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Show WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1952 -- The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah V Paga 7 SPORTUGHT $ r Lippy Looks to New Diamond Season x 5 ' t & , By GRANTLAND RICE WHEN big Don Newcombs was The Modern Ballplayer announced as defl In the course of a fanning bee nitely heading for the army, we ran Durocher brought out one important into Leo Durocher. concerned handling ballIt point. Naturally, Leo said, losing a players the ballplayers of today. pitcher with Newcombes stuff isnt , JThe e manrough-ridingoing to help any agers couldnt have gotten away team. It wouldnt with their stuff, he said. They help us to lose would very soon have run into muMaglie, Jansen or tinies and near riots with the bunch old-tim- g Hearn. But this today. isnt going to break In the old days managers were the D o d g e r s, handling ballplayers getting from either. They have $2,000 to $4,500 a Lajoie year. too goocTi ball jumped the Phillies when he asked club to have any for a raise from $2,500 to $3,000. one man wreck Joe Jackson and Ed Walsh, two of them. But Chuck the $4,000 or $4,500. got greatest, Grantland Rice Dressen must rusYou cant do that with feltle himself a lows getting from $15,000 to $75,-00- 0 pretty fair pitching staff. He has or $90,000. How is a $40,000 a good starter in Preacher Roe. Theres a pitcher manager going to ride a U'h $90,000 ballplayer? These fellows today, many of them, are well fixed-- . with comfortable homes, an automobile, nice clothes and various luxury Items. And the ballplayer today is also a higher . type. Many of them are college graduates. Few old roughnecks break in any more. I sugI only wish they did, So Leo do said. But I, gested. not too many of them. I could atand a few like Waddell, Sherry Magee, Mike Donlin, etcrBut thix is a different bunch today. Just a few years back and you could see A1 Dark scoring touchdowns for L.S. U.; Allie Reynolds doing the same for Oklahoma A. & M., or Kluszew-sk- i for Indiana. -- n K Y-:- i ? , 0 a great one. Durocher didnt care to comment on how Branca, King, Labine, Ers-kinand the others Podbielan would make out. Certainly Newcombes absence gives 'the Giants a much better chance to win. Newcombe has BRUCE WHEELER looked across restaurant table at his never quite worked to his potential Avis. He hadnt realized ability as his career down the hot daughter he missed her since he how much stretch proved late last summer. to Grand River to sent had her But he could be good and might Are school. you really glad youre have found himself this year. '" going to Grand I What about Willie Mays? River? At the time asked Leo. you were detcr. "Not a word about him, the mined to stay in But well Giant manager said. J Northville with he said. have a good ball club, Remember? You were right in saying our ball me. Avis said with club was in fine condition when "Remember! we left St. Pete. I never had a emphasis. I was just a We old were 15 year ball club in better shape. baby then. I didnt know rearing to go on the side. Our about the big wheels at Grand Rivpitchers were all set. I was dead er, and that Id be a main spoke. Avis sure wed get away flying. And then Youre scrim grangorgeous! we drop 11 straight and almost fall eyes grew large over the fried out of the league. How can a ball chicken placed before her. We dont seem to talk the sar..e club drop 11 straight in April and Bruce said slowly May and then win about 80 per cent language, of its games to come from behind Please interpret. Whats a big In August and September? When wheel and a main spoke? That g word, is it good? you see things like that happen you to smiled. make Avis afraid Dad, I forget youre get any predicthe terrific twenof tions. of the vintage someone imporis I asked Leo which of the Giants ties! Big wheel he expected to have a big year. tant around High. And Im important a main spoke! Scrimgran-gorgeou- s Just about all of them, is swooning good. Avis Durocher said. I mean by that to chicken. to the their turned ability. theyll play up We have a real hustling club. Bruce decided he wasnt hungry. You dont have to needle them. For the thousandth time he wished Avis mother could have lived . . . I know Maglie, Jansen and Hearn will have good years. I To avoid bringing up Avis in a woman-les- s household he had sent expect to have two more good to out. River. to Grand her working pitchers help Avis finished the chicken and Well miss Eddie Stanky, but well have a good man In his whispered, Can I have a float? but Bruce answered, Sure, place. The rest of my infield is outwhat is it? pennant material. So is our This' is the $64 business! A field. Watch Monte Irvin. float Is ice cream and coke Theres one of the best. HAPPY POP . . . Joesph Graber, 38, poses with his mother-in-laon steps of Brooklyns Bushwlck hospital after receiving news that his wife, Fannie, 33, had given birth to quadruplets. The quads, three thriving girls and a boy, were the first bora In New York In 1952. w e, Slllnni fire-alar- m scrim-somethin- $!PDRSCCPE Joe MAHONEY BILL RIGHT-WINGE- SLAM-BAN-G OF THE R BOSTON BRUINS, WHO HOLDS THE 'DISTINCTION' OF THE MOST PENA- PLAYER ON ICE TODAY, LIZED WHO HAS HAD 64 STITCHES DURING HIS HOCKEY CAREER, DOES A COM- PLETE SWITCH OF CHARACTER IN THE HE'S OFF-SEASO- N. GOLF PRO' AT THE COLONIAL COUNTRY CLUB IN LYNNFIElD, MASS AND IS A PICTURE OF DIGNITY AND DECORUM ON THE LINKS. EDMIGHTY MO MO0ZELEWSKI ' MARYLANDS ALL AMERICAN FULLBACK Prank Ghance was HIT BY PITCHED BALLS IN ONE DAY. r3 TIMES IN THE FIRST GAME AND TWICE IN THE SECOND OF A 1904 DOUBLE-HEADE- 5 TIMES GAINED 834 YARDS IN THE 1951 SEASON, 154 YARDS MORE THAN ALL THE TERRAPINS OPPONENTS COMBINED! ii Avis conmixed. Yummy! we What are tinued, doing after dinner? Frankie Martins in town . . . Frankies a sax man! Can we go. Dad? I mean, can KATHLEEN NORRIS Two Types -- Givers and Takers tn we? IKE MANY ANOTHER useless Bruce nodded and felt dizzy. May- and superfluous old woman 1 be a show with Avis listening would am supposed to live happily with give him time to impress the new my married children, Margery language onto his