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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Plan for Jennings A MOVEMENT has been launched at Scranton, Pa., to erect n pub· lie atadlnJG as a memorial to Hugh Jennings, former manager of the .oeuott Tigers, assistant manager of the New York Giants and for n1ore tban thtrty-ftve years a prominent figure In the btg leagues. The Idea of a stadium In honor of Jennings and with the Idea of perpetuating his memory was suggested by Prof. Francis Fitzgerald, connected with the fa cui ty at St. Thomas cotlege at Scranton, Pa. It has been proposed that the city set aside some money to get the stadium movement started and that the balance be raised by friends of J ennlngs throughout thO country. It Is proposed that on certain days of the coming !eason ~~~-• hlg league dnd minor league teums be asked to gf\·e a portion of their receipts to the Jennings me- • .-e".'"'''· moria!. Chic cluhs nnd basebatl fans In the Lackawanna valley will also be asked to join In the drive while good sized subscriptions will be asked from prominent Scranton residents, all friends of the former Tiger boss. . .........,. ..., For several years thPre has been Hugh Jennings. strong sentiment at Scranton for a public stadium that could provide for big football games, sct·olastlc games, and professional baseball contests. On this account the Jen· nfngs memorial suggestion Is believed to have a splendid chance of going through, It being expected that between the support of those realizing the need for a public stadium there and those wishing to keep the memory of the famous Detroit manager fresh, a sufficient amount wffl be forthcoming. At fea~t $50,000 would be required to build the stadium. It Is understood that for this figure a tlerd f.~: h a seating capacity of 30,000 could be erected. Tunney Orders ·Ring Equipment South All the paraphernnlfa Gene TunneJ ll.led in preparing for hi~ title defen84! Jack Dempsey last full wns to Miami, Fla., recently. with the shipment wellt Lou trainer of the hetivyweight to guard the 16-our!l'e gloves, light and heavy ~;;~;~~~lt. bags and Tunney's ring Fink hastened South at the call of titleholder, who plans to start conditioning Immediately In of two matches next sumThe taciturn trainer, who kept wary eye on Gene's condition bealmost al! of his major battle~. expects the champion to train In Florida four months. Sparring partwill be engaged within a few Tunney reaches an agreement Tex Rickard for a fight In June, believes the champion will com· training at S[Jeculator, N. Y. Swift Swede Skier Babe Huth Is reducing. Playing at a 1lckel a heart bas that eiTect. h~arts • • • Some of the big league teams took stronger this year on paper-but It Isn't that kind of a scrap. • • • Baseball season must be approacn. log. The ~port paragraphers are dig· ging up their dead grandmother jokes. • • • Format dedication of a new $325.· 000 gymnasium at St. Xavier colleg~ In Cincinnati was made a few da.vs ago. • • • From a value of $4,000 when It wa~ Orst run in 1917, the CoiTroth hand! cap at Tfa Juana has grown to over $100.000. • • • During the 1925 season the gelding Cra wforu started In l!l races and won 16, a record in the light harne>:S rae· lng world. • • • The San Francisco Basebatl club has announled the purchase of H:t! Rh)·ne, Infielder, from the P!ttsburgn Nationals. • • • Sherwood Mugee, new National league umpire, first broke Into basebull as a player In 1003. He Is now forty-one years old. • • • It the 3,000 who are expected to take part In the transcontinental foot race have any trouble at all It will be due to pure callousness. • • • News Item says Babe Ruth weighs more today than he did last S]Jrfng. 'fhat's probably due to the bank book In his inside coat pocket. • •• The photograph shows l'ete E. Budof Sweden, one of the swit(est on earth, who woo the 50-kilorace In the winter Olympics at Moritz, covering the distance In 4 and 52 minutes. Layne Is Bought by Indianapolis Indians The outrl,;ht purchase of Berman outfieltrer, from the Pittsburgh Is announced by James A. owner of the Indians. Layne with the Tribe lust reason, besent there on an optional agreeHe was recalled by the Pirates the close of the season. With the Indians Layne hatted .a2ii nod his reclncluded 25 donhles, teo triples ten home runs. The Indians now have five outfield· the other fHur heing Wid Matlleb Hussell, \\'alter Mueller Wal~h. Mueller was