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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE. UTAH TT South of France Invaded by Allied Armies Allat the recent East-Wekid game with my friend Joe McCarthy, manager of the Yankees. Here we watched the picked teams from the East and West, representing 28 cities and states, at 17 years or younger. And it was here that I saw the soft spot of this sport Baseball is rated our national game. There are more kids who would rather play baseball than any other sport Baseball is our greatest game. Certainly for our kids. And yet baseball has drawn less support from all concerned than any other game. The big leagues, both presidents and all owners, ineluding my good friend Judge Landis, have almost completely ignored the young ball players from 13 to 17. The high schools and colleges Grantland Rice been even have worse. Our young football players have the best of coaching in high school. They move to the best coaching in college play. They are finished products when they reach the pros. Our young golfers have the finest coaching and instruction that anyone could demand. All their faults are corrected on the way up. The same is true of our basketball players and our track men. The same is true of our swimmers. They have the best of the coaching and the best of breaks. Why? They bring money into the sox offices. Baseball doesnt. Auy sport that brings in money gets prompt attention. Those that lont are ignored. Football gets first recognition, !rom high schools on up through on into pro ranks, Why? Many college football teams that run olay to financial clean-up- s from $500,000 to $1,000,000, Baseball cant even touch these base-sailIgures. So why bother with I GEORGE aj. CHAPTER I WORTS VM.U RELEASE was supposed to end often worked until at five, but she nine and this glow had let the curving surfaces of the Siamese Buddha The giant moths of Kokee those sometimes midnight catch and momentarily hold a ghostShe expertly estimated that the ly gleam. Even his eyes seemed damp black ghosts and the smell of sour honey, which were so trivial as work he had piled on her desk would to glimmer. I wish . . . Zorie Corey began facts but so vital to Zorie Coreys keep her occupied until seven-thirt1 fears, were among the things that After that she must deliver his impetuously, and hesitated. Then made it hard for her to put a proper wifes invitations. There would be she made her wish. She wished she Mj valuation on the events themselves. about thirty of them and the ad- could be whisked to a leisurely land There were moments of terror dresses would be scattered all over of palms and jade-greeseas, of which, when she awoke in the night, town. strange flowers with intoxicating And she had a date tonight with scents, of birds that left bright she could now contemplate with amused detachment. And there were Paul Duncan. Paul did not like to flames in their wake, and of demoments of lesser danger which, be kept waiting. Next to cleanliness, lightful people too gallant to take adeven in retrospect, could bring a with Paul, came punctuality. vantage of her meekness.- She next She gave herself the brief luxury wished that Paul Duncan was there scream into her throat. Perhaps Paul Duncan could have of contemplating, in a private ar- with her. Then she wished that explained all of it, in his clever, chive of her mind, her fiances lean, she would lose her meekness. That made a total of three wishes, face, his clear gray-gree- n analytical way. Some of it he did eyes, his strong, slender and three wishes were, according to try to explain, because, in his jealous heart, he adored her. And some hands. She loved Paul's hands. They tradition, the correct number. were clever and nervous and yet of it was better left unexplained There should be, of course, some It might they were very masculine. sort of ritual. She bent down quickand even unremembered. Paul had a brilliant mind, and his ly and kissed the cast-iro- n jungle have hastened her recovery if she could have wiped from her memory understanding of human foibles, his Buddha three times on the brow, one when she amusing way of pricking the bubbles kiss for each wish. He tasted dusty that night in fell down and down through endless of vanity and coqpeit and hypocrisy and rusty. She stepped back and gazed someblackness, with that soft, terrifying was a source of delight to Zorlp. was Paul an of instructor ears her what in psycholodefiantly at the Buddha, who whisper gy. And he was much too good for no longer glowed, but sat there in this small midwestern university. the jungle of a fusty old English And she could have well forgotten, She would, she decided, knock off professors desk, a dark lump in dawn when too, the jasmine-scente- d the