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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .r.. BROUTHERS WAS YY""r..-..-rrrl'4r.-m rr. .,.-...-,... ,.......,................................................... • • • . • • .- -, r. • • • • DIFFERENT BATS SWUNG BY STARS . MIGHTY HITTER McKechnie Looks Like Winner :i:y • ..~...............JiJ.....• ....II....A........... ~.__.__,~..-JI! Babe's Is Bit Heavier Than Lou's, but Same Style. Marjorie Morrill Will Stick to Buttermilk :llisR :llarjorle Morrill, Boston's twent,·.year-old tennis ace, attributes much· of her success on the courts to a diet of buttermilk and string beans. One of her latest Yictories occurred in the eastern association tournament when Boston won the Sears cup for the second time, says the Cleveland !'lain Dealer. Prior to that she had heaten Miss :l!ary Dixon Thayer, Philadelphia's star, and had beaten )!iss Betty Nuthall of England on the RiYiera. "Ye~. It's truE>,'' Mi~s ll!orrlll said, "that I about Jh-e on buttermilk and beans. Not Boston baked beans, but string beans. I ha,·e been Pntlng them and drinking buttermilk for years. It gives me energy and isn't fattening." "Sunny Jim' Stars VDIAMDNDX 1\PICK·UPS A pedestrian was "be\Ded" by a budding Oriental Bnbe Ruth In Tokyo, causing a ban on street bali games. • • • Ray Gnrdnet·, short~top with New Orleans, Is being hailed as one of the best young short~tops In the minor leagues. • • • Billy Jurges, shortstop of the )Janchester baseball club of the Xew England lt>ague, has been sold to the Chicago Cubs. • • • Larry Benton Is termed by many baseball experts as the "best and smartest'' pitcher llcGraw has had since the "days of Matty." • • • Tom Na~h. Georgia's great athlete wa~ farmed out to the Buffalo Internationals for ~easonlng ns soon as he reported to the New York Giants. • • • FA!die Taylor, former Buffalo International league Infielder, but this year rt>serve player with the Boston Braves, hns been signed by the Toledo :11ud Hens. ••• In view of no old American league tradition that the leader on .July 4 will win tht> pennant, ~e,·eral critics are now snld to fa\ or the chances of the Yankees. Anoth~r • • • . rather ingenious suggestion has been nd,·anced in the matter of cutting down )!r. Ruth's mauy home runs; to wit; )fake him stand behind the catcher. • • • Ernest E,·ans, aged ninnteen ~·ears, is the ~·oungt>st plarE>r with the Giants. He plays shortstop and was a~quired from the Portsmouth club of the Ylrglnla league. Jim BottomlE>y of the St. Louis C'ardlnuls is one of the &tars of the National league. Fie is n fine fielder and hard hitter. His team mates call him ''Sunny Jim." Prize fighters get a mlllion dollars a bout-and not maybe. • • • Dora has gone along !or se,·erul years now imagining that "racketeers" are t€ nnis cha mpi.ons. • • • Ra~·monrl • • • "Ducky" Pond, famous Yale baseball pitcher and ~tar halfback n few years back, has he('n signed by the Lynn club of the Xew Englund league. • • • Cup Anson, old-time bnsehall ~tor, once said after he had taken up golf that he w~uld rather see bnF>eball than golf. but would pr('fer to play golf to seeing baseball. • • • A writer who has studied them t'Xtensl\-ely says even in Yictory the New York Yanks don't seem to try parUcutnrly, ~Iaybe they are ju<~ playing from memory. ••• Fronk Lockhart's number, '"2," repre~enting his point standing among auto races, was not assigned to an~· one for the Jndiauupoils speedway race. A Philadelphia scrlht> comm('nt• I with finP ~arPasm that Eddie Rommel is called a relief pitcher bt>cause the opposing tt>am niwars feels relief when it sees him enter the box. Boots Fairbrother, a !