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Event HondiTournoy Serious Contendars in Firs Do Will ©pen New Series Vs v v Ladies Start Play on Wednesday Men :::: i 4: See Action Saturday if 0 Golfers of the Ogden Golf and open Country clb will officially Femthe 1945 season this week l : ' - will have a grand opening Wed nesday April 25 while the men will compete in the annual Fairways and Greens tournament Saturday April 28 President William Varney announces Mrs Reid Jensen ' is in charge of the feminine events for the season She announced the complete schedule for 1945 as follows Saturday: April 25—Grand opening May 2—Qualifying rounds for May leg and point for par tournament May 7— State meeting at Salt Lake City May 9— Medal play against par ' t 7A - J ' V A - and Dutting contest May 16—Blind bokey and put ting contest and Mav 23— Flag tournament contest Invitational day putting for ladies at Ogden Golf and Country24club Mav — Invitational day at For est Dale and qualifying round for June leg June 6—Low net and putting contest June 12 —Mark E Weiss tourna ment at Salt Lake June 13 14 15 18 17— Varney tournament June 13 — Low score on odd holes and putting contest June 20— Medal piay vs par and Dutting contest June 27—Invitational day at Bonneville freak tournament and contest nuttincr J July 10—invitational aay at r on Dnuelas Julv 11 —Qualifying rouna ior July leg low gross and putting - it- - Jath&tbbuj JAi ism5- AMONG THOSE PRESENT - 1 ' v with J £©HirM : 1 : ( ' - i all-tim- hitters" Regarding the two moderns DiMaggio and Williams Evans sees a vast difference in their styles and temperaments: DiMaggio before he joined ythe army was theHefinest used present-daright hander the most open stance of all and is the only power hitter who posiever swung from a tion Batters who hit from a flat stance are hard to fool and - are ready for any type of pitch DiMag' was nonchalant seemingly indifferent "Williams in contrast was a bunTed used to pull dle of nerves down his cap hitch his trousers dig in his spikes pat his hands in the dirt take practice swings like a golfer knocking the heads off dandelions wiggle his hips and shake his long bat as if it were a seemed ready toothpick He never for the pitch but his 406 average wilT attest he was DiMag' stood erect and still like a classic statue" Evans is sorry he The also-ran- s cannot include in his 13 best though appreciating their gifts are Paul- Waner Jimmy Foxx Harry Heilmann- - Joe Medwick Charley Heinie Manush Gehringer andEvans piece is one of 38 culled from the magazine in the nirf itn veare and rtnt in o Vmnnrf volume of 292 pages under the title "Esquire's First Sports Reader" published by A S Barnes and company New York Edgar Xee Masters the poet has an essay on Ruby Robert Fitzsimmons which amazes us for we didn't know versifiers stooped to a treatment of pugilism in belles lettres Our sincere thanks to Esquire for a copy of the colorful and interesting First Sports Reader Bits of Sports Banter Commander Jack Dempsey of the United States coast guard is now flat-foot- - i ed - - Ex-Umpi- re ' park was used by' semi-pro- s as and behigh school teams as well coming the home grounds for most of Denver university's games America's overseas service men like the entertainment motion picture and radio stars give them "but many of us would ' get just as big a kick watching a good baseball game as we would judging the Miss America beauty contest" That was the word today ofe A Emmertson in the Piopitcher for Idaho Fallshome on fur neer baseball league southin 37 months the after lough west Pacific "Of course v we want sports to Continue" he said "Athletics enable us to keep contact with the homeland: in fact athletics are America to a lot of us" He said one of the biggest disappointments