Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1925, Page 90

The Chukchi, a Race of Primitive Creatures Scorned Yet Admired as Great Hunters by the Eskimo—In the Path of a Huge Woolly Brute—When Bruin Is Cornered—The Battle on an Nanook. He is, in the first monarch of all he surveys. He has no natural enemies. He subsists on seal and, when the going Is good, on young walrus. All the vear’ round, by day | throughout the long arctic night, | ranges the heavy pack ice alone. He | prefers to take things casy, so he |just lumbers along in his quiet, heavy-going way on all fours, flop: ping down at intervals to enjoy a four-minute nap. But back to the hunt. Kitsenna and I have worked our way over the surface of the floe toward our bear, keeping ice humps and pressure ridges carefully interposed between ourselves and our prey. Nanook ap- pears to be sleeping. We take oc- casional cautious peeps at him. Twice we spy hini with his fore quar- ters ralsed from the lying position and his muzzle poised in the air, | taking & good sniff around. | At last we managed to approach within 60 or 70 vards of our bear without dttracting his attentfon. A | convenient pressure ridge about four feet high served now to conceal us. Swiftly and silently 1 sst up my tripod. The top of it was showing over the parapet of my hiding place, so befors affixing the camera I took a peep at Nanook. There he was with his stern toward us and attend- ing to his business of sleeping. What could he better? Now {s my chance. Up T hob, ad- just my camera on the tripod and focus It on the recumbent bear, keep. ing a sharp watch on him the while. place, and he d my beaters have had time to out thelr maneuvers. So 1 squat down for a few minutes and until carry Adventure. in good measure. was com Bined With Dismess and | pieasure by Frank E. Klemschmidt ' a recent visit 1o Arctic waters. By voeation 4 motion pieture photographer of wild animal Iife. his scarch for little-known animals such ok the nolar bear and the walrus Fas 'taken Hint far from the heaten (rack and it contact with LitiaXnown ' peo Blen. " The “Tollowing ar Turme the ' dangers of 1 n 3 Which 18 undertaken 1y primitive beoe ot only for sport but for sustenance. BY FRANK E. KLEINSCHMIDT. /T HE good ship Nokatak, my two masted schooner of 30 tons. l ~vith gas auxiliary, is thread ing her way through the open lanes of water_amid the ice- floes in Bering Strait. We are making about six knots, with due acknowledg- ments to the friendly current, and everybody’s spirits are high. My Eskimos are aboard ship, Ipnorak and his sons and nephews, to accgmpany me on a_search for Arctic motion pictures. We are out some days from King Island and on our way to hunt Nanook. the polar bear. All at once there is an outhurst of excited chatter among those aloft. nd now my fellows are all scrambling down the rigzing with one accord. What can it he? Evidently no bear We should have heard more ahout it. Byt here comes young Putunuk, the chief of King Island and valiant man of the chase withal. “Chukchi . . Chukehi . . . skin boat 20, Chukehi . .. big skin boat! tunuk. So_that's the excitement. A big kin boat with maybe 25 Chukchi in it. They enter our waterway at a tan- gent a little ahead. Down comes the dilapidated sail, and the big skin hoat | makes toward us with powerful, rhyth- mic paddle impulses. Yes. indeed, they are Chukehi, Aretie dwellers from the Siberian side, fully 25 of them, in- 2 3 G Uik try to possess my soul in patience, eluding & woman and a_small hov. | taking an oceasional squint at Nanook about as much hesitation or ceremony | {©,5¢¢ how he In farlng. as vou or T would have in scrambling | 5, LS LI R upon a casual rock on a moor or in i S Sl A desert, Tt is the unwritten rule of | haunches and weavea slowly from the Arcfic to dispense hospitality to |Side to side. after the fashion of his friend and stranger alike, and I had |(ribe. And he is a gigantic specimen. no disposition to infringe upon that | I &m tingHng with excitement. o ielient tranition. T see him heave his huge bulk to Tt is an open question who had the | all fours and extend his muscle. Aha! hetter time on this occasion, the Chuk- | He has got wind of something. He chi, swallowing scalding tea and hot |18 shifting uneasily on his feet and mush, or we who watched them. But backing a little in his tracks. there was a problem before us. It| Over there to his right front sud was getting dark, and with 25 Chuk. [ denly loom8 up the fizure of an chi on deck there was little likelihood | Eskimo. one of my beaters, pausing of sleep for any of us. So I tipped | for a second as he surmounts a ridge. off my helmsman to keep edging more | And there again on the left. but and more toward the coast and when | rather more in a line with the hear he came to a good open expanse of |and our colgn of vantage, appear water to heave to. Putunuk and old Ipnorak. T suppose the Chukchi come u'hn-.u PP as close as anybody to the type of tra = < ditional cavemen. They are primitive | " HE keen-nosed Nanook has scent to the point of cohesion with the soil— | ed them before they showed them- if soil one can call the