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EPITOME OF EVENTS PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO * MANY SUBJECTS. IRE SHORT BUT INTERESTING Brief Mention of What la Transpiring la Various Sections of Our Oven and Foreign Countries WASHINGTON. Secretary McAdoo again stands ready to lend a hand to western and souiiiem barks in case they need »> liey for crop moving purposes. The plan used last year was so successful that it will be adopted this year if the •ecessity arises. • • • I'nted States Senator Lee S. Over Bull of North Carolina was unanim ously renominated and the position taken by President Wilson for repeal of the Panama toils exemption clause was endorsed by the democratic state convention at Kaleigh. N. C. Tbc convertri< n pledged the party to en act a state-wide primary- law-. • • • All previous records of anthracite c *al production were broken in 1913 when the output was 81.718,680 long tons, acc ording to figures today bv the geological survey. This exceeded the highest previous output by nearly 1. *dtu««0 tons. Last year's production was valued at $193,181,127. compared wi'h 73.322.835 t-ws valued at $177. (22626 for 1912. • • • Treasury agents are making Teady t lake the trail of income tax dodg ers. Just now only incidental atten tion is being given violations of the tew law. but evidence is being accu- i fcuhited and when the commissioner of internal revenue and his assistants have cleared up collections on income returns eext month, there will be a general movement against offenders. ''.•cretary Wilson of the department c*t labor has asked the Interstate com merce commission whether it would approve of arrangements with rail r 'ad companies for the establishment of excuraion rates to Oklahoma. Kan sas. Missouri and South Dakota where thousands of men are needed to help harvest bumper grain crops. Labor commissioners of the four states have informed the department that about 4*W.#ob men are required. DOMIITI& ""be American typewriter has been adapted to Bengalese. • • • More than 44.000.000 Red Cross Car. st mas seals were sold last De cemb-r. according to a report Just issued. • • • Cincinnati captured the next con vention of the Interna! Anal Associa te n id Chiefs of Police, by a vote of *9 to <1. • • • Ac experiment in navigation in the f- g will be carried out by the Cana d..*i Northern steamer. Royal George, which left Avenmouth for Quebec. • • • A fact not generally known la that Maine is the greatest gem-bearing state in the union, producing every vanity of precious stone except the diamond. • • • Greater authority for treasury agents who soon will be placed on the trail of the income tax dodgers was »-tight from congress by Secre tary McAdoo. • e • Governor Glynn, in an address to the graduating class of the College of the City of New York, urged upon the seventy-two young men that each tiaxe his own individual way in life. • • • The International Circulation Man ager- association. which left Detroit for a tour of the upper lakes, holding its annual convention while en route, concluded its business session by electing officers. • • • George Fred Williams, the Ameri can minister to Greece, has left the Grecian capital for Albania, according to a special dispatch received from Athena, to offer his services as a dis interested mediator to the conflicting clans of Albania • • • Four state banks in Chicago, with aggregate deposits of $C,411.997 and retorted cash means of $1,434,692, have been taken rharge of by the state banking department, which has closed the hanks* doors and has started an examination of the banks' affairs. • • • The estate of James Campbell, the later railway financier, the vaue of which is estimated at from $30,000,040 to $40,604,000. is left in e*jual shares to hi* widow. Mrs. Flora A. Campbell, and their only child. • • • The administration antitrust pro gram was definitely rtarted on Its way to the statute books when the house, with the legislative machinery working under forced draft, complet ed consideration of the Covington Trade Commission bill and laid that mem*are aside for final passage. . . • Mount Lasaen. at the foot of the Cascade range, in California, in two eruptions of fire and smoke, became the newest active volcano in the world The mountain has been emit ting steam and vapor for some time. • • • Practically every department store |b the country and every trade Jour js owned by New Yorkers, accord ed to *'• J Pilhlntoc. representing a journal at De* Moinea. la., who ■•oke during the Journalism week ■oiebration by the School of Journal gf the University of Missouri. Mayor Unn M. Roberts of Terra Hsu'e. Ind- charged conspiracy -,,,-rupl election*. w** found not Uilty by • Jorr 1* tb# Verre Haute 5^t Tb. Jury *** out thin American talking machines are find ing their way to Ceylon. • • • With tolls exemption repeal out of the way. senate ieaders expect to be gin the anti-trust debate this week. • • • Defeat of one American team in the first of the matches for the interna tional polo trophy has cast a gloom over the American followers of the sport. • • ■ Harley Beard, 19 years old, was sentenced to die in the electric chair on October 2, for the murder of Mrs. Nancy Mussie and her daughter and son, Mary and Robert, at Greasy Ridge, near Ironton, O. • • • Western yellow pine cones, to the amount o! 6,977 bushels, obtained in the Bitter Root national forest, Mon tana. yielded 9.482 pounds of seed. The average cost of the extracted seen was 41 cents per pound. • • • Turkish naval officers have arrived in England to purchase coal and transport vessels in preparation for a possible war between Turkey and Greece. The Greece-Turkey situation, however, has improved. • • • Captain Joseph Griffiths, lT. S. A., accused of embezzlement of $S,000 of government funds, admitted before the San Francisco court martial he had used government funds to compen sate fellow officers who had sunk money in his lumber ventures. • • • The Philadelphia Evening Times, owned by Frank A. Munsev, has ceased publication. Mr. Munsey, in a statement, said that the Times never passed out of the experimental stage, and that success for the paper was not in sight. The Times was estab lished July 13, 19c8. • • • The aviator-policeman, patrolling a beat in the air will be an addition to the forces of metropolitan cities be fore many years, Charles Sebastian, chief of police of Los Angeles, de clared in a speech before the interna tional association of chiefs of police at Grand Rapids, Mich. • • • All pickets in the Westinghouse strike at Pittsburgh. Pa., who have been carrying revolvers, have been disarmed by leaders of the union, ac cording to an announcement. This ac tion was taken when it was learned the guards at the electric works had discarded their rifles and were armed only with night sticks. FOREIGN. The American singer. Mme. Alma Gluck and the Russian violinist, Efram gimbalist, have been married in Lon don. The engagement was announced last February. • • • Paris continues to suffer from the effects of the great storm, which swept over the district and sixty feet of the sidewalk in the Rue De Belle ville collapsed. • • • By a majority of two to one the judges of the king's bench decided that the government's proclamation prohibiting the importation of arms into Ireland was valid. • • • Lightning killed six persons, four of the mchildren. and injured several others on Wandsworth common dur ing a severe storm. Many buildings were struck by lightning. • • • The hospital ship Maine, presented to the British nation by American women during the South African war, went ashore in the Firth of Lome, on the west coast of Scotland, during a fog. and it is feared she will be a to tal loss. • • • “White Wolf,’’ the notorious Chi nese brigand, together with 1,000 of his followers, has broken through the circle of regular troops, which had surrounded him on Lily mountain. 100 miles to the south of Lanchow, since Jun» 4. • • • Some of the unionists who have been the strongest supporters of the Ulster volunteers, including Andrew Bonar Law. Robert Cecil and Leopold Charles Amery, attacked the govern ment in the British House of Com mons for its failure to suppress the nationalist volunteers. In recognition of the services of the French people in the construction of the Panama canal, first steps have been taken to present to France the steam launch Louise, used in con flicting the canal and to give to the ittle ship bearing the French flag he place of honor at the formal open ing. • • • George Pike, who. on June 7, in vaded Buckingham palace and wan dered about for several hours in the building, has been released. The de ; fer.dant gave a bond for his behavior in future. The leniency