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PAGE TWO THE CHILtlCdTHE CONSTITUTION-TBIBUNE. CH 11 I MISSOURI FRIDAY, jurir ifc tls CwWIie Place AyuuiSt MdCOE Win Would Locttb Boost fa Race. Chilliest-he's Indians journey to Bevier Sunday afternoon to third-place Macon with a 'tie for that spot at stake should the locals come through with a win. But the first half cellar-dwellers from Macon iiave done an about-fatii are one of the toughest squads in the northern loop. lias several good hurlers-anoVcan pack a punch at the Jftktet The be-played at-Bevier becausetbta al Macon It'starts at leaving fram here the C.

12- o'clock at offices and Calhoun has -not announced in that he "pftclier in shape 's game here jtSbth Don Warren Settles -saw y's here lost his championship crown to the V.F.W. I stoppage TSre will haVe to take it from them. I expect it would fit better. It wouldn't bVso big now. I couldn't tell toy ihe lineup who was playing who.

-It-looked ttce the McCullys was playing the McCullys. 'Now I would of Meed to "of 3 seen the old "Hash" Web StcCuMy their soon he wouldn't know which sfde was his As they all incur- Bigha1s.it was no wonder trtica lost the crown. figures vfPete the Scientific Catfish at 20 Now if ever the ChU- licofhe diamond, I warrt Oncle Web to get all his crew together so Mike can give us a good game And then we will Jiave good-honest umps too, police protection arid bid Bones Lionberger.has promised to help assist the police and keep down pop bottfe throwing. You know Mike always wants the over there "wlffi hls-own umps I think that would-Jie too one-sided, truly, I done. Pete was on trial.

Though we didn't know that he hadn't been helping all he could with the production, we did know that he had outgrown our facilities. He was too big to get in the usual kegs we provided for the catfish to spawn in, and he seemingly would not build a nest for his mate in anything else. We had many more fish of the right size arid the food Pete needed to v. Sidelights Soon Bowie Comments on Weeds, Wives and Baseball In Unco, It's been some time now since Sam Bowe of Chula has commented on some of the caustic' remarks coming regularily from. Uttca and one Mike Clark.

brought a letter to let folk know she's still alive." In it. he. asks for a game and later he rajigements to get Simpson Park for a game with The letter follows: It was Tuesday night after dinner and raining a nice shower that I i thotwould.last.all craning. What a good time to hear a good ball game and maybe take a little nap between kind trf a late supper and get few weeds cfifi. vvlIW HplPPQII HI NMhlo Win 1-6 Rucker Scormt Winnino Run Aftor Stealing Two Bowrn; In Gcone Against Cards.

The Dodgers won another game last night from, the Cardinals by a score of 7 feiS, Rafting -th'eir win in a "sudden death' 1 finish in the last inning. The Cards started the game off, by adding lip five riiris in the first inning, hut they were to account for two hits in the melee. Tying i-flte 1 score 'at to in the i fourtii'inrnfig, the'Dodgers' Kuckeri him off to one saide and came barrelling in for the winning talked the matter over with him the final frame after he had and erv But about aU stolen two liases and Alien uncorked a wHd pitch. The Dodgers gpt' only two hits, ftjid "Officially oiU.y ten one wild BY A MORRIS Supervisor of Fish Hatcheries Missouri Conservation Commission When one's word is doubted about a friendship of 17 duration, then it's to do something though the Mend is a channel catfish. Such is what I decided when fellow members of the Missouri Conservation Commission showed dis- exist should be used for the others.

Belief that I had known Pete the Catfish for 17 years. They lifted then- eyebrows higher when I added an estimate that'Pete had been swimming in Missouri waters for about five years before we became pals at the Chesapeake State Pish fialchery, near Mt Vernon "How did I know that?" they asked politely, but firmly Well, in onSer to prox'e my big fish story, Pete has become a martry to No longer swim about, wiftj his "preened He had to go. I talked the matter over with for crawfish Never again he fan lake beds with his powerful tall to beat out a nest for his mate. Pete has become a laboratory specimen. His- big carcass is offering a rare means for scienctific study of age determination.

