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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-12-15

Fitzgerald, Ga. Dec. 8
Dear Santie Clause, please bring
me a magic lantern and bring me
ten pakges of fire CRACKERS.
Yours very truly,
Platt Spence.
Dear Santa Claus,
Please bring
me a police suit and a wheel and
little train with 4 cars to it and
some fire crackers. And if you
have longer to stay please give mt
a lot of oranges and candy al d
grapes. Good by old Santa Cla s.
From your friend
Fay Buckner.
Dear Santa,
l want to tell you
what I want you to bring me.
Please bring me a dresser bed a
rocking chair a set of dishes and a
set of wash things. I want some
fruit too. Bring me set of plates
for mama and comb and brush
for papa. My brother wants an
automobile and baseball suit. So
I will close. Your friend,
Pauline Goldenberg.
Dear Santa CLAUS,
l will write
you a letter. and tell you what /
want. l want great big doll and
/ want some oranges, apples, niger
toes and some English valid nuts.
Santa Claus bring me a bed with my
doll. Santa Claus / have got a lit
tie four year old sister and she told
me to tell you to bring little doll
and a doll bed. So / will close fo1
this time. So Good Bye. Your
friend, Minnie Ellis.
| Strawberry Plants for sale.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-12-15
Fitzgerald, Ga.
Dec. 8, 1908.


Dec. 8, 1908.
Dear old Santa
Please bring
me q pretty doll, doll cradle, safe
and some dishes now please do not
forget me. Good Bye,
Ruby M. Christian.
Dear Santa Claus, | am a little
girl IL years old and I wantyou to
bring me a pillow. / guess that is
all for this time good bye your
friend, Minnie Register.
Dear Santa Claus,
Will you
bring me what I ask for. Will
you bring me violin, a football,
and some fire-crackers, and some
candy and oranges and apples and
a wheel. Well am SO tired and
sleepy that / will quit.
Yours Truly,
Robert Innes.
Dear Santa,
l am looking for you
please bring me many pretty things.
am going to be good and kind,
with love, Mae Lester
Dear Santa Claus,
I will try and
write to you and tell you that |
want a solid gold ring. And a doll
dressed in blue and a set Of finch
cards. And pair of black patten
leather shoes to go with my new
dress. will close for this time.
Anna jackson.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-12-15

WdnG you 10 UIlDS INC o uoAA "nu
cart a bed, a beureau, anda tea-set
a washstand, a stove spider, and
a chair. I am your friend
Nora Ennis.
Fitzgerald Ga Dec 8, 1905,
Dear Santa Claus
will you please bring me a steam
engine and please bring me wheel
why you dear santa you are so
dear. Bring me a train two and
don't forget me some fruit. And
anotherthing / want magic lantern
what ever you bring.
Dean Hopkins.
Fitzgerald Ga 1908
Dear Santa Clause
please bring me a doll aud piano
and story book and bracelet
and ring l will clos for this time
yours truly Sallie Clements.
Fitzgerald Ga. Dec 8, 1908
Dear Santa Clause
| want you to bring me some fire
works, l want some toys | don't
care what kind of toys they are
well Santa I am going to by me a
magic lantern to night | want to
see you next Christmas. | will be
so glad if you will bring me the
things like. You are good old
fellow I will close.
Horace Graham.
Fitzgerald, Dec. s, 1908
Dear Santa Clause
I will tell you
what l want for Christmas. |
want a doll bed a doll cart and
I want some fruit and candy. good
bye Santa Clause.
Mable Elsie Peterson.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-12-15
Dear cid Santa:

Dear cid SANTA:
Do please bring me IN
I mention for I have bee
little girl all the year. No.
a band ring No 5 and q bra
inches long these are for
and I want a bisque doll ah
inches long and / would /
have a carriage for her. (
like for you to go to Simons
these things as l have aIread'
there and seen first what I "
Now please do not disapoi
but 1 know you won't for yor
nave. Your little friend.
Essie Hart
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-12-15
Cotton Money.

