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Show THE GRANTBV1LLE NEWS, GRANTSVILLE, UTAH. WINNING BIGGEST SUCCESS IN THIRTIES NEW WORLD PASTIME JIMMY CALLAHAN PREDICTS BIG INTERNATIONAL SERIES. . Sees Games Between Championship Teams of England, France, Japan, United States and Possibly South America. International baseball after the war? A worlds series between the champion teams of England, France, the United States, Japan and possibly South America? Why not? asked Jimmy Culltilmn, of the I'lrates, who rounded this little old globe four years ago with the and and who is now interested In baseball behind the trenches in France. It will not surprise me if England and France take up basclml! after the war, said Jimmy. Those people like baseball the only trouble Is the gume has never been allowed to develop there. I like to think of that trip we took four years ago ns a missionary trip. We played to vast crowds and they liked the game. They cheered every time a hit was made, even if it were ex-pil- ot 4CCNCS IN SOUTHERN SlBCKjA away In southern Siberia Mongolian boundary corner of land where perhaps more customs curious may be found than anywhere else in Asia, and that is saying a great deal. ;It is a country not easy to get into. From Krasnoiarsk, a station on the Trans-Siberia- n railway, there is a river trip of two days. up the Yenisei to Minusinsk, which is a city of some pre- TUCKED the ventions, about 140,000 in population, and in many ways .not unlike a hustling American city passing through its boom period. From Minusinsk there is a stretch Covered by wagon road in the curious Russian wagon called a tallega, then there Is 120 miles by trail over the mountains and then another 106 miles by wagon road again. . For crossing the river a ferry is used most surprising to the traveler on first meeting, says a writer In Grit. One may come up to a river and hail the ferryman on the other side. Immediately a boat puts out driven by splashing paddle wheels of which the motive power Is at first a puzzle ; there , is no smoke or steam and no gasoline popping. When the craft comes nearer, the secret is revealed. Three horses on a raised platform pull around a sweep attached to a vertical shaft ' which is itself geared to a horizontal shaft and drives the paddles. Home of the Soyotea. The native inhabitants of the extreme border region are a most Interesting people. They call themselves Tubanulus, the Chinese call them Urin-kand the Russians Soyotes. The strip they inhabit was for many years a land, its ownership being in dispute between Russia and Mongolia. It is a beautiful, mountain country, rich in vegetation and in game, including animals. Recently many Russia established her claim to the country. The Soyotes are therefore now a Russian people. They are nomadic by nature, living in sheltered mountain passes in winter, on mountain terraces .In summer and in the broad valleys In spring and fall. They migrate thus to get pasturage for their herds and flocks. Some among them are cattle breeders; such live in tents, round like a cheese, 10 to 16 feet in diameter, made of felt an inch thick mounted on a Others are reinlattice framework. deer breeders who live in conical huts made like ah American wiklup of birch Men and women bark and ekins. dress In ttlj same way, cloaks and breeches, made of furs and sheep skins in winter, and of cotton and Chinese silk in summer. They are fond of bright colors and are picturesque in their pointed hats and long flowing cloaks. They are fine riders, have excellent horses and train and take good care of them. But horse stealing is a virtue among them. Therefore the Russians on the principle of set a thief to catch a thief, employ them as cowboys and shepherds. All Thieves and Liars. They are a quiet people, submissive to authority, kind to their wives, but thieves and liars all, and until recently practiced torturing as a form of punishment. Including such pleasant practices as burying alive and freezing off the hands and feet, while ideas of morality are not highly developed among them. When a did is born, it is named after the first object seen by the woman after Its birth. The results are both comical and poetic. The Soyotes pay their taxes in the form of pelts of squirrel, sable, fox, mink, marten, etc. The Russian peasants here, not the Soyotes, carry on a kind of farming, probably the queerest In the world tlk raising. It seems that the Chinese who still ding to the medieval system " of medidne which is mostly superstition and not altogether unlike witchcraft, prise nothing more for their prescriptions than the horn of the elk in the velvet' They send agents all ever Siberia to buy this commodity, and since elk are getting scarce, the price la going up and the canny peasants pee chances for Mg profits in raising 