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Show , THE JORDAN JOURNAL, MIDVALE, UTAH u------------------------u Sarazen Is Returning to Form I• •• ' . • • '~ :- He Was Ordered to ~ Pick Up Coach Yost : : , ' : : 1 : '' : I : I : ' : : ~ • ~ ' : ' : There Is a man who thought Rex Beach was a summer resort and the Kentucky derby a hat; and there is the railroad conductor who thought Fielding H. Yost, athletic director of the University of Michigan, was a railroad coach. Coach Yost was at a way sta· tion recently, but had arr!illged that the fast traln should stop and plck him up. '.rhe train order to the conductor said to stop and "pick up Coach Yost." When the train .stopped the conductor swung down and walked back to couple "Coach Yost'' to the train. It took Yost, one of the best-.known men In Michigan, some time to convince the conductor that he was the coach referred to. l :- Ray Buker Quits to :' ~ • "I Photograph shows Fritz Wiener on Sarazen, belonging to Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, photographed at the Pimlico track recently after he had won the Dixie, a mile and three sixteenths race, In 2.00 4-5. Turf followers now believe that Sarazen Is gradually returning to his old form. _, Friend of Players Polo players frequently pay much as $10,000 for a pony. as • • • Tlie Montreal Swimming club has celebrated its fifty-first anniversary. • • • Boxing Is replacing student duels with sabers as a major sport in German unlversltles. • • • Golf courses for their own use are being laid out by farmers In the Ca· nadian northwest. • • • W. Murray of Australia holds the fastest mlle record for walking, 6 min· utes 32 1-5 seconds. • • • ... Mexican schoolboys are being taught boxing to encourage the use of their fists Instead of knives . • • • There are more golf pants in the world than there are golfer'.!, the othel1! being worn by plus·f(\Ul"·fiushers. Photograph shows John 0. Seys, secretary of the Chicago National league Baseball ,club, who attends to the wants of the Chicago players at home and on the road. Incidentally, he performs the other duties pertaining to his office. • • • I! this sort of spring is to be the customary thing, what's the matter with a couple of football seasons a year? • • • \Vomen of all nations will take part In the female Olympic games to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, during August. BASEBALL illl OTES MJ • • • One of the great steps forward In the field of preventive medicine was Mr. Dempsey's discovery that you don't get hurt If yon don't fight. ••• Ray Buker, National A. A. U.. ' half-mile running champion, has : deserted the track to become a ' missionary. ~ The Northern Baptist conven- ' tlcm, In seasion at w~shlngton ~ sent him, along with his brother, I Rev. Rlcbard S. Buker, to : Burma. ' Buker Is one of the best- ~ I known runners In the United ' : States, having ooen a member of ~ ' the relay team of the Illlnols ' : Athletic club, which set a world's : ' record for four miles several ' ,' years ago. He also was amateur ,I : of the 1924 American Olympic ~ , team. , u , , , , , , , , , , , _____________ n 1 : : : 1 : ' : ' ~ ' : ' : : ~ , : , : ~ , =------------------------= FEW BATTERS ABLE TO STICK AT .320 FARRELL COACHED BY BEST TUTORS Only 24 Since 1871 Have Hit at That Figure. Played Under Walsh, Bridwell and Larry Doyle. Just two dozen batsmen out of the more than 5,000 regulars who played professional baseball In the big leagues since the sport was inaugurated In 1871 have maintained a batting average of .320 or better over a ten-year period. Of these 24 select players, eight, or one-third of the number, are playing hall today. They are: Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, ·George Sisler, Tris Spt>aker, Babe Rtlth, llarry Heilmann, Eddie Roush and 'Eddie Collins. The first four named placed their name near the top of the heap. Only one of the ancients. Pete Browning, of 1he eighties, broke Into the snobbish circle of swat. Cobb with a lifetime average of .369 comes nrst ; then Hornsby with .363 ; with Browning battlug .353 for his dozen years of play. The others with their averages &re: Sisler, .352 ; Sveaker, .349 ; J arne!! O'Nelll, .348; Dan Brouthers, .348; Ed Delehanty, .346; Babe Ruth, .346; WUlie Keeler, .345; W. R. Hamilton, .344; Jess Burkett, .342; Cap Anson, .341; Nap Lajoie, .838; Sam Thompson, .337 ; Harry Heilmann, .336; Rouscl!, 334; John 1\IcGraw, .334l; Mike Donlin, .334; Eddie Colllns, .333 ; Hugh Duffy, .330; Hans Wagner, .329; Barry, .323; G. Van Ilaltren, .322. Cobb leads those with the greatest total of hits, with 3.