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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-15
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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-15
New high record.
Baltimore

Furnished sbySW. W. Lanahan & Co.,
Main floor, Calvert building, Baltl-
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Court News
.peeda Flied.

Deeds Filed.
The following deeds were yesterday
filed with County Clerk a. G: Martin
for recording: 6
sJ.SWalter Barnes and wife to George
r. Barnes, a parcel OF land in the
Eighth Ward OF the city OF Fairmont.
Consideration. $1,000.
Licenses Issued.
The following marriage license was
yesterday issued by County Clerk A.
g. Martin:
Arthur B. Koontz, 80, of Charleston,
and Mary Watson Sipe, q, OF Fair
mont.
Guardians Named.
Nola Mckinney was. named guardian
OF Virginia Rictor. Bond Of s25 given.
Emma G. Brandt was named guard.
Ian OF George L. Brandt. Bond OF $500
furnished.
Administrator Named.
c. H. Brandt was named admins.
traitor Of the personal estate OF the
late g. Brandt. Bond Of $1,000 fur.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-15

Attention Ladies-Attend Feaster's
Big Jewelry Austion Sale tonight. A
beautiful Mesh Bag given away free
to some lady attending the sale.
Advt.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-15
TRUSTEES SALE OF REAL
ESTATE.

Pursuant to the terms and condi
tons of a decree OF the Circuit Court
OF Marion County, West Virginia. en-
tered on the 9th Jay of Noyembe,
1915, appointing the undersigned as
Trustee in the place and stead II
John Parks, Trustee by virtue of q
certain deed Of trust bearing date on
the END. day Of January, 1912, exc
cuted by Fred H. Dean and Rebecca
.. Dean, his wife, to John Parks
Trustee, and duly Of record in
the Clerks dice OF the County
Court Of Marion County, West Vir.
ginia, In Trust Deed Book No. So
page So, will sell to the highest bid.
der, on Thursday, December 90, 1915,
commencing at 2 O'Clock o. m.
At the front door of the Court
House OF Marion County, West Vir.
ginia. all the following described real
estate, situate in Marion County, West
Virginia, near the East Park Addition
to the City OF Fairmont, In what is
known as the Michael Section Of the
Google Addition, that is ot say:
Lot No. 2 In said Michael Section,
bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at stake In the North
East Boundary Line for Powell street,
at point So feet South East from
the intersection Of said Boundary Line
of g" Street, and running thence
N. 81 degrees q e 64.32 feet to a
stake; thence S SO degrees 90 E 20
feet to stake; thence S As degrees
25' W sos feet to stake; in said
North East Boundry Line OF Powell
Street; thence with the same N. As
degrees AZ w 80 feet to the place OF
the beginning, and being the same
real estate conveyed to Nancy A.
Summers by Michael Powell, by deed
dated December 20, 1911; and con.
veyed to the said Nancy A. Summers
to the said Fred H. Dean and Rebec.
ca F. Dean, and conveyed by the said
Fred H. Dean and Rebecca F. Dean,
to A. J. Reynolds. by deed dated Jan.
uary rs. 1915, which deed is record.
eed In Deed Book No. 202 page 100.
The said A. ]. Reynolds assuming
therein the obligation Of said Deed
of Trust.
Terms Of sale: Cash in hand on
day Of sale. -
Given under my hand this 3Oth day
PAUL G. ARMSTRONG,
Trustee.
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FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Household furniture and
axings. 120 Madison street, East
Park. 12.15-6t No. $40!
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING s ss:s S S94 ssss:
HELP WANTED-MALE
LOST AND FOUND

LoST-Silver friendship bracelet. Re-
turn to West Virginian Box 612 or call
Con Phone 5SS.W. 12-15.ot No. 6i2
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SPECIAL NOTICES
E6MiNIsTRaToR5s saiE

On December az, 1915, at o'clock,
?. NJ, l will offer for sale at public
auction. at the front door OF the
front door Of the Court House Of
Marion County, West Virginia, the fol.
lowing personal property belonging to
the estate of ]. c. Nay, deceased,
namely:
One first class convertible certifi.
cate In the Colony Holding Corpora.
ton, corporation organized under the
LAYS Of the State of California, calling
for Q units, OF the face value Of $500
each, issued to said ]. c. Nay under
date OF June 20, 1913, Registered Mum.
Der 80.
Also a like certificate calling for /
unit, face value. 5000. issued June 10,
1915, Registered Number 2414.
Terms, cash in hand on day OF sale.
JAS. "A. MEREDITH,
Administrator Of the Personal Estate
OF ]. 9. Nay, deceased. 12.13.K22.
TRUSTEES SALE OF REAL
ESTATE.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

