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Ijj the Yankee clubhouse they
were talking about the fastest
pitcher. The argument got down to
Lefty Grove and Bob Feller. I ran
jn m y nomination —a fellow named
Walter Johnson.
“I never batted against Johnson,’*
Bill Dickey said, “but my vote goes
for Grove when he
can see Feller’s^fast
never saw Grove at
Bob Feller. He is * _
fast enough for me. Grantland
Sometimes too fast.” Blce
I still stick with Johnson. One
answer is that Big Barney pitched
more shutouts and had more strike
outs than any pitcher in baseball—
-113 shutouts, if I recall the exact
figures. And Johnson had no chance
to ease up with a weak-hitting club.
Also every hitter in those days knew
a fast one was coming, but they still
couldn't hit the Big Train.
“I guess Johnson, with that rec
ord, gets the call,” Dickey said.
The Detroit Mystery
Here’s another angle few fans fig
ure out. I asked one of the Tiger
stars how he accounted for Detroit’s
sudden rise from a sixth-place pick
to a pennant contender, and then the
mid-season slow-up prior to the final
surge.
“Nature,” he said. “In the spring
we were afraid of Dick Bartell’s legs
and Charlie Gehringer’s legs and
back. But we happened to get a
damp spring which ran into June.
We had soft ground to work on until
July. This gave both
veterans a chance
to save their legs.
Then the sun baked
f ence this makes to
■ older legs.”
“This is true
y. M enough,” Bartell
J|r v< s -\ told me. “I was a
kid again as long as
I had soft ground
Dick Bartell under m Y feet - But
these hard, baked
out diamonds are rough on your legs.
I could begin to feel the difference
in a few days—sore ligaments, sore
feet.”
Bartell was one of the main fac
tors in Detroit’s early summer
charge. Both his spirit and his play
were major factors in the Tiger
drive. And the same goes for Geh
ringer, who stands out as one of the
great second basemen of all time.
When these two begin to skid the
Tiger infield began to look porous.
“Figure this one out,” one of the
Yankees said. “We all know the
value of big, powerful hands in base
ball. Hands like Wagner’s and La
joie’s—but one of the best infielders
I’ve seen in a long time has the
smallest pair of hands in either
league.”
“Meaning whom?” we asked.
“Boudreau, the Cleveland short
stop,” he answered. “Boudreau has
extremely small hands. They are
delicate looking. But I don’t know
of a better shortstop anywhere to
day. He has been one of the main
reasons for Cleveland’s success.
When he gets either hand on a ball
it sticks with him.”
/ he Eternal Argument
“I’ll tell you something,” one of
the Cleveland veterans said. “Old
timers are always talking about the
play of the stars who once made the
headlines. They talk about a more
scientific game. I’d like to see
some of these old-timers handle the
ball they hit at you today—infield or
outfield.
“The game today is twice as fast.
This modern ball comes at you like
a rifle shot many times. You can’t
afford to lose a split second. The
same is true in the outfield where
line drives come whistling by. It
takes much tetter starting speed to
handle the new, faster ball, no mat
ter what position you play. Those
old-timers were lucky when it came
to handling a much slower ball, one
that gave you more time to cover
your ground.
“Baseball today is far harder on
the nerves. You have to be alert
every second a map is at bat. You
are tense all the time in any close
game. The old-time game may
have been more scientific, but the
game today is largely a matter of
speed and power.”
Pitchers vs. Hitters
-he clubhouse chitchat drifted
around to the comparative value of
Pitching and hitting.
If you had your choice,” I asked
one of the veterans, “who would you
ake—Ruth, Cobb, Wagner and Foxx
~or Johnson, Alexander, Feller and
Urove— each at his peak?”
I don’t have to wait on that one,”
e said. ‘Td take the four pitchers.
. ve m e those four pitchers and I’ll
you any four big hitters you
ought name in any baseball league,
anywhere.”
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
nOSALIND RUSSELL, who
Av considers Columbia her
lucky lot, has been signed to
play the feminine starring role
in that studio’s new comedy,
“This Thing Called Love,” a tale
of a six months’ trial marriage
which goes on the rocks before
it is well launched. Miss Russell
will be seen as a brisk and
competent insurance executive
(and let’s hope she won’t over-act,
as she sometimes does) and Melvyn
Douglas, playing opposite her, will
be a mining engineer.
