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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05
Ty Cobb Tells Why They're NOT All
Hitting AT a Good Old 800 Clip

rhe baers that they don't study pitchers
weaknesses
Cobb and don't know OF anyone more
capable of pointing battcrs than Trus
Tys
always tried to keep mental notebook of each pitchers
recOlect his The
and would help batsman Pitchers let me tell
batters Every
indeNng exactly
pitcher
advantage orgetful Why the system
them
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05
BY IL. G. HAMILTON
ited Press stan Correspondent.

united Press Hldh wi io9PVhuNh''
NEW YORK. May 5.-The west has
usurped the place IN front OF the
baseball spotlight specifically set
aside for use of eastern National
League clubs.
II the rain does not iinx the play
and halt operations the end Of this
imperfect day may see the Cardinals
in first place, or go even a step farth-
err and dump the crippled Chicago
Cubs in the lead. If the Giants ana
Cardinals remain idle and the Cubs
win Fred Mitchell will find himself
in that place. The same thing can
happen for the Cardials.
II is Leon Ames, westerners pro-
claim-ancient Red Leon. who is re-
sponsibie for the Cardinals success.
Red. by the way, has hurled among
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05
EARLY SEASON PLUGS.
My Dear Buck;

My Dear Buck:
For the early season plug casting
when the bass are in the near shore
shadows trying to coax little
warmth out OF the low water after
hard winter the sure-nre winner IN
kthe wooden bait line is the surface
fbr semi-surface plug For this shallow
Mater stun You don't find IL neces-
sary to 80 way down for them and
most of the iioaters wiggle along from
foot 10 two feet below the surface
anyway. which is plenty deep enough
40 catch the eve OF the bass that may
he kicking around along the route OF
ahe dippy diving plug. Then again in
the early season the big majority OF
the strikes come the instant the plug
hits the water, or as It starts on the
retricve. For this reason the surface
plugs are far better than the under
'%Axater variety because they save end
'5eSs trouble in snagging on the sunken
1ogs and windfalls which, generally
arc found In the shore waters selected
"a the bass as feeding grounds. Wind
NHlls. underwater logs and brush heaps
axe the natural hiding place for the
IS, and when you have TO cast in
mong EN-, without any knowledge as
>protruding limbs and snags, the
\that you have a tioater will save
\trouble and your sweet disposi-
bh 60 get a strike and a snag at
Huee s time Is enough TO make any
#Wflow rs off a line Of "langwedge
hNual (. Got superior to the star out
rst Of freshwater sailorman.
saif AS TO the color that seems TO make
1t game fns cross-eyed to get at g.
b white with bit OF red has II all
n FER the balance Of the paint box, and
s his little line OF info is not chaiied
] hlD from the experience OF one person
lbut from the data jotted down from
lahe fishing experiences OF some two
f. lAundred Waltcns of the water trails
#tAs a good bet on the early season
+ Mug. make your favorites the white
land red combinations. The red may
M 3nlv be a dash on the nose OF the
hire. along the flutes or on the heaG
~ TOP but wherever Il is Il adds q
e attractiveness and seems to maxi
keboys hghtin' mad to wallop g. TIT
Il best bet I'm the color line, Is III
hen and white, the combination
f nerally being a cracked green bac
( .Alh a white belly. Following thi
oes the rainbow and perch color
lch lope in about neck and necl
lh this layout OF colors you shoul
}prepared for most any water an
FATHER condition. also for the varie
Feelings OF the big bass as TO tn
0lor that tickles 'em into a strikin
Asmor. And not only for the early seS
IA fishing will these colors be use
but any time later they will b
,Dund fine selection for the kit.
And tucked away in this grabba
AZ plug lore garnered from the actus
shing experiences of over 200 OF tn
cen fellows who angle for the gam
bass is one big point that stands OF
hike a sore thumb and that is Oh
81 tct that the smaller-sized plugs ar
,ning strong as sure-enough int
x creators among the game fin
RI .ot so long ago all the plugs wer
&. hree to five inches long, but som
az. practical chap in the tackle lin
hipped onto the smaller stuff and b
.. believe me. old-timer, there is a su
iprlse in store for YOU, If you haN
ks overlooked the short, stubby 'htt
fellers." They have a mighty niC
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05
Comiskey Sets Pace for MagnafeS
by Donating Money TO Red Cros.

