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Show Lriday.Jtao., MAGNA TIMES. MAGNA. UTAH -- Speaking of Sports Sons of Italy Make Up Star Baseball Club By GEORGE A. BARCLAY are enough Italian boys THERE big leagues to do a Verdi opera, with principals and chorus warbling In the mother tongue. Not that these fellows are singers. Ball playing Is their business and their performance on the diamond la making the brilliance of these second and third generation sons of Italy a tradition in the national game. Take a census of the in the National and American leagues and you'll find there are 17 of them and if you add a coach there would be 18 In all. Put them all together on a ball field and you'd have a team that with the exception of pitching would be able to hold Its own with any club in the big leagues. Lets start Italian-America- JOE D1 M first-strin- tor third string catcher, An- gelo Giuliani of the St. Louis Browns would do me eiy. Star Infield At tii't base vou would h if lloljih C.imili Wliats New in Swim, Beach Los still competition against Henry Armstrong whea they light for the lightweight championship Joly M. Experts wbo saw Barney Boot bow to Armstrong in New York recently are of the aplnloa that Ambers will make a creditable showing, but that whirlwind will win. the As long aa hla speed bolds out, Armstrong will probably prove too much for any fighter he meets. Ambers is not as far along the backward trail as Is Ross, but he la not likely to prove a match for tho swarming tactics of tho Negro. Ross announced declsiou to retire Is a wise one Barneys through, was on everybodys lips the night of his last fight, even though he gavt championship exhibition of gameness Barney, who had never been knocked out, stood the punishment for 15 rounds In spite of the referees desire to stop the fight. And no champion, when he has come to the end of the trail, could feel a deeper satisfaction in his achievements than Ross. Bred in the dingy poverty of New Yorks East Side and reared In the tough ghetto of Chicago, Rosa rose to pugillatlo eminence 6y abeer merit. When he won the Chicago Golden Glovea featherweight title In 1929, aa an awkward kid, he attracted the attention of Sam Plan and Art Winch, who ever since have been hla managera. They handled him shrewdly and four years later had him winning the lightweight championship from the veteran Tony Canzoneri. In 1934 Barney won the welterweight championship from Jimmy McLarnin. In a return bout with McLarnin, Ross was beaten, but came back In another year to regain that throne. He held it against all comers until he met the dusky little Armstrong, regarded by many as the greatest fighter of his weight since the famed Joe Cans. Here and There GG10 behind the plate. Well, theres Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds. He is a heavy hitter and a g crafty receiver who would be a catcher wherever he went. He'd have plenty of help from Gus Mantuso of the New York Giants. Although Gus Is beginning to show signs of wear and tear he Is still good enough for a pennant winning team, A Champ Passes fight trade fit looking to THE Ambers to provide some vc of the Hrooklwi Dodgers or Zi ke Uonura of the Washington Senators Dolph wiuld probably got ttie call for the job because of his greater speed and superior fielding ability, al though Bonura would command re spoct because of his hitting Second bise on tins italo AmerTo ican team might be a problem begin with, there s Tony Lazzcrt, now utility man with the Chicago Cubs Tony was a big gun for years in the New York Yankees offense and defense and that team seems to be fcctvn-- tus absence this year Age would probably keep Tony from playing regularly so the c ill would probably go to Tony Cuicinello of the Boston Bees whose fighting heart and fielding skill have helped make the Bees a terror for other National league teams this spring Then there would be Lou Chiozza of the New York Giants, who though crowded out of a regular job by the acquisition of Alex Kampouris by Bill Terry, still can give a good account of himself There would be no contest at third Cookie Lavagetto of the base. Dodgers who led the Brooklyn league in hitting this spring would nail down that job without half tryhortstop. of course, would go ing. to Crosettl of the New York because of his superb Yankees, holding and his timely hitting. L rankle isnt as fast as he was a few vears ago, but he's still good enough for the big time. The incomparable Joe Di Magglo, centerfielder of the New York Yankees, would head up the outlaid He would probablv be flanked on one side by his brother Vincent of the Boston Bees and by