72-mi- le , hi "no-man- 's well-water- fur-beari- the beasts for their horns. They get a pound for the horn, $6 if the elk has been shot and still has its skull bones, and a pair of antlers will weigh up to 70 pounds a fair profit considering that after harvesting his horns you still have your elk for next $4-5- 0 only a foul. But the real missionary work is going on behind the trenches now, where Americans tind Canadians are playing baseball for the edification and delight of the Tommies and poll us as well as for their own plcusure. Callahan has struck a popular note. Why not international baseball after years crop. . Communal Elk Farms. There is Indeed a craze for even villages have communal elk farms. The elk are pastured in enclosures surrounded by fences and are bred like cattle while fresh wild elk run down by peasants on snow shoes, are added to the herd every winter. The business may be profitable for the pensant but It is anything but pleasant for the elk. When it comes time for dehorning the poor beast is thrown and held down while a peasant hacks away at his antlers with a saw, usually a dull one. The operation may take half an hour, and all this time the animal shrieks in agony. And the peasants say it does not hurt, that he merely cries from fright East may be East, and West, West, and never the twain shall meet,' as Kipling soys; but here certainly North and South meet. For while elk flourish in this land of contradictions and relnf. deer as well, yet one of the popular beasts of burden is the camel Lapland and Arabia. The cumel is a most satisfactory animal for packing goods over the trail in winter. He costs only $60, load faster than will carry a a man can walk, and will make a four Jays trip with no food whatever provided only he be given from time to time a little weak tea. Tea might be expected to be popualr along the border between the Russian and Chinese empires, but for camels well, at least, g; ten-fo- ot 1 000-pou- it seems odd. Because the national ownership of the land was in dispute, some gravel deposits, the existence of which was known, have never been worked. Now that the Russians have definite possession, these prospective gold mines are attracting people into the country and when transportation facilities are Improved it will become better known. Thirty-thre- e years old. and Just beginning to have his most remarkable success as a pitcher thats the record of Eddie Cicotte. Credited this year with the most successful use of the shine ball, he also is given credit for having some control over a knuckle ball and is more than the av- erage performer with the spltter. Cicotte, a veteran who, 'according to usual records, should be getting out of Urn way, heaved himself into the records for keeps when he hurled a nohit, game this year. When .Jack Coombs was getting his first experience as a major leaguer, Cicotte had been taken, on by Detroit, found wanting and sent back. He graduated" froni the AnWiob that turned Ty Cobb loose and they both went to Detroit the same year. Since the beginning of the 1908 sea- no-ru-n RETORT ENDS GRIFPS HOWL Silk OLoughlin Resents Statement of Washington Leader That He Had Made Wrong Guess. gold-beari- Clark Griffith, manager of the Washington Americans, is considered one of the hardest losers in baseball. And Griffs friends say he hates to lose an argument about os much as he dislikes to drop a bail game. Washington recently lost a game to Detroit because of a close decision which gave Cobb a base on balls. OLoughlin was the umpire. Justification. Griffith met OLoughlln and his partA former Berlin correspondent was ner after the game. talking about Admiral Holweg's book . You two highwaymen looked fine in in justification of the submarine war. The Germans, with their queer, blind souls, can justify anything anything, I mean, that they do themselves, he said. The Germans are like the lady who had a costly string of pearls sent home. You ought to be nshamed to buy those pearls, said her husband, bitterly, considering how Tm situated. Why, George, said she, thata Just it Do you think I want everybody to know what a hole youre Ini The Tactful Writer. When writing to those away from home or distant relatives or friends see to it that your letter fairly sparkles with cheer and good news. Bring a smile to the readers lips and make him or her long to be with you to share the happy joys you tell about These are the kind of letters that go straight to the hearts of those who receive them. The vast majority of us have a full measure of cares and responsibilities to contend with, but everyone of us can often think a happy thought or speak a good word and we should in all fairness pass it on. Picking Fruit With a Net. An Ingenious method of gathering fruit, which reduces the fruit picker's work to a minimum, makes