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Show SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1951 Pag 7 TIIE JOURNAL SPORT LIGHT FARM TOPICS Bowl Games Need To Change Methods GRANTLAND RICE An amazing number of letters have come to us both for and against Bowl games. Those against the Bowls are not all from the Ivy League country, or from the Big Ten or the Far West, where only two teams can be Involved. Many come from the South. The Cotton, Sugar, Orange and Gator Bowls involve a vast sweep of territory, from Texas to Florida. In my opinion the Bowl situation is easily solved. Here is the solution play all the bowl games. But divide most of the money among the teams of t h e Conference involvBy NEW YORK ed. Dont winning give or 000, onger be any mad rush over to go out for a winner, or to arrange owl schedules most likely to insure Bowl bids. No team is going to invest $100,000 or more in order to get expenses and $20,000 or $25,000. Cut when the surplus from the Bowls is divided among many other teams there can be no complaint about financial concentration on a few. We have the feeling that those at he head of Bowl organizations and eading teams from various dont quite appreciate the movement now gaining headway gainst Bowl play. There is no denying the fact that Bowl receipts, from $100,000 to $125,- Con-erence- Bowl profit. Let the Southern or Southeastern or Southwestern Circuit split the rest. The Idea is that no team should make a big profit out of Bowl games through overpaying, overscouting, oversubsidizing football players a common practice today, where you can be sure the leading teams will be far overpaid. We can see no harm in the leading Bowls if handled under such conditions. I can slip a tip to the Sugar and Orange Bowls. They are headed for certain trouble if they maintain their present method. The Southern Conference has long been on record, 14 to 1, against Bowl competition. Vanderbilt is also heading a Southeastern revolt that is gaining con siderable support. We are among many others who would hate to see the Bowls canceled through bad handling, when they might be carried on under smarter direction. As Things Are Now Today the Southern Conference, the Southeastern Conference and the Southwestern Conference are all Before involved in Bowl bids. Georgia Techs acceptance of the recent invitation to play in the Orange Bowl, January 1, Bobby Dodds, Georgia Techs smart coach, said that, Only the 1950 Bowl winners, Tennessee and Kentucky, were solvent in the South. They got over $100,000 for postseason appearances. One must get a Bowl bid to break even. This is true and it is also a oad THE d steam converted its plant to pro-jane-a- ir gas and offered service well-fertilize- Drawing Cards Michigan and Ohio State should outdraw any other teams this sea son for two reasons they both have violent and enthusiastic partisans, and both have tremendous stadiums that can handle 97,000 and 78,000 spectators. s tivation will increase with the steadily expanding acreage of row crops to meet the nations food needs. While contouring is a vital step in keeping soil at home, other soi! building measures are needed tc keep farm land at high yielding levels. Every crop burns up organic matter and uses up plant nutrients. The organic matter car be replenished by growing deep-roote- d legumes regularly in the rotation and by returning manure and crop residues to the soil. Safety Plug AVALANCHE FICTION CORNER By THE landslide occurred Richard Hill Wilkinson on March It was the evening before that Lorelei and Stan quarreled. The real cause of the quarrel was Inez Thayer, Deke Whitmans stepdaughter. Deke was the 3 -- Minute .. FiStlOn mne p,erinTd; ent, and Come to spend a couple of weeks with him. Inez was disappointed in the place. She had always thought of Arizona as a land of desert. Warm. Romantic. Nobody had told her that there were mountains in Arizona and that up in those mountains the temperature in March got well down below the freezing point. She probably wouldnt have remained a week if it hadn't been for Stan Seymour. Stan was a young engineer. A woman in love sees many things that others let pass by unnoticed. Lorelei, who was the daughter of Jim Tristram, the mine foreman, had been in love with Stan since the day he arrived six months before, and he with her. Their love was unspoken, but it lay between them like a tangible thing. Lorelei was glad now that neither had put into words the thing that both had felt, for now there need be no explaining or embarrassments Some day, she knew, the hurt that grew inside of her as she watched Stan yield to the polished charm of Inez Thayer would fade and vanish. So on the evening of March 7 Lorelei and Stan quarreled. And SIP (DIBTSSC PIPE By Joe MAHONEY BOBBY ESC!! CALLS HIMMR.TOUCHDOWN-U.S.A- .! SUCH A TITLE MOST CERTAINLY AND BELONGS TO THIS NEBRASKA HALFBACK. HE LED THE NATION IN SCORING LAST YEAR AND 25 EXTRA WITH 157 POINTS- 22 THE UNIVERSITY - The farm folks within 20 miles of Antigo, Wis., have gone in for gas in a big way. This new interest of farm folks in heating and cooking with gas started over a year ago with the reorganization of Antigos City Gas company. The Antigo utility which manu-acturegas from oil, coke and the team more than all audited expenses and around $20,000. Or maybe $25,000 are at least partly responsible for the mad stampede to build up winning combinations. Cut down the financial killing and you can save the Bowls. We are strongly for the Bowls if properly directed, if removed from the taint of overcommercialism. Unless certain changes are made at an early date we feel the Bowls will be in a bad way, ruled out by Southern t nd Southeastern Conferences. tiing. But if the big financial stake were scattered around the teams of ie Conference there would no Small Town Utility Offers Gas To Farmers in Immediate Area T-D- 'S POINTS. A JUNIOR, WITH THE '51 AND '52 SEASONS TO GO, HE HAS A GOOD CHANCE TO BREAK HIS OWN SCORING RECORD! Mrs. Dale Madison, a rural homemaker, has converted her kitchen to gas, and reports it gives her more freedom from kitchen duties. each knew that Inez was the cause of the quarrel, though both pretend ed it was over the matter of holding the annual spring dance in Redstone this year instead of at the mine. to farm homes and rural firms a radius of 20 miles. within night of Marcl; IT7. was warm thatwarm. new The rural customers have The heav Unnaturally in the snows atop the mountain range their own backyard utility form of storage tanks for large A new safety plug has been against the base of which the mine users and installations bottled anc to nestled melt, developed that should be of began buildings with smaller for homes consump8 be of March on the morning interest to most farmers. It has they tion. the a tiny replaceable fuse. Elecgan to move, slipping down of the a are Because part they trical cords are connected to mountain, loosening tons of earth cuscountry Antigo utility system, the plug exactly as they are and ice and rock. connected to the wall socket itLorelei was coming up from the tomers receive monthly fuel bill town. Fuel consumpself. The fuse blows out should rural delivery postoffice box with just like the atmeter a on is tion recorded ominous the a short circuit develop in any the mail. She heard tanks. or to tached their cylinders A connected cord. This prevents moment before roar and stopped. servcant Bad weather interrupt current from reaching the danshe had seen Stan and Inez entei is a sufficient since supply the tiny engineers field office, and ice, ger point, instantly cutting off in advance the on stored premises the source of fire. without thinking she started running of use. Empty cylinders are periof her at the toward it, shouting top odically replaced by company servlungs. Nebraska Farmers Paid Men appeared from other build ice men. Since the reorganization, rates High Cost for Com Crop ings and took up the cry, and before town and long a great crowd was racing down have been reduced for Nebraska farmers paid with two the valley road out of the path ol farm users three times. lives, 194 fingers, 18 hands, 1C the onrushing avalanche. arms, one leg, four toes and two But Stan and Inez didnt appear Contour Farming Cuts feet in gathering approximately in the doorway of the engineers 225 million bushels of corn. That office and Lorelei kept on running, Soil Losses in Hali is last years accident record. screaming. Above the office was a Iowa agronomists that Failure to stop the cornpicker bereport sharp outcropping of rock. When the contour farming cuts soil losses in fore trying to remove the stoppage avalanche hit this it divided, and half, boosts corn yields as much of the machine accounted for alstones and earth were catapulted as 7.4 bushels per acre and ups most every accident. Farmer into space over the building. with 2.7 bushels. discuss should problems safety by soybean production Lorelei had pushed open the dooi crews. harvest contour their Other advantages from when this happened. She glimpsed include lower fuel and opInez in Stans arms. Then a falling farming costs for tractors and other Packing Center timber crashed toward them anc erating Cincinnati is often called Porko-poliand an Increase in the she screamed. Stan pushed Inea machinery g because of a great length of com rows. and almost from goi him, away industry. The need for more contour cul- clear himself, but .t grazed hi shoulder and knocked him flat. For a moment Lorelei stood trans fixed. Then she leaped forward and began prying at the timber. Help she cried. And she turned me! desperate eyes toward Inez. At the door, Inez turned. Her face was white. Dont be a fool! she shrieked. Save yourself! Then the roar and crash became louder, drowning out her words. The first avalanche had started a second. Inez flung open the door and rushed outside. Stan pulled Lorelei down beside him and yelled into hei ear: Go on! Youve still got 8 chance. You cant save me! Bui she only stared at him in horror Then she began picking up timbers and propping them in a sort of lean-tagainst the one undamaged wall, sheltering them. Rescue crews came in and were amazed to find the two alive. They pried Stan loose and carried him away on a stretcher. One of his legs was broken. When he came out ot the ether Lorelei was beside his bed. Sht smiled and said, Shes safe. She got clear and escaped without a im weighted bruise. FOR LAMP WITH ROCKS MAKES AN EXCELLENT He looked at her and said noth THE WATER. THEY ing. Then he took ner hand anc LOCATING OBJECTS DROPPED INTO RAKE A WITH drew her down close to him. Its MAY BE RETRIEVED safe more important that youre s pork-packin- o When A LEFT THE TIGERS FOR WHEN TI E ATHLETICS IN 1927 HE WAS 41 YEARS OLD. YET HE BATTED .357 IN 134 GAMES, DROVE IN 93 RUNS AND STOLE 22 BASES! O HIGH DIVER HITS THE WATER he is TRAVELING SSMPHi j A FLASHLIGHT a fruit jar |