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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL •1111 t11111111 U I U IUIUUH i i Hi i! 1 U i i 111111111+++ i :Aids Giants in Big Flag Race E :i: + :t + f + + i i VERY year produces at least one outstanding pitching sensation in the major leagues and, 1f he keeps going at his present pace, Larry Benton of the New York Giants should annex tbe honors for the present year of 1928. Benton has turned In a surprisingly remarkable record so far this season and Is undoubtedly the main reason why the Giants are so near to the top In the National league pennant chase. Secured by John 1\!cGrnw from Boston In a trade for Kent Greenfield last year, Larry has become the mainstay of the New York start and the Gotham scribes are ballyhooing b!m as the equal of Mathewson, Plank, McGinnity, Brown, Walsh, Alexander, Johnson and others of that rank. Whether he's really that good Is hard to say, but a glance at the young man's records uur!ng the present campaign speaks wonders for him. One reason for Benton's success Is the way he takes care of himself. He Is always In bed by 10 :30 p. m. and his other habits are "ti!L:..1.1i:!& just as regul&r. When asked why he enforced his rigid training rules, he replied : -• "That's no effort. I like to lil-e regularly Larry Benton. because I feel so good physically. A man doesn't stay lu baseball many years, so I think he would be sort of a sap not to get all out of it he could." Benton Is a bachelor and, according to feminine reports, Is regarded as n particularly handsome one. He has brown eyes and auburn hairjust plain red, be insists. What is more disappointing to society, perhaps, is that Larry Is a confirmed bachelor. Baseball Is bls first love and be thinks it unwise to add another just now. "I've got plenty of time," he says, "and I may get married some day. I don't know much about it.'' Benton explains that his reason for chasing flies the day after he pitches Is to loosen up bls leg muscles which always become stiffened after a hard ball game. "Legs," be says, "are as Important ln pitching as arms. The chasing of flies relieyes the stiffness. Then my arms having rested I pitched to the batters the next day so as to gradually bring the muscles around again. 1 don't know that my system is the proper one, but it bas worked out all right for me." i ~ + ~ ~ + f ;j: + + ~ + f ;j: + + ~ ~ ~ + + f + + ~ + +~ ~ ~*+ + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ President Barnard in Favor of Later Opening President Barnard of the American league has expre~sed himself as agreeable to next year's opening in the majors being set for April 16, as the National league magnates desire. Indeed, he says that uate was tentatively agreed upon by the American league club owners some time ago. That means, presumably, that it Is all set, and that the big leagues will start 1929 on April 16. Naturally, the minors will arrange their programs to correspond. And we can Yenture that the first two weeks of April wfll be ideal for baseball-the Weather 1\!an is inclined to be that way. Girl Is Best Shot VDIAMDNDV /\PICK · UPS/\ The Toledo association club has obtained Chick Follis, outfielder, from the New York Giants. • • • Strangler Lewis Is arranging a farewell tour. Has the Strangler been talking to Harry Lauder? • • • If something could be done to make Brooklyn play the Cardinals for about a month, Cub stock would take n rise. •••• Umpire Becker in the Pacific Coast league says Gordon Rhodes' curve Isn't n cuf\'e-but n ten-inch shell ex· plodlng." •• • In Garland Buckeye, Fred Fitzslm· mons and Jim Faulkner the Giants have three of the biggest pitchers in · the big leagues. • • • Fred Sheridan, pitcher for the Washington Senators, was released to Walter Johnson's Newark (N. J.) Bears on option. • • • Helen Wills, the famous tennis star, played her first tournament at the Berkeley Tennis club in California, at the age of fourteen. • • • To check a losi~ streak, I! possible, Bloomington obtained Outfielder ll'ltz Gerber from