The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 13, 1917, Page 6

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1917. SCOOP REPORTER \N TE csow a conservative. GENT WHO SAVED UP.MORE. COIN THAN HE SPENT: HE. SALTED EACH BONE. THE LIBERTY LOAN TO. DRAG DOWN THE SURE. THING. PER CENT Re * NATIONAL. LEAGUE. Cy CH OHH OTHE DOOO OOO Club— Philadelphia . New York . Chicago St. Louis Cincinneti . ‘Brooklyn Boston . Pittsburgh . GAMES TUBSDAY. New York, 10; Chicago, 6. Pitsburgh, 5; Boston, 4 Philadelphia, 4; St. Louis, 0. Brooklyn, 2; Cincinnati, 0. GAMES THURSDAY, New York at Pittsburgh. Brooklyn at St. Louis. Boston at Chicago. Philadelphia at Cincinnati. New York at Chicago. * Club— R.H.E Chicago 614 New Yor! -10 12 0 Batteries—Seaton, Hendrix, Rueth-|* er and Elliott; Rariden, Schupp, Tesreau and Boston at Pittsburgh. Club— Pittsburgh Boston Eleven innings. Batteries—Cooper, Jacobs and W. Wagner; Allen, Ragan, Tyler, Barnes and Tragesser. St. Louis at Philadelphia. Club— R.H.E. St.Louis 1d 8 0 Philadelphia ve 410 0 Batterles —. ‘Ames, Horstman and Livingston; Rixey and Killifer. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. Club— R.H.E. Cineinnati: .. 0 8° 2 Brooklyn. -25.1 Batteries—Mitchell and Clarke; ‘Wingo, Marquard, ers, Miller. Cadore and Mey- OOOOH 09099 O OO ° AMERICAN LEAGUE, CJ SHOE THTESEOEOO OSD Club— ‘Chicago 16 Boston 16 ‘New York 19 (Cleveland 15 Detroit ... 24 St. Louis . 27 Washington 27 Philadelphia 16 29 GAMES TUESDAY. jWashington, 2; Cleveland, 2. Detroit;-3; Philadelphia, 2. New York, 4; Chicago; 3. St.Louis at Boston game postpon- eq—rain. GAMES. THURSDAY. Cleveland at Washington. Detroit at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Boston. Chicago at New. York. Cleveland at Washington. ‘Club— R.H.E. Washington oe 21 2 Cleveland -2183 0 Game called on account of darkness in sixteenth inning. Batteries—Dumont, Show, Johnson and Ainsmith; Morton, Bagby and O'Neill, ‘Billings. Detroit at Philadelphia. Club— Philadelphia Detroit Batteries — Schauer and Schang; R. 2 3 aot > vote * Mitchell and Spencer. Chicago at New York. Club— R.H.E. New York .. -4 9 2 Chicago .... -310 1 Twelve innings. ‘Batteries—Mogridge, Russell, Love and Nunamaker; Cicotte and Schalk. OOOH SEEE FEES O OOD < AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. SHHSSOEIHOSSEOO OOO Club— Indianapolis ‘Columbus St. Paul . Louisville Kansas City . Toledo Minneapoli: Milwaukee ... GAMES TUESDAY. Columbus, 6; Minneapolis, 3. (No other games scheduled. GAMES THURSDAY. Minneapolis at Milwaukee. St. Paul at Kansas City. ~ ‘Louisville at Columbus. Indianapolis at Toledo. 3|Jim Duncan, World’s~‘chathpion! Discus Thrower, Called Model Speciamen of Manhood by. En-; gineer Regiment Surgeons; BY F. M. KERBY Staffff Special. New York, June 13.—James Dun- can, champion discus thrower of the world, is the hundred per cent perfect recruit just discovered by Uncle Sam. Duncan has enlisted in the First Reserve Engineer regiment, which has just completed its enrollment and gone into camp at Fort Totten, L. L., preparatory. to embarkment for France as part of the first 40,000. Am- erican. troops under Gen. Pershing. Army physicians who examined Duncan declare him to be a perfect physical specimen. ‘He is five, feet ten inchese tall, weighs 180 pounds, and has a chest expansion of four and one-quarter. inches. “The. army requirements only call for a chest expansion of three inch: es,” said the examining physician at the headquarters. of. the engineers regiment, 109 Sixth-av, telling me about Duncan's acceptance. “He is one of the the ‘finest physical speci- mens I, have ever, examined, He is evidently in perfeet condition, and has no defects of any Kind. He is an ex- ample of what: any~young-man can make of himself ‘by. physical training and leading a clean life.” Duncan. is a New York: boy, having lived most of his life near Conéy’ Is- land. He is 29% thisyear, and has been interested in athletics all his life. [He is a perfect swimmer, hav- ing been in the water.‘ ever. since I ¢ould remember,”.as he’ puts it. Duncan became interested in diseus throwing after. meeting Martin Sheri- "dan. in'1909.. At that time Sheridan threw.the discus at the ‘Pastime “Ath- letic ‘grounds. ‘He went back to: Gon- ey Island-and tried out:the disctis' on his own aceotint. After two weeks of practice he-wis able to thow the dis- cus 1.. feet: A few years later Dun- ean beat Sheridan on the grounds where he first saw Sheridan. ‘He threw the discus 139 feet at that time record. June 2, 1912, Duncan, throwing from a seven-foot circle ttirew the discus 145 feet 9 1-2 inches at Celtic Park. This is the world’s record. Duncan never: got’ to the Olympic games in Berlin, postponed when the or only two feet behind the = <——— HEIGHT —- Saison - war.-broke out, Dbitexpects to show the Germans what: he can-do in the WEIGHT iy way of hand-grenade when he gets to the-trenches in France. ——— i N \ By PAUL PURMAN. Preaching on Sunday, college during the week and pitching invincible baseball for his college team is the program followed by A. C. McKinney, star pitcher of William Jewell college at Liberty, Mo. Whether or not McKinney ever breaks into the big leagues, and this now seems to be a question of his own desires, the young star has carved himself a niche in baseball's hall of fame which any veteran might be: proud to octupy. Pitching for his college. team in four games he struck out 77 men in Pulpit or Ball Field, Which? Preacher-Pitcher Can’ t Decide and aWowed but ‘three hits in the attending | quartet of games. He set a new world record in one of the games by fanning 25 men in nine innings against Tar- kio college and the _ following week caused 23 hitters of the Maryville State Normal team ‘to ‘breeze. In ‘both games he held .his opponents hitless. On Sundays ‘McKinney adds Rev. to. his name, done a frock coat and oc- cupies: the pulpit in the Christian church ‘at Bosworth, Mo: McKinney’s home is in Cincinnati 34 innings, pitched two no-hit games| and he is @ sophomiore in College. SBRKMCH RICHEY WANTS HIM Insthe box: his-worteistntarked by tis brainy pitching ad his ability to outguess the opposing batter. He has everything a.good pitcher should have, speed, curves, remarkable control, an elusive spitter and a, good change of pace.” Branch Rickey; gréatest of scouts among college ball players, hasn't ov- erlooked McKinney. In fact, during a recent vacation, “McKinney went to St. Louis and worked out with the Cards, of which .ickéy 1s president. He is now trying to-decide between a career in the ised or one on the mound, 2 Get Plentysof Away from Cigarets, Jim Dun- (in. an ‘Inter F) M. Kerby.) Any boy. can ’put* himself in’ excel- lent. physical trim and banish illness from’ his’ lite #f -he‘wants to do tt. ‘The first necessity for 2 boy who wants to make himself physically per- fect is SLBEP) “ I ‘make it a point to get’ ‘nine’ hours’ sleep every night. ‘No* young ‘man can follow the bright lights and get. by physically. ‘Plenty of sleep is abso- lutely necessary to keep the body in good shape. I have done this all my life, since. was a little chap. \ Next, I would advise a boy to keep away ‘from cigarets. I have never smoked in my life. It is bad for the wind. No athlete can afford to smoke, and no young man who wants to keep in phy- sical trim can indulge in tobacco. Alcohol is just as bad. I never drink anything stronger than a glass of beer, and that very occa- sionally. And food is most important. Plain cooked food, and not to excess,, at regular hours, is my program. I eat a good breakfast and dinner, but a very light Iuncheof—only a little fruit. ‘Then comes cleanliness.” The body has got to be kept free from impuri- ties and the pores. of the skin al- lowed to do thetr normal work of casting off ‘body impurities if the young man is’ to’ keep physically fit. 1 take two ‘baths a day regulirly win- ter dnd summer, Before my morning ath I-take a number: of deep breath- ing exercisés, and then jump: into a cold bath. This is a fine tonic ‘for the system, if the system is’ strong enough to stand it.