Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1911 — Page 3

DIZZY BALL YARNS

■■■■ ■■;■ ASTOUNDINGSTUNTB TOLD OF IN magazine baseball FICTION. ’HERO MAKES A BASE “KNOCK* . Uncle Ben Shlbe Tells Good Story on Himself—When Dad Clarke Was Lost—Jim Delehanty's - ’ < Batting Streak. By HUGH .S. FULLERTON. Baseball is the great American game. .Which statement Is bromidian enough tor anyone. I used to think that every cine knew the basic rules and principles of the game—but no longer. I’ve been reading baseball fiction. The two exceptions to universal knowledge of baseball are magazine editors and magazine writers, to judge from some of the stories printed in the last year. 4. The most exciting yarn of all, printed seriously by one of the second class first class magazines had a wonderful climax. The score was 3 to 3 in the last half of the ninth 'inning. The {bases were filled and the hero was at bat with two out Now what do you suppose he did? The writer had him bit a home run, and ended up the game [with the score of 7 to 3, and the hero being carried around by a wildly excited crowd of admirers. Immediately after reading another story I released the hero unconditionally. It Is rattier odd, but the hero always comes to bat tn the ninth inning, and I’ve never known him either to ■trike out or hit a fly:- Indeed, in seven baseball stories I .have analyzed within the last Wjpek the hero has batted .1000 and mostly home runs— and, as far as-I can learn, no one has oven drafted him. But this hero was a wonder. He was captain of the team. His -great pal and assistant hero led toss the ninth with a two bagger and -{was sacrificed to third. With one out and a run needed to win the game the next batter hit the ball a mile to center field. The fielder went clear back . to the fence, leaped, caught the ball, ntt the fence and was unconscious. Now, what do you suppose that runner bn third did? 'Why, he calmly stuck around third base until the center fieldtor recovered consciousness and refused to score until the hero made a base '‘knock.’’ (That’s what the .writer called it) The third hero was a pitcher and a Wonder. In the ninth Inning his team was in lots of trouble. The opposing team had the bases full with one out and his rival was at bat with three balls and no strikes. The hero “pitched him three sweeping outcurves so far from the plate he missed them, and struck him out.” Good waiter, that rival. The writer even fails to record the sayings of the manager when the rival took his swings at those balls, pne of the best bits- of judgment in any of the stories was that of the captain who, in the eighth Inning, with the score 5 to 0 against his team, got a runner to first base, then sacrificed, “to save the disgrace of a shut out” The opposing pitcher fumbled the bunt (no wonder, if he knew the game he’d be surprised too much to pick it up), and turned the tide, and the hero’s team won. Just'how he managed it I haven’t figured out, for, according to the story, he bunted in

the eighth, led off the ninth with a hit, and then drove home the winning runs with atriple. . . Mr. Beach ought to send a book of baseball rules to every editor who goes in for that sort of thing. ■■■ - -UncleT Ben Shlbe, owner of the Athletics, the world’s champions. Is one of the finest sportsmen in the Country, and a man who would/love baseball quite as much if he hadn’t a ticket office, as with'it He is the friend of everyone, his' own players, his rivals, the waning magnates and the firns. The brawls and quarrel* and wars find him Unconcerned, except to bare Vgood team, and if his. team loses be la the first to congratulate the conqueror. Last fall Unqle Ben told a story on himself for the first time.” At thettms the American league raided the National and took many of its star players. Uncle Ben was part owner of the Philadelphia National League club, now his rival, and although friendly even then with the American league club owners, he was W*l to hl* organization. Clark Griffiths, now manager of the Cincinnati club, was working tooth and nail to help Comfskey build up hl* Chicago American league club, and, Incidentally, grabbed every National league player he could get to jump to the American league. Gris was In Phil adelphla and had been buying player* so rapidly his cash resources were ax-

hausted. It was night and he could not reach Comlskey. One of the stars of the Philadelphia National League club offered to jump to the Americas league and sign a three year contract if Gris would give him >6OO in cash. Gris was in a dilemma. He could not get the money until the next day, and by that time the opportunity probably would have been lost Determined not to lose the man, Griffith went to Uncle borrowed the 3500, and paid Shibe’s own money to the player to jump from his club to the rival league. And instead of being angry; Uncle Ben thought it an excellent joke on himself. - Dad Clarke, the inimitable veteran pitcher, who for many years was one of the best known characters in the game, always was popular, no matter whetb he played—except In one city—and there was a reason for that Dad had been pitching for New York and was sold, receiving verbal orders and money to pay for tickets, berths and meals to join his new club.

