Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1913 — Page 2

MANY DISCARDS BACK IN MAJOR LEAGUES

The present year is one of the greatest in history for the genus comeback. Players regarded one year ago as has-beens of the deepest quality have been dragged back in numbers to the big show from either retirement or the bushes to bloom forth once again as capable major leaguers. Probably the top of the comeback list should be assigned to Fred Falkenberg, otherwise known as Long Cy, who has pitched Cleveland back onto the map, showing even more surprising form than his team-mate Vean Gregg. He has become the popular favorite of Nap fans. When Falky was sent away to Toledo a little over a year ago, he was figured a dismal failure. Jack Knight, who has been with the Yankees but a short time, going back to his former love in trade with Jersey City for Baker Borton, has proved * tremendous Improvement over the latter at first base. George McQuillen, who made his re-debut at the same time with the Pirates, appears like the same old George he was when •tarring with the Phillies three years ago. His time spent with the Columbus American association team seems to have made him a better behaved McQuillen, which accounts for the principal difference in bis effectiveness. Another-'pitcher who has proved a winner after time spent in the minors is Dick Rudolph, of the Boston Braves. Stallings made a wise move when he took the one-time Giant from the Toronto club of the International league. Mordecai Brown, that great old grizzled veteran, has begun to show some of the prowess of his Cub days. His knee bothers him somewhat, but the strong right arm with its three fingers is the same. Joe Tinker says that Brownie will be a success with the Reds for at least two more years. Only one of the pitching comebacks of the year has proved a disappointment He iB Orval Overall, and Johnny Evers attributes his poor work thus far to an attempt to get into

Cy Falkenberg of Cleveland.

condition too rapidly after his long layoff from all phases of the game. Outside of the pitching staffs there have been other comeback failures. ■One is Claude Derrick, who had to be ; sent back to Baltimore by Frank Chance, of the Tanks. McKechnle, •another Tankee, also has failed to meet Chance’s requirements. Charlie O’Leary, who has been playing a good shortstop for the Cardinals, is another former big leaguer whose delivering of the goods in the minors compelled the majors to give him another chande. His work with providence was so conspicuous last

Johnny Kling, Now With Cincinnati.

years that when Huggins found himself up against it with Arnold Hauser injured, O’Leary was the first man he thought of. The old-timer has been doing practically as well in fielding as he did when a member of the champion Tigers of five years ago. Harold Janvrln is one more infielder who has done well, playing in utility roles for the Red Sox. Catcher Johnny Kling, who is with the Reds now, has shown far better than most persons had expected. Including Jonothan, there are enough comebacks in the two major circuits to form a fair looking team. For pitchers there could be Rudolph, Overall, Brown, Falkenberg and McQuillen. Jack Knight could play base, McKecbnie second, O’Leary shortstop and Janvrln third. Kling could be catcher. And in the outfield there is plenty of material to pick from. Of course, such a team could not beat the Athletics, but it would be a complete team, nevertheless, which is the main point to be shown. Word from the minors indicates that at least two more former big leaguers are to be/ moved back up, Charley Street, the once great Gabby, has been catching for Chattanooga in the way he did when the stellar member of the Washington backstop brigade, and rumor has it that Clark Griffith will give him a trial again. Cy Morgan, erstwhile pitching star of the Athletics, is performing in t.op form for the Kansas City American association club and several hig league managers are said to be watching him.