It all goes back to when Pete the Channel Catfish and I first met early tn 1933, at which time he weighed one and one-half pounds and was one of 32 of his kind I obtained from a friend who lived on the Osag'e river. I wanted to use these fish'In a try at raising channels. Now the day that he arrived, Ij didn't Pete any more attention tliat I gave 31 fish. Had I known Ms life span was going to be doubted, it Is very probable that I would right innings. good when wake up." libw when she says "Sammie" I know some ij TJiere, she was looking '-cat-vthe She says off and them weeds wotffcp -very tender ter this rain ajjid Very Now who- any than her.

I tried to cbmunce her ttcat I might get poslbnea and- maybe pitch. In the first game It wfc the Cubs all the way -over as they came wift on long eiid fef a 3 to scate. The.ibox scores: Cubs (S) Anderson. Zb .3. 3 3 3 3 2 England, 3(3 Sttnson, weetts, but, TM6 ing overj to-Harvey 'who won woni3.Ti.

raihi' ifo- i 'snd'irne can ftear white 1 "wSfcafe tfoufse Grace wpuM fell him when he woke HP that I iMefc- ttm Well goes out to 'the old" tree and there hangs ful scythe. Of courSe: sharpened and put ths shop, but at last I got started. The pretty well over by now and I thinks a circle then she can't soon I peeks around the corner and there she goes after the eggs, so I slips; ont-tJrfScuflsSl theWeels the farm and feUow, there -Itill -rhoi-e weeds in, flugrtight thkn'ybu rand I can local ball games, Fsee where Clark mas 2b Enpert. '11 lb AB 3 -2 ..2 1 2 2' si: i 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 It i i '0 i 0 0 .0 0 0 0 0 0 1' 0 0 ,9 0 c. tote.

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3b 2 Rucker, ib 1 2b 3 SchWAb, rf 0 1 Flowitjan. 2 .0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 I 2 0 i i ,3 0 0 '''12 2 5 Ixit On 4. Doffgcr's 6. Slolen: Bfees-CaWUi TfodRcfs 11. South Arizona's Picacho Peak i of the only battle of the Civil iVar fougiht-to Arizona.

Three Is jtoutid'l had to 'pVace'the palm of like to pat in'fen- othtr the-reminder In a corner of one of the offices, by its Bt the unusual rtat UJfTtpp of the griq. Part away so the club I s- "'-i ipped left hand in the correct position down the'shaft. Wfiett I uiquired th'is innovation, I was told that the club had Seen hanging around lor aria 5 jBffik 'tlfcy I -thought feey "were 'overlooking to 'niake rhy n'ow consistency. thought about him that day was that he was just about normal stream size, and the size to eat. He.

was long "and; rangy and with spofe.or• smatfvdots, which are usual on clwruiel cattish of tiiaJt siaifc 8 On that day he and the others Were placed in a one arid one-half acre rearing pond. I put nail kegs in for the fish to lay their eggs 'hi, ahS smarted con- on ti'oiighs and p'arapherh'aDa to hatch the expected cr'ops of eggs. Of course, I 'can't that Pete 'fathered of'trie 'three "spa whs' of eggs that wsrie laid in 'the kegs that year. But I like to thing he helped pfbdSce some of the 35,000 of his same'kind which grew to six inches in 1 length by the month of October. As a result of tftese 35,000 sota'e at which must have been sons'and Were afaie to get one of the country's first channel catfish hatcheries built in the United States at Chesapeake.

Pete wasn't one 'to cn'mb on a soap box and try to claim credit for all xtf that. -In fact, I think it all might have ended better, so far 'as Pete was concerned, if his friend, also had left his 'story untold. Pete liked Hatchery Life Very soon the first group of channels were obtained, Pete seemed to be in a class-by himself. He liked hatchery life. He the first to of the normal mele channel catfish 1 This head was much, broader than any other of his body, and he was 'even-ref-jri-ecl to as being that "chuckle 'headed cat." As is customary after a few years, his body started Itfsing the spots that are usual during the first year of his life.

