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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. \/f UCH to the surprise and shock of several American league managers, plus their supporters, the long time lowly Browns have re fused to crack. They have kept coyly away from the soapy chute under the smart direction of my old Titus, Ala., friend, James Luther Sew ell. Luke’s main in structions have been to “keep them rolling'.’’ And the Browns have kept rolling for about the second time in over forty years, dating back to the days of George Sisler. No one will stand op and say that the Browns have any shining set of stars. They haven’t. Bnt they have a set of steady going ballplayers, including Vernon Stephens, George MeQninn, Chester Laabs, and A1 Zarilla, pins at least a good mid-war pitching staff. GrantlandRice They claim no outstanding stars, but their average certainly matches anything else in the American league. In Luke Sewell they have a smart and well-balanced manager who hah earned their liking and their respect. Note* of a New Yorker: The New York papers recently of fered an article by Gypsy Rose Lee’s mother. The story was about Gyp sy . . .New Yorkers are faihiliar with the silly quarrel between these two . . . Supposed to have started when Gypsy wrote articles for a magazine about her early career in which her mater was kidded a lot and unfrocked a little . . . Broad- wayites later heard buzzing about mother and daughter getting to the point of name-calling. Once Gypsy received a telegram from her Mom, which warned that unless the two could get together about a certain matter she—the mother—would “give” the story to the newspapers. “Look, Mom, don’t be a fool,” re plied Gypsy, “don’t give it to the papers. Sell it to them.” Now Is probably the labt time to recount this instance of the humor ous by-play that went on between FDR and Henry Wallace. When Mae West was suing Frank Wallace for divorce the papers were full of sto ries headed "Mae West Charges Wal lace Unkind to Her.” The President scissored one out and sent it to the vice president with a note (in his own handwriting) reading, “Henry, is this the way to treat your wom en?” Luke ought to know his share of baseball. He began catching for Cleveland back in 1921, a matter of 23 years ago. Luke stuck with Cleveland tor 12 years before he moved on to Washington—and later to Chicago. He was only a .259 hit ter, but he always knew how to han dle that big glove, and direct his pitching staff. When he drew the iob of manag ing the Browns it was something like being sentenced to Siberia. What difference did it make—who might be managing the Browns? I talked with Luke early this spring and his only comment was: “We have just as good a chance as any team in the league. Just at this spot there are at least five teams that are evenly matched. It’s the sort of race where it might be important to get the jump. That’s what we are shooting for. The team that gets the jump will have a big advantage with so many other clubs killing off any single challenger.” How It Worked Out It has worked out just as Sewell predicted. The Browns got the jump. Just back of them were the Red Sox, Yankees, Indians, etc. There was little difference. Luke Sewell had called the turn as far back as April showers. “Get the jump.” The Yankees and Red Sox, Indi ans, Tigers and White Sox, all be gan clawing each other or one an other. Once in a while some Brown challenger would win four or five in a row, then drop the next four.. The Red Sox and the Yankees bath kept making threatening moves. Then the Indians cut in. But whan the dust had settled on various fields and the smoke had blown away, there were the Browns still out in front, piking along and still winning their share and protecting that early jump that Luke Sewell worked for. It is a much tougher proposition for a leading club to have only one fast-moving pursuer on his heels. When you have three or four they keep taking care of the chasers and dragging them back. The charge has been made that St. Louis hasn’t supported either club —Cardinals or Browns—that St. Louis is not a two club major entry. This is all true. St. Louis, for one reason or an other, is only a one club entry in the major leagues, and not any too hot as a one-club spot. There are any number of cities, including Los Angeles, that would be a big league gold mine in comparison. But this has nothing to do with the ballplayers composing the dou ble line-ups of Cardinals and Browns. But the facts are that the ballplayers working for St. Louis fans have dominated both leagues so far. The Cardinals were a romp be fore the first ball was thrown back In April. The Cardinals would be an even bet against a team picked from the other 15 clubs in both leagues. Bnt one might have thought that the uprising of the Browns would have churned up the old town in Missouri. In place of that the Dodg ers in last place in the National league have been outdrawing the leading Browns. Ernie Pyle reported the incident of captured Nazi General von Schlie- ben, who squawked to Yank com manders about American photogra phers taking his picture without ask ing permission . . . And how Gen eral Collins reminded Von Schlieben that in the United States there is a free press “and we in the army cannot stop our newspapers from printing the news and taking pic tures.” In Time (or Life) a few edi tions ago, we read what the photog rapher said when Von Schlieben barked: “Oh, I am bored with you American photographers taking my picture.” The American hocus-focus man (who understood German) snapped back: “And I’m bored tak ing pictures of captured Nazi gen- irals.” This is the newest Russian gag overheard at the Madison Bar: “So Ivan Ivanovitch died gallantly in the midst of battle,” sobbed Katerina Mikhailovna