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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-05-30
SAYS LEAGUE CONTRIBUTES !.
TO HANS WAGNER'S SALARY
Old Baseball Masnate Tells How Star
Player Was Kept from Jump.
Ing Old Organization.

Hans Wagner's salary is not all
paid for by Dreyfuss," said an old
baseball magnate the other day In dis
GUESSING the national game, land most
persons will think there is something
queer when they know how 1t is
paid" He then went on to explain
that Wagner receives $4,000 year,
$4,000 Of which Is paid by the Pittsburg
club, $4,000 by the National league
and $4,000 by contribution from the
other seven league clubs. when the
American league was started six
years ago." he continued, IAN offer
was made to Wagner to pay him $780,
900 If he would join that organization.
This sum was to be guaranteed by de-
posting the $4,000 in some bank, and
Wagner was to be allowed to draw
$4,000 q year from the fund. Wagner
went with this offer to Dreyfuss, who
demurred at meeting it. but agreed to
pay Wagner a smaller salary and
guaranteed to pay him the difference
In five years from the amount he
drew from the Pittsburg club and the
$4,000 guaranteed by the American
leaguers, should the American league
be in existence. When this agree
ment was made there was present be-
sides Wagner and Dreyfuss, Harry G.
Pulliam. now president Of the Nation
al league, but then secretary Of the
Pittsburg club. At the expiration of
i've years. In the spring of 1908, Wag.
ner went to Dreyfuss and demanded
the difference The matter was taken
to Pulliam, who at once remembered
the agreement and declared Wagner
entitled to the money. It was on tho
payment of the balance due Wagner,
according to the magnate, that the
present deal involving Honus' salary
was made. Dreyfuss is said to have
represented to his National league
colleagues that he was entitled to
some consideration for keeping Wag-
ner in the National league and that
it was not fair to make him pay the
balance due Wagner. Then they all
"chipped in." made up the deficit, and
later came to the salary agreement
which makes Wagner not the property
Of the Pittsburg club. but the property
of the whole National league.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-05-30
ATTITUDE OF CLEVELAND
PLAYERS WHILE At BAT
Lajole's Men Have Many PeeuIIaritIes
While Waiting for Pitcher
to Deliver Ball.

Ball players. like every one else'
have their peculiarities- Did you
ever notice how the Maps stand when
they come to bat? Not man but
who has some little trick that would
make him known to the fans even
though they could not see his fea'
lures.
Lajoie draws a line between him
self and the plate. Then If he misses
q couple Of pitched balls he whanga
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-05-30

with Curt Welsh on third base. Clark
son let loost wild pitch which got
by Mike Kelly and Welsh scampered
home with the run that won st. Louis
the worlds championship. -;
We all remember, or, at least the
old-timefs do, how the Athletics won
the championship in 1883 on wild
pitch. IT was in the last game of the
season. The Athletics needed one
more victory to- insrsethem the PEN
nant d They wound up the season at
louisville with q series Of four games.
The Louisville players, spurred ON
BY offers of big money from Chris Won
der Abe, whose st. Louis Browns had
4 chance to tie the Athletics, tried
Nil they knew how to earn the cash
promised them by Chris to take four
straight games from the Philadel-
phians. sf. The, Athletics had played
themselves out and were sadly Grip
pied after the hard campaign they
had gone through. ~ ., :.
Louisville had won the first three
games and it looked bad for the Ath.
letics. Then came the fnal game, and
Guy Hecker, Louisville's great pitcher
of those days, was sent in to : ad-
minister. another beating to Billy
Hharsig's men. After a fierce strug-
he the score was Z tie when the ninth
inning opened. G3 81 ,s-s t-. IL. rt.'.
stovey, the Athletics star hitter
ana greatest base runner in the coun-
~, made ! hit in the ninth and
worked his way around to third base
BY the time two Of his teammates had
been disposed Of. Then, with two
down. Hecker made a wild pitch and
Harry raced home with the run that
won the game and gave the Athletics
the championship. *...7
In 1903 ! Wild pitch by Jack Ches-
bro cost the New York Americans
the pennant. On the last day Of the
season New York and Boston were
scheduled to play two games on the
same afternoon. Boston had e. lead
Of one game. TO win the flag New
York had 10 capture both. games that
day. lj.5. 4 NM: 54s5~ / M. C.
New York had the lead In the first
same until the closing inning. when
Chesbro made wild pitch which let
Mn ! couple u runs Those runs won
Boston the game and the champion
ship. 3s9 NJ MI s s* ~
Last year Theodore Breitenstein
lost the pennant. IN : similar way tor
New Orleans. Il required the last
eame Or the season to decide the race.
:. and New Orleans lost, and on fatal e,
j Wild pitch which Breitenstein made.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-05-30

