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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23

Barry also is a close student of in :
side play and while he has no high
batting average he was always ouf
guessing the plate and was a good run.
getter himself. With Barry and Col
Inns on the bases the opposing team
had Its hands full watching this pair
Another man who was an VALUABLE
field for Mack is Frank Baker. the his
third baseman who, In his first year In
the fast set, proved the clean IN
hitter In the country, excepting Cobb
and Crawford. Baker is a rangy young
fellow, who puts tremendous drive be-
hind his swings. Twice this year he
has put tho ball over the right -fieid
fence at Shibe Park The only other
players to do this were Easterly, Of
Cleveland and Cree Of New York.
Davis Steadied Youngsters.
Once Baker got started right, he hit
hard throughout the season not slumn-
ing the least mp to the last game ia
which he played. With Harry Davis
at first to steady the three kids the
Athletics had the best inf7eld IN the
league, and 1t was this fact that kent
them in the fight to the last week
of the season.
The writer has said something be-
fore about what Davis means to the
team. When his generalship is taken
into consideration, he really is the
most valuable man ON the team. Neith-
er has Davis outlived his usefulness "a
a player. He is still a dangerous HIT
ter and good steady man fieiding the
bag He is particularly strong on the
road, just when player should be at
his best
The writer heard somebody say at
a game recently that Mack should gat
another first basernan. There is undis-
puted logic in this assertion. Mack
should get another first basenaan IL |
ne can find one who lie better than
Davis
Mack has a number of promising |
young men signed for this position.
and II one among the number can bat
and field better than Harry, the Atm |
etics viii be strengthened wonder
fully. On the same line the Athletics
would be improved with a better see
ond baseman than Collins some chan
who can bat .SOe steal Ave Vases q
lay, and so through the season with
u
The fact is, that almost every team
2 the American league would like ii
lave Davis on les pay roll. New York.
With Chase. might be an exception.
out the big league owners know, ii the
pectators are ignorant OF the TACT
hat good first basemen are the scare
'st players In the country.
Il viii be recalled that about
month Or more ago. Detroit exchanged
Claude Rcsslnan for Tom Jones. 4 vet
ran first baselnan who III steady. but
lot brilliant fielder and an ordinary
litter With the addition OF Jones.
Jennings was abla to land another pen
liant for the Tigers yet nobody sun
roses that Jones is q better first base-
nan than Harry Davis. who d few I'M
ulslve fans want of the team.
The Mack outfield hardly showed the
oncerted strength and balance Of the
nneld There was great deal 81
hitting done and ii probably impaired
ne usefulness of some of the men who
forked one day and rested the next.
But Mack had TO half sole, patch and
1end his outfit the best he could. for
never reached the standard.
Dan Murphy possibly did the most
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23

Chicago, Oct 2e.--One of the pitch
ers to be tried out in the big leagues
next spring is Harry Olmstead bought
by Chicago from Mir 1eapolis. The
Miller town fans are blaming Comis-
key for the loss OF the A. A. pennant
because Of the taking of Olmstead. The
deal was not to Cantillon's liking and
ne made this known to Comiskey, but
on an appeal to the national commits
sion the player was awarded to the
local American league team. The loss
of Olmstead was felt, for Minneapolis
dropped down in the A. A. race. Ohm
stead pitched some good ball for the
Sox and on hir third trial in big league
company ought to make good.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23

GlSA Wonder If they win give him
his head next year?
Dukes Mixture couldn't smoke up'
az Baraboo, Wis, and had to be con-
tent with second place.
Dr Mum won In straight heats at
Morris, Mimi, beating John Henry and
silver Tail. The time was slow.
At the Lexington sale Of light har-
ness horses the prices averaged about
1926 per head.
There are rumors that the grey geld
ing, George f., is ringing again.
There are thirty eight new 2:1O
trotters this year.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23
Connie Mack Is a Remarkable
Builder Of Baseball Teams

