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Show i Tuesday, July 11, 1950 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTDN, UTAH PAGE SIX SPORT LIGHT v Miners Glasses Take 1,000 Mile tourney 1t A Slowdown Has Hit Playing Fields GRANTLAND RICE PHEY TELL YOU-a- nd they prove A , it that every record in sport that can be timed or measured has been broken. The moderns keep setting new marks. There is also another record the moderns are setting. This is adopting the habits of the sloth, the creeping pestilence, the crawler and the time-waste- r. A few days ago on his elevlslon hour Dizzy Dean asked Bill Grieve, the umpire, why modem games lasted so long. MI pitched against Carl Hubbell, Diz said, "and I beat him 1 to 0. The game only lasted an hour and 29 min- utes." Scoring in the Southern league Grantland Rice.some years bexore in Atlanta, I timed one game at 45 minutes. Grover Cleveland Alexander rarely took an hoar and 49 minutes. "You ought to handle a game in an hour and 39 minutes," old Alex once said. Christy Mathewson was a quick worker. Maybe an hour and 50 minutes. But, today, practically no pitcher can work a game under three hours or three and one half hours. The real answer is that it usually, takes three or four pitcln ers to work a game. Few pitchers ever last five innings. Ball games have practically doubled In the last 29 years, so far as time Is concerned. . than the present crop. They were tough talking about such men as Rocky Graziano, Jake Ray Robinson, the two French fighters and a few others mentioned. , with no heavy-weighAre there any heavyweights left? Who are they? This debate recalled a turn in the life of Tom Sharkey, the old sailor. At the time Sharkeyjvas training for his fight with Jim Jeffries at Coney Island. It happened a little over 50 years ago. Sharkey was doing his road work along the beach. There was so-call- ed La-Mot- ta, . Alfred Eng. on went Thompsons spectacles a 1,000 mile journey, but came back, much to his relief. The glasses started their journey when he placed them in their case and set the case down on a halted conveyor belt at a colliery in Ashington, England. No sooner had he put the case on the belt than the conveyor started to move. The belt dropped the glasses Into a tub, which in turn was emptied into a railway car, which was moved to Blyth to be unloaded into a collier. Then the ship set sail for the Isle of Wright Dock workers there found the case with the and Mr. unbroken glasses Thompsons address inside. They sent them back to him. MISTER his galloping, pay for his beer and mop up the free lunch. Finally the restaurant owner said to an assistant: "This guy is eating up all the profits. Change our free lunch. Go out and get the toughest dog .biscuits ever made." The assistant reported with dog .biscuits you couldnt break up with an axe. No one it seemed could even make a dent in one. They were harder to bite than a hydrant But this didnt cleck Tom Sharkey's daily assault on the free lunch counter. He seemed to charge in with a keener attack each day. He cleaned up. a restaurant in the neighborAfter a week, Jie restaurant ownhood where the sailor would stop er surrendered. "My clients cant for lunch. Sharkeys lunch coneat this junk," he said. "This big sisted of a glass of beer on free the assault frontal a guy seems to like it even better. and the dog biscuits and put in the Junk lunch. old stuff. would do Day after day old Tom ts 5-c- GRATEFUL-OVERCO- MES COIISTIPATIOll LONDON, By "I am a retired minister and very ALL-BRAgrateful that eating overcomes my constipation. I shall N boost this good break- fast food every chance I get. E. H. Harmer, 726 Lincoln St., SnH homish, Wash. Just one of many unsolio-- y ited letters from ALL- BRAN users 1 If you need help for constipation due to lack of bulk, simply eat an ounce of crispy ALL-BRAdaily, drink plpnty of water! If not completely satisfied after 10 days, return empty carton to N Kelloggs, Battle Creek, Mich. GET DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK! 11,915 Persons Have Over Million Dollars, Report According to government sources and compilers of mailing lists, there are 11,915 millionaires in the United States, and American business in 1949 paid at least 51 executives $200,000 or more a year. Many argue that it Is getting more difficult all the time to make a fortune, but the fact remains that each year since the end of World War II at least 75 more Americans amassed that universally coveted first million. There are, according to available figures, 306 more millionaires today than there were in 1948. Which means that one American out of every 12,500 or so has a cool million. According to one of the largest list compiling agencies, there are now 22,307 persons in this country worth between $500,000 and a million; 52,113 have between $250,000 and half a million; 130,439 have between $100,000 and a quarter of a million, and, all told, some 589,-14- 1 Americans could rustle up $50,-00- 0 or more. American business paid 160 executives between $100,000 and $200,-00- 0 last year in addition to those who received $200,000 or more. The highest was $586,000 in salary, bonus .and stock paid to the president of General Motors. The president of GM was taxed $430,350 of his $586,000 by the federal government. But getting back to the wealthy persons In the United States, according to reports there are 2,566 millionaires in New York. Pennsylvania is second with 1,129. Ohio boasts 802 and Massachusetts 775. Illinois comes fifth with 