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Show Wednesday, October 3, 193l' The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah SPORT LIGHT The 'Georgia Peach' Loved Baseball GRANTLAND RICE nice visit with an old friend Ihad aother night at Toots Shors. His name happens to be Ty Cobb. I was playing a game called poker in the office of the Atlanta By game better the game that belonged to skiU and speed. Cobb stole close to 900 bases. nis base running was eve more Important than his steals going from first to home on a single. Today a slugger who Journal back in 1903 when a telegram ar- doesn't get at least 20 or home runs is a bunter. rived. It was collect. It said, in effect Tyrus Raymond Cobb has just 25 I recaU a conversation many years ago between Cobb and Ring started spring train- Lardner, Sr. "If I wanted to take a fuU swing, ing at Rayston. and go after home runs, I could Keep your eye on have had my share, Cobb said. him. There was much more. I wired "Why dont you? Ring said. a great Cobb rooter, back never having Lardner was over the Babe or anyone else. heard of In the next two days in St. Louis, After this the mails are Ty Cobb got three home runs the first fast enough for Cobb. Who is Cobb? game and two in the second, as I I found out later. I still believe ld recall it. Five home runs in two games. How is that?rCobb wired Ring. Go back to hitting and running, Ring wired. "I like you better that way. The Heavyweight Gap The last high-grad- e heavyweight that happened to come along was Joe Louis. That was some 16 years ago, back in 1935 when he knocked out Primo Camera, King Levinsky and Max Baer. Louis wasnt the champion then, but he was the best heavyweight in the world. The best heavyweight who has come along in the last 16 years is Ezzard Charles. And Charles is no great heavyweight. He is really a good lightheavyweight. the original telegram was sent by Cobb. After that he bomTHE barded me with numerous letters, signed by various names. FICTION Cobb then was 17 or 18. He was CORNER thinking fairly fast as a kid. By Helen Langworthy dithe that still great figures Ty Little Mrs. Markham is sweet and reason my husband has been vision in baseball between skill and THE Ruth. Big Red is because lovely. She seems so until she menpower was started by Babe tions she didnt sleep last night, the This Is no knock at Ruth. You hes over six feet tall, carrot-toppe- d cant knock a tidal wave or a tor- and peppery dispositioned. While night before and for weeks has nado. painting our home heard the clock strike every hour! Before the Babe came along, and reaching far Shes tried counting sheep, hot a was baseball out from the top milk and drugs. Nothing helps. largely said, Ty of the ladder Big matter of speed and skill plus Then theres Mr. Keating. Hes were runs Home Red fell. There next in size to unimporpitching. Big Red. His woe is tant. Home Run Baker got his name were more people than the doctor an When he and his wife allergy. by hitting nine home runs back in and I to realize that my husband come in maybe its the new daven1911 and two more in the world had broken his leg. He was howling port pillow that he stares at like it d mad! series against the Giants off came from Mars. Hes spent hours and Mathewson. Most of us Surprisingly, though. Big Red receiving painful shots and telling choked bats and pumped the ball wasnt too bad a patient during his about them. to left, right or center. Then we de- long hospitalization. Yes, leave it pended on base running speed or to him he did a royal job, nothing HEN Big Red finally came skin. simple and routine! His fracture home and was established in When the Babe reported the required specialists, operations and bed he told me to ask the Sanders, enough paraphernalia around his Markhams and the Keatings all to game went entirely to power. to make it resemble Franken- visit. Those bores and all at once. bed The Babe was the greatest powsteins nightmare. Thats my Big Wondering if complex broken legs er hitter baseball has ever Red! matter who no could upset a man mentally, I known, might During those long months bebreak his famous 60. But the argued gently. Big Red roared so I fore he came home Big Red Babe changed the old g&me. asked the three couples over. said that the thing he was most The Babe, a great It must have been the first time thankful for was that he was ballplayer, meant home runs. Dont had dared having the three anyone away from the Sanders, the forget the-- Babe was also a great chronic complainers under one roof. Markhams, and the Keatings. pitcher and also a fine outfielder. How the conversation flew! "My in other neighborhoods Perhaps But most of aU the Babes biggest stones was interpainful gall there are more familys like those asset was home runs. not a with, good nights This is aU true. The Babe was three. If so, I can sympathize with rupted for three Then Mr. sleep to years! all who live thoroughly neighbor probably as fine a pitcher as he was on one of Big pounced Keating folks. nice tiresome but thoroughly a hitter. But it was the big blow Reds blankets and fluffy He gave us that brought him renown. Cobb was Take Mr. Sanders, for instance. run a down on awful allergies. I an accurate hitter and a cyclone on has gall stones. The way he de- looked at He husband. was smilmy scribes the pain, the many medithe base paths. ing! dishave to cines doctors tried the We wont try to settle the age-olThen he began! With a voice argument between power and skin. solve them is something to remember for days. When anyone suggests that could make a general stand an operation, Mr. Sanders gasps, at attention, Big Red described The Cobb Rating if one would You PRISONERS RETURN BIG RED'S CURE Mar-quar- aU-arou- d Ty Cobb today, looking younger than his 60-oyears, likes the old dd ALWAYS no!" wonder his rob him of only conversational topic! "Oh, THEfjAANBTjN WON THE BATJ! fSIe-- F0Ua YEAR, and