Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1919 — Page 3
STAR PENNSYLVANIA ATHLETE TO RETURN TO COLLEGE AND COMPLETE HIS STUDIES
J. HOWARD BERRY, THRICE WINNER OF PENTATHLON.
J. Howard Berry, who played with the Camp Hancock football eleven this fall, is to return to Pennsylvania and finish liis course. He .will graduate next .June. Berry will be eligible for the track and baseball teams. As a member of the track team he will compete for the pentathlon title, which he has won three times. ••• '
DOBIE TO COACH MIDSHIPMEN
Mentor Has Taken Up Residence at Baltimore Where He Will E© Close to Naval Academy. Gilmour Dobie. who has coached the Naval academy football teams for two seasons, has completed his work for the year and has taken up his residence in Baltimore, where he will be in close touch with things at the Naval academy. He will be the academy coach next season. Dobie started two years ago under engagement for one season, and last summer a contract was signed between him find the Naval Athletic association covering his services as coach for two
Gilmour Dobie.
seasons, so that his return for next year is definitely settled. There is complete satisfaction with his woris, and every effort will be made to secure a proper schedule for the midshipmen next year.
STORY OF “BONEHEAD” PLAY
Runner Steal? Second, Then Steals Back to First When Teammate Is Tagged at Plate. ' - —■ ' ■ Jake Daubert, the best first baseman in The National league, tells a yarn about the greatest “marble-head” play he ever saw on the diamond. It has something on John Anderson's feat of stealing second with a runner on the keystone sack. “The last exhibition game we played last spring was at Lynchburg,” says Danbert. “The field there is inside the race track at the. fair grounds, and the catcher is some distance from the .grand stand. There were so few spectators at the game that Manager £>nhlen suggested inviting them to dome down and sit bn the players’ bench. . r “The Lynchburg team got men on first and third in the eighth inning when the runner on first was naught off the hag on a throw by Erwin. In chasing him up and down the line I got him within ten feet of second base, when I detected the runner on third starting for the plate. Quickly I threw the ball to Erwin, who got his man. My man seeing the play, touched • second - and immediately started back to first base, which he reached, safely after a* long slide, as neithcn myself nor the secbnd baseman tferp- looking for any,‘inside stuflf'. of this jCharaeter. It ttbs the prize boneheuded stunt and . heat anything I ever saTr.* "<
UNCERTAIN AS TO SOLDIERS
Major League Players May Not Be Released in Time to Get Back for Spring Practice. There is still much uncertainty about the prospects for getting back in time for spring practice ail of the major players now in the military and naval service. One theory was that General March intended to discharge soldier players as soon as might be, irrespective of the demobilization of their units. The other theory was that General March would do no such tiling. He had recommended baseball so highly as a sort of semi-public utility that many thought he would make exceptions for the athletes in the army, hut that Is beginning to be doubted, ami no man can say at present precisely what material the clubs will have when they count noses. It might be mentioned, by the way, that the Eighty-ninth division, in which is the artillery regiment containing Clarence Mitchell and Chuck Wart! of the Superbas, and Grover Cleveland Alexander of the Cubs,, has left its former camp on the old battle line, and lias joined the troops ad vancina into Germany. Asilhis .army of occupation arid garrison will probably be the one which will be kept most intact, the prospects, are not bright for its share of ball players being discharged.
GIANTS RELEASE AL DEMAREE
Pitcher "Who Did "Some Timely and Valuable Work for McGraw Is Thrown in Discard. Al Demaree, one of the mainstays in the box for the Giants, has been handed his unconditional release by
AI Demaree.
* Manager McGraw. Al did some timely and valuable worts in the box last sea--son “and bis release dune as a surprise to most of Gotham funs. However, Mac has a string of 17 hurlefs on his roster' and figures he cnn let Peinaree go and still be pretty well fixed.
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FOOTBALL COST $3,000
The Kansas football season cost the athletic association about $3,000 and K. U. usually cleans nearly. SIQJKKL.on football, according to \V. O.,Hamilton, manager of athletics. I'he football games usually pay for the ..basket ball games, track meets and baseball contest, as the last three are always losers there. One-third the usual number of men took part in football practice this fall. The Nebraska game cost Kansas around $1,400 arid usually nets K. 1- * $5,000. The weather and the “flu'* caused the deficit this fall. v
EDDIE COLLINS MAY RETIRE FROM GAME
Has Roundel Out Long and Successful Career in Baseball. White Sox Infielder Was One of Few Players With Family to Enlist for Active Service —Now serving in Marines. Commenting on the alleged retirement of Eddie Collins from baseball a Chicago writer makes fEeijc few remarks : __ Collins has rounded out a long and successful career in baseball. He feast-
Eddie Collins.
