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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH Chinese School for Umps Speaking of Sports White Boy Comes Home Detached Attitude Is Help to Coroner - V- OU see and hear a lot of thing and you likewise learn a few odds and ends in thirty-si- x years of major and minor league umpiring. Brick Owens, famed American league arbiter who retired a few weeks ago, could tell you that. So out of the fullness of his experience, Brick is preparing to conduct a correspondence school for umpires. Looking back over the years, Owens has seen some great ball clubs and some great players. The best team of all, he says, was the White Sox of 1919 and 1920 that turned into the Black Sox. Among pitchers, Brick considers Walter Johnsons delivery as deceptive as any he ever saw. He says Lefty Grove was one of the three or four fastest pitchers in history. Bob Feller, the schoolboy sensation of Cleveland, is rated by Brick as a faster pitcher than Lefty Grove and as fast 100 Get Trials In American League Camps By GEORGE A. BARCLAY than 100 rookies are MORE taken to the various American league spring training camps this year. How many of them will make good and stay in fast company? That is a question that eight American league managers would like to be able to answer right now. But looking over the records of these recruits and gathering dope from the minor league managers who tutored them in 1937, it is evident that a very competent bunch of new men are getting tryouts in the junior circuit. The Boston Red Sox seem likely to retain at least eight of the players brought in from Minneapolis and Little Rock, Ark. Among these are Catcher John Peacock, Pitcher Charles Wagner and Outfielder Henry Gaffke of Minneapolis; Pitchers Emerson Dickman and Dick Mid-kifInfielder Jim Tabor and Outfielders Deal and Nonnekamp of Lit- Seattle, Wash. It takes a detached feeling to hold the job of Harry W. Johnson, deputy King county coroner for thirty years, and Johnson believes he has atI have found that in tained it. my work I have to maintain, something of a detached feeling, If Id taken to he explained. heart everything that Ive seen, it would have gotten me down Since 1917, Johnson long ago. has gathered up the bodies of about 7,000 persons. as Johnson. Feller has something few pitchers ever had, says Brick. He throws his curve ball almost as fast as his speed ball. ' During his officiating career, Owens umpired more than 5,700 games and believes he encountered every tough problem possible. Not once in his career did he permit a game to get out of hand. He officiated 3,450 games in the American league, 1,512 in the American Association and several hundred more in other minor leagues. f, Here and There tle Rock. IKE GIBBONS, one of the lead-in- g contenders for the middleweight title 25 years ago, came out of retirement to referee the match between John Henry Lewis and Fred Lenhart in St. Paul recently . . . Spug Meyers, who fought Mushy Callahan for the junior welterweight title in Chicago in 1929, now is operating a tavern in Pocatello, Idaho . . . Bennie Oosterbaan, who led Big Ten basketball scorers in 1928 with 129 points, returned to his alma mater as a football coach the following season and has remained Mike s New Pitchers Vj Mickey Cochrane, who recently announced his definite retirement as an active player at Detroit, appears to have some likely recruits. Detroits roster is long on pitchers. Mickey will have 17 to choose from. Elton Benton, who starred with Memphis last year, seems ready. Among other good prospects are Pitchers Harry Eisenstat and Jack there ever since. Mickey Walker says he would not pick professional boxing as a career, if he had his life to live over . . . the Michigan-Yal- e football game next fall will mark the first contest between the two elevens in 55 years, Yale having won their last meeting, 64 to 0, in 1883 . . . Charley Jones, manager of Sammy lightweight boxer, had completed three years of college study at the Louisville Institute of Technology when the World war broke out. Seventeen years later he returned to the same school. Wade Killifer, last years Indianapolis manager, will be the highest paid pilot in the Pacific Coast league next season. He will lead the Hollywood club. His brother, Bill, will be at Sacramento . . . Notre Dame and Marquette began their Cochrane Mickey basketball series on the old dirt Croucher Infielder Frank Corbett, floor at Notre Dame in 1920, reand Outfielder Roy Cullenbine. sumed it on ths concrete floor