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Show THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER. UTAH First Record Wreckers of 1927 Molla to Retain Amateur Status ot the tenuis association expressed the opinion that Mrs. Molla Mallory, national champion, did not Jeopardize her umateur standing when she played In a mixed doubles match in Miami against Miss Mary K. Browne, as no admission was cnarged and no score was kept. It was pointed out that it is a common practice for amateurs to practice against professionals, but the association does uot want to encourage it as a public proposition. Officials titj w - , lVi , V;.' , , kv. rv 1 . it: i''. t J - A ,1 TROUT FISHING NOT DYING OUT , 1 1 , i x 'f 'v V.-.i- 4-- 103-met- 4-- d Sport IjoiEE Jack Fournier Has Joined Fifth Club When the Braves open their spring training season in the near future, Jacques Fournier, veteran first baseman, who was recently signed by that team,' will don the uniform of his fiftn al-major league club, lie has i ready been a member of two and two National American league teams, having worn the uniform of the White Sox, Yan-- l kees. Cardinals and Robins, f When Fournier started his pro-- i fessional baseball career he was a catcher, and it was not until three years later that he was converted Into a first baseman. Cubs' park In Chicago will In be called Wrlgley park. the future , v. dying out? &j Not a bit of it, in the opinion of Don Cameron Shafer, writing in Field and Stream. "There will be trout fishing here long after we are gone, and" for our .A children's children. It won't be the kind of trout fishing our granddaddies enjoyed, with their Ironwood poles and red flannel flies. But there are those of us who, while taking off our fishing hats to Salvelinus the finest eating fish in the world, would rather hook into a big scrappy, acrobatic rainbow in swift water than any brooker of equal size and weight that ever raised to a Bell." a While the article In Field and Stream admits that whipping a two-fostream for Salvelinus fontinalis, Good vulgarly known as brook trout, today produces no more results than whipEuchre. ping tlw front lawn, it contends that Bustles. trout fishing of the best can now be Bartendrs. found In the rapids of the big rivers. Mony Musk. Trout caught In big waters are not R.ig Carpets. the old brook trout ; they are the EngBells. Sleigh lish brown trout or the rainbow. Frozen Pumps. Isn't any Mr. Shafer says. "There Fly Blankets, water too big, and not much of It too Shaving Mugs. trout and rainbow warm, for brown Beau Catchers. Big water Why, the finest trout fishBees. Quilting ing anywhere Is In the St. Clair Rapids Moustache Cupa. between Lake Huron and Lake Erie! The Quadrille. Near Rome, N. Y., the local fish and Livery Stables. chub has been stocking the upper game Suppers. Oyster Mohawk and otlwr large streams with The Schottisch. main success. The the greatest Home Baked Bread. branches of the Delaware now offer good fishing far below the original John L. Sullivan. brook trout water. In New England, White Underskirts. Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Five-Cen- t they are beginning to stock the larger McGuffey's Readers. streams with browns and rainbows, Bed Warmers. Soapstone water or not the to whether according Red Flannel Underwear, is fast or sluggish." Torchlight Processions. According to Field and Stream It Muzzleloading Shotguns. took fishermen many years to learn Whiskers Way Down Here. the strange new ways of the rainbow and brown trout and to realize that they are a different fish than the old familiar "brookers." Speaking of brown trout, the arBy ELMO SCOTT WATSON ticle says, "We brought these trout of HE Old Timer shook his the big streams over here and tried head sadly as he read the I above Item In his home to make them stay In mountain brooks, where our native trout would have town paper tne otner cay. done much better. They didn't stny; be sighed, "If "Ah," they ran down the rivers, ponds, lakes. they were the only things One of nineteen pounds was caught in that this Jazz age had Scroon lake last year; another of the wiped out! But they aren't same weight was taken from Why, I could add several reservoir. dozen more to that bunch." The article in Field and Stream conSo he sat down with cludes with instructions as to the most pencil and paper and this approved methods of stocking streams is the list he compiled: Cigar store and with a warning against foolish Indians, hitching racks on Main street, stocking with worthless fish. woodpiles, yoke of oxen, rail fences, The Nashville baseball field Is 20 feet under water, which would be a wonderful break for a spit-bal- l pitcher. i John McGoran set a bowling record by rolling 14 games with an average of 235 at Grand Rapids, Mich., on December 27, 1013. ; By virtue of the fact that McGill university of Canada has a royal charter, Its hockey team sports