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COUNCIL BLUFFS (IOWA) NONPAREIL-SEPTEMBER 9, 1945. PAGE SEVENTEEN. Iowa Grid Teams Set to Open Season Friday Tee Jay, Playing at Missouri Valley, Will Be First Council Bluffs Team to Get Away A number of southwest Iowa high school football teams will play their opening games Friday of this week, with others scheduled to get away from the post a week later. Thpmas Jefferson will be the first Council Bluffs eleven to launch tho 1945 campaign, going to Missouri Valley Friday night to engaice Coach Humor Wclw' Hub. Tec Jay VcK Coach Gayloid Stuelke will bulK his now Too Jay cloven around flight returning lottermen, including Linemen Clark I'obcs, Bob Jerry Snyclor, Bill Copoland "and Vcrnon Nelson and Backs Cordon Fouteh, Bob Wonnlhun and Jack Cook.

Wels, starting his first season at Missouri Valley as Huocossor to Tom Ryan, has a fairly liouvy but largely Inoxpeilcntocl squad, ilu has two veterans In his backflcld -Sophomore BUM Stuwaid, a 16!) pounder and BUI JoluiHon, who wulghi In ut ISO pounds. Spuuf- htadlns his lino will bo Co-uvp- Ulns Harold Hill, 160-pound end and Loon 170-pound tacldc Coming's Rod Raiders, whom. 1 prospects are uncertain at this time, will Itiivel to Vllllaca, whonu Blucjays arc being prcpaied by a pnlr o'f now Loaches, Fnuicls Hair's and Lowell Baal. Tho Vllllscti club this year will bo built aiound Junior Brandt, glunt tackle, Kus- Holl Fioyd, center, Kenneth Wcs- loilund, end and Don Heller, backflold man, all of whom wi'iu regulars last fall Tho Blucjays st throe gumcH by a total rmu- of nine points lasl ycai, and lire hopoful of a good 1945 soa- dOtl. Ued Oak of Hit Ilawkoyo Six conference will play to Oil Is- wold In ft "battle of Tlgots," botn clubs tho nickname of those Jungle boasts.

Coach Kupcno Hamilton nun six Icttcrmen at fled Ouk, but may lose ono of thorn, Conic. Golst was ropoiled lust wock lac Ing possible army Induction. Hod Oak's crow Ihl.s year will be light for tho most part, although uro ft couplo of ical hcftlc.s in the line Prospects lor Coach Mooro'H Grlswold tonrn havo boon cltscilbocl as doubtful, Heading up tin- team's attack probably will bo Komioth Muollci who will bi playing his foiutli your In tho bnckflold. Two ol his baclcflold tcammatos will be lads who were legulars a your iipo Jitmcs Conner nncl Kenneth llomp- Most of lust lall husky Cdtswold Hnomoti we.ro unulimleil, howovei I.OKIIII nt Olarlmlii, Coach Rob Evans, who Is work- Ing with small crew lit Logan will take his PnnthciH to Cliulndii, to race an cloven belnK luullcd by now coach, a i i Schley. Sohloy haw lour lottormon on hand -Mnx James, a guard, Cliu- etice Davis, a back, and a pall 1 ol cnd.s Wayno Klnmnn and Byion Winter At latest icports, Schloy i lamenting liilluru of members ol last year's strong Utirmuu Junior high club, who ate now bophomorci, to sliow up for practice.

Woodbine, nguln couched by Got aid Custer, will open its season at home, against Dunlap. Cus- lei lost such key plnyets U'om his 19 team us Kcltli Tiavls unit giant Bruce Brandon, and was looking forward when closed last spilnpr to a season OL for tho fi-tuic." Dunlap's nib Is expected to bo sltonRot Hum Insl Shonamlonh's Mustangs I open the hook by tackling Nubias- i C'ltv at Sl'cimmltwh Cum lies Don Tobbi-, who was at Corning iiist yeai, ami Du'kiM, a hlx lotler winners at Shemuulmih They include Max Bussrrd, halfback, Rex Whltehlll, cumtterbnck, .1. fullback; Mlko Schelb- loi, end; Tom Dcaimont, halt- Uick and Clyde Maxwell, ton tor A seventh letter wlnnot still In M-hool, Clyde Claik, recently un- iluwent i niftjoi opeiation Bob rs'Non, attended Wcntwotlh milUaty academy last ycur, will bo back at Shormndoah this sea- ion. Atlantic, Insl Hawkeyo Six rt will open at home Krt- vlny night against Oakland Yel- lowjnrketa. Conch A Yates who has gulilcd Atlantic athletic teams to phenomenal records dm- IIIR tho last" two vcnrs Is sllll the Troji'ii iK'lm but i a i i ImlliliiiK iklaml lieu i IMI Is Dun I'mlK who vHI 'Iso unlVil hi i i it pi li i nti nts i iiiun of tin bins i Minitl" i li'nl 'll tll.ll si hlii I 11 II III!" KllUitt mil tlif llil tt the sensim lit the last immeil town Coach II Konnema's experienced boys Donla liulucle Himcy Muss, Bliilne llobson Juu- loi Johnson KUlie Koiulei, I and Wnlt Stoims, son- lois K.ugene Achenbnugh, Lyle frede Uciald Spohn, Bisbee, Darrcll Fender.