He took on blue cast all over, especially chin and the inside of -his mouth. It was easy pick him out esch year as a male when we were the brood -stock iir j'vthe Ikkes according to sex, so many feiales and so many males of i water. season "passed. Each time the fish were handled Pete was noted as- the largest in the group. I am sure that he did his best to hold the clan together durin gthe war years, though production did Pete.

It is our custom to preserve the life history of our great men. Certainly Pete was a great catfish and deserved full recognition. So it was decided that his life history should be exposed. A last meeting was arranged to record some facts and figures, statistics that I thought fishermen would be interested in. Pete and I tried first to agree on his.

age. He didn't remember how old he was on the day we first met. We knew that he weighed one and a half pourrds, and from what I found out by watching his sons and daughters grow up, I made a guess that he would have been from three to five years old in 1933. Then we added on the seventeen years of our acquaintance and came up with an age of at least twenty years. i I put him down on the floor by the side of a yard stick and he lacked just two inches being as long as it was.

With difficulty, he was placed in a tub arid put on the scales. So he wouldn't clutter up the records with fractions, he obligingly made the scales go to exactly 21 pounds. Pete always had long whiskers. I am sure he looked out at their great with much pride. I decided they should be measured and found, that from the tip of one whisker to the tip "of the other was 19 'i; inches.

Even his mouth was huge and, in about how large a bait I could use in fishing for some of his brothers, I put a rule in it. mouth measured 5 inches across. BBS-Mow in. all beauty and surely Pete was a beauty if there ever was one. there is a waist measurement.

So, with a little argw- menj where Pete's waist was located, the tape was put around him and showed a stylish 20 inches around. Pete was modest, as is didn't like to have his picture tak- en. But, though he left one man with a bloody right hand and threw water on the other spectators, the pictures. Were taken. Story Gets Around to a Scientist When I began talking about my 20-year-old catfish, I met with skepticism at first.

Then my story got around to a scientist who is trying to determine the means of finding the age of channels by growth similar to the growth rings in trees. The catfish rings are in the horns and vertebrae. After'that I began to hear that Pete had a chance to prove niy fish story and also aid scientific research. He probably was the only catfish in Missouri with someone willing 'to vouch that he was over 20 years old. The only other way to get a 20-year-old channel on which any sort of age record has been kept, would be to rear one from babyhood.

If the growth rings coincided with my statement of his age, then Pete could prove my story and the scientist's theory. Moreover, Pete might bring a standard means for determining the age of catfish caught in our streams. Prom that, we would have knowledge of how fast our fish were growing, and of the type of water and food that aided their development. Well, Pete was practically voting age, so I stepped aside. He went to the laboratory instead of to a delightful Missouri stream.

This noble catfish gave his life for science, to bring about a better understanding of his brothers and sisters, children and grandchildren, whose lives thereby deserve to be lived in a stream rich in small frogs crawfish, minnows and other answers to catfish 'dreams. TO PLAY LUDLOW SUNDAY V. W. PLAYS TONIGHT The Mat-Heckle Garage sottball team from St. Joseph will invade- Ludlow Sunday evening -for a game with the Ludlow town team.

Both Dunn and McCully are slated to see mound action and a good game is expected. Game time is 8 o'clock. Midget All-Stars to Play Kansas City team Here Sunday Manager Billy Coleman announced this morning that the midget American League All-Stars would tackle another Kansas 3 and League team, the Eagles 47 squad, Sunday night at Simpson Park. In previous games, the All-Stars have lost three times. Coleman said the team would practice at Simpson Park on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.