('ading jockey FHcrnl years u~o. recently turned in his riding license. He applied for and was gi\'en a license as a trainer in New York. Earnest Orsnttl, fleet-footer! outfielder, who was sent to the :\1inneapoli~ club of the American as~oclation on a ten-day option after he helped the Cardinals in the 102i drh-(', has bE>en recalled. • • • • • • Rival football tE>ams representing the fire departments of Los Angeles and San Francisco will meet next fall in October on neutral grounds at Sacramen to. • • • The Colorado Rtate boxing commission has ruled that no more flushlight pictures may be taken during the eourse of n bout, as a result of ftghters' and fans' protests. • • • Paolino Uzcudun, Basque heavyweight, knocked out Ludwig Haymann, Germun champion, in the Pleventh round of their match for the European hea\·yweight title. Ed • • • ("Strangler") Lewis, world's hea\'~·weight wrestling champion, has sailed for a three-months' tour of England and the continent. • • • Ten pins Is enjoying a revl\'al In Philudelphia anu in Hartford, Conn .. "·here a new 48-nlley structure was just recently completed. • • • Alonzo A. ~tngg, d('an of American athletic directors and coaches, has trained track tN1ms twenty-one years. baseball lhirty-one )·ears and football thirty-six years in Chicago. Babe Rutl1 and Lou Gehrig u~P the ~nme style but. Gehrig copied his from Ruth. The bats are murh the same except that Ruth's has n larger knlh on the hnndie. A few yen rs ngo Babe did not en re how heavy his bats wer(', hut for the last two years they ha,·e weighed 4:? ounce-s each. Gt•hrlg uses a 38-ounce bat. Both models art> 3:i inches long. Trls SpeakE>r u•es a ali-inch but of 38 ounces, with a hu·ge end, the ~ame sort as is used hy Hornsby nnrl H('ilman. It is interesling to know that this st~·Je bat, whi(·h tapPrs down from a thitk end to a smull body and a thin handle, was orlginnted b)' Hal C'hnse, the greatest first baseman the game e,·er knew. The flr~i bat Ty <'ohb eYI'r use<.J in the big !('ague wu~ M the Burry Davis model, Harry ot·lginatt>d the thinhandled bat. Cobb helped to wakE> It popular. But Cobb shortened the DaYis model a bit, shaYed oft the handle a little and made a model <;f his own, one that he has used Her ~Inc!'. Eddie Roush ot the ::\ew Yurk Glnnts swings a ht>a\·y Lludgeou. Tht'y range au~·where from 48 to 00 ounces each. His model Is a ~hort, stuhhy. thlr-k-handied club about 3:! inches long. l'nul "'aner uses a stubby club, too, but hiR bat has a thin huudle. l'aul IR a little fellow but he swings a 40ounce bat. At Simmons of the Athletics and Sterr!~·. a recruit with the St. Louis Browns, use the longest bats. They measure 37 Inches. The regulations permit a bat 42 inches long, but no player in the big time uses a club that long. '.fhe average bat is about 3:i Inches long. Eddie Collins u~e• the smallest b11.t of any of the top-notehers. It is a thin-bodied club, 34 inches long and only 34 ounces in "·eight. It is a little larger than a fungo stick. One time when he was \'iitlt the Chicago White Sox during the reign of Kid Gl~ason, Collins was in a batting slump. He \Vas desperate, for no matter how he stood or swung he could not get a ltll. Finully he grabbed a fungo stick, a light, slim affair, and he belted out a home run and cnme out of his slump. Unusual Names Quick to Capture lmagination '\\hat's in a name? Almost everything. The rose by any other name hardly would smell quite a sweet, after all. Most of the men who capture the imagination of a nation have unusual names. Rogers Hornsby got his start in the big lea!,"'les because liiller Huggins was attracted by his rather unusual name. Babe Huth wouldn't be quite the figure l>e is under the name of Joe Smith. "Fortune likes tlnr> names," said James Ru~sell Lowf.'ll, "and Fnnfe loves best sudt SJilaltles as nre sweet and sonorous on the tongue." ~ f ·f ;r.. :1: .jo •• .1. ..1.. •l• ·l·•• .1, .