Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 10, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 August 1928 — Page 6

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by THE BiDEPEXBByT-X EWS CO. __. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD W *THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIE S Clem DeCoudres. Business Manager Chaxlea M, Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear |LB» ■lx Months BO Three Months ..... ; 89 TERMS IN ADVANCE ' Entered at the post office at Walkerton, Jnd aa second-class matter. One thing that may he kept indefl nltely without spoiling is rhe temper Those anxious to invest in a going concern should make sure which way it is going. If a woman’s Intuition is so wonderful, then why does she ask so many questions? We can’t understand why anybody should boast of a family tree that has quit blooming. Queen Marie is planning another visit to the United States. Well, we may not get so red in the neck this time. Chicago florists do h business of $16,000,000 a year, hut of course, some of the flowers are used for weddings. No matter at how many weddings a man may serve as usher, he is always more or less befogged at his own. Trotzky is described as being a man of very few words. After looking at a Russian dictionary we don't blame him. Politicians know they can’t fool all the people all of the time, but that does not prevent some of them from trying. What we want to know is whether ’the milkman has to run up 53 flights to deliver milk at the “sky-scraper bungalow.” Scientists have found germs increase their speed under a red light. Certainly, and some of them are driving automobiles. We must hold ourselves in read! ness for a series of accidents: It seems China now has districts called “safety zones.” Back in time’s dim beginning, there were seven original jokes; and probably none of them started, “Did you hear the one about the Scotchman?” Florida is first to report a Ye Oide Hotte Dogge Shoppe, a thing some of us had been dreading for a year or two, not caring for antique hot dogs. “What is the difference between a Bun-kissed peach and a son-kissed peach?” inquires the Boston Transcript. One kisses back and the other doesn't. it must keep a working girl busy trying to maintain a wardrobe containing everything a girl is supposed to need nowadays iu the way of sports clothes. So live that when you make a large : contribution to the party chest the : treasurer won’t scratch his head | doubtfully and finally mark it down I to “Anon.” Although the city man knows all about mass production, the knowledge doesn’t seem to do him much good in connection with his vegetable and flower garden. Two Atlanta children, aged three and five years, fell out on the second stories of buildings in one day and ! neither was injured Talk about your bouncing kids! Every community has two or three structures that came immediately to mind when the inventor eaid he was working on a new paint which rendered things invisible. It is estimated that on any given day there are 2.000.000 Americans on the sick list. Yet the most radical economist will not urge that this is away to solve the problem of overproduction. ; • i Men who used to make a living selling buggies, whips, harnesses, etc., should not be starving to death if they have had the foresight to engage in the business of replacing shattered windshic s. Philadelphia takes the prize. A motorist in that city struck a schoolboy, breaking his hip. He took the hoy to a hospital, and when he got him there stole a dime from his victim and di ipppared London bookseller has a new idea —he sells books by the pound. You go into his shop and say: “Give me two pounds of Lamb, a pound of Bacon, and a ton of Steele”—and all you get is literature. None of the many authoritative books on table service mentions the most delicious way to serve ice cream, viz: On the dasher. Motor statistics promise a car for each family. They do nor discourage street railway confidence in a steady supply of straphangers. The American Bible society reports that more than ten million Bibles or portions ot Bibles were printed last year. Somebody beside young Americans must be reading them. An average mile of railway line in the United States last year handled seven passenger trains and seven freight trains each day. A returned army officer describes Sandino as “just a little prowler back in the Nicaraguan hills.” He should have added, “with claws.” Physicians having caused a tremen dous increase in the price of liver b.t recommending It to anemics, we hope they will not discover anything reme dial in ham and cabbage.

