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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-12-10
The Smyrna Times
Phone 1921 SMYRNA. DELAWARE
SMYRNA AND VICINITY

The regular meeting of the Wo-
mans Society of Christian Service
will meet in Asbury Methodist
Church next Tuesday evening, De-
cember Is, at s o'clock.
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pilots feet dangling far from. his sides, and scored 8 l5-yard victory.
 Ponies Walk Home
 Starting the race is simple. The entries, numbering from three to six, parade up the track. The jockeys turn their noses down the course, bell rings, the jockeys dig in their heels and the field is of.
 Tcelandic horses are stolid look- ing steeds, but they have their skittish moments, and keeping stray children out of their path is a problem for the track stewards. Since no rails protect the track, there is constant trafiic across the narrow strip despite shouts in Ice landic and English to "clear the track"
 An opening in the crowd is kept near the finish line so the horses can wheel sharply to the right and gallop up 8 gravel road until they lose steam.
 After the races, many of the owners mount their entries and ride them home. No such luxuries as stables and padded horse vans exist to pamper the animals. Horses walk to work in Iceland.
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rather than potentialit!es. Even more so, he preferred to talk golf in which he shoots between S5 and 95.
 The other Tanks are letting well enough alone, too. Gordon and the statuesque William Malcom Dickey, of the catching Dick eys, are spark ing up most of the power for the awesome Mccarthy machine and no questions are being asked. With DiMaggio in a slump, the boys are extremely grateful for Gordon's condition. Too, they are hopeful it Is contagious.
 Opinions Differ
 Although the stream lined Cal!- fornia youth who entered baseball via the University of Oregon has strung together hits in % straight games, any predictions that he will eclipse the DiMagg!o streak of 56 are now completely premature. However, there are two schools of thought on that expressing subie
 The first holds that Gordon is a happy party to one of those rare spells in which a batter can do nothing wrong and that some fine day he will come back to earth with a painful thud. The other digsentg, but vigorously, claiming Joe was destined to be an exceptional hit- ter frcm the beginning and now has found the key to the place reserved for him among the really great hit- ters.
 Watch for chapter two next month.
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A Little Of This And That

willie and Archibald signed for Hartford Nathan the making Curly Nichols and Joey Inno signed for New Haven Arena June and Jimmy Hatcher to Connecticut will want for top flight Ting attractions during the Thomaston made hit last night at Savn haen Johnson of New licking in round Jimmy Cleary scheduled to with dmmed lights drew 2300 fans which made Dick of to himself last when he ned five weeks arunni Jack Rose cards from Devens COLUMNS but they call em MARCHING of the first lost by Camp Devens hasobaes York Police Sunday Field, Savn Rock.
 President with righteous speech handing spa conduct overlooked duty Chicago fans (by saing the last Sunday nothing of the public BASEBALL" nifty President but speaking about YOUR DUTY TO THE BASEBALL
 did Red Ormsby American League UNI- F osby wants to know the fans want to know and why not ! not PRACTICE what PREACHING to 1skes? Marty his Navy his the thriller
 Robinson Besides that his Guard.
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SPRAGUE, CHASE CHAM PIONSHIP
 CAME ON TODAY
Hendricken Tops MalOney, 7 to 3-Kingsbury Wil-
 son, Bunker Hill Best