darkness, as if, in glowing once, mie she stood beside a stunted tree three at At six, she was still typing in her he had spent his magic force and kvi g jg thousand feet above the green and would never glow again. purple depths of the tropical canyon fast, efficient way. At He Zorie waited and a curious tingling jC&with an automatic pistol kicking in she called Paul's boarding-housanVlher hand, although it would always went along her spine. seem that it had happened not to Nothing noteworthy happened. Zorie Corey did not find herself her but to an unbelievable girl who had stepped out of her just long speeding through the night on a Persian rug, nor did she feel one deenough to attempt murder. Yet all of it fitted into the one gree less meek. The telephone in her cubicle bebright romantic pattern of intrigue and adventure which she would algan to ring. She ran down the hall with her heart racing out of all ways cherish, even unimportant trifles the quarreling of the minah proportion to the amount of exercise she was giving it. As she ran, birds just at dusk and again just at she pictured the man who was calldawn; the annoying habit Grandfather Duncan had of saying, "You ing her, and the man was, curiously understand hm? and the metallic enough, not Paul Duncan. He was a total stranger. He was tall, luster of moonlight on palm fronds with bronzed and the gleam leaping in the trade-winin Pierre Savoyards eyes whenever merry eyes and curly hair and a he ate meat; and the pride that big easy smile and a lazy, romantic from the way about him. Amber, Martinique, girl He would say to her in a deep, took in herself; and the strange urwho himman called of the resonant, cheery voice: "Miss Corbanity I have self Winthrop Lanning. Just been authorized to ey? offer you an opportunity to leave ElHer memory of the rest of that ordeal was vague. leryton at once and take a very inBut she was never vague about teresting journey." But the voice that responded to Stephen Decatur Duncan, with his her breathless hello was neither languid manner, his mocking blue deep, resonant, nor cheery. eyes and his treachery. it said, with Just a My dear, Probing about in her mind on I thought youd hint of severity, ise sleepless nights, in a blacked-ou- t be over for these invitations ages room on an island at war, she saw herself, on that dismal afterago. Had you forgotten?" Zorie No. I hadnt forgotten, noon in early December, in a drowsy meek in her answered melodiously her little university town, sitting at voice. "Im Just leaving. desk and wishing, among other It was an unseasonal December things, that she was not so meek. night, rainy and warm the kind of She was privately very certain night that might be transformed by that her wishing had started it and a sudden north wind into a glitter that every step she took that day As she looked at the wishing Budtrees and telephone wires. was an unerring step in the direction dha a curious thing happened. It of d As started she along the campus, of her destiny. began to glow. with her head bowed, as if in shame, From her typewriter desk, in the wasnt home. The voice that an- against the drizzle, she indulged in another wish. She wished she English Department, Zorie Corey swered didnt know when he would still had had the courage to ask her Aunt camreturn. out small the across look could , j pus and over some of the rooftops of At seven, Zorie called again. Paul, Hannah for her coupe for a couple this town in which she had grown up she was told, had dined out. He of hours. Zorie went up on the wide porch and of which she was now, she told was probably in the library doing the big old fashioned gray house of dissertation. on his herself, a helpless victim. She had research finished where the Folsomes lived. A colshe At so wish fraudulent the uttered just A often voiced by youth when it is the last of her typing and laid her ored maid answered the doorbell inviovercome by a sense of frustration afternoons production, in neat piles, and brought Zorie the stack of tations in a cellophane wrapper. she wished shed never been bom. on Professor Folsomes desk. She would be late for tier date Zorie was on the point of asking her She then uttered three wishes, all with She she wished row. in Paul, and he would tell her if she could borrow an umbrella, a related, wished had She she wasnt so meek. again that the trait he admired most but the door was quickly closed, she decided against pressing courage. She wished shed had the in the wives of the men he knew and the button again, for the maid bad disof wife was the her tell to punctuality. gumption One of the troubles with being looked cross. tinguished employer to jump in the She examined the invitations unmeek, of always saying yes and nevriver. the porch light They were adder Zorie reflected, to a no request, Mrs. er "My dear Miss Corey," in Mrs. Folsomes spidery dressed in her gushing way, had said is that youre always getting yourThe addresses were handwriting. over the telephone a few minutes self into hot water. ar.d a few of the more wives about and looked the faculty She paused previously, would you mind territownswomen. There was bly distributing the invitations for gloomy office, with its littered desk, prominent no envelope addressed to Zorie Cori my tea next week? They really its overflowing wastebasket, the eybooks and !