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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH Night Baseball Speaking of Sports T'HE success of night baseball, pioneered by the Cincinnati Reds a couple of years ago and introduced with satisfying financial returns by the Brooklyn Dodgers recently, indicates that before very long floodlights will be part of the equipment of every big league ball park. In its first two games after dark, Brooklyn drew 66,000 patrons through the turnstiles considerably more than would have come in the afternoon. The results at Cincinnati thus far have been equally favorable.- So there is little reason to doubt that night baseball would draw well in other big league cities. Few teams do very much business on week days. The average fan does not find it possible to attend such games regularly. The chance of actually seeing a game after dinner instead of reading about it in the box scores should prove attractive. All things being equal, the average man would just as soon see Joe Di Maggio or Gabby Hartnett in action on a ball field as he would watch Clark Gable or William Powell on the screen. Night baseball, however, would not be a serious competitor, to the movies, because only a dozen games at most would be scheduled during a season by any team. A number of big league magnates and managers look with rather sour eyes on night baseball. Bill Terry, manager of the Giants will have none of it. But with the demonstration of proved success in two big league cities, it seems inevitable that it will be adopted generally in the big time. Football Ace Chapman Is Diamond Star By GEORGE A. BARCLAY s CAM CHAPMAN used to boot over Pacific coast goals last fall and help Stab Allisons University of California Golden Bears smear their opponents. 7 Now Sam belts baseballs aronnd American league parks and helps Connie Macks Athletics stay in the pennant race. The metamorphosis of this football player into a star outfielder has baseball wiseacres shaking their heads. Sam has violated the axiom which says that star football players never make star baseball players. He stepped off the campus without any minor league seasoning and because of the way he has been pounding the ball, .has won himself a regular berth m the Athletics outfield. Chapman was rated tbe best back on the Pacific coast last year. He was the spark ping in the attack which gave the California machine a 13 to 0 victory over Alabama in the Rose Bowl game on New Tears foot-ball- - an 154-ga- day. When the grid season was over, Sam turned to baseball. He developed something of a reputation as a slugger and had big league scouts trailing him around the college circuit. The big league training season came and went and while Sam had his ears cocked for offers, he decided to wait until a real bid Here and There turned up. 0NLY three of the eighteen play-ers wbo made up the National Ty Cobb, the retired immortal of team of 1933 were baseball, bad been watching him league and growing more enthusiastic all included in the 1938 roster. They the time. Finally he got hold of were Gabby Hartnett of the Cubs, Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants and Tony Cuccinello of the Bees. The other 15 have either drifted out of the league or have slipped out of the star class . . . The longevity of stars seems greater in the American league, for nine of the original eighteen were included on this years All American baseball team. They were Lefty Gomez, Bill Dickey and Lou Gehrig of the Tanks; Bob Grove, Joe Cronin and Jimmy Foxx of the Boston Red Sox; Rick Ferrell of the Washington Senators; Charley of the Detroit Tigers and Earl Averill of the Cleveland Indians. A Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, or $22,500 a year with the Pittsburgh Pirates in professional football were the offers which Whizzer White, Colorado universitys great halfback, had to consider recently. He chose the Oxford scholarship. The decision was his own, too. He asked his father for advice, but White pere SAM CHAPMAN insisted on leaving it up to him and decided in favor of higher educahe to him told Connie Mack and grab tion. sure-fir- e I a natural. as Sammy told you once Id never recommend a ball player, Ty said, but Ive Comeback got to this time. This kid Chapman OWN in the Texas league, fans, has a future. and scouts are managers watching the performance of two $8,500 Bonus young men who until last year were pitching sensations in the big Mack, who has always had a leagues Schoolboy Rowe, formerweakness for college men, offered ly of the Detroit Tigers, and Paul Sam an $8,500 bonus for signing Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals. with him. Shipped to the minors this year by was a it good Chapman thought idea, accepted, and joined the team early in May. He got into the lineup almost right away and began banging the ball all over the lot. In his first five weeks in the league, he got 44 hits in 123 times at bat, including nine' home runs. And he has contributed punch to a hustling, ball club that can give g any team in the league a run for its money. Not many college men have stepped off the campus and into the - big leagues to stay. Few if any great football players have accomplished this feat. Sammy Baugh, who has been a sensation as a for the Washington Redskins in the National Professional Football league, failed to make the grade this year as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals and even faded when he was farmed out to Columbus in the American association. Besides Sammy Baugh, three classic examples of who failed in big league tryouts were: Jim Thorpe, who couldnt make the grade with the New York Giants many years ago, Ernie Nev-er- their respective clubs, these felwho was a flop when the St. lows are trying a comeback trail Louis Browns tried to turn him into that will land them in the big show a diamond performer and Earl Cald- again. well, famous Yale back who faded Should the pitching magic,. that rapidly when the Cleveland Indians once made them great return to the put a uniform on him. firms of these athletes, they will find Sam Chapman looks like the glit- a hearty welcome back in the matering exception to this somber list. jors, for, the Tigers could use Rowe At present writing he appears to and tbe St. Louis Cards might cease have licked the jinx that follows star floundering if they had a pitcher of football players from the gridiron the caliber Paul Dean used to be. to the baseball diamond. 