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SPEAKING OF
SPORTS
By ROBERT McSHAN
Released by Western Newspaper Union
'T'HE New York Giants, once the
most feared club in baseball, are
experiencing a rebirth which should
cause no little worry to the manag
ers of seven other National league
ball teams.
It wasn’t so very many years ago
that the Giants were the most valu
able franchise in baseball. In lat
ter years their value—together with
their power—has decreased. A few
weeks ago the Giants looked like
an aggregation of forgotten men.
Then came the change. Bill Terry
was made a major domo of sorts
and Mel Ott was named manager
in Terry’s place.
Lightning struck at once. In no
more than a few hours the Giants
obtained Johnny Mize, Hank Leiber
and Bill Werber, three of the stand
out figures of the National league.
They disposed of Burgess White
head, Joe Moore, Morrie Arno
vich, Bob Bowman, Bill Lohrman,
and Ken O’Dea. Few Giant fans
will disagree with the statement
that these players were past their
prime. A couple of them never were
of much value to the club.
The new Giants are going to be
tougher competition. Harry Ban
ning, a topnotch catcher who had a
bad season in ’4l, will be behind
the plate. Mize will be at first.
Rookie Connie Ryan at second,
Bill Jurges at short, Werber at
third, and Leiber, John Rucker and
Ott in the outfield.
Trying to Improve
It is granted that many of these
players are question marks. Leiber
was beaned last summer. Mize
managed to get too fat after being
benched with a broken finger. Wer
ber was hurt. Jurges suffered from
headaches and Ott slipped.
Ott knows all this. He knows that
someone has let the Giant machine
go to rust. The important thing is
that the club is awake, and that it’s
trying to improve itself. No one ex
pects Ott to perform a miracle. The
Giants need a greatly improved
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end up ahead of last year.
Ott is a smart baseball player who
knows his trade. He will have to
continue to spend money to rebuild
his ball club into a pennant threat.
He has made a good start. Dan
ning and Leiber are close friends
and will do their best.
The Giants may have found the
trail back. It would be great news
to the old-timers who remember
McGraw’s Giants of 1905.
—Buy Defense Bonds—
Bowling— the Right Way
By LOWELL JACKSON
(This is one ot a series of lessons in bowl
ing by Lowell Jackson, one of the country's
outstanding bowlers. Mr. Jackson has eighteen
300 games to his credit and has a 12-year
league avetage ol 210.)
_
‘ln the right of the head pin*
STRIKE BALL. Always try to
prevent your ball from striking the
headpin too full, or from crossing
over in front of the headpin. A
cross-over ball, you will learn,
leaves pins on the right side of the
alley—that is, spares which are
harder to make on the second de
livery.
The strike-ball bowler concen
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Make an effort to roll your ball
directly at the 5 pin through the
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the foul line.
In the future, you will release
your ball from this spot every time
—when you are seeking strikes—
rolling it at exactly the same angle
and using the same amount of speed
and finger and wrist action.
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SPORTS SHORTS
<l. Mickey Heath will be assistant
to Manager Charley Grimm of the
Milwaukee Brewer baseball club in
1042.
fl. Paul Hinkle is the envy of many
a football coach. He is serving his
sixteenth year as head mentor at
Butler university.
4L Notre Dame, in defeating North
western 7 to 8 this season, divided
its running attack among three
olayers. They were Juzwik, Ber
.elli and Evnns.
THE COSTILLA OBMuippat
Pals
By JOHN M. HENRY
(McClure Syndicate—WNU Service.)
LfRANKIE and Freddie were the
* two best pals anyone could ever
imagine. Why, over there, in the
war, they shared fags, even if there
was only one between them, and
shell holes and all of the dirt and
grime that went with the conflict.
When they had returned to this
country and had become accus
tomed once more to the wind blow
ing up their trouser legs (after the
putts had been unwound, you know)
they continued to share. It was just
‘‘Frankie and Freddie, fifty-fifty,” as
one of them said one night in
France, or somewhere. They couldn’t
exactly remember where but itdidn’t
matter to them anyway.
They shared sorrows and dollars
and a rather moderately priced
room. They recommended each
other to employers and hostesses,
and agreed that the one with the
heaviest date should have the clean
est shirt.
In due course of time, Frankie
ran for the city council and was
elected with the help of extra votes
Freddie brought in from some
where. In exchange for his services
Freddie became a city contractor.
OK, yes, it was always Frankie
and Freddie, fifty-fifty through
days of Damon and nights of
Pythias.
But there comes a time in every
man’s life when certain things can
not be shared. You’re right. Her
name was Margaret, but her friends
called her Marg. She was the kind
of girl who snaps her fingers and
stamps her feet when she dances.
