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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pin
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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!
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ADVENTURERS* CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI
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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-
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hobbyists get pleasure
from special gardens. Some
have been successful with all-
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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.
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To improve the golden moment
of opportunity and catch the good
that is within our reach, is the
great art of life.—Johnson.
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from common colds
That Hang On
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The Polished Man
Education begins the gentle
man; but reading, good company
and reflection must finish him.—
Locke.
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Present Ills
Present sufferings seem far
greater to men than those they
merely dread.—Livy.
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Help Them Cleanse the Blood
of Harmful Body Waste
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