The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 9, 1920, Page 13

re ” Geallle No. 124 BASEBALL AT SEABECK ehfidren were to bave a whole week at Seabeck, and every day to be perfect must have at least one story, You know how much more fun it is to have somebody tell you a story when she can say, “Right here on this very rock they laid the little boy who was nearly drowned,” or something like that. So David and Peggy wanted all the Hoods Canal stories they could get, while they were right there to see the places where the stories happened. One afternoon they carried off & story teller who had been a boy | tm the Hoods Canal country about 50 years ago. “Tell you what we used to play?” he replied to a request from David, “We played pretty much what boys play now, I ex- pect. “The Seabeck boys had an aw- ful time trying to play baseball, tho, because there wasn't a spot of cleared level ground big enough to make a diamond, “At Seattle, Port Gamble, Sno-) homish, and some. other little places there were baseball clubs. and Seabeck got jts club, all right. but the hoya had no ground to Practice on. “So they thought they would make a place. “And the owner of the big mill at Seabeck ran a big sawdust cart the mill to a little swamp the cart ran, dumping the saw- dust in the swamp, week after week, month after month, for three years, and then the ground was ready, “And after all that work, when the boys played on it they found it was too small, and they lost all their balls in the logs and stumps which came #0 close around it, and they had to give it up. “Then the mil owner tried clearing land on the side of the hill, “So they cut trees and blasted out the stumps, and dug away the underbrush and smoothed over the ground, and then they played ball in, “But that place woukin't do, either, for the hill was so steep at when a ball went outside the co, it went plump into a yard way, Way down the hill, and #0 many balls did go down the hilt and have to be brought back, they gave that place up, too, “But after four years of trying they at last did get a place to have a real game. It was a match game and two real steamboats brought crowds from Snohomish and Port Gamble. “And I'll tell you something funny, One of the boys who played in that match game fs a great man now-—so great a man that he is Dean of the Law Sch: a mile away, between the/ - i If Mr. Owl is hungry, dear what he'll do.” what can we do?” asked anxiously. I don’t know,” panted ‘You'll just have to go up can't go with you, be- I—I'm very busy downstairs But everybody knew that if had lived downstairs, lunchie’s work would have kept hi him sbout 10 stories high. So Oliver Oriole and the twins climbed at once to the next floor in MapleTree Flats, where Oscar lived, and knocked gently. They thought it best to find out first, if | Tingaling were really there, before | Planning his rescue. | When the knock came Oscar Ow! jumped in surprise. He wasn't ex-/ pecting callers and he wondered who in the world it could be, so he peeped out cautiously. “How-do-youdo?” said Nick bold ly. “We came to see if you know | anything about Mr. Tingaling, the) thought he Oscar opened the door wider when | he heard that. “You may come ir and look for him if you wish,” he) saide graciously, “but I don't think you'll find bim.” | The twins weren't so sure about that. They had noticed a tassel (the one on Tingaling’s night-cap) stick ing out of the corner of Oscar's mouth. (Copyright, 1920, N. E. A.) BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Unc’ Billy Possum Gives Warning 6 'HAT’S the matter with you, Une’ Billy? You look as it you had lost your last friend.” It Was Jimmy Skunk who spoke. Unc’ Billy Possum stopped short. | He had been hurrying so fast that he hadn't seen Jimmy Skunk at a “Matter enuff, sah! Matter enuf: said Unc’ Billy Possum when he) could get his breath. “Do you hear) that noise?” | “Sure, I hear that noise. That's only Bowser the Hound chasing Old| Granny Fox. When she gets tired) she'll lose him,” replied Jimmy | Skunk. “What ars you