Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1910 — Dainty Dessert. [ARTICLE]

Dainty Dessert.

Place two tablespoonfuls of apricot Jam in dessert glasses and heap over it the whites of an egg beaten stiff, to which has been added one-balf dozen maccaroons cut fine, one tablespoonful powdered sugar and vaofllg. to taste. Whipped cream may be substituted tor the beaten egg if a richer dessert is desired.

ALTHOUGH it takes four men to make an Infield and only three for an outfield there are more good Infields than outfields. It seems to be easier to find four inflelders who as a group measure up to standard than to find three such outfielders on one club. True, the infields have more chance to show what they can do, but the fine* work in the outfield, such as throwing and cutting off the long hits, doesn’t appear even relatively as often a* fancy'infleld work. There are only three outfields in the big leagues which for ground covering, throwing and speed in getting after long hits rate up to A 1 grade. These are the Detroit, Chicago National and Pittsburg outfields. Notwithstanding Pittsburg’s bumps this year Clarke, Leach and Wilson are three sweet gardeners. Hoffman, Schulte and Sheckard are an outfield hard to improve on, while Cobb and Crawford are pippins with either Mclntyre or Jones in left classy enough to fit in nicely. Lewis, Hooper and Speaker of the Red Sox make a pretty nice outfield and one likely to get better. The best infield in the country is that of the Athletics —Davis, Collins, Barry and Baker. It can hit, run bases, and on defense is nearer to air tight than any other present-day quartet. Stahl, Gardner, Wagner and Lord are a fast four, without the class at all corners of the Athletics. Chance, Evers, Tinker and Stelnfeldt make a strong cordon, but one which has a shade less of the fire of youth of the Athletic four. Merkle, Doyle, Bridwell and Devlin are a combination not as evenly balanced in ground covering ability as could be wished, the greater ability being on the left side. The New York Americans’ Infield is also out of balance, having a preponderance of ability of. the right side. Cincinnati’s infield is well balanced, and so is that of the Phillies. Pittsburg’s always has lacked finish at first base, but a hummer otherwise. Cleveland’s is stronger in the middle than on the extremities. Brooklyn’s is not fast individually, lacks stability as a whole, but is likely to improve. Bresnahan has a tidy infield and one that can cover lots of ground from first to short inclusive. Take any of the present Infields and they do not outshine bygone infields of the Tenney-Lowe-Long-Colllns standard or of the Doyle-Reitz-Jennings-Mo-Graw standard. But then those two were in a class by themselves in their day. As a whole the infields of the present rate up as high now as then. Were there one 12-club league nowadays it is probable that more, highclass infields could be put together than were found 15 years ago. The old question of numbering the players on the field so that they can be picked out by reference to the score Sard has come up again. Some fans want this system introduced, claiming that it would add to the pleasure of witnessing a contest to be able to glance at a huge number on the back or chest Of an athlete and then refer to a card and pick out his name. There is no chance, though, of any such method being introduced. It would oe a bit of humiliation to the playors

to have to wear such pictures on their manly forms, which is entirely unnecessary. To be sure, a fan who is not personally familiar with all the athletes sometimes has to ask his neigh-' bor the identity of certain players, but that is a small matter. With jockeys and bicycle riders the case is very different The former ride in all kinds of weather conditions «md very often it is utterly Impossible te recognize the boys in a big field unless they are provided with a-- large identification slip in the form of a number on their backs. The same Is true of bicycle ridera. But the ball player is different His calling is a higher one than either of the others. His personality is more evident to the spectators than that of the jockey or a man humped over a machine. He is an individual, not a piece of machinery. He is not a driver of a horse or of an automobile, but an artist in his way. It would be as foolish to compel him to wear a huge disfiguring number on his back as it would be to inflict the same neecssity upon a star actor or singer. It doesn’t hurt anyone to ask his neighbor a question as to a player or two, if he Is watching a game in a; foreign city, where he is not familiar with all the athletes.