Show ' 21 - - - ' - - - - ' - - - - E 0 Tueda Plea to Repeal Freight Hike Chucker Gets Cards Select From the 1Real Present—Baseball Cairo for Press Box "real" baseball—the best birthday present he ever received Training Site -- a pound of coffee and a letter from home has made an By jimmy Hodgson Ex-Russ- et Majors Complete Line-Cof Spring Camps p - I I - NEW YORK Jan "5 ePt — The Cardinals will do their S at itrrnzS hot—and with the se- ast of this southern lectiDn Mon-4aL:in-tof camp city the line-u- p sLtes for all major league clubs has beer completed Tne St Louis Browns the other :brat their fellow tn the gun by a couple of elays anrouncing Cape Girar- des-Mo as their selection there- tv bee:orr:rg the only club to train ef the Mississippi Cardinals' announcement an end to the hurried quest cf the 16 clubs to find northern strs after they were informed that s ethern and far western camps were nned in the interests of ecrta' eg transportation and that tney rnust find spots north of the Prt-nand Ohio rivers and east cf tne Mssissippi Only the two St U:eiis c11:bs were privileged to a Missouri site if they so Cairo—which v tai--2- re-wThsr- : T7-1- - : t st 4 "' 15-fo- - teslrd - :te the obviotis difficulties :eel and the comparatively Des- in which to make tr-i--e ar- rarrernents the clubs are pretty we: sit:sfied that they have made choices possible the Wth Marth and e a r I 11 Aprill weather in the available territory tinJertan to say the least the it result the selections form art odd pattern over the territory rarz-in- g from the seaside spot of tne' New York Yankees and the Bear mountain retreat of the Err-lr:- :yr Dodgers to college camr-15and the :Ntississippi river lo- cf ttoo‘4” ripid Important houses and not Spaccus field a desre for an educational back- were the motives behind gnnd th! choice of college sites as were decided upon by such clubs as the Red s the Boston Cincinnati Braves the Philadelphia Phils the Clec:and Indians and the Boston Flee Sex Only the Washington Senators 1 a 1's cal--27- I I 1 in 4 g t 1 '" ' ' L4:1' ''"-?- '''''r"' ' :' 4!:' 4 ' 4'7: :44 Al I':':1 Ex-- I F Emmertson hurler now with army in Australia gets baseball from Fans Favor Continuation an Australian girl Edna ralmin soon As a final word Al thanked his parents for sending him The Tribune "I read it all—even the want ads There's nothing like getting a real paper from home" - ' By Paul Scheffels 0 NEWYORK Jan 25 (UP)—Pounding the baseball beat: although direc- !mains the most optimistic circuit in the game tors of the circuit plan to cut their schedule from 178 games to 154 at their February 15 meeting in Los Angeles and may advance their season opening a week to provide for an earlier clositic the club heads remain firmly cheerful over the 19431 ! outlook for remains loaded with candidates g the entire circuit the Brooklyn managerial post if has been the Los Angeles team Leo Durocher is inducted Billy which not only named a new pilot Dolph Camilli Burt Shotton Blades Bill Terry Ray last season in Bill Sweeney but Herman and Fred Fitzsimmons all figure has cmpleted15 player deals since as possibilities The Angels now Joe Kurowski of the Cards who that move was reclassified lA from 1B takes as to 27 go have players readyfinal physical examination at an answer to the talent shortage his his Allentown Pa induction cenmoaners Kurowski ter early in March their own i i Cheer-leadin- it We are of a faded and aged sports shkket from the Boston American newipaper printed May 20 1917 The sheet con- I i Ltains a huge drawiirg' of Clint of six ho leap portraying feet 5 incbes as he won the Penn relays event and set up a new record e The spread on Clint now chairman of the Intermountain A A U track and field committee 'as made to point out to the lads of 1917 how they must tackle the war situation if they expected to win The picture of Larson is a fine example of an athlete using every ounce of energy and power to achieve his goal The picture ties up admirably with our program today as we prepare for World war II some 16 full-pag- Pittsburgh e T lireed toot) I ay Fold Up rt IN SPRINGFIELD Ill Jan 25 un least two of last year's six I at third I 01 Eddie Miller shortstop acquired