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Wally Schang
Four words sp-ken by Wally
Schang, Connlo Mack's great young
catcher, brought to an abrupt ending
fen argument which threatened to as
sume tho proportion of a small riot
during a game with tho Clovoland
Naps on Sunday last season.
Tho decision was close, and as tho
trackmen wero fighting to hold tho
lead, also was a mighty important
one.
Tho play catno up at tho Clovoland
League park. It happened on a Sun
tfay about tho middio of August. Chief
vender was chased from tho box that
day.
Terry Turner scored tho first of
four runs in tho seventh inning, which
gavo tho Naps the game.
Turner made one of his famous
head-first slides into tho ho ..o plato.
Silly Evans, who was umpiring, called
him out and then Immediately
changed his decision.
To tho Athletic tilavora of course
H lo6ked as if Schang had touched
SHANKS IS CLEVER FIELDER
Manager Clarke Griffith Putt One of
His Players Ahead of This Speaker
of Boston Red Sox.
"Howard Shanks is, In my mind, tho
greatest fielding outfiolder In base
ball." This is the complimentary estimate
of Clarke .Griffith, when the manager
waa 'discussing the defensive strength
of tho wholo Washington combina
tion. "Liko 'tho rest of them, Shanks
makes bis errors, but if ho has a
chronic weakness lri 'fielding I havo
yet to discover It. He can como for
ward, go backward or movo to either
Bide. No one is his equal in han
dling grounders and ho throws so fast
and accurately that ho keeps tho value
of bits down to tho minimum.
"I havo often rated Tris Speaker as
the leader, but now I qlvo Shank3
the placo. In fact, I doubt If there
has ever been a much bettor fielder
than Howard.
"We all know that Shanks Is no
orM beater when It comes to hit-
Howard Shanks.
ting, but ha bas always met tho ball
so hard that there is, still hope for the
tide to turn, and then
"Furthermore, I would liko to boo
any club In the country present a
stronger defense than wo do when
Johnson Ib pitching with Alnsmith
catching. .They beat ua qnco, in a
while with this crew going, but .wheni
ever they do thoy know thoy havo
been In a battle," concluded tho man
ager. Cub Overworking Play.
The Cubs are overworking one play
a trick that is a bird when properly
executed, and a lemon if clumsily at
tempted. TbiB play Is the bunt with
a man on and one down. Under such
circumstances tho infield does not ex
pect a bunt, and goes back, thus mak
ing It a cinch for a fast runner to
reach first Dut tbo bunt must bo
turned so as to roll slowly toward
third base-rand tho Cubs bunt straight
In front of the plato, whoro tho catch
er can pick It up and chuck It along
ahead of the gasabo.
Destructive as Toothpicks.
The Rankin Johnson who pitched
Jhe Tied ftW'fre victory over Walter
Johnsaa, played with Syracuse last
7ear, and Ik an exhibition game mado
the bats of the Giants as destructive
If HHHLttjflRP'? I
as m many tootbptaka.
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of Philadelphia.
Turner out. Dut Evans noticed that
Just as Schantf tried to touch Turner's
hand with tho ball, Torry slipped his
hand aside. Schang, instead of tag
ging Turner's hnnd, tagged tho
ground. Turner then doftly slid Ills
hand back to tho plato. When Evans
saw Schang apparently touch Terry's
hand, ho called him out, but when ho
saw Terry slip his hand aside and
then tag the plato, ho pronouncod him
safe.
Athlctio players, led by Eddlo Col
lins, ran In and kicked with might
and main. Connio Mack wig-wagged
with bis scoro card and Schang
walked to tho Philadelphia bench, fol
lowed by tho kicking Athletics.
"What was tho trouble at the
plato?" Mack asked of Schang. "Did
n't you got Turner?"
"No, I missed him," wob Schang's
surprising reply.
Fans gasped with surprise when
they saw tho Athletics return to their
stations without saying nnothor word.
ONERMED PLAYER IS STAR
Dick Hooper, With Texas University
Team, Makes Many Sensational
Catches In Outfield.
Texas university owns a baseball
plnyer to whom a "sensational one
handed catch" is a mattor of dally
occurrence. To go further still, ho
lias never boon known to use two
hands In catching a fly ball, and ho
works In tho outflold, too.
Tho reason is that he is a one-armed
player, and he's tho star of tho club,
at that. His natno is Dick Hoopor, and
ho always plays ceritor field for his
alma mator.
Hoopor, who handles himself sur
prisingly well In tho garde; , is a won
der. Ho does not get away with tho
real sensational runs or leaps into
tho air, but ho does got away with ro
markably protty fielding work, as a
fly is always certnin when ho can got
under it
Hooper Is a fair batter, also. It is
almost a shamo, according to tho view
of tho avorago fan, that tho pitcher
does not lot up on this one-armed
man. nut tho pitchers have to watch
Dick closoly, Ho gets hits unexpect
edly and is known to "do tho least ex
pected things. Ho is not a homo run
hitter, but ho is fairly reliable and
can mako good uso of bunting In sac
rificing. Rickey Starts a School.
Manager Branch Rickey of the St.
Louis Drowns Is starting competition
with Charley Carr and Hilly Doyle,
promoters of baBOball schools. Rickey
has announcod that all St. Louis
youngsters who think thoy can play
ball are welcome to report to him and
get schooling. Ten ambitious youths
took advantago of tho offer on tho day
It was niado.
Phillips Lands a Star.
Manager-mil Phillips of tho Indian
apolis Fed team, announces with a
good doal of gusto that ho has landod
a star southpaw in Pltchor Boyd, who
had to ault tho gamo last year In tho
Southorn Loaguo because of a dead
arm and failed in an attempt to
como back In tho South this spring
because of tho arm's refusal to de
liver. Stovall'e Hands Bother Him.
'Manager Qeorgo Stovall of tho Kan
sas City Federals found out right
soon that his handB, which had
troubled him while with the St, Louis
UrownB, would not permit him to
play ' regularly and ho Is likely to
finish tho season as a bench manager,
convinced .that his playing dayB nro
ovor.
Leonard to Study Medicine.
Joo Leonard, third baso recruit, with
Pittsburgh, Is only twenty years old.
Two years ago he gavo up high school
and joined the Des Moines club In
tho Western league, whoro he mado
good. Leonard plans to tako up tho
ntudy of medlclno nt Notro Damo uni
versity at tho close of tho 1914 season.
May Sign Walsh.
Qeorgo Walsh, tho old Fordhnm
player, who has boen showing so much
In practise with the Columbia syuad,
seems destlnod for tho Drooklyn Na
tionals, Manager Robinson tried him
out tho otlmr day and lUod tho way
ho sized ur
Yank 8ome Warbler.
"Marty" McIIalo lends In chorus
Blngtng. That is a dully feature of
life as a Yankee. McIIalo Is a fine.
vocalist and la well aunnnrt,i t.v.o
1 large cast.
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MANGANESE IN PHILIPPINES
Export Dues Prevent Development of
Industry Ore Discovered In
Large Quantities.
According to tho bureau of sclenco
at Manila, manganese oro has been
discovered in tho Philippines In con
siderable quantities, and it seemed
possible to develop tho industry, but
when tho mattor was looked Into it
appearod that an export wharfage
chargo exists on all kinds of oro.
If tho oro woro taken in ballast to
Japan, this chargo would not ho se
rious, but if it woro shipped to tho
west coast of Amorlcn, tho freight
rato would reduce profits to tho van
ishing point. Tho samo is truo In 10
gard to iron ore.
A geologist from Japan in tho em
ploy of tho Mltuul Dassau Knlshn, ex
amined tho iron deposits on a small
island in Mambuloa bay in Ambos
Camarlnes whero Iron oro occurs,
but tho royalty to bo paid to tho per
sons owning tho land, and tho export
dues, would lnovo littlo for tho ex
penses of mining and tho profit.
Tho bureau recommends that ns
soon as possiblo the law should bo
altered, remitting these export dues.
PLEASING TO HOUSEKEEPERS
Objectionable Threshold Dispensed
With by Invention of Hinge Door
Opening Is Sealed.
Tho exposed throshold at intorior
doors loaves nn unfinished appearance
to tho room which is oboctionabl6 to
most housekeepers, and the inventor
has endeavored to rollovo her of this
Improved Door Hinge.
eyesoro by designing a bingo which
dlsponsoa entirely with tho threshold.
By consulting tho accompanying cut it
wll bo readily soon how, as tho door
Is opened, tho action of'tho hinge is to
ralso tho bottom of the door about halt
an Inch, so that it moves entirely froo
of tho carpet. As tho door is closed tho
lowest point Is reached when the door
reaches Its place in tho frame, so that
tho opening bolow is so slight that the
door oponing 1b practically sealed.
PLATINUM IN GOLD PLACERS
9rocess Invented for Saving Fine Pow
dery Grains of This Metal In
Oregon and Elsewhere.
Tho constantly Increasing demand
for platinum. OSDOClallV for Oin mnnn.
facturo of gas mantles, has led to the
invention of a process of saving Iho
fino powdory groins of this metal
found in tho gold placer deposits of
southern Oregon and elsowhero.
This platinum, being in a atato of
very fino division, almost in tho form
of dUBt, will not settle In a placer
slulco so long as tho water Is briskly
stirred, sayB Popular Electricity. Aft
er tho motal-bearlng water has passed
ovor a rlfllo tablo, on which nenrlf nil
1110 gold Bottlos, it is drawn more slow
ly ovor a cocoa mat rlilloi on which the
platinum sottlos, and ie then collocted
by rinsing the mats ovor tanks. For
merly the platinum was nil wasted, at
first because its identity was not rec
ognized, and afterward bocauso no
process was then known for saving it.
Pencils From Germanv.
German pencil factories produce an
nually about threo million gross of
load, colored, copying and alate pon
ells and penholders, which Consul IfTo
States havo a value of 12,600,000, but
that tho American output is greater
($4,600,000 in value In 1905).
Windmill on Tubular Plan.
An Oregon Inventor's windmill Is
mounted on a tubular column Instead
5f a towor, and Its blades, moving
horizontally, are shielded whon mov
ing against tho wind by a screon that
Is governed by a wind vane.
Metal Railroad Tlea.
Tho scarcity of wood for goneral
purposes and tho increasing cost of
wooden railway tics In Europe haB en
couraged the manufacture and general
uso of metal ties In recent years In the
railways on tho continent. About
eoventy por cont of tho ties in uso on
tho federal railways of Switzerland aro
metal.
Lead Pencil Manufacture.
Load pencil manufacture in tho
United State Is consuming 73.000.u00
foot of lumber annually, of which
about one-halt is estimated to bo
wasted in sharpening or throwing
away short ends.
Improving Rubber.
A Pennsylvania Inventor claims to
bav.0 greatly Increased tho strength
and durability of rubber without Im
pairing it In any way by adding
vnnadlum ns it 1b being manufac
tured. Nails From Rubber.
Rubber nnlls, for places whero metal
ones would corrode, aro n novelty
from Gormany
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SANDPAPER PLANE IS HANDY
Works Rapidly and Saves Person'?
Fingers From Being Lacerated
Tool Is Popular.
There nro soveral types of sandpa
pcrlug planes, but ono of tho best la
that designed by a Louisiana man and
shown In tho cut It holds 12 sheets
of sandpaper when full nnd saves tho
fingers from laceration. Tho baso of
tho piano Is dctachably joined to tho
body nnd the sandpaper sheets are
held In placo by having thiiir edges
clamped between tho two sections.
When tho outside sheet is worn out a
knlfo Is inserted under it and tho
lower part cut off. Tho romalnlng
pieces are then pulled outof the clamp
ing bars and n fresh sheet is ready for
uso. This tool Is bound to bo popular
with carpenters, cabinot makers, paint-
Sandpaper Plane.
crs nnd woodworkers in general, as it
is a big improvement ovor tho primi
tive method of sandpapering, whero
tho workmen tacks a sheet of the sand
paper on a board and thon scrapes
Eomo of tho skin off his fingers in
using it. Tho plane, too, is capablo of
much fastor work than a mere covered
board, tho handlo nnd knob giving
good purchaso for pushing.
