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STARS WHO DEMONSTRATED SPIT BALL ) f>/*oro ar “Jeff" Tesreau of New York Giants. Many pitchers must thank Chesbro ’ and Ed Walsh for the fact that they are in fast company today. These two great stars were the first to demon strate that the spit ball was to be de-1 pended upon. Since that time scores of twirlers have sprung up who have been effective as spitters but who Then batters began to holler about the delivery. They held that it wasn't real baseball—that it should be legis lated out of the game. Those mag nates who didn't have a spitball pitch er on their staff joined in the anti movement. You see there were only a scattering few in those days—you could have counted them on the fin gers of one 'hand. Nine-tenths of the fans shook their heads and said it was a freak delivery that would soon die out. It's an ac tual fact that Owner Charles Murphy was one of those opposed to the de livery. Look at the Cubs today. They have Lavender and Cheney, both leading • pitball throwers. Murphy was con vinced especially after he saw the great performances of Ed Walsh, king of them all. Now all of the magnates and managers are on the outlook for a star spitball artist. Even McGraw, of the Giants, is well pleased over the new-fangled style, especially since he added Jeff Tesreau to his staff. It has been claimed only big. mas sive fellows can use this kind of de livery. Walsh, with his power and weight, was given three years and then "back to the minors for him.” They argued that his system would not stand the strain any longer. But you notice he's been using it for eight years now and getting even bet ter—if such a thing is possible. So it is now believed the spitter isn't so great a strain on the arm as to the curve ball. It isn't necessary to get the same sharp snap on the arm as when a curve is thrown. In fact, some ball players claim it's a more natural way of pitching. Lavender, of the Cubs, isn't a strap ping fellow. Nor are many others in fast company wbo use the spitter. One surprising thing about the spit ball is that some twirlers who have begun to lose the knack of throwing a curve have found the moist delivery a life saver. Even Reulbacb, for years a leader in the National league, is beginning to try out the spitball, because he knows his days as a curve ball throw er are numbered. That old snap of his arm is slowly but surely telling on i him. He has watched Walsh's career with interest, noted that Ed pitches with an easy movement, and has come to the conclusion it isn't all bunk after all. Ed Reulbach. would have had nothing but speed and a prayfer without the latest delivery. The writer remembers the time, and it was only a few years ago, when C'hesbro was laughed at for his spit ball. "Oh, some newfangled, stunt which will soon pass out of existence,” was the remark. But he kept plug ging away at it, made it a go, and Ed Walsh then swung into line. Walsh practically won the world's championship for the White Sox in 1S06 through his spitball delivery. Prior to that time he had been a bench warmer. Only his great speed had kept him on the pay roll. The fact that he might ainount to some thing was Comiskey's hope, and he en couraged his trying the spitter. According to Umpire Silk O'Lough lin. Reb Russell of the White Sox is going to be a great pitcher. • • • Harry Hooper, never considered a great hitter has been whaling the ball at a remarkable clip lately. « • • lnfielder Ona Dodd, who refused to go to San Francisco, has been satisfied with a berth in the class B league with Columbus. • • • Bob Harmon's two-hit game against the Giants was a great stunt, but it must be remembered that Hub Perdue did the same. • » • IsDsunona v - Walter Johnson beat every team in the league before he lost his elev enth game. ♦ * * Billy Gilbert is a Giant again, but only nominally. McGraw has made him a scout. * • • Clark Griffith thinks Mullin will be the deciding factor for him in win ning the pennant. • * • Shortstop Ireland turned back to the Phillies by Sacramento, has been sold to Rochester. • • • Manager Chance has put a damper on the Bermuda talk by saying the climate*there is too damp. * • * Williams went and broke Yale s long winning baseball streak. Williams alumni best have no dealings with ex Yale men for a few days. • • • Del Paddock, the good-gaited third baseman of the Rochester club, who usually bats left-handed, shifts to the other side of the plate when facing southpaw pitching. As recompense for dropping the whole series in Chicago the Yankees were paid for an attendance close to 75,000 for the four day stay. • • • Jack Herbert begins his third year as manager of the Pekin team of the Illinois-MisEouri league, which is some record in a class D circuit. • • • Joe Rapp, a Wichita infielder, was married recently to Miss Clara Sei bert, an attractive blonde Buckeye. Mr. and Mrs. Rapp were classmates In a Cincinnati school. • • • Joe Kelley says that his Toronto team will again win the champion ship in the International league. He declares that he has a stronger coni' bination than he had last year. • • • Hugh McKinnon, who had a three i day fling as manager of the Lynchburg team of the alleged United States league, announces that he will go to Paris and put baseball in France on a real sure enough basis. CAN CONTROL HIS DELIVERY Detroit Flinger Can Serve Curves, Fast and Slow Balls With Three Distinct Motions. Jean Dubuc of the Detroit Tigers attributes his success as an American League pitcher to the fact that he can deliver his curves, his