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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07
Johnny Evers a Valuable Man.

Johnny Evers is the most valuable man to his team of any player in the game. And that statement has the whole sou1ed support of sport writ ers, critics, statisticians, just plain fans-and, in fact, every one @of those 16,OOO odd spectators who saw the di- m1nutive dynamo break back into the game against the Giants in New York recently after a nine weeks layon with an injured ankle.
 New York fans hate Johnny Evers- from baseball standpoint. The req son is they fear him. His every ap- pearance is signal for misses, cat calls. hooting = everything that the great American fan indulges in when the object of his wrath floats across his vision.
 The Giants and Braves were playing a double header. The New Yorlxs had taken two games from Stallfngs' crew the day before and had taken the first game of the second double header. As the teams lined up for the second game a. slim figure slipped from the Boston bench and made his way, Imping, to second base. The crowd knew him in- stantly, and there was veritable bed- lam of jeering. hissing and yelling. Johnny EYers was back.
 Johnny Proves Worth.
 E When he came in to the bench after the Giants had been retired the crowd around the Boston bench immediately "got on his neck" riding him unmerci- fully. But Johnny never zducked. H0 came right back at them, hurling their imprecations back into their teeth, jeering at them, ridiculing them, brag- ging of what he would do the first time up and xpitying them because they had to support the Giants. : He shouldered his bat and went to
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07

fond and when the ball shot through Speaker. swho was running in for, a quick throw to the plate. Collins great speed enabled him to complete the cir cuit% while the ball was being retrieved. And that gave Chicago lead of two runs. In the fifth Collins was passed with two out and got farther, but in the eighth he led off with another pass. went to third on Fournier's single to right, where Hooper has a fine whip, and scored on Leibold's fly to Speaker, who barely missed doubling him up at the plate and would have doubled up any one but a speed merchant.
 "Defensively Collins had nothing out of the ordinary to do in that second game, because Russelps pitching called for little assistance
 That was just one days work for Collins."
 Collins Not Tenperamental.
 Unlike most star ball players. Col- 1ins is not temperamentalz and is as easy for a manager to handle as a mod1 el youth. His brilliancy has never turned. his head and he is just the same gentlenan1y player whether he is winning or losing and whether he is hitting or in a slump. Most players of Collins ability are vastly different in disposition according to the way things are breaking for them.
 Cleveland Wants to Honor LeiboId.
 Unusual honors for a ball player are
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07
Leave It to Coach Yost

IN Michigan the forward pass, which
 A was so long in making a dent in the conservative Yost tactics a few sea- sons ago; is now more on the map than at aTy-0ttIer school, seemingly At i1east Yost is establishing a system tending to make his men thoroughly fa- .miIiar with handling long throws. This system consists of playing base ball with a college football, forcing men to make long, fast and accurate throws
 across the diamond, as well as accus- torning them to handling the awkward Iy shaped leather surely
 The difference between regular base ball and football baseball is that no catcher is required. The man up. in
 stead of swinging a bat, advances to the plate, receives the pitchers pass and then hurls the ball as far as he can in any direction he thinks will be out of reach of, all. felders. Then he hikes
 for first. The play on him is made just
 as if the sphere had been batted.
 It surely ought to develop facility in handling the old pigskin.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07

