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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH EFFECT OF WAR ON OUR NATIONAL GAME IHIHE IHEUQirr i j h V '"K r PLANS READY FOR WAR The transportation division of the Quartermaster corps of the army qu O OCllI U not worrying over the present situation, as far as Its ow n work is co cerned," suld Col. Chauneey B. Baker who hus charge of all such matters for the army, both on land und sea. "We knew very well that If trouble came It would come with a rush, so four years ago we began to get ready for it, and, so far as our organization goes, all we have to do Is to expand and we are prepared for that along the broadest lines, We realize that we are tn for the biggest Jobs that the railroads and waterways of the country have eve had to undertake, in transporting armies and supplies for them, und that this must be dune without cutting off the resources of the navy, the raw material for munition plunts, the food and munitions for the allies, as well as the food and commercial needs of the lie country. The closer study the division made of this problem, the greater difficulties seemed and the clearer became the need of the closest between the railroads and the quartermaster corps. The division began Its work by seeking a cureful Investigation of the n lines of the country, and secured In this work the hearty assistance of It now holds definite Information of the capacity of railroad managers. ry railroad and water transportation company in the United States to It knows as well as the companies their resources la ry men and freight and men. !, engines, switches, trackage 0 11 wk2 n tolaj 5 J mtalo, fohJ J mt, if VanfeJ Hi ti) the i had MtteV ' npldijv 'nmj niltj piUwin r limit j Ban to ti nd witii of anjJ rrlbleJ irsts. boss of the navy Is Ad-S. Benson, chief of rations, the real head of Ore navy, Jo-blag always the presence of William e moffig1 anxious Daniels. J the But Admiral imerlcu mythical the peat a decided I o 3 the ij .able help fa to Its r water Benson Is something character, hidden away at tbit redout toe if partMy -- idily taken to port for repairs. TS r RED CROSS VOLUNTEER a) "k the United example of real to all of their fellow h 8nd poor al,ke Take, for rnses of Important t,le Padlng business men, Industrial chiefs, the noted latv ave net nien a fine dtl-l"c- ithettfj id k ture. i of J"tk!na looked e the P1 it t tne1 , prh' for if"' ei , jwrJtfJ DDtwy 5 it . fesn ' MV lit. ijf i ' Marl,s'i n. i the o nu'n, who inve Joined nn orBanlzatlon8 that e.p the government conduct the j. u f know about Herbert C. American who kept the ,ui from Binding for more than 'o of. now food controller i knn n,tld States- - Hut not all of ,out Wadsworth, ootla c,vl1 engineer ,'!KWorth ,a !1,,Ve,ni,nt- - When It seemed America would Join nJ nl,les, Wadsworth went the Tj! ros8 end offered free his sp- e, c,8 It organization work, talfi,' lc,)tl(I. Now he la acting 1,10 i central committee of trith offices in Washington, nnd bo has a real Jo , rw Un!fP hy day until long after the war Is over. of nHIta iim pm C,,ltral committee are two divisions, that the Tle division of all nctlvltles under kcomn d during the pust year. The director general u, Kean, V.S.A. mni - city n teat The trip to the Mesa Verde, which is through the rugged Rockies of Colorado. Is in Itself a feature. Wonderful works of nature are ou every hand-d- eep gorges, towering peaks, rushing rivers, placid lakes and fertile valleys. Mancos is the nearest debarking point for the ruins, and Is also the headquarters of the park supervisor. The government automobile road leads across the mesa, and passes the 32-mi- le wiii . n.n national game. With a lapse of a year or so, baseball Is certain to come back stronger than ever. Some of the Ills that aflllct the American pustime now will be eliminated by an euforced vacation. As President Toner says, the fate of baseball depends on the developments-o- f the next few months. When the all comes, baseball players v 111 be found as patriotic as any other class of men. Perhaps more putrlotlc than mcivwbo make their living In other sports. They are Americans to the buckboue. As Tenor says, baseball will have to do Its share the same as other walks of life. And even if the players do not have to Join the colors Immediately baseball can be made a great source of help in the war. It can be mude the; , medium of raising large sums of money. One thing Is certain, from the statements of the two league presidents, amt that Is that the magnates will In no manner stand In the way or offer obstacles to the discharge of patriotic duty by the players under contract. However, ns Johnson says, unless there are unexpected and serious developments, the leagues plan to finish the 1917 pennant race and play the world aeries. If the country is atlll Involved In war next spring, no attempt will be made to begin another season and the ball parks will remain closed until the return of peace. 