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Show . fc - -K.N- PAGE EIGHT PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 18 1938 Presldbimt Opens Major asepaM- Deasom looiay ' 4 Leagiui &-- CUBS RECEIVE DIZZY DEAN IN ST. LOUIS TRADE BY GEORGE KIRKSEY IJnitod Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 18 r.R The major league baseball -season opens today. President Roosevelt will toss in the first ball in one came The mighty New York Yankees, representing a $10,000.- 000 investment, will launch their campaign for a third world's championship, in another. Yankees At Boston Tomorrow all 16 teams will go into action on eight fronts, but today to-day the Philadelphia Athletics play the Washington Senators at Washington and the New York Yankees play the Boston Red Sox at Boston. Showers were forecast for both cities. Barring bad weather weath-er approximately 250.000 fans will eee the 11 games today and tomorrow to-morrow (the Yanks and Red Sox play a holiday double-header tomorrow.) to-morrow.) In addition to the usual first day enthusiasm, today's opening has the historical significance of marking mark-ing 100 years of baseball. BacH in 1839 at Cooperstown, N. Y., General Gen-eral Abner Doubleday laid out the first baseball diamond. Today the game is America's national pastime pas-time and a bill:on dollar industry. Fan interest soared to almost unpercedented ' heights on a last minute St. Louis Cardinals- Chicago Chi-cago Cubs deal whichmay upset the balance of power in the National Nation-al leagrue. Acquisition of Dizzy Dean, one of the greatest pitchers . in Diamond annais, nas piujccicu the Cubs into the favorites role and set tongues wagging all over the baseball world. Cubs Stock Soars With Dean, a potential 20-game winner, heading Chicago's pitching pitch-ing staff. JsTck D?yle. Broadway betting commissioner, quoted the Cubs 3-2 favorite to win the flag. The Giants, who had heW the favorite's fav-orite's spot at 8-5, dropped to second sec-ond choice at the same price. The Cardinals' odds changed from 3-1 to 4-1: Pittsburgh's price was trimmed from 6-1 to 5-1. Even before the spectacular Dean deal fan interest was running run-ning a high fever because of re-Hligpments re-Hligpments of power, the most dis appointing spring showing in eaisj for the world champ:,n Yanks, j Commissioner Landi.s' blow against j "chain store baseL'ill.".--JP"e Di- Maggio's stubborn holdout cam- paign for baseball's top Salary of : $40,000, the "civil war"' between j 'the American and National lea- gues. incited by magazine articles. DiMaggio Wondering Although fans and experts are wondering if the Yankees are beginning be-ginning to crack, the Ruppert rifles remained prohibitive favorites favor-ites to retain their American lea- laurels Jack Doyle quotes , year was DiMaggio. two world championship arrays. He nvssed last year's opener because be-cause of a tonsil operation, and the year before he was out with a burned foot. . This year he was a holdout, refusing re-fusing $25,000. asking $40,000. While he remains in San Francisco. Francis-co. Col. Jake Ruppert vows in New York that he won't pay him "a button-off my vest more than he's been offered." Vov each day DiMaggio Di-Maggio misses he'll be- docked $162.35. The pennant races in both leagues shape up as considerably closer affairs than a year ago because of the general improvement improve-ment of the second division cLubs. in both leagues. The Yanks, in particular, are likely stronger opposition in to find the De-; them at 7-10. shortest pneeu iav- Cardinals even without Dean J " , f"S ' r ' X onte since the 1914 Athlet cs ue , mfly bp a more ck)Se,y club. , (Cnving a story printed rot and Cleveland uere quoted amJ cerlainly havc power jn Med- in ya Xew York newspaper that joint seconc -oe r. . wick. Mize. the two Martins. Pad-j he hafl capiUllated uCol. Jacob1 MlinpJ ' Z- e thinl stra it -U