Johnny Rizzo who started the season so sensation illy with the Pittsburgh PiPhil Cavaretta of the Chirates cago Cubs would also be in the fight fur an outfield job His best cnince would be to nose out Rizzo, for Vince Di Macgio is recognized as one of the chss'est fielders in the business and he is criuding hs way toward the 300 Melvin Mazzera oMheSt maik Lem s Browt s and Tony Borgiovan m if the Reds would be utility outfielders The pitching stafT would present problems There isn't a pitcher of Italian ancestry in the big show who compares m skill with the others It seems that the sons of Italy have preferred positions where their speed and general all around ability give them a chance to play regularly every day So only Julio Bon-net- ti of the St Louis Browns and Joe Cascarella of the Cincinnati Reds would be possibilities. Oscar Melblo, coach of the Browns, would draw the assignment of manager tn view of hla long experience and hla splendid career as a player. Mellllo waa one of the to first of the Amcrlcan-Itallan- a demonstrate his race's proficiency n the diamond. aeventy CONNIE manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, continues to surprise the fans. Adding a rouple of bojs to a team that was regarded as the laughing stork of the American league, he has made the Athletics a club to be reckoned Don Lambeau, with son of the Green Bay Packers roach, will enter Fordham In the Wee Dickfall. He's a fullback ie Kerr, former White Sox pitcher who was the hero of the 1919 world series, has returned to organized baseball as an active member of a Mountain States league team Kerr is forty-fiv- e years old Bunny McCormick. Notre Dames MACK, right halfback the last two years, will spend the summer delivering Ice at Livermore. Calif , before accepting a full time position with an All oil company in California American league batting champions since 1931 have been Infielders Ted Duay, young New York Giant catcher, turned down a scholarship at Rutgers to play professional I'd rather catch Carl baseball. Hubbell than be president of Yale, he said. Flag Insurance? Bill Terry, manager of York Giants, acquired Second Baseman Alex Kampouris of WHEN the Cincinnati Reds recently, he turned a neat deal that makes his The team a real Giants were stumbling around until they got Alex. Various plavers trying to substitute for Burgess White-heawho is probably out for the season because of illness, gave poor pennant-contende- r. B7 To,"c CIIERIE NICHOLAS ADVENTURERS-CLU- By !h By LEMUEL F. PARTON France Is to think she has another Clemenceau In Premier Daladier, and she still has Marshal Philippa Petain, one of tha How Petain few survivors of the great generals Keep Fit of the World war. o? at or three Two years ago. General Petain was counseling peace and conciliation with Germany. Now he warns the French people of their "serious situation In Europe, and urges them to consider realities. g It Is quite possible that is mainly accountable tor General Petain being alive, trim, fit He Is and active at eighty-twan Inveterate ejected from his apartment In 1914, because he Jarred the plaster from the walls. This , writers record as to that goes only to 1934, but. In that year, he was still skipping diligentJofTre, Foch and Magmot, ly. among the French, Von Mackensen, Ludendorff and Htndenburg among all the Germans have passed, but Marshal Petain lives on, venerated by his countrymen. It was he who said, They on February 5, shall not pass Be was the 1916, to be exact. savior of Verdun, and, In this connection, n deft historian g might discover that saved France. The general spent e solid week tn an Aotomitrallense without sleep, and the London Dally News commented at the time that no man who was not In perfect physical condition could have survived such ordeals. It was suggested that his energy and endurance had turned the tide of war. He was bom Henri Philippe Omer Joseph Petain, the son of a baker In Couchy a la Tour. NEW : TpWO features stand out In connection with this season's swim and beach togs, namely the vast variety of materials in use, the other the fact of the dressmaker touch given their styling. It adds to the interest that gadgets in the way of costume Jewelry tuned to sea and sand and outdoor themes usualof each ly complete the "picture costume. Citing a few of the smartest materials employed, first and foremost comes lastex, which is a boon to womankind In that it conforms to lines perfectly with a magic this-wathat way stretching quality which solves the problem of clothes that fit, retain their shape and oiler perfect comfort The big sensation this season is the swim suit of