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Show THE JOURNAL P2C SATURDAY, 6 FARM TOPICS SPORTLIGHT Controlled-Atmosphe- Is Game Barely Breathing Fighting By GRANTLAND RICE Rocky THE PARTYand given by Tony Janiro at Madison Square Garden wa typical of the 1950 fight game. It is till breathing, but thats about all. At the moment it well Is washed out. Here was a young fighter known as Janiro, a fine box-an- d pretty a good a few puncher At the years ago.. age of 22, when he should be Grantland Rice starting, he is barely able to go five rounds. After the fifth round, barring a flurry in the 10th, Janiro was just about able to hold his hands up. But there was nothing Grazlano could do about it. He couldn't break through the boxing skill that just Janiro still carried. It was an interesting fight be- cause the crowd was remembering the Grazlano that used to be. The crowd expected the killing punch at any second. Only nothing happened. , The heavyweight situation Is In much worse shape than any other division. There is practically no heavyweight division left. Whether or not Charles has a bad rib or a bad heart, he has no fan or crowd appeal and there is no one else around to help things out. No one seems to care. Rocky Grazlano should have been fighting at least once a month. He Is still only 23. Janiro at 22 is young enough to get back In training and have plenty left for 10 rounds. There are no five round contests listed at the moment. If it gets any worse we'll soon be fights. having three-roun- d If Rocky Grazlano had been facing Robinson in the ring last week, it would have been an extremely melancholy evening for Rocky. The fight would have been er. Rube Marquard, Miner Brown Bill Dlneen, and ' a long list It waa nothing to win from 32 to 49 games. Cy Young had a flock of years. So did Alex, Matty and Johnson. Baseball Mystery There is one angle of baseball that has always left us in a heavy fog. This was the pitching-battin- 30-ga- g mystery that developed between Earned run averages ranged 1900 and 1920. When you have fine from .90 by Ferdie Schupp and 1.14 pitching you are supposed to have Walter Johnson up to 1.22 by light hitting. When you have heavy by of pitchor consistent hitting, you are sup- Alexander. Any number ers had seasons under two earned posed to have shaky pitching. runs per game. Here was an era of this 20 But in the first years of great pitching. But where were elastic century, the game had its the crushed and baffled hitters? best pitching and its finest hitting Here are a few names Rogers combined. For example, thi Hornsby, .424; Ty Cobb, .420 and such action into pitchsent period .410; George Sisler, .420; Nap ing stars as Cy Young, Mathewson, .403; Shoeless Joe Jackson, Alexander, Johnson, Joe Wood, .410. Hornsby once averaged above .400 for three out of four Addle Joss, Ed Walsh, Jack Ches-brWild Bill Donovan, Nap Ruck- - consecutive seasons. re Store Insures Apples Staying to Prj " whether apples The answer will taste as good in May as they do in September is yes" if they are apples from specially construc- I ted controlled-atmospher- e storage,. That is the opinion of Prof. R. M. Smock, of Cornell university's ag-- 1 ricultural experiment station. More than 100,000 bushels of apples are in 13 such storages, in New York state, the first of their kind in the country. "When they come La-joi- e, o, ' 4 SHORT SHORT Iwj STORY By Richard H. Wilkinson It sort of puts the apple to sleep and It never wakens until brought out Into store "Pshaw!" declared Barney WE appointed LAST YEAR Bridge chairman of our erantly. 'The man I have In mind annual fair in Burncrest. Old Jake has been in the business for years. out in or May or June, it April 15 tor chairman funbeen Fletcher had He wouldn't dart try nothin' Smock says, the apples are exwho those were there and years, ny pected to be of prime quality." disapproved of Results of 10 . years of experi- said Jake. about "Dunno that," in him ousting controlled-atmospher- e 'You got to figure that every last ments show . that favor of young storage will double the ordiman of us is endowed with crimiBarney. nary storage life of McIntosh, proCyrus Gill, the nal Instincts. Oh, were honest vided the rooms are properly contown's leading enough on the surface. That's be- structed and Good reand richest citizen, voiced the cause we're smart But you give sults also wereoperated. obtained with Desentiments of the majority. "Jake us a chance to pull a fast one an licious and Northern Spy when the fan a good enough fair, but Jake's well jump at it if were sure we varieties were stored separately. getting old and his ways are out of can get away with it" date. We gotta keep up with the times out here in Burncrest like evthis Sweet Potatoes Idaho imported Barney erywhere else. Barney Bridges is ANYWAY, Easton. Dana East- Valuable