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Show ySeptember MAGNA TIMES. MAGNA. UTAIT Speaking of Sports Comeback of Di Mag Makes Yanks Haj W 2 Softball School ' 'HE axiom (hat Englands battles of tomorrow are being wen todsy ZOOM! BOOM! on the plsylng fields of Hsrrow and Eton might be paraphrased for bsseball as follows: Major leagne Faster Music-Ma- d games of tomorrow are being won on softball fields ef today. The Song You Than Composers Can Write For the outstanding baseball finds Next Will Be a of the past several years got their By GEORGE A. BARCLAY start playing softbalL AS THE New York Yankee! have Joe Di Maggio was a softball playthundered down the home er before he Jumped to baseball and atretcfa In the American league pen- started toward the hall of fame as new tune a trial. Its really quite By JOSEPH W. LaBINE nant race, piling up a lead that a member of the New York Yanan honor, they say, to offer a numsince not could 'not be challenged, the deni-sen- s kees. His sensational so oVer the a r for the first time. many years ber teamyoung of Gothama Little Italy have If the public Ikes it the song beTom Henrich, broke into the you heard a good phonograph mate, been happy. For Joe Di Magglo was game via the softball diamond. Ken record at your neighbors comes a national favorite overnight, hitting and hla bat was winning ball Keltner. who has made a name for and is thereby ruined. rushing thereupon games. Joes baiting average Is a himself this year as third baseman house, What Ascap wants is control over barometer of joy or despair In the for the Cleveland right down to the music store the number a new was of Indians, east side neighborhood where the member of a Milwaukee softball to buy a for yonr own song gets over performances copy the airwaves. And sons of Italy have settled and raised was though some may cry Monopoly! team that played in the worlds gramaphone. Maybe their bambinos. meet two years ago and Unfair!' it still isnt a bad remarkchampionship of Gene one Austins In the early days o! the season idea. long before he thought of professionwith al when Joe was in the ably successful songs baseball as a career. Ascap is composed of most major the Yankee ownership and his bat the watched who men Baseball song writers, who complain they was feeble, there was consternaIn those days, a composer must now write 10 times as many world's championship softball tourtion In Little Italy." But as the seadays, and even Yes, We Have songs as In son wore on and the Yanks began nament in Chicago whlch drew could write 1 states of the Union, teams and recordfrom music then their sheet InNo Bananas or Margie pulling away from the Cleveland who can atare smaller. ing profits dians, there were smiles, for Joe agreed that a player to watch the tain a respectable baiting average and settle back The best index to this had found his batting eye again. moundsmen la profits roll in from sheet competent against trend of public acceptance is If Little Italy" was happy over the fast ball pitching events, should music, recordings and dance found in the radio program which DI Magglos revival, so was Joe Mo- be able to hit a baseball without exorchestras. For a year or asks its listeners to vote on their ceeding difficulty. more, "Carolina Moon swept the favorite numbers each week. No The softball pitcher stands only 40 nation and nobody tired of it; intune has ever stayed in first place feet away from the hatter at home deed, we haven't tired of it yet. more than a few weeks; seldom do plate, whereas the baseball pitcher But that was long ago maybe 10 they stay in the running more than stands 60 feet away. The ball he years in the dim, halcyon days be- two months. uses is not much larger than a regfore home was not the same without Billy Hill's Experience. ulation baseball 12 inches in cir- a radio, before music became a which pools all musical Ascap, cumference compared to 9 Vi. It is d industry instead of a lei- copyrights of its members, collects as the hard. It comes to nearly surely profession. Nowadays you and distributes them, has batter with almost blinding speed get shivers up the back one week royalties won some success in its campaign. when thrown by a star softball pitchfrom and the In Nebraska, where Ascap was held er. Camera tests have indicated following week you scream whenan unconstitutional restraint of that the pitching speed of a fast ever anyone hums it. The first trade, an appeal brought a temposoftball is about the same as that time you hear ''Flat Foot Floogie rary injunction against the decision. of a fast baseball. But the softit has a novel catch; but after it's The organization claims it simply ball batter has less dis- been smashed all over your living its members, which could tance In which to get ready to swing. room by every band from Benny protects racketeering. hardly be called Far from acoffing at softball as a Goodman to the Hot Shot Six, Flat Gene Buck. Ascap president, likes sissy game, thoughtful baseball men Foot Floogie" really falls flat. to tell what happened to Billy Hill, frankly agree that It may be effecIn other words, if you've any ideas who found himself broke while his tive In preparing a youngster for about making a million by wTiting Home on the Range was being baseball later on. Says Joe Cronin, a popular song, get rid of them. hummed 11 over the