‘ But the body otight ‘to be in good shape before it is tried as a regular practice, I take a-warm bath before bed every night. It not only keeps the pores. open and the body clean, but helps’ to get the nerves in shape for a good night’s sleep. The boy who wants to get into phy- sical trim ought to start with walk- ing, keep on walking, and never give it up. I am‘a great walker—it is th finest exercise I know. I’ve got six prizes for walking and Iam as proud of thém as of any I ever won. How about sports? Anything and everything in the line of athletic sports is good. I have played foot- ‘ball, baseball, and have been @:swim- mer ‘all my life. Swimming, too, is one of the very ‘best things for a boy. Every boy ought to learn how to swim when he is a youngster and keep it up. I do these ‘things .as a matter of course. They are not a burdensome routine with me, but just part‘of my daily life. I enjoy my bathing, walk- ing and swimming. So will any young man who gets the habit. ~ It would be a fine thing for the nation if.every boy had been encouraged to get the proper physical exercise all during his life. I am afraid that ‘the physical examinations for the new army are going to show too many of our young. men below par physically. Of course,. in many cases this is not their own fault. Boys ‘who have been yanked off to work before they were out of school have had little opportunity to become athletes. But everybody has some chance to improve himself in tite respect, and he ought not to ne- lect it. evby did 1 enlist? I wanted to an- i the call at the first opportunity— I didn’t want to wait to be drafted. It is the duty of the young men of the country who are physically able to go to the front at the first call. I hoped by enlisting now to encourage other athletes to get’ into the coun- | try’s service at once. ¥ Clyde De Fate must go. to Detgoit. That's de fate of some. guys. They're either playing cricket or town ball in the Northwestern league. Tacoma made $1.runs against Butte the other day. By the time Kilbane.and Leonard have fought a dozen or so times in the newspapers their managers 2.ay be ready to sign up. Canada prohibits etting on horse racing. Which ought to save a lot of pikers about $1 a year. Spectators aren’t getting their mo- ney’s worth at automobile races this year. There hasn’t been a fatal accl- dent yet. - GERMANY SPLANS Rein table Mobility of Britain’s Army Defeats Strategy * of Hindenburg. TRACTORS: THE Bl FACTOR German General ‘Stalf Failed to Cal. culate Quick Repair of Roads and immediate Advance of Light and Heavy. Artillery. By JUDSON C.:WELLIVER, Correspondent of the New York Sun. London.—All the world wondered— and nobody more then Marshal Hin- denburg—that the British were able to keep instantly and constantly right on the heels of the retreyling Germans ‘after the recent evacuation of the ter- ritory. back: of, the uume-Peronne Moe. ‘The thing dido’t fall out-at all as the German general staff had fore- seen, ‘hose masters of the art of war had carefully calculated that when they yielded a very little ground after. having first destroyed villages, blown up roads and furrowed the terrain with trenches and shellholes it would take at least a series of weeks for the British to bring up their forces and prepare for a new attack. This was the whole strategy of the ‘establishment of the new Hindenburg line. ‘The weakness of Hindenburg’s cal: culation was that'he knéw too much about. the established und accepted |.Tules of war and too little about Eng- lish and American ingenvity in pro- ducing the new types of war machine which make it’ possible for an army nowadays to move,faster than it ever could before. <4Caterpillar tractors, as big as a re- spectable locomotive, make it possible to do things with even the biggest howitzers that’ were’ undreamed of even when this war began. Tractors. the Big Factors, I have seen a couple of these levia- thans taking a ten-inch howitzer over a road that had been theoretically “de- stroyed” three*days earlier, almost un- der.the fire.of.the enemy and aetually ‘within their own range of the nearest enemy positions, at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour, All the horses that ever were commandeered couldn't have been harnessed to do that, job, simply because they couldn’t have got themselves through the mud; to say nothing. of Pulling’ something after them, ‘ I stadied for several days the meth- ods by which one army was fairly leap- ing onthe trail ‘of another, and it] * seemed to me the-greatest wonder that the war had developed. ‘The: steel works of Birmingham and Bethlehem and. Pittsburgh were doing it. But even beforé their giant contraptions coutll perform, the road must be ready for them, This reconstruction of roads-is just. plain, back-breaking, awful drudgery; but what magnificently or- ganized and predigested drudgery! One would imagine that there must have been tens of thousands of huge motortrucks just back of the British line, everyone of them loaded to thé last ounce of capacity with rock in graduated sizes, with massive timbefs, | : piles, steel bolts and nuts and. spikes and hammers -and sledges and every- thing else requisite for the road build- ing to the front. Nothing had been forgotten, and although the evacuated region was a horror of mud and utter desolation, the evidence of absolute organization, of perfect arrangement, of precise and yet thoroughly elastic and adaptable plans was to be.seen everywhere. The emergency engineers who man- age these things are wonders in their way. They seem to know by instinct what will be required of them. But it isn’t instinct so much as it is the complete knowledge of the terrain that has been brought back to them in the photographs taken by the flying corps observers. Everything is on hand,-everything is in its right place, every man understands just what is expected of him, and when-they move forward there is seldom.a hitch, In- evitably, it is fearfully expensive busi- ness, and sometimes there is over- preparation for the sake of certainty. Light Guns Move Quickly. The lighter and more. mobile guns of course go forward earliest. They are built especially for this kind of ex- perience an@ can get over half-built roads With an agility and safety that hadn’t seen the” performance, The French “75s” are particularly. useful in this style of quick advance, but the British light guns, as now built, are hardly inferlor. The handling of the 6, 8 10, 12 and even 15-inch howitzers is, of course, most impressive. Hitched to their cater; pillar tractors, they jog along, keeping pace with the light field pieces that are drawn by well-trained horses. These big gunsj‘as. now constructed, are the last word in mobility. No need to wor- ry about building emplacements for them. They can he fired from any sort of ground, and if things get too hot for them.in one place they ean be coupled up and hauled off to another, Along with the big guns go complete outfits of repair material ‘and machinery, so, that if anything goes. wrong it can be attended to without a minute’s delay. Nothing known ‘to. modern war 18 SO pampered, so. delicately nursed, as.2 vex field howitzer, ynless, perhaps, it ‘bea superdreadnaugtit or a tempera: mental Missour! mule. And when one of these delicate im truments gets into range, that is, 8¢ that it isn’t necessary to fire more than half way across a good-sized middle Western county, it can do an amount could not possibly be belleyed if one of business that quite justifies all the trouble it- has required. A six-inch howitzer will drop an explosive shell every ten seconds, and drop it exactly where it will do the most harm. Their accuracy in; firing. is almost unbeliev- able and quite indescribable. The biggest of them are manned by crews ‘of naval gunners, trained to shoot from the unstable deck of battle- ship or cruiser and to hit the mark, When they get chance on dry land which” doesn’t. roll or -sway beneath them it becomes highly undesirable to attract the diligent attention of one of these crews within ten or a dozen infles, All this is ‘a mild suggestion of what went wrong with the Hindenburg line, It was undoubtedly a mighty good line —once. But the engineers and machine shops behind the French and British armies had. made their arrangements for wrecking it Jong before Hindenburg had’ even. thought of establishing it. 1 STOP WASTE OF FLOUR © States to quit making pastry during this emergency. “T appeal to the housewives of American. to stop buying pastry of bakers who do contiaue to make it. And I appeal to. housewives to stop making pies, cakés and cookies in their own kitchens.” This fs the plea of Dr. Gurli Mellen- thin, who has just started a nation- wide propaganda’ against the use of pastry as.a means of conserving flour for the needs of our allies as well as for our own use. TAKE NEW “ANTITANK GUNS” British Discover That German Invent- ors Have Devised New Form of Weapon. London.—Germany’s war inventors have devised a new form of weapon known as “antitank guns,” These can- non are used against the huge armed and armored monsters which the Brit- ish have been using with such ex- cellent results on the western front. The “antitank” gun is a short-barreled sever-inch Weapon, hurling a_ shell with tremendous power. A number of them have been captured by the Brit- Ish forces on the Arras front. ee gs