was busted as manager of the Cleve- land Association team. Johnny Kling has quite baseball fs
 The great Cub pitching quartet of 1908 has been scattered. Pfeister is in the minors, Overall has quite baseball, Ruelbach is with the Newark Feds. and Miner Brown is out of baseball.
 Only two of the thirty-fve men who figured in the 1903 Boston Pittsburgh world series are still in major league baseball. Both played with the Pirates, One is Wagner, the other is Tommy Leach.
 Only six of the more than forty men who were eligible for duty in the 1905 Giants Athletics world series are still in big league baseball. MathewsOn is i still with the Giants, Roger Bresnahan i is managing the Cubs and doing the | bulk of the catching, Leon AmeS IS pitching for the Cincinnati Reds. Those three men wore Giant uniforms in 1905.
 Danny Murphy Eddie Plank and l Chief Bender are the only members of the 1905 Athletics who are now in the big leagues, and all three are with the l Feds
 Ed Walsh is the only member of the world champion 1906 White Sox team who is still in the big leagues Jiggs ! DOnOhue, Frank lSbell, Whltey Rake, Shortstops Davis and Tannehill, Out fielders Jones, Hahn and Dougherty Catcher Sullivan and Pitchers Owen | White and AltrOck-all of them have passed beyond major league view as players Jones has come back, but as a manager of the St. Louis Feds, not as player.
 Claude Rossman. first baseman; Ger many Schaefer, second baseman; OLeary, shortstop; Coughlin, third baseman-that was the pennant win ming infield of the 1908 Tigers. Killian Summers, Donovan, Mullin and Win ters participated in the 1908 world series battles, and not one of the in field and not one of the pitchers re- mains in the big leagues.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27
Pennant Winning Teams, ~
 Fresh In Mem Ory, Are Gone
WHAT great changes can come in. a - in tha of

WHAT great changes can come in. a
 few years in the makeup of pen iant winning ball teams? :.,
 Chris Mathewson is the only survivor of the 1905 Giant machine that battled with the Athletics in the world series of that year. Wildfire Frank Schulte is the Lost Mohican" of the 1907 Cub machine.
 But one can move a few years nearer and find that the wreclling of more modern baseball machines has been all most as complete.
 Heine Zimmerman, Schulte and Jim- my Archer are all that is left of the 1910 pennant whining clubs. Stuffy McInnis, Amos Strunk, Ira Thomas and Jack Lapp are the only four men still on the Athletics roster who helped to win the 1916 world series for the Ath- letics.
 Just five men of the twenty odd play CTS who battled under the Tiger stan dard in the 1909 world series are still on the Detroit payroll. Those men are: Ty Cobb. Sam Crawford. Oscar Stan age, George Moriarty and Ownie Bush.
 The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Iii gers in that series and only three mem bers of the 1909 Pirates are still in the employ of Barney Dreyfuss. They are Honus Wagner. Babe Adams and Catcher Gibson.
 Great changes have come in the makeup of the Boston Red Sox team in the past three years. When the Red Sox defeated the Giants in that memor- able eight game 1912 world series the baseball public figured that the Red Sox machine was one that would be kept intact for many years to come.
 But it hasn't been. Practically half of the 1912 Red SoX have since been sold, traded or released. Jake Stahl, who managed the team, was fired" the next season. Heir Yerkes, who cover ed himself with glory around second base is now with the Feds. Neal Ball and Clyde Engle. utility mere, were let out. Pitchers Hall and O'Brien were released as was Pitcher Hugh Bedient who now is in the Federal league Catcher Nunamaker was sold to the Yankees.
 Nine of the Giants who played in that 1912 series have passed along. Some are in the minors, some are with the traded.
 Only one man who battled for the Cubs in the 1908 world series is still battling under the Cub standard-and that man is Schultz. the last cog of the 1907 machine. Chance is gone. Evers is with the Braves Tinker is with the Chicago Feds Steirfcldt. the brilliant third sacker, is dead. Artie Holman is with the Cubs no more! Jimmy Sheck- ASd hasn't been heard from since be
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

sundry occasions. But last winter, be- tween plover hunts in the vicinity of Miami Fla, Doc Crandall went on ex- perimenting with his hobby and came close to perfecting it's delivery.
 Throwing Soap Bubbles"
 In a recent game at Buffalo Russell Ford was heaving hosts of slow ones, and Crandall, for a time, served some Of his knuckle balls to each batsman. Finally, on a protest over his calling of balls and strikes, Plate Umpire Jim my Johnstone addressed Crandall who was at bat, and Ford, who was pitch ing to his rival boXman, If you guys would quit throwing soap bubbles I'd be missing none of them," Johnstone For slow balls, and those with freak curves in particular are l
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27
MARATHON RACING HARD STRAIN

