New-York tribune., 1907-05-26
THE DEEPEST MINING SHAFT.

IHE DEEPEST MlNlNG SHAFT.
II you go to the famous Red Jacket shaft,
for instance, you find the most powerful
hoisting machinery in the world, huge engines
Of as much 5000 horsepower which reel and
unreel drums OF wire cable that wind down a
straight mile below the surface. These en-
Slnes hoist ten-ton cars OF ore one mile at the
rate of forty miles an hour from the bottom
TO the top OF this stupendous hole in the ground
IN ninety seconds. This is the deepest mining
shaft in the world. Apart from this fact. per-
aaps the most interesting feature of the Red
Jacket shaft is in the theory that II Is possible
10 detect the effect of the earths revolution In Ii
hole as deep s this. No less authority than
President McNair Of the Michigan college OF
Mines has explained the bellef that nothlhg
dropped in this deepest Of mining shafts can
ever reach the bottom without collidinS with the
east side of the shaft.
This is due to the motion OF the earth" said
he. The article dropped, no matter what its
shape size may be. will invariably be found
clingtng to the east side of the shaft. One day
4 monkey wrench was dropped by miner. but
II failed TO reach the bottom and found
lodged against the east side OF the shaft sew
eral Hundred feet down. We decided that to
make a proper test of the theory il would ba
worth while to experiment with a small heavy
spherical body So we suspended a marble tied
with a thread about twelve feet below the mouth
Df the shaft. We then burned the thread with
lighted match in order not to disturb the exact
fall Of the marble. About five hundred feet down
II brought up against the east side of the shaft
When miners have fallen down the shaft the
result has been similar Their bodies badly
torn have been found lodged against the east
side Of the shaft. A carload of rock was dumped
down the deepest mining shaft in South Africa.
hut not particle OF It reached the bo+ton1 -
Ralph D. Paine, in Outing.
THE DISPUTED ORIGIN OF BASEBALL.
Real baseball is over sixty-one years old. But
The origin of the national game" is more in dis
pute than the etymOlOgy OF the term fan The
veteran journalist Henry Chadwick popularity
known as the father OF baseball" who is Eng
lish born. contends that baseball while an
American sport. had its origin in the game
played by the English schoolboy called round
ers-' The basic principle OF both games" Mr.
Chadwick argues. IFS the Of a bat. a ball
and bases. But ii is a short bat and a soft
hall. and the player hitting the ball, en-
deavors TO make a circuit-a rourd-of all the
hases-in our vocabulary, n home run. AS a
clincher, Mr.. Chadwick says that when debat-
ing the question with Albert G. SpaIding there
entered the room devOtee of sport. Andrew
Peck whose name coupled with that of his
partner, Snyder. was known TO most American
boys OF twenty years ago in connection with a
popular style of ice skates.
When did you begin TO play baseball?" in
quired Mir. Spalding
"In the latter part or the 40's." replied Mr.
Peck, about 1917 1S4S"
What the game called them"
why, FOUNDERS" said Mr. Peck.
But 10 this day Mr.. Spalding. proud Yankee
10 the core is unconvinced. Undoubtedly the
foreign taint in baseball bothered him not lit
tie for time but he disposed of il to his salts
faction In the spring of 1889, when he visited
Liverpool after a tour of the British colonies
with the Chicago and All-American baseball
teams. Throughout the trip English subjects
had chf6ed him with the antecedent OF the
American national game. he issued q chal-
lenge TO the champion rounder club OF Great
Britain, which was promptly accepted. BY the
terms Of the agreement. the British champions
we're 70 play Il one-inning rounder match two
innings make a full EameD with q team or
eleven men picked from the American base
"a Hers" as the Englishmen called them, and
then there was be a five-inning game OF base
hall As feeder (pitcher) for his eleven Mr..
spalding was given a leather covered sphere
eb bout the size Of a golf ball and rather soft.
--7-z hate "a
ture cricket bat-'a cross between a potato
nasher and q penholGer." high BAH was
.sFoI1ed"-as The Yankees called it-but the ref
cree declared il a fair hit, and as the batter
made g circuit OF the four boundary posts oeIofe
the hall was recovered he scored four runs Inc
next hatsEnan repeated the trick, and there was
a total Of eight 70 the credit OF Ihe Eng
lish-osn Then feeder" Spalding resorted to
low balls close 20 tne batsmen's body. and only
-Fvee more runs were made before ule eieVeh
I3-ifisFl charroto,ia were put out and the inning
-.ae over These :aRt runs resulted from the
ta1IIyre OF ar American 70 hit one OF the chaii-
Mons with TIE BAL IS the rules permit
IN +heir hale Of the inning the Yankees were
.rIi4d At first TO try to 'lire OUT the ban. al1o
.he results were disastrous Btt soon Ihey soe
,ha hang OF batting with one manu- anu 80 49,
eight runs before the eleven men "e'7 III
7-lfs eft then, three runs behind. .
RI. baseball t-as1e vas an entlrey olitetsa-C -,
stow Three Escgltsnc2ar STRUCK out, an a ~ .o'
s-' - A-,e-ira,,s xFe-t 20 bat. Thirty-hVe men
a7 t,,a Tlats. scl 9ttn 3he side had not @peeL @
-.+sra6 3scaus1 OF pnysica! eXnausIloi1 9 ~, 49,
-. - .,or,+e-. that che match be decIdIeu
- ,ri.ls the F-z1 :rning IN the pasepa!5 gan a. 0
US reve- finished: get the score 800 ', % S-ed
=, fsUo-- % he AIne-icans--HeitE I''"oi' -
ham, IL Success.