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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-06

NJ IIlC 10OICob H1INIL-
er baseball ever knew; (2) the hard
est hitter; 90 the best natural hit
ter; (4) the best base runner; (5)
the best infelder, fielding and hit
ting?"
Here are the answers from
this lookout:
/. Fastest ball pitcher-Walter
Johnson, with Lefty Grove Sec
Ond.
2. Hardest hitter-Babe Ruth.
3. Best Natural hitter-JOe
Jackson, with Nap Lajoie close.
4. Best base runner-Ty Cobb,
going away. Max Carey next.
S. Best infielder-HOnus Wag-
ner, great infielder and greater
hitter.
Ranking Golfers
Here's another barracks request,
this time from a group of golfers:
'How would you rank the golfers
from the viewpoint of stroke
making, all-around skill, winning or
losing temperaments, putting? II
we can get this settled it will shut
off lot of noise in this camp"
l. The best stroke-maker I ever
saw, the straightest player, was
Harry Vardon.
2. The best combination of stroke
making, hard work and putting be-
longed to Bobby Jones.
3. The best golfng tenperaments
I ever ran across were Johnny Nc
Dermott, Jerry Travers and Walter
Hagen. McDermott and Travers
were marvels at concentration.
Hagen had less tension. He also
had as much golf smartness.
The two best putters ever saw
were Walter Travis and Jerry
Travers. In modern play this dis
tinction goes to Horton Smith. Paul
Runyan is close.
I've seen Harry Vardon play
many rounds of championship golf
and can't recall ever seeing him
play shot from the rough or from
a bunker. He was a bad putter,
with nervous stab. 1t was nothing
unusual to see him take three puts
from 10 or IL feet.
1bo,,t Robb,, Tonoe
Evening star., 1942-03-27
Parents Accused
OF Beating Teacher
Summon Witnesses
Mother and Boy, II,
Expected to Testify
In Indiunu Cuse
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. March 81
Counsel for Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Leslie, charged with assault and
battery on their 1l-year-old sons
school teacher, summoned witnesses
to court today for the defense version
of the teachers flogging.
The attorneys indicated the As
year-old mother, who has pleaded
temporary insanity, and Danny, the
son, would take the stand before the
Jury of IL men and one woman,
grandmother, but did not say when.
Constance M. Davis, 80, fifth grade
teacher at Longlois School, related
yesterday Mrs. Leslie Beat her with
q Boy Scout belt February u while
Mr.. Leslie held the school room door
shut. The teacher denied Danny's
accusation that she had hit him on
the head with q book.
Miss Davis said she had caught
Danny talking, had turned his head
with her hand and told him to get
to work. He left the room and re-
turned shortly afterward with his
parents.
She said Danny asked his class
mates, "she did hit me, didn't she?"
and that when they chorused no."
he protested, "aw, she did, too"
Mrs. Leslie made her take off her
Evening star., 1942-03-27
Shipyard Pace Is Fair,
Not Quite Up 10 Plans,
Forrestd| Reports
Log Found in Steel
Plants, Machine Tools;
Auto Industry Louded

4y the Associated Press.
Undersecretary of the Navy James
Y. Forrestal informed Congress to-
day that the Nations shipyards
were keeping reasonably well-not
completely" up to President Roose-
velts scheduled construction of
5000, 900 tons Of new bottoms this
year.
IF we can break certain defici-
ences in the steel plants and ma
chine tools, we would be ahead Of
It," he told the House Appropria-
tions Committee March II, in testi-
mony made public today.
He declared that the speed with
which the automobile industry is be-
= ing converted to war production
~has been surprising even to the
people in the industry" and ex-
pressed belief that other industries
now being converted would be able
10 turn out far more than We ex-
pected if we get the raw materials"
Mr.. Forrestal reported that since
January /, the Navy had let con-
tracts for a total of approximately
$8.700 000, 900. leaving an available
amount of $4,000 600, 900 authorized
by Congress still unexpended.
"Of course" he said, the amount
Of money that the Congress appro-
priated is so vast that its translation
into production, into physical goods,
involves a vastly greater use Of IA
cilities than we have been able yet
to achieve"
Evening star., 1942-03-27
Herndon Milk Market Put
Under State Regulation

