Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1919 — Page 2

HURLER JEAN DUBUC, FRENCH-CANADIAN, RESCUED FROM SALT LAKE BY J. M’GRAW

Jean Dubuc, French-Canadian pitcher, rescued by John McGraw from •the Salt Lake club of the Pacific league - , to which he had been released by the Boston Red Sox, Is making a game fight to come back to the big league • heights, and if Mons* Jean continues at his present pace he’s sure to make good. United fandom is pulling for him to hold his berth on the Giants’ staff.

QUIT TELEGRAPHING

Kid Gleason says George Uhle, the semi-pro star vyhp is trying to win a berth with the Cleveland Indians, may make a great pitcher—rwhen he quits telegraphing to the batter what he is going to throw. Gleason says Dick Kerr had the same fault when he joined the White Sox in the training camp, and the Kid had a serious talk with Kerr about it. "You throw your fast one with a side arm motion, your curve with an overhand throw,” Gleason said to ~ Kerr. —"You can’t get by that way.” "I got by all right in the Southern and American Association," replied Kerr. “That may be so but you will never get by in this league if you don’t stop telegraphing," retorted Gleason and he set out to show. Kerr how to turn thetrick.

BACK GN FARM FOR OLDRING

Former Captain of Philadelphia Athletics to Play Ball in New V\ Jersey Village. It’s “back to the farm" again for “Rube” EL Oldrlng, captain of the Philadelphia Athletics In the American league last season, with which club he also starred as an outfielder In

Rube Oldrlng.

those days when Connie Mack was prilling down pennants. Having now secured his release from the Athletics, “Rube” intends to take up his residence at Quinton, a rural village in Salem County, N. J., where he helped to organize a nine that two years ago would wallop nearly all rivals in seven townships.

WHITE SOX SHOWING SPEED

Manager Gleason Has His Men Batting Well and Running Bases Better Than Usual Manager Gleason of the "White Sox not only appears to have his team jetting in fine shape, but they are ■howl ng more speed on the bases than jhea usually 'been the case with Chicago American teams of past years. seven base? in one game is something new for the White Sox, especially with AJLnsmith doing the catching for the opposing team.

DIAMOND NOTES

- Eddie Sicking put up a good game in Bancroft's shoes until injured.. ♦ * * The Brooklyn club has released Gena Sheridan, an infield rookie, to Charley Dooin’s Reading team. "Dugan to Shannon to Burns” is getting to be an often mentioned combination on the Athletics. * • • .. .Manager. Branch. Rickey of the St. Louis "Cardinals is not giving up because t>f a poor start. •• • ' The reason for Ernie Shore’s poor start 'is explained. He caught the mump's from Ping Bodie. • • * Red Faber will have hls*banner season in the American league if he keeps up his work of recent combats. • » • Wallace, the youngster who was trying for an Infield job with the Phillies, has been released to Hartford of the Eastern league.

Josh Devore is surprising the fans by his work for the Indians. Devore has been fielding in fine fashion and is hitting the ball hard. ‘ • * George H. Lawson, recently discharged from the Canadian army, is planning an “outlaw” league, to be known as the Allied league. • • * The New York Yankees charged Carl Mays was using an emery ball, but now having beaten him they may conclude they were mistaken. • • • Manager Lee Fohl of Cleveland is well pleased at what George Uhle has shown him and declares the young semi-pro is going to be a real star. Joe Wilhoit, a star in the Coast league three or four years ago and for a moment looking like a star in the big show, seems to' have fizzled out with Seattle. •• • • Hugo Bezdek has benched Southworth and played Lee in right field. The former, who hit for .341 in 04 games last season, has been doing under .100 tilts season. ; • • • Shortstop Jimmy Rooney, who did not Join the Detroit Tigers and W>o thus is technically a member of the Boston Red Sox, Is finally out of the army and no place to go. • * * A left-hander can’t hit a southpaw. Not at all. Casey Stengel only got four hits, one of them a triple, against the mightiest boy in the National loop, Jim Vaughn, the other day. • * • An all-star association football team will go to Sweden this summer under direction of Secretary Thomas Cahill of the United States Football association, the governing council of the sport. • • • Manager Miller Huggins assigned Duffy Lewis to center field to start the season, but soon changed his mind and switched Duffy to left. Ping Bodie went to center. Ping will keep on going If he doesn’t watch out. '• • • George Runge, infielder, who was released by Clarence Rowland of the Brewers, has signed to play with the Nash Motor company team of Kenosha. Artie Bues, Art Kores and Rip Hagerman, former A. A. players, are also with the dub.

