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Show THE TIMES-- NEWS, NEPHI. UTAH Thursday, October 9, 1947 PAGE THREE Creeping Doll Looks Just Like Real Baby 'THERE seems to be an opinion around that major league baseball's playing standards reached a new low in the season just closed. This is a point hard to prove, and doubt that it is true. In the ebb and flow of tha last 40 years, we've looked at a long parade of stars. We also have peered at a still longer parade of sour ball pretty clubs, and that goes W 4A4:i,l.ftfor hitting, pitching J. Gordon and fielding. No one can doubt that the four war years held back many a budding rookie, lifted from minor league training to war service. Some of these were killed. Many more were wounded. All were removed from training action at vital years 19 to 23. -I sf it if mi iTiiiiiinaii This doesn't include such veter, ml m , ans as Hank Greenberg, who lost YOUNG VISITORS TO "FREEDOM TRAIN" . . . Whole classes of five years, Bobby Feller, Johnny Mize and so many others who were Philadelphia's school children form long lines to await their turn to go aboard the "Freedom Train" to view the historic documents that halted in their prime. are the foundation stones of American liberties. The train will carry Many of these have had remarkits precious cargo on a swing around the entire nation this fall, visiting able comebacks Greenberg leading some 300 communities. the home-ru- n makers last season; Ted Williams, three years away v. y from baseball, leading his league In practically every department where a bat figures; Joe Gordon; Johnny Mize, challenging Babe Ruth's in credible figure of 60 home runs in a year; not to overlook Walker Cooper. And what two seasons meaning 1946 and 1947 can you recall that produced a longer list of young r, stars: Ewell Blackwell, Ralph Yogi Berra, Bobby Thompson, Jackie Robinson, Spider Jorgenson, Spec Shea, Earl Torgerson, Bruce Edwards and many other first or second-yea- r men? i3 3 IN THESE ' UNITED STATES hem Prevails as Indians Renew Ancient Competition WNU Features. f CHEROKEE, N. C Cherokee Indians smile politely at "hoary" football traditions which have pitted teams against each other, at the longest count, for only two generations. Before De Soto came through this country in 1540, ancient Indian clans for centuries had been competing in stickball, a competition so honored in time and custom and so intent in purpose that the annual games were sur-- 3 X rounded by secret rites and ceremonies. A renewal of that ancient rivalry is staged annually as n hish!:ght of the Cherokee fall fair, although later-dagames lack a lot of the blood-lettin- g of aboriginal days. An innovation at this fall's fair was a stickball game in which children's teams competed for the first time publicly. Rough Is Right. The game itself, also played by other Indian tribes' in America, is one of the roughest sports in the world. Forerunner of lacrosse, it is played with a small ball, with 10 players on a side, each armed with two small home-mad- e rackets. The idea is to propel the ball across a goal line, represented by two willows stuck in the ground. The ball may be advanced in any manner whatever carried, thrown, passed or kicked. Once on the ground, however, it may not be picked up except with the rackets. clans had a blood revenge pattern, and there was one town of refuge (Echota) in which prospective victims were inviolate. Many social taboos, including marrying, joking and other relationships, were defined by clan rules, which heightened rivalry of the ball games. Teams were carefully prepared for the contests, the rites including a purification of rackets at the river's edge, sacrification of players with rattlesnake fangs and dances. Today little remains of this, although elders sometimes still gather team members for conferences, the nature of which are not freely discussed. Young bucks, sophisticated by overseas service, laugh at the old superstitions, but the teams nevertheless usually emerge as a unit from the banks of the Occonaluftee just before going into action. What makes Indian ball so exciting is simply the absence of rules. Once a player has the In Donut To Rate Special Centennial y a ball, he is fair game for any sort of treatment, including mayhem. Stripped to trunks, the Indians run, tackle, wrestle, choke and bite without let or hindrance. The rackets sometimes are used in whacking opponents over the head or across . the shins. . What the spectators see is something like this: Opposing teams march on the field and face each other in two lines where individual opponents are "matched," sometimes after much wrangling. Each man has a personal opponent and they are mutually responsible for guarding their opposites. The ball, formerly a hickory nut, is tossed into the air, and the game is on. When a player gets the ball, he usually pops it into his mouth and lights out for .the goal. Opponents are privileged to run him down, choke the ball out of his mouth or otherwise discourage him. The team first getting 12 goals is winner. A game might last 30 minutes it might last all day. A player atr is tempting to tackle a liable to? prompt tacklirg by his "guard" or anyone, and sometimes the game comes to a stalemate with 10 wrestling matches going on at once. There are no rest periods and no substitutions. If a player it disabled, the opposing team must discard a man. 