l'ecently obfrorn the Pirates. Walsh wus t from the Toronto club of the lea::;tle a year ago but not report to the Tl'ihe. heing re· on option for the 1927 season. llesfdes Mueller and LnJ·ne, Owner purchured Emil Yde, pitcher Roy Spencer, catcher, from the during the winter months. The last game that Notre Dame lost on Its home gridiron was in 1905, wbeu Wabash scored a touchdown after tht' lrl~h had held on the six-inch line ft1·e times. • • • Lew Mayrs, Baltimore bantamweight who has retired from the t·!ng at the nge of twenty-one, after engaging In over a hundred bouts, nel'er lost or won on a foul. • • • Joe W1·ight, Sr., famous oarsman and rowing coach, has been elected Philpot Is Clever ~wnm Rich, captain of the Michl· football team for next season, share with the famous "Bottles•· 1912 captain, the dfstincof being the only fullback to the Maize and Blue on the Held battle since •'Ieiding H. Yost came Michigan as conch In 1001. Two fullbackg, "Pat" Smith In 1917 "Tad" Weiman In 1918, also were captnfns. but neither snw acservlce, lu11•fng enlisted for war A section of a tree whieh might have rlvuled Jack's beanstalk tor rapid growth hns been sent to the forest service, United States Depart ruent of Agriculture, as evidence of The call of the lO"..S Olympic rnmes the possibilities of pine tlmher grow· bas beckoned Joie llay, one of Amer· ing on farm woodlunifs In the South lea's greatest mile-runner~. back to The tree, a lobfoll.v pine, grew on the track to seek the laurels held by an abandoned field In tlte Red rirrr Lloyd Huhn, Boston runn<•r, and valley In central Louisiana. It Is Paavo Nurmi, the Olympic champion. known tiHrt the field was in cuftlra gyery evening, as soon as he has tion In Hlll. finished his daily tabors In the steel Often This Warns of 1'his tree grew so fast that in ten milts of Gary, Ind., ,Jofe reports to Shaggish Kidneys. year·s Its trunk, at a point about his coach, Johnny B~hr, of the Illitwelre feet ahove the ground, read1ed AME? Stiff? Achy? Every day nois Athletic club, tor practice. For a diameter of fifteen inches. Thus bring constant, nagging backache? nearly ten years, from Hll5 to J!l23, Sufe your kidneys are working right? It fnc·reused an a1·erage of one :mil Ray wa~ supreme at the mile race Sluggish kidneys allow waste imor:e·half inches In diameter each year. purities to remain in the blood and among American runners. Then came Such growth, of course. is exeeptienthe Nurmi inl'asion and the flying 1 upset the whole system. A common nf, und the wood from such a tn•e i< Finn raced .Joie Into defeat which lerl ' warning is too lreque.'lt, scanty or secretions. -r ltnhle to he too ptmky for the ordf to Hay's temporary retir~ment. ; burning mu·y ust's to · whlth loblolly p!nP Is Use Doan'$ Pi/1$, Dean'•· a stimuS£11! under thirty years of age, Hay lant diuretic, increa.e the secretion of put. The fohlolty pine, howe1·er, has believes, and so does Beh1·, that there the kidneys and thus aid in the the reputation of heing a ,.e,·y fast Is a rhance to catch the antelope of elimination of waste impurities. Are growing tree in the South_ endorsed by users everywhere. A•~ Aho, If they meet In the 1,500 and 11our neighbor/ 5,000-meter races at lite Amsterdam Four-Day Atlantic Liners Of)·mplc games this summer. Keels for ten passenger liners, the It ts more than eight years since fastest e1·er hullt, will be laid In Ray, at about the penk of his form. American shipyards next spl'ing, if A STIMULANT DIURETIC .w, KIDNEYS IVster-Milhurn Co. Mfg.Chcm. 8uffalo.MY. present plans are carl'ierl out, as the ftrst step to link America and Emope with rour·day passenger sen·ice. El'en that rei'ord may be Sllee<led up in good weather by using airvtanes to J•each the siJips hundreds of miles at sea, and to leave tl1em at equal dis· tnnc~s from the const. Each vessel Is to be provided with a landing deck 12 Days' Free Trial for oil'planes. Plnns for the high· •ro g~t relief when pain tortured speed ships have been d1·awn. and the joints and muscles keep you In con- hull model already tested t.n the tow· stant mi~ery rub on Joint-Ease. fng basin at the \'.'ashlngton navy It Is quickly absorbed and you can yard. The ten ships will cost $1:l0,· rub it In often and expect results 000,000.