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WEDNESDAY- TEE prTTQTON GAZETTE- -JAOTARY, 2 1933 I ST RedskjrUppose ART ESQ CIi'IMU PILOT HI IS I 5fiThetdepend Champs Tomorrow 'N5lZe ONE LAST FLIN6 iN arr-natr ACCIIMlklL -T ASSISTANT TtrACK COACH At Assembly Hall Tunk's Trio of Local Players, Bainbridge, Graham and Peters, Make Second Appearance Here in Booster Game. Game Time, 9:15 P. M. TbWNS WILL COMPETE. IN TtiE HIM HURDLES HE'S 80, AT LEAST Jan.

Mack shook a half century from his lender shoulders last night and public they would have to cut on nis uniform to convince him a 75-year-old veteran that ha was too old to run a baseball team. A tall, kindly old man, his race aeamed with 54 years of baseball worries but his eyes aUght with the enthusiasm bf a rookie, told 1200 guests at a sports writers' banquet that hla next address will le Lake La. where the Philadelphia Athletics will train for the 1938 baseball season. Philadelphia sports writers awarded medals to Carl HuibbeU, of the New York Giants, as the outstanding pitcher of 1937. They gave another medal to Joe DlMaggio, 23-year-old slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees, as the outstanding athlete of 1938.

FEB. 5 AND Plttston Recreation The "biff came" of the New York- -70C VJORLD Pennsylvania Basketball League will be played at Assembly Hall tomorrow night, when Plttston, defending champions of the pro circuit, stacks up against the fast moving Tunkhannock outfit with its array of home town stars. 192 fEcom holder 154 124 AMERICAN LEAGUE Played at Plttston Recreation. prrrsTON tire A. Perrone 128 J.

Perrone 141 Fergle 169 165 Sciandra 171 146 Giordano 200 180 Maranca 162 Maury 173 183 The Pittston-Tunkhannock rivalry dates back to the time Tunkhannck was admitted to the league and has OP 7.3 0VEZ 4 MRDLES IN 60 SARDS, AND IS CO-CUAW IN 150 Mickev Cochran was awaraea a been flourishing ever since, rne 828 803 games are hard fought, packed with the thrills of professional basketball and get better as the seasons pass by. ACK of yow Tomorrow night's engagement between -7 hi 11 LJ boy's efforts to gal the two clubs will be the feature game 154 139 of the year here and arrangements WENT OVER HURDLES WtlAMARK 7 5 the day news to you on 4T 1 are being made to accommodate a Total 809 Total pins, 2,440. EVANS Occhiato 128 O'Brien 170 Dellucca 183 Phillips 184 Welts 136 Adams Total 801 Total 2,402. 143 booster crowd. 219 153 157 148 1S4 871 We stand the efficiency 140 The champions have met with a good measure of success in dealing with Tunkhannock this year, winning 158 730 of great newspaper plant 'Si the opening came of the season here and scoring another win two weeks ago at Tunkhannock.

Since the locals downed Tunkhannock in the finals last year to cop' the title, the Tri medal for being the "most courageous athlete in sports during 1937." The manager of the Detroit Tigers suffered a near fatal injury last summer when he was struck on the head by a pitched ball. But Connie, still pale from a late summer illness, became the outstanding athlete and the most courageous sports figure in America in the minds of the 1200 listeners when he told them they would have to tear his baseball uniform from his spare frame to get him to relinquish the 'sport he loved. Others who spoke included Stanley (Bucky) Harris, Washington manager; Joe Cronin, Boston Red Sox manager; Joe McCarthy, manager of the New York Yankees; Jimmy Dykes, Chicago Win! te Sox manager, and Clark Griffith, owner of, the Senators. Bowling at O'Brien 's HOLY NAME LEAGUE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCRAN TON ELECTRIO tons have teen unable to score a vic tory in the last four starts against them. Tunkhannock, in opening the sec the far-reaching activity of the newB-gathereiv bustle of the editorial room.