S Boy Stars for New York Giants B X £ £ f I 'HIS is the story of a backwoods boy who, at the age of sixteen, £ I got a job with the New York Giants on a letter of introduction, X and who today, at the age of nineteen, is standing the baseball £ world on its head, writes W. S. Forman in the Chicago Evening Post. % £ It couldn’t have happened very often in any other country in the world, £ i and it couldn’t happen very often

£ in big-league baseball, where a‘‘ * letter of introduction is about as X useful as a wart on a girl's nose. J The boy’s name is Melvin Ott. £ He comes from the bayous of £ Louisiana. IBs father is a laborer. $ Melvin was a catcher on a £ high-school team at Gretna, La., wherever that is. After his gradu- £ ation he applied to the New Orleans club of the Southern league

£ for a tryout. He got it, but was told by the £ manager that, while J there was some symp- £ toms of class apparent. £ he was too young for the pro game. £ He was advised X >; :*• to go home £ and grow awhile. A ‘ydr X But Ott was not £ willing -ir " v t° £° home. The £ boys and girls of J the little town hud £ given him a great £ sendoff when he :*• left to seek his £ fortune In the big £ £ city and he would U £ not go back and i £ face them ns a flat £ failure. He hung t J around New Or- £ leans for a time Lj £ and asked the man Mt £ ager of the Pelicans fW £ for permission to w work out with the £ teain in the mom- ;* ings. That privilege £ was granted him. £ One day a mil- £ ilonaire lumberman

£ named Robert Williams,dropped into >! the Pelicans’ park seeking mate- £ rial for a baseball team he rnaintained at one of his lumber camps. £ He saw Melvin Ott working out and liked his looks. He offered £ Melvin a place on his lumber-camp team and Melvin, with nothing bet-

Pirate Pitching Star I I 1 B '> 1 SF ^flnl r^^iM Jolin Miljus, one of the pitching i stars of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is more [ than making good this year, his sec- ' ond season in fast company. \jporfso/es\ Harvard was the first American col- ' lege to introduce modern football. Bicycle racing and cross-country I runs are still the most popular sports I in Belgium. ** * i Billy Bird, a London bus conductor, I has fought 175 boxing contests and j lost only 23. Benny Touchstone, heavyweight, has knocked out eight opponents in the second round. • • • The first steel and concrete grandstand in Japan has been built at Waseda university in Tokyo. • ♦ * Dan Leary, veteran pedestrian, nearing the ninetieth mile>4one of life, makes it a habit to walk at least 15 I miles a day. • • • Donald Carrick, golfing champion of Canada, has droped golf to train for the tryouts for the Canadian Olympic boxing team. • • • Queens university has advanced a plan to have all members of the Ca- । nadian Intercollegiate Athletic union pool their football receipts. • * • William L. (Little Bill) Johnston, who held the national tennis championship in 1915 and again in 1919, | has definitely retired from active competition on the courts. * * * When Bob Fitzsimmons fought Peter Maher about 400 miles from El Paso in 1896, there were exactly 132 paid admissions at 820 apiece. Fortynine newspaper reporters were admitted free. * * * Wilford H. Ketz, holder of the Western conference record for the hammer throw, will captain the Michigan track team next year. * * • On the famous golf courses of Scotland caddies may be seen at the age of eighty. They appear to know their courses as a mariner knows his charts. • • * Intelligence tests? will be used by Coach Al Sharpe of Washington university ns an aid In selecting his footbail material, especially quarterbacks, tor bia team next fall.

$ * £ ter In sight, accepted with thanks. Now the scene shifts to New £ York, where the hard-boiled Mr. £ McGraw, who happens £ to be a close personal £ friend of the wealthy Mr. Robert Williams £ of the Louisiana him- * >er camps, is greeted one £ j&Sff .ay by a bashful boy, who *

piesents a letter of intro- £ duct ion to his nibs. J “This Is Melvin Ott. who £ some dav will be as great a £ catcher as Roger Bresnahan X was,” read the letter from £ Mr. Williams. “Sign him at * once, and some day you will £ thank me over and over £ again.” X "Well.” said McGraw, :* ‘Columbus took a chance. X So will I.” J He watched the kid at X morning practice for three * days and then said to the £ newspaper boys: “There’s * a coming star. He shows £ more promise than any £ rookie Ive seen in years." £ Ask any baseball bug £ for the rest of the yarn. ;♦ From a catcher McGraw £ •onverted Melvin into an :* outfielder, and he made £• । good. One day Lindstrom £ A and Reese were both £ out with injuries, and J young ott was sent to £ third base. He starred £ there. Recently £ Andy Cohen was £ out with the flu, and * Wku*. Ott was shifted to sec- £ ond base. He starred * there, too. It is an £

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interesting story. And here is the best part of it. Young Melvin £ Ott's head is the same size now * that it was when he shuffled bash- ♦ fully up to McGraw with his letter £ of Introduction from Williams, the ♦ lumber man. He has developed nel £ ther temperament nor temperature * £ ►: >: >: >: >: >»: >: xxxxxxxxx xxx x :♦ :xx >

VJIAMDNDV ApICK-UFSA Pitcher Harvey Reese has been purchased by Raleigh from Richmond of the Virginia league. • • • Tiger Stone is making the rounds of the league. Recently he signed with Columbus as a pitcher. • • • Charles Martz, Cl■clnnatl. will cap tain the Wooster college bast ball team next season, lie is a star infielder. • • • Art Jahn, Phillies outfielder, got his start in baseball by answering an ad for ball players in a pap t at Alverdo, lowa. • • • Billy Mullen, third baseman, has been purchased by the Kansas City American association club from the St. Louis Americans. • • • Pid Purdy, who Is 1 playing a nice game for the Reds this year, belonged to the White Sox once, but wasn't thought much of. • • • Young Doc Leggett, whom the Cubs farmed out to Reading, is still burning up the International league. He's leading the circuit. • • • Ty Cobb, member of the Philadelphia Athletics', is forty-two years old and has been playing major league baseball for 23 years. • • • Jimmy Welsh, Giants’ outfielder, still carries with him a card of membership in the St. Louis Knotholers’ Gang. It is dated 1915. * « • Del Bissonette, the National league’s rookie home run sensation, tried and failed to break in with the big she* with Cleveland as a pitcher. • • • Outfielder Snead Jolley was the first Pacific Coast league player to reach the 100-hit mark this season. Major league scouts are watchipg him. • * • Bennie Oosterbaan, Michigan's famous modern athlete, made 24 hits in 49 times at bat for an average of .489 during the last Conference baseball season. • • • The new Oxford dictionary has 414,825 words. This includes all the known words in the English language, except the ones used by baseball writers. • ♦ * Cy Young, pitching immortal, hurled ’em over the plate for 22 years, and during that period had three no-hit, no-run games to his credit, and one perfect game. * • • Fred Francis, the Giants’ new announcer nt the Polo grounds, developed a strong voice as a kid shouting in Mammoth cave, Ky.. just for the fun of hearing the echoes. • » » Perle Casey has been connected with the Pacific Coast league since it began as a six-club organization in 1903. He has seen service as player, scout, coach and umpire. * • * John McGraw has four former baseball managers on his staff this season—Roger Bresnahan, Bob O’Farrell, Larry Doyle and Bill Terry. • • * •‘Virginia” Rell, right-handed pitcher with the Wilson club of the Virginia league last year, has reported for service with the Nashville club. • * * Del Bissonette, Brooklyn’s slugging first baseman, regarded as a possible successor to Babe Ruth in home run hitting, is a discovery of old Larry Sutton, dean of Ivory hunters.