shown by the magistrate was due to the interven tion of King George, who pleaded that the man should not be punished se \erely. * * ? An official dispatch from Mitylene, an island off the coast of 6sia Minor, says that Turkish regulars with ma chine guns and a force of Bashi-Ba zouks, have commenced an attack on the town of Aivailk. » • • The Turkish government has not yet replied to the Greek note demand ing the cessation of the persecution o' the Greeks in Turkey and reparation for the Injury caused to them and their interests, and it is expected that Turkey will ignore the demand or re fuse to comply with it. • • • The new French cabinet, of which Senator Ribot is premier, was de ; fcated in the first division taken in I the new chamber of deputies by a ; vote of 30 to 262. The premier im ] mediately resigned. • • • A determined attempt was made by j militant suffragettes to burn the an I cient church of St. Margaret’s at ! Chipstead, fourteen miles southeast of London. Three distinct fires, fed by fire lighters, composed of squares ; of felt saturated with oil, were set by i the "arson squad.” WOULD CHANGE BILL >* ANTITRUST MEASURE SCORED BY BRANDEIS. HAS NUMBER OF SUGGESTIONS Thinks Physical Valuation of Rail roads Should be Completed Be fore Any Authority Is Given. Washington, D. C.—Criticism of the house bill giving the interstate commerce commission supervisory powers over the issue of railroad se curities was repeated before the sen ate interstate commeerc committee by Louis D. Brandeis of Boston. His views were not at all in accord with those expressed previously by mem bers of the commission which, to a large degree, has approved the house bill. The house bill would give the com mission power to approve securities, but would not prohibit specifically any particular issue. Mr. Brandeis proposed to prohibit regulations in any business other than that of car riers and forbid them to issue any securities at all except for the bet terment or extension of the railroad property. This provision he urged to curb the desire of railroads to go in to coal mining, hotel and other busi nesses not purely that of carriers. Suggestion was that no railroad should be allowed to acquire by lease or any other way any stock or inter est in any railroad, ship or boat line, trolley line, or in any corporation owning or controlling “even for the purpose of extending its railroad sys tem. without the prior approval of the commission, and then only to the ex tent and in the manner approved by the commission. He also proposed that every rail road should notify the commission of its purpose to issue any securities and thereby give the fullest publicity to me transaction. Mr. Brandeis offered an amendment to the house bill incorporating these suggestions. He argued that as the bill stands railroads might issue all sorts of securities and the necessary approval of the commission might be taken by the public as a government stamp of the soundness of the securi ties. He thought the giving of such power should be deferred until the physical valuation of railroads has been completed. Members of the committee said that they probably would change the house provision granting supervisory powers to the commission. Hundreds of Miners Buried. Lethbridge. Alberta.—A terrific ex plosion, coming without warning, en tombed 250 miners employed in mine No. 20 of the Hillcrest Colliers, Limit ed. Of the fifty rescued only four teen were living. Despite efforts of the two score miie experts laboring amid the poisonous gases and debris, hope of rescuing alive the 200 men yet j in the mine is waning: The effects of the disaster were: Men in mine, when explosion occur red, 600, of whom 350 escaped. Number rescued, fifty, of whom thirty-six died later. Miners still entombed, 200, prob ably killed by fire which followed the explosion. Declares Insanity Increasing. New York.