of service men in the New Guinea area was the cancelbaselation of the proposed ' ball team tour Emmertson has a wife in Aus tralia but he hasn't seen her for over a year He expects her to come to this country at the first opportunity Men and women keelers of Oz den will start firing today in the first annual Ogden Standard-Exam- handicap bowling tourna ment Approximately J50 pin per- iormers win compete lor the tro I j aer-gea- nt one-tim- I all-st- ar j mer-KL- O phies and cash awards Ogden and Box Elder appear o have the hot teams of region one baseball this spring - The Tigers and Weber high thrilled a good crowd at John Affleck park last Thursday with the Tigers nosing out the Warriors 5 to 3 in a well I played affair Box Elder pla vs at Weber Mori day afternoon and Ogden' - travels to Bear River The Tigers and Bees have each won one game and tire tied for first place ' Weber is next with one win and one defeat with Bear River in ' the basement with two defeats - - v Baseball Pleases' G Is—Straf aci I : a Ducks Unlimited Lists $213000 tor Program Arouses Interest Sandard-Exammer-KL- O Among Bowlers Handicap and Scratch a mm m Iff Mrs Reid Jensen above Is In charge RELEASES SCHEDULE of golf tournaments for ladies at Ogden Golf and Country club for 1945 She predicts one of the greatest campaigns In Ogden history for the ladles - contest Tuiv 18 — wolfer's tournament July 18 —Rotation tournament New Chain of Lakes and nuttinff contest 25 — Odd and even ana put Julycontest Be Presented tlnr Will Bowling Champs Trophies By Frank Eck Julv 29-3- 0 — Qualifying tor eny NEW YORK April 21 (AP)— rhamrjionshin (Pops) Glassell in August 1— Qualifying ior Aug Men and women bowlers of Ogden will open the first Alfred Curry from ust oil leg producer handicap tourna dependent Auffust 7— invitational aay : mx annual Ogden Standard-Examiner-KL- O a such fine La did Shreveport ' ment at Ogden Bowling Center and Mapleway Alleys Sun Job rounding up subscribers for Tnvo August 8— One club and putter bunthe that Unlimited Inc" be will m Ducks at two p contest completed Firing day afternoon — An s nst IS— Scotch foursomes 1 conservation organ t No ' nation's r0-r9Q Arril J 21—Tedesco tournament August him ization has presi at Rait Lake Ladies will roll at four - and six dent Auffust 22—Qualifying round for p m Sunday while the men will off here after the Fred M Nye Co tournament Five stopped Pops m two at p open the classic nanai- annual Ducks Unlimited session in blind holes and one-na- if Horald Bateman and Mildred St Louis He was so enthused rnn arA nuttinff contest of the proWarner5 about the support the duck proAugust 29— Kecau snoi ana puv to he contest is that tintf forgot gram fine getting entry gram are elated in the not are ducks mention that (A) 3— Mixea loursomes September list They predict some spirited now in season (B) that duck nrl dinner hunters consider him the country s September 4—Invitation avf competition and some sensational ton conservationist scores Salt Lake Country club Bill Voiselle Allows Kwntember 5—Qualifying rouna Pops who has received ine "The handicap champion and d SDorts and Afield and a million Fiel of September leg bet contest scratch champion in each of the Stream troDhies for his outstand tournament 1 1 and Hits but two divisions will be presented putting ing work says Ducks Unlimited SeDtember 13— Bobby J ones put handsome trophies in a special $215000 to tin has appropriated event ' just nd - handican the KLO over following radio ouua to Canada in be spent Scores a Victory Sentember 17— Quaurying ior tournament Vitttn nf IsVm a that riiirbn mav chamDionshiD club Besides Mrs Warner and Mr live and breed more ' comfortably 19— Place tournamenx Bateman the other coemmitteemen September south start their flight