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Show 3 27, 1926. Harris Will Take LDS. AlumnusIs |Wait For the Good Ball Leave of Absence Appointed to US. And Your Hitting Will | Show Great Improvement Next School Year Pub, Health Stal Confidence,W atchfulness, this longing puts himself on good terms with the seal’s spirit and through it with the spirits of seals still living. This, @e thinks, makes for luck in hunting. Japanese hyacinths which now infest the laguna de Bay and oth- a ee Philippines, er waterways in the constitute a menace to navigation, and within a few years, unless they are exterminated, navigation in the bay.and the Pasig river will be impossible. Details have been worked out for a planned air passenger service from Berlin to Viadivostok by way of Moscow and Siberia. Ruins of a city believed to have been built 1,000 years before Rome was founded have been in excavations in Italy. from page one.) Evans, photographer; Mary Ray, Marjorie Borg, Phyllis Wells, Florence Cannon, classes; riilton Hal)ton, organizations; ‘Joseph @halman, photographer. The*business staff, which contri|. “fed materially to the success of ibe books eee Bennett Larson S35 sucess Manager; Ted Kimball, assistant pica Manager; LeGrande Lund and Richard Mulliner, sales. 228 Students Will ery high discovered Jow Girls’ Dance !s__ Well Attended A fitting climax to Girl’s Day was the big ball.in the Odeon. The price of admission was 75 cents, ‘but the girls did not waver. They showed their patriotism. by attending, and consequently the party was very successful. The novelty of the evening was a life-sized| picture of a girl in the center of! the room. The music was furnished| by Don Kirkham’s orchestra, and! delicious punch was served. | The Girls’ Council arranged the, party and should -be highly com- | mended for their efforts which | Wedding Gifts were Are cherished. for years bought from ‘“Jensens.” partly success if of responsible Girls’ for the | Day. Buy a Watch or Ringe ora String of Pearls or some piece of Jewelry and thereby perpetuate the Happy Events. He school and | or wide to cut at the bad palls. Unless the pitch is in the good ball zone, your bat shouldn't leave your shoulder. When The on the ball. I don’t have to tell you that you. can’t connect squarely with the horsehide if you’re not watching it every minute. I’ve seen fellows who looked at the pitcher, at the field, at the runner, at the | player men who govern the rules didn’t decide it that way just to be making another regulation. They had a reason—and the reason. was that balls coming within that rectangle are the ones a batter can. most easily and’ accurately hit. Rules protect you, you see, if you let bad ones go by. But everything is against you when you swing at the bad ones; for if you don’t miss altogether, you'll probably foul off or hit.an easy pop-up or grounder for a sure out. He-Looked Good, But— Last season I had an opportunity to watch a sand lot game, and the big -right- fielder on one of the teams was a perfect example of what I mean. This fellow had a long, easy swing at the ball and every move made me think he was a real batter. Then I saw him face the pitcher, and in five times at bat he made only one single. He swung at anything—low balls he liked particularly, but he bit at just about every pitch, no matter how far he had to reach for it. The result was that in spite of his promise he did nothing but foul or hit weakly into the ground. His one hit was a long clean one—-and he made it when he swung at a good pitch! So learn to judge the ball as it comes to you, and to decide whether it’s going to count for or against you if you strike at it. That’s the ee thing I want batters coming o St. Louis club to know, and it’s 5 ae anybody can teach himself. Practice every chance you get; to it that your high school or club team goes through batting workouts just like a big league club does. And don’t think that because nothing depends on it you are free Cash or Terms for Weight Good, Wholesome Hambergers, Hot AT Dogs Food — mp Hot Roast Beef Sandwiches Hot Pies and Hot Tamales. 6 “SCRACE’S” Chili, ALL Soft SCHOOL Drinks. SUPPLIES. College Store “A Good Place to Eat.” 24 SOUTH MAIN STREET. . Se Jj | NORTH PLE, 'ACROSS FROM hae BUILDING, into it as See Us When You Want Class Pins, Kte. it must be controlled. You must Here’s do a your warning best to (Continued on hide on page E. J. LEIFF? Manufacturing Jeweler : Upstairs. Phone Was. 2855. Salt Lake City, Utah. 33 *e : hasn’t already at The cme that you been discoursed k Another pulled ok is that another the be~- of the of Ciceronia its well which. Feeling the world. we - that : are etew: le Finding out: . At any er it is a great feeling to finish the year, and know that you are going out for another summer of pleasure to forget everyething that you know so that you: will come back to learn some more. to to forget, learn * * some more, ete,' And now, seriously... Bacon has been written all year with the sole idea of producing a little nonsense, with a little grain of satire and once in a while a little suggestion for improvement when we thought