" hen you sell your cottO
deposit .your money in a
THIRD NATIONAL BAN
where it will earn you som
thing and be ready for use
any time. Whether you ID
posit money or want advance
on your cotton this baRk viii
be glad to serve you at al
times. Are you a customer al
this bank
Third National Ban
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-12-15
Fitzgerald Ga Dec 8 1908,

EIlZStIdIU Nd D0O Q AOVOl
Dear Santa Clause
I want you to bring me a doll and
cart bed, a beureau, anda tea-set
a washstand, stove spider, and
a chair. / am your friend
Nora Ennis.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-12-15

Strawberry Plants for sale.
1915 M. FL. Plopper.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-22
ALL AMERICA CLUB
TO TOUR THE ORIENT

on Nov g. 1908, Reaches Allan
erica baseball club will sail from san
Francisco for Japan. China, tho Phil
ippincs and Hawaiian Islands. This
team win be composed of some of the
star players of the United States This
will be one Of the greatest trips that
a baseball club has ever taken, in all
covering distance of about 10000
miles II will be the first time that an
American club has ever visited the
orient, and will tend to increase the
popularity of this great American
game i'm these countries. In fact, the
influence of this trip should make base
ball the national sport in all these var
ious places.
At the present time baseball Is very
popular In the orient In Japan they
have four-tcam league, composed of
the university clubs of that country.
| In Manila there is a five club league,
| composed OF United states troops and
| civilians. I'm Hawaii there Is four
team league, composed of athletic
clubs The class of baseball played by
| thces teams Is very high but they Will
! undoubtedly be much benefited by see
ing these greater players In action and
| win be educated up to the finer points
! of the game.
| When the series of games are played
| in Japan the people of Yokohoma and
| Toxic will be apt to break the worlds
p, record for attendance. at ball game.
| The japanese are very progressive and
| viii realize Mt once what an advertise
,nent this wound be To them, ana as
| they have the population of these two
cities 10 draw from there Is no reason
| why the record should not be broken,
The club win sail under the manage
| mcnt of NJ. A, Fisher, one of the best
known baseball managers ON the Pa
cidc coast. and j. l.. Woods sporting
promoter
The personnel of the club viii con-
sist of such stars aH Frank Chance Of
the Chicago Nationals, OWul overall
OF the same club, Jiggs Donuhuc of the
Chicago Americans Hal Chase Of The
New York Americans. Ty cobb OF De
troit BIZ Burns and Delehanty OF
Washington PAT Douohuc Of the Bos-
tor Americans, Ltchold and Nealun of
Pittsburg. George iIidcbrand William
DeNerauN and Rollle Heldcr of the Pa
Clhc Coast league
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-22

al rootcr is welcome addition
to the game, as he is never
offensive, and is seldom found tied up
tn band Of shouters, two-thirds of
whom are simply filling In for the cX-
element Many have little or no real
interest IN the club on league they pre-
tend To- root" for on stated occasions.
IN a great worlds series, where
crowds go from one city to another,
ms well enough TO band together aud
make their presence felt, as was the
ease when the Boston rootors went to
Baltimore I'm ~, or later, when prac-
tiCally the same crowd went 10 PITTS
burg, Even then many Objectionable
characters 'buttcd in making it un-
pleasant for the genuine lover Of the
sport,
note by the reports from London
that huil-duzcn baseball Iooters from
this country, led by Mike Regain and
John Kelley, the actor. paid "a big price
for the next box tO the queen and
startled 10000 people in the great
stadium with their Indian Wells when
Hayes of New York finished a winner
IN the Marathon race.
This little band of rnotcrS set the
whole crowd cheering for the American
winner and gave the foreigners % taste
of what real roofing meant, There
tuuIu DE no oblcI llOuF, aS others rights
We're not interfered with, ana winner
is entitled To insane applause when tho
event rs Of national importance.
THE objections 10 roofing al BAN
games is whore the idea Is 10 discon-
cert a fair ana wholesome opponent by
uuoailed-for remarks and by carrying
the game beyond the bah field often
for the disguised benefit OF parties not
in fun sympathy with the club they
pretend 10 be- cnthused over.
To be- effective roofing must come
from the heart and bc spontaneous,
cutting out am idea of gatherings of
HE ball field II not sooner on later
undesirable persons win Doe found side
by side with the real lover of tho sport,
and the game "a the loser in The long
run.
a young ball player Is often seriously
affected by the comments of the crowd
TOO often encouraged by the Oca play-
ems. while many ana old player rs seu-
sltive To- the lcers and concerted howl
| lngs Of the fans, Real, genuine enthusi-
asm, after some nice hit or play. NJ
| healthy and does the game good IT'S
! the roofing before the play that counts
, N"Nl"i ifc rome, when offered I'M nm
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-22

