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A SNOW MAN COMPETITION

are for the making of the snow crea-
lures features and also for the con-
struetion of their attire.
After each guest has been supplied
with all things necessary to the art of
cotton modelling, the competition be-
gins. You should inform the company
that every one is to be permitted to
model either a man, woman, a small
child or an infant in long frocks.
Hats, coats, buttons, aprons, neckties,
caps, shawls cloaks shoes, slippers,
boots, etc, may all be made from the
paper. In some cases these are sewed
on with few long stitches, or they
may be stuck on with the adhesive
plaster. which Is useful for features and
buttons also. The shoe buttons make
called for by the guests for the fasten-
ing of some of the garments, but the
adhesive plaster, IL it can be made to
do, Is pleasanter to handle.
About an hour should be allowed for
the competition, but IL most of the
competitors are not through by that
time they should be given 15 minutes
or half hour more. When the COM
petition is finished prizes should be
awarded for the best snow figures To
decide which these are, vote should be
taken.
1t is good plan for the girl who is
giving the party TO try making a snow
man In advance, so that she can start
out at once on the night Of the party
and show her guests how to begin their
labors.
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SOME advice and with for there
- all the time
himself find
possible
while perhaps just
his
ability succeed Then there
belief himself perhaps his subject
which medium between
DO blowing horn all the time We tire Of
selfrecatory opinion
blows his his valuation but the self
until fail but astonishing number rise
There things for juniors learn that the time Of the
not much sports others junior boy girl should
school pupils in that city unless prevented by i'll health must learn
the the death drowning
how swim In addition it is clean healthy and Of the best
exercise
should the surf requires good swimmer
enjoy provided in the and under the watchful eye Of
where swimming learned without risk and juniors
until they have enough buy tickets swimming lessons
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NE of the most amusing entertain
oments for an evening party is
competition in the making of snow
men and women.
1t isn't such an easy task as 1t looks
to model a snow man from cotton, be-
cause the material sticks to everything
with which it comes in contact or
course. this sort of an entertainment
is not suitable to formal large party
where dancing is in order, but it is very
pleasant for a small party, Where
things sometimes grow a little dull.
You should not try making the snow
figures in the parlor or in any very
best apartment. The cotton Is sure to
get on the carpet and chairs and 1T will
be a nuisance to get Off If there Is
playroOm or a nursery which Is not
being used by the younger children
for that particular evening il is best to
do the modelling In this room IL there
is no such place available, then 1t is
wise to use the everyday sitting room,
where a little disorder does not so much
matter.
Each guest is given a fairly large
niece of cotton to work with. The
piece may be regulated in size accord
ing TO whether you want your snow
figures large or small. 1t is best to do
the modelling at a large center table.
and besides the cotton there should be
an ample supply of black, white and
red tissue paper, black shoe buttons,
cord, large needles and thread, several
pairs of shears, some adhesive plaster
and paper of pins. All these articles
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A Paderewski Story

Paderewskis first really important
engagement as pianist was in Paris.
He was engaged to play In the draw
ing room of lady famous for her
musicales, and his fee, which seemed
to him enormous, was $40. He man
aged to persuade the humane agent TO
pay him in advance, and when Pade-
rewski had redeemed his dress suit
from pawn and paid for shoes, gloves,
tie and other essentials he had no
money left for cab hire, so he was
forced to walk to the scene OF his
engagement.
The music loving audience Inspired
him. He played with feeling, passion
and mastery of his instrument as never
before His success was instant and
unmistakable. The poor player had
suddenly become the lion of the hour
his dream had become reality and
fame and fortune were assured him.
At last after disengaging himself
from his admirers, he turned 10 leave,
when his hostess, remembering with
regret the smallness of the fee for SO
marvellous a performance, offered him
her carriage for his return home. But
Paderewskis pride came 10 the rescue.
In his courteous yet reserved way he
made a formal bow and, saying, mo,
thank you, madame; my own is wait
ing" he stepped out for his long walk
homeward.-P Weekly.
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AS the Moments Fly

