Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1913 — Page 3

BILL BRENNAN TALKS

\ i ' > --=i •* -■ S Umpire Gives His Opinion of 1912 Baseball Players. N» Pennant Ever Was Taken Without . Star Slabman, Declares National League Arbiter —Makes Comparison of Pitchers. “BUI" Brennan, National league umpire, talked of baseball players, •world’s series, brother umpires and magnates and had a good word to say tor all. “You can talk all you want to about world’s series,” he declared, “but for Teal baseball, those first two contests between the Cubs and Sox were as prettyaa-any..you._would~ jant—ta see. Nine full innings and twentyeight men faced Walsh the first day. “But even at that I won’t say he Is the greatest of them all. For Instance, I have never seen Ford or Johnson work and they say those two are the real stuff. Bender I have seen and also Coombs, having worked last year in the world’s series. I also saw Joe Wood last spring in a couple of games before the season opened. I think, on the whole, that the pitching of the two leagues stacks up about even. In the National there is Marquard and ■“Nap” Rucker and Jess Tesreau, not to mention Lavender of the Cubs, Hendrix of Pittsburgh and a few ’ ■others. I “Pitching is always the thing that wins in a short series. This has been •said before, but it is so true that it will bear repeating. You may also add this, that no team ever has won a pennant without at least one star, air-tight pitcher. Look over the Hst In both leagues. There were Coombs and Bender With the Athletics, Mullin of Detroit, Reulbach and Brown of Chicago, Adams of Pittsburgh, Mathewson of New York and . Ed Walsh of the Sox. In every pennant race of the last several years one or more pitchers have had to bear the brunt of the “Classifying the assets of a winning ball club tn their order of merit, I should place an air-tight pitcher first. Second comes the catcher. A highclass man behind the bat is absolutely necessary to a winning team and for substantiation let me point ou£ Thomas, Kling, Sullivan and Carrigan, and, incidentally, Stanage. All I;hese men were of invaluable assistance in bringing the flags to their various clubs. “Next comes a heavy-hitting out field and I guess I need go no further than the Boston club of 1912 to show you Just what I mean. The outfield has got to be one of the most important cogs in a modern baseball machine and if it isn’t there strong, then good-by to pennant hopes. “Offensively, of course, hitting is the most Important feature', but of scarcely secondary importance is fast base running. McGraw’s Giants realize the truth of this and it is generally granted that their ability and daring on the bases were their greatest asset throughout the season.”

Cree in Good Shape.

Birdie Cree says that hla injured ■wrist will give him no more trouMe. Birdie is still studying forestry arid doing enough work to keep in good shape.

Oldest Battery In Baseball.

Should Cy Young Sign with the Atlanta club it would have in the veteran pitcher and Catcher Lew McAllister the oldest battery in organized baseball.

Wilson to Help Opening.

’’resident-Elect Woodrow Wilson has been asked to throw out the first ball for the 1913 season at Washington.

Magee Is Optimistic.

Lee Magee, the hard-hitting, allround man of the Cafdlnals, says the team Is going to be In the race under Manager Huggins. “ -

Regular Job for Vitt.

Oscar Vltt will play third base regularly for the Detroit Tigers next season.

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DEMAREST AFTER BILLIARD CHAMPIONSHIP

Calvin Demarest, Former Amateur Champion.

One of the stars of the billiard world is Calvin Demarest, the young Chicago cue artist. Demarest was formerly amateur billiard champion and since he invaded the ranks of the professionals has demonstrated that he is capable of holding his own with Hoppe, Slosson, Sutton and the other cracks. In the recent big tournament in New York Demarest defeated Yamada, the Japanese marvel. Demarest is anxious to meet Willie Hoppe for the championship and may appear in a matSh game with him shortly.

GOSSIP AMONG SPOPTS

Ed Walsh is picked as the greatest plnch-pftcher in either league. Jeff Tesreau of the Giants says he’ll cop the pitching wreath this season. Eddie Phelps has signed his contract to catch for the Dodgers again. One thing we’d like to know, and that it, what position will Jim Thorpe play next season? Manager McGraw of the Giants rates base running as 15 per cent of successful baseball. Barney Dreyfuss has decided not to sign any of his players for more than a year at a time. When England learns what Thorpe is to draw down in one year, It may not be so sorry for him. Birdie Cree of the Yanks says' he can play three positions—the outfield, the bench and boss the farm. Manager Fred Clarke and McGraw will have a grand duel next season. They have won four flags apiece. It is reported that George Wlltse, the Giants’ left-hander, will be converted into a first sacker this year or next. • . j Otey Crandall of the Giants wants to don the pad and mask. Otey says he will become a catcher if McGraw desires. Christie Mathewson and Eddie Plank have been in the big show for

NATIONAL LEAGUE SCHEDULE, 1913.

thirteen years anti can still deliver the goods.

