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Connie Mack of Athletics,
Connie Mack and Frank Chance
will each be given a much higher
rating as a manager by the baseball
public than was accorded to either in
1909, bqt neither has shown qualities
as an organizer, disciplinarian or gen¬
eral that he did not exhibit during
the preceding pennant race in landing
his t,e;.m in second place. Chance
has won a pennant with every major
league team of which he has been in
charge except in 1905 and ln 1909.
The Cubs of 1905 lost tho oervlces of
the lamented Selee. in mid-season and
Chance, his successor, established his
reputation as a leader by securing
third place. New York won, witli
Pittsburg as the runner-up.
The Athletics have made a credit¬
able record during Philadelphia’s
membership in the American league,
but Mack has never been able to win
two successive flags. In 1901, the
initial season of the American league,
the Athletics finished fourth. The
White Sox carried off the honors of
the year. In 1902 the team that Me
Graw dubbed the "White Elephants,"
CINCINNATI SECURES A STAR
Dave Altizer, Who Has Contributed
Much to Success of Minneapolis,
Is Drafted.
1 One hundred and fifteen minor
league players were drafted by the 16
clubs of the two major leagues when
the national baseball commission met
at Cincinnati recently. Of these the
National league secured 67. while the
American league got only 48.
The Brooklyn club of the National
league secured 15 players: the New
York Nationals were the next for¬
tunate In the draw, as they secured 13
players: Philadelphia Nationals came
next with 12 players secured: Chicago
Nationals were fourth in point of num¬
ber with 11 players, while the Chicago
Americans secured ten.
The others ranged downward to a
single player by Detroit, and this one
is under investigation, so that Detroit
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may come out empty-handed in thq
draw. St. Louis Nationals did not se
cure a player. A little less than
000 was deposited with
Bruce of the commission to cover the
drafts.
One player in particular,
Altizer of Minneapolis, was
eagerly sought. Every club In
leagues wanted him. He was
awarded to Cincinnati.
Altizer is to take the most
leap of all this fall. It Is reported.
will march to the altar with one
the fair young ladies of Chicago
himself to be doubled
finished first. Boston beat them out
in 1903 and in 1904 Philadelphia
tumbled to fifth place. In the next
race, the Mackmen qualified as the
American league’s representative in
the first world’s series conducted un¬
der the auspices of the National Com¬
mission, but were decisively defeated
by the New York Giants, and were
shut out in four of the five games.
Bender blanked the Giants in his
team's lone victory.
The gameness of the 1910 Athletics
has been proved and those who ear¬
lier in the race taunted them as quit¬
ters and predicted that they would
not stand the strain, have been si¬
lenced by their sustained steadiness
at all stages of the campaign. Most
of the veterans are still In line.
Coombs, Bender, Plank and Morgan
are considered the big four at the
Athletic artilerists, but none but
Mack knows who will be his slab
men in the world's championship
series. It Is possible that Krause
may be specially prepared for these
engagements.
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Harry Lord has been counted as
the classiest of third basemen for
the last two seasons. He has been
picked on the All-American teams
of several of the dopesters.
Fred Luderus has already made
himself solid with the Philadelphia
fans. He looks even better than
Bransfield and it is likely that he
will soon supplant the veteran.
President Herman of the national
commission announces the national
commission will investigate the plan
for two ball clubs to tour the country
and will bar league players from the
tour if Tex Rickard is backing it.
The National commission will not
allow the promoters of the All-Na
tipnal and All-American teams to get
away wi{h it. The commission is right,
for the game should be allowed to
rest in peace during the off season.
Snodgrass, the leading slugger of
the National league, is only a young¬
ster, and if he keeps up the record
he has set for himself this year he
should have a record as good as that
of Pop Anson, Ed Delehanty or Honus
Wagner, as a great hitter.
Cobb of Detroit, Snodgrass of New
York Nationals and Lajoie of Cleve¬
land are batting .362, .360 and .359, as
named. There is only one automobile
to be given to the player having the
highest batting average at the end of
the official season in both leagues.
Pitcher Klettinger of the Clinton
team should get a chance to show
what he can do in the big leagues
after that exhibition against the Cubs
a few days ago. Any bush pitcher that
can make the coming champions go
11 innings to win a 2 to 1 contest
1 must have something worth trying out
in his whip.
President Kinsella of the Springfield
team, who sold Meloan to Chicago, Is
becoming a successful scout. He has
sold four more players of his team:
Outfielder Shaller to Detroit, Pitcher
Willis to the St Louis Browns, Catch¬
er Hartley to Toledo and Pitcher Lau
dermilk to the St. Louis Cardinals.
