Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1918 — Page 2

MINNESOTA PLASTERER IS MATCHED TO FIGHT WORLD’S CHAMPION JESS WILLARD

Fred Fulton, the Minnesota plasterer, has been matched to fight Jess Willard for the world heavyweight title on July 4 at a place to be named later and over a route to be decided some time In the near future. Fulton has fought many of the leading heavies of today and has placed himself in a. position that the public has demanded Jess give him a bout

BEAUTY OF FORBES FIELD

Barney Dreyfuss, president of the Pittsburgh baseball club, values the beauty of Forbes field at more than SIO,OOO. He has refused that amount for permission to place advertising signs In the field, and even turned down an offer to put a huge clock, with an advertisement on it, above the score board. Dreyfuss has the pleasure, each spring, of turning down similar offers, but this year the amounts offered were higher than ever before. Forbes field is the only National league park lacking these unbeautiful advertising devices.

FORMER PITTSBURGH STAR NOW WITH BROOKLYNS

Al Mamaux. former star boxman of the Pirates, and now with the Brooklyn Dodgers, has been placed in elass A-l in the draft and may be called at any time. Ebbets bought Mamaux at the close of last season.

“THAT’S TWO,” SAYS G. LAND

Familiar Cry of Veteran American Association Backstop May Be Heard in War. Some of these days that part of the American association contingent fighting with Uncle Sam’s forces in France may be startled by a familiar old cry, one, mayhap, that will be hear despite the sound of bursting shell, roaring gun or flying shrapnel—“ That’s Two." They will know that a second German has taken the count. Grover Land, familiar as a catcher and scrapper, has decided to carry the fight of his A. A. days to a real battlefield and will sdon Im? seen fighting as a member of the coast artillery. The second batsman of «n opposing team to be retired always was ’ll signal for Land to raise tils sonorous voice and let go “That’s Two,” so force of habit may bring forth the old diamond call when the ball player observes a second enemy take the count in the more serious game “over there.” Land played with. Toledo, St. Paul and Minneapolis in the Association and has seen service as a major leaguer with Cleveland and Pittsburgh. He jumped from the St. Paul club’last season to. Virginia, Minn.

HAUGHTON GOING TO FRANCE

President of Boston Braves May Take Charge of Athletic Work in Army for Y. M. C. A. Percy Haughton, president of the Boston Braves, who made Ms s* an athletic rtie ’tjrvaid university football **|uad. may go to France later i» the year to take charge of athletic work in the army over there for the Y. M. C. A. Jf he does he will pay special attention |o developing army football next fill.

IT IS GERMAN RUTHLESSNESS

Former Manager Dooin of Phillies Thunderstruck at Sale of Alexander to Cubs. Charley Dooin, once manager of the Phillies and a man who did much to

develop and bring out Grover Cleveland Alexander’s great skill as a pitcher, calls his sale by William F. Baker to the Chicago Cubs little short. of German ruthlessness. He is quoted as saying: “I was thunderstruck when I read the news. Money can never replace wonders like Alexander and Klllifer. Alexander was the

greatest pitcher in the history of the game, and it is a matter of much personal pride to me that I was responsible for his development. “Selling Alexander, to my mind, is something like the practice of the Germans in demolishing a cathedral or destroying priceless works of art.’*

BASEBALL STORIES

Russian soviets remind us of lefthanded pitchers. Kaiser’s army hasn’t stolen a base on Hank Gowdy yet. The poor, down-trodden players are allowed but three feeds a day. » • * Guy Morton’s pitching wingjs said to be in good condition this spring. • « ' *’ It is still possible to go crazjr over baseball, but it is no longer obligatory. * ♦ * Fordham university baseball team will make a southern trip this spring. • • • Owing to the war Benny Kauf ordered only 12 suits of clothes this spring. • • • Catholic University has a pitcher whose name has been given out as Kerononwetter. • » • Miller Huggins likes the looks of Sam Vick, the young outfielder from the Southern association. • • • Players in the National league must now buy their own shoe laces and pay for their own chicken feeds. • • • Harry Frazee, owner of the Red Sox. will retain the veteran Billy Murray. He will be the club’s scout. • ♦ • Bert Humphries, former big league hurler, has been signed by the Louisville club and will attempt a comback.

