The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 19, 1920, Page 7

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FOR RENT House and arn 303 South hone 6egK. - Tenth: Street, 1-¥I-2t,| sawing plata and ane), STATEMENT th ismarck :Building @ .Loan Asgciation aaa the Period Engine June 30th, 1 ‘ASSETS, Cash.on ‘hand First ‘mortgage loans Stock, doans * 4,175.73 219,240.45 $ 2,250.00 2,510.82 250.00 LIABILITIES Dae stockholders ae, oa eh hereby. certity- act rere foi is ‘a true and ‘correct’ state- ment. gf the aftajrs. of: the clon for th Building @ Loan “Association pértod “ending - June see, “ROBERT ORR ‘for-ti ert ‘Grr, president, and F; L. Conklin,’ ecretary, of the. Bismarck Bullding Logn Association. and who being iworn depose and: say that the tates above are true. and cpr. rect the best of their uacalaes anid “belief. 19-2t | DEATH AWAITS PASHA Turk General, Ahmed Djemal, A cused of Wholesale Slaughter. 8 Accumulated Gold at Lux. urlous Hotel in Swise Resort, Geneva, Switzerland.—In one of the most ‘luxurious ‘hotels in Lausanne ‘18 Heo’ BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE er thie Camouflage | Hers yom, we'bt ne Tis WaikercHier Around. Your Taxe You pe Tp \The | (Que House AND GAY YOU'VE GOT A SHAKE GOT AN:IDEA,, ‘\ Veer THe eal: (T'S A LRG; AND IE »} winning ‘HENRY BEACH brennan ‘Mustrate? by IRWIN MYERS | a Copyright by Doubleday Page & Oo. INTRODUCTION. Way. back.,in th hedule, Athletics had won a world’s champlone ship letter .was brought .to my office, written “by .an old player, introducing Henry, ~Beach |Needham. In it I was esked to permit’ Mr. Needham to aceco) before ysl PAGE SEVEN ‘PART I. eee j The Star’e Disappearance. Downstairs, in the visitors’ room of the University hospital,. which stank of jodoform, ‘Iris Ford, manager of the Glant-killers, waited uneasily, Up: stairs, reposefat ns befitted, the. true selentist, the,..resident bacteriologist squinted..through his microscope. Be- fore this ,revenling instrument, on. a hanging drop, slide, was,a. liquid giol | ule of bouillon taken froma CHI, of typhoid bacilli, Keehly ‘the disease. detective. vob! Served the care-free bacteria in their; native sports, Some of ;the .wrigglers indulged _in a continuous _round.,.of} somersaults. Others tore .othrough, space, and looped the, loop’@s though riding , Invisible monoplanes. ': Those more socially fticlined jtangoed in pairs, ,But not ..one bacillus was) static... All: were .in turmoil, The cul- ‘ture was “good.” With almost crnel,-cunning ‘the :ba- | cillian;expert precipitated a tin; A ets tity of blood solution into a jnilnute amount .of.<the culture, .and deftly Dany our club in order to give him | transferred-the combination drop to,a chance to write some magazine articles on baseball. {| He adt on the bench with me. In thif way he \began .to ‘learn :baseball: course.by that I mean what Js.sometimes called, for want of.a better.name, “inside ‘basebal ‘Like .all American boys, he had played the game as a kid and he .was lent fan, the kind that puillg for you ir’ loping. His mégazine: articles, published after the trip, were 'the first ot the kind printed fis America, “Then, as now, bageball-filled much, space in the papera, but Mr. Need- ham‘was the first-writer to introduce the subject into magazines of genera) interest. He was on the bench with us’ m ‘that Memorable .seventeen-innings game when «| the Athleti¢s’lost the pennant to Detroit CUTWORMS OF STRANGE SPECIES TAKE |State Entomologist Describes Effect of Worms and Damage ‘to: €rops -of ‘Various Kinds— Experiments :are Being :Con- ducted to Determine Methods of Combatting the Pests. ——— Cutworms of» strange species are now ‘living:the ‘Turkish multimillion-'| once.more taking a:heavy toll. of the salre named “.Gen,- Ahmed -Djemal ‘Pasha, former minister under "the Young: Turk-regime at Constantinople corn :and- small. grain crop in .the North Dakota counties west -of :the Missourl “Fiver, according to Stewart Lockwood entomologist, employed by and-ex-commanier-of the Fourth Turk the United :States department ;of ag r-army fn /Syth teultuke who works -in_ co-operation lets the’first upon the:black. ist. of swith (the ‘North’ Dakota Extension di- the. Arablan::governmeht ‘tor. extrad#} vision. tion an punishment, being accused, ‘says the: Peaths: of 7,000 . Aral Armenian familie in, Syrian ‘and he.is: alleged to have ordered:-to be massncred- or flepartéd into’ the desert;-where :they test in ‘the. | ‘ DJemel: ‘Pasha, the, ies 3 ot team,” peat aa 200: deaths: of: heretics.” By tyranay..tt As:charged,'he obtAined:his vast, weatt! in. Turkish gold, having always: te- fneed-bank notes.’ Once a. week ‘his awife.or one ofthe members of hi famn- Aly, traveled , to. Constantinople | from D§emal’s hendquarters in, Sytia,, under moilitary.) yescort with small. boxes . of}. ‘gold which ; were. forwarded quently. to Switzerland and Holland. It was Djemal -and- ‘Djavid» Pasha were ‘at Paris -in-July, 1914, ‘and, rl rihuna ‘De’ Genese, of the have h subse-| While | the ordinary cutworm ‘The. territory in ‘which these.worms ~been working includes..Bowman, Slope. Golden. Valléy, Billings, .Dunn, Stark, Hettinger, Adams, Sioux, Em- mons, Grant, Morton, Oliver and Mer- cer counties and southern McKenzie county:Reports :received from 500 teks) in these counties by Mr. paw Bae ‘of the 1919 crop d/a.damage of 55 per, crop ae ent“to oats. and 17°per Experts of the United States depart- smentjot eereuture ‘at the request of the ‘Norih Dakota ‘Bxtension division, | have identified thirteen different épe- ‘cles .of. .cutworms, as well as several kinds }of .wireworms, which are de- stroying crops in that locality. Little is -known regarding methods. of .con, trolling these particular “worms, as, they..differ from the ordinary cut; worms ‘found east.of the Mississippi. 8083 .most-of ite-feeding above ground, most -of ,the ,apeotes found in; the Slope country in North Dakota funnel thru the ground-and do their feeding at a foreseeing the war, bought the Ger-| depth of an inch and a half or two maniwarshipe G thelr.goverpment; Ae t, | ebo:shes ‘only. a temporary pernission ito-sojourn in: Switzerland, orders, trom (Con- n_and Breslay for | inehes. » Bo -Heavy.Dam: mage County Agent J. C. Russell, of Gol- ‘den’ Valley county, reports that fully ‘er, .cent_of the ‘wheat crop in his 85: coity has’ been ‘destroyed this/year was recently requested by the: Swits/ hy. cutworm and wireworms, more than atificate praying che prejudicial to ;main-at:Eausal The’ Tribune rem -Spitzerland with, several of his satellites. Djemnl, seaturn ito Turkey, as the death: sen- tence awalts hin there. PLANS” FOR: HARVEST HANDS a Kanes ‘May Need 40200:9t Wages /of aay A :Qlty, ¥Mo.- the ‘clearing house dl eeaegt viuriog the next two months -wheat it Kansas, . Oklahoma, Missourt. |“ “Nebraska. South: Dakota and Town. Fe-| timates-are> now being, prepared: nom replies to.questionuatres .sent.to wheat eons} by the United States-free’. joymnent bien: here, working in con- junetion es ree ei ployment bu- or ‘Keneas will requiré: 30.- fen from outside the state to:help:harvest its winter wheat crop this season, according to the most recent. estimates, ~ The mint A “nour, with boatd a lodging, says J. Mogi ment 8é1 frro-tBfrdd of - the state, Ny) “says, will, be “Por all kinds. of painting © and decorating phone 540R - Lyman D..Smith All work guaranteed be , government ito:lenye ‘thts country,:bat! haltipf-the corn crop, and ‘between 20 he managed :to. procure a'smedical, cer- that traveling would ';many;cases the.fields have been. plow. bis: benith, and re-|ed, a8 ‘the stand hasbeen’ so reduced nd ‘39. per cent of/oats-and barley. - In that a.paying crop would not be pro- his expulsion |. : -however, cannot |. It ov MEAVY, TOLL IN SLOPE CORN FIELDS duced. ' In gomb places’ corn has béen planted again, sometimes millet, and quite often’ the fields have been left barren and’ summetfallowed. As an experiment, planted s: a field w cutworms ad- destroyed the corn crop, the rest of thé field being sown to miil- let. The cufworms destroyed ‘the sun- iower seedlings before they reached. the surface of the ground, but a good stand of’ millet -was secured. Last year an instahce was reported where corn was sbwn ‘three times on the same) piece:of ground, and every time ‘the cutworms took the corn. Conducting, Experiments, ‘In. Golden: Valley ‘county it has been found -that poisoning is effective only in. damp. weather. as the worms: stay below the surface. of the ground when the. weathier.is dry, as it has: been most of the time there this.year. The same County Agent Russell} eyefal rows of sunflowers on; ich had been plowed after) ‘poison is used -for,.€rasshoppers and. cutworms, a mixture of arsenic, molasses, .bran.and> lemons -which is. scattered on, the ground ofthe infested | fields:- A number of expébtinents, 2 are being conducted at the present time to de- termine > how to fight these strange species of cutworms, and it is antici- pated that by next fall, a.definite cam- paign which will bring about their de-]: struction willbe worked out. ‘Percent of Damage The’ percentage of damage done to. corn, wheat, oats and barley crops in six of''the Slope counties last year, according to pverages obtained by Mr. Lockwood. from 500 farmers’ reports are as follows: County Corn Wheat Oats Barley +68 24 26 18 132 20 34.5 15° 35 12.5 32.5 24 200 718 Average on BB 19.5 30 ll A‘number of experiments’ are being conducted at the present time’ to de- termine “how ‘to fight :these strange species of cut-worms, and ,it-is, anti pated that by next fall-a' definite cam- paign whieh will bring.abont their, de- struction will*be worked out. 26 Hettinger as Grant... . mitrek quette, in 1908. He yieited me a year later when ‘collaborated on a series of .bageball Coming \to live near Philadel- phia he became a@ frequent visitor at my home as well.as-a regular attendant at Shibe ‘park. \\ Outside ‘of my family and also ,the club ‘there was nobody. so well acayainted’ with the game as -played by the Athletics, or who.so intimately under- stcod my methods, as Henry Beach Need- ham. In the fall of 1913,he came,to my hou one day with a manuscript in his’ hai Until we had funch and I .was feeling fairly at-ease, even though we were crapping for a pennant, he did not tell me what the typewsiting -was' about. Then he gaid to me: “Connie, I want you to read this story— a. baseball story. It’s what ‘I’ve learned under you, used as a basis for fiction, Some of the characters you've met, One— ‘Tris Ford—you'll never admit you .recog- nize. I've:tried to write a baseball story that, will not make'the fans sore because the technicalities of ‘the game are wrong, and that will interest the general reader, whether he or she eyer saw 9 game or not.’ Read it, please, and tell me—with brutal. frankness—if I've delivered the lit’ry goods.” ‘Before 1 say what I thought of it right .off the ‘bat;.I want to make you under- - atdnd, if I can, in what attitude of mind I read that story. I knew I couldn't fresh slide, The .base of the sqlution tised was Of! the blood of Bill Dart, pitching main- stay of the Giant-killers. Curjously the resident bacteriologist awaited results. In five minutes there was to,be.noted a gradual, qylescence in the movements .of the. wrigglers. They censed their mad.pranks and get- tled down.as if,overtaken with languor, One by. ont. :the bacilli became ,abso- lutely,.static, curling up in. groups and! going to.sleep in a conglomerate ,mass,: like so.znany young pups. In a.quar- ter of an hour there,was, not a. sign of life. The ‘bacteriologist had brought his experiment to. a.successful conclu-: sion. An interne came to: Tris Ford and reported. The manager of the Glant- killers. got a dose! of heavy language, in which emphasis wag laid.on ‘Widal reaction,” and “positive.” There was something assertively final about the surprigingly intelligible medical *term “positive.” “You mean he’s got:it?’.asked Ford. The ynteme majestically inclined his Oe Doin ti Wi. Kemihas ne ofa" famous Irishman'who boaated-he could fight a duel.and drink;a bowlof;punch © between thrusts. And ithe amare ihe drank thé harder jhe fopght. -So with Barney. He can. pitch shut-out ball between drinks. The more hard liquor he puts away the faster his ball and the better his control, I'ng not joking —drinking, actully; improved. his pitch- Ing. But it didn’t have the same,ef-.. fect on other players. with, oui .elub— there .was.the dewil to pay. ‘No more Barneys for me.” . Undismayed ‘By ‘the- judgment of Parke, thé manager of the Cincinnatis wrabbéed -Larkin, bragging: “Observe me—I enn handle any,pjayer: who isn’t actually bughouse.” Palldom.-observed, It wasn't alto gether what ‘Barney Larkin did, al- though that was “a-plenty.” “It was what he did to the Cincinnati team. When they next appeared in the East, me of,:the sporting writers said that fiothing so disorganized had: come out of Ohio since Coxey’s: army. . Gladly the “lond of wild oats,”-ag Barney had come to.be called, was given his un, conditional release, lle was now officially designated « “free ageht.”: But -where -had-his free dom taken him? ‘There was a sure way to trace Bar ney Larkin, ‘He loved the spotlight’ no near statesmiqn or Thespian.of :thi chorus sought the bright white ligh more persistently. Bayney-was-eithe: ‘p.the newspapers.or seeking to breal, ‘nto ‘print. ‘Mast generally he“ found : the scribes::in. a receptive frame, .ot mind. Barney Larkin was to the sporting «writers what Harry Thaw was to the sob artists—good for a col- umn. any ,dull day. And, the story, nine times out of ten, got on to the wire and traveled over the country. Tris Ford sent.out,an “‘S. 0. S.” to Rarney. Larkin, the sporting editor of the North, Star acting as transmitter. ‘The scribe wrote a story about Bar- ney, rehearsing «his .exploits with horsehide and: highbal, and winding up with the query: “Has anyone seen Barney? 1s he far from the madding crowd of fans,. bumping along on the water wagon, or is.he mixing ,up.drinks and pitching with. his old-time abandon and ne’er- failing skill? We repeat—has anyone seen Barney Larkin?” Back .flew the answer: in our. midst.” It came from Punxsutawney, state of Pennsylvania, The rest was merely the correspond- “Barney is ‘| ence of diplomacy, at which Tris-tram Carling-ford was .a lineal descendant of Charles Maurice Talleyrand. The culmination «was «a, telegram ‘from _| Larkin, sent collect, reading:.” make (Mr, Needham believe I liked ;the} | story if I didn’t, and I knew I was going to.be hard to please. gee some one hundred and fifty games |, & season, and.while. we always try to win, because we're out to win every time, it isn't.every game, no matter how close the score, that gets.us worked up and excited. “Was I likely to be so over a game on per? ‘Well, the. ball.game described in “The Jinx’’ kept me guessing. To a man like myself, who had,read nothing but straight baseball articlef and who had in mind the pla: before the public, it was catching me napping to spring on me a fiction story with unfamiliar names, yet ‘with live big-league players—a story that held my. excited interest from beginning. It's a new position for me to splay—literary critic. But I have/ strong “Backin in what I think, by the enthu- siastic approval which “The Jinx”) and other Needham stories received from players and officials of the game. If :there-is one class of gentry dead set against it Js the: gamblers and camp followers who batten pn the na-} hong, tional ‘game and who would destroy .it if they could, te serve their own greedy ends. A manager has to} | "| yellow ‘bills. 1 dm| wyou Mean He's Got It?" asked Ford. “There is not a shadow ofa doubt. .A positive reaction—typhotd.” “A light or a mild case ?—suppose Before closing, and retiring tu the you can’t tell?” bench, ‘I:want ‘to -say ‘that, despite what ig_said of the grand players of the past; baseball is growing each season ‘into @ faster, a more fascihating game. -Natu- “Not with certainty, of course, But the .bacteriologist {informed me | \that the behavior .of the bacilli after the rally, therefore, the player is: improving.) mixture of the:hjood solution and the The stars of today may be: eclipsed by the stars of tomorrow. So with baseball, stories. A new writer may.give.both fan culture :would indicate. pronounced type of. typhold,: probably a severe and ‘general reader a more captivating| case.” tory, But that willbe day after tomor- /row, ‘In ‘my opinion. ‘For the present ‘the line-up in this: book sults me, and it ought to sult you—player, : fan or mother-of a-baseball crank. That you may forget, as did this manager, how | uncomfortable’ you ‘are while reading on “Poor Bill,” said Tris, half to ‘him- self. ‘Then-in a tone. of authority he addressed the {pterne: “Everything is to:be: done to-make Mr. Dart com- fortable and to get him well. Don’t the edge of your easy chair is the wish of| try to save a nickel, Our club will ‘CONNIE “MACK, stand it. . L'll,cajl again soon. Good- day!” Walking: to ithe trolley, Tris Ford ‘ KBLUSSER came to three important ereae We Kirst—To .count Bill Dart out’ Yor the.entire season (not a fortnight old) +] and recast his campaign without tak- Ang his ;most; valued pitcher into .ac- count. Second—To write to ‘the surgeon general, United States army, and learn all about the inoculation of .officers and enlisted men ag a preventive of. typhoid fever. ‘ Third—To go in search of Barney Larkin, who was touted as the great- est left-hander outside the breast- works of organized baseball, Like the manager in the war game, | Tris..Ford believed in preparedness. UU SHOULD THAN You? <You DDNT) | He was almost invariably forearmed. ‘But he wasn’t prepared for -the trick played him by a criminally negligent city which harbored a water supply devoted to the propagatian of typhoid bacilll, ‘ Otherwise he wouldn’t have thought.for.one.moment of hitching up with two yards and fifteen stone of | human trouble, even though sald trouble did boast a phenomenal fast ball and ‘beautiful control—“control” not of the man, but of the ball, Not one of ‘the other fifteen major leafue ,managers would have under- taken the job of handling Barney Lar- kin. Two had.tried. | It was Parke of, Pittsburgh who discovered Larkin. For fully twenty-four hours after Larkin pitched his first big-league game, shut- tipg ‘out Cincinnati, Parke boasted of his find. Then abruptly he ceased to bonst; and after two weeks, replete with excitement for the Pirates, the eccentric performer was given his un- conditional release. When the part- ing was over, Parke made this state ment: “Pye seen some grand port siders ‘and some ‘bad actors’ in my day, but Barney Larkin’s got’em all beat. Curv- aud crooking his elbow seem “Come on and get me.” The manager ‘of |the .Glant-killers took the first train for Punxsutawney, whieh-is a-borough: most inconvenient- ly located northeast of the Smoky city. He. took with him.a corpilent roll of Tris Ford knew that-he must buy Larkin’s release—not from the outlaw club, but from ‘the trades- men of Punxsutawney. Up. Center street and. down the shady side, Ford. and. Barney tramped, mak- ing more .callsthan the letter earrier. ) There .were the:clothier, the shoe-store man, the haberdasher, the laundry, the barber, every bar in town, and. both hotels, to, pay, and. the express. com- pany. Barney owed the express com- pany. for transportation ,charges:on a bulldog! |The .qne thing ithat saved the enterprise from complete :insol- vency was-the departure of the daily train for Pittsburgh at one o'clock in the afternoon, ‘Tris Ford did not Jeaye Panxsutaw- ney~altogether in a cheerful attitude Of mind, notwithstanding he‘had cap- tured his quarry, for the directors, of the outlaw club came.to the train. in.a body and.thanked « the big;league man- ager. because::he .was :taking Barney out of:town. Evei to the man of iron nerve this was: disquieting. in-the-manner told: was Barney Lar- kin brought to the Glant-killers’ ball yard. His first appearance, notably ‘unlike .most pitching ;inaygurals, Was an;unalloyed triumph. ‘ Facing Detroit, which elab,was:then going strong, ‘he. let the Tigers down without a hit. But twenty-seven men went to bat, and of these Barney struck, out fifteen—a record comment- ed upon to,this day. In the last inning, with two-,out,and.that demon.batsman, “the Georgia persimmon,” at ba! ney walked toward the. grand stand, stopped, and then. motioned the crowd to go home. “All over!” he insisted. The fans roared in delight—and roared’ louder still when he struck the champion batter out. From that mo- ment Barney Larkin was the idol of the fans. There were times, many times, when he caused Bill Dart, who was fighting disease and death in the hospital, to be forgotten by the heart- less rooter. The eccentric left-hander was keeping the Glant-killers in the hunt for the pennant. Also, she was keeping Tris Ford awake nights. No such prize problem in manhandling had been put up to Ford in the twenty years of his man- agement. .Unerringly Tris had sized up Barney Larkin. The, manager knew that whenever: Barney .was_ pitching airtight ball—mowing ’em down—it was necessary to keep an 2 on him about elghteen hours out; ty-four; “going, £004," he.was most in- clined to give rein to his bad habits. But when he was in a slump he was ‘not diffiealt to handle, ‘This was infre- quent, for he was continually leading. the other pitchers. in the number of games pitched and in games won. Early in -his association with Bar- ney Larkin, the manager of the Giant- killers decided,’ first of all, that he must Jet the, unruly pitcher believe he was- fooling his boss.~ Every excuse must be accepted as the ungilded truth; otherwise Barney would have to be ‘alsciplined, and that would'mean in a short time his release. Usually ‘Tris Ford was “wise.” But there was that episode in St. Louis which illu- sminates Barney’s. character, wherein Tris was fooled completely, + (To be continued),