Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1918 — Page 2

AMERICAN SOLDIERS PLAY BASEBALL IN GAS MASKS, BUT NOT INCONVENIENCED

Not in the least inconvenienced, these American boys in training for the “big game over there” are playing ball in their gas masks. Throughout the training camps in this country gas-mask drills and tests are held almost daily, and when the American boy gets overseas he can manipulate a gas mask to perfection and can adjust it just like the “oldtimers.” The usual time in adjusting a gas mask is six seconds, although after a little training It can be put into position in the twinkling of an eye.

SUNDAY GAME ABROAD DRAWS 40,000 CROWD

Baseball not only has “caught on” In England, but also Is being played there on Sundays. The Anglo-American Baseball club, which is operating at the Chelsea football grounds, Stamford Bridge, a suburb of London, has obtained permission to play Sunday games, with the result that huge crowds are turning out on the Sabbath. „ A recent game on the first day of the week attracted 40,000 spectators. The weekday games as a rule draw all the way from 10,000 to 20,000 persons. The teams are made up of American and Canadian soldiers, who are gradually teaching their English brothers how to play the game. The British government and, war charities are receiving a large share of the gate re-

IS READY TO GO ‘OVER THERE’

Manager Jack Hendricks Is Anxious to Go to France to Promote Game of Baseball. Jack Hendricks, manager of the St Louis Cardinals, announces that he is anxious to go to France to promote baseball. “All I want,” said the manager of the Cards, “is to do my share for the

Manager Jack Hendricks.

boys. I will go to France for any organization interested in the welfare of the soldiers.” When asked whether he would be willing to take a team of players to France to play a team of army men led by Johnny Evers, he declared “nothing would suit me better.”

NO BASEBALL IN CLEVELAND

Owner James Dunn Doesn't Believe in Near Major Leagues—Let Ama* teurs Have Field. Unless James C. Dunn, owner of the Cleveland American league club, has a change of heart there will be no more major league baseball in Cleveland next year. “I don’t know whflft my colleagues think about continuing next year, but If I must build up a team of schoolboys and old men I will not open my gates. I am not in favor of minor league baseball in a big league town. We had better let the amateurs have the field to themselves until the war is over, when the game will come back to its own,” Dunn said.

Football Player Is Killed.

Capt. Howard C. McCall, formerly a well-knowp football player of Pennsylvania university, has been killed

GOOD FIELD AT HOG ISLAND

Model Athletic Park for Use of Employees—Baseball In Summer and Football In Winter. The Hog Island shipyard, located a few miles outside of Philadelphia, is to include a model athletic field for use of employees. The athletic park will be Inclosed by an eight-foot fence. It consists of twelve acres. The playing field proper will be located within the borders of a 550-yard cinder track, rectangular in shape, with rounded corners. It will be used for baseball in summer and football in winter. The field will also Include grandstand, track and tennis sections and a- dormitory for 2,000 men. A clubhouse will Include gymnasium and auditorium, providing facilities for basket ball, handball, boxing and lectures. Other features of the clubhouse will be shower baths, locker rooms and bowling alleys. An athletic association will be formed. The dues will be $4 a year.

TOLEDO TRACK GETS RECORD

First Ever Constructed to Have Mile Made Below Two-Minute Mark in First Heat The Toledo track, which was opened with the recent Grand Circuit light harness races, is the first ever constructed to have a mile below the twominute mark the first heat raced. Murphy established the mark with Miss Harris M., in 1:58%, and as Ed Geers won the other two beats driving Single G., in 1:59% and 1:58%, the first three-heat race in which the time was below two minutes was placed on record.

COACHES AT NAVAL ACADEMY

Notwithstanding That It Is War Time There Will Be No Lack of Competent Instructors. The Naval academy at Annapolis will have no lack of coaches notwithstanding the fact that it is war time. Gilmour Doble will direct football for the next two years; Billy Lush will coach both the baseball and basket ball squads, and Joseph Mulligan will have charge of the track and field teams. Dick Glendon will be rowing instructor, while gymnastics, wrestling, fencing and swimming are in charge of skillful instructors.

