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Speaking of Sports Sports Veterans Duplicate Wins In 1937 Events By ROBERT McSHANE T OOKING back over the past year in sports, Mr. Average Fan is somewhat amazed to see so many champions stay at the head of the field. Though there were many up sets, equally as many topnotchers Increased the prestige which they jtad gained in previous years. That does not mean that there were no new champions crowned, no records broken. It does mean that 1938 lacked some of the ex plosiveness of other years. For instance, Joe Louis didn’t win the heavyweight title in 1938, he merely kept it well in hand, and gave a good accounting of himself. America merely kept the Davis cup again this year, and didn’t bring it to this country. Don Budge again cannonaded his way through the opposition, repeating his victories of the previous year. The Yankees certainly did nothing new in blanket ing the rest of baseball. At least nothing new for them. Ralph Gul- dahl won the open golf champion ship for the second consecutive year. Seabiscuit (and this is a touchy point) stayed at the top, and beat new competition in driving down the track ahead of War Ad miral. Two marks which were threat ened during the past year, but which still stand as a goal, are Babe Ruth’s 60 home runs in 1927 and the 14 feet 11 inch pole vault rec ord established by Sefton and Meadows in 1937. Hank Green berg of Detroit came close to pass ing the Babe’s total, but failed by two clouts in his gallant assault. Pole vault- ers seem to have Bank Greenberg plenty of trouble in lat audit Max Schmeling reaching for that additional inch. There are new goals to shoot at, however. Glenn Cunningham ran the mile in 4:04.4 to establish a world record, and Johnny Vander Meer electrified the baseball world by pitching two successive no-hit games. The United States had a banner year in international competition, aside from the loss of the Walker cap and two or three other scat tered reverses. It defended the Da vis cnp in easy manner, and its track team snowed under the Nazis in a dual meet at Berlin, winning 14' to 6 first places and losing only one track event. The English grand national went to Battleship, an American-bred jumper, and Flares, with no rating in the British stud book, captured the Ascot gold cup. Charley Yates plowed through Troon’s mud to win the British amateur golf champion ship, and the native American-in fested Chicago Black Hawks came through in the playoffs to capture hockey’s Stanley cup. Henry Armstrong, tough little Ne gro fighter, started the year in pos- session of the featherweighttitle, and then added the welterweight and lightweight crowns. Arm strong ranked sec ond only to Budge in the Associated Press poll to de termine the year’s outstanding ath lete. His feats in the ring far out- shadowed those of his contempora ries. Joe Louis blasted Schmeling with little effort, thus causing Der Max to fall from Herr Hitler’s good graces. “Horse and Horseman’’ picked Battleship as the best race horse of the year, but a majority of experts settled on Seabiscuit, and a goodly number favored El Chico. Earl Sande, who trained Stagehand, real ly doesn’t mind, for the horcr. won the most money, $189,710. Perhaps the biggest disappoint ment of the year was the failure to find a heavyweight who could se riously threaten the colored champ. Perhaps he’ll be found this year— that’s what makes sports ever inter esting. Sport Shorts Baseball’s Iron Horse T OU GEHRIG, iron horse of the '*~ y world champion Yankees, pay ing no attention to passing years, broke eight major league recoras and tied another in 1938. Some of the marks were already in his possession, of course, but he added to their luster, and placed them still farther beyond reach of hopefuls who will try to beat them in future years. His amazing endurance record be gan in June, 1925, when he replaced Wally Pipp as Yankee first sacker. When he hung up his glove at the end of the past season he had ex tended his string of consecutive championship games without an in terruption to 2,122. This total doesn’t include series or exhibition games. The redoubtable diamond warrior played in 157 American league games last season, a feat that tied another major league mark for first basemen and at the same time ex tended Lou’s own mark for consee- ntive years in which he has played 150 or more games to 12. Other records credited to him in clude: most years scoring 100 or more runs, 13; most consecutive years scoring 100 or more runs, 13; home runs with bases filled, 23, and most double plays by a first base- man, 157. Thirty-three major records fell, and 13 were tied. One of the out standing perform ances was that of Bob Feller, the In dians’ spectacular right - hander, in striking out 18 bat ters in a single game. The young pitcher also set an other modern record by issuing 208 bases on balls during the past season. The entire Ameri- Bob Feller can league reached a new high for home runs in a sin gle season with 864 circuit clouts. A new record was also established with the hitting of 37 home runs with the bases loaded. Money Players A T A time when cries of “paid athletes” and “subsidized play ers” fill the air—which is practical ly all the time—the news that the University of Florida has a definite salary schedule for her footballers comes as a refreshing southland breeze. At the Gainesville school, as at other institutions of the Southeast ern conference, no attempt is made to cover up this fact. The pay-off is all above-board. Sam McAllister, assistant to head coach Josh Cody, in speaking of the system, said: “Since we’ve come out in the open about things that an hidden at so many other schools we’ve had no lessening or morale. We’ve had less trouble over eligibility, and we’ve had better football because