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, March 27.-The
State Milk Commission announced
today the Herndon market in Fair
fax County would be brought under
State regulations April l.
Minimum retail milk prices will
be 13 cents a quart, cents a pint
and 5 cents a half pint for 3-25 to
SIS per cent butterfat. Present pre-
vailing prices were reported to be
II cents a quart and 6 cents a pint.
The wholesale milk prices will be
40 cents a gallon in bulk. IL cents
quart. 6 cents a pint and 312 cents
a half pint.
The class I milk price 10 pro-
ducers was fixed at $3.50 per hun
dredweight.
Evening star., 1942-03-27
Appropriations
Continued From First Page)

ply such vessels when needed and rs
available, the committee said.
A proposed $983312,500 fund for
cantonment type, "theater-of-oper-
ations type. hutment type and tent
type" military posts was cut 10 pei
cent because, the COMMITTEES said,
"the time has arrived for less pre-
tentious and less durable type of
construction" The other reduction
was effected in the Ordnance De-
partments fund
The committees hearings and re-
port also disclosed:
l. That up to $4,000, 900 900 OF the
total may be spent for lend-lease
purposes, raising the total lend-lease
authorization by Congress to $780,
206,650,00O.
o.. Million for Analyzing Questions.
2. The Social Security Board would
be given $2,550,00O requested by the
selective service system, for analysis
Of questionnaires sent out to deter
mine occupational skills OF draft
registered men from 20 to A, in
elusive.
3. A War Department request for
permission to use any funds at its
disposal for starting the women's
auxiliary Army corps was rejected
because legislation approved by the
House had not received Senate
action
4. In addition to the $4,000, ,OOO, 900
for planes, another $3.50 900, 900 will
be required for ground facilities, Or
ganization equipment, pilots and
other personnel.
S. Construction costs in the United
States Atlantic bases have jumped
25 per cent since the declarations of
war; cost Of some types of airways
equipment has increased % per cent
to 126 per cent-and the committee
said some action should be taken
at once to protect the Government
interest.
japanese Join Army.
8. Between last July and Decem-
Der 81, 3,842 japanese were inducted
or enlisted in the United States
ARMY, ,298 of them in Hawaii.
7. Army construction contracts
carry a provision that from pm.
Friday until am Monday, a work.
er is paid overtime even though that
is the only time he works, in &C
cordance with an act Of Congress,
according to 1t. Gen. Brehon B.
Somervell, commander of services
Of supply.
8. The committee was firmly op-
posed to a recent streamlining of
Army departments resulting, men,
bers said, in the practical elimina-
ton of the National Guard Bureau.
8. Enemy officers who are pris-
oners of war will receive s25 month
"; United States officers in enemy
hands may not receive quite so
much
Record Carefully Edited.
The carefully edited record of
committee hearings, shorn of infor-
nation considered valuable to the
enemy. nevertheless contained ref
erences to production bottlenecks.
For instance, Maj. Gen. o. P.
Echols of the Air Corps said that
failure to deliver parts had slowed
plane production; that batch of
landing legs delivered to Bal
timore were so poorly -machined that
100 ships were kept grounded until
new legs could be obtained.
Gen. Somervell told the commit
tee that the procurement lag in Air
Corps organizational equipment
other than airplanes 'is approx
mately one year.; that much ord
nance equipment and munitions are
baing deferred temporarily "since
the delivery dates of airplanes are
such that the related ordnance
equipment may be procured" later.
Evening star., 1942-03-27
Man Hurt as Elevator
FoIIs Eight Floors

A 28-year old laborer was injured
this morning when a construction
elevator at the addition Of the Tele-
phone Building general Offices, 725
Thirteenth street NV, plunged
eight floors to the ground.
The injured man is Albert Tilman
colored, 533 Morton street NV. He
was taken to Emergency Hospital
by the Fire Department rescue
squad, where is WAS said he had
fractured ankles and a back injury.
D. L. Davis, foreman. said the ele-
vator had been raised to unload
lumber, when the dog on the
drum Of the hoisting engine broke.
Evening star., 1942-03-27

glasses, Miss Davis related, and then
hit her with the belt twice on her
left side and seven times on her
bare arm, bruising the flesh and
drawing blood in three places.
The teacher said she became so
nervous she had to stay out Of
school for three days.
Evening star., 1942-03-27
Premier of New Zealand
Sees Great U. S. Help

B. the Associa ted Press.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
March 27.-Prime Minister Peter
Fraser said yesterday he had re-
ceived messages from President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill indicating "a great meas
ure OF support" was forthcoming
for New Zealand.
Evening star., 1942-03-27

Don't force tho stores to waste
paper wrapping your packages.
Garry them home unwrapped-and
save paper.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
BY HORTON SMITH
Winner Of Many Titles

