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■ Mcb SlAft HISTOH r "he ( >m ah a Morning Bee * f,! "!V!" • _ _ _ ■ ■ ■■ VOL. 53 NO. 100. «£,»*.OMAHA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1923. t g;,,"1.11 0, "..V*#..."«»"« TWO CENTS 11 °,m£'£f, French Rum Smuggling Plot Bared Peckhand Slips in Unloading Barrel of “Hides” and Customs Guard Spies Liquor. Seizure Worth $25,000 New York. Oct. 10.—Customs offi dais today stumbled on a discovery which may reveal a plot to smuggle French liquor Into the United States on a wholesale scale. A longshoreman, rolling a barrel of •‘hides" along a Hudson river pier after a shipment of 95 barrels had been unloaded from tflie French liner Chicago, which docked last Saturday, tripped and the barrel crashed Into an iron girder. A customs Inspector, standing near by. expected to see brine, In which bides usually are packed, gush from the broken staves. The expected flow tuis not forthcoming. Opening the barrel, he found In elda 48 bottles of Scotch, benedictino and apricot brandy. A few hides were used for packing. He tapped five more barrels. In each was found 48 bottles of contraband liquor. A report was made to Deputy Sur veyor William K. Sanders, who ordered the entire ehipment seized and taken to the appraiser’s stores for examination. If each barrel con tains the»same amount of liquor the estimated value of the seizure will be about $25,500. Almost eveVy French ship brings in Shipments of "hides’’ and customs officials now fear that thousands of cases have been smuggled into the. country. Governor’s Son Aids in Lion Bonding Case Governor Bryan's Bon. Cyrus, Is a member of the firm of lawyers in Minneapolis, which is representing the special agent and the Department ©f Trade and Commerce in the liquida tion of the Dion Bonding company. The case is progressing very slowly. Criticism of the governor for his M^qnaction I* heard because general economy so advisable where the public interest Is concerned is lack ing in the administration of this liquidation. Receivers appointed by the District ©curt at St. Paul, Minn., have filed Claims for $7,500 attorney fees and $12,000 receiver fees. This and other information on *tho CUbject is contained in an article in the first issue of an insurance magazine, The Forum, edited and published by Henry H Hovel!. J3airv Cattle Reach lop Price of $173, Columbus Columbus, Neb., Oct. 10.—That there is an' active demand for dairy cattle in this section of the state was evidenced at the public sale here of two carloads of grade Holstein and Guernsey dairy cows and calves grhich were shipped from Wisconsin by the Dincoln Divestock company, to the Columbus sale pavilion. The <8 ©ows made on average of $101, with g top of $173, while the calves went up to $2*. The offerings were mostly taken by dairymen and farmers in Platte, Colfax, Butler and Polk coun ties. Plainview Grade Pupils Have Real “Grocery Story” Plain view, Neb., Oct. 10.—Miss Mabel Chase, teacher of the sixth grade In the public schools here, has 4|k^ade it possible for her pupils to have g real "grocery store." She had sev eral of the boys snd girls write to the jobbers asking for samples of everything that goes to make up a goo<l grocery store, and now they have all of their goods on shelves ready for "business," and hnve In vited their parents and others to in gpect them. pofumbua Board Seeking Ideas for New High School Columbus, Oct. 10.—The Columbus School board spent a day In Lincoln Malting the city schools. This Is the third trip of the board to other cities. One was made to Fremont and an pther to Norfolk In an effort to find desirable features to be Incorporated In the proposed *400,000 senior high School for Columbus. World Scries Plays Broadcast by WOAW Please All Hearers More than B0 telegrams and 40 long distance telephone calls from towns all over Iowa. Nebraska and Missouri were received at radio station WOAW, the Woodmen of the World Life In surance association, while announcer *'<!. R." was pouring Into the micro phone the Htory of the world series game, hot of fthe wires of The Oma )io llee Wednesday afternoon. The telegrams reported excellent re. ception. and in nearly every Instance, n crowd of persons was listening In at the station from which the mes an gcs were received". •'.Most