by the Cincinnati Reds from the Boston Braves must have gotten off to the fastest training start of any major league player Before the Reds have even settled on the University of Indiana at Bloomington for their training Eddie had asked for a supply Of old baseballs to begin working This will be the out at home first year since 1901 that the Reds have not gone south for training Bluege Seeks Infielders Elden Auker's decision to re- tire from baseball after beingtraded by the Browns to Washington brought no irascible remarks from Ossie Bluege manager of the Senators Bluege now figures to land some additional infield help from the Browns to complete the deal which sent Pitcher Paul Dean The field still to St Louis Ruth Predicts Baseball's E nd HACKENSACK N J Jan 25 Ea be Ruth who pAched for tt-Bostr)r Eed Sox during the last V r : 1 IA sr doubts that baseball la111 fi7ish its regular season this t'F'----0 r In an interview i at the Iiacken- E:ks club Sunday following drive at a theater h was asked if he thought hene be able to continue b4seba:: this season -I doubt it" the former homertn kirr said the Babe rorthern training it would -- develop more arr-Uand sore legs than you g Et t7:7-terrupt- car won't be a pitcher" the rA7-binforecast "who will be g 1 more than P ix innings a great many weeks after the Pra5on P tarts It may ruin a great f-- r r ary players" 1:)I)ETIITE APPEAL you see the When way our food is han- d:ed and served "We feel we have appeal to your appetite" Good food — served right without trait- irg r 7 1 IA I GOOD PLACE TO EAT -- A TT 777 I I 7! ::: i 476 So State 7177'-tu- ' -- - - T 6 6 talk isio6a N0 - Yetir Offic $tept From A Few league baseball clubs ex- to pect suspend operations in1943 and reports from other cities male ing up the nation's oldest class B circuit indicate it will quit for the duration of the war League President Tom Fair-bas- e weather Des Moines said Monday that Cedar Rapids Iowa the 1942 champion will not operate and President John E MacWherter of the Springfield III club said: ''I do not see any chance for league to go this year and I doubt whether Springfield can operate during the war" Evansville Ind Waterloo Iowa Decatur Ill and Madison Wis are other cities holding franchises in the league and none is optiMadison lost 12 of 20 mistic players to the armed forces and Waterloo lost its baseball park by ' fire recently Three-- I years later Just as an indication of the trend in sports three of the six teams in the salt Lake Recreation Basketball league this seaTwo son are army squads squads from Fort Douglas and one from the army air base at Salt Lake 't ill lake part in the title race I i re I I MIA3II Fla Jan 25 UP—Dan Chappell attorney for the Horsemen's Protective association returned from Washington Monday with the word that reopening of Floridas racing season is "virtually hopeless" "After interviewing men concerned with the gas rationing situation in the capital" Chappel said ''I have returned to advise horsemen that there is no chance that relief will come in time to reopen racing in Florida this season "In fact I am convinced that the gas situation as it pertains to racing will become worse before it gets better" John C Clark president of Hialeah park declared that the beginning of the delayed meeting at his track is "a five to One shot and the odds are lengthening 85 each day passes" horsemen" Tropical park called off Its meeting with five days to go when the ban on pleasure driving became effective and Hialeah did not open as scheduled Janu- ary I 13 No Tropical official was available for comment The track is scheduled to open a spring meeting March 8 A group of horsemen who had considered a cooperative meeting at Gulfstream park in 811 effort to ease the plight of the handlers of more than 1000 thoroughbreds stranded here announced Sunday night that they could not get action in time and that they would not attempt to hold races this season I '' ' r :: - e -- i: i' - ' - '' ' t 4- ' :':':4-- t I :' - ' " r'— ' - ' -- -- ' ' 1 ' n-- - L ':k 7': 4 - - -- 1 'i- T ' -: : :- :'''-:- - ' V------ - - 7 : ' :k(7 - - - : ::::' :: —' c 7 1 ": - ' -- - - "43- :-' ::41' - : -- I- '' ' 21 - 1 --- - 77'i": :'-:- - 