A few years ago the beautiful
Rosalind was borrowed by Columbia
for the title role in “Craig’s Wife,”
an unsympathetic part, as you’ll
probably recall, but in it she proved
i. v:-.
ROSALIND RUSSELL
Bo conclusively that she could act
that the picture gave her a place at
the top. She scored another Colum
bia triumph as “Hildy Johnson” in
“His Girl Friday.”
Two daughters of famous football
coaches are up for roles in “Tillie
the Toiler”; they are Marcia
Shaughnessy and Annie Lee Stagg,
and were suggested by no less a per
sonage than Maude Adams, the
famous actress, who coached them
at Stevens college.
The 52.6 second kiss record set by
Ann Sheridan and George Brent in
“Honeymoon for Three” brought re
actions of all kinds from here, there
and elsewhere.
A Los Angeles laundry asked for
the handkerchief used by Brent to
wipe off Miss Sheridan’s lipstick, of
fering to launder it for nothing. An
inventor in Indianapolis asked Brent
to be the first to try his new lipstick
remover, A clock manufacturer in
quired what kind of watch was used
to time the kiss. A New York pro
moter telegraphed a $5OO offer to the
pair if they would officially open a
“kissathon” by repeating the per
formance.
And then a woman’s club in To
peka, Kan., passed a resolution rec
ommending that endurance kissing
be banned on the ground that it is
unhygienic. And countless males be
tween the ages of 17 and 60 wrote
in, volunteering to take over Brent’s
next assignment of that kind for
nothing.
When young Betty Brewer was
working with him in “Rangers of
Fortune” Fred Mac Murray taught
her to croon. Since then she has
been rehearsing her sister and broth
er and a little neighbor girl in a
quartet which she calls “Betty Brew
er and Her Playmates,” and it’s so
good that an advertising agency may
put them on the air this fall.
As old as radio is the annoying
production problem of performers
kicking the microphone stand or
striking it with their hands if they
make gestures while on the air. If
a grating sound comes from your
receiving set, that’s probably the
reason.
Cecil B. DeMille thought he’d
solved the problem for his radio
theater last year, by using a hang
ing microphone—but without a base
stand to guide them, actors bumped
their heads into the mike. (Glut
tons for punishment, these actors!)
Undaunted, C. B. went to work
again. And this year when the cast
assembled for the theater’s first pro
duction, “Manhattan Melodrama,”
with Myrna Loy, William Powell,
and, of course, Don Ameche, they
found that a circular guard rail had
been built under the mike. That
suited them perfectly—they could
rest their scripts on it.
ODDS AND ENDS
|j "Most Inspirational Extra of the Year ”
is the title bestowed on Doris Davenport
hy the Hollywood Studio Club, because
she rose from the extra ranks to the
feminine lead in ‘‘The
n Paramount will spend $250,000 on
launching “North West Mounted Police
_all for advertising, publicity and an ex
ploitation campaign. ,
C Susanna Foster, starlet of Paramount s
“ There's Magic in Music, was all ready
to leave for a vacation in Kearney Neb.,
when her dog, Rex. was struck by an
automobile. She unpacked her trunks
and abandoned her plans, to slay at home
until Rex recovered.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY. GEORGIA
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‘SCHOOL DAZE, SCHOOL DAZE’
The public schools have opened
again and millions of children give
up playing outdoors and start fooling
in the schoolroom.
* ♦ •
They had a lot of fun during the
vacation, but weren’t anywhere
near as idle as they will be when
they get back to their studies.
• * •
Whether the children have been
getting the right sort of education
is now a question agitating many
nations. That many of the weak
nesses in social systems are due to
emphasis on the wrong things in
school is widely charged. France
declares, through Marshal Petain,
that its public school system was “a
lie,” and says that from now on
schools will teach “respect of the
human individual, the family, soci
ety and the nation.”
• • ♦
France has blamed about every
thing else for its defeat, and it may
be stretching a point to blame the
schools, but this department thinks
a little shaking up of the American
public school system wouldn’t do us
any harm.
