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; HE war department 18 trying to find ways ; ‘ and means to Increase the number of caNit dets at the United .States Military acadL ‘? emy. Since the Spanish war, when the 5 \‘ i B army wae enlarged, there have not been ¢ o :l;‘, - anywhere near enpugh graduates to fill gB x / the vacancles in the commissioned ranks ; “ 3/ . -of the army. -The r:esult. bas been that /K not only has it been necessary to promote : 'A\ to the rank of second lieutenant, enlisted ! : ? men of the army who can pass the re- ~ guired examination, but to appoint each v \ vear. to the service large numbers of w 3 "-\ civilians. sk '"l"v ¢ Naturally enough . the war department officials feel that the commissioned offi-

cers should be men educated to the pro-. tession of a soldier. There seemsp to be: a preity general feeling, one hard for the authorities to account for by the way, that every man is born a soldler and that the military profession: is the only one for which no special training {s required. Gen. Winfield Scott, at the close of the Mexican war, said that if it had not heen for.the officers of his army who were graduates of the military . acadeniy the war would ‘have been prolonged ‘for vears. This praise of the in-. stitution and the men whom it 'turns out was given by a man not » graduate, and who, therefore, could not he said to be prcindiced in favor of the instiution i The cousge at West Point is a par’tfg:uiz;r}»_\' ‘hard one and a good many cadets are found deficient every year, generally in only one study. West Point, however, dlifers from all other schoolsof the world. There they do not strike an average of studies, taking all’ the fessons taught in a lump.- For instance, ff a man stands at the head of his class in four studies, but is a little bit below the ;)rofl('iént"a\'ez'age in one study, the authorities throw him out, whereas in other gchools they would strike an average and give such a man a high standing. . ; : . _ : The result of such a system as this {s that men whe are qualified for the service in practically every way, but ~who may be alittle lame in French or a trifle off in geology or chemistry, are

separated from the army to which they might possibly be a credit if an average of excellence .was struck by the authorities. ' . It is quite often the case that men who do not graduate but who have had several years’ training at the academy succeed ‘in getting commissions In the service. There are no -records to show that any man .who spent two years at West Point failed to pass his examination for a commissfon’ after he had been successful in gettinz an appointment to the army from civil life. : : : Some of the boys who have been at West Point, but have not graduated, enlisted in the United States army in order fo get their commission from the ranks. When a man does so enlist he.may be sent as a private soldier to a company-in which some classmate is a Heutenant. Now it must be remembered that ®there is a deep gulf between -officers and enilsted men in the regular army, a gulf -which {t is necessary to have remain fixed, because familiarity of intercourse between. officers and enlisted men would lead to lax discipline. It is not the case, as some people seem to think, of an officer being too proud to associate with enlisted men. The officers of the army hold the enlisted men in high esteem. They know that they are the backbone of the army and they know that on their loyalty, obedience and coyrage hangs success in war and the credit of the army in peace. Every army in the world has learned the lesson that there must be a lack of familiar intercourse in asocial way between the commissioned officers and the enlisted men. ° (\_’hen a young fellow who has been at West Point enlists he is likely, as has been sald, to get into a command in which one of _his classmates may be an officer. Then it is that a curious relation results. The enlisted man meets his former classmate, whom he once called Bill or Jim and with whom .he possibly rocomed as a cadet, and he must simply salute him as any other ‘enllged man would, ‘and pass without a sign of “familiar recognition.” Now this does not mean. at all ~ that Jim or Bill dggs not want to speak to his - former classmate.%‘lt means simply that the enlisted man wants to preserve his own standing with his fellow soldiers and does not want to put his former classmate by and chance in an embarrassing position. If the enlisted men should learn that their newly enlisted fellow was a forn}er clg-lssmate and a friend of one of the officers they might think that it was going to be a case of currying favor on the one side or of showing favor on the other. The man who is once a cadet and who enlists 1s more careful if he is built right, and he generally is, to malntain a proper attitude toward the men who rank him., They tell a story in Washington ot a young fellow who came of rich parentage, but who never had ‘been at West Point, by the way, who enlisted in the army to get his commission. He attempted to presume on the fact of his wealth and he not only got the officers down on him, but the men as well. His lot was not altogether a happy one. It can be sald, however, that cases like that of this wyoung man are few and far between. The .man who is willing to enlist in order to get this commission, generally speaking, is of good :stuffl enough to make him willing to take tthings as they come and to take rather more than his share of the duties and the hgrdships ‘of the enlisted men with. whom he is thrown. { 'There was once upon a time a cadet who, having spent time enough at ‘the United States Military academy to cover 'a considerable part of the course, was compelled by the government to sever his connection with the school he had hoped would prove to him a fostering mother until the end: 1 This cadet, who shall be nameless because of a modest desire to avoid the use of the pronoun jn the first person, had a yearning for military life, and so a few years after leaving the: acndemy he walked into a Boston recruitIng ofiice and enlisted. Several classmates

