davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
MANY PLAYERS ARE
ENGAGED IN FARMING
Others Have Professions
While Politicians Are Also
Represented.

NEW YORK. October 22.-One of the
most interesting things connected with
base ball is the players life after he has
practically passed into oblivion, for a
time, at least, after the close of each
season. There was a time when pro-
fessional base ball did not enjoy the
elevated plane as profession that it now
does. when the ma jOrity of the players
did little but loaf during the off sea-
son.
That period has passed, and such play
ers are decidedly in the minority today.
The great majority of them have some
profession other than chasing the horse
hide, which claims their attention when
the bat. ball and glove have been relegat-
ed 10 the shelf
These professions are many and varied
Practically every walk of business life
Is represented in the national paStime
Some are lawyers, and not few doctors
OF medicine. dentistry and surgery. 9th
erS are established in businesses OF their
own. And there are some who po-
litical leaders, but there is no profess
sion / think ii can be called profess
sion. which claims more followers than
farming.
of the big league ball players have pur-
chased farms. ranging from small ones
OF a few acres, to vast stretches of land,
where 1t is necessary for them to en-
ploy several farm hands. And another
and deeper dip into their private lives
reveals that a good many OF them were
born and reared amid burrows, piowing
machines and general wholesomeness.
The natural thing to do Is to wonder
why such should be the case, and the
only logical answer that can be for
warded is the fact that the farmer boy
has considerably more room TO practice
base ball than the city-bred chap. 1t is
true that the farmer does not have
great deal of time. but it is light until
late in the evening during the summer,
and after he has finished his work there
is nothing to prevent him from playing
ba Sc ball
And strange to say the majority of
these farmer-players are among the best
ball tossers in the business. Larry Lajoic
has farm just outside Cleveland. Tyrus
Cobb has a farm in Georgia. Russell
Ford has big wheat farm in Manitoba.
Mig Clarke, the Cleveland catcher, is a
farmer during the off season.
Billy Sullivan and Fielder Jones, both
former managers of the Chicago White
Sox, have an apple orchard together in
Oregon. Walter Johnson has fertile
stretch in Idaho Street is an Alabama
exponent of the hoe.
Manager Frank Chance of the Cubs
can practically be called farmer He
has big orange grove in California
So has Orval Overall, the Cub pitcher.
Clarke Griffith has ranch in Montana.
Tomme Leach of the Pirates is chicken
farmer Lou Criger and Frank Laporte
have farms in Ohio.
George r. Stallings, former manager
of the Yankees. has a stock farm and
cotton plantat ton in Haddocks, Ga. Fred
Clarke manager of Pittsburg, has grain
farm in Kansas.
These are just few of the more proml-
nent players who are engaged In farm
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
Rowing at Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA. Pa. October 22.-The
great success of Pennsylvania varsity
crew last spring at Poughkeepsie has in
creased interest in rowing at the uni
versity. The squad they had last year
was the biggest that ever was got out,
and the reason for that was the ardent
work done by Alton Bennitt, the captain
He went through all the departments,
attended class meetings and made q
strong personal canvass of the university.
The result was that more than 12J men
came out for the varsity eight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23

to learn their dissatisfaction was to have
been expected. Ii is notable fact that
the new game has won the most friends
where 1t has been most successful. AT
Harvard whose team has played prob
ably the best foot ball of any In the
east, the coaches are enthusiastic about
it. Harvard coaches have resolutely
started out to explore new fields In the
line OF offensive foot ball, and they have
been well repaid for their efforts. The
same is true at Cornell. Pennsylvania and
Dartmouth, all of whose teams have
made the best use of the new game.
1t is worthy OF comment that the for
ward pass is not winning the favor ex-
pected of it. This, at least. is true of
the long pass down the field and over the
line of scrimmage Actual experience has
shown that the majority of the forward
passes which go beyond the line of Scrim-
the defensive than to the offensive team.
Under such circumstances the forward
pass is nothing but a failure. That this
should be the result of the play is nat
urai on account of the rule which COM
pels the defending side TO try for tie
ball rather than butt out of the play the
man trying to get the ball
1t is only natural that defending back
with his face to the ball has a better
chance to recover it than the men run
the boomerang effect of so many forwar d
passes.
At Pennsylvania the forward pass is
being developed along other lines. prn
ciplN being confined 10 territory behind
the line OF sCrmmage. In other words.
the Quakers are developing a passing
game very much like Canadian foot ball.
With a trio of sprinters in the back field.
all sure OF passing and receiving the bali
on the run, ii is possible to make wide
end runs To far better advantage than by
the old system of interference. The
Quakers used this play once against
Brown. but they have vet TO show how
good a ground gamer it will be against
the big teams.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
Science Notes.

