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VOLUME XIX. No. 179.
VJorld Armaments on the Verge of a
Revolution-Invention For Exploding
Mines at a Distance
Rome.—The nervousness with which
Marine Minister Mi Ho replied the other
day to an interpellation of a deputy on
what has been done in order to reserve
to Italy the exclusive use on Engineer
Guilo Ulici’s invention for exploding
mines and projectiles at a distance, han
been interpreted here tochiy as a sure
sign that world armaments are on th*
verge of a revolution as great as that
brought about by the invention of gun*
powder.
Since the day when at Florence in the
presence of a committee of admirals and
experts Ulivi succeeded in exploding one
by one four mines p aoed in the Kiver
Arno from a distance of four miles, the
general staffs of the army and navy
have been a number of secret sitting to
consider the purchase of this invention
and also to discuss with experts what
change must be made in the chemical
composition of the shells in evder to be
safe from the effects of such an inven
tion as this in the hands of a rival
I*o wer.
State Secret.
As the government now considers Uli
vi’s invention a state secret tile press
lias ceased all commits and descriptions
of the invention w’hile Ulivi has suddenly
disappeared.
Today another startling piece of news
comes from Syracuse. A young elec
trical engineer. Salvatore Spadoni, beside
claiming priority of invention oven* Udvi,
expresses willingness to test before gov
ernment experts another invention, des
tined further to embarrass the govern
ment’s selection of new armaments.
Spadoni in fact claimed that a motor
boat fitted with hts apparatus is more
powerful than the most up-to-date dread
Mid-Season is Upon Us at Last—One-
Third of Playing Days of Two Big
Leagues Are Used Up
New York—-Mid-season is upon us
at last. One-third of the playing days
of the two hig league races were used
up when night fell Friday and yester
day the second stretch of the campaign
is at hand, figuring on a division into
throe equal parts—start, mid-season
and finish.
Altogether the Major League seas
on this year, which began on April 14
and will wind up on October 7, covers
a stretch of 176 days. One third of
that total is 59 days. The fifty-ninth
ray of the season was yesterday and
the second segment of the same length
"ill wind up on August 10, when the
home stretch segment wdll have ar
rived
Mid-Season.
It is in mid-season that the major
ity of pennants are won or lost. A
review of the big league races for ten
years back shows that the pennant
winning > elub in nearly every instance
gleaned its highest percentage of vic
tories during the central portion of the
strife. Figuring it conversely the club
that had the highest percentage during
the middle third of the race won the
Hag.
Thus, if the usual occurs, we may
expect to view practically all the teams
at their true speed within the next five
weeks or so.
There is a sound phychological
reason why the team that does the best
work just now- should be the winner.
Playing good ball at this time regard
less. of whether the team’s start was
good or bad. gives its members confi
dence that will help also in the final
run down to the wire. If the team had
left the past at a good clip and simply
!:ept up this Pace during the midway,
It would be proving to itself that after
all the galloping beginning was no
fluke and that it really had the goods
to excel the others, which it would
continue to do In many cases. On the
ether hand, if it had got away to a
poor start and found itself bracing up
end playing good hall in mid-season
the players would figure simply that
they had outclassed the field all the
time, that the breaks had been going
Mister Mathewson Dilates on the Hazar
dous Profession of Baseball-i.e. the
Guy Who Writes for Christy Says So
New York.—Tlie ball player, in pur
euiriß Ills ••hazardous" occupation, often
risks his 01, slaved young life, according
to one of the articles that hear Christy
Muthewaon'a name aa author, but which
Christy doesn't write and probably doee
n't aee until he orbs them on the news
papers that print ’em.
Mister Mathewson, (or, rather, the guy
who writes the Mathewson articles) as
serls with vehemenence that a ball player
gambles witli fate every time he ambles
to the plate. lie asserts that the player
takes his life right in his hands—and
his feet, too—when he slides for a base.
Also the player runs tlte risk of having
Ills skill! busted when he attempts to
field a fly ball, for who knows but some
day that ball will slip right through his
hands, kerplunk on his coco, and then—
"another- little job for the undertaker;
'nothcr little job for the casket maker.”
Well, what of it, Mister Mathewson?
Why do you try to hold up the ball play
er as the poorest possible risk for an ac
cident insurance company? Is a ban
p'ayer's life In any greater danger than
that of a structural iron worker, steeple
Jack or a husband who goes home on
Saturday night with a shortage in the
pey envelope?
How about the chances a guy has to
take when he's caught red-handed by
the boa* while he’s in the act of ex
pressing his true opinion of the bOBS to
the rest of the office force? How about
the chances King George and Premies
Asquith must take since Emmy Pank
hurst got out of jail? How about the
umpires General Huerta and Frank Mo
ran, the Pittsburg White hope" as poos
Insurance risks?
It Is to laugli when this Mathewson
article attempts to out that base
ball is a really dangerous occupation.
The percent gc of deaths through acci
dents in baseball Is only one person kilt
ed for every 1.00T.000 persons playing
the game and the ratio of serious In
juries in baseball Is so small that IPs
hardly discernible even under a mlcro
sc oj e
Harry Stone, a former Nsw York
newsboy, is an example of how a fellow
■an mine gold in Australia with a pair
of boxing gloves.
