Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1920 — Page 3
TWO SPITBALL HURLERS STAND OUT QUITE PROMINENTLY THIS SEASON
Two pitchers who use the spitball stand out promlhently with their clubs In the American league. They are Jack Quinn of the Yankees, and Stan Coveleskie of the Indians. In the Nationals no spitball pitcher shines particularly as a leading light. Report has it the spitball pitchers are forming a little organization of their own and will at the meetings of the major leagues next year pray the magnates to lift the ban that is to go on beginning with the 1921 season. Hardly a chance, however, that they will get consideration, says Sporting News. They were given a full season to reform in, and if they can’t make it, that’s their misfortune.
ELIMINATE CHEATING PITCHERS FROM GAME
Brainy Moundsman With Good Arm Can Get By. Jesse Tannehill, Former Red Sox Southpaw Hurler, Says Freak Pitching Should Be Barred Forever From .Baseball. \ “Eliminate cheating pitchers from baseball and the game will not be any different than when I was with the Red Sox,” declared Jess Tannehill, who was here with the Phillies as coach. ' Ten pounds lighter than when he was with the Red Sox back in 1903 and 1904, Tannehill was in Boston for the first time in 11 years. He is now forty-five years old, feels as good as when he helped Jimmy Collins win the pennant in 1904. Although now but a coach, tills former star southpaw, who also could bit the ball some in the old days, has many views about the game of today which are interesting. Having been a great pitcher, he knows many angles, and there is no doubt but that he Is going to help Gavvy Cravatli’s pitching department. “I think freak deliveries should have been barred from baseball before this season. They have handicapped the game considerable because pitchers who go into the box with resin in one pocket and talcum powder in the other, along with vaseline or paraffin on their pants are trying to get by with such methods. “Without such methods to help them, the pitchers in the future will have to be there, as we were in the old days. Ability to pitch will have to be shown all the time and I am confident the game will be better. “There is no doubt In my mind but that the freak pitchers of today can get along without their fixings. “If they have a good arm and are smart they can get by. So far I bave not 'been able to work with a freak delivery pitcher, because the Phillies do not boast of one. If there was one on the staff I would help him to develop into a real pitcher without the tricky stuff.”
OPENING OF 1924 FUTURITY
American Trotting Association Announees Stake for Trotters, With $2,000 Added. The American Trotting association announces the opening of a futurity for four-year-old trotters to be raced in 1924, one division over a mile track and the other over a half-mile track. All moneys paid will go to the stake, with $2,000" added by the American Trotting association. '
NATIONAL LEAGUE HAS MOST STAR TWIRLERS
Whatever may be the merit of the argument for or against the National league, it is reasonably apparent it has five or six <*lubs with four or more first-class proven pitchers, and that the American clubs are not so fortunately equipped. In the National league. New York, Chicago, Brooklyn, Cincinnati. and possibly Pittsburgh, have each four or five hurlers able to pitch any club not too deficient in other inspects, into a prominent position. The American league can only show one or two teams whose pitching staffs are unimpeachable. While several clubs have two or three stars ohly one or two have four men of proven reliability to use in rotation.
EVANS WILL PLAY AT TOLEDO
Will Be in Limelight on Inverness Links During Open Golf Championship. Chick Evans evidently does not Intend to be left out of the limelight at Toledo in August, when all the great golfers of this country and at least Harry Vardon and Ted Ray of England assemble for the national open championship. Although ten weeks remain before the great event Chick has already engaged rooms at the In-
Chick Evans.
verness club, Toledo, and has told his friends he means business this year in his attempt to regain the title he held in 1916. S. P. Jermain of the Inverness club reports*that requests for hotel and club reservations are being received daily both from prospective entrants and from golf fans from all over the country, who will see from August 10 to 13' the greatest national open tournament since 1913, and possibly one even greater than that.
