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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17
cENrER FiELpER Is eUsiksV.

HERE is a problem, MT. Fan tt
 which, perhaps. you cannot give an answer offhand. Do you know who gets the greater number oG flies in season, a left nelder or e cen CT field CT? It is generally recognized that the right fielder has the fewest opportuni- that reason the fastest men are usually placed in center or left. Between these helds the difference is not so marked but it is an appreciabbe definite factor just the same.
 The average of 2.75 catches per game by Iris Speaker tops the mark set by any other man. Iris, as everybody knows Is a center fielder. but the ease for that position rests on more extend ed evidence than simply the record of Speaker. Zach Wheat. lsft fielder Of the Superbas, attained the best mark of any man playing that position with an average Of 2.29, and George Burns. admittedly one of the fastest men in the game could make mark of only Ell. Burns, it is true, played a few games in right field. Here are the rec ords of a few of the best center field CTS: PasIzert, 23T; Leach. 2.S6; StruTlIs 2.s3; Shotten, 0.s2. These are all above the mark made by Wheat
 The case against the right fielder l8 easily confirmed. Wilson of the Car
 dinaIs, one of the best men tn the game, could make an average or only
 2os catches per game, while the bril- liant Hooper of the Red Sox caught 1ult i1.e5.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17

WoIgast has engaged in no fewer than eleven fights in which the re- ceiptss aggregated over $25,oe0. Little Ad has never suffered the ignoniny of "a knockout and has been hoored but twice in his ring career, once when he won his title from Nelson and the oth- CT time when he lost the premier hon. ors to Ritchie.
 Ado1phus has the betting fever in the most aggravated form. He never fails to back himself heavily for a fight, as he says this is the inspiration he needs to battle in his best form. In his championship battle, with Nelson, Wolgast backed himself to the extent of $6,4oo, which he won, and he lost $7,000 in wagers when he passed over the title to Ritchie-
 And all this despite the fact that Wo1gast's hands are brittle The di- nlinuttve Michtgander is the un1ucktest first rank fighter in the game. and he has lost close to s10o,o through in juries suffered just prior to big battles.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17
Get Cove1eskie's Goat
 With a Famous Song

A LL persons desiring to capture the goat of Harry Coveles1Cte. the De troit pitcher. need only to hum OF whistle a few bars of that old song. Silver Threads Among the Gold"
 Just before the season cIoSee--l1 fact. when the Tigers made their Gna1 appearance in New York-Co CovelealEie took up the pitching chores- For a GsW innings he performed in great style and then o9 a sudden there came 9pQl1. the Yankees bench:
 Daring I am growing old.
 Silver threads among the gold-s
 Coveieslxfe stopped in his duties ana searched the bench with his eyes. Was scrne one really singing or was it lust an echo of the past ffzEtezdng through his ears? While CoYelesk5e iooIad the singing ceased When he took ub pitching again it resumed. Sonstime es the strains came in solo order. Then it was a duet. Now 1t rolled out In a chorus The Tanks on the coaching line began to whistle it. Tho air be- came nIIed with the music, snd Cove 1eslzie was through for the day. Re wsnt so high that Jennings feared for a time he'd never be able to recover hia star tvgirier without the aid ce an aeEaal scout.
 Coveleslx1e used to love that sonrE. hrue that was in the long ego. The real reason for his present aversion Co e never has been uncovered. but tho fOl- lowing fact may explain it partially
 Somebody who is familiar with CO veleskie's past slipped the tip of his aversion to that song to one of CoVe- leskie,s Detroit teammates. He made use of it the first chance he got and when Coveleskie noticed him whistlins the tune and grinning at the sam0 time it peeved the huge Pole
 The player thought it a good joke and passed 1t along. Soon every man l..,,,,,-,l7 l7 4l,a ,.a,-,.,t4 1,a,a fta fin
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17
COMBINATION OF PUGILIST AND CARTOONIST SHOWS ABILITY

