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ANOTHER BASEBALL STAR ON THE STAGE F.U'icr Ceorje Wiltse of New York Cisntj. Not <• te out4' re by his side part a»r. Our jh y Mathewsot. G<*orss tie CUB'S" clever southpaw, will so ea the pj-t ctu winter. George will (MX do a Bocoiegje stunt, but w til be a member of a quartet com pawed of 'tree other ball players In tie i»g league* Wilts* is ib St* form s tfur. .„d sbouM the Glarts win out the s :jrr will receive a big • boom. Wild Bate Running Wins. Wild base running seems the thing which Is winning ball games for the Tiger* this year. O'J QUESTION OF MANAGERS W* C*I <« «*eev Capable. Bene* or Pity eg?—C sc gsiy Witter ef Indt v.duals are Peescnaiity. The 4Urw»u# as to tte relative meriu of a betet and r’«> nr mans gcr for a horn ball team w aga.s ut. der way ~1 belh-Te that before ioag all mac agera wiU he beach manager* " says Hugh Urilreet treasurer of the Bcs toa American* ~1 thick the game U rosiing to that Baseball has gem ahead so much and come to be so fast, before V»eg the manager trill hare all he caa do to sit oo the bench and d: j ran the play without attempting to get upon the roaming lice* Mac* gets mat pUa ahead mwat be figur ing owe the neat play. and upon the Use* they are apt to lose tight of norm ahead the;, hare In their mltds j ■a the Immediate dalles of coaching 1 "Tow ace a manager coaching at' firs’ base one minute and then a situ atme arise* tk*t takes him over to ' thfipg base, sad it d-* *n * »eem to me j that he raa make these move* and at j tte same lime plan as clearly as If ’ he were t* ’he beach n ithout any- j thing to bother h.m e*»epi planning I 1 tea. again, by sitting on the bench 1 ail the time wMfc the players around ! him tie u coastantiy getting their Idea* and finding out Just what they it *nfc of a hat ought to W duha." Now. it Just happen* that the Boston Americans have a bench mar.cg-T. which may or m< not influence Me Breen’s opinio*. bwt at any rate it Is preamble that the <4Bcials of the Nt-w Task Cincinnati and Brooklyn clubs In the Nu'-ana: laug** and of th* AtUrdca latroffi Chicago and Wasfttagaaa dubs, in the American league would agree with him. The secretaries -A the other major I Cape. Bobby V. allace league teams would probably declare it tator at the ptsy cg managers. a ho are as fottorf' Cbame Chicago Cabs, first base; Clarke Pittsburg Pirates, left field; Booth. PfciUiei. catcher; Bresnafaac. fat Louis Card In si* catcher; Teener. Boston CJofea. 9*1 b*se. Chase, Tan km» first Usee Wallace. St Louis lire w as. shortstop The whole 4wastlos *«. of course, targeiy a matter of individual* and |»r»onalWy. and will probably be a source for argun eat as long as the game exist* Griffith Changes Mascots. Clarke On nth has < hanged mascots for the Bede in the type that K wilt ehMig. the Inch of the team Brownie Burke, the midget that mascoted for them last year, has Bn released and now "Bod" Smith the yooag and frisky mm of frank Smith, the old gua pibeBar. la doing the work for the Y«aa Gregg bids fair to 111 the ahose ef Urn tele lament 11 < Addle Joss The carnet ted had eornTthlac needed (a a recast gam* against Washington. t»,' -■ :¥/'§£ ■ '"JH Tr Cobb says bail players make their own luck. Tfce poor baseball player is tfce only one who Ir.ovs no holidays Ping Bodie loo::? a good deal better in the outiield than on second. "To bean, or not to bean, that is tfce iju«- tion. among big league pitchers BUI Burnt has been doing good wort-, for the Phillies since he Joined them. John Collins of tfce White Sox is doing his best to steal all the home run thunder Playing wher. !t Is too dark to see tfce ball does no* appeal to the ma jority of tfce fans Burch of Brooklyn started as a ; in< h hitter this year, but graduated Into a regular berth. Western teams appear to be the Tr.t rt formidable competitors for both Chirago teams this season Ca’ :.er Maiden, formerly of the Boston Red Sox. has been purchased by the Philadelphia Nationals I'm; ires are beginning to feel that *he n anly art of self defence is more -utirfi. tore than the levying of fines P. ;bby Wallace bas signed a hard hitting collegian in Fred Busch of the Michigan Agricultural college team. Catcher Lou Criger of the Milwau kee An.erican association baseball 'earn was given his unconditional re