van, Detroit; American: Cy Young,
Boston, American; Waddcll. 81 Louis,
American.
Catchers- Bresnahan. New York,
National: King. Chicago, National.
First base--Chase, New York, AM
erican.
Second base-Lajoie. cleveland. Am
erioan
Third base-wanace, St Louis,
American
Left held-Donlin New York. Ma
tlonal.
Center held-crawford, Detroit Am
eiican.
Right Held-Cobb, Detroit, Amer-
can.
Utnity-Hoffman Chicago Nation
OF course. it is impossible to pur-
chase the players mentioned. but II
they were on the market 1t is cinch
that q quarter of million dollars
would be insufficient to purchase the
stars on the list.
Take the pitchers. OF the four. Mat
thewson the Peerless Christy,' he
who won. almost single-handed the
worlds championship for his club, and
CIV Young. the Boston veteran. who
has stood among the first pitchers OF
the game. stand out the brightest.
Ettteen lnONSdlu uOlldiS Npuib b' IN
stantly turned down for each release.
DONOVAN AND WADDELL.
Next comes Wild Bill Donovan. the
famous Detroit twirler. An offer of
$4,000 for his services would resound
on the desert air. Then comes the
most wonderful pitcher the game
knows--the erratic Rube Waddell
Notwithstanding the fact that the
wild and woody boy was purchased in
the spring of 1908 for $4,000 it's
home runs to foul tips that McAleer
would laugh at an offer of 10000
for the eccentrical box artist at the
present time
The two catchers. Opinion is di-
vided as to which of the pair has
the call on the title of king of the
mask and nit" Some think Bresna-
han the better receiver, but there are
not many who win dispute the great
ness of Johnny Killing as "A general be-
hind the willow It's an ace-inthe-
hole snap that $4,000 would be
passed up for either catcher as swift
" as the New York Central passenger
train passes a hobo on IA pedestrianic
outing.
At first base Hale Chase has the
package OF enough drops on all initial
sack scoopers, and $4,000 would be
! sent back TO the mint to grow, were
It offered for his services
THE GREAT NAPOLEON.
Lajoie. the great Napoleon, though
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-22
Errors of Managers.

The downfall of Clark Griffith. Russ
Hall. Monte Cross and some others,
gives voice to the thought that there is
such thing as too much inside base
ball, particularly in the minor leagues
Monte Cross at Kansas City, coming
with the prestige Of "A fine career un-
der one of the most astute managers in
the country today, Connie Mack Of
Philadelphia was regarded as some
thing akin TO the ga2abe I'm the days
Of old who came to lead his friends to
well somewhere. Russ Hall also start
ed to do the same thing for the Butte
Giants. But failed,
For Monte Cross there Is some eX-
cuse or his capability tsere could he
no question as he has been a leading
character in the baseball world for over
~ years Coming into minor league.
from the Athletics, Cross Immediately
began TO make the Kansas City out
tit play major league ball with great
pains he taught them the value of the
sacrifice nit, the hit and rum game and
al the inside work employed by tho
big leagues, during the championship
season The result was that Kansas
city would most prettily get a man to
FIRST sacrifice MIN 10 second, sacrifice
MIN again and then trust to a hit 10
get In "A run. Sometimes, even often.
the run did not como In but in the next
fAAllAAlN NV UlA9flo AllhIt tllblN TINT
major league teams seldom exhibit ana
their rivals scored n pretty cluster Of
tallies that no amount OF beautiful in-
Side work could overcome. Kansas
city has been very prominent ever
since that Is in the rear OF the proc
CcssiOn.
Russ Hairs Butte team, made up Of
youngsters and far less capable than
the Kansas city club. from the stand
point of technical baseball. were taught
on the same order EARLY IN the season
there was naught but praise for their
inside play, their clever work AZ the
bat etc. some times Butte won a game
By these methods. Meanwhile Spokane,
Vancouver ana others We're marching
along with less wisdom aa 10 inside
play Instead Of getting two men on
bases aud then trying To work some
play that would possibly II carried out
perfectly tally n run, a burly slugger
was sent 10 the bat with orders 20 lace
the hide Off the bnll lie was not meet-
ing major league pitching while he
might have hit hard even then Result
enough runs 10 win the game. Van
couver and Spokane ARE al the top.
Butte is MOTTO put II with mild gem
tleness.
Was It too much Inside baseball?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-22
With Baseball Season Going
Football Season Approaches