One Of the finest shots ever
made was o No. 3 wood to the 18th
and list hole Of the 1910 National
Open at Canterbury Country Club
In Cleveland.
I had two good opening rounds,
slipped 70 q 10, but on the final IS
was three under par for IS holes
and could tie by shooting the last
two holes in one under.
The 18th hole played about $50
yards with a gradual bank just short
Of the green. It required long
carry, but I was going for brides.
I teed my ball low. The wind was
blowing slightly from the left, so
I closed the face Of the club a tiny
bit to protect against this.
The ball was hit perfectly with
just a suggestion Of a hook which
the breeze took care of. The ball
covered the pin, hit the slope about
20 feet short Of the cup and rolled
only six or eight feet.
I missed the IL foot side-hill putt,
the ball just touching the edge Of
the cup and rolling. a few inches by.
Bobby Jones was at the green and
told me he was sure my shot would
bounce and roll nearer the cup. I
pared the final hole to wind up
shot behind Lawson Little and Gene
Sarazen, who tied and played off.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
HERE Is SCHEDULE
OF GRAND CIRCUIT
TOday's Sport Parade

swirlers have worked complete win
ming games. Max Butcher and Kip
Sewell have pitched four triumphs
apiece and between them more or
less lie the Pirate chances. AS for
the other pitchers, at times they are
good but more often they aren't.
Although the BoccoS are In the
second slot they are only three
games from seventh. AS is the Ma
tional League custom, the top seven
clubs are punched like SO many
grapes and q game lost here and
there weighs heavily.
Which why the present series IS
important so early in the year. A
victory today another tomorrow
will move the Pirates to within
reaching distance of the top. Two
losses would drop them back into
the lower brackets, and Comrades
Phelps, Wasdell, Coscarart and
Hamlin would be forced to give
Devil MacPhail his due.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15

perhaps less money, to spend in
their shops.
What Buffalo Raceway should
do Is trade dates with Westbury.
That would give Westbury the
gated plugs while the gallopers are
at Saratoga.
Good Time Park, Goshen,l opens
Aug. II with the 10th renewal of
the Hambletonian the following day.
COLBY HANOVER
TOUGHEST OF 40
Colby, Hanover, by Mr.. McElwyn,
is the early Hambletonian favorite
in the spring books at 2 to l. He
won seven Of II starts as a 2-year-
old, was thrice second and third
once.
The brown colts 2:04 IA in the
Kentucky Futurity last fall estab-
lished him as the toughest Of 40
candidates for this seasons troting
derby.
Colby Hanover is trained and pilot
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15

Circuit maintains this schedule
Illinois State Fair, probably at
Aurora, Aug. 1922; Wisconsin State
Fair, Milwaukee, Aug. 24-28; Ken
tuck State Fair, Louisville, Sept. s.
IL; Reading, Sept. 14-19; Delaware,
o., Sept. 1925, and Lexington, KY,
Sept. 26-Oct. 8.
Horses have poured into Good
Time Park from aiken, s. c., Pine
hurst and Orlando, Fla, where the
bulk Of them are trained.
Most OF the spring conditioning
usually is done in Lexington, but
partially due to transportation diff
f1cultieS, nine Of 10 came direct to
Goshen this time.
All the better ones are among 300
nags here now and there will be $50
when the barrier is sprung for the
first time.
The older fellows are doing all
right in keeping young with the
sport they are keeping alive.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15

Trotting Is One Sport Draft Won't Hit
Game Of Vets
Has Full, Rich
Grand Circuit
By HARRY GARRISON
NEA Service SpOrts Editor

Goshen, N. Y, May 15-Dates just
announced by CIV. Phellis, president
Of the Grand Circuit, have the 1912
major league harness racing season
opening June 20 ct Goshen and
continuing with only one weeks
layo6 to oct. 3, when Lexington,
KY, closes the campaign.
The 10000 Hambletonian stake
for 3.year-old trotters, the Ken
lucky Derby Of the sulky worlds
scheduled for Aug. IL over william
n. Canes famous triangle Good
Time Park strip here.
Despite cancellations Of some
meetings due to military occupa-
ton Of tracks, the trotting and pac-
ing season Is as long and as rich
as ever.
DRIVERS AND OWNERS
BARELY IN LAST DRAFT
STANDARDIZED racing is one sport
which will not be hit by the draft.
The vast majority Of drivers and
owners barely got In the last draft.
Harness racing long since came
to be an old mans sport. Few are
the younger fellows in 1t, notably
Dunbar Bostwick.
Half-mile Historic track here,
owned by e. Roland Hartman Of
New York, opens the Grand Cir
cult the week Of June 20 and con-
tinues until July II. This Is the first
time this small plant has held q
two-weeks' meeting.
Westbury, L. L., gets the Hearing
Grand cavalcade next with one
weeks racing which begins July 10.
Night harness racing at Roose-
welt Raceway, Westbury, originally
built for automobiles, was highly
successful last spring and fall, but
this pot may have to confine itelf
to afternoon and twilight programs
this trip because of nearby Army
air fields and posts.
Old Orchard, Me-, gets 10 days
starting July 90.
SARATOGA GETS
TOO MUCH RACING
Buffalo Raceway, Saratoga
Springs, races the week of Aug. 3
at night in partial competition
with thoroughbredS performing in
the afternoon.
Although 1t was made and sup
ported by runners, the Spa now
seems unable to make UP It's mind
whether 1t likes so much racing at
once. Storekeepers point out that
patrons will have little time, and
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
GILBERT REDS
OPPOSE BIRS
BLUES SUNDAY
Field Of 20 in Opening
Event at Chase COur1-
try Club

