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Easily In the Lead.

Louise Jennings, Elsie Hathaway
and Florence Brintnall are three
schoolmates whose indulgent parents
provided a picnic for each Of them,
giving carte blanche as to the mum.
of their guests and the manner of
entertainment on the beach. Three
parties in ten days means a lot to
young ladies Of the tender age OF
eight. But they recovered quickly
enough from the fatigue. Followed
comparison:
~ think" said Lou, "ours was a
very nice party. And we had ice
cream twice, If you remember"
"oh, don't know" quoth Elsie
she insists upon being called by her
full name and will answer to no other
Il notice all my guests rode round
Oh the carrousel as often as they
wanted"
"Pm sure my party was the best
Of ALL" spoke up Flo. Father says
every id kid in town was there.
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"You can't get one NY ~e'
manner appears to challenge. He
is simply bulging with confidence
He is the one hitter and the only
successful one I ever saw who appa-
rently doesn't try to guess what tne
pitcher is going to throw and really
doesn't care. Pitchers have never
beep able to discover any groove
that he is concealing. He simply
wades in and hits at any KIND Oh
q ball He is one batter in 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 felders' IN
baseball parlance Ito cross" his op-
ponents, a legitimate procedure, II
he thinks that the third baseman
expects a bunt, he will hit 1t out.
He never chases q bad ball, and ne
makes a pitcher work to the last
notch. He worries many OF the
men in the box by his restlessness,
hooouea be ;s constantly guess
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DoetorsSaid He Would Die
A Friends Advice Saves Life

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hit are not likely TO occur often IN
a game with Walsh pitching. He
is a spit ball pitcher entirely. He
uses his splitter" and a fast ball
with no curves. On this occasion,
Payne signalled for either a spit
ball or a fast one, I 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 anA no balls.
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"whisker" trimmer Of his, which
is high, fast one in the vicinity
of the neck, is a villainous ball.
A pitcher of Young's type would
Just 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 l know. 1t is not conceit.
Just faith in his eye. He shuffies
~. e.fTly W
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Settled Them.

i've a sight O. sons-thirteen alto
gether," remarked prosperous old
farmer, land all Of ems done me
credit save the three eldest, who
sowed wild oats at pretty rapid rate,
and then came home and saddled my
shoulders with the harvest.
We'll, l own l was glad to see 'em
back, and I feasted 'en, and petted
'em, and set 'em on their legs again,
only to see 'em skedaddle off afresh
when things had slowed down, with
all the cash they could lay hands on.
THAT thereabouts sickened me, so
I called the rest OF 'em together and
said:
There's ten of you left, and if any
of you 'ud like to follow t'other three
j won't try to stop you. But, under
stand this, though there may be a lew
more prodigal sons, there'll be no
more fatted calves. I've killed the last
of 'em!'
u" continued the old man, tri-
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reveal her identity as the heroine of
the episode, but she decided she could
get more fun in another way. She
made careful inquiry of her hostess as
to the gentleman's full name and ad-
dress. and next morning called him
up. When he answered, she said:
81 just wanted you to know that
took your advice, gargled my throat
with cooking soda, and was able 10
90 to the dinner"
"Who-who is this speaking?" came
an astonished voice from the other
end Of the wire.
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A Glad Relief.

Thank heaven, those bills are go,
rid Of" said Bilkins, felvently. as he
tore up bundle of statements of &C
count dated October l.
Call paid, eh?" said Mrs. Bilkins.
ooh, no." said Bilkins. "The dupli'
Gates dated November 1 have come In
and don't have to keep these any
longer."--Narper's Weekly.
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Let Him Do The Guessing

