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Show CACHK AMDtICAN. LOGAN. UTAH Thev!i '7?? it2 Worn) Series ic t . rf K0ADSIDE MARKETING .T' National Topic Interpreted hy William Bruckart Ai J :- With the coming of a.hitigu-u- . fall and the ueu.it eptirt In rtn linrie and ln Mil' ton tr) so ompant n,g her. Cc t Jobl c,M,,cr about In o (j.i the rnunij plana hate appurmt : the MtA and agrnultural IJo.Miii-n- t programs tune Ini u ionic bcncllL hut of cub pro gram are iHutuu.g painfully Full adtanuge Is being taken of the gu.ua the tuliMTahie in the program can t? fully corrected, howe'er, remain a tmiiior of conjee lure. There h.i d prog-rmade toward recutory In a ; tlu-rgreat many line of hate been at least two million worker restored to job, and there ha been an Increase In Income to farmer, to Industry and to worker. But there ha been fly in the ointment at (he auie time. the enthusiasm with which the recotery program ha hevn supported. there hate been w.me very sore created hy mistake on the spot part of gotermueut leader a well as some rancor on the part of limited numlier of Industrial tender that hits come from selfishness. From all of the Information at tillable here at the sent of affair, my contlctlon Is there tin hceu some hull on each side, and this condition ha disclosed where the weak Ht of the seteral program obtain. To muke the going tougher, labor leader hate swooped down to nail fast every possible adtantnge they can find that they nmy te In better position whenever normal economic comlitlous pretail again. There can lie no mure mistaking till hit of selfishness than there cun be by closing one eye to the attempts of some Industrialist to line their own nests. The difference I tliut under present circumstance, nd with the terms of the nntlonal recovery act to back them up, labor leader are considerably more powerful now than are the employer. The greatest weakness thus far evident In any of the several recovery efforts, according to the consensus I have gathered. Is the attempt to make the rules of codes hidebound and inelastic. This course has resulted In handicaps being placed on some businesses that actually prohibit expansion of operation where the desired end obviously Is more volume, observers here are contending that the NRA authorities. particularly, have employed too much haste la some Instances, and again haste has made waste. I am told that there are a good many codes that will have to be amended or revised or worked over In some respects In the light of experience, but the pity of this Is that able men were not given the chauce to have the changes Included In the codes la the first Instance. Frobably, the answer to these statements will be that hearings were held and each Industry was given an opportunity to state Its case, which Is true. Yet, In all of the terrific hustle and bustle that has gone on In the NRA headquarters, there were Influences wielded that appear to some persons here as having been tinged with selfishness. I do not seek to defend either side In such controversies as occurred over the coal code or the automobile code or some of the others, for each side rather messed up the program, but, speaking generally, the staff which General Johnson has around him was capable of doing better work than was done on most of the codes. As to the gain! resulting from the united efforb figures tell the Official statistics plainest story. show that In the majority of lines of trade, there has been a greater volume of business done since NRA and the agricultural program got going than had been In months before. This brought new jobs and new Jobs carry additional pay rolls and obviously that means greater comfort for those theretofore out of Jobs. VV - v-v li w 'iC -- J F-- ., ' V .'. i i V,I' - , -' -- " I . -- ., v... ctl-dcn- ' Wln-ihi-- r ;t rVr ,v v ; 7f ln e uinll-pute- -s t mm A vW Championship game in ib&O i Asove Is shown biMbitl at It was In ths old th Mcond championship gamt batwttr da tha Atiantica of Brooklyn and tha Athletics o Philadelphia In 1858. The tcors was 31 to 33 game called at ths end of the seventh Inning on account of darkness. Notice the underhand pitch or, the glovelesa catcher keeping a respectful distance behind ths bat, the wide swing of the batsman, and basemen playing frozen to the bags (From The Annals of American Sport" In The Pageant of America." courtesy Yale University Ie-spit- e Press) head-d-ne- By ELMO SCOTT WATSON. IxiUBLLP.tY was a natlte o: grad unted from the Inlted Slates Mill tary sen'll my at Went Point In IS 12 served In (he Seminole. Mexican and Civil wars, was breveted of volunteers, liecame a eolnnel of Infantry In the United States army In 1SC7. retired In 1S73 Iallstun Fm, , Tp I -I T J N. Y., who ws and died In lsio. C'oowrsto n Is a quaint old village at the foot ot Otsego lake In Otsego county, New York famed as the home of James Fenltnore Cooper who made his hid fur immortality with his "l.eatlierstoeklng Tales." The facts contained In the two foregoing paragraphs probably wouldn't add up to a single Item of Interest to the average