Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 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 fait, Is to return to Pennsylvania and finish his course. He will graduate next June. ; • : JJerry will be eligible for trifc track and baseball teams. As a member of the track team he.will compete for the pentathlon title, which he has won three Lina's.

DOBIE TO COACH MIDSHIPMEN

Mentor Has Taken Up Residence at Baltimore Where He Will Be 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 and the Navg.l Athletic association covering Ills services as coach for two

Gilmour Dobie.

seasons, so that his return for next year is definitely settled. There is complete satisfaction with his work, and every effort will be made to secure a proper schedule for the midshipmen next year.

STORY OF "BONEHEAD" PLAY

Runner Steals Second, Then Steals Back to First When Teammate Is Tagged at Plate. J?ke 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 Daubert. “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 Dahlen suggested inviting them to come down and sit on the players' bench. “The Lynchburg team got men on first and third in the eighth inning when the runner on first was caught off the bag on a throw by Erwin. In chasing him up and down the line J 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, v'ho got his man. My man \ seeing the play, touched secbpd and immediately started back to first base, which he reached safely after a long slide, as neither myself nor the second baseman were looking for any ‘inside stuffs of this character. If was the prize boneheaded stunt and beat anything I ever saw.” .

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 all 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 thing. He had recommended baseball so highly as a sort of semi-public utility that many thought he would make exceptions for the athletes in tlic army, hut that is beginning to lie doubted, and no man can say at present precisely what material the jelubH will have when they count noses. It might be mentioned, by the way, that the_. Ejghty-jrlntK which is the artillery regiment containing Clarence Kfftchell and Chuck Ward of the Superbas, and Grover Cleveland Alexander of the Cubs, has left its former camp on the old battle line,, and has joined the troops ad vancing into Germany. As this army of occupation and garrison will probably be the one which will be kept most intact, the prospects are not bright for its share of bad players.being discharged. 1

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 ungonditional release by

Al Demaree.

Manager McGraw. Al did some timely and valuable work in rfle box last season and his release came as a surprise to most of Gotham fans. However, Mac has a sjtrlng of ,17 hurlers on bis roster and figures he can, let Demaree go and still be pretty Well fixed.

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FOOTBALL COST $3,000

Thp —season cost the athletic association about $3,000 and K. -U. usually Mears nearly SIO,OOO on- foot—ball, according to W.' O. Hamilton, manager of athletics. The football games usually pay for the basket biil£ games, frack ■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 and usually nets K. U. $5,000. The weather and the “tin” eausedthe deficit fh+s fall. - . .—A- -4---

EDDIE COLLINS MAY RETIRE FROM GAME

Tfas Rounded Out Long and Successful Career in Baseball. White Sox Infielder Was One o( Fey 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 thoie few remarks: Collins has rounded out .a long and, successful career in baseball. He feast-.

Eddie Collins.

fd 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 jon would natifrally be on the decline, provided he remained in the game. Collins’ determination to retire was actuated by a genuine be at home with his family? His wife was persistent in insisting 1918 be Eddie’s farewell year tn 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 pl ay era 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 baseball seemed certain from various conversations with she star player on Pullman cars, in hotels where the White Sox put up had 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 probably 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 dther 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 IHoody battlefield.

FOREIGN BOXERS IN SERVICE

Those Who Have Escaped Grim Reap- ' er Include Georges Carpentier and Bombardier Wells. Among, the prominent foreign rlngsters who are in the service but have escaped the grim reaper, are Georges Carpentier, heavyweight champion' of Europe; Bombardier Wells, heavyweight champion of England 0 ; Pat 4>’KAcfe, middleweight champion of England; Jimmy Wilde,, .flyweight champion of the world; BttlSife, Johnny Swrnmers, Xoung Fox, Fancy Lee, Johnny Basham and several others.

HAPPY YANKS RETURN FROM WAR WITH WOUNDS

Soiuv VI uie cneermg noys emit reiurnea to tneir own country alter many mourns on tne otner Side are seen in 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 their, wounds. ■

Porto Rico Was Great Help in Winning War

Great Work of People of Island . Revealed for First Time. RECORD IS AMAZING ONE Achievements 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 Ims 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 altnost SBOO,OOO despite the disaster caused by the earthquake, which cost Porto Rico millions of dollars. This calamity occurred during the drive. The beau t Ifut ci ties of May agues and Aguatfilla were, virtually destroyed, but they exceeded their quota. - The Red Cross has spread its light to every nook 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 of 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 the bringing 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 65 active and patriotic committees of home service. - " * The Red Cross is doing a great work 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 a’nd June, 1918, the people, made donations in excess 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: "We were asked for SB,IOO in the third Liberty loan. Small merchants and day laborers made a canvass of the iittje town and the surrounding mountair sides on horseback. The laborers in this region get about 60»centjp a day, yet these gcr-d people were able to raise $12,000, or 50 per cent more than their quota. It yon. could, but see the they climbed and the dangerous trails they followed, where a, misstep means a drop* of IJMM) feet or more, in their work of solicitation on behalf of Uncle Sam it would make you wish that Washington Could know the full measure of their devotion. Doesnot this

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 has been so w’ell organized by the food commission that vast quantities of food have been saved. Another example of jhe wonderful patriotism of the people was demonin the work of Mr. Antonio Arbona, a coffee planter living near Ciales. 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 L’iberty bonds in the fourth campaign, most of these being SSO and SIOO bonds. In all things pertaining to war work the Spantsh 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 never come in contact with a of business men who give more freely thdn these, 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 Porto Rico did a great work in speeding the winning of die war. All of the -principal centers of population were thoroughly covered and thousands of people were reached through the speakers of this organisation. 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 ope of the most important

ITALY’S STRONG MAN

Premier Orlando, who piloted ‘The Italian, ship of state during the great

HAIR TURNED WHITE BY EXPERIENCES IN WAR

North Adams, Mass.-Suffer-ing from shell shock, his hair turned snow white and so greatly altered tn appearance that his friends failed to recognize him. Peter MacPhail returned home after two years and one month’s service as gunner In the Royal Field artillery of the British army. During his service MacPhail took part in many battles, particularly notable ones being Ypres, Cambrai and Combles. He is thirty-seven years old.

which had ever taken place. Thousands participated. Every publie 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 oE home products, has been preached to every cornier of the Island. The schools have 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 they set led other* on to greater efforts. • They are all 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 participated 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 war. All social activities were carried on solely for the benefit Of war work. In many sections of Porto Rieo women took the place of the men, in the fields. Porto Rico contributed freely and generously of her man power and the very best of her youth entered the training camps. Just after the pas. sage of the selective draft law Porto 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, many of the men who lived far back in the hills walked as much as 25 miles to enlist.

SHE GETS MARRIAGE LICENSE

South Dakota Bride-to-Be Buys Document, Pays $1 for It, Then Hunts Up the Judge. Mitehell, S. D.—Cupid and woman suffrage have apparently fiohned a corporation here, Miss Marie Gipper, twenty-two. years old, strode into the offices of the clerk of courts es 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. After she had procured the license she went Out ai&l fouiffl the municipal judge. While obtaining the license Miss Gippv.- explained that her husband-to-be was “too busy to get the license,'* The apparent object Of .the purchase was inscribe* on the elerk's record at Ray Poyer, Jiso of MitchelL