nation. manager of the Boston Red Sox: The tide has changed so rapidly, so Since the public eats up new completely, that the modern com- tunes so fast, composers and orposer starves to death unless he can chestra leaders are getting gray JOE DI MAGGIO grind out several new tunes a year. hair trying to meet the demand. fullback in the Zoom lTp Boom . Down. parthy, (or once again this astute GREATEST The result has been some ingenious this fall will be Howie managers faith In a ball player was The Take Broke devices. Wisconof the of Weiss, University vindicated. McCarthy is noted for One method is to take an old Down it actually did, in three r to Coach Harry sticking with a player when the av- sin, according tune and rearrange it. change it too much months, simply through . . . The Longwood Cricket erages are throwing him down. He it zeomed from waltz to foxtrot time and back radiocasting. Overnight of club Chestnut has Hills, Mass., demonstrsted that long ago with to nation wide popularity; almost as again. What," asked Benny GoodPitcher Pat Malone when Joe was the first tennis racket it ever pur- fast it fell with a thud and a boom man recently, can you do with a manager of the Chicago Cubs. In chased. It was bought April 24, that resounded up and down New sung like- Mv Gal Sal' after youve 50 . . . or 1878, Among years ago Malones first year as a Cub, he lost Tin York's Pan Alloy. Looking at played it 4.000 times? You've got football oppoTemple universitys his first five starts. like this, the American So to kick it around'" nents this year are three with whom jncidents Another method, which ties up the Owls played scoreless ties last ciety of Composers, Authors and with Goodman's idea, is to go back the Publishers to trade) (Ascap year. They are Bucknell, Holy That might have discouraged the Cross and Boston college . . With is trying to promulgate fair trade into history Ella Fitzgerald, Negro completely abandoned average manager, but not Joe Mc- the signing of Cecil Isbell of Purdue practice rules to stop carrying a vocalist, when she saw how fast modern tunes tune too far. good sent He Malone back for and Andy Uram of Minnesota, stars Carthy. In common practice, a publish- they wear out. Instead she combed fus sixth start Pat Justified this of the recent All Star football game through the files and revived old confidence by winning that game in Chicago, the Green Bay Packers er's representative approaches a nalike Swanee River, finalnumbers and going on to become one of have made themselves a formidable tionally broadcast dance orchestra the most effective pitchers in the threat In the National Professional leader like Guy Lombardo, or Rudy ly reaching the nursery rhymes. As was National league. Later when trou- - Fodtball league this falL Vallee and begs him to give every a result, brought into the limelight. ble dogged Malone and Jtewas Schubert to Swing. waived out of the league, McCarthy, Shakc-UpTim- e now manager of the Yankees, signed Some months ago an opera lover VV HEN the winter baseball meet--' him as a relief pitcher and he conwas amazed at the familiarity of a tinued with good results for the Inga are held several months tune he heard being played by a Yanks until the close of last season. hence. It Is the prophecy of Informed jazz orchestra. The melody kept You could cite other examples of bsseball men that there will be running through his mind at its fast tempo, exasperatmgly,. until he this tenacious McCarthy faith. more trades between big league slowed it down anji discovered the Theres the case of Pitcher Lefty teams than the national game hai truth: An adept arranger had sim('omei, who ran into a discouraging experienced in a long time. 'Shake-up- '' talk is in the air as series of defeats and finally worked ply lifted an aria from the opera. his way back Into the winner's es- baseball gives way to football m Martha. Since then, such classitate. Or you might mention Lou seasonal sports interest and teams cal composers as Mendelssohn, but fared indifSchubert. Schumann and Grieg have Gehrig, who was a bust In the early that promised been turned over m their graves dajs of this season. Joe didn't give ferently are preparing to strengthen and changed to swing time. up on Lou when the fans and critics themselves for the 1939 race. It Is conceded that three teams were panning him. This, say some, is plain "robAnd so Joe DI Maggio is the lat- the New York Giants, and the Chibery. yet it's very seldom that a brand new tune comes out of Tin est reward of McCarthys loyalty. cago Cubs In the National league Pan Alley. The June-mooJoes troubles this year started with blue-yoidea runs through so his holdout demand for $40,000. after a brilliant 1937 season. Joe's holdmany modern lyrics that it someout was a failure and he finally times becomes disgusting. What's more, many a compromised for $25,000 a year aftcomposer has furnished the uispiration for a er missing the training trip entirely. Obviously ont of condition because of missing the training trip, he Radio's growing army of entermissed the first ten days of the seatainers helps devour the new songs, son and one of the disciplinary so much that the average tune lasts measures adopted by Col. Jacob only a few weeks before the public Ruppert, owner of the club, tor this tires of it. At left, Rudy Vallee recalcitrant holdout