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Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1910-10-27
A VERY INTERESTING
LETTER
From our Little Friend Homer
Walker, now a Resident With
his Parents at Memphis

Memphis, Tenn, Dear friend
Mr. Calmes:-l thought | would
write you and my little school
mates a letter and have it pub
lished in the dear old Press if
YOU think it worth publishing.
There is a great difference in
Memphis and a little place like
Marion although will never go
back on Marion.
| live in a two-story house and
when ! have nothing else to do
SIT out on the veranda and
watch the street ears as they
pass by every five minutes. and
also automobiles and everything
YOU can imagine. am going TO
cshool havn't missed day ex-
cept the first two weeks | miss
ed on account of vaccination.
Every child has 10 be vaccinated
before they can go 10 school.
We have nice Graded school.
The pupils enroll 739. There
are fourteen schools in Memphis.
We have a grand Library. it is
situated near the center Of Mem
phis and belongs TO all the
schools.
IL is very amusing 10 hear the
fire alarm and 10 see SO many
children pattering down the
iron fire escapes.
! went up town last evening
with papa. and while sitting on
Court square looked up and
saw the great sky scraper which
is the largest and latest in the
South. II is eighteen story
high. then ! looked around in
Court square and saw $50 SPUR
rels scampering around and they
would come up and eat out of
my hand. Then went over 10
Confederate park which is on
the river side; ! saw several fine
steam boats and a large war yes
sci which has been anchored
here for some time on account
OF low water and ! looked down
the grand old Mississippi and
saw the next largest bridge IN
the world. wish some Of my
little playmates were here 10 go
with me 10 the 700. II is about
seven miles from here, you can
go out there and back for ten
cents. We are going down in
Arkansas on a hunting trip pref
" soon and if this doesn't find
the waste basket ! will write
again.
Mr.. Gaines we only have one
fight a week al our house and
that is on Friday when we all
make a rush for the Press. For
fear of firing you all | will close.
With love and best wishes to all,
Your little friend,
HOMER WALKER
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1910-10-27
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Judge Aaron Towery of Piney
WAS in Marion Thurday.
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ANOTHER
WOMAN
CURED
ByLydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Black Duck, MINI. about a year
ago | wrote you that | was sick and
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26
NUMBER OF RUNS MADE.
BY HARRY NELLY.

This evening the western clubs
start home, for which athletes and
managers give thanks devoutly. This
has been a tough trip through the
east, and none of the western division
teams have displayed much class.
or the 20 contests played, including
the games of Monday, the sunset END
OF the circuit won 81 and lost 40. Sci
dom, IL ever, did the eastern teams
and the other section of the league
such easy picking.
Boston did the strong-arm stunt
better than any OF the others, which
gives rise to the opinion that the Red
Sox will be a contender. all things
being equal. Boston captured l6 games
and lost only 4. Chicago was the
big faIl-guy for Donovan's tribe, drop
ping six games. The Tigers and the
Maps fell victims TO four each.
The Athletics took IL games and
lost 4. Detroit being trimmed times,
with Chicago and st. Louis losing
three each.
Cleveland won more games than
any of the western teams. taking l.
but the Maps fell victims in IL; while
Detroit won and lost only 10. The
White Sox met with the least sue
cess. Duffy's hopefuls seeming to find
the pace after July little too rapid.
The poor Sox have won only quartet
OF contests while the eastern brethren
have trimmed them four times that
number. or 16.
The Browns, while losing ii and
winning only 4. did not do so badly
after all. They dropped four games
by only one run. One tally would
have helped the Tigers twice, Cleve-
land once and Chicago twice.
I The east certainly had a big aGvan-
tage in the matter of runs scored. The
teams from the seaboard had a margin
Of 119 runs over their opponents, max
334 as against 215
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26
EDITED BY
HARRY NelLX
SCARE EN-, SAYS TY COBB;
IT HELPS TO WIN GAMES

