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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1908-09-24
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Der Weitieite bonn 9uoion 5lub erlfrsdl.
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MQe nb gu bieir grbHnuns n9elaoe, ba an berebx
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2ube: Was berfehen bic Giibrer
Der Nnti=G Galoon-2lga unter Greibeit
uno Rett?
S6r9: Inter Hedt periteben lie
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biirfen unb bic 6reibeit beRsbt ftir fie
oarin. HE perf0nli9en Re6te Mnoerer
nit 0alfe fdnfliher @eiebseber nit
Guben 81 treten.
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peters Npotbete uirD oeutih 9eiproben.
25 Gents.
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Die anbaltenoe Diirre bat lberan
Walobrdnoe sur Golee. Malobrdnoe
in Gomeriet @ourtp. 3d.. 80 Meilen
bon Miporia. baben brei 0umbereamps
uno aebn Millionen SUB 0ol3 jerf6rt.
Der pernidtete Wertb betrdgt $3.50. 900.
Die 6taot @orep. pa.. 1T sans BON
ylammen umgeben.
Sic Walobrdnbe. bic ouf ben 6iiQeln
in Der Ndbe BON Canaan, Conn.,, fell
einigen 3aeen uutben, linb nod im-
mer nibt gel6idt tporben. gine farfe
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UublQnos
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5elepbonsebduoe in paris Elm Gsus'
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Die 1oeen oes q ages.
* *

Gs erifirt eiv seDiiier Surus IN IN
fern Rleioern, oen ein 111ann 81 ld,dBen
meif, penn er in oenielben ltedt
6 Iino oie Kleioer Ger Ge9e1mart.
2ln5d9e 81
81. so, 1000, 1900, 1900 nno bis jn $4,000.
lniere bpIiebtpn 2ln,aee fir $1,000
uno $500 fno ee1pib ausnahmslos foine
2n5nee fir oas 6elo.
Gebt uns 6eleeenheit, Gud1 nnlere
neuen 6abrfate in braun, olipe. loh
braun uno srau ,u ,eissn
Qra9t 5enbauiers Kleioer nno
Jbr tra9t Ole better!
DIE SENHAUsER eLoTHING 90.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19
EARLY COLLEGE TEAMS.
Pennsylvania Only One Of big Five
Undefeated.

The big college teams of the east which
had thought to go through the prelimi
nary season without defeats at the hands
of the minor colleges have come to grief
early. In fact, the University of Pennsyl-
vania is the only member of the big
Five which. prior to yesterday, had not
tasted defeat by one of the smaller col
leges. Princeton went down first before
Bowdoin and hen before Virginia in he
first game of the southern trip. Harvard
opened it's season last Saturday by losing
to Vermont. Yale sustained an early sea-
son defeat in its game with Fordham and
Cornell met a string of defeats on its
southern trip.
The Pennsylvania team has either been
luckier than it's rivals or is playing unusu-
ally good ball this season. At any rate
the Quakers have met some pretty tough
propositions and have acquitted them
selves we'll. There is no doubt that the
Red and Blue will suffer severely from
the loss of Capt. Fennell, who was dis
qualified last week by the faculty athletic
committee. Fennell expected to be allow
ed to compete. because of the fact that
in his first year at Pennsylvania he pitch
ed only two innings of game against Le-
high and scored second place in the ham,
mer throw against Columbia in the dual
meet of that spring. The committee kept
Fennell off the team until it had chance
to take up his case, and then promptly
ruled him off. His loss leaves the Red
and Blue with only two veterans on the
squad, Judd in the outfield and Corkran
at shortstop.
In spite Of their early season defeats
the Yale and Princeton teams promise ex-
ceptiOnally WELL Both mines are hitting
the ball hard and are likewise equipped
with good pitchers. Defeats in the pre-
liminary games are to be expected, and
by the time the championship games ar
rive all of big Five" will be able to give
much more satisfactory account of
themselves
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19
NOT A WALKOVER.
Hank 0'Day Predicts Interesting
Race in the National League.

