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Show tX THIS CORNER, 5000 File Solemnly Through Church To See Gehrig's Body Static Stymie BY -ART KRENZ -. S). NEW YORK, June 4 (U.R) The newspaper . said: . "The body , of Lou Gehrig, baseball's ' iron horse, will lie in state at Christ church, Rlverdale, from 8 to 10 p. m.' You rode the subway to 242nd street, and took a bus from there. The last rays of the sun were falling on the vine-clad little Protestant Pro-testant Episcopal church just off the busy Henry Hudson parkway. park-way. You moved along a flagstone walk between lines of policemen to the steps of the church. A red-haired boy in a dirty sweat shirt, a baseball cap in his hands, was just ahead of you. Behind you there was a blind man, touching the arm of a younger young-er man for guidance. The sun was reflected by his white, cane. A policeman said in a low voice: "Single file, please." You moved into the center aisle and down it toward the altar, banked with flowers, before which lay the body of Lou Gehrig. The line slowed, arid you looked look-ed ahead and a saw a woman had 'paused before the casket. She was weeping. I Soon you were looking down at the calm face of one of baseball's immortals. He lay in a p'lain dark casket, a blanket of roses covering its lower half. In a moment you were past, moving on to the side door of the church. Behind you, you could hear the blind man whisper: "Goodbye, Lou." The sun was gone behind the hills, Taxicabs, buses and private cars jammed Riverside avenue. Hundreds stood on the curbstones curb-stones across the street. The whiney voice of a tired child was sharp in your. ears. You cut across the intersection behind the church, and paused before the tree-shaded two-story white house, less than a block away, where Lou Gehrig fought out his losing fight against the disease which had ended, two years ago, his almost incredible string of 2,130 consecutive games in the New York Yankee uniform. His friends moved in and out in a slow stream, offering their condolences to his widow. You went back and, joined the quiet crowd across from the church. , You saw Babe Ruth leave the church. His pudgy face was twisted twist-ed like that of child trying not to cry. But you didn't see many celebrities. celebri-ties. These were just Lou Ger-rig's Ger-rig's fans, the folks who paid $1.10 to sit in Yankee stadium during his great years and cheer his successes suc-cesses and boo his failures, as fans have? the right to do. More than 5,000 of them came, you heard a policeman say, in the two hours that he lay in state in the little church. THnmk off getto Ha V.- c V r : TAKE UNTIL FALL TO PAYI 237 tiki l VALUI Of TWtYIAB J Butler Tire Service 48 North 3rd West Phone 750 Provo : : : Utah REISER LEADS i' .- - DODGERS, INTO TIE FOR BY PAUL SCWEFFELS NEW YORK, June 4 (CJ!) Unqualified recognition as the National league s keenest prophet goes to Manager Leo Durocher of the Brooklyn Dodgers , for his early recognition of Pete Reiser as one of baseball's coming stars. Reiser has lived up to Duroch-er's Duroch-er's prediction and become the season's super-sensation. Continu ing his attack on all pitchers this year he hit his fourth homer of the season with one on yesterday to lead the Dodgers to a 6-0 triumph tri-umph over.. .the St. Louis Car dinals. He added a single in four trips- to boost his league-leading batting average to .361 and his runs-bat tedin total to 22 in 32 games. Dolph Camilli also clouted a homer as Whit Wyatt held the Cards to six hits for his ninth victory vic-tory and the Dodgers climbed back into a first place tie with the Red Birds. .. Bespectacled Bob Carpenter began be-gan to look like the New York uiants' pitching find of the year. He won nis third straight victory, 7-3, over the Cincinnati Reds. The Giants accumulated 13 hits for 26 bases off three pitchers. The Philadelphia Phillies knocked knock-ed oif the Chicago Cubs for the second straight