Connie Mack won American league
pennants in 1902 and 1905, but his feat
or finishing second in the race this sea
son Is probably a greater accomplish
ment than in the two seasons he was
on top.
1t must be a resourceful manager
who could take the players who re-
ported to him last spring and whip
them into powerful enough baseball
machine to keep in the race until the
last week of the season
That is what Mack did this vaar
with the experiments whom he had ON
his string last spring. OF course
Connie could not have accomn1iabad
this had he not had some good ma
tterial with which to work. II is pood
material now Connie has proved II
put IT was Comics sharp eye that
knew his men had baseball In them
last spring, when they did not look like
good material to eyes other than Con-
MES.
This better explains the part Mack
mas played during the year. He dis
covered just several months before
the public the strength there il in the
Athletic team. And he took these
players of promise and placed them
at positions where they would do the
most good. On joining the Mackmen
Collins and Barry had migratory
sort Of life. They were shifted from
one position to another, and were
never sure just where they would plav
the next day.
The shrewd Connie soon found Just
the places where, they would do the
most good, and he put them there per-
manently. Soon Eddie Collins. last /
year rated no better than a coming
player, If the right position was found
Tor him to cover, developed with leans
and bounds, both as basemen and as |
guardian OF second base.
Collins Soon Topnotcher.
BY the middle OF the season his name
by common consent was linked with
such topnotchers as Cobb and Wagner /
He became the buIwarx OF the team 4
and remained 80 as long as the team
was in the race. In hitting. Collins L
showed phenomenal ability.
He could line the ball out or heat
out slow hits to the infleld through
mis- six cylinder speed. He also mas |,
tered all the tricks OF the second basa-
man, and from an ordinary fielder de-
veloped into whirlwind. Today he e.
rated with the Lajoles and Everges
from fielding standpoint. Mack
wouldn't let him go for either.
Therefore, In one season Connie has
developed no ordinary star, bat 4 mar
vel who would rank with the half
dozen or 80 conspicuous figures In the
last set for years to come
Barry the Holy Cross shortshop. has
come forward almost with the rush ~ Z
Collins He is not the sensational hit f
tor OF the Columbia man, but he plavs
; big part in the inside maneuvers
lust the same. Barry last spring
looked to be too light for pennant- /
aspiring team
Connie didn't think so. He carefullv !
coached him, and Barry. like Collins.
proved an apt pupil His first season Z
as a regular, Barry improved this year i
~ the season progressed
BY August he was one of the most
dependable shortstops In the American !
eague. He had arms and beEs for
everything and covered the spot better I
or Mack since the days Monte Cross /
WAS at his best
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AMONG THE HORSES.
by J. j. -

The fact lie becoming more and more
apparent that the pure gated trotter
Is to be the popular horse of the flu
ture. The introduction OF the hobbies
has put the pacing gait to the had with
many who had been admirers OF the
side wheelers. These facts are no dis
credit to the natural GATED PAGER,
however.
Slippery pavements and shoes with
out calks are responsible for a large
proportion of the curbs and spavins on
city driving and team horses. II is
poor economy to use an illy-shod
horse.
Indications are that oats will cost
a little more than half the ruling price
of last year.
The great prospect of last March
that didn't make good" is headed for
the big sales Of the winter.
The man who really does more harm
than good in the harness horse game
is the fellow who cannot pocket his
loss and keep on smiling" Someone
has got to pay the fiddler, and few can
pick the winner"
Lester B. Murphy, who campaigned
horses through the northwest and
Kansas during the season Just closed
VIII locate at Fargo this winter.
Safeguard, the horse raced by Les
ter Murphy during the past season
has been a money winner far above
the average. pulling down first money
In nearly every start.
There is a good opening in Fargo
Tor some man to erect and operate
raining stable in this city. But the
nan who would be successful cannot
10 IL by dropping his stable and Ego
hs to the races" every season. There
are many people who would like to
nave their horses-colts and aged
lorses-gaited and developed. who do
not make the attempt because thew
ShoW the party into whose hands thew
YOU'D nave to place their horse is soon
o drop his stable and campaign one
u more of the string. A man who
you'd come here, erect a commodious
table solely for the purpose Of gait
hg and developing-with a distinct
understanding that he would not race
iorses-would build up a profitable
BUSINESS.
HoW many OF the phenomenal colts
point OF speed performances-do we
Yer near of as enduring campaign
rs3 Mighty few. 1t is taken out OF
hem" before they arrive at maturity
rms season has probably wound nm
ne great Dan Patcfl's career on the
urI Taken all In all, his equal win
ardiy be found in many years. He
as richly earned all the comforts ana
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23
Tee EAR0 Eyna ocrR Is a