every body’s satisfied.” There are two schedules under which the athletes are subsidized. First string players receive full scholarships, worth approximately $600 and covering board, room and tuition. In addition to this they are given a weekly wage that varies from $2 to a high of $3.50. Players who aren’t top varsity material get half scholarships and a wage. Tutors assist the players in their studies. These teachers are paid by the athletic association, a cor poration separate from the univer sity itself. Schools of the southeastern con ference are honest, at least. Their players aren’t paid by the dark of the moon. • Western Newspaper Union. Pocket Billiards By CHARLES C. PETERSON Preiident, National Billiard Association of America and World’s Trick Shot Champion. THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1939 ■■— DILL KLEM, veteran National league umpire, will not retire untO his legs or voice fold up. Klem will be 65 in February . . . Lieut. Harry J. (Hank) Hardwick, former football coach at the naval acade my, has been transferred back to sea duty with the Asiatic squadron ... An international checker match is being planned in Glasgow and London for 1941 . . . Jan Van der Vyver of the Netherlands and Mick ey Francoise of New Jersey were the only two cycling champs to re tain their crowns . . . Horseshoe pitching’s 1938 king was 25-year-old Hubert Trinkle of Madison county, Ind. . . . Archery champions were Miss Jean Tenney of Maryland and Pat Chambers of Oregon . . . Navy achieved ranking as the top team in intercollegiate lacrosse during the past season . . . Henry Armstrong has not been beaten in two years. V =<i Lesson No. 13 This diagram shows a kiss shot from the cluster into the side pocket a very interesting and thrilling shot. Here utmost care must be exer cised to place the balls in the exact position as shown in the diagram. Follow the lines drawn that guide the object ball; and again, since this shot is so very interesting be cause of the side pocket position, I warn the player to concentrate on a level cue and center the object and cue balls. Hold a firm bridge and stroke the cue ball medium hard. ___ 1 Bad Luck in Double Doses Above: ISeto York Slate Trooper J. F. Keating uses 13 on his motorbike plates and Conservation Commissioner Lithgotc Osborne not only has 13 on his auto plates but 13 for his sailboat number and 13 on his office door. Below: Barbara Kent of the films, not at all su perstitious, nevertheless deco rates her hand-bag with a rabbit?s foot. m. Breaking mirrors is sup posed to be bad luck, but these two Toledo belles wouldn’t be worried about that, as they tee ter-totter on, of all things, a pane of mirror glass! This is a new kind of heat-tempered glass scientists call tuf - flex, which can withstand a much greater strain than this. m Pin 5 i, »l liEl Above Left: Combining sophistication and non-superstition, this wedding trio of bridegroom, rector and bride put finishing touches on a Friday the 13th wedding by lighting up, three on a match. Right: In the heart of New York’s Times Square, center of super- sophistication, big city folks carefully avoid walking under ladders. Over in London they defy superstition, too. These t.tembers of the Thirteenth club haven’t raised their umbrellas indoors as part of any air-raid precautions, but merely to show they don’t give a ~ for Old Man Bad Luck. Just the same, watch your step on Fi the 13th! Ttwfd ADVENTURERS* CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI a / There was a time when Frank S. Helmar of Shamokin, The Man Who Came Back H ello everybody: There was a time when Pa., could get a kick out of ghost stories. But not any more. Frank says the old spook yarns leave him cold nowadays, and never again will any mere piece of fiction make the hair crawl up the back of his neck. For Frank went up against the real thing once, and now he knows what a scare really is. Hold onto your hats while Frank tells us about it, boys and girls—the strange tale of the Mumbling Ghost! Quite a few years ago—when Frank had just passed his eighteenth birthday—he began to get that restless feeling that comes to most young lads his age—the itch to traveL It seemed to him that there wasn’t any opportunity for a young fellow in the little mining and manufacturing town in which he had grown up. He was tired working in coal holes and hanging around with the same old gang under the street light every night, so one day, after work, he tucked a little bundle under his arm and, with a little lump in his throat, struck out over the hill toward the railroad and points north, east, south and west. Planned to Settle Down in Elmira. tracks Frank didn’t know where he was going, and he sore got there. For five years he wandered about in practically all of the eastern states, working in a factory here and a restaurant there, doing odd jobs, and sometimes even landing in jail on suspicion of vagrancy. At the end of five years, Frank found himself work ing in a silk mill in Elmira, N. Y., and liking the job and the town so well that he was planning to settle down. He had even subscribed to a newspaper back in Shamokin and or dered it sent to him in Elmira. But it was that newspaper that proved his undoing. For it not only set his feet to itching again, but also provided him with the most horrible shock of his whole life. It was just a little paragraph, way down in the corner of a page, in one of the first papers that came to him from back home in Shamokin, but it made the tears fill Frank’s eyes. His old pal. Jack Hasco, so the paragraph said, had been killed that day, and mangled beyond recognition. Frank felt pretty bad about it for two or three days, and thinking of Jack also made him wonder how his other old pals were getting along. And he decided to go back to the old town for