GAS PIPES MADE OF PAPER
Compressed, Dried and Otherwise
Treated Tubes Become Rigid and
Not Liable to Leakage.
Serviceable gas pipes can bo made
out of paper, according to a French
authority which states that such piping
is now being manufactured by two
processes. In tho first, the pulp is run
into a mold through which a mandrel
passes. It is then compressed, dried
and varnished, tho tubes so produced
being rigid, nnd but littlo liable to
leakage. In tho other process, sheets
of manlla papor are cut to a breadth
equal to tho desired length of tho tube,
nnd then given a bath in asphalt in a
Btate of fusion. Thon, when half cold,
tho sheets aro rolled tightly and uni
formly round an iron core, successive
sheets bolng added until tho desired
thickness is attained. The tube is
then subjected to pressure in a special
machine and covored with fine sand,
which adheres to tho asphalt.
TOOL TO REMOVE WALLPAPER
Practical Implement Devised by Ger
man Paper Hanger Does Its
Work Neatly and Quickly.
A practical tool has been invented
by a German- paper hanger, by the
aid of which old paper may bo more
Readily removed froin tho walls ol
Tool for Removing Wallpaper.
rooms, beforo hanging fresh wallpa
per. A number of toothed disks are
mounted on a shaft revolving in a yoke
to which a handlo Is attached. By
rolling this lmplomont over tho wnll
tho paper is perforated, and when
soaked in tho ordinary way tho mois
ture penetrates betwoon tho wall and
the old papor, making removal easy.
INDUSTRIAL
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mOlANIOI
BBB NOTES
Norway is enjoying a boom In its
cloth'ip industry.
Melted alum will' effectively cement
broken china or glass.
A thin paste of twood ashes and
lemon Julco will .renew tarnished
brass.
England last year Imported 18,490,
000 hundredweights of refined sugar
and candy.
In 1911 Franco had 3,009,626 blcy.
cles, as compared with 2,697,406 the
previous year.
Pure turpentlno fwlll evaporate
from white paper, leaving no trace; If
adultorated, it will leave a spot
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A now English portablo vacuum
cleaner can be used as a seat, table,
cabinet, music stool or pedestal.
In Germany thoro has been Invented
a fireproof celluloid, cblofly for use In
automobile windows and windshields.
Though oven its tips aro made ol
metal, a now flexible tube invented
in Franco for gas connections is leak
proof.
Tho manufacture of a hydraullo
binder from iron furnace slag haB bo
coma a commercial success in Oor
many.
More than slxty-flvo million pounds
of aluminum wero consumed in vari
ous industries In the United States
last year a now high record.
Nino mines In ten, tho world over,
are richer in tho first thouuand feet
than in tho second, and but few are
worth operating bolow 3,000 feet.
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MOST CRUEL OF RELIGIONS
That of the Ancient Mexicans Sure I)
the Most Infamous Recorded
In History.
Tho temples wero called tcocalll 01
"God's houso," and rivaled in bIzo as
they resemblod In form the temples ol
ancient Babylon. They wero pyramids
on a square or oblong base, rising in
successive terraces to a small summit
platform. Tho great teocalll of Huit
zllopochtli In the City of Mexico stood
In an immense square, whenco radi
ated tho four principal thoroughfares,
its courtyard being inclosed by a
square, of which tho stono wall, called
the coatepantll or serpent wall from
Its sculptured serpents, measured
nearly a quarter of a mile on each
sldo. In the center, the oblong pyra
mid of rubble cased with hewn stone
and cemented, 375x300 feet at the
base, and rising steeply in five torraces
to tho height of 86 feet, showed con
spicuously to the city tho long pro
cession of priests and victims wind
ing along tho terraces and up to con
necjllghts of steps. On tho paved plat
form woro tho three-story tower tem
ples on whose ground floor stood th
stono Images and altars, and beforo
that of tho war god tho green Btone
of sacrifice, humped so as to bond the
body of tho victim that tho priest
might more easily slash open the
breast with his obsidian knife, tear
out tho heart and hold It up beforo
tho god, whilo tho captor and his
friends wero waiting below for the
carcass to bo tumbled down tho steps
for them to carry homo to bo cooked
for tho feast of victory, Beforo the
shrines recking with the stench ol
slnughter, the eternal fires were kept
burning, and on tho platform stood the
hugo drum, covered with snakes' skins,
whoso fearful sound was heard for
miles. From tho terrace could be seen
seventy or more temples within the
Inclosure, with their images and blaz
ing fires, and tho tzompantll or "skull
placo," where tho skulls of victims by
tens of thousands were skewered on
cross-sticks or built into towers.