4'' - : :''''t ' 1 - '''':-' I : - di- - e- '' i ''''' s A''''''''''''''''''' 14t ' 11: - I of C Names Dinner Meet Will Discuss Leaders ill Livestock Aid Fund Drive C (Continued from Page Eleven) I week was praised Monday afternoon as initiating a "definite sayin man in an address ing I delivered by power" M Daniel Hammond of the Utah Oil Refining combefore the Salt Lake ExI ecutives' association Speaking before the club members at a luncheon meeting in the Beau Brummel cafe Mr Hammond said the new ruling which became effective last Saturday was a "fine thing which would result in the public being given even better service than formerly" He explained this by showing that "in the past the stations always have catered too much to the public and employes worked too many hours" ' "They won't be working so long and so hard now" he declared "and still will be open six days a week for service" He quoted hear and light savings and use of fewer employes as being hell:v- ful to lesses and showed that only 'I six of the 80 stations of Utah Oil Refining company in the Salt Lake area have closed in recent months Mr Hammond said the petroleum business "is going at - top speed with the government tak- int'' a sizeable percentage of the products and absorbing a general loss in the retail trade of about 25 per cent in this area?' Mötorists he pointed out are buying better petroleum products now to conserve their cars while sales of cheap gas are falling off He also sketched the history and growth of Utah Oil Refining companv since its organization in - '- 1'a-'-'---- Set-U- p The office of petroleum admin- ' i t - - t - t t ''- - t I - i t - 1 To 72 7" 7 ft!sro Litref i4 : a IP ---' -- - amslosP"i-d- I Q-- P' ' ' 1'- -- 400 f ? IF2 'el-rb 'Si f of2- tI4( - T -: 1 N i - fl 4140-1- til 'r' LiU I t r 1 7 V 1 I w a tll ' t - s ' - I FREE w 'Seep Dont 4 nn seep Z''' ft i 1 117 1it -- - - r vi :: -- f & POWER UTAH AT CO LIGHT - - - - — 41441"aseVaMelate $kreZotrMittAPO '' e1""-O- t ' r "t:rL11:5( t-v- E :7-2- : 'T f -- - - r Clean dust bag t quickly off current ti - t - - ld at all times v ::- 'I7 i i 1 i rvci - i lower rtcy and ff effici - 1 IA 1 ::::-- L iirrl f Defrost refrigerator e electric usag was on your rollers Protect rubber when not in use leasing pressure - by i wringer machne re- - i t 1 ' 4 t - ' ':- - '' i 1: ' --- - i 'tr ' ' BIERYBooy CA S' Ill )k)1 41)All AR Pill F Sall - i ure to 1 : or other nails coins i '7N : o : ': i r f - 1c when : CM - -- PM1112 1 Is" a din3 -- -- ' ‘ Tern appliances motor driven 7' 't and breaking use call your electrical dealer or Utah Power & Light Co ' - I - - t OFFICES --- 1 MAIN - hour savers and wrositaggar' FOR REPAIRS OR SERVICE t - -- 1 - Highest Cash Prices Paid for Rifles Shotguns or Pistols - h COPIES frequently I ) ': operating our homes into our contribution toward winning the war and we know that our electrical servants are our biggest aids in this program Everyone knows too that appliances give the fastest most efficient cheapest service when they are kept "young" and active Here are a few hints For hundreds of other ask for a copy of our booklet "Wartime Tips on the Care and Use of Electric Appliances" 1:ttraPPC:irad:Cel:°:::erh eat Avoid metal obiects If ' -- that work electrically are more appreciated in our homes today than ever before All of us want to put all the strength time and money we can save in 4 ' 1 '' ait 4 4i- labor-saver- s - 1-- t :7 4":7 K) ri--1- morale-builder- s ‘ - - 1 - 001c31- 00or -- - 1 l 0177-7- ) A L- -: -- Y - I 1 - - ' U I knotting ttio 116 SO 1 antie 077 Etfer - q (dI ir:''11 4::' I E-VIAIITI- i 4 -- ! 