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Macriage of Jerome and Elizabeth Patterson Greatest Social Event ir Baltimore's History. ~ Just two and a half years after the death and burial of “Old Mortality” on Christmas eve, 1803, all Baltimore rang “with' the greatest social event that the city of beautiful women had ever witnessred—the marriage of Je-

; 4 il 7 ~ By EDWARD B.CIARK {7/ 7/l |W) , COPYRIGHT BY W.A.PATTERSON // / ;3' / % and several other army friends knew of the enlistment and 2 . 7 = ‘I ‘ Q told the enlisted one prior to his application for admission — Y / q’ =/ : f to the service to strike out for a eommission, and, above all A /’ 5 // 2 N a’, p ) ”’4‘: things, not to let any of the enlisted men, or any of the off- 7 w w’ 4// ' ,/’ k? "\'.-'; 3 cers who did not know him, have knowledge of the fact 1[ ) :"3.-/ "7‘ « , “‘/}’,'r 7!,"? that he had been at the military academy, for otherwise they ‘ f// // ‘iy &\ , ,‘i 3 might think he expected favors. > ] s‘o - 'l" /. /A S: ’ The advice was needless, for whatever else the recruit ] et )\ ¥ ’/:“ 4 /’:’J;'}’f,‘f’; ‘ intended to do he desired that his service should be per- ‘\\ WANT \ v : / s ,"’//’Zf.’o'/"// ] formed on the same level with that of every other man in 'l ABLE B.Org ’/'4 . ’y,z%,//'i{f(;,/ rJ the United States army, but the truth is that thia determ!- [ umTEfi 5T BN mn /

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nation and {ts carrying out led to some complications that had humer -enough at the time even tho(;gh they lose the humor because of lack of power in the storyteller. . This cadet recruit was landed at David's island, New York harbor, where there were 700 other recruits undergoing instruction, and a

green Igt they were. The cadet was turned out for squad driil with flve other reeruits, not one of whom knew emmg}f’ about soldiering to keep his heels together. A tall, raw-boned Irish sergeant with the euphonious name .of O’Baldwin was in command of the squad. He began to explain the position of a soldier. He found that the recruit on the right of the line" already was in the position of a soldier. The truth was he couldn’t help himself. O’Baldwin eyed him critically. ~ “Fall out!” he said. . The one-time cadet fell out. “What regiment did ye desart from?” sald O’'Baldwin, pleasantly. ) “This I 8 my first enlistment,” answered the recruit, and in answering he told the truth, for a cadet isn't enlisted. “What company are ye in?” asked O’Baldwin, though he knew perfectly well, for his own bunk was not three bunks removed from that of the recruit. “D company,” answered the queried one, and that’s where he made the mistake of his life. That apparently simple answer proved conclusively to the sergeant’s mind that he had an ex-regular before him, for all the national guardsmen would have answered “Company D” instead of “D company.” The regular who would speak of his command as “Company D¢ would be considered deserving of the guardhouse for a month, for to put the letter after: the company save when it is written is to the army man the height of things unmilitary. . “You go to your quarters: we’ll look into this,” sald the sergeant. The recrult went to his quarters and half an hour later the first sergeant of the outfit sent for him. The “Top” opened the conversation ‘cheerfully with a query as to what regiment the recruit had left in' the lurch. Finding that he was bound to be considered a deserter, the unhappy one took the bull by the horns thus: “I am serving my flrst{ enlistment in the army; I never was in the marine corps and I never saw the inside of a national guard armory.” : ; “Ever been In one of them private military schools?” asked the “Top.” “Never.” i ' “Go to your quarters.” In another hour the recruit was given a rifle and cartridge box and belt and was .ordered to turn out with the scuad of recruits who had advanced far enough in the school of the soldier to receive lessons in the manual of arms. Now as a matter of fact the recruit knew the manual of arms so well he couldn’t have hidden his knowledge if he had tried. This time there was another sergeant in charge. His eye took in the way the recruit on the right handled his piece and ‘executed the manual. : : In léss than a minute the sergeant ordered him who was showing such proficiency to step to the front, and ordered ‘“place rest” for the remainder of the squad. Then turning bis attention to his victim, he said: “We’ll try the bayonet exercise a bit. Guard!” ' The recruit came down to “a guard” possibly with as mueh precision and in probably as proper style as the veteran sergeant had ever seen it done. ; “Passing yourself off for a recruit. It's a fraud you are. Get to your quarters.” And the recruit went to his bunk again, knowing that he was in deep disgrace. - About half an hour later he heard two old

