TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL From The / CAUGHT LARGEST MUSKIE

$ Percy Haver, of Detroit, Michigan, caught a 62$$ ‘’4 Rule Book pound muskie in Lake St. Clair in the summer of 1940. By Wilbert “Birdie* Rule w It is considered the world’s record muskellunge catch Director of Education and Recreation and was 56 Ji inches long, with a girth of 29 inches.

It seems to me that baseball owes something to those Page Six TOLEDO, OHIO, APRIL 27, 1945 great athletes who are placed in its Hall of Fame. For in­ stance, a man like Babe Ruth, who has done so much toward the popularity of the game, and who was so instrumental in elevating it to the high standard which it now enjoys, should Local 12 Softball League Begins May 5> be given some assignment connected with the sport where he could make a decent liv­ ing and at the same time perpetuate public interest in the national pastime. I think Will Play Three that such an appointment would return big Ignasiak Hits dividends. The Bail Well Even race horses which are appreciated Eddie Ignasiak, a Local 12 by their owners for the amount of good boy, is fulfilling the expecta­ Rounds Schedule; which they did for racing and also for the i tions of the management of the owner’s purse, are retired to a life of ease Toledo Baseball Club, according <42 to Eddie Gilliland, president of and pastures of green when their racing the club. Eddie is a great first Ends August 6 “Birdie” Rule (jayg are over< ^nd that is only horseflesh! baseman and is surprising even A human being certainly deserves more consideration than his most ardent supporters with The Local 12 Softball League will begin play at 6:45 an irrational animal. I his batting so far this season. p. m. on Monday, May 7, between 10 teams representing It is the contention of Gilli­ Units affiliated with the Local. The co-managers of the But baseball heroes.are similar to heroes of other sports, land that Eddie is certainly thu. are in the limelight today, and forgotten men tomor­ y headed for the major league if league, Frank Puskas, of the Auto-Lite Unit, and Bill Emer­ ick, of the Willys-Overland Unit, announced that the entries^) row. The high moguls of the sport should realize that the he continues to move up as .... i rapidly as he has been improv­ for the league are closed and that three complete rounds will treatment of such members of the Hall of Fame is watched ing. be played during the season. The season will be finished with much' interest. We don’t want to think that baseball is Walter Missler, second string catcher for the Mud Hens, and August 6. operated on only a commercial basis, but also on a humani­ former member of the Willys Interest in the softball league is running high among tarian basis. Unit, is also showing well for the members of Local 12 and much friendly rivalry is al­ the club. Gilliland aso predicts ready being displayed by Fortunately for the poor race horses, their owners are a big future for Missler. not like the baseball bigwigs or we would see Man-O-War, players on the teams. The bats, balls, gloves, masks, and Exterminator, and some of the other famous race winners teams will vie for a large other incidentals will be dis- pulling coal wagons, milk wagons, or delivery trucks over Girls Softball trophy, donated by Buddie’s tributed to the managers of the Box Lunch. A team must win the city pavement in order to earn their bag of oats. teams at the next meeting, to League Planned the championship two years in be held Monday, April 30 in So let us exhort the directors of organized baseball to i succession to become permanent loosen their purse strings, give suitable employment to those There are two, and possibly owners of the trophy. Individual parlor “C” at Local 12 head­ responsible for the popularity of the game, and keep the three, Units affiliated with Lo­ medals for the winners are be­ quarters. At this meeting the cal 12 which are desirous of ing arranged for by the softball powerful rules and grievance baseball heroes in baseball! ■.;Toledo Mud Hens are getting into “big time”. vaia, Dorothy Schuler, Alvina lost it this year o£ Ohio State It contains a short history of Toledo and many interesting Kwiatkowski, June Baidel, and University. S14 Mir J366 Monroe facts of the city. In the booklet may be found also rules for Ruth Friess. WO i- ’■ >. Sophie Burns, the women’s scoring and helpful hints to enable the fan to enjoy the game city all-events champion, dis­ I more. A played her usual fine form for $ « ■ - the spectators. i ♦ « ♦ Keep th el m hand J POTATO It may be just a coincidence, but it seems to me that e - i irepara 4 fcHIPS_ >^1 Good Fishing I- nack JI there was just a bit of fate connected with the death of weeks ago while the Gray fa­ unevej® Ernie Pyle, last week on le Island. That great war news mily was taking a much needed News I? NofO L reporter wrote millions of words during his lifetime, but rest in the sunny south. The state of Michigan paid Kffflfatteflg when the end came, it was at a place spelled with the two The poor fish was “hooked” $75,000 for a tract of land in most used letters on his typewriter, I and E. Coincidence? into Randy’s company when it Ogemaw County, consisting of M : a \ MEN snapped at a fat minnow on his 4,288 acres. The area embraces ♦ ♦ ♦ line. So Randy had his picture nine lakes, including the well- Harry Stuhldreher, one of Notre Dame’s famous "Four snapped with his finny friend, known trout waters as the Rifle, Horsemen”, and now athletic director of the University of just to prove that they were Gamble Creek, and Houghton Wisconsin, says that there will be a sports boom after the still close companions. Creek. There has been practi­ war, but it will be competitive interest instead of spectator Randy calls his scaled friend cally no fishing in these waters A. Bonita, and says that it was for nearly 16 years. The area interest. a game one to the end (of the was known as Grousehaven, but ♦ ♦ « line). will be designated as the Rifle One of the popular forms of diversion, and one that By the way, Randy Is the one River Area. j- M gives real pleasure to wounded veterans is fly-tieing and who wears glasses in the pic­ ture. In Line of Dufy lure-making. This at the same time create* more interest in COLUMBUS, April 20 — Our that favorite outside sport—fishing. Walter Ernst, veteran catcher Republican - dominated Legisla­ ♦ ♦ * on the Ohio State University ture likes baseball. So do baseball team, is batting .643 at conscientious members who re­ TRUTH IN POETRY present. • * * mained on the job this week Loudly blew the April blast, while dozens of their associates The frozen robin fell Babe Ruth was the third base­ treked to Cleveland or Cincin­ And twittered, breathing his last, ball player to enter the Hall of nati for the opening games. The Fame, lie holds the lifetime re­ difference between the two Spring has come, like h—1. cord for home runs, with 714. MANPi • • • groups is that one considered it hopes t help her dad on tB farm. * In return, she asks for • • • more appropriate to remain on A ...frd the job to expedite vital legisla- delicious Taystee Bn bd for Tasty Toast! RussDerry, New York Yan­ lation than to give way to the unaer onio skies keeoutfielder, hit two home urge of taking in the opening As Jold by Conservation Division runs and drove in five runs in game*. l/ncle Sam’s the opening game against Bos­ r ton. Ty Cobb, probably the best . * • batsman of all time, hit more George Binks, rookie out­ than .300 in twenty-three seaf CRAPP/£S^SOM£ tNE/GHlNQ Z; fielder of the Washington Sen­ sons. , , MORE THAN a POUND -n ARE ators, was the big gun on open­ Chuck Klein, Philadelphia RLl.EASED IN PubLlt fpi ing day when he hit safely four Phillies, hit four home runs in a Ilk. We e proud that Thirty tons Of FISH AM times in five trips tn the plate, single parne, on July 10, 1936. netted annually from Sealtest k is on of ANU ER L AA6 FOR 421 . * Distribution Of TRIS A.MXtNT'^QO^ ADB ' '1 the finest uiWmerica* MHiTE CRAPP^ AKE

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