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Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15

a small wager on himself to win
and is ready to offer odds he will
beat Hetzel even if one of the
other valley drivers gets lucky
enough TO win the race.
Ward Swarthout, promoter of
the midget association, was an
Cling to sign up the Yuma mys-
terry car but valley drivers refused
to become excited. Il wouldn't
be surprised if the Mystery Car
would even place behind Fred
Davis" Hardin Young told a group
of special operators appointed to
investigate The midget situation.
Davis, however, was unperturbed
by the dig and the confident smile
on his face worried Imperial VAL
ley drivers.
The last time he smiled like
that, it is rumored, he took first
place in the main event.
Bob Douthitt and Hobart Herrick
who stayed out of last weeks races
to repair their autos will be in
the thick of the battle his week
and midget race officials anticipate
the best races Oh t.le year.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15
COAST LEAGUE
TEAMS TO OPEN
PLAYOFF SERIES

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. Is. U.P)
First division winners of the
Pacific Coast league today open
seven-game playoffs TO determine
the 1886 pennant winner.
Portland, which finished in first
place, meets Seattle in a day game.
Following their second game
Thursday, they move 10 Seattle
to play three more games. If
neither team has won four games,
they return to Seattle to finish
the series.
San Diego and Oakland meet
at Oakland in a night game. If by
tomorrow night the teams have
won game each, third game will
be played at Oakland, after which
the two teams will move to San
Diego to finish the series. The
San Diego games viii be played
in the daytime.
The winners of these two seven
game series will meet in final
championship playoff.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15

LONDON, Sept. Is. U.R)-For 6
university so young in years it still
is shy of being 900 years old, having
been founded as recently as 1892
Cambridge has taken a step which
many English athletic officials con
slider downright radical.
Cambridge's sIep-and you can
see it for yourself-is the ins.alla-
ton of a modern locker room with
shower baths, soap, towels and lini-
ment for its athletes. In the future,
Cambridge athletes, when they fin
ish spot of rugby, cricket, running.
jumping or tennis, may go right into
the field house, bathe, have rub
down and leave in nice clean clothes
I'm not saying they will do this
right away, for that isn't likely.
Old habits are hard to break and,
after all, generations of Cam
bridge men have been accustomed,
when they finish working out on
the track or field. to throw an
cid sweater about them and pro-
ceed directly home.
1t may be weeks or even months
before some chap bolder than his
fellows will risk ridicule and try
the new tangled idea of taking a
shower and getting a tingling rub
down. The cornerstone of the Cam
bridge field house barely had been
laid before critics began lambasting
the idea. They said such a thing
was pure luxury and would neces-
sarily result in pampered athletes
who would be unable to uphold the
honor of the school.
Were I an Englishman my answer
TO this would be that there is no
way you can injure the
prowess OF an English athlete. He
Is pure rock-bottom and can be ex-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15
J. e. FOOTBALL
CANDIDATES
WILL REPORT

Central Junior College football
candidates will report to the El Cen
tro high school gymnasium tonight
to receive their moleskins and
launch a stiff training grind in
preparation for the toughest j. c.
schedule in the history of the school.
Coach r. r. Taylor expects to
have six lettermen from last years
squad report for practice tonight
as well as several candidates from
valley high schools.
The junior college mentor will
issue suits starting at $50. Those
players who do not receive their
uniforms tonight before 7:30 at
which time practice will begin will
be forced TO wait until Wednesday
night TO get their suits. according
10 Taylor
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15
ONLY TWO MEN
BREAK PAR IN
GOLF TOURNEY

GARDEN CITY, N. Y, Sept. Is.
UP)-Only two men shaved par as
the 4Oth U. S. amateur golf cham
pionship opened Monday at the
Garden City club
Many favored performers-parti-
cularly Atlanta's pride, Cocky
Charley Yates - teetered on the
brink of defeat but all pulled them
selves together to move into the
second round.
Four name players, none rated as
championship threats, passed from
the running on a day of high scor-
ing. They were Harry Bentley
British Walker cupper; Freddie
Haas, lanky New Orleans youth;
Jack Munger of Dallas, 1888 semi
finalist and T. A. (Tony) Torrance,
burly Scotsman.
The men who bettered par in their
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15
Jack Will
Head Card
AT BrawIey.

