Caruthersville Journal from Caruthersville, Missouri • 3

Thursday, April 14, 1938 LRAGG CITY TRACKSTERS i BRAGGADOCIO JUNIOR Can the Yankees make It Hire CLASS TO PRESENT PLAY in a row? That is one of the big WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 questions baseball fans are talking about this spring. Some of the "ex- The Junior Class of Braggadocio are openly; a high school will present the piay, crackup for baseball's No. 1 team "Calm Yourself," Wednesday, April tms vear- and Yankee support-20. The nonsensical farce is g.vcn cri are beginning to get a little in three acts. worried about the world champions The list of characters includes: frPra New York- croP Bruce Huckate Fred Smithie, a )sn't UP to expectations, the team's husband with many ailments.

condition is below standard, and its Lorraine Louglas Fannie, his has below standard wife without Joe DiMaggio, who is prov- Hazel Crowe Lucy, their belov- to be 8 stubborn holdout. How-ed off -spring ever- much can happen between Pearline Hatley-Barbara Hanson, 1 "ow nd, the end of the season and a friend Yankees are 'liable to be right Edgar" Bigham-Harold Ainsworth top again vvhen its a11 over- THIS THAT Manager Bunny Simmons and Zeke Bonura, of the Washington Senators, are relatives ty marriage and both live in New Orleans A good six-day bike nder earns less than $5000 a year, ARE FORMER ARKANSANS Five of the six members of the Eragg City high school track and field team, coached by Elmer Niemann, former Cape Teachers College tiack star, used to live in Arkansas. Ovid Hunter, star of the squaa, came to Bragg City from Clinton, Tom Brents moved there from England, Marion Moore came from Rector, Reedy Herring from For mosa and David Williams from Rus-sellville. Tom Hatley is the only Missouri lad on the team and he went to Bragg City from Braggadocio. Hunter was high point man Tuesday of last week in a three-way meet at Hayti with 23 points, winning firsts in the 100 yard dash, 880 yard run, pole vault and discus.

The next day at Houck Stadium, Cape- Girardeau, in a three-way meet with Perryvilie and the Cape College Preps, he was again high point man with 21 3-4 points, winning firsts in pole vault, discus, bioad jump and 880 yard run and was a member of the relay team, and ran third in the 100 yard dash. It was only a few days ago that baseball writers were devoting lots of space to Slingin' Sam Baugh who was trying to win a third base job with the St. Louis Cardinals. He fielded well but failed to do much hitting. One writer was willing to bet his shirt that Baugh would start the season with the Cards at third but last week it was announced that the football star is to be given a year of seasoning at Columbus, Ohio, and so local fans will not get a chance to see him here with the Cards today.

trailers but Franco Georgetti has averaged 135,000 for five seasons Slats Wyrick, U. C. L. star tackle, works between classes as a movie stand-in in a Hollywood studio When Tony Piet recently took off 12 pounds in one day's drill, he set a new Detroit record for training He pared down from 190 to 178 pounds North Carolina will get a basketball player next fal who is married and the father of two children He is Thaxtei Sain and he graduates from' high school in June Just a short time after the Santa Anita Handicap, the track was the scene of a goat race by-which Pasadena society girls raised money for char ity Three former Chicago Cubs compose the outfield of the Los Angeles club, Marvin Gudat, Arnold Statz and Johnny Moore After locking the doors the opening night of his New York bar, Jack Dempsey discovered that 1000 glass high ball stirring rods were missing Goalie Seaburg of the Yale hockey team stands a mere 6 feet 8 inches when he dons his skates Springfield scored one of the most unusual victories in the Indiana State high school basketball tourney, defeating Fairview 50 to 0. Earl Clark, T.

C. U. halfback, who Coach Dutch Clark predicts will be one of the toughest blockers in the Southwest Con ference next fall, plays first vio lin in the C. U. symphony orch estra "When- Doug Mills 6 1 GENUINE oeauStutiwaM' VERY, VERY SMART! PA Liu BfAOl xifever, some of the boys-who-were a week end guest.

Earl Gooch, Bird, a vis- Betsy Huffman Mrs. George Wonder, a social light. Ralph Farmer Mr. George Web ster, the long arm of the law. Myra Nell Fitzgerald Evans, a maid.

