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FORMER ATHLETIC STAR AS PEACEMAKER Harry Davis. Veteran Star First Baseman. It pays to have a successful peace maker on a ball club. Many baseball followers throughout the country prob ably are wondering why the Athletics, with practically the same players of last year, are making a near runaway race in the American league this sea son. Of course, the Mackmen have won most of their games by good hard hit ting but there is one great leader, who sits on the bench and helps Connie Mack direct his team. It is the ap pearance of this veteran that has brought peace to the family of a great ball club. Harry Davis, who failed to give Cleveland a winner last year, is back in Athletic harness, and the White Elephants again are showing the form they displayed in 1911. Numerous reports were sent out from the Quaker City last summer, while the Mack team was taking its daily lickings at the hands of the Bos ton Red Sox and other ciubs in the American league, that the former world's champions were fairly well dis organized as far as friendship was concerned. The taste of defeat was a bitter medicine, and the players on Mack's pay roll were peevish and not working together like the machine that rolled over the New York Giants in the fall of 1911. The reason for the poor showing of a team doped to run away with a third pennant, was that Harry Davis, peacemaker, was not there to settle the disputes of the play ers. This fellow Davis knows how to keep his team mates working together and his return to Philadelphia has had something to do with the great show ing made by the conquerors of the Cubs and the Giants. Eddie Plank and the reliable Indian. Chief Bender, are the only winning heavers on Mack's staff this season. The young pitchers occasionally get in and win a game, but it has been the work of the veterans that has kept the Athletics out in front so far this year. PINCH HITTER QUITE USEFUL1 All Baseball Clubs Now Have Their Relief Batters for Deadly Work— Job Is Not Easy. The pinch hitter in major league baseball has become an institution, due in a great measure to the success attained by McCormick of the New York Giants, who, for three seasons, has added game after game to the Giants' roster by his ability to drive in runs when they are needed. Now McCormick is dothrcned. and the two Philadelphia teams, the Phillies and Athletics, owe their high place to the ability of their pinch hitters. Danny Murphy of the Athletics is doing the relief batting for the Ameri- ' can league leaders with deadly effect. ! while Doc Miller Is serving the same end for the Phillies. It takes a pecu liar ability to bll such a role, and both these players possess it. Peculiarly enough, not all high iv- ' erage hitters are good pinch hitters, and. conversely, few good pinch hit "Doc" Miller of Philadelphia. i ters are high average hitters when played regularly. Celebrated pinch hitters who have received much promi nence in the past solely through their ability to step up to the plate in a tight place and relieve the hitter with a safe hit, and yet who were value less as regulars when' played regular ly were Dode Criss of the Saint Louis Browns of 1908 and Harry McCormick of the Giants. In 1908 Criss was used entirely as a pinch hitter and he batted for an aver age of .341, winning game after gams. The following year he was tried as a regular and proved a gloomy Uilure. Last year McCormick had his best season as a pinch hitter. During the season he came to bat 39 times for other hitters nad batted out hits thir teen times, for an average of .333. In addition, he drove in a number of runs on flies and outs to the infield. He also figured in the world’s series. This year the two Philadelphia teams began experimenting with pinch hitters with the result that they de veloped a pair that promise to eclipse anything in this line ever produced. Both are batting over .360, a remark able figure for such work. Murphy has playe'd a number of games as a regular and his average as a pinch hit ter has been better than his work while playing regularly. The majority of major league man agers are not endeavoring to work out pinch hitters, realizing their value in these days of few hits and small scores. Danny Murphy may get a chance to show his ability in the com ing world's series. 