e rome Bonaparte and Elizabeth Patterson. : The groom was resplendent in a purple satin coat, heavy with costly embroideries and gold lace, whose skirt, lined with white satin, in the Jatest fashion of the directory beau monde, fell over his satin kneebreeches and silk hose, to the very tops of the diamond buckles, that clasped his low-cut shoes. His long,

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soldiers talking outside of the barracks window. .One of them said to the other: “There’'s a cuss in there who ain’t never been In the marine corps, nor in the milishy, nor in the reg’lars, ncr to one of them military schools. The sergeant says he’s either a blankety-blank liar or else he larnt his soldierin’ from books, which ain’'t likely.” : That night just after “tattoo,” the first sergeant appeared and told the recruit that the company commander. wanted to see him at once in the orderly room. The recruit went to the presence of the commissioned officer and stood attention as he had stood attention as a cadet a thousand times before. The captain looked him up and down. ‘I understand,” - he said, “that this is your first enlistment; that you have never been a national guard; that you have never been a marine and that you never attended a private military school.” The recruit acquiesced with a respectful “Yes, sir.” , ] “About face.” ' ' The recruit ‘made an about face, and then at a repetition of the command, again faced the captain, who was grinning. : “Go to your quarters,” said the commanding officer. The recruit .went and in ten minutes the top sergeant was there, saying: “You ecan't fool the old man. You've been made a lance corporal and you go on guard as corporal of the third relief tomorrow morning.” There are a good many officers in the United States army today who served for a

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If the visitors who pald good money to a soldier for the privilege of climbing up the steps of the statue of Liberty had only known about the sixty-second article of war they never would have graduated from the dead: head class on a reservation belonging to Uncle Sam, the New York Herald says. - As it is, under the last general order from the war department two soldiers® who levied tribute are doomed to penal servitude for their speculative enterprise. According to the army orders, Axel T. Holm, a first-class private of G company, signal corps, and Edward A. Bagnall, of the same gwade and command, organized a syndicate for the exploitation of the French evidence of friendship for America, which, following the actual language of the order, operated, as to Holm, after this fashion: “He, the sald Holm, did designedly and fraudulently obtain money from certain visitors 2 the statue of liberty, fees for the privilege going up into said statue, by knowingly making false pretenses that such fees were necessary.” And as to the enterprising Bagnall: “That he did knowingly assist in fraudulently obtaining money frqm visitors to the statue of Liberty by acting as a ‘lookout’ with the duty of actually giving warning to the man collecting the fees in case an officer were approaching.” ; All of this, according to the charges and specifications upon which conviction was made, and approval then passed, violated the sixtysecond article of war. In the éase of Holm the department orders his dishonorable discharge

fine hair was powdered snowy whice, contrasting well ‘with his dark eyes and rich’ complexion. The bride wore a white muslin dress, of diaphanous texture, such as the farmpous Indiana looms have made famous %or centuries, which, despite vich embroidery and costly lace, reVealed the béauty of arms and neck, -and fitted in the extreme of a fashion that emphasized the outlines of her faultless limbs and perfect form. “All the clothas’ worn by her might have been put in my pocket,” wrote a

lively correspondent of that letterwriting era. “Her dress was of muslin of an extremely fine texture. Beneath her dress, she wore but one garment.” : Congratulations and good wishes were showered upon her, -and the weeks of the honeymoon were a dream of sweet madness and gratifled ambition.——National Magazine. . Boon Companlions. Cruelty and fear shake hands together.—Balzaa : :

ing been ‘“turned back” into the class next bhelow them either for deficiency in studies or for breaches of discipline. If General Sheridan had not been given another chance after he had engaged in a little affair which was considered a breach of discipline while he was a cadet the wonder is who would have been the right-hand cavalry leader of Grant during the Civil war.

A few months agQ\Gen. Hamilton S. Hawkins died. He entered the military academy some time prior to the opening of the Civil war, but the authorities did not allow him to graduate. Hawkins was not discouraged by the failure and as soon as the Civil war broke out he offered his services to his country and was given a commission. He staid in the reg ular army until the time of his death and so strong was his love of the military academy that before his death he asked that he might be buried in the cadet cemetery. It was Hawkins’ custom each year when he couyld get “away from his command to visit the school where he had spent three years of his boyhood. He had just as strong a love for the institution as did any graduate in the army.

Recently there has been a disposition on the part of the graduates of the military, academy to give more consideration to the men who spent some time at the school, but who did not graduate. One class organization includes in its membership all the cadets who at any time were members of the class, and no distinction is made between graduate and nongraduate, even the offices of the organization being open to men who did not complete the course. 5

Other class organizations are said to be preparing to follow the example of that of the members of 1884 and if the custom of taking into full brotherhcod the non-graduates be. comes general the bellef is that good will come to the academy and the country.

and his confinement for two years at Fort Leavenworth. Bagnall gets off with reduction to the grade of private, four months’ confinement and the forfeiture of $l3 a month. He will work his sentence out around the base of the statue, cleaning up such litter as the tributcless visitors see fit to make. The evidence showed that the two men arranged a scheme to tax all visitors ten cents a head for the pleasure of climbing to the head of the goddess, with the ever-burning torch, and the story was printed exclusively in the Herald at the time. While one of them took in the toll the other lingered about to give the collector a tip if an officer chanced to be bearing down upon the post exchange. Capt. D. J. Carr, commanding the post, is very proud of this pretty show station, and he broke up the game just as soon as he found what was in the air. STREET TRAFFIC OF PARIS. There are nearly half a million horses and motor vehicles of all kinds in Paris today, with 20,000 hand carts and 9,000 wheelbarrows. In 1909 65,870 accidents were caused in the Paris streets by 81,868 vehicles. These statistics are contained in a report drawn up by M. Emile Massard at the request of the Paris municipal council on the incumberment of the Paris streets. - One of M. Massard’s calculations shows that the street traffic of Paris, if stationary, would occupy 445 acres of the 2,079 acres of streets which Paris possesses. Last year 600,000,000 persons traveled by omnibuse and tramway, and there were 294,000,000 passengers on the underground railway.—lndianapolis News. :

‘ 2 Beliefs About Lightning. '~ There is a popular tradition that lightning will not kill any one who is asleep. According to one school, the splinters of a tree struck by lightning are an infallible specific for the toothache. An amusing superstition used to be cherished by the boys of ‘a Yorkshire (Eng.) village, who beileved that if they mentioned the lightning immediately after a flash the seat of their trousers would be torm out. No boy could be induced to make the experiment.

