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Show IEHI FREE PRESS. LEflL UTAH , Sneaking of Sports j Landis Ruling Checks Illegal Diamond Deals Rv ROBERT McSHAXE (UtielteA by Western Newspaper Union! wer NOVEMBER 12, 1920, follobase-ba- a jng the worst scandal in club league major history, Sportlight To Bolster First Defense Line Starching Curtains. y longer. g Wrinkled hands from the family wash can be made smooth by washing in water to which a Littis vinegar has been added. Service AJ.GELES.-- three National commissioners drew up what is believed to be the I first rule striking at such practices. 1 1 Infractions of the rule can be traced back to the year of its inception. Even as late as 1938 Landis struck a strong blow by liberating more than i it Cardinal controlled 100 St. Louis players. Baseball men today are worried. DICKEY AND GORDON National attention has been focused They'll help the Yanks hang up their once more on the structure of the fifth in a row. player contract which sends a player into virtual serfdom from the being faced by a supposedly strongtime he enters organized baseball er opponent in 1939, it didn't seem Once a player likely the Yankees granted that until he retires. they would be victorious would win again in four straight. But they did. With Red Ruffing pitching, Bill Dickey catching, Joe DiMaggio in center field and fellows like Joe Gordon, Frankie Crosetti, Red Rolfe, George Selkirk and Charlie Keller spotted through the lineup, it looks as though the Yankees can continue for a while longer. In an effort to hobble the Yanks, the rest of the league made a rule preventing them from trading with the other clubs. The Yanks didn't mind that, either. Just by Ed Barrow way of voted for the rule. With Newark, Kansas City and other clubs in the chain sending up players faster than ' the Yankees can absorb them, Barj row and Joe McCarthy aren't interested in the other A. L. talent. Pearl-Handle- d pearl-handl- ed With uarfare raging all around her, the S. seeks security in strength. Ma jor part of this program is directed at making her Atlantic and Pacific gateways impregnable through use of naval craft ranging in size from tiny gunboats to giant battleships. Already this vast naval building program is going ahead full speed, uith indications the present congress will provide more funds in accordance uith President Roosevelt's budgetary request. i I'. j; j "What does George see in Hazel? She's a dead one." "Well, George has made up his mind to get her, dead or alive." j t I $ i SNAPPY ANSWER i - . " V S ! To remove a stopper from a glass jar, pour warm water into a pan and invert jar in it, gradually add warmer water until it is quits hot, but not so hot as to break; jar. Leave in water for some--' time, occasionally trying stopper to see if it is loose. Vv , ! No Threat in Sight The Red Sox, who have made the JUDGE KENESAW M. LANDIS best showing in the attempt to overhaul the Yankees consigns his name on a one-yethese last two years tract, he is a chattel of that club, came up with some whether it be a cellar-positio- n minor fine young players or a major-leagu- e club. last year, notably He can be sold, paid and traded as Williams and Tabor, the owner desires. Even though but they still lack a the contract expires in one year the first-rat- e catcher reserve clause makes him the propare wearand they of that club for life, or until he erty ing out in some othis traded, sold or drafted. er positions. CleveAt the end of each season every be should land organized club sends to headquarBob with stronger ters a "reserve list," and the law Feller still moving governing it reads: toward the peak and "Thereafter no player on any list Bob Feller destined to be one shall be eligible to play for or neof all time. of the pitchers great gotiate with any other club until his three clubs, the Tithose Below contract has been assigned or he Senators are and Sox White gers, has been released." bunched pretty closely. Below them, the Browns and Athletics still are Fighting a Lost Cause stumbling along. Which means that no player, reAs usual, the race in the National of congardless Reds, reason, can sever league should be close. The tumult nections with that club and go out new to the sweat and fire and and sell his services to the highest of a close tussle in 1938, failed bidder. All he can do is try to with a little more experience, hold out for a few more dollars where, have won. Last year, might they when contract-signin- g time comes hardened by the 1938 campaign, they around. In case the club owner broke broke through but they does not agree with him on a salary through just ahead of the Cardinals, increase the player is licked before whose lot was similar to that which he starts. If he refuses to play he the Reds had drawn in '38. is suspended and therefore ineligiThis year the Cardinals may be ble to play in organized baseball. A ready. With better pitching than trip to civil court would result in they had in 1939 and better luck, blacklisting. Baseball is a tight-kn- it quite they can win. It took them had fraternity. a to realize that they while a If major league club owners exand then, just last year ercise any judgment whatever they chance about as the realization came to will see the justice of his decision them, they were ruined by injuries. against Detroit. More than that, two Swinging along behind these they will applaud it. Rulings such They need the Dodgers. are clubs as this have restored the confidence more power and thought they were of the American in baseball. Joe Medwick people going to get it from The national is fortunate ..... ronnant rhanres learning pastime to have Judge Landis as its czar. 