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COULEE CITY DISPATCH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939 Speaking of Sports: Sport Shorts Nation’s Best Trotting Horses GEHRIG’S daily stint really LOUisn’t hard. He merely walks to Wimbledon Win game and pre- Hoyd Meet at Historic the plate before each Again Goshen sents the lineup to the chief umpire. - Gibbons. Brightens U. S. For this he is paid $227 daily . The ADVENTURERS’ CLUB 20 first stringers on Tennis Outlook Northwestern’s 1938 football squad com- HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES @ By ROBERT McSHANE piled a B average in Qg?&_ classroom work, all OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! so sure of themselves today of which made Coach NOTare the many calamity howlers Lynn Waldorf happy who bade -tearful farewell to the . According to _ “Another Molly Pitcher” United States’ Davis Cup chances Luke Sewell, veteran when J. Donald Budge, latter-day American league ELLO, scourge courts, turned EVERYBODY: of the tennis catcher, Charley soul-stirring tale of a brave little mother who was i H Today’s pro. Lynn waldort Gehringer of Detroit It was unhappy time for deathly afraid of guns, but afraid of nothing at all when corpora- a sad, i and Luke Appling of his millions of followers when Budge to grab home, is the Battle of the White Sox are the hardest A. L. tion hirelings tried a piece of her succumbed to the lure of a $75,000 players -to pitch . Lefty again. tennis to Monmouth all over a year guarantee. Amateur Grove’s son expects to enter Duke remember, do you, how in that important engagement in the United States, they croaked You or university this fall . Boston base- J., away back June 28, 1778, MollyPitcher took dismally, was all washed up. Budge aren’t at Freehold, N. on ball scribes say the Red Sox an artilleryman, after he was the only star worthy of the other clubs in the the place of her husband, John C. Hays, give on top because by Y., name, the only man who could second-string pitchers wounded, and served his gun, thus preventing its capture Since before the Revolution, Goshen, N. has for league use was this country a fighting' chance against the Yanks, first-stringers British. a yarn that every red-blooded American gets been the cradle of American harness horse racing. | greatest honors. - the That’s the of all tennis . trotting . Lighted 10, grandfather the against Boston pools a kick out of every time he reads it! Hambletonian lineal of The recent Wimbledon tourna- for fly-casting at night and in your strain, ran over Historic track about 1850 and today ¢ ment gave the prophets of disaster It is mighty comforting, I want to tell you, to know there are own neighborhood is a commercial fearlessly Goshen boasts a second track, Good Time. Here, a terrific setback. Bobby Riggs, venture being tried in various parts Molly Pitchers in every generation, stepping forward disciple of tennis, on August 9, is being run the thirteenth annual America’s No. 1 . men necessary. such a of the country . Gordon Drillon, to take the places of their when Just defeated Elwood 'another Hambletonian classic, a memorial to the breed’s % Cooke, outstanding Toronto hockey for- is today’s distinguished adventurer. Yankee, in the all-American finals woman progenitor. Above: A typical racing day scene i ward, is also a fine softball player & of England’s great court show. The Meet Mrs. John Doolin, of Lemont, 111., who did a good job at Good Time park Below: Lu Princeton, de- . Rowing is the oldest intercol- .five grave. match was nip and tuck for legiate sport in the United States. at writing her story, one that makes you feel all warm and scendant of Hambletonian 10, bows at his & sets and then Riggs won out. They call women the weaker sex. ’ . proud of our womanhood. Riggs inherited the No. 1 position put backs to the wall. If you want the from J. Donald. Those experts who Coaches’ Choice O yeah? Just their proof, read how Mrs. Doolin, single-handed, whipped a rather high- saw the Wimbledon matches de- National coaches of the handed corporation that seemed to be trying to put over a fast one. clare that he is much improved ‘N?HENFootball league announced their a a railroad came through the village of Lemont, player. The hard-fought finals in- selection of an ideal foot- Not long after all-star the Doolins had their home, there were a number of acci- dicated that Cooke is pretty close to ball team, they drew both brick- where being the No. 2 racketer, ranking a dents on a sharp curve close to the Doolin property. The com- bats and bouquets. line by putting it across the widely separated offerings pany wanted to