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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05
Cantillon's Little Joke.

On the cars going to Galveston. Tex.
when the members of the Washington
club were on their way to their training
camp. early last month. Joe Cantillon,
Tom Hughes and Charley Smith were all
seated in the dining car eating dinner,
when In walked Freeman. the big first
baseman Now Freeman is pretty partic
ular when 1t comes to eating, and his epi-
curean tastes are the subject OF much
comment by his brother ball players.
When he dimes he wants the best, and his
appetite is the kind that can travel unin-
terruptediy and with speed from con-
somme down to nuts.
Joe Cantillon wants the p ain old-fash-
toned dishes without French names. and
without weird things done to them by ex-
perimenting chefs. 1t is said that If Sir
Joseph gets these he will be satisfied. and
he does not like to see a person finicky
about his menu.
Just as Freeman came into the dining
car. Cantillon was doing a strong man
stunt with juicy porterhouse STEAK ard
when Freeman seated himself at the table.
the steak looking good to him. but with
his usual caution. he turned to Joe and
inquired: lis that steak fresh. Joe?"
II dunno?" chirped Cantil.en. between
mouthfu,s; lit hasn't spoken to me yet"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05
Tyrus Cobb, Who Was the Most Dis.
cussed Player in the American
League in 1907.

For every base ball league every wear
has it's most prominent player. There
are all grades Of minor luminaries. but
there is one star in the field who shines
like the sun. 1t may be that there are
players in the long run who will be his
superior. 1t may be that there is a con-
temporary who is above him in ability
but while the contemporary is admittedly
greater ball player, season in and sea-
son out. the other may be endowed with
that rare quality which keeps him stead
lily before the notice of the public.
Ty' Cobb was the most discussed ball
player in the American League in 1907.
His work with the Detroit nine was filled
with skyrockets, roman candles, red fire,
spinning wheels and volcanic bombs-not
literal, Of course, but in base ball sense.
So often did he have the opportunity
to do something sensational and SO often
did he avail himself of the chance that
base ball enthusiasts from Boston to st.
Louis began to recount the wonderful
catches and the timely long hits that they
had seen this young player make, and.
by the by, some who took their base ball
more through the opinions of others than
it worth while to go to see Cobb play
So his fame spread.
The climax of his personal glory was in
the last series between Detroit and the
Athletics, in Philadelphia, when his won
derful. timely long drive over the right
field fence for home run in a measure
turned the tide against the persevering
Quakers.
One need not be compelled to believe
that Cobb was the greatest ball player
Of 1901 merely because he was the most
discussed. Judging by everything which
is essential to greatness he was not
With all due credit for the fine work
which he did in the race for the American
League pennant, it must be conceded that
he fell lar short OF being wonder IN the
series for the worlds championship, and
In the games against Chicago it was pos
Sibie to obtain a finer line on his real
base ball ability than II was sometimes
in the regular race for the pennant OF his
own league.
Still. Cobb was most conspicuous
among his fellows around the circuit all
the year. and 1t rests solely with him
whether the same reputation shall follow
him in 1908. Possibly the mantle of pub
Icity will fall upon other shoulders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

Schreck and Powers. His pitchers are
the same. except those of the younger ele-
ment whom he may deem worth retain
ing. Satisfied with Plank. Coombs. Dy-
CERT and Bender. he dropped VaGdeH.
and will make the fight with the remain
ing veterans and the young blood.
II is just possible. in view of the fact
that he has retained his old players and
that his system OF team work will not be
affected by radical changes, that he Will
push the Athletics 10 a commanding posi-
ton from the start fCri While the other
managers are feeling their way Mack will
be moving along with his customary
stride, picking up games here and there
by the finish and the resOurcefulress Of
his men. with other managers stlE WITHIN
the stage of experimenting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

pany with him is another who rs good
when he devotes himself to the game as
he should. Eddie Mcfarland. formerly
of the White SoX.
For pitchers are the veteran Young, still
a power in the box. and Winter and Tan
ne,lill. with experience to aid them. while
Harris. Burchel. Morgan and others are
considered possibilities of great impor-
tance. 1t would hardly be possible to call
this combination a championship winning
team, vet here lies the difficulty to effect
a comparison of It's form. May 1t not do
much better than scores deem possible by
reason of the fact that other teams of the
league are almost as greatly changed ana
must perfect their team work from the
beginning with every bit as much diff
Guilty as will fall to Boston?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05
Winner of American League
Race Must Be Guessed From
A Complexity of Changes

