Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1918 — Page 3

YANKS BUY OUT SHIP’S CANTEEN

Britisher Tired Out by Americans Who Purchase Everything in Sight. HAVE WEAKNESS FOR CANDY One Soldier Spends sls for Sweets and Ginger Ale and Is Only Stopped by Seasickness—Discover English Money. London. —“Next for candy,” cried the keeper of the ship’s canteen. In front of his booth is a long queue of American soldiers, patiently awaiting their turn to buy the sweets and souvenirs displayed on the counter and in the showcases. It is an Incident of life of American soldiers on a transportbound for France. The canteen-keeper is tired. Never in his experience on British vessels has he encountered such a rush of business. He has sold his wares tn all the seven seas to people of many nationalities, and if he were awarding a prize to the best customer it would be bestowed promptly on the American soldier. “I say,” he exclaimed to the chief steward after he had closed shop the first day out, “what a sweet tooth they have! At the rate they’re buying me there won’t be a gumdrop left by the time we get halfway across.” Have Sweet Tooth. On some of the British transports that are taking Uncle Sam’s troops to France are as many as five canteens. The demand for chocolates is so great that the supply, large though it may have been, is quickly exhausted. American chewing gum is next in popularity. After the home variety of confections have been sold out, the soldiers begin to experiment with British sweets, of which toffee wins perhaps the most favor. If American “pop” could be had, it would be consumed in large quantities. Failing that, the troops drink Spanish ginger ale. One soldier is known to have spent

THIEF HAD LOOT HOARDED

“Diamond Dick’s” Safe In London Contained $5,000 Worth of Valuables. T London.—Henry Jones, known to the underworld as “Diamond Dick,’’ a notorious criminal, was arrested the other day on a charge of attempting to pick pockets. In his possession was a key which fitted a safe in a large deposit vault The safe contained nearly $5,000 worth of property and two wax impressions of keys, one being the impression of the master key of a large Piccadilly hotel, where Jones had -been staying for nearly two years. His bank pass book showed SI,OOO to his credit. He was given three months hard labor as a suspected person.

MISS KAISER HATES BILL, SO COURT CHANGES NAME

Los Angeles.—“l just hate that hateful old German kaiser and you must change my name right away.” So declared Miss Adelaide C. Kaiser to Judge Charles W. Wellborn here. Judge Wellborn also hates the German kaiser, so he permitted Miss Kaiser to change her name to Adelaide Robert.

Hen Establishes Record.

Smith Centre, Kan. —Rev. F. M. Rice of this city, has a hen that has established what is believed to be a record of tiie maximum in production. She began to lay an egg a day In February and in April went to setting. Despite setting, she continued to lay and even afterwards when raising and mothering her brood. She did not cease laying eggs until she set for the second time late in June.

Kings county (N. Y.) officials have discovered that they work 83 hours a week, and are wondering how they will be affected by the antiloafing law, which requires 35 hours.

OVER THE TOP FOR THE LAST TIME

An Italian soldier who has gone on his last furlough from the firing line, and who has given his life so that democracy might live. He had just started to go over the top to attack when his life was flicked out by an Austrian bullet ' *

sls for candy and ginger ale. He probably would have spent more before the ship reached port, but one day. greatly to his astonishment, he became seasick. The canteen curios, spch as shells on which are painted the American flag, attract many buyers, and before the trip Is ended almost every soldier’s kit contains one or more of these treasures. On the British transports the barber shop Is advertised on the door as “Hairdresser.” As a rule this sign Is not understood by the American looking for a haircut or a shave. He thinks it is a place for women to-have their hair dressed, and he passes it by. When he confesses to his comrades that he can’t find the barber shop, he is made the victim of a good deal pt joshing from those who have fathomed the secret. The soldiers who patronize the hairdresser And the experience rather novel. It seems queer to be shaved in an immovable upright chair, and queerer still, but extremely satisfactory. to be charged half the price one pays in a first-class American shop. “Discover" English Money. It is on the ship that many Americans become acquainted for the first time with English money. Aside from a stray Canadian dime, they usually have never seen British coins, and when in exchange for an American bill they are given strange-jooking pieces of silver and big disks of copper, they register, in the language of the movies, wide-eyed Interest. “What are these stove lids for?” asks ap lowan of a Texan, puzzled and showing some disdain for the big English pennies. “You put ’em in a sock to bean a Hun with, I reckon,” replies the Southerner, hefting the coins. “Or, maybe,” he adds, “we can use ’em to throw; at submarines.” A sergeant steps up with information. “You use those things for tips,” he volunteers. “They’re worth tw’o cents apiece. That’s a good-sized tip In London.” . “You fellows,” the sergeant goes on.