lease. t.iod. taken in trade by tfce Cubs from liosten for Kaiser, has been playlr r a strong article of baseball so far Wagner does not play first writfc as much grace as be does short, but he P‘t» everything that comes anywhere near him. i runer luttie or the Detroit Tigers •ays Jennings' men never bother their beads trying to pilfer signals from i opposing batteries Tex Jones has recovered his batting eye with a vengeance in the Western league He is fifth on the league’s list of batters with a mark of .359. Babe Towne. manager of the Sioux t'lt> ’earn and a former White Sox. | is leading the batting list of the West ern with a .425 average. Joe O'Brien is being boomed by | seme of his friends in the American association circuit for the next presl I d*-nt of the National league Horace Fogel. owner of the Phlllle3. 1 is now trying to land Doc Scanlon i from the Brooklyn club. Horace is •rjing hard enough to get his team in -hape to win a penamt. , Black, who now graces the first •a< k for the Browns, is a product of the t'niversity of P-mnsylvania and. while of an ungainly appearance, looks I to have the makings of a good man. Connie Mack has bought Harl Mag I 4art. the crack outfielder of the Oak land. Cal., team, for $1,500. Maggart will not report befQre next season to * the Philadelphia team. Johnny Kling's efforts with the Bos ! ton nine seem to be fruitful. Even though the team Is not winning like a whirlwind, the general high tone of Its play is seen every day. j Harry Fanwell, the pitcher turned over to the Portland club of the Pa •Ifto Coast lesgue this spring, has been sold to the New Orleans ciub of! the Southern association. Over in Pittsbu.g the fans are clamoring for a reason why the Pi rates play winning ball against a team like the Cubs and then fall down ! against a team like the Reds. Frank Isbell made no mistake when | he moved bis ball team and all bis be i longings from WlchKa to Pueblo, for the Pueblo team is now leading the | Western league and Ixxy can have anything he asks for In his new home. The latest wrinkle In court decisions came when an Indiana Judge refused tq, punish a manager for playing Sun day ball on the grounds tint the game was so poor that it could not be i called baseball. ' ; *;'• 'aft- - • l - •jh.jLt'v-’.-sjfc . SHOWED OLD BALL LIVELIER i - Boston People Experiment After Doubting Resiliency of New Sphere—Test Causes Confusion. There has been much controversy among baseball players and baseball fans this season regarding the ball now in use In the major leagues, the disputants lining up on the question whether the ball now in use is or is not livelier than the one used last sea son Many claim that the high batting averages of some of the players at the present time are due to the livelier ball, while others claim that they are due to the ineffectiveness of the pitch ers and that the bat! is no livelier than the one used last season. Of course, if the manufacturers will not settle the doubt it would be nec essary to subject the balls to scientific tests and examination in order to definitely determine the facts, and even then bails which were supposed to bo identical in make might show a difference in resiliency because it probably Is not possible that any two of them are exactly alike. Some tests were made the other day with two balls, one of them issued tor use in the American league late !a~t season, and one that was issued for the season of 1911. These were dropped from a height of 15 fee; sim ultaneously. They struck a concrete door at as nearly the same instant as they could be mace to do so. and they were photographed at the mo ment they had reached the extreme height of the rebound. It was found that the ball issued for last season bounded higher than the or.e issued for this season, the dif erer.ee in height being clearly shown in the photograph. Several other tests were made and invariably the 1910 bail proved to be the livelier. These tests with only two balls are absolutely decisive of nothing as regards the general propo sition. but they show clearly enough that the ball that was issued in 1910 was. in this particular case, livelier than the one issued for 1911. Whether a series of experiments more accur ately and scientifically made would show the same or opposite results re mains to be seen. The experiment made recently