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Arizona republican., 1912-09-22
Quarter For First League Game

HAD the manager of the Easton
 team of the now defunct Atlantic league refused to give Jack Kocher, now second catcher of the Detroit team. the 20 cents that he paid to wit ness a game at Easton in 1909 the Tigers would probably be without one of the best young backstops in the game That was the only condition on which he would catch for Easton when he was picked out of the stand after the only catcher that team had was crippled by a foul.
 It is the merest bit of luck that gave Kocher his start in baseball. It hap pened this way Kocher lived at White Haven. near Philadelphia and short distance from Easton. A big. husky farmers boy drifted into Easton to visit his cousin. said boy being Kocher, on a day when the Easton team was playing a double header against Sun bury. another Atlantic league team.
 The cousin suggested that they spend the afternoon at the ball game, and Kocher. who was something of catcher in White Haven. agreed to go along. In the seventh inning of the first game Catcher Barret was put out Wlln DuHSeu hhSei, anu 'iO e1AAiiN was about to be called off when the cousin tipped the manager off to the fact that Kocher could catch.
 Kocher didn't want to catch game that he had paid to see and so inform ed the manager, making the proposi- ton that he would catch if he received his quarter back. An agreement reached, he put on Barrets uniform and caught eleven innings of star base ball. The following day Lave Cross. the old Athletic and Washington third baseman, visited Easton with his Mount Carmel team. Kocher threw to all the bases with such speed and ease that Cross told Connie Mack, and Kocher has had job ever since.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22

THE term assist" in baseball really
 explains itself. It means exactly what it says. A fielder gets an assist every time he helps or assists in any way in the retirement of a batter or base runner. The most common form of assist is that which comes when a batter hits a ground ball to an infield- CT, who throws it to first or ally other base. with the result that player on the opposing side is put out In cases of this kind a fielder Is credited with an assist, even if the player at the oth- CT end muffs the ball. provided the bat ter or base runner would have been out if the ball had been caught
 For instance, a batter hits a ground CT to the shortstop. who picks it up cleanly and makes perfect throw to the first baseman in plenty of time to retire the runner, but the first base man drops the ball and the batter is safe. The shortstop cannot be robbed of credit for his part of the play, which was correctly performed, on account of the failure of another fielder to make the play properly. Therefore the short stop gets an assist though the batter was not put out. In many cases a fielder can get a put-out and an assist on the same play.
 When a base runner is caught and run down between the bases and the ball is thrown back and forth several times before he Is finally put out every man who takes part in the play by handling the ball is entitled to an as- sist, even if he also gets the put-out at the conclusion Of the play. But a fielder cannot be given two assists on one play. no matter how many times he may handle the ball in the course of the rundown.
 Players in the field, especially pitch CTS, often get assists without putting their hands on the ball. In the case of a batted ball every man who touches the ball at all in any way is given an assist if the play finally results in a
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22

class first basemen as right now nor time when there was any one first baseman better than, if as good as, sev
 eral of the best of today. Old timers are constantly asserting, as if arguing on the defensive. that the game today is not faster or more scientific than it was in their day. It may have advanc- ed some in team tactics and in alert ness, but individual comparisons, so far as they are practicable. point out no great difference one way or the other. Here and there an old time star stands out prominently after all the years. but if there is any difference of moment 1t is that there are more
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22

happened, but all we had to do was keep af1oat till we were picked up."
 In spite of the fact that many are inclined to look upon Ryan as a boast CT, it certainly Is true that he has done many things to make his name a re- nowned one among hydroplane owners. This year his boats have won more distinction than any others now rac- ing. Baby Reliance III. made the most notable record of the year when she took a speed trial at the rate of fifty three miles an hour at Davenport July 4. This craft was sold to Com modore J. Stuart Blackton of New York only a short time previous to In- dependence day.
 James A. Pugh is too we'll known to sportsmen to need any recommenda- tion. His friends say of him that when he goes into a thing he goes into it heart and soul to win if he can, but fairly. Nevertheless there is no bet
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22

ter loser on earth than Pugh. He has expended more than $20,000 this year in getting hydroplane which he believes to be the fastest af1oat, but if some other craft should prove su- perior he will be the first to congratu- late its owner. Pugh declares he races because he likes it. because it is exhilarating and healthful and because it's exciting. Like Ryan. he admits that he craves excitement, and he agrees with the Algonac man that there is nothing like hydroplaning to furnish real thrill.
 I've ridden in fast automobiles and aeroplanes." he said but sitting in the stern of hydroplane. with the spray half submerging you and the engines chugging along at their best to feel the machine under you leaping forth as though endowed with life that's what makes it the blood tingling thing 1t is, and that's why follow it."
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22
JACK JOHNSON MASTER COOK