Another possible tenant of first base for Detroit is Rondeau, the catcher who comes from Jersey City. Jimmy McAleei-, president of the Boston Red Sox, says a player ought to be at his best between 30 and 35. Sam Agnew, the young catcher secured by the Browns from the Pacific Coast league, is being touted as a find. Jack Love, utility player of the Kansas City Blues for the last four years, will play with Denver of the Western' league this season. Poor Bat Nelson! His wife has asked him to quit fighting. This is one instance in which “Bat” may not have the last word. Louisville of the American association gave $3,000 and two men, Johnny Burke and Pitcher Fucik, to Wichita for Catcher Clemmons. Long Tom Hughes, who was one of Griffith’s mainstays last season, is not to be overlooked in discussing the Senators’ 1913 chances. Red Dooin now is his own boss. "You’re manager of the club and you are the one to deal with the players,” President Locke told him. Dan Morgan talks and talks and talks of “Knockout” Brown of New York. But that is not winning any championships for the pugilist. McGraw talked a world of horse sense In an interview published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, saying: "Marquard is nothing but a big boy who doesn’t undeYstand the difference between publicity and notoriety, and he is getting too much of the latter."

CUBAN TAKES CHESS TITLE

Capablanca, Cuban Champion, Is Vlotor In National Play at New York—Final Standing. Joseph R: Capablanca, the Cuban chess champion, won the American national chess masters’ tournament, which was concluded the. other”day, with a final score of. eleven games won and two lost, comprising ten victories, two games drawn and one defeat. Frank J. Marshall, who opposed Capablanca in the final round, ’played a careful game, not wishing to jeopardize his chance of second prize, the result being a drawn game after eighteen moves. Marshall's score was 10% won and 2% lost, consisting of eight wins and five drawn contests. Charles Jaffe finished third with 9% worr'and 3% lost. He lost a chance of W ~ M&MhkHTorSecond place by losing his game to Zapoleon, the first win for the latter in the tournament. Players. W. L. Players. W. L. Capablanca .11 2 Tenen wurzel 5%, 7% Marshall ....10% 2% Whitaker ...5% 7% Jaffe ■ 9% 3% Rubinstein . 4% 8% Janoskl 9 4 Kline 4% 8% Chajes 9 5 Morrison ... 4 9 Stapfer 8 5 Llebensteln. 2% 10% Kupchik ....6% 6% Zapoleon .-. 2 11

CARPENTIER A HEAVY-WEIGHT

Former French Middleweight Finds It Difficult to Make Weight for That Division. 11 ■ Georges Carpentier, the French middleweight champion, is to become a heavyweight. Carpentier has been growing too heavy for the middleweight class and finds it difficult to 1 make weight - for this division. His defeat at the hands of Billy Papke is laid by Carpentier’s backers to the fact that he virtually had to starve himself to get down to the middleweight limit and greatly weakened himself thereby. Carpentier was looked upon aS a wonder in the ring by the French boxing lovprs, who hailed him as the greatest middleweight in the world. Such glowing reports of his prowess as a fighter reached, these shores that America fight fanciers were forced to the conclusion that he must be a real ring marvel. But when the French champion went up against a couple of good American glove artists his boasted superiority was given a rude setback. Frank Klaus, the Pittsburg bear cat, and Billy Papke, who is not near as good a fighter as he was a few years ago, had no trouble in beating the foreigner. There has been talk for some

Georges Carpentier.

time of Carpentier coming to this country and giving Americans a chance to see him in action. It is possible that the‘French will be seen on this side before long.

Austin to Senators.

Robert Austin of Corning, N. Y., a member of the freshmen’s class at Wesleyan, has accepted an offer to pitch for the Washington club of the American league.

Women to Back Club.

Members of the local Young Women’s Christian association hare agreed to finance the Keokuk club of the Three-Eyes League providing Sunday baseball is barred.

LINES LITTLE CHANGED NEW TAILORED COSTUMES SHOW NO RADICAL DEPARTURE. Choice of* Style Largely Left to Individual Taste —Serge Among the Most Popular of the Materials te Be Worn. Spring costumes of a conservative type do not show very decided changes of line. A woman may have almost any sort of coat that is most becoming to her and yet not be conspicuously out of style. Generally speaking, however, customary lines prevail. Coat fronts are sharply cut away anywhere from the bust Une to below the waistline. Coats with fronts cut away from the bust line and revealing chic little

In Navy Blue French Serge.

waistcoats are favorites with the Parisian tailors, but can be successfully worn only by the exceptionally slender woman, and the cutaway models most successful here fasten down to the waist line or a little above, and are sloped away gradually from there. In this model, too, there is often a waistcoat, but It appears above the button line, not below it Serges, wool eponge, tweeds, new chamois cloth, bailie de lain (a very fine corded wool, soft and pliable in texture), and stunning English suitings are the materials most used for the wool tailored costumes, while for

