HISTORY OF SENATORS
Sensational Spurt Proves Talk of
Basebak World.
Vtaabiagtoe T*»«. Has Won Seven
“Cetlor" Cham pome i pi in Tvren
ty-Tiao rears ir Major Leagues
—Mever Steed Very High.
The mcmdrrful spurt made by the
'^aali.igtoo Americans this season un
frf the skilful leadership of Clark
OrtBth has bees the talk of the whole
Nooehail sorld. aa 'be fans at the seat
of go* era meat have malted In Tain
for a pennant rontender during the
The W asti ngton rlah succeeded the
Ftwioene* team la the National j
**»*w la ISM This circuit was made
np aa aa etgb! club league until the
•arty pus sprs t expanded Into a
Circuit ccmposed of 12 clubs
Marring with the season of ifcM5
the Ketaturi hr ished aa tail enders
ta lgb< ism and !**> claiming ses
e»3th pia«e ta ivy" They dropped out
la !*»» and 1SP1. hat came hack into
* nrrall * h«* inf iFt«oti
la i*>. they finished tenth and repent
* ed ta IM4 The season of 1»S found
them once more the cellar champions
lu !•»» and ISM they managed
to chug to eleventh place, refusing to
he pushed is the bottom rung again
In SIX things took on a brighter
look and the team pulhd up In ninth
Mace at the finish The season of !
***'T was a banner one for the down
. -odder: W ashingtonians, for they |
t tn bed 'o the aeveatb rung finishing I
• « pion 1'tsrri UT Ior second aivi- ,
»uaa team* la the II-club circuit.
**•- a dropped out of the Nn
• oaal league agala la 1*4 and joined
the i»e» American league under Han
Jcknnoa * jMI in an eight-club dr
ew** <te ta dropped to aisth place
la IMS They rlamed the cellar
rUay. t>»n.p la t*o». 1MT and 1*4
The seasons at 1M4 1*4 ItM. 1*10
and 1*11 f t>4 the Washington rep
resentation straggling along la sev
enth pise.- at the close of these re
spec* i re seasons.
*«»e ng np the record of the
Warhttgte* teem for II seasons we
find the* hare eon seven cellar chant
f aonsh'i* finishing In 10 seasons as
ranaer* up tor the tail-end gonfalon,
three » *oe* on *he third rung from the
’ottom the ladder once In ninth
•lace In a II club circuit and last but
M* least leaders for the first and only j
n*S cS .he second division
BUSH IS WONDERFUL PLAYER
Manager Marry WoUcrtoo ef New
Vera h jrlander* Would be
Ccntawt if Me Had Ownic.
Harrr Wolrertoa has a very high
sptaioa of "HIU ‘ louden as a base
ball plater louden worked for Wol- ]
tenon n fen jears ago and the Yank
manager is wett acquainted with the
lonag i layer a ability
I ana den IS a seasoned bail player.- ■
■aid Wdtetio* *"l think he la above
;l*e average second aarker right new
and with plenty of tort he will round
-W.-JV .
Owmr Bush.
r.u> a star that alt! outshine them all
to addition Lands caa hit about 21.0
sad he is tost oa the bases
'Wat aboat Bush shy be a do good
at all He a atom and c an t rover any
ground His mb;p la also poor—bey?
#a» If 1 had that tonngater I d be sat
shed a tth ttfe Ha is a * tnderful 1st
ie Beider and he ts to tbe game an
We tune The lietroit pitchers ran
Wank 0*t.» Bush for the number of
am* ba robe opposing batsmen of In a
semana Without Bush at abort. I
Wink the Tigers mould not look so
fercitoubie ~
Dcat Turned Back.
Infield Leo Domd mas turned back
ay the Xem fork club to tbe Brockton
flab of the Xem England league, from
shirk be «si purchased oa the rec
i«awda*.ton of Scout Arthur Irmta.
Jomd la considered a moat promising
flayer hut he ts tarsing to expert
aace Tbe Xem York club retains an
sptloo oa tbe player and be util be
realis'd at tbe etoee of the Xem Png
mad league mensem
Wi l Try Ray Powell,
president Xs»In sill try out Ray
PomelL ihe At Joseph outfielder sith
the Tigers at the end of the season
If Poo«U makes good ffS.bto* mil! be
yatd for bta release He so tried by
ihe White Ros tost spring and Man
Sger CailaXas derided that be need
ad a little more experience, so be
mi him oa bis may.