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SOMETHING MUST GIVE

Moon Ducote, former college football star and now outfielding for Mobile, has two touchdowns to his credit since he entered the Soupiern league, writes Barney Sheridan in the Mobile Register. One he gained 1 at the expense of Frank Kitchens, New Orleans catcher, and the other over Bill Webb, Birmingham third baseman in the smashup with “Moon.” The big athlete knows but little of the art of hook slide. He does know, however, that he’s supposed to reach the next base When he sets sail for it and when he,hits, with his two hundred and odd pounds something must give.

TRIS SPEAKER BIDS FOR BIGGEST YEAR

Is Hitting Ball Hard and Showing Unusual Amount jf Pep. - Playing Shorter Center Field Than Year Ago, Racing Back for Occasional Ones Yhat Go DeepStrong for Aviation. Trls.Speaker will be more of a star this 7 a year ago. That is Indicated by the form shown by the Indian' captain to date. H.e is hitting the ball harder than a year ago and, If such a thing is possible, is displaying more pep. But that is not all. He is playing a shortdr center field than a year ago. Spoke, as he is universally known in baseball circles, revolutionized center fielding when he adopted a system of playing in close to second base and racing back for the occasional ones hit to deep center. Last year it was commented upon that be was playing a

Tris Speaker.

deeper center than usual, and It was said it was because he was slowing up. . ' Speaker says that when the season is over he will complete the naval aviation course he started last fall. “I am sorry I quit,” Spoke said. “I want to be a full-fledged naval aviator, and I understand those -of us who did not complete our course will be given a chance to do so next fall. And that is not all Spoke intends to do in the aviation game. The first chance he gets Spoke wants to arrange for a flight with Glenn Martin from Cleveland to some town where is to play the next day, like Detroit, Chicago or Washington.

CURB DOBBS AND ELBERFELD

Managers Must Not Appear on Field in Uniform Unless Classed as Active Players. A ruling has been sent out by President Martin of the Southern league that hereafter managers of teams must not appear in uniform on the field unless they class themselves as active players included inside the player limit. The ruling will bar John Dobbs of the New Orleans team from the lines and also Kid Elberfeld of the Little Rock team unless they include themselves as players on their respective clubs.

MANY SHIFTS IN BASEBALL

Three Players, Once With Southern Michigan League, Now Playing With Omaha Team. Baseball produces many shifts of players. For Instance, Bashang, Cable and Kirby of the Omaha team, played at the same time in the Southern Michigan league a few years ago, then drifted to other circuits and are now reunited on the same Western League dub.

TOD MILLER IS DISCOVERED

Great Lakes Middleweight Boxing Champion Located With Bloomington Three-I Team. Tod Miller, Great Lakes middleweight .boxing champion, has been discovered. He is playing first base for the Bloomington team of the Three-I league. Some player on an 'opposing team sassed Tod the other day and wanted to fight, without knowing the Class of the party he was challenging.

BOYS FROM THE PRAIRIES ARRIVE AT NEW YORK

The steamship Imperator docking at New York with happy troops from Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri. At the left is Lieut. Col. Levi G. Brown of the Three Hundred and Thirty-fifth infantry, from Nebraska; and at the right a little gray-halred mother who wept all the way from Lincoln, Neb., to welcome her son.

