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THE CROSBYTON REVIEW
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Feller, at 17, Left the Iowa Cornfields to Stand Big League
Sluggers on Their Ears; He's New Idol otolith.
c. UTLEY
|g fever in the coun-
% baseball fever this
■ Itague baseball.
' lean-
Lj^boea with a far-away
2 their eyes and dream-
if breezing 'em past the
the Cardinals, .the
W r fife. '
Uk'. faced youngsters,
^ out on the cool "grass
Tfl,. old swimmin' hole, con-
a visions of making Mel Ott
I?' -over with a blazing fast
landcufflng A1 Simmons
bjafibit inshoot. "Still oth-
■Ce at the pages of his-
^[algebra books and find
. vovered with "e^ed runs"
Iges 'and strikeout records.^
m Bob Feller, christened
ViHiam, of Van Meter,
Other boys in their teens
j of walking right out of the
8s to'ttfe majdr'leagues and
i« the heavy hitters on their
ears>*B,cft> Feller actually
Which proves that Ameri-
|still America,"arid a country
make good overnight in
; time" if he has the heart.
ft "Color" Rivals Ruth.
(Ruth was that kind of a boy,
fcbe came from * big city.
I an orphan who had to make
f in the world. He became
highest paid player,'
at his peak a contract
[illed for $80,000 for %.single
He was a national hero
j 50 Qr 80 home runs a year,
every^open field and sajyl-
f kids* were gripping heavy
(the end and swinging for all
j worth in the effort to ape
Iby lambasting one into the
ressional district. With his
I frame, his good humor, his
iAlger history, he was prob-
most colorful figure sport
produced.
mow. They are saving that
will, be a .greater hero to
America than even the
•Babe. Since that memor-
y, September 13, 1936, when
ller, wearing the gray uni-
of the Cleveland Indians
he was only seventeen
[old, struck put 17 Philadel-
etics to break an Ameri-
record which had stood
'years, and tie the major
iinark set by the great Dizzy
I himself, the Iowa Jarm boy's
has been at the tip of every
tongue.
|a good thing. Bob Feller is a
«trong, healthy boy—a real
I He is not afraid of hard work,
forsaking chores on his dad's
even .fbr^baseball, until he
(baseball his profession; He'll
9,500 for playing this year,
her $40,000 from advertis-
nonials. * But he still wears
ne size hat. He hasn't t-nk-
; smoking, drinking or danc-
r studies go on under a tutor
Lhopes to be graduated from
chool, and he gets 12 hours
|a night.
^than anything else he ftkes
that baseball. He has ev-
, except a change of pace
but he doesn't miss that
^Spqrt writers say his fast
• ss fast as Walter Johpson's
atlon ago; about Johnson
! to say, "How can you hit
I can't see?" I
i Wally Schang of the Cle^M
sro, who,-in his day, caught
and Chiefc<B*nder and
i,famed in" the annals of the
re "There was never any-
. him. Mark my Words—
down in history as the
pitcher who ever lived."
most important praise of
from Umpire Bill Klem,
I veteran who has called 'em
I tow'em for longer than most
[.fare to remember. After
' Feller make the National
^Champion New York diants
'® Sr.arfimar school boys 'try-"
'f*?tball, Klem said:
[lever seen anything like it."
1 Uvea Father^. Dream.
M Bob Feller get that way.
II wlen most boys are try-
psin that cowlick out of their
£*** at the high school
y The answer is found in
hf*rew Feller, the tall,
'armer who gazes with
and 8atisfaction at his
Jiloitg. It was all part of
In k^6r 8 P'an' NeVer suc*
" his own anabition to be-
Professiona! hall player, he
to make one of his sori.
"Sty, Bob's baseball edu*
I He «nil">h!y~^hen he waS
W* the hn *Stiler played
barn for a back-
contro wasn't very
rtther. By "the tiffivhe
■ ' /oung Feller could
m fast enough to crack
IDs*";"nd'h a . That
the hn 8 care,ess
,ce 2J 5des were.appar-
thev u, 111086 of Mr-
only dented a
« loose with a wild
m
^ and
w became thirteen;
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AMERICANS
By Eljno © westerh
ScottJKatsen1
AROUND
the HOUSE
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Outer Leaves of Lettuce-*-The
outer leaves of lettuce, often
Items of Inter
to the Housewife
Bob's dad and sister. Marguerite, join him for dinner at
where the Cleveland Indians are stopping.
a hotel
that is farther than the distance,
from the outfield fence to the home
plate in most major league ball
parks, and there are few big league
players who can throw a ball that
far on the fly.
Dad Feller thought-gob was ready-
to begin playing in 1932, so to rriake
sure he would ftaft under the ritht
circumstances Mr. Feller built a
good baseball diamond on their 360-_
acre farm, provided fences and. a
small grandstand. He organized his,
own team, the Oak Views, with Bob
playing shortstop and chasing the
cattle and fowl out of the "park"
before the games, Playing short in
1933, Bob hit .321, which means he
made a safe hit in just qbout one
of every three trips to the plate.
He had a throw that nearly tore off
the first baseman's hand.
Bob Starts a Game.
In grade school young Bob had
liked to' pitch, and had organized a
nine to give the Van Meter high
school team some practice. With
Bob on the mound the little fellows
li^ed the high school, in seven of
eight practice games. Dad Feller
remembered this in the third inning
of a game in Winterset, Iowa, in tho
spring of 1934. The Oak Views had
hired a pitcher to hurl this impor-
tant encounter. He had to be taken
their work, Bob said, "I think I
can do better than that."
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The next year word got 'round u>
Cyril C. Slapnieka, scout and as-
sistant to. the president, of the
Cleveland American league cluK
that there was something burnirg
up the Iowa cornfields and it wasn't
the drouth. With some misgivings
fie*Ja*qyjeyed out to^give-Bob Feller
thc,once-over. . •
Father of the Dime Novel
A FEW ~ years before the open-
ingof.the.Civil war a printer
in Buffalo, N, Y., began issuing a
itiagazine called the Youth's Casket
and a little later another, called
ttie Home Monthly. "Neither" was
much of a success. More success-
fOfl- was his brother who ran a
neWsstand and began selling songs*
on single pages in much the same
fashion as the ball&d-hawkers of an
earlier day. Then the printer broth-
er published a number of these songs
in a ^pamphlet called "The Dime
Song Book" and it sold so well that
they decided to move td' New York
city and publish other books for ten
cnts.
* Thus it was that a great Ameri-
can institution was born, for these
brothers were Erastus F. and Ir-
win P. Beadle and they were the
"Fathers of the Dime*Noyel." They
took into partnership another na-
tive of Buffalo, Robert Adams, and !
for the next three decades there j
came from the presses ofBeadle
and Company and Bfiadle^jina"Ad- j
ams a perfect flood of little-bonks I
(the Pocket Library, the Half-Dime
laitil a lather Is produced, scrub
the threads of linen that you wish
trimmed off aqd thrown away, arql-t© draw, antf they will pull out
more than 30 times as rich
vitamin A as the inside leaves.
in
Boiled Whitefish—Clean a white-
fish. To sufficient Water to cover
add salt and vinegar and a bunch
of parsley and a quartered onion.
Cook until the flesh separates eas-
ily from-i the bones. Drain and
place on a hot platter, garnished
with parsley and serve with a
sauce. i'
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Removing Mustard Stains —
Mustard stains-can be rehrvoved
from taWe linen by washing in hot
water and soap and rinsing in
wa^n-water.
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Hanging Picture's—Never allow
picture frames to touch the wall
if iiis damp. The frame will soon
become damaged. With a small
tack or gramophone needle, at-
tach two small corks at the bot-
tom of your frame. These will
keep the frame-off the wall.
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Soaking Salt Fish—When soak-
ing salt fish add a small glass of
vinegar to the soaking .water and
it will draw out more of the salt.
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: afte
Ready to heave a fast one.
from the came with the bases full
antTnobody out in-the third inning.
Bob was sent in to pitch. He struck
out the next two batters and got
two strikes over on the third. Then
the runner on third tried to steal
home. A perfect throw from .Bob
enabled tjje catcher to nip him at
the plate. „t; ^
By the middle of that July the
.Oak Views had decided Bob was
good enough to be used as a start-
ing pitcher, and let him start a
game against the Waukee, Iowa,
team. „ -
"I was fifteen years old' then,"
says Bbb, "and v&eighed about 140
pounds. I'm six feet now and -weigh
around 185,"
He was wild against Waukee, but
when he put men^on the bases by
virtue of walks he relied on the fast
one to get himself out of the hole.
"I still do that today," he says.
"Pitching for Cleveland, I have
"fanned three in a row, using nothing
but speed." , ^
Bob Sees World Series.