a fancy coat of arms on Its Jerseys. Champion Swimmer Thirty-thre- e members of the "goof" or reserve football squad at the University of California were .awarded medals in recognition of their service during the last football season. F. Iloppe, 18.2 balkline billiard champion, Is nearly forty years of age. He never has tasted tobacco nor used hard liquor. Hoppe has engaged in competitive play for 82 years. Willie ' & - ' ''J J - Soccer, which was first organized on a modern basis In 1SS3, draws huge attendances in England and Scotland, crowds at Wembly park, London, having numbered well over ' 100,000. I ! - -;-- I, f r trophy, similar to the Walker .cup, played for by British and American amateurs, will be set up in an effort to bring about permanent international team competition between professionals. A - J-i- J V ' 4 i i ) Staging of the British open championship at St. Andrew's next summer means that bo gate fee will be charged, for the course Is a public one and under the control of the' town council. l . East no longer has a corner on championship golf tournaments. Next year Pittsburgh gets the open golf championship, Minneapolis the amateur tourney and Dallas the professional title contest. recent winner of bike race In New York, will compete In European meets this winter. He has left for Germany and France accompanied by Otto Petri, noted German rider. Reggie McNamara, e the Decision of Referee Is Puzzling to Boxing Fans Providence of the Eastern league has purchased Pitcher Kenneth Jones from the PlttfleM club of the same who league. He Is the right-handwent from Georgetown university to the Detroit Tigers In 1024. Is some discussion In English There er boxing circles over an unprecedented privilege which was granted the Belgian boxer Van Maroey during a recent hout nt London. Old Days See-gar- T Shan-dake- Jack Smith Is England's Professional Golf Hope r!n. I I '... ' Reeoke, Penn State ' ' - .i I (' ,, "' ! " 1 (: ' 7. fr-- in th :ir-- -- .! .. i " : trip L:!.:t ,..,nl tea-'- t Wo'tM Z.m The Cincinnati Reds have started association (heir Apverlean Jn.M't.-rby sending Outfielder llril '. StiWvim to die Columbus club. hrol-.- i if will he reejilb'd, li's I. I'M ng i year i!i:o and the Reds sent to M uv.it of the South Atlantic lea rue, where h performed l:i stellar rfyle s S'd-l!M- relii'-n i M'tit to 247-yar- Youth Runs Fast Vv ' "f I ' last s'i.son. farm dressmakers, copper-toehitching posts topped by a horse's head with a ring In the mouth, hlghwheel bicycles, toll gates, real corn bread (made without sugar In It), bootjacks, homemade soap, pork, photograph pillow shams, stone churns, whatnots, balloon ascensions, rain barrels, autograph albums, coffee mills, coal oil lamps and literary societies. "Oh, it can't be as bad as all that," sympathetically remarked a crony to whom he showed Ms collection. "There must be a few of those left somewhere In the United States." "Not many, not many!" mourned the Old Tinier. "They talk about the "vanishing American.' What about the vanishing American Institutions like some of these? Why, there's scarcely a day goes by that I don't rend In the papers about the passing of something or other that I knew when I was a boy. Just look at these!" The first was a clipping from the Boston Globe which said : peddlers, boots, iron d " ..; 'V " r'n'' ' ?i A ,'t;t 1 i iAu 7 i iter fit-- ! : I' fhsm thefisfeaxi fAmerica, ealon In a part of her home and a modiste. KcHult No. 2 The regulation seamstress fades out of the picture. She can't get business In a community In which nearly every woman sews her own seams. Time was, when mother called up Mies Mae or Miss Jenny, she came early and basted rompers and fitted sleeves ail day long for 12.50. If she had & knack for designing and tone, she rot 13, luncheon and dinner In- es cluded, Today the customer goes to the dressd maid ask, A maker. "What la the name, please," and madam with promises an appointment at such and such a time. The dreas, or more properly gown, will cost anywhere from $65 to $150 for the designwhite-cappe- The price of the making. Is extra. Is Even the term "dressmaker" passe. She Is a "designer of gowns." a "modiste," a "madam." ing and material Under a Kansas City (Mo.) date line appeared this Item, which declared that Back In the days when Ward McAllister's "400" was the only recognized social register In the East, the Middle West had its own way of Identifying the socially elect. Strangely enough, almost unIts passing has been marked. In the ntfty nineties the register of eligible males In most Middle Western towns was to be found on the carefully guarded shelves of tonsortal emporiums. Here, row on row, sat the private shaving mugs of the town's prominent, and across ench was the owner's name, usually In elablike Ward orate script But now, McAllister's list, the private mugs are passing. New fandangoes which eliminate the shaving mug altogether have