Kansas City and Catcher Fenner from St. Paul. • • • Harry Slate, strikeout king of the New gnglanu league Ia~t season, with Nashua, has signed to pitch for Duffy Lewis' Portlanu Mariners. • • • Paul Easterling, a spring fancy at Detroit, Is now gardening for the Toronto Leafs. At least he has a better chance to be on a pennant winning team. • • • Alice Fincel, nineteen-year-old Dubuque girl, Is Iowa's best shot at the traps and t·ecently added to her laurels, the championship of 14 Cen· tral states. l\Ilss Fincel In Chicago compHed against the best women shots in 14 states. She broke 181 targets out of a possible 200, which gave her the title. ~liss Ed llamm of Georgia Tech, who smashed the broad jumping record In the Oympic trials, didn't start broad jumping untll be broke the arch in his left foot. • • • Jack Hendricks, Cincinnati manager, was one ot the first stars to make good In major baseball, having played for western university. Reus' college league North· • • • Bicycle riding bas now become a aport with the Moors. •• • Tommy Loughran predicts he will be the next heavyweight champion, • • • Well, they used to think Bill Tflden was like the New York Yankees are now. • • • Strangler Lewis says one or his hold9 id six thousand years old. Wrestling and necking, It seems, ore very old sports. ••• Dennis King, a very good actor and a gentleman rider of note, wants to bent any man on the stage in a steeplechase, with or without a side bet. • • • Frank Casale Is now manager ot Babe Herman, coast boy. He took over the papers from Jimmy Kelly. Casale hopes to put Babe on top of the lightweights. ••• An offer of $30,000 has been refused by Owner Rome Respess of Kentucky tor Belle of America. He has received no less than six otl'ers, ranging from f15,000 to $30,000. • • • AnchoTage, the deep-water terminus of the Alaska railroad, bas the north· ern most go! C course In the world. Players are on the links between eight and ten o'clock at nlg!Jt. • • • New York city has a cricket league compored of 12 teams of West Indians who engage Iu games regularly eyery Saturday and Sunday. • • • The emperor of Japan anrt the king l:ifam arc both entlmslastic golfet·s and ha1·e private Jinks for their own use on their pnlare grounds. or • • • featherweight Kilbane, Joh11ny cbnmplon of the world untll Eugene Crfqu! of France knocl;eu hlm out in 1921, Is refereeing IJOuts In the old rings in whith h6 Couj:ht title llattles. Dale Gear, president of the Western league and Western association, reports that the most pleasing note of the first half In each race bas been the lack of umpire trouble. • • • The Veteran John Ganzel has turned in his resignation as manager of the Laurel team of the Cotton Slates league and Robert Scl1ang, vet· eran catcher, has been taken on. • • • Babe Ruth Is believed to haYe the heaviest bat made. While the average bat used by other players Is from 28 ounces to 40 ounces, the great h•Jmerun slugger uses one weighing 52 ounces. VETERANS SUFFER IN HOT WEATHER Theory That Players Do Best in Summer Is Bunk. Ty Cobb, who should be quite an authority on the subject, snys there Is nothing but the bunk In the theory that old ball players do their best In the hot summer mouths. "As a fact,'' Gobb said recently, "old players actually suffer In the hot part of mlusenson. It Isn't a matter of soupers and legs melting out in the hot snn. It is the effect of hard, baked ground on sore legs. Old players can go best In early season when the mois· ture has not been bnked out by the sun and late in the fall. It's not punIshment to run on ~oft ground hut It's murder to pound the legs on con· crete." It will be recalled that unrin~ hi~ lust days with the :gers the ha~e lines and Cobh's spot in the outfield was wetted down fo thoroughly each night thtlt other clubs protested about wet grounds. It Is obYfous eYen to a casual glance that Cobb is almost iu pain when he has to do any walking- or running for thP ancient Philadelphia Athletics. At least the fans are Jeau to believe that from his actions. But