dyed-ll baseball fan but the fact remains that through the association of the names of Abner Double day Rnd Cooperstown, N. Y there came aliout the chain of events which makes It possible for him to reach the high KInt of bis feverish In terest In the nntlnnnl game along about the first week In October. Its world series time Need any more be said? Early In the Nineteenth century the youth of America was playing game with a bat and ball, which resembled and yet differed from the English game of rounders." This gunie was generally known as town ball, although the New Englanders called It round hall or Massachusetts baseball. Played on a squnre field, whose sides were 00 feet long, there was no restriction on the number of players who took part and the rules of the game varied In differ ent localities. This crowding of players within a limited space of play and confusion as to rules suggested to one young man that It was time to formulate a new set of regulations and speed up the play by making the field diamond shaped Instead of square. He was Abner Douldedny, a student at Greens school In Cooperstown, N. Y- - who began working on the Idea In 1S39. But It was not until the nert year that he took active steps to Im the-woo- prove the game. In 1840 a great crowd gathered In Coopers town for a picnic and political meeting during the famous Harrison hard-elde- r cam- paign. When the boys assembled that afternoon Doubleday gathered them around and explained as well ns he could, the points of the new game. He decided that there must be four bases 90 feet apart, and the boys Immediately began to refer to the game as baseball. The name stuck. It provided for eleven men on a side, using four outfielders, five Infielders, pitcher and catcher Doubleday ruled a runner not on base might be put out by touching him with the hall. This system of one player throwing to another devel oped Into fast double plays The rules made by Doubleday specified that the ball should be made of rubber and yarn and covered with leather. It must weigh about five ounces and must not be more than nine Inches In circumference. The weight of the ball and the size of the hnnd were taken Into consideration The bat tn determining these measurements. was to he of round wood, and to be used with both hands. In town ball the bat was frequently used with one hand. The next thing for the Inventor was to deter mine the distance between the bases. After several experiments It was found that a man would have to hustle to run 42 (walking) paces or about 9(1 feet before a ball of those dimensions eouffl be returned after having been driven to the outfield. Thus It was that 90 feet was fixed as the distance between the bases. Of the development of the new game the vol ume, "Annals of American Sport, In the Yale University Press series. Chronicles of Amer lea," is the authority for the following: The changes Introduced by Doubleday Inaug urated a new era for those Interested In town hall and round ball. Although there were no or ganlzed teams playing regular schedules to pop ulnrize the new rules, the diamond began to su persede the square field in the eastern states tn 1845, a group of New York gentlemen, who had been enjoying practice games together for several years, organized the Knickerbocker Base ball club, the first association of baseball play era In the country. Under the leadership of A1 exander J. Cartwright they drafted a code ot rules based upon the Doubleday system of play with a team of nine men as constituted at the present time. As a result of the publication of their rules and regulations, the Knickerbockers soon bad competition In the New York district. During the decade after 1850 numerous base New York. Rronklyn nail clubs were formed Philadelphia, Baltimore and other smaller towns 'Two Strikes, Three ballsi and the sport which had once been a gentle mans game, as exemplified by the Knlcker bockers, soon became the sport of the common man as well. In Jlarch, , a National Asso elation of Raseball Players was formed and one of Its first actions was to appoint a rules com mlttee which Introduced the game. But It remained for the Civil war to national Ize baseball. In 1SG5 a convention of the National Association of Baseball Players was held at which representatives from nearly UK) clubs took part Most of them were from the East but there were indications that teams were being formed all over the country. Two years later the national meeting brought together represen tutlves from scores of teams west of the and south of the Mason and Dixon nine-innin- line. The East however still laid claim to leadership In the sport with the Atlantics of Brooklyn asserting their right to the title of national champions after they had defeated the New York Mutuals In 1S65. For the next few years they bad strong rivals for the title In the Athletics of Philadelphia (No, not Connie Mack's outfit he doesnt date back quite that far!) and the Unions of Morrisanla. In 1SC9 the Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first professional team and two years later was organized the