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Show Honus Wagner Visits Old i CYonies SJy " ' !" i'mi,i liSw Mg f "w--. .''it - fey tlonus Wagner, one of the greatest baseball players of all time, In the dugout with the Pittsburgh Pirates during Booster day ceremonies. The fly-ing Dutchman still holds a place of the utmost esteem in the hearts of both baseball players and fans. the other day. He laid I ru sto1r "Slow how r "About doln' the nervy thing com-I-n' oat and sayln' to you, 'Here, let's fix It up.' "Fix what npr "Oh, you don't know, do yout Ton ain't sot no notion at alt of what I'm gettln' at, have you I That's too bad about yon." Mamie began to laugh and then he checked herself, for she obaerred that Artie wag frowning. "Of course," laid she, "I suppose you mean that we " "All I mean Is, what's the matter of gettln' It settled that It's goln' to be a case of marry T" There I When he aald this It seemed to him that bis voice went further and further away from blm, as If some one else were speaking the words. Mumle was smiling quietly and turn-ing her hat over and over. "I guess that didn't scare yon so much after all," said Artie, who at that moment felt that his whole exist-ence bad stepped out from under a 1 ARTIE I ! His Adventures la Lovt.Ufe and the Poreuit of Happiness By GEORGE ADE t Artie Does Say Something FULL moon was hanging over A the lake. The whole surface of small, uneasy waves was, light-ed. T'.ere was one path of shiny splendor leading straight out toward the moon and where this path lost Itself no one could tetL "There's sure some moon out to-night," observed Artie. He had been flipping pebbles down the paved beach and into the water. Mamie sat with him on the stone uplift dividing the park driveway from the slope toward the water with him, to be sure, but three or four feet away, vAth her hat In his lap. burden. "No," she replied, as she continued to fuss with the hat "Scare me?" "How about It beln up to yout" "Oh, it's all right, I guess." She spoke with a frightened attempt to be careless. "This Is one of them cases where all guessln's barred." "Well, you might know It's all right" "It's a go then." lie said this rather solemnly. There was a pause, and then he continued with some embarrassment; "I'll tell you, Mame, It seemed to me we ought to have it through with. I didn't want to keep you guessln' whether I want-ed to stick. Don't yon think it was the wise move huhr "It's all right yes." j "I was goln' to spring It on yon sooner, but I ain't never got the nerva. "It's perfectly lovely tonight" she said. . The two bicycles were leaned over against the stone uplift and the lamps threw oblong splotches of light on the gravel. Behind Artie and Mamie was the gloomy range made by the heavy fol-iage of the park. In and out amid the dark banks of trees and along the level driveway moved glow specks like so many busy fireflies. Artie saw none of these, for he was intent on the spectacle of water and moonshine. "The guy that could put all that Into a picture 'd be a bird, eh, Marnier "It's perfectly lovely." "That's what It Is, all right They don't grow many like this cne." "Sing something, Artie." "What do you want me to do drive the moon lnl How did you ever como If You'd Asked Me Yet" . to talk much about things like that It ain't like askln' a girl to go to a show, la itr "Not exactly," and then both of them laughed, In a relieved way. "Don't yon think you'd better put your mother on to UT" asked Artie. "I don't know. Would you?' "Sure. I guess she won't make no holler." Mamie laughed again, "That's a good one on you," she said. "What Is?" "She wanted to know the other day If you'd asked me yet" "Who, the old girl? Well, what do you know about thatl Everybody's on to us, Mame." "I don't care." "Care? They can bill the town with tt if they want to. Come on; let's take another slow whirl through the park." They quickly mounted the wheels and moved northward. The darting specks of fire were still abroad, but there was no sound except the soft rasp of the turning wheels. Artie, pumping leisurely and watching the lighted patch of roadway fleeing be-fore his wheel, suddenly began to sing about "Marguerite." He was singing absent-mindedl- y and merely to keep time with his thoughts, but Mamie hea"ii him and swung her wheel so as to ride up close beside him. "I thought you didn't sing," said she, laughing. "Oh, weli," said Artie, grinning. "You know there are times there are times." (0 by Oeorca Ada.) t "Mother Wanted to Know to think I was a singer? That's two or three times you've sprung that on me. Somebody must 'a' been string-I- n' you." "Why, the night wa walked home from Turner hall you sang something awfully pretty. What was It?" "It must 'a' been somebody else you had on your staff that night" "Why Artie Blanchard, you mean thing I" "Hello t Did I land on yon that time?" T think it was awfully mean of you to say that I don't ever ask you If you've been running around with some other girl." "Why don't you? Td tell you there's three or four others that kind o' like my style." "They must be hard np." "Is that so? Maybe I alnt so many but I'm a purty good thing, at that Tm fresh every hour. No family ought to be without me. When you lose me yon lose a capital prize, and dont you overlook It" In answer, Mamie picked np some of the small pebbles and threw them at him. He held his cap over his face and laughingly begged of her to stop. "Will you be good?" she asked. "Sure thing. But dont be so rough with your mans" "My man 1" Mamie tilted her head back, looked up at the moon and shrieked with laughter. Artie was always vastly pleased to have Mamie understand his bantering way. He had often wondered If they would ever come to the habit of tak-ing each other seriously. Could mar-ried people keep up the Joke? At-th- is moment Artie bad an In-spiration. The conversation was head-ed right Why not steer It straight ahead? "Of course," he continued, "I was kind o' klddln' when I said that but when it comes right down to cases It wasn't so much of a kid after alL" Mamie laughed a little, but It was a forced laugh. She had suddenly be-come Interested In a pebble which she was rolling under the toe of her shoe. "I don't mean more n half I say," said Artie, tightening his fists with resolution and still lookin' out at the Illuminated lake, "but on the dead, Mamie, 1 ain't as foolish sometimes as I am others. That talk about there beln' any other girl was all guff." 'Tshaw, I knew that" . . "Gee, you know you've got me right, don't you"? And I guess you have, too. That ain't no lie. Say. Mamie, what do you think? Miller was roastln' me BUCKY JARRED BY" ' , "HIGH HAT" CRACK Athletic Fans Badger Harris for Alleged Slu Cocky Harris probably Is just as weU satisfied that his latest visit to the enthusiastic playground of Connie Macks' pennant-geare- d Athletics Is all over. Ducky seldom makes mistakes but Philadelphia critics believe the De-troit manager "pulled one" when be gave an Interviewer the Impression that he thought the Athletics were becoming a trifle "high-hat- " over their present nigh estate In the American league race. ' Harris insists he Intended to give no such Impression. As he pointed out, he had given the A's all due credit for making a great race. let the populace was quick to leap upon him In the accustomed fashion while the Athletics were quick to jump upon the Tigers. Bucky left Philadelphia after four days of "raising" from the stands and the Tigers departed with four straight defeats plastered upon them. An incident of the series Involved an attempt to present Harris 8 silk "topper" on the field but the Tiger pilot, suspecting a ruse, refused to emerge from his dugout when the g fans requested his pres-ence on the field for a ceremony. The uproar was great nevertheless. It was recalled that during the heated political and baseball days of 1&28, Philadelphia partisans pre-- m AvituUulKw wmm .mm 'm Bucky Harris. sented a brown derby to Babe Euth, who somewhat discomfited the authors of the Joke by Immediately, donning the headgear and even going so far as attempting to go to bat with It Few attempts of either fans or players to embarrass the Bambino have ever been successful. ' la Iplces Tip A zeot!-- : v Areata Make Mostr, with ear Una of Christmss Cards with your euatomer'a nam, on them la ralaad lattra.Claaale Print-ary- . 101 Eurtka St., Saa rranclaeo, Calif. Mra'a Para Silk Boaa, S parr SI., poatpal. worth aoubla. All colora, alsea, pay poitman, money refunded on requeet. 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Hanf up original AEROXON (pronounced A Sock - Son) Fir Catcbera with 'DraeaVTack Attached. No fuaa ootrouMeThey Ulcatch thousands of fliea or a nickle. Insist upon getting AEROXON Fly Catchers from Tout dealer. Sola Importers and Distributors for U.S.A. CRAEF tk SANPNOr, Edlna, Mo. lllii1 Women are Baying: f'Pinkham'sj Compound keeps me fit to do my work." "I was nervous and all run I down. Now I eat better and sleep better". "It helped my thirteen year old daughter." "I took it be-fore and after my baby was bom.' "I am gaining every day." , rasil fx: fSIIB j 6 I POSA mm i Love's Green Eyes TUB true tint of love Is rather but a tinge of green often Bares forth just to offset the steady glow of lore's own light It Is the green of jealousy. How much of ba-nian affection Is discolored by the sus-picious shade of green I But before we go on to blame the jealous lover and discountenance the green of bis or ber glances, let us be fair enough to observe that jealousy can be s sign of srdenl love. Indeed, unless there be the everlasting possi-bility of jealousy, there ran hardly be love In the romantic sense of