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six n1chels In a game last sum-
mer. Thomas formerly played
on the Yankees, and, at the time,
Chase's sign for the squeeze
play YVES given by putting his
right hand to his nose. Ira had
seen him give this many times
when they were team mates.
But on this occasion, Chase
was playing on the New York
club, and Thomas was catching
on the Philadelphia team. 1t was
in the eighth inning with the
score tied, and a New York run
ner on third base, champing on
his spikes to get home when
Chase stepped to the bat. One
was out. HAL" went through
the usual preliminaries of knock
ing the dirt out of his spikes, FIX
ing his hat the firmer, as If he
expected to take a long run and
didn't want to be called back to
get the cap, and splitting on his
hands. Then he put the first
digit of his right hand to the side
of hic n0G0
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No Wedding Day Bargains.

The Husband During the quarreD
You're always making bargains.
Was there ever time when you
didn't?
The Wife-Yes, sir; on my wedding
day.
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Mrs. Benham-The paper tells about
a man who stole a head Of lettuce and
then went back and got another, be-
ing arrested on the second trip.
Benjamin. bet you can't make that
fellow believe that two heads are bet
ter than one
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that he could throw one. He simply outguessed
me and caught me in the arms of Morpheus.
He had wet the ball, while walking away from
the plate with his back to me, after getting 1t
from Easterly, thus giving no hint that he was
going to throw a splitter"
Young invented this trick and applies it oc-
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hit are not likely 10 occur Ollch III
a game with Walsh pitching. He
is spit ball pitcher entirely He
uses his splitter and fast ball
with nc curves. On this occasion,
Payne signalled for either spit
ball or fast one, / don't know
which. Walsh shook his head In
reply, and Payne gave him another
signal to which he again shook his
head
"You don't want this one?" Payne
mumbled in his mask, but loudly
enough for me to hear as he gave
another signal. Walsh nodded as
sent.
Now here is what passed through
my mind, after listening to the hint
carelessly dropped by Payne. Two
were out at the time, man was
on third base, who, If he scored,
would put us ahead, and the count
on me was two strikes and no balls.
My flash of thought must have been
instantaneous. | try never to pay
any attention to the monologue of
q catohar h,,f payna ia naturally a
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a sort of instinct which some players have and
others never attain. man seems to do 1T by
intuition and often cannot tell just what con-
crete hypothesis leads him to reach certain
conclusion. But believe me, it is great art for
ball player to have, great art and one to
be cultivated.
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Stop the Pain.

The hurt of a burn or cut stops when
Coles Carbolisalve is applied. 1t heals
druggists For free sample write to
j. w. Cole e Co., Black River Falls, Wis.
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spect, and remark dropped by him will give
q batter the key to the situation which Will
enable him to outguess the pitcher thing
of this sort happened TO me In Chicago one
day last season, with Walsh pitching and
Payne catching
Payne dropped a remark. which set my mind
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Working in combination to outguess the bat
tiers, a catcher will often help a pitcher out
by talking necessarily, hoping in this way to
distract hitter's attention from his business.
Street or The Washington club is one OF the
worst takers in the business, and is called in
some strata of baseball "Gabby." From the
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Feminine Reasoning.

Stella-Her gown is just like yours.
Bella don't care if hers is dupli-
cate of mine, but l don't want mine a
duplicate of hers.-Puck.
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TWO SJr1keS anu one Dali Oh Iu0 III
a game in Cleveland. He walked
out of the box and part way to
the catcher to receive the ball.
Easterly, catching, signed for an
offering that did not coincide
with "Cy's" idea of the exigen-
cies of the situation. The old
fellow shook his head twice,
which Immediately forced me
to conclude that it would be
neither a curve nor a fast one.
Oldring was on first base at the
time, and / guessed that ICY"
must want to waste one, think
ing he was going to try to steal.
When the ball came to me about
chin high, / at once concluded
that my diagnosis was the cor
rect one, and ! let it go. But,
when about two feet In front of
me. 1t broke across my letters, a
beautiful strike, and l had not
even taken my bat off my shout
der. ICY" had dished up spit
ter from somewhere in his as
sortment, and / didn't even know
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ing right. He has almost clairvoyapt ability
to outguess a pitcher.
In some games, have been abe 10 guess
right almost every time that the pitcher mas
thrown the ball to me and yet have not beeD
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The Humorous Hat.