1917 CHAMPIONS NO i Unless some vital change at an early date, 1917 will present no golf or tennis champions. This means that Chick Evang and Norris Williams will hold their positions at the heights unchallenged until peace returns, and the onslaught can be renewed by the complete field. This will be the first lapse In championship title play that golf and teiicle have ever known In America, but It was the only fair way to imndle the situation. A championship won this summer, with so many stars missing, would not reflect any lasting credit upon the winner. It would be regarded more as a victory by BA5CBALL STORIES If there Is anything wrong with Eppn Rlxey's arm It is the right one. TllUe Walker Is playing great ball In center field for Boston. He has-beethe most consistent hitter on th club. n v Connie Mack Is said to have thrown a shock into the American league by putting a ball teum In the field this year. a Rowdy baseball may be eliminated! from the diamond, but eradicating the bleachers Is something else-again. i Whatever his baseball virtues, Mer-klsteals bases, or falls to, that is, with all the grace of an agitated gi' raffe. e TRICK BY ROGER BRESNAHAN W Vk'- VH I old-time- s., . containing detached circular rooms, sculptured passages, labyrinthine emrocks, a sun plctogrnph, and an bedded fossil palm leaf which, fmm Its resemblance to the sun, had been preserved as an object of Dates Back 600 Years. Appropriately, this Is christened Sun Temple. In addition to the value symbols. It affords of the of the age of the an estimate also Mesa Verde ruins. By record of the annual rings of a large Juniper tree that bad fortuitously grown upon the mound of debris, at least 300 years root. had elapsed since the tree took Is When the temple was abandoned debris difficult to declare, for such conservative estibut slowly; gathers mates place the construction of the remarkable building back to the year as 1300 A. D. And this Sun Temple, workmanbetokened by Its superior builders leadship nnd the trails of the ! ing to and from the CM The atructnres. recent more the of one known of the date bf the occupation I older structures, as the noted Cliff antedates therefore, far of Still later researches on the top ruin another the mesa have uncovered near the old reservoir of Mummy lake,Is Mouse to which the nnme Far View countless are there and applied, 'and mounds only ownltlng the scraper se- enchanted their to up yield spado ip now The Mesa Verde National parkalmost or Includes 77 square miles, di60,000 acren. Under the personul the rection of Doctor Fewkes, been systematically carried forward. The ruins already cleaned with out have been skillfully repaired as posmuch as thele own pinterial even nunffiered .o and charted sible. of noon that their rnrtous phases chambers and and niches and passages vlHltor- tho to axplnln themselves tamp under government A Krlst of Pittsburgh Pirates Telia Mnninur, the smokiest of National How Former Cub Leader league pitchers, Isn't bothering anyCaught Him Napping. body to a great extent aa yet with h! can always make speed. "Smart it tough for youngsters just breaking Very-feClass C and D league In. I remember one day when I was the goat for a trick pulled by Roger will operate this year, but there will doubtless be plenty jf Gass C and D Bresnahnn, then with the Cubs. There were two out and Chicago runners on baseball. first and second bases. I was pitching, Dode Faskert Is the first National league plnyer, to get one of those $50 bills for driving the ball agulnst tlur tobacco sign. Al Mamaux - lm it kj.., zona. l default. e. va-ffi- hi r8 hu!? n-dwelling concession Is maintained at a central point, near Spruce Tree House ruin. On certain venlngs during the season a camp-fir- e circle Is formed, which may listen to short talks by Doctor Fewkes (one of the most genial and lucid of characters) and other scientists upon the significance attached to the constant discoveries. An archaeological school for the especial benefit of students has been proposed. Life up here, the elevation ranging from 6,500 to 8,500 feet far above the surrounding country, Is very pleasant. The surface of the mesa is dry and rocky, and well timbered with cedars and pinons whose sap perfumes the soft air. The view comprises an Inspiring outlook over four states Col orado, Utah, New Mexico and Ari- DAYS NUMBERED The naval consulting board, coin poed of the best Inventive brains In the United States, has been working for several weeks on devices for comthe German subbating successful coaid marine menace. It looks now as If stesdllj the fact has been accomplished, though leer naval officers are not telling anything t udtf of value to the enemy about what has lots mU been done. wester, K Chairman W. L. Saunders of the tow board has been In charge of antisublantern marine invention experiments. This ark i Is what he said the other day: - froffli "The plan Is based on a novel antiicultto submarine device or Invention which egottt1 Is theoretically sound and which Is a de mo radical departure from any Invention of hi put Into operation or heretofore on.M thought of. he 'Elmer A. Sperry, inventor of the side. gyroscope compass and perhaps the the any 5 leading Inventing naval genius in Within Inventor. Is liletot, the United Stutes, or three weeks ht wiii' the nnvy department will have completed practical tests o Invention under navy officers, which will show definitely whether there M! unforeseen obstacle to putting the invention to use. but can be t requires no elaborate preparation or construction work, factor this summer. The invention U chiefly In the nature of direct It Is not merely destined to jnslve operations agulnst the submarine. otect but Is calcu-t- o merolmntment or to reduce the ravages of the eradicate thorn. X EDWIN L SABIN. the last two years promoted government In the Mesa Verde National park of extreme southwestern Colorado have demonstrated that here the United States