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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1918-08-09
To Improve Your Digestion

For years my digestion was so
poor that | could only eat the light
est foods. | tried everything that
| heard Of to get relief, but not un
til about a year ago when | saw
Chamberlain S Tablets advertised
and got bottle Of them did | find
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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1918-08-09
MENNONlTES
MAY EMICRATE

Winnipeg Aug. 9.-Mennonltes
who are conscientious DIRECTORS to
military service, are going to emf
CRATE in large numbers from the
United States to Canada, where
they say they will have a better
chance. They have purchased a
large tract Of land 30 miles west
of here, for 100000, and expect
to settle l 500 persons upon 1t.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1918-08-09

FOR SALE One Dodge Car been
run about 5000 miles. One
Overland Car been run about
1900 miles both in good condi-
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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1918-08-09

Mr.. II. c.. Bell left yesterday for
Dunn, being called there on ac-
count Of the death Of his sister,
Mrs Walter Hollingsworth.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28

dustry last spring owing to the ne
cessity Of conserving the supply Of an
hyqrous ammonia, has forced the artt-
fetal Kinks to discontinue operation In
New York city and vicinity. The st.
Nicholas rink, the oldest and best estsb-
lished In this country, is the first to an
nounce the discrimination of its in
dustry for the duration of the war at
least, and has leased its premises to an
amusement enterprise of a different
nature for the entertainment Of resi-
dents of View York city and vicinity.
Following closely upon the action Of
the Ontario Rugby Football union in
abolishing the scrimmage buck, the To-
ronto High School Rugby league has
adopted a similar rule. The a%bolishing
Of the scrimmage buck seems to be one
more way to help do away with mass
plays in the Canadian rugby football
and to make the play more open. II
tends to produce more. spectacular rug
by, and Is also better for the specta-
tors to watch.
Twice this year the National league
record for extra innings was in danger
Of being cracked. In both cases it SIS
capped being tied by a single round Two
different games lasted 81 innings be-
fore the decision was reached. and the
leagues record is % rounds, set by the
Brooklyn and Pittsburgh teams in 1917.
In the curtailed season OF 1918 the
Cubs and Phillies were the first to
approach their leagues record. They
went q innings on July Il before the
Mitchells won, 2 to J., Pittsburgh and
Poston really peat that performance
on Aug, /, because they went through
70 innings without a III on either side,
then the Pirates won with two TALES
In the 21st,
Neither OF these battles approached
the major league mark for overtime,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28
DAVE COULD TELL
HOW TO PITCH
But Somehow It Failed to
Work Out When He Tried It

Dave Davenport. besides being the
tallost man in baseball, possesses the
81 eatest line Of chatter in diamond cir
Giles. Dave is quite some talker. Vie
talked himself into the reputation of be-
American league, according to one of
Was a habit with Fielder Jones to hold
a meeting in the clubhouse just before
going out on the field. Fielder would
talk over with his men about the weak
points OF the opposition M tell the
pitcher he intended using where to
pitch to each man.
After Fielder had finished his grafton
Dave would Immediately get on the "old
soap box as the players say, and tell
how he baffled this and that player with
certain shoots, Dave seldom gave any
one else a chance to utter a word. and
the meeting usually broke up with the
tall boy telling how the game should
be played on that psrtuclar afternoon.
II sometimes happened, however, that
Davenport would be sent to the mound.
The players on the bench would eagerly
watch the tall Texan. He had a habit
Of tossing up a slow ball quite often,
and invariably SOM player on the op-
posing side would connec for a terrific
WALTON to the fence. Tho fact that Da.
verport vas pounded hard and yanEed
out of the game On 4 "ur3ber OF ocra-
Sions never caused thu big fellow 10
cease teliiHg his tsauUrstss how 10
p!a} tho EsrG. Dave meant wen. ana
lis tesmmates enjoscd the act i'm
men eJ
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28

