Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 20, 1912, Page 4

eSS e 4!“ } { | THE BEMIDJI{DAILY PIONEER HOW MATHEWSON FANNED MIKE MITCHELL “Dode” Paskert tells an interesting yarn on Matty and his headwork. The Reds were playing the Giants and Mike Mitchell was clouting Matty’s shoots to all corners of the lot, while Dick Hoblitzel had fanned three suc- cessive times. The Reds had a man on second and a man on third, with two out in the ninth inning, and the Giants had a onerun lead. A single would have ‘won the game and Hobby was the hitter. The fans were glving up hope ‘When Matty deliberately passed Hob- by to take a chance on Mitchell, who had made two triples and a double in his three trips to the plate. The fans shouted and laughed. They thought it was all off with Matty. Mitchell had been clouting Matty’s fast ball and Mike expected to see the fade- Captaln Mitchell, Crack Outfielder of Cincinnati. away or Matty’s curve come up to the plate. Matty cut loose a fast one straight over the center of the plate. Mitchell was dumfounded and did not even swing. Then he stepped up closer to the plate because he was positive that the next would be a curve ball. Zip. An: other fast one shot straight across the plate. Once again Mike, in his sur- prise, allowed it to pass. Then he was dead sure he had Matty and that “Big Six” would waste a curve ball. Once again the ball went over the center of the plate. Mitchell was dumfounded and did not even swing. Matty had deliberately given him three fast balls, without a shoot on them, and all of them were right across the center of the plate and where Mitchell would ordinarily have killed them. A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A HOW FAST DO BASEBALLS-G0? Careful Timing of Ground Hits Es. tablishes Fact Balls Trave! at Rute of 60 Miles an Hour. Ask any “fan” how fast an avarage “grounder” travels during Its first hundred feet from the bat, and his answer will be anywhere from 26 to 200 miles an honr. Split second watches and careful timing of many ground balls have established the fact that the average speed of ground balls —that is, those struck by the bat of the batsman from a fair pitched bail, which strike the infield before they land in a flelder's hands-—go at the rate of almost exactly 60 miles an hour, faster than the fastest mail trains. Sixty miles an hour is 88 feet per gecond. The bases are 90 feet apart. A man who can run a hundred yards in 11 seconds, which is fast running for any onme, but particularly so for a man with baseball shoes and uniform on, can run 90 feet in 3.3 seconds. Is it any wonder that a ball which ls flelded in its first 100 feet of travel usually reaches first base just a frac- tion of a second before or after the runner sets foot upon it? Every fan knows the many close de- cislons at first base form one of the fascinations of the game. The speed of a batted ball, the speed at which a flelder can travel from his position to the point where he can meet and fleld the batted ball, the speed with which he can stop the ball, pick it up, set himself for the throw; make tfe throw, the speed of the ball across the diamond from his throw, and the speed of the traveling runner, are so nicely balanced that it is always a question of whether or not the runner will get there in time for the crowd to see the umpire’s hands go down, or whether he will face a thumb over & shoulder indicating that he is out. —Technical World Magazine. Manager Dahlen of the Brooklyns predicts that Allen, his $5,000 left hander, will be a sensation in the Na- tional league. New Orleans figures that it is to get Grover Land from Toledo, the Mud Hens in turn to get another catcher frem Cleveland. - Bob Bescher will give Ty Cobb a battle for base stealing this year. Te speedy glant of the Reds is pilfering the bases every day. Bill Dahlen says he has a powerful staff of pitchers with Rucker, Barger, Stack, Knetzer, Ragon, Schardt and Allen to depend upon. “Ace” Stewart, one-time member of the Chicago National leagué club, and e native of Terre Haute, Ind., died in Terre Haute at the age of forty-two. Gipe and Bonmer, two Athletic re- cruit pitchers, sent to New Orleans by Manager Mack, went with a strong string attached and may be recalled next fall. Manager McGraw has sold Pitchers Evans and Farrell to Dallas of the Texas league. Evans was with Dallas was with last season and Farrell Spartanbur; INQUIRE OF 8T. PAUL This space reserved by the Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co. For price of lots, terms etc., Bemidii or write, Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Gh. , 520 Capital Bank Bullding T. C. BAILEY, MINNESOTA EASIER THAN TO EXPLAIN How the Man Who Had Been on Long . 