was to dock Joe of "Stein Song fame. Below, Phil at the rate of $162 for each game he Cook, song plugger extraordinary. or of a total $1,620. Once missed, Joe got Into the lineup, however, be was careful not to miss another ADVENTURERS America 'Eati Up'NewTunei Them; HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI Week! Headache Hum Today ( v The Fall Into the Bottomless We? Its Hello everybody: you imagine falling into a well and never ing bottom? Thats what happened to William J SwC of Long Island City, N. Y., who tells todays yarn. In the spring of 1885, Bill Sternberg, then a lad of In panes of glass along the aide of a building In Long Island since burned down. A steep slope fell away almost verticals frJ, building, and below this slope was an old well, whose rotUni had been removed preparatory to making a new cover. Now It it -- CLUB il Bill Sails Off Into Space. Along the far end of the building, the ground fell away that Bill had to go look for the ladder he had left against the extension. To make sure the ladder was stiff where be had Mil4 took step backward to look over the edge of the root SuddJ, left foot went completely Into space I a!' pre-radi- one-thir- d Here and There Merry-Go-Roun- d Stuhl-drehe- - Joe Is Game . t, ' 1 love-dov- u long-dea- game. Informed baseball followers are giving odds that Colonel Ruppert will refund DI Maggio's lost salary when the 1938 season goes into history. Joe Gets Going The going wasn't easy for Joe in the early stages of the season. The hits didn't blast into the outfield as they had in his two previous years and a home run was something of a curiosity. But McCarthy stuck with him. As a matter of fact he tried to drop Di Maggio into the lineup as a .pinch-tutteon opening day, but was overruled by Business Manager Ed Barrow. That gesture, as well as McCarthy's serene confidence in him when Joe apparently couldn't get going, was a convincing evidence that his manager believed the slump was only temporary. Joe's performance in the home stretch of the pennant race proved how right McCarthy was. Finishing bis third year in the big leagues, Joe Di Maggio can rest and invite bis soul. Ills baiting average, and also bis record for runs batted In and runs scored mark him as one of baseball's greats. Those who know this young Italian say Di Maggio Is a misunderstood player. He has a reputation for aloofness that borders on the snooty. r This Is shyness, say his friends. CONNIE MACK and the Cleveland Indians In the American league are most In need of overhauling - if - they are to be pennant contenders again next year. How to do it? Few managers would be prepared to take the drastic stops used by Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics on two occasions years ago when he decided his teams had passed their peak of baseball usefulness to him and could still bring a handsome profit. will remember that after the world's series of 1914 which the Athletics lost to the Boston Braves, Mack disposed of his $100,000 infield consisting of Stuffy Mclnnes, Eddie Collins, Jack Barry and Frank Baker, as well as sundry pitchers and outfielders. He used the same procedure after the 1931 world's series. But Managers Terry, IUrtnett, and Yitt, respectively, will be receptive to trades that will replace fading or disgruntled players with fresh performers. s Western Nswtoaocr Union e. 1 ati dog-hous- e high-spee- J BUI aaya, I knew In a flash riiere I was about ts gs. (m too late to scramble forward, so I braced my foot, sad' with a my might I threw my body back . . . n raFrankie Masters, dio orchestra leader, leads bla band in rehearsing a brand new tune or is it just an old one revamped with a few notes and another set of lyrics? well-know- modern song writer. A good musician can take most popular numbers apart and show what makes them run. Copyright Troubles. d Broke The Down" had its start in a Manhattan night club where Eddie Riley and Mike Farley pulled a verse from the Ford joke book and wrote a tune to go with it. Soon a New York radio station began broadcasting from the club and overnight the song was a national favorite. The interesting sidelight here is that the Ford joke book was not copyrighted, otherwise its publisher could have collected $250 from every radio station, cafe and restaurant that used And right below lay you guessed It the Bills quick thinking may have saved his life, open went but it didnt km from going through a bad experience. His shoulders struck the Ui $ of the well and hit feet scraped the near edge so that he lay a top opening like a stiff stick. Only he wasnt so stiff, worst lack by bit he started to slip down the aides of the well, the welS g body held In space only by thefierce pressure of his braced feet shoulders against the rough brick aides of the well. And Then He Started to Slip! Had that well been an inch wider in diameter, boys and girh wouldn't be telling this story. As it was, he had all he could dot p lng with all his strength, to keep his body out straight, to keep pru: on his toes and his shoulders and neck. AND THEN HE STARTED TO SUP! Merry-Go-Roun- Picture for yourself what he waa up against. If either kb bead or hla feet started slipping faster than the sther at, fe might drop so much on one end that his body weald as lap meet the wail on both sides. The minute hla legs or Us feeders slipped enough