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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-14

along similar lines and post-season se- rles could be played between the sec- tonal winners to determine the national championship.
 The advantages of such system, it's packers declare, would do away with long railroad jumps, which are seldom prof. itable and often produce big loss for the teams paying the expenses.
 Attendances, it has been shown, are seldom large at preliminary elimination games, but for final games to decide championships it is usually not a difff- cult thing to obtain expense money. There have been claims that while some teams have used only pure amateurs, others have employed professionals, re- sulting in complete and sometimes ig- ncminous defeats for the amateurs
 The president of the federation is Clay ton Townes of Cleveland, and the secre- tary is Tom Nokes of Johnstown, Pa.
 Cities to be represented at the January meeting are Pittsburg and Johnstown, Pa, Canton. Cincinnati. Dayton, Cleve. land, Columbus, Toledo and Akron O.. Detroit. Louisville, Chicago, New Orleans Des Moines and Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-14
Baseball Talk Begins To Enliuen Sportdon

New York, January 13.-Eastern football authorities are extremely doubtful regarding the financial suc- cess of a professional football league backed by baseball magnates, or in fact any similar organization. While any and all the big league club manage ments stand ready to rent the baseball parks, during the off season, to re- sponsible parties there is not the slight est evidence that the magnates would delve into their money bags and bring forth the coin necessary to establish a league of elevens, such as has been suggested recently in the middle west.
 Professional football Is nothing new in the east and the financial frost that followed it's introduction in this sec ion has not been forgotten, despite the fact that 1t Is 1T years since the scheme was first tried out in he state of Penn- sylvania. The game of football is so peculiarly interwoven with college and school traditions and sentiment that it fails to flourish in any oher way. This was clearly demonstrated in the carly nineties when professional elevens and a league were established in Pennsyl- vania with teams playing for Pitts burg, Philadelphia, Latrobe, Homestead and Greenburg.
 The eastern college football field was finecombed for star players just grad uated, and the personnel of the va- rious elevens read like an all-American combination. Salaries ranging from $500 to S1500 per season were paid with all expenses and hospital treatment guaranteed in case of accident. Famous players were attracted by the big money offered and the teams played football of the most thrilling and ultra type. Among those who figured in the professional games were the Indian brothers Bemis and Haw1ey Pierce; Dave Fultz, Roller, later a wrester; Gammons, Wallace and many more, some of whom had been selected for all-American teams while still under graduates.
 The first few games were fairly large gatherings of spectators. but the novelty soon wore off and the attend- ance rapidly dropped away until at the end of the season the packers of the clubs were forced to go into their pockets to make up the deficit. Officers of the Philadelphia American and Na- tional league clubs financed the Quaker City teams, while the big steel com panies and athletic clubs were inter-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-14
TWO INSTANCES SHOW PLAYERS ARE BEHIND FULTZ'S STATEMENTS
Harold Janvrin of Red Sox and Red Smith of Braves Refuse to Sign Contract Until Ordered
 by Eultz

Boston. January 13.-Two instances of support by major league players of the Baseball Players Fraternity demands in behalf of minor league members devel- oped here today.
 Harold Janvrin. who played second base for the Boston Americans in the last worlds series. announced his dissatisfac- tlon with the terms of his proffered con- tract, and said he would not sign 1t un- til pernlission was given him by Presi- dent David l.. Fultz of the fraternity.
 His statement followed closely the re- fusal of J. Carlisle Smith, third base man of the Boston Nationals, to sign q contract during a conference nth Presi- dent F. D. Haushton, although Smith said the terms were satisfactory.
 Most of the members of local teams are members of the players organization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-14
Biz Spring Exhibition Tour Arranged for BrdDes- Tanks

Boston, January 134(SpeciaI) ) What is easily the most pretentious spring exhibition tour ever arranged by two major league clubs will be that of the Boston Braves and the New York Yankees. for whom there has been scheduled no less than II joint games on their way north from their respective training camps at Miami, Fla, and Macon. Ga.
 This scheme of 9 joint exhibition tour was originated by Business Man and since early last summer he has been at work making the necessary arrangements Only last week did he return from the south. where he went to sign contracts with the. various To- cal organizations under the auspices of which the games are to be played Heretofore major league clubs have found that the customary spring ex- hibition games not only failed to pro- duce real practice for the club itself, being pitted as 1t was against team of some minor league, but also the revenue derived from such exhibition games amounted to practically noth- ing. The new plan of having two major league clubs tour together in- sures red-hot practice and under the basis which the two teams are to ap- pear includes very substantial rev. -enae from the spring exhibition games larger than was ever before received
 The Braves and the Yankees are ev- anywhere appearing on the flat quar- fan of md fv, ,.at tIyrr, fo,. +, same the club agrees to use their reg ular first string players throughout and there will be no second team playing elsewhere at the same time The contracts, for the most part, have been signed with the local Chambers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-14
ATHLETIC HURLERS
 60 ID CRACKERS