There will be entertainment be tween acts in the form of musical numbers. This is under the direction of Miss Jewel Lewis of Braggadocio. Everyone who attends is sure to spend an enjoyable evening. At the same time each one in the audience will be assisting and backing the members of the cast in meeting certain obligations which have been acquired since rehearsal of the pia; began. Miss Louise Preslar, commercial teacher, is coaching the cast.

xxx The song, "Dixie," was composed in 1859 and used by the Confederates as a war song. BUSHEL, $1-75 PER ACRE CORN Specials TIGERS WIN FROM SENIORS MONDAY Tiger Footballers of 19S8 Win the Spring Football Game 13-0 Monday Afternoon Coach Jack Hopke closed spring football practice Monday afternoon with a practice game between me 1938 Tigers and a group of Seniors who were members of tne imt team and four graduates of recent years. The '38 Tigers emerged victorious in the hard fought game, winning 13-0. The Seniors held the Tigers scoreless the first quarter but in the second quarter the '38 Tigers started a drive which cuhnjnated in a touchdown and extra point. Leon Crawford started the drive with a run-back of a punt from his 25 yard line to the Seniors' 43 yard line.

This was followed by two passes with Bob Mick going over for the touchdown. Bill Ross drove over the line for the extra point. Jack Tipton scored the final touchdown in the fourth quarter when he skirted right end for 7 yards and a score. A pass for try for extra point was grounded. The game indicated that much work needs to be done in the line since Coach Hopke has shifted some of his linesmen of last year to the backfield, and the line appeared to be weak in Monday's game.

Espec ially did the high school lads have trouble in keeping the Seniors from breaking through on punts. How uname to come out tor spring iooi-ball practice, due to having to work on the farm after school, will be out next fall and are expected to help bolster the line. BRAGG CITY SECOND IN TRACK MEET AT HOUCK FIELD STADIUM Bragg City high school's six man track team, lead by Ovid Hunter, placed second in a three-way meet with perryvilie and College Preps at Houck Field Stadium at Cape Girar deau, Wednesday, April 7. Perryvilie was first with 50 points, Bragg City second with 32 points, and the Cape Preps third with 17 points. Of the eleven events, the Bragg City lads placed first in ten, failing to place only in the shotput event.

They were first In five of the events, one more than Perryvilie the winners, were able to capture. Hunter, Bragg City's one-man track team, won firsts in the 880 yard in, 'pole vault, discus and broad jump. He was third in the 100 yard dash and was a member ci the half-mile relay team which finished second. Tom Brents placed first in the 220 yard dash, and high jump and was a member of the relay team. Marion Moore was third in the mile run.

Brents' time in the 440 yard run was 56.7 seconds. Hunter ran the half mile in 2 minutes 18.3 seconds, pole vaulted 11 feet, 1 1-4 inches, hurled the discus 110 feet, 3 inches, and broad jumped 19 feet 7 1-2 inches. Coach Elmer Niemann's boy3 made made an excellent showing, considering the fact that. they were competing against four- year high schools with much larger enrollments, and had competed in a track meet the previous day at Hayti. 0 BRAGG CITY WINS TRIANGULAR MEET Hayti, Mo.

Scoring six firsts and five seconds for 45 points, Bragg City won a triangular track and field meet here Tuesday afternoon from Hayti and Warden. Hayti was second with 43 1-2 points and War-dell third with 6 1-2 points. Ovid Hunter of Bragg City was high individual scorer with 23 points, and Brents, also of Bragg City, was next with 16 points. The unit in weighing gold is the troy ounce. PLOW HANDLES 19c 1-PLY ROOFING 89c Ml ROOFING S9C HEAVY ROOFING $1.19 NAILS, (8 TO 69 PENNY) LB.

5C ROOF COATING, (HIGH GRADE) 89c i JOE Dill MEETS K0RH1 DAKOTA FOE Gog Wfebar and Bay Meyers Form Preliminary Fart of Slat Card Tonight A guaranteed rough match, and another perhaps scientific, are to be offered local mat fans at Legion Arena tonight In the guaranteed rough match, Dynamite Joe Dillman, strongman Greek, tackles Sam Curry, newcomer from Bismarck, North Dakota. Very little is known concerning Curry in this particular neck of the. woods, other than Promoter Mike Meroney guarantees he is a rough, tough slugger, capable of, ami likely to, take care of Dillman in a big way. But there have been ethers expected to take care of the wily Greek, and few of these predicted bad men lived up to expectations. It might be that Curry is just another opponent for Dillman who has just about run out of opponents in this section, unless he starts all over again at the first, and goes through the rank and file 3 second round.

