Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1912 — SHECKARD IS REAL VETERAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SHECKARD IS REAL VETERAN

Cub Outfielder Has Been Playing Professional Baseball for Over Seventeen Years. Men who' play with their heads as well as their hands have proved that It is possible to stay a long time in professional baseball. There are several men still very much in the game who may yet break or at least equal Cy Young’s record. They are not, however, pitchers. James Tilden Sheckard is one of the veterans In whom the baseball public is very much interested. Jimmy broke into the game as far back as 1895, when

he played with the Marietta and Lancaster semi-professional teams. Thence he moved to Portsmouth, Va., going in the following year to Brockton, lu New England. I fa_. Brooklyn corrailed him next, and after one year .with Baltimore he went back across the bridge again. With the rest of his baseball career every small boy is familiar, especially the small boy of Brooklyn, where James was popular. Toward the close of bis term with the Brooklyn team Sheckard’s work fell off, and there were those who said that he was shirking. He spruced up promptly when he went to Chicago. \ - v '

Prospects for the Seventh Annual National Dairy Show, Chicago. While this event has each year given evidence of its usefulness to the dairy world, yet the rounding out of tile seven-year period promises to give to the country one of the most valuable educational shows ever presented. With the thought in mind that the importation of dairy products la growing to a dangerous amount and that present prices and general conditions concerning agriculture in America warrant a tremendous amount of work to stop the terrific drain upon our gold by foreign countries for products we should and must grow at home, "the attention of the management has been given entirely to the rendering of practical demonstrations on lines of the maximum of production at the minimum of cost, of dairy products. While features of Intense moment on sanitary and hygienic methods will be presented, yet the paramount work of this great educational show is for the farmer. Matters of breeding and feeding will be presented by demonstration and. discussion; the better handling and marketing of dairy products will be discussed —in fact, everything that will tend to aid in profitable dairy farming will be here shown and talked over by the highest national authorities. The machinery department will have many active, interesting and instructive exhibits. It Is the intention that every exhibitor shall have an opportunity to display his exhibit, wholly or in part, in active use, thus giving practical demonstrations under expert hands. But the cow and her place upon the farm will be the paramount issue; with $9,000,000 annually being shipped out of this country for dairy products, the cow and how to increase her capacity has the most need of consideration by all patriotic citizens. No farmer in the middle west, be he already engaged in dairying or not, can afford to overlook this ten-day short course In all that is best for the farm. In fact, this show has assumed a relation with farming and dairying that makes it the annual round-up of all affairs of the dairy world, where show-yard battles are settled for the season; where trades are made and where matters affecting the next year’s work are discussed and planned. The show will be held this year, commencing October 24, In the International Amphitheater, Chicago. While the show is National In name, It will be International in character, as by comparison alone are we able to see what is being accomplished the world over. Some new and useful classes are being added to the classification, which will be ready for distribution shortly. Adv.

Jim Sheckard.