Though the Chase Country Club
golf course has been well-played
within recent weeks, the official
opening of the season, a match be-
tween Colonel Jack Gilbertis Reds
and Big Bill Birs Blues, Is all set
for Sunday Afternoon next at / p. m.
Two strong teams have been lined
up by tournament chairman Bob
King with 10 men to take part in
the meet, and winners to eat at
the expense of the losers at a din
ner arranged in the evening. Each
member Of the winning team will
also receive two golf balls as a prize.
The rival captains, Gilbert ana Birs
agreed on single pre- tournament
statement which was: I'VE will do
our best and hope for 1t, tool"
Close Contests
Some Of the better matches in
clude: Pete Burke VS. Frank Byrnes,
Jack Slattery VS. Al Stevens; Jake
Vreeland VS. Ned Farley; Pete
Prisayage VS. Johnny Calvin; Cas-
per Spearo VS. Bill Klobendanz and
Bob King VS. Ernie Dyson.
The lineup:
REDS BLUES
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15

HOME RUNS
WESLEYAN RALLY WINS

Middletown, Conn, May 15.-(UP)
Wesleyan university's baseball
team made q strong comeback in
the last two innings to defeat AM
herst here yesterday, to 4.
The Wesleyan team was four runs
behind going into the eighth inning,
but drew even in that frame and
scored once in the ninth to take
the contest.
Stan Kay, Wesleyan hurler. got
tire hits, including q triple.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
REDS 21S0 5000 o o.
GIANTS. o 0 10 1 l 0 0 0 10 x-12

Errors-Haas, NJ. Mccormick, NJ.
Marshall. Two-base hits-Young,
banning. Three-base hit-Young.
Home runs-Lamanno, Frey, OFT.
Stolen base-Frey. Double Plays
urges, Ryan and Mize; Has, Frey
and F. Mccormick; Joost, Frey and
#. Mccormick. Left on Bases
Giants IA, Reds 6. Bases on Balls
Off Riddle 6, MCGEE 1, Beggs 3,
Shoun /. Struck Out-By McGee 1,
Feldman 1. Hits-Of Carpenter, in
/ inning 20 out in 2nd); MCGEE, in
3: Feldman, in 4; Adams, 0 in /;
Riddle, 4 in 60 out in 5th); Beggs.
7 in 2-3; Walters, g. in o.; Shoun, I
in Ia. Runs-Off Carpenter 3, Nc
Gee 8, Riddle 2, Beggs 5, Walters 2,
Shoun 3. Hit by pitcher-By Riddle
wv. MarshalD. Winning Pitcher
Feldman. Losing Pitcher-Beggs.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
DODGERS JACK
UP CUBS
lee BESTS PILLS
Mel Otis Homer PAGES
Giants; Brownies HON.
erS Rip Red SOx
BY PAUL sCHEFFErs

