Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1919 — Page 3

TIGER COACH SAYS CHARLIE CARR HAD GREATEST MINOR LEAGUE BALL TOSSERS

Manager Carr and Two of His Old-Time Players.

Charlie Carr’s Indianapolis club, which won the American association pennant in 1908, is said to be the greatest minor league team of all time. Dan Howley, new Tiger coach, admits it. Dan was a member of the club and Is positive Donie Bush will supporrtim tn-his boast. Donie was amember of the same team, coming to Detroit that fall. Indianapolis that year sent four other players to the majors besides Bush —Pitchers “Bull” Durham and “Rube” Marquard to the Giants; Catcher “Paddy” Liyingston to the Athletics, and Jack Hayden to the Cubs. Howley shared the backstopping job with Livingston, .and, while he claims no distinction for himself, had a lot to do with developing Marquard.

DAVENPORT GOOD AS ORATOR

Tail Pitcher Never Lost Opportunity to Tell His Mates How to Win Baseball Games. . Dave Davenport, besides being the tajlest man in baseball, possesses the greatest line of chatter in diamond circles. Dave is. quite some, talker. .He talks himsplf into the reputation of being thegreatest- clubhouse pitcher in the American league, according to one of his fellow players with the Browns. It was a habit with Fielder Jones to hold a meeting in the clubhouse just before going out on the field. Fielder would talk over with his men about the weak points of the opposition and tell the pitcher he Intended using where to pitch to each man. After Fielder had finished his oration Dave would immediately get on the "old soap box,” as the players say, and tell how he baffled this and that player with certain shoots. Dave sel-

Dave Davenport.

dom gave anyone else a chance to utter a word, and the meeting generally broke up with the tall boy still telling how the game should be played on that particular afternoon. It sometimes happened, however, that Davenport would be sent to the mound. The players on the bench would eagerly watch the tall Texan. He had a habit of tossing up a slow ball quite often, and invariably some player on the opposing side would connect for a terrific wallop to. the fence. The fact that Davenport was pounded’ hard and yanked out of the game on a number of occasions never caused the big fellow to cease telling his teammates how to play the game. Dave meant well and his teammates enjoyed the act immensely. >

HAVE GOOD PITCHING STAFF

St. Louis Cardinals Can’t Offer Alibis on “Accidents to Pitchers"—All Doihg Finely. The Cardinals can’t alibi on “accidents to pitchers” or anything like that. Bill Doak never pitched better ball than he has this year, Marvin Goodwin is as good as his name; and even Leon Ames still knows how to pitch, though there may be some who try to tell him better. The Cardinals have as good pitching as anybody.

DIAMOND NOTES

Walter Johnson isn’t the pinch hitter he once was. * * * Harper is having a rough time trying to: win a game. r: * * * New York Giants are the hardest hitters in the National league thus far. * ♦ * Eastern critics think Dave Robertson will be an immense help to the Cubs. Bill Rariden shows a lot more pep with the Reds than he ever did as a Giant * • • Grover Cleveland Alexander of the Cubs seems to be back in his best form again. * ♦ ♦ Pitcher Rummage is said to be going good for the Spartanburg team of the South Atlantic league. ♦ * ♦ Hal Chase is ascending to the top of the National league batting averages with leaps and bounds. ♦** , . John McGrath should about the minors. so long as the Cardinals don’t break off relations With him. __ Patsy Flaherty’s reslgnation as njßna ger of the Louisville Colonels was said to be due to newspaper criticism. —« .... Dick Rudolph has pitched 31 games against the Giants during his major league career. He has won 14 and lost 17. • * • Moran has Magee, Cueto and Litzman on his roster and yet js compelled to keep Bressler, a pitcher, in the outfield. Charley Risberg surprised a lot of persons by going to first base for crippled Chick Gandil and playing a swell -., * m John Ganzel thinks that even with hisdeam falling off in its hitting it will get by now that he has strengthened his pitching staff.

* * ♦ Jim Thorpe, who used to hit only fouls when he wore a Giants’ uniform, has a regular job now with the Braves, and is batting at a .375 gait. * * » “Lena” Blackburne, who was re* cently traded to the Phillies by the Braves, is playing a bang-up game at third for Gavvy Cravath's nine. Eddie Hemingway, who broke a leg right after joining Omaha, has about recovered and will be able to play again regularly in a short while. • ♦ » Tex Westerzii, taken on by Portland tn an emergency, has developed into one of the most valuable men on the team. His hitting has been particularly effective. Deal crosses over In front of Hollocher for short infield grounders too far in for Hollocher to reach, much as Zimmerman does before Fletcher for the Giants. * • * • Odd thing about Walter Johnson’s pitching Against the lowly Athletics is that the big Swede has won most of his games from that club this year by the tidy little score of 1 to 0.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

TOM LYNCH AS UMPIRE

Totn Lynch, who was the president of the National league in 1913, was at one time a famous umpire. His manner, dignity and courtesy impressed all he met, and his personality dominated the whole fielij. When he made a decision there was such positiveness about it that no one questioned No one ever saw Lynch around the hotels at night. He always held himself aloof from the players, and they seldom caught a glimpse of him until he came on the field to umpire the game» He was known for his general good conduct and honesty.

WHEAT OF BROOKLYN IS NATURAL BATTER

Slugger Crouches, Shifts Feet and Kicks Up Much Dirt. ♦ - - ■ - . Has Decidedly Awkward Motions While at Bat, But Is in Position to Hit Anywhere—He Is Called a Free Swinger. What Is the difference between form and style? In other words, what is the difference between a natural propensity to do the right thing in a sport and the doing of thftt thing in an easy and graceful fashion? asks Thomas S. Rice, baseball critic on. the Brooklyn Eagle. We have discoursed upon Heinle Zimmerman as the naturally easy and graceful ball player, and have given him credit for the game. Now come we to a distinguished athlete who is. very much different. The same is Zaccheus D. Wheat, left fielder of the Brooklyn Superbas. Zimmerman would delight the golfer, because Zim keeps his feet in precisely the theoretical position for doing the best work. Zach stands well up to the plate, but has decidedly awkward motions while there. He shifts his feet, crouches a bit, kicks the dirt from behind him—and hits the ball better than Zim. How come? The experts on golf form would wag their heads at the sight of Zach, or dock their heads out of the way of One of his terrific smashes; ' ■

But'the graceful and easy stuff does not fool the old-time baseball player or manager any more than does the awkward stuff. Uncle Wilbert Robinson of the Brooklyn Superbas says Wheat is one of the most natural batters he ever beheld. “You can tell he is a batter as soon as he steps to the plate,” says Uncle Wilbert. “Zach’s every movement of the shoulders and arms is well timed. He makick up some dirt and give the groundkeeper unnecessary labor, but as soon aS the ball starts toward him you can see that his limbs are free. That is, he is in position to hit anywhere if the occasion arises. “Wheat is called a free-swinger, and, being left-handed, has a natural tendency to pull to the right.”

ANOTHER CHANCE FOR HOYT

Brooklyn Youth, Once With New York - Giants, Has Signed Up With Boston Red Sox. " Waite Hoyt, former Erasmus Hall high school star, who became famous by joining the Giants at the age of sixteen in 1915, Is finally to get another chance to achieve his life’s ambition and star In the big leagues. The youngster has been signed by the Red Sox and in his games so far has done remarkably well. Hoyt’s pitching with the Baltimore Dry Dock team attracted the attention of several major league clubs. His work with the Dry Dock team paralleled his phenomenal twirling in schola*

Waite Hoyt.

tic circles in Brooklyn a few years ago He has been pitching practically nothing but shutouts qnd low hit and small score games. —-—. The Giants retained a string to Hoyt for some time. He was farmed out in 1917 and also In 1918. Last winter he was sent to Rochester as part payment for Catcher Burl Smith, but refused « report

At first glance this might seem to represent a camouflaged warship entering the “danger zone” during war times, but It is really a photograph, snapped from the fighting top of the U. S. S. Oklahoma, showing the gobs lined up for “bedding drill,” while adorning the rail can be seen the bedding of the sailors exposed to the fresh air.

AROUND WORLD NEXT AIR FEAT

Some Aviator Expected to Emulate Magellan by Long Cruise - VI STILL NEW TO MANY LANDS National Geographic Society Says There Are Many Places Where Airplane, Automobile and Even Horse Would Be Curiosity. Washington.—“ Now that the Atlantic has been crossed and there are plans afoot to fly over the Pacific, the day may not be far distant when some aerial Magellan will make an airplane tour around the world,” says a bulletin of the National Geographic society. “There are still many corners of the world Vhere airplane, automobile and even the horse would be curiosities. And If a man set out to tour the globe ( and ‘do as the Romans do’ in respect to adopting native conveyances he would have to: “Resort to a donkey In Spanish America .and in the Holy Land. “Climb’ aboard a camel to traverse African deserts. “Cross some rivers of India on the inflated skins of bullocks, and others by a bridge of one rawhide rope. Using Elephant as Taxi. “Submit to the sea-going motion of an elephant when he continued his journey on land. “Get into a man-borne palanquin at Calcutta. “Jolt over far Eastern roads in a non-shock absorbing cart drawn by oxen. “And in China he prepared to climb into a jlnrlklsha. a sedan chair or a wheelbarrow.” < A few of these curious means of travel are described in a eommuniefttldn ld the so<jlety by follows: “In all parts of that great line of deserts, stretching from North Africa across Central Asia to Northwest China, the camel is everywhere In evidence; the total number in the

UNIQUE WAR GARDEN

This is the most unique war garden in existence. 0n a /second-story window of a house on Sixth avenue, at the Bleecker street “L” station in New York is this miniature farm. The corn looks very well.