Hank O'Day. dean of National League
umpires, says that the st. Louis team ia
sure to be among the leaders Of the race
at the finish of the season.
1.-THE Cardinals have q splendid chance
of being up in the National League race
this season." says Hank. 1T is no longer
a one-club league. / don't care If the Chi
cago club plays better ball than it did last
year. 1t will never have such a walkover
for the pennant.
There are four or five clubs in the
league that have been building up during
the last two years. and this is the year
they are going to jump into the race. No
club seems to me to have improved more
than this ST. Louis club. and it certainly
has chance to be up in the fighting. A
lot of young pitchers have been developed
in the National League in the last year
or two. Whoever thought anything Of
Karger. Beebe or Fromme two seasons
back? And yet today they are three of
the strongest pitchers we have In the
league.
1.-The Chicago club may win the pen
nant another year. but my prediction Is
that the National League is going to give
the public a big surprise this season.
look for as close race in 1t as in the
American League, and l think that five
clubs at least will be fighting the Cubs
most Of the way" - 49,, 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19
LITTLE STORIES OF THE BALL PLAYERS

they played together on the Washington
club. were perhaps the most persistent
kidders that ever held down a berth on
the local team. They We're both crack
ing good fellows. though and the stun
they got OFF at one another's expense and
also at the expense of their fellow-play-
ers was usually OF the innocent sort ana
there was no resultant difficulty.
The nearest that Buck and AL ever came
to locking horns was the day that Buck
r ceived long telegram informing him
of the birth OF his first child-a son. Buck
was so proud of the news that he imme-
diately hunted up the rest of the players
to inform them of the wonderful news
He found lot of the Washington men
playing pool In nearby billiard room,
and. dashing in among them he cried out.
excitedly: Say. 1 just got word OF a boy
born up a. my house. and" he continued.
proudly, they say it resembles me, too"
We'll. weI!' calculated AL Selbach. as
he put on a sympathetic expression.
cheer up. Buck. If the child is all right
in every other particular I wouldn't let
the esemblance worry me too much"
And then Al had to beat it down 9TH
street in record-breaking time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19
It's just a simple twist of the wrist. -

Its just a simple twist of the wrist"
saws the Detroit News-Tribune.
That's what the pitcher will tell you
He usually holds his fast ball, his curve
and his splitter In the same way as the
picture will show. It's In the twist of
his wrist as the ball leaves his hand.
Few pitchers hold a ball exactly alike
but the principles of pitching vary but
little. There are the index and second
finger to guide it as 1t shoots toward the
batter.
Then there are freak deliveries, such as
Eddie Cicottes knuskle ball, which they
are making so much of now. along with
Eddie Summers ''dry spitball."
Pictures l. . and ). posed and explained
by the holder of the pitching champion
Ship are interesting. The first one shows
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19

hadn't taken chance that one at
Well. that one won't be one, two
three says the experienced chap with the
glasses, fishing for bets from fellows to
whom the leading horse in the jumping
race looks like a pipe.
He won't hey? three or four of the
marks are liable to sing out all together.
What are you laying against him?
The crafty chap in the side-betting
business names a price about a quarter
or even less than the ring price before
the field got off. and the marks take the
hook with avidity. The front-running
jumper soon begins to show his leg
WEAKNESS and his lack of class. and long
before the second mile Is over most of
the field have swept by him, If, indeed,
he hasn't actually come cropper over
one of the hedges. The side bettors who
make a business of this end of it pick up
their softest money on the timber races.
There are, big on-the-level side bets,
too, between regulars at the game who
have no desire or chance to do each other.
and who are willing to take their chance
merely for the sake of more gambling.
Many of these side bets are on fouls.
One of the regulars will see what he
considers palpable foul in a race. He'll
offer to lay the regulars standing along
side of him a hundred or five hundred or
even a thousand dollars even money or
with odds one way or the other. that a
foul will be claimed, and such bets are
always covered by fellows who don't be-
lieve that the foul has been sufficiently
serious to be noticed by the people in
the judges stand. Again. when q foul Is
actually claimed. there are big bets down
among the regulars often enough as to
whether the foul will be allowed or not.
Side bettors of this sort break about even
on their auxiliary ventures at the end Of
the season, like the chaps who mess up
game of poker by high-spading each other
or working off little plays of that sort.
But the fellows who make a business Of
side betting make a ripping good thing Of
It, and they never take a chance unless
they're dead sure of their ace in the
hole"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19

what to do with it. He showed Eddie
Cicotte how to pitch it. and Cicette
worked on it for a long time, but couldn't
get it, Summers says he got 1t from
Cicotte, SO it is apparently coming right
back to Detroit, where it started. 1t Is
certainly an effective ball if pitcher can
control it."
Summers says he can control it, and
appears to when at practice. But he Is
not dependent upon this ball. He has
plenty of speed and cures If this is not
all that he thinks it will be.
The ball shoots toward the plate in the
same way that the splitter does, without
twisting or turning in the least. You can
count the seams in the ball as it comes
toward you Being pushed against the
air without any revolving motion. it floats
along with jerky movement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19

