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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1937)
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON was those many seasons ago when he was the game's first and greatest pinch hitter, enters the room. This is a Yankee party but National leaguers are welcome, especially welcome when they have done so much for the sport as the present insurance broker whose name is Moose McCormack. Moose, as is befitting a man who hit so well and so often, starts talking about pitchers. He tells about attending the Chicago World's fair along with Ty Cobb and meet ing Mordecai Brown. Years ago some of baseball's in'-st thrilling du els were waged between these two great hitters and the three-fingered hurler who still is remembered as one of the best of all time. ® New York Post.—WNU Service. Baseball’s Pages Turn Back at Port of Aching Dogs HEY have been moored for long hours in the Port of Aching T Dogs—this haven high above Forty- second street where baseball men gather when worn down by the offi cial futility of their annual meet ings. There Is gossip about Kelley of Yale. Paul Krichell, the scout who watched over him all last spring, reveals that the youngster is a tidy first baseman with fair hitting abil ity. There is a leaning forward at this but then the gathering settles back. Krichell relates sadly that professional sports have no lure for the best ballyhooed athlete of the year and that he likes baseball least of all. The conversation switches. A minor manager, somewhat per turbed over the decision which gave Cleveland full rights to Bob Feller, wonders how England might have made out if it had a Judge Landis instead of a Baldwin as arbiter of the niceties, lie gets the floor for a moment, but then Gene McCann, the veteran scout, comes in, fully arrayed in white lawn tie, red stick pin and gray checked suit. After the applause has subsided they re sume playing over games of 25 years ago. A heavy set man, tanned face scarcely more lined now than it Recalling Bitter Feuds Between Giants and Cubs He tells about Chicago of another day. That was when the Cubs and the Giants were mortal enemies and two great cities rallied to the causes. It was in those days that the Chicago Board of Trade used to hold meetings in the heart of the Loop. There would be fiery speeches about the necessity of repelling this invasion of hated Easterners. Then a huge bonfire would be lighted and McGraw would be burned in effigy. This brings other tales of the days when the Giants would be returning from spring training and little Mac would be inciting small town citizens to buy tickets in huge numbers for the mere privilege of booing him in per son. Of that after noon when the fight er in him rebelled against what the showman had done. when he took oil his McGraw coat and challenged the 5,000 jeering customers who packed the old park in Birming ham. Of Arthur Fletcber and Fred Snodgrass, whose sheer desire to win forthwith increased by 25 per cent the chances of any ball club which signed them. About days in Austin, Houston and other Texas towns when bush league teams fought tooth and nail to beat their big time colleagues. About free for all fights between opposing players and fans In At lanta. About how Arthur Devlin pleaded with a badly battered op ponent to stop and about how this sorely bruised opponent (I think he was a minor leaguer named O'Dell) refused to holler "nuf.” About how the next day the home towners sought something softer and chal lenged little Bridwell. How Brid- wcll, probably the best boxer in baseball of that day, won with such case that even Atlantans were charmed. NOT IN THE BOX SCORE: HUN school coaches say Bob Sandbach, eighteen - year - old brother of Ken, will be even better than the current Princeton football star. . . Sylvanus Apps of Canada, one of the Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey rookies, took sixth place in the pole vaulting at Berlin last summer. . . Smart baseball men say the best prospect for the coming season is Bobby Doer, the second baseman the Red Sox are bring ing up from San Diego. . . They also hint that Joe Marty, the out fielder purchased from San Fran cisco by the Cubs, may turn out to be a bit of a lemon. The Yankees, who control the ter ritory through their Newark farm, won’t permit Joe Cambria to shift his Albany franchise to Jersey City. They insist that Mayor Hague’s town, a very good baseball spot, Dr. Thomas H. Staggers, mech- should be represented by a club sno - therapist of Cleveland, Ohio, more substantially backed and con thinks he has something here as he ducted with more of an eye to the piles match upon match upon match, future. . . Harvard should be plenty all upon the mouth of a beer bottle. tough in football next fall in spite The something is a test of steady of a woeful Frosh eleven. In addi nerves. Working most of two days, tion to the returning regulars, Emile the doctor succeeded in erecting Dubiel and several other stars who a tower of 3,585 matches before were declared ineligible this year someone with a heavy tread caused now have caught up with their the edifice to collapse. This tower studies. . . Sydney A. Syme, who upon which the doctor is shown succeeds Judge Bleakley on the New working, is his second attempt. He York Supreme court bench, was a has promised to keep at it until the noted local athlete in his younger first tower is left far in the shade. days. . a . It will cost 585,000 to build twenty-eight alleys and other wise equip the 212th Coast Artillery Armory for the American Bowling Congress in New York next spring. All the heavyweight champions of England since Jem