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Show SATURDAY, MARCH 10, THE JOURNAL Page 6 FARM TOPICS SPORT LIGHT Changes Make Sport Comparison Hard By GRANTLAND RICE along Time marches of knocks and to a had passed out. Football is no longer a team game. It is practically one college meeting another college. Today you have 30 or 40 men on each side throwing from 30 to 40 passes. So again how can you compare old time football stars with the modern bunch, who either never make a tackle or else never run with the ball? It might be well for all concerned to remember this In the In words of Bernard Gimbel measurcan be that every sport ed or timed records are improving year by year. The game Is getting better and better. Every sport should be well advanced today over bygone yester 1920 raps. The loud noises and the squawks usually come from a group of grayhaired veterans panning the present generation. It may be a group of ballplayers attacking the me- old-tim- e diocrity of the presencrop. It come from a may e of bunch rm e or L2 golfers ' fighters giving the world proof that those hanging around today are Grantland Rice largely bums. The same is true of football where the platoon system has been composed of according to the veterans of older wars. Those who can run or pass cant block or tackle and those who can tackle cant run or pass. Only recently Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby, baseballs two greatest hitters Cobb, the greatest Hornsby, the games greatest rfghthand hitter decided there were no modern players who belonged among the first 20 of other years. I dont believe this will quite stand up. Id say an outfield composed of Muslal, DiMaggio and Williams would have been awarded many sprigs of laurel or olive over 20 or 30 or 40 years ago. This trio would have been a great outfield back in the peak years of Cobb and Ruth. One main trouble which In all comparisons is the arises change that has come to all games. For example, baseball has changed in many ways since the days of Cobb, Ruth and nornsby. Or in the big days of Ilonus Wagner. Those were the days of the dead or much deader ball the days of the steal not the days of the home run. Speed and quickness ruled over sheer power. Nine home runs would lead a league in one season. But it would take 70 or 80 or 90 stolen bases to lead a league. Baseball from 1900 to 1920 was an entirely different game from baseball in 1920 on to 1950. A big part of the games old science had given way to the home-ru- n t-day old-tim- old-tim- half-player- s, hitters. Same Everywhere Football is also an entirely different game from what it used to be. The first big change came in with the forward pass in 1906. The pass began to dominate the attack around 1915. Now it is a big part of football. The two platoon system changed football completely. The game of 1900 even the game of days. There are many more players. These players are getting better bulk training and smarter coaching in general. There is no Cobb or Ruth around today and well likely never have another pair like this. But there have been some pretty fair ballplayers Musial, Williams, DiMagRobgio, Rizzuto, Slaughter, Reese, Mize, inson, Terry Moore, Johnny Marty Marion, Yogi Berra, etc. Bill Dickey ranks Berra up with the best catchers he ever saw, and Arkansas Bill knows about all there is to know about catching. When it comes to comparisons, old and modern play are entirely too far apart to start any definite ranking. Farm Profit in Relation to Feed Cost Is Below 1935-3- 9 Average The nations farmers are not mak 2. Control Internal and external dollar ing a3 much from each in the parasites which weakens the spent for feed as they have resistance. return past few years. In fact, the 3. Keep swine away from old for each dollar spent for feed in hog is milk and of contaminated pastures, cow lots, eggs the production below the 1935-3average. pastures, stagnant pools and other sources of infection. farmthe of feed dollar each For 4. Keep feeding and watering er spent in the production of hogs, return cattle and sheep, however, equipment clean. average. is higher than the 1935-3- 9 5. Check rations carefully, espethe of eggs In the production cially possible deficiency of vitamins. Prevent over-eatinfarmers received $1.72 for each dolof rich concentrates. lar spent on feed during 1935-36. Earmark sows and their litters But as of September, 1950, he was of amount The to $1.56. only identify and weed out sow careceiving ani-ma- ls 9 g 9. rriers. ONE DOLLAR SPENT FOR BROUGHT .. FEED THE FARMER . . . Watch for scouring, loss of weight, and failure to feed into gains. At the first sign of trouble, get a diagnosis and isolate the all ing animals from apparently healthy ones. 7. . Tire Tether STAKE TT WAS PROBABLY suicide, I A said, looking around the cabin. Why? Capt. Rhodes asked. I nodded toward the walls. At least a half dozen photographs of Arthur Kimball hung there. I Any man, remarked, who was so vain as to take all those pictures of himself along to decorate his cabin on a two weeks cruise, must have been vain about other things. You mean hed probably suffered financial reverses or something, and was too proud to face the facts, so he shot himself? I nodded, Thats about it, pleased that the captain should give