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: ; Stallings Coaching Gonzalez.
The illustration shows Manager Stallings of the Boston “Braves” coach-
f ¥ng Gonzalez, the Cuban catcher, at
their: training camp at Athens, Ga.
"Stallings believes he has a find in the young Cuban ball player.
WHY PITCHERS CANNOT SLUG
i%eteran Jim McGuire Says It's Be-
cause Heavy Hitters Dodge the
Position of Twirler.
“He must be a pitcher; he can’t hit
ffhe ball.” How often one hears that
sronclusion by the fans and it raises
tthe question: Why are pitchers al-
¥nost always poor hitters?
Jim McGuire, Tiger scout, says that
ene of the reasons is that when base-
ball men find out that they can’t be
#&ood hitters they develop themselves
¥into pitchers. And vice versa, when
they find that they can’t be pitchers,
they make a stab at developing them-
sselves into hitters and become out- |
fielders. |
~ Veach, for instance, the new Tiger |
e>utfielder and slugger from Indian-|
mpolis, tried two years ago to be a |
mitcher. He found, however, that he |
wwas going to be so valuable as a hit- |
ter that he decided to give up the |
¥aurling stunt, at which he could be |
«nly mediocre, and give his attention |
%o the development of his hitting.
The result has been that he has hit |
Ibimself into the big league with ex- |
e=llent prospects of staying there.
Veach certainly has an arm that
¥s great, all right. He has shown it in
his pegs. Of course, after using it
@as he has for throwing from the out-
#eld, he has tossed away his chances
wf becoming a pitcher again.
Cashion, the big 220-pound pitcher
wwith the Nationals, is a man whom
¢Clark Griffith tried to make into an
«<>utfielder. Cashion started in to hit
ms if he meant to be among those in |
€he .300 class, but he failed to make
#&ood and Griffith returned him to the
gegular pitching’ staff.
J. MILLER IS GOOD ON FIRST
Strengthened Pirates in Weak Spot |
and Fans Look for Another Pen- |
nant in Smoky City.
When Jack Miller finally signed his
econtract the Pittsburgh fans were
made happy. This means that the
wosition of first base on the Pirate
#eam will be well looked after this
Wear. Miller was a hold-out for some
time, but the differences between thé
INew Jersey lad and Manager Fred
€ Clarke were adjusted in a manner
that pleased all concerned. First
¥rase has been a weak spot on the
{E2irate line-up for a number of years
Jack Miller.
snd has knocked the team out of
wore than one pennant, in the esti-
ymation of Smoky City critics.
Jack Miller was shifted from sec-
ond to first last season in the hope of
pringging up the weakness and the
rmove was a capital one. Miller made
good from the start.
The Pirates are looking for a pen-
rant this year and it is conceded hy
s=ood’ baseball judges that they will |
them as the |
the National
experts pick
team in
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" amd a good sticker.
WANTS PARK SIGNS CHANGED
Morris Rath, Clever Second Baseman
for White Sox, Thinks Could Im-
prove 1913 Batting Average.
Morris Rath, regular second base-
man of the White Sox and leading
fielding sacker in the American’
league, is ambitious to win more glory
on the baseball diamond. He wants
to boost his batting average above the
.300 mark. In order to achieve this
distinction Rath wants the signs at
Comiskey park changed. He thinks
the signboard caused him to suffer a
slump in his batting last season when-
ever he played at Comiskey park.
Rath is ambitious to become the
best all around second baseman in the
American league, a distinction that
has been given Eddie Collins of the
Philadelphia Athletics for several
seasons.
“I don't know whether the center
field signs at Comiskey park are
changed, but if they will run that
green streak all the way across I will
get more base hits. Our left hand
hitters certainly love those signs,”
| said Rath.
Rath was the best fielding second
baseman in the American league in
1912. He had the edge on Eddie Col-
-lins, the leading fielding star of 1912.
It was the belief of several critics that
|:Rath excelled Collins all the season
in the fielding end of the game.
Rath
had thirty-seven more assists than the
fleet little second sacker of the Ath-
‘letics. In fielding ground balls and
going back after pop flies and possi-
ble Texas leaguers Rath has no peer
| in the major leagues, thinks Manager
Callahan.
Besides being the best fielder at his
position in his circuit, Rath is one of
the best waiters at bat in the big
leagues. There is one thing in which
‘Rath ought to show improvement in
1913, and that is in his base stealing.
He has the speed to steal fifty bases
a season. He pilfered only thirty
sacks in 1912.