NAPKIN RINGS MOST ORNATE

Elaborate and Dainty Dining Table Accompaniments Made Both In Sliver and Gold. Oblong napkin rings with squaredoff ends are among the novelties in table furnishings. They are developed in silver and gold, decorated with an engraved pattern or repousse pounded into an oriental design and in carved ivory or painted celluloid. These oblong rings are found cheek by Jowl with the holders of circular type which, Instead of being rather ponderous affairs, are now decidedly narrow and rather sphrsely decorated. They also lack the rolling double rims which erstwhile distinguished such rings. Not especially substantial, yet wonderfully attractive, are the napkin rings of filigree silver. Of the most delicate design and Irregularly edged, they look—when drawn over a roll of damask—like a tracery in frost. If carefully handled they do not bend out of shape or break, but it is necessary to use extreme deliberation in cleaning.

Modish Coiffures

Fringes both straight and coded, still persist, but only a few strands of hair are cut upon the forehead. Puffs and curls are arranged from back to front. Instead of following the line of the brow, and the dressing ■ Is done very softly and with a strong bias in favor of the side parting. There are no longersany colls showing on the top of the bead, but the back is covered with puffs so soft and fiat that they look like waves.

The Home Department

the silk two or three piece costumes are the new and dainty checked and finely striped taffeta, heavy corded surah or silk serge, bengaline or poplin or tussore. The dark, soft tartan taffetas arm cleverly used with dark blue or black wool, and the one tone taffetas are still much in vogue for tailored etfects. The fine French serges are much used for the one-piece frock. This material is extremely popular in cream or ivory white, beeswax, chamois, blue and biscuit color. The practical and attractive onepiece frock shown Is of navy blue French Serge. The blouse bodice Is made with long sleeves, trimmed at the wrist with pipings of white and buttons of blue, with rims of white. There is a large, round crepe collar of blue satin, piped with white. Blue buttons, the sides of the blouse front at the opening and also the upper part of the skirt The lower part of the skirt is attached to the upper pari, which is a shaped affair, the joining line shown by a cord or piping of white. Another model is made of striped woolen material and is trimmed with plain, one-tons silk 'and silk buttops. The skirt is made with the new short' hip yoke, with the stripes running diagonally. ? One simple, one-piece frock es soft woolen material Is made with tunic skirt, which slants away toward the back. The underskirt and front of the bodice are trimmed with large buttons. There is a guimpe of tulle. MARY DEAN.

NEW FEATURES IN PARASOLS

Distinctive Ideas Mark the Dainty Sunshades That Will Be in Vogue This Slimmer. One of the new parasols has an inlaid piece of different colored silk, in each fold set in like gores. The sticks are plain. Hemstitching is also a feature. But comparatively few are yet in the market, and these merely as concessions to the curiosity of seekers after novelties. They look nice with summer fabrics, and now the display of the less expensive thin goods, such as women like to make up at home during Lent, is at the full. The new madras is not very differ? ent from that of former seasons, but some of the better ready-to-wear shirtwaists have plaits, very narrow indeed, but decided, /on the fronts. Plaiting is positively in evidence on the summer skirts, accordion plaiting especially. An accordion plaited gown of aeolian silk with a waist of cream colored chiffon over silver net was something the gaze lingered over at a recent exhibition. Silver and gold lace are very fashionable, but so very unsatisfactory on account of their tarnishing quality that they can scarcely be worn out of doors. A touch of gold is frequently seen on the hew turbans, however, often as the sole bit of trimming bn a simple Turkish sort of hat that is almost an exact reproduction of a fez, imitation can go no further.

To Hold Buttons.

When sewing buttons on, if a narrow piece of tape is threaded through the button and a small hole pierced through the article and the tape drawn through and the ends of the tape stitched down flat on the wrong side, the button will be found to last as long as the article.

CHARMING IN ITS SIMPLICITY

Toque of White Velour With Inconspicuous Trimming Is a Welcome Innovation. This charming toque of white velour seta down snugly and closely' , to the head and xStfjfes. tan “ bsck ta ■ white brim about a CTOWn white / Bllk lt>eaTer - Only ( X** y'&f at front is the \ 2? / t trimmed. wSC an< l that most Inconspicuous! y. After the series ot hata *ho»« feathers “wave wigSßk W wildly In many diSS rectlons,” a hat el «|M this style has ths K refreshing effect of an oasis in a desert Another thing which makes It Irresistibly attractive is that Its smart trimming may be made at home and that extra five or ten dollars—according to one’s taste and limitations—which would have gone for plume or aigrette may be put back in one's purse for other uses. Puckered bits of satin ribbon and little silk cords are cleverly arranged to form the green leaves, and flat pieces of satin ribbon in different shades of delicate pink make the roes.

Sour Milk as a Face Lotion.

Sour milk Is an excellent lotion sos both bands and face, albeit a bit disagreeable. It should be allowed to dry on the skin, then washed away with warm water.