ice-bound, sno selves, It is quite plain from his at- clad, iron region they Inhabit. titude that he hae no intention ot They are far less civilized than the | awaiting the arrival of these unwel- skimo, who, with his scarce paipable | come intruders. Now he has turned touch of sophistication. himself turns|his back on them and is watching up his nose at the Chukchi, calling|them alternately over his shoulders him dirty, untruthful, pilfering—and | and keeping his nose busy verminous, which last epithet is ap-| He has come to a decision. He sets plied by one well qualified to judge of | off from his tracks at a run—straight such matters. toward the camera. Oh, what a piece ‘And vet the Eskimo has a percepti- | of luck! The fellow is not more than ble admiration—perhaps an envy—for | 40 vards off now and coming head on the Chukchi, seeing in this tall. well | with muzzle down. T crank like fury, knit native of Arctic Asia a better | my heart beating In time with the hunter than himself and paving in-|clicking of the shutter. it seems to stinctive respect to his skill. {me. Tam ready to shout with glee. * % ok K [ Bhe beaters {o right andileftiare oy S BED jds | coming up as fast as they can run £ :",r'""m-r,l :‘: O s alanar | over the uneven floor of the floe. As 5 7 | they catch sight of the bear in their R e o pursult. they vell like mad and throw =ently with the current 2 their arms about. And here's old o CRUKER St ahutieie Nanook heading straight for us! Chilly talking among themselves and no|icicles! The great woolly brute will | run into us! doubt wondering what is afoot. Putu- | TUN ] ¥ nuk is appointed a subcommittee of | Kitsenna h“m;\uli"lflf;. his Yg-r:\d w'lfh one, with full powers to treat and exe. | ¢Xcitement. “Shall T shoot?” he cries. : | “1 shoot now? Now I shoot? te. “ en''t “Tre King Island chief is now 'hpl_‘ Put that gun down'” I snap back. center of a_group of eager and atten- | “Iiet him come closer. o Wive Chukchi. Negotiations are being | He does—and I go on cranking itke carried on entirely by signs, with lm-l‘l "‘ Nd@"»*- 2 ow'. an}?okfl litts his ple nods and grins by way of trim-|head and sees us for the first time. g : |He is nn;;"fmgz 15 yards oft. He Puty X it | Stops, no! . S Razes at us Pk DTS 0 e P he|for a second I see his black eyes like o oints to un. Then he iy “roumd on hie | liquid Jet, and the black double button heels, the open-mouthed Chukehi do- ing the seame, and points to the spot where the sun will appear on his next rising. This action seems to be clear enough to all concerned. It simply means tomorrow. Putunuk then steps back a space and with both hands goes through mo- tions similar to those of a farmer's wife shooing & clutch of broilers off the back porch. Splendid! For the hukch! have cottoned to the sugges. tion en masse and are even now seram- bling over thé taffrail and dropping down into their big skin hoat. The woman waves her hand at part ing. Tomorrow, when the sun has climbed to the pitch of his are, we may expect another visit from these d people. Janook! Nanook!” It is a ery from aloft. I curtail a perfectly good yawn znd instantly tumble out of my bunk. I have just awaked. It is broad day light, of course. Darkness holds for only three hours or so up in these parts at this season. I begin to pile on clothes: for. it 1 am behindhand I may get left. These Arctic folk wait for no leadership when hunting is afoot. I seramble up | the companionway pell-mell. Where is | this Nanook that all this fuss is about? I mount the rigging a little way and look in the direction all too eagerly in- dicated. There about 500 yards to windward on a great ice-floe many acres in area I catch sight of a large polar bear. He seems to have his muzzle down, probably breakfasting off a seal. Hurriedly I scan the battlefield. How many leads, or lanes of open wa- ter, are there between the bear and us, and where are they? But Putunuk | and Ipnorak have already figured out | 1his problem and have laid a plan of moving feet, all The plan of campalgn was for the | two skin boats to work around the flanks of the floe and get to windward | «f the bear, while I, with my came and the trusty Kitsenna, Ipnorak .«1 <on, armed with gun and spear, would make our way over the floe to lee- ward, approaching up wind as close to our quarrry as was compatible with the stalking cover that the uneven surface of the floe could afford. An eminently stmple plan, as befits all true strategy. Mr. Nanook, be it known, trusts very largely to his nose for security. My aim, therefore, was to establish myselt and my moving picture camera where the direction of the wind would preclude any warning to the bear of my presence. * ok kX EANWHILE those working to windward would serve much as beaters in o jungle hunt, driving the game down wind toward the hunters ‘proper. For at the first scent of man the polar bear leaves anything he may be doing and makes off. He stmply does not want to he bothered and will show no fight except on provocation or when, because of in- dolence or bad luck, the pangs of hunger have got a hold upon him too strong to resist. He is an odd fellow in his way, s of