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Show Friday, February i, gcenes and Persons in the Current News Honor, for Old Pete" PEAKING PORTS h GEORGE A. BARCLAY Boom Days Are Predicted for Middleweights Golden .days loom ahead for the middleweights, if prophets reading the future by means of the past are correct in their prognostications. Golden, days for fighters who prove their competence with fists and footwork in the prize ring. 160-pou- The old boom time! of the middle- weight division promise to become the new boom times, because for the first time in a generation there is a great abundance of classy talent in this field. The bitter fistic fend between Champion Freddy Steele ef Tacoma, Wash., and Fred ApostoU of When the moguls of baseball dewiy' creed recently that the newest niche TT -in the hall of fame at Cooperstown. N. Y., should be filled by Grover Cleveland Alexander they made a move that la certain to be popular 1 .:K i with fans everywhere. There bad been grumblings because be was not named earlier and belief by some that be might never attain the honor. "Old Pete, the great pitcher who stood National league batters on their heads for 2t yearn, joins a select company including Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Hans Wagner, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Napoleon Lajol, Trls 8peaker and Cy Young, nil named in past ballots us the games outstanding players since 1900. Alex never pitched a but that was about the only thing be missed. He turned in four one-hgames in 1915, a record which will probably never be equalled. He "St won 28 games in 1911, hif first big stStfiZHi! league season and for three straight years'beglnning in 1915 he won 30 or more victories. a : When aU these tremendous pitching feats are forgotten, Alex will be remembered for a single strikewater 1 out be chalked up in the 1926 world Big BUI Thompson, former mayor af Chicago, Ulustrates his demand before congress for more the to 2 Successor Hinderburg, a drain. Cardidown tumblerful a for the canals Louis aeries between the St by pouring Windy City nals and the New York Yankees. destroyed by fire while landing at Lakehnrat, N, J., last May, the LP130 nears completion at the Zeppelin dock address declaring that coIt was the seventh Inning of the at Frledrichshsven, Germany. 3 Tom Glrdler, steel magnate, shown In a recent human race has yet seed. the wUl induce the and business between development greatest government final game. The Cards were leading operation basea to the had Yanks The I loaded, two down and Tony Leaser! at bat Alex, who had won a game the day before, was caUed by Hornsby to relieve Jess Haines. "Old Pete walked slowly to the pitching mound and set Lazzeri down on three pitches. Then he plodded wearily through the last two innings to win the game and the first worlds championship for St Louis. y :T CALL RECRUITS IN SYPHILIS WAR Call for recruits In the War Against Syphilis by Gen. JohnWilJ. Pershing and Dr. Ray Lyman burwill be beard throughout the country. General Pershing Is chair LEARN KAMO ELECTRICAL. - v ' iV'Xv' - t Play Rug Becomes Educated nine-innin- g AND COLLEGE, lL SALT HOTELS ' OTEL FLANDOME, State Rates si lilar.1 RESPECTABLE ?Le5 4th Be. - QUIET In the SS E. THE WILSON HOTEL heart of the city. Rate. a. . . . sai Sa4 Bo, Sk -- RAYMOND 3. SALT LAM MM. J I I Main, H blk. te TiVrlt. Spec, rates to L. D. L, PERSONAL ALCOHOL Treatment ReeaHa a Only S days at INTERMOUNTAnTr TORIUM. E. Stk it.. Salt Uki iti ,J2j . StWfc Practical Training Actual fSV Write tor Free Catalogue :' -- ' LEARN BARBERINO In New clauee now tormina. Meier Barker Celltfe r, it SCHOOLS lit! Gen. John J. Pershing. MINING J is vice Weatara M Inara! Sarrey Weekly chairman of the National Anti nawa S3 yr. SSVk E. lat Sa., Sail Syphilis Committee of the American Social Hygiene association. Aided by state and city committees In FURS AND SKINS many sectors, we expect to enlist man and Doctor WUbur Skis year HIDES FELTS FURS WOOL NORTHWEST HIDE A FCR CA 4SS So. Sr 4., West Salt LaXV STAMPS Every tar uar. Vrikt ,ittpp.o free samples. Dept, ) l i, iaifia f, Urmeaatmia Stamp Ski., Salt Leka, ft. nJ RELICS, ETC. Here and There Of the twenty teams that have appeared in the Rose Bowl during the twenty-yehistory of the game, only four are undefeated In the clas- Indian Relies Cat L Indian Beadwork, Or Coins, Mama am, NartfckraaekL. ar Fred Apostoli, called the uncrowned king of the middleweights. San Francisco growing out of their recent non-titl- e battle in New York when the challenger knocked the champion cold Is a case in point. It recalls the lusty era when Stanley Ketchel, Billy Papke, Joe Thomas, 'Cyclone Johnny Thompson, Hugo Kelly, Kid McCoy and a lot more of like importance filled ring history with epic battles and their pockets with ready coin. Steele and Apostoli will fight for the championship in Seattle in the spring. They will probably fight several times more before the books are finally closed. They will have other opponents, too, such as Young Corbett III. Glen Lee, Lou Brouil-lard- , Solly Krieger, Jack McAvoy, Marcel Thil of France sod a couple of job lot invaders from