'bright again in St. Louis, it doesn t As a helmsman he is unequalled in look now as though Branch Rickey any other sport. II of a mind to sell Medwick. Baseball fans of the nation know is come up with a can McPhail that. Therefore it behooves club Larry from somewhere else, owners to keep their skirts clean of power hitter out for the Dodgers. From watch will be any unethical practices which result these three teams the winner in the public's loss of confidence in decided. the soort. , Bad Shape His decision against Detroit may Giants in br,ng renewed efforts on the part the Reds, the Cardinals Behind of what little opposition there is to the Dodgers there lies no penlook Landis to relieve him of his office. and nant possibility as the teams has The rules, whether fair or not, are Hartnett Gabby " the books, and it is Landis' job at this stage. with a team to start all over again w see that they are obeyed. Detroit that, all through 1939, failed to recovjs a case in point. They paid for er from the demoralizing beating it breaking the rules. There may be took from the Yankees in the 1938 'her club owners guilty of infrac-t'on- s World Series. Frank Fnsch. hav-in- g asof the baseball code. If they taken over the Pittsburgh the has it would be best for them to from Pie Traynor, whom "raighten out their affairs in double-quic- k signment squad of ball players of the same out shake time. Baseball's present play- couldn't contract system could not with- Traynor rut. stand a close public scrutiny. kmi &'MM(ir . jmmnmiimiu.-.MAm:,.mw- mm immn iimHIh r man mil 4 Giant ships like the Pennsylvania, uhose guns are shown above, are one part of the program. Another, more economical part, is rehabilitation of old World uar destroyers uhich have been harbored at San Diego for many years. Though rusty in spots, they've been kept in good shape for just such an emergency as this. 14-inc- h Tom If you were to choose between Freddie and me, whom would you marry? Helen Jack. HIS LIMIT flavor. For a sweet muffin to serve with hot beverages, try adding a fourth' of a cup each of chopped candied orange peel and candied pineappli to your regular muffin recipe.' Or try using a fourth of a cup ofi f chopped dates and a third-cubroken pecans. A third combinaeach of citron tion is a fourth-cu- p and figs. p i INDIGESTION SenMtionii Relief from Indif eitiea and On Dot Proves It Tf id frit don of UiU plMunt-tMlln- f lltfl blok ubUt doam't brtnt you tlw (inert uid mink etmrtrnred Kind frotli you hiv couiploU nd hi. to i Hot III JO Mo.NKK BACK. Thl IMI-u- n th itomvh diet food. Ublet bd rllt ft barroleu and let need. For heartburn, ilrk heidarht and upaeta ao often eauwd bf aireiu alnmieh fluids miking you feel aoar ami i all nter JTST (INK Host, at Bell-an- a protaa avecdy relief. 2So ateryvbara. mftkM U) airtMi ttomirli Audit ou eil the nourlfthlnr, foodi ruu Jl MA Vll Viii f Mil vjtg; the Gregorian "Do you chants?" "No! I play the ponies now and then, but that's as far as I go with these games of chance." like antiLeft: A seaman chips preservative red load from a three-incaircraft gun aboard one of these recommissioned destroyers. Right: A tvelder works on one of the huge smoke stacks removed from the USS Williams. Mother of Misery Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness that indolence is just considered the mother of misery. Robert Burton. h MIGHT COME 2 ACROSS WANTFM WflMFN moody, nervous, fear hot flashes, 's dizzy spoils, to take Lydia E. Vegetable Compound. Famous in helping women go smiling thru "trying times" due to functional "irregularitiaa." Try ill Pink-ham- 5 ar r. j Tasty Apple Sauce. Add one--' eighth teaspoon of cream of tartar to cinnamon and sugar used inj apple sauce. It gives it a delicious V 1 Ferns grown in the house wQl have a rich green color if a teaspoon of household ammonia is added in a quart of water and poured over the ferns once or twice a month. Care of House Plants. Keep tho temperature of the room in which house plants are grown at 60 or, 65 degrees. They do not thrive in. a room that is too warm. i 1906 r,'" vV1 ! Knives. Washing Never allow bone or knives to soak in dish water. Dip the blades into hot, soapy water, then dry them well. Practice Not New These subterfuges are not new. In "if If curtains are thoroughly dried before being starched they will keep clean No LOS major league Judge Kenesaw Moun- m a row-- ever has won five pennants but if man to set the their tain Landis as the Yankees do not hang up their fifth in a row this bouse in order. 20 years since yeur" lne. Americ&" league race reIt has taken a full of 1919 for sult will be an upset. That, at least, scandal Sox Black he to realize owners that is the way it looks as 1940 gets under club gsme who is man fearless, way. they chose a The fact that the percentage will honest and has the courage and de- be the for do which to running against them again holds Job termination no terrors for the Yanks. One of he was selected. these days, of course, the percentdirected ukase recent against His deals cost the Detroit age is going to catch up with the "cover-up- " Yankees and flatten them because 91 players whose talent was Tgers is one loe nobody can outlast. and cash $47,500 at $500,000, (uiai valued No club in the American league 14 to ordered paid which Landis and of one major league club in in lieu them only making other players the modern history of the game-e- ver free agents. nad won four pennants in a deal is one in A baseball cover-u- p which a club which ostensibly holds row. The Yankees ran their string to that number in 1939. No club a player's contract is merely holdever had won four world series in coverclub. other The some for it ing is contrary to the laws gov- a row. The Yankees did that, too. -up erning baseball. These deals usu- Having won the 1938 series from the ,Cubs in four straight games, and ally fall into one of two classes 'gentlemen's agreements, in which nothing official is put into writing, and false transfer papers. own-select- ed QUESTIONS Str-L- (XA.NA-W.- VU WFO HOUSEHOLD U. S. Repairs Old Battlewagons By Crantland Rice Yanks Conreded Fifth t Pennant Win Despite American League's Recent '.No Trad-inLegislation. DCADOVE THE NAVY Succeeding Generations always has a contempt for the one immediately preceding it. John Masefield. One generation Dentist I hear you're paying your bills do you expect to reach me? Former Patient If I can make up my mind to trust this bum bridge I got you to make I may come across. teg fh i&f ATTRACTIVE THINGS range finder is given final inspection, while in the background another naval optical shop expert checks a sextant. Inset: Seaman working on a gyroscope, which governs path of a torpedo after it has been fired at a naval objective. 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