Nebraska Newspapers

    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.
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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-.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.’’
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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.
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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
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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.