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Show SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1951 TOE JOURNAL Pago SPORT LIGHT FARM TOPICS Rice Wrestles with Boxing Problems By GRANTLAND RICE QTEPPING into the heavyweight picture we have the feeling that weve just invaded a squirrel cage or stuck our features into a fan. revolv-in- g No Big Stars The heavyweight situation today is the most highly involved in many, many years. It is now evident that with a fighter one who had lost his last four important matches to Lc.is, Charles and Layne the new worlds champion, the quality of this rickety division isnt any Mt. Everest peak. It has to be pretty low. But as long as it is now a big d matter among old rivals, it has at least taken on a keener degree of national interest than anything we have seen since Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey left us, over 20 years ago. e For example, most of the boxers that I talked to after the Marciano-Layn- e fight were confid ld Just what is the heavyweight division, anyway? Walcott whips Louis but doesnt get the decision. Then Louis knocks out Walcott. Ezzard Charles gives Louis a bad trimming. Ezzard Charles then gives Walcott two unhappy evenings by knocking Jersey Joe around. Then along comes Rex Layne and whips Walcott, making it practical- ly unanimous. For Jersey Joe is now close to 38 years old, possibly older, a n d he has been beaten four-cornere- old-tim- four times ent Charles could take both Walcott and Marciano. As it developed Charles couldnt take Walcott alone in his third stab, and Marcianos status, he man who wrecked Layne who beat Walcott who knocked out Charles, is still a mystery. Where does this lead us? We are deeper in the underbrush than we were at the start of the argument. If the Past Performance Chart means anything at all the four men left are about as evenly matched as one could hope to find. Rex Layne is still two years away, waiting for the day when he can discover what a left hand means. Rocky Marciano might be in the same fix regarding experience, of which he has had little in high-clas- s boxing society. Complete Soil Test Is First Step For Increasing Pasture Yields for old, rundown, weedy permanent pastures is recommended by Purdue University agronomists. A good renovation program supported by liming and the use of commercial fertilizer can bring a pasture back to lush, vigorous production, they say. It can double the pastures carrying capacity A "face-lifting- " and improve the quality of the herbage. First step in the program is a soil test to find out tl needs for in a row. In the midst of this turmoil and confusion Rocky Marciano knocks out Rex Layne, late conqueror of Walcott. Then the aging Walcott knocks out Ezzard Charles. If you can make anything out of situation, you this pretzel-shape- d us. on Louis, Walhave considerable cott, Charles, Marciano and Layne are all in the jumble. Three of these have given Jersey Joe a healthy Charles and powdering Louis, Layne. On a matter of percentages Ezzard Charles is still ahead. But Jersey Joe Walcott is the heavyweight champion of the world. He not only holds a knockout over Charles but he beat him six out of seven rounds by outboxing and outfighting him. On top of this scrambled heavyweight situation we have Robinson and Turpin moving into the scenery shortly. Jim Norris admits that Madison Square Garden cant handle over two big fights in one month. This leaves a flock of heavyweights on the outside looking in. Having won two out of three matches from Walcott, Charles deserves his return bout. But Louis has been training for another shot at Charles for over a year. And Marciano, backed by A1 Weill, says he wont meet anyone but the champion. If Walcott and Charles meet, a o contest would be highly important, as well as interesting, since both Louis and Marciano can hit with the impact of a brick at close enough range. It would be more than interesting to see Marciano piling into Joe Louis as he piled into Rex Layne. Louis-Marcian- recent study of the buying habits of the American farmer showed that electric ranges, dishwashers, refrigerators, laundry equipment, clothes dryers and toasters, and automatic heating systems were becoming standard items in most homes served by rural electrification systems. More than 100,000 A families installed thermostat-controlleheating systems from d 1947 through 1949. The study also indicated a close relationship between electrification and general home improvement on farms. For example, approximately $10,000,000 was spent from July, 1947, to December, 1948, alone for farm-hom- e modernization. Approximately 4,900,000 of the 5,200,000 occupied farms and almost 15,000,000 of the occupied rural dwelling will soon have electricity. Skid Carrier AFTER the 12:07 had out of sight around Black Mountain, two figures stood motionless on the tiny platform. LONG Above them, creaking on its hinges, the sign read "Turner Wind Junction. swirled and eddied around them harshly. Jeb Reynolds, station master, stayed discreetly inside the ticket office. He had watched folks for twenty years as they experienced that first aloneness. The train had paused for only a minute. Then, with Rob Cameron waving and smiling on the rear platform, it had made its noisy her lips that moved. They drove seven miles past browned and crisped meadows. John slowed down near a white, low farmhouse. There was a small sign on the side of an elm tree Mrs. Whitelys Famous Dinners. Sara nodded in reply to his unasked question. She straightened her hat in the rear view mirror and put on her gloves, taking a long time with each finger. Robs train must be nearly to Coddington. THERE WERE long, silent between soup and chicken and dessert. After dinner, they went out behind the barn to see the minks, kept in orderly cages. Mrs. Whitelys departure. boy fished in the pond for sunfish "Must be. nearly down the valley to feed them. Sara bent over to see to Ellentown by now," John said. the tiny creatures and her hair played in the wind. The gray streaks Sara clutched the shiny black were like a light touch of snow. leather purse tighter. It was Robs last gift. She counted the minks. Two large "Feels like snow in the air. ones, one small one, screened off Mother. Johns gray head bent to by himself. A family? Their family hers. had been three John, Rob, Sara. weather. "Turkey she Yes, they are beautiful, "Yes, Thanksgivings almost here said, 1 wish I could look at them again. without thinking of the coats they Sara looked deep into his eyes. are going to make. She smiled, It seems wicked, "John, hell be gone for a long apologetically. to kill them, I mean. time. Mrs. Whitely grinned. "Well, Mrs. "Yes, Sara. Jeb Reynolds came out on the Cameron, I used to feel sorry for platform and watched them climb them, but after the first check came into the old blue sedan. The old car in, I never thought about it again. woke up and cleared its throat. The train must be at Gorge City now. Another hour and hed be I do. "Need some there. She closed her eyes. John pulled out the choke. Johns arm was around her. "Maybe a little coffee might was but it Sara smiled, only help. "I feel as if Id been running, she murmured. "Guess I leaned over too long looking at the Joe minks. MAHONEY They settled themselves in the old car again. They could see the farm on a distant hill. "I still love it, John. 1 still like coming iround that curve and see ing it, knowing itll be there. as it The car whined in self-pit- y climbed the hill. John drove up to the front door. He fumbled for the ONE THE LATE IRON MAN OF BASEBALL, HAS key and then just held it in his PROBWILL NAME THAT HIS RECORD BEHIND hand. Something seemed to hold ABLY NEVER BE EQUALLED OR EXCELLED. him back. He didnt want to go into THAT'S HIS STRING OF 2,130 CONSECUTIVE the house. He leaned down to pat MAJOR LEAGUE GAMES PLAYED! GEHRIG'S the old collie who stood waiting CLOSEST RIVAL IS GUS SUHR, EX-P- I RATE and saw the note. Pinned to there WHO HAS 822 TO HIS CREDIT. the dogs collar was a scrap of paper. Together John and Sara read it, incredulous. Drawn In the quick scrawl of a boy in a hurry were Mom and Dad woeful faces bodies. Mom was above single-lin- e black the purse, Dad his clutching the Beneath picture Rob had keys. written in large black letters, SURE LOOK CHEER UP-Y- OU anti-freez- e, SIP0D2TSC01P1E limestone and for nitrogen, phosphate and potash fertilizer. Making a new seedbed on an old sod can be satisfactorily done with a disc harrow or field cultivator, the agronomists say. The operation can be eased considerably by working the soil in one direction and then VI working it crosswise. and smooth brome Timothy grass are excellent for supplementing blue An easy and time saving way grass. How much these grasses into move turkey poults and young crease pasture output depends on chickens from brooder house to the legumes used in the mixture and range is the skid carrier the amount and analysis of fertisketched above. Build the crate lizer. The agronomists say that a to fit a hay sled or other farm good seed mixture should contain carrier and divide it into sectwo pounds of red clover, three tions. Carrier is loaded through pounds of broadleaf trefoil and a sliding doors at top, then is quarter pound of Ladino clover. skidded to range where two men The Purdue agronomists stress can lift the top and the birds that a good application of commercan scoot away. cial fertilizer is essential in pasture renovation. They recommend using 400 pounds per acre of or Loans to Build Grain fertilizer at seeding time. The Houses Will Continue phosphate and potash fertilizer The commodity credit corporahelps get the new seeding off to a good start, and supplies the nutri- tion program which provides loans to farmers to finance construction ents the legumes need most. or purchae of new farm grain storage facilities will be continued in -0 95 Percent of Farm Homes Have Electricity 1951-5Secretary of Agricultuw Brannan announced that the loan program, initiated in June 1949 and 95 of cent With almost per todays scheduled to expire June 30, 1951, farm homes now having electricity has been extended another year. an increase of more than 50 per The program is extendable on a basis. cent in 10 years farmers today are a race close cousins running thecity Homesteaders in equipping their places with everyThe first homestead lands in Oklatoasters and trimmers thing from homa were opened, 1889. to thermostats and television. 2. year-to-ye- ar How loirngfl BY HAROLD ARNETT LOU i (BE i 7 faaaa! i m El G Q $ Gracing drivers at THE INDIANAPOLIS SPEEDWAY GET SPEEDS 170 M.P.H. ON THE STRAIGHTAWAY, " SLOWING DOWN' TO ABOUT 110-1ON THE TURNS UP TO 20 GLOOMY "John, you sure look gloomy, Sara repeated and John began to grin. Sara laughed. "That boy," he said, "That crazy kid. He opened the door and they went into their house. ELIMINATE NOISE OF BY INSERTING LENGTH WHIRLPOOL IN OF BRASS WIRE SINK DRAIN ENDS AS SHOWN. BENDING HOLESIN THROUGH STRAINER, BE MAY OF LENGTHS WIRE TWO REQUIR.ED. |