Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, April 04, 1946, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextMANAGER Eddie Dyer of the Cardinals has about all the Ditchers two teams could use. Your guess would be that Eddie has noth in to worry about. But the first section of any manager’s job is to worry about something. Two of Manager Dyer’s worries no w are Johnny Grodzicki and ■ . i; George Munger. Johnny Grodzicki, ”n| from Nanticoke, Pa., 11 is an ex-paratroop f.-i p er, who is still working on a shrap a i, |J nel wound in his M right le §- ip George Munger, S A passing the offi - 11 %mm cer’s school test in < the Pacific area, has made such a Eddie Dyer fi ne recorc j the army doesn’t want to let him go. The main point of this yarn is that Dyer believes both men could have ~ been two of the best pitchers in 9 baseball. “When I had Grodzicki at Colum bus in 1941,” Dyer says, “I thought he was the best minor league pitch er I ever saw. Six-feet-one, 185 pounds, he had what you might call everything. That season Johnny won 19 games and lost 5 when his rec ord might just as well have been 22 wins and 2 defeats. In addition to a fine arm he had both head and heart, but an uncertain right leg due to a shrapnel wound which has been healing slowly. But he is still undiscouraged. In shape Johnny might easily have been a 25 or 28- game winner. “George Munger, in my book, is one of the best pitchers in Cardinal history. In his last season with the Cardinals in 1944, Munger won 11 games and lost 3. But he was just beginning to find himself. He is now on duty in the Far East and I don’t know when we’ll get him back. Mun ger is another who might have led the league.” These two are not the only cases. The game through 1946 will give you many others from other clubs. Vets Will Dominate The pennant races of 1946 will feature largely returning players from the service forces. Among those I might mention are Bob Fel- Jler, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Hughson, Joe Gordon, Bobby Doerr, Bill Dickey, Phil Rizzuto, Johnny Mize, Hank Greenberg, Dick Wakefield, Spud Chandler, Charlie Keller, Johnny Beazley, Howie Pol let, Peewee Reese, Pete Reiser, Slaughter, Terry Moore, Dave Ferriss, Dom DiMaggio, and many, many more. It is from this ex-service list that you will find the pennant winners the leading hitters and the lead ing pitchers. They will dominate the double show. There will be others who were not in service who will Play good ball. Here is an example. In 1945, Snuffy Stirnweiss led the American league hitters with a season’s aver age of .309. Yet it is the opinion of many smart baseball men that it will take a mark of .360 or .370 to lead the punching parade this season in the junior circuit. I put this j query up to six American league veterans, including Bill Dickey and George Selkirk, who know their way around. There were four or five ■others from American league clubs. It was also their opinion that the 1945 winning mark of .309 wouldn’t finish in the first 12. Pitching Won’t Matter What about the better pitching that is coming in?” I asked. “I mean such men as Feller, Hugh- I son, etc.” 1 his will make little difference,” wm veteran answered. “Hitters like led Williams, Wakefield, Green- S )e ‘£’ DiMaggio, Keller and many f. if rs w *ll still keep on hitting the ■J* Ja ,. - Good pitching can wreck the m < mary hitter. But it never wrecks le . true hitter who knows how to a bat and get his hits. Ihe National league with Phil avarretta, Tommy Holmes and ! K;t , s was far ahead of the Ameri -1 ie ague last season. That won’t appen again. Watch and see. The merman league will take back its , a s P°t as the harder-hitting ague’ anc j j|. w ill h ave t 0 f ace m l! ng that is just as good.” ♦ * * s American Baseball p. one ca n shake Larry Mac frm dodgers’ owner, loose er j J 1‘ that baseball is head -01 , a , big boom in Latin Amer <mia that what we often call “The n ‘ ona ‘ Game” will soon be the vtn° n ,® ame °* Mexico, Panama, f zuela, Colombia, Cuba and oth tropical spots. answer is simple enough,” t Ur( , la Jz says with emphatic ges arp ■ T* 16 kids of these countries rs^ Daseball cra zy. It is the only IS V m ° st them want to play. It to trfii° S ame most of them care n abou t‘ Their knowledge of gi] . a today is amazing. I’m not in . , sln S . about this, for I’ve been (.. T ie m iddle of at least part of it. noc ci ui my mind this will be the best i jS le build-up for any good r *W ri g ‘‘ ° r Policy for Latin American o onri . s b*P ; Baseball could do more I ™ s respect than all the dip p we could ever assemble. ill $ x S WESTERN YARNS IN THE MAKING . . . John 11. Latham, left, writer of Western yarns for the pulp magazines, gets material for future stories from “Slim” Haynes, town marshal of Rockport, Texas, Latham chose Arkansas county, near Corpus Christi, as ideal place to gather ma terial. The region is famous for its tomatoes, cucumbers and grapes as well as oyster beds, shrimp fisheries and oil wells. ALL-MAIL FLYING PACKET , . . The working section of the mail plane which will be outfitted with specially designed, lightweight equipment for sorting airmail in flight. No such facilities for speedy handling have ever been installed in a plane before. The mail would be sorted by one or two clerks in middle of plane. Bags of storage mail, bulk mail and registered mail would be kept forward and in rear section. LIE VISITS PRESIDENT TRUMAN . . . Trygve Lie, secretary gen eral of the United Nations, who arrived in the U. S. for the meeting of the security council in New York, is shown as he conferred with President Truman and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes at the White House. One of the first problems with which he will have to deal is the charges filed by the Iranian government against Russia. RUSHING THE FOOTBALL SEASON . . . Villanova college, Phila delphia, has started spring football practice with its biggest turnout i since 1941. Left to right are Richard Janson, Burgenfleld, N. J.; Art . Resher, Sharon, Pa.; Ed. Siesla, West Warwick, R. 1., and A1 LUwa, Camden, N. J., who are all candidates for backfield positions. Mo«t colleges will not start spring training until afUr Easter. THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA NEW U. S. S. R. PRESIDENT . . . Nikolai M. Shvernik, former vice president, has been elevated to the presidency of the U. S. S. R. at a joint session of the Supreme Soviet parliament at Moscow. President Kalinin resigned be cause of poor health. ■ J; I ARMY’S ADMINISTRATIVE CHIEF . . . Maj. Gen. Edward F. Witsell, who relieved Maj. Gen. James Alexander Ulio as adju tant general of the army. General Witsell is a veteran of many over seas assignments. ’ v . S||P '/i - ■ Wm I * , M “CASTE BOARD” . . . Col. Rob ert H. Neville, New York City, former “Stars and Stripes” editor in Italy, has been named to the six-man board to study “caste system” in the army and recom mend changes. . ■' aSSSK ;> jffiSndbMK -a i«|pSß|||w ' /r"' A Af FAMED EDUCATOR NOW BLIND . . . Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president emeritus of Columbia university, New York City, who was recently stricken blind, shown as he was led from meeting with Winston Churchill. IRAN OBJECTS . . . Ambassador Hussein Ala of Iran has announced the filing of formal protest against the Soviet Union for continued oc cupation of that country. Ala was the first ambassador from Iran to the U. S. P'-" < vw~t» w . - •y ; !j^- < yyr- jlLiwll i.—~~t CATHEDRAL SPIRES . . . Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, where annual sunrise services have been held for 25 years. Top pic ture shows the famous rocky spires; below, the chorus of 250 voices. Each year Easter sunrise services from the Garden of the Gods are broadcast to the nation. In These United States Garden of Gods Provides Natural Easter Cathedral By Edward Emerine WNU Features More than a quarter of a century ago, the Rev. A. W. Luce, pastor of the Central Christian church of Colorado Springs, was walking and meditating in the Garden of the Gods, his Bible in his hands. When he sat down he opened to the Book of John and 1 read, “Now in the place where he was crucified, there was a garden—there they laid The Reverend Luce looked about him, saw the picturesque Garden of the Gods in a new light, and an idea was born. He talked to other pastors, and they offered their co operation. The first annual Easter Sunrise service was held. This year, in a church fashioned more than a million years ago by nature, thousands of worshipers will gather for the 25th annual Easter sunrise service. As the first shafts of sunlight are reflected from snow capped Pikes Peak, a choir of 250 will lift their voices in a song that reverberates from pinnacle to pin nacle among the red rocks and spires. There will be 20,000 or more peo ple in the Garden of the Gods on Easter morning, but millions more will hear the service in their homes, for it is carried over a nation-wide radio hookup. Near the monumental cathedral spires, three crosses have been erected. Here will stand the trum peters who call the assembly to wor ship. A few hundred yards away, at the base of South Gateway rock, which is more than 300 feet high, the services will be held. The service again will be predom inantly musical with the tones of an electric organ providing the back ground. A 250-voice a capella choir from Colorado Springs will feature the program. Traditional with the service is the well known tenor, Ber nard Vessey, who will sing Knapp’s “Open the Gates of the Temple.” During the past 25 years, millions of people have attended the sunrise service. They have faced the giant rocks and listened to the choir in nature’s great auditorium, acous tically one of the most perfect. All plans for the Easter sunrise service in the Garden of the Gods are handled by the Colorado Springs ministerial alliance. | v- % FLOWERS . . . Picked in Dixie and rushed by airplane to north ern cities, these flowers don’t have a chance to wilt. Scene on J. Swart’s farm near Wilmington, I N. C. Church Ships Heifers to Devasted Areas Approximately 1,000 heifers from the United States have been shipped to the devastated areas of Europe by the heifer project committee of the Church of the Brethren in order to provide fresh milk for children and to rebuild depleted herds. Since the committee was set up in June, 1942, contributions of live stock have increased steadily, and plans for 1946 envision sending more than 2,000 animals abroad. Fami lies in Belgium, France, Greece, Holland and Poland have received > RARE . . . The “magnolia camp bcllii” held by Katie McGuire of San Francisco is the only one to bloom in all America. It was grown at Golden Gate park ar boretum, San Francisco. This plant is native to India. War Souvenirs To Take Lives For Long Time GREELEY, COLO. Guns and other souvenir weapons brought back to their homes by G.l.s will be killing United States citizens for* the next 20 years, G. E. Damon ol Colorado state college of education believes. Damon is a firearms expert. Basing his prediction on studies he has conducted on souvenir enemy weapons, Damon believes the average American’s lack of knowl edge of dangerous weapons and carelessness with firearms will take many lives in the future. Recently a 14-year-old boy came to Damon with a shotgun and asked how to open it. The boy’s father had given him the gun but had neglect ed to instruct the lad in its use. One of the most dangerous weap ons is also one of the most popu lar to come from Europe. It is the Walther P-38 pistol. The army has records of many hundreds of cases of wounds inflicted on the person who uses the pistol, Damon said. The locking lugs in Japanese rifles are made of metal that is too soft in some cases and too brit tle in others, he said. They can’l stand much strain and consequently are dangerous even if handled by “experts.” Under no conditions should American - made ammuni tion be used in captured arms. The best way to insure safety is to keep enemy weapons only as souvenirs and, in most cases, nevei use them, he said. most of the donated heifers. CattU are donated by many people who are not members of the Church ol the Brethren. In January 171 heif ers were sent to Czecho-slovakia. Usually a group of farmers band together, under Brethren or othei leadership, and provide a shipment of four or more animals. Thi heifer project committee in Nappa nee, Ind., is notified and takes can of the final arrangements. The oven seas shipping of the donated animall is handled by the UNRRA.