the way Donovan holds the ball. The
second shows how it leaves his fingers
when he delivers his fast one. shooting
straight from his hand. The third pose
shows how the wrist is twisted just as
the ball leaves; this to get the curve on
the ball.
The fourth picture is the view of Sum-
mer's hand just as he throws his freak
ball. The fifth picture is that OIL George
Mullins hand as he let's go of his splitter.
The sixth is Eddie Siever in the act of
throwing a curve.
While Eddie Summers and Cicotte have
aroused considerable interest by their
work, this freak delivery is nothing new.
1t has been tried in the major leagues
before but could not be mastered.
Frosty Thomas had that ball. but he
could not get control of it, says Bill
Donovan; 'he tried 1t when he was with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19
AL Orth's Bon Mot.

Al Ortiz, the smiling twirler of the New
York club is native of Lynchburg. and
in the off season he is in business with
his father-in-law in the wholesale gro
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19
AL Selbach's Merry Crack.

Ball players. whenever together are the
biggest kidders in existence. and it is a
rare thing whenever any of them become
angry at what another one says. for they
know that the remarks are passed only
in jest. and they are also of the kind that
never leave a sting.
Al Setback and Buck Freeman, when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19
Joe Kelly's Philosophy.

All base ball players are more or less
superstitious; in truth, the vast majority
of the spike shoe fraternity are given to
placing their faith in signs and omens.
Aside from base ball, the players IA
vorite game is stalking their money on
race horses, and their inclinations toward
this sport rightly termed the sport of
kings" because no one outside of a finan-
cial king has the least business in fool
ing with the ponies has caused many
a one-time famous ball player to go
broke; and will continue to take away
the ball players money as long as he fol-
lows the fascinating game.
But the vast majority Of the ball play
ers will still go up against this losing
proposition, regardless of the examples
that have been set for them. This was
we'll evidenced by the number of ball
players who attended the recent Benning
meet, among whom was Joe Kelly. the
Boston National League manager. and
Wilbert Robinson and Charley Farrell.
Charley Farrell had money down on
Higginbotham to win in the fifth race on
the third day Of the meeting. and just be-
backstop picked up a horseshoe at the
entrance to the paddock Enclosure.
The Duke was elated with his find, and
turning to Kelly he remarked:
Joe. l certainly am glad l run across
this horseshoe, as l am firm believer IN
the saying that there is luck in horse
shoe, amt you?"
There is luck in horseshoe, all right. "
responded Joe, providing it is on the
hoof of the horse that comes under the
wire first"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19
FAT MEN WIN NEARLY
ALL THE BIG PRIZES

Last season the champion Saengers cap
tured nearly all the plums in the District
bowling league. but this season their old
rivals the Fat Men. won the cups and
championship and took nearly all the big
events
The Fat Men took the leadership early
in the race and kept it throughout, and
the Saengers looked dangerous only once.
when they stopped the Fats steady string
o. victories with triple defeat. But the
SaeEgers, excepting Bontz, were weak off
their home alleys. and finished five games
behind the leaders.
Bontz. although his first year in fast
company, was the one bright spot in the
Saenger gloom. Starting strong, he main
tanned the pace to the finish. He had
the highest low set of all the cracks.
never falling below a 5O0gset. and he led
in 600 sets, getting CAT. 635. 616, 613. 613
ana 600. Only four of his sets were
under $50 He also wins the prize for
bese average of strikes In the last match
between Saengers and Fats on the latter's
alleys Capt. Waters had the only chance
of the season of catching Bontz. but the
Saenger anchor cleaned up twenty-nine
clean frames and a CAT set and clinched
the individual championship.
Harry Krauss. last years 200 average
SiAoIAPiOus Woo guns All ii'o ohu W. IL o.i
til he got the twenty-four-hou bug in
his bonnet. His wonderful performance
is still the talk of bowling circles, but
1t put his bowling finger out of COM
mission and Harry out of the race. al
though he gamely plugged along, using
his third finger, and took third berth
and also copied the prize for best average
of spares, being the only bowler to aver
age over five to a game.
Shaffer of the Florists showed the best
Improvement In form. Heretofore reck
oned a second-rater. he ran up highest
single string (26S). won a prize for high
monthly average and finished up among
the CLASSY crowd.
Waters, captain of the Fats. also made
an excellent showing. Last year was his
first with the big leagues. and he finished
with an average of ISL. He organized the
1908 champions. led them to victory all
the way and finished in second place in
the league.
Following are the complete and final
figures of the official scorer, H. l..
De YO: