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Show Speaking of SpoYts 100 Get Trials In American League Camps By GEORGE A. BARCLAY than 100 rookies MORE being taken to the American league spring training camps this year. How many of them will make good and stay in fast company? That is. a question that eight American league managers would like to be able to answer right various School for Imps VOU tee and hear a lot of things 1 and you likewise learn a few odds snd ends in thirty-si- x yesrs of major snd minor league umpiring. "Brick Owens, famed American league arbiter who retired a few weeks ago could tell you that So out of the fullness of his experience. Brick is preparing to conduct a correspondence school for umpires. Looking back over the years, Owens has seen some great ball clubs and some great players. The best team-o- f all, he says, was the White Sox of 1919 and 1920 that turned into the "Black Sox. Among pitchers, Brick considers Walter Johnsons delivery as deceptive as Safety Workers Recruit Science In Battle on Hightvay Fatalities For Your Spring Wardrobe I now. But looking over the records of these recruits and gathering dope from the minor league managers who tutored them in 1937, It la evident that a very competent bunch of new men are getting tryouts In the junior circuit The Boston Red Sox seem likely to retain at least eight of the players brought in from Minneapolis and Little Rock, Ark. Among these are Catcher John Peacock, Pitcher Charles Wagner and Outfielder Henry Gaffke of Minneapolis; Pitchers Emerson Dlckman and Dick Mid-klf- f. Infielder Jim Tabor and Outfielders Deal and Nonnekamp of Little Rock. N v' Bob Feller Lefty Grove he ever saw. He says Lefty Grove was one of the three or four fastest pitchers in history. Bob Feller, the schoolboy sensation of Cleveland, Is rated by Brick as a faster pitcher than Lefty Grove and as fast as Johnson. "Feller has something few pitchers ever had. saya Brick. "He throws his curve ball almost as fast as his speed ball. Mikes New Pitchers Daring hit officiating career, Mickey Cochrane, who recently Owens umpired more than 5,700 announced his definite retirement as games snd believes he encountered an active player at Detroit appears every tough problem possible. Not to have some likely recruits. De- once In his career did he permit troits roster Is long on pitchers. a game to get eat of hand. He Mickey will have 17 to choose from. officiated 2,450 garnet in the AmerElton Benton, who starred with ican league, 1,512 In the American Memphis last year, seems ready. AsaoclaUon and several hundred Among other good prospects are more In other minor leagues. Pitchers Harry Eisenstat and Jack Here and There GIBBONS, one of the contenders for the middleweight title 25 years ago, came out of retirement to referee the match between John Henry Lewis and Fed Lenhart in St Paul recently . . . Spug Meyers, who fought Mushy Callahan for the junior welterweight title in Chicago in 1929, now is operating a tavern in Pocatello, Idaho . . Bennie Oosterbaan. who led Big Ten basketball scorers in 1928 with 129 points, returned to his alma mater as a football coach the following season and has remained there ever since. Mickey Walker aays he would not pick professional boxing as s career, if he had hla life to live over . . the Michlgan-Yal- e football game next fall will mark the first contest between the two elevens in 55 years, Yale having won their last meeting, 64 to I, in 1883 . . . Chart, ley Jones, manager of Sammy lightweight boxer, had completed three years of college study at the Louisville Institute of Technology when the World war broke out. Seventeen yearn later he returned to the same school. Wade Killifer, last years Indianapolis manager, will be the highest paid pilot in the Pacific Coast league He will lead the next season. Hollywood club. His brother. Bill, will be at Sacramento . . . Notre Dame and Marquette began .their basketball series on the old dirt floor at Notre Dame in 1920, re- sumed it on the concrete floor in Milwaukees auditorium the following year, and have continued it on hardwood. MIKE An-got- Mickey Cochrane Corbett Inflelder Frank Croucher and Outfielder Roy Cullenbine. The Chicago White Sox will depend largely on Gerald Walker and Marv Owens, acquired In the trade with Detroit to bolster them, but Pitcher Bill Cox from St Paul and Outfielder Rupert Thompson from San Diego look like the goods. Cleveland has considerable new material, with Pitcher John Humphrey of New Orleans, Outfielder Geoffrey Heath and Third Baseman Kenny Keltner of Milwaukee out in front The acquisition of Catcher Rollie Hemsley