Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1913 — Page 2

SWIFTEST PITCHER'S AMAZING RECORD

“How do they know what Johnson's got— Whether he uses a curve or not— Whether his break is setT How can they tell how his outshoots fall? Whether his irufurve's big or small? How can they tell what he's got on the ball? Nobody's seen it yet.” tO sang a ialnor poet of the major leagues. The hero of this baseball epic was Walter Johnson, the marvelous pitcher of the Washington club, who 7 has just beaten all records by hurling the ball for 56 consecutive Innings with such skill and cunning that not a batsman of an opposing club has been able to score a run. Speed was the great factor in the achievement —dazzling, sizzling speed! The big Idahoan’s delivery is like the flight of a shell. The mightiest hitters of the American league are as helpless as town lot players when Johnson turns loose his fastest ball; “Ty" Cobb, “Home Run” Baker and Jackson alike are babes in his hands. Johnson’s amazing swiftness in pitching is no mere fancy. It has been scientifically measured. In the testing room of the Remington Arms company at Bridgeport, Conn., Johnson showed that his right arm could hurl the baseball at the rate of 122 feet a second! It was acknowledged that he could do even better, because in athletic parlance he was not warmed up. It is well known that a burler gathers speed as a game progresses. x Johnson flung the sphere through an aperture in a frame of wood about two feet square. Running from top to bottom were ten very delicate and filmy copper wires. These were broken by the ball, and by an electrical device the moment of passage was accurately timed. Five yards away was a steel plate and the impact of the ball on this barrier again caused the electric clock to register. Thus the exact time of the ball’s flight was mathematically determined. The velocity obtained by Johnson Is all the more extraordinary when It is known that a bullet from the new government .45 automatic pistol travels 800 feet per second. A high power hunting rifle, .35 caliber, auto-loading, travels 2,000 feet per second. The Twentieth Century limited, the fastest long-distance train in the world, makes the 978.7 miles from New York to Chicago in just 20 hours, or an average speed of 48.9 miles every hour. This means a velocity of nearly 72 feet a second. Suppose Johnson's speedball kept on traveling at 122 feet a second right on toward the Windy City at its own hurricane speed. It would eat up the 6,163,840 feet to Chicago in just 11 hours and 48 minutes. The ball

UNUSUAL FEATS OF MEMORY

Thomas Bablngton Macaulay, Historian, Among Those Who Could Repeat Whole Books. One of the most astonishing mnemonic feats on record is recorded by John Wesley. "I knew a man about 20 years ago," writes Wesley, "who was so titorgughly acquainted with the Bible tMK if he was .questioned Uas to any Hebrew word in the old, •r any Greek word in the New Testa-

would beat the train to Chicago by eight hours and 12 minutes. In other words, the catcher who received the ball could go to bed, have a full night’s rest, get up and into his uniform again, and be on hand in the morning to meet the Twentieth Century as she rolled into Chicago. Putting it another way—the train leayps New York at 2:45 p. m. daily. Time is set back at Buffalo by just an hour, so that the onrushing train gains 60 minutes on her westward journey. Eleven hours and 48 minutes after the start Johnson’s bender has reached Chicago, or at 1:33 a. m. Chicago time, the roaring locomotive has just plunged through Cleveland without stopping, more than 350 miles away. The striking energy of Johnson’s missile was shown to be 160 foot pounds. That means that it possessed approximately half the force in impact of a bullet fired from a .45 automatic pistol! According to these figures, it takes less than half a second for a ball 'thrown by Johnson at his high speed to travel from his fingers to catcher’s glove! That is why he bewilders even the quickest witted batsman. He isn’t able to guess whether it is a straight ball, an in or an out curve, a drop, or whether the sphere is going to jump up into the air in defiance of the law of gravity. “Any time you get a hit off Johnson,” declared Napoleon Lajoie, himself one of the most formidable wielders of the bat that the game ever knew, “you must not think that you’re smart. Just figure that you’re lucky —lucky that you were able to make that blind swing at just the right spot There never was, and I doubt if there ever will be, a pitcher as great as Johnson. If he turned loose his very hardest throw with his best curve on it no catcher could get down in time to receive the ball. “Every ball he throws has stuff on it that can’t be solved. Some of the hops that his swiftest ones take are bigger curves than a man ever threw before. I've seen him slam balls up to the plate that didn’t look larger than a pinhead.” Not surprising, is it, that Johnson is such a terror? The quiet, modest young Idaho youth—he is only twenty-five years old —also fooled his opponents into giving him another record. Last year be struck out 303 men in 386 Innings. None of the other wizards could touch that mark. Before he became a big leaguer striking out batsmen was merely a pastime for him. Out in Weiser, when only nineteen, he was playing in the Idaho State league, and among the performances credited to him was the striking out of the

ment, he would tell, after a little pause, not only how often the one or the other occurred in the Bible, but also what it meant in every place. His name was Thomas Walsh. Such a master of Bible knowledge I never saw before, and never expect to see again.” Walsh bad a close rival in Macaulay, who, according to James Stephen, could repeat "all Demosthenes by heart, and all Milton, as well as a great part of the Bible.” A strange instance of freak memory is recorded in the case of a servant