Mace’s time are still alive. Bombardier Wells is an innkeeper at Brighton. The twen ty-four-year-old Jack Petersen has retired to live on the $100,000 he made in the ring. Gunner Moir, who fought Tommy Burns, is in the mov ies. . . Other items of London chit chat include the news that Ben Foord, the present champion, is a rough, mauling type of fighter . . . Phil Scott's tea room in Devonshire has folded but, even though broke, the horizontal heavyweight has a second wife. . . Charley Rose, his undersized manager, has the same umbrella, bowler and coat he wore when Phil was reclining in Amer ican rings. . , Joe Beckett lives in the provinces. Grimes Was Tough Guy as a Member of Cards When he was with the Cards, Burleigh Grimes once chased a newspaper man around a hotel lob by for two days try ing to put the slug on him. . . . Benny Bengough is doing more than all right as manager of the Yankees' Joplin farm. So also is Joe Becker, who was made president of the club after being rescued from a Grimes Brooklyn scouting job. . . Although sports writers la bor over Ray Impellitiere’s name, his Cold Spring hometown folks have no such difficulty. There the American Giant and his family are hailed simply as "Impel.” . . Fred Ritter, who has been absent from the court for two seasons because he wished to devote his best atten tion to football and studies, vtfill im prove Princeton’s basketball team. National league umpires Mager- kurtb and Klem, two of the very best, by the way, can seldom be persuaded to perform in the same game. Just don't like one another. . . . Joe Shannon of the brothers Shannon who used to play such high class baseball, now is in charge of Jersey City’s Stadium. . . Business managers, Giants Brannick and Dodgers Gorman, no longer are kid ding when they wave fists at one another. . . The very able Bran nick, incidentally, eliminated a par ty crashing pest with one punch dur ing the recent Montreal baseball meeting. . . That was even neater than the job done by Al Schacht, who pulled another nuisance’s rac coon coat over his head while land ing a solid base hit in his center field. . . Nick Palmer, former Na tional Guard middleweight and heavyweight champion (N. Y. vari ety), will turn wrestler. Clients who paid heed to sage advice given here must have been gratified when Jockey Palumbo won those races at Charlestown. . . Two millionaire sportsmen are con vinced that the National Hockey League was more anxious to get rid of Bill Dwyer during that recent mess than it was in new money or owners. They say they made a bonaflde offer in writing, delivered it at the league office in Montreal and never even received an answer. . . . Are Colgate and Tulane going to have to schedule their Northern football meetings in Buffalo or some such upstate city henceforth? . . . And could the reason be that local universities, angry because outsiders were cutting in on their subway sinecure, refused to let the Giants and Yankees rent their ball parks to such aliens? Did any one ever investigate the report that a game between a team, billing itself as "Fordham” some thing or other, and a pro eleven was hastily canceled in Buffalo re cently. . Blood Horse, the very good racing paper, reveals how un certain the sport is. It takes three mares to produce two foals in one year. It takes four foals to furnish one two-year-old winner. The stal lion is exceptional whose gel are 50 per cent winners. Pleasure Giving— ♦ Talking to Advantage of Others and Joy to Ourselves in 1937 z I' ALKING is the recognized medium of communication be tween persons who are together or who, being absent, use a tele phone. It is unfortunate having such a marvelous medium at our command that we so often fail to put it to the use worthy of its value. It is possible to send a glow of happiness through the lis tener when we speak merited words of appreciation. It is pos sible to solace those in sorrow by words of comfort spoken from the heart. It is possible to make joy doubly gladsome by expressing our happiness in the good fortune of others. Through talking to our children we can spur them on to do fine things, or encourage them in worthy resolves. In short the good we can do by talking in the right spirit is inestimable. By talking in the right way we bring good to others and joy to ourselves. "Too Much Talk” was commendatory repeating it would foster fine things. Good things should be given frequent repetition. Pleasure Giving in 1937 We all could add so much to the pleasure and joy of living during the new year 1937, if we would set a watch on our talk, and by a wishful determination use this great means at our command to help others. It is one of the things that costs nothing and yet which can do such an endless amount of good. It is a way open to all alike. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. NEARLY DROVE HER CRAZY Got Quick RELIEF It is when we swerve from the best use of the spoken word that By Rubbing we drag it down and harm both Muscles were so she could ourselves and our hearers. There sore hardly touch them. Used Hamlins Wizard is an expression “too much talk” Oil and found wonderful relief. Just which is significant of this very rubbed it on and rubbed it in. Thousands thing. The words speak fo. them say Hamlins Wizard Oil works wonders selves, declaring that it would be for stiff, aching muscles. Why suffer? Get bottle for speedy comfort. Pleasant odor. advisable to cease saying the a Will not stain clothes. At all druggists. things we are. It is never said of good words. Of them we could HAMLINS say: Let us have more talk of the WIZARD OIL same sort, it is needed. 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