day, 7-0. Tommy Hughes, 21-year-old rookie righthander right-hander gave up only one hit. Hughes had a perfect game until he walked Augie Galan to start the eighth. Lou Novikoff followed with a single for the only hit of the game. The - Pittsburgh Pirates were outhit but trounced the Boston Braves, 9-5. Detroit smacked down the New York Yankees, 4-2, for the fourth time this season to snap' a brief slump in which they dropped five of their last six games. The St. Louis Browns slugged out a 14-12 decision over the Washington Senators to climb within a half game of seventh place. Canada's 1939 shorn wool production pro-duction amounted to 13,615,000 pounds, compared to 13,386,000 in 1938. FIRST WITH ALL THESE NEW, IMPROVED, TYPICAL GENERAL TIRE FEATURES: o NEW LONGER MILEAGE o NEW SAFETY-GRIP TRACTION o NEW SMOOTH-ROLLING TREAD o NEW EXTRA STRENGTH o NEW EASY RIDING COMFORT b NEW SMART It's the tire you've always wanted the quality you need right now and know you can depend upon for a long time to come! See it for yourself drive in today. PAGE SIX t - I J I yo onvj- s .v Ax This is not a strong man about Les Lemon Baseball happenings, particularly particu-larly slumps and hitting sprees on the part of individual plAyers, are peculiar in all leagues, but especially so in Industrial loop competition this year. Lcs Lemon, Pinney Beverage catcher, has been a fairly good hitter for several years, but he is really burning up the league now with a .500 batting average. Larry Steinbeck, Brigham Ctiy, another so-so hitter, is right behind be-hind Lemon with a healthy .371 average, and Les Sumnicht, Gem-mell Gem-mell veteran who has been clouting clout-ing that apple for a long time with fairly good results, is clipping clip-ping along at a .462 pace. Baum Paces Tim Another oddity is that Verl Baum, rookie third baseman, is leading Provo Timp batters with "jT -"IT : v.- a v. v .. v. A V SIZE Lllll WITITOOIOtinK STYLING Hitters CONSOLIDATED WAGON AND MACHINE CO. Provo. and Spanish Fork, Utah DAILY HERALD, Therieath.a Mighty Man Was He to bend iroa bar. It's Jeff Heath Paces Industrial Baurn Leads a fat average or .440. liaum, wno played for a while with the Timps last year, has hit safely 11 times in 25 trips to the plate. Provo, which is in second place, owes its high position not to heavy hitting, because the Timps have a team batting average of only .262, which is only so-so in the free-slugging Industrial league. Second-best hitter on the Provo club is Manager Lob Collins, who.J although he has appeared in only J , four eames, nas an average oi .375. Collins has three hits, two of them doubles, in eight trips to the plate. Page Hits Hard Len Page has a healthy average cf .350, and he has appeared m everv came. Next hitter is fc.ari wiih a .333 average, ciegg nasav played in only three games this year. Fran Dudley leads the club in home runs with two this season, and Baum and Lee Christiansen have batted in five runs to lead in this department. Lee Bird, uauiu, iiiuuauocii, - aim & 05, lead in run-making with lour J apiece. Ten top hitters in the league are listed Dtlow: AB. II. Pet. Lemon, Pinney .500 Ste4nlMk, Brigham .17 8 .471 Numniiht, UettHiMll ..13 6 AVI Allison, Helper 20 .450 campjna, 1-inney . 13 .44K Evan, Brigham 18 8 .444 Baum, Provo '45 11 .440 Walte, Helper !tt 7 .438' Irantz, Brigham ....10 7 .438 Vogrenlc, liei)er ...23 10 .433 Provo player's average!: AB II Pet Rbl Verl Baum 25 11 .440 Lob ColllnH 8 S .375 Len Page 20 7 .350 Karl Clegg- '0 2 .333 Lee ChrkMilanNen . 25 7 .280 Don Overly 21 5 .288 Alva Jenen IS 3 .228 LaVar Kump 18 4 .222 Lloyd Shepherd ... 