at the Chicago American
 league park were three. fans
 who were pals and regu-
 attendance. They were dis cussing great players, and each had his favorites in whom he could see no fault. but each could pick some flaw in the pets of the others Just then Eddie Collins pulled play with bit of the unexpected in it that wrecked the opposing teams pffense,'' writes Cy Sanborn, the veteran baseball expert.
 Said one of the three:
 I've hardly missed a game this sea son, and haven't seen that secoDd baseman think of the wrong play ---Jor l. said another of the three. Nor T. echoed the third.
 st'That is why Eddie Collins is worth to a winning team every cent of the big price Charles A. Conliskey gave Philadelph1a for his services and every cent of s-big PksxnonthIy pay check.
 No Attempt atscomparison.
 'sThis is no attempt to compare Eddie Collins with other great players past, present or future-nor to make him out an errorless wonder. than whom there is not or was. or ever will be 8 greater. But as watched the White Sox and the Req Sox battling for the lead in the double header which opened their recent series the Incident of those three fan. pals was recalled. and I wondered if they were there to see what the Sox keystone guardian did and how earn estly and brilliantly he worked to- win :, both those games. one of which was lost in spite of him. Perhaps the fans who did not see that double combat would like to know too.
 tsIn the attack Collins twice put the White Sox in the lead in the first game after the Bostonians had tied up the score. and in each case he did it with little help from his pals. In Chicago's fourth. after the Red Sox had scored one run, l<nottipg the tally made by Felsch's home run. Collins led the at- tack on Foster with three base hit before anybody was out. Anything sure of it with a single. And before that round was over the White Sox had a lead of two runs.
 Two Bases on Sacrifices
 Z That lead was wiped out in the eighth when Boston counted twice. Again in the Chicago half Collins put victory within Chicagoss grasp, and by a bril- liant feat. On an error and an out he reached second base with one, down. With LeiboId at bat Collins started for third just as the batsqan laid down a bunt which pulled Gardner off that sack Leibold was thrown out at first. but when the ball reached Gainer Col lins was halfway between third and home, and he finished with a. terrific slide which eluded the catcher's touch. although. Gainer relayed the ball to the plate in time for an even break at least That this one run lead, estab- lished by Collins speed, was wiped out by Boston in the ninth inning does not in any way Adetract from the Value of his efforts.
 .'On the defense in that hrst game Col. Hns enacted. the role of life saver three different times. not by brilliant stops or throws or catches so much as by be- vie iy,sf he v-i1r riv,-. stant to nip Boston base runners. In the third inning the first two Boston batsmen made safe hits off Scott, but neither reached second base. Twice the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07

sfFEAKE d nice new balls fresh from the g fact9ry. RoHghene a. spot on the : surface ho bigger than a dime, if you wish. and place it in the hand of a pitcher with only ordinary speed and still more ordinary curves. Instantly your pitcher becomes more formidable than Walter Johnson or Christy Math-. ewson, and he has an article of goods which the greatest batsman in the IsWorld scanst fa4hoH.1 He becomes an n'.srhery ball' pitcher.
 The latest addition to the baseball category of freak terms is still Greek to most fans. It is only lately that tn g expression has crept into newspaper columns, although the thing which 1t describes has been known to the wise acres of baseball for the last three pr four years Russell Ford is said to be the discoverer of the new fooler. In a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07
Sporting Topics of General Interest to All

1915 season. The Brooklyn Dodgers payroll will total $90,O00.
 The PhiIlies and the Athletics win draw $6o,0O0 each. The Boston Red Sox have tied up President Lannin to the extent of $1Oo,oOo, while the cham pion Braves are not far below these figures a-E
 The Pittsburgh Pirates RsIu collect $65. .00e, the Cincinnati Reds S6O,o0O. thel St. Louis Browns S7O,o0O, the Cardinals $55, ,0OO, the Detroits $7oO0O. the Wash ingtons s7p.OOO and the Cleveland 1n- dians 10000.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07
How Plavers Shift About.

ETNEN years makes big difference in
 baseball, For instance, ten years ago:
 Try Cobb and Eddie Cicotte were playing together in Augusta, Ga. J Hughey Jennings was shortstop fo1 Baltimore z George Moriarity was playing third base for Toledo.
 Ira Thomas was catching for Provi- dence.
 Birdie Cree was shortstop for the Pennsylvania State college team.
 JirnIny Austin and sDode Paskert were with Dayton.
 Branch Hickey was catching for DaI- las, Tex. -, Larry Mclean and Gavvy Cravath were playing ball in the Pacific coast league.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07
Isaac Mackie Tells How to Make a
 Long Drive.

ISAAC MACKIE, the noted pro6ss.
 sional, is considered one of the lon Sest drivers among golfers. Re hits a tremendous ball from the tee. and it iH usually straight down the course, something uncommon with the very long drivers.
 Maclzie explains his idea of a perfect drive in this way: 'Tt is a very difd- cult thing to give one single tip on the drive. When we consider that golf has. both it's mental and physical sides one cannot tell which one particular feature is the most important There are about dozen different things to re- member when you are on the tee. The first is the advice handed out to all be. ginners, Keep your eye on the ball keep your head down and follo'H through
 "This is, of course. good enough ia its way. It is, you might say, knock inge at the door. have seen players do all three of these things and yet set a poor shot The real secret of the long drive, and also the straight drive is contained in these three words-Erip the ball. I mean by this to hit the ball sQuarely and in such way that there will be no suspicion of a glancinR blow.
 Your pupil will invariably say, This sounds easy, but how is 1t done2' Most players-and will include golfers well advanced in the game-niss making a really good drive by lifting the club from the ball before it has received the full force of the glow. The result is usually a slice or a top. Try tor re- member to hit deep and put out after the ball. The club should follow the ball on line along the ground for at least six to eight inches. This is what we would call sweeping the ball from the~tee The face of the club will hit the ball squarely.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07
SIDE LIGHTS ON TWO GREATEST SECOND BASE1EN IN CAM

