Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1918 — Page 2

NORMAN ROSS, WORLD’S CHAMPION MIDDLE DISTANCE SWIMMER, IN AVIATION CORPS

Norman Ross, world’s champion middle-distance swimmer, is shown here In a remarkable swan dive at Neptune beach, Alameda. The thousands of spectators gasped in amazement as Ross’ birdlike form rose into the air and descended gracefully into the water in one of the greatest dives ever witnessed in a championship event. Ross is in the last stages of solo flying in the American aviation corps. It was an impulse received from seeing t]|is picture of himself in the air that prompted him to join the aviation corps. His perfect poise and equilibrium makes him a valuable air bird to the American army. It is evident from this picture that Ross has chosen a branch of the service which he is Well fitted for.

CATCHER WILSON HAS SPIRIT

Backstop for Boston Braves Registers While Over Draft Age, but Says Let It Go. The spirit that will help win is that shown by Catcher Art Wilson of the Boston National team. Some men are of draft age and don’t want to be in the army, but it is different with Wilson, so goes the story. Wilson doesn’t pay special attention to birthdays and when time came to register a year ago last June he didn’t remember whether he was over thirty-

Catcher Art Wilson.

one years old or not, so he registered with his home board anyway. Later he found he was over thirty-one and did not have to register. Then the draft board sent out questionnaires and he filled his out anyway and was placed In class 2, being a married man. The time Is now drawing close when some class 2 men may be called and the matter of his being over age was taken up with him by mall, by his draft board. “Let It go,” was the substance of his answer. “I’m no better than anyone else and if called to fight, I’m going.”

MANY BASEBALL PARKS IDLE

Cessation of Building Operations Negatives Idea of Cutting Them Into Small Lots. The next question that arises is > thia—what to do with the ball parks. If it wasn’t that building is at a standstill in most cities because of the war, doubtless some of them would be cut up and sold for building lots. This much is pretty certain: in cities that have two major league parks there •will be a getting together during the layoff period and arrangements made for joint use of the most available park site after the resumptiongranting, of course, that any city has two major league clubs after the war. • a

NO WORRY FOR HUGH BEZDEK

Manager of Pirates Asked to Return and Coach Football Eleven of Oregon University. * ——— Whatever happens to baseball, Hugh Bezdek should worry. There will be football in the fall and the manager of the Pirates has been asked to return and coach the University of Oregon eleven. Reports generally indicate that colleges plan to resume athletics when their terms open, in spite of the embarrassments of war.

Stecker Brothers Enlist.

Joe Stecker, former wrestling champion, and his brother Anton, also a .wrestler, have enlisted in the navy.

MRS. FANNY DAVIS IN NAVY

Secretary of American Association for Many Years Has Enlisted as a Yeowoman. - Mrs.'Fanny R. Davis, who has been secretary of the American Association for nine years past and before that was an employee of the Chicago White Sox and the Western league and who probably is the best posted woman in the country on baseball, obeys the work-or-fight order along with the rest of baseball. S > gets as near as she can to the fighting line by enlisting as a yeowoman in the navy, a job she Is fully as well qualified to fill doubtless as those “heroes” of—well, say the Red Sox —who became yeomen as soon as it begtm to look like it would be a case of fight or do clerical work in a navy yard. Mrs. Davis didn’t have to get her orders —she just saw her duty, figured out how she could perform it and proceeded to get on the job, showing there are some people in baseball who don’t have to be kicked into service of some sort or other.

MADDEN DECIDES TO RETIRE

To Forsake Breeding of Thoroughbreds and Devote His Time to Producing Trotters. John E. Madden has decided to retire from breeding thoroughbreds and will devote his time to farming and producing trotters at Hamburg Place, Lexington, Ky. He has been identified with the latter since the eighties, the gray gelding Class Leader, half brother to Pilot Medium, being one of his first horses. He is now racing Dagastan and Periscope, both of which are by his horse Sillko, In the Grand circuit.

TEACH GAMES OF ALL SORTS

Athletic Directors at Springfield (Mass.) College Given Instruction In Ail Sports. Springfield (Mass.) college Is Instructing athletic directors for work in overseas camps. Courses are being worked out to harden men who come from offices and business life so that they will be fit for tire strenuous work In camp. More than fifty mass games are taught the instructors which are suitable for in camp and large groups. Mass boxing, cage ball, grenade ball, multiple soccer football and various sorts of games are introduced.

DISTANCE RUNNER IS SAILOR

Herman Gross of Brooklyn Athletic Association Is at Pelham Bay Naval Station. Herman Gross, the distance runner of the Brooklyn Athletic association, is now in the service of Uncle Sam and has left for the Pelham Bay naval training station. Gross expects to improve his speed by practicing with Charles Pores, national five-mile champion, who Is also located at the Westchester station.

