Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — Page 3

JOHNNY LOFTUS, BEST RIDER IN COUNTRY, DENIED JOCKEY’S LICENSE BY STEWARDS

• “At a special meeting of the stewards of the Jockey club the application Of Johnny Loftus for a jockey license was denied.”

Johnny Loftus.

nine victories, which Included The Hopeful Stakes and The Futurity. His ride on Man o’ War In the Sanford Memorial at Saratoga the only time the great two-year-old was beaten, aroused much unfavorable comment at the time In that so experienced a rider, who knew his mount so well, should get away so badly and then run into pockets twice in so small a field If he had got clear a moment sooner he would have beaten H P. Wbit uey’s Upset. Golden Broom, from the stable of Mrs. W. M. Jeffords which stopped P to nothing in the last furlong after leading all the: way, was third. the stewards of the Jockey club will reconsider their action, as ♦hev have many times in the past, it is hard to say. h \t any rate the racing season will open without Loftus in the saddle, and good riders are mighty scarce.

BARROW NEVER PLAYED BALL

Only Manager in Major League Clr* cults Who Has Never Had Any Experience on Diamond. Manager Ed Barrow of the Boston Bed Sox is the only manager In either the American or National leagues who has never had any baseball playing experience. Six National league p'lots and one American league maujgcr were ex-catchers, the list including Connie Mack, in the American league, and Robinson, Mitchell, Richey, Moran and Gibson in the National league. Of the other team pilots in the National league McGraw was a third baseman and Cravath an outfielder; while In the American league

Manager Ed Barrow.

Huggins and Gleason were second basemen, Jennings was a shortstop, Jimmy Burke a third baseman, Griffith a pitcher, and Speaker an outfielder, leaving Barrow the only one with no playing experience.

NOTES of SPORTDOM

Yale golf team will engage in five matches this * * * - The Olympic stadium at Antwerp •will be opened August 15. • ♦ • J. F. Seldomrldge has been named acting secretary of the Union Trotting association. The National, American and Union light harness racing rules will be uniform this year. .• • • ' Detroit is after the national regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen. —— • • • Kentucky Is to have 60 days of running races this season, the first being at Lexington. *.. • • The woman’s golf championship of Great Britain will be held at New Castle, County Down, Ireland, May. 10/ Jimmy Wilde Is a keen golfer. The only drawback to his enjoyment of the game Is that so many strangers mistake him for a caddy. Many a great man of Europe will envy Carpentier his welcome to tea. It la proof, anyhow, that human nature still respects fists. -J- : • X

. In this short and concise statement Algernon Daingerfield, assistant secretary of the Jockey club, announced that the best rider in the country was under the ban for the present, at Jeast No reason was given. The Jockey club rarely, if ever, gives reasons for refusing licenses to jockeys or trainers. It follows, of course, that Loftus has violated one of the rules of racing and is being punished. This Is not the first time that Loftus has been In hot water. His license was withheld for more than a month last year and he went before the stewards in person to plead his case before he received his papers. Then, near the close of the Empire city meeting last summer, he was suspended for what the stewards considered an unsatisfactory ride on Willis Sharpe Kilmer’s Sun Briar in the Mount Vernon handicap which was won by Lucullite. He was cleared, however, after an investigation. Loftus carried off the riding honors in the East last year. He bad the leg up on the winner of practically every big stake, including Sir Barton in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. He also rode Man o’ Mar to his