amJ Country Slaughter, prize R ... (wmM. f U)V Now york j ing day cast toi the t,im sl,ani .in.,k;r. 1'itt.sburgh ha.s new pitch- yanl res. ' COLDWELL LAWN MOWERS That Will Keep Your Lawn Neat and Trim! s mwrs Dependable U. in Several Styles, Sizes and Colors Non-Kinkable and Easily Handled PRICED 25 Ft. U. S. Premier Maroon Hose, coupled 50 Ft. U. S. Premier Maroon Hose, coupled Consolidated Wagon & Machine Co. PROVO, UTA H In Cub Uniform 1 "IF -4m Dizzy Dean Dizzy Dean Picks Cubs To Win How CHICAGO. April 18 lP Dizzy Dean, now a Chicago Cub, summed sum-med the situation up this way today to-day : "My reason for picking the Cardinal to win the pennant is with Chicago now." "We'll win if I got to do it , CHICAGO, April 18 (UP) Dizzy Dean cost the Chieago Cubs $185,000 in addition to three players, owner Phil K. Wrigley announced today. 1 : single handed." "Them Cubs got an office that looks like what a big league office of-fice oughta be." "Key. I wonder what Sam Breadon and Branch Rickey i Cardinals Car-dinals headsi will say if the Cards finish in third or fourth place?" roit Tigers and the Cleveland Indians. In-dians. Roue's Comeback Detro't's stock soared because of the impressive comeback of Schoolboy Rowe. Yesterday he held Cincinnati to one run, three hits, one walk in six innings. The Tigers' power trio of Gehringer. Greenberg -and York promises' to give the Yanks' mighty triumvirate trium-virate of DiMaggio ( if and when he signs), Gehrig and Dickey a iin for its laurels. Cleveland, with a well-balanced pitching staff, and a driving leader in Oscar Vitt, looks better than in years. In the National league, where only twice in 15 years has thei;e been any semblance of a runaway, may put on another of its thrillers though the Cubs have Dean. The Giants have defensive steadiness and Bill Tervi's stable leadership. inq strength and is dur .on paper. Another' interesting factor- concerns con-cerns th .illt of the two le;igljfs over- types of baseball.-. The American Am-erican league- st'eks to the "lively ball" it nas used for several years, while the National league will use a slightly less lively one. Four shifts in managers have moved Bill McKenchie from the Boston Bees to the Cincinnati Reds, where he has put new life in last year's cellartes; sent Casey Stengel, after drawing a year's salary for not managing -Brooklyn, to the. Bees; promoted Oscar Vitt trom his Newark "Little World" championship team to Cleveland; and lifted Gabby (Old Sarge) Street. Dilot of the 1931 World Champion Cardinals, from the mjnors to the St. Louis Browns. At Reasonable Prices Hall-Bearing Mowers Priced jg AO and from . . . yJV up Also Lawn Mowers with Solid Rubber and Pneu- f vmatic Tires. S. Lawn Hose $149 $2.79 I I ' M IJIIMel I'll COUGARS CLASH WITH AGGIES IN DUAL MEET Saturday the long delayed collegiate col-legiate track season gets under way when the B. Y. U. Cougars trek to Logan to take on the Utah State Aggies. Although the local team is weak this year, they are expected to take the A. C. by a close margin. Working Hard The Cougars have been working hard trying to build up a representative repre-sentative team, but from the looks of the squad the "Y" Is not going to win its share of meets this year. Especially bad events for the locals will be the shot and the broad jump. In the shot there isn't a varsity man who can hit 40 feet, and the best broad jumper barely gets over 20 feet In the sprints the 'Y' will have Alex McTague, the Canadian flash. Although he has trailed the two great Frosh runners all this spring, McTague is pretty fast and will undoubtedly score well for the Cougars in Logan. BlanJ is another sprinter who might come through for points. McBeth a Cinch Captain Paul McBeth will be almost al-most a cinch to pick up ten points in the two barrier races, and Cornell Cor-nell Peters and Ben Taylor should run first and second in the quarter. quar-ter. Bud