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The Washington herald., 1911-08-21
Have No Use for Thermometer.

My husband and I made a trip to
Panama recently" said Mrs. HI. Olin
Young, wife of the Michigan Congress-
man, ''and there is one feature of life
down there which 1 thought admirable.
1 respectfully submit my views to the
municipal authorities of Washington and
other cities. 1t was February last when
we made our second visit to the Canal
Zone, and even at that time the sun was
much too fervent for pleasure. Going
out one morning in pursuit of knowledge
and souvenirs. became rather warm.
and while purchasing some trifies 1 cas-
ually asked the clerk how high the ther
mometer registered. He promptly re-
piled that he did not know. I asked
where ] could find a thermometer so
that could see for myself, and again
he replied that he did not know. ! turned
away thinking him somewhat churlish,
and going into drug store for more
purchases, I asked the proprietor where
/ could see-the thermometer. He told me
that he did not possess one, and further
more he told me that 1 could tramp the
city of Panama from end to end and
not find a thermometer in public view.
II seems that people harped 50 much
on the heat that II get on the nerves
OF the American authorities, and they
called in all the tell-tale mercuries and
only permitted certain government Off
cials to have them. ] fretted A little,
but then thinking 1t over / thought what
a splendid idea II is. Now, instead of
printing how not it is in kiosks and in
the shade and in the sun, why not drop
the subject, Pitch the mercuries over
board and persuade people to get their
minds off the heat. 1t would make life
so much easier and give others a chance
to impart more useful information when
they meet than the state of the weather
and the degrees of heat and moisture.
/ find a trip to Panama a genuine delight.
and the pleasures so far outweigh the
creature privations that i get provoked
with those who tell us of nothing but
the things which they could not procure"
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21
BIG AVIATION MEET CLOSES
WITH THRILLS AT CHICAGO
Rodgers in Air More Than "a Hours in the Nine Days.
Benefit for Mrs. tombstone Today

Chicago. Aug. 2o.-With not a serious
accident to mar the enjoyment Of the
more than 10000 assembled spectators,
Chicago's nine-day aerial carnival came
to a close tonight at Z o'clock with the
sounding a signal coprs bugle. That
no accidents occurred does not mean that
there were no thrills. for there were
feats of daring that kept the nerves of
the multitude a tingle with excitement.
c. p. Rodgers captured the grand prize
of the meet in his Wright biplane when
shortly after o'clock 1t was announced
that his total duration record during the
past nine days has exceeded twenty-four
hours. No other flyer approached this
figure, and he therefore qualified for
the $3.50 purse. The crowds were as
tonished when they heard the bulletin.
who is Rodgers" was the question
passed from mouth to mouth.
Day after day. without attracting the
plaudits of the grand stands, he had been
consistently putting hour after hour to
his credit. The other aviators from time
to time made spectacular endurance
flights, and they had no fear of the
slow-going Rodgers in his old ice
wagon" He never made any death
dips" or spirals, nor caused the crowd
to gasp by sensational flights. but in the
end 1t proved a twentieth century ver-
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21
GOSSIP OF THE BOXERS.

Under the Frawley boxing commits
sion no club or promoter will be al
lowed to pull of boxing contests on a
race track, ball ground. or open lot
Packy Mcfarland has decided not to
accept the offer Of Hugh Mcintosh to
go TO Australia after his match with
Ad Wolgast.
Harry Pollock and Pat Powers are
trying to get Ad Wolgast to box Knock
out Brown ten rounds at Madison
Square Garden.
Jack. McGuigan will reopen the Ma
tional Athletic Club. in Philadelphia
on Monday night, week. August 90.
Charley Harvey. the New York
sporting man, formerly manager for
Owen Moran and Jim Driscoll. has been
appointed secretary to the New York
State boxing commission.
The Armory Athletic Club, of Boston,
has matched Young Saylor. of Indian
apolis, to box twelve rounds with
Knockout Brown on September II.
Jimmy Coffroth. the Frisco fight
promoter, has matched Matty Baldwin,
of Boston. to box Willie Ritchie at
San Francisco on August 81. They are
to weigh in at 133 pounds at p. m.
Billy Pierce, the Boston sporting
man, we'll known through his connec-
ton with the Armory Athletic Club.
Is dying with consumption.
Frank Klaus wants to get a crack
at Billy Papke; so does Leo Houck.
But the Illinois Thunderbolt is not
hunting for such hard game as these
young fellows.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21
The Gold Penny.