would seem to confuse the problem still further, for the players generally say that the ball is livelier this year than it was last. IS SURE OF CHAMPIONSHIP Eddie Collins Says Detroit Has But One Pitcher, and Does Not Fear Tigers in Penrart Race. List to a few optimistic prophecies from one Eddie Trowbridge Collins. Edward is not one of those given to cerise touches of prophetic language, but he says that the pennant for 1911 is nailed down for the world's cham pions. Not a team. Detroit, or any Pitcher George Mullin. body else in the American league, can Eddie see has a thing on the Champs. “1 don’t like to appear foolish with a lot of talk about the race," shot forth the great midget, “but I want to go on record as saying that we will jam down that pennant as sure as shooting. If our pitchers had been working we would have a lead now that would help a lot. “Detroit is the team that we will have to beat. We'll do it It hasn't a man whq looks like a twirler ex cept George Mullin, and It can't work him every day. By the first of Sep tember we'll have the grand old rag mortgaged, and don't forget It. It is going to be no runaway race, of course, as we have a late start. But we will win as sure as the sun shines. There will be nothing to It.” One on Baseball Scribe. The veteran Bill Hart, now a South ern league umpire, is telling a good story on a Chattanooga baseball scribe. Last season, among the list of Chattanooga pitchers, the scribe lound the following: Bill Hart, Bond Hill, Demaree, etc. In looking up the records the scribe could not find Bond Hill. So he manu factured a record for Bond Hill, de claring him to be a promising young ster from the Central association, who won nineteen games and lost eight Bond Hill is a suburb of Cincinnati, and the home of Bill Hart. “By golly,” said BUI, after telling the story, “I wouldn't have confessed It had I been that wHtar.” SCENE OF FESTIVITY AT NEWPORT NEWPORT, R. I.—Mrs. Klsie French Vanderbilt gave #he largest and most brilliant dance of the season re cently at her home, "Harbor View.” The function was in the nature of a house warming to mark the opening of the new ballroom of the mansion. The decorations and the furniture of the room are in pure white throughout The guests were many and socially prominent, and the function in general was notable in the an nals of Newport festivities. LOTS OF WILD GAME Southwest Coast of Mindoro Is Paradise for Hunters. Tamarao, Fierce Animal Resembling American Buffalo, Found Only Here—Plenty of Carabao, Boar and Deer. Manila. P. 1.—"A paradise for burn ers," is the way Judge Liddell de scribes the country in the vicinity of his home and plantation cn the south east coast of Mindoro. One game Mindoro excels in is, the tamarao rarest of animals, and one which is found only in Mindoro. This fierce animal, much like an American buf falo, is held In universal dread by every native on the island, who looks on him as a far more formidable crea ture than the maddest of wild cara baos. The tamarao is seldom seen in clear ings because he sticks to his native wilds. When he does come near a > clearing the natives in that vicinity make for the nearest shelter. For the tamarao does not wait to attack. He takes the initiative himself, charg ing every one and everything in sight. Mrs. Liddell, wife of Judge Liddell, is, perhaps, the only white woman who has ever seen a tamarao. A few weeks ago one came within fifteen feet of the window of the Liddell kitchen, where she was instructing the cook, and peered in The natives in the neighborhood took to their heels and then the tamarao quietly walked off. But if the tamarao is the piece de resistance among the game of lin doro it is not the only game to be found on the Island. There are myriads of deer, wild chickens and game birds of all sorts. There are also plenty of wild boars on the Is land. some of them of extraordinary size and none of ihem noted for their docility. Judge Liddell has one tusk fully eighteen inches long. This came from a monster boar, which charged i the hunters repeatedly before he was shot down. Wild carabao hunting Is another i pastime of the Mindoro*planters and one that Is not destined to soothe the nerves of weak-hearted men. These big animals are at all times dangerous, and when once wounded or angered Mice in Cancer Research _ *-— I Foreign Animals Resist Attacks of Disease Until They Are. Ac climated—360 From Japan. London.