SEVEN HARD HITTERS Make Five Clean Hits in One Game This Season. Bobby Byrne and "Dots" Miller of Pittsburg, Together With el, Daubert, Olson, Verkes and Collins in the List. Hitting out four and five hits in a elngle game looks like a great task, but it has been frequent this season for the batters in the American and National leagues. To date just forty two players have succeeded in hitting "em where they ain't, and equally di vided, twenty-one in the American and twenty-one in the National. Four Na tional leaguers have piled up five bin gles in a single contest, while three have turned the trick in the Han John eon organization. Four members of the Cardinal team have clouted out four blngles in a single game. Eddie Koney was the first to turn the trick, getting them on April 14, with Miner Brown the op posing twirler. Reb Oakes duplicated the stunt April 22 when he opposed Humphries, Keefe and Bagby of the Reds. Rube Ellis was the next Car dinal to get four safeties in one game. He did this on May 5 against the Reds, when he banged out a single, triple and lifted two into the right field bleachers. Lee Magee gathered four singles on June 1. The players to hit safely five times In a single game are liyrne and Miller of the Pirates, each collecting four one spots and a double. Hobby of the "Dots" Miller of Pittsburg. Reds gathered the same bevy on May 6, while Jake Daubert of the Superbas did it against the Cubs with three sin gles, a double and a home run. There were the only four to turn the stunt in the National league. Ivan Olson started the ball rolling in the American league when he hit out five singles off Bill Burns of the Tigers on April 13. Yerkes of the Boston Red Sox was the next to hang five hits in the Ban Johnson organization. This came on April 20, when he got three singles and two doubles. Eddie Col lins got five singles on May 18 in the farce game with the Detroit Tigers. Larry Doyle* of the Giants has had the most success in hitting the oppos ing pitcher safely four times in one game. The Giant's captain has turned the trick three times this season. The first time was April 16, with two sln- Eddla Collins of Athletics. « gles, a double and a three-bagger. Next came May 1, when ho got two singles, a two-base knock and a home run. Five days later ho again got two sin gles, a double and a three-base hit. Ty Cobb of the Tigers is the only player in the American league to get four hits in more than one game. The idemon Detrotter has ripped off four blngles twice in one game this Beason. Charley Dooin's Phillies seem to b^. 1 (trikiug their stride again. ( OLD RIVALS PLAYING WITH JERSEY CITY Billy Purtell, Formerly With Boston and Chicago. Billy Purtell and Harold Janvrin, who were on the Boston Red Sox team at one time, are now playing with Jersey City. Until recently Janvrin has been leading off the batting list, SAYS BAN JOHNSON IS WRONG Manager Who Appears on Field In Uniform Should Not Be Counted as Player, Says Griffith. Clark Griffith, manager of the Wash ington team, does not agree with Pres ident Baa Johnson in counting as a player a manager who appears oa the field in uniform, even though he may not goto bat. He does not believe in the justice of the latest edict of the boss of the American league. "A club is allowed 25 players," says Griffith, "and that ought to include players, not coachers. lam not a player just be cause I wear a uniform. 1 wear a uni form in order to be closer to the game than I could be if compelled to make complaints to umpires and assist my team at critical pinches with my ex perience. But that shouldn't make me one of the players allowed the club. Ilarry Wolverton may rightly be con sidered a player. So might Harry Davis and Jake Stahl and Jimmy Csl - They appear in regular cham pionship games and figure In the box scores. But Hughie Jennings and I are no more players than Connie Mack, even though wo do wear a uniform and coach on the lines. lam not in sympathy with President Joiinson in this view of the matter, but hardly ex pect to make a test case, as I haven't the limit of players even counting my self." lAmonstheJ 1 Griffith is the Sherlock Holmes of the coaching box on balks. Hank O'Day Is still looking for pitch ers to brace up his dilapidated staff. Pitcher McTighe has been released by Johnny Kling of the Boston Craves to Buffalo. Pitcher Sam Frock, recently turned loose by Baltimore, has been taken on by Kansas City. Pitcher Walter Miller has been sold to the Elmira club of the Xew York State league by Atlanta. With Brooklyn and Boston at the bottom of the percentages that old column looks natural again. Cub fans would appreciate it If Cheney pitched as well with none on bases as ho does with the sacks crowd ed. Hugh Kellackey, manager of tho Boise team, who died recently, was a brother-in-law of Bill Bradley of Tor onto. Toronto sells Jim McGinley to Wil kesbarro and Ed Winters to Bingham ton, both in the New York State league. The reputation of pulling the unex pected has become the property of the White Sox as well as the Athletics this year. Jhonny Kling says that Bridwell Is not through as a player, and that even If he were the Braves would keep him as a scout. Heine Zimmerman will have a half nelson on one of those automobiles by fall if he keeps up his great bat ting record. Ed Kllllan, the once famous left hander, who won many a game for the Detroit Tigers, has been given his un conditional release by Buffalo. Ambrose McConnell, Becond sacker Ot Toronto, was sent home to under go treatment for what is thought to Be a broken bone in his thumb. ! Herman Bronkle, who was released /by the Cleveland club, is setting the IA. A. on