DDIE KELLT, who comes
 from that section of New
 .s York known as Harlem, is a ps1gilist He says SO. and so does Jimmy De Forest, his manager That ought to. settle 1t Eddie also. is ssonething Of a. eartoonist, and as proof of this the drawings at the left are presented. Eddie did them with his own fair hands, the hands with which he bestoWs uppercuts, Jabs, swings, syeal1ops and other favors on enterpris- ing young men who also think they are scrappers
 To prove that he is not afraid of his mana ger-and De Forest knows some z'ehirg about delivering and dodging ssWallops- Eddie began by making a xsaricature of Jimmy Perhaps he did srotstry to make a caricature He may have intended to produce a likeness Well any way. he got that out of his system, and then he rambled around at life Scenes hs had witnessed or in which he had partic1pated Being dis posed to hoffesty he naturally brought in the men he has whipped recently and he made sort Of cartoonfcal chai- sl6ngs at Saugrue and White If he fails to whip them in the ring he will take serns on with pens ink and paper
 Kelly Is better known on the Pacific coast than he is in New York He fought around his native town for some time and made a good record, but somehow he never had a chance at the better men the men who would give sffrn a chance to rise. So he left New York and went to California and be- fore long he had made a good reputa- tfon-a reputation that had reached hack to New York So when be decfd- ed to return to his home town he found that he was no longer a stranger and fhat he could get good matches.
 Kelly knows that he will not be able to fight all his life and so he is deveI- oping his talent for drawing. Without having had any lessons. he shows much premise. and he hopes that when FaE- ther Time retires him from the ring he will be in. position to draw cartoons for a living.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17

SAM RoBIDEAU, one of the best
 fighters Philadelphia has ever pro- efuced, recently scored a knockout against Gilbert Gallant, the Boston lightweight. and thereby added greatly to his fame. He is now looking for matches with the topnotchers. and Freddy Welsh, Charlie White and Joe Shugrue can get action by engaging in an argument with the Quaker City boy.
 Knocking out Gallant is not all that Robideau has done. He beat Shugrue in fifteen rounds. he conceded several
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17

haps worth recording at this point that
 Mrs. Des Jardien's attitude toward
 football has been that of 9 Spartan mother. for many years ago an older son died as result of a kick in the stomach while playing Rugby football at Wells college Missouri. Baseball or a coaching position appeals to Des Jar- oien as his best earning opp portunity for several years. although he looks forward to an ultimate business career.
 The athlete was born on Aug. 24, 1893, in Coffeyville. Kan..s known to baseball fans as the home of Walter
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17
DES HARDEN. COLLEGE STAR,
 NdAY JOIN THE CUBS

PAUL RA1M MoND DIES -IARD1EN.
 star center of the university Of Cslsicago football team. regarded as one Of the best baseball pitchers in esthe Big Mine. z Z. will join the Chicago club of the National league in June accord ing to astorys published in Chicago.
 Des Jardien declined. it was said. to sign contract as he did not want to endariger his. amateur standing by signing to play professional baseball Fl agreed however, to sign as soon as he received his diploma in June He
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17

IS a. right handler, possesses a good curve and his height of more than six feet gives him additional effectiveness.
 Des Jardien is one of the most versa tile and prominent college athletes in the middle west. He is a wonder in every. branch of collegiate sport. He ia the center on the Chicago basket ball team, pitcher for the baseball nine and a point getting track man. He s bids fair to land twelve "Cs.'' a record equaled by no other man at Chicago.
 Des Jardfen has worked his way through college and feels he should re- pay as speedily as possible some of the sacrifices made in his behalf It is per-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17

