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Show THE GRANT8VILLE JiYPM MO NEW8, GRANT8VILLE, UTAH MANAGER CLARK GRIFFITH AS AN ORATOR MAY MANAGE YANKEES President Ruppert Wants Hugh Jennings to Run Team. Owner Is Dissatisfied With Results Obtained Under Donovan and Will Bid High for Services of Detroit Leader. 1 There Is lltile doubt flint tlie New York American League cinli will have n new manager ih-- n tin )918 campaign begins, says tlie Philadelphia Li'dtfiT. It lifts luvn ruumrw with more or less frequency nil season that President llnppci-- t mis extremely dis- satisfied wiili tlie results obtained under Manager Donovan, but Hint be ilid not bl.Miie him personally for ihc poor showing of the team. One ollicin of (he Yankees wont so far ns to say that Donovan would lie wiili the club next year, but this is scouted by those in u position to know. Tom Needham, the old Rost on mid o catcher, who managed tin; Newark dull of tin International lciigue with much success this year, would lie the man at the managerial helm or iho luckless Yanks In 1918. Within the last two wreks, however, It has come to our knowledge iliat Colonel Ruppert, who was In Chicago ostensibly to confer with President Johnson about liis managership, will not bo satisfied unless lie gets a tnnu Whose success will Iiot be nt ail problematical. It Is known iliat Colonel Ruppert wants Hugh Jennings for Clii-eng- SCRAPPY WAS gala day Indeed In Akita, u in northern Japan. prevailed where peuce and quiet usually reigned supreme. The tiny, narrow streets were literally lined with gay "rising sun flags, and the whole city had been transformed with gay lanterns and bunting. At every gate crowds of children and grownups, too, had gathered with an expectant air, for this was the first of the three days in which Akita was to entertain, or rather, be entertained by The soldiers.' They were to gather there from the different army posts throughout thnt section of the country to participate In annual manuevers, writes Lillian A. Wheat in the Los Angeles Times. Soon they began to pour into the city from every direction, by every road, some 5,000 blue-cla- d men some with field artillery, some with blankets and camping equipment, some with horses and Red Cross wagons, some walking and some riding, according to rank. Many had marched over 100 miles. All the morning they streamed past our place, bound for the enobn (parade ground), where they were to stop und rest and prepare their dinner. At noon a few men, dusty and perspiring from the long trump, turned in at our gate, to beg hot water of the innid for their tea and a hibuchi of coals over which they might smoke while they rested and ate their lunches of dried fish and rice, which they had n small nluminum boxes in tlielr packs. The maid rushed in to ask permission of me to serve the. hetnl sans (soldiers), impressing upon me the importance of the occasion. For it is serious business with these patriotic I realized something of the people. must feel in her soldiers JniHin pride when I caught sight of these sturdy, bronze fellows who hnd stopped to Are you lurch under our stoop. tired? I asked. "lie Oknsan watakushi. doniowa Omoshirui. (No, honorable madam, This expresses tlielr we do enjoy,) sentiment exactly. They may bo tired physically, but their spirits never flag where patriotism is concerned. Not Just Cogs in a Machine. We had lived near the barracks ever since our residence In Jnpun, and hnd heard the air being torn to shreds every morning and evening by buglers in training hud heard the crack of hnd bayonet practice day after day seen squads of Boldlers pass in the morning going on their long tramps, .or to do target practice, which was held two miles out from town, and In the eve- return hot and never felt hnd now I until but nlngs, In anything but an indifferent interest find to that was surprising them. It nnd they were intelligent individuals not Just cogs in a great machine. I beautiful clt ITExcitement dust-cover- began to take a real human Interest in them ns I questioned them more closely about the coming maneuvers. Holiday had been declared, they told me, along the route which they hnd come. The roads had been lined with s village school children shouting and waving their tiny paper flags each with its conspicuous rising buu In the center. Likewise Akita was trembling with excitement and would turn out en masse to match the neuvers, for, they added with pride, hardly a house but has a son who has done, Is doing, or will do, military duty. ' Japanese Troops In Action. inter-paIt was an occasion of unusual for these were the first maneuvers hnn-zal- t, in tills district since war had been declared in Europe, and ithe public as well as the soldiers were very curious to see what new methods would be used, und its curiosity was fed most generously for the next three days. We were lulled to sleep nt night by the popping of guns und awakened before dayweak by the roar of the cannon, as the sham battles progressed next morning. The city was taken and retaken. Every hay stack, canal and rice puddy was pressed into service. The new trench and barbed-wir- e methods were tried out, for Jupan must be up to the minute in warfare, if