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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-26
RUDE 0LDRING ONLY
VET WITH ATHLETICS
Connie Mack's Lineup Has Been
Completely Changed.
Stars Of Old White Elephant Machine
Which Won Four remnants in
Stretch of Five Years Are Re.
placed by Youngsters.

Rube Oldring, persuaded to come ont
OF retirement by Connie Mack this sea.
son, is the only player on the Mackian
roster who was actively engaged in
the pennant-winning campaign of 1914,
when the Athletics won their last
American League Streamer.
Gone are the stars of the old White
Elephant machine which rolled through
the American league, winning four
pennants in a stretch of five years,
and in their places are players upon
whom Mack is depending to regain the
laurels of his once famous club.
The once famous infield of the old
Mackmen composed Of Baker, Barry,
Collins and McInnis, has been re-
placed by Burns, Gardner, Shannon
and Dugan. Baker is with the Yanks,
Collins with the White Sox, McInnis
with Boston and Barry in the navy.
The old Athletic outfeld has faded
away completely. Strunk has been
sent to the Red Sox and Oldring has
been used as a pinch hitter for the
most part since coming back to the
club.
Bender, Bush, Coombs, Plank, Pen
mock, Shawkey, Wyckoff and Bressler
were the mainstays of Macks pitch
ing staff only four years ago, yet not
one of them is wearing a Philadel-
phia uniform. Bender is helping
Uncle Sam build ships at Hog is
land. Bush is with the Red Sox,i
Coombs with Brooklyn Bressler with
the Reds, Plank retired and Pennock,l
Shawkey and Wyckoff in the service
Lapp, Schang and Thomas, catchers,l
have also passed along, Schang being
the only one still classed as star.
-McAvOy, who was with the club in
1914, was a fourth string catcher at
the time and is now doing half the
backstopping for the rejuvenated club.
Gardner, Walker and Cady, from
Boston; Jameson, from Washington;
Burns, from Detroit, and Gregg and
Kopp, from the International league,
have stepped into the shoes left va
cant by Mack's many deals within two
years. In short the Athletics are per-
fectly camouf1aged
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-26

Empey and his comrades make
the deadly machine guns per-
form all kinds of tricks to the
discontinue of Fritz. The next
instaIIment tells how the Ger
man gunners are fooled.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-26

We knew 1t was German by the bIacS
leather boot. One of our crew used
that foot to hang extra bandoliers of
ammunition on. This man always was
a handy fellow; made use Of little
points that the ordinary person would
overlook.
The Germans made three counter
attacks, which we repulsed, but not
without heavy loss on our side. They
also suffered severely from our shell
and machine-gun fire. The ground was
spotted with their dead and dying.
The next day things were somewhat
quieter, but not quiet enough to bury
the dead.
We lived, ate and slept in that trench
with the unburied dead for six days.
1t was awful to watch their faces be-
come swollen and discolored. Towards
the last the stencil was fierce.
What got on my nerves the most was
that foot sticking out of the dirt. 1t
seemed to me, at night, in the moon
light, to be trying to twist around.
Several times this impression was so
strong that went to it and grasped 1t
in both hands, to see if could feel
movement.
told this to the man who had used
it for hatrack just before lay down
for little nap, as things were quiet,
and I needed a rest pretty badly.
When / woke up the foot was gone.
He had cut it off with our chain saw
out of the spare parts box, and had
plastered the stump over with mud.
During the next two or three days,
before we were relieved, missed that
foot dreadfully; seemed as if I had
suddenly lost chum.
think the worst thing of all was to
watch the rats, at night, and some
times in the day, run over and play
about among the dead.
Near our gun, right across the para
pet, could be seen the body of a Ger
man lieutenant, the head and arms of
which were hanging into our trench.
The man who had cut off the foot used
sation with this officer, used to argue
and point out why Germany was in the
wrong. During all of this monologue
I never heard him say anything out of
the way-anything that would have
hurt the officers feelings had he been
alive. He was square all right;
wouldn't even take advantage of a
dead man in an argument.
To civilians this must seem dread
fn, but out here one gets so used to
awful sights that it makes no impress
sion. In passing a butcher shop you
are not shocked by seeing dead tur-
key hanging from hook. Well, in
France, dead body is looked upon
from the same angle.
But, nevertheless, when our six days
were up, we were tickled to death to
be relieved.
Our machine gun company lost
seventeen killed and thirty-One wound
ed in that little local affair OF
Strengthening the line" while the
other companies clicked it worse than
we did.
After the attack we went into re-
serve billets for six days, and on the
seventh once again we were in rest bill.
let's.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-26
DIAMOND
NOTES