complete report on the air, pens the tenor of the messages. Station WOAW, co-operating with Tin Omaha llee, will broadcast play b\ play results of each game during tin 1 rics. t ^ l.aU'ii for ItJ ^ Ji * it t Charles H. Morrill Only Surviving Nebraskan for Whom County Named Is Author of Book on Nebras ka Pioneer Life—Honored as Distinguished Citizen. But one man out of the many Ne braskans who have had counties named in their honor Is now living and will see the new state eapltol, with Its circle of stone tablet*, one for each county, which will surround that edifice, and road hi* name chiseled on the symbol of his county. He is Charles H. Morrill, pioneer Ne braskan, for whom the town of Mor rill, Scotts Bluff county, Nebraska, and Morrill county, Nebraska, have been named. Mr. Morrill is past 80 and is still in good health and vigorous. , In 1917, after retiring from active business, he wrote a book relating numerous intimate stories about Ne braska pioneers and pioneer days. Only 500 copies were printed for free distribution, but today a copy may be found in the libraries of most large cities and in .almost every genealogic al library of Nebraska. Morrill has lived on his homestead for 52 years. Civil War Veteran. This pioneer was born in Concord, N. H„ July 14, 1843. He was edu cated at Colby academy, New London, N. H. He enlisted as a private In 1862 and served in that capacity to the end of the civil war. In 1871 he settled on a government homestead in Polk county, Nebraska, and from 1879 to 1883 he was private secretary to Governor A. Nance. From that position he accepted the presidency of the Stromsberg, Neb., bank. The Farmers’ and> Merchants’ bank in Stromsberg put him at Its head, how ever, in 1890. From 1879 to 1901 he filled the position of United States customs collector. Prominent In Politics. Morrill was chairman of the re publican state central committee in 1894 and a Nebraska member of the republican national committee from 1904 to 1908. He also founded the Morrill geological yearly expeditions at the University of Nebraska. A degree of merit was awarded him by the University of Nebraska last year, while the Kiwanls club of Lin coin voted him a medal as a dis tinguished citizen of the state. A silver brick, properly inscribed, was presented him for his assistance In quelling the Omaha Btrik^ riot In 1879. "I only did what every man who is a loyal American citizen should do. That's all,” Mr. Morrill assurts. Yates Parent-Teacher Body to Present Movie Program First of autumn movies sponsored by the Yates Parent-Teacher associa tion will be offered at the school audi torium Friday evening at 7 o'clock. Douglas MacLean in "Twenty-three and One Half Hours’ Leave" is the feature. In addition, there will be an educational film, "Sentinels of the Sea,” and a Hurd comedy entitled “Chicken Dressing." The film committee, of which Mrs. D. M. Kdgerly is chairman, spends a great deal of time In selecting films which are thoroughly wholesome. In teresting, and attractive. To insure an earlier closing the first picture will begin at 7. Legion Post Sends “Miss Columbus” to Frisco Meet Columbus, Neb., Oct. 10.—Miss Lydia Ackerman, one of the 20 girl members of the Hastings cadet corps, has been elected as "Miss Columbus” by the local Hartman post No. 84. American Legion, which voted $75 toward defraying her expenses to advertise the local post at the na tional convention in San Francisco. Columbus is the smallest of Ne braska cities to have a legion post to select one of the girls of the cadet corps as its representative. Peter Phillips end Henry J. Kotlar are the two local delegates to the national convention. Former Omaha Hotel Man to Him Columbus Hosiery Columbus, Neb., Uct. 10.—Huston J. Harper, for the last four yearn man ager of the Hotel Doyul In Omaha, re cently sold by the Harper & Kriel Hotel company, owners of the Evans hotel here, will take charge of the Columbus hostelry at once and Is moving his family here. Mr. Harper's partner, Charles W. Kriel, former manager of the Evans hotel, died here In February. Mrs. Kriel and her son, Charles, will remain In Columbus. Northeast Nebraska Will Have Bumper Corn Crop Plalnview, Neb., Oct. 10.