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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
How Ed DeIehanty Learned to Bat.

Big Ed Delehauty. the pioneer of that
celebrated family of ball players, and
whose "swatting' was the wonder of the
baseball profession, was often approached
BY PLAYERS and Scribes to his ability to
keep up his stick work so regularly, but
he never deigned to reply except to say
it was born in him. But once in a while
the big fellow unbent, and the way he
used TO shoot the gaff'' into the green
one was a caution. One day at the ball
park out on Seventh street the rain pre-
vented the continuance of the game with
the Philadelphia team. of which Del was
member. and there was quite a group sit
ting around J. Earle Wagner, the owner
of the Washingtons, passing the con
round rather freely.
Jimmy McJames was then pitching for
the Washingtons. and on his turn up prior
TO the rain Del had soaked one OF his
outshoOts for keeps, much to the discom-
future of McJameS. who was then q rather
green one from South Carolina. and he
broke into the con Immediately:
How did you learn to gauge curve
ask?' McJames asked politely.
The appellatiOn of Mr." rather took
Delehanty off his seat.
ooh. that was easy" replied the mighty
Delehanty You see, my father was a
training birds, and particularly these
cranky bats that fly around at night:
When I gave up my studies at college and
determined to play baseball my dad used
TO 20 in a long room, and, placing me
under bright light. send the bats out of
the cages in my direction You know how
bats curve around in their flying, and
my dad made IL obligatory that ! must hit
every one that curved in my direction. l
did and that's how L gauge you jays
who think you know a thing or two about
curves.
McJames took it all in, and Win Mercer
used TO take him out on the lots even
ings to practice hitting the bats. and il
was a long time before McJames dropped
TO the fact that the king of batsmen' was
giving him singing for daring TO call
him Mr." Delehanty. when every other
player in uniform had permission to say
DEL"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
THE TWO GREAT GAMES
BASEBALL AND LIFE

You've got to hit 'em where they amt;
You've got to guard yourself also
Against ''highball'' and Founders low"
You've got to run the bases fast
In both to reach home plate at last:
And when YOU hear the bleachers knock
You've got to learn to stand the shock,
And at the Jumps to take a fling
You'll find won't get you anything.
And neither viii you cut much ice
Unless you learn to sacrifice.
IN both games you should listen to
The Coacher who is helping you
And when the ball comes over the plate
Swing fast before il is too late
Just pick out one that suits your eye,
And lam it ere it passes by.
In other words. to make name,
In either you must play the game.
But most Of all, ere you rank high.
YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE A BATTING
EYE
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
USED HOME MADE RAIN
How Two Foxy Native Sons Tried to
Breat ComiSkey Out of
Guarantee.

Comiskey ran against a wet grounds
postponement at San Francisco once where
two grasping Native Sons, seeking to beat
fasteners, were hoist by their own pc
tard They had guaranteed COmiskeys
team $1,000 for the afternoon game, and
had put UP certified checks to bind their
agreement Rain fell internationally all
morning, but not enough to stop play, vet
the Native Sons would not give up. The
idea of a small crowd and the payment
of 81, 100 after taking in perhaps $50 Jared
them.
COmiskey happened to stray into the
park about noon and found the Native
Sons busily working With fire hose flood
ing the grounds and making them too wet
for play. He called witnesses, watched
the entire performance, and waited. That
afternoon the sun shone brightly. thou
sands flOcked TO the park to see the cham
pions, but the game was called on account
of wet grounds.
One Of the men who attempted to turn
the trick and beat the fasteners out of
their money later became a great prize
fight manager and later broke into the
theatrical business He has prOSpered and
grown rich, but it is not recorded that he
ever has turned the hose on to any
grounds to save a guarantee since that
time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
NeIson-Britt Fight Articles

UNDERSIGNED acting Battling Nelson Jimmy Britt
comply
he sun o Re
u uy,
al
test
Thrd-R TO be en the
n
@ o
which n men a
q
the
p IN O
to
to
Witness Harry Smith, R A j. ClarkW Young
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14

he and baseball game for game,
bun find are pretty much the same.
both, no matter what you do,
BUN find some people knocking you.
I'd when you make some brilliant play
pun hear the same bunch yell. Hoo
raw"
1t on the top or lower rOOst
)u'n find they'd rather knock than
boost.
,u've got TO hit EN- on the snout;
both you've got TO run EN- out.
)ull find in both, when you have tried,
} get there first you've got TO slide
Du've got TO stand up to the plate.
both you've got to learn to wait;
IT most of all. ere you rank high,
)u'Ve got TO have batting eye.
pull find in both you'll have the need
brains above brute strength or speed,
pull find both games are full of curves
nd twists that get upon your nerves.
} get results above complaint
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
Value of Postponed Game.