and assuring the Red Cross that better
weather in tho summer would assure
larger sums.
Comiskey declares he will continue
paying the 10 per cent even if the gov
eminent puts a 10 per cent. tax on re-
ceipts Of ball games and other amuse-
ments.
A few other mRgnates in the National
League have declared they will not be
able 70 bear a 10 per cent. tax, but Co.
miskey shows that it can be done.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05

Charlie Comiskey, the old Roman Of
Baseball, has set an example which
other major league msgnates would do
well TO follow by donating 10 per cent.
of his home receipts to the American
Red Gross.
Not only is Comiskey doing this but
DE is doing it with the best of grace,
,zs his first check of about 5000 for the
first ten games was accompanied by an
apologize letter deprecating the amount
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05
WHATCHAMA COLUMN
suspendEs

Suspendsrs.
Suspenders used to be used
by man to support his self-res-
pect. And the amount OF his
self-respect was in direct ratio
to the number OF trouser but
tons he had TO attach 1t TO. II he
had eight buttons he was all
right. But II he only had seven
buttons and a nail he wasn't
very respectable. Or else he
wasn't married. Or II he was
married his wife didn't care
much about him. Which
amounts to the same thing
But those were the days be-
fore 1t became fashionable for
the average man to bulge in the
middle. Since then we have
abandoned suspenders, hung
our trousers on the top rung Of
our stomschs with a belt and
LET 10 20 ~ that
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05
PENNsY M. p. LEAGUE TO OPEN.

The Motive Power League of the
Pennsylvania railroad will get under
way this afternoon. The Wilmington
team will travel to Harrisburg and a
good game is expected as both teams
are in the pink OF condition for the
opening game. The remainder Of the
schedule follows: Baltimore at New
York; Trenton at Meadows. Washing
ton at Philadelphia.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05
RUNS FOR THE WEEK.

Guns scored by all teams in the
and National Leagues from
April IS, to Friday, May i
~ inclusive. Only runs includ-
I'D in the official averages are counted.
fScOres OF incompleted games are not
INCLUDED. but those OF games Of I'VE
innings or longer are found in this
able:
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05
American League.

SCHEDULE FOR TODAY,
National League.
Phillies at New York.
Cincinnati at Chicago
Brooklyn at Boston.
st. Louis at Pittsburgh.
American League.
New York at philadelphia
Chicago at st. Louis.
Boston at Washington.
Cleveland at Detroit.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05
POULTRY notes

Announcement that the Diamond !
State Poultry and Pigeon Association
was asking every farmer in this State
to set every broody hen, thereby in
creasing the number OF chickens, is
good news to the fanciers. II is hoped
that breeders in this section OF the
State will respond by making use Of
all setting hens and thus relieve the
threatened shortage OF eggs and poul-
try next winter.
The Pennsylvania State Poultry AS
sociation has issued notice that $780,
600 worth OF setting eggs will be
given away TO those who are unable
to pay the high prices being asked.
f. w. Delaney, OF York, Pa. we'll
known in this city. will have charge
Of the distribution.
Frank NJ. Smith, president of the
local association, who has been i'll
! for several weeks, is recovering. Mr.
Smith is assistant superintendent of
the poultry department at the COM
/ ing State Fair
The executive committee of the
! local organization will meet in THE
| EVENING JOURNAL on next Tues
day evening TO select dates for the
1917 show as we'll as the officers.
From present indications it will be
some show.
Mrs. George A. Wolf, Of Talleyyille
reports having gathered $500 eggs
during March and April from lie
hens.
William Burrows, of near Shellpot
reports having $50 White Wyandottes
Matched early in March that weigh
two pounds each. Mr.. Burrows has
remarkable luck in the poultry bust
ness and his chickens are considered
winners.
House Sergeant Tom Keyser. OF thu
local police department, has fort.
pure bred Barred Rocks at his home
and. Judging from the egg record es
tablished by them this week, he vii
not be worried over an egg famin
the coming winter.
Nine hundred and seventy-fiv
eggs from a flock of fifty-fOur hens !
, the record established by the foe
owned by William J. Loveless, q
5 Holly Oak, during April.
5 The proposed ordinance by Cit
/. Council prohibiting the running a
E large of chickens is brought about en-
4 tirely by poultry fanciers OF this cit!
+ who have shown no disposition I
: prevent their fowls from tearing Il
flower and truck gardens. One breede
, in the Ninth ward recently laughe
5 when trucker gave chase TO scratch
e ing hens in his garden, but he becam
r angry when the irate trucker kille
5 one OF the annoying hens.
!. Mrs. George A. Wolf. OF Talleyvill
holds the medal for vigorous chick
according TO all accounts. The m'
: chine was filled with 100 eggs, ar
for two weeks the mercury registerC
los degrees, il being impossible
j.. maintain a lower temperature.
addition. the eggs we're taken out Il
Il an airing one day and remaln'
out half a day. With no hope OF su
u cess from the machine. the owner Wi
q surprised TO find forty young chicl
i Matched out on the twentieth day.
IS PENNsY M. p. LEAGUE TO OPEL
o The Motive Power League of u
j. Pennsylvania railroad will get undl
g. way this afternoon. The WilmingtC
4 team will travel to Harrisburg and
p. good game is expected as both team
Ie are In the pink of condition for Il
oil Iar. &c
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05
BASEBALL STATISTICS
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
National League.

Phillies-Now York. wet grounds.
Brooklyn, 8; Boston, /.
Chicago, II; Cincinna |. 3.
Pittsburgh-St. Louis. wet grounds
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05
TRAP SHOOTING
~~~~~~-o.>-,~
BASEBALL
AMT
NATURE
WONDERFUL
War Questions Answered.

Dear Ed-About this income war
tax. I don't think IT'S right. Why
should I, because I'm making pretty
good money through my own efforts.
pay up big tax. know what I'll do
When they send in for my tax I'll
write out a check and not put down
any amount but just sign my name.
Don't you think that's a good idea and
don't you think it VIII fool them?-
Icy Wise.
That's a great idea, Icy. You bet
you'll fool ENID.
Dear Ed hear there's going to be
war. Y'know I'm fond of travelling
I'd like to take a triB somewhere out
of the United States. Iceland for in.
stance.
I'm just crazy aRout TRAVELLING and
want to start right away Where could
l get tickets?-Mhx Chillvpedals
We understanX Max. Shhl inst RIM
down to the r8cruiting office they'll
fix you up for * trip. Bon voyage.-Ed
Dear Ed don't like the idea OF
being draft9A How would it be il 7
cut on my fright hand at the wrist?
wouldn't be exempt then?-Archie
Yellaspinel
No! They'd draft you as short
hand writer Better way to be exemp.
ted WOULD be to fall asleep on a rail
road trakck.-Ed.
Dear Ed.-l'm a ukelele player
FriendS tell me I might get in a mill
tary band and get a commission.-B
! FlatR
{heyre not your friends More like
~ lbut you out of commissioning
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05
GCPORT.9a
0A Il

Recruiting officer rejects Bill
Crouch on account Of a twisted finger.
The officer probably never saw Bill
in action.
Joe Holveck has lost two or three
games this season. Even Joe can't
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05

Frank NJ. Smith, president of the
local association, who has been i'll
for several weeks, is recovering. Mr.
Smith is assistant superintendent of
the poultry department at the COM
ing State Fair.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05

The Pennsylvania State Poultry AS
sociation has issued notice that $25,-
600 worth Of setting eggs will be
given away to those who are unable
TO pay the high prices being asked.
f. W. Delaney. OF York, Pa. well
known in this city. will have charge
Of the distribution.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05

win without one or two players 10 help
him.
Prunes is the name of a horse at
Havre de Grace. Probably would he
better name for a rassler
Iris Speaker has found out that 1t
doesn't pay to fool with Baron Ban S
umpires.
Freddie Welsh has six bathrooms
at his Long Island home. We know
some boxers who wouldn't know what
TO do with one.
Harry Bradford, who offered to en-
list when war was first declared, is
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05

House Sergeant Tom Keyser. OF the
local police department, has forty
pure bred Barred Rocks at his home,
and, Judging from the egg record es-
tabllshed by them this week, he will
not be worried over an egg famine
the coming winter
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05

The executive committee of the
local organization will meet in THE
EVENING JOURNAL on next Tues
day evening 10 select dates for the
1917 show as we'll as the officers.
From present indications it will be
some show.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05

William Burrows, OF near Shellpot,
reports having $50 White Wyandottes
Matched early in March that weigh
two pounds each. Mr.. Burrows has
remarkable luck in the poultry busi-
ness and his chickens are considered
winners.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05

Nine hundred and seventy-hve
eggs from flock Of fifty-four hens is
the record established by the flock
owned by William J. Loveless, OF
Holly Oak, during April.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-05

Mrs. George A. Wolf, OF Talleyville,
reports having gathered $500 eggs
during March and April from 1l5
hens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-22

the days of the civil war. but it was
met 1t was a real lesson in prepared
ness for the War Department quarter
masters with the result that II 1t be-
comes necessary to feed half million
soldiers three times day they Will
be fed. The methods that Col. Rogers
introduced in the Southern Department
will be utilized in the present crisis.
The feeding of the soldier begins
with the passage by the House of Rep
resentatives and the Senate. each body
acting in the committee of the whole.
of the section in the annual army ap-
preparation bill which begins for the
purchase of subsistence supplies" In
the army bill. which passed the House
of Representatives February % last,
but, unfortunately, failed of passage in
the Senate because of the jam of legls-
lation in that body at the time of its
adjournment, s16.500,000 was provided.
That sum was considered sufficient for
an army of about 10000 men. If, how
ever, emergency legislation Is passed.
it is likely the appropriation for sub
sistence supplies will be approximately
$50. 100000.
Congress years ago authorized the
President to prescribe the kinds and
quantities of the component articles of
the army ration and to direct the issue
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-22

in that state Charles Edward Cham
bliss-he was the man--had been col
lecting plants and bugs since child
hood Bachelor of science. and master
as well, he never supposed that he
could become an expert agricuiturlst,
with rice as his specialtyin- chief.
But one thing of urgency led to
another, and eight years ago Mr..
Chambliss, with notes on the life his
tory of insects that he meant to elab-
crate, was asked to direct the rice in
yestigations of the Department OF
Agriculture in Washington. The notes
remain imprinted and even unwritten.
Meanwhile, however. Mr. Chambliss
has SO perfected his knowledge Of rice
culture that he is now regarded as
being the first authority on that sub
ject in this part of the world. He 1t
was who counseled and directed Cali
fornia into the business. Plantations
in the south have been his headquar-
ters season after season. A grain of
rice to him contains the story of India
and China and opens visions and a new
prosperity TO thousands Of farmers in
his own country.
Brought within one fence" Mfr.
Chambliss said to the writer, the rice
fields of the sUnited States would equal
the area of Massachusetts and Connec-
ticut, or of Connecticut and New Jer-
sey. They are located, by the order of
theiy rank, in Lopisiena, whore the har-
vest was 2o.ee2GoQe hpshels u 391ei y
o41eeD1~ - D161Idt 3oo6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-22
The Romantic Story of Rice i'm the United States

country with sickles and threshed with
fails or trodden out Those methods
are followed today in the orient, Where
there are no fields but only small
ieys Some sickle harvesting is still
done in the United States, but rice
growing has become commercial IN
dustry in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas
and California, and Is carried on with
special machinery and large, modern
irrigation plants.
Some of the canals are $50 feet wide.
In Louisiana there are wells 6oo ieet
deep A series Of wells. fifty feet apart
pumped by one engine, Is often useo
by companies and individual Planters
to irrigate their lands. A siX-inch pipe
or well, will flood from sixty to eighty
acres, and eight four-inch pipes VIII
irrigate 800 acres.
"A grain of rice. as 1t comes from the
threshing machine. is covered with
hard hull Under the hull, \near the
goes from the thresher to the mill
There are sixty-five mills in the United
States. The milling centers. are New
Orleans and Crowley. in LOUISIANA,
Beaumont and Houston, in Texas. ana
San Francisco Mills are also located IN
South Carolina, Arkansas and Georgia
A New Orleans mill cleans $500 sacks
of rough rice in twenty-four hours, and
a mill at Houston 2.400 sacks
THE mills prepare the rice Tor the
ultimate consumer Hulls and germs
are secured off by large revolving
stones down to the bran, which, the
microscope shows. has seven layers
Six layers of the bran and part of the
seventh are also removed. Then fol-
lows a process of polishing and pow
dering. This is done because the eat