PUBLIC GOLF COURSES ARE FAVORED BY TAFT

- Twenty years ago a rather ro- ■ bust person began playing golf. After having the idea at that ’ time that golf was as absurd a game as was ever heard of, this person ex-President William Howard Taft —now has the following to say about the game: “I consider golf one of the greatest things that has come to man. Americans had been so / long chasing the almighty dol- > lar that their digestions were bad; their hair was getting r so scarce and bald that the r few hairs left should have been r shaved off altogether. Physi- , cians became alarmed at the r condition of the modern busir ness man. Since the introducJ tion of golf we have given up r business cares, but not busi- £ ness energy. The game has furr nished a reason and a zest for J exercise. It is a Godsend to the r man from fifty to eighty years f of age, and we should recognize r its health values.”

Sports Made Compulsory.

The United States navy has made swimming, boxing and wrestling com* pulsory for those enrolled in this branch of the service.

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IGNORED NAVY TEAM TO PLAY FOR YANKS

Bob Shawkey Made Mistake by Pitching for Old Team, ■ Offer of SIOO Per Game From New York American Leaguers Proves Too Strong for Hurter and He -Is Transferred. YeomanT Robert W. Shawkey, U. S. N„ is now at sea, having been transferred from the League Island navy yard at Philadelphia, where he was an accountant, to a transport. According to statements made to the writer by a certain Philadelphian, Bob’s sea trip followed his decision to pitch for the Yankees when his services wore desired by the League Island team, writes John W. Lawrence in New York Mall. Shawkey pitched several games for the Yankees in Philadelphia and Washington after he entered the navy, joining the team while he was on furlough. It happened that on one or two of these occasions the League Island

Bob Shawkey.

team put in a bld for ghawkey’s services. He was a member of this team at the time and had pitched several games for it. Bob didn’t know just what to do, but an offer of SIOO a game from the Tanks assisted him materially in making up his mind. The League Island team played without Shawkey and lost Bob pitched winning ball for his old teammates against the Athletics and the Senators. This, according to our informant, had an altogether retrogressive effect on the great twirler’s popularity in Philadelphia naval circles. , Shawkey discovered that he’d made a diplomatic blunder that even his winning personality couldn’t wipe out He found that he was politically in wrong. i A few days ago Bob received orders transferring him to sea duty and he is now bn an < eastward-bound transport

KID HERMAN IS NOW IN NAVY

Once Contender for Featherweight Honors In Roped Arena Is Stationed at Pelham Bay. Kid Herman, once a contender for featherweight honors in the roped arena, is now in the navy. He id

Kid Herman.

attached to the Second regiment at Pelham, bay naval training station and is acting as boxing Instructor. The Kid is making good progress with his boxers, it is said. Ensign Francis is helping all he can -and is refereeing the bouts.

Bonnie Gets New Mark.

Bonnie, the fast trotting mare by The Bondsman, now carries a record of 2:08%, made in a race at the new Grand Circuit track at Toledo. She is owned by Jerry O’Connor of Tiffin, and was bred at Washington C. HL

The Housewife and the War

(Special Information Service. United States Department of Agriculture.) BUSY BEES CAN HELP YOU SAVE SUGAR

Three Storehouses That Will Help to Stretch the Sugar Supply.

USE MORE HONEY IN YOUR COOKING

One of Best Substitutes for Sugar to Be Found on Any Farm Is in Apiary. SEVERAL RECIPES ARE GIVEN Little Bee Makes It Possible for One to Indulge In Sweets Without Troubling Conscience—Useful In Preserves. If you keep bees, count yourself fortunate in these days of sugar stringency. The bees can provide you with one of the best of the sugar substitutes, and will make it possible for you to Indulge your taste for sweets without hurting your conscience. With honey to supplement the limited sugar supply, the two pounds per person per month becomes a liberal allowance. Not only IS the honey useful to eat as such, either strained, in the comb, or candied, but it lends Itself to various combinations that make it practicable to use in place of sugar. Baked fruit, such as whole apples with the cores removed; baked whole peaches, or cooked dried fruit are very good sweetened with honey in place of sugar. Preserves .or marmalades may also be made with honey. Apple or pear preserves made by the following recipe are very good: Honey Preserves.