~23, and the others wHh more than 3,,000 are Speaker, Anson, Lajoie, Eddie Collins and Wagner. Anson played the longest term of years-27, while Cobb and Lajoie totalled 21 each. Sisler and O'Neill ha;e the shortest term of years ln the register, with the minimum ted each. "Rut" Volk, brilliant athlete of the llf\nes college at Golden, Colo., won 15 letters. Three were earned in football, three in baReball, four In boxing, tour in wrestling and one in basket ball. S~crtNntes Star of Reds Montreal has a Chinese ski club. • • • To the average golfer an eagle is as extinct a birdie as the dodo. • • • The first rules governing baseball were drawn In New York In 1857. • • • Olympic tennis games are scheduled at Amsterdam July 6 to 15, 1928. • • • Harvard has a runner named l\fil· ler who weighs 210 pounds. He does the century in 09.8. • • • A cynic Is one who observes that all work and no play is a good description of some golf. • • • Tacoma has a municipal fishing pond, tell miles long and one mile wide, which will Yle stocked with trout. • • • Herew:th an unusual and striking picture of Pete Donohue, star pitcher of the leading Cincinnati Reds. Donohue uses his brains to pitch. He is smart and keen and always studying his baseball lessons. He came direct to blg league suc<'ess from a Texas collPge. He has a most plea~ing personality and Is ju~>t as 1ikable ns that smile In the picture Indicates. Annenian Is Champion George L. Mittlesdor:t, Jr., '27, of West Orange, N. J., has been elected captain of the Colby (•ollege track team. • • • Dean Cromwell, track coach at the University of Southern California, believes thttt some one will soon run 100 yardH in 9.4 seconds. • * • Jack Bernstein, l!ghtweight bo:rer, used to tlght under the ring names of Battling Ki<.ldy and h.!d Murphy. l:lis real name is Jack Dodick. • • • Old .Jaf'k Quinn the best of them. • • • • • • Cincinnati fans are inclined to hand Manager Jack Hendricks the full limit of credit for boosting the Red8. • • • Victor A. Hanson, '27, of Syracu~e has been elected captain of the 1927 baseball team of Ryracuse university. • • • • • Cuban baseball players have invaded the Florida league. Three of the four pitchers of the Tampa club are from the Island republic. • • • • • • Blll Creavey, who started his golf , S. B. Jones, '27, center fielder on career as a caddy with Johnny Far' ! the University of Oklahoma baseball rell and Gene Sarazen, has returned team for the past two years, has been to his old stamping ground as profeselected captain of the 1927 squad. onal of the Bonn!~; Briar Country club. , Fourteen scheduled. games have all ready been postponed In the Pacific Boy Marble Wizard Coast lea,;ue. Last year only seven I were postponed during the whole seajson. • • • ! • • • "Buzz" Arlett, heavy bitter of the Oakland (Calif.) ball club, has been with the team nine years but has never had a trial by a major league team. • • • The average player In the sixteen major league bast>ball clubs is an athlete twenty-eight years old, five feet eleven Inches tall and weighs 172 pounds. • • • In a game with the Giants the other day the Pirates combed out thirteen hits, seven for extra bases. Five were doubles, one a triple and the other a homer by the youthful Paul Waner. • • • The way Lew Fonseca Is playing for Newark may cause blm to return to the majors ere long. Ever since the season opened he has led the Internatlonal In bat'lng, and crlt!cs say he also Is the best fielding second I sacker in the loop. • • • • • • Charles Hot!', Norwegian pole vaulter, will be the official gulde of 100 Northwestern university students and friends when they visit the University of Oslo this summer. * • • Harry J:!Jklzlan, a twenty-two-yearold Armc;:1lan boy who lost his whole family, when they were killed by th~ Turks, came to America to llve. H"' enlisted in the United States navy In 1923, and since then has won over a hundred wrestling bouts, and Is now hailed as the 175-pound champion wrestler of the United States navy. A race