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Davis 139 124 Keim 195 140 121 Karichner 163 150 180 Shupp 122 184 139 Morris 214 176 150 Baumister 157 Total 832 774 747 Total pins, 2,353. UNIVERSAL Delaney 174 186 172 Walsh 122 131 152 Charles 149 119 147 Stevens 142 178 173 Markowsky 189 184 191 776 798 835 ond half of the NYP League here tomorrow night, will present its trio of Plttston stars Merle Bainbridge, Don Graham and Billy Peters a group of players that will make any club in the loop hustle. In addition to Bainbridge, Graham and Peters, Johnny Muha, of Old Forge, who broke into the pro circuit with Pitts- ton a number of seasons ago, will ba RAYSON I BY HARR" NEA Service Sports Editoi at the pivot post for Tunk. All four players have played with the Plttston club under a different management, Braddock's Total pins, 2,409. iTVTEW YORKJ SpinelU 177 157 107 Ouppy 220 166 Ambrosino 150 181 Barrocci 209 167 168 J.

Lepore 190 158 F. Lepore 160 194 Elleni 139 Total ....946 804 853 Ver Tommy The champions are riding the crest close eading, but it of a five game winning streak after Irarrmad; standardize the to getting off to a slow start and occupy only we; 214 174 150 cl heavyweight imedlocrj first place by a slim margin over Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton. Anxious 124 135 127 189 143 the year following juch failure. This explains why Wilford Wehrle was ignored by the United States Golf Association committee when candidates for the 1938 squad were selected. He didn't earn a match play bracket at Portland, last September.

Wehrle's subsequent victory in the Western amateur was dismissed by the committee as something of an anticlimax. It was felt that a player who couldn't qualify among the low 64 at Alderwood might not be dependable in an international match. Wehrle's lapse was extraordinary since he led the sectional Total pins, 2,603. ST. JOHN'S, PITTSTON to extend the winning streak and protect its undefeated record at the home PITTSTON'S HOME NEWSPAPER Established 1860.

it! Pset MUce Jacobs' Ians i wrr would haye been the attractive opponent for the 116 157 court, Plttston will be out to take the Tritons in typical Plttston fashion. aber. Whether Plttston remains in first 718 811 Madden 210 184 167 Farrell 149 173 153 Redding, Jr. 194 181 148 Redding, Sr 196 163 183 D'Angelo 167 146 157 Total 916 847 810 MAT. LETT'S C.

Domlnlck 154 S. Infantino 180 Piccilo 120 Nemo 120 Salva 161 Mallett Casteline Total 738 Total pins, 2,267. REVIEW Shard 163 Alaimo 143 E. Shard 179 Domlnlck 187 Nemo 120 Total 797 Total pins, 2,375. place after tonight depends on the outcome of the Hazleton-Larksville Y.M.C.

A. Bowling Played at Plttston Y. M. C. A.

WEST SIDE METHODIST-1 Total pins, 2,573. Braddock ii one of the most popular menJvho ever came down cauliflower jBley, yet hnrd-lly could Mr the erstwhile Jvith Louis again. BnddJi has had more pugilistic "tif A than anyone in mem-nry. ey considered him through Tommy Loughran -i him in defense of the lirv -heavyweight title as far back p' 429. 160 166 153 208 120 07 163 149 179 160 120 771 Moyer 183 Baihcr 205 Shook 187 Norris 155 Dendle 151 Wintle ST.

CASIMIR'S Andruzis 215 211 174 S. Waivada 301 168 213 Rsceski 192 182 205 Grlestaraltis 171 214 180 Zekmls 217 247 182 Total 996 1022 954 168 179 179 149 138 813 161 181 180 139 120 781 game tonight. If Hazleton wins, the Mountaineers will jump into top position with a percentage of .642, but a win for Plttston tomorrow night will send the champs back into top place with a .666 percentage. Two wins this week will give Pittston a fair grip on the lead. Wilkes-Barre cannot mathematically move into first place this week and if Plttston splits its two games, the worst that will happen is a two-way tie for second with the Barons.

