Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 4, 1912, Page 4

L .SPORTS OF THE DAY NOTHING BUT TALK IN BASEBALL WAR National League Ba seball Magnates. (Left to right, standing): J. A, Heydler, B. Locke, Mrs. Helene H. Britton, owner of the St (Left to right, seated): Louis Cardinals; Charlie Murphy, C. Ebbets. August Hermann, chairman of the National sommission; E. A. Steininger, Secretary Joseph O. O'Brien of the New York Giants, John Whalen. Mrs. Britton, seen in this picture, Is the only,woman baseball magnate in the world. Baseball fans the country over are very much relieved that the annual sessions of the two big leagues are over and that the talk of the magnates is nothing worse than talk. The bomb throwing in New York threw a real scare into the fans fora day until the famous resolution of the American league had been read over carefully and the meaning studied out, writes 7e0. C. Rice in the Chicago Journal. There is no reason for war between the two big leagues and the majcrity of the club owners have no idea of taking part in any endeavor that is to bring about anything that looks like war. The petty quarrel of two of the magnates is not going to pull any of the same business men that are back of the game in the two big leagues into anything that looks like a war. - Property interests that run into millions will not be a party to the quarrel of two men who have cnly a little jealous ill feeling for each oth: er as the reason for their bicker- ings. The New York meeting was as live- 1y as any that has ever been held since -the national agreement was signed ten years ago. Even without the war scare there was plenty of real business transacted to make the fans sit up and take a lot of notice,. P A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A AN JAKE STAHL IS REINSTATED| Player, Who Quit Game to Run Bank, Is Permitted to Return Without Fine—Goes to Boston. Garland Stahl, known as ‘“Jake" wherever baseball is played, Chicago banker and new manager of the Bos- ton Red Sox, has been reinstated by the members of the National Com- mission. b Stakl was a member of the “In Bad” Club for the reason that he remained out of the game last year. managerial reins of the Boston club under McAleer and McRoy. The members of the commission restored him to good standing in the following words: “Player Garland Stahl, who violat- ed rule 33, by failing to report during the season of 1911, to the Beston club of the American League, to which he was under reservation, has formally requested the commission to reinstate him in crganized baseball. The play- er stated that he retired from base- ball to connect himself with a bank in Chicago as a stockhelder and offi- cial and that the only game of ball in which he played during 1911 was with the team of the Woodlawd Busi- | nees Men’s Association, of which he is a member, for a charitable purpose. “He has concluded to rejoin the | Boston team, and as he has not play- ed with or against ineligible players during the period he was technically guilty of violating rule 33, the com- mission hereby restores him to good standing without the infliction of a fine.” GOSSIP T AMIOANG “SUN" FIELD IS HARD One of the Greatest Problems in Baseball. A\ 8ome Clubs .In Trying to Protect Players Expose Fans in the 8tands —Left Field in Cleveland Is Hardest of Them All. The hardeet position to play in the outfield is the “sun” field, and that is not always the same fleld, nor are all of them equally difficult. “Sun” field, by the way, is the ball players’ name for the fleld into which the afternaon sun shines on a direct or almost direct line With the home plate, 8o that the majority of files hit to that flelder come to him out of a blazing background. : At the Polo grounds the left field is the “sun” fleld, although center fleld is bothered at certain seasoms, At American league park the sun in- terferes with the right fielder. What 1s admitted by all to be the worst in the major- leagues is left field in Cleveland, although left field, at the Polo grounds in New York is “pretty flerce.” ¥ The St. Louis ‘American league grounds have everything else beaten, | for both right and center flelds are bad “sun” flelds whenever ‘the weath- er is clear. Sometimes even the left! fielder there is handicapped, too. The fan probably wonders why ball parks are not planned so that thet will be no “sun” field. That can bej done easily enough by making a con- siderable part of the spectators face the sun, and not only face it, but sit, in it most of the game, and that is not comfortable on a hot afternoon. Detroit and Brooklyn have plants laid out that way and the first base side of the covered stands is no more comfortable than open bleachers in July or August. Detroit’s new "plant, now _ being built, is arranged the other way, be- cause the comfort of the fans is more important to the revenue of the game than the convenience of the outfielc- ers. 3 It is better to have a fly misjudged occaslonally even at the cost of a game than to have a large section of the grandstand shunned by persons unless the place is crowded. Aside from this sun feature, one would think the outtield positions. Wwere allke and equally difticult to play. That is far from the truth. Each position has its peculiarities, and a man who has played one out- fleld position for a number of years often may be at sea for a& while in any other field. 