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Show Tuesday, October 7, 1947 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH PAGE TIIRE3 Creeping Doll Looks Just Like Real Baby SmtKK Released by Western Newspaper Union. seems to be an opinion that major league baseball's playing standards reached a new low in the season just closed This is a point hard to prove, and I doubt that it is -true. In the ebb aruT flow of th last 40 years, we've looked at a long parade of stars We also have peered at a still longer parade of sour ball pretty clubs, and that goes for hitting, pitching and fielding No one can doubt that the four war years held back many a budding rookie, lifted from minor league training to war service. Some of these were killed. Many more were wounded. All. were removed from training action at vital THERE gaflfrrt ft j& Hl'Ji ,. .A. ANCIENT RIVALRY RENEWED . . . Mayhem was the password of the day when Cherokee Indians renewed the game of stickball, a sports competition hundreds of years old, at the annual Cherokee, N. C.t fair. IN THESE UNITED STATES Mayhem Prevails as Indians Renew Ancient Competition years CHEROKEE, N. C. Cherokee Indians smile politely at YOUNG VISITORS TO FREEDOM TRAIN . . . Whole classes of Philadelphias school children form long lines to await their turn to go aboard the Freedom Train to view the historic documents that are the foundation stones of American liberties. The train will carry its precious cargo on a swing around the entire nation this fall, visiting some 300 comninnitica. "hoary football traditions which have pitted teams against each other, at the longest count, for only two generations. Be- fore De Soto came through this country in 1540, ancient Indian clans for centuries had been competing in stickball, a competition so honored in time and custom and so intent in purpose that the annual games were sur & rounded by secret rites and cere- clans had a blood revenge pattern, and there was one town of refuge monies (Echota) in which prospective vicA renewal of that ancient rivalry is staged annually as a highlight of tims were inviolate. Many social the Cherokee fall fair, although taboos, including marrying, joking later-dagames lack a lot of the and other relationships, were deblood-lettinof aboriginal days An fined by clan rules, which heightinnovation at this falls fair was a ened rivalry of the ball games Teams were carefully prepared stickball game in which childrens teams competed for the first time for the contests, the rites including a purification of rackets at the rivpublicly ers edge, sacrification of players Rough Is Right. with rattlesnake fangs and The game itself, also played by dances Today little remains of this, other Indian tribes in America, is elders sometimes still one of the roughest sports in the althoughteam members for confergather world Forerunner of lacrosse, it is ences, the nature of which are not 10 a with with small ball, played freely discussed Young bucks, soplayers on a side, each, armed with phisticated by overseas service, two small home made rackets Thd laugh at the old superstitions, but idea is to propel the ball across a the teams nevertheless usually s two goal line, represented by emerge as a unit from the banks of stuck in the ground The ball the Occonaluftee just before going may be advanced in any manner into action. whatever carried, thrown, passed or kicked Once on the ground, however, it may not be picked up except with the rackets. y g Ki-ne- all-nig- Always Been That Way . There have been bad major league ball clubs this season, and many rather sour big league ball players But this has happened since Uncle Abner Doubleday had his dream. The Phillies, in last place, are a far better bunch than the tail-en- d Phillies of years we still remember. And I could give you the names of many other clubs in the past that of many were strictly moth-eateother ball players who were not even good minor leaguers. To listen, and to read, you might think at times there were no good ball players left. What abont Barry Walker, Wililama, Joe blMaggio, Pee Wee Reeae, Ed Stanky, Pete Reiser, Mize, Willard Marshall most of the Cardinals Cooper, Gordon, Bob Feller, Tommy Henrlch, Angle Galan, Bob Elliott, George Kell, Grady Hatton, Johnny Sain, Warren Spabn and many more who would have been good in any past baseball season? It is pleasant for those growing older to look back on the glorlea of the past when they, too, were young. But they overlook one major point that practically every athletic achievement that can be timed or measured has known a long run of broken records. wil-low- c J What makes Indian ball so exciting is simply the absence of rules. Once a player has the bail, he is fair game for any sort of treatment, including mavhem. Stripped to trunks, the Indians run, tackle, wrestle, choke and bite without let or hindrance. The rackets sometimes are used in whacking opponents over the bead or across the shins. What the spectators see is some-"thing like this Opposing teams march on the field and face each other in two lines where individual opponents are matched, Sometimes after much wrangling. Each man has a personal opponent and they are mutually responsible for guarding their opposites The ball, formerly a hickory nut, is tossed into the air, and the game is on. When a player gets the ball, he usually pops