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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH 2 Stratton Comeback Speaking of Sports WHEN Monty Stratton, White Sox pitching ace whose right in December Warner, Dobie leg" was amputated a hunting accident, first to try announced that he was Resign College was a comeback it was suspected that he the dark. whistling Gridiron Posts however, even the most are keeping a skeptical eye following going By ROBERT McSHANE TXHEN Glenn "Pop Warner and Gil Dobie, two of football's old- in duNow, bious on Monty. Experts have already gone to his Greenville, Texas, home to consult on the best type of artificial leg for the injured young ath- est coaches in point of service, their resignations almost lete. an-nounc- simultaneously, they gave football historians a red letter day. Only Amos Alonzo Stagg, College of the Pacific mentor, exceeds either of them in years devoted to the grid game. Warner has completed his forty-fourtyear of coaching, and Dobie his thirty-eightStagg has coached for 48 seasons. Both men have had a great deal to do with shaping the trend of football. They were coaching teams when the flying wedge was the play. games best ground-gainin- g Warner can claim credit for much of football as it is played today. He was among the first to rely on deception rather than power in some cases carrying deception to an extreme. The "Warner System is a monument to his ingenuity. Warners hidden ball trick will, always be a delight to football fans, who never tire of hearing about it. Shortly after the turn of the century, when his Carlisle Indians were . h h. . Pigs, Cows, Eggs by Air States Names . " , r - Louisiana was named for King Louis XIV of France. Ohio means "great river. Virginia was named in honor of Queen Elizabeth of England. Maryland was named for Queen Henrietta Maria of Eng--, ' ' land. . ... . Minnesota means "sky-blu- e water. Pennsylvania was named for William Penn, the famous Quaker. ; Florida was named for Easter Sunday Pascua Florida, the Spanish "feast of flowers. Washington was named in honor of George Washington. . . . In northern Canada the airplane pilot is milkman, grocer, butcher, and heavy freight handler to scores of isolated mining towns and trading posts, reports the Commentator magazine. Besides the usual traffic in all sorts of mining equipment and dry stuffs that daily wings its way into the North, fresh food is also carried. Grapefruit today is a breakfast fruit even 200 miles north of the Arctic circle. Fresh eggs, milk and vegetables of all kinds are shipped in large quantities by air. Where there are many children, even live cows have been carried by plane to provide fresh milk. Live pigs and chickens are daily passengers on th6 aerialfreighters. Fast Thinking Saved This Forgetful Hubby He was conscious that trouble was brewing when he went out in the morning. When he got home that night he learned what he hadK done. , With tears in her eyes his wife exclaimed : "I know you dont love me ; youve forgotten my birthday 1 "Darling, he said, "Im more sorry than I can say but it Is . really your fault. she exclaimed. "My fault? i "How. can that be? He took her hand in his. "How can I remember your birthday, he asked, "when there is never anything about you to remind me that you are a day older than you were a year ago? , . - His convalescence has approached the point where he is ready to begin his mechanical experiment, and he is more optimistic of future success than he was last spring when he pulled an arm muscle. Stratton is fortunate in having in" terested experts of the artificial limb industry in his plight. Some manuFrom Friend and Foe facturers accept his condition as a We learn our virtues from the challenge to their resourcefulness. bosom friends who love us; our While many players grant that he faults from the enemy who hates has an outside chance of pitching us. We cannot easily discover our ' again, they are not of the opinion real form from a friend.. He is a that he will be able to cover ground Af ANY have had a fellow feeling number up .my cups of tea? mirror on which the warmth of with any speed. for good old Doctor 'Johnson Then, according to Cumberland, our breath impedes the clearness asIt is reported one expert has who, while willing to jest about he grew suddenly of the reflection. Richter. sured Stratton and Sox officials that the quantity of tea he drank, did laughed and said: Monty will not only be able to pitch, not relish the comments of his "Sir, I should have released the but that he can run with a fair de- friends. He had his own concep- lady from any further trouble if it have escaped much better than a gree of speed. tion of good manners, and such had not been for your words; but certain lady did a while ago, upon Stratton will not make the trip remarks appeared to him unman- you have reminded me that I lack whose patience I intruded more to the Pasadena training camp. Inin her one of the dozen, and I must re- -, than I have done upon yours. But says Agnes nerly, Repplier stead, he will work out in Texas delightful book, "To Think of quest Mrs. Cumberland to round the lady asked me for .no other until April 10, when he will come to Tea. One night at Mr. Richard up my number." purpose but to make a zany of Chicago. According to present plans Cumberlands, Sir Joshua ReyThis his hostess hastened to do. me, and set me gabbling to a he will be in uniform during the nolds the famous reTurning upon her "a kind and parcel of people I knew nothing White Sox-Cubenefit game for minded him that he painter had drunk cheerful look, he took the twelfth of. So I had my revenge of her, him in Comiskey park on April 17. eleven cups. Johnson, deeply af- cup with an air that was almost for I swallowed five and twenty fronted, replied: apologetic. cups of her tea, and did not treat Kansas "Sir, I did not count ydtir "Madam, he said, I must tell her to as many words. Complains of should for comfort Star. that wine; why glasses you you you your City )R. JAMES NAISMITH, originator of basketball, recently told a group of coaches, officials and sports writers what could be done to make the game better. His criticisms were aimed mainly at officials and the rules body as he pointed out that: 1. The rules today consistently penalize the offensive team. .2. Many officials are not interpreting or enforcing the rules