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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
CAM0UFlAGE BALL
DUE FOR SHOWING

We have had the spit ball,
emery ball, shine ball and vari-
GUS other weird deliveries, but
when the soldiers who are play
ing the national game behind the
trenches return we may expect
something new.
They are likely to bring back
with them the camOuflnge ball.
The pitcher will provide him
self with glove In which are
inserted water-colOr paints, and
as soon us the new sphere Is
tossed out he will color 1t to re-
semble the background. This
will render 1t invisible to the
batter.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
SPORT ACTIVITIES
AFTER END OF WAR
Baseball. Football and Boxing,
will Have Larger Following.
instruction Given IN Various Camps,
Sure to Develop Many Devotees Of
Sport, Who Have Never BE.
fore Been Interested.

Baseball, boxing and football are 60.
Ing to have lnr, .r followings after the
war than they have today.
That this will be true in baseball
particularly is the prediction of many
men high up In the game, and It has
been pointed out by followers of box.
Ing that the instruction being given
the soldiers In all of Uncle Samuel's
training camps will develop thousands
Of devotees of the manly art who have
never before been interested.
Football, which has been growing
by leaps and bounds within the past
five years, may not gain many active
participants through the formation of
training camp elevens. but 1t will GER
tainly gain in popularity.
At Close Of Civil War;.
The pathway to success for present
day baseball in the United States was
opened wide with the close of the Civil
war. Hundreds of soldiers returned
from the battlehelds on which the blue
and gray armies fought their many
great conflicts hardened through the
rigors of service In the open and de.
handing some form of sport compe.
tition, or, at least, recreation, upon
which to center their interest and in
which those who brought youth back
with them could find active exercise.
From the ending Of the Civil war to
the present day baseball has been gain.
ing In popularity. 1t has suffered sew.
eral rude shocks owing to internal
strife, but as an attraction which gain.
ed and held public interest it has de.
veloped wonderfully.
Ask Red. Blooded Recreation.
With thousands of Uncle Sans SOL
der boys equipped with baseball, box
ing and football paraphernalia while
In the service, thousands of young
blOOds coming on who will demand red.
} blOOded recreatiOns and pnstimes on u
larger scale than ever before and the
country ut large weary of death.deal.
ing conflicts and grateful for the
chance to relax, sports should thrive
on greater scale than ever.
Sports will be encouraged In every
way possible by the government, too.
President Wilson, Secretary Cf War
Baker and many. Of our lawmakers ut
Washington, have openly expressed the
opinion that health-glving sports
should be encouraged and continued
throughout the length and breadth Of
the land, even in war times.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
SHOOTERS USED GLASS BALLS
TrapshootIng Of Today Differs Mate.
rally From That Sport Of
Days Gone BY.

Back In the early eighties, when
American sportsmen began to demand
q between season outlet for their gum
ming enthusiasm. some bright genius
conceived the idea of the glass ball as
a fitting target to try the prOwess OF
the marksman, and the object was
projected It unknown angles from a
mechanical contrivance known as q
trap.
The name of Bogardus, In connec-
ton with glnss-ball shooting, Is not
only historical, but still alive and DOM
inant In the "reminiscences Of old
timers, goodly percentage of whom
still follow the trapshooting sport.
Trapshooting today, however, differs
materially from that sport of bygone
days; the traps are more scientifically
constructed, the target, instead of be-
ing globular In form, Is saucer-shaped,
and besides covering Its 50-yard flight
with the speed of an arrow, rotates as
well.
1t has become customary for writer's
to refer to the clay pigeons rs "the in
animate target" So long as they re-
main packed in barrels or stacked In
the traphouse this Is quite proper. But
We're you to ask any of the 100000
active trap shooters in the country for
his personal opinion he would unhesi-
tatingly say that Immediately follow
ing its release from the trap 1t be-
comes just about as animated as devil
ish ingenuity could conceive.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
Elton, One Of Lucky Few.

only because it was the smallest num-
Der ever given the coveted honor, but
because two men who We're regarded
as sure things were overlooked.
The players receiving the award
We're: Block, Bondzinski, BrelOs,
Cochran, Elton, Gorgas, Higgins, Jack
son, Mcdonald, Mellin, MoultOn and
Rouse.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
BERRY GREETS jim THORPE
University Of Pennsylvania Marvel
Meets Famous indian-eoth
Took Up Same Sports.

