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Show I REUARKABLE WINNING STREAK OF LI ARQUARD In the BacK t&Iwider FamousDoneheaSavs ohMajorUagve Diamonds flVGttl fuu?m knew he was tired. He had worked a double header in Brooklyn only a few days before, and we expected that he might tire toward the end. We hoped he would last it out, and give the other pitchers a rest, as everyone was in the same boat Titus got on first with one out, I don't remember how, and Magee smashed a hit past me so fast that it was a thousand to one Titus couldnt go to third. I dived at the ball, then straightened up, and, as Titus crossed second, I cut across in front of him Just to throw him out of step and make him slow up without Interfering with him or touching him at all. Hoffman had fielded the ball and was ready to throw in, so there wasnt a chance for Titus to go to third, even If I hadn't moved. You may judge my surprise when that quiet, inoffensive guy took a running Jump at me, bumped me as hard as he could, threw his arms around me, and wrestled me down to the dirt. I shook loose, wondering what had happened, but Titus was gone. He was running at the umpire, claiming I had bumped him and held him. Titus had seen that neither umpire was looking, and whey 1 cut across to slow him up, he grabbed me, and when the umpires did look, they saw us 11 mixed up, so they let him jog on to third on account of my interference. Titus Bcored on an out, tied It upt and they beat us out of the game. And t couldnt say a word. He had slipped it over me. The other fellows kicked, but I knew I had made a blunder and that he had taken advantage of it and won. (Copyright, 1312. by W. G. Chapman.) Boom In 8ilver. Chicago silverware and jewelry concerns have been doing a rushing business this week in supply the rooters with all the presents that have been handed to the visiting people. , Baker Makes Longest Hit Frank Baker, the home run artist of the Athletics, Is the only man to date who has put a ball over the right field fence on the new grounds of the Chicago White Sox. Manning Allowed Two Hite. Walter Manning, pitching for Allentown, Pa., against Johnstown, recently, allowed only two hits and only twenty-nin- e men faced him. Needless to say, Allentown won. !!'- - B : "a '& O n . v is. ef the American League REMARKABLE CLIMAX OF CUBS-SOWORLD'S SERIES A Colorado Case John T. Scantling, Trinidad. Colo., I was confined to bed so helpsay: less I had to be fed. Nothing helped me until I used Doans Kidney Pills, and they did me a world of good. I have never missed a days work X s game of thrills. A game replete with Incident from to bell. Tbe crucial contest of a aeries that established a record mechanical skill and cold nerve. A game accompanied by scenes The fifth game of the wild enthusiasm theretofore unequalled. worlds series between Sox and Cuba, October 13, 1906. men engaged In that memorable No less tban seven of tbe twenty-on- e struggle burnished brilliant reputations to a' still brighter hue that sunny afternoon, and another failed In a bit of strategy which If successful might have won the championship of the world for the team which lost The attempt failed ' because of a combined display of skill and brain which bus never been excelled, possibly never equaled, in tbe annala of baseball. Tbe actora In that crowning feature of an exciting day were James Tilden Sheckard, fast, alert, brainy, Jiggs Donahue, the frail apecter whose acrobatic feats were a cause for dally wonder, and George S. Davis, renowed short fielder. Of the four preceding games two , had been won by each team. Three of those had been won by a lucky break and it wag thought that the team which won the third victory would be sure to take the sixth and deciding game. Such was the case. To achieve this result, however, the American league champions threw form to the winds. They, the hitless "wonders and sure and fast fielders, became for the day heavy sluggers and uncertain fielders, which accounted for the plays which made the assembled thousands fit subjects for the mad house. The game was played at Cub Park and as he last half of the eighth inning began the score stood 8 to 6 In favor of the White Sox. That no more than eight runs had been scored by the visitors was due to the fact that several near miracles had been performed by the agile young Cuba made desperate, as first Reulbach and then Pflester had been driven to cover by the rain of base hits from the bats ot their rivals. Numerous errors by the Sox and timely drives had enabled the Cubs to keep dangerously close, and, as John KUng came up to open their