the front of the plate vigorously with
his bat and points the big end of the
club at the pitcher.
George Stovall always straddles his
legs apart, bitches up his belt. pulls
down the peak of his cap and gives
his pants another hitch. The less
success he has in batting the more
frequent the pulling Of pants and cap.
Bill Bradley usually moves to the
striking place slowly. When he ar
rives he carefully puts one foot well
front and one well back. Then he
stands with legs apart and holds his
bat straight across the plate. When
he swings at the ball his whole body
moves, but his feet remain still.
Jay Clarke always hustles to bat.
He hits the plate, but not the same
way Lajoie does. He taps it with
little nervous Jerks of the bat. he
. misses ball or two he waves his bat
in front of the catcher in little
circle and hops around on one foot
big Bill'' Hinchman walks to bat
with much dignity. Bill holds his bat
on his shoulder and makes no pre-
liminary movements. When ball
comes along that he thinks he can hit
he swings. and II he misses he swings
at the next one. Bill has no charac-
teristic attitudes.
Goode does nothing save try to hit.
Bristol Lord pulls his cap down as
though trying to hide his ears when
he bats. ..ys..,.
All the rest Of the squad stand at
the plate and try to hit Harry Bay.
when he was with Cleveland. was the
fussiest man in the league. Bay
would expend ten tons of energy on
his cap and trousers and in prelimi.
nary swings He had them all beat
for being the busy bee.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-05-30
I iioey Y { sads a. 4. Battsrs.

& JOHNNY Hosy Of ST. Paul once more
leads the American association bat
ters With AIS. Hayden and Carr. @
last yea. are running neck and neck.
3 ana close Is the top, both being we'll
! over $50. Nc0ann tops the Milwau.
tee hit With .2sl. Kruger Of Column
bua ID hitting $40, and Tip O'Neill
s,.3s7. Jaks Bscklsy Az clputinl the ball Y
I g So CLIP. q & s
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-05-30

him He Il not only q hne batsman.
hut 4 wonderful fielder, covering .
vast amount OF territory and recover
ing himself quickly, and throwing
strongly and accurately after the most
dihacult catches He 10 very young.
and has = very me career before him.
He win give anyone hustle for hrst
honors Ia batting II tho American
lsagus this season. according to crit
To-. Il g I: 81 ss5l8s
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-05-30
B0SToN's STAR 0UTFIELDER.

iris Speaker. the Texas importation
with the Boston Americans, is the
hero of the hour. and what the club
would do without him is indeed :
question. He has been clouting the
ball like q wild man so far this season.
Speaker In q natural batsman, and
Ill pitchers seem to look alike TO
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-05-30
Believes Psnnant Depends on Pitchers

Believes Psnnant Depends on Pitchers
!, That Charley Comiskey, owner Of
the White Sox, believes strong pitch
ing star essential In winning baseball
pennants. was shown in the big trade
he has just made with the Washington
club. Comiskey save Washington
three players figs Donohue, the star
flrst .baseman; Cravath. the young.
hard.hitting outielder. and Nick Al
trock. the pitcher, famous only
three years back, In exchange for Bill
Burns, the big southpaw twirler Of the
washington club, who broke into the
big league last year with 90 much
promise. ~ !. iassit5s S2s5s5 Il &
Burns VIII give the White sox one
81 the greatest pitching stats In the
country With Walsh, White. Smith,
s,ecott and Sutoe. ~.
fN
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-05-30
/ c.ila sunday tiIs = Jonah :.

Ths veteran. TheO. Breitenatsin,
New Orleans leading pitcher. Do.
clares hs win never pitch again On
SUNDAY. Not on account Of religious
.scruples. bat ii. believer the day i
Il Jonah % him. He has not won z
sunday gams In several years. and
rareiy losss 81 week dayA
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-05-30
!. p.rtson & Rselrss from Dassball.5

Z Charles Bartso1. president ct The
Peoria Amusement Company. owners
81 the Peoria baseball club. has sold
Ma stock III the club To- the remaining
Airectors and viii retire. r. a. John.
- WI succeed % the presidency.
Rar4.on VA formerly . pitcher In the
Ala chicago eox and his retirement
ends some twenty -lvs years spent =
baseball.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-27
SOMETHING ABOUT SUGAR.