0 Western Newspaper Unlock All-St- ar Geh-ring- er Trail 0 hard-hittin- pass-heav- er s, two years old. Inventions which had not passed beyond the laboratory stage had been made before that time, but the object had been to produce artificially a product replacing silk, the most highly considered fabric of animal origin. Exmagazine. perience has shown, however, that Amazing casein really isnt an amazing thing. To the artificial silk is best produced of of cellujose, a material of plant origin. rank and file American simply milk curd, a often which men milk discarded as valueless. But a The process itself takes place in have few years ago smart scientists began seeking commercial a plant closely resembling a creamery. Milk is weighed and passed applications for it; their ac- through a heater into a skimming complishments to date make ones own convictions that such a machine. Here the cream is sepaan amazing story. rated from the milk and by means thing is possible. of a sterilizing and refrigerating apto Good the Last Drop. If you look up casein in the is immersed in an acidificaparatus The modern dairyman wastes tion after which it is put into a dictionary it will probably vat, an organic com- very little from each gallon of milk mixing churn and moulded into pats tell you his farmers deliver to the door. At pound allied to albumin, found the Italian wool plant, for example, of butter. The skimmed milk then passes in milks of all kinds. The pro- milk is separated from the butter into a curdling boiler where it is so of one butter is the byportion is 3 per cent and it sep- fat, treated by special chemical prodof wool manufacture. arates from the milk as curd, productsis another there is a coagulation so ucts that its which is usually used for Whey is neutralized and it is fed of the casein which is found in susacidity milk. The casein thus making cheese. And cheese to pigs. Each 26 gallons of milk pension in thesent into the press filter made from skimmed milk, produces about 10 pounds of butter collected is well pressed, is nearly pure and IVi pounds of dry casein. In where the whey is eliminated. wool manufacture, dry casein proThe masses of casein are sent to coagulated casein. duces approximately its own weight the curdling boiler to be washed. hard to believe that man in artificial wool, with little waste. The product is then dried and American milk is not used so thor- ground. In the mixer the casein can make cheese and founout the same of oughly, yet few nations can boast undergoes a dissolving process with tain pen barrels and is sent on to By JOSEPH W. LaBINE When you pick up that fountain pen to write a letter tonight, youll probably touch casein. If youre a billiards enthusiast, the little ball you play with is probably casein. Moreover, casein is responsible for the slick finish of the paper in your favorite its by-produ- ct its I Its higher milk production than the Thus the possibilities for, American adoption of the artificial wool process are tremendous. Recent department of agriculture figures show that milk surpluses this year hit a new June 1 high, causing dairy prices to drop to the lowest level in four years. The discovery of milk wool is only product. thats United States. part of the story. cloth out of wool Imagine making But only it, too!!! This, latest conquest in the com- mercial application of casein hails from Italy, where the production of artificial wool from cows milk has gone far beyond the experimental stage; so far, in fact, that the great Snia Viscosa rayon plant at Milan is building a huge addition to its factory for the production of this new artificial fabric on a commercial scale. Man Copies Nature. Its incredible that artificial wool and a very fine grade of wool, at that can be made from milk. But we have only to reflect that the newly born lamb that depends for sustenance entirely upon its mother ewe, is constantly producing the wool upon its little body from its mothers milk. So the scientists who perfected this process have only been attempting to simulate a process which nature has been carrying on for millions of years. They've found that cows milk, goats milk, sheeps milk, and no doubt other milks, are satisfactory for making wool fabrics. And the process has been perfected to such an extent that the finished product gives a result very close to the actual natural wool, chemically and to the touch. This development is remarkably interesting, but it need not cause American sheep raisers to quake in their boots. Although science has found a way to speed up the wool growing process, the method will always be complicated. Yet its success "may equal that of rayon, an artificial fabric which has assumed an important . position during the past 1(1 years. The new wool cloth made from milk casein comes in all colors and patterns, in different weights, and is much less expensive than ordinary wool. It has an advantage over natural wool ip that it does not shrink and for this reason Italy is making it into soldiers uniforms, Underwear and hosiery. Fashion models in Italy show the very latest styles in this new cloth. To see a shop window filled with models clad in gay outing sweaters and sport suits, all made from cows milk, is to be convinced against chemical reagents the maturing and filtering tanks. Through the spinning machine the casein now takes on the consistency of filaments which are first cut, then washed, then dried. The raw material is then finished and ready for that first transformation which is common to all fibers. Western Newspaper Union. c j Ton after ton of cows milk is needed daily to keep the great plant running at full capacity to turn out 10 tons of artificial wool. more than ever before, the lowly cow assumes an important rank Today, in the worlds economic picture as provider of both health and warmth: milk and clothing. , Snia-Visco- sa |