possesses perhaps the largest compnct area of prehistoric ruins in the world. They are ruins far more accessible than those of South America, for instance, and equally as fascinating. Interest both scientific and popular has been heightened lately by the new discoveries made. For a time the Mesa Verde ruins were assumed to be maluly pure and simple confined to those ancient homes built In the Immense recesses on the steep slopes of the shelf-roc- k of the canyons. But the remains of other masonry structures, religious and domestic, evidently extend all over the mesa. On a commanding point of the level top, amidst the cedars and pinons, Da Jesse Walter Fewkes of the Smithsonian Institution has completed the excavation and restoration of a new type of building a religious or ceremonlul building of the unusual "D shape, huma- building at Washington, lussing, planning, theorizing, prob--y anxious to get Into action but ible to do so. The trust of people ng the Atlantic seaboard must bored in Henry T. Mayo, commander, the Atlantic fleet, upon whom falls burden of maintaining an efficient rol from Maine to Florida. All the daily designated areas of danger t be, carefully looked after by the els under command of Admiral ;o and unguarded points along the ist where an enemy force might d and wreak some of their useless te must be protected as well. Guarding the long stretch of At itlc coast line Is a greater task than devolved on the British fleet In pro-tin- g the British Islands, for while the actual coast line measurement there uld nearly equal that of the United States Atlantic coast, a part of It, like Irish sea, Is practically a closed channel, and there are so many docks yards near at hand that a vessel injured In an engagement could be abomk lone If tho majority of tho major league players Join the colors, naturally there-wilbe no big league busebulL But the result In the long run may benefit the WITHIN al The big far ug it vuii of fact Therefore, It caused no surprise. By range W a Ban Johnson's announcement that In case war continued until next spring there would be no pennant race In 1018 was Just a plain statement of apparent THX. CUlTPALACt NAVYS BIG BOSS fcj EXECUTIVES OF THE MAJOR LEAGUES. Mummy lake ruins, and from the camp near Spruce Tree House mnchlnes may now be driven to the Sun Temple, Cliff 1ulnce, Balcony House, Willow House and other noted discoveries. Paddy Livingston, the old Indiana tr olls catcher. Is assistant manager of the Cardinals. He looks after the third base coaching. Familiarity Breeds Ignorance. One of the peculiar things noted by men who watch the blackboards In the offices of Wall street brokers, is that the commission-housoperator who is continually studying the quotations cgnnot tell you offhand If the market Is up or down. When asked the question he starts a bit, looks at the board again, names prices of prominent stocks, quite as much for his own Information os for yours, and then announces his conclusions. This peculiarity, however, Is really no more remarkable than the habit of the man on the street who will take out his wutch, look at it, and put It hack In his pocket. If you should ask him what the time really was, he would have to take It out again. Gndnnatl fans find the outlook very Inspiring but that doesnt help mud when a fellow knows that he's In e Some pennant prospects that looked' pink a week ago are now discovered to have been typographical errors Should have been "punk. President Tener says he does not think It will be an easy thing for the New York Giants to run away wltl the pennant this season. After an absence of a couple of year spent with the Athletics, Napoleon La-Joreturns to baseball this season a pllot of the Toronto elutv The Office Boy's Defense. The boss lay In wait for the erring office boy. Willlam, he Mid, as the nrchln came In, "you osked me for the afternoon off yesterday. I gave It to yon, and then I aaw you at the hall game. You told me you were going to a fu- neral." The office boy grinned. "And I wasn't far wrong, was IT Did you ever aee a slower game in your lifer An Earnest Egoist "Why dont you get up pnd make a speech on this subject, since you feel so strongly about "I haven't the heart to use the precious time, replied Senator Sorghum. "I'm convinced that any mun who doesnt see the proposition my way by this time is beyond the reach of ' itr n for life. le Fan writes to Buggcst thatlkst place In the baseball league standings be abolished. Nothing doing. Fans have gotta have somebody to spoof. When a manager tries to fill a retiring star's shoes, he usually finds and Bresnahan, who was coaching and that the new wearer thinks they were talking real friendly like to me, hailed Intended to boot the ball with. me suddenly as the ball was returned to me. Eddie Alnsmlth and Sam Rice served " Suy, Al, toss me that ball, I want partial enlistments In the navy tn their to look at It, said Roger. 'I didn't give younger days and are zealous exim-nea second thought, but tossed it toward of the "prepnreduess drills, him, and I'll he darned If he didnt Now thAt Ilonus Wagner has retired step to one side and yell to the runners to bent It home. Each advanced from tho gnme Rollle Zctder Is tlm a base, and would hnve scored If Jimgrand old mnn of the pastime. He my Ylox hadn't run his head off to re- walks very much like Wagner did nnd cover the hall. Believe mo, that ono reminds ono of the famous Cnna In that wuy. cured mer Al Mamaux. nts |