when he was on the teams pay rolls?
"Cut loose from the game, he would
not hesitate TO divulge everything. The
fact that there has never been such an
expose is positive proof that there -
no crooked or manipulated playing in
the big leagues. II there had been.
baseball would not be on the scale It
is today.
Coming back to the worlds series,
IL there was any frame-up, ball players
are the greatest actors in the world.
In Thursdays game between Detroit
and Pitesburg, three Detroit players
were severely injured In stopping
Pittsbnrg's nine aning rally. In a pre-
vious game, Leach Of Pittsburg, at a
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23
AGGIES LICKED The
BROOKINGS TEAM
NORTH DAKOTA PUMPKIN PICK
ERs TOO FAST FOR THEIR
SOUTH DAKOTA BROTHERS
FARGO TOOK THE GAME II TO
5-MoRE OPTIMISTIC.

There was joy unauthorized at the
A. C. last night when the reports from
the football contest arrived. The local
aggles defeated the South Dakota
farmer boys at Brookings by a score
Of IL to 8.
The game was played on a muddy
field, and the flmbles were numerous.
though somewhat excusable. Fargo
made III in the first half, and the
South Dakota boys five in the second
Coach Reuber's pets showed great
Improvement over former contests
The addition Of barrow and Anderson
in the line seems to have Fingered the
boys UP and given the bunch lot of
spirit. Wurtenberger at nalf also
helped.
All three OF the recent recruits have
assisted greatly because Of the added
speed.
Coach Reuber is reported to have
smiled for the first time since late in
September.
The team VIII return this evening at
s o'clock over the Great Northern and
IL is understood that the A. C.. students
are planning a little noise in that
part of town shout that time.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23

ease that can come to him during the
rest Of his natural life A grand old
horse-he has been monarch OF them
all
Lady Maud G. is a truly great mare
great from every standpoint which
goes to make the desirable equine.
Coupled with her marvellous speed and
speed consistency, she has the size. the
gait, the conformation, the bone, the
the observation-disclosures
the desirable qualities, and not an
out" What brood-mare she ought
to make.
Lady Maud G. took the measure of
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23

risk OF broken bones, crashed into
fence trying to catch a liner
I'm another game, Cobb, scornina
any thought Of personal disablement.
made head first dive to catch q short
liner before 1t fell to the ground There
were many other instances OF heroic
felding which shatter the foolish re-
port that something was wrong. The
real baseball fan needed no such inci-
dents as these to keep his faith In the
honesty of the sport.
"He knows that If baseball vera
crooked there would be no $4,000 and
$4,000 salaries, and that the pennant
would never leave New York and Chic
cago."
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23
mo CHANGE FOR
FAKE IN SERIES

Jimmy Isaminger The Philadelphia
North American baseball expert cuts
loose with well written and interest
ing editorial on the silly charge that the
world series games were axed Mr.
lsaminger says: Another unfortunate
incident In connection with the world
series was the publication in a Pits
burg newspaper Of an inference that
the games had been fixed to swell the
dow OF money in the box Office.
OF course, only those ignorant Of
the workings OF the sport or disan-
pointed shoestring gamblers placed
any credence in the story, which nrA-
sented no tangible facts of anvthtnp
wrong, but merely printed sidewalk
gossip The paper in question re-
tracted the story the next day.
Aside from the overwhelming amhf-
ton Of the players of the contestinp
teams to win the highest honors thai
can go to a baseball team, which ID il
itself proof enough OF the honesty AZ
the games, there are other facts which
would preclude any possibility of
crooked playing.
In the first place. the players share
only in the receipts taken In the frat
four games of the SERIES The money
taken at the other games goes to the
cluD owners and the National Commits
sion. Therefore, the players would not
be financially benefited even IL thew
studtedly attempted to prolong the
series
Were the club owners secretly "a
give the players a bonus for prolonr- !
Ing the series, 1t would result in
blackmail, even IL the cIi,b
owner or the pleyer attempted such 4 |
schedule
Tt is this. fear OF blackmail that
would make an club owner hesitate /
20 manipulate a anne If there are any
owners INSCRIPTIONS enough to trv IL !
which is matter Of much doubt n
. the great protection for the honesty
If the sport
This year, last year, the year be-
ore, and for seasons back there have
been numerous cases of quarrels be-
ween club owners am players which
AVE been aired in print by the column
Iach party to the controversy would
his ammunition OF charres
against the other, but not once has
here been scintilla OF an accusation
hat club owner has asked PLAYER
Q 90 something dishonest on the field.
Isn't it fair to presume that a PLAY
r who has decided to retire from the
.ame owing t. grievances with his en-
'loyer, would rush into print and tell
'laylng that came to his knowledge
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23