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first eight men who faced Mm in an important game, and he later struck out 11 other men during the nine innings. And these men were all crack players, many of whom are now stars in the western' leagues. In that Idaho season Johnson was the slab artist in fifty-seven straight games in which not a run was scored off his delivery. So you see he got the habit early! After that feat Johnson applied to various smart managers of the clubs in the big cities. But they wouldn’t even give him a trial. They were disdainful, and easily declared that Johnson would be shattered by the heavy artillery of the major leagues. It remained for the then tail-ender Washington team to send Catcher Blenkenship in 1907 out to Weiser to investigate the picturesque stories that came east of the youth’s prowess. The scout lost no time in getting''Johnson to sign a contract as soon as he had seen him pitch a-few innings. That Washington is now one of the leading clubs of the American league is due in large part to the skill of the western recruit. When Johnson made good from the jump there was woe among all the Napoleonic managers who had turned him down. But his steady and astonishing improvement is shown by the following official table: Year. G. B.H. R. 8.8. 8.0. W. L. Av*. 1907 14 99 M H "J 5 8 .3M 1908 28 167 66 60 149 14 11 .818 1909 87 238 109 86 158 13 24 .333 1910 41 268 86 74 308 24 16 .600 1912 40 244 86 73 281 30 10 .750 > Total for I 6 years 198 1287 137 360 U 63 108 84 .563 A big, likable fellow is Johnson,- a raw-boned product of the prairie farms. There is nothing very speedy about him except his pitching. Otherwise he is slow as law. He moves slow, eats slow and even runs his motor car in an “out-of-gasoline manner.” He saves all his energy for the diamond. After seeing Johnson shoot the ball at the plate you wouldn’t wonder the poet was inspired to song. You wouldn’t wonder at the dazed batsmen. - If you can’t see it you can’t hit it

Resuscitated Memory

Charles Reade, the novelist, believ. ed in the dally newspaper as a source for incidents that would furnish better material for romance than could possibly be created by any~e#bfCbfTancy. He kept a scrap book in which he stored away newspaper clippings which were afterward to masquerade as fiction. His story of “A Simpleton,” is one in which Dr. Christopher Staines of London is lost overboard in mid-ocean, picked up all but dead from a raft, taken to Cape Town with all memory of the past utterly obliterated, but afterward restored in small Installments through* the agency of a couple of the terrific thunderstorms peculiar to that latitude. That story of forty years ago has been more than confirmed over and over again in real life by incidents of memory and personality lost and regained. The last of these comes from Warren, Pa., of a man, a common laborer, working at a silica sand plant, who, struck by a fall of ice, has, while lying in a "hospital, regained his identity, lost a dozen years ago, and says he is John Oliver, the owner of 125 valuable building lots in Wheeling, W. Va., and of mineral lands in Lancaster, Pa. A telegram from relatives in Chicago confirms the story. It can not be whollj unpleasant to wake up after twelve years* sleep of this kind and find one’s self not dead broke, but entirely solvent.

Some Books Must Pass Away.

The discovey by Professor Cobb of the department of agriculture that documents can be preserved apparent ly indefinitely in a vacuum offers, if further tests verify his results, a con venient way of exhibiting precious and rapidly disintegrating manuserpts while perinltting their exhibition under glass. But it does not offer much comfort to authors whose work is printed on wood pulp paper. With so many books in the world, to try to preserve sample copies in a vacuum would be, far too ambitious an undertaking. Whatever books survive will have to be kept alive by the process of reprinting from time to time, and not many modern books stay in vogue long enough for that.

girl in a Scottish manse. She, was almost illiterate, yet when delirious in fever, surprised those around her by repeating long passages of the Bible in Hebrew. The kitchen where the girl spent her evenings adjoined the minister’s study. He was accustomed to read aloud. The girl had not understood or consciously taken heed of the reading, yet her mind had seized upon and stored'the phrases.

