Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1920 — Page 2

OLD CY YOUNG IS ONLY MAN IN DIAMOND HISTORY TO WIN 500 BASEBALL CONTESTS

la all baseball history only one man ever won more than five hundred Carnes. And that star of stars was Cy Yoons, who garnered a total of 508 victories in 1887 games during his 22 years as a - big leaguer. His yearly average was 23 victories against 15 defeats for a percentage of .<506. Durfag all the years of Young’s career—his novice days, tots prime and his wnIng power—he struck out an average of three men per game and yielded only about 1% passes. Mathewson's Record. Christy Mathewson alone challenged the supremacy of Young—but the mighty “Big Six" fell far short of the record of the veteran of bygone days. Mathewson lasted only 17 years as a twirier, during which time he scored 872 victories. His yearly winning average was 22 victories against 11 defeats for a mark of .664. In all those 17 years Mathewson issued only 717 bases on balls in 625 games—a showing that eclipses anything ever exhibited. ' Looking back over the records for the three best consecutive seasons shows that Joe Wood is the percentage leader and that Walter Johnson and Cy Young are tied in the matter of total triumphs during such a period. . Wood during 1912. 1913 and 1914

BAR WELDINGS FROM BIG RACING STAKES

Expected to Increase Number of Horses for Breeding. PNjssnt*Day Demand for Stallions Needed at Remount Stations Is lnsistent—Purchase of Good Ani. , mals la Difficult The fkct that geldings will be Ineligible for some of the most valuable racing stakes'of thV future, is expected to increase the number of horses for stud purposes in the United States. While there is a strong undercurrent against the movement to bar the gelding from some turf classics, neverthebm the plan has the support of many progressive turfmen, who believe that. wMle the gelding has his sphere in racing, he has no right to participate in the greatest of tests which are given for the guidance of the breeders of the country. The gelding is unknown In many foreign countries, and some years ago. when C. K. G. Billing’s champion trotter Uhlan. 1:58*4, was shown in Rus•fa, the breeders of that country were indignant at his spoliation, and wanted to know who had dared to deprive future generations of the qualities of midi a splendid horse. Stallions and mares work in the same teams the year round in Russia. Usage has wade the males tractable; and it is a rare thing to find a vicious horse. The present-day demand for stallions of the type needed at the remount stations of the federal government is insistent, and members of the commission having in charge their selection are unceasing in their search for the right type. The fact that there has been but Bttle money available for the purchase of good horses has made the task of the commission exceedingly difficult, and most of the best horses secured to date have been gifts from breeders and turfmen in sympathy with the movement to improve remounts, and also from the Jockey dub, whose chairman. August Belmont, gave the nucleus of what is now the Front Royal Stud in Virginia. Given an appropriation such as Count Lehnorff of the Royal Prussian Stud had at his disposal and the result would be as there are horses racing every day on metropolitan courses that would be Ideal for the purpose. It is related that the count, while on a visit to England, saw the famous sprinter Tzdlypop in Action with big weight up. “Twt the horse to give our German cavalry horses more speed.” was bls and he straightway negotlato& <he pwyhsse of the animal for was the same spirit, backof money, which caused almost SIOO,OOO for the Jjtadßilitt’fJerby winner Ard Patrick.

won 54 out of 67 games for the remarkable average of .806. His yearly showing was 18 victories against 4 defeats. Second place in the percentage ranking belongs to Chief Bender, who, from 1909 to 1911, Inclusive, won 59 out of 77 gamhs for a mark of .766. The three best years that Cy Young ever knew were 1891. 1892 and 1893. He won 97 and lost 49 games in that period. Walter Johnson tied Young in winning 97 dashes in 1912. 1913 and 1914. But the showing of Johnson surpasses that of Young because while Cy was losing 49 games Walter dropped only 36. Walter’s average for the three years was .729. Young's was /WH • - ' ' ■ •vO » • Won 90 Games. In addition to Young and Johnson only three other pitchers ever won 90 or more games for three straight seasons. Those men are Mathewson, Alexander and Jack Chesbro. the famous Yankee pitchOr of years ago. Chesbro, by winning 41 games In 1904, set the mark that no one has been able to fracture since that time. Ed Walsh made a desperate effort to beat out Chesbro in 1908, but 40 victories was the best he could do. Christy Mathewson, with 37 victories in 1908, made the best National league showing since 1900.