Atlanta, January 13-Pitchers Bressler and Sheehan. for the past two years mem bers of Connie Mack's tail-end Athletics, will wear Cracker uniforms during the coming season, these players having been turned over to Manager Charles Frank, evidently as part payment for Outfielder Frank Thrasher, now with the Mack men.
 Bressler is southpaw and Sheehan a right-hander. Both of these twirlers per- formed as we'll as could be expected of any twirlers with tail-end team in the majors and such 0 team as the Athletics were the past two seasons.
 Little is said of Sheehan, but Connie Mack recommends Bressler highly and predicts that he will be winner with the Crackers.
 This is but the first step on the part of Manager Frank to bolster the Crack ers' twirling staff. but neither of the new acquisitions can be considered cer- tainties They must show that they have the goods before the Dutchman vii con slider them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-14

of Commerce. who will use these ex- hlbition games as a means of bring ing their cities into prominence Ill every case the mayor of the city where the teams are to appear has agreed to guarantee a half holiday on the day Of the game and in nearly every in- stance special excursions will be run by the railroads. Although most of the games are to be played in places of comparatively small population 1t Is expected that the crowds in many in- stances will run close to 5000 persons
 Business Manager Hapgood has pur- posely arranged these games for small CT towns where games between major league clubs are unknown and where single major league player is re- garded as very much of a curiosity. The enthusiasm that has been shown in these towns where any of these games are to be played is most sur pr1sing. The trip will be made in a special train of seven cars with diner attached, which insures far more com fort for the players on the trip than if they were obliged to depend on some of the hotels encountered en route. The tour will begin Monday March 2e, when the entire city of Macon will turn out under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce to give the
 Yankees, who have been training in that city, royal send off on the opening game of the exhibition tour. With the exception of Good Friday, April 6, all of the games have been definitely contracted for. The list is as follows:
 Monday, March 26. Macon, Ga: Tues day. March 27, Dublin, Ga; Wednes- day. March 28. Cordele, Ga; Thursday. March 29. Dothan; Friday. March 30, Moultrie, Ga; Saturday. March 21
 Waycross. Ga; Sunday April i, no game Monday, April 2, Columbia, S.. C.; Tuesday, April 3. Florence, s. C.. Wednesday, April 4. Wilmington, g.. c.; Thursday, April 5, Fayetteville, N. C.; Friday, April 6, pending,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-14
Fuzzy Woodruff Pays High Tribute to Carlton Moles-
 worth, BarOns' Boss
WILL NEVER
 BE TOUCHED AGAIN
Crouching Position at Plate Caused Him to Get a Swing at Hard, Straight Ball = Batted
 Over 300 for Years
By FUZZY WOODRUFF

Atlanta, JanuafgS 13.-Every now and then you pick u1kth sporting pages of our southern sheets and you see some thing there about the wondrous record of Lajoie with the hit stick over De- riod of years Coupled with speculation as to whether these marks will be equaled or approached by Cobb, Jackson and Speaker, and other present day slug gers, they always make interesting read ing, despite the fact that the same story is printed every three weeks with the same regularity observed by the tax col lector and the vernal equinox in their annual visitings.
 There is a batting record right here in the Southern league, though, that is largely overlooked-but that is the cus- tom of the south. Southerners are too prone to admire the things of foreign cline when they have just as good or bet ter right at home. I've no doubt that if New York boasted a cotton patch, some enthusiastic residents of Dixie would come back from two weeks trip to the eastern metropolis and tell of the beautiful cotton he saw in gay Gotham. Such is the way of the world that lies in the wake of the Mason and Dixon line.
 Now, MT. Rabid Southern League Bug, did you know that all batting records for minor league are held by a player still identified with this circuit, a man who broke into the Southern association in it's infancy, and is now one of it's fore most figures? I refer my countrymen, to Carleton Molesworth, the fat but capable leader of the Birmingham Barons. And say right here, without fear of contra diction, that this minor league hitting record will never be approached, for no player with the hitting ability of Moley will ever again be allowed to remain in minor league over the span of years that the fat Baron chief has been in the Southern league.
 STARTED IN 1902
 Moley broke into this circuit in 1902 with Chattanooga. He hit better than 300 that year and every year thereafter he hit above the magic mark, until he retired from active participation in the pastime in 1912. with the exception of his last year, when managerial woes and worries caused his eye to be dimmed or his skill to be lessened, or something.
 But the most remarkable feature of his hitting record came after he had retired from the diamond. During the cam paigns of 1913 and his pennant winning year of 1914, the Barons were in dire need of regular hitter Their attack had gone to the blooming bowWows and nothing could restore the old Baronial punch.
 So Moley, fat with the life of ease on the bench, once more squirmed into his old uniform and once more oiled up his hit-gashed war club. Both times he stayed in the fray until his hitting lead ership had restored confidence in the club, and on each occasion he hit far better
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-14
Future of Amateur Baseball League To Be Decided Soon