from the St. Louis Browns, should help. The New York Yankees rookies come from Newark, which won the International league pennant by 24 Pitchers Joe games last year. Beggs, Atlee Donald and Second Baseman Joe Gordon seem ready to step into the lineup and make good. Connie Mack is believed to have four recruits who will give the Athletics considerable aid and comfort this season. These include Pitchers Bill Potter from Columbus, Ohio, Steve Kalfass from Trenton, N. J., First Baseman Bill Hasson of Williamsport and Second Baseman of Oakland, Calif. The St. Louis Browns appear to have strengthened themselves not only in their recent major league trades, but by the acquisition of Pitcher Vito Tamuulis and First Baseman George McQuinn of Newark, and Pitcher Muncncf of San Antonio. Several of Bueky Harris Washington recruits appear to lack experience, but Outfielder Frank Case and Pitcher Mike Krakakaus of Trenton and Pitchers Leonard of Atlanta and Fbebus of Chattanooga are highly touted as being able to style. deliver the goods In Lod-igu- New David Ilarum STREET, foxy old manfy VBBY ager of the St. Louis Browns, - has earned himself the undisputed title of the David Harum of the American league with three deals this winter which have brought him seven first class players in return for the three he traded, plus abut $20,000 in cash. In the first trade, the Browns obtained Pitcher Buck Newsom. Outfielder Buster Mills and Inflelder Red Kress from the Boston Red Sox In the in return for Joe Vosmik. .k m big-leag- Diamond Flashes Fifty nationalities, or combination s Ilf nationalities, are represented in the iationul league. Three hat a Indian strains: Guy Hush of the Cardinals is Enghsh-lndia; Hoy Johnson of BosTom Baker of ton, Noruegian-lndian- ; . . . Lee Gristhe Giants, som, Cincinnati southpaw rookie, was unable to beat either Pittsburgh or St. Isiuis last year, losing four to the Pirates and fiva to the Cards. But he beat Boston four times and Brooklyn thrice , . . Lou Fette of Boston defeated Brooklyn six times last season, losing one game. It was the most victories any pitcher chalked up over one team , . . A ina players in the league have hit more than 100 home runs in theit National league careers. Nineteen players still in the league here driven in more hate made than 500 runs. Twenty-simore than IjOOO hits , , , Biggest margin held by any club over another since 1900 is the Cubs' lead over Boston, 519 " ' s' 1 ' - j ,1 iVi V : ' ; Y' .a. -- . v 1 ' i N . a ' I:-;- - Irish-lndin- x , to 301. b d&t&9 Rollie Hemsley. second deal they sent Rollie Hemsley, veteran catcher whose play has ranked with that of the gamea greatest backstops, to the Cleveland Indians for Catcher Billy Sullivan, Inflelder Roy Hughes and Pitcher Ed Cole. In their third trade they swapped Shortstop Bill Knickerbocker to the New York Yankees for UUlity Inflelder Don Heffner and are said to havs also received $20,000 in cash from the Yanks. t WtsUrn Newspaper Union. Here are traffic developments predicted for the future: (1) GoldrRESSES that not only satisfy ing cars automatically by Invisible your present craving for rays from cables in a street. (2) something new and spring-lik- e, "haxard tone Ending motoring but also look ahead to a later seawith in effect a battery of windtoo. Make them yourself at son, shield wipers through non - skid for very much less than home, methods. (3) Infra-re- d rays from you usually spend on clothes. car to car to alow down vehicles Youll find it very easy to do, approaching too rapidly. (4) Radio with the sew chart that accompaanto one car beam warnings from nies each pattern. other. (5) Electric eyes to control Corselette Waistline. so that any given highway lighting have a slim figure, this Is If you area is illuminated only when traffic 'the dress for you I The afternoon requires It. fullness over the bust, the sleeves cut in one with the shoulders, and will find 37,000,000 motor vehicles the lifted waistline, are just as on the road 10,000,000 more cars flattering as they can bel Its the kind of dress you can wear to than now choke the hlghwaysl and Except for the relatively few bridges, luncheons, meetings, with for afternoon occasion, every traffic routes which are propheavy is not only erly lighted, the inadequate systems the assurance that it used for illuminating the highways, smart but becoming. and the blinding glare of headSlenderizing House Frock. Especially designed for full figlights on the road, are two chief reasons given for rural roads being ures, this house frock follows the scene of most fatal auto accistraight, tailored lines, and fits dents. beautifully. You