Three days later he walked Into a newspaper office In Cincinnati, called the sporting editor to one side, and said: “Say, old man, what team do I belong to?" The astonished sporting editor pleaded ignorance, not having heard of the deal. “Why, Dad, don’t you know?" he demanded. - : £ 4“I know it’s Nashville, or Louisville, or some of those Southern league towns," he said, seriously, “but I’ve forgotten which one. Will you wire on forme and find out?" ;; f And when that story reached Louisville shortly after Dad reported for duty, he found himself ,the object of much dislike. “I think," said Jim Delehanty, the hustling second baseman of the Detroit team, “that if some one would kick me between the eyes real hard, I’d lead the league in hitting." “What’s the angle on that remark?” asked RanT Crawford. “If I were you,” said Davy Jones, sadly, “I’d hire-a mule to. kick you three or four times, and maybe you’d hit a thousand per cent” “I’ll tell .you what I meant," agreed Del. "When I went into the Tri-State league I was just a fain hitter, fair bordering on rotten. If I'hit 225 I felt pretty good, and if I fell below that I wasn't much surprised. Well, I had been going along fairly well for a few weeks when one day I started to steal second. I intended at first to slide behind the bag, but the baseman changed positibn, and I tried to switch and slide in front. The result was I slid awkwardly and as he touched me out and blocked me his knee hit me bang between the eyes. I saw forty million stars and got up dizzy and feeling funny. Everything seemed changed, and I seemed to be looking through a veil all the time. Everything on my right side looked uphill and everything on the left downhill. For about ten days I was the worst hitter in the world, not excepting Jack Pflester. It worried me. I think In three weeks I got two base hits, and what seemed funny to me was that I made both those hits off curve balls that fooled me. The fact Is my eyes had been banged cut of gear and I was swinging about four inches below where the ball really was and the only times I hit It was when it fooled me. I was all upset and ready to quit when one day I drew a base on balls and tried to steal. The short stop was coming to cover the bag, and as I slid his knee caught me right between the eyes and knocked me cold. When I batted the next time I saw the ball perfectly, or thought I did, and up I went into the 250 class. A ’year later I got another crack between the eyes—and Immediately improved still further in hitting. Now I’m waiting for the kick that will put me in the 350 class." Crawford was silent tor some time. Then he said: “Bay—did Lajole ever mention being hit- between the eyes with a pile driver?” (Copyright. ISIL by Joseph B. Bowles.)

John.D. Saves Gasoline.

John D. Rockefeller doesn’t believe Id wasting gasoline when ho takes spin* about Augusta in his touring oar, and today he sharply rebuked his chauffeur, who was using gasoline when there was no need, says an Augusta (Ga.) Dispatch in New York World. Mrs. Rockefeller, who is spending a few weeks here, went out today for an automobile ride, accompanied by three friend*. The chauffeur sent the machine along at a merry pace, climbed a long hill, and as the machine began to rush down a long grade Mr. Rockefeller reached over and tapped the chauffeur on the shoulder. "Bay. Charlie,” he cautioned, "shut off the engine and save the gasoline. Yen must never waste anything." Charlie shut off the engine.