—Three hundred and sixty waltzing mice have Just arrived on the Japanese steamer Tango Maru. en route for the National Cancer Re search fund. The mice were sent to Prof. E. F. Bashrord, the director of the fund, by Professor Higuchi of To kto, who recently completed a course of research work in the fund's labora tories on the Embankment. The mice will be used in research | work to determine the effects that ac climatization and dieting have in in creasing or decreasing the suscepti bility of mouse tissues to mouse can cer. “We have already proved.” it was explained at the fund's laboratories the other day. "that if we Implant living cancer tissues from English mice on to the newly imported for eign mice there is a certain amount of resistance to the growth. Only a small percentage of the inoculated mice will develop tumors. After a time, however, this degree of protec tion wears off and finally the foreign mice become as readily susceptible to implanted tumors as our home mice. “The mice sent to us from Japan are an example of the international tree trade existing among research workers on cancer. At times of mouse famine in other countries we have sent English mice to our fellow workers in those countries. Because of this international exchange in European mice it is not easy at the present time to get from Germany or other near countries mice which one can be certain are pure-bred foreign stock. These Japanese mice will be ot great value to us. because we know that we have In them an entirely new field for research. Our object, broad ly. will be to see w’hether these mice will become more susceptible to Eng lish cancer as they become acclima tized to English conditions and ac customed to English food ." Work Month for Dime. Plainfield. N. J —After a month of work, first by an expert in the Farm ers' State bank of Tulsa, Okla.. and later by other experts in the big safe frctory here, a strong box supposed j tc contain $25,000 was opened in this ! city. A lone dime was all the steel j chest contained. The safe was used by L. R. Tub ner, cashier of the Tulsa bank Tub ner killed himself recently in Florida. I GOATS ARE PEST IN ALASKA i Animals Have Worse Appetites Than Those of Hoboken—Destroy Stakes by Eating Them. Fairbanks, Alaska.—Reports from Mineral gulch are that the mountain goats which Infest that section are be coming exceedingly troublesome to the miners. During stormy weather. It Is said, they crowd into the tunnels that are being drlren on the claims Weil up on the mountains, and it is only by throwjpg a dynamite cartridge Into the tunnels iu the morning that they can be driven out and the con tractors get in to go to work. It is also stated that they are like ly to be the cause of considerable litigation among mine owners next year, as they have destroyed a num ber of location stakes by eating them. Owing to the fact that alder and willow comprise the only wood in the gulch, nearly all the location stakes are of these woods, which. In the absence of other food, due to the deep scow, the goats attack eagerly. A large number of the animals have been killed by the men at work tn the gulch, but the number seems to increase rather than dimimsn. Be Honest. Honesty is also one of the funda mental principles it never pays to j break. If to be a good fellow means i you are to sneak, or steal, or lie, then j you dig a pit into which one donkey certainly will fall, and his name will be spelled just lik* voura m will charge their hunters with all the ferocity of an ' frican buffalo. James Liddell, a son of the Judge, had an experience with one of them recently that will cot be forgotten in a hurry. He was hunting and shot the :dg fellow, knocking hin off his feet. As the carabao lay still he ap proached him and when not a foot away the carabao leaped to his feet and charged. There was no time for a shot, so young Liddell did the only thing open to him—grappled with the infuriated beast. Three times the animal gored him and finally the boy made his es cape What the Filipinos in his party regarded as them fraculous feature of the accident was the fact that the carabao had permitted him to escape. Porpoise Scares Bathers. New Vork.