"Gargle your throat with cooking
soda, and l think you will be able to
go 70 your dinner"
who is this speaking?" asked Mrs.
Brown, startled.
ooh, that you will never know" an
swered the voice.
Mrs. Brown was greatly amused and
decided to try the remedy Her
throat improved and she went to the
party. During dinner. she chanced
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by Payne. He can't intend to waste
a ball, 1 reasoned, because the man
is on third, and he doesn't think
he Is going to try to steal. Then
it struck me.
Can it be a curye?" 1 asked my.
self surprised. "But he never
throws one" I 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. l took a chance. 1t was a
curve, and l called the turn. 1t
was the first and last one Walsh
ever threw Inc, and probably he
would have slipped it over, Ssd it
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 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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time that catcher throws the ball back to the
pitcher until he delivers it again, batter
should never take his eyes off the pitcher.
All of the grooves" of batters are carefully
catalogued. Every hitter in baseball, with the
possible exception of Lajoie and Wagner, is sup
posed 10 have what is known to the profession
as a groove" certain real or imagined weak
ness Some pitchers work to fool batter, and
others aim at his groove" Young and Powell
are of the second type, and 1t is this style OF
pitcher that always try to make pitch to the
limit as they have to depend absolutely on
their control
The catcher is obviously included in the
guessing match which always results when
batter faces pitcher. Irecall funny instance
of HAL" Chase making Ira Thomas look like
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to overhear the gentleman opposite
say to his neighbor:
"I had an amusing experience the
other morning. l was telephoning'
and the wires became crossed. l sud-
denly heard lady's voice say: have
such a bad throat, l shan't be able to
go to that dinner party Just for fun
/ broke in and said: 'Gargle your
throat with cooking soda, and you'll
be all right The lady's voice in re-
ply sounded rather surprised. | won
der If she took my advice"
Mrs. Brown was greatly tempted to
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he repeated tue ,.u 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 it 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
bunted and hals hit the ball, which
allowed Daniels to score. Hal
had beaten Thomas t his own
game. He had given a sign that
Thomas knew, and which the lat
ter did not for moment think
had been passed out seriously.
Therefore Ira did not signal for a
pitchout as he would have done
~ he had guessed the play was
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Mrs. Brown, 1t Must Be Conceded,
Had by Far the Better End
of the Joke.

Mrs. Brown, telephoning to friend
one morning, happened to say:
'I have such bad sore throat, I'm
afraid cannot go to that dinner-party
tomorrow night"
Just then something went wrong
with the connection, and she heard a
strange voice break in:
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Maternal Instinct.

Mrs. Rattle-I am sure that is my
baby with the pink ribbon over
there.
Mr.. Cynic-How can you tell 1t so
readily?
Mrs. Rattle-I can recognize 1t by
my pet poodle the nurse has with
her.
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THIS WILL INTEREST MOTHERS.
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Certain relief ior Feyerishness, Headache, Bad
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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 Mate with his back to me, after getting it
from Easterly, thus giving no hint that he was
going to throw splitter"
Young invented this trick and applies It oc-
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times, and said that / ought TO nave an
operation. I would not listen to that,
and when a friend of my husband told
him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and what it had done
for his wife, I was willing to take it.
Now I look the picture of health and
feel like it, too. can do my own house
work, hoe my garden, and milk COW.
I can entertain company and enjoy
them. I can visit when 7 choose, and
walk as far as any ordinary woman,
any day in the month. l wish / could
talk toevery sufferingwomanandgirl.
Mrs. DEMA BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
The most successful remedy in this
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female complaints is Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
1t is more widely and successfully
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Irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
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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-
fdence in the numbering Mitchell
to handle his "spitters," to think
fast; in short, to outguess the bat
ters.
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 a bad man
with batter, "chewed" incessant-
ly during the worlds series in
which we won the championship
from the Cubs. He seemed to
want to distract attention from
the pitcher. A favorite line Of
his was:
Now, let's try him on a fast
nne"
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spect and remark dropped by him will give
batter the key to the situation which will
enable him to outguess the pitcher A thing
Of this sort happened to me in Chicago one
day last season. with Walsh pitching and
Payne catching.
Payne dropped remark, which set my mind
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Sensitive.

Sensitive.
-'You don't like educated Indians!"
-.Oh, yes l like then, we'll enough, but
/ always feel a sense of shame when
meet one He knows that my an.
.cestors cheated his ancestors out of
their land, and he knows that know
he knows it."
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Working in combination to outguess the bat.
ters, catcher will often help pitcher out
by talking necessarily, hoping In this way to
distract hitter's attention from his business.
Street of the Washington club Is one OF the
worst takers in the business, and Is called IN
como strata of baseball "Gabby." From the
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For COLDS and GRIP

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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 a different brand Of base
ball to other men. This Is particu-
larly true of Krause, the Philadelphia
left handler, who pitched such sensa-
tiotnal 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
harmoniously 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 raneed ten straight vic
tories in a row before he fell, in
.r"-innine game with the st. Louis
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Mndern Ethics