so much consideration to my theory. A very dull fellow this Capt. Rhodes. The captain looked down at the lifeless body of Arthur Kimball. He had apparently been sitting at his desk, writing. There was a bullet wound in his temple. An automatic was clutched in the fingers of his right hand. The captain looked at the pictures. Im probably right, dont you think, Captain? I said. Captain Rhodes grunted. No, he said, I dont. He turned abruptly and went out. Well, this only confirmed my ideas about the Captains stupidity. To me the thing was dead open and shut. The first mate, a tall, rugged In- By JOE SUXDIDU MAHONEY 6 dividual named Brooks, told me to go to my quarters and stay there until I was called. WASNT UNTIL evening that the ITmate summoned me. I followed him down the corridor to Arthur Kimballs cabin. Captain Rhodes was there and several other men in uniform, and a strange man and Instead of tying a tether diwoman. rectly to the stake, fasten it to That was a very logical theory an old automobile tire casing the captain said, you advanced, The above chart shows the reand then drop it over the stake. looking at me. But weve proven turn for each dollar the farmer The latter, of course, should be it to be dead wrong. spent for feed in the production much higher than ordinary so Wrong? I said. of the five farm commodities the animal will not pull the Mr. Kimball was murdered! listed. tire off the stake. This keeps I didnt say anything. The captain cattle from winding the tether was not only a dull fellow, but now return in the milk industry was around the stake. he was revealing a tendency toward three cents less than the $1.92 averdramatics. age of 1935-3As soon, went on the captain, For each dollar spent for feed Chemical Blossom Thinner as I decided that Mr. Kimball was for 1 5 Per Cent hogs, the farmers return in murdered, I began to look for some- 1950 was $1.80, a drop of 23 cents Raises Yield one who knew him before he sailed. from the 1949 return. The 1935-3- 9 Research men of the U. S. departThis wasnt as easy as it sounds. average return, however was even ment of agriculture Kimball was traveling alone. Still, lower, with orchardists of the northwest only $1.50. I figured that someone had engaged for the fifth successive In beef the average report that season the chemical thinning of passage on the same boat with the return as ofproduction September, 1950, was blossoms in idea of murdering him. That somegolden delicious or$2.35 for each dollar spent for feed. I that chards one, reasoned, would have taken a The 1935-3has resulted In average was $1.39 and average six boxes a treegains cabin as near to his as possible. So or about 1949 average $2.01. we began inquiring into the careers the 15 per cent. of all the cabin occupants along this The new thinners were used on an corridor. The only two people whom Steps to Help Curb Swine estimated 20,000 acres this past seawe discovered who might have son. Enteritis Are Outlined known Kimball are Mr. and Mrs. Chicks John Cole, these people here. The The American Foundation for AniAllow Ample Space captain glanced toward the strange mal Health outlines seven steps to hatched in fall and winter will need more space as they grow. In fact, couple. help curb swine enteritis. 1. Isolate d But, he continued, they have rwine they need more house space at this conclusively proven that they were from the home herd for at least time than In spring and summer in the main salon at the time the three weeks, until they are known when they can spend some time to be free of disease. murder was committed. outdoors. How did they know when the murder was committed? I asked BY importantly. HAROLD I told them, Capt. Rhodes said. ARNETT So I continued my hunt, and presently I discovered there was only one other person on board who knew Kimball. I discovered that this man had suffered financial losses through .SCREEN DOOR HOOK, AND EYE Kimballs activities. And who? I asked quietly, is this man? You, said Capt. Rhodes. It was a remote possibility, and 1 had not believed it would occur, but nevertheless I was prepared. CLOTHESLINE Capt. Rhodes was prepared too. Thats why the uniformed men were present. One of them had sidled in behind me, and as I sprang I landed in his arms. The captain grunted. If, he remarked dryly, you ever have occasion to plan another murder, consider the details. He pointed to one of the pictures of Arthur Kimball. It was the picture in which . Kimball was seated at his Note, said the captain, that Mr. Kimball is holding his pen in his left hand, as he is the HOOKS SCREEN DOOR riding crop and polo mallet in the HOOKS TIED TO ENDS OF CLOTHES LINE other pictures. He must have been PROVIDE EASY MEANS FOR PUTTING- UP left handed, yet you placed the AND TAKING DOWN LINE INDOORS. murder gun in his right hand. A dull fellow, the captain. 9. 9 newly-purchase- How to -- WILLY WEEK OF THE P'NAL THE AND HUSTUNG L the race w,tH pj. turned shnwcn! & kSjVc HIGH COST OF yj even living has hit the horses. BARBERS horseHIALEAH desk-writing- at 8 TRIMMING a thorobred. last year NOW GET BUCKS FOR 17.. 1931 IT WAS- - I A CLOTHESLINE f LOS ANGELES COURT MADE IT LEGAL THAT GEORGE RAYMOND VMA3NER IS NOW 60RSEDUS GEORGE .the human ORCHIDS CHILDREN ALWAYS THOUGHT HIS LAST NAME WAS GEORGE ANYHOW. - |