Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1914 — Page 2

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ONLY 18 STARS DEVELOPED

Of the 150 Recruits Tried Out by the Sixteen Big League Clubs, but Few Are Kept in Line-Ups. More than 150 ball players were either bought or drafted from the minor leagues last season by major league clubs. Looking over the lineups of the 16 big league teams, only 18 ne”- names have appeared regularly this season. In other words, of the 150 recruits tried out this season only 18 made good. Think of the expense Involved! Think of the scouts’ salaries, the money spent in railroad fares and expenses sending men around the coun-, try looking for material, to say nothing of the fortunes paid into the coffers of the minor league 'clubs to secure these new men. And only 18 out of more than 150. ' The Tigers have three new ones and are lucky. Bobby Veach, Ray McKee and George Dauss are the Tiger re-

Ray Schalk, New White Sox Catcher.

cruits who made good. The Naps have Chapman. St. Louis presents Leverenz, a pitcher, and Agnew, a catcher. The White Sox have a crack catcher, Ray Schalk, and Comiskey can also boast ok “Reb” Russell, one of the pitching “ffhds" of the season. The New York Yanks found nobody and the Red Sox are in the same boat, but they did not waste much time looking for new material, Boston preferring to stand pat on the championship team oflSl2. Philadelphia

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BASEBALL NOTES

Manager Dooln says he's going to carry four catchers this season besides "himself." Get it? Catcher Cady remarks that he has refused * |12,500 a year from the Feds. These ball players turn down Fed offers most nonchalantly until

OFFICIAL FEDERAL LEAGUE SCHEDULE, 1914

Eppa Rixey, Jr., the Philadelphia Nationals’ young pitcher who jumped to fame by his clever work on the slab last season, was born tn Culpeper, Va., May 3, 1891. He gained his first baseball experience at the Jefferson school, Charlottesville, Va., where he pitched for his school team in 1907-08-09. He entered the University of Virginia in 1909, and for three seasons was the mainstay on the slab for the Virginia

has Schang, Shawkey and E. Murphy and Washington boasts of Joe Boehling. In the National league, New York got Demaree, a pitcher, Boston found a crack infielder in Maranyille, and the Pirates got a star in Viox. Hap Meyers, also of Boston, was .the only recruit first Backer. Stengel of the Dodgers and Conelly of Boston

CENTRAL LEAGUE SCHEDULE FOR 1914

President James Gilmore’s salary as chief of the Federal league is' >15,000. • • • Grover Gilmore, a star of the Denver club, has signed to play with the Kansas City Feds. • • • \r President Hermann of the Reds has ordered a pew canvas cover for the diamond at Redland field. • • • (Van Olson of the Naps should be awarded a medal. He declares the Feds did not make him an offer.

CAREER OF RIXEY, CRACK PHILLY PITCHER

Eppa Rixey, Jr., Philadelphia Twirler.

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nine. Three years ago Umpire Rigler of the National league, who was coaching the university baseball squad, saw possibilities in Rixey and took particular pains to develop the tall boy. Eppa joined the Phillies after the close of the college season two years ago, and right off the reel began to stand National league batsmen on their heads and he gives promise of being better this season.

were the outfield “finds” in the National. Here is a club composed of recruits who made good last year: Catchers —Schalk, Schang and McKee. Pitchers —Russell, Dauss, Demaree, Boehling and Shawkey. Infielders —Myers, Maranville, Chapman and Viox.

Since being elevated tp the captaincy, Sherwood Magep now takes three lumps of sugar In his Java instead of two. Jimmy Sheckard is going to be a playing-manager. His ability to draw passes will be a great help to his team • • • Roy Corhan, the former Sox, who was struck by a bean ball by Russell Ford, Is playing a fast game for the Seals.

Outfielders —E. Murphy, Stengel, Veach and Conelly. Collected on one club this line-up could furnish several of the major league teams with plenty of argument, not to mention a large number of defeats. As a whole these newcomers are fast, brainy and good hitters.

PIRATES’ STAR THIRD SACKER

Never Made Record as Heavy Slugger, but Is Clever Fielder and Great All-Round Hustler. Henry M. (Mike) Mowrey, third baseman of the Pittsburgh Pirates, was born in Chambersburg, Pa., on March 24, 1883. He played professional baseball for the first time in 1903 as a member of the Chester, Pa., club. The following year he opened the. season with Williamsport, but was later transferred to Johnstown, both clubs being in the Tri-State league.

