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Show Thursday, June 27, 1940 THE Speakin? of Sports' PAGE THREE 'Miss Liberty' Salutes Refugee Lin; i Sarazen, Like The New York Yankees are looking closely at the Red Sox and the Indians. Although holding every club in the league dangerous on any NEMII. UTAH TIMES-NEW- GENERAL HUGH S. Old Man River, Keeps Rolling ROBERT .Vw.' i McSHANE By Steel Against Steal Dressed in a suit of steel armor, William F. Guiling, candidate for Republican committeeman, made a campaign speech on a Chicago corner. He was, he said, Koine: to rescue the First ward from the "dragon of crooked politics." Johnson Jour: Washington, Released by Western Newspaper Union. That sturdy little Roman, Gene Sarazen, gave golfdom one of its major thrills a short time ago when the fates decided that he and Law-so- n Little should battle it out for the h National Open championship. Little won the match, and no one denies that his was a gallant victory. But it was a sad blow to the thousands of fans who have rooted for Gene during the past 20 years. They took consolation in the fact given occasion, they naturally expect the strongest resistance from those two teams. They are concerned with the pitchAs ing in Boston and Cleveland. they see it, they will be aided by a contin1 uance of the ineffec' tiveness of Old Mose tf Grove and menaced by the skill of Bob Feller. They even E that the playoff was just as think at least some exciting as could be expected in a of them that I talked duel between two of the to the ether day match players who ever greatest 41 that these two pitchlived. ers, one near the end Cocky and courageous, Sarazen of the string as a big has won virtually all the honors ofj othfered to a professional golfer. Thirty-eleaguer and the er just heading into Bob Grove ight years old, this was his twenty-fthe days of his greatirst National Open tournament ness, may bring about a change in after his debut at Toledo's Inverthe positions of their two leading ness course. He won the Open in rivals. 1922, and again in 1932. The Statue of Liberty was a welcome sight to the refugees from war-tor- n Europe who jam one of the As Joe McCarthy puts it, Feller is decks of the United States liner, Manhattan, as the liner passes the distinguished lady (background) on its way Standouts of 30's the for what Grove the Indians doing to New its York city pier. The Manhattan brought almost 2,000 passengers from Genoa, Italy. Looking back over the Terrific used to do for the Red Sox but can do no longer, apparently: step in Thirties, one can find but a handful of standout golfers. The handful ind and halt their skidding with a game when the other pitch- cludes Ralph Guldahl, Sam Snead, ers are faltering. So far, of course, Harry Cooper, and a few more. Most of the big names featured in til right without Old Mose in the today's golfing news belong to the the boys who lorm he held through last year. But what of the months ahead the hot look good during a particularly hot stretch, and then settle down to a months when the strain will be heavless publicized mediocrity. ier on the other pitchers. Gene won all six of the major Grove Through at Last? championships, five of them during I asked some of the Yanks if they the thirties. In 1932 he won both m .;.v thought Old Mose was through that the U. S. and the British Open after 15 years of hurling, during crowns, establishing a scoring recwhich he slipped under the .500 ord in England. In 1933 he won the mark only once, and that in his first Professionals' match play tournag ment. Two years later he scored year out of Baltimore if the Limited really had lost his his still famous double-eagl- e to tie stuff. I asked them that, rememCraig Wood and win the Augusta bering that everybody thought he WW, ' was through as far back as 1934 when he won only eight games in his first year in Boston. They remembered that, too and remembered how he came back with a rush and what a pitcher he was right up to the end of last season. Only one of them answered. "I don't know," he said, "but that's what we heard when we were in Boston. The dope we got was I ',.w that while he might come through 'j with a good game once in a while might get out there any afternoon forty-fourt- le 1). C. TRAINING CCC BOYS It is timid nonsense to propose, by law, military training for the CCC boys. What is military service? It contradiction in terms like quadrutalking about a ped or a pair of shears. A man may, as has been suggested, serve in the army as a cook, a truck driver or an welder and many such will be needed. But he is a soldier just the same and is not recognized, at international or military law, as a Is a two-legg- d man-to-m- ff. well-pitche- Whither Bound, Soldier Boys of Italy? Johnny-come-lateli- llj. Lona-conin- 1 Relatives and friends of those aboard stand silently on the pier as the Italian liner, jampacked with leaves Genoa, Italy, for some undisclosed destination. The soldiers might have been shipped to territory in Africa to be used in attacks on French and British territory on the same continent. js ' , 'Miss Houston' of the Lone Star State 'The Soul of Italy' I ut 60-fo- heart-breaki- ice. In the first place, it may save d his life Or limbs. It is the recruit" who is slaughtered like sheep and who, as Kipling sang, "wonders because he is frequent de ceased, ere 'e's fit for to serve as a soldier." In the second place, if our bungling, blundering foreign and defense policies do get us into this bloody mess and require the raising of mass armies, the boy who has had sound military training before conscription starts will have a very great advantage over his fellows in advancement, pay and comforts. My only boy has had about all the military instruction the army gives to men his age and if I had another son who had none now, I would consider the best thing I could do for him would be to see to it that he got an intensive course in military training as promptly as it could be arranged. It is true that modern war requires specialists in almost every branch of human effort but basic military training is necessary in addition to any special civilian skill a may have. General Marshall is reported have said that the army prefers &, m C f f to i mat . o M at V v ttm Czecho-Slovakia- HOTELS Whm in RKNO. NEVADA. Hop at th. HOTEL GOLDEN Renu't lreat .nd most popular hotel. 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When Angelo Vinic, Omaho high school student born in Italy, stowed away aboard a ship bound for hia native land, he anticipated only the usual difficulties and penalties if caught. But he did not foresee his being drafted for Mussolini's army. How he felt about that was something to write home about. He wrote home plenty. If he could get a passport back, he could avoid the army draft. The American consul at Palermo, Italy, was finally authorized to issue one to him. boy contest of more Dimple Causey, selected as "Miss Houston" In than 14,000 Texas school children. Is here shown at the engine, room telegraph of the liner Algonquin, arriving In New York, to take part In a troops. In bis declaration of war II legal restrictions. series of events at the World's fair. Miss Causey was scheduled for a Dure referred to him as "the soul of Italy." mighty busy time. RKCKIITIXG ERRORS Part of the war department plans for a major military eflort is a S. whoop-l- a recruiting drive for volunteers to "bridge the gap of time Way until the system for compulsory -selective service can be created and W HI W r Catholic pines. "half-bake- and icial of this administration terly loyal. The whole of administration policy on defense has been politically timid and never frank. Up to the point of training by battalions, the CCC camps and organization are almost ideal if the army is prepared to furnish enough instructors, and if it isn't so prepared there isn't any use talking about training anybody. Training now is multiple insurance against harm and danger, to the boy himself, to men later drafted raw from the streets that he may have to lead and train and, above all, to the nation which, if war comes, will find its very existence depending upon the degree of skill, strength and toughness of the men in its armed forces. CCC boys thus trained will be subject to conscription to exactly the same extent and to no greater degree than any other young men Recent photo of King Victor Em- of their age and condition as to manuel of Italy, who, according to health and dependency of others an official announcement In Rome, upon them. Let's not hobble ourhas left for the front to lead his selves with any such nonsensical The Italian 'Blitzkrieg' Machine Under can n, But giving military training is not requiring military service. In times like these it is a great boon to any boy who may later be called upon, under our democratic form of se lective drafting, to do military serv- ut- X i; tics. diers. It is even hard for me to believe that he said that because it is wrong to the point of absurdity. But General Marshall is an off- GENE SARAZEN Masters' in a playoff. He was Western Open champion in 1930 and Metropolitan king in 1925. Sarazen backers will concede that one other man was a