—Dr. A. J. Rasanoff of King's Park hospital for the insane in a paper read at the second annual conference of the Eugenics Research association at Columbia university as serted that the number of Insane per sons in the United States has nearly tribled during the last forty years. The average per 100,000, according to Dr. Rasanoffs figures, has in creased from 86.5 to' 232. The most fortunate state, the physician said, was Oklahoma, in which only 67 per 100.000 of the total population are in the insane category. Massachusetts, he asserts, is in the worst condition, having 413.4 per 100,000 of its total population, either insane or semi insane. Dyer is Ousted. Washington, D. C—L. C. Dyer of j St. Louis, republican, representing the Twelfth Missouri district, was unseat ed by the house by a vote of 147 to 98. His election was contested by Michael J. Gill, democrat. Then by a vote of 126 to 108, a re solution declaring Gill legally elected was adopted. Mr. Gill immediatey took the oath of office. On the vote to decare Gill elected, thirty-one democrats voted with the solid republicans against him. Borden Served With Summons. New York.—Gail Borden, the mil lionaire milk dealer, has been served with a summons and complaint in the action for divorce instituted by Mrs. Helen M. Bordsn. Bank Teller la Released. St. Louis, Mo.—Henry C. Baseler, former paying teller of the Third Na tional bank here, who was sentenced June 11, 1913, to five y3ar3J imprison ment for embezzling 115,000 from the bank, has obtained his freedom and has been here for ten davs. _i Enough Harvest Hands. Topeka. Kan.—“Kansas has enough harvest hands. Between 30,000 and 40,000 men have come to the state in the last two weeks,” said W. L. O’Brien, labor commissioner. Insurgents Are Defeated. Toledo, O.—Administration forces won in the national convention of the Modern Woodmen of America when a vote was taken. A stormy wrangle over the adoption of the report of the committee on credentials ended in a vote of acceptance, 233'to 125. Ouimet Practically Out. Prestwick, Scotland.—Francis Oui met. American open golf champion, has been practically eliminated as • factor for first place in the British open championship. / - ~ NEBRASKANS IN THE PUBLIC EYE ROSS L HAMMOND, Fremont, Neb. For six years collector of Internal revenue in Nebraska. Has recently resigned this position and filed for republican nominee for governor. Thirty-five years has been editor of the Fremont Tribune. Mr. Ham mond is also president of the State Association of Commercial clubs. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. The Tecumseh Chieftain appeared last week in a brand new dress. Editor C. F. Gordon of the Talmage Tribune is a candidate for sheriff in Otoe county. The annual picnic at the close of the year for the Lutheran seminary of Seward was held Wednesday. John C. Reamers has purchased the interest of I. E. Reimers in the Reirn ers & Kinney meat market at Stella. More than 300 Eagles were present at the session of the ninth annual state convention of the order at Has tings. W. J. Allman, carnival manager and proprietor, paid a tine of $10 in police court at Hastings for beating his wife. Thirty Koreans, eager to secure an education, have enrolled for the an nual summer term at Hastings col lege. Walter Henry, twenty-two years old. committed suicide at the family home near West Point while tempora rily insane. Mrs. Nicholas Henrecy, who was seriously injured when thrown from a buggy near Hastings is expected to recover. The city council of Kearney has awarded to the United Trust Co. of Omaha $45,000 5 per cent funding bonds at par. The presence of army worms in alarming numbers is causing some uneasiness among the farmers in the vicinity of Table Rock. Sam Gotheridge. a Hastings carpen ter, was assessed a fine of $50 and costs in a special session of the po lice court on a charge of wife beating. Mark W. Murray, proprietor of the Pender Times, was elected postmaster at a primary held last week. He is the first editor to land under primary plan. The new Madison Presbyterian church has been dedicated free of debt. The dedicatory address was given by Dr. IV. H. Kearns of Min neapolis. The will of Lyman P. Sutley, late of Meadow Grove, was admitted to probate in the county court at Madi son. H. E. Mason was appointed ad ministrator with the will annexed. Roy Larson, the 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Larson, residing four miles east of Polk, was struck by lightning and instantly killed while plowing corn in a neighbor's field Joseph Heins, who has been editor of the Verdigre Citizen since 1911. has sold the paper to J. F. Papik. The new proprietor has been foreman of the Niobrara Tribune for several years. A coroner s jury exonerated Mrs. Irene Maricich of South Omaha from any responsibility concerning the death of her husband, who