it Into his mouth and lights out for the goal. Opponents are privileged to run him down, choke the ball out of his mouth or otherwise discourage him. The team first getting 12 goals is winner. A game might last 30 minutes It atmight last all day. A player is a to tackle tempting liable to prompt tackling by his guard pr anyone, and sometimes the game comes to a stalemate with 10 wrestling matches going on at once. There are no rest periods and If a player is disj,no substitutions. abled, the opposing team must discard a man and the game continues. ball-carri- P drivers, On the field are elderly men who are armed with long switches. With these they point toward the small and often obscure ba!J or to the player hiding It, crying hahni! bahni! (here! here!). They also are empowered to beat any laggard player, but this privilege seldom Is exercised nowadays. Some surreptitious betting is dons as the teams meet in midfield. In former days, the squaws were the heaviest bettors, putting up wagers of beads, blankets, cattle, basket and even their shorn locks. Element of Culture. ball The games were Important In ancient Cherokee culture. Originally there were six clans, of which there are vestigial remains of four. The Even Lowly Hole In Donut To Rate ATHLETIC CLUB IN ACTION , Jaded photographers aboard the U.S.S. Missouri carrying President Truman from Rio de Janeiro to the United States were considerably cheered when the Truman Ath- letic club was organized. Picture of the President of the United States working off excess avoirdupois by leading a group of perspiring would-b- e athletes in calisthenics are not exactly mill. Special Centennial run-of-t- In the maze of special weeks and observances eventually there should be a limit, even in the giddy postwar world. But now comes forth announcement of a celebration in October to note the centennial of the hole in the donut. Impetus for the event, as youd undoubtedly suspect, comes from the baking industry. Although the celebration itself may rate only passing notice, historical s.gmflcance is attached to that lowly hole in the donut. That, at least, is the contention of Camden, Me., where the celebration will get its official start. Part of Camdens fame emanates from the fact that it is the birthplace of the late Capt. Hanson Gregory, acknowledged Inventor of the hole in the donut. Prior to 1847, all donuts or round cakes, as they were known then, were made without the hole. Sometimes a round cake had a nut in the center and historians attribute tlA origin of the name donut to this fact. At any rate, during the year 1847, Captain Gregory was sailing his sturdy vessel in northern waters He and his men liked the round cake with a doughy center, eating it nol only at mealtime but also as a snack when they were at the steering wheel. One October day in 1847, Captain Gregory himself was at the steering wheel with a handful of donuts or round cakes. He had no place to put the cakes so he rammed the soft cakes over the spokes of the steering wheel, thus forcing a hole through each of them He and the men liked the cakt with the hole so much that Captain Gregory ordered the ships cook to make all future donuts with holes in them and thus according to the New England Legend the hole in the donut was born. The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the donut hole will take place at the home of the late Captain Gregory. There late In October, a permanent plaque will be placed at his old homestead. From Maine, straight across the country, various celebrations are planned id California, Oregon and Washington to honor the memory of the Maine captain. Modern Athlete Better Practically every past athletic record has been smashed year after year. You cant measure football, baseball, golf or tennis by the clock or the tape. But in all gamea that can be timed and taped, there has been a big improvement. Other games must depend upon opinions, which are about as stable as Those talking and writing of base- a warning tq small boys who see no sense in such long range work; let them look at the highly successful Mr. Thomas nowl He 'is a Movietone newsreel commentator, as well as one of the worlds most popular newscasters his new coast-to-coa- JP''' VStajg st A I i AN ADORABLE little creeping doll that looks like a real baby. She wears a diaper and a simple garment. The body is made of soft cotton-h- air LOB ELL THOMAS is yellow cotton rug yarn, series over CBS has just got under features are embroidered. A perway. 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After u non censorable script had finally been written two years of research had to be done. Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene and George Sanders head the cast of 100 supporting players, with 4,000 extras completing it. IfICItb r Mu'Wfik M) more than Broadway musicals, A1 Goodman has now retired to radio the retirement consisting of putting on two big broadcasts every Sunday, the Family Hour" and the Fred Allen show. A veteran conductor of 150 recently has specialised lu other women parts in Columbia pictures, will have the romantio lead in "The Woman From Tangiers, a mystery melos andrama. Shes currently seen other other woman, In Down to Earth, with Rita Hayworth and Larry Parka, and recently completed a similar role in When a Girls Beautiful. Adele Jergena, who say thousands about Rood tasting SCOTTS EMULSION If sold bans on, or yon sntch thorn often, maybe yon dont get enoush nntnrsl AID Vitamin food. 