On this basis a conservative estimate
OF the value of each postponed game
would be 5000 in money, which in itself
would mean 100000 as the major leagues
losses by postponed games alone this
year.
As stated, some of this has been made
up by playing off games, but not enough
10 exceed allowance made for mistakes
In the estimate. Approximately the same
number of games have been played by
both leagues this year. but that number
IS close to 800 in each circuit or 400
games for both. 1t is not too strong TO
say the poor weather conditions under
which the great majority of these games
have been played have kept the average
receipts below normal by at least $500 per
game. The games which have been PLAYED
under weather conditions which did not
affect attendance have been so few thew
could almost be counted on ones fingers
1t must be remembered $500 represents
only little over loo people at major
league prices. On a basis of $500 decrease
in patronage for each game played, over
100000 could be added to the 100000
lost by pOstpOnements. That would make
a total of $4,000 lost; but, deducting .
per cent to allow for what few favorable
conditions have prevailed and for double
headers. il will be seen the original esti-
mate of 100000 is a low one.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
What Jimmy Ryan Knew.

When Billy Sunday was playing an out
field position on the Chicago team, under
the captaincy of his brOtheT-in-laW. the
famous Arson. he was Johnny -on-thespot
with his moral talks, and he never lost an
opportunity TO give his brother players
good advice.
One day in the clubhouse at Chicago the
talk of Billy that particular morning
treated on the origin of man. and Billy
asserted that men were made of dust
Some of them might be" Interrupted
Jimmy Ryan. as he began TO shed hid
sweater. ''but I'll bet you that Lynch is
not He owes me s." continued Ryan.
land dust will settle sometimes. but
Lynch never will"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
afraid 1t Will Hurt the Sport"

Last week Barney Oidfeld was ar
rested in Portland for taking some au-
tomobiling races When asked what he
had to say, among other things Barney
replied that he was sorry il occurred,
and that it would hurt the AUTOMOBILE
ing racing game all over the country.
OIdfield is well known in Salt Lake.
and his friends here would be sorry to
learn that he had been mixed up in
any crooked sport, but if he has, the
Telegram of Portland, which caused
OIdfield's arrest, should be congratu-
lated for taking the action it did.
Every time fighter is caught red
handed in a fake the cry is sent forth
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
After Bill squire's Scalp.

The cable this week brought over the
report that the sports of Australia
would give Burns a good-sized purse to
meet Bill Squires again. couple of
days before 1t was reported that the
defeat of Squires had cast a gloom over
the entire continent of Australia To a
man up a tree ii looks as if the Austria
Ian sports made the last offer TO get
Burns and Squires into the ring again
in the hopes that Burns would kill the
lemon from the antipodes, and they
would at least have some satisfaction
for the big fall Squires gave them
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
LOSING SEASON
FOR BASEBALL
Too Much Rain Has Cut Wide
SWath in Receipts of the
National Game.

Estimated on a conservative basis, the
extraordinary weather conditions which
have prevailed this year have cost the
club owners of the two major leagues
alone the sum of $500 600, to say nothing
OF the host of minor league and independ-
ent clubs which have suffered proportion
ately TO their size.
Up to Wednesday there had been post
poned in the National league fifty-One
games and in the American league forty
nine games, making a total of an even
400 games lost on account of bad weather.
A number of these games have been
played off on open dates or as double
headers, but allowances are made for
those in this estimate, and dOuble-headers
never attract twice as many people as
single game would under similar condi-
tions. There is a wide difference be-
tween the losses of winning clubs and
the losing clubs in the pannant race; but,
taken as a general proposition, the rec
ords show that 5000 is a low figure for
the average attendance per game for a
ma jOr lea que club.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
m Crawford Got Reckless With the
Lather.