What are you doing from day to day,
AS the precious moments slip away?
Oh. use them for some good endeayor.
For moments gone are gone forever,
Like pearls that slip from broken
clasp,
Life's moments slip from cur careless
grasp.
Gather them up as gems OF beauty,
AS wards OF love and acts of duty
Silently, swiftly the moments dy,
Waiting for no one TO rest or sigh
Nothing can make them pause or delay.
carelessly moving, they hasten away.
Hasten away on their endless flight.
With the boundless sea Of the past to
unite.
Blossoms fade and are gone from earth.
But come again at the sprinstime birth.
The snowhakes melt and vanish away.
And fan again at some future day;
But time flows by like a careless river,
And moments gone are gone forever
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4 i +
LITTLE DUTCH KINDER
By RUTH INGRAHAM

o little Dutch kinder with broad, winning smiles,
And dressed such quaint and impossible styles
Did you just step off from my fireplace tiles,
o little Dutch kinder?
From the land OF the wndms pray how did you Gomez
And won't you be lonely far from your home?
your gardens of tulips have brought me some?
o little Dutch kinder!
You shall be loney-I know what I'll do
I'll tell ali my good friends, the children, of you,
And they will most heartily welcome thee, too,
Dear little Dutch knder .-4i
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Short Barks From Alonzo


would without would machine
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SensatiOnsensanon
sDuof
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Partisan accent
birds
OF losing the monopoly OF the air.
o in
beginning taught
my
mistress held little higher
would believe it, m
hind
dog will do for piece of sugar!
do go
higher than the clouds where beautiful
through
Splendid! Very all
be!
He told that his master had his tail the
Moral There few things along without
fromt juniors
bak the Well will tell
linotype, perfection (O
all know what linotype IS It works much like
spelling that dog like liable make spell pho
neicaly, anyhow
in day
OF
the teachers inspired
do dog?" Without hesitation
II good be you find
that you'll do not ask for the sun also
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to
living reduc 10 the
convinced him
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going through the
Splendid! shall all be able
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to ambitious you
that you have ask for the also.
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in o day
spell dogg Without hesitation he replied
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-07

Totals. 5 33 "a 1 Totals. Is 3S 20
St. LOuis.-... 2 D o ~
Philadelphia. o o D 3-6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-07

The figures shown in the tables which
are given below have been compiled from
the official tabulated scores of the ninety
nine games contested by the Nationals
with the other seven teams in the race
for the American League championship
pennant, as published in the columns of
The Star each day, give the reader an
accurate and complete description of the
work of each of the players who COM
pose the team, who are now battling, al
though in greatly crippled condition, to
occupy fifth place at the end of the
season, in all games played to Saturday.
August 6.
Milan, although being out of the games
for over week, still is the leading
batsman with an average of .219, al
though Gray, a pitcher, has an average
of .292, but Milan is now back again with
the team and no doubt will soon reach
the century mark in base hits. He is
also the leading run-getter of the team
with fifty-three to his credit, and also
leads in stolen bases with nineteen.
Lelivelt was also doing we'll with the
stick up to the time he was injured by
being spiked at St. Louis. Schaefer, since
his return to the team. has been welding
the bat with telling effect, as in the last
thirteen games he has been at bat fifty
eight times and made eighteen base hits,
giving him an avrage of $40, and has
stolen five bases.
Killifer has fallen off somewhat in his
batting, but has improved in his work
around the second corner of the diamond
Gessler has also gained a few points in
batting, as has Unglaub. The team, as
a whole, lost considerable in fielding
during the week, having made nineteen
errors. A perusal of the accompanying
figures will give the reader better idea
of the work Of the Nationals to date:
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BATTING KINGS ARE NOT
railways PHYSICAL GIANTS
Perfection Of the Eye, the Accuracy of the
Swing and Concentration Of
Effort Are Needed.