his nose. out. Now he flings a glance over his shoulder at his pursuers. They have drawn up pretty nearly level with him and have spread out to head him off from his line of retreat. He stares at the camera and at my hand on the crank and at Kitsenna. My fear is that he will make off too soon; Kitsenna's, that he will come on. Your Arctic native has a whoiesome respect for Nanook. which he in no- wise extends to seal or walrus. He regards the polar bear somewhat as he does his worst enemy. frost bite. And with good reason. In countless in- stances Mr. Nanook has given practi- cal demonstration of what he can do with his claws. But our Nanook cannot be expected to keep standing irresolute all this time. No, he stood for a few second; only and then sheered off obliquely at a good rolling gait and made for the His tongue is hanging There is nothing for it but to walit | THE SUNDAY nearest edge of the floe, myv lens trained on him as he ran. He did not look back. but applied himself strictly to the business of reaching the water. T was glad that he got away, for we are by no means done with him yet. We shall see him again more than once before the day is out. In a polar bear hunt vou can keep going all day after the same bear. following him up and heading him off by utilizing the winding leads between the floes on vour Kalaks and staging drives and stalking parties one after another. From the crest of a ridge we kept an eye on our elusive quarry. We saw him golng In a bee-line from floe to floe, swimming the intervening leads and to all appearances coming to a | halt on a large floe about a mile away and about the same distance from my ship, which, with the bear and our present position, constituted the three points of an equilateral triangle. x ok ok x WE would return to the ship for breakfast. A watch in the rig- ging would keep tab on Nanook's movements, till we were ready to re sume the chase. As T was enjoying a eating a knock came on and Ipmorak popped his Kabloni Chukchi nounced. laconically, with a jerk of head and thumb over shoulder. Of course, our Chukchi friends of yester- day. Instantly 1 formulated a plan to stage a polar bear hunt with these fellows. I would persuade my Eskimos to content themselves with the role of spectators this afternoon. Putunuk was impressed into service once more as interpreter. and soo he was busy with eloquent hand: arms and visage outlining my pro posals for the afternoon hunting ses sion. with a will pipe after the door head in. he an and were for into their skin boats and making off after Nanook on the moment. My plans were a little different. T wanted to maneuver my ship as close up to the lee side of the bear floe as I could work her and have the bear driven in our direction, while my ship’s company remained aboard and watched the proceedings as from a stand on a race track. Then 1 would set up my camera and crank it from that vantage point. for rigging whom the rest appeared to look orders, climbed up into the at the muggestion of took a survey of the ice. cated our bear of the two others farther off. came in great h excited energy. T appealed to them tremendously. The hunters consisted of six of my Chukehi guests. Two parties of two each went out to work around to windward of the bear,as in the morn- ing, and the two remaining, who were to play the leading roles, advanced about half-way toward a pressure- ridge. spreading out about a hundred yards apart and taking cover behind sheltering hummocks of ice. They were armed with bows and arrows and spears with walrus-hide lines at- tached. Firearms were tahoo today. A keen wind is blowing full in our teeth. _Our faces are blue and our They lo- morning and Down they te and filled with “AND HERE'S oLD NANOOK HEADING STRAIGHT ; FOR |us» The Chukchi took to the idea | tumbling | Two fellows among the Chukchi, to | Putunuk and | hunting by ship | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 4, 1925 | feet are kept pounding on the deck. For nearly an hour now there ha been nothing to see but the two squat ing figures of the motionless hunters, breaking the pearl gray monotone of the floe. and hevond them the pres- sure-ridge, like a blind white wall, shutting out any further visibllity. “There {s neither aight nor seund, other than the dull drumming of nu merous pairs of feet and an occasional murmur of impatience and pessimism. Some one yields to a quivering yawn, but curls the end of it into a vell Now evervbody {s giving tongue. And there's the cause of it. Ahout mid- way of the ridge a bear has suddenly appeared. He has climbed into view and is standing broadside on to us and looking back whence he came. The two hunters have assumed a crouching pose behind thelr fey para- pets and are fingering thelr weapons. There is no necessity for either of them to make a move yet. Nanook must first signify what he is going 1o do. le is about equidistant from both men. who are in good tactical position to intercept him whichever direction he makes up his mind o take when the advancing beaters drive him off the ridge. He has decided. ilere he comes, sliding down the near face of the | ridge on his great