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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOIJPH, UTAH -- Bad Business Speaking of Sports- - BUDGE, though notF) ON grateful to Promoter Jack Har- Diamond World ris, has done much to ruin business for the Chicago tennis impresario. Budge has proved he is too good for present competition. It all started when he piled up an early, lead over Ellsworth Vines in the first half of the nation-wid- e tour. He had the series cinched when Vines finally came through to win eight of the last dozen matches. When Fred Perry joined Budge in the second half of the torn: he wasnt prepared to accept the lanky tennis king as a world beater. He didnt see the need for a great deal of preparation as 'he had always managed to look more than good against Budge as an amateur. Don won six straight matches without losing a set. He won the seventh, too, though Perry Readies Plans For Centennial top-hea- vy By ROBERT McSHANE DLAY ball America! A That command keynotes the campaign launched by baseball's National Centennial commission a campaign to celebrate the hundredth birthday of baseball Americas own game. Focal point of the celebration will be Cooperstown, N. Y., birthplace of baseball in 1839. It was there that General Abner Doubleday originated the first game of baseball 100 years ago. Doubleday, who was then a youngster of 20, laid out the first diamond and devised the rules which sired the most truly American game of all. From this back-lgame for boys, baseball has grown in its hundred years to the stature of the greatest team sport in the world. It has come to personify Americanism everywhere, creating and fostering the American qualities of sportsmanand aggressiveness. ship, team-pla- y Baseballs history is inextricably linked with that of the Civil war. When the Union soldiers marched ot D 0 Snoopie took a set. Harris paid J. Donald $75,000 to turn pro. And even Harris didnt realize Budges uncanny skill would result in a box office lemon. Budge plays tennis with everything hes got. He gives the game the old college try, and plays hard to win. Large numbers of cash customers make it a point to stay away from d contests. Tennis is no exception. According to Helen Hull Jacobs, Budge is the best in the business today, and when he loses to Perry or Vines its because, hes had a bad night like a golfer or any other athlete. So until competition is a great deal keener, Harris will have a hard time realizing interest from his $75,000 investment. one-side- Big Red Celebrates AN O best loved and WAR, iT1 most widely known horse in American turf history, recently cel- ebrated his twenty-secon- d birthday at his farm home near Lexington, Ky. All the Speeches cut, and corn and I conventions were observed. were made, a cake was a wreath of carrots was draped around his neck. Nothing was too good for the sire of 275 foals, many of them among turf-dooutstanding champions. Among ABNER DOUBLEDAY his sons THOUGHT YOU SENT TO LIVE WITH HIS GRANDMA N THE COUNTRY TILL THE are P BUT SHE SENT' HIM BACK WITH NOTE SAYING I P "PLEASE-- SEND AIR RAIDS INSTEAD1" By J. Millar Watt ay s, ng Sport Shorts - I SO' we DID! over: O Pro Tourney Top-ranki- raid 1 PRACTICE WAS includ- off to the battlefields they took their ed War Admiral, baseball bats along. War records ScapaandFlow, . BattleCrusader. include reports of baseball games ship testiThe birthday in behind the fronts and prison monial recalled the camps during the long, bitter strugof 1919 and 1920. Big Red gle between the North and South. days 20 out of 21 starts, accounting won When the war ended, soldiers scattered homeward, spreading baseball for $249,465. He was one of Samuel Riddles best investments. Riddle to the four winds. bought him at the Saratoga sales 20 years ago for only $5,000. ReRags to Riches cently he turned down an offer of Carried along by the love of the $1,000,000 for him. game itself, thousands of American His foals have started more than boys have followed it as a profes 5,000 times, winning 800 races and sion, rising to fame and wealth on placing in 700, to win almost $2,500, the strength of their batting and 000 a turf record' for living sires. fielding, the cunning of their throwing arm. Semi Success stories in baseball are Somewhere in the United States numberless. The Big Bam, Babe baseball club Ruth, left a Baltimore orphanage today is a semi-pr- o and slugged his way to the largest that will wind up the season in Puerseries against the salary in the history of the game. to Rico for ateam of the West Inis a beaten championship dies. in Almost baseball. every path This team will be the best of some player in baseballs Hall of Fame clubs throughout the Tris 25,000 semi-pr-o had an humble beginning. Speaker, the great outfielder, was United States. Already under way is the tournament, once a telephone lineman at a 700 districts. includes which The Cobb was a Ty salary. Georgia farm boy who earned a district winners will compete in and then in regional state play-offmillion dollars in baseball. team will There are 16 major league clubs, tournaments. about 270 minor league clubs and be decided at the national tournanines in the ment in Wichita, Kan., in August. thousands of semi-pr-o The American series looms imU. S. No other game has produced such an army of participants. No portant to Puerto Rican citizens, other sport has captured and held who eagerly await the event. The throughout the years the loyalty and U. S. team will be wholeheartedly steadfast attendance of baseballs entertained by island government officials in charge of the series. spectators. Financial honors also go to the Colorful Careers winning team. In addition to a $5,000 award in the U. S. finals, the It would be impossible to dwell on cash 1939 national champion will receive the colorful personalities who have a split of the seven game series in made baseball history, and those Puerto Rico, estimated at from who are now adding new chapters. to $5,000. $3,000 A century of baseball has produced managers, owners and players whose names are written in large letters in the games archives. D RAINERD SNIDER, Lincoln, 111., The National Baseball Centennial has designed a barometer that commission, formed to celebrate will tell anglers at a glance wheththe games hundredth anniversary, er fish are biting or not . . . Walter includes American leaders from the Johnson pitched his first and only it game itself, from the navy, the game with a sore arm . . Mark Ertel, Ed Riska army, the stage, radio and war vet- Captain-elec- t erans organizations. and Paul DuCharme staged the Baseballs big birthday party will iron man act by playing in every be joined and celebrated not only one of Notre Dames 21 basketby every major and minor league in ball games last season . . . Davey every big and little city in the coun- - OBrien, highly publicized Texas and amatry, but also by semi-pr- o Christian university quarterback, teur circuits, prep schools and high will serve as counselor and football schools, the American Legion anc coach at St. Johns Military academy hundreds of other organizations. camp this summer . . . Jockey Every city, town and community is Nick Wall has ridden four conquerincluded in the centennials vast pro- ors of Seabiscuit Today, Stagegram directed full speed ahead to hand, Jacola and Esposa. make 1939 baseballs biggest year. Western Newspaper Union. Air O-HI- P no-h- o p By C. ownu M. Payne A v |