Johnson, where his father conducted a
 mechanical shop. Des Jadfen pore. was born in France and Mrs. Des Jardfen in Germany. They were married dur ing the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.
 When the father died the family moved to Chicago. Two elder brothers are physicians and two elder sisters are married. So, as the 'fbaby'' of the family, Paul lives with. his mother in an apartment near the campus. He attended the Doolittle grammar school, from which he graduated when four teen years old, and then entered Wen dell Philips high school in the fall of 1907.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17

pounds to Jimmy Duffy in three fights and held his own or won each tine and he gave Willie Beecher twelve pounds and a beating.
 Robideau is a real lightweight. Re- ports from Philadelphia say that he is at his best at 133 pounds and that he has done mWch of his fighting at 12s and 130. As he is twenty-two years old he is not likely to go above 1S3 when in condition for fighting. He combines ring genera1ship, science and a punch. He has had nearly 100 fights in the last four years and has never
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17
The Limitations of Jeremiah

satirizes with a somersauIt, but if a Judgment at the plate fails to suit the dog gives one despairtng yelp and plays dead So carefully has Jerry been trained by his master that he always gives the home team a bit the best of it
 Only in one respect has the teaching Of Donovan proved fruit1ess. The dog has never been able to grasp fully the rule about an infiefd fly.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17

The greatest number o& men ever thrown out trying to steal in major league game was eight. Charley (Duke) Farrell claimed this number of victims in the middle nineties when he was backstopping for the Washington Ma tionaIs. This record was not approach ed in the American last year. five ath- letes turned back being the limit Az new, Schang and Egan each accom- plished this feat going it alone, while Sweeney and Nunamaker, Carrfgan and Cady and Stanage and Baker turn ed the trick in collaboration.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17
SAM ROBIDEAU LOOKS
 LIKE REAL CHAMPION

had referees decision against him Last year he had only four or i've bat- ties because of an injury to his hand. but that has been fixed and he says he expects no further trouble with 1t.
 As the young man has absolutely no bad habits he ought to last for several years, and his dream of wearing a championship crown is not unreason- able.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-17

T9 ALL players may come and go, but none will ever take the place of Bill Ddnoyan,s bird dog jeremiah. He earned his name because of his dismal howis. Yet the hoWling of Jerry (no ofle ever calls him Jeremiah9 has it's uses. He takes much of the work off the shouIders of Donovan. for if a member Of the home club is .caIled out sat first Jerry barks a protest.
 ? 2 naor decision at second or third he
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18
RETURN TO PRACTICAL EDUCATIONAL METHODS

UPEF1CAL
- of learning roofing
wthstandng
results examinations
sheepskn
universities fail
he
familiar
a he of
ang the material building
woefuly deficient.
higher education security
children being specifically amentabe
will a
of
financially
ability
both of these desirable acquisitions side lines
on the
a brilliant
within
dancing basketball
accounting
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18
w. o. coGsWELL HELD
FOR ENLIGHTENMENT

w. d. Cogswell, recently relieved as
agent for the American Express com
pany in Las Vegas, was arrested last
week for embezzlement on complaint
of James E. Pierce, an auditor for
the company. who has been here sew
eral days checking up the local Of
flee Mr.. Cogswell was arraigned in
Justice Harkins court Friday, says
the Clark County Review. He waived
his right to a preliminary hearing
and entered a plea of guilty to the
charge. which resulted in his being
bound over to answer to the district
court.
Mr. Cogswell's delinquency comes
as sad surprise TO the many friends
he has made since he became agent
here. 1t is one of those unfortunate
occurrences in life that are very diff
ticult of explanation. Mrs. Cogswe'l
left recently for the east to visit with
relatives.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18
EFFECTS OF
SHELL EXPLOSION
OFTEN ACCOMPANIED BY LOSS
OF SENSE OF TASTE
AND SMELL


LONDON, March 1S.-One of the
curious effects of shell explosion re-
ported at the military hospitals. is
the loss of the senses OF taste and
small DR.. Charles Myers states that
he has met three cases of this in his
own experience. The men received
no flesh wounds at all, but because
of their loss Of senses they could not
distinguish by taste between sugar,
quinine, acid and salt, which felt
alike to the tongue.
"These cases appear to constitute
a definite class among shell-shock
effects" says Dr. Myers. THE shells
in question appear to have burst with
considerable noise, scattering much
dust. but this was not accompanied
by the production of odor 1t is,
therefore, difficult to understand why
hearing should be unaffected and the
i'll results confined to the senses OF
sight, smell and taste. The close re
lation of these cases to those OF hys
terra appear certain.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18

