Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, March 13, 1941, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Textr os ANGELES. The original L ourpose of spring training trips from the snow banks of the North mto the sun of the South was to get p a*y ° S * expe n s e s through an extend- Grantland Rice ed and extensive ex- . hibition schedule that is beginning to run beyond all reason. “When winter comes,” as the late Mr Shelley remarked, “can spring be far behind?” Well, "the hounds uf spring are on winter’s traces,” and the hour of the sunland march is here again. Not so much to con dition ball clubs, but to play from 35 to SO exhibition games before the season opens —exhibition trips that cover thousand of miles; one-night jumps; different types of playing fields, in shape or out of shape; and changing weather conditions that are none too helpful. Talk to the ball players about this. They’ll tell you. Especially the old timers who are working to get fading arms and fading legs ready for the long haul on ahead. They i are none too keen about the cold winds and the rains of late March and early April that insist upon ap pearing year after year above the deep southern belt. Another Angle When you face a daily competitive schedule of 154 games, one of the main handicaps ahead is staleness. The big drive usually comes in August and early September. But in too many cases ball players and ball clubs are worn down at that time. They have been hammering away at exhibition or championship games since early March. “I know,” Babe Ruth told me, “I could have had a much better rec ord for the pennant season if I hadn’t been forced to play in so many exhibition games. In my time I had to play in over 600 exhibition con tests, largely on the way north. That means four full seasons, where you were supposed to give all you had. I know I always did. I believe 20 games are all any club should play before the big show opens.” John McGraw told me the same thing some time before he died. “Twenty games are just about enough,” he said, ‘‘before you open any big league schedule. That still means more than 170 ball games in | a stretch.” His Giants played many more games than this because of the ex hibition money involved. McGraw 1 was thinking at the time of condi tioning a ball club for a pennant race—to have a team ready for the 1 stretch run. Not in terms of spring I training cash. 1 McGraw, who liked fight and fire, knew the curse of staleness. This is what a long exhibition schedule is likely to bring on. Ty Cobb’s Example Ty Cobb thinks along the same 1 lines. In talking to Ty a day or two ago the citizen of Menlo Park said, ‘ The best thing a ball player can do is keep in shape through the winter, either by hunting or playing golf. I know it never took me over two weeks to be ready for a big league season. I nearly always reported late for I never believed in those iong exhibition seasons from early March up to opening day. A good hall player doesn’t “rest” occasion ally, but earnestly wants to win ev ery game. Forty or more exhibition games are entirely too many. } “A ball player’s main job should ae to keep his legs in condition. You can do that only by working them— hy walking and running. They used 10 tell me I’d wear my legs out. But a t least 1 tried to travel at top speed 1 managed to last 24 years. If j > hadn’t practically lived on my legs all the year around I would have dropped out long before I did.” I Hest Pitchers I n discussing the greatest pitchers j p time Cobb still believes that j -a Walsh heads the list for any hve-year stretch. Ed’s five top years were rc aiKahle,” Ty says. “I recall one jear when he won 40 games and saved at least 10 or 12 others. He 'orked in 66 games that season. I t ,' ven a Walsh could not keep up pace an y too long, so he had nt ? hance to ke ep going with such ' c f rs as Johnson, Mathewson, Al- { ander and others,” he added. n * don’t see how anyone could . r ’- e o greater all-time pitcher than h aiter Johnson. The Big Train more speed than any pitcher h «« threw a ball. He didn’t a I to be as smart as Matty or Alexander,-- Cobb continued. hitfin° nS i° n Was Patching for a weak hiri f”’ ~ ow' s c oring club and often I Stouts to win, Walter I o u k 1£ than a hundred shut ma - J llB time. 1 don’t know how I wpm , to 0 games he lost—but ther« scnrL P e ? ty of them - With a better h a . " C u .k * believe Johnson would Won 40 games a season.” I? WHO>S WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) MEW YORK.