8pree 8quared Himself at Home. Congressman Edward W. Townsend of New Jersey, very much in the pub- lic eye as the author of “Chimmie Fadden,” the other day emerged hur- rledly through the swinging doors out of the house, grabbed an acquaintance by the arm and rushed him down through the document room and into the open afr. “What's it all about?” demanded the friend when he got his breath. “Something tells me that a roll call impends,” said Townsend, “and, for a reason I have, I'd like to be reported dead or absent. Elther would be easler explained than my vote. - Which re- minds me of a story. “A long time ago I worked on a newspaper in Carson City, Nev. There was another fellow on the paper who was a good deal of a rummy and who used to go off on long sprees. One day he disappeared and nothing was heard of him for a month. He just got aboard of a train and started east, and at St. Louls he got a bun, the record of Which is still preserved in the archives of the brewery just back of the town. He forgot home and mother and everything else. When he came to at the end of 30 days he felt that he was up agalnst it a bit at home. “‘Here,' said he, ‘is a desperate case requiring a desperate remedy.’ Then he hied him to a telegraph shop and sent this message to his wife: ““I died at 4 o’clock this afternoon. What shall I do with the remains? ™ FREE PLEASURES IN LONDON Finest Muslc In Churches and Sightt That Will Interest The Rellc Hunter. In London there are pleasures to be had for nothing, as was explained tq me by a hard-working woman with nq money margin for enjoyments. With two feet and a pair of boots she could hear music every evening during Len{ from Westminster Abbey to St. All ban’s, Holborn, and the church In Soho which rivals the restaurant in at traction. And all for nothing—only she confesed to putting a half-penny into the bag from her own depleted purse. The sclentific economist could probably spend a pleasant day in Lon don without spending anything else. Some London relics have wandered farther afleld than the Black Boy of Clement’s Inn. Swanage possessel quite an assortment. The entire ston¢ facade of the Mercers’ Hall, Cheapside, is to be found in the High street whither it was moved from London in 1882. Facing the sea is a Gothic clock tower taken bodily from London bridge, where it had been erected as a memorial to the Duke of Wglling: ton. And in several roads about thq town may be seen iron street posts, inscribed “St. Ann’s Soho,” and “St Martin’s-in-the-Field.” The explana tion is that two quarrymen of Swan. age became paving contractors in London, and patriotically transporte to their native tonw the more pictur esque oddments which found their way into their yard.—London Chron icle. Wily Sexton. Vigitors to the Old North church are shown through the historic old building usually by an elderly man who seems obsessed with a love for the church. His fund of reminis cences is refreshing, and the mosl interesting thing he recounts is the story of how the lanterns werq placed in the belfry. According to his version of the his toric incident, the sexton overheard some English officers talking in the house he lived in, and immediately hung the lanterns. Returning to his room, he saw that his shoes werq caked with mud and hid them, replac ing them with a dry pair. The officers, after they learned that a signal had been hung from the bel fry, rushed to the room of the sexton, but, finding his shoes dry, became convinced that some one else had hung the lanterns and then locked all the doors of the edifice.—Boston Joun nal, Woman as Jail Governor. Mme. Jenny Porchet, who has charge of the prison at Aigle, in the Canton of Vaud, France, is now 52 years of age, and 31 years ago she married the then prison governor At his death the authorities adver tised for a successor, and among the applicants was his widow, who had managed the prison during her hus- band’s long illness. Another point in her favor was her physique. In height she wants only an inch of six feet, and possesses the muscles of a wres- tler. The prison commission doubted her fitness, but when she offered to try her strength against the most powerful gendarme, all doubts sub- sided. The prison is said to be the best .menaged in Switzerland. There's the Rub, "Why is it that you are so strong- 1y opposed to extending to women the right to vote?” “My wife has become a suffragette.” “Well, what of it? Do you find that she neglects the children or that she isn’t paying enough attention to the business of running the house?” “No, it’s not that. She’s become so blamed well informed on public mat- ters that I have to keep busy reading all the time in order to- prevent her from finding out my ignorance com- cerning such things.”—Judge. Nervous Children. 5 The nervous child has in him the aking of the brilliant man, but he i merally spoiled in the making. You| must be -patient and Ilong-sufiering' with the boy or girl of nervous tem: great injury. Never scold or tease. Never hold the little one to ridicule. Above all never use the whip. It Is; only by the greatest means that the st can be brought out of the highly, strung child, but when the proper gourse is taken such children Wondestully respousive, WABKSH 15 DOOMED Old Wooden Frigate at Boston Navy Yard Condemned. ~ RECEIVING SHIP FOR YEARS Her Predecessor, the Ohlo, Helped Des feat the Mexicans—Superstition of Navy Men Revealed in “Naming of New Ve By GEORGE CLINTON. ‘Washington.—The old wooden frig ate Wabash, which has been at the Boston navy yard in service as'a re- ceiving ship for a long time, is to be broken up and that which is metal About her will. be sold for junk, while the woodwork will be burned on one of the islands in Boston harbor. The Wabash has been at the Boston navy yard or, more properly speaking, the Charlestown navy yard, for thirty seven years, There are not many stirring asso- ~ciations connected with the Wabash. She saw service during the Civil war, but was in no “wing and wing” sea fights during that conflict.' She was Present at the bombardments of Hatr teras Inlet, Port Royal and Fort Fish- er, but of encounters like that in which the old Constitution engaged in the war of 1812 the Wabash had none, When it is learned that a man-of- war is to be put out of commission and sold or broken up, and there comes no protest from the people, it can be pretty well understood that little of sentiment attaches to the ves- sel and that her career was not one of pulse-stirring interest. If it were suggested that the Oregon should be given up or that the Olympla, which was Dewey’s ship in the Manila bay fight, were to be sold for junk, it is probable that there would be an in- stant demand from the country that they be saved. Ohio Was a Staunch Vessel. The Wabash, now about to be brok: en up, was preceded at the Charles- town navy yard as a receiving ship by the Ohio, a wooden full rigged ship without steam auxiliary. - Every man on board the old Ohio was a sailor or fast on the way to become one. She was a slow ship, not even as fast as the old Conmstitution, but she was solidly built with oak and in her day ‘was consldered most formidable. The Ohio had a part in the Mexican war and was one of the ships which cov- ered the landing of the United States troops on the coast of Mexico when Scott started on his campaign for the Mexican capital. On one occasion the Ohio came in close range of the Jand batteries and to show how inef- "fective some of the old Mexican guns were the Ohio, while it was struck twice at a distance of only a few hun- dred yards, the shots being received directly and not glancingly, suffered no material’ damage. Another wooden ship which took part in the Mexican war was the brig 4| Somers, named for a naval officer who distinguished himself off the coast of Tripoll in the war against the pirates of that region. It is probable that if the Somers had served her time and it had been suggested that she be broken up no one would have protest- ed, for the ship was considered un- lucky. The Somers went down in a storm in the Gulf of Mexico and everyone on board was lost. It was on the Somers that there was an attempt at mutiny when the ship was off the Af- rican coast some years prior to the Mexican war. A young middy on board had attempted to stir up the crew and to induce the members to selze the ship and to start either on a pirate cruise or on a search for treasure. The middy and two of