Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1912 — Page 3

STAR PITCHERS NOT IN USUAL GOOD FORM

Grover Cleveland Alexander of Philadelphia.

Two wonderful pitching stars of last season are not showing the class they displayed last year. Both were firstyear men in 1911, and their brilliant work was the talk of the country. One was a right-hander and the other a southpaw. The right-hander Is Grover Cleveland Alexander of the Phillies, and the southpaw Is Veaii Gregg of the Naps. ’'Alex" has been having a tough time of it this year, and when be does win he needs a

KANE GOING AT GREAT CUP

Former Utility Player of Chicago Cubs Playing Excellent Ball on the Pacific Coast. Johnny Kane, the former Cub utility player, is going at a great dip with the Vernon team in the Pacific Coast league. He Is batting 371, being the best base-stealer and run-get-

Johnny Kane.

ter on that circuit. He will probably be purchased by one of the major league ball clubs again this fall. Maybe the Cubs or Sox can secure him.

McGraw Makes Prophecy.

New York first, Pittsburgh second, hnd Cincinnati third —Is J. McGraw’s ultimate guess anent the ultimate finish. The Giant leader believes that when Adams, O’Toole, Camnltz and Hendrix hit their stride the Pirates will forge forward as runners up In the N. L. debate. He conceded Mr.O’Day a place in the first division, but the highly repugnant Idea' of being beaten out by an ex-umpire Is no longer troubling his mid-day dreams.

Marquard’s New Curve.

Marquard has mastered that high drop that Christy Mathewson used so successfully for so many years. He only uses it in the pinches. He always raises on his toes, just as Matty did, when he throws it It starts as though it would pass the plate about teeth high, using the batter as the object to be passed. Then it starts to break about three feet in front of the plate, and it falls down across the plate a neat “strike.”

O’Leary Wants Knight.

Charlie O’Leary wants to get Jack Knight of the Washington team for his Indians. Knight has been laid up for some time. He reported under weight this spring and has never been Tight at any time this season. His throwing arm is weak. Before he wbnt to Washington Knight played with New York and was regarded as one of the best batters in the American league.

Southpaws Are Scarce.

There is not a left-handed thrower among the Senators, perhaps a singular thing uneqnaled by any club in the major leagues. Furthermore, Milan, Moeller, Schaefer, and Cashion are the only lads who bat from the offside of the pan. Of these Moeller and Schaefer switch to the othodox- side whenever an ehud occupies the hill.

Working for Next Year.

It has now been officially decided that the New York Americans haven’t anything that looks like a ball club. So they have quit bothering about this year and are trying to build something presentable for next year.

bushel of runs to pull him through. Gregg has been a little more successful than Alexander, but he hafi done little better than an even break on his games so far. George Chalmers, another find of 1911, has also V®® ll having his troubles, though he injured his shoulder in training and never got over it. .“Slim’y Caldwell is the Highlanders* contribution to the list of 1911 stars who find the going hard this year.

STORIES OF THE DIAMOND

McMillan is back at his old job with Rochester, no worse for the smashed jaw. Washington Is said to want Joe Hovlik, the Milwaukee spitball exponent. * Swacina, the former Pittsburgher, Is putting up a classy first base for Newark. Big league players grumble about the high cost of kicking. Those SIOO fines hurt. Brothers Harry and Martin Killilay are now with the Helena team of the Union association. Monte Pfeiffer Is the new manager of the McKeesport team of the OhioPennsylvania league. According to unofficial figures the Washington team has seven men in the .300 list of batters. A little suspension did Bill Powell of Kansas City a world of good, He is Carr’s best pitcher now. Red Kuhn has been doing so well of late that he has won the title of being chief of the Sox catching staff. George Stovall now has his players going so strong that he believes the Browns will finish in sevnth place. Muscatine In the Central Association, has secured Pitcher Wagtier from Lincoln of the Western league. Hank O’Day says he is going to fire some pitchers that cannot get the ball across the plate unless they carry It. Mclnnis doesn*st care where the infielders throw the ball to him. “Stuffy’s" grasp is as far-reaching as Shylock’s. Outfielder Zinn and Shortstop Martin, the two Highlander youngsters, are improving in their work right along. Brooklyn has asked an option on Cramer and Glddo, the crack battery of the Frankfort team of the Blue Grass. George Mullin says he is willing to work in any city but St. Louis. George can get plenty of sympathy along those lines. \

One Catcher for Both'Teams.