Mike Mowrey.

In 1905 he played with the Savannah South Atlantic league team, being drafted in the fall by Cincinnati and turned over to the Baltimore club. He was with Baltimore during the season of 1906 until recalled by Cincinnati before the close of the season. Mike took part in 17 games with the Reds before the season closed and had a batting average of .321. He was a member of the Reds until 1909, when he was traded to St. Louis, and last year he went to Pittsburgh. Mowrey has never been able to bat in the .390 class since hie first season in the big leagues, but he is a clever infielder and a great all-around hustler.

Waterbury Has Hard Job.

J. M. Waterbury, Jr., known as “Monty,” and recently elected captain of the American i>olo team to succeed Harry Paine Whitney, has a task before him to reorganize his cup defending squad. Whitney and Stoddard have retired, thus breaking up the big four. Waterbury will go to No. 3 position and send his brother up at No. 2. Reported Sale of Denver Club. Reports of the sale of the Denver baseball club will not down despite denials by James C. McGill and Edward W. Smith, who is the prospective buyer. Smith is a well-known Chicago sport writer and has also gained a wide reputation as fight referee.

McGill Retains Denver 'Club,

James McGill, who recently purchased the Indianapolis A. A. club, will not give up his holdings in the Denver club. McGill has secured a new manager to replace Jack Hendricks, who Is transferred to the Hoosier club; Jack Coffey is to lead the Grizzlies.

Turn Down Fed Offers.

Many Cleveland players have turned down offers made to them by Federal league agents. Among them are O’Neill, Johnston, Lellvelt and Chapman.

Yankee’s Best Outfield.

Baseball scribes believe that the outfield Frank Chance haft got together is the best the Yankees have ever had. All of Chance’s'youngsters—Gilhooley, Walsh and Holden —have been swatting the pill at a .350 clip.

Grand American at Dayton.

The Grand American will be shot on September 7 at Dayton. 0., and will continue for five days. The grounds of the National Cash Register Gun club will again be used.

PATROLLING THE ATLANTIC

LIFE and property require to be safeguarded on sea as much as, if not more than, on land. For this purpose the ocean patrol has come into being. On the waste of waters there’ is every danger which taxes the best of human skill, foresight and carefulness to combat it. At a certain period of the year this danger of the deep increases and, therefore, emphatic measures have been taken to escape it. This most dangerbus time of the year is that in which) the icebergs occur, when great masses break away from the parent glaciers in the north to float down in their frozen might into the lanes of travel traversed by the steamships plying between European and American ports. This period of utmost danger lasts from the beginning of March to the of July. In some years the ice drift Kegins as early as February, and by March some of the bergs are so far south as to get in the way of the northerly course of vessels entering Canadian and New England ports, says a writer in the Christian Herald.

As the season advances the floating masses get in the main track of the big liners, and it is then that the greatest danger is to be apprehended. To avoid them as much as possible the principal companies engaged in north Atlantic transportation between the ports of New York, Boston, Fastnet and Bishop’s Rock direct their captains to take the most southerly course consistent with the time allowed for the voyage, from the beginning of February to the end of August, but even this does not preclude the possibility of coming in contact with the ice mountains that at any moment may loom up on the horizon in the very path of the vessel. Region of Danger.

This southerly course, as it is termed, which is pursued during the spring and summer months, takes the vessel across the fiftieth degree of longitude (the region of danger) in latitude 41 degrees 30 minutes on the west-bound passage and in latitude 40 degrees 30 minutes on the east-bound passage. Yet icebergs of immense size are frequently encountered on this track. The ill-fated Titanic was on the southerly course when she struck the berg that sent her to the battom of the Atlantic. Many a stately bark which left the home port In high hope has come to grief in this dreaded section of the north Atlantic. The icebergs float down on the Labrador current and skirt Newfoundland, bearing south until they enter the warm waters of the gulf stream, where they gradually disappear. ’Cviiat adds tp the great danger of these frozen dreadnaughts is the fog in which they are often enveloped when off the Grand Banks. Though the sharpest lookout may be kept, it sometimes happens that bergs ahead may not be sighted until too late for the vessel to veer her course.

