast pit, or "House of Fire," n contains a boiling, bub-I- I of molten lava whose actuates from bottom to 1924 molten lava was risible at any time in imau, hut activity since I been spasmodic. Its ire accompanied by fountains and inflows lava, and its lowerings e n d o us avalanches KDd up enormous dust west of Kilauea rises the of Mauna Loa whose I.:rater. Mokuaweoweo, is i the national park. Int-o is a broad connecting 'een the two volcanoes, oa thrusts it great bulk it above the surrounding I eruptions in its summit d by flank outbreaks it is ' adding to its mass. 1 Mauna Loa is even Ocular than Kilauea, and "s continually send feath-- P into the air. Extending and southwest from the fe volcanic rifts with 1 rents formed by earth-- ' eruption as well as many colored spatter cones, feet in height. Twice since Jtv nf Hil . u l For two-thir- of the way down from its summit Mount McKinley is enveloped in snow throughout the year. Denali, "home of the sun," was the name given to this impressive moun-tain by the early Indians. Near Mount McKinley are Mount Foraker, with an elevation of 17,000 feet; Mount Hunter, 14,960 feet, and Mount Russell, 11.500 feet. Great glaciers fed by the high snow fields of this mountain range flow many miles both to the north and to the south. During the park season, which ex-tends from June 10 to September 10, with more than 18 hours of daylight each day, there is a wealth of flow-ering plants. The park is also the home of many interesting animals and birds. Prospective visitors to Mount McKinley National park probably will make the trip to Alaska by steamer from Seattle. To use the war constructed Alaska highway through Canada requires a special permit from the Canadian govern-ment, and permits are not yet granted to motor tourists. Business men, settlers and bus passengers may apply for permits to L. E. Drummond, Traffic Control Divi-sion, Alaska Highway. Edmonton, Alberta. aaMaSaKlr'.li W has been threatened by wers of lava which have W1 'he sides of the moun- - AKALA SECTION of Ha-Wn-park is on the island " This volcano derives its means "House of the jM"1 a legend about the Poly-W'go- d Maui, who climbed of Haleakala, ensnared "i tee sun, and forced it to jHMe slowly in its course so toother might have suffl- - to complete her day's fe8ltala, now rising more P"'eet above sea level, was J higher mountain. A EJ llle dome, many years f"1 a great crater 7 and 3 miles wide, with nun.) fee1 nigh- - VAST PIT . . . Halcmaumau or "House of Fire" is a vast pit in the crater of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii National park. Odd Pool A curious pool of water the ori-gin and activity of which have long mystified geologists is locat-- i ed near Gwadar, Baluchistan. Called "The Eye of the Sea," it is very deep, round and 15 feet in diameter. Every five minutes, in a cer-tain spot on its surface, a bubble forms, increases to the size of a grapefruit and then bursts. ELLIOTT DECORATED BY FRENCH . . . Elliott Roosevelt, son of the late president, is shown after receiving the legion of honor in the rank of chevalier and the croix de guerre with palm for outstanding service in North Africa in 1943. Left to right on lawn of French embassy in Washington are: Mrs. William Breyton, Air Attache Col. William Breyton of the French embassy, Elliott Roosevelt, Fay Em-erson Roosevelt, Mme. Bonnet, wife of French ambassador, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Bandit Signs Receipt for $7 At Saleswoman's Bidding CHICAGO Mrs. Clara Vezina is a meinouiLdt wuiiiau wnu ictuses iu be robbed without getting a receipt. It helps keep the books straight. She was busily at work as a clerk in a candy shop, when a man en-teredone hand in his pocket, the other holding a note. The note read: "Turn over all your money, and keep quiet." "Now see here," said Mrs. Vez-ina sharply, "I'm busy taking in-ventory today. The money is all in the safe, but I wouldn't have time to get it if I could open the safe. Now, run along!" "You've got money in that cash register," argued the bandit. "Only about $10," said Mrs. Vezina. "Gimme," said the bandit. "I gotta have something for my la- - bor." "I need money for change," Mrs. Vezina pointed out. "Now suppose you take $7 and leave me the other $3 for change." That seemed agreeable, and Mrs. Vezina handed over $7, most of it in silver. "Now, just a minute," said Mrs. Vezina, "I'm working for a chain-stor- e company, and I'm taking in-ventory. This $7 loss is going to make the books all wrong. You'll have to sign a receipt." By this time the bandit was too awed to argue, and Mrs. Vezina wrote: "Received, $7." The intruder looked it over, added just one word, "money," then signed it "Joe," before he departed. Mrs. Vezina filed the receipt and called Woodlawn police. 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Seven-year-ol- d Oda Drake HI, wanted to show his little sister, Sharon, 5, how a fountain pen works. Oda climbed on Sharon's crib and reached for the mantelpiece, where his father had left a "pen." He climbed down to show lt to Sharon, and pulled off the top so the ink would flow out. When nothing happened, he pressed on the pocket clip on the side. and a flash There was a loud bang fell back wounded of fire. Sharon and unconscious. Mrs Azalea Drake, the children s mother, rushed from the kitchen. She called a taxi and took Sharon Physicians said the to a hospital. fractured skull and child had a even chance to re- - gave her an CThe father. Oda Drake Jr.. a fac-tory worker, said the "pen' was a fountain novelty pistol 32 caliber a present five years given him as 8g'T thought it was out of the reach j of the children," he said. Wls Cause Damage in Parks TON. Carelessness on visitors annually causes 'maf!e in the national ,Coriing to Newton B. 'or of National Park Jj damage by visitors, he I noted in such widely .ces as the Statue of aZ I?31 mnument and rNat'ona! park. Im 81 the statue of Lib- - erty is discouraged by a new coat of which will not ab-sorb washable paint lipstick and a wire enclosure designed to around the stairway prevent writing on the statue. --Unfortunately," Drury contin-ues cannot be "similar protection the delicate hot spring and Lyser formations in Yellowstone. Debris thrown into the pools to actually cause, explo-sion- s some cases that bave destroyed pools. |