HAS PREHENSILE FEET “Back to Nature” Shoes Made Star Pitcher of Benton. , Success of New York Giants’ New Hurler Due to Discovery of Sane and Sensible Style of Foot: Gear While Working There was some question as to the status of Rube Benton, former Cin. cinnati pitcher, until it was finally decided that he was entitled to wear the uniform of a New York Giant. The pitching of Mr. Benton contin- | ues to be wonderful beyond all belief, gorgeous without a chance of rivalry. Game after game, without enough hits { off him to shake an ounce of dust out lof a carpet! According to cne of Mr. Benton's friends, the pitcher's success is due to his discovering a sane and sensible style of foot-gear. Down in No'th Calliny they say that | Rube has prehensile feet, and when he { was the terror of that region he worked in soft moccasins, enabling him to grip the siab with his hoofs, | { ball, Ordinary shoes hampered him: he { slid off the hill whenever he tried to i shut his toes, and so he wasn't show- ling his real versatility. | Mr. Benton's shoes are only leather Saler is the hard-hitting, smooth. He is rated as one of the most He is hitting well over the Weaver his position in the American league. runner better than the average. He is also a good hitter, and a base Previous to This Season It Was Cus tom of Opposing Managers to Send Weak Pitchers Against Him. the hardest year that Walter Johnson has had. There are seven clubs in the American league that are him this year. Wher Johnson was American league rolling over and play- ing dead for him. It was standing that when pitchers to oppose him. the Washington club got Johnson. It's another story now. The other seven clubs have learned -that John. son 18 beatable; that if one keeps his eyes open and his muscles taut he is likely to be able to whang the ball runs for Walter Johnson, back as fast as it comes up. To beat Johuson gives a club prestige. So the attitude of the seven managers has changed. They used to say when Johnson started pitching. “Well, here's a game gone.” Now thal send in their strongest pitchers and fight harder against Johnson than against any other pitcher. The Washington club finds it harder to make runs for Johnson than any other of its. pitchers, and the Kansas comet 1s learning that the iife of the conspicuous fs not always a happy one. Will Bear Watching. Ducky Headerson, pitcher of the : Charleston (W. Va.) team, pitched two , $ames the other day and shut the other fellows out without a hit in the first game and allowed only five hits in the second game, ‘Boy Pitches Remarkable Game. Pitcher Madeen Harris, nineteen % years old, of Dallas, Texas, struck out © 20 out of 29 batters to face him. He will be watched by the big league scouts for further records. Appearance of Annual Guide Sounds Doom cof Summer-—Rough Play is Eliminated From Game. Summer's doom is sounded, as it al ways has been for more years than Walter Camp cares to remember, hy the appearance of the annual football famous football alumnus. The book is full of new information, not the least of which is the codification of the rules for 1915 and the schedules of practically every school and college eleven in the country, As has been the case since 1905. when the first great reform wave struck football, the essence of most of the changes in the rules this season has to do with the elimination of rough play. Furthermore, the com- mittee has taken. a hall step in the direction of numbering all players on the fleld by recommending that num. bers be worn. The success which numbering players in college basket. ball games and in the few games in which numbers were used by football teams last fall has achieved. brought the rules committee around to the new way of thinking. The presence of a fleld judge on the gridiron has been made obliga tory This means that henceforth there will be three officials on the field of play and the head linesman on the sidelines. It is from the Hnesman Judge have been taken, being to leave the former free to ob serve the particular province of the game which he is detailed to watch, particularly offside play. Already some of the college squads have begun work, and more than one small boy has ushered in the season on the vacant lots with bangs and bruise® SPORT NOW DEAD IN CANADA Hundreds of Leading Athletes of Do- minion Have Shouldered Guns and Are Fighting in Europe. Sport throughout the Dominion of Canada is as dead as the proverbial doornall. The reason for it all is the war, and until the great Buropean conflict has passed into history Canadians will be without sport on a major scale. Ef forts to hold local tournaments and national track and fieid championships have been fairly successful, but on Numbered among the thcusands of Canadians who have shouldered the pire are hundreds of the leading ath- ietes of the dominipn. Many have fallen in battle and lie “somewhere in France,” with a small headstone to mark their last resting place. Travers Never Musses the Ground. Jerry Travers is said not to have swung on a ball and missed or taken up the sod behind a ball for a three inch shot since the days when he used to play around in his back yard and holed out his ball by hittiag a tree Many duffers who swing on the bail and fracture a rib without touching the thing are said to be slightly envi. ous of Travers little weakness in be ing able to get off a straight bali and true about every time he tries his hand. Speed of Ball Games, Silk O Laughlin says the speed with which a ball game is played de on the pitchers, put it has always looked as it the umpires had a lot to do with it. Rube Benton. in as the occasion may require. hold upon the slab, and his control Mr Benton--his native ingenuity | could not be restrained, even by mod ern shoe leather. Captain Huston Wants Twin