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    STARS WHO DEMONSTRATED SPIT BALL
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Adv.
New Phenomenon*
A new phenomenon has been ob
served by Professor Righi to which he
gives the name of lono-magnetic rota
tion. If a spark from a condenser of
considerable capacity is sent horizon
tally through a gas and two small ver
tical vanes of mica in the form of a
cross are susi>ended in the middle of
the discharge by a fine fiber attached
to the center of the cross, the spark
produces no rotation of the cross. If.
however, a vertical magnetic field is
established in the gas. the cross ro
tates through a considerable angle if
the gas is air. and over a small angle
in other cases. ' Professor Righi as
cribes this rotation to the bending of
the paths of the ions or electrons, and
to the additional protection which the
vanes afford each other against im
pacts from one side rather than from
the other in these circumstances. The
observed rotations indicate that the
effects of the positive ions are in gen
eral greater than those of the nega
tive.
The Tortures of Prickly Heat
, and all skin affections are quickly al
| leviated and in a short time complete
| ly cured by using Tyree's Antiseptic
! Powder. 25c. at druggists. For free
sample write J. S. Tyree, Chemist,
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The emperor spoke with a per
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