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Show PRWO UTAH) . DAILY 'HERALD, . TUESDAY, TUNE . T5, T942 PAGE FIVE THE HERALD Today's - - - POirt "Punch Bowl" Paul ParadeNekrs 30Q-Hit Mark BY JACK GUENTIIER United Pre Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 16 (U.P Advocates Ad-vocates of the early to bed. early to rise and avoid wine when it's red etcetera ' philosophies are shuddering from the tips of their blue noses to the soles of their button shoes today. For up in Boston Bos-ton the boys are gathered around to swear Punch Bowl Paul Waner into the most exclusive fraternity in baseball the 3,000-hit club. At last "count, the small, wiry and completely convivial outfielder outfield-er who was-born 38 years ago in an Oklahoma town with the throat-clearing name of Harrah-and Harrah-and it's as fine an ant hill as you'd hope to see had boosted his total number of hits to 2,998. Baring Bar-ing rain (ssh) Punch Bowl Paul has an excellent chance of climbing climb-ing over the hump this afternoon. Then, brothers, let the roundelays rounde-lays ring loud and ring long. In years past, when Ty Cobb, Ed Collins, Pop Anson, Nap La-joie, La-joie, Hans Wagner, and Tris Speaker crashed the golden circle, the bards celebrated the occasion by penning eulogies of their keen cytsight, rigorous devotion to duty and complete abstainance from the liquid fruit of the grain. Not so today, however, for Punch Bowl Paul just doesn't fit that pattern. For instance, he can't see keenly keen-ly enough to read a billboard or recognize brother Lloyd an hour after twilight. The only figures he scans easily are those on ihs paycheck pay-check or behind footlights. It is reported his eyes have been weak for 17 years- But he didn't realize real-ize it until he left Pittsburgh two seasons ago and got a glimpse of the sun. Too, while he is just fair on grounders, when it comes to hawking highballs he has no equal. He developed his vaunted right arm with painstaking elbow Bending exercises. ' His fluid grace at the plate was evolved after an intensive study of .swinging doors. Bio-chemists, the gents who claim alcohol is detrimental to the human hu-man body, gave him his nickname "Big Poison." Many legends have been produced pro-duced during the years since Waner, Wan-er, just a 140-pound youngster with a drawl and an uncanny knack of hitting a ball, came to Pittsburgh from the west coast tales of his golfing, of his fishing and hunting and of his extra-curricular recreation. The only one he ever has denied was the report re-port that he had adopted a milk diet. There is the story of how once, while advancing from second on a hit and run play, he put down his head, dashed madly towards third and started his slide halfway half-way down the base path. As the cloud of dust began thinning Waner Wan-er heard himself called out. He had missed third by 10 feet and slid instead into a bare spot in the outfield. Then there is the epic yarn concerning con-cerning the phantom fly ball. Waner was playing in the outfield when he heard a sharp crack and saw the ball head towards his position. posi-tion. He carefully followed its course right up into the grandstand grand-stand and lunged desperately only to find that instead of the ball he had been pursuing an exceptionally large moth. There are other tales, too, but there is a limit to this space and there are important matters to be listed. For Punch Bowl Paul is one of the truly great hitters of history. He has a lifetime average of .338, is the youngest man ever to collect 3,000 hits and has reached reach-ed his mark four years earlier than any of his predecessors. Waner has Knocked more hits than Rogers Hornsby, has a higher high-er percentage than Collins, driven in 500 more runs than Cobb and slapped out more singles, doubles and triples than Babe Ruth. Only in home runs is his record deficient. de-ficient. And that's because Waner is a trifle on the small side to be a power hitter. Another important point, he has struck out only 300-odd 300-odd times. If Paul doesn't get his two hits today, he will get them tomorrow