5 The greatest difference is between center fleld and either of the other two positions. As a rule long fiies or drives that go to the center fielder are hit almost squarely by the. bats- man, and consequently have Jittle “English” to make them curve. The majority of flies hit to right or left fleld, however, will curve in their fiight, and the fielder must remember Instinctively to allow for this curve when running to get under the ball. The fly which a right handed bats- man hits into right fleld will curve BEHAN T0 SEE MIKE DAVIS Confessed Pal to Go to Marquette Prison With Fire Marshal Keller, Fire Marghal Charles, Keller and Murtln\thun expect -to leave for Mayquette, Mich., in a few days to interview Mike Davis, who fs said to be a prisoner in the state prison. Pinkerton detectives identified a man sent to prison from Flint, Mich., for robbing a postoffice as the man want- ed in Minnesota in connection with the' northern Minnesota- arson and robbery cases. . The man was sent to prison from Flint Dec. 21. He gave his. name as James Callahan and pleaded gullty to robbery. With him was 8 man who gave the name of Frank Howard and who, Minnesota authorities think, may be one of the other men wanted in Minnesota. Fire Marshal Keller had telegraphed the Marquette prison asking for more de- tails concerning the man said to be Davis, but he says he believes there was no doubt of the man’s identity and that he and Martin Behan, who was captured at the time of the at- tempted Puposky robbery and who confessed, will leave for Marquette soon. - It has beensaid that Assistant Attorney General A. L. Janes also would go to Marquette but Mr. Janes, while in Bemidji yesterday, denTed this report. Prayer In an East Indian Court. The noon hour struck, tolled by the rail gong at the freasury door, and in a moment all things came to a stand- still. The Mohammedan lawyers, the village Moslems loitering about. the court, even Mozuffer Khan with his guardian policeman, all reverently withdrew. A moment later they re- appeared on the-wxide concrete veranda outside the window at my left. There they lald down their prayer mats, and. standing first with devoutly bowed heads and bands folded. they murmur- ed the noon prayers of the prophet’s religion; then knelt, still praying, and made obeisance, prostrating them- gelves before Allah the merciful, the compassionate. The reverence of their devotion was perfect and wholly free from the seif conscious shamefaced- ness that 1 should have felt, supposing that I, the magistrate, had suspended court to pray there in public.—Charles Johnston in Atlantic. The Russian Amsterdam. St. Petersburg is one of the few great cities which have been made and not born. During his residence in Hol- land Peter the Great was so impressed by Amsterdam, perched upon the wa- ters, that he determined to abandon Moscow and build a new capital which should have canals for streets. In his campaign against’ Sweden in 1702 he voted an island situated in the mid stream of the Neva. “Here is my Rus. slan Amsterdam!” he exclaimed and immediately began the building -of g city there. The site was a marsh in summer and a frozen morass in win- ter. Two miserable huts were the only buildinigs. "The erection of the cltadel, a gfeat fort in the shape of a hexagon, with a tower 360 feet high, on the north bank of the Neva was his first care. The cottage in which Peter lived while laying out the city still exists. A Herculean Katydid. Experiments conducted by a natural- team battery,” was the States warship that' ws propelled by steam. She was bullt un- der the superintendence of Commodore. Matthew Galbraith Perry and at the time of her completion in 1837 was re- garded one of the world’'s wonders by way of naval architecture and pow- er at sea. Theé Fulton was the cause of no little speculation on the part of Buropean powers, for at that time she was looked upon by other nations s all but invincible.. When this won- der of the sea was put in commission Commodore Perry, then holding the rank of commander, was put in com- mand of her, and he presently came to be called the “father of the steam navy.” The Fulton ‘was bullt pri- marlly for defense of New York har- bor, but she served as well to demon- strate the practical utility of steam power for warships.