-Popular Mechanks Maga· more speedily. Get It at any drug- zlne. gist in Nllerlca. Use Joint-Ease for sciatica, lumbago, sore, lame muscles, lame hack, Going to School in Clouds rhest colds, sore nostrils nnd burnCandidates for arm,v air ol!lccrs' Ing, achlng :teet. Only 60 cents. It commissions go to school In the cloud> penetrates. at a midwestern flying field. A plant Send name and Address for 12 FREE day trial tube to Pope Labora- that holtls six sturlents. an instructor tories, Desk 3, Hallowell, Maine. Jole Ray. and pilot has been fitted with comfortable, padded chairs, a blackboard set up A. A. U. records for the 1,000 and other equipment, and, while the yards and one mile which still stand. ship sails along, the ;eacher gives But only three years ago, he equaled lertures with the aid of the !ward Ute American performance of Nurmi To Reveal Life on Moon and the class makes notes and reIn running a mile In 4 minutes 12 secA giant telescope which Is to be ports. Enrh passenger wenrs a para· onds. Nurmi, however. ts credited erected on Naval hfll, near Bloemfon· chute and both doors of the plane are with the world record of 4:10.6. telo, South Africa, was referred to by When Nurmi went back to Flnfanrl Professor Rossiter of Michigan unl· fitted with levers which can he pulled with about all the American marks verslty at a university ,luncheon In to cause the doors to fall cleor for a shattered, Ray dropped out or com- Bloemfontein It will be possible, ready exit In case of trouble.-Popu· petition nnd became a taxi-driver, as through this giant telescope, to dis· Jar ~Iechnnics Magazine. he needed a fresh-air job. He tired cern an objc~t on Inch high nineteen of this, so he went to the Gary steel miles away, he said, and It will be Veteran Farmer mills, seeking a job whlcb would odd possible to see In the moon ohjects \\hat Is believed to be the rN·ord weight and muscle to his sllgbt the size of a cathedral. for consecutive farmfn~: In Texas Is frame. He has been there e'l'er since, the acllif>vement of C. C. Jacl;son of and when Indoor track training bePowell, Texas, Confedernte 'l'eteran She Cha1e1 Dirt gan this winter, Joie was back In HousewifeWhy, Mary 1 What do ei~:hty-s!x .1•ears of age. who has not harnc3s. you mean by looking through that missed makin~: a crop sfnre the close of the f'fvll war In 18flii. Last year he keyhole? Maid-Well, 1-er-er-was dusting, did not grow cotton. hut had a corn and I thought I'd look and see if crop whtch mode a good yfefd.-Jn. there was any cobwebs In It, mum.- dianapoli> Xews. Costs Rookie's Job Answers. ~ \\"alter Shaner, weak first Only Way Out baseman, and one of the best Money talks. Perhaps that Is why "I hear Brown's marrying 1. landhitters In the Eastern league. they put a woman's head on a silver lady.'' "Yes, the poor fellow cou'dn't has heen sent back to the mf· dollar. pa:v his hoard h!JJ." nor leagues by the Red Sox be- ~ cause he has such a muskal ~ The Cream of the Tob~co Crop That Constant Backache too L Quickly Relieves Rheumatic Pains Joint·Ease r;:;:~~::~~:%%~*n~ ~ ~ di~posft!on. ~ ;y;': i ~ * ~ :\: ~ ~ ~ ~. '~* ~ ~ ;\;.. i* MARTIN JOHNSON, Explorer, Smokes Lucky Strikes in Wildest Africa "Once on the Abyssinian border my shipment of Lucky Strikes from Amer, ica missed us, and I was miserable until the natives followed our tracks across the Kaisout desert to Nairobi with my precious cargo of Luckies. After four years of smoking Luckies in wildest Africa, I find my voice in perfect condition for my lecture tour in America." 'll{~~~ ''It's toasted' 4 , ~Throat Irritation-~ Cough,: C1928, The American Tobacco Co., Inc. Dead Man Gets Quotations Unfortunate Yawn Alfred McGee, wealthy Alabama cotton grower, requested · his grave be made near the highway so that the farmers hnuling their cotton crop to market could call out to him In a loud I'Oice the price of cotton, nod this has been done for forty-tlve years. When Miss Dorothy Cafdw1lll, elgbteen, of Dallas, Texas, awoke one morning she was unable tq close ber mouth. It required three hours tor physicians to get her dislocated jaw back into place. They said that yawn· !ng white asleep probably caused the dislocation. Beg Your Pardon Bal'l'y-Is Mr. nate In his room? Clerk-Sorry, but there's nobody home on the top floor. Harry-Oh, then I'll ask somebody else. Domestic Tragedy "That man wrecked my home." "Be ran away with your wife?" "Worse than that; be married uur cook and now my wife cooks." ~ Shaner, a big fellow, b1·oke ·,· into the Eastern league in HJ2:J with Springfield wh!fe Patsy Donomn was manager. Ue uct· ed like a toe dancer on ne!lrly el'ery throw he handled until Donovan could stand the &train no longer and put Walter into the far reaches of the outfield But Shnner could hit. He went to Cleveland from Sprfngflelrl and finatty landed with the Red Rox. There he proved a nku · ~ lele expert and even brought his uke from the clubhouse to the bench. Btl! Moore, catcher ~ with a sweet voice, teamed ur with Shaner. They entertained the other players as 'well as themselws, but In doing so hft ~ a sour note In Bitt Cnrrlg>on'• make-up, and hoth hal'e been shuntrd down to ~!oblle. ~H??'P.