For a while all three were content
just to be in each other’s company.
The day when they realized that
they couldn’t go on merely being
friends with her found them in
Frankie’s city council chambers dis
cussing the situation in a manner
as becomes two of the best pals in
the world. It was Freddie who
suggested away out.
“It’s a cockeyed cinch we can’t
share her,” he said. “Let’s cut the
cards.”
In France they had faced a simi
lar situation when they had to de
cide which one of them captured the
prisoner the colonel wanted, and for
which a medal was to be given.
Only that time they flipped a franc.
“Sure,” Frankie agreed, “high
takes her, O. K.“
And Freddie, being a good pal,
insisted that Frankie should be the
first.
Frankie turned up a queen. To
be exact, it was the queen of hearts.
“You cut a queen to get a queen,”
Freddie laughed, but not without a
certain tenseness because, after all,
there were only two cuts higher than
this one, and Marg really was quite
desirable.
Freddie’s hand shook a trifle as
he reached for the cards. There was
a death-like silence in the room. As
he lifted his fingers with the paste
board rectangles in them, they
trembled even more.
“You cut an ace—to give a queen
an ace,” Frankie commented, fol
lowing his good old pal’s cue.
Frankie extended his arm and
they solemnly shook hands. He felt
no remorse, for what he had lost
his friend had gained.
Freddie and Marg settled in the
town, and brought up, in due time,
Freddie Jr. and Frankie and little
Olivia. During this time Frankie
and Freddie still remained the best
of friends. On special occasions
like Christmas or Thanksgiving.
Frankie always shared the day with
the littie family. The children called
him “Uncle Frankie” and their joys
knew no limit whenever he came
to see them.
Marg? She became the kind of
mother any girl who snaps her fin
gers and stamps her feet when she
dances becomes after three chil
dren, lonesome nights and futile
diets. She was irritable and dissat
isfied. In short, she became what
might be termed a nagging wife.
As time went on Frankie’s visits
to the small cottage grew fewer
and fewer. Eventually he quit go
ing and, instead, Freddie Sr. came
to his room every night.
Life continued and often Freddie
Sr. wondered what they meant when
they said that November 11 had end
ed the fighting. He began to think
that he would rather have a continu
ation of France.
One particularly bad evening
Marg was expounding:
“. . . Another thing wrong with
you is that you don’t take any in
terest whatever in your kids. You
never advise them. You never talk
to them. You never—”
Freddie Sr. leaned forward, a
queer light in his eyes.
“Come here, son,” quoth he gent
ly to Freddie Jr. The lad obeyed
for it wasn't often that his father
talked to him in that tone of voice.
“Yes, dad?”
“Son I’m going to give you u lit
tle advice. When you grow up to
be a man—” He stopped and looked
straight at the wife he had won by
cutting the cards; then repeated,
"When you grow up to be a man,
never, never cheat at cards.”
Oculist, Optometrist
The difference between an oculist
and an optometrist is that an ocu
list is o physician who specializes
in the treatment of defects and dis
eases of the eye, while the optome
trist makes a scientific examination
of the eye for the purpose of pre
scribing glasses*
FORETHOUGHT
The following letter was received,
with the P rescnt ° a „ eolf coa '. from
his sister by a y ! man who was
away from home at Christmas on a
Vi "I am sending by post a golf coat,
which please a<*ept with love and
season’s greetings. As the brass
buttons are heavy, I have cut them
off to save postage.
Your loving sister, J.
“P.S.— You will find the buttons in
right-hand pocket of the coat.”
Strong Man
A man was boasting of his
strength, and how he had once
felled an ox by 0 Wow from his fist.
“That’s not bad, said a listener,
“but I once saw a chap knock down
a factory with one blow of a ham
mer.”
“Some Samson, that chap!”
sneered the boaster.
“No,” replied the other. ‘'He
wasn’t much of a chap to look at,
but he was a swell auctioneer!”
TOO TRUE
“Automobiles are so good now you
rarely see a driver squirming under
one of them as formerly.”
“True; it’s invariably a pedestri
an you see squirming under them
now.”
It's Easier
Bill wanted ta slip out of barracks
-^unofficially—to see his girl, and
he went to the sentry and stated
his case.
“Well,” said the sentry, ‘Til be
off duty when you come back, so
you ought to have the password for
tonight. It’s ‘ldiosyncrasy.’ ”
“Idio what?”
“Idiosyncrasy”
“I’ll stay in barracks,” said Bill.
He Looked It
The colored soldier had been peel
ing potatoes until his hands ached.
