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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-07-31
Louisiana.

anu UeduGJs
Land where the willow bends over
the stream:
Land where the. odor of sweet
scented flowers,
Enraptures the senses, and nur-
lures a dream;
Land where the cypress, majestic
and solemn,
Enfolds in its shadows a silvery
CLEAN;
Land where the prairies are frosted
with lilies,
And yellow leaf issmines are
always in bloom.
Land Of the cane brake, bittern the
bayous;
Land where the crocodile watches
his prey;
Land where the grandeur Of solitude
strikes u.s.,
Land where the sunlight with shadow
is blending,
And beauty is varied wher're we
gaze!
Land where the flowers are drinking
in brightness,
While noon in the woods wears a
twilight haze.
Land where the maidens are worthy
of Eden,
Land where the men are chivalric
and brave;
Land where the hero lives ever in
story,
Whilst tears of affection drop
over his grave;
Land Of DeSoto, Bienville, Of Tonti;
Land where NO exile stood ever
alone;
Land where the seeds Of ambition
are springing,
Land,where great enterprise broad
cast is soWn.
! Love thee as only full manhood
can love,
When the dust Of long travel still
clings to the shoe;
And the scenes it has seen, the
boast it has heard,
Are green on the mind still brings
in their hue;
/ love thee as only a lover may love,
The tunes to the heart which first
taught him to WOO;
And feel that each impulse although
it may wonder,
Returns from its journey still
faithful and true.
/ love thee as only a poet may love,
Who feels the full sway Of thy
beauty and love,
And loving / weep as . poet should
weep,
Who never could paint thee. but
only adore!
1 would strike the wild Tyre, and
startle thy bards,
Who slumber to dream Of some
far distant shore,
And bid then sing thee, and thy
beautiful legends,
Or slumber in silence and shame
evermore!
Land Of the hooking bird, sunlight
and beauty,
Land where the willow bends over
the stream;
Land where the odor Of sweet-scent-
ed flowers;
Enraptures the senses and nursures
a dream;
Land Of my boyhood, my manhood,
my prime!
Land Of my souls love and land of
my birth!
Let me sleep where the arm Of thy
cypress is waving,
And gray colored MOSES are trail
ing the earth.
GIRL GOES HOME ina BARREL
she chung Her Clothes on a Hickory Limb"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14

"Pitchers are in class by themselves. They are not ball players, in the ordinary sense of the word" was the rather start ling statement of a prominent newspaper writer a short time since To be sure this radical assertion created a lot of hubbub. But when you get down to points there's a whole lot of truth in it. Just take a look at the different pitchers in the leagues and watch them, and you'll be surprised to find that this epigram, so startling at first sight, has more than a little truth in 1t. A ball player, in the best meaning of the word. is a man endowed with wonderful physical and mental faculties. one who is always ready to take advantage of a slip or miss in the work of his opponents. He Is one who can figure what will happen, when there are a thousand and one things that are likely to occur. He must have great phys ical strength and yet be quick and graceful in his movements. He must be able to figure in the flash of second, while he is perhaps running at full speed after a ball. to which one of nine or 10 possible points he will throw 1t when he gets 1t. He must subserve his indi- vidual hopes and aspirations to the good of his team, and he must be ready to obey orders though he knows that by dsobeying them he could bring great glory to himself. and do his team no harm He must be able to get up at the bat and hit the ball though there are nine sets of brains working against his one. These are only a few of the absolutely essential qualities of the ordinary ball player. There are thousand other things, just as difficult as these, that are mat ters of everyday performance with him.
 Yet how many pitchers can fill even a small number of qualifications specified above? In the matter of batting alone, 90 out of 100 of them drop out of the
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class who have the right to be called real ball players. It is in exceptional cases only that we find a pitcher who is at all able to hit ball. Such man Is Mullin of the Detroit American league champions. This chap is able to sting it" with the best of them, and because he Is a hitter he is held up as marvel by all the critics of the country. Take the list of averages" of any big team and you will always find that the last half dozen or so in the batting column are twirlers.
 Then consider base running. Where is the pitcher who is a good base runner? Some of them may be fast on their feet, but once they get on the bases they never know what to do with themselves. They never take the chances or pull off the startling steals that are the usual performances of your good ball player. And in the fielding line the twirlers are once more a rather negligible quantity. Remember I always make allowances for the few who are exceptions to the gen. eral rule.
 And if l wished could go down the whole list of the necessary qualifications for the ball player, and in every case show that the pitcher is the only one of the good ball team who cannot answer the requirements
 To be sure I do not say that the pitch CTS have not brains, for even the kid who is just beginning to know what baseball is will tell you that tits the pitchers nut that gets him by" But the pitchers brains must be different from those of the other player The headworks of the box artist are, I think, constructed along the same lines as those of the stage mu- sician The latter is before the public to fool them They know he is trying to bluff and they are ever on the watch to detect him at it. yet he always gets by. So 1t is with the pitcher. Every batter he faces knows that he is trying to get him to bite, to quote the popular ex-
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POSTPONED GAMES
 MAKE. HEAVY LIST