7NOTT5 ortho DIAMOND Catcher McKee is showing some good work with the Tigers, both behind the plate and at bat. » • * Pitcher Cottrell, the young heaver sent to Baltimore by Connie Mack, is pitching winning hall. • * • Osborn of Louisville, with a batting average of .327, is said to be sought by three big league clubs. • * * Cincinnati has purchased Second Baseman John Rawlins of the Victoria Northwestern league club. * * * Great is the timely hitting of Con nie Mack's Athletics. So far this sea son the Mackmen have averaged near ly six runs to the game. * • « Rumor has it Hugh Duffy will dis pose of his Portland. Me., club and that next season will find him again piloting a big league team. * * * Outfielder Lobert of the Portland club of the Pacific Coast league is said to be sought by several big league clubs. He is hitting .317. • * • Newark gets Pitcher Beany Hall from Brooklyn to take the place of Atchison and has also secured Pitch er Ducky Holmes from Buffalo. • • * The Cincinnati Reds are shy on heavy stickers. Manager Joe Tinker and Johnny Kling being the only Red Bir£s who are batting in the .300 class. * * • Tris Speaker, the star outfielder of the Red Sox, may accompany the Sox and Giants on their trip around the world. If he goes he will play in Cal lahan's outfield. • * • George Tebeau denies as ridiculous the story that he was sore at the American association and organized baseball generally because it had not kept the Federals out of Kansas City. SLIDE TO FIRST BASE Umpires Call Out Player Who Hits Dirt at Initial Sack. Arbiters Claim It Is Done to Make the Play Look Close in Hopes of Gain ing Decision—Runner Loses Time in Sliding. More sliding to first base probably would be seen in the National league if it were not for the fact that the umpires invariably call out the man who hits the dirt. They do not think it is necessary for a base runner to slide into first base, because he loses time in so doing. They also add that players do it in order to make the play close at the initial cushion in hopes of gaining the decision. Not long ago an umpire in the Amer ican association called out a runner for sliding into first base, when he apparently was safe by five feet. That same official declared after rendering that verdict that he would call out any man who slid into first base, whether he was out or safe. He also said he would not permit any ball player to show him up that way. Most indicator handlers look at the play in the same light and say they will wave out a runner nine times out of ten when he jumps into the first base. Sliding into first base is rather a thrilling play and in an exciting game is a feature that excites the fans. Players would like to do it. but say it would be suicide to try it, as the de cions of the umpire would be against the runner. Many instances come up in a ball game where a player be lieves he can beat a throw by slid ing into the base, but he is afraid to try it knowing the official will call him out. and attempts to beat the ball by running. \v nen you start to slide you are out,” said one of the league's best players. “The umpire, in my opinion, makes up his mind that you are out as soon as you leave your feet, for he believes that by sliding you are try ing to make the play close and hard for him. If you watch you will find that most of the decisions are given in favor of the basemen when a man slides. Time and again you will see men called out at second base, when apparently the ball did not reach there until the man slid into the bag. It is because the umpires know the play is going to be close and they do not favor the runner. Therefore, why attempt to slide into first hase. when you know that the chances of being announced safe are against you?” “Sliding is one of the features of baseball,” said another player. “I do not think there is a part of the game better than when a man by a clever hook or fade-away, manages to escape a baseman. Often a man will score a run by his ability to elude the catch er and seldom does he receive the credit that is due him. Often you will see a man steal second by getting around the shortstop or second base man's touch and later score on a single. Yet that man who stode Is not commended for his excellent work. Knowing how to slide into a base makes up a championship ball team. Take all the championship teams of modern years and you will find they had smart base runners and sliders. “What makes the Giants so strong? Their ability to run bases and slide. That is one of the first things McGraw teaches his players, and, if you ever have noticed, each one is well versed in hook sliding.” TOO MUCH MOIST DELIVERY Manager Chance Said to Be Dickering for Trade for Big Spit-Ball Pitcher McConnell. Manager Frank Chance of the New York Highlanders has intimated that George McConnell, one of the regulars of the Highlanders last year and this, George McConnell. is on the market for a trade, and sev eral clubs are said to be dickering for the six-foot, four-inch boxman. Mc Connell iB a good pitcher, relying on a moist delivery, but Chance, believ ing he has too many spitball pitchers on his club, has decided to part with one. and McConnell is the man he has selected. Jim Thorpe Picking Up. Jim Thorpe, former world's ama teur athletic champion, as a result of his observation and coaching under Manager John McGraw of the New York Giants, is rapidly picking up val uable knowledge of the national sport. Regarding him McGraw says: "In another month or so the Indian will be a really good outfielder. He starts well now, knows how to play a ball when he reaches it, and his speed can go a long way for them. He has one of the best throwing