-}. •1• :l: ...•} ·':r,.r.· f t "J,. ).,-: .....,. :l: •} "1" .. ·.,·. I •} ..·r.•1, ;l: ..-jo ,1. •l•hi •1• ~: ,I, :l: y "I' y "1" ~: .,.• • 'I' 1 • • •• ••• living proof of the old adage that he who Jaug!Js lust gathers no mos~. For Bill, forced by Barney Dre~·fu~s two rears ago to walk the plank, has slipped in under the Black Flag bout and stuck a marlin spike through bt>low the water line, says a writer in the Xew Orleans P!cayu11P. Right now Dre~fuss facE's the prospect of watching his scuttlt>d ship flounder miles from the bench while McKechnie leads his Cardinals up the s11nds on a flight to the treasure cow. McKeclmle, d>nrged with needing help to manage the Plrat('s to a pennant, is doing a pretty good job of dlrecting the St. l-ouis teum without any helil outside of the co-operation he gets unsolirited from the bo)'R on the tl'am. While Uabbit )laranville's comehnck Is 'playing a valuable part in the dri\'e of the St. Louis cluh, and the work of old Gt·over Alexander, Frankie Frisch, .Jim Bottomley and oth('rs mu~t drnw them a share of the credit, it is l!enerally ugreed thut the nstul!• leadership of McKechnie is th!' binding post on .the i>t. Louis wagon. ~lcKPchnie led the Pirntl'~ to a pennant in 19~ii. The next year, despite Bill's succes•. <lissen~ion nrose in the ranks ot the team. Dreyfu8s, possibi)' in an enl'llest etrort to correct matters, pln~ed Fred Clarke, once idol of the Manager McKechnie. Plrttte fans as a pla.ver, on the bench with McKt>chnle, to re(Jre~ent the busln('SS office as a~•istant t o 1Ite presld ent or something like that. One result of this action wns a "round robin" sugge~tion from the players that Clarki' be chased from the bench, Capt. :\lax Carey, l'itcher CJ~·de Barnhart and Outfielder Carson Bigbee were suspended and later disposed of ns a result of this activity. Then came McKechnie's remora!. Last ~-ear )!cKeclmie was signed ns conch by tht> ~t. Louis Cnrdinnls, to lrelp Manager Bob 0 Farrell, who was then serving his no\'ltiate as a pilot 'l'he Cardinals failed to retain the championship to which Rogers Hornsby had Jed them the ~-ear befor·e. O'Farrell, though a brilliant catcher, fell short of expectations as a manal(er. The added Jabot·s also detrltCted from his all-around work behind the plate. McKechnie ga\'e O'Farrell and the Card owners the best he had, hO\\eYer, and his selection as manager to succeed O'Fat rell wus a popu I ar mo\·e. Ait('r getting away to a poor start, due to lnjuri('S to several of the rt>gulars and the failure of the pitching staff to click as it did in 1!!27, th<> Cardinals wallowed about uncertainly for a few weeks. Then tllt>y fo~nd themselves. And Bill McKt>chnle Is letting the duy's club standin~s ·do his Jaul(hlng· with possible hope that Barney Dreyfuss and his office strategy board are still reading them and weeping. in a COQious manner. + 'I' "t" ·- -. IT-LI.\~1 M'KECFINIE, boss or the St. Louis Cardinals, is a :;: I ;t •. -.- ... .. ;:; •} t i:;; •1• -jo ~: ;l; -jo ~: y :;: "1" •y•• .•i•.. "1" •t •1• 't .,.•"1"• 1 ::: •1• •·~·1• ..·l· '1' .1, .,. ~= .,. ·.·~. :l: •1• ·l· ,"I", ·'· .+. ,1, ,1. :l: ·l·.. + .1. ••• ":" ::; •1• :l: ·l· "t" "I" •1• ·:· •1• ":" :;: •:• ":" .,. :1: :1: .:.:. :-:-:-:-:..:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-·=· .. . Schalk Favors Benefit Society for Old-Timers If Rfty Scbalk, of the Chicago White Sox, has a pt't peeve it is the tou~lt breaks he says down and out ball players get. "It's a downright shamt>," said the fiery little t'X·manager, "the way many m~. who hn,-e given the best years of their UYes to baseball, are forced virtually to b('g ...- a Jiving In their old age. 