2 quarts apples or 1 teaspoonful cfnpears cut into namon small pieces 1 cupful vinegar 2 cupfuls *honey Heat the honey, vinegar, and cinnamon together and cook the pieces of fruit a few at a.time in the sirup until they become transparent. Pour over all the sirup which remains after all the fruit is cooked. Honey may also be used in cake making or for sweetening ice cream, custards or puddings, and in cake and cookie making. In substituting honey for sugar you will get good results if you will follow your old recipes, substituting a cupful of honey for a cupful of sugar and using one-fourth less of whatever liquid the recipe requires. Soft Honey Custard. 2 cupfuls milk 1-8 cupful honey 3 egg yolks • % teaspoonful salt Mix the honey, eggs and salt. Scald the milk and pour it over the eggs. Cook in a double boiler until the mixture thickens. This custard is suitable for use in place of cream or gelatin desserts or to be poured over sliced oranges or stewed fruit. Here are some cakes and cookies making use of honey for sweetening that have been tested and found good. Some soda is added in most cases because of the slight acidity of honey. Soft Honey Cake. % cupful butter 1 teaspoonful soda 1 cupful honey % teaspoonful gin--1 CSS >-4 , % cupful Bout milk 4 cupfuls flour % teaspoonful cln- % teaspoonful salt namon Rub the butter and honey together, add the egg, well beaten, then the sour milk, and the flour sifted with the soda and spices. Bake in shallow pan. Honey Drop Cakes. % cupful honey 2 tablespoonfuls wa- % cupful butter ter % teaspoonful dn- 1 cupful raisins, cut namon in small pieces % teaspoonful cloves % teaspoonful salt 1 egg 1 teaspoonful bakmto 2 cupfuls flour Ing powder % teaspoonful soda Heat the honey and butter until the butter melts. While the mixture is warm add the spices. When cold add part of the flour, the egg wen beaten, the soda dissolved In water, and the raisins. Add enough other flour to make a dough that will hold its shape. Drop by spoonfuls on a buttered tin and bake in a moderate oven. Honey Sponge Cake. % cupful sugar 1 cupful sifted Hour % cupful honey % teaspoonful salt 4 ® res . . .. Wt the sugar and honey and boil

until the sirup will spin a thread when dropped from the spoon. Pour the sirup over the yolks of the eggs, which have be ta beaten until light. Beat the mixture until cold; add the flour and cut and fold the beaten whites of the eggs into the mixture. Bake for 40 or 50 minutes in a pan lined with but-' tered paper in a slow oven. Honey Cookies. 2-3 cupful honey 1 teaspoonful all-2-3 cupful sugar spice 2% cupfuls flour 2 ounces finely % teaspoonful soda chopped candled 1% teaspoonfuls cin- orange peel namon % pound walnut 1 teaspoonful cloves meats, finely % tcaspoonful salt chopped Sift together the flour, spices, and soda, and add other ingredients. Knead thoroughly roll out thin, and cut with a biscuit cutter. These cookies are very hard. For other recipes send to the United States department of agriculture for Farmers’ Bulletin Na. 653, “Honey and Its Uses in the Home.” Make the most of your honey supply and save the sugar.

DEMAND FOR HONEY

The present honey crop of the United States barely exceeds 250,000,000 pounds. That the country produces even this much is unknown to most people, it is stated; for while honey was the chief form of sugar used in ancient times, the ease of getting cane or bqet sugar has placed honey in the background. Now that our sugar supply is reduced by reason of supplying the allies with part of the sugar they need, the demand for honey has' increased net. only domestically but also for export.

Green Tomatoes.

When the first hard frost leaves you with a large supply of green tomatoes on hand you will make some of them into pickle—but do you know how good they are to usd as a vegetable? They are very good sliced and fried. Slice in one-half inch slices, sprinkle with salt and fry until tender in a little fat. If you wish them browned, dip the slices in flour or bread crumbs or first dip in eggs and then in crumbs before frying. If you are fond of fried apple and onions, you will also like the following. Slice onion and green tomatoes and fry together. Serve at dinner or as a relish for supper. They are very good, too, stewed much as you stew the ripe ones. Stewed Green Tomatoes; 4 large green toma- 2 tableapoonful sutoes gar % teaspoonful pep- 2 tablespoonfuls per bread crumbs % teaspoonful salt % teaspoonful onion 1 tablespoonful but- juice ter Scald tomatoes and remove skins, cut into quarters, boil until tender; season and thicken with crumbs. They give a distinctive flayor to cream soup, and are worth trying. Cream of Green Tomato Soup. 6 green tomatoes 1 cupful milk % teaspoonful soda % teaspoonful salt 2 tablespoonfuls but- % teaspoonful pepter per 801 l the tomatoes until tender and put through a strainer. Make cream sauce of butter and flour, to which is added milk, salt and pepper. Add pulp to which soda has been added. Allow to cook ten minutes in double boiler.

Cottage Cheese With Fruits.