o TY COBB SAYS YOU MUSY DETROIT'S GREAT FIELDER DE. CLARES PLAYER WILL HELP HIS TEAM IF HE GRASPS EVERY OPPORTUNITY. ; By TY COBB. . ’ZCop_\'ri:ht. 1919, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Taking chances at all times, taking !gvery reasonable chance, and some | that do not seem even reasonable, is ’the way | think a player wins games. | ff he has speed, and courage, and con- ' fidence, and then takes the chances, ' selzes every opening and runs hard ‘and slides harder, he will help his team win. |+ Sometimes it seems to me that one ball player is better than another, sim- | ply because he has more nervous enLergy. and what we. call “guts,” than ‘another. Nowadays the teams are so ' closely matched and the men so near‘ly equal in ability, that the team to ' win must have some methoed, or some ' skilful leader, and then. something ' to_keep lfi] hustling and fighting all the time. . . 1f this is meant for advice to young players, just tell them that they must hustle every ' minute, torget themselves and dig for runs. [ know that when 1 get into a ball game all [ “think of is to win that game and get . around the bases. [ can’t see or hear the crowd, and every opposing player s my enemy, no matter %pw good friends they may be off the ball field. I think that is the way a ball player . must feel to win., He must forget him- ' self, forget everythirg, and go after that game with every bit of strength ;and speed he has, not loafing a min- ' ute, and taking every chance possible. - He must run out every ball he hits. - As for batting, that is wmore or less natural abilty and determination. A man ‘may improve his hitting by ' steady practise, but I doubt whether ~a man can be tsught to hit. - I think the secret of hitting is not to be fiafraid of injury and not to “pull” at 'all. There are lots of batters who pull, that is, draw back slightly from i the plate when the ball is pitched, and _lose the force of their swing. In niost cases these batters-are as fearless as

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any others, but they pull unconsciously from nervousness. Steady practise may help overcome this nervousness, and help the hitting. . When a runner gets on bases he ought to have a definite plan of how he is going to get around, and signal the batter his intentions, but be must not allow that to keep him from taking any c¢pening he sees, and he must be wartching every instant for a half passed ball, and be ready to change his plan in a fraction of a second. When I reach first I look around to see the pecsttions of the outfielders, and watch th® second baseman and shortstop to %ee which is golng to take the throw. If an outfielder is out of positior I want to know f#t, for I may decide tc try to take two bases on -a hit, or t&ke two on anything he a player gets a ball out of position to make a strong, fast throw. A base runner ought to know exactly hhw opposing players throw, anll the strength of their arms, for & runner may take A base on one man.when he would not ¢are to start on another.

Above =all things, young players ought to study the game, and the other players. One can learn a Ist just by watching other players and studying their actions—and experienge and knowledge of the other players helps, . There 1s one more thing; elways play square. 1 feel almost as badly when we win a game we don’t deserve as when we are beaten. ] don’t mean that a player should not take every legitimate advantage, but that he should nnt take unfair advantage. The longer 1 play the more satisfaction there is i» winning in a sportsman like way. There is no satisfaction in winning by tritkery, and a fellow who does somé hot-headed trick regreta ft. They 4o not pay. The other fel lows are srying as hard and earnestly as yon afe.

Brooklyn Youngstérs Promising. Brooklyr has a number of youngsters who ptomise to shine in the fast set with a little more experience. Tony Smith, Daubert, Wheat and Dalton are a most promising combination. ‘Tony Smith &t short is not bigger than a stitk ¢f gum in staiure, but in flelding he §s a giant. Fast a 8 lightning, and a quick thinker. ' Are the Tigers “Laying Down?” Some ©f the eastern critics are out with the assertion that the Tifers are laying dbwn” on Manager Jfennings this vear because they teel that they are licksd. You may look foer every kind of explanation for it beéfere the end of the season. | Louisville Lets Three Go. Louisville has released Players Sus tor, Sullivan and Willlam Moriarity to Omafa and Pitcher Higgindotham to the Mormouth (Ill.) club. Catcher Pauxtis has been purchased by Lous dsville from Cincinnati. : Fred Pfeffer a Farmer. The once-famoys second baseman, Fred Pfeffer, has purchased a farm in the Ozarks and will quit the Chi cagy saloon business tc live there

CUBS AND ATHLETICS PICKED TO PLAY - THE WORLD’S CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES Memper of the Chicago Team des Pittsburg Is the Club His Qutfit Will Have to Beat—Confident Mack Will Take Honors Away From Hughie Jennings in the American League. .