THE French government recently ordered from Roger Bloche, the sculptor, a monument commemorating those who have fallen victims to the atteilnpt of humanity to accomplish the conquest of the air. The result of M. Bloche’s inspiration and labor is seen in the artistic and pathetic monument here pictured. It is on exhibition in the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris, where its timely and appropriate nature has excited the utmost zinterest. \

BUFFALO AND CATTLE

Company Is Formed in Texas to Introduce New Species. Experts Declare. That Meat of Cattalo Is Better Than Beef and That it Possesses Many Other Dls- ; tinct Advantages. Goodnight, Tel.—-A company has been formed herb for the purpose of taking over the famous “J. A.” ranch of Col. Charles Goodnight and engaging In the breeding of buffaloes and cattle on a much larger scale than has been done heretofore, and also to make a specialty of breeding Persian and Karakule sheep, elk, antelope and Other animals which can be turned to profitable account The present herd of full-blooded buffaloes Upon the ranch numbers 100 head. There are 75 head of mixed breed or eattaloes, 300 head of Persian sheep, 43 head of Karakule sheep, 10 elk, 15 antelope and 100 head of black polled Angus cattle. It is planned by the company to make the buffalo herd worth not less than 11,000,000 in ten years. Colonel Goodnight has devoted thirty years to propagating the buffalo and crossing it with polled Angus cattle. He has long been noted as the greatest breeder of buffaloes and cattaloes in the world. He has reached that time in life when he wants to prepare for a continuationjjf the work he has so well begun after he has laid aside life’s cares and burdens. It was this desire that has prompted the organization of a strong financial company to take over his valuable holdings. Associated with him In the work are younger -men, who are enthusiastic over the possibilities of making the buffalo of great commercial value to this country. “I hope and expect that the industry that I have inaugurated will be perpetuated and fill a unique page in the history of a generation yet unborn," said Colonel Goodnight “In the year 1878 I captured four buffalo calves, one male and three heifers. And while I have sold over |20,000 worth of their increase, I still have a large herd of full blood buffaloes, and the only cattalo herd in the world. “By breeding them with the famous polled Angus cattle that were imported from Scotland, 1 have thep from one-sixteenth buffalo on up to half breed or eattaloes. I have been able to produce in the mixed breed, the extra ribs of the buffalo, which are fourteen on each side, while the ordinary cattle have only thirteen ribs on each side. The cattalo make a larger and hardier cattle and will cut a greater per cent of meat than any other cattle/ They require less food and are longer lived cattle. “As yet ho one knows how long a buffalo lives. I have three full-blooded buffalo cows, each twenty-eight years old, that now have young calves." Colonel Goodnight has sold many buffaloes since he began the business of breeding them, more than thirty years ago. Animals from his herd are in the public parks of New York, Denver, Chicago, San Antonio, national game preserve of Yellowstone park, and in Germany and England. He received from 8225 to 8500 a head for the animals. He recently refused an offer from the United States government of 8600 a head for twenty-five of the animals. The advantages which the cattalo have over ordinary eattle, according to the claims of Colonel Goodnight, are that the former do not tramp or muss up their feed or water; they require less food, less water and less salt; can live on what common cattle refuse; can live longer without food and water, with less loss; have the wild In-

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stinct against overfeeding; weigh more to the bulk; have better shoulders than any cattle known, giving more of the valuable forequarter meat, and cut more net meat than any other cattle under the same conditions. The oleo, or fat, in cattalo differs from that in other cattle, having better flavor, being healthier for the human stomach than ordinary fats, and serving excellently as a cooking fat. Their meat excels that of the polled Angus, which tops the London, market. Its meat is superior in gram and flavor to beet and a little darker in color, with the fat better marblelzed. Cattalorightly handled are extremely gentle, inclined neither to fight nor tn run, as do their ancestors. They share the buffalo’s heritage of more brains and memory than common cattle, according to Colonel Goodnight’s judgment and observations. ' Cattalo of more than one-quarter buffalo blood have been found under test absolutely immune to “blackleg,” and the disease has been able to take hold of the onequarter strain very rarely.

Savings Banks Celebrate in 1916.

New York.—The centennial of'the savings banks in America will be celebrated in 1916, and already plans are under way for making the occasion a notable one. The national and state organizations ofsavings banks officials will cooperate with committees from the savings bank section of the American Bankers* association, and the American Institution of Banking.

