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BACON'S STRIP VJ By t*f "ZEKE" BACON 1933 FOOTBALL SEASON OPENS FOR MOHS TODAY | The blanket is being torn off the 1933 football season this afternoon with Fox Lake and McHenry battling it. out on the field of Grant township | high school. The game will be a batitle of unknowns as far as the local eleven- is concerned, as even Coach Orr knows notw hat team will take the field when the opening whistle is Another sign of the coming winter Ss the announcement Earl Monear recently made of the gTand opening of this Palace Bowling Alleys that is, scheduled for tonight. Earl has in- blown. -vited all those interested in bowling | From the looks , of the forty-odd "to attend and is offering a fre© plate |1R^S w^° cavort about the practice „ ^unch as an added incentive to come.I field every night after school, the Don't eat too much tonight before you MGHS team, this year will have plenteave home. ty of length, but very little brawn. Many of the boys approach the sixfoot mark, but few of them will go much over the 160-pound limit and » v Now that the Sox and Cubs are T;oth definitely out of the worlds, -series, there comes to mind the city|m°st of them will siay in the neigh- j eeries, always a bigger event to the bofhood of a hundred and fifty.. Orrj fChicago district thaft the world event, hopes to make up in speed and com-i • ^The Cubs have already challenged the i won sense what he lac&s in strength. Sox, present champions, and the Sox j After much switching around the have accepted so the series will j Schedule has been completed and a Saturday, Oct. 7. Get your)v^ry interesting schedule it is. Sever*, S^tickfets early, fans, the, word's i*iria!»l.of the games have been scheduled ^still on,, 'f ' I for Fridays and it is planned to get *•> - »' '• ,t' \ ,a • t* the entire school out with the band in' When Equipoise runs" hi? last race j full force to add a lot of color and. pep ?~vjffnext Saturday it will bring to 'ft close "j *<>• the occasion. If the business tnen ( V-rthe career of perhaps the greatest; WUI just lend their presence it will • ' 'Shorse of recent years. "True, it isn't be on© of the most successful and anv-\ , ^the greatest money winner, but then ^hitious seasons football has'ever eh-j the old horse hasn't run every day in;Jcyed at good old MGHS. an effort to establish a new record. ) Captain Guy t)uker will captajn thei Tact is, that old racer would! even get team, as well as call signals from thej _ Howard Wattles the .least bit excited- fullback position, where he will be a 'Even when it was lengths behind in, buwark both on offense and defense. • the stretch Howard rwould say, calm-JLiOckwood, Dynie Engeln and Mooney 1^ as possible, "Just ijlayin' with 'em, [will also work in the backfield, with mow watch him run'", and run he did. (Bacon and Claire Kinsey doing double , Iwork, performing both in the back- Bill Kreutzer replaced Spots in the field and in the line. "Plato Center game last Sunday when Richie Vycital is placed at the piv- ' *the going wasnt to Spots' liking and ot position and is flanked by Howard rthereby won the honor of starting® and Jerome Justen at the guards. Jusapainst Johnsburg next Sunday. Fans , ten is entirely new, but is full of "will be glad to see Lefty Bill get his fight which will have to make Up for chance with the Locals after many ® slight scarcity of weight. At tackyears of being termed a second rater les Orr is placing Walkington and A1 though he can go outside of his home Boehlke, the latter another green man town and get hurling assignments1 who will ievelop fast if given the •with th© best of them. The new chance. Tonyan and Kinsala are a . management of the Locals has de-' Pair of rangy ends who should be able rclared that Spots has pulled his last;to get down the field well. In the fadeout stunt and will not be used reserve .department George Johnsonfi «ny move this season despite the out- •tcome. Now that Terry's New; YorK CTiants ihave cinched first place in< the National League it seems strange to look fcack on the pre-season predictions and find that they were picked for a berth deep in the second division. But Is isti't so strai^e when you ilook back on the record of the strongest hurling staff that h&s graced a major league roster in many a year. Hubbell Schumacher and Fitzsimmons, 'what a team! They, collectively, have •v^on 69 of the 88 victories by means j>f which 4jie Giants kttve won not only the pen riant, but hav© tied "the National League record of victories establish by the Cubs last year. MCHS opens its football season this ftfternoon at Pox Lafte, wtiere they tak© on the huge Fox Lake nine in the initial test of Coach GIT'S revised lineup. Having been disappointed in feveral boys that he had planned on for linesmen this year, he had to do the best he could with the remainder *>f the squad, but he isn't overly ploomy about the outcome and feels that the boys that are out for the iquad, and there are about forty men (pi< the field every practice night, counting the midgets, will do their Very best to back iim in every move that he chooses to make. Saturday the boys go to Barrington so it looks like a very busy week for the boys. The golfers that went out to shoot ir. that low net event at the Country club were doubly handicapped last Sunday by the high wind that approached a gale on top of the hill. The antics some of th© balls played when they got up into the wind made many a golfer feel that he knew nothing at all about the game- a fact that the scores posted would bear out, Jim Sayler and Frank Schreiner were among the local men that got into th© prize list in Class A, while Prof A. E. Nye was probably the happiest Iran in the list with a $2.50 merchandise prize in the Class B section. Nye said he .didn't care what class he was in as long' as he got the prize. It'd be^a shame to relate the scores that won thos© prizes. Ever watch J »hnny Bauer and his Hughes, Beckinbaugh, Marvin Meyers, Ken Marshall and Loren Miller will all get their chances. McHenry's Football Schedule Sept. 21--Fox Lake, there; Sept. 23. --Barrington, there; Sept. 29--Marengo, there; Oct. 6--Maine B, here; Oct. 14--St. Thomas, here; Oct. 28 --Woodstock, here; Nov. 3--Elgin B, there. • . - The three hohie games fortunately come close' together so that local interest should b© at a high pitch if the season is anything like a success, rnd I'm sure it will be with the personnel of the coaching staff and the team. Bruce Granger is again lending his support as student manager of the team and deserves a lot of .credit and respect for the manner in which he Itandles the assignment given him. Bruce is the man of all jobs and j; takes a load of work off the capable 'j shoulders of Coach Orr and Orr needs ji help now if ever. All the boys like ':t Bruce and his quiet, efficient manner ij and he helps to keep the morale of the 'i team where it belongs. If the Cubs ij ever lose Andy Lotshaw, Bruce would jj be the man to replace him with. 5 PLATO TRIMS LOCALS; JOHNSBURG HERE NEXT The McHenry Locals, though outhitting their rivals, the Plato Center nine, dropped a regulation contest to them last Sunday at the victors' park just west of Elgin. Spots Thurlwell started on the mound for McHenry, but was replaced by Bill Kreutzer when the going got too rough for him. Lefty Bill finished the game and handled things in excellent shape- He will be on the mound against Johnsburg next Sunday when the fourth game of the season between these two big rivals will take place. Wiese allowed eight hits, but managed to keep them scattered, while his mates bunched hits in the second ar.d fifth innings to acore four runs. Four errors by Plato helped th© Locals' cause along. The Locals are now playing under the management of Wm. H. Althoff, long one of the most ardent backers of the team. ' Under his guidance it is expected that the team will make fteadier 'headway than in the past, though the efforts of Manager Wolf1]; Texas Town Nearer 15 State Capitals Than Own Austin, Texas.--Proposed redisricting of Texas has brought forth.some queer facts about the state. Tex;irkana is nearer the state capitals of 15 other "states than it is to Austin, capital of Texas. The 15 are: Oklahoma, Kansas, Netoraskn, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee. Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Florida. Residents of fil Paso. Texas, are closer to Los Angeles tban they are to Beaumont or Tort Arthur, Texas. Brownsville, Texas, is farther from Dalhart, Texas, than Dalhart is from . North Dakota. Dalhart is nearer the capital of six other states than it Is to Its own state capital! Area compilations show the state, with 262.39S square miles, to be larger than pre-war Germany, larger than France and more than twice as large as England, Scotland and Ireland combined. ;-']'• -v; ' i i . V ' i.y ?n-VVM 100 pounds work out on the football,^.fat ^e boys up in front have been j field? If you haven't you want to, as some of these lads will, with out a doubt, be the stars of tomorrow. After Orr got through picking the cream of th© crop for his .first two teams, Johnny took the rest, which consisted mostly of those Freshmen vho are just too small to get a place or. the team. Most or them weigh about a hundred with possibly two exceptions, and some may even hav© to carry stones in their pockets to make the century mark. Well, John gets in back of the peewee- line and looks like the whole Chicago Bear backfield But those lads are learning their football fundamentals in a way that will shame some of the big boys ere the year is over. appreciated. Lightning Bug'* Machinery The lighting system of the firefly aeeme to serve two purposes; one, .to attract the opposite sex. and the other as a curious means of defense against bats or other nocturnal insectivorous^ creatures which prefer less dazzling and alarming fare. This defensive usq of light has its counterpart in some of the luminous fish, which get lit up only under the stimulus of alarm and excitement to frighten: off their enemies. . * Plato Center-- m R H Pileher, ss 4 1 1 Dralle, 2b ......2 1 0 Tillman, cf .......4 0 0 Bartlet, If 0 2 G. Fitchie, if _ 0 Crawford, 3b L^hjT7-.4> 0 Fisher, c 0 Wiese, p ........4 1 '•rl K. Fitchie, lb ..„i.... ........4 1 t 30 6 7 McHenry Ix>c«1b-- AB R H H. Smith, rf ............. 5 0 1 Anderson, 2b ............ .4 1 Geier, lb 0 2 Pfannenstil, cf ......... 5 9 0 Thurlwell, p 31 .,T'- 1 Bennett, ss 5 ® 2 Schroeder, c 0 0 L. Smith, lf ..„.^^.. 4 ' I 0 Whiting, 3b I.............. .^.....4 ' 0 Kreutder, p .........„.™ ... 2 • 1 Thorsell, c ...1 0 0 40 4 8 racteriatica of th* ScttMT The body of the Irish setter ts long and trim, with a deep chest The tail Is like a feathered plume and held gracefully. The coat, of golden chest* nut or mahogany red, should b« . straight and flat, without curl and of a silky texture. It is somewhat smaller than the English setter and would be ela?»W as a moderate sized animal. McHery Locals-- 010 Plato' Center-- 020 010 021 020--4 • Canary'.Bird* The wild canary is a monogamous bird. Generations of captivity have rendered the male polygamous. It M of interest, however, that the male always makes plain his weakness for his first love, though better canaries spring from the anion of the male and his later mates. Igjiuii Like Silver Lake Indians made Silver lake, at Akron. Ohio, a favorite spot for their tepeaa at late as 1812. Blue Jajft Aid In Capture of Kansas City, Mo.--Jimmy Duffy, with the aid of a flock of blue jays, captured un Ameripfln eagle with a garden rake in the. rear yard of his home in Kansas City. The eagle was busy repulsing an attack by the blue Jays when-Duffy hooked its fqpt with the rake and dragged it from its perch, in a tree. The eagle h*d a wing-spread of seven feet • «- Plaindealers for sale at Wattles. Model Shelter for Idle i Being Tried in Canada Montreal. --A now departure in hotels for the unemployed, where jobless are assured of two meals a day and the same clean bed every night, is being tried out here by the CathoHc ItefHge, Inc. The institution Is- supported by grants from the federal, provincial and municipal authorities. j Facilities of the "model hotel" include several dining rwms where 375 men can eat at one sitting; five dor mitories not too closely filled with doubledfeker beds which can accom-. modate 400 men, with the same bed every night for each man; numerous lavatories ahd showers; the services of a physician and dentist, aud 4 12- bed hospital. 1 * Will iailea if Ft! ^Associates With .Girls Merced, Calif.--If Jorn Garcia, ra Merced ranch worker, associates with any girl or woman during the next five years, "he • will go to ja®. Superior Judge Hal S. Shaffer made that .a condition in granting Gsircia probation on a statutory'ehar^, guilty ; Robin Disrupted Practice Wsbash, Ind.--Olubmen abandoned practice on a rifle range for a time here when a robin built a nest on the braces of a target at the gun club. Mi**i«*ippi Crevasses Mississippi crevasses frequently start from Small holes burrowed by crayfish. CMIUFE ft was a jolly gang of Scouts that trooped into the first meeting of another happy year, because this gathering meant another year of excitement. "Four-thirty o'clock Friday night". That's the time all of you Scouts are to "Be Prepared" for the hike tc Sherman's hill. Get your handbooks out and pass some tests up there. That was the announcement that made the boys jump out of their seats. And who wouldn't ? Pancakes will fly through the Air arid land' in the frying pans, ana, not knocking the fellows' ability, a few may miss and will flop on the ground. ? Another announcement that was the on« about going t0 the annual football game. This made some "ol the crowd stick out their chests, and tell the family they, were f going, ^ You, b$ys who haven't- Joined the -Boy Scouts, better do so if you .want td go • ' Scout Harold Taxman. When Lightning Strikes There is no scientific knowledge to support the general belief that when lightning strikes a building it goes through open windows and doors. Electricity generated in the clouds follows the line of least resistahce to the earth and would not turn from Its normal course to run horizontally merely a door or a window was op^Of, First American Stockade Tht first American stockade was Kenton's stockade, erected in 1799 by Simon Kenton, famous Indian fighter, and other Kentuckians at-the forks of the Mad river in Clark county, Ohio. Keeping Check on Speed There is no guess work as to which bird Is champion in a well regulated homing, pigeon race. Special instruments are used to make it possible to determine th& average speed of the birds flown with. f«irQess> to all competitors.;:/.' WILL CONDUCT TWO , POULTRY SCHOOLS A large number or poultry raisers"" in McHenry county^ill be interested to know that H. H. Alp, Extension P<}ultryman from the University of" Illinois, will conduct two schools on" the care and management of pullets for winter egg production on Thurs-';. Hay, Sept. 28, the first meeting to be;?' held in the assembly room at the Farm Bureau office at 1 o'clock (ST). The second meeting will be held at the Chemung M. E. church on the •evening of the same day. Morp than 400 poultrymen in the. county attended four' Baby Chick Schools sponsored by the Farm Bureau this spring, at which Mr. Alp discussed the rearing of chicks: A considerable number of McHenry' county poultrymen also received hia> monthly bulletin timely suggestions^.; f PLAINDEALER.. • , -» Country Squires of England K.The country squires of England were one of the oldest" titles ranking less than the nobility. At the" time that sucb titles were most commonly used, the title squire was placed one below that of'the knight and one above that of gentleman. 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