Sa TY dn oR Ed Ruben is one of the players u their predictions this year for a Gophe a former Minneapolis high school pla pon whom Minnesota fans have based r championship in the Big Ten. He is yer and is one of the best prospects Ruben played fullback on the 191 Ruben joined the navy late in 1917 an naval statior. squad. k holes In the opposing team’s defense. d was a star player on the Dunwo dy FOOTBALL SHOE HAS HINGES | # nkle Support Devised by Chicago Firm Minimizes Chances of Misstep by Half-Back. At the quarter-back’'s signal for ¢ run around right end, the half-back sets his shoe-calks into the earth and waits for the bali to be snapped back. | But a husky guard on the opposing team breaks through, the quarter fum- | bles and there is a wild ser: The half-back swings in his tracks and dives int¢: the middle of the strug- | gling players A moment later the referee's “whistle sounds, the human omelet is unferambled, and the half- back emerges with the ball. A misstep in making the lightning- ike change of direction might have ible, Hinges Give It a Freedom of Move. ment Impossible in a Rigid Shoe. put the half-back out of the game. It is to minimize such mischance that a Chicago firm has turned out a foot- support. The shoe combines flexibil- ity with perfect ankle support.—~popu- lar Science Monthly. IT PAYS TO BE WITH WINNER Cincinnati Reds Picked Up Quite a Bit of Easy Money Besides the World's Series Coin. The Cincinnati Reds in thelr late exhibition games, in which the players shared 50-50 with the club, took in over $10,000 and the players who took share. Add this to all the presents from Cincy fans and the world’s se- IS GREAT FOOTBALL PLAYER Moon Ducote Played Good Game With Mobile, But 1s Much Better as Gridiron Star. Moon Ducote, who has gh Mobile in the ta YT with he layer than he {s a base used several offers to f gional football this fall. Instead preferred to assist in coaching Hill College football s HAY Spring Mobile. quad at baseball the Ducote played good but did not turn out scintillating star that had been hoped for in the diamond game. Plans are under way for a spring between the world's cham. pion Reds and the Cleveland Indians. ad » * N. M. Purcell won the 1 W-yard swimming championship of Dublin uni. versity in 65s. at Blackrock recently % * « It is said that John McGraw, who Cardinals, wants him back w ® - again, The American Bowling association championship tourney at Peoria. March 10 to April 1, 1920, will be rolled on 14 alleys, * * Eddie Collinge still avers that the not as good as that in the American, - a * Coach Jack Moakley has only one arourcd this year. * - a successful team - Rumors in Toledo have it that John Ganzel wants to purchase Roger Bres nahan's stock in the Toledo Club ano take hold of affairs in the Mudhen town. * - - Now they are saying that Hod Filer got his shine ball trick from Eddie Ci cotte, who showed him how in the | spring of 1018, when Hod made the training trip with the White Sox. * - * ries pelf, and you can see it pays to be on a winner. Misi GAME PLAYED WITH MALLETS Smooth, Level Courts, With Hard Rub. ber, Elastic Balls Necessary for Roque. The game of roque is played with mallets, on smooth, level dirt courts, with hard rubber, elastic balls. The courts are bordered with elastic ce- ment walls, 60 feet long by 30 feet wide. Caroms, as in billiards, are a distinctive and constant feature of the game. Played by experts the game is a battle royal, often taking two or three hours to finish, Enters Boston College, Jimmy Connolly, national Junior mile champion, may enter Boston col lege, according to reports from the Hub, | Adding up all Pat Moran received fo his efforts in directing the Reds to » | National League pennant and a world's championship, the total “get” is about $21,000, % * *. Larry Conley of Boston has been ap pointed as instructor in bo King at Far vard university, He will be connected with the department of physical edu cation, LE Tris Speaker did not enjoy going to Detroit last season. He batted only A58 on the Tigers’ lot. On the Ath leties’ field he poled only 108. At home he hit 433 against the Tigers and 500 against the Macks. * oo» Manager Pat Moran hopes to yet realize on the heavy investment the Cincinnati club made in Charley See, for whom the Rochester Club was paid $10,000, Moran says he will make a pitcher out of Seq. i i i MANY FREAK HOMERS MARK RECENT GAMES Many Instances Noted of Queer Actions of Batted Ball, Sphere Has 8cooted Through Hole In Fence or Otherwise Disappeared Amusing Incident at Detroit in Early Days. During the baseball season recently closed many instances have been noted of batsmen getting credit for home-run hits by reason of the ball scooting throngh a hole in the fence, rolling through an exit or otherwise disappearing, to the dismay of the fielders and the delight of the sticker, “Whoa Bill” Rariden of the Champ- lon Cincinnati Reds got one of the strangest homers in the history of the game at Boston. He drove the ball to left center and the spheroid bound- ed into a hole in the score board. O'Neill of Cleveland got a home rut as a result of the ball rolling into a hole