• • • Babe Ruth started off in fine shape against the Brooklyn Dodgers with two home runs over the garden wall at Hot Springs. • • • During 21 years as a player in the National league Hans Wagner of the Pittsburgh team has cracked out a total. of 100 home runs. Horace Milan of the Washington team, now is taking a course of Instruction at the naval ayiation station at Charleston, S. C. •• • • Hugo Bezdek. manager of the Pittsburgh Nationals, and.Ed Barrow, pilot of the ex-world’s champion Boston American league nine, never played ball on either s mainr or udiivr Pitcher Bill Piercy, who played with Toledo under option from the New Torfc Yankee* last season and was recalled in the fill, has been went to the St. Paul ciub for this year by Manager

Grover Alexander.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. IND.

LESSON TAUGHT BY YEAR OF THE WAR

Truths Brought Home to Ameri cans by Great Fight for Democracy. ALL CAN SHARE IN BATTLE Send Your Dollars to GovernmentRout Our Enemy Within Our Gates—Your Patriotism on Trial. By GELETT BURGESS of The Vigilantes. What have you learned from this first year of the war? Have you learned that no peace is possible but one founded< upon the triumph of democracy? Germany’s faithlessness to her treaty agreements In Belgium has had its sequel in her deceit in Russia. German’s frightfulness Is the deliberate policy of autocracy in Its design to enslave the world. All pretenses of liberal reforms have been drowned in the rising lust for world-conquest. Intoxicated by self love and ruthless ambition the kaiser and his war lords seek to bring all civilizations under the reign of brute force. Nation after nation has fallen their prey. If we are to survive, that malign doctrine of might-makes-rlght must be destroyed forever.

Have you learned that you, too, can fight in the battle for freedom? Lend your money to the Liberty Loans; give it to the Red Cross. Every dollar lent the government helps equip a soldier: every dollar to the Red Cross succors him In his time of need. If you are a patriot you can no more keep out of these “drives” than, if a soldier, you could refuse to go over the top into No Man’s Land. Dollars Are Soldiers. Dollars are soldiers, too! Your dollars will fight to end the war. Each private may think his own worth small —but all together they make an army. Your dollar seems small, but if each does his share the war will have sufficient backing. For your boy’s sake. If he is “over there.” subscribe! You would not refuse to help a pal? Well, you have a million pals! Help them ! Have you learned that the enemy is here—with us, too? The soldiers’ blood, in the trenches, is not only drained by flying shells —it Is sucked by rats and lice. Here at home we have a human vermin preying upon us. Just as evil and Insidious as the trench pests are the pro-German spies and propagandists and the pacifists who ■S?ek to Impede or discountenance the war. Watch them, watch for them, seek them out. Let no seditious word or act go unreported. Let the alien enemy subject declare plainly where he stands, whether he is for us or against us. If German born, urge him to jojn the League for Americans of German Origin and thus manifest at once his ineradicable love for the fatherland and his devotion to his adopted country. Those who are not for us are against ”us! t Have you learned that your patriotism is being tried by your faith and your works? Be not cast-down by defeat. Spread no rumors of calamity. When the dark days come, encourage the timid and fearful, reprove the alarmist and back-

LEADS BRASS BAND

A woman’s military band which can be used to replace some erf the numerous military bands which have gone to the front, Is being organized in New York. The band will play at recruiting rallies and for other patriotic objects. Miss Annabelle Boyer, the young lady shown in the photograph, has been selected as drum major of the new organization. She is already very proficient in the twirling of the baton.

sliders. Aroused now to the solemnity of our task, the duty will be performed to the end —victory! Yet only when every one does his full share shall that victory come. War Is Grim Work. Urge haste, urge thoroughness, urge unremitting effort. Take the war seriously, for war Is grim work, and we have an enemy who thinks of nothing but efficiency. Onr soldiers are not only to be amused, but armed and taught to fight. Insist that this comes first. More guns, more ships, more airplanes! Is your congressman or senator lagging? Punch him up. Act every day as If your life and your wife were in danger. They are! Speed up the war! Have you learned that waste la treason? Upon us our allies depend not only for men and munitions but for food and clothing. If our permanent liberty is to be won, they must for a while defend it fofus, till we, too, can fight. Shall we waste, then, while they want? While they are to be fed and clad, waste Is treason. Save wheat, save meat, save wool! The war needs everyone’s strictest economy. The good ship Democracy is sorely beset by the storm. Shall the passengers revel while the crew starve? Divide ! Divide, and save the ship lest* all be lost!