Two of the greatest athletes Of mod
ern times clasped hands In admiration
Of one another recently. One was
Jim Thorpe, the famous Indian. and
the other was ]. Howard Berry, the
University Of Pennsylvania marvel.
Thorpe, when student ut Carlisle.
won the Olympic decathlon and pen
tathlon, In 1912, and during the last
three years Berry has won the Ameri-
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19

Joe Cans bought n hotel In Baltimore
and died penniless. Jack Johnson
squandered his coin In racing cars and
such. Stanley Ketchel carpeted the
pocketboOks Of his pals with yellow
backs. Horses ran away with the
money Terry McGOvern made with his
fists.
And Jess Willard. has bought cir
chs
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
HOME RUN HIT IS
CAUSE OF JEALOUSY

Jack Hendricks, manager OF
. the pennant-winning Indiannpo-
lis American association team,
when making n trip to Columbus,
played a team composed Of con-
victs ut the Ohio state prison.
The game was played In the
; prison yard. with the cold gray
walls In the background.
| In the latter part Of the game
n negro murderer who was play
Ing the outiield for the convicts
came to bat. He took an awful
cut and the ball scared over the
l fence and out of sight for a
/ home run. A negro burglar who
was coaching on the sidelines,
yelled:
"Lawdy, MISSY, how I'd like
to be on dat ball."
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19

or pitch many games, but he plans to
aid as a relief hurler and pitch full
games II necessary.
Matty announced his retirement as
a hurler after he won his game from
Mordecai Brown of the Cubs In Chica-
go on Labor day, 1916. Since then he
has not played, but has kept himself
In fine condition by hurting to the bat
ters In practice.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
FIGHTERS ARE HOBBY RIDERS
After Amassing Fortune Ring Cham.
pions Look for Chance to Spend
lt-Nelson Wrote Book.

Most champions Of the ring, as soon
as they have amnssed q fair sized for
tune by their fistic efforts, glance
around to see how they can spend it
and many of them spend It merrily as
fast as 1t Is made, which Is some
speed.
Battling Nelson wrote book and
financed 1t. Then Bat tried a come
back In the ring. Jack O'Brlen be-
came real estate operator and was
not as good mt 1t us he was Mt fighting.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
Letter TO twelve MAR00NS
&C" 10 Distributed to Coach Staoo's
Chicago AthIetes-sure Thinss
Are Overlooked.

Twelve members Of the University
Of Chicago football squad have been
awarded letters for their efforts ON
the gridiron during the recent season.
The announcement Of the names Of
the new &c" men occasiOfied some
what Of a surprise on the campus, not
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19

Christy Mathewson, manager of the
Reds, is coming out of his retirement
as hurler. Big Six will take the
mound next season, he announced the
other day. AS his club will have to
get along with six pitchers, he will
keep himself In condition and be ready
to 90 on the slab when his services
are needed. The veteran hardly can
be expected to take his regular turn
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
Watson's Record Peculiar.

Mule Watson OF the Cardinals, had a
peculiar pitching record during the
1917 season. He was knocked out or
taken out of ten straight games, but
won the five complete games he la,
bored. 'R
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
Hildebrand ts Gentle,

George Hildebrand was the gentlest
of Ban Johnson's umpfres in the 1917
campaign, banishlng but two players,
Speaker'of the Indians, and NfReyAfc-
Nally Of the Red SOX. '''"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
Athletes In Service.

Harvard boasts SO varsity H ath.
letes in the governments military serv.
Ice. Yale has 55 and Dartmouth 81.
exclusively among New England insti.
tnttOns.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
Phjlljes sian Scout.

Pat Moran has signed Billy Doyle OF
Portsmouth, Ohio to scout for the Phil
adelphia Nationals. Doyle enjoys quite
a reputation as scout and is said to
have'a number of youngsters Of ability
within his reach. 4
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
Coast Races Cancelled.

Pacific coast eight-Oared shell races
between California, Stanford and Uni
versity of Washington will not take
place next year.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
Chief Movers After, Job.