—There was a wild scramble at the Fourth avenue grounds at Asbury Park. N J„ when a porpoise appeared among the 2.000 bathers. The crowd, thinking it was a shark, made a rush for shore, the men leading the women. The por poise, undisturbed by the clamor, swam leisurely around and then made his way northward, but it was some time before the bathers again got into the water. Hobble Skirt Is Hindrance Mars Game of Smuggling Across Line From Detroit to Windsor—Wom en More Clever Than Men. _____ Detroit, Mich.—Hobble skirts and small crowned hats, now very much in vogue, are having a depressing ef fect on the Windsor export trade. The walking skirt is made to fit the form rather closely and a number of De troit women have found that when the tubular symmetry of the hobble ; is disturbed by a few bulky bargains, the sharp-eyed customs officers are very quick to criticize. It would be rash and desperate venture for a hob ble-skirited traveler to attempt to j smuggle over a woolen blanket, for in stance. Only the other day the cus toms officers at the foot of Woodward avenue stopped a woman and later it | was discovered that she concealed a _/_ DYE HAIR TO MATCH MOTORS Lawsuit Reveals Peculiar Ways of So ciety Women of East—Photog rapher Wins His Case. New York.—That society women in New York are dyeing their hair, not oniy to match the Interior fittings of their motor cars but even to match the changes of the seasons, was the state ment made by William P. S. Earle. Mr. Earle was delighted over win ning a suit for $60 brought by him against Mrs. Louis° Balfour in pay ment for coloring a photograph made for the defendant. Mrs. Balfour is said to be a relative of the British premier. The photographic artist had colored the picture to show brown hair. Mrs. Balfour wanted her hair Titian in the picture. “I told her.” said Earle, “that her hair was brown, but she insisted on Titian. “Then I charged her for the work and she would not pay. “The hair among the women of the ■four hundred’ changes with the sea sons. When I tinted the picture of Mrs. Balfour her hair was brown. When she sued her hair was Titian. Formerly the women of society were willing to let it go at matching their hair to suif their gowns, but now they must match their hair to suit the fit tings of their limousines.” half dozen napkins under her skirt. “The unfortunate lady doubled one of the napkins twice and I couldn’t help but notice it,” said the officer who spied her. Catching female smugglers is dif ficult work. The women seem to fce cleverer than the men at smuggling and they will take longer chances. When they are caught they weep and go $to hysterics. "Oh, the women are certainly the clever smugglers,” said Miss Daisy Zuckriegel. who is stationed at the Woodward avenue dock to watch the women who go back and forth on the ferries. Eight years’ experience has made Miss Zuckriegel an expert at i spotting smugglers. "How do I spot smugglers?” “Well, there are several ways. For instance, I watch the people going over the river and 1 generally re- i member them when they return. If , they attempt to smuggle anything | over it is an easy matter to catch them. Then we are 'amiliar with the favorite methods employed by smug glers and we know just where to look. When two women get off the boat, eating candy with much gusto, 1 ask them to step into the office without any preliminaries. The chances are 100 to 1 that stuff will be found con cealed about their persons." “What do they smuggle?" “Why. the smuggle anything that is movable. Blankets. linen goods, hardware, laces, butter, eggs and fowl are brought over by women under their skirts.” Banish Hard-Tack. New'York.— Word comes to" mili tary circles here from Washington that nard-tack has been banished in favor of a new ration to be known as "field bread.” Hard-tack will be used in the future only when an organiza tion is cut off from a supply train or is on a forced march. The new field bread is composed of flour, water, ; salt and yeast. — Stole Collection Plates. Hartford. Conn —The Society of the | Park Congregational church' of this city is looking for the person who stole all but two of the collection plates. The loss was discovered when a collection was about to be taken. SAVED FROM AN OPERATION By Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound j Peoria, 111.