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w??/, m IL.^# \j> © Sew York Post. —WNU Service. Box Score Is Mum on Cards Wanting Reserve Infielder THE Cards would like to trade a pitcher (preferably Walker or Hallahan) for a reserve infielder (Jimmy Jordan or Woody English). Such a deal would strengthen the Gas House gangsters at the one point where they now are woefully weak. . . Although he claims he is happy, Al Lopez looks thin and peaked and his friends insist the former Dodger catcher would love to be traded to some club with a chance. . . Charley Roman, the umpire, has a 391-acre farm in Kentucky. He quarters 30 to 500 horses and mules as well as 50 to 60 milch cows on it Cy Perkins, the Tiger coach, is the best piano player among the athletes now stationed in this state. Ethan Allen and Pitcher Pete Appleton (nee Jahlonowski) are the runners-up. . . Braves Field (or whatever they call the present Boston Beehive) is the toughest of ail big-time parks in which to catch foul balls. That is because the wind plays queer tricks while whistling through the high stands. . . Fred Leach, who once outfielded for the Phils and the Giants, now is a Idaho bank director. He also has a farm on which he specializes in eggs. Some of his pals insist that Hank Greenburg's holdout was partly in-

spired by the rule which prevents first basemen from attaching those oversize nets to their gloves this season. They say that Hank never was a good fielder until this gadget was invented and that he knows he will slump without it now. Sc he asked a pretty penny in order that he might be in good bargaining posi-

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tion In case his fielding was held against him. . . Harry Geisei, the American league umpire, and Mel Harder, the Cleveland pitcher, can (and love to) do card tricks. Otto Miller probably is fixing to get himself tossed out of the “them was the days’’ union. The Dodger coach says that it is much harder to hit now than when he was a star. Claims that the pitchers mix in to many curves, screwballs and knucklers along with the fast ones. . . . Gabby Hartnett is the favorite ball player of P. K. Wrigley, owner of the Cubs. Augie Galan ranks second and Billy Herman third, j . . . The late Charles A. Stoneham always liked Travis Jackson best of his Giants. . . Tommy Holmes, the basebail writer, now can keep score on a seven-pound five-ounce son. Lee Ballafant, the newest of National league umpires, is a snappy young fellow but players are complaining. They say he passes judgment on curve balls too quickly. . . During his catching days Tom Clarke, Giants’ scout, had one finger broken 22 times. It looks as good as ever now, though, while a digit damaged during batting practice two years ago resembles Pearl street . . Ed Brandt has more trouble pitching to little Lloyd Waner than to any other batter. Breadon, Card Prexy, Has a Menagerie In addition to owning the Cards, Sam Breadon also has title to half a dozen saddle horses, 12 dogs, a flock of guinea pigs and a six-foot snake. . . The Brooklyn training camp score card lists eleven club officials, starting off with Prexy Steve McKeever and winding up with a scout named Melville G. Logan. . . Ben Geraghty, the Villa- । nova basketball captain who is one of the most promising of Dodger rookies, studied journalism at college. . . Bookies. several bf whom operate In the New York rings, are still being shoved around by the Miami Pinks. . . There is some little discontent at the Babe Ruth homestead because so few photographers drop around this year. Torchy Koda, the very good Japanese golf pro who has been so popular with the galleries during his present lour, is only five feet tall and weighs only 125 pounds. . . Charlie O'Hearn, the Yale back who now operates on Wall street, is the closest pal of Tom Yawkey. the youthful Red Sox Midas. . . There is no need for ! Connie Mack to be Jealous, though. I Mr. O’Hearn has no bail players to sell. . . Although one of his sons is only j three years old and the other seven, the , forehanded Freddie Lindstrom already j has registered them for future admis- I sion to Notre Dame. . . Mickey Coch- ' rane says it is tougher to find good catchers than any other kind of ball j players nowadays. Joe Dimaggio, the most talked about (and probably the best) ball player in the South this spring, has found something to worry about. This is the first time he has been far away from the family fireside and although he has noted no symptoms as yet he fears that he eventually will become homesick. . . . The Phils turned down Burgess Whitehead before the Cards traded | him to the Giants. . . Although there are people who speak critically of his speed, Harry Danning is willing to bet that if all the big-time catchers were lined up for a 100-yard dash he would • ->ish no better than third . . Ripple. I outfielder, has the daintiest dogs • the Giants. He wears only a '» shce. The National league e Stark will soon make up.