Lee Magee is continuing his swat
ting activities.
Pitcher Robert McGraw, of the Yam
KEGS, has been called for military serv-
ice.
Detroit fans are panning Hughey
Jennings for the poor showing of the
Tigers.
The Yankees are drawing constantly
increasing throngs to see their battles
at home.
Mike Menosky, outfelder with the
Washington Senators two years ago,
has arrived "over there"
In the 20 years Larry Lajoie played
in the major leagues he never attend
ed worlds series game.
The attendance in Pittsburgh and
Cincinnati this year is greater so far
than it has been in five years.
Sherwood Magee has come to life
with a vengeance. He is playing well
and slapping out vicious safeties.
The American troops in France want
baseball bats. But this by no means
indicates they are planning for home
run.
If somebody don't stop Cincinnati
soon, Redland fans will be claiming
the pennant, if they have not already
done so.
George Stallings of the Boston
Braves has not given up his fight for
Hubert Scott Perry. pitcher who is with
the Athletics.
George Sisler is the American
leagues leading base thief. He is also
much improved performer around
that first corner.
Pittsburgh fans are delighted with
the showing made by the Pirates and
Manager Hugo Bezdek is being loudly
praised in the smoky city.
Steve Yerkes, who could not make
good at second base for the Cubs, is
to be brought back to the National
! league as a member of the Cardinals.
With ten baseball games a day
scheduled in Paris, that lively capital
is in a fair way to more lively sport
of the wholesome sort than ever be-
fore.
Some of the major league clubs are
going to be shy of capable pitchers
this year. In both circuits there will
be not more than twenty good south
paws.
Outfelder Charley Jackson, the out
fielder secured by Pittsburgh last fall
from Spokane and slated for return to
Spokane, has been sent to Minneapolis
instead.
There never was time when the
Detroit Tigers looked as bad as some
of the cartoonist drawings of "T1ge."
Nor has anybody ever seen real tiger
that looked like some of those draw
ings.
Though he is in the draft, DOME
Bush of the Tigers doesn't expect to
be called for some time. as his num-
Der is far down in the list. Further
more. he is the sole support of wild
owed mother and several sisters.
Outfielder Ted Gather, who has Deen
signed by the Rochester Information
ais. will play with Newark instead,
President Farrell of the league hav-
ing ruled that Newark had first claim
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-26
TY COBB, IN 32D YEAR
is BEST DRAWING CARD

Ty Cobb is in his thirty-second
year. He has been playing with
the Detroits since 1905, the only
year in which his batting aver
age was less than 300. The
Georgia Peach has been the
champion batsman of the Ameri-
can league at the end of each
campaign since 1907, excepting
1916, when iris Speaker had a
better average. Cobb's great
est batting record was APO, be-
ing hung up in 1911. Last year
he batted 1888, and never played
more brilliantly. In spite of ad-
vancing years, Cobb still is in
his prime. He is easily the
greatest ball player of all time,
and he is worth the $4,000 sal
airy which the Detroit club has
been paying him since 1914. AS
a drawing card Tyrus Raymond
stands at the head of the class.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-26