In the preliminary "tonight, scien-titic mat fare may be offered to fans, if Ray Meyers is of that frame of mind. Meyer and Gus Wisbar, clever young German, are scheduled to trade grips. Wisbar is regarded as a pretty capable youngster, and invariably leans toward the scientific end ofJheJwsjness instead ot the more common roughster side. If his opponent, Meyer, is agreeable, and leaves off the rough stuff, then the preliminary has possibility of being a real interesting, scientific mat struggle. Usually, however, if the "going" gets too fast, and his opponent is too clever and wily, Meyers deserts the niceties of the grip game, and embarks on the Lon Chaney style.

But occasionally Meyers sticks to straight wrestling, and it may be thus tonight. The first bout begins at 8:15, the usual summer starting time. o- Nazerian Easily Beats Welch in Return Match Fans were disappointed, Welch was surprised, Nazerian was winner, ana Referee Meroney was uninjured ixic siory ui loot vct a iciwn at bout between Mike Nazerian and RpyJVelch, fcva Jshell reordered to be Held over by the local State Athletic Commissioner, because of inefficient refereeing a week or so ago in their first match, the bout came to a startling and surprising finish when Nazerian easily scored a two straight falls win over Welch. Nazerian won the first fall In 19 minutes and the second in 10 minutes, using front crotch body slams and a straddle to take the first, and a double reverse jack-knife to take the second. A large crowd had turned out, aa the match developed into a no time limit, nothing barred except holds barred by the Commission the strangle, eye-gouge and low blows.

Although disappointed at the unexpected, sudden ending of the bout, fans were nevertheless amused by the regalia Referee Meroney donned. As advertised, he put in his appearance clothed in a complete gridiron outfit helmet, sweat shirt, trousers, shoulder pads. Not. only was this mode of referee garb quite unusual, but it was extremely beneficialto Meroney. The boys could not pull his hair, and every time they hit at him, Mike merely bowed his neck, ducked hisTiead, and lot them hit.

especially Nazerian. Each time, instead of hitting Mer-oney's face, Nazerian's fist came in painful contact with the helmet, or shoulder pads. The helmet has a very strong inner protective headpiece, and the shoulder pads are reniforced. The boys didn't require more than a couple of whacks ai Mike to find out, and Mike had a most enjoyable evening, so far as attack from the boys was concerned They didn't. The hard helmet was quite useful, by simply butting, in making the toys break when cne or the other got stubborn and refused to break when so ordered.

In the preliminary match, Eddie Malone downed Jim Logas, two out of three falls. Malone won the first in 12 minutes wun a grapevine hold, and repeated with (he same hold to win the third fall in 7 minutes. Logas won the second fall in 8 minutes with reverse headlocks and a body pin. Bobby Wells, aged 11, of Steele, was in quite a dither last Thursday night Bobby saw his first wrestling match at the local Leg ion Arena and to oe sure uwi ne missed nothin', Bobby had a front-iow seat That is, Bobby had one to sit on whenever he could be persuaded to sit For most of the time, Bobby was playing hide-and-seek behind the "grown-ups' who sat on the front row. Especially when the wrestlers charged across toward Bobby's side of the ring.

Bobby made it fairly well the entire first match, although he must have been pretty tired from jumping lip and ducking back out of the way so many times. But toy, oh, boy! when that second Watch began between Nazerian and Welch! Rough? Ask He ducked, and stiyed ducked. We didn't see him, at all during the final fail. Where did you go, Bobby? Come on back, Bobby. Anyway, it's not dishonor NEAL'S PAYMASTER SEED CORN, OUT OF 80 BU.

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can-, beat- straightaway dash Fred die Steele, the middleweight champ, has been fighting professionally since attaining the weight of 9(5 pounds The two nearest chal lengers to Joe Louis reign as the heavyweight king, are both former title holders and both named Max Schmeling and Baer Peak years for sales of baseball equipment was in 1923 (when the Republicans ran the country) when $8,000,000 was spent by enthusiasts Three million was spent for baseballs alone Bert Marshall, Van-derbilt's diminutive football star, wears a wrist watch while playing baseball for the Commodores Waite Hoyt broke into the majors on July 24, 1918, and pitched a hitless ninth inning for the New York Giants against the St. Louis Cardinals Every Sacramento infielder and outfielder is at least six feet tall with the strange exception of First Baseman Benton who is just 5 feet, 6 inches tall The American walker cup team has won nine straight matches from their English cousins. A chew of tobacco gave Paul Waner the necessary chance to break into pro baseball. Paul broke into organized ball with the San Francisco Seals and got his first chance to play when regular out fielder became sick when he swal lowed a quid of tobacco while running out a triple. Ths manager of the Seals had to use Paul in the regulars place oecause the Seals were playing a twin bill.

