Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 4, 1922, Page 6

s uggers appeared this year laggely through thé ef orts oi-flxwlwn that the atly proved. pitching made . so. little: he on.the season dverages. While, fow familiar and -honored hames h d thefisy; o less than men in theirfirst or second: year are {ound “aviong -the .300 hitters. year, 12,041° safe’ drives ‘of | ¢d” sizes - were ~hammered out t Batting average .of abo; the .grand average last year, 1+287. . Twaosbase %0 2032; three’ bag- 119 sisguon ito ¢ 68B; | a8 batting lender The Browns’ record is 3818 ‘as compared. with ;316 . for the gers in 1921, - while Boston, Jow club this season with .263, is 11 points’ below the Athletics’ mark of 274 for last year. . ight inerease in&e‘; useof the:sacrifice to advance;run- ners, 1682 as compared with 1551 1adt, year ‘hut.there were 12 fewer stalen, the fizures being 681 9 Whnher the mrt of runners’-way from sack m ak is really lost can not be told o;zly the fleetest of players are allowed to match their ‘speed and skill “agajnst opposing pitchers and catchers and_then ‘only occasionally and under. exceptional -circumstan- ce§.! ‘The policy of playing for ‘a number of runs in-a single ‘attack 0. counts for the further-decline OF THE CIVIG. REFORM SOGIETY. 188 No player had approached that record in all the years subge- quent until, Hornsby reacheda total of 25 home.runs comparahvely early m the season of 1922, which.made i3 “an assured fact that he would es- tiblish .3 \new -home: Tun -record. ]fgg tne year was over if he.retaine health::- After surpassing Wil- bxmsuns total ke kept steadily for- wird and -eventuslly. .exceeded . the totals being made: by the fiome ran thitters of the "American League, so ‘that he was the undisputed-home run champion of the season of 1922 when the thase ball year was complete 1783—Washmgton bade farewell ito his-officers at Fraunces’ Tav- ern, in New York. 1818—William W. Loring, an Am- .erican general who' became a ‘pasha in the : army’ of ‘the Khedive of Egypt, “born . at ‘Wilmington, N, 'C. Died i New York, Dec. 30, 1886. 1822—Frances Power Cohbe, a fam- ous pioneer in the woman’s rights movement, born in Dublin. .Died April 5, 1904. 1843—The -first Lodge of Odd Fel- © lows in*Michigan was institu- ted-in: Detroit- inthe use of the sacrifice, the hitl;g50 ‘Twenty.seven inmates of the .pley having superceded hoth the. stolen base and the sacrifice. e -base on balls has not been so dly affected :by the passion for making long hits and getting runa’in bunches as is'the ‘case with bases and uen jeings Batters permitted to “wait 'em out” He.result that five of theteams ated very respectable totals ngthe season. _Cleveland, with art veterans..worked opposing for 5564 free tickets to first bage % Detroit, had 530, - “the **cham- piowdlew.York team 497, Chicago, 4flpfld~& Louis, 473 pa: of home ;run ‘hitters oc- tt’bntmn of ia.us through- e Home' tun “‘race” be- ain’ of the leaders.“Every hud its home.run hero, Kenneth hani of the Browns being. the V. | dent 9 , while_"Babe” Ruth, in 110 racked out yQuit:smash-: veral other g?ly ball hitters” ‘horre i ;je(;qr,dg that would e af fention in state. asylum af Augusta, Me. perished in a, fire - that- des- troyed.the building. 1861—Lillian Kussell, popular act- Tess.and singer in ligh born at Clinton, Towa.**Died at " Pittsburg, June, 6, 1922. 1883—O0pening. of an :International exhibition"-at. Calcutta, the first in India. 1919—The Federal Trade = Commis- sion charged the ‘“big five” smeat: packers:, w{th anti-trust Violations. _ ‘Leonor F, Loree, who is fo be one of the prin¢ipal speakers before:the great national gathering of: the .en- gineering professmns opening-in New York today, is president of the Dele- ware & Hudson railroad;:and presi- director in'the 34 compan- ies affiliated with it, Mr. Loree,'s native of lllmoxsl entered the-employ of the Penmyl‘lama rmlroad. as’ an z;sslstum in the engmeermg ment in 1877 asmpl railway. Durd of the: aar.wfl#ynuh .wag - the -mhinte “H" i, whiilé’ comna'ub’e veie n, anager Cabb- of s Delgojt, was Qobh hed 3. mazk-of .460-£qxr huxE feat no other player has ever jeved. }\iany truly mmarkable pegformnncus in lbm‘.th-xg were record- @ Wal-flnfi- %’“ V5. show that scordss wsre .estab- d ‘the past.season, which, to; e th other-inferesting data, ar@ summarized, as follows: . | _Hornsby led a . glorions lor - the. right-hand: batters by, the-wonderful -record that . he for, the National League and wn St Louis ‘team in. the “third -year in succession a8 atuthe heaiiof the leaguerin taihed aby wany “batter 1ty (Dl theeM 1;}“ 1y, 'x!finshé 60 in the National Lebgue St Aspercontageofo dU8. It dis ofiimterest, note here that H‘finofih&;and Dq_ie%amx W ters, of mich? e itype ? ssibly Delehanty could bat er=than -Hornsbg, but riot mueh is the ‘second, instance in {National League histovy that a batter pas ‘led the leaguc-three yedrs in sucnésmnn Hans Wagner led in} 2 1906-0%5:08 'and also. in 1909 Infdddition to wimning the batting | championship of the league, Hornsby woh - th yme - run- championship ‘of | Ihé season and also of the league by | home :runs - during ; me‘ )Qlequ]e\ ofa: gantes. The hmpmnslnp in home run the onal League had y: Williamson of tife’ Chi- vay engineer onivarious the Pennswvnma odd: m \servite’as chief executive of the ltimore & Ohio, ithe; Baflk lslfln i several other large: systems. Since 1906 he has been chairman. the Kansas C\ty Souttiern road’ t\onal Ra:lwny Congress in Paris, in 1000, and durigg :the. World . War was g prember o the i RACING—Mecting - .of - Business Men’s Racing Assoclatmn, at New Orleans: ¢ {48 O AN eeting of Cuba. Amencun Jockey . at Havana. ijuana. AHOCKEY — M Lpz\guc opens_its session. i ; CYCLING--Fir§ six-day race in New York. I FIELD TRlALS*Mxr'gIMn—enm fna Field Trial Association: 4 ; oating’ of :Tusue: Jocksy Glub, aty Pra Hager get Smith, 12 rounds, at'Jersey City. Al Roberts vs. Leo - Gates, 12 s, at Staten Island. ——— L SURsan ‘ Next Sundny tiie ‘mew Lutheran church will be dedicate, French of Bemidji ‘and Rev:Clausen of Mallard will-assist 2 Rev: i M E. Haine. : i nu lbet enjoyed ska g on flél\{' days last weel u’ ho batted 27 home runs in TODAY'S ANNIVHSARIB : BOXING—Johnny Curtin_vs. Mid-| Rev ‘B, {C. C. C. hall. 7 - (By United ;Prass): St:.Louis, Dec ~4.~=The “Littl Red Schoolhouse,” - once:-the:-obj of etlogies, has been buffeted about:|d pushied .into the “back woods” eom- munities and . finally has been cast: ¥ ints. national ' discard, accordhg to|® Thonias G. Winters, -presiden “the, National ‘Federation*of: Wo‘ men’s clubs: : “It is the most expersive and in- cien “of ‘aneducational in- stution,” “Mrs. - Winters -~ declared, “and ‘my ‘only wonder 1: that it Has olerated so long.” i Winters, who is making an tour .of the country Iet 5 2CaN ipg_to district women’s clubs in campaign:for the abolishment of fiteracy, is now trnvelmg in . Mis sourl school, with.its