Wonder has probably existed in the
minds of many persons as to what has
become during late years of the good
old fashioned brown sugar that grand
mothers used to keep on hand in their
pantries. 1t was cheap, compared with
white sugar, it was more seductive to
the taste than most candy, almost as
good a reliHh as maple sugar. 1t was
excellent for the purpose of baking all
sorts of cakes and goodies, and was
also used extensively in putting up pre-
serves A recent dispatch to the Kan
sas City Star from Washington tells of
the reasons for it's. dropping out of
sight A "joker'' in the tariff laws of
the past few years is responsible and
the Stars dispatch exposes it as fol-
low:
You may have noticed that in re-
cent years this sugar has disappeared.
Probably you never asked why The
reason is to be found in an innocent
appearing but unintelligible phrase in
the tariff law-'above No. 16 Dutch
standard There is the real joker in
the sugar schedule. 1t is mentioned at
| this time because the sugar schedule
! has been reached in the tariff debate
! and one ]. L. Bristow of Kansas for
! the revisionists is to do his best to put
/ the crimps in the joker.
There was a time when No 16
Dutch standard meant something in
commerce. But with the invention of
the polariscope test for the amount of
sweetness in sugar, No. 16 Dutch
standard, which really measured only
the color of the sugar. fell into disuse
except as joker for the tariff laws.
sugar below No. 16 is too dark to be
retailed The only market for it is the
| Sugar trust, which buys and whitens it,
! So sugar of this grade carries the COM
paratively low duty of raw sugar. But
all sugar above No. 16 Dutch stand
ard in color, and all sugar which has
| gone through process of refining
takes the high duty of refined sugar.
This makes the light brown sugar pay
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-27
AYHAWKER .JOTS

Tom Thompson wants to know
chow many men remember what
their class motto was when they
were graduated from high SCHOOL,"
Methodists in the central section of
the state are working hard to raise
$4,000 for new building at South
western college, Winfield.
The Kansas City journal thinks the
next Republican and Democratic
state platforms in Kansas will each
have a "Swat the Fly plank in them.
The sporting editors on a number
of Kansas newspapers, especially
where the local team is slumping,
are printing this slogan in caps: "Swat
the Fly-"-kansas City Journal.
Something must be wrong in the
Fifth district. Only five candidates
are out to take the congressional
nomination away from Representa-
tive Calderhead.
So far as the Ellinwood Leaders
English edition is concerned. it has
But you can't tell about its German
supplement" says the Garden City
Telegram.
Mrs. Hattie Wurst of Argentine has
qualified to go on a hunt to, Africa.
She recently killed wild cat at doz-
en- PAGES, while the animal was hiding
under the porch of her house. The
animal is credited with weight of So
pounds.
A rural free mail delivery carrier
out of Manhattan has bought a motor
cycle and would be able to make fine
time along his route, the Mercury
says, were it not for the number of
patrons to whom he has to explain
how the machine works.
It's easy enough to be pleasant
When life rolls along like a song,
But the man who's worth while
Is the one who can smile
when he writes MRS. Jones has a
lump in her throat" finds it appear
ing in the proof Mrs. Jones was
drunk as a goat corrects 1t on the
proof and sees it appear in the paper
"Mr. Jones was as punk ETAOT,
him cmfwyp Observation-Disclosures
says the Hutchinson Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

You can't afford to bank on a man
unless he has plenty of sand.
A close friend is all right-until he
declines to lend you money.
Every man is more or less brave until
his bluff has been called.
Most people will do as you wish-if 1t
is in accord with their wishes.
Even if a mans good deeds live after
him he isn't in a position to care
Most men are philosophers-at least.
they seldom practice what they preach.
!. And a man idea of his own impor-
lance decreases as the gray in his
hair increases
Occasionally a girl is both pretty and
intelligent-just to prove the exception
to the rule.
1t is only during her first engagement
that a girl ties up her love letters with
baby blue ribbon
He is a mean man who will let a wo-
man marry him for his money. then
show her that he hasn't got dollar.
Many a man who thinks he is honest
because he pays back borrowed money
wouldn't think of returning a borrowed
umbrella.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-27

the same duty as refined sugar and so
virtually prevents its Importation.
Now, the sugar mills produce this
light brown sugar. The sugar is put in
centrifugal machines and whirled until
most of the molasses adhering to the
crystals are whirled off. The little
remaining .nolasses gives the brown
the kitchen. and it would be shipped
into the United States in enormous
quantities from the sugar mills pro-
vlded the duty on it was not prohibi-
tive. Considering the price which it
will bring, there would be lively COM
petition with the Sugar trust and
prices would go down.
But the trust. which was lately
caught with its hand in the govern
ment's pocket. pilfering like a com
mon sneak thief. has been able to
keep off competition and preserve
practical monopoly by the joker in
the tariff bill which has shut off the
light brown sugar.
$50 Senator Bristow. who has been
studying the sugar question for sew
eral weeks. will attempt to persuade
the Senate to get rid of this obsolete
color test which in disguise protects
the sugar monopoly, and he will try
further to abolish the sugar differ
the trust receives above the duty on
raw sugar.
'"The finance committee which is
looking after all the interests care
fully may have the votes to beat
these amendments. But as Bristow
says:
1.-The revisionists aren't appealing
to the Senate any longer. They are
appealing to the country"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-27
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
[From the Philadelphia Record

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record
If at first you don't succeed blame it
on your luck.
OF course, two can live as cheaply
as one. After they are married they
have to.
Never ask a married man how he
first met his wife. The chances are
she overlook him.
There may be sermons in stones, but
few stones are as long as the average
Sunday morning sermon.
Wigg Cat the musicale)-"Has Bjones
q good ear for music" Wagg-"Fine.
He's as deaf as a post
When a man trades his money for
experience it is difficult to convince
him that fair exchange is no robbery.
The romantic girl used to tell fell
low to read his answer in the stars.
Now she tells him to read 1t in the gas
meter.
After all, it's just as well to be look
ing for trouble. Then you are better
prepared to dodge it when it comes.
The man with a gun in his pocket
may be arrested for carrying concealed
weapons, but think of all the fellows
who carry hammers.
Blobbs-"I dropped a S. bill the other
day. and that fellow Guzzler found it,
Slobbs-"Get it back?" Blobbs-"Weil,
I met up with him in time to get in on
the last round of drinks"
Nell-"Since you refused Chollie
Saphedde he says he Is going to blow
out his brains with a pistol" Belle
''Oh, he hasn't any" Nell-"Yes, he
has He bought it yesterday, a six
shooter Belief was referring to his
brains, not his pistol"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-27
AT the Novelty,

horrifyfng, this downfall of a man
ike Malcolm Dalzell, one of those
queer croppings-out of hidden ten
dencles that sometimes destroy the
worlds best.
The three days that INTERVIEWED be-
lore his preliminary hearing drew
INES in DalzelPs face and gave him
pallor that usually it takes age to
prlng. Ye he maintained those close
shut lips and further than stating he
was not guilty refused to talk.
When he faced his friends and
nelghbors at the preliminary hearing
there was trace of proud defiance
IN MS glance that yet was strangely
dawning wavering in allegiance to
him.
Much talk had bred suspicion and
every one knew of the long rivalry
between the two men. What more
natural than that DalzeI should at
tempt to harass. to ruin his oppon-
ent? So they waited for the SEN
sational disclosures
The sensation came. and as usual
with sensations. was quite different
from what was expected. This white
faced girl with eyes Redeemed by
tears, who suddenly presented her
self struck pity from the heart of the
hardest Sse spoke rapidly, breath
lessly.
Malcolm did not do it,, she pro-
tested with tight-clasped hands. IF
he won't tell, will, now that know
the truth! 1t was Dick-my brother
and Malcolm. who was watching,
saw him, and entered Thompson
store to save him, to get him away.
to help him! And when Lewis Thomp
son came upon him-he, Malcolm.
would not tell, because
Milly Wainwright's voice died away,
but the end of the sentence was fur
nished by Malcolm Dalzelrs quick
step to her side and hiding her tears
on his shoulder. Both had made
their sacrifice for each other and out
of the bitterness had snatched hap
piness. And Rosemont, with the
fickleness OF the human race. said it
served Lewis Thompson right, and he
should have had more common sense.
-(Copyright, 1909. by Associated
Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-27
Doctors Amazing Feat.