—New York Times. Silent Lawyers. It is almost a maxim nowadays that & lawyer’s real importance at the bar SPORIS Veteran Abe Attell continues elim- (nating aspirants and padding his bank roll. Suggestions for new names for | club: New York Highlanders, Wolves; Washington, Griffos; Cincinnati, Arbi- ters. The threat of a baseball war has passed by without any recourse to The Hague tribunal or an appeal to the powers. Topeka is making improvements to its plant, and will have a sodded dia- mand next year. Dale Gear can't see baseball on any other kind of a dia- mond. In -the opposite direction to the fiy | ist mttached to one of the government’s which a left handed bataman hits into | schntific bureaus at Washington ad- left fleld; but when a man changes | duced an interesting example of the from right to left fleld he takes the | strength of thé katydid. He. harness- | curve instinct along with him and | ed a katydid to a kind of sled made merely has to remember which field | by folding a plece of ordinary note- he is in. : paper, and then loaded the‘sled with The center flelder who changes to | various articles. The insect proved right or left field must acquire the | able to draw, in addition to the orig- habit of expecting every fiy to_curve, | tnal paper, ‘twelve paper sheets each unless it i8 & straight liner “pulled” | 8 by 414 inches, a large screw, two squarely by the batsman. steel pens, a stone welighing two There 18 not as much difference be- | gunces and three and a half lead pen- tween -outfleld positions as there 18| ofls. When the ; weight became too on the infleld, but there is enough 80 | peavy to draw otherwise, the katydid that a player is left in his so-called got 1its fore feet over the edge of the “natural” position unless it 18 neces- | ¢aple for a befter hold, and on the is in Inverse ratio to his prominence in the papers. The truth is that law- yers of great importance seldom now- adays appedr in court. In the old days the great lawyer was the eloquent lawyer; today the great lawer is the silent one. Then bar reputations were made literally at the bar. Today they. are made in the offices of the sky- scrapers neighboring on Wall street. In England a visit any day to the law courts will bé repaid by the sight of some famous K. O. assisting the court In a dramatization of the trial chapter from “Alice In Wonderland.” But you might prowl for a month within the precincts of the New York courthouse without encountering a lawyer whose name would signify anything remark- able to the historian of the New York bar.—American Magazine. = Curious Justioe. A - Paris contemporary gives us a glimpse of the administration of jus- tice among the natives in the Lower Niger territory, which for its efficacy migh be compared with Swift's ac- .count of the means adopted by judi- clal authorities in Laputa, we believe, to discover conspirators. If a nntlve‘ s accused of theft the heads of the village make a decoction of herbs and put into the essence about a grain of ‘ground pepper. The lquid is -then lightly applied to the eyelid. If the suspect weeps he is considered guilty. But the murder test is an improve- ment upon that of theft. The: “wise man” of the district draws a vessel of water, into which he puts some poison. Then he takes a cow’s tail and “as- perges” the eyes of the supposed as- sassin. If the man becomes:blind he Is pronounced a murderer. For Testing Gold. The acld used by jewelers for testing.| gold Is extremely powerful and has to be very carefully handled. To pre- vent any considerable quantity of the acid being spilled a specially construct- ed bottle is employed. The stopper of this is made of glass and confains a long polnted glass rod -which passes down the center ‘of the bottle. - When an article of jewelry is to be tested the stopper iz simply removed, -and the article is touched with the point-of the glass Trod to which- a very slight quantity of acid has adhered. Gold is uot affected by the acid, but imitation metal turns green. fetter or not—don’t!” "The advice ap- Jake Stahl. Prior to that he played first base but spent last summer in conducting a bank on the South Side’ in Chica go. Therefore it was necessary for him to seek and secure reinstate ment before he could take up the Time. Dist. .7 Olympian Records That May Be Broken , Baseball fans in Kansas are talking of a league for next year that will comprise the best towns of the old Kansas State and Central Kansas cir- | cuits. ‘Willle Hoppe assuredly has estab- lished himself as unique in the bil- liard game. There is no man in the game today who can beat this young wizard of the cue. He stands alone, at the head of the class. Athlete, H ann.. Walker Hahn ... Hillman "/ Sheppard Sheppard Smithson Hillman Iiillman Russell Orton Rimme Irons Ahearne’ E Pole vault Shot put Discus . 16-pcund “hammer. 56-pound_shot. Marathon, Lifting, one han Lifting, both 1 Dumbbeil competiti "Tug-ot-war Team race 300 metres walk Ten-mile walk .. Discus, Greek styl ridan . I'lannagan esmarteau ring . Stéinbach Tofalos Osthoff N Y. jAGG Voight . Gecrgantus Lemming Leniming Mellander Bonhag: Larner ... Larner Sheridan . sary to change him. - The physical®requirements in the outfleld are speed, accuracy in judg- ing files and surety of catch. The mental requirements are much the same as in any other department. The outflelder must study the bats man and learn in which direction cer tain men usually hit certain kinds of pitching. 