Mikhailovitch. “You say he uttered my name with his last breath?” “Part of it,” replied the returned soldier, “only part of it.” An ironic fact is that George M. Cohan never could scribble a suc cessful ditty about baseball, the sport he loved so much. Cohan, as all Broadway knew, was a Polo Grounds faithful. Yet the two songs he wrote about baseball were never per formed more than a few tired times, even with John McGraw and the Giants lending themselves to its pro motion. Yet Albert Von Tilzer’s “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” is as famous as the game itself, and Von Tilzer saw his first baseball con test only a short while back, after his tune had been played and sung for decades. “Take Me, etc.,” was not the first baseball song ever written. In 1885 a ballplayer named Kelly was an idol up in Boston. A faithful fan scribbled a ditty tagged “SUde, Kelly, SUde.” The three-word phrase became more popular than the song. A song was responsible for finish ing a baseball star’s promising ca reer when it looked as though he might develop into another Hubbell or Walter Johnson. His name was Harry Covaleskie, and he was with the Phillies. One season he established himself by pitching against the Giants three times in five days (beating them in all starts) and taking a pennant right from under their noses. The Giants, burned up, found out later that Covaleskie, as a kid, had trouped in amateur vaudeville sing ing “Silver Threads Among the Gold.” One afternoon the following sum mer Covaleskie was hurling against the Giants when from their dug-ouft came the strains of “Silver Threads.” The Giants kept this up all during that series, and other Na tional League clubs followed with the same ribbing ... In six weeks, Co valeskie was a nervous wreck . . . The following year saw him fade from baseball completely. Despite the ODT’s warnings against unnecessary travel, vaca tion travel is up 10 per cent. Ap parently, there are people who won’t do anything to help win the war— even if it means staying home and doing nothing. THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF PRIVATE PURKEY . Dear Harriet: Well, I just seen that list of maga zines what has been approved by the army for GIs and I feel better now knowing what it is okay for me to be pretending I am reading. The list is twenty to one comics and this is the first time I ever knew there was so many published. Movie magazines is a bad second and I am glad to find National Geographic and House and Garden on the list on account of I do not want to laugb all the time. • Right between something called Bine Beetle and Big Shot Comici what do yon think I find? Bettei Homes and Gardens! If that ain’i a running broad jump in anj library at home or at the front whaf have yon? I think at first maybt Better Homes and Gardens has pu/ in a funny supplement but it ain’t. • Sandwitched in between a maga zine called Gags which the army thinks we should read and Human Torch which Washington has a idea GIs can see without being done no harm is Good Housekeeping, which looks funny in tha location. Well, I would like to see a GI concentrat ing on Good Housekeeping over here and get caught by his top se» geant. • Right in between Cliek, Captain Midnight and Dare Devil eomics is Country Gentleman and I never seen no magazine looking so uncomfort able. Harper’s is listed surrounded by Flash Comics, Funny Animals and Laff. The Saturday Evening Post is sandwitched in between Radio Hit Songs and the Seientifle American which I started onee but did not finish on aceount of there is not much sex interest. • You could knock me over with a V-mail postscript when I find Out door Life on the list. That is a fine magazine but if there is one thing a soldier does not need to look up it is the facts about living outdoors. Physical Culture is there, too, I guess in case I do not know what to do for exercise. • I see Field and Stream sur rounded by Downbeat, Flash Comics and Famous Funnies but I forgot to bring my fishing rod to the war and I don’t get much time off to dig bait. Fortune is listed in between Front Page Detective and Fnnny Animals. • But what mixes me up is that I find Ladies Home Journal and the Woman’s Home Companion on the list sent to me. Maybe it is just a gag. I have been shifted around a lot in this war but I have not been made a WAC yet. » Well, I hope you are fine and you ain’t no sorrier than me that the bomb missed Hitler. All my love, Oscar P. S. — Send me copies of Wow Comics, Colliers, the American Medical Journal, Ten Story Western, Nifty and Harper’s Bazaar I want a all around library. • • • Imaginary Dialogues Shimada—Going my way? Tojo—And how! Shimada—What have we done? Tojo—Almost nothing; that’s the trouble. As a naval chief you’re pretty bad. Shimada—Nobody seems to rate you much higher as a military lead er, I notice. Tojo—It isn’t so much a question of blame. Didn’t you listen to the radio? The cabinet is merely being renovated. Shimada—I like that word reno vated; it makes me feel less em barrassed. Tojo—Yes, but being renovated with an ax isn’t so comfortable. ♦ Shimada—I wonder if we could have been wrong about those de cadent Americans. Tojo—I’ve been wondering for months. We are away behind sched ule with what we were going to do to them. Shimada—Weren’t we to have been making peace in the White House by this time? Tojo—Why bring that up? It only makes me feel worse. Shimada—And it ail looked so easy at Pearl Harbor! Tojo—Didn’t it! Shimada—What we did to their fleet there! Tojo—And what their fleet there has since done to us! This has soured the baseball crowd in general, taken from the map at large, against the Browns. It has been my belief that the two best baseball cities in the country are Brooklyn and Detroit, when you con sider their population. The