'fhe average fan does not realize !hat where there is one highly paid player there are scores who receive ordinary pa~·." llay declares the present benefit organization is not functioning the wuy it should. He snys one modeled nfler the actors' association Is needed. Browns Find Star BASEBALL~~~ NOTES 1!41 Babe Ruth continues In a mo~t remarkable way to qualify for ~ucces· sors·hip to the late ahkound of Swat. • • • Clenland boasts 30,000 youngsters engage<! In amateur baseball In various league tourneys pla~·ing hard and soft ball, • • • During the season of 190:i Big Ed Walah of the Chicago White Sox, pitched to 1,690 batter!'-a major league record. • •• John Shinners, n cousin of the vet· eran Jlnlph, has been turnt>d o,·er to ~~aretteville fot· ~easonlng by the Phll· adelphia Athletics. • • • The Jndlanapolis American M~odu tion buselmll clui> will do its S[ll'ing training in 1!!2\J nt Sai'U<ota, on the we.:;t coast of Florltla. • • • For three consf.'cuth-e ~-ear·s, 101:!, l!.l13 and 1014. Eddie l'ollins, of the I'hlladelphin Athletics, led t11e American league in ~coring of run~. Comeback of Bodie Rusty ~aundet·s, Fort "'ayne star, who went froiJl Dallns. 'fl'x., to Waterhury in the EastNn league la•t ~en ~on, hns been traded hy Waterbut·y to B~i<lgPport, Conn. Ping Bodle, rotund star of many major league rnmpulgns, appears to haYe found a fountnln of youth out on the Pacific con"t. WhE>n Bodie was released at the clo~e of the 1926 season he was fat and ~low, and critics predid('d that be hnd pluy!'d his lust game in fast company. Now, two venrs Inter, the chunky Italian Is setting the raciflc Con~t league on fire as a memhl'r of the ~1isslon Bells. Lntest figures gh·e his batting average at .380. Hogan a Real Giant • • • Urban Shocker, one of the best of the spitball pitchers lt>ft in majot· league bo.:;ebnll, rec('ntl~· wa~ uncou· rlitionali~· releu~ed hy the Xew Y01·k Yankees. • • • The ~ale of .Johnny llot·an, pitcltt>r, to the Rirmlngltam dub for a cash ron~id~ratlon wns announced hy ollicials of the Chattanooga Ba~eball company, The St. Louis Brow11s, who, inddenktlly, ha\·P shown what can be uone by tlll·ning a bttd team Inside out ht>tween season~. have a lad named Kress. Buseholl men agree he is about as flue a shorstoppiug prospect as seen in some days, but can anrborly pic· ture !tim continuing to bnt .400 as at present? Th('~' have not disCO\'('red his weakness. Of course, if hP sli<l~>s dawn eYen ns much as 100 points he still will be worth hn ,-(ng nt·ound. [,OHJ.rtHOtesl A sport writer prl'dirts old ~lila• McTigue will quit the !lrst of the year. But he didn't say what year. • • • Har,·ard has just announced tickets for the Yale game will he :;::; each. Judging from past performanct>s Har,·ard won't get half that mudt fun out of it. • • • Johnny Haas, Northwpstt>rn uni· versity foothall player, is reported re· covering following an operation foi acute nmwndi ·itis at his home in Fargo, N. D. Raymond I•'. Coombs, nephew of Jnck Coomhs. former Philadelphia Athletic pitching star, has been elerterl captain of the Phillip~- Exeter ucadem;; nine for the third con•ecuth·e ~-enr. He is captain abo of the football squad. • • • Fl~·ing Cloud, who won $.1,000 In the 482-mile m rathon on the Pacific coast, said he would use the money to help hi$ parents and then would get an education. • • • • • • J. Francis Hogan, the giant catcher obtained from Boston In the trade for !:ogers Hornsby, ,sa real giant and experienced difficulty In finding a uniform large enough to cover his frame. In our opinion the best fitted man to run for nny office is a baseball umpire. Amos Rusie's Debut The Texas lenl(ne hns decided on a rather complicated scheme for determining the money for ~erond and third-I>lnre teams that will come to them out of the Dixie series. In case Houston does not win both hnh·es, and there is a piny-otT to ~ee which team meets