ENALITLDE I / Narrative Professor Lehman
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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 baseball 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 Joe Medwick 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 Johnny Mize, 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 Chicago White Sox 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 Chicago Cubs 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-hit 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 first baseman, and Ernie Lombardi ments on the reviewers who had Service. - already analyses By any it Write 5016 N. E. Union, Portland and Ival Goodman, 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, JOHNNY VANDER MEER 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.