Kinsella is said to have 300 players
contract
HIS CAREER WAS ACCIDENTAL
Harry Mclntire, One of the Winning
Pitcher* on the Chicago Team,
Telia of Start.
BY HARRY MclNTIRE.
(Copyright, 1910, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
My baseball career was rather an
accident from the outset. I never had
the slightest idea of earning my live¬
lihood playing ball or of taking It up
aB a profession. The truth is that I
was inclined to go into the priesthood
when I was a small boy, and my other
ambition was to be a locomotive en¬
gineer.
From the time I first can remember
I loved baseball and played it, always
as a pitcher, if the other fellows would
let me, and when they wouldn’t let me
pitch I played somewhere else. It was
at the Brothers’ school at Dayton, O.,
that I first belonged to an organized
team. I was backstop for the catcher,
and very proud to chase balls that
went past him. I began to study pitch¬
ing then, for we had a good pitcher on
the school team, and I watched to see
what he did to puzzle batters. One
of the priests had been a pitcher at
school, and he taught me some more.
1 remember when he told me that
keeping cool and never losing the tem¬
per was a better way of winning than
pitching curves.
Pretty soon our class team let me
pitch, and after a time we tackled the
school team and beat them so I was
put on the school team. I began to
think I knew it all, and it took several
beatings to show me how little I knew.
When I left school I was looking for a
job and a friend of mine, who was
playing on the Kankakee (Ill.) Y. M.
C. A. club asked me to come over
there and pitch for that team. I
looked on it just as a summer vaca¬
tion, but made good there and found
myself getting along so well I com¬
menced to study pitching seriously as
niy profession. It was hard work with
many discouragements, but I stuck to
it. Every time a batter made a hit
off me 1 studied to find why he had hit
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and what 1 ought to have done to
him from hitting hard. The next
I arrived at Danville, Ill., anil
all summer. There was
wise old catcher there who taught
a lot, and front there I took a
of big jumps into the big league
have stuck. I think the great
why I have managed to stick
that 1 never have stopped study¬
the game and its players. If a man
gets to know It all he will be in the
bush leagues soon.
BROTHERHOOD HAD FAST BALL
In 1890 Baseball Players Used Sphere
/That Burned Infielders When
Hit—Some Batting.
Speaking of the rubber-cored ball
and the cork-cored ball and likewise
the cry for more batting, how many
of th<* fans remember the time when
a ball was used that did result in ex¬
tra slugging?
ln 1890, %vnen the Brotherhood was
hatched and tried, there was the same
yell for extra batting that you hear
today. The Brotherhood decided to
gratify the wish, and, first of all,
moved the pitcher a foot back.
Then they had a special ball built,
with twice as much rubber as was
contained in the Reach-Spalding
globule. The result was batting till
you couldn’t rest, but, unfortunately,
was also bad fielding.
While the new ball went so fast
and so burningly that the Infielders
had to duck or die. ’it also took weird
and inexplicable leaps, and when sail¬
ing for the outfield, would actually
turn and wheel away as if blown by
the wind.
It is the plain truth, and no exag¬
geration, absurd as it may seem,
many a time a ball would start for
center, and, with the center fielder
all set, would swing over and take
the right or left fielder off his guard.
Batting? Plenty. Pete Browning
led with .391. Had the present scor¬
ing rules, which all favor the bats¬
man, been in use, Pete would have
been tabbed .450, maybe more. Any
time they want more batting, a rub¬
ber-centered ball, with additional rub¬
ber, is the thing to do the work.
Browning would have hit about .600
that season with the pitcher as far
back as he is now, and using that
lively ball.
TO FATTEN TURKEYS
Approach of Thanksgiving Day
Brings Matter Up to Farmer.
Demand Is for Plump, Well-Fattened
Birds, and Extra Effort Required
to Produce This Kind Will Be
Well Repaid.
With the approach of Thanksgiving
and the holiday season, the attention
of all who raise poultry naturally
turns towards the fattening of the
surplus stock, including all the tur¬
keys not to be kept over for breeding
purposes. All poultry in proper con¬
dition sells well at this season, but
turkeys, particularly, sell best of all.