died from gun wounds received during a quarrel with his wife. The Bradshaw Monitor, owned by L. D. Beltzer, which has be^n under lease for the last two years, first to R J. Ricely and then R. A. Allen, has again been taken charge of by the owner, Mr. Beltzer. Arthur V. Shaffer, formerly owner of the Alma Record, will take charge of the Harlan County Ranger at Re publican City next week as publisher and editor. He succeeds Thomas K“1 ley. who has been appointed post master. The Bradshaw Monitor will be con ducted by its owner, L. D. Beltzer, in the future. The paper has been un der lease for the last two years. A farewell party was given at Hastings in honor of Rev. J. E. Hol , ley, who will take a year's vacation from his work with the Christian church, touring the west in an effort to regain his health. David Stark, fourteen eyars old. saved the life of a nine-year-old daughter of Adam Laudenschlager who fell into Wahoo creek. He dived into the water and succeeded in get ting the child to the shore. Republican river and Prairie Dog creek are running bank full with wa ter, in many places overflowing, caused by recent rains. While Rolla Gilbert was cultivating corn south of Beemer bis team be came frightened and started to run. Mr. Gilbert received a bad cut on the thigh which required several stiches to <lraw together. Fire of unknown origin which broke out in the pool hall of W. H> Bradford at Guide Rock destroyed th« pool hall, the fe*i store, the cream station and the Marsh hardware store before it was checked. FIRE COMMISSIONER ADVISES CAUTION ON FOURTH. NEBRASKA TEACHERS TO SPEAK Three Prominent School Men Slated for Addresses at National Edu cational Association. Lincoln. Neb.—Painful wounds to little hands and arms will be saved by hundreds of children of the state on Fourth of July, if Fire Commis sioner Ridgeil's proclamation, sug gests to parents that they should not he careless in the matter of explosives. Several thousands of dollars- loss in fires will also be averted in the offic ial's advice goes straight home. In his statement Judge Ridgell says, in part: “The mayors of the different towns throughout the state should employ at least two volunteer tiremen to stay at the fire house on the Fourth, so that in case of a call it could he answered without delay. The firemen should remain on duty until the vil lage is through celebrating. “During the past ten years a total of 39,80 people, the equivalent of nearly forty regiments, were killed or injured in Fourth of July celebra tions in this country. “This department has tried to reach every official, commercial club and women's clubs, through the newspa pers, to obtain their co-operation in having a safe and sane Fourth. “This department wishes to admon ish parents not to purchase dangerous explosives and fireworks. If you I must see them, go to some park : where they are sent off by a paid, I practiced man, who assumes the re | sponsibility and danger. Officials ! cculd and should prohibit their use j within city limits. There are many ; ways of enjoying the Fourth in a pa ! triotic way witnout the use of fire i works.’’ ! Nebraskans on Program. Lincoln.—Three Nebraska educa tors are scheduled for addresses at :he National Educational association meeting which is to be held at St. Paul, Minn., July 4 to 11. These are Prof. G. W. A. Luskey of the univer ! sity who will talk on harmonizing of i vocational and cultural education;" County Superintendent Alice Flo'rer af Yorn, who will speak on “Hot Noonday Lunches in the Rusal School,” and Huldah Peterson, for i tnerly of Holdrege, now of the state ! extension department. The latter ■ will discuss “Club Project Interest in I County and State Affairs." The following former Nebraskans are on the program: Prof, fed ward A. Ross of the University of Wisconsin; President Carroll G. Pearse of the Wisconsin state normal, at one time auperintendent of schools at Omaha; Prof. J. W. Crabtree of the River Falls (Wis.) state normal; J. L. Mc Brien. former state superintendent of the Harvard public schools, now con nected with the federal department of education in the rural school division; I W. Searson of the Manhattan (Kas.) school of agriculture, formerly head of the Wahoo schools. Chosen as Boys' Fair Delegates. Lincoln—Among the boys who have been chosen as delegates to the boys' state fair encampment are the follow ing: Cedar county—L. Thomas, Bert Shively. Laurel. Hitchcock County—Elbert Taylor, Trenton. Howard County—Lawrence Conk lin, David Welch. St. Paul. Kearney County—James Robinson. Minden; Walter Yensen, Lowell. Nance County — Forest Sprague, ; Belgrade. Sheridan County. — George Duer , feldt, Gordon; Roscoe Hopper, Rush | ville. — Bakers Want to Reduce Loaf. Lincoln. Xeb.