or on Thursday. For unless he breaks down faster than a dictator's dic-tator's dream of world conquest, he just can't miss. It's too bad that Waner couldn't reach his goal while playing in Pittsburgh, for it is in Pittsburgh that the fans still cheer him with the most fervent ferv-ent hand-laps. Still, reach it he will. How far above 3,000 he can go is a question. ques-tion. Paul, may not be with us much longer. His average has fallen off this season and the old man with the scythe is coming. close. But when he does he will leave us plenty to remember him by things like Charlie Grimm's analysis of his skill. Grimm, asked ask-ed if Waner had a weakness, replied: re-plied: "Weakness ?' Sure, he can't hit balls- rolled "Under the plate." Colombia Upsets Lcadersj'Geneva -Beats Firestone RECREATION LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Carlson's , 4 1 .800 Geneva Steel ........ 3 1 .750 Columbia Steel ...... 3 1 .750 Firestone Auto .. 2 3 .400 Pacific Pipe 1 2 .333 UPM Engineers 0 5 .000 -- V' Monday's Results Pipe Plant 12,.UMP Engineers 4, Columbia Steel '10, Carlson's 2. Geneva Plant 4, Firestone 3. . Tonight's Schedule , (Elders League) 7 p. ra. Steel Plant No. 2 vs. Sev enth Ward. 8 p. m. First ward vs. Fifth. 9 p. m. Second vs. Union Pacific. Combining five base hits and 12 walks, Columbia Steel company's hustling softball ten fashioned a 10-2 victory over Carlson Sport ing Goods at Timp park Monday night. , It was the first defeat of the season for Carlson's. The victory kept Columbia in a tie with Geneva Steel for second place in the Recreation league. Geneva made the most of the four basehits collected off Bill Overly, Firestone hurler, to beat the Firestone outfit, 4-3 in the best game of the evening. Pacific Pipe snowed under the UPM Engineers, En-gineers, 12-4. It was the first victory vic-tory for Pipe Plant and the fifth straight defeat for UPM. Gene Nelson, Carlson pitcher, seldom has a bad night but he lacked control Monday and that was his downfall. Olsen, third baseman, collected two of Columbia's Colum-bia's five hits, getting two doubles. dou-bles. Steve Nelson pitched great ball for Columbia, giving up but three hits. ' Geneva scored three of its four runs in the first inning, the spree being climaxed by a home run by Jensen. The final run came in the fifth, J. Jones scoring following follow-ing a double. Firestone tallied two runs in the third and one in the seventh. Pacific Pipe scored five runs in the first inning and was never threatened. Nielsen of the winners rapped out two home runs, and Jensen got one round-tripper. Points to Spprts Training 1! V i i 5 X i WUJ lux Sflfe fr " a .7. .... .jt--.:& :: ..V:.0Wii.... Rugged bayonet fighter by virtue of football, basketball, boxing, wrestling and fencing background, Lt. James A. Harden trains regiment regi-ment of 31st Division in finer points of combat. OGDEN BOXER KAYOS DIAZ 232 Feminine Golfers Open Tournament SALT LAKE CITY, June 16(L'.R Helen Hoffman Bertagnole went out on the tricky fairways and greens of Ft. Douglas golf course today to defend her Utah women's golf championship, with the main threat to her supremacy coming from Claire Laub of Logan. Mrs. Bertagnole and Miss Laub tied for medalist honors in the qualifying round yesterday. Each carded 89, seven strokes better than their nearest competitor, Mrs. R. F. Dlincan of Bonneville. In the championship flight today, to-day, Mrs. Bertagnole met Mrs. Helen Wise, Miss Laub played Mrs. W. J. Jennings, Mrs. Duncan Dun-can played Mrs. G. V). Irvine and Mrs. A. C. .Moore,' 1940 champ, was paired against Mrs. Jerry Henderson. GOO Heavy White Sailcloth CARPENTER'S OVERALLS $2.29 Taylor Bros. Co. Hank Resting After Attack MIAMI, Fla., June 16 UJ! Sgt. Hank Greenberg, now "under "un-der observation" in the Miami naval air station hospital, probably prob-ably will not require an operation as first believed, army officials said today. 