field for clean single. rrom fiFst bagt he Jeered at the fans nearest to him.
 His work on the field was even mora surcharged with speed and cutting re- marks. He railed at his teammatess cursed them, caJoled them, pitied them and they liked it. On the Boston bench all that could be heard Wa1 Say. ain't it great O have Johnng back?"
 That day he got a single. a double and a homer, and his four ply swat drove in a man ahead of hina-the only two runs scored in tho game. Thl Braves won, to 0.
 Maybe Detroit couldn't get along without Cobb, maybe the Red So1E would fall through the bottom Of tho league without Speaker, or the White sSox go flooey but for Collins, but tha diminutive, dynamic Evers' worth to the Boston Braves simply cannot ba estimated.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07
Big Salary Lists.

THE Chicago White soxs payroll this
 season will be something like ESQ., 900. The Chicago Cubs budget calls for $7o,000.
 The salary list of the New York Giants this year will exceed $10o.0o0. There is not a regular on the team who will draw less than $3,ooo, while half a dozen of them will receive more than $6,000.
 Even the New, York Yankees will take down s6o,0OG before the end of the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07
Hiah Cost of Baseball.

That the high cost of baseball and small margin of profit are not con fined to the present day is proved by the report of the Boston baseball club of 1875. The figures of forty years ago show that the expenses of the team for the season were $34, 505.99 and the re- ceipts $S7,767.o6, leaving a profit of s3s261.07, which was less than 10 per cent of the gross receipts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07

arm. When Cobb came into the league
 he had an arm that was more powerful than any outfielder in the business. Trying out curves robbed it. of some of it's power, and you can bet on it that won't let any of my other inf1elders or |outfielders hurt their arms by trying Ito throw curves"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07
No Warming Up For the
 Detroit Players.

HUGH JENNINGS won't let any of his players other than pitchers do any warming up."
 cry =Cobb's ambition to become a pitcher nearly ruined his arm.' said ffughey. gaF1e used sto spend most of his practice time shooting the ball to the catchers, putting as much stuff on it as he could. That practice hurt his
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07
Tip For Tirnid Eaters.

GEORGE STALLINGS says tiuid
 batters can cure themselves by walk ing into fast curve balls and seeing that they do not hurt. Any player with nerve enough to do that could hardly be called timid. ts
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07

MULLIN HARD MAN TO HANDLE. HUGHEY JENNINGS says that
 Pitcher George Muffin was {. the hardest man to handle he ever had on his team. Jennings handled him for a long time and got good results though.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07

F ARRY M'LEAN, who was let go by
 the New York Giants a short time ago, states that during his caresr as a niaxag he has paid out $5.o00 in fines.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07

Cleveland Wants to Honor LeiboId.
 Unusual honors for a ball player are
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-07

,s ~ THING back of the press box mn at the Chicago American league park were three. fans O who were pals and regu-
 attendance. They were dis
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-07-14
COVENTRY
w. R.sThurber was i'll last week.