DIR. Frank Fl. Bigelow, formerly Of the
United States weather bureau. has ac-
cepted an appointment under the Argen-
tine government. After December 10 DR..
Bigelow's address will be at the Office of
meteoroiogy. BuenOs Aires, Argentina. He
was elected member of the International
commission on terrestrial magnetism and
atmospheric electricity and member Of
the international commission on radia-
ton, in order to represent Argentina.
DR.. Herman A. Spoehr. assistant in
chemistry at the University of Chicago.
has been appointed a member of the staff
of the department of botanical re-
search of the Carnegie Institution of
Washington. DIR. Spoehr is investigating
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
Hold the Right Ideals.
From Success Magazine.


We not only can strengthen mental
weaknesses and deficiencies. but it is per-
fectly possible to increase the general
ability through the power of suggestion.
Indeed. the susceptibility of all the men.
tai faculties to improvement. to enlarge.
ment. is something remarkable
Sometimes very strong faculties are
latent until especially aroused. There are
many people who pass for towards: who
are Inundated because they have SO lit
tie courage, when. if they only knew how,
they could strengthen this deficient fac
ulty wonderfully by holding the courag-
eous ideal; by thinking and doing the
courageous deed; by carrying the thought
of fearlessness; by reading about heroic
lives; by constantly thinking the heroic
thought and trying TO live it. The courage
may be small in a person because it has
never been called into sufficient exercise
Ii may need only to be aroused. There
are many people living lives of mediocrity
who might do great things; might become
mental giants If their dormant faculties
were aroused. their general ability i'm
proved and enlarged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
Badinaqe in Vermont.
MISS MARIE DREssLER has a

MISS MARIE DRESSLER has a pic
AVA turesque residence In Vermont.
Il like all Vermont but the RAILWAYS
she said in an interview in Boston. The
railways are too slow. The people. on
the other hand, are quick. In repartee
and badinage there is no quicker man
living than your Vermonter.
IAN old farmer in my neighborhood
fell Ill last summer. and it was feared
that an operation would be necessary.
He was very weak. and his physician
called in a specialist from Boston
1.-The specialist, after examining the old
man. agreed that an operation was ad
visa,ble-
But. he said, we'd better wait and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
Cornell's Drop Kicker.

Cornell University promises TO be bet
ter equipped in the matter of drop and
place kickers than any other team in the
east With the exception of the Oberiin
game in which there was no score, the
Cornell team has scored one or more field
goals in every game to date. The climax
was reached a week ago when the Itha-
cans scored fifteen points in this manner.
Cornell has apparently find in Pitcher,
the end who is doing this sensational
kicking. IL he can do it against Harvard,
Chicago ard Pennsylvania these teams
will not have the easy victories that were
theirs last fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
Motor Boat Racing.

NEW YORK. October 22-Some motor
boat enthusiasts are making plans for
the defense of the British international
cup next season. and if they put their
plans into execution early they will be
better prepared TO meet the British than
they were this year. There is talk Of
some fast boats being built, and designers
and engine builders are at work drawing
the lines of these boats. 1t takes time
to prepare a racer such as is needed to
defend this trophy, and 1t takes much
more time TO build the hull and the en-
CINE. IL is no use getting a hull that
may do and putting in il a stock engine
Such craft can never make the speed
required, and the only way to be success
full next season is to have the hull and
the motor designed in harmony, and have
another such craft as the Dixie, only
with more speed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23

certain problems in plant physiology
which will lend themselves to the appli-
cation of chemical methods.
The program of the international con-
ference which was held at Mount Will
son solar observatory of the Carnegie
Institution sets forth that the equipment
and work Of the institution is the most
unique and extensive of any observatory
in the world. Direct Photographic and
spectroscopic observations are made daily
Of nebulae and star clusters. Besides
radial velocity Investigations Of faint
stars with low dispersions, including
parallax stars and Orion type of stars,
are made daily.
1t is announced from the State Depart
ment through the Berlin embassy. that
Prof Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard Unit
versity, exchange professor at Berlin for
the current academic year, is the first
director OF the America Institut' at
Berlin, which is founded and supported
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
Just Twisted a Little.

TT was at a concert Several musical
numbers had already been given,
and the announcer had just risen to
give the next selection. He was very
noticeably nervous. but so far had sue
ceeded in filing the requirements Of
his position.
1.-The next number on the program,
ladies and gentlemen, is by Mr.. Walter
Jones'" He paused and considered a
second. And is entitled when l
Swallow HOmesick Flies" Needless
to remark there was a litter among the
audience, but after the song had been
rendered those familiar with music
managed to recognize it as when the
Swallows Homeward Fly"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
Restraining the Sea.

