GOING, GOING, GONE!
UNCLE SAM IN THE ROLE OF
AUCTIONEER.
Frequent Bargains Are Offered to
Washington People—White House
Carpets and Pure Food Law
Samples Principal Stock.
The number of going, going, gone
sales which the government con
—————-—-j (jnets ought to
i qualify Uncle Sam
for admission to
the guild of auc
/utir nm tioneers. T hose
U), j,, , VIAKV sales are the real
tiling, 100. red Hag
shock when he is
passing the back
p-1 of the Department
of Agriculture
building and see a
big red flag with the usual white letters
sewed on: "Auction To-day." He
wonders if the government is resort
ing to desperate means of raising the
wind.
But your Uncle Sam is not in the
auction business from necessity. The
agriculture sales are explained in this
way. Whenever an invoice of any ar
tii lr> of food arrives from abroad a
certain number of packages are taken
by.the government for examination to
see whether the article complies with
our food laws.
For instance olive oil, Maraschino
cherries, wine, sardines, mushrooms,
French peas, preserves and jams—in
fact all imported food articles —come
under this regulation. But though
the government requires half a dozen
packages to be turned over to it for in
spection—in order to avoid the chance
of a single one being fixed up and
slipped off upon them —the analysis
rarely goes beyond the contents of
one specimen out of six.
So that of each consignment of six
cans of oi!vo oil, six bottles of cher
ries or of champagne or six cans of
sardines five remain untouched. If
graft were really as prevalent as Hie
muck-rakers would have us believe
the entire six packages would prob
ably be opened and a nip taken from
each one while all the rest of the con
tents would be appropriated as a le
gitimate perquisite of office (by the
heads of the department).
Instead of that five out of six of the
articles received for analysis under
the law are sold at these auctions be
hind tUc department building. The
receipts go into the exchequer of the
bureau.
Any one can attend these sales and
buy, or at least bid on, the goods of
fered. But most or the patrons are the
clerks and employes of the depart
ment. The auctions are held at. noon,
so as to accommodate these people.
They take advantage of their lunch
hour to lay in some household sup
plies. They admit that sometimes
things bring the usual soaring auction
prices.
Next to foodstuffs. Uncle Sam's
auctions run chiefly to carpets. That
is. they do in Washington. Of course
In New York the biggest auction sales
of the government are of goods seized
at the custom house. These involve
thousands of dollars' worth of goods
of every conceivable class, and are too
well known to need description.
It is the regular second-hand sales
which surprise the stranger in Wash
ington. These do not occur very oft
en. and yet every year there are sev
eral. They include carpets, curtains,
furniture, utensils and fittings of all
.kinds.
Ewry visitor to the White House
remembers the cheerful red carpet
with which the long east corridor is
laid. A new carpet goes down every
•other year, and the old one is cut into
lengths, which are rolled up and auc
tioned off, as the children say, "sight
unseen."
This seems to be a rather shrewd
performance on the part, of Uncle
Sam. It is related by those who know
that more than one woman has wept
• copiously when she got her White
House carpet home and unrolled it.
The unceasing tramp of a two years'
grist of tourists wears a carpet till it
takes a good guesser to decide what
its color and pattern were or whether
it ever had any at all.
The carpets of the senate and the
house of representatives are auctioned
off at the close of each congress and
are said to bring all they are worth
and more too. Like tho White House
carpets they are divided into quanti
ties more adapted to private needs
than the hundreds of yards required
for the two chambers at the capitol.
There is another annual sale con
ducted by the government. The ac
cumulated packages which find repose
at the dead letter office go under the
hammer once a year to clear the way
for the incoming tide of the next 12
months. At these sales everything is
carefully catalogued and all broken
or defective articles are so declared.
Even then a purchaser is always forth
coming.
Accusation a New One.
Secretary William Loeb, who car
ries as many official secrets under a
tall silk hat as any other man in
Washington, walked back to the White
House offices the other day smiling
in spite of the fact thai he had been
visiting the dentist.
"You must have had a good time,"
-Aas suggested to him.
"The dentist told me 1 kept my
moutn open too wide," said the faith
ful secretary, "and I told him it was
the first tine I had ever been accused
of it."
UNUSUAL NAMES ON SIGNS.
Many to Bs Seen in the National Cap
ital and Elsewhere.
