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Show Page The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah tfESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1950 r,,w.r vr'trrrr SPORTLIGHT HOGMANAY r , Giants? Will Army GRANTLAND RICE By next year. Army and Navy certain- it is treated as a sport and not big a is chance good Therecollege football will drop ly will stick to football. They need business. It is needed as a conditioner for those who play it in to an even lower level in 1951 it. Other colleges may need it, but time of war. be floundering. than it knew In 1944 and 1945, when theylle But there is where luck breaks football may easily grow only Army, Navy out of fashion, This might help against Army and Navy. During and Navy Pre- future football. When the game has the last war they, had all the flights and a few reached the point where it takes breaks in material. Through the other schools had $250,000 a year to finance a foot- next year or two, or longer, they any real teams. ball squad, there is little of the will again get all the breaks in The other elevens amateur side left. material. They will receive no were composed credit for beating Everyone knows that most well largely of kids and taken stars are opponents not if they win 80 to 0. college 4Fs. care 7 of through scholarships Again this isnt their fault. But, Its possible, with and other expenses. Everybody again, if the draft begins to cut in the increasing are others knows that many heavily, Army and Navy cant exRice mauds of the milithe pect opponents to be slaughtered. table, paid in cash, under that and Navy As an eminent bard by. the name tary draft, Army not by the colleges but by will have the only, good teams left. of William Shakespeare once said: alumni. For example, 1 was talking Cowards die many times before Football is one of the greatest with Jeff Cravath of Southern of all games. It is a great sport their deaths; the valiant taste of California about the Army and a magnificant spectacle when death but once. said game next fall. Army Jeff, wont lose any men by the draft. Only by graduation. Weve already lost good men THE and we are pretty sore to lose FICTIOH others. Under these conditions 1 n CORNER wouldnt want to take a By Willard Olvan Persing outteam East to be classed and slaughtered by a powerful, untouched Army dont care If you have to buy you? squad consisting of Pollard, Pola sawmill to get that lumber, Cathy nodded her head. lock, Filipski, Johnson, Beck, I ft see there that All you need, Mike said as today gets Weaver and other stars. just Clanahan Mike leaned back and stared at he We would have little chance the the ceiling, is just a diamond-studdeslammed with everybody back against this on fourteen-cara- t back line-uphone 1951 Just a few more -- Big-tim- K St. Andrews? Day Touches off Scots' New Year Doings The celebration of St. Andrews Day touches off a series of Scottish celebrations that reach their peak at New Year (Hogmanay) and continue, with little respite to Burns Day on the 25th of January. Few national festivals occasion more uninhibited gusto Qver more of the worlds face. From Houston d to Hong Kong, Scots of all vintages dream of haggis, heather, high' lands and. the skirl of bagpipes. Indeed, they spare no effort to make the dream come true. The Illinois St. Andrews Society, for instance, have been known to fly in their supply of haggis and heather direct from Scotland, and to have piped it all the way from the airport to the dinner table. One of the most engaging customs of Hogmanay is the ancient in the wee rite of sma hours of New Years mornis literally the ing. A First-fofirst person outside the family, to cross the threshold of the home after the clock has ushered the Old Year into history. For the best of portents, the visitor, if a man, should be dark and handsome; if In a woman, she must be fair. should visitor the either case, d, carry handsel" which may be anything from an orange to a bot.of whiskey. You dont have to Thaf.a bought to cheer a girls I tle ask' t Scot preference, but an heart, Cathy gave her father a empty.handed first-fowill bring wry glance. That is, if you have and privation, so even an WOn orange is worthwhile, a few for days. ing is Assuming that the handsel of the HIS eyes and in liquid form, the head MIKE CLOSED I could house takes the first drink and a moment. job to then passes the bottle round the arrange for a all his way. Pops, please dont try anything the traditional Hogmanay fare; ike that. If he found that we had a round shortbread cake nipped land in it, he would probably leave round the edges to simulate the town. Your tactics are about as J sun (the Druids were responsible ll subtle as those of an old billy goat. for .this); and Black Bun, a right, so Pm not In the habit perior sort of mince pie contain-o- f pussy-footin- g around, growled ing fruits, almonds, spices and Mike. What are you going to do? brandy. Same as I have been doing. What happens after this is your Argue some more and try to wear own responsibility, but the Scots him down. themselves ward off indigestion That settles that Mike stood up with music and dancing (with a and .absently walked over to get his capital D). Sometimes (a and coat. You want me to drop ers guizards appear as to run a mummer or strolling player) you off at home? Ive got over to the hospital. and the greater the number of the more honored Is The hospital? Yes, old Zeke, thr- fellow who the household. So nobody need be owns the newsstand down on the shy. Those not to the tartan born? comer, thinks hes going to die, and I thought some company might may wonder why the Scots lay cheer him up. such stress on the New Year, rath- To find the Cathy frowned. He must be