haunches. Now |l)|¢xl he has put an obstacle bétween htmself and his pursners, he takes it into his head 1o try a littls strategem. Instead of setting out straight away from the ridge. he runs parallel with it. toward the left from our stand. My Eskimos are all chattering to- mether. It really looks a: it the fellow may be going to escape. xoxox % GREAT shout of joy goes up on board the good ship Nokatak as the ridge out close to its left end and ahead of the still running bear. Na- nook at once turns sharp to his left and sets up a good gait across the open and toward us. If he should make the edge of the floe he will en- ter the water quite close to the ship. The other beaters cross the ridge at various points and go in pursuit Our waiting_hunter on the left is now all tense. We see his bow strung and an arrow ready for flight. Out to the open he steps as the running bear passes not 10 yards from his post. An arrow flies, then another and another. It is impossible to see with what effect The bear keeps stright on. quicken- ing his pace, it anything. The water, the water—that is all he cares about. This is no time to turn at bay. And | it looks very much as if he were go- ing to achleve his aim. The excitement now is tremendous. | In" another minute Nanook will have {reached the water and safety. He has already left his pursuers behind. And | see! There, sticking in his shoulder, are the arrows, the three shot by the Chukchi hunter!, Putunuk and Ipnorak can stand the strain no longer. They dash for their kaiaks, which are Iying on the after deck. 1 have half a mind to stop them. This is supposed 10 be satrictly A Chukehi hunt. But I decide not to intertere; for the wounded bear has every chance to escape now and later may succumb to his injuries. The bear and the kaiaks reach the water almost at the same moment. Befora taking the plungk Nanook catches sight of us and decides to ewim under water, a favorite but short-sighted policy of the polar bear. the figure of a Chukchi appears on | | . E e “THE BEAR WAS WITHIN 10 FEET OF HIM.” He seems to think that he is alded | Putunuk has thrown his spear and in his flight by diving and swimming | lodged it below water in the bear's below the surface. but only slows himself up in <0 reality that the he | hack. Again he dlves, and as the line runs pursuing boats have a chance to gain ' out through Putunuk’s hands he and on him. Andin this instance when Na. nook came to the surface, the kaiaks his kalak are taken in tow. Ipnorak has now closed in, and the two Chuk- that had steered for the point where chi hunters, in their heavier ecraft, he would be most likely were within 10 yards of him. It {8 the Chukchi who have now a. sumed the role of mpectators, at least those of them who acted as heaters The two hunters have regained their skin boat and are now working their way up to the mcene of activity. | spent. 1o appear | mannge to get in some arduous pad dling, which brings them within range of the bear as he comes to the sur- face, with his black muzzle and sil- very white coat churning the icy water, For A moment he meems to be Then he turns away from the | bacause of the obtuse angle of thrust boats and strikes out rapidly small floe. Grimly the Chukchi forward their skin boat, bumping the two kiaks out of their road. One of the men stands up in the bow with spear polsed, a wild and vigorous fig- ure. Suddenly his right arm shoots out and the spear is dispatched with the line streaming back in fta wake. It is a long shot and a difficult one, and the deflecting influence of the water. But the skill and physical strength of the hunter surmount these difficulties. The follow through is put into the stroke with a forward and downward motion of the spear arm and a per- fectly timed half swing of ths body to the left. The spearhead has bitten deep into the bear at the base of his neck. There is a mighty plunging and floundering in the water, which fs quickly discolored with gore. | Two additional boats have been launched from the ship now and join on the two spear lines and on another | that has been thrown, lasso fashion, | over the head of the bear. They holst the great carcass up to a floe about a hundred yards away from the ship. Already my steersman is deftly ma- neuvering the ship close up to the floe where the orgy is in progress. The fall of the derrick is thrown out to the hunters and they pass it about the carcass. Soon the winch hauls the bear off the floe, washes him off in the brine and holsts him up over the deck out of harm’'s way. And there is great feasting in the Arctic that night. four Chukehi and an equal number of Eskimos working togethar. We spot ted a bear asieep heside the remnants | of a seal and closed in upon him. | The Chukchi, trying to get ahead of the Eskimos, showed great daring.