NEW YORK April 21 (AP)— Al until they contest mittins and are: Bill Smith Harold L Welch DU last year spent ?i4Uuuu 20— UUaillVinz RAntember ior — Joe Barney Howard Allington though stung for 11 hits and coaxed ward a similar for project tournament meaat Mrs Ruth Parry Alf Warden and for five bases on balls Bill Voiselle Hundreds of Lakes and putting contest play vs par was as tight as a drum in the Sergeant Maxie Kosof in — two the weeks z 'If schedule you spend round October first lag tournameni ana Sunday's pinches as the Brooklyn Dodgers drv Drovinces in Canad- a- nuttine contest follows: October 10— xtea ana jmue tour Ladies at Ogden Bowling Cen- left 11 men on bases to drop their like I did —you will come out of thoroughly convinced that nament ter—Four p m: alley 1 B Rob-bi- second straight to the New York them we wouldn't have shot ducks last E Johnson I Simonsen al- Giants 2 today before 10260 Pairings for the men's fairwayi season if it weren t for the mm and Private fans 2 preens tournament follow: L Kressin Private ley dreds of lakes constructed there are first named-anGreens fair M Goers Corporal H Buckley alSteve Filipowicz GlasDucks Unlimited' by says' Giants named and all of the Thomson R the second hero 3 A: football Johnson ways provided leyT Peterson alley 4 C Woods R with the margin of victory with sell''We have a problem Un- players wiU perform in foursomes homer in the fifth in- less wereally Stout - and A Lycon alley 5 al-D a two-ru- n the building pro Rouse E Runchel A Knight ning The New Yorkers scored gram incomplete in a very short Canada ley 6 V Nelson M Blair H their other run in the opening time duck hunting will be as poor frame when Mel Ott singled in as it was 10 years ago Did you GrtVHp?k?EralXtc°hS Johnson had doubled know that after the last war we A w Petty and j Anarews Six p m alley 1 L Mensing Johnny Rucker who I New Trk Brooklyn vs -- an I Davis G Malan alley 2 L 30 over of increase ABHOA had per &UM He?srnd Bert isheur Chick D Torsak C Packer alley Stanky 2bABKOAj 4 3 4 3 Rucker cf 5 13 0 cent in the number of hunters and vs 3 A Petersont R Parry V Stit-zvs Henrv Fouyer 3 1 4 OlHsuiman 2b 3 12 2 it never has dropped? Owen c 2 13 0 0 0 0 OlOtt rf y eager J AM MSquires vs vsHarry "We alley 4 ' E Barney G 5Bow-erba-E xxxxPalica 5000000 about will have 3 2 2 0 Bach-ma- n Galan lb 4 0 9 OFilipowiczlf R B Kosof alley J and more Squires out of hunters the coming r£ 4 11 OlWeinW H vs Bachman Blaine Littl B Simmons and M Chad-wic- k Walker so or war ve in the next year We Aderholt 1421 0 traub lb 3 180 Durrett cf 4 1 1 O'Lombardi c 4 0 5 1 got to impress people that outdoor Jackson and A C Brown vs alley 6 C Davis T Easley 4 1 3 2 A Hall alley 7 M Warner M Hart 3b t 3 13 3 Kerr m are what the boys need in Frank Bartlett J T Rushmer vs 1 1 3Reyef 3b 3 112 sports as 3 Basinski 8 A M Marshall Frank Brown and Foss Heiner vs Wiggins alley the postwar period Voiselle p 4 10 3 Moore C Culver and H Hamrey xxBordaKenneth Burton 250000000 Postwar Ducks 110 0 Karay R C Duvall vs W H Loos Any late entries will roll on four Chaoman v 2 0 0 1 "Unless we Americans — states and Morrell 100 00 02 xDouslaa J L Bush vsE JM RPack p m squad — and individuals have hunting and S 0 and vs Two p m alley 1 Sergeant B Pfund Dobbs P 0 0 fishing grounds we are certainly J S Scowcroft vs Val Browning Krall Sergeant Max Kosof Lieu- xxxRoaen 0 0 our duty Outdoors is 2 vs R C McQuar-ri- e 31 9 27 10 neglecting tenant C Hutchinson Totals 33112412 Total alley the best form of relaxation and A WandBartlett Stuken-ber- g vs O" C seventh for in Pissolo A R' Chapman Art J Benning Sergeant E that's what our boys will need" —Batted for Basinski In ninth vs Ralph Gaskill C C W Hammond Jorgensen alleys 3 and xx — feels that the Canadian xxx Batted