Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — Page 3

MANAGER M’GRAW UNCOVERS INFIELDER WHO APPEARS TO BE FIND OF SEASON

Frank Frisch, Giant Rookie, Who Is Making Good.

Manager McGraw is almost reconciled to losing the National league pennant because of the playing of Frank Frisch, his youthful second-sacker. The Fordham student appears to have everything and is hailed as'the find of the season. He jumped right from a college team into a Giant uniform. Frisch is not a “fresh” youngster. He simply is an aggressive ball 'player, the kind that fits in well with McGraw’s idea of what a player should be. The New York leader can overlook a lot of other faults in an athlete, but An incident showing his belligerent nature cropped up in the late series with the Reds when the Giants’ hopes were practically blasted. It was the first important set of games for Frisch, and at one stage in the proceedings McGraw yanked the collegian for a pinch hitter. What the youngster told McGraw is a classic among the New York players, part of which is printable and was: , “I’ll show you I can hit.” The first time up in the next game he cracked out a screeching single. And he didn’t forget to call John’s attention to it.

WOLGAST IS FIGHTING AGAIN

Former Lightweight Champion Is Making Arizoha His Stamping Ground at Present. Ad Wolgast Is fighting again and is making Arizona his stamping ground. It’s but a few years back when he wah the greatest card In the lightweight ranks. He and Nelson were a

Ad Wolgast.

pair of 133-pounders to be reckoned with. Furthermore, h®» was the only man who ever beat tlm "Durable Dane" At his own game —assimilating punishment. Not that hfe was any gamer than Nelson, for no man that wore the gloves ever showed greater fortitude than the Hegewlsch wonder. But he proved on that Washington’s blthday afternoon he could stand up under punishment to a greater degree than Nelson could. His condition proved the better. Nelson lost the bout standing on his feet at the end of the fortieth round, blind as a bat. Wolgast* has lost a great deal of his former wealth. At ohe time Ad was worth close around the $200,000 mark. But something snapped and he went to pieces, and but for his wife, who was appointed guardian by the courts, nothing would now be left to him.

SIRED ALL HORSES IN RACE

All Startera-ln Saranac Handicap Were Get of Ormondale, Most Promising Stallion. Ormondale promises to become the most popular sire in America. Recently he bad the peculiar distinction of batting sired every horse that started In the Saranac handicap. This is something that has not happened in many years of racing. The horses were Purchase, Passing Shower and The Trump. _ Tetley, another horse that had been entered in the race but 'was scratched, also was sired by Or* mondale.

PERRY NOT WORTH SUIT

Francis Richter has a few sage remarks in the Philadelphia Press prompted by the suspension of Scott P.erry for deserting the Athletics. Says Richter: •" It is Just what might have been expected of a player of Perry’s calibre, as he was a contract jumper when Manager Mack rescued him from his de-, served obscurity last season. It also illustrates once more that it does not pay, in the long run, to go to law about any player. Going to court fs a baseball sin and it’s sure your sin will find you out.

SOTHORON IS TRICKY HURLER

Performance of St/Louis Pitcher Calk ed to Attention of Freak Delivery Reformers. Here is a story of trick pitching that you can take any way you please: In the final game of the season in St. Louis between Browns and Cleveland Indians, the Indians in the first inning Sothoron’s pitching, two of them being doubles against the fence, and scored five runs before the side was retired. 'When Sothoron, apparently beaten before he had fairly started, went to the mound for the second inning, the Cleveland players asked to see the ball he was pitching. They agreed—and the umpires agreed with theifi —that the ball and other balls handed to the umpires had been tampered with. The covers had been cut about the seams. So the umpires threw out a lot of balls and called for a new lot. These balls were delivered in packages unopened, just as they came from the makers, and were satisfactory. •And pitching with them—and being very careful to~pleaie all hands 'and' prove he had no tricks up his sleeve, in his glove, or on his belt —Mr. Allan Sothoron then shut out the Indians for 13 Innings, allowing but seven very scattered hits. There’s a story of some very tricky pitching. We’ll say it was tricky, even if the pitcher wore ho mustache to deceive you!—Sporting News.

VESPER CLUB ACHIEVEMENTS

Members of Philadelphia Organization Gaining Prominence by Winning Sculling Races. The Vesper Boat dub o# Philadelphia, which heretofore was famed for the powerful senior eight-oared shell crews they developed, their victory in Paris in 1900, and over the Argonauts of Toronto at the St. Louis fair in 1904 being among big achievements, are now gaining sculling prominence. Jack Kelly this year won the national single sculling award and £aul Costello the association single crown. Walter Rlgling, too, leaped into prominence by advancing from junior to senior rank this year. He won the junior single sgulls race on the Schuylkill river, July 4, and on Labor day won the Intermediate and association single races one after the other. In 20 minutes.

