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Show Page Two THE MIDVALE JOURN AL Traditions of Sheep Disproved Notes It'• a Prioilet~e to Live In Utah's lamb crop to 19.39 Is estimated at 1,468,000 head, •pite of the unfavorable winter and spring. In 1928 the crop amounte4 to 1,'782,000 head and In 1927 1,405,000. "HIGH HAT" Athletic Fans Badger Harris for Alleged Slur Coverings of Wool Over the Face Does Not Indicate Its Quality. UTAH KR£R CITY - Honus Wagner Visits Old Cronies Bucky Harris probably Is just as well satisfied that his latest visit to the enthusiastic playground of Connie Macks' pennant-gear ed Athletics Is all over. Bucky seldom makes mistakes but Philadelphia critics believe the Detroit manager ''pulled one" when he gave an Interviewer the Impression that he thought the Athletics were becoming a trifle "high-bat" over theirpresent high estate In the American league race. Barris insists he Intended to glve no such Impression. As ke pointed out, he had· given the A's all due credit for making a great race. 'Yet the populace was quick to leap upoa him In the accustomed fashion while the Athletics were quick to jump upon the Tlgera. Bucky left PhfladeJpbla after four days of "razzing" from tbe stands and the Tigers departed with four straight defeats plastered upon them. An Incident of the series Involved nn attempt to present Harris a silk "topper" on the field but the Tiger pilot, suspecting a ruse, refused to emerge from his dugout when the gift-bearing fans requested his presence on the field for a ceremony. Tbe uproar was great nevertheless. It was recalled that during the heated political and baseball dayl of 1928, Philadelphia partisans pre (Prepared by the United State• Department of Asrleulture. ) Traditionally sheepmen have believed that the best sheep have coverings ot wool over their faces. Another common belief was that folds HEBER CITY-Last year's producaround the neck and shoulders of a tion of apples In Utah amounted to sheep was an Indication ·of a fleece 880,000 bushels, with a valuation of of superior quality nnd value. An·-$704,000. Salt Lake valley Is the other Idea commonly held was that heaviest producer. the weather exercised a controlling BRIGHAM CITY - Horse races, Influence In the quality and quantity bucking broncs, mules and steers, of wool roping, clowns, and musical entertain· Bring Out Facta. ers will round :..ut a prqgram each afResearch work by the United States ternoon of the Peach day celebration De1m rtment ot Agrll'nlture has dis· here September 13 and 14, according proved two of these Ideas and conto an announceme nt of the executive firmed the other, but with a highly , committee following a meeting at the Important modification To bring out chamber of commerce. the facts, · the department workers have for years carried on painstakPROVO - More than 71,000 chicks Ing Investigation s, using metho!ls have been sold by the Utah Poultry Producers' association In the Provo which tlu.•y admit seem wasteful and district alone during the past seasot1, useless until the methods and results according to Manager John T. Harden are understood. The bureau of animal Industry of the local plant. In the entire dismaintains a flock of sheep ln easttrict of the local plant, comprising the ern Idaho. Each June at shearing territory from Vineyard to Payson, time each sheep Is ldt.>ntlfled, weighed, more than 215,000 chicks have been and sheared. The stapte I.e meassold. ured. The fleece la weighed A sam- 1 OGDEN-Fa rm crops and livestock pie Is Inclosed ln a ~n container and 1n the southern part of the state are sent t(} the United States Experiment m e~cellent condition, J. Cecil ~. farm, Beltsville, Md. Honus Wagner, one of the g-r eatest baseball players of all time, In the In the woo1 dugout. with the chief of the local weather bureau, rePittsburgh Pirates during Booster day ceremonies. The flylaboratory skilled workers dry the Shoppins in the South Seal JI(Irted recently after an extended trip Ing Dutchman still holds a place of the utmost esteem In the hearts of both samples Ill an electric condltlonln~ "Is this an aU grass skirt?" to that section. The recent rains o\·en an·J get the moisture-free baseball players and tans. "Yes, m~~. ~ weeds In tllla greatly benefited the fall and winter weight. They remove grease wltb mixture." ranges and the fndtcatlons are that carbon tetrachloride and the dirt by there wlll be plenty of feed, he old. · a special scouring process. Another ' During his trip Mr. Alter visited sevendrying makes possible a determinatio n teen weather bureau stations. of the weight of clP.an wool and of In the present home run era, RICHFIELD -A banner year for su• dirt. Thus It ls possible to compile the distance from the home plate pr beet growers seems certain ill The Boston Braves lost more than a complete record of each sheep'a to "over the fence" offers some this section, according to S. R. Borr production each year and for succe. 100 games In four consecutive seasons, wen, county agricultural agent. The alve yeara. interesting information for the 1905-08. tons speDs of cloudy weather, with Conlltant Culling WIH. benefit of the fans. As right • frequent showers, has been Ideal tor These records have disproved the Virginia Is one of the few states field in most of the parks are tlle srowth of beets. The hay crops first two Ideas which were widely bethe shortest and where most of a• where no professional baseball Is . ~ : ~ve been above normal and the grain lleved. Weather does make some dff. the "circuit drives" are made, ~X played. has matured with less loss than was terence In wool produdlon, but there we give dimensions from the e:qlected as a result of the heavy Is much more difference between ln· The first time Milburn Shoffner, •• dlvldual sheep In one season than 1...; atol'm that occurred July 27. plate to the right field barrier: ~·. Cleveland rookie, faced Babe Ruth, he .. CED-AR CITY-The total numbEN" of there Is between flocks In different .. National league: - Chicago, ~. fanned him, . ·flsitors into southern Utah parka up seasons. This points the wisdom of 318ft.; New Yolic, 257ft.; Cin- S,• • • . • · ·to· A:ugust 24, was 28,076 against 24,· constant culling of low-yielding ewes : " cinnati, 383 ft.; Brooklyn, 301 l Shortstop Jesse has been returned t' by the Decatur club of the Three I · · 833 d'IP'lng the correspondin g pel'lod and selective breeding for heavy + ·~ ft.; Boston, 297 ft.; Philadel- .,. 6f last year, E. T. Scoyen, superin· fleece production. ? phia, 280 ft.; St. Louis, 320 ft.; ).; league to · Clevelund. Appllcatlon of these facts on the f'i' tadent of Zion park and Bryce can· • • ~ 300 ft. •• Bucky HarriL John A. yon, said recently. He Is attending sheep ranges Is returning to sheepmen • Pittsburgh, Heydler, president of the American league :-Philadel- ~t the governors' conference. Approxi. each year many Urnes the cost of the ~· ~~ National league, started In profes- sented a brown derby to Babe Ruth, •. Jlila~ely ten superintende nts of national research, says E. W. Sheets, who Is ~· phia, 307 ft.: Cleveland, 290 ft.; ·~ sional baseball as an umph·e. who somewhat discomfited the authors parp· win visit here en route to or ln charge of the llnlmal husbandry New York, 294 ft., 9 in.; De- ~ of the joke by Immediately donning MOST people depend on Bayer We don't believe we have seen a from Yellowstone park to attend a su. work of the Department of Agricul- y troit, 370 ft., 11 in.; Chicago, the headgear and even going so far as really Aspirin to make short work of great stop this year by a rookie perlntendent a• oonfel'ence In the park ture. :'l 365 ft.; Boston, 358 ft., 6 in.; :} attempting to go to bat with lt. Few Infielder, except In self-defense. headaches, but did you know it:& September 18 to 24. ~: St. Louis, 320 ft.; Washington, ~: attempts of either fans or players just as effective in the worse pains ROOSEVEL T-Plans are well under Swine Having Constant to embarrass the Bambino have ever ;~ 428 ft. ~: Brooklyn beat Buffalo 28 to 16 In from neuralgia or neuritis? Rheu'Way for holding in Roosevelt tht3 been successful. matic pains, too. Don't suffer when fall the first dairy show ever held In Access to .Water Thrive f.:-:-:-:..:..:..:--:..-.+:..:..:..:-:..x..:..:-:..:..:..:..:~ 1890, the major league game which contains the .most runs scored. Bayer Aspirin can bring complete the Ulntah basin, according to Walte1 It has been demonstrated many E. Atwood, chairman of the agrlcui- times by experiment stations comfort without delay, and witbtlut as wellj• "Whisper ing Bill" Has Dick Phelan, who caught Nekola at tval and livestock committee of the I as by thousnnds of producers that harm; it does not affect the heart. Holy Cross, Is playing with the Lynn Roosevelt Commercial club. Mr. At- 1 hogs do better and make larger gains In every package of genuine Bayer Had Many Good Chances club of the New Englan!l league. 'troqd says that owners of dairy cat.Ue from a given amount of feed when Aspirin are proven directions witli • A well-hit iD all parts of the basin are taking they have constant access to water. golf bail tra,·els about 80 which everyone should be fa~iliar, Anothet' recent White Sox "playboy" Carl Fischer of Newark expects to miles an hour. a ben Interest In the show and that Normally a hog drinks only small !l'ho recently returned to Comiskey for they can spare much ~eedless he is now assured that more than 100 quantities at a time, but It likes to j (lark In a gray uniform, none other have a strikeout total of 200 this sea• • suffering. There are several hundred ski clubs head of the finest dairy cows In the drink often. It will drink several than "Whisperin~ Bill" Barrett. Bar- son. He long since passed the 100mark. in the United States. basin wUI be exhibited. tlme!j during one feeding period when ! rett was with the White Sox for many • • AMERICAN FORK - The st-.:ond It can run to a self-feeder at will. I years. Possessor of much natural Sparky Adams Is still the smallest Detroit Golf cl ub recently completed carioad of mill concentrates from the When the feed Is thrown on the talent, he consistently threatened to player In the maJor leagues, while .mill of the Pacific Gold Mining and ground or on a feeding floor where the brenk Into stardom, only to miss the ·.Tumbo Elliott of the Robins is the a caddy clubhouse costing $35,000. ~Inn Ia the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture • Milling comJ'Iany in America11 Fork lndivld·cml hog must eat In competition mark eaC'h -.eason. ot KoDoaceticacidelter of Sa.llcylicacld largest. National horseshoe pitching chamcanyon left here last week for the with a large group, It Is not likely to I In fact, he bC'came known as the • pionships are held each winter at St. smelter. Reports from the property stop for water so long as there Is !"most permanent prospect" the White Joe Gu~·on, former football star at Petersburg, Fla. o::fT grain to eat. But fHU when It can run Sox picked up In years-perma nently Georgia Tech, is barnstorming the are that grade of ore that was mllled ~ • in the drift is still heading Into the to a self-feeder It soon learns that promising. country with a baseball team of fellow BEAD NOISES There Is a difference between taking there will be plenty of feed left when Early this season he was traded to Indians. same last car of 55 tons, about $60 the gate and being given it, as fight It returns. Then It begins to eat more the Boston Red Sox for Doug Taitt. to the ton. An 18-inch streak of high promoters know. IN NOITJJ(i,lu-:.& ;; J!:A.R OJL grade ore continues in the face of the deliberately and to drink several times When he left he emulated his roomDoc Arlie Pond, one of the old-tlmP. • bet re It has satisfied Its hunger. mate, Bib Falk, by promising to "bit a Orioles, Is now the owner of a vast Descriptive folder on request. drift and the workings give promise Maurice McCarthy, former intercolA. 