Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1919 — Page 3

GREAT CREDIT GIVEN TO COACH BILLY LUSH FOR NAVY’S BASEBALL SUCCESS

An Incident of Army-Navy Game—Safe at First

With its baseball team beating the army nine for the first time since 1908 and its crews sweeping the Schuykill this is a big season for the navy. This year already has proved itself the most successful in the history of sport at Annapolis, and if it culminates in a football triumph over the army next November it will go down as a record breaker par excellence. For the navy’s splendid showing in baseball, as w’ell as in basketball, in which it had the strongest five in the East and South,'great credit must go to Billy Lush, the coach. He could not prevent the periodical aerial performances of his pupils, but when they steadied it usually was through his influence. Lush’s handling of the pitchets was masterly. He took Gaines out at the proper time and he relieved “Right-Hander” Baker at just the right moment, too. “Left-Hander” Baker, who finished the game, should have started it. Had he done so we do not believe that the army w r ould have carried the contest into extra innings. “Left-Hander” Baker is only a plebe, and it i? not customary to give the firstyear men the preference when it can be avoided in the big service games. But things broke just as Lush wanted them and the navy throttled that old jinx which it had despaired of doing away with.

JAKE DAUBERT’S REAL NAME

Properly Spelled d’Aubert and French City Is Named After Family— Is Not German. It is not generally known that Jake Daubert, now with the Reds, should properly spell his name d’Aubert. “My family,’’ Jake explains, “are from a little city just a few miles west of the German boundary, and named for them —a name it has borne for 500 years or more—D’Aubertville. Some of them, adventuring the way Frenchmen did 200 years ago, came over here and, after England permanently ousted France from the colonial regions, settled down. In other words, we are

Jake Daubert.

not Germans, as so" many people think, but French of an old, old stock, and we still have a flock of relatives in the ancient city.”

MACK’S ESTIMATE OF TEAMS

Position of Detroit Shows Athletic Manager to Be Correct in Sizing tip Various Clubs. -I. I —■« The position of Detroit, a strong fielding and heavy hitting; club, shows that Mack’s estimate of the relative j strength of the American league as compared with former seasons is correct. Mack says his present team probably would have won the American league championship in 191 S.

Two Wolfes in A. A.

There are two Wolfes in the American association. One is "the veteran player of that name. The Wolfe with Indianapolis is Louis, the former Notre Dame player, who fought so well in France that he attained the rank of captain. Being captain was nothing new to him, for he used to captain the Motre Dame baseball team.

Barry May Go to Mack.

Jack Barry, it is said, will,soon be traded by the Red Sox for Bobby Both and Qitcher McAvoy.

PIRATES UNCOVER STAR

The Pittsburgh Pirates have a coming all-around star in Clifford Lee. He is a sub catcher, but he recently proved his worth as an outfielder when Casey Stengel was banished from a game against the Phillies. Lee pulled down a swift fly from the bat of Cravath near the Phillie flagpole, walked once and hit twice safely In four trips to the plate.

BASEBALL STORIES

Peckinpaugh shows no letup in his stickwork. They are playing scrappy ball in the International. Old Man East has been pitching some great ball for Sioux City. ♦ * ♦ George Johnson has resigned his job as an umpire in the American association. Buffalo’s opening day attendance in the International is said to have been less than 2,00 Q. * « * C. R. Hendrix of the Chicago Cubs is one of the best batting pitchers in the major leagues. -r- ♦ ♦ * Old Pug Cavet, with but one good eye, is proving a winner for Jack Hendricks at Indianapolis. * * * Pat Martin, pitcher, recently returned from overseas, has joined Binghamton in the International. * * * The New York fans are looking for the guy w’ho wrote those immortal lines. ‘‘The Yanks are coming.” * * ♦ The St. Louis Browns are certainly setting a pretty fast pace in the American league race just now.

Tom Lukanovie, - the young pitcher who was destined to set the Coast league by the ears, failed to come across. * • • Lieutenant Colonel Bittie of the fourth division, led 1,261 marksmen in the American army tournament at Lemans, France. * * * A. Schulz, who played with the Brewers during the training season, is going along nicely for the Joplin club of the Western league. The veteran Jack Lewis will be out of the Memphis lineup • indefinitely; His injury is a jaw battered by a foul ball. • * * Roy Patterson, after celebrating his forty-first birthday, went out and pitched.*! neat victory for Minneapolis over Milwaukee. • • • Manager Coleman of Mobile released Pitcher Arthur Johnson, though he had won four and lost but two for a second division club. * ♦ ♦ < When Manager Miller Huggins „of the New York Yankees, was in St. Louis he hada conference with Hugh High, 'his balking outfielder, as a result of which High agreed to report to Vernon of the Coast league. >

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CUBAN PLAYERS ARE TAKING VITAL PART

Cuban players are going to play a vital part in the .National league race this season. Mike Gonzales, catcher of the Giants, formerly of the St. Louis Cardinals, gradually is rounding into his best form and promises to play a leading part in the Giant campaign; Adolfo Luque, pitcher of the Cincinnati Reds, shows signs of future value and has one of the fastest breaking curves in the league, w’hile Oscar Tuero of the Cardinals, showed his class in a recent game at th& polo ground when be quelled the Giants and later subjugated the Dodgers in a hard-fought battle at Ebbets field. Armando Marsans, the Yankee veteran, hate faded from the big league picture, but reports from Cuba indicate a big Increase in ball players who aim to invade the big league in this country.

