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Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07
TODAY'S-
Sports Parade
eY HENRY McLEMoRE

one umpire-he always did hate me
who called three straight strikes
on me one day. Not a one of them
was within a foot of the plate. When
he called strike three l turned
around and yelling strike four let
him have one on the chin that
knocked him cold. He didn't even
put me out of the game. Everybody
was tough in those days"
MacCormick was with Billy Sun
day the night he was converted.
Billy was playing with Chicago,
and he was a good fielder. I guess
he was the fastest man on the
bases I ever saw, and he was a bad
sinner. One night bunch of play
ers were sitting on the curbstone in
front of a cheap hotel when we
heard some gospel music coming out
of little mission across the street.
Billy asked if anyone would go over
to the mission with him and We all
laughed. Finally 1 went and Billy
gave himself to the Lord that night.
He never took another drop OF
whisky or cussed again. Not so
many years ago he was holding a
revival meeting in Jacksonville and
I went to it, He spotted me from
the pulpit and yelled:
"'Hy there, you Oh Giant
HE came down and nearly shook
my hand Off"
Players didn't wear gloves when
MacCormick started in baseball, and
his hands proved it. He hasn't a
finger on either hand that isn't
crooked as a vulture's talon.
Somebody broke a finger nearly
every day." he said.
And broken bones were no eX-
cuse for not playing, either, because
the Giants of 1887 had a squad OF
13-two pitchers, two catchers, and
one utility man. The old timer
thinks the boys of yesteryear play
ed Just as we'll as the men OF today
but he doesn't think the eighties
ever had a pitcher to match Chrlsty
MatheWSon.
He was the best I ever saw" Mac
Cormick said.
The old Giant said he thought Bill
Terry "kicked away" the 1886 Worlo
by playing Travis Jackson at thlrd
and that Terry "is crazy if he moves
OFT to third base"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07
Noted Quarterback
Of Other Years
Now Film Cutter

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 7. W.p)-Four
years ago Irwin (Cotton) Warburton,
University of Southern California's
AH-American quarterback, enter
tanned thousands each Saturday
with spectacular dashes on the
gridiron.
Today the tiny, tow-headed War;
burton helps entertain millions
With a pair of scissors. His foot
ball pants were hung up long time
ago. He took a whirl at the pro-
fessional game but didn't like it.
Now he is a film cutter in the Met
Goldwyn-Mayer studios.
While he worked at his job to-
day, the Cotton Top" talked about
football and the movies.
Il figured I'd be a sucker" he
said, IF I stuck with football. i
got into the movie racket while I
was going to college That's a life
work and football isn't So I de-
cided to put away all thoughts of
the game and concentrate upon q
career"
So diligent is Warburton that he
didn't even go to this years game
at the Rose BoWl--and he played
there once.
ut takes too long to become a
good coach" he said And it's q
gamble Suppose I didn't make out
after couple of years? I'd be too
old to play pro football. And I'd
wind up being just another former
All-American looking for a job +"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07
British Net
Ace Scores
Upset Win

NEW YORK. Jan. 6. UP)-Fred-
erick John Perry Of England, max
Ing his professional tennis DEBUT
before a capacity crowd at Madison
Square Garden, tonight defeated
Ellsworth Vines. worlds professional
champion, 7-53-6,6-3,6-4.
The crowd was announced Of
ficially as 1880 paid admissions,
the largest throng ever to witness
a tennis match in America. The
gate of S58,11950 also established a
new American record.
The first set was a service duel
in which Perry finally won by break
ing service in the 18th game and
holding his own in the 18th. There
was only one deuced game, the
fourth.
Perry was having considerable diff
ficulty with his first services, but
found a vulnerable spot III Vines
backhand. which he barraged m-
mercifully Perry laid down two
beautiful forehand passes to close
out the 18th game for the first
break and slammed two smashes at
Vines feet to end the set.
The lanky Californian improved
his play in the second set and
broke through Perry's service in
the second and eighth games. The
second game was the hardest fought
going to deuce four times before
Vines won.
Vines brought his play 10 peak
in the eighth game when he twice
caught Perry flat-footed with fore
hand passes. Vines scored a beau-
tiful service ace in the ninth game
which brought a laundering roal
from the crowd and put him withir
a point of the set. ELY followed
up with another terrific smash
which almost turned Fred's racquet
to win game and set.
In the third set, Perry broke ser.
vice in the second game. winning
at 4-2. and held his own in tht
i third to run up a lead of three
/ games to love. Games followed
service from here out.
Vines tightened his service Il
win the eighth game at love, bu
Perry's deep-court passing shots wol
the ninth and the set.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07