1 The former Detroit baseball star was stricken Sunday night with what appeared to be appendicitis ap-pendicitis or a kidney ailment. Doctors said that surgery might be Jnecessaryi TcvJay, however, they reported that Greenberg was much improved and that the oper ation would not have to be per formed. EASY TO TELL PRINCE ALBERT IS BETTER TOBACCO. ITS RICHER-TASTING YET MILDER, AND THE CRIMP CUT STAYS PUT FOR QUICK, TRIM ROLUN'I In recent laboratory "smoking bowl" test. Prince Albert burned 86 DEGREES COOLER than the average of the 30 other of the largest -selling brands tested. ..coolest Of all I PRINCE ALBERT THE NATIONAL JOY SMOKE B.J. j 70 J N 1 Bn roU-yoar- B r JL owatiftmMttca B ..wJ to wy fcnJy H pock.tcaa a i Prtoce Albert JB if By IIARRY GRAYSON NEA Service Snorts Editor NEW YORK. June. 16 Thomas Davis Bridges is a working example ex-ample of the fact that a pitcher does not necesarily have to be a big rawboned Moke. Standing 5 feet 11, Tommy Bridges wouldn't weigh any more than 155 pounds soaking wet. Yet he was still is one of the great right-handers of the day. His hard one packed authority.! No one ever broke a better curve in the dirt. Bridges, off to a beginning that presages another fine year at 35, confesses he is not nearly as swift as when he was leading the American League in strikeouts, and games won. "But I'm still fast enough to to make the batter respect my speed," says the Detroit star. "He's got to be ready for the hard one; and that makes the other stuff go. Tf s like Ted Williams says about Ted Lyons. He throws so much junk the batter bat-ter isn't ready when the fast one breezes by. Some of his stuff is so slow and lazy it makes his fast ball seem much faster than it is. The secret of hitting is timing, and it's up to the pitcher to throw that timing off. He does this by changing speed." Bridges conserves his speed . . throws no more than 12 or 14 fast balls in a game. Bridges has such a thorough knowledge of pitching and such an assortment that he compiled the amazing earned-run average of 1.75 in winning seven of his first eight games. "I often pitch to a good hitter's strength in a clutch," he explains. ex-plains. "That would be dangerous against a young fellow who is just up there trying to hit with nothing noth-ing on his mind. But I know the good hitter is laying for my best ball and expects it. so I frequently cross him and catch him off balance bal-ance with a pitch that he ordinarily ordin-arily would like." Bridges stresses that American League, competion is inferior to former years and includes the Yankees. "It may sound silly," he smiles "but records show they aren't the Yanks of old. But even at that they're pretty good. "From - a . pitcher's angle, the league isn't what it used to be. There are still plenty of heavy hitters, but, the draft and retirement retire-ment of many outstanding players play-ers make t the league inferior." PIONEER LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Pocatello 23 12 .657 Salt Lake . 22 16 .579 Ogden 19 17 .528 Idaho Falls 19 21 .475 Boise 15 22 .405 Twin Falls 15 25 .375 Monday's Results No games scheduled. OGDEN, Utah, June 16 (I'D Smashing Nash Diaz to the bloody canvas of an Ogden ring with a terrific blow to the jaw, Alvin (Red Barker, battling Ogden Og-den barber, last night knocked out the Mexico City bantam weight in one minute and 23 seconds of the fourth round of a scheduled 10 frame go. The fourth opened wth both men slugging hard and fast, with Diaz battering Barker ito his knees. But the Ogden lad came back to knock Diaz to the floor for a nine count and then ended the fight with a lashing right to the jaw as Diaz tried to continue con-tinue the fight. Barker floored Diaz for a nine count in the first round. Diaz threw a series of punches in the third that injured one of Barker's Bar-ker's eyes and sent the blood streaming from the Ogden fighter's fight-er's nose. Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight heavy-weight boxing champion, referred the battle. Heavy slugging in the closing rounds gave Jackie Burke, 145, Ogden, an unpopular referee's decision de-cision over Pedro Ortega, Mexican welterweight, in a 10-round semi-windup. semi-windup. sThe Baseball JiailUIIIM9 , - II I v - STvNNNXnx .33TWSSSMSfc- XWcv.VsN.VesV. AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. New York 41 13 .759 Boston 32 23 .582 Cleveland 31 28 .525 Detroit 31 30 .508 St. Louis 28 32 .467 Philadelphia 25 37 .403 Chicago 22 33 .400 Washington 22 36 .379 Monday's Results No games scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Brooklyn 38 16 .704 St. Louis 32 20 .615 Cincinnati 29 27 .518 New York 30 28 .517 Chicago 29 31 .483 Pittsburgh 27 30 .474 Boston 27 35 .435 Philadelphia 16 41 .281 Monday's Results Chicago 6, Brooklyn 0. New York 6. Pittsburgh 2. Only games scheduled. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet Sacramento . 43 29 .597 San Diego 43 31 .581 Los Angeles 39 29 .574 San Francisco 33 33 .500 Seattle 34 38 .472 Oakland 32 38 .457 Hollywood 33 42 .440 Portland 26 43 .377 This Week's Schedule Sacramento at Portland. San Francisco at Los Angeles. Hollywood at Oakland. Seattle at San Diego. , Softball Teams Clash Tonight Beginning at 8 p. m. tonight in the Springville recreational park, Springville Commercial league Softball teams will swing into action. The Bates and Rogers team, sponsored by the Bates and Rogers Construction company and managed man-aged by Kenneth Commins, will meet the Springville Garage, sponsored spon-sored by A. L. Thorpe . and managed man-aged by Frank Fullmer. Scheduled for 9 p. m. the sec ond game brings together the Jaycees, sponsored by the junior chamber of commerce, managed by Ray Kouch and Bill Ruff, and Park Inn, sponsored by Lewis Bird and managed by Glen Clark. The Deacons will continue their league play Friday. The First ward has defeated the Third, and the Fourth ward trounced the Second by way of default. Pacing the summer recreation program are games between the local Kolob girls and other teams of the Debutante league. The Kolob squad will meet the Shamrock Sham-rock club of Salt Lake City here Wednesday evening. Tuesday eve ning they will play the Lucky 13J in Salt Lake City, and Friday they will play the Magrta Copperettes at Magna. Pa&seatt First Hurler To Win t 10 Games; Beats1 Dodgers 6-0 By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jcne 16 UE OLErThe Brooklyn Dodgers, responsible re-sponsible for more innovations in major league baseball than any other club most of them incredible incred-ible but all of them interesting introduced "twight" baseball - to 15,157 of the Flatbush faithful last night and the novelty gives promise today of developing; into a regular diamond fixture. "Twight" baseball is a contest defined as a cross between a twilight twi-light affair and a night game. It is . a direct result of war-time restrictions on outdoor ilghting and the nimble brain of club President Larry MacPhe.il. John (MacDolpaldi team secretary, authored the title. The games are to start promptly prompt-ly at 7 p. m. and at sundown, the arc-lights will be turned on for exactly one hour. The military authorities allowed MacPhail the hour of artificial light and the opposing op-posing managers agreed to forego any stalling tactics. MacPhail, whose deeds of daring dar-ing with Dodgers dollars first brought night ball to Ebbets field, solvency to the cash box and a National Na-tional league pennant and world series to Brooklyn, announced plans for at least five of these hy4rds immediately safter the total1 arc affairs were blacked out. At the time, other clubs cirticized "twight" baseball as only some more Dodger daffiness. Today, however, the feeling was different after last night's turnstile turn-stile take was counted. Despite a crush of workers returning home on the subways, the crowd compared com-pared favorably with the aver age daytime draw of a similar game approximately 8,000. Horace Stoneham, president of the New York Giants, who attended at-tended the game, announced that his team would follow suit as soon as possible. The initial effort at the Polo grounds will probably be with the Pittsburgh Pirates June 25th or 26th. J Even Detroit and the New York Yankees, who had stood with Boston against tinkering with the American league timetable, time-table, have given in and will ex-periment