Sprague of Waterville and Chase of Mill Plain were scheduled to settle the minor division champion ship of the Public School league this afternoon at Hamilton park, each team having won all eight games played thus far this season. Adams and Guerrero, opposing pitchers, have been just about un- beatable and each boy can hit well enough to win his own game, in- dicating that a good big crowd of fans would be on hand at game time, 1 p. m.
 Hendricken and Maloney provided the best game of four played yes- terday in the minor division, Hem dricken winning out, 2 to 3, as the battery of Tracy and Green worked so well that the pitcher gave Ma loney batters but four hits, while the catcher batted in six runs with a home run and three-bagger, the latter coming with the bases conn- pletely populated. Maioney got of to 8 nice start, with three runs in the first inning, but 1t could ont score thereafter.
 One Sided Winners
 Kingsbury sewed up third place in the division standing with an easy 13 to win over Anderson, Lenoce allowing the enemy" but two hits. Kingsbury got ten runs in the sixth inning, Anderson mak- ing five errors during the game.
 Woodrow Wilson won another game by 8 basketball score of 24 to 3 against Hopeville, getting IT hits, as the losers were charged with seven miscues. Kuzmiklo and Pietro got seven of the IT hits for the win- ners.
 Fairbanks and Noonan batted Bunker Hill to 6 one-sided I8 to 1 victory over East Farms in its sea- sonal finale. the former getting three hitss in as many times at bat, while Noonan was good for a home run.
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(Reg. U. s. Pat. OH.) Ry JACK GVJENTHER

United Press Stan COrrespOndent)
 New York, June 10.-(UP)-One year ago today a lanky, black-eyed Italian boy was approaching the half way mark. In his race towards an all-tirne baseball record. Jolting Joe DiMaggio had stretched his hit- ting streak through 24 consecutive games, fattening his average to a corpulent 1928. He was hotter than a Fourth of July Sunburn.
 Today, the same DiMaggio is bat ing .263.
 One year ago today another mem- lber of the New York Yankees was establishing himself as one of the great fielding second basemen of the modern generation. His name was Jce Gordon. He was a triple distilled sensation. His batting average was .243.
 Today, the same Gordon is hit ting .387.
 This newest of the Yankees jolt ing Joes is far above and beyond the DiMaggio of 1941. For he has g consecutive hitting streak of 2e games and is 58 points higher in the average than DiMaggio was on the same date. Thus he sets the pace In both leagues. As well, he is probably one of the most mystified gentlemen at the ball parks. He doesn't know how he Is doing it.
 Just call 1t luck" Gordon said as he rapped the bench in the Yankee dugout with his knuckles Just call 1t luck and just hope 1t holds up. haven't the faintest idea of what is changed about me, except that the pitchers are throw ing the ball where I'm swinging and I'm hitting where there are no fielders. As far as I know, haven't consciously changed a thing"
 Joe's case is peculiar. He has never before batted higher than 300. That mark was rung up with Oakland of the Pacific Coast league. In the majors, his best effort was a .2S4 with New York in 1889. His lifetime average 's PTS. So, at the moment, he is III points above the medium of his career and 86 above the most bloated record for any single year.
 I'm swinging the same way" he said with puzzled frown. "I haven't altered my stance or shift ed my timing. If there is any ex- plantation, 1t is merely that I'm not hitting as many fly balls. Tn the Yankee Stadium fly ball doesn't mean much because you have to hit 1t a mile or you are an easy out. This year, I'm knocking out more grounders.
 Just Swings
 "Why am I knocking more grounders? You tell me! Outside of using 6 few different bats, ! don't know. As for the pitchers well, 1t may sound like hragging-- 1t really isn't-but none of them have been really tough. just swing and the ball is there. As long ae 1t keeps on happening this way ] don't intend to ask myself any questions"
 There are many confused theories regarding GoTdoas choices Of bats Normally, he prefers a light and long model--ailywhere from two to four ounces shy of the average This season he has been mixing them up.
 As he sat in the sun before tfle opening Of the Yank- Detroit series Joe wasn't inclined to taik about streakg, averages or subjects even remotely connected with the fabui- olls possibilities Of his current spree Iae pxa9egred 10 discuss pFoVen sacts
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Soldiers Backing |0ceIaRd Ponies On Muddy Track
BY PHIL AULT