fire again. He holds up a I batting average that looks like .370. with Purtell second. Purtell played second base while Janvrin was on third. Purtell, however, was later shifted to the outfield. He was a far vorite with Chicago White Sox fans. PITCHERS CANT MAKE GOOD Miserable Exhibition of Cincinnati Twlrlers Ha 9 Been Great Dis appointment to Fans. The great disappointment of the Cincinnati Reds this year has been in the pitching staff and Manager O'Day's flingers, taking them as a whole, are putting up the most miser able exhibition in the National league, their failure having practically killed the hopes of Red fans for a look-in at the pennant. One of the big disap- Harry Gaspar. pointments has been Pitcher Harry Gaspar. The lowa photographer start ed of? well, but recently has joined his fellows on the pitching staff in boost ing batting averages of opponents, says tho Detroit Journal. O'Day now hopes to make a trade for him and it is possible that Gaspar in new com pany will recover some of his old prowess. VALUE OF PLAYERS' ERAGES One Can Judge Better of Man's Real Ability by Seeing Him Work. Than by Statistics. After all, fielding averages do not indicate exactly a baseball player's value to a team. In the long run they may furnish some substantial indica tion, but one can judge of the real ability of a player better by seeing him work. A good example of the general propo sition here submitted was shown In Chicago recently when Zeider was given an error on a play, which an alyzed, was a mighty good effort, says the Milwaukee Sentinel. Mcßride bat ted to deep short and Weaver, getting tho ball after an effort, threw wide to tirat, drawing Zeider off the sack. Zei der scooped in the ball, and at the same time touched Mcßride as he went by. The umpire waived the play er out, but the impact of the horsehide and player caused Zeider to -3rop the ball and the decision was reversed. There was nothing to do but give Zei der an error on play, whereas he should be commended for splendid work and quick thinking. This indicates that sometimes where errors are made, the plays are. as a matter of fact, swell attempts, and that those making them are better players than others who have a fine average because they refuse to take chances. Sweet on "Red" Smith. Brooklyn papers say that "Red" Smith, Atlantan, is the best player Brooklyn has picked up aince the Su perbas landed Daubert ODD ISUD TRIBE Queer Inhabitants of the Lane of Siar. Whole Population Number Only 14Q Yet Forms a Distinct Tribe With Manners and Customs Pe culiar to Itself. Friedrlcli Wilhelm Hafen. No international exposition or large fair is supposed to be complete now adays without its native village, where two score or so of men, women and children, preferably cannibals, from some far distant land, and supposed to live more or less in their na tive state for the edification of the curious. A visit to Siar reminds one irresist ibly of such an exposition village; tho difference being that the inhabitants instead of displaying their charms to crowds of civilized visitors, are en gaged in doing so to each other. It is hard, on visiting the island, to real ize that the natives are specially got up for one's particular benefit. The island of Siar, which is less than a mile round, lies in an archipel ago on the coast of German New Guinea and close to the principal port in the colony, Friedrich Wilhelm Hafen. This town boasts of a white population of about 25 and contains only ten or a dozen houses half hid den among the cocoanut trees. The whole population of the island of Siar is about 140, and these people really constitute a tribe distinct from the Inhabitants of the mainland or of the other islands. The natives of the mainland, who are themselves suffi ciently curious people to excite the wonder of anybody, are ready and anx ious to point out the islanders to vis itors and make money out off one by rowing one over in a boat on the monthly visit of a steamer. On approaching the island nothing is seen but the dense vegetation which covers St all over. However, on pene trating a few yards inland two clear ings are reached around which are grouped 30 or so huts that form the village. The word hut is really too dignified a one to describe their rude dwellings; strictly speaking, they live, eat and sleep on a straw and wooden platform raised four or five feet from the ground, and which is covered over by a rudely-thatched grass roof. There are no sides to the dwelling, the front and back being generally quite open, o = 'jj Hut on Island of Siar. although the slanting roof extends so far down as to form eaves which come below the level of the platform. Ac cess to the platform is furnished by some logs placed so as to form a slop ing ladder and in addition to the main one the Papuans huto a custom of pro viding a smaller one to be used by the dogs. What little work needs to be done on the Island seems to be done by the women; the men are apparently too deeply occupied in exhibiting themselves to the other members of the community. Tfielr costumes may be said to consist of a loin cloth, which is really the only article of actual dress they have; however, to make up for the lack of tailor-made gar ments, the rest of the body is fairly covered with miscellaneous ornaments. Every man has around his forehead a large number of dog's teeth made into a necklace; these teeth are look ed upon as being quite necessary, and the desire not to be without them is so strong that a few of them are usu ally sufficient to buy a wife. These teeth form a good setting for his elab orate headdress; the hair is carefully fuzzed up, dyed a rusty red, surmount ed by a