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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-28
THREE-CORNERED FIGHT FOR
SOX FIELD JOB GROWS WARM
BY Mark Shields

Every game the White SoX play in
the west makes it more evident that
Memo LiebOld will be a hard man to
keep from a regular job in right field
and the honor of heading the batting
order. Memo has been displaying in
left field since Joe Jackson went on
the injured list and he has slugged
with tremendous effect, slashing into
the pitchers even harder than Jack
son was.
EIdred retains the berth vacated by
John Collins and tops the batting ar
ray, but the newcomer is not as
sured of his place. He hits well, runs
the bases intelligently and knows
what to do with the ball. His only
weakness is in his throwing arm, a
handicap which Liebold doesn't labor
under.
For that right-fieId berth it is a
peppery, three-cornered fight, with
Eddie Murphy the other member of
the trio. OF the three candidates,
Liebold is by far the better fielder,
both in retrieving a ball and in get
ting is back to the diamond. Eldred
has the next place in defensive
worth, with Murphy trailing.
But the former Mackman is such
a powerful agent on attack that he
causes his fielding deficiencies to be
overlooked. LiebOld might OUthit
him through a season, he might even
walk Oftener because of his diminu-
tive stature - though Murphy is a
willy man at working pitchers-but
once on base there is no man on the
,Scx. roster, regular or recruit, who
can worm himself around the bases
as Murphy can.
No matter which of the candidates
Manager Rowland picks for regular |
duty, it is a certainty that right field !
viii be a stronger link in the Sox
chain than it was in 1916.
Risberg appears to have cinched a !
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ALL SORTS-BOXING
place for himself at short. In the
games against Texas league clubs he
has lived up to all the promises his
work in training camp gave rise to.
He has fielded tightly and his safe
hits have been frequent and sound.
He drives the ball sOlidly and ring
ingly from his bat and uses excellent
judgment in picking the pitches to
slam at.
His one deficiency is ability to bunt
runners ahead. His lack in this de-
paTtment is something that is being
remedied through diligent drill, and
by the time the season opens he
should be a desirable man to come
second in the batting order.
Againt Galveston, Eddie Cicotte
pitched nine innings, being the
fourth SOx pitcher to travel the full
distance in the past week. This is a
tribute to the condition of the hurl-
ers and promises much for their
work when the season gets into full
swing. Reb Russell is the only reg
ular who has not yet gone the dis
lance and such a performance will
not be asked of the southpaw for a
few days.
Catcher Dolly Gray, taken from
the Western league by the Sox, has
been released to Fort Worth. This
means Jenkins and Walter Mayer
must fight for the third backstop Job
with the South Siders. Jenkins had
an excellent record with the Texas
league last year. Mayer has been
with the SOX before.
Three thousand miners in Miami,
ATiz., saw their team trimmed by the
Cubs, 5 to 8. The miners paid a dol
lar each for the privilege and the
Cubs received rs per cent of the re-
ceipts. Reckoning on that basis, the
game was a resOunding success.
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certainly not; you'd think might get some rest and peace after the turmoil
 and strife of the life I've led with you, sir. But it's brutal thing, just the same, MT. Caudle; brutal It's like those
 monsters over in the Indies who call themselves men. That's what they are like, men who would provide in their wills so that their wives shouldn't have any money if they married again."
 However, it's no matter to me sir, how you leave your will; it may matter to your second wife, but not to your first Whats that? I shall never give you a chance? Ha, ha! That's where you don't know me, sir You don't know that my constitution is fading daily, be- coming less and less strong every day that 1 i've. I'm not the woman that 1 was a year ago, Mr. Caudle, not at all. I say nothing about it, SIT but YOU don't know my feelings But that's neither here nor there. The point is just this: I have one little tiny favor to ask of you before I die, and that is when you marry again please, please, for my sake, for the sake of our beloved chil- dren, for the sake of the comforts you've known as a married man, for the saka of the wife I've been to you, MT. Cau- dle, please, please, don't marry that lit tie Tattletale hussy. When you marry again, MT. Caudie-Whats that? You never will marry again, you promise
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a widow Now, if there Is anything in the world that is mean and little it is
 just that attitude of man toward the
 wife of his heart. Don't you think so,
 Mir Caudle? Why don't you answer?
 Why don't you speak? I never try to have a rational conversation with you but what you turn over and want to go to sleep. But then you never were like other men. Whats that? How do I know? Isn't that just like your aggra- vating self? I never open my lips but that you try to put me off by some silly, foolish remark. I've no doubt if that Tattletale mink would speak on such matters, that you'd answer her properly enough. Whats that? There go again? Well, why not? I guess can mention that persons name if I choose Why can't 1 leave her out of the conver- sation? Certainly, with all my heart who wants to talk about her, anyway? I don't, I'm sure; only you always say something that's certain to bring up her name.