course to cost approximately $1,000,000 will be built at Pompano, Fla., midway between Miami and Palm Beach, by Kentucky, Maryland and New York turfmen, Thomas B. Cromwell, secretary of the Thoroughbred Horse association, announces . L. T. Cooper and L. N. Conrad of Dayton, Ohio, and Florida; Paul Beacon, real estate developer at Miami; Frank Keener, principal owner of the Brooklyn Eagle, and a number of other prominent turfmen are backing the project. Mr. Cromwell is to be secretary and general manager of the new plant. Construction of the plant wlll he bPgun within a short time on a tract of 180 acres that has been af'fJUirNl for the race course. • • • • The Yankee Rtadium, • • University of Callfornla will use 350 gallons of gray paint in painting seats and woodwork of the big stadium so that it may be inviting when the !>'tudents return to college next !1Pmester. in New York city, is the largest of the major league ball parks, with a seating capacity of 05,000. • • • George W. Bmdley, aged fifty, who pitched the first no-hit, no-run game In the National league, Is now a policeman In Phlladelphia, Pa. Florida to Build a Race Course to Cost Million at the Boston, hole in for 2<l Ralph :\lulfor•l. auto raPer, Is known as "The Parson" because he never has used tobacco, liquor, or profane language and observes the Sabbath strictly. • • • Ed Wells of the Tigers has the reputation of being one of the slowest pitchers In the American league. The new Madison Square garden Is a financial success. The receipts from December 11, 11)25, to February 1!5, 1926, were $1524,062 in the old garden, or an Increase of about 48 per cent. The plant cost about $6,000,000. Fred Low, a professional Pnicorn Country elub, near :\lass., recently made his first one after playing the game years. * • • The Detroit club Rent PltchPr Clyde Bftl·foot to the Mission club of the Pacific Coast league. Richard "Red" Smith of Combined Locks, Wis., was elected captain of the 1927 Notre Dame baseball team. * • * to fool • • • A. Bowen McConnell, short~top, has been chosen captain of next year's University of Chicago baseball team. Montreal now has Its own Finnish athletic marvel. Bertll Rudolph llomaa, champion shot putter of Finland in J923 and who captured third place In the 1920 games, is now located in that city. continu~s Indianapolis has sent Pitcher Alfred Heynolds to the Decatur club of the Three-! league. The Giants have signed Outfielder Joe Connell and Pitcher Al Smith, both from Villa Nova college. • • • FrancJ11 Kau, fourteen, Chinese high.school student ot Honolulu and a marble-playlng expert, arrived in San Francisco recently on a tour o! the United States, his trip being sponsored by the Rotary club of Honolulu. Winnin~ • • • • • • • For the fifth consecutive yeat·, ever slncp 1921, America's golfers have beaten Britain's In the ·walker cup matches, played this yP.ar at St. Andrews. In the single matches Ame:rica Sl"ored 3¥.! points to Britain's 4¥.!, and thus won the cup, 6¥.! to ::llf.l, The upper photograph shows the American golfers, (left to right), back row: R. MacKenzie, .Jess SweetRer, R. T. Jones, Watts Gunn, and G. von Elm. Front row: J. Guilclford, R. G:ndnPr ancl F. Ouimet. The lower photogravh shows members of the British Walker cup team. There are rumors that the Reading franchise wlll be removed at the end of the season. • • • Joel Skelton, from Philadelphia semi-pro ranks, Is doing good work on the mound for Easton. .eercy B. Lucas, aged ten, of London, is believed to be the youngest member of the "hole-in-one club." He made the shot at Sandwich, 154 yards from the tee. • If Edward Farrell isn't a finished ball player this season then baseball coaching Is a false alarm. Not only did he have three years of shortstopping at the University of Pennsylvania, but he has had the best tutoring the game affords outside the classic precincts. He passed one semester with Ed Walsh, former White Sox pitcher; he passed another under AI Bridwell, who did some shortstopplng himself, and a third with Larry Doyle, famed Giant second sacker, for the Giants. Not of the least importance were two terms with Hughie .Jennings and John McGraw. As a preparatory student o1J our national game, Ed takes all the medals. It was back in 1921 when, just out of high school, Ed Walsh, then conducting