The most valuable penny ever coined
in Great Britain was the gold penny OF
Henry III. On August 16 1877, a writ
dated at Chester was issued. command
ing the mayor Of London to proclaim
in that city that the gold money which
the King had caused to be made should
be Immediately current there and else
where within the realm of England, in
all transactions of buying and selling. at
the rate OF twenty pennies Of sterling
q. e, twenty silver pcnnies) for every
gold penny"
The time. however. was by no means
favorable for the issue OF pieces OF a
denomination so much higher than had
previously been known. Accordingly.
the city OF London petitioned against
these coins. and the King issued q
proclamation that no one should be
obliged to take them. The coins, never
1865 their value was raised from twenty
to twenty-four pence: probably equiva-
lent in purchasing power to two pounds
sterling of to-day.
1t is unlikely that any great number
OF these coins was ever struck It is
probable that, by reason OF their high
value. they would soon be melted down,
for they were of pure gold. without
alloy of any kind. The collectors of
to-day know Of only three or four speci-
mems. One Of these was sold for more
than s9oo, another for s7oo, and another
for 1900
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21
Nationals Should Use johnson
Oftener as a "Pu1ch" 7Wirler

That was the condition in Saturdays
game, and has been the situation in many
a game. Walter was not down to his
gait when he went in, as is shown by
the fact that be passed a man and filled
the bases. II cannot be assumed that he
deliberately passed a man, filling the
bases, when a batter who has been doing
as We'll as has Wallace lately was to
come up next. That is virtually accus-
ing the pitcher Of grand stand play,
and no grand stand plays with big risks
were very likely to be INDUCED in by
Manager McAleer on that day in St.
Louis.
The thing that won was rather Walters
reputation and the vast respect that the
best batters in the American League have
sidered the best pitcher in the major
leagues to-day. Even lacking control,
such a pitcher would throw a scare into
the best of the batters on any team, and
the advantage of that is not to be un-
derestimated.
Managers do not hesitate to take out a
pitcher the moment he shows signs of
going wrong. Some do not attend to that
little point as early as they might, it is
said. But some others do not hesitate to
take out the very best. Even the mighty
Chief Bender has been taken out by
Connie Mack. But the point is, what Is
the nature of the pitcher that takes his
|place? The stage of the game, the score,
and the condition of other pitchers are
a few of the things that decide that
point.
But when the game has reached the
acute stage that Saturdays game showed
the best on the team is none too good,
not alone for the superior skill he pos
sesses, but for the fear that he inspires
in the opposing batters. If the best
pitchers on a team were kept for such
situations and crises, which develope al
most constantly in the game, he would
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21

New York, Aug. 20.-Last week, though
the market was reassured by develop
ments at Washington and the clear pros
pect of an early adjournment was most
alluring, the rally in the stock market
was impeJed by developments abroad.
The labor difficulties in Great Britain are
a very serious matter in a period when
the producers and manufacturers of the
country are depending so largely upon
foreign purchases of our commodities
and products. The country's July trade
figures, made public last week, showed
an almost unprecedented development
in the balance of trade. There was
balance Of s9,53OOoO in exports over i'm
ports, as compared with an import excess
of s26SS,O0 in the corresponding month
last year. The credit balance for the
seven months of the. year is now s233.-
6o4 600, as compared with only s2647,0OO
in the corresponding period last year.
Adversely at home has. of course, slim
ulated our manufacturers to aggressive
inroads upon foreign markets, and these
endeavors have been extremely sue
cessful But it is idle TO presume that
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21
Gathering Chewing Gum.

