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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-22

| Eddie Collins, turning author, becomes
father of an article in the June number
of Pearson's Magazine. In this article,
headed "Outguessing the Pitcher" Collins
deals at length with signals and signal
tipping. He claims that it was rumored
last year that signals were being tipped
off in Detroit as we'll as, in New York
and tells what the Athletics did to over
come it:
RumorS had been circulated by the
underground routes of base ball during
the season of 1909 that signals were be-
ing tipped off in New York and Detroit.
About this time, l noticed Ira Thomas
and Eddie Plank working together in a
game against the substitutes one day in
morning practice. Thomas signals were
so ridiculously plain that l yelled to him
from my position at second base
For heavens sake, Ira. l called.
what are you trying to do? blind man
"'All right, Eddie. he answered.
That's what they're for It's a stall. We
open series in New York Monday, and
they may be tipping signals there
Instead of covering up his signs with
his legs as any good catcher will, when
he crouches behind the batter, Thomas
was displaying his signals so that coach
ers at both first and third bases could see
them. l learned in due time that the
pitchers were giving the real signs, and
that Thomas had devised this scheme to
throw any observer with spy glasses or
other artificial aids off their guards. l
might add that, as a result, in the fol-
lowing series four of the New York bat
hurt"
Thomas Got Tip.
Collins claims that Thomas got his tin
from Harry Howell, formerly of the St
Louis Browns. Philadelphia and st
Louis were playing one day. Collins de-
scribed how the Athletics, through Hart
sci, discovered the plan:
Intending to throw us of with false
| signals, his catcher advertised his signs
| so plainly that we were not deceived
and we began to look for the source Of
the real ones. Hartsel. who seemed t.
| have some clairvoyant power when i
comes to getting signals. came In to thu
I bench, after making a run In the thirt
| inning. which had its incubation in a two
base hit, with the remarkable news tina
| Howell himself was handing out tn
signals. The fact that We had worked
the same plan on our team made 1t cas-.
for US to guess that the pitcher was thu
man behind the ST. Louis secret service
| "A nod toward first for a curve, de
clared Topsy. and one toward third TO
a straight one. Now, go to it
I'VE went to 1t. In another inning VI
had knocked Howell out of the box. Tn
achievement reflected no particular credi
on us. for any old player Of the shrub
berry circuits can hit II he knows wher
the ball is coming. The man who shoul'
have taken to the bench was his catcher
| who had given the scheme away with hi
obviously 'phony signals. And Thu
beating that we handed to Howell left al
indelible impression on his mind tina
something was under cover in Philadel
phia, and he did his best to circulate tn
rumor, which was an invidious libel o
our methods"
Owe Success to Catchers.
Collins says that Harry Krause ant
Russell Ford, considered great pitchers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-22

Honus Wagner is retrograding very
fast. He has fallen off so much in hitting
and fielding and base running and max
that If he continues to slump as rapidly
as he is doing he will be unfit for fast
company fifty years from now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-22
Spiking Is Accidental.

Discussing spiking, Collins says:
"A great deal has been said about ball
players spiking basemen. Many of the
accidents Of this sort are due to the base
mans own clumsiness. Some men try
to block the runner, and, of course, must
suffer the consequences of being greeted
with pair of well honed spikes. Others
are not agile and elusive enough. Men
| like Lajoie are seldom cut. and he is big
| enough to block II he wanted to play
| the game that way. In the world series
| of 1909, between Pittsburg and Detroit,
both Byrne and Moriarity tried deliber-
| ately to block runners. I think that
there should be penalty for blocking a
base runner coming into the bag. The
only punishment now is to go into such
| a player spikes first. If man has been
blocked off the base and put out, think
| that there should be a rule reversing the
| decision If the blocking was deliberate
| When a catcher, all dressed up like Glib
| raltar, in pads and shinguards, tries to
block. runner takes a big chance OF
breaking his leg by sliding into him, and
| if he doesn't, 1t may cost his club run
and the game eventually"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-22

