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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE. DELTA, UTAH : i n l.:.jScJl ...fe,.J IN WHAT line of professional sport can the athlete or competitor make the most money? Baseball, football, boxing, racing, wrestling, basketball or what have you? The range in salaries from Joe DiMaggio to Bob Feller, according to recent report, was something like $65,000 to $85,000. At the same time, Johnny Lujack was signed up for an amount approxi-mating $20,000 a year. Charley Trip-p- i drew down just about the same chunk of cash for 1947. t - & FELLER F00tbaU wth "S 20 games a season, including exhibitions, can't match baseball with its 190 games, also in-cluding exhibitions. There are not many ballplayers paid the same as Bob Feller, Ted Williams and Joe Di Maggio. But also there are hot so many football players paid on a level with Lujack, Trippi and a few more. Even as it is, pro football can make very little money with its brief season thrown against modern expenses even the winning teams. The others can drop enough dou-bloons to founder a Spanish galleon. On a general average, baseball and football pay close to the same amounts, with baseball in front. The kickback is that any number of ball-players get $7,500 or less a season Stars Lure Crowds What about the pro golfers? A Hogan, Nelson, Demaret or Locke can make from $25,000 to $30,000 a year, but there are not many of these. Only a few stars. Most of the others are underpaid, but it happens to be the stars who draw the crowds. Golf compares favorably with football for the few who must work over 200 days a year to top $20,-00- 0. The average pro golfer on tour doesn't make $5,000. Club golfers who are also instructors can do much better. v Ballplayers also last longer than football players, although such vet-erans as Sammy Baugh, Sid Luck-ma- Bulldog Turner and Mel Hein can hang around for better than 10 or 12 years. They are the unbreak-able-s. Joe Louis can pick up more money in one fight than any base-ball or football player can earn in a big part of his career. The Louis-Walco- tt outdoor jamboree should play to at least a million-dolla- r gate. It will be an interesting fight along physical and psychologieal lines. Louis gets 40 per cent of the take. This means around $400,000, from which his manager takes his cut, whatever it is. In any event, at least $250,000 comes to Louis. The only kink here is that your Uncle Sam, losing no time at all, lops off around 75 or 80 per cent. The morbid facts are that the same collector doesn't leave Feller, Williams and other high-price- d play-ers enough to start a bragging de-bate. Wrestling Is Steady What about the wrestlers? Some active fact-find- says that Camera will collect around $250,000 for a year's activity. This may be too high. But wrestlers do better than many people know about. It might be remembered that k wrestler can operate five nights a week in a rush period. Boxing champions must settle for two or three performances a year. Jimmy Londos told me once that he made as much as $20,000 a week. Londos was then an incredible oper-ator, also a very highly intelligent human being. The only true answer to this sal-ary matter in sport must take in the highest number who average the best pay over the years. My answer here would be base-ball, where so many thousands are involved in so many leagues. There may not be so many Ruths, Fellers, Greenbergs, DiMaggios or Wi-lliams, but there are more than 400 big leaguers who can knock off from $7,500 to $15,000 a higher average for a greater number. Pro football can almost match this payroll with the two leagues reaching for a rival windpipe. The football players get all the money, and it will be this way until two strong leagues can play at peace. Which reminds us, we almost for-got the jockeys. How about Eddie Arcaro, Johnny Longden and a few more? All they have is around a million dollars each. You know $100,000 a year is no big overlay. Lining Up the Stars It will be interesting to see which teams and which leagues sign up football's leading college stars of 1947. Including all bowl and post-seaso- n games played, the seven leading backs of the year were Johnny Lu-jack of Notre Dame, Bob Chappuis of Michigan, Bobby Layne of Texas, Ray Evans of Kansas, Charley Con-erl- y of Mississippi, Doak Walker of 5.M.U. and Harry Gilmer of Ala-bama. II ' ""M 4. CLASSIFIED P DEPARTMENT AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS. lilfP-- ' USED CARS I ! NOBODY BUYS MORE I ...OR PAYS MORE! f BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. CAFE FOB SALE t ! One of best spots in Rapid City, So. Dak. f Inquire 008 Main or Phone 1254. 4 HELP WANTED MEN WANTED: Electrical Engineers with col-- i' lege degree for field work in laboratory I truck. Single men preferred. Apply P.O. BOX 1210 - Casper, Wyomlnr LIVESTOCK FATTEN HOGS FASTER by stimulating their appetites with Dr. LeGear's Hog Pre-- v ' scription. 