the Southern lengne repre~entath·e~. then the defeated tenm ~ha11 be rel!arded ns the ~econd place team, and thlrrl place will be rleclded on the standing for the full season. The rattle of base hits sounded like hail falling on a zinc-clad root. He was lammed nnd slammed-he proYt>d a broken reed. This was the rlehut of Amos Rusie bark In 1889. The speer! Jting of that period was touched for 16 hits jlnd that many runs In his first big league game. Xever in any of the 400 games he hurled after thnt was he trented so roughly. Itusie's first year wasn't a howling success then, but he more t!Jan made up for it In later years. • • • ~ ·-~ If" ....... ·- -. That incident in hasehali, described ns the dea<ll~- base on bulls, hns play('(! a much more lmportnnt part' In the antics of the Cubs this season than all the solid hitting, ot· luck of it, that has caused a commotion among the customers. A bast> on balls or a hatsmnn soaked In the ribs now and th<'n doe~n·t seem to be an~·thing alurrnin~. But when a check of Cub hex scores show that of the fir~t GO runs srored against ~IcCarthy's ho~·s this year, ap· proximately half were put on the ba~e on balls or hit batsmen, then it Is something else a~nin, •• • • • • I W ·J~· Base on Balls Proving Great Bane to the Cubs • • • "Buby Doll" Jacob~on, Toledo outfielder, has been released to the Chattanooga club of the Southern a~soci· ntion. Glenn Mes~ner, the young shortstop who hns heen with Toledo since early spring, has hPen sent to the Providence club of the Eastern league. i i &...._•J Minnesota h11s one of the greatest punters In ltR football history in prospect for next season. The kicker is Paul Kirk, freshman halfback, who will be eligible for the varsity squad this year. • • • Leroy W. KrnuthotT of Rockford, Ill., a first-class man, has been named manager of the 1928 lacrosse team at the United States Military academy. • •• After participating in the crosscountry "bunion derby," Wynn Roberts of Wallace, Idaho, made his way back from New 1'ork on foot. • •• Eric I.ambart, star stroke of the Columbia crew, Is a Brilish citizen. He has been Jh·in~ here for years, but his part>nts have not met. all the re· qulrementl! f~ American citizenship. Helped Detroit Win Its First World Title. Undefeated Pitcher • • • • • • Fred ~1oncewicz. former Bo~ton college Infielder, who joined the Iter! Sox recently, hns bPen reiea,-ed on option to the Brocl;ton club of the Xew En~land il'a;rue. Politic• Everywhere "I lln\·e been very much Impressed." remurked Senator Sorghum, '•by readIng Milton." " 'P11 ro rlise Lost?' " uYes. It looks to me as if even when you get to heaven you nre li· able to encounter ancient traces ol some rather ugly polltics."-\\'ashing· ton su:r. t "You didn't could read "Sh-hr-h-h I mother might Triala of a Touriat Though we may roam There's no place Hke home. When the pocketbook's empty. Behind the Timet Mrs. Fowler-! don't see uny mod· ern impr01·ement io that strain ot hens. The Breeder-Why, madam! They're rlnily layers, non-sittersMrs. Fowler-! know all that, but whPn they lay they don't cackle a bit louder tbun heos did when eggs sol<.! for fifteen cents a dozen. Advancing Refinement "Guess we'll lta\'e to change the name of Crim~on Gulch," remarked l:actus Joe, as he pinned a carnation en the lapel of his dinner coat. ''\\'bat.'ll we call It'!" "We ought to sacriflce the old name entirely. We mlgh. rename it 'Pink Rintlet."