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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-27

PITCHER ED cICoTTE, WHOSE WORK IN
BOX IS DOING MUCH TO KEEP sox UP
IN RACE.
seasons his efforts have been directed
almost exclusively to trying to rehabili-
tate the good right arm which he so
nearly pitched Off during the active
years of his sensational career.
Frank Schultz still is an active fac
tor, occupying Il regular berth with the
Cubs, and Evers, although recovering
from another smashed ankle, is expect
cd to prove himself to be still n live
one as soon as the bum wheel viii per-
nit. He is now with the Boston
Braves.
The others have disappeared from
the arenas that once rang with plaudits
for their feats.
OF the 1906 White Sox Callahan re-
mains with the club in the capacity of
business manager, after three years of
active management of the team. Jones
returned to the ball field to manage
the st. Louis Federals after a period in
retirement, during which he bossed the
Northwestern league.
Among the veterans from whom
Jones turned out q worlds champion
team those who are known to be ac-
lively participating in the game this
season are Sullivan, who is catching
for Joe Cantillon in Minneapolis: Tan
nehill, who Is Unfolding for Isabel in
Des Moincs, and Smith, who is hurting
for the Baltimore Federal league team.
Patterson was to have managed a
Canadian team If its league had not
closed up shop. Davis is in business in
New York.
Donahue and Green are dead
Four members of the Cub team Of
1906 cast their lots with the Federal
league when it expanded last season.
Tinker became manager of the Chicago
team and still is it. Brown took the
management Of the st. Louis Feds, but
gave way to Jones and now filings
them with much of his old time skill
for the Chicago Whales. Holman
Joined Brooklyn in the independent
league and would have been manager
this year if the Wards had not got
their signals crossed with Lee Magee
Reulbach is giving bases on balls from
the Newark slab.
Frank Chance has retired to tho
shade Of his own orange grove in Cali
fornia after tempestuous two years o
trying to lGndlc the New York Van
KEGS to suit both the club owners ant
the rooters. king had a season d
managing the Boston team before It,
players were called braves" and +
now looking after his own game-pocl,
ct ana three cushion billiards in Kan
sas City. Prank Pfefrer is net pitch
ing. Mccarthy and Slagle are in bust
ness in Chicago, ana Casey drops In t,
fan with the American league player
occasionally In Detroit.
Buttons" Briggs is dead.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-27
Cobb Jealous of His LaureIs.

Three years ago a Cleveland fan told
Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson says he is go
ing to hit 400 this year" Cobb smiled
and retorted, eff he does I'll hit .45O.'
That year Jackson hit close to 400
and Ty slammed away at .427. This
year they told Cobb, "Maisel is the
fastest man in baseball" Just to
prove them wrong Ty is leading his
league in both base stealing and runs
scored
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-27
WILL HISTORY
REPEAT ITSELF?
Showing Of SOx and Cubs Leads
Chicago Fans to Wonder.
ARE PLAYING GREAT BALL,
Both Clubs Putting Up Brilliant Game
In All Departments-Me Memories of
Famous Meeting Nine Years Ago Still
Cling to the Fans.

F In All DepartmentS-mem OF
Famous Meeting Nine Years Ago Still
Cling to the Fans.
The recent showing of the two Chi
cago major league baseball clubs has
led to speculation as to whether his
tory is to repeat itself and the Cubs
and White Sox meet again in worlds
series play.
While the pennant clinching days in
the American and National leagues are
still afar off, there is no denying that
the two Chicago clubs have exhibited
a sterling brand of bali this spring.
Western fans recall the series of 1906,
whom the play of that year was con-
fined strictly to Chicago, with the
White Sox, under the leadership Of
Fielder Jones, defeating Frank
Chances Cubs four games to two.
Nine years have elapsed since the
first and only worlds series between
two clubs representing the same city,
and not one Of the White Sox of 1906
and only two of the Cubs of the same
season remain actively engaged in
major league baseball.
Ed Walsh still is a member Of the
White Sox team, which he did so much
to make famous, but for the last two
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-27

man. st. Louis made five runs before hit
ting the ball at all, and got eight in the
frst inning. Then the game settled down
and was hard fought to the finish.
Other examples of extraordinary Wild
ness include 20 bases on balls by Pitcher
Harry Harper, in a game between Mime
apolls and st. Paul of the American asso-
citation recently.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-27
Recker,s stick In Evidence.

The batting experience Of Beals
Becker this year is out of the ordinary.
He is now hitting the ball as strong as
the best
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-27
Sporting Neus
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
American League

American League Games today.
Chicago at Boston.
Detroit at New York.
St. Louis at Philadelphia.
Cleveland at Washington.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-27
Steps Wind His Watch,

A Californian is the owner OF what
is said to be the only watch of the
kind in the world in which lever os-
cillates and winds the spring with
every step that he takes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-27

Photo by American Press Association.
BIG ED KONETCHY, PITTSBURGH FEDS
STAR FIRST SACEER, THROWING TO
THIRD.
the brand of ball that made him fam
Gus. Last season he fell off somewhat
in his playing at the initial station.
But since the start of the 1915 cam
paign he has been covering his posi-
ton in mastery style and hitting the
ball in great shape.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-27

National League Games Today.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati.
New York at Philadelphia.
Boston at Brooklyn.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-27

Are youngswomen born with those
4" hirty" eyes?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-27

Girls as a rule will fall for q fellow
who has an automobile.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-27
National League.
National League.

NhiSdSCJ !
Ragan, Hughes and Gowdy; Adams.
Humphries and Archer.
At Cincinnati
Philadelphia, 6 !
Cincinnati, IS 3
Demaree and KilIifer; Schneider Nc
Kenery and Clarke.
At Brooklyn
Brooklyn, IS II ?
st. Louis, S )
Appleton and McCarty; Sallee. Per
due, Ames and Snyder, Gonzales.
Al New York-frst game
PittsburG, 6 3
New York, 6 @
Adams and Murphy; Mathewson.
6chauer and Doom, Meyers.
At New York-second game
New York, 3 9 /
Pittsbur2, 0 ) O
Tesreau and Meyers; McQuillan and
Gibson.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-27

ADVERTISE IN THE REFoRMER.
Williams news., 1915-11-18
RIGHTS TO BE DETERMINED
Army Officer Is Being Questioned by Authorities.

The question as to whether Luis Raoul Esteves, the Porto Rican grad uate in this years class from West Point, is eligible for commission in the army has been raised. Under a decision of the court Porto Ricans are not citizens of the United States, and for that reason it was suggested that Cadet Esteves might not qualify as an officer of the army.
 While the question has not been passed upon by the legal authorities, the opinion of those who have been looking up the precedents is that the fact that the cadet is not citizen of the United States will not disqualify him from holding a commission.
 Beginning with the Revolutionary war down through the Civil war, for eigners have held commissions in the United States army. Without regard to his citizenship the Porto Rican now has the legal status of cadet. He is on a different status from the Fili- pinos, who under a special act of con gross are permitted to take the course at the military academy. Esteves en- tered the academy and was educated under the same provision of law as all other cadets, and 1t is thought that 1t will be held that he is eligible for 8 commission in the Washington Star
Williams news., 1915-11-18
MADE HIMSELF OF SERVICE
EnsIishman Who Couldn't Join Army Yet Found Way to Be of Value
 to the Country.

In desperation he tried to join his local defense corps, but they wouldn't have him there because, they said, he completely spoiled the look of their parade. And when Jones expostulated and urged that the question of appear ance was a matter of individual taste, and that for his part he would be ashamed to be found dead wearing a face like that of the commander of X company, they fell upon him with eager hands and dril1-toughened feet and threw him out once again. Then, having done his best, Jones went back to his business. A few days ago a friend met him, to whom he related the foregoing experiences. But I've found a way to help" he concluded, "and it's,a help which they can't re- fuse, however averaged, undersized, weak-eyed, and false-toothed I may be- Taking a course of elementary surgery at one of the nospitals?' he was asked. Mo- Making recruit ing speeches?" "No." Putting in overtime and Sundays at the arsenal?" "No.'' What then?" Something I've never done before" said Jones. little shamefac cedly. ''EI-Pm returning my income-tax form to the assessors with the correct amount of my income filled in."-London Tit-Bits.
Williams news., 1915-11-18
Hard-Worked Student,

President Hibben of Princeton ap
 pears to confirm the charges of the Undergraduate" who recently had an article in the Outlook, that . college student had small incentive to work and that in most instances he could loaf pleasantly through the course. This article brought many letters to the Outlook. and the discussion took . pretty wide range. President Hib- ben addressed . conference of mas ters of church schools It Wayne, . Philadelphia suburb, and among the things he said was this: Men in the world must earn their bread by the sweat of their brows, but the student can acquire knowledge quite vicari- ously, without having to exert himself for it. He should be made to think his way out of difficulties himself" " Doctor Hibben declared that colleges connive in the tendency of the under graduate to postpone until tomorrow the task of today by making his work agreeable. The teacher helps him
 over any niculty.-Hartford Courant.
Williams news., 1915-11-18
conversIna With "Ghosts."

Some scientists of real eminence have accepted the postulate of the individuality and self-consciousness of the soul after the death of the body and have even attempted to demon strate their belief by asserting com munication with these disembodied spirits. Sir William Crookes, pro- found delver in chemistry pertaining to radio-activity, asserted years ago that he had had communication with souls of dead friends, but for several later years he has been silent anent this matter. Camille Flammarion, a rather speculative and sensational as, tronomer, declares that he has seen and conversed with the ghosts" of dead friends. Prof. William James, brother of Henry James. the novelist. promised before he died that if pos sible he would communicate with his friend. Professor Hyslop. both eminent psychologists. but at last accounts the soul of Professor James had not spoken.
Williams news., 1915-11-18
Edison and His lncandescent.

. According to friend, Thomas A. Edison is of the opinion that it was anger that first turned him toward in vesting the incandescent light, reports the Newark News. How it happened is related by the friend, who says:
 That was of course in the early days and MT. Edison was then quite the inventor that one reads of-poor, enthusiastic, never sleeping. He lived in small house innocent of anything approaching a laboratory; scientific devices were in every room, and all the money went for experiments. Then one day came the crisis in the guise of the collector for the gas con- pany. He had been in the house often, but Edison, hardly needing his calls, had waved him away, saying: Don't bother me.
 "On this last call the collectors in structions were peremptory. He must turn of the gas."
Williams news., 1915-11-18
KEEPS CHICKENS AT WORK
Chicago Man Employs Unique Device to Increase Production of Eggs
 During the Cold Weather.

A resident of Chicago is reported to have devised way to keep his chick ems up to their work during the win ter season, when the short days have an undesirable effect on the produc- tion of eggs. His plan is to provide his chickens with artificial light to work by, and he has installed a series of electric lights in his scheme, ac- cording to the Electrical Review:
 At six in the morning I turn on the switch, and the fowls get up, think ing it is daylight. The lights are turned off at daylight, when the neigh bors' fowls are just arising. At four the lights are turned on again, and they are kept going until nine at night, when I turn out all except the two candle-power lamps. These give just sufficient light to give the ap- pearance of dusk, and the fowls begin lamps lit all night, so that if any of the fowls want to get up at night to eat they can do so. Eleven days af- ter the lights were installed the daily average jumped from 26 eggs to S3. During the melting season under the old custom, when most of the food was going to feathers instead of eggs, I had only II eggs a day. Now I get 52 day during the moTting season. By my method I keep the chickens thinking they are getting the same amount of daylight ali the year round, and I am keeping them thinking all the time."
Williams news., 1915-11-18
STAGE FAVORITES NO MORE
Held That Negro Minstrel Companies Will Be Only Memory Before
 Many Years.

Of all the varied and manifold kinds of theatrical entertainment negro min strelsy is the one which is absolutely native to these states and which could not have come into existence any where else in the civilized world Here in America alone has the trans planted African been brought into in timate contact with the transplanted European. Other nations may have disputed our claim to the invention of the steamboat and the telegraph, but negro minstrelsy is as indisputably due to American inventiveness as the telephone itself Here in the United States it had it's humble beginnings; here it expanded and f1ourished for many years; from here it was export ed to Great Britain, where it estab- lished itself for many seasons; from here 1t made sporadic excursions into France and into Germany; and here at last it has fallen into decline and degeneracy and decay which seem to doom it to speedy extinction. Its life was little longer than that vouchsafed to man, threescore years and ten, for it was born in the fifth decade of the nineteenth century and in the second decade of the twen- tieth it fingers superf1uous on the stage with none to do it reverence.
 Time was when the negro minstrels held possession of three or four thea ters in the single city of New York and when a dozen or more troupes were travelling from town to town; and now they have long ago surren- dered their last hall in the metropolis and only two or three companies wind their lonely way from theater to thea ter throughout the United States. The few surviving practitioners of the art are reduced to the presentation of variety shows or to the impersonation of sparse negro characters in occa sional comedies. The Skidmore Guards who paraded so gayly at Har- rigan and Hart's are disbanded now these many years; Johnny Wild of joyous memory, is no more; and Sweatnam, bereft of his fellows in sable drollery, is seen only in chance comedy like Excuse Me-" or the County Chairman" George Christy and Dan Emmett and Dan Bryant have gone and left only fading mem ories of their breezy songs, their nim- ble dances, and their fiippant quips.- Brander Matthews, in Scribner's Magazine.
Williams news., 1915-11-18
GRADES IN MEXICAN ARMY
American Woman Learned Something From Visit Paid Her by Detach-
 ment of vIIstas.

Some years ago a humorous story went the rounds of the newspapers, about young lady who, at gather ing of the. Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, held her head exceedingly high, explaining her naughty demeanor on the ground that she was descended from a bona fide private soldier-the only private, she was convinced, in the Revolutionary hosts. The following incident would seem to indicate that the Mexicans who are fighting today are almost as well onicered" as the patriot army of the young lady's lively fancy.
 An American woman-now safe in the states-writes that five soldados of the Villista following one day rode in to her remote mountain camp. They were very decent fellows, and made no threats; still, in the absence of her husband, it seemed only wise to give them plenty of food and drink, also to yield gracefully to the request of one of the number, who said he was the captain, for the loan" of a blanket.
 Pretty soon a second warrior inti- mated that he, too, could use blanket to advantage in his campaigning, add ing that he, too, was captain. When third made the same request, also an nouncing his rank as that of captain, their hostess paused in her distribu- tion of blankets.
 Tell me-" she inquired politely, 'is this entire detachment composed of captains?"
 "Oh, no, senora!" replied the one who had first spoken. q am Captain Primero, this is Captain Segundo, and that Is Captain Tercero. Those"-in- dicating the two remaining-"are' the private soldiers"
 And at this the admiring senora. ac-
Williams news., 1915-11-18
REAL MONEY FROM THE OCEAN
Fishing Grounds Yield Abundance of Profit to Those Who Can Take
 Advantage of Them.

When one hears of the discovery of a new gold mine one is very apt to wink the other eye and hold trife tighter to the pocketbook. Also, there is no very great rush to the scene. But it is 2 different story when some al- truist fisherman discovers new fishing grounds and lets the world know of it. Then there is a real rush of fish ing boats, for the owners thereof know that such new discoveries are often real gold mines.
 Such has proved to be the case with the new halibut grounds discovered in the Pacific, lying due west from North Head, Wash, from 27 to 35 miles of the mouth of the Columbia river. These grounds, whose area and exact location are yet unknown, probably constitute a veritable bank lying inn mediately between two areas which the bureau of fisheries surveyed with the steamer Albatross last year.
 They are reported to be from 90 to 95 fathoms deep and are beyond the 100-fathom line given on tha charts.
 A small vessel fishing out of Puget sound caught 1S,000 pounds of hali- but on these grounds in one day, the largest single days take this vessel had ever made. During the three weeks ended June 3, 1915, over 100,0 900 pounds of halibut were brought in from the new gold mines of the ocean.
Williams news., 1915-11-18
United States Gold.

The actual amount of gold in the United States at the present time is estimated at somewhat over $2,000.- 000,000. The treasury statement of most recent date showed gold depos- ited in the United States treasury of s1,445, 100000, while the specie in na- tional banks is probably $500, ,000, ,O0O more. According to the last report the gold in the Bank of England was S335 100000; in the Bank of France, $S75, 100000; in the Bank of Germany, $6O2, 100000; in the Bank of Russia, sS25. 100000; Bank of Austria-Hun- gary, $255, 5,000,O00; the Bank of Italy, s225, 100000, and the Bank of Belgium, $75.OO0,000.
Williams news., 1915-11-18
Hudson Bay Road.

The competition of the Hudson Bay railway, now under construction from the Pas, Manitoba, to Port Nelson. will open . vast area of rich natural re sources. The whole region. with it's history and possibilities, is described in an illustrated volume entitled, "The Hudson Bay Road (14sS-1915),' by A. H. de Tremaudan, of the Manitoba Bar.
Williams news., 1915-11-18

cording to her own account, at onc> gave blanket to each of the two high privates in the rear rank"- moved by sympathy with them for De. ing explained firstly, secondly, and even thirdly, and also by admiration of them as being such rare birds!"- Youths Companion.
Williams news., 1915-11-18

war began that he would spend his next Christmas in Berlin.
 They accuse Gen. Carranza of obstinacy, although nobody ever did anything worth while about it.
Williams news., 1915-11-18
Makino Food From Straw

Professor Friedenthal of Berlin university is said to have discovered a new food prepared from straw. The discovery is said to be likely to revo- lutionize the food of the people
Williams news., 1915-11-18

Still it must be said of the Italian army that it is doing as well as anybody expected.
 King George deserves notice for never having said since the
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1915-06-24
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Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1915-06-24

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