COULEE CITY DISPATCH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1938

Speaking of Sports: Season of Upsets BOOK———— gm— o , PUT the season of 1938 down in l“-TODAY'S your notebook as one of upsets Island Champs Are in the world. Heroes who Bought f. ?z“«% have made the headlines. steadily for years have failed to click this To Save Birds ——————— Youngsters, year. New heroes have risen to at : stardom out of nowhere. New teams MOTORS ’ d Re- From N INS Survey Shows have challenged or bested the lead- Mankind h:l;f-nslngfo BARGA ers in both leagues. Other teams HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES . (%) and- 8 phase —% to 200 -H.P. All volt- By GEORGE A. BARCLAY" regarded as sure contenders have ages—AC or DC. slumped badly. By ELIZABETH C. JAMES write for Bargain Prices YOU want to be a champion OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! First and Taylor. PORTLAND, OREGON memory runs free to IFcorn husker, a star baseball play- An example of the changing base- er or an ace prize fighter, you had ball world is the failure of Lou Geh- WHENseek the treasures among to upon “Mountain Doom” better get around to it by or before rig of the Yankees to sparkle this books, it always comes rest the age of thirty. Otherwise you are year and the disappointing showing the tales by Dr. Axel Munthe. ‘“The By FLOYD GIBBONS of Joe Di Maggio so Joe hits Story of San Michele” is the life FARM SUPPLIES in the ‘‘old man’” class and your far. Famous Headline Hunter chances for athletic eminence are his homers regularly and still boasts story of a man you should know. el practically nil. At least that is the a stout batting average, but he isn’t Nothing in the book is more ap- EVERYBODY: conclusion of Professor Harvey C. the wonder boy he was a year ago. pealing than the author’s love of ani- HELLOSamuel Johnson of Brooklyn, N. Y., has two hobbies, and TANKS $29.85 Lehman of Ohio State university, Moreover, the Yankees have failed His knowledge of the ways For WATER—GAS—OIL mals. one of them was bound to get him into trouble sooner or Irrigation pipe—Furnaces who has made a survey of age in to be a standout up to now. birds, monkeys, dogs, and wild later. of Sam’s hobbies are skiing climbing and more dan- : relation to sports. makes the and mountain two KING BROS. The sporting world marveled a animals gerous sports I don’t know of. You know what sort of a game skiing is. 8500 S. E. 17th Ave, Portland! Sporting championships belong to year ago at the feats of the Boston book almost an ani- - Anyone who has ever seen a news-reel of a bunch of ski jumpers doesn’t e says mal story. Resent- youth, Professor Lehman and Bees’ ‘‘graybeard rookies,” Jim have to be told it’s a good idea to pay up your insurance before you try HOTELS he proceeds to support his conten- Turner and Lou Fette. Neither has ment against confin- it. Mountain climbing twice as skiing. cages is a little-more than as dangerous et ——— tion with impressive statistics. Old been a world-beater in the 1938 ing animals in It’s a yarn of mountain climbing with which Sam busts into the club el ! ; that timers might contradict’ him by season. led him to state as a Distinguished Adventurer. For a good many years, Sam has lived pointing out that Bob- Fitzsimmons of the Cardinals has in- a zoo, the mon- abroad, chiefly in Italy. won the heavyweight championship solidly keys are on the out- Campbell Hill Hotel been hitting: this year, but And one day in July, 1931, way up in the Italian Alps, had at the age of thirty-five and that his batting average is nowhere near side, lookin g in. he 2255 W. Burnside Hunting as a sport a little adventure that almost culminated in his living nowhere—- the :.400 clip he enjoyed most of the neither in Italy nor anywhere else. Portland, Oregon 1937 , a was nauseous to Dr. SI.OO season. sensa- Munthe and he Climbing the Doufoure Peak. ' RATES FROM tion of the Cards last year, is' some- Coffee Shop in connection thing of a bust now. Carl Hubbel wrote: “‘The time On that July day, four Italians—a doctor, a lawyer and two engineers There’s Something About It You’llLike of the Giants used to be a Rock of will come when the Elizabeth —along with Sam, himself, set out to climb the Doufoure—the highest ey Gibraltar in time of trouble. But mere pleasure of James and most difficult peak in the Monte