Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 22, 1917, Page 3

J. L. LATHROP & SONS _ 38 Shetucket Street Norwich, Conn. ‘5 the time to have us insure {flnunewl"nllltochmdob- tain * the pmtad.wn of our strong companies. ISAAC S. JONES insurance and Real Estats Agent Richarde’ Building 91 Main St. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW EDWIN W. HIGGINS Attorney-at-Law Corner Main and Shptucket Strests . Browu & Perkins, iimsp-al-law ' Qver Thames Nat. Bank, Shetucket St. 4 Entrance stairway near to Thames ! National Bank. ‘Tealephone 38-3 GAMES SCHEDULED TODAY. p National League. Boston_at St Louls. shington. Cleveland at Philadeiphis. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. National League. 8t. Leuls-Boston, rain and cold, two games Sun- American League. 8t Louis 6. (10 innings.) 1 355 Phillies 4, Chicago 2. Chicago, Sept. 21. — Philadelphia bunched its hits behind eorratic field- ing by Doyle and Pechous and won the first game of the series, 4 to 2 from Chicago. Score: Philadeiphia (N) Chicag ab hro s o al s Paskertt 4 2 3.0 O|Flackst 1 Bancroftes 2 1 5 3 1|Rilduff.ss 1 Stocksb 3 2 0 3 0Woiterir ] Cramath.et 4 2 0 0 5 Whittedt 4 0 0 0 2 Luderusid 4 111 1 1 3 4023 1 4061 2 3001 H 82 82718 s: GRAND CIRCUIT RACING Favorites Win in AH Four Events on Friday's Card at Columbus—Three Events Todayl, Columbus, O., Sept. 22—Four class events were raced this afternoon in the fifth day’s meeting of the Grand Circuit and in every event a favor- ite_was victor. The 2:04 pacérs were so outclassed by Butte Hale that he had to do none of his miles in better than 2:05 1-4 to win. Ima Jay also had an easy time win- ning the 2:12 trot in slow time, save for the mecond heat. Kelly De Forest walked away with the three year old trot and Uhlan Sim- mons had the speed of the party in the 2:12 pace. A card of three for Saturday. rages is scheduled OWNER OF KANSAS CITY FRANCHISE MAY SELL Denies However That Sale Has .Al- ready Been Made—Price a Secret. Chicago, Sept. 21—George Tebeau, owner of the Kansas City club of the American Association, denied tonight that he had sold his franchise . He said that he had set a price which Wwas apparently satisfactory to O. H. Van Laningham the prospective pur- chaser, and that he had agreed to meet him in Kansas City next Wednesday at which time the deal may be closed. E:b““t declined to say what price he s set. DELL-ANS Absolutely “Removes ndigestion. Onepackage =51t E5cat all druggists. WILLIAM YOUNG,R.N, Massage and General Nursing. Night or day calls. 38 Hickory St, Norwich. BYRON A. WIGHTMAN _ Piano Tuner Phone 595-3 3 Fairmount Street The Best Place is the Cheapest Place to Buy #£U7D ROBES WAGON‘ HARNESSES RUBBER BOOTS CTEAMER RUGS CARRIAGES SOME SECOND-HAND TEAM HARNESS IN STOCK THE L. L. CHAPMAN CO. & BATH STREET. NORWICH, c'r] J'e . " Cincinnati, Sept. 21.—The National Baseball Co n today gave out the following notice in regard to the world's championship series: “The official scorers will be G. G. T. Spink of the Sporting News, appointed by the national commission, and one member of the Baseball Writers’ As- sociation of America, to be selected by the local branch in eash city repre- sented in the series. -Fach scorer ap- pointed by the Baseball Writers' As- sociation shall serve only in the city of the branch of the Baseball Writers’ Assoclation which selects him and will be compensated for such service only.” The national commission, its busi- ness representatives, umpire: clal scorers and respective owners of the contesting clubs, will meet in Chi- cago on Saturday, October 6, at 10 a. m., when and where special instruc- tions will be given to officlals and club owners. The following players and none oth- er will be eligible to participate in these games: Chicago American League club: G. H. Rowland, manager. Joe Benz, R. Byrne, E. Collins, John Colllns, E. V. Cicotte, D. Danforth, U. Faber, G. Felsch, A. Gandil, R. Hasbrook, J. Jackson, J. .Jenkins, T. Jourdan, H. Liebold, B. Lynn, E. Murphy, R. Mc. Mullin, C. Risberg, A. E. Russell, R. Schalk, George Weaver, C. Williams, M. Wolfgang, and W. Gleason (coach New Ycrk National League club: John J. McGraw, manager. Fred An- derson, J. G. Benton, A. W. Baird, Ji Georp; J. Burns, Al Demaree, Arthur Fletcher, George Gibson, Walter Holke, C. L. Herzog, Bennie Kauff, John Lobert, Lewis G. McCarty, J. J. Mur- ray, John J. Onslow, W. D. Perritt, David Robertson, Willlam A. Rariden, James L. Smith, R. H. Sallee, Fred M. Schupe, Charles Tesreau, James ‘Thorpe, Joseph Wilhoit and Henry Zimmerman. CHICAGO CAPTURES THE AMERICAN LEAGUE PENNANT Cinched It by welflfl'fl Red Sox in a Ten Inning Gam: Boston, Sept. 21.