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Deathof Baseball Players’ Fralernily Brings Life Back Inlo National Pastime
Charles W. Murphy Says Game
Has Improved Since Elimination
of Fultz and his Organization,
By Charles W. Murphy,
Former President of the Cubs.
UITE & change has come over
those connécted with baseball
#ince the demlise of Dave Fultz's
union. The complaint was common
last season that the players were not
showing any spirit on the ball fleld
and the games were devold of Inter
et for that reason A player would
get to first base, and, leaning on the
shoulder of the first baseman for the
home team, he would ask: “What are
they paying you this season, old
man ?"”
Before, during and after the games
on the fleld little knots of players
would congregate and schemes weras
discussed on how to further hold up
the magnites, while the agents for
the union In each league city were
busily engaged almost daily posting
some kind of bulletin or other from
Fultz's law office in the clubhouse,
The fraternal spirit was terribly
overworked and the game in general
suffered thereby.
The union had been a flat failure
and A detrimént to the game because
rivalry had been practically de
stroyed. Players spent morg time
shaking hands with visiting athletes
than in trying to win games, It was
evident that herolc measures were
necessary to restore the game to its
former interesting plane on the field
and to curb the P enzied finance which
had grown In the business end of the
sport during the time when Fultz as
buminess agent was playing the role
of agitator. The powers that be de
clded to give the union the “mackerel
B s ™
Game Begins to Improve. \
From that time forward baseball
began to get back on its feet as a
game of chance and the old aggres
slveness was once more lin evidence.
Much of the handshaking was cut out
and the brotherly love stuff was not
20 evident on the playing fleld. Ty
Cobb and Herzpg had a lfm on the
:rrmq training trip and subsequently
eGraw punched Umpire Byron in
the mouth because of an nqu in
sult. Then Pitcher “Babe” Ruth land
ed on Umpire Owens on the playing
fleld because he did not ke a decision,
It would thus seem that baseball is
a game of extremes. The rank and
flle of the great nrm;' of fans had
grown tired of the fraternal stuff,
but this season so far there has been
no just cause for ('omfiilnlnln. about
a lack of pog on the field.
1t is not that the fans want rowdy
jsm--far from it. When they pay
their money at the gate, however,
they want to witness a contest. This
season in most instances they have
been witnessing regular ball games.
In the National League, however, the
me“ have been detracted from
ly because of poor umpiring, but
the fans are glad that the fraternal
stuff has been canned, for a time, at
feast. The Tener-McGraw imbroglio
{8 the direct outgrowth of xd umpir
a and has been kept alive too long
ause of those involved “passing
the buck.”™
McGraw Case Badly Handled,
This case has been miserably han
dled. Why, it should have been for
gotten lonf ago. The way it has been
going lately the fans may be talking
about it the remainder of the season.
The idea of flninf Manager McGraw
S6OO and suspending him for sixteen
days for slapping the mouth of an in
competent umpire off the field was
g:eposuroun. Mind you, this slapping
ppened off the ball fleld, and after,
McGraw clalms, he had been insulted
by Byron. The true story of what
happened has not yet been told in
print, so I will tell it now.
Catcher Tom Clarke, of the Cin
cinnati club, was arguing under the
.hr:nd stand with Umpire Byron after
the game, when Manager McGraw
passed on hig way to the clubhouse
for the visiting team. *“l1 don't know
what the argument is about, Tom,™
pald MceGraw, “but, whatever it is, I'll
bet you are right” Byron flew into
a violent rage at that remark and
accused McGraw of having been run
out of RBaltimore. McGraw then
punched Byron in the mouth and fans
separated the men. That is about all
that happened at that time.
Playing Baseball
Now in Venezuela
With discouraging comment on all
#ides as to the effect that war by this
ntry will have on American sports,
E is somewhat refreshing to turn to at
st one instance where the present
war in Europe would seem to have
benefited sports In no little degree.