9 2 .222 LaVere Shurtliff ..14 3 .214 Fran Dudley 15 3 .200 Deb Dudley 5 1 .200 Lee Bird 24 3 .120 National League w. St. Louis 32 Brooklyn 32 New York. 22 Cincinnati 21 Chicago 19 Pittsburgh 15 Boston 14 Philadelphia , , ,14 L. 13 13 19 25 23 22 25 29 Pet. .711 .711 .537 .457 .452 .405 .359 .326 Tuesday's Result New York 7, Cincinnati 3. Philadelphia 7, Chicago 0. Brooklyn 6, St. Louis 0. Pittsburgh 9, Boston 5. American League W. L. Pet. 30 19 .612 26 18 .591 25 21 .543 22 19 .537 23 21 .523 24 23 .511 16 30 .348 14 29 .326 Cleveland Chicago New York . . . Boston Philadelphia ' . . Detroit Washington . , St. Louis ..... Tuesday's Results Detroit 4, New York 2. St. Louis 14, Washington 12 (night game). Boston at Cleveland, night night-game, postponed,' rain. Philadelphia at Chicago, postponed, post-poned, rain.- Dunce caps were named after a learned. Scoteh -clergyman, Duns Scotus, who lived in the Ciirteenth century. WEDNESDAY,. JUNE 4, of Cleveland Indians relaxing. rrf : limps .400 Hitter? Ted Williams, above, is batting at .400 clip and baseball men agree Boston Red Sox outfielder has swing "with which to be there or thereabouts at finish. Williams batted .344 in 1940. Majors have not had .400 hitter since Bill Terry of New York Giants ed.-jed into circle 1J years ago. Pioneer League Pet. .640 .615 .500 .483 .433 .357 w. Boise 16 Ogden 16 Pocatello 14 Salt Lake 14 Idaho Falls 13 Twin Falls 10 L. 9 10 14 15 17 18 Tuesday's IteNiilN Ogden 7, Pocatello 6. Twin Falls 8, Idaho Falls 7. Boise 5, Salt Lake 4. Cooperate With PROVO CITY. Garbage Disposal Buy Your Garbage Can At Sears! Covered Garbage Cans 187 W.Cftntw..St.ii;fhon4 JirjEroxoUrialu 1941 By ItARRY CRAYSOJT NBA. Service Sport Editor Because everybody' suspected it j would be Just another dud on The Bum-of-the-Month! Club program, no one would bid . a sou for the picture rights to the Buddy Baer-Joe Baer-Joe Louis performance. So Uncle Mike Jacobs took .. , - . . . , them himself with the principals happy to settle for $7000.: As. you may have heard, . the fight turned out to be the most spectacular since the memorable meeting of Jack Dempsey and Luis Angel Firpo. Including distribution, each print costs about $50, -and Jacobs shot them all over the country as fast as planes travel. He collected $200 a. release at (he outset and the film continues to enjoy a .remarkable .re-markable run. It is shuttled from one house to another in the larger cities. The Buddy Baer-Louis fight pictures will go on record as one of Jacobs' more profitable promotions promo-tions of 1941. A punch, which" it . is generally agreed was landed after the bell ended the sixth round, is the seat of the dispute, which . perhaps is why the sound of the gong is omitted from the movies. The film is not complimentary to Arthur Donovan. When Louis dropped Baer just before the end cf the sixth, the referee stood with his hands on his hips... made no effort to pick up the count of Knockdown Timekeeper Reynolds, who insists he counted the huge Californlan out. When Baer regained his pins, Donovan was undecided for a frac tion of a second. Finally he waived the combatants combat-ants together, revealing his excitement ex-citement by neglecting to rub the resin from the babv Baer's gloves. Had Donovan followed hie regular regu-lar procedure and precaution, all later controversy would have been avoided, for the time it would have consumed would have prevented pre-vented Louis from taking what apparently was a post-bell shot. Baer's -seconds reached the body almost as quickly as it struck the floor, which is evidence that A Louis fired his final shot after the belli The pictures also show Freddie Griinyard, Louis' secretary and an observer in Baer's corner,-ank-ling across the ring in a &1de straw skimmer as though- irilan Easter parade. Obviously, Grunyard, too, had heard the bell felt Baer was finished fin-ished and couldn't wait to embrace em-brace the hero. Seeing Louis' closing punch land on Baer's chin, he kept right on jfiong to the champion's corner, climbed through the ropes and walked down the stairs. Because you can't hear the bell, the pictures do not settle the main controversy. Which is precisely the way Mike Jacobs would have it. 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