“It begins to look as if the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Athletics are the teams that will be fighting for the world’'s championship the latter part of October,” said a member of the Cub's team a few days ago. : “I'm not saying this because I happen to be drawing salary for playing with the Cubs, but it is my honest belief that we are going to cop the pennant in the National league and it i{s my opinion that Connie Mack's bunch is certain to land the rag in the American league. . “Can we beat the Athletics?. I'm surprised that you -should ask such a question. We can beat any team that ever plaved baseball. It's true the Sox trimmed us once, but that's a story that hasn’t been fully told, so I'll not attempt to explain it. They couldn’t do it again. ) “The Detroit bunch wiil be. lucky 1f it finishes in second place this year and that.outfit known as the: Boston Speed Boys Is going'to give the Athletics a run for their coin, bit I. feel sure that Connie Mack will land in front and the Chicago and Philadelphia fans will get to see the battle for world's championship honors. . “I know the race is by no means over and we have a lot of games to win, but with Reulbach, Overall and Brown back in condition we have a twirling staff that is second to none and the rest of the team is as good as’ any other. Some of the others have individual batters who lead us, but as a team they don’t class. . “I'm looking for the Giants to blow up pretty soon and I believe it will be the Pirates who will be at our heels when the National league race is finished. The Pittsburg bunch seems to have shaken that -slump and they can be expected to come fast from now on. Some say it was because of the failure of the club management to pay promised bonuses that the Pirates didn't play up to last season’s form, but I don’t believe it Every team has its bad days and I think it was just a natural fall down that put the Pirates down fn third place. Tl'll bet they beat New York out of second position. See if I"'m not right. While I'm confident the Cubs will win anyway, I'd rather be playing against New York than against Fred Clarke's crew.” ' o ‘Hughey Jennings remarks that two seasons ago, when the Tigers started on their first eavstern{r-ip, they were absolutely in last place. They were 276 percentage points behind the Athletics. They were playing sandlot ball if sand-let ball was - ever played. -Quoting the manager: “1 was almost in despair and I verily belleve that the only reason I was not driven . out .of Detrbit was- that the fans were charitable enough to give me the credit for winning the pennant the year before. Well, sir, we started out on the road, and when we came back we had wiped out all but 16 of those awful .276 percentage points. We had played 26 games and had won 20 of them, and it wasn't long until we were at the top. You know the rest.” 4 '

It 1s ‘an odd fact that ‘the baseball teams representing leading cities in the United States are -seldom called by their proper names. When fans are talking baseball they rarely refer to John McGraw’s great team as the New York Nationals, but affectionately cling to the time-honored name “Giants.” This is the case practically all over the country, and the reasons for it are interesting. With two ball teams in a major league city it is easier to distinguish between them by using nicknames than tacking on the name of the league which each repregents. Hence we have the “Giants” repregenting the metropolis i the Natioral league and the “Highlanders” or “Yankees” doing the same in the Araericap league.

In the old days, say twenty years ago, the same practise prevailed, but not exactly for the same reason, as two clubs in @ single city, barring Philadelphia, could not live. The New Yorks were first nicknamed the “Giants” in those days because ‘the. players were all big men. Buck Ewing, Tim Keefe, Roger Connor, Bill Brown, George Gore, Ed Crane, Jim O’Roufke andl Mike Tiernan were sixfooters and powerfully built. The Brooklyns were called the “Bridegrooms” because a majority of them had juet been married. The Chicagos, ander Anson, were known as” the “White Stockings,” for the reason that ttey wore hose of that color, and the St Louis Browns under the leadership of Comiskey were similarly named. So were the old Cincinnati Reds, while all the Boston teams were known popurarly as the “Beaneaters.” The Clevelands, with Pat Tebeau at the helm, were dubbed “The Spiders,” as some of the players were slightly built, and had thin legs. The old Detroit champions. were always. called *“The Wolverines,” and the Pittsburg team bore the pame of “Smoky City” and “Pirates” from timeimmemorial. The Washingtons were hailed everywhere as “The Senators,” while {n Quakertown the Phillies and the Athletlcs were the same old rivals. The Indianapolis team was nicknamed the Hoosiers, and the old Metropnlitaus of the American association were known familiarly- as the Mets. The Louisvilles were the Colonels, and in 1884 there was such a team as the St. Louis Maroons in the deéfunct Union association engineered by H. V. Lucas. s Nowadays we hear of the Boston Red SOx of the American league and the Boston Doves, named for their reputed owner, George B. Dovey. The Brooklyns are staggering under the name Trolley Dedgers, and in Chicago we have the Cubs and White Sox. The Clevelands have been nicknamed -the Naps because the great Lajoie is their leader, while the Detroits are known all over the land as the Tigers. In St. Louis ‘the Browns and the Cardinals are rivals