0. LEONARD, Inc. mill!on" with his new club and mal'e grove of coconut trees In the Philipof ·a high grade bunch, which may legiate golf champion, also plays foot70 Fifth Ave.. New York City mu<'h misery for the Sox. open up in the next few days. pine islands. Feed Market Chickens ball and baseball. So far the promise bas been nothSALT LAKE-Crop s in Utah have Ask for as Much a~ Possible Nick Altrock golfs. Tl•e ban on the suJfered less from the dry weather Massachuset ts high schools recently All chickens Intended for the early sport by Walter ,Johnson doesn't apply ruled that athletes would be confined than In some of the other mountain to the clown. Nick is extremely se- to four years of playing, market should receive as much food states, and the indicated yield of su· as they rious will at play. consume four times dally. gar beets Is greater than In 1928, &<.,. Under good management it Is pos1 cording to the Standard Statistics com· lllore than $50,000 will be spent preDan Boone, manager-outfielder for paring Lake Placid for the Olympic pany of ' New York. General condi- slble to add half a pound weekly to 1'1~ High Point (Piedmont), topped all bat- games winter sport program. tions In this group of states are more the weight of Nrds which have been specially bred for the table. ters In organized ball last season, Ills satiSfactory than last year, the comLeading Of course, In every Hock there will average was .419. pany reports. Records of the comEugene Huat, the knockout con• • pany show that Salt Lake transac!ed always be a few birds with a tendency 1 queror of Emile Pladner, jumped Into Ribbon The average player In the big fighting from the bicycle racing the largest volume of business, meas- to put on very little flesh-In fact, game. Flv leagues lasts about eight years, alured by debits against Individual there Is often some difficulty in mainthough many continue for 15 or 20 sea. checking accounts, reported for any taining their weight. Hal Rebholz, Wisconsin fullback ln Catcher Such birds sons should in the game, be marketed .July In the last 11 years. 1928, Is preuaring t'or the 1929 cam· VERNAL-s ince the Inception late without delay. If kept for special fat- [ palgn by serving as a motorcycle cop. ~ationau7 Heinle .Manush, beaten out of the last spring of the drive on mountain tenlng they frequently drift into an 1 o.fchmWtl • • 1928 American league tatting title I Hoos In the Diamond mountain region, unmarketabl e condition. Th~ Royal Bermuda Yacht club will by one point, Is trying hard for the rid of peaty fties. Hanc up oliginal AEROXON northeast of Vernal, five of the klllers I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I & I I I I I I I I I soon celebrate Its eighty-fifth year of C'..et 1929 championship ( PllOIIOUnced A· Roct • SOn) Fly Catchers with . have been slain. As the lion infested existence, having been organized ln Thaab-TKk Attac..... No fusa--11o trouble. They Bill Barrett. will catcll thousands of flies for a nidde. Insist terrl.toFY extends Into COlorado, as 1844. upon gettiq AER6XON Fh' Catchers from ~ur Louis llle this summer had· the well ae the big game and Ashlng re• • • dealer. Sole lmll011ers aDd Diltributors for u.s.A. smallest Saturday crowd In the his.. gte•, .efforts are being made by the Cut a poor tree when It Is young to 44ing but that-he stm seems to be a tory of the Graduate managers of the ten GRAEF A SANDKNOP , Edl..., Mo. new park. Only 865 paid prospect." sportsmen of Uintah county to secure i)ermlt a good one to l'eplace it. schools of t11e Pacific Coast ConferHealth Giving Barrvtt long has been known as one to see Indianapolis play. the cooperation of the Colorado state ence are considering the appointment of the prit\! "beneh jockeys" In baseftah ~ ~e department to have the A good draft horse is a ready and Eddie Balicki, Bucknell's greatest of a salaried commisisoner to be in : sU.te Jlne posted. In past years the wllling worker and ls neither Irritable ball, and palre!l with Falk was classed All Wlnte,. Long · as the greatest team of goat-getters In athlete since the days of Christy Math- charge of all athletic problems In the fact tha.l himtera, trappers and fish- nor nervous. ewson, has been shunted to the minor P, C. C, a a a the league. ManeLna• Cllmete-Coo d Rotela-Touri at • ermen of the two atates at times found • • • (;IUD~plendld Road.