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JUST tuitaBLACK LEAF 40 t j DASH IN FtATMf RS ,RTMERA.J WNU W 0848 linn fimiLiim ;:. i I I PAY I I-- The NAVY has a Real Business Proposition for ,' Young Men Who Want to "Go Places." I Ask tor Information. i Navy Recruiting Station j 1 " d f ' - - ' V . , I " "vv" i ' i s & GOLD STAR WIFE . . . Mrs. Rnth Dutcher of Arlington, Va., is new national president of the Gold Star Wives of America. Recently In-stalled in office, she is determined to get action on house and senate bills which would relievo the dis-re- ss of many a gold star wife. S ''' r-i hi.ii ; i - . , , t : v h , ' I V i y c"?'? K i "i 0FF THE RUBBISH PILE . . . Boys' club members check a working i 'ain? of a sPcedboat i"dc, limited in cost to Jl, for the Skipper's 4 contest. Explaining construction details are Guy Lombardo, left, J David ff. Armstrong, executive director of Boys' Clubs of America. 1 TflRT FROM SCRAPS " Boys Comb Rubbish Heaps For Boat Contest Materials ) It's a treasure hunt in the rubbish heap for boys all over the ' United States. They are seeking old tin cans, mother's castoff garters, scraps of wood, paper clips, rubber, bands and even I leftover paint, all of which will be used for building entries I nationwide Skipper's Cup model jj, the first speedboat contest. rr. ViuiiH 9 swift and sturdy craft S for less than $1 is the immediate objective of many of the quarter I million youngsters who are mem-- J bers of or affiliated with Boys' Clubs of America. 'This organiza-- ! fan and Eveready Battery com-- f pany are of the nation- - wide contest. II If the "skipper" qualifies lo- -' cally, his next aim Is to survive i ' regional eliminations so he can race his speedboat in the Reflect-- I ing Pool at Washington April 10 and 11 for final honors. - The national contest is dated to coincide with annual observance of i Boys' Club Week. The contest is limited to boys un--' der 16, all of whom are supplied J with working drawings of model types. The model boat was designed by Douglas Rolfe, who also will 'j serve as one of the judges of the national finals. Instructions coveri-ng length, weight and detail gov-- U era all series. Hulls must be com-- J pleted and water speed tests certl- - ed to national headquarters on or Is before March 13. Builders of the best boats locally J. will receive awards of tiny, two-- I ounce electric motors and a supply i I of flashlight batteries. Winners in seven Boys' Club regions of the S. will receive regional Skipper's !the ; In the national finals in YVash-- 5 ington the seven boys who score top time trials, regardless of re-- i gion, will compete before TJ. S. and foreign ' celebrities under the shadow of the Lincoln Me--' I mortal. I Judges will include Guy Lombard-o, band leader and speedboat V champion; Bill Stern and other well-- f known sports figures. Former Pres- - ident Hoover is serving as honorary chairman of the national commit-- , tee. 5 Local craftsmanship contests will I" Precede speed trials. Judging, I! which will be on a basis of point B competition, will cover basic de-- ,j s'Sn, originality, workmanship, fin-- isb and over-a- appearance. jiS " " " k , I k - is ; 1 y 1 f f , - ; I 1 ' s I p' - -. , c-- - J i - ' . V . --j - - - f s I' 4 ' ( ' s . , i PLANTING FORESTS BY AIR . . . Forests are being planted by helicopter now. First job of this kind was undertaken recently by a west coast paper manufacturing company when 2,640 acres of the company's tree farms in Washington and Oregon were seeded from the air with five species of native forest trees. v -- x : f ' A i'v , 7 : IIARD-DEADE- . . . Earl O. Shreve, president of the TJ. S. chamber of commerce, put him-self on record as endorsing the Marshall plan, but stipulated that it be backed up with "hard-heade- d business experience" and econ-omy in government at home. War Vets Respond To Call for Blood ATLANTA, GA. For 24 veter-ans of battlefields extending from Luzon to St. Lo, the call for blood was enough. Many of them gratefully re-membered that their own lives had been saved by blood plasma during the war, and here was Lawson veterans' hospital ap-pealing for blood donors. All 24, with Purple Hearts shin-ing on their jackets, lined up at the hospital to give blood. I i , , f S t iys " j p:::::;::'::::::::i::S::::;:a::: ,ftv Vtf.v.v,. .ijl.. A CANAL ZONE GETS JETS . . . U. S. air force's 36th fighter group, one of the defense units for the Panama Canal zone, has completed Its conversion from the wartime 7 aircraft to 0 Shooting Stars. These are shown en route to their home station, Howard air force base in the canal zone, where they will become an Integral part of the canal's defense system. ' v s i. i ' ' ' ' I I If" - - M 1 AGE OF INNOCENCE . . . Even if Carol Ann Coulon of Miami had never seen a Flor-ida orange she still would be plenty cute. Her own