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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-08-27
STUDY WEAK POINTS
OF OPPOSING PITCHER
ROBERT WALLACE, THIRD BASE
MAN OF ST. LOUIS BROWNS,
SAYS FIRST STUDY WEAK
POINTS OF TWlRLER OF
OTHER TEAM.
BY ROBERT WALLACE.

NopyFlSht, 1910, by Joseph b. BoWles.)
Working together for one run at a
time, and hitting at the weak points
IN the opposing team is my idea of
how to win baseball games To me a
baseball game is just like battle.
The effort should be to attempt to
break the defenses some place, and
then attack that broken spot The
easiest point to attack, of course, is
the pitcher and every effort of a
team should be concentrated to
weaken the pitcher.
knowledge of pitcher, whether he
is wild, whether he has good control,
whether he fields hunts well, is es-
sential before a game is started and
the attack should be directed at the
weak spot. Run bases on pitchers
who do not watch the bases care
fully, outguess the slow thinking
pitchers, and bunt on the bad f1elders
| believe in playing hard for one run
early in the game, for the first run
handicaps the other team and forces
them to hit. The first run | think is
almost half the game, and one run
IN the first inning usually is worth
three later in the game.
1t is nearly all study of indiVid-
uals, and experience helps a lot. As
to third base, it is one of the most
difficult positions in the field to play,
and when the other team is at bat a
third baseman is forced to do lot of
thinking or he will lose the game.
With runners on bases the chief at
tack by the bunting plan is directed
at third base and the baseman, play
ing less than so, often only rs feet
from the batter, is in a tieklish posi-
ton. He must decide whether a GER
tain batter will bunt, or whether he
will try to draw the baseman forward
by pretending to bunt and then push
wrong his chances of fielding a hard
pushed ball while he is running for
ward, are slim. If he gets the ball it
is because he is lucky enough to have
1t hit straight at him because while
coming forward he is unable to change
direction or to stop in time to field
such hit. A wrong guess with men
on first and second usually means the
loss of the game.
l know through experience what al
most every batter is likely to do, but
in baseball there is nothing quite so
dangerous as thinking you know what
a man will do because he has done
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-08-27
BOYS ASHES SENT BY MAIL
Body of Japanese Boy cremated by
Parents and Remains Are For
warded to Japan.

Denver, Cola human corpse was
the strange article placed in the Dem
yer post Office, consigned by registered
mail to Yokohama, Japan, the remains
being those of Shizuma Nakono, the
fiye-year-o1d son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Sabo-
10 Nakono of this city.
Little Shizuma died and, as is the
custom of the Japanese, it was the de-
sire of the parents to have the remains
rest In the Orient, where the good in
auences of the Japanese god could lull
% quiet the liberated spirit when it
returned to the mortal tenement. To
send little shizuma by express was ex-
pensiVe The mail was the cheapest
and surest way of shipment.
Cremation was the only alternative
and that is what was done. The body
was cremated at Riverside cemetery
crematory and after the ashes had
been permitted to lie in state at the
Nakono home for several days little
tin box, which contained all that was
mortal of the child, was showed
through the window at the register de-
partment of the post Office.
Him dead Send him back to Japan
by mail?" asked the father.
Superintendent Sanderson batted his
eyes.
"Dead?" he exclaimed What do
you mean? Do you want it to go to the
dead letter officer"
mo; him my sion. sendee ashes to
Japan. Yes?" was the explanation.
Sanderson said there is no rule
against sending corpse through the
mails, so long as 1t does not exceed
the weight limit. This corpse weighed
about two pounds, box and all. It was
registered in the same way that box
of merchandise might be registered
and the postage was % cents.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-08-27
RARE CANVAS GONE
Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" Missing
From Louvre Gallery.
Celebrated Painting Has Been a
Mystery for Four Centuries
savants Puzzled Over Beau
tIful Models Smile.