for Pfund in ninth Pops vs DeVine James and 4 H Bateman J Barney H xxxx— Ran for Owen in ninth ' breeding grounds annually wil Pugmire ' Score by innincs: Welch B Smith J E Stokes and Ford nave Hugh m to produce - 250000000 post000 000 101—2 s Willard 1 H Allington alleys 9 and 10 W Brooklyn Eccles vs j j uunDar war ducks OOx—3 020 100 York New Wood V Elliott G' Thurston D The federal government has and Grant Rounds vsvs Ronald batted Summary: Errors—- 2None Runs A Two- - plans 2 Sandy in— Blackinton Morby Ott- FiliDOwiczdrawn and projects ap- Wadsworth Reid Jensen vs Claude Stanky — 12 H W L 11 Kerr and Rucker Boyle hits base Filipowicz for lakes and dams that Parry and Cy Matthie alleys Crump Sacrifices proved Home run —Filipowicz E Snyder C Sundstrom H Wise Hart "— Owen Kauiminn Rosen Double playa will entail a cost of nearly M G Pence vs P J Farrell B Krey and W Armstrong "When Pops reveals Hausmann Stanky and Galan: S S Eccles vs Lawrence and ' Four p m alleys 1 and 2 :H Hart these Weinare completed Kerr and Weintraub Kerr and ducks projects will be scattered all over Farr W W Anderson vs' Lyman Clifton W Cross H Bischoff F traub Losing pitcher— Chapman the nation especially in spots Hyde and George Eccles vs Ernie Johnson C Knight and L Stitzer wnere tnere never has been hunt- Fallentine allev 3 R Stanfield R Harris and D SDarks: ailev 4 N Schlupp Win in Ninth ing This means more duck hunt David' S Romney vs William ers and a bigger kill" and Val Campbell vs H Sam Moffe M Mazurczak alley Varley C C Eubank vs H besides Glassell 9 Sam Larsen J Porter B VicB Barton Ducks other — 21 The LOUIS ST (AP) April Kuhlman vs and W tor alley 10 E Victor L Rich- St Louis Cardinals Hinley took advantage uxenn L Martin Baltimore vice E C Outman Fred Bert Scribner "vs ardson B Burnett alley 11 J of a ninth-innin- g lapse in the Cm president George W Mason De- John Price and William Kobel Schwitser'T Cannon J Mueller cinnati defense today to a score troit treasurer William R O'Don-- vs J T Young alley 12 L Bryan A Hunt B All run and win the open rlL ! Wil E Becker vs and Chick wU Healy f secretary1 hnicago game-otheir series 3 to 2 J ' Reid Lon Beach Calif chair andA W H Harris vs Patsy Sam Powell Six p m alley 1 J Keene B ing Cincinnati St Xnis me Doara AB H O Al ABHOA man Kofoed C Carmony alley 2 L Wade Johnson vs Stiles Wherry 8 2 3 OlBergame rf 42 1 Rose R Roth J Yerage alley 3 Clay cf and George H Lowe vs W " D ' 4 6 2 2 5 4 If cf OIHopp Reb-illTipton R Nordmark J DeRose E Shaw G T Hone vs Piatt Fuller Walker rf 4 0 2 0'Schoen ' W Lovell Bowler 4 R and Harold Davis vs Lawrence Wilson 1 dlenst If 4 4 McCoralleys Steady : W C Swanson vs Camp4 0 6 T Summers alley 9 F Warner mick lb 4 2 7 i w Cooper Taylor T Mackey J Welsche alley 10 W Mesner 3b 41 0 3 3! Sanders lb 34 01 32 2 CHICAGO April 21—Wallv Wil bell Eccles and Elmer Dudman 14 l'KurowskUb son has not missed a session of vs :Earl Rushmer Latham E Dunlap Sanka Barney Williams2b 2 0 0 3i Marion ss 4 2 1 Wahl is R B Young vs Neil Olmstead 3 0 1 OlVerban 2b 3 0 4 mcago union Printers Bowling e alley 11 E Chatlin D Workman Just L B Cornish vs George C Woods alley 12 E Van Zwe-de- n Carter p 4 0 1 2nonnelly p 2 0 0 ou and years league in o o o Charles Chandler vs Byeny p Ellerbeck C O Peterson C Critchlow 0 0 11 zMallory and E C Bader 1 Hudson C Johnson m Gifford Eight p alley Burkhardtp 0 0 0 0 ringer racked up his second win vs C T Jones H B Squires vs H Poort G Toone alley 2 L me season oi and Brown6 Matt 27 31 7 Totals 34 9 V 25x10) F H Totals A Dunkley alley Moyes Young Taylor ! Chicar Fittsbvrrh x— One out when winning run scored 3 R Carpenter Sergeant A Sir-ianvs W H Ellis z — ABHOA ABHOA ingClark In for Batted seventh Byerly vs John Scowcroft F 4' xiacK McGreal 1 ob J alley f 3 l!Zak