The news comes from Venezuela, South
America, and is to the effect that the
. masnitude of the sugar industry in the
'eg:mnom south of us, resulting from
: demand ‘frowlnz out of the war
; attracted many Cuban baseball
2 :‘vm to the continent and these men
: ve orfanllod baseball teams and
- started to play the great American
game.
~ All of the South American countries
- whose soil is adapted to the cultivation
~ of sugar, are sending to Cuba for expert
- workmen, and many of those who are
- responding have been diamond stars in
the Poarl of the Antilles. As a result,
: 1 promises to become at least as
~ well known, If not as popular, in Latin
- Amerioa as it Is in the West Indies
¢ The South Americans are a sport
loving people, and once the fascination
of the old cry “Play ball" fastens itself
upon them, there should be a wave of
anthusiastic response throughout the
: mfim‘.- The turnstiles at bull fights
. may er, but this, in the minds of
g iny, would be a consummation de-
E, S tly to be desired.
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- Finish of Speedway
. DBEB MOINES, IOWA, July 21.—Passing
: g:.’th‘o. D:: Bil:innj u:,utomobflo -;m-d.
goon A judgment of $24,408
- 2gainst the property h“m"d in Distriet
- Court here, Tt is mald the big wooden
_ itack probably will be torn down,
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A BY DAMON RUNYON 22,
HE attempt to hang a nick-
T name on our soldiers In
France is reminiscent of a
similar effort which was made In
1898, during
+ 4 : —the Spanigh
-4 . s ~A;‘"‘ American
vB ey War, espe.
% !;, k: ol clally on the
- oo West Coant,
o ey when the old
Ak Eighth Army
b il \.r;‘,’; Corps was in
R e P
. pines,
L K 'fig‘r Bomeone
L A decided that
ey our hoys
A d‘j ought to
have a niek
naune corresponding to the Brit-
Ish “Tommy Atkins,” Jjust as it
has now been decided in France
that the Americans need some
#uch handle.
The nage picked in 1808 was
“Johnny Green” Why “Johnny
Green” we canm not say., The
fact that the average reader prob.
ably never heard of the title as
applied to our soldiers shows how
successul was the attempt, yet
It was quite frequently used In
many m-vnnqmru for a sapell,
“Johnny Reg” was another term
sometimes employed, applying
woge to the regulars than (o the
volunteers, but It did not last,
Probably both “Johnny Green”
and “Johnny Reg” traced back to
the “Johnny Reb” of the Civil
War, the name the Northern sol-
Glers called the Confederates, but
we are not sure about that,
Anyway, nelther “Johnny Green”
nor “Johnny Reg" was pat enough
to stick. Now sgome correspond.-
ents are referring to the lads in
France as “Sammies,” and some
are calling them “Teddies,” both
names having a fairly definite ori
gin and meaning, but it is doubt
ful if either will survive for any
length of time.
Some nickname may spring up
later and cling; bhut If 1t does it
will probably be gome extempora -
neous name, and not one evolved
after profound thought, as seems
to be the case In the “SBammy”
matter, although at that “Sammy"
is preferable to “Teddy.”
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May Come From Soldisrs.
The name 18 more likely to
-Krln' up among the soldiers
themselves than among the non
combatants, and It le still more
likely to be hung on them by thelr
allies,
It is a einech the American sol
diers will have new nicknames for
their brothers-in-arms—i‘rench,
FEnglish, Russian or Italian—and
a cinch that they will pull some
new tag on the enemy, for the
Yankee fighting man is marvel
ously prolific in digging up nfek
names for everybody and every
thing around him, and especially
for his adversaries,
The “Fritz"” and “Boche” of his
allleg may prevall with him for a
time as titles for the enemy, but
before he is through with the war
the American soldier is sure to
have a name of his own for the
German.
