THE PA. Pretty Marion Capes of Brooklyn geting as first mate, crew and bal- inst, us Skipper George P. Douglas swings his speeding lce-yacht around the stake at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. Split. Season Plan in the National League A fact of which few baseball fans are aware Is that the Na- tional league once adopted the split season plan, which in recent years has become popular with some of the little organizations, It was back in 1892 that the parent league divided its season into two parts. Cleveland won the first half and Boston the sec- ond. Boston was awarded the pennant for having won the greater number of games for the whole season. Stuffy McInnis Is Big Stuffy MclIrnis of the immortal Ath- letie Infleld of 1011-14, shines about as brightly as ever after 15 sea- sons of weir and tear. for the Boston Braves In 1023, rotund first sacker led the league bats- men in sacrifice most line of endeavor, yet sains few cheers, florg stil toll, hits—a and one yp A Stuffy stands the strain well, for he missed only one game last year, with lead an average of 315 gue fielding, had so often In his glarious past, but he came w an av Stuffy total chiances, Holke of record, the le: as he done ithin two points of of 001 erage and shared with Walter Phillies the engaged In the They plays each. double-play sms “Dazzy” Shovels Snow “Dazzy” Vance xept his pitching arm warmed up on a cold day by shov- eling snow in front of his cigar store in Omaha, Neb.) where the star twirler of the Brooklyn Dodgers—lead- er of the National league in strikeouts Inst season—is enjoying a highly profit able business, English Are Lacking in Snappy “Baseball Arms” While recently discussing his vaca- tion in Europe, John McGraw, mana- ger of the Giants, sald; “I am con- vinced that the English will never be great baseball players—not for a great timey at any rate. They lack the great essential of the proper throwing arm. By that 1 mean, when they throw they do not use the snappy movement employed by Americans in baseball, They use the throw mused in cricket, The schoolboys form the nucleus of our baseball. If they take up base ball on a large scale in the English schools some day they may develop a team to give us an argument, But that day is very, very far off.” Three Men Swim Channel Another “impossibility” has dropped to the level of the commonplace swimming the English channel. Three turned the trick last year, and it Is predicted more will do it next summer, The 1023 trio were Henry Sullivan and Charles Toth, Americans, and En- rlane Tiraboad, a South American, port Notes The even stride of a race horse go ing at full speed is 24 feet. ® -* * Only 12 players who were In the gnajors 12 years ago are still there. » * ® The best way to prevent another war In Europe lies in inoculating the politicians with the golf bug. * *® . Despite all the natural Influences involved, horseshoe pitching Is i sport we can't get a kick out of. * » ® one While it Is true you cannot get {| your feet wet playing indoor golf, as | much cannot be sald of the nose, * » ® Dundee says it would be foolish of him to think retiring. It would be foolish of any fighter to i think. i . . of * Once again the Stanisiaus Zbyszko he will retire game, world Is saved has denied that from the wrestling . ® Interest In the | never will be at kethall events, - Olympian games fever heat until bas made one of the is major . ® * President Ban Johnson of the Amer fean league announced that there will be no change in baseballs used in the league. of southpaws on his Washington club The veteran George Mogridge is the only dependable. - * - Preston | signed has been Rock Island Valley league Gray, pitcher, to manage the { team in the Mississippi the coming season, * * * Joe Beckett has opened a school In London and will teach the and outs of fighting Particularly the outs =» * - club of his DUDS pup Ins The the Pacific Coast announces the signing of whran, captain of the Joston university baseball team. »* - - Portland league Gordon President Doe Seabonugh of the West. ern association anhounces the of two umpires—Mike Jacobs and Jack Wilkerson, both veterans, "8 = nore Considering the uniform they wear, it is difficult to understand the dtate- ment that of the basketball teams have something up thelr sleeve, . . - some Eddie Collins says that Shortstop McClellan should be much more valu- able to the White Sox this year. Me Clellan, after long service on the bench, finally graduated to the ranks of a regular last summer. He is only a fair hitter, Star Female Athlete Roberts Ranck, well-known twen- ty-one-year-old female athletic star of the Philadelphia (Pa.} Turngemelnde, She is the national decathlon cham. pion and Is nlso a Javelin and discus thrower of champlonship proportions, She is second highest in the shot put and a member of the celebrated Turn: gemeinde play team, Jack Kearns Thought Rocca Was Too Rough Whén Dempsey was training for the fight at Shelby, If you remember, an Itallun heavy- welght named Rocea Stramaglia hit him one day and created quite a sensation, “1 dropped Into Dempsey’s camp one day,” Stramaglia re- lated, “and Kearns asked me to put on the gloves, There was no agreement made with Dempsey except we both understood as I supposed that we were to box easy, - “The first thing I knew, though, Dempsey hit me an aw- ful sock, and that made me mad, 80 I gave him a sock back and cut his eye, “Then Kearns became very excited, ordered me out of the ring, and called me all kinds of names.” RARE MOUND FEAT IS Mates on Bench. One of the greatest exhibitions pitching was given by Mordecal Brown of the Nationals when on a spring trip In the South. The club had finished its training and Chicago small towns, Brownie had _ gotten into He Was then at the top of his glory ~ Mordezali Brown, innings ing to season fourth day out every or so, not wish wear him before the started. In Maordecal of this particular clash had Pelieved a mate at the the fifth. He simply breezed through the innings, putting the ball just wanted it. His curve broke like a million dollars. His smoke was {Ff terrific start where he Came the’ ninth inning. The spec etd Chance to bench all the but and the catcher They had read Rube Waddell had worked a final round with nohody with him but the catcher and first sacker, and wanted to see Brownie could do frown where the him, And the records show that Mor deen ters Jn novelty of struck out the three hostile hat two, three order. one, Esthonia, lussia, has started’ to indulge In of billiards, Tartu, but when an old found and put Into condition for play it was been lost and none were available, The players then sought for sub stitutes and the great American sport, baseball, came to the rescue. Several matches were played with three basge- balls on the table and the players sald that they experienced a thrill in play- ing their games, A large gymnasium was opened just recently and the attendance at the first class reached the B00 mark. Since that time there have been ad ditions until the classes have been di- vided and the instructors are kept busy from morning until night. —-— Yale Will Promote Golf With New 18-Hole Course Yale will soon have an eighteen hole golf course, comparable to any of the country’s high-class layouts Work on the new links will be started In the spring and the ancient sport will be encouraged more than ever. Yale men bave made notable records In the major golf championships. Bob Gardner has twice won the na. tional championship, and Jess Sweet. ser won the event a year ago and finished runnerup in the 1928 tourna: ment, ‘ - - National Had 257 Players The National league was represented by 2567 players during the 1028 season ¥ i HHT 11 iid i i i 11111141 HE in WHY MARC HOUGH tease, at March is a blusterisi | times he can be as nice mannered and sweet as his sisters, | April and May. | une year April opened her eyes and | Jumped out of bed. She thought she | “Come ott! jut the next words | for! are the | “We can fool while, March, the You folks you earth know It was old February trying to entice Ing longer: and April knew that she! the tempter. March dearly loves a frolic. He blow and bluster and scare folks with his roar, sending hats and umbrellag scattering and flying about, he put on his heavy cont, Intending to ¥ \ Ng yA 1 Uh / 1/1 A and be ready | hoots ly i March Liked to Blow and Bluster, February's coldest breath. Poor April began to weep—she knew | unless done at little something was time to stay, $0 ghe whispefed to her! - 4 sleeping sister: “May, May.” she softly called, "w ake | brother March to go out on a! frolle and you know he will forget to | May woke up with a sweet smile, ee N whe “he whe a he whe de he ge whe he ae ge ge ue we _ . whe “ae He A LINE O' CHEER By John Kendrick Bangs. | SL J J 2.8. 8 8 A BB 8 8 TITTY TT TTTTTTTYT™™Y GREETING ¥ a ’ I wake oo mornings at the break of Hello, everybody,” 's what I'd lke to Meeting with a greeting friendly in ita style Everybody, everywhere, care to have a amie; And for the beginning there's n« better time this very moming when | write my rhyme, So. whoe'er you may be-l don't really care— Hello, everybody! where! © by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) day Wiss rs ray, who'd Than Hello, every I I IT TITTY Bladder added etat edad lad et bd db tb 2 jut what can we do?" she asked, “March is such a blustering creature he quite frightens me.” “But you must help me,” sald April. “We will tell him how wicked old February is and that he only wants him to come out roaring and cross so he can keep the earth covered with snow longer, March was working fast to get ready “Oh, } let a fellow can't you?” began crossly. April began to cry, the tears streaming down lier pretty cheeks March turned to say Kay, alone, he something very May's smile you two ngain but stopped, caught and do ie old Feb- “He is Please don't go out with brother,” April begged. for us by driving old February home. He does pot want you to break the icy coverings of the ponds or make the earth soft for us.” “Please, brother, don’t make us stay pleadéd May with smile ‘I he the loveliest flowers you ever gaw this year, but if you go to frolicking with ve some of and 1 shall : . I am afrald sOme tints will quite done that Oat her work to do prettiest be my May smiled again at her brother and April's eyes filled again with tears “Oh, 1 Al don’t because but I'l cry again, » for me ont ie is up Off came his heavy coat and out he February, chuckling turned ond fled when . and 1 vent and old himself outslde he saw March Over the field Marcel chased him, o inne JAY BIRDS SUPERSTITION found in many sections of the country but espe- A third day. in hell devil f Of common bird disappears that day ins On where every on duty to. tell the The more form of this superstition is, perhaps, he is he KOC he Is him carrying to on that day sticks to the devil for fire with This superstition is a from Norse mythology and Ger. day 0 as direct ly the same tation of had luck. superstition more as 8 bringer the jay-bird follows the myth than the superstition itself, In the days of Odin and Thor the ancient magpie does modern magpie night, themselves on when into Walpurgis transformed WOMAN would rather have you assure her that her eyes were than tell her of the discovery of seven new planets Alas, when did a bald spot, or a lean purse, or a tendency to embon- point ever deter any man from seek- No matter how a wife may long to how, it always gives her a cold shock rn bright, new, pink polish on his fin- ger nalts, —— A man who can remark In an ab- stract way that he “loves the beaut) 8 ¥ (® by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate. ) ful” and f woman's fanificance at the same time gaze into eyes with such that It gives concrete { | | i i i i Mary Alden i ee Charming Mary Aiden, the “movie” star, refuses to divulge the secret of her birthplace, claiming she is a citi zen of the world and a servant of the She was educated in Mon. treal. Los Angeles and New York claim her. Miss Alden has green-blue eyes, black hair and a fair complex. ion. She has been seen in some of the most prominent productions. the ice went, and breaking up a8 he | i | i i i i | law of pature, offer gifts” —and beware of a woman when she ceases arguing smiling at a man's deflections, A bachelor’s feeling toward a mar ried man is something like that of the homeless stray, who gazes with min- gled scorn, pity, amusement and envy at the pampered, overfed pet Pom straining at his leash, Sudden shock has been known to turn a woman's hair white In a night «but then, sudden determination will always turn it dark, again, in a day. Isn't nature wonderful? A woman's pity for a discarded lover may be akin to love; but a man's pity for the woman he has just escaped Is a blood relative to ennui. Bachelors are like barges without tugs; they may carry a lot of weight, but they never get anywhere. Man proposes-—bum not unt!l woman haps got him so blindfolded and tan- Bled up that he can't see any other way out, . (Copyright by Helen Rowland) mmm Prossssmntn To Make Drop Biscuits Drop biscuits are made just as oth. er baking powder biscuits are except that more liquor is used. The bis cults should be of such consistency that they may be ‘dropped from the spoon upon a bal or tin but not thin enough te cause them to spread, Folks said that was like a lamb, he they did not know that it was of his sister April's tears and his ter May by MeClure wus because s smile that he was so gentle Newspaper Syndicate ) Hnnnpumane 5 . magpies and flew away to Blakulle to consult the devil At first It would appear strange find the jay bird—the most noticeable specimen of which in this country is the Jay—inheriting a magpie myth. But ornithologists tell us that the magple and the jay are very clos iy related and that blue of Europe is a connecting tween them. In facet, io blue the magpie link well ig ne as other. Therefore, the bad habit of the magpie tn mak ing periodical visits to the devil Blakulle it is not surprising that the jay bird should similar practice. bYIMcClure Newspaper Syndicate.) when we consider ' ii be suspected of a df Pron ~ - > a * a “What'sinaName?” By MILDRED MARSHALL RP Facts about your name: its history; meaning: whence it was derived; sig. nificance; your lucky day, lucky jewel SOLLLLLLSS LORETTA ORETTA should, by right of origin, be spelled Laurefta. Its accepted form is due to the influence which destroys the “au” and supplies the letter equivalent to its pronunciation. Loretta signifies “laurel,” but there considerable difference of opinion to her source... Some oty mologists believe that it is taken from L Italian so called should consider St. Laurence Others contend that meaning avenue, and applied to the clusters of hermitages which eventual ly formed the nucleus of monasteries A religious interpretation is that the name Lauretta was evolved to com. memorate the laurel grove, or loreto, to which the Italians believe the angels transported the holy house of Nazareth during the conquest of Pal estine, But whatever theory is correct, Lau- refta made her debut as a feminine natne among the Flemish in 1162. Her next appearance wag in the time of King John, when a daughter of Wii lam. de Braose, lord of Bramber, was so called. After that, the name be came popular In usage throughout England and France. In the latter country, it is called Laurette. The emerald Is Loretta’s tallsmanic gem. It ig the jewel of youth and springtime for Loretta, and will bring her the charm that comes from quick. ened jutelligence, and the admirgtion of “Others. Wednesday fs her Incky day and 8 her lucky number. (® by Wheater ¥vndiente. Ine ) Use for a Slide Rule A slide rule Is an Instrument com. posed of various scales the positions of which In relation te each sther may be altered. It is used for the rapid performance of certain arithrdetionl operations. The scales may Ye on. graved on straight rods, disks, dr on the surface of a cylinder.
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