a semi-pro team at Oneonta, N. Y., picked up the youngster. He went back to Oneonta the next year when Bridwell had the team. That accounted for his activities up to the spring of 1923, when he signed an agreement with the Giants to join the team as soon as he had graduated from college. Ed was getting to be the flossiest Infielder that the University of Pennsylvania had produced and John McGraw stayed awake nights In fPar that he might lose him; so to be certain of him he was invited to join the Metropolitan outfit the latter half of the 1924 season just as a "guest" of the club. He made one road trip with the team before he had to return to his studies In c-olleg,. He graduated from the dental department of the university last June and besides his "S. S." he can also tack "D. D. S." to his name. Cooney Doing Nicely • • • Bucky Harris, youngest and most successful of ail major league managers, was dlscuded. by six clubs In nine years before he made good. • • • Fred Marbl"t"ry Is considered the "champion relief pitcher" of the country. L~tst year he worked In fiftyfive games for the \Vashington team. 1 • • • I Air-tight ball wa~> played back In the eighties. OctohPr 1, 1884, the ten clubs comprising the American as~ odatlon clr•·IJ!t sco1·ed only 28 runs II!. that day's play. • • • Two pitcher::< of the St. Paul American aRsociatlon cluh have been sold. Ad IIoltzhau~e1· wns sent to Dallas of the Tex:1;; ll'agn~> nnd Charles Convert wall released to Binghamton, N. Y. • • • Arnold Oss of Minnesota roamed the football fields about six seasons ago, He roamed them virtually as he pleased, being one of the greatest • Cincinnati evlllently has a hitter backs the Middle West ever turned out. 0Rs was fast once past the line as well as a plteher In Luca~. forof scrimmage, and he usually got by 1 mer noston Xational player, whom with it. He was a tough target to Manager nnncroft of the Braves once haul down, In fact about as easy t<' tried to rom·e1·t Into a ~econd baseman ';ecnuRe of his hitting. toss down as an antelope. • I • ~hortstop .Jimmy Cooney of the Chicago Cubs, who has been out of the game on account of injurit>s, has retnrned to his old job, and is putting Ut• a rattling good gume at h:H an<.! iD. Jiclrliug. :• .......................... Salt Lake Clty.-The 1926 sugr.J.r beet acreage In Utah Is about the same as last year, but in Idaho there Is a reduction of approximately 10,000 acres, It is noted in the sugar beet forewst Issued recently by Frank Andrews, Utah statistician with the de· partment of a&riculture. The Utah acreage this year is calculated at 71,· 000, acres, the area harvested last fall. Idaho's 1926 crop will come from 29,000 acres, whereas the 1925 acreage was 88,000 acres. Salt Lake Clty.-Plans to do betterment work aruountlnc to about $5000 to cover the expense ot the work wa.s received and the work will begin at once. It le planned to widen the road in Boxelder canyon. The ac· counting department also received a check !or $2565 from Boxelder county to co..-er its portion ot the cost of constructing the bridge on the Brigham-Mantua project. Myton.-The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Ulntah Basin Seed Growers' association of Myton will be held Tuesday, July 13 at 2 p. m. The election of officers and other business of importaince will come up. Over 100 seed grov.lers are members of this organization, and for the year 1925 about 2,000,000 pounds of seed was handled in thia plant. William Gentry of Iolro. is president and William Zowe is secretary. Salt Lake C!ty.-Ra1;1ges in Utah have for the most part declined in condition since June 1 and lack of moisture and stock water is reaching a serious stage in places, it is indicated in the July range and livestock condition report of G. A. Scott, regional livestock statistician with the department of agriculture. The condition of ranges is given In this report as 93 per cent normal, compared with 99 per cent June 1 and 96 :per cent July 1 of last year, and 72 per cent the same date two years ago. Salt Lake Clty.-The revised estimate of commercial onion acreage in Utah is given .as 800 acres, compared with 500 acres in 1925, in the truck crop news bulletin of the department of agriculture. Yields were exception· ally high for onions in 1925 and the carlot movement amounted to 569 cars. It Is expected that between 700 and 800 canl will be needed to move the Utah onion crop this season. Logan.