Councilman Of Brown University has
been looked over by big league scouts.
flaming twenty-one Columbia men in nine
innings may hasten action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-22

AI 1SeWd1K-1tocnesttf, NEWARK, y.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
At Louisvflle-F1rst game: Louisville. q: Kan.
eas CITY. 2. Second game-Kansas City, 5;
Louisville, 4.
At Toledo-Minneapolis. Z; Toledo. 1.
At Columbus-Mflwaukee. IL; Columbus TO-
At NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. polls. 10; st. Paul, 1.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE
At Mobtle-Nashville. 81 Mobile, l.
At Observation-Disclosures. 4: Memphis l.
At New orieans-New Orleans, 2; Chattanooga, O.
NEW YORK STATE LEAGUE.
At Troy-Binghamton, 8; Troy, 8.
At Utica-Utica. 4; Syracuse, o.
At Albany-Albany, 4: Elmira, 2
At INSTRUMENTATION, 8; WIlkesbarre, 1.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-22
sOuTHERN LEAGuR
BASE BALL BRIEFS.

Rain prevented the White Sox-Red Sox
game in Chicago yesterday.
The Brooklyns have played four error
less games in succession, a notable per-
Torrance.
Ford didn't pitch q game in St Louis
else the chances Of winning four straight
would have been better
The Athletics are the second team "a
break even with the Detroits, taking a
leaf out Of New Yorks book.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-22
Schedules.

NATIONAL LEAGUE
No games scheduled.
Schedules.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
TO-DAY TOMORROW.
Washing'n at Detroit. Washington at Detroit.
Philadefp'a at Cleveld. Philadelp'a at Cleverd.
Jew York at Chicago. New York at Chicago.
Boston at st. Louis. Boston at st. Louis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-22
MINOR LEAGUE GAMES.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.

EASTERN LEAGUE.
At Observation-Disclosures. II; Montreal. s.
At Observation-Disclosures. 3; Newark, o.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-22
Owe Success to Catchers.

Collins says that Harry Krause and
Russell Ford, considered great pitchers,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-22

AMERICAN LEAGUE.
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of inc coast claimed by Honduras, while to Nicaragua she agreed to surrender her pro tectorate and recognize the sovereignty of Nicaragua.
 Nicaragua in turn, agreed to grant complete local selfgovernment to the Mosquito tribes, then of blood largely diluted with strains of white and Jamaica negro and using Eng fish as their official language. Nicaragua also bound itself to make free port of Greytown at the mouth of the navigable river by which the great central laEe of Nicaragua discharges into the Caribbean sea, and for ten years to pay annually to the Mosquito Indians a subsidy of $5000
 After 19 years less than half of the sub sidy had been paid, while in violation of the treaty Nicaragua had imposed duties at Grey town under the pretext that they were to pay the subsidy, and had introduced gov ernor and a garrison at Bluefelds, the Mo squito kings capital. and otherwise yex- ing the inhabitants so to force them to abandon the English language and their local self-government Finally, after most inso- lent treatment of the British consul at Grey town who had been appointed the Mosquito kings agent to receive the arrears England sent a warship to Greytown. Nicaragua pro tested that as the British protectorate had been withdrawn and Nicaraguas sovereignty recognized over the coast, it was none of England's business whether Nicaragua fulfill ed the treaty stipulations In favor of he h. dians But the captain of the warship was not moved by this and after much barley the entire matter was submitted to the arbitra- tion of the emperor of Austria.
 On two points the Nicaraguan contentious were upheld. first that the subsidy was of
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now known Belize or British Honduras, which then became and still remains Brit ish colony
 However 1t was only IA years before the French revolutionary turmoil again brought war between Spain and England In the course of this, the protectorate was revived the ally of England against Napoleon the three succeeding Mosquito kings Of the first half of the nineteenth cestury were crowned as of old in Jamaica Belize and did hom- age for their kingdom. the last in 1S47.
 In 1921, after long struggle, all Central American broke away from Spain and offered to join the United States as five states an offer which at once refused as the pop ulation was not considered sufficient in num- Der to justify ten seats in our senate nor sufficiently advanced otherwise to be a de srable element The refusal stirred up bad blood against the Englishspeaking peoples torate.
 By the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850, both England and the United States bound them selves not to seek exclusive rights in any part of Central America. Again the protectorate made trouble, and London and Washington agreed on treaty by which the Mosquito coast to be protected by treaty with the Central American states interested but these refused the suggested terms and finally in 1s60 Great Britain concluded separate treat ies with Honduras and Nicaragua, by which to the first she surrendered absolutely all au- thority over the almost uninhabitabe portion
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That Panq e Pity.