main point in early August is that the Browns were supposed to crack some time back—and they haven’t cracked yet. And these Brown ballplayers can still use the coming world series money as v/ell as any other club, even if their home town isn’t any too keen about basebalL A certain New York State Senator, after a nervous breakdown and a holiday in a sanitarium, was pro nounced honky-dooly ... He re turned to the Senate at Albany, where he engaged in a hot debate the first day. During the debate, one of his oppo nents, forgetting the man’s illness, lost his temper and yelled: “You’re crazy.” Pulling out his discharge certifi cate, Our Hero waved it and said: “I can prove Pm sane—now can you?” Scouts from Bretton Woods mone tary conference informed us that at no convention in years did so many delegates have trouble adding up checks and counting the change, • • • CHRONOLOGY 1940— Fortress Europe. 1941— Fortress Europe, Africa and Asia. x 1942—Fortress Europe, Asia, Af rica and America. 1943— Fortress Europe and Asia. 1944— Fortress Europe. 1945— Fortress Where—AM—I? IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Of The Moody Bible Inititute of ChicatA Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for August 27 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se-, lected and copyrighted by International I Council of Religious Education; used by permission. , ISRAEL’S FIRST KING LESSON TEXT—I Samuel t:15-21; 10:K> 17; 11:12.19. GOLDEN TEXT—Honor all men. Love the broi', hood. Fear God. Honor the king. —I Peter 2:17. “Well begun is half done,” says the old proverb, reminding us of the importance of a good beginning. While it. does not guarantee success (see next week’s lesson), it is emip nently desirable, and truly helpful. Israel had foolishly tired of being a God-ruled nation and had begun to demand a king. Samuel was directed of God to the man of His choice, Saul, in a very remarkable way. He entered upon his service as king as an obedient: and earnest ruler. (Would God that he had continued in that wayl) W* note a number of favorable; elements which indicated the possi bility of a successful reign. He was— I. Wanted by the People (9:15, 16). j A ruler forced upon a nation is sure of opposition, but here the peo-; pie were clamoring for a king to rule over them. The way was wide open, to the interest and the' affection of I their hearts. Saul was just the type to please them. Physically he was head and shoulders above the people! —a desired thing in a ruler (see' 10:23). He was mentally fitted (10:] 25)—humble (9:21), spiritually right (10:6-9), tolerant and kindly (11:13), and a good military leader (ch. 11).' n. Chosen by God (9:17). All these qualities commended Saul to God as well as to the people. In fact, he was God’s choice. A man could not enter upon high of fice with any more auspicious token for good. Observe that what looked like a purely chance visit to Samuel, when {Saul was on business for his father, 'was the occasion for the making known of God’s choice. Out of a simple experience in daily life came an event which changed his entire destiny. HI. Anointed by the Prophet (9: 18-20). The man of God’s choice had met God’s man, Samuel, who proceeded to instruct him, and to privately anoint him as king. It was a tender scene. The aged prophet, rejected by the people as God’s ruler over them, quietly and sweetly obeyed God’s command to anoint the young man to be king. Public recognition, which came later, was important, but, with Saul as with every servant of the Lord, the personal anointing of God, in the hidden place of communion with Him, was the matter of highest im portance. IV. Humble in Attitude (9:21). That pride, which was ultimately to be Saul’s downfall, was beauti fully absent at the beginning of his reign. Although of good family, and well-equipped, he saw himself as poor and insignificant, not ready for such an honor. That is the right attitude for one who is to serve God. Pride and self- assurance do not befit the man who stands in the presence of the Al mighty. V. Guided by Principle (10:25). Saul did not enter upon his office, new as it was to both him and td Israel, without a Constitution, that is, without principles of action. Samuel, the Lord’s prophet, wrote down “the manner of the kingdom” in a book. How interesting, and how important. Rulers who imagine themselves so wise that they need no controlling laws, and so powerful that the law may not question their decisions, are certainly not rulers after God’s plan. Knowing the heart of man, his weakness and pride, God has provided true principles by which the ruler is to be guided, yes and controlled. VI. Forgiving in Spirit (10:26-27; 11:12, 13). Some “worthless fellows” de spised Saul and would not recog nize him as king. The urge of the flesh was to destroy them, and espe cially did that seem proper because of their worthless nature. But Saul, in true kingly spirit, said that there was to be no revenge, just rejoicing. To be of the right spirit toward one’s enemies is the hall mark of Christian character. VII. Established in Office (11: 14, 15). While there is the secret whisper of God in the heart, and the per sonal anointing by the Lord’s serv ant, there should be the public rec ognition which establishes the Lord’s servant in the eyes of all people. Saul had this at Gilgal. It placed him among the kings of the earth, and prepared the way for his deal ing with other nations as well as with his own people. Applying that truth to those who serve Christ, we say that there is upon the church the obligation to recognize God’s call and anointing by giving that official recognition which sets the testimony and serv ice of the individual free to exer cise itself among men in general. 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