United Press stan Correspondent)
 Reykjayik, June 10 = (U.P.) = The Icelandic ponies are running this season at the Reykjavik Turf Cluhs where only the strong can piae@ bet and the jockeys ride in rubber boots.
 There's no phoney talk about iIn- proving the breed when the crowds gather along the 400-yard straight and narrow mud track to cheer on the stocky little work ponies as they clomp-clomp toward victory.
 There just isn't much breed in- vOlved. The racers come straight from their farm chores and the paddock looks like barnyard.
 The season" is strictly orlce- -2n-a-while proposition. Somebody declares g national holiday (fre- quently) and somgnody else works ID some races if the track isn't too much under water.
 Hundreds of American soldiers and officers watching the event for the first time, saw horse racing as it never was practiced at Santa Anita or Arlington Park.
 No Place, Show Bets
 The track is located in a treeless river valley. The plant" consists of mud straightaway, 20-foot corrugated iron shack known as the clubhouse" where bets are placed, a fenced paddock, four Tee 1andic fiagpoles and a dilapidated automobile from which soft drinks and alleged Ice cream cones are sold.
 Bets are two, five and 10 kronur ~-50, 75 cents and $l.50. A total- saers is operated, but there are so few horses in every race and the house gets such a cut that Some- times the man who backs a winner with s mere two kronur ticket hardly gets his money back. Place and show betting is unknown.
 Nobody has thought of putting xaiIs around the betting windows. There is such scramble of men and boys showing and heaving to place their bets that ticket pur- eiaasegs stagger from the mob dis MSEMA@u ana exhausted,
 QKeer Locking Jockey
 sAx1e blighters don't know how Eo form bloody queue" one puffing Egstxsh sergeant grunted.
 rho ponies are built for endur- ance and glacier climbing, not rac- xng. They average mere four feet four inches in height and a tall rider must look out to avoid drag Hsng his feet.
 Plungers who risked their kronur 0n the nose of a i5-year-old named Inokki in a race recently had q shock when they saw the nag parade to the post with it's owner Jockey aboard. The rider wore brown street suit, green plaid scarf rubber boots, cap and shell trimmed glasses.
 But & few minutes later Thokki kKOtte6 briskly down the track. his
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Naugy Nine Wins
 Final Game, "A, Over Torrington

Naugatuck, June 1oOetaoinshrdl
 Naugautck, June 10. -- The Nau- gatuck High school baseball sea- son wound up its season yesterday afternoon with "A win over Tor rington High in postponed Nau- gatuck Valley League tilt. The Foleymen made l3 hits off the two Torrington pitchers, Palker, who started, and Mele, who relieved in the fifth. Torrington could only get five hits off Naugatuck's twirler, Ace" Durette.
 Naugatucks victory yesterday made 1t 10 triumphs against two losses for Durette. Naugatuck fin- ished the Valley League schedule with eight wins and two defeats. It had cirlched the crown Saturday. Chiemelesky of Naugatuck hit a double, Frankie FHurs banged out a triple and Ed Gargonia got three hits in four times at bat in yester- days game.
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CHASE HANDICAP
 MATCH PLAY ON
Full Difference in Handi. caps Allowed This Year Qualifying Scores High

Figured on 6 full difference in handicaps, whereby the low handicap players must give his opponent as many strokes as shown between their club golf ratings, first round Of match play for the F. s. Chase Cup was scheduled this week, tour nament chairman Bob King of the Chase County Club annoknced to- day. With qualifing round scores m, and generally high, Johnny Babin became lnedalist with an 8i. as Pete Burke's S4. Jack Vreeiand,s S9 and Tommy Miller's 96 were cone siderabiy higher than their average game. Joe Stevens, le4l winner is not competing this year, as he is not q Chase ernploye.
 Previously, the players handicaps were figured on a two-thirds basis. but this season, the full difference in handicaps is allowed. Ed Malvey. Johnny Babin and Jack Carroll drew byes, with the first round matches. qualifying scores and pair- ingS as follows:
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NaUy V-5 May Get Boston Star Rookie

