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Show CHIEFTAIN, MARYSVALE. BILLY EVANS SOLVES BASEBALL UTAH All PROBLEMS Especially for Thl6 Paper by the Famous American League Umpire.) A play came up In one of the smaller minor leagues several years ago that probably will never happen again. It was a freak pure and simple, but it is always a possibility, for I once saw Hal Chase turn the same trick in practice, and Kid Elberfeld pull It in a game, but not with such results as happened in the minor league episode. In the game in question, the play came up in the last half of the ninth, with the bases filled, no one out, three runs needed to tie and four to win. It happened the year after the rule had been changed, and the recruit umpire not being familiar with the change, interpreted the play incorrectly and a riot followed. At that, most of the fans really did not know what they were kicking about at the time, most of the trouble makeis simply stirring up things on general principles. The batter, one of the hardest hitters on the team, hit a line drive in the direction of the second baseman. It was evident to the runners that the ball was so far over the fielders head that there'was not a chance for him to get it at the crack of the bat they had all started to advance. As the ball neared the second baseman, that player, seeing that he was unable to get it, iossed his glove in the air at the ball. As he afterwards admitted, he did not know that he was violating any rule. Anyway, the glove struck the ball squarely, causing it to fall toward the ground within a short distance of the second baseman, who recovered the ball before it struck the ground, touched second and threw to first, completing a triple play that was allowed by the umpire. Of course, there was a big kick, in which the home crowd joined in Bustily. Had the inflelder not thrown his glove at the ball and checked its course, it might have gone for a home run and won the game. Answer to Problem. Throwing one's glove at the ball to stop the progress of such drives as the player was unable to reach otherwise was a rather common practice at one time. To eliminate this objectionable stunt, the imposed a severe penalty, which has practically stopped it entirely. The rule entities the batsman to three bases on all plays where the fielder stops or catches a batted ball with his cap, glove, or other part of his uiliform while detached from the proper place on hts person. Thus, in the play described, Instead of allowing a triple play that retired the side, all three runners should have been permitted to score, and the man who hit the ball granted third base. I saw Elberfeld make such a play in a regular game, with two out and no one on the bases. It really worked to advantage, for the batter who hit the ball was very fast and probably would have made a home run, but for the rule, ns it seemed impossible for the left or center fielder to reach the ball. Elberfeld was playing shortstop at the time. (Written ; (Copyright by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) PRACTICAL THEORY FOHL BY Wilf Not Permit Young Pitchers to Use New Balls While Going' Through Training Stunts. NOTES Manager Fohl, during the short peFor the riod the 6rst bunch of players worked are in the ball players all schooners barred zone. irt at New Orleans, refused to permit the use of new baseballs, insisting that Some the players toss about old wingy horse- - vets, willday the players, youths and catch fly balls on bayonets. Only seven clubs now stand between the Reds and that pennant. d As for that, theres many an umpire who spends the whole season in a trance. The White Sox win the pennant in the spring as often as the Reds used to. The New Orleans club has secured Infielder Howard Baker from the New York Giants. r t f. .. ' start playing ' - John Covaleskie, brother of Hairy and Stanley, will himself take to this season. pitching i - I Some day, maybe, baseball clubs will in the summer, instead of in the winter. ' , ' r V s .. .... .v 'v Manager Lee Fohl. Understand that Connie Mack is going to dock his players for the time they are down in th cellar. Latest move of the magnates to refor this. duce expenses is to dock pitchers for Here's Fold's theory the time they are up in the air. "Give a young ball player a new ball and be has a tendency to cut loose, Jack Warhop will help to increase Just to see how bard and bow far he the batting in the International league. can throw it. With an old ball it is He is going to pitch for Baltimore. different. In the first place an old ball will not travel far; secondly, the boys One difference wifi see plenty of new halls before the and the autumn is between the spring that only two major season Is over. league pennanls have won in the autumn. hides. Theres reason a : KNEW REDS 'Z e) SIGNALS "I have often wondered, says Syd., Smith, manager of the Shreveport team, if the seven other big league clubs were wise ter the Cincinnati Reds signals fast summer? If so, it would account for the sad showing. Now that a year has passed, Til tell you something : We knew every signal that llerzog and his catchers hud during the exhibition games last spring, and that's the real reason for our beating you folks so thoroughly. Those signs could be read by a respectable old lady with spectacles on, they were so open, so easy to discov-cr- . And if a little minor league club could catch your signals that way, wouldnt the major leaguers, with their shrewd old senerals, do it much more eas- - ujr When ballplayers go to war, certain twirlers should be placed in the dynamite