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Show THE SUNDAY STANDARD: OGDEN UTAH, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1907. MM Topics of the Hour $ the Baseball World Orval Overalls Pitching Career Spokane's Jap Team Hans Wagners Advice on Base Running baseball northern part of tha slat and Orvlo of an ammo orchard pqpr boy, who te himaelf awnor lOO.Iu. over t la valued at U play tha Tho old man." aaya Orvle. "wants back lots and gradually mo to retiro from tho game, and aorno familiar are We to la te up to llie made day 1 suppose IllIf have arm give aheuld ge .ii, college awi M have him, particularly aiy of tbo end a the money making back eu air.' then there are other playere . Overall does not allow Me wealth te of had who plenty ETio,, college hie playing or mode of livtook Influence ,, Mart life with, but whowant-ing. Ho works as hard and ns con! becauao they baaeball merely scientiously as tho moot ambitious not becauao they could not do substitute who to trying to supplant them would bring JJythlng elM that somo regular member of a team. w y much money. who tho . big pitcher Orval Overall, Hew Chaneo Instructed Overall. after Mned the Chicago National Overall did poor work with Cincinla a pUyer of tho Cincinnati, nati and was practically made' by uter dam. Hi It the aw of a very tha Cap tala Frank C banco of the Chicago wealthy California a, living In an professional Nol In uu f,. Nationals. Chance taught Orvle how ta field his position, how te cover first base when the first sucker was drawn away from tho hag by an Infield hit or a bunt and how to control hi then wide and wild shoots. Tea. Orris owes Chance n big debt for remedying those three faults. Also Chance made him drop pitching his favorite underhand ball and made him throw overhand nil the Urns, thus increasing Orvle' s speed. Overall pitched Ms first professional game for tha Fresno iCaL) club against Oakland, in tha Pacific Coast league. Ha defeated tha Commuters, as tha Oak lands were called, by 4 to . Spokane's Jap Ball Team. It la Interesting to note that Spokane. Wash, has an all Japanese team of baseball players. Tha Jape show rare pick up American paatlmas and American dollars. Tha club Is known as tha Keis Gijiku club, tho captain and manager being T. K. Nakamura, secretary of tho Japanese Association of tho Island Empire Among tho players arc eight former members of tha Waaheda (Japan) university team, which while on a visit to tha Pacific coast last season played a series of fast games against teams from Stanford, the University of Oregon and tha Hultiiomah (Portland. Ore.) Athletic club, losing by auch score as I te 1. I to t and ability to to 1. GENTLEMAN JOCKEY" SMITH, THE BEST KNOWN IN THE EAST. Court land Smith la probably. th ablest of the group of eastern gentleman Turkey, He la a member of an exclusive society colony and has competed In Ha la riding this Many big turf events, both steeplechase and flat races. lessen la excellent fashion. several points ta tha good. Baao stealing under such conditions servos to demoralise tha enemy." CHARLE8 E. EDWARDER. CHANCE AN INVESTOR. Chanc manager at tha ta now a Chicago Chicago National real estate owner. Tho record at real estate transfers given out recently shows that tha leader at tli Chicago Nationals, who made known his intention at making Chicago his future bom baa with his wif lfr Edith Della Chance, purchased from Hr Ilpf property located oa Robey street. Just south of Wilson avaauat Tha amouat paid was ft, MS. Frank L PLAYER CANNOT LOBE. Over I, tOt ball players are now engaged at salaries ranging from 1N to 11. MO per month by the thirty-eig- ht leagues operating under organised baseball. Every ball player la guaranteed his full salary, although at least one-ha-lt at tha clubs will lorn money Tha player hold tha high cards la auf aatlwial gam NATIONAL LEAGUE BALL PLAYERS OF WELL KNOWN ABILITY HARRY -- SOURTLAND (J) THE BT. LOUIS CARDINALS. H onager HcCloskey la continually shifting tho infield of tha St. Louis National but has not yet atruck a winplay. I cant tell yea when ta steal and ning combination. Tha only playei when not to, because ths conditions of who la reaping any honors Is Bym each game are different. In general, tha little third baseman. Tha youngntsi however, base stealing should only be has been slugging tha ball In aver Indulged In