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Show WALTER BRATZ DIES IN S. L Former Oqden Newspaper Man Succumbs Following Apoplectic Stroke 'iTw Walter D. Bret, former ( iclr noTvapaperm an and Widely knowr - 'ijSm throughout the went as an authority "'ntggj of ,!Mc"' died At mii oArly hour thl jgjjai morning In his home in Silt l.nki" ' Icath came from cerebral hemorr- JflH hagc Mr Brats was Stricken uddn- TgU ly at his home early (Monday and died 91 within forty-eljf ht hours after th at- .Hl Mr I!'. i'. was born In Weat Bend Jw3 Wis.. Where he .peiii lila Infancy and jnih and where he acduired Ills edu- cAtion, Including a jroundwurk In mu-SlC, mu-SlC, for eeseral season, a a young man. ho was a member of various Mil-Wa'ukee Mil-Wa'ukee Land. His father h well- "Sffl known cltlsen of Milwaukee, died at flH that place about two yeari sgo. " -4 $ About twenty year ago Mr. Bratr I fl'S moved to Oeden Hp enraged In the ; : JJ real estate hu8ine.; and later enterod iX' 'I'fmt trie newspaper profession, In which he pet formed distinguished vr.l f tr, ii?B th" tllTU' ' nls death rTOlB A lover of nthld. sports. Mi Bratl n Jx early identified htnusoir with outdoor ' ''ukSlB pastimes At various ilm-s he in 'jQgKm president of (he Ogden and nther clubs "SgBgW "f different I tah mats liasel.nl I " ' ' STE loagues. I'nrter hi direction numir- VtJjJI "us l''s,',r, latgf colol.roted In '. their profession, had their first evperl- ence. fsl&feflEM ' f-'ntr. wont to Salt l,ake about ''IbSww sixteen years ago For many years he vS&a2 xv;iS P't9 editor of the Salt ljke; ..;' telegram in isor. mi Kmtz absent-1 "- till. ri Vtlmxlr fir.m 1 1 llra llMitkr. IHH arll, going to Ely, Ne where he YjflfiH 's i ho editor of oho of the papers OggJ there. Iceiurning t. Salt i.ake. h rf- F3 WM Sumsd the sports desk of the Tele- wr. gram Later lie I .nii!.ii H i 1 1 n with tho i i.'i ,i id - Republican ajfigl M At the time of the brief consolidation rf'oHi H of Herald-Republican and the Telegram .Mr. Bratz served the com r hiii'd i j i i ..ml ionritne, ;'n Ihf . Telegram when th two publications HLjHJI withdrew from their consolidation. I WTJlr About a year sgu Ml Bratx took ,,jj reaponslbli position with ih Good fclaB year rubber interests, whit h plai s he SU occupied until a few months ago when mffiKy he declined a chsnge of poft to an-J toH other it and resigned Ho immsdi- cbbbe ately afterward associatsd himself BR with tho Deaeret News in the capacity lBfl of director of thitt Journnal's ireCkU f!Pe pictorial nection - Sm'" "r d'"0"11 well versed in yOg7 ' practically every branch of Sports' and . n" "''n kthleteg and their perform- 'ciiMsa anceS with an undri'.innrilns jmls- N"H ment. In tho days of i ,P I 'nion as- kHE soclation. and also since the Coast jjjjnH placed s lub m tall Lake, HflV Mr. Brat serxed us one or tho Et?fgT flclsi scorera of tho Rnnio fflse ln nl Wl,,lncs Mr H'sit; wns sturdy ' and unfaltrrlnK In his efforts to It0p ;y 2S every kind of sport ft oo from tHlnt. f. '''jgpSE wtd equally hp was fearless in attack- ifla ina and sxposing enterprises that sav- orid of the Irregular, He had s ido 'j aosjuaJntanfls in thf- field of athletics jiSi $ and his opinions oommanded an ikn us ually high derioo of rrspo. t.'vMS An n''rtt survived by his widow and two dauch'ois n,j (Wo brothers, to Brats and Quince Brats of VVesi L- Vv nd. Wis ' 2nf ,va, 1,1 ,,,on BAturday obtaining PWf local pictures for the pictorial section of this newsps i" ! ' ii?jas Funeral arrnngomonts nill bs an- ;WBUwl nounced today |