BASEBALL NOTES

Manager Tinker is much dissatisfied with the showing of Pitcher George Suggs. • • • Gilhooley of Montreal is said to be the best youngster developed this year in the International. * * * Hans Lobert of the Phillies seems to be batting and fielding much better since he became a bridegroom. * • * Boston critics are commenting on the fact that McDonald makes as good a hitter as a regular as a pinch batter. • * • Frank Chance declares that Nemo Leibold, the little outfielder of the Naps, is the best youngster of the season. I * * • It is reported that the Brooklyn club is dickering for the services of Elmer Brown of the Nashville Southern league club. —- —• * • _ Walter Johnson is training on pudding, Bherbet, cake and ice tea, according to one of the scribes that follow the team. • • • Ingersoll, the Northwestern leaguer who goes to the Reds next fall, does not seem to be of the dollar variety. He brought three thousand ducats for Vancouver. I* * * President Garry Hernnanh of th« Cincinnati Reds has become a scout The Reds’ owner is trying to find soma young material to help Joe Tinker build up a good team. • • • Dutch Munch, the young catcher who was taken to Charlottesville by Manager Griffith last spring, will’ report to the Senators after the close of the New York State league season, s•• * • Those Browns —poor, mistreated St Louisans. Their fans have hoped all along for first division, and they are putting up a game fight, but here they are In the ruck. And the Cards are in seventh place. / L r

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BUILT UP TEAM ON $45,000

Manager Dahlen of Brooklyn Bpent but Little Money in (setting Contending Team Together. How a major league ball dub that threatened for a time early in the season to be a contender for the pennant in the National league was gathered together for an outlay of $45,000, Is the story by C. H. Ebbets, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ebbets shows figures to prove that the present members of the Brooklyn team were obtained either by draft of purchase at an outlay of not more than $45,000. When Dahlen assumed the management in the spring of 1910 be began weeding out the old material, with the result that Rucker, Hummel, Knetzer anjl Wheat are the only players left of the former lineup. Hummel was purchased for SI,OOO from Hoyloke, Mass., in 1905, Rucker, one of the pitching stars of the National league, was drafted from Augusta in 1907 for the ridiculous sum of SSOO, while Knetzer and Wheat were purchased in 1909 for $2,500 and $1,500 respectively. Daubert was placed on first base in Dahlen’s flf-st year after he' had been drafted from Memphis for $1,500. In 1911 the Brooklyn club secured these men: Miller from Duluth, $750; Ragon from Nashville, $3,500, and Erwin from Rochester, $3,500. In 1912 Ebbets obtained Shortstop Fisher from Newark for $3,500; Kent from Birmingham for $1,000; Allen from Mobile, $5,200; Kirkpatrick from Dayton, $2,000; Stangel from Aurora, $750; Phelps from Toronto, $2,500; Tingling from Toledo, $1,500; Curtis from Philadelphia Nationals, $1,500; Moran from Rochester, $1,500, And Cutsaw from Oakland, for $1,500. Reviewing the list, Ebbets pointed out that Dahlen has built up a comparatively young team. Of the players he has turned loose, only one, Hub Perdue of the Boston Nationals, still draws his salary in the big league.

CARRIGAN IS WELL RECEIVED

Boston Fans Pleased With New Manager, Who Is Credited With Much Baseball Knowledge. Bill Carrigan’s appointment as manager of the Red Sox was well received all over New England. He is a New Englander himself, educated at Holy Cross, lives at Lewiston, Maine, in the winter and hasn’t an enemy in

Manager Bill Carrigan.

the world, so far as is known. Of course, he will have to make good as a manager like any other manager, and if he should fail, his personal popularity would not save him any more than personal popularity saved Jake Stahl from all sorts of unpleasant experiences. But Carrigan is a shrewder man than Jake and there is no gamer fellow in the world than Bill. He is credited with knowing a lot of baseball, and with being able to say /‘No” as faßt as any man in the world If he wants to. Boston 1b the most Irish city in the world, not excepting Dublin and Cork, and William Carrigan is not a Russian. He ought to “go big” as manager, and the fans believe he will.

Famous Home Runs.

Fourteen home runs have been made in the nine world’s baseball series played between the American and National league pennant winners since '1903. Nine of the circuit clouts were made by the American league , batsmen. The two by Third Baseman Frank Baker of the Philadelphia Athletics against Mathew son and Marquard of the New York Giants were the most famous. The runs are recorded as follows: 1903, Pat Dougherty, Boston Americans, 2;. Sebring, Pittsburgh, 1; 1906, 1906 and 1907, no home runs made; 1908, Tinker of the Cubs, 1; 1909, Fred Clarke of Pittsburg. 2; Davy Jones, Detroit 1; Sam Crawford, Detroit 1; 1910, Dan Murphy, Athletics, 1; 1911, Frank Baker, Athletics, 2; Rube Oldrlng, Athletics, 1; 1912, Larry Doyle, New York Giants, 1; Larry Gardner of Boston Red Sox, 1.