With Richard Hoblitzel, first base
man Of the Boston American baseball
team, nominated as a first lieutenant
in the army dental corps, John
("Stuffy') McInnis, formerly first sack
er with the Philadelphia Athletics, is
slated to play at the initial corner for
the Red Sox.
McInnis, who was obtained by Bos-
ton last winter, has been playing third
base this season. Thomas, last year
with Providence, is expected to fill
McInnis' place at third.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-26
SINGLE HIT SPOILED GLORY
Dan Criner Came Within an Ace OF
Pitching No-Hit Game Against
Philadelphia Club.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Dan Griner, who has been pitching for
a long time and was sent back to the
minors a few years ago. is doing q
comeback for thee Dodgers. He came
within an ace of pitching no-hit game
against the Phillies May 6. He held
his opponents hitless until two were
ont IN the ninth, and then Crayath
spoiled his record By singing over
second base, -
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-26

,eFed by the sinking Lusitana with the loss OF
n lives Arthur Guy Empey American living in Jersey CITY,
private in the British army AFTER
a officer in London he is sent to tram
first hears the sound OF Dig guns ana
Coolies After brief period OF training
the frontne trenches where ne taxes
% rn on the step the bullets whiz overhead Empey
death turks always in the trenches
himself by rescuing wounded men unde not
fire. With pick has experience as trench digger
experience listening post detail x
citing work duty Back in rest blets Empey
vri+es sand a successful play.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-26
TREE-ROOF PERCHERS
AID NEW BASEBALL TAX

Persons who sell seats on any
roof or structure overlooking a
baseball park will be obliged
to pay a war tax to the govern
ment, according to the bureau of
internal revenue. The tax must
be collected and paid by the en-
terprising owner or occupant of
the building who receives pay
ment for the seat occupied by
"perchers."
The announcement says that
in one city a woman whose yard
adjoins the ball park has been
selling seats in a tree, the price
being five and ten cents, depend
ing on how high the patrons
. have to climb. Recently the
price has advanced to six and
. eleven cents, the extra cent be-
ing added to the war revenues.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-22
o3a4NNNdAaast<H
DIDN'T APPRECIATE MUSIC

From the New York World.
 Mayor James c. Agnew of West Ho- boken, who took office January l, had never performed a marriage ceremony before, so when the opportunity came to him yesterday he had matters arranged to suit the taste of the most exacting bride he thought
 The couple, who had arranged the day previously for the service, said they were William Bier and Mary Gilmore of Pater. soI. When the hour came to reduce two to one, bride and bridegroom stepped from taxicab and entered the mayors home, 524 Clinton avenue. As they crossed the threshold the executive started his truly old photograph and the couple marched to the parlor to the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march. The next vas Q record by Cafuso, You Alone" and finally McCormack's Give Me Your Heart
 After the ceremony Bier handed the mayor an envelope with a heavy coin in it and the couple sped away.
 That's luck,' said the mayor. "A $2O gold piece for my first effort
 Then he got the coin out. It was a plugged half dollar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-22
President Rebukes
 Senator Chamberlain.

NNTHEN President Wilson's pre-
 WV paredness programme was first urged upon Congress and en- acted into law Senator Chamberlain, democrat, as chairman of the commit tee on military affairs, was an ardent supporter of the administration. One of the measures which he introduced and pressed was that providing for universal military training. It was a hobby of his.
 While the bill met with favor in many sections of the country public sentiment was not strong enough to induce Congress to pass it. The President was inclined to accept the principle of universal service, but he did not think the time opportune for legislation. Whether the failure of the measure caused the friction be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-22

in and took charge Wall street did not set tip yelp. but welcomed it, and stocks did not fall. but began to rise. Congress has tremendous problem be- fore it. Financial writers are spilling much ink over the Presidents bold move. It's question to stir the imagination, for it's proper solution means ruin or prosperity, perhaps the winning or the losing of the war.
 McAdoo has the chance of lifetime to make or mar his career. Many think that if he administers his trust wisely that the roads will never again have the same freedom in management that they had before the war caused the govern
 ment to interfere. Some think it means governent control in the end. The future Is uncertain, but l believe out of the present situation, a better way will be found, and that in the end the railroads and the public will be benefited by the revolutionary experiment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-22
Development of
 Telephone System