GOWDY IS BASKETBALL STAR

Famous Catcher of Boston Braves Kept Himself in Condition Play- e. Ing at Columbus. Hank Gowdy, famous catcher of the Boston Braves when that team won the world's championship and who was the first baseball player to rally to fight the Germans, played basketball last winter with the Columbus Kenyons. Hank Is a good court performer and was on the same such play-

Hank Gowdy.

ers as "Shifty” Bolen, formerly of Ohio State; Snooks, Ruh. Waite and Davis, who played football with the Columbus Panhandles last fall. Gowdy's team was one of the strongest In Ohio and made a fine record on the courts.

NOTES of SPORTDOM

San Francisco golf exponents are agitating a public course. • » • Frank Moran of Pittsburgh won on points over Tom Cowler of England in a London ring. - $ -• * • -Jose R. Capablanca, the Pan-Ameri-ean ehess champion, has gone to his Havana home for a rest. The boxing game received a boost with rhe opening of the Olympic Athletic club at Idaho Falls. • ♦ • Cleveland’s central Y. M. C. A. physical department attracted 141.304 men in the eleven month* previous to March. "

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GOLF CALENDAR

Tran«-Mississlppl, for men. Rock Island, 111.. June 7 to 12. Women's Eastern. Philadelphia Cricket club, June 7 to 11. Western ama tear, for men, Memphis. Tenn., June 12 to 17. National open. Inverness club, TMedo. O..''August 10 to 13. Professional Golfers’ association tournament, Chicago, 111., August 16 to 21. National Amateur for men, Engineers' Country club, Roslyn, M»ug Island. September 6 to 11. Western Amateur for women. Oak Park club, Chicago, 111., August 23, 28. ZNational championship for women. Mayflower Country club, Cleveland. 0.. October 4 to 9.

BASEBALL STORIES

Outside of the catching department, the I’irates don't look half bad. Babe Adams looks as good as ever, and that is saying considerable. Pitching is always a gamble, but a bet on the Cleveland staff this year is a good bet. Bobby Roth seems to be happy in his new surroundings with the Washington team. • * * A star catcher is just as necessary to a ball club’s well being and progress as a clever pitching stiff. The Boston Red Sox are still In a rut. The sale of Huth to the Yankees didn’t help a bad situation any. John Kelleher, shortstop for the St. Joseph team of the Western league, will manage the team this year. * * • The Cleveland lots have graduated so-many, players to the Indians that it may be called Tris Speaker’s farm. • • Infielder Goldie Rapp of the Cincinnati National league team has been sold to St Paul. American association. « • • Jimmy. Burke has a peppery bunch of Brownies to start off another season, but l.e hasn’t strengthened to any extent. Cleveland fans believe that this is Cleveland’s year and decline to change the view because the Yankees grabbed Babe Ruth. • • • 4 r The cellar was never a very popular position for a baseball team to occupy, but we presume it will be different this year. Pitcher Ad Lynch, formerly of Washington, who refused to, play with Wichita this year, has been transferred to Des Moines. Rube Bressler, though showing good form in a couple of essays, is getting back to pitching form after a season spent in the outfield. • • • The Phillies will need Cravath’s hitting this season, and it will not be surprising if the boss of the Phils decides to go to right field. i , • • • The Giants say they have the batting, and given the right kind of pitching. they will romp home a winner of the National league pennant. Jess Haines, making his bow as a Cardinal before the home fans, established himself as a twirier who should be a great hfelp to Rickey’s team. ♦ ♦ ♦ George Whltted’s work at the “hot corner” is proving satisfactory to the Pirate boss. Dreyfuss says that his playing is improving with each game. Dave Robertson has been showing his normal speed this spring and hasn’t been bothered with the weak leg which slowed him up last season. • * * The Boston Red Sox had an idea they could buy several stars with the money received for Babe Ruth. It was a great idea, and it's still a great idea. * • • Fans at Kansas City are trying to dope out a shorter name for William de Connaucourt, the big right-handed pitcher from Canada, who has joined the Blues. • • • Otis J'ucker. the Kansas City youngster. who is making a good showing, weighs 215 pounds, and is fast on his feet. too. He will be kept as utility outfielder. Marty Kavanaugh, who is the property of the Brewers, will play with an independent team in Brooklyn, managed by Jeff Tesreau, former Giant hurler. \ More than fifty amateur baseball teams will be playing in Memphis this summer under the direction of the M. A. A., of whffh Billy Haack, boxuig promoter, is director. Outfielder Williams of the Fort Worth dub bats left-handed, the only reason why, according to wise baseball men in Texas, he was not chased by some major league dub 1«M season.