| Two of them dashed in to close quar- | ters to engage the hear, who, finding himself surrounded, showed his teeth, | and, lunging forward with angry growls, struck at his assailants with The next day we organized another | bear hunt, thix time a foint one of | nuk past the hear his murderous claws. At this objec- for a| tionable behavior on the part of Nas UTEe | nook his attackers fell back in dis- may. Indeed, the hunting party was thrown into such a state of disorgins ization that Mr. Bear seized the op- portunity to turn on his heals and make off at a smart trot. Befors the hunters had pulled themselves to- gether sufficfently to give chase he had got enough momentum to bring him headforemost into open water unscathed. He unwisely came to the surface within 10 yards of the side of the ship and a walrus-hide noosa was thrown by the upand-coming Putunuk deftly over his head. And now appeared as unusual a sight, probably, as the his- tory of polar bear hunting has to re- cord. Nanook fought desperately with the line, which was paid ont to him somewhat to ease the strain. A small floe was handy. He made for it, and, climbing upon it, deliber- ately turned his head, gnawed savage- in the kill. Soon all hands are hauling | |y ut the 1ine and si-ceeded in oo, ing it. le then flopped off and dived below the wurfuce of the water. But a large floe burred Lis way, and he had to climb on it and cross it Here 1 obtained my great picture of a hand-to-hand fight with a polar bear. Putunuk had landed on the upposite side of the flos and came, spear in hand, over a ridge just as the bear passed within 10 feet of him. He raised the shaft and hurled it like a lance behind the left shoulder of tha bear. So close, o sudden was the un expected encounter that a crv of alarm rose from everr man, whether Eskimo or Chukchl. The tremendous thrust earried Putn- and kept him ge the animal turn he e outstretched < 1o coma there ing till he somersault and on the ice. In 3 will be told in the izlaos of King Ts land the story of the might- Putunuk faced and killad a great Na- nook with no weapon hut a spear. This carcass I taok hack with me ta Nome, dressed and slung up on the rizging. As it was it tipped tha scales at 915 pounds, (Copsright 1925.) Gifts Which Reward Ball Players Who Make Good in the Big Leagues HE truth of the “unto him that hath shall be given" principle has been established countless times, but never more con vincingly than in the rewards for base ball that have become world heroes. Such men recelve financlal reward for merely participat ing In the annual base ball clagic of players series | Giants. matter | were superimposted crossed bats of brown flowers, to he presented to both McNeely and Jimmy O'Connell of the But the latter became in- volved in a scandal, and the plece, | which was almost as tall as a man, ample | was awarded to McNeely alone. "he vear that the Detroit team re- ceived its municipal floral tiger Hugh Jennings, its manager, received a gold 3ven the share of the members of the | watch, and Ty Cobb won a diamond losing large team s usually suffictently to double the average plaver salary. But the public. ever expres sive ‘of it sentiments, customarily acclaims i1« favorites by further riching them with gifts and presents |in_abundance. The list of things that have heen given pennant winners is almost with out limit. In includes everything from flowers to automobiles, from canes to Liberty bonds, and from such utllitarian affairs as watches and cuff buttons to such useless ornaments as sliver bats and golden halls. In many instances the testimonials have been an entire surprize to the person receiving them. while, on the en- | other hand, it is not Infrequent for the | honored player to know of the gift he |18 to recelve weeks in advance. Usua the hestowal i made hy =ome person M note whose carefully prepared ad dresx is unheard among the cheers of the fans, the congratulations of recipient’s comrades and the direc tlons of the cameramen taking photo. graphs of the event Iver since their mobiles have heen among popular presents for base ball luminaries. A partial list of those who have received machines includes Tris Speaker. now manager of Cleveland Indians; Larry Dovle, former captain of the New York Giants; Jake Stahl, manager of the Roston Box. who captured the championship of the world in 1912; Johnny Evers captain of the 1914 Boston Braves Doc_Johnson, one-time first baseman for Cleveland: Walter Johnson, Wash ington's premier pitcher for nearly two decades, and Roger Peckinpaugh, the Capital City's star shortstop. Most of these cars were gifts from the fans, but Dovie and Evers won theirs for being rated the invention, the anto- most the | » ‘» l the | Red | medal for being the leading batsman of the American league. Cobb was already a sta piayer and a hero in Detroit, although he failed to shine in the 1807 series. At the close of the pennant race he was showered with presents The one which he said “pleased him more than all the rest put together” was “two big red pomegranates in a neat box with a &pray of green leaves” from a Georgia friend. Detroit won the American Leagua pennant three vears in a row, start- ing with 1907. and each vear Cobb was the center of attraction. In 1908 he was again the premier hitter of the American League, a distinction which then carrfed with it a sflver loying eup. The same year Cobb received a big bat from his home. town folk in Georgia at the start of the serles. But the