-Gorc- u• Moun laiD leagues Unlike after a Falk, short Bill trial didn't with show the the that they had unknowingly operated Ernie Nevers, former Stanford full- Vlew•-Tiae -.ierfuldaer cr-co/cheW Pullets and cockerels should be kept unusually keen sense of humor that St. Louis Cardinals. , be7,0Ud tile borders of Ulelr own state Jn separate flocks If they are to deback, and Howard Maple, quarter- pa.l•-w~ c:p&cri,.,.,. the Texan did, but his shrill war cry b:::.ck for the Oregon Aggies last year, lias led to 110me llDJleas&ntness. velop as they should. ~ 0 • sweeping across the field was very Jerry Donovan, eighty-six years old, have signed with the Chicago Cardl£.&LIFOBN • IA VERNAL-T he first two da)'s 9f the When raspberries and tllackberrles I much a part of White Sox fttmosphere who has been close to baseball since nals, of the national professional toothe was a boy, works every day at ball league. rou11dup of wUd and abandoned b.orses .nave been harvested, cut out and burn wherever the team traveled. Shibe Park, In Philadelphia , and Is oD .the east end of Diamond DWWltain the old fruiting canes. This will help • as active ll8 a man of sixty. Coach has netted UO bead, among them a hold disease and Insect Injury In ·check. • Bob Zuppke will have abottt Football at Night 20 lettermen to depend . few stQnted wUd horse11 not much upon In trying · • • • 1 Night football. played under brilliant A Washington Information editor Is for his third consecutive western con·J aqer tlian a sheep. The initial catch Good pasture for growing plgs, . ftoOd lights, wlll be Inaugurated at asked, "How W!,DD8D are sayiq: "tnkbam's !loes a catcher know what ference footllail championshi r this fall. Is corrallecl near the old Sla~h rapch brood sows, and all classes of swine : Lawrence next fell by Haskell Indian doinpound keeps me :tit to do my oa the slope of the mountain, and lt 1s ao valuable that It often makes the 1 Institute, Frank W. McDonald, direc- kind of a ~:II the pitcher Is going to Preliminary practice wlll start Sep'!'Ol'k/' ~·I was nervous and all run ts planaed to drive these animals aDd difference between profit and loss ln 1 tor of athletJcs, announeed the other throw?" We belleve the proper an- tember 15. down. Now I eat better and ,eieep swer Is, lf It Is a left bander, he additional catcbea into Ashl~ Yalley the hoi buslneBS. better-". "It helped my thirteeD day In talking of the grid prospects. doesn't. When Tex Rickartl went to Toledo by the end of the month 10 that brand• • • Definite plans for one night gatne, year old iaughter."-''lC;ook it beIn 1919 to stage the Dempsey-Wlllard ed honea may be redeemed and the Fewer mistakes In cullblg hens will l with Baker unlyersity, Kansas. confore and after my baby wu bom." Jack Crandall, sixteen-year-old boy, fight he took as his local aid Ad unbruuled atul! aold to the hlabest be made when the dock has been prop.. terence champion, have been made. :""I am plninc every dq... Ia following In the footsteps of his fa- Thatcher. Just ten years later to the bidders. The drlye Is belDB conducted erl7 fed and the heu gtvea a chance Half of the gridiron contestM of the UDder the aupervllloD of Jllrllest Jll&toa to lay u miUlJ ecp u t11e7 are ca- Indians may be slllfted to nflht datea, ther, Otis "Doc" Crandall, former big day the Toledo Boxing oommlSBion I~ 1Jia E. Pinkham·~ league twlrle'r and now pitching In gave Ad the air for attemptlbJ to If .V erul. ~. f!l proc111elq, , I ~. McDonald wd. tbe Paelfle Coa§t l.tac.ue. \ t'!Jl'l:tlllt· Compou ud erltlclze Ita conciuct ot the ~ I BASEBALL ,ill Major League Parks NOTES @lJ • • • • • • • • ... f I • • • • • • I • • • • • • II • • • ~SPIRIN • • • • • fness . .. =~::s~~"auTecnta.ra • • • • • • • • I • • • • • "TACK ·UP" • • • AER OXON • • • Catehe r . • • • 3Ge per doz. · • • • • • • • • Farm Notes • • • • • • • • • s Oft§ •S • • • • • WHAT WILL IT DO? • • • • • • • • • • • t I E h-•n ' |