-Wnshington Slnr. LOADED WITH POWDER 1 • rter. Thz Di1card I strove In vain to throw awa) The little <"ari!S of yesterday, Ed Walsh, Jr., a Sox Bul to find 0111 that, more or lesa, I threw R way the happiness. Allre1l and Eloiae "\\'!tat's the mutter, !::Ioise?" a,;ke!l ,\lfr~d. 1 • • • of the l't. Louis Cardinals at·e sa i<l to be rr>ady to bring !;hort· <top Gelbet·t to ~t. T.oui~ fmm their Rochester farm. C:l'lhert's play this season has bol'(lered on the sensa· tiona I. "This t·edpe calls for potato cui>~s·• "\\' ell7" "I've be('n i rylng to cook potatr1 cuh!'s for two hour,• now, nnd all I get is mash('d f!Otatoes." DodginiJ the Queatio:1 :\l1·:-:. -1 )o ~·ou lovf! me as mucl, n--, yon did when you first mnrriPd me7 ~Ir. A.-llPil"ens! You talk as if I hail ..lat'l'led yru more thnn once. • • • Their Daily Quarrel Lena lllacl;hume, who was appointed manager of the White Sox when Ray S!'ltalk resi!:ned, fir<t joined the Sox In 1()0(). They paid $S,500 for him, a shorktop, whirh was a high price tlren. An~elina-l'm • • • Among rumored innoyations In Xn · tionnl iea~ue baseball next winter will he the appointment of Henry Fahlan. grounrlkeeper of the Polo ground•. us supervisor of the grounds of the cir cult. Along with the appointment of ~'nbian may come a rule fixing the height of tile pitchers' mound. Ed. Walsh, Jr.. who recently joined the Chlcn~o White Sox. \\'hen he was at Notre Dame he had quite a spectacular baseball career. and If he can follow in the footstE>ps of his dad, the Sox will have made a good speeulntlon. Joe ~haute, Cle,·eland twirler, is twenty-eight years old. Siam Likes Golf Au Interesting note from the Yankees' bull pen, us transcribed by a New York correspondent; "Georgt> Plpgras discovered in practice that he had acquired Wiley Moore's sinker ball. He was warming up and noted that the bull wus breaking In the real Moort: manner. lie called to :).!oore to come over. The latter watched Pipgrns pitch a srore or more of the balls, then dedarPd Pipl(rns had It end. moreoyer. with control." Golf hus mode us big a hit in Slam as the Siamese twin~ did in the West. The ScoH!sh national game has hi! ~inm hard, and e\'eryone, from the king on down, does his daily 18. 'l'he king is the latest enthusiast. His tiesire to pin~·. however, is !(realer than his ability, ns he hlmsplf confess~>d. "I often feel tl'mpted to throw my cluhs awny nn<l gl\·e up the l(Uill('," he ~aid. "Then I deeiue to pia)' one more stroke, hit a 'scr<'awer,' iiiHI my lnten•st is renewed." •• • • He- How cun that womnn shoot otr ner fll('e so much t She-It's ulwuv~ loo<lerl with pow ~eason. Emcst EYans. ~-oung stort.<top with Portsmouth of the now defunct Vir· ginia leal!ue, i·' on the Tlufflllo ro•ter, h!l\·in;: lwen si;:ned by the :\ew York C:innt~ und r~iPn,ed to the Bisons on option. • • • know, did you dear. that your mind?" Be careful, I'm nfraid bear you." 'Mid cities and villages • • • Ownet·~ "' JUST CAUTIOUS "Knockout King" Chaney Creditgd With 101 Wins \\'inning nine consecuti,·e games during the ~C:ason and gaining the distinction of b~ing the only undefeated collt>ge pitcher in the East was the rt>cord made by Bert Gltl'rett, Rutget·s' southpaw twirler, during his tlrO't ~·enr ns a varsity moundsman. lie Is a l!rother of Alfre-1 (Budge) Gurt·Nt, Rutgers' football captain In Hll!l, und was himself a substitute huifbu<"k on the Rutgers eiHen last ( They were both in evening dress, when the,v collided· 'With each other. "Good heayens-you !" gasped one. "Giad.vs Is giving a party." replied the other. shiftin~ a large bottle of furniture polish from one hand to the other. "Oh! What's the furniture pol!sb for, then?" "Wt>ll, you set," returned Ills friend, "she Insisted oo my bringing something for use on the table." The 'f('mple uni\·ersity athll'tit stadium goiu~ up in Germantown, a suburb of Philadelphia, will be completed September 1. For the opening football gume with St. Thomas college on September 29, 35,000 seats will be uvailablt>. 'l'he stadium will be dedicated October 13 when •remple lines up against Western :.Iar~·Jand. The stadium will be bowl shaped nud ultimately will accommodate 75,000 to 80,000 fans. 'l'his will gi\·e the Quaker City thr!'e big stadiums. Penn run seat o,·er 80,000, while the municipal stadium built during the ~('~qukeu tennial also accommodates about 80,000. Xot so many ~·ears ago there llourishe<l a fighter who probultl~- had more knockouts to his credit than any other hoxt>r in the book touay. He is C:!'or~e Chane~· of BaltimorE>, duhbed the "knodwut Jdng." He wore the name on his jer~PJ", nnd when he ended his careet· he hnd 101 knockouts to his credit. But his was a built-up reputnlion, to n certain e:;tent, an<l hi~ lack of gt>nuine da~s was tn·ovE><l when. at the height of his l'art>er, he fought Champion Johnn)' Kilbane, an<l him· splf took a knockout powder in the third rounll. • SOLVING THE PROBLEM Temple U. Stadium to Be Completed Sept. 1 • • • Somethin;: we keep intending tu look up Is the pt·esent standlnl!, pt>t'· centag», etc., of oil tho•e minOt' league teams that licked the Xew York Yan· kees In the spring. With Humor The~· had 't>m in the early pet·iods of tlw game-hard hitting, long distance and powerful batsmen-for the home-run hitter is not entirely a product of toilar. Dan Broutherc<, !;am 'fhomp•on, Hoger Connm·, Ed Dt>lehnnty, Buck Freeman, Ganey Cravath were mi~hty batsmen who could hit ti•e unleaYenE>d ball ns hHrd as any ltal~nian 'ince their l(etwration. Broutlwm wus one or the tl ree lmriJN;t lritting flr>t 'a<·kers the ;:umc ewr harl. It wa~ Big Dun, Dare Orr and l'op Anson, a triq of nol•ie butsmm who hit .:H:i or 'ltt>Uer dut·ing tltf'ir erllire carE>ers. Brouthl'rs tini~h<'d his care~r of 11 yt>ars in the big stuff with a lift>time batting nv~>rnge of .348. He holds a record of hitting three homers iu a single game, \\'ith th<' ~l'roy club in 187!1, Brouthers, "ho wus on'r >IX f('et in height anu \1 eighed 230, In running to sel'ond f{'Jl on ~1(-Wynn, the guardian of the surk. 'flie impact and fall thnt followed the ('Oliision was so terrific that :l!cGiynn died within a week from the ln.iurit>~. HI;; Dan quit the game !or two year~. In 1881 tlte Buffalo Nntionuls ltt<lm•(>d him to sign u contract. During t!te tire yeal'S with the •·lub Bt·outhet·s "-on nation-wide fame becau~e of Ills terrific hitting. It was Brouther~. Rowe, White nnd Hkhnrdson who former! the Big Four that liecame so fumous the country over. It wus the ''Big Four," with the url· dillon of Hum Thompson, that gaYe the Detrot dub its first pennant, ul~o u \\Orid's championship in 18Hi. Broutlwrs was a fast man on the base lines. In eight of his playing years he scored 100 or more runs each )·ear. llis a vernge runs for the 17 ~·t>nrs ~tood .om a game. Jn 1;) our ot th~ 1i yent·~ he batted .300 or better. In JHO-l, at the age of forty-nine, Dan wns pia~·ing tlr~t for tl•e I'ougltkePpsie dull of the Hudson Hiver len;:n<'. In a g-ame again~t the SaugerHe~ club he made two homers and four slug-les in six times up. It was estimate(] that one of the homers ttaveled ~llJO fc•et lly actual measurement. Today tire big slugger is one of the "boys who keeps the Polo grounds in fine condition for the younger set. ufmiu you'll for;;!'l • me while you're uway. E<lwin-)ly deurt>st, I'll think ot you "hen all else is forgotten. Ang!'llnn-.Ju~t wluu l fen red You'll think of me only wlt('n ~·ou've nuthin~ • else to thin!; about. Cure "TI::U dt'UJ.!;.clst is ne,·er hotJteretJ \\•itll loaft•l's.'' "I low's that?" "lie sells II fe 1nsu ra n<·e on the side." Bond• of Matrimony First Club Member-If I coulrl get n wire like he's got 1 would murry ut,l self. • Second Club Meml,er-'l'hen some women hnve good points? First Club Member-Yes; she lets biro buy hlo own dgars aud neckties. Maybe So "~Ioney talks." "Must chouse its own time th('n. Otherwi>'e a bank would be noisier tban a boiler. factory." • • |