HAS she any sense of humor?"
II don't think SO. She can look at
her hat without laughing" --Lippin'
colts.
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working and which led me to forecast what
was coming This cue and the resultant con-
clusion drew, based on the hasty hypothesis
of Payne's remark, resulted In timely base
hit The conditions and circumstances of the
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steps. WAGES lutU tuc Doh, onu 49,
"You can't get one by me-, LIS
manner appears to challenge. he
is simply bullying with confidence.
He is the one hitter and the only
successful one / ever saw who appa-
rently doesn't try to guess what the
pitcher is going to throw and really
doesn't care. Pitchers have never
been able to discover any groove
that he is concealing. He simply
wades in and hits at any kind OF
a ball. He is one batter in a thou
sand.
Tyrus Cobb, the Detroit star, is
the exactly opposite type of hitter.
He is thinking all the time he is
at the bat, figuring, planning, to out
guess the pitcher and the fielders, In
baseball parlance ito cross his op-
ponents, legitimate procedure. II
he thinks that the third baseman
expects bunt, he will hit it out.
He never chases a bad ball, and he
makes pitcher work to the last
notch. He worries many of the
men in the box by his restiessness,
ond hncouso ha is constantly guess
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he repeated the old sign very de-
liberately.
What" exclaimed Ira, you're
not giving me that sign. thinking
I'm not Jerry to it?"
That's right, Ira," answered
Chase carelessly. Il had forgot
ten you knew, but 1t goes any
way"
This conversation was carried
on while Plank was paving
around In the box and preparing
to pitch. AS the tall southpaw
wound up, Daniel started In from
third base. Plank delivered a
perfect strike, and Chase half
hunted and half hit the ball, which
allowed Daniels to score. Hal
had beaten Thomas at his own
game. He had given a sign that
Thomas knew, and which the lat
ter did not for a moment think
had been passed out seriously.
Therefore Ira did not signal for a
pitchout as he would have done
If he had guessed the play was
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verse English on it, 1t was a case of him out
guessing me- The veteran Cleveland pitcher
is as different from Walsh, in his style, as white
is from black. "Cy" relies on curve and a
fast ball, never using splitter" Young had
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casionally to great advantage, have learned
since, catching a batter off his guard But
he depends for the most part on curve and
a high, fast ball. relying his wonderful con-
troll to put the ball where he wants 1t. That
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early innings of the first game,
Sweeney had his hand split open
with one of Ford's eccentric spit
tiers. The Highlander was never
the same again. He did not pitch
the wonderful ball he Is capable
of In that series. He had no con-
fidence In the numbering Mitchell
to handle his "spitters," to think
fast; in short, to outguess the bat
tiers.
Some catchers have very busy
habit of talking all the time to
annoy a batter IN an effort to dis
tract his attention from his work.
John King, of the Chicago Cubs.
known in baseball as bad man
with batter, "chewed" incessant-
ly during the worlds series In
which we won the championship
from the Cubs. He seemed to
want 60 distract attention from
the pitcher. A favorite line of
his was:
Nov, let's try him on a fast
one.'
1t is sort of an unwritten law
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into an argument, and have
his pitcher shoot over a fast
one. He tried this on me in
the first worlds series.
so they say that you are
the best base runner in the
American league" was his
opening line. well, you are
not up against American
league catchers now, young
fellow. Let's see you steal a
base If you get down"
/ paid TO attention to him,
although he evidently hoped
that would turn around and
reply, so that ] would be
caught of my guard. And
not in conceit, but, as a his
torian, relate the sequel. ]
did get down to first base,
and by pretending I was go
ing to steal, made him signal
to Overall 70 waste two balls.
Then, when he had to put a
strike over, l went down.
Sometimes a catcher will
everyday HIS part in this re-
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itely the sort of a ball to be de-
livered. These little physical
eccentricities are true induces
and often cost men, who would
otherwise be successful pitch
ers, many games. 1t may be
the twist of the wrist IN throw
ing curve ball, or some motion
of the foot peculiar to a spit
ter" that divulges the essential
secret. This tell-tale sign is
fatal to pitcher, when players
get on to 1t, and it usually does
not take his opponents long to
discover and associate it with a
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coming Thus Chase double-crossed lra
ball player is trying to outguess the pitcher
from the time he leaves the bench until he
sits down again. He doesn't terminate his
engagement at the plate AS soon as bats
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Dy Payn6. he can lnteuu TO waste
ball, / reasoned, because the man
is on third, and he doesn't think
he is going to try to steal. Then
it struck me.
Can 1t be curve?" asked my
self surprised. But he never
throws one,' l argued In my mind.
Then l remembered the surprise
betrayed in Payne's "You don't
want this one" The remark, mum
bled in his mask, had supplied the
key. / took a chance. 1t was a
curve, and l called the turn. 1t
was the first and last one Walsh
ever threw me, and probably he
would have slipped 1t over, had 1t
not been for Payne's poorly sup
pressed surprise. That cost Walsh
the game. 1t must be remembered
by the reader that all this giving
of signals and reasoning took place
in about a minutes time. A ball
player must think fast.
Old ICY" Young, one of the
Solons of baseball, crossed me once
in almost the same way with re-
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dUI5 10 SSI O 11Kt.
There is a great diff
ference in pitchers. Some
are easy to outguess,
and others are as bad as
a jig-saw puzzle, and |
never. worked out one
of those In my life. !
know some men who
have mannerisms in the
box which betray defin-
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of baseball to let the first go by to get
look at the style. King would say:
HE liked the looks of that. Let's try him
on another Then up would come curve.
A favorite trick of his is to get the batter
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"whiSker" trimmer OF Dis, winch
Is a high, fast one In the vicinity
of the neck, is a viilainous bail.
A pitcher of Young's type would
lust as soon tell the batter where
he is going to try to throw the
ball, because it is generally known
that he is pitching at a batter's
weakness.
So batting in the big leagues Is
largely a game of thought. The
man who outguesses the pitchers
accumulates the most hits and
the largest batting average. Lajoie
is the only exception to this that
/ can recall. OF course, self-con-
fidence is an absolute necessity to
any successful hitter, but the
Cleveland second baseman is more
chock full of reliance in his own
batting ability than any other
player know. 1t is not conceit,
lust faith in his eye. He shuffies
out to the plate, almost carelessly,
and bangs his bat down two or
three times as If to say to the
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What are you going to do, Hail." asked lra'
frame up something here?"
Thomas did not expect to find out anything
by the question, but wanted to drag Chase into
conversation to get his mind off his work.
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reticent man. and his %emark surprised me.
Walsh had refused to pitch until he had re
eeaSed certain sign. This made me thinf
that It was not going to be splitter or 9
fast one, evidently the first two signals given
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catcher. In only few instances
does the pitcher give the signals.
So much faith have some pitchers
In certain catchers that they pitch
altogether different brand Of base
ball to other men. This is particu-
larly true of Krause, the Philadelphia
left handler, who pitched such sensa-
tictIal ball in the season of 1909, and
of Ford. of the New York American
league club, who was the thrill of
the league last season with his
double breaking spitball. Krause had
no confidence in any catcher except
Ira Thomas, and Ford could not work
tremendously without ED Sweeney.
These catchers did all the thinking
for the two great twirlers, and their
work in the box was purely me-
chanical.
Krause ranPed ten straight VIC
tories in row before he fell, in
a ten-inning game with the st. Louis
team, then, as usual, In last place.
The secret is this. Thomas was catch
ing him for the ten he put on the shelf.
Lapp was behind the bat for the
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ooh, that you will never know" an
sweredAMrs. Brown, laughing, and
rang off.-Lippincott's.
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"Toss one up here and hurry up about 1t.
I'm not particular"
He seldom let's the first one go past him.
ue pefa his noise. takes couple of short
steps wades into the ball, and bang!
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eleventh, and it fell or and smashed Krause
pitched without confidence in his oateners
Judgment to outguess the batters. and he lost.
The same thing was true Of Ford In the
post-season series with the Giants. In the
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success Is the start,
absolutely. Speed Is
a great asset, but
the start is every
thing.
: Outguessing t b Q
pitcher and catcher Is
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ulctu U0COluC0 UooO uAAOA,
object is advancement.
Every ball player knows ex-
actly how much Of lead he can
take off first base on certain
pitcher and not get caught. There
are recognized standards In the
big leagues. For instance, know
that 1 can go fifteen feet away
from the bag and get safely back
with doc" White of Chicago
pitching, but If l go a step over
ten feet on Walsh Of the same
club / will probably get nipped.
I can't exactly explain what !
mean, but when / once get &C
customed to pitchers delivery,
| know how far to venture.
In base running, ] believe
that the secret OF
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shakes his head. SUCCESSFUL men reh1nd the
bat in the big leagues have made careful
study of batters, their grooves" and man
nerisms, and 1t is on this knowledge that
pitcher depends. Therefore, in the majority
of cases, it is the batter outguessing the
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:, Be kind to all, but don't forget
yourself. :f>: 100
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GERMAN N WORKERS AR|II
FOR THE UNION shop
Nine Thousand Metal Workers
Stand Firm and Twenty Y.
Thousand Locked Out.