And so it went. Game after game,
Iowa's, boy wonder went on to fan
13, 15. 18 or 7a of the opposing nines,
allowing only two or three hits and
often pitching a shutout. By" the
end of the 1934 season he had rolled
up the almost incredible record- of
157 innings pitched, 25 games won
against four lost, and 360 strikeouts.
He allowed only • 41* hits and 21
earned runs. To top it all off, his
batting average for the year«"was
.<03, a phenomenal mark.
Bob got his reward that fall after
the season in Iowa was#*#^- His
did took htm to St. LoiHl to aee the
"WortdJIerles games. They lived in
a tourist camp, and It was great
fun. But the quality of major
league baseball, even as played by
the Gas House Gang (who were to
learn about a youngv man named
Feller \at a later date) and the
dsssy Detri
Bob cold fe«t "Xfter Watching some
of the game's famous, pitchers at
What Slapnieka saw
"luctant to believe. But "after watch-
ing a few games*he finally becarie
convinced, and signed Bob Feller to
a contract with the Fargo-Moor-
head club of the Northern leagie.
There is a rule in organized base-
ball whicU.-forbids % major league
club to sign an unattached aVhateur
player until hffrnr an ap-
prenticeship with a tear?! in "some
minor league. ,
$100,000 Bid for Him.
Some clubs contended last win-
ter that this rule had been violated
in the.Feller case and that, there-
fore, Feller should be declared a
"free agent" by Judge Kenesaw M.
Landis, high commissioner of base-
ball. A "free agent" is a player
who iV"not the property of any club
and may sell himself to the highes/
bidder.
. ■ A'thfiiigh pob actually never
pitched for any minor league club,
he had been owned by two, and
Landis decided that he was still
the property of the Indians. It was
reported that other clubs had been
rep'dy to offer Bob as much as $100,-
0Q0 as a bonus for signing a con-
tract if the commissioner had de-
cided otherwise.
The Fargo-Moorhead club had im-
mediately turned Bob over to New
Orleans, in the Southern associa-
tion. New Orleans retired him last
spring so that he could attend high
school! As soon as his school se-
mester was over. Cleveland drafted
him from New Orleans. Manager
Steve O'Neill of the Indians allowed
the youngster to play with a semi-
pro team in the Great Lakes city,
so the Indian brain trust could "keep
-an eye on him. They didn't have
to watch him for long.
On O'Neill decided Bob
was ready to taste big time opposi-
tion, and allowed him to pitch
three innings of an exhibition game
against the St. Louis Cardinals. The
Gas House Onng looked no tougher
to Bob from the pitching mound
than they had from the grandstand
in that World Series of 1934. They-
hardly even saw his fast" ball and
his curve had them breakingjtheir
backs, just as had the comfieW
swingers out in Iowa. .
Bob Wins Dizzy's Praise.
At the end of his three-inning
stretch Bob had struck out eight
Cardinals, including "some of the
cream of their far-famed attack.
They got only one run -and three
hits oflf,;him. Even Dizzy Dean was
moved to talk about some one other
than himself. "The kid's got plenty
of stuff," he admitted. Pepper Mar-
tin. another of the league's topflight
star's who had gone down before
Feller's blazirig pitches, testified, "I
couldn't find his curve ball at all.^
He knows how to pitch." ,
It was enough to convince O'Neill
that Bob Feller wa^no dream, but
a real flesh-and blood baseball pliay;
er. He nominated the kid on Aug-
ust 23 to start his first full majof
league game. - ' .
The results were all that could be
askeci For. As Bob walked from the
field two hours later, after striking
out 15 batters of -the St. Louis
Browns, the crowd roared. A seven-
teen-year-old boy had come withhr
one strikeout of tying the American
leaguq^jecQTrd set by the immortal^
Rube WadSell in 1909. "Heck," said
Bob Feller, "I did btfttef than that
back in Iowa!"
As it has been relr^dv he did Bet-
ter than that .in^-the America•<
league, breaking Waddell's mark
three weeks later against the'Ath-
letics. He finished the season vith
a refco/d of five wdh and three lost,'-
and In 62 Innings he had fanned
78 batters. His earned-runs aver-
age, the best measifhe<0f a pitcher's
■effectiveness, was 3.34,--«econd only
With Fancy work—Before start-
ing to draw the threads wi- linen
for hemstitching," wet -a small
Library and the Dirrfe Library) to brush, rub it over a bar■ otjsoap
thrill the souls of American boys ——
easily.