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One answer Is sn attendance total for aQ parks that will reach or pass 20 million, where in many past years a nine million total was rated an exceptional turnout. Baseball always has had one weakness. This was the average condition of Its players. Few ball players keep in the condition needed to play 35 exhibition and 154 pennant games a total close to 190 games a year. Poor condition accounts for so many bad legs, arm trouble, back trouble and other ilia and ailments that afflict so many of the hired men. Keeping in Shape - Virginia Marks Site of Wreck of Old 97' were killed and seven injured In the . wreck. Reason most widely given for the state's delay In putting up the marker designating the famous wreck is that until recently the ravine where the 97 came a cropper; was almost inaccessible. The South-er- n railway changed its main line roadbed several years.ago and later tore down the trestle. A new high way now crosses the ravine. the value of effective public speaking, so young Lowell had to practice elocution and declamation one hour every day, to his disgust. Let this be balls past glory have forgotten teams that couldnt draw 300 Into Walter Bunker, producer of "The the gate teams that couldnt draw Baby Snooks Show,, was asked to 300,000 in 154 games. for the New do a Hollywood cut-iBaseball In 1947 has been far from York originated The Second Mrs. - DANVILLE, VA. Famed in song and story, the site of the wreck of the old 97 finally has been marked as an historical site by the state conservation commission. An historical site sign has been erected ut the point on Danville's outskirts where the Southern railways fast mail express train plunged from a trestle into a ravine that September day in 1903. Nine father, Lowell thomas believed in 19 to 23 This doesn't include such veterans as Hank Greenberg, who lost five years, Bobby Feller, Johnny Mize and so many others who were halted in their prime. Many of these have had remarkable comebacks Greenberg leading the home-ru- n maker last season; Ted Williams, three years away from baseball, leading his league in practically every department where a bat figures; Joe Gordon; Johnny Mize, challenging Babe Ruths Incredible figure of 60 home runs in a year; not to overlook Walker Cooper. And w'hat two seasons meaning 1946 and 1947 can you recall that produced a longer list of young r, stars. Ewell Blackwell, Ralph Yogi Berra, Bobby Thompson, Jackie Robinson, Spider Jorgenson, Spec Shea, Earl Torgerson, Bruce Edwards and many other first or second-yea- r men? W'NU Features. By INEZ GERHARD i yy ALMOST BEFORE SHE COULD WALK . . . Dixie Lee Bertolino of San Diego, Calif., 10 years old, amazed veteran airmen when she took ever the controls of a Piper Cub plane sifter 45 minutes of instruction and flew the craft for 21 minutes. In the plane with her is Howard Albright, vetersn flyer, who went along for the ride and also as added protection to make sure that Dixie got back on the ground. i One famous athletic trainer told me recently that he could take a tail-enteam and get it into condition that would net a pennant He probably meantr If I could Which be get it into condition. probably couldnt A ball player should live an bit legs just about all the year round. This statement was given me by Ty Cobb and Joe Medwick, Cobb went In for hunting. Medwick for golf. I dont believe either ever got out of shape. Ton know Cobbs record. And look at Medwlcka amazing work this season, long after be was supposed to be through. Burton. When he arrived at the radio station he foundRhat the guest tar who was to be cut in was Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, who bad been the star of a radio show he produced in San Francisco in 1932. MEN EARN WOMEN $200.00 and Xmas Between Now ' Even In your spun Umel This Territory Now Open felt sorry for the man Write P. O. Box BOOS who sat on the stage door step of a am fh&mcisco, calif. New York CBS playhouse, his head in his hands. But they needn't bdve; 41- -47 it was Wallace Beery, awaiting his WNU W apcue for his We, the People pearance. Passers-b- y If Homecoming," Clark Gables next picture, isnt good, therell be no excuse Gladys Cooper plays his mother-in-law- , Lana Turner John Hodiak and Anne Baxter support them. And Mervyn LeRoy directs. s, jt ilelp Them Cenne the Blood of Harmful Body Waste Tour kidneys are constantly filtering waste matter iron the blood stream. But kidneys sometime las ua their work dp not act aa Nature intended lad to re me y Bon in pari tire that. 1 retained, the whole Kisoa the system and apart 1 d ODDS AND ENDS Frank Sinatra is slated to appear at eNetv York movie house tn November, when he finishes in The Miracle of the Bells; hell atr "Your Hit Parade from New York. . . . Travelers from 45 of the 48 states were entertained at a single Welcome San Juan Travelers show. has changed the color of her batr three timet for her last three pictsaret, to theyre celling her "The Girl With the Convertible Top. . . . The Pirate may establish Judy Garland and Gene Kelly as a new acting leasts; it sets a new high, with songt by Judy and slanees by Gene. .y-t-Ol- ga machinery. 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