properly. ' 3. Elimination of the center jump, in addition to penalising the scoring team, actually slows the game and eliminates many clever plays which would add spice. It is true that the offensive team is penalized by loss of the ball every time it makes a basket. But it is equally true that the defensive team receives many unjust penalties. For D W03? instance, the dribble primarily was evolved to enable a cornered player to break loose. Today it is used as a weapon with which the offensive player can crash into a defensive man, knowing that the latter will get the penalty. His first and second criticism is practically unanswerable. The fans seem to be against anything which would handicap the team with a OWNERS everywhere are score in prospect, and few officials are going to listen to an evening of acclaiming the extra blowout protection booing. So that fault rests in the ft V , non-ski-d and safety of the new Firestone v. publics lap. Before Che center jump was elimChampion Tire. And automobile inated the average time required manufacturers, knowing its outstanding for an official to get the baU and performance, have adopted it for their toss it up at the center was four or new 1939 models. On every hand you five seconds. Now a player takes the ball under the basket, has five hear, Its the most effective tire we have seconds to get it out, and the team ever had on wet pavement and in mud has ten more seconds to advance becenter of the court. the and snow! Its the hit of 1939! yond Coaches in general seem to be The .Firestone. Champion Tire, is a satisfied ' with the present rules. been have Many changes suggested, completely new achievement in safety but the feeling has been, that the engineering and the result of a new and game will certainly not be improved revolutionary means of locking greater by the hasty adoption of new safety into the cord body of a tire. This is AB JENKINS accomplished first, by the use of a new - : . Dr. Johnson Relished Tea More Than Remarks Made good-humore- d, . bs Naismith . Gil Dobie Pop Warner scheduled to meet Harvard, Pop decided on a tricky little play he noticed years before in an game. The Indians decided to use it on the opening play. was received the When the kick-of- f Indians ran together in a huddle, and slipped the ball under the front of Dillons jersey. Then they scattered, running and dodging, each with one arm folded across his stomach. Dillon loped carelessly down the middle of the field, crossing the goal line with little effort. It was at Carlisle, too, that War- -' ner crossed up his opposition by sewing halves of footballs on the jerseys of his players In one of the first real strategems of the gridiron. Auburn-Vanderb- d Pessimist Leader - ilt - t - His coaching career at Temple wound up with an all-tiaverage of .776 as a result of 267 wins, 105 defeats and 31 ties during the stretch at Georgia, Carlisle, Pittsburgh, Stanford, Temple and a few other points. Dobie, though he didnt make as many technical contributions, left an equally sharp imprint on the game. He learned his football under Doc Williams at Minnesota. To tho gloomy dean of the gridiron the sport owes many of its traditions. Always a pessimist, Dobie gave rise to the, tradition that coaches are always weeping about their misfortunes. He is the possessor of the longest string of victories ever achieved by an American college the stretch at Washington without a defeat. His team won 61 games and tied three from 1908 to the middle of .the 1917 season. 44-ye- ar 10-ye- ar 05&&OXW 00400? WM) acxD Car V ;A . Sport Shorts DOBERT Two-Th- ree? ( . Sor-tead- o. 00 . 33? VU1 3010 01 rookie GARDNER, pitcher for the Washington Senators, is 6 feet 7 inches tall . ; . C. S. Howard may get ample re- Though golf is essentially a Scotch venge for. the loss of two $100,000 game, the word "caddy is from prizes when he shoots for racings the Chinese language . . . Too hard richest prize the Santa Anita Han- tracks, too much speed from startdicap with three standout per- ing gates, and too many short distance races cause the early break? formers. Seabiscuit will be there, carrying down of American horses, according top weight and a good share of the to Herbert Bayard Swope, New York racing compublics money in the March event. missioner . . . Fred . And in addition to the Biscuit will be two stablemates from the ArSwan, who succeeded Pop Warner as gentine pampas. Kayak II and head coach at Tern The three Howard stable entries pie university, have a good chance to make up for served as Warners Seabiscuits heartbreaking defeats assistant for .six of 1937 and 1938. It is far from imyears at that school. possible that they may run one, two .'. . Neil Sandford, and three this, year. a Nova Scotia hock, Ralph Neves, Howards jockey, ey player, scored 16 has made the statement that he goals unassisted in would rather ride Kayak II in the a recent game . . . big race than Seabiscuit. Which is Light and Welterthe pinnacle of, praise, for a. jockey weight Champion Henry Armstrong gets 10 per cfent of the putse when will fight Bobby Pacho in Havana he wins a stake. His share, if he on March 4 . . . Charles Rickel, had a leg up on the winner, would 103 years old, hasnt missed an openbe $10,000. , ing baseball game in Cincinnati Sorteado is the horse bought for for the last half century . . . Base$40,000 after he made a clean sweep ball authorities estimate that of South American races. Howard are playing the game around hadnt planned on entering him in the world . . . Bill Stewart, deposed ,the handicap, as South American manager of the Chicago Blackhawks horses require quite a while to be- hockey team, will umpire spring come acclimaetd. baseball games in the south. One an mgigQg World's Safest Driver in fibers are more which the cotton type of tire cord called Safety-Loc- k, compactly interwoven to give greater strength And then the fibers in each individual cord, the cords in each ply and the plies themselves are all securely locked together by a new and advanced which Firestone process of provides amazingly greater strength and greater strength means greater safety. Gum-Dippin- g, k cord construction 1 he new added the strength that makes gives possible the use. of the new thicker, tougher, deeper Firestone Gear-GriTread, which provides remarkably longer mileage. 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