CROW STOLE POCKET BOOK

Long Lost Money, for Which Hired Man Had Been Accused of Stealing, Found in Old Nest Waterville, Pa.—Abram Renter of Blockhouse Is 880 better off and the name of a former hired man, who was discharged under suspicion of theft has been cleared. Renter has an old orchard of 50 or more trees on his place. He had been reading In the newspapers that old orchards pruned and‘sprayed and scraped could oftentimes be made to treble their production. He began the work of cutting out the dead and superfluous limbs. While at work in one of the trees the other day he saw something sticking out from underneath an old robin's nest that bad been built in one of the lower forks of the tree. The thing looked like a little book of some kind, and when be had torn the bird’s nest loose and picked up the article the mystery of his stolen money was solved. The article he found was an old pocket book which ho formerly owned, and upon opening be found in it, badly mussed and water-beaten, and yet perfectly- redeemable, the eight 810 bills which ho had accused his former hired man of stealing two summers ago. The money is believed to have been carried there by a tamo crow which the Renter children bad around the house. The crow was a notorious thief. It once carried off a piece of sticky fly paper and one of the boys found the bird a helpless prisoner In the stuff in the corn crib, to which it had carried the paper, and there attempted to pick it to pieces, the result being that the sticky side adhered to its feathers and feet and the more it struggled the worse it got tangled up.

Bees Capture Busy Street

St Louis. —A swarm of honey bees took possession of Main street, in St Charles, near the highway bridge. Several horses were stung, and there were narrow escapes because of runaway horses. The bees settled on the framework of the bridge over the street, where tijey remained until transferred Into a hive.

TERRIER SAYS "GOOD NIGHT"

Diamond Dick, Allentown's Talking Dog, Adds Two Words to His Rather Small Vocabulary. Allentown, Pa. —Diamond Dick, Allentown’s talking dog, has learned two new words, and his vocabulary now consists of four. His owner, Tom Ford, a young Allentown business man, who Is well known as a lover of animals,. spent one and a half years teaching the dog, a handsome bull terrier, two words, mamma and no. A dog Is by nature not constituted to pronounce consonants, but Diamond Dick seems to have mastered that difficulty. About two months ago, after Ford had demonstrated to doubters that his dog could say mamma and no, he said he hoped to teach him more words, and the terrier can now say good night He will repeat words again and again, the same as the other words he knows how to utter, when Jie once grasps what his master wants of him.

Eggs Hatch Out Chicks.

Buffalo, N. Y.—When Dr. Heath, chief food and drug inspector of the department of health, opened a bag containing eggs which had been left with him for examination he found that three of them had developed into baby chickens during the night Two of the chickens were dead, but the third was a lusty little fellow, which will be used as an exhibit by the health commissioner when he applies to the board of aidermen for addition al food inspectors.

CAFES MEET UNTIMELY DEATH

New Yorkers Abandon Their Plans for Many New Palatial Hot Bird and Cold Bottle Places. New York.—There has been an alarming death rate In the plans tor new restaurants In Broadway’s lobster palace belt. This is ascribed not so much to the decrease in New York's yearning for the flesh pots as to its Indifference to new resorts. The lease for the new Case Napoleon, adjoining the Globe theater, for which foundations Were laid, was sold and the building will be devoted to other purposes. The enormous Studebaker building at Forty-ninth and Broadway, which was to be rebuilt Into a great hotel and restaurant tor the Beaux Arts. Is on the market as « lease. The Brewster block, from Forty-sev-enth to Forty-eighth street on Broadway, which was reported sold to a Milwaukee syndicate, and on which an immense restaurant and stadium was to be put. is offered again for business purposes. The ground lease of the Albany flats, on Fifty-first and Broadway, which John Murray planned to use for a new eating place, has been sold and will be turned over to commercial uses. Shanley's famous old home on the east side of Broadway, above Fortysecond street, has been closed, and finally the noted resort es Burns in Sixth avuiue and Forty-fourth street went Into a receiver's hands. This list, with the failure of the costly Case de I'Opera, completes a table of heavy casualties among the members of the hot-bird-and-cold-bottle set Meantime the dairy lunches are flourishing.

Plan Aeroplane Speed Pace.

New York.-—A fifty-mil* aeroplane speed race for prises totaling SIO,OOO designed as an actual racing test for three flying machines of a* many different types will be held in New York city this summer If a suitable course can be found and the desired flyers can be Induced to agree. The competitors proposed for th* contest ar* Earle L. Ovington. Capt Thoma* BL Baldwin and Thoma* Sopwlth.