Boston, June 1O-(UP)-Gen- eral-Manager Eddie Collins of the Boston Red Sox and Navy officials today denied any knowledge of a report that Johnny Pesky, the baseball clubs rookie shortstop ace, had enlisted in the naval aviation program like his teammate, Ted Williams.
 I'm Pesky's home city of Portland, Ore, draft board Clerk Earl R. Goodwin an. nounced yesterday that Pesky had informed him he had en- listed i'm the V-5 setup. PesIy, he said, would have been called lin the draft in the near future.
 Nazy officials here said Pesky had been inquiring about V-5 but had not enlisted.
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TOrringtOn's Gus BrOberg Seeks Naval Aviation

Torrington, June lO--Gustave T. Broberg, IT,. son Of Mir. and Mrs. 0ustave T. Broberg, l38 Pearl street. has been accepted by the United States navy for flight training anc expects to begin training at the navys new aviation school ct the University of North Carolina soon.
 He is to graduate from Maxwell Graduate school of Syracuse uni- versity June go and will report for duty in the navy after that date.
 Broberg made basketball history at Dartmouth college while an un- dergraduate there when he estab- Mshed new Eastern Intercollegiate league scoring record and explained the quintet in his senior year.
 The Dartmouth Alumni magazine contains picture Of Lieut.. COnadr, Albert Rice eongratulating Broherg after his enlistment for naval service.
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BREEN'S 'NOTHING' BALL | BATTLES CAVANAUGHS

Unable to hit the slick sofeball offerings of Breezy" Breen, Cava- naugh's team of the SS. Peter and Paul league was & to loser to the Fitzmaurice Fellers last night as the wining pitcher gave but three hits and had a shutout in hand until the final inning.
 On Thursday, Baldy Coates and his Boston Coolers tangle with Cavanaugh Club and expect a soft game, according to the Coates scout, Pants" Deeley. On Friday night. the league All-Stars IDimout brand) are to meet the American Brass team of the Industrial league in a 6:30 game at Beecher avenue stadium.
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ThiSSpOrting
 World By JOHN A. CLUNEY
Swim to Keep SIim-But Be Careful!

About this time every year. young America starts pnng for the real the beach just dp in the ocean Af of the themselves in the water but is of the older folks young and nnen n particular, who CAN'T SWIM 4 STROKE
 offered what 1t is worth which may be somebody's LIFE, there the following splendid advice from Robert Laveaga president National Physical Education Society of YCA prefacng his advice by the reminder that 6OO persons n the United l94l of which could have been avoided,
 swimming You may not be as good you used to be.
 foolish chances Many fatal accidents result rom in deep water. depth
 Always water-buddy preferably wEtmmer than
 a supervised beach pool
 e-Dont 20 n after meal
 F-Dont dive you're the is other fellow need a much as N-say and rowboas can't swim boat turns 0yarW 1t cling to 1t for support the difference between ng 6 losing
 IIf you person trouble with pole belt towel sensible than jumping in.
 making boat possible It's safer than swim ming
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& NET RESULTS. By Alice Marble and Eleanor Tennont
Overhead Smash Is Like Service Swing

Continental grip is used for oveT- head shots.
 The overhead smash Is like the service swing. including footwork and body action.
 It is optional whether you use the back swing wind-up, as in serv- ing, or the front swing, which is lifting the racket up to your head and dropping it back of your neck. Fewer errors results and it is less effort to use the front swing.
 The left foot is forward, body sideways to the net. Move to the ball, placing your body directly under 1t as if you were catching & fly in baseball.
 Let your racket head travel up to the ball and hit into 1t. A harder hit shot Is made with the feet of the ground, the extra Sody weight being thrown into the
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SCOyILL SOFTBALL

Chucking and Loading teams of the Scovill Softball loop were iop- sided winners of games played last night against Trucking and Case teams the winners getting 3i runs between them, Chucking a 20 to winner and Loading by Il to | Truckers had nine hits. but got only five runs which matched their er- TOTS.
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Ex-chompion Is a Pathetic Figure Lost
 In the Gallery
BY HARRY CRIMSON NEA Service Sports Editor

New York, June 0-Ralpn Guldafl is like the heavyweight fighter who suddenly realizes that nothing hap pens when he hits the other bloke.
 Or the professional football back who gets up to the line to lind the hole closed.
 Guldahl is remindful of the de- fense man in hockey who de- covers he no longer is rocking ribs in body checking, or the pitcher whose swift one disap- pears over night. He is the miller who, for no reason he can explain, gets precisely nowhere in jiffy when he tries desperately to turn 1t on In the last lap. The kick IS gone.
 And what Is worse, Guldahl re- minds you of the jockey who sees hole and is afraid to hit for 1t.
 For Ralph Guldahl has lost the magic touch that made him one of the great masters of golf.
 Lost in the gallery, the big Nor- weg!an was pathetic figure dur- Ing the P. c. A. at Seaview, Abse- bOklp Ns J.I Alh4Q O1A AtAaAVh> OAey He failed to qualify with a 77. which he calls absurd, and 73 for a 150, which won't get you to first base among the high-rolling playing professionals of today.
 No one paid the slightest atten- tion to Guldahl--in the clubhouse or as he tralled along with the mob following the sneads, Corp. Jim Turnesas, Nelsons and De- marets.
 UPSET BULLA FASTENS SLOW TAG ON GULDAHL
 They even make fun of Guldahl now.
 Here comes that poky Gull dahl" you hear.
 Guldahl hears 1t, too. and he traces 1t to Johnny Bulla's, crack following the latter's picking up in the Land of the Sky Open at Asheville last year.
 Bulla said he couldn't play with Guldahl, indicating that the famous champions deliberateness upset him.
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INDIANA HAS YOUNG
 MILE STAR IN JUDGE.

Bloomington, Ind, -- Indiana has another ace distance man in fregh- man Tom Judge.
 The slx-f0ot two-inch miller won the state A.A.U in 4;ie. fakter than Campbell Kane's time in the Big Ten meeting.
 Ne finished a close third behind Kane and Earl Mitchell at the Cot ton Carnival in Memphis.
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MULLOY MOVES UP

Newton, Mass, June 10-CUP)- Gardnar Mulloy of Coral Gables, Fla, continued .in the favorite's role today after advancing to the quarter-final round of the Midle- sex Bowl tennis championships yes- terday with 6-4. 6-4 win over Vaughn Pipes of Wellesley.
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FROSH LOOP FINALE

WateFbury's High school fresh- man baseball league had its last two games of the season on tap to- day. Crosby and Wilby to meet In . 6 o'clock game at Hamilton Park: with Sacred Hearts and Leavens worth In . { D. m. contest at the Fulton Park diamond
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YARNALL TOPS
 TOOL FLINCER
 AS TEAM WINS
SOmers Brass Loses 0-O Game to Befrus-BOxers
 Paced by Kulman