It is also the ambition of Rath to
win the checker championship of the
White Sox. Like Christy Mathewson,
Rath is a good checker player. The
championship will be won in an elim-
ination series. Rath, Doc White and
Frank Lange are the leading players
on the club. ' Newspaper scribes will
also be admitted to the tournment.
AROUND
7% BASES
“Doc” Johnston has been doing
.great work at the initial sack for the
Naps, and has cinched the job.
Nap Rucker, the star hurler of the
Superbas, picks the Pirates to land
the flag this season, the Giants sec-
ond and the Cubs third.
Jim McGuire, the veteran Tiger
coach and scout, says that there were
few players in the olden days who
wanted to become fielders. ‘Every
youngster wanted to be a pitcher or
catcher,” says Jim.
Lee Magee of the Cardinals is said
to be the fastest man on the team.
They say he has enough speed to fur-
nish several athletes.
A baseball scribe says the Boston
Braves are against woman’s suffrage
and equal rights, because they are
afraid women will take their jobs.
McGraw has announced that play-
ers on his team sipping of the foam-
ing hops will be fined $25. This is
the first season the Giant pilot has
taken a stand of this sort.
Schwenk, a young southpaw with
the Browns, is being called a second
Joe McGinnity because he pitches
both overhand and underhand.
“Bermuda forever,” says Manager
Chance. The peerless leader believes
he has found the fountain of youth in
the island training camp.
Pitcher Bill Steele of the St. Louis
Cardinals communed; with Smoky
Joe Wood during the ‘winter and says
he has picked up several of Wood's
tricks in pitching.
EL
CELERY AS DUCK FOOD
Winter Buds and Root Stocks
Are Relished Best.
Plant Is Wholly Submerged With Long,
Flexible, Ribbon-Like Leaves of
Light Translucent Green—
Flowers Are Peculiar.
(By W. L. M’ATEE.)
The names wild celery and canvas-
back duck have been closely associat-
ed in the annals of American sport.
To a certain extent this association
is justified, since the canvas back ob-
tains about one-fourth of its food from
this plant—a greater proportion than
any other duck. However, the asser-
tion that the flavor of the canvasback
is superior to that of any other duck
and that it depends on a diet of wild
celery is not proved, to say the least.
"* The scaups or bluebills and the red-
head also are very fond of wild cel-
ery, and are fully as capable of get-
ting the delicious buds as the canvas-
back. Several other ducks get more
or less of this food, the writer finding
that even the scoters on a northern
lake in fall lived almost exclusively on
it for a time. All parts of the plant
are eaten by ducks but the tender
winter buds and root stocks are rel-
ished best. Wild celery buds can usu-
Wild Celery.
ally be obtained by the diving ducks,
such as the bluebills, redheads, can-
vasback and scoters. The non-diving
species, as the mallard, black duck,
baldpate and the geese get an occa-
sional bud, but more often they feed
upon the leaves.
Wild celery is a wholly submerged
plant with long, flexible, ribhon-like
leaves of light translucent green and
of practically the same width (any-
where from one-fourth to three-
fourths of an inch, from root to tip,
This plant may be distinguished from
the eelgrass, which lives in brackish
or salt water, by the fact that its
leaves grow in bundles from the root
stock, while those of eelgrass arise
singly and alternate on opposite sides
of the stem.
The flowers of wild celery are pecu-
liar. The staminate flowers attached
at the base of the plants shed pollen,
which floats on the surface of the war
ter and fertilizes the pistillate flower.
The latter is attached to a long slen-
der, round stem, which contracts in-
to a spiral, drawing the flower under
the water after fertilization. The
seed pod into which the pollenized
flower develops is straight or curved.
a little slenderer than a common lead
pencil and from 3 to 6 inches long. It
contains embedded in a clear jelly,
small dark seeds, in number about 50
to the inch. No such pod is borne by
any other fresh water plant.
GUINEAS ARE HARD TO RAISE
Young Birds Must Be Watched Care-
fully Until Past Tender Age—Of
Very Wild Nature.
Guinea hens are among the hardest
of all birds to breed, chiefly because
the young guinea is so extremely ten-
der. They are also of a very wild
nature, and when one of them is lost
from the hen it may be counted as
lost. It is advisable to keep the young
guineas shut up for a few days after
they are hatched and feed them on
bread crumbs, coarse corn meal and
occasionally a hard-boiled egg, ground
fine and mixed with the bread crumbs.
After they leave the hen, if the days
are warm and bright, they are allowed
to hunt bugs and worms and require
little feeding. After they are feath-
| ered out they need little care, as they
are able to shift for themselves until
the winter cuts off their supply of
food.
In winter they must have a shelter
and be fed the same as other poultry,
,but must be kept shut in when there
is snow on the ground, as they will
fly into the tops of trees or on roofs
of buildings, and refuse to come down.
Latest Idea in Anchors.
An anchor for lifeboats has been in-
vented that is hollow and filled with
nil, which will still the waves after it
has heen thrown overboard.
Died While Decorating Grave.
A painfully sad occurrence took
place recently in the Belfast Cty
cemetery, when an aged man named
Charles Kildea, who was engaged in
decorating a grave, suddenly became
Hugh High, the youngster whom the i
Tigers obtained from the Connecticut |
State league last year, is pretty sure
will stick. He is unusually fast
RC
ill, fell to the ground, and expired in
a few moments.
Two Points of View.
Young men think old men fools, and
ld men know young men to be so.
F. Metcalf.
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Quickly of all Eruptions.
For several weeks past S. E. Thor-
ley has done a big business in selling
Hokara, the skin healer that has
won so many friends in Meyersdale.
It has been found to heal not
only all minor skin trouble like
pimples, blackheads, acne, herpes,
scaly scalp, complexion blemishes,
itching feet, piles, ete., but also the
worst ulcers or even chronic eczema
and salt rheum. There has yet to be
found any form of wound or disease
affecting the skin or mucous mem-
brane that Hokara does not help,
and its action is so quick that those
who try it are simply delighted with
it right from the start.
In spite of its unusual curative
powers, the price is trifiing. To con-
vince every one of its merits S. E.
Thorley will sell a liberal jar for
25c. And remember that if you do
not think it does what it claims,
you get your money back. You cer-
tainly can, afford to try it on this
plan. ad
FIVE MEN ON B. & O."IN-
JURED AT HOBLITZELL
While attempting to make a quick
stop of a handcar on which they
were riding down the grade at Hob-
litzell, on the Connellsville division
of the Baltimore & Ohio, railroad
Tuesday morning, the car was de-
railed and five of the section gang,
Damico Datelona, Peter Marlucei,
Alphonso Marlucco Niccola Delgross
and Digento Delsico were injured.
One of them is thought to be inter-
nally injured. {
enemas.
Eczema spreads rapidly; itching
almost c:1ves you mad. For quick
relief, Dcun’s Ointment is well rec-
ommend:. . 50c cents at all stores.
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Fur Good Roads.
The date of the big State good
Harrisburg in the interest of the pro-
posed amendment to the constitution
to permit the Commonwealth to issue
bonds for highway building, has been
changed from September 17 to 18.
This is because the 17th is the day
after the primary elections, and it
would have been inconvenient for
many men interested in good roads
to get to Harrisburg so soon after the
voting of the 16th.
One of the most impoptant features
of the big gathering will be the or-
ganization of county committees to
take charge of the subsequent cam-
paign for the bond amendment in
their various counties. The effort
will be to constitute these county
committees so as to represent the
many elements of citizenship that are
favorable to the construction of high-
ways on a systematic plan. Doctors,
lawyers, preachers, merchants, me-
chanics. men of all walks of life, will
be enrolled and given an opportunity
in their home communities to lend a
hand in this popular movement to put
the great State of Pennsylvania in a
position to finance its most important
public improvement practically and
economicuily.
While the idea of the big conven-
tion was conceived in the minds of
officers of the Pennsylvania Motor
Federation and the active work of
preparing for it has been in charge of
Mr. Joseph H. Weeks, Chairman of
the Good Roads Committee of the
Federation, and while it is expected
that large numbers of automobilists
will come to Harrisburg to participate
in the meet, there is every indication
that it will not be in any sense dis-
tinctively an automobile convention,
but will be representatiye of the best
thought of the people who have come
to regard good roads as essential to
the development of a great State.
The convention will include delega~-
tions from organized labor, who rec-
ognize the the extent to which better
roads will contribute to cheaper living
and the general welfare of the work-
ing classes, while many of the big
industrial corporations also will be
represented because of the apprecia-
tion of their management of the fact
that improved highways mean busi-
ness prosperity.
Chairman Weeks is not yet ready
to announce the list of speakers, but
assurance is given that it will include
some of the best known men in the
State, as well as several good roads
authorities of national repute. The
convention will be held in the Hall of
the House of Representatives in the
State Capitol, which will probably be
far too small to hold the crowds.
Governor Tener . will welcome the
good roads enthusiasts to Harrisburg.
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