There also might be seem the flat cir
cular tomalacatl or "spindle-stone,"
where captives armed with wooden
weapons wero allowed the mockery of
a gladiatorial fight against well-armed
champions.
American Catacombo and Mummies.
Recent publicity has been given to
tho wonders of the cliff-villages of tho
Gila canyon In Now Mexico, where
tho lofty pumico or tufa walls of the
box canyon are honeycombed with the
excavated dwellings of a nation of
dwarfs, whoso mummies here and
there found, preserved by the stone
dust for centuries, are clad in woven
clothes, and ornamented with gay
feathers at neck and waist.
The remains of an adult man of this
people measured only 23 inches in
height, and the doors and windows of
their homos in the rock are hardly pas
sable by a half-grown girl. Like tho
dwarf temples of Yucatan of which
Lo Plongcon wrote so entertain
ingly hovel, mansion, fortress, nnd
temple, seem like toys made' with in
finite paliiB for the children of a remote
past; indeed, an antiquity fixed by the
best authorities at least as far back
as 6,000 years ago. National Maga
zine. Shows How Carelessness Costs.
In a big store the general managei
recently instituted a plan tending to
eliminate poor handwriting among tho
company's employes. When errors or
delays occur In getting out orders
through Inability to read tho order
Blips ho summons all clerks who hnvo
been careless in that respect to the
assembly room at the closo of the day.
There all incorrectly and poorly writ
ton checks are flashed by a stereop
tlcon upon a largo screen, and in each
Instance the employes are tojd how
much the carelessness has cost tho
store and what steps had been neces
sary to rectify tho trouble. As all tho
checks aro numbered each clerk knows
when his careless work is being mado
tho subject of tho illustrated criticism,
and as a result fow examples of care
lessness nnd poor writing now are in
evldenco and tho delivery and filling
of orders have been greatly facilitated.
Worse to Come.
Tho regular trombono player of a
Scottish orchestra waa laid up with a
cold, and tho conductor reluctantly ac
cepted tho services of a brass band
amateur. Ho was a littlo doubtful,
however, as to the suitability of his
substitute.
After tho first performance tho new
player asked tho conductor how ho
had done. '
Tho conductor replied that ho had
tlono pretty fairly, but that perhaps
ho would do- bettor next night
The newcomer, eyeing him grateful
ly, answered:
"Man, yo see, the music is a' strango
tae me tho nlcht, and I'm no' Jest shalr
o't yot, but you wait tae tho morn's
nlcht, an' yo'll no hear ane o' that)
Addles at a'."
.Discusses Intricate Questions.
Few citizens havo even heard of tho
American Mathematical society, to say
nothing of tho fact that its dolvlngs
In tho science of figures havo boen of
valuo to European savants. And yet
the society has been In existence for
many years, has a membership of 710,
including 66 life members, publishes
essays and text-books on mathematics
and has a library of 4,902 volumes.
Tho society discusses with .easo
Buch complex problomB na: The re
stricted problom of three bodies, tho
fourth dimension, tho Prodholm deter
minant, covarlant curves of tho plane,
rational qulntlo and cyclic systems of
osculating circles of curves on a sur
face. Tbo last subject does not refer
to kissing I
Mortgaged His Qrave.
Somo remarkable expedients wero
resorted to by Durnloy football enthu
siasts in ordor to raise money to visit
London to witness tho English cup
final. Ono Burnley man, it Is stntod,
who owned a gravo in tho public cera
etory, mortgaged bis "plot," which was
worth 8 108,, for 3 to a bookmaker,
and exponded the money on traveling
nnd othor expenses Incidental to the
occasion, London Mall. .
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