the ball players soy that he Is foxing and grandstanding. Anil that he has fooled severtll clubs this season Into tbiuklng thnt when he gets to first it takes a triple to get him around. Cobb apparently enjoys the role· ot being a poor crippled old ball player trying to get along but he has overdone the acting so much tho t be hasn't fooled the smart teams. It Is quite certain, however, that this Is Cobb's last year. It you had all his dough you wouliln't work and you wouldn't even play. Arthur Fletcher, New York Yanl;ees' is comlnced the Ynnl,ees will win the pennant, hut he bases his con· l'iction on their work from day to day, and not on the size of the lead they hold nt present. "I lost a lot of faith in mere lea<!~," he said, "as long ago as 1014. 'fhat year the Giants, of whom I was one, held a 12-game lead on the Fourth of July, but the Braves won the pennant." "That was becau~e the Giants 1'ere frightened stiff,'' saiu Babe Huth. "Maybe,'' said !•'letcher, "but if that was so, fright must have been contagious that year, because the Uraves bent the Athletics four games In a row In the world"s series." I :t -!< :t-!< :t -!< f-!< ..,. :t :t -!< + f ~ + :t -!< :t + + + + f + :t :t :t + + * Baseball Is Maldng a Comeback in Ontario i+· + + ~ :j: + :!: + + + + :!: ~ .;. f;j:+ 1- :j: + ;!: + ~· .;. * ~ :1: + ~ ;!: + + BASEBALL ,jJJ NOTES tl!!lJ The Cincinnati Reds made tf1rfr hundredth double play of the season ou July 4. • • • It hegins to seem as if the league umpire mf:::ht have to call a balk on the Balkans. • • • Fred Sheridan, pitcher for Washing· ton, was released to Walter Johnson's Newark Benrs on option. • • • Charles A. Comiskey, owner or the Cl•fcngo White Sox, has been in baseball more than fifty years. • • • Old-timers say that Bartell, with the Pirates, Is a mental fighter or the type that the old I!altimore Orioles were. • • • Infielder Billy ll1ullen, returned to the St. Louis Browns by Kansas City, has been suspended because of physl· cal disability, • • • 'l'he Giants will return to an old stamping ground at San Antonio for their lD::!() spring training, Manager ~IcGraw nnnounceu. Young timer, is He now is of uo • • • Rl'd Ames, son of the oldhtll'ing a hard time out We~t. has a sore pitching arm and use to Wichita. • • • By stealing an even 100 buses In 1800, Bill Lange of the Chicago Nu· tionals, set a recoru that has never been equaled in the major leagues. Elmer Klummp, haru-Jolttin~ out fielder of the Ottumwa l'acket·s, was trader! recPntly tn the Burlington Bee~ for Outfielder Erl!lie Stock and $~00 • • • Whitey Ollerc, formerly of Pittsllur;;b of the I:;astern lengue, has been rel ensed and i~ playin!! fmlepenuent ball in the oulliel!l for Pottstown, f'a. • • • 'l'hey userl to say of .Jolmu,· El'ers that he "inrenteu" seeonrl base. Anti that's queer, hecau~e the New Yorl: 1anl;eeti 01lly recently imented baseball. Clyde Blauchard, a hurdler ot tlw • • Still Pays on Time • • • In the Olympic games or 1008 lacrosse was played by Englanu anti Canada. So it is not befog introuuceu this year. • • • Johnny Farrell, national open cham· pion, still uses on old putter that wa8 given to him by Tommy Kerrfgun when E'nrrell wa£ working In his shop at Siwnnoy. • • • Business Is not bad with Strangler Lewis, 1vrestling champion. He says he bas made more money this year than In any of lbe 16 seasons he bas been wres_tling. • • • They tell the story that Knute Rockne became an assistant coach at Notre Dame right nfter hls grauuatfon as the result of the flip of n coin. It happene<l that Jess Harper, beau coach, nccdeu n new assistant. The choice lay between Hockne and "Chuck'' Dorais. Dorais hail been the better ttla~·er, lmt he ag1·ecu to fiip n coin with Knute to S('e which one would have the joh. Ho('kne won. [Jornis went ont \\"est. In !Oi7 IlucktH• became hNtd nwst~r. ~ • • • • • • Flip of Coin +~ +++++++{·++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Turkey to Have Native Golf Course at Angora Rogers Hornsby says the Boston Braves may not be the greatest team In