And of all poultry nftne pays so well
for the extra flesh put on as the tur¬
key, for the larger the birds are the
more we can realize a pound for them,
writes W. F. Purdue in Ranch and
Range. This being a fact, in the first
place every effort should be made by
all turkey growers to raise only large
birds for the market, as large as is
possible to do so without injury to
the breeding stock. It is possible to
get turkeys too large for breeding pur
poses and the turkeys that are over
grown and leggy in appearance do not
make good market turkeys. There
fore, good judgment should be used in
breeding, the object being to breed
birds as large as possible and at the
same time avoid breeding overgrown,
gangling birds. Inbreeding seems to
ruin the vitality of turkeys quicker
than any of our domestic fowls, and
this should be guarded against. The
birds need good, strong blood behind
them to carry them through.
None should be marketed but well
fattened turkeys. The demand is for
plump, well fattened birds, and the ex¬
tra effort required to produce this
kind will be well repaid. It costs no
more to make a pound of turkey meat
than a pound of pork, and the former
commands a price greatly in excess
of that of the latter. Turkeys that
are not large enough to go on the
market for the Thanksgiving trade
should be kept over for Christmas
when the late and small birds ought
to be in prime condition. The Christ¬
mas market generally caters more any¬
way to smaller turkeys, yet plump and
well fattened, while the Thanksgiving
market demands the largest and best
turkeys produced.
Turkeys intended for the market
should be allowed a limited grain ra¬
tion for the first ten days, gradually
increasing the food until they are com¬
fortably on a full grain ration. If the
flock contains many late fowls, which
should first gain in size and frame,
sometimes before the actual fattening
process begins they should be fed
such food as will develop bone and
muscle. Corn, oats and wheat in
equal quantities supplemented by some
kind of animal food, if insects are
scarce, such as beef scraps or even
sweet skimmilk, is a good ration for
this purpose. This will produce bone
and flesh, aiding nature to develop
them into properly filled out birds.
They should not be overfed at this
period, only giving them enough feed
to keep them ln a growing, thrifty
condition. If this is followed with the
small birds, or even with the whole
flock so long as the feeding is not
overdone, they can gradually be
brought up to a full grain ration with¬
out danger of any serious results fol¬
lowing. It frequently happens that
feeding turkeys a full grain ration at
first results in crop bound or indiges¬
tion, which brings about serious
trouble and very often a loss of some
of them.
TIME TO HARVEST C0WPEAS
When Sown Alone for Ensilage Crop
Should Be Cut at About Same
Maturity as for Hay.
When sown alone cow r -peas should
be harvested for ensilage at about the
same maturity as for hay. They
should he cut only a short time before
going Into the silo, raked green, plac¬
ed In small bunches, or, better still,
loaded on the wagon directly from
the windrow. When planted with
corn the combined crop may be har¬
vested with the corn-binder and han¬
dled in the same manner and as eas¬
ily as corn planted alone for ensilage.
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Cow-Pea Harvester.
For hay, cow-peas should be cut when
the first pods and some leaves begin
to turn yellow.
Cow-pea hay cures more slowly than
alfalfa but It should be handled in cur¬
ing in about the same manner. Cut¬
ting should not begin in the morning
until the dew is off and the hay should
be raked and allowed to cure in the
windrow a short time.
The picture shows a cow-pea har¬
vester attachment for the mowing ma¬
chine, showing the vine-lifters on
guards and a windrowing attachment.
These machines are almost indispens¬
able where large crops are to be har¬
vested.
Spring Lambs.
The best spring lambs grown at the
New Hampshire state school came
from a cross between the Merino and
the Southdown.
HANDLE T0 up-end barrels.
Directions for Making Device That
Will Materially Aid One in Han¬
dling Heavy Objects.
The ordinary way of upending bar¬
rels is to take hold of the edge at the
floor or ground and lift, which is quite
hard on the back as well as the hand
that grasps the barrel rim, writes Don
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Upending a Barrel.
C. Higbee in Popular Magazine. If
y OU jj ave many barrels to handle, the
devlce sho wn in Fig. 1 will be of I
g. rea ^ assistance. The construction of j
jjj e dev j ce ia simple and it can be
made ln a few m j nu t ea ’ time. The
handle is about three feet long, an
the lower end of which ]s fastened a
block having one side hollowed out to
^ the curvature of the barrel. An
[ ron hook is fastened in the wood 6
or 8 inches befc^w the hand grip. The
handle is used as shown in Fig. 2.
JJ$[: COTTON-SEED PRODUCTS
Oklahoma Crushers Start Campaign
of Education Among Farmers,
Advising Use of Meal.