straighten the - These yard. Surveyors staked out the new right of way; workers were the result of the coaches’ Doolin appeared and began digging. John Doolin ordered thém off. choice for quarterback—Sid Luck- and consulted his name Davey Then he took the first train to Chicago there man of Columbia. The Attorney Sullivan. O’Brien did appear. : good friend, Alexander not by Attorney. O’Brien of Texas Christian was Actions of Company Held Illegal named ‘“footballplayer of the year’’ Mr. Sullivan told him the company had no right to put its line on in 1938. He was given a place on Doolin property without perrnission. But, he continued (and here’s the every all-star team, and received catch), if the company succeeded in erecting the poles and stringing Hambletonian, however, was any more publicity than other two | the greatest all trotters. However, not of players combined. coaches | That titleis by E. ). thought he wasn’t the man to quar- held Baker’s set a terback their dream team. Greyhound, which new at Good Time park The Texas Christian star has al- world mark ready signed a professional contract | in 1937. C. K. G. Billings’ Uhlan with the Philadelphia Eagles, and of- | was another mighty trotter. | ficials of that club are not at all reti- cent in announcing he will set the league on fire. Contemporaries are not agreed on that score. They feel O’Brien is too small for the pro game, and prefer Sid Luckman. O’Brien’s record was magnificent. But it must be taken into consid- eration that his passing was done BOBBY RIGGS behind the greatest line of last year. Luckman operated behind one of the great deal higher than he did a year weakest. Luckman is the more ver- ago, when he was considered just satile passer of the two. Davey another good tennis player. Twelve throws a fast pass, and Luckman ago not consid- the Friedman order, months Elwood was is more’ on finger was on the trigger and she was all set to pull it. ered seriously as Davis Cup timber. changing pace and distance to suit Her He was held in such low esteem the occasion. Sid, bigger and stur- the power wire, the onlysthing Doolin could do would be to go to court. that the brass hats did not think dier, is physically more suited to the John Doolin didn’t have any money to pay for long years of litigation s enough of him to send him across rigors of professional football.' he beat it for home, resolved to keep the company off his premises. to England with Miss Marble, Miss There, sticking up in the lawn, was a nice new pole that had Jacobs, Mrs. Palfrey and Riggs. Svengali been put up while he was in the city. They gave him boat fare and told Fistic John sawed the pole half way through. Then he borrowed a him to shift for himself. GRIPPO, manager of light- rifle and ammunition from a neighbor. JIMMY.heavyweight Melio Bettina, has A few days later, on a bright June morning in 1903, a policeman John Doolin with destroying public Not ‘Greatest’ . added a new wrinkle to the honored appeared with a warrant charging Riggs away law, leaving three children cry- . Riggs, of course, hasn’t been list-- profession of pugilism. Jimmy is the property. John marched with the player who ever proud. possessor of an ‘‘evil eye.” ing, a wife on the verge of it. ed as the greatest z sight than a crew of workmen appeared at Wimbledon. Which is A genuine hypnotist and sleight-of- No sooner was John Doolin ,'out of A sight along the shaded streets of Goshen are the trotting swarmed on the place and begah digging so furiously you would think familiar in that it was -said hand expert, Grippo demonstrated on their way to one the two tracks for daily workouts. The remarkable recently they were being paid a a shovelfull. Was liftle Mrs. Doolin going horses of about Don Budge, Fred Perry and" his novel training technique dollar in to the memory Henry Wisner, to let them get away with it? Up to the attic she hurried. There, for- monument the background is of Ellsworth Vines. It was also said in Bettina’s camp at Beacon, N. Y. continental congress. Although the fight hypnotizes his getting she shivered at the very sight of a firearm, she took from the member of the first and second .about Henri Cochet, Bill Thompson Before every he many = under the shadow man, thereby giving him the cour- wall a shotgun that had hung undisturbed for years. community of 2,900 souls now rests almost of metro- and Tony Wilding.. - AL ' and crying again, she its charms still thrill lovers this it is also true-that this year!s age of a.lion, the speed of an ante- With her children clinging to her politan New York City, unspoiled of And '‘and rested the ancient fowling piece Grand Circuit season other match: left.