—Robert A. Lovett, New York banker and World war flying ace, gets the news spot light as a possible aviation pro v duction czar, r oung Financiers after two Are Spinning Our months’ serv- Defense Wheels ice with the war depart ment in which he has shown ex traordinary capacity for slashing red tape and getting things done. His father, Judge Robert S. Lovett, was head of the war industries board in the World war. When he was summoned by the war department, Mr. Lovett withdrew from the New York banking firm of Brown Brothers, Ilarriman and Co. A few months earlier, the also comparatively young James V. Forrestal, Mr. Lovett’s friend, and bracketed with him among the up-and coming young financiers, left the presidency of Dillon, Reed and Co, to become undersecretary of the navy. Years before, their Wall Street running mate, Aver ill Ilarriman, had moved into the Washington picture and just now appears to be pegged as the liaison between British and American business in the hastening crisis. There is a complaint from the bankers themselves that bank tnoney is on the sidelines in the de fense crisis, if that’s what it is, but at any rate the bankers are in the line-up, particularly the younger set, serving the army, the navy and the department of state, as above and in many other in stances. They let by-gones be by-gones. Mr. Harriman was an early convert to the New Deal, while Mr. Lovett is dead-set against it. But that’s all water under the bridge. Mr. Lovett and Mr. Harriman are both small-town boys, the former from Huntsville, Texas, and the latter from Beacon, N. J. Mr. Lovett, rather slight in stature, good-looking, an easy going, tactful executive, was graduated from Yale in 1918 and pursued postgraduate business studies at Harvard in 1920 and 1921. Then he took over where his father left off in running the Union Pacific, the Oregon Short Line, the Oregon-Washington and the St. Joseph and Grand Island railways, picking up a few important industrial direc torates on the side and keeping everything moving nicely. The Wall Street battalions of youth provide evidence of the many tributaries of specialized skill and experience feeding into democratic defense effort. * ALCHEMY brought on chemistry; astrology led to astronomy and now the forked hazel twig to “dowse” ground leads to the discov ery by one of Orchids Not Gold the world’s Diggers, but the most distin fj or set ail Finds It finished geo physicists that the horsetail plant of the mead ows locates gold, and perhaps stores up a bit for all comers. Dr. Hans T. F. Lundberg of To ronto is the scientist. He is a widely famed mining engineer of Swedish birth and education. Experimenting with various means of locating met i als deep in the earth, he worked through Sweden, Norway, Finland, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Canada and the United States. His success with “electrical prospecting” methods was sufficient to gain for him the gold medal of the Swedish Engineering academy in 1925, and to locate 14 profitable mines. But he needed a more accu : rate method and kept on the tail of the horsetail. The more gold in the ground, the more in the horsetail, with i even infinitesimal quantities to be detected by the spectroscope. Dr. Lundberg calls it the “geo botanical method.” Further more, suburbanites may get in on the profits, even if they don’t find a gold mine. A ton of horse tail, Dr. Lundberg figures, would yield 4 Yi ounces of gold worth §157.50 at current gold prices. This back-to-the-!and movement may come off yet. Dr. Lundberg was born in Malmo, Sweden, in 1893. He was graduat ed from the Royal Institute of Tech- j nology at Stockholm and later was a professor there. He came to Brooklyn in 1923, and formed the Geophysical Exploration Limited, ! which, exploring many countries, took over where the Willow-Wythe left off. He is highly certified in his profession and a member of many scientific societies. ) Incidentally, miners always look for iron wherever they find orchids. One would think they would be the , gold-diggers. HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUXST, D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) c ■’ - - 111 1 .'7 Lesson for March 16 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. THE LORD’S SUPPER LESSON TEXT—Luke 22:14-30. GOLDEN TEXT—As often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come.—l Corinthians 11:26. Old things pass away, and new things take their place—such seems to be the law of life. That which is useful and greatly desired fulfills its time of service and is set aside for that which takes its place. The change which occurred in our lesson shared this aspect, but was in reality so vital and fundamental that it merits our closest attention. The Passover feast had (since that great and awful night of Israel’s redemption out of Egypt’s bondage) pointed forward to the Christ and His cross as the fulfillment of the type of redemption by the * bedding of blood. But now the hour had come for Him to give Himself in death, and He set aside the Pass over (because it has been fulfilled) to establish the great Christian feast of remembrance—the Lord’s table, showing