HOLLAND FAVORS BASEBALL GAME Efforts Being Made to Popularize American Sport. Characterizing honkbal, or baseball, as "de ideale zomersport” (the ideal sport of the summer), the Dutch athletic clubs are making a determined effort to popularize American baseball wherever Dutch is spoken. The pitcher of the Ajax team, which played a practice game recently against the Ame-’can football eleven, is even going Batavia. Dutch East India, soon in the hope of introducing baseball there. “Honkbal” was brought to Holland some 15 years ago by an Amsterdam teacher of sports, G. Grase, who bad seen the game played in America, but who then had not taken the trouble to familiarize himself with it thoroughly. Returned to Holland, he suddenly realized that Holland had no summer game comparable to soccer football for the fall and spring. So he and a group of Dutch enthusiasts sat down to study baseball from Spalding’s rules. They got most of it right, except that the pitcher threw the ball underhanded. One day an American man-of-war anchored outside Amsterdam. The Honkball Bond (baseball federation) I asked the bluejackets to play them. It was then that they learned how a hall may be pitched. The marines also willingly taught them other tine points After a few years interest lagged, and only eight years ago was baseball ‘ taken up again. Two years ago tin* United States cruiser Pittsburgh visit- ' ed Amsterdam, and n series of games । was arranged. That gave new imI petus t<> "honkhall.” so that by today there are some 10 clubs in Amsterdam with 21 nines, one in Haarlem and one in Hilversum playing baseball. A Dutch audience reacts differently to has -ball from what an American does. While in the United States the spectators in the bleachers seem happy when a ball Is bit there, and men vie I with one another to catch It. everyI body In Holland within apparent reach I < f the ball thicks as it approaches. । and there is great commotion. __ - I Former Churn pi on Jockey Loses 100 Races in Row The champion Jockey of England for many years. Stevo Donoghue. Ims struck a poor track this season On April I<> at Birmingham he won on I Au Revolr, and when he was beaten with Tactics at York recently the world-famous rider clmikt d up his one hundredth consecutive loser During the \e rs liHI-23 I Hmoghue headed the list of winning Jockey® In England, and the slogan. “<’ome on. Stove!" was hoard on every course. It Is no longer heard The originate! of that catch phrase Is said to have been .1. C. Galstaun. an Indo Armenian, who used to visit England each summer and back, selling platers heavily. Wisconsin U. to Build $650,000 Field House j Const ru<t lon of a SGSO.tX)O field house at the Univt'r-uty of Wisconsin has been assured by Governor Zimmerman’s approval of a lease for the site. The University of Wisconsin Building corporation, a private group within the university, will borrow s326,<Wi from the state teachers’ retirement fund to pay for building material and labor. When the building is completed it will be leased back to the board of regents for an approximate rental of $20,000, the lease running for fifty years. Louis Meyer Unknown in His Own Home District When Louis Meyer of South Gate, 1 a Los Angeles suburb, won the Indian- ■ apolis Motor Speedway race, he was almost totally unknown in his home I district. Fi'w people in Los Angeles had ever ; heard of the youth before newspapers announced his victory. So slight had been the expectation that he would win the classic that newspapers searched their libraries in vain for pictures of the winner. It was recalled that he had entered I as a driver in one Los Angeles race ! and had failed to qualify. Rommel Seeks Record "Mr Eddie Rommel, “ace” of the Philadelphia Athletics, is anxious to win 30 games this season. This feat has not ; been accomplished for many years and Rommel believes it would bring him Into the world’s series. He is hurling great ball for Connie Mack. Tough Proposition Joe Dundee, welterweight champion who ran out of a match with Ace Hudkins in Los Angeles last year when Ace was in the ring, is likely to meet just as tough a proposition this time in Sammy Baker. Baker Is a fierce body puncher. The fellows who stay to a decision with Sammy sometimes drop out of sight afterward. Dundee wouldn’t be missed much. He was a rough fighter before he became champion, and he’s been a cautious business man ever since.

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Snapshots in Colors Through New Process A new process whereby amateurs take snapshots that can be printed In color was recently shown In London. An ordinary camera is used and f^om three black-and-white negatives positive prints are made In the primary colors, produced by the direct action of light on specially sensitized material. By superimposing these prints, the original colors of the object t.fken are obtained. Various tones can be produced by a slight variation and blending of the primary colors involved. The process will not only enable reproduction in color of old masters, but, as has been suggested, may be used for making half tone blocks suitable for magazine covers. Some of the pictures thus made have been exhibited. Sea Monster Puzzles To determine the species ut sea monster stranded at Gretna recently, parts have been sent for Identification to the Royal Scottish museum at Dumfries. These indicate that the animal was not a whale, as at first supposed, but a large species of the basking shark. The Gretna visitor is 19 feet long, with head about 5 feet in length. Its weight was estimated at nearly two tons. An Excuse Mistress—Why, .lane, how could you let that chimneysweep kiss you? Jane—Really, ma’am, I—l can’t understand it myself—but—all at once everything went black before my eyes

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