Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1910 — Page 3

The AUTOMBILL IN THE U.S.NAVY

0 many persons it might, at first thought, appear m strange that the navy— I A which is supposed to ' w J have to do with nothing much but ships and sea craft —should find hse for the automobile. Yet, as a matter of fact, the United States navy department 1b finding extensive and in-

creasing use for this up-to-date mode of locomotion. And just iiere it may be noted that for all that our army may be a trifle behind the military establishments of some foreign powers In the use it has made of the automobile, no such disparaging comparison is possible in the case of Uncle Sam’s navy. The latter is quite abreast any other nation in the uses that have been, found for the self-pro-feelled vehicles. | As may readily be surmised, the chief sphere of usefulness for motor cars in the navy service lies in the they can render at shore stations, such as navy yards, and at the naval workshops which have to do with supplying the ships with Iguns and ammunition and other indispensible classes of supplies. The best evidence of what these new helpers can accomplish in this way is to be had at the United States naval gun factory, the big industrial plant which manufactures all the heavy guns for our armorclads. Here four electric trucks of varying capacities are in constant service, each performing the work of not less than half a dozen horse-drawn carts. Indeed, these four trucks perform the entire |work of transferring from shop to shop all the material of every description entering into the manufacture of the big guns. j One of these trucks has a capacity of 2,000 pounds; a second is capable Of carrying 2,500 pounds; the third can transport two tons, and the fourth, designed for the heaviest class of work, is capable of toting around a tidy live tons. These horseless trucks can travel with maximum load at 18

TYRO IN RUNAWAY AUTOMOBILE

“Were you ever in a runaway automobile going about thirty miles an hour; yourself the only person in the machine and about as ignorant of the means of stopping the thing as of flying without wings?” ; This Question was asked the other day by a patched-up individual who limped into a downtown cigar store, where a number of his friends were congregated. His face was swathed In bandages; one eye was encircled with black and blue marks and his loose clothing testified to the loss of about thirty pounds of weight. “Yes, it was an automobile accident,” he said in answer to solicitous Inquiries as to his changed appearance. "I never want to ride in one of the things again, either!” he added, “or, if I do, it will be only after I study the mechanism of the car so I will know what to do if, I ani ever placed in a similar predicament. “I started out on a little ride through the north side boulevards, about three weeks ago,” the sufferer explained. “I was in a friend’s machine and he was at the wheel. I’d been in an automobile a lot of times before, of course, but I didn’t know a thing about running them. “Well, we were running along about thirty miles an hour. Yes, a little above the speed limits, I’ll admit, but we were both sober and my friend was skilled in the handling of the machine. Suddenly the accident happened. A wagon was backing up on one side of the street and the polo projected out in front as the horses strained backward with the load. My friend drove pretty close to the pole. I thought, and in a second I' realized that he was no ,on S er beside me in the car. That wagon pole had suddenly Jerked forward in some way and swept him right out Of the seat, i “Can you beat that for a situation?*’ asked the injured one. “The car jumped ahead, of course, and I sud-

to 20 miles per hour, and they can keep going for a total of 30 to 35 miles on one charge of electricity—that is on one charge of the storage batteries, which are stocked with energy each night for the next day’s work. Perhaps the most in-

teresting function performed by an auto in the navy is in the role of a pay car at this self-same naval gun factory. Once a week this pay car makes a two-hour trip of the various shops of the plant paying out to the 3,000 employees an aggregate of between $55,000 and $60,000 each week. The medical department of the United States navy has introduced motor ambulances. Both electric and steam cars have been tested for such .service and such has been the success of the innovation that ere long we may expect to find auto ambulances at every naval hospital of any size. The approved style of motor ambulance is an 18 horse power machine capable of carrying 12 persons at a speed of 16 miles per hour. Space is provided for four litters, two being placed side by side on the floor of the ambulance and two above it. It is the work of but a moment to convert the ambulance from a sort of omnibus car with seats along the sides to a miniature moving hospital ward with four beds as above mentioned. The United States Naval academy at Annapolis, Md., bids fair to become

denly realized my plight. I remembered in a flash that there were about a dozen levers, brakes, handles and buttons to work in such an emergency and they might as well have been only one so far as I was concerned, because I didn’t knGw the first thing to do. There were a million other automobiles in the street and wagons and people crossing everywhere and there I was in that crazy machine which seemed to have increased its speed about double. By this time I had climbed into the