Farm Crop young and has modern ideas." on had promoted everything from Many North Carolina farmers This was true enough. Barney prize fights to steamboat races. sweet powho have never promised to zip up the fair. The When we put the proposition up to tatoes for marketplanted should be able first thing he planned to do was hiTin he said he'd sure be glad to to increase their farm income this modernize the horse racing event. promote the horse racing angle of year through the cultivation and Heretofore we'd just had races our Fair. sale of this root crop, according to that were run for the honor of the arrived cf Fair the M. Covington, extension hortiH. The day thing, trotters, with folks making culture specialist for the rtate colIt seemed that most ef the side bets. Barney's idea was to lege extension service. money was bet on a - mare import some famous promoter and The U. S. department of agriculnamed Doming Pigeon, driven make the betting open. a joke. ture has requested farmers to inCharlie CotewelL te Charley worse by of lot a a heck "It's There is nothing anybody can crease their . production of sweet had wen plenty cf raees In past have a lot of undercover betdo at this spot for the heavypotatoes by 12 per cent. Even looked like he was ta no It and on with system Dot at years least going ting if such an increase is planted, proweight collapse. tt than It will be to have open those in other divisions might going to win again. duction would still be about 10 per with being everyone and a for In betting change get shape sat in tha grandstand and cent under the 1937-4- 6 annual averI In his to throw a chance to stand op given make a straggle watched the sulkies line up. ' They age. dime's worth. for 30 minutes. Farmers who plan to increase made a pretty sight The band was Fletcher one Jake but there'll be a good young heavyEvery acreage this and their sweet potato sun the thinning playing, to out with trouble np pick weight popping agreed. "The only year to have some for sale, should the loose million he conldmake that Is," he allowed, "this profes- everybody was happy. consider market outlets before with about half the stuff Dempsional promoter jigger you're goThen the race started. Around planting, Covington states. sey, Louis and Tunney had to ing to import ain't known to nona the track they went, tlx of them. show. of us. If he's a slicker, look out!" Burnside's best stretching out their necks, in perfect stride. HomP ing Pigeon led up to the halt then Jasper Bush's horse came abreast MAHONEY of him, then Hector Dryson came fc. abreast of them, then Fergus Cross came abreast of them. It looked like a neck and neck affair, which struck me as being strange. Then suddenly I stopped yelling and just stared. Coming down the stretch the tour lead PROTECT NEW T0MM0 IN COMPS. horses had slowed down . and THE U'S HOLDS RTORO PUNTS AGAINST CUTby cripes, 15 yards from the finish claims that with a i rrn ft Miur. he tape, they all stopped! WORMS BY WRAPPING sr, that late until It wasn't night STALKS WITH CIGARthat I got all the details. Dana Easton had bribed Charlie Cole-we- ll ETTE PAPERS OR and Jasper Bush to pull their STRIPS OF OLD horses so Hector Dryson could win. Hector was a long shot and would HAD A SORE ARM ONLY CAREER-ANO DURING HIS ONCE have paid plenty. tol- , I . , , By-and-- by household device rtii matically defrosts the refri and is a fine electric clock ki put on the market The defroster, the stated, eliminates the periodic, usually messy ddj chores which are so ofteoy until she finds time and il insulating coat of frost cumulated on the freezing t Automatically, the defrosts, the refrigerator off it 1 ix day, and then, again autotn switches it back on skin of frost is removed after i unit During the shut-of- f periods ture created by the meltim I circulated through the box. With the defroster, which k, cision timing instrument, z; trie refrigerator, old or nei, can be made g. Chlordane Is EHecfin Ant, Cockroach Killa The newest and mos against cod: Insecticide and certain kinds dane." of ants cent chlordane with oil or water basev,1) sale in many departme Two-pe- r and hardware stores. J an These sprays leave ( odorless film on surkgj which come in pests ffporoinsraiTOE - PROTECT PLANTS (0 fSiSJla fierce ?1 Sv 2f 15 II rT 5V jcmcw A i j ON THAT CAY PITCHED HIS ONLY HIT NO-RU- N HE NO- -' GAME AGAINST THE BOSTON REO SOX ! 'SSgrtsss fesMSSf 50 Q But it didn't work that way. Why? Because Jake Fletcher had figured what Dana Easton was up to and had secretly and individually bribed the other fonr racers to hold in their horses. With all six drivers bribed the race simply came to a standstill and nobody finished. "Which," Jake Fletcher pointed out, "just proves my contention that every mans a crook if he thinks he can get away with It" CAPSULE BEADS . $ USE CO V 0 |