worrying} about Bowser the Hound for?” “Bowser the Hound will have to| be smarter than he is now before he can worry me, Ah reckon,” said Unc’ Billy Possum scornfully. “It isn’t Bowser the Hound; it’s Farmer Brown's Boy and his gun!” Then Unc’ Billy told Jimmy Skunk how he had been hiding in the woodpile at Farmer Brown's and had heard Farmer Brown's Boy say that he ‘was going to hunt oter the Green Meadows and thru the Green Forest until he got Reddy Fox. “What of it?" azked Jimmy Skunk. “If he gets Reddy Fox so much the better. Reddy always did make trou- ble for other people. I don't see what you're worrying about Reddy Fox for. He's big enough to take care of himself.” “Yo' cert'nly are plumb slow in yo’ wits this morning, Jimmy Skunk; yo’ cert'nly are plumb slow! Suppos- ing yo’ should meet up with Farmer Brown's Boy with that gun in his hands, and supposing he had grown tired of watching fo’ Reddy Fox. That gun might go off, Jimmy Skunk. It might go off when it was pointing right straight at yo'!” said Une’ Billy Possum, They don’t seem to think anything about the feelings of those likely to get hurt when the gun goes off. What was you thinking of doing, Une’ Billy?” “Just passing the word along 80) everybody in the Green Meadows and in the Green Forest will keep out 6f the way of Farmer Brown's Boy,” | replied Une’ Billy Possum. | “Good idea, Une’ Billy! I'l help| you,” said Jimmy Skunk, So Unc’ Billy Possum went one way and Jirimy Skunk went another | way. And every one they told hur- ried to tell some one else. Mappy “Matter enuff, sah! Matter enuff!” | Jack Squirrel told Chatterer the Red Say, WELEM, When AND WHERE ARG WE Gone ON "MIS VATION P / Seaecn Me! SAN TOM, WHEN AND WHER VACAT G0 Asx, Tom! MOM ARE WE GONE OW THIS litany a _nibtindctamag Int JUST CR To LEARN TO SWINS FULLY! Art Nehf, rated as one of the greatest southpaws in the National league, made his first big league ap pearance under Johnny Evers, when the Crab was managing the Cubs. That is, he made his appearance in| the ball park, but never played a game there. He reported in the morning and was released in the af ternoon. Evers told him that he would never make @ big league ball player. Squirrel. Chatterer_ told striped Chipmunk, Striped Chipmunk told Danny Meadow Mouse, Danny Mead ow Mouse told Johnny Chuck, John. | ny Chuck told Peter Rabbit, Peter Rabbit told Jumper the Hare, Jump- er the Hare Prickly Porky told Bobby Coon, Bob-| by Coon told Billy Mink, Billy Mink told Little Joe Otter, Little Joe Otter | told Jerry Muskrat, and Jerry Musk rat told Grandfather Frog. And everybody hastened to hide from Farmer Brown's Boy and his ferribie gun, Jimmy Skunk looked serious. “That's #0, Unc’ Billy, that’s so!" he gaid, “Boys with guns do get dread. { fully careless, dreadfully careless, By and by Farmer Brown's Boy noticed how still it was in the Green Forest, Nowhere did he see or hear @ bird) Nowhere could he catch a told Prickly Porky, |. When Johnny was captaining the Braves, and Nehf was purchased by that club, Manager Stallings intro: duced the latter, to Evers “So I told you that 5 ks @ big leaguer, eh? quoth ‘awn, “It's no wonder Charley Murphy tled fhe can to me.” Annan u'd never | glimpse of anything which wore fur. “That fox must have scared away all the other animals and dr awny all the birds, I'll get him See if I muttered Farmer Brown's Boy, and never once guesyed don’ that they were hiding from him, Next story: Old ‘Granny Fox Makes @ Mistake, WONDER - UP? GET IT's TOO C-C-COLD - Swit STANDIN' UNDER THE WATER, GET Frank Bowen of the Reading In- ternational league nine whose home run clout hes attracted the major league managers is 25 years of age, bats left led and throws right handed. He isn first baseman and is over 6 feet high. oe and’ oaramen at the Olympic the Brussel’s maratiine canal will Include B, Hardfield, single sculler, the Diamond * in the Royal Engilsh Henly re- aon the Thames, ee f Magyar Athletic associa out this country will am eland on Labor Day for thelr annual track and field sports, oe ‘Ty Cobb is handicapped somewhat by injuries In his sixteenth consec- utive year asa member of the Detroit nine in the American league. oe Toston and district soccer football sea- on Will begin September 4 eee Canada will not enter the eleht-oared WHY MASK MEN MAKE BEST PILOTS Ray Schalk, premier catcher of the White Sox, tells why catchers make good managers. “It's ike this,” Ray Said. “The catcher ix back there running the game, calling for certain forms of pitching and generally looking after things. ‘The whole playing field ts in front of him and he can see what is going on all the time, | “You know a catcher has to hold |up his pitcher, watch all the base runners, call for the kind of a pitch that will best fool the batsman and ome in such manner that the bats man will have to play in the hands of the fielders. “T suppose this training to do sev eral things at once sharpens A catch- er's senses #0 when he becomes a manager he is all trained to take in the entire field at a glance, How: ever, I have no ambition to become a manager.” Joint holder of the 100 and 220 yard jash records haa retired. cee America han won six straight Olympte track and field sports since 1896 renewal, see Ruffalo and Los Angeles want ‘the 1921 national rowing champlonshipa, | White Sox ahut ow SAY Tom, ARE WE GOING ON A ? VACATION TRIP OF ARE We WHERE wiht IT BE ano wned? | WANT To DECIDE RIGHT NOW! WELL STICK YOUR HEAD UNDER QUICK, AN’ YOU WON'T FEEL SO COLD! delivered all kin triple Ehmke held the Yankees to three hits, Detroit, took the last game of the 1 too, Ty ¢ double and a 4 pitch by Collins gave the Tigers ir lone tally. a pitchers’ The clinched Pennock. pn. 2 to 0 Felech's homer battle between Kerr a The Athletics Caldwell/ and Kame, 5 to 0. lo to solve took the ‘The Pirates dropped to fourth mace when Wheat on a wild pitch in the ninth, and broke a 1-to-1 the between Pittsburg and Brooklyn, Young contributed » single, double and home run in three trips to the plate to the Giants’ T-to-1 victory over Chicago, Columbia Colo—The new American beer—at Boldt's.—Advertisement, HERE’S WHAT PITCHERS CAN’T DO Here are the things a pitcher must ‘not do under the rules as they have been amended for 1920: He must not rub the ball in the soil, He must not discolor it with licorice, paraffin or other foreign substance. 4 Hé must not expectorate upon it. He must not roughen the surface with sandpaper, emery paper or other hard substance. He will not even be permitted to bound it to an infielder in order that the cover may be slightly abraided. No other player is permitted to commit any of the above offenses and then toss the ball to the pitcher for delivery. If the pitcher delivers the ball to the batter after this is done he is arbitrarily suspended for 10 days. ‘The correct position for the pitcher to assume when he receives the ball for delivery is to stand on the plate, holding the ball in front of him, with both hands. He cannot take either hand from the ball unless he is in- tending to throw it to first base or deliver it to the batter. If he drops the ball in the act of Weu,1F You Caal'y Thi OF | BETTER Pace WE CAN, | MAUNG A JOKE PLAY RUGBY The igh schools of San will not give up rugby football the American game during the ing fall season. The board of cation of San Francisco has rulé that the high schools of the Gate city must continue to x rugby and not switch to the can game, However, many of the around the bay have forsaken rugtt for the American game and of course, not be governed by dictates of the San Francisco Since the University of Califor and Stanford went batk to th American game of football many ¢ the high schools in California hay followed suit, and it is expected tha rugby will die in the high schools ¢ San Francisco, as it has done & many other localities in California although the passing is expected t uch slower than it was in er cit! id towns, ‘ @elivering it to the batter it de) balk. The latter now makes the bal rule uniform 4n both major leaguer It had not been so previously, “Columbia Colo")