Jack Granahan, Howell Hastie, Mai McCullough, Ray Bowman, Sandy Sadusky and Al Sosky are in tip top shape for the Booster Game tomorrow night and the bsst game of the year is in the offing. iked him off a in 1934 to fight POWER PLANT LEAGUE Played at Pitteton Recreation. GENERATORS By HENRY McLEMORE, fera card for eat- 881 Total (United Press Staff Correspondent.) nout training, A Total pins, 2,972. ST. JOHN'S, BROWNTOWN Total pins, 2,475.

WYOMING PRESBYTERIAN addock took the I Hollywood, Jan. Admiral qualifiers at Madison, in the national elimination test last August. 13 OBERT D. OSGOOD'S Amer- ican record of 14 seconds for the 120-yard high hurdles, established in the Big Ten meet in Ann Arbor last May, is safe for another year. Forrest Towns decision to become track coach at the University of Georgia this spring removes from competition the only American athlete who might have broken it this year.

Spec Towns is retaining his amateur status until after the eastern indoor meets. He will not, however, run the -120-yard event outdoors this year. Osgood's record has been criticized. He made it in a driving rain. Judge Thomas T.

Reilly, new chairman of the National 213 is a noble steed. In fact, he is 147 143 115 136 145 167 140 125 139 147 ed Jersey Jim to great horse and a sterling represen Louis tagged. 190 150 172 lli5 120 Dymond 169 Hughes 165 Sinclair 147 Lewis 148 Nemo 120 tative of the four-legged equine de C. Morgan 173 160 164 Weiskerger 155 131 133 Alpaugh "4 178 175 T. Connors 214 164 184 F.

Connors 165 174 176 Total 881 807 832 last summer, but 179 132 120 in the thick of partment. His breeding Is the equal of anything that ever had oat for a 686 718 low what Jacobs second course, and he unaojiDieaiy v.ould be the first to offer a fetlock 797 829 49 Total pins, 2,520. Total Total pins, 2,366. Swift 152 Baird 160 Schuman 137 Starke 156 Shupp 133 Total 73cf Total pins, 2,142. TURBINES Ramage 157 Deeter 113 Morse Sweed 129 Joyce 179 Ellis 164 Total 742 Total phis, 2,060.

omoters are going new heavyweight to an aged filly cross the street. But he isn't the fastest horse in the United States. i eloped. PITTSTON KIWANIS BARBS SS. PETER PAUL, AVOCA Forfeit.

ST. CASIMIR'S ver was a more favor- From furlong pole to furlong pole one. 126 132 136 154 124 672 118 130 123 147 128 646 he can't pick m. the weight ana tote why Jack Kearns per- it along with Sen.hisr.nlt. 179 183 190 183 120 172 170 143 165 120 Pernot 183 Wally 191 Yonakas 196 Keen 185 Nemo 120 hiding young Jimmy in Detroit? teed us a fine purse for a match race But Mr.

Riddle didn't see fit to send his horse against us. Then I figured we would have to wait until the Santa Anita handicap. I couldn't see how any man who thought he had the best horse in the country could refuse to ruin him for a purse of $100,000, "But War Admiral isn't here. He is going to run in Florida for half the money that is offered here. -That's his business.

But I can't help- but feel that if a horse is the greatest horse and I have heard that vJar Admiral is he should go for the big gest money in the biggest race." What Mr. Howard tried to say is this: Nobody is scaring Seablscuit from the big races. As a great horse he wants be where the action is hottest. If he isn't good enough to win well, Mr. Howard wants to jtak a long look at the baby who can lick him.