TNEAT Marathon racing is a strain on even the carefully trained athletes who participate in these long runs is shown by the recent report filed in connection with the Patriots day twen- ty-five mile race at Boston. The phy- sicians who examined and. weighed the Marathoners before and after the race reported an average loss of six and a half pounds during the road run, all though there were few cases of ex- treme exhaustion and none with per- manent injurious effects. The report is as follows:
 The weight of all the men starting, was taken. and after the race the weight af the a466t thigtX-6ya men ak
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27
War Hasn't Hurt Boxing In Eng

THAT the war has not deprived Eng
 fish sporting events of interest is indicated by the controversy regarding the Bombardier Wells Sergeant Dick Smith heavyweight battle, recently fought in London. Public prints have devoted considerable space to the ques- tion as to whether Wells was not knocked out by Smith previously to the round in which Wells was awarded the fight.
 In the eighth round Smith sent the Bombardier to the floor with a right to the body, and the referee who was outside the ropes, according to the English custom, had to enter the ring before beginning his count. Wells arose at nine and in the next round knocked out his opponent. As a result
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27
Confidence Is Half the Battle In Baseba

only little over two months, that they did not see how they could possibly be beaten.
 They went to Philadelphia just as sure that they were going to win the series as they were that they had al- ready won the pennant in their own league.
 For three days before the series open ed the team had this air of perfect con- fidence.
 It is quite doubtful whether the Braves could have beaten the Athletics last year in a seasons campaign if both clubs had been in the same league, but their supreme confidence carried them nervilN through a short series to an astounding victory. T
 Another illustration of what confi- dence can accomplish is the record that
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

of the controversy arising A bout it is likely that the Engl tenn of counting will be change
 The boxing expert of the News attacks the whole sy1 timing at the British ringsid method he characterizes as 'se) unsatisfactory and unreliable point of view of every one coT| He continues:
 Boxing is the one grand d fish sport that ought not to bl gered by pandering to the int| the contending parties. Eve1 ought to know that when he Il ed off his feet he must get onl within ten seconds or lose. n of the ten seconds ought to bd in only one way, and that i'd gong"
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

FRANK CHANGE used to say that
 confidence is half the battle in baseball. It certainly means a lot to a team to feel that it is going to win and to go into a game with the idea that it cannot be stopped. Oftentimes a weak team that happens to get on to a winning streak is much harder to stop than a stronger team which is in a slump and has lost confidence in it. self.
 This was never better illustrated than in the worlds series last fall, when the Boston Braves, contrary to all the dope, went in and established a record by winning the series in four straight games. The Braves had had such wonderful success in the National laa2uao going from last place to first in
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27
Crandall Pulls His Snake Ball on,
 The Eaters In the Federal Lead

FEDERAL league batters declare
 Mathewson's fadeaway, Ford's f1oaters and similarly famous slow balls will be forgotten, overshadowed to. ob- scurity, if Otis Crandall, the St Louis Feds portly right handler, once masters control of a snake ball." to perfect the delivery of which he has been laboring for the last eight years &,ys St Louis friend of CrandalPs.
 This year, for the first time the emil nent Doc is using this baff1ing ball to a considerable extent and with marked success, for he prefers, as yet, to use it principally when he has the batter "in a hole"-with two strikes and not more than as many balls.
 Waves Through Air.
 The snake ball has been so named by catchers who have received it for the sinuous route it takes after it has travelled some eighteen yards through the air. It does not "break'' widely, as do most slow curves. On the contrary, it appears to wave or rock in and out rarely deviating more than six or eight inches from the straight path it starts in to take to the catcher. The ball it. self does not appear to twirl in the last after it begins to wave" Fellow mem bers of the St. Louis club who have stood up and whiffed at the peculiar ball in batting practice say Crandalrs pet fooler looks as big as a balloon, but feels as fine as a French pea"
 Heretofore Crandall has not attempt ed to throw his odd one more than a dozen times in a season. It is inclined to travel high if the delivery is wild, and in the early years Of his experi- menting with the snake ball Otie threw past his backstop on numerous and
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

about as hard for umpires to
 for batters.
 Crandalls chief dificulty snake ball, aside from contr0l.
 to conceal the fact he is grid sphere for a knuckled dellvel has been proved on two occas| only two times Otie's slow one| hit safely. In Buffalo, sever| ago, it was perceived from d box that Crandall was fooling ball behind his glove, and sd dicted before the ball was Here comes a slow one" The| came, and the hitter, evidentl| had his eyes as wide open as tl of the press coop, straightened twister, and it went for a q clout.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

bunt, the existing method of, sliding so as to perfect stealing a base and a dozen other tricks that made him fa- nous.
 Early in the history of the game George Wright, the famous shortstop of the old Boston team, with some pitcher whom he paid out of his own pocket, would practice for hours at a time the batting of a ball until he so perfected himself in the art of hitting that he could invariably hit a daisy
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

to become perfect. When John J. Mo GTaw broke into the game he was at the ball park every morning at o'clock, so say the historians of the sport, and raCticed batting and base running and sliding to bases and mak- ing unexpected but successful plays, with only the boys of the sand lots playing with him, for hours before the regulars showed up for practice. It was then and there he thought out the hit-and-run play, the delayed steal, the
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

give Brainard a chance to show at .ne initial statiorl. 2. Sot" far he has ma de. good. If he falls off in his playing Merkle will be sent back to first:
 Pittsburgh seems to have picked up a good man in Johnson. He has plug ged up that once great weak spot in the Pirates. infeld i'm great shape. Gin. ciinnati has a coming star in Mollwitz' while Schmidt continues to put up his steady game for the Boston Braves. This shows that every" team in{S the
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

the clubhouse The average loss in weight of these thirty five was six and one-half pounds. ~~ The weight loss of; the winner was seven and one-half, pounds. of the second prize winner six and: one half pounds and of the third prize winner five pounds. The largest
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

Joe Tinker made against Chrisd
 ewson for several years. Joel ordinary 200 or .270 batter duri of his career as a Cub. His b| was the season he was managd
 Reds, when he hit .317, but us was several points below the 3I Yet he could hit Matty all owed He was convinced that be had| number, and the great pitcher| seemed to think so, too, for hd hated to see Joe come up to In one season alone Tinker N games from New York simpil individual batting against Mat
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

More bases should be stole league" ...
 That's one of the notices ence Rowland, the Chicago w pilot. And he says it with al to the catchers.
 "The odds should all favor ner," says Rowland. That should if he really knows ho, bases. Most base runners WI steal and don't get away witfI know how to steal.
 They should be off with tn of the pitcher. And when wat, pitcher to get his start the tI ner should watch not the twirl shoulders or hands. as most H ners try to do.
 There's only one part of tl CTS anatomy the base runnd keep his eye on. That's the feet.
 '"The twirler must have hil the direction in which he ir hurl the ball, and by watc| pitchers feet any base runner| any speed at all should get al most of the steals"
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27
National is we'll fixed in first basemen.

National is well fixed In first basemen.
 In the@ American there are also number of stars. Gandil of the Wash ingtons is a corker, Detroit has gem in Burns. Philadelphia still has the brilliant little Stuffy McInnis. Chi cago has good man in Fournler: Gainer is putting up a steady game for the Boston Red tSox..' Kirke has been holding down bag No: 1 for the CleveI Hand Indians in 4 fine style all season New York seems to have picked up a.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

loss in weight was nine and one-half pounds, the smallest loss three and one-half pounds. No contestant was prevented from starting in the race and all that finished were in good condi- tion. The condition of the three prize winners was notably good.'
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

LARRY MILAN OUT s5.| I ,ARRY MILAN says he Il
 fined $5,C00 in three years ous baseball clubs.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

good man m rpp, and St. Louis has landed a conner, say the exnerts in Sisler.
 The Federal league is also well equipped with first basenen. Of the number, Stovall of Kansas City, Huhn of Newark and Myers of Brooklyn are the leaders.
 One thing the old time ball play CTS had on the present day athletes was their willingness to practice hard
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

rT.ccos by American Press Association. Brooklyn. 3.-Johnson of Pittsburgh. 4.-McInnis of Philadelphia. 5.-Lu- derus of Philadelphia. 6.-Pipp of che New York Americans. 7.-Merkle of the New York Giants. 8.-MoIl- witz of Cincinnati.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27

lave a apable man at the initial sack
 Brooklyn has gem in Jake Daubert
 The latter stands head and shoulders above all others: Chicago has good one in Vic Safer, and so has Philadel- pili:. inSLuderus. Hyatt has been play ing good game. for St. Louis. Brain ard supplanted Fred Merlxle at first for the New York Giants not because Fred fell of.5in his playing but for the req son that Manager McGraw wanted to try Merkie as m outer gardener and5to
New Britain herald., 1915-08-27
By TOM MY CLARK.

~ GOD first basemen seem to be plentiful this season. Nearly
 .Sss zssevefy teafTif ef tfli the NatfofsaI, R%1%American and Federal leagues,