the loss OF the pennant At no time
since the Athletics have been in the
American league has Connie had a
better balanced STAFF. In Plank and
Krause, left-handers, and Bender. Nor
gan, Coombs Dygart and Vickers, the
Athletics had a curving corps that
didn't show any signs Of staleness or
or weakness at any time during the
campaign.
Summing up the seasons work in a
few words, the Athletics lost the PEN
nant because of the spilxing Of Barry
at a time when he was most needed,
and because the outfeld couldn't
stand the pace Of the inflelders and
pitchers.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23

consistent work He started the sea-
son with great flourish and then had
slump which lasted almost a month,
but Dan recovered and ! batted out
the hits at time when they were
most needed. Heitmuller in left field
is bound to improve. He is a wicked
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23

hitter and his fielding will get better
with more expo -'ence. CIdring really
was better man this year than he
was last.
Hartzel would have been much
more value TO the team had he been
worked regularly, bit Connie decided
to let the veteran take it easy this
season in order to try out younger
players.
The pitchers are not to blame for
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23

the national championship match at
Philadelphia last month. including the
new American champion, Miss Dorothy
Campbell Of Scotland, visited the
Country club links, The visitors won
two out of FIVE matches played with
local experts.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23

The Horse Review says: Govern
or Sarles did not lower his record this
year but he beat il away off man,
tunes" Still in the 2:Os class for next
year. That's managing-some.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23
FARGO HIGH VS.. FORKS
High School Assresations of the Two
Largest Cities Are Fighting for
Football Honors.

The Grand Forks high school foot
ball team arrived here this morning
for the game with Fargo. It was call
ed at 2 o'clock at Athletic park.
Second A. C. Bunch.
The second aggies and Alexandria.
high played Immediately after the high
school game was concluded.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23
Woman Golfers.

BSooaSiine, Mass, Get. Rs.-The Bri-
fish women golfers, who competed in
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-23

Continued on Page II.
Many Use" Oil makes leather soft and watsr-
proof. 2 OF. bottle 10c
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08
The Tenor's ComrIinent.

You could tell from his hair that he
was a musician, or something of the
sort. Yes" he said to the company
at large, the greatest tenor in the
land once paid me the biggest compli
ment | could wish" "Oh?" remarked
some one, interrogatively. 1T was
like this: I sang without accompani
ment-I always have trouble with
accompanies; they're so unsympathet-
ic. YOU know-and at the end of the
song he said 20 me: DO you know,
when you began without an accom-
rauist, | was surprised; when heard
You. I was astonished; and when you
sat down ! was delirhted!" And the
sun shone down and lit mp the youth s
beatifc smile of satisfaction.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08
FEW DIAMONDS ARE sMueeLEo.
Amount So Brought In Has No Effect
on the Market.