Wajnc Hiikman and Wayne Bishop, Juniors ancl Tom McCrcacly, sophomoic, A. Nuckolls, vetemn Elliott tutor, has as returning lettormcn timmie Cnrey, Rox Corbln, Dick Cowlt-y, Rlclmnl Shires and Billy "enlois, Hiitts i i i C.iiey, i i i mill Tom A i i i Illinois mid Klinei Uclm, sophomoic toarns were unbeaten and untied toth In 19-13 and 1914, will launch his club on Its new season Friday night, when the Wheelers will be at home to Manning. Adams' holdovers fiom 1844 include Tom Kauffman, 185 pound "onior icgarded by his coach as Uio best tenter In tho state; Hariy Green, 185-pound fullback on hand lor his fouith year; Russell Baig- ir and Bill Ryan, pttsrds; John McDonald and Dawson, Uicklos and Virgil Hanson, tall and husky end. Bill Stunokcr, who has boon at Manning longer than Adams has boon at Audubon, has seven lot- ttrrncn, as follows; Not man Arp and Alvln Kuhsc, seniors, Bill Slbbel, Charles Schurnann, Leo Rostermuiult and Paul Bchrens, Juniots and Willis Lohmoior, soph- omoi Italian's Cyclones, among tho very best in southwest Iowa each of the lust two yours, also will launch theh 19-15 bid for fuithci honors Friday, playing host to a orancl now opponent, Leeds high i.f Sioux City Lowell Cilppon, loimcr Hurlan co.ich, is now the Ltods athletic clircctoi Couch Mason, stalling li's sctoml ycur at Hailan, has a sound of moio than 50 boys, ono of the largest football turnouts in the schools hl.stoiy. Six lottotmon aro Intludcd--Don Latlmoic, Rex Sortnson anil Jack Atgotslngei, backs, Gone Gottys, end, Don Wooclhouse and Miles Camoty, luckles Coach Looiuud KlUman will Ula a Lenox ciow boasting flvo 'pttoimcn lo Giucnllokl ioi tho vctoiaris Include tinoo in the line and a pali back of II GHcklcn will opon nt Manilla, Donlson at Jefferson, Adali nl Duxter, Sidney at Essex will move wi College Sptlngs, whoje 111 14 club was tops In tho slato It.

llic abbievlalcd slyle of gildlron play Covch Dnlo Dyko of Mnl- vrn has six lotlermen in Dalla 1 Pot kins, bud Coon.s, Herb Boll, J.fk Pet kins, Chailcs Ellison and Mlko Jonos, and loin othois ic- garclod as likely to push tho'so hard in Chailes McCluie, Jack Pace, Web Stodglll nncl Mailon i i SIIMJ Wmtt I'micr---- Tulsa Is Seen Rising Above Talent Losses Frnka Still Has Sterling Wilson and Plenty More NKW YORK (NEA)--Henry Finka is -said to be pessimistic bo- cnuse Tula.i lost 35 mombois the OUUIRO bowl champions ot lasl Now Yeftt's day but It Is safe to say that llic coach who whips up tho Golden Hun Itane lias not yot loaclioil the hoadueho tnblel stage Tulsn allll lias Camp Wilson and plenty moie Many Nmuomers, Coach a is clown to tcbullcl- IUK (itounu tluoc of the 1944 start- In), combl mtions Twenty-seven of the squad of 55 aro beginning their i year of college football, but TuUa i lows' how to pick 'cm. Also Ln llic piuty me 18 who have scon service In tho aimed foiccs, soveial for as long as Uueo yours Those saw Tulsn boat Gooi- gla Tech befoic Ihc Englnec'is uoulil put their hands in Miami lu.st Jan I womleied bow the to lose to anybody. And when they saw tho huge and floot lultback Camp Wilson, spilnt tluoufjli Uio entiie absomblngc of Rambling Wiecks tor a toucnaown fiom kickoff, they wondered how it was possible for htm to escape All-America tecogmtion Yot on sucosslvo oolt-oncls, Tulsa ivas edged by Oklahoma A. and 16-40, ana dcfeiitod by Iowa Pic-Kllghl, 47-2T. Tulsa backs ian like greyhounds behind mowing blockers, and Uio Olleis looked the part ot a club that had sot national pnsslng rocoids tho tin co ycais While one of them has jot.