-Reports of production records for June have been IBade by three of the four cow testing associa· tions in Cache Valley. In the Wellsville-College Ward association 490 cows were on test with 20 dry. The Central Cache association reported Ross to Try Channel there were 578 cows on test and 44 not milking, while the Hyrum-Paradise association had 372 cows on test and 27 dry. Salt Lake.-Coming at a time when parched crops thirsted for moisture, a vigorous shower, believed to have been general in its scope, followed closely upon the heels of local storms that were accompanied by consider· 1 • able damage. Value accruing from I the storm, however, more than offRet the damage that had been wrought. \Vherever rain fell, farmers rejoiced, excepting those whose hay was not in stack. ' Salt Lake-Photographs eight feet high and eight feet wide of some of the waterpower sites of Utah, made 1 by a camera that weighs thirty tons may be on exhibition soon at the state capitol and the Salt Lake chambel' of commerce, according to Rolf R. \Voolley of the water division of the United States geological survey. Mr. Woolley is now negotiating for the negatives from the department at Washington. Garfield.-A cloudburst at the summit of the Oquirrh range west of this town shortly before midnight Wednesday night caused a torrent to rusn down gullles on the h1llsides and over the state highway leading from Salt Lake to Tooele county and the west. A short dista~ce from the end of the pavement at the Salt Lake-Tooele county line mud covered the pavement to a depth of eighteen Inches or more. [t was mixed with boulders said to be It Is revortea m l'arts that Norman as large as two feet in diameter and Ross, former swimming instructor, will became impassable for automobiles. attempt during August to swim the Pleasure seekers who had come from English channeL Joe Coster, the man Tooele to Saltalr were held ap here, who controls the only available tug& and some can that attempted to get for following swimmers, is said to be through the mud were stuck. Kaysville.-Kaysville and the counreservh:ig a tug for Ross. try to the south and east were visited by another flood Thursday evening, Nehf Adds Strengt}l to the' first time in the history of the community that two floods have been Reds' Twirling Staft suffered within three days, The storm Burgomaster Garry Herrmann's Cinwhich caused the flood broke in Bair's cinnati Reds are bringing joy to tht big cardiac organ of thdr owner thes! canyon, aoutheast of Kaysville, about days. Jack Hendricks has his team 7: 30 o'clock and reached its c,'est at moving along smoothly, almost relent- the mouth of the canyon an ~our later. lessly, and the goods are being dellvOgden.-Northern Utah was d1•ench· ered. Many critics believe that Hen· ed Thu;sday night with a rain calcu· dricks made a good move when he lated to benefit arglculture immea· pirked up Art Nehf from the Giants. sureably. Reports reaching Ogden Nehf can't work often, but he is one were that the ra!m extended into ad· of the smartest twirler; In the game, joining counties and was heavy enough and there will doubtless be many oc-[ to do great good to the parched croll casions when he can be injected ju. lands. It Is believed that the raiil was diclously Into the Porktown lineup. responsible for a landslide In Ogden Hendrld:s now owns one of the best· canyon a ahort distance west of the rounded pitching staf!'s in the bus!- Hermitage park and immediately ness, and If the other departmentp west of the place ol the immense sllde function as well ae his slab cot·ps Is last year. Dirt covered about twelve bound to do the Reds wlll stay in the feet of the paved highway, but automol'Uee for a long time and mny fnrnisb biles wore able to pus. numerouR surprlsea. I Cadet Arthur L. Collb, of GrPenwood. S. C., and C'adet .Joseph N. Gilbreth, nf Beth~>1;da, Md., were ele<'ted captains of the army baseball and track teams, re.Rpecti ;ely. Oss Was Tough Target Utah , : Base hlts continue to fly from the ba.t wielded by Sparkle Adams. I ~~~~..~~1~~ I :' B ecome M'1ss10nary . :' ' : ' : ' ~ , ~ ' : ~ .. •••••••••••••••••••••••••• u--~-_,, ___ ~-------·~--'-ft Ame1·ican Golfers Retain Cup |