The following boys have been selected by manager Coleman to represent the American League: Buel Hoyt, Don- nle Schooler, Dale Williams, Johnny Powers, Arnold Lyon, Bill Welch Clarence Kille, David Lotz, Ronald Ewing, 'Junior Case, Dean Kille Jimmie Patchett, Jack Hanson Junior Thompson and J. W. Shearer Rosen Is Using a Choke Grip In Bid for Hotoe Run Title Kid League Schedule for Next Week Pracllcr ScliiMtirl? Monday League Browns and Yankees, 9 o'clock Red Sox and Tigers, o'clock Tuesday Morn League Bnwris and Yankees, 9 o'clock. Red Sox and Tigers. 10:30 o'clock.

Wednesday League, 9 o'clock Dwarfs. 11 o'clock Thursday League, 9 i o'clock 11 o'clock. Friday League Brou-ns and 9 ff'clock lied Sox and T.Kcrs. 10:30 o'clock Came Tuesday Leacue Browns vs. Yankees.

6:30 o'clock Red Sox Tigers. 8:30 o'clock Thursday League vs. Pirate.s. o'clock Cardinals vs. Cubs.

8:30 o'clock. Friday Leajfue Re(i Sox vs. Browns. 6:30 Set for Kansas City August 8 to 11 Future baseball stars will be given an opportunity to earn placas In the Yankee organization when tryouts are held August 8th 'to -he llth in Blues Stadium, Kansas City. The tryouts are open to everyone between the ages of eighteen to twenty-one.

Prospective players are urged to make aipplication to Blues Stadium and they will be advised of their reporting date. Some of baseball's most famous stars will toe in charge of the tryouts. Heading the list of instructors will be Burleigh Grimes, former major league pitcher; Dutch Zwilling, former manager of the Blues and Joe Kutiel, present skipper of the Blues, assisted by his coach, Jimmy Gleeson. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League Detroit 5, Boston 1. Philadelphia 7.

Cleveland 2. Washington 3-3. Chicago 2-(t. St. Louis 3.

Xexv York 2 might'. National Lcagur Philadelphia 13, Chicago St. Lcu.s 13.. Brooklyn 3. Boston 5.

Pittsburgh 3 'night). Only pamt'5 scheduled. BROTHER ACTS EAST LANSING. Four sets of brothers are prqmineut athletically at Michigan State College. The 'Bender boys, George and Orris of Lakewood, are first string wrestlers.

The MakieLski yi? 1( -Don and- of Ann -Arbor. are star distance runners, as are Bill and Allen Mack of Paios' Park. III. Twins Bob and Bill Carey of, Charlevoix, are football, basketball and track performers. By JAMES B.

SIBBISON AP Newsfcatures out of a hofer cSfTee shopgirl Wichita, Kan. this spring, rookie Al Rosen of the Cleveland Indians bumped into Marsh Samuel, the ball team's publicist. "Heard the hews?" asked Marsh. Rosen hadn't. "Why, ken Keltner has been released, and you're going to open the season 'at third base.

Here's your chahce, boy." That stopped AI, for an instant. Then: "I won't nruff it, Marsh. This is the chance I've been waiting for. Excuse me, I'm going to call home." Idol in Minors The next 'team was on its pre -season exhibition road Rosen hit a'double; two days later, a home run. Whatever psychology may have been involved, Keltner's release seemed to do it.

Before that, Rosen had been a minor league idol and'a big league bust. Last year, for instance, he got his first real try with Cleveland and in 23 games batted .159. Then he finished out the season for San blega with an average of .319. Today, Flip Cfor flippant) Rosen is threatening to win the home run leadership in the American League. How dofe.he do it? Kb" giant for "a home run slugger, he weighs modest 180 and stands five feet 11 inches.

And he weilds a fairly light at that. tne tat ill "And follow Ralph Killer's advice: 'Be comfortable at the Rosen started hitting homers by trying not to hit them. After slagging two of them-at-the start of the season, he went rbr five Barnes without a base hit. "Saberascionsly," 'he says, "those homers set me swinging for the fence swinging too hard. 1 leveled off and aimed down the middle foi base hits." ThiSjtactic has well.