CARL MAYS IS ONLY UNDERHAND PITCHER

One of Select Quartet to Get Away With Freak Delivery. ■ A 1 Benders of Red Sox Twirler Are Puzzling to American League Sluggers—One of- Barrow’s Best Bets on the Mound. J • / Carl Mays is the only underhanded pitcher of any real class in the major leagues today, and one of the select juartet who have gotten away with

Carl Mays.

the freak delivery over a period of many years in the big show. Jack Warhop, who used to sling for the'Yanks; Rhine? of the old Cincy Reds, and McGlnnity of Giant fame were pitchers who resorted to the underhand method of hurling a baseball, and though there have been a number of pitchers who have tried that style of twirling, the four mentioned here rank as the peers of their class. Mays graduated to the Red Sox in 1915, ‘coming up from the Providence club, and right off the reel he proved a winner, winning 24 games and losing but eight in his first season. His delivery is a puzzle to American league batters, and unless we miss our guess he is going to be one of Ed Barrows' best bets on the mound this season. Mays has a fast ball, regardless of the fact that to the fan in the grandstand it may look more like a slow one. His best ball is known among the members of the Red Sox as the screw ball, which is a new one. It is so called because it is alleged to twist as do the threads of a screw. It twirls sideways in coming up to the batter, and when it is working gbod it breaks in toward the right-handed hitters rather than away from them.

CONNIE MACK WAS MISTAKEN

Manager's Prediction That He Would Assemble Strong Team So Far Has Not Materialized. When Connie Mack disrupted his great team after the 1914 world’s series, selling Collins, Baker, Barry, Shawkey and Murphy and casting adrift Bender, Plank and Coombs, he said: “I’ll have players just as good two years from now.” But Connie has now discovered that roses do not grow on every bush. After four consecutive tailenders since 1914 he seems to have a team this year that is even moreg>f a joke than some'of his previous clubs. Last year Conrile had a respectable tailender. One can’t even say that for this year’s team.

History Repeats Itself.

History repeats itself in baseball as well as in world politics. Last spring after the Dodgers lost their first nine games the Giants broke their losing streak for them. This spring after the Braves lost their first nine games the Giants again were willing to appease suffering and lost a game to Boston.

Braves Sell Two Players.

The Boston National league club announce the sale of Outfielder A. Wickland to St Paul, and Outfielder Joe; Kelly to Toledo, both of the American association.

The RED CROSS of PEACE

By LLOYD ALLEN.

(Staff Correspondent Western Newspaper Union.) (Copyrlsrht, 1919. tw Western Newspaper Union.) ARIS. —Here in Paris Red \ Cross leaders of the world have taken the first steps ln Planning a peace-time A program of Red Cross acw tivitles that will benefit LZW/' humanity everywhere. It’s an American idea, this co-ordination of the common campaign against human suffering in all lands, even though such leaders as Henry P. Davison, never give out a hint that the plan originated in the United States. The French and other allied experts who are helping give the American? fullest credit for their foresight in launching the movement for a league of Red Cross societies. ’ , 1 For the plan is launched. The international organization was begun at a series of conferences held in the Hotel Regina—headquarters of the American Red Cross in France, with delegates of the French, English, Italian and Japanese Red Cross societies co-operating with the Americans on the grand strategy of the campaign, w'hich in its conceptions and aims is the greatest force that has yet been suggested for the alleviation of miseries that are the burden of the human race. The outstanding enemies of human happiness everywhere, the Red Cross experts have come to believe, are first of all the more malignant diseases: Tuberculosis, malaria, typhus or spotted feverAto say nothing of influenza and venereal diseases.

If these maladies are to be fought successfully, it means that contributory causes such as poor housing conditions, unsanitary cities, neglect of child welfare movements, and inefficient public health organizations must be corrected and eradicated. Consequently, when the first big gathering of world famous experts was held at Cannes, France, recently to formulate a program for the league of Red Cross societies, these fundamental subjects were given a most thorough consideration and the opinions of the experts were co-ordinated on the main features of the forthcoming crusade. Some of the best scientific talent In the world was brought together for the Cannes conference. Out of the series of meetings some concrete plans developed that will form the foundation for the future work of the Red Cross societies of the world. One of the main thoughts expressed by Mr. Davison, and approved by other promoters of the plan, was the idea that no Red Cross society will in any measure lose its Identity in supporting anc!~co-ordinating its efforts with the league of Red Cross societies. Nor will the national Red Cross organizations seek to usurp the functions of the various agencies already in existence working for the prevention of disease and for the betterment of humanity. Rather, will the organizations, like the American Red Cross for example, encourage and co-operate with institutions like the United States public health service, the Rockefeller foundation, and other similar organizations, in the general fight against disease. One of the important decisions of the Cannes conference was an agreement on the campaign plans for curbing the ravages of tuberculosis, which has become more prevalent in Europe since the war on account of the low nutrition value of the diet of the peopled and because of the general fuel shortage and the shoddy clothing that came into use as a result of the shortage in raw materials due to restricted importations of wool and cotton. While the» Eupropean populations generally suffered from the cold of winter in fireless houses, their clothes were less warm, and their diet was less heating than in the pre-war days. These con-