Confidentially, he doesnt thiol there is anything on four legs thai take the Biscuit from seven fur-longs to a mile and a He'll shoot his roll, too. (Copyright, 1938 by United Press.) SONS OF LEGION DOWNED BY INDIANS Sons of the Legion Varsity suffered a 16 to 13 setback at the hands of That's heresy in the east, and aU A. A. U. track committee, said the approval of Osgood's record "considering weather conditions, was a joke." golfer who has failed to along the Atlantic where the sable-coaied little son of Man O' ualify for the National ama- But there it is on the books, 770 855 SUN OIL CO.

championship has been Total 875 Total pins, 2,500. Bufallno 131 149 152 Wargo 123 111 ManganJello 161 144 121 Bowman 151 1W 127 Dendle 205 179 2 23 Joyce 107 Total 771 739 734 Total pins, 2,244. WYOMING KIWANIS J. Lewis 167 153 162 T. Lewis 131 159 164 Cross 140 146 144 Hughes 148 101 156 Ridgley 14S 116 167 Total 732 735 793 and with Towns it is likely to remain there for spme time.

Played at Pittston Recreation. ted for a Walker cup team ini War has brought his silks down winging. But don't towl me as a heretic, TVm'k lmin me at the stake. SACRED HEART. DUPONT TRUCK DRIVER ROBBED road between Kingston and Edwards-ville, and robbed of his pay, amount Because I'm only "uoUn' Charley Howard, the quiet San busi John Franklin, Kingston young man ing to $57.

The bandit drew a re volver and pressed it against Frank' Hn's side, saying, "Let's have it." ness man rto onus seaDiscun. r.i,-i0v Howard loves Seablscuit, Shumski 172 211 195 Sroka 159 153 192 T. Zigmont 195 202 156 Strucke 192 208 188 Novack 203 196 170 Total 921 970 901 iloyed as truck driver by the awn Dairy was held up by OFFICE Elward 140 143 136 Martin .....161 157 160 Lynn 200 167 157 Brodbeck 150 164 170 Total 651 702 623 Total pins, 1,976. WAREHOUSE Moyer 125 133 123 Reiss 166 176 202 Campbell 164 154 159 Nemo 125 125 125 Total 580 588 609 ndlt last night at 8:25 on a lonely Read The Gazette and Keep Posted Total pins, 2,260. Loved him eve; since that day he saw him Saratoga, in the stables of the late Ogden Mills.

Seablscuit wasn't much to look at then. He still showed the effects of 3 races as TV-EW YORK State Senator Ed-A ward Coughlin introduces a bill making it "disorderly conduct" for a woman to stand at a bar. How about under the table, senator? China used to execute her opium addicts. Now she makes them join, the army. That's questionable mercy.

Now taxpayers know what happens to those hot letters they write to the lawmakers. A waste-basket caught fire in a House committee room the other day. A movie executive complains that showmanship is dying on its feet. And Hollywood's only remedy so far is the double feature! White boy, born here and raised in China, is reported "dazed" upon returning to U. S.

Can't get used to the absence of gunfire, probably. (Copyright, 1938, NBA Service, Inc.) Total pins, 2,792. ST. MARK'S, DJKERMAN am rs Curious, World yJZ Ferguson Gorman J. Garrahan a two-jear-oM.

Me fact and Howard picked up for Sr urn, looked on Howard's 1. at a crlft. the Indians last night. MoLain, Davis Knowles and Anthony, with 4 points each, accounted for the Indians' scoring. The Legion team scored its points as follows: Clifford Delicati Cal 209 147 162 142 120 127 137 144 134 184 169 144 123 162 120 ,816 703 705 year later, when Seablscuit was Total plus, 1,777.

Nemo the top u'c mc iav more hors. kins Schmeck 2. Cougar Destroys Sheep Unpopular, indted, is the cougar-he likes too many sheep and deer suppers, notes a writer in the Washington Post. Cougars kill ruthlessly, but rarely attack men. They climb a tree when cornered, can be shot down easily.

An animal of many names, the cougar is also called the mountain lion, wild cat, and wrongly, panther, "painter''' and "catamount." The correct name is "puma," the Peruvian natives' name. The varsity and Junior team will went bats "i 'tt- M-t. wt to first ba-e. Total pins, 2,224. Mills said "keep your check book play St.