Chief Meyers is wintering on farm
in Connecticut and Is anxious to sign
with one of the major league clubs.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
U. S. G. A. APPEALS TO
CLUBS TO CLOSE UP

As n valuable aid In cOnserv-
ing coal, the United States Golf
association has appealed to coun-
try clubs to close their doors I'M
til April l. The appeal was the
outcome of letter received from
Doctor Garfield, fuel administra-
tor, who believes that 100000
tons of coal could be saved dur
ing the winter by the closing Of
the clubs.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19

can pcntathlon championship, held In
connection with the Penn relay carni-
val. Both athletes specialized in the
same branches of sport while ut col
lege. Berry has always been great
admirer of Thorpe.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19

throw them back, and let them come
round In their own woy from that
point. rtF.
8. Let the movement Of the right
shoulder be steady ara rhythmic; 1t
should have nothing In the nature Of q
sudden drop or jerk.
@. Don't 0e afraid to hit hard; II
you are swinging correctly, hard hit
ting Is not pressing" ',H.-
Z. Keep your head still until the
club has struck the ball.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
Play Indoor Basel /.

Canadian soldiers In Toronto camp
play indoor baseball.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-19
Winnings Of. Houriess

Hourless, the great French.bred colt,
owned by Mr.. Belmont, won a total Of
$23,275 during the last season. "
The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-17

boat In for debt, and you couldn't told there was anythin' the matter with him. What I mean, you couldn't told nothin' on him in daytime, but after dark he'd go shamblin' all around the village, and then when it got late if he see a light somewheres, he'd go in there and have a spell just the same he had with me. Scared people with them spells, he did.
 The Last of Goodfied's Money.
 "Long about September his wife up and surprised everybody, because she went to all the expense of havin the old man declared insane and hauled off to the asylum. He cut his throat with piece of broken bottle up there, and the funniest thing happened-the found the old woman dead the same afternoon in their house here. The court gave the estate to q trust com pany, and l guess that was the end of old Goodfield's hundred and twenty four thousand three hundred and six. ty-three dollars and fifty-one cents.
 'Well, sir, you know all that about old Mir. and Mrs. Goodfield made a kind of sensation, as you might call 1t, and there was quite a good deal of thinkin' and talkin' about 1t here in the village. There was some that claimed they fingered out how it all was meant to mean somethin'.
 Anyway, when the call come from Halifax last December we sent off mighty near half carload of first. rate clothin' right in a few hours. and there was two hundred and seventy odd dollars subscribed just in the vii. lage, and you know there wasn't hard. ly any of us real sure we could see the winter through ourselves
 "Yes, I'll put my name down for the Red Cross and I'll shell out l guess you won't have much trouble gittin' subscriptions from the rest. either ' e got a good many boys from here over there now, and we wouldn't like to think of 'em shot and layin' out in the fields twistin around and nobody to tend em because us at home hadn't found out yet that it's mistake to think we're still goin' to have our sav- in's right nice and with us when we're dead Y
The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-17
SPEAKING OF MONEY
Just How the GOodfields- The Stingiest Couple in Town
 Helped the Red Cross

Speaking of money" said my sea- faring friend of the Maine coast, we used to have an old man here named Goodiield. When he was young he used 10 sing in the church choir-that didn't cost nothin'-and married one of the Endorses, but didn't have only one child, and it died, and time he got to be about sixty-eight years old he'd saved up and was hirin' out his mon- ey at about as high a P cent. us any body. Made it all just tradin' and bein careful what he spent. Care fulY He wouldn't buy hisself pair of brtches but once in eight years, and when his old sister that lived with 'em says one day she was bound to see what the inside the pitcher show theater locked like just once before she died, why, old Goodtieid and his wife says that was the last straw, and they fixed up and had her hauled off to live on the county. His wife was just the same as him, too.
 "Wen, along about the middle O the hard winter, three years ago Goodheld took sick. and his wife told the neighbors they both thought 1t was a pretty good thing, comin' on him In the cold weather that way, be cause fuel was so high and person in bed don't need to use any. They wouldn't hear of calin in the doctor and for two or three weeks the neigh bors and old friends, most of 'em, was sure he was goin' to die, but then he begun to look so well there didn't hardly seem to be much hope.
 Old Goodfield Walks In.
 He got to goin' out and shamblin' around again, and for awhile there wasn't nobody noticed anything much different. 1 reckon was the first and it come about mighty queer. IL was like this: I was workin in my shack one night pretty late, tryin to spell out what was the matter with a carburetor I'd brought up from my boat. when there come tap on the door, and old Goodfeld walks in. was kind O surprised to see him, but didn't say nothin' 'cept Good evenin' and all of a sudden he says, Do you know how much money I'm worthY
The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-17
By BOOTH HARRINGTON
Of the VigiIantes.

