Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1914 — Page 3

FEW PLAYERS FOLLOW KEELER’S ADVICE

"Hit ’em where they ain’t,” said "Wee Willie” Keeler. Ambitious ball players have been, trying to do it ever since. As a matter of fact, they were trying to do it before “Willie” tipped them off to what they were trying to do."It’s just as simple as doing a "Brodie” over Niagara Falls and still feeling healthy and strong afterward. “Willie’* said it as if that’s all any batter has to know to cut into any pitcher’s pitching for about .400 worth. And to “Willie” it was just like reciting the alphabet But all batters are not Keelers. That’s why some pitchers draw big salaries. There are a lot of players who personally believe “Wilj|e” didn’t know -what he was talking about. They call themselves "hard luck hitters” (be-cause-fielders move out of their usual positions to play in the right spots to stonewall the near hits. They mumble something about "Hit ’em where they ain't, is all right enough, but there ain’t no such place. Just as a fellow thinks he’s picked an opening big enough for a baseball to slide through without having the trade mark rubbed off, some fielder pulls a ’bone,' leaves his position and is just lucky enough to wander in front of the ball.”

Among the Baseball Players

Herman Bronkle and Baddy Livingston are playing great ball for Indianapolis. • • •' Bill Carrigan is one manager who believes in giving the young hinders a chance. • • • Lajoie’s baseball star may be setting, but that isn’t the matter with the Naps by a good deal. • * • One of the bravest managers in the American league is Bill Carrigan. He declares the Red Sox will win the pennant. • • • The Cincinnati Reds have still another outfield candidate. He Is McLaughlin, who hails from Colgate university. • • • Johnny Dobbs, the new manager of the New 6rleans team. Is popular with his men and enjoys their fullest confidence. •e e • Statistics compiled on runs scored by teams in the National league show the Phillies to be the greatest run getters. * * * A new comet has been discovered in the West, but as yet no efforts have been made to sign it to a Federal contract • <• e Joe Birmingham thinks he has pulled a prize in Jay Kirke, the first baseman who was with the Braves last year. President James E. Gaffney of the Boston Braves is out with a strong denial that he has any thought of selling his club. ? • • ' ' ' Although the New York Highlanders are counted out by the scribes. New York fans say that they at least have a “Chance.” • • - There are not over three clubs at the most that are making money in the New England league, writes a New England league correspondent. .• * * It is stated at Minneapolis that In the bidding for Wade Killifer the Chicago White Sox offered Bodie and Alcpck and an infielder to be selected, but that the Cantiflons turned down the offer because they considered neither. JBodle nor Alcock of Assaclatton class.

"Stuffy” Mclnnis of Champion Athletics.

Most of these players are "lucked* out of the big leagues. But in at least one instance some of these disgruntled batters are right The four young men who do business for “Connie" Mack on his lawn are as near to being a net without being a net as anything or things could be. There seems to be only one kind of a hit they cannot stop—something going so fast they cannot see it ' That Infield has won two pennants for him in the last three years, and is guiding the Athletics along the straight and narrow path again. Last season Mack’s pitching staff was anything but a championship contrivance. Yet the young pitchers could be pounded for various quantities of runs and the games still be saved, because Baker; Barry, Collins and Mclnnis took it upon themselves to manufacture more runs than the other fellows could. , It is up to the infield to pull the club through to the top if it -is to mingle in another world series next autumn. It makes no difference what the tally sheet shows, Baker, Barry, Collink and Mclnnis are always on the job, looking for something to keep them busy. And they cap be depended upon to find it

SHECKARD IS MAKING. GOOD

Jim's Great Knowledge of Baseball Is Causing Cleveland Team to Be Feared Around Circuit. Measured by the standards of hard work, baseball brains and the attitude his players have toward him, Jim Sheckard, Spider manager, is dhe of the season’s most successful new baseball leaders, despite the position of his club. From the moment Sheckard steps on to the field until the last man is out, he’s hard at work. Not a man

Jim Sheckard, Manager of Cleveland American Association Team.

goes to bat until Manager Jim has talked over with him the" probable way he is to hit. During practise Sheckard is always hitting ’em out to the fielders, fielding or coaching some of the youngsters. He has shown every man on the Cleveland team some, new angle of the game. In exenrislng his functions as manager he’s not at all bossy or,arbitralThere isn’t a man in the entire Spider crew who doesn’t like Sheckard. It’s the <consideratlon he has' shown every one of his men that has made him so well liked. Never grouchy, peeved or out of sorts, Sheckard makes himself liked by always having a pleasant word for anyone who approaches him.

Feats of Sox Pitchers.

A notable fact in connection with the WhitgSox box staff is that four of Its members have pitched a onehit game this year. The four are Scott, Cicotte, Benz, and Faber. In addition Benz has a no-hit game and Russell a two-hit game.

Many Players In One Game.