baseball but the management con· tinues to pay on time, t * +++++++++++++++ University of Arizonn, who hirl In a trunk aboard the S. S. Presirlent RooseYelt and wns found after the ship carrying the American Olympic 1 team was 24 hours at sea. Several I other athletes who were unable to qunllfy were found aboard us stow· nway.s. All but one were put in the brig, The first Turkish gold course Is to be laid out at Angora soon for the new Angora Sports club. The only foreign Jinks In the country are those at Constantinople, run by the Brltlsh anu American colonies. Foreign golf fans believe that the Grass tennis courts In Calcutta are Turks will tnlte well to the new sport, in use from November 1 to January 1. thanks to their ot·!ental gifts of pat!· ence and fatalism and thanks to the Nimba, a great horse last year, ha~ fact that golf does not requir~ team- been showing badly and will be replay, the spirit of which is allen to tired. their character. • Since he took oyer the reins at Yule In 1922, Ell Leader has watched five of hls varsity rowing shellg uefeat Harvard. • • • • • • I cone~. J. C. "Red" Smith has been released ;;;;;;;g..·~·i NATIONAL LEAGUE fans who are now Pnjoyfng a close penn11nt scramble, with fiye clubs havlug n chance to gmb the flag, will be viewing 11 run a w~y race next season, aecordlng to E. S. Barnard, presfuent of the American league. The head man of the junior circuit predicts that the St. L<mis Cards will be the New York Yankees of the oluer loop next year and outclass the rest of the field to such an extent tl~~Jt the pennant scramble w!ll be over about ru!dseason. 'l'he National league rnce Is good this season, he pointed out, not because there are any particularly good teams outside of the Cfll·ds, but because strength among fiye or six of the clubs Is well equalized. The prexy of the junior loop sized up conditions now existing in the baseball inst!· tutfon o1·er the fence as follows: CJuhs in the senior circuit, with the exc<'p· t!on or St. Loui~, haYe not <lone much to pro· teet their futures. '.file Ca•·dinnls have several farms seeded with promising material that cnn be urawu on wlJPn any o! their present stars fall hy the way~!ue. bonie Bush of I'ittgbm·gh has seen the handwriting anu Is tearing his championghlp team apart. 'rite Chicago Cubs have thrre go•Hl pitchers anti two outfielders who cnn hit, but their infield !~n't ns good as some of the worst ones in the American loop. The Cincinnati Reds have a veteran hurling E. S. Barnard. staff that wlll crack togeth<'r and the time tor cracking Isn't very far away. John ~IcGraw has one of the worst Giant teamg he ever managed. The pitching and catching is weak, outfielclers not even fair. 'l'he Infield is the one rerleemin~: feature. Brooklyn has fine pitching, but D<•thfng else. Boston anu Philadelphia have been watching the race from the bottom of the Iauder for so long that a runaway race w!ll be no novelty. 'J'he Canis have the best-balanced team In the )ln.tlonal league and the star players are )'oung enough to go on for sel'eral years with occa8ional replacements. New York Yankees Will Win, Says Art Fletchet • • • heavyweight Buckeye, Garland pitcher, was ~igned by the Giants recently, ·rounding out the biggest battery In llaseball. With Buckeye's 250 vound~ on the pitching mound nnd Fran!; !logan's 215 puun•ls behiud the plate tt.e total weigl1t will be 4G!i f10U1His on the hoof. * Arizona Stowaway The Indianapolis club of the Amerl· can assodatlon has closed negotiations for doing Its 1929 spring train· fng at Sarasota, Fla., once the head· quarters of the New York Giants. The Indians were at Plant City last spring. When the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Boston Braves 20 to 12 recently they did a lot of scoring but dld not approach the record. ln August, Chi· cago Cubs defeated the Phill!es 20 to 23 Pi~k~ I u:~di~;i~ I~~ ·wi~ I Four Runs Are Scored as Player Strikes Out While Walter Johnson Is worrying over the standing of the Newark Bears and wondering when he'll pitch a full