SPORTING NOTES
Tommy Bums has opened a gymnasium in London. • • Things are pretty dull these days in pugilistic ranks. * • • Colgate university has added soccer and lacrosse to.lts sports program. •• • • Massachusetts Golf association has rated 6,459 players on its handicap list New York fairs and race meetings distributed $i;335,000 last year, which was $400,000 more than any previous year. • • • Victoria, B. Ck, wants ratepayers to sanction's municipal golf course by approving the issuing of bonds for $20,000. . • • • Mias Detroit V. is on Its way from AlgonaA to New York to be shipped to England for the Harmsworth trophy race. • • • Eleven pacers have records faster than tyo minutes for a mile, one of that 'number being a mare, two geldings and the others stallions. - • Hannes Kolehmainen may be a veteran at the running game, but he can stilb cover a whole lot of ground in faster time than the youngsters. The American Legion of Illinois has formed- a state commission to look after athletics, among the soldiers. Frank V. Flannery of Chicago heads the committee of ex-service men.
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BASEBALL STORIES
Nick Altrock is back in midseason form. ♦ • • Shauno Collins continues to star for the Sox. • « • Cy Williams of the Phillies is leading the National league in homers. • • • Cyril Slapnlcka, back with Cedar Rapids, seems to be as good as ever. • * * National league players are not getting very far in base stealing so' far. • * • Chicago university defeated Waseda university, 3 to 1, at Osaka, Japan. • • • The Johnston brothers are starring both in the American and National league this year. • * * It looks as if the two Philadelphia teams would fight it out for the world’s cellar championship. * * • The Phillies are evidently feeling the presence of the scrapy Artie Fletcher in their battlefront. * • • Johnny Evers has been trying his best to inject some ginger into the Giants, but without much success. * • * Dick Ching, pitcher sent by Mobile to New Iberia of the Louisiana State league, seems to have hit his class. • * • The veteran, Jack Ashton, for many years in the Texas league, is managing an Independent team at Brenham, Tex. • * * New Orleans returned Outfielder Newell to Chattanooga to make room for Sewell, the University of Alabama star. ♦ • * ' Johnny Dobs of New Orleans has found a new job for Chet Torkelson and has been using him in the outfield. * • • Charles Dormer, the young catcher taken on by Sioux City from Oakland, is a product of a California winter league. • * * Sawyer, the comedian and second baseman of the Minneapolis club, keeps his sense of humor even when he strikes out. • • • The New York Yankees established a new attendance record when in five days they played before a total crowd of 108,200 fans. * * • ' Roy Whitcraft is back in the Virginia league as a private, having been purchased by the Newoprt News club from Shreveport. * » • Umpire BiU,Klem says the rule against intentional passing of a batter Is a farce and that it will be abandoned next year. • • • Southern league cities are praising the work of Ernest Dudley Lee, the Chattanooga infielder secured from the St. Louis Browns. * ♦ • Present Indications point to “Happ” Welsch of the White Sox and “Tilly” Walker of the Athletics giving “Babe" Ruth a run for the home run honors this year. ••* . i The story comes out of the Virginia league that Amby McConnell has asked his release from the Syracuse club so that he can Join the Portsmouth team. . , Dave Danforth, former White Sox southpaw, heeded the decision of the national commission and has returned to the Columbus team after sojourning in the steel league.
HEAR FLAPPING OF PENNANT
Toledo Fans Not Quite Ready to Announce "Winning of Association Championship. Toledo is not quite ready to announce that it will win the American association pennant, but the town Is gathering confidence. Roger Bresnahan feels sure of his pitching staff. The Duke says: “Stryker is as green as grass, but has a world of stuff, especially when he throws the knuckle ball. He lacks
Manager Roger Bresnahan.
a first motion, and the runners get a big lead on him, but he is being taught the movement. In Dubuc and Middleton Toledo has by far the two smartest pitchers in the association. They have control and know what to do with the ball.* x
Administration Building of the Panama Canal
Thte Is the administration building of the Panama canal at Balboa, near Panama City.