COMMISSION FOR JIM GUYON

Indian Who Did Much to Help Crackers Win Championship Is Now Lieutenant in Army. Jim Guyon, the rangy Indian, who did so much to help the Georgia Crackers to win the Southern gridiron championship last season, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the National army. He makes the tenth ’varsity man of Heisman’s squad who has joined the colors during the summer.

Golf for Enlisted Men.

Small golf courses of three, five or nine holes may be constructed in army and navy training camps next year for the recreation of enlisted men.

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BASEBALL BAT SAME AS SIXTY YEARS AGO

Few Changes Have Been Made in Stick Used by Sluggers. Originally Decreed That It Should Be Made of Wood Not More Than Two and One-Half Inches in Diameter and Round. Baseball was referred to as bat ball in some communities in the early days of the national game. The modern btseball bat had its origin just 59 ago. . March 9, 1859, at a meeting of the fathers of baseball held in New York, it was decreed that the bat should be made of wood and have a diameter no* to exceed 2% inches and a length not greater than 42 inches. In the years that have followed fewer changes have been made in the bat than -in any other thing connected with the game. The provision as to length still stands, but since 1895 the swatter has been permitted to use a slightly thicker bat. The early rule that the bat be made of wood wasn’t binding enough in the early days of professionalism, for some of the players sneaked in bats into which holes had been made and filled with lead. The rule of 1859 prescribed that the bat should be round, and this provision is in effect today, although in the intervening years there have been some variations. In the'early eighties a four-sided bat was Introduced and was indorsed by the. governing body of amateur players, but it didn’t last long and was never used by professionals. Later in the same decade bats made of soft wood and flat on one side were introduced, to be used in bunting. This variety of bat gained the recognition of the National league, and was used in nearly all professional circuits up to 1893, when it was discarded and outlawed. Prior to the adoption of the rule of 1859 any old kind of stick was permissible in baseball. Even flat bats were not barred and many star swatters used implements of prodigious srte. It takes a real man to wield a heavy bat, say one that is five feet long and five inches wide, but many ts the old-timers did it. Those were the happy days for the “knockers,” as batsmen were called In that period.

PAUL SMITH IS MAKING GOOD

Former International League Outfielder Stars at Athletic Meet at Camp Dodge. Paul Smith, former International league outfielder, who was denied a chance with the Boston Red Sox this year because of the draft, is shining as an athlete in army field days. In a recent meet at Camp Dodge, in which scores of crack army athletes took part, Smith won the running high jump and was a close contender in several other events. He also has been starring as.a member of a Camp Dodge baseball" team. One of his teammates is Fred Beck, former major and minor leaguer. Smith is in a ma-chine-gun battalion and expects to be in France soon.

UPS AND DOWNS OF SALARIES

Pitcher Caldwell of New York Yankees Formerly Received SB,OOO, Now Gets $4,000. The ups and downs of baseball salaries are indicated in a petition filed In a New York court by Pitcher Ray Caldwell of the New York Yankees. When he was drawing a salary of SB,000 a season he had been ordered to pay his wife $250 a month alimony. Caldwell went Into court, showed

Pitcher Ray Caldwell.

where his salary had been cut to $4,000 a season and asked relief. The court ordered that hereafter he should pay his wife but $l5O a month during the playing season and SSO a month during the off season.

Midsummer Calls For Cool Clothes

American Worfien Adopt Costumery That Is Best Suited to the Season. ABANDON WHITE LINEN SKIRT Adopt French Fashion of. Meeting All Emergencies In Costume of Thin Cloth or Any of the Chi. nese Silks. e New -York— A woman who was looking at some snapshots of fashionable folks in the open on a mid-sum-mer day, remarked on the peculiarly old-fashioned effect of a certain cos-

The sketch of this gown shows a knifeplaited skirt of white crepe de chine, short and narrow. Above it Is an odd little black velvet coat, which is shaped out from the waist at ,one side and straight on the other. There is a collar of white chiffon and Vai lace, and a pink rose caught at the waist.