New York, June 13.-The standing of the National League of Baseball clubs, given out officially for the first time this sea- son by Acting President John Heydler today, was incidentally a weather re- port. It was shown that In addition to many postponed games which have all ready been played off there remain an accumulation of no fewer than 34 games which it has not yet been possible to play on account of rain.
 By a decision of the board of directors the game of April 23 won by Pittsburg from Cincinnati, by a score of to 1, was ordered played over, Pittsburg con- sequently losing the credit of winning a game and Cincinnati being debited with one less defeat The board of directors still has another protest, Brooklyn want ipg the game of May 9 with Pittsburg thrown out of the record, but until the directors make their decision it will stand as at present a win for Pittsburg and a defeat for Brooklyn.
 The official standing of the National league up to and including Saturday, June 12, is as follows:
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BarOns Will Tackle Sea Gulls
4 Pitcher's VelpOint 0f zHe
 Qualifications 0f a|Player
ey eEoReE wlLrsE, pltoher, New York NatlOnals.

pression, and he is ready for him, ana irving to outguess him. Yet the eooo pitcher keeps right on, and year altei year shows the same line of goods, yet continues to be successful.
 To my mind pitching is a fine art IL differs from the other fine arts princlpaily in that the artist has to be endowed wlth a good physique and plenty of strength. Then. too, the artist, in this case has to be born with an everlasting capacity Tor hard work There Is no let up Tor hlm' once the season is under way, until the curtain is pulled on the final game It 5 a case of work, work, work all the ume' day in and day out. Pitchers, like poets. are born to their calling. Many and many the attempts that have been made to develop into a twirler a fellow who showed no innate ability for 1t, and in- variably has failure been the result
 How should a pitcher live? In the first place 1t is necessary that he should keep good hours His nerves are at all times under a great strain, and 1t Is apso- lutely requisite that he keep them in the best possible condition. When you are with a baseball team you cannot let the idea get into your head that once you are off the field you can forget baseball. You have to be a ball tosser every D'inute or every day. from April up to October, and even during the winter months one has to be In preparation for what is 10 come:
 A pitcher must be wary of any food or drink that is at all stimulative, his nerves, again, to be considered The man who can let intoxicating liquors, and even tea or coffee, absolutely alone Is so much the better off. It is the little things that are liable to worry the pitch CT, and any nerve stimulation, however slight, is more than likely to get him go- ing. And once a pitcher gets going he might as well make up his mind to quit the game. For the fact that he Is not as he should be will wear on him, and he will find his work falling off, and soon will be handed his discharge.
 However, am not a pessimist. I think that baseball is a great game, and splendid profession and the young man who has the ability would go farther and fare less well in the search of life work.
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field recently. On the whole the result was disappointing to supporters of the English team, for at the end of the first round the Scotsmen led only to 3, one match being all even at this stage. In the end, however, Scotland gained a decisive victory by seven matches to two.
 The most important act of the interna- tional council of the Olympian games, which has been in session at Berlin, was the recommendation of the principle of an international jury to decide the events in future Olympiads. The council took under consideration the unfortunate con- troversy that arose in London in 1908 and finally decided that it was wiser to introduce an international system of judging rather than leave this to the sole control of the country where the games take place.
 The Swedish representatives accepted this view The council, 1t Is explained, did not act In a spirit of criticism of anything that happened in England; it's opinion was that the contests could be conducted with greater good will if they we're under international control.
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shall take the palm for the most mag nifieent stable decorations.
 w H. Moore, who has entered AZ horses gave the public an opportunity Of seeing his exhibition at Putnam, when, before many notable people, including Lord and Lady Lonsdale, Lord and Lady Auckland, Walter Winans, A. G. Van derbilt, E. T. Scotsbury, Clarence Wat son and J. Kerr, a well-known English exhibitor his horses were put through their paces.
 MT Winans, who. like MT. Moore, is an American, has long been resident of this country and maintains at Surren- der Park, Kent, one of the finest studs to be found anywhere. Mir. Winans' stud Is most cosmopolitan for he has French, American and Russian, as well as Eng fish horses. He has entered 53 of them in 76 different classes.
 R. E. Walker, the amateur champion South African sprinter, and D. B. Pos tie, the well-known Australian runner, reached Southampton on June l. For the sixth year in succession, and the seventh time in all, Scotland won the amateur international match at Muir
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MORE ACTIVITY IN
 IRON AND STEEL

New York, June 13.-There has been a renewal of activity in pig iron in the last few days and contracts aggregat- ing 75o,OOO tons have been placed for ship ment over the third quarter of the year
 Steel plants and bridge works have or dered 25,0O0 tons of basic iron, while cast iron pipe works have been the largest purchasers of forge and foundry grades. with contracts still pending for 3O0Oo tons. Prices of forge grades have advanced about 25 cents a ton.
 Fabricated steel contracts placed dur ing the week have aggregated about 35, GOO tons and tenders have been made on as much more. Railroad work has been light, relatively. Most of the building contracts placed have been small indi- vidually.
 Rail contracts placed during the week have aggregated 5000 tons and contracts now pending are for 200, 900 tons, of which 150.000 tons are for the Hartman lines and have already been allotted, but there is some controversy in regard to speci- f1cations. The Seaboard Air Line, the New Haven and the New York City railway are about to place rail contracts for an aggregate of 40,00o tons.
 Since the first of June contracts for IA steamers and five torpedo boats have been placed with eastern shipyards and contracts for eight additional vessels are pending.
 Since the first of the year railroads have placed orders for 22.oOO cars and 5000 more will be placed within the next week
 Additional sheet mills have been put into commission by the American Sheet and Tin Plste company and large orders are pending for the steel pipe.
 Pig iron production is now at the rate of 23,000,0oo tons annually, the output in May being the largest since October, 1907, due mainly to the great demand for crude steel from the finishing mills.
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Memphis Surprises All;
 PeHcanS Trim P7efzeIs

New Orleans, June 1S.-The locals just managed to win the first of the home series over Montgomery today by scoring three runs in the last part of the ninth inning off Pitcher Thomas, who had been substituted for Lively, but whose control was not good enough to hold the rally of the New Orleans team Breitenstein's wildness was a feature and it was only on account of the many errors of the visitors that the xeteran was not defeated. Score:
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AllceYllle Wins Hot Game.

Alicevlle, June 13.-(Special.)- )-One of the closest games of baseball that has ever been played on the local field was played here yesterday when Alicevile and Carrollton fought out 12 of the tight est innings ever witnessed here. Carroll ton scored once in the first inning and Aliceville succeeded in passing the plate, tieing the score, after three more innings were fought hard. Aliceville crossed the plate one more time at the last of the twelfth inning, when the game was won. The feature of the game was the pitch ing and the base running of Darrow Peebles
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Johnny Hayes Forced To Quit.

Kansas City Mo, June 13.-Johnny Hayes, winner of the Olympic Marathon, after running nine miles of twenty ile race here this afternoon with John Swan berg of Sweden. was seized with cramp and was forced to retire. Svanberg fin- ished the race His time was 1 hour, 52 minutes, 33 2-5 seconds. Svanberg led Hayes by four laps at the time of the lat ter's retirement
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cuhs Min Poor Game.

Chicago, June 13.-Boston gave poor exhibition of fielding today, but Cnlcago ,aorlv lost the game at that Boston's ,nisnIavs. with bases on balls virtually gave Chicago seven runs and punched hitting scored Boston's first three Chi cago went to pieces in the ninth and al lowed four tallies on three errors. a glrt and one hit Score: h.h IL: Chicago .....-....''......Vl1 @ ovo , So n Boston ................-...lo 1oV VT
 Batteries:' Brown and Moran fergusoh and Smith. Time, 1:56 Empires, Rigler and Truby.
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Cardinals Are Trounced.