Wise the man who is able TO look SO
far ahead as to name the winner of
championship in a base ball race. Form
In the national pastime is an elusive guam
tity. In its truest sense 1t can be de-
termined only by combining the achieve
ments of the past with the age of the
player. a correct understanding as to
whether he has reached the zenith of his
fame. or has passed it. a knowledge of his
possibilities. In cooperation with other
all whether he WILL assmilate with the
group of men who have been chosen from
hundreds to be his companions for base
ball year.
During the winter the owners of the
Clubs In the American League have been
twirlfng the base ball Kaleidoscope. They
have spun it around and around. peering
at Its attractive combina atoms, first one
then the other. until they have confronted
the American League cities with so many
radical changes that one must almost
Erope blindly toward the light after look
ing at the new formations which have
been developed by the managers.
These changes must not be taken light
3y as those of men who are trusting to
luck. but as plays which have been made
on the winter diamond to produce results
on the summer field.
Less conservative, in some respects
Siidh tuc &NAtiondl League owners, the
American League owners jump darinKly
at conclusions. which heretofore have
mostly turned out Tor the best, but which,
with an unfortunate run Of luck might
result In dtscomdture
Possibly the very daring of their under
fakings has been factor in their success
Assuredly they are not afraid to shift the
panorama Of their playing season that
new pictures may be developed with each
succeeding year.
Not many years ago the Boston AmerI-
can League club won the championship of
SITS organization. Then followed the fate
that seems to be inevitable to a cham
pionship organization. 1t disntegrated of
itself. No players were taken away from
IL by reason OF a base ball war, nor
were any Of consequence sold. but the
team shriveled up and went the way of
an base ball championship mines.
OF its players today there are none
who were champions except among the
pair, Ferris and Parent. are torn apart
and playing in widely separated teams
Collins. too. is gone, yet Boston enters
upon the race for the coming year with q
team which is the beginning OF what It's
owner calls the regeneration of base ball
in his city, so far as his nine is con-
cerned.
A new infield to a large extent, will face
Boston enthusiasts. Unglaub at first.
1aporte at second. Wagner at shortstop
and Lord at third are to take the place OF
base ball enthusiasts in a wise.
Thoney. Sullivan, Gessler and Barrett
will compete for outfield ,honors. Fast
men all of them but not one with the
reputation for. hard hitting of Freeman
|lIu iH.iiik S. bl1 who Is dead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05
Detroit to Make the
Fight With It's Old Men

Detroit is practically unchanged 1t is
hardly worth while running over the ros-
ter of the players. Granted that it may
be a harder task for the Detroits to win
the championship this year than it was
last, 1t must also be ta4en into consid-
Grafton that the Detroits will have the
benefit of the system Of team work which
was taught last year arid which should
surely be as much in eviden all through
This season.
1, would not be surprising to see the De-
troIts play some better 6an;; Cobb de-
laYAS signing his contract. Failing for ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

l. would come with better grace from
Comb if he had shown in the worlds &C.
rfes that he is fully the equal Of the ball
player to which he pretends The task
will be much harder for him this season
than it was last. Pitchers in the Ameri
can League. having discovered that he has
a weakness, will see to it that he is never
permitted to forget 1t.
Detroit has fully as much chance to win
the championship this year as it had last
and there the argument ends. 1t has no
hotter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05
Bv George Edward Waddell
always Willing TO Talk.

always Willing TO TAXI
There will be nothing to the champion
ship In the American League except the
st. Louis club / am going to pitch 1t TO
first place merely to spite the Athletics
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05
What Some Of the Players
Say About the American
League Race for 1908
By willie" Keller
who Never Talks.)

am not much on picking championship
winners, but think that the race for the
pennant this year is between the New
York and Chicago clubs. Some of the
others will probably be paying fast BAH;
but when it comes to the last fight II VII!
be the Highlanders and the SoX.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05
BY George Davis

Detroit will make a game fight for the
championship this year because Hugh
jennings personality is sufficient to make
any team work tooth and nail TO win but
believe We will do better than we did
last season and 1 should not be sur
prised to see a three-cornered race be-
tween New York. Chicago and Detroit.
The Athletics may be up in the race part
Of the year, but the Sox look good enough
to me to beat any team.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05
Bv Harry Davis

WHO Wintered In Philadelphia.l
The Athletics will do better with Wal
dell off the team than when he was here.
Some OF the players could get along with
him and some of them could not Our
team work will help us against the mines
which have been made over this year.
and we can play better ball than some OF
them when they are going at their best.
We have as good a chance to win the
championship as any nine in the Ameri-
can League and better than some.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05
BY Clark Griffith.
(DiecYeet.l

I have run so close to the championship
for so many seasons that all 1 have to
saw is that we will run closer to it than
we have in the past l don't want to an
nov fate by trying to get any nearer the
solution of winning the pennant before
we are actually on the field hooked up"
to win it. 1t isn't out of place to observe.
however, that anybody who beats us will
have to travel some and then continue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05
BY James Mcclure.
tThe Good Deacon of Boston.