scoring combination in the val
ley.
Nun Wong was completely bot
tied by the Arab defense Tuesday
night but the Chinese forward is
expected to Ihake a good showing
when the Spartans line up against
Brawley Friday night.
The Brawley and El Centro c
teams will engage in a caSaba toss
ing duel in a preliminary game
starting at 7:30 Friday night.
Brawley. boasting one of the
strongest teams in the loop and
winner of the valley invitational
tourney. is heavily favored but
Bob Erskine's boys will be in the
running all of the way.
Imperial and Calexico are slated
to meet Friday in Calexico and
Holtville and Calipatria are sche-
duled to play in Holtville.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07

DAYTONA BEACH. Fla. Jan. Z.
This is the story %. "a man who
graduated from a theological semi
nary. took a post graduate course
behind a bar in a lumber camp
saloon. and then joined the New
York Giants to become the first
college graduate ever to play major
league baseball.
He is william MacCormick and
the Giants he played for were the
Giants of 1887--a collection of Giants
who played the game bare-handed,
over moustachios of a size eagles
could roost on, and considered any
one who took a shower more than
once a series a sissy.
The once fiery shortstop is rs
now, and settled down in a little
cottage that snuggles on the banks
of the Halifax river. All his old
cronies are gone noW-al save
Connie Mack. who he remembers as
pink checked gangling kid who
was a whale of catcher but
couldn't hit.
I found him yesterday a-sittin' in
the sun on a bench at the Peabody
club. where lawn bowling goes on
from dawn till dusk, and 65 is the
average age of the membership list.
For two hours l sat beside the little
old fellow Che never weighed more
than $50, even in that February day
/ in 1887 when he reported to the
/ Giants in Ell PaSo for spring train
/ ingD And for two hours he talked
baseball, covered the span from the
days when a drop was the fancieSt
thing a pitcher threw, until the
world series of last year when he
hugged the radio and prayed for
Bill Terry's Giants-his Giants-to
lick the Yankees.
VILLAIN MacCormick started his
baseball while a student at the
Chesborough Theological seminary,
an institution devoted to the produc-
ton of Methodist preachers.
"I meant to be a preacher" Mac
Cormick said "but right before I
graduated we have a game with a
Buffalo team and Giant scout saw
me and offered me a job. I signed
up and said l would report next
year.
Il graduated. and not liking the
farm work at home, went to Canada
where I tended bar. 1t was a good
thing I had that bar experience
else I never would have lasted wit
the Giants. Because it taught me
how to handle drunks and how to
fight, and you needed to know both
things On the Giants in those days
They tell me Bill Terry's got a
nice, quiet bunch of boys on the
Giants now. Well, they were hell
raisers in those days. We had one
pitcher who couldn't win a game if
he didn't knock off bout a quart
before he went out on the field"
The Giants played the Orioles in
those days, but MacCormick doesn't
remember that they were any tough
er than anybody else In fact, he
thinks the Providence team that
played in the league at that time
holds the all-time prize for orneri-
ness.
we had a fight every time We
played Providence" he said, with a
laugh. And when the players
weren't fighting themselves they
fought the umpires. I remember
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07
UTAH GOLFER
LEADS FIELD
IN L. A. OPEN

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7. U.P)-
George Schneiter Of Ogden, Utah,
led field of g. qualifiers Tor the
$4,000 Los Angeles open golf champ
ionship with a par-shattering SO
over Ranch course yesterday.
The Utah professional broke par
by a stroke despite the fact he was
playing over greens heavy from
rain.
Qualifying rounds were held over
six courses with a score of 80 or
lower necessary to enter the champ
ionship bracket starting tomorrow.
Schneiter's nearest rivals for
medal honor were Charles Congdon
of Tacoma. Wash, who posted a
70 at Baldwin Hills and Herman
Allen Of Los Angeles with the same
score at Sunset Fields.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07
]. {. Alumni
Fling Def
At Varsity

