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Show Ott I o Seeing Big League By BILLY EVANS BASEBALL Sportawrlter, Big League Umpire ad General Manager of the Cleveland Indiana series My admiration for Walter Johnson, greatest pitcher of all time, now man- games, because he knew the fans were counting on him strongly. And his career wus being ruined, he thought, bemuse he hadnt delivered. Walter," I said, Tve come buck ager of Washington, knows no bounds, lie has given a lot to hasehall and get less In return than many a less deserving but more fortunate contemporary. For a while It seemed as If with more halls fur you to sign." A sad smile crossed his face. Gee, Billy, I didn't think there'd be anybody wanting me to sign a ball now." Imu't you believe It. Youll always he the same old Walter Johnson to the fans, and dont let anybody, yourself Included, tell you different. Now sign the balls." And he did. And his hand as he traced his signature, was as firm and steady us of old. And later that day Waller Johnson, bravely walked onto the hall field Into the toughest situation that ever a duller faced, and gave the most superb exhibition of courage, all things considered, that I have ever witnessed, brought victory to Ids team and Washington anil everlasting glory to himself. 1 think that a kind I'rovldeme, watching over all things great and small, created that opportunity for Walter Johnson. Created It for htm and then stood by him through It all, to carry him to the triumph he so Justly deserved. I WNU Service. (.c), 1931, lull 9ndicat A Wonder 779 Connie Mack Know And Then He Tell Connie Mack, who figures that his luck with the herd of White Elephants he took over 31 years ago must ineua he U good, sought to extend his renown by going In for predicting events more than one season away. Soon," Informs Connie, "baseball fields will be on top of Immense skyscrapers with perhaps a weatherproof vane to remove the rain hazard. Just vislouury, thats all. Leaky Carburetor Are Potential Fire Source A leaky carburetor Is a potential source of explosion uud lire damage and should be at once made tight. When gasoline cun be smelled strongly when one enters a closed garage it Is time to have the carburetor flout mechanism set In order before a backfire or a stray spark starts a fire that may destroy not only the cur hut the garage nml adjacent buildings. Keep the tank supply shut off while the car Is not In service until the required repairs cun he mude. Walter Johnson. Radio Failures During l'.O) there were 22 fuilures he would he doomed to pitch out his These Inof radio manufacturers. entire career without ever once parvolved $l,.'lix),00. Tlu re were 25 failticipating In a world series. In tills ures in 11)20. connection let me relate a little anecdote atiout Johnson. It Is illuminative of the man's characler. Just before the wart of the 1021 world series It was shortly before the opening game In Washington I went into the Washington dressing room with a dozen or so hulls that I wanted Harlem's historic old Olympic club, Johnny Kllbane nppeured on the saute Walter to autograph. Johnson, Just In Last One Hundred uml Thirty fifth card there when both were champions, about to pitch his first world series game, was visibly nervous for the first street, lias definitely passed out of the mid It wag there thut Benny Leonard del ure ns a fight arena. Its chairs, so quickly knocked out Leo Julinson. time in his carper. The funs were exThe Crawley law wus In effect when to were benches J. Lewis, und sold was too Walter much and ring pecting the late John the Barber ltelsler startHe was carrying a of Brooklyn, for $227 to satisfy a judgreally worried. tremendous loud on his shoulders. Ills ment of $2,0 Id obtained by Mrs. Olgi ed promoting at Olympia, and the K. Hilliard, the owner, for unpaid rent. squatty brick building since lias been hand, as he autographed the hulls, known us the Palace Casino, Harlem, It was there that John Lester Johnshook. Ills signature was scrawly, son broke Ids ribs. Freddie Welsh and Commonwealth und Walker dub. Tom where It usually wus lirm and clear. And then Johnson went out and pitched his heart out, only to lose In BRIDGES AND FERRIES DISPENSED WITH s twelve closely fought Innings to (Hunts. And then he started is-. again and aguln he lost. The day of the last game In Washington I again strolled Into the Washington dressing room shortly before game time, with some more halls to he No one was In sight. autographed. Then, over at the far end of the room I saw Johnson, lie was silting on a trunk, his knees drawn up to his chin. He was gazing into space, lie didn't see me. Hello, Walter." Hello, Itllly, how are you?" Great, llow do you feel?'' lie shook his head sadly. "Not so good, Billy." Listen, Walter, youre not thinking for a minute that those two defeats will wipe out the eighteen years of wonderful pitching you have been through, do you?" Billy, that's nice of you to say such things, but I want to tell you that Bridges, rung and ferries will ba entirely dispensed with on the conthose games counted fur more with me templated automobile trip from London to Cape Town, Africa, to be made by than the sum total of the hundreds I Cupt. Geoffrey Mallln, standing, and Mr. Stauley Riley, at the wheel They have pitched In my career." are testing their automobile lu the river Severn after making It Into an UnThat was Walter