At this season of the year when the supply of fruits is at its highest and large quantities have been made into preserves, the combined use of preserved fruits and cottage cheese as a food-saving system should not be overlooked. The United States department of agriculture points out that -cottage cheese with fruit preserves, such as strawberries, figs or cherries poured over it, and served with bread or crackers, makes a most appetizing and sustaining dish. If preferred, cottage cheese balls may be ■setred. separately or eaten with the preserves. A more attractive dish may be made by dropping a bit of jelly into a neat of the cottage cheese.

DIVIDED FOOD WITH INDIANS

Splendid Spirit of Belf-Shcrifl©o Shown by Party of White Travelers In the Far North. The day of adventure, romance and sentiment in the wilds, is recalled by the arrival at<Qnebec a couple of days ago of two men and a woman, the wife of one of the men, after a mile drive by dog sledge across Ungava In 5Q days. When the party arrived at,the first outpost on thebrim of civilization the first act was to replenish food supplies which were completely exhausted, and all hands with an appetite; Then the trio pushed forward again after the first meal in almost a month, because halfway across the white wastes the party discovered ten Indian families slowly starving, with no one to go for .Jtood and no one to bring any to them. The sledge party was provisioned to the ounce for Jtsi trlp of almost two months but could not leave without j doing something—although pitifully little —for the starving • Indians. Another careful calculation was made, and each of the three consented to live on the least possible ration and take a chance on accident or loss of supplies by storm or other means. All except what the party believed would sustain life against the cold was left with the Indians and when the travelers reached the first outpost they had been some, time without food and were strenuously hungry. The food supply of the dogs could not be reduced, as the only hope of safety for the party was In the “huskies,” so the humans ate practically nothing while the dogs got their regular allowance. The story of the long drives across the northern snow fields is familiar in modern fiction but occasionally a narrative of fact as in this case, presents reading that maintains the essence of adventure and romance quite as welL The spirit that surrenders food to starving savages or barbarians, midway of a 900-miles journey over endless snow with no surer guarantee of safety than the willingness of a team of dogs Is that which underlies the world struggle In Europe.

Remember.

When the war is over, no excuse will go. ' Either you were in it or you were not ' Either you shouldered your gun, served in the trenches or the navy, or the Young Men’s Christian association, the Red Cross or in some place where the door was opened, or else you did nothing. If you could not yet serve, you could send your boys with a Godspeed, as they marched out to the front. To hold them back stamped them as slackers. Either you strained your resources to buy Liberty bonis or you forgot your obligation to those who fought and died for your flag. Disqualification for, active service is no justification for forgetting the boys behind the guns who sacrificed all thought of gain and were willing to sacrifice their lives at their country’s calL The war will be fought ta the bitter end. The Hun will be crushed. Peace will come. The flag will fly and freedom will win. If you do your part, however small, you will share in the glory. If y<ju fall to do your little bit, nothing but remorse will be in store for you.—Leslie's.

Better Ports In Europe.

The beautiful harbor of Naples is to be much improved by the extension of docks and a general broadening of its Immense natural capacity. More than one French port has been raised from minor usefulness to first-rate importance. Even Bordeaux has profited greatly. And all these Immense new utilities will remain as a monument, in part at least, to American engineering efficiency and a liberal use of American money. We shall get full value from them all, and it is pleasant to think that they will also become a lasting benefit to our friends. Our own home ports, both Atlantic and Pacific, have alrefidy felt the stimulus, and will continue to grow under it. New York must inevitably be the greatest shipping point of all the world without exception, as time goes on. And the enormous new American tonnage now being launched will not go into the scrap-heap when peace comes.—Christian Herald.

Vegetable Seed Survey.

Total production of vegetable seed, with the exception of cabbage, lettuce, salsify, and turnip, will be ample for the needs of the coming year, according to /the preliminary returns from the seed-production survey of July 1, 1918. and crop reports from Important commercial seed growers. In some cases where the condition of crops is 9 ps»t satisfactory increased acreage’s are, expected to bring the total production up to normal, while more than normal production of seed is Indicated for some kinds of vegetables. This condition, it is pointed out, does not necessarily mean a large surplus, for it is known that large orders have been placed for certain vegetable seeds by foreign concerns for export to countries in Europe which formerly'have been exporters of these seeds to the United States.

Shocking.

“The board of censors threatens to close up the place." “What’s wrong?* “Just as the hero was hissing bls sweetheart, the film stopped and held them in that position for Over tea minutes.” —Film Fun.