Last year 1t was Hardy Brownell and the Waterbury Tool team that proved the class of the Industrial Softball league. The Tool team and its ace finger, Hardy, are around this year, too, but it's Benrus, the team that was second best last year, that has come to the iron, mostly through the aid of its pitcher, Pete Yarnall, a Wilby boy who was Brownells chief mound rival last season, but has surpassed him this year.
 For instance, Pete pitched 8 two- hitter for Benrus Watch for the fifth consecutive softball victory in the Dusty loops National division, in which he shut out Somers Brass, 90 and, with the aid of heavyhit- ting teammates, beat another soft ball finger who has been better than fair this year, Whitey Mis- cavage, who was gone over for IS hits, three of them by Mike Mee- han.
 Title Contender
 Paper Box seems to be the team to beat" in the American division, and 1t may very well be that the Boxers and Benrus will wind up in a playoff for the league champion ship. Though pressed 8 bit last night, by Manville Machine, the P- B outfit came through in the last inning to win a { to 9 game, Steere, LsOiua and Carroll hitting hard, as Johnny Kulman held them to three hits. The win was six in a row for Paper Box.
 Scovill shut out French Manu. featuring, TO, Kozen and Joyce providing fine support for Fradette's two-hit pitching, Joyce also hitting a home run. Bowes played excel- lently on defense for the French team.
 We'll Done
 Olsen, Plume and Atwood pitcher, was hit just once by Mattatuck bat ters as the PA boys won by a lS- 0 blank, Mccormick, Chabot and Johnson doing most of the hitting; Bianco whacking a double for the Mats.
 Waterbury Manufacturing scored once in each of the first five frames and collected seven runs ir the seventh to belt Farrel, Sczieul belting two homers and Verno and Haiday one each.
 Easily
 Waterbury Tool regained its vic- tory touch, rolling over Brock Hall l9-2, as Herb French and Charley Foster homered behind Hardy Brownell's five-hit effort.
 Waterbury Clock, with Pitcher Don Lessard the whole show, stopped Lux, S-4. Lessard hurled a five-hitter and banged in seven runs, four on 8 third-inning homer. Scores:
 Benrus ....,. 007 100 1-9 Is Somers Brass 900 00h o. 2 4
 Yarnall and Albanese; whitey, Caron and Riddle. Umpire--Crocco.
 - r, h. c, Manville ...... 020 900 0--2 3 2
 Kulman and Carroll; Clak and Nolan. Umpire-Gladney. Seovill ....,... 100 j112 2-7 10 Q French ........ 900 900 GO 2 2
 Fradette and Grove; Marcellis, Esposlto and Grynick. Umpire - Crichton.
 Plume-Atwood 542 020 x-l3 II Mattatuck -. 900 900 co l 8
 Olsen and Burns; Ellis and White. Umpire-Bianco.
 Wtby. Mfg. GO. III 1t0 7-12 l5 1 Farrel Fdry. |. 102 900 0-3 6 2
 Romanas and Haiday; Carroll and Meier. Umpire-Russell.
 Wtby. Tool Co.,. 653 041 O-l9 16 Brock Hall ... 002 900 0-2 5 1
 Brownell and Minor: Murray and Crowther. Umpire-Stanco. wtby. Clock Co. oO1 so1 1-- Il , Lux Clock Co. 003 100 0-4 5 3
 Lessard and Grout; Korowotny and McCormley. Umpire-Kenny.
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JEAN BAUER WINS

Providence, R. T.. June i0.-(UP)
 Medal play entered the second round in the Rhode Island women's golf championship today as blonde Jean Bauer of Metaconaet sought her third straight state crown. Miss Bauer won her first round match from Mrs. Prank B, Cutts of Aga wasn Hunt club yesterday, 3 and 1.
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One Of the finest major league record books ever published is the Baseball Register, which contains the lifetime averages of 400 major league players. Ik can be obtained al most news stands. Another great book is the 0fIlciaI Record Book which contains the ie4i averages oi ail players and teams in organised baseball. and a complete set Of base bell fulea
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trated slowly, never before was he known as a slow player out- side of on and around the greens,
 He tells you the Bulla incident and the wide publicity 1t was given had tremendous effect on him mentally and on his game falling apart.
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"As matter of fact" explains Guldahl, T had caught and passed Bulla in the Milwaukee Open and had just repeated the performance at Asheville. He was just mad at himself, blew up and went berserk, took A going out"
 While Guldahl always concen-
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LOOMS SPORTS OFF

Windsor, Conn, June iO.-(UP) -LO0nlis Institute today decided to cancel It's entire interschoIagtic sports schedule for next year be- cause of the gasoline and tire short. age.