to establish himself as pitcher of the caliber of t'ck'im Dohbs, Lotoioo or Pel' 1 i Moss i i nka lias no (ewer i i i young men i Bud Ailnms, whoso Audulwn I uN 11 pfituiiiuiiK.1 1 against i inlute i i i foot- biili wish Hay seen Bob Ken more and tho 1911 Oklahoma Aggies, i i sliessed the capa- btlliu's of the OIIIIR Sen- haw Kb KOI onh mi outbuilding college team could successfully hurdled the nnri versatile Tulsa a i ot last fall. SUM Paptr-- More Ohio Farm Ponds Tho July report of faim ponds In Ohio lists 80 completed areas with a total of 140 ponds signed up for const motion. The program, a i'0-opeiiitive one In'tween fanners I ami Hit 1 illvMon ol if 1'iUm project, denying 7." pri cent of 'Is support i i taxes on Hie sale ot spoiling a i nml ammunition. LOREN BABE STARTED DIAMOND CAREER EARLY Loren Babe, 17-yeai-oltl Plsgah youth now propeity of the New York Yankees, started playing baseball young. (1) Lor en at the age of 4, wearing a uniform identical to thosie worn by his home town Pisgah club (2) The same boy three years later, appaiently a bit uncertain of his plate stance (3) A more confident and poised Loien at the age of 11, ami (4) Loren as he appeared in 1945 spring training with tho Kansas City Blues.

Pisgah Youth Didn't Disappoint His Father Who Wanted Him to Become a Ball Player Loren Babe Won't Be Eighteen Years Old Until January, But He's Full Fledged Member of New York Yankee Chain and Clouting .363 By Fred Hawks. (Notipaiell Sports Editor) riSGAII--Could any Ameilcan dad, determined that his son must be a baseball player, make his dreams come Iruo by starting the boy young and keeping everlastingly at Ihe job' Piobnbly not and yet there is pi oof that satisfying results can sometimes be allainod by such methods Bobby Feller's highly publicized "sanies ot caloh' oul behind the barn with bis lather, tho late Willlam Follor got icsults, in (uite a largo way. Lor on Babe, another lownn, won't bo 18 yoai.s old until Jan 11, but he's a duly accredited member of the. New Yoik Yankee organUa- llon Ho 'signed, roooivcd his bonus money and Is the regular baseman for the Norfolk Va club of Iho Piedmont league and, a 363 balling avotago whlth makes his chances of Kolnfr much higher appear ox- Iromoly rosoalc Foller Knshlhn. Loion wns born at Pisgah, a town Jusl aboul Ihe sUo of Feller's nallvo Van Motor, and his dad Orson Bnbo, worked with him In ia- shlon reminiscent of the Follcr fallior-nnd-son praolicc sessions There wns Ibis Important i ference however Orson Babe never attempted to make a pitcher out of his son.

Tho acccnl hero wns on balling Bui Iho elder Bnbo siilct lhal he wns lo mnkc a ball playci oul of Loion or know Iho icason nncl adds that Loren was fust Introduced lo a baseball bo- foio ho WHS a year old Loron was only Uvo when his falhet first placed a bat in his chubby little paws, showed him how lo hold 11 and began losslng a ball lo him Loion's Iwo older slslors wero pie.ssod Inlo service as 'fielders" durliiR Ihose balling practices, winch wcic staged regularly, seven overlings n. week As time wont on, tho girls found themselves obliged lo clrlfl back over deeper It wasn't many years before Loien 'outgrew" Ihc back yaid prncllco ground Ho developed a tnlent for clilvlng baseballs through nolghboihood windows, and the scone shifted to the moie commodious cimirtors of Ihc garden spol. A fence 20 fcot Irlph was built around tho Raulcn and Ibis barrier proved adequate to stop all of young Baba's drives until ho wns 10 yenrs old, when he began flouting thorn out of the park I'lnycd at 10, Oison decided Ihon thai his young hopeful was ripe for nolunl competition so ho organized and managed a kid team at Pisgah. Loron wns the youngest member ot this outfit, all of his team mates being 12 or 13 This club won 28 games and lost four during the summer of 1939, adding 26 victories against only throe defeats in 1940. These were Iho same boys who Inter comprised a ciack Pisgah high school team which earned three consecutive tilps lo the state high school tournament Loren was the regular high school third baseman his fieshman year (1942), and played wllh the Pisgah town team that summer, as did live of his older buddies who wcie 1942 high school graduates This club, with Jay Bookman on the mound, had a very good year, chalking up victories over such clubs as Storm Lake and Council Talonl losses lo Ihe armed forces left Pisgah without an independent club in 1943 Babe decided to go to Omaha that summer, lo work arid play ball He played with Fuths of the Omaha Community league, and won the circuit batting championship with a mark of 387.