V1f1 HE American Telephone and Tel
 0 egraph companys compilation
 of statistics showing the number of telephones in operation in the princi- pal cities of the world reveals the fact that America is, as was to be expected, far more progressive in the use of telephones than the old world.
 Even LorGon has only 256,S95 telc-
 phones, with 3.5 per hundred of popu-
 lation, as compared with New York, which has 6s2,19o, with 114 per hun dred population.
 Chicago has 472,498 with 17.S per hundred population. Boston comes next with 219,9S2 with 14.2 per hun
 dred. Philadelphia has 203,352 with HIS per hundred. Detroit has 115, ,238 with 13.6 per hundred. St. Louis ana Cleveland rank about alike, the former with 114,516 and the latter with !112,929.
 The most active telephone city on the continent of Europe is Berlin with 154, ,S00-6.6 per hundred popu- lation. Paris has only 95,033 tele- 
 phones with 3.2 per hundred. Buenos Ayres with 44,77S telephones-2.S per hundred-lead the South Ameri- jean cities. Constantinople, with a population of 100000, is slow going in the matter of telephones, the num- Der in use there being only 4297-0.4 per hundred population.
 The development of telephone equipment in the United States in re-
 cent years has been enormous. In 1906 there were 2,2S2,37S Bell sta-
 tions and 246,337 Bell connections, a totai ol A,oAo, iIo. III lilat year Ihe
 employees numbered S9,661; miles of
 wire, 5,779,918. In 1917 there were 6,545,4 ,49O Bell stations and 3,301, TOP
 connections, total of 9,S47,19 The
 employes have increased to 179,000
 and the mileage has increased to
 19,S5O,316.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-22
ANOTHER BROWNING

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 An encyclopedia that boasts 1t is al. ways up to the minute gives not a word of information about John M. Browning, gun inventor of Ogden, Utah. The Sun. day Eagle supplied a most interesting ac- count of this earnest mans life and work in a special dispatch. His father was a gun maker and he has been making guns since he was II years old; he Is G2. Guns Of his invention bear other names when manufactured in this country. The Win chester and Colt guns are his, but few people in this country were aware of it before the recent investigation at Wash ington. The encyclodepas give full in formation about Brownings who were poets, but of the Browning who studies to make the world safe for the enjoy. ment of poetry there is no space. War compels correct balancing of the ac- count on the ledger of fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-22
OUTCLAssED

New York Correspondence Cincinnati
 Times-Star.
 Three French officers walked out of the McAlpin and up Broadway. They wore uniforms of various and artistic shades of blue Their gilt buttons shone splendidly in the sun. Their spurs like wise. Their puttees had degree of poll ish which might ordinarily be considered unapproachable. They had red caps of the jauntiest shape and they wore them at the niftiest angles. Their corps and department and brigade and division badges presented picturesque and varied and interesting designs. They also had medals and service stripes and special orders distributed tastefully over their erect and graceful figures. They pre- sented joint aspect of military splendor difficult to equal And thus, they walked up Broadway. happy in giving pleasure to the natives Of an allied country. Soon they returned meekly and went into the bar. where they remained for the rest of the day. They had seen the doorman of the Rialto theatre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-22
Patience Has Ceased
 To Be a Virtue