in the left-field fence on the Cleve- land ball ground. homer against the Braves on the Polo grounds. Hal sent the ball to right center and it rolled through the gate in the bleacher fence and disappeared and there is effect that a it, the away with report to fielder was resourceful and threw the tomato can and all to the diamond, but the ball stuck In the can and the bat- ter got credit for a homer. One of the most amusing Instances early days of the game, catcher came behind the bat only when there were two strikes on the Bill Rariden. was catching there was a runner on third, pitch got past catcher and runner started for the plate, batter. Bennett the made a lennett bad stopped the ball the runner Back to third with a throw. unner, and pretended went the ¥s pick up the ball. The coachers howled that the ball w lost, but kept making motions as though throw to third, and the runner danced back and for nearly a minute as fort! did not have tie ball The sphere’ had rolled into a small hole at the base of the grandstand wall, The most spectacular incident took in the eighteenth inning. John Mont. gomery Ward was the pitcher for Providence and Weidman and Trott the battery for Detroit As was customary in those days Radbourne, the famous pitcher of the Providence team. played in the out. field on the days on which he did not piteh Radbourne, who was an effective hitter as well as a great pitcher, went to bat in the last half of the eight. eenth and drove the ball on a line to left George Wood was the left fielder of the Wolverine team, and the ball got past him and rolled to the part of the field where it was customary for horses and carriages to be parked. Wood dashed up to the parking space and found that the ball had nestled near the heels of a large black horse of vicious mien. As Wood reached for the ball the animal made a terrific kick at the flelder, who backed away with alacrity. Wood was still saying “Whoa boy I" as Radbourne pattered over the plate with the winning run. In the way of weird home runs, it only remains for some playor to knock a ball into a fiying machine that te looping the loop over a ball pasture, WILL SEL'. OLD RACE TRACK Belmont Uriving Club, Just Outside of Philadelphia, May Be Sold by Stockholders. Directors of the Belmont Driving club, located at Narberth, a few miies outside of Philadelphia, the scene of the Grand Circuit races, have decided to submit to the stockholders a pro posal to sell the racetrack, grounds and buildings, The track was bullt io 1876, - NO KNOWN CURE FOR BLACKHEAD Ailment Caused by Parasite, and Is Characterized by Great Sores in Caeca. ———————— PREVENTIVE MEASURES BEST On Farms Where an Outbreak Has Oc. curred All Birds Not Affected 8hould Be Sold for Meat— Disinfect Premises, Blackhead in turkeys is caused by a parasite and is characterized by great sores In the caeca (blind in- testines) and ver. This microscople parasite causes irritations, destruction death of the affected turkeys. The characteristic symptoms of the disease are as follows: The of appetite und tendency of affected birds to stand apart the rest of he flock In common, When the in affected the ippings logs from 1 are verely have diarrhea and the dr Be MMeecased the roosts, Means of Diagnosis. only The menns 03 tion of a that h bird ghoul i be pose the Internal org and caecn examined, sOres 1 and the ot t evidence for © eneenl sores point to a large i 11 lnrge Hive r may the lining of | is very much en it are Inch in At + Lae tw diam cure w hich % diss CTL ment and Nor shoul flock be t would be well not to tock a farm with turkeys months: end not until a infection of by het summer of freshly s houses, roosting 84 made exposi A Healthy and Vigorous Tom, by obtalning fresh breeding & not-infected district, It is recommended that turkey rails Ing be conducted on dry, sandy, drained lands, #COms to be prevented In large part by dry- ness of the surroundings, stock since blackhead IMPROVEMENT OF CORN CROP Little Extra Care In Selecting, Curing and Testing Seed Will Increase Net Profit Extra eare In selecting, curing, tost. Ing and grading the seed corn will do much to improve the stand and yleld of corn, thus saving labor, reducing ost per bushel and Increasing pet profit per bushel, It requires the same labor te manure, to plow, to disk, to harrow, to plant and to eultl vate a 40 per cent stand ae is required stand, ———————————— KEEP EVERY TOOL IN PLACE Practice of Keeping Bolts and Screws of All Kinds Mixed Together 1s Not Good Plan. Farm tools and materials should de kept in their proper places. If they all haven't a place, one should be pro vided for each. Do pot keep nll sizes ft single receptacle, but fit up suitable boxes or bins, properly marked, so short notice, ER ————— a OPERATION OF DISK PLOWS Better Work in Mard Soils When Sharp—HMave Narrow Carriage in Working in Orchard, A sharp digk plow Inrures good work in hard solls and rolls better. Selfdift disk plows save labor and do better work. For work In the orchard, disk plots should have a narrow carriage, and the operating levers shouid be low “@ as not to catch limbs of the trees. TO GOOD ADVANTAGE Change