that old term. Just as red cannot exist as a color without Its contrast la green, so love cannot live and express itself without the possibility of its opposite hue the green of envy, of down right jealousy. But if Jealousy is all right as a sign of love, It Is to be condemned on the ground that It Is (elfish. Of course, there must be s certain amount of selfishness" with human love, for It Is something very different from altruism, or unselfishness. We may have sympathy for people In the slums or for the heathen In China, but that sort of feeling Is not at all the way Romeo felt for Juliet Too don't have to attend night school to learn that, girls. Then, again, jealousy Is to be frowned upon as a human emotion because It is a form of fear. Maybe we might coll It jealophobla and be high brow It Is the fear that some-body is going to lift our sweet and that's a lift we don't want anybody to give us. Now. here comes the deep part of the jealousy business, and I want yon to follow me In the parados which Im going to spring on you. Don't say I'm wrong until you've thought It over. It's something wblcb I'll put In the form of an Illustration: A man loves a girl and finds that she's a bit coquettish. She makes goo-go- o eyes at another man. Now, as long as man number two doesnt take any partic-ular notice of these little winks, the lover man Isn't Jealous, although be Isn't exactly tickled pink. At any rate, be doesn't show the jealous green. On the other band, if some other man takes special notice, . wants ber phone number, eta, the lover-ma- Is livid with the green of Jealousy. It doesn't make any difference whether the girl's Interested or not She may even despise the other man. It's the Idea that some one Is trying to sup-plant him. That's what gives the lover bis green feeling. Now this Is Just the reverse of what you'd expect for you Imagine you want to be sure of your sweetie's affections. Fact of the matter Is that you're afraid of losing her, or him, as the cane may be. Better have your sweetheart love another than to have another love her that's Jealousy, and It's very primitive snd unbecoming. That's All Mistress (engaging maid) And have you any religious views T Maid No, ma'am, only a couple of postcards of Southend. London Opinion. I Major League Parks : : In the present home run era, the distance from the home plate ! i to "over the fence" ofTers soms ; ; ; interesting Information for the ; ; benefit of the fans. As right ; ; field in most of the parka are ; the shortest and where most of ', ; ; the "circuit drives' are made, ; ; " we give dimensions from the ; ; ' ' plate to the right field barrier:' ' ! National league: Chicago, ', ; S13 ft New York, 257 ft; Cln- - ; I cinnati, 883 ft; Brooklyn, 801 ft; Boaton, 297 ft; PhUadel--! - phla, 280 ft; St Louis, 820 ft; I Pittsburgh, 800 ft American league Philadel- - ' phla, 807 ft; Cleveland, 290 ft; ; ; New York, 294 ft, 9 in.; De-- 870 ft, 11 In.; Chicago, V, ft; Boston, 858 ft, 6 In.; Itroit 820 ft; Washington, ; ; ft ; ; ? Or the Diahpaa "Where do you hide those letters that girl has been writing to you, so your wife won't find them?" "I put them In ber darning basket" Gutierrez, Madrid. "Whispering BUI" Has Had Many Good Chances Another recent White Sox "playboy" who recently returned to Comiskey park in a gray uniform, none other than "Whispering Bill" Barrett Bar-rett was with the White Sox for many years. Possessor of much natural talent he consistently threatened to break Into stardom, only to miss the mark each season. In fact he became known as ths "most permanent prospect" the White Sox picked up In years permanently promising. Early this season he was traded to the Boston Bed Sox for Doug Taitt When he left he emulated his room-mate, Bib Falk, by promising to "hit a million" with his new club and make much misery for the Sox. So far the promise has been noth-- Bill Barrett Ing but that he still seems to be a "prospect." Barrett long has been known as one of the prize "bench Jockeys" In base-ball, and paired with Falk was classed as the greatest team of goat-getter- s in the league. Unlike Falk, Bill didn't show the unusually keen sense of humor that the Texan did, but his shrill war cry sweeping across the field was very much a part of White Sox atmosphere wherever the team traveled. BASEBALL m NOTES The Boston Braves lost more than 100 games In four consecutive seasons, 1906-0- Virginia if one of ths few states where no professional baseball Is played. The first time MUburn Shoffner, Cleveland rookie, faced Babe Ruth, be fanned blm, Shortstop Jesse has been returned by the Decatur club of ths Three I league to Cleveland. John A. Heydler, president of the National league, started In profes-sional baseball as an umpire. We don't believe we have seen a really great stop this year by a rookie lnflelder, except In Brooklyn beat Buffalo 23 to 10 In 1800, the major league game which contains the most runs scored. Dick Phelan, who caught Nekola at Holy Cross Is playing with the Lynn club of the New England league. Carl Fischer of Newark expects to have a strikeout total of 200 this sea-son. He lecg since passed the Sparky Adams Is still tha smallest player in the major leagues, while Jumbo Elliott of the Boblns Is the largest Joe Ouyon, former football star at Georgia Tech, Is barnstorming the country with a baseball team of fellow Indians, Doc Arlle Pond, one of the old-tim- e Orioles, Is now tha owner of a vast grove of coconut trees in the Philip-pine Islands. Nick Altrock golfs. The ban on the sport by Walter Johnson doesn't apply to the clown. Nick Is extremely se-rious at play. Dan Boone, manager-outfielde- r for High Point (Piedmont), topped all bat-ters in organized ball lost season. His sverage was .419. a , The average player In the big leagues lasts about eight years, al-though many continue for15 or 20 sea-sons In the gome. . Heinle Manush, beaten out of the 1S28 American league tatting title by one point, Is trying hard for the 1029 championship. a Louisville this summer had the smallest Saturday crowB in the his-tory of the new park. Only 805 paid to see Indianapolis play. Eddie Hollcki, Bucknetl's greatest athlete since the days of Christy Math- - ewson, has been shunted to the minor leagues after a short trial with the St Louis Cardinals. a a a Jerry Donovan, eighty-si- x years old, who has been close to baseball since he was a boy, works every day at Shlbe Park, In Philadelphia, and Is as active as a man of sixty. a A Washington Information editor is asked, "How does a catcher know what kind of a ball the pitcher Is going to throw J" We believe the proper an-swer Is, If It is a left bander, he doesn't a Jack Crandall, sixteen-year-ol- d boy, Is following In the footsteps of his fa-ther, Otis "Doc" Cranflall, former big league t wirier and now pitching in the Pacific Coast league. a a Sale of Pat Caraway, twenfy-two- , d pitcher of the Topeka Western league cltfb, to the Chicago White Sox Is announced. a a a Bob Veach, star with Toledo In the American association for three years, has been released by the Mudhens. Veach was given his outright release, a a a The day that Bill McKechnle report-ed back to the Cards, Jim Bottomley came out of a batting slump with two hits anil a sacrifice In four times up. Obey end Cherish A WOMAN Is perfectly frank when she drops the word "obey" from the marriage ceremony. The man still promises to "cherish," but be has bis fingers crossed when he says It But what difference does It make? The bride Is so scared that she doesnt know what she's saying, and as for the groom well, he's a man. The flapper Is outside looking In on this marriage game, which seldom runs into extra Innings. When she listens In on the marital microphone, she gets one earfuL "Obeyl" Oh, boy I That was all right when the man was the head of the woiks, but when he's a bank clerk, counter jump-er, or coconut salesman, and yon crawl out of bed at seven a. to. Just to choke off the alarm clock, and wrap yourself around a cup of coffee and an egg, and hike along with the other girl scouts no, sir; no obey In that The average bride gets so much obey stuff at the office from the boss that she doesn't want any In the home from the bubby. With the old-styl- e marriage, which went out with the bicycle, bride and groom swapped vows at the altar. She was perfectly willing to obey because be was just ss ready to cherish. But when the man began to ease up on the cherishing business, the bride put the soft needle on the obey record. To cherish s woman means to sup-port her In the style to which she has accustomed herself, and then some. This may not be easy for a man un-less he goes to Florida, but then be must not expect his bride to take any dictation from blm. My Idea of marriage Is that we girls enter the League with reserva-tions. Then we'll say to our men, "If you'll cherish me with a good line of feed and silk underwesr, I'll obey you to tho end of the chapter." But the men want us to keep our word while they are dropping theirs. It Isnt fair. They've got to brace up and do some cherishing, or marriage will go to the dachshunds. . I'd like to find a first-clas- s cherish-e- r so that I could throw up this little old Job. But then I'd bare to speak my piece with "obey" In It and I'm not quite ready for that ((9 b tna Boil Syndicate. Ins.) A well-hi- t golf ball travels about 80 miles an hour. a There are several hundred ski clubs In the United States. a a Detroit Golf club recently completed a caddy clubhouse costing $35,000. a a a National horseshoe pitching cham-pionships are held each winter at St Petersburg, Fla. a There Is a difference between taking the gate and being given It as fight promoters know. a Maurice McCarthy, former Intercol-legiate golf champion, also plays foot-ball and baseball. a a a Massachusetts high schools recently ruled that athletes would be confined to four years of playing. a a a More than $30,000 will be spent pre-paring Lake Placid for the Olympic games winter sport program. . a a a Eugene Huat, the knockout con-queror of Erolle Pladner, Jumped Into fighting from 4he bicycle racing game, a a a Hal Bebholz, Wisconsin fullback In 1028, Is preparing for the 1929 cam-paign by serving as a motorcycle cop. a a Th Royal Bermuda Yacht club wllj soon celebrate Its eighty-fift- h year of existence, having been organized In 1844. a a a Graduate managers of the ten schools of the Pacific Coast Confer-ence are considering the appointment of a salaried commlslsoner to be In charge of all athletic problems in the P. O. C a a a Ernie Nevers, former Stanford full-back, and Howard Maple, quarter-back for the Oregon Aggies last year, have signed with the Chicago Cardi-nals, of the national professional foot-ball league. a a a Coach Bob Zuppke will have about 20 lettermen to depend upon In trying for his third consecutive western con-ference football championship this fall. Preliminary practice will start Sep-tember 15. a a a When Tex RIckard went to Toledo in 1919 to stage the Dempsey-WUIar- d fight he took as bis local aid Ad Thatcher. Just ten years later to the day the Toledo Boxing commission gave Ad the air for attempting to criticize Its conduct of the sport a a a Relgh Count great racer, owned by Mrs. John D. Herts, was purchased from the Willis Sharpe Kilmer stable for $13,500. a a a Harness racing under electric lights at night recently brought out by far the largest attendance in the history of the Toledo track. a a a According to King Alfonso of Spain, who recently attended his first dirt track motorcycle race In England, bull-fighting Is tame In eomparlson to this thrilling sport Remarkable Old Maps Preserved at London Maps are always very Interesting things, and when one traces them back to their origin In the early days of the Egyptian and Greeks, It Is wonderful to realize how long this form of skill has been in existence, for even as long ago as about 200 B. C the first Ideas of mapping were beginning to form, and the art went slowly on down the ages, until in 1492, the first globe was constructed, Just after the discovery of America. At an exhibition at the Science mu-seum, In London recently, some won-derful old maps were to be seen. Amongst others, was the map made by Captain Cook of Botany bay, In 1770, and also an old pirate's map of Mex-ico, painted on skin. This remark-able old map was made as long ago as 1774. Football at Night Night football, played under brilliant flood lights, will be Inaugurated at Lawrence next fell by Haskell Indian Institute, Frank W. McDonald, direc-tor of athletics, announced the other day In talking of the grid prospects. Definite plans for one nlht game, with Baker university, Kansas, con-ference champion, have been made. Half of the gridiron contests of the Indians may be shifted to night dates, Mr. McDonald said. Old-Tim- e School Athletics An r was complaining that the schools devote too much time to athletics nowadays. "Well," some-one asked, "what did you do when you went to school?" "We bad fights," replied the old resldenter. Glen Elder (Kan.) Sentinel. North Star's Visibility ' The North star Is not exactly at the North pole of the heavens and consequently travels around tt In a small circle. Theoretically the North star could be seen, under perfect at mospherlc condition, from the North pole to a point about 2 degrees south of the equator. Pineapple Canning The canning of pineapple began In this country about the early 80s, the supply of fruit being brought chiefly from the West Indies and delivered In Baltimore, where, for the most part, the canning was done. The canning of pineapple in the Hawaiian islands began about ten years later. Patent Starting Block3 A patent on wooden starting blocks. Invented by Coach George T. Bresna-ha- n and used by the University of Iowa sprinters and hurlers for the last two seasons, has been granted by the United States patent office. The blocks are designed to elimi-nate the dlsslng of starting holes. An adjustable fixt rest five inches high, Is mounted upon n block about ten Inches Ion? and the whole affair Is fastener! to t!:e track by long Iron or s:csi f,r!nj. Queen of Lilies The finest and largest water lily known to science Is the "Mrs, Rich-mond," the roots of which sell for $25 apiece. World's Longest Plant The kind of seaweed known as kelp Is said to be the longest plant In the world. It has been known to reach a length of 1.500 feet Begun by Madison The first Inaugural ball was held when James Madison entered upon his ftrct term as President tn I8O0. |