New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1915, Page 9

«lasting six months and A catcher and a pitcher have a set )f signals. There is a sign for a curve, other sign for a fast ball, etc. Now, the catcher signs for a fast ball {| (which is supposed to be practically a 'etraixht ball), and the pitcher mis- takes the sign to call for a curve and "nchaq that, why is it that the back- either gets the ball on his ‘“‘meat h “—which 'is’ baseball for, bare hand-—or it hits him in the shn, reast protector or some other unex- i%ected, spot? The worst sin a baseball pitcher can ommit i{s to *“cross his catcher’— d him a fast ene when he is ex- _pecting a curve, or vice-versa. Why remember a time when I first start- "ea ¥ pitch big league ball when I got ixed up on the sigus. I don’'t re- /member just who my catcher was 5 'that day, but I think it was Charley | Dooin. | "He stooped and gave me a sign that . I thought called for a curve ball There was a man on first base and a dangerous battér at the plate. I started one for the batter’s head and it bent over th plate beautifully—but Dooin’s glove wasn’'t -anywhere near " the ball- In fact, he was holding his ‘)itove up back of tne batter’s neck, ere the ball started for. It hit < @mrley on the ‘“meat hand,” and shot " past him to the grand stand. He ‘chased it fast, and the runner only advanced to second. . o Heads up.” shouted Dooin to me took his place behind the plate in. That meant to wntch his signs i ittle closer. Then he gave 'me hat I took to he the sign for a fas I 1, and I put all the smoke I coul the one I put over. It was a beauty, chest high with a zip to it ' that caused the batter to swing under it. Charley had his ‘love down to his ees; when' he saw that ball coming E< waggered around a bit like a blind man who instinctively knows that ' gomething is approaching, and the pill hit him on the breast. protector. Luckily, it dropped in front of him, . he was able to pick it up and w it to third base before the run- per could advance " Then hé' walked it to me. “golh, ‘Alex, what're you trying to o; kill me-" Charley whispered in i~ar; and_he was mad clear :thl:t'hilh, too. I asked you for a fast jone and you handed me a curve, Then " 1 signed for a curve and you dished ip'a fast one; ‘Can't you see ny ‘signs or are you trying to. cross me-" “We got ‘together and I discovered 4!* ‘I had twisted the signs in my ‘We will ‘suppose for example, at one finger extended means 4 rve and two fingers extended a fast | Weéil, T had it just the opposite, h&t is. w‘hy I'had Dobln up in the d. might have killed him and Jost the ball me if we had not traightened it out "right there. ‘I tell the above story to prove, to way, of thinking, that there posi- is a curve ball. The scientist (gree with me that if a curve ball ;m..‘ an optical illusion Dooin and I would not have found it necessary to v‘hm signs. | A sign cannot produce f ‘an optical illusion—at least, it can't P produce the thing for fthe pitcher, L her, batter and all the spectators, ‘the fans can see a ball curve, too. backstop might slip’' me the sign r a fast ball an entire afternoon, d if his eves happened to be in a d see them 'all bend ver the plate, and he'd be dancing ound like a wild man and ehulng ifive ‘out of every six, because he’d miss them: sure. A The fact remains that the success- ful big league pitcher shoots up a fast | one when the catcher orders that kind . of.a ball and bends a curve over when # catcher wants that. And they go ough that performance an entire ime, and many games, with a single _misunderstanding. _But the batter; what about him? He L 't know whether the twirler is ,fi:: to hand him a curve or a fast w But if it is a curve when he essed it would be a fast one youwll gee him reaching out for it after he "'E' - \, - Away With CHA,RTrap-Door . 2 Union . - Suits! ®CGISTERED 4 7 HE commion or trap-door variety of Union Suit is a bifurcated botch. You tried it once, only to vow. “Never Again!” - Rockinchair Union Suits are ‘cut just like your trous- ers. . They open on the out- side of the leg, with two but- _gurve mood he’ MARK tons in plain sight and mstant reach. . % No flap, no fuss, no fum- " blm z——no vinding, no bother other Umon ‘Suits like | he'll win hands down. ome—over the heart - And if it's straight, he ave been looking for a curve, jave reached over too soon and then is compelled to jump back to save himself from being hit. And the spectatrs, how about them Some are sitting back of the home plate, some back of the first baseman, some back of the third baseman, some back of the left fielder, some back of the right fielder (in many parks), and others back of the center fielder. Now the good curve ball pitcher can shoot up a ball that wiil ‘bénd a fgot over the plate, starting for the bat- ter’s head and ending'12 inches from his body and parallet to his belt line. Suppose we admit that the_pitcher, the catcher, the batter, the ra.ns back of the home plate ‘and the bleacher- 1 jtes behind the center fielder are vic- tims of optical illusions- But they are the only ones on what the scientists call the “parabola.” Why do the per- sons in other sections of the field see the ball curve in exacty the same di- rection? T’ll tell you—it s because the ball does curve. Otherwise, it seems to me, ‘there would be some sort of reverse optical illusion