Sixteen prominent anna
teur boxers headed by the
Imperial Valley middle
weight champion, Jack Nor
rissette, will put forth their
best efforts in the Brawley arena
tonight To make the reopening OF
the Brawley Eagles Athletic club
an outstanding success.
MoTr.ssette. lanky BraWley mid
dloweight who lifted the valley title
from Herman Graves last week.
will make the first defense of
his championship against a slug
ging Palm Springs battler, Ray
Hagar.
Bert Birmingham, who wants
TO meet Herman Graves in order
to qualify for a crack at Morris
sette's middleweight championship,
will take on a fast. hard hitting
San Bernardino Negro, Willie
Walker, in the semi-Windup.
Birmingham. who starts every
blow from the exit and puts every
thing he has into each punch, can
always be depended upon to give
a real battle. Walker. who also
swings a mean pair of fists is
ready to go and is confident he
can take the measure of the Braw-
ley uppercut artist.
Bobby Hagar, a youngster who
battles at top speed from the open
ing gong of the first round until
the final bell at the end of the
fourth, viii take on his old arch
enemy, Willie Estrada. Hagar has
been looking forward to the bout
and plans to avenge two previous
defeats he has suffered at the
hands of the Brawley bantam
weight.
Sylvester Lucio and Bill White
will mix it in a bout that may
steal the show Both battlers are
experienced fighers, pack a good
punch, and are capable defensive
battlers.
Other bouts:
Larry Hagar VS.. Cleo Shans,
Chet Galloway VS.. Leon Shelton,
Ben Silyas VS.. Joe Rodriguez, and
Carl Hall VS.. Mike Vasquez.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15
NEGRO ADMITS
THEFT OF HAY

Theft of 146 bales Of hay from
two different ranches in Imperial
Valley was admitted by Delman
Embray, 28-year-old Negro follow
ing his arrest in Brawley late Mon
day by Deputy Sheriff Frank Ra-
ney.
He confessed TIE t1efis to T. NJ.
Sharp, chief criminal investigator
for the sheriffs office, and showed
Raney where he stole them and
where he sold them.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15
SoftbalI Practice
For Boys to Be Held

Ell Centre boys between the ages
of II and 16 years will hold their
third softball practice session to-
night on Wilson school field.
Frank Smyer, who has taken
charge of the boys while Jack
Sta is out Of the valley on hi;
vacation, expects to have the larg-
est turnout OF the year tonight.
The group will be split into
teams and Smyer plans to allow
the boys to play a couple of games
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15

week, I'm Clnch TO lake top
honors," Salmen boasted.
Frank Hetzel, who is still sore
because his car threw a wheel last
week, has vowed he will beat Sal
men Thursday night if he has to
push his car around the track.
The way that Salmen guy brags
you'd think he had faster car
than NINE" HetZel moaned, why
1 could put my car in reverse, if
it had a reverse, and whip that
mug"
Salmen, it is reported, has laid
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15
Bench
Warming
BY BURDETTE KINNE
Post-Prcss Sports Editor

The Ell Centro Amateur associa-
ton board of directors recently con
tactad the athletic boards OF the
U. S. Navy and U. S. Marines and
made arrangements to bring service
boxers to the valley during the VIM
ter months.
Last week four navy boxers journ-
eyed to the valley with their man
ager, Eddie Carsey, veteran handler.
Carsey'S boys were outclassed but
they put up four great battles and
made the fans sit up and take no
tice, with occasional flurries that
had the valley boys on the run.
Immediately after the fights
group of the FL Centro boxing
moguls cornered Carsey and begin
to ride him about the poor" fight
ers he had to work with in the
navy.
Carsey merely shrugged his shoul-
ders. scattered his taunting audience
with a spray of tobacco juice and
gave the boys the lowdown.
You just wait until next week.
I know what class of fighters you
have here now and I'll bring down
some gobs that'll set 'em on their
ears"
Carsey was especially anxious to
bring Ray Mason to the valley to
fight Herman Graves. The veteran
handler has been training Mason
for several months and is confident
his boy will take the all-fleet mid
dleweight title. This Graves boy
is good enough to give Mason a
BATTLE" Carsey mumbled, "but I'll
bet any one of you couple of an
chors Ray kayoes your Bomber
%
Wesley Ferreil, temperamental
Boston Red Sox mound ace, is work
ing hard these days in an effort
to earn back the $1,000 be lost in a
fine when he walked off the mound
in game against the Yankees re-
Gently.
Ferrell has made an outstanding
record since his return to the roster
and Joe Cronin plans to refund the
$1,000 if Wesley keeps up the good
work.
Speaking of the Red Sox, Tom
Yawkey is already looking forward
| to the 1887 season. The millionaire
owner of the Boston nine is picking
up young material to bolster his
lineup for next years campaign.
The Sox board of strategy plans
to move Jimmy FoxX to the outfield,
put Babe Dahlgren on first base,
Bobby Doerr, sensational San Diego
Padre second baseman, on the key
stone sack, and round out the rest
of the team with available veterans
Gene Desautels, fiery San Diego
catcher. has been added to the ros-
ter and Manuel Salvo has been re
called in the first move toward re
building the hurting staff.
90
Today the four teams which fin
ished in the top division of the
Coast League will begin a fight for
the league championship under the
ShaughneSsy system.
San Diego will run up against the
Oakland Oaks and Portland will be-
gin a seven game civil war with
Seattle.
This writer looks for San Diego
and Portland to meet in the final
playoff next week to decide the
Coast League champion.
matches were Johnny Fischer of
Fort Thomas, KY, and T. S. Taller
Of Locust Valley, N. Y.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15

L. Teason, two year letterman
from Redlands who answered the
first call to practice last night
will bolster the line and may turn
the club into championship con-
tender.
The Vikings went through a one
drill Monday night and Walker
gave them two plays to master
this week
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15
Brubaker Slated
To Fight Winner

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Is. U.P)
Phil Brubaker, promising Dinu-
ba, Cal, heavyweight, tentatively
has been matched with the WIN
ner of the Tommy Loughran-Ray
Impelletirre bout which will be
staged in the oakland Auditorium
tomorrow night, Dreamland Audi
torium promoter Tony Palazolo
announced today.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15
HOPES SOAR
FORCHAMPION
BORDER TEAM

Hopes for another championship
grid team at Calexico high were
boosted Monday night when Art
Nazabal. husky fullback, was among
the 80 football candidates who an
swered the call to colors.
Coach Covington had feared his
star backfield man would not be on
hand for the first two weeks OF
practice as the youth had been sta
toned at a CCC camp.
The CaleXico coach sent his
charges through short workout
consisting for the most part OF
limbering up exercises. Another
light workout is scheduled for to-
night and on Wednesday the Cal
exicans will go through their first
stiff practice session.
BRAWLEY PROSPECTS
OUTSTANDING
Coach Marvin Clark sent the
Brawley Wildcats through light
practice Monday night. Although he
failed to uncover any new material
he was well pleased with the show
ing of his squad in their first work
out.
Seven lettermen are back from
the 1886 squad, Allen, Fowler, Min
ter, Ellis, Shank, Mccullough and
Smith but only three were regu-
lars last season.
The Al gridders viii hold a Sec
ond training grind Tuesday after
noon
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15
FRED SALMEN OUT TO
REPEAT WIN IN RACE

Fred Salmen, who romped down the throttle of his
speedy No. last week to take first place in the main
event. today predicted he would again home in first
place Monday night.
with my car in even better shape than it last
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15
125 GRID CANDIDATES
TURN OUT IN VALLEY

More than 25 enthusiastic valley football candidates
focked four we'll lighted gridrons, Ell Centro Brawley
Caexco and Hotvlle Monday night for the first work
of the The large turnouts at each school and
the large number of persons who witnessed the opening
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15

of the 1896 football practice indi-
Gated the valley will enjoy one Of
the most successful grid seasons
in several years.
Thirty-nine cavorting gridderS
greeted Coach w. S. Taylor Ell
Centro high school head coach
Monday night for the initial work
out. Seven lettermen were on hand
and Taylor Immediately launched
a training grind which he hopes
will bring El Centro its first foot
ball championship since 1881.
Taylor will have the strongest
line in the history of Ell Centre
football as all of his returning
regulars are linemen. The El
Centro mentor, however, will have
his work cut out for him when he
starts grooming his green back
field candidates into a scoring COM
bination.
The large number of persons
who trekked to the e. Centre field
last night were impressed by the
size of the Ell Centro lettermen.
Voorting and Ballou, tackles from
last years squad tip the scales at
200 pounds, Aaron and Smith at
the ends weigh 180, and the guards
Zinn and Childers approach the
100 mark.
The high school coach sent his
squad through Is minutes of exer-
cises and then set his boys to
blocking practice.
The SpartanS wound up the open
ing practice session with short
passing drill, and a couple of laps
around the track.
The squad will report for its
second workout Tuesday night at
1880.
81 GRIDDERS PREP
IN HOLTVILLE
Coach Noval Walker, Holtville
high school coach, chuckled to
himself Tuesday morning as he
surveyed the football situation in
the valley. Walker sent 81 athlet-
es through the PAGES Monday night
and was more than pleased with
his prospects.
With five lettermen back and
several promising candidates from
his reserve list of last years team,
Walker expects to :urn out an
eleven that will be equally as
strC.lg as the team of "a.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-15

