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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1949
Hunters Tell Some Tall Tales At Wildlife Meet
Washington. March 14—(U.P.)-Get a bunch of elk-hunters and bird-shooters and trout-snaggers together and you hear a lot of tall ones.
They act as though they don't want you listening in. But they really do and will bend your ear double if you give them half a chance.
That's the way it was round the headquarters of the North American wildlife conference.
There sat Bud Jackson, a field representative of the National Wildlife federation, who used to be a newspaperman himself. He told one about a pointer he—or somebody—used to have out around Springfield, Mo. "Old Chaser," they called him. This dog, Bud swore one a stack of martinis, used to run so fast he had to put on the brakes. And when he did, he found his hindquarters where his headquarters ought to be. In other words, the pup had kicked up such a speed he was wrongside out come quail time—and was pointing the wrong way.
Bud said that the folks in Missouri fixed the critter right, though. They taught the dog to run backward—and therefore to point the way he was supposed to.
That reminded Bob Miller of the Washington State Sportsmen's group of a cross-eyed bird dog he once knew. This canine was a fancy one when it came to smelling out quail. He never missed. Nothing wrong with his nose.
But turn him loose against a lot of rabbits and the dog was lost. The bounding and fence-jumping bunnies (jack rabbits, of course) were too much for the cross-eyed pooch who finally solved the situation by lying flat on his back. Using his sensitive nose for a guide, he would trip the rabbits as they tried to jump over him.
For no reason at all, this prompted gray-haired former Sen. Wallace H. White of Maine to ask if everybody had heard about the sweating fish the farmers called in for help during the awful drought back in the early 30's. Everybody had.
One day he showed up at a strange ranch house and asked, "Where is the hunting going on?"
That brought Bud Jackson to attention to tell one on old R.E. (Jelly) Gatewood—a backwoodsman from way back in Wyoming. Jelly had done about everything there is to do in life but hunt elk.
The lady of the ranch house said it was "back of the house," which in Wyoming could be anywhere from a couple of hundred yards to a couple of hundred miles.
Jelly found himself a point of van-tage—he thought—and squatted in the snow. He heard what he thought was a holler. He holtered back. This went on for some time.
Finally, Jelly figured that he was lost, but he also calculated that since he had only been gone a short time nobody could be looking for him, and the other fellow must be lost, too. So he quit hollowing back.
Somehow, Jelly found his way back to camp.
A few years later, somebody told him that the call of a bull elk sounds just like a mule with his tail caught in a fence—or like a fellow elk-hunter in distress.
Yankee's Yogi Berra Nurses Bruised Knee
St. Petersburg, Fla., March 14—(U.P.) Yogi Berra, stumpy catcher of the New York Yankees, was nursing a badly bruised right knee today, the aftermath of a crash between his car and a tree.
The accident occurred while Berra was driving to practice at Miller Huggins' field. Quipped Yogi: "I really aimed for a small tree but hit a big one."
Commercial airliners now are flying the North Atlantic 246 times a week. the latest industry figures reveal.
Tennis Candidates Meet Tomorrow
All candidates for Varsity tennis team berths are asked to report for practice at the stadium tennis courts at 3 p.m. tomorrow, by Dick Richards, tennis coach.
New York, March 14—(U.P.)—Danny Gardella, former New York Giants outfielder under suspension for jumping to the Mexican league, today asked for a federal court order either re-instating him to organized baseball or permitting him to play with independent teams.
Court Showdown On Gardella Case
The request for the writ was filed in federal district court by Gardella's attorney, Frederick A. Johnson, who hoped a judge would sign it, ordering baseball to reply in court tomorrow or Friday.
Gardella's suit for $300,000 damages against organized baseball, charging that the five-year suspension deprives him of his livelihood, is pending. But meanwhile Johnson sought to have the former Giant re-instated. He indicated, however, that he was more interested in baseball lifting unofficial "pressure" on the independent semi-pro teams outside its control than on the professional teams ban.
Gardella reportedly was taking the realistic view that he, now 28 years old, will never again play major league baseball regardless of the outcome of his suit, but that he could make considerable money playing with major semi-pro teams.
He has charged that organized baseball, in addition to maintaining the five-year suspension of Mexican league jumpers, has threatened to declare ineligible any semi-pro players who compete against the "jumpers."