National Association of Professional Baseball Players. In 1878 the present National league was organized, composed of teams representing four eastern and four west ern cities: New York, Philadelphia, Hartford, Boston. Chicago. SL Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati. In 1882 a new organization arose to challenge the National league and to attack Its financial policy. This was the American association and its promoters, claiming that the admission charge of 50 cents made baseball a rich mans game, announced that It would give the public- good baseball at a cost of only 25 cents. The National league stood Its ground but Instead of Ignoring its rival recognized it by later entering Into a national agreement with It In order to establish uniformity In players' contracts, disciplinary methods and the buying and selling of players services. That year also saw the real beginning of the world series Idea, games for the title Two years before, the of world champions. Cincinnati el"h of the National league had been expelled from the National league, whereupon It joined the American association and won the championship of that circuit In 1SS2. In October of that year Captain Anson of the Chicago National league champions arranged games with the Cincinnatls for a national championship. After Cincinnati had won the first game at nome by a score of 4 to 0 and had lost the game In Chicago by a score of 2 to 0, It was notified by the president of the American association that further contests would end in expulsion. So the abortive world series ended. The growth of the world series idea from ihat point on Is traced by Charles Pike Sawyer, for many years sporting editor of the New York Evening Post as follows: "In the winter of 1882 the magnates of that day decided there was room for two major organizations to live In harmony and formed a tripartite national agreement, taking in the North western Minor league and agreeing to keep hands off' the players of friendly clubs. The agreement having worked well In 1883 and 1884 and peace being fully established, the magnates decided that the plan tried out In 1882 by Chicago and Cincinnati looked like a lot of ready money, so it was decided to bold the first official world series In New York between the two win alng clubs Providence and the Metropolitans. the ProviOn October 23, 24 and 25, I dence nine, winner of the National league championship, took the Metropolitans of New York into camp at the old Polo Grounds, at One Hun Ired Tenth street and Fifth avenue, In the string - post-seaso- n Abner Double pay of three games, by respective scores of 6 to 0, 1 In seven Innings and 11 to 2 in six Innings, the last two games being called on account of darkness. These championship contests between the winners of the National league and the American association continued until 1890, the high water mark In receipts being in 1S87 when $42, 000 was received Id 15 games on a barnstorming tour to SL Louis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Brooklyn, New York, Philadelphia, Washington. Baltimore and Chicago, the Detroit Nationals beating the SL Louis Americans by ten games to five. In the season of 1888 the Giants broke Into the chnm plonslilp roll by beating St. Louis six games to four, four games being played In New York four In SL Louis and one each In Philadelphia and Brooklyn, to gross receipts of $24,302.10, the highest gate being the fifth game. In New York, of $5,024.50, and the lowest, the last. In St. Louis, of $212. They didnt care to watch sers even at home In those days. Again the Giants won In 18S9, beating Brooklyn by six games to three, the total gate being $23,028, of which over $S.000 was at the second game. In Brooklyn There was mighty little Interest In the next years series, Brooklyn tying with the Louisville Nationals with three games each and one tie, and In 1891 there was no series and in 1892 the American association was absorbed by the National league, 12 clubs playing in a divided sea son, the winner of the first half playing the win ner of the second half at the end, the Bostons beating Cleveland by five games to none with one tie. There was no series tn 1893 and then came the Temple Cup series, but It was entirely National league affair Baltimore, National league champions In 1894. IS95 and 1S98. lost to New York In four straight games tn 1S94, lost to Cleveland four games to one In 1895 and heat Cleveland four straight In 1898. Boston won the championship In 1897 but lost the Temple Cup to Baltimore by four games to one. 'These series began with $18,000 receipts In four games and then dwindled so rapidly that the games were abandoned In 1898. In 1900 the National league dropped four ot Its twelve clubs, thus giving Ban Johnson, a former baseball player and a baseball writer, his chance to form a new league with these four clubs as a nucleus to which were added four others, forming the present American league. With In three years the American league was recog nized as a major circuit and in 19!l3 the new league established Its superiority over the old when the Boston Red Sox defeated the Pitts burgh Pirates five games to three. The present era of world series games began In 1905 and since that time the American league has contin ued to demonstrate Its superiority by winning 18 out of 27 world series. 