"Some day, when 1 get time," saM
Representative Ryan, of Buffalo, re
cent ly as he seated himself in a com
fortable chair in the Republican cloifk
room and applied a light to a long
black cigar, "I intend to write a mag
azine article or something on busi
ness and professional signs."
Mr. Ryan said that the jotting down
of odd and unusual names he beheld
on signs had become quite a fad with
him
"Frequently," he continued, "the
names on the doors of business places
are exceedingly appropriate, and then,
again, they are quite the reverse. For
instance, I have often noticed on my
way to the capitol the sign of a to
bacconist. It is Plugge. Another
speaking sign is that of Needle, a
tailor. Daly & Knightly, on another
street, announce that they are en
gaged in the business of plumbing.
Yet in spite of their implied willing
ness to attend to the wants of their
customers at all hours, I understand
that their establishment is closed
promptly at six o'clock every evening.
"Barnwell Robinson is a veterinary
surgeon, and his- name should appeal
to the owners of live stock. There is a
tailor on a side street by the name of
Makeover. A man by the name of
Garden is a tlorist, and 1 have been
told of a saloon over in Fast Wash
ington conducted by a man named
Booze, a very appropriate name. Re
minds me of a similar, place in my
town ot Buffalo kept by a German
named Sauerwein! But I never could
understand why two of my constitu
ents at. home. Drink wine and Munim,
by name, formed a partnership and
opened a tonsorial parlor instead of a
sample room. Overlurf would seem
to be a very appropriate name for a
real estate dealer, and a gentleman
of that name in Buffalo appears to be
doing a thriving business in that line.
"When Representative Steele, of
the Hoosier state, was defeated
for re-election he formed a law
partnership with a man named
Robb. Of course, there is noth
ing in a name, but —er —Robb &
Steele does not seem to have exactly
the proper sound for a firm of at
torneys! And 1 don't know that an
other sign, 'Chew, Chew, Chew, At
torneys at Law,' sounds much better.
When 1 get the time I shall prepare a
brochure on this subject. In the mean
time, I should like to know how the
firm of Irish & English, in Buffalo,
got mixed up: English is Irish, and
Irish is English! The matter would
almost seem to warrant a diplomatic
inquiry."
Congressional Bell Signals.
On the floor of the house the door
keeper has bis desk and it is here that
the bells ate struck that give notice
of the needs of congress. One bell
calls for tellers, when the house is in
committee ot" the whole; two bells
indicate a call for yea and nay; three,
declare a recess; with four bells tho
red light over tho door goes out; five
bells mean a "call of the house" under
which the sergeant-at-arms is sup
posed to summarily arrest any mem
ber on sight and bring him in, wheth
er on foot or horseback; any member
who is not present at a call of the
house is subjected to a severe repri
mand.
Looking down the corridor, the
going out of the red light gives a curi
ous suggestion of the tail end of a
passenger train dashing through a
tunnel. While the red light burns
bright and clear it means that con
gress is under way, but when the
lfjcht winks and goes out, then the
visitors understand that the wheels of
legislation have ceased to revolve.—
National Magazine.
No Pockets in His Garments.
The story of "A Man Without a
Country" is familiar to almost every
schoolboy, yet i« many ways an
idiosyncrasy of tin employe of the gov
ernment printing office at Washington
"takes the cake" when considering the
fixed habits of the male gender. The
peculiarity of this man—and he is old
enough to lie a grandfather—is that ho
has not had a pocket in any of his gar
ments for 20 years. And thereby
hangs a tale:
Twenty years ago a young man was
wearing an expensive overcoat for the
first time on the streets of Kansas
City. He was also smoking a pipe.
Invited into a friend's house, the pipe
disappeared into a pocket, of the over
coat, and half an hour afterward the
coat was a smoldering ruin. The young
man swore a fearful oath that thence
forth he would not have a pocket in
bis garments, and he iias kept his vow.
Verging into old age, yet his tailor is
instructed not to place a pocket in
emit, vest or trousers.
Show Sights and Celebrities.
"Did you ever notice," asked the
visitor to Washington, "that this is the
city where every one is always point
ing out something? Whenever you
take a walk with a resident or a
friend who knows the place and the
people it is a constant identification of
persons or places.
" 'That's So and So, the senator
from X,' your friend will tell you.