Boston and Detroit have u ON -Pniia,
delphia. Twice the Athletics nave
blown up when they seemed TO nave
the pennant assured won't say that
the Mackmen are yellow" but l do
think that this team loses It's nerve
ut a critical period In the race every
year.
Let the Red Sox fight from start 10
finish, keep II up all the time, crowd
the Athletics, hog the bases. go at the
sacks slam-bang. Let the Mackmen
keep out OF the way OF Boston spikes
II they get In the way and are hurt
II Is their own business.
Get the Athletics goat and you will
get the lead They cannot stand the
gan. Get out on the coaching lines
and yell at them. II they cry for help.
rub II In all the more. Never let up.
But keep after them all the time.
Never let them forget that they Will
quit-that they have quit, and that
they will quit again. Keep this TACT
before their minds, and fight them
keep fighting them all the time.
The Red Sox are Just as game as W.
are. This Is our method OF meeting a
tough proposition. II should be theirs.
The Boston team do not quit. They
are fighters like the Tigers. II De-
troit cannot win. we hope that the Red
Sox win. They will make q better
fight against the National league
champions than will the Mackmen.
But they must keep fighting all the
time. They must bat behind their
pitchers TO win. The fielding can take
care OF itself
II the Tigers do not take the flag,
here is luck for the Red Sox. Let
either OF the teams win out this sea.
son and Chicago or any other National
league winner, will find the world s
pennant series this fall different
proposition from what II has been be.
fore.
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26
(From the cleveland Press. }

Quite enlightening Is the new turn
The effort of the Cleveland ball club
to satisfy the fans cry for new blood
took here Saturday, when Heine
Berger and Geo. Perring were releas-
ed, without strings attached, TO Column
bus, and Bristol Lord was traded even
MP for Maurice Rath, an untried 81
year-old< Philadelphia high. school boy,
who has been doing a little utility
work for Connie Mack since last fall.
1t Is enlightening because II brings
out startling conditions in bold re-
lief against well-painted background
OF what was supposed to be-" 1t is
enlightening because II brands as
bunk the well-sounding battle cry of
I'VE have given Mcclure free rein
and he must stand upon the results
he is able to obtain" which the Nap
owners adopted when they wrote out
Larry's resignation and fixed things
up to suit themselves about year
ago.
Manager Jim was a busy man Sat
urday, approving deals that Secretary
Barnard made for him. The real his
tory OF those three deals Saturday
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26
THREE BIG
SLUG GERS
Including Monday. Games.
NATIONALS LIKE SCHAEFER.
Former Tiger Proves Valuable to Nc
AIeer's Team as a Utility Man.

On. his performance early In the sea-
son the local club would have been
justified in disposing OF Germany
Schaefer, but since he broke into the
game about month ago and has been
playing in various positions off and on.
Schaefer has shown such excellent
form that il might prove a serious
mistake to allow him TO slip through
the fingers OF the local management
unless an advantageous trade could
be made
Players OF the Schaefer type are too
scarce to take any chances with. and
there is every indication that the good:
natured German still has several
years OF good baseball in him.
AS an inside player he has few
equals even today. He can work his
base on balls as often as any man on
The team, Is last on the bases, and
keeps the infleld hustling on balls that
he hits on the ground.
Furthermore. Schaefer seems cap
able OF filling more than one position
on the team satisfactory, is favorite
with the crowds. and good hustler
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26
BETTER DEFENSE MAKES
BASE RUNNING HARDER

Some of the critics bemoan the de-
cadence OF the noble art OF base run
ming. It's lost art" they say and
then tell how some ancient pilfered
154 bases in one season. He couldn't
do II now, IL he were brought back to
life and endowed with 10 per cent
more speed than he held in 1.-The good
old days"
There has been no decline of base
running" Men travel just as fast
afoot now as they ever did. Some go
faster. There were no fewer steps
from frst to second base th than
there are in 1910. Neither did an un-
kind Providence hook up some diligent
athlete with 10-second legs about the
time we were in swaddling clothes and
then break the pattern.
II is a safe assertion that no man
ever played baseball who could ex-
eel Ty Cobb in base.running. Certain
~ none ever had the fade-away slide
developed to such a state OF perfec-
ton. Clyde Milan, Iris Speaker, Bob
Bescher and few others are remark
ably fast OF foot, but they fail to get
away with as much stun as Cobb be-
cause they play more conservative
game.
The true reason for a lack OF base
stealing, as compared with less mod
Crn times, Is not in losing the art, !"
but In the development and perfec-
ton OF defensive play. No man Is per-
mitted 10 wander off first base unchal-
lenged, while nine times out OF ten,
unless the situation will not permit.
the catcher signals for a pitch-out
when he thinks the base-runner Will
start. Thus, free from the annoyance
OF handling a ball close TO the batter,
he has m unobstructed throw 10 the
base and nipping the runner Is easy.
The first thing the enterprising man.
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26