From Whole Milk Should Be Made Gradually, Amount of Meal to Be Given Depends on Size of Animal-—Encourage Youngsters to Take Hay and Grain at an Early Age. Many times a farmer selling milk has a surplus which he runs through the separator. This provides a limited amount of skimmilk which ean be fed to calves to good advantage, In such case the milk In the ration can be gradually changed from whole milk to skimmilk at the end of two or three weeks by substituting an equal amount of skimmilk for each portion of whole milk removed, acenrding to W. WwW. Swett of the University of Missouri | College of Agriculture. A | substitution can be effected or at inn ten days, which time Teaching Calf to Drink, Fingers in Mouth, Show ng T » §lze of the calf ar Directd 1 should be followed to make an thick, tirred earefs Ts and The * Yue then dil Erie] Is ¥T un Honda proximately mid poser and fed at a It — faLare be fod the same tempera A thermomcoter necessary ; “guess work™ has no p in calf feeding. The amount of si'm ! docrensed ond mild be gradually gruel 1 op the amount of calf-meal At the end of be dis creased. milk At | time the calf may be tous to eat the i J j dry meal from a feed can ‘onti this it has finished drinking. Feed the Jry | #0 that none will be left In the fred | box to spoil. Give just what the olf will readily eat, and develop the zope tite slowly. The gruel can be cn | tinued until the calf is four Taasis old and perhaps somewhat locger if desired, It Is always advisable to rt he {enlves to take hay and greets st oo arly an age as possible. They wil usually begin when three or foar weeks old If given the opportunity. Ths car's development of this habit belive oroa'ly are taken off the cath ration, for they are alrecdy tals liberal quantitics of hay and suis 20 the change to this ration ator» will to gradual. The calves will mot solo | such a serious “set-back™ gs they | might otherwise experience. For Oe {first six to cight weeks the Bey find | should be n fine grade of thauthy or a coarse alfalfa or mixed bar. Five aifaifa hay is so palatable that the ( young calf will eat too mueh., Either feed a conrse hay or limit the amount Aller i { when calves | of hay which the calf can got ‘n safety, li——— Forms and Sizes of Receptacies for Fruits and Vegetables to Se Worked Out What are your Ideas about Zoran and sizes of packages for the market ing of fruits and vegetables? Botior give them to the Duresu of Markets Washington, D, GC. This whoie prop sition will be worked out before lua: and all of us want standard packes~ that will prove satisfactory, LED IN “ART PRESERVATIVE” Conclusive Proof That the Koreans Were the First to Perceive Value of Movable Type. or Fifty Ing the Chinese charsicters, being part of the first font of movable type ever made, were shown In the last week in the Museurn of Natural Ii tory, In New York, England has the other half of the which was cast In Seoul, Koren, In 1408, some years before the Aiscoveries of Forster, Gutenberg and the other early typemakers in Europe, It seems, thus, that to the Koreans bees longs the distinction of having invent. od pleces of movable type hoarse font, and first produced separate type characters in metal. Each type is cylindrically of the under side, in order to make it CONLCAYSH cling more firmly to the wnx which When the evenly er, si constituted had fir and embedded in the wax the print. type boen g tng cross legged before t covered the type y Then on the fo Differing Types of Marb! te toasts nf 59 Ale 7.850 wl 50.250 ’ Wet sped wr $m ¢ loss of weaker gran wn o> + ne WHE 88 reat a and were mu 20 freezings fmoens though some were little nf w a few were actually strength trical resistance vari y pope that ca terial for panc irre of is necessary in selecting 1 Marbles tlarly on heating switchboard, and is the Increase Belated Profiteer. In Montana rave who quantities which grows end which is high thrifty housewives for « many his cents per quart. This season the same indian with which had been growing w= the same profusion, bat an. nounced his price as 25 cents a quart. Asked why the Increase, his shoulders and sald: “He ip Then he um,” asx though Indian with lusrious berry there is an old appears oa ch Year of a wild certain profusion “eemed by gnning For price has five years heen the mate berries Hd in he calmly came reed big war ‘Me to creased his he shra some place.” added just hear apologize for not having in price sooner. abont OS A IS “So-ar4.S0 and Daughter” It welcome sight to the words “and daughter” as the saffiz to the name over a shop, says the London News, It i= a sign of the of wotnen's Interest in business and their recognition as responsible helpmates, in the west end there more than one emporitim of feminine attire un. der the ow nership of Soand Ro and Daughter—or daughters—and 1 know of anpther which belongs officially to father and daughters; but I have never yet come across a shop under the Joint ownership of husband and wife yet we know of countless small businesses in which the wife of the owner does A goodly share of the work, is a sep dimes iw
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