* * *
If Uncle Sam’s schools are teach
ing American boys and girls respect
for the family, society and the na
tion, a lot of the kids are not listen
ing. (There we go preaching
again.)
• * *
How about getting back to the old
fashioned days when school was
B opened with
prayer and the na
tional anthem,
with teacher sup
plying the inspir-
The schools are
instructing the
kids in dates that
don’t matter, his
torical episodes
that they will nev
er remember and
various subjects
which will be of
little use to ’em.
The only exam
they pass quickly is the one which
asks, “What was Jimmy Cagney’s
last picture?” “Name four night
clubs most often ’mentioned in the
press,” “What six movie stars were
divorced in the last 10 days?” and
“Has mommer developed a system
to beat bingo yet?”
• * *
The three Rs would seem to be
Robinson, Rooney and Romero.
* * *
Of course, the schools may not be
entirely to blame for the fact that
little boys grow up into men who
yawn as a veterans’ parade passes,
give a sloppy salute to Old Glory and
say “So what!” when told that
democracy is in danger.
• • ♦
The old folks at home have some
thing to do with it. Pop never read
the Declaration of Independence,
and thinks Magna Charta is a new
screen actress.
* • *
And mom is too busy between
bridge, the screen scandals, bingo
and her efforts to get the right face
cream that she isn’t much help to
the kids either. (So we hear.)
♦ * ♦
FRATERNITY BROTHERS
“I’ll take him on!” cries Paul
McNutt;
Says Wendell, “Paul, my eye!”—
Biff! Bang! They’re merely broth
ers in
Old Beta Theta Pi.
• * «
RIMES IN HEAVY TRAFFIC
Shed a ten? for Margie White,
She signaled left . . . and then
turned right,
—A. G. Odell.
* * *
Bandaged up is Gus Q. Bray—
He said he’d fix his brakes “some
day.”
—K. L. T.
* « *
Gatti Casazza died in Italy the
other day at 71. He had been direc
tor of the Metropolitan Opera in New
York for 27 years, and before that
was director at La Scala. Gatti was
a glamorous figure in the days when
the world not only felt like singing,
but sang and even paid money to
hear others sing. He must have
been pretty unhappy lately.
• • *
Kathryn Holhlman Frank defines
an optimist as a man who kept his
sunglasses in his hand during the
last two weeks in August.
♦ » *
The explanation of the hour: He
was going to get married anyhow
this summer.
• * •
The new France is talking of
adopting the “family vote” system
of franchise, under which a man
has as many votes as there are in
his immediate family. The French
have something there that we might
copy on this side of the ocean. Imag
ine the rush of party leaders to take
Pap Dionne to the polls!
New York has a new milk-bottle,
shorter, lighter and “gurgle proof”
whatever that may mean. If it still
holds notes to the milkman it is okay
with us.
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for September 29
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
oermission.
THE USE AND ABUSE OF
WEALTH
LESSON TEXT-Proverbs 11:24-31; Luke
16:11-13.
GOLDEN TEXT—Lay up for yourselvee
treasures in heaven.—Matthew 6:20.
Money—its making and using—is
a matter which constantly concerns
all of us as long as we live in this
world. It is the medium of ex
change whereby the labors of one
man may be exchanged for the la
bors of another, in the purchase of
goods and services. It may be used
to send a messenger to the ends of
the earth with the good news of
salvation or, on the other hand, it
may be the ready instrument to de
stroy both body and soul of those
who abuse it. Man may have mon
ey, and be a blessing, or money may
have a man, and be a curse.
I. The Right Spirit in the Use of
Money (Prov. 11:24-26).
What a man does with his money
is only a reflection of what he is in
his inmost life. The spirit which
withholds unless there is a return
to itself in pleasure or profit is a
selfish and ungodly spirit. To at
tempt to present one’s self before
the world as a follower of Christ
and to have that attitude toward
what one possesses is to deny by
one’s acts the testimony of one’s
lips.