$V 4 , should go out tonight and I think its pamphlets and catalogs She went down the steps and into so much nicer having them deliv scattered and stacked about all so unrain. Less than one hundred the Folsomes Professor of Proered by hand, dont you? And typical feet from the Folsomes front porch, fessor says youre so dependable, tidiness. on the comer, was a telephone pole At the back of the desk, a conSo will you drop around for them fusion of books, memoranda, pens, to which was affixed a street light when you're through?" illuminated Zorie Mrs. love pencils, and bottles and pots of ink The street light clearly Folsome, to, Id a large mailbox a and two over was objects, colors, of presided various Corey bad said in her melodious cast-iro- n Buddha about trash basket on the side of which young voice, instead of any number by a gilded of appropriate things she might have eight inches high. Most of the gilt was a stencilled sign. Zorie stopped. Two temptations was gone. He was fat, benign and said. her. The first wa She might have mentioned that rusty. A student from Siam the were tugging at two-ceto Bud the stamps ana had buy thirty a given son of prince she didnt possess a car; that it was Folsome. It was, mail the Invitations. The other tempgoing to rain; that she was terribly dha to Professor to the renerushed. She might have suggested the sallow Siamese princeling had tation appealed strongly was as spurious but it in a her, with gade drolly disparaging mentioned that Mrs. Folsome neatly affix from a jungle as her wish that shed never been Buddha two-cea right-han- d wishing air, in the upper stamp comer of each of the enve- temple near Chengmei a genuine bom. Thinking of the malicious gossip lopes and drop them in one of the jungle wishing Buddha. flew around at these faculty that sensible a was girl Zorie Corey green receptacles that an she gazed at the sign on the in heathen teas, stock no took government has placed at numerous and she street comers for the convenience idols or any of the nonsense you trash basket KEEP YOUR TOWN CLEAN of its citizens. hear about them, but as she looked USE THIS! a curious Why," Zorie Corey rebelliously at the wishing Buddha, to "How Id love to!" she murmured. It glow. began them happened. deliver thing muttered, "dont you Across the street was a taxicab with your own hand, you old tight The explanation of this phenomeShe was too wad?" non was prosaic and simple, but with the meter ticking. to notice it Yet she Zorie Corey wished she was a war Zorie wasnt instantly aware of that. preoccupied nurse. Then she wished she lived in The glow was greenish and ghostly would remember every other detail of that moment: the California. But anywhere would do, and it seemed to come on as if the of that night, sound of it, the look of it, the smell to call were Buddha trying Anywhere but Elleryton. iungle of it, the feel of it; all the little "Professor says youre so depend-Me- . her attention to himself and his repthings that make a great moment utation. And well he might! Professo real in afterthought the rattle of was the that sor Bowdoin J. Folsome was head of What had happened of the the English Department. Zorie Cor shifting clouds above the Fenwick the rain on the bare branches of the wet the smell trees, for maple had brightly glowed ey was his half-tim- e secretary, and Body Plant earth, the gleam of lighted windows hs notion of the hours that a half- a moment in the glare from the on the asphalt, the feel of the cold surrounded which time secretary should keep was from floodlights beof water that began to run trickle measures the of ne noon sharp until she slid from her buildings-oback of her neck. the down chair with exhaustion. The half-da- y ing taken to discourage gahoteurs RF rnNTTvns-six-thirt- y n good-lookin- g mid-Pacif- lc Ah-na- Ah-na- five-thirt- y. six-thirt- e. - d; ice-cla- 1 seven-twenty-eig- Fol-som- e, nt all-seei- vo SAT st one of the most famous ports of the world, within the original terrain part of France, will become the center of interest as the drive continues westward from Toulon (insert), another famous city on Frances south coast. The first objective of military Importance