England. Ketchel Becomes King Perhaps the most Interesting era of the middleweights was when a young coal miner named Stanley Ketchel came out of Butte, Mont, back in 1907 and announced that be intended to fight his way through a group of tough battlers to the top. Nobody paid much attention to him until one night in San Francisco he knocked out Joe Thomas. Ketchel was matched with the Sullivan twina, Mike and Jack, and he flattened them both. He Immediately became a aensation. Then a named Billy young boilermaker Fapke came out of Kewanee, 111. People called him the Thunder-hol- t. Ketchel fought him In Milwaukee and won after ten rounds. Ketchel went back to San Francisco. where he stopped Hugo Kelly, who had claimed the title. He beat Thomas again and then once more took Papke on. This time it was different Ketchel had not bothered to train and he was badly beaten. Less than two months later Ketchel did something few fighters had ever done before. He came back and defeated the man who had taken his title from him. Ketchel went on as king of the middle-weight- s and even fought Jack Johnson for the heavyweight belt Outweighed, he lost after a furious battle. Late in 1910 Ketchel was shpt and killed on a Missouri ranch. Papke again claimed the title. He knocked out Willie Lewis to prove his right to the throne. Cyclone" Johnny Thompson of Svcamore, 111., in Australia. Then in beat Papke 1912 came a parade of good fighters to keep the middleweight tradition popular. They were Jimmy dabby. Frank Klaus, Eddie McGoorty, Jack Dillon, and 0 George Chip. Following the reign of these titans came Mike Gibbons, known as the uncrowned king and some fair Then the division slipped because of lack of high class competitors, although Mickey Walker and Harry Greb were exceptions. Now it appears there is a splendid chance that there will be another era like that in the dayi of Ketchel and Papke, Steele and ApostoU probably come nearer being the Ketchel and Papke type ef fighters than the ring has Been since their day. J .. . They are Southern California, which has won Ita four games; Notre Dame, Colombia, and Harvard, each of whom have been In the Rose Bowl once . . . Joe Judge, former Washington first baseman, stands to make a sizable piece of change If Harry Bassln, a third baseman he developed at Georgetown, signs with the New York Yankees . . . Moe Berg, the Boston Red Sox catcher who speaks seven languages, always begins bis breakfast with pie and finishes with grapefruit . . . British soldiers with drawn bayonets patrol the public golf course st Bannu on the northwest frontier of India to protect players from raids by fierce tribesmen. sic Wazl-rista- n FARMERS c3 of s BOOKS Gerry Reed of Allentown, Pa., la a newsboy he served his customers with a smile. Reed, now eighteen, was left that sum for hia cheerful-Thi- s young lady Is going to get her educaUon painlessly on a new ness in the will of Oliver H. .Gen-pla- y rug for the nursery. Shown at the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, it ert, former theater manager and is decorated with nursery rhymes. 6tory book characters and games baseball manager. Young Reed is suitable for children of all ages. In this way the value of the rug does an employee of the Allentown Beth- Ichem airport. not decrease as the child grows older. 300 Firemen Fight Spectacular Blaze the fifth time in fifteen years, Schaefer . ! t Cue King Repeats FOR MEM tntereeted la efcn toilless tannine tor thil dlitrlet Ir pensive. 40 time4ZS more per acre.SaMi. I k. ANDERSON. Alameda, WANTED - Chicago has "W C" I won the 18.2 balkline billiard championship. This time he took the crown from Welker Cochran. Playing championship billiards is habit in the Schaefer family. Jakes father, Jacob, Sr., was a champion before the present was born. The elder Schaefer held championships at one time or another in the balkline, 18.1 balkline and 18.2 divisions. Young Jake became a champion last year when he won the 28.2 balkline championship ' 1 title-hold- - f f ' v ' L 4 ' V - V a 'V ' s VV ' X, , ' J ' w- I J V v . s r r ' u W , o 5 j! "- . far 'e il iw' j , nt Wtv - 'ft n t 1 fire in a Brooklyn lumber yard which 300 firemen wih 35 pieces of apparatus View of the fought for hours. Nearby tenement houses were threatened by the conflagration and 150 persons, many of them clad in night clothes fled from the menace of the flames. five-alar- m Bob HERES TO YOU swi ' Jake Schaefer, wizard v of billiards. r ' - 250-poi- MacPhails New Job who attempt LARRY MscPHAIL, Kaiser Wilhelm u - f kidnap and wound up with the imperial ash tray, accepted an even more hazardous assign ment recently when he became ex ecutive vice president of the Brook after the armistice Western Newspaper Union. broader Interest in the fight on syphilis and the- conditions which favor its spread with a war fund of $500,000 contributed by volunteers, says Doctor Wilbur, who is also president of the association. REAL ESTATE TO HEAR FROM 0Y WANTED of farm or unimproved land for t. WM. HAWLEY - - - BALDWIN. Steamship Tickets-Cr- uk Several Colleges Join Steamship Tickets. Cralaes At! War to Check Syphilis ships. Write to American EssremCa,! Stimulated