Mary's Boys Club tomorrow night. The teams are to meet at Borr Casey's at 8 p. m. EXPERT calculate: that SIX TO 7iSV "years wrmour BIROS VvOUUD BRJNK3- ST. MARY'S, AVOCA Nolan 152 167 DAMAGE AWARD OF $53 Judge B.

R. Jones by decision in 205 163 189 136 182 138 165 159 203 Lavelle 178 Timlin 135 M. Clifford 133 O'Brien 203 suit tried without a Jury awarded (S3 -damages to William Carpenter; of Wyoming, against Frank and Harry Gordon, owner and driver of a coal truck which damaged a Neon sign of Bean Brnmmell's Nerve Beau Brummell, Britain's leader of fashion, died in 1840, but the world is still chuckling over his escapades and colossal nerve. Asked by a beggar for a he said he never heard of such a coin, "Here's a quarter." Returning from a trip abroad a friend inquired what scenery pleased him most, and ringing for his man, he said, "Pray, tell his lordship what scenery we liked best." But the climax of his impudence was the meeting of the crown prince and heir to the throne, walking with a duke, and saying to the duke, "Who's your fat friend?" at a time when the heir to the throne, his former chum and pal, was angry with him. 833 875 Total 801 In vourpocket, Charley, oeca rfve done with the Biscuit I I LTsell you a goat lor four dol-ETSMt lacked antlers Ta hi bad knee." rfrtoS hot on the finish line Anita.

was hard to talk because he was besieged WS? Sons seeking information. SfSbV by. Randolph Jc.t Tpat O'Brien wanted some-fIthe third. So did Victor Mc- 1 hundred otbem. Lagl S) shot at.

War Total pins, 2,514. ST. JOSEPH'S, MINOOKA the plaintiff at Wyoming. TO A CLOSE THE EARTH'S ENTIRE SYSTEM OF NATURE INSECTS WOULD INCREASE TO SUCH PROPORTIONS THAT BVERyTHINCr WOULD BE Energy From Heat Practically any kind of energy Is the product of heat in some form or other. It is admitted that the most rarifled fuel known to man is gas, the economies of which are admitted when all things are taken Into consideration.

When raw coal is burned to produce heat, only 10 to 15 per cent efficiency is obtained. In using coal to make gas, 80 per cent efficiency is obtained. Ancestor of the Chihuahua It is believed that the Techich! a breed of dog much liked by the Toltecs of Mexico centuries ago is one of the ancestors of the Chihuahua. Legend and history are rich in stones of the ancestors of the modern Chihuahua. It is be lieved to have been a popular pet as well as a relig.ous symbol among the Toltecs and Aztecs.

OIL PROBE HALTED Harrisburg, Jan. 26. Pennsylvan- i G. Driscoll 202 147 175 Jeffers, 118 138 150 Butler 157 148 151 Farrell 141 175 303 Niemo 120 .120 120 Total 731 728 799 la's oil investigation was halted tenv porarily as a three-Judge trlbunaTl- T'vi a ways mp "Wfl mere iiowtiiu w1" in Dauphin Count Court ruled against a-hearing scheduled for February at allStoraceatPlmlicolastNo. an lew VanAprhit Buaxan- Total pins, 2,265.

CAN ATTAIN A SPEED OF PEG. YXXJAZ. vembf. ffneu "CAP STUBBS'f By Edwina Another Reason HELLO; BEAUTIFUL BUT DUMB I II III SMAIVTY GRAN'MA! LE'S US DO MOVE GRAN'MA! LE'S US DO MOVE OUTTA THIS NEIGHBORHOOD! 1 i 1 1 1 AGOCF6ALL Leaves the club at iA SPEED OF ABOUT WHEN HIT By THE rrf aL'J I AVERAGE THE Massachusetts InsUtute of Technology has made studies of ligh-speed phenomena which disclose the curious actions of 1 Z. ln motion- 'At the moment of impact witM the club, the call flatten remains momenterily pressed against the face, then snoots off into space..