To Crelghton Prep. He enrolled at Croighton Piep that fall, and played on the baseball club there In the spring of 1944 he played with Murphy-Did- Its of the Omaha American Legion junior league. This club won city, state and regronal championships, losing to Cincinnati in the sectional tournament. Babe was chosen on the all-city, all-state, all-regional and all-sectional teams. This year, after considering offers of several major league scouts, Loren signed with the Yankees, and accompanied the Kansas City Blues to Bartlesvile, for spring training.

He stayed with the American Association club for about a month, then was sent to Blnghampton, of the Eastern league, where he hit 380 In 40 games He was sent from Binghnmpton to Norfolk, and has been guarding the hot corner there ever since Babe, neither particularly largo nor particularly small, is a left- handed batter. Defensive Play of Reds' Miller Is Rated Tops Eddie's Darling of Rabid Cincy Baseball Fans By Chip Royal. (AP Nowsfcultures Sports Editor CINCINNATI--Don't ever make tho mistake of mentioning any other shortstop but Eddie Miller in front of a Cincinnati Red fan 1 Men have been beaten for less Eddlo Is the darling of the tabld rooters who follow the destinies of Bill McKcchnic's men. And the record book would soom to bear out thojr enthusiasm Tho shortstop who was born in Plttsbuigu 20 years ago while the gioat Honus Wagner was making records as a Pirate, has been one of the National league's top fielders since 1930 when he Joined the Braves He's Really Great. Of course, Honus was the king of them all when offensive play is considered, but, for ground-covering abilily and the number of balls boolcd oul of chances accepted, the Rods' Eddie is groat In tho flawless fielding department, and taking shortstops like Marty Marlon, Bill Jurgcs, Wag- ner, Leo Durocher, Rabbit Maran- vllle, Travis Jackson, and all the other greats, Miller stands head 1 and shoulders above the field.

Eddie's rate of ono error in 35 chances from 1936 through 1844 is high enough to be incredible. His nearest rival in flawless fielding is Jurges with one bobble In 27 chances Wagner, considered the peer of Ihe fellows on Ihe light of the middle sack, had one miscuc In every 16 chances. As for hitting ability, Eddie doesn't claim gny, but he's always a dangerous man at the plate. Take this season, for an example, the brown-haired is the only player in tho senior loop to hit a homer in every ball park but one--Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, Miller won't be able to thrill his home town fans with a lound tripper this year.

He doesn't play there any more. Better Th.in Ever. But, his fielding is better than ovoi and he's still covering all the giound despite the after effects of a broken leg. If Manager McKechnic can smile at all with "the worst team I've ever as he said in the spring, it is because of Miller, a shining light in any leader's eye. Save Returns to Hoosiers BLOOMINGTON, UP)--Indiana university's football fortunes are fairly bright with 14 lettermen back.

Guard Russell Deal won his letter In 1942, He has been serving in tho army. i ver World's Top Woman Dri Male Opponents-Labelled Her "Hell on Wheels" SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. CP) They call her the world's top vvomnn drnoi of harness horses she's moie than lhat soft-spoken, genteel college bred Hcllcn Davis of Vacavillo, Calif she's trainer, dtivor, groom and even horseshoer Taking into consideration that she brought her two trotters, Palo- min nnd Rocket Blngen, back to the races to win nCter they'd spent practically all of tho war years ranching and fnrmlng on the Pacific you miR'il add Out on the coasl before Hie war they culled lu'i Hell-on-Whfels." She juil thai to tho innK' 1.0111- petllion, She bred nnd broke her trotter, Pnhmiln, now 11 years old, and gavo him a mark of 2.01?i on the west coast And a fow nights bofoic Saintoga. Raceway closed its 5t-ulght summer mooting: she had Ihe satisfiction of seeing her aged hotter bcal a good field in a slake event in Miss Davis had never been east before this year. But Call- fornlans' headed for tho Spa in May and one of them offered to lease her horses she Immediately made up her mind to go back to the races.

