Jake Daubert, two years batting
leader of the National league, and now
starring for the Cincinnati Reds, re
calls an incident that happened the
first year he broke Into baseball, Born
at Shamokin, Pa., he worked
in the state league. This was during
the 1902 strike,
He had a trial and fanned ten Sha-
mokin batters the first game, being a
pitcher in those days. He was but
sixteen years of age.
Was Recognized.
“A few days later the Shamokin
there was great rivalry,” says Jake,
“I was supposed to pitch the battle
for Shamokin, and took ‘Tickets’ Day-
walt, my catcher, along with me.
town, the home Elks recognized me,
and protested on the grounds that I
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was a pro because of that one game
I had pitched for them,
“II tell you what I'l do,
‘Let Tickets pitch and I'll catch. They
I had caught a little
as a kid
“Well, to make a long story short,
they had us beaten 12 to 7 at the start
of the ninth. Thelr pitcher was over
confident and a combination of two
walks and two hits scored four runs
for us. This made it 12 to 11 against
us with two out and a man on first
Over the Fence.
“lI came to bat. Our manager told
me if I ever did anything to hit that
ball, "Do it now if you care for us
he insisted.
“I let the first one go by, and the
second was right over. 1 socked It
over the center fleld fence into the
deer yard for a homer. That made it
13 to 12 In our favor, and we held
them safe that half of the round.
HUMOR OF MORIARTY
There are some people who
insist that umpires are not hu-
man, have no sense of humor.
The following bit of repartee
is offered In rebuttal of such a
hellef,
During a recent series
Louls a friend of Umpire George
Moriarty invited him down to
the Athletic club to
enjoy a swim,
Now it so happens that
riarty, despite the fact at
is an all-around athlete,
able to swim.
After thanking
the kind Invitation and express
ing unable
to accept hecanse
in St.
Missouri
Mo-
he
his friend for
his regrets at being
of a previous
engagement, he remarked:
“Perhaps It i well,
becanse I swim like paralysis”
“How that? asked the
muech-puzzied friend,
“One stroke and I'm through.”
answered Moriarty
is Just as
1
in
Diamond
Squibs
Cy Perkins rightly
pretty smart catcher,
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is rated as a
MAKES TWO THOUSAND HITS
seems to have a retiring disposition.
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San Francisco is leading Vernon a
merry chase for the leadership in the
Pacifie Coast league,
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Pitcher Wheezer Dell of Vernon Is
not going 80 good this season, say bat-
ters who have faced him,
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Adolph Schinkel, who was with Salt
Lake as a pitcher for awhile, has
drifted to Sacramento.
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The colleges have certainly sent
their share of baseball talent to the
major leagues this season.
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Why pick on Ruth all the time for
his sins? There are stars who have
been put out of the game oftener than
be.
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With Frisch, Rawlings, Davies and
McGuire to play second base and in a
pinch Cunningham and Young, hic
Graw will soon have enough.
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While Shocker was lald up the
Browns went to first place and stayed
there. While Ruth was doing penance
the Yankees took the lead and held it
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The way the Giants are lining up
the eollege stars It looks as though a
first-class sheepskin diploma was the
epen pesame to the Brush stadium,
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Report from Pittsburgh has it that
the Pittsburgh club has closed a deal
by which Outfielder Dick Wade of the
Minneapolis Millers will Join the
Pirates.
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Inflelder Dudley Lee, sent by the
i8t. Louls Browns to Columbus, where
‘he did not make the grade and was
turned back, has been reshipped to
Chattanooga,
to Surpass Record Made by
Honus Wagner.
Fourteen years ago Zach Wheat,
bought by the Brooklyn Baseball club |
from the Mobile club of the Southern |
league, made his first major hit at |
Polo Grounds off Otis
the same grounds
the Glants
his
Crandall
At
with
in series
the
which ended yester
safety. In
SixKnh
he got
Zach
=. 00th
the
TO
day
fact
reached mark,
fo
CLEVER GOLFERS RARE
Strange as It may see, there
ure few golfers who really man
ter the short game. There are
many players who drive a fine
ball, but when it comes to recov.
ery shots dnd to the little trick
shots around the green, they ure
totally at sea, Men with high
handicaps hnve little idea as to
how to get out of trouble, al-
though they are called on for
such shots every time they play
and the first thing they should
learn Is how to get out of them
in the lowest possible strokes.
C
IS SWIMMING MARVEL
Upon the Books.
pel Himself Through Water—No
Distance is Too Short and
None Too Long.