Trtpie Ptay L'r assisted
Sheet atop Foreman of the Kankakee
dub of the i ill ante Missouri league,
•aerated an unassisted triple piay to
a recent game brtsren Champaign
and Kankakee
Atterfiance fil«**rp.
The Boat on Nationals are suffering
from a terrific attendance slump of
naw Kltog s team is aa awful thine
asrafmred mitb the Red Sex and Is
,t*M acoordingty
SCOUTS SECURE STAR PITCHERS FOR GIANTS
Al Demaree. Leading Twirler of Southern League.
Combing the underbrush of the mi
nor leagues are several scouts who
are on the trail of young pitchers for
the New York Nationals. No league
Is too small to bf explored, no tip bo
humble as to be ignored, and no price
too big if the goods are delivered.
The ivory hunters haie been fanning
the jungles for many weeks, and now.
with drafting dajs are here, they are
springing their traps.
Manager HcGraw recently an
noum-cd the purchase of Pitcher A1
IW-maree from the Mobile club of the
Southern League. and of pitcher Ba
der from the Pallas club of the Texas
I-eague ljtrne Kirby, the Michigan
bearca* is already ou the job. Pema
ri*- md Hader and some othars may
show :n the fall. But the whole mob
• ill be In Marlin next spring.
Pemarpe is the leading pitcher oi
the Southern League. He is no raw
youngster, but this is the best seasoD
he has ever had. He has been roam
ing around in the minors about five
years, and once had a brief trial with
the Yankees. No Southern League
pitcher has held the enemy to as few
runs and hits as Demaree. He has
eight or ten shutouts to his credit,
and it is largely through his efforts
that Mobile is in second place.
Demaree was one of the pitchers
who shut out the Giants for thirteen
innings in Mobile last spring when the
champions played a scoreless tie with
the Sea Gulls He is a right-hander
wiih ability to “mix ’em up," and
knows how to work batsmen. His
speed is not remarkable, and he is not
a big chap.
STARS AT INITIAL CUSHION
Hobltzel. Red Player, Ranks High
With Major League Baseman—
Good With Stick.
lacking in years, but already rank
ed as one of the excellent players of
the day Is Kichard t'arlton iloblitzel.
the heavy port side hitter and able
first baseman of the Reds. "Hobby'’
is or.ljr 22 years old. but if a man was
asked to pick a better first-sacker,
counting In hitting ability winning
spirit and general disposition, he
First Baseman Hoblitzel.
j would be hard put to find a name to
place ahead of that youngster from
West Virginia.
Two brief years ago "Hobby" was
j an unkQOw n quantity. When he re
ported to the Reds at Atlanta in the
spr-ng of 1999 it looked for a time as
:f he would be beaten for the first
base job by ('hick Autrey. a left-hand
er and a player of much more expe
rience than Richard, but. by dint of
sticking to bis work with tenacity.
Hobby" won out In the fight for the
position, and now there is not a club
-n the league which would not be
proud to number him among its regu
’ lar players.
Browns Get Miller.
Second Ha.eman Miller of the Low
ell New England leiftne club was sold
to the St Louis Americans for {2.000.
He will report at the end of the New
England league season.
Tim Jordan is wanted by the Pitts
burg club.
It is said that Joe Jackson, Cleve
lands great performer, draws only
$3,000.
"Polly" Parritt. the best pitcher of
the Fort Worth team, has been sold to
Los Angeles.
Thirty-five extra-inning games have
been played in the National league
this season. 26 in the American.
Charles Murphy is credited with
saying: "The more I hear from my'
scouts, the better I like my present
club.”
Pitcher Keefe of the Reds should
help Rochester immensely in its race
for the flag in the International
league.
Claude Rossinan and Charlie Carr, a
couple of veterans, are fighting for
batting supremacy in the American
association.
Kid Elberfeld, who was in a bad way
last spring, is playing the game of
his life for Montgomery In the South
ern league.
Johnny Kling s retention of the Ros
ton leadership isn t a “cinch." but
Hugh Jennings, at least, will not be
his successor.
Rafael Almeida is acting as scoui
for the Cincinnati team in the South
ern league. Among others he has
recommended himself.
There are no third basemen in the
I big leagues now like Jimmy Collins and
Ril! Rradley. Harry Lord is rated
about the best of the lot.
The farm Charlie Comers has main
tained for the Naps at Toledo has
[ not proved to be of any assistance to
I the Clevelanders this year.
One of the Roston amateur teams
! has a pitcher named Asbestos. That
i fellow can't be fired, nor will he ever
• falter In the heat of battle.