half of tbe eighth they were still hopeful. Kling grounded out and Overall struck cut. Then Isbell fumbled Sheckarda drive. This was the crisis. Schulte, the only care free person In all that multitude, was next up. Twice during the game he bad connected for ringing hits off Walsh, but this time he faced W'hite and his shadowy southpaw curve. The batter connected with the ball as It faded away over the outside corner and- - dribbled - a slow bounder towards abort For tbe Sox tbe game was almost lost. For tbe Cuba a worlds pennant was nearly won. Third Baseman Rohe picked up the grounder and made a late, low throw toward first. Davis had also made a play for the ball, leaving third base uncovered. Sheckard noted the opening and without hesitating at second continued to third. At the same instant Davis realized the danger of the situation and, wheeling about, raced with the flying runner for the bag. Far back of flret where he had recovered the ball Donahue timed a throw which with marvelous skill Davis caught with one hand and touched the runner, an instant before they reached the base, over which they collided and fell Davis held the hall. The Inning was over. The game was won. Only the last spike that fastened the world! championship flag to the White Sox mast remained to be driven home, and that waa an eask eask on the following day. since. Get Doaai Is a story of THIS By IRWIN M. HOWE, Official Statistician of the American Image -- HOME RUN" BAKER'S "COMING OUT" DAY FIRE Illumined Philadelphia Oct. 16, 1911. That day marked the rise of a new national figure In baseball. It gave the major leagues their flrpt real "home run" player in years, a being supposed to inhabit the bush league jungles exclusively. It was coming out day of J. Franklin Baker, who saved a worlds pennant for the Athletics and immortalized himself as a batsman. No swing on a ball ever had greater effect on the championship than Bakers drive that day. The setting for this historic home run was all that could be asked to make It spectacular. Christy Mathewson had humbled the Mackmen In the opening game of the series the Saturday previous at New York. The Athletics were hard pressed. Everything seemed to favor the Giants. Even the betting, a twin blight of scalping on the leading American sporting classic, pointed to McGraw and hia "speed boys as the favorites. Rube Marquard made his debut ai a pitcher on that day, for the Giants. He was opposed by Eddie Plank, Macks veteran southpaw. The battle was a tie after five innings of slab duelling in which seemed to have a shade the better of the comparison. He had allowed only two safeties while Plank had, been hit for three base clouts, one a double by Herzog. It waa evident that a single hit might win the game, and it did. Up to the sixth inning, the Athletics could not fathom the youthful southpaws deceptive speed and tbe Giants were unable to make connections with Planks effective cross fir- R' post-seaso- n Map-quar- d ing. Eddie Collins, who has a habit of starting trouble for hts opponents. made mischief for the Giants in the last halt of the sixth Inning when he drove a double to left, with two men out Only one obstacle lay between Marquard and success at this period of tbe game, and that waa the next player up in Philadelphias batting order. If he could dispose of that batsman, be might win his spurs as a rival of Mathewson In the big series. In this crisis arose tbe stolid but unassuming hero of the day, a figure whose name was blazoned on a hundred flaming headlines at nightfall. J. Franklin Baker, eager and confident, stepped to the platq, his last appearance at bat that day. The first offering of Marquard was a ball. He sent the second one over the edge of the plate waist high. Baker put all the force of his massive shoulders Into that classic swing. 11 s met the sphere with a crash that waa heard around the baseball world. Tbe ball sailed out almost In a line, caromed off the hand of, a fan perched on the right field fence and rolled far outside Shibe park for a home run that won the game and put the Athletics on the road to victory. That drive duplicated by Baker on the following day, at New York, kept the world's flag In Philadelphia in 1911. It wag the talk of tbe day from the street gamin to the chief executive of the United State. It gave Baker & home run handle for his name which all hia exploits la (he American league bad failed to bring him. Franklin Baker. (Copyright, 1912. by Joaepta B. Bowles.) a too. use ft i Mm TH ys If By IRWIN M. HOWE, Official Statistician Premier Short Stop of the Net.'enal League and Captain of the