Samer of them-go over the fence anyway. Bosea's record for homers before this season was 25. He "hit that many for Oklahoma City in 1947 and the same number the following year for Kansas CSty. Oh July 1. he fait his 25th homer for the Indians.

Stir an his alleged flippancy, Rosen entertains no Illusions aoont As to tfeatfrig Ted and kmer in the home he replies: wmfctto tieen op there too for to thint itioat Beattnt 'oat. rm walking on afr don't wake me op." Joe Louis Starts Training at 38 to Regain Old The Philadelphia mint, which was established in 1793, is the oldest of the three coinage mints in the United States. go into a taijspin. In going over the brook stock after the war, it.was evidentv that the original 32 catfish had sewed their useful purpose at the hatchery and they should be permitted to spend the rest of their days out in the streams, as nature had intended. -But the emotions of friendship are strong, and when the 'tSAfte' to Haul off the 'oversize catfish, Pete used his magic power.

At the last minute I took him and bur of his sisters out of the truck ank and put them back in the latchery -lake; S-T- i This year it again reached the: point where something had to be! NEW YORK, July Joe Louis, now 36, will try to regain the world heavyweight boxing title he gave up two years ago. As a challenger He notified tha International Boxing Club that he had started premilinary training far Indiana today with the hopes 'of meeting NBA Champion Ezsard Charles in September in either New York or Chicago. Louis made the announcement through James Norris, president of the International Boxing Club. Louis' statement said, in part, that "I have decided to fight again because of a large and unexpected tax assessment for 1946-47 which. has just 'been levied.

'BIG CELEBRATION NEW Chandler, mos.t valuable Georgia football lineman last season, did some powerful celebrating recently in his" Athens, home a few weeks ago. First he observed his own birthday, then his daughter Sandra observed her second tirthday the next The following day he signed his; contract with the New York Yanks for He's a end. rugged defensive! NOW SWELLED HEADS Win, lose or draw, the Cleveland Indians can': be accused of having swelled; heads as long as Lou Boudreau and Marino Pieretti are on the squad. The manager's cap size of and newcomer Pieretti's of are almost certain to run one-two in any contest for the smallest in the major leagues. the slack feft by Ted eftow fractufre.

The Red Sox. shortstop is racing teammate WaltjDropo for the leadership and the pair press the IrMfiains' -RoSen "in race for tfie American Eeagne home-run championship. TWO NEW MARKS PROTECT PUBLIC pionereed the use of many of America's most important horse racing protective measures. The automatic tote board was introduced at HiSIeah in 19S2, and the saliva test was brought here from France in 1934. The first photo finish Camera 'was at Hlaleah in 1936.

high point boys: Carl Montoria; Kwft, Marshall, second, and Francis Gustafson, Anaconda, girls'-Telaytea'm'of the Club: Rose Emily Cooper, Jasper, and Christina Folgar and Ursula Franke, both of Guatemala City, Guatemala. GRID SCHOLAR EAST LANSING, John Poloncak, winner of the 1949 Ross Award for the highest scholastic average among Michigan Statt. football players, also received the Chicago Alumni Achievement Award for the outstanding Spartan senior from the midwest area. as iMe? ialt century, were lord to Ori- sccortHHfiE to fenc Brtfcmriica. V.

F. W. PLAYS TONIGHT The Veterans of Foreign softball team will, take "oa Jajnes- porOhere this evening Jii tempt to even the' after tfiii' loss to Jamesport week, time is 8:15 -o'clock. No admission will be chafg'edX to Not Limited to Sharks Sucking-fish attach turtles and other large "fish, Jn addition to sharks, detaching themselves to swim after according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. FOR Wtswtih'JtK 20 cu.

ft. Can he CfltBfcf. Of Mrs. Ho. lAit-SfMTEPCMCK HAY BROS.

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