WHERE are four things that Jack
 Johnson likes better than any thing else in the world. They are au- tomobile speeding. cooking. eating and playing the bass violin. Of course he has some fancy for fighting. but swap ping punches is secondary with the negro champion when the others are taken into consideration.
 Every one knows what a motor fiend Johnson is. His record for being "pinched' for speeding makes him a worlds champion in that respect as we'll as in the pugilistic line Johnson is some cook too. One of the things that give pleasure to the champion Is to invite a party of his friends to for a spread"
 Come on out" says Johnson in his invitation: I'm going to cook up some thing for you.'
 His long suit "am" those southern biscuits which he can make to suit the kings taste
 Did you ever see Jack Johnson eat? Well, if you didn't you missed some thing, for he can go some there too. The champion may not possess the ap- petite that Joe Rodgers. the wrestler. owns but Jack is good enough to be awarded second place.
 There was a time when Jack found { hard to satisfy that appetite. That was when he first went to Chicago about thirteen years ago. He found 1t the hardest kind of a job to close his big mitts over a piece of money.
 You should have seen Johnson then. When I managed to save up nickel I went to a saloon to dine, because l got a crack at the free lunch" said Jack recently. 'Td buy beer and let it ride on the bar until I made enough visits to the lunch counter to make me feel like I'd eaten something"
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22

give a couple of bases on balls at the wrong time and look like 30 cents when, with control, they might have made good.
 Bases on balls have done more to lose ball games than any other one fac tor in the sport. The pitcher who is too free with them will never be a winner. and the youngster who realizes this fact and spends some extra time practicing his control will always beat the laZier fellow who likes to sit around and talk about his hard luck and what he would have done to the enemy if only he could have got the ball over the plate.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22
Sterrett Some Ball Player

"rTHIS young man Sterrett Is real
 ball player" says Russell Ford of the New York Americans. He can play first base or catch as we'll as some of the veterans in the game. As a backstop he isn't very far behind Ed Sweeney He is a corking good right field hitter, and is a great hustler" Ford as a rule, doesn't say much, 50 that this expression of opinion evident ly means lot. Sterrett, by the way, was President Farrells own find.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22
M'GRAW TWICE AS HEAVY

JOHNNY M'GRAW is twice as heavy
 as he was when he played third base for the champion Baltimores in 1894. In those days the Giants leader was typical kid-short wiry and as scrappy as a boxer. He did not dream then that some day he would be draw ing a princely salary as the manager of a champion team.
 McGraw is both fat and healthy, but he can still play the scrappy game and if 1t were not for a weak knee would be able to replace any of his stars out side of the battery.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22
Dooin Has Grand Lot of Hitters

DID you ever stop to consider what
 a pitcher is up against when he faces the Phillies?" queried prom inent National league pitcher the other day. Look them over. First up is Paskert. & 300 hitter; next comes Lobert, another 300 hitter. Both are fast on the bases, good walters. and the hit and run is made for them.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22

Then comes Magee, another 300 hit ter and a man who Is dangerous on the paths unless you keep him chained to a base.
 Its mighty hard to keep one of those three men from getting on, and when one gets on he's likely to get around. And look who's coming up fourth-Cravath, another 300 bats man, who is likely to slam the ball so
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22

braeing Meyers, Sweeney, Ainsnith. Stanage, Bresnahan, Sullivan. Kling. Thomas and Gibson hardly parallels
 As to pitchers. Radbourne, Whitney. Burlington, Mct )rmick, Keefe. Hecker. McMahon, Seward. Rusie, Meekin, Ramsey. Kilroy. Carruthers and Nor ris would stack up against Johnson,
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22

far out that no fielder can get it. However. if 'Grabby' fails to connect Luderus may get a chance. He was not batting in the spring, but he is fast getting his eye on the ball, and when he hits one murmur good night and throw your glove away.
 After Luderus you get another man who Is batting 300 this season. Otto
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22
Wonders on Weak Teams

WEAK teams nearly always have
 some player who would be a wonder were he on some other team," but. as a matter of fact, this isn't dis covered until he has proved himself to be something of a wonder on his own team.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22
Won TWenty-tour In a Row

THE winning streak of the Washing
 tons recalls that Jersey City es- tablished a record in the Eastern league by winning the first twenty four games of the 1903 pennant race before it sus- tained defeat.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22

Mathewson, Marquard. Ford, Wood. Gregg, Young. Walsh, Brown. Joss. Null lin, Coombs, Bender and Plank of diff ferent period. There isn't the slightest doubt that the ancients could make all sorts of trouble for present day bat ters, nor. on the other hand. that the moderns would be quite as effective against the hitters of the past as the old time pitchers named were.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22
Old and Modern Baseball Players Compared

WHETHER the star ball player of
 the past was a better player than the star of the present is in a measure a matter of position. There never was
Arizona republican., 1912-09-22

Knabe. Doolan is not a wonder with the bat but he hits occasionally in a rally. Dooin and Killifer, the catchers, are both dangerous men. But elimi- nate all the others and just consider the first four players-Paskert. Lobert, Magee and Cravath-all batting over 300. Add Luderus, a home run hitter. What team has so formidable a bat ting order?'
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16
farm for Sale.

/ offer for sale privately my
farm of 144 acres, all good tobacco
land, located on Donaldson creek,
in Clark county. 4 miles from
North Middletown and 10 miles
from Mt. Sterling. Fine drinking
and everlasting stock water; well
fenced; near church and school.
Has dwelling of 9 rooms, 2 halls,
verandas, and all outbuildings, 9
large tobacco barns, stock barn, etc.
H. G. GILLAsPIE,
r. F. ID. No. /, Winchester, KY.
East Tennessee phone No. %,
Wades Mill Exchange. lift
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16
DECIDE YOURSELF.
The Opportunity Is Here Backed
by Mt. Sterling Testimony.

Don't take our word fer 1t,
Don't depend on a atranger's statement.
Read Mt. Sterling endorsement.
Read the statements of Mt. Sterling
citizens.
And decide for yourself.
Here Is one case of it:
Charles Neal, IL Hamilton Ave.
Mt. Sterling, KY, says: "All /
have previously said in praise of
Doan's Kidney Pills still holds
good. They have brought me so
much good that l can recommend
them strongly. Another member
of my family has a severe pain
across the back. Different medi-
cines were tried, but nothing did
any good until / read of Doan's
Kidney Pills and got a box at
Duerson's Drug Store. They proved
to be an excellent remedy and gave
me entire relief"
For sale by all dealers. Price
so cents. Foster-Milburn Co. f,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents for
the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other 1885,
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16
BurIey Society Reflects
All Its Old Officers

At the first meeting of the new
directors of the Burley Tobacco
Society, which was held in Lex
ington Tuesday. all of the old
officers of the Burley Tobacco So
ciety, which are also the officers of
the Burley Tobacco Company,
were reelected without opposition
and all of the members of the Elk
ecutive Committee of the society,
which compose the Board of Di-
rectors of the company, were also
reelected. President LeBus, in
accepting his reelection to the
office, which carries an annual
salary of SIS, 900, said that he had
sacrificed his health in the cause
of the society, but if it wanted
him to continue at its head he
would do so. A resolution was
adopted that the members of the
Executive Committee should re
ceive salaries of $4,000 each for
their services during the last year
The question of whether the Bur-
ley Tobacco Company should de-
clare a dividend was discussed at
length, and it was decided not to
do so in view of the fact that the
company had been in existence
only one year.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16
n. Clay Mckee & Sons

