Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1919 — Page 3

HAPPY FELSCH HAS MADE NEW RECORD IN STARTING DOUBLE PLAYS FROM OUTFIELD

Hap Felsch, Chicago center flelder, has shoved into the discard the old American league record among suburbanites for making the pioneer move in double plays. It was 13, held by Bert Shotton and was made in 1913, when the present Cardinal was a Brownie. Felsch, from the middle mesa, started 14 double killings beside .putting a triple slaughter in operation. No less than six of his double plays were started in gamdS against the Red Sox. This is a record of Felsch’s double and triple plays this year from center field: Double Plays. Against Boston—6. Felsch to Gandil. Felsch to E. Collins.

FEW RIGHT-HANDED- HITTERS

Large Majority of Outfielders of American League Teams Bat From First Base Side. Left-handed hitters predominate in most of the American league outfields, the Yankees being the only club with three right-hand hitters working regularly. Lewis, Bodie and Vick all ewing from the .right-hand side of the plate. Wickland and O’Doul are lefthand hitters, and Halas bats either way. Detroit has Cobb, Veach and Shorin swinging from the left side, and Flagstead the only right-hand hitter. Boston has Hooper, Strunk, Ruth, Lamar and Gilhooley, who are lefthanded hitters, and Gainer, a converted Infielder, as the lone right-hand hitter. Cleveland has four left-hand-ers. in Graney, Speaker, Smith and Jamieson, with Wood the only outfielder swinging from the other side. Jackson, Leibold and Eddie Murphy of the White Sox hit from the first base side, while Felsch/and John Collins are right-hand hitters. Milan, Rice and Menosky of the Nationals belong to the left-hand division, as does Murphy. Of the St. Louis Browns, Tobin, Demmitt, Smith, Sloan and Williams are left-handed hitters; Jacobson the sole right-hander. Witt and Kopp of the Athletics are left-hand hitters.

SHAKE UP FOOTBALL COACHES

Changes Made in Supervision of Instruction at Many Colleges— Sharpe at Yale. There has been a shakeup in' the football coaching staff or supervision of instruction in the game at Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Yale will have Al Sharpe, the former Cornell coach,

Al Sharpe.

while Bob Fisher will succeed Percy Haughton at Harvard. .Bill Roper will take Speedy Rush’s place at Princeton, and Rush will succeed Sharpe at Cornell. Larry Bankart will return to Colgate, Bob Folwell will be back at Penn, Ed Robinson will be at Brown and Fred Dawson at Columbia. •

To Resume Soccer Games.

Eastern colleges will resume soccer football in November.

Chicago White Sox Crack Centerflelder.

Felsch to Schalk. Felsch to Lynn. Felsch to Weaver. Felsch to Risberg to. Gandil. Against Cleveland—4. ■—Felsch to Gandil. Felsch to Weaver. Felsch to Schalk, 2. Against Detroit—2. Felsch to E. Collins. Felsch to Gandil. Against Sf. Louifr—l. Felsch to Grkndil. Against Washington—l. Felsch to Lynn. Triple Play. Against Washington. Felsch to Risberg to Weaver to Kerr to E. Collins.

RED SOX LAND JOE WILHOIT

Boston Team Succeeds in Signing mer Giant Who Is Leading Western League Batters. E. G. Barrow, manager of the Boston American League Baseball club, has closed a deal with the Wichita club of the Western league for Joe Wilhoit, who leads that league in bat-

Joe Wilhoit.

ting. Wilhoit ended a long batting streak in which he set a new world’s record by hitting safely in 69 consecutive games. In addition to a cash payment, Musser, a pitcher, goes to the Wichita club for the remainder of the Western league season.

NO ASSISTS MADE IN GAME

Novel Record Made by Birmingham In Recent Contest With Nashville in Southern League. ' Birmingham established what is believed to be a league record in the game With Nashville recently, when they retired the visitors through the entire nine innings without an infielder dr an outfielder having an assist. Five assists are credited to the Barons, all of them made by Slapnicka.