150 __.-f‘f ’;‘/ o . g ) : ' rr‘: .: & &I f; 2 L e f e VAU S SIS 'u ; N\ ? A 7‘\‘_i."’—¢f o £ f i £ X 4 e N R Noesid © BEST i 2 = $ O 3 £ hf b, o * . i A f»"’ we 33 ' a 7 W v// A;;.g:.:y\;; 2 ¥ b ,‘, o } et A-‘_T{.:‘: 2 > ¥J: *’"‘, ; ; w’”: s £ "-:‘:,4_.’ o i | ~ 4 Napoleon Lajoie. . of patronage. The Washingtons have shaken the Senators for the Nationals, but the Cincinnatis and Pittsburgs still stick to the Reds arnd Pirates. That is the case with the Phililes and the Athletics in Philadelphia, too. Some of the other nicknames are the Baltimoreq Orioles, the Jersey City Skeeters, the Newark Sailors, the Providence Clam Diggers, the Flour Citys of Rochester, the Buffalo Bisons, the Montreal Royals, the Milwaukee Brewers, the St. Paul Angels, the Kansas City Blues, the New Orleans Pelicans and others too numerous to mention. When the last count was taken Naticnal league pitchers had struck out 1,549 batsmen and have given 1,555 bases on balls. These statistics. have little comparison with the figures of rtrike-outs and walks in the American league. Up to the game time, there had been 1,991 of the former and but 1,372 passes. Basing the ultimatum on the old !vy frescoed assumption that “figures don't lie,” Ban Johnson’'s wheelers excel this season.

The race for that automobile prize which is to go to the best batter in either of the big leagues is growing hotter every day. Napoleon. Lajoie has the lead in the American league according to the latest figures, but Ty Cobb is a close second. “ajoie on the Naps' eastern trip let down some in his hitting and was outbatted by three of the Boston players in the series there, but did not lose the lead. There is no cleaner hitter in baseball than Lajoie and he has gained the lead by smashing them out good and strong. He is not what is known as a “cleanup” hitter like Cobb and some of the others, but just pegs away day by day getting his two, three and sometimes four hits regularly.

Manager Griffith has purchased Third Baseman Breen from the Vancouver club of the Northwestern league. He is said to be a fine hitter and a first-class fielder, and is strongly recommended by Joseph Sugden,’ the old catcher, who has been doing some scouting for the Reds out on the coast. Breen will not join the team until fall, after he gets through out there. Downey is doing so well at third base /that he is not needed iust at present. g

Merkle Equals Elberfeid’s Feat. The feat of Merkle in ‘scoring all three runs for the Giants the otheér day recalls what Kid Elberfeld did once when with the Highlanders. He beat Rube Waddeil by scoring all the runs and making all the hits in a game~on the hilltop.

Says Cobb Is Incorrectly Scored. Secretary Richard of the St. Louis Browns says Detroit scorers are padding Ty Cobb’s batting average. He says Cobb- is not batting well, and that if scored correctly he would fall below .300. Bresnahan Would Sell Sallee. Manager Bill Dahlen of the Brooklyn baseball team says that Roger Bresnahan of St. Louis offered him Pitcher Sallee and Hulswitt, a shortstop, for Bell. RBell is a right-hand pitcher. Dahlen says theer is not much chance of that deal going through. Bresnahan also has offered his southpaw for Mcllntire and Richie of the Chicago National league team. Bresnahan told Manager Chance that McGraw of New York wanted Sallee. Lange Played With Lumberjacks. Frank Lange, who is doing so well on the slab for the White Sox, played his first baseball with the lumberjacks in Wisconsin. He came to the White Sox from the Des Moines team of the Western. league. Zeider Does Some Scouting. -Rollie Zeide} did some scouting when absent from his teamm. He saw two promising ball players, but thep had both-been gobbled up by eastern clubs, : : Struck Out Lajole. - Chris Mahoney, a Boston Red Sox recruit, caused considerable commeni on his first appearance for that team by striking out Larry Jajeie.