United Press Stan CoFreSpOndentl
New York, May 15-(UP)--The
Cincinnati Reds were berthed un-
comfortably in fifth place today
and unless their pitching staff,
which had just about been conceded
to be the best In baseball regains
Its effectiveness quickly, they may
still be there in September.
The Reds, OFF to one Of their
worst starts in years which might
cost them the pennant, came to life
early this month and their. pitch-
ing staff-comprising about 90 per
cent Of their flag chances-began
to function as expected. Bucky
Walters, Ray Starr, Elmer Riddle
and Johnny Wander Nicer all turned
in stellar performances.
A one-hit performance Of Gene
Thompson, q hopeless bust last year
over the Dodgers at Brooklyn last
Tuesday, won the accolade for the
Reds staff and it seemed as If
Deacon Bill McKechnie's men were
indeed going to be the team to
beat.
Curt Davis, lean weather
veteran, stopped the Reds with o
two-hitter on Wednesday but the
squall really struck hard at the
Polo Grounds yesterday when the
New York Giants loosed a hurri-
cane Of II hits and whipped Gin.
cinnati, 1875. The Reds used four
pitchers-two Of them front line
men-but. the Giants had little
trouble with any Of them.
Explosion
The game was all Cincinnati
until the eighth inning, when the
Giants, trailing, 6-2 touched of q
10-run explosion, In which IS men
batted and Manager Mel OFT and
Babe Young collected two hits. OFT
paced the attack with q three-run
homer.
Brooklyn'S Dodgers boosted their
league lead to 31a games by knock
ing OF the second-place Pittsburgh
Pirates, ia. Joe Medwick got the
FlatbuShers off to a fast start with
three-run homer in the first in
ming following a Pirate run. The
BUGS Shelled Kirby Higbe from the
hill in the third and added two
tallieS to tie the score. Babe
Phelps led the Splurge with q
homer but the Flock came on with
two runs In the third and two in
the eighth. Bob Elliott scored the
final tally with q ninth-innine
homer.
Veteran Southpaw Larry French
retired in the sixth with o pulled
leg muscle but was credited witt
his third win.
Bill Lee held the Philadelphia
Phils to seven hits to pitch tht
Chicago Cubs to a 6-3 victory
Charley Gilbert and Bill Nicholson
led the Cubs with two safetie!
each.
Other Results
In the only two American League
games, st. Louis shaded Boston
6-3, and Chicago turned back the
Philadelphia Athletics, "a. The
Athletics dropped into q tie with
Washington for fifth place. The
White Sox hammered Jack Knott
and Herman Besse for nine hits
and snapped the AS five-gamt
winning streak. Myril Hoag led the
attack with three hits and Bill
Dietrich scattered seven for hi
third triumph.
Roy Cullenbine and Chet Laabs
clouted home runs, pacing 10-hit
Browns attack that cost the RED
Sox their fifth straight loss. Johnny
Niggeling went the route for the
Browns, allowing six hits. Three
went to Bobby Doerr, leading hit
ter for the American League.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
Three Managers
Can't Be Wrong

WHEN YANKEES Eashy Dahgren the Boston
year ego and replaced him with cCore first
Of
Stadium admired Dhgrens fancy fielding that colossal
mistake had been made
Yesterdays newspapers that Dahgren pedded
Yankees Braves rid Of
selling him the Cubs Now the Cubs
after waving him out Of
obvious by this time only that the
mistake that there something
playing average can't discern
baseball recently . armed
bali authority who had desire to hurt Dahgn
sad Babe makes plays look
He only
his
wide throws He's great looking
his defects
his flash"
The question u.s. these sins gievious enough to merit the pun-
ment Of being sentenced to the Browns9
swedish, queries to where he
Mebane
isn't Brooklyn Will attest
that pnh-tter If there's better clutch clouter
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
HILLS TO PRACTICE

The Washington Hills Of the City
Amateur League win hold q practice
session tonight at 6 o'clock at
Washington Park. Manager James
(Red) Gladney urges all members
OF the team to report for tonight'S
workout in preparation for Sundays
game with the Avilangese A. Q.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
SCOVILL SOFTBALL

Loading Room and Fuse Assembly
softbaIl teams OF the seovlll' league
nut on o ding-dong match last
night, team getting 10 runs apiece.
with The Leaders Winlng out 7 to 0,
as each club also made three errors,
IN other games, Machine Room was
a ia To 3 winner over Press, held TO
Ave hits BY Fredette, while Lllddy's
mound work was much too much
for the Truckers who were held 20
three hits Rs Chucktng won easily
~ to ] on 10 hits.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
SHARE DISTINCTION

In the entire history of the Ken
lucky Derby, which goes back to
1875, only two jockeys have won 1t
three times-Isaac Murphy and Earl
Sande.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15

Errors-Cullenbine Terrell, Runs
batted in-poerr. 2, Williams, Gull
lenbine 2, Gitteridge, MeQuilleH, Me-
Quinn, Laabs, Three-base hits-Mc-
Quinn, Home runs Cullenbine,
Laabs, Stolen base-Pecky, Double
plays-stephens Gutteridge and Mc-
QUINN Pesky, Doerr and Lupisn,
Left on bases-St Louis 6, Boston 8,
Bases on balls-On Niggellng 4,
NeWsome ], Hits--On. KeWsome 3 In
Rvbas fn Se Los 81 SgG pitd hraga "
some.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
nrARKEn nTFRRRENQE

The average NE Of q golf ball ~
100 holes with ordinary players,
barring cuts and scars, For the pro.
fesslonal. however, 1t Is only about
k1liTigeAik holes.