Paris.-The Mona Lisa" Of Leonar-
do da Vinci, the world famous paint
ing for which an offer of $4,000, 900 is
said to have been refused and which
is reported to have been stolen from
the Louvre in Paris, for 400 years
has been as much a riddle as the
Sphinx itself. But one man-Solomon
Reinach, brother of the Reinach of
notoriety in the Dreyfus affair-eyer
has been SO brazen as to proclaim
the solution of the smile that
wreathes the face of the woman in
the picture. His answer was laughed
to scorn by art critics. Others have
commented on the painting, but Rel
mach alone authoritatiVely announced
that the mystery was ended.
The Mona Lisa" for four centuries
has stoou monument to French art.
For four years-1501 to 1504-Da
Vinci, friend of francesca del Clio
condo of Florence. spent his spare
moments at work on the painting.
The model was Mona Lisa Gherardini.
third wife of Giocondo. According to
Reinach, the lovelike expression on
the face of the model is. far from in
dicattng love.
Reinach asserts that Da Vinci paint
ed the portrait gratis for his friend,
when she was in deep grief, to divert
her mind He surrounded her with
musicians, singers and buffoons to
keep her in gentle gayety, He worked
at the painting only when a certain
expression appeared on his models
face, brought about by a peculiar
strain of music. He bore no love for
hsr. nor she for him.
Reinach even went so far as to ex-
plain the deep melancholy of Mona
Lisa. He declared that she was mar.
ried in 1895 and until 1899 had no
children. Then came a daughter. A
death record of Florence, by which it
appears that Fancfulia, little daugh-
ter Of francesca del Giocondo and his
wife, Mona Lisa, was buried from the
Church of Santa Maria Noyella on
June i, 1901, is cited by him.
Whether Reinach's explanation is
true or not. it was not received read
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-08-27

Pitcher Krause of the Athletics may
not pitch again this season. His arm
has been troubling him all season Two
specialists examined his arm the other
day and said that he would have to
rest up or he might never pitch again.
Manager Mack told the youngster to
go home and take complete rest.
Uncle Ben Shibe is sorry that he did
not build larger park two years ago.
Shibe park is already too small to hold
the crowds that want to see the Ath.
letics every afternoon when they arc
at home.
Umpire Walsh was attacked and Sc
verely beaten by the crowd at Zanes.
vile, O., the other day after Leieune
made a home run and won the game at
Evansville. The minor league fan
bankers after excitement all the time.
There are two good Indians in the
American association. Pitcher Nc.
Glynn and Pitcher Leroy are both de.
scendants of the original inhabitants
of this country and both are pitching
grand ball this season.
Manager McAleer of Washington is
using Lefty Lelivelt on first base in
place of Unglaub, who has fallen away
in his batting and John Henry, the
Holy Cross recruit, back of the bat.
The Cleveland team has paid $1,000
for Outf1elder Jackson of the Southern
league. The Toungster has been the
sensation in fielding and batting ali
this season
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Robert Wallace.