—Chicago made its capture of the 1917 American League pennant a certainty today by defeat- ing Boston, its nearest rival, 2 to 1, In 10 innings. List of Eligible Players Annougced by National Commission— Special Mesting of Owners, Scorers and Umpires in Chicago Oct. 6—Grand Circuit Results. Loy —— Should Boston win all its re; twelve games, and Chicago lose all the eight contests scheduled for it, the fi- nal standing of the teams would show Chicago leading by half a game, as follows: Won Lost .. 97 57 .. 96 57 . The hitting of Catcher Ray Schalle was the bigest single factor in Chi- cago’s _final clinching of the flag and in assuring the west its first world's series since 1910. - Udban Faber of Chicago pitched perfect ball for six innings. Score: 5 8lonuirrmnond™ 2lacssconans ) T i iRl Ll ¥t B[ s s anknl @l oumonommyr, B wunuusgnnnd ol Seanrbamnme Bl dunsasdeinsd Yankees 9, St. Louis 0. New York, Sept. 21.—Hard hitting by the recruit outfielders of the New York Americans, Camp and Lamar, enabled New York to defeat St. Louis today, 9 to 6. . (Score: New York (A) Yol 3 Bl ennnnionsds T IIoreTyNorae onalinoruconl lococuamvns cccccoomre s 2! @) Score by innings: St Louts .. 0410 New York ARCLSIREE Two base hits, eckinpuugh, Maisel. Th base hit, Pratt. = Home run, Rumler. e 1—6 5 . Detroit 7, Wa: gton 1. ‘Washington, Sept. 21.—Detroit easily defeated Wgshiny today, 7 to 1. Harper was hit hard and was given poor support. Score: o MARKET WAS UNSETTLED. It Opened Strong, But a Reaotion Came Quickly. New York, Sept. 21—Following the lead of the copper shares, which were stimulated by the announcement that a price of 23 1-2_ cents for the metal had been agreed upon, the stock mar- ket at the opening today gave the best exhibition of strength of any time since the turn of the market came on _ Wednésday. Quotations were carried up rapidly with gains of 1 to 2 points for many shares in the first few minutes of trading. A reaction came quickly, however, and the market was depressed below yes- terday’s last figures. During the greater part of the session movements were narrow and irregular, but to- ward the close renewed strength ap- peared and ‘the advance was resumed Total sales were 665,- 000 shares. The price fixed for copper 33. re- garded as satisfactory, not only be- ause it put an end to fears of a se- vere scaling down in the quotation, but because of the favorable infer- ences which might be drawn in regard to the settlement of similar produc- ing questions. That the market did not show better sustaimed strength under the influence of the announce- energetically. 3% 100 sk 2% sk 20 . a8 144 % 5% 82 103% 3% i 103 15 4% 52% 523 283 6% 31 3% %0 110% 1834 1% 8434 13 8100 Cuba Cane Sug 200 Cuba Cane S pr 500 Del & Hudson . 10 Del Lack & W . 3400 Dist Securitles 1500 Erle 100 Erie 1st pr 10 F. M & 200 % “ 8100 Gen Mot Com 600 Goodrich B ¥ 500 Granby Ming Ins Agricult 1400 ¥nt Agricult pr 8400 Ins Copper . 100 Intcrboro Con 100 Intch Con pr 6000 Int Mer Mar . 1166 Int M Mar pr 100 Tnt 1000 Tnt 506 Int 108 £ 160 Kansas City So. 3860 Kennudotz 1890 Tack Steel 100 Lake E & 3500 L & Myers rts 3300 Louls &Nash. 400 Mackay Co pr 100 Maxwell M Co. 300 Maxwell M 1 pr 200 Maxwell M 2 pr 400 May Dept Store 15700 Mex Petrol 1300 Miami Copper 4100 Midvale Steel 100 3o. Kan & T 1400 Missourl Pacific 100 33% 63: < 10% 50% 9% 36 52% 4% 283 8134 ment probably was due to the fact that its effect was largely discounted by the recent rise. The continued ab- sence of outside interest, which even the marked change for the better -in the last few days has failed to stim- ulate to any appreciable extent, lim- ited the buying power of the market and made it sensitive to profit-taking sales. The coppers developed pronounced strength on_the late upturn, with a gain of 8 5-8 for Smelting. Steel shares also were active and strong. There were a few weak spots among the industrials, including motor and zinc shares. Ralilroads as_heretofore ‘were neglected. Canadian Pacific was heavy. There was an unusually active de- mand for Liberty bonds, which sold at a premium for the first time in months. The range. was 99.98 to 100.02. The general bond market was heavy, with further weakness in investment issues. Total sales (par value) $5,550,000. U. S. bonds were un- changed on cail. STOCKS. Sales. L) B m sme X —% 4 900 Allls Chalmers i 4500 Am 5500 Butte & Sup 100 Cal ePtroleum 300 Ccl Gas ~ &Hlec 200 Coat Ins Co. 3900 Corn Products 100 Com Prod pr 22600 Crucible Steel 100 Crucible Steel pr 100 2200 1300 100 500 N. 1300 900 6100 400 100 100 500 1100 100 3200 1300 200 290 100 100 100 800 200 100 100 200 200 300 200 2000 323 28 2 203 1% 53 Ohto Cities Gas OQutario Siiver Pan Am Pet pr Pen R R Peoples G & P Marquette Puila Co. Pitts Coal Pitts & W Va Plits & W Va pr Pond Cr Coal ex- iT% 7% 9315 52 65% 15% 35 Ry Steel Sp. Ray Con Cop 2600 Reading . 