u 403 and G S Rich Score by innings vs Robert Davis Spence 001 010 000—2 Hughes ss 5 2 3 2!Barrett cf 3 2 5 Przydziat ' Sergeant M Lancaster Cincinnati 8 2 3 81 Rssell W- - 503 Rod-dovs H C Hancock 101—3 SfvJrfUlb 9 R Matthies 010000 Louis C Fred Rice alley St Sergeant 4 2 1 ljElliott 3b 4 3 0 Errors— Wahl Mesner Runs Nicholaonrf J- - F Collings vs J T Stim-so- n R C Spargur Al DeCorso I Summary: and 4 If 0! Sauer 11 O O'Brien rf 2 2 1 in— Marion Tipton McCormick Wendell Thompson vs V L 0 Dahlgrenlb 4 3 8 Two-baalley 10 C Bowerbank T White batted hits— Tipton xGlllesple If 10 Hopp Bergame 0 0 0 0:Gustine 11 and A M Wolfer vsJlm L Combe alley H Wessman 2 Sanders Bergamo Ward 2b 3 0 1 Sacrifices— Just Lowery cf 5 2 4 OliColeman 0 Hal Daniels vs Ken E M Peterson H J Payne alley Verban 10 Double plays — Pafko Burkhardt Scowcroft liCoscarartb 0 0 0 Shell and Earl Wilbur vs Gor12 Les Foutz Al'Fialdini and L Kurowskl and Sanders Winning pitcher Johnson 2b 44 22 5 0 llSalkeld c 4 2 6 Livingstonc C Simmons don M Baxter 0 0 0 Derringerp 4 13 2 zzSewell Roe p 2 0 0 On Sunday April 29 the ladles F D Sawyer vs Albert ScowzzrGIon- will wind up their tournament at croft and Don Leader vs W J 0 0 0 friddo C A Lindquist vs L S Wilson Mapleway alleys and the men will Pirates Lose Strinve- and William Nantker vs finish the classic at Ogden BowlMerrill 0 0 0 vich p PITTSBURGH Pa April 21 William Blackburn ing Center 110 uzzRodgers (AP) —Bill Nicholson's seventh-innin- g George Abbott vs C Evs Arm4013 Totals 2714 Totals2710 3513 Geo double against he right field strong and Joseph Barker x—Batted for Sauer In ninth vs Leo Loll A C screen scored Phil Cavarretta with t— Batted Wright for Gustine in eighth Horsley rz—Ran for Salkeld in ninth the run that gave the Cubs a 3 and Herman Payne vs- H E Olsen — Roe Batted for vs Milton Boyle izz in seventh over the Pirates today victory —Batted for Strincevich in ninth F L Munson vs P A Bal- C In squaring the series at-- one - TTtx R Albright and Score by innings: Derveteran 11 Paul — the 4 game apiece 200 100 Chicago jgCT Abbott vs W: IL Bowman 201 000 000— 3 Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH April 21 (AP)— — vs- - II II Errors Barrett Elliotts and' Summary: Browning M'A Frankie Zak peppery little PittsZak in— Runs batted Cavarretta Elliott Walker Frank Moulton vs Fred Two-baO'Brien 2 Pafko Nicholson burgh Pirates shortstop was noti- Clemson in Thick of It ' Three-bas- e M Nye and Adam Patterson vs hits— Nicholson Johnson fied today by his Passaic N J CLEMSON S C April 21—A — Sacrifices-Zak Hack Elliott Harman Peery L IL Peery vs draft board to report for a physi- survey shows 237 Clemson letter-me- n hits Zak Arthur Perkins and Lorenzo RichO'Brien Johnson Double plays— cal examination there next Wedare in or have been in the and Dahigren Cavarretta and Hugnes ards vs Russell Richards J B armed forces nesday loosing pitcher—Roe to re-elect- ed m§MiS : OGDEN CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING APRIL 22 Aderil! - m Sacramento Vins Close DaWIe ' SAN FRANCISCO Anril 21 (AT The Sacramento Senators staged an n eighth inning five-ruuprising! toto defeat San the Francisco day ' The series now 3 Sealsstands at San Francisco 3 Sacramento 2 Score: R II E - 6-- - Sacramento 000 000 150 — 6 12' 1 San Fran: 000 000 012—3 It 2 Fletcher Pillette and Marcubci: Barthelson Buzolich Flowers fcnd ugroaowski bprinz - New WS ©©s'feir CommandeMn-CMe- f non-winne- rs rx-airi- Of Men e in Uniform Says Ninety Per Cc Want Sporfs to Carry on Roosevelt Was One of Baseball's Best Supporters ns rain-drench- ed 3-- " er nk p-- - " - ! $1000-000000- ' -- tie-breaki- ng a I ni m -- se Za!r Ordered to Take Physical - 4-- i100 se I By Chip Royal a ex-Fordh- I i - Al Glassell To Serve As Ducli Boss S'&ors If -- - - Recently a county grand jury reported the grandstand at Merchants park on south Broadway was in dangerous condition and later the city building inspection department ordered the stands torn down inside of 30 days The park was built in the early twenties by Milton Anfenger when the Denver Bears returned to the Western league then a class B league After Denver a dozen years ago dropped from the circuit the hMiAiifl ot NEW YORK" April 21— Sergeknt Frank - Straf aci back following three years is' Australia New Guinea the Philippines and way reports that baseball! is in Australia The former heavy- points about all the GI's have to talk weight boxing champion is on a about i world tour of coast guard bases in "You 'don't know what a- beats n s the interest of physical fitness the In Australia Dempsey is also vis- I r took from Giant rooters inamathe former laughs iting Australian army camps and racuic teur? champion- Swho happens according to wire reports praised to begolf a Brooklyn the "ruggedness" of Aussie soldiers leads to bets and rooter on"Tallc the ' betting Denver city of around 350000 after the Dodgers of t early part has been without organor more ized baseball for many years ex- last season hardly was a payjing cept for one season when the West-te- proposition league was reorganized in 1940 as a class D circuit Now the Colorado capital Is going to be without an adequate base- ball park y - Rogers Hornsby re awkward 'graceful' performer with his bow legs and long arms in the Hornsby history of the game was the opposite an Adonis at the swing and plate a model of stride there was never a precision greater hitter than Jackson He could have batted fourth or clean team of the best up on my e Taw -- " nd dis-ike- IPSbi Grid Expert Stars as Giants Win 4 i Di-Mag- all-arou- it Ant xr- - r The thirteen best to get the nod by Evans in the order of merit follow: Willie Keeler Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig Eddie Col lins Hans Wagner Rogers Hornsby Tris Speaker George Sisler Napoleon Lajbie Joe Jackson Joe and Ted Williams Some excerpts from his most interesting yarn follow: "If there was ever a greater player than Cobbhad-mo-I have Ruth yet to see him power Speaker was a better fielder and DiMaggio had a better arm kut none possessed Ty's combined Cobb bad fewer batting talents Gehrig was slumps than most much harder to pitch to than Ruth Lou murdered the change of d ace and slow curve that Ruth Wagner was the most Tkottl - in his "honor did not include roll" r11 Ogden Bowline Center Poriisiiodl ft© ir Billy Evans Named 13 Greatest Hitters They say thirteen is a baker's dozen Maybe that i$ why Billy Evans retired major league baseball umpire and now a minor league president lists the 13 greatest hitters hei ever saw with his 6wn eyes in a colorful yarn in Es quire's First Sports Reader s t ' schedule V E Evans is as good an authority as one might contact anywhere m baseball to pick the finest batsmen His feat however of all time isn't near as controversial as naming the best of all time of say the best half dozen Just why Evans named "13 hitters is something only the vet- eran umpire can answer maybe it was because he wanted to include everyone But on see ond thought he named other dis- - 3 m leri5-"- "- - ) MGHW£N' - Ut men of Upward -- WASHINGTON nce a qq makes! April 21 (AP)— Gosh what a differ- - Just about seven days before Franklin Delana JRoose velt passed away and Harry S Truman became the thirty- second president your agent was ui tctpnox vicwmi5 m Senators and Boston Braves in their spring workouts- - During a visit to tne senate io talk to a couple of the guys there about the baseball commissioner's job Truman came along The talk turned to sports in general and the then He reshowed a keen interest a