his comrades were hanged at sea. The young officer who thus met his fate ‘was a son of the then secretary of war. From that time on the Somers was considered an unlucky ship and old sailors did not like to embark on her. hurricane and it was known that she was lost the old sailors sald, “I told you so.” Superstition in the Navy. rament, else you will do your child | Officers of the navy sometimes re: sent the intimation of the landsmen that they are more superstitious than men in other callings, but there are things which show that sailors are su- perstitious. Take the case of the sec ond-class battleship Texas, now out of commission. The Texas was always regarded as a sort of a hoodoo ship, for no other reason than that she had several minor accidents, Not long ago the government built 8 full-rigged ship with steam auxiliary power for the use of the midshipmen at the naval academy. Even in these days of steam the middies have to learn old-fashioned seamanship be- cause of the fine training and the confidence which going aloft gives them. S0 it is that the training ship for use at the academy has the old square yards of the ancient man-of- war. 2 { This ship was named the Chesa- -peake, and suddenly there was protest from most of the naval officers of the country and from many of the old able seamen who were not officers. The old frigate Chepapeake was the only Vessel of any size which met defeat at the hands of the British in the war of 1812, and so it was that the navy ob- Jected to giving the name of a de feated vessel to the training ship at the academy. The protest had its ef- fect and the name of the middies’ phip was changed to the Severn, hich is the name of the river which flows into Chesapeake bay near Annapolis. Famous Manusoripts Sought After. Manuscripts of famous books of the /present time ahd of the ‘future will bably be of little interest to bibils sraphers as compared with those of he past, for nearly all book manu- cripts are now' typewritten, and thus; ave no special individuality. But the enuine holograph “copy” of the old ltérary masters 1s treasured and! brings good” prices; for example, Sir alter Scott's wift,” in th ‘When she disappeared in the. A Possible Derivation. “Words are terribiy funny. 3 Aren't they?" said Mrs. Jones. 'ake the word gargle—how on earth do Jou suppose they ever got that?” “Very simple, my dear,” sald Mr. Jones. “Just look at yourself in the glass some time when you gargle and then look at a gargoyle, and you'll *aa."—Hasper's Weekly. MOTHER WAS WISE Built Up Boy’s Strength Instead of Giving Cough Syrup. A lingering cough is a sure sign of weakness in a child, and the sen- sible thing is to build up the system. Then the cough will disappear. But if the child has no appetite, then it needs Vinol, which has not a particle of the nasty, greasy smell and taste that make children hate cod liver oil. Vinol is so pleasant they like to take it and it builds them up wonderfully. Mrs. R. Inza of New York city says, “My little boy had a very bad cough for two months. I did not like to give him cough syrup for many of them are not good for children. But I did give him your delicious cod liver and iron remedy Vinol and one bottle caused his cough to disappear entirely and restored him to health.” We guarantee that Vinol will build up and strengthen weak, pale chil- dren and all run-down persons of every age. If it does not do all we claim we give back your money. What Does This Figure Stand For ? Has it a meaning? If so, what? A prize of $2.00 for the first correct answer. Watch tomorrows’ paper. Mail answer to Pioneer office. Barker’s Drug Store, Bemidji, Minn. Classifried Department The Pioneer Want Ads CASH WITH GOPY % cent per word per Issue 5 cents. The Ploneer goes everywhere 80 your want ad gets to them all. CLASSIFIED CHICKEN AND EGG _DEPARTMENT. FOR SALE—Breeding stock and eggs for hatching from the best flock of full blood Barred Plymouth Rocks to be had, come and see them at 706 14th. O. C. Simon- son. HELP WANTED e TS USSP WANTED—Competent girl for farm work; wages $5 per week. Ad- dress Bank of Orr, Orr, N. D. - two; no washing. Address 421, city. WANTED—Woman cook at Jester’s farm. WANTED—Girl at McDermid Hotel. FOR SALE T e e ST SO0 CBUSSe Oy FOR SALE—Typewriter ribbons for every make of typewriter on the market at 50 cents and 75 cents each. Every ribbon sold for 75 cents guaranteed. Phone