The Christian and Society

HE world" is an expression which Is used In the Now Testament Scriptures in several meanings, and therefore needs to. be interpreted with the utmost care and discrimination.

Sometimes ft denotes the - whole material universe as created by God, “the Maker of heaven - and ; earth.” Sometimes it is this world in -which God has placed man for a time, the temporary scene of human existence, man’s abode, in which he sojourns for a limited period. Sometimes it conveys the idea, not a material creation, Of God’s fashioning, but of a spirit of worldliness fa God’s reasoning crea-. tures which is antagonistic to the will of God. Sometimes it is the aggregate of those possessed, by this spirit who, having been made by God,, rebel against his authority and refuse to heed his commands. Sometimes it is the equivalent of what is known to us by the name of Society, 1. e. the environment of persons- and things, in the midst of which each one lives his life here, and which, while not evil in themselves, must be used as St Paul writes in his letter to the Christians at Corinth, with caution, "not overusing it,” or “using it to the full”, as his words really mean. ' v ' ' It is with this last aspect of the word we are specially concerned., ; To the majority of persons Society is a very complex thing. In It, as in all else that has to do -with: persons and things, there is an Intricate and puzzling intermingling of good and evil which necessitate the utmost caution and discrimination in the using. It is of this social life, with all its complications, Jesus is speaking In his great intercessory prayer bn thd'nlght before he died: "I pray not that thou shouldest keep them the evil" Christ's Life a Social One. When we study the life of Christ as it is put before us in the fourfold portraiture of the Gospel, we obtain a fuller conception of what Society really means than any more words and theories can give us, and are better able to understand the relation in which the Christian man ought to stand towards it For the life of Christ was pre-eminently a social life. This is the characteristic which stands out most clearly and definitely If we compare his life with that of his forerunner, John the Baptist. Jesus himself draws the attention of his disciples to the striking contrast their lives presented to those before whose feyes they were lived. "John came neither eating nor drinking and they say he hath a devil The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they say, Behold a gluttonous man and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners." The Baptist lived the life of an, ascetic, apart from his fellows, not dwelling in the haunts of men, bufc-a recluse tn the wilderness. But the Son of Man who came to save mankind mingled with men. He lived the ordinary life of ordinary men and women, going in and out among them as one of themselves. Jesus and Society. A modern writer admirably sums up the life that Jesus lived in relation to Society. "So wide were his sympathies that Pharisaic pride complained. To this universal adaptivenets he appealed as an evidence of the prophecy fulfilling of his coming. Was he exclusive? Did ever man or woman come near him and he turn away? Did he not go among all tanks and into every society? Did he not go into the houses of great men and rulers, of Pharisees, of poor men, of publicans? Did he not frequent the temple, the market-place, the synagogue, the sea-shore, the haunts of outcasts and harlots? Was he not found at feasts and at burials? Wherever men and women were to be found, there was his place and there is ours.”--^ 1 *- ■ • Yes, each Christian has his appointed place to fill in Society. He cannot live the life of a recluse without hurt to himself. The social life rightly lived has a wholesome influence on the Christian himself. There Is nothing which does more to develop character than intercourse With others. It brings out traits which would otherwise remain undiscovered and unused. It prevents the growth of selfIshness and isolation which are so great a hindrance to. the development of the spiritual life. It draws out the healthy sympathies which are Jlke the sprouts of a tree breaking torth under the influences of the wkrfn sun or refreshing rain, or like the roots of the plant, which must have room to grow or they will become sickly and stunted ■’ _ ; •

Woman's Influence.

It toe Christian women of the land would but realise their power and assert their influence for all that makes for. righteousness, they could do more than all other agencies combined to usher In the kingdom of God on earth. She can do this In the home, In the congregation and In civ. lc Ute.—Rev. W. M. Vine?, Baptist, ProvidenceSgSr - ~ii■ . ’ ,„ ~

Why We Lose Choice Girts.

We fall to secure the choicest gift* because we do not siheerefy' desire them and ar* not willing to pay tbs cost. -Rev. Dr. W. a Partridge, Bag tlst, Pittsburg