DIAMOND NOTES

Tom Seaton, former Cub, is now one of the coast stars. • • • Manager Jack Egan of the Milwaukee club Is hunting for a real third baseman. • • • Adolph Ruth, the rookie pitcher with Wichita Falls, has been nicknamed “Babe,” of course. ♦ • • The management of the St Louie Browns, In order to supply extra Sunday uniforms, bought 65 uniforms. • * • Umpire BUI Guthrie has notified President McCarthy of the Pacific Coast league that his retirement is definite. • • • The San Antonio club, tired of waiting for George Anderson to" report has secured Pete Knisel to play the outfield. * • * George Mullin, former star of the Detroit American league club, has signed a contract with the Rockford Three-I club. • • • William (Lefty) Wallace, last year with Charlotte in the South Atlantic league, has been added to the Milwaukee club’s pitching staff. • * * Manager Bresnahan has received a wire from Frank Schulte, veteran exCub outfielder, offering his services to the Toledo Mud Hens. • • Watch this youngster Hoyt If he does not prove a star In the American league this season many experts will call themselves harsh names. * • • The college pitcher who strikes out a major league slugger remembers the feat much longer than the major league slugger who is fanned. Latest report is that Jimmy Hickman outfielder sold by Brooklyn to Toledo, has decided to play with the independent team at Oil City, Pa. Another crack southern college athlete to break Into professional ball is E. W. Hale of Mississippi college, who has signed with the Memphis club. * • • Bullet Frank Miller, a holdout on the Pittsburgh club, was released to the Boston Braves. Grant and Stallings think they can coax him into line. • * • Dick Crittenden, former catcher In the Western league and the Western association, will manage the Drumright team In the new Western association. • • • In addition to 17 regular players, the American association permits each club to carry an extra man, who must have had no previous professional experience. '♦ • A Larry Cheney announced his positive retirement from baseball one day —and the next signed to pitch for the Columbia team of the South Atlantic league. * * * 5 - Joe Jackson, of the White Sox, refuses to give out figures as to the amount of fils salary boost, but that won’t prevent Uncle Sam from collecting his bit. — Tommy Leach, bld Pittsburgh star, who will manage Tampa in the Florida State league thia year, will pull a Jack Dunn stunt and have bls son as one erf the players on the Tampa team.

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TY COBB OVERLOOKED BY HUGHIE JENNINGS

“Peach” Was Regular Rusher, Says Bill Donovan. Detroit Had Chance to Secure Geon, plan on Training Trip in 1905, but Passed Him Up, Taking Clyde Engle Instead. This is a new story of the discovery of Ty Cobb. It was told by “Wild Bill” Donovan. “It was back in 1905 when Detroit was training In Augusta, Ga., and the future cap’n In our army was a regular busher. Ty attracted little attention, for he was a terrible fielder and tried to run through the fence In every game. Hughie Jennings used to laugh every time Cobb ran out on the field, for there was nothing about him that even suggested a future star. His hitting was of the bush league variety. “Detroit had a chance that year to get Cobb for nothing, for the Augusta club had made a deal with Jennings whereby he would have the privilege of selecting any player on the team If bis ball elub did its spring training In Augusta. To show what a hit Cobb made, Clyde Engle, the infielder, was chosen

Ty Cobb.

and Tyrus the Great allowed to remain In the tall grass. “I never forgot Cobb," said Donovan, “for one day when I was pitching he hit a ball to me and I had to run toward third base to field it It wasn’t a hard hit ball, so I took my time, but before I could straighten up to throw to first you can imagine my surprise when I saw that busher roosting on the bag. Never before had I seen such speedy traveling toward first base, and I remembered IL “Later in the season one of our outfielders went bad and I suggested to Jennings that he take a chance with that fast guy down in Augusta. Jennings wired down there and a reply came back that Cobb would not be sent north unless the Detroit club purchased him. for $750. President Navin sent them the money, and Cobb was signed by Detroit. “The first year, as you know, Ty did nqt set the world afire, but barely got by. There was a noticeable Improvement the next season, and now look at him. At the same time, 1 attribute the speedy journey to first base that day in Augusta to Cobb’s Joining the Detroit club."

BOB SIMPSON CANNOT RETURN

Missouri Athlete Must Content Himself With Place Among the Professional Coaches. Bob Simpson will have to be content with his new berth among the professional athletic coaches of the country, for the A. A. U. seems to be of the opinion that since Bob once left the union he cannot returat

NEW BASEBALL RULES

Baseball fans, tn order to be up to date, should know the baseball rules as they have been amended. The following Important changes now In effect are: Freak pitching deliveries forbidden, except the spitball, which will be barred next fall. Catchers forbidden /o step from behind the batsman to aid intentional pass. Umpire to decide whether • game Is to be postponed. Gift stolen bases not to be recorded In the official box scores. No sales of players In the American league after July 1, and tn the National league after August 1. except on waivers. All home runs to be recorded as such, to wit: With two out In the last half of tbe ninth Inning and the score tied, batsman to be credited with number of bases runner advances on bls bit A ball that hits the bat while the batsman is trying to avoid IL Is dead. * Catcher charged with error If he drops third strike and batsman reaches first base. Players to be credited with batting and fielding records made in game thrown out on protest . .