Turning to a fellow K.P. he said;
“What d’you suppose dat sergeant
mean when he call us K.P.?”
“Ah dunno,” replied his co-work
er. “But from de look on his face,
Ah thinks he meant Keep Peel
ing.’ ”
Tear 'Em Up
“I sent a dollar last week in an
swer to that advertisement offering
a method of saving one-half my gas
bills.”
“And you got—”.
“A printed slip directing me to
paste them in a scrap-book.”
Sob! Sob!
“Let me congratulate you. old
man—l’m sure you will always look
on this day as the happiest of your
life.”
“Er, but it’s tomorrow I am get
ting married.”
• Yes, I know that.”
PAYOFF
“So you wart: a raise, what for?”
“Well, boss, my rent’s up and my
car’s down.”
Problem
“I’ve eaten meat all my life and
I’m as strong as an ox.”
“That’s funny. I’ve always eaten
fish and yet I can’t swim a stroke.”
Command
“What did the editor say when
you took him your story entitled,
‘The Wishing Rug’?”
“He told me to beat it.”
Too Willing
“Don’t you think Miss Howler has
wonderful control of her voice?”
“No. 1 don’t. She sings every
time anyone asks her to.
The End
Elwood -Daddy, what’s a court of
last resort?
Daddy-Courting an old maid, my
boy.
I Love—
She— Are y° u f Qr >d of tea?
He— Yes; but I like the next let
ter better.
How True
ll>» *v AIIIU
"1 sow you out ol a club
very late lost night.
• Well, 1 *° come °ut some
time." ■
Custodian
Mrs. Knag-The devil never takes
a vocation.
Mr Knag—B be did, he d leav#
his proxy with you.
Schemers
Mollie— Pa. what’s a garden plot?
Pa— The bugs and worms planning
to eat your » lu ff up.
Naturally
ixaiuruiy
••Don’t you think she’s beginning
to show her »8o? ’
• Not voluntarily, I m sure.
FIRST-AID
to the
AILING HOUSE
By ROGER B. WHITMAN
(© Roger B. Whitman—WNU Service.)
Cleaning Rugs and Upholstery
COILED carpets, rugs and uphol-
stery can be cleaned by sham
pooing with soap jelly. Ordinary
soiling will come out easily, but oth
er methods should be used for obsti
nate and unusual stains. These
may call for professional work. Fur
ther, shampooing should be applied
only to fabrics of which the colors
are fast.
The jelly is made of chips or flakes
of pure and mild soap; the kind of
soap that is used for fine launder
ing. Four cups are put in a bowl or
wide-mouthed jar, and one cup of
water is added. The jelly will form I
within an hour. A portion of the
jelly is put into a mixing bowl and
beaten with an egg-beater, which
will raise suds as stiff as whipped
cream. Using a soft brush, jelly is
worked on the fabric in a space 12
inches or so across. After a few
minutes for the loosening of the dirt,
the space is wiped with a cloth
damp with clear water, and with a
stiffer brush, the nap is brushed
in its proper direction. An adjoin
ing space should then be cleaned.
The suds are so dry that upholstery
fabric will not be soaked, as would
be the case with soapsuds as usually
used. After cleaning, the fabric
should be quickly dried. A rug can
be supported on boxes and chairs,
so that air can get at the back as
well as the front.
wen da me ii uni.
Mounting Maps
There have been few times when
maps have been studied to the ex
tent that they now are; maps of Eu
rope, Africa, the Near and Far East,
as well as the parts of the world
not at present involved in war. For
a map to be useful, it should be
mounted on a stiff support. One
eighth plywood, is excellent. The
first step in mounting is to lay the
I map on the plywood, and to mark
; the positions of the four corners.
rThe plywood is then given a coat
of shellac on both sides and on the
edges. When this is dry, another
coat of shellac is applied, the map
is rolled up, and one of its ends is
laid down with the corners on the
marks. With the worker leaning
over the board, the rest of the map
is then thrown over the head, to be
supported by it. The rest of the
map is then quickly laid on the
damp shellac, and smoothed with
the two hands, which are free. As
soon as the map is down, it should ,
be gone over with a stiff brush, j
working from the center toward the j
edges, to push out air bubbles that
may have been caught. Should any j
remain, they can be disposed of
through a pin hole in the paper in
the center of the bulge.
Room Decoration
Question: A study used by four
people has a white ceiling; walls
are light blue, and window frames
are light yellow. Walls and ceiling
are dirty and should be done over.
The room is 11 feet square. In re
decorating, what colors would make
the room appear larger?
Answer: A light room will seem
larger than if finished in dark col
ors. Had I your problem I should
use one single light color for every
thing: ceiling and woodwork as well
os walls. My choice would be light
ivory or a pastel shade. Colors to
relieve the monotony could be in
curtains and upholstery.
Floor Cleaning
Question: Good oak floors are dis
colored and revarnished. How can
I clean them and make them light?
How can I clean stair treads? Sand
ing would be expensive.
Answer: At a hardware store you
can get an alkali powder to be
mixed with water that will take off
the varnish and the discolorations.
Directions on the label of the box
should be carefully followed.
Floor Finish
Question: What would make a
good finish for a newly sanded oak
floor? We dislike varnish.
Answer: Use a treatment called a
seal, which soaks into the wood and
becomes part of the surface, rather
than lying on it. Any good paint
store should have a sealing liquid.
If you want to, you can finish i*
with wax.
White Paint on Red
Question: How can I give a white
finish to a red seat without the red
coming through?
Answer: Take oil all present fin
ish with point remover, which will
also take out much of the red. The
remainder can be scaled in with one
or two coots of oluminunf point, to
be finished with white enamel.
Alcohol Stain
Question: What will remove white
spots left on my walnut bed by
spilled alcohol?
Answer: Rub with camphorated
oil, or use scratchless cleaning pow
der moistened with household oil,
rubbed on with your finger tip.
PATTERNS
SEWING CIRCLE
YES, a dress to*admire for its V
very fresh approach to the 1
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Pattern No. 1482-B happily over
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a vestee effect through the top, ex
tending as a slim waist treatment.
The softly gathered side pieces
permit easy roominess through
the bodice, the low pointed neck-1
line is youthful and flattering to l
the face. 1
L The skirt attached at a low
, waistline takes pounds away from
Uncle Phil
Says:
Collect in Happiness
Some men follow the vocation
they like best and never get
rich. They don’t seem to care.
Courtesy pays 100 per cent divi
dends even if you don’t get wait
ed on ahead of the man who
pounds on the table.
A gem of thought is often impaired
by a bad selling.
Or What You’re After
It’s not much good being a “go
getter” if you don’t know where
you are going.
The only thing that anger can make
belter is the arch in a cat's back.
Make the best you can of the j
worst you get.
Early Shorthand
l__ 1
The earliest record of on organ
ized system of shorthand dates
from the year 63 B. C., the age
of eloquence in Rome. At that
time a freedman and friend of
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Tiro, in- “
vented a system that was used in
recording the speeches of Cicero,
Seneca and others in the Roman t
senate. Tiro’s method was taught i
in the Roman schools, was learned t
by emperors, and remained in use t
for several centuries. 1
A CYCLE OF HUMAN BITTCRMIHT
Advertising gives you new ideas,
/\ and also makes them available
to you at economical cost. As these
new ideas become more accepted,
prices go down. As prices go down,
more persons enjoy new ideas. It
is a cycle of human betterment, and
it starts with the printed words
of a newspaper advertisement.
JOIN THE CIRCLE Q READ THE ADS
\ /
your hipline because of its adroit
piecing and weight-minimizing
smoothness at the sides and in
back. The dress may be finished
with short sleeves or sleeves of
the new “below-the-elbow” drape.
The style is ' suitable for silk,
rayon or wool crepes, for satin,
faille or romaine.
• • •
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1482-B is de
signed for sizes 34 . 36. 38. 40. 42. 44. 46
and 48. Size 36, *,i sleeves requires 4*i
yards 39-inch material. Send your or
der to:
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEFT.
Room 1324
311 W. Wacker Dr. Chicago
Enclose 15 cents In coins for
Pattern No Size
Name T*.
Address
High Time for Pert Miss
To Catch Up on Reading
Clifton Fadiman, in his book,
“Reading I’ve Liked,” warns the
layman against spending all his
time trying to keep up with the
latest books. He tells about one
of his old professors who sat be
side a pert young thing at a dinner.
“Professor,” she piped up,
“have you read so-and-so’s new
novel?”
He confessed he hadn’t.
“Oh,” she said, “you’d better
hurry—it’s been out over three
months.”
“Miss,” he said, “have you read
Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’?”
“Why, no.”
“You’d better hurry—it’s been
out over six hundred years.”
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Order a can of Clabber Girl
from your grocer today. You
will be amazed when he tells you
the price. You will be delighted
with your baking results.
You Pay
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\ M \\ but us*
n<? more
Result of Zeal
Through zeal knowledge is got
ten, through, lack of zeal knowl
edge is lostnet a man who knows
this double path of gain and loss
thus place himself that knowledge
may grow.—Buddha.