00 ft serzn 7 11 Ailli ta k:N - 4 l ' 77 :: 0 411' ix GuusaGuNs rr : I 1r Pr - Food-saver- s t4S - -- t ik ii) iil c'ee II t '' ' rifoir1 f- ) '1- t t Ith'S '' Iv 'a eh o- - IL 11111w- I:1- I7 7N14 pop4or 1 i0" e'r" 1 jte4" tO Z - ' rsn t Ve0 trict of Utah Idaho and Montana into compact units Leaders of the blocks will keep other residents Informed regarding needs and desires of the government rationing rules and regulation and other wartime activities Er- -" et-- - - boring California cities have set up programs similar to Berkeley's Mr Gaines is in Salt Lake City to confer with Gus P Backman director of the eastern sector of the 0 C D and Dan M Whelan executive officer of the war service section of the Utah council of defense The 0 C D is planning an exten- - It t - t''' A (Continued from Pare Eleven) Minn CT)--l'UNNEAPOLIS only takes six men to make Ec hockey team but Coach Larry the University of Armstrong of 12 members of last :ff Minnesota lost come up with and has year's squad k another good team - & 1908 z Coast Defense Aid Visits S L 1 ' - V SiV - t A cooperative armed forces replaced the usual tourists Already more than 100 conventions have been booked for Salt Lake City during 1943 necessconven- - 4 istration order pitting retail gaso-hour work stations on a ' ' - Queried as to whether any skilled labor was employed the engineer said that practically the entire job was performed by common labor much of which was paid 30 cents an hour and that a fair ratio for such construction would be 95 per cent common labor and 5 per cent skilled Mr Larnoreaux ed question whether such a ratio could be accurate in the U P & L construc- ( tion asking the witness to obtain data on the U P & L's Olmstead tunnel in Provo canyon for corn-p- a rs tive purposes Gophers Strong I :: ' - " 1 Coach Stub Allison of California U is the first college coach to prepare for the 1943 college grid program which everyone is skepCoach Allison has tical about his gridders to be warned already in shape for the opening of spring football which he has outlined as San Francisco's pitchusual ers and catchers will train for the 1013 baseball campaign at Boyes Hot Springs but the infielders and outfielders will do their conditioning work at the Seal stadium Boston college Denny Myers coach says the "T" formation works best against a smart agVictor R Davis gressive team now Sergeant Davis who used to play a little basketball around here is a member of the Kirtland Field Fliers' basketball team at The squad is Albuquerque coached by Ted Shipkey of New The Fliers downed Mexico U the New Mexico team recently and have hung up a fine record Remember the junior chambetr If you sports equipment drive have some equipment you can get along without why not let some of the army lads enjoy it? "We are not a bit sanguine" Clark said "but we are standing by in order to provide stable and training facilities for the ' ' i - mile hole Shorts on Sports Turf Lawyer Sees No Chance of Reopening Race Tracks o 10-!- e I — At r ' ''''' - Retail : : cross examination of Benjamin L Smith Albany N Y construction engineer Monday in the state public service commission's hearing into the Utah Power and Light company's rates Mr Smith may have seen some relief as he left the stand in the capitol Monday afternoon for Warwick C Lamoreaux P S C counsel said the state might finish the cross examination some time Tuesday Mr Smith testified for from five to eight hours daily from fast Monday through Saturday then was the sole witness on Monday The cross examination centered upon the construction of the Carolina Power and Light company's Waterville tunnel at a cost of $5- 180310 in 1934 Mr Smith said that unskilled labor built the 10- - Old Sports Rolic7 previously in 1B because of a defective right arm took his second examination at Reading Pa on reclassified January 14 and was Embree and Add pitcher Bed Shortstop- - Alf Anderson to the retired major leagues' voluntarily Embree was with Clevelist land last year and Anderson with i k Expert Testifies on Tunnel Costs programs assist in training of our future soldiers before they are called Into the service" ' - 1 1 I program between the extension division of Utah Dr Snow's Funeral State Agricultural college and the Rites Set Today livestock industry of Utah will services Funeral be discussed at a meeting Woodruff Snow 74 for DrdiedMilton Sunwho itating full services of the of owngroupz tion bureau Mr Knickerbocker of representatives will in a Lake Salt day hospital Thursday at 6 p m in the Hotel be conducted Tuesday noon at 260 said Utah The fund will be used also in East South Temple street meeting is being sponsored Edwin Q Cannon president of preparing to meet postwar prob- byThe the management and directors lems of business and industry and 1 L D S stake will