5 . Knowing . the catchers’ signs, sc that ‘he will know just what is being pitched each time, is of great help tq the “‘wise” outflelder in guessing the direction. a ball will take the instan{ he hears the crack of ‘the bat. Any one who has watched the out | fleld ‘of ' good team on the defen: has seen great expanses of groyn left unguarded at times and may havq wondered at it. “There’s a reason” always, and i{ is simply the. flelder or the captain has figured out by the same law .of averages ' which governs insurance premiums that the man at the bat 18 almost certain not to hit the ball into the territory left uncovered. Knowledge of what to do with the ball when one gets it also is & prime requisite in the outfield. Many a game has been lost by an unwise throw. to the plate or to the wrong base. The outflelder must take into con- sideration ‘the speed of the men on bases, the lead” they have when he gets the ball and the state ‘of the game, A play that would be wise un- der some conditions would be the beight of folly under others. Cornell Runners May Go Abroad. A movement 1s on foot among Cor- nell -undergraduates, and it is ex- pected that the alumni will also join. it, to make an effort to send the Cor- Hell ‘cross-country team abroad next summer to Engl I Dpossibly contiy time of the ivic games. addition of another weight it increas- ed the adbering power of .its feet by ‘moistening them in its mouth.—New York Tribune. e Not a Parallel Case. A writer in the Philadelphia Satur- day Evening Post tells of a big over- grown, bashful' booby of a farmer’s boy who was afraid even to speak to ‘a girl, and ‘whose father one day final- ly lost patience and scolded him round- ly for not looking about and finding some girl to marry. “Why,” he said, “at your age I had been married three years and had a ‘house and farm of my own!” . *‘Well, but dad,” complained the boy. “that ain’t the same thing at all. You only had to marry mother, while I've got to go and hunt up some strange girl and ask’ her to marry me!” That Would Do. “If you want to find out who is boss here start something.” “All right. I see your clock isn’t golng."—New York Press. Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.—Garrick. * NOTICE OF APPLICATION LIQUOR LICENSE STATE OF MINNESOTA. | i Oounty of Beltrami, ss. Village of Wilton otice 18 hereby. rfinn. That “nnllnlfilm o) N 'has been made in wriving to the village coun= 1l of Wilton and inmy office, pray- B e *m of - One ¥ on the 19th’day of Janusry, 1912, and terminat- Ing on'the 19th day of January. 1913, by the follo ‘person, and at the following place, 28 stated n sald apol ., Tespectively, %, — ':o‘:.nfiu Doubts and Don'ts. Remember Talleyrand's advice, “If you are in doubt whether to write a plies to many .doubts in lfe besides that of letter wrltlng.—fln_lwer—nytqm A Dream of a Hat. s She—I dreamed last night you bought me a new hiat. He—Well. that's the | first dream of & hat you ever had tba lidn’t cost me money.—Club Felk Mens, €4 xRl SeRE ad gets to them all. HELP WANTED WANTED;‘Compentent girl for general : ‘housework. Mrs. John Wilson, 1101 Dewy Ave. WANTED—Good girl for general housework. Mrs. . E. Black. FOR SALE FOR SALE—Cord wood for sale at $2.00 per cord delivered to any part of the city. Leave orders a the Nicollet hotel. R 5. The Ploneer will procure any-kind of & rubber stamp for you on short notiee. . FOR SALE—6 room modern house, easy terms; Huffman, Harris & Reynolds. FOR SALE—Twa good milch cows at-715 Minnesota avenue. 921 Minnesota Ave.- FOR RENT—$ room house for rent. A. Klein. LOST AND FOUND LOST—A pockétbook, either in Ma- ‘jestic Theater: or near Troppman’s store. ‘MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISERS--The great state of North Dakota offers unlimited op- portunities for business to classi- fled advertisers. The ~recognized advertising medium is the Fargo advertising. covers North Dakota like a blank- et; reaching all parts of the state the day of publication; it is the Daper to-use in. order to get re- sults; Tates one cent per word first insertion, one-half cent per word succedding :insertion; per line per month; Courler-News, Fargo, N.'D.:- WANTED — Position wanted by young man, _expert bookkeeper, _salesman, or ‘will do_both; very LadiesSuits,Coats, Skirts and Furs. ‘Men’s and Boys Suits and Overcoats. Women _Childrens Sweaters. 'ft;luhruchlm rate 1 cent per word per insertion. 'No ad taken for less than HOW THOSE WANT ADS DO THE BUSINESS They tell what you have to sell to everybody in Bemidji. The Ploneer goes everywhere 8o that everyone has and people who do not take "the paper generally read their neighbor's 80 your. want 15 Cent a Word'Is All It Costs Can’t Lose Much by Taking a Chance Try a Want Ad Phone 31 a peighbor who takes it best references. Harry Bowers, 417 East 25th Street, Minneapolis, Minn. L S e s et WANTED—Dining and sleeping car conductors, $75-$125. Experience unnecessary, we teach you, write Dining Car World, 125 W. Van Buren, Chicago. 7 WANTED TO TRADE—What have you to trade for new standard pia- no? Call at second hand #tore, 0dad Fellows Bldg. BOUGHT AND SOLD—Second hand furniture. Odd Fellows buflding, across from postoffice, phone 129. / 3 2 Ine 12 Cent a Word?nCasIl e, s and