w. R.sThurber was i'll last week.
Alta Wheelock was i'll Sunday, but is
better.
Miss Abbie Harvey is stopping at C.
S. Boynton's.
c. A. Bickford has moved his goods
to w. R. Shippee'
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. w. Drake spent
Sunday in Newport Center.
E. o. Wells of Irasburg has moved
to Mrs. Ida Morrill's house.
Mrs. Claude Brooks of St. Johnsbury
is visiting at c. P. Brooks's.
H. j. Frasier was at St. Adams
yesterday (Tuesday) on business.
Blanche Bickford is working for
Mrs. Charles Webster in Irasburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank True have
returned to their home in Rutland.
Mrs. Frances Sanderson of Burling-
ton is visiting her sister, Miss E. M.
Nichols.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Herrnon and Mr..
and Mrs. Leland Hermon have taken a
trip by auto to Nashua, N. H.
Several. from here are attending
| sessions of the Chatutauqua at Orleans
and feel we'll repaid for their trip.
Mrs. Alice (Ware) White and chill.
dren of Montreal, visited at Bert
wares last week and called on friends
in town.
Archie Goss, Mrs. L. A. Goss. Carl
Goss and family attended the wedding
anniversary of relative in Irasburg
last week.
w. G. Brooks. whose home was
burned. has moved into the Congrega.
tional parsonage. Mr.. Brooks thinks
he will rebuild.
Recent visitors at P. S. Hitchcock's
are Mr.. Miles and Mrs. Rand from Bar
ton. Mrs. M. G. Hitchcock, Mrs. Emma
Miller. Mrs. Maud Hunt from West
field, Frank Orne and three children,
Clinton, Horace and Della from West
more, Ralph and Roy Rowen from Nor
gan and Mr.. and Mrs A. A. Hitchcock
of Providence, r. l.
Apropos to the fire: Probably $500
invested in fire protection would have
saved both the schoolhouse and w. c..
Brooks's buildings. After the fire
some were heard to say that we ought
to have taken the money used for side.
walks and put in fire protection. One
man made this reply and it is certainly
true. eff the men of Coventry hac
half the spunk of the women, We
would have had both long ago." The
sidewalks are all right for the v. l. S.,
to build, but the fire protection should
certainly be owned by the town.
further account of the fire appear
onfpage one of the paper. The ladies
furnished coffee and sandwiches to tn,
firemen.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-07-14
Thanks

Thanks
Is there any reason why you should
defend Mr.. Warrington, as he calls
himself?"
The consul generals wife desperate
ly tried to catch her husbands eye.
But either he did not see the glance or
he purposely ignored it.
I'm defending Mr.. Warrington I am
defending myself. My dear friend"
Elsa went on, letting warmth come
into her voice once more, my SYM
pathy went out to that man. He looked
SO lonely. Did you notice his eyes?
does and be bad?"
Fl have seen Mallow dozens of
times. I know him to be a scoundrel
of sorts; but I doubt if bald sunlight
could make him blink. Liars have
first to overcome the Pickering and
wavering Of the eyes,
He said almost the same thing.
Would he say that If he were a liar?"
II haven't accused him Of being
that. Indeed, he struck me as a truth
full young man. By the way, what is
the name of the firm your father
founded?"
"The Andes Construction company.
Do you think we could find him some
thing to do there?" eagerly. "He builds
/ bridges"
II shouldn't advise that. But we
have gone astray. You ought not to
see him again.
ut is hateful world!" Elsa ap-
| pealed to the wife.
''It is, Elsa, dear. But James is
| right"
{ guardian, when you reach home.
| When's the wedding?'
I'm not sure that I'm going to be
married" Elsa twirled the sunshade
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-07-14

He expected to be presented with Let
tiers of introduction. and to while away
half hour in the agreeable discussion
Of mutual acquaintance.
Il should like few minutes private
talk with YOU" began the welldressed
stranger. May close the door, The
consul general. with a sense Of disap-
pointment, nodded. The blond man
returned and sat down. Il don't know
how to begin, but want you to copy
this cablegram and send it under your
own name. Here it is; read it."
So singular request filled the con-
sui general with establishment Rather
mechanically he accepted the slip Of
paper, adjusted his glasses, and
read
The Andes Construction company, New
York: former employee of yours wishes
to make a restitution Of S., 900, with inter
est to date. He dares not give his name
to me, but he wishes to learn If this be-
lated restitution will lift the ban against
his coming to America and resuming his
citizenship. Reply collect.
"This Is an extraordinary request to
make to me. sir"
Gould possibly offer that TO the
cable operator? Without name or ad-
dress? No; l could not do it without
being subjected to thousand Ques.
tons, none Of which I should care to
answer. So / came to you. Passing
through your hands. no one will ques.
ton it. Will you do this favor for q
poor unfortunate devil?"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-07-14
LOWELL