The average layman-the fan who is
unacauainted with the inner and outer
conditions of the game. but loves to see
it played-is of the natural opinion that
champion batsman, slugger Of vast
and virile vigor, must be a hercules. the
personif1catton of muscled masculinity. A
heavy hitter, the man who drives out the
triples and the home runs, so it would
logically seem, should be of gigantic
sinew, able to perform feats of weight
lifting and hammer-throwing. and thin
or weakly player should not even be con-
sidered as a batting possibility.
And yet, strange as it may seem, some
Of the burliest, huskiest, most muscular
balltossers In the land are puerile marks
at bat, utterly unable to get their names
in the elite circle of the 300 hitters,
while others. slim and almost girlish in
their lack of corded sinews, are tremen-
dous sluggers, men who stand near the
top Of the batting records year after
year. Wherefore such freakish defiance
of the laws governing natural strength
and the survival of the fittest? How on
earth can such things be?
A keen-sighted eye and quick COM
mand OF movement are superior to all
the elephantine muscles that were ever
assembled on burly Frame. OF course,
when a hercules, such, for example, as
Hans Wagner. is also blessed with an
accurate eye and lightning sweep OF
arm, that man becomes q batting king,
but there is nothing more ridiculous in
base ball than to see q player with the
strength of Sandow making huge swipes
athwart the breeze while the ball goes
whizzing by, and finally walking ponder
ously back to the bench without even
rolling out a grounder.
Wagner is a big man and massively
strong. SO were Arson. Connor, Brou-
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theirs and many others of the noble slug
ging tribe. In these cases, however, the
sheer strength of these giants was guided
| and controlled by keen eyes and natural
| judgment as to the location of the ball.
In contrast to these bulky men was
Pete Browning, very tall. but with a
| skinny, bony frame, not specially strong
| in muscle. Pete Browning could not have
held his own against Arson in wres-
| Ting match for forty seconds, but he was
Uncles worthy batting rival year after
year. The old gladiator could not only
| pick out the ball to swing on and smash
against it with unerring judgment, but
could so neatly concentrate what power
went whirring off. his bat just as Arson
and the other giant whales could bling
them.
Willie Keller was a little bit of a man
| and not specially strong one, either.
But this midget could chop them out
time after time, and when he swung in
stead of bunting could belt two-baggers
as neatly as men fifty pounds his weight
superior.
The only Cobb, idol of the Tiger fans.
Is not big man. He is oe good stature,
but rather slender, with soft, long mus
cles, not hard or corded ones. Cobb is
far inferior physically to Wagner or La
! joie, but how Ty Cobb can drive that
ball! The perfection OF the eye. the &C,
curacy of the swing, the concentration
of the effort-these qualities, united and
harmoniously brought into play, make
Cobb the champion batsman of the Amer
lean League, and make him the master of
/! the men who could mop him all over the
floor in a man-to-man encounter.
Great are muscles, and most pleasing
things to have, but the frafl man who
wants to play base ball need not worry
nor fear that his fragile frame will bar
him from renown. For the eye Is keener
than the hand, and quickness of motion
far surpasses bulky sinew. A queer game
is base ball, and this perhaps is one OF
the oldest features of the game.
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OTTO HESSA WINNER
IN minor LEAGUE
Cleveland Discard Is Burning
Up Southern Association.
Good Motion His Forte.

Otto Hess is the most successful twirler
in the Southern League this season, and
there is a reason In fact. there are sew
eral reasons for the Dutchman's wonder
full success-reasons known to the ball
every one.
The main reason Of his wonderful sue.
cess is his fine control. Otto has been
singing them across the plate this year
with reckless abandon. He has been
walking very few men for a left-hander
and this has had lot to do with the
majority of winnings that he has ac-
cumulated.
But there is one reason, known only to
the ball players, to which his big sue
cess can be attributed. Hess, as every
fan who has seen him in action knows,
is no small man by any means. In fact,
he is a six-footer. and this has aided him
greatly in fooling the batter.
To use the expression Of the ball play
ers, they have been swinging at mis-
motion" Probably the fans don't realize
what this means. Hess height is an
answer to the question, though a meager
one To be explicit, Hess is SO tall that
when he winds UP to deliver the ball the
DdtlefS nave become accustomed 10 catch
ing this motion, and not the ball, when it
is delivered.
The result of this fault, which they do
not want to acknowledge, is that some of
them swing at the ball before it reaches
the plate, while others swing at it after
it has passed, while still another set Of
them either swing little too soon or too
late at the ball as it crosses the plate,
thus chopping it to the ground. where it
is scooped up by the infielders, or hit on
the bottom and raised up a little spiral
fly to the outfelders.
To his height and his deceptive motion
Otto Hess, the leading twirler of the
Southern League, can attribute his Won
derful success this year. This. coupled
with his wonderful control, his fine speed,
his good curves and his splendid knOwl-
edge Of the game, makes him the wonder
full twirler that he is.
But in parting II the Southern League
batters ever learn to quit hitting at Hess
motion they will begin to pound out hits
galore and Otto will be no better than
the rest of them, but at the present time
you have got to take your hats Off to
him.
This was one of the main reasons for
E. Brown Rogers success. the lanky
hurler that the Atlanta Crackers had.
His height deceived the batters as to just
when he was going to throw the ball.
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Olympia League.
Tail-Enders Win.