GOOD AT CATCHING RUNNERS

Few Pitchers Can Equal Sherrod Smith of Brooklyn in Nipping Players Off First. When it comes to catching runners napping off first few can equal Sherrod Smith, the Brooklyn port-side flinger. This, in fact, is a specialty with Smith. Rube Marquard also is cagey in this little matter. Fred Toney is another who can hold runners close to the base.

ANOTHER SHIFT FOR BAIRD

Started With St. Louis Cardinals, Traded to Phillies, Now With Brooklyn Team. —— Douglas. Baird has been shifted about considerably in the National league this year. He started with the Cardinals and was traded to the Phillies. He'returned to the Cardinals and recently was the Dodgers for the waiver price.

Chicago After Olympic Games.

Chicago will' try to secure the 1024 Olympic games.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, " IND.

SCORES TEN RUNS IN THIRTEENTH INNING

First Time Major League Team Has Ever Turned Trick. Kansas City Once Broke Up Detroit Game With Same Number of Runs in Eleventh—“ Greasy” Neale Captured Ten Flies. Cincinnati’s Reds did something this year that never had been done before by a major league team —that is, score ten runs in the thlrteentfi inning. The Pat Morans turned this trick against Al Mamaux. Just once before, in an extra inning fray, has the winner, in unknotting the tie, reached in tallies in the windup chapter, and that was in 1886, when Detroit was supporting a National league club and Kansas City was trying to support one. On July 11 of that year the Cowboys and Detroit were on even terms at the end of the tenth. In the eleventh tlie Missourians broke up the game in precisely the same manner as the Reds did when they upset the Superbas—by turning the lever of the scoring mill and grinding out ten runs. Cincinnati is the only major league club that has scored ten runs in the thirteenth inning of a championship game, Kansas City the only National league club that has scored ten runs In the eleventh inning of a championship game. Another record set in Brooklyn on May 15 was when “Greasy” Neale, covering right for the Reds, caught ten flies. This is a record number for a right fielder in a game of this length. Owen Wilson of the Pirates, playing the same position as Neale, had the same number of put-outs when his team was defeating Brooklyn, 1 to 0, August 22, 1908, in 17 innings. Left fielders and center fielders occasionally capture ten flies in games of regulation and extra length; right fielders very rarely do.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Col. Lester Snover is the name of a tall, husky southpaw who has left the marine corps to enlist under the banner of John McGraw. The left flank of Snover’s highly martial name is not’ a title —it’s his real name. In military rank Snover never climbed higher than private. Before he enlisted Snover was with Elmira of the New York State league.

F. CHANCE HAD PROPER DOPE

Former Manager of Chicago Cubs Was First Man to Predict Managerial Success of Moran. Frank Chance was the first base ball man to predict the managerial success of Patrick Morap, who-won the National League pennant with the Reds. Chance, when he handled the Cubs, had Moran and Tom Needham, both catchers, on his team. Later, when Chance took hold of the Yankees in 1913 he vainly tried to obtain Moran as a coach. Moran was helping Charley Dooin, manager of the Phib lies, at that time, and the Quaker owners refused to let -Pat-go. “Moran will be a great manager some day!” said Chance when the

Manager Pat Moran.

Phillies had turned down his offer. “He knows baseball, is a hard worker and is well liked by the players, because he is fair and square. Needham, too, will make good in the big leagues if he gets an opportunity.”

STADIUM GIVEN TO FRANCE

To Be Permanent Incentive to Athletic Development—Olympic Games May Be Held There. The great Pershing Stadium, which the Y. M. C. A. built for the recent inter-allied meet, has been presented to France, to be a permanent incentive to athletic development There, in a few years, the Olympic games may be held, and already France is planning to demonstrate the, ability of its citisens as athletes.

American Colleges and The War

150,000 Left Their Studies - 4,920 Gave Their Lives

By H. F. SMITH.

