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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-11
BUSH DIDN'T KNOW HE COULD
PITCH UNTIL TWO YEARS AGO

Brainerd, Mimi, Oct. II. - Leslie
Bush, the phenomenal pitcher Of the
Athletics who humbled the Giants, is
about 10 years old and like Bender, the
great Chippewa Indian pitcher, vas
born in Brainerd. Bush is the son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Bush and went
to school in Brainerd. He did his first
ball playing when his father was on
the road, Bush, ST.. being a passenger
conductor on the Minnesota & Inter-
national railway.
In the family, all boys, are Charles,
now %; Eddie. aged %; Leslie. 10;
Richard, IS. and the baby, Leonard,
aged Fl months. Bush played in the
Braincrd nine and at first was used
in the field and on third base. No one
knew he had much talent for pitching
until one day when Brainerd was
playing at st. Cloud in 1911, an i'm
ported pitcher went poorly for Brain
erd and the manager bounced the
fake pitcher and as a last resource
put Bush on the mound. The boy
a]stounded the st. Cloud batters, for
lie he'd them runieSs AMI hlLless the
balance of the game. When Brainerd
nlayed Little Fails, Bush won out.
His brother, Charles, played second
base and when he continued to muff
balls, Leslie shut off any more throws
in that direction, shrugged his Shout
ders, took no more chances on tielders
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home run Of the series, thus joining
Baker and Schang in the roll OF base
ball immortals.
Spurred by Merkle's example, Her
zog who had not made a hit in the
series to date, opened the eighth with
a single, only to be forced by Doyle,
who was similarly eliminated by
a double down the third base line,
scoring Fletcher, and Shafer shot a
triple past McInnis' post, tallying
Eurns. Murray smashed a ,~scorching
drive at Collins, but tho Columbia
alumus managed to hold the ball I'm"
Til he could steady himself and throw
the runner out at first for the third
out. Although McGraw sent two pinch
hitters to bat in the ninth, the Giants
could not get ver the run that would
have tied the score for Bender was
now fully aware of the danger that
beset him and his team mates and
pitched a ball that fairly whistled as
it flashed Inc broke across the plate.
It was the narrawest kind Of an
escape, and but for the equally heavy
hitting of the Athletics in the early
part Of the game and some brilliant
displays of defensive tactics the
Giants would now be on even terms
with the Philadelphia ~standard-bear-
ers instead of trailing two games in
the rear of the American leaguers.
The rally was effective, however, in
that it encouraged the men of Nc
Graw to believe that they might yet
overtake the Athletics. The probabili-
ties are much against such a feat, but
the Giants are prepared for a last
stand at the Polo grounds today, n
claim that If they can onc get going
they will win the series.
All the circumstances point in the
opposite direction, however, for the
Mack men, with a record Of three vic
tories out of four games, are now
we'll versed in the ability and re-
sources of the Giants: When they
drove Demaree from the slab at the
end of the fourth inning after four
runs had been scored from his deliv-
cry, it marked the passage of every
New York pitcher, except the veteran
Christy Mathewson. In four games,
Marquard, Crandall, Tesreau n De-
maree have all fallen before the ter
rift hitting of the heavy batting Ath-
letics. Only MatheWson in his won
derful exhibition of Wednesday when
he shut them out, has been able to
hold the American league pennant
winners in check. d
AS if to show the versatility of the
team it was a new quartette Of bat
ters who bombarded Demaree from
the mound and also gave Marquard
in his comeback role a taste of their
ability. Whereas, in the first three
games, Murphy, Oldring, Collins and
Baker did the heavy batting, the hits
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IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

that counted yesterday were made by
Mclnnis, Strunk, Barry and Schang.
RMS quartette also scored the six
runs that We're credited to the Mack
men. OF tht upper half only Oldring
was able to get his bat on the ball
safely. 49,.
Barry made three hits in four times
at bat, two Of them being doubles.
Schang did even greater execution,
getting two hits and two bases on
balls in four times up. His two hits
scored four runs, and he crossed the
plate himself with another. Oldring,
who has made a safe hit the first time
up in each game of the series, earned
int honor Of the longest hit made by
the Athletics yesterday, when hetripl-
ed In the opening inning On the first
ball Demaree served.
1t was not alone by batting that the
Athletics won, however, for both their
fielding and Bender's clever pitching
were factors hat helped to brine vic
tory. The Indian twirler was at the
top Of his form, except in the seventh
n eighth innings, being steady and
having excellent control of his breaks
and curves. He gave but one base on
balls and hit one batter. The Giants
garnered only two hits off his deliv-
cry until the seventh, and their sum
total was eight, while the red man
famed five as a sort of retaliation.
Bende was in trouble in the fifth
inning when he walked Murray and
Mclean singled, McGraw sent Cooper
In to u for Mclean and Mccormick
to bat in place of Demaree, who al
ready was marked for the bench. Nc
Cormick promptly lifted a humming
liner over Barry's head that was ia
bled a hit.
Oldring came in at top speed and
with a long low div coope the ball
off the grass tops for as spectacular a.
catch as had been witnessed in many
a month. With two out, McGraw or
dered Cooper to try for second, but
schang shot the bail to Collins like a
rifle bullet and Cooper, fast runner
that he is, was out by five feet. 1t
was another demonstration of the
heights to which the Athletics can rise
when occasion demands.
For the Giants, Burns made two
hits. one a double, while Larry Nc
Lean singled twice in two times at
bat. The New York club used sixteen
players against the Athletics nine and
had four left on the bases to the
Mack mems seven. Demaree was not
much of a problem to the American
league champions, who secured seven
hits in four innings; but Marquard,
after his weak opening in the fifth,
frightened up and pitched high class,
ball, the Athletics going out in rapid
fire order.
The game was played under the
most favorable weather conditions Of
the series, the sun frequently shining
through riffs in the clouds and upon a.
field comparatively dry and fast.
At least 5000 spectators watched the
play from the house tops overlooking
the park. The sun warmed the atmos-
phere to a point where the fans felt
safe in removing coats and vests, and
as a consequence the dead background
was relieved by touches of white
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team. The baby has been photograph
ed tossing a ball to ar older brother.
In a large scrap book Mrs. Bush care
fully preserves all references to Leslie
and the volume is growing very bulky.
When news Of the great victory of
Thursday was received, the neighbors
crowded in to offer congratulations
and she dispatched a message to Les
lie praising him for his good work.
His father was out on the road and
messages were relayed to him to keep
him informed about the big game.
Il knew Leslie would win," said
Mrs. Bush very d~ecisively. Hes a
good boy and when Connie Mack
wanted that game won, why Leslie did
Just what he was told. because he'd
do anything to please Mr.. Mack" And
that explains the secret of the Athlet-
les many successes, the wonderful
power which the silent Mack has over
his team and the impression he makes
on the raWest recruit.
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and won the game by his pitching
alone. "
B%lankenship Heard of Him.


When the 1912 season was about to
start, the Brainerd team manager con-
sidered the plan of paying Bush $500
a month to play for Brainerd. In the
meantime railroad men had talked up
the young pitcher out west and some
one got Cliff Blankenship to take him
for a tryout.
Bush came to me-" said Blanken-
2hip later, "as green a pitcher as you
ever saw. Why, he didn't know how
to stand in the box" But Cliff knew
good material in the rough and he
said then that Bush was a conner and
rad as much speed and stuff as did
Walter Johnson when he Was picked
up In Idaho. With Blankenship catch
ing, young Bush was soon coached
and the natural ability In the boy as
serted itself. The seaso closed with
Bush doing his share toward winning
the pennant. In the Union association.
Great Falls, Ogden, Butte and Helena,
Bush was in 81 games and Is credited
with SO putouts, 102 assists. IL errors
and a percentage Of 924.
Reach's league guide for 1918 shows
q curious instance in Bush's history.
he being one of a group of the Mis-
souIa team photographed and one Ut
the Philadelphia Athletics 1912 team.
The boy had wonderful speed and 1t
was Missoula that christened him zoe
Bullet" Bush and designated him a
speed merchant Of the first class. Then
Connie Mack's scout found him and
B~lankenship said he was certain the
boy would make good In higher COM
,pany.
A Native of Rrainerd.
The Bush family has lived in Brain
erd the last twenty years. The
father has been a brakeman, later
freight conductor and then passenger
conductor In the employ OF the Min
.nesota & International railway. He
lis Of strong athletic build. but has
never played baseball. frequently
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SMOKED THEM OVER
AFTER BAD SCARE TN z INNINGS

