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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH NOT IN THE BOX SCORE: HP HE Dodgers and the St. Louis clubs definitely will play night As usual the baseball next year Dodgers will not be worth losing sleep over but it will provide the boys with a gag when the usual runners are left stranded. Afraid to go home in the dark, you know 1. Bob Olin, who had Tommy Farr on the floor several times during their fight, is challenging all heavyweights' within sight . . . Fritz Mai-se- l, Jr., enters Western Maryland college this fall and the boys say he is due to be as good a third sack-e- r as was his daddy when he starred for the Yankees and Orioles . . . Horton Smith- is terribly tired, he says, and plans to take a long rest after the Belmont Open. Minnesota may have an even better football team this season than the Gopher elevens which have lost only one game in three years Four good men are gone but the best frosh club ever to come out of the Minnesota prairies will plug those gaps, and ten sturdy lads, ineligible last fall, also are raring to go . . . Northwestern, with Don Heap back to lead the charge, will be dangerous but will lack reserves sufficient to repeat last falls brilliant showing . . . Illinois is a dark horse with very little known about the Zuppke prospects . . . Chicago, which faces Princeton on its home field October 16, should be easy for the Tigers . . . Indiana, coming fast under Bo McMillan, should show improvement over 1936. Carl Snavely, Cornell football coach, is developing into a fine golfer. He scores consistently in the seventies . . . Friends ... - New York Post. WNU Service. The'Medwicks and Di Maggios Cross Swords 'T'HIS all started when a customer with an Italian monicker took his pen in hand to say that probably he would have to look out for M. Finns in his spaghetti from now on. Nevertheless, he could not help it. He had to tell the world that Jersey Joe Medwick was a better ball player than Jolting Joe Di Maggio, Since then things have been happening. Each hour new regiments of Jim Farleys finest limp into this office with new tons of letters dealing with the controversy. Irate Di Maggio fans keep buzzing the phone all day issuing challenges to the Medwick brethren. Holland tunnel and Washing ton bridge have become clogged with New neighbors bound for Manhattan and the Bronx comso as to indulge in bat with belittlers of their Joe. So, in the interests of peace as well as to give the Japs and Chinese some chance to attract popular attention with their own brawlings this reporter undertook to do a Mr. Secretary Hull. Personally, if he were choosing up sides and had the first two picks with pitchers excluded, he would take Charley Gehringer and Lou Gehrig ahead of the two Joes. But he did not offer this plan. Instead, he decided that if anything could cause the warring parties to compose their differences it would be e the mature opinion of other players. So he invited various baseball celebrities to take down their hair and answer one question Who is the better player, Di Maggio or Medwick? Their answers are appended herewith: - Jersey face-to-fa- ce big-tim- Gus Mancuso Lauds Jolting Joes Prowess Medwick is the better hitter, but Di Maggio hits the longer ball. Di Maggio is the GUS MANCUSO better all-arou- ball player. pi nsic ME ANOTHER 1. How much wood will a giant Sequoia tree yield? 2. How many persons out of a million will live to be one hundred years old? 3. Who was the first American to receive the Nobel prize for peace?, 4. How fast can currency be counted? 5. Where is the oldest painting of the Virgin and Child in existence? 6. Does it cost more to educate child in a city school than in a rural school? Theodore Roosevelt, for his 3. A Quiz With Answers Offering Information on Various Subjects 7. When gold is hammered into the thinnest gold leaf possible, what color is it? Answers efforts in bringing about the treaty of peace between Japan and Russia in 1905. It was awarded him in 1906. 4. The expert counters of the Department of the Treasury have counted approximately as many as 40,000 new notes a day, and 25,000 old ones. 5. The oldest painting of the Virgin and Child in existence, done about 150 A. D., is on a wall in the famous Priscilla catacombs in Rome. 6. The average cost to educate a child in a rural school in the 1. A giant California Sequoia tree yielded 3,000 posts, 650,000 shingles and 100 cords of firewood. d and the The upper branches of the huge tree were not United States is $53.31 a year, used. and the average in a city school is 2. It is estimated about thirty about $96.18. 