Though on my head Misfortune's hand be laid And Evil Chance be jogging at my heels. Though Fate have shown she is a scurvy jade. am not one who ia Desponden"e kneeis
 me And l could face the world with fear less eyes Did I not know the next thing there would be The folk who come to me to sympa- The ones who pity, They who come to tell How bad they feel because the light ming struck, and show you, too. how easily and well You might have lodged the whole mess of Bad Luck
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in the northern part of the KepubHe and founded the Lone Star mine. Today he Is several times over millionaire. Joe La Pere French Canadian, discovered the Bohahza mine from which millions in gold nave been taken The Topaz Mining company Is an other having venture The chief difficulty with the mining is the matter of transporta- ton.
 .While the earnings of the various mines have proven satisfactory, yet 1t is in the ba- mana business that the figures presented by American experts prove amazing; they show Dayment for land, cost of clearing. planting and harvesting at the end of the second year with an additional profit of 50 per cent. on the investment. They indeed startling, but the men who make them point to the United Fruit company. having started business on
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men rom st Louis, Kansas City and Chicago ana men from numerous smaller cities who are interested financially in agriculture and hlhihs work in Nicaragua. Many are already realizing on their Investments
 Along the Rio Grande river there is wide sretch or territory covered with bamboo some of which is planted in bananas. Ship ments Of bananas were taken out of that sec ton Tor the first time few weeks ago by the Pan,Amerlcan company, Kansas City and St Louis concern There are half a dozen small companies beginning operations and within six months fully 100000 or 3000 900 acres of ba- nanas will have been planted along that river which is said to be the best for the culture or this particular fruit of any in the republic The bananas-about 5000 bunches-shipped lately were the finest taken into the port of New Orleans
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the nature of gift, and therefore that inter- est should not be added to the arrears; and, second, that the vessels belonging to the Mosquito coast should hoist the Nicaraguan flag, though against Ncaraguas contention they were allowed to hoist their own along side of 1t; but on every important point the decision was in favor of England
 Under this decision settlers began to come in especially from Canada and Jamaica and business became quite brisk Nicaragua failed in another attempt to induce the coast to vote in favor of full citizenship, and mat ters went on merrily till few months after Zelayas rise to the presidenecy, when in January 1894, Ncaraguan army suddenly appeared at Bluefeds. Kidnapped and sent to the interior the chief justice and all the lead ing men of the coast, and in their absence ordered an election. with soldiers at every polling place, to determine finally the status of the coast.
 In this election there could be only one result, and Nicaragua announced that the coast had accepted full citizenship in Mica. ragua, and, therefore, British interference at end.
 For ten years. in spite of occasional at tempts at revolution, one nearly successful matters went fairly at blucfelds and business grew but in 1904 there began sys- tematic attempts to oppress. this coast
 As a further vexation of foreigners the Moravian missionaries and the Church of England rector at Bluefelds who, since the Catholic churches have been harried out of existence. are the only representatives of religion of any kind in all this region, have had their schools closed because tuition was in English.
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"The beginnings of the troubles that wreck Nicaragua at frequent intervals lie back to dts discovery by Columbus small remnant of Indians has recently been found living on an island near Bluefields, speaking the Ian guage of the Aztecs and having traditions of rnling in splendid cities over the subject tribes of the coast
 These cities. of which great ruins remain at once attracted the Spanlards to the in terior. SO that from Panama to Yucatan not an important Spanish settlement was formed on the Caribbean coast. and thus the coast tribes, freed from Aztec domination, re- mained almost unknown to the Spaniards. having no property worth footing
 Loot was plenty among the buccaneers but fresh food and women they lacked These the Indians supplied. Commercial relations soon grew up which speedily developed into an alliance against the Spanards by means of which the Indians maintained their indepen with great pomp, to Jamaica, where he sur rendered his authority to the duke of Abe marie and then crowned and received sback his insignia a vassal king. under British protectorate. of all the coast from Chiviqui lagoon to Yucatan. along what is known the Mosquito coast.
 Subject to occasional clashes with the Span iards matters went thus for century, each successive Mosquito king going to Ja- maica for investure and to do homage Fin ally, In 17s3, by the peace of Paris. England specifically abandoned it's proteetorate over all of the Mosquito coast. except for the part
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the store. IA!I4g off labor in Nicaragua is much like taking a dollar from one pocket and putting it into another That's all right, so far as 1t goes, but when the laborer- generally an Indian or a Jamacan-thinks he has too much to do he quits. He can live without work. and works merely to please his foreman The foreman who get the good will of the Indian Is the valuable man. The superln- tendent of a coffee plantation has been trying to get 300 men to work for the last two years. At one time he had 130-and he is q man the natives like, too.
 The manager of big banana plantation Is having the same trouble. A month or two Is frequently spent getting half hundred men together Indians stay close to their villages and the hope of the planter is the building of these conglomerations of huts Give tho workers bamboo covered shed in which to live, build them a church of the same tera and for them a preacher, even though their morals seem lax, and the natives will probably spend their lives on the planta- tion-working when they feel so inclined. Now and then they want to wander away and get all the bad whisky they buy but they return in time to again take up the machete. Good treatment appears to be the only secret if there be any secret of getting labor n Nicaragua
The Nevada County picayune., 1911-01-13
RPHINC CQErEE