squad. They know all about blow ing up. BOYD PARK IOUNDCO Uncle Sam to call ballplayers to the colors, all hed have to do would be to ring a dinner bell. Tat Donahue, catcher, who has been out of the game for a year or two, is planning a comeback with the Dayton team of the Central league If Snooks McGaffigan sticks with the Phillies Walter Maranville will have a close run for the distinction of being the smallest infielder Id the majors. The Milwaukee Brewers claim to have one of the fastest baserunners in captivity. He is Ralph neatley, a recruit. Ralph negotiated the distance between the home plate and first base () In 0 :03 seconds. IflO? MAKERS OF JEWELRY 166 MAIN STRZET SNEEZING ONCE SALT LAKE CITY FATAL SIGN Was the Origin of Superstition Phrase, God Bless You! Still in Heard Europe. , Sneezing from very remote times has been regarded with superstition. Our forefathers went to bed again if they sneezed while putting on their A sneeze to the right was shoes. , , deemed lucky ; to the left, of evil portent. To sneeze near a burial place was very unlucky, says the London Telegraph. 1 Count Julius Andrassy, former Hungarian premier, who organized a coalition party and mused the resignaTradition has it that sneezing was tion of the cabinet. 2 Cannon in Lafayette park, Washington, near the White House, plugged to preent any at first a fatal sign every human be-- , chance of their being fired. 3 Portuguese expeditionary force arriving at Brest, France, to help fight the Gerlug sneezed but once and then died mans. 4 Mrs. Waldo Pierce enlisting students of Columbia college in the niation corps she is organizing at but Jacob petitioned the Creator to Port Washington, L. I. remove the sneezing ban and succeeded. Thence arose the on.ee universal custom of saluting a sneezer with ly completed and France and Italy and The German aiul Austrian Socialist God bless you or May you live Russia will get their share soon. Most peace propagandists have taken from REVIEW OF The custom stilt obtains In of the money, it is understood, will be one of President Wilson's addresses long! some parts of Europe. the phrase of a peace without vicexpended in the United States. In England not only was a sneezer The commissioners agreed that, tory and are using it with some efTHE WEEK next to supplying money, America fect. The duma and the blessed, but friends raised their hats delegates repcould give the best help by continuing resenting the various classes in the to him as well. In an old book, The Code of Conduct, it is directed that to furnish food and by finding the vescouncils are as firm as ever against if hts lordship sneezes ye are not toi sels for its transport to Europe, aud concluding a separate peace, but First American Shot in the Great they were they bawl out God bless you but bow to pleased with the plans for do not find the masses of uniformed him handsomely. All over the world War Destroys a German building a great fleet of wooden ships. people easy to control. Germany is the sneeze was recognized. Whole' General .Toftre, however, expressed the reported to have started the expected nations were under orders to make exhope that in the near future a large movement to cut off Petrograd from clamations when their king sneezed. contingent of American troops would the army, a large naval and military Sneezing was believed to be a sure be on the fighting line under the Stars expedition having left Libau, presum- cure for hiccups and was also looked FIRED BY LINER MONGOLIA and Stripes, holding that the moral ably for Pernau or Reval, and at such upon as a sign of sanity. If ancient effect of that would be tremendous. an inopportune time a great many and universal belief goes for anything All of the commissioners concurred Russian soldiers are deserting. These It is good to sneeze. Destruction of Shipping by Subma- in the statement that they were here deserters are peasant soldiers who are not to to to our dictate govattempt rines Now Threatens hastening to their homes in fear that PUTTING ONE OVER jON COW England ernment, but to advise and assist it there will be a distribution of lands With Food Shortage Great to the best of their ability and with of which, in their absence, they will Britain Gets Money From Japanese Solve Problem by Extensive their wealth of experience. not get their share. The old Uncle Sam. Use of Artificial Milk Derived President Wilson, in a conference trouble is coming to a head andagrarian despite From Soy Bean. with Mr. Balfour, voluntarily gave as- the assurances of the authorities that By EDWARD W. PICKARD. surances that the United States will it cannot be settled until the constiAmericas first shot in the war with fight until it achieves The milk problem is by way of beictory, and tuent assembly acts, the peasants are solved In Japan, where cows are, Germany was fired on April 19. It thereupon the head of the British misin many localities taking the matter ing scored a direct hit and destroyed a sion declared that the entente scarce, by an extensive use of arti-- i allies into own their hands. ficial milk derived from the soy bean. German submarine. The shot was would sock no As for the threatened German oftreaty of alliance, no fired by the gun crew on the American First, the Japanese soak the beans, of the entente pledge not to fensive, the leaders of the new Russignature then boil them until the liquid turns liner Mongolia when a attempt-- , make a separate peace with sian Germany. assert will that be government it ed to attack that vessel in the Irish sea. white, when they add sugar and phos-- , a Germans