The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1917, Page 6

coro M M Su ne T H Le H 81 te a em DR RR RAR hn Ae RK me + Ao Ore Ame six TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, SAN TOBY-HOW DUH EXPECTA FELLER. TO WASH WITH SO SMALLA Problems an Three of Baseball in Outlook for 1919 Season By PAUL PURMAN. Baseball in 1918 faces a veritable Pandora’s box of problems which it remains for three men to finally de- cide on. The National ion, Garry Hermann, Ban B, vohnson and Joh: K. Tener must unravel the tangle in the baseball skein if baseball is to be successful next year. Will there be a long or shori sea- son? Will the big leagues establish an 18-player limit? Will there be even more revolutionary measures adopted to prevent the decline of the national game under the abnormal conditions existing? One thing is certain. The two leagues will not follow Ban Johnson’s advice and ask for a wholesale exemp- tion of players. The draft next spring will take fully 100 players from both leagues. Al ready more than a score have enlist- ed or been drafted. The leagues must either fill up their ranks from exempt- ed men from the minor leagues or cut down their limits. It has been sug: gested that by drawing from the larg: er minors 16 @hubs could operate next season under the 18-player limit. Ten- er and Herrmann are said to favor this move. One of the most radical suggestions yet offered is that in cities where two teams are supported the teams Ve ¢on- solidated and that the two leagues ‘be merged into one, eliminating Washington. ‘This would give a ten club league including Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia Cleveland Cincinnati, St. Louis and Detroit, It is doubtful if such a revolutionary sugestion would. receive even pass- ing notice. ‘The two leagues are too jealous of their individual rights to consent to such a suggestion and property rights in cities like Boston, Chicago, Phila- delphia and St. Louis could not easily tbe adjusted. y ‘It is also suggested that ‘the sclied: ule be git.from 154 to 140 gamies, but this has ‘not found favor with many magnates. Some have suggested that the regular schedule’ be played with all off days eliminated, which would permit beginning later in the spring and closing earlier in the fall. i Whatever the outcome, Johnson, ‘Herrmann and Tener will have their hands full. Sport Gossip St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 11—The St. Lodis Tenpin association will make a , determined bid to land the 1919 tour- nament of the American Bowling con- gress. The event will be awarded at the tournament to be held in Cincin- nati beginning in February. St. Louis was the scene of the national tourna- meht six years ago. Several other cities, including Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago and Peoria, also are in the field for the event. Kansas City, Mo, Dec. 11—John Ganzel, manager of the Kansas City club of the American association, is rapidly lining up his players for the 1918 season. Jimmy Viox, who quit the'club last year because of a dis- pute over salary, is the latest player to attach his signature to a contract. Vidx was a member of the Pittsburgh ‘Nationals for three years before go- ing to Kansas City. He was hitting more than .300 when he left the team last season. Muekegon, Mich., Dec. 11.—Muske- gon. probably will not be represented in the Central league next year, if that organization decides to open the seaton. resident Marsh believes that minor league baseball should be suspended during the war. Louisville, Ky., ‘Dec. 11.—Othello, valued at $4,000, and one of the higher grade of selling platers for years on Kehtucky tracks, is dead. He was fouhd stretched out in his stall and is supposed to have been a victim of heart disease. Othello was six years old. His sire wa8'Lithos and his dam was Flash of Night. During his turf career he had racéd in Cuba, Canada, Mexico and the United States. St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 11—Richard B. Rutherford, director of athletics of Washington university, will propose that freshmen be allowed to partici- pate in varsity intercollegiate athletic comtpetition in the M uri Valley conference during the war. submit this plan to the athletic direc- tors and faculty representatives at) , Kansas City on Dec. 7-8. Rutherford believes the smaller scliools have been hit so hard by the draft and enlistments that they can- not develop strong teams to cope with the larger schools. The conference representatives probably will allow the basketet| d More Problems Confront Big AMERICAN LEAGUE PITCHERS SAYS: BABE RUTH: <--> WAS LONGEST HITTER a ogee 