ager drills into his young pitchers on
the long southern training trip Is how
TO watch first base with a runner
there, how to wind up and how closely
he may come TO balk and escape
the eye OF the umpire. The left-hand.
ers, especially, develop motions SO de-
ceptive you cannot tell If they will
throw to first or the plate. The old
days, SO critics of both periods say,
were filed with pitching in which
main strength figured prominently.
Anyway, In recounting history one
or two prominent characters always
are held up as shining examples of
the period. Those who failed OF their
records are forgotten and In looking
at the exception one Is inclined to
make that the rule. Some day they
may write lengthy dope on the decline
OF base-running In 1920, selecting Ty
Cobb as fair sample OF the way
everybody liked the paths in 1910.
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26
GLIDDEN TROPHY FINDS
ITS WAY INTO COURT
New York Judges Grant Injunction TO
Keep Chalmers From Re
ceIvInq Cup.

NEW YORK, July 26.-Automobil-
ists are watching with keen interest
the legal proceedings for possession
OF the GIidden trophy, the prize for
the National automobile reliability
tour recently held through the south
western and western states.
Referee A. Whiting awarded tho
cup to the Premier car No l, but on
appeal to the contest board OF the
American Automobile association, the
decision was reversed and the cup
ordered given to the Chalmers car.
The New York supreme court Sat
urday granted temporary injunc.
ton preventing the cup from going to
the Chalmers The arguments on the
plea for a permanent injunction prom
Use to be lively.
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26
6XT COBB.
In the Boston Post.

There Is no reason why the Ath-
letics should be regarded just now as
prospective pennant winners. They
have a substantial lead. It Is true, but
three other clubs In the American
league, Detroit. Boston and New York,
being still In the fight. That Philadel-
phia team can be caught and passed.
Either Boston or Detroit Is well ca
pable OF catching the Mack men. do
not bank very heavily on the chances
OF the Highlanders. Frankly. I do not
believe they are capable OF sticking
10 the end. But the Boston and De-
troit teams are built upon the same
lines, have the same method Of play,
and IT is up either to us or TO Boston
TO overtake the leaders and push them
down the ladder.
IL Boston hopes to beat out Philadel-
phia. Donovan's team must change its
methed of play when II faces the
Quakers. Rid glove tactics will not
go. The Athletics do not use gentle
tactics themselves, and any team that
refuses 70 fight these men with their
own methods is not playing the game
| don't advocate going at the Ath,
letics with the spikes. know I'm
given credit for using the irons. In
Philadelphia they still maintain that
l tried purposely TO put Third Base
man Baker out OF the game last sea
son. but II is rather funny that Bake,
is so reluctant to show the scar.
But you do need to rough IL with
these men, to fight them all the time
Neither Boston nor Detroit has quite
as good q pitching star as PhiIadel
phia. II is up 10 the Tigers and Speed
Boys to bat out victories, use their
superior speed upon the bases. and
above all "outgame" them.
There is one point believe both
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26
OPENING DAY HAS
|. SOME 5000 RACES
Country Jay Features Inaugural
Grand Circuit at the Kalamazoo
Track.