Charge British With Atrocity
Indian Statesmen Disclose Attack by General Dyer on 20,000 Unarmed Natives. TWO ARRESTS START TROUBLE Natives Seek to Present Petition for Release of Leaders and Are Attacked by Soldiers—l,ooo x Are Massacred. New York. —An attack by British soldiers upon a crowd of unarmed natives of India, as they were seeking to present *to a British deputy commissioner a petition for the release of two of their leaders, led a few days later to the massacre of 1,000 Indians in a great square at Amritsar, in the Punjab district of India in the spring of 1919, says a report prepared by the Punjab subcommittee of the Indian national congress. Dissatisfaction among the natives first became apparent with thel passage of the Rowlat bills, designed to punish sedition. All over the country resolutions were passed by huge mass meetings protesting against the law and demanding its repeal. The trouble, the report states, began in earnest when two influential natives, Doctors Kltchlew and Shtyapal, were arrested and their friends heard they were to be deported.
Many Native* Killed. The report continues with a description of the fight between natives and soldiery, during which many of the former were killed and the survivors inflamed to such a pitch of fury that they returned into the, city and applied the torch to several principal buildings. The occurrence which directly led to the subsequent wholesale massacres in the Jalleanwala Bagh, 1 the report asserts, was a proclamation issued about this time by Gen. Dyer forbidding the natives to assemble publicly. “The public meeting in the Jalleanwala Bagh,” the report states, “was called before the proclamation had reached more than half the population. Shortly before the arrival of Gen. Dyer on the scene with ninety soldiers and two armored cars, Hans Raj had taken
Wants to Be “Nose Artist” With Artificial Tip
Prague.—A poor devil asked Professor Schlosser to “cut off his snout” so that he can become a “nose artist.” He had heard of the remarkable success the surgeon recently had In making a new tip for a man who had lost the end of his proboscis by transplanting skin and muscle from the forehead. The patient can move the restored tip In every direction —up, down, right, left, and eveh raise It like a tapir.
ARE OF SAME STOCK
Hawaiian and Maori Races Are - Shown to Be Identical. New Zealand Natives Are Descendants of People From Pacific Isles, Investigation Proves. Honolulu.—The Maoris of New Zealand and the Hawaiians are from the same stock. It has just been announced by officials of the Church of Latter Day Saints here. They have made public evidence tending to prove that, in 500 A. D„ 80 canoes left the Hawaiian islands filled with men, women and children, and tfiat, five centuries later, the remnants of this migration reached New Zealand In 40 canoes. _ Wlremu, or William, Duncan, a Maori dairy farmer of Dannevirke, New Zealand, who traces his ancestry .back 110 generations, or to about 500 (years before Christ, as Polynesian genierations run, came here recently with
| , . •> , charge of the meeting, audience numbering about 20,000. What happened afterward is given by the Indian investigators in Gen. Dyer’s owi/ words recorded during his testimony at the subsequent inquiry: “When you got to’ the bagh what did you do?” Geh, Dyer was asked. Opened Fire in 30 Seconds. “I opened fire. Immediately I had thought about the matter and don’t imagine it took me more than thirty seconds to make up my mind as to what my duty was,” he replied. “In firing, was it your object to disperse?” “No, sir. I was going to fire until they dispersed.” , “Did you continue firing after they had dispersed?” “Yes.” “After the crowd indicated that it was going to disperse, why did you hot stop?” “I thought it was my duty to go on until they had dispersed. If I fired a little, I should be wrong in firing at aH.” Continuing their report, the Investigators added “He, Gen. Dyer, said he continued firing for about ten minutes, until he had expended 1,650 rounds of ammunition. He said he had made no provi-
POLYGAMY IS DROPPED
Giris in the Philippines Are Abandoning Old Ideas. Uplift Through Education and Association With Christians Affecting Even Sultan of Sulu's Domains. Manila, P. I. —Practice of polygamy in the Philippine Islands Is being reduced through education of girls of the leading families of the outlying provinces, according to Frank W. Carpenter, retiring governor of the department of Mindanao and Sulu. Mr. Carpenter Is here to turn over administration of his office to the secretary of the Interior, who will act through the bureau of non-Chrlstlan tribes, in accordance with a new territorial law. This law leaves in effect a treaty under which the sultan of Sulu renounced all pretensions to temporal sovereignty, but gained recognition as ecclesiastical head of the Mohammedan church In the Sulu archipelago. The treaty guarantees to the sultan and his people “the same religious freedom had by all adherents of all other religious creeds, the practice of which is not in violation of the basic principles of the laws of the United States.” “It is Important to note,” said Carpenter in one of his messages written as governor, “that this includes a limitation as to religious practice which necessarily includes the abandonment of polygamy. “An effort to Impose upon the people of the sultan at this time the invalidation of polygamous marriages