in The Chicago White Sox will deauditorium the followMilwaukees pend largely on Gerald Walker and and have continued it on ing year, in the trade Marv.Owens, acquired with Detroit to bolster them, but hardwood. Pitcher Bill Cox from St. Paul and New Outfielder Rupert Thompson from ABBY STREET, foxy old man-N-- J San Diego look like the goods. Cleveland has considerable new maager of the St. Louis Browns, terial, with Pitcher John Humphrey has earned himself the undisputed of New Orleans, Outfielder Geoffrey title of the David Harum of the Heath and Third Baseman Kenny.. American league with three deals Keltner of Milwaukeeqy&vin'Tront. this winterwhich- - have brought him The New York Yankees rookies seven first class players in return 'cottte'lrom Newark, which won the for the three he traded, plus abut International league pennant by 24 $20,000 in cash. In the first trade, the Browns obgames last year. Pitchers Joe Beggs, Atlee Donald and Second tained Pitchfer Buck Newsom, OutBaseman Joe Gordon seem ready fielder Buster Mills and Infielder to step into the lineup and make Ralph Kress from the Boston Red Sox in return for Joe Vosmik. In the good. Connie Mack is believed to have four recruits who will give the Athletics considerable aid and comfort this season. These include Pitchers Bill Potter from Columbus, Ohio, Steve Kalfass from Trenton, N. J., First Baseman Bill Hasson of Williamsport and Second Baseman of Oakland, Calif. The St. Louis Browns appear to have strengthened themselves not only in their recent major league trades, but by the acquisition of Pitcher Vito Tamuulis and First Baseman George McQuinn of Newark, and Pitcher Muncrief of San An-go- tt, Fung Kuok Young, aged Chinese restaurateur, of New York greets his white foster son, Fung Kuok Young, Jr., (left) on the latters arrival from China, where he has spent the past 17 years. The boy was born Joseph Rinehart, son of an American soldier. He was signed over to the Chinese when a baby and sent to China, where he was educated and brought up a Chinese. He speaks no English yet. Vital Problem of Food Agitates Great Britain from Barbados; grapefruit and molasses from the West Indies; onions from Egypt; coffee from Kenya; tea, pineapples, cocoa, coconuts, from India and the Straits Settlements. Labeled with the strange characters of foreign tongues come also consignments postmarked anywhere from Kirghiz of Soviet Russia to Pernambuco, Brazil. There are Argentine beefsteaks ; Greek currants ; and fresh fruit and vegetables, brandies and wines, from France, Italy offers Spain and Portugal. olive oil and canned goods, and from North American ports still more canned goods, fruit, fish, and grain. From China and Japan, among other shipments, come soya beans and rice and of course tea by the shipload; for tea has played an important part in the story of trade, from Englands sail to steam, over a period of nearly 300 years. sea-bor- ne NEW BEACH WEAR Draws Upon Whole World to lon, the East Indies and Malaya. Here come bales of cinnamon in the form of quills resembling dried Supply Its Tables. sticks, and nutmegs packed in regulaticontainers labeled SingBombs, bullets and on-sized battleships! As 1938 opens to the apore boxes, and literally tons of worldwide anvil chorus of munitions pepper. London dock alone handles manufacture, England faces not on- a thousand tons of pepper annually ly an estimated armaments bill of (a lot of sneezes in any country). a billion and a half dollars for the To satisfy carniverous Englishcoming year, but the less belligerent men, 70 per cent of the countrys in sound, but equally vital problem meat imports, (representing some of food. For the island kingdom 700,000 tons) are handled at London Washington. is dependent on overseas imports for the major share of her provisions. In peace or war, sea lanes must be kept clear to feed her floating millions. At London docks, the worlds g stream ships unload a never-endin- HERES TO YOU each year. To provide another prime staple in diet bread England buys wheat from five continents, with Canada, Australia and Argentina, chief contributors. In one recent year imported grains, including barley, oats, corn and beans, totaled more than two million tons, of which nearly a million and a half were of wheat. Presented with such astronomical figures, you realize how London has grown and how Englands food demands have increased. Only a couple of centuries ago, wheat (which, along with other small grains, the English call corn) was imported into England in almost negligible