The future of amateur baseball as a nationally organized sport will be Sde- cided at a meeting of delegates of 8 score of cities at Toledo January 19.
 There are a number of important ques- tions to be. discussed at this meeting, which will decide whether the associa- tion is to represent amateur or semi professional ball and whether the name, "National Federation of Amateur Base bali Clubs,'' is to designate national or sectional organization.
 There is movement on foot to make the organization sectional-that is, to in- clude teams east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio.
 Those who favor this plan suggest that southern, middle western and Pacific coast associations might be organized
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-14

Molesworth was and is one of the few really scientific hitters of the game. Dur ing his long career, I doubt if he hit at dozen balls that weren't over the plate or corner thereof. He attributed his hitting powers to this and the peculiar crouchng attitude he assumed when at bat You all remember that batting pose-the chubby Moley leaning far over with his head hanging over the middle of the pan.
 This head was tempting to all pitchers They all believed they could make Moley move it. They all fired at it and the ball was generally fired right back at them with the added speed that Moley's bat gave it.
 When they threw at my head" says Moley, they always did what I wanted them to do. My head was over the mid- dle of the plate, and when I strengthened up the ball was just where I wanted it., and I mauled it to kingdom come"
 The method is fine but there are few ball players with the temerity to all low speed kings to fire at their era niuni.
 But Moley was no ordinary ball player. Do you get me?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-14

Mary Berry was the well-rhymed name of an English author. She and her sister were devoted friends of Horace Walpole. who remembered them in his will, and whose library author in 1790.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-14
Do You Know 'Em?

From the Kansas City Star.
 Some men insist on so much system, observes Ebert Severance. that they ard always behind with their work keeping up their system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-14
A SCIENTIFIC HITTER

than .s0o-which is a record unique in the annals of baseball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-14

ested in the other elevens of the group, which continued for two or three years. with constantly changing combinations before the promoters finally gave up the struggle for popular support.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and village Tells
Briefly for Busy Readers

Received this morning at Joe Le-
WINS corner store a large shipment of
mems b. V. ID. Union suits. Also a
wide assortment OF mems athletic
union suits. ADV.
Louis Levin and Karl Paulson of
Bennington have enlisted at Buffalo in
the United States Naval hospital ser
vice They will go from there to New
York to enter service training school
fer six months.
Capt. T. W. Gibson of Company |,
will be in Bennington again in few
days. In the meantime any young
men who are thinking of enlistlng are
invited to see f. f. Howe at The Ban
ner office or George w. Williams at
105 Pleasant street. Company ] now
has 10 young men from Bennington
while two more are going up for ex-
animation Friday. This makes the
largest group from Bennington in any
one organization and if the remaining
places in the company can be filled
from here. it will make Company
almost as much a Bennington as u
Brattleboro comapny. The company
now has 100 men and needs 80 more
to bring it up to war strength.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Feed Young Chickens
Apart From Older Fowl

When chicks have reached the age
OF month and are hunting something
TO DO they must be kept busy or they
are apt to start some bad habits. says
the Country Gentleman. Such n IA
vorite pastime as picking the toe of
some weak chick until it bleeds is fire.
quently INDUCED in Broods of chicks
sometimes get so vicious that they will
kill one Of their number and tear it to
pieces. This habit can generally be
stopped by hanging up one or two
pieces Of tough, lean beef every day or
80 for them to pick and pull at
The increased activity of the chicks
at one month of age calls for liberal
yard space for exercise and foraging.
II possible the yard should be increas-
ed to three or four times its present
size and a little higher wire used to
keep the chicks from flying over
When the chicks are about month
old 1t IS common practice to feed
them where the older fowls have free
access to their feed. This is a bad
practice. to say the least, but If condi-
lions are such that it cannot be helped
the chicks can be protected from the
older birds by constructing wire COW
cred, Stat sided runway, in which the
chicks may be fed. Have the Stats
just far enough apart for the young
chicks to enter: then the other chick
ems cannot get at their food.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06

aided to us as the chief festival event
of the Cambridge season. The quaint.
,lignihed home on the hill was dimly
illumined by the mellow light of a few
shaded lamps. There was some coffee
and some lemonade. few tiny brown
bread sandwiches and. think, some
ice cream.
II had not dined at home that night
in the expectation of the glorious feast,
with an abundance of courses and
wines as at such evening parties in
Germany, and yet when we drove
home from Shady Hill my wife and
felt joy and satisfaction such as few
parties had ever given us before. We
felt as if we had entered Il truly spir-
itual community where the demand for
high thinking and plain living was tho
life instinct.
Where was that shallow and gaudy
America. that vulgar and trivial Amer
lea. that corrupt and self seeking
America, that noisy and sensational
America, of which all Europe was talk
ing? Had no one ever discovered the
true SOU of the American people"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Around the House

