Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1919 — Page 2

MANAGER HUGGINS DOES NOT REALIZE WORTH OF POPULARITY AND PUBLICITY

There is no keener ctndonf ip h»isolmll_tJian_Mlller Huggins, zna nager of the New York American league team. He constantly is thinking out plays, and tries to imp(ant his ideas on the men he commands. Hi* is a clever judge of pitchers, and though he always played thc intl.-M, he can teach a young pitcher more than the average retired star moundsman. Not Popular With Fans. Despite his success here, it nevertheless is true that Huggins has not won a great deal of popularity in New Y.ork.- complains a-New.York crltic. ile has_ L3*flWi jtMWy ofjjjiiis nStiity, him - Hko they d<i for McGraw or like tliey did for some of his numerous predecessors. particularly Clark Griffith and Bill Donovan. Huggins largely is to blame for tlie fact that he has not won more popularity in New York. He discounts both popularity and publicity. Despite the fact that he is one of the smartest men that everYrod on a ball field, and is a lawyer in the bargain, he does not seem to realk&eAehat assets popularity and publicity can be to a successful manager; Lets Huston Do Mixing. He is willing to let the congenial “Cap” Huston do all the mixing for the club. There perhaps never was a club in which there was greater intimacy between the owners and baseball writers than there is between Ruppert and Huston and the New York Chapter of Baseball Writers, yet on the other hand, few managers are as distant from the men who write -of the exploits of their team as Huggins.

MUST ABOLISH FREAK BALLS

Manager Stallings of Boston Braves, Opposed to Use of Paraffin, Emery, Etc. Manager Stallings of Boston believes firmly that baseball authorities will have, sooner or later, to banish all paraffin, emery and other accessories that make startling curves in baseball. The spithall is not used by the young fellows coming in. It is the old boy who feels himself slipping who takes to it and keeps himself in baseball several years longer than one who does not use it. “Take emery,” says Stallings. “A man can put it on his glove and an

Manager Stallings.

umpire can rub his hand over it and not detect the dust. Yet there is enough there to roughen the ball and let the twirler get a grip on it. “One twirler on a winning club has so much paraffin scattered’ about his person that he smells like the Standard OiL He makes no bones of it. The catcher gets a new ball and bounces it to the pitcher on the ground. That makes a rough spot and the pitcher smooths the side opposite and you have a curve that will outbreak a spitter.” . ' ' ...

NEALE TO IMPROVE BATTING

Cincinnati Outfielder Thinking Seriously of Changing His Position While at Plate. Earle Neale of the Reds thinks seriously of changing his batting position. The pitchers have been keeping the ball inside on him with the result that he is popping up steadily. He does not know whether to move closer or to step back, but is going to do one or the other-to improve his hitting.

Hard-Working Leader of New York Yankees.

DIAMOND NOTES

The Red Sox are going better now. * * ♦ ■ Lee Meadows continues to'hurl giltedged ball for the ♦ * * The Giants surely are getting their money's worth out of Phil Douglas. ♦ * • Cincinnati is making money these Jays. Pat Moran is responsible for it. * ♦’ ♦ They made a mistake with reference to Mr. Ragan. He should be named Finnegan. Bigbee of Pittsburgh, just a fair outfielder. is the leading base stealer in the National league. There Cincinnati Beds to win the pennant in the National league. * » » There is a scramble among managers of the leading ball teams in both leagues to - get star pitchers. ♦ ♦ • “Every little lAagnate has a? squabble of his own,” seems to be the popular tune in the American league now. ♦ ♦ ♦ Ray Roberts’ recent no-hit game for Atlanta against Nashville was the second of the season in the Southern Teague.