HITTING to TOP 346 )n TH(S hinv. FAMOUS TRICK ENGLAND, THREE MEN PLACED A BET ON A GREYHOUND NAMED "MY SIZE. COMING INTO THE STkETCH THE DOG WAS WAY IN THE REAR. THE MEN THEN TOSSED A CAT NTO THE STREAKING PACK' AND THE RACE BLEW UP WITH ALL HOUNDS CHASING THE TERRIFIED CAT AND NOT THE MECHANICAL RABBIT! (THE RACE WAS OECLARED VOID.) SHOT GOLF STAR, CAN DRIVE THE MIDDLE BALL OP 3 WITHOUT TOUCHING THE OTHER TWO! Newsmen interviewing some of to Tokyo recently aboard Russian steamer Smolny. They were the first group to return to Tokyo since announcement by Tass news agency last year that there were no Japanese left in Russian territory. One repatriate said a camp at Ilavorsk held 500 Japanese prisoners. KATHLEEN NORRIS Honor Is Made, Not Bom in Us are THE FACT that schoolboys incapable of one minShe and I went to a rather pitiful serious utes thought is apt to cost little church bazaar one day during dear. all those who love them very "You know how utterly unthinkwrites an agonized ing boys are! "A mother. boy who is destined to grow into a fine and responsible man could do something, in his schooldays, that was entirely inexplicable and entirely inexcusable we all know that! If other boys are doing it, if there is a general careless impression that certain shortcuts to learning are practically taken for granted, isnt it excusable that they follow the fashion? No, not excusable, but something to be censured, and forgiven? Another Chance? "My husband, this letter goes on, "has a high standing in this community; we have always been proud of our one son. Our hearts and his sisters hearts are crushed by this blow. John knew better than to do what he did; hell never recover from the horror of this time of shame. But isnt he to have another chance? Well, its my personal conviction that he should have that chance. Because honesty isnt natural, and is. Honesty is a rare the troubles hed undergone. He of slow plant growth in human reeled off treatments, doctors, whether it be hearts; specialists, traction affairs, the from income tax or speeding laws silver plates that had been apor innocent home gambling for a plied to his leg bone during the tenth of a cent, illicit liquor hidden operations, the pain, the sleepsomewhere, or a little speculation lessness, the discomfort, the on a shady deal, is natural. way the doctors had been perWe are all sporadically on a high plexed, hundreds of shots! It level of honor in some of our afwas terrific. I think my mouth fairs, and we all have a blind side flew open and I forgot to shut it. to other transactions that are not When our company looked at each quite so admirable. I remember other in extreme boredom and wig- years ago the case of a young womgled their feet experimentally as an who played races, bought con- though they wondered how soon they could decently leave, Big Rd winked at me! He took a deep breath and began again on the horself-protecti- self-protecti- Out on the porch, with Big Reds voice just a muted roar our guests expressed their sympathy. "Such a one track mind! said Mr Keating. "Dont you get tired of hearing him talk about pain? asked Mr Sanders who never tires of his1 y . JACKffimP On . rors of his case. HKE AN AVERAGEOF the Japanese . . prisoners of war who were returned I stepped inside, closed the door on their pity. Then I went to Big Red . . . and we gigglfcd, we roared with laughter. Big Reds bed shook. "I cant wait til we see them . next time, I told him, finally. . . hate study . . ! "If this cure doesnt work, Big Red agreed, "I could always do a traband liquor by the case, had divorced two men, lied her way repeat!" - cheerfully through a score of tickSomehow, though In: sure there lish negotiations respecting an will be no need! the last war, and as we looked at the display of aprons and cookies and pincushions Stella suddenly perceived that they were displayed upon a stretched American flag. With a cry of anguish she swept the entire stock upon the grassy dusty ground, clasped the flag to her breast and cried, "Shame upon you! Your countrys colors! the college student who does a stupid, unlawful thing is by no means marked for life as a cheat. Most college men and women do little real thinking. Girls get into idiotic, impecunious marriages, or worse, and scar their whole lives. So Nightmare With boys this business of "finals is an absolute nightmare. Instead of being marked on their weekly averages, and given constant reminders that they are falling below passing marks, they are left to the dangerous freedom of distractions and interruptions and amusements until the terrifying week that comes twice a year, the week of seminars, boning up, studying all night on black coffee and benzadrine, and attempting to stuff bewildered brains in a few days time with a half-ye- ar of work. A magazine picture ago showed a boy and girl standing room doorway upon notice that Professor postpone the finals smart-lookin- g sometime college before a classwhich was a Brown would in his course from today until the same hour tomorrow. "Oh, Lord, says the boy in dismay, "do we have to remember all that stuff overnight? Funny, but true, too. Healthy young men hate study, especially when, as in so many of our school courses, it is study that they know full well will benefit them not one bit in the years to come. If credits upon fungus diseases of plants, the medieval theories of astrology, the Spartan wars or the Polyponesian languages are considered more easily won than credits for more practical courses, then our students flock to those classes. "I took Portugese and celestial said a fine middle-age- d mathematics, man to me, "each rated five points a week. I forgot em both the minute I left college. This isnt to belittle the stupidity of cheating. It is perhaps to defend the stupidity of youth. Youth, to whom we mothers and grandmothers say patiently over and over, "Why didnt you stop to THINK? (Released DJ WMU Feature.) |