that thing many times. He is likely
to change quickly and upset every.
thing | watch the batters carefully,
especially in situations where two or
three plays are possible, and frequent
ly can guess from the actions or posi-
ton of the batter what he is going
to try to do. He may hide his inten-
lions perfectly and yet tip off his plan
through his very effort to conceal it.
A false position or an exaggerated
show of doing one thing frequently
means that the other is coming. like
to know what the pitcher is going to
pitch to a batter in an important stu!
alton 1t is difficult for third base
man to get the signals because the
catcher is covering up all the time
in order to prevent the coachers from
seeing. It is a big help to know what
ball is to be served, especially if the
pitcher is pitching inside or slow, and
giving the batter great opportunities
for pulling the ball hard over third
base. as it gives third baseman
time to establish an alibi or fix I'D
self-defense plea.
Working with the short stop is nee
essary, and a third baseman and
short stop must understand every in
slant which is to take balls hit be-
tween them, or hit slowly. A single
mixup there viii lose many games,
and the decision must be made like a
flash.
These are merely pointers which
hope may help young players who are
studying the game.
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lily by the French It was known that
Da Vinci had sold the painting to his
patron, Francis l. of France, for 1000
gold ecus shortly after its completion.
The king kept it locked jealously in
his gilded room at Fontainebleau,
and upon the death of Francis l.
Louis XIV. had it hung in his bed
chamber at Versailles. Following his
demise it was transferred to the Salon
Care, where It since had attracted
worldwide attention.
What is she smiling at?' ever has
been the unsolved riddle. To artists
Mona Lisa's smile became in turn OBJ
giously saucy, sportiVe, fiirtatious and
even naughty, while plain people
called her the ''jocund one"
Tame discovered in the smile that
Mona Lisa had been at least flirting
with Leonardo da Vinci, fattering him
and railing against her husband.
Michelet, the historian, said that he
used to go to the portrait Sin spite of
himself, as the bird goes to the
snake Theophile Gautier discovered
that the subject of the painting was
flirting with the whole world, this
strange creature whose look promises
unknown joys and whose expression Is
divinely ironic." "She smiles with
knocking voluptuousness on the thou
sands who admire her." was the COM
ment of Arsene Houssaye, manager of
the Theater Francois, who saw shin
ing from that smile only the soul Of
Leonardo in love"
Walter Patter revealed to the world
that 1t was an encyclopedia In this
beauty" he said, "the soul appears
with all its affections All the thoughts
and experiences of the world have
left their traces on 1.-THE animalism
of Greece, the lubricity of Rome, the
revery Of the middle ages, the return
of paganism, the sins of the Borgias!"
And supplementing this, the illus
trious italian Carotti declared: "she
is the emanation of the intellectual,
sentimental and poetic power Of her
time, with all the mystery Of the
human soul and all its destiny"
In Europe the painting also Is called
la Joconde" and "Gioconda" and In
art circles 1t is considered to rank
second in value only to the Sistine
Madonna by Raphael. Both ara price,
iesa
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Arthur avenue, the Bronx, when he
saw smoke oozing from transom
over the door to the grocery store of
Nicholas Errico. In the rear, on the
ground floor, lived Pietro Errico and
his wife and five children. The up
per floor was tenanted by Antonio
Romano, his wife and three children
and four boarders. Adjoining was the
butcher shop of Ferdinand Penno,
who had rooms on the ground floor in
the rear with his wife and five chill
dren. On the upper floor were Frank
Tarranzio, his wife and five children
McManus ran through the hall lead
ing to the apartments The hall was
filled. with smoke. He banged at the
door of the Errfcos and aroused them.
In the confusion the parents lost their
heads. The policeman took two chill
dren In his arms and directed the
father and mother to carry out the
others. This much done, McMa1us
ran back to the second floor, where he
reused the Romano family and as
sisted them to the street.
Then he made third trip through
the hallway, this time to the Penno
family's apartments. They were so
panic-stricken as to be incapable of
helping themselves. The rooms were
filed with smoke. McManus bundled
three children in his arms, and dt
recting the father to take the others,
led the way to safety. Then he ran
upstairs once more to look after the
laramie family, whom he conducted
out safely.
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A Nam Version.

Lawyers have peculiar system Of
abbreviation, such words as trustees.
executors being cut down to trees,
exors, and admors. This practise led
to an amusing slip on the part of a
solicitor, who. somewhat late in life,
abandoned his profession and entered
the church. A few Sundays after his
ordination he startled his congrega-
ton while reading the lesson by deliv-
ering One of the passages as follows:
Il see men as trustees walking"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-08-27
DROVE HIS AUTO
THROUGH FLAMES
RAN THE MACHINE FACE TO FACE
WITH DEATH AND
ESCAPED.
SAVED MOTHER FROM DEATH
Also Rescued Sister, Brother-In-Law
and Others Hemmed In by the
Great Forest Fires That Have Been
Raging for Some Time.