—A tour through northwest Nebraska shows thnt In almost every Instance the corn Is thoroughly ripe, even the very lat est, which it waa feared would be caught by the frost before maturity. The farmers are beginning to husk what they say Is one of the largest yields they have had In Nebraska for several years. Nebraska City Man, 75, Is Jailrtl on Liquor Charge Nebraska City, Neb , Oct. 10.—VVI1 - Hum Carver, 75, arrested when two gallons of hootch wore found In a sack in his lifiat by the police upon his arrival from "bootleggers Island," south of here, pleaded guilty to Illegal possession of liquor In police court and was fined 1100. He was unable to pay the fine and will serve a sen tence 111 la 11 Davis Walsh knows sports That's why he writes for The Evening Idee. Army Deserter Is Shot in Leg — Guard Fires at Fort Omaha Prisoner Who Attempts Escape. Hubert Priest army deserter from Atlanta, Ga., waiting hls dishonorable discharge at Fort Omaha, received a bullet wound in the knee Wednesday morning when he attempted to escape from Dave Gray, a member of the 17th Infantry, who was acting as hls guard. Priest had been taken out of the post for some fatigue duly near Thirty-third and Fowler streets. He asked permission to get*a drink, and Gr.ay agreed. After he walked from house to house without making any effort to obtain water, however, Gray ordered him to return to the post. Priest dived Into some weeds In a vacant lot and fled. Grny fired and Priest fell with a bullet In hls knee. He was taken to the army hospital, where he Is still guarded by Gray. Army regulations provide that a guard from whom a prisoner escapes lakes the prisons ■'* place. Albion Organises Golf Club of SO Membeers Albion, Neb., Oct. 10—Tha Albion Golf club has been - organised here. F. S. Thompson was elected presi dent, C. A. Bull vice president, R. D. Flory secretary and Robert Flotree treasurer. The board of directors are A. W. Lamb, W. B. Martin and A. W. Ladd. There Is already a member ship of about 80. Work on the golf course is progressing and It will soon be ready for use. Stinnes Request Spurned. B#rlln«Oct. 10—General Degoutte. commander of the French army of or pupation In the Ruhr, has rejected Hugo Stinnes' request for suspension of the eight-hour workday and other ameliorating labor measures in ter ritory held by the French, according to information received today from Dusseldorf. Diversified Crops Make Prosperity 1152,000,000 Value Placed on 1923 Wheat Total of 263,138,000 Bushels • in State. Com Is Worth Millions Nebraska’s 1923 wheat crop will total 263.138,090 bushels, according to the October estimate of the United States Department of Agriculture sta tistical bureau. This news, received by grain men in Omaha yesterday, was accepted as one of the best prosperity notes that could be conveyed to the Nebraska farmer who had diversified his crops and cut down his wheat acreage In the face of revivified wheat raising in Europe following the war. The estimated crop, sold on the Chicago market, minus_ the freight, under present conditions, would place more than $152,600,000 In the pockets 0f the Nebraska farmers, according to estimates made in Omaha. if the market for corn continues to be bolstered up as is promised and the com can be held until next sum mer, It can be sold for many millions more at that time. However, grain men l>elieve this tan only be accomplished by In creased purchase of livestock and fettling and fattening the stock dur ing the winter, thus decreasing the amount of corn on hand. The good prices promised for corn and the consequent prosperity of farmers with good corn acreages Is hailed here as a triumph for the farmer who "didn't put all his cfegs in one basket,” and Instead diversified his farming, so that She failure to realize a good price on wheat doesn’t necessarily put his year’s work In the loss column. Com Equals Wheat in Value on Market Chicago, Oct. lfl.