About n >g,r ago Stone used to figure
occasionally In preliminaries In and
aroiutd New York, g’idly accepting IS,
*11! cr 1.5 for taking a heating. Stone,
•veil «« a prelim fighter dtn't stacs
up very high hereabouts. And then he
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
naught armed with a score ot' fourteen
inch guns or any number of guns.
Speaking to a newspaper correspond
ent. Spadoni, a quiet, unassuming young
man who for tlie last five years has
spent twenty-four hours a day in his
laboratory, said that only the lack of
means has hitherto prevented him from
experimenting on a larger scale and
bringing the public attention to his in- }
vention, which he has named “Exterml- j
nator” on account of the terrible effects '
obtained with a small model.
Magnetic Waves.
“Utilization of magnetic waves and
their transformation Into •leciric ray#," i
Spadoni said, “present endless possibi
lities. Besides infiared rays," which
Ulivi has utilized for explosion of mines
at a .distance, “there are utuer rays whose
effects are more destructive. My in- |
vention can be easily carried by either
«ieroplaii£ or motorboat and can be used
also‘as a redicgraphic transmititing and
receiving station.”
“L cannot say much, but will shortly
prov-e to the world that regardless of
their contents bomb and mines can be
exploded from any distance, range of ac
tion depending entirely on the relative
potentiality ot the apparatus, that ele- ,
mentary matals can be melted and anl- i
mal life destroyed.
“So far, not one per cent of the vast I
possibilities of electricity has been
utilized and the future has tremendous!
things in store for us. The field is so I
vast that fifty Marconis could not ex- i
ploit it. As for me, I claim no original- j
ity, the only merit of my invention being
the opening of one of the hundreds of«
dors which still shut from us the ulti
mate secrets of nature and science.’*
against them in the early days but that
at last Dame Fortune had shifted and
was giving them a square deal. In
either case the general frame of mind
would be about the same.
Bolted Furiously.
On the other hand take the case of a
team that had bolted furiously at the
beginning and then played hardly in ttie
middle of the race. The players would
get the Idea, subconsciously at least,
that their pace in the front part of of
the battle was more or less of a lucky
fluke and they could not deliver as
they should Then take the team that
started poorly and kept on doing Poor
work in the middle section This team
would be "down in the mouth” and
anyway would be so far out of it in
matter of games won and lost that no
sort of hurricane finish could avail it
anything.
Another factor that figures promi
nently- in this mid-season business is
the weather. The "hot weather team”
is generally the one that lands up on
fop. Few successful teams in the his
tory of the game have been the sort
bothered by extreme heat. It is the
team that can stand up day in and day
out through the terrible strain of a
midsummer sun beating down on the
field that wins the games during this
stretch. And a team to do that must
have machine morals, courage, for
bearance and untiring energy. It is
such a quality that has enabled John
McGraw’a Giants to land three straight
pennants. He makes his men work
like Trojans on every play battle as
if their lives depended on each little
thing they did. He makes them keep
that up, trying constantly no matter
how hot the sun may bake them. Thus
he is always getting 100 per cent of
the value of his men out of them. Th"t
also is the reason why they probably
will win a fourth straight flag this
year. Connie Mack makes his Ath
letics toil in the same way. So make a
note of this} —watch for the standing
of the clubs on August 10, figure which
have done the best work between now
and that date, and see if those felloes
do not capture the hunting.
disappeared to be heard of again just
aa he was about to sal! from Australia
for England where he lias some big
purse matches In prospect.
Stone went to Australia direct from
New York and landed there wltti hardly
enough money to buy the next morning s
meal. And now lie’s got $12,000 stowed
away In his jeans
He harpooned a job doing prelims down
in Kangaroo hand and he who wasn’t
looked upon as even a fifth rater In
New York made a big hit with the pro
moters and the fight hungry fans. He
Jumped from the prelims to a star bout
man and lie made good. The Austra
lians now siy he's the beat middleweight
that has come to the fore In the past 10
years.
Jess Willard, a former cow puncher
who has been essaying the roll of man
puncher for a year or two, yearns to
meet Jack Johnson. 1-Yank Moran or
Gunboat Smith. Willard, who Is six feet
six Inches removed from Mother Earth,
and who totes around 240 pounds, thinks
ne can win from 'em all and prove to the
public what he has long believed that
he’s the best heavyweight in the world.
Recalling how Willard conducted him
self In his bout with Carl Morris In
New York last December we quite ugree
with Wjllard in Ills contention that tie's
the greatest heavyweight—the weight
being mostly in his feet.
IF IT’S SUNG BEFORE
CROWN PRINCE, ITS 0. K.
Berlin. -Hongs that have pleased
the Crown Prince and his family can
not be Indecent At least, this appears
to be the rule of law from the conduct
of the state's attorney in an action
against a Berlin music publisher. The
action began with the confiscation of
fifteen songs. The prosecutor contend
ed that each of these was Indecent and
a violation of the law concerning ob
scene publications.
The defendant's attorney set up that
ten of the songs had been sung at a
special performance in the palace be
fore the Crown Prince and other mem
bers of the Imperlul family by a caba
ret pkefortner. These ten were thre
upnn released but the court upheld
the confiscation of the other five.,
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