Charley Street. Walter Johnson's
, partner, goes to Providence. Wash
ington traded him for Jack Knight
' and both players are now in the ml
! nors.
Zeke Wrigley of the Lima team of
the Ohio State league established a
record of going 35 games without an
! error, falling down on his two hun
dred and eleventh chance.
1
ANNE AVERTED A CRIME;
■
By Marrying the Only Man She
Loved.
By A. MARIA CRAWFORD.
His weekly letter, due on Thursday
morning, was not at her plate when
the came down to breakfast. She ran j
through her mail hurriedly, an un- j
pleasant suspicion chilling her heart. .
“What does Tom write? Is It time !
for one of those—those roundups he
told us about when he was here?"
"I don't know, mother. There's
no letter from him this morning.”
“Tlte poor boy must be ill. Til
have your father telegraph at once.”
“1 would rather you wouldn't do
that—not just yet. The mail may be
late."
“Late? It is a strange thing that
It has never been late before, in three
nr four years. I think of Tom Mar
shall as one of my own children. His
mother was my best friend, and she
would appreciate my Interest if she
were alive today.”
"Not when you have a marriage
able daughter,” said Anne smiling.
In the privacy of her own room, an i
hour later, she read again his last j
letter.
"If you don't object, Anne,” it ran. (
T would like to read bits of your j
letter dated the twentieth to a little j
girl out here. She is a pretty little ]
Ihing and often helps me pass away
lime. Your letters are gems, fragrant
with mj old life, and I would like
her to hear a part of the one 1 men
tioned."
Anne looked up over her desk
where his picture had hung ever since j
8 le came home from school. He had j
l.-en a student in the great university ;
tear her own college. When he was
graduated he had gone west to a
ranch owned by his father. He was
determined to make good in the
world as a man.
"I want to be a man's man. Anne."
he had told her. "not a weakling. I
don't want to stay in the east and
le pushed by dad s friends and have
lo frequent pink teas and dinner
parties. I am going to get away
from the people who know me so
Lhat I will be forced to stand or fall
an my own resources."
He had found the west, robbed of
Its glamour of romance and adven
ture. to be the very place to test
his strength and ability. Discouraged
1 s' ^
-m— --- ■ s
"No," She Said Quietly.
many times, yet always manfully
brave, he succeeded in carving out
a future for himself as he had
dreamed.
Weeks went by. then months, and
still Anne had no word from him.
She had answered his last letter
promptly assuring him of no objec
tion in case he still cared to read
: parts of her letter to a stranger.
Months added to months made a
year of silence. Then Anne went
away with her mother to the moun
tains. A few days after she left
home her father telegraphed her
j that Tom Marshall had appeared and
wanted to see her.
■'Don't tell where we are." she an
swered. and settled down to enjoy
the courtship of Standileld Meyers,
who had followed her to the moun
tains and who offered balm for her
wounded pride.
One evening as she swayed with
young Meyers to the music in the
ballroom of the hotel she saw Tom
Marshall standing in the entrance,
his eyes fixed on her. She nodded
pleasantly, much as she would have
done to any casual acquaintance.
The music stopped when she was
near a door across the room. She
hurried into the darknefe, and plead
ing a headache to her partner, went
directly down the long veranda,
through a French window and so
gained the elevator without encoun
I tering Marshall. A night s rest, she
reflected, wouid fit her for the ordeal
of meeting his wife. Her father's
letter that day stated that Marshall
had with him a beautiful young
j woman whom he had heard called
; Mrs. Marshall.
Anne was conscious of the gossip
over the bridge tables and embroid
ery frames as she started out for a
tramp with Meyers the next morning.
The engagement of the two would be
announced at the beginning of the
season in town, the marriage to take
| place the following spring, so one
declared. Anne was glad that such a
story was abroad Marshall would be
sure to hear it and so realize how
; little she really cared for him. Later,
down by Deep Rock springs. Stand
field Meyers demanded his Anal an
! swer.
"Leave me alone now," she urged.
1 “I want to think it over before I an
swer you positively”
And so it was that she sat there,
chin in hand, elbow on knee, looking
out across the valley basking in the
sunlight. Marshall came upon her.
She could not quite keep the gladness
out of her eyes as she looked up and
saw him. stalwart and strong, with
his youthful dreams still in his brown
eyes.
"It is great to be back in the
mountains. Anne. You look today just
as you did that morning up at old
Chester when I went to stammer good
bye to you. I was such a kid. Re
member?”