In Yucatan the gathering of the
chicle chewing gum is an industry that
employs the services of considerable
bands of natives known as 'chicleros."
They go into the deep forests. under
experienced leaders, armed with heavy
knives of special make and pals and
ladies for the sap, and each one is pro-
vided with a strong rope. more than
eighty feet long to be used in climbing
the lofty sapota trees. from which the
gum is procured. The sap flows from
gashes cut in the bark. A camp of
chicleros. where the sap is boiled. re-
sembles in some respects an American
maple-sugar camp. After months Of
work the chicleros return from the for
ests laden with bricklike blocks of
aromatic gum. The finest gum is COL
lected from the fruit of the sapota.
mostly by the native women. and it is
said that II Is seldom exported, because
1t is too well liked at home.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21

sion of Aesop's fable of the tortoise and
the hare
The first event in the programme to-
day was a race for speed biplanes, with
Ely and Beachy as the favorites. Owing
ton, McCurdy. F'risbie, Mars, and Beck
also took places at the start but could
not qualify for the finals. Ely captured
first honors. His time for the twelve
miles was 13:1713.
In the bomb throwing contest Frisbie
made a perfect bulls eve and was named
as one of the big prize winners of the
event. Sopwith, Beachy, McCurdy,
Ovington, and Brindley also made good
scores.
Late this afternoon Brindley and
Beachy started for the meet altitude
record. Up to a late hour tonight the
barograph calculations had not been COM
pleted. Beachy declared that he had
climbed to a height of II, ,332 feet. If this
is correct he will win the $4,000 silver
cup, which had been provided as a spe-
cial trophy.
In the free-for-all race for biplanes and
monoplanes, Ovington took first prize.
He made the fastest lap that was made
during the meet, covering the 13 miles
in 1:22 fiat.
Tomorrow afternoon a benefit for st.
Croix Johnstone's widow will be given.
Thirty aviators will participate and the
entire proceeds will go to the bereaved
woman
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21

they could have been so successful that
our exports could have exceeded those
of any other year in the country's his
tory by so wide a margin had it not been
that business in Great Britain and other
European countries was extraordinarily
prosperous. 1t may not be that the labor
troubles in Great Britain, threatening
as they do a severe loss to British COM
merce and a consequent deterioration
in manufacturing. marked the high tide
of British prosperity for the current
period. but in France and Germany. as
we'll as in Great Britain. bankers have
been much more conservative since the
Agadir episode, and now that the labO~
troubles have become acute in Great
Britain the conservatism is more pro-
nounced.
. 1t is an adage in Wall street that he
is foolish Speculator who sells stocks
on strike news. and while the big strike
in Great Britain is settled, 1t developed
such bitterness that an onward pace in
British industries need not be antici-
pated in the near future. The tendency
of trade in Great Britain and all the
other European countries receives most
serious consideration here.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21
Novel Use of Current.

An interesting use of electricity was
recently demonstrated iE England, where
a wooden briGge was cut down by means
of electrically heated wires The bridge
had been condemned, and was to be re-
placed by a steel structure supported
on the old masonry piers and abut-
ments.
Three weeks was allowed in which to
dismantle the woodwork, but it proved
impossible to accomplish the work In so
short a time without the use of dynamite
or fire, which undoubtedly would have
injured the masonry. Finally an elec-
trician proposed to destroy the bridge by
the use of electricity. Each span Of
the bridge contained twenty-seven
planks, and it was proposed to cut them
so that they would drop into the water
simultaneously, clear of the piers. The
structure was wired and sufficient cur
rent was employed to bring the wires to
a cherry red. An hour and forty minutes
after the current was applied the first
span was cut and fell into the water.
The operation was begun at o'clock in
the morning. and at o'clock at night
tine structure had been demolished with
out injuring the masonry.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21