matches were Johnny Fischer of
Fort Thomas, KY, and t. S. Taller
Of Locust Valley, N. Y.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-07
Gull Piles Shoe
Pruning IS Needed

Observation of the Gull piles of several
packing houses both in Virginia and
Maryland, last fall, showed great num-
Der of culls due to limb rub and me-
chanical bruises In some cases there
were more cuIls from these causes than
from insects
This would indicate that growers
should give attention to removal of small
twigs and branches throughout the tree
in order to eliminate the causes of rubbed
and battered fruit.
1t is always safe rule in thinking of
pruning requirements to look over the
trees with the last harvest season in
mind, particularly the number of culls
and off-grade fruits.
BY reducing the amount of small and
poorly colored fruit, proper pruning will
make money for the grower. 1t will also
open the trees to better sunlight and to
better spray coverage.
A good guide in making pruning
profitable operation is: (D Cut out as
little of the strong, fruiting wood as pos
sible. (2) Remove the weak wood. (3)
Cut under instead of on top.
As trees are pruned this winter, grow
ers will do well to be on the lookout
for red mite. Several serious outbreaks
of this insect last summer did consid
cradle damage to leaves and fruit by
causing poor color and early fruit Drop
ping. They weakened buds for next
year.
Miscible oil spray applied in the
spring will control this insect, but the
entomologists warn that the oil spray
must not be applied too early or it will
not give proper results, as the eggs have
hard shells until near Matching time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-07

high quality together with their other
good points will make Dorsett and Fair
fax rival Blakemore in total acreage as
they become better known.
John Hicks, grower in Somerset
County, Md, reported yield of 5000
quarts per acre of Dorsett, in fact from
just 5000 plants set. Many other fine
yields were obtained from both Dorsett
and Fairfax. Equally important is the
selling price. Government reports show
out the season from this section until
some of the later berries began to come
in.
Among the late varieties there has
been no such rapid change in popular
favor. Big Joe for mdseason and Ches-
apeake, Lupton and Candy for late have
been fayorites for long time. Only
one variety now on the horizon seems
capable of displacing these to any extent.
That variety is Catskill.
OF the new varieties mentioned, Blake
more, Bellmar, Dorsett and Fairfax are
introductions of the u. S. Department
of Agriculture. Catskill was introduced
by the New York Agricultural Expert
ment Station.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-07
Cover Crop Vital
For Water Supply

The relation of cover crops to water
conservation in orchards is emphasized
in report made by T. B. Hutchinson
of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment
Station. He points out that more than
400 pounds of water must pass through
the leaves of plants in order that one
pound of dry matter may be produced.
when one considers" Mr.. Hutche-
son says, +the enormous yield of dry
material in leaves, new growth and fruit,
and further considers the fact that the
unpreventable loss of water by run-of
and percolation amounts to at least fifty
per cent of the total rainfall it is easy
to grasp the fact that on the average the
amount of water falling on orchards
during the growing season is insufficient
to produce large yields of fruit"
The solution to the problem is to
store water in the soil between growing
seasons. Aside from irrigation, Mr..
Hutchinson points to two ways to in
crease moisture in the orchard soil: (I)
Prevent run-of by using cover crops and
cultivation, and (2) increase the organic
matter of orchard soil. Organic mat
ter may hold from 200 to 900 per cent
of its weight in water.
Cover crops supply organic matter.
Legunes are preferable since, when prop
erly innoculated, they have the power of
gathering from the atmosphere nitrogen
which may later be used by the trees.
Biennial clovers, cowpeas or soybeans,
and annual lespedezas are the three best
cover crops.
Sweet clover, seeded in late winter,
sends its roots deeper in the soil and
gives a larger yield of organic matter
than does red clover. However, this
crop will not grow in acid soils and
requires liberal applications of phos-
pilates for maximum production.
Cowpeas and soybeans are summer
legumes which furnish lots of organic
matter and are well suited for young
orchards. Seed oowpeas in June, soy
beans in May. Superphosphate will in
crease the yield. A bad aspect of these
crops is that they require blowing of the
land which always increases erosion.
Annual lespedezas grow on acid soils
and require little plant food. Seed are
sown in March without soil preparation.
They are simply broadcast, IS pounds to
the acre, narrowed lightly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-07

slightly more firm
and Dorsett
slightly less firm
than Blakernore.
In size also they
are better I h an
other early vari-
cites. In quality
Dorset and Fair
fax are far supe-
rior to any vari-
cites yet grown in
this section, and
it is felt that this
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-07

Shore growers, dispIacing a large per-
centage of the Klondyke and Missionary.
After few years Premier became very
unpopular with those who shipped in re-
frigerator cars. Where shipments were
made by truck Premier was not discount
ed SO heavily. AS Premier came to be
planted in large acreages the great pro-
ductiveness of the plants resulted in ire
mendous quantity of these berries going
OIL the market in short time. The poor
prices for Premier berries resulted from
such heavy shipments of mediocre ber-
ries have lot to do with the ready
acceptance which some of the new va
rieties have had among Eastern Shore
growers.
The first and most popular of these
new early berries was the Blakemore.
Probably it is safe to say that no variety
ever took hold faster than Blakemore has
on the Eastern Shore, largely on account
of its vigor of plant growth, productive
ness and especially the light color and
firmness OF the berries. 1t is unfortu-
nate that much of the early stock OF
Blakemore OH the Peninsula came from
stock which was slightly to badly in
tested with bud nematode or crimps
which is very serious problem in some
of the southern states. There are stocks
OF this variety which have not been ex-
posed to this disease and many of the
larger growers are securing their new
plants from these sources.
Another fault of Blakemore is yell
lows. In all Blakemore fields areas are
found where the leaves turn quite yell
low. In some cases it is serious enough
to reduce the crop. Scientists have not
yet decided whether or not this trouble
will eventually destroy the usefulness of
this fine variety.
Bcllmar is another variety with the
same parentage as Blakemore, but is even
darker than Premier in color. Bellmar.
although fine variety, has not taken
hold much in Eastern Shore berry grow
ing sections.
Still newer are Dorset and Fairfax
which have been grown for several years,
but in 1885 were put on the market in
considerable quantities. These berries
are both good shippers, Fairfax being
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-07
Eastern Shore Growers Find
Nea0 Berries Profitable
BY w. LEE ALLEN

ME 1885 strawberry crop was one
Il of the most profitable Eastern Shore
growers have had for several years.
Various factors contributed to this re-
suit. There is little question but that the
drought of 1884 reduced the total acre
age in some of the middle western states
and that higher market prices resulted.
Weather conditions for producing good
crop OH the Eastern Shore were very
favorable. Furthermore, many growers
have made use OF new and better varie-
ties and received better prices because of
having better berries.
Many of the middle western states
were adversely affected by the 1884
drought. Probably the berry crops OF
Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri are
the ones which had the most influence OH
markets for Eastern Shore berries. The
limited acreage and the decreased pro-
duction in those states resulted in far
less mid-western berries being shipped to
the eastern markets than usual.
Where strawberries are grown On
reasonably good land and are well fer
tilted, the main limiting factor in pro-
ducrion is moisture. The fruiting sea-
son in 1885, starting with the period
when strawberries were in bloom, was
one of the most favorable in years from
the standpoint of moisture. Frequent
showers throughout the period when the
plants were in bloom and the fruit was
developing made possible large average
size and total production per acre.
AT times there seemed to be even too
much rainfall which is likely to make
the berries rot, especially where plants
in the fruiting row are overcrowded. 1t
also makes the berries gritty and de-
tracts from their appearance and value.
The practices of keeping plants thinned
to prevent excessive rotting and of null
ching to reduce the percentage of dirty
berries after shower are recommended.
They will be helpful in wet seasons and
in dry seasons they will aid in conserv-
ing moisture.
A discussion of varieties always brings
out plenty of argument and personal
opinion. Prior to 1915 perhaps 800
or more of the early strawberries grown
on, the Eastern Shore were Missionary
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-02-07

and XII n d Ike
with the excep-
ton of a f c W
Horsey and Hef-
Ain pro d u c e d
in the two Vir-
ginia counties.
Premier was in
PRODUCED in 1915.
On account of its
great productive
ness Premier rap
idly gained favor
with the Eastern