Anne tossed the petals of a wild
rose on the clear little' stream that
flowed from Deep Rock.
"No,” she said. Quietly. "That was
a long time ago."
"What's the matter with your
memory, Anne? You've changed. I
couldn't sleep last night for thinking
that you left the ballroom after j
seeing me without coming to w-el- j
come me. You meant home to me.
That’s why I followed you to the
mountains."
"You don't know how .hard it is to
speak to anybody when Standfield is
around."
"Standfield Meyers? What has he
to do with your attitude to your old
friends?"
"I am going to marry him." Anne
wondered why her voice did not
quiver with her heart.
Without a word he turned and
started down the path.
"Tom," questioned Anne, a tiny
pulse hammering in her throat,
“Tom. won't you wish me joy?"
He came back then, his hand out,
the old brave smile of his youth
lighting his face.
"I was a beast. Anne, dear. Of |
course I wish you joy. It knocked H
me over a bit to hear the news. I
was selfish, thinking only of my
own loss. You see, 1 have always—
foolishly, of course—believed that you
were mine. It has never occurred
to me that any man could take you
away from me."
"Oh," cried Anne, “you musn't talk
to me like that. What would your
wife think if she heard?"
"My what?"
"Your wife. You wrote me about a
girl you said was very pretty. You
wanted to read one of my letters to
her. and when you didn't answer my |
letter—" -
"Didn't answer? I wrote to you !
four or five times while I was hurt.” j
"Hurt?" cried Anne, in alarm. “Oh.
Tcm. how?"
"Pony bucked with me and I un
fortunately got mixed up with a ma
chine that happened to be passing.
The boys hurried me off to St. Jo
sephs hospital, where they patched
uu one shoulder and an arm until
they are as good as sew-."
All the mother's solicitude deep in i
the heart of every woman for the
only man. although he may be her j
senior by many years, showed in i
Anne's eager, tender questioning.
“Why didn't you let me know.
Tom? Mother and 1 would have gone
to you. Haven't you always known :
that I would do anything for you?" ;
"All but the greatest thing, Anne, j
the giving of yourself."
“Aren't you married, Tom?”
"No. I never wanted any woman but
you. My brother and his wife met
me and came on to meet you. but you
had gone. I absolutely held your
father up and demanded to know
where you were.”
“I haven't answered Standfield yet,
Tom. It would be a crime to marry
anybody but you. My pride was
hurt—”
“You'll have to marry me now. to
day," said Marshall, his arms about
her. “Then we ll go west and shoot
up the town until I find out what be
came of our letters.”
“All's well that ends well.” laughed
the girl happily, while a mocking bird j
broke into a melody of silver song '■
somewhere in the young green
branches overhead.
(Copyright. 1912. hv Associated I.iterary
Press.)
Simple Bath for an Elephant.
During the recent heat wave in
Paris the proprietor of a great me
nagerie. noticing that his favorite
elephant. Jimmy, was weak and list
less. thought that a bath might do
him good, so a bath was prescribed.
First, six men soaped Jimmy all over,
not forgetting—and this was the most
delicate part of their task—the multi
tudinous folds of his ears. Then
hoses played on this pachyderm from
every quarter of the compass. Now
came the drying, which was per
formed by throwing quantities of fine
sand over the animal. Jimmy was
then rubbed down and anointed with
pure cocoa oil till his skin was
smooth and shining. He appeared
very much better for his bath, and
well he might, for this seemingly sim
ple prescription had cost his owner
$300.
Professional Instinct.
Some of the newspaper correspond
ents have to work without pause at
conventions, grinding out interminable
strings of copy for transmission by
telegraph. On such occasions it is
not uncommon for four or five who
are friendly to each other to form
combinations and exchange reports.
The simplest way to do this is to have
each writer make carbon copies of his
day's work. Five weary correspond
ents were occupying one room in
Michigan avenue, and four of them
had keeled out on beds, while
the fifth continued to pound his
mill. “What are you writing?'"
asked one of them, after a while. “A
letter to my wife." “Give us carbons."
yelled the four in chorus.—The Ar
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It is to be remarked that within a
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consumption is limited. However,
measures are being taken to increase
the importation, and it is said that,
TO vessels were recently fitted up for
bringing the fruit to Europe. Banana
flour has a much more extended use
in England than on the continent, but
efforts are now made to introduce it
j in France, owing to its great nutri
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preparation 60 per cent, of banana
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Soporific.
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He—From the appearance of the
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