-%%%1~;~~~~~;r..;y....;(..~~~:¥-<¥~ Only Whippet e t t baa all these feature.: ar o}foing all these Quality Features Full force-feed lubrication Slknt tim{tlfl chain Llflhl·wefght, 4lnflle plot• clutch GasoUn. tank at rfiiJr Metal, oil-tiflht unft~ero~ol jolntol Bi114-wheel bralle.r Lonfl, .1eml-elllptic JPrinfl.l Heavy, rlflid tapered frame Alemite chasm lubrlcotion LOW•.IWUnfl, full-vf.lfon bodle.l Acf/u.stable steerlnfl pon BaUoon tiru Snubber.I Four Big-League Clubs Bid for Bruce Caldwell Bruce Caldwell, the Yale footba!f hero, may de1·elop Into the much sought after <•oll~g~ baseball player of the J~nr before he hangs up hi~ togs in June. The Yankees, Gt·iffrnen. Giants nnd Robins, are very utuch interested in Caluwell, and it IR sai<l that the Yan· kees haYe Cnluwell's wnr·tl thnt he will let them haw a priority clnint on his sen•ices If he e!erts tn play professional hasehull. CaldiYe!l, however, haf been care· ful not to do anything to injure his amateur standing and cause u re~ur rence of the incid~nt whiclt caused him to be barred from the Pl"lnceton and Harvard football games last full. Ue was h::rrt(l for having plt1yet1 two g-ames witt, the Bt'O\I'n ~·reshmen In !023. The photograph shows Hut-st Phil pot, youthful jockey, who Is nne of the urost surces~ful ri!l~rs at the win ter ra('e meeting at Tijuana. ~lex. an uldenunn In Toronto, receiving the lli!!gest I'Ote e\'er polled by a ennui date for this offire. • • • Frank Corsetti, a seventeen-year-olu boy, has been signed by the Sun Francisco Seats and wlf! tryout this sprln~ with the Pacific Coast league team • • • Fullback Is Captain Tree Grew Rapidly in Louisiana Field Famous Mile Runner Has Heart Set on Comeback. • Year-Old Twirler Is Given $10,000 per Year Willis Hudlln, the sensntlonul conof Wagoner, Okla., to the leagues, expects to get more than from the Cleveland Indians his ser1·ices during his second in the ruajo~s. 'J:he twenty-yen:-old pitcher was ited with winning more games any other hurler on the roster of Indians last year, hi~ first in bfg. company. A"""'"'" be returned tloe tlrst con· sent to htm, Hudlln anticipates llifficulty In coming to terms, be RAY TRYING FOR OLYMPIC GAMES Page Seven Bobby Jones has gone Into the finnn· clal game, e\·idently thinking bankers wltl be just as easy as bunkers. • • • Missouri h~s lost Francis Lucas, captain-elect for the 1928 footbal! teum, because of bls scholastic dell· ciency. • • • With football hostilities between Army and Navy at an end for the time being, at least, the series now stands wltb fifteen West Point vic· tories and twelve for Annapolis Three contests have resulted lfl t1e1. The Yall' star Is n s~cond hasernun modeled along the lines of Hogers !lorushy. 5-passenger COACH Prices Reduced to the Lowest Level in Our History! It Is Important to remember in considering the sensational Whippet Gar Wood Accepts price reductions, that the quality of these cars is now finer than ever before. Commodore Gar Wood of Detroit. holtler of the British lntemntfonal trophy, has accepted the challenge of the B1·ilish Coynl Yacht club to de· tend his title this fall. By telephone from ~ilnmf, Fla., Wood expressed ~:It· lsfaction that a challenge hnd been made and said he would guarantee the Y. A. A. and the Detroit Yacht club that he would be ready. The perfectoo Whippet is smarter, more colorful, with added gmce of line, and new items of equipment. Full-crown fenders, cadet visor, window reveals and other refinements give it the style appeal of the most modem fine cars. Everywhere owners report their complete satisfaction with its spirited performance, its remarkable economy, its comfort and its easy handling. Andy Cohen Signs Andy Cohen, young second baseman whom John McGraw considers the most likely successor to Rogers Hornsby, signed a contract with tbe New York Giants for 1928. 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