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Show SATURDAY, THE JOURNAL Page 6 Commissioner Needs Working Room GRANTLAND RICE the g the most farsighted of all the group that run baseball. He certainly has a big jump on the American As a result, an all wheat crop of 1,070 million bushes, 16 million more than on June 1, is now in prospect. Larger acreage of corn, hay, soy. beans and sorghums than intended earlier are growing under mos'Jy favorable conditions. Of the major crops only rice and hay are to set new production records, but several others will be of b half-blow- n and innings Stopped by edict or by rain, Which from their dull, drab beginnings Leave their customers in pain. Once upon a midnight dreary (On this line I seem to dwell) While I pondered, somewhat leery, On the game we like so well Why not label them as "call games," Which is what they are today? men as Tom Yawkey, Dan Topping, Del Webb, Walter Briggs, Ellis Ryan and others would have seen this half-gam- e weakness years ago. This is one of the many reasons that a hard-boile- d commissioner is needed, of the Judge Landis type although Judge Landis along with Happy Chandler had nothing to say about this weak spot in base- balls Its make-up- . about time someone did. Look for just ball games If these dopes can get their way. one-inni- Burch, took over. Those were the only two gaps in Calumets winning record. But Calumet must now come on with a new crop to meet the chalBrookmede, lenge of Greentree, Widener and others. George Widener has set some sort of a record by offering the top of 1951 without winning the Derby, Preakness or ex-pect- ed agriculture has been the main reason for increased farm production in the last 10 years or more. But it stands to reason that the more near-recor- d Wheeled Feeder Boxes three-year-ol- we turn We have heard many arguments commissioner will have little to do. You won't find two cleaner, more honest operators than and Frick Will Harridge, the two league presidents. But appar- ently the various club owners wont allow them much working space. If so, I don't believe they would have allowed these ball stupid five, six or seven-innin- g games. A ball game is supposed to be nine innings, just as a golf course is supposed to be 18 holes or a football game four periods. The state of Pennsylvania has a 7 oclock curfew law on Sundays. So teams playing the Athletics might as well take a set of dice to the ball park and play it that way. The National League has a far fairer rule. "Unfinished games in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh are simply called suspended games, says Ford Frick. "They must be finished later. I might add that I am in favor of games called by rain after the fourth inning. A game is legal after four and a half or five innings. But I dont believe in g four and one half and ball to see such games games. Id like completed later. Ford Frick happens to be one of . flve-inin- LUCKY LESLIE CORNER around and face a new direction we seem to find more work for the new baseball commissioner. By Helen Langworthy CALL ME Lucky Leslie because Im so lucky but because of my wife Celia and her phobia. Sure, lots of people believe in luck, omens and that stuff. But you could cover half the country before youd find anyone the equal of my Celia for ideas on luck. Its went back into action wouldnt swerve her. The 7th it was; To this day Celia believes the reason I wasnt amongst the 166 killed in our regiment was because we were married on the 7th. And maybe shes right! Take our son the doctor said not ordinary garden variety luck David would be born on June that Celia 26th. Celia said she chose July not about either 3rd. The doctor snorted, four leaf clovers, "Choose!" But David was born new moons and on the 3rd of July at 7 oclock-j- ust rabbits feet. Oh, like Celia had predicted'. no! Celia goes in strong for lucky Her strongest belief is that things numbers. In her book, 7 is the luckiest, 3 is a fair number and 6 happen in 3s. If theres 2 big train you skid by with eyes shut and wrecks, Celia expects the third. When David had measles and chickhands clenched. Celia believes if you have good en pox inside of 2 months, I thought fortune doing a thing a certain it enough. Celia said there would be more. He came down with the queer way once, then if you repeat it bingo! youre fortunate. If Celia mumps on the 6th. If we have unwere to find a diamond on the expected company 2 nights in' a corner of Main street on the 7th of row, Celia makes a batch of cookies the month and while wearing a red and waits for someone to drop in rain coat; she would believe that without warning. They always do! next month, come the 7th, she could tUT even Celia couldnt find don the same rain coat (no matter A enough lucky omens or charms to if the sun was blazing), go back and counteract the 6th of the month that find a ruby. The queer part of it is was rushing at us. Old Crawford, Celia would. head of Crawford Corporation said When we were married In those business was so bad that half the unpleasant days of '43, I had leave office crew would be through on the from the 15th of one month to the 6th. I was one of the last taken on. next. We had known each other for The 6th was coming and I had a a couple years, Celia and I. If Id idea of who was going to get had my way wed have been mar- good a pink dismissal slip in their pay ried the 16th. But Celia said, "The envelope. Celia said she would try 7th thats the day for luck. Even to think of something. Ha! We both reminding her that that date was a knew we were whistling in the dark. century away and that we would be married but a few days before I Early the morning of that fateful day David woke with a terrific stomach ache. Two hours later he Joe went to the hospital for an appendiMAHONEY citis operation. I know, operations arent unusual. But it was blow number one of three. At breakfast our toaster popped sparks and smoke instead of toast. Celia chattered about the low cost of repairs. But I knew she was thinking to herself the second trouble. Like they had gone into deep mourning, thats the way the office force looked. I tried to write up orders like it was just any day, instead of the 6th. Celia telephoned to say she had dropped her wrist watch and broken it. Now why was a trivial think like that worth a telephone call! Women! Then the pay checks came. Mine didnt have a pink slip. I could have danced on my desk top. I rushed home to tell Celia the. good news and that her theory was wrong. She took it casually. "Remember my watch," she asked blandly. "That was the third blow. See? THEY talks The tractor has replaced the horse on thousands of American farms, but many farmers still do not know how to get the most efficient use from the tractor. mechanized the farm becomes, the more important it is for the farmer to know how to care for his machinery and how to operate it skillfully. Properly adjusted machinery can pull with less gas and less strain on vital parts. Such things as proper hitching, use of the right kind of oil and regular lubrication, sharp tools, correct carbucan improve retor adjustment, tractor efficiency from 10 to 20 per soil-worki- cent. Caring for chickens housed in is simplified with feed boxes like the one shown above. It has small wheels at one end and can be pulled out for filling without opening a door through which chickens might escape. The boxes are made like drawers with the front ends projecting beyond the sides so they cannot he accidentally pushed beyond the openings in the coop sides. Wheels are attached to the rear ends on hail axles and rest on the bottoms of the coops. coops Factory Wages Buy More Food Than in 1929 Crop Conditions Are Reported Good in U.S. The U.S. department of agriculture reported continued improvement in conditions for crop during June and early July has resulted in prospects among the most favorable the country has ever known. The department reported farmers were able to plant crops on the largest aggregate acreage since 1933. Yield prospects are reported virtually as good as the best in recent years. Winter wheat prospects improved, despite adverse harvesting conditions in parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, and spring wheat acreage exceeded planting intentions by n acres. nearly a devel-opeme- . half-millio- nt An hour of work in a factory will buy, on the average, a larger quantity of nearly all kinds of food than it would a generation ago, according to the U.S. department of agriculture. Lightning Causes 90 Per Cent o! Farm Fires Lightning is one of the major causes of farm fires according to farm authorities. It has been estimated that in the United States lightning each year destroys approximately $20,000,000 worth of farm property, takes the lives of 500 people, and injures 1300 others. sip iinrsc (dipie BASEBALL THE METHOD RETIRING A BASE- - RUNNER WAS TO HIT HIM IN THE CLARENCE BEAUMONT OF THE 1699 PIRATES BUNTED SAFELY SIX TIMES IN SIX ATTEMPTS IN A BACK(t) WITH A SINGLE THROWN BALL, SCORED EACH TIME On the early days size. ng Work for Commissioner Just about every time Ford 11 Efficient Machinery Helps Set U. S. Farm Production Records No one any longer disputes The Racing Race fact the machine, namely the tracIn the past few years one stable, tor, has replaced the horse on the games.) Calumet, has dominated racing to average American farm. Constant League in this respect. Once upon a midnight dreary reJust how and why the American a large extent. Maine Chance research in recent years has (This is all Ill steal from Poe) seven six or the started stampede sulted in high speed implements, While I pondered, bored and League could stand for these inhad Mrs. when Graham back years more work for each gallon of fuel, complete games is beyond most of a full list of weary, atstars. thoroughbred and a number of multiple-joOn these games we us. Last year Mrs. Dodge Sloans tachments for the farm tractor. know. You would think that such sportsBrookmeade, handled by Preston The mechanization of American seven Games of five (In connection with these partly ball fits and phony six-innin- 15, FARM TOPICS SPORTLIGHT By SEPTEMBER GAME-AN- D But do you know something funny? She said she dropped it. i found her shoe on the dresser amidst some bits of broken glass, and some glass was stuck in the heel. You dont suppose the heel of her shoes met that watch on purpose or, do BY HAROLD ARNETT nePAm SPLIT NDS OF A BIRO CAGE ERASERS OVER ENDS. 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