a visit. He arrived in Shamokin about midnight on February 14, 1929. The iky was dark and a storm was brewing. The wind blew fitfully and the few people on the streets were wrapped up in heavy overcoats and hur- CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT PERSONAL REDUCE a* tm T saaada waak., sure. Inexpensive. Chart, Informat. Write Dr. WENDT. CANTON, S. TIPS t0 r ardeners Special Gardens hobbyists get pleasure from special gardens. Some have been successful with all- marigold, or all-petunia gardens.! Marigolds are available in a wide; variety of sizes and shapes andj provide a golden-brown garden' scene of unusual richness. Petunias have a wide range of! color, and more and more they! are being used for cut flowers as well as for garden color and beauty, j Some have grown gardens pri marily for fragrance. The best' flowers for such a garden, accord ing to Harry A. Joy, flower ex pert, are alyssum, carnation, mignonette, nicotiana, sweet pea and sweet william. For a garden of plants without actual flowers but with showy foli age, interesting results have been obtained with the following: Jo seph’s coat, coleus, dusty miller, snow - on - the - mountain, annual poinsettia, kochia and castor oil bean. The following will fit well into a typical wildflower garden: Annual lupin, bachelor button, rudbeckia , (cone flower), columbine, peren nial aster, heuchera (coral bells), and perennial upin. A cat backstage during rehearsal spells doom for a play. He mumbled in an outlandish language. rying to get in out of the cold. Frank pulled the collar of his own coat up around his neck and headed for the East Side, where he once had lived. “It seemed strange to be back home again,” he says. “I had ex pected to find the East Side improved, but it was still the same old hole, with its blind alleys and poorly lighted streets. I was heading into an alley near my old home when I saw a dark fqsm coming toward me. I saw, as it approached me, that it was a man, and thought it might be some one I knew. As he came up to me I looked closely at his face. One look at that fellow’s face and Frank felt his body stiffen. “1 let out an insane scream,” he says, “and beads of perspiration began forming on my cold brow. My heart was beating violently! I was rooted to the ground! And that face was slowly coming toward me, its eyes bulging in surprise and a slight smile com ing to its lips. Yes—you guessed it. It was my old pal—my dead pal. Jack Hasco—and he was mumbling! Mumbling something in some outlandish language that I couldn’t understand!” Falls Unconscious in Terrorized Flight. Frank fought to pull himself together. Gathering up all the energy that was left in his weakened, trembling body, he let out another wild yell and, with a leap and a bound, he practically flew out of that alley. “Then I ran,” he says. “Ran on and on, until everything turned black in front of me and I slid in a heap to the ground. When I regained conseieusness strange faces were looking down at me. When I told .them my story they looked in credulously at one another, said I was drunk, and walked away. I picked myself up, brushed off my elothing and moved on.” A little way down the street, Frank saw the lights of an all-night lunch wagon. A cup of coffee would go good after his experience, and It might help him pull himself together. He was sitting on a stool in the lunch room sipping his coffee when the door opened and another familiar figure came in. But this time it was a LIVING figure. Baldy Williams, another member of the old gang. Never in Frank’s life had the sight of an old friend thriUed him so. “Baldy!” he yelled. And Baldy said, “Why, Frank Helmar, where in the heck have you been all these years.” And for the next few minutes they talked about Frank’s travels, but Frank wasn’t long in bringing up the story of his strange experience. Friend Explains Weird Reunion. As he talked on, he saw a twinkle come into Baldy’s eyes. The twinkle turned into a broad grin. Frank wondered why Baldy was laughing at him. Did Baldy. think he was drunk too? At last Baldy put up a hand and laid it on Frank’s shoulder. “Take it easy, Frank,” he said. “Don’t let this get you down. What you read in the paper about a Jack Hasco being killed is true enough, but there were two Jack Hascos in Shamokin. The one who was killed came from the West End. Our old pal. Jack, is just as much alive as you or I.” That sounded swell to Frank, but still he wasn’t convineed. “But the mumbling!” he cried. “It was ghastly. Jaek never talked like that!” Again Baldy smiled—a little sadly this time. “Well, that’s another thing,” he said. “You see. Jack had an accident a few years ago, and he lost half of his tongue.” Copyright—WNU Service. How Alloys Are Produced Alloys are produced by combining two or more metals, usually by melting them together. The combi- aation of different metals may be made to increase specific chemical >r mechanical properties or to cre ate properties not possessed by any >f the constituents. Steel is an alloy if iron and carbon. Copper and tine are alloyed to make brass. Nickel silver is a combination of :opper, nickel, and zinc, and bronze is an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin. A Famous Dungeon One of the most famous dungeons in history is in the Chateau de Chii- lon on Lake. Geneva in Switzerland. Between 1530 and 1536, says Col lier’s Weekly, it was the prison of Francois Bonivard, a politician and the hero of Byron’s poem, “The Prisoner of Chillon.” Since that time, countless tourists have visited the cell and thousands have in scribed their names on its wnQs, among them being Byron, George Sand and Victor Hugo. How Women in Their 40’s Can Attract Men about hot Smahag, loaa of pap, dlxay i upset nerves and moody apelia. 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