—“I wish to let every one ! know what Lydia E. Pinkham’d reme ! t";.;' -I dies have done for me. Jr or two years I suffered. The doc tors said I had tu mors, and the only remedy was the sur geon’s knife. My mother bought me Lydia E. Pinkham’s vegetable Com pound, and today I am a healthy wo L'f r •*( ‘f 1 * Ji man. tor months Ea^JillLlL^ai suffered from in flammation,and yourSanative Wash re lieved me. Your Liver Pills have no’ equal as a cathartic. Any one wishing rroof of what your medicines have done for me can get it from any drug | gist or by writing to me. You can use my testimonial in any way you wish, and I will be glad to answer letters.”— | Mrs. Christina Peed, iog Mound St, Peoria, 111. Another Operation Avoided. Xew Orleans, La.—“For years I suf fered from severe female troubles. Finally I was confined to my bed and the doctor said an operation was neces sary. I gave Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg etable Compound a trial first, and was saved from an operation.”—Mrs. Lily Peyrocx, 1111 Kerlerec Su, New Orleans, La. The great volume of unsolicited tes | timony constantly pouring in proves conclusively that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a remarkable | remedy for those distressing feminine ills from which so many women suffer, TOO HARD WORK. „ '— “You are charged with having four wives living.” “Well, 1 don’t know whether the? are all living or not, judge; I can’t keep track of them all." A Hard-Worked Man. Perhaps we do not realize it, but the president of the United States is one of the hardest worked men in the republic. The head of a big corpora tion, E. H. Gary, for instance, can slip away to Europe and the organi zation will run itself until he returns, but the president, surrounded as he Is by a corps of capable assistants and advisers, must be on the job practically every day in the year. Today William H. Taft is the bus iest official who holds a high elective position. A governor can get away from official cares—although his pay may be docked if he stays away too long—but the president must get his vacation in driblets. His vacations consist of fifteen-minute intervals in which nobody actually is waiting to see him. His Thoughtful Wife. “I hate to boast,” said a Cleveland lawyer, “but my wife is one of the most economical women in the world. The other day she told me she needed a new suit. I said she ought to have it, by all means, but asked her not to spend a big bunch of money without letting me know about it. Well, the next day she said: ‘The tailor said he couldn't make the suit for less than $150. I thought it was too much, but told him to go ahead.’ " ‘Well, I suppose it is all right,’ I said, ‘but why didn’t you consult me first?’ “ ‘Why, dearie, I didn’t want to s^end car fare for two visits.’ “I tell you, it’s these little econo mies that count, eh?” LUCKY MISTAKE. Grocer Sent Pkg. of Postum and Opened the Eyes of the Family. A lady writes from Brookline, Mass.: “A package of Postum -was sent me one day by mistake. “I notified the grocer, but finding that there was no coffee for breakfast next morning I prepared some of the Postum, following the directions very carefully. “It was an immediate success in my family, and from that day we have used it constantly, parents and chil dren, too—for my three rgsy young sters are allowed to drink it freely at breakfast and luncheon. They think it delicious, and I would have a mutiny on my hands should I omit the be loved beverage. “My husband used to have a very delicate stomach while we were using coffee, but to our surprise his stom ach has grown strong and entirely well since we quit coffee and have been on Postum. "Noting the good effects in my fam ily I wrote to my sister, who was a coffee toper, and after much persua sion got her to try Postum. She was prejudiced against it at first, but when she presently found that all the ailments that coffee gave her left and she got well quickly she became and remains a thorough and enthusiastic Postum convert. “Her nerves, which had become shattered by the use of coffee have grown healthy again, and today she is a new woman, thanks to Postum.” Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich., and the “cause why" will be found in the great little book' “The Road to WellvIUe," which comes in Pkgs. in""*, AThrr r*7c4:r.u'"-,r-*