r I' , HE following is what a reporter i gets for going to the dogs: There are four states in which dog racing is legal—Florida, Arkansas, Massachusetts and Oregon . . . Tracks also are permitted to operate ! in 14 other states by—let us call it—j special arrangement with local authorities . . . It is estimated that more than 15,000,000 witnessed the races last year . . . Greyhounds, generally considered the fastest of all animals at any distance up to 550 yards, naturally are preferred to whippets . . . A greyhound in full flight averI ages 35 miles an hour. They are not raced until they are fourteen months old . . . Females usually continue In competition for three years, while males usually campaign a year or more . . . Then even though they still retain their speed, they are retired for breeding purposes. Blood lines are as important as among race horses . . . War Cry, owned by W. R. Burnett, the author, is the Man o’ War of the dogs . . . Aside from starring in a movie, he won 44 races in one year and was out of the money only four times . . . Other great sires are Traffic Officer, who goes back three dog generations (12 years). Meadows and Playgoer. Greyhound’s Dinner Will Cost You a Quarter When In training the dogs are fed only once a day . . . On days when they are not racing they dine at six o’clock . . . On working days (Florida has matinees as well as evening performances) they must wait until after the races ... If you have a greyhound to dinner you should give him raw hamburger, ground coarsely but with all the fat removed, pearl barley, spinach, tomatoes, oatmeal, dog biscuit and hominy grits . . . You mix all this together and, if it is a very special occasion, you add a few spoonsful of cod liver oil . . . The ordinary portion weighs a pound and a quarter, although some owners dish out rations as heavy as two pounds . . . The average daily cost for a dog's board is 25 cents. Sixty to sixty-four pounds is the ideal racing weight for a dog, but there have been winners all the way from forty-seven to seventy-four . . . At the start of the season the weight of each dog is recorded . . . When competing in a race his weight must not vary by more than two pounds from these recorded figures . . . Similarly only a pound and a half weight variation is permitted from his last weight This is to prevent cheating . . . There was a day (it still exists in too many places, as most dog racing experts will admit) when unscrupulous owners would fill their favorites full of food or water before a race. Other owners used to celebrate “Be Kind to Animals Week” by sand-pa-pering the pads of a popular dog's feet. It was a very fine means of winning bets on long shots, as you will discover if you try the trick on your own tootsies and then attempt to sprint a hundred. Owen P. Smith invented the mechanical rabbit whereby dog racing was made possible as a public (and big betting) spectacle . . . That was in 1920 and the first events were held at Emeryvile, Calif. . . . The biggest of all betting nights was at Springdale, Ohio, an outlaw track near Cincinnati. More than $325,000 was wagered. Incidentally, owners flatly deny the widespread story that a greyhound which has caught the rabbit no longer is any good for racing and, in fact, is practically broken-hearted at the deception that has been practiced upon him. They say that the dogs are bred and trained to depend upon their sight and that, meanwhile, their sense of smell has suffered. Recalling When Johnson Kayoed Stanley Ketchell Not in the box score. Take it or leave it, but there are people who insist that Pete Bostwick, the millionaire steeplechase rider, wants to buy Brooklyn’s Dodgers . . . Francis Albertanti, recently retired Madison Square Garden pugilistic publicist, once was a world's champion. He won the title in a typewriting speed contest at the old Garden thirty-five years ago . . . After Jack Johnson knocked out Stanley Ketchell, two of Ketchell’s teeth were found imbedded in Johnson’s giove . . . Guy Sturdy, manager of the Baltimore Orioles, is one of the most accomplished of the baseball men now hunting and fishing in Florida. He lives in Kissimmee. Even the ultra-careful New York Jockey club sometimes makes mistakes. Recently a two-year-old was registered as Sophia Tucker when it should have been Sophie. Similarly another thoroughbred was officially set down as Ruby Keller when the owner meant the name to be Keeler . . . Jorge Bresca, the heavyweight; Louis Soresi, his manager, and Billy DeFoe, his trainer, all were born in the same month, March . . . Jimmy Foxx, who held open house for New York friends on Sunday, forgot to sign his name to the invitation sent to one sports writer. Then sent the invita- j tion to the wrong paper . . . C. L. (Poss) Parsons, sports editor of the Denver Post, has been appointed national chairman of A. A. U. basketball. Washington may get a franchise in j the Eastern Amateur Hockey league ■ next season. One of the big-time clubs Is planning to operate a farm there . , . Wilfred Barnes, past president of the British War Veterans F. C. (soccer) and chairman of the N. Y. S. F. A. cup committee, also is an authority on rugby. He played as a schoolboy internationalist for England in 1900, was with the famous Salford chib la the Northern Union league and represented the British navy for five years against the best European teams . . . Jimmy Johnston, the fight promoter, has 8 collection of high-class books which even the very literary Gene Tunney might envy. lie read them, too.

____ ——— I a m. a A.- m A w ® ? O I & W till ■ ■ kM I 'MB Ji ill * |R|!IM i MB IIO' HMBi ^^M^ 1' Ring out the bells, bel wed, the joyous Easter bells, Celestial harmony along their cadence rolls and swells, The blessed Christ is risen in the hearts that throb and thrill Responsive to Love's law wherein we may all laws fulfill. —ANNIE L. MUZZEY

at (fastertide ■ MUCH has been related of the spiritual observances of merry old England at the Eastertide, and too little told of the culinary achievements that tickled the palates of peasants and courtiers alike on that great feast day, writes Marlon Butler in the Chicago Tribune. Not only were these Easter dishes intriguing in appearance and taste, but they were made doubly fascinating by folk ceremonies that attended them. Nearly every day of the old Eng Hsh Easter week had its own special dish and unusual practices to go along with it. Shrove Tuesday was, and still is, in some sections, known as “Pancake day.” Although the term “shrove” was originally derived from the Anglo-Saxon “scrifan," meaning to levy a penance, the English epicures evidently invented a most delightful way of paying up, for on this day it became traditional for every family to bake thick, mealy pancakes, flavored with sherry, and serve them sizzling hot for breakfast. Maundy Thursday was the day on which the kings of England used to distribute baskets of food, known as “maunds,” to the poor. These were especially coveted for the fine, white bread that they contained, loaves suen as those being rare delicacies of that time. James II was the last sovereign to perform this ancient cere mony with all the elaborate church rites that attended it. Good Friday fairly abounds In curious legends and customs connected with hot cross buns. In the early hours of Good Friday morning, Engj lishmen used to be abruptly torn from I their pleasant slumbers by the great | hue and cry of the bun vendors, who | paraded the twisting, narrow streets I of the towns, pushing their unwieldy I bun carts before them, and chanting from dawn to dusk the familiar, old refrain: ‘Hot cross buns! One a penny, two a penny! Hot cross buns!” Since modern warming contrivances were unknown in those days, these vendors had a difficult time keeping ' ■ their wares hot. They carried them in large wicker baskets, such as we still use on wash days here. The buns were placed in layers of flannel to keep them warm, and then covered J over with an outer cloth of white or green. It is related that the bun vendors of old were also extremely cautious in the manner in which they j handed out the buns to customers, : permitting only one hand to slide ginI gerly beneath the covers in drawing | out their wares, thus allowing only the smallest possible breath of air to pene- ! trate inside. The hot cross buns of yesteryears | were much more crisp and crunchy EGGS AT EASTER — THE use of eggs at Easter time follows a custom of greatest antiquity, the egg having been considered in widely separated preChristian mythologies as the symbol of resurrection. It is probable that the Christian church adopted and consecrated an earlier custom. The egg is generally regarded as the symbol of spring, life and fecundity of nature.

than our softer modern ones. They also were more highly flavored with spices, and had a sticky coating of browned sugar. So favorite a dainty did these old pastries become with the English, that more than two hundred years ago in Chelsea, two royal bun houses sprang up. waging the bitterest of “bun feuds" over the all-important question of which baked the best buns. Each contended that the English kings and queens, themselves, patronized Its house. One took the name of Chelsea Bun House, and the other that of the Real Old Original Chelsea Bun House, popular taste seemed to shift, at intervals, from one to the other. Both occupied large, frame buildings with covered counters, stretching along their fronts. People used to travel miles on foot and horseback, getting up at the first flush of dawn on Good Friday morning, to eat fresh hot cross buns there, or to buy them In square, black boxes to take back home. Although the Christian sign of the cross has been Imprinted upon these hot cross buns for many centuries now. they were really products of preChristian times! Egyptian priests used to sell buns In front of their tern pies. compiling small fortunes from these strange “admission tickets." In primitive England, pagan tribes rudely mixed ceremonial buns of coarse grain and water as an offering to the coming of the spring sun, an event which they celebrated at wild festivals. With the coming of Christianity, the clergy waged warfare - - * 1 . - X - [ t s .’- t I > J- ■ M I “Hot Cross Buns! One a Penny, Two a Penny! Hot Cross Buns!” against this pagan practice, but met with such scant success that they evidently decided to make the best of a bad bargain by converting the buns into Christian symbols through the holy mark of the cross. Another strange kind of bread, I baked by old English cooks on Good Friday, was a loaf of very hard biscuit dough, having the sign of the cross perforated in it. The peasants carefully hung these loaves from their cottage roofs, leaving them there until Good Friday morning of the following year as special talismans to protect their homes from fire. In the dark, superstitious days prior to modern medicine, to these curious loaves were attributed the healing powers of the family doctor of modern times. Whenever an illness fell upon them, these devout peasants of long ago would dissolve small bits of the bread in water, and drink it with as much faith in its curative qualities as we would have in the scientifically prescribed medicine or tonic of today! How Easter Date Is Decided In A. D. 325 the council of the Christian churches at Nicaea in Asia Minor (present-day Nice or Isnik, in Asiatic Turkey) drew up the Nicene Creed and decided that Easter shall be on the first Sunday following the paschal full moon, which happens upon or next after the 21st of March, observes a writer in the Indianapolis News. The principal reason was that the pilgrims needed moonlight to travel on their way to the great yearly Easter festlvi-

•H" ' -I* + Stone from Which R + Christ Ascended + t Into Heaven j + ________________________ ~ • i a ‘ lii iil a jjfl -illllS I \ wl! ties. The date of Easter thus may vary between March 22 and April 25, a period of 35 days. If the paschal full moon falls on a Sunday, then Easter day is the next Sunday. The paschal full moon is the fourteenth day of a lunar month reckoned according to an ancient ecclesiastical computation and not the astronomical full moon. An Ancient English Custom Entirely extinct is an English Easter sport of the Seventeenth century, described as follows: “There is an ancient custome in this cittie of Chester, the memory of man now living not knowing the original, that upon Mondaye in Easter week, commonly called Black Mondaye, the two sherlffes of the cittie do shoote for a breakfaste of calves-heads and bacon. The day before the drum soundeth through the cittie with a proclamation for all gentlemen, yoemen and good fellowes, that will come with their bowes and arrowes to take part with one sheriff or the other; and after alle the winner’s side goe up together with arrowes in their handes and all the losers with bowes in their hands, to the common hall of the cittie where they take parte together of the saide breakfaste In loveing manner.” The Egg Is Pagan Not many people realize that the word Easter, although the name of a Christian festival, is a survival of paganism, says Tit-Bits Magazine. It takes its name from Eostre, the pagan goddess, who was identified with the Aurora Borealis, the "rising light of day and spring.” Norsemen welcomed her annually in a festival of celebration featuring an egg and a rabbit as symbols of fecundity. The survival of this custom is our present Easter egg, tinted in imitation of the quiver ing beams of the Aurora Borealis. As the Christian festival coincides with the period of the pagan one, and there is a certain beautiful similarity between them, the name has naturally been retained. DARKNESS OF CRUCIFIXION THE "darkness over all the earth” at the time of the crucifixion could not have been caused by an eclipse of the sun for the reason that it occurred just after the passover, at the time of full moon, and an eclipse can only occur when the moon is between us and the sun, or at the time called “the dark of the moon.” ।

’ | M P RO VED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY | chool Lesson By REV. P. B FITZWATER. D. D.. Member of Faculty. Moodv Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for April 12 JESUS TRIUMPHS OVER DEATH LESSON TEXT —Luke 24:1-35. GOLDEN TEXT—Because I live, ye shall live also.—Jolin 14:19. PRIMARY TOPIC —The Glad Surprise. JUNIOR TOPlC—Jesus the Conqueror. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPlC—Jesus Is Alive. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—Our Living Lord.

The supreme test of Christianity is - the fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It matters little what Jesus said and did while alive if his body remained in the grave. If he did not come forth in triumph from the tomb, then all his claims are false. Oi the other hand, if he did arise, all j his claims are true. Fortunately, there is no better authenticated fact in all history than that of the resurrection of the body of Jesus Christ. I. The Empty Sepulchre (vv. 1-3). 1. The coming of the women (v. 1). As an expression of affectionate regard for the Master, they came with spices for his body. This was a beautiful expression of sentiment but showed their lack of faith. If they had believed his words, they would have known that his body could not be found In the sepulchre. 2. What they found (vv. 2,3). When they came to the sepulchre, they { found the stone had been removed. < How the stone was to be removed greatly perplexed them on their way, but on their arrival they discovered that their difficulty hail already been met. They found the stone rolled away, but they found not the body of Jesus. For them to have found his body in the sepulchre would have been the world's greatest tragedy. The empty tomb spoke most eloquently of the deity and power of the Son of God (Hom. 1:4). 11. The Message of the Men in Shining Garments (vv. 4-8). 1. “Why seek ye the living among the dead?” (v. 5). This question has been reverberating through the centuries since it was uttered by the anI gels. 2. “He is not here, but is risen.” Jesus had made all these matters quite plain. He had told them that the Lord must be betrayed and crucified and that on the third day he would arise again. If they had given heed to his words, they would have bean relieved of their perplexities. 111. The Women Witnessing to the Eleven (vv. 9 11). Their thrilling testimony concerning the empty tomb and the words of the angels appeared to the disciples as bile tales and, therefore, they refused to believe. IV. Peter Investigating (v. 12). While the testimony of the women seemed ns idle tales. Peter was not of the temperament to dismiss the matter from his mind. Therefore, he ran to the sepulchre. Upon close investiga- , tion he found the linen clothes lying i । in such away as to prove the reality : of the resurrection. V. The Convinced Disciples (vv. 1335.) 1. The walk of two discouraged disciples (vv. 13-15). Emmaus was seven and h half miles northwest of Jerusalem. Just why the disciples were walking this way we may not surely know. The topic of conversation as they walked i miles northwest of Jerusalem. Just , why the disciples were walking this way we may not surely know. The topic of conversation as they walked was the tragedy of the cross and the resurrection rumors. If they had believed what Jesus said about his com- I Ing forth from the grave, they would ! have been expecting to hear just such reports as were circulating. 2. The unrecognized companion (vv. 16 24). a. Who he was (v. 1G). While they reasoned together on the wonderful events of the past few days, Jesus | joined them on the journey. b. His question (v. 17). Perceiving ’ their sadness and perplexity, he sought to help them by calling forth a state--1 ment of their grief. This question surprised them and caused them to jump at the conclusion that he was a stran- ' ger in Jerusalem, for the condemnation ’ and crucifixion of the great Prophet : of Nazareth were so recent and no- ! torious that no one who had lived in ’ Jerusalem could be ignorant of them. 3. The Scriptures opened (w. 25-31). ' a. His rebuke (vv. 25-30). He rebuked them not for their unbelief of the strange stories that they had heard, but for ignorance and lack of confidence in the Old Testament. ■ b. Jesus recognized (v. 31). While ' sitting at meat with the disciples their ’ eyes were opened as they saw him t bless the bread and distribute to them. 1 4. The effect upon the disciples (vv. ‘ 32-35). They were so filled with joy r over this revelation of the Saviour that 1 they hastened back to Jerusalem to ’ tell the other disciples of his resurrec--1 tion. 1 Heavenly Gift* Early faithfulness is possible only 3 by the reception of heavenly gifts. A3 1 surely as every leaf that grows is f mainly drawn from heaven and f heaven’s gifts. As certainly as every lump of coal that you put on your fire contains in itself sunbeams that have been locked up for all these millenniums that have passed since it waved J green in the forests, so certainly does every good deed embody in itself gifts from above. Ami no man is pure except by impartation: and every good thing, and every perfect thing cometh from the Father of Light. Seeking for Happiness Is it not often, at least, because we are so anxious to be happy in this world, so eager to grasp at a condition belonging not to here, but to hereafter, that we fret and fidget for what God has denied us.

Ambulance Speeds Laundry but Siren Worries Driver The driver of a Baltimore laundry truck, bound downtown recently, was startled to hear a siren whine just behind him. He looked into the rear-vision mirror and saw a municipal ambulance. Sensing an emergency, he stepped on the "gas," at I pulled to the side of the street, but the ambulance kept dodging to the rear. After passing several intersections, he decided to get out of the way completely and turned to the right at the next corner. The ambulance, with its siren going full-tilt, followed. A block farther he pulled to the side and stopped. The ambulance drew up directly behind. “I tried to get you to stop,” said the ambulance driver. “This bag of laundry dropped out."

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