was the great naval base of Toulon and the capture of St. Tropes, east of Toulon. The original landings and drives extended as far east as Cannes and immediately headed toward Nice as well as inland. The harbor area of Marseilles, of the Invasion of the southern Amusement Park Fires Greatest in History col-,eg- e, Back to the Kids Game Here is the pick of the countrys rids playing baseball at the Pole grounds. They were young, strong, last and packed with spirit. Bui snyone could see the instruction they nad missed, which young football players, young golfers, young tennis players or young basketball players would have received. On more than one occasion Joe McCarthy, one of the smartest managers baseball has ever known, on af the games closest students would point out various faults. It might be a catcher it might be an infielder it might be a hitter "Id like to have that kid around Joe would say. "Id fust a while, tike to tell him just a few things before his fault becomes a habit. Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Francis Ouimet, Chick Evans, these and many others, were great golfers before they were 21 Golf gave them their chance. Football has been piled up with stars who were 19 or 20. Baseball has known only a few who were big leaguers at this age. The answer is that only a few connected with baseball have made any effort to see that young ball players, from 14 to 16, ever get the right instruction. Wish Egan of Detroit is one of the few who has done a fine job along these lines. Egan has developed more than a few young stars. George Weiss of the Yankees is an other. There are just a few more, But In the main baseball doesnt look after its own and Its own are the kids who should be the stars of the future, who never get the chance or who drift into other games. Minor league managers tell me they get these kids, full of faults and havent the time to bother about it. The "naturals can take care of themselves. So they come from the minors to the majors and are either sent back or hang around for two or three years, to be taught all over, If baseball drew the same type of instruction or coaching that football, basketball, golf and tennis get from the best in the business there would be a jump of at least 30 per cent in baseball efficiency between the ages of 19 and 21. But unfortunately in this country too often the dollar comes first. The answer 1 get is this "Let baseball start to pay its way and youll see a big difference. It will get the same overemphasis from coaches and others that football does Two fires swept New York Citys most popular amusement beach parks doing damage of nearly one million dollars and resulting in an injury list of more than 500 people. Left, aerial view of Palisades amusement park fire at Cliffside Park, N. J., favorite resort of New Yorkers. Photo taken from a navy plane from Floyd Bennett field. Right, billows of black smoke, spotted by spurts of live flame, shoot skyward from a roller-coastride in historic Luna park on Coney Island. Thousands of men, women and children were routed from the crowded park. The fire at both parks was of undetermined origin. er Red Cross Men Cooperate Hay Fever Sneeze V Cl $ 8 American forces, When Avranches in Normandy fell to this Nazi Red Cross post in a cafe was taken over by American Red Cross workers, who permitted some of the German medical corpsmen to remain and cooperate with the Americans in taking care of the many injured German soldiers who were left behind when the Nazi retreated. fast-movi- Yanks Treat Wounded Native The sniffling season is here again, and Glnnie Powell shows how the weed affects Americans who Buffet from hayfever. The Pacific Northwest is the only section of the country free of the malady. Chamorro Children now. Pitching Prodigy One of the most outstanding possibilities- at the Kids Game was Frank Azzarelio of New Orleans. He is just 17 a great prospect a left hander who fought 12 innings with $15,000 Dick Callahan last spring and fanned 18 batters. Frank lost his game 1 to 0 In the 12th. In addition to his brilliant pitching Azzarelio is also a star outfieldA native boy, wounded by a Jap sniper on the battle front down er with a Legion batting average of 431. Azzarelio is just one of the the Driniumor river near Aitape, New Guinea, gets medical aid from great kids who played in this game Yank medical corpsmen. Other native villagers gather round to watch the proceedings. A good per cent of medical supplies furnished AmeriThere were at least a dozer, others can Ire cm j used on the sick and injured natives. Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, commanding general of the Third marine amphibious corps at Agana, Guam, with Chamorro children, freed from Japanese oppression bj marines. |