'and the game continues. On the field are "drivers," elderly men who are armed with long switches With these, they point toward the small and often obscure ball or to the player hiding It, crying "hahnl! hahnl!" ("here! here!")T They also are empowered to beat any laggard player, but this privilege seldom Is exercised nowadays. .1 v Some surreptitious betting Is done as the teams meet in midfleld. In former days, the squaws were the heaviest bettors, putting up wagers of beads, blankets,- - cattle, baskets and even their shorn' locks. i Element of Culture. The ball games ware Important In ancient Cherokee culture. Originally there were six clans, of which there re vestigial, remalas.pl fourThe ball-carrie- oVirginia Marks e ' - f Ki-ne- mi ii .... in p ii., "5323j i.i, vmrnjpxm AN ADORABLE little creeping doll that looks like a real baby. She wears a diaper and a e garment. The simple body is made of soft cotton hair is yellow cotton rug yarn, 14-m-ch one-piec- - ft4x? I C i " r features are embroidered. A per- g3 fect "under the tree" surprise. To obtain comolete cutting pattern. finishing directions, color chart for em- broidering face of the "Creeper No. 5323) send 20 cents in while the farmer was tinkering with coin, (Pattern your name, address and pattern his sprayer and getting ready to number. spray his barn. The cow suffered Send your order to: no bad effects. SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK At West Virginia university last 828 Mission St., San Francisco, Calif. Enclose 20 cents for pattern. year the dairy department threw No caution to the wind and put 32 pounds of 50 per cent DDT powder in 100 gallons of water then Address- sprayed cows with it. That figures out about 16 per cent for DDT. Most l" Baby-Dol- recommendations to date have been under 1 per cent for DDT water There have been bad major sprays on animals. "There were league ball clubs this season, and absolutely no harmful results" the many rather sour big league ball head of the dairy department replayers. But this has happened since ported. The DDT controlled flies, Uncle Abner Doubleday had his too. The spray was put on in May, and there were no flies on the cows dream. The Phillies, in last place, are a until the middle of August. far better bunch than the tall-enATHLETIC CLUB IN ACTION . . . Jaded photographers aboard the Phillies of years we still remember. U.S.S. Missouri carrying President Truman from Rio de Janeiro to And I could give you the names of Dehoming Instruments the United States were considerably cheered when the "Truman Athmany other clubs in the past that Spread Common Disease letic club" was organized. Pictures of the President of the United of many were strictly moth-eateA cattle disease known as States working off excess avoirdupois by leading a group of perspiring other ball players who were not even has gained a serious footwould-b- e not in are athletes calisthenics mill. exactly good minor leaguers. hold in the United To listen, and to read, you might States and is more think at times there were no good prevalent than most ball players left. What about Harry folks realize. . I Walker, Williams, Joe DiMaggio, K ' , It is a febrile, inPee Wee Reese, Ed Stanky, Pete fectious, protozoan Reiser, Mize, Willard Marshall disease that may be " ' " ' , 1 most of the Cardinals Cooper, Gorchronic or acute. It , ' i don, Bob Feller, Tommy Henrlch, attacks older ani" 1 " 1 V Augie Galan, Bob Elliott, George mals mostly. Aver-- a k "t Grady Hatton, Johnny Sain, g e mortality - i Kell, Warren Spahn and many more who ranges from 30 to .w.v.W.'.vi r.i would have been good in any past 50 per cent of baseball season? mals affected symptoms V- -j It is pleasant for those growing are similar to tick fever. 1 M " older to look back on the glories of .Treatment is still in the experi the past when they, too, were young. mental stage. The disease probably But they overlook one major point is spread by insect bites. Many " that practically every athletic cases coming to the attention of bu; JZ 1$ achievement that can be timed reau of animal industry investiga ' or measured has known a long run tors have followed mechanical deof broken records. horning when too little or no attention had been given to disinfecting Modern Athlete Better instruments. If calves have horn buttons re Practically every past athletic record has been smashed year moved when young, by means of after year. You can't measure foot- chemical dehorning fluid, the danball, baseball, golf or tennis by the ger of spreading the disease by declock or the tape. But in all games horning tools is eliminated. that can be timed and taped, there has been a big improvement. Other games must depend upon opin- This Land of Ours ions, which are about as stable as Must Now Be Saved A It rays IS i E. K Been That Way is ? mm HOME REMEDY TO RELIEVE d Even Lowly Hole In the maze of special weeks and observances eventually there should be a limit, even in the giddy postwar world. But now comes forth announcement of a celebration In October to note the centennial of the hole in the donut. Impetus for the event, as you'd undoubtedly suspect, comes from the baking industry. Although the celebration itself may rate only passing notice, historical significance is attached to that lowly hole in the donut. That, at least, is the contention of Camden, Me., where the celebration will get its official start. Part of Camden's fame emanates from the fact that it Is the birthplace of the late Capt. Hanson Gregory, acknowledged inventor of the. hole in the donut. Prior to 1847. all donuts or round cakes, as they were known then, were made without the hole. Sometimes a round cake had a nut in the center and historians attribute the origin of the name "donut" to this fact. At any rate, during the year 1847. Captain Gregory was sailing his sturdy vessel in northern waters. He and his men liked the round cake with a doughy center, eating it not only at mealtime but also as a snack when they were at the steering wheel. One October day in 1847, Captain Gregory himself was at the steering wheel with a handful of donuts or round cakes. He had no place to put the cakes so he rammed the soft. cakes over the! spokes of the steering wheel, thus forcing a hole through each of them He and the men liked the cake with the hole so much that Captain Gregory ordered the ship's cook to make all future donuts with holes in them and thus according to the New England Legend the hole in the donut was born. The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the donut hole will take place at the home of the late Captain Gregory. There late In October, a permanent plaque will be placed at his old homestead. From Maine, straight across the country, various celebrations are planned In California, Oregon and Washington to honor the memory of the Maine captain. n, run-of-t- f Yfi f i 4y ,j Y ivY V k-n- i jtl, 14 Kfk i m M j .4 mm, t& Those talking and writing of baseball's past glory have forgotten teams that couldn't draw 300 Into the gate teams that couldn't draw 300.000 in 154 games. Baseball In 1947 has been far from flawless or spotless, but it has been one of the most Interest! campaigns yet offered. One answer! Is an attendance total for all parks that will reach or pass 20 million, where In many past years a nine million total was rated an exceptional turnout. Baseball always has had one weakness. This was the average condition of its players. Few ball players keep in the condition needed to play 35 exhibition and 154 pennant games a total close to 190 games a year. Poor condition accounts for so many bad legs, arm trouble, back trouble and other ills and ailments that afflict so many of the hired men. mitCMlIn NEW YEAR'S HORN SOUNDS . . . Rabbi Isaac Israel, 76, of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob in New York makes this impressive picture as he blows the ram's horn, or "shofar," signifying the end of the Jewish New Year celebration. The "shofar" also is soandrd to introduce the New Year period, this year marking the beginning of the year 5708 in the Jewish religion. Observances this year were marked by memorial services for Jews who died through persecution. iw ... M .: YY- - Site of Wreck of Old 97' .) Keeping in Shape were killed and seven injured in the wreck. Reason most widely given for the state's delay in putting up the marker designating the famous .wreck is that until recently the ravine where the 07 came a cropper was almost inaccessible. The South-- ' era railway changed its main line; roadbed several years ago and later ' tore down the trestle. A new high j way now crosses the ravine. -- 1 ' j t One famous athletic trainer told me recently that he could take a tail-enteam and get it Into condl-- ! tion that would net a pennant. He probably meant: "If I could Which he get it into condition." probably couldn't. ball player should live on his just about all the year round." This statement was given me by Ty Cobb and Joe Mrdwiek. Cobb went In for hunting. Medwtek for golf. I don't believe either ever got out of shape. You know Cobb's record. And look at Medwlek's amai-In- g work this season, long after be was supposed to be through. !"A ALMOST BEFORE SHE COULD WALK . . . Dixie Lre Bertolino of Ban Diego, Calif., 10 years old, amazed veteran airmen whrn she took over the controls of a riper Cub plane after 45 minutes of Instruction and flew the craft for 21 minutes. In the plane with her Is Howard Albright, veteran Dyer, who went along for the ride and also as added protection I? make sure that Dixie got back on the ground. a DISTRESS Only Vicks VapoRub gives you this Penetrating-Stimulatin- g special action when you rub it on throat, chest and back at bedtime: to upper bronchial special medicinal vapors. It STIMULATES chest and back surfaces like a warming poultice. And it keeps working lor noun-eve- n while you sleep) V VAPORUO PENETRATES It tubes with IICRS t1' lff mmmM Mil COUGHING al i DANVILLE, VA. Famed in song of "the wreck of and ttory, the-litthe old 87" finally has been marked at an historical site by the state conservation commission. An historical site sign bas been erected at the point on Danville's outskirts where the Southern railway's f"t mail express train plunged from trestle into a ravine that September day In 1903. Nine When DDT fly sprays first be came available for farm buildings and livestock, there was considerable talk about sprayed animals befrom ing poisoned absorption through the skin, or from licking one another, or licking the walls of buildings to which DDT had been applied. Evidence, however, indicates the danger of toxicity to animals has been overplayed. For instance, in Missouri last summer, a cow drank half a tubful of DDT barn spray w, ft! iiZw Absorption or Licking Toxicity Overplayed X j fWAY ANCIENT RIVALRY RENEWED . . . Mayhem was the password of the day when Cherokee Indians renewed the game of stickball, a sports competition hundreds of years old, at the annual Cherokee, N. C, fair. DDT Is Net Always Harmful to Animals f S v it?- & - V?.' L 'K" f say thousands VI about good tastinor SCOTTS ctnu rum L III ULO IUI1 , 1 Jki .4 If eolda hrnnu on, or too v, V Mlll. uivc... yon don't ret enough natara AD Vitamin food. Thrn taking Soott't Emulsion See how promptly it helps break up a eold and CBKD trt fit g 1 Helps Dutia you up. so rou ira your own self again ! Scott's is a HIGH ENERGY FOOD TONlC-rl- rh in natural AD Vitamins and enertry-bulldin- g natural oil. Economical. Buy today at your drug store. 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