X 3 l. = . H.
DRESDEN, Sept. THE contest
between the Employers association.
and the Metal Workers union has
been intensified BY reason Of the lat
est act of the employers in locking
out the metal workers in Dresden
and Chemnitz. an industrial center
about miles west OF the capitol Of
Saxony. s~, 81. ss5
On July 20. the metal workers ii
Thuringia demanded increased wages
and that in cases of differences be-
tween employers and individual
workmen, the employers should deal
with the trade union and not d.
rectly with the Individual. !. The en1-,
ployers, agreed to Increase wages but
later locked out ., 900 men when the
union refused 5toe withdraw its lat
ter proposal. =.
At Leipzig about 400 metal work.
ers went on strike for a general
increase in wages and reduction in
the hours Of labor. The employers
locked out 600 and later increased
the number to. 10000 about 60 per
cent of the number employed by
members Of the Employers associa-
ton. The humber of locked out
men has been Increased by the lock
outs at Dresden and .Chemnitz. +
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we will do that I assure you that our
efforts will be more than amply re-,
paid with increased numbers within
our locals, as well as a better feeling
generally between employer and en-:
ployee.
more for humanity during the past
century than any other effort that
the Inception Of unions in this country,
laborers worked Is and 1S hours q
day, and through constant agitation
and occasional industrial struggle
they have gradually been reduced to
what 1T has done for just one craft.
The Cigarmakers union adopted the
eight hour day. in 1885. Federal re-
ports at that time gave the percent
tuberculosis. The first is years un-
der the short hour day we find that
the deaths have been reduced from
this terrible disease to "a per cent"
Na MR. Hall then the sn ME-
and urged all members Of organized
labor to contribute of their means to-
wards ensuring fair and impartial
trial for the defendants.
Labor asks no sepcial favors, labor
asks only the rights to live, that it
may pursue through organized effort,
the principles. for which all labor is
entitled e1 A fair compensation for a
day, an education for the child, ample
Fairgrounds for the children that they
may develop into men and women that
our nation may feel proud of, and
other things that make home happy.
1t is asking the abolition Of con-
tract system on all public work, the
municipal ownership of all public util-
tiles. the abolition Of the sweatshop,
sanitary inspection Of factory work.
shop, mill and mine, and home, Habil-
1ty Of employers for injury to body
or loss of life, the naturalization Of
all telegraph and telephone lines, the
passage OF anti-child labor laws in
states where they do not exist, and
have been enacted into law, the initia-
tive and referendum and the impera.
tive mandate and right of recall"
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JUST AS WE DO IN
ST. LOUIS COUNTY