Talk about your Schalks and Ruels, but no club has slww-n a hetter young catcher than have the Mackmen in Perkins. , , • * * The retirement 'fever, a bee always jn the bonnets of Frank Baker and Duffy Lewis, has struck thfese two Yankees early. Gus Bono’s no-hit game for Shreveport was the first of the season in the Texas league. The San Antonio Aces were his victims. • • • Mario De Vitalis of Brown university fame. has become a Yankee. He Jias returned from overseas. He is a right-handed pitcher. • * ♦ If there is a slower pair of pitchers in the American Teague than George TEHckson and Elmer Myfers their names cannot be recalled. • * * Cub fans have become exceptionally rough lately. Umpires cannot make a close decision without being greeted with a shower of pop bottles. *■ • • Manager McGraw of the Giants is charged with having said that he was glad to get out of the town of the Hun when he left Cincinnati. ♦ • • If anyone tells you Wilson FeWster isn’t as good an outfielder as the Yanks have had in five years, go to ths mat with him. . And he can hit!

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BASEBALL HONORS FOR HARVARD MAN

Robert W. Emmons, second, captain-elect of the Crimson nine, has been awarded two trophies offered; so individual proWess on the baseball diamond at Harvard. The advisory baseball committee announced Emmons as the winner of the Wingate cup, offered annually to the best all-around player on the team. He had previously won the Barrett Wendell bat as the nine’s best hitter. Emmons plays’shorts top.

POCKETS BARRED BY CHRIS VON DER AHE

Cincinnati Won From St. Louis Through Odd Accident. Ball Hit by Visiting Player Got Stuck In Pocket of Carroll and Batter Scored Before Sphere Could —..- -Be- Extractetfr" -- *" - " Way back in ’B9 Cincinnati wasplaying one afternoon with Chris Von Der A he’s St. Louis aggregation on the St. Louis grounds. - Ciiicfnna ti had a man on first base and two out, and needed two runs to win. _~ZZ Cliff Carroll was playing center field for the St. Louis nine. The Cincinnati batter hit a slow grounder to center, and Carroll ran up to gather it in. The situation was ticklish, and Carroll rifvTihivd’ to field the ball carefully?: He squatted down to meet it, and got his hands in position. Just before it reached him the ball hit a clump of dirt and bounded high. Carroll grabbed him in the chest. = Somehow in the struggle the ball was wedged into the pocket of Carroll’s uniform shirt. It got in there, and Cliff had a terrible time trying to get it out. The runner stopped at second long enough to see that something was the matter. Then he started for home, with Carroll still digging away at his shirt pocket. The result was that the runner got home safely and Cincinnati Won the game. Von Der Ahe almost had a fit. He fined. Carroll fifty for putting the batll 1n his pocket and a rule that thereafter. no pockets | of any kind should be allowed in the uniforms of his team.

TENNEY OPENED EVANS’ EYES

Steve Was Amazed at Way Former Giant Played First Base and . Threw Down, His Mitt. “When Steve Evans came up to the major leagues with the Cardinals some years ago,” says Heine Zimmerman, “he was a first baseman. Like most young ball players, Steve thought pret-

Fred Tenney.

ty well of his own ability. He was quite satisfied that he would make pood as a first sacker in the big show, and then one day he saw Fred Tenney. Tenney was a wonder in those days, and Evans was amazed at the way he covered that old bag. He looked at him in silence foriperhaps five minutes and then, walking to the dugout, he threw down his first basepqjn’s mitt. ‘I thought I was a first baseman,’ he said, with a shake of his head, ‘but Tm not. That bird out there is, though. From now on I’m going to devote my time to the outfield.’ “And,” supplements Heine, “he did.”

PRAISE FOR FRED HOFFMAN

Yankee's New Backstop, Secured from St. Paul, Expected to Star With Huggins. ‘ 'Although he hasn't yet had an opportunity to unveil his wares, Fred Hoffman, the Yank’s new colt catcher from the St. Paul club, is said to be one of the most promising backstops dug up in the minors in many a day. Hoffman joined the Yanks recently and has only done light work, such as warming .up pitchers. Hoffman , made a big hit with St. Paul, where Mike Kelley, the manager, saw in him a potential star and shipped him forward tQ his friend. Miller Huggins.