With baseball standing gamcly on
the last leg of its season, the atten-
ton of the lovers of athletics viii nat
uraly turn to football. In the local
athletic world, attention VIII be most
strongly focused upon the University
and the High school, with the other
schools having too, large following
of their admirers with the opening
of school active training win begin, the
candidates for the squad will begin TO
wander TO the gridron and coaches
anxious TO develop a heavy and fast
team win keep their eyes upon new
corners To their schools whose physi-
qucs hold promise of performance.
I'm the east. the first big day In the
football world VIII be when Carlisle
meets Albright college on Oct. .,
though games are scheduled To begin
on eastern fields earlier than this but
not taking rank with the big fellows.
Al the University Coach Maddox
win have q good start when he begins
work for among the Wen known
fayorites the following win report
Rcd" Morris who has held his own
at center; Pal, an inyincible guard;
Bryant, a tackle, Houston, an end
hlhlllt lufIl'lbdNhi IslNHtIuHni, q
sturdy half-back; Marley. who played
center two years ago and who will
probably play tackle or guard this
year, Dez. Bennlon, an end of two
years ago who win have to maintain n
long record In the Bennlon family;
Fay. who viii he back at tackle and
Home, newcomer from The High
school last year who made good his
right 10 play In fast company, This
Is a very fair lot of material which
win greet Joe Maddox when he begins
work his fan, There are many new
corners 10 the VARSITY ana Props
who have already showed up well In
class games who win be available
The season holds mueh promise at
the varsity An incomplete schedule
of games already promises a game
Thanksgiving on the local Geld with
the University OF Idaho 10 a battle
royal with the University. Boulder
will he here ten days earlier and ST
Nincents and the Montana oleyens win
probably come. AS 10 the trips the
~ win make, the schedule is not far
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-22
PITTSBURG.

offensive manner, and the ball team
that cannot win without the assistance
of band of volunteer rooters should
never be given credit for the winning
of honors i'm baseball.
Roofing a college games must be
looked for, for here the college boys
band together to encourage their team
by songs and cheers, passing comments
on the work OF the mon on the field.
This is sort OF family affair and u
part Of college life. Let us encourage
the vigorous applause at bah games,
and cut out the rooters' association
idea as an annex to BAH clubs, with
balls and other schemes for the purpose
of graft, resulting in great disadvan-
tage to the game.
According to one magnate, the spit
ball must go. Then why not cut out
the rooters' clubs at oncc2 The game
viii thrive without either. In fact
the game win thrive best when
stripped of outside influence
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-22
BIG RUDE MARQUARDT
FINDS ROADS ROUGH