—Remarkable shift ing of grain value* today made corn and wheat almost Identical In value. No. 2 yellow corn in < hicngo was worth «t the close of trading $1.10 a bushel, whereas No. 2 hard wheat ranged from $1.10 to $1.14 2-4 Corn sella ordinarily about 2'i cents a bushel under wheat, but the supply of corn this seneon has become hear ly used up before the new crop ts ready. As a result. cornmeaT Is sc tually quoted higher than some good grades of wheat flour. Today's advance In the price of No. 2 yellow corn amounted to 4 cents a bushel. Opinion among traders was divided as to whether corn would yet outstrip wheat In value and if so. how soon. Loup Summer in Klondike. Dawson. V T Oct 10 The longest summer season in (ho history of th< Klondike find* the l«*t *tearner out of Dawiion leaving toiln\ down a river *till fre*» of ire. UP AND DOWN AND ROUND ABOUT OMAHA Saw Oscar Ideben as he was enter ing his place of business. Immedi ately realized my Idea of the subllma tlon of the OP Clo's man. Would be wise young guy making cracks as girl waiting on him In res taurant. Never could understand men tal processes of fellow who holds that girls who work for a living are legitl mate objects of Insult. Yearned to see girl crown him with sugar bowl. Great Impulse to do It myself fie strained Impulse without much effort. Convention of spiritualists In town. Reminds me of time when 1 whs ah solutely sure ol' Mammy Tall could put the conjure on anybody she illdn t like, and couldn't sleep a wink at night if I passed her on the street. Have outgrown it, but confess to troubled dreams after reading a r»a! ghost story. ■Saw Carl dray's son. Howard, who looks like he deserved his Princeton popularity. Won my approval of his old fashioned Ideas about girls who smoke clgarets. Myself, 1 do not hold to this equality of the sexes stuff; maintain that woman should mnintaln old-time superiority In some things— smoking f’rlnstance. Charles P. Craig, vice president of Great Fakes St. I.awrenoe Tidewater association, and tireless promoter of project. Imparted his enthusiasm to me. Always did like men who dreamed Kreat dreams and then rolled up their sleeves and started out working to make them come true. Seine dreamer myself, but constitutionally opposed to rolling up sleeves, etc., etc Charley Stockdale, formerly Klgtn (Neb.) editor, dropped In. Said he • nme In to watrh the wheels go 'round. Gazed intently at mo after • aylng it. Wonder what he meant. Met W. II Murray at Fifteenth and I inuglas. Forgot his recent promo ,ti n and called him “Hill." Oot awity with It, too. Know he will fill the po sition because he don't swell. Might ss well confess to being John Q Hick from Hlckvllle, Never will he aids to muster up Courage enough to work the autnmatle elevator all alone Watched window washer perched on nlll 1« stories up. Spent half hour | matching. Result; Only windows Jf washed. If just seems I’m never around when anything startling hap pens. Greatly disappointed, after return from absence of almost quarter of a century. What has become of the old Antiquarian book shop that u>e<J to l*» located on Fnrnam between Six teenth and Seventeenth. ,ils»ut where so many people n« w pause to watch the antics of the monkeys? <mee upon a time, and often, met many congenial spirits there, and later ad jnurned to Interview other spirit* Antics of monkeys in window, and »>n : treat, fail to compensate for disap pen ranee of the hook shop. Twentieth street between Howard and ,Ion»s. Repairing brick pavement by turning the bricks over. Remem ber when mother ripped up dad's old trouser*, turned the cloth and made ni« brand new pair. Kncouraglng sign of returning municipal economy. But 1 know what would happen if my own hoy was handed pair of cut down and renovated pair of his dad's trou sers. Saw Commissioner Henry Dunn tail ing to a friend. Didn't listen in. preferring to hear Henry sing. Man nod woman standing by curb on side street. Evidently man and wife. Heated argument with audible ovulc-mas »»f considerable static. Tried it* tune In. but frustrated by man turning and walking rapidly away Woman hml last word, ns usual. Wasn't a pretty Word, either. Met George West near Sixteenth and Douglas. George passed me many ;i time in the old clays Didn't pas* me this t inn Pleasant chat that lightened prevailing gloom of lone Knniem ■'J George deaervea medal as • h itnplon gloom chaser of Omaha. Portland. Ore . asks impossible when it reque is Charley Gardner to ex philn how Ak Sni Den dots It. Only! possible v »y Is to show ’em. Have seen Charley in about every style of dress except knickerlMtcker*. Won't he satisfied he's true until 1 do. HrllUant train of thought inter rupted by woman canvasser trying to '•*11 me box of home made chocolate*. Finl*. Only kind of home made