All Paul did that afternoon was to make nine hits three triples, two doubles, and four singles and he's been a regular every since. Eddie Rousch won the National League batting championship in 1919 with an average or .321 witii the dead ball The next three years he hit more than .340 with the lively ball and couldn't win th crown. When Wilbur Shaw won last year's racing; classic at the Indiana polis speedway he drew one of the largest purses won oy a racing an ver. The total was $39,600, includ ing $20,000 for first place, $5,450 in lap awards ana tne caiance in accessory prizes. Lou Meyer, the only three-time winner usras, aa, 's6i has drawn down $69,000 but included in this money won for one secona ana iwo iounn pmcea finishes.

Tommie Milton won for two first places (1921-23). When the prize money is distributed this year the Indianapolis Speedway will have paid out to drivers since its inauguration of the 500-raile test, $1,438,300 in capital and consolation prizesi to be caught jumping up and run-nlng. We have a number of old folks who regularly occupy the front row seats who have worn out scads and scads of shoe leather ducking out of the way when the wrestlers aim toward their aide of the ring. Traders Merc. Co.

PHONE 18 The Big Store Where Price and Quality Meet Official Northeast Arkansas League Schedule for 1938 AT CARUTH- AT AT AT "AT AT ERSVILLE BL.YTHEVILLE PARAGOULD JONESBORO BATESVILLE NEWPORT April 28 May 17, 18 May 15, 16 May 1, 2 May 3, 4 r-ACTmnrnc May 6- 6 31'31 June 26 27 May 29. 3 May 26- 27 FOLLOW June 9, 10 June 16, 17 July 7, 8, 31 June 12, 13 June 14, 15 VUAjB' July 4, 21, 22 July 14, 15 Aug. July 10, 11 July 12, 13,28,29 Aug. 4, 5, 28 Aug. 11, 12 Aug.

15, 26 Aug. 16, 17, 19 Aug. 18 April 29 May 15, 16 May 3, 4 May 19, 20 May 24-24, 25 June 14, 15 May 8-8, 9 May 17, 18, 31 May 29, 30 BLYTHEVTLLE June 30 THE June 28, 29 June 16, 17 June 1, 26, 27 June 2, 3 July 1, 3, 4 July 26, 2'i, 51 July 28, 29 July 12, 13 July 14, 15 2-24 25 Aug. 1, 21 Aug. 16, 17 Aug.

7, 8, 18 Aug. 9, 10, 19 May 19, 20 May 22, 23 April 28 May 3, 4 May 2 June 2, 3 June 5, 6 29, 30 May 26 27 Mav 12 13 PARAGOULD June 23, 24 June 21, 22 "PILOTS" June 30 July 5, 6 June 1919 20 Aug. 2, 3, 9 July 10-10, 11 July 1, 4, 19, 20 July 24-24, 25 July 21, 22 Aug. 10, 22 Aug. 14, 15 Aug.

18, 19, 28 July 28, 29 Aug. 25, 26 May 1.2' I3 May l' 2 APrI1 29 May 19, 29 May 22-22, 23, 31 June 7, 8, 19 May 26, 27 May 10, 11 June 2, 3 June 1 JONESBORO June 20, 28, 29 July 5, 6 June 12, 13 IN June 14 15 July 10 11 July 26, 27 July 17, 18 July 4, 12, 13 July 21-21, 22 July 2i 25 Aug. 21 Aug. 22, 23, 25 Aug. 7, 8, 24 Aug.

2, 3 Aug. 11, 12 May 10, 11 May 12, 13. May 8, 9 May 5, 6 ADriTia May 22, 23 June 7, 8 May 24, 25 June 5, 6 June 16 17 BATESVILLE June 21, 22 June 19, 20 June 9, 10 June 23, 24 THE June 28 29 July 17-17 18 July 19, 20 July 7, 8 July 3, 14, 15 JuW 4 31 Aug. 24, 25 Aug. 11, 12, 26 Aug.

4, 5, 23 Aug. 9, 10 Xug i'li, 15, 28 May 8, 9 May 10, 11 May 5, 6 May 17, 18 April 29 June 5, 6 June 12, 13 June 7, 8 May 24, 25 May 15 i NEWPORT July 5, 6 June 23, 24 June 26, 27 June 10 June 30 REPUBLICAN July l9, .20, ly I' 8. July 3. 17, 18 21, 22 July 1 4, 26, 27 WUBUCAN Aug. 7, 8, 23 Aug.

2, 3, 24 Aug. 16, 17 Aug. 4-4, 8 Aug. 21-21 22.