Brother of Stallings Luck Bringer—Rice Spurns Offer. A bundle of regular UU. 8 nant and a world's series for George Stallings, chief of the Boston Braves. Captain Tillinghast Huston, part owner of the Yankees, made the offer, i Captain Cushman Rice, the foremost | American in Cuba and the owner of ithe penny, spurned it. And now | “Cap” Rice fears that “Cap” Huston { will bang him on the knob some dark {night and try to take the penny away | from him, or hirs someone to burglar. | {zo his rcoms, Cap Huston wants the penny 80 {that he can pass it along to "Wild Bill” Donovan, manager of the Yan- kees. “Wild Bill” wants the penny because he feels that if he gets it he can win a pennant and a world's se ries just as did George Stallings. Cap Rice gave the penny to Stall ings early last summer. At that time the Braves were hopelessly in the rut. “Take this, George, and keep it with you. It'Nl bring you luck,” said Cap Rice. Stallings took the penny-—and ev- | erybody knows what happened after: i ward. On the same day that Stallings ‘got that penny the Braves won a ‘game. The next day they won an | other. And they continued to win un til there wasn't any more use of win ning. They had won everything in sight. Regular Job for Sisler. The report that the Boston Red Sox had offered Dick Hoblitzel and a bunch of cash for George Sisier of the Browns brough®out a statement from Manager Branch Rickey as to his in tentions regarding Sisler. The college phenom will be played regularly on first base, says Rickey, as soon as he can land another outielder and a pitcher on whom dependence can be put. There has been some criticism of Rickey because he has shifted Sis ler around, but the manager of the Browns realizes as weli as any one else the advisability ot leaving Sisler in one position and will put him there Just as soon as he can do so, NEAT BONBON BASKETS NEW IDEA IN TABLE DECORATION 18 REAL NOVELTY. intended to Hold Balted Almonds or Confections—Expensive to Buy But Not Difficult to Make at Home. One of the novelties in table decora- tion this season is the tiny gilt and lace individual basket designed to hold bonbons, salted almonds, or oth or dainty confections. They are the prettiest things imaginable, and though expensive to buy, should not | be difficult to make at home, One should make a trial basket first Get a tencent knot of gilt wire and fashion into a basket, weaving the | wire in and out In a very large mesh, | in any preferred shape. There is the | dainty little French basket, also the | square shape fashioned on the crder | of the ordinary paper basket. | Both are popular and also quite cagy | The lining is of valenciennes | lace. The first step is to cut a tiny | round of cardboard to fit the bottom of the basket, square, round or oval as (Re case may be, and cover first waste wider than the depth of the basket haif as much again Gather the straight edge of the lace and sew to plece of covered cardboard Put with baby tied into bows match the to h and the basket is the baskets red or holly ristmias table trimmed with For ordinary get a very pretty effect by using a be could dif- in harle SCTADS | use ons In this way any silk ribbon that be on used up or might Val lace at ten cents a yard or less lining it should be and one-half inche answer for Pretty Bunbon Basket. wide and the scallop not too deep for obvious reasons. As one becomes more skilled ir bas or as a centerpiece for a! Sateen Petticoats. «= The more or less transparent mate summer dresses makes a shadow proof” pesticoat necessary inexpensive, and is just right for wear with thin dresses. Then too, in order that a good effect may be had, the be almost the length of the dress skirt, perhaps only half inch shorter Meany of the light weight goods, even serge, are some what transparent, and the effect of a | smart skirt is often spoiled by this | TO USE ODD BITS OF LACE] : : Great Variety of Pretty and Useful | Things in Which Odd Pieces Can Be Used. There seems to be an endless variety of uses to which fillet crochet can be applied. A large square of this crochet could be made into a very charming boudoir cap. A square with a rose pattern would be very pretty, although the extremely conventional designs are equally good. The square should be made with fifty or sixty codon net, as it will be more attractive if the mesh is not too fine. A picot edging may be added to the edge of the square, or it can mere ly be finished with two rows of the plain mesh. When making this cap a casing is stitched around the inside of the square, forming a ®&rcle by eliminat- ing the corners. An elastic is run through the casing: then the corners are wired with fine millinery wire, so as to make them stand out. The front and back corners are slightly rolled over the crown. The points of the corners at each side are turned back. The effect is very much the same as a Normandy cap; but, being made of fillet crochet, it is very quaint and un. usual, Soutache end Embroidery. Embroidery of one sort or another continues in high favor. Embroidered net frocks for summer afternoons and evenings are a vise choice for the woman who wishes (» have a service able and yet a sufficiently elaborate frock. Soutache braiding is much used, too, applied in all the intricacies of embroidered scroll designs, PA ARS ib RSP, IS SEMITAILORED SUIT # of this semitailored suit is of black broadcioth, The skirt reaches to the shoe tops the coat is double-breasted. The collar, cuffs and coat edging are of black fox. model and TOO TALL OR TOO STOUT Dressmakers’ Art is to Cover the De fects in Stature of Their Patrons. spoiled their complexions | by crook-—anmething is wrong maker's art is 10 cover th i to draw ention #2 8 of the figure ideally beautiful won ving from a peas ostume But with few 1 ' per{ect woman, be