come Into their own. Some Kansas City barbers blame women's Invasion of the shops. Others declare that masculine patrons are not as particular now and do not always visit the nama shop as they were wont to do when business was trnnsneted In more leisurely fashion. Still others said the need for the munrs had passed; that they came Into being as the result of some one's belief they would be more sanitary. In a few small towns the private mugs still survive, but In the main they are gone. Exhibit C was Plain Dealer. The It from the Cleveland said: Courfey Yale University frcss fashioned parade. Small boys no longer throng the curbs to behold the prancing before his trusty men, blowing a braien blast fit to burst their bright horns. Who could forget that dearest Image of the young, wearing his big bearskin shako, held In place by a sliver chain beneath his ehlnt Or who could forget, for that matter, his short blue coat, buttoned by means rf gold frogs, a dark contrast to his tight red pants? Where Is the glistening; baton that once whirled above his head like a shining auraT Who that has seen him throw It on high cannot still recall ths gasp of assembled boyhood as It returned to his left hand? Generation of boys have broken windows uncounted practicing that trick with broom handles. The truth must be told. America, as a nation, has lost ths art of parading. The bandmaster of old has gone to Join the neglected Images, though he vet endures In the pantheon of heroes that used to be. Americans of yesterday were the greatest pnrader of nil times, rallying to the sound of n drum and the lure of a uniform with the instinct of a martial people. And what man liss known glory In fuller measure than lie who marched between lines of admiring faces while fair women and bright-eyeyouth did homage? band-rntist- er d The Old Timer next exhlhitPd a clipping from the Salem (Mass.) News which found the passing of one Institution the cause for a Mt of "viewing with alarm" because In these days of power srws new ways of heating and cooklns, majority of boys ure not getting fine exercise with the sawhorse and the the and the bucksaw that their fathers used to obtain. About this time, as the old elmanae says. It formerly was customary for the old man gently but firmly to steer and sughis son out to the wood-pil- e gest that It was needful for him to those powerful looking sticks of four-fowood to kitchen stove slie. before plowing time came In the spring. It was suggested, more or less delicately, that these youngsters had free board and ciolhes and spending money and that the least they could do was to perform the alloted task on that ot wood-pil- e. It was a fine physical exercise and good moral discipline. Boys trained to a cut up woodpile usually made good. They raised Industrious families and had a pretty good time through It alL Another was from the Toronto Globe In which Arthur S. Bourlnot sang this miserere for traveling merchant, line of merchandise frpm farm to farm, has disapIn this section. peared THE OLD RAIL FENCE The development of ewlft modes of transportation, the extension of means of communication and ths coming of Fast dlsappesrlng emblem of old dRye When man first trod the frontier Improved highways have made obsolete the old traveling stores, but their wilderness In old the memory lingers. For, Sowing the seed which later grew days, the peddler or huckster was a vlta.1 to dress The land, with miles of part of farm life. The business of the traveling mersunlit maize. chant was a natural sequence of the times and condition. The pack pedAlong haphazard windings, dler soon followed the pioneer with wayi, In April bluebirds Caw, all azure his pack of dress goods, feminine wear, linens and trinkets, but the traveling plumed, Beside the lowest logs the blood merchant was brought to the stage an root bloomed of action by entirely different set of circumstances. Unconscious of the brilliant noontide blaze. The sparsely settled localities, the long distances between stores and the long periods of bad roads each year But now the rails He rotting la the made the rpportunlty for him. The grass Or feed th fires of chill October people as a whole could not conven-entl- y reach him, but he could take eves; Of former landscapes progress only his store on wheels and go to them. leaves That was the secret of the success A vestlKe which eventually will pass In the whole undertaking. Thus gradunlly the old time glamour Thn dressmaker who "And that's the way It Is everyfades used to com to your home and w bjr dies, as winds through forwhere," declared the Old Timer. "I And fading ths day la a disappearing apeclei, est glades. A (trowing per cnt of modern womtell you the fellow who 'wrote that en are making their own clothon, ac- book about 'No More Parades' was "And I could show yoti dozens more cording to tlione who Bell pattern, right. Here's a piece from the Chris- Just like