flat circular shell, and dee orated with feathers and colored grasses, sticking outward and upward a distance of a foot or more. THUGS DRESSED AS WOMEN Woman Bound by Masquerades, Loses SIO,OOO Gems in New York Apartment. New York. —Thugs dressed as wom en attacked Mrs. May liernhelmer at her home in a fashionable uptown npartment house a few days ago, beat her Into insensibility, bound and gagged her and escaped with gems valued at SIO,OOO. Mrs. Bernheimer told the police th?»i her maid met her at the door, upon her return from a shopping expedi tlon and welcomed her with a blow upon the head with a potato masher, j A second blow knocked her uncoc *."loubs si)« atu-J. VALUE OF LAUREL WREATH Trophy Has Always Been Much Prized by Victors in the Arena and In Battle. Time was when a laurel wreath meant to the winner of an event more than a diamond-studded belt and a SIOO,OOO purse, and the classics give us 110 hint of any "fakes" in those days, says the New York Telegram. It is curious what an important part laurels have played in the develop ment of man, and to "win one's laurels" is a phrase in common use, as signifying the attainment of honors of i one sort or another. Gerard tells us that the laurel "is well respected for the beauty of its leaves and their continual greenness," and these leaves are remarkable for . the fragrant though dangerous odor they give forth. Indeed, the leaves ' were at one time much used in cook ery to impart the flavor of almond, for both contain the acid which goes to i form prussic poison. But so danger ous is the shrub in this respect that its use has almost disappeared from | modern cookery, though the sweet bay I —which is another form of laurel —is much used up to the present time, as it is harmless unless taken in large quantities. This form, the bay. It was that probably became the pride of the victors in the Pythian games held in honor of Apollo in ancient Greece. For it was by means of the purifica tion the god obtained In the sacred j groves of Tempe, from the blood of the python, that he was enabled to purify others, and the laurel held a close connection with Apollo in an j clent Greece, the legend of the beauti ful woman who was changed into a laurel being the origin of the modern name Daphne, which has been be stowed upon the two native species of i laurel in this country, i It was only the winners of the con : tests In the Pythian games who were ! crowned with the laurel, the Olympian t winners receiving crowns of olive | leaves, and the Nemean and Ismian | winners receiving crowns of pine and ; parsley respectively, but the use of j the laurel afterward spread into ■ Rome where the victors in war were ! crowned with laurel, and the leaves were much used in the triumphal entry Into Rome of the conqueror after a battle. ITCHING ECZEMA ON HANDS "Eczema began on the second joint of my thumb on my left hand. Sev | eral blisters came which soon broke I and water oozed from them. Then j the terrible itching began, and the ec : zema came in blotches on both hands. | Sometimes the skin would seem to ! break, and gave the appearance of being cut. and blood came out of them. It was very bad when I consulted a i physician. I was treated for several months, but grew worse all the time. "Then it came in my face. I suf fered more than I could describe from the itching and burning. I became nearly a wreck physically. Then I • consulted another physician and was : treated by him for some time when I he finally advised the Cuticura Rem edies. I began improving after the first treatment and was cured after taking the Resolvent and using the j Cuticura Soap and Ointment. That | was fifteen years ago, and I have | never been troubled with it since. "I owe my cure to the Cuticura | Remedies and would be thankful to impart any help to others. I have Just ndvised a lady friend who is suffering j with eczema on her face and neck, to try the Cuticura Remedies. She has been treated by a physician for some time without relief." (Signed) Mrs. L. C. Warriner, Lincoln, Del., Dec. 15, 1910. Although Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold everywhere, a sam ple of each, with 32-page book, will be mailed tree on application to j "Cuticura," Dept. L, Roston. Getting things without paying for them is some men's idea of economy. No Real Roads in the Kongo. Outside of Stanley's old road from ; Matado to Stanley Pool, now rarely used, and the lately constructed roads i in the Katanga connecting the differ i ent mines, there are no roads in the J Kongo. Native trails, waterways and i railroads furnish the only facilities of | transportation. Over the trails native i porters carry loads averaging sixty i pounds on their heads. There are no ! native industries in lielgian Kongo. In ' former days, before the state required so much of the native's time to gather rubber and prepare food, and before ; traders had introduced manufactured ' goods, the natives wove grass cloth i and mats, made baskets, metal spears, i implements and ornaments. Now. ; even though the rubber days are ; past, the new generation knows little ; of the native arts and the young men are usually found in the service of the state as soldiers or workmen. When Talk Beats a Book. A book agent's great disadvantage I lies in the fact that he so>seldom Is ! able to stock up with a publication ; which reads as interestingly as h® can talk about it. Comment Unnecessary. Saxon —It's a fine morning, Sandy (Sandy grunts). Saxon—l said it was a fine morning, Sandy. Sandy—Verra weel, verra. weol. 1 dinna want tae argue!— London Opin ion. Evil Result of Poverty. There is no doubt wliateve poverty murders the spirltun th