Women fans, who stuck with Atlsi Davis, wore the ones who rn.slit'il III Die most tickets When Miss Davis begin racing out on Hie coaal bout 20 yeais agn men icsented her presence on Iho tuck. "They thought because Miss Ilcllen Davit) and Polomln after winning Ash Grove farms purse of my sex that they'd have to ease up a little, I suppose. But they soon came to accept me," she admits Her father always owned horses and everyone in the family had a horse When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, racing immediately was blacked out on the coast. But the two horses this College of the Pacific alumna owned didn't become idle. "I plowed, hauled, bu'cked hay and drove cattle with them," she says.

"And once In a while just to make them happy I hllch'cd them to a sulky and we skimmed over the Through the nine weeks of the Saratoga lummu meeting Mass Davis did all her own work around the barn. Veteran horsemen gathered 'round when she brought Rocket Bingon from his stall one day and began to shoe him. She even startled Soratogians, who aren't easily startled, when sne threw a saddle over Falomm and rode horn into the city, hitch- Ing him to a parking meter before the staid old United States hotel. With the approach of Saratoga's fall trots, which extend from Sept 10'to Oct. 13, Miss Davis expects to httfthe winners' circle have to," she explains.

set my mind on buying a truck to haul my horses back to California. And they'll have to earn their tide home." Winning a Habit With Fort Lewis FORT LEWIS, major leaguers continue to pace the Fort Lewis Wainors on the diamond. In a recent afternoon-twilight twin bill the Warriors won their twenty-ninth and thirtieth straight games, beating two Pacific Coast league teams. Charlie Embrce, former Cleveland Indian, beat Oakland, 11-3, and Bill Fleming, ex-Chicago Cub, took the measiirc of Los Angeles, 5-3. Danny Litwhiler, ex-Cardinal.

Dom Dallessandro of the Cubs, and Gale Bishop, Fort Lewis basketball ace, led the slugging. ----Sine Waitc Taper Dodger Finally Gets Credit as a Base Runner Eddie Stonky Fins Running Start Is Help By Al Vormcer. (NEA Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK--Famons for weird base running, the Dodgers made scoffers perk up and blink when Ed Stanky discovered a belter way to score on a fly ball, Standing: on third when a ball was lofted to the outfield Slanky quickly retreated several feet behind the base, then broke for the plate a second bcfoic the ball caught. He was on the bag moving at full apeccl when the catch was made. He scored easily.

Hank DoBciry, now a Giant scout but better lemcmbeied as a Brooklyn catcher In tne hilarious old days, puffed his chest to learn that a Brooklyn athlete had finally contributed something to the art of base running. Honk claims the Dodgers of Uncle Robbie weie not as eccentric as generally supposed Lauds Herman. "Most of those comic stories concern Babe Herman," says the grizzled old bat tcry mate of Dazzy Vance, "But lei me tell you, Herman was a real ball player. In addition to playing the outfield he could play a neat first base, rushing in for a bunt and making the play at second base as well as the best of them Babe always knew what to do with the ball." DeBcrry, now C2, lias spenl two- thirds of his lite in baseball, His happiest years wero not in Brooklyn, he asserts, but during his minor league days in New Orleans, which he calls America's greatest city It was there he began his association with the astounding Vance Hank can toll a hundred yarns about the speed ball king. Vance had a soft spot for Hughie Crltz, brilliant little second baseman of the Reds and Giants.

Once he fanned Hughie three times in one game When Crltz came up the fourth time Vance went into a huddle with DeBerry "He told me he felt sorry for the little guy," recalls the veteran backstop, "said he was going to give him a soft one down the middle. He did and Hughie belted it over the center fielder's head for a home run, From that day folks said Dazzy was easy pickings for Critz Hughie laughed and said he guessed that was so. Dazzy never forgot him, never gave him a soft pitch after that" Vance's Curve. Vance was famous for his fast ball, but also owned a splendid curve of which he was justly proud. Once when he threw a curve to Crltz the Mississipplan fell back on one knee and threw up his hands to protect himself.

The ball struck his bat, plunked behind first base for a single. Vance glared at Critz, dancing on first base. "Listen, you big Alrdale," shouted Hughie, "keep throwing that nickel curve and some day you're gonna get killed!" "Old Daz stood out on that hill and ground his teeth," grins Hank DeBcrry. "From that day on Hughie Crltz always saw the best Dazzy Vance had to offer. "And his best was plenty good." Wmtt Decidedly Common Ailment, Dr.

Grau STATE COLLEGE, (NEA) --Dr Fred V. Grau, who is in charge of 800 of the nation's courses, admits he's no great shakos as a golfer. But Dr. Grau blames his plight, not on any lack of interest, but on his inability to divert hla mind from turf problems, a common ailment of the duffer. "I used to play a pretty fair game," says the Penn Stato agronomist who has been named diiector of the United Slates Golf association's green section, "but too frequently suffered because I paid more attention to the turf than I did to my game." --Sm Wutt rtvvi-- Senators Fastest Club in Baseball WASHINGTON, (NEA)--Washington has the fastest club In baseball.

George Washington Cue is the fastest man In the game. Manager Ossie Bluege gays George Myatt is the second swiftest. Then comes utility outfielder Joe Zar- don, Bingo Blnks, Buddy Lewis, Harlond Clift, Al Evans and Hike Guerra, the latter two unusually agile for catchers Joe Kuhcl still shows good foot. Mickey Haefncr Is the Nats' fastest pitcher afoot. Hugh Ray and his Stopwatch Have Done Much for Football Small and Modest Rules Expert Is Known as the Game's Foremost Trouble Shooter Ay Jimmy Jordan.

CHICAGO, UPJ--The name of' football's ace trouble shooter seldom hits the sports pages. But his presence is literally felt each autumn Saturday or Sunday on the gridiron. He is Hugh "Shorty" Ray, the rules expert. Stopwatch in hand, this small, modest mechanical drawing teacher attends as many football games as he can high school, college and professional, With that stopwatch he has done more for the game generally and for officiating in particular than any other one man. In fact, many experts concede that Shorty actually did much to save the game during the dark days 20 years ago when football was under a cloud of mounting injuries, outmoded lulcs, haphazard officiating and draggy contests, Eckel-nail.

Had it not been for that stopwatch Ray's great claim to fame might have been the fact he beat the great Walter Kckersall in a 100-yard dash more than 40 years ago. That was when he was a senior in engineering at the University of Illinois. Now he makes no claim to fame at all. Without false modesty he disclaims his part in the of football from a bruising and slow, small score' sport to its present precision type of play. But he Is the man who organized the Athletic Officials' association, instituted rules interpreations clinics and invented the famous "play situation book." At present he draws up the National Football league code annually, making whatever changes are necessary, and is the author of the high school code, Here's the part the stopwatch played, Ray found thai In many instances officials were taking too much lime in recovering tho ball Bluffs Browns Play Twice at Harlan Sunday Afternoon and Evening Games Are Scheduled Council Bluffs Browns will play a double header at Harlan Sunday, meeting Manager Neil Knapp's Harlan club in afternoon and evening games.

Dr Al Strohbchn will pitch tho game for Die Browns, opposing Dale. Aldcrson. Tho lat- tar, a former crack athlete at Uenison high school and Upper Iowa university, pitched for Har- Irji several years ago, and is now the property of the Chicago Cubs, home on leave from the navy. Belore entering service, ho coached al Adair and Dunlap high schools. Whltey Knslcr will toss the night game for Council Bluffs, with cither Kenny Johnson or Bill Frecsc toeing the slab for Hurlan.

Win 18 Gaincs. The Browns have won 18 and lost 10 this season, placing second in the Omaha-Council Bluffs Community league, winning tho Midwest open tournament here and placing third In a tourney at Glenwood. Victories in league play cd four over Colonials, three each over Hamms and 7 Ups and one over Martin Bombers. In winning the Midwest open, the Browns boat Hamms, 7 Ups and McCook AAF Bo.mbcrs. At Glenwood, they defeated Hamburg and Malvcrn, Non-tourney and non-league wins Include one apiece over Harlan and Bennington, Platto Valley league champion.

League losses include four to Store' champions, one each to Martin Bombers, Hamms and 7 Ups. The Browns lost to Elliott the Glenwood meet, and dropped a pair of scheduled games at Hnr- lan. Blair Smith with .402, Claire Walck with .369 and Everett Huck- fcldt with ,316 arc the club's top hitters at present, aside from Bud Murphy, who has been at b'at only six times and has poled out three hits for an even .800. Red Eyre leads In runs scored with 22. Blair Smith has the most hits, 35, Johnny Zimmerman and Red Eyre the most doubles, five apiece, Everett Huckfeldt and Claire Walck two triples apiece, and Eyre, Walck and Klmmerman tnree homers each.