state thought so, too, because she won the "Little Miss Florida" contest. Proud Son Sees Widowed Mother In Cap and Gown ITHACA, N. Y. When the library tower chimes at Cornell university peeled forth their congratulations to mid-yea- r graduates, Jonathan Hartwell Harwood III, aged 4, near burst with pride. Among the young women in aca-demic robes was his mother, Vir-ginia Oake Harwood. Few fellows have the privilege of seeing their mothers graduate from college. J onny doesn't know it, but he was the chief reason why his mother finished her course in the college of home economics. Jonny's father fought in the invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944; and he never came back. Jonny's dad graduated from Cor-nell, too in 1942. And his mother, whose parents live in Lockport, N. Y., left school in her sophomore year to marry him. They didn't have much time together just a couple of summers while dad was training at Fort Bragg. Then he was sent to England to train as a Ranger and was made a captain. Then came . . . "People thought I was crazy when I decided to take my son to Ithaca with me in the fall of 1945 and continue col-lege," Mrs. Harwood admits. "May-be I was a little crazy. But I had to have something to do something to occupy my time and my mind. I could be a better mother to Jon-n- I felt, if I graduated from col-lege and was prepared to earn my living." The pension and insurance money made it possible for them to rent a small Ithaca apartment and live in modest comfort. And Jonny went to Cornell, too. Jonny attend-ed the college's nursery school. He also will be graduated this year from nursery school to kindergar-ten. Illillf:. , :; I !MmMMMMff;XMi!f!ti: ' lliilllil;llil lllslllllll j p!l; llii:.1:::;;: BIG JIM MEETS HIS MATCII . . . James E. "Big Jim" Folsom, governor of Alabama with aspirations toward the presidency, found a man his size when he entered the conference room for the closed session of the southern governors' conference. He was surpassed in physique by Capt. Reid Clifton of the Florida highway patrol, whose 305 pounds and 6 feet 6 inches overshadowed the Alabama governor's 250 pounds and 6 feet 8 inches. f 1L1 ii NEW BILLS FOR OLD . . . Rep. Frank L. Sundstrom (Rep., N. J.) fcss submitted a bill calling for issuance of a new series of U. S. paper currency and cancellation and destruction of all existing pa-per bills. fl Wcmsn Lighthouse l Keeper Quits Pest JJIs Feet Are 'Tired' 1 TURKEY POINT, MD.-Bec- ause "1 to teet m tired and she wants to lust rest," Mrs. Fannie Salter, the j'"t womsn lighthouse keeper on bay' has ven up her P Believed to be the only qualified II fceper of her sex in the na-- ,? Salter retired fr" a ob Sl "i ok ehhasheWior 23 years. She of the Point FfbrUary 1925" ""der & m by Calvta Coolidge. 'h sed her husba"d. who On sick leave since last Septem-- 3 Plains th(Wfn light tender - AlL "en a"hes." her 6 '?'"" Salter, who is Herimmedi- - Just rest and catch :',?,tive!y0ng-!ielaye- visits with rela- -' Sale of Loafing Space To Restore Old Plaza ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. Appeal-ing to the weaker side of man, Al-buquerque Historical society offered loafing privileges in the plaza in return for donations in a drive for funds to restore the? old town plaza. Results were good, officials of the society report. The scale ran: For $8.55, one square foot of loafing space; for $10, plain and fancy loafing anywhere; for $17.10, loafing privileges with frills; for $25, y'our child's footprint in concrete, and for $50, your own footprint. v 'UP TO MARGARET . . . Frank G. Handy, son of G. C. Handy, publisher of the Tpsilanti, Mich., Press, was reported to be object of the affections of Margaret Tru-man, daughter of the President. Said Handy: "If there is any an-nouncement it will have to come from Margaret." iwnariatih . . J HURDLES HIS OWN HANDICAP . . . Maimed war veterans at Vaughan hospital in Chicago watch with new hope as Walter h, who lost s leg when he was a child, gives amazing demon-stration of high jumping. "If I can do it, so can you," Baskovich told the disabled vets. Show was presented by University of Chicago acro-theat- er to illustrate how determination can overcome handicaps. Gels Slung Daily-B- ut It's His Living S8 bul teVeral times a day-Sl- Sm' fay doing it. "i'wnimto J entails trusting Sluices 4,age med th 3'000 "iiiraws'i,; ter a minute he IdS. bites, u t,hls arm and counts the lood 7. t0tal about 60, well P'0Cess in he rePeats the I ?" Set 106 a th6r cage unl he ffj'titcs. required number of When he finds a hungry commu-nity of mosquitoes, he covers his arm with insecticide and thrusts it in again, giving the insects another opportunity for a vicious bite on his arm. Once again he must la-boriously count the number of bites. Franklin is a laboratory techni-cian for a local chemical company. The process is a test of the power of mosquito repellants. |