"He said 1t just like that-nothin' before it-and l said, For the Lords sake, Mir. Goodfield, what's the mat ter?" He looked kind of funny to me.
 "Tm worth a hundred and twenty four thousand three hundred and six ty-three dollars and fifty-one cents,' he says.
 "'Well. by Orryr says.
 "Well, sir, he begun to pant like he'd been runnin' up hill; he got to heavin' like a winded horse; then he begun to cry and sob like woman that's all excited when some ones just died. Well, by Orryr 1 says. You better set down and quiet yourself, says. Whats the tnatterT
 "I got to die he says I been sick he says. I been sick and I got to dler
 "'Well.' l says, we all got to die
 "He kep' straight on cryin and pantin' and sobbin'.
 "'Yes,' he says, but l never knowed 1 had tol I never knowed it before was sick. kind O thought I wouldn't Teely udl lo, WHICH, u COlle TiSHl uONu to 1t.
 "'We're all fixed that way l says. We all got to have some sickness we won't get over.'
 well, sir, he let out yell that just about rose my hair The rest of you ain't got a hundred and twenty-four thousand three hundred and sixty three dollars and fifty-one cents he hollers. And I got to dle!' he says {; and he kep' on kind of shoutln' it. I got to die I got to die! l got to dieP And then he pitches over before I could catch him and fell down on a couple O busted lobster traps
 "Ole Cap. Whitcomb, he woke up in his shack next door and put on some clo'es and come in, lookin' scared to death. Him and me picked Good field up off the traps and got him home. half carryin' him, and him kind of whimperin' and slobberin right on to when we left him doubled up on a rickety chair at his own house.
 Next day he was around. just about the same as ever. and never said nothin' about nothin', and the week after that he took Fred Owens
The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-17

Newth & King Prescott Tin Go. H. H. Smith City Grocery Go. Nevada Go. Hardware Company. w. w. White. Harrell Auto Go. Dixie Motor Sales Go. R. F. Arnold Cafe Mrs. T. c. Moody First State Bank R. A. Wylie Harrell Bicycle Repair Shop Ritchie Grocer Go. M. M. Smyth. Browns Cafe Imon Gee Moore & Martin Star Restaurant w. B. Waller Jno. T. Nichols
The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-17
GENERAL PERSH|NG
 ISSUES AN OFF|.
 C|AL G0MMUN|QUE
Is First Official Daily Report to American People Concerning TrOOps-It May Be Daily Feature.

Washington, May Publication today of the first American official communique" prepared at expedition ary headquarters in France inaugur- ated what is expected to be a daily report to the American people on what their soldiers abroad are doing.
 In giving out the text of the state ment, Secretary Baker could not say definitely that one would be forth coming daily hereafter. That rests with General Pershing, but MT. Baker indicated his hope that the expedi- tionary commander would find it pos sible to follow that course.
 As to the military situation in the two sectors held by American troops the communique was exceedingly brief. Increased artillery activity on both sides, both north of Foul and in the Lorraine, were noted with the comment nothing else of importance to report"
 Most of the statement was de- voted to official accounts of the daring and enterprise of American officers and men in scouting and raiding operations and in the air.
 Army officers here hope that while General Pershing may yet feel that it would be improper for him to issue formal statements as to operations where his forces are holding sectors in French corps or army fronts, he will be able to follow up today's prac- tice and give detailed accounts of events in which only American troops are involved
 Designation in the communique of the flight for which Major Ralph Royce was decorated by the French army corps commander as the first American flight over the enemy's lines" was taken here as an announce- ment that a complete American squadron is now in operation a. ne front. Heretofore American flyers mentioned for galiantry have been attached to French squadrons. Officers saw in the official reports of the raiding and scouting opera tions signs of the dash and initiative which they have expected the Ameri- can troops to show in action. They are supremely confident that the av- craze American will play the game at the front just as well as Ameri- cans have played all games. A second American official com- munique, timed p. m, says:
 'In Lorraine patrolling was active and there was again an increase in the artillery fire. Otherwise the day was quiet at all points occupied by our troops"
The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-17
RED CROSS PARADE
 AND SPEECH MAKING
parade Tomorrow Afternoon and Speaking at Court House Rusiness Houses of Prescott Will Close for Event.