The war with !&cln did not last
long enough for the Amerioan to
produce any other nickname for
the Castilllans than “yellow bel-
Hes,” but the Fillpino quickly be
came “gugu” and “kackiack*”
The Mexican, originally called
a “greaser,” has been a “spig” to
our soldiers for the last couple of
years, and, in fact, “spig" is the
title the American Wwow generally
On Way to Title
“How much Is t? One, two, three,
four, five and five are ten, and (en
makes twenty dollars. When do you
fight again, Benny?'
Such was the Rnrtbl scolding that
Benny leonard, the new Hflnwolxh‘*
champlon fighter of the world, recelve
from his father one night five fé“" afln
when Benny returned to his ast Side
home after boxing Young Cross a six
round, no-decistion bout in Newark, N. J.
Purse Keeps Benny In Game.
The boy who was destined later to
wrest the world's title from Freddie
Welsh had won his hlx‘o-l purse up to
that time, S2O in bills. Had the amount
been the usual §5 it is probable that
Benny wnul(“hnvo stopped his rm( on
reer right then and there and Welsh
would still be champlon.
But S2O is S2O, even in the best regu
lated lower Bast Side families, and Fa
ther Leiner was anything but a goor
business man. From that time on Ben.
ny kept on fighting with increasing reg
ularity and success, until today the
most admired object of art in the wide
world in the Leiner home is a portrait
of a pair of hoxln%ozloves or anything
that savors of the boxing trofolslun.
| Leiner Family Turn eonards.
Benny went on to trace his frudual
ascent up the ladder and recounted the
‘battles he had fought with the cham
pions of BSixth, BSeventh and Elrmh
‘n(reeu. angd he was always victorious,
and then the Leiner uml\"‘ moved up to
the Bronx, and with the ¢ n.%.e in resi.
dence came the change in Henny Lel
ner's name,
Miller Huggins Being
Lauded to the Skies
Miller Huvlm is being lauded to the
skies In St. Louls because the Cardinals
are in the National League fight when
no one expected they would be.
About a thousand fans in St. Louls
are parnonul!{ interested in what the
team does his may mean trouble in
the future, though it works for popular
ity during a successful season,
The Ideal ownership of a ball club
calls for one man to control it, with Just
enough other food fellows to talk about
the club in the right places.
Cricket Match Pays
$2,329 to Red Cross
NEW YORK, July 21.-—George Shaw,
treasurer of the Red Cross benefit crick
et match ‘pllyed at Livingston, remitted
to C. 8. La Poer Trench. chairman of
the American committee of the British
Red Cross, the sum of $2,329, represent
{'n;: the total receipts of the undertak
nfif’reunurer Shaw expressed gratifica
tion over the fact that it wag not neces.
sary to deduct a single penn?' for ex
penses, inasmuch as the cost of printing,
gro:;»d: and muslc, etc., was all do
nated,
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN . A Newspaper for People Who Think — SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1917
applies to all dark-skinned races,
It is sald to have originated In
Panama, and is derived from the
inevitable “no speaka da Eng
leexh,” or, as the soldlers under
stood it, “no spigga,” of the Pan
amanian,
- - .
“Doughboys” and Othars.
A forelgn correspondent writing
of the new nickname of our sol
dlers, said It was chosen because
it carried more meaning than the
term “doughboy.” it evidently be.
ms his impression that American
soldiers generally are called
“doughboyn.”
Ag h matter of fact, only infan
trymen are called “doughboys,”
The derivation of the term is un
known to the writer, but an army
officer versed In such lore once
ndvanced the theory that It was
probably eginally concelved in
more or less deriglon by the cav
alry.
The “doughboy” has, in retali
ation, A name for the cavalryman.
Wea have heard the fleld artillery
man occasionally called a “wagon
soldier,” and once we heard some
soldiers on the border refer to an
aviator as a “flapper,” but these
names are not fixed and definite
or in general use,
“Doughboy’ is part of the sol
dler language. The infantry does
not resent the name, and so far
as the infantrymen are conecerned
they will probably always be
“doughboys” regardlesg of the
nickname of the American soldiers
in general,
It 1s a diMcult matter to arbi
trarily affix a nickname to any
body or anything, A nickname
ean rarely be ordained; it must
be extemporaneous and it must
fit. Time and time agaln organ
ized efforts have been made hy
aporting writers to renickname
some baseball club, only to meet
with failure, so far as the public
Is concerned.