THEIR WAR AIMS WELL DEFINED

The chauffeurs of this American truck company leave no doubt as to their war alms. All their trucks have been similarly decorated with these attractive and threatening designs.

SINKS SUBMARINE UNDER HEAVY FIRE

Seaplane Persists in Attack While Shelled by Six German Ships. THREE OTHERS DESTROYED British Airmen Calmly Drop Bombs as Enemy'* z Shells Burst—Depth Bombs Prove Effective When Aviators Sight U-Boats. London. —Under a heavy attack from three German submarines and three 7 ' German destroyers, a British seaplane recently . persisted in her efforts against another enemy U-boat and succeeded in sinking it before being damaged by the fire of the other enemy warships. The -seaplane was on patrol duty at 8:30 o’clock in the morning when a submarine was sighted on the surface with a man standing forward by the gun. Increasing her speed, the seaplane dropped to an altitude of 600 feet and released a bomb. As she swooped around to repeat the attack a shell from the U-boat burst in the air 50 feet from the propeller. It was seen that the bomb had made a direct hit, a big rent being visible -in the deck of the submarine. Just then out of the mist ahead three more enemy submarines, followed close by three destroyers, appeared. Attacked by Six Vessels. , All six vessels maintained a hot fire against the seaplane. However, a second bomb dropped on the disabled boat. It exploded 15 feet ahead of the bow of the submarine. The whole craft shook and thehzsank quickly in a pool of oil, bubbles and wreckage. The seaplane, having no more bombs, and a« the destroyers were coming near, returned .to its base. Seaplanes also have accounted for three other submarines. In one case two large seaplanes attacked a submarine on -he surface, with two Germans standi rig on the conning tower. One plane dropped a bomb to the starboard of the U-boat while the other placed one squarely in front of the conning

THE LITTLE LAD

By Agues Lee of the Vigilante* To me it’s always the little lad Afraid to speak his name. But he was one of the first to go. When his heart received the flame. He used to steal from the shadowy room. And over Jhe lighted stair. If dismal tales were being told. But he won the Croix de Guerre. He clutched my hand when the thunder broke. He paled at the lightning’s glance. But he met the Teutons face to face, And fell with the sons of France.

WAS HE ENEMY ALIEN? NO, NEEDED A SHAVE

Portland, Ore.—Hans Beltke escaped being Interned as an enemy alien by a dose shave. When he came out of a logging camp federal officers picked him up, chiefly because of his bol-shevikl-like whiskers. Tn the county jail he borrowed a . razor and when he got through he was revealed as an eighteenyear old youth.

Seeks. Job as Shipbuilder.

St. Louis, Mo.—Mrs.- Minnette SlAyback of this city, an expert with carpenter's tools who can build almost anything from toys to ships, has volunteered her services to Uncle Sant as a shipbuilder.

tower. The explosion of the second bomb was followed by several explosions within the submarine, which disappeared. Sank Two Others. Diving from a height of 4,000 feet to 1,200 feet, another seaplane dropped a depth charge on the,spot where a submarine had disappeared. When the water subsided, the shape of the submarine could still be seen below the surface and a second bomb was dropped, “after which the ship disappeared.”. An enemy submarine with two periscopes and about 200 feet In length was sighted by a seaplane on patrol duty. The seaplane descended 3,300 feet to a height of 80 feet and dropped two bombs as the German submerged. One of the bombs made a direct hit just behind the conning tower. The submarine turned upside down and sank. Oil and wreckage later came to the surface.