slow ball and his fast, ball with three different mo tions, and have control of the ball by his motion. "Years ago,'when I was pitching with Notre Dame college, I learned that speed without control was value less. I always had pretty fair contro! of my delivery, but with the acquired knowledge I began perfecting different deliveries and control of the ball in each,” says Jean. “it took years of patient effort to acquire the delivery I now have, but 1 believe it is One of the least trying on the arm and shoulder muscles, for the reason that I put the weight of my body behind the pitches and do not depend on the strength of my arm to send up a fast ball. “I worked with my slow ball for three months before I could get a curve to it, and after that it took me three years to perfect the delivery.” Dubuc declares that his delivery would be an ideal one for a left-hand er, inasmuch as hitting such a ball from a left-handed pitcher would be much harder. The ball would come up to the batter on an entirely new angle, and. Jean Insists that the best batters in the major leagues would be puzzled. Various persons have been given credit for, developing Dubuc, and among those honored is Hugh Jen nings. Hughey, however, declares that Dubuc alone is responsible. "Jean is one of those players who never wastes a moment," says Jen nings. “When he is on the bench and an other man is pitching, the Frenchman is always figuring what he would throw the batter. What is more valu able. he makes his comments aloud, and the young pitchers on the club can gain valuable hints by listening to the sensation of 1912.” BROOKLYN HAS STAR PLAYER Daubert Besides Being One of Leading First Basemen Is Also Quite Handy With Stick. John Daubert of the Brooklyn team, who led the National league first base men in fielding last season*, was born in Llewellyn, Pa., May 14. 1885. He began as a professional in 1907 with the Kent team of the Interstate league. After two months of pastiming the Interstate blew and Daubert joined the Marion O. and P. league team. The following season Jake was drafted by Cleveland and turned over to Nash ville, only to be recalled by the Naps a short time later and sold to Toledo, which in turn sold him to Memphis. “Jake” Daubert. After this speedy shifting on the base ball map Jake was allowed to settle down in Memphis, where he played in 1909. His work looked good to the Brooklyn management, which pur chased his release. Jake became the, Dodgers' first baseman in 1910 and has held the job ever since. Besides his clever fielding Daubert is quite a slug ger, his batting average showing .307 for 1911 and .30$ for 1912. California Changes. Because the Long Beach team, in the Southern California league, lost 10 straight games under his manage ment, Manager Lou Durham and five of his players were canned. Durham was immediately signed by Pasadena to manage its team and several of his players also were taken on. Inciden tally, Durham won his first game as manager of the Pasadena team. Jess Stovall, who has been an umpire In the Southern California, was made manager i of the Loiig Beach team to succeed Durham. % Comiskey Is Pleased. “It is a great compliment to Chicago to have three big leagues furnishing the fans with baseball,” said President Comiskey of the White Sox, after hav ing watched the Federal leaguers in action. “I am flattered when I think I picked out a business that appeals to so many people,” added the Old Roman. COUNTRY ROADS OF CONCRETE Lasting Materials for Construction Available in Many Places in Form of Sand and Gravel. No single factor plays such an im portant part in the social and busi ness life of a community as the qual ity of its roads. Aside from the pleas ure and convenience of travel, pos sible at all times over permanent roads, there is the financial phase which directly concerns the cost not only of ,farm produce, but of city products as well. Consequently ev erybody wants good roads, writes Pi H. Wilson in the Iowa Homestead. In the matter of paying for permanent highways, a generally satisfactory agreement seems to have been reach ed in the proposed distribution of tne cost between the nation, the state, the county and the users of the road in question. As a result, within a few years this country will take its right ful leading position among the na tions of the world in the number of miles of permanent roads. In a way it is fortunate that the United States has been rather slow in the matter of road making. The roads can now be built of lasting ma terials, such as will withstand the wear of motor traffic which is fast ruining Europe's century-old road ways. Lasting road materials are everywhere present in the form of sand and gravel from pits and stream beds and crushed rock from stone quarries. Combined with Portland ce ment into concrete, they .form an in expensive and permanent road sur face which successfully resists the usually destructive action of automo biles. ihe first consideration in the build ing of concrete roads is a careful study of local deposits of sand, gravel and rock (called the aggregate) to see whether they are suitable for con crete. Sand must be clean and hard and must grade uniformly in size of grain from one-fourth inch down. The same applies to gravel and crushed rock except that the largest particles commonly allowable are one and one fourth Inches in diameter. If local materials are usable, a considerab'e saving will be effected, as only ce ment will need to be freighted. It is much faster and cheaper to mix the concrete with a machine than by hand. Depending on