One Honest Ball Player.

Bill Klem says Chief Wilson of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is one of the squarest ball players in the game. He relates an anecdote of a game in Philadelphia when he left a decision to the chief. There- was a question as to whether a long smash was fair or foul, and Dooin protested Klem’s ruling of the latter sort Klem asked Wilson, and the Pirate spoke honestly, though against his own team. Baying it was fair.

EVICTED IPSWICH STRIKERS LIVING IN STREET

The families of scores of striking mil* employes of Ipswich, Mass., have been evicted from their homes and arw cooking, eating and sleeping in the streets. '

IN POLITICAL SNARL

Jap Parties Formed About Men Rather Than Principles. / Conditions Are Well Nigh Inexplicable to Many—Result Is Considerable Confusion —Different Periods of Country’s Political Progress. Tokyo, Japan.—Japanese politics is well nigh inexplicable to many persons, especially occidentals. The sudden and frequent changes of cabinets, in part or in whole, are difficult to understand. And, while wo can make no claim to a perfect understanding of the mysteries, we may be able to throw a little light on the subject In the first place, it should be kept in mind that political parties in Japan are more personal than political. Factions and parties have formed airound men rather than measures, around persons more than principles. The history of political parties in New Japan may t>e divided into five periods, as follows: 1867-1882 —Embryonic period. 1882-1890—Oorganizing period. 1890-1898 —Developing period. 1898.-1911 —Influential period. 1911—Predominant period. The chief political parties which have been organized in Japan during the past 30 years have all illustrated the point just mentioned. The first party in the field was the Jiyuto, or liberal party, which was organized by Count (then Mr.) ftagaki, and which consisted largely of his personal following. The next party was the shimpoto, - or progressive party, . which was started by Mr. (now Count) Okuma and his friends. The chief difference in these two parties, so far as principles were concerned, was that the liberals were more radical than the progressives; but the greater difference was the personal one. In more recent, days it has been Ito and his proteges who have dominated the seiyukai. . Small factions have rallied around smaller men; while personal considerations have largely caused splits in factions and parties. As ex-Mayor Ozaki has pointed out, this feature is a not unnatural survival of the feudal system. And it was Ozaki himself who has just led a bolt

Emperor of Japan.

from the seiyukai on the ground that said party was no standing firmly enough for principles, but was compromising with the Satsuma clan element in forming the Yamamoto cabinet The feature mentioned above has naturally evolved another peculiar feature; not only party ties, but party principles, have been too loose. Or the reverse may be partly economic, and these have been so Vague and indefinite, party ties have been very loose. The party platforms have too often consisted of glittering generalities and lacking positively distinguishing principles. In some cases there have been clearly defined issues as between conservatives and liberals, but in general there have been

distinctions without differences. For instance, on such an important issue as the increase of the land tax the same party has been worklftg, now in support, now in opposition. All parties and factions having too often been found guilty of opportunism. Another peculiar feature of parties in Japan Is the altfiost complete lack of grouping on economic class lines. There have been geographical lineups, which have been partly economic, and there have been attempts to line up Hie business men toegther. But, as indicated above, even the land tax issue hak not succeeded in forming any permanent alignment, and the tariff question has not yet affected the political situation. The burning topic of socialism has not made any perceptible impression on the political world of Japan. Several years ago a socialistic party was organized, but was speedily forbidden and suppressed by the government. Moreover, the anarchist i conspiracy against the emperor only served to increase the severity of the officials toward socialists of all kinds —good, bad or indifferent Therefore, there IS no socialist party.