game, his son Walter Johnson, Jr., is likewise n manager of the Milburn Terriers of Milburn, N. J. • • • lUll To those who watch Inten~ely enough there should be enough gfgns, omens and loose straws blowing about to encourage the conviction that base· ball Is beginning to hold Its own In Ontario and, If anything, Impro1'e Its outlook and posftlon. The game has been on the de!enFreak plays are numerous In base- sh·e, and rather a passive orte, for the ball, but Barney Burch, owner of the last t11·~ or six years. Softball, men's Omaha Western league club, describeR and girls', golf 11nd the Increase in what he believes was the greatest of motorists were all factors which conall. It was four runs on a strikeout. tributed to baseball"s gradual retireIt happened in the Des Moines· ment to what the more pessimistic Omaha game on ll!ay 24, 1026. With pictured ns ultimate oblivion. two out, an Omaha player singled. The professionals felt It first. The Two others walked, filling the bases. Mint league held on for several lean Then Chuck Carroll, Omaha shortstop, years, then gaspeu a farewell. The fanned on a low ball, which rolled to amateurs, whose box offices are not the gmn<lstnnd. quite so sensitive, soon felt the effects Instead of retrieving the ball and of new rivals and the retirement hns touching Carroll or the home pi ate, been general all along the line eYer the Des Moines catcher, Homer Ha· since. worth, rolled the ball to the pitcher's box. The three Omaha base runners started to leave for their positions, bot Burch noticed the situation, sent them back to their bases, and ordered th~ lo run home. They did, scoring four runs, while the Des 1\!oines players looked on in bew!luerment. ''Our man on first passed tlte one on second In the homeward rush,'' Burch said, "but the umpires didn't notice It. 1'he runs were nlloweu an!l from that day, Haworth was the most particular man in basehall about the third strike." • • • as manager of the Springfield club or the Three·! league and his duties taken over by Roy Whitcraft, former manager of the Terre Haute and Evansville clubs. Springfield finfsheu seventh in the first halt of the present Three-! season. r Steve Rehab, Baltimore fireman, was trained and ready to plunge otT next day for a swim ncross Cbesa· peake bay when he wn~ taken down with appendicitis. • • • Every time Johnny r:Isko wins n fight he gets arrested In his hom'! town, Cleveland, for speeding. 'l'hnt'g his way of relaxing. • • • Johnny Farrell Is ~nlu to Jwye ma<it: more thnn $100,000 by his remarknhle nbility. Most of the ~olt pls~·in~ money Is tnYestf'CI In real estate. • • • !i:em1 th Doherty of Ot>troit won the natinnal <I• ~uthlon d~:tmpi< nship with · 111 11!. 1 1:1 ;: li•·st in a slugle eveut 1c n • ' · ~ un • sun!. h<ca use of his "I t1 11 d • • • Duffy Lewis has been aided by !•'rani: l'!tchers with Bridgeport Bnsh<'Y and Lefty Tra~·nor, who are with the Portland (~1uine) club under option. • • • Although he bas failed time and agafu as a batter In the big leugues, Nick Cullop, the outfielder, Is bitting around the .3i0 mark In the Southern association. • • • Fred Partridge and Joe Brognn have been shipped to Manager Stuffy Mcinnis of Salem In the New England league, by Bridgeport. They are both out on option. • • • Hank O'Uay, t·etit·er.J National league umpire, who lives In Chicago In summer nnd In Callfnru!a iu winter, is enjoying ball game~ these durs from a sha<ly box sent. Friday, August 17, 1928 MANAGER KANE'S CAREER VARIED • Pilot Was Jockey, Singer and Saxophone Player. Eddie Kane, who handles the business affairs of the very good llttlP. !f«htwelght champion, Sammy Mandell, has been, at various times In bls career, a jockey, a singer and hoofer. a fancy billiard crack. and a saxophone player or great skill. When he was In England several yearg ago he 1\·as given entree to anotber racket but, be It said In justice to him, he uidn't accept. Kane was enjoying a soe!ahle eve· nin;;- In the Savoy hotei hur with a ]Htrty of friends and they were joiuect by another