Johnson. through the use of these Ingeniously desigued floats. Valuable time aud many miles will tie saved In the selfish, thinking always of the other regions of Africa In disfellow. lie wanted to win those world tricts of ninny elvers but few bridges or boats. lu Nothing all the annals of baseball In sixty years can compare to the case of Melvin U'.t. Here was a boy who hud played only one summer on a semipro team In a small town In Louisiana who fame straight to the New York Giants at the age of sixteen and stui k Ott never played professional ball anywhere exeept at Paterson, La., and with the Giants. His story is more wonderful than anything lu sensational fit U"ii. He was not yet twenty-one years old when he slugged with Chuck Klein for the home run honors of his league In 192!) on even terms up to the very last series of the season. ! Historic Olympic Arena Definitely Dropped Out of the Big Picture n little-know- TIMELY AND INTERESTING BITS OF SPORT Joe Schults Is managing the Houston club In the Texas league this season. and for each one recovered warded by a piece of pie. San Antonio has been numbering Us players for the last ten years, clulmlng the Idea started there, Wade Klllefer, president and manager of the Mission, Puoltle Coast was re- league ball club, resigned because of Illness. Lu Blue, now with the Chicago White Sox, was the Detroit Tigers regular first sucker In 1921. Almost as many box seats were sold to Rt. I.ouls Browns fans before the season opened this year as during all of 1030. Pie Tray nor, great third baseman of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Is called "Pie" instead of Harold because In his younger days in Somerville, Mass., he chased baseballs hit Into the woods Boxing, soccer and basketball are gradually taking the place of bullfights In popularity of sports In Mexico City. Harper on Athletic Ty Cobh, who one year led the American league with nine home runs, says slugging 1ms hurt the games popularity. Mordeeal Brow n used to do more with three fingers than some of our present ball players are able to do with teu thumbs. Bill Moore, free agent pitcher signed the Phillies, Is not a youngster, lie hus pitched In minor league baseball for nearly ten years. by successful Following experiments with high Bvlpvol football at night, outdoor track meets under the arcs are being tried at Kansas City, Kan. Some of us aren't clear on what "super fractionated gasollue" Is, hut suppose It's what Gar Wood uses to set speed records In decimal points. Jesse C. Harper, Notre Dames new director of athletics, recently declared for a strong policy of athletics. You may any that Notre Dutne foot-huteam will be In there to win," I have no sympathy Harper stated. for the spiritless policy In athletics. If college athletics are of any value at all, they must be carried on In a to win. A which gov's on the field without caring whether It will win or not does not reflect the true true American Meals. admlt-tid- , Tins statement, Mr. was for the turn it of ir.tes of college football. ll lij-pe- George Rutgers Kojac, swimmer, rated as one of the greatest of all times, hus announced that he will retire from competition to study medicine. The Payne Whitney gymnasium, now being built at New Haven for Yale university, will be equipped with tanks In which crews may practice In live water. Jolu.ny Layton, world's three cushion billiard titlcholdcr. Ims practically monopolized the championship for th 1'iist 11 years. In l.Mii lie u.mi licM the pin hot lulK.tr crown. 1 Roy Jacobs, Los Angeles young first baseman, Is the sou of Klmer Jacobs, veteran San Francisco hurler. Popularity of baseball among Missouri colleges Is on the wane, a recent Bad weather and survey disclosed. conflicts with track are given as causes. McArdle, Jess McMahon and A1 Weill made matches there. The Olympia club was being operated by McMahon when It succumbed to the current boxing slump. It Is to be leased as a garage. The first regularly organized minor league began Its career In 1883. The cities represented were Reading, Ia.; Iottsvllle, Pa.; Hurrisburg, Ia.; den, X. J and Wilmington, Del. mime of the circuit was the Cam- The Inter-Stat- e Baseball association and Its life was less than two years. Robert Ems-lie- , now on the advisory board of National league umpires, begun his career in organized hall lu tills circuit. Gilliland, a southpaw hurler with the New llaveu club of the Eastern league In 1592, lilt 13 batsmen in two games and this record st.iiuls as the best up to tills moment. Maj Ralph Rasse, coach of the West Point Military academy football team, couldn't play Hie game well enough to earn a varsity letter while he wus a cadet. Baseball Is less affected by depression than any other form of entertainment. The late Ban Johnson frequently observed that baseball attendances never fell off during unemployment pe rlods, but had even been known to Increase. The explanation advanced was that Job seekers found It useless to seek employment In the lato afternoon ; and those still In funds preferred to attend the ball game to do lng imthlug. King Tut, Minneapolis welterweight sensation, Is unlike most boxers In that he does not need a round or two to warm up. Opponents say that Tut is toughest In the first three minutes of a bout. His record shows 13 knockouts scored In the first stanza. Steve Farrell, retired track coach at the University of Michigan, raced