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Show ir w iff I "x- ? W , J !3s - - 1 - va IV m m.. fiDnnrTf aVll m III ' U I ! I tit lift - " A v, A , 1 I rSJ , " I', .14 AA- ' J TPHE Pacifie'coast baseball . - ' ? v A 1 I MM (Vs kXi$Bm . ? possible that the West coast stretch ; t y ! - ' ' l? J J-. 'Jf r l isn't entirely major territory as far r . - v J ,S fcisj-" At as aU its cities or teams are coif V . - J cerned. This also applies to both, the " t ' JT10" . V J I ' American and National league, ; ' ' I - V - - K iT which in many places carry strong . . f v SWTS "1 minor league touch, as everyone - - : : ' 15 x ' connected with baseball knows. V h - 151 I4 ! But the main point Is that to ? ' 4 TiHlS VJ i general worths way the Paclflo ; f 1 . ' Jk . tFnf' fr - ST I has more of a big . 4 v . - s Ur1 -4fc 1' t 4 j H 1 , XJ league touch than : . I -'VN k V C ' ' ivTfft III 'J iJll V 'Ii J or the South. And , . M ' ' 7 A JlM Ml HvVtlfl, the argument isn't . , ' f ' J J llWS 1M I SM' A ven close. The . . C ; - r b&&X yVvi2 h sJLZPt f f 1 HSTS 1 only way to prove -s . . "X . v , - " ' W 'MM& Vlif 1 this point Is through . X, v- wlf -H'W,' ; (ll facU and figures. ,,, N 41 :w, ' 4fTv 1 k?'7,'Va are always unlm. I I I ? " l!l ,;--a:: "COME IN, TOE WATER'S FINE" . . . Hardy members of the Polar Bear club th ihm ,., r. . . ft, year dip in the Icy water of Lake Michigan at Milwaukee a.L-u!0k.! annu flrst tte, failed to convince the spectators on the snowcapped shore. The" temperature was ie degrees above. ! Grantlan'd Rice i f",lulli""lllJ " , JL.,,.- .,.1,.;,,, .,.,,..,,, t 'iPfflTntil IrntMt... M.nM . . ... lvuj ntriixu biiviiss rui xu wukk . . . ui course tue aruuciai nana worn by this veteran (left), Lawrence Dilworth, is not to be compared with the one he lost. But be ean use tools with it. Vincent Yannone, right, also knew the horror Inspired by the word "disability." He now wonders why he ever let ' nun- He has pulled tip his trousers to show bis artificial leg. Both vets are among a group "how employed in a North Bergen, N. J., manufacturing plant. These men now spell "disability" a-b-l-I-i-t-y. tint ft ? NEW tlFOKMS ... Bell bottom trousers, suit of navy W Uev'aMonal uniform worn by sea-faring men since the 14th cen-Wtt'ttw"00" cen-Wtt'ttw"00" ,0 ,ade ,nto oMMoh. Left to right; blue, white and gray, L match. The blue and white are dress uniforms, while the W 2 lVnarUy ,he working uniform. White trousers may be worn iheir u batt,e iaket in warm weather. The sailors will keep a uitm m.i ra1.. . .. ... . ,- ..... A - - A , inB Dew nnuorms-wui oe given a mree-monins iesi. ' ' - lvf ? N ! : --Vf ' v ' J ' yle Jvt i7 unuauwai . miss dad autuum, v slre hacDonneIl. She demonstrates how New York looked at Times Vit!eB famland,.fcr milking a eew In the "hub of the lt ra n was farmland, r mitkuig a eew In the "hub or ine dmiS? P.hoto as taken la front of a New fork theatre during men il,r movi hnilt around Eaa Antonio, Texas. Miss ac-hnrnw ac-hnrnw ! J1 tta would rather Me a milWng machine, but decided r "anvea r Km v-.w rt. ka .m hand methea. COAST GUARD'S BEST . . . Selected Select-ed at one of V. 8. coast guard's best photographs of 1945 is this en of two G.I.s returning from foreign ion. i I. &. . y I I f I i" A I III -'"liV I :iA" : 'Ji ,ri 0 I I l .... i s, i-- ikntf.. ..tsriu I ..Aii y . HEBE COMES THE BRIDE . . . Hushed whispers, accompanied by varied expressions, came from onlookers on-lookers when they glimpsed the bride, Mollie Wyndham-Quin, and her groom, Hon. Robert Cecil, after ceremony at Westminster abbey. TPHE Pacifie'eoast baseball league was recently turned down in a major league bid. It is quite possible that the West coast stretch isn't entirely major territory as far as all its cities or teams are concerned. con-cerned. This also applies to both, the American and National league, which in many places carry strong minor