To freshen velvet and feathers place
the articles In a corn pepper and hold
them over steam They will fresher
easily and quickly.
Ground cinnamon burned on top OF
the stove will remove the odor OF cab
bages or onions and will give q pleas
ant aroma TO the room.
To clean crochetcd articles place in a
deep pan and rub well with -four
Shake flour out and rub in a fresh sup
ply. continuing the process until the
article Is perfectly clean.
The best manicure solution is made
by putting tablespoonful of lemon
juice in cupful OF hot water. 1t re-
moves stains from the fingers and nails
and softens the cuticle about the nails
in satisfactory way.
In the dining room be especially care
full to obviate the slightest suggestion
OF STIFFNESS from too heavy or too
many hangings.
To clean silver put gallon Of water
and a quarter Of cupful of any one
OF the common brands of washing
powder into an aluminium kettle. boil
and immense silver for about five min.
utes.
Prunes cooked without adding sugar
are more wholesome and better fla
vored
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
TO SUCCEED Ii! BUSINESS.
First Find the Kind of Work to Which
You Are Best Suited.

] A friend of mine WhJ is as good a
man In his Inc as anybody in the
| United States stood in my office few
days ago and said surprising thing.
| had been complimeuting him on one
of his latest achievements. His face
lighted up as he remarked: "Of course
got lot of money for that job; but,
between you and me. I'd do these
| things for nothing if | couldn't get
| anybody to pay me for them I'd rath-
err do them than cat It's shame to
take the money. Don't give me away,
or they'll be asking me TO cut down
my price. and I'll be doing it,"
That sounds like bunk. But wait a
minute. Think clear through the prop
osition. This man will never be cut
ting down his price at all 1t is ex-
actly the other way around with him,
and he knows it. The truth is that his
income goes on rising, because those
he works for keep bidding for his serv-
ices. What he meant was that he has
found the secret of progress and en-
joyment-namcly, field of activity to
which he is suited and in which he is
so interested and happy that he works
as il he were playing. No wonder he
performs miracles
Naturally he is glad to have the
large sums Of money he earns. They
are sort Of crude measurement Of his
efficiency. They show in rough way
how other people estimate his value.
But the main point is that he has found
his niche and that lie concentrates on
his job for days and weeks at a stretch.
All his thought is concerned with what
he can put into his work, not what he
can get out of it. Lucky man!
The moral is simply this: Don't fake
for years and years an interest In
something that bores you, Don't pre-
tend all your life. for the sake of fan
cied appearances, to enjoy some form
of work that you really dislike OF
course you should give yourself a fair
trial at a job before throwing it up,
because often Ioan learns TO like
something that he didn't Ike when he
set out. But you know what | mean
don't keep at it indefinitely Quit and
try something else Cut and run be-
fore it is too late.
The acid test to apply to your job is
this: If you had money enough to live
on would you stay at it without pay?
If you don't love 1t that much hunt for
another that is, if you are young and
free from the responsibilities and OBJ
legations which govern older men. The
greatest successes of the world are
crazy about their work. Look at
Edison. Look at Paderewski. How
those men enjoy their jobs. Can any
body imagine that they love money
more than work? And yet each, be-
cause of his jealous devotion to his
work, has been richly paid in money.
Both men are great artists They
have found what they wanted to do
and stuck to it. Treat yourself as If
you were an artist. To a certain ex-
tent you probably are in some line if
you will avoid shams and give your
self fully to your job.-American Mag
lzine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
BLANCHE SWEET TODAY
At Harte Theatre Today In Paramount
Feature Picture

Blanche Sweet will be seen at the
Harte Theatre today in the Lasky-
Paramount picture, Those Without
Sin" THIS thrilling story of Rich
mond. Va, during the period just be-
fore and at the time of the Civil War,
was written especially for Miss Sweet
by Harvey T. Thew and prepared for
the screen by George Dubois Proctor,
and produced under the direction of
Marshall Neilan.
AS this winsome daughter of the
SOUTH Miss Sweet has a splendid OPP
portunity to run wonderful scale of
emotions One of the novel scenes
of the picture is Miss Sweets intro
duction in silhouette. Others in the
cast are Tom Forman, c. II. Geldert,
Guy Oliver, James Neill, Charles Ogle,
Mabel Van Buren,, Dorothy Abril and
Little Billy Jacobs.
In addition will be Victor Moore com
edy and a military picture entitled
Our Boys on the Border shown at
the regular admission of and 10cts.