At Yazoo City, Miss., one catcher was behind the bat for both teams for sixteen innings in the Cotton States league between Columbus and Yazoo City. In the second inning of the first game the Columbus catcher was hurt and there was no one to take his place. The Yazoo City catcher volunteered to keep the game going and it waif so agreed by all in authority. Yazoo City won both games.

Hot Sand Bags.

As a substitute for hot-water bags in, ordinary ailments such as toothache, earache and other minor pains, use common flannel bags made in convenient sizes, with drawstrings. Fill them with hot sand or salt, and they are safer than a cheap rubber bottle, just as efficacious and much handler to use. Keep half a dozen ready; they are of great help in time of aches and pains.

Looking for Good Day.

President Charles Ebbets is looking now for a date when he can celebrate the opening of his new ball park in connection with some historical event The schedule committee squelched his first choice, but as Charles says, history is full of incidents and August M full of days.

SUSPENSIONS ARE NOT JUST

Patrons of Baseball Games Punished by League Executive When Playera Are Taken Out. The presidents of the American and National leagues should have learned by this time that it is unwise to punish the patrons and owners of clubs by suspensions, says the Chicago Evening Journal. Ban Johnson suspended Ed Walsh for five days and Tom Lynch suspended Tinker and Zimmerman for three days. These men are the star attractions of their respective clubs. A man pays his money to see Walsh or Tinker and Zimmerman play. When he reaches the ball park, he finds that they are out of the game because they, have been suspended. When the star is unable to appear at a theater the management usually offers to refund tire price of tickets. There is no refund at a ball park, although the fans are as much entitled to it under the circumstances as are The suspension of ball players should be stopped. The club owners have only to order their presidents to discontinue it Suspending a ball player does not punish him, no matter how much he may deserve punishment. It does not punish him to give him a rest but a fine of say 1100 for foul or obscene language on the field would hurt him. If a player knew he would be . hit in the pocket'book every time he used bad language bn the field, the conversation on the ball field soon would be-a model for drawing rooms. The underlying idea of suspensions—that of maintaining discipline and keeping order —can not be criticised. Order and discipline are absolute essentials, but it has been proved time and time again that suspension as a disciplinary measure is a failure. It punishes only the club owner and the fans —not the offending player. It is unfair to take games from one club and give them to another by suspending the most valuable players. The spirit of American sportsmanship rebels at such methods.

BIG FRENCHMAN FOOLED HIM

Pitcher Quinn Intentionally Passes Joe Jackson to Get at the Mighty Nap Lajole. For the first time since he has been a member of the Cleveland club. Nap Lajole had the experience of seeing an opposing pitcher pass his processor at bat so he could take a chance at Lajole. That happened in a recent New York game. There were two out, with Graney on third and Olson on second. Jackson had already procured a triple and a single. Quinn pitched carefully to him this time. He soon found himself in the hole and rather

Napoleon Lajoie.

than try to get the ball over for Joe, deliberately pitched two wide ones and passed him, evidently preferring to take a chance bn Lajoie. All the big Frenchman did was to drive in three runs.

Watkins’ Good Work.

Rube Watkins, the star portsider with the Sharon team of the O. & P. league, in 10 games fanned 101 batsmen, an average of 10 men a game. He has issued 25 bases on balls and has been touched up for 70 bingles. Watkins was sent to Sharon by Manager Bill Phillips of Youngstown, for development It is understood that Cleveland has a string on the young pitcher.