Spring is busy mining winters
trenches. -Detroit Free Press.
In the minds of several English
statesmen every neutral port leads
TO Germany Washington Star.
"McAlpin Guest Beats, Ties, and
obs Bellboy." says headline. The
worm turns at Philadelphia
Ledger
Wonder if those women in Ken
lucky who sold their votes at two
dollars each would have made i
three for fve?-Florida Times-Union.
1t is hoped that Greece's new min
lister of finance, NJ. Protopapadakis,
does not have to sign all the bank
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Italians have been making mac
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18
BRITISH CAVALRY
MAY RID MULES
ANIMALS SHIPPED FROM THE
UNITED STATES FIND
GREAT FAVOR


tBy AAsOciAtcO fFcHh.J
LONDON, March 1S-The latest
shipment of mules to England is com
posed of such clean-limbed, active
beasts that certain army experts have
proposed to the war department to
use them for cavalry or mounted in
fantry In the British army the mule
is used only for transport and the
mountain battery work, not being re.
garded as suitable for other branches
of the service. But Britain's stock
of cavalry horses is exhausted, and
the Leavy draught animals left on
the farms are decidedly less active
than the latest arrival of mules.
Spanish and Mexican cavalry have
always made liberal use of mules
and found them more serviceable
than horses for work in rough coun-
TRY
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18
THIS EDITOR FELLOW
WAS ALMOST sLANDERous

You have to be mighty careful
what you say and how you say Il
these days. One of our fraternity in
Wyoming said in his paper recently
that the local milliner was making
improvements in her store and he
was glad to see her stocking up.
Imagine his CONSERVATION the next
day when the lady in question came
in and broke a good umbrella on his
classic brow, and called him a liar
and other unpleasant names. He read
that innocent item over about a hun.
dred times before he could see any.
thing wrong with it.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18
INTERESTING SlDELlGHTS

aroni since last August and must
now be almost ready to make war
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The latest naval tragedy is the
blowing up of the entire Mexican
navy, the gunboat Progreso, which
carried crew of ten men. Albany
Argus.
Meat prices, the market page tells
us, are slightly lower; but presun,
ably they are too slightly lower for
the retail vendor to note the change.
indianapolis News.
A successful vaccination is where
patient does not die. no adverse
results are visible. and well-defined
scar, as record of the sore, remains
through life.-The Philistine.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18
ANNUAL STATEMENTS MUST BE FlLeo


i still
published
limit
publication
opportunity
brief The penalty inclusive dbarment the
nonhlng standing
will probably n o reports
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18

be part California will let
go,-R
Alfred Henry Lewis delicious and delectabe Wolf
vile hobnobbd kings died possessed of
dubs unless
keep insurance,
legislature its closing hours as wit
cleansing chambers after the
adjourned That wouldn't formaldehyde
Billie Sunday whisky than guDpowde That depends
and he
more
he be
o
both
somehow there feeling that
spoiled asceaned was even
out o
delegation when the
The burden the defendant this time
float all and hope thar
never a
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18
A rHAw DAY is SUGGESTED

vHE OF
in giving
their editorial
punishment
who have made OF justice would
simply
placing
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18

of economy struck the legislature in its closing hot
the appropriation only $50 cleansing the chambers
sssion adjourned That buy the poe ormadehyd
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18

will lie
go-Reno Evening Gazette
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18

Billie Sunday that whisky is than guDpowder
on how you Billie consumed enough of both to
should be explicit
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18
rHg VICIOUS lNfLueNcE OF AE.oossIps

Z ROM THE Church Saturday
heosss
in
for all the DEVIL delbeaon
pour
before abomnabl
daily o
There nothing print
in
choolmsress
Vi as o
asking of
belongs
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18
NOTICE OF REMOVAL

Tonopah Drug Co. has moved
across Main street to the store for.
merly occupied by the Ideal cafe,
where they will be glad to receive
their old patrons. F27tf
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-03-18

Our cash system gives reduced
prices throughout all departments.
RYAN & STENSON.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-02-18
The New Gospel.

Foreshadowed by the Herder and
by Fitche, armed with the barbed
apothegms of Nietzsche, Treitschke
and his school have formulated for
the Germanic nations new gospel,
strong in it's appeal wherein Christi
anity is weakest.
Doctrines which year ago would
have seemed to us Americans mon
strous beyond belief, we now debate
with the fascination which children
feel for fire. In the relentless ra-
tionalism Of Delbruck and Bernhard
they are still repellent enough, but
as we read them in the. eloquent
pleading of Prof Cramb's remarka-
BILE book. Germany and England
and realize how they may be applied
to the development of a people for
whom we feel affection and kindship,
they seem to lose their horror.
The amarophous Teutonic concep-
ton of State which lives apart from
the men and women who make 1t
seem to us a rather preposterous fic'
ton: and the perversion Of the fun
damental Christian idea of self sacri-
flee for something nobler than ones
self into the naked theory that, since
the State is the highest human con-
cepticn, to it all citizens must sac
rifce their individuality and collec-
tive happiness, while the State it.
self, being superior to all moral con-
siderations need follow but its own
interest is still to most OF us a
devils lie. But the noble idea that
patriotism offers to it's lovers a re-
ligion of valor, which promises moth
ing but demands all, strikes lofty
chord in spite of it's pagan ring. To
call this a religion may yet seem a
travesty of sacred things, but is the
organ peal of the Christian church
more thrilling than its exulant trum-
pet call?-Atlantic Monthly.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-02-18
WILSON STARTS DRAINAGE.
Touches Button to Begin New Orleans
Land Improvement.

New Orleans, Feb. 13.-The Hero
Pumping Station, State project de-
signed to drain thirty thousand acres
of low lands on the right bank of the
Mississippi river near New Orleans,
was opened today when President
Wilson pressed button at the white
house to set the machinery in motion.
The plant is one of the several
plans the State has for draining pre-
scribed districts in the State. BY a
State law residents of sections of the
low lands of Louisiana can organize
drainage districts, after which the
project is taken in charge by State
officials and bond issues to make
possible the drainage work are au-
thorized by the State. Much OF the
land the Hero plant is expected to
make cultivable heretofore has been
practically worthless.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-02-18
CHESTER MAN KILLED.
Lawrence Roof Run Over by Fast
Train.

Chester, Feb. 11.-Lawrence Roof,
a we'll known young man of this
city, was killed by a train near High
Point, n. c.. late yesterday evening.
He and his brother, Floyd Roof, were
walking along the railroad track and
had sat down on the crosties to eat
their lunch. A fast passenger was
heard and both arose to allow it to
pass. Mr.. Roof was sucked in under
the train by the draft and both legs
and arms were ground off by the
wheels. He died in three hours. His
body was brought here tonight. The
funeral services will be held tomor-
row and the burial will be in Ever
green cemetery here.
Mr.. Roof was a splendid young
man, only 2S years of age. He was
member of the Calvary Baptist
church, Wilksburg, Chester county.
Four years ago he married Miss Mary
Burnside, who with his 2-year-old
son, survives him, in addition to his
father, H. o. Roof, and five brothers,
FLOYD, Albert, Pearly, Crawford and
Wylie Roof, all of this city.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-02-18
Free Flower Seed.
Hastings Catalogue
Tells You About 1t

If you are engaged in farming, or
If you plant only vegetables or flow
ers, you cannot afford to be without
the big catalogue published fresh and
new every year by the great South
ern seed house, H. G. Hastings &
Company, Of Atlanta, Ca, and sent abb
solutely free, postage paid, to all who
write for it, mentioning the name Of
this newspaper.
In this catalogue we tell you Of a
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all our customers, five magnificent
varieties that mean beauty about your
home and a pleasure to wives and
daughters that nothing else can give.
This catalogue tells you, too, about
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about our fine yielding varieties OF
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our own 5000 acre farm. 1t tells
about the best seeds Of all kinds for
planting in the South. 1t should be
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