candy I like Is mol«see* taffy, a.nyfhow# sorghum preferred W. M M. The Gentleman From Minnesota Arrives in Washington ! f-rowDY~) FOLicSj __ —and, (Irani* as U may saam, Iks |oa*rnm*nt still stands. Washington Tavs Stress on Point Business Conditions Are Better Administration Would Welcome Economic Parley to Settle European Mess, Hinted—Former Governor McKclvie 7 ells Coolidge Nebraska Farmer "Sitting Pretty." Ily M\RK NI'UJVAX. Washington, Oct. 10. — This was i t»v of re|>ort* on the state of litis i iifsii. Nearly everything that i n." up here in Washington was un der that he,-ol and It was apparent that this gem ral subject Is to tho front of the administration's thought and activities. The two men whom t'oolidge sent west to help wheat farmers bv providing them with lead erahlp and help in organising cooper ative selling associations, Kugene Meyer, jr., and Frank Mondell, tele gi.spited the president that they had already made a beginning • They wired from Ohlraffo. which was their first stop, that they had had a meeting with It W. Olngham of Louisville, who Is the leading spirit In the hurley tobacco cooperatives, and Lo chairman of the National Clou tic of Farmers t'o-operatlve associations; with Aaron Saplro, who is the pin peer In farmers cooperatives, and with several other men of experience In that line Aside from giving out this partlcu lar telegraphic report of progress In a specific line the administration dwelt today on business conditions generally. A spokesman of the ad ministration gave nut a resume which made one newspaper titan recall the lime l.e used to rdlt the market page. Iliisines* On I pward Trend. If whs to the ettect Unit huccmesa conditions generally are promising; that there is some trouble In Okla homa nbout oil and some In the wheat districts due to low prices and h short crop; that range cattle are not very high, but that fat cattle and hogs are satisfactory; that some mining condi tions are not very good, silver being low In price and costly to mine be cause of high wages and copper being low. Hut It was emphaslreil that business conditions ss s whole Hro good and reassuring. The two foreign subjec ts that c ame up were essentially In the field of business conditions, and It was con cern about business In otic quarter oi another that caused them to come up. Ah to the suggestion that Amer ica should call the nations of Kurope to an International economic confer ence It was said by s spokesman for the administration that this Iden had route up before, but that there was and continues to be a state of mind over ^ere that makes conference hopi less A particularly penetrating listener might reasonably huve read Into this innoum enient the Inference that our government woukl be glnd If certain governments In Kurope would bring themselves to a slate of mind where they can look economic facts in the face, and otherwise make It possible for us to do some good in the world by calling an International economic conference under the right condition* and the right slate of minds. Kurope'* Neat Move. It was much the same a» to l.lovd (Jeoige a endorsement of Hecrelary t Hughes’ year old suggestion of an Im partial commission to fix reparations. It wa« Vatd today that this suggestion is "up to" Europe. If the nations of Europe assent to It and will say so we will he glad to go ahead with It. It Is for any European government that assents to the Idea to make the next move. Another announcement made today seemed to suggest that thers Is con cern In some quarters of American business about an apparent disposi tion on th# part of some foreign na tlona to set up discriminatory tariff harriers against America. From quarters other than the ad ministration there was decided evi dence that some farmers and business men in the west are more than a little tired of the recent flood of talk about hard conditions In the farming coun try. Ex Governor Samuel R. McKel vie of Nebraska, who left the gover norship last January to resume his private business as editor and pub lisher of the Nebraska Farmer at l.ln coin, called on President Cooltdgeand on gome private persons here. lie Is a brightly blue eyed, frank eyed person, clean shaven with blond hair, active minded and accurate minded, stable and full of common -■••hs*. He says emphatically that