Ban on Suspended Players.

The national commission has put the ban on the Lake, Shore league for taking up suspended players who were under the national agreement. Dahlgren of Cincinnati is playing at Escanaba and other association players include Stoney McGlynn of Milwaukee, Harry Seibert of Kansas City, and Ernest Groth of Columbus.

Brief Making Good.

Anthony Brief, turned back by the BL Louis Browns, is playing great ball for Traverse City in the Michigan leagire, and is the chief hitting power of his team.

SAVE WORK ON SEWING DAY

Here is a Boiled Dinner Satisfying and Appetizing and Easy to Getup. The working housekeeper who, besides, makes her own clothes, knows the misery of getting meals on sewing days. If there is a large family the dinner is the most difficult to prepare, as substantial dishes are expected and sometimes a variety of them. Tne way out of the difficulty is to prepare the kinfolk with the idea that there will not be any grand cooking on sewing days and then serve a boiled dinner. A boiled meal is much more easily managed than a roast, and numerous vegetables may be cooked in the same pot. Here is one recipe for a boiled dinner: Sauerkraut and Pigs’ Feet—Pew families with healthy, men and boys will object to this delectable German dish, which is as good as cheap and does not require the least looking after. Get a pig’s foot, front or back, for every member of the family, clean them all nicely and then put them on in boiling water, including, if the taste is liked, two large onions or half a clove of garlic. Let them simmer for three hours, then dump in the sauerkraut you have bought at the delicatessen, giving It about an hour to cook. When ready to serve drain the kraut of water in a colander and bank it in a long platter around the pile of trotters. English mustard is an addition to this dish and to the other boiled meats.

GETTING UP THE CROQUETTE

Borne Simple' Rules That Are Indispensable so Success in This Appetizing Dish. Soak one cupful of stale white bread crumbs in one-half a cupful of milk, mix with one cupful of chopped nuts (either mixed nuts or walnuts). Season with salt and pepper, add the beaten yolks of two eggs. Shape, egg and crumb. Fry in deep fat. How to Shape Croquettes.—ls the mixture is thick enough to be handled it may be rolled into hny desired shape. How to Egg and Crumb Croquettes. —Slightly beat an egg and add one tablespoon of water. Dip the croquette in this mixture and then roll it In very fine cracker or stale bread crumbs. The process may be repeated twice, which insures the croquette against soaking fgt_ Rules for Testing Fat for FryingDrop into the hot fat a cube of bread from the inside of the loaf, and if in 40 seconds it is a golden brown, the fat is then of the right temperature for frying any mixture which has been previously cooked. For uncooked foods use the same test, allowing one minute for the bread to brown. —Woman’s World.

Mother’s Lemon Pie.

Grated rind and juice of one lemon, one cup boiling water, one cup sugar, yolks of two eggs, butter size of an egg, one slice white bread broken fine (about one cup). Beat the yolks of eggs well and add to the sugar and butter. Pour the boiling water onto the bread and stir until well mixed, then add the sugar, eggs and butter. Bake in a deep plate lined with pastry; when done whip the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth; add one tablespoonful sugar; pile this upon the top of the pie and return to the oven until it is a delicate brown. This is the nicest lemon pie I ever tasted.

Compote of Rhubarb.

Make a syrup of six heaping tablespoonfuls of sugar in about half a cupful of water which has been flavored by simmering In it for 20 minutes the thinly pared rind of an orange or lemon. Prepare and cut the rhubarb Into two-inch lengths, put a layer of these into the syrup and cook gently (in a double pan is the best way) until quite clear, but still unbroken; then remove carefully and stew another layer. When cold serve with pustard or cream.

Elsenheimer Cheese.

Take one Philadelphia cream cheese, one-half quantity butter, one small pickle finely chopped, ten capers, one-quarter of an onion (Bermuda is best), and a, few pounded caraway seeds. Mix' thoroughly all together, mold on a small platter, then sprinkle a little cayenne pepper over all and keep in a cool place until ready to serve. Excellent for gentlemen’s luncheon.

Simple Fruit Pudding.

Stew currants or any small fruits, fresh or dried, with sugar to taste and pour hot over thin slices of bakers’ bread with crust cut off, making alternate* layers of fruit and bread, and leaving a thick layer of fruit for the top. Cover over the top with a Mate, and bake in a moderate oven;, when cool set on ice. Serve with sifted sugar or with cream and sugar.

In Cold Water.

There are certain vegetables it is far better to put on in.cold water than hot Among these are dandelions, spinach, wax beans, carrots and onions. To get the best results, dandelions, spinach, cabbage, cauliflower, green peas and Brussels sprouts should be cooked uncovered.

Potatoes Baked In Cheese Sauce.

Place alternate layers of cold boiled potatoes, diced, and cheese sauce into a baking dish. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake till wen browned.

PORTABLE GRAIN-LOADING ELEVATOR

Loading Grain Into Cars by Means of a Portable Elevator.

Several portable grain-loading elevators, which may be operated by an electric motor or by a gasoline engine, arer being used with considerable success by an Illinois line, which devotes special attention to the handling of grain on its line extending through the famous corn-belt of Illinois, Regulation steam-road freight cars, operated on the electric line, are placed on sidings, located at frequent intervals, and the farmers bring the grain

HIS TIME OF DANGER

RAILROAD MAN TELLS OF MOST SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Overmuch Good Nature Led to What Might Have Been a Disastrous Collision, According to ExCity Passenger Agent . A bunch of railroad men had been telling of their most hazardous expe-

daughter. Still another had been on a runaway car that was stopped within a few feet of a broken trestle over a deep canyon out in Colarorda. “The most distressing accident that ever befell me in all my railroad career,” spoke up the man with the fawn-colored mustache, “was when I was city passenger agent of a road out in Los Angeles.

“One day a young fellow came to me and wanted to map out ms route for a wedding trip. I engaged a stateroom for him and a lot of things like that, and then he called me to one side and told me with a serious face about two feet long, that there was one more Important thing he wanted me to do for him. He said I must help him to identify the girl he was going to marry that evening.

“‘Wh-a-a-t,’ I says, *help you to identify her.’ I was startled, for it looked as if the young chap must have had his reason kind of unseated by the anticipations of approaching wedded bliss. But he was in dead earnest about it.

“‘You see,’ he tells me. ‘I did all my courting by mall and I’ve never seen the object of my affections. She is coming in on the train this after noon and I might not recognize her. I know only that she is very beautiful, for I have her photograph.’

“He took her picture to show It to me. She was a pretty girl, all right. I told him 1 It oughtn’t to be any trouble to recognize her from the picture. But he said his was a timid, shrinking disposition, where young women were concerned, and he wouldn’t take a chance on approaching the wrong girl when the crowd got off the train, not for anything. He looked at me with pleading eyes like a child, and coaxed me to go down to the station and see if I couldn’t pick her for him. So I went down.

“Well, I held the photograph in my hand, looking first at it and then at the crowd, and right up among the first bunch that climbed off the day coach was a slick-looking little dame that I thought must be the one. “She wasn’t dressed what you would call swell, but her clothes looked neat and seemed to fit her everywhere at once. I wondered tow it could happen that such a girl would have to answer an advertisement in order to get a man, but there wasn’t much time to ponder over that “As she came through the gate, I walked up to her, with the bridegroom right at my heels, and says I, clearing my throat nervously: “Dp you happen to be Miss Twinkleton, the girl that ’ “Before I could finish danged if she hadn’t thrown her little arms around my neck and was gurglin’ in my ear: •You’re just the darllngest boy ever. I was afraid you might not know me, but I knew you,’ and a lot more like that, before I could break her clinch and get her stopped and Introduced to the bridegroom. “That was the most serious railroad accident I was ever in.”