FROM FAR AND NEAR

South African gold mines are experimenting with blasting by electricity with a view to minimizing the fine dust which is thought to . be the chief cause of miners’ phthisis. To enable a man with one leg to mount a bicycle or rest while riding, a European inventor has patented a ■mall wheel to be attached upon one aid* of the frame of a machine.

dltions, even in the countries like France and England, were serious. And in the neutral countries like Holland and Denmark, where the blockade was tightly maintained conditions became very difficult. In tiw countries like Serbia, Poland and Roumania the general destitution became pitiable. First of all, the campaign plans against tuberculosis contemplate the erection of dispensaries on an adequate scale furnished with laboratories and appropriate equipment and affording provision for early diagnosis by expert physicians. Especially trained nurses are to be attached to the dispensaries charged with the assignment of visiting the homes of tuberculosis sufferers, where the necessary care, treatment, Instruction and advice can be given to men, women and children so far gone with the scourge that they are unable to visit the dispensary. The second clause of the concise campaign plans against tuberculosis recommends a system of regular inspections in the schools, where childreq in the early stages of consumption can be found, thereby making possible the removal of the afflicted boys and girls who by their presence among the healthy youngsters endanger the health of whole communities. For the advanced and hopeless cases of consumption the creation of an adequate hospital system is suggested. For cases where a cure is possible, a system of sanatoriums is recommended. That a campaign of popular education should in the meantime be carried on for the benefit of the general, public, is deemed essential to the plan. In this campaign widespread publicity would be given to the causes and means of preventing tuberculosis —every suitable publicity agency being utilized for the purpose. The crusade is linked closely with the improvement of the general living and working conditions of the people everywhere. It Involves the problems of housing, nutrition, and alcoholism. So that the section of the league of Red Cross societies combating tuberculosis must of necessity depend on and work in harmony with other departments directly Interested in better housing conditions and the other movements calculated to improve living conditions.

The word "magnet” is derived from the name of the city of Magnesia, in Asia Minor, the properties of the lodestone are said to have been discovered. . Blue diamonds, though unusually beautiful stones, are considered very unlucky. So much sd that in the Orient they are known significantly os “diamond* of death.”

Impure milk may be the means of transmitting tuberculosis germs. Therefore the Red Cross crusade against consumption includes a recommendation for the Institution of appro* priate measures for preventing the buying and selling of dirty milk. Naturally the open-air school for tubercular children is commended and emphasis is put on the need of extending the open-air plan wherever possible for barracks, asylums, orphanages,: workhouses, and prisons. Thousands of men, women and children, only slightly affected with consumption, are better citizens if they can work at jobs that do not act as a barrier to recovery. These jobs, however, do not exist in sufficient numbers to fill the needs of a world that is filled with an increasing number of tubercular people. Therefore it will become a special task of the Red Cross people to encourage individuals and organizations to greater efforts in solving this Important problem—the creation of industries particularly adapted to the employment of consumptives. Farm colonies connected with the sanatoriums are suggested as a partial solution of the problem. Under such a plan the workers would have the advantage of being under the supervision of expert doctors, who could be relied on to see that the right balance of work and recreation and treatment was maintained. At the present time farm colonies are in particular favor as a means of affording employment to people with very light cases. That quackery in the treatment of consumption must be stamped out is a determined stand thken by the Red Cross. The world today is cursed with a comparatively small number of socalled doctors and with comparatively few nostrum factories that sell alleged consumption cures. One of the essential features of the campaign against consumption Is that the health experts should have at hand an accurate summary of the distribution of consumption in every community. Knowledge of this kind is of the greatest possible assistance in carrying on a campaign. For the local staffs, such Information enables the community dispensary staff to locate the breeding grounds of tuberculosis and center its fight on the dangerous sectors. —■. ----- --'

Mrs. M. J. Porter of Leon, Kan., noticed an old wolf around a tree stump, and when she investigated she found eight young wolves. She killed them. There is a probable opportunity, according to Vice-Consul Griffith of Santlago,. de ■Cuba, for the sale of portable houses to sugar mill owners and other large employers of labor on that Island. Such houses, however, could not be aold to householders for private building purposes because of the universal use of the Spanish style of structure, fea* taring the patio or central! court