the er than Christmas. one who has been giving me some answer you have to flick back a I competition. James spends two or page or two of history. The Vikings three nights, a week, playing chess probably started the Yuletide fes-an- d arguing politics with some old tlvities and the Christian reform- fellow named Zeke. ers merely took it over and in- Mike stopped and stared at vested it with the dignity of the Come on, he said hur-- 1 Feast of the Nativity, Cathy. riedly, if I dont get a move on, wU1 be before 1 :l V J rV' i .r i f y ;v f "" i J i L -- I? Cw draft-deplete- 60'. -- 1- . CHANGE OF PACE draft-ridde- iit Ai-m- y p. young fellows lost to the draft would wreck us. This isnt Armys fault, of course, Cravath said. It is one of the breaks of the defense of the peace. Army and Navy certainly lead any college in time of war. They do a great job. But they also have most of the good football players in time of war. There is a new call of 400,000 for the draft. This will be . directed at young fellows largely between the ages of 19 and 22. It will take more than a few baseball stars, especially all the good rookies. It also will wreck the cheerful prospects of many a football squad. ? u the- last war the Army abandoned football outside of West Point The Navy was responsible for most of the football played. No one knows what will happen in 1951. The fogs and the mists ahead are thick. Will the Army again give up the game or will the Army join in with the Navy? Will there be more pre-flg- ht schools where football will be played? Or will the Navy also qui the game and leave the colleges to struggle along without help? - Army-Nav- y Gams The Army-Nav- y game may be one of the few big games played its cradle, mumbling to himself about young who quit trying as soon as pups No mentioned a time heard theyd or two. The slender, black-haire- d girl, his of on comer the desk, sitting grinned at him. Pops, if everyone bulled their way through like you do, there d be quite a crop of cracked heads. As he looked up at his daughter, Mikes face softened into a smile. Something on your mind, Cathy? Yes, but I think this Job is a little too delicate for your methods. She stared out the window for a moment before continuing. James refuses to marry, me, she said. Now, hes decided that its better if we dont even see each other any more. Refuses to marry you! The windows rattled as Mike came up out of his chair. Why Ill Cathys frown put Mike back into his chair. Thats what I mean about your methods. Td like to have enough of him left to carry me over the threshold. "Why wont he marry you? Rich girl, poor boy. He says he won't have it appear that he married me for my money. Mike stared thoughtfully at her. You really love him, dont first-shooti- im w.a- i MRS. SANTA CLAUS? . . . Ruth Hadlochs costume suggests Christmas, but shes enjoying June weather in Arizonas valley of the sun around Phoenix. Shes glad shes not back home in Oak Park, UL Mm! iiiysew i ; . ng v' f iimrniineiiiiiii'ilnriii'irriTiTT 'weiTwy "v, - 1 - - &J ot "I W. Y v ft x, 'f7,X ot I ft mm V ... J 5 , i . ' XX jr L , high-salari- ed 1 - E . . . Crown PRINCE Prince Carl Gustav of Sweden has no cares of state, ne just sits In the nursery and claps his hands for the camera. The boy is the son of Princess Sibylla and the late Prince Gustav Adolph, who died in a plane PAT-A-CAK- crash. su-A- 3 , i first-foot-h- at first-footer- s, Hew Tear Evokes 1 The windows were still rattling Many Superstitions from Mikes conversation when he ere are a number of old su- slammed the phone back into its peratitions and customs that have cradle and glanced up at theyoungj ,een observed - for - centuries and woman who was struggling to keep have come down almost to this day. the exasperated expression on her bring good luck one must wear face. something new on the first day of Mike Clanahan, I thought you I year, according to an old Eng were asked to keep your strong- tom 3T love aflair. of oujt ta(i?S 30me parts of England and Mike grinned up at her. What do sCOtland it is supposed to be un- y0U.eanJ lucky to leave a house until some You know very well what I outsider has first entered it. mean. Cathys stern expression Wearing something new on New broke Into a happy laugh. She Year's day is supposed to be good came around the desk and luck and loves progress will be kissed him on the forehead. aided on New Years if you are But I still dont know careful to put on the left stocking Dont play innocent with me. I before the right. Having Zeke leave everything to Omens , of good and bad luck James was a stroke of genius. But have aiways been associated with what I want to know Is how you tbe New Year, all founded more or thousand iess upon the belief that supreme managed to get forty-seve- n dollars in old bills hidden in Zekes I power was vested in an .unseen room. deity who could bring good luck I Did It work? if properly appeased or mete out Cathy held her left hand up In punishments. fronl of Mikes face. A diamond on jt is unlucky, too, to give a pres-th- e third finger twinkled merrily ent untu one is received, at him. PLANS NUPTIALS S, . Mary nope Bromfield, daughter of novelist Louis Bromfield, was engaged to marry Robert Stevens, Plainfield; N, J., and New York City, at Brom-fleld- 's Malabar farm, near Mans- field, Ohio. A r iI i ar, ; TEE1 bend a cherry IPIf wire. ABOUT 2O"0F SMEKEkY PITTER FROM SHAPE THE BiiiMftE R END V coathan&er AS SHOWN; HAMMER FILE CROSS NOTCHES. OUT , I s - S' f y ' j Si ' y 'j , , ' ' y - :V s V V- YU5I, YUM! . . . Doris Moncrief, 19, has been chosen tangerine queen of 1950 by a panel of judges representing five countries. She is a sophomore at the University of Florida, and jwas chosen from a group of 25 contestants. - |