7 ee Bewene By PAUL PURMAN. Who is the hardest hitter in base- ball today? The question conjures the names of Gavvy Cravath, Luderus, Cy Will- jams, Wally Pipp, Bob Veach, Joe Jackson and other kings in extra base land. In the past it recalls the names of; Dan Brouthers, Ed Delehanty, and re- cently of Sam Crawford. But if a number of American league pitchers are to be believed, the honor in 1917 rested with none of these. Eight out of 10 pitchers when asked whom they considered the longest hit- ter, declared without much hesitation in favor of Babe Ruth. “A bunt with that fellow is a dow ble,” one of them said. he is up there | wonder how many boards he will knock off the fence.” “I'm glad he isn’t hitting regularly,” said another. “He is not only the “Every time, IN BASEBALL LAST SEASON SMALL: SAN WITH A S0AP FAMINE. THREATENED-THATS GOTTA LASTIN THESE WARTIMES-A MONTH YET! i 3 suG SEUL EVENT. One of the miost.successful patriotic events ever held in Mandan was the first national *vonimunity singing which was -hekl‘at the Palace theater on Sunday afternoon when a most ex- cellent progrdm\: undér the direction of Mrs. B.'G. Wheeler, was given, and addresses: by. former Governor J. M. Devine, Majof Bitzing and Rev. C. E. Vermilya. Governor ‘Devine gave a lines. CHARGED WITH THEFT. Erion Heyer, kitchen hand, employ- ed tor a number of weeks in the Grand cafe, was arrested at the Gladstone hotel in Jamestown last Saturday morning and brought to Mandan: by ! fandan News Bureau most stirring address along patriotic |’ the deputy sheriff of Stutsman county. ; 1 Heyer. was -arrested, charged with stealing a watch froin the second cook at the Grand cafe after breaking into the cook’s trunk. Heyer was ar- ; Yaighed in justice court yesterday morning before Judge Henke and firiéd $35. He was unable to pay the money and as a consequence he is: in: the county jail. IMPORTANT MEETING, ' The Woodmen of. the World will have an important meeting this eve- | ning at the K. P. hall, when the an- ‘nual election of officers will be held and other business will be transacted. ; Refreshments will be served. HEAR MAJOR BITZING, | | The Mandan Elks held-an interest- ing meeting last evening at the Elks i HOW MUCH DO HE AY ay Washington, Dec. 11.—Ask the first ton people you meet what Uncle Sam pays his soldiers. It will. ‘be safe to det they woxtt know. Halt: of may have some hazy dea about-adollar a day,” and you Will find lots of people who think Uncle Sam still pays the old scale oi $13 a month, but few outside the army inow the ins and outs of the wage cale, even for privaic soldiers. ‘Tie whole pay system of the United 3tates army has been revolutionizea ice the war started. A private in Uncle’Sam’s army, reg- ar, national guard: or national army, -eceives in cash, as long as he is in CSCC Seesaw staocennaanen se longest hitter in the league—he is also one of the most regular.” Ruth ordinarily doesn’t get a whole lot of credit as a batsman-on account of his limited opportunities and his batting fame being dimmed by his pitching brilliance, but the records show he bats consistently around .330, and that his extra base average is among the highest in the league. Ruth plans to make capital of the art of fence busting, too. . 1 No one knows better than Babe the frailities of a southpaw pitching arm. | Realizing that the length of service in the big league for the average left- , handed pitcher is somewhat short of 110 years, Ruth plans to fool the jinx of left-handed pitchers and remain in , the big leagues long after his effec: tiveness on the mound has faded on ‘the strength of his hitting. : Even if Babe could not pitch, many clubs would be glad to keep him on ; the payroll as a pinch hitter. teams to participate in more than 18 games, the present limit. St. Louis, Mo, Dec. 1{—William Higgins has been elected captain of the St. Louis university 1918 football team. Higgins is fullback and is con- sidered one of the best players on the squad. The selection of coach for next year remains open, although every effort will be made to retain Radérmacher. ROUGH STUFF. Smith finished his chess match with a flourish, says a Coston contempoz- ary. Very probably breaking a lot of cbbwebs manufactured by diligent spiders between moves. Ham won a trap shooting, match in ‘New York and Eg grode in the 6-day bike race there. Draw your own con- clusions A headline contains the enlighten- ing announcement “Wrestlers Win.” tassiers always win when-they can get anyone to pay to see them. City of Many Mills. The English city of Sheflield has 400 stecl manufacturing concems, PITCHED BALL TR When an efficiency expert experts someone is