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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER RANDOLPH. UTAH Leaguers aver that Gehringer was the best American circuit performer in the affair, with Lou Gehrig ranking a very close second . . . Eddie Stuart, best of all lacrosse goalies when he operated in front of the Mount Washington and Crescent A. C. nets, has moved from Westchester to a better business RATIONAL All-St- proposition in Boston . . . Watch Southern California next fall. The dope is that Howard Jones again has assembled one of the nations best football teams . . . Its tough preparing for an Olympic invasion. A recent letter from Berlin confides that officials have been working overtime stocking up sixteen different brands of chewing gum for the athletes. Unless he takes a salary cut Jimmy Wilson may be looking for a new job next year. Now that the once great catcher no longer is very active on the playing field his boss seems to feel that a $17,000 annual salary is too much for a behind-the-scen- New York Post. WNU Service. Fans Last Ovation to Humphreys Best Memory to Retain HAD been leaning forward from one of the padded leather chairs in a corner of the Garden boxing office. Felt hat carefully balanced on one knee, he had been listening eagerly to the brisk gossip, watching Marge dispose of too presumptuous seekers, breathing again the breath of what had been life to him for almost fifty years. Then the crowd had drifted away. I looked at him again. After all, times change, old friends drop off quickly. When a man who has bee;, out of close touch so long is shoved again into the spotlight he must wonder if it will be the same. He I thought that I noted one gnarled hand trembling slightly. There were stories about boyhood moments on Oliver street when he used to play marbles with the .Governor, a gentleman who is known more familiarly to most others as A1 Smith. About how Murphy, who seldom went to fights, once sat beside him I-J- E free-tick- et at a pulse-strummi- ng bout and punched his ribs black and blue in the midst of the excitement. About how Sullivan named him Joe the Beau t, a title which he much preferred to the "Bowery Demosthenes which some newsguy tagged paper on him years later. How did he come to get into this racket? Well, he was a newsboy when he was ten years old and folks who used to listen to him on the old Produce Exchange corner used to admire the power of his voice even then. After that there was a lot of distinction to be ' achieved as master Qf ceremonies at balls and parties in the neighr borhood. Beaut Started Famed Announcers Career Call for Then one night, when Chuck Connors was meeting Billy Welsh at Maischs Little Casino down' on Bowery near Pearl, the regular announcer. did not appear. A spectator stood up and demanded that Joe the Beaut be given the job. joe got it. Whether the Mayor of Chinatown, that was Connors, beat the Little John L., that was Welsh, on this occasion is something he could not remember. But he did remember that it was one of the happiest nights of his life. The very happiest? No, those were swell times when he and Sam Harris and Terry McGovern were in the fight business. Best fighter that ever lived, that Terry. Secret of success? Well, what you had to have to handle a crowd was a voice, personality and color. It ought to be a deep, bass Voice with lots of vibrations. You shouldnt ought to antagonize the crowd either. What you should do was use good judgment and try to keep them friendly. What? Well, yeah, maybe he was sometimes misquoted. But what of it. Suppose he did stand up in the old Garden that last night there and demand silence so he could pronounce a apostrophe to the famed statue of Diana. The point about that was that hed announced fights in this state under three boxing laws since 1899. Besides, what if some people did laugh at that crack. It made them happy and so kept them satisfied, didnt it? Well, that was the real job of an announcer and if some of those birds The ebb and flow of a boxing evening had brought the crowd back into the little office again. Jimmy Johnston was waiting to go downstairs with his old friend. I rose and shook a hand that no longer trembled. Along with so many otheri I am going to miss Joe Humphreys. . who. ar es Is Easy Fault-Findi- ng Charley 'T'HERE Helpers is something very heartening in the knowledge that we can all help each other, and that the worst suffering of all that of loneliness or bereavement need never be an actual desolation; for there is always someone ready to salve the deepest wound with the balm of sympathy, and the warm clasp of some comforting hand, the tears in some kind eyes are the surest proofs that the heart under its human aspect has the power to call the hidden soul to life. One may always begin again who keeps his enthusiasm. It requires keen vision to THE CHEERFUL de- tect a virtue, but most of us can find fault with our eyes shut. Give us a day once in a blue moon when we dont have to make good. When you forgive a friend, do it with a hug or a handclasp. That seals it. They Come to Earth When a