CASH FOR FARMER

Col. Green Hits Sending Surplus to Wall Street. ~L~ • —_ •. ■■* ; ' —T~7fr ’.?* • Millionaire Declares That Local Bank Balances Created by Producers Bhould Be Loaned Agriculturists at Very Moderate Rates. New York. —Col. Edward H. R. Green of Texas and New York city. Bon of Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman in the world, and her active associate in a vast money lending business that extends across the country, has decided views of financing the American farmer, He has practical get-up-and-do-lt ideas that have a big, substantial bearing on the subject Although in business within a stone’s throw of the New York stock exchange, Colonel Green never enters itß portals. He is opposed to stock gambling. Twenty years in Texas, running a railroad that got its tonnage from carrying products of the soil, gave him a viewpoint quite at variance with the ideas of the exchange floor. “The farmer still rocks the cradle of our country, but I often wonder how he does it so well with no financial scheme whatever in existence for his particular benefit,” he said. "Everybody 1b telling how to finance the farmer these days. It is almost as popular a topic as ‘better tenements’ for the city and ‘good roads’ for motor club members to use and fanners to pay for. In all I have read and heard no one seems yet to have got down to brass tacks with a real financial uplift plan for the farmer. “Two phases of the farmer’s predicament have enlisted my personal inter eat because they run directly counter to the way my mother has always handled her wealth in relation to the public good. “First is the rate of Interest the farmer has to pay for money he borrows. Government statistics show that 12,000,000 fanners of the United States pay an average interest rate of 8*? pec cent upon borrowed capital of about 23,192,000,000 to work crops on land valued at $40,000,000,000. Since my mother began her career as a business woman she has never asked more than 6 per cent a year for the use of her money. The bulk of her lopns have been at rates considerably below 6 per cent. In France and Germany the farmer gets all the money he wants at from 3ft to 4ft ppr cent “The second phase of the problem I have observed is the action of banks throughout the country in sending

CAT ON STEEPLE JUMPS OFF

Leaps Distance of 75 Feet to Brick. Pavement and Appears to Be Uilhurt. ..1.. Meridian, Mlss.—Ttfe fire depart* ment was cglled to the Central Methodist church to take from tile highi steeple of the church a cat that had! been disturbing worship and making| some very mournful sounds for about! a week. All efforts to entice the case to come down failed, so the fire department ran up the aerial ladder and! went after the mouser. Boeing the firemen approaching the* cat jumped seventy-five feet to the< brick paving below and was stunned! for a while, but one of its proverbial! lives came back and it was soon all! right. The cat had been without foodl and was very emaciated.

Held Under "White Slave” Law.

Louißviile, Ky.—Because he smiled at her, sixteen-year-old Minnie Belli Wallace says she left heir home in. Evansville and came to Louisville withi Alger Hochhalber, a check man .for &< transfer company. The girl’s father traced them here and caused Hoch-' halber’s arrest for violating the “white slave” law. Hochhalber has a wife and infant child in Evansville.

their balances to Wall street, formingi a huge fund used for speculative purposes. These balances represent thei net busliiesß profit of each particular locality—the very cream off the pani of milk in the cool springhouße—yeti th§ creators of this surplus wealth, the! farmers, are starved financially when; they apply for loans, because the funds, of the community are in Wall street being used in stock and bond promotions reaching even to China and the. Philippines. . "For years ray mother has held to the belief and has absolutely lived up to it, as far as her influence and power have gone, that every community is entitled to the full benefit of its prosperity. She always made it an inviolable rule that profits acquired in a given locality belonged to that locality and should always be reinvested in that locality. Our books are divided into different cities; we keep an aocount of San Francisco money sepa-

Col. E. H. R. Green.

rate from Chicago money; Toledo money separate from New York money, while Texas not only has its own net profits left for reinvestment in Texas enterprises, but now and then gets additional help from surplus funds.” Colonel Green explained that the application of his mother’s principles of home cash for home people and her rule of 6 per cent or less would work wonders in giving the fanner a freer hand if generally adopted. ,

Blows Self to Pieces.

Grand Rapids, Mich.—Placing a stick of dynamite on top of hjs head: and lighting the fuse, John Abo, a farmer, committed suicide here. "