misses mtver he vealed that he when football a or game fight can help it "I'm: not the baseball fan that Mr Roosevelt is" smiled Truman "but I like to go to a game now and then" In fact I'm looking forward to throwing out the first ball this year" 'Every diamond fan musttheknow late the love that by this time Amerithe had for great president throwing can game He enjoyed out the first ball ' In fact he was the champ and left a record as" the opening day twirler which may never be equalled Roosevelt tossed out the ball eight times in his three terms No other 'president has ever performed times the chore more than sevenWilliam It was 35 years ago that custom Howard Taft started the by curving a delivery around his large tummy Warren- - Harding probably was the best f linger of the lot A big felldw who golfed frequently and was f in good condition Harding threw the ball straight and fast He owned the Marion team In the Ohio State league Woodrow Wilson also was a great fan" He had control but not much speed Baseball didn't 'aphe peal to Calvin Coolidge but act carried on with the tossing Herbert Hoover liked a ball game still does The new president made a baseball promise last January that he may not be able to keep! When the New York writers were arranging their- annual dinner they invited v Truman to speak He couldn't make it but said he would e on hand for the 1946 affair Time will tell If Truman does make an appearance he will s vice-preside- nt —-a-nd - - Robinson vs Harry Richardson and John Scowcroft vs John bpargo Max Stevens vs Clyde Stone and H C Stranquist vs D V String- ham E G Bennett vs W R Brown and Ora Bundy vs J"- - Francis Fowles Clyde Beuhler vs CA Ferrin and George Fistcr vs E R Dumke R E Ileminsway vs Leonard Diehl and A L Glasmann vs B W Karl Hopkins V Glasmann vs William Hunter and C C Hetzel vs H S Jensen J L Jeremiassen vs F C Ralimore and L T Dee vs F E Douglas Captain Robert French and Captain Robert Hudak vs Captain Don Grchs and Jim Adams make history as the first president to honor the baseball writers Just a few days before I caught him in the capitol Harry S appeared on a sports broadcast ana said "I want to Join our enthusiastic snnrt fans and sav 'Play bill' He announced that he'd reached his conclusions after a lot or ta with high military and nava ft -- thorities I "The ereat American game baseball is the most popular sport both at home and on the war fronts Ninety per cent of the troops polled abroad are In favor j of sports at home" Add his comment a coupl of weeks before that when Truman was in New York for a xignt jana told Tony Janiro provides welterweight that boxing a great lift for "all of us'! land you get an idea that the Missourian ' is A- -l as a sports xan And if vou are one of the mil- lion who like to follow the horses so does the president! r j f - i Babe Brown Gets v New 'Contract SPOKANE April 21 (AP)-T- he said today that Spokesman-Reviedirector of Brown J A (Babe) athletics" at the University of Idaho con"will be tendered a one-yetract as head football coach unless present plans are suddenly disw ar rupted Sports Editor Bob Lamb wrote that university athletic officials had not considered the selection of a coach officially "but there jwill be little or no opposition to hia opinappointment if the expressed ions of athletic board membersindi-la private conversations is any cation" Vliifmaii Squcrp Diamond Sens XJ WALLA WALLA Wash April two-ga(AP) —Whitman evened its Washbaseball series with ington State by pounding out ny 8 to 5 victory in a windstorm Hits and errors were even Missionaries were playing the but late in the tighter ball until The Cougars won 10 to 5 Frli: R II Score: 5 o oio w s C01 0 i 300 133—3 Whitman Batteries: Jorrimn End Crr: Waggoner and Lathrcp me ta-da- rrrt cooo |