can get into it Science is developing a new sys- in nothing flat, and it doesnt take tem of highway lights for certain long to make either, thanks to the e areas which will supply complete and detailed sew chart that comes with your pattern. visibility without glare illuminating the road so that a driver can Make it up in a pretty, small-figure- d see as far ahead as in clear dayprinted percale, and trim rick-racit with rows of light. Glareless Headlights. A Frilly Home Cotton. Because the taxpayers would This is perfectly charming, groan if all highways were floodmade up in dotted Swiss, voile or lighted by this new lighting syscolor dimity, in some flower-lik- e traffic s tem, experts say that glare-les- like delicate blue or sunor pink headlights will be necessary on 90 per cent of the highways. Here, shiny, clear yellow, with sheer white collar and cuffs. Its ideal too, science has the answer in defor slim Nice to wear velopment of polarized glass for around thefigures. house and pernow, elimand to windshields headlights to fect wear later on, anywhere, inate glare without reducing the amount of light on the road ahead. during summer afternoons. The Patterns. Looking to the car of the future 1442 is designed for sizes 12, 14, itself, the public is assured by the auto makers that the cars of the 16, 18 and 20, 40 and 42. Size 14 marequires 33i yards of next few years will make the present medels look more antiquated terial. 1389 is designed for sizes 38, 38, than the first horseless Carriages. 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size 38 A crystal-gazinof what picture kind of a car today's driver may Automatic Gadgets Will Eliminate Human Element in Autos of the Future, Say Pioneering Engineers Read and Gasp at Their Elaborate Precautionary Plans! By JOSEPH W. LaBINE Automobile accidents dealt sudden death to 39,700 persons and cost the nation two billion dollars last year. e record and a disThat is not news. It is an in of fire along emblazoned should be letters which grace of has screamed it the land, although highway already every from many headlines In the last few weeks. But today,"Tor the first time, there is a definite, organized war being carried into every corner of the United States by an army of 8,000,000 who, with their families, make up a quarter of the nations population, in an effort to drive the grim reaper from the highway once and for all. THAT is NEWS. And scientists today are able to predict confidently that the time is in sight when science will take over the conall-tim- trol of a moving car when it is not safe to leave the control in the driver's hands and restore that control to the driver at times when nature would ordinarily take it away from him. THAT is news, too. g Twelve national, civic, educational and business organizations are recruiting the troops for the war on death. One would expect to find lined up in such a campaign the American Automobile association, the Automotive Safety Foundation, the Highway Education board, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Automobile Dealers association and the National Safety council and so they are. But it is encouraging to learn that the banner is also being carried by such ordinarily independent groups as the American Legion, the General Federation of Womens Clubs, the National Congress of Parent-Teacher- s and the National Grange. Particularly the National Grange, for in the rural areas more automobile accidents result in swift and horrible death, relatively, than in the more crowded thoroughfares of the cities. Science Takes a Hand. And it is especially heartening to discover that two active groups represent the scientific resources of two great universities. These are the Traffic Safety institute of Northwestern university in Evanston, 111., and the bureau of street traffic research of Harvard university at Cambridge, Mass. crystal-gazer- s Two of science Dr. Miller McClintock, director of the Harvard bureau, and Prof. John M. Lessells, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently startled the automotive world with visions of the day science will make highway accidents next to impossible. Dr. McClintock speaks of the day to come When invisible electric bumper raysi will prevent one motorist from colliding with another, no matter how careless he may be. It is possible to lay in the pavement itself electrical cables which, when a car comes to a dangerous curve or around an obstruction, would automatically take the steering from the driver by radio control and thus center the car over the cable and steer it safely around the curve or obstruction, Dr. McClintock