“AIRING DAY” ON THE U. S. S. OKLAHOMA

world being estimated at about three millions. “Not only is the camel a valuable freight carrier, but he serves as the_ travcling car of the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, the Morgans and the Harrimans of the desert. When he is chosen for this more pretentious service a light framework is placed upon his back and covered with cloths to screen the occupants from the sun and the observation of the passers, and decorated with pompons of various colors. In this gorgeous compartment, which may be not inaptly termed the ‘palace car of the desert,’ the master of the camel train places his wife and children, his choicest merchandise, his cooking utensils and dally requirements, and travels in state, the observed of all observers, the envy of the wandering native of the desert' Craft on the Euphrates. __x “On the Euphrates and the Tigris are still retained the curious water transports of centuries ago—the raft of skins and the circular boats. These rafts are sustained by inflated skins, prepared for this especial purpose, and after the raft floats down the river to its destination the inflated skins are removed, the air permitted to escape, and the skins carefully folded and carried back to the upper waters, w-here they are again Inflated and used as the support of another and still another raft. “Even more curious to the eyes of the traveler from other parts of the world are the circular boats, made of wickerwork and covered with skins,

Chinese Women Are Advancing

Woman Doctor Predicts Great Future in Their Politics.

EDUCATED HERE FOR MISSION

Dr Yamel Kin as a Baby Was the Only Survivor of a Family of Plague Victims —Taking Great Strides. a life which she has tAiilt up to a point of success such that she is recognized as the foremost woman physician throughout the length and breadth of China, Dr. Yamel Kin. who passed through Honolulu recently on her way to the United States, has a life history that has few equals for romance and interest. Many years ago a physician of wealth and leisure named Doctor Mo Cartee was traveling in the far East, going from village to village in China studying the language and customs. His quest lasted nearly fifty years. One afternoon he stopped for the night in a village devastated by the plague, and while walking about among the silent, death-marked huts he heard the wail of a tiny baby. He discovered an entire family lying dead in the hut, with the exception of a baby girl. Adopted Little Orphan. Having no child, the doctor adopted the little orphan and sent her to America for an education. He gave her the best medical training that time afforded, hoping to make of her a great woman physician, and In time she was graduated from a medical college In New York city, an Institution that ceased to exist when the Cornell and Columbia university medical colleges for women were opened. She Is now Doctor Kin. , . j Never for a moment, however, did Doctor' Kin forget the land of her ■ r

Arizona Students Hairless After Big “Cutting” Bee

Flagstaff, Ariz. —About forty young men here, half of them students at the Northern Arizona Normal school, are minus their hair as a result of a students’ prank. Among them is Brodie Campbell, son of Governor Campbell. . The students first captured Cornelius Buckley, a “town boy,” and clipped part of his _ hair. - Buckley’s friends captured about twenty students and retaliated. A general chase, captui-e and hair cutting, which Included all the young men of normal and town who could be found, followed. Barbers did a rushing business removing the odd-shaped patches of hair left by the amateur cutters.

or made watertight with pitch, which are still in daily use on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. . “The three principal methods of transportation of people in central and southern China are the sedan chair, the jlnrlklsha and the wheelbarrow. “Probably more freight and more passengers are transported in China by the wheelbarrow than by any other land method. The wheelbarrow there used differs from that used by us In the fact that the wheel is set in the center and thus supports practically the entire load, while the handles are supported in part by a strap or rope over the shoulders of the man who operates it. As a result, the wheelbarrow coolie in China will transport nearly a half ton on his vehicle.”

birth, and as she grew to be considered a brilliant -Chinese woman in America her efforts for the women of China were untiring. She has lectured and written in behalf of China, and has held a position under the Chinese government with a view to bringing the republic and the United States Into better understanding. According to Doctor Kin, women in China are taking seven-league strides to rid themselves of the environment of practical vassalage under which they have lived for ages past Sne predicts great things for an awakTier way to the UnTtea SWtes to make experiments which she feels will be of benefit to her countrymen.

SPENDS NIGHT IN WELL

Missouri Hunter Meets With Strange Accident, But Finally Escapes. Wheaton, Mo.—Plunging into a well 20 feet in depth, and remaining there for many hours, was the experience of John Switzer while hunting foxes near Powell, six miles south of this place. . Switzer and several others of Granby came over for an all-night fox chase. Switzer selected an abandoned field near an old hut to wait for the chase. About midnight he heard the dogs coming his way, and as he started to meet 'them he stepped ipto the old w’ell. Fortunately the well was dry, but Switzer was badly bruised and dazed. He spent the bight In a vain attempt to climb the sides of his prison. As morning dawned, Switzer determined to make his last effort to free himself. Catching with bothhands oa the sides of the well, he climbed a few Inches at a time. He worked cautiously, as his strength rapidly became weaker. Finally Switzer reached the top and by grabbing a small bush he pulled himself from the hole of torture. He was found in a dazed condition br his companion*. ’