quantities ; time was when small grains were actually the islands leading export. Favors Own Colonies.Although a lavish buyer now of the worlds farm products, John Bull naturally favors trade with his own dominions and colonies, and has nursed to maturity many a once business in some distant part of the empire. In 1880 London welcomed the first shipment of frozen meat from Australia. Later, at a cost of a million and a half dollars, the port authority built a sorting warehouse and plant designed especially for the Australian and New Zealand meat trade. Today the port reaps the benefits, as capacious holds of snubnosed British merchant ships disgorge a steady flood of such varied items as butter, cheese, and apples of New Zealand; rum and sugar - David Harum infant-commodi- ty cold-stora- ge Entertaining his tonsils with a bottle of pop between sets in one of his recent exhibition matches in Australia, is Donald Budge, United States singles champion. Following recovery from a tennis slump that brought defeat at the bands of John Bromwich, young Budge went on to account of himself give a bang-u- p in the Australian meet. Something new in beach wear is this imported bongay in which pretty Miss Connie Keane is seen on Tahitia beach at Miami, Fla. The hat is made of hand-wovstraw in two colors. Many wide-brimm- ed en innovations in beach costumes are being seen at this winter resort in the 1938 season. Home of the Cod Relies Upon Alien Fishermen Boston. Massachusetts . is known as the home of the cod, a famed old fishermans state boasting such fishing ports as Gloucester, New Bedford, Boston and Provincetown. Yet it is estimated that 80 per cent of the men engaged in the industry in this section today are aliens, chiefly Nova Scotians. Owners of Boston fishing vessels have appealed to Washington to let down the immigration bars to fishermen from Canada, hoping in this way to take care of a current shortage of labor in the industry. -- Play Rug Becomes Educated Lod-igia- ni Antonio. Several of Bucky Harris Washington recruits appear to lack experience, but Outfielder Frank Case and Pitcher Mike Krakakaus of Trenton and Pitchers Leonard of Atlanta and Phebus of Chattanooga are highly touted as being able to deliver the goods in style. big-leag- ue Diamond Flashes Fifty nationalities, or combinations of nationalities, are represented in the Na tional league. Three have Indian strains: Guy Bush of the Cardinals is English-In-diaRoy Johnson of Boston, Norwegian-Indian- ; Tom Baker of the Giants, Irish-India- n . . . Lee Grissom. Cincinnati southpaw rookie, was unable to beat either Pittsburgh or St. Louis last year, losing four to the Pirates and five to the Cards. But he beat Boston four times and Brooklyn thrice . . . Lou Fette of Boston defeated Brooklyn six times last season. -- - Rollie Hemsley. second deal they sent Rollie Hemsley, veteran catcher whose play has ranked with that of the games greatest backstops, to the Cleveland Indians for Catcher Billy Sullivan, Infielder Roy Hughes and Pitcher Ed Cole. In their third trade they swapped Shortstop Bill Knickerbocker to the New York Yankees for Utility Infielder Don Heffner and are said to have also received $20,000 in cash from the Yanks. O Western Newspaper Union. ranging from Australian mutton to Jamaica bananas, from Persian dates to Brazilian coffee, says the National Geographic of foodstuffs, society. ; Here are facilities in cellars, sheds, caves, and warehouses to swallow a million tons of goods at one time. As custodians of this huge larder, the Port of London Authority not only acts as middlemaii, weighing, grading, and sorting various commodities, but maintains in the interests of sanitation and quality a busy corps of inspectors, laboratory men, and experts in various lines. Use Modern Facilities. d There are ' cranes and mechanical carriers for handling unwieldy or packages, giant chutes for flowing rivers of grain, refrigerating plants, and underground vaults for wine whose temperature, is carefully regulated to preserve rare and precious vintages from distant lands. In warehouses exuding the faint, sweetish odor of an old apothecary shop are stored spices from Cey specially-constructe- odd-shap- ed This young lady Is going to get her education painlessly on a new play rug for the nursery. Shown at the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, it is decorated with nursery rhymes, story book characters and games suitable for children of all ages. In this way the value of the rug does not decrease as the child grows older. - |