MUST MAKE GOOD TO GET BIG JOB

Y. M. C. A. Workers Given Severe Test Before Getting Important Work. NOT WHAT THEY EXPECT Have Visions of Performing Heroic Services and Then' Find That War Is Not All Romance and Visions. By MAXIMILIAN FOSTER. Paris. —On the way across the ocean "the good-looking girl In the natty, new uniform sat In A steamer chair, her eyes hazy while she dreamed a dream of what her wort in France was to be. One had a hint of what that vision was, for now and then, her voice low with suppressed emotion, she would talk a bit about It. In her mind’s eye she saw herself somewhere out by No Man’s Land, crouching beside a wounded boy in khaki whose last words she was taking down while she ministered to his last, parting wants. It was a fine, heroic dream, that dream of hers. In a nearby chair sat another war worker, this one a man. He too had a dream, and the dream was even more heroic than the girl’s. Out In the frontline trenches he saw himself standing by with the boys In khaki, the air overhead filled with the puffs of deadly bursting sharpnel while he too.-hero-ically brave, ministered to the 1 wants of his charges. Altogether Different. The writer has just returned from a trip among a' line of camps. There was h Red Triangle hut near the entrance of one camp. One side of the hut was flanked by a steaming mess kitchen; across a rutted road, a channel of traffic filled with men, mules,

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POPULAR MEETING PLACE

The canvas waterbags for cooling water are the most popular meeting places for soldiers in the many cantonments In America these hot days. Though the bag is only Imperfectly shielded from the sun by its scant covering, the water is kept surprisingly cool.

reaching for the lowan’s coins, “better get wise to this English dough.” He holds up a silver coin. “You know what that is?” A crowd has gathered to hear the lecture. - “That’s a shilling,” says a voice., “Shilling your grandmother. That’s a halfcrown. It’s equal to two shillings and a sixpence. You want to be careful get it mixed up with one of theslrtwo-shllling pieces that’s nearly the same size.” “How much Is a shilling?” queries the Texan. .“About two bits,” says the sergeant, who halls from California. “It’s equal to two of these sixpences.” t He gives the coins back to their owner and stalks off, followed by admiring eyes. “Say,” observes the lowan, “we got a lot to learn. And when we get to France, I guess we’ll run into some other kind of foolish money.” “War certainly is hell.” says the Texan.

motors and trucks, was a stockade filled with German prisoners of war. A Y. M. C. A. secretary met the writer at the door. The secretary looked tired, fagged, worn out In spite of that, however, his air was cheerful, brisk, cordial. Inside all was spick and span. There was a scattering handful of boys In khaki, the majority colored soldiers, who belonged about the place. At the hut’s other end was a counter and behind the counter were two familiar faces. One was the girl who’d sat In the steamer chair, her eyes hazy as she’d dreamed her dream. The other was the man who’d come across with her —the fellow who’d seen himself framed heroically amidst the bursting shrapjnel. - A trio of soldiers was draped about the girl’s counter. The three, It happened, were whites. About the other counter were four other soldiers, and all the four were black. The man, a damp, muggy towel In his hand, was mopping off the counter. The look on Ids face was the same look one beheld on the face of the girl. It was a look of bored, excruciating weariness. “What’ll you have, eggs?” he. was murmuring to a big Galveston roustabout The girl, her voice even more listless, was saying: “Cigarettes are 75 centimes the pack. No, there is no chewing tobacco today.”

Their Bubble Pricked. As they saw the writer It would be difficult to describe the look that spread upon their faces. The girl was the first to regain her poise. “I’m very well, thank you. The work ? Oh, yes. It’s not exactly what 1 thought it would be, but then, C’est la guerre.” It took a struggle, though, for her to say It. sChewlng tobacco, chocolate and cigarettes—that instead of glory. The man was more brief. “The war —what do I think of it? It’s eggs, mostly—fried eggs.” Their bubble had been pricked. They were seeing the war, a large part of It anyway, face to face with Its realities. Outside, the hut secretary with a grin stopped to bid the writer good-by. “That’s the way with a lot of them from over home,” he remarked. “They come over here, thinking they’re going right up to the front where they can have a hand in the big show. But they’re all right. That- girl’s got the right stuff in her, after she’s been tried out here a while she’ll £ave a chance at bigger things. The man. too, is coming on. He’s had a jolt just as all of us get it over here, but' when he gets the romance all wiped out of him he’ll be a mighty valuable person for our sort of work. No. there’s mighty little romance in this man’s scrap. You can’t do much joy riding just now In France.” Ten hours 1s the legal work-day in Arkansas sawmill*.