Do not kick a man when he is down.
Turn him over and feel in the other
pocket.-Galveston News.
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a sort of instinct which some players nave anu
others never attain. man seems 10 uo II w
tnt,,,.jon and often cannot tell just what con-
orota hvnothesis leads him to reach certain
oonc,usion But believe me, 1t is great art for
= hall nlayer to have, a great art, and one to
be cultivated.
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Clothes may not make the man, but
a man generally owes something to
his tailor
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ooh. that you will never know" an
swered Mrs. Brown, laughing, and
rang off.-Lippincott's.
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ing right. He has almost clalrVoyant aotti''
to outguess pitcher.
In some games / have been able to guess
r;ebt almost every time that the pitcher has
thrown the ball to me and yet have not beep
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working and which led ne to forecast what
was coming. This cue and the resultant con-
clusion 1 drew, based on the hasty hypothesis
of Paynes remark, resulted in timely base
hit. The conditions and circumstances of the
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coming. Thus Chase double-crossed Ira.
ball player is trying to outguess the pitcner
from the time he leaves the bench until ne
sits down again. He doesn't terminate his
engagement at the plate AS soon as bats
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It Is sort Of an unwritten law
of baseball to let the first one go by to get a
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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into an argument, and have
his pitcher shoot over a fast
one. He tried this on me in
the first worlds series.
80 they say that you are
the best base .uuner in the
American learue." was his
opening lir>. We'll, you are
TOT ur against American
leagrc catchers now. young
fcrJw. Let's see you steal a
base If you get down"
i paid no attention to him,
although he evidently hoped
that ! would turn around and
reply, so that / would be
caught off my guard. And
not in conceit, but, as a his
torian. relate the sequel. I
did get down to first base,
and by pretending was go
ing to steal, made him signal
to Overall to waste two balls.
Then, when he had to put a
strike over, I went down.
Sometimes a catcher will
everyday his part in this re-
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verse English on it. 1t was case OF MIN 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
fast ball, never using splitter" Young had
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lWO Sll lhSo anu SAS beAA 80 ~S -
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 1t would be
neither a curve nor a fast one.
oldring was on first base at the
time, and l guessed that "Cy"
must want to waste one, think
ing he was going to try to steal.
When the ball came to me about
chin high. l at once concluded
that my diagnosis was the cor
rect one, and l let 1t go. But,
when about two feet in front Of
me, it broke across my letters. a
beautiful strike, and I had not
even taken my bat off my shoul-
der. ICY" had dished up a spit
ter from somewhere in his as
sortment, and l didn't even know.
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SIX nlcKelS IN game ldSl Suu
mer. Thomas formerly played
on the Yankees, and, at the time,
Chase's sign for the squeeze
play was 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
- ~--- ut the first
+o fha cida
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ExtraYaqant.

Extravagant.
Ada-Cholly Saphedde was in a
brown study the other day, and l Of
-fered him penny for his thoughts.
Edith-You spendthrift. You never
did know the value Of money!
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itely the sort of a ball to be de-
livered. These little physical
eccentricities are true indices
and often cost men, who would
otherwise be successful pitch
ers, many games. 1t may be
the twist of the wrist In throw
ing a 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 it, and 1t usually does
not take his opponents long to
discover and associate 1t with a
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There Is a great dif-
ference in pitchers. Some
are easy to outguess,
and others are as bad as
a jig-saw puzzle. and l
never worked out one
of those in my life. 1
know some men who
have mannerisms in the
hnx which betray defln-
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1OI 1Our VI 1--we uays
at a time every
month, and so weak
/ could hardly walk.
1 cramped and had
backache and head
ache, and W as so
nervous and weak
that 1 dreaded to
see anyone or have
anyone move in the
room. The doctors
gave me medicine to
ease ma at those
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Shakes his head. SUCCESSFUL mVeH DeHIHu tHe
bat in the big leagues have made a careful
study of batters, their grooves and man.
nerisms, and it is on this knowledge that
pitcher depends. Therefore. in the majority
of cases, 1t is the batter outguessing the
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nan becomes oaSe runner, LIS
,bject Is advancement.
Every ball player knows ex'
Ictly how much Of a lead he can
axe off first base on certain
,itcher and not get caught There
ire recognized standards in the
zig leagues. For instance, l know
hat 1 can go fifteen feet away
rom the bag and get safely back
With DOC" White of Chicago
pitching, but if I go a step over
en- feet on Walsh of the same
.lub 1 will probably get nipped: |:
can't exactly explain what
mean, but when l once get ac'
,ustomed to a pitchers delivery
know how far to venture:
IN base running, believe
that the secret OF
success is the start,
absolutely. Speed Is
a great asset. but
the start is every
sAsS thing.
outguessing tn g
pitcher and catcher is
ct which some players have and
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SEVEN
YEARS OF
MISERY
All Relieved by Lydia E. Pink
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Sikeston, Mo. -"For seven years !
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/" asked Ira,
out anything
g Chase into
is work.
I'd Chase. and
,;~. rary DO