mind. Humber of Roanoke writes me, in l I 'am 56, widowed, a sad letter. ft VIS openly applied lipstick (her and not strong, and with my mother would never have done one son very lost in Korea, her letter that!) as Bruce saw a familiar face goes on. Only recently has the across the restaurant. It was Jim of growing old impressed McKinnon, son of an old friend. Jim tragedy me. After 24 happy married years, returned Bruce's nod casually then when my life seemed to be all love Jims eyes widened. Jim was 20. and protection, I find that I have Bruce was glad when he came to lost home, husband, son, financial their table. security, and that I dont belong Bruce pulled out a chair and be- anywhere. gan pelting the boy with questions Only A Servant about his father and about business. My daughters are darlings, but Jim responded that his father was both have small homes and small well, business was fine, the football families. Grandma is always welgames had been won, but all the come, but Grandma has been for time his eyes were on Avis. so long entitled to a home of her It hit Bruce like a wallop, Jim with the dignity and independown, hadnt come for man-tal- k it ence that goes with it, that she canwas Avis! not somehow accept the situation as And Avis! Bruce squirmed. Her is hard to be a servIt permanent. eyes were downcast. The sparkle ant in a daughters house when you was gone. Bruce knew that bashful ten year olds had more personality. have had good servants for many in your own. Plainly Avis was mentally swooning years the old woman herself Only over Jim. knows how hard it is to be reconJim asked her, How do you like to ciled this change. I might live Grand River High? in my daughters houses for 10 "Nice, Avis said softly. Do they have a good football years; I would still be a guest. I would still be unable to ask an old team? friend to dinner; I would still be Its Its nice, Avis an- sharing a room and bathroom with swered. She raised her eyes as small granddaughter who would far as Jims hands like It was a like very much to have it for herterrific effort. I would still eat meals planself; Bruce clenched his teeth. Didnt ned and timed to please the man she know anything! If she put one of the house. tenth of the gayness of her conversation five minutes ago into talking with Jim, he would be interested. Do you like having dinner here, Jim asked, already searching the room for an escape. Avis took a long time to answer, and managed to raise her eyes to the level of Jims. Its so-s- o nice here, she said. Bruce knotted his hands. Jim sighed with disappointment and politely asked Avis to dance. He probably expected her to say she couldnt push one foot ahead of the other. As they walked away Bruce closed his eyes probably fall! If only her mother had lived. Maybe she could have taught Avis ", . . What shall Ido? how to talk! Then they were back and Avis These may not seem Important was drawing on her coat and Jim things, but there are hundreds of was walking away. others, and they all add up to being Hes peachy! Avis breathed. In the way, always breaking up the Bruce began, Theres something peoples plans. If they I should tell you. If you want a man younger have guests they, of course. Include to be interested you have to be my place at the dinner table, but 1 alive. dont belong there, and am much Avis Interrupted, "Jim? Oh, weve happier sharing the childrens a date for tomorrow night, another meal. for the fraternity party and he Oh, I love both daughters, reasked me to go to the Fall Prom spect and admire both sons-ln-latoo! Not bad? she asked with lifted and adore the five girls and one brows. . who are my grandchildren. But boy Youll do, Bruce whispered. C cant feel settled In either family, ... she-woul- d ... half-past-fl- ve and my very modest income of a thousand a year seems to be shrinking to practically nothing. I cannot plan an independent establishment. Illness had made serious Inroads on whatever we possessed; my younger daughter was for years a polio case, and my husband's final illness lasted for 14 months. After he went, little was left. What shall I do? Not Old At All What shall you do, Margery? Well, in the first place dont call yourself old. At 56 you might well have 20 useful years ahead of you. But that usefulness will have to be on other terms than the happy, protected usefulness you have known as a a loved wife and homemaker, mother. If you can think of yourself as giving now, rather than taking, you will have made the first step toward Women whose lives happiness. have reached this point seem to have divided themselves into two definite types, the givers and the takers. Others do what I hope you will do, find a job somewhere, where you will be welcomed with open arms. For example, I know a woman 12 years older than you, who gets a comfortable room and bath In a big institution and a hundred dollars a month, for the pleasant work of opening great wet boxes of flowers every morning, and filling some 200 vases for the restaurant tables. I know a woman of 82 who sits In a sunny bay window quietly mending sheets and towels in a hotel; she gets $10 a day. During the last war I quite accidentally got myself a job In a res taurant. I helped a burdened waitress through a door Into the hidden horrors of a crowded pantry, and y with a skill born of a of practice began to scrape, pile, rinse systematically, until there were no more dishes on the floor and no more trays cascading sticky cutlery over the tables, and until half the overworked girls who came and went were finding time to put an arm about me and give me a hug of appreciation. At the end of a perspiring two hours a sad small man came in and offered me a regular job. Well, perhaps you wouldnt like that job, Margery. But there are a thousand others hidden away in obscure places; jobs that pay well, and that make you feel yourself still a useful person In an overworked world. Only yesterday a handsome young mother came to see me about a story she had written. Her husband is incapacitated, and s' ' has three small children. How does she do it?. I take children in for the afternoon hours, she said. half-centur- Otlu b j WNU raataras. |