Buy, Sell and Rent Real Estate,
Loan Money, to or For You.
Write the Best Insurance Execute
Bonds for you. put YOU Next tt
best investments, Sell The Bes,
Autos-THE WHITE Moron CAR.
Don't fai to see them. Aft.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16
Excellent Farm and City
Property for Sale.

l offer for sale privately the
following: My modern new resi-,
dence on West High street, also
lot adjoining, which is Is feet
front and 800 feet deep. My
farm near Grassy Lick, consisting
of 1873 acres of land in high state
of cultivation, can also be bought
we'll worth the money.
13tf Mrs. Mary A. Mcclure.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16

The use of concrete in the con.
struction of sidewalks is increas.
ing. Concrete, in fact, seems
likely to supplant all other mate.
rails for that purpose.
Concrete, when properly laid,
makes a good and durable side
walk. 1t has many advantages
over other forms of sidewalk con-
struction, in addition to its more
attractive appearance. Louisville
has many concrete walks, but all
of them are not good. Some of
them go to pieces in an Incredibly
short time after they are built.
Others wear we'll and look well
for varying periods of years.
There are numerous contractors
engaged in this class of. work and
not all of them are conscientious
about giving the property owner a
good job.
1t is important in the construc-
ton of concrete sidewalk that
there should be a good foundation.
That is the essential requirement,
though there are other things to
be considered. 1t is we'll to know
that the contractor uses good ma
terial and that he uses this mate
rial in the proper proportions in
mixing his cement. When he
comes to the surfacing of the
walk it is worth while to see that
he supplies the cement in suffi-
Gent thickness and that in other
respects the work is such as may
be reasonably expected not to go
to pieces after a few weeks or a
few months of use.
There are standard speci6ca-
tions for the building of concrete
sidewalks, but it is manifest that
all builders do dot follow them.
In the absence of close inspection
the contractor who is not over
scrupulous may economic both in
labor and material-an economy
that is costly to the property
owner who is paying for the walk
and who naturally entertains some
hope of getting the worth of his
money.
One who keeps his eyes open in
going about the city may readily
perceive the great amount of diff
erence in sidewalk construction.
Some of. the work is substantial
and lasting while much of it,
which may have appeared sub
stantial in the beginning, has
quickly disintegrated. = Courier
Journal.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16
-Four Of Alleged Callahan
SIayerS In Breathltt .Iajl.

The Breathitt county jail hold.
four of the alleged participants in
the assassination of former Sheriff
Edward Callahan. They are D.
A. Deaton, Govan Smith, Will
Deaton and Jim Deaton, all resi-
dents of jackson.
The indictment by the grand
jury charges nine other men with
participating in the crime. Among
them are Elisha Smith and John
Clair, both reputed to have been
connected with fued troubles.
Edward Callahan was shot from
ambush while standing in the front
of his store building, on the 4th of
last May. At the grand jury in
WESTON in May. there was not suf-
ficent evidence to make an indict-
ment.
GThat there was placed before the
grandejury theStestimony resulting
in indictment is due to the unceas-
ing efforts of Callahan's daughter,
Mrs. Clifton Gross. She has work.
ed all summer searching for evil
dence and just before the beginning
of the present term of court she
rode horseback for six successive
nights through the wilds of Middle
Fork country. securing affidavits of
unwilling witnesses to the conspir-
acy resulting in her fathers death.
The first witness to break the
bonds, which bound the alleged
conspirators to silence, was As
berry Mcintosh, who, while intox-
icated, confessed, it is said, to hav-
ing agreed with the others that he
would induce Callahan to come
out in front of his store under the
pretense of wanting to buy some
fencing wire. For this, Mcintosh
said, he was to have received 800,
but he declared he had only been
paids$1O.
Another witness, a Miss Std
ham, testified to having heard the
plot to kill Callahan while living at
the home of d. f. Deaton.
Wilson Callahan, son of Edward
Callahan, left for Mexico a soon as
the indictment was returned, de-
he was afraid to remain
there.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16

You'll have to take the world as
you find it, since you were not on
hand to tell Providence how to
fashion it.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16
for Sale.