Eyre leads in stolen bases Zimmerman in runs batted In with 16, Walck In total with 47 and Eyre In sacraflce hits with on even dozen. StTOhbchn'H Record. Among the hurlcrs, Dr. Al Strohbehn has won 10 games and lost five. Pete Smith has won four and lost one, besides working a game with Martin Bombers that wound up In a 4-4 tie.

Walck has won throe games while dropping four. The other victory wai credited to Ray Ehleri ot the ScaBces, who twirled against Colonials while home on leave, Harlan, besides holding a 2-1 edge in Its season series with Council Bluffs, has a better overall won-and-lost record than the Browns, and has beaten a number of Omaha clubg, including 7 Ups, Martin Bornbcru nnd Hammi. Hugh Ray, his watch helped tho and getting it Into play again. He found Uiat field were not accurately tinting the 30 allowed to put Uio ball in play, with Hio tlmo often running over 35 seconds. He also determined and Unit an incomplete forward if not a loss lo the passing team, out from the time on incomplete pass hits the ground until the ball is put into play and while thcro is tho loss of a down, Uio play not only served lo help loosen defense but in tho long run the attacking team more per game.

Speeded Up PooUmll. It wan on where limo was being lost, a lew Me- onda at a time, and correcting: of these faults that up tho professional and pawed the way for new Ray's entrance Into Uio football rules picture wan soraowhat lin- usual, Twenty ago, when it seemed football about to "loso face," ha got out stopwatch and slide rule and looked (or faults. That was when ha orjjmUcd tha AOA and instituted the intcrprcaUon which members were compelled to attend. Ho pointed out their shortcomings, using information gathered with his stopwatch. Officiating around Chicago soon was recognized as about the best in the country.

Ho found that outmoded rules also wero to blomo for many Injuries, He suggested changes to making: bodies, again usln the information gathered prlmarllj with that stopwatch. Injuries di cllncd as rules changes he UK, gestcd went into effect. His work went unsung i 1938, when tho National Football league first hired him to rewrite its code and train its officials. 75,000 Again lie wont to work with his stopwatch. Since then he made moro than 78,000 In professional games alone.

Here's the result: In the last two seasons 33 league have been broken by tho It took an average of 48 to score a touchdown in 1038, It 24 now. The number of plays per game- reached record average of ISS'A in 1944, or moro than in 1038; averaged one moro touchdown per game than in 1938. That knowledge been pwed on to the and schools with a parallel in their play while tho ratio of m- juries has steadily declined. Shorty hasn't become rich with his stopwatch and ullde rule. Hl.i philosophy and moltivo for what first was just a hobby are ilmplcr than that: "I feel that mat long you don't get hurtt" New Game Wins Sailors' Favor NORMAN, Okla at the naval air slnllon aro playing a game called pcteca, claiming it Is the most popular thing to come out of South America since Carmen Miranda.

Peteca'U played with a bird you can butt It, kick It, umack it with the palm of the hand long aa you get it over the net. Elements of badminton, volleyball with a dash of speed are combined In the game. Any number can play nnd the game's object is to keep the bird shuttling bock nnd forth until the rally 'H broken by one Hide's fall- ure to rclurn 11 over two 30-Inch nets set eight feet apart and about six feet off the ground. The reason for Ihc Iwo center nets Is to prevent kill or drop shots, Ihus making posiiblc longer volleys and a faslcr game. A regulation layout has four nets.

Ont net Is placed at either end of the court in backstop position. Stretched at chin height, these two additional aro for the purpose of deciding "out scoring two for lobbing the dhuttlo over both and under the back net of the op- Other are at a time against the team falling to return a shot over the 'nets, or obliquely shuttling the bird out of lateral bounds. llils bird Is pear shaped, filled with Blirecidod rubber and topped with blue sometimes Fiench police under Vichy orders assisted In the persecution, If he who touches pitch Is defiled, Germans, who had i hand in this are beyond ever denning up. Odlc writes with a pnsskin a i mnkos him nt times incoherent, or perhaps it's translation. Wailt Seems More Like a Washout Than a Thaw Jiimmr.v Thnw, hv fwMniiiy I'ur- trldge (Wbl It soy Concocted of sugar and spice nnd everything nice, this story Is about an old colonial house made of "munificent" nnd "stupendous" beams; a boe-yiitiful mnple that shades it and a wicked old flaw in the title.