Knew hettar-1han any other diplomatic official that, lett alone. they would never cease fighting.
 As tLe result of his work il the service, the United States has virtually established protec torate over Nicaragua. At all times aH American waralip is within four hours call by the wireless An American postage stamp l. aa good in Nica ragla as it is in Louisiana. Mail fer tho United States goes through tho American conaulat and is carried in sealed sacks to New Orleans and Mo bile or to port on the Pacific coast in another II is not handled by natives. There Is opening of mail addressed 10 the subjects of the United States these days. was common in the past
 That is one result of Minister Merrys work md today he is in the diplomatic service in Costa Rica watching his labor bear fruit.
 President Estrada is good fellow as Nicara guans go--but he couldn't last twenty minutes as the head of people who love to fight, if the Unit ed states department at Washington wasn't hold ing his hand over the rough places. They are going to send a commission down there in short time to straighten out affairs and duct the first honest election the country ever had. Then J. F. Morgan X Co, will handle the refunding of the s20000,000 bonded debt By that time the United States will be well in charge, probably with Consul Moffat as minis ter and real head of the government
 Just rapidly as possible Nicaragua is being made q good place in which to live. American capitalists and investors are crowd ing into the country with rapidity. Now that the days of the revolution are onded-the ma chete made an implement of agriculture in- stead of war-the future of the little republic looms bright. Mines are being developed for ests cleared, lagoons drained and homes built 1ien from tho north and middle western states are causing the hustle There business
The Nevada County picayune., 1911-01-13