going to find out some- thing he didn’t know before. Frank G. Gilbreth, efficiency expert of Providence, R. 1, watches ball games when he isn’t figuring out how to save sheet of paper a year for “the firm,” but even on the ball field he can’t help experting a little, and he decided to find out how fast a pitched ball travels. According to his test the fast bal some speed pitchers travels as fast 4 miles a minute. Previous experiments in basedall speed have been conducted along the line of clectric- controls. Mr. ‘Gil breth devised something entirely new, and it is probable his work will be greatly extended. Behind the catcher he had a Dlack- board measured off in squares. There THAN AIRPLANE, SAYS EXPERT AVELS. FASTER was also a clock with one hand which! made six revolutions per second. Mov- ing pictures of the various stunts; were then taken and the position of the ciock hand on the blackboard e: abled him to count the time required hy noting the difference in the posi- tion of the hand. , Gilherth found some exceptionall fast pitchers, who delivered a Dall at) ‘he rate of 2.88 miles per minute. In’ hat case the batter occupied 0.042! second in swinging at the ball, but the most surprising point is that the pho-} ‘ographic machine showed that. the batter began to swing on that fast one when it was 9.24 feet away from} him. When the mathematics of pitching are brought home in such forcible manner the wonder is not that there is so little hitting, but that there is $o ‘much. the United States, $33 a month in ac- lition to food, clothing and medical at- -endance. When he fs sent to Europe he gets 20 per cent extra, whether in training or in the trenches, which brings the minimum cash pay up to $39.60 a month, or $1.30 a day. 'he yevolutionary part of the pay System, however, about which most people are ignorant, is the scale of allowances made by the government to the soldiers’ dependents. We arc thus breaking away from the old the- ory of paying soldiers a flat wage‘for fighting to the new theory that the na- tion is responsible for the welfare noi only of the man in service, but for the dependents whom he left behind! him. Under this new scheme if “there’s a wee wifie waiting” she ‘receives each onth direct from Uncle Sam $15 a month, which 18 virtually an addition to the fighting man’s wage and brings htis total compensation up to $48 a; month while he : is in the United States and to $54.60 abroad. If there is one child with the wife, the allowance is. $25 ,a month; two, children, $32.50, and so on up to the point where with a wife and six chil- dren Uncle Sam pays $50 a month in cash to the family. It may not be enough to support them, even with wuat the enlisted man can send home out of his wages, but it is at least a recognition of Uncle Sam’s responsidility and a bul- wark against dependence on charity. Allowances are also provided for de- pendent parents, $10 a month for each and for brothers, sisters and grand- children, $5 a month for gach, with the proviso that in any case tue gov- ernment will not pay to the depend- ents of any man more than $50 a month. No mawkish prudery entered into the drafting of these provisions: by acknowledging his illegitimate child a soldier niay secure for. it the full gov- ernmental allowance the only provis- ion being that if it is ‘born after Dec. 31, 1917, it must ‘be born in the United States. So in the case of a wife, there need be no legal marriage if there is proof that they have lived together das man and wife for two years prior to eulistment. Uncle Sam also sees to it that his soldiers do not throw all the Surden of caring for dependehds on his broad shoulders, by making it compulsory for each man who has left a wife or child behind. to pay over to them through the treasury at least $15 a month and as much more as will equal the allowances which Uncle Sam makes up to half a man’s pay. Thus lor the man in service abroad who has left a wife and child behind, the man will have to assign to them at! least $19.50 a month to which the gov- jérnment will add $25, making a total of $44.89 which they are sure to re- ceive. PAY OUR SOLDIERS? W'S TEN TO OME YOU DONT KNOW wife. and four children will get $75. Twenty: dollars, is added if a nurse is required; $10 more if there is a de-' pendent. widowed mother; but if he loses both hands or both ; feet, be- comes totally blind or helplessly bed- ridden: he gets’$100 a month as long: as he may live whether he is married, or not. | If he dies from injuries or disease’ received in line of duty, Utie widowed mother receive sums ranging from $20 to $75 a month, according to size oi family. No distinction is made be- tween a private and the highest of- Is Mr. Hoover in An. H. the house? —'e NEATLESS daw — gare ae ere~ fp SP 07 word all} WA Uf | att in honor of their exalted ruler, a short furlough. sided at lodge. Major Bitzing pre- Neighbors Meet—The Royal Neigh- bors held a regular meeting at the home of Mrs. J. E. Peterson last eve- ning with Mesdames Rovig and Pat- terson entertaining. Edgar Newgard, who is employed as clerk at the Northern Pacifi¢ office, is in the hospital at Glendive receiving treatment for a few days. SELLS $300 WORTH. Ted Rotmen, mail carrier on route No. 2, has sold approximately $300 worth of thrift stamps and war avings stamps advises assistant post- master E. B. Wilkinson. Mr. Rotmen is no doubt among the leaders of the mail carriers to sell that amount of stamps in any city of similar size as Mandan. ” The Mandan postoffice being the distributing point for the various post- offices in Morton county, they have been kept busy during the past few days supplying the postoffices with their allotment of war savings and thrift stamps. Bingenheimer in Bismarck—G. H. Ringenheimer of the Bingenheimer Mercantile appeared in federal court as a witness yesterday afternoon in the case of the government versus James McDowell, who is being tried on a perjury charge. | insurance Agent at Stanton—0. J. Larson and C. W. Moses, the former of Mandan and the latter of Bismarck, hoth agents for the Providential Life Insurance company of Bismarck, went to Stanton yesterday afternoon on business. . ficer. In addition every man may take out insurance up to $10,000 at the actual cost of furnishing such insurance in peace times — the entire nation through the treasury bears the war risk. This insurance is wisely safe- guarded to protect it from creditors, shyster lawyers and loan, sharks. Attorneys Organize—Governor Fra- aier appointed State's Attorney Chair- man of the Morton county legal ‘ad- visory board a few days ago and also Major H. R. Bitzing, who is home on! Went to Northern Pacific Hospital—| | will appoint somebody in his stead to act on the Morton county board. All the attorneys in the county have been enlisted by .MMr. Connolly to serve on this board, which will assist with the classification of the registrants. AND EGGS, TOO. Thore’s one advantage in being o ham actor these days. \Jf a man cah hold things that come his way he ought to be able to lay in a very re- specta»le supply .af vegetables for the winter. Pants Rowland has gone into vaude- ville. Pants’ reputation as a very wicked judge of thrown balls may come in handy when he reaches St. Looie. What the Draftsman Does. Generally speaking, 2 draftsman, or draughtsman, is one who draws plans from instructions. given him. A me- chanical draftsman is an assistant to a mechanical engineer, and he draws the plans of, the engineér’s proposed works, If he is a mechanteal engineer it will be plans of machines, bridges, ete, An architect plans builitings, and his draftsman, from instructions’ fur- nished him, draws the plains, ° The draftsman is largely a copyist. He creates: nothing, but he gives expres: ston to the ideas of his superior. Ladies—Measure His Head! A plrenologist writes: “Heads \wear- &% aiid smaller, or tess inchés-in circumferénce, can neyér be powerful, “Between es and twenty inches heads are frivatlably very weak, and no Indy should’ think of marrying a man with a herd less than 20 inches in circumference. People with heads under 19 inches aré mentally deficient, and with heads un der 18 inches invariably idiotic.” WANTED, ATONCE named on the board S. P. Halpern of Hebron and F. T. Lemke, until re- cently of Glen Ullin. Lemke cannot act, fnasmuch as he has since moved to: Elgin.. It is possible the governor } and Snuday dd The old pension system is wiped out by the new and far more equitavle system of compensation for death and disability. Tais compensation differs from that provided in any other law. It takes the family as the unit that is serving the nation, not the individual man. It bases the compensation on the size of the family from time to time. While a totally disabled bachelor will get} only $30 a month, the man with a Place Your Order Now. URESEUONYADALAUERUDAGOGL SusteavoDeuoNOLONoNNbOuOuNoNON SPECIAL FREE rj] [T] T e All persons paying in advanee for the Evening and Sunday Tribune for a period of three months, will be given three want ads free of charge. The Tribune is offering this unique premium in order to introduce the Sunday Morning Tribune. All new and old sub- scribers are entitled to this FREE OFFER which holds good for thirty days only. Don’t wait. 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