Charles Pudvah is moving to South
Troy.
J. H. Silsby of Hartford, Conn.,, is.
in town.
r. A. Sinclair was in Montreal the
first of last week.
Mrs. Mae Warner visited friends in
Morrisville recently.
Miss Amanda Blanchard of Barton is
visiting relatives here.
M. R. Alexander spent the weekend
with relatives in Burke.
A. P. Sweet and Clement Barre have
each purchased an automobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Knights and
son visited in Charleston recently.
Mrs. C. C. Stannard and daughter.
Lucena, are visiting in Fitch Bay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allie Adams of Woods
vile are in town visiting relatives.
A party of eighteen from Stowe
visited at Edmund LaFlam's Sunday.
Herbert Knight and Howard Pudvah
have sold their farms to parties from
Canada.
Mrs. Clarence Rogers and daughter,
Rachel. of Charleston are visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. G.. Carter.
Miss Lula Messer of New Haven.
Conn, is spending her vacation with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Messer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Blanchard.
Miss Amanda Blanchard, Mrs. Lizzie.
Benware and Dennis Dyer were in
Waterbury Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Benware and
children of Coventry and Mrs. G. C..
Benware of Westfield were guests at
R. A. Sinclair's Sunday.
Mrs. c. Courtemanche and Mr.. and.
Mrs. A. G. Elliott and children of
Manchester, N. H.. are guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Edmund LaFlam.
"Our Influence on Coming Genera
lions, was the Sunday morning theme
at the North church, and ''The Dom
keys Sermon" for the children's SER
mon. For Sunday school missionary
minutes, "Sixty-One New Mission
aries, and Not One from Lowell"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-07-14
Got Back at Judge Jeffreys,

The corresp ondent writes that Of
Jord Jeffreys, noted for his heartless.
cruelty, it is recorded when he was
Chief Justice, he had a witness before
him whose evasive answers aroused
the Judges ire. The witness wore an
exceedingly long and bushy beard.
Said Jeffreys: ''If your conscience
is as large as your beard, you'll swear
anything" Unabashed, the witness
retorted: eff your lordship measures
conscience by boards, your lordship
has none at ALL
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-07-14
er, a dock-walloper, if there ever was

er, dock-walloper, if there ever was
one"
"Mallow, you'll have to explain that
instantly"
Hold your horses, my friend. What
I'm telling you is on the level. She's
been hobnobbing with the fellow all
the way down from the Irrawaddy, so
I'm told. Never spoke to anyone else.
Made him sit at her side at table and
jabbered Italian at him, as if she didn't
want others to know what she was
talking about 1 know the man. Fired
him from my plantation, when found
out what he was. Can't recall his
name just now, but he is known out
here as Warrington; Parrot & Co."
The consul general was genuinely
shocked.
"You can't blame me for thinking
things" went on Mallow. What man
wouldn't? Ask her about Warrington.
You'll find that I'm telling the truth,
all right"
eff you are, then she has made one.
of those mistakes women make when
they travel alone. I shall see her at
tea and talk to her But 1 do not
thank you, Mallow, for telling me this.
A finer, loyaler-hearted girl doesn't
live. She might have been kind out
of sympathy"
Mallow bit Off the tip of his cigar.
Hes a handsome bsggar, if you want
to know"
II resent that tone. Better drop the
subject before I lose my temper. III
have your papers ready for you in the
morning" The consul general caught
up his pen savagely to indicate that
the interview was at an end.
"All right said Mallow good-natu-
redly. Il meant no harm. Just nat
urally curious. Can't blame me-"
I'm not blaming you. But it has
disturbed me, and I wish to be alone to
think it oveT."
Mallow lounged out. rather pleased
with himself. His greatest pleasure in
life was in making others uncomfort-
able.
The consul general bit the wooden
end of his pen and chewed the splin-
ters of cedar. He couldn't deny that
it was like Elsa to pick up some dere-
lict for her benefactions. Women had
no business to travel alone. 1t was all
very we'll when they toured in parties
Of eight or ten; but for a charming
young woman like Elsa, attended by a
spinsteT companion who doubtless
dared not offer advice, it was decided
ly wrong. And thereupon he deter
mined that her trip to Yokohama
should find her we'll guarded
Il beg your pardon" said pleas
ant voice.
The consul general had been SC
deeply occupied by his worry that he
had not noticed the entrance of the
speaker. He turned impatiently. He
saw tall blond man, bearded and
tanned, with fine clear blue eyes that
met his with the equanimity of the
fearless.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-07-14
MARRIAGE.

The first bond Of society is
marriage; the next, our children;
then the whole family and all
things in common.-Cicero.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-07-14

In marriage the relative pro-
portion of property is not so
much to be considered as the
union Of mind and similarity of
disposition. Chastity and mod
esty form the best doWry Of a
virgin.-Terence.