cost of living. members of Washington’s official family are doing ceting n.o.ograph shows .est to right: Mrs. David'Houston, wife of the Aife of the former United States minister to Chile, and Mrs. Cary N. Grayson, w e P Admiral Grayson. purchasing meat for their tables at a stall In the Central market, Washington. D. G.

NOTED RUSSIANS SLAIN ON YACHT

Finding of Bodies Reveals One of Most Mysterious Tragedies of Black Sea.

FLED FROMJHEJOLSHEVIKI On Board the Yacht Found 14,000,000 Rubles in Gold, Paper and Jewels —King of Roumania Is Pushing Investigation. Bucharest.—The discovery on the yacht Ostrara, stranded at Sulina in one of the mouths of the Danube, of the bodies of 11 noted Russian men and women, each shot through the head, and not a living person on board, has presented to the Roumanian authorities one of the most mysterious tragedies In the Black sea. The bodies have been identified as those of members of the noted Russian families of Falzfein and Skadowski. The Falzfeins were descendants of German Mennonite colonists who settled in the province of Kherson at the invitation of the Russian government.

Water in the Cabin. The discovery was made by soldiers, who, when they went aboard the helpless yacht, found the cabin half filled with water and the 11 bodies floating around. On board the yacht were 14,000,000 rubles in gold and paper, and jewels. Some money and valuables were found to be missing when records of the victims were checked up, but the amount was apparently small compared to the funds and valuables left aboard. The elder Felzfein still grasped a pistol in his hand when his body was found, and whether the party committed suicide or were murdered is a question that remains unanswered, and it is believed that the solution of how the families met their death may never be known. An investigation is being made by the Roumanian authorities, aided bj Russian friends of the two families. All that is known is that the two families fled their estates to Odessa, and when the bolshevik! arrived there in February put their belongings on board the yacht, w’hich was then towed by a Russian steamer bound for Constanza. The tow rofles broke several times, owing to severe storms, and finally the steamer lost the yacht altogether and proceeded to Constanza. Drifts at Mercy of Storm. It is believed that later, while the yacht drifted at' the mercy of the storm, the refugees, six men and five

REVOLUTION RAGES IN GUATEMALA

< Rev- ’utionists in Guatemala have formed a new government with £ ar,os Herrera s president. The picture shows the American consulate in Gua emala City, and the U. S. S. Tacoma which lias gone W Guatemala to protect American interests. The latest reports received in Washington are that tdent Estrada Cabrera and his surrendered to the Unionist ro The provisional government has given pledgee to secure the safety or tn nw president Order is being maintained- in the city.

CABINET WOMEN DO THEIR OWN MARKETING

women, became exhausted from the ’cold waves breaking over the vessel and from lack of food. Unable to manage the yacht, the party made a despairing effort to put it ashore on the desolate beach near Sulina. There they succeeded in launching small boats, but Roumanian guards, under strict orders to permit no landing through fear of the bolshevikl, ordered them to return to the vessel. It appears that some coast fishermen offered a rescue when the vessel began settling, owing to the consequent pounding of the heavy seas, but soldiers prevented. That was the last known of the vessel until it stranded. King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Roumania have taken a great Interest in the investigation, especially because when the royal family was driven into exile and the capital removed to Jassy, the king and queen were offered the magnificent home of the Felzfeins, across the Bessarabian border.