Chicago Cuba, Who Appears to la prove With Age. Joe Tinker. U Alt BY JOE TINKER. caped with It, be ia likely to discover that tbe other fellow was doing some thinking for hlmaelf. I believe tbe worst break I ever made on a ball field was In trying to put over some wise stuff. - And It was old silent Fred Titus who slipped it over on me. I never bad a chance to make a kick. I simply had to swallow hard a couple of times and take off my hat to him, and it lost a game for ns. , We were fighting for the pennant that season, and doing everything we could to hold our own, as both Pittsburg and New York were giving us a battle. The other teams didn't know It, but we did, that our pitchers were tired out, and not very good, and we were worried in spite of tbe fact that we kept on telling It was easy for nc. We had a long lead for tbe pennant, but were counting every game and figuring whether we could last or not, and there never- - was a club that had a harder time cinching a pennant after It was within reach than we did. We were playing Philadelphia, and t think tbe game was between Reul-bac- h and Karl Jdore, who always gave us a lot of trouble. The score was very close, and we were hanging on with one run to the good, hoping that Reuly would last it out, although we J s F fihyen fo Juat about tbe time a fellow tfxfcks be has pulled off aometning and es- aw'xS'-- I'JSi X Inti Point to Hidden Kidney Trouble Have you a lame back, aching day and. night? Do you feel a sharp pain after bending over? When the kid-neseem sore and the action irregular, Doans Kidney Pills, which have cured thousands. . xjhintd tylttidifly JQaseAa Sharp Pains tt any Drag Store, 59c. a Box Doano.TCSF IOBN L THOMPSON SONS Qutekljr relieve era Irritation cause by dust, ran op wind. Booklet free MO. Troy, N. V. A Bad Break. Slashes Been liTa fight? Masheiv No. I tried to flirt with a pretty suffragette. Judge. Paxtlne Antiseptic sprayed Into the nasal passages la a surprisingly successful remedy for catarrh. At druggists, 25c a box or sent postpaid on receipt of price by The Paxton Toilet Co., Boston, Mass. No Danger. Do you believe we are in any dan- ger of losing our birthright? Not a bit that Is, those of us who are doomed to always work for what we get- - are not. Rube $11,000 Marquard, Tbe winning streak of Rube Mar-juarof the New York Glanta 1b not nly a seasons sensation, but la tbe some of cause of a lot of arguments which can be settled by reference to Ihe records, others which must be decided only in each fans own opinion. As the Rube approached the modern lay records of Reulbach and Chesbro of 14 straight wins the delvera into the dope began to dig deeper for more ancient marks for him to shoot at. They discovered that Radbourne had won 18 straight for Providence in 1884, that Luby had won 20 for Chicago in 1890 and that McCormick in 1886 with Chicago had won 24 straight. So far aa known that mark of McCormicks is the premier feat . In organized ball V Disputes as to tbe clear title Marquard holds to some of his victories d - "Lemon. to Mothers will always be open. For Instance, there was the case of hia thirteenth win. Marquard went out of the game with hia team behind, .but before another pitcher went in hia mates batted out a victory. Secretary Heydler of the National League ruled that the victory went to Marquard because he had pitched moat of the game. The fifteenth game presented another situation. Marquard went in in the eighth inning with the score a tie; his team won in the tenth. He also got credit Important Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORLA, a safe and sure remedy for infanta and children, and aee that it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Crv for Fletchers Castoria Their Feeling. Well, old sport, how do you feel? Ive just eaten a bowl of soup and feel bully. Ive just eaten a plate of hash and New Orleans feel like everything. ' ox-ta- ll for that Whatever may he the arguments, there Is no question that Richard de ' By Experiment. Marquis is one of the greatest twlr-ler-s waa your little boy crying TVhat of modem times and the fact that Over hia lesson makes his. work abAt last evening? he is a A child of that more all the remarkable, for left- iniktural history. handers have never bepn noted for age"studylng natural history? You astonish me! Its so, just the same. consistency. He was learning the difference between a wasp and a fly. ONE OF MACKS GREAT FINDS "Exclamatory Waa Right Mrs. Masons colored washerwoman. Amoa Strunk Fills Place of Captain Martha, was complaining of her Murphy in Athletic Outfield Times-Democra- t. left-hand- hus-ban- ds