amquated school- master, :its “one-track’ program of study, and its slow, ponderous meth- 0ds -of instruction, ‘Mrs. “Winters ad- Vocatednin:its place the.country -unit: or community school, with its ad- vantages of separate téachers for| different. studies; - joint :- ability . ‘to| hire better instructors and cost: of upkeep- “our orgamzahon is conductmg a natianal campaign dgainst illiter- zéy,” she ‘explained. “No illeteracy after 1924,”” has been adopted -as our slogan. pay’ for ‘the teachors. We want to sec the number “and. efficiency of teachers increased.” The advent “of -Home demonst:m tors, pmd half l;y the = county and| hzlf by 'the federal gnvernmen;, who. go into the homes teaching house~ wives how to cook, how to know. good values in matf.rmls,, and how to sew them into ~garments, Mrs.] Winters hailed as a. forward step m community life. = *“The standard of living is made, higher, he morals gp .up, and._we have better. cmzens, she assertqd, e The followmg games hnve ‘| scheduled for+ the“eremen < -badl i 0 December 13—Red’ng at Red ing. December 14—Fergus Fafln .{ Fergus Falls. January 3—LaCroésé at: Bem i Januayy 4-=LaCrosse at. Benridji:{z January-11~Erookston at. Grooks- JJton. e - January 15—Ballentines (Minnea— polis) at ‘Bemidji. January 16—Balientines (Minnea- puhs) at Bemlgl'l J. 5 a8 In condemmg the htfie country | f lower | . “We are endeavoring c to obtain more schools and better 3 Cruise, Br,mzes ¥ t;" on jnnl Meusel, 1921 averagt. a.hgiwlyJL however,: Stengel, i ‘Renseca; the 'Clqci-nnah infiél hopped:fromi276-6:861; but-he aryoung player: ‘and —hid fimprovemnnt alnofl!er ontflelder, was seventh®” with Snl and ‘Haper, th young™ cincmnnu utficlddr, was mong the" ‘sélect ith .339. Many of the outstarding " batters. of 1921 fell oFf ‘during the past sea- Son “and dropped down' considérably:| the ‘standing.. Among those wfi | Christenburym, Bravea % Reuther, “Robing Jchnson, U With Russell; Txerney, Bighbee, Caieyy -Sehmiidt. and Gooch hitting :300 for the season and Ma anville, Traynor and Grimm rightyin the shudmzo! Zthe Pittsburg -Pi- ‘Ih.» Giants' mded by the: ckawork-of:Stengel, Snyder,: Young,‘ Mdusel, Kelly, Cipningham, ~Fuiséhif, (i “enterafantsBatcroft: finished. secorid with |« i uesday. cvening. i {{The C. C. C.-basket hall ,tenm or- d_last Monday :evening. - Willur’ Gregg had the misfortune. of running a needle into his hand.-He' was taken ‘to a doctor in Bemidji s | Morning services will be‘at Il a- ing services at 8 ¢’cloc] Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hermann mof ored to Benridji last Sunday: evening: ¥.On Monday, December * 4th Blackduck h-’h school ~ teant - wilk play 'the Tenstrike high schgol team hare, On Saturday evemng De(l:mber Squash County,” %m Thomas«“a ker-Page, late chdir- m:m £ the United States = Tariff ue Va., nva today.. ‘Gould, youngest son of Gould, born in New York City, 46 3 ars ago today:. William J., Sears; representative in o‘ethe Fnurth Fiorida .di Robort: J,Shawkey, 'piu:hex ofs the ‘New Yark: American Leagua baseball 9 team, born at Brookfield, Pa., 32 years ago today. 'l‘he Jown bay and 4 [ champion was too strong . Kaflransaari BEMLY tuuéifi"’ &.f,rua-eu ' : 15,000 people i mobxle Accldenfi policy further provides bemg struck, knocked down or run over by a movmz vehicle /while standing or walkmg on any public highway. LOOK FOR THE COUPON IN THIS ISSUE. ut:it out, sign-it and lend lt to the Ploneer Office._We will do the rest.