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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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FROM AN
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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
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