arms on the club. After a while he’ll be a good hitter as well as a clever fielder. Already he has learned how to gauge and hit a curve pretty well. In another sea son Thorpe will be a seasoned bal’ player.” Pfn John Randall 7 CHE last chapter in the his tory of the greatest fatal ity in the annals of moun tain climbing in the Alps, which occurred on Mont Blanc just 43 years ago. may be written this sum mer. By this accident 11 lives were lost in a furious snowstorm near the summit of the "Roof of Europe." The victims includ ed two Americans, one Scotchman and eight guides and porters from Chamonix. Not one of the party es caped death. Five of the bodies were recovered at the time of the accident. It is ex pected by Chamonix guides and sci entists that the six others will be de livered up by the glacier this year. The rate of progression of glaciers has long been observed, and accord ing to the calculations of the authori ties the bodies held in the ice for more than 40 years should reach the valley this season. Scientists in Europe are much inter ested in the case, as it may supply evidence to prove their theories con cerning the speed of the annual march of glaciers toward the valleys, but there is also a human side to the watch which is being kept up. Miss Edith Randall of Boston has been waiting many years in the hope of recovering the body of her father, ; John Randall, a Boston banker, who , was one of the victims of the disaster, | and who was fifty-four years old when j he lost his life in 1870 on the Mont Blanc summit. Last year Miss Randall came to : Chamonix, as the ice axe and several • small articles belonging to Mr. Ran dall had been found by guides at the foot of the Glacier des Bossons, which descends directly from the summit of Mont Blanc to the lip of the valley of Chamonix. Many American and Eng lish Alpinists, as well as guides, joined in' the Eearch for the body, but with- i out result. Will the searchers have better luck during the next few months? The story of this Alpine tragedy i can be told briefly. On August 26, 1870, two Englishmen, Messrs. Stog dom and Marsall, with their guides arrived at Chamonix exhausted, hav ing been caught in a violent snow storm on Mont Blanc. The English climbers met at the hotel the two Americans, John Randall and H. M. Bean of Jonesboro, Tenn., who was fifty-four years old, and the Scotch man, the Rev. G. McCorkingdale, aged forty, of Glasgow. These three had already engaged eight guides and por ters at Chamonix to conduct them in easy stages to the top of Mont Blanc. The weather was doubtful in the val ley and bad in the mountains above, and in view of the experience of the Englishmen they were warned against attempting the ascent. But the Americans were in a hurry to return home and the warnings were disre garded. The first part of the ascent, up to the Grand Mulets, at an elevation of 10,019 feet, was accomplished in cloudy weather, but the snow was good and firm under foot. The party set out on September C from the hut for the summit in spite of a strong wind and dark clouds. Their progress was watched with telescopes from ! Chamonix. It was noticed that from ; time to time the whole party had to throw themselves down on the snow to avoid being carried away by the wind near the top. Later they were hidden from view by clouds. When the clouds parted the climbers were seen coming down near the same place. Then the snow storm became more violent and they were again hidden. The storm lasted eight days and nights. Not one of the 11 climbers was seen again alive. • A week later 14 Chamonix guides attempted to reach the fatal spot, but were driven back by the snow and cold. On September 17 23 guides and porterB set out again from Chamonix for the summit, and amid deep, hard snow on the north steep slope discov ered the bodies of five of the party. Those of the Rev. Mr. McCockindale and two guides lay 750 feet below the summit. About 300 feet higher were t the bodies of Mr. Bean and a porter. The former was in a sitting posture with his head leaning on one hand and the elbow on a knapsack. ITpon Mr. Bean a notebook was found containing entries which throw a light upon the great sufferings ex perienced by the party. He had also written a farewell note to his wife. In all five corpses were found out of 11 and they were frozen hard. The bodies were placed in sacks and car ried down the glaciers. The guides were three days in reaching Chamo nix. as the weather again became bad. Although 43 years have passed, the six other bodies, including those of Mr. Randall and the guides, have not yet been delivered up by the Alpine river of ice, though 40 years up to now has been the longest period the glacier has been known to retain its dead. The remains of Mr. Bean and Mr. McCorkindale are buried side by side in the little English church ceme tery at Chamonix at the foot of Mont Blanc, and perhaps Mr. Randall will join his comrades soon. Mr. Bean’s notebook and his pa thetic letter to his wife explain the tragedy and the sufferings of the par Mouth of G7ax?iet—■ ty. The entries in the notebook are as follows: “Tuesday, Sept. 6 (1870). 