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WILL CUT SOME FIGURE

Bror Myer and Emmy Bergfeldt, the world’s champions at figure skating, have returned to the United States and will compete In competitions. They were here during'l9l6-17 and 1917-18 seasons exhibiting in New York and other cities. They report that Sweden is concerned with after-the-war adjustment, and that ice skating is uncertain because of recent mild winters.

LEGITIMATE SPYING FAVORED BY BEZDEK

College Grid Scouting Makes the Players More Alert Penn State Football Coach Unloads Some Logical Matter for Those Opposed to Custom —Likes to Discuss Problems. Hugo Bezdek, manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the baseball season and football coach at Penn State college during the autumn, loves the gridiron game. Even during the months when Hugo is not wrestling with pitching problems he loves to discuss football. While in Chicago Beedek launched into a football discussion via the scouting controversy, and before he closed his remarks unloaded some logical matter for those who are of the opinion that it is wrong for college teams to scout on one another. "Row- are you going to-stop the scouting business?” asked the Pirateleader. “I hear a lot of this scouting talk, and the plans of Yale and Harvard to do away with scouting, but I cannot reason tbe thing out, unless all , coaches become absolutely honest And turn deaf ears to reports on the play of opponents." Bezdek says he can receive enough valuable information via voluntary scouts during a season to enable him to analyze any opponent’s strength, because all football followers like to discuss problems, and they usually rush to a coach with theij discussions. The Pirate leader says he would not favor doing away with scouting. “It teaches players to be alert,” he said, “and when you have an alert crowd of gridders at work you have the making of a championship team. It’s perfectly natural for the members of one team to want to know what style of play an opponent-to-be is using. When you tell them this you arouse their interest and they instinctively set about to neutralize the effect. I favor legitimate scouting at all times.”

PAT MORAN PICKED LIVE ONE

Cincinnati Manager Made No Mistake When He Coaxed Slim Sallee Back Into Game. Among the members of the Cincinnati club is a long, lean, laconic gentleman from the Ohio farm lands who will bear close scrutiny. Harry Sallee, more frequently referred to as Slim or Sheriff, is the gentleman in question. The long-limbed southpaw—so the records say—obtained his first major league engagement back in 1905 with the Meridian club of the Cotton States league. He was a trifle too good for

Slim Sallee.

of his first season was sold to the Birmingham club of the Southern association. There he remained until the fall of 1908, when he was picked up by the Yankees. . Just before the Reds started south this spring, Pat Moran, seeking to bolster his pitching staff, persuaded Sallee, who had received his release from the Giants, to join his club. In coming to terms with Moran, Sal took into account only the fact that Cincinnati is but forty miles from Higginsport. It scarcely"'occurred to him, or to Pat, either, at that time,, that the Reds might break into the 1919 world’s series. At any rate, Sal has given of, his best to the Cincinnati pilot, and is in no" small way responsible for the sensational rise of t£e club.

Trained Disabled Soldier: Asset Not Liability

By Robert H.Moulton

7 tHE Idea of salvaging material is old. For years the wideawake manufacturer has realized the importance of utilizing seeming waste products, and thereby has added millions of dollars to the value of his output, has developed many new products, and, in consequence, lowered the cost of many others. But the idea of salvaging human material is new. Of all the factors that go to make up industry the wastage of labor has in the past been the least considered. It became rather the accepted fact that a disabled man should be looked upon as fit only for the serap heap and that instead of being an asset to himself and the nation he was a liability; that hejshould become a, charge upon the rest of his fellow citizens, unproductive but consuming. Although the world Avas waking to the unsoundness of this view before the war began, It remained for the awakened consciousness of men that came with the war to look at this, fact in a more human as well as a more economic way, particularly when it came to the reclaiming of wounded soldiers. Perhqps the very number of those (fisabled forced the nations engaged in the war to look about for a solution of the problem of the wounded men, hut wi th interest once aroused in the subject it lias become apparent that it will not stop with the soldier and that eventually the injured worker in any line of industry or commerce will be taken care of. As a matter of fact, many of the great industries already have discovered new fields for disabled men. Estimates of the surgeon-general show that about 200,000 men who served in the army have received disabilities of such a character that a large number of them will need special education or training to re-establish them in civil life where they will be economically Independent. The government wants every disable, man to fit himself, by special training, to fill at least as useful and' important a place as was his before he was disabled. The only way be can do that is through training. Therefore the government ljas provided training, in addition to insurance and compensation. Every man who is entitled to compensation is entitled to training. And the federal board for vocational education stands ready to see that he gets It—if he wants it. There’s the rub—if he wants it; if he will take it. There are no "limits to the training a man can get. He may go to college or law school or an agricultural college or to a school of medicine. He can have the course, no matter how long it takes or' how much It costs. Or he can be put in a shop or a factory'to learn a trade and paid while he is learning. s