(Copyright, 193 9, Woßtem Newspaper Union' FIGURES and- information covering the activities of college men in the war, are beginning to be available, and only now can one form any conception of the vast amount of work which they accomplished. The colleges have suffered heavily in many ways, but they are proud to have been of service. At first call members of their staffs were placed .In Important administrative positions. Their students left peaceful pursuits, and became a part of the army. The following figures show the percentage of students who left to join the armed forces: Ten per cent in 28 colleges; 20 per cent in 86 colleges; 30 per cent in 34 colleges; 40 per cent in 17 colleges; 50 per cent in 9 colleges, and over 50 per cent in six. colleges. The total of these amazing percentages amounted to the number of 150,000 students who left our American institutions, of learning to become identified in one way or another with our war efforts. Of these, 80 less than 5,000 gave their lives, and the figures are not yet wholly complete. Some idea of how this loss is distributed will be given in this table of the colleges which lost more than 100: - Vale, 186; Concordia, Ind., 140; University of Kansas, 103; Harvard, 297; Princeton, 120; Columbia, 128; Cornell, 158. By comparison, it is interesting, to notice the enlistment of the two chief English universities. Oxford liad 11,176 sons in the war, of whom 1,412 gave their lives. Cambridge exceeded this with a total number of 13,128 and of these 1,405 were destined never to return from the battlefields. From the outset, it was characteristic of the colleges to do nothing without planning it. The—first general meeting of colleges in the war period was held in Washington May 5, 1917. and was presided over by President Hollis Godfrey of Drexel institute. The prevailing inquiries were “What can we do immediately for our country?” and “How can we operate the colleges as a national asset during the war period?” Following this conference, students were advised not to forsake their plans and rush headlong anywhere, in the face of plans that were materializing; technical and medical students, upon whom the war made ah unprecedented demand, were fairly compelled to rerpain at their studies, and finally government military training was established at-every college. From that time on a more complete wgr basis could not be imagined? By organizing camps within tlie walls of our schools, from which officer material could be ranked, .the government at once recognized the superior potentialities of the educated man, and did for him all that was physically possible. Another result of the wholesale college offer to help was the establishment in Washington of the Intercollegiate Intelligence bureau, the-idea of Dean William McClellan of the University of Pennsylvania, whereby over four thousand placed in positions for which they had peculiar fitness. Likewise there grew up In the war department a committee on the classification of personnel, and tills bureau sought to classify men according to their experience, occupation, and education ; the number of men who were placed' where they could do their best work will probably never be known. The story of the students’ army training corps is well known. While not a triumph, the. effort was characteristic of the colleges, trying to do all they could in the face of many obstacles, and the country is not tvanting in appreciation. Naval training units were likewise established, and thus the power of that branch of the national forces took an upward swing. College men all know, too, the story of their own institutions

A Strawberry Dream

Strawberry time recalls to those who have visited Denmark in "bummer that where a featft of strawberries and cream was spread; and whoso chose could partake thereof *» quite small charge—the equivalent of 6d, if we remember rightly. PUesof strawberries, quart Jugs of cream partly whipped, -great basins of sugar, and nothing else, all down the long table In the