HOW UNCLE SAM FED HIS SOLDIERS

One Meal, oft One-Man Basis for War Period, Cost $727,- * 000,000. 9,000,000 POUNDS DAILY Doughboys Ate 800,000,000 Pounds of Roast Beef, ■ Smoked 425,000,000 Cigarettes and Ate 300,000 Pounds of Candy a Month. Washington.—“ Soldiers who fought against Spain in 1808 lost in weight an an average of 22 pounds each; the average American soldier at the end of the fighting in 1918 weighed 12 pounds more than he did when the selective •service act or his own volition.brought him into the army.” Thus the success won by' the army’s subsistence branch in. the great war Is epitomized in chapters of the official war “material” history made public by the war department. The food problem of an army of 1,700,000 Americans is visualized in the history by considering the force as a single man entire war period is one dinner hour. Articles compris’d in the army ration assumed these tremendous totals: Roast beef, 800,000,000 pounds; bacon, 150,000,000 pounds; flour (bread) 1.000,000,000 pounds; butter, 17,500,300; oleomargarine, 11,000,000; baked beans, 150,000,000 pounds; potatoes, 187,000,000 pounds; onions, 40,000,000 pounds; corn, beans and peas, 150,000,300 cans; tomatoes, 190,000,000 cans; prunes, peaches and apples (for dessert), 107,000,000 cans; sugar, 350,000,300 pounds; coffee, 75,000,000 pounds; evaporated milk,' 200,000,000 cans. The bill for this “meal" amounted to 5727,000,000 to December 1, 1918, the per capita cost having risen from 4 cents In 1897 to 48 In 1918. 9,000,000 Pounds Daily. At the time of the armistice, American soldiers in France were consuming 9,000,000 pounds of food daily. Moving this stupendous quantity over the 3,000-mlle communication was the principal obstacle to be overcome. This and the necessity for conserving cargo space led directly in the later months to the shipment of dehydrated regetables to the American expeditioncry force.

“The problems were solved only by the assistance of the American food Industry.” the report says, and while Instances were found of food specifijations being violated, these are declared to have been very few and in uost instances not intentional. The emergency ration of the American soldier, designed to be used only n cases of extremity, was perfected luring the war to consist of three Cakes of beef, prepared with a bread compound of ground cooked wheat, each cake weighing three. ounces; :hree one-ounce cakes of chocolate, ihree-fourths ounce fine salt, and one Irani black pepper. A special ration was designed for

Victory Cathedral as World War Memorial

Seattle, Wash. The part which Northwestern soldiers played in the world war will be commemorated here by the erection of a victory memorial cathedral to cost almost $1,000,000. It is proposed that the 12 windows in the cathedral shall be in memory of the heroes of the allied nations which have made the supreme sacrifice. These nations include England, France, Belgium, Italy, Canada, Greece, Russia, Serbia, Portugal, Japan and China. Bronze tablets will contain the names of Northwestern men who entered their country’s service, and battle flags will be hung from.the (gothic rafters.

the use of Invalid soldiers, including potted chicken, dried eggs, puddings, etc. Importance attached to the supply of fresh coffee for the men Is evidenced by the decision to ship the bean In the green form and have It roasted near the front. This led to the Invention of portable roasters, capable of handling several tons a day. “Noting that tobacco has established Its claim to a recognized place in the soldier’s life,” the report says probably 95 per cent of the American expeditionary force used the weed in one form or another. Monthly shipments averaged 20,000,000 cigars and 425,000,000 cigarettes. The soldier’s sweet tooth was satisfied by a monthly shipment of 300,000 pounds of candy during the early part of the war, but this was increased in November, 1918, to 1,373,000 pounds, and the following month the war de-' partment made candy a part of the regulation issue, one and one-half pounds being issued to each man every month. A close companion in popu-

Voice Is Made As Loud As Cannon

No Trick at All to Magnify Sound Five Million Times. WIRELESS EXPERT TELLS HOW Ticking of Watch Can Be Amplified Until It Sounds Like Breakers on an Ocean Cliff—ln Practical Use. San Francisco. —A man’s voice can be made as loud as the cannon’s roar; it can be-heard two or twenty miles. The ticking of a watch can be amplified until it sounds like breakers on an ocean cliff. “It’s no trick at all to magnify sound four or five million times, or indefinitely,” said Tom Lambert, a wireless telephone engineer. “All that is needful is to connect a number of vacuum valves in multiple with a wirelss receiving set, and the thing is done. At the first receiving contact a voice will be normal. Cut in one vacuum valve and it is raised seven times; thereafter it squares itself — seven times; thereafter it squares itself —seven times seven to forty-nine for the next vacuum valve, and fortynine times forty-nine for the next, and so on.”

“I mean volume of sound, not power of transmission,” explained Lambert. Tn a tesjt recently a phonograph was connected wdth an amplifier at midnight, and we were lifting it up gradually to supply all San Francisco with song and amusement, when the police urged us to desist. Grand Stand Hears Watph Tick. “In the stadium at Golden Gate park the ticking of a watch was made audible all over the grand stand while an athletic meet was in progress. Capt Robert W. A. Brewer, an experimenter, moved off 2,000 feet and spoke quietly to his dog, and the dog couldn’t be held. A wireless station which I am not permitted to name recently received a telephoned message from Europe, and through its amplifier startled duck hunters in the marshes eight miles away.” Mr. Lambert exhibited one of the vacuum valves. Its exterior resembled an ordinary 16-candle electric light bulb. Through the glass, however, could be seen electric winding that was dissimilar. Around a filament was wound convolutions of wire called a “grid.” Above the grid was Un encircling metallic plate. The current passed through each in the .order described. The Incoming wireless sig-

larity was chewing gum, more than 3,000,000 packages a month being consumed. , Economies Effected. Interesting statistics are given of economies effected in changes in design. For Instance, elimination of lacings and eyelets in trousers saved $17,000,000,- and-- the redesigning of the coat cut the cost of this garment $5,000,000. Expert cutting reduced the consumption of cloth 23-100 of a yard, and saved 2,300,000 yards on the total order. Innovations resulting from shortages in material included the substitution of American dyes for the German product and the use of vegetable “ivory” in button-making. The activities of the quartermaster corps (afterward taken over largely by the bureau of purchase, storage and supply) included also the furnishing of hatsr shoes, boots, fuel, oil, paint, tools, harness, and harness equipment, and even music. Prominent composers volunteered for the work of selecting a “balanced ration" of jazz and mqre restraining orchestrations for the army bands. To give the American aviator the* surest fuel possible, the department took over every drop of “25.7 degree fighting naphtha” and confined Its use to the service of plapes actually on the front.

nals travel down the aerjal wire to the tuning set and then to the vacuum, valve, which Is a “detector,” or* receiver. For practical purposes the vacuum valve has its use, as In warships, where the wireless telephone speaks Its message through a horn to several officers Instead of to one using earpieces. It can be availed of to address audiences. The tireless telephone is wonderfully extending the field developed by the wireless telegraph. Any wireless telegraph receiving set is equally good for receiving telephoned messages. The transmitting Instruments, of course, are different. Every airplane possessed by. Uncle Sam and all United States warships are equipped with wireless telephone apparatus. These sets on warships are efficient at least 20 miles.

INVENTORS HELPED WIN WAR

Patents, Long Held Up, Are Now Being Allowed—Come From All Sections. Washington.—The latest war secret to leak out is how friendly Inventors . all over the world gave to the United States their ideas for death dealing machines fdr the destruction of Germany. A companion secret is how all these ideas were kept from the enemy by the “seven serious Sphinxes” of the padent .office. This was a board of seven men, of unquestioned loyalty and sworn secrecy, empowered to examine and withhold patents on war machines until the war was over and meanwhile turn ideas of promise over to the government. More than 2,000 devices which it was thought might be of value to the United States or the allies were passed Upon and 200 were Important enough to get before military authorities. Some of them, it is said, helped win the war. The ideqs came from England, France, Switzerland, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Russia, Poland and one from Germany. Of course, a larger number came from within the United States. Now that the war is over the patents are being flowed.

Exit the Towel.

Spokane, Wash—Exit the roller towel; exit the paper towel; exit the Individual towel —in fact, exit all towels. Step on a pedal and release,, a tropical hurricane on fee hpnds and face. That’s the way It’s being done at Spokane’s largest hotel. The« drying machines are 'operated by electricity. B