by the national campaign to control venereal disease, a few colleges and universitieSjare making syphilis tests a part of the routine examinations required of incoming students. Judging from a survey made by the Chicago Tribune, serological diagnosis for syphilis Is qot a common regulation among student health services, however. Instruction on the sexual and social hazards of the disease is far more common. Many universities, in fact, require their freshman men and women to take courses in health or hygiene revealing the character of the disease. Others confine this instruction to medical and sociological courses beyond the reach of most students. University presidents, deans, and health directors questioned were unanimous In declaring that syphilis does not constitute a major health problem on American campuses. Most of them agreed that studenta found to have syphilis and gonorrhea should be kept in school where they could have adequate treatment. Prep school leaders, dealing with younger boys, were just as certain that all syphilitics should be Weal tnd Ssstk St., Uki Rail Ctty. AGENTS WANTED AGENTS in buying hides, pelts, wool and fail represent ua In your territory. Write aier, F. O. B.a SS4, Salt Lake Clll. J Tavotite Kecipt oft the Ueel'' Baked Peaches. No. 2'fc can peach 1 V halves cup brown sugar 3 tablespooM butter Cinnamon Pour the peaches and the into a shallow pan, a cake in lj convenient to use. Turn the pe halves so the cut side ii the sugar over Sprinkle peaches, place a piece of buttet each peach where the pit waij moved and sprinkle them et so lightly with cinnamon. Babj a hot oven (450 degrees) sugar on the edges of the30 begins to brown, or about utes. If you wish a more ft barred. nounced brown edge, set the F The University of Chicago, Uni- of peaches under the broiler, versity of Iowa, and Dartmouth col- a few minutes. j lege are schools which have elected Canned pear halves are to give Wasserman or Kahn tests licious prepared in this samer to all newcomers. New York univer- ner. sity offers free tests to all students, If the fruit is served as but does not require them. s sert, plain cream is nice to on the b-- iA 7 lyn Dodgers. MacPbail's appointment represents the most drastic step yet taken by the, bankers to nntangle the snarl wicta has gripped the Dodgers for 3 years. Ever since itbc deaths of Charles II. Ebbets and Edward J. McKeever within ten days of each other In the spring of 1925, the affairs of the Brooklyn club, on and off the field, have been a succession of errors. McPhail is the third business manager the Dodgers have had in the last four years.- - but the first with any authority. ' Send two 3c Stamps for YOUR REAP MAGAZINE, TsmpIcUa Bids., la 1a Testing began Midway with with it. the winter quarter this month, takMARJORIE H. BLAOj ing advantage of the Chicago board of healths program of free and secret examinations, since the university health service lacked funds SALT LUCS NEWEST HOSTSTj for this purpose. Dartmouth college began routine Our lobby Is delightful Wassermani last fall and found one cooled 4srii the saHuoer case of congenital ayphilis among Radi tit Cnqr JtoooS d 650 incoming students. 200 ft The University of Iowa started serological testing of freshmen in 1924 and continued until 1930, reported Dr. M. E. Barnes, bead of the department of hygiene. It ceased, he said, because of many objections. The university then confined its testing to food handlers, employees and others. i : from Willie Hoppe, (coring 2,500 points to hit opponents 2,296 in a blocks. series of ten Bartlett Wins Award A Ray Lyman Wilbur. PAMPHLET. V - A t vi -- V i Entertaining his tonsils with a 9 iJ v bottle of pop between sets in one of his recent exhibition matches In Australia, Is Donald Budge, United States singles champion. Following Capt. Bob Bartlett, explorer who went to the North pole with Adrecovery from a tennis slump that miral Peary, receiving the National Service award rrom Mrs. Elbert brought defeat at the hands of John Williams, new national president of the Camp Fire Girls. He was given Bromwich, young Budre went on to the award for teaching Camp Fire Girls how to tell of their achievements account of himself when they met In New-To- rk to describe their activities in life saving give a bsng-n- p la the Australian meet. exploring and other fields. 7 Sound Wavea Find Fish Fishermen of Loch Fyne, Scotland, are catching their herring by means of electric sound waves. The electric waves cannot be heard on land or sea, but are produced by quartz crystal in an echometer. The instrument has been fitted to Scottish west coast trawler. Waves sent out from it are echoed back from shoal of herring, the fish having in their bodies suffl Jent air to react to the electrical charge transmitted. ine echometer tells first when is luar, secondly where it Is. -l urnrT Temple Squaft ffofos St. 50 to $3. Tba Ilot.l Tempi Syoan klahly deairahle, trfemily 0 phm.Yow will alwaya Had ulata, aupmanaiy tkarouahly aeraeebl. Yea ha1 fata wadmataad why thia HICBLY RECOMMENDED Yaw aaa ala appraalata whyt w)j , IfS mmrti t Nfatwctlow M at thfa haMtifaf haatwnf ERNEST C ROSSlTER.f , 1 t i |