ed on the sweets of world’s series several times With Connie Mack and once with the White Sox. Eddie has won about as much renown as an infielder as one would care to acquire and from this time on W»nM noAur-nity lio nn -thedecline, provided he remained in the game. Collins’ determination to retire probably was. actuated by a genuine desire to be at home with his family. His wife was persistent in insisting 1918 be Eddie’s farewell year in baseball. President Comiskey may make special inducements to Collins to return to the game next spring. The game in Chicago can ill afford to lose'players who entered the service voluntarily. Collins joined the marines, although he had a family of four. He was one of few players with - families who enlisted for active service. The end of the war, coming so unexpectedly, may cause Collins to change his plans and he may be induced to play another season before.retiring for all time. He may go true to form of so many other stars and pull a Gotch retirement but that he seemed bent on making last season his final one in ttascbaH seeihetr certain from various conversations with the star player on Pullman cars, in hotels . where the White Sox put up and in other places.
KANGAROO PUGILISTS IN WAR
Number Estimated at 1,000 by Snowy Baker, Australian Promoter— Many Stars Lost. Snowy Baker, the famous fistic promoter of Australia, says that there are jerobably 1,000 Kangaroo boxers in the war. and that probably more than half of them have sacrificed their lives In battle. The number of boxers in the service of other allies, while not as high in proportion to population as that of Australia, is great, nevertheless. France, especially, lost many of her most brilliant fistic stars on the bloody battlefield.
FOREIGN IN SERVICE
Those Who Havi Escaped Grim Reaper Include Georges Carpentier “ and Bombardier Wells. - ’ . ' . V -■ Among the prominent foreign ringsters who are in the service but have escaped the grim .reaper, tjre Georges Carpentier, heavyweight champion of Europe; Bombardier Wells, heavyweight champion of England; Pat O'Keefe, middleweight champion of England: Jimmy -Wilde,. ....flyweight champion of .the world ; Balzac, Johnny Summers. Young Fox, Fancy Lee Johnny Basham and several others.
HAPPY YANKS RETURN FROM WAR WITH WOUNDS
sohih or cue cneermg t.oys mat returned to tueir own connrry arrer many mourns On me otner side are seen IB this photograph on the deck of the sixth returning troop transport. Representatives from all parts of this country; were* among the returning fighters that landed at Hoboken, and they were not downhearted because of thelf, wounds. , Ahiv/y .... y V •
Porto Rico Was Great Help in Winning War
Great Work of People of Island Revealed for First Time. RECORD IS AMAZING ONE Achievement* In Raising Army, Helping Red Cross and Boosting Liberty Loans Are Recounted*— Faced' Big Handicap in Earthquake. * San Juan, Porto Rico.—What the people of Porto Rico have done in the war will gain for them the friendship, love and gratitude of the entire population of the United States. The war activities of this patriotic island have been so effective that one cannot help but become amazed at all that has been accomplished. That thousands of people here have done everything within their power, to save and give, in an effort to help win this war is the simple truth, and they can well feel proud of their record. To every single appeal made in behalf of the war Porto Rico has responded gallantly. Ten million dollars has been invested in the four Liberty loans. The spirit of the people was well demonstrated in the fourth Liberty loan drive, when the island exceeded her quota of $4,000,000 by alningf $300,000 despite the disaster caused by the earthquake, which cost Porto Rico millions of dollars. This calamity occurred during the drive. The beautiful cities 5f Mayagues and Aguadtiia were virtually destroyed, but they exceeded their quota. The Red Cross has spread its light to every and corner of Porto Rico. The Porto Rican chapter of the American Red Cross has undertaken every branch of work conducted in the States. The great work which the chapter is now doing in the matter of home service has been developed since the call of the men of Porto Rico to Camp. Las Casas. ‘
Home Service Work. There are fully organized active branches 6f the society in every municipality. Through these branches the most devoted and patriotic'service is being given to the work of the Red Cross by the people of the entire island. This is especially true in connection with the home service work, which means thevbringing of help and comfort and giving material means of support to the wives, children and other dependents of the men who have Joined the army. There are Go active and patriotic committees k of home service. The Red Cross is doing a greaUwork in looking after the needy and destitute families of the soldiers- at Camp Las Casas. During August the chapter cared for 2,058 families of soldiers. During September 1',019 families were cared for. The recent earthquakes added greatly to the relief work. In the second war fund drive, which was carried on throughout the island in the months of May and June, 1918, the made donations in of $106,000.
Mr. Mack Jones, a coffee planter and mayer of the little town of Villalba, has this to say of the people In his home vicinity i “We were asked for $8,400 in the third Liberty loan. Small merchants and day laborers made a canvass of the iirt.'e town and the surrounding mountain sides on horseback. The laborers 1s this region get about 00 cents a day, yet these gcrxl people were able to raise $12,000, or 50 per cent more than their quota. II yon could but see the cliffs they climbed and the dangerous trails they followed, where a misstep means a, drop of 1.000 feet or- more, in their j work of solicitation on behalf of Uncle j Sam It woqld make yon, tvtsh' thatj Washington could know the full raeasH ure of their devotion. Does not this j
also speak for the patriotism of these people?’’ Much Food Saved. The people have invested their money freely in Liberty bonds and War Savings stamps. The saving of food has been so efficiently preached and lias been so well organized by the food commission that vast quantities of food have been saved. Another example of the wonderful patriotism of the people was demonstrated in the work of Mr. Antonio Arbona, a coffee planter living near dales. The coffee planters of Porto Rico have suffered greatly on account of there-being no market for their coffee in the states. On account of the war their foreign market was cut off. There are 150,000 people in Porto Rico dependent upon the coffee industry for a livelihood and the coffee condition has caused the people much suffering. Mr. Arbona, a man more than sixty years old, covered two barrios' on horseback and succeeded in selling to the small coffee planters more than $16,000 of Liberty bonds in the fourth campaign, most of these being SSO and SIOO bonds. In all things pertaining to war work the Spanish merchants throughout the island have co-operated to the fullest extent. Liberty bonds they have bought, liberally and they have given freely to the Red Cross. I have nev.er come in contact with a class of business men who give more freely than thpse- or more cheerfully, either— When the Red Cross was seeking a new home 45 business men—Spaniards, Porto Ricans and Americans — donated SII,OOO, this money being raised in a few hours, thus enabling the Red Cross to have quarters in one building. , The Four-Minute Men. The ‘‘Four-Minute Men” of- Porte Rico did a great work in speeding the winning of the war. All of the principal centera of population -were thoroughly covered and thousands of people were reached through the speakers of this organization. Among them were some of the most representative men of the.country. During food conservation week a campaign was conducted by public school teachers in every town and barrio. The number of public meetings held during that week exceeded 2,000. Both urban and rural teachers made a house-to-house canvass to explain the -meaning of the pledge cards and to secure signatures. The great parade organized during this week was one of the most important
ITALY’S STRONG MAN
Premier Orlando, who piloted the Italian ship of state during the great war.
HAIR TURNED WHITE BY EXPERIENCES IN WAR
i North Adams, Mass.—SufTer- | ing from shell shock, his hair i turned snow white and so great- • ly altered in appearance IhaUilsL. ; friends failed to recognize him. ■ Peter MacPhail returned home i after two years and one month’s [ service as gunner in the Royal j Field artillery of the British ! army. During his service Mac- ! Phail took part in many battles, i particularly notable ones being ! Ypres, Cambrai and Combles. ! He is thirty-seven years old.
which had even taken place. Thousands participated. Every public school teacher marched, as well as the pupils. The gospel of food economy, increased food production, improved methods of cultivation and the necessity of- planting a greater variety of home products, has been preached to every corner of the island. The schools lyive been instrumental in the establishment of 26,693 home gardens, thereby assisting Porto Rico to solve the food problem. • The children here are deserving of much praise for what they have done, and the example tfiey set' led others on to greater efforts. They are ail members of the Red Cross. A few of them were < able to secure from their parents the money needed for their contribution, but the majority made up their minds that they would earn this money themselves. All over the island children organized festivals to get funds needed" for membership fees. In Fajado and Rio Piedras, a total of 1,850 school children enrolled as Junior Red Cross members and earned every cent that they contributed. Thousands of dollars have been raised by these children. They have in all civic parades organized for this purpose. •/.' Delicacies Sent Abroad. Last year 40 tons of guava jelly and,, 2,000,000 cigarettes were sent to the boys in France. Thousands of women in Porto Rico, from San Juan, the capital, throughout the entire island, including the towns of the hills, have devoted their time and given their money and services to all things needed for the tear. All social activities were carried on solely' for the benefit of war work. In many sections of Porto Rico women took the place of the men in the fields. Porto Rico contributed freely and generously of her man power and the yery best of her youth entered the training camps. Jpst after the_ pas* sage of the selective draft law Porta Rico registered her young men to the number of 108,000. The Porto Rico . regiment was the first in the nation to be at its full war strength. Six hundred and fifty Volunteers were accepted for duty to guard the Panama canal. When General Townshend took up the work of recruiting, manj of the men who lived far back in the hills walked as much as 25 miles to enlist.
SHE GETS MARRIAGE LICENSE
- . a South Dakota Bride-to-Be Buys Document, Pays $1 for It, Then Hunts Up the Judge. Mitchell, S. D. —Cupid and woman suffrage have apparently formed a corporation here, Miss Marie Gipper, twenty-two years old, strode iqto the offices of the clerk of.courts of Davison county one morning recently and planked a dollar on the desk to pay for the first marriage license that has ever been bought in this county by a woman. she/ had procured the license she went oat and found the municipal judge. - While obtaining the license Miss Gippt.- explained/'.that her hushapd-t# be was “too busy to get the license." The apparent object of the purchase was inscribed on the clerk's record at Ray Foyer, also of Mitchell. ■ : *