explains. Pointmg to the success of invisible eye controls in other fields, the scientist predicts the use of electric bumpers. This would be made possible by installing infrared lights in the rear of automobiles. which would actuate photoelectric cells in front of other cars. This "invisible eye would reduce the speed of a car overtaking, another too rapidly. Lighting the Way. Car of the future may themselves turn on and off the lights used to illuminate highways at nighL' it . is. predicted by Dr. Mc far-seein- - Clintock. This development will also make use of infra-relight cells, he rays and says. r When the first chugged down Main street, a speed of 30 miles an hour was considered remarkable, and as a result, no particular demand was put on the brakes. Nowadays, stock cars are manufactured with much greater speeds, and more efficient brakes have followed brakes which can bring cars to a stop in less than half the distance formerly required, if the proper traction can be obtained on the road surface. Such traction is a simple matter when road surfaces are dry, according to Professor Lessells, editor of the technical journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Eliminating the "hazard zone where wet pavement causes skidding accidents will be one of sciences greatest contributions to traf- d photo-electr- requires 4 yards of 33 inch material, 3H yards of bn 1453 is designed for sizes 0,1 16, 18 and 20. Size 14 require! material, phi I yards of yard contrasting, 2 yards edgh,1 Send your order to The Sen Circle Pattern Dept., 149 Kc Montgomery Ave., San Franck1 Calif. Patterns 15 cents (in eon! 1 each. 39-in- THEl THERE JU El ,.i cio. long-rang- ic "one-lunge- The artt k. 'ear ihite umm if M. H. THOMPSON Droi iot Maaager g not only da ts it polishes, but pmtnts jo h drying-out- , 5 Flood Stage Bunchuck What is the greatest water power known to man? Dzudi Womans tears. (i In the Feeling Poverty consists of feeliafr. Emerson. . Then or Never "Do you think Im too young to marry, Aunt? asked the girl. "If I had my time over again, dear, replied the old maid, Id get married before I had sense enough not to. . Dr. Miller McClintock, director of Harvard university bureau of street trafllo research, examines a model "city of the future, where s. traffic will move quickly along super-highway- be riding in tomorrow, is given by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, Vorld war ace, and engineering proph- Captain It Rickenbacker predicts: to ride will be an attractive car in. In size and appearance terior will be like a small room, will be and there will be no noise ir the In- living or vi- bration. "You will have to look twice to find the engine. It will be less conspicuous than In cars today. It or it may be radimay be al like certain airplane engines. It may be in front or it may behind. In any case, it will be lighter and more compact but just as powerful as the engines you are used to. C Western Newspaper Unioik Yes, inonthEfisyi: Thats It Prospective Governess Im not interested in the position. I didnt realize you had thirteen children. Mistress Dont tell me youre superstitious. No Holding Him Back Mike How on earth did Murphy win that cross-countr- y race? He was ready to give up when I saw him. Pat Oh, he sat down to rest on a wasps nest. Nowadays a girl has to work INSTANT LIGHTlp PolemanE Uih m BtMkae. tarn rmlra, strike Mantlr. ThaOnlwn barn Taken at Her Word The newlyweds had just got off their train. John, dear, said the bride, lets try to make people think weve been married a long time. All right, honey, was the answer, you carry the suitcases. gf faadr far aaa. Operate FBE raus dralar me write tat THg. COLEMAN USr"pPTi like a horse to get a groom. , I 1 feeds the finish, ptf j cracking. Is Polkkkj upon J furniture, woodwoA floors (with the fof mous t Mop). nitnxe fle safety, according to Professor Lessells. Pointing out that the solution of the problem must be found at the point where the car makes contact with the road. Professor Lessens adds: If we can instantaneously create a dry surface, over which the tire is always passing, the car's brakes will keep it under control. I anticipate that some way will soon be found to make this possible." Autos on Increase. The car owner who thinks that traffic safety will come only when fewer autos are on the highways Is in for a big disappointment, if a recent survey of automobile and traffic experts means anything. They expect, on the basis of present trends, that the next 20 years oimdr DQIiJnHW ... because 0. iVERTISING is J to business M oAl to growing crops. 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