as to housing men directly connected with the armed forces. Officer material schools flourished in many college towns, putting a greater burden on facilities ; several had their buildings Completely refurnished for training in the mechanical or electrical trades. The talk now is of reconstruction, but certainly the word had greater force then, when plants were remodeled almost overnight, and put to Uses never before conceived. Besides these things which are fairly well known, there are other items no less important. One of our greatest medical institutions gave fifty members of its staff to the army, and they were occupied exclusively with medical research. Teachers in allied subjects, as chemistry and physics, were also turned over to the government, and It seemed as if the school had become only a memory. One university in the far West was so foresighted as to give instruction in the problems of reconstruction and another held lectures for soldier and civilian alike, treating the war’s problems In a simple way for those who wished to understand and’learn. All this was in addition to becoming one of the many armed camps into which the colleges changed, and education as conceived of under ante bellum schedules became almost a nonentity. The women’s colleges, too, joined their efforts. Besides war chests, from which one well-known femafle college drew $30,000, they maintained ambulances In France, and sent drivers for them. Beds in hospitals of France were endowed, and summer training camps' for nurses were established, to be against the time when a scarcity should be felt. Vassar’s farm unit showed ’that women could till the soil and this organization was the forerunner of the wornart's'land army. Furthermore, every college has a recordwt which it can be proud, in the various drives for funds. Local activities, as entertaining soldiers on leave, were fostered, and in many instances entire college buildings were turned.over to some welfare organization. To all this effort there is a reaction. Industry now is counter-attacking it through what is called reconstruction. Under the Immense strain Industry’s machinery deteriorated; it was built for peace-time purposes, and war riddled it. The colleges, too, underwent the same experience. From the quiet surroundings tradition gives them, they became bustling hives, without ever a pause until iAtall was over. Not until then could they plan for the future. But while the war did this for the

cool basement, to which the visitor descends from the hot street. It-ds In truth a strawberry dream. Every Dane Knows Anderson’s cellar. It Is one of the attractions,of Copenhagen, and to have eaten strawberries there once Is to have an enduring memory of something nearly perfect on, this Imperfect earth. —London Chronicle.

Sicilian Vespers Remembered.

In Sicily, on Easter Monday,*red roses are worn by all, and houses and churches are bedecked with crimson

colleges, it has also resulted In a bene* fit. The public has been awakened from its long sleep, during which it had dreams that the college man was impractical; that his ideas would not stand the test;. Like a flash these men went to war, professors and students alike, into the army, navy, administrative offices, experimental stations, machine shops, and their success has already been told. It is yet impossible to secure a full list of inventions which they contributed to winning the war, bur we must thank many of them for new contrivances, and countless improvements in mechanical equipment which keep our nation in the lead as an inventor. The public, too long acquiescing In the silent struggle of universities, and regarding them in a matter of fact way, have now come to realize that they are a real force, a real factor in' our national life, without which mediocrity would be our fate. The attitude has too often been one of mere toleration. In spite of that the colleges have been doing their noble work, and now the time has come when the public should lend its aid. War-time burdens, together with the continued rise In prices during the past few years, have.brought their difficulties to a head, in the form of increased deficits, and the necessity for undertaking new tasks for which no funds are visible. It has long been felt that professors have long been underpaid. They are not choosing this profession because they want a living, but because they love It, and regard themselves as able to give their best through such channels. And yet their fellows in other walks of life can frequently earn more money. ’Outside college halls there is ,no limit of $5,500 in sight. Several universities have recently laid plans for a campaign for money among their alumni. Among the better'known of these institutions are Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, University of ‘ Pennsylvania, Fordham, Mt. Holyoke, and Smith. Committees of leading graduates have been formed in the principal cities, and in some Instances in every part of the world, for the purpose of canvassing. / Thus the world is being treated to a demonstration that good men among us think an education is positively worth while. They are unwilling to see such a national asset crying vainly for funds with which to train youth for the problems of coming generations, aml lo teach them to cast aside the crop of false doctrines which sometimes threaten to overcome the truth.. , In short, they are making an investment for posterity. Better things will come of better education; and better educations are possible only with better facilities, such as the best talent, the best, equipment, and a greater spirit of satisfaction among the teach* ers as a result of paying them a price nearer their true worth. They are not beggars, and they are not bargainers; they have chosen to do their work regardless of the sacrifices. It is up to society to seize the opportunity and keep these men in their chosen places. Just as the trained men took the ■ lead In war, so will the same men bo called upon to tackle the new problems of peace.

blossoms. This custom has been kept up annually for more than six hundred years, in memory of the great uprising of the Islanders against the* French known to historians as the Sicilian Vespers massacre. Tradition has It that a bride on her way to church was Insulted by drunken soldiers and that, in the course of the disturbance, she was accidentally killed, the white roses ot which her bridal Wrenth was composed being stained red by her blood. Hence the custom.