Sam Crawford of the Detroit club in his
rIier DAYS out in his native state of Ne
[aska was a barber. and even now, at
Ines. he likes the feel of the razor
r. = peculiarity on Sans part is well
on the part of the other Tigers
ct free shaves when Crawford is in
rood for shaving.
)ssaen the Detroit team was in Philadel-
Iia recently. Sam and Billy COughlin had
room together. and Sam expressed a
|Ilineness TO shave the game little third
bseman.
IRnl ike Barkis. was open for PROPOSE
ons and after Sam had hunted about
be room for piece of soap with which
do the foamy act, he at last found a
bke. which was OF a brand the like of
|hich neither he, nor Coughlin, had ever
Ien before.
When sam had applied the lather. in his
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14

TO keep it quiet or it viii hurt the
game" No greater mistake was ever
made. The only way to help any game
Is to drive The takers out of it, and
when one is caught sporting writer's
should never overlook an opportunity
to let the public know about il.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14

in George Davis. why. I had d room in
house once in New York that was so
small that every time I wanted TO GAVIN
l had to raise d window.
THAT must have been something like
place l lived in when I first went to Chi
cago," cried Nick AltTock- why. the
space about that dinky shack was so linn
tied that they had to use folding flower
feIS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
, PICTURE MAN GETS LEMON. =

y doleful echo of the Burns-S quires 4
= go comes from the moving picture
y company which established a ma
= chine at the Tingside. The pictures
= We're to be taken on a commission 1
= basis but the short time the go
y lasted may make the pictures a total 1
y loss. 4
y The manager. to avoid wasting the 1
y film, started the machine but a short I
y time before the men came together, I
y so even the preliminaries in the ring. I
= which might have protracted the pic I
y lures to "A reasonable length of time, I
y are shown in few details.
y Burns received an 5000 guarantee 4
y for his end and the Tapidity with I
= which he finished the bout showed
= that he cared nothing for the picture 1
= privilege.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
LIVE STORIES OF BALL PLAYERS.

most approved fashion. he turned to Bill,
after stropping the razor, and inquired:
How do you like the soap, Bll?'
Coushlin, who is little given to talking,
laconically answered:
Il don't think ! ever tasted better
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
Must Have Been Little cramped.

When the Chicago club was last in
Washington, the various members of that
brilliant outfit were commenting on this
city as being a residential center. for so
many of the retired capitalists of other
cities. and this brought Fielder Jones to
the front. Said the doughty Chicago cap
tain:
Il don't blame any one having the mon
ey for leaving the OVercrOwded large cit
les and coming here. where there is plenty
of space to breathe in. and where the
houses are roomy, and not cut up into
apartments that would barely accommO-
date pygmy family"
Right you are there. Fielder" chimed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14

Prince Borghese entered the Pekin to
Paris race from sheer love of sport, being
one of the most ardent motorists on the
European continent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
DARTMOUTH GETS morris
Colorado Football Star, Who Played
Against Utah, Goes East
Next Fall.

Denver July 10. -" Tub" Morris,
the big boy who played at full
back and centre for the Colorado
college football team. has agreed to go
TO Dartmouth to finish his college edU-
cation Morris is one of the best players
in the state, and was last year selected
by the leading experts as the All-COlOradO
fullback.
He will not play on the varsity team
the coming fall, owing to the One-yeaT
rule, but will be eligible the year follow
ing. With Joe Brusse. Ed. Rich and Nor
ris to draw from the Dartmouth team
has some fine western material.
Morris spent his boyhood days at Nor
risOn, Col, an when he was in school
there he was connected with the MoTri-
son baseball team. At that time his
team was playing against such clubs as
the Star Athletic club of Golden, the
Sacred Heart Juniors and other teams of
amateur standing. About four years ago
he left Morrison and entered West Den
yer high school 1t was here that he re-
ceived his first systematic football train
ing.
Soon after he entered the Denver school
and had played several games against
the colleges and universities of the state.
his ability was recognized by the various
athletic authorities of the higher insti-
tutions of learning. and he was induced to
go to Colorado college. He played his
second year with the college during the
season 1867
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14