It was the appalling catastrophe of the Titanic that woke the nations to the fact that no ship, however stanch, is immune from accident, and that the problem of elemental danger still remained unsolved. The Titanic was thought to be practically unsinkable. Prqpdly she steamed along on her maiden trip, defying winds and waves, a floating palace full of life and light, when, lo! out of the darkness of night came the grim sea monster which sent her to her doom. The news of her fate shocked the civilized world.* The boasted science and skill of man were baffled, beaten, sunk beneath the waves by the might of the ice king.

Navy Takes a Hand. Then it was that thought was taken, not how to overcome, but how to avoid his irresistible power in the future. Our navy department, in the interest of life and property at sea, set aside two cruisers for patrol duty; that is, to scour the steamship track for icebergs and give warning of their location and approach/ This year precautions have been taken earlier In the season thap usual to safeguard transatlantic travel. The Seneca has been dispatched to the icefields, The cutter left Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, on February 15 for her five months’ cruise. The expeifenced Captain Johnston .Is in command. The Seneca Is -the only vessel that has been detailed for the service this year, but when the ice has moved southward so as to make a constant patrol* necessary, an addltionkl vessel will be sent out for the purpose, probably the Miami. There has been a report that some of the Ng companies were to put on patrol boats of their own to supple-

U.S. CUTTER. SENECA

ment the government service, but as yet none of them has taken theinitiar tlve, although some of them have adopted the scheme of motor-boat scoqts to circumvent ice perils in the north Atlantic. The new Allan liners Alsatian and Calgarian are the flrst vessels to be equipped in this way. „ On their next voyage each will carry two motor boats fitted with 30-horse-power motors, add with wireless apparatus for signaling. During foggy weather these ice scouts will be sent ahead to report danger. It is sold that the Cunard company has also arranged for motor-boat scouts the new Aquitania will carry four of such craft to give warning of danger. The recent international conference for safety at sea had under consideration the whole subject of sea patrols-

FIRE FLASHED FROM FLOWERS

Natural Wonder That Has Not Been Accorded the Recognition It Deserves. The most wonderful, it might almost be said spiritual, attribute of flowers is neither their beauty of color or form nor their fragrance, but, strangely enough, a mysterious radiance that, like the aureola which artists represent as radiating from the heads of apostles or of angels, sometimes surrounds them, writes J. Carter Beard. It is strange that this flower is so little known and so seldom noticed. The best time to watch for and to witness the emission of flower-fire is just after sunset of a warm day, when the atmosphere is perfectly dry and clear. On the contrary, if the air is dense or the day has been rainy, nothing of the kind can be seen. The light emitted from flowers is sometimes continuous, but, oftener, perhaps, represents itself in flashes and flickerlngs like the sparks from a piece of paper that has been electrified. The duration of the light varies according to the state of the atmosphere and the sort of flowers that are under observation.

A daughter of Linnaeus is credited with having been the first, as long ago as 1762, to have observed these luminous emanations. While seated alone in her father’s garden on a fine, warm summer night, her attention was attracted to a cluster of the common naturtiums, whose flowers shone with iridescent lustre amid the surrounding gloom. Captivated by the charming novelty of the spectacle she repeated her nocturnal visit to the flowers a number of times, and never once failed to witness the gleam of the nasturtiums. Numerous other flowers, many of which can be found tn our gardens, are discovered to be self-luminous after exposure to the strong, sustained light of the summer sun; for not only do groups of nasturtiums exhibit the phenomenon, but the corolla off the common sunflower, the dahlia, the tuberose, the yellow Illy and Indeed a number of blossoms not named here. —Christian Endeavor World.

Mistress (to servant) —Bridget, you remember the policeman who sat In the kitchen with you so late last night without a light? Bridget—Yes, ma’am. Mistress —Well, I met him this afternoon, and I took advantage of the: opportunity to speak to him. Bridget—Sure, ma’am, ye needn’t j think that’ll make me jealous.—London Sketch.

Modest.

“Who was that modest looking young man, Cyrus?” "Modest looking? Say, what <kt you think he was?” ; . “I don’t know.” "He M-as a moving picture maker. All he wanted was to borrow our: church for a mock marriage and then>4 have a bogus shooting affray on front steps."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Pets and People.

"What kind of a dog is that?” "Idunno," replied’ the man with baggy trousers. "I’m not vbry well acquainted with him yet When I Suae home at night my wife has to troduce me to him and tell him I’m not a burglar."

His Mistake.

"I understand you entertained a number of people at dinner last night’* "That’s what I thought.” replied Mr. Cumrox; "but my wife says I boreA ’em."

No Jealousy There.