With Much Credit. who la playing left field for the worlds champions, has been with t;he Athletics for four year a Probably no man In baseball outside of Connie Mack saw In Strunk the makings of a great player. Amoa sure was a raw recruit when Mack picked him up. Few and far between AmoB Strunk, Frank Schultes homers are more timely this season than last. Some machines have tire trouble, but Harry Davis Cleveland team has first-bas- e trouble. Eddie Siever, once a Detroit pitcher, is now an umpire in the Southern Michigan league. Baker and Cravath are doing more y to distribute leather to points than all the big Philadelphia factories combined. Eddie Plank of the champions is in great form. He believes that he will get another chance to trim the Giants In the fall. The Detroit club has purchased a shortstop from the Hannibal club of the Central Association. Olde OMara is his name. Montreal papers are charging that Chick Gandll didnt do his best for tbe International league team. And, naturally, Chick Is sore. Charley Dooln Is actually trying the echeme of giving bis signals while standing. He thinks the old crouch thing will have to go. The Phillies have bfeen wondering what players will be traded. Now comes a rumor from New York that Chalmers 1b to be let go. Jennings says his pitching staff is much stronger than it was last year. The veteran members of the Tiger staff are pitching grand ball. Eugene Krapp of the Naps is so clever at fielding that his teammates call .him "Rubber, the Idea being that he bounds around for the pill. The Boston Red Sox have purchased another outfielder from the New England league. Outfielder Walsh of the Fall River team is the youngster. Clark Griffith wants to get Joe Hov-11- k from the Milwaukee club, but he will not be able to do so, because there is a strong string attached to Joe. Frank Smith, the veteran pitcher that was released by the Cincinnati Reds recently, is doing fine work with the Montreal team in the International league. Frank Farrell, owner of the Yankees, Is authority for the statement that hi3 team will be reorganized, no matter what the cost, before, another season rolls around. Jennings may become part owner of tbe Boston Nationals next year. Ward has been a dismal failure there, and Jennings is anxious to get into the magnate class. Dolly Gray, former Washington pitcher hut now of the Vernon team in the Pacific coast league. Is doing such good work that his team Is now leading that league. health. Why, la he sick, Martha? asked Mrs. Mason. Hes ve'y poly, maam, poly, anHes got the exswered the woman. clamatory rheumatism. You mean Inflammatory, Martha, said the patron. Exclamatory means -- to cry out" Yea, maam, replied Martha, with conviction; data what it la. He hollers all the time. Judge. far-awa- Works in the Garden Now. Grown old In the service of hia master and mistress, James was a privileged retainer. He was waiting at table one day, when a guest politely asked for a fish fork. Strangely enough, the request waa Ignored. Then the hostess noticed the episode and remarked in a most peremptory manner: James, Mrs. Jones hasnt a fish fork. Get hertone at once! Madam, caine the emphatic reply, last time Mrs. Jones dined here we lost a fish fork. James has now been relegated to the garden. : To The Last Amos 8trunk. were the games in which he partici' pated up to this season. When Capt. Danny Murphy was Injured a short time ago the wiseacres said: That finishes the Athletics. Connie hasn't got a good man to take his place. But they reckoned not whom Connie with the youngster worked with for the greater part of four years. Amoa Strunk waa assigned to an outfield berth, and he has proven by his terrific batting and brilliant fielding that Connies confidence and patience were not in vain. McGraw Mouthful one a bowl enjoys of crisp, delightful Post Toasties Behaving Himself. John McGraw la behaving himself much better this year on tbe coaching line than ever before. He haa been put out of the game hut once or twice, but then he baa not had much reason to kick against the umpires, as the Giants have been having such an easy I cream fruit or both. or stewed Some people make an entire breakfast out of this combination. time of It. Watching Earl Mack. Connie Mack has ordered his scouts to watch his son, Earl Mack, in action, with a view to taking him on the big team if he looks good enough. Earl Is manager of the Atlantic City team and Is a comer ii the estimation of every one that haa seen him. with Try itl ss The Memory Lingers" Sold by Grocers. Pssm Oral Caimr, Bsitk Cml Liasiml. MicL. U. & A. |