A manager who talks of the champion
ship when he has nine on his hands
which is just getting over a case of cham
pionship enlargement Of the head is Vast
Ing his time. XsGre going to play ball
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

Good time to have this sort of weather.
By the 22d it should be nice and warm
for the American Lea que send-off in this
city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05
BASE BALL NOTES.

Jerry Freeman has probably come
around to his right gait at last
AS a manager Tom Hughes is not
great success. The meeting between
Cantillon and Hughes over Fridays game
will be interesting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05
By John B. Foster.
YEAR OF PROSPERITY.
BY BAN JOHNSON.
President OF the American League


President OF the American League.
Some of the owners of the Ameri-
can League seem to be doubtful as
to whether this season will be as
prosperous as the two or three
preceding. | am more optimistic
than they are. as / believe that
il will be more prosperous. | have
come TO the conclusion that base
ball enthusiasts are attracted TO
the game as much for relief
from business cares as for other
reasons and unless there is an eN-
treme business depression base ball
will moi suffer. In any event. the
American League is better equipped
for fast race in zoos than ii has
been in some bther years, and that
will attract spectators. no matter
what the conditions may be. Our
teams are we'll enough matched to
keep everybody guessing as to the
winner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

The game scheduled for Monday be-
tween the Georgetown and Cornell teams
has been Cancelled by mutual consent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

The New Orleans team has six former
big leaguers. George Robe and Gus Dun
don. formerly of the White Sox; Lave
Cross, Briscoe Lord. Frank Delehanty
and Theodore Breitenstein.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

Jake Beckley, the veteran who is COW
ering first for Kansas City, may he a
little slow on his feet, but his batting
eye is all right.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05
By Napoleon Lajoie
Victim of Disanpointment


Barring accidents, barring unruly play
ers, barring about forty other things
which at various times have ham,ered
the Clevelands. We have the pitching and
batting strength to make better show
ing than ever. IF the fight narrows to a
tight race between three or four clubs
and Cleveland is one OF them | don't
think that Detroit will win the champion
ship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

Hugh Jennings says the boys who have
been raised on farm are the ones for
base ball. They make the city lad take
the back seat every time" he declares.
Keller. a product Of farm in defisast
Brooklyn. Look at the country boys
who have been making him take a back
seat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

Devlin is the only old New Yorker in
the Giants infield this year. larry Doyle
PLAYED second last season, but is being
hard pressed by Merkle. Tenny and
Bridwell are new ones.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

Reports say that Altizer is getting along
satisfactorily. All the local fans are
roofing for Dawes quick recovery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

f. Gladstone Graney. the young south
paw with the Cleveland team. is working
hard. but apparently has not enough con
troll to make good in major league ball.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

Lave Cross is playing third base for
New Orleans, and is fielding In oid-time
form.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

Connie Mack says that attendances in
the south this year argue for sue
cessful season later on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

the best that we know how. to win every
game that we can. Just often we
are able to beat somebody else we shall
feel so much the better. / don't say that
Boston will win the championship or is
likely to do SO. but if | felt like talking
/ should say that there are other clubs
in the American League that think they
are going to win which will still be think
Ing when October is past and gone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-05

HAT need 10 say how every
body welcomes the first
ba my breath of the south
wind, that sure forerunner of
1 he annrnacn of spring. Which
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-05
Walt Whitman's Pride.

Whitman's grandmother was a
Quaker, and the bard had been all his
life used, Quaker fashion, to sitting in
the house with his sombrero on if it
suited him to do So One day, with a
friend, he entered the gloomy and half
empty precincts of Trinity church,
New York, and took back seat in the
obscurity and for a moment forgot to
remove his hat or was probably just
about to do so when an officious verger
stepped up and requested him to take
it off. Walt, man of immense pride.
not seeing fit to do so instanhneously
or being very slow in his mental proc
esses, was taking the matter into con-
sideration for second when the
verger knocked the offending hat off
his head. Walt picked up the huge
felt and, doubling it together, smote
the fellow vigorously twice or thrice
with it on the head and slowly left
the church, the red faced sexton fol-
lowing and threatening him with the
law.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-05
Examining Wedding Gifts.

"Women viewing another woman's
wedding presents say things which
are likely to be misinterpreted," said
the bachelor who declares he hates
weddings, but always goes when in
vited, according to the Washington
Post, 'and other things which no ia
vorable Interpretation would make
complimentary to the bride or to the
givers. It's the way of the sex, sup
pose. Now, why is it that the most
common remark of the women who
are inspecting the layout Of silver and
cut glass and other gifts more or less
useful is, What lot of presents she
got? They don't mean anything un-
kind, but the inference an uninitiated
eavesdropper would draw is that they
wonder why she got so many, as if by
rights she shouldn't have had half so
many. OF course they vary the re-
mark, What a lucky, girly says one.
as If she would like to add, Some per-
sons have too much luck And an
other says, 4 wonder where they ali
came FROM implying almost as if the
bride couldn't have enough friends to
make so many gifts and must have
sent some of them to herself just to
making a showing"
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-05
Worlds cIeanest Soldiers.