forth His death till He come. I. The Last Passover (vv. 14-18). Our Lord looked forward with in tense desire to the Passover which He now observed with His disciples, for it was the last feast of that kind recognized by God. All that it had foreshadowed of deliverance and hope was fulfilled in Him who now sat at the head of the table. He had moved forward with resolute purpose and desire to the day when His mission on earth was to be ac complished, and He was to become our Passover (I Cor. 5:7). The fact that He had looked for ward to it with desire does not in any sense minimize the deep dark ness of either Gethsemane or Cal vary. Remember that, when in the garden he faced that hour and thought of the possibility erf the cup being taken from Him, He said to the Father, “Not what I will, but what thou wilt.” Praying concern ing the same matter (in John 12: 27), He said, “Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Fa ther, save me from this hour; but for this cause came I unto this hour.” 11. The First Communion (vv. 19, 20), Taking the unleavened bread and the unfermented wine of the Pass over, which had just been observed by Him for the last time, Jesus es tablished a new feast, the Christian feast of remembrance, which we call communion or the Lord’s table. As we have already suggested, it is a feast of remembrance. “For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup ye do show the Lord’s death till he come” (I Cor. 11:26). At the Lord’s table His followers find spiritual strength in remembering His death for them, and they also find joy as they remember that He is to come again. In doing so they testify to the world that they be lieve in and cherish these truths. This feast is also rightly called “communion,” for down through the ages and until He does come the saints of God have at His table sweet communion, first of all with Him, and then with one another. We also note that our Lord spoke of the cup as “my blood of the new testament.” The word “testament” means “covenant.” The Lord’s ta ble therefore speaks of our alle giance to Him, of our loyalty to our Lord, and our devotion to His serv ice. The Christian Church therefore speaks of the communion service as a sacrament, a word taken from the Latin “sacramentum,” meaning oath, and essentially an oath of al legiance. 111. Betrayal and Strife (vv. 21- 30). Someone will say, “That point does not belong with the other two. Both the feast of the Passover vr.d the Lord’s Supper are for the joyful remembrance of deliverance and re demption.” The objection is well taken except for one thing—we are dealing with human beings as they are, not as they should be and could be by the grace of God. Here in the inner circle of the twelve there was one traitor. It seems impossible, but apparently Judas had maintained such outward conduct as to turn no suspicion in his direction, even though all along he had in his heart the blackest of treachery against his Lord. It is a sad and soul-searching fact which is here revealed, that it is possible for one to make a high profession of faith in Christ and even so to live as to give no cause for criticism, and yet to be unregenerate and in fact the enemy of Christ. What about the strife regarding position? Shame on us, for it still goes on in the church. Not even the remembrance of our Lord’s death and the reminder that He is coming again is enough to keep men from wanting to be greatest. I May the spirit of Christ get hold of some self-seeking Christian as he today sees Christ as the One whose body was broken and whose blood was shed for him. PATTERN STL] SEWING CIRCLE U Ifif I l ' , A /or 11/ |o « lm /o/ I Lih.aJ I wlt° \ 3 fl \A- 7fi<' 1 ~,/4 \ *[l **/jyW P U El JLf fc«r*\ ! 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Is there any temple in the world dedicated to the founder of another religion? 8. In what profession is a metro nome used? The Answers 1. David was the father of King Solomon. 2. In 1931, 3. Zachary Taylor. 4. Fifty-six years. The term of copyright is 28 years, with right of renewal for 28 years. 5. Soap. 6. Yes, eight have. I 7. The Mohammedan mosque in Damascus is named in honor of Jesus Christ. 1 8. Music (a device for marking time). ■ THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS GIVES YOU EXTRA MILDNESS, EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR 1/ Hym Q# r SLOW-BURNING \ Xmks I I CIGARETTE FOR ME* Bp '■ A,if M#Q > EVERY TIME. fl /</', ' i f CAMELS SMOKE W | I COOLER/ MILDER— j Pf k LESS NICOTINE \ £XTRA mud- k J vv / WITH PLENTY than the average of the 4 other I OF FLAVOR, g£~j|||| J|| tipjß .- largest-selling cigarettes tested * 1— less than any of them—ac- ; cording to independent scien- - - z ,*J 4.1 I r Champion Bowler Joe Norris title tests of the smoke Itself. 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