these," concluded the Old while the itores with their Inexpenfrocka are clothing tian Science Monitor that says: sive rendy-.mTimer, "but I got to get home now. the woman who "Just can't aew a Station WKKP is broadcasting grand American etrnets seldom resc.und In itltch." opry tonight and I want to tune In and these The Itesult Nj. busy enterprising practical times to the- on it." and of the oldopens an artistic home-butcher- ed old-tim- e who peddled a small z!g-u- ? -- dresn-mak- 1 loft-llghte- star hitlfhack, he'iihi'j h-- T!,n (TO'ieS'-ii" !..;!r i.'ti. ! from a slugger into one of the hopes of that country for recovering Its golfing honors from America. In professional competition at Hind-heaSmith set a new course record of 68, knocking four strokes from the previous low medal mark, held by Rex Hartley, the Cambridge university golfer. Smith's terrific tee shots were the feature of his round. At the thirteenth hole his drive rested 5 feet from the cup. Smith's advance In other departments of the game marks him as a player of the future. d ra soom-boo- m field events and swimming she retubes with unerring precision, and ceived the German sports medal for carry those nedle-IIkmissies In their her victories In the high Jump, the frizzed hair, lint the oddest thing Hhot put and In swimming tests. about them Is that they hold In strict IlannI Koehler, nineteen-year-olsubjection certain tribes of glunt candaughter of a Herlln factory owner, Is rapidly coming to the front as one Pygmiea nibals, who live about them nnd !e of Oermiiny's leading sportswomen, Strange things have been written fend thein against all outsiders. Th Frnuteln Koehler Is credited with hold-ln- j recently by Mr. II. M. Mncdonals, n giants are fierce and mighty iiLMlrwt the premier position among !er-- prospector, concerning the pygmies of all white Men, they have lieier been She alxo New Guinea. These llltle people r thev hrought Under foreign ru'e, nil wmiHii motorcyclists. ire the humble servants of fli In :i f fi ;t m won innie tliati one. race on the about forly two Inches high, stunli'" i,nu;ii limn tiiey regard n horse In women's built, end nlniot covered with ll.u'b liTti k of n hsoM! i'iorrc Van I'aassen, In the romretiliiin imiooi: local rider. In grey liuir. They lii.v voices like meg:-'(tistitlltioll. Including hoi es fail blow tiny darts throuu iti ail round conipettloa German Girl Athlete from continuing his college career, He was laid tip with the fracture and Infection but recovered and has Just been elected captain for 1027. of the University of California for n tour of Jnpan Is erpected shortly hv Cnlifo-nl- a ofllrliiR The Invitation la bc'r ; sent by l'olo university, which p- - ' tf.fn-'li;".- Tictel ;m to OH-f'-- : t Jack Smith, Great Britain's longest bitter of the golf ball, has developed The unusual' Injury of a broken cheek hone almost prevented John I Invltat'on to "thf hneball team - n Hickmun Nine May Tour Japan s. All Gone Forever There being no male teacher In the (Calif.) school this year. Rita Laird, twenty, 5 feet 2 and full of pep. coached the football team, which won the five straight gams and scored 112 points to IS by their opponents. e VA ( tt&ZlAtr&?Z&jt&JWJ&f&. Charles Johns, pro golfer, had been playing the game for 2.j years without ever holing out In one. Then Just recently, within a period of six weeks, he made three nces on his home course, Purley Downs. In the second round of his light with "Sonny" Bird, the Belgian was cautioned for butting. Almost Immediately afterward Bird did the same thing, putting Van Maroey out of action temporarily. Instead of disqualifying Bird, the referee allowed Van Maroey a respite In which to recover, a decision never before given in England and for which, experts say, no Justification can be found In British boxing "rules. Bird wp.b declared the winner in the sixth round when Van Maroey was unable to continue. An six-da- y ",f k6 7 The Virginia Whltenack. metropolitan swimmer, at the ihiimpion free-stylVenetian pools, Coral Cables, Flu., where she, with other swimmers from the New York Women's Swimming association, made an attempt at records. i t , v ot Baseball has made Judge Landls famous as the umpire who never sleeps. t' V 4 Best Sport Found in Rapids of Big Rivers. Trout fishing At the left Is shown Bob McAllister, the flying cop, who marked his return to competition on the Indoor tracks by setting a record of 10 5 run ut the Brooklyn meet At the right la shown seconds for the Eber M. Wells of Dartmouth, who set a new indoor record of 5 5 seconds 10 the high hurdles event at games hold in Boston. This is the first puir of indoor track records to be made ia 1!C7. : K, e d Chris Fltr.gerald, above, twenty youth of Dorclieslcr, think j car-olteilhliig if the Marufhoti run. cinltn tug to have run the 4i'i tn!!e from Boston to Providence In less than 7 hour with one stop, to win u .Vjo wugcr. n . .Mi.-ir.t- : |