Rosa chain of Alps. They started SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES he’s had more shaky moments on killing will die out out without professional guides, for all of them thought they were suf- s the pitching mound thus far than in man. As long as it is there, man ficiently expert at climbing to get along without them. That says Sam, Beauty himself civ- Moler Schools probably ever before in his great has no claim to call was the first mistake. Only Nat’l Organization in the North. career. ilized, he is a mere barbarian, a Sam takes time here explain it was absolutely necessary west. Earn your tuition. Write wild out to that Seattle Tacoma Spokane The and the missing link between his an- to reach that peak' before eleven a. m. For from that hour to one in each other with Washington are bewildered cestors who slew the afternoon the sun is at its height, melting the snow letting loose Senators stone axes for a piece of raw flesh and over the inability of Joe Kuhel and great avalanches that come crashing down the' mountain-side carrying FREE BEAUTY COURSE and the man of the future.” rock, Zeke Bonura, the first basemen they thousands of tons of dirt and ice along with them. ; - For a short time only. In one of swapped, to get going this year. .This attitude was by no means an The five men climbed until daybreak. ‘‘And all at once,”” Sam says, the largest ‘and oldest beauty Frank Demaree and BillHerman of assumed front: Dr. Munthe bought ‘‘the strenuous work we had done climbing to this point, was well re- schools in the Northwest. Must Capri Bay have high school education. Our the have developed a the Isle of in the of warded by the magnificent spectacle that unfolded before our eyes. graduates are always in demand. Naples only chronic batting slump. because it was the way The early sun was shining on Monte Rosa and because of some phe- Palace Beauty School On the bright side, of eourse, is nomenon the whole mountain chain became a deep rose color—the hue 1404 2nd Ave.— Seattle, Wash. the advent of flashy newcomers into “LISTENED” TO LIFE that gives those peaks their name. We kept on going. By seven o’clock, the baseball headlines. Probably after trying to make headway in snow two or three feet deep in places, the most sensational is no- John- In writing a preface to the we seemed still to be a great distance from the peak. That didn’t.worry Earn Board and Room edition of ‘““The Story ny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati American us. From position we were in it was next to impossible to judge dis- AT BURNS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS of San Michele,”” Dr. Munthe in- the We train outstanding secretaries, ex- Reds among standouts this year, in- tance—or even our direction. But by nine o’clock—"’ pert bookkeepers terpreted his own book. He com- and accountants. Ef- cluding Frank McCormick, the rookie Lost and Cut Off by Avalanche. . ficient business executives. Placement , and ments on the reviewers who had Service. - already analyses By any it Write 5016 N. E. Union, Portland and , who are en- published of his nine o’clock that peak didn't seem nearer than had at reasons why seven. They they were lost then—and they thoroughly fright- joying their best years this season. book and presents knew were he disagrees with some of their ened. They were at an altitude of about twelve thousand feet, and a ENGINES AND PARTS comments. His book had been night spent in the intense cold at that level was pretty sure to be fatal, Hostile New and Rebuilt Gasoline and Diesel Hostak called The Memoirs of a Doctor for truck and industrial use. Expert en- Autobiography gine rebuilding. Buda Engine Agency, crowded with more and The of Dr. —b566 First Avenue. So., Seattle. ALREADY‘topnotch fighters than any other Munthe. Both of the comments Stanisiaus Zbyszko was heavyweight pugilistic class, the middleweight appear inaccurate to him, for his WASHER PARTS wrestling champion at sixty. They division now. comes up with a new purpose was to present life, omit- might add that Big Bill Tilden at punching phenom—Al Hostak, who ting himself as much as possi- Wringer Rolls, parts and repairs for the age of forty could beat any kid hoped All makes of washers. W. I. MAY Co. ble. He to listen to the Security Bldg., Portland. in tennis; that Cy Young was pitch- Voice of Life and to record what ing star baseball in his forties and he hearil. Babe Ruth was still cracking out HEARING AIDS home runs in his late thirties. But the professor could answer that that he could stop the cruel and Aided with amaz- DEAFNESS ing new feather- these were isolated exceptions and wholesale slaying of birds there. weight prac- instrument. Practically invis- stand by his guns. The Italian fishermen had a ible. No cords. No battery. Small cost. Baseball players reach stardom tice of catching a few of these Results guaranteed or money refunded. blinding them, ‘Write Dictograph Products Co. 917 in the upper twenties, the Lehman birds and of then American Bank Bldg. Portland, Oregon survey shows. The best year fastening them to act as decoys for of the average baseball player, be the other birds. Their plaintive ¢ries caused the other birds come A terrific avalanche roared past them. he , infielder or , is to 91 v to see what could be their plight twenty-eight. Some arrive earlier. *To build a fire,” says Sam, ‘‘is impossible. There is nothing to burn. IF You For instance, Bob Feller amazed and they in turn were caught in SUFFER FROM PILEYS by the thousands. These multi- Nor is there any other protection from the sub-zero temperature, or from the baseball- a year or nets or other Rectal trouble B world two the icy blasts of wind that sweep the mountain all through the night.” no matter how long. ago with his pitching at the age of tudes of birds were sold to be worn AT They climbed for two more hours—and by that time they WRITE TODAY FOR M eighteen and Johnny Meer alive on chains on gala days. MYFREE 32 PG. BOOK Vander were all but exhausted. They stopped to rest on a ledge of rock, Ittellshow thousands have e pitched two no-hit, no- been restored to HEALTH eoo 3 consecutive Book Is Vivid. and suddenly a terrific avalanche roared past them not a hundred and e games recently at the age of HAPPINESS without .\m? Dr. Munthe appealed gov- yards away. It was eleven o’clock—the deadline for mountain going to the hospital by Le twenty-three. to the any my guaranteed Lifetime ernment to stop this, but to no avail. climbers—the time when they ran for cover if there was e 2 cover to run to. Methods.Quick, So he bought the island. At the Lasting Results ‘b Pugilistic Prime slide,”’ says Sam, ‘‘crossed the path of the we made HINKLEY CLINIC end of his book, the old doctor ‘““The trail had Broadway Bldg., Portland P - Prize fighters reach their peak a pictures his trial in Heaven and the coming up. If we had been delayed just a few minutes I rather believe AL HOSTAK few years earlier than = baseball birds plead for him before the stern- our bodies would now be reposing on some glacier under a thousand players, most of the championships ness of Moses! tons of rock and ice. We didn’t dare travel after that. From then until won the championship from Fred- three o’clock we huddled on the ledge expecting every in the various divisions being won die Steele recently. Hostak has nev- A critic has said that Dr. Munthe, sat moment to regularly by boxers from twenty- like Petrarch and be carried away by another avalanche. At three we started out again, er fought outside his native state of Chaucer, has trying find the lost trail. We didn’t it—and four to twenty-seven, according to Washington. filled his book so full of to find to rmake matters ENALITLDE i / narrative Professor Lehman. The possible ex- and incident, worse, the sun was sinking rapidly and it was getting colder by the ception There is plenty of classy opposi-, that short story writ- is the heavyweight division, ‘ : S L king ‘ers ¢ould use it for endless second.”’ ™" LT where twenty-nine to be tion for the new of the middle-’ sources ‘ Took Refuge in a Cave. ‘ R T S T L T seems the weights géts of ideas. ' This is true. There are MILLIONS NOW. IN. PRACTICAL USE magic year. Joe Louis to meet when he ASK YOUR DEALER reached the Right connected with medical The situation was serious. Sam and his companions decided some- OR WRITE heights a good deal "earlier than around to it. out on the coast’ narratives S LT LT study in France and later thing certainly should be done about it. But what? None of them knew. P. 0. BOX 3247, SEATTLE, LT most champions. he can fight Fred Apostoli,, who with WASHINGTON holds a decision over Steele and his association