"Then he'll indicate to you a su
preme court justice or some other
celebrity what time he isn't pointing
out houses and buildings of impor
tance. Almost every one down there
docs that mechanically. It's the great
pointing out place.'
Assistant Secretary Leaves Capital.
Alvey A. Adee, second assistant sec
retary ol' state, lias left Washington
on bis annual bicycle tour of Europe.
Mr. Adee is expected to be away from
the state department for two months.
MAKES FOR SAFETY
TELEMETER OF GREAT VALUE TO
RAILROADS.
New Device Is Expected Materially to
Reduce Accidents on the Rail—
Is Attachable to Present
Telegraph Wires.
HEN I hey want the
/T/f .. ope rat or, they
I \Y\ want him quickly.
I\| \IJ If he can't be
\ y * v/ reached It means
\ •/V / a disastrous
\ I wreck and loss of
\ 1 life," observed an
inventor. "But
—— (o witli the teleme-
V, ter any point can
be reached on a
—.„ gj&'.ijj railway system.
If the operator
—cannot be got by
wire, then a sig
' nal can be thrown
by tiie dispatcher to hold up any train
at any point."
He was talking about a device which
Is being experimented with on a
section of the Boston & Maine rail
road. It had been mentioned that In
one year 6,000 rear and front end rail
way collisions had occurred In the
United States. The killed and in
jured had numbered in these disasters
11,000 passengers and 48,000 em
ployes. and the property loss had been
$10,000,000.
Some of the greatest wrecks of
America have been due to the inabil
ity of a train dispatcher to get the op
erator at a given point. Perhaps he
was absent somewhere in the station
yard on the company's business. For
a country operator is generally station
agent, freight agent and baggagenias
ter combined. Or he may have been
asleep. At any rate he couldn't, lie
raised and the train dispatcher had to
stand helplessly by knowing that a
train laden with passengers was rush
ing to destruction.
That is where the telemeter would
do the trick, according to the invent
or. It wouldn't make any difference
should the operator be absent from his
post. If he were within hearing he
would be summoned by a goug. The
same would wake him were he asleep.
Should ho bo out of earshot and the
train dispatcher did not receive a re
sponse to his call, signal could be
shown by the dispatcher at the point
received by the simple process of
pressing a key.
For instance, suppose a telemeter
were attached to a telegraph line be
tween Boston and Portland, Me. The
operator would be able to, call any sta
tion without disturbing any other sta
tion. This system is so organized
that it may be quickly applied to line
without modification of the existing
apparatus.
If a train were to pass a given point
between these two stations and it
was necessary to catch that train at
tiie next station to prevent a collision
with another—that is where the tele
meter would be a godsend. Perhaps
the operator at the station the train
dispatcher would try to reach could
not be got. No answer came to bis
frantic call.
I? the train passed that point there
must be a wreck. After the dispatcher
tfijl tried to get the operator and re
ceived no answer to his signals, lie
would then press his keys to throw the
semaphore, and the colored light sig
nal which would bring the train to a
standstill at that station.
What telegraphers say is the beauty
of this contrivance is that the dis
patcher can call any station on the
system, and over a single line, with
out disturbing in the least the ordi
nary business or working of the tele
graph. The telemeter is simple in con
struction, is attachable to the present
telegraph wires, and requires no addi
tional wire whatever. Furthermore,
it does not interfere with the usual
telegraph instruments in actual opera
tion, and enables the dispatcher to
place himself into immediate commu
nication with any operator on his line.
The telemeter seems to be human,
only more unerring. For after the
dispatcher has failed to raise the op
erator by sounding the call and then
the gong, he sets the signal for the
train to stop. Immediately there
comes to him a response automat
ically, telling whether the signal has
acted or not.
It enables the dispatcher to sot and
display any semaphore or light on his
line from his own office. And it re
turns information as to whether that
particular semaphore or light lias been
set. No operator on the line can tam
per with It in any way, so that false
signals cannot be shown.
There is also an attachment in con
nection with the instrument which
is calculated to prevent delays anil
blockades of trains where freights in
isolated sidetracks cannot be reached
with orders. For these attachments,
placed in small boxes at every siding,
can be used by the conductors of such
trains to report their whereabouts. By
a code of signals they can be notified
whether to stop or proceed. The con
ductors do not require to know teleg
raphy. They have only to ring in
the simplest signals.