Barber did not compete in the meet last Saturday, and it is rumored that he had quit track. If he has. it will leave the Cougars Cou-gars in a bad hole for he is the only half miler good enough to win. Hughes Hanchett. Lawrence Gelding and Ed Clyde will take care of the distances in fine style Les Cannon is the 'Y' hope in the field events. He is all that stands in the way of a clean sweep for the Aggies in the weights. However, he should place high in the hammer, javelin, discus and shot, to keep the Cougars in the running. Gordon Christensen. Lee Earl and Nelson will high jump for the 'Y.' while Carl Clark is favored to win the pole vault. Charlie Roberts Rob-erts is the only broad jumper who can break 20 feet, but Earl will probably take a few jumps. It will not be surprising to have the relay decide the meet. The Cougar baton passers will probably be Taylor, White. McBeth and Peters. DI MAG STILL HOLDOUT NO. 1 i iuppcri.-; oner is ..:;, uuu I Sill flfH) ruin nvpr hi- 1')''7 larv DiMaggio, roused from bed j three pours before hi. customary j rising hour of noon, s;iil he w;ir. distinctly annoyed "by ;ill these! silly rumors." j "It's $40,000 or I .,tay in San ; Francisco running my restaurant ' business." he added. : DiMaggio is owner of a popular ! fish grotto on the San Francisco waterfront. "My business is paying me enough money to make it foolish for me to go to New York to play baseball for less than $40,000"' DiMaggio Di-Maggio said. NEW YORK, April 18 l.M' Ed Barrow, general manager of the New York Yankees, said today that if Joe DiMaggio, holdout out fielder of the Yankees, did not sign or agree to sign by midnight tonight he automatically would be suspended under league rules. The suspension would be for 10 days. If no action has been taken in the 10-day period the matter would be referred to Baseball Commissioner K. M. Landis. , SAN FRANCISCO. April IS Team Match, Australian Rules, 10-Minute Rounds Hy Sharman and Jenny Wayne vs. Henry Jones and Orvil Hullinger MAX YOUNG vs. DICK DIAMOND Sale Lake LeGRANDE CARTER vs. Provo Four Rounds BIG BATTLE ROYAL Five Kids Park flo-She, Tuesday, April 19 RINGSIDE $1.00 . . . r Weekend Sports Review BY UNITED PRESS HORSE RACING -Seabiscuit. in his last western appearance before his May 30 match race against War Admiral, set a track record of 1:49 for the mile and one-eighth at Bay Meadows in winning the $15,000 Bay Meadows handicap. Gosum was second, Today To-day third. The handicap champion won iy three lengths. CREW -For the third stnuj'.iH ' year the University of Washing-i Washing-i ton made a clean sweep of its an-, an-, nual r egatta against University j of California. The Husky varsity, j winning by a length and a half, set i a record of 15 minutes 48.6 sec-i sec-i onds for the Lake Washington 1 course. The junior varsity, winner by half a length, set a mark of i 16 minutes. 4.2 seconds for that race. The freshmen, victorious by 12 feet, tied the mark of 10 minutes, min-utes, 40.2 seconds for- the two-mile. two-mile. At Annapolis Navy defeated Princeton by two and one-half lengths at the mile and thrce- 1 ! auarter distance. At. New York Columbia's varsity defeated Rutgers Rut-gers by two and one-half lengths in a mile and one-half race. TRACK AND FIELD- George Anderson, once the fastest American Amer-ican white sprinter, won the 100-yard 100-yard dash and the low hurdles as California defeated Washington, 91-40, at Berkeley. The Olympic club defeated a crippled Stanford team, 77-54. Oregon won the annual an-nual Eugene Relay carnival with 38 points, Oregon State was second sec-ond with 19, and Portland was third with 10. PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL Major league -races open Monday Mon-day with New York at Boston and Philadelphia at Washington in the American league. All 16 clubs are scheduled to play Tues day. The Chicago Cubs obtained j Pitcher Dizzy Dean from the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for Pitchers Clyde Shoun and Curt Davis and Outfielder, Tut Stain-back. Stain-back. Joe DiMaggio, Yankee outfielder, out-fielder, remained a holdout at his San Francisco home. Portland and Los Angeles were tied for first OXIHG TRUMAN HARVEY, 8 Rounds vs. Six Rounds JESS CHRISTY Provo KID JOHNSON Sprinfrville 8:30 p. m. GENERAL 55c KIDS 25c COMING UP In This Corner ... By Art Krenz- in the Pacific Coast league after three weeks of play. COLLEGE BASriBALL University Uni-versity of California won its 11th game in the California Intercollegiate Intercol-legiate league by beating Stanford, Stan-ford, 12-1. Rain forced postponement postpone-ment of games in the Pacific northwest. GOLF- Mrs. Greg Lifur. Los Angeles, won the California women's wo-men's championship at the Wil-shire Wil-shire Country club, beating Peggy Graham. Beverly Hills. 8 and 6 in the final. Chris Buckley. San Francisco, and George Heffel-Finger, Heffel-Finger, Minneapolis, won the team matches of the Pacific championship at Del Monte. SWIMMING- Stanford defeated defeat-ed U. C. L. A.. 54-21, in a dual meet in which Latowe, Towne and Fatch of Stanford swam the 100-yard 100-yard medley in 3 minutes. 8-9 seconds sec-onds for a conference record. Paul Herron. Long Beach, won the national na-tional junior- A. A. U. 500-yard free .style championship at Salt Lake City. POLO 'Ihc Uplifters defeated the Midwicks 6-5. at Palm Springs. IT. s. C. defeated the University of Arizona, 9-3. TENNIS Ellsworth Vines de- feated Fred Perry. 6-1. 4-6. 6-1. Braddock Says Joe Louis Will Knock Out Schmeling Editor's Note: Three questions ques-tions are uppermost in the minds of boxing fans today: Who will win the Louis-Schmeling Louis-Schmeling title fight? Where will the fight, on June 22, be held? Who will the winner meet in September. The United Unit-ed Press asked the man believed believ-ed best qualified to furnish the answers the man Louis beat for the heavyweight crown, James J. Braddock. BY JAMES J. BRADDOCK Former Heavyweight Champion of the World (Copyright 1938 by United Press) NEW YORK, Apnl 18 U.K Without any beating around the bush, Joe Louis will knock out Max Schmeling. The fight will be held in New York. And, the winner win-ner will meet nobody in September. Septem-ber. I don't think it will take Joe any longer than six rounds to finish Maxie. Louis is a .vastly lm proved fighter since his knok-out knok-out bv Schmeling in June, 1936. Schmeling cannot possibly be as good as he was that night. He won because of Joe's mistakes. Joe knows where he miscued, and he will not be guilty of the same mistakes again. Got More Wallop-It Wallop-It took Maxie 12 rounds to kayo Louis, and the Detroit boy absorbed absorb-ed 57 right hands before he was counted out. Joe is young 24 next month. He's got more wallop wal-lop in either hand than any man I ever met. He proved his rugged-ness rugged-ness and gameness against Maxie. In our Chicago fight, I floored Joe with a right to the chin in the first round. He was hurt plenty but he got up and was at Cleveland to take a 33-25 lead in their professional tennis tour. Sidney Wood, New York, defeated defeat-ed Frank Kovacs, Oakland, 6-3. 6-3. 6-4. to take the Beverly Hills men's jingles. Alice Marble won the women's singles; Don Budge and Gene Mako the men's doubles, and Miss Marble and Budge the mixed doubles. Les Stoefen, Hollywood, Holly-wood, won the first Palm Springs professional tournament, beating John Lamb, 6-2, 6-1. COLLEGE AVIATION In the first Pacific coast intercollegiate aviation meet Stanford fliers scored 21 points and U. C. L. A. 6. California and San Jose State failed to score in the meet at Stanford. BOXINGMax Schmeling. German Ger-man heavyweight, stopped Steve Duas, New Jersey, at Hamburg. Germany, in the fifth round of Schmeling's last fight before he meets Joe Louis forthe title this summer. SKIING University of Nevada won the Vanderbilt Memorial trophy in the southern zone championships cham-pionships of the Pacific coast conference con-ference with 400 points at Borden. A recheck may be made to determine de-termine whether. California or U. C L. A. finished second. William Jar.ss, Stanford, won the downhill down-hill race; Jim Myers, Placer J. C, I the jumping; James Worden, Ne-! Ne-! vada. the slalom; and Bob Morley, I li ff,.-Tii-i tVif rrrKB.rnnntrv A cactus grows rudimentary leaves before it grows spines. A smart enough to cover up for the vest of the round. I didn't lose my head then as has been said. He was concentrating concentrat-ing my punches, and made me look wild. I knew it might be my one chance to finish "him, and I didn't spare the horses. If Schmeling Schmel-ing thinks Joe is going to drop that left glove and leave himself wide open to be plugged by right hands this time, the German is in for a rude awakening. Saturday's five round knockout over Steve Dudas by Max doesn't mean a think in my book, because the New Jersey boy is just a third rater.. To Announce Site Promoter Mike Jacobs will announce an-nounce the site of the fight this week, and you don't have to do much figuring to decide it will be in Yankee stadium. I'll bet 100 to 1 it will not go to Chicago, Detroit De-troit or Philadelphia. My tftle fight with Louis drew only $73C,000 including movkes and radio. Expensive ringside seats sold well to out of towners, but Chicago as a city, didn't go i for it. There were 30,000 tickets printed in the $5 class and Mike couldn't peddle but 5,000 of 'em, and you can bet it is the cheaper tickets that shows how a city goes for a fight. . If Schmeling should happen to make me out a chump and win, he'll go right back to Germany with that title ancf it would take Uncle Sam's mint to entice him to risk it again in September. And Louis wouldn't have a thing to gain by fighting before the year is up. His movie,- tuneups and the champion's share of the June fight will have his Income up so high, anything else he'd earn would go for income taxes. - Keen Interest In ' Y9 Postu re Pa ra de More than a thousand junior and senior high school girls are expected to take part in the two posture parades at Brigham Young university. April 2&. 30. Competition for the junior high girls is set for Friday afternoon. Senior high contestants will march Saturday, preceding the grand march in which the athletes take part. Last year, almost 600 girls from Utah high schools took part in the senior high school parade There were almost 400 taking part in the junior high march. Ratings will be carried on as last season. The new system places the posture squads according accord-ing to excellence rather than rating rat-ing first three or four places as in previous meets. Gym suits for all the marchers are to be black and white, as previously. This gives a pleasing contrast to the colored banners carried in front of the different schools' squads. The Invitational posture parades are unique feature. They were instituted by Miss Wilma Jeppson. former professor of physical education edu-cation at the 'Y.' when she suggested sug-gested to the former Cougar Coach E. L. Roberts that girls should be invited to march in the lead of the Grand Carnval Parade. Pa-rade. Since that time, the Saturday parade has become the most spectacular spec-tacular event on the entire program. pro-gram. MAX YOUNG TO FIGHT HARVEY Team wrestling, boxing, and a battle royal featuring five kid of about 120 pounds each arc interspersed to make the Park Ro-She caid this week. The Australian grappling match will pit Henry Jones and Orville Hullinger against Hy Sharman and Kenny Mayne. Teaming up an old timer with a youngster this way should make for an even match with plenty of dirty work. Sharman is plenty tough in the free for alls, but Jones is just the one to tame him. Hullinger is very confident ttiis week after his straight fall win over Mike Ma-lone Ma-lone lat week. Max Young will meet Truman Harvey in another of their terrilic fights in the eight round main event. Young and Harvey have fought to two fast draws in their last meets, and both are determined determin-ed to get an advantage. Jess Christen, Provo CCC fighter fight-er and Dick Diamond of Salt Yake meet in a six rounder with Christen Chris-ten being the slight favorite. Both scrappers have been fighting at Salt Lake recently and their fight should be interesting. In a four heat atfair LeGrande Carter of Provo and Kid Johnson of Springviik' will butlle it out. Both of these la throw a lot of leather and mix "it freely. Nothing is known of the five kids who will stage the battle royal, but action i assured the patrons in this one. The usual rules of down and out will be in force for this bout. No one yet has been .able to prove or disprove conclusively the oft-heard statement that young snakes sometimes see,k shelter in their mothers' mouths. Only 2 More Days! To See This Latest Screen Thrill With Provo's Favorite Stars ! CARTOON and NEWS o Coming Thursday I "SNOW WHITE and the SEVEN DWARFS" f JT-x i (& if B TIL1PS IN NEED OF PITCHER TO COMPLETE TEAM Manager Reed "i-oj Collins of the Provo Timps. is dickering to sign up an additional chucker to tolster his already strong pitching pitch-ing staff. Right now it looks like Manager Man-ager Collins will get either Floyd Shepherd or "Lefty" Baird to join his club. As soon as one of these is added the Timps will be at full strength and will start bearing down on the practice ses sions in final preparation for the state league which opens May 1. LaMar Sharp has definitely signed to play for Pinney Beverage Bev-erage again, Collins said today. The Timps offered the Heber chucker a position on the roster but he turned it down in favor of the Salt Lake offer. Outfielder Signed A newcomer to the Provo torn is Aimand Gardner who signed up Saturday. Gardner will be used in the center field. At present, this boy look like a real fiend. He played for D. & R. G. in a Salt Lake league las" season, chalking chalk-ing up a .303 average. Bliss Hoover, dependable sack-er sack-er of previous campaigns signed .his card over the week end. This completes a strong infield which will pre jably be made up of Page. Hoover. Collins and Kump. A practice game to determine the possibilities of several newcomers new-comers is planned for Sunday at Timp park. The infield is being reconditioned. re-conditioned. Grass, which covered the field last season, has been hauled off and new surfacing put in to replace it. Ihe entiie roster of the Provo club will start working out daily beginning today. Cold weather has been keeping the players pretty pret-ty well cooped up at the Farrer junior high school but with the weather man promising clear skies it looks like the boys will be able to really get down to work. Breadon Says Cards Got Plenty of Punch ST. LOUIS, April 18 r.l' -President Sam Breadon said today that the Cardinals have "plenty of punch" and will make a strong bid for the National league pennant pen-nant despite the loss of Dizzy Dean, traded to the Chicago Cubs Saturday. "We're going to have a team that will work together and make a strong play for the aflg." Breadon Brea-don said. "Curt Davis will help us a lot on the pitching end and the rest of the team has plenty of punch and speed." Special knives are used for cif-tmg cif-tmg rubber trees to allow the latex la-tex to flow. The knife punctures the tree bark to exactly the right depth. in r kit Today & Tomorrow TOW (ED MW3 03m& TIO UWII AND HIS ORCHISTtA CA CALLOWAY AMD MIS l COTTON CLUB ORCHISTtA if KAY THOMPSON MO KB RADIO CHOW JOI DiMAOOlO HINIY ARMITTA LUIS AIIIINI 'M A X TtlHUNI SMILIY BURNITTI . LOUIS Omima and his sand H52!3 and Also CARTOON and NEWS rrl Mil tt ' i-i irVni- n ii |