group which Included a t•atlJer stunniu~ woman. ~·he lady took u liking to Kane Rnrt procPNied to rnp;:1ge him In he<tvY con· 1·er~ation. which was not to his liking He kept one ear on the cotll·ersation of the o~hers and yessed her. She aslted him 1f he knew a number of perfons in Chicago nnd .New York nnu after he hail fold her that he knew each one of them well she told hill! quietly: "You come with us tonight. We know a good SllOt you're in. The first glance I took at you I spotted you as a dip." Kane tells a story about the first time he tool< Sammy Mandell out on the road. They went to a swell hotel and Sammy tried out a new fancy shower, but when he finished he couldn't find any tol\ els on the rack so he picked Utl the bath mat which was folueu on the side of the tub. He gave him~elt a brisk rub and then shouted out to Kane: "Gee, these towels are stiff. They're great for a rubdown but I can't get it in my ears." Stretch of Consecutive .300 Seasons for Cobb ABBREVIATE D ".\unt Dinah, what are the names of yuur twin children?" asked a culll!r. Aunt Dlnub swelled with fJI'!d~. "De ~ boys' name am Alplmhet, an' rle girra name am Alphabettn,'' she said. "Could I see them 7" "Yns'm, I'll call urn," said Diuuh. • And shuffling to the door rhe CIIJlpeu her hands and called, "A!falfu! Alfalfa I" WOULD REGRET IT "It a man steals, he'll live to regret lt." "Jack stole a kiss from me last • night." "Well, what I said, goes." If Ty Cobb bats .300 till~ season (and one of the safest predictions In Muzzle Her baseball that we know of Is that he A dame we would like will) hls stretch of con~ecut!Ye .300 To put out oC biz, Is the one who phones: seasons will reach 23. No other player, ''Guess who this ls !" tiling or dead, ever had more than 20 se~Rons of .300 clubbing in his record. Brother• Adrian C. Anson, the lmmortnl cap· David Garrick, the actor, was once tain of the Chlcagos, had averages of .3()(1 or better for the first 20 season8 stopped In a London street by a mnu in Yery ragglid clothes. ''Hullo, Gar-of his career. Anson played major league ball rick, don't you know me?" said the from 1871 to 18Di Inclusive, a stretch man. "I am afraid I do not," replied Garrick. of 27 sensons. "But we used to act together at Cobb Is playing his twenty-fourth Lane,'' replied the tattered one. Drury be If league. season In the American so I" exclaimed Garrick. "In ~ that "Is not will he plans present sticks to his "In 'Hamlet.' I took play?" what seasons. 27 of record Anson's equal Cobb Intends to make this his last the part ot the cock and crowed beyear. He is positil'e that he will retire hind the curtain." at the end of the season. If he does Trying to Please Him change hls mind and couseut to try another season, 1920 will certainly see "Ah, monsieur r 1 call to see Mr. his retirement to privute life. Smith," said the foreign ylsltor. While Anson played 27 ,-ears, Cobb "You can't, be's not down," replied ha~ pla~·cd more games than Anson, the valet. or any other man for that matter. In "Vat you tell?" said the visitor. "I the day when Anson was a great slug· come yesterday and you say I cannot ger the seasons diu not carry 154-gume see heem been use he Is not up. Now schedules. you say I cannot see heem because be Is not down. Vat you mean? Ven vill he be In ze mludle ?" Where Bobby's Strength Lies in Game of Golf Profc,·sional golfers ~ay whnt makes Eo!Jhy Jones a ~upermnn on the links is not so much the rlrir~>:< ~n(l Jror< ~hots. of whieh n lot has IJern written . as It is his st;ilf within 20 feet of the· gn'rn. 'l'lw ~hot which even the exper~ dread~ I" the short appronch from tb,• cd;:e of matted ;::rass or the short pitch from wet sand. 1'hese shots are fWison to most pi ayers, h;~t p!e to Boblly. Put him within !.!0 feet of the green and, no matter what the lie may he, the chances are that he 1\'ill to~s the hall near t11e cup and hole his putt. That's golf! Ignorance The Master-What Is Ignorance? Ills Pupii-I!