Rubc Mlarquardt. the $1,000
beauty. who Is To go to the New York
Nation League club, has found hard
Shedding in the American association
during the last month.
Since July 16 the big left-handcr
has undertaken to pitch seven games
for indianapolis and six of them have
been defeats The defeats were trace
uble to Rubc's pitching, too, and his
opponents have won by good, hard
hitting. When he has gone along
al right for eight innings the other
team has found him in the ninth,
ON July l6 Toledo pounded out
three runs in the ninth and won, to
. on July "a Ruhc won. to ,, from
Minneapolis ON July % Minneapolis
hit him for FIVE runs in the ninth and
won. to 3 ON July % n single and
triple IN the ninth gave Kansas CITY
two runs aud the game, on Aug
Louisville Knocked Marquardt out OF
the box and won, 8 To 3, and last
Sunday Knocked him out again, win
ming, to >.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-22

are not going to win the National
league championship this year.
They say that the team is not play
ing together as it did last year and the
year before, when it won pennants;
that the dissension among its players
is so plain as to be seen even on the
playing field, and that he dashing spirit
which made the team look better than
all the rest for two years is now so
conspicuous by its absence as to be
apparent whenever the team plays.
Even the Chicago sporting writer's,
who have always contended that there
never was such another team as the
Cubs, now admit that something is
wrong about it and that there will have
to be a change in the spirit of the
players if they win another pennant
this year.
All around the circuit the Philadel-
phia team is being lauded as looking
the best of any in the league at pres
ont. Even the New York and pittsburg
teams are not being touted as highly AZ
the Phillios, and several whose baseball
judgment is considered excellent have
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-22

Coach Bennion Will Introduce Autumn Field
And Track Meets

At the Brigham Young university IN
Provo this fall thorc is to be an inno-
walton In athletics. Track and field
meets are to be hold together with
basketball taking the place of foot
ball which finds no place in the school
no train Provo's young athletes, Free
Bennion. fresh from the University OF
Pennsylvania, has been secured. He
comes to the school with a whole bud
get Of new ideas athletically. Too
he comes wearing fresh honors in the
field and track, FOR while at Peun he
captured an event or two and brought
it home with him. In the spring comes
the state track meet at Provo and
dual meet with the university. The
fall meets are expected to strengthen
the Provo team for these events. aud
Benuun Is confident that the Provo
school viii stand high up in the list
when the scores are tailed,
Bennions record as an athlete Is
known over the state and far beyond
its borders. Five years of stellar play
ing OF the university placed him in the
linelight ON both track ana gridiron.
He stll holds the state hammer record
with l3G feet II inches in shot put.
acquitted himself with credit In class
meets he was entered in events OF all
sorts and is qualified to take team
through all it's canterng
Bcnnion. while AT Penn saw some
great basketball And this is Provo,
strong game. He witnessed the Penn
five win the eastern championship 10y
clearly defeating the New England
champions. Brown, and the victory of
Penn over Georgetown the southern
champions He also saw the Penn
Chicago game which, however. was
Won by Chicago.
BcnniCr played ON the freshman team
nj Penn. iilling half-back and full back
and being at the time the team cap
tain This team played ten games last
season and won every one. on the
track Bennion won the hammer throw
in the """shmau meet and secured
fourth place in the Philadelphia relay
meet-~the biggest track meet in history
with 1900 entries.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-22
Game Nearly Perfect.

Baseball has made great progress or
its technical side during the last gem
Grafton.
The game as now played by profess
sional teams is faster and harder more
strenuous and scientific than IL was %
on 30 years ago-many old-timers 10
the contrary Notwithstanding. II en-
bodies more team work "inside bell"
ana patent plays Bunting sacrifice
hitting, the double steal, the hit-and-
run game, the squeeze play and other
Innovations have worked a transfer
nation lon the game,
The modern game makes larger de
mands ON the players. II necessitates
more ground covering. quicker head
work and livller footwork The de-
,Nclopmcnt of buntng for example.
has called for greater speed in the
work of thrd bascmen, first basemen
and Catchers
The third and first basemon must be
prepared to come iu fast 10 cut or
bunts, the catcher must be able 10
cover ground iu front of the plate as
well as behind N.
back near the stand when no one was
ON nHsts' ana from hat position could
make comparatively easy work OF tho
nlBh louis, Now he catcher rs uD
under the bat all the time and has
tn go hnck fast Ion order to take tho
fouls. Tho catcher of TO-DAY must lD
not only sure backstop and "a strong
ihIoWcr but fast man In covering
ground about the plate
Not only In batting but In fielding
new plays have been invented Gr.8t
players nave studied the possibiiica
ni their positions and have devised
Improvements upon the conventional