officiate Ensign an in Livestock show of the Ogden Burial will be in Salt Lake City servicing new industries which a to about effort cooperabring have come into the state as a retive program of US AC extension cemetery sult of the war ' activities that will foster a ----1 stronger and better livestock inForum Meets Tonight I : I i in the state in t 0 t : I 7 ) ':: i dustry "How Much Should We Rad E J Fjeldsted of Ogden man! tion ?" is the subject to be disof the Ogden Livestock show!! ager cussed at the Utah Public Afand chairman of an independent tz1 fairs Forum Tuesday at 8 p m state livestock committee recently I : In the Hotel Newhouse it was organized as a clearing house and t 0TY liveR Mrs announced between Monday by coordinating group Labor trends in Carolina and ' -7 ''' 1 McKean chairman of the stock interests and the college i ''' how they can be applied to the L it forum board announced the meeting Utah Power and Light company picture were developed in the pulsory physical education in all grade schools high schools and colleges All coaches promoters of physical education and health should be taught the l rudiments of army life simpler and drill and then let them along with their conditioning I Ares-Tr:ca- brnd-se"-- financial condition "As far as the agricultural and livestock inter-a ests are concerned they are as rule mortgaged to the limit The mining industry is not much better off financially There were more than 1000 mines on the tax Of that rolls in Utah in 1941 number only 175 had marketable do quantities of ore" The figures not include the Utah Copper company which is termed "exceptional" and not representative The testimony claims that "Utah competes with other producing districts located much nearer the markets whose rate increases have been somewhere around 50 per cent of the increases applied on Utah traffic" Other freight rate increases during World war I and in 1938 were similar the P S C explains with "the result that the relationship of competitive marketing costs prevailing before World war I have been almost entirely destroyed and each percentage increase becomes progressively more burdensome for Utah in marketi- Captain Sam Francis of Fort Warren Nyt'yo in speaking of sports and war urges: "We should all train one way the army way N'43 should have com- I e bF' greater extent than the market prices of the goods produced and the net result has not been as favorable to the producer as would appear on the surface" the testimony reads The P S C points out that livestock agricultural and mining industries in Utah are not in sound An interesting sports poll just completed by Esquire shows that the majority of peope in the country including both civilians and service men favor the continuation of sports A majority of 86 per cent voting in the poll favored continuaiton of professional baseball 74 per cent thought plans should be made to carry on college football next fall and 70 per cent favored promoting boxing matches duringa the war The poll also showed strong 89 per cent vote to continue hunting and fishing on the question: "8hould all licensed hunting and fishing activities be discontinued this year?" Baseball was voted as the sport likely to gain most in popularity during the ng- its production" war with softball bowling golf and basketball following in that home - : k 3 7:5! : - Browns Improved Tab the St Louis Browns and New York Giants as the most promising outfits in the American and National league respectively The Browns are our for 1943 personal choice to slash their way close to the top in the junior Teague with the Giants hustling their way among the senior circuit CQntenderswhoever they will be Detroit's Steve O'Neill has on his c tentatively settled already Ind: Lafayette leevcrsty on infield 1913 Rudy 1 : New figuring Evansville Ind: Blood- licrk Asbury Park N 1 Boston York at firs f' base Jimmy second Rookie Joe Tifts college Medford Mass: worth at from the Pacific coast Del Hoover—up Wilmington rn:adc:pha and —at Pinky Higgins shortstop Was'–egoten Washington D C I 4 t ot Varmerdam aply 26 times peared in the Intermountain A A U track meet last spring at Pocatello - — p: 1 f' :' " ri Wasi-e-gto- r Pacific Coast League Still plinnstle About '43 Season ' city Infana draws the fat share of the ciibs with six New Jersey two a nd IllinOiS Missouri r7' Delaware Massachuaetts Pennsyl- vania New York Connecticut and D C one each The cernplete line-uNatonal league —St Lc C:re Ill: Chicago French )1:15: le ie Vittsberch Ball State ers coliege Muneie Ind C:ncin- Indiana U hat Bloomington 1rd: Nev York Lakewood N YJ Brooklyn Eear Mountain N Bston Choate school Walling- ft rd Ccr!