BY >-eatment so heroic that many
persons who saw it thought the sur
geon was demented. DIR. Burke, of
Bellevue Hospital. recently saved the
life of Evan Killeen, 9 months old. of
255 Avenue A. The baby was chok-
ing to death slowly from a jack
which he had attempted to swallow,
and which had lodged in his wind
pipe. Seated in an ambulance which
was going through the East Side
streets at 50-mile clip. DIR. Burke
seized the baby by the heels, swung
him head downward several times,
and then began whirling him about
his head. When the ambulance reach
ed Twenty-third street and First av-
enue the surgeon heard something
strike the bottom of the ambulance
with a metallic ring. He also heard
the baby give a gasp of relief.
Pausing in the heroic treatment
which he was practicing, the surgeon
looked toward the bottom of the am
bulance, and was delighted to see the
x-pronged piece of iron lying there.
Then he took the baby tenderly in his
arms and endeavored to make UP by
soothing treatment for all the neces-
sary rough usage to which he had
subjected the youngster since the
race against death started. Little
Evan was almost exhausted. The sur
geon knew, however his patients life
was saved. and that in a few hours
he would be all right.-New York
Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-27
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atcbison c,ohe

lFrom the Atchison Globe
How viciously real good friends
talk about" each other,
You're guilty If you get into a law
suit, however it comes out.
We never knew a man who wasn't
afraid of women. And you never did.
Somehow, we do not like to see a
man drink tea. And unless we are
eating, we don't like to see people eat.
either.
Notice your average days work:
how much of 1t is devoted to actual
work, and how much of it to needless
worry?
There is SO much talk about men
imposing on women, that there is no
time to talk about women imposing
on men.
Thinking of the good times he used
to have, and counting on nothing in
the future, is the dreariest of all the
signs of old age.
A woman was cross recently. and
said: Il hate Jim Cher husband), and
hate Mary" Cher daughter.) Don't
you feel that way, sometimes?
Bluffing is one common trait which
distinguishes all living things. All
kinds of animals have their WAYS of
bluffing. A snake is nine-tenths h1,,fe
Without wishing to seem fnhospit-
able, we sometimes think the wo-
SPoeS ~ eNitAiS IL" ~ eicdl a guest
how to furnish a guest room, etc.
1T is hard said a man the other
day, ito get up any enthusiasm in
this town." This is true in every
town. Particularly if man is COM
PEELED to go down into his pocket for
money to back his enthusiasm.
Any man can come along and form
lodge, and get members. This is so
we'll established a fact that there is
no excuse for men remaining idle; let
them go to other towns, establish
lodges, and charge commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-27
PILGRIMS.

oh, host upon the dusty way,
Wherefore this pilgrimage, pray?
The world is wide. this path beside,
Wherein to walk, wherein to ride
Why do We crowd these narrow gates?
For love, and gold, and delicatesi
The country fields are misted white
With dewy webs strung overnight;
And love is there, and health, and prayer,
and gold for simple needs to spare.
Here on the pavement Sorrow waits,
And love. and gold, and delicates!
Too late yell rue, too late yen turn
10 clasp the joys We now would spurn;
For love is lust, and gold is rust,
and DELEGATES are painted dust
So wherefore tempt the bitter Fates?
For love, and gold, and delicates.
Helen NJ Bulls in the New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.

It's better to have spent and gone
into debt for it than never to have any
fun at all.
A woman goes on yachting parties
when she's away for the summer if
it's only taking the children out row.
ing on a pond.
When a man is a failure in his own
business it's a sign he is always ex-
planning how the government ought
to be run.
A woman would much rather be
talked about for her conduct than
called a poor thing who never had a
pchance to do anything out of the way.
The thing that makes a man sure
he has a streak of genius in him is
for him to read something he could
have written himself If he had
thought Of it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Brain fag is an exceedingly handy
excuse for variety of things.
K =
In the matrimonial field, ideals fire.
quently develop into ordeals.
\ X
Say what you please, there is a
streak of pessimism in almost every
one.
The individual who changes his
mind occasionally is progressive and
wise.
= X
Some girls have such a sense of
honor that they will not be engaged to
more than one man at a time