A railway ticket I request
 In language more than civil; The agent views me a pest
 And fairly makes ma shrivel; I ask him when the train will leave. The while my change I'm fumbling; The answer that I then receive
 Is an aggressive grumblng. stand there. feeling like n bunny Yet I'm the one that's spending money. Box-office men are cold and proud.
 They simply look right through me. million times I've dumbly bowed
 And thought this coming to me. I've thanked them for the rearmost seats And left there very meekIy. This Is act each one repeats
 When gazing on me weekly. I tell you it Is nothing funny. This brazen net of spending money. The naughty salesman in the store
 Who deigus to show me collars. Considers 1t Is quite bore
 To have to take my dollars. The grim conductor on the car
 Rings Up my fare with scowling. And through the thump and bump and
 jar
 fairly feel his growing. know that f there's any one he Detests, it's me for spending money. I've grown so accustomed to disdain.
 To having folks ignore me To feeling that l give a pain
 To clerks who stand before me. Oh. speed the day when I may feel
 I'm good as any other Won't something to the clerk reveal That's I'm his man and brother2
 honey Iris different when seeking money,
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shoestrinE, so to speak a few years ago, and being worth few dozen millions today.
 They have tried rubber and made a fail ure, cocoanat plantations bring forth fruit sioWlT. rineapples grow large. do grape fruit and oranges. but they ripen so quickly and the import duty is so heavy that eXporta- ton under present conditions is hardly to be considered Rice does fairly well. while cof- fee on the west coast reaches q high grade of perfection The coffee, diplomatic and other officials assert, is the finest in the world.
 The chief trouble on the east coast is find Ing a hillside level enough to stand on and cultivate the product.
 The labor question in Nicaragua has the servant girl issue in the United States beaten a nautical mile. One man will tell you he has no trouble in getting labor. If he means real work there Is plenty to be done, but from the standpoint of the employer. the task Is no easy one Money means nothing to the average native. One plantation manager told cor respondent he had Go men working for him and that he transacted business on 300 sos- monkey money, they call it-a year. This plantation conducts store, as do the major ity The men are paid in the national cur rency. which just steadily comes back into
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A Mean Elinn.

Yes. suh'" says Colonel Goah of Lexington T notice, suh. by the daily papuhs that yo' rascally yanks ah fghtin amongst yo'selves oyah who shall gobble the watch rights in the uo'th an west
 That's all right, retorts the quick. tempered man from Omaha. But I haven't heard of any one trying to get any water rights in Kentucky"
The Nevada County picayune., 1911-01-13
We'll Acquainted.

What did you think of the jokes introduced in my part tonight?" asks the comedian of the friend who Is buying the drinks.
 Didn't see why you introduced them Everybody has known them for years"
The Nevada County picayune., 1911-01-13
Advertising Scheme.

Where some railway Is double tracked Paint every argument and fact
 About your goods, but use the space Beside which all the flyers race
 For if you thus will place your signs The folk will read between the lines
The Nevada County picayune., 1911-01-13
The Ideal Plan.

Every husband" says the eloquent speaker at the meeting of the league for the advancement of woman. should give his wife an allowance
 The better plan" interrupts square-jawed woman, rising in the middle of the hall, would be for tho wife to give the husband the allow. ance."
The Nevada County picayune., 1911-01-13

Mining throughout the country, while be- ing pushed, is not bringing the money returns of fruit Many men, however, have struck it rich in the mining region. A Ca nadian by the name of McGinnis. located
The Nevada County picayune., 1911-01-13

through the streets of Managua by the soldiers of President Zelaya, but conditions i'll these three years have wonderfully changed. Perhaps no man farther into the future of these Latin-Ameri- can Republics than did Minister Merry. A captain on a Pacific Mail liner, he became stu dent of the native and his country. He probably
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ONDURAS, in the light of recent de- vclopments. is playing the same gamo as did Nicaragua, and it is expected here that the firm hand of the United States will be felt in north Central American republic. Too many American interests are at stake to let the threats of Spanish rulers go unheeded, say Managua officials. One by one as these troubles arise throughout Central America 1t is the intention of Presi dent Taft and his subordinates to force lasting peace.
 It hasn't been long since United Statns AIinistnr, AlnrrH mas chased
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