Spartan had an easy time with George
town yesterday, outplaying the bottom
boys from every angle and piling UP
II runs to their Z.
The Georgetown pitchers were batted
hard. nineteen safe hits being made off
their delivery. Bromley started, but
after runs had been made off him in
the second inning and three more in the
third, Manager Mack changed twirlers,
Beach going in the box. He was also
hit hard, allowing seven runs and eight
hits. Quinn of the Southwesterners car
ried off the batting honors with three
clean drives, and also the run-getting
medal went to him, with four talIies. c.
Koogle, behind the bat for Spartan,
caught an excellent game. and for the
losers Howard fielded we'll Cartright got
three of the six hits off kearneys pitch
ing. The southwest twirler struck out
eight men. Score:
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WIN IN THE eleventh.
Giants Beat Cardinals in Extra
Innings.

NEW YORK, August 6.-New York
beat st. Louis here today in eleven inn
ings by 5 to 4. Ellis home run with
Lush on base in the fifth inning put
st. Louis two runs ahead. but in the
eighth Murray got homer with one
on base and tied the score. Both teams
got a run in the tenth. With two run
ners on bases and two out in the next
inning Snodgrass singled to right field.
driving Merkle home with the winning
tally. Ellis made four singles and a
home run in five times at bat. Konet-
chy's fielding was the feature: The
score:
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TO BE SOME BASE BALL.
Elks and Knights of Columbus
Teams to Meet Friday.

Base ball teams representing the Elks
and the knights of Columbus will cross
bats at American League Park next FRI
day afternoon at O'Clock.
1t is expected that the game will be ono
Of the most interesting played here this
season. 1t will be more than an amateur
game, for it is broadly limited that the
knights Of Columbus team management.
smarting under previous defeats at the
hands of the Elks, is out scouting for
professionals that are members OF the
order.
E. J. Murnhv. manager of the ElkS
team, is endeavoring to get kid" Fiber,
field. who was lately fitted with antlers.
to play for him. James A. O'Shea Is man
aging the knights of Columbus team "ud
says he will &c. tho victory. sf
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PADDEN TO PICK PLAYER.
Scout to Say Which of Minneapolis
Team Shall Join Nationals.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, August 6.-Manager McAleer
will select player from the Minneapolis
club to which Washington, according to
an agreement. is entitled. some time to-
day or tomorrow.
McAleer wants Tom Hughes, but he has
sent Dick Padden to look the Millers over.
and will be guided entirely by the judg-
ment of his scout. Whichever player Pad
den says will be of the most service to
the Nationals will be the one McAleer
will choose. First Baseman Gill has been
mentioned, but McAleer said tonight
that he would not be able to make a Sc
lection until he heard from Padden, who
has been in Minneapolis for several days
watching that team in action with a
view of making a selection.
Beckendorf may take a chance behind
the bat in tomorrow's game, for Walter
Johnson is slated to do the pitching for
the Nationals in the third contest Of the
session.
There has been lot of complaining
done by the White Sox because the new
electric scoreboard In center field has so
many signs on it that it interferes with
their being able to see the ball. Most of
them weru afraid that they would lose
sight of the ball some time when it was
coming right at them. and they would be
hit on the head and be put out of COM
mission. AS compliment to the speed
of the tall pitcher of McAleer's staff,
however, the most obnoxious sign on the
big electric board was moved several feet
this morning, SO that the big white let
tiers in the background would not hide
the ball as it shot up to the batter at
the plate.
Manager Duffy and his men are unan-
imous in the declaration thatathe weak
hitting Of the Sox since coming home
this time is due to the big signs directly
in front of the plate on the scoreboard.
johnson warmed up today with Doc
Reisling and was in fine fettle. He is
a great attraction here In Chicago and it
is a good bet that the big Comiskey park
will be filled with fans that come out for
the sole purpose Of watching the star
twirler work.
Two more games are to he played
here by the Nationals, and it will be john
son and Groom that will get chance
to do the pitching against Walsh and
White. Walsh will likely do the pitch
ing for the Sox tomorrow, and it will be
his first appearance since the remarkable
game that he pitched against Jack
Coombs in the closing game Of the
Athletics series here Ihursday. me
big fellow has had a good rest and the
battle between Walsh and Johnson will
be worth going long way to see.
Grand Rapids, Mich, team, arrived today
and reported to the local club. He was
not given a trial in the game, as he was
not quite ready to take up his duties.
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Oldfeld Breaks Record.