HEROIC MARINES MARCH THROUGH NATIONAL CAPITAL

Mew of the r'iith and Sixth niarines building in Washington when they were reviewed by President Wilson and Assistant Secretary of the Mavy Franklin Roosevelt.

Sees Game With Teacher’s Eyes

Blind Girl Is an Enthusiastic Rooter for New York Giants. GETS ALL THE GOOD POINTS Daughter of —Famous—Author and Composer Inherits Love of Sport From Father —Is Like Ray zzofSunshinerz? ~ New York. —Evetybody" was humaiing or whistling “After the Ball” 25 years ago. Charles K. Harris, author and composer of that popular song, was at that time a resident of Milwaukee and a frequent visitor to Chicago. He 'was in enthusiastic baseball fan. The Harris home is now at 151 West Eighty-sixth street, -this city T and Miss Mildred Harris, the nineteen-year-old daughter of the author-composer, has Inherited a love of baseball from her father and, despite her total blindness, is able to “see” the game and enjoy it almost as keenly - as if she had her sight. For the last seven years she has been a fan. She sits in the grandstand wearing smoked glasses and is always on hand when the Giants are playing. She jumps up and down and cheers the players just like other excited spectators. Behind her unseeing eyes is a mind of extraordinary perception, swift-to grasp what is going on about her. Some of . the - experts say she “sees” the game more intelligently than those who have all their senses. Sees Through Father's Eyes. Miss Mildred’s escort is her father, and it is through his eyes that she is able to see baseball and understand -all the nice points of the game, as she has been doing for the last seven years.

THE TANKATEEN IN LONDON

The tankateen is a new automobile with a tfiree-horse power motor which has appeared in London and is being adopted by those who do not like the motorcycle.

Richest of Nations

United States Is-Put Far in Lead by British Expert. Germany Holds Second Place and England Third, According to Professor Stamp’s Statistics. London. —While the brain might reel at the many figures unloaded at a meeting of the Royal Statistical society, some interesting details as to the world’s., wealth can be extracted from a paper written by Prof. J. C. Stamp. Comparing the prewar wealth and income of England, Germany and the United States, Professor Stamp computes the respective totals at: *•- Wealth. Inco.-w. England 4 71.5C0.000.000 $11,250,000,000 Germany 82,750,000,000 10,750.000,000 United States..'.. 210.000,000,000 36,250,000,000 On a per capita basis also, America comes out easily the richest country

He explains the—game to her as it progresses by means of a conversational code. "When I was twelve years old,” she said, “the Giants were winning the pennant, and my father was tremendously excited about it. Of course 4 asked him to explain, and he took a piece of cardboard and drew a diamond.on it, markihgthe bases” Whi Io he told me. about the game I traced the diagram out with njy fingers until I got the thing visualized in my mind. Then I went to the games with him and soon learned to understand them by means of our code, usually expressed in monosyllables, a word at a time. Soon I came to know the players and? like -others present, to get all wrought up over team work and brilliant individual performances.” = Trinh is way the blind girl came to know the stars of the baseball world. She can tell you all about the wonderful feats of Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb and’ those of more recent date, including Benny *Kauff, Ross Young and others. She laughingly says she has the time of her life when she goes to a ball game. Sheris sure that she sees all that is going on just about as anyone else sees it.

An Adamless Eden

Illinois Girls Want to Have Colony in Far West. Suggest That Governor of Wyoming Procure for Them a “Bad Lands’’ Tract as Soon as Possible. Bloomington, Ill.—A group of Kane county girls plan to found an 1 Adamless Eden” in Wyoming or some other far western state. Miss Nellie Grant is sponsor for the movement and has written to Gov. R. D. Carey for his assistance in starting a woman’s colony far from the haunts of man. In making her unique request, MlsS '.Granl Slated that the party-wi-H----be mde up of twenty,, of whom ten are employed in a watch factory, seven are housekeepers, two are nurses and one is a school teacher. All are dissatisfied with their lot and assert that the future holds forth nothing that’is sufficiently encouraging to warrant their remaining as home. They believe that they can make a success of farming and would like to obtain a section of land, 640 acres, in some unsettled region, far from a railroad and little frequented by man. Miss Grant suggested to the Wyoming executive a tract in southwestern Wyoming known as the “Bad Lands.” and which is really a desert. No” man will be allowed about The premises. Governor Carey admitted that it was the most* unusual request that he had ever received. He turned the letter over to the immigration commissioner