(norance Is when you don't know something nnu somebody finds It out. Willing Worker "My appeal Is to the plain peepul." "Go easy there. Don't you want us . to get out the good-looking vote?" DRESSES SWELL 1 Fred Mitchell Renamed as Head Baseball Coach The announcement of the reappoint· ment of Fred Mitchell as head buse· ball coach Is made by the Hnrvnrd Athletic association. It was said that Mitchell has signed a contract whicll will not expire until 1931. Ultchell first took charge of HarHarmrd varu baseball In lDlG. dropped the game when the war broke out In ID17 and Mitchell did not re· turn to Cambridge until 1924, when h4! served as pitching conch. He had been head coach since 1020. "Did you say she dresses wpll ?" "No, dresses swell-she's fat." Humble Pyrotechnic• The llrenv nrlngs a gentle glow. He make• no glorious din. He sees hie duty here below, And 1oeo the best he kin. Southworth Hits Hard • • • • • • Peoria has purchased Pitcher I.eftj Hinkle from San Antonio of the Texas league. Pitcher ' Crandall, 11 Three- I vetemn, w:ls also sfgneu and Gus Foreman was releused. Intermediate • • • Farmer (to friend)-! t1ear, Bert, that while ye were In the eity ye to•,J; up this here golf. How'd ye like it 1 Bert-Well, It ain't bad. It's a bit llarder than hoein' turnips an' u bit easier than diggin' potatnes. The first home run hit by Babe Ruth in the American league was scored otT Pitcher Wnrhop of the New York Yankees, 1\Iay 6, 1015. Ruth was then pitching for the Boston Red Sox. • • • • • • Pitcher Wilbur lluhbell was released to the Nashville Southern association team 1 !Jy the .\linneapolis American associ a tlou club recently and Infielder Hay J aco!Js was obtained from the Chicago :'\alionals, to re· port soon. • • • Basl·ba!J Is maldng rupit! >Irides In London, us muny as 11,000 turning out ftll" the Bnnday games. 'l'i'e gr·enlest iutl·rcst is shol\ n whru the London Ameril'ans piny the Oxfot·u Amel'ican3 (!Utotles PdJUiars) or the team f•·om the R B. Leriatlmn - Exigenciea of Art "It seems to me," said the m.1n who had returned after a long ahst'D('(>, "that Crltoson Gulch Is clinging to the old lawless traditions to a renlllrkable extent." "Yes," answered Cactus Joe. "und It's gettln' terrible tiresome. !Jut we',·e got our business Interests to protect. When we ought to be llvfn luxurious we have to keep up uppeuranl'es necessary to prestige as location for pil:ture dramas of the untrummelcd West."-Washlngto n Stur. Wulter Johnson showed Outfielder Bill J~amar and Pitcher Hughey McQuillan that he could be tough when he suspended them because tbey weren't In condition. Sporting writer assures us that home runs Is only part of the great· ness of Babe Ruth. Well. witb due allowance for his J!lnrlly disposition and e1·erythlug, It \\111 hn1·uJy be denied that home running has n good deal to do with his popularity. • That'• the One 1 - Bllly Southworth, former mujm leaguer with the nocbester Interna· tlonals, Is showing no signs of lo~ing his batting power. He's well abo1·~ the .340 mark. Johnson-! hear Smith is lmil>!J, - en.. fle true? It for 8 c11shier. Is gugeu 8 new one only u montlt "~" Jackson-That's the one he is lr•ot; mg for. New Sprint Star Apo!ogy With a Kick • "In ~-ouJ pap~r this murulng you M!chfgnn"s newest sprint star, Ed wrote of wy ~pceeh ut the puulic meet· die 'l'olan, who will he eligible for \UI'· lng la5t night as the 'in~ane dril'elings sity competition fu the fall, marie hb of n pla.I·Prl-out politiciun .'" fir~t ap11l'arance on the "ft·ont pa;::e" "\\'hat I ~ly dear sir, I am truly wl•rn he won the 100 ntH! !:!!.!U-yard sorry If It OJl]JNtrPd thnt way In our dashes In the sectional Olympic try paper. The word I u~rd wns 'inane.'·· outs at Detroit. In winning the 2~0yat·d uash 'l'olnn outrun Alderman of And Such Prizes ~Iicbignn Stall', one of the oolstan<ljng won o lol'ing cup 111st -l':111<y t.la f'il men in the countrv at tl•l~ rllstnnce.. 1 n g!Jt. \. Tolan first hec,nne. fli'Omiu~nt at lle· ga~·e they know didn't I (Itt! '·.ul I 1 troit Cass Tcchni.' al h,gh stlwol anu prizu; fN th:u.-'l'he l'athflnder. is nuw going nlong nicely, I ~ |