The Red Cross parade will form at .Qo o'clock sharp on Main and West cocond streets. The band will as- somble around the driving post in tho street crossing near the Nevada County Hardware store. All the ladies who are members of the Red Cross will form line of march on East West Second street, leading into Main street from the Methodist church; immediately after the Red Cross ladies, will be the drill team of tho grammar school, then all other white people who will join in the parade. The colored people will form line of march on West Second street leading into Main street from toward the grammar school When the orders is given to march. the band will lead the parade, next the white people as indicated, then the colored people. Everybody is urged to join in the parade, and they are requested to carry all Red Cross flags and em- blems that can be obtained.
 Nat Martin and Dan Pittman will be grand marshals of the day and will have charge of the parade, which will march from the point designated, to the court house where the exercises will be conducted, consisting of a drill by some of the grammar school pupils, and speeches by prominent speakers.
 The following business houses will close at ? o'clock tomorrow and re- mained closed until after the speak ing:
 Aesterly Drug Store.
 N. B. Nelson.
 Quality Shop.
 East Side Barber Shop.
 Farmers Union Exchange.
 Sid Cole
 J. C. Walloch
 Krescent Store
 Guthrie Drug Store
 Joe Boswell
 R. D. Hamm & Go.
 City Meat Market.
 Gentry Buchanan X Co.
 E. N. Daniel X Son
 Rex Furniture Go.
 J. A. White & Go.
 Buchanan Drug Store.
 West Side Barber Shop
 W. K. Buchanan
 Lewis Millinery Go.
 American Cafe
 Moore Bros.
 H. A. Hamilton & Go.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-17

City of Prescott Auto Sales & Service Go. w. R. Barham Jake Sanders A Monson Farmers Supply Go. Geo. Christopher T. F. Dixon R. B. Keiiun Prescott Drug Go.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-17

Our boys will junk the junkers if you pay your income tax early
The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-17

Jake Suckle
 Prescott Hardware Go. Ozan Graysonia Lumber Go. Junction City Lumber Go. E. L. Cox & Go. Prescott Mercantile Go. Weeks Shop Dutch McCuller Honea & Rhodes A. J. Shaver Pressing Shop o. s. Jones & Co. Ozan Mercantile Go. Bank of Prescott Prescott Ice Company
The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-17

WANTED 1000 cords Hickory Handle bolts cut 40 inches long, de- livered on railroad. inspected and paid for at point of loading for prices. Address Smithton Handle Works, Smithton, Ark. 5-17m2
The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-17

Shoe Polish, all colors at Hesterly's.
The Glenwood post., 1918-12-21
MAKE ROLL CALL UNANIMOUS.

The official designation, and the only
proper characterization of the demon
stration that will occupy the attention
Of the American people, under the
auspices of the American Red Cross,
Immediately preceding the coming holi-
day season, Is "The Red Cross Christ
mas Roll Call"
The object of the Christmas Roll
Call is to register In terms of active
participation the spirit Of nation.
The spirit In question is personfied in
Red Cross membership. 1t is not to be
campaign" to raise war fund nor
"drive" to strengthen the material
resources Of the Red Cross organiza-
ton. Its main objective is the ex-
tension of Red Cross membership to
the uttermost limit.
See to it that no false conception of
the purpose of the Roll Call finds lodg-
ment anywhere, and, while emphasiz-
ing the grandeur of the movement un-
der Its only logical name, keep ever
lastingly in mind the Idea to-"Make
1t unanimous"