A little more than a year ago, 8
a slender sixteen-year-old youth who
the Chicago organization which was
famous for its record-breaking swim-
ming teams.
could swim.
Johnny Weisamuller,
great tricolor swimmers, Perry Mc
Gilllvray, Norman Ross, Hebner, Vos
burgh and he wanted to
cast his lot with them. The
of
and others
member
however, was skeptical
the young
ater's chances of ing a
gain
of stars al
place
against the galaxy in
thé 1. A. C. fol But after listening
to the boy's appeal for more than a
omised to
ready
nr
pt intro
mich Bachrach, the tri
“Here's a fellow who thinks he ean
iher's half-hearted
for taking up the c¢
an youngster
ipping into the pool, the boy trav
the
swim,” was the mer
eXpanation
with
coach's
time unknown
<1
eled through water with a crude
stroke but one that unusual
power. Immediately Coach Bachrach
showed
- a a
eh 3 Re
Zach Wheat,
two hits, one a double and the |
run off Phil Douglas.
outfielder the only
National league to be
a grand total of 2.000
This is due to the lack of vet.
rookiyn in
the
Wheat says he Is on the way to sur.
pass the record of 3482 safe drives
made by Honus Wagner in the latter's
major league career of twenty-one
years.
CALLS BASEBALL TOO DEAD
Boss of Seattle Club Complains About
New Rubber.Center Spheres
Adopted This Year,
Walter McCreedie, manager of the
Seattle club of the Pacific Coast
league, Is the first manager to com.
plain about the new rubber-center
baseballs, which have been adopted for
this year. Last year the league used
a ball with a cork’ center, but this
was thrown out as being too lively,
“These balls are not exactly fitted for
our purpose,” MeCreedle sald. “May.
be we haven't the best grade of ball,
or maybe the skinned: diamond Is to
blame, The balls seem bigger and
deader.”
Johnson Wins Over 300 Games.
Walter Johnson holds the distine-
tion of having won more games than
any other hurler now In the game,
Eddie Plank, formerly star southpaw,
held the honor before Johnson with
308 victories, but the Speed King
passed Plank's total early this sea-
son.
is the greatest swimmer of the present
undoubtedly the greatest swim.
mer of all time, ‘he boy has placed
several new world's records upon the
books and his uncanny speed through
the water Is to a large measure re
sponsible for the four world's marks
which the Illinois Athletic club relay
teams have created. So remarkable
is his ability to propel himself through
the water that almost every time he
into oblivion.” For It has come to pass
that Weissmuller seldom tries for a
mark without attaining
No distance Is too short:
long to be safe from his
watermanship.
his end.
Sporting Squibs
of All Kinds
Willams college will add soccer to
its varsity sports next fall,
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He who golfs for exercise should
not fear being muscle-bound.
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Dartmouth will start foothall prac.
tice the first week In September.
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New Orleans American Legion plans
a track meet for the early fall,
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Golf is a simple game to anyone
who can read a Chinese laundry
check,
LE
Winning the western amateur golt
championship must be fatiguing for
Chick Evans, ~
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More extensive usd’ of the linemen
in Interference on crosshacks and end
runs Is expected to be a feature of
the coming football season,
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Forward passing was allowed in
football beginning with 1008, fob
lowing the demand at the close of the
1006 season for a more open game
Poyring the Brine
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture)
“Balt pkkles” should be the basis
dilils, Whatever the final dis
08 sour, or mixed
cucumbers should first receive a
Attempts to
make pickles
on an er.
position- BW oot
use short
“over
to
based
cuts or
night” are
Directions for Salt Pickles,
The United States Department of
Agriculture gives the following direc-
Pack washed cucumbers In a clean
For this purpose use only
jar Is not satisfactory
The four-gallon size
of cucumbers
a 10 per cent
pound of salt
than the following
pounds of cucumbers
pounds of cu
three ounces of
strength of the brine Cover
round board plate and
this place a welght heavy
keep the
used. For 12
add one pound
to
umbers
salt maintain the
with a
or on
enough to
cucumbers well
At the end of
each succeeding
below the
one week
week for
unt of cucun
bers
Aisne
adding
cover
il ad -
one-fourth pound
salt alway
If the
to the brine it may sink
anit
as a result of which 1
the bottom would
while near the surface it
weak that the pickles would &
se made f wild 3
and molds the
wild be skimmed off
+ 11) 1%
im, ul
will form
ususlly ©
on
This she
If pickles prepared In this
the
ia clean 3
keep indefinitely, After a partial soak.
ing in rend
these cucumbers may
pickles. Many j in
fort Most people, however,
them better after they have
given treatment in vin
way are |
sovered hy d if ti
brine an
1
surface remains hey should
water to wwe excess of salt,
be eaten as salt
ie 0 “a i
refer them
an
1dditional
gar, or in yinegar combined with sugar
and spices,
If the salt pickles are to be made |
on the Pickles.
salt should
though not
processing,
them slowly, with water,
120 degrees F., and holding them, at
be to a
completely,
great extent,
removed
covered
pring frequently
to repeat this process several
until the product tastes right.
processing, they should be
well and covered at once with
{4 to 8 per cent of acetic acid).
filtered.
ferred it would be well to use a
grain vinegar at first, and
week or ten days transfer the
fo & vinegar of the strength desired
Sweet Pickles,
Weel
To
hors
make
Are
covered
in
after processing
with vinegar which sugar Is dis
of SURAr may to ten
Too
sugar shrivels and toughens the
If & liquor containing
vary from four
pounds to the gallon of vinegar.
much
rgeumbers,
it would be best
at first
sugar until the de
ned,
are practically always added
gallon is desired
to exceed that amount but
gradually to add
sired concentration is obtal
bat | Pe
n max
not. however,
ing sweost pickles. These should
in too Is
of whole mi
me of ple
be used
quantity One ounce
splees to four gall
o 3 rae _. -
good i wirtion
Add
of spice to the
the be
one-half
. Ning
hour
ng darkens the vinegar
by pouring
Sugar may be
4 ¥
er than
through
at
he gpices
cheesecloth,
added
this time
Mixed Pickles,
mbinations .
8 of vegetahles
mixed pickles:
green
r. £ n peppers, to.
added ft
bles used
4 in brine
Very
are
jeumbers
pieces
brine be
It
a hot
fermentation
the
prevent fermentation.
Should Be Most Popular
Throughout Summer Season.
ice Cream When Flavored With the |
Fruit Is Not Only a Cooling Con |
fection, but Helps to Take
Away Listiessness,
The ability of raisins to revitalize |
the system with almost instant energy, |
through thelr sugarcontent, makes |
them an ideal warm-weather food
For that reason, raisin feod of all
kinds should be most popular through.
out the summer. Many every-day
meals are composed of plain foods
that can be made doubly attractive
and healthful by the addition of this
luscious California fruit.
The most popular dish of the sum-
mer-ice cream-—when flavored with
raisins, is not only a cooling con
fection, but one that helps to take
away the listlessness caused by warm
weather, The cooling qualities of ice
cream are but a temporary relief, it
is pointed out. Combined with the
delicious flavor of raisins, It Is truly
a delightful, healthful dish,
The sugar In raisins is in practically
predigested form, and Is turned into
energy almost immediately. This re
vitalizing quality of the raisin makes
this fruitfood a boon to warm
weather fatigue and listlessness,
Other foods than fce cream gain in
taste and health benefit when flav.
ored with raisins, The ordinary loaf
of white bread is changed to a de
lightful favorite in almost every
household by the simple addition of
raising, [| The luscious sugarsauce
flows from the raisins into the dough
during the baking, giving the “whole
foaf a most deliclous flavor,
The iron content of raising, long ad
mitted to exceed that of other fruits,
is a bloodbullder. needed
alike In
is readily
easily assimila
ahsorbed by
small
winter
form it
bioad to
lost by the body dally,
A raisin product at
replenish the
least
day,
work
energy
wonders
during
is hottest will
sapped
months,
the
OF INTEREST 10
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Use one egg to one cupful of milk
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Use onehalf level teaspoonful of
soda for each cupful of sour milk.
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Use one tablespoonful granulated
gelatin for one pint liquid if cooled
on ice
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When packing away white goods,
wrap them in blue paper or in a cloth
that has been colored In bluing and
they will not turn yellow.
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To prevent salt from lumping mix
it with cornstarch in the proper pro-
portions of three tablespoonfuls of
cornstarch to one cupful of salt,
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Never place dishes or utensils
which have contained custard, gela.
tin, egg or starchy food directly into
water; scrape thoroughly first and
rinse In cold water,
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A great convenlence is & shelf at
the head of the cellar stairs where
the things belonging to the cellar and
in constant use can be kept, saving
many steps in the day's work.
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~ When buying a house dress ehoose
one with pockets. The pockets are
handy when the dress Is new and
make excellent patches when needed,
The more pockets the more patches
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