7. In this condition it appears in a million will live to this advanced age. green by transmitted light. one-thir- say that Gil Dobie, slammed around by an auto last year, is far from a well man . . . Syracuse townsmen claim that Lou Little has a real find in soph halfback, and that the kid will be a Columbia regular this fall. Charley Root leads the National league in control. The veteran Cub pitcher yields only one base on balls every innings Gene Tunney was by far the best looking of all the champions introduced in the Yankee stadium ring recently. Bernon Prentice, president of the Sea Bright Lawn Tennis and Cricket club, told it for the first time the other day. When the Brazilian Davis Cup team was here to play the United States a few years ago, the U. S. L. T.'A. threw a dinner party and had the dining room appropriately decorated. At least they thought they had it appropriately decorated. Manuel Alonzo, widely traveled in South America, arrived early, glanced around the room and then rushed up to the chairman. Those are Chilean flags, he And Chile blurted out excitedly. has just declared war on Brazil! Spo-sat- o, THATS WHY YOU GET MORE FOR YOUR MONEY IN FIRESTONE STANDARD TIRES FlRESTONE builds a tire made of top grade materials and sells it for less money because Firestone passes savings along to you in the form of extra values. Firestone controls rubber and cotton supplies at their sources, manufactures with greater efficiency and distributes at lower cost. Because of these first-quali- ty economies YOU GET EXTRA PROTECTION AGAINST eight extra pounds of rubber are added to g of 100 pounds cord by the Firestone patented every of in cord fiber this every ply is every process every process. By saturated with liquid rubber. This counteracts dangerous internal friction and heat that ordinarily cause blowouts. BLOWOUTS Gum-Dippin- YOU GET EXTRA PROTECTION Your Writer Picks r Team an AGAINST because under the tread are two extra layers d cords. of YOU GET EXTRA PROTECTION AGAINST SKIDDING because the tread is scientifically designed. PUNCTURES Gum-Dippe- All-Sta- We . see so CARL HUBBELL little of Di Maggio over here its All star major league team for hard to say, but he must be great. 1937, as picked by Hugh Bradley Both are tough on pitchers. for St. Louis Sporting News, which BILL TERRY Why cant we is taking a poll of baseball writers come up with a Di Maggio? Medwick, If; Di Maggio, cf; Paul If I were Waner, rf; Rolfe, 3b; Cronin, ss; , BILL McKECHNIE given my choice right now Id take Gehringer, 2b; Gehrig, lb; Hartnett, Di Maggio. Medwick is great, but c; Hubbell, Ruffing, p . . . A fan who Di Maggio is a wonder. professes to have no resentment TOM WINSETT Everybody concerning the gentleman but who knows Di Maggio has a better arm. has observed that Arthur Donovan Hes a different type of hitter, too referees nearly all the big money a smooth swinger who generates prize fights in New York asks, Is it more power. possible that the great sporting city of 8,000,000 inhabitants can develop Even Connie Mack only one referee capable of handling I refer the a major prizefight? Speaks His Mind! question to Ballyhoo Bill Brown the Red Baiter of the New York Both of State Athletic commission. PersonCOOKIE LAVAGETTO em can do everything. Id say Di ally, I think Arthur is a' swell guy Maggio has a shade more power. as well as a referee who always As a National league player, how- does his duty. ever, Id pick Medwick. But as an Cornells frosh football team is Italian Ill string along with the oth- overloaded with star material again er Joe. this year. Bill Murphy, a Jersey I havent seen youngster, is said to be tops bui JOE CRONIN much of Medwick, but Di Maggio also keep an eye on Jack Bohrmau is by far the better fielder.1 Hes as hard as nails and can kick I dont see how em a mile . . . Upper New York CONNIE MACK any player, particularly one in the state papers are boosting Rabbi Maranville to succeed Burleigh National league, can Grimes as Dodgers manager .'. . In be compared to Di wonCincinnati they insist that Burt Shot-toMaggio. Hes wonwill succeed Charley Dressen simply derful, who will be taken into the Giants derful. Id rank him ... 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All-Met- Save , with the greatest outfielders of all time. ; j GABBY HARTNETT Theyre both great hitters, but if I had to tal e my choice I wouldnt hesitate in picking Di Maggio. There you have it, gents and ladies. The celebrities quoted here were picked at random. The majority of them favor Di Maggio. organization . . . Minnesota football coach, Bernie Bierman, says thai; Wisconsin will have the most improved football team in the Big Ten this year. Old Man Studies has sidelines Tom Wood, giant Princeton tackle who had been counted on to fiT George Stoess vacated post. If the Tigers could have teamed Wooc with Charley Toll they would have had the largest tackle pair in the East, the combined weight of the two being a cozy 480 pounds.. 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