Chicago.-A vivid story of how he
drove an automobile nine miles
through a flaming forest on a road
not more than twenty feet wide in
its widest parts, to rescue his mother,
sister and brother-in-law from death
amid the burning trees. while great
tongues of fire shot across the road
ana binding smoke assaiIed his eyes
and nostrils, Was told by Louis Mis-
sen.
"Acres of forest and flannel" Thus
Mr.. Nissen summarized his realistic
description Of the recent forest fires
in Wisconsin, in one Of which he ex-
perieneed his thrilling adventure. His
pig red touring car made three trips
through the heart of the blazing
woods, bearing to safety, in addition
to his mother, brother-in-law and sis
ter, the latter two Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard Wachsmuth, liyeryman named
Strube with a party of four strangers
who mad been touring the country.
Mr.. Nissen's own people were
LIdppGu luSI1 uluG ullGSA
north of Ogema, Wis, situated in the
north central section Of the state.
The liveryman and his party were in
the same general neighborhood and
unable to move either forward or
back, as their rig, four-seated buggy,
had broken down. All were in g
dangerous plight when rescued. Mr..
and Mrs. Wachsmuth and Mr.. Mis-
sens mother are now stopping at the
home of Mr.. Nissen.
"Ogema is about 42o miles north
of Chicago" said Mr.. Nissen. 81
was only up in that country for a
few days, but they were certainly
rep1ete with interest. My brother-in-
law, his wife and my mother were
at their farmhouse, some nine miles
beyond Ogema, at the time the fires
began. I had gone north primarily
on a pleasure trip and contemplated
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Duluth, Mimi, as my destination.
Needless to say, when 1, found out
the desperate situation of my people
/ gave up all thought of any further
Joy riding
mo one who has not seen one Of
ception of what fearful thing it is.
All about are burning woods and
flaming marshes, and they burn morn
ing, noon and night for days and days.
It is only heavy rains which finally
extinguish the big blazes.
There is only one road leading
TO the 360-acre farm Of my brother
in-law. There he had a sawmill,
three stables, home and 100000 or
more feet of timber. and up there he
Was trapped with the forest burning
on all four sides of him. I went
up this road for him and his wife
and my mother and I had an awful
time, The roadway was possibly
twenty feet wide at its widest points
and on either side all along the nine
miles / WdS lUICSO W LIdHG1 lie WOOuS
were burning. Great tongues of
flame shot across the road at places
and the smoke was awful. was
choking and half-blinded during the
entire trip, but kept the machine at
tor speed-or at as high a speed as
could force it along the poor road.
Finally / reached them and just
In time. / hurried them in the ma
chine to a clearing about three miles
distant, where We fixed up a shelter,
Then went back and tried to save
some of thu household goods, but
found that next to impossible. My
brother-in-law lost practically every
thing-his sawmill. his home and
nearly everything in it, besides all
his acres of timber.
at was prior to my trip after my
own people that ] had heard of the
plight of Strube and his party His
rig was out of whack in some way and
he was stranded up on a country road
in the northern part of the state, but
I got to him In time and by crowd
ing we managed to get all the party
into the machine and hurried them
to safety
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70 nave to wear such pictures on their
manly forms, which is entirely unnec.
essary. To be sure, a fan who is not
personally familiar with all the ath-
letes sometimes has to ask his neigh.
Dor the identity of certain players. but
that IS a small smatter.St
With Jockeys and bicycle riders the
case is very different The former ride
IN all kinds of weather. conditions and
very often it is utterly impossible to
recognize the boys in a big field I'M
less they are provided with a large
Identification slip In the form of a
number on their backs. The same is
true of bicycle riders. But the ball
player Is different His calling is a
higher one than either of the others.
His personality is<more evident to the
spectators than that of the jockey or a
man bumped over a machine. He is
an individual, not a piece of machtn-
cry. He is not a driver of a horse or
of an automobile, but an artist in his
way. It would be as foolish to COM
pei him to wear huge disfguring
number on his back as it would be to