If there is ~uch thing as a crisis
in game, that situation was surely
reached in the tenth at St. Louis on
Saturday when Walter Johnson was
called upon to pitch for the Nationals.
With one run to tie, two men on bases,
and swatters of skill coming up it was
condition and theory that con-
fronted Manager McAleer, who would
rather have had that game than more
pay.
Now, what happened? Why, johnson
gave a base on balls and filed up the
sacks. with Scotch Roderick, who has
been doing nicely with the willow lately,
thank you, facing him. Then a little
roller went out from his bat, it was
gathered in, and Washington won, while
the general opinion is that johnson won,
though by the vagaries of records, the
game is credited to Groom as a victory.
There are those who say that Wallace
should have waited and have taken a
chance on getting a pass. However that
may be he did not. So the situation and
the outcome stand. johnson was a pinch
pitcher. The question that presents it.
self is: Why do not managers use a
pinch pitcher ofterner than they do?
1t has come to be a recognized prac-
tice when a crisis comes on with the
batting team to at once institute bat
ting rally and pinch batters are freely
used as an acknowledged advantage and
numbers of men carried on the payroll OF
all teams for this express service and
nothing else.
Assuming the advantage of pinch hit
ters to the batting side. it would appear
to be an equal advantage to the fielding
team to have pinch pitcher, who should
be pitcher of the very best kind and
one who is able by his acknowledged
superiority to throw a scare into the
batter even when he himself is not going
good.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21

get plenty of work as a pinch pitcher,
though he were never called upon to 60
the whole route in any game. Such a
pitcher could stand few innings of al
most every game. The total of such
work would. perhaps. equal the amount
of work that he would do by pitching
whole games and taking a rest.
To pull his team out of hole when
needed worst would be about the same
as a warming up and every pitcher
needs that each day. To put Walter
johnson. for instance, against weak
pitcher and let him go the route and to
unfit him for another day when an op-
posing pitcher more worthy OF his steel
is on, SO that he cannot be used at all,
does not get his, full value to the team.
To keep him as a pinch pitcher to pull
the team out of holes that weaker pitch
ers working against strong batters have
landed the team, even though the call
should come every other game, would
give the team an advantage, 1t would
appear, that would Offset the advantage
of the pinch batters in a batting rally.
Then, too, there is something in the
special case OF johnson that would not
apply to the best pitchers on other teams
that is the advantage Of having the
added batting power of a pitcher who is
hitting at a .239 stride at a time in a
most appreciated.
What was done in Saturdays game and
came through with so much good to the
Nationals might appear ss being worth
another trial or two in similar periods
of stress and anxiety. for the principle
Is easily capable Of the only proof and
demonstration that is Of any value, and
that is on the field and not on paper.
The few occasions upon which this has
-
-haye been regarded as purely accidental
in results. but, as policy, there has not
been what may be regarded as proof or
disproof Of its value.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21
REAL ESTATE LOANS.
w. II. WALKER, 729 18th St. NV.
An Oversight.


I'm planning the financial end OF my
vacation" remarked a woman whose
summer itinerary had taken her to
several cities, Il made only one mis-
take. My chief concern was to guard
against going broke in a strange place.
To make sure of having enough money
to meet expenses at different points
along the route I took the precaution
of mailing a letter with money in it to
myself to the general post-off1ce OF
every city l expected to visit. ! in
closed bills, so / would have no trouble
with checks or money orders, and
struck each town sustained by the com
forting thought that l would have
enough money to carry me through.
That sounds all right" said the man.
Il can't see where your mistake came
in"
Why she said. Il neglected to mall
letter to myself at the post-office, so
I wouldn't be broke when I got home"
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21
BttS of BaSeball [