ex-periment today, at the motor city. The Tigers-Yankees doubleheader, will start at 3 p. m., making the second game something like a twilight contest but not as radical a departure as the Ebbets field embroglio. The attendance last night was far below last year's night crowd of 32,061 for the same' game. The contest ended at 9 p. m., and thus should satisfy the fan, the diamond executives and the army. The only sour note for Brooklyn Brook-lyn was the fact that Pitcher Claude Passeau and the Chicago Cubs walked off with a 6-0 victory, vic-tory, which lifted the Bruins into fifth place, two games out of the first division, passea became the first pitcher in either league to win 10 games as he held the Dodgers to five hits. The Cubs ganged up on Rookies Ed Head to knock him out in the third. He retired the first two men, but then gave up five hits and three runs, with Bill Nicholson's double providing the most damage. Chicago clouted Johnny Allen for six hits and three more runs in the next 5 1-3 innings, while Larry French pitched the final ' frame. The Cubs collected 12 hits. It was the Dodgers' second whitewash white-wash of the season. . In the only other game played in the major leagues, the New York Giants climbed to within a single precentage point of the third-place Cincinnati Reds by scoring a 6-2 triumph over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Hal Schumacher Schu-macher allowed a total of seven hits, giving up only singles until the seventh. The -Giants pecked away at Max Butcher for single runs in the third, fourth and eighth affd sewed up the game with a three-run three-run burst in the ninth off Ken Helntzelman. Mel Ott hit his eighth homer and Babe Barna clouted No. 2 after Johnny Mize had singled. Sharon Recreation Program Set Sharon stake will launch - its summer recreation program - for children from five to 12 years of age,' according to Mrs. Nina Booth, Mrs. Olive Burningham, Mrs. Elgin OUphant, and Mrs. Melba Pyne, recreation directors. To include courses in drama, dancing, handicraft, story-telling, and music, the program will be held at the Scera theater center one day each week. Swimming classes will be. held each Tuesday afternoon. ' Transportation a r rangements will be announced next week. SOUTHPAW SOCK CHICAGO. June 16 New York Giants have three left-handed hitters hit-ters in the middle of their batting order against all pitching Mel Ott, Johnny Mize and Willard Marshall, Atlanta recruit. YANKEE PINCH-HITTERS NEW YORK, June 16 New York Yankees used 14 pinch-hitters in 13 games, six them for First Baseman Ed Levy, arid only four came through. MeetlngWartime Needs i Get Where You Must Go To nrovide service for essential essen-tial 'military and civilian travel is our first responsibility. responsibil-ity. Burlington Trailways is readjusting its service to meet these requirements. When it is absolutely necessary neces-sary to travel, bus service offers a means of doing so with economy of money and a saving of vital materials. Aik Agtml for 7 ran I Dttaft BURLINGTON TRAILWAYS DEPOT W. E. RODRIGUE, Agent 95 West Center Street Phone: 1272 IH.HUsMlJ'lJ-llB.M'l.lUl.l'N.I This year, don't waste your money buying me foolish knick-knacks. knick-knacks. I've got a closet full of them, and any way, this is no time to spend foolishly. Buy me something I can wear . . . and enjoy! Arrow Shirts, frinstance, or Arrow Ties and Arrow Underwear . . . I'm not hinting, but I saw some swell Arrows just today. Neat white and patterned shirts with all the Arrow standard equipment. (Sanforized, less than 1 shrinkage, anchored buttons, Arrow faultless tailoring.) I also saw some dandy Arrow lightweight shirts, too. Just the thing to wear at the office on warm days ... or to putter in around the house. And look, Chillun, if you can't spend too much on me . . . don't. Just get me an Arrow Tie or two. They have them in the latest patterns and colors. (They make perfect knots!) Or Arrow Underwear. That's the most comfortable kind you can buy ... no center seam to chafe or annoy. 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