V
Butter Layer Cake—When rasp-
berry jam that is not of firm con-
sistency 1s to be used for filling a
sponge ^sandwich cake if is ad-
visable to butter the inner surface
of each layer before spreading it
with jam. This will „prevent thfc
moisture from soaking into the
ca"Re and making" it sddden. *
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Beef Juice—To make beef juice
add 1 pound of fresh, raw; finely
chopped t round steak without fat
to 6 ounces"'Of cold water. Add a'
pinch of salt, put the beef and wa-
ter'in**a glass jar and stand*4t on
ice, over nijjjht, Shake and strain
it through coarse muslin, squeez-
ing hard to-obtain all the j nieg-
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Tomato and Lima Bean Casse-
role—Drain the liquid from a No.
2 can of green baby lima beans
and combine the beans with a can
of tomatoes. Add a little butter
and seasoning, then mix. Place
in buttered casserole. Cover.-'
WNU Service.
Foreign Words
and Phrases
M
and to fill the hearts -of American
parents with fear that their sons
were being corrupted,4 beyond all
hope by these "yellow-backs." —
How groundless that fear was is
shown by the fact that some of th
most distinguished Americans of to-
day grew up on .a. reading diet of
Beadle's dime novels. Exciting and
thrilling those stories may have
been (opening, as so many of them
did, with "Bang! Bang! Bang!
^SThree shots rang out arid another
redskin bit the dust") but they were ;
also highly moral. For the Villain ]
was always foiled. Virtue always,]
triumphed and it is doubtful if a
single "boy ever vas ruined by read- j
ing one of them. "
Irwin Beadle retired from the
firm in 1862,-Robert Adams died in
1866, and his two younger broth-
ers, William and David, succeeded
him. With th?m as partners Eras-
tus Beadle carried the dime novel
to the heights of its success. He
continued in the business until 1889.
Then he retired with a fortune built
up by the dimes and nickels of
Young America. He died in 1894—
too earfy* to realize that certain of
the little "yellow backs" which he
sold for a dime would later sell for
hundreds of dollars befause they
are "Americana" and ''collectors'
items"!®- -
Nature and Mind'
A LL my mind wias wholly
everywhere. '.
Whate'er it saw, 'twas actually
there;
The Sun- ten thousand stages
off, was nigh;
The utmost star,
Tho' seen from far,
Was present ih the- apple of
mine eye.
O -wonder and^d'elight! 1
O sacred mystery!
My soul a spirit v wide and
bright, ** " ] ■ -
An image of the Deity!
A most substantial light!-
That being-greatest Which did
^ nothing seem.
—Thomas Traherne.
" Pioupiou. (F.) A" private* sol-
dier; the French "Tommy At-
kins.'' "
Rus in urbe. (L.) The country
in towm
Sub jydice, (L.) JJnder consid-
. oration. - —;—^
Sturm und drang. (Ger.) Storm
and stress.
Villegiatura. (It.) A summer
vacation.
Belles-lettres. (F.) Refined lit-
erature.
Cause cefebre. (F.) A court
trial of,wide "popular interest.
Creme de la creme. (F.) The
pink of perfection.
Dies infaustus. L.) An unlucky
day.
Filites nullius. (L.) The son of
nobody; illegitimate.
Pro forma. (L.) For the sake of
form. c~' —
Sui juris. 'In "one's own
] right.
,Vetturino.,<It.) A hackman.
'" $ |
They Are—To
Very pretty gir
ly to think all men are
People are just as mi
ed to encounter good
they ever were. Don't
aren't.
The sweaty players ih
of life always have more
the. supercilious spectators.
The map who tries to i
stand women usually ends by ;
rying one—and remaining iii
norance.
All the wbrk that is done on
farm is worth every cent of
money that is paid for it.
l i in ' i i i i in'i. in iyl
Young-Looking Skin
at 35—Now a Reality
TTHOUSANDS of
J. now keep the at
youthful, dewy-ftekh (kin i r
30—35—10 and even afu
Now-a modern skin crea
acts to free j
"age-film"
darkening particles ordinary cremes
move. Often only 5 nights enough 1
-diviotl new freshness—mouthful rose
ness;andtoelimir-itejiKly8urJaoe_'
heads, freckles. Ask forGoldea Peacock
Creme today at any drug or department
v . >.or send flOc f> Coiden Peacock
Dept.- Paris, Tenn.- -
Beginning of Science
Men love to Wonder and that is
the seat of our science.— Emerson. !
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ITS NO
EFFORT
TO KEEP
FURNITURE
BEAUTIFUL
' WITH
O-CCDAR
POLISH/ IT'S
SO QUICK AND
EASY TO USE
She Wanted to Be President
SHE wanted to be President of
the JJnited ' Staters- hutr if ever
there was a forlorn hope it Was_
that ambition of Victoria Clafin
Woodbull.
Shtf"started under the handicap of
being born in Ohio to a family that
was notjBidy Poor but disreputable.
And neither she nor her sister,
Tennessee Clafin (or "Tennie C."
as she wrote it) ever tried .to re-
trieve the family reputation, In-
stead, both of them added several
shocking items to Puritanical Amer-,
ica's low estimate of the Clafins.
For one thing they went in for spir-
itualism and, what was worse, they
became free love advocates.
Victoria first rnarried Dr. Can-
ning Woodhull but soon discarded
hirh for Col. James H. Blood, a
handsome and'distinguished Civil
war veteran-and a kindred spirit,
whom she later married. Tennes-
see went to New York and won the
admiration of Commodore Vander-,,
bilt who set her and herj:sister up.
as brokers. Having thus entered
the business world,' the sisters set
out to prove that women were just
as capable as men in other lines
of activity.
Tjiey began _ publishing Woodhull
and Clafin's Weekly and with it
Victoria started her own "boom"
.for President. She rftpMor that
high office on a plafform of wom-
en's rrghts^and kept right on run-
ning for many years. She went to
Washington and appeared before
the judiciary committee of the
house of representatives to. demand
the right to vote. Of course, she
failed to win that right just as she
failed to get- anyone to take her
Presidential candidacy seriously.
So she finally gave up the at-
tempt, discarded, Colonel Blood and
went to England where she acquired
another husband;-as did her sister.
Then, both, of-tbem disowned free
love, won their way into English
society and fdr* many year# pub-
lished-a magazine devoted to ad-
vanced views pn many subjects.
Eventually Victoria .settled down
Into a placid existence as the Lady
Bountiful of a small to^h In Wor-
cestershire and became known as
social reformer ^ho suffered for
viefos 'now generally -accepted."
When she- died in 1927 at the age of
Qinety, tfee vicar .who preached her
funeraf Itnwtr-tald hla hearers,
We haveSwen privileged to have ,
Q«lv8;V «UQ UIC lit we IlHVC L7CCn jjuvhi,§CU u
rs. failed to jive to jhe v^raaLefty Grove of th« ^ ^ ^ ^ worid's greatest
Boitdn Red «ox.
• Wcitern N«wsjk*p«r
personalities among
"V-W..
what! mb build a
playhouse? i should
say not.' i'm. dead
ti red !
oh, DADDY--
MOTHER SAID
Vt>L) WOULD
BU/LD ME-A
flight!
look
jqy a
happin
AN
NE
playhouse:
OH,YOU WOULDN'T/ YDU
SHOW AC ANY CONSIDERATION! YOU
Know i, need rest ti haven't
seen sleepin© well-- but
what
I WORK HARD
ALL DAYLIE
AWAKE ALL
N/0rtT—AN&AL,.^
VbU DO /S
UP MORE'WORK
FOR ME/
WELL-- IF? YOU'D DO
AS THE DOCTOR SAID,
""tOU'D NOT OrtLY SLEEP
BETTER, BUT YOU'D
BE A WHOLE LOT
EASIER TO LIVE
WITH!
why--
why--
len/
T
under-
stand'
CP
he TOLD YOU COPFEE-NERVES
Since he sot
RID OP HIS
SLEEPLESSNESS ,
HE'S BEEN• A
NEW MAN I
WAS CAUSING YOUR SLEEPLESSNESS'
said
SWITCH I
lb
Sure
THE TRICK
FOR HIM I
WHY DON'T YOU QUIT COFFEE
NK ROSTUM INSTEAD
FOR 30
AS HE
IT men--
WE'RE .
LICKED'
POSTUM
ALWAYS
Right
SUGGESTED?
mam
DRIVES
US OUT
iSlTf—
the IU11 purchase price, plus
IF SWITCHING It) POSTUM
30-day t*«t.
at yoSr boil or
If
drink
•nd drink It instead of coffee for on full month.
If...after 30 days...you do not fool bottor, return
the top of the Postum container to Otiwril
Battle Creek, Michipn, and we wffl
Cdpr. 1887. King Fontarwi
Ppstum • Air trial.,
Postum contains no caffi
and bran, toasted and
comes In two forms...!
cup. It is I
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