Automobiles have been put to many
unique uses at various times, such as run
ming printing presses, hosting material
on construction work, and even turning
threshing machines, but Walnut. Iowa,
claims to have the original automobile
washing machine. William Christensen.
city electrician, Monday morning gets out
his car, jacks up the rig and attaches
belt from the rear wheel to the pulley
of the automobile washing machine,
which has been filled with soapy water
and soiled linen. A turn of the crank
and by the time the morning paper has
been read the wash is ready to rinse and
hang on the line,
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1907-07-26

abaratar Ell precio para poderle dan
salida.
CoRRESPoNsAL.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1907-07-26
(rGdtO y AlOlIO P0nteho

Il los tmboaentes sodre hbretas
de a~Aoyyo.--Habiendo muchas Ii
bretas que no tienen inscritos los
i~ntereses correspondientes al prime +
semestre de 1907, Sc ruega a los
duefos de las mismas, Sc sirvsn
presentarlas, en- estas .ohcinas, al
empleado correspondence, a fin de
poder llenar csc requis. to. - Ponce,
julio r9 de I9o7.-El Presidente,
x. MARIAN1. 80. SIS.
I'm la tarde de aver, habien'
do desbocado Ell caballo que tirabs
eli coche del doctor don Jose Vida
Vilaret, cogi6 la carretera de Canas
yendo 4 estrellarse el cocbe oontr'
un arbol, frente a la casa de dol
lose Q%uintana, hacierdose saficos'
Ell caballo rompi6 los arneses 81
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1907-07-26
N0T|c|As DEL Ola
Impression de folletos &
informes. = Construc-
ci6n de nm canine.
REUNION De MEOlcOs
Detention en- Arecibo. -Fa.
llecimiento de una seno.
"a en- Maysguez.

En- Ia tipografla de LA De-
MocRAcIA Sc estau hacienda algu-
nos folletos 8 informes anuales
que los ayuntamientos presentaran
seg1n la ley, al Gobernador y al
pueblo, acerca del estado economi.
co de la municipalidad.
Sc observa gran adelanto en-
los trabajos del canine que Sc cons
truye de Anasco a San Sebastian y
que facilitara en- breve el tr5fco
entire esas dos importantes pobla-
clones. Ell seiior Veray es el so
b~restante de esas obras.
Sc encuentra en- esta ciudad,
donde ha sufrido una Affection q la
vista, nuestro amigo don Rafael
Pacheco Lopez, de Ponce.
En- Arecibo fue arrestado
Rogue Gonzalez, por acometimien-
to y aggression.
rara curar nu resfriado en- mn dia
tome Ell LAXATIVE BRoMo QUININA.
FL boticario lie devolvera el dinero 81
no Sc cura. La frma de F. w. GRO
We Sc halla en- cada cajita.
Una importante reunion de
medicos Sc llevara a efecto en- Pom.
&c Ell 70 de septiembre, con objetc
de discutir y acordar la ley sobre
sandal terrestre, que ha de Sci
presentada en- la pr6xima asambles
legislatiya.
Ha fallecido en- M~ayagiiez Ia
sefiora doia Evarista Valentin d.
SUISSE, esposa de don Domingo Sus'
Sc. Paz q sus restos.
va han empezado a funcio-
mar entire Arecibo y Utuado 10!
nuevos automobiles de carga de Il
empresa constituida recientement'
en- la primera ciudad.
-SegIn parece, en- Ponce. Ma
yagiez y otras poblaciones de Ia Isl
Sc votaran ordenanzas disponiend
do Ell uso de zafacones para Ia ex
traction de basuras.
La campafia despl gada re
la policfa con los monopolizadore
de pan en- &ayagueE, debiera Sc
imitada en- todas las poblaciones d
la isla, sobre TODD en- San Juar
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1907-07-26

donde Sc vi. ne defraudando al pue-
bio con ese articulo de primeTa me-
cesidad.
Con toda actividad Sc vieue
practicando la Y; cuna en- Ell pue-
bio de Cayey.
III sCentro de latinos y arne-
ricanoss, de Ahasco, celebr6 anoche
una velada bale con motive de 10
festividad del dia.
= Una gran cisterna sera tons-
truida en- Lares para aprovechsr
las aguas del POGO conocido pcr
sSanta RosaS con el fin de ponerlas
al servicio pdb!ico.
p6-En esta imprenta Sc solici-
tan muchachos que stan buenos
vendedores de peri6dicos.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1907-07-26