PHILADELPHIA, August 6.-Barney
Oldfield. driving his two hundred horse
power 'Blitzep Benz today lowered the
Point Breeze Park mile track record to
So 3-5 seconds
The former. record of 1.01 was made
by De Palma In a Fiat car. Oldfeld
made two trials, accomplishing the dis
lance in one minute fiat on the first
attempt.
|. The program of races consisted Of
seven events; the feature being a six
hour race which started late this after
noon.
The afternoon was free from serious
accidents and very few cars were obliged
to drop out for repairs.
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Austrian Champion Wins.

HAMBURG, August 6.-The interna-
tional chess tourney begun in this city
July 10 was concluded today. when the
Austrian champion. Carl Schlechter, cap
tured first prize with liz games won.
The other best scores were: Duras, IL;
Niemzowitsch. 101s: Spielman, 10; Mar
shall, 911; Teichmann, 9h; Aekhlne,
S1s; Chotimirski. 81s; Forgacz, s; Tar
rasch, 8.
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ATHLETICS WIN LONG GAME
Kinsella Holds Them Till Eleventh,
Then Blows Up.

ST. LOUIS, August 6.-Philadelphia
took the second game of the series from
st. Louis today in eleven innings by q
to 8. Morgan and Kinsella pitched. In
the eleventh inning Collins beat out
bunt and was sacrificed by Baker. Davis,
after getting a base on balls in conjunc-
ton with Collins, worked the double steal.
Murphy singled and on Schweitzer's wild
return both runners scored and the bat-
ter reached third, from whence he scored
on Barry's out. Score:
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BOSTON GETS EVEN BREAK.
Maps Hit Wood in First-Are Puz-
zled by Cicotte in Second.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. August 6.-Cleve-
land and Boston broke even today,
Cleveland winning the first, to 2, while
Boston took the second, to 2. Mitchell
outpitched Wood in the opening contest,
while Cicotte was invincible in the sec
ond up to the last inning, allowing only
five hits. three of which were made in
the ninth. Scores:
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YANKEES SHUT OUT.
Mullin Pitches Fine Game for the
Detroit Team.

DETROIT, August 6.-Detroit shut out
New York today by score of to O..
Mullin held the visitors to four hits, while
Manning was hit hard in three innings
Incensed by the remarks of a negro in
the stands, Cobb attempted to assault
him, but he was restrained by the police
officers The score:
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Two-base hit-Miian. Sacrifice hits-Parent,
Reisling. Unglaub Stolen bases-Zsider ca; MI
Ian. Dougherty. Double pay-Tannehill to
Zeider to Collins. Left on bases-ChicagO, s.;
Washington. 4. First on halls-Of Olmstead. 2.
First on errors-Washington. 4. Hit by pitcher
BY Olmstead, Mcbride. Struck Out-By Refs
ling, Mclean 2. Collins, Payne. Brownel: by
Olmstead, 3 (Elberfeld Schaefer. Henry. Time
Il hour and SO minutes. Umpires-Dineen and
Perrine.
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Team Batting Average.
Team Fielding Average.
Sacrifice Hits and Stolen Bases.

The Nationals in. the ninety-nine games
contested by them with the other seven
teams OF the league to Saturday, August
9, have made 100 sacrifice hits, gain of
six in the last six games with Phiiadel-
phia Athletics. st. Louis and Chicago.
and have successfully purloined ninety
FIVE bases. a gain Of SIX. In these same
games their opponents during the week
have made Ill sacrifice hits, a gain of
five, and have pilfered lib bases, gain
OF seven, and those players Of the home
team who have received the credit of