 What was I about to say, MT. Cau- dle? Oh, yes; about how some men bind their widows. To my mind there's noth- ing so little, as man forbidding his wife to marry again without losing what he leaves. It's what I call selfishness after death. It's like a man taking his wife into the grave with him, I think. Whats that? You'd never want to do that? No,
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word, sir; not another word: but after
 the way I've taken care of you-after
 the wife I've been to you-after the
 comforts you've been used to all of which
 have been provided by my own hands, know she wouldn't be the wife for you, MT. Caudle. You might marry the
 Queen of the Cannibal Isles, for all the difference 1t would make to me then. but it's just your comfort I'm thinking of, MT. Caudle. Mind you! I'm not say ing anything against that Tattletale minX; not word; but there's a fiighti- ness in her manner. MT. Caudle, a giddi- ness-a foolishness-I dare say the poor thing means no harm It's Just her man ner, after all Still, MT. Caudle, she's not the one to make you a good wife. after what you've been used to; she'd make you perfectly wretched
 I've always prided myself upon my manner, MT. Caudle; my dignity and my l know that wives who are over anxious in this way are not usually as well thought of by their husbands as those who are not-still--it's next 10 nothing to be virtuous if people don't seem so. What's that? Am I going to preach upon virtue? No; certainly not; but I want to remind you of what once heard you say to old MT. Gottrox at a party one night; of course, you were very full MT. Caudle, and doubtless you do not remember ever making the re-
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mark, but what you said was this: Vir- tue in women is beautiful thing, pro- viding they don't make a lot of noise about it. There are some women who think virtue was given to em as claws were given to cats (yes, cats was the word) to do nothing but scratch with. You don't recollect ever saying such a thing? Of course not; as I said before you were full; soused; drunk. But you spoke the truth, MT. Caudle and remem- Der, Tn vino Veritas.' Remember.
 But we won't talk about that, MT. Caudle. The main thing Is that want you not to tie my hands and feet by the words of your will whereby If I want to marry again (which of course l would not; I couldn't be induced) I-well-er- -er-I might do so without losing the money Of course a second marriage would never enter my head, MT. Caudle except l was tied bodily by your will. That sort of thing aggravates many a poor widow into wedlock again simply because she was spited by her husbands $ will, and it's only natural since she must have some support-something to lean upon-some dependence. If I thought, MT Caudle, that you'd be mean enough 10 make such will and handicap me that way, although you were dead and gone Id marry again just to show you that still had some spirit left, despite the fact that you had almost taken it away
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Pearls Before Klein

Klein is a ball player. When a famous manager heard of him he sent his scout to look him over. This is what H. c. Witwer says about Klein, the manager and the scout in American Magazine:
 "'Up where he performs they call him "No-Hit Klein" If you get him sewed to a contract you can fire everybody on the team but the catcher and first base man, and win the pennant by 30 games..'
 "As soon as I read that, I sent for Jim OHara, the scout. Some claim that Jim discovered George Washington but I don't really think he's as old as that although he was bald-headed when Hans Wagner was playin with rattle. He W as born with a look of suspicion on his face and thirst for Scotch whisky in his throat, and he's never changed either of 'em since never seen him smile, weep, excited or stewed If you told him the Brooklyn bridge had just fell into the East river, he'd say, 'Yeh7' and go right on readin the paper, and if you brought up a guy, saying. Jim, meet my friend the ex-Czar of Russian Jim would say, Howdy! What is he, pitch err
 T sat in the grandstand with him one time and we seen Ty Cobb get five hits in six times at bat. Some ball player, hehn I hollers to Jim, slappin him on the back when Cobb has tripled the fifth time up Well, the big stiff is gettin' the money. ain't he? growls Jim, What dye want him to do-fan" i"
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everyday, work-a-day warfare of up which you know, just to go home and
 start will make up everything to me. Success is assured. Victory is mine, either way. Now, or at the end of long, useful, worthwhile life of service.
 'The Canadians have certainly played
 a big part in the war. If only Uncle
 Sam had taken off his coat year ago so as to have started this spring!
 Preparations are being made to train
 United States troops over here, and it
 will be great day for me when I shall be able to meet them. Let us pray 1t won't be far distant. Well, I have been
 writing quite a time. and hope the cen sor will be kind enough to pass my letter.
 You might tell the world for me that Sherman made no mistake when he said,
 War is hell but he didn't have much , of conception of hell. The awful ruin Lof the very soil itself which was once I fair and fruitful will never admit, of
 another war. The man in the future
 who talks of the glory of war will be
 shot on the spot Or if he just thinks it, he will be destroyed by the wrath of God. The guns whose rumble has increased steadily in three years to B
 now appalling thunder will be a warn ing for all time"
 Thus wrote Creighton R. Storey. Jr. from the battle front in France to his
 mother in Albany, N. T., on June 6,
 three short weeks before his father, the Rev. Dr. Creighton R. Storey, rector of Trinity Episcopal church, received one-line cablegram from the British war office: Creighton R. Storey, Jr, killed in action June 24."