Julio a. : Hasta aver nos he
mos venido ocupando muy q la Il
gera sobre las deficiencies del alum.
brado pdblico y 10 costoso que vie
ne siendo dicho alumbrado al pue-
bio, pues hoy asciende q Ia enornle
suma de 10000 dollars anuales.
81 contrato entire esta compa-
mia y Ell municipio de Ponce, data
del mes de Diciembre de 1901,
siendo alcalde Ell ingeniero don Ma
nuel v. Domenech, es decir, un
mes despues de transcurridas las
elecciones en- que fue derrotado q
pastido republican, por la Union
de Puerto Rico. Derrotados 81 Sc
FOR Domenech y sus e~oncejales,
yiendose en- Ia imposibilidad de
poder gobernar por mas tempo
& nuestro pueblo y teniendo torso-
samesk que entregar las riendas
del gobierno alos unionistas, antes
de retirarse de la administration
municipal, dejaron IN gravamen
sobre Ell municipio de Ponce hasta
el 40 de JUNO de 1909, tan bien en-
lazado, que lie ha sidoa la admins
TRACTION unionista impossible desen
lazarse de 81, por existir I'm contra
to que autoriza q la Ponce Railway
and Co., para establecer reclamos y
entablar pleitos contra nuestro rnu-
nicipio, 81 81, atendiendo q la con.
veniencia del pueblo, trata de des-
lizarse de dicho contrato.
Dicho contrato cousta de rs
articulos y todos favorecen q la
Ponce Railway and Co., y ninguno
nuestro municipio.
Fiiandonos en- 81 articulo 1o
del contrato, Ia compafia goza del
gran ~privilegio de quedar excenta
de pagan N1NcuNA cLAsE de licen-
cia, patentes, contribuciones, 0 I'M
puestos de cualquier ciase que sean,
al municipio.
81 articulo III co1cede al mu'
nicipio de Ponce, de hacer dednc'
clones sobre las lamparas que estu'
viesen apagadas mas de 80 minutes
pero estas deducciones 9 rebaja:
solo Sc haran por intervention de
Inspector de obras pdblicas Il otro'
agentes del municipio, noti6cando'
se por escrito a la compafia dentre
de las v~einticuatro horas despue:
de haberse descubierto la falta.
81 a~rticuio % auula toda auto
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1907-07-26
De TODAs parties
FL opio EN- la marina de
Francia. -Prohibido
81 uso en- general.
WAIE EN- AuTOM0vIL
Sentencia. Terrible desaffo
entire dos obreros, utilizan.
do barras candentes.

FL uso del opio en- la mari
ma f~rancesa ha tornado tales pro-
porciones, que Mr.. Thomson, Mi
nistio de Marina, ha pedido a las
autoridades maritimas la lista de
los oiciales que Sc entregan 4 ese
vicio.
No solamente esta prohibido q
los o6ciales ell fumar opio a bordo
de sus respectivos buques, sino que
tampoco pueden tener en- sus CANA
totes objeto alguno que pueda apli-
carse 4 tai uso.
-Bajo la acusaci6n de impri-
mir literature obscena y de enviarla
por correo al e~xtrapjero, los tribu-
males han sentenciado a Mr.. James
Gordon Bennett y al Anew York
Heralds a pagan una multa de
10. 900 dollars.
Dos obieros empleados en- las
fundiciones de Carnegie Sc batieron
Ell "a de JUNO en- duelo, atmados de
dos barras de hero hechas ascuas,
ante sus c~ompaieros de trabajo,
que presenciaban el suceso aterro-
rizados y sin atreverse aintervenir.
Ambos contendientes cayeron
a los pocos embates, siendo levan-
tados con las ropas quemadas y
achicharradas.
Ell teniente Graetz, del ejer-
otto aleman, saldra en- breve de Der
lin, para atravesar en- autom6vi
Ell Africa. Sc propone partir de
Oar El-Sulam, en- la costa oriental,
el 10 de agosto de este a1o, y atra.
vesara la Colonia alemana, la Co.
lonia inglesa en- e! Centre de Afri'
ca, la Rodesia y la Colonia alema
ma del S. 0. hasta Swokopundi
81 Emperador esta mny interesad'
en- esta empresa y ha lido a yer G
autom6vil que Sc empleara. AIDE
mas, ha ordenado que Sc lie comu
niquen todos los inforwe relative
al progreso de esta expedition.
S abaratar Ell precio para poderle da
e salida.
d CoRRESPoNsAL.