black satin lastex with beach cape to match, completing the sense of luxury Flower printed lastex ensembles also have their place in the style parade along water edge and ' sea line Other interesting materials employed for playtime clothes and wardrobes for water nymphs include eelanese rayon moire, cela-nes- e rayon sharkskin, silk prints of fast color, linens in monotone or spectacular print and cottons so sturdy, so handsome, words fail of describing Then there s wear for ever denim, and washable go bar dine, so reliable when it conies to the wear and tear of riotous waves or strenuous mountain climbs Another feature that fashion spotlights is the use of striking color contrasts, perhaps in the way of playing up print with plain or the modernistic gesture of making the costume one vivid solid color boldly contrasted by another startling color on a sort of fifty fifty basis. The models pictured are typical of this season s swim suit and beach ensemble trends Centered in the group you see a stunning outfit that tunes superbly to a statuesque tig C US KIP NIC HOI AS s. ure This comely young woman is wearing black trunks with printed ' bra of eelanese rayon sharkskin A catalm fish pin on her hip answers the call for suiible costume jewelry. To the right fist on offers a new bathing suit emui tie that strikingly combines wVe with bright ocean blue The bod ce tup is blue with catalin fish pm tv way of correct gadgetry The b'ue beach coat with o lined with white monk's hood of al This very new adds to eye-apand attractive er semble is of eelanese rayon jer'ev A very interacting costume, as shown to the lift, uses blue and white cotton pm t for the beach cape p lined with white terry cloth, YORK. V? VC) one worn will need three or four 11 he Is elected. In retirement on his farm, near Norcross, he still weighs 317 pounds. It Is a unique contest for him, with no chance for his running broad-jumattack. In which he hurtles his body against his opponent His career seems to have been mostly hie wifee idea. Bora Frank Leavitt, In New York, known aa the Hell's Kitchen Hillbilly, he did a hitch In the army and thereafter engaged In some desultory wrestling and manllng as a Soldier Leavitt Nothing much came of It, and be began placidly taking on weight aa traffic cop In Miami, Fla. Doris Dean married him and began prodding hla lagging ambition. He started grappling again, In Bostin in 1933, with fame atill eluding his when a German Film Star promoter took him p i stern Newspaper Union. half-nelso- WONDERS ARE BEING DONE WITH RIBBONS of the This CIIFRIE After you have the new dress thought stays with NICHOLAS looked about at collections the you that this is decidedly a ctbbon season. Summer dresses are given a sprightly look with pert little bows here and there while ribbons galore, wide, narrow in one color or in mingled tones or gayety are swathed and sashed about the waist with utmost artistry. So utterly have designers yielded to the ribbon urge they are creating clever boleros entirely of ribbon and recently a leading Paris couturiere fashioned an entire dress of ribbon sewing it edge to edge for slender effect and for wide hemline letting the r.bbon ends fly out loose over a silken foundation. Lots of ribbon on hats this season. too. for bindings, bands and tailored bows and for floating streamers and bonnet lies- - 1! ft :t )J Guimpeo or Veateea Have Blouse Look Frilly-Frill- y With the classic suit or the more cossoftly tailored tume you are expected to wear the daintiest, frilliest blouse or gutmpe or vestee you can find. Of course, if you expect to remove the jacket, ita a blouse you must have. However, with the jacket on, a lacy. Buttery crisp and sheer false front is just the thing. They cost less than a blouse and they are showing auch fascinating ones in neckwear departments you will yield to the impulse to buy another and another which, when you atop to consider, is a fine gesture in real economy. bolero-and-ski- The more decorative and useful the pockets jour dress. Jacket, suit or blouse proudly boasts the better. Here you see a pretty lassie framed in a background of apple blossoms wearing a white culotte outfit in new selanese rayon suiLng fabric This attracLve playtime costume la pocketed to a nicety, each pocket enhanced with hand-rustitching, Just because amusing gadgets are essential in the scheme of things this season, this outdoor girl pins s novelty cat-aibrooch at her throat in the shape of a college girls cap with taaseL n vari-colore- d rt Sailor Bats The newest sailor hats have s wide range from straw to oilcloth. Hello everybody: Hunt of New Providence, Iowa, comeir way to tell us his yam, and Ive got to admit that, ut we are concerned at least, its worth the trip. Paulha covered a unique way of getting yourself into trouble I get to thinking I know all the possible kinds of thrffli t k have. But Just the minute I get to feeling that way blngl j m In the eye with a brand new kind of yarn. Paul Is another lad who doesnt have to Journey to Mat fa, t to have his adventures. He found hla biggest thrill right (a hi farm Just outside of the town of New Providence. He was Juitfc years old then, tor it was in the tall of 1920, and ha wu V father one afternoon by tramping ensilage. LfTsfe" At least thats what Paul calls It. But for the bead 4 Father of us city folks who wouldnt know ensilage from camMfiapkw Is It cornstalks Is. that Just what Ensilage itt ten plains Just k chrlftenii away la a silo ta be fed to tha cattle during the winter, j . gdtstr Paul Was Tramping Down Silage. Those stalks with the ears of com right on them-- ar flnt up fine in a machine and then fed into the silo through a (mill lull $ top. The little chunks of cornstalk, forced in by a blower, nhdt from above, but they had to be packed down tight, and fiteTi t Pauls Job started. He had to get inside and tramp the stuS dor fast as it felL I guess you all know what a silo Is. Its Just a high, round t tower with a conical rooL They have small, window-lik- e opeafcp ning up one side, to let the tramperi in and out. As fast u fe , comes up to one of them It is closed and boarded up. When up to the top window the tramper comes out and climbs down 8a k that runs alongside all the windows and straight down to the (rood It was a hard, hot job. Paul had been Inside that big towers of the day, and he was pretty tired. One by one the windows hi . boarded up until now he was past the fifth and moving upwud k Torn J V i I If He Could Only Stop the Blower. ' was more successful, and brought him to the attention of Alexandre Korda, who needed a double for Charles Laughton as Henry VIII in the wrestling scene. Thus came the famous whiskers, an important de-- I tail of his wifes clever showman-- 1 of the Man ship In the build-u- p Mountain. It was she who persuad-- I ed him to take the name Dean and who managed the histrionics which made him a fabulous creature. He was bom in West Forty-thir- d street In 1891, weighing 16V4 pounds. OEORGE E. Q. JOHNSON, the slight, bespectacled man who sent Al Capone to Alcatraz, Is devoting his life to social betterment He Sent He wants to make cities less fertile Capone to soil for crime, Alcatraz and to that end. would flush city and country children back and forth, interchange- to the benefit of each, he be- and the nurture of good behavior. It was as United States attorney that he deftly enmeshed Capone to a silken spider-we- b of evidence, laboriously gathered and spun. The next year. Her-beHoover made him a federal Judge, but he atayed on the bench only a year and then went back to his law practice. He broke the gangs to Chicago. His story of how he snared Capone told before the senate Judiciary committee, with its tales of trap, doors and secret panels, was Grade A melodrama, but he didnt make It sound that way. He to a modest man. with no instincts of rt C ConaolMMnl Tfcws Features. WNU Berries. Tvs little the alxth. The higher he got the nearer he came to tbs top tt aide er silo the hotter it was. Chopped cornstalks rained down co kia above as he tramped about in a never ending circle. He was pie, Tm himmi jktsr Is a Bn( weary when, at last, the soft floor of green fodder under Brents. the bottom of the sixth and last opening. He could quit now-- ui out In the cool air while the blower filled the remaining space to the with unpacked stalks. MISS J He Was Trapped in the Silo. He went to the window and called down to the men that five U had been reached. Then he went back Into the dim recesses (ft round tower to give the com a last stamping down. The little wooden door now hla only opening Into Ihe ssk world blew abut. That made it darker Inside, but he didst k er to open It again. Hed be out of there for good talk minutes. Paul tramped the floor over again carefully. Where wai flat with the wooden bars to close the window? He went to the see If he was coming. But when he tried to push open flu wouldnt move. He hammered shoved tugged but he couldatlw It Then, with a sinking feeling he realized what had happen 4 man had been there and gone. Seeing the door closed he was out He had slipped the wooden bars In place, leaving the jow! I trapped in the rapidly filling silo. Paul started to yell, but though he put everything he had Mo 8, cries he knew they wouldnt