Truthfulness of Grace

Tlie financial difficulties which a few years ago reduced Mrs. Care we and her daughter Grace to the slenderest of incomes have but served to bring out their gifts and graces—so say all of their friends. Mrs. Carewe has developed a perfect genius for “making over” dresses, and Grace—well, perhaps her real fiber shows itself In the sweetness with which she wears the made-over things. For it might be rather difficult for a pretty young girl to wear the same dresses, year after year. In a circle of girl friends not obliged to economize—and to do it gracefully. Last summer the Carewes , were with some friends in one of those summer camps where you “go back to nature,” says the '“Youth’s Companion. Nobody thinks about dress there, and the “functions" are all impromptu and make Bmall demands on the wardrobe. A group of the campers was chatting in Mrs. Carewe’s tent one morning, when a new arrival joined them. She had come only two days before, and was already enthusiastic 1 over the camp. "And it’s such a good place,” she said, finally, completing the list of virtues, “to wear out one’s last year’s things.”

in time a field wherein the fullest usefulness of the automobile wilL be developed. Already commercial cars are in use at Uncle Sam’s great university, being employed for the transportation of freight and supplies of all kinds and for the handling of mail and express matter —and there is a plenty of such work in this little naval community of several thousand people. Many of the officers stationed at the naval academy—there are more than 100 on duty there—have adopted motor cars for their personal use, and one of the impressive sights at this naval center—typical of modern progress is found in the spectacle of a naval officer stepping ashore from ship or cutter and grasping the steering wheel of a motor car that has been awaiting him at the dock. Secretary Meyer, the present head of the navy department, is, personally, an . enthusiast on the subject of motoring. He owns several ears of different types, and is heartily in favor of the scheme to make the fullest possible use of the self-propelled vehicles in the naval world.

chauffeur’s seat and had grabbed the wheel. Sure, I was rattled. Who wouldn’t have been? I saw another machine right in front of me and about eight others, trying to butt me off the street from all sides. A policeman yelled and I turned the wheel the wrong way.” “I Just got out pf the hospital an hour ago and I haven’t yet heqrd what became of my friend. Anybody read lately of an automobile accident of the kind I have described where one of the passengers was killed?

“Yes, indeed,” assented Grace Carewe. “I’m Just reveling in my old clothes here.” After the newcomer had gone Mrs Carewe began to look worried, so much so that her daughter solicitously asked what the trouble could be. ”My dear, I didn’t quite like what you said to Mrs. Bannock. Of course you didn’t say that you had a trunkful or new dresses, as she has, but didn’t you really leave the impression—” Mother, asked Grace, with dignock dl<l 1 Bay t 0 Mrs ‘ Ban- “ You said, my child, that you were just reveling’ In your old things, as if there were any difference between here and ” I “But, mother, dear, there is a difference. Did you ever know me to revel In them In town?” o T he " Mre - Carewe, who, better than any other, knows Grace’s girlish love of pretty things and the species of miniature heroism that she exercises *“ h ® Bunn,eat as well as the shabbiest girl In her set. considered a moment. And having a sense of humor as wen as a Passion for perfect truthfulness, she laughed. ‘T don’t say another word, my dear.” she said. 1

McLEAN ALWAYS WAS PLAYER

Cincinnati Catcher Would Rather Pa/ to Play Than Be Kept Out of Baseball Game.

BY "LARRY” McLEAN.

<Copyri*ht. by Joseph B. Bowles.) I always intended to become a professional ball player and finally became one in spite of the fact that they tripped me several times. The folks wanted me to work but I had an idea I was too Btrong to work, and spent most of my boyhood playing ball. The records of the school at Newtown, Mass., will show I won the championship of the truant league by the time I was fifteen. Some people thinJc a ball player plays for the money there is in it I never did. In fact I think I would have been a ball pldyer if they had made me pay to play the game. It was a pleasure for me as a kid to try to outguess batters. That I think is the secret of any catcher’s success. He must try to think what he would do if he were at the bat, and then make the pitcher do the opposite thing. My construction helped me a lot, for* I was a big, long armed boy and they made me catch. I didn’t want to catch at all, for there is little pleasure in being busted in the nose by foul tips or hit on the shins. I wanted to pitch, but there was a fellow named Burke who also wanted to pitch, and after he had licked me a few times I let him pitch and became a catcher, and have remained one ever since—no mater who says I am no catcher. After that I got on thd Newtown Athletic club as a catcher, and caught around Boston and Cambridge. I used to go to the Boston grounds, sit as close as possible and study the way the catchers and pitchers did things. Then I went up to St. Johns, N. S., where I happened to play with some wise old heads who kept showing me a lot about the game. 1 never had an idea I was good

“Larry” McLean.

enough for the big leagues. I knew I could hit and catch in the company I was playing with, but had no idea of getting up into the major leagues until a scout found me and dragged me into the American league. To my surprise I found it just as easy to catch for the big league clubs as for the amateurs, except that I had to learn the hatters all over again. I studied them hard, and watched them closely. Once a catcher ,|lnds out the weaknesses and strength of batters and gets familiar with his own men and their style of play it is easier to catch in the big league than in the bushes.

SPORTING FACTS FANCIES

The most vexing problem of the football teams playing for the championships was to determine the eligibility of the leading stars on opposing teams. No wrestler In the world aspiring to a title should overlook Chicago. There are more champions in that city to the square mile than anywhere else in the universe. When a man wins he is the “wise guy,” and the athlete who “laid down” is "the lobster.” When the loser turns state’s evidence, “the lobster” is the “wise guy.” The manager of Ilia Vincent, the Bast Indian wrestler, says he chased all over England trying to secure a match with Hackenschmidt. An aviatof should insure himself against danger by taking along a wrestler of the professional class in which flying falls are barred. Patsy Donovan, manager of the Boston Red Sox, has joined the benedict Glass: He recently married Miss Teresa Mahoney, a pretty music teacher of hiß home town at Lawrence, Mass. Football for the year has passed into the discards. Before you know It those baseball players will be hiking away to the spring training quarters. Two wrestlers were at It for nearly four hours the other night and one writer speaks of it as “intensely interesting.” Hard enough for some of the fans to watch a pair for more than 30 minutes around here without yelling for the hook. Hugh Jennings 1b popular with the fans in Cuba. He was offered transportation and other inducements to take the trip with the Tigers. It takes big inducements to offset the profits to be derived from the automdbile manufacturing, business, and Hughie declined the offer.

AUSTRALIAN BILLIARD CHAMPION

The big boom that billiards is receiving in this country this season is attracting the attention of the cue wielders abroad, in fact, promoters on this side of the Atlantic are making Btrenuous efforts to have a number of foreign cracks come to this country to compete in several tournaments to be held this winter. Several cracks have announced their intention of coming to this country before the new year sets in. Among them is George Gray, the Australian

ECKERSALL’S “BIG 8” ELEVEN

Expert Tells Why Players Earn Positions and Picks Strongest Teams in Conference. With the conference football season of 1910 at an end, the time has come, following a long honored custom, to reward the gridiron heroes who have played the best and most consistent football during the season by selecting an all conference eleven to be composed of players worthy of such recognition. At the end of each year coaches, players, and followers of football look to these honor selections with considerable interest, and it has been the custom for years to reward the players who have done the most meritorious work during the season in their respective positions by placing them on an all-star eleven. Such a team only can be selected without partiality by a careful resume of all the games and by close observation of the performances of the different players in the various contests. The season has produced the annual number of stars whose work entitles them to places without question, while in other cases the awards only can be made after a careful review of the work of the players Involved, writes Walter H. Eckersall in the Chicago Tribune. A number of struggles have been won through the individual efforts of some players, while others have been decided by the smoothness In which the forma*tfons have been executed at critical times due to the proper selection of plays.

For the first time in years the conference college elevens are not represented by first class ends, players who compare favorably with the end rushes of former years. The lack of top notch players in these positions Is evidenced by the manner in which the coaches played the ends on defense. In most cases the offensive ends were placed behind the 7 line or in a defensive full back position in order that other players of more rugged build could be placed in smashing positions. In selecting this eleven, every angle of football must be considered and the players selected who can execute different deceptive formations with the necessary perfection in the event this eleven was to meet some other aggregation. The team must be equally strong offensively and defensively and there must be players in the backfleld who can execute forward passes, who can run the ends, hit on or off the tackles and perform other offensive feats of a first-class backfleld. The need of a top notch field goal kicker was emphasized all season and in Seller and McGovern this eleven is well fortified in this important partment. Besides being clever drop kickers, both were punters of the first water and, they should be able to hold their own if pitted against any of the other star hooters in the different sections. Each was better when kicking under fire, and both added needed points when they were absolutely necessary. Eckersall’s All Conference Elevens. First Team. Dean, Wisconsin Left end Walker, Minnesota Left tackle Messick, Indiana **,.. .Left guard Twist, Illinois. Center Butzer, Illinois Right guard

George Gray, Remarkable Cue Artist.

champion, who at Leeds, England, recently broke the English red ball and world’s all-around record In successive days in a match with F. W. Hughes, the English expert. Although only eighteen years old. Gray is one of the most remarkable billiard players that ever appeared in England. He started playing billiards at Brisbane five years ago, when recovering from a broken arm, and in less than eighteen months had made a name for himself in Australia.

Dutter, Indiana ....Right tackle Berndt, Indiana.... Right end McGovern, Minnesota.. .Quarter back Seiler, Illinois Right half back Rosenwald, Minnesota. Left half back Johnston, Minnesota Full back Second Team. Sauer, Chicago Left end Hatfield, Indiana .Left tackle Belting, Illinois .......Left guard Morrell, Minnesota Center Ward, Northwestern Right guard Young, Minnesota ’..Right tackle Oliver, Illinois Right end Cunningham, Indiana.. .Quarter back Crawley, Chicago Right half back Gill, Indiana Left half back Hyland, 10wa.... Full back

GOTCH WAS GREAT WESTLER

During His Career He Had 331 Matches Not Counting Minor Affairs, Losing Beven. Frank Gotch, who announced his permanent retirement from the mat recently, has proved himself the greatest wrestling champion since the days of Jack Carkeek. Gotch has had 331 matches since he started in the game in 1898, not counting many minor affairs, and of this number he lost seven, five of them being handicap matches, in which he failed to throw his man as many times as bargained for. Gotch practically became champion in 1906, when he defeated Tom Jenkins, who was then considered the best in the country. He met all the stars in the country and defeated them all. His greatest match was with George Hackenschmldt, the Russian Lion, whom he won from in Chicago, in 1908. This match whs arranged by W. W. Wittig, the Milwaukee and Mlnne-

Frank Gotch.

apolls theatrical man, and was the sensation of the age in wrestling circles. Gotch won without a . fall, as Hackenschimdt gave up after two hours and eight minutes of work on the mat without any sign of a fall. Gotch went to England afterward and tried to get another match With Hackenschmidt, but after much dickering it fell through. They were to have met in Australia, but this, too, fell through. Gotch then defeated Dr. B. F. Roller, and'his last big match was with Zyasco, whom the promoters brought from Europe to defeat the champion. Gotch beat him so easily that the giant Pole returned to Europe without bothering About a return match. • -