in the world. The capital per head of the population, according to Professor Stamp, -was, before the war: Capital. Income. England $1,500 s2oo Germany 1,220 150 United States 2,120 360 All these figures must be considerably inflated to obtain the current year’s capital and Income, but the increase would certainly be biggest in the case of the United States, which could boast at least treble its prewar wealth. The thrifty habits of the French nation were reflected, said Professor Stamp, in a capital of $1,515 per head, while Italy and Australia had only $640 and $605, respectively. He compute? Japan’? capital at $12,000,000,000, or on a per capita basis, $220 capital, and S3O income per head of population. The capital and Income of Spain was probably as low as any In Europe, the income per head not exceeding $55. «

Although Miss Harris was born blind, she carries a ray of sunshine with her wherever she goes, for she is cheerful and optimistic. She is fond of the outdoors and excels In walking, " swimming and dancing. She is an accomplished pianist, speaks French fluently and during the war was a volunteer worker for the Y. W. C. A. Rooter for the It may be added that Miss Mildred this year is betting on the Giants, but the fact is she has always been a “rooter” for the Giants. More than once, however, she had lost money on -them-,-but-4s hoping that she will be lucky enough to get some of it back this year. She feels it “in her bones” that nothing can head the Giants off this year. - The ball game is the one place she can go where she can throw aside foration. “You see,” she explains,' “you don’t have to be subdued and self-repressed but can holler your head off if you want to, and nobody pays any attention. When the game is not going just right to suit everybody pandemonium reigns and the whole crowd is in a state of frenzy. It certainly is great sport.” .. ' . • —; Miss Harris modestly says she has been given credit for having converted many others into fans. She talks baseball enthusiastically to her friends and acquaintances and naturally they become interested and follow the crowd to witness the great American game.

with a suggestion that he do everything in his power to find such a tract for the party from Illinois. The young women are ready to pay for the tract, but have limited funds, and can only finance a section that has not yet felt the advancing tide, of civilization in the way of price. Some members of the proposed colony object to Wyoming and believe that Montana or Idaho cffer greater possibilities. The decision, however, has been left with Miss Grant and the choice will follow the Investigation of various sites now being made. The various members are studying farming.

Ex-Presid ent Receives 1,825 Mystery Notes

Long Beach, Cai—Former President Taft every day for the last five years has received from“'Ssome unknown person of this city a letter bearing a signature which resembles the tracks of a struggling fly escaping an ink bath. None of the writing is decipherable. Postmaster Demond received a communication from the former chief executive asking* relief from the correspondent and requesting that the local police -investigate the situation. In all, 1.825 letters from the mystery „ author have been received, the letter to the local postmaster states. -

HELP GERMANS TO FIGHT FIRE

West Pointers and American Doughboys Go to Aid of Moravian Colony. Coblenz, Germany.—Two hundred officers who recently were graduated from West Point military academy, joined hands with hundreds of American doughboys and civilians in fighting a fire which threatened to destroy the Moravian colony, an ancient order of religious workers at the Neuwied headquarters of the First division. The West Pointers, who are on a tour of the battlefields and the occupied area, were attending a dance given in their honor when the fire was discovered just after midnight. The flames got beyond the control of the German firemen and the West Pointers and The doughboys were summoned by Col. Stephen O. Fuqua, chief df staff of the division, to aid in quenching them. The-Americans fought the fire until daylight, when it was brought under coiitroL The blaxe was confined to one block.