A New York writer and his fnm- ily fnll hpftcl over bee's In love the place and buy It, though tha mysterious couple that once upon time Inhabited it so'd lo nn intermediate party with the understanding they could return to live there If they wished, The New Yorkers move In, the couple reappears, and there nro complications; elegant parties held by the new owners with the ragfird couple in the offing, chickens nnd cows petting In way of smnrlly dres-sud noonle. modern plumbing vcrsun Chk Sales. Though some people enjoy It, II seems to me more a washout than Uiaw, I'aprp---- Here's One You Can Lay Down at Bedtime Chnrity Strong bv Marguerite AHlN (Putnam; tti.70), Connecticut, to protect Its women, banned oporn and vlr- luouslv howled down operatic careers for them, century nnd more ago, Mavbc Connecticut WSH right, At any rate Charity Strong of the beautiful volco, inspired bv one hearing of the matchless Malthrnn and encouraged by a singing: master, paid the ultimate price to get her chance on the stnge, Though Die re's Interesting local color In this story of the glruggling artist in our country's onrly years, It's n. novel you can easily lay aside at bcdllmo, Cartoons Stop Or I'M Srreum, rartoons from Collier's, rrtlti'd by Oiinir-y Innm (McBrldc; $2); Napoleon and IJnolc Elby, Clifford MrBriilo (McBrltte; The collection from the' mag-oxlne includes a number of deservedly popular cartoonlflts, among them Alain, Cobenn, Dove, Pr.jce, Rea, Rose, Salo, Stclg, Napoleon In the famous dog, There are Jaughs on every page, or almost every one. Fun Top Stuff, rdltrri liy Humid Hurt (Parker I'rcM; Wisecracks, nonsense boners, ppllaph.s, riddles nnd puns; I formation Illcrnry, Intelligence nnd personality tests; crosswords, word mnzos, puzzles of every description this Is a good book of kind, nnd H's tho kind Hint in mnny plnces two lo rend, one to ask nnd one (o answer.

hns more thnn 360 illustrations, It's fun If you're 111, fun If you're well, fun alone or In company, Woodsmen The Book For Junior Woodnnien, hv Itornan) Manon (Barnes; This book, Illustrated drawings by Frederic H. Kork and bv photographs, Is just what the title calls it. 'Die youiiR man on his own In the wilds Is taught how to use nx, saw, wcdite ami other tools; he'd do well to find room for this In his knapsark. -Poet In juicing small oranges, Instead of cutting fruit in holves, cut off the top of the end. Then the Julcei from the whole orange In one operation.

of Hnlner OlO, traiiNlnted by Biunmrd Grtfna anil M. n. ller- tcr Norton (Norton; Hllke, born in 3875 In Prague and died 102S In Switzerland, is a poet whose Amorionn following, deserves to lx larger, mny grow considerably with (he pub- llcatlon of Ihl.s volume. Wmte Pupfr 33 Injured in Union Pacific Wreck GLENWOOD SPRINGS, UP) The locomollvc of a Union Pn- rifle pnssengcr train rammed into ihe rcnr-cnd Pullmans of nnolhcr westbound U. P.

Irnln Friday nlRlil, Injuring ol Iciisl 33 pcrsonn, several Tho wreck occurred on Grlss- siding of Denver nnd Rio. Grande Weslcrn tracks Blx mllci cnst of here, The locomotive nnd two Pullmans were derailed but lld not overturn, L. Wright, and G. division superintendent, suld the second section of Union Pnciflc train No. 87 pulled Into the curved siding and rammed the first section of U.

P. No, 37. Union Pacific trains were routed over D. nnd R. G.

tracks Fridny bo- of to a main line bridge east of Granger, Wyo. I'nim Schools and Colleges Heavy Bond Buyers DBS MOINES, tm Iowa schools and colleges bought 10,720,089,80 In war bonds and slnmps during the school yenr, the state department of public instrucllon has reported, It aim announced that the quota of Iowa In a national bond- buying campaign to service hospital units la 7R4 units, quota, to be met by Dec. 29, Watlt Pamr-- A half pound of dthydrnUd four to used for slaw or cooking, FUNNY BUSINESS "I couldn't catch fifth for my trophy room--HI I put 9 up pictures of myielfL' SPA PERI JEWS PA PER I.

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