MAYER FOR JACOBS

Discussing the swap of Mayer for Jacbbs, one Philadelphia sport scribe says: “Mayer’s refusal to abide by Moran’s and the catcher’s signs was his biggest handicap. In pinches he was prone to pitch carelessly. It .is expected that he will do better in Pittsburgh. Mayer is twenty-eight years old and joined the Phils in 1912. His best season was in 1915, when he won 21 games and lost 15. In 1916 he won 7 and lost 7, and last year he won 11 and lost 6.”

KEYSTONE POSITION ON GIANTS HOODOOED

Tough Luck Has Stood in Path of Four Second Basemen. Herzog Couldn't Get Along With McGraw—Doyle Was Taken 111 Niehoff Breaks Leg—Joe Rodriguez Does Not Fit In. The second base job on the New York Giants must be hoodooed. Tough luck in one form or another has stood in the path of four players who have held down the keystone position for McGraw during the past two years. If the job isn’t hoodooed, what is it? Buck Herzog has tried holding down the position for McGraw several times. And Buck and that said job did not get along. Early last season, after he had been brought back to the Giants for the third time, Buck slipped on the floor of the Pennsylvania station while en route to Philadelphia with the team and received severe injuries. His condition has never been the same since that accident, and yet. It wasn’t that alone which caused McGraw to dispose of him, for, in addition, he failed to get along with the Giant leader. Next In line came Larry Doyle, brought back to the New York club via Chicago and Boston. Larry went great guns for several weeks after the season opened. He led the league In batting and he was going like a machine ip the field. Suddenly he was taken ill and had to undergo an operation. With Doyle out of it, McGraw purchased Bert Niehoff from the St. Louis Cardinals, and just as the Team was getting ready to leave Philadelphia to return to the Polo grounds after a long and disheartening trip In the western half of the circuit Niehoff broke his leg. Joe, Rodriguez, the Cuban infielder, has played the keystone sack on and off'for the Giants all season, but Joe doesn’t have the best of luck in the job, for though he works harder to make good than any other man who ever held the sack down he can’t make himself fit into the combination. The members of the Giants themselves, are beginning to think that the second basing jobjs jinxed to a fare-you-well and no one can blame them.

UNIQUE PRANK OF BASEBALL

Bam Jones of Cleveland Indians Has Distinction of Striking Out Mighty Tris Speak? Sam Jones, who figured in the trade by which Tris Speaker became a member of the Cleveland team, has the distinction of being the first right-handed pitcher to strike out the heavy-hlttlng outfielder this year, and the second Boston pitcher to turn the trick since Speaker became a member of the Indians. It was the fourth time Speaker has struck out this season and the second time Umpire Owens has called the third strike on him.

ARMY’S GRIDIRON “TANK TRACTOR,” IS GRADUATED

The navy need fear Elmer Oliphant no longer. The army’s Mg gridlroc “tank tractor,” who has been the Near esis of the Annapolis tars for several year;?, was graduated from the military academy. The army, however, still has such men as “Gene” Vidal and “Bull” Vandegraff left to hurl into the breach 11 fate ever decrees another meeting cs the gridiron with the navy lads.

ONE-ARMED GOLFERS PLAY EXCITING MATCH FOR SOLDIERS’ ATHLETIC FUND

In a sensational match at the Bayside links, Arthur Lyons, the one* armed player of the Briarcliffe Golf club, defeated Louis Martuccll, the onearmed player of the South Grange Field club, one up. The game was played for the benefit of the committee on training camp activities, which will use the proceeds to purchase athletic material for the soldiers. On the left Mr. Lyons is shown driving off and Mr. Martuccll Is shown* making a swing at the right.