Having decided to retire from
the milk business offer my herd
consisting of Is good dairy cows,
bottles, buckets and good will of
the business for sale. Possession
any time after October lst, 1912.
For information apply to
Mrs. L. j. Carr,
p. 0. Box rs, Phone 249. lOtf
If you have any job printing you
want done in a hurry, let the
ADVOCATE do it.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16

To feel strong, have good appC-
tite and digestion, sleep soundly
and enjoy life, use Burdock Blood
Bltters, the great system tonic
and builder. I'm
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16
PRESIDENT TAfT ENDOR-
StS TUBERCULOSIS DAY.
Says Churches Should Work TO
Eradicate Disease.
New York, October 10th:

View York, October 10th:
Cordial approval and endose-
ment of tuberculosis Day, which
will be observed by the churches
of the country on October 9th, is
expressed by President Taft in a
letter to Homer Folks, of New
York, president of the National
Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis, made
public today.
President Taft, writing from
Beverly, says:
my dear Mr.. Folks:
Il have your letter of Septem-
Der 18th, and am very glad of an
opportunity to testify to my be-
lief in the Importance of your
/. campaign of education as to the
means of preventing tuberculosis.
You do we'll to enlist the active
support of the churches and of ali
other agencies for the dissemina-
ton of information calculated to
induce everyone to do his or her
part toward the complete eradica.
ton of the dread disease. / hope
and believe that Tuberculosis
Day in the churches will be pro
ductive of great good.
,-r, ~ Sincerely yours,
WILLIAM H. TAFT"
From present indications, Tu-
berculosis Day will be observed
by almost every religious denomi
nation in the United States and
not less than $4,000 sermons on
tuberculosis will be preached on
October 9th, or in the weeks pre-
ceding or following that date.
Don't put up your pickles ard
catsups without Heinz Picking
Vinegar-sure keeper-at
Greenwade's.
Al a "gentlemen's smoker" the
other night very inquisitive per-
son about town, referring to a.
man with a very red rose, said:
PLEASE don't take offense, but ]
am curious to know why your nose
is alware ~e6?" And his Is he
reply the inquisitive person got:
my nose is merely blushing with
ppide over the fact that it has
never butted into any ones bust
ness"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16
Transfer Wagon.

| am prepared to do all kinds of
hauling. For prompt delivery to
and from trains, phone 321.
If Geo. w. Anderson.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16

Houn Dawg will be hear in a
few days. lift
j. II. Drummer, The Shoe Man.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-16

When you see old Trouble COM
ing don't climb tree. for he's
sure to set fire to it and smoke
you out.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-05-05

Strictly hardwood and absolutely
guaranteed in every respect Lined
with galvanized iron and thoroughly
insulated. A splendid ice keeper,
very neat and well finished "
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-05-05

Connected complete at this price.
Has removable cleanable interior and
inside safety lighter. We guarantee
this range to liz a perfect baker and
to be an extraordinary Gas saver.
The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-05

sal b The nally Alasksr)
 NeAu, March 5-The stoencr csscas arrived sa port earE iA.s
 g and left at ?. m. this ai-
 Sa s4 Skagway for which port sbe hss sixty nye tons o5 freEit
 Amongst tho p&sssaseD cn hoaru the Curacao are many prominent re s'- denss of SSagwAy, who are retnrniRs 10 the north sfter yarlea trips la~sashcus the states.
 Amongst the passeagers are Her man Kiurse. prominent Sewe,er ct swtAsastern Alaska. and wife. who ere returning from trip through the coast states to Southern Ca,ifo,ue raey are accOupanted by MT and Ms. ]. S. Cleveland. father aud moth er cf Mrs. Kirmse
 H H. Draper. the pioneer Paotc- graaAe- Ut Skagway alS wife. are re, turning 60 SeagpNy sEeT an absence Of several months spent iH ther ola home ia Idaho
 ABother couple sho are found re- turning to Skagvay are ,, r Ander- son and bride. who was fo~mert Ms. CahcaT The couple were mar -s.,s s,, cha, rs4vs ,,r T,aqnrnr on wash Inzton's Birthday
 Another rasserser Vho is reiufn- Ing uorth sfSer an absence Of t"e gesrs 3s Chsrhes Hockett well known Ia Southeastern Alaska He wll stop a, Haines where he expects to ge -a hnssnes