2500 Rep I & Steel 15300 Royal Dutch 500 Savage Arms 200 St. Louts & § 200 Seaboard A L 400 Sears Roebuck 600 Shattuck A C 3200 Sinclair Ol 300 South Pacific 1200 Southern Ry 169 Southern Ry pr 7200 Studebaker 100 Stutz Motor 2§60 Superfor Steel 100 Sup Steel 1 pr 500 Tean C_Chem 700 Texas Co. ex-dl. 2700 Tobacco Prod 100 Tran & W Steel 222500 1. 100 U. S. 3300 Utah Copper 500 Va Car Chem 00 Wabash .. 200 Wabash pr 500 Western Md . 300 West Union Tei. 1000 Westinghouse 100 West Mfg 1lst 600 Wilson _Co. 0W & L E 100W & L E pr 160 White ~Motors 2200 Willys Overland 100 Wisconsin Cen . Total sales 634,585 sha MONEY. * New York, Sept. 21—Call money steady; high 4; low 3 1-2; ruling rate | 4; closing bid 3 1-2; offered 4; last loan 4. q ¥ e ptial COTTON. New York, Sept. 31-—Cotton futures closed strong. October 2353; Decem- ber 2346; January 2830; March 235 May 2348. 3 Spot steady; middling 2470. CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET. i High low. Clos. 118% nry 118% L LS 171 0% 39% 59% 58% 57% - !f& a% e% 6o - = PACHING SOME OF THE 4,000,000 TESTAMENTS FOR THE SOLDIERS GO/ING TO mflgE” just signed contracts with responsible firms to produce these books. By this agreement the Bible society becomes responsible for furnishing million Testaments, the Y. M. C. A. for distributing them wisely. The picture shows one of the young women em- ployees of the Bible society packing Testaments ready for shipment to the boys in France. The American Bible society has is- sued since May 750,000 Bibles and single books in various forms and edi- tions for American soldiers and sail- ors it was announced. Its presses run- ning sixteen hours a day still cannot keep up with the demand. It has now agreed to furnish to the national war work council of the Y. M. C. A. 1000,- | 000 eighteen-cent Testaments and has 2 ..400201000-7 20000000101 Harper, Craft it as hard as possible ‘to tag them, is responsible for the growing practice of handicapping themselves at first base. Instinctively when a runner going to first sees the play will be close, he fnakes up his mind to slide the same as at any other base. It has cost many a runner a life which he might have gained by sprint- ing across the base at top speed. Many decisions at first are by the wink of an eyelash ,consequently the loss of a Detrolt .. Washington Boland and Stanage; and Ainsmith, Gharrity. Cleveland 5, Athletics 3. Philadelphia, Sept. 21--A batting ‘rally in the eighth at the expense of Schauer and Bush gave Cleveland_the victory over Philadelphia today, 5 to 3. Schduer was effective until the ecighth, when he was knocked off the irubber. Bush went in with one man out, two runs scored and Speaker on first base. Roth’s double, Harris' triple and an error by Shanrion sent in three more runs and won the game. Score: 00000005 0—3 Cleveland .. Philadelphia .001020000—3 and Billings; Morton, Coumbe Schauer, Bush and McAvoy. turn the scale. Also the umpire some- times is confused by the slide and makes the wrong decision because he expects the runner to flash past the bag instead of sliding. r—the Year’s Sensational Batter By Geo. Sisler Sisler is easily the batting sensa- tion of the year. We are used to Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker but when a young fellow on the Browns starts to burning up the circuit we all sit up and take notice. In the October Baseball Magazine the star first sacker makes a few sage comments as follows: Perhaps I am hitting just at present beyond my normal stride- but I hope not. I have always wanted to be a true three hundred hitter. I have even Giants 3, Pirates 1. Pittsburgh, Sept. 21. — New York moved nearer the National = League championship by defeating Pitts- burgh 3 to 1 today. Should New York win both games of tomorrow's double header, the championship wiil be se- cure even though the Philadelphia club wins all its remaining games. Manager Bezdek of the home team ‘was sent to the clubhouse in the sec- ond by Umpire Klem for disputing a decision on balls- and strikes. Score: e LB Pittsburgh o come a three fifty hitter. No doubt all batters who are a little new at the game, and who are lucky enough to ab hpooa ab Livo s e get away to a good start, have sim- it 50 gimens 4983 3 0filar ambitions