In a circus when a youth, dally beating a horse around the sawdust ring. Automobile Lubrication Is Important Duty for Driver Improper lubrication Is one of the worst evils that cun beset the automobile, und It Is often responsible for unnecessary repair expense, according to W. C. McKinley, research engineer. The motorist who familiarizes himself with and follows lubrication Instructions In his car manual Is uni ply repaid In .smaller upkeep cost and better car performance, McKinley us sorts, declaring; In the automobile "Advancement has been so great In the past few years that even the experienced mo torlst who once upon a time eagerly road and studied Instruction hooks would Hud It well worth while to brush up on knowledge of his car today. "Lubrication Instructions, for InHow stance, have changed greatly. many motorists know that tt Is the thin oil film between moving parts thut really protects the automobile engine against wear? That this oil film Is about six times thinner than the page of a magazine? "How many motorists know that It Is the oil filter that keeps this oil film free from dirt, sludge and ahra gives, thus minimizing engine wear, that the fitter Itself needs servicing every It), 0(H) miles because at this mileage It becomes filled with foreign matter removed from the oil and reuses to do Us work of provid.ng a clean oil film? Again, how many motorists know that tf they iTo nit Ime the blur serviced they sl.oii'd have the ml chang'd oftcrer than is reeo'ii'iu n n hook? in the ear in-- i And how many have read their car Instruction hook, and are familiar with the helpful information It contains';'' Valve Spring Repaired With Ordinary Washer When a valve spring breaks, the broken pieces turn Into each other and no longer exert any pressure on the enj of the valve stem. While the When Valve Spring Is Broken, It Can fie Repaired Temporarily With i Washer, correit cure is replacement. In an emergem y an ordinary washer can be Used to keep the two portions of the n as shown In the Ulustra-t.o- spring - i,,par Science Monthly. CAPT. OJLO CITY CT1E7RY, SiAMWU. Tfffl, By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ican flag christened with a new name for lie was the firat to use that name HE American flag, whose birthand by no other did lie ever refer to it. day ve celebrate on June 11, The voyage which was thus so apis known by a number of figpropriately inaugurated carried the urative names. It is probable Old Glory" Into many hartlmt it was culled "The Red, original White and Blune or The bors throughout the world and into Stars and Stripes" very soon even more during the next six years 1 after the first ting was made while Captain Driver sailed the seas. in accordance with the resolution During one of his voyages into the Orient lie had made a camphorwood passed by the Continental congress on and decorated June 14, 1777, "That the Hag of the sea chest, bras-hounwith naitheads, in which he placed United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be the original "Old Glory when it was not floating at the masthead of his 13 stars, white In a blue field, repreship. And this flag had an even more a new constellation. senting thrilling later history than Its early BanThe name The one. ner" dates from 1814 when Francis In 1837 Captain Driver retired from bomScott Key, watching the British the sea and went to Nashville, Tenn., bardment of Fort McHenry, was Into make his home, but when he sold spired to write the poem which was his ship he did not sell "Old Glory." ofset to became music and later the In Its camphorwood chest it went Safe ficial national anthem. But the name to Tennessee with him. On patriotic Old Glory Is a more recent one. It was Just a hundred years ago that a occasions and on his own birthday Yankee skipper had the Inspiration St. Patrick's day, for he was born March 17, 1S03 It was taken from which resulted In that affectionate the chest and flung to the breeze for name being bestowed upon our nationto reverence. And Capal colors. Here Is the story of how all to see and Driver tain saluted It with Invariably Old Glory" got that name: these words, My country, my flag From the beginning of New EngOld Glory! land maritime history the Driver famAs the dispute between the North ily of Salem, Mass., had been leaders and South became more Intense and in the shipping trade, not only as shipthe Civil war drew nearer and nearbuilders but as owners, captains and er, Captain Driver became Increassailors of their own vessels. In the ingly unpopular with his neighbors In year 1831 Capt. William Driver was Nashville because of his outspoken on As tradition. the carrying family devotion to Ids country and his flng. a boy of twelve he had shipped on a During the Presidential campaign sailing vessel for Europe and before Old Glory" was displayed on a rope he was twenty he was master of the stretched from Ids home to a tree Inone Charles of that brig, Baggett, across the street but the bitterness numerable fleet which sailed the of that campaign brought to Captain Seven Seas and carried the name of Drivers ears unmistakable hints that Salem to every corner of the earth. his flag might be stolen or destroyed, In September of that year Captain so he bought another flag for display Driver was preparing to sail for a and retired Old Glory" oboe more to trip around the world. Just before Its camphorwood chest. a of his