The name Yanks, applied to the
Ameriean League club of New
York, I 8 A case in point. It isn't
a particularly appropriate name
nowadays, but they have never
been able to change it.
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How Names Stick.
The sporting writers managed
to arbitrarily switch the name of
the Boston Nationals and get
them called the “Braves,” but then
the “Braves” never really had a
good name before that,
They wera called the “Beaneat
ers” and “Pilgrims”’ and “Doves”
and the like, but these names
never be%-ma popular with the
publie. he Yanks have been
ealled the “Highlanders,” “Kil
ties,” “Invaders’” and finally “New
Yorks," but “Yanks” is the name
that stuck.
They have never been able to
dig ug a good nickname for the
Phila oltghln National League
club, “Phillies” geems to be the
hest the writers and fans can do.
It Is the same with the Wash
ington American Leaguers and the
Claveland elub. The latter are
called the “Indians” by Cleveland
writers, but the name does not
strike the popular fancy.
The man who first called the
New York Nationals the “Giants”
assisted largely in the fortunes of
the owners of that club. The title
has been one of the club's very
fruteu assets for many years.
t 18 very doubtful if any organ
ized effort, no matter how strong,
could ever change that name
with the publie.
It does not always exactly fit,
but it is something which appeals
to the Popular imagination, and
that's the sort of name that will
have to be hung on the American
soldlers if it is to stick. ¢
Expect Philly Girl
P lly
To Win for U. 8.
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The remarkable swimming “arrm'm
ances of Miss Olga Dorfner, the Phil
adelphia girl, who so handily won the
national water nnrlntlng honors for
women last summar In Ban Francisco,
arouses hope once more that at last
Amerien has developed a swimmer who
can_ bring to this country the various
world's records for swimming.
" Herctofore Miss Fanny Durack, the
Australlan, has held a virtual monop
oly of the women's record from 50 yards
to 1 mile. Miss Dorfner onrw,\d the
climax of a series of startling per
formances extending over se'lerul weeks
by lowering Miss Durack’'s reford for 500
yards. The Quaker City girl covered
the distance in 7:32 1.5,
As the meet was held under the
nuu]\loon of the Middle Atlantic Amateur
Athletiec Unfon, and was pmserly con
ducted, there is no reason to doubt that
a world's record will be granted Mles
Dorfner. This will make the first split
into Miss Durack’'s long strong of rec
ords and i:vn an indleation of the L\na
sibilitels that the comlnf meets hold.
Miss Dorfner primarily has been a
sprint gwimmer and her best work has
been done at distances from 50 to 200
yards, Her triumph at the longer dis
tance was a surprise and now the short.
er distance marks should faH to her
speed, ‘
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Too Much for Huggins
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CHICAGO, July 21.—Miller Huggins,
leader of the Bt. Louls Cardinals, intend
ed to hecome a lawyer when he was a
lad. He liked to play baseball, but pos
sessod such a keen mentality his par
ents inslsted he follow the law.
So the youth abandoned bats and ballg
and took up the textbook. He studied
long and laboriously in the schools of
his home town, near Cincinnati, and aft
erward took a course in the Unlversity
of Cinecinnati, from which he was grad
unted with high honors,
Later he was admitted to the bar of
Ohio, but it never has been recorded
that Miller H*fiflna. lnw{yar. hung out
his shingle. e lure of the diamond
proved too strong for the embryo Black
stone to resist,
Hugging had made a reputation in
Cineinnati and environs as a ball plaf-er.
and he had no mmom?- findh\‘ emp. ng.
ment onh the dlamond. He liked the
fame because it afforded an opportunity
o think. And Miller Hugging will go
down in the annals of the pastime as
one of the greatest thinkers in the game,
Abdominal Supporters, Elastic
Stockings fitted by expert pro
prietors.
(V.E.) Perryman-(J.C.) Burson Co.
Ivy 4434, 109 N. Pryor St,
Opposite Candler l%dg.
Herman Willing to Box for Ban
tamweight Title in Baltimore,
American A, C. Is After Bout.
HILADELPHIA, PA, July 17—
P Kid Willlams, of Baltimore,
has been eager to regain his
world’s bantamweight title The
Peerless Athlotic Club, of the Moun
mental City, in which his present
[mnm\gv-r I# sald to be Interested,
made a bid for the match. In order
to close the deal quickly it offered
to present Champion Herman with
Isl,ooo over and above the purse the
moment he stepped Into the ring
Herman accepted these offers
‘thrmugh his new manager, “Red”
‘\\ alsh, byt insisted that no man from
Baltimose should be the third man In
ilhe ring. The writer placed himself
on recgrd In declaration that all the
money in Baltymore could not tempt
him to umqw In a Herman-Williams
bout wso IGPE as the latter was con
trolled by his present manager.
This declaration was made after
one of the man Interested in the Peer
less Club caused it to be given pub-
Heity that the writer stood in the
way of a match. Immediately a man
from New Orleans with an unsullied
reputation was elected by Manager
Walsh as his choice for the third
man In the ring. Since then the club
men who made the great offer and
who were so eager for Willlams to
regain his title have kept painfully
qulet, “
Herman to Start Training. ]
Red Walsh will start Champion
Herman training on July 23 Hiai
firet battle In his summer, autumn
and winter campaign will be In New |
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OOK at the buying of your car as you would look at
the buying of your home. You can find a house at
almost any price you would care to pay. But there
are certain necessities you must havesif that house is to be
a home. You wouldn’t, for example, try to get along in
tiny, cramped up, uncomfortable rooms. Neither would
vou live in a house with cheap plumbing, inferior wood
work, ill-fitting doors and rattling windows.
Without going into luxuries, there are certain neces
sities you must have to justify your calling your house a
home--a place you will be proud to own.
It is the same with your car. It must have a certain
amount of size, roominess and wheel-base to make it
really comfortable and free you from the need of constant
apologies. It must have materials of a certain quality to
insure its lasting the proper time to justify your investment
init. It must have the proper weight to make it hold
the road. It must seat all its passengers in comfort,
You wouldn’t buy a house that lacked the real neces
sities because 1t cost a few dollars less. Even so it is false
Four-Cylinder Models
FOUR Roadster . . 868
FOUR Touring Car . 085
FOUR Landau Roadster 1150
FOUR Every-Weather Car 1185
All prices f. o. b. Derroit
Orleans August 6 with an opponent
to be selocted by the home promoters,
After that he will be ready to tackle
‘nny boxer in the bantamweight class
‘who takes issue with him, Just as
KOOn a 8 arrangements are made he
will visit the North and East and
‘meet any 118. pound boxer the clubs
mw elect,
flllams, however, is his first
cholee for a long battle, Baltimore
can stage a fifteen or twenty-round
contest, The latter is preferable to
Herman, as he wants to stop the for
mer champion Inside the limit right
in his own eity In order to prove to
the fans that he Is Williams' master
over a champlionship route. They
have boxed In all Afty-six rounds
two contests of twenty rounds each,
one of ten and another of six. In
each opinions were divided as to
which was the winner, Herman Is
now anxious to make it decisive.
Shoe on the Other Foot.
Willlams dictated the terms of both
previous championship matches, se
lected his own referee and received
a llon's share of the purse in each In- |
stance, Now Herman calls the bluff
and will do the dietating, He wants
twenty rounds at 118 pounds ringside,
the llon's share of the purse and a
referee of his selection, These were
the terms conceded to Williams
twice; now the sghoe is on the other
foot. If the former champlon refuses
he will virtually confess that he lacks
confidence In his own ability and is
fearful of the result.
The American Athletic Club, of Bal
timore, a responsible organization, is
willing to stage the mateh. Its
matchmaker, Sam Harris, will make
a substantial offer to Herman and‘
will see that he gets the bonus and
will deposit the entire amount of the‘
purse with any bank or ilndividual
Herman or his manager, Red Walsh,
ma{ nominate,
If Willlams I 8 sincere in wanting a
return match here is his chance.
Gym Twice a Week
The College of the City of New York
permits women to use the gymnasium as
prart of a course in organized recreation
for women, under the asuspices of the
Department of Health. The women will
also be permitted to use the hand ball
and tennis courts. The classes will he
held Monday and Tuesday afterndons,
Men who ar' taking similar courses will
have use of the gymnasium on other
days. Marcining tactics and callsthenics
will be the Rrim-inul courses tau%h the
men, while the women will learn the use
of the gymnaslum’s apparatus and prac
tice light axerelses.
Buy your cur as you would buy your home
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There will be no change in Studebaker models this year, but theincreased cost of materials
and labor may force Studebaker to make an advance in prices at any time without notice.
‘Gyeat’% Um_pires .Are_’ Born
Rough Stuff Fatal to Game
EW YORK, July 21.—1 n the
N umpire trouble in Cincinnati
between John MceGraw and
Byron can be seen the outcome of an
evil that should have been crushed in
Its ineciplency, says Ted Sullivan. The
¢lements that make up an ideal um
pire are not mixed In every man,
Umpires, ltke great judges and refe
erees, are born, not made. Ball play
ers can be got, but not great umpires,
and this fact should be impressed on
the public,
The personality of an umpire on the
ball fleld and hia demeanor has a
command in itself. The great um
pires that figured in the mlatory of
the game from its profesglonal be
ginning were Doesher, Daniels, “Hon
est John" Kelly, Bob Ferguson, Bill
MeC'lean and the late Jack Sheridan,
of the Amerienn League, These men
were -trong phygically, and when they
entered a ball fleld there was dignity
and poise in thelr manner. We have
today Hank O'Day, Billy Evans, Mc-
Laughlin, Connelly, and a few others,
all first-class umpires,
To Err Is Human.
The greatest umpire will err once in
a while, and when it is considered
that they have but the fraction of a
second to render decisions they do re
markably well at that. Hewever, um
pires, good or bad, must have the
backing of their president and league
or their work will go for naught,
Ban Johnson grasped the situation
when he knew that, for the game to
live, umpires must be protected. Let
me add, however, had not Johnson
the support of the strong-minded,
practical ball men of his league, led
by Comiskey, he could not have solved
theé umpire problem the way he has.
If owners of ball clubs had the
practical good sense of Comiskey—
who knows when the duties of his
players begin and end--there would
be less trouble with those officials.
The toughness of managers and of
players with serpents’ tongues crept
into the game from the city lots of
our big cities. Their baseball skill
brought th?n into major leagues, but
they should have been divested of
their slime in the form of bawdy
house language and their mouths
STUDEBAKER
FACTORY BRANCH
245 Peachtree, Atlanta
washed before they put on a majlor
league uniform,
Rougn Stuff Fatal to Game.
The serpent’'s tongue Killed the
game ip Cleveland, and that so bad
that the team was transferred to St
Louls under the Robinsons. The foul
attack referred to was taken up by
managers and players of other teains,
who assalled the players of opposite
teams with unprintable epithets, and
even went into the private affairs of
n player's family to enrage and rattle
him. It seems that some of the mod
ern umpires were tainted with this
billingsgate, If umpires were in
structed to drive from the coaching
lines any player or manager who re
sorted to those taetics in the form of
lowbrow, roughneck language the
stuff would be killed in its infancy.
l.et me say also that there are some
umpires who lowér the standard of.
their position by indulging in cheap
wit with players during a game and
by “fanning” around hotels at night
with them. The American League
umpires as a class set a good exam
ple for umpires in other leagues.
“Fan” umpires with a butterfly
personality do not belong In the game,
I can understand the nature of the
fracas between Umpire Byron and
‘Manager McGraw, There are some
managers who are such hard losers
that they would fight a buzz saw after
losing a game, and McGraw is one of
them. It Is a Celtic temperament
and can not be helped, no matter
what penalty it suffers. You can not
make champagne beer in Its flavor
any more than you can make an Irish
temperament Teutonic.
On May 23, 1917,
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Koob Made a Hit!
On May 23, 1917, Pitcher Ernie Koob,
of the SBt. Louis Browns, made a hit. It
was a single off ¥rnie Bhore. These
details are given because it is some
thing of an event in Koob's life. 1t is,
according to the records, his first hit as
a maljor league ph){)er.
Koob had several bets that he would
get a hit before June 1, and those on
the losing end are alleging that Shore
was in on a plot to collect for Koob
and split with him.
economy to buy a car that lacks the essentials of motoring
satisfaction because it is cheap to buy. :
In the Series 18 Studebaker Cars you get all the
needed essentials of complete motoring satisfaction at the
lowest possible price.
When you realize that Studebaker, one of the largest
producers of cars in the world, enjoying all the economies
of great production and great resources, makes a smaller
percentage of profit per car than the small car manufac
turers, it is obvious that Studebaker includes in its cars
those features that small cars must curtail; and quality,
both of material and workmanship, that you cannot
reasonably expect to find in small cars at t{leir prices.
What is a small initial saving compared to a great sac
rifice? Be wise—before you decide what car to buy see
the Studebaker.
Nearly every automobile manufacturer has made an
increase in prices, but Studebaker prices still remain the
same as they were last Spring. This further increases the
value of Studebaker cars in comparison with all others.
Hans Wagflé} Wa; |
Wise to Quit Job
As Pirates' Pilot
HICAGO, ILL., July 21—
‘ Hans Wagner gshowed wis
dom when he decided to
throw up the sponge as a man
ager and return to the ranks of
ordinary players under Hugo Rez.
dek. The fans alwave have made
an idot of Honus as a player,
and many of them expressed re
gret wnen they heard that he had
consented to try his luck at han
dling the Pirates,
The critics foresaw disaster
starirg Honus in t(he face and
were fearful that the effect it
might have upon him would
shorten his career and possibly
drive him out of the game before
the present sceson is ended.
Honus has reached that age
where he musgt conserve all his
energles, Any additional mental
strain is llkely to be reflected in
his physical powers. He g play
ing on borrowed baseball time as
it is. His life as a player has
veen of unusual duration. Few
men have lasted as long as he,
end few have been so valuable,
However, n 8 old as Wagner s,
in a baseball sense, thare are few
players in the sport today worth
as much to their 2luhs as Wagner
is to Pittsburg. Wagner does not
like eriticism. He has never had
to stand for any amount of it,
because he has always attended (o
business, always has given the
club his best efforts, and, even
when he was in a slump, was able
to do so well that his temporary
shortcomings could be overlooked
without difficulty.
As a manager, Hang could not
escane some criticism, and he
would have hal cares galore. The.
task of leading any ball team lis
strenuous enough, but when a
man is in command of a tail-end
er, his task is exceedingly aiffi
cult.
Any man who is trying to pilot
an aggregation like the Pirates,
who are lacking im color and
ability, 14 up agaipst it for fair.
There is no doubt that Wagner
realized all this, and for these
reasons insisted on Dreyfuss cast
ing about for another man to
shoulder the responsibility.
Six-Cylinder Models ‘
SIX Roadster . . 81230
SIX Touring Car ~ g 1250
SIX Landau Roadster . 1850
SiX Touring Sedan . 1700
SIX Coupe . . o 1750
SIX Limousine . . 2600
All prices 3. o. b. Detroit