Manager George Stovall, of the Cleve-
land Blues, expresses confidence that the
Maps will be an important factor in the
1912 race for the pennant. Il believe
that Gregg, KaIer. and Knapp will be at
their best next season. and that with a
strong out and in fieId-a good batter in
every position-Cleveland will be one of
the championship contenders. We have
two exceptional batters on the team
Lajoie ard Jackson. Jackson is getting
better all the time, and I see no reason
why we shouldn't put up a great fight"
Fred Clarke. manager of the Pittsburg
Pirates, who were in Brooklyn last week,
has been playing big league ball for
seventeen years. Clarke is not only a
wonderful player, but he has been a
manager for the greater part Of his ca
reer. Few players have been more sue
cessful than Clarke. Pittsburg owes
much to that great fighting leader. Play
ers like Clarke are rare.
A canvass of the st. Louis Cardinals
shows that eleven members of Bresna-
hans squad pick the Pirates to win the
National League pennant. Only six Of
them like the Cubs chances and four
are for the Giants. The Cards eliminate
The PhilIies because they believe that
St Louis will finish the race ahead Of
hem.
Unless some accident befalls Ty Cobb,
ne will undoubtedly head the American
League this year in stolen bases. 1t is
possible that he will head both leagues.
In the National League, Bob Bescher,
nj Cincinnati, is giving Ty close race.
Recent figures show that Cobb has
stolen fifty-seven sacks and Bescher
forty-fVe
President Charles NJ. Murphy is plan
ming for next season. The chubby per-
son would like to land a few more
ratchers. He has already signed Catcher
Chapman, of the Topeka club of the
Western League. Chapman will not re-
port TO the Cubs until the close Of the
Western League season.
Rube Waddell. the former Athletic, st.
Louis. and Newark pitcher, has won
more games in the American Association
than Marty O'Toole. The erratic slab
nan has won sixteen games and lost
1Ine. BEFORE ne joined the Plrates
0'Toole held the American Associations
seasoH Strike-out record.
Dummy Taylor, who at one time was
4 Giant favorite, has been sold by Buff
'alo to Montreal. The Bisons have been
Using Taylor as a relief man.
Dick Cooley. a former National League
star, owns the Salt Lake Union Associa-
ion team. At one time Cooley played
with the Phillies.
A minor league club disposed of a
player a follows:
Canonsburg. in the Allegheny and
Washington League, has released 20
Washington Third Baseman Scoops
Baedler for a stamped envelope. Presi-
dent w. B. McVicker has approved the
Zeal, and Baedler, who isn't a Lefty
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21
Shadow Fifty Miles Long.

From the Scientific American.
The peak of Teneriffe projects a ruge
shadow stretching upward of fifty miles
across the deep, and partly eclipsing ad-
joining islands. Exaggerated shadows of
immense size are commonly seen in many
other places. In the Hartz mountains the
so-called Specter of the Brocken throws
gigantic shadows of mountain climbers
into the sky. repeating every movement
made by them. The same occurs on the
summit of Pambamarca. in Peru.
On the tops of the Alpine peaks, and
on the summit of Ben Lomond, in Scot
land. mists in one case and rarefied air
in the other explain these optical illu-
sions. The same causes produce also col
ored Shadows, varying at each hour OF
the day, and traceable to the dispersion
Of the solar rays.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21
Senator Frye's Retort.

Senator William P. Frye, of Maine, and
Senator Charles Curtis, of Kansas, had
been having a long and somewhat heated
discussion as to the authorship Of some
of the works attributed to Shakespeare.
We'll" said Senator Frye with finality.
when I die and go to heaven 1 will
hunt UP Shakespeare and ask him about
it,"
Suppose you do not happen to find
Shakespeare there" suggested Senator
Curtis.
Then you can ask him." answered the
Maine Senator as he passed quickly out
of hearing
The Washington herald., 1911-08-21
HAMPDENS EASY
FOR NAVY YARD
Baltimore Stars Slaughtered,
Score 18 to |.

The Hampden Athletic Club of Balti-
more, one of the crack Monumental City
teams, journeyed to Washington yester-
day and were beaten by the Navy Yard
Club of the Capital City League, IS to l.
1t was a fairly good game until the
fifth. when the Machinists scored seven
runs on four hits and four bases on balls.
After that, the game was a farce and a
slaughter. The visitors scored their only
run in the eighth, when Steigerwald made
single and went to second on Carr's
error. He came home on Hasson's double
to left.
When the game became a farce, Jack
Carr, the talkative captain of the Ma
chinists, amused the crowd by going into
the box to pitch. Jack had nothing but
a motion and a prayer, but the visitors
could not touch him.
Feature plays were few and far be-
tween, but Carr, Hurley, Litz, Giovan-
netti, Roun' e, sullivan, and Stieger-
wald carried of the batting honors. while
Hurley and + = furnished the field
ing thrills. The score: