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Babe Ruth's Favorite Baseball Story

Babe Ruth loves to tell the story of a baseball game in a sandlot, that lasted so long the sun had gone down when the final half of the final inning arrived, and it was getting dark very rapidly. Two men were out and there were two strikes on the batter, and the team in the field stood to win the game by one run if they could get this third batter out. So the pitcher and catcher held a conference, and the pitcher said:

"It's so dark nobody can see nothin', so I'm going to wind up and make believe I'm throwing the ball, but instead I'm slipping the ball to you right now. After I go

NRTDA Annual Meeting

S. Lamar Forrest, president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, has announced that the annual meeting of the Association's board of directors will be held on November 6,7 and 8. The meeting will be held at the Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

through the motion of throwing, you pound your glove hard and pretend to make the catch, and this guy will be out. See?"

So they returned to their positions and went through the motions as arranged. When the catcher thumped his glove and showed up with the ball right behind the plate and just waist high, the umpire shouted:

"Three strikes ! You're out !"

"Out hell!" screamed the batter. "That was no strike! The ball came below my knees, and two feet outside !"

Will Open Lumber Ycrrd

George Cole has purchased frontage on Sepulveda Boulevard, just north of Oxnard in Van Nuys, and will open a lumber yard about January 1, doing business as the Cole Lumber Company. For a number of yearg, he managed the Joslin Lumber Company yard in Inglewood.

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club to Hold Club Members Hear Airlines Spepker Concat in Reno Nov. 10

President Ray Burdg presided at the regular dinner meeting of Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club No. 109, held in Sacramento, October 17.

There was an excellent attendance. Plans were made for holding a Concatenation at Reno November 10. A bus has been chartered to carry a party of 30 members of the club from Sacramento to Reno and return.

George Ackerman, Ackerman Lumber Co., Reno, is in charge of the arrangements. He reports that he expects they will have the largest class of Kittens in recent Hoo.Hoo history.

New Mcncrger Ncmed

L. G. Olson, who was recently discharged from the Army with a rating of Major, has been named general manager of the White River Lumber Co. at Enumclaw, Wash., succeed_ ing his father, Lou Olson, one of the founders of the company, who will continue as vice president.

Gets 380-lb. Deer

Wm Chatham, Jr., general manager of Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda, bagged a 380-lb. mule deer, one of the largest ever taken, on a recent hunting trip in Nevada. F{e was accompanied on the trip by his father, Wm. Chath_ am, Sr., president of Loop Lumber Co., San Francisco, who was making his first hunting trip in a good many years.

Members and guests of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 heard an interesting talk about the new planes to be put into service, starting next June, by United Air Lines. The occasion was the regular monthly dinner meeting of the club, held at Hotel Claremont, Berkeley, October 15, and the speaker was W. F. Spence of the Air Lines' Oakland office.

The speaker, who was introduced by program chairman Tom Hogan III, said the new DC-6's will fly from San Francisco to I-os Angeles in 80 minutes, and to New York in 10 hours. Cost of travel will be 4l cenls a mile on the luxury plane carrying 52 passengers, and 3 cents a mile on the regular plane carrying 7O passengers. Much interest was shown by the number of questions asked and answered. A motion picture showing the 25-year progress of UAL rvas shown.

President John Helm presided. Acting secretary Chris Sechrist reported that it is expected that last year's total cf 725 paid up members will be exceeded this year.

New Ycrd At Scn Bruno

San Bruno Lumber Co. has taken over the yard formerly occupied by the McNulty Lumber Co. at 588 Mastick Avenue, San Bruno, Calif. The yard is operated by A. H. Stockton of A. L. Stockton Lumber Co., Daly City, and associates.

The new concern is doing extensive remodeling and modernizing of the plant, and also using the most modern lumber handling equipment.

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