ers of rice want II lustrous and white.
Years ago. in South Carolina, and it is
the case now in the orient the hulls
and bran were pounded off the grain in
wooden mortars with hand pestles and
important food elements Were thus
preserved.
Modern milling methods damage a
large proportion of the grains. With
the Honduras variety about one-half Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-22

the grains are broken. The breakage
of japanese rice. which is also exten-
sively grown in the United States, is
about one-ffth. Grains of this rice
are more nearly round than those of the
firSt-named variety. Roughly speak
ing, there are three grades of miIled
rice, namely: Fancy head. screenings
and brewers rice.
The wheat of the orient is rice.
Every one eats it there. Americans
get a balanced food ration in meat
and bread. along with vegetables Hun
dreds of millions of people in the
orient obtain the same balance with
rice and beans. peas and other legumes
Less land is required for rice than
for beef, swine or mutton. Rice in
the orient, therefore, can be produced
more cheaply than meat It's food
value has not been fully understood
in this country. but now, that every
thing else is dear, rice is coming into
general use. As it is more rice is
eaten in the United States than is
grown.
Rice cannot be a general crop in
this country. because II requires a long
growing season, an abundance of CHEAP
water and soil that can retain mois-
ture, but it can greatly add to the pros
perity of extensive regions and thus in
crease the wealth of the nation, 1t is
one of the items in the long list of the
resources that makes America q land
OF CQmfoyt end proMiaa,"
Copyright, 1917. By James B. MorrowsS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-22

must be level. although each must have
can be drained off two or three weeks
before harvest. Drainage is as impor-
tant as irrigation.
'As the rice grows. more water is
run upon the field. There may be seep-
age through the low earthen banks
inclosing field, and there is con-
slant evaporation. 1t is necessary, ac-
cordingly, to watch the developing crop
closely. Rice stalks grow to a height
of between four and Ave feet and have
heavier foliage than other cereals.
There should never be less than two
inches OF water on a field of rice. Irri-
CATION starts with that amount, after
the plants are well out of the ground.
More water Is applied as the season
advances until IL reaches depth of
from five and six inches. That depth
must be maintained until the crop is
almost ready to be harvested
Water is let into the California fields
about May Is. and the land is kept
submerged until October 16. In Louis
lana, Arkansas and Texas the period
of submersion is about 100 days Just
before the crop ripens, the fields are
drained that they HAY be cut with
horse-drawn reapers or self-binders.
Rice is bound into sheaves. the same as
wheat, shocked In the field Until it ia
DRY and then ti1Seshed by machinery,
nNoldeD kimeaAs1caesva0~0 ut 4n this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-22

made with respect to locality and cir
cumstances. Personal care and judy
ment on the part of the company off,
GERS are relied upon to prevent waste
and misuse. By due economy 1t has
been demonstrated that the ration al
lowance will provide a sufficient va
riety of diet.
The army obtains the best that money
can buy and the allowance is most
liberal both in quantity and variety.
The average soldier lives better. in so
far as his actual foodstuffs is con-
cerned, than the average civilian. He
gets a greater variety. and with 1T all
the knowledge that the pure-food label
is attached to what he eats. In addi-
ton, he knows what he eats is care
fully supervised both as to the scien-
tific and sanitary method of prepare
ton and also as to its wholesomeness
and nourishing qualities.
The purchase of the soldiers food is
committed to officers whose lifetime.
almost, has been devoted to the study
of food values. the quality of produc-
ton and their careful, honest, expert
capacity is devoted solely to obtaining
the best that money can buy and no
other kind can get by them. Beef is