friends gathleaving party After the secession of Tennessee ered to present him with a farewell from the Union, the captain began to gift, an American flag, because he fear for safety of Ids flag at the was noted for his love for the naSo he hands of the Confederates. tional colors and what they betokened. took it by night to the house of a Captain Driver was on deck to reUnion sympathizer named Bailey and ceive them and a sailor, carrying the asked Mrs. Bailey and her daughters, In folded flag, triangular form, stepped and Patience, to hide It for him Mary forward and began a carefully memso that It could not be found and deorized speech. stroyed if the Confederates searched In ancient times, when an ocean his house. At the time Mary and Pavoyage was looked upon with supertience Bailey were making a comfort, stitious dread," lie said, It was the padding It heavily with cotton, and custom on the eve of departure to thus suggested an Ideal hiding place. roll the banner in the form of a triSo Captain Driver folded "Old Glory," angle. When ready tlve priest stepped placed it between the layers of cotton forward and taking the banner In In the comfort where the Bailey girls hand, sprinkled It with consecrated tacked it In and sewed up the outwater and dedicated It to God the side covering. Again at night Captain Father, God the son and God the Holy Driver took the comfort to his home host, turning the point of the triangle and placed it In a large Iron wash upward at the name of each, thus kettle In the attic of his home. calling on that unity of Creator, ReOld Glory" stayed until There deemer and Sanctifier to bless the naUnion troops occupied Nashville in emblem and prosper the voytional Immediately thereFebruary, 1802. The flag agers and their friends. after Captain Driver and a group of thus consecrated was then hoisted to soldiers ripped open the comfort, took the masthead." out the flag and hoisted it over the He then adjusted the flag to the state capitol to the strains of The Banner," played by a halyards and hoisted It to its position at the masthead. Captain Drivregimental band. It remained there er, overcome with emotion, was silent for hours, but so fearful was Captain for a moment. Then ns he looked aloft Driver that bis flag might even then and saw the flag which he loved so be injured by a hostile Imml that he well floating in the breeze he exstood gmud over it d ly and night. In I'll call her Old Glorv, bov s ; claimed: the morning Old G'oiy" was taken Old Glorv!" And thu w is the Amer down nnd replaced wi-i:,u,lier Amer d d d ican flag. By this time it was very old, much worn and the captain feared that a strong wind would whip it to pieces. After this Old Glory 'was always kept in the captain's house and late In Ills life he gave It to his daughter, Mrs. M. J. Roland of Nevada, where, so far as is known, it still is. In 1907 the flag had become so worn that Mrs. Roland placed it on a piece of sheeting and stitched it fast to the cloth to preserve It for future generations of the family. Captain Driver died March 2, 1SSG, and was burled in Old City cemetery in Nashville. Just as it was a Yankee sea captain which gave to our flag Its name of Old Glory, so it was that another Yankee a soldier, Instead of a sailor, however who took another Old Glory on one of the most romantic expeditions In our history. Bates was his name and he had served as color Massasergeant In the Twenty-fourtchusetts regiment during the Civil war. In 1872 Color Sergeant Bates had an Idea which he proceeded to put Into effect In a dramatic fashion. At that time there was much talk In this country of the hostility of Great Britain toward the United States. Determined to find out for himself whether this talk was fostered by politicians for their own selfish ends or was a genuine antipathy, Bates resolved to cross the Atlantic, start from the northern border of England and march to London bearing aloft an unfurled American flng just as he had done on the battlefields of 1801-GIlls reception by the people of England would show whether or not there was any foundation for this talk of John Bull's hostility toward Uncle Sam, Clad In his uniform of blue. Sergeant Bates on November 5 Guy Fawkes day and the anniversary of the Battle of Inkerman left EdinAt Sark burgh for Gretna Green. bridge on the border line between Scotland and England he unfurled Old Glory and stood beneath It with uncovered head. Then he started on his march. That evening he tramped Into Carlisle where a group of commercial travelers at the Bush hotel gave him a hearty welcome. More than that; they sent word on ahead of his strange pilgrimage and when he came to the mining towns of Penrith and Shap, great crowds of miners were on hand to cheer him. The warm welcome given Bates there was repeated In every place through which he traveled. The London dally press gave much space to the American soldier on December 2. A dense mass packed the Guildhall yard, where a British sergeant was carrying the English standard. Bates was borne on the shoulders of men Into the crowded Guildhall, and then back to the carriage, from which he made a speech before refurling his flag. Bates reception in London was the crowning touch to his pilgrimage. There was no longer any doubt of John Bulls friendliness toward Uncle Sam, at least so far ns the common people of England were concerned h i& bv Western Newsi'HO'i Union. |