she be behind in everything else. No battle on the European field of war has been fought more earnestly or with greater ferocity and with happier results, for there were no dead or wounded after the noise of the guns hnd ceased and the smoke had cleared away. Trained From jCradle. Japan is a nutlnn of soldiers. They train them from the cradle. Iletaisnn is a favorite game with the small boys. Often the narrow streets are blockaded with squads of small, kimono-cla- d figures shoulders erect and- with tiny paper (lugs and wooden sticks for guns, if not in the act of lighting, being pul through innumerable drills by a small captain. They ure put into uniforms as soon us they leave kinderAll government schools In garten. towns of any size are military schools, where boys gut the training of soldiers nlong with liow to read and write. Every man must do military service LEADER OF WASHINGTON NATIONALS. Clark Griffith makes an interesting speech when he presents a baseball outfit to a dutnehment of soldiers. "These outfits, he tells them, "arc the tributes of the fans to the soldiers. In giving them we are actuated first by nur love and respect for our soldiers. They also are in recognition of what the United Slates army did for liusebull and what it is doing. Our army preserved hnscbnll. The game would have died out during the Civil war but for them. They kept it going and have kept It up ever since. They carried It into the Philippines nnd into Cuba und have made it the international game. With it they civilized the Philippines. And now, continues Griff, rising to nn oratorical flight, yon are taking this game Into France. More than that, you are going to take it into Germany when you roll the Germans across the Itiiine. You ure the boys who are going to roll them back. Nobody else Is going to do it. You are. And when you do, I want you to take this game with you nnd teach It to the Germans when the war is over. Youre going to carry baseball into Germany, nnd when you do it will teach them sportsmanship and ideas of honor, of which they seem totally devoid. manager. Whether President Nnvin of tlie Detroit club would permit his manager to go to New York Is not known, but Jennings contract with the Tigers expires this year, and there is reason to . UMPIRE SHOWED HIS NERVE Manager McGraw Relates Incident Showing Courags of Tim Hurst In Important Ball Game. TOUCHING RUNNER BY COACH Rule Violated by Ty Cobb in Recent Waehington-Detro- it Game Griffith Makea Protest The rale ngninst a runner being touched by n conehor nif third base wns violated in the Detroit-Wasgame of August 1!) and ns a result Manager Griffith filed a protest. The score was 2 to 1 nnd the winning scored by Burns in the ninth, der the grandstand, adjoining another ran was on first when Milan let a ball in which the Cleveland team dressed. lie was He came all the way get nwny. In the Cleveland dressing room a small around and Cobh, coaching at third, for llurst been set had apart space n shove on homeward. Umto dress in, which led to a rather tick- gave li'in pire Hildebrand admitted the touchlish situation. ing incident lmt refused to allow ihc In an Important game we hnd Cleve- out on llie ground that the ball was so to went 2 land beaten to 0, when they far away no piny on Burns was poslint In the ninth and filled lliu Iiusoh sible. The hall, however, wns not out with two out. Put Tchouu was ut hut of pl:iy. and he jflinped out in front of the hatter's box to smash a slow drop which the pitcher delivered to him, PRIZE THRILLING TIE GAME nt the age of twenty-on. They are driving the hall to the fence in left Contest divided into four classes, according to center for three base. The runners Remarkable Cincinnati Between Rede Played ns If nnd tlie s looked it game men scored, physical perfectness. and Chicago Cubs. enter the army at since and do three was over, but Wilbert Ilobinson, who atwas called Hurst's for ns, catching Second und years straight service. g Perhaps n more remarkable third classes do several mouths of the tention to the fact that Tcbenu lmd was never than Faint played called Tim out of and his box, year for three years, then go Into Un- stepped that bet wren Ibo Reds mid Cubs at t. reserves, subject to be called out nt him out, at which there was a Cincinnati August 31. Going into rbc Even the fourth class, any time. was 4 and 4. Tlie Cubs score the ninth The Cleveland players were In a whose physical condition is fur below run. Tlie Reds came back a scored and all with threatened llurst normal, get a few weeks of training rage wltli one In tlicir half. In the tenth each year for three years. Only the kinds of bodily harm, but Tim calmly another. The Iteds the walked down to their dressing room, emneCults scored deaf, dumb and blind or physically disbuck and lied it. In the right donned bis clothes und as culinly walkabled escape military duty entirely. Cults scored two mid ed out without so much us glancing at eleventh the Well Fed and Neat. did tlie Rials do hut scorn what then home team. It took real courage The expense of the army to the gov- the tVo In their half. The umpires, denever Tim do but to flinched. that, ernment is very small, considering its spairing of the lie ever living broken, size. It takes very little food to keep called (he game on account of darkthem well fed. A bit of beef is add- BOXING LIKED BY SOLDIERS ness. ed to the daily fish and rice when sonic Has for Long Time I unusually hard training is being done. Art of Won With One Ball. Been Encouraged in Englieh In uppenrunce they are neat nnd Slim Sallee enters tlie list of pitchclean. Uniforms much the same ns Army and Navy. ers Mho have won a game with one those of our own soldiers are worn bull. He went Into tlie game pitched The introduction of the manly nrt of between (Hunts and Iiralees on Augblue flannel in winter and khaki into the training work of ust 29 with two runners on lmses. two trimmed in red for. summer. Puttees are from with foreign shocA, und the various military camps throughout out and llie score tied in tin ninth. after never having worn anything but this country will( be a good thing for The first ball pitched was lined to straw sanduls or wooden getn (eycept the young soldiers. Robertson for nn out. Then tlie Giants for the few who were fortunate enough In England boxing has for a long went In and won In their half of the to have- attended military schools time been encouraged in the army aad ninth. where uniforms similar to those of the navy. soldier al-- worn) getting uccustomed Many noted British professionals are Rookie Strikes Out Cobb. to the foreign shoes is not the least men who learned to box while serving Rookies Rod Torkclsnn, who- - went Inof hardships of military training. in the ranks or on shipboard in the to the box for Cleveland on August 29 The regular soldiers arc paid about roynl service.' after Jim ISngby was knocked out, It is a certainty that from now on will have something to tell the folks yen 1.50 (or 75 cents gold) per month, for tobacco and spending money, ev- the same Ideas will be carried out In back home. Right off the reel be erything else being furnished them. this country, nnd it Is sure to follow funned Ty Cobh nnd I.olthy Vench. To us this seems an absurdly small thnt boxing gloves will be a part of the Then to show (lint lie Is an sum, but in Japan, where the cost of equipment of every encampment of the ball plnyer lie went to but and made a living is so low, this seems to provide American soldiers and of every Ameri- hit very comfortably for the modest needs can of the Japanese, who have practiced Clarka Arm Have Faith In Wood. from infancy. Catcher Tom Clark of llie Reds Is In spite of tlie fact that Joe Wood going to put himself In the care of The patriotic spirit is absolutely national. It has been instilled into them has done practically nothing toward a specialists this winter, hoping to get since Japun was a nation, and is one comebnck for the Indiana, Manager his arm in shape. Clark Is at the top of their most marked characteristics. Fold nnd club officials still believe that of his game in everything but throwIn the days when the old feudal lord&t Joe will eventually round Into winning ing, but whnt does it matter If a catch' form, and dulmlos ruled the land. er can hit .400 if he can't dirow? I never saw nn umpire display more nerve in n criticnl situation than the late Tim Hurst dkl one day In Cleveland years ago, said John McGraw. I was with tiie Orioles, und at the time we bad to dress In a shack un- lag-to- n h e. Extra-Innin- g First-clas- extra-innin- ncur-rlo- Self-Defen- self-defen- . - e all-rou- man-of-wa- r. self-deni- al A Hugh Jennings. believe that Detroit would find It hard to rela'ii his services if New York offered him an extravagant salary, which they can well afford io do : ml which would ho :i big strain on Detroit's treasury to meet with an eii'inl offer. Along vil!i Ibe name of .Tcnr.ing Is mentioned that of Billy the American league umpire. It is even said Iliat ITosidnit Johnson ts of the opinion that Evans would qualify as i first-clas- s manager and Hint lie would be willing to lose the st rvice of his best arbitrator for tin; sake of having a winning American league team in New York. SMALLEST CROWD OF SEASON Few Spectators Present to Concluding Game Between letics and Browns. Witna-- s Ath- Tlie Athletics made tlicir final for tlie yt ar in St. Ismis on August 2S before tin smallest crowd tint lia appeared qt tin Browns' park this year. Tin day was a gloomy one, with intermittent rainfall, but the two clubs were anxious to get the game off tlielr minds. When Business Manager Quinn of the Browns apologized to Business Manager Old of the A' hlcth-for tin smallness of the check, old fold Quinn not to mind, that tlie Philadelphia cl id) had done worse, nnd be told of a game in New York last year when the Athletics' slum of tin receipts were ? 4.(15. It wns raining on the day the game was played, and it kept on raining, hut tin managers wanted to clean up the schedule anil so they plnyeil, though there were only about n hundred fans, pusses and nil, in the park. s Nice for the Kids. tlie summer Philadelphia's division of physicul education conncct-- d with the public schools of that city maintained 140 playgrounds and 1G swimming pools, where instructors were ou hand to keep the child intertu developing ested health hud During strength. |