Gas-Electric Works.

A new 90-horse power gas-electric passenger coach just placed on the Great Central railroad in England-has fulfilled every expectation as regards performance, reliability and easy riding. -

rlences. One had been in a wreck out in Kansas when 18 people were killed. Another had been riding in the cab with the engineer when the train hit a buggy and killed a man, his wife and their golden -haired

for shipment to them in wagons. The first of the elevators used was driven by a gasoline engine, but the lately installed similar machines are operated by electric motors, taking current from the trolley wire. The grain wagons are tilted in the manner shown, and the load feeds into te receiving box of the elevator. A wagonload of grain can be transferred into a car in ten minutes.—Popular Mechanics.

PROVIDING FOR THE VETERANS

Almost All the Country's Railroad Systems Now Maintain Pension Departments. Nearly all of the larger railroad systems throughout the country now maintain pension departments for the care of superannuated employes or those who, having served the corporations loyally and faithfully, are rendered incapable of work through illness or accident The directors of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad some time since set aside a fund for this purpose, with the result that approximately six hundred former employes of that company are at present receiving compensation from this fund. The oldest pensioner on the list is John Lyons, eighty-five years of age, residing in West Haven, Conn., who, when retired, had served the company continuously for fifty-nine years. In the list of 19 pensioners, including machinist Lyons, whose combined ages aggregate 1,302 and time in service 842 years, we find the names of conductors William W. Harder, of New Haven, and C. P. Davis of Hartford; engineers J. W. White, of Dedham, and Charles A. Sampson, of Taunton, Mass., who served in the company forty-nine and forty-eight years, respectively, previously to retirement; former agent George A. Crocker, with forty-one years* service to his credit, and many others equally as well known. The oldest section foreman on the list is J. E. Perkins .of Stoughton, Mass., who served the company fiftyfive years previously to his recent retirement, at the age of seventy-five. Since January 1, 1912, thirty-two employes of the rail and boat lines of the system have been granted pensions, whose combined years of service total 1,254 years. This includes Engineer John W. White, who served the corporation forty-nine years; Charles A. Sampson, fortyeight years; Towerman John H. Farrell, forty-two years; Engineer Lewis S. Monroe, forty-three years; Blacksmith’s Helper F. E. Hobart, fortyseven years; Switchman Thomas J. Spencet, thirty-seven years.—Railroad Employee.

Speedometers on Trains.

The St. Louis & San Francisco railroad, having tested a device tar recording the speed on locomotives by using It on twenty-five passenger engines, has found results so satisfactory that the forty new passenger engines which have been purchased win ill be equipped with these speed recorders. W. C. Nixon, vice-president of the Frisco, says that every main line engine will be equipped with this device, by which the engineer can determine exactly the speed at which he is running, and which also leaves a record behind, which can be checked up as a guard against running at too high a rate of speed.

Railroads and Tuberculosis.

An eastern railroad has enlisted In the nation-wide crusade for the extermination of tuberculosis. A coach, enameled in white, inside and out, and of most sanitary design, has been constructed and is now visiting cities in the middle west It is expected that it will later tour other states in the Interest of combating the dread disease. Besides carrying extensive exhibits, it is equipped with a lecture platform from which local physicians can deliver their addresses on the prevention and cure of consumption.—• Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen’s Magazine.

Hot-Weather Track Troubles.

Every railroad superintendent dreads the track troubles that are almost certain to come with hot weather. Sooner or later some train is going to be derailed if the weather continues biasing hot: Any rail along the whole line may -prove to Be the one that will feel the heat worst and start to creep up against the rails at either end. Then, if a track walker or a section hand falls to find it in time there will be a derailment at that particular spot. If the road is lucky it will be a freight train that will upend and idle itself all over the right of way. If the luck is against them, it will be.A flyer or a well-filled excursion train.