Building Twelve-Mile Tunnel.
A 12-mile tunnel under the Cas
cade mountains is what the Great
Northern Railroad Company is now
building, according to a statement
made by a man who has returned
from the hills. He states that two
> large camps are in the vicinity of
Leavenworth developing electric pow
er for J. J. Hill's line.
FOR THE RAILWAY BEAUTIFUL
Good Progress Being Made on Most ol
the American Lines.
Much is hoard—not too much—about
the house beautiful and the city beau
tiful, but what about the railway beau
tiful? Sylvester Baxter discusses it
interestingly in the Century Magazine.
With the aiil of a profusion of magnifi
cent illustrations ho makes an im
pressive appeal for the beaulification
of the American railway.
To Germany he awards the palm for
this sort of work. The way stations
are artistically designed, the terminal
stations are monumental and imposing,
and the railroad grounds are every
where decked out with flowers and
shrubbery. The way stations in Eng
land, he says, are without archi
tectural pretensions, prosaic and com
monplace and disfigured witli adver
tisements, though there is an attrac
tive neatness displayed along the way
side as well as at the stations.
Mr. Baxter's treatment of the rail
way beautiful In the United States is
optimistic. He takes pleasure in show
ing the immense improvement that has
taken place in late years and that is
now in progress. He spreads before
his readers a series of charming views
of particular way stations east and
west, and makes It perfectly plain
that before a great while this country,
despite its immense spaces and dis
tances, will be the real home of the
railway beautiful.
Nowhere is this improvement more
visible than in the suburbs of Chicago.
Thirty years ago any shanty was good
enough for the suburbanites, but now
many of them take their trains from
buildings and grounds that would be
a credit to any park and that are not
often surpassed in any country of
Europe. There is a good deal to be
desired yet, but the actual improve
ment is remarkable.
Mr. Baxter has not much to say
about terminal stations except to de
scribe the new union station in Wash
ington as the grandest In the world.
But he might have said, also, that
there are some great terminal stations
in this country and that others are
projected, in Chicago and New York,
which will leave very little to be de
sired in that lino.
The day will come when the railway
beautiful will moan the whole railway,
from end to end. There is no reason
why positive ugliness should not be
banished from every railroad track,
and much of it give place to neatness
and even beauty.—Chicago Record-
Herald.
As to the Speed Mania.
In demanding to be carried In the>
shortest possible time between, say,
New York and Chicago, do travelers
relinquish their right to the exercise
of due caution by the carrying corpo
ration? Even if they choose to so
relinquish, is the company justified
in neglecting properly to guard them
against the fatal effect of their own
inclinations? A man is forcibly re
strained from committing suicide
when the attempt is discovered in
time. The railroad officials say they
are using the best machinery and the
most perfect type of equipment and
are constantly trying to secure the
most complete safeguards against ac
cident. But, meantime, the proportion
of fatal accidents, when compared to
numbers of people carried, increases.
Official statistics have shown that the
ratio of passengers killed to those
carried is nearly six times greater
here than in Great Britain. The rail
roads in Groat Brit" *n have faster
trains than ours, but the accidents are
far less.
British Trainmen's Pay Small.
British railroads increased their
gross receipts by $18,500,000 in 1907,
but the holders of ordinary stock re
ceived $595,000 less in dividends than
the previous year. Neither do the
employes fare so well as in the United
States. The latest issue of the Rail
way News, London, contains statistics
showing that the expenses of the 28
leading railroads rose $16,900,000,
which nullified the greater gross rev
enue. Compensation of employes re
quired but $145,440,000, as compared
with $1,043,401,267 paid to railroad em
ployes in the United States for the
corresponding period. In America the
employes receive 41.6 per cent, of the
operating receipts, while in Britain
they get but 26.8.
Railroad Built on Ice.
The most curious railroad in the
world is built on ice. It is laid be
tween Cronstadt and Oranienbaum,
and is in use only during the winter.
Its success has suggested the con
struction of a similar winter railway
between the two important commer
cial centers, Krementchug and Ekat
arinoslav, which are united in summer
by the steamboat traffic along the
Dnieper river. This means of com*
municatlon is closed in winter by the
ice. A costly, roundabout journey has
to be made between the two towns,
though they do not lie far apart.
Southern Railroad Expansion.
Texas has for some years led all the
states in railway mileage, having at
present a total of 18,021 miles, a round
thousand in excess of Illinois, Missis
sippi and Tennessee. Florida and
Arkansas have each a greater mile
age than North Dakota, where con
struction has been pushed within the
last decade, Railway expansion in the
south is keeping pace with, if it is not
forging ahead of, industrial develop
ment.
Of Peculiar Construction.
A railway through tho mountains
north of the Adriatic sea, constructed
by the Austrian government to build
up the trade of Trieste, though only
130 miles long, lias 679 bridges and
viaducts. It also runs through 49 tun
uela.
.JPORTINO
(iOSSIP
Dirl iho baths at Hot Springs weak
en the Tiger pitchers? Larry Lajoie
says they did, and gives that as the
reason (lie two veterans who have
worked, Siever and Muliin, did not dis
play the form usual for them in the
spring. Larry gives his explanation of
the lack of speed and points to the
Cleevland pitchers of last year as an
example. "The baths at Hot Springs
weaken one after taking them," de
clared the Cleveland leader to M. W.
Bengay of Detroit. "For the average
man who does not have to indulge in
athletics the effects wear off in a few
weeks, but for the ball player who
must be on edge it takes longer. Es
pecially is this so of the pitchers.
They don't gain the strength in their
arms they should have until the sea
son is a month old. Last year the De
troit pitchers were down there, you
say. They were, but they went earlier
and had plenty of games in the south
before coming north to work. That
made a difference. We sent our pitch
ers to Hot Springs last year. Addle
Joss was the only man who didn't go,
and he was the man who was in the
best shape. The baths are probably
good if you have time to recover from
them before starting into work in
league games. Muliin is usually sent
against us for the early games, and
I've never seen him with less speed.'
The Tiger pitchers were at Hot
Springs for about three weeks, and
this year, owing to extremely rainy
weather and delays, they have worked
in very few games. There may not be
anything to Lajoie's argument, but it
Is interesting, nevertheless. It is true
lhat the Nap pitchers who were at the
springs last year did not do as good at
the start of the season as those who
did not have that trip to make. "We
did not send a man to the springs this
year," continued Larry, "and we came
north with our pitching staff in better
shape than I have ever seen it."
Statistics show that shortstops last
longer than other infielder3, and yet
it. is always said second base, for in
stance, is easier to play than short.
There are more veterans playing short
than any other infield position. Dah
len of the Boston Nationals, Wallace
of the St. Louis Browns, and George
Davis, who until this year played in
the short field, are veterans in the
game, and no other infield position
can claim men of as much experience.
Good shortstops are scarce, and when
a club gets a suitable man it usually
SOS BY~ WA
.
keeps him as long as he can play any
sort of ball, because it is hard to find
a youngster who can take his place.
Of all ' ■ Inftelders the game has ever
producv.i, John McPhee, who a few
years ago quit the game, has the
greatest record. He played 19 seasons
on the Cincinnati team at second base,
and for 17 years wore a glove. He was
playing as good ball as he ever did
when he quit, but found it a hardship
to get himself in condition in tlie
spring. Baseball men claittv there is a
scarcity of catchers now. Fewer good
backstops are being developed and
more pitchers than guardians of any
other position. This no doubt because
the boy, when lie starts to play ball,
soon finds out that catching is not an
easy job.
Monte Cross, manager of the Kan
sas City club and formerly with the
Philadelphia Athletics, when asked
for his opinion on the American
league race, said: "I pick the Chi
cago White Sox to land the pennant
this season, with the New York Amer
icans a close second. The Detroit
Tigers and St. Louis will fight it out
for third place. The Browns are ex
ceedingly fast and will cause all the
clubs a lot of trouble."
Cross thinks the Athletics will not
figure largely in the race. He is
pleased with his berth at Kansas City
and says if he can ever get his club
to playing the inside ball he tells
them to, Kansas City easily will win
out.
Connie Mack is thinking of buying
a uniform and appearing on the coach
line for the rest of the season. Connie
has not fully decided to leave the
ranks of the bench warmers, but the
players are urging him to make the
move, as Jennings, McGraw, McAleer
and other famous non-combatants help
win games on their teanis by their en
couragement in the coachers' box.
MACK FORTUNATE
PICKING NEW MEN
MANAGER OF ATHLETICS A WON.
DER IN DIGGING UP BUSH
LEAGUE PHENOMS.
IS DISCOVERER OF DYGERT
Nick Carter, ftitcher, One of the Latest
Sensations of Philadelphia Amer
ican Leaguers—Connie Evidently
Able to Secure Man He Wants
When He Needs Him.
Connie Mack is a 'sure enough win
ner.
When it comes to digging up bush
league phenoms, you must hand the
hero medal to Connie.
When Mack needs a man to
strengthen his team, it seems he
knows just where to get. him and nine
times out of ten he delivers.
Connie Mack discovered .Jimmy Dy
-1 gert in the Hudson River league and
sent him to New Orleans for a year's
seasoning before bringing him into the
big league.
"Jack" Coombs was discovered by
the old fox in the wilds of Maine.
Jack's home is in Kennebunk, Me.,
wherever that happens to be, and the
only pitching he had ever doue be
fore joining Mack was for Colby uni
versity.
When Monte Cross showed: that he
was about ready to drop out of the
majors, Mack started to hunt around
for a shortstop. He secured Nlcholls
from the Southern league, carried him
a year and then made him a regular,
allowing Cross to become a minor
league manager.
When Rube Waddell was sold by
Mack to the St. Louis team, critics
all over the country figured that the
pitching staff of the Athletics would
be weak. The slim manager evi
dently knew what he was doing
when he made the sale for the Ath
letics look better than ever. Ths
team is playing fine ball, harmony
reigns supreme and the pitchers aro
working better than ever.
Mack figured that "Rube" Vickera
was due to deliver this year, and it
looks as if the dope is right. "Rube"
has been showing up in great form
and gives every indication of becom
ing a regular. Bender, Plank and
Dygert are slowly rounding into
shape and several of the heaving re
cruits look mighty classy.
The latest Mack find is Pitcher
Nick Carter, no relation to the fam
ous dime novel detective. The mem
bers of the Phillies, however, ar>>
willing to testify that his assortment
of curves is more perplexing than
any case the original Nick eve
worked on. Carter was used in the
first game of the city series at Phila
delphia and made good with a ven
geance. The Phillies were shut out,
getting only two hits, the first one
in* the seventh inning.
Nick Carter is a big husky chap
and has great speed, good curves
and an excellent spitter. lie was
with Syracuse in the New York State
league last year and his work made
a big hit with the tall manager of
the Athletics. Mack evidently kept
him under cover in the south, for he
received less advance notices than
any of Mack's twirlers. Carter, how
ever, made good right off the reel
with a vengeance and now he has all
the fans in quiet Philly whispering
his name.
It is true that the other managers
pick up star players in the different
leagues, but no manager manages to
get players as cheaply a,s Mack and
sign them to as small salaries. It
seems as if Mack had scouts every
where, for he picks up stars that no
other manager ever heard of.
Catcher Smith, who received Car
ter in his debut game, is said to be
a great catcher. He was dug up by
Mack in the Southern league and is
an improvement over Milte Powers.
PITTSBURG TO TAX PIRATES
City May Impose Assessment of $75
Per Game.
Mayor George W. Guthrie of Pitts
burg, Pa., has refused to accept an an
nual pass from the Pittsburg Baseball
cb'ib and refused to allow any of the
city employes to take a pass.
As a peculiar coincident to his ac
tion Common Councilman Hugh Fer
guson at a meeting of that body intro
duced an ordinance which provides
that for all professional baseball
games played within ths city limits a
tax of $75 shall be paid. Inasmuch as
the Pittsburg team plays TO games at
home, this means that the Pittsburg
Baseball club will have to pay a total
of $5,250 for the season if the or
dinance passes. Up to the present
time it has paid $l5O a year and the
city of Allegheny, 112 here the games
are played did nut make any special
effort to collect, as each councilman
was provided with a pass.
This year, because of the consolida
tion of the two cities, the games are
being played in Pittsburg. Barney
Dreyfuss, president f>f the Pittsburg
club, did not send passes to the coun
cilman of the greater city for the sea
son. In a statement he issued re
cently, in refusing to issue passes,
Drey fuss said:
"The club must adhere to the policy
it has mapped out or close its game."
Wiggs a Contract Jwmper.
Jimmy Wiggs, the former Detroit
pitcher, has been refused reinstate
ment by the national commission and
has been proclaimed a coutrao
jumper.