1 have made the "ascent of Mont Blanc with ten persons—eight guides, Mr Me Corkindale and Mr. Randall. We ar rived at the summit at half past 2. Immediately after leaving it 1 was enveloped in clouds of snow. We passed the night in a grotto excavated out of the snow, affording very un comfortable shelter, and I was ill all night. “Mont Blanc. Sept. 7. If any one finds this notebook I beg that it may be sent to Mrs. H. M. Bean, Jones boro. Tenn., United States of America." The letter to his wife said: “My Dear Hessie: We have been on Mont Blanc for two days in a ter rible snowstorm. We have lost our way and are in a hole scooped out of the snow at a height of 15,000 feet I have no hope of descending. Per haps this book may be found and for warded. We have no food; my feet are already frozen and I am exhaust ed. I have only strength to write a few words. I die in the faith of Jesus Christ. Affectionate thoughts to you and my family. My remembrances to all. Good-by." GREAT MEN IN COMMON CLAY Models by C. A. BEATY Words by GENE MORGAN '•aw" -<«ar -<=» ■ ■ IMIHW ^iaCBiafcy.y ■tarn' wmmm j CARNEGIE. No bagpipes blew in days of yore when Andy left grim Scotland's shore with manner hopeful, yet so meek, his fortune in the west to seek. With all the worldly goods he had enclosed within a bag of plaid he landed at a Yankee dock and then proceeded to "take stock.” The iron foundries of the day were small, 'twas hard to make them pay and Pittsburg seemed upon the map a dot that broke a desert gap. Thence traveled this small, canny Scot who soon observed just what was what and set his hope, his soul, his heel upon that foundry product, steel. The story of his rise in life is equal to Napoleon s strife, so greatly did his wealth expand, he held a city m his hand and though ifs none of our affair, he made the "Pittsburg millionaire." The need of reading he expounds and hands out dollars, francs and pounds to towns and hamlets o er the globe that young and old may daily probe through volumes heavy, grave or light and educate themselves at night. We also know, in details vague, about his temple at The Hague where sages make a peace appeal ’gainst warships made of Andy’s steel. (Copyright, 1912. by Universal Press Syndicate.) • i CONCERNING THE DOG DAYS Among Other Truths Writer Observes They Are Evidence That Backbone of Winter Is Broken. The dog days are hot and stuffy. They warm up about the middle of August, and are a sure sign that the backbone of winter is broken. It is only when the Dog Star rages that we have dog days, but nobody has yet discovered what the Dog Star rages about, unless it is the sidereal heav ens at night, ana he certainly does ! rage about these considerable. Which » reminds us that the Dog Star rages j only at night, and it is the dog days that we hear more about. There is no j answer to this one, either. But that : makes no difference to the weather bureau, and the mercury shins up the tube just the same, while mankind : simply drifts along on a sea of per spiration. The name of the Dog Star is Sirius. This is because he is no joke. Dogs become mad during dog days, and why shouldn't they? Every body else does, and swears besides, which dogs do not. Dog daisies blos som at this season, and they are tropical flowers, all right. In conclu sion it may be said without fear of successful contradiction that although every dog has his day, every day hasn t its dog, and the rest of us ought to be doggoned glad of it — Lip pincott's. The most common name for a place in England is Newton, which occurs no fewer than "2 times. “Woodsy” Room. One of the most charming and “summery” rooms imaginable was discovered not long ago in a suburban home. The walls were a cool green, the reddish brown wicker furniture reminded one of tree bark, and the fronds of the window ferns nodding in the breeze made one have a “wood sy” feeling indeed. But the greatest factor in this woodsy room was the grass green rug underfoot. It was made of heavy denim, which com pletely covered the carpet that had been left underneath, and was fas tened at the sides with small tacks to keep it from slipping. About the sides and in the very center, looking like large twigs that might have fall en off the tree-bark chairs, were large brown stenciled designs. Several green pillows, brown stenciled, orna mented the wicker couch, and airy dark green silk portieres swayed gent ly in the wide doorways. A smaller stenciled design, in brown, bordered the portieres. Old-fashioned green slat blinds were at the windows. Another Kind of Gorge. Mr. and Mrs. Dawson held an "At home” on their return from the conti nent They were very proud of the trip, and Mrs. Dawson could not stop talking about it "And, oh, the gorge at Andermatt!" she exclaimed. “You haven’t forgotten that lovely gorge, have you. Fred!” “The gorge at the Grand hotel?” drawled Fred, wearily. "By no means! I’ll remember that gorge to my dying day. Why. bless me, it was the onl' square meal we got in Switzerland!” The “Pennant” is won The “banner of health” is always won by the person who possesses a keen ap petite, enjoys perfect digestion, and whose liver and bowels are regular. Get into this “winner” class at once by the aid of HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS ’ Ilt is for Poor Appetite, Sick Headache, Heart Iburn, Indigestion, Con stipation and Malaria. 60 years the leader Where a man can live he can also live well, but he may not have to live in a palace.—Marcus Aurelius. Hrs. Winslow's Soothlnp Syrup for Children teethinp, Hofteus the piims, reduces lntlamma tion.ailnys pam,cures wmd colic^&c a bottle.*** A man stole a cash register from a Kansas restaurant—sometimes almost | anything is preferred to a restaurant ■ meal. PIMPLES ON FACE AND ARMS 411 Howard St., Dayton, Ohio.— i “About a year ago my face, neck, arms and back were beginning to become afflicted with pimples and blackheads. My pimples would get very large and appear to come to a head. If I tried to open them the pain would be terri ble, but nothing could be taken from them. They itched very badly; I suf fered terribly from itching. After scratching, the pimples would swell and after the swelling was gone my face would become very red and re main so for some time. My clothing i caused the itching to be worse. When j it was warm it was utterly impossible I to sleep. “I UEed a cream and the more l I used the worse they got. Shortly after, I read the advertisement of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and determined to use them. The itching stopped almost j immediately. This was about three ! months ago and I urn entirely cured ; now.” (Signed) Miss Marguerite E. ! Jacobs, Jan. 13, 1913. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free.with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post card “Cuticura, Dept. B, Boston.”—Adr. Hard Work, Too. "What do you want?” demanded Mr. Newlywed, as he confronted the tramp at the door of the bungalow. "Breakfast or work?” “Both, sir,” replied the wayfarer ) timidly. j “Well, eat that,” returned the oth { er, savagely, handing out a biscuit : and a piece of steak, “and you'll have | both." Whereupon Mrs. Newlywed glanced i reproachfully at her husband, for he was giving away the first fruits of her culinary studies at the cooking school. -_ Veal’s Too High. “All our food except sugar has ad vanced two-thirds in price since 1899,” said H. Wallace Corson, the Denver statistician. “The bureau of labor statistics back me up in this.” “The men responsible for these ad j vances are begging for another chance to serve us. They are begging our pardon. They are prodigal sons— can’t wre forgive them? “No, I say no! “And I'd politely inform those fel lows that the supply of fatted calves is not as large as the number of prod igal sons." Used to Such Vicissitudes. Colonel Roosevelt, at a luncheon at Oyster Bay, told a hunting story. “Smith,” he said, “had a narrow es cape from being killed by a lion in Nairobi. “ ‘When the lion closed its jaws on you,’ asked a friend, ‘did you give yourself up for lost?’ “ ‘Oh, no,’ Smith answered calmly. ‘You see, I sleep in a folding bed.’ ” Not one man in a hundred marries the girl who first monopolized his affections. HAPPY OLD AGE Most Likely to Follow Proper Eating. As old age advances we require less food to replace waste, and food that will not overtax the digestive organs, while supplying true nourishment. Such an ideal food is found in Grape Nuts. made of whole wheat and barley by long baking and action of diastase in the barley which changes the starch Into a most digestible sugar. The phosphates also, placed up un der the outer-coat of the wheat, are included in Grape-Nuts, but are lack ing in white flour because the outer coat of the wheat darkens the flour and is left out by the miller. These natural phosphates are necessary to the well-balanced building of muscle, brain and nerve cells. “I have used Grape-Nuts,” writes an Iowa man, “for 8 years and feel as good and am stronger than I was ten years ago. "Among my customers I meet a man every day who is well along in years and attributes his good health to Grape-Nuts and Postum which he has. used for the last 5 years. He mixes Grape-Nuts with Postum and sayn they go fine together. “For many years before I began to eat Grape-Nuts, I could not say that It enjoyed life or knew what It was to bo able to say 'I am w-ell.' I suffered greatly with constipation, but now my habits are as regular as ever in my life. “Whenever I make extra effort I depend on Grape-Nuts food and it just fills the bill. I can think and write n great deal easier.” "There's a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Reail “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. Ever rend the above letterf A aevr •»f siopenm from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human Interest.