3 to I (C by Western Newspaper Union.) J. Pilohery By T. of I) nit BOYS ARE GOOD SALESMEN general object!' ha would ll.i-r- e i no a- -' hat fur the priqniiltin Ft .t il. I iiiuv rortHiinllmi. It luot mid to plot id coMMurri Indui-trto ui-- t ttr.li iiM-dlt-i- l undt--r ti Ml piiUutt-lUindrtM of to: .tint- whi-rud firm wi re uiii!y ltd Hot lilt til iMi-- rD-- teu tiiur. iin-- foui-- fnrim-- i bar a a X'khI. If ran do consumer. IHa true of ("tin Hi produce hilly 1hi deliterle. Hi yuungitt-- r are kuo a In hd tie! r Hor hlie4 cviiitn unity and frnndthlp break Hie be. With the right kind of training In n:cu-anh!- i hot become very Nome of them, good tio-r- t hnnt. t!o-r- e Iti . thn-- )c.ir of Urug-go-olilib to meet the UeW otef liny had to to In WiMl drain, II: It, time when huii.p they B.Mi'ii.-v- (he m-- ohll; illon of the Hue e.i. ie liiklguia and the day return to when It would the huniii . Hanking auihorlUo are not certain that he phin Will From hatiHiig autliordle, I learn better chanre of that there I oio beiieUI aeernliig under the Finance corporation plan In the Vct and South, agricultural arena, than In the where amnufaeturiiiK predominate. 3lotn-1 tie higher In rate m.il South than In the di the where trlet larger volume of l( may tie, then, money I hamlleiL that a tn.iviiuum rate of 5 per rent will cnue borrowing to take plare held hack hy bank (lint have which cek to hike the Intercut charge too high. ! I nt, 1 Yt-- s Frtn of r Job of 1 hull-lldo- a'lt-- that b" not tii remriv hut uumli-- d.rti'l to 1 iH'to-iii- 4ml a Uy to do man' may It good adtlce at )"b then H.i-- learn their tegelahle," are ou par etru with the beet tanner ii.erchanl. being more willing to do everything to pleaee and acvniniiiod.ite rudumer. In 01.1 counties rondddo marketing la a part of th Boy and ilirl 411 club work, and vocational vega agriculture teacher who u table and fruit growing a a eld room subject ar carrying their teaching further by having their student oHD up roadside and other for the produce grown. market Many of these teacher. In preparm Hon for the marketing work, have studied roadside market and have obtained college bulletins and other literature, the gist of which they pau on to their pupils. a rule, la left to the Selling. for hoy shuwing their adoptne this work, the other spread the word of their market among custom era, thus ntnklng customer which older people might fall to Interest Up la Milwaukee county, WIbcod-sia- , William Hawthorne, who won the state gardening championship In 411 club work and who learned shout selling to city consumer while carrying on the project Is now on hi own with two rented acre for outDurdoor vegetable production. ing the winter season he keeps bl trade supplied with wltat he grow In the greenhouse he leases. William make deliveries on 1:1 bicycle. Sir. Frank A. Burford of Warren county, Illinois, aells home-madcountry butter to 80 families In little too town. Deliveries require much time considering she does her our otto war on the it seem to me we ought to turn our eye a moment The Foreign on condition ,1,r,,aJ Uml dfr Situation plot to ninny ob- aerter slate of that ha been evident alnce the cud of the world conflict In 1911 One can gain little tatlafartlon from Inu timiig our own governterview ment official resiectliig the potentialities of the foreign situation, because remarks from official of the Washington government at tills time would simply add to the flume. Nerertlielcvt, It doe no good to ape an ostrich and bide one head In the land. The most untrained observer can the potential dangers once the facts are made known. In France, la Italy, In Germnny, and even In Switzerland, that little republic that always has been a barometer of International relationship, there Is evidence of war planning. Ett-- In our country, attention cau be called to the program for building up the nary. Our government says it wants a navy of the strength allowed by the London and Washington treaties, and by building it now, work Is made available Boy Salesmen. for the unemployed. England alone, of all the major powers, seems to own housework, so she has hired be making few steps toward arming. Margaret Swanson, her granddaughInterest has centered In a gigan- ter, to help her. Margaret, who Is tic fortification along Its frontier quite a candymnker. Increases her that the French government has con- earnings by selling her sweets to the structed. No one kDows what It has same people. She packs the candy t cosL or will cost when ultimately In paper containers. The children were always running paid for ; It Is known only that there has been constructed a veritable to Harry Kleck for permission to concrete and steel system of subtersell magazines, perfume and other ranean fortresses, passageways, mu- things to neighboring farmers. Pernitions depots and supply