715, ahead of the 610 officially residing in California. WASHINGTON MIKE DIDNT intend about it for fairness, to be He had a and he reputation meant to live up to it. There wasnt a person alive who didnt have faults. And knowing this to be a fact Mike could understand - why such a gorgeous By the time the six months was up, Serena had improved greatly. He decided to forego his tapering off, letting well enough alone. Three months passed and the situation had taken. on quite a new aspect. Serena, unconsciously, was doing a lot of walking from one room to another; switching off that Mike creature as SeK had left burning. lights ena Wood fell short of being a rpHINGS REACHED a point at the end of a year that called for paragon. sort-- of ?' some were Not Vaflibuut-golf'Gene Sarazen that Serenas faults anyundertaking. Oddly, a and Jim Barnes once opened big thing to worry about If they had itvwas Serena, who brought matters tournament and got around in two been Mike would never have asked to a head. hours. Years ago golfers stepped her to marry him. "I realize," she told Mike around in two hours and a half. Few "that everyone has crossly,, he Serena's greatest rounds absorbed three hours. Two their faults. But It does seem to was her inability to get hours and a half could be considered thoughtto me that you could attach a litgo any place on time. ready a standard time measurement. tle more importance to things Mike adopted a unique method In As a matter of record, two the around house. Ive done my to cure this For order deficiency. hours and a half was considered best to make you change your a time he decided to fall in with slow time when a Bob Jones or ways. Ive even resorted to artiSerenas habits. a Gene Sarazen was involved. fice. -Thus, he would dispel any possible two-ball 'Two hours is plenty for a 'Artifice? doubt in her mind regarding his "I mean, like telling you we have match," Sarazen says. '"Two purpose. Presently he would begin hours and a half is enough for a to get himself ready on time and to be at a party 15 minutes before four-balle- r. sit around waiting. Serena couldnt hand In the hopes that youll get The average ball game should help noticing and take heed. ready on time. Ive deliberately gone into the bedroom to switch off last around an hour and 50 minutes. During the next half year the lights after you come out, hopThe faster ones should be completed Mike noted with some satisfacin less time. Ball games today that ing that you would notice. Ive got out of bed and padded way to the run over two hours and a half are . tion that Serena had already to feel his stronger perbegun kitchen to shut off a dripping faucet disgraceful episodes. sonality. She was allowing herthat youve left running. I declare, The Tougher Mold self a bit more time to get Mike, you cant have a very strong There has been an argument latedressed for parties, and once personality. e or twice suggested to Mike that ly as to whether fighters "Now wait a minute, Serena. belonged to a rougher, tougher mold he hurry up. Somethings wrong here. Weve got to have an understanding. By JOE "We certainly have. From now on if you leave the lights burning they MAHONEY stay burning and you can pay the bill. If youre late for parties Ill go on ahead and you can make your own excuses. "But about this personality busl ness. Now A Cfi&ER ,J?5iis?TE "I didnt mean that you were HAS HAD QUITE OF VOTED WOMAN weakminded or anything like that ScYdKIn IW GOINS We all have our faults. Why, even I have some, I suppose. Ive tried to help you overcome yours. But from now on youll have to shift for yourself, unless you can give INTER-TOSaEN'S me some BEACH WONjm-EHOU.WWOO.CAUF. AT Why, hang It, I did those things deliberately to break you of them, and. now I find myself doing them automatically and and liking It. PROVING WRONG Mr. and Mrs. Mike Graham stared 6 THE THEORY THAT at each other. "Its my fault that THEY DONT COME you have faults and I have faults BACK. SHOT EY A DEMENTED because of your faults. Oh, darling, GIRL N CHICAGO LAST YEAR, EDDIE HAS STARTED OFF THIS SEASON WITH 17 Mike, dont you see whats hapHITS IN 51 TRIPS FOR A NEAT .333 AND pened? We made the mistake of LEADS THE LEAGUE IN RUNS SCORED WITH 12! ( of thinking ourselves perfect. Lets start all over again now that we have an understanding, and work the other way. "O. K., said Mike. "0. K. He CuiAJ WAS THE grinned, remembering he had FIRST US. RACE TRACK AT WHICH THE SNMOQ reputation for fairness and now MACHINES FIRST CAUGHT ON? THH3WPQ was the time to live up to it - fault old-tim- r Ih SPQE3E&I2D A W "Co-operatio- n! miEmms Kn J L , '43 Dallas Newsboy Credited With Saving Twenty People DALLAS, Tex. mi Tom Bradley, newspaper ' carrier, is credited with saving 20 lives. While making his morning paper route he heard the noise of leaking gas in an apartment house. He notified firemen who roused 20 sleeping tenants. AH were evacuated. A fire captain said the gas was strong enough in eight of the buildings 12 apartments to explode at the turn of a light switch. Court Meets on Wrong Day For 35 Years! Admits Error Ky. For the past years the Mason fiscal court MAYSVILLE, 35 has been meeting on the second Tuesday after the first Monday, excepting during April and October, when it met on the first Tuesday after the first Monday . Now the county judge has learned the court has been meeting on the wrong day for the past 35 years. The correct date Is first Tuesday after the first Monday. I .. 'lit. 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