orders oromptly filled. Mail orders given the same careful attention as when you appear in person. Phone 31. The Bemidji Ploneer Office Supply Store. FOR SALE—The Bemidji lead pen- pencil (the best nickle pencil in the world) at Netzer’s, Barker’s, 0. C. Rood’s, McCuaig’s, Omich’s, Roe and Markusen’s and the Pilo- ueer Office Bupply Store at 5 cents each and 50 cents a dozen. R SALE—Small fonts of type, several different points and fn first class condition. Call or write this office for proofs. Address Be- mid}i Pioneer, Bemidji, Minn. Box FOR SALE—Cyclopedia of Applied Electricity, six volumes, new, ten dollars, 523 Minnesota Ave., up- stairs. Ny FOR SALE—18 foot launch, has au- Regular charge rate 1 cent per word per nsertion. No ad taken for less than Phone 31 HOW THOSE WANT ADS DO THE BUSINESS so that everyone has a neighbor who takes it and people who'do not take the paper generally read their neighbor’s 14 Cent a Word Is All It Costs fOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Ploneer will procure any kind of < rubber stamp for vou on short - otice. FOR SALE—Seed potatoes, Carmon, Early Hamilton, Maggie Murphy. Address M. W. Knox, Nebish, Minn. FOR SALE—No. 5 Oliver Typewrit- er. Inquire at Doran Bros. FOR RENT e FOR RENT—TFour acres of cultivated land in city limits for rent cheap, Inquire John T. Gibbons. FOR RENT—Four-room cottage In- quire O. J. Weekly or telephone 498. FOR RENTHousp for rent, 1313 BeMrami Ave. Phone 408-7. FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms at 415° Minnesota Ave. FOR RENT—Six room cottage. Phone 519. MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISERS—The great state of North Dakota offers unlimited op- portunities for business to classi- fied advertisers. The recognized advertising medium is the Fargo Daily and Sunday Courier-News, the only seven day paper in the state and the paper which carries the largest amount of classified advertising. The Courier-News covers North Dakota like a blank- et; reaching all parts of the state the day of publication; it is the paper Ao use in order to get re- sults; rates one cent per word first insertion, one-half cent per word succeeding insertion; fifty cents per line per month. Address the Courier-News, Fargo, N. D. WANTED—100 merchants in North- ern Minnesota to sell “The Bemid- 31” lead pencil. Will carry name of every merchant in advertising columns of Pioneer in order that all receive advantage of advertis- ing. For wholesale prices write or. phone the Bemidji Pioneer Of- fice Supply Co. Phone 31. Be- midji, Minn. \ BOUGHT AND SOLD—Second hand furniture. 0Odd Fellows building, across from postoffice, phone 129. Seeshras e e i e e tomobile top, electric ‘light, com- plete. Inquire Bemidji Qome B: Try a Want Ad Word-~Cash 2 Cent 2 Word- {RAILROAD TINE_CARDS| 800 BAILROAD 162 East Bound Leaves . 163 West Bound Leaves 186 East Bound Leaves 187 West Bound Leaves GREAT NORTEERN 33 West Bound Leaves 34 East Bound Leaves 35 West Bound Leaves 86 East Bound Leaves 36 East Bound Leaves 106 South Bound Leaves Frelght West Leaves at Freight East Leaves at . MINNESOTA & INTERNATIO! 32 South Bound Leaves . 8 31 North bound Leaves . 34 South Bound Leaves . 33 North Bound Leaves . Freight South Leaves at . 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SANBORN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office— Miles Block DR. A. E. HENDERSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Over First National Bank, Bemidji, Minn Office 'Phone 36. Resldence "Phone 73. DR. E. H. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON : Office in Winter Block DR. E. H. MARCUM PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ffice in Mayo Block o Phone 18 Residence Phope 213 EINER W. JOHNSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office over Securtly Bank _— DENTISTS DR. D. L. STANTON DENTIST L Office in Winter Block DR. J. T. TUOMY DENTIST tat National Bank Bldg. DR. 6. M. PALMER DENTIST Miles Block Evening Work by Apointment Only . ‘Tele. 230. NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY. Open dally, except Sunday, 1 to 6 p. m., 7t0 9 p. m. Sunday, reading rooms only, 3 to 6 p. m. —_— _ TOM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER sarz FIANO M Roa. "Fhone 85, . 818 Amertes Ave. Office "Phone 12 G, 6. JOHNSON Lands Loans Stocks Office—214 Beltrami Ave. NELSON & CO. = £ P s | | SESSE, S K