which even a scientist would find it difficult to explain. The scientist mentions that one time a pitcher, on the eleventh attempt, pitched a ball that went on the west side of a two-inch stake, on ‘the east side of a five-inch fruit tree and on .the west side of an inch rake-shaft. H says the experiment should not be denied or understand. But I shall do just that. TIn fact, it can’t be cone except by trickery. The pitcher doesn’t live who can pitch an in-and-out z:gzag ball such as has been described. And it must be admitted that we have some clever pitchers in the game today.: A man, by using emery or saliva on the ball and getting a lot of speed on it, might cause a ball to jump in two directions, but that would be luck, more or less. He couldn’t tell just how or why it ‘was going to go to the right and then to the left. The ordinary curve ball goes in one direction and only one. However I have tried to tell you in a plain way that I know there is such a thing as a baseball curve. If I have not succeeded in killing the scientist argument, and any person still be- Heves it is an optical {llusion, I suggest that he ask a catcher who has been “crossed” by his pitcher; some of the good batsmen, such as Ty Cobb and Gavvy Cravath, or some of the fans who watch their favorite flinger when his curve ball is acting right and then again when the, ball won’t bend. Now for just one more—and this conclusive—argument against the op- tical illusion theory. I have gone to the pitehing mound on certain days when I knew my ' 'curye ball. was breaking sharp, and whenever 1 want- ed it to break.: The opposing batsmen. couldn’t touch me- On several such occasions I just missed realizing an ambition of mine, a x(d-mt game. Then again, I have, tried to pitch when' I couldn’t get the ball to curve a fraction of an mch It may have been that my arm was too tired or weak to get the proper. speed and WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT’ England, in Three Replies, Holds She Is Within Interna- tional Law in Her Interference With Neutral Commerce for Germany, Washington, Aug. 4.—Great Brit- ain’s replies to the latest American representations against interferences with neutral commerce reject entirely the contention that the Orders in Council are illegal and justly the British course as being wholly within international law. “Unsustainable either in point of law or upon principles of international equity,” is the British reply to the American protest against the blockade of neutral ports, with an invitation to submit to international arbitration -any cases in: which the United States is dissatisfied with the action of Brit- ish prize courts. Great Britain’s reply embodied in two notes on supplemental, was made public here tonight and in London simultaneously by agreement between the two governments. With the notes was made public also the correspond- ence over the American steamer Neches, seized by the British while enroute from Rotterdam to the United States with goods of German origin. All the correspondence aggregates seven thousand words. twist of the wrist behind my pitches, or the atmosphere may -‘have had 'something to do with it- All I know is that the ball -would not bend for me. Now I knew my catcher knew, and, worst of all the batter knew, that my curve ball was not working for me. There was no chance for ‘optical illu- sion. It was a dead ° open-and-shut proposition, just the same as you read this and are confident that you see what you read. ‘Finally, friends, we’d be glad to have an audience when ithe scientist hides behind a telegraph pole and Prove to him tiat we can curve a ball around it an¢ hit him.. If he can spring optical .Uvsion on us after that demonstration of a réal curve ball But I'll risk a month’s salary that he’'ll go to the hospita! for repairs ana quit calling a curve ball an optical 1llusion. Irthave Ssome more arguments, and in another story I will try to tell you now we pitch a curve, and what, to our un- scientific way of thinking, causes the ball to curve. K. OF C. ADDRESSED BY PAPAL DELEGATE ok ‘Archbishop Bonzano Urges Them to Fight Cause of Right Against Socialism, Seattle, Wash., © Aug. 4.—A public reception td Archbishop John Bonza- no, papal delegate to the United States marked the Knights of Columbus an- nual gathering last night. Later a formal ball in honor of the supreme officers and delegates took place. Nearly 5,000 visitors have regis- tered at Knights of Columbus hall, and those who are not members of the supreme council are kept busy .with excursions and receptions. The apostolic delegate addressed the delegates at the first business session, on loyalty .and cosmopolitanism, urging the members or the order to emulate the knights of old in stand- ing for the right under all circum- stances, ‘““Combat racial distrust and racial division,” he said, “foster the spirit of solidarity, the spirit of brotherhood. Ey this the weak are strengthened and the strong encouraged to greater efforts. “Afm to destroy those evils that threaten modern soclety. How nobly and well have you fought the cause “of right against sociallsm. ~Against this and its associate evils go forward to doang die.” “h - sinking -of the Lusitania, Claim Conditionis Changed. Changed conditions of warfare, the Eritish note contends, require a new application of the principles of