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Show Page SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, i951 THE JOURNAL 2 FARM TOPICS SPORT LIGHT Chile Produces Some of World's Best Wool; U. S. Is Big Market Some Pigskin Heroes Prefer Baseball By GRANTLAND RICE AS RULEin most good baseball players college give up football to hang on with the national pastime. Joe Gordon at Oregon was a star football player, one of the best. He gave up football for baseball. Greasy Neale offered A1 Dark a big check to play football for his Eagles. Dark turned the offer down. lie took less pay for baseball. Theodore Barnard Kluszewski, star football player from Indiana, one of the games best, had any number of pro football offers. He went with Cincinnatis Reds where he is doing quite well. So did Lloyd Merriman of Stanford, one of the best on the West Coast, who also football to quit baseball with play the Reds. But I have an opposite case. This is the story of a great looking young pitcher who was offered a bonus of to play $100,000 baseball, but who happened to like football better. He e turned down ten fabulous offers to go to Minnesota and throw passes for the Gophers. Til teli you about Paul Giel writes a former Minnesota back-fiel- d mat. Giel is the hero of In my opinion this romance. he might be better than Mathew-soAlexander, Johnson or Cy Young. lie Is the greatest looking kid pitcher I ever saw. lie is big, strong, with fine speed, control and a fine curve. now good Is he? Before entering Minnesota at the age of 19 he pitched six consecutive no-h- it games at high schools and much tougher spots. In these six games he averaged 22 strikeouts a game. I know of at least scouts who have ten been on his trail. I know of several fabulous offers he has received. lie has everything a great pitcher needs. I still feel he might be the greatest of them all. But he has one weakness. He likes football better than baseball. He' would rather play football for nothing than baseball for $40,000 a year. I mean this. As a freshman he threw three touchdown passes against Minnesotas varsity. But I still wish he had gone in for baseball. He would have made all 6f these other bonus kids look like nothing. A so-call- big-leagu- n, big-leag- ue More About Giel followed young Giel this fall. I knew he was with a green, rather ragged outfit. Minnesota is now in I what they call the rebuilding stage, with Bernie Bierman out and Wes Fesler in. Yet with this faulty support Giel threw two or three touchdown passes against Washington, a far better outfit. He was the star of the day. So he cant be all dream all fantasy Vanderbilt University has most of the correct answers. 1. Reduction of time demanded of the college football player, specifically elimination of spring practice. 2. Elimination of bowl games because they place such extraordinary premiums upon winning. Reduction in the number of football scholarships to a point where the athletic budget no longer is a major financial risk. of intercollegiate 4. Limitation to fide college stubona competition of dents and planning physical eduSaving Football when cation courses, offered, from If football is to be modified and the standpoint of the students fupossibly saved from almost com- ture rather than from the standplete destruction we believe that point of getting and keeping athletes Chancellor Harvie Branscomb of in school. 3. The small American farmer has learned from experience just how profitable a small flock of sheep can be to his general farm proof gram. And in the western part mainthe country great flocks are tained by producers. One of the greatest producers of wool, now selling at a record price, is Chile. The industry is valued at and employs more $170,000,000 than 10,000 people. lion acres of crop land, tilled by 13 million farm workers, were reeded to supply the crops required by a population of 76 million. Now 10 n workers produce from 345 mih lion acres of land the food required by twice as many Americans, as well as thousands of persons in oth-e- r countries. Agricultural authorities say that the use of fertilizer is responsible of the e Chiles first sheep were brought for roughly of all concrops. from Spain by the Spanish use of fertilizer is expected queror Pedro de Valdivia over 400 to The continue upward for an indefinite years ago. In 1877, 300 head were brought to the Punta Arenas area period. from the Falkland Islands. mil-lio- one-four- . K vol-um- Seed Beds .. ' v, th K EFF CHAPPELL was dumb. He Herrick, and beat them easily. Or was a big, burly lad. You couldnt Jeff Chappell beat them. You help liking him. But he was dumb. couldnt stop the boy. The victory I was assistant coach that fall at gave us a lift, but behind it there Redfield and I had all I could do to was always that haunting fear that keep Jeff in the next Saturday or the next or the first string varsi- next, the kid would go haywire and ty. Head Coach Charlie Judd was impetient about it. no Theres place on this team for a guy who cant remember signals, Charlie said. We cant afford to take the chance. If you and I are going to keep our jobs weve got to chalk up a few scores after last