 In the letters of this young soldier he was only p when the end came
 there is expressed an exaltation of spirit, a simplicity of faith and a willingness
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Every druggist here, yesl your druggist and everybodys druggist has noticed great falling off in the sale of calome They all give the same reason. Dodsons Liver Tone is taking its place.
 "Calomel is dangerous and people know it while Dodson's Liver Tone is safe and gives better re- suits, said prominent local druggist. Dodson's druggist A large fanilysized bottle costs only so cents and if you find it doesn't take the place of dangerous salivating calonel you have only to ask for your money back
 sDodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant-tasting, pure ly vegetable remedy, harmless to both children and adults Take spoonful at night and wake up feeling fine, no sick headache, biliousness, ague,
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Path to Deathless Life

Conkl1n Mann, in Lesltes
 The most far-reaching messages of the great war are not coming through the spoken or written word Of those high in power. The real inspiration for Ameri- ca, the spark that Is kindling the sleep ing fires of her peoples patriotism, burns not in the intellectual generalities of statesmen, but in the simple revela- tions of devotion to duty that come from the Alan Seegers and Creighton R. Storeys, when gifted with the power of expressing the depth of feeling which in- spires the millions who fight and bleed and die that freedom may not vanish from the earth
 "If it should come to pass that am called to lay down my life on the altar of freedom, rejoice, mother-o' mine, that it was Your sons privilege-nor shed a single tear. for 1t shall not have been in vain!
 T may not be spared to see you again. but it has all been worth while. If am to be given a chance in the days to come to prove my right to live in the
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"THE LAST WEAPON"

By Theodora w. Wilson. The John
 Winston Publishing company, 1006
 Arch street, Philadelphia, publishers.
 The Last Weapon" by Theodore w. Wilson is a real vision of a new and better way-a real Christian mes sage which will appeal to everybody.
 Among those who have read '"The Last Weapon" is one who says of it.:
 Whatever the philosophy on which may be defended. at least let it not be waged In the name of God nor let it under the title of Christianity com are calling the church to fulfil the opportunities of spiritual leadership by giving mankind a new vision of Christ's way of life.
 Victor Hugo said: There is one thing that is stronger than armies, and that Is an idea whose time has come
 Has not the time come now for our own Christian America as nation to demonstrate an Irresistible mani festation of love to all the warning peoples in some heroic way that will reach the heart of ai1 humanity? Would not a great federal appropria- ton to help to restore the shattered nations of Europe as soon as the war is stopped. not only owerwhelm the peoples with a new world weapon ktndness-but be in itself the best pre- paredness for our own future safety from attack, as well as lay the founda tion for new relationship of the na- tions to be formed out of the present chaos?'
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ITO THE LAST PENNY.

By Edwin Leferve. Harper Brothers,
 publishers, New York.
 In Edwin Leferve's very enjoy able and entertaining story, ITO the Last Penny" we are introduced to hero, Thomas Francis Leigh is little over 21 and just graduated from college, where he had been very popular. and generally known as Tommy Leigh. He had come home to the old house in Twelfth street. in which his father had lived alone for many years, his mother having died when he, Tommy, was born, expecting that his life. which so far had been one Hong joy ride" was not to be greatly changed-at least for sometime. And then one pleasant morning his father bade him come into the library and there in formed him that he had cost, in all, a trifle over $17.000. according to the careful account which he had kept. MT. Leigh's own salary at the bank with which he was connected had been for the last 14 years. he told his son, s2500. Tommy's expenses each year had been very nearly as much as that, and there was the rent of the house to be paid, and its upkeep. Poor Tommy was, of course, utterly be- wildered. And then the final blow came with his fathers question: T ask you. as grown man, what does an old and trusted bank employe always do who spends much more than his salary?"
 So 1t happened that Tommy. with the shadow of possible disgrace hang ing over him and a firm determination to pay back ito the last penny" all that his father had stolen in order to give him the opportunities, the edu . cation. and the friends his mother had wished him to have, sought and got a job with the Tecumseh Motor conn pany. The greater part of the book Is given over to an interesting though perhaps somewhat roseate. account of his experiences in that model institu- ton. where his friendliness. his innate generosity and trustfulness made him just as popular al he had been at col 1ege. Thompson, the head of the con cern. is a very up-to date person with. rather unusual ideas upon the re- semblance between college and factory. and uses Tommy to help him put his theories into practice. For the novel, though not without the usual love interest. is primarily business story. the story of how the changes which have taken place in the point of view of certain type of progressive business man were worked out in one
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to make the final sacrifice for the great cause that ranks them among the su- preme of the many noble messages this war has furnihsed to the literatur of the world No other period in history has been so rich in the nobility of self revelation as the past three years, and in the letters of this young American, who crossed the sea to fight under the British flag in the greatest cause for
 which man has ever battled, there breathes the true spirit of the heights of sacrifice to which liberty may call her devoted sons.