—For two years bak ers in Lincoln have been violating an ordinance requiring that loaves of bread weigh sixteen ounces. And they they don’t want to change now. A delegation of bakers called upon Commissioner King and Health Offi cer Spealm.an. They said that for two years they have been putt'ng out leaves that weighed only fourteen, in stead of sixteen ounces. They cannot sell sixteen-ounce loaves for 5 c-’nts. they said, and put out the quality of bread. they are naw baking. They want the ordinance changed so as to make the standard loaf weigh four teen ounces. They did not receive much encouragement, as the commis sioner told them that some of tl»° bakers are selling sixteen ounce loaves and are making money at it. Five Counties Show Increase. Lincoln.—Five counties have re ported to the state assessment board, showing an increase of only about $26,600 in assQssed valuation over 1913. The total for the five counties— Banner. Dundy, Chase, Kearney and Platte—is $16,466,533. Platte crunty hank assessments fell off $231,415 for the year, due to the deduction of real estate mortgages al lowed by the state supreme court, when the Smith mortgage tax law was interpreted by that body in a re cent decision. Stock Exhibit Will Be Large. Lincoln—Half of the swine pens at the state fair grounds have been en gaged bv exhibitors. Superintendent El Z. Russell of Ben eon. Xeb.. who is in charge of the swine department of the state exposi tion, was in the city and reported this rush of business to Secy. Mellor “This is an unusual condition of af fairs." said Mr. Russell. “Three months before the fair is scheduled to open half our space is gone. We will be crowded to the limit in the swine department this year. HONESTY OF ATHLETICS’ YOUNG CATCHER Wally Schang of Philadelphia. Four words spoken by Wally Schang,’ Connie Mack's great young catcher, brought to an abrupt ending an argument which threatened to as sume the proportion of a small riot during a game with the Cleveland Naps on Sunday last season. The decision was close, and as the Mackmen were fighting to hold the dead, also was a mighty important one. V The play came up at the Cleveland League park. It happened on a Sun day about the middle of August. Chief Bender was chased from the box that day. Terry Turner scored the first of four runs in the seventh inning, which gave the Naps the game. Turner made one of his famous head-first slides into the heme plate. Billy Evans, who was umpiring, called him out and then immediately | changed his decision. | To the Athletic players of course | it looked as if Schang had touched | Turner out. But Evans noticed that ! just as Schang tried to touch Turner s | hand with the ball, Terry slipped his j hand aside. Schang, instead of tag j ging Turner’s hand, tagged the ! ground. Turner then deftly slid his hand back to the plate. When Evans saw Schang apparently'touch Terry's hand, he called him out, but when he saw' Terry slip his hand aside and then tag the plate, he pronounced him safe. Athletic players, led by Eddie Col lins, ran in and kicked with might and main. Connie Mack wig-wagged with his score card and Schang walked to the Philadelphia bench, fol lowed by the kicking Athletics. "What was the trouble at the plate?" Mack asked of Schang. “Did n't you get Turner?” "No, I missed him,” was Schang's surprising reply. Fans gasped with surprise when they saw the Athletics return to their stations without saying another word. SHANKS IS CLEVER FIELDER i - Manager Clarke Griffith Puts One of His Players Ahead of This Speaker of Boston Red Sox. "Howard Shanks is. in my mind, the greatest fielding outfielder in base ball.” This is the complimentary estimate of Clarke Griffith, when the manager was discussing the defensive strength of the whole Washington combina tion. “Like the rest of them. Shanks makes his errors, but if he has a chronic weakness in fielding I have yet to discover it. ‘He can come for ward, go backward or move to either side. No one is his equal