19 of his countrymen and countrywomen in a search for the link which would bind the Maori and Hawaiian races. According to the statement of James N. Lambert, presiding elder of the New Zealand mission of the Mormon church, and President E. Wesley Smith of the Honolulu branch of the faith, under whose auspices the Maoris came to Honolulu, the two races were found to merge at the sixty-fifth generation of Duncan’s family tree. __ When Duncan, who learned his genealogy, as Maoris and Hawaiians do, from the lips 'of his father, compared his family tree with that of Emma K. Lewis, a woman bom on the island of Hawaii, he found that they had an identical forefather in the person of one Hema, sixty-fifth of his line in Duncan’s genealogy. From Hema back through the ages it was discovered that the two family trees ran as one, name after name being the same, except for slight
sion for aiding or removing the wound* ed. That was a medical question, he declared. “One eye witness said: ‘I saw hundreds of persons killed on the spot. The worst part of the whole thing was that firing was directed toward the gates through which the people were trying to run out. Many got trampled under the feet of the rushing crowds and thus lost their lives. There were heaps of bodies at different places. I think there must have been over 1,000.”’
CHANCE PALACE AS HOSPITAL
Notorious Chinese Gambling Hell to Be Confiscated by Government. Shanghai.—The great gambling establishment in this city notorious for years under the name of “The Wheel,’* which originally cost more than $500,000, IS to be converted into a charity hospital. The Chinese authorities have announced that they Intend to confiscate the huge building, which now stands dark and empty. Its owners, however, threaten to fight this program. Up to about three years ago, when the place was closed by Chinese authorities “The Wheel’* in Shanghai was one of the biggest gambling establishments In the far East. It was located In Chinese territory on North Honan road, a fifteen-minute automobile ride from the Heart of the city. In the days when the establishment flourished three roulette wheels, with six layouts, besides faro and other games, were operated.
heretofore contracted, the prohibition at this time of polygamy or the discontinuance of divorce, must unavoidably result in the active resistance of a people Imbued with fanatic determination to die rather than submit to a privation of their religious liberty in matters they believe to be fundamental and sanctioned by divine authority.” Mr. Carpenter said that girls of prominent families in Mindanao and Sulu are being sent to Manila public schools where they associate with Christian girls and gradually become imbued with the monogamous ideas held by the Christians. When they return to their own people their influence tends to eliminate plural marriages, according to Carpenter, who predicted that the practice will be virtually wiped out in the course of a few years.
WAR ON CATS IN NEW YORK
But Rats Need Not Rejoice for They Are Also Due for Extermination. New York.-—Plans to rid this city of thousands of cats, forced Into vagabondage by the stunner absence of their Owners, were announced by the department of health, which will be aided in the anti-cat crusade by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. ' The department, it was announced, will conduct a crusade to exterminate rats, particularly from incoming ships, as a preventive against bubonic plague. The holds of all incoming ships win be fumigated with cyanide gas. It was said.
differences in spelling and pronunciation. which are generally recognized. ♦ Those who have been investigating the origin of the two races assert: that the discoveries just made were taken In association with the Hawaiian tradition that Hema went from Hawaii to Tahiti, and the Maori tradition that Hema's descendants went to New Zealand from Tahiti, lead to the inevitable conclusion that the Maoris andl the Hawaiians are of the same stock.
Danger of Dodging a Dream Train.
Louisville. Ky.— He was cen-. ter of a high bridge, below was a vast space and a train was speeding down upon him. when Frank Reified, took the lone chance and swung beneath the bridge with his fingers grasping the rail. Just as the wheels neared his fingers he dropped. But instead of dropping from a bridge Seifried really fell twenty-four feet hw a second story window. An ankl< was broken and his dream ended sinmi-, In Peru pineapples grow to