th» Nebraska farmers are not badly off eoomimically, and not unhappy po lltlrully. socially or morally. Thrir condition lias Improved Immensely -1nee a year ago and they aren’t look lug around for anybody or anything to bent up Nebraska for t’oolWge. Ho says they aren't paying any at tention to th. se political leaders who try to tell them their Ills can t»« cured hy legislation, and have an entirely good matured confidence in their ability to look out for them selves. In this spirit Mr McKolvIe snys tlie Nebraska farmers approve of Cnoltdgc and. so far as the repub lican* are concerned, tend to look with Increasing disapproval on any one who wants to prevent Oooltdge from renomination. He say a Nebraska lias a corn crop of 27,000,000 bushels, which the farm er* can sell today at a satisfactory price. That la 10 per cent more than last year's corn crop As to the low price of wheat, he say* that Is s bless Ing In disguise, because It will teach the farmers to reduce their wheat acreage and lake up other lines. Wht at Is less than s per cent of Ne brio l<a a total farm products, any how. Kven dairying an.I poultry ci.mil more than wheel. Altogether Mr McKelvIe distinctly save the Impression that the reports of trouble In the west, brought to Washington by some politicians and some leader* of farm organisations have Itren out of proportion to the facts Mavis Walsh knows sports That * w hy he writes for The Kventng live A Dry Agents Home Is Dynamited J Family Hurled Into Cellar— Wife and Baby Burned— Bootlegger* Suspected. Steubenville, O., Oct. 10.—The home of Charles Pearce. 36. prohibition en forc-ament officer ai Smithleld, O., ■west of here, was blown up today by dynamite. Pearce, hla wife and baby escaped serious Injury. The blast partially wrecked the city hall opposite th* Pearcs home, a res taurant, the home of Mrs Mary Merryman and broke windows In three score residences. The dynamite, placed under the front of Pearce's house, wrecked the structure and It collapsed inward, the walls end roof falling Into th# base ment. Pearce, his wife and 17 months^tld baby, were thrown Into I the cellar with the debris. Pearce extricated himself, rescued ! his haby and th*en with the aid of ! neighbors dug hie wife from the Iruina after an hour's hard work. The j hahy was cut and bruised. Mrs. I Pearcs had her back Injured and suf \ fered greatly from shock. Mrs. Merry-man's home adjoining I was so badly wrecked that the aged j lady, who had been seriously 111. had to be removed from the tottering structure with ladders to the second floor. The damage Is estimated In excess | >f KO.OOO. Miners en route to work asserted thev saw four strangers standing on 1 a corner near the Pearce home and others report they saw an automobile with several men passengers leaving town at a high rale of speed shortly before the blast. Sheriff Luicas and deputies are working on the theory that liquor law violators prosecuted by Pearce were responsible for the outrage. Hasting* Council Tables Muny ('oal Yard Project Hastings, N*b. Oct. 10.—The city council has tabled for the time br ing the proposal tor a municipal coal yard. A special committee ap pointed to Investigate the local situa tion reported that Hastings consumer* , were not ' ring charged esorbltant price* and that a municipal coal yard could not be ratnhlo-hed without s bond Issue lor at least 114,000. The data obtained In the Inquiry has been plac'd on file f.a- later consideration If the demand for a municipal coal yard Is renew ed. The Weather K < ?4 houhi # ml log •! T r m . 0eto ' brv 1<* • Tnnpfinlur#. U ghost, 77. Inwrst. 5 7 mean. AT. nor UMl. 57. Total f>\rcs* ►.!tv JpliUPty 1 f H.-lmhc llumullls IVn'pntiiic, T m ut . T \t»o«, vi . |» tv *3 I'rtH'Mtifniton 1 i< bee nin I lluiulrctllita Total t' Totni iinc* .Uiiusm 1. ? 33 llt»ur|« Tciimfinlurr*. I I. HI «»*. 1 I' m. . * j « g iv ..... 531 I v m ....... 75 « m .& ? a |v tti .T 7 >* m m 4 p nv ...... 7* 3 • n». ........ AI 5 n m. 7 4 1«> « nv . •*« « P m It a m .. . A * f p m . . i» IS noon .... 13 t p m .. * *> Giants Win First Game; Score, 5 to 4 Casey Drive* Warped Leg* Around Bases and Collaps es at Plate After Scor ing Winning Run. Veteran the First Hero By DAMON BUNION. By riltWHl Berrle*. Yankee Stadium, New York, Oet. 10.