Men admire women who are perfect, ly square, but' not too angular.

Manila is New City

A NEW city is being built on the shores of Manila bay, where Admiral Dewey’s guns shattered centuries of calm • on that memorable May day in 1898. A city beautiful is steadily being shaped by the American exiles In that far away land with the same fervor that animates the civic worker at home. They take no thought of the fact that what they are doing today will not even benefit their children when they have finished their tropical task and returned to live again among their own kind. Today Manila is the most modern city in the far east. A generation hence it will be one of (he most beautiful in the world, writes Frederic J. Haskin* in the Chicago Daily News. When the Americans first went to Manila there were few evidences of that delightful Latin culture of which the story books delight to prate. Thousands washed their clothes in Jjhe streams and otherwise defiled the sources of public drinking water. Swamps dotted the city. Stink holes and cesspools in the densely populated districts of Tondo and San Nicholas ‘offended tfie noses of the very angels on high. A vile moat, a turgil, putrefying mass of slime from five to twenty feet deep and from twenty to one hundred yards wide, surrounded old Intramuros (walled city) and enjoyed

the doubtful honor of causing far more than its share of the thousands of deaths annually from plague, cholera, malaria and dysentery. Horse cars ambled wearily up and down the poor, old Escolta, the towq’s one maip street. A telephone service attributed by legend to the great Don Quixote wheezed and groaned through the day’s alleged work. An electric light system, which Thomas A. Edison would have sued for libel had he known the half of its shortcomings and outgoings, was permitted to flounder through a. nightly attempt to keep the citizens . from total darkness. There were no docks, no sewers, no sanitation, no pretty homes. The spirit of “manana” had the town drugged and the only active force was death dealing disease. Now All Is Changed. Now all is changed. Five steel docks offer ample berth to the biggest steamships that ply the Pacific or traverse the Suez canal. A re-en-forced steel and concrete million dollar hotel, five stories high, modern in every respect from the garage depot ,to the roof garden, takes care of the fastidious tourists who once shunned the place. The new Luneta lies alongside the famous old Luenta on the filled-in land which has replaced the waste water that used to wash against it and the Malecon drive. On this same filled-in land, one mile long and one-half a mile wide, massive concrete warehouses, garages, the aforementioned new Manila hotel, the Elks* club and the Army And Navy club greet the eye. The Bagumbayan botanical gardens and other beauty spots feature broad, winding drives. Modern telephones, electric light and street cars serve the city. The old moat is a grass grown playground. A new water and sewer system capable of supplying a city twice it size serves the citizens. Plate glass windows in most of the shops make the old store fronts blush. Modern office buildings here afid there are elbowing the moldy old Spanish buildings off the business streets. More than a thousand automobiles, motor trucks and motorcycles keep the people on the jump by day and a score of moving picture shows entertain them by night. Substantial bungalows and up-to-date churches testify to the presence of home loving Americans. A death rate lower than many American cities tells the story of health’s successful fight. A thriving trade, growing annually by leaps and bounds, hums where manana once sat and nodded. City Has Population of 300,000. Manila is now a city of 300,000 people which handled an export and import trade of over 1100,000,000 last year. Its geographical location, backed up by the new dock and warehouse area, will make It the commercial distributing point of the United States in the far east, just as it is now our political base in that part of the world. Fifty hours across the China sea to the north is China and her 400,000,000 of people, who soon are going to demand shoes of modern

make, sewing machines, scales, clothes, farming- implements, more and more of Philippine sugar, construction supplies, machinery for public works, factories, etc. To the south five days away lies the Federated Malay states. At her back is India with 300,000,000 restless inhabitants. A bay thirty miles wide will cradle America’s Immense oriental mercantile 7 marine some day. Where ten German, British, Japanese and other foreign ships enter her gates now a hundred will pass Corregldor in the future Manila has the only harbor of the name in the far east Only Yokohama offers dock space and that ts limited to the French mail line and a handful of other ships. At every other port even mighty Hongkong, passengers and freight are transported ashore in launches and lighters. A purely Philippine trade of immense volume is already beginning to pour through Manila, without the least retarding the growth of Cebu, Iloilo, Albay and Zamboanga. Tropical products equal in volume to the total population of the Hawaiian islands, Cuba and Porto Rico will In the reader’s lifetime be shipped out of Manila to the United States and other countries. Last year the United States took tropical products

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worth $660,000,000, so that Philippine goods are assured of a ready market and the result will be the develop* ment of Manila into one of the world’s great seaports.