that something could be bet- tered. Sometimes we’ve be Add to the pleasures of vacation, | Co. East Broadway . gone And now that the year is over— It’s cares and trouble behind; We look at the school days jus finished And ?7$(:,.:$—-! (Never mind.) Se Te Ske The last line was to fool any: one who was foolish enough té¢ ithink we could be serious, EAT nnenenne ate xfo an ,; too far... We may have hurt some feelings, but it has all been in fun, and we close with that idea. And we are not wishing anyone bad luck, but we hope that Ted Wimball has to wfYite this next year, Or else some other foolish person, ' * ek tired can’t that a dozen times. WR ee ae One of these is that at least sophs will find a resting place low. with seek * : least - : rd othin g =oo For Service and Custom Tailoring is Now Recognized Everywhere as “The World’s Finest Clothing” inten- four.) — : osiery * Honestly, we are so doggone this time of the year that we think of anything to say pop of the - To This Also Should Be Added Call in and see often during Summer the Months. “The World’s Most inal Clothing” as it- looks new until worn out, wears much longer and looks much nicer while being worn. AB) wy GIS wy ®xford Clothes us OXFORD “THE WORLDS FINEST CLOTHING’ 310 CONTINENTAL BANK Glazier & Taylor 113 South Main St. remarks of trouble a is a fair sample Commencement: you are on iy a We are just reminded that the girls put out the last issue of the Gold and Blue, and that they also attempted to edita column similar to this one. The only thing they failed to do was to roast the sophomores and get sarcastic. It is necessary, so we are told, for a socalled humorist to be gifted with a sharp tongue and a variety of ideas. The girls qualify inthe latter, while we are afriad that the former more closely suits our capacity. bunting— your — 35c to $1.25 : in His would be fitting for the column if they were not Ae extremely artistic. x * able to tap it along the third base foul line, or toward the first sacker, or to the pitcher’s right if you know he has difficulty in fielding that kind of ball. And in order to control the bunt you must hit it out.in front. You can’t do it accu-| rately if you try to meet ball over | the plate, even with your body.. Some men always step far to the front of the batting box for a unt. So keep that in mind when you. try to bunt. Remember, too, that you don’t get the free swing into. a bunt. The bat is almost. motion-° less, as a rule, when it meets’ the| ball. Most players choke their bats, when they bunt. Per Pair a SS E crash Reading Men Quick Service—No Waiting doesn’t fo® this column.. attempt at a smashing hit, but simply meets it and drops it on the ground at your feet with just enough force to keep it out of the catcher’s reach, but not enough to carry it too rapidly to any. other fielder. Since the purpose of the bunt is to stop the ball and put it where it ean be fielded with most difficulty, the direction in which you send Summer 1.00 to $1.95 FRIENDS S bat for Service | Have one taken for your graduation. Special rate to all L. D. S. U, Students. improve Chiffon. 13 1 So. Main. YOUR to For Ladies’ Ecker Studio WITH determined $1.00 and $1.95 What could be more appreciated mother than your photograph. $12.50 2a Cardinals : We would advise that some enterprising firm would copyright some of the favorite sayings and sell them at so much a hundred. ‘That would save a great deal of time that is ctherwise spent in thinking. Ke ee ™he editor is raving around upon that mental. capacity are gifted. By Eggs through whom they want- his batting and every chance he ed to hit. it. That’s bad. From the got he had somebody pitching to minute the ball leaves the pitcher’s _him, He watched his timing, along hand to the instant it’s where you, ! with the other elements. and by the want to hit itor let*it 20° bye ‘end of the season he was a much keep your eye on it. Never look; better batter. away for a second. i Follow’ through! Here again Naturalness is an important part comes the parallel to golf, tennis of good batting. A good deal is said and football. The bat should not about» correct batting form; but stop dead when it hits the ball, nor when you’ve seen the long, free immediately afterward. The arc swing of Harry Heilmann; Detroit should continue just as it started; player who led the American league the bat should keep on its path in batting last year and the tremenwhile the ball is well on ‘its. way. dous wallop of Babe Ruth, anu ius powerful choke-swing of Jim BotThe follow-through is the logical tomley, first baseman With the St. conclusion of the swing and it’s Louis Cardinals—-when you’ve seen worth a lot of work. I wish every all these and try to analyze them young batter could watch the work and write down similarities of form, of men like Bottomley, or Zack you'll find it pretty hard to do. Wheat, the veteran Brooklyn star. The answer is that all of the It’s his vigorous follow-through great batters have their own indithat takes Babe Ruth off his bal‘vidual styles—the styles that are ance when he swings and misses; easiest, most natural for them. Culand it’s the