be heard. Tho walls of tho 3o Tj and outside the machinery was setting up 0 clatter that drww whatever feeble sounds might escape. The blower was .till flood of silage and, to make matters worse, Paul was 0 do he got the full force of the blast Every piece that hit W i M unprotected head. He got down on his knees then fell to hli knees, trying to escape that agonizing bait Doomed Unless lie Could Stop the Blower. It was horrible, he says. "I wae walled to ellv. corn was rapidly covering me over. Breathing became " and harder. I was suffocating. If I could only etop that his Into come that sooner The blower! had no Stop thought he had an idea. Time and again he had seen tho men stop the pipe had been clogged. He crouched down In the J lau..., tearing off his clothes. He made a ball of his shirt snalWi reached toward the blower. The stinging blast drovs him tried again. The bits of corn that showered on him hailstones. Again he was driven back. He looked down 1 and saw that they were bleeding. But in that glance he s else, too. His pitchfork. Paul grabbed for that pitchfork. He wadded bis clothes wrapped them around the end of the handle, and onca . them toward the opening of the blower. This ttotfb they j stayed in. The pipe clogged. Outside the machinery toppw . men heard his cries. They climbed tha ladder, took tha hwj the top of the root And It waa a scared boy, says crawling out of the hole. It was the closest call Ive ever j PL P" Copyright. South American Tongue Twisters The following are pronunciations of some South American names: Asuncion Bahia '' Barranquilla (Bare-ra- n Buenos Aires y Cartagens Falls (Eeua- Llama soo), Iquitos tBaa-ee-yah- ), keel-ya-- ), Ial (Yah-mah- ), Llao-Lla- o (Yow-yow- Magalanoes Rio de Janeiro (Ree-oToqullla h (Tow-kell-ya- ). day ), zhab-nay-row- ), WNU Service. 0 Salt Peter From According to legeni the old ox wagonf of Kentucky across the. mountains to was used In tha manufajJL powder for tha War sUnd cording to present On plosives salt peter would not o make one charge to n f rifle. o Bridal Veil Dates to Greeks Dimensions af Bl The bridal veil is a relic of an Tha dimensions of to ancient superstition, dating back to the time of the Greeks and Romans, 1 If not much earlier. It waa worn hour figure, two to protect the bride from evil square, foot spirits spaces, one which it was believed would harm 13 feet, nearly 700 pound, her if she were not veiled. hand, 14 feet The Masterful Maa Religious Poo "A masterful man, said HI Ho, Religion, pooeo the sage of Chinatown, is like a those who have B good horseman who controls by a less brave, or Ism word and disdains tha use of whip it doe. thto- -lt makes them and spur. x ful, make, them I I gf. Barton J I Man Mountain Dean, the wrestler, running for the legislature in Georgia, la after only over a luose fitting w ute terry cloth suit Accessory is wh e catalin Viennese stag horn bracelet with carved edelweiss This costume won an award and is an adaptaion of an Algerian mans costume from the Traphagen costume museum. To supplement the list of materials smartly in use for beach dress and bathing suit, hopsjikmg should be mentioned It is ranked along with sh irkskin for shorts and slacks and shirts. Then there are the fascinating crinkle cottons that make such practical and attractive beach coats Water, sun or sand dim not their beauty or colorfulness. One of the cleverest ideas is the quilled dural cotton prints. A bolero of quilted print worn with matching pruned broadcloth slacks together with a peasant kerchief of the same print is a happy suggestion Try this ensemble, it's a winner this season. W FLOYD GIBBONS Be-no- nl Bv C Wtstorn Newspaper Union. V F emeus Beadline Banter rope-skippe- r, vK-r'S- r performances at the kej stone sack. Kamoourte broutht an end to Terrys worries. Little Alex, who is the only Greek boy in the big leagues, is not a heavy hitter, but he does clout them occasionally for extra bases and break up ball games as a result Alex, who batted only .249 last year, drove out 17 home runs. It Is as a sure fire fielder and a player with dash and fire that he will be of value to the Giants In the race. Kampourla, wbo came originally from the Pacific Coast league, la a resident of Sacramento, Calif. He attended the University of Sonthern California and waa the youngest student ever to graduate from that Institution. Wally Berger, whom the Reds got from the Giants tn exchange for Kampourla, hit .285 last year and Led Alexs record of 17 home runs. f I The Round Toner1 By ALEX KVUFOIRIS I HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! ACCENT ON POCKETS fi f B i h'n t held fkcip |