years record. Hes the best halfback Ive ever seen work, I argued. Yooll make a mistake dropping him. Hes our big hope for this year. Charlie consented to let Jeff play in the first three games. After the third he came stomping into my he Well, room, his face black. he snorted, what you got to say now? Your friend lost todays game. He lost it because he got his signals twisted in the last quarter. But how about the first two games? I asked. It was that same boy that turned defeat into victory for us. Two to one isnt bad, Charlie. Its better than any of those other lugs are doing. Nuts! said Charlie. But when Charlie thought it over he agreed. He was still pretty sore. Any kid who couldnt absorb a set of simple signals ought to have something done about him. I tried to do it. I got Jeff up to my room nights. We went over and over the signals. The next Saturday we played S1PDD?TTSCD1PE By Joo MAHONEY 9. start running in the wrong direction, or something. Charlie and I held our breaths all fall. Figuratively, of course. OVEMBER came around and Hubtime for the bard fracas. Hubbard was our traditional enemy. Beating them was all that was necessary to make the season complete. Two days before the game Charlie came up to my room. If we win Saturday, he said, we wont have to worry about being in solid. He' looked thoughtful. I knew what he was thinking. If you dont let the kid play we wont have a chance, I said. Theres a bare h'pe of winning without him. Charlie scratched his chin. If I put him in theres always a chance "The kids got the signals down pat, I said quickly. Hes proved it. You know as well as I tnat without Jeff Chappell were licked.Charlie wasnt sure. You could see he was scared stiff. He wanted assurance, and I gave it to him. My confidence in the kid settled the thing in Charlies mind. He? agreed to play Chappell. Despite our record and the fact that we had Jeff Chappell the odds were on Hubbard. Hubbard had a clean record. Their victories had been won by big nt - margins. The first quarter and the second ended with no score. In the third, the Hubbard fullback snaked through our line and sprinted 30 yards for a touchdown. They failed to kick the point. In the fourth the Hubbard left half came around right end on a trick play. Our whole backfield was fooled. All except Jeff Chappell. Uncannily Jeff, a lone figure, was there to stop him. That gave us the ball. We made three yards in three downs, and then, instead of booting, Cole, our quarter, gave Jeff Chappell the ball and Jeff made as pretty a run as youd ever seen anywhere. Cole kicked the extra point. A minute later the whistle blew. After it was over I got Jeff up into my room. Listen, I said, how about it? That trick play of Hubbards was a corker. How come it didnt fool you, too? He grinned sheepishly. After awhile I got the story. Jeff never did get the signals straight, but he discovered a system all his own. Hed watch the toes of the opposing players. If the play V'as going left, the majority of toes would point that way. Instinctively. And the same applied to our boys. It never failed. Jeff said hed heard something like that on the radio. I never told Charlie. k'Av.V A A .ArA It is a long time from planting seed beds, but gardeners and farmers might spend some of their spare time during the winter months making one. Seed beds with plastic covers are hailproof, shatter proof and light in weight. A plastic-coate- d wire mesh, weighing les than glass, passes on to the plans most of the suns ultraviolet and infrared rays. This material is available at most farm equipment dealers and English Marsh will produce 12 kilos Romney of long staple wool, or 30 pounds. This type tool Is often called the best in the world. The huge The industry specializes in the famous English Marsh Romney sheep which produces, according to many experts, the finest long staple wool in the world. Today, Chile has a total sheep population close to 7,000,000 head. Three quarters of the nations wool crop about 15,000 metric tons goes to the United States. England gets the remainder. Farm Worker Crop Output Triples in Fifty Years Fifty years ago a farm worker produced enough food for himself and five other persons. Today the crops raised by a single worker are sufficient for 15 persons. Although machinery has had much to do with this spectacular productivity record, a major factor is the expanded use of fertilizers. The nations farms last year consumed 18,346,132 tons of soil food six times as much as in 1901 at a cost of hardware stores. Poultry and Egg Eating Increases, Experts Say Poultry experts report the American family is consuming more poultry and eggs and predicts the increase will continue during the rest of 1951. Forecasts indicate the average American will have eaten 30 pounds of chicken by the end of 1951, 10 per cent more than last year; 406 eggs, slightly more than in 1950; and about five pounds of turkey meat, approximately the same as last year. $744,000,000. At the turn of the century 265 mil M ifSScJJ HyiER wsm mhr LTAMrrVET, Readers The American people buy more than 9,000,000 magazines daily. ,PUfi, N YOUR TALKING calls thus TELEPHC OVERTIME savimg m yc |