strength of, this follow tivate, as far as possible, the style through, that, imparted to the ball of swing and grip simplest for you. when it meets the bat, gives it such I don’t mean that you should scorn long rides. You don’t have to lose advice from players or coaches who balance like Ruth, of course. I know good batting; frequently their never fall, although I put a lot of hints will help tremendously. But strength and sa into my folwork in those hints with your own low-through. natural batting-habits—make the two work together. A mighty good way to develop Your stance at the plate should follow-through is to take your bat also be just what is easiest for and practice free swinging—-pracyou. Some players stand with feet ‘tice the long level arc and the conclose together, others with them tinuation of the swing far around spread and not on a line. Every to thef ront. There's plenty of good batter faces the plate squarerhythm in a good baseball swing; ly, so that he can meet the ball try to get it into your own work. when his bat is at the most forceA Wrist-snap Adds Force. ful point in its are. I’ve told you that you should Ordinarily I’d advise every bat- be meet the bali at the ‘“‘top” of the ter to learn to ‘‘step into the ball,’’ swing. There are two more things as he bats, rather than to. step to know about meeting the ball. backward. “Stepping in’ means adis q snap of the wrists that vancing the left foot, (if you’re a One gives to the bat, just at the momright-handed batter) toward’ the ent of impact, an .added bit of. pitcher as you swing. That inforce. Until the moment of this creases the power you impact to snap, the bat angles backward the bat, and puts you in good posihands; the snap brings tion to start your sprint for first if from your it suddenly out to the perpendicuyour connect. . . Even that is not lar from. your body. so ‘that it a hide-bound rule, although most Students Wrist Watches Pocket Watches you’ ve got that rule down ‘tight, you’re ready to go on with | our. batting. training; There. are os things every batter must know, and I'll take them up ene at a time. The first one ties up closely with | the good ball rule. Keep your eye college fellows it’s a ball.+ \. i most—-major leaguers, too. Let’s talk about it. ca : Every boy who can handle a bat knows what the “good ball zone” is. If the ball is. over the plate and between your knees and shouleders, Jive a striker: ie 4t's “high, Be Graduated (Continued from page one.) Raa ie I A new tool for carpenters cuts Stringham, Morven Stutznegger, mortises for hinges in doors and Richard Summerhays. their frames quickly and accurateHelen Tanner, Howard &. Faytor* ly without preliminary marking. _ Katherine Taylor, Mary Taylor, Ne-Experiments in sugar beet prophi Welling Taylor, Prscilla. Smith duction in Sweden will ke disconTaylor, Grant Theel Teasdale, Vera tinued since the government has Thomson, Margaret ™iornberg, declined to subsidize the industry. Wallace Felt Toronto, Melba TurEmploying rapidly revolving ner. mirrors a scientist has found away Helen VanCott. to take photographs with an exLouise Wallace, Mervin Wallace, posure of one-tenth- millionth of a Nellie Waterhouse, Archie Webb, second. , Maude Webster, Phyllis Wells, VirOne of the highest railroads in ginia Wailer, Walter Eldredge “Westhe world has been built to carry ton, Mabe! Wheelhouse—sp., Nona ore from vanadium mines in Peru White, Elsie Whitworth, Alice Wilthat are 15,500 feet above sea ley, Helena May Williams, Alexanlevel. der I. Wilson, Florence Wilson, HyA’ novel radio receiving set can rum Wilson, June Wilson—-sp., be mounted on a lead pencil to Wanda S. Woodhouse, Margaret Ann Woolley, Grant Wrathall, Cecil enable a person to take notes of H. Wright, Annona Wright, Virlectures or speeches that are broadginia Wright. cast. Lovell Youngberg. Thomas -H. Axelsen, LaVerne Clark, Reva Virginia Dalton, Lydia Swensen, Marguerite Wilson. Graduation and out of the box. the words around, And iy 4 Students Are Pleased With 1926 Annuals (Continued was batted ™ ERAT satisfies and *e a who in his first tries at big league baseball. He faced Boston before a big crowd eager to see this pitching marvel— made one or two other starts during the season and never seemed to. hit his college stride. Common sense tells you that Car‘roll’s ability didn’t just fade away overnight. He’s still with Tere | and hell make good in tim doubtless. For, if he’s like othaee I've known he has just as good control, and curves, and speedy as he had when he played against amateurs. The difference in his. record must lie in some basic difference in the batting methods of the men he faces. What is the difference—what is jt that young, katters so often do wrong, We big leaguers think that the major fault with boys’ batting is just this: They hit at bad balls. That isn’t the only fault in batting; there are plenty of others that cut down hitters’ averages and help along the pitchers’ percentares. But it’s the one that both- .297. Last year he made 39 home runs, more than any other major leaguer. Baseball players consider him one of the sreatest batters” of all time, along with Cobb, Wagner, Lajoie and Burkett; and because he is still a young player, he may sure pass them all. *Tis then A hunter a ‘flop’ has been = i Th# was two other men. His best average was in 1924, when he clouted for @ percentage of .424—the high mark of modern baseball. For. the last Six yenrs his average * Poe often sing of heroes as we see them singing by, And cheer the flags a flying in; parades— But when the fight is over and we find our homes again, TMU When a dead seal is brought home by an Eskimo hunter the body is ceremoniously treated to a drink of fresh water in the be: lief that all his life the seal has been craving a draft of sweet wa- Carroll lumbus street, is a graduate of tha Latter-day Saints high school, of Salt Lake City, and of the University of Utah, having completed two years’ medical work at the western institution, prior to coming tothe University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of Phi Beta .Pi Fraternity. eG championship; in three of those years he has batted more than .400—a record equalled by only Anyone We ST ter’s degree. the fall he will attend either Stanford or the University of Chicago. There is a good chance of his winning a scholarship at Chicago. At the present time, however, Brother Harris announces that in all probability he will attend the California institution, where hewill begin his work toward a Ph.D The following year Brother Harris expects to return to the school and take up his work as a teacher. No announcement has been made as to who will teach in Harris’ place next year. By Rogers Hornsby. * EEE summer Harris will attend ‘the summer sessions of the Brigham Young University, his alma mater, where he will complete his George W. Buchanan, of Salt Lake City, Utah, has been appoint- } ed to-the staff of the U. S. public Ma vr St. Louis Cardinals and health service. Buchanan is a stuNational League’s Leading Hitter. dent in the medical school of the Don’t strike at the bad balls but University of Pennsylvania, where wait for the g0od ones is the advice that Rogers Hornsby. for six he will complete his course in June. years leading hitter of the National) Buchanan is one of 135 seniors league, and now the manager of in the medical school of the unithe St. Louis Cardinals. gives to versity who have received appointbaseball pp layers ments du#ing the past few weeks. May issue of the These appointments total 60 insti-. gaverican, Boy. The article. printed pe sion of the abbaneds, tutions, embracing 14 states and follows: three foreign countries, and including several other U. S. governEvery koy, at one time or anment. hospitals. other, has known some chap whose The University of Pennsylvania high school or college pitching has Medical Schoo!, which Buchanan is (been phenomenal—iwho has imattending, is the oldest and one of posing strike-out and victory recthe foremost schools of medicine ords to his credit—but who seems in the country, having been estabto have nothing at all on the ball lished in 1765. Since then it has when he gets into faster company. steadily risen to an international Likely you’ll remember the case of reputation and each year draws Owen Carroll last yearn ‘many students from Latin AmeriCarroll, at Holy Cross College, ca and other parts of the world, attracting students from the Hu- was a pitching sensation for three years. He had every college nine ‘| ropean continent as early as 1830. he faced in 1925 completely at his |) The present enrollment of the mercy and won every game. In ‘| school is 473 students, coming from three years of varsity baseball he | 50 states and nine foreign counlost only two games and won 49. tries. Its graduate -school is the So when the Detroit Tigers anfirst in the world to give a comnounced that he would play with, prehensive graduate course in medthem on his graduation other big | icine. league teams made envious come | Buchanan, who is the son of Mr. ment. and Mrs. A. M. Buchanan, 546 Co- 2g George Romney says that he has pulled through the year without getting any poisoned letters. Another arguinent for invention, in-cluding the typewriter. EEE ° Marion L. Harris of the depart®ent of biology of the L. D. S. U will be granted his leave of absence next fall according to the anmouncement made this week. Brother Harris came to this school ins the fall of 1919 ‘after serving in the army during the war. For the past seven years he has taught at this in» stitution. After a vacation ter. and 1913) the Dp ACK in 1912 tJ) Fort Worth, Texas, High| School baseball team was fighting sturdily for the championship of Tarrart County. One of the team’s greatest assets in those years was a good-looking, Gleanly built infielder—Rogers Hornsby. The smooth, easy playing of young Hornsby, and his developing batting eye, attracted professional scouts; he was g@iven a trial with the Dallas team ef the Texas league in 1914, and then “farmed out” for experience to teams in Hugo, Okla. and Denison, Texas. But not for lor.z. Big league scouts heard of him, and on Sept. 10, 1915, this 19year-old boy played in his first big league game, as second baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals. In the third game Hornsby found his batting eye, and hit safelyt every time he came to the plate. Since then he has been a regular with the Cards—a man whose fielding ability has de~ veloped along with his batting. Last year other players voted him the most valuable second sacker in the league. For the last six years Hornsby has held the National league batting we Wwe canyon Sa concerned ma be provided with sufficient details at the Gold and Blue oe ETS BOCK €O ae 44 EAST SO. TEMPLE SALT LAKE CITY EERE No eB ornsby Was a High School Star When He Joined Professionals . batters Vie eies it religiously.. An outstanding exception is Al. Simmons, the young outfielder with the Philadelphia Athletics who made such a fine record in 1925, his first big league year. Simmons steps back and still gets his hits. Most batters don’t. Where are you going to grip your bat? That’s another question that depends largely on individual preference. Of course, there’s more ‘power in the free swing with the _ bat held at its extreme tip; I hold my bat that way, and likely that’s the reason I’ve been ajble to put a fair share of balls over the fence. But not all good batters use that grip. Jim Bottomley, second high in the National league last year, is a choke hitter (that is he holds his bat about six inches from the tip and ‘so makes his hits on shorter but extremely powerful swings.) So are Blades, Toporcer and other good batters on the St. Louis team. We just forget who it was that Ty Cobb has a grip different said that the race was not for the from both of these. He hits from swift, or words to that effect, but the right side to the plate, with his whoever it was certainly said a right hand at the tip of his bat whole mouthful. In fact, after the and his left about five inches above. year is over it is a wonder that We know how successful he’s found there are any of us left to see the that grip. finish. : You have your position, your * R grip. The next thing is to meet the Which excludes, of course, the pall. I’ve already told you that sophomore and college students your swing must be easy and naturwho never do anything anyhow. al. To get the maximum ‘of pow* FS * er, remember three things: The “S’ Book autograph drive a your bat in one horizonreminds us of a trained bunch of tal plane ' parrots. Someone comes up, asks Meet the pall at the “‘top’”’ of the for an autograph, and tre student swing; time it correctly. grinds out something of the folDon’t forget the follow-through. lowing nature: Swing in Qne Plane. ek ae The first rule is easy to under“Dear ; I think you are the stand. If the bat is moving in one cutest boy (girl) in the L. D. S. I plane—that is, if it’s circling peram proud to have known you. fectly level with the ground—it’s When I am gone will you think of going to deliver more power me often?” . against the ball than it would if it were weaving up and doyn from smacks the ball cauarely instead of one level. to another. So train yourat an angle. self to swing the bat exactly on the The second question is that of ‘plane in which you plan to meet just where to plan on hitting the the ball. ball—directly over the plate and Second—Time the swing properopposite your body, or out in front ly. That means that you should and slightly ahead of your body. hear the crack of bat and ball at Both methods are used in big just the instant the bat’s gained its league play. Stuffy McInnis, rightgreatest momentum. Timing is a handed batter with the Pittsburgh mighty difficult thing to get ex- Pirates, hits in front of the plate. ‘actly right; if every batter had it as do many others. I hit the ball down pat there’l be a big increase in closer to my body. Jt seems to in the home run crop. The great be a question of individual differences again. Ernie Vick, you'll rebatters are the ones who have permember his name in football as fected their timing—old Hans Wagwell as baseball, for he was Allner, Cobb, Ruth, Sisler of the, St. center at the University Louis Browns, Jacquez Fournier of ‘American of Michigan, as well as a_ star Brooklyn, Frisch of the Giants and catcher, before he joined the Cardothers. inals—learned to improve his hitDon’t think that, just because I ting considerably by connecting say timing is hard to get exactly out in front: of the plate. right, it can’t be learned. You can Bunting is a form of batting improve your timing in baseball ‘that absolutely . demands hitting just as you can in your golf swing, out in front. Your purpose in a your tennis swing dr your football bunt is to lay the ball down where kicking. Practice is the thing. it’s going to be hardest for any~ Thevenow, the young shortstop who body to field. In effect, you stop played “with St. Louis last year, the ball dead at the plate; your proved this, Thevenow came to the iE | CECE The wan ED | And Stance Are Important, Advises ga Hornsby. =~ Former Saint Is One of 135 Students to Go Into Service. XN Will Attend B. Y. U. During the Summer to Obtain Master’s know Make BLDG~SALT EAKE “WAS: 45123 Your Pasinal Appearance Pay Dividends A Ciccinentcth THE GOLD AND BLUE, May |