A campaign of education has been
started by cotton-seed crushers of
Oklahoma among the farmers of the
state to use meal and other products
of cotton seed instead of raw seed, as
many dQ at present
M a meetlng held ln Oklahoma city
u wag decidsd to agR Pre8ldent Con .
nors of the State Board of Agricul¬
ture to make an address to farmers
on cotton-seed products as stock ,
food. \
“There is as much nourishment In
cotton-seed meal as in raw cotton¬
seed,” said Sidney Roberts, Wynne
wood cotton man, “and so farmers can
make money by bringing us their
seed. The mills will give 3,500 pounds
of meal for 2,000 pounds of seed, and
it will go just as far. Down in Texas
the farmers appreciate the value of
cotton-seed meal as a stock food, be¬
cause it goes so far. There the oil
mills sell at home all the meal they
make. In Wynnewood we dispose of
only one-half of 1 per cent, at home.’’
Well Preserved Butter.
Thirteen years ago a Delaware
lowered ‘wo pounds of butter In
covered bucket in a well to
off. The string broke and the
went to the bottom. A few
ago the farmer was clearing out
well and found the bucket of but
sound and sweet as a nut.
^General Notes m
Farm
Rye is coming in favor this fall.
Level cultivation saves moisture.
Water is of inestimable value in the
garden.
Disposition has an influence on the
value of a horse of any type.
Are you sure of every cow’s yearly
output of butter-fat and milk?
Calves should be well bedded so
that they will be dry and warm.
Be ever watchful for the appear¬
ance, in your hives, of foul brood.
Every ewe in the flock should do
her separate part and perform her
work well.
Ewes that possess strong
tions should be selected for breeding
Quality, while not easy to define, is
one of the most essential points
horse flesh.
Early varieties of apples and pears
should be picked before they have
become soft.
Leaving grain in shock for from
four to six weeks Is attended with a
great deal of risk.
There is nothing gained in keeping
animals in the flock simply
they once were good breeders.
A good ditch should be dug
the poultry yards to prevent water
getting in and to keep them dry.
If the heavy mares do not produce
good foals by a certain mating then
try another stallion of the same class,
Very young calves sometimes have
a form of scours that is due to a de
feet in the constitution or to prenatal
conditions. ....
Milk at a stated hour both
and evening, and keep everything
about the stable and the dairy clean
and fresh.
An insect pest that has caused
severe losses where currants are
r™ duces reddish blisters on .he leaves.
If you have not killed that surplus
rooster. get rid of him at once for he
not only makes no profit himself, but
devours the profit returned by others,
This Is the time of year to keep that
»cu„ „», ,h, drt„ k .
ing pans. Typhoid lurks therein, and
chickens have typhoid is the fall
Scald often.
HARD LUCK, INDEED.
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“Yep, Bill fell inter a beer vat an’
drownded; but dat ain’t de
of it. Dey pumped him out
dey rescued him!’’
Tuberculosis in the West Indies.
Associations for the Prevention of
have been formed In
Porto Rico and Trinidad. In
there are over 40,000 deaths from
every year, and the death
from this disease is nearly three
as high in the United States.
Porto Rico there are over 6,000
every year out of 1,000,000 in¬
In Trinidad, the death rate
tuberculosis in Port-au-Spain, the
place where figures are available,
4.75 in 1909. nearly three times
rate in New York city. Condi¬
in the other islands of the West
where no active campaign
tuberculosis has been under¬
is even worse. The chief rea¬
for this high mortality is found
the unsanitary, dark, and poorhl
houses of the natives of tfl
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Not on Your Life.
An Irishman obtained a position in
skyscraper that was being built. He
had to carry mortar up to the top
One day he went up and
find his way down. The boss
missed him and called up to hjm:
"Pat,’’ said the boss, "why don’t you
down?”
“I don’t know the way,” said Pat.
“Well, come down the way you
went up.”
“Faith, and I won’t,” said Pat, “for
came up head first.”
Even the Children.
Ex-Governor Pennypacker, con
demning in his witty way the Ameri¬
can divorce evil, toll? at a Philadelphia
luncheon an appropriate story.
“Even our children," he said, “are
infected. A Kensington
schoolteacher, examining a little girl
in grammar, said:
" ’What is the future of love?’
“ ‘A divorce,’ the child answered
promptly.”
Man’s Many Attributes.
What a chimera, then, is man!
What a novelty, what a monster, what
chaos, what a subject of contradlc
tion, what a prodigy! A judge of all
things, a feeble worm of the earth,
depository of the truth, cloaca of un¬
certainty and error, the glory and the
shame of the universe.
The Part of*It.
“I wonder if that sour Miss Oldgirl
ever had any salad days?”
“I am sure she had the vinegar and
peppery part of them."
Happiness grows at our own flre
sides, and is not to be picked up in
strangers’ galleries.—Douglas Jerrold.
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