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sour stomach or clogged bowels. Dodsons Liver Tone doesn't gripe cause inconvenience all next day like calomel
 Take a dose of calornel tonight and tomorrow you will feel sick, weak and nauseated. Don't lose days workl
 Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver medicine You'll know it next morning because you will wake up with your head clear, your liver active, bowels clean, breath sweet and stomach regulated You will feel cheerful and full of vigor and ready. for hard days work.
 You can eat anything afterwards without risk of salivating yourself or your children
 Get bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone and try it on my guarantee. You'll never again put dose of nasty, dangerous calomel into your stomach.
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THE BANKS OF coLNE." :"

By Eden Phillpots The Macmillan
 company, publishers, New York.
 Never has Mir Phillpots found a more congenial setting for story than the one chosen for his most recent novel-"The Banks of Colne." The background is a great flower nursery and landscape gardening concern in the Devon country, with g1inpses of the oyster fisheries on the coast. How happy the author must find himself in these surroundings Is evidenced iI. e recent description of his home at Torcuay a charming little town built on seven hills overlooking the English channel. His own garden the author laughingly calls the greatest of his works. Here are plants and flowers in a great profusion of varieties, many of which have been sent to him by admirers in faraway countries. Roses from Virginia share his attention with Towering shrubs from Australia. In his garden the author finds his favo- rite recreation and here he undoubt- edly draws inspiration for some of those marvellous descriptive passages in which his works abound In "The Banks of Colne" MT Phillpotts' pas sionate love of nature and his genius for description find ample scope. The characters develop logically from their surroundings and the natural settings seem to envelope and color their souls. From the very start "The Banks of Colne" Is filled with unusual situation, and though the climax comes as a startling surprise, it is both natural and dramatic. The story turns on the inevitable result of evil doing in one case and wrong Judgment in a great crisis of love and devotion in the other.
 The plot and characters of Mir. Phill- potts new novel. The Banks of Col ne." are drawn from two intensely in- teresting industries of the Devonshire country-a great flower nursery and
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and sympathetic understanding must precede any peaceful solution.
 His Own Country" is story of tidewater Virginia, and the race prob lem as MT. Hester has come to see it after years of experience, observa tion and study.
 His Own Country is big enough to carry in it's action all the phi losophy, all the sociology, all the facts of race and science that are necessary to a clear and logical exposition of the problem.
 His Own Country is, from begin ming to end, a vast moving drama en- acted and interpreted by great com pany of characters You will find when you read it that MT. Hester has con tributed to the literature of his coun try one of the three or four recent American novels worthy of lasting re- mem brance
 Nearly 10 years ago the idea of this novel came to MT. Hester. But creat ing and seeing produced half dozer. plays delayed work on the book till about three years ago. Since then he has given himself to it's exclusively.
 WHITE NIGHTSt
 (And Other Russian Impressions) by
 Arthur Ruhl; illustrated from photo graphs Charles Scribners Sons pub= lishers New York.
 Arthur RuhTs interesting and very we'll written book entitled, White Nights and Other Russian Impressions" is the outcome of much time spent in various parts of Russia all of it appar- entity filled with the effort to get close to the people, to understand them, and to portray them exactly as they are to American readers Some of the book has haen written a 1aaGt rauiSad since the revolution in Russia, and when ever that seems to have changed condi- tions or prospects he points out its modi- fications. It is an excellent and color ful piece of reporting in which the author has endeavored to eliminate personal feelings and sympathies and to make a clear and truthful picture of life and peo- pie and character He gives an account of trip to the battlefront; one chapter Russian prison camp one to an account of the Volga refugees and another tells of a trip to Rumania. But the rest of the book is concerned largely with un- warlike themes, such as the Moscow Art theatre, a visit to the manufacturing works of Russian cotton king, and cahrming account of a lazy trip down the Volga
 For Americans who at this time are watching events in Russia with anxious eyes and apprehensive thoughts added to it's intrinsic interest because of the simplicity of the glimpses it gives, un- biased by either too much or too little sympathy and admiration, of Russian ways of thinking and living and Rus sian attitudes toward life. On the whole, those glimpses will be found reassuring, for they bring out the underlying democ- racy of Russian life and character, and the training in team work the nation has been having ever since the begin ming of the war.