in han dling grounders and he throws so fast and accurately that he keeps the value of hits down to the minimum. "I have often rated Tris Speaker as the leader, but now 1 give Shanks j the place. In fact. 1 doubt if there I has ever been a much better fielder ! than Howard. "We all know that Shanks is no 1 world beater when it comes to hit- j Howard Shanks. ting, but he has always met the ball so hard that there is still hope lor the j tide to turn, and then— “Furthermore, I would like to see any club in the country’ present a ! stronger defense than we do when Johnson is pitching with Ainsmith catching. They b”>t us on^e in a while with this crew going, but when ever they do they know they have been ia a battle," concluded the man ager. Cubs Overworking Play. The Cubs are overworking one play —a trick that is a bird when properly executed, and a lemon if clumsily at-1 tempted. This play is the bunt with j a man on and one down. Under such circumstances the infield does not ex pect a bunt, and goes back, thus mak ing it a cinch for a fast runner to reach first. But the bunt must be turned so as to roll slowly toward third base—and the Cubs bunt straight in front o' the plate, where the catch er can pick it up and chuck it along ahead of the gazabo. Destructive as Toothpicks. The Rankin Johnson who pitched the Red Sox to victory over Walter Johnson, played with Syracuse last year, and in an exhibition game made the bats of the Giants as destructive as so many toothpicks. t ONE-ARMED PLAYER IS STAR Dick Hooper, With Texas University Team, Makes Many Sensational Catches in Outfield. Texas university owns a Dasebali player to whom a "sensational one handed catch" is a matter of daily occurrence. To go further still, he has never been known to use two hands in catching a fly ball, and he works In the outfield, too. The reason is that he is a one-armed player, and he’s the star of the club, at that. His name is Dick Hooper, and he always plays center Held for his alma mater. Hooper, who handles himself sur prisingly well in the garden. Is a won der. He does not get away with the real sensational runs or leaps into the air, but he does get av.ay with re markably pretty fielding work, as a fly is always certain when he can get under it. Hooper is a fair batter, also. It 1b almost a shame, according to the view of the average fan, that the pitcher does not let up on this one-armed man. But the pitchers have to watch Dick closely. He gets hits unexpect edly and is known to do the least ex pected things. He is not a home run hitter, but he is fairly reliable and can make good use of bunting in sac rificing. Rickey Starts a School. Manager Branch Rickey of the St. Louis Browns is starting competition with Charley Carr and Billy Doyle, promoters of baseball schools. Rickey has announced that all St. Louis youngsters who think they can play ball are welcome to report to him and get schooling. Ten ambitious youths took advantage of the offer on the day it was made. Phillips Lands a Star. Manager Bill Phillips of the Indian apolis Fed team, announces with a good deal of gusto that he has landed a star southpaw in Pitcher Boyd, who had to quit the game last year In the Southern League because of a dead arm and failed in an attempt to come back in the South this spring because of the arm’s refusal to de liver. Stovall’s Hands Bother Him. Manager George Stovall of’ the Kan sas City Federals found out right soon that his hands, which had troubled him while with the St. Louis Browns, would not permit him to play regularly and he is likely to finish the season as a bench manager, convinced that his playing days are over. Leonard to Study Medicine. , .Toe Leonard, third base recruit, with Pittsburgh, is only twenty years old Two years ago he gave up high school and joined the Des Moines club in the Western feague. where he made good. Leonard plans to take up the study of medicine at Notre Dame uni versity at the close of the 1914 season. May Sign Walth. George Walsh, the old Fordham player, who has been showing so much in practise with the Columbia squad seems destined for the Brooklyn Na tionals. Manager Robinson tried him out the other day and liked the way he sized up. Yank Some Warbler. Marty McHale leads in chorus singing. That is a daily feature of life as a Yankee. McHale la a fine vocalist and Is well supported by a large cast.