Resist for good Russia even if the thing Desperately. The first shell smashed the periscope pliate of potash. The boiling is reThis is the last and deciding push, enemy should occupy Petrograd, for sumed until a fluid results very similar and after other shells were sent there In consistency and appearance to ordiwas an explosion and the submarine for we soon shall be able to hold out it will unite the nation In determination to fight the war to the finish aud did not rise again. Capt. Emery Rice no longer rends the diary of n Gernary condensed milk. When water is added soy milk is hardly to be disof t lie Mongolia told of the iuculent man officer who was captured last nullify the efforts of the Teuton Soon armal in an Eughsh port. It is Monday, and that seems to be the cialists. The Russian Baltic fleet and tinguished from fresh cows milk. of the German commander In army sent a wireless message to the In composition also the artificial interesting to note that the gun that opinion had been named Theo- chief, judging by the desperate opposi- allied fleets saying they were in com- milk is almost like genuine milk. Its got the tion he is putting up against the drive plete readiness to defend free Russia. proteins, fats and sugars are in very dore Roosevelt by the gunners. President Wilson has selected the aearly the same proportion, although, The destructive work of the sub- of the allies in northern France. Remarines is causing increasing anxiety suming their part of the offensive at members of a commission that w ill 3f course, they are wholly vegetable In to pay this nations reorigin. in Great Britain. The latest weekly the beginning of the week, the British visit Russia have made considerable progress, es- spects to the new government, and Whether the substitute Is equal to report of the admiralty shows a much Elihu Root has to cows milk as a form of nourishbe consented real the its roads from Arras pecially along larger number of ships sunk than did and Bapaume to Cambrai. In the semi- chairman. The other members will be ment is not quite clear, for much of any previous report, and on Wednesfighting their heavy howitzers Edward T. Hurley, Daniel Willard and the value of milk as a food conies day Lord Davenport, the British food open were of little use, but their field guns Oscar S. Straus. from the enzymes or vitamines It concontroller, solemnly warned the Brit- and tains. The Japanese, however, declare machine guns were handled with Spain Warns the Kaiser. ish public that severe privations wonderful skill and rapidity and the On Tuesday Spain sent to Germany that it serves all the purposes of menaced the nation before the next cows milk, and that it has the aclyan-tag- e Von a note harvest was reached. This aroused Germans suffered enormously. concerning submarine warfare, of being less liable to infection, the London press to gloomy comment, Hindenburg threw his reserves into with the warning that Spanish pawhen properly and carefully manufacthe burden of which was that the sub- the battle with a prodigality that as- tience was nearly exhausted. The marine blockade was the most serious tonished his adversaries, and the Teu- imperial government consented to a tured. Youths Companion. feature of the war now and that If tons gave ground slowly and made re- parley for the mitigation of the diffi- First of Printed Books. and fierce counter-attackculties which have arisen in Spam. Great Britain was to be saved from peated Although neither Chxton aor other of starvation and possible defeat some- which, however, were of little avail King Alfonso has tried diligentIyto included any part of the aud left the grouud covered with their but it seems as if early printers preserve thing must be done mighty soon to slain. holy scriptures among their producThe German line, thanks to bis effortsneutrality, counteract it. This something, obwere doomed to failure. tions, it is a noteworthy fact that the the astounding numbers of men Von Turkey having severed viously, is the turning out from the been able to bring up, relations with the United diplomatic Bible was the first printed book In the has Hindenburg of a vast and continuous shipyards States, (he moreover, the masterstream of tonnage, but though many is still unbroken, but it is badly bat- representatives of the two nations world, of being, the illustrious inventor of Jho tered and is being pushed back fur- started for home. piece are of the ships being built, shortage art of printing, Johann GensfleLschVon skilled labor renders it impossible to ther and further toward the frontier. Reports that came from Europe dur- Sulzebach, surnamed Zitn Gutenberg, The superiority of the British in the ing the week told of a construct anywhere near the number revival of the ffaving associated himself with Johann on Monday air was in attempts to oust Bethmann-llollrequired. The great British navy is the most demonstrated eg Faust of Mentz, produced with Ills asmanner. The spectacular to from because of relieve No the situation. his support of power powerless unin 1450-5(the book one over there seems able to suggest men of the Royal Flying corps met the the piuns of the Socialist Seheidemaun sistance, dated) the famous folio Latin Bible of the Germans at an for a air squadrons of solution to the without any peace annexation and commonly knowm as the Mazarln Bible, problem exeept be careful of the food supply and pre- altitude of 15,000 feet and put them indemnities. The conthe first copy having beoa discovered to rout, destroying 40 of their air- servatives and for worst. the liberals all are oppospare