fnf1ict the same necessity upon a star
actor or singer
It doesn't hurt anyone to ask his
neighbor question as to a player or
two, if he Is watching a game in a
foreign city, where he is not familiar
with all the athletes.
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4 THOUGH 1t takes four men to
ID make an infield and only three for
an -outfield there are more good
lnfelds than outfields It seems to be
easier to find four infielders who as a
group measure up to standard than to
end three such outfelders on one club.
True, the in11elds have more chance to
show what they can do, but the fine
work in the outfield. such as throwing
and cutting off the long hits, doesn't
appear even relatively as often as
fancy infeld work.
There are only three outfelds in the
big leagues which for ground covering,
throwing and speed in getting after
long hits rate up to Al grade. These
are the Detroit, Chicago National and
Pittsburg outfelds. Notwithstanding
Pittsburg's bumps this year Clarke,
Leach and Wilson are three sweet gar
deners. Hoffman, Schultz and Sheck-
ard are an outfield hard to improve on.
while Cobb and Crawford are ptppins
with either Mcintyre or Jones in left
classy enough to fit in nicely. Lewis,
Hooper and Speaker of the Red Sox
make pretty nice outfeld and one
likely to get better.
The best infield in the country Is
that of the Athletics-Davis, Collins,
Barry and Baker. 1t can hit, run
bases, and on defense Is nearer to air
tight than any other present-day quar-
tet. Stahl, Gardner, Wagner and Lord
are fast four, without the class at
all corners of the Athletics. Chance,
Evers, Tinker and Steinfeldt make a
strong Gordon, but one which has a
shade less of the fire of youth of the
Athletic four. Merkle, Doyle, Bridwell
and Deylin are combination not as
evenly balanced in ground covering
ability as could be wished, the greater
ability being on the left side.
The New York Americans inffe1d Is
also out Of balance, having a prepon-
derance of ability of the right side.
Cincinnati's inf1eld Is we'll balanced,
and so is that of the Phillfes. Pitts
burg's always has lacked finish at first
base, but hummer otherwise. Cleve-
lands is stronger in the middle than
on the extremities. Brooklyn's is not
fast individually, lacks stability as
whole, but is likely to improve Bres-
nahan has tidy infield and one that
can cover lots of ground from first to
short inclusive.
Take any of the present infields and
they do not outshine bygone inf1elds of
the Tenney-Lowe-LongC Collins stand
ard or of the -Reitz-J ennings-M
Graw standard But then those two
were in class by themselves In their
day. AS whole the inf1eIds of the
present rate up as high now as then.
Were there one 12-club league nova
days it is probable that more high
class infields could be put together
than were found Is years ago.
The old question of numbering the
players on the field so that they can be
picked out by reference to the score
card has come up again. Some fans
want this system introduced, claiming
that it would add to the pleasure of
witnessing contest to be able to
glance at huge number on the back
or chest OF an athlete and then refer
TO card and pick out his name.
There is no chance, though. of anv
such method being introduced. 1t would
Dc bit OF humiliation to the players
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POLICEMAN DARES FIRE
AND RESCUES is PERSONS
MoDEsTY, FOLLOWING HERoIsM
is LATER REVEALED UNoFFI-
CIALLY.

New York.-In his official report on
a fire early the other morning, Patrol
man Thomas J. McManus stated as
an incidental fact and without going
into details, which seemed to him un.
necessary, that he had carried out Of
the burning building three children,
sisters-Rose Penno, aged six; Lulu,
five, and Matilda, three. It developed
subsequently he was responsible, d.
rectly or indirectly, for the rescue Of
eighteen persons.
McManus was on post in One Hun
dred and Etghty-seventh street near
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Ohio Ena Exnlodea.

Findlay, O.-While preparing an
egg for breakfast 1t exploded In the
frying pan, scattering hot lard into the
face of Mrs. Nettie Reipie, badly
burning her face and hands. The ex.
plosion is q mystery.
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Maps Give $1,000 for "Phenon, -

Outfe1der Jackson, the batting and
fielding sensation of the Southern
league season, has been sold to the
Cleveland Americans for stated con.
sideration of $1,000
New-York tribune., 1910-01-27
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