THE AGE-HERALD'S cartoon
 S this morning illustrates a state of affairs under which the patriotic people of this country are growing restive. The dollar patriot" the German agent, the rumor monger and the man who is selfishly playing pol itics while the nations future is at stake are becoming too numerous, too active and too blatant.
 These persons cannot see further ahead than the length of their noses and they haven't thought that ex- tends beyond their own petty inter- ests. Of the whole discreditable lot the German agent is the most praise worthy, because he is working for Germany at some fisk of his own safety. Even among German agents, however, there are many who lack patriotism, who are merely in the employ of the German government for what they can get out of it.
 One reason why we have to con- tend with the dollar patriot" the rumor monger, the German agent and the self-seeking politician is the fact that they have not yet been made to feel the weight of public disapproval. We are an easy-going people. We all low the man next door to do much as he pleases, provided he doesn't in terfere with our own peace and com fort. We tolerate the man who emits a howl every time his purse is touched by the war. We foolishly permit the German sympathizer to carry on his propaganda without protest, because we are too lazy or too indifferent to report him to the nearest representa- tive of the department of justice. We lend willing ears to the war liar who frightens gullible listeners with yarns intended to destroy confidence in the American government and we endure with amazing cheerfulness the tao tics of politicians who assail the ad- ministration to further their own ends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-22
LUKE sI'LUKE SAYS

Once in while you will meet a man who seems to have been put on earth to remind you that all the mummies are not embalmed.
 A Young Thing imagines that man has to go around cursing and hissing to act like william. But married woman car tell you that all man has to do to act like william is to act natural.
 This IS a great country. Just because the kind of town in which people eat with their knives does not approve of the saloon. it empowers the district con- gressman to close the saloons in the town in which people eat with their forks.
 We love Woodrow Wilson But we hope tia the Senate will take a gosh-a- mighty crack at the suff amendment Imagine a Congress of shifting, weepy old maids who would vote against anything as bru- tai as war and who would instruct our troops to return the fire of the enemy with a chautauqua salute.
 It is illegal to get in ring and fight for money for 30 minutes But it is per- fectly proper to get in q church and mar ry for money and fight for 30 years.
 No. Basil There is absolutely no re- ssmblance between mobile features and an automobile face.
 Another reason why we like the little turbans and other head gear that the girls are wearing now is because it doesn't take a woman q half hour to make sure that her hat is on straight.
 When we say that persons are good at anything we mean that they are pro- ficicnt in it. But we know lots of women who know all there is to know about talking but who are not good conversa- tionalists.
 A man gets more pleasure out or talk ing about himself than he does out of taking about his neighbors. But it is diff ferent with woman.
 Many a husband could tell you that everything about his wife except hei msnc is made up.
 It is hard for the girl who is wearing real silk stockings to believe that the men are not all from Missouri. And the Kaiser isn't the only man ir history who started something he couldn't finisl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-22

|blacksmith's shop looks like inside and if asked to name the location of one in a city where they have lived all their lives, they would not be able ito do so. Verify, the automobile has mot only supplanted the horse to a large extent, but his stanch friend, the smith, as well. Those who survive 'are few and far between, although there is at least one blacksmith shop in Birmingham that is operated in close proximity to numerous garages, automobile repair shops and sales rooms.
 There was until recently-and may be yet-in South Chicago, on what is said to be one of the oldest streets of the city, quaint, old-fashioned smithy, which looked as if it had been there since long before the old ladys COW kicked over that fateful lamp and set Chicago ablaze. However, the cow-and-lamp story has been discred- ited, along with older legends like that of little George and the cherry tree. A sign bore these words, "The Village Blacksmith Shop" The smiths hammer ringing on his an- vii could hardly be heard for the rumble of trucks and trolley cars past his door and the roar of trains along the lake front not far away, but he showed fine contempt for the sweep of modern life and the flight of time, which had apparently changed him not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-22
FEUD NIPPED IN THE BUD.

"A merchant in our town put out sign reading, Business as Usual' ?
 "Yes?"
 His rival across the street put out sign reading, Business Better Than UsuaI.'"
 How did the other fellow come back?' "He didn't have chance to come back. Just about that time pr. Garfield issued his fuel order and both had to shut up.'