View of the Thomas Morse mail plane which recently accomplished a feat long the dream of aviation when with a useful weight almost equal to Its own. It gracefully left the snow and slush at Ithaca, N. craft Is a biplane evolved and produced by the Thomas Morse Aircraft corporation. Its weight empty ’• 2,890 pounds Its weight loaded Is 5,500 pounds. Thus Its useful load ts 2,610 pounds, or only 280 pounds less than the weight of the craft. Many planes carry less than half their weight

Owes Big Debt to Chemistry

Much of Industrial Wealth Can Be Traced to Effort of Some Scientist. MOST FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE Has to Do With Food We Eat Water We Drink, Clothing We Wear, and In Varying Degree With Every Article in Commerce. By W. LEE LEWIS. (Head of the Department of Chemlitry, Northwestern University and. the Discoverer of “Lewisite,” the* Most Deadly Gas Ever Produced by Man.) “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s. . . .” Beneath a simple grave In Northumberland, Pa., Ues the dust of a bumble English clergyman. .He was driven from his native land by religious Intolerance, and sought and found In America Intellectual freedom. This man, Priestly, never earned over £3O a year, yet he discovered oxygen and laid the foundation of modern chemistry. The great steel industries of our country, the vast rubber business, the tremendous packing Interests would deem it a rare privilege were this man living, to contribute to his comfort, and give him the scientific tools that would gladden his heart, and to acknowledge their Immeasurable debt to him. But for the man, Priestly, they can only lay a wreath on his last resting place. Much of the great industrial wealth of this country can be traced to the effort of some obscure chemist, some zealous devotee to pure science, who thought little of self and who never shared In the fruits of his researches.

Fundamental Science. From the standpoint of material resources chemistry is the most fundamental science. It has to do with the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat the clothing we wear and, in varying degree, with every artide that enters into commerce. Chemistry is the science of the composition of matter, and matter is that upon which energy, human and otherwise, is expended. The science embraces the star dust of outermost space, the swirling volcanoes of sun gases, and the bacteria that nibble our food. Consider the value of a single discovery in abstract chemistry. Kirchoff, over a hundred years ago, discovered that starch could be converted into sugar by dilute acids. The United States alone Is richer by $40,000,000 a year because of that discovery. Perkin discovered mauve In tbe Coal tar dyes. Its value was

MODERN CLIFF DWELLERS IN FRANCE

Unfortunate persons of France whose bouses have been destroyed through tbe ravages of war have hlt upon a novel idee evolved by man centuries ago. <’Hff dwellings neatly nrrang»*d on the side of mountains are serving many tn these tryina days. This photograph shows one of the many cliff dwellings Uto at Dieppe, trance. *

CARRIES WEIGHT ALMOST EQUAL TO ITS OWN

indexed by an Immediate investment of $750,000,000. The nwrcerizlng of cotton has added to the delight and wealth of the world. Recent improvements in the incandescent lamp has meant a saving of $30,000,000 a year in the cost of lighting. You may reach for a match as you read this. If so. remember it’s chemical history, and pause to consider its place in modern civilization. Foundation of Many Industries. Chemistry is the soul of the packing industry where by-products such as digestive ferments, soap, glycerine, fertilizers, etc., have become as important as main * products. Chemis-, try is the foundation of the rubber in-, dustry, giving cheaper and better processes of purifying, vulcanizing, and recovering. Steel is not a native product but is a chemically modified product. It is stated that the Bessemer steel process adds $20,000,000 to the world’s wealth annually. Chemistry has given us the Davy lamp, the mine gas indicator, the gas mask and the standardized explosive. Chemistry has given us most of our pharmaceuticals, and chemo-therapy is Just In its Infancy. Ehrlich made over 900 arsenical compounds before he struck upon those particular combinations known as “sansalvarsan” and “neosalvarsan.” Chemistry has given us photography, moving-picture films, illuminating gas, fire extinguishers, artificial gasoline, metallurgical processes, water-softening and purifying agents, synthetic fertilizers, insecticides, paints, explosives, glass, paper, the gas mantie, the storage battery, the arc light and has stabilized many an industry by working up into useful products every trace of raw material. Chemistry has standardized food products and njnltlplied the sources ! of supply. It has attacked and partially solved the population problem of sewerage and waste disposal, and water supply. Salving Big Problem. There are 33,800 tons of nitrogen pressing down upon every acre of the earth’s surface, and yet our fields are starving for fixed nitrogen, and in

Locks Whiskey in a Safe

Professor Knows Friends Are Honest, but Isn’t Taking Any Chances. Westfield. Mass.— Twenty quarts of bottled-ln-bond whisky, owned by Prof. Lewis B. Allyn, the noted pure food expert, has been kept In his safe since Jan. 16. w “I know my friends are honest, he says, “but I am taking no chances.” The whisky is required from time to time tn the professor’s research and experimental work, and he laid

times of war our present gourde of supply of nitrate for explosives is, to say the least, precarious. > Chemistry is today solving the problem of fixed nitrogen. To further elaborate chemistry’s contribution to human life would bt to write a technical history of IndUStrial development The other great contributing factors have been the organizing ability of business men and the technical skill of the engineer*. To improve American chemistry, to apply It more and more as an efficiency measure In American Industry, Is better national protection than protective tariffs, battleships or coast defenses. The highest chemical efficiency will make us Invincible in commerce and in war. As population Increases and conservation becomes a matter of vital importance. It follows that chemistry muSt assume a more and more significant place In the well-being of mankind. Chemistry belongs peculiarly to the age of intensive utilization of a country’s resources. The cream-skim-ming period has passed; this is the age of by-products. Still Much to Be Done. There is a danger that great industrial organizations who owe their very existence to the science of chemistry, In the fullness of their present prosperity may forget their debt to ths past and their obligation to the future. There is still much to be done in the improvement of old processes and the discovery of new. To handicap the chemical laboratories of our educational Institutions, whence comes the stream of technically trained men, and the unselfish contributions of pure science, is effectual to kill the erstwhile goose that laid the golden egg. The universities cannot carry the burden without the aid of enlightened Industrialism. They cannot raise the price of their product to meet the everIncreasing cost of laboratories, scientific equipment, high-grade InStructTon and pure research. No thinking man can fall to recognize that the ranks of the teaching profession, present and prospective, are becoming seriously de-. pleted through the Inability of our educational Institutions to bear unaided the Qroblem of ever-Increasing costs. It Is short-sighted policy for big business to attract from the universities our best chemists, to pick before they are ripe our young men to course of training, or by a lack of sympathetic support to jeopardize the future output of scientific research.

In a liberal supply before constitutional prohibition went into effect. Prof. Allyn Is working overtime trying to keep pace with the demand for analysis of home-made beverages. One small bottle of home-made wine, which the owner assured him possessed a real kick, proved to be 28 per cent alcohol, or from two to three times the alcoholic content of wines formerly offered for sale. Ethyl alcohoi may have been added to the concoctiod. Prof. Allyn thinks. At any rate, it is the most remarkable of the hundreds of “harmless home-made drinks” he has yet analyzed.

BIG STEEL PAY BUYING HOMES

Workers Are Not Wasting High Wages, Records 1n Pittsburgh District Show. Pittsburgh.—Highly paid steel workers and coal miners in Pittsburgh and Allegheny county are not spending all their money but are using a considerable part of It to buy homes, according to John D. Graham, recorder of deeds, whose report for 1919 has just been made public. . During the year the number of deeds and mortgages filed was 00.437, as compared with 81,395 tn 1915. For the first quarter of this year the number, was 16385. as compared with 7.980 in the first quarter of 1915. The majority of the properties are small houses.

Aged Man Writes Cards.

Elizabeth. Ky.—Charles Friend of Glendale, who is eighty years old and never would be taken to be over seventy, was In town the other day. Ho still writes visiting cards for the yrmng people and so steady his hand and so perfect hie eyes that they almost look like they were engraved. Whenever he takes a notion that be wants to go to Hodgenville he walk* there and back, * distance of tea miles each way.