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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, MOAB, UTAH - Speaking of Sports Fiction Before Career Of Kid McCoy kids, two youth- phenomenal By ROBERT . prodigies of the sporting got their starts along practie same type of road. » They y called the Twins of Dawn. rr "names are Bobby Feller and mwones. were | e yital (Released golf club at the age of seven : the at The Bobby - started a baseball age of main six. point is much started that each building up and demusthe veloping cles needed for the big act-Jones as a : golfer-Feller pitcher. was a phenomenon at the age of 14-good | great | then to travel to the final National Amateur where ai erience stopped him. f At ge he was y field. a seven years on Bobby Jones 'eveloped the muscles needed golf swing. There were no Xtedictory or outside years old; not under 5 he could pit 2 inches nor more than 5 feet 5 inches; weight, between 100 and 125 pounds; cheerful disposition; He never even 2 r the Same his these how to handle tickets; how to serve hot meals; to control heating and ventilating; to answer passengers' questions (foolish and otherwise) about airplanes and engines. During training she is paid $2.50 a day. Her starting salary on the run is $100 a month, gradually increasing to $125 a month plus $4 daily for expenses. Schoolboy and know She must make , the Tiger enuni Rowe was a Sm ball player. Bob Feller mae was also a call star, a shotdt, a golfer, a tennis player and :@sketball luminary-extremely at each of these games. -had well-developed but conflictto handle, un- Sailor Tom Sharkey, now living in San Francisco, recalls the Kid with no fond memories. He tells about their fight in New York back in 1899. The Kid came into the ring that m Feller followed the same de Starting at the age of six, *s sporting acconsisted of : g a base- = very muscu- ; t'svelopment in "ght arm and wm_ Was concenton this act. _inst this we -; take up the wuscles attractive; married. Training course lasts from six to twelve weeks, and it must be intensive because the stewardess' duties are legion. lifetime, successfully feet McCoy reveled in victimizing his opponents. The old shoe lace gag was one of his best. In the midst of combat he would pause, point down, and tell his opponent to ‘‘hurry up, tie your shoe laces.'"' When the victim looked, McCoy struck. the checkers or dominoes. ni of his HUGH Lesson in Cunning muscles Wight have come from base¥ iootball or some other sport. Working muscles all belonged tively to golf. during OHNSON Air 160 pounds against the best heavyweights of his day. His cunning was almost diabolical, and it was his cunning which made so many enemies for him. in the best golfer trouble If You're Afraid of Hard Work an had pulled too many mean tricks and was never too particular about how he fought as long as he was victorious. But Kid McCoy was a great fighter, Boxing old timers remember him as a ‘paralyzing puncher-one of the hardest hitters the fight game has ever known. His skill was so a as Jones Bobby Union.) NORMAN SELBY was the "real McCoy." And Norman Selby took his own life recently in a De. troit (Mich.) hotel. It was under the name of "Kid McCoy"' that Selby became one of the best and most glamorous boxing champions of half a century ago. The "real McCoy" was originated when the Kid billed himself that way in opposition te a rival who also called himself McCoy. There were no tears shed at the Kid's funeral. He had caused too almost exactly alike Jones respect-Bobby started swinging a Feller * throwing Newspaper ENERAL Become Being an airline stewardess is romantic, but it isn't peaches and cream. Katherine Wilson, below, TWA hostess, was chosen "Miss American Aviation" last year. Pre-requisites for a stewardess job: Candidates must be registered nurses between 21 and 25 McSHANE by Western Hostess Don't Pales berths; in him muscle-bound. can be too much muscle smooth, flowing action. If had concentrated on baseball in his younger days he might en one of the greats of all it was the Tiger giant was a t performer for a year or til too many of his muscular ts in the back and shoulders to tie him up. Feller, spoiled, fresh or swell, might have a pitcher been as he almost as But he is. have missed by many meters ight he holds today in public Especially in the favor of fates and his opponents. mthe kids of this country care to 7 pout someone to follow in every + ect, they could _ in following the make no mis- methods and ners of this Iowa farm boy, I am quite sure, will remain ' iled to the last ball he throws. ng Qualities by Jones was a star competi| and player from the age of 13 ys8. He had known 15 years of lament action when he retired | Mis peak, or just as he was com#*to his peak. bby Jones could have remained Wof the great golfers today at the age of 38 if he had continued to train for tournament play. Before the attack of bursitis laid him low this spring he was still shooting hard courses from 63 to 67 on various occasions, which is not . ragged golf. Bobby could have known golf greatness for at least 25 years. ‘8 iby Jones same is true 21-year-old Van ™ of Bob Feller. Meter sensa- is only getting under way. With a fair share of luck Feller has 15 big years left-years durhich he might easily turn out the same thing to baseball Bobby Jones was to golf. ‘Many other ways the two are were and are highly war with their fellow players their opponents. Both have YS belonged to the upper hes of sportsmanship. lose-Up on Feller KID (THE REAL) McCOY night with his gloves on. Sharkey's manager, Tommy Rourke, ordered the gloves removed. They were full of plaster. One good punch could have brought a permanent close to Sharkey's career. That's a fight Sharkey will never Odds were 10 to 6 McCoy. forget. him. beat would the When Kid knocked him down in the first round the ringside odds went to 10 to 3. But the Sailor weathered the storm. He started working on his opponent's and the referee counted stomach; 10 over the Kid in the tenth round. Sharkey couldn't forget the matter of the loaded gloves. fiction is tame lurid most The life McCoy's to compared when in his castages At various story. and a a millionaire reer he was boxing a world's was He hobo. marHe champion and a jailbird. ried nine times-three times to the He served eight of same woman. Once a 20-year sentence for murder. of a jewelry store, proprietor he was and once he swamped out saloons. religion, so the steward- ess must keep herself posted. At right: American airline hostesses learn about a motor. Sharkey recalls another un- life. pleasant incident in the Kid's "I remember,'' Tom says, "how 1896, after he met Tommy Ryan, in ng partner working as Ryan's sparri still hidtricks, his all and learning He wrote Ryan ing his own skill. and sick and he was dead broke give him a chance wouldn't Ryan It would be to make some money? but it for Ryan, just a workout He Kid. the for meant a change have to told Ryan he wouldn't even word Ryan took him at his train. McCoy the fight. him gave and d laughed beat him unmercifully-an about it." once turned on were tables The He was the vichowever. with the * an upset that ranks g game's most inexplicable. Meetin 1899 in Chicago, Jack McCormick in a 100 to 1 shot the Kid was rated the bell One second after to win. on the floor the Kid was stretched had knocked senseless. McCormick first punch. him out with the Above is a typical stewar classroom scene. dess At New York's Sg from 18 cities, North Beach airport, 23 girls learn flying tech, tea representing nine different states trainer. nique as demonstrated in a Link Rugged Individualist first time, to throw in the towel. NAVY Yet the navy doesn't shush up some retired officers who do not say acceptable things. The outstanding case is Smedley Butler. He has called his erstwhile marine employment the instrument of a racket, By LEMUEL (Consolidated Venetian Blinds to Simulate Windows ™akes By RUTH WYETH SPEARS HAVE you ever tried placing your davenport on the side of the room where there was a single window? You probably found that it did not look well, because the back was just high enough to give the draperies an awkward cut-off appearance, as shown in the upper sketch. The lower sketch shows how a friend of mine solved this problem, There are no windows under those lowered blinds. A painted a newspaper man feel at home, we asked Mr. Willkie about a: The report was all wrong. The number is something over 2,000. Also in the ruck were enough pleas And Plenty to Do Navy Commander Lieut. Has Talked Back2* the with the subjugation of is the foreign political, mili- United tary and naval policy of the That is our most important States? It needs to be debated question. its military and explored, and as to professional milaspects, naval and the limiitary and naval men know For the present at least, tations. them. let's not shush any of to court Sen. Bennett Clark wants for sayig Tauss martial Admiral ss plans ing that naval preparedne in Asia are aimed at checking Japan armed writes: "The function of the and not forces is to carry out policy This is 100 per cent to make it." and ‘"We depend on military right. as to the naval officers to advise us preparedness Stewardess Agnes Hermansen. Service.) Wendell. Wilbis cut. ueecas My esteemed colMalaysia. Clapper, umnar colleague, Raymond Above q if you chemi cals to make {0 gal, -- -s Vitamin BI. taaues safety nsplanting an noreases flowers, eto. Satisfaction Guaranteed. =e Gardner N ries, R.6, Box 17, Osage, la. EW YORK. - We heard that Wendell L. Willkie had 300 invitations to make public addresses. Across his big desk, which in HasPep'Aplenty measures we should or to take for the national safety O. K. as maintain given policies. a thing mean doesn't it but a theory, in our practices. outranked to make him, ( oe SS box-like cornice board was made about 2 feet longer than the davenport ari was fastened to the top of the frame of the one window. The venetian blinds and the rods for the draperies were fastened inside this. A narrow shelf for plants just the length of the davenport back was fastened securely to the window sill. NOTE: Sewing Book No. 1 tells how to make this cornice board. Also how to make curtains and draperies for every room in the house from child's room to kitchen. All about slip covers. Dressing tables from boxes, tables and old mirrors. You will be delighted with it. Send order to: MRS. 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Admiral Stark commands a force of 110,000 men, 11,000 officers, 18,000 marines, 550 ships and 2,000 fliers. are Two of his outstanding policies a belief that the navy should control and and operate its own air fleet, In disbelief in ‘‘attrition'"' warfare. the New 10 cents Without to Japan's supposedly he ™thinks SPEARS BILIOUS? fairs his advocacy of an adequate navy, this time pointing up his argu- words RUTH WYETH Drawer 10 Hills Name Stark ee him > DRAPERIES AWKWARD LINES of naval operations, No. 1 post in the White-haired and professorinavy. al, Admiral Stark continues before the senate committee on naval af- other one Include a F. PARTON Features-WNU $1 HARDY PERENNIALS Vigorous field grown tied & to 12 Inch to Sunbu WEEK and Some of them fly, too. NURSERIES The difference is that an obscure for magazine and syndicate articles little lieutenant-commander (re- | to give Mr. Willkie writer's cramp tired) could be sunk without a trace for the rest of his life, if he took on while a double medal of honor even one-tenth of them. major-general super showman with Mr. Willkie, built like a guard, a national reputation, a picturesque works like an end or a halfback. vocabulary and a voice like a fogThe range and agility of his mind horn-‘‘old augur-eye'"' or ‘‘old a is such that he might be a swing let-nose'' or whatever ‘‘old'"' it is- man, either in the line or the backfield.. On his desk was a new book, the life of the Elder Pitt, about which he is writing a review; also a litter of papers having to do with pretty nearly everything from kant to kilowatts. An hour's conversation covered a similar range. He talked rapidly and vehemently, sawing and hammering with his extended palm, when he told how the Commonwealth & Southern forced down rates, or challenged what he terms the unfair TVA bookkeeping; making hesitant or groping gestures when he touched on the intangibles of social origins and inducements. He is like that-assured and vehement on what he knows and thoughtful and explorative on what he merely thinks. He doesn't want to kill the Securities and Exchange commission. He would merely put it under sound democratic controls. REAR ADMIRAL TAUSSIG- Mr. Willkie has tremendous gusto His voice is being "shushed" by and live, intellectual curiosity. He says all this talk of nominating him the navy. for President is incidental to the fact couldn't be sunk at all without a that he made a rock-and-sock battle on something he knew about-somesplash that would raise the tides thing which happened to be imporon all the seven seas. tant and which perhaps helped to In times of peace, I can't see why @larify certain basic issues. He says there should be any shushing at all. he never spent a dime on a personal Nine-tenths of this military secrecy build-up and never will. Almost his business is the bunk. I was glad strongest emphasis was reserved for to read of Admiral Taussig's testihis observation that the run-of-themony, that the reason for the navy's mill citizen is a lot brighter than insistence on fortifying Guam and he's supposed to be, and that therein increasing naval estimates at a cost lies the hope for our continuing deof more than a billion is that we've mocracy. Out of its context, that got to fight Japan. might sound like the old homespun For this purpose, he wants to es- Indiana political hokum, but that's tablish an ‘"‘impregnable base in the the last thing you could tag Mr. Philippines" (which is not possible) Willkie with. "fortify the Island of Guam to make -_-@- its capture impossible' (which is iy 1914, Franklin D. Roosevelt, asallian equally absurd) ‘‘and make sistant secretary of the navy, was ance with Great Britain, France and riding the venerable destroyer Patthe Netherlands that will insure coHe terson up the coast of Maine. operation in the maintenance of the said to young status quo in the area to the southward of Formosa." The navy didn't attempt to shush ° . ° a reTo His Big CRiRT face son re said It merely Admiral Taussig. a while? I am an experienced navithat his opinion was his own and gator and I know this coast." The contrary to its views. young lieutenant replied, ‘‘I am in But the navy is asking for exactly command here and responsible for conIt what Taussig is defending. the ship. I doubt your authority to cedes that it wants to fortify Guam If you can offer any supersede me. "to stabilize the political situation I should be glad suggestions helpful in the Far East." to hear them." Admiral Taussig was simply more It was said that Mr. Roosevelt He wants to check Japexplicit. At any liked that kind of sea talk. anese expansion in Asia and Marate, last August, he jumped Adm. laysia which he says is ‘‘under way who others 54 over Stark Harold R. What McCoy, tim BY China, the Philippines, Netherlands Indies, French Indo-China and Madue laya are to be taken over in is to be Russia course of time. Baikai."' Lake of driven westward the It is a fair interpretation of that rest of the admiral's testimony with war naval a fight we have to must Japan to prevent all this and get ready now. TausI don't agree with Admiral our engage to are If we sig. and strength and effort on distant way half objectives indefensible duck across the world, we shall be closer to much soup for enemies buried bone We have no our shores. But itis a wonderful thing in Asia. and to know that he could speak did speak his mind. navy the army, the to unfair It is to preand the country to tell them not tell them and for war pare where. and when war-how, what Unpleasant Memory Tom e WNU Servis A retired naval officer has been ordered by the navy department to cease giving lectures on the war. An officer on the retired list is in a peculiar status. Having been disabled in service he is removed from active duty and not subject to orders in the usual sense. He gets, for life, what looks like three-quarters pay. Actually counting lost allowances, it is about half pay. Whether the navy department can legally muzzle him is a doubtful question. at present be It's almost impossible not to Mcmelodramatic when writing of peramatic melodr a He was Coy. His life was a series of fanson. tastic adventures. beside McCoy's ad breakfast with Bobby Feller | A note was found that he no ampa the morning of the all- body. His message wasis adness of game for the Finnish fund. He longer could stand the ‘"‘m yp 28 unspoiled as any prominent the world." ourthe Kid was disc te I have ever known. Perhaps was no longer ed because there ‘noticed another leading point. me upon him. example, as Joe Cronin, boss ae potlight shining ruthless-indlfhe Boston Red Sox, came into was a rugged-and anynt mea Only extremes ; dining room he came well out vidual. He scorned the well «gus way to slap Feller on the back thing to him. ing ame , always seek path 4 Say, "Hello, slug." 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