The Japanese soldier considers 1t a
disgrace to be dirty. Soldiers of other
nationalities are not always overpar-
ticular, but, as Mr.. Kipling has sung:
Oh, east is east, and west is west, and
never the twain shall meet.
However, the Japanese military man
is not provided by a grateful and be-
nefcent government with a portable
bath, so when on active service he has
to set his wits to work in order to OBJ.
tain the necessary adjuncts to his alb
lutions.
The Chinese, for reasons of their
own, manufacture long and large jars,
whose diameter is that of a western
main drain. 1t occurred to bright
Japanese that one might just as well
have a bath standing up as lying
down.
Accordingly he and his comrades in
tered jar, built a furnace beneath
1t and filed 1t with water. Soon a
boiling hot bath dubbed before them.
Imitators sprang into being and sub
sequently into similar baths.-Bystand-
or.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-05
SCHEMES TO USE yESUYTUS
Suggestions for lts Extinguishment
or Utilization as crema-
torium.

Two foreigners have presented
projects to King Victor Emmanuel
which have to do with the great &C
tive volcano near Naples, Vesuvius.
The one, German, Herr Lichtenberg,
has a scheme for its humiliation
the other, an anonymous American,
for its utilization as crematorium.
Herr Lichtenberg provides for the
extinction of the volcano by an in
genious system of subterranean
canals, which will drown out the fire
and render the land in the vicinity
safe and prod pctiye. The American
prefaces his project by declaring that
cemeteries are so many plague spots,
which should be abolished By inter
national law all the world over.
When this is done, he declares thai
an American trust stands ready to
build a colossal fleet of funeral ships.
which would ply between the prin-
cipal ports of the world and Naples,
conveying the dead of all nations to
the Bay of Naples, where the re-
mains would be reverently received
by representatives of all religious and
ethical faiths of the universe in per-
manent residence at the foot of the
mountain.
Automatic railways would thence
convey the corpses to the mouth of
the crater, in which abyss millions OF
sons of men divided in life would in
death be united in everlasting peace.
The creator of this unusual and APP
parently beneficial scheme forestalls
the imagined objections of Neopoli-
tans by adding that $50 extravaganza
ly devout populace would rather
welcome as showers of blessings any
such abundant hail of ancestral
ashes"
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-05
THE PUPS PICNIC.

A Boston bulldog, owned by
George HI. Clapp, was so determined
to capture a woodchuck which he
had chased into its den that he
followed after and stayed in the
hole all the other night.
When the dog had got his jaws
about the enemy he found that he
could not get out, owing to the
small size of the animals hole.
Rather than lose his prey the
dog retained his hold on the wood
chuck over night, and was helped
out by his master in the morning.
The dog was nearly exhausted, and
revived after feeding and drinking
in a curious manner.
He consumed about two quarts
of unguarded ice cream, which had
been set aside for a party. After
this the dog seemed still somewhat
dazed, and capped the climax by
falling into bucket of lemonade.
Worcester Telegram.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-05
Shortening of the Day.

1t has long been known theoretically
that the tides act as a brake on the
rotating earth and tend to lengthen
the day. The effect, however. is so
slight that it cannot be measured In
any length of time at mans disposal
1t may be estimated with the aid Of
certain assumptions, and, using the
data available, W. D. Macmillan made
the necessary computation by the for
mulas used by engineers. He finds for
the increase Of the length Of the day
one second in 100000 years.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-05
A QUEER TEST.

The grocer said to the applicant
"Your references are good. Show
me your style by weighing out five
pounds of sugar. There's the scales y
The applicant wreathed his face
in the amiable smile all statesmen
wear, and weighed out the sugar
with dispatch and accuracy. He
put on too little sugar at first; he
added gently a full half pound be-
fore the scale balanced.
you'll do" said the grocer. 'You
understand the scale trick. 1t is
plain that you learned your trade in
the thorough old-school way"
eyes, sir" the other answered. 81
learned in the country, and almost
my first lesson was that in weighing
you must add, add, add, till the
beam tips, because all that adding
pleases the customer-seems to him
almost like a gift-but if, on the
contrary, you subtract from the
quantity on the scale, the customer
is affected in the opposite .way-you
seem to be robbing him-he goes
away convinced that you are a stin-
gy cheat"