An undefeated Ell Centro junior
college alumni basketball team to-
night will challenge the Junior col
lege varsity's right to claim the dis
tinction of being Imperial Valleys
best cage outfit when the two teams
meet in the Central gymnasium at
8 o'clock
The grads, led by Drennen and
Ryerson. boast a high scoring, pow
erful defensive team, and will give
the Arabs the stiffest competition
yet encountered.
In spite of the fact the grads will
be the strongest quintet yet faced
by the jaycees, r. R. Taylor anti
cipates a junior college victory. The
vast improvement shown by the
Arabs in recent games will give the
Nomad five an even chance to halt
the winning streak of the alumni
club.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07

A-1(OAANA4N4O AllElls
After listening to the high school
student body sing "On Central,
Mike DoWd of the Ell Centro Ro-
tary Club presented the gold foot
balls to lettermen of the squad
The Lions, Rotarians and KiWa-
mans and several Ell Centre buSi-
nessmen donated the footballs.
Bob Burke expressed the appre-
citation of the student body and
football team in receiving the
awards.
Coach w. S. Taylor then pre-
sented letters to % lettermen and
awarded jackets to every member
of the first three strings who stay
ed out for the entire season despite
the fact many of them were not
given many opportunities to play
in games.
Taylor attributes the success Of
the team to those boys who stay
out and provide opposition for the
regulars in practice sessions and
keep the varsity men on their toes
by battling for their positions on
the team.
Norris Trophy Presented
Franklin Stinson, of CaleXico
high school, presented the Herb
Norris football trophy to Central.
The Norris trophy is a perpetual
award and will finally rest in the
trophy case of the valley football
team which can win three foot
ball titles in a row.
Calvin Aaron, captain Of the
Spartan team presented the south
eTn California championship tro-
ply to the school.
twenty three lettermen were:
Calvin Aaron, who made his third
varsity letter; Bob Ballou, Ernie
zinn, Morlyn Childers, Herbert Lee,
Jake Voorting, and Earl Smith,
who received their second letter,
and Juan Kirkpatrick, Bob Burke,
Milton Damron, Forrest Napier,
John Mousser, Marcus Naito, Ray
Knight, Lamar Gillette, Joe Swim
gle, Lawrence Van Norman, Ver-
non Baker, Bob O'Guin, Kenny
Lambeth, Robert Feeney, and Jack
Mazda
Those who did not make a let
ter but who received Jackets were
M. Shaw, Lloyd Edgar, Toxic Okla
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07

ball teams look ike a DuIlCH VI
amateurs, will meet the jaycees
in the Central gym "Wednesday
night at 8 o'clock.
The Clowns have been recognized
by basketball critics on both the
east and west coasts as ths great
est entertainers in hoopdom. Their
clever and comical antics are an
innovation of the game and they
have taken the country by storm.
In practically every city where
the Clowns appear the score Is OF
secondary Importance as they play
chiefly for laughs and in almost
every instance have the fans howl
ing at their exhibition.
A passing exhibition that fairly
dazzles their opponents and mys-
titles the fans is employed by the
Clowns at the start of each game.
They seldom attempt to score un-
til their opponents have taken a
Lead but work the ball in for a
setup shot--and then pass it back
out TO the middle of the court in
stead of shooting. AS the game pro-
crosses the Negro boys stage var
ious acts, including football place
kick formation in which PFather"
Miles educated toe sends the
ball sailing TO the basket-and
often, to the amazement of every
one, through the hoop.
In the heat of battle the Clowns
may stop for a dice game, and
they win stage q baseball exhibi-
ton or "Po'kchops" Brine may do
his famous tap-dance dribble, in
fact you never know Just what the
colored Clowns are about to do.
They play for laughs throughout
the game, and even when the go
ing is tough, as it sometimes is,
the Clowns clown to the last, max
ing good their reputation as show
men.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07

Int Ao0D Alldlll lJ4p4lolAp.
Only a short drill is anticipated
lat this afternoons practice and
tine Fl Centro will be ready TO de-
|fend their championship.
Coach w. S. Taylor announced
he would start Carroll Smith at
|csnter, Bromley and Ryerson at
forwards and O'Guin and Burke
at guards. This lineup made a bril-
|liant showing against Beverly Hills
high shortly before Christmas va
|cation and Taylor will gamble the
|chanceS for a Spartan victory with
these five cagarS on the floor.
The Fl Centrans will individually
be troubled by the longer Brawlsy
floor but the Central team is fast
developing into a clever ball han
ding club and may play a better
brand Of ball on a large court.
Brawley high was impressive
|against the El Centre junior COL
|lege team Tuesday night despite
| the fact the jaycees walloped the
Wildcats by II points.
Their offenSe was clicking nice
| " most of the game and though
their defense was not particularly
effective against the junior college
|sharpshooters, Clark is confident
the Brawley goal defenders will
be able TO stop any high school
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07
REDS GROOM
SOUTHPAW AS
PITCHER KING