to fail away from the wall HE WOULD PLUNGE TO THE DEPTHS BELOW! But worse was still to come. Working with Bill on th jot . man by the name of Franz. When the first terror at his predion! it. Copyrights or lack of them have given many a composer financial trouble. Take Shelton Brooks, now pounding piano in a New York cafe. Back in 1910, while doing the same thing in Chicago, he wrote the famous Some of These Days " No publisher would touch it. so Mr. Brocks and a friend handled it themselves Their net profit at 10 cents a copy vi as $62.50. But a few months later a vaudeville trio picked it up and started it on the road to fame. Mr Brooks sold out to Will Rossiter for $500. That's all he got out of it, though Some of These Days went on to make a cool million dollars. Since 'good song writers are few these days, publishers have grasped at a new method of protecting themselves and keeping the public happy. They're keeping in mind the fact that copyrights on the tunes that thrilled grandfather are now running out, and that its often possible to buy renewal rights from the composers or their heirs. With new tunes so few, orchestra leaders often find it convenient and pleasing to insert a medley of oldtimers in their programs. Reviving the Nineties. One of the leaders in this old tune business is Jerry Vogel, a New York publisher who got a break several years ago when George M. Cohen turned over his entire portfolio without charge. Thus, Vogel found himself sitting with full rights on such e hit tunes as "Forty-fivMinutes From Broadway, George Washington Jr. and "Over There." Sometime later a woman from near Boston dropped in and offered to sell renewal rights on the number her uncle had written, Henry J. Sayers' Ta Ra Ra Boom Der E. Vogel snatched it up and showed it to Fred Waring, then playing on the Ford hour. Waring tried it out and Mr. Ford a lover of old tunes liked it so well he had the orchestra write special lyrics. They used the tune more than a year, which was a nice piece of business for Mr. Vogel on a tune which a few months before had been dead and forgotten. But at best the revival business is only a stop-gaproposition, a matter of securing tunes that will fill in until Tin Pan Alley can turn out more new songs. Publishers often get pretty disgusted about lhe whole thing. Although they receive vast amounts of script from amateurs, the bulk of it is sent back unopened because there's seldom anything of value. An exception was the song, Springtime in the Rockies." which a San Francisco publisher bought from an amateur several years ago. It was a terrific smash. Again, publishers are often the Victims of their own disgust or smugness, call it what you will. Hoagy C.irm.chael wrote Star Dust quite a few years ago but it ga'.ht red dust in the drawer until someone tried it out. nothhaving ing else to do on a rainy afternoon. You know what happened. Similarly. another publisher tossed "If I Could one-tim- e p Be With You One Hour Tonight on the shelf until it was forgotten. Finally wrote a new arrangement somebody of it and a highly successful recording was made. Western Newspaper Union. lifted. Bill thought of Franz and yelled for help. " he got no answer. J All along he had been hoping that before he lost control Ra would arrive. Now hit voice rang mockingly in the darkd'Cnk-FranI did not answer. z Bill Sees a Dim Ray of Hope. 0 ! Lower, lower slipped BilL The rough bricks scraped hli Av raw. Blood ran from his tortured flesh, soaked his shirt The prv I was agony, yet he dara not ease up. To let up meant dropping I dJj t Bill wormed around till hla eyes could examine the the well below. And for a moment hope returned ts him. Dkswj below, about seven and a half feet dews, be aaw the ribs form for the brickwork projecting en the inside, about tw inches beyond the brickwork. The masons bad left the ! j the ribs and built around them. Ta"-- . Now, Bill told himself, if those rib will hold my weight . But could he reach them? Seven and a half feet! Seven and a half feet of creeptajt shoulders, of risky probing with one foot when an instants pressure meant Bill Sternberg tried not to think what he groped with one foot for a hold, wormed his raw shoulders the bricks that were like sandpaper on his raw shoulders. Worse Than the Old. New Danger .J I I a new danger presented itseit Just as he reached the rib ders started to go lower than his feet! Bad enough to plunge feet first. But head first! . j tthaU , t(HJ It took all the flagging nerve of BID Sternberg to toraw shoulders Into that wall and work bit feet dowa rib. Bill made It. And whats more, the ribs held -v and shoulders. But how long was he to remain here like this? Fran voice in a hoarse shout And now to his ear it , sound of Franz a hammer. Franz, hammering and hi aB I work, had perhaps not heard. Bill summoned ' beHowed: Franz, FRANZ!" Trinkets This time Franz came, and with one unconcerned It fB. companion. Bill landed hard on the aafe ground.was H tryi he of worst says, than his shoulders. But all, WhCO W I himself with his mother for ripping bis shirt Copyright. WNU ferric w? H , ,x Kettle Moraine In Wisconsin Between Fond du Lac and Sheboygan. Wis., la an area known to geologists as the kettle moraine, says a survey, ofWisconsing natural wonders by the American Chemical society. 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