and perhaps my own- 2 o ofMonwizib 3 011 o o|will fade away when the pace gets 4 1 ofmigbecic ™ 4 01 o ¢fhotter. But I repeat I hope not. nece 3 olcarey. At that, my record so_far, hasn't i 10 o ojrieaet® 4 8 11 9|been unalioyed good luck. Early in the Jecumy'e 3 1-gmferan 2 2 2 0 olseason I was going a good deal better, nton.p 3 oiSchmidt.c 1 5 4 0|1 suppose, than 1 have any right to ex- e O O O e & & § 3 Olpect when I sprained my thumb. At Totals |Saes™ 9 5 5 7 3lthe time as I remember it, I was lead- “Smith 0 0 0 0 0]ing the league. -Cobb hadn’t got start- <e = 53 o o led vet and Speaker, while traveling at e ey R was experiencing a little a fast clip, hard (x), Batted for Caton in 8th. (xx) Batied for Schmidt in 9th. (xxx) Ran for Flynn in 9th. (2) Batted for luck. Perhaps that . sprained course I might have slumped anyway. But for all that the thumb in itself kept me from hitting much above a hundred for a good long while. I was out ef the game only two days on account of the sprain but perhaps I would have been just as well off if I had stayed a little longer. 1 got back into the harness because the club needed me and because of a sprained thumb. But for all that the thumb hit, Bumns. MANY PLAYERS NOW SLIDE TO FIRST However They Lose a Fraction of a Second in Doing o that in Some small -part of a second is enough to |aVverage. indulged in the hope that I might be-{2s a normal human being. ~ But "1‘ thumb was only a good alibi for of jelsewhere but there is always room on READY WITH THE CORRECT NEWFELTHATS FOR FALL WEAR They are here in large assortments and include all the new autumn shapes anZ colors in a variety that will suit every taste and desire. Prices $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 Custom Made Clothes A wide range of patterns to select from, all wool and fit and workmanship guaranteed Bates-Street Shirts Just received our Fall line of this famous made Shirt in all good fast colors THE LIVE SHOP, 157 Main St. course I do not know that I could have been a successful short stop or sec- ond baseman even if I had been a right hander. But.the fact that I was not prevented me from even trying. to fill any other position save first base. That is the penalty that the left handed in- flelder pays for his physical deviation from the normal. Three out of four positions available are immediately shut off from his reach, I felt this handicap when I began to play regular baseball. but at the same time I noted that there were compen- sations. There usually are. If my port sideness kept me from trying for three out of four infield positions it made me all the better first baseman. For at the initial sack I consider that the left hander has a_slight but decisive ad- vantage over his right handed brother. Throwing as he does from the offside of his body, he can get a quicker throw to second or third and just as quick a delivery to home plate. This advantage slight to be sure, is nevertheless valua- ble and.should give the left hander a visible percentage in making double plays. The advantage of batting left handed is generally recognized. Most of the great hitters have schooled themselves to bat from the near side of the plate though they are left handed in no other respect. Obviously from this side the runner has a shorter distance to cover in reaching first and the difference, some three or four feet, is frequently enough to determine whether a batted ball shall be a safety or an out. Again, the left handed batter swings normally into his stride and should be in a po- sition to make a quicker get away to first than as though he batted from the opposite edge of the platter. bothered me. I couldn’t grip the bat at all well with that particular hand and I was also handicapped in flelding. Now, of course, my hands are in as good shape as anybody’s. I merely men- tion my own small accident to show how minor things may mar a batting Very likely more than one batting championship has been deter- mined by just such small details which were generally forgotten by the public long before the season came to a close, and made not the slightest appearance in the records. In fact batting is a rather odd thing at best and the part luck plays in a successful record is a big and ever varying quantity. And not the least evidence of luck is just such secondary injuries as I speak of, which prevent a man from doing his best work, but at the same time don’t loom up as important enough to cut much dash in the dope. One thing which has influenced my ball playing perhaps more than any other, is the fact that I am left handed. Now I am