league touch, as everyone connected with baseball knows. But the main point is that In general sporting way the Paciflo coast in many spots has more of a big league touch than the East, Midwest or the South. And the argument isn't even close. The only way to prove this point is through facts and figures, not by words that are always unimportant unim-portant For a few ex amples after a bad football year where both Southern South-ern California and UCLA were beaten beat-en two or three times, they outdrew Army and Navy. The western rec- j ord count was 103,000 and this, isn't ! the first time 100,000 has been beat- 1 en on the West coast Under the .1 sarne conditions Southern California I and UCLA in the East Midwest or South would have drawn from 30,000 to 40,000 at the limit Now we come to racing, which interests in-terests more millions than most people know more than almost any . other sport or business or whatever . you care to call it Richest Purses in West ' Those who follow racing know the purses offered in New York, Chicago, Chi-cago, Maryland, Florida, New Orleans Or-leans and Kentucky, all among the leading racing states, rarely top $50,000. Here are some of the purses to be offered at Santa Anita, Calif.: One hundred thousand dollar Santa Anita handicap March 9. Richest all-age race. i)ne hundred thousand dollar Santa Anita Derby February 23. Tops for the three-year-olds. Fifty thousand dollars for the Santa Catalina, San Fasqual, Santa i Margarita, San Antonio and San Juan Caplstrano. Five in all eight i $35,000 stakes. ' A stake total of $650,000 for the all-time average of $43,333 per stake. No purse is' under $3,000. Can the East South or Midwest approach these figures? You know what the answer is. No. New Baseball Territory All this is further proof that the twojopsided big leagues, which need unlimited night "baseball -for many teams to keep going, can no longer overlook a new country in the way of population and general sporting interest Los Angeles and San Francisco Fran-cisco are far ahead of most of the big league cities in the matter of population and enthusiasm for sports. It is generally realized by those who know their sport that St Louis, Boston and Philadelphia are one major league club towns. Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, Washington and a few others don't belong in the same class with Los Angeles and San Francisco on the sporting side. The fact is that California and Florida are our two best climate states, unless you happen to like colder weather. It Is all a question of facts, figures fig-ures and fair play. California merely happens to be the best football foot-ball state, the best racing stale, the best track-and-field state In the country. Neither New York nor Chicago Chi-cago could even approach the Olympic Olym-pic games of 1932 which Los Angeles An-geles held. Both cities know this. One trouble is that too many peo-ply peo-ply sby away from facts and truth. Especially those Interested only on the side of the dollar. For one example. New York has neither the football nor racing facilities facili-ties to be ranked in the same class with Los Angeles, unless you enjoy looking at football games back of a thick pillar or being trampled underfoot under-foot at a race track. In the course of too many years, your correspondent correspond-ent has worked in the border states, the deep South, the East, the Midwest Mid-west the Far West and the Southwest South-west Pride of section is a good thing, but the United States Is much more important There was a time when the Atlantic At-lantic and Pacific coasts were many days apart. Now they are only a few hours apart This also goes for the South and the North. The Gulf and the Great Lakes are now only a hop. step and jump away. But up to date the Far West baa taken all the worst of it from big league baseball and big league pro football. The