inter- nationa):law. The advent of the sub- marine, the airship and the. alleged atrocities. by . German troops in Bel- gium recited as justification for the exercise of extreme measures. The blockade is justified on the contention that the university recognized funda- mental principle of a blockade is that a belligerent is entitled to cut off “by effective ‘means /the seaborne com- merce of his. enemy.” The note reiterates that Great Brit- ain will continue ta apply the orders complained of, although not without every effort to aveid embarrassment to neutrals and observes that the American statistics show ‘that any loss in trade with Germany and Austria has been moére than averbalanced by the increase of other industrial activ- ities due to the war. § In the general reply to the Amer- ican representations against the Or- ders in Council, Sir Bdward Grey, the foreign minister, addressing Ambas- sador Page, begins by expressing the hope that he may be able to convince the administratian in Washington “that the measures we have an- nounced are not only reasonable and necéssary in themselves, but consti- tuté no more than an adaptation of the old principles of blockade to the peculiar circumstances with which we are canfronted.” ‘I need scarcely dwell,” wrote Sir Edward, i‘on the,.obligations incum- bent Upon ‘the, Allles to take every step in their power to overcome their common enemy in view of the shock- ing violation of the recognized rules and principles of civilized warfare of which he has been guilty during the present struggle.” Sir Edward then refers to atro- cities in Belgium, poisoning of wells in German Southwest Africa, use of poisonous gases against the Allied troops in Flanders and finally the to ‘show “how indispensable is . that we should leave unused mno justifiable méthod of defending ourselves.” Right of Belligerent. Coming down to the question of the Allied blockade of neutral ports the note continues: “In the various notes which I have received from your excellency, the right of a belligerent to establish a blockade of the enemy ports is admit- ted, a right which has obviously no value save insofar as is given power to a belligerent to cut off the sea borne exports and imports of his en- emy. The contention which I under- stand the United States government now puts forward is that if a bellig- erent is so chmcumstanced that his commerge can pass through adjacent neutral ports as easily as through ports in his own territory, his oppo- nent has no right to interfere and must restrict his measures of block- ade in such a manner as to leave such avenues of commerce still open to his adversary. This is a conten- tion which .his majesty's government feel unable to accept and which seems to them unsustainable either in point of law or upon principles of international equity.” “They are unable to admit that a belligerent violates any fundamental principle of international law by ap- plying a blockade in such a way as to cut off the enemy’s commerce with foreign countries through neutral ports, and if circumstances’ render such an application of the principles of blockade the only means of making it effective. United States, indeed, intimates readiness to take into account ‘the 8reat changes which have accurred in the conditions and means of naval warfare since the rules hitherto gov- erning legal blockade were formulat- ed’ and recognizes that the form of close blockade with its cardon of ships in the immediate offing of the block- aded ports is no longer practicable in the face of an enemy possessing the means and opportunity to make an effective defense by the use of sub- marines, mines ‘and air-craft. The only question, then, which can arise, in regard to the measures resorted to for the purpose of carrying out a blockade upon these extended lines is, whethér, to use your excellency's it words, they ‘conform to the spirit and | principles of the essence of the rules of war’ and we shall be content to apply this test to the action which we have taken insofar as it has necessi- tated interference with neutral com- merce.” Civil War Blockade. The government of the ! its | American Civil war blockade. of 3,000 miles of coast with a small number of | vessels, and recalls haw the Unijtea States finally took recourse to block- ading “neighboring neutral territory which afforded convenient from which contraband could be in- | traduced into Confederate territory and from which blockade running | could be faciliated. “Your excellency will no doubt re- | member,” wrote, Sir Edward, “how in order to meet this new difficulty, ! the old principles relating to cantra- band end blockade were developed‘ and the doctrine of continuous voy- age was applied and. enforced, under which goods destined for the enemy territory were intercepted before they reached the neutral ports from which they were to be re-exported. “The difficulties which imposéd up- | on the United States the necessity of | re-shaping some of the old rules are1 | somewhat akin to those with -which the Allies are now faced .in dealmg‘ with the trade of their enemy. Ad- | jacent to Germany are various neu- | tral countries which afford her con- | venlent opportunities for carrying on | her trade with foreign countries. Her own territories ae covered by a net- work of railways and waterways which enable her commerce to pass as conveniently through ports in such neutral countries as through her own. A blockade limited to enemy - ports ‘would leavé opea, routes hy which every kind of German commerce could pass almost as easily as through | the ports in her own territory. “Rotterdam is indeed the nearest outlet for some of the industrial dis- tricts of Germany. * * * It seems accordingly that if it be recognized that ‘a blockade is in certain cases the appropriate method ‘'of intercept- ing the trade of an enemy country and if the blockade can only become effective by extending it .to enemy | rommerce passing through ' neutral f ports, such an extension is defensi- | ble and in accordance with principles which have met with general accept- ance.” | | Seizure Was Sustained. The note then refers (o the case of the British ship Springbok, seized | by United States cruisers during the Civil War while bound for the Brit- ish West Indies, because her cargo, it was charged, was to be trans-shipped to the Confederate states. The su- preme court of the United States sus- tained the seizure against the con- demnation of a group of prominent | international lawyers, ‘although the United States and British govern- ments took the broader view ‘and rec- ognized the development of the old- er method of blockade. No protest was made by Great Britain. “What is really important, general interest,” says the note, ‘is that adaptations of the old rules should not be made unless they are | consistent with the general principle | upon which an admitted belligerent right is based. It is also essential that all unnecessary injury to neu- trals should be avoided. With these conditions it may be safely affirmed that the steps we are-taking to inter- cept commodities on their way to and from Germany fully comply. We are interfering with no goods with which we should not be entitled to interfere by blockade if the geographical posi- tion‘and the conditions of Germany at present were such that her commerce passed through her awn ports. We are taking the utmost possible care not to interfere with commerce gen- uinely destined for or proceeding from neutral countries. Further- more, we have tempered the severity with which aur measures might press upon neutrals by not applying the rule which was invariable in the old form of blockade that ships and goods on their way to or from the blockaded area are liable to condem- nation.” Thé note then reviews to some length the various forms in which blockades have been maintained to show there has been mno uniformity of practice in very essential points, and declares: “The one principal which is fun- damental and has obtained universal recognition, is that by means of a blockade a belligerent is entitled to cut off by effective means the sea borne commerce of his enemy.” N Impossible To Limit Right. Cansequently, Sir Edward argues it is impossible to maintain that the right of a belligerent to intercept the commerce of his enemy can be limit- ed in the way suggested by the American notes on the subject. “There are many cases,” he says, “in which proofs that the goods were enemy property would affard strong evidence that they were of enemy origin or enemy destination, and it is only in such cases that we are de- taining them. Where proof of enemy ownership would afford no evidence of such origin or destination we are not in the practice of detaining the | goods.” Sir Edward’s note closes with the ! observation that “Figures of recent months show that the increased op- portunities afforded by the war for American commerce have more than compensated for the loss of the Ger- man and Austrian markets. * * * We shall continue to apply these measures with every desire to occa- ! sion the least possible amount of in- convenience to persons engaged 6 in legitimate commerce."” In the supplemental note, which is a reply to the American caveat giv- ing notice that the United States | Would not recognize the Orders in Council in lieu of international law, Sir Edward writes he does ‘“‘not un- | derstand to what divergence of views in the centers | public tions. that the principles applied by i and is, therefore, not binding "Eahfiunent ot ths Unlu& m refer, for I am not aware of any dif- ferences existing between the ' two || countries as to the principles of law applicable in ° cases before such courts.” Sir Edward compares the rules governing. British prize courts to the rules applied by American courts, re- ferring especialy to the American case of the Amy Warwick before the United States supreme court where it was held that “prize courts are sub- ject to the instructions of their own sovereign. In ‘the absence of such instructions their- jurisdiction and rules of decision are to be ascertained by reference to the known powers of such tribunals and the principles by which they are governed under the law and the practice of na- It would appear therefore the prize courts of the two countries are | identical.” Prize Court Practical. The supplemental note then pro- | ceeds with a long legal argument to demonstrate the practicability of a prize court being governed by inter- national law and at the same time by municipal law in the form of orders in council. It finally comes to the case of the steamer Zamora in the present war, in which the British court declared: “The nations of the world need not be apprehensive that orders