the grading of the aggregate, the concrete is usually proportioned one bag of Port land cement to two cubic feet of sand and four cubic of screened gravel cc crushed rock, or one of cement to two of sand and three of gravel or. rock. During the grading and draining of the road, the aggregate is hauled and piled at convenient points. The con ; crete is mixed mushy wet. is deposit ed to the thickness of six inches upon the firm cld road bed and is brought to grade and shape by means of a | templet. In order to shed the water on the side drains the surface of the concrete is given a rise or crown in : the center of one one-hundredth to one seventy-fifth the width of the roadway. The surface is finished with a wooden float and wire broom, by which means there is afforded per l feet footing for horses. At intervals I of 25 feet the road is divided into sec tions by narrow contraction joints ex : tending crosswise the road and en tirely through, the concrete. These i joints are formed by means of a thin i metal or wooden cross form or divid i ed to which is tied a single or double thickness of tar paper with the paper face against the last laid section of ; roadway. After the surface of this section is finished and while the con crete for the adjoining section is be ; ing placed, the cord holding the pa per to the cross form is cut and the | cross form is removed. The tar pa ; per adheres to the concrete and stays in the joint, which is reduced to the ! thickness of the paper by forcing , against it the freshly placed concrete j of the section under construction. W hen the surface of the concrete • has hardened enough to prevent pit ting it is sprinkled with clean water and is kept moist for several days Likewise, as soon as possible, the I pavement is covered temporarily witn two inches of sand or dirt from the side road to give further air in cur ing the concrete. Traffic is confined to the earthen side roads until the concrete is about two weeks old. In the meantime shoulders of broken stone or gravel are built along both , edges of the pavement. These are ! made three feet wide and sufficient-y thick to be firm and to make it an easy matter at all times for w-agon wheels to pass from the side roau onto the pavement. _ Think of Improvement. It might be well to think how a road might be improved, instead of storming about the overseer, when traveling over a bad road. Care of Poultry. Beginners in the poultry business are likely to neglect their stock dur ing the time they are not yielding re turns and often fail to figure the fu ture consequences Such beginners cannot be successful in the poultry business. Constant care, good feed ing and fresh water are absolutely necessary at all times. This holds good from the time the chicks are hatched until they go into ttye laying house. Weighing Chickens Comfortably. To weigh chickens by hand scales take a piece of cloth two and one-half by one and one-half feet, make a hole in the center for .the bird's feet, and tie the ends of the cloth up over its wingB and in a knot on Its back. Hook the scales through the knot A* similar arrangement makes a com fortable hammock for holding the fowl while cleaning Us legs and feet for exhibition. Good clover pasture is always vahi able. - :> * . > EMPTY TOMB AT ST. HELENA I Longwood House, Where Napoleon Died, Is in Ruins and French Ask That It Be Preserved. Complaint is made in France that the government of the republic is neg lecting the house in which Napoleon died and the tomb in which his body was laid at St. Helena before removal to the Church of St. Louis at the In valides. Iq 1858 the Longwood house, in which the emperor lived during his exile, and the plot in the Valley of Geraniums where his tomb was made were given by Queen Victoria to Na poleon III. for the French government, which desired to maintain them as lasting memorials. But of late years little has been done to preserve either the home or the sepulcher. The build ing is falling into-, ruins, the farmers of the neighborhood let their sheep graze in the valley. Visitors are few. it is believed that ere long a storm will wreck the decaying building, and then in all probability the caretaker will be withdrawn and the land aban doned to the farmer and the herds man. Sentiment will nourn overmuch sur render of ground to utility, but it is. in evitable. In a world where the palaces of Alexander and Caesar have crum bled into nothingness, there can be no perpetuity for the- homes of Napoleon. The Tuileries went to ashes long ago; why save Longwood? RiNGWORM ON CHILD’S FACE Stratford, Iowa.—"Three years ago this winter my seven-year-old son had ' ringworm cn the face. First it was in small red spots which had a rough crust on the top. When they started they looked like little red dots and then they got bigger, about the size of a bird's egg. They had a white rough ring around them, and grew continually worse and soon spread over his face and legs. The child suf fered terrible itching and burning, so that he could not sleep nights. He scratched them and they looked fear ful. He was cross when he had them. We used several bottles of liniment, : but nothing helped. ‘1 saw where a child had a rash on the face and was cured by Cuticura Soap and Ointment and I decideu to use ther_. * used Cuticura Soap and Ointment about one month, and they cured my child completely.” (Signed) Mrs. Barbara Prim, ..an. 30, 1912. Cuticura Soap, and Ointment sold throughout the world Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. 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