hero marries an angel, it is two very ordinary people who set up housekeeping at the end of the honeymoon. Sometimes the only way to combat a gloom spreader is with laughter. Love brings flattery to a mans tongue and flutterings to a wom- Our dru$ store iran is very cross-Hgreets me uitk e Frowning And buy Stujd: - ... him of my stomps some other piece. ATC" WNU Service. Be fit for more than the thing you are doing., Show an Interest Indifference looks sophisticated, but people like you better if mere Phillie manager. youre interested. You are always hearing about Pie Traynor Convinced the qualifications of a model husWe've Much to Watch band, but never about the qualiDiz Would Make Pirates When we are alone we have fications of a model wife. Reaour thoughts to watch; in fam- son enough. All wives are model. Pie Traynor wil1. tell you that if ilies our tempers; in society our Every man would like to see the Pirates had Dizzy Dean they tongues. how he looks in a beard, but he would win the penIt is not sufficient to have qual- is so timid about it, he will never Alnant easily ities. We must make proper use find out. though they do not of them. It takes three generations to deny that the big Those who make threats dont boy may do it, the fulfill them any more reliably make a gentleman starting at smarter and more than those who make promises. scratch; but thousands are born honest boxing peo- II A pessimist doesnt tell a lie, so without any preliminary L pie feel that Joe he only sees one in everything. Q will Louis need more than the extra foot of bandage permitted him by the ever - obliging fce. Ill just deprive my trtde ans heart. 1jtdLe fthiL (Ml Dogs on Alcatraz Isle Alcatraz prison, the Devils Island of America, a prison on a rocky island in the middle of San Francisco bay, fortified with all the latest scientific gadgets, and manned by the most experienced crew of prison workers, has found it expedient to reinforce its crew with trained police dogs. Sanford Bates, director of the Federal Prison bureau, declared that Dogs are better prison guards than men. Their powers of sight, smell and hearing are far keener. They are trained to knock down the man they are sent after, but not to hurt him. New York boxing before commission he makes a comeback . . . Rabbit Warstler, obtained from the As recently, should be of real help to the Bees. He is one of the best defensive infielders in the business and when he is happy, hits .300 in the clutch. His Philadelphia trouble was that he did not like the way Connie Mack treated him . . . Incidentally Mr. Mack would be something less than a popular favorite in Boston even if he returned all that dough he has been taking out of the town since he located the Yawkey bakery. The fans are sore because he was ' in town on a Sunday for a regularly scheduled contest but would not wait over for the affair two days later. Another hot Boston blast is directed at the National league. The fans, who esteem Wally Berger so highly that the Bees were afraid to make several very promising deals for him this spring, cannot understand why he was kept on the bench during the dream game in his home park . . . Larry Benton, a great pitcher when he served the Braves and Giants, soon will be released by the Baltimore club . . . Rudd Hoyle, triplethreat star at Hun school in Princeton, is an unreasonable lad. In spite of tempting offers from two major colleges nearer home the youngster, who is tabbed as surefire varsity, plans to enter Harvard this fall. The best minor league buy right now is Cliff Melton, who once had a tryout with the Yankees. He is a big, young, limber and not too smart Southerner possessed of a very good fast ball and a sharp breaking curve. Baltimore is asking $50,000 for him and will take 20 Gs less Don Lash, who possibly is the best Olympic distance star ever developed in the U. S., did his first running as a barefooted bqy of thirteen. That was in. the cow pasture back of the little red school in his home hamlet. of Auburn, Ind. Could it be that Penn, the team which may end Princetons football winding streak early in October, already has started practice? The New York state athletic commission has dug. up an old rule which decrees that all prize fight contracts must be signed at the commissions offices. This, naturally, will not improve the very messy boxing situation but should give the matchmaking state officials some swell extra chances to get their pictures in the papers . . . A Boston restaurant features a Bill Terry hot plate on its Celebrity menu. The dish is Freshly made corned beef hash with dropped egg. Jersey City hopes to get the Toronto, International league, franchise next year. Mayor Hagues new stadium, which will seat 38,000 for baseball and 65,000 for fights, being the reason for revived sports interest across the river . . . Even though the Giants are slipping there is no danger of Eddie Bran-nic- k losing his title as the best dressed secretary in baseball. On the clubs last Western trip he packed 45 brightly striped and dotted neckties . . . 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