COLLECT RELICS OF LOST RACE

Interesting Material Unearthed in Ruins Near Aztec, New Mexico. LIVED IN COMMUNITY HOUSE Custom* of Prehistoric People Are Learned From the Various Object* Discovered—Ornament* Practically Untouched by Time. New York.—Temporarily displayed in the west corridor of the American Museum of Natural History, on the first floor, can be seen some interesting relics of a lost race —the prehistoric people who built.and lived in the great community dwelling, now in Juins, near Aztec, N. M., which Mr. Earl H. Morris has for the past three years been exploring and restoring for the American museum. Mr. Morris has gathered a great deal of material which will in time be placed on permanent exhibition. But the six shelves in the corridor give an idea of the nature of the objects which have been found and of the customs to which they testify. 7 Here, outlasting their wearers by

Black Caskets Now Reported Out of Style

San Francisco. —To be buried in a black coflin isn’t stylish. Pale pink, cerise, old rose, blue, lavender, purple and white —these colors are most in demand nowadays, says W. H. Vincent, casket manufacturer here for 30 years. Not more than one person in twenty pre-, fers the somber black, according to Vincent v “Sometimes 1 we get an order for a striped coffin, or a green one,” Vincent asserted. “The color usually is in accordance with the last wish of the deceased.” Almost every variety of coffin now sells for five times the price of a few years ago, Vincent said. The strictly modern hermetically sealed bronze casket brings $2,000 wholesale. Vincent has a caller now and then who choses his own coffin. “Usually it is an old man who thinks his relatives won’t properly look after his burial,” said Vincent.

centuries, are sandals woven of yucca leaf, yucca fiber and cotton, and here the very pattern boards over which the sandals were made. Here, practically untouched by time, ure ornaments of shell cut into disks, and beads of turquoise and of shell. There are arrow points of jasper, bone awls and needles and fragments of painted wood—ceremonial boards, doubtless. The basketry Is of two types—colled and twilled —some of it in an excellent state, of preservation. Then there are cylindrical netted disks padded with corn husks. These are a puzzle to the museum’s investigators. Some one advanced the theory that they might have peen used as snow shoes, but the small size and unsuitable shape of some of the specimens seem to refute that supposition. A wooden cradleboard with its curiously placed headpiece accounts for the flattened skulls typical of all the skeletons of this ancient civilization which have been recovered. A pillow of matting stuffed with corn husks, and some human remains wrapped in matting and showing the method of burial complete the miscellaneous portion of the collection.

Specimens of Pottery. The rest of the exhibit is given over to pottery. The specimens are of white, red and black, and Include cooking and eating utensils. The designs—not as advanced in conception as some other of our antique southwestern pottery/ are, however, frequently skillfully executed. For the most part painted in black, or, less often, in red, they are sometimes clearly taken from textile designs, sometimes-made’ up of free-hand curved lines such as would not have been practicable in textiles, or, occasionally consist of crude animal representations. An interesting broken mug shows a hollow bottom in which little pellets of clay had been placed so as to produce a rattle. Th© cross-markings on the edges of the bowls and drinking vessels are very characteristic of the pottery taken from this vicinity. Most interesting among these relics is the coiled pottery—made by rolling long strips of clay and winding: them round and round in the desired shape, as is done in colled basketfy. In the pottery of this Sort the mark of the shaping thumb can be plainly seen, and was frequently used to produce a wave pattern which often attained to a very pleasing development.

Travels 2,705,500 Miles.

Jamaica, L. L —After a continuous service of 54 years on the Long Island railroad James D. Rushmore, a conductor, retired. He traveled 2,750,506 miles, never missed a train and re> ported for duty on 16,970 during bls career.