FORTUNE WAITS FOR BURNS

Heir of Civil War Volunteer Who Never Returned Can Claim Windfall. New York. —Boy! Page Mr. Burns! Paging the Mr. Burnses of the country is precisely the task confronting I. M. Sacklin of No. 5 Beekman street, who is in charge of a large sum of money seeking an owner—first name and present whereabouts unknown. Here is how it happened: When Lincoln called for volunteers in ’6O David Burns, then living at No. 135 East Twenty-First street, this city, stopped his work and marched off to battle. He was in such haste to respond that he notified no relative and made no disposition of a tidy bank account. < David Burns never came back. His unclaimed earnings lay in the bank, swelling by the. increment of Interest until now they represent a large fortune even In these days. The windfall is awaiting the claim of the right Mr. Burns.

Rolling Canteens.

Washington, D. C. —The Red Cross has added a new and picturesque branch to Its many?activities in Italy by sending two “rolling canteens” to the front. The object of these canteens, which are really kitchens on wheels, is to furnish tot food to soldiers in firstline trenches.

RIDE IN SPECIAL CAR

According to President Harry Frazee of the Boston Red Sox, it won’t be so bad for traveling ball players this season after all. Instead of having to seek berths hit or miss through the length of the train, the railroads will, according to Frazee, provide one special car for a traveling club. Said ear will be attached to the rear of the train and will be switched off and on as the club’s' schedule demands. be glad news to club secretaries, bitt they will still have the job of delegating the athletes who shall sleep in uppers.

MANAGERS TAKE TO SOUTHPAW HURLERS

Official Averages Show Conclusively Value of Portsiders. Pitchers Usually Counted On to Fool Batters With Curveo Which Break Just Opposite to Those of Right-Hand Flingers. If the value of a southpaw is doubted, the official averages of the National league show conclusively that the managers In the older circuit have no doybt about their use. The records show that ijo less than thirty-one portsiders worked In the National, probably the largest number ever gathered together under one tent during a season. Only a trifle over half of this number were pitchers, 17 in all; the rest worked in the outfield or on first base. One manager, Fred Mitchell, could have put an entire southpaw outfield into the .field had he wished to do so, Williams, Wolter and Flack all throwing from the fork side. The advantage gs left-handed pitchers has long been well known. In the days when they were scarce they could usually be counted on to fool the batters with curves.which broke just the opposite to those of the right-handers. As the game progressed some Smart batters learned to bat left-handed so they would be especially effective against left-handed pitching. This also added speed in the cases of fast base runners, as they gained a couple of steps In getting away from the plate on a hit. A few years ago the switching of batters to meet pitchers wherry southpaw was substituted for 'a righthander was figured out. In the 1914 world series Manager Stallings originated the idea of switching batters to meet pitchers with both left and right-handed outfielders, the use of whom depended upon the pitcher who opposed the team. Although Stallings did not have a tending outfielder on his club, the aggregate offensive strength of his club was much enhanced by this switching. Bill Carrigan and lately Jack Barry used Del Gainor and Dick Hoblitzel at first base, the latter against righthanded pitchers, the former against the southpaws. In the last world’s series both McGraw and Rowland switched to meet changes of pitchers. Rowland used John Collins in left field until the second game. When Perrit, a right-hander, was substituted for Schupp, he sent in Lelbold for the balance of the game. McGraw used Thorpe on a change of White Sox pitchers. k Left-handers have always been wonders at first base. Some of the greatest initial sackers of today throw and bat from the port side. Witness Hal Chase, Jake Daubert, George Staler and Walter Holke. . A .

GOLF CHAMPION NOW AN OFFICER IN ARMY

Champions of the golfjinks are giving as good an account of themselves on the field of battle as they did when they wielded the golf stick. J. L. 0. Jenkins, the British golf champion, is one of those who has made good in the army. Joining the British army as private shortly after the war started he has risen to captain. Jenkins has been wounded several times since he entered the,fray.

Vidal Has Fine Record.

Eugene Vidal, chosen captain of the 1918 football team at West Point, has an enviable record as an all around athlete in the University of South Dakota. He was the mainstay of the Ccrnote eleven for three years, was basketball captain and a star track man.