bases mission was refused, of course, but along the frontier for about one hunwhen the wholesale price of eggs dred miles, and that these one hungot down to where Klecks flock dred miles roughly constitute the wasn't paying, aDd he began to boundary between Germany and think out loud to his wife about Italy on the one hand and the French new markets, the youngsters choon the other. rused let us sell them to people In town. The Germans, under Adolph HitEggs were different from perfume ler's direction, lately have com- or magazines. People needed good pleted and opened eggs such as Kleck produced, so he War Clouds for business what let the kids try their hand. And what a success they made of the Over Europe u sald t0 be one of the largest airjob! Now Kleck sells all of his ports on the European continenL eggs to consumers, and. Instead of It Is located almost on the border delivering them, the people drive between Germany and Austria, and out to his farm outside of Emporia, some qualified observers maintain Kan. He gets a margin over wholeit was placed there because of the sale, too. He paid the youngsters sentiment In 10 per cent for selling. growing Austria. Their thought Is that HitRobert James had to lease a ler expects some time to have con- larger farm because he needed more trol of Austria, and he assured the vegetables to keep up with the deof Austria that he Is mand created by two boys who sold looking after their interests by prohis produce from house to house. viding an air fortification where It Now he has a crew of ten youngwill be of assistance to them In sters ranging from twelve to sixteen event of trouble frt.m outside of the years of age, who have pushcart In other words, the routes of their owd making. The two nations. implication Is that Germany Is gradroutes average 12 blocks, both sides ually coaxing Austria back Into aD of the streeL corto efforts the Concerning alliance such as existed under KaiWhen J. R. Robbins rect weaknesses In the recovery ser Wilhelm. milk route got too big for him plans, perhaps the to In addition these things, one to handle and supervise his farm To Correct most notable Is cannot overlook the Hitler assertoo small to hire anand yet work, lhe the nl0ve by Weaknesses tions that are strongly other tmek and driver, he turned to Reconstruction Fi- nor the Mussolini declarations IndiThe nance corporation to push money boys to deliver his producL more will he have territory, not only supplied his cusout where It will be used. The cor- cating nor the fact that the French have youngstersbut tomers, operating In localities poration Is prepared to make loans 680,000 mea under arms this year. where they lived, soon had 150 peoto banks If those banks will make it cannot be passed as Inloans to private businesses, and to Likewise, ple In several Porter county (Insignificant that Britishers are re- diana) towns buying not only milk to the 3 the banks at supply money - of be to steadily disposingported but fruit, sausages, vegetables and per cent Interest If the banks will French real estate holdings, Investnot charge more than 5 per cent ments that have been heavy In years eggs-I use when It Is reloaned. In other words, paper milk bottles said pasL It mny be only Mr. Robbins. Hence, there are the Reconstruction Finance corporaon the part of statesmen, no returns. tion has gone almost the whole way now In power In these several naInto the banking business, for that "My boys are a bright lot and I or It may be that there are think they appreciate not only the which It Is now doing Is nothing tions, are real Instead of grievances that more or less than rediscounting comopportunity of making money but fancied. Whatever the underneath mercial obligations. something which will help condition may be, or Is, It Is ap- learning As was stated above, whether such them when they are old enough to of are there potentialities shift for themselves. A milk route moves as this will serve the purpose parent war obtaining In Europe now that offers a good chance to study human of correcting weaknesses In the reIn a not been visible have decade, nature and there Is every indication covery plans, no one can say accu- and In thinking of a European war, rately. It Is to be remembered that It Is well to remember the course of that the natural smartness of the Is helping educate them along the prime purpose of the NRA was that conflict which raged from 1914 boys to boost prices, raise wages and business lines. to 1918. C-- 1933, Westers Newspaper Union. make more Jobs. Undoubtedly, some Union. , 19)3, Western Neirapapee depre-sion- , Thwn n lW, rra't ((. All t " K.t If . ' 11 " W'S to Dult (tv, M, Kr Ural )wa wky tMt tow". Lera rAian.Mk humk ivni rriT THIS WEEKS ritlZE STORY JfttnaiiUlR l4 M irt ito Wat tkat in ml fuht, laHrlar. Jatkiwu, Ktirip ini IalfMiRlaiR iffwi anrkWf iu Atd m mm turn itr MtR, If VI br it Wm Wat raaf M wt Imv lurkfti Cavvtrdal, Wm Iii4n wHa. Mlira ta Mr Ovr rvaaift, Tv Mm ar m , f0r ul fim pna viQ la 4m pvrkvt MRU. far iD MT KWai, Um f P. R. 8MTTR. 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