Not all “scattering” (v. 24) is
commendable. It is possible to be
careless and wasteful, and that nei
ther honors God nor helps our fellow
men. Then, too, a man may scat
ter liberally, as the farmer does
when he sows seed, knowing that he
will have a richer harvest for him
self. That is only a different type of
selfishness.
The man who knows “God, that
giveth to all men liberally” (James
1:5), scatters not only his money,
but his riches of mind and spirit in
his life and service. He gives him
self and what he has to God—and
to man as he serves God—and rich
is his reward. In sad contrast is
the man who keeps his possessions,
but finds that withal he has only
barren leanness of soul and life.
11. The Good and Bad Use of
Money (vv. 27-29).
The man who looks for good finds
it, and the one who looks for trouble
finds that, too. That is true in the
use of money as well as elsewhere
in life. One way to end up in cer
tain disappointment is to put your
trust in money, for, while it opens
many doors, it cannot open the door
to heaven, and, while it can buy
most things, it cannot buy health
and happiness. To seek good, seek
the Lord and His righteousness, and
you will “flourish as a branch.”
You may not have the riches of this
earth, but you will prosper in those
things which are of eternal val
ue. You will be wise in the conduct
of the affairs of your own house
(v. 29) and life, because you ara
“wise of heart.”
111. The Best Use of Money (vv.
30, 31).
One of America’s leading busi
ness analysts and statisticians said
some years ago that the best invest
ment of funds was in the winning of
souls to Jesus Christ. Had man ex
pended the money which should
have gone for that purpose, at the
right time, we might have been
spared the spending of billions of
dollars for war in these latter days.
“He that is wise winneth souls”
(v. 30 R. V.). “And they that be
w se shall shine as the brightness
ol the firmament; and they that turn
n any to righteousness, as the stars
for ever and ever” (Dan. 12:3).
The glory that awaits the believer
in this life and in the life to come,
as well as the judgment which inev
itably must fall on the sinner (v.
31), should urge us on in the winning
of souls. But even more than that,
the love of God, and “the love of
Cnrist” which “constraineth us” (II
Cor. 5:14), should cause us to put
ourselves and our money into His
hands, to be used in the winning
of souls. Could there be any better
use of money?
IV. The Test of the Use of Money
(Luke 16:11-13).
Ultimately each one of us must
give an account to God of the man
ner in which we have lived. These
verses and others indicate that one
of the matters for which we must
answer is the manner in which we
have used or abused the money or
other possessions with which God
has blessed us.
We are stewards, and only as we
demonstrate our faithfulness and
wisdom in the use of the “unright
j eous mammon” (v. 11); that is, the
1 money of this world, can God en
! trust us neither here or in the world
j to come with His true riches.
1 Let us be very clear about this
I point today. It does make a vital
j difference to your spiritual life how
you regard money. You cannot sep
arate your life into compartments,
with a spiritual Sunday religion and
a do-as-you-please weekday, busi
• ness or social life. The dollar you
spend on Monday is of as much con
cern to God as the dollar you put in
the offering on Sunday.
A Book Shelf for
The Study Corner
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
CCHOOL again, and this sketch
shows a quiet study corner for
one girl. It is all very gay in
tones of golden yellow and green
and was made almost entirely of
things already on hand—even
down to the hooked rug.
The hanging book shelf doesn’t
really hang at all. It is made of a
box screwed to the wall, and if
you never thought of slip-covering
a book shelf, here is proof of how
GREEN AND /l
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SIDE CURTAINS EXTEND L JJ W [.■'/.
I OVER FRONT —* l -S
YELLOW BIAS BINDING ' CERlU
smart one will look, especially if
it is matched with a chair covered
in the same material. The legs
of the chair are painted green and
so is the old kitchen table which
has now become a desk. The yel
low tone is repeated in the blotter
and an old brass lamp and other
desk things carry out the green
and yellow color scheme,
* * *
NOTE; One hundred sixty of these
homemaking articles by Mrs. Spears
have been printed In five booklets, each
32 pages. The stocking cat and doll on
the shelf are in Book 3; directions for the
hook rug are in No. 5; also descriptions
of the other booklets. Bookleis are 10c
postpaid and should be requested direct
from Mrs. Spears. Send order to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford Hills New York
Enclose 10 cents for each book
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