—Thla Is the way old Casey Stengel ran thla afternoon, running his home run home. This Is ths way old Casey Stengel ran, running his home run home to a Giant victory over the Yankees by a score of 6 to 4 la the first game of the worlds series of 182*. This Is the way old Casey Stengel ran. running his home run home, when two were out In the ninth In ning and the score was tied, and the ball was still bounding Inside the Yankee yard. This Is the way— His mouth wide open. His warped old legs bending be neath him at every stride. His arms flying back and forth, like those of a man swimming with • crawl stroke. His flanks heaving, his breath whistling, his head far back. Urges Self On. Yankee Inftelders passed by old Casey Stengel as he was running his home run home, say Casey was mut tering to himself, adjuring himself to greater speed, as a jockey mutters to his horse In a race, that he was say. Ing: "Go on, CaseyV’ People generally laugh when they see old Casey Stengel run but they were not laughing while he was run ning his home run home this after noon. People—60,000 of ’em—men and women, were standing in the Yan kee stands and bleachers up there in the Bronx roaring sympathetically, whether they were for or against the Giants: "Come on, Caaty:-’ Kuns Home Hun Home. The warped old legs, twisted and bent by many a year of baseball cam paigning. Just barely held out until Casev Stengel reached the plate, run ning his home run home. Then they collapsed. They gave not Inwardly, as legs often do, but outwardly, so that old Casey Stengel fell sprawling all spread out over the plate, with Schang, the catcher of the Yankees, futilely reaching for him with the ball. He suggested a huge crab spread out down there, his arms and legs wiggling In all directions, with Billy Evans, the American league umpire, poised over him in a set pose, his right thumb Jerked backwards to in dicate that old Casey was safe. Half a doxen Giants rushed for ward to help Casey to his feet, to hammer him on the back, to bawl . i-ngratulations in his ears as he limped unsteadily, still panting furi ously to the bench, wher* John J. McGraw. chief of the Giants, relaxed his stern features In a am.is for th* man who had won the game. Sits on Bench. Casey Stengel's warped old lege, ene of them broken not eo long ego. wouldn't carry him out for the next inning, when the Yankees made a dying effort to undo the damage done by Caaey. His place In oenterfield was taken by young Bill Cunningham, whose legs are atill unwarped, and Casey sat on tha bench with John J. XlcGraw. No on# expected much of Caeey Step.gel when he appeared at the plate In the Giants' aide of the ninth inning, the score a tie at 4 to 4. Ross Young and Irish Maueel , stout, dependable hittera, had bee* quickly disposed of by the supert pitching of Bullet Joe Bush. No one expected Stengel to accom pllsh anvthirg where they had failed. Hush, pitching as only Bush can pitch In an emergency, soon had two atrikes and three balls on Casey. He was at the plate so long that many fan# were fidgeting nervously, wronderlng why he didn't hurry up and get out. so the game could go on. Gives XIany I-atighs. Casey Stengel Is not an lmpoalng figure at bat. not an Imposing figure under any circumstances Thos» warped old legs haxe something to do with It. A man with warped leg* cannot look very Imposing. People like to laugh at Casey— Casey likes to make people laugh. A wayfarer of the big leagues— Brooklyn, Pittsburgh. Philadelphia and finally New Y'ork- ho has al ways been regarded by the fans as a gtnv.t comedian, a funnx fellow, a sort of clown The baseball land teems with tales of the strange didoes cut by Casey Stengel, whose parents started him out as Charles, with his saving* Who knows bxit what Bullet Joe may hax s been thinking of Casey Stengel more as a comedian than n» dangerous hitter, when he delivered that final pilch (his afternoon? Pitch ers s-unetimes lot thx-ir sits so wool gathering. "Bap — Stengel's hat connected with the [ last pitch, leisurely . solidly. The hal' I sailed out oxer left field, moving high. I moving far Home Kun lUoxx. l.oug Bob Meusol and Whltex Witt | the Y'ankoe outfleldere. i-acexl tow >t\ each other as they marked the proto able point the ball woxiM alight an. in the meantime Casey Stengel "as (Tun* re l'«|e T"elxe. X itewn Oxo'l A