use of a large net suspended above the ground directly under a tree snd does away with the usual fruit picking harness buckets, palls and baskets, says the Popular Science Monthly. The fruit is dropped from the tree by the picker and it tails Into the net and rolls down canvas spout through a into a barrel or fruit box. The net is held taut by a framework supported by iron posts driven in the ground. cone-shape- d a son Cicotte 1ms been twirling them over in tlic American league first as a member of the Red Sox and then as a member of the White Sox. Cicotte missed participation in the 1912 world series by a hair, for he was transferred to the Chicago club in thut year, after he hod been turned down and spurned by Jake Stahl aB of inferior caliber. Cicotte has been going along in an even way, winning a game here wnd losing one there. Ills most successful season was while he was with Lincoln in the Western league in 1907. He won 23 and lost 10 games. If the White Sox land the pennant, it will be lurgely the work of this veteran heaver. His work is the most consistent and really brilliant among all the curvers of the greut baseball club. DIAMOND NOUS George Davis, once manager of the Giants and White Sox, is with the Browns as head couch und scout The veteran Terry Turner gets Into the game occasionally for Cleveland, and he still is u fielder. high-ciu- ss Uncle Robbie is longing to get his fuding champions into the first division. It shouldn't be a difficult task. Jim Corbett has again picked the Giants to win. Which caused the bookies to lay bigger odds on the Reds. Jimmy Callahan. Branch Rickey, president of the Cardinals, is elated over the acquisition of Goodwin, the pitcher obtained from Milwaukee. Intimated That Plan May Be Put Into Effect When Seaeon Ends Eight Cities Named. others. Ireland contributed the Pat Moran, Moriarty, Killifer Maybe Connie Mack would lend his and a host of others. Scotland gave us white elephant to the Siamese army. McQuillan and ChalnSers. Rates snd But it would be an awful blow to the many others are of English descent. Italy Is represented by Abhatlchio, allies. Guisto und ling Bodie. Many great More and more people are becoming bull players have come from Germany, more deeply concerned about the price Bohemia und Poland. of eggs than about Ty Cobb's batting THIRD MAJOR LEAGUE RUMOR average. cast-off- (here today I said the National's manager. Whats the matter, Griff? asked Bilk. That third strike you missed on Cobb cost us the game, thats all. Youre wrong, my boy, you're wrong. I never made a mistake in my life, chirped OLoughlin and he moved way, leaving Qrlfflth ' speechless. Dcln-hanty- s, There are rumors and much whispering about the third mnjor league plan which, It is said, nmy be put In effect when the season ends. The plan provides for clubs from Buffalo, Toronto, Baltimore, Newark, Indianapolis, ToJnwn McGraw probably couldnt ledo, Milwaukee and Kansas City. Let the joke if Matty, ltousch, Groh and us hope some of these predictions come s a few more Giant should beat true. It will be good to see those cities him out of the flag. represented in the big leagues. Theyve got good material to work with, too. Eddie Lafitte, who was with the Brooklyn Feds and who has hurled for Bobby Byrne Is Through. the Paterson Silk Sox of late, has quit Bobby Byrne, veteran third basebaseball to enlist in the army. man, released unconditionally by the Phillies, says he has quit baseball for President Wilson has announced that good, anil that he will go into business he wants baseball to be continued for in St Louis. Byrne is classed ns a the rest of the season at least, which veteran, yet he Is but wto or three assures a world series this fall. years beyond thirty. He started his professional career at an age when Johnny Brock is the name of a young most hoys nor just shedding their knee catcher who will soon Join the Cardi- pants. nals. He hails from the Muskogee Coast Grid Stars Enlist. team of the Western association. Twenty-eigh- t members of last year's If the war is responsible for Intro football squad at the University of ducing baseball os the international California have Joined the colors, acpastime, it will atone for much by add cording to Graduate Manager John Btroud. tag vastly to the gayety of nation a. The Browns made seven errors in a ball game the other day. Fielder Jones would have been a pleasant guy to talk to after the game. Clark Griffith. F the war? Baseball has been one of the great melting pots of America. . Practically every nutlonullty has contributed big ptars. This refutes any bleu that baseball has been cornered by America and cannot be developed anywhere else. Looking over.tlie records of the lust few years we find thut France Is represented by the great Lnjoie, by Cicotte, Fubrlqup. Ruth and several |