Philadelphia, Oct. 11.-But one game
stood between the Philadelphia Ath-
letfcs and the worlds championship in
baseball this morning, for the Mack
men defeated the New York Giants
at Shibe park by 6 to 5 in the fourth
game Of the titular series. Before
the contest was clinched, however,
10000 quacker city fans suffered a
period of anxious suspense that will
keep the Giants eleventh hour bat
ting rally green in their memory for
some seasons to come. The game eff
fort Of the National league players to
overtake their rivals in the closing
innings of the game changed the
complexion of the battle, lifting what
appeared to be a onesided match, into
a contest that hung in the balance
until the last putout.
The desperate, but as it proved
futile rally, came like a bolt from a
clear sky. Chief Bender, the Chip
Npewa Indian master of mysterious
curve and break, had held the Giants
runless for SIX innings while his team
mates, by pile-driving hits, had scor-
ed as many runs at the expense Of
Dernaree and Marquard. Already the
fans hat filled every seat in the
stands and b1eachers were exalting In
the downfall of the New York club.
Bender, confident in the big lead of
his team, was pitching consistent ball,
and there was not a single danger
signal in sight. Suddenly the Giants
became transformed from hitless
weaklings to real giants who hammer
ed the speed and slants of the Indian
twirler to ALI parts of the park.
1t was in the "lucky seventh" that
the storm of hits burst upon the
astonished Athletics, n before the
aborigine and his fellow players could
recover thret Giants had crossed the
plate. The fusillade continued into
the next session, when two more
scored and the team which was but
a few moments before apparently out
classed was battering down the last
defense of the Mack men. Fred
Merkle, whose injured ankle still
caused his to limp perceptibly, was
the player who was directly RESPONSE
BILE for the breaking through of the
coat of w~hitewash that Bender was
applying so artistically.
With Burns and Murray on second
and third as the result Of two singles
and a double steal, and two out,
Merkle caught one of Bender's low
plate and lifted it far out into left
center, where neither Oldring nor
Strunk could reach it. The sphere
hit the green turf and with a mighty
bound hoped the fence into the
bleachers and Merkle trotted home af-
ter his two team mates with the third
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additional Sports on Page Fourteen.)
Avoid sedative Cough Medicines.

If you want to contribute directly to
the ~occurrance Of capillary bronchitis
and pneumonia use cough medicines
that contain iodine, morphine, heroin
and other sedatives when you have a
cough or cold. An e~xpectorant like
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is what
is needed. That cleans out the cul-
ture beds or breeding places for the
germs of pneumonia and other germ
diseases. That is why pneumonia never
results from a old when Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy Is used. 1t has
a worldwide reputation for it's cures.
1t contains no morphine or other seda-
tive. For sale by all dealers.-Advt.
One can't help wondering what kind
of reception the actors who produced
the moving picture film or IhaWs es"
cape got at MatteaWan.
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ceive 1924 and each member Of the
losing team $2,162.
The attendance today was 20, 568
n the receipts $49,645. or this the
National commissions share was
$4,964.50, the players share $26, sos. 80,
and each club $8,926.10.
The total figures for the four days
are as follows:
Attendance 114.31S; receipts $780,
303.5O; National commissions $25,-
030.35; players $135,163.S9; each club
$45, 054.63.
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NEW WORLDS RECORD
MADE BY UHLAN ON
KNKINGnTnM " YR OK

Lexington. Oct. 1I-Uhlan, the
great t~rotter, with a former record
Of 1858, Thursday, clipped off 3 IL
seconds from 1t, negotiating the
mile in 1:45 IL, a worlds record.
He was driven by Charles Fam
ner and paced by his running mate.
The great horse squared away like
a machine and it was evident at
the quarter that his previous rec
ard was to go, barring a break.
Uhlan never left his feet and forced
the runner all the journey. making
the turn into the stretch at a clip
that caused the spectators to hold
their breath. =
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-11
KOSSICK TO Meet
FREDDIE WELSH

Billings, Oct. 11.-Freddie Welsh,
English lightweight champion, will
meet Leo Kossick Of Moorhead in a
twelve round bout here on Oct. 10.
The coming fight between these two
little champions is attracting more at
tention tina any sporting event held
here for years. The participants have
appearance, and the local club will
spend several thousand dollars for the
one night show.
Coliseum. He made such a favorable
impression in his bout with Schultz
that the fans clamored for more of his
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which added a touch to the scene
heretofore missing.
Yesterdays game was the last in
which the players participate IT. the
receipts. According to the unofficial
figures there will be distributed among
the players $135,163.S9. The winners
will receive 80 per cent of this total
and the losers 40 per cent. The Ma
tional commission announced that
twenty-five players on each team were
eligible to play in the series, therefore
each man on the winning side will re-
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The coming fight is the result.
Welsh has been training at Butte for
the past ten days and Is In tip top
shape. The fight promises TO be one Of
the best ever seen here. There are IA
numbe Of other events which Will be
put on as curtain r~aisers.
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which were enough to win.
amy one Of the boys could have
done it if Vanguard had grooved a
curve over the plate as he did for
me- said Baker modestly, after the
game. But the fact remains that
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on Tuesday afternoon. His clout of
Marquard's curve ball in the fifth
inning, into the far corner of the right
field grandstand, drove Eddie Collins
in ahead Of him and gave the Ath-
letics their fourth and fifth runs,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-29
MARTIAL LAW RULES
IN Mining DISTRICT
Militiamen to Disarm Every
Striker Carrying
Weapons.

TRINIDAD. Colo, Oct. 29.-All of
the troubled mining districts of
Southern Colorado were under martial
law today. Soldiers were camped in
the seceets of Trinidad and Berwind
and companies were scattered about
the canons in the neighborhoods of
camps where battles between nine
guards and armed strikers have been
common.
Trouble was expected by the mill
tiamen today when they begin the eX-
ecution of the orders of Gov. Ammons
to dtsarm every striker and mine
guard and establish patrols on all
mine properties where non union men
are working.
The report that guard was killed
at Hastings in yesterdays battle be-
tween the mine guards and the strik-
ers was confirmed today. Angus AL
exander, who had been active i'll op-
posing the strikers pickets, fell ia
the battle, pierced by bullet from Il
miners rifle.
Two children were hurt at Tabasco
Camp yesterday during L gun fight
An attempt TO explode a bomb III the
midst of the mine guards failed. The
fuse was oXtinguished when the tin
bucket filled with black powder
dropped into Il puddle OF water.
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SHIPMENTS HEAVY
AT STOCK YARDS
87S Hogs Sent to Eastern
Markets, Top Price Be-
ing $3.50.

Shipments from the Glen Miller
stock yards were unusually heavy
last week, 87S hogs being shipped to
the eastern markets. The top price
for the week was reached on Wednes-
day when hogs were purchased at
$3.50. The market dropped on Satur-
day to a point thirty cents lower.
Forty-one head of cattle, so calves
and IS lambs were shipped. 7. w.
Druley of Boston township brought in
consignment of 81 hogs, all of
which he raised himself. They were
sold at $3.50 per hundred, bringing a
total OF $1.555.32.
K. S. Wright of Centerville and
Emanuel Timmonds OF New Paris.
who are buyers for Gaar and Shurley
both sent over carloads of stock for
reshipment.
Some Of Shippers.
John Grove, James Clarke, Charles
Albright, D. w. Foster Harry Low
denslayer w. E. Norris, Scott Ed
wards, Arthur Moore, l.. D. Fisher, E.
r. Kemp, L. n Hampton, John Reid
W. McCown, E. Smoker, c. E. Bur
ket, J. P. Bishop, T. Buris, Marvin
Stanley, John Beverly, Harry Fulton,
Andrew Maxim, E. P. Price, Bert
Spencer, w. S. Johnson, Walter King,
E. Stephens, John King, H. Pierce, Fl.
Harrison, F. Whitehead, L. Owens, G..
w. Cox, Robert Stigleman, Frank
Swain, Martin Coats, J. w. Murphy,
o. A. Study, E. V. Nichols, B. John
son, E. Clark, Harrison Hiatt, John
Osborn, Ula Neal, c. Johnson, It. w.
Meredith, G. w. Favis and F. Rob-
bins sold hogs
Harry Long, James Thompson, E.
Timmons, Bert Hunt, ]. l.. Bachelor,
Charles Strader, E. Hilderbrand, S.
Wright, w. S. Norton, had cattle in
market.
Bert Price, D. Conway, C. Wright,
Frank Austerman, George Paulson, E.
p. Dogat, o. H. Pierce, J. H. Albert
Fart, Scott Edwards, Martin Buck
halter, William Jordan, o. NJ. Jen-
nings, l.. N. Hampton, j. F. Edwards,
William Ryan, o. Cranor, f. Raper, O..
Caskey, George Toschlag, H. B. Will
liams, H. Osborn, Forest Van Zant,
John Grove, Ed Glunt. S. E. Alexan-
der, F. S. Wright, sold calves and
sheep.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-29
CRAIG TO LECTURE
ON CHOLERA SERUM
Purdue Official Says Serum
Has Been Completely
SteriliZed.

A series of three special cholera
serum lectures, with DR.. r. A Craig
or Purdue as lecturer. have been ar
ranged by County Agent Cobb by way
of explanation TO the farmers as 10
the alleged deficiencies in the hog
cholera serum. DR.. Craig is the Pur-
due veterinarian.
Many farmers charge that the serum
from Purdue and the commercial Sc
rum which was injected in hogs in
this county caused blood poisoning or
the forming OF abcesses where the
hog had not been yaceinated.
Mr.. Cobb says all the serum which
has come from Purdue was sterile and
that the sickness 20 the hogs was
caused by unsterile hog pens or wrong
vaccination. The law provides that
vaccination must be done by a veter-
marian.
The lectures will DE held the week
OF November S. They will be at Bos-
ton. Centerville and Milton. The nor
thern part of the county will not be
taken in by DR.. Craig, because there
was little complaint from those COM
munities.
County Agent Cobb lectured at the
HagerstoWn school, No. l, this after
noon before the boys of the schc d.
Tonight meeting for the patrons
and any farmers who will come, will
be held
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ENTHUSIASM MARKS
METHODIST | MEETING
&
Venerable Bishops Address
the Hundreds of Delegates
to Today's Sessions.
COMMEND T. B. WOOD
Honors Heaped Upon Green
castle Man, Who Has
Helped South Americans.

INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 29.-The
men only sign was taken down at
The entrance of Tomlinson hall today
by the general committee on arrange
ments of the national convention OF
Methodist men, and there was set
aside reserved section in the gallery
FOR women. There were restrictions,
however, on the number of women
permitted TO attend the big convention
for men. The only women admitted
were the wives of delegates. This
means that few Indianapolis women
will get to hear the speeches and wit
ness the scenes of enthusiasm which
are marking the great convention.
Bishop Charles W. Smith of st.
Louis opened the convention today.
Tall and thin, the weight of years be-
Ing evident in his movements, the fire
Is still in the bishops eyes and voice.
Bishop Napthalia Lucocg, another
of the venerable heads Of the church,
delivered the invocation and then
spoke briefly on The need of larger
program" this being the topic for dis
cussion at the forenoon session.
Wood Religious Lobbyist.
Bishop Homer G. Stunt Of Buenos
Ayres, swept the convention with a
storm of applause when he declared
that Thomas B. Wood of Greencastle,
Ind, has been a sanctified lobbyist in
South America in the battle for reli-
gious tolerance and freedom. Few
men have achieved what Thomas b.
Wood has done and it is the work of a
lifetime to do as much, Bishop Stuntz.
Il would rather have his record of &C
plishments in the cause of reli-
gious freedom for 100000 persons
in South America than all the honors
that can be heaped on me by the
world"
A most stirring scene was the cheer
ing. prolonged and animated. which
came when DR. Clarence True Wilson,
OF Topeka, Kan, reported for the COM
mittee on temperance.
Praises President.
Thank God, we now have a Chris
ttan in the white hOuae. a Christian
secretary of state, I'D our American
consulates> are no To-. aGancies for
breweries," said DR.. :. ..nr He re-
ferred to the action o. T lent Taft
in vetoing the WEBB. IN bill at
the last moment, and I hen being
passed over his veto, and said that
this action did more to send Taft to
unprecedented defeat than any other
cause.
ut will be easier to have congress
pass the prohibition amendment to
the constitution when we get ready to
present it than it was to pass the
Webb-Kenyon bill over president Taft's
head" declared DR.. Wilson.
Patrick J. Mevety, Cincinnati, sec
rotary of the Freedman's Aid board
of the church, spoke of THE Man in
the cellar" distinguishing the negro
of the south as the man in the cellar,
and not the man from OF in the slums
DIR. Mavety urged that the negroes of
the south be educated to go to Africa
and there help beat back the tide of
Mohammedanism that Is sweeping
down from the northern part of AT
RIGA.