South'! major problem has been spectator capacity where only the New Orleans stadium can handle 70,000 people. And no Southern South-ern city bas a population around the million mark. This, in time, will be taken care of. Certainly the South ' contribution to every form of sport his been enormous, whether this be baseball, football, golf or ether sports. The South, plus California, has the Jump in those games, with Tactically 13 months of play. PEARL HARBOR QUIZ . . . Seth W. Richardson, Republican, former assistant attorney general, bow a Washington attorney, who hat been appointed to succeed William D. Mitchell at chief counsel for the Fearl Harbor committee. FATTON'S FAITHFUL FRIEND ... The saddest dog in the entire Enropean theatre of operations Is "Willie." the late Gen. George S. Fatten'! pet bull terrier. "Willie," shown here lying beside his late master's mas-ter's personal belongings, misses the general, whose passing has deeply affected the dog's once active and lively spirit. "Willie" was ever at Fatton's side during the 3rd army drive into Germany. Winn wvvgmtHfMxmr'Y Afet J v 3 j ill S A a.W lot. 1 CROSS NATION SECOND TIME . . . Harry Arisohn, Lot Angclet cab driver, to shown as he starts return trip from New York City to Lot Angeles. He left Los Angeles with six servicemen who wanted to spend Christmas In the East. Riding with Arisohn are Shipfitter 82 James E. Powers. Brooklyn; Cpl. Anthony Tuccl and Coastguardsman Angelo Rossi, Los Angeles. Two more servicemen were picked up at Chicago. AH 4r 'j ' A !J A!f A A-A . ' .'ft' V AA ! liH ' mm 1 If Ml ADVISORS TO GENERAL MAC ARTHUR . . . Members of the 10-natlon Far Eastern advisory commission, shown as they boarded plane for Japan, At left from top to bottom are: Sir George Sansom, Great Britain; C. A. Berendsen, New Zealand; R. R. Saksena, India; Francis Lacoste, France; and Lt. Gen. Cbu Shin-Ming, China. At right: MaJ. Gen. Frank R. Moody, U. S. A.; Dr. De Mat Angelino, Netherlands; Col. L. M. Cosgrave, Canada; Maj. J. Flimsoll, Australia, and Nelson T. Johnson, secretary generaL ffllPlS Hd VP' v:;i A A - ' In $ : is- hi4 ; ''y 'A WJL' UNITED NATIONS DELEGATES SAIL . . . Standing on the gangway as they boarded the Queen Elizabeth are (left to right) Sen. Tom Connelly, Con-nelly, Texati Sen, Arthur Vaodenberg, Michigan; former Secretary of State Edward Stettinlua Jr., and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. The four are members ef the American delegation to the United Nations general assembly which starts its meeting in London this month. Final selection of headquarters win be made. Mfcjsnal GOTHAM'S NEW MAYOR ... William Wil-liam O'Dwyer It shown at be was worn In at. mayor ef New fork City. The new mayor succeeds the colorful Fiorelle La Guardla, who bat been the city's chief executive for 12 years, Mayor O'Dwyer announced an-nounced that the Improvement ef aubwayt wat more Important than new airport and would be bit first problem. 1 : f' , 'I f , ' 1 i - . ; , " A UNO ADVISOR . . . Lt Gen. Matthew Mat-thew B. Ridgway, native of Fort Monroe, Va., and commanding general gen-eral of the Mediterranean theatre of operation, who bas been appointed to represent General Eisenhower on United Nations staff. He will also serve as advisor to the American delegation to the United Nations Organization. I ? l i J ' i'? " A far f , 5 s & s f i I HEADS COAST GUARD . . . Rear Adm. Joseph F. Farley, chief per sonnet officer of the U. 8. coast guard, has been named by President Presi-dent Truman as commandant of the coast guard for a four-year term. t iff J 4 1 ' ' I ( a W d it ESCREEOADIO RelaaKd t7 Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE TED COLLINS is wel known as the producer of . the "Kate Smith Hour" and Kate Smith Speaks," also as the man under whose shrewd direction Kate rocketed to fame. But among those who know the inside of radio he's famous as a star-maker, an expert talent finder!. Among his alumni are Abbott tod Costello, Rudy Vallee, "The Aldrlch Family, "It Fays to Be Ignorant" and Tom my Riggs and Betty Lou. HI pastet on scores ot Ideas, tongs, guest start and radio aspirantt each week. He listens to a new tune f nee or twice and knows just how good It win be one reason why so many bit tongt have been introduced on the CBS "Kate Smith Hour." He can size up talent at quicklyand launch new performer with guest shot on that same program. SERVES ON WARSHIP . PMato Edith Cramp, daughter ef Major and Mrs. Edmund CrampChester, Pa., it the first girl to serve aboard U. 8. warship en active duty. She it with the transport Hendry, tnd It shown before sailing for the Fsclfio. Virginia Mayo'a been yearning tor dramatic role, after being the romantic ro-mantic interest to Danny Kaye itt Wonder Man," in 'The Kid From Brooklyn" end to Bob Hope in 'The princess and the Pirate," So Sam- VIRGINIA MAYO " "jfit' uel Goldwyn rewarded , her,- In .."Glory for Me" the can be intense '' end dramatic and emotional at the unfaithful war wife of Fred Derry,; . bombardier. William Wyler will' direct Convalescent veterang In the army' huge Birmingham General. . hospital voted this way for- their most popular comedians Boh Hope,' Danny Kaye, Jack Carson, Jack , Benny, Red Skelton, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Bracken, Fred Allen, Abbott and Costello, William Bendix. . Did yon know that Kate Smith can't read musio, and hat never taken music lessons. "There are only two natural popular singers," says Ted Collins, "Kate Smith and Bing Crosby. They ting tong the way the composer bad In mind. . Tommy Dorsey plays a trombone the way they ting, Kate has perfect pitch and a flair for phrasing." Ne. wonder she didn't need musio les-tonsl les-tonsl Don't miss the March of Time's new release, "Challenge to Hollywood," Holly-wood," showing how British moviemakers movie-makers plan to capture world audiences audi-ences with bigger and livelier pictures. pic-tures. Their $3,000,000 "Caesar and Cleopatra" seems to be their best bet. Barry Wood, singing star ot "Johnny Presents," is spending his winter week-ends at his farm in Con necticut with bis wife and three daughters; says he just relaxes, hunts and cooks. Barry's specialty is venison. But unfortunately for him, deer hunting is not permitted in Connecticut so he shoots pheas ant Instead but doesn't say whether wheth-er he does the cooking. If you've been wondering what's happened to Dolores Del Rio, her latest picture Is "Portrait of Maria," made in Mexico, released In this country by MGM International Films. English tub-titles have been dubbed in, very successfully. Since "Duffy's Tavern" first went on tht air a whole crop of Duffyless Duffy's Taverns has sprouted up; wherever a beachhead was taken, or a spearhead pulled jjp for refreshments, re-freshments, a new Duffy's Tavera arose, apparently. Now, a student of history has discovered that the first Duffy's Tavern was established In 1795, about 19 miles west of WU-liamsport WU-liamsport Pa. In place of Duffy there were two Miss Duffyt, so "Duffy ain't here" was true men. Ed Gardener, ot radio's "Duffy's," Is insulted there was no "Archie" either. ODDS AND ENDS-Oscar Let-ant has been made technical edviser for the musical tequencet of 'Mumoresque, . . . Joe Louis appears internet of Lfjoe Palooka, Champ? elong with other , pugilistic champions. Roy Roger hat bought 20 of the finest palomumn mares obtainable; now he's looking for , m screen play based en the history of , palominos, in which to star his horse. Trigger. . . . Jimmy, e raven, who's beets in the movies 10 years, will be the first bird to receive screen credit when hit '" name is added to the east tut of Republic's Repub-lic's -Home en the Range.'. . Boagy CtrmkhaeVs second film appearance it in RKCr 'Johnny JnteL" VI VI Ml, wnBM.n |