flall was looked upon as a “hoodoo,” and after a cou pie of Detroit defeats was banished from the bench. The year 1908 saw two material in- ventions oome into general use at the world series for the first time, and newspaper accounts of them seem al- together humorous from our present day viewpoint: “In keeping with the dignity of the out Ten of them were at the disposal of the team. “Look out for the moving pictures of the game. The manipuiators of the rapid firing gun caught Jennings in a fiary argument with Umpire Klem. The films will show both gesticulating wildly. Also note Jennings' florid i complexion, meaning anger.” most | valuable players to their respective | teams in the National League. Trix Speaker has received two ma- chines. In 1912, as a member of the Boston Red Sox, he was presented with a touring car that was up-to-date in every respect then, but whick would he regarded as a relic of antiquity now. After the presentation ceremony, about a dozen of “Spoke's’ teammates piled into the machine and drove about the field. A few years later Speaker trans ferred his allegiance to Cleveland, where he was made manager of the nine, and in 1920 piloted his team to victory in the American League. It was the first thine Cleveland had eve: obtained that distinction, with the re sult that the Ohio metropolis for a time forgot the sensational presiden ace between the two “native Harding and Cox, and centrated on the correct celebration of its highly prized base ball victory. Prior to the opening of the first game in Cleveland, Manager Speaker | and First Baseman Doc Johnson re- ceived automobiles. Speaker's car this time was a handsome, dark red, closed model. There were other presents for the Cleveland chieftain that day. Among them was a gold watch from an ad- mirer who was said to he witnessing his first big league ball & pair of platinum and dlamond cuff buttons. James Dunn, president of the Cleveland Club, likewise received a similar pair of cuff buttons. Hubbard City Tex., Speaker's birthplace, sent him several floral of- ferings. These, together with all the other flowers received by the indivi- dual players of the Cleveland team, were taken to the vault in Lake View Cemetery where the body of their former teammate, Ray Chap- man, lay. by a ball pitched by Carl Mays a short time before, and the members of the Cleveland nine wore mourn- ing bands on their sleeves honor throughout the serles. Ball players, like seafaring men, are noted for their superstitions. One of the diamond devotees’ tions {s that “there is enough bad luck in a floral wreath to sink a whole club in six inches of water,” yet flowers are one of the favorite gifta of the fans. Often the presents of this kind are quite distinctive af- fairs. The Detroit team has long been known as the Tigers, and when it ‘won the pennant in 1907 the city gave its champions a floral tiger at the first world series game. An Indian good luck cross of flowers was also presented the players at the same time. An unusual floral good luck omen was sent Manager Pat Moran of the Cincinnati Reds before the start of the “thrown” 1919 serfes. Tt con- sisted of a box full of “southern sham- rocks” or cotton balls from a Ten- nessee supporter. ‘Washington fans will recall the unique floral gift made Earl McNeely at the first game here last year. The Sacramento, Calif., Chamber of Com- merce had ordered a huge base ball of white chrysanthemums upon which bands! con- | gRame and | in his | pet supersti- | | Chapman had been killed | tions. Jewelry has also always been a pop. ular_present for ball plavers. Morde- cai Brown. star Chicago twirler back in 1907, received a diamond and gold scarfpin as a surprise from the fans prior to tha world series of that yea: George Stallings, the “miracle man who led the Boston Braves to a pen- nant and world champlonship tn 1914, recelved a diamond ring from the hand of the mayor of the Hub. A olden bat and a golden ball were be- stowed upon his players at the same time. Silver bats are not infrequent gifts. Tleinfe Wagner of the 1912 Boston Red Sox received one, as did “Goose™ Gos- lin, Washington slugger, last vear. The “Goose™ received his when he re. turned to his home town of Salem, N. J. and upset all precedents by knocking a home run immediately aft- erward. It has become so customa for plavers to acknowledge gifts by striking out that ft is almost consid- ered poor etiquette for them to do otherwise, Numerous cups have been awarded pennant winners. In 1906, when the , two Chicago teams won first place in their respective leagues, an organiza tion in the Windy City gave each nine | a loving cup. They were twins in| aize, design and workmanship and | were presented simultaneously with | diplomatic impartiality at the begin ning of the world serles. One of the most prized trophies re. | celved by the Washington Nationals last vear was a sflver urn from the boys at Walter Reed Hospital. The | urn was an exact reproduction of the | famous Paul Revere urn, now in the | Boston Museum, and bore the insc tion: “Our Champions, the Washin ton Base Ball Club. From Your Friends at Walter Roed General Hos pital, 1924 Among the more ball players are canes and Govern | ment bonds. In 1917 Benny Kauf of the New York Glants recelved a gold en-headed cane. and Al Jolson, the actor, offered a Liberty bond for every home run made during the series | “Happy" Felsh of Chicago won the | first_bond. | frequent. player who scored a’'run. In the first game Boston made but one run, and | Speaker registered that. | ington short fielder, who recelves : | popular with the fank. When “Raijah was captain of the New York Yankees in 1921 he received a chest of silver and last year hix friends and neigh | bore in Cleveland sent him a high | powered touring car. ican League in 1907, had a honor thrust upon him when a break fast food took his name. A test monial stating that Donovan had gain ed strength and pitching power hy package. The Tygers' manager. Hugh Jen that vear from David Bel atrical producer, wh) was wi the 0, to be called *“The Original Gingerfi | Man.” Mr. Belasco was quoted a A greater success than the ‘Ginger bread Man,’ and this man Jennings would not have to act the part, he | would simply live it.”" Latter-day difamond celebrities, not- ably Babe Ruth, have received and | accepted theatrical and film offers | They have also been asked to writa their impressions of the world series, and Christy Mathewson, Billy Lvans, Joe Wood. Tris Spe er, Walter John on and Stanley Harris are a few | the stars who have turned scribes, to their own financial enrichment and | the public's satistaction. Spectators at world usually consider that money to get thrills. As a rule they get thelr money’s worth, Lut just be fore the start of one of the 1919 games | In Cincinnati the stands had an | ed attraction in the way of thrills that took thefr breath away. For some time an airplane had been hov series games they pay their CAILLAUX IS OPPONENT OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE ONSIEUR CAILLAUX, why doesn't France give the women the vote?™ The finance minister, tanding at the head of the graceful staircase leading to the reception room of the Frenth embassy, and agreeably occupled with the thought that once more he was saying “au revoir” to the last of the horde of correspondents who &woop upon him at his nightly press receptions, looked startled at the question. It was so far wide of his previous cross-examina- But this interviewer, together with the rest of the press representa- tives, had been highly entertained and aggravatingly uninformed concerning the debt proceedings by M. Calllaux’s m rable conversational fencing. ow was the honorable moment to tackle hfm in private. on something on which he could express himself freely. He did. Not only freely, but surpris- ingly. At first the minister was quite caim about the question. “Ah,” he smiled brightly, “that you should ask some one who wants to give the women the vote, It was the interviewer's turn to be startled. “But you do, of course.” A politiclan in these days must be in fa- vor of woman suffrage! “No, no! I would mot give it to them. 1 won't give the women the vote. 1 won't.”” M. Caillaux, gestur- ing. bowing, shaking his very distin- guished, if very bald and rosy head, became characteristically excited and emphatic. “But don't the women in France want the vote? No. no, they dont. There has been no such agitation for woman suffrage in France as here and in England.” “Don’t they take any part in poli- tics at al?" “Well, they talk to their hus- M. Cafllaux smiled brightly 13 |and triumphantly, as if intimating that that was political influence enough for |any woman. His eyes flashed in sat faction, he straightened himself exag- geratedly, beaming. vote"—the minister paused, his eves opened wide, one finger on his lips and trim mustache, a typical gesture with him, and suddenly shot it forward to shake it at his questioner as he finish- ed his statement — “then they would vote twice, once themselves and once as they influence their husbands. No, I would not give them the vote.” The interviewer, weakened—as M. Calllaux must wickedly have meant her to be, by this homage to the power | of a woman's political influence with | the male members of her family—could not shake the finance minister from this position. He graciously and smil- Ingly reiterated it, until the pressure of another engagement caused him to bow in farewell. So we learned two things about the great finance minister. Holding the floor in the presence of a group, or talking informally with a fortunate in- terviewer, he is the same vivid, ani- mated, arresting personality. What- ever the quantity and quality of his audience, he is voluble, witty, startling. Never for an instant does he lose the attention of his listeners. Secondly, we learmed that M. Cafllaux Iumps woman suffrage with that other great American institution on which he has been called upon to express an opinion. Suffrage and prohibition, both, we may infer, are all right for some other country, not France. With which mental observation the walked thoughtfully out of the em- bassy into the darkness, thankful that suffrage invaded America before M. Caillaux. for with such a magnetic op- ponent the women of America might still be storming for the masculine right to ignore the responsibilities of the ballot box. “I say. if we give the women the | interviewer | unusual gifts to|George Offers much as Jolson's are fairly out the first ball In 1915 the Massachusetts|game. suffragists gave $10 to every Boston mained the persor testimonial this Fall, has always been | victorious | _“Wiid Bill” Donovan of the Detroit |a curtailed schec champions it was necessary to ride | Tygers, the best pitcher in the Amer.|was relatively to the ball park in automobiles. | novel | by saying at the time: “The play will he | 192 | usea | One | our inheritances | national & over the field, when suddenly a nan’” was seen to fall from it. He landed with a resounding thump be tween second and third base and policen n rushed out to his rescue The joke was on the crowd when the “man” turned out to be a dummy, but the crowd didn't relish that kind of a joke The day before the fans had a of a thrill when they Phillip Sousa duct the mu of the first ga Men of n always taken base ball strug Ade and Billy banquet of the plave Chicagn se 0 In 181 President flance, Mrs. ing in New Y. in the same grounds, greeable kind witnessed Johr noted band leader, con- prior the open! ime of the series prominence have interest in the Fall A typleal example n the presence of Sunday_ at during the al tions n Wilson and his who had been visit- City, stopped over in Philadelphia to see the second game of the series. The President insisted on paving for his tickets, and threw at the start of the oved the battle, but re- fication of neutral- ghout the contest thrillin ional pastime and naticnal history were He en ity thro Our ‘ stirring Rober Peckinpaugh, veteran Wash- |Lrought together by suggestion when, close of the 19 on Red S tendered a reception at he cradle of Americar Big league Luse ball gave way to the bigger game of war in 1918, when for the first time the world series plaved in ptember because { sle. General Interes lacking, as evidenced the attendance at the opening game, which was 13,000 less than the vear before. So complete! were the attentions of most of us taken up bv the war that a large portion of the at tie games, the X team w. aneuil Hal berty.” was eating this food appeared on each public failed to note. or has since fo gotten, that Babe Ruth was a pitche for Boston then and shut out Chicazo nings, also recefved a flattering offer (in the first batile After America had helped “put it ling to|over over there” hase hall again en | star him in a forthcoming production |grossed the Nation every Oct her. but that people are 11 mindful of their real base ball heroes was indicated in when, at the opening game at Polo Grounds, New York, the players of hoth teams marched to cen- ter field and there, bareheaded, placed a wreath on the monnment of Eddie Grant, Giant player, who sacrificed his \ife for his country. The Five-Pointed Star Eve of “ ity of fractions apparently have the voung and grown-ups of today. All primitive nations found fractions vers difficult, and even th ptians, wh were considered tl proficient methods that long and cumbersome. Finally standard use which prove fn the fractiv of these, the symbol of Apis, represented in pointed star. the remote antiq- had « the people dislike same as most were units came into at advantage stumbling-block numeral of ey p phics | This svmbol is one of from the past and today in the stars of our embiem. appears The numbe was another unit and was chosen as the standard unit hecause it contains so many small factors. This is the reason why it is | &till retained as a base in spite of the efforts made to replace it with the metric system, and it also is the origin of our modern “dazen.” 5 The Babylonians likewise mads use of the units 5 and 12 in their so- called sexagesimal system, in which §0 was made the base or standard unit. This unit is also of greater value because it can be subdivided to a much greater extent than 13 without employing common fractions, Thus 60 is another element of oun anclent heritage and appears todsy in our division of time into €0 min- utes and 60 seconds. lgil£ Wells.” i N the deserts of Western Australial there are sources of water supplw called water holes, usually found im the solid rock. Many of these holes are shaped like a carafe, with a nar~ row neck and wide cavify below, and some of them hold thousands ' of gallons of water. “There s a remarkable kind of Aus+ tralian w. hole, known_es .& “night well,” which is dry durthg the day, but filled with water at might. When with the darkness the water begins to flow persons near hy can hear the sound of rushing air. Ex- amination has been made of one of these wells in which the water gath- ered in a long, narrow trench. Near the hottom of it was found A hovi- zontal pit that separated a, thin layer of gneiss from the main mass,. It is believed that-in the daytime the high temperature causes the plate . of gnelss to expand in the form of an arch and that the water in the-trercl retreats into the cavity that is this formed. When at night the plate of gneiss contracts it forces first air and thea water into the trench.