Maj. S. Harris, one of the Aus
tralians who fought in the South
African war, visited British Column
bia. and finally settled down in Van
couver. New he tells of a man in
his province who went over to see
London for the first time last year,
and was being SHOWN through West
minister Abbey: He got into CONVERSE
ton with tourist agent who was
showing party about, and at inter-
walls the man who was explaining
asked the British Columbian ques-
tons about Vancouver. II suppose
that in your country. you have no.
place like the Abbey?" he suggested.
NO replied the other Then what,
may ask, do you do with your IL
lustrious dead ?,' First" replied the
British Columbian. 1--WE appoint a
commission to see whether the man
is really dead, and then, if the com-
mission decides in the affirmative, we
send him to the legislature i. J. Z
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GOOD MAN APPOINTED
ON ACCIDENT BOARD
Governor Johnson of California
Pays Tribute to Integrity :
Courage and Ability.

SAN FRANCISO, CAL, Sept. T.
In appointing w. J. French as one
of the members of the Industrial Ac-
cident board, Governor Johnson Of
this state has paid tribute to in
tegrity, courage and ability.
The board was authorized under
the provisions of the Employers Ii
ability act passed by the last legisla-
ture and approved by the governor.
Their duties will be Immediately
entered upon by the appointees, and
the salary will be $500 a year.
Mr.. French is resident of San
Francisco and is recognized as; one
of the champions of unionism in
that city. He is past president Of
the San Francisco Typographical
union and has rendered valuable as
sistance to the Labor Council of the
California state federation for many
years. His sterling character, in
tellectual ability, high moral courage
and sturdy spirit of unionsm has
gained the admiration and confidence
of his fellow unionists and his ap-
pointment is popular one. The
board will have in him one who will
increasingly guard the interests of
every injured worker.
He has been editor of the Clarion
for three years and while acting as
such has paved the way for much
that has been accomplished in labor's
behalf in the legislature at Sacra-
mento this year. =
At the San francisco convention
OF the American Federation of Labor
ne was appointed and acted as as
sistant secretary.
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s b l People have been III He'd nv kind !
mes but not In NIL lon ,yAars back.
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5.s5 The idiot don'tneed to dislose the
5[.a'c but he invariably oes.s