Very few diamonds are smuggled
into this country now, whatever may
have been the case in former days"
declared an agent Of large jewelry
house who makes a yearly trip to Flu
rope to purchase precious stones. The
amount that is brought in without
duty is so small as to have no effect
on the market. Uncut diamonds are
not taxed. The duty on cut stones is
but ten per cent. Amsterdam, Holland.
is the great market for diamonds.
Nearly all the New York dealers who
import buy from that city. Eighty per
cent of the diamond cutting for the
world is done in Amsterdam. Few
small diamonds are cut in New York
city There are almost no facilities
here for doing the work. The expe-
rienced cutters at Amsterdam can turn
out the work cheaper than it can be
done on this side of the water even
when the customs duty is added to the
rates paid the Holland manufacturers.
Large diamonds, about three-quarters
of carat. are cut here. but most OF this
work is recutting for the changes in
style of setting"
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08
44o Tco MUCH :nr1lL:--Nsa.
Usefulness Of Marvellous Ircusstors
Ended by "Scra2."

speaking about incubators."
d~awled old JEFF Weatherby, in the
back of Jasons general store "re-
mains me of the wonderful chicken
hatchers built by the Hams boys Bill
Hams Invented the most marvellous
incubator ever seen in these parts.
1t not only hatched the chickens out.
but it actually shielded the little
chicks from hawk just like an old
hen. Then Pete Hams got busy and
went one better. He built an incu-
bator with phonograph arrange
ment that would 'cluck-cluck' to the
chicks and scratch up worms for
them"
"W'how!" gasped the starch drum
mer II have heard lot of yarns,
but that is the limit. What became
of these wonderful incubators?"
Busted, stranger, busted all to bits.
You SEQ them thar incubators We're so
intelligent they soon grew jealous Of
one another and first thing you know
there was a scrap to equal any game
chicken fight that ever come off. When
it was over both were only fit for the
Junk heap. Thanks, stranger, I'll
take cigar"
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08
IN WsATH OVER Foca "oAow."
Mexican Audiences Evidently Lack
Patience of Americans.

Here Is a news item the like Of
which one does not find in the news
papers of the United States. 1t comes
from the City of Mexico and describes
the exciting incident at Queretaro:
Yesterdays bullfght," the reader
is informed, was wretched, and start
ed a row. The management announced
that the bulls would be first-class, but
those which appeared were very small
and showed no fight whatever Four
of these ridiculous beasts were sent
back to the corral, another barely
qualified, and only one turned out to
be a real bull.
"The public. unable to repress its
indignation, laid hold of everything it
could get it's hands on and threw it
into the bull ring, causing serious
damage.
I'm the midst of the excitement the
announcement was made that the
management had been fined 500, but
this was not sufficient to allay the
public Indignation. The manager of
the bull ring was compelled to hide
owing TO the fact that some OF the
most excited individuals in the audi
ence were making diligent search
for him.
1T was tremendous row, as we re-
marked before, and would have had
more serious consequences had no;
the Fifth corps of rural police ar
rived on the scene most opportunely
The policemen made the discontented
audience disperse. and then mounted
guard over the bull ring and the resi-
dence of the manager"
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08
Quaint Old Pepys.

There were worse errors than the
matinee hat for the man who sat be-
hind n woman in the seventeenth cen
tury theater. Pepvs wrote that Janu-
AIRY IS. 1861, he saw THE Lost Lady"
for the second time. Nine days ear
lier that play had not pleased him
much-pcrtly. perhaps. because he
was troubled to be seen by four OF
our Office clerks. which sat in the
half-crown box, and l in the Is, Cd"
But on the second occasion the play
did please me better than before;
and here. l sitting behind in a dark
place. a lady spit backward upon me-
by a mistake. not seeing me-" How
ever. it was all right. for. after see
ing her to be very pretty lady,
was not troubled at it at all"
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-08
CHANCE FOR SETTLEMENT GONE.
8asso Might Have Decided Vexed
Question, But He Didn't.

The choir began tine hymn. When
they came to the line: Neither are
they afraid" the composer of the
music had SO writ IN it that 1t had to
he repeated first by the soprano, then
by the alto, and finally by the bass
The soprano seemed TO be of conserva
tive taste and sang the line: "Nee-ther
are they afraid Apparently the alto
had departed from the usage of her
forefathers. for when she brought ont
the words they became "Ni-ther are
they afraid and il became A serious
question which side the bass would
take. The bass was an Irishman. Ont
rolled his rich voice: "Nay-ther are
they afraid"
So the question of usage still re-
maired unsettled.