INDIANS LOSE TWO

The Indianapolis team, already crippled by the jumping of several players who have gone into some war work, lost two more when First .Baseman Clarence Covington and Pitcher Jean Dale were called for immediate army service. To replace Dale the club has secured a young pitcher named Stewart from the St. Louis Browns.

HURLER TESREAU HAS JUMPED GIANT TEAM

“Jeff” Tesreau, who came to the Ne\V York National league baseball club as a pitcher from the Texas league In 1910, left the club the other day to join the Bethlehem club of the Steel league. John B. Foster, secretary of the New York club, said that Tesreau recently told Manager McGraw he was “disgusted with baseball and wanted to get into some other business.” Tesreau, according to Foster, is in class 4 of the draft, so that his change was not actuated by desire to escape military service.

OVERTIME TILTS THIS YEAR

Daylight Saving Law Mainly Responsible for Two 19-lnning Games Played So Far.r’i Perhaps before the present season ends all records In the major league for lengthy games will be broken. Already there have been two 19-innlng draws. The law which saves an hour of daylight is mainly responsible, for it permits a game to go along until decided. The Phils and Cardinals started their 19-lnning game at 3:30 o’clock and played until eight o’clock. This would have been totally Impossible In previous years. Chief Umpire Quigley called the game on account of darkness at the end of the nineteenth inning. It Is rather questionable whether he was justified in calling the game off. The teams could have battled one or two innings longer and a decision might have been reached, making it unnecessary to replay the game. As it Is the four hours and thirty minutes of desperate play went for naught

STEVE BRODIE IS IN FRANCE

Veteran Bail Player Is Coaching. Soldiers in Pershing's Army in Fine Points of Game. Walter (Steve) Brodie, veteran ball player, has been heard from in France, where, under the auspices of the Y. M. C. he is coaching the soldiers of Pershing’s army In the fine point* of baseball. * Brodie was a member of the famous old Orioles Of the nineties!

BASEBALL STORIES

Waiter Plpp may be drawn in th* draft soon. • • • Swede Rlsberg Is showing marked Improvement at the plate. • • • Catcher Harry Glenn of the St Paul Saints has been called by the draft. » » » Harry Weaver has reported to Manager Mitchell that he has joined th* navy. • • • Harry Heitman continues to pitch winning ball for Arthur Irwin’s Rochester club. • • • Rube Parnham seems to find the International league easier than th* American association. • « * It Is estimated that 560 professional baseball players of organized club* have joined the colors. William Finn of Boston has been chosen to head the Fordham college baseball team next season. • • * Most of the heavy hitters in both th* National and American leagues ar* members of Eastern clubs. • ♦ • Pitcher Kester I. June of the University of West Virginia has reported to the Cleveland American league club. • • • Des Moines announces that it ha* secured Adrian Lynch from the Washington club to fill out its pitching staff. • • • Ed Pfeffer of the Robbins is pitchinfl Sunday games in the Chicago City league. He is at the Great Lakes naval training station. - • • • Pittsburgh picked up three player* from the Southern ' association. Outfielder Southworth and Pitchers Cornstock and Slapnlcka. With Byrd Lynn gone into war work the White Sox are using Otto Jacobs, minor leaguer of several years’ experience, as a warm-tip catcher. Guy Morton is on a fair way to establish a real comeback after all th* trouble he has had with his arm. Th* member is showing no effects of th* old Injury. • • • In the Mobile-Chattanooga game of June 20 Johnny Bates, leading off for Mobile, walked five times, every dm* up. which probably is a record or at least a tie. • • • There will be no hundng trips for major leaguers next fall. The hunting season Is open In Europe, though, and they can get all the action they want “over there.” •• • • Grover Lowdermllk, who had been depended on for so much by thee St. Louis club this year, had no sooner begun to get his arm in shape than ho was taken down with stomach trouble. • • • Dutch Leonard of the Boston Red Sox, who married after the passage of the draft law, has been notified by hl* draft board at Fresno. CaL. that h* has been moved from class 2 to class 1. • • • Ernie Koob, former pitcher of th* St. Louis Brow-ns, and Harry Glenn, catcher of the St Pauls, comprise th*' battery of the Overland Aviation school. They expect to sail for Franc® before snow files. • • • Baseball teams representing various government plants. East and West, following out the idea of encouraging competitive sports as a recreation, may meet in the championship serie* between the two leading nines of th* two leagues at the end of the season. Many former major and minor leagu* •players are members of the team*.