St. Louis, June 13.-Philadeiphla siiioth- cred St Louis in the third game or the series today, 10 to 4. The St. Lotus pitchers were hit hard and often wnlle h1oonillen of the visitors was driven from the hox in the third. Roger Bresnahan played center field, replacing Shaw. The Py P@y & R.H.E. SSueao,,bia O40 231 O0o-10 15 0 e. o,,is .003 O00 010- 4 12 ?
 Batteries: McQuillen, Richie and Doom; Reebe. Moore, Rhoades, Higgins ana Phelps. Time, 2:04. Umpires' oDay ana Emslie.
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sulIivan's Old Trainer Dead.

Chicago, June 13.-"Professor' Jimmy Kelly. a veteran pugilistic manager and trainer, died here today. Kelly was one of John L. Sullivans trainers when the latter was in his prime. He was also manager of Mysterious" Billy Smith and Eddie Connolly at one time. Kelly was 4S years old and was born in Boston.
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TEXAS LEAGUE.

At Fort Worth: Galveston 8, Fort Worth O.
 At Oklahoma City: Oklahoma City 4, San Antonio o.
 At Dallas Dallas 1, Houston 1. At Shreveport: Shreveport 3, Waco 2.
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Junior Raracas Min.

The game announced In yesterdays Age Herald as played by West End Baracas against Woodlawn was incorrect. The game was between the Junior West End Baracas and Woodlawn and won by the Juniors
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$1OO Personally Conducted Tour. SEABOARD

To Atlanta, Norfolk, Newport, Nara gansett Pier, Boston, New York and Washington. A two weeks delightful and luxurious trip at extremely small cost.
 The amount charged will include trans portation, both rail and steamship. for the entire trip; Pullman accommodations from Atlanta; meals on dining cars en route meals and berth on steamer, and hotel accommodations, both rooms and meals at hotels, excepting In New York, where only room accommodations will be fur nished. The party will be chaperoned by Mrs M. H. Whitner of Atlanta. Phone or send for complete itinerary. Phone 23S2. JACK W. JOHNSON,
 D. P. A. W. B. GRESHAM, c. T. A.
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ARKANSAS LEAGUE.

At Monroe: Monroe-Jonesboro, rain. At Hot Springs: Hot Springs 5. Hele- na 4.
 At Texarkana: First game, Fort Smith 5, Texarkana 2; second game, Fort Smith 6, Texarkana l.
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

At Toledo: Toledo 4. Minneapolis 0. At Indianapolis Indianapolis f, St. Paul 1.
 At Louisville: Milwaukee ', Louisville Z At Columbus: Columbus 3, Kansas City B.
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game as has been seen on the Hilltop grounds. He had 13 chances at second base, four of them very hard chances and took every one. He also grabbed off two hits in three times at bat.
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the east. All four of them lost.
 In 1907 Tom Hughes of the Washing
 ton team had the Cleveland team help less every time he went into the box against them. It looks as If he has got the Indian sign on them again this season. He beat them In Cleveland, again at Washington had the Maps standing on their heads at all times, allowing but six hits and shutting them out by 1 to score.
 Otis Clymer, the Washington out
 fielder, injured his knee sliding to the
 plate in recent game at Washington and will be out of the game for cou- pie of weeks.
 Lloyd Rickard business manager of
 the St. Louis Browns, was a surprised
 man at St. Louis. Lloyd had let 1t be known privately that he was to desert
 the ranks of the bach elors, but did not
 suppose any of the players on the team
 or Manager McAleer knew of it. But
 they did. On Wednesday Rickard was
 called to the club house just before the
 game started. He found all the play
 CTS assembled, while likewise assem-
 bled on the floor was the finest outfit
 of glassware obtainable in St. Louis.
 And to think of bunch of ball play
 CTS doing that for the business mana
 ger" was all Lloyd could say.
 Out in San Francisco, where he has been playing with his wife in vaude- vile, Mike Donlin gets out every day and practices in the ball field with the Seals. His throwing arm is in fine shape and the western pitchers say his batting eye Is better than ever. Can 1t be possible that Mike is doing all his work preparatory to trip to Flu rope? Poor Old Jake Beckley is going blind, says a western paper. Isn't that awful He can't SC ethe fast and slow ones any more. It Is shame to have him face He can't see the fast and slow ones any has played in 30 games with Kansas City and his batting average has dwindled to 402. It Is about time Jake was sent to the Old Peoples Home. "The Boston people are the fairest | in the country and do not want even | a shade the better of the decisions, but | they do protest when all the novices are sent there" says President Dovey referring to the umpires. though the impression might get about that he re- ferred to his players. MT. Dovey should have patience. It always has been the National league plan to assign the um- l pires an equal number of times to each
 city.
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The American league western teams did not look good in their first day in the east. All four of them lost.
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Memphis June 13.-In a game free of sensational plays, Memphis defeated Nashville today by a score of to 0. The features of the game were the pitch Ing of Dick and the hitting of the locals. Perdue was taken out in the seventh and Vfahahn substituted. Score:
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
cincv Is Still Winning.

Cincinnati June 13.-It was battle or left-handers when the Cincinnaus ana New Yorks met in the third game of the series here this afternoon. Campbell had a shade the better of it and won out by a margin of one run. Both pitchers re- ceived sensational support, one-handed catch by Murphy being the feature The score: - IN'I H. Cincinnati ................olo oVo Ol--z N5a0r yorIr GOO 900 100-1 s 0
 Batteries: Campbell and Mclean; Wiltse and. Meyers Time, 1:So. Empires, Klem and Kane.
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Summary: Two-hase hit BaerWald ,rhree-base hit Wheeler. Sacrifice hit, wiseman. Stolen bases, Segle, Coulson. struck out. Perdue 2. viebahn 1, Dick G.. Bases on balls. Perdue l. Viebahn 1, Dick 2. Hit by pitcher. O'Leary Cby Viebahm. Time. 1:40. Umpire. O'Brien.
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SOUTHERN LEAGUE STANDING.
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
GAMES TODAY.

Memphis 4, Nashville 0 New Orleans 6, Montgomery ,
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1OlalS ou U
 +-Batted for Lindsay in ninth.
 Score by innings
 Montgomery 900 OO1 0O4-5 New Orleans ...........0 900 900 123--6
 Summary: Innings pitched, Lively s, Thomas l. Hits apportioned, off Lively 4 Thoms 1. Runs scored. off Lively 8, Thomas 8. Two base hit, Dexter. Three base hit. Rockenfield. stolen bases. Whiteman, Demont. Huelsman. Sacrifice hit. Lindsay. Double plays. Greminger (unassisted). Lively to Rockenf1eld to Greminger. Struck out, Lively 4, Thomas 1. Bases on balls, Breitenstein 4. Lively 8, Tn omas 2. Hit by pitched ball, Breitenstein (Persons, Greminger). Wild pitch, Breitenstein. Time. 2:1O. Empires, Fitzsimmons and Moran.
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Birmingham in Mobile Nashville in Memphis Atlanta in Little Rock Montgomery in New Orleans
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#*-Batted for Lively in ninth. 1.-Two out when winning run scored.
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Otis Clymer, the Washington out fielder, injured his knee sliding to the plate in recent game at Washington and will be out of the game for cou- pie of weeks.
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A baseball writer says:

"A basebal Wr1tor says.
 Paul Jones wrote the famous mes- sage. We have met the enemy and they are ours.'" Always thought Commo- dore erry penciled the line on Lake Erie after walloping the British fleet with his green lumber wind tanners.
 These baseball historians should con- fine their efforts to baseball.
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Frank Laporte put sort of crimp into the knockers on Thursday last when he played about as brilliant
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-06-24

The London Lancet, a high
medical authority, says that the
drug, caffeine, used in the manu-
faoture of coca-cola and similar
drinks is extracted from the leaves
of a Peruvian shrub. 1t is really
nothing more than cocaine the
celebrated negro drug, though of
less malignancy than that which
maddens the mind of the colored
man. There is no question, how
ever, that the continued use of
this drug will at last wreck the
nervous system to a greater or less
extent according to its powers of
resistance. 1t is strange that peo-
pie will fall into the senseless and
dangerous habit of drinking such
Supplying stuff