in council will emanate from the government of this country in such violation of the acknowledged laws of nations that it | is conceivable that our prize tribun- als, holding the law of nations in re- verence, would feel called upon to dis- regard and refuse obedlence to the provisions of such orders.” Sir Edward then points out that the legality of the Orders in Council or of the measures taken under them have not yet been brought to a deci- sion in a prize court, but he reminds the United States that “it is open to | any United States citizen whose claim is before the prize court to contend | that any Order in Council which may affect his claim is inconsistent with the principles of international law upon the court. If the prize court de- clines ta accept his contentions and if, after such a decision has been upheld upon appeal by the judicial commit- tee of his majesty’s privy council, the governmetn of the United States con- sider that there is serious ground for holding that the decision is incorrect and infringes the rights of their citi- zens, it is open to them to claim that it should be subjected to review by an international tribunal.” The celebrated Matamoros cases of the Civil War then are cited to show that the supreme court of the United States held it had the right to re- verse the decisions of prize courts and “that there was no doubt of the jurisdiction of an international tri- bunal te review the decisions of the prize courts of the United States, where the parties alleging themselves aggrieved had prosecuted their ap- peals to the court of last resort.” If the United States should be dis- satisfied with decisions of British prize courts sustained by the privy council the British government is prepared to concert with the United States “in order to decide upon the best way of applying the principle to the situation which would then have arisen.” Case of Steamer Neches. To the American note in the case of the steamer Neches, which sum- marily demanded the expeditious re- lease of the American owned goods detained under the Orders in Council ‘* the international invalidity which the government of the United States regards plainly illustrated by the present ‘instance” Great Britain re- plied that ‘“while these acts of the German government continue (Sink- ing neutral as well as British mer- chant ships irrespective of destination or origin of cargo and without proper regard fo safety of passenges or crews), if seems neither reasonable nor just that his majesty’s govern- ment should be pressed to abandon the rights claimed in the British note and to allow goods from Germany to pass freely through waters effectively patrolled by British ships of war.” Great Britain offers, however, to make a special examination in the Neches case if hardship had been in- flicted. The British reply, in short, is a declination to allow free passage to goods originating in Germany or in'a territory under German control. The geneal cargo of the Neches originated in Belgium. Published In London Today, London, Aug. 4.—The recent diplo- matic correspondence between Lon- don and Washington concerning, de- lays to American commerce and Great Britain’s orders in council was pub- lished here this morning. The foreign office explains that all phases of the controversy between the United States and Great Britain, except with regard to cotton, are covered in the British notes and that when a decision is ar- rived at on the cotton situation, it is probable that a note on this subject will be sent: to Washington. No question at the present time is giving the government here more vex- atious moments than cotton. The gov- ernment already has indicated that its decision not to treat the staple as contraband is not irrevocable, but it is not yet canvinced that the pro- posed alternatives might not cause more trouble and friction than the present system of detaining cotton whic his suspected of having an enemy country for its destination. The correspondence concerning the seizure of the American steamer Neches, while bound from Rotterdam to the United States with a cargo of Belgian and German goods already has been followed by positive results, as several of the consignments orig- inating in Belgium which were aboard that steamer have been re- leased and handed over to the Amer- ican claimants. Official circles here are not optimis- tic that the British replies will end the shipping controversy, but it is felt that the negotiations will not came to Sir Edward Grey then refers to the ['us to the prlnciples of law applica- [ an impasse, as the government has 367-369 MAIN STREET SPECIALS for THURSDAY and LARGE FRESH SHORE HADDOCK ... Ih FANCY WHITE HALIBUT STEAK 1b ] 9 L BLOCK ISLAND SWORD FISH .......Ib ) FRESH STEAK BLUE FISH < l LARGE CAPE BUTTER FISH . ... FRESH COD TH MOHICAN MARKET FRESH CAUGHT EELS . FANCY TINKER l 5 GEN‘TI'K‘F, GREEN MACKERFEL . nnrh [ BLUE FISH FANCY LEAN RUMP CORNED BEEF 1b FRESH CUT HAMBURG STEAK .....Ih1J CORNED SPARE RIBS ...............Ib"J MIXED FAT SALT PORK .............1b ] Best Cookil\g Very Fancy Meadow- Compound 2 Ibs 19¢ | vrook Cheese Ih l TUNA FISH, WET SHRIMP, HERRINGS, in Tomato Sauce ... 2 cans for LOBSTER and CRAB MEAT, Excellent for Salads. . WASHINGTON CRISPS 5¢c 4c ) .. Jarse pke .3 for o AMERICAN 8. in oil .... . 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