EMIL SEIDEL, the mayor of Milwau-
- kee, said in a recent after-dinner
speech:
Some people hold that alcohol is to
blame for the poverty and wretchedness
We see around us. That is as illogical a
view as one I heard put forth by news
boy the other day.
LAS 1 waited on a corner for a car a
bOOtblack said to newsloOy:
Bill. how is it the sea don't run over
when all the rivers runs into it?
why. We chump,' Bill answered. don't
We know the sea is full of sponges?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
He Wins or You Lose.

MIR. ROOSEVELT. discussing in
AVA Milwaukee his idea of an employ
ers' liability law. said to a group of
Such law would assure an injured
workman Of compensation without the
cost of suit. To be sure. some lawyers
would thus lose money, but, after all.
the 'ambulance-chasing' type of lawyer
isn't worthy of much consideration.
An injured miner was telling a friend
how one OF these 'ambulance-chaSers'
was going to bring a suit for him.
He's working for me on a contingent
ree.' the miner said. What is a con-
tingent fee, do you know, jimmy
Sure i know, Jimmy answered If
you lose the case your lawyer'n get
nothing, and II you win you'll get moth
ing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
A ReaIiSt on Hope.

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, discuss
-" ing realism at one Of his Sunday
afternoons in New York, let fall a neat
epigram on hope
Hope" said the famous novelist, lis
not really an angel in a diaphanous robe
OF white, but only the wisp of hay held
before donkeys nose to make him CO. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
On the Stump.

TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF, at a dim
ner i'm New York, told number of
election stories.
Then there was CosgrOve.' he said.
"Cosgrove made good stump speaker.
An imposing, stately kind of man.
while COSgrOve was speaking in a
hall in Syracuse one night somebody
brayed. Cosgrove stopped short, glared
and said:
"'WhO brayed there?
"A little chap in the front row pipeG
mildly:
" 1t was only an echo. sir. Go on with
your speech, Mr.. CosgrOve.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
Pari-Mutuel Betting.

NEW YORK. October 22-In Canada
there is movement on foot to substitute
the pari-mutuel system of betting for the
bookmaker in the future-that is, so far
as the larger race tracks are concerned
and it is probable that the smaller in
situations will adopt the same system If
IL is successful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
The Celt in Mexico.

From the Mexican Herald.
OF prominent Irish families who are
now quite as much Mexican as Hibernian
we have the Greens. Lynches. Loner.
gans, O'Gormans. Morans. MorphyS
Braniffs, knights, Whites. kellyS
O'Reillys, Hopes. Wilson's, etc. Some Of
the Irish families are descended from
the famous colony of exiles from the
Emerald Isle who settled in Cadiz
century.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23

let him get stronger before We cut into
him.
AT this the old farmer .frowned and
muttered in weak voice from the bed:
Say, professor, what do you take me
fora cheesey
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
Chicago's Poor Team.

While still on the subject of foot ball
surprises. the experience of Chicago Uni
versity has been most unusual. The Ma
rooms have been beaten twice, once by
Indiana and again by Illinois. Amy advan-
Isge which Chicago may have had by the
possession of Coach Stagg on the rules
committee has been more than overcome
by the poor quality OF his material. Stage
is d strategist and probably knows as
much about modern foot ball and its pos
siblitieS as any OthG< coach in the coUn-
try. Ii should he noted in this connection
that there Is more equality of strength
among the members of the western con-
ference than ever before. OF the eight
universities which compose il Minnesota
coached by DR. III. l.. Williams also a
member of the rules committee seems TO
have The strongest eleven. Michigan Is
not Vet a member of the conference; but
the Wolverines have scheduled a game
with the GOphers. and the two will prob
ably night II out again for the western
championship. which Michigan won last
year. Coach Yost is developing the Mich
igan team slowly. much he did last
Year SoSt has been converted to new
fOct ball much against his will. and was
one OF the last of The old guard to admit
that old-faShioned foot ball could not win
under present conditions. Last year he
threw traditions to the winds and brought
east an eleven which thoroughly under
stood the new game. He is quite certain
10 do the same this year, and confidently
expects TO beat Pennsylvania again.
While the foot ball critics are not will
ing To admit that the new game is a COM
plete success from the standpoint of in
teresting foot ball. they are all Obliged to
confess that il has at least reduced the
number and quality of injuries. At the
present writing there has not been a sim
gle foot ball fatality, and the few injuries
that have been recorded from college
fields have contained very few broken
legs. Most of the injuries are minor ones
which could not be very well avoided In
any sort of strenuous sport
There are differences of opinion as to
The offensive merits of the game.
Its chief opponents are among the men
who We're developed under the old game.
Their opposition is quite natural. for they
nave been obliged to learn the new foot
pan Just as certainly the new players
And since the coaches nave had more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
FOOT BALL UPSETS
Two Members of big Six"
Have Been Beaten.
ATTACKING POWER is WEAK
Pennsylvania Has Speedy Backs.
Harvard Has Played Best Game
This Season.
By Edward r. Bushnell.

The foot ball upsets of the season
of 1910 have not been as many nor
rs radical as the critics expected To
date only two members of the Big
ST. have been beaten or scored upon
They are Yale and Pennsylvania. The
Quakers lost their initial game of the
season with J-rsinus, who vanQuished
them by the score OF to D. \ week
ago Yale succurnbed To West Point
by the score of . to 3. In both in
stances the defeated team was clear
ly outplayed by its supposedly weaker
opponent.
In neither case can the defeated team
claim that the result was in any way
produced by new foot ball or f1uke
of any kind. lrsinus outplayed Penn
syIvania. and the Army had by far
the better of the argument with Yale.
Doubtless PENNSYLVANIA. in her present
strength could defeat Ursinus as
easily as she beat Brown last Week.
and If history repeats itself the ale
team will soon have taken brace
sufficient to overcome West Point il
the two are to meet again
The PennsyiV eleven, by Its over
wheIming defeat of Brown and the
STEADY Improvement il has been max
ing since its first game. now StanuS
in the front rank of eastern eieNehS-
The Quakers nave corrected their
weakness. and are now concentrating
all their energy on building up an at
tack along the lines of new foot ball
Ii is interesting 10 note the attltuue
Yale has taken on the game since her
defeat at West Point. Prior TO that
game Yale had been developing
series of complicated formations punt
Ilpon the new rules. All the work mad
been done behind closed gates ana the
Ellis thought they had solved the prop
lem of how 10 gain ground in spite OF
the restrictions which the new rules
place upon the attacking side Ihey
were undeceived when they entered
the West Point game. They found that
their new plays were almost ~hoiiy
useless and that West Points defense
could upset them easily. Coach Coy
and his assistants went back TO New
Haven Disguised with new foot ball
Now comes the announcement that
Yale will depend upon the old style
game to see her through the season.
There will be no more secret practice
except before important games ana
the complicated plays on Wnlch SO
much time has been spent are 10 De
fOrGOttSn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23

by American and German contributors
with the object of furthering the ''cul-
tured relations between the United States
and the German empire"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
Attacking Power Weak.

The result of the Lafayette-Prince-
ton game furnished conclusive proof that
TWO teams cannot score consistently with
old STYLE foot ball. With rule prohibit
ing assistance to the runner it is next TO
impossible for team to hammer its way
through another team its equal IN
strength Neither Princeton nor LAT
ayette had any sort of a modern attack
LAFAYETTE. indeed. had little but a stone
wall of defense Princeton attack was
saved only by the splendid end running
of Pendleton who bids far to be one or
the stars of the season Neither team
made hardly any use of the forward pass
either because they considered II poor
play or because they had not pracuced it.
There was certain amount of surprise
in the result of the Pennsylvania Brown
game The majority of the critics picked
Brown either TO win or hold PennSyl-
yania even. - But they had not reckoned
on the progress which the Quakers have
made in new foot ball since their defeat
by Ursnus- Physically. the Brown team
was the equal of Pennsylvania and the
New EnSlanders had more veterans than
the CGIakers Defensively, the two teams
were of equal strength. but extensively
the difference was very great. The
Quakers won because they have develop
ed a backfeld which has speed and YER
satility.
In the matter of speed alone there is
probably nothing like il in this country
Ramsdell. Of course, is the intercollegiate
and English 1O0-yard champion. while
Mercer Is the Quakers star all-around
athlete, with marks of 10 10 seconds for
the loO yards and ~ seconds for the
quarter mile. Scott. at quarterback. is
almost as fast and is likewise a track
man. The speed of this quartet will not
be decreased very much whether the
fourth man be Sommer, Hough or Har-
rington- The problem of the coaches is
TO develop a line strong enough and fast
enough to give this backneld the inter-
ference il requires
Syracuse was a distinct surprise to the
college world. When Syracuse held Yale
TO a score of l. TO the New Workers
were given credit for only a first-class
eleven Previous 10 their game with
Syracuse the Indians had not been
severely tested. But they were thought
10 nave somewhat the better chance
against Syracuse. But in the game it
self the Indians failed TO show the phys
zeal strength and speed which have
characterized most of their recent teams.
Glenn Warner. the Indian coach. is one
of the best tacticians in the foot ball
Up a successful attacking team the con-
clusion must be that the Indians have
not the material with which TO work. The
Indians We're a disappointment last year
and the college world will regret it
keenly If they 10 be weak again. The
Indians have always been great draw
ing ard east well as west. and il will
be disappointment 10 their followers if
they cannot hold their own with the pale
face warriors as they were wont To do in
The past