not a port sider in other ways. I'write with my right hand and do most other things in the same way baseball I am a true left hander, throw left handed bat left handed, in fact denend mainly on my left hand I grew into the habit when I first began to play baseball which was pret- ty early. Now of course it would be impossible for me to-change. At first, T never gave the matter much thought. It didn’t seem to me of any great im- portance which hand I used most, so long as I used it to advantage. But a moments thought will show that such was not the case. As a pitcher, true enough, it didn’t make any difference whether I was a left hander or not. The preference is given to right handers on the mound as What Russia Need: The dash and courage of the Bat- talion of Death indicates that one thing Russia needs is more women in the army and-fewer so-called men.— Indianapolis News. any club for a south paw who can win games. ‘When I began to play baseball in a small way I was a pitcher. I entered the Majors as a pitcher and_ have hurled a few games with the Browns But the management early decided they could use me to better advantage in a regular line up and then the fact Luxburg and Von Papen The Argentine statesman descri in Luxburg's note as a “notorious a may find .comfort in recalling Von P pen’s characterization of Americans as that I was left handed settled my posi tion for me beyond all argument. Of!“idiotic Yankees.”—New York Star. Cases Puts Them Out. Why does a baseball player slide to first base when trying to beat a close play? Because he thinks he can hit the bag quicker that way than by go- ing across standing up. That fallacy was exploded years ago by actual test, but the younger generation of players either has forgotten it or never knew it, and the practice of sliding to first base is growing with each new relay of recruits to the majors. Even some of the older players, who ought to know better, are catching the disease. “Way back before the present century began there was considerable agitation in favor of letting baserunners over- run second as well as first without in- curring llability to be put’out for it. the object was to increase base running by improving a man’s chances of steal- ing second. It was argued, and ac- tually demonstrated by stop watch tests, that a runner had to slow up a fraction of a second to make a slide either head first of feet first. The rea- son was pever clearly given, but some asserted it was because the runner had to break his stride to make the slide and others that he lost some of his bodily momentum. “Anyhow,” the tests showed the fastest possible way to get from one base to another was to stand up, run at top speed all the way, and over- run the bag. It was decided against permitting runners to do that in go- ing to second base because of the dif- ferent conditions. At first base it is not necessary to touch the runmer, but only to beat him to that cushion with the ball, while at the other three bases lit is necessary to, tag the runner as everyone knows. Under these conditions it readily is an advantage for a runner to slide 1 stead of going in standing up. Fre- quently when the ball beats a runner to second third or home he can avoid being touched by sliding away from the guardian of the base and making it necessary to tag his spikes or his shins, whereas if he went in standing up he would present a much larger tar- get for the baseman to touch. Consequently the movement to per- mit overrunning second base was side- tracked as a favor to foxy base-run- ners with the ability to slip around opponents_although at the cost of a fraction of a second In their speed. There is no such advantage in the slide to first basé, however, and the | The accompanying pictures show player who hits the dirt merely in- |the fortified island of Oskald, in the creases the chances of being beaten by | Baltic sea, one of the Russian fort- the ball. It is quite probable that'lresses which the German fleet will the players'‘habits of sliding to other |[have to subdue or capture, and the bases on all close plays, so as to make Aland islands, also in the Baltic, an i is theoretically strong. but is more than overmatched by the power which Germany could send against it, since the Kiel canal asseres Germany un- interrupted communication between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. important group held by the Russians. The latter are near the Swedish coast and it has been said that some Swedes consider their possession by Russia a mendce to the safety of their own country. Russia’s fleet in the Baltic