Serve Papers On12 Teams
New York, March 14 —(U.P.)- Major league executives looked as if baseball had just been declared a subversive activity as they surveyed papers served in connection with the $2,500,000 damage suit filed by former St. Louis Cardinal pitcher Max Lanier and Fred Martin.
U. S. marshals served papers on 12 of the 16 big league teams March 12. It was believed the remaining clubs would be served today. The owners have only until tomorrow to answer a show cause order issued in New York, explaining why the two former Cardinals should not be allowed to return to baseball.
Papers were served on the New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Braves, Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs of the National league, and the Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, St. Louis' Browns and Detroit Tigers of the American league.
Lanier and Martin were suspended for five years for jumping to Mexican league in 1946.
In New York, assistant U.S. marshal Irving Sayapel said club officials could be contacted at their spring training camps even though the show cause order is answerable in New York federal district court. The Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians and Washington Senators apparently had not yet been served.
In Pittsburgh, Pirate secretary Tom Johnston said he would check New York federal court rules to determine whether the summons was "properly served." Johnston said most courts allow a reasonable length of time before a defendant must answer a show cause order.
West Virginia University horticulturists advise grafting cuttings from good commercial grades of cherry trees to native wild seedlings for good eating cherries.
"I don't think four days is a reasonable length of time," he said.
New Sox Boss Sets Up Rigid Training Rules
Pasadena, Cal., March 14—(U.P.) Jack Onslow, new manager of the Chicago White Sox, was running his players ragged today with a rigorous training program designed to boost the club out of the American league cellar this season.
"Players on any club that experienced as disastrous a season as the '48 White Sox should look forward to getting into the best postseason spring." Onslow's first bulletin-board statement to his players read.
"Our spring training program should mean just that—training!" The announcement emphasized.
Among the innovations that greeted the 1949 White Sox squad was a strenuously enforced midnight bed-check. But despite the restraints imposed by the new regulation, not even old-timers—what few of them are left—resented the measure.
Shortstop Luke Appling, starting his 19th year with the Sox, said he didn't object to the bed-check by trainers Packy Schwartz and Mush Esler who peek in at 11 o'clock every night.
"I'll bet I couldn't get to sleep unless Packy tucked me in," he quipped after the first week of the curfew.
Besides the bed-check, players flatly were told no wives would be allowed in camp, nor could any squad member drive an automobile. To insure that every minute of the preliminary training days were used to best advantage, Onslow prepared a detailed instruction sheet for his men:
Each player was told just how to spend his time during the two daily workouts. Two laps around the field, pepper games and general loosening up exercises have been "musts" for everyone first thing in the morning.
The only order that fizzled was the one requiring 10 practice slides every day. Somewhere along the line the club's sliding pit got lost and the exercise had to be left out until it was found.
Fraley Digs Up Useless Facts
By. OSCAR FRALEY
Hal Newhouser, pitching ace of the Detroit Tigers, was playing golf on a course near the club's Lakeland, Fla., spring training base when an interviewer caught up with him and asked him, among other things, how he felt.
New York —(U.P.)— Fearless Fraal-
ley's facts and figures;
"I feel great, wonderful," New-houser beamed. "And now stand quiet, will you, while I hit this shot."
Newhouser waggled the club and swung lustily—shaking the shot far into the rough.
Happy birthday: Two old favorites mark another milestone this week: Sammy Baugh, Washington Redskins' pass master who has made more records than Crosby, is 35 today. Bobby Jones, golf's grand slam kid who is recovering from a serious operation and expects to be on hand for the masters next month, will be 47 on Thursday.
"My, my," mourned the caddie. "You'd never know he felt great from the way he hit that two iron, would you?"
Speaking of birthdays, while Baugh is a good football advertisement for March, they'll settle for April out at Notre Dame. One assistant coach and six returning letter-winners of last year's undefeated team were born in April. They are backfield coach Bernie Crimmins, co-captain Jim Martin, tackles Ralph McGehee and Al Zmijewski, halfback Larry Coutre, guard Fred Wallner and fullback Mike Swistowicz. April thunderstorms, not showers, on the gridiron.
Nebraska ranks second in the nation for farm wealth.
Seniors To Play Donkey Baseball
The senior class day donkey baseball game is going to be a battle between the senior class and the faculty men according to Marvin Small, president.
The players will be chosen from nominations by the students. Nominations for either the faculty or senior team or both may be brought or sent to the sports editor of the Daily Kansan. The nominations will be turned over to the senior class day committee.
Any student in the University is eligible to make the nominations. The deadline is Friday, April 29.
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