consistently better golfer. That was Bobby Jones. From the time the Emperor Jones won his first title in 1923 until he finished competition the top man of them all was never without a -title. He won 13 major championships. Including the 1930 grand slam of the National Open, the National BOB FELLER Amateur, the British Open and the and blow that curve ball of his British Amatcnr. around the plate and then let go When Jones entered a tournament with a fast one now and then Just it was always him against the field. to remind the hitters he still has it That can't be said about Sarazen or he isn't going to be much real help any other player since Jones' time. to the club any more. "If that's so, those other Boston Gene Calls the Turn Gene called the turn about two pitchers had better be hot all eea-so- n. Check back and you'll find that months ago. He couldn't, he said, the 15 games Grove won last year see any reason why, at his age, he meant the difference between sec- shouldn't still be good enough to ond place and fourth at least." win. He planned on entering a few tournaments, getting plenty of pracThe Yanks Admire Them tice, and then going out for bigger Grove and Feller, Incidentally, The success of his strategy who may in one way or the other game. almost made a third-tim- e Open have such an effect not only on the of him, and must have ate of their own clubs but on the champion a been surprise even to himself. fate of the Yankees as well, are two There'll be no forgetting Sarazen's of the Yanks' favorite athletes. semi-fina- l a tie with finish to Naturally, they like to beat the two Little: Needing to gain come back in Robs every time they hook up with 34 strokes, two under par, the Conthrm. But they admire Grove for necticut farmer picked up birdies at his ycar-i- n and year-operformthe eleventh and thirteenth. He got In be showed ances, the courage them holing a bad eight-foo- t putt beating his way back when every on thebysixteenth, a terrific body had him tagged for the clean- on the seventeenth, and Just missing ers and the skill with which be bas a attempt for a birdie that made over bis pitching style. would have won the title for him on They Don't Like 'Showboats' the eighteenth hole. When the tournament was over They admire Feller not only for the natural stuff he has but for the Sarazen knew that youth finally had way he has taken his fame in stride. been served. Tournaments as tough There are no swelled-hoad- s or show- - as the Open are won by younger ofTs among the Yankees and they men players whose mmcles are freely hand it to the kid from Van elatir, who ran shake qulrkly the of a grueling, punishing Meter for having already touched effect comgreatness without making any fuss round agaitwt about It petition. The little Italian spoke his feelThe Yanks, 1 might say, are criti cal of ball players they call "show-boat.- " ings at the trophy presentation folNot understanding Diziy lowing the playoff. He placed his Dean, they took an almost violent hand on the championship cup and dislike to him and got a terrific said: In the all-stkick eat of his crack-u- p "I had dates with this graceful game In Washington In 1937 and lady in 1922 and in 1932 and 1 had the defeat they slapped on him In hoped to keep another one with her She led me on for three the World Series of 1938. tnday. But Dii got them on his side after days, but today she said, Tm sorthe final game of the 1933 series ry. Gene, but I'm going to go home when be walked into their clubhouse: with Mr. Little. He's younger than at the Stadium and said he hated you are.' " to lose but getting beaten by a great Whenever golfing enthusiasts gathball club took some of the sting out er the name of Sarazen will conjure of the defeat i'p tale ni a truly great competitor. with This is just monkey-busines- s words. This column has long opposed drafting CCC boys as such by any device. They are poor. Whatever form of military service we adopt must demand absolutely equal sac rifice regardless of wealth or poverty, race or religion, color or poli- I'hillippines Bishop Denis Cardinal Dougherty, of Philadelphia, was the first Ameri- J f t I7 kettle-drumme- A- - "I VlW J - ir Modern mechanized war requires careful S Italian motorized division rolls along the streets of Rome In true "blitzkrieg" tempo. Thrlr destination was not disclosed. Motorized troops and guns like these got into the grim of destruction when It Dure ntered the war. An bu-in- c selection. An excellent, if extreme example, of the change is in the German parachute troops. 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