adapted before they ed 10 advantage i beautifully tall drawn fair the proper proportioz upon and women 10 show Gesigns them of the to be observed in the according designing selves to the mind artist Some designs are hopeless) Designs, however are not meant to be A woman six dress skirt eight or the Finn the beginning in themselves slavishly copied {eet tall may ten yards wide at the bottom, but who is Wear a dumpy little woman as she is long will be ure in the ~Belle Good Health of in same Arm fNOTrMous sweep skirt strong Whitney Skirts, the Smocking for Smocks have taken popular fancy this employed on many of the thinner ma terials The skirt that is sometimes smocked, into a houett« very becoming to the slender woman slim NNT NPN NNTP APPS NII New Bolero Jacket is the Figure Snugly—Gloves Also Are Laced. “ As eagerly as the buttoned boot was discarded to repiace the laced one is the klea of lacing any two pieces of material that seem in any way to be long to each other being introduced and adopted. A costume that has at tracted much attention is one of navy blue gaberdine, the bolero jacket of which was laced to fit the figure snug. iy. The rather large sleeves wers laced to fit the lower arm; the col lar, too, was laced to the chin. With the new inside lacing of the boot comes the hat, whose several por tions are joined with lacing. Gloves too, are laced on either the inside or the outside of the arm; in fact, to be quite up-to-the-minute one must have two parts of the costume laced to- gether, What Color For Waists. The most radical change in the waist styles this season is in the color. The dressy walsts are either dark, so as to mateh the sult, or are in some high color, thus contrasting with the suit. On the other hand, the semitallored models continue to be mostly in white and in flesh-color, says the Dry Goods Economist. The new season waists of conserva. tive type are in navy, brown, dark green, purple, gray or mulberry. Walste of more striking type are in garnet, light green, rose, royal purple, French blue and other tones which will blend harmoniously with the dark suit color) A USE OF THE CASSEROLE NOT A SPOONFUL OF ANYTHING EDIBLE NEED BE WASTED. Tasty and Nourishing Dishes Can Be Prepared From Scraps of Meat and Vegetables—Hints for the Cook When the making over old sid meats into warm dishes i8 in question consider the casserole, By its use even the smallest scraps of meat, vege- sauces and gravies can be Not a spoonful of anything When the Sunday joint of roast beef then cold, In the bottom of the cas sliced potatoes, a carrot and a couple of onions, small, chopped, and, if on hand, a few mushrooms the gravy from the meat, or, {f this has been thrown away, add water seasoned with pepper and salt Put on the and bake for an hour Half an hour before serving lay the cold mest vegetables nut cover in replace the Cold roast of lamb will prove a very tasty dish cooked In a cas: with green peas. The pe and placed in layers in the casserole alter nately with slices of the liquor in which the erole a8 are bolled The boiled over, the cas serole being set in the oven until the meat has heated through, Served with an appetizing 1 g 14 18er “iit wea 8 When cold peas lamb peas were meal is the or other vegetables are on hand a white can be poured that may be from the peas | sary, though it 0! the dish A very delicats lunch or a meal combination of chicken result, SAUCH gravy liquor 10t absolutely n« £4 aga over or any available The 8 7 Cen 10 the nutriment dish for for an rooms prepared in a casserole mushrooins are fried lightly, then a i mixed with a s¢ poured in and cooked he mushrooms and cold chicken until are packed into the casserole layers and the creamy over until the through evenly A novel way of using up cold rice is to cover the bottom of the casserole with it In quite a thick layer, and re- cook it with raw eggs. Make as many depressions in the rice as there are eggs to be cooked and drop one =2gg (broken) into each space. Season with salt and pepper and pop bits of butter in alternate gauce po contents are heated ured dish is made cne cupful of the meat diced mixed with one dozen almonds chopped and blanched, salt and pepper to taste and a dash of paprika. This mixture is held to- A still more unusual About is into small balls. These are laid In a casserole and covered with stewed The cover is put on and into the oven for half an hour or so. Pear Choose nice, Marmalade. fine flavored pears; quarter and drop into cold water. When ready to use drain allow three-fourths of a pound of Pour over just enough water until tender. Make a sirup with the sugar and some of the water in which the pears were each gix pounds of fruit. Boil the fruit into jars and pour the sirup Delicious Lemon Pudding. The juice and grated rind of one yolks of eggs well beaten and rest of Line baking dish with rich pastry rolled about one-quarter inch thick Pake in good oven. Beat whites to a stiff froth, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, spread over the top, return to oven to brown. Serve cold. Bisque Cream, One-half pound peanut brittle, one pint thick cream Put the brittle through the food chopper; whip the cream, combine mixtures, pour into a mold, sea: on the cover and bury in equal parts of ice and salt for four hours. When Making Juicy Pies, in making a juicy pie try beating an egg light and mixing in the sugar required by the froit. Add a little flour, mix thoroughly and then bake as usual. In this way excess of juice will be in the pie and not in the bot. tom of the oven. Left.Over Meat * Cut up the mest ole Wd onions and cold water to cover them, let boil until the onions (out up) are done, then add diced potatoes and the thickened gravy, and salt, it
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