tume. It was a short, white linen skirt buttoned.down the front, a white muslin blouse with a wide turn-over collar, a colored sweater opened in front, with pockets and a belt of itself. “Once upon a time,” said this woman, “this costume was considered the uniform of the American summer girl. It was adopted without cavil. It was accepted without comparison with the fashions of any other country. And yet, at this moment, it looks entirely out of the picture.” There has been no revolution, declares a prominent fashion writer. Changes In summer apparel have been in cities only. They are Americanized French fashions today. Even this summer has seen a distinct change from whab has been. The linen skirt, gored at the top, slightly flaring at the hem, and buttoned down the front, Is a thing of the past to a great majority of women who are well dressed by Instinct, or because they follow the movement of the crowds. Any skirt is worn but a linen one. Sweaters In Evidence. Certain shops say. that the sale of sweaters for the autumn is small, but they add that the spring sale was good. We see sweaters in every shop, despite the conservation of wool decree. We see women knitting sweaters for themselves and their children, and not for the soldiers and sailors. We read that colossal department shops have an unusual quantity of yarn and are willing to sell It at moderate prices. Yet, If one judges fashion by fashionable folk, the colored, knitted sweater has had Its day In silk or wool. It is sometimes worn under jackets, on days in the open that need warmth, when the affair is a picnic, a yachting trip or an automobile tour; Otherwise it hangs in the closets of the homes of fashionable women. However, Its lack of fashion has not depreciated Its monetary value, for yarn is an expensive thing to buy and a most intricate and difficult thing to obtain. What We Wear In the Open. • The economical reasons for discarding the white linen skirt, knitted woolen sweater and the ornamental, white muslin blouse are based on expensive laundry and scarcity of material, plus scarcity of labor. Those large sectors of American society that considered this three-piece costume the most reliable basis for their' summer wardrobes, Imagined their taste simple and inexpensive. It

was neither. Today the propaganda against non-essentials, and the conversion of them into active service forth® country have caused the scales to fall from the eyes of thousands of women as to the expense of the costumery they adopted. We expect six more weeks of warm weather, and therefore, we have no absorbing Interest in new October clothes. We want to know what is to be worn, and we are most interested id what we hear is being shown in Paris, but at this moment we are struggling with the proposition of enlivening our wardrobe in such a manner that it will keep us going until the first frost. As the nation has gotten into the habit of living in the country until Thanksgiving, there is a growing tendency to keep one’s August clothes in active service by means of top coats and woolen stockings. It must be admitted that the present emergency calls women into town nearly every day, and they may not continue to stay in the country as long as November, but the majority will insist on wearing their summer costumery as long as the climate and convention permit. And right here comes in the excellent good taste of the present mid-summer costumes. Their very departure from the sweater and the separate white skirt permits them to serve at-other seasons. This is the stringent motto that must run the warp and woof of our lives now: to buy that which can be worn on as many days, at as many occasions as economy dictates. In short, we have accepted the European way of dressing for hot weather. It may not appear cool on the surface, but, invention, which must go hand in hand with necessity, has shown women how to be cool and clean in dark costumes, or in combinations of dark and light clothes. Double-Duty Wardrobe. There are many women who are able to afford two separate wardrobes; one for the gayeties of the country anti one for the daily trips to town; but the average woman, and often she is a multi-millionaire, has arranged her wardrobe so that it will serve for both purposes from now until the first of October. She has taken up the French idea of wearing gowns or suits of very thin, checked material, and instead of an ornamental blouse, she inserts a waistcoat of pongee or colored crepe de chine. She has found out the good service, especially for afternoon wear, of knifeplaited skirts of w’hite crepe de chine or thin serge, which she tops with a velvet or satin jacket. She realizes the comfort of Chinese materials, as well as their durability,

This sketch for which the French woman willingly posed, shows a mid-sum-mer frock of pale gray Chinese crepe de chine, with Its tunic coat pushed far back toward the sides to show a sailor blouse of /white" orepe de chine, with Its collar edged with French-blue velvet to match the “Blu'd Devil" cap on the head.

and she finds that one-piece gowns, made with a long, flowing tunic, like the French resort frocks, are admirable costumes for the train and the motor, and that they serve from the morning war cqjnmlttee, through lunch at some restaurant, to the late afternoon or evening. (Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Mownair Yt' WWW Syndicate.)

Platted Skirts.

Due no doubf to the gheerness of some of the popular summer fabrics plaited skirts are popular again. -

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TAKING VACATION IN STYLE

Energetic Worker for Uncle Sam Rightly Behoves “the Best Is Nor Too Good for Him.” New York is full of vacationists and many of them are workmen who since the war have climbed into the wealthy are here to the fruits of their labor. WRh wives and families they de- luxe, and they are not stopping at any expense to make their stay here one round of pleasure, Conspicuous among yesterday’s arrivals at one of our swell Fifth avenue . caravansaries are Mr. and %£rs. Dennis Horgan of Seattle, Wash., who are occupying a royal suite. Mr, Horgan wired ahead that he wanted the best the hotel had and he got it. During their stay at the hotel Mr. Horgan and his wife will pound their ears in a SIO,OOO bed and breathe the atmosphere of the expensive furnishings of the suite< Mr. Horgan is an able-bodied riveter, and is in the big city to. enjoy .a well-earned vacation far from the madding air hammer. “FOr a working man who does his bit these days," says the riveter, “the best is none too good.” Mr. Horgan said that he had been pulling down a hundred or more iron men each week with bonuses arid overtime, and when Jils wife said she wanted to see New York he declared that “we’ll see it in style." So, what the—hotel bill—says Mr. Horgan.—New York Sun.

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