FINEST OF ALL WILD BULLS

Gaur, Native of Indo-Chlna, Acknowk edged Chief of His Kind for Many Reasons. The gaur is often wrongly termed “bisoh.” The name is not correct; the bison is the bos bonassus of Lithuania and the Caucasus. The gaur, found in Indo-China, is certainly the finest of all the wild bulls; he overawes all opponents by his courage, audacity and great strength. He is a huge beast, and sometimes measures feet to the root of the tail. He is distinguished from all other wild cattle by the prominent hump between the two horns. The latter are massive, fiat at the base, and ringed, and they describe a very wide curve from the root upward. The coat is of an olive brown tint, shading in black, with very short, fins hair. The gaur is found both In the fori est and on the mountains, for, in spite of his great size, he is extremely agile, so that he can run up the mountain slopes and climb the rocks with ease. Like the elephant, he feeds on grass and plants, and when he cannot get these he fails back on bamboo shoots and the buds and branches of trees. The gaurs feed until about nine o clock in the morning; then they return to the bamboo forests and clearings to sleep. Later in the afternoon they come out to graze and drink. They are not timid, and several snots can be fired among a herd before they become alarmed. —Duke of Montpelier, in Wide World Magazine.

Mountains’ Death Toll.

Now that the mountaid climbing season is approaching, a German paper announces the death list of 1912, when 95 perrons lost their lives in Central Europe. The total in the last 12 years was 1,117. Of the 95 fatalities, 36 were in Germany, 26 around Vienna, 29 in Tyrol and only four in Switzerland and France. Three of the latter were in one party that perished on Mt. Blanc. Most of the accidents were due to gross inexperience and poor equipment of German amateurs who economized on guides.

The ostrich dance is the name of the latest society wriggle. Probably so called because it makes th# dancers feel like hiding their faces. —Baltimore Star.

Speculator the Worse Off.

The man who buys a pig In a poke at least gets some sort of a pig; whereas'the speculator often gets nothing. Make Allowances. Even if you think you have reason to complain, make allowances.

Most Likely.

BIRD’S TROUBLE AT AN END

Fancier’s Pet, Anticipated Winner of Many Prizes, Most Effectually “Isolated.” Here is a poultry story which comes from the country. While away on a’ holiday a fancier who owns some valuable specimens instructed a servant —a rather new country girl—in the feeding of the birds, and gave strict directions that she was to communicate with him immediately in the event of 'any of them showing signs of ailment. One day he received a letter stating that a bird of which he had had great expectations as a prize mlnner was unwell, and from the symptoms described the fancier concluded that it was a case of roup—a very infectious trouble. Accordingly he wired to the girl: “Isolate bird at once. Important. Home this evening." “Where did you put the' bird, MaryY* he asked as soon as he arrived. “It’s in the coal *ole,” said she. “You isolated it at once, of course T* he added. "Well, I didn’t," replied the girt, simply. "I got Jim to do it. ’E just gie it one whack wi* the broomstock, an’ it was all over in a twinkling!"— London Tit-Bits.

ECZEMA ON_ENTIRE SCALP R. r. D. No. 2. Sunfield, Mich.—"l was troubled with eczema. It began with a sore on the top of the scalp, broke out as a pimple and grew larger until It was a large red spot with a crust or scab over it. This became larger finally covering the entire scalp and spread to different parts of the body, the limbs and back and in the ears. These.sores grew larger gradually until some were as large as a quarter of a dollar. They would itch and it scratched they would bleed and smart. The clothing would irritate them at night when it was being removed causing them to itch and smart so I could not sleep. A watery fluid would run from them. My scalp became covered with a scale and when the hair was raised up it would raise this scale; the hair was coming out terribly. y “I treated about six months ahd got no relief and after using Cutlcura Soap and Ointment with two applications we could notice a great difference. It began to get better right away. In a month’s time I was completely cured." (Signed) Mrs. Bertha Underwood’ Jan. 3, 1913. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address postcard Dept. L, Boston.” —Adv.

Obliging Her.

The sweet young thing was being shown through the Galdwin locomotive works. “What is that thing?” she asked, pointing with her dainty parasol. “That,” said the guide, “is an engine boiler.” She was an up-to-date young lady and at once became interested. “And why do they boil engines?” she inquire dagaln. “To make the engine tender,” politely replied the resourceful guide.’’— Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.

Showed Little Abrasion.

Measurements of ball bearings on the axles of a New Jersey trolley car that has traveled about 150.000 miles in four years showed that they had resisted abrasion almost perfectly.

Her Last Chance.

“She was married at high noon.” “Yes, and everybody said it was high time.”

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