Heda Seldom Quiet

Mount Hecla, or Hekla, is a volcano In Iceland, near the southwest coast, about 5,110 feet high, which has been almost Constantly In a state of eruption since the ninth century of the Christian era. Over 20 eruptions of the most violent character have taken place since. A. t>. 1000. In 178£8p an appalling catastrophe took place; rivers were dried up and many villages overwhelmed or destroyed. The vol-

He will get for his living expenses, if he lives alone, at least $75 per month. If his compensation does not amount to that, the federal board will make up the difference. His dependents,-if he has any, will receive the allotments that went te them while he was on active service—at least S3O per month to his wife and $lO to each minor child. —■— : It might seem, offhand, that no man could need any persuasion to take advantage of such opportunities as the federal board offers. But it isn't quite so simple. If a man is In a hospital, a long way from home, and he receives letters from his family urging him to return as soon as he can, with promises of love and care and rest and comfort; if he is pretty tired after a long spell of illness and confinement, he doesn’t feel much like making a new effort. He may feel that it isn’t necessary. He may know that he can get a job, at higher wages than he ever got before, without taking any training at all. There is an answer —and a good one —to \very one of these arguments against vocational training for men disabled in war. It isn’t good for a man who might be able to take care of himself, if he made an effort, to turn that job over to anyone else, no matter hoW closely self-respect. He can go home for a little while: he can have a furlough before he starts his training. Often he can get his training so /ilose to his home that he can live at home. And even if the training does intolve a separation, how about the way he’ll feel five, ten, fifteen years from now? What does a few months of absence mean compared with the comfort, the stability, the self-respect he will get with his training? And then, suppose he can get a Job at good wages just as he is? How long can he hold it? Sooner or later he will have to face the competition of men who are strong and' healthy; He can on even terms only if he has training. Sentiment, in the long run, doesn’t count much in the matter of employment. The ancient law of supply and demand hasn’t been repealed yet. Experience has shown that in other countries where something of the same plan being casried out by the federal board has been tried, the majority of the men who train get better Jobs than those they had before they went into the service. Investigation has shown, also, that few professions or trades or vocations are too difficult for a disabled man, provided he has the ability to fill them and the grit to prepare himself to handle them. The government is anxious to encourage initiative and Individuality in every possible way, and the disabled man who shows

cano was In a state of vlolept eruption from September 2,1845, to April, 1846. Pillars of fire rose to a height of 14,000 feet and Ice and snow, which had wrapped the mountain for centuries, melted into prodigious floods, which swept everything before them.

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these qualities will have little trouble in consulting with the government advisers with whom he discusses the training he desires. Representatives of the federal board are busy in the great reconstruction hospitals, making preliminary investigations of men about to be discharged. Sometimes it proves comparatively easy to place a man 1 in a good job; training isn’t always needed. The board acts as an employment agency to a considerable extent. But its great task is to seek out the men who have to be re-educated, or who, never having had the opportunity to secure an education, can take advantage of this chance. No attempt has been made w far to place disabled men in s'pecial schools for cripples or to segregate them in any way for training or other purposes. Experience has shown that such segregation is harmful and that the more a disabled man is thrown with his fellow men who are strong and healthy, the quicker vyill be his recovery—and- the more readily will he absorb training. For this reason use is being made of existing educational and trade schools throughout the country. More than 100,000 disabled men have already sought the assistance of the federal board of yocational .education, and new cases come into the central teen branch offices at the fate of 500 a day. There are about 6,000 men to take the training, and efforts are being made to get disabled men to take training just as, quickly as possible after they leave the army. When it is considered that more than 50,000 disabled men left array before they could be told about the board, the figures of those who have shown their interest are encouraging.

Dispute Over Mountain

Tacoma and Seattle, frway up in Washington, and other communities out lin that fflrcEtßrtl, ure having » wordy wrangle over what is called the great mountain that towers to the clouds “just across the river.” It is set down In the geography as Mount Rainier, but the people of Tacoma call it Mount Tacoma, and now there is a considerable number of persons in this country who want It named after the late Colonel Roosevelt—they want it called Mount Roosevelt. The name ! ‘Rainier” was given the mountain by the Canadians, in honor of a British admiral of that name whe sank an American vessel during the Revolutionary war. Naturally, the name is not especially popular on this side of the border. The Indians called it “Tacoma” —the tribe itself bore the same name, which means simply "the mountain.” The Tacoma Indians were “the Mountain Indians.”

will serve to cleanse London's murky atmosphere. To the present no practical system that will come within the purse of the average householder has been devised, but experiments along that line are being carried out by * number of corporations. London nses soft coal In preference to anthracite and within an hour after 6 o'clock to the morning, when London servants arise,, the air is filled with long spirals of smoke from countless chimney pots. sky soon 1R entirely obscured. " =