Show I Stories of Baseball Players r I What Teacher Used Frank Bowerman of the New ew York Giants is a prosperous lumberman up in the wilds of Wisconsin during the theoff theoff off oft season and aid Us said that the popular popular popular lar backstop Is a rich man in his own name having literally hewed his hii wealth out of oC the forests surrounding the spot where he first saw sa the th light When hen it comes comei to a conversation n about matters pertaining to wood and the uses to which different species of oC timber are put Bowerman Is a regular encyclopedia of Information as he has made this subject a lifelong study stud The other day Sammy Strang who tUio hails from down In Tennessee and who expects to start a tannery tanne down near his hs home place this winter was In Inquiring quiring of Bowerman as to the best bp t wood for Cor tanning Frank mentioned several kinds each to be used In ape specific specific cases casos When there was a break in the con conversation conversation Pitcher wIth lt yawn awn stretched himself and said Frank I have bavE just heard beard you men anen mention mention tion a good many different kinds of or orwood wood which you claim are used in tan tanning tanning ning but when I went to there thereas was as only one kind and that vas was birch |