Thirty-one players were used in one of the recent games of the Washing-ton-St Louis series and less than ten innings required three hour* and 85

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FOR SHORT DOUBLE-HEADERS

Critic Advocates Seven Innings Each Where Two Contests are Played on Same Afternoon. Why not limit the double-header games to seven innings each? It’s a scheme that has been tried out in the Southern leagues with great success. Two seven-inning games in one afternoon would give the average fan just about as much baseball as he could comfortably absorb. It wouldn’t force the ball player to the extreme limit of his endurance, and, best of all, it would enable the fan to get home in time for a warm dinner. Cutting the double-header games to seven Innings would do no one harm. It would do plenty of good. Cutting off four innings from an afternoon’s baseball session would mean lessening the playing period about one hour and. therefore, the pastime would end before darkness settled over the land. The season of double-headers is now upon us. Every fan is keen about taking in a bargain bill, but along about the fourth or fifth inning of the second game the exhibition becomes monotonous. Of course, the greatest ma-, jority of the fans stick to the bitter finish, but they stay not so much because their baseball appetite isn’t satisfied, but because they, want to see just how the game will finish. Most double-headers begin about 2 p. m., allowing something over two hours for each game and a 15-minute intermission between combats. It means that play doesn’t end until about 6:30. That means that the fan doesn’t get home until front 7:15 to 8 p. m., owing to the delay in getting out of the crowded park and the usual delay caused by the sldw moving of fi. fleet of special street cars. And every housewife is fully agreed that 7:15 to 8 p. m. is “too darned late for any man to expect his wife to keep dinner simmering.” If the games were cut two innings each the playing period would be lessened about an hour, which would mean that the final innings of the second game would not have to be played by torchlight and that father would get home on time to dine with the rest of the family. The seven-inning double-header idea probably will prove to be a popular one with the fans, and it is likely that If the agitation assumes sufficient voice that the ruling powers in baseball will hear it and amend their laws so that seven-inning double-headers will be the rule starting with the 1916 season.

DEVORE IS GREAT TRAVELER

Former New York Giant Outfielder Plays With Cincinnati, Then Philadelphia and Now Boston. Josh Devore is getting to be a great traveler around the National league circuit. Josh played in the outfield for the Giants for several seasons and then went to the Cincinnati Reds in a trade. Later he bobbed up

Josh Devore.

in Philadelphia with Charley Dooin’s team. Now Josh has gone to the Boston Braves, where he is doing regular service in the outer garden. The former Giant still retains his batting eye, as be has a mark of .308 for 30 games.

WHAT AILS BASEBALL GAME?

Pretty Well Established That Something la Wrong With the Great , Professional Pastime.

With Clark Griffith announcing that Connie Mack is a “cheap skate," .thp magnates of organized baseball bemoaning the present condition and prospects of the game, the players dissatisfied with their contracts, and discouraging reports of attendance from half a dozen or more towns, it seems to be pretty well established that something is wrong with the professional game, says the New York Sun. Everybody’s nerves are on edge and the situation promises to become more mixed as the season wears on. Is -it . beyond probability that the public has had an overdose of baseball? Not an overdose of playing, but of the business; of quarrels between owners, suite for the restraint of players, threats of retaliation and winter-long wrangles between thjs and that Interest Abuse of the Federal league and of the players who have signed ip contracts, for one thing, has become very tiresome, and it is not the only factor at work to lessen public enthusiasm. ,

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VOICE OF CONSCIENCE DEAD

AU the Fault of Nurse That Small Giri Could Not Walk, in the Straight Path. Maria had been naughty and mother, seriously remonstrating with her, thought ’to press home a needed suggestion. f "I can’t think why you persist in doing wrong, my dear,” she said, solemnly. “It always makes us unhappy when we do wrong." “But—but I often don’t know It’s wrong tin I’ve done it,” sighed the small culprit. “But," mother urged again, “you should know, my darling. Your conscience will tell you if you listen." "What is my conscience and how will it tell me?" wide-eyed and eager. "Your conscience is the little voice Inside you that says ‘No!’ when you shouldn't do things and makes you feel sorry when you’ve made mistakes.” "Oh, then I’ll never be good!" mourned the troubled sinner. "I had a voice like that once, but nurse said it was indigestion and she gave ms some medicine and it died."

Express.

A German princeling went to pay a visit of ceremony to a small but ancient and honorable city situated upon a branch line of railway. His serene highness had just stepped from his private car upon the bunting-bedecked station platform. Greetings had been exchanged with the local receiving party. “And what,” said the prince to the burgomaster, “are those children doing there on the tracks?” “Serene highness,” replied the burgomaster, bowing low, “those are the young maidens of the city who ran before and scattered flowers in front of the locomotive of your highness* train.”

NEW IDEA Helped Wisconsin Couple.

It doesn’t pay to stick too closely to old notions of things. New ideas often lead to better health, success and happiness. ,A Wis. couple examined an idea new to them and stepped up several rounds on the health ladder. The husband writes: “Several years ago we suffered from coffee drinking, were sleepless, nervous, sallow, weak and irritable. My wife and I both loved coffee and thought it was a bracer.” (Delusion.) “Finally, after years of suffering, we read of Postum and the harmfulness of coffee, and believing that to grow we should give some attention to new Ideas, we decided to test Postum. • * "When we made it right we liked It and were free of ills caused by' coffee. Our friends noticed the change—fresher skin, sturdier nerves, better temper, etc. "These changes were not sudden, but increased as we continued to drink and enjoy Postum, and we lost the desire for coffee. "Many of our friends did not like Postum art first, because they did not make it right. But when they made Postum according to directions on pkg., they liked it better than coffee and were benefited by the change." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellvine,” in pkgs. Postum now comes in two forms: | Regular Postum —must be well boiled. 15c and 25c packages. « Instant Postum —is a soluble powder. Made in the cup with hot water —no boiling. 80c and 50c tin*. .1 The cost per of both kinds is shout the same. “There’s a Reason” for Postum. —•old by Grocers.

Thrffe Woods In One Tree. Civil Engineer F. T. Moore, president of a scientific society of Winsted, Conn., reports an unusual find in the woods of Barkhamsted, where he felled a tree containing three specie in one. The butt of the tree was oak, the middle chestnut, and the top hemlock. Mr. Moore Is also * church member.—Boston Herald,

UNSIGHTLY PIMPLES ON FACE

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Nothing New.

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