in the library of Cardinal Muzarin. The food question is serious else- planes, with the loss of but two of ing the chancellor In this. But Ger- The expense of this production was so where. It was responsible in large their own machines. The young Brit- many's foes should not count too much great that Gutenberg was unable to reish pilots then carried out a series of on such part for the strikes in Germany and demonstrations, any more pay his partner the money that he had than on the strikes there, for there is advanced, and was obliged to resign is the chief cause of demonstrations daring bombing raids. The much of devoted French the no to believe any of them porreason are that alarming the Swedish govto him the whole of his printing estabernment. In France meatless dinners week to destructive artillery fire in tend the overthrow of Prussian autoc- lishment and plant, with which Faust, next in for their the part preparation one racy the tiling, except Sundays and holidays began that in partnership with Peter Schoeil'er, that is being carried on with can bring the war to probably, an early con- printed the equally famous Mentz PsalWednesday, and already in the United such skillful and by Haig clusion. States the hotels and clubs are cutter in 1457. By the testimony of aucNivelle, and by Thursday their infanMayor Thompson of Chicago suc- tion prices these are the two most valting down their menus. was in action. try again ou ceeded Plans for larger crops and more Thursday in attracting some uable books in the world. On the Italian, Macedonian and Rouattention to himself. farm labor in America were carried He Issued a of manian moment fronts little has nearer to completion during the past printed statement on the food short-agUp Trade. Drumming taken In the place. Mesopotamia in which he attacked week. One notable incident was the In a certain Sunday school on a hot conscription, exBritish are still but the advancing, argued for a ban ou food exports and Sunday afternoon one of tlie teachers departure of 500 students of the agricultural college of the University of pedition from Egypt that is moving up assailed the war policies of the admin- became somewhat faint, and was rePalestine has found the through istration. The same day lie evinced Illinois to help raise Canadas wheat placed upon a form while the usual crop. They are to be well paid and enforced Turkish forces holding a a disinclination to extend to Marshal restoratives were applied. Suddenly intrenched strongly position extending .Toffre and the French mission an in- a little the Dominion government will give to girl stood up and persistently each of them a homestead of 1G0 acres. from Gaza toward Bcersheba. Portu- vitation to visit Chicago, sajing he called Teacher Teacher in order to a decided more take gal, having On a moments thought such a movethought some of the people might not to attract the attention of one of those in conflict the active in part Europe, be wildly enthusiastic about It. Mayor who were attending to the unfortunate ment as this must win approval, for a has sent a large contingent of troops Thompson is overly careful about the invalid. bumper crop in Canada will do the to At last the little one was France. northern civilized world as much good as one stability of his Teutonic political heard, and the teacher, turning round, some There has been activstirring In the United States, and the Dofences, for Chicago Is decidedly asked in a somewhat hasty manner: ity recently in the neighborhood of over the proposed visit by minion has been depleted of labor. Please teacher, Well, what is it? the Straits of Dover. Two British deHie French commissioners and will the child, my father makes Great Britain Gets First Loan. stroyers encountered a flotilla of six give them a splendid welcome. Plans replied coffins. Speedy work is being done in the German destroyers and after a furious tor the event are being made, the way of supplying the immediate needs combat put the foe to rout. The Gerbeing ignored. Vanity Fair. of the allies of the United States. In man boats were rammed and torpe- major Tlie Wisconsin senate gave a lesson Across the Hall Say, Bill, can J the first conferences with the commis- doed and raked by gunfire and at least to disloyal citizens by expelling from borrow your dress suit? sioners from England nud France the two of them were sunk. The British Bock Again Sure. Why the formembership Senator Frank government was told that the most vessels suffered severely but were able Milwaukee, a Socialist, for Raguse of refusal to mality? urgent of these needs were money, to return to port. retract alleged disloyal statements The Other One Well, I couldnt ships and food. It was agreed that Wednesday morning a German de- made by him on the floor of the senate. find it. the first allotment of the S3.000.000.000 stroyer flotilla bombarded Dunkirk At the hour of loan would go to Great Britain, and on but was driven off by the coast bat- certain that the writing it appears Kind Words. government selective Wednesday Secretary of the Treasury teries and the allied patrol boats. One conscription bill will bo Kind words are very valuable la passed by McAdoo handed to the British ambas- French torpedo boat was sunk. ' both houses of congress. Agreements this life. sador a treasury warrant for $200,000,-000- . Russian Situation Dangerous. were secured in boili senate aud house Of course, answered Mr. Caesar Arrangements for disposing of The course of events in Russia is that assured a vote not later than Chance. 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