with Pasteur and They held a consultation and agreed to hole in for the night—take a The Lehman figures show that the has been called the. uncrowned Charcot; there are stories of vaca- chance on being alive in the morning. Three men rose to find a suitable average age of boxing champions place in, 0 ———— champion, and Young ! tions to Norway and Lapland, and to dig but two of them lay still on the ice—too exhausted to decreases steadily from twenty-nine Corbett. move on. Half a dozen other down to Italy; there are human in- for heavyweights to twenty-eight for standouts.’'in With difficulty the others got them to their feet. Practically the middleweight division could terest stories dealing with the lives Goob light heavyweights, twenty-seven for of his friends and patients. carrying them, they moved on across a glacier, looking for a cave. MERCHANDISE probably give Hostak an argument. Although they didn’t it was move Another of his medical stories is know then, it that that saved Can Be CONSISTENTLY Advertised They include Solly Krieger, Woods, all their lives. that of the mixed coffins. @ Yarosz and the new sensation, Billy When BUY ADVERTISED GOODS @ Soose of Penn State. Dr. Munthe was practicing medi- They found a cave and huddled into it. They didn’t dare go to sleep. cine in Paris, he had as a patient They’d freeze to death. Their food supply had run out by that time, and young man the gnawing pains of hunger added to their intense misery. The suffer- Here and There a from Norway who had ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR an incurable illness. At the death ing of that night, Sam says, no one could ever describe. But at six in UNIQUE golf performance boy, family the morning they saw five black figures moving across the ice toward in of the the asked Dr. He got up in the morning A England recently. is that of to escort body them. and Munthe the to Nor- osrushed his teeth with the tooth- Leonard G. Crawley, English ex- way personally. In the freight The black figures were five professional guides. Down in Macugnaga car paste and shaved with the shaving champion and Walker cup player, he was required by someone with a pair of powerful binoculars had seen them as they where law to cream. At breakfast he poured the who won two competitions in one travel with a coffin, he met another pushed across the last stretch of glacier. The guides—men of remark- able endurance—had climbed all night long to reach them before syrup on his pancakes and day—the St. George’s Hilltrophy at man who was escorting ta the coast it scratched the was too late. They literally carried the five men down the mountain and his back. He kissed his Weybridge and Gold Medal at the body of a Russian general. Both wife good-by and slammed Sunningdale. This involved him in to. rushed them to a hospital, where one member of the party had a leg the door. men were take boats at the He petted the neighbor’s dog and three rounds of 18 holes each, and coast, one for Norway, the other for amputated, another a hand, and a third, all the toes of both feet. But luckily Johnson, to any said hello to the neighbor’s wife. averaged . . . for Sam the sawbones didn’t have do work on him. he even fours Tom- Russia. When it started to rain Loughran, Copyright.—WNU Service. he had his my former light-heavy- Mixed Funerals. umbrella with him. weight boxing champion, famous as guess In Norway Dr. Munthe met the Cameras Barred by Village Many *I I'm getting absent-mind- a boxer rather than a slugger, re- Moth Families ed;” he said. marked recently in Philadelphia: family and learned of their plan to Hating and loathing pho- Most people call moths butterflies, *“I forgot Iwas in a cameras college comic.”’—Blue ‘““Many of these modern fighters open the coffin. Privately he opened tographers, villagers of Staphorst, yet there are about nine times as Moon. know nothing about keeping a man it himself, to sée about the embalm- in east Holland, have forbidden many moth families as butterfly off balance or feinting him into posi- ing. What he saw caused him to strangers to take pictures there. families. Because butterflies fly by Drawback tion for a blow. What a snap it reel backward and to turn white. Two young visitors who were taking day, while moths are night fiyers, ‘“‘Anybody can own a car these would be now!”’ The black bushy beard of the Rus- snapshots recently were knocked the former are common sights to days,” said Mr. Chuggins. general greeted Dr, most “Yes,” replied JOE LOUIS ' Sammy Gray, former American sian him. down and badly beaten. Staphorst the casual observer. There his wife. ‘‘But you Munthe persuaded the can't get the enjoyment middleweights, twenty-six for wel- league pitcher, is managing and do- mother not is a picturesque place, the people are, however, numerous ways of fullest out to see her son. And to this day, of your auto. Every in terweights, lightweights and feath- ing relief duty for Texarkana in the the wear old-fashioned, quaint costumes telling them apart. Butterflies fold once a while Russian general lies in Norway and and the houses are painted pale their wings high over their you have to quit motoring long erweights and twenty-four for ban- East Texas league . . . backs There Norwegian boy lies in Russia. recognize enough to earn money tamweights. have been no shutouts in the All- the blue. The villagers all when at rest, while moths fold theirs for its up- Ve e this, but resent the invasion down keep.” . personal acquaintance of flat. Butterflies have Star baseball series . . Joe Boley, His with their club- Youngsters have their best chance privacy by candid camera ama- shaped in tennis, the figures reveal, former shortstop for the Athletics, Death took a different turn after Dr. antennae, while those of most of had practiced teurs. moths are feathered. the championships going to players has been dropped as manager of Munthe medicine Needed a Razor between twenty-two and twenty-six. the Pocomoke City team in the East- for some years. At first Death Two farmers were discussing the enemy Chinese poverty of the crop, . . . The Li Highest Mississippi Helen Wills Moody won the U. S. ern Shore league Mose Swaney, was a ‘personal to be fought East of hay owing to former minor leaguer, is fifty-two by the bed of one patient; later The Chinese li, a measure of Mount Mitchell, in the Black unseasonable weather. Women’s championship at the age of equivalent eighteen. years old, but he plans to pitch 50 Death became a force controlling length, is the of one one- mountains of Yancey county, North ‘“Mine was so short it was hardly games for the House of David team the destiny of mankind. For Dr. hundredth of a day’s walk; on the Carolina, 6,684 feet above sea level, worth cutting,” said one. But if your sporting inclinations level, slightly point this surnmer . . . Munthe was a volunteer to the this exceeds one-third is the highest of land in the ~ “Short?” (iixeried the”supergrum- different directions, age and Carl take the Hubbell are the only plague of Naples, when people died of an English mile, but in hilly United States east of the Mississippi bler. ‘Did you see curve may rise slightly. Suppose active mem- mine? I had to bers of the Giants who were with a thousand a day of cholera. country it might be as little as one- river. lather it to mow it.” you have ambitions to be a cham- eighth of a mile. team in 1928 . . . pion corn husker. Then the year in the Murray Ka- For readers who like to meet a which the greatest chances mer, a sparring partner in Joe man who takes life zestfully, Dr. Marijuana Cured Like Tobacco Science Explains of suc- Louis’ training camps, is Colors of Dawn, Sunset leaves cess offer themselves is thirty. Pro- a former Munthe is recommended. Evident- The of the marijuana weed She—Sometimes S'ou Wseem SO North Carolina lineman who quit ly The colors of dawn are purer and have seven or more manly fessor Lehman’s figures show, fur- others have the same opinion, narrow taper- and at other times absurdly ther, that the Philadelphia Eagles after three for the copy of ““The Story of San colder than those of sunset because ing petals. A drying process sim- effeminate. Why is it? the best corn huskers days range in age from twenty-six to because he said pro football Michele’’ belonging to this writer the reduced dust content of the at- ‘ilar to that used in readying tobac- He—Heredity. You see, half my was too tough. mosphere causes less sifting of ‘‘cures’ thirty. is from the sixty-third edition. the co the vicious weed for ancestors were men and the other © Western Newspaper Union. @ Bell Syndicate—WNU Servica. light rays. smoking purposes. halt women.—Philadelphia Bulletin.