freely wha tba enemys game and la holding up hla and la tbt i , team la on tho run and your awn aide fielding gam . Hew Players Improve Equipment. Many baseball players are not satisfied with the gloves, beta and other paraphernalia supplied by the leading manufacturer but are continually altering their equipment to suit their own Individual tastes. Borne plane down the handles of their bats; ethers wrap the handles with cord or tap te make them thicker. In the past some players have been known to hollow out the thick ends of their bats and fill the cavities with lead or Iron, claiming that tha added weight enabled them te send tha ball farther. ' Rube Waddell, the Philadelphia pitcher, has a thick pad aewad an tha lower edge of his fielding glov tha little finger edg and this pad enables him ta cover Just a little bit more ground when stopping driven through bis territory, and alas la a better protection te his hand. Other player taka tha padding out of tho middle of tha palms of their glove leaving only tha thin leather covering aa a protection ta the middle of tha palm of tho hand.. They claim that they can grip tha ball batter through this arrangement and that balls naturally fit Into tbo hollow thus formed, enabling them i ner. It Is tbo man who sens hi mind and head to help hi teet get him around the hags for a scot whether it be stolen bases or not. A good baas runner la Just as much the mas who is able to get a Quick start from tho plats sad beat out aa infield hit aa ta Tho tha one who steals third baa aura who does hi aharo of a play with the batter toward getting down to ascend to also a good batter, llany good base stealer will sacrifice the best Interest at the team to get credit for a pilfered cushion or to make a dashing play, but a good base runner does these thing only uhen It servos tha beat Interest of bis eld. Uae running la' not bass 'stealing and dont get the pair mixed. It la true that moat base stealer are good bate runner fur the reason that la professional circles the (asm play la highly developed and tha Individual la lust in tha effort ta help aut tha dub. But In aemlprofeaalonaJ and amateur circle, whence cornea tha talent wbieh ultimately will go ta make tha major much loose work la witnessed league on the bases, lien will go down without tho least notion of a reason for U and will aaertttca the hatter and the team for nothing. A basa stool should bo resorted to only when circumstance strongly Indicate it as the bast Hume people call him second Amos R usle. others the Christy Mathew -son of tho west, and many of his Intimates call him Big Jeff, because ho la aa big and as strong as Jim Jeffries. 1 i STEINFELDT, GREAT BATTING THIRD NATIONALS. BASEMAN, CHI- CAGO ta make hard hitting, goad cipal features pitching and fast base running. By fast baa running 1 mean a standard above that which has existed la tho big league for soma Urn You will find that tha bent battel . era usually good base runner and tho UT reason la obvious the base running Waflnera Pointers an Baao Running. help tho batter' average out by makHans Wagner, tha veteran Pittsburg ing hits where other plays would score shortstop, has the following-- to say merely (afield outs an the same sort of about base running and base stealing: lap. It Is not tha man who has stolen HANI WAGNER, BHORTfiTOP OF THB Tour first class baseball team of tha ' HTTHHUHO PIRATES. future will be made up of three prin moat bases that is tbs beat base run one-hacatches and atopa much easier than with ordinary glove Probably a still better idea would be to have a pad soaked In glue held In the palm of the glov That would be a big aid to same players. How about nd LOUJfl RITTER. CATCHER OF THE BROOKLYN fiUFKRRAI. MMPMRNAMARARMRAMRRMRMAMRABRRMHMRRRMMMMNMRRMMRMRMBMIbMbARRMMINMNHHNBWNNNBWWWMMIMMHNMMtRRAAMMMbRIMIIMBIMM Stories About Stage Notables and Stage Doings; A Parisian Theater Devoted to Horrors Those London Critics IPrem Oar New York Dramatis Corre- - "Well," said Hitchcock, TIT go out charge ta bring mo ant Their price la wltk you." Ilf and fit, you know. By-b- y, doctor." ANY at the stories told of f "Como along," assented the physician, Raymond Hitchcock, tho and Into tha machine Jumped tha Commercial Life as toon an tha Stag comedian, who will ga oa comedy star. One of the stories now being told In tour during the' season of On arriving at the clubhouse Hitch-cor- k tha vaudeville bouses by monologlsla 1MT-la Tha Yankee Tourist." Tha hopped gayly out of the auto and I In the mol as follows: A shrewd la to tho following effect: Dur but tricky merchant was about ta lug the last season Hitchcock was in a "All right, doctor, you neednt make an assignment for the benefit of large eastern city and desired to roach ins Id but wliat's your To on creditor be said, 1 creditor charge?" will make you my preferred creditor aa that you will have tho beat chance to get the amount of your bill, but I want fM cash before 1 do this." The creditor agreed and paid the money. Later the merchant assigned without M Needlasa te aay that hla house la always well filled. On of tho recent productions has chiefly to do with a man wh has lost aa arm In a railroad wreck. A few days later he la sitting up In bed and watching a pet Part of dug chewing on something. thia substance glisten end on Investigation It Is discovered Mat the pup Is rhewlng en a human finger, and on the finger Is the seal ring ef the maimed man, a ring that he wore when b lost hla arm and hand In tho railroad wreck! Is it any wonder that some Parisians moat discouraging number of ease The persecution that In England formerly fell principally ta American Jockey hone owners and athletes of certain classes seems now to hsv been transferred. In part, at least, to of American producers and playei drama. a dellrata British critics go to smash practically unanimously. Wo all know what effort acute Indigestion has on the writings of dramatic critic Charles Frohman and Georg Tyler seem to b tha only American manage! that can depend on getting fair treatment fur moot of their plays from yawn when they visit America and Accordingly, some days before tha eventful evening titer appeared In all tha papers an advertisement to the following affect: "A gentleman who 'hag a nlera and ward possessing a disposable property of 114,000, together with a mercantlla establishment, desires ta find a young man who would be sbl( t manage the business and become tha husband of tha young lady. Tba possession of projierty or other qualification la no object. Apply to Hundreds upon hundreds of letter poured la In reply to thia advertise- meat Oa the morning of the benefit . day each person who bad sent a reply received the following note: "The most Important point I ef enura that yon should Ilka ana another. I and my niece will visit tha theater this ovaa-In- g. and yen can Just drop In upon ua In box No. 1." Aa a matter at course tho theater was crammed. An tha boat paying places In tha house war filled la the evening with a public mostly mad got np la a style seldom sees area at tha Royal Opera Itself. Glasses were leveled aa aU sides la tho direction at K 1 box, and' eyes wet strained to catch tha first rlmpee at tha niece wh-- n ah should appear la company with her unci but uncles are proverbially "wicked eld men," and In tha present case neither unci nor nine was to bo found, and tba disconsolate iovsrs of a fortune wero left to clear up the mystery aa beat they might. Actor Tells Hew to Feel a Cabman. "Hava you over tried to play an a cabman that old Joka of tba last sovereign?" asks Cyril Baud the famous English ertor. It's very funny. A friend tried It last summer in London, and succeeded too. He took a growler after midnight at Piccadilly cirrus te go to his lodging at Bayswater. Remembering tha talrnes of the lost sovereign dodge, he thought It would hardly go down with a bright cunning cabby, but resolved to try for the fun of it "Just as he came In front of a public house a few door from his homo tha fare stuck his head out of the cab window and ordered the driver to halt 1 aay, cabby, I've dropped a sovereign. It must be on the bottom of tha cab. Just pull up at that hotel till 1 run In and get a match so that I can find ths coin. "'All right sir,' said the cabby, and pulled up opooelte the door of the tavern. Tha far alighted and ' bad taken scarcely three steps In tha direction of the public house when, lo, Mr. Cabby whipped np hla borsa and flew away Into tho darkneoo of tho ha supnight carrying with him. aaconcealed posed. that sovereign snugly In the cushions of ths rah." FREDERICK TREG ELLER -- GERTRUDE MILLAR IN GAIETY any preference at ME LOHR AS BEATFHCE 4 THEATER, THE THEATER. alL "You wont got anything," ha said ta tho Indignant creditor. "But I thought I was to ha tbo preferred creditor?" MY 'WIFE, IN HAYMARKET "You are tha preferred creditor. I tell you new you dont get any money. LONDON. The other creditors have got to wait thirty days before they find eut they I charge 14 a don't get anything." Why er um visit, but I havent seen the sick man." Ona Type sf Parisian Play the physician spluttered rather conIn Paris there la a theater devoted . fusedly. Here's your four, and there isnt entirely t the production ef meloTbs manager will any dick man. I merely knew you would dramatic horror ride out hero to make a call for far pay almost any prten for n play that than any cab driver would will terrify or shock ths audieac GIRLS OF LONDON. GOTTENBERG, say that our theatrical amusements nre pretty, perhaps, but they lack novelty and genuine internet? It I to be hoped that Americans win continus to product plays that "lack novelty" etc, if the only way to remedy the alleged defect 1 to Imitate the stylo of popular French play afora described. KYRLE BELLEW, WHO WILL APPEAR PAUL IN NEW PLAY BY ARMSTRONG. London Crities Versus American lforo than likely the production af American plays In England by American companies will not be Indulged in so frequently In future as In the near past. The American manager, player and playwright ssm t win tho undying enmity at tha British critics In R affords aoma balm to London's critics. It 'appear to sea American plays presented by companies made up exclusively of English player . But when American player aa a rule, dare to appear before Londoner In London. la a native American play, tha deficits digestions of ths ofttlmea in- - John Bulls stage scribe to any nothing of tho gallery god Hew to Fill tho Theeler. A member of the company of actors at a Prussian theater was to have a benefit night and the question was hew to get together a good audieac ley, la a young fellow with the automosettled that George will play a bile habit who goes to Now York to part of each year1 In London. lela Allen closed an Unusually e a forty weeks' tour of Rida John- straighten out some business matters It la said that W. A. Brady la conof forty-on- e Harvard." go- and falls In lave with a pretty New sidering W. 8. Gilbert's "Fairy Dilemweeks in son Young's Brown-o"rvLi",n Tmbriine." with revivals of .'Twelfth an aut enthusiast ma" for tha use at Grace George next Yorker, who la also ing to the Parlfic reset ther RhkPMrean PlT Grace Georg who has made a big season and George Bernard Shaws The play which George V. Hobart baa Shakespearean record. written for Paul Gilmore deals with hit in London, la ta play In Pari en the Doctor's Dilemma'' for Wilton Lack- I, t m',lng ,,our Miss Allen visited all the automobiles, business and ranch Ilf a conclusion of her engagement in the aye. Pal rltleg between the two The Pnrls crltlrs have said many cnast comprehensive combination of atmos- English capital. She will ha- e a play a September la new Mason. jjuirg Woodruff atana phere Jtas leading part. Jack Hart bg Barden tat things about Olga Nstheraal, though one makes the surprising and somewhat enigmatical statement that in her coiffure she recalls Duse. Olga Nethersole has secured a French play called "La Rival" which she will produce In New York when she begins her engagement there in January. She will play again next season in Pari When Henry W. Savage returned Xiam Eurup Its was rust feg a brass band, engaged from the Jamestown exposition. and a committee In touring The car from three automobile firm popular manager waa taken completely by surprise at hla reception. Charles Kent, who has been engaged by Wright Lortmer t create a leading part In Mr. Larimer's new production, made hla Armricnn debut with George country club located on the Hitchcock. .It I e-"j' called en a well known physician that the doctor's services iipjj sdly needed at the dub In quea- - 57? outklrt H0 .r,l't doctor. out In my automobile," ALONG ' THE SHORES M-s- s flat-tari- ng aut it I Blgaeld la Booth's theater. He after ward appeared with Barry Sullivan. Clara Morris and Julia Neilaon at tba same theater. He has also supported Thomas Keene, Rossi, the Italian tragedian: Dion Beudcaolt and Edwin Booth. Richard Mansfield will not act tha coming season, it Is said, but will take a long rest to be In good condition for tha season fallowing. . |