NEW YORK. WP)-A pitcher to
rival the strikeout wizardry of
Cleveland's Bob Feller and the
Cards Dizzy Dean is the boast of
the Cincinnati Reds for the coming
season. He is Johnny Van Der
Nicer, who played last season with
Durham in the Class B Piedmont
League. He lives at Midland Park,
N. J.
Van Der Nicer compiled some
sensational marks while pitching III
the minors. He set new record for
the season by striking out 296 bat
ters and chalked up another mark
by tanning 10 batters in a single
game. He won. 10 games and lost
6
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07

mura, Yoshi Watamura, Frank
Mousseau, E. Naito Leon Withrow,
Jack Adams.
Calvert Moody, athletic manager,
received managers letter, a gold
football and a jacket
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07
BASKETBALL

Gettysburg 26. Navy "a.
Dartmouth 48, Brown 38.
Army 46. Lehigh Is.
Dave Elkins Al, John Marshall 43
Penn Al, Penn State 49,
Bradley Tech AZ, Macomb (Ill)
Teachers 80.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07
Six-Legged Lamb
Lives Only Few Hours

PITTSBURG, Cal. Jan. 7. up
A six-legged lamb with double vi
tai organs was born today on the
c. A. Hooper Co. ranch. 1t lived
only q few hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07
RAWLEYFAVOREDOVERCE CENTRAL
CENTRAL GRIDDERS
AWARDED TROPHIES

Ell Centre high schools southern California football
assembly
they gold footballs letters
The sponsored by the Varsity
smoothly Spartan championship
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07
LAUGH TEAM WILL
MEET ARAB CACERS

The basketball circus is coming to town!
This is ordinary circus but the greatest galaxy
of comedians in the United States the famous Broad
way Clowns, Negro hoop magcians from New York City
The Negroes who have made the counrys best basket
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07
SPARTAN CACERS
GIVEN ONLY SLIM
CHANCE FOR WIN

Given only remote chance to turn in upset victory
when they meet Brawey in the opening of the
son the Wildcat court Friday night, E Cenro high
school Sparans yesterday afternoon wound up their final
stiff workout in preparation for the tilt that may decide
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07

Probable starting lineups:
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-07

!. Pull all 4 wheels 10
inspect lining.
). Inspect com u lie I e
brake mechanism.
!. Clean brake drums
with special solution.
|. Buff tips of brake
n Oes to prevent
"grOan."
!. Inspect bearings to
Insure use of proper
grease.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-05
TESTS IN GROWING SUGAR q
BEETS WATCHED CLOSELY


Maturity and harvesting or
about 40 test plots of sugar beets
in Imperial Valley, planted On
various ranches through coopera-
tion of the Holly Sugar company
and Los Alamitos Sugar company,
are awaited with much interest by
Imperial Valley farmers who see
in sugar beet culture a great new
staple cash ctop for Imperial
Valley.
The Ell Centre chamber of COM
merce has been corresponding with
the interested sugar companies for
over year, and finally succeeded
in inducing them ii conduct ex-
perimeptS here. Last fall, the COM
panies sent seed and planters to
the various ranches and made
paintings under the most improv-
ed methods
Paintings were spaced ten days
apart to determine the best time
for sowing. Most of the plots are
in good condition, and when the
beets are harvested in the spring,
sugar content and purity will be
determined by chemical analysis.
For years, many Imperial VAL
ley farmers have believed that
sugar beets could be we'll anG prof
itably grown here. The yield on
the coast last year averaged ST.
per acre. 1t is believed that sugar
beets in Imperial Valley, under
present market prices, will yield
in excess of $100 per acre. Cost oil
production runs about the same
as for lettuce, and the planting
methods are very similar.
An advantage of sugar beet cul-
ture is that crops are contracted
in advance of planting, thus as
suring an outlet, and the prices
do not fluctuate wildly as witt
some other cimmodities. With
farming conditions suitable, as
they are in Imperial Valley, ma
turity of the crop is virtually as
sured. Curly top disease, pest oi
sugar beet fields, has been con-
trolled through the sowing of i'm
mune seed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-05

That modern valley women pos
sess those same homemaking quail
tiles which enabled pioneers to
establish homes in the desert will
be evidenced in the womcns divi-
sion at the fair.
Two classes, the domestic arts
and the domestic science, are at
tracing county wide interest as
women plan to exhibit samples OF
their skill as homemakers.
In addition to trophies more
than 5000 will be awarded in prizes.
given to the winners and as a
result keen competition is anti
cipated.
All exhibits, with the exception
of the culinary and florai entries
were in place Friday or were given
to the superintendents, Mrs. L.
C. House. Mrs. W. j. Clements,
Mrs. Forrest E. Kutz. Culinary
and floral entries may be delivered
up to 10 a. m. Saturday.
Almost 300 different competi-
tions are included in the divisions
In the culinary entries several
women who have entered the fair
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-05

DISPLAYS ATTRACT
GREAT INTEREST

his year for the first time may
prove serious rivals for the rec
ords of such famous coiks as Mrs.
George Harris of Imperial Mrs.
Cecile Lovett of Brawley and
others who won awards last year.
Since the judges have ruled,
that any article which won an
award at past fairs can be judged
for prizes this year. considerable
interest has developed in the COM
petition for the best cotton patch
work quilts, and embroidered
spreads. Mrs K. Nordahl OF Braw-
ley won these competitions last
year.
Mrs. Dave Vencill Of Holtville
was the winner last year in the
competition for the best basket
of mixed garden flowers. In view
of the frost and the lateness OF
the season the floral display will
not be as large and as varied
as usual.
Not only women but men are
planning entries in the art COM
petitions. Wood carving entries
from Walter Walsh of Brawley
landscapes by J. NJ LizarraraS OF
Calexico are among those which
will be on display and which will
offer serious competition.
Mrs. House, Mrs Clements ano
Mrs. Kutz have had a great deai
of experience in county fair work
and have served most success
fully as superintendents before
They are to be assisted by 81 val
ley women who will act as judge,
or who will arrange the exhibit
so that each entry may be showr
to the best advantage.
These women are; Mesdame:
j. K. Fahring, J. r. Snyder, Dave
Vencill, H. v. Gray, Fred A. Cox
L. G. Niles, Leroy Holt, Allen P
Nuffer, R. d. McPherrin, Paul A
Jenkins, John B. McNeece, j. R
Jefferson, Herbert Re,edy, Jack
Russell, Raymond Rose, Vaughn
N. Thompson, Roy E. Breedlove
Minor o. Simms, J. P. Eyer, Nor.
man E. Dupont, R. j. Mcnamara
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-05

The chamber also maintains a
complete directory library of new
directories from every place in
California and many outside the
state, and complete directories of
county officials, state officials, and
officials of the national govern
ment, and attaches of all depart
ments in Washington and Sacra-
mento.
This and reams of other data is
in addition to local data which we
must have on building permits,
postal receipts, number of white and
foreign families, birth and death
rates, and thousands of other facts
which chamber members expect and
demand.
Many Visitors
1t is hard to compute the num-
Der of visitors at the chamber daily.
During the winter months, it cer-
tainly takes half the time of the
chamber staff to wait on the
counter. 1t requires two telephone
lines to carry on the chamber s
business, and when / call I fire.
quently find that both lines are
busy.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-05
Suspect Arrested
In 1913 Murder
OF Police Chief

NOGALES. AriZ., March 5. U.P)
Police arrested Nip Vann, about
so. today and charged him with
the murder of Caney, Kan, po-
lice chief in 1913.
Officers said Vann, who assert
edly was arrested twice before and
escaped each time. did not deny
the charge and expressed willing
ness to return to Kansas.
Vann told officers he had been
living here with his wife for. some
time under the alias Of Dick
Martin. He said he was employed
on a Works Progress administra-
ton airport project.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-05
WHEN We
STOP GREASY
INDIGESTION We
FEEL JUST fine

Our stomach can't digest grease. Neither
can our bowels. Only our pancreatic juice.
working with our bile juice, can digest
grease.
When we get bad taste, headache and
that nasty grouchy feeling which comes
from greasy indigestion. take / Carter Q
Little Liver Pill before each meal and
after.
Carter's Little Liver Pills bring q large
flow of our pancreatic juice and bile juice
Into our bowels. The large flow of these
Juices digests the grease we have eaten.
Then we burst into life and into our work
like Q joyous skyrocket-
But If you want this glorious relief from
greasy indigestion, ask your druggist for
Carter's Little Liver Pills by name and
,tubbornly refuse to buy anything else. 2sc