--- : e Philadelphia Swarth- colie5-Pa league -- - St Louis Ca--Grardeau Mo: Chicago FTC t r Lick Ind: Cleveland Pur- 1 ' Considering plans of Lake chamber of commerce fund drive H Knickerbocker Fred chairman of the drive left and Gus P Backman executive secretary of the chamber Testimony of the Utah public service commission asking for a discontinuance of increased railroad freight rates that have been in effect since March 1942 Monday was mailed to the interstate commerce commission by Charles A Root P S C commerce attorney Mr Root estimates that the increased rates cost Utah approximately $2000000 a year "It is true that during the past year the market prices of many commodities produced in Utah have gone upward This would appear to be a benefit to our producers but the costs of labor I equipment and supplies often have increased more rapidly and to a ower cllibc hsd to consider facilities for indoor drills as well as the prob- lem of hotel accommodations o n transportation for e x h i b i t i degarnes and innumerable other t:sA5 veloped change of pace should make Al a top flight hurler when Al occasionally he comes back tired in the late innings because of continual use of his fast ball But that change of pace should give him just what he needs to climb into faster company Al now weighs 180 pounds He tipped the scales at only 168 when This added he joined the army weight also should do its part in nulling Al over the full route Nine innings waa quite a distance for an extremely tall kid who weighed only 168 The Salt Laker also revealed in 1hi s letter that he plans to marry I Clubs Satisfied inv ' : as p:-:-- 1 can soldier "somewhere in Australia" a happier man than he Whizzer White the thought he ever could have been gridder and Rhodes scholar-froColorado university is reported The soldier is Al Emmertson to be in Guadalcanal 11 in Idaho Falls for ' former pitcher The report comes from Sergeant Al I! the Pioneer Baseball league Major Bass a veteran of 61 bomb-on received the baseball a presen F ing raids and about 20 shellings from his brother Vern of Salt 1:? Guadalcanal who is back in the The Lake City last November United States as gunnery instrucas of came and letter 'coffee partAl's tor at the army air force advanced a Christmas package from school at Stockton Cal Emflying A B Mrs and Mr parents According to Sergeant Bass: "I rnertson of 530 Colorado avenue ' got to know Whizzer quite well Al according to a letter just He's a swell lad He used to come received from him by his mother down on the me just to pat our used his birthday present to win a Airacobras Sort of grateful for ::- game—his eighteenth the air protection I guess" victory as against only three losses It's the first report on the Whiz—and then a few weeks later he zer for some time a drank a toast to himself with cup of coffeeCornelius Warmerdam voted Al' s latest- letter brought some as "the world's greatrecently to his cheerful news parents est athlete" and presented with ardent baseball followers It seems the Sullivan award has two amas though Al one of the best fast-webitions First he wants to bePioneer ball pitchers in the league come a member of Uncle Sam's ' ham developed a change of pace ' navy within a reasonably short 'i "I was afraid to experiment 74' Second he wants to clear ':: - 1 time while in the P L" Al wrote "but the impossible height of 16 feet down here I had plenty of oppor- I in pole vault No ether man has ::4 :' tunitv to do so I think I've finally cleared the ceiling which found the secret" That newly dN‘'armerdam has beaten officiali7 Map Campaign for Film tees JOH Firm Aid the Salt r7Lauds New are sustaining I Goes to I C C A Amen-- - January 26 19 13 13 akt Zeibunt Trbe 5111t Morning 7--4 ( f - t ' - 7 -- - |