KALAMAZOO. Mich. July 26.-
Especial. THE opening OF the Grand
Circuit here yesterday was a decided
success. The fields were fairly large
and the racing was good.
Country Jay, the 14-year-old trotting
sensation. won the 2:07 trot In
straight heats. Incidentally he made
a new seasons record Of 2:06 IA. The
Able, driven by Frank @. Jones. took
the 2:16 pace In straight heats. The
Able Is a G. OF G. entrant
The feature of today's card IL tho
2:15 trot. In which several M. & M.
candidates are entered, among them
Decoration. Harry ii. and Myrtle Gren-
nett The summaries for Monday:
AIS TROr. PURSE 81, 900: 8 IN g..
Willy, b. h.. by Wilburn (Pen-
Gracious Peter b. h. '(McDon..
ni sIss Raw.on. chm; JMurph1
Howard. b. e. COLBY. ...... 3. Z
Time-2:o9h: 2;o9A; 2l1k.
a:0s PACE. PURSE $4,000; 2 IN 3.
Walter W.. b.g. by Little Frank
Mae S b. m. iiAibinjj ....... ! ! 3
Walter Hal. gr. h. (Garthj ... . 2
Asa Wilkes. CHI, h. tCoD :,:.;. z !
Tony Swift. blk. n. Dean) -. 6 s
Willie Benton b. h. tCosnelD. DIS
Time-2:06A 2:o6A: 2:0Sh.
2:o7 TROT. PURSE $1,000; IN s.
Country Jay, CHI. x. by Jay
Hawker Gus Macy 49,.
Bob Douglas. &. h. (McDon-
ADD ....... .'......:...
Macev) 2
Teasel, CHI. m. (Andrews) ..... 8 3
wilkesheart, b. Y. tSnowl. q
Sterling Mckinney. b. h. tMur- :.
ffrimSe-2:osA: e:o7%; a:o7N.
2:I6 PACE. PURSE $4,000; 8 IN 5.
The Able. blk. h.. by Chimes
Sarah Ann Patch. br. m. (Coxl
Peter-the- Second. br h. tSnow)
Pearl Pick. br. m. SFenelon)..
Andy n. j.. b. h. tCummings). 4
Time-2:os%: 2:0sk; 2:0sA.
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26


the lookout for promising youngsters.
paid a fancy price for the player and
transferred him TO New York.
And what n pannihg McGraw and
Doyle received, The youngster was
new and inexperienced I'm the ways
OF the big league, and he had a hard
time recovering his nerve. McGraw
stood back OF him, taught him all OF
his baseball wisdom-and McGraw has
forgotten more baseball than a ma
jority of people know-and Doyle
steadily improved his work.
To-day the former breaker boy is
captain OF the New York Giants, And
bis team is scrapplng hard for first
honors In the National. His fielding
Is right up with that OF Evers and
Lajoie. and he Is 300 hitter.
All OF which shows that IL Is pretty
hard for good man to remain in
obscurity.
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26
SARATOGA At TER
BIC RACE MEET
Association There Plans To Ask fol-
Twelve Days Coney Island
Doesn't Want.

SARATOGA, n. Y, July 26.--What
will probably be the last big race
meet held in New York state next
week, promises also TO be the biggest
success OF the turf since the legisla-
ture wiped out bookmaking. The fact
that the Saratoga Racing association
has offered 1857 800 in added and guar
anteed money, horsemen say, assures
that the meeting will bring together
some OF the best horses In America.
Many of the big stake races will
practically pay for themselves in
large entry lists and forfeits. SO that
the association, with normal attend
ance, will at least pay expenses, some
thing that has not been done on the
Metropolitan tracks since the Hart
Agnew bills became laws. The usual
SO grandstand price will prevail, but
the field enclosure will be thrown
open 10 the public at 81 head, a pop
ular innovation among upstate people
who object TO the higher rates.
II the meeting comes up to expecta-
tons, President r. T. Wilson, Jr.. will
endeavor 10 secure the IL days allot-
ed to the Coney Island Jockey club
OF Sheepshead Bay. which wants to
race only three days, according TO
well.nformed turfmen. The Coney
Island club wants TO run the great
Futurity on one OF these three days.
Horsemen, however, say that II the
Coney Island people will not carry out
their entire race meet, the time should
be allotted TO Saratoga and the Futur-
ity run here.
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26

Hughie Jennings or some other
equally famous teacher of baseball as
II should be played once remarked.
sententiously, that ball player is a
dub one day, star the next, and for
gotten the next. Jennings had the
right dope all right, as instance the
case OF Frank Laporte. the husky
young athlete who is third basing for
the New York Americans.
Laporte began last season with tho
Boston Speed Boys, was found want
ing and went to New York in trade
With the Yankees he didn't set the
world on fire, and frequently he heard
the faint but distinct rumbling Of the
can coming In his direction. But he
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26
KICKED INTO FAME, OR THE DEBUT
or THREE F1RST-CLASS BALL PLAYERS

war club. Ger is now playing In the
bushes some place, but Larry Is still
one of the sensations OF the game
He has lost neither his cunning In the
field nor his skill with the bat, as Is
attested by his yearly batting aver
age. The Frenchman is known as the
most graceful man in baseball He
makes the most difficult stops and
makes them SO skillfully that half the
time the fans don't realize or appre-
ciate just how difficult the play was.
When Tom Kinsela. owner OF the
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26
BY PAT.

q BY PAT.
y This story might be called Kicked
into Fame and Fortune" but II has TO
do with the accidental discovery OF
three of the greatest second basemen
the baseball world has known, and is
an attempt TO tell how they have risen
10 the heights of being numbered
among the best In the game, from OBJ
scure positions in life. which they
might still be adjoining but for their
accidental discovery.
The men are Larry Lajoie OF the
Maps, Johnny Evers OF the Cubs. and
Larry Doyle OF the New York Giants.
I think everyone will agree that these
three are the real goods among the
big league second sackers. But they
didn't begin life as ball players
Johnny Evers worked in collar
factory In his home town, Troy. N. Y.
and he was paid 81 per week for his
iabors. Lajoie drove a cab at Provi
dence, r.. l., and Doyle was breaker
boy In the Illinois coal mines.
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26

shows clearly just how little Jim has
to say when owners Somers, Secre-
tary Barnard and their intimate adj
visors have made up their mind that
certain changes should be made.
The only surprising thing about the
release Of Heinie Berger is that ii
was not handed him last season.
Heinie will make a corking good man
in the American association IL he gets
enough work to enable him to get
control, but he couldn't do much with
the Maps.
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26
HEART W;t1.sa.
- Sporting
HEART Editor.

Just why the sailormen of the
should be making so much fuss over
the failure of the power boat owners
to compete at Put-in-Bay isn't quite
plain. Fact Is, Detroit Is about the
only city OF size on this part OF tho
lakes that has not strong represents
ton In an exclusively power boat
league which was formed at a meeting
in Buffalo last spring.
There Is nothing In common be-
tween power boat men and sailormen,
save. perhaps, the fact that both use
water as a means for floating boat
and something else as thirst quench-
er. The sailorman is keen for eti-
quette, brass ratings and Bullets.
White duck pants and rubber-soled
slippers assist in proper sailing. The
power boat enthusiast dons greasy
overalls and his shirt reeks Of hot oil
and gasoline. He takes his straight
from a bottle.
Realizing these slight differences In
temperament and customs the power
boat folkS already nave Well-organ-
izen league, headed by the Buffalo
crowd, as fine lot Of men as ever
sailed the Great Lakes, and they will
pull off regatta this autumn that
from a standpoint OF powered craft.
will be the finest thing ever seen on
the lakes. There is no need of the
Detroit sailors worrying over what
will become OF the gasoliners-all tho
Detroit motor boat men have TO do Is
get busy at the other end of the lake.
The breakup In racing was bound
to come sooner or later, and the III
conducted affair at Toledo last year
helped more than anything else. The
Toledo people acted as though the gas
oline men and their greasy overalls
were not quite welcome. so lot Of
them who always had attended failed
to 60 to the Bay this season.
The Cleveland clubs already have
Joined with Buffalo and some Of the
Canadian brethren and II Detroit
motor boat men saw At to cooperate
the Great Lakes Power Boat league
could be made big success.
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26
Maps Want Jerry Downs.

Jerry DOWNS VIII get dHUtHeI CHaHoe
i'm the big league. In return for CIV
ing Columbus of the American asso-
citation Third Baseman Geo. Perring
and pitcher Heine Berger, the Cleve-
land club will have the pick OF the
Columbus team. Jerry Downs will be
one OF the young men selected. Since
leaving Detroit Downs is said 10 have
improved immensely.
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26

Jack Hardy, who occasionally
breaks into the game for Washington
now when Street feels the need Of a
rest, was catching for Troy that sea-
son. and his work so impressed the
Chicago National team that he was
drafted. Evers was sent along for good
measure, tagged to be returned " he
couldn't hit the big league gait.
The rest of II is history. Evers,
sent along just for good measure, de-
veloped into what many believe 10 be
the greatest second baseman the
game has known No man In baseball
can think and act as quick as the lit
tie second sacker of the Cubs. and 1t
was Johnny's noodle which beat the
New York Giants out OF a pennant.
Hardy Is now change catcher for the
Washington club in the American
league.
Latofe played ball on the lots around
The Detroit times., 1910-07-26

The Philadelphia Nationals wanted
Gier and the Fall River management
threw in Lajoie for good measure,
Larry stuck.
At first Larry was kept on first base
and then sent to second, where he
quickly developed into one of the real
wonders of the game, and In a team
composed of mighty swatters was
right up In the first flight with the