which was set by the American league
way back in 1906. when the Athletics
and Red Sox fought for "a innings be-
fore the Mackmen won by a score of
4 to /.
American league teams did not get
near that record this year, as the long
est fight in the younger circuit went
Is innings. 1t vas between the Yanks
and Cleveland, and the Ohio team won,
, to L.
The American league did hang up
one worlds record, however, when the
IL rounds without an error on either
side. The game was played on May
10 in Washington, and the Senators
won, ] to 0. Johnson and Williams
were the slabmen and the game, was
decided by a wild pitch in the 18th.
that being the only mistake of the
game.
Owing to the daylight saving rule.
which a observed by the majority
of the major league teams, there were
more games of long duration than ever
before. In previous seasons a battle
which lasted over u innings usually was
started as a double-header, This sea-
son there were many prolonged battles
which began as single headers" and
that includes the longest games of the
year in both leagues.
Ann ll-year-old girl prodigy has just
been crowned fancy diving champion
in Cleveland. Mary Porter is the name
of the child wonder. and there can be
no question Of her amazing ability. for
she captured the title in open compe-
tition against all corners and defeated
UGH full-grown rivals as Miss Irene
McShane, the former city champion;
Miss Ruth Nolan and Miss Verne Me
Loughlin.
Eugene V. Lcfrevbre, for several years
a ball player in minor circuits In tho
East, died at his home in Franklin, y.
V. os Oct. 10 of influenza. After retir-
ing from baseball he opened a bowling
alley in Franklin and was conducting a
successful business when his fatal i'll
ness overlook him. He formerly lived
at Manchester. y. Y. His wife and one
child survive him.
The kaiser's booked to finish a poor
last in the pig league over there" and
the allies are going to force him to play
out the string.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28
JACK BARRY In
OFFICERS SCHOOL
Qualified Himself by Hard
Study During Summer,

Jack Barry, eX-Red Son manager,
who played on more world series win
ming clubs than any other hail player
In the country until he quit to get
into Il bigger game, will enter the Of
ficers' material school at Cambridge.
Mass, which Is about to open, lie
hopes to follow IN the footsteps Of
his illustrious ramesakc. Admiral Jack
Barry, founder OF tho American navy.
II was only by diut Of hard work
throughout the summer that the fam
Gus second basemau was able to URs-
ter h mathematics necessary to en-
title him to go to the officers school.
lie had been out of college many years
and II was not an easy undertaking.,
Jack STAYED out of baseball aud other
sports until 1t became almost II per
petual question, what has become Of
Jack Barry
When Barry entered the service he
enrolled as a woman and worked up
TO a T.. i, q. rating as chief yeomaH.
lie was stationed at the Boston navy
yard. Ito Captained the baseball club
whthc was organized early in the
spring and which, after playing Camp
Derens and Newport naval reserves at
Braves field and a team from the At.
lantic fleet at Norfolk, was d%ishandcd.
The men were sent broadcast. Barry
remained at the navy yard.
He then announced he wanted to try
for the officers echool aud was trans.
ferred TO Bumliu island lite remained
IN the background there, aud although
wanted by the athletic officers to rep.
resent the station in the Navy league.
he declined. Instead lack applied him.
self TO his books until he passed tho
examinations IN the group Of go Which
viii enter the next school
Harry Carroll like Barry, am old
Holy cross college baseball plnNcr nlg
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28
COLLINS TEAM
WAS GREAT ONE
Jimmy Did Not Believe in
Signs for His Club.

One OF the best teams in baseball was
the Boston American league club, com
manded by Jimmy Collins. tho great
third baseman. And hat team played
practically without signs. Jimmy did
not believe in signs. He was a corking
hitter, and instead of having a hit and
run sign he would tell the base runner
to go when he had a good start and he
would hit behind him. And Jimmy could
do that little thing.
Later, when Jimmy was through az
a big Lacquer, he managed the Minneap-
oils club, n Jerry Downs was ono OF
his players. Jerry says Jimmy had
three signs, and he rehearsed his men
in them before the opening game OF the
season, which was played at Kansas
City. The signs were spoken words and
Jimmy took his place as coacher near
first base and proceeded to chant az
needed. But Jake Beckley was playing
first base for Kansas City, and he was
SO full OF nepper and beloved around
SO much that Collins could not make
himself heard. He went bac kto the
bench in disgust and said:
For the first time in my life [ tried
to use signs they were spoiled BY
that iron-headed Beckley. From now
on no signs go: use your judgment and
hit that old pill"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28
ITALY HAS A
CHANGE OF HEART

John EverS writes from France that
ne soon MAJ be sent TO Italy TO teach
nasebal ITO thar country's soldlera ana
YET II was only a few months ago the
ltallan government refused to permit a
shipment OF baseball equipment on tho
ground that ii was q nonessential COM
noalty TO be classed az even frlrolous
itaiy hasn't been a nation famous for
sports, but before the Americans get
through they may be sending n flood
81 Italian recruits up TO the big leagues,
Basebali has been virtually unknown in
ltaly, though II has been played In
Rome At a college for American boys
For a time they played their games In
= public park and natives looked on
"a wondef as the boys, caught the hard
ball with their bare hands. 1t finally
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28
UMPIRES NEEDED
BY SOLDIER TEAMS
A. E, F. Pleads for Arbiters to
Come on Over,


PARIS. Oct IS -Ir professional base.
ball has folded up for the duration u'
the war, throw the umplres to the LIONS
send them 10 The American eApedt-
ttonary force. Many are beyond DRAFT
age, and u You believe the PLAYERS
none could pass the sight est. Send
them over 10 where baseball is being
spread through new territory by our
fighters with p~srsphernRlia furnished
ny n under auspices Of the Y, NJ. g. \.
ana X, Of G.. Of tho seven service OF
ganizstions IN The united war woIb
oampeign. These service organizations
furnish tons Of sporting apparatus and
hundreds OF physical directors. but
there Is a big demand IN the AE.F.
for lmpires-pTOhsblv 10 send them Ia
the front line. In The amy VAS dis
covered a mine Of playing talent, hut
1t Is a very difficult matter TO uncover
q man who can call balls strikes and
get some of them right.
All OF the umpiTiuR IN the games
played In France is done by volunteers,
which Is smother proof that the courage
Of the American soldier knows no
bounds. The Goche VIII do well TO pou-
der~this fact, Anybody who Will offer
TO hold the Indicator in a contest played
between two rival company or reg
mental teams isn't going 10 mind a it,
lie thing Ike going over The top l."
fRct, there iF on record q case wherein
N lbth NtlllNFtu titut llllO tue 'hfNi 81
Nnes and whipped half a COMPANY
When they threatened him with court
martial for promoting n private inss
Eacre without orderE, he said tNst Ne
had bsen the official umpire a. Mis-
company and had gone over into the
Hun precincts 10 get n rest.
Officers do a good deal OF the um-
,piring, Having the weight Of perfect
discipline hshind them, they get by
without h6AIips many kicks. hut disci-
Ipline or 10 discipline, there is nothing
Ito prevent . soldier from thinking ana
tsometiInes the privstes have apopleXy
from ptpt-up profanity. A had decision
Ha y bad decision whether your colonel
Var your ''bunkiN' CRls 1t on you,
II would be impossible 10 send enough
EnrofeaSional umpires TO France TO han
k4ie more than an infultesimal fraction
kaE tho ball gsmes that are played by
HaembarE OF the A.F.F. The only prsC-
tticable plan would he for a few Of them
to 20 ever and establish schools FOR
! teaching the tricks OF the trade to SOL
Aisrs who might be detailed for this
kind Of work, Lectures on the rules,
practical demonstrations Of intricate
: plays, and instruction on how 10 auttci-
pate the movements Of the ball and
keep up with It. are some OF the things
that the umpire tutor might do.
But, chimes in a soldier, the plan
never will work because the AmalRa-
mated Order Of Porch Climbers and
Second Story Workers won't let the
umpirts get away from the old I. s"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28
HAPPY FELSCH
QUIT ONCE BEFORE
But It Wasn't That He Heard
Call to Do War Work.

"one hot day in August, 1910. I
strolled out on the government pier. I
had no business out there, but I
thought that the lake breeze wSuld re-
lieve me from the heat" says Tom
Farley, Of Milwaukee,
II saw an idle boy holding a fishing
pole and waiting for a bite. 1 had seen
him elsewhere l knew him we'll.
AS president Of a baseball league
in Wisconsin l had often seen the boy
in uniform. He impressed me then as
a future great Although he was only
something told me that he was a
'ccmer.'
II was puzzled at not seeing his
name in the box scores that summer.
and when I saw him on the pier |,
asked:
Why are you not playing baIl?"
He looked at me and said: I can't
hit; / can't catch a fly ball; I can't
throw straight If | stop a grounder.'
"A season before that he was play
ing shortstop and his work was mar
velous.
81 said to him: This may be only a
slump. II you stick to the game you
will get back to form
ITO this he replied: y have been
playing such ball that I quit the club.
/ don't want to go near the ball park,
and | am 80 disguised, with myself
lnaL 1 won | want TO see another ann
Of ball. That's why ! am fishing
"Thirty-two thousand people packed
the South Side ball park in October,
1917. to sc ethe first game Of the
worlds series between the Chicago
White Sox and the New York Giants.
When the score stood ! to /. q
young ma in a White Sox uniform
drove the ball over the fence for a
home run. 1t was a whale OF a WALTON
and it won the game for the White
Sox.
while $4,000 people went wild with
joy l murmured to myself, On what. a
slender thread does destiny dependr'
The young man who hit the bail
for a home run and turned 80, 900 fans
into a wild and cheering mob was
Happy Felsch, center fielder of the
Chicago White Sox. worlds ~charapions
Of 1917. and he was the same idle boy
that l talked to u on the govern
ment pier at Milwaukee in August,
1870"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28
SAILORS REGISTER
FOR SPORT PROGRAM
Huge Gymnasium Opened at
Portsmouth.

WASHINGTON, D. c., oct. Pa
sports program which provides for the
winter months by the opening. Of q
huge new gymnasium is announced at
Portsmouth, y. H., navy prison. where
1850 sailors registered this month for
athletics. According to George V.
Brown, athletic director OF the First
naval district. the registration was
made with reference to the personal
choice OF the men and their previous
experience in sports, The numbers re-
ported to the ANY commission on train
ing camp activities are as follows:
Football. 700: soccer, $50; basketball,
ESQ: Volley ball, 100; c~alisthenics, 500;
playground ball, 500; miscellaneous,
5000.
Complying with the general plan 10
provide recreationsl sport for every
sailor, two football leagues have been
organized and will play until the wealth
er prevents. Fdr the winter months
the gymnasium viii be opened on Nov,
l. This building will accommodate seven
rolley ball courts and four basketball
courts,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28
JOE GUY0N STAR
BACKFIELD MAN
Tech Luminary One of Games
Greatest Gridders.

ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 2L.-Joe Guyon
the brilliant Georgia Tech halfback is
ranked by many as the greatest all
round collegiate backfield man in
There is nothing that Guyon can
not do-and do just a little better h
his rivals" insist the admirers Of the
great Indian gridtron athlete.
A year & Guyon was picked bv
many for All-American honors. SOM
who followed his performances through
the full season insisted he was even a
greater player than his teammate. Fv-
erett Strupper. the All-American o n
sensus. Guyon, with Strupper, consti-
tuted the greatest scoring pair in foot
ball toys a year ago and the two Of
them ripped to shreds every line which
But this year Guyon, the Only remain
ing member of Georgia Techs great
1917 backfield, surely has Gme into
his own. With strupper, Hill AGd Har-
Ian gone, the brunt of the 1918 Georgia
Tech attack has fallen to Guyom And
the way the Indian has responded is
a revelation.
Guyon. as swift as the wind. a fear
less player and possessed Of prodigious
against every line he has chargedA
against. No eleven has been able to
halt him. He has punctured one line
after another with his tremendous
plunges, ran ends in a ~bewilderinR way
and handled the forward pass like a
master.
Guyon is in almost every play that
Georgia Tech mates-a tireless worker.
When not carrying the ball he usually
is heading interference and when on
the defensive, it is his daring tackles
that frequently halt attempts of the
enemy to race down the field toward
Georgia Techs goal line.
Guyon, who is "a years old, began
his football career at the Carlisle In
the engineering work. He is now study
ing at Georgia Tech. Guyon, whose
home is in New Mexico, is 5 feet II
inches tall and weighs 1874 pounds.
i've seen many great Indian play
peers of Guyon.'' asserts John w. Heis-
man, coach Of Georgia Tech.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28
JACKSON WOUNDED

Virgil Jackson, formerly sporting ed
itor Of the st. Joseph News-Press, was
carried oil the casualty lists last week
~ severely wounded, jackson entered
the army more than n year ago at
Eamp Funston and was assigned 10
the S56th infantry. He was one OF tho
hest known and most capable baseball
writer's, In the Western lea que territory,
and though he had a tough assignment
In ST Joseph, he never lost heart nor
fu{faH ~ hnn,t
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28
LAVAN THROUGH.

Lieut. johnny Lavan, who had a brief
spell as manager OF the Great Lakes
naval training station baseball team,
the team being disbanded soon after
he Joined It following the close Of tho
American league season, says he will
not return TO professional baseball after
the war, He made this statement while
on q leave Of absence in st Louis last
week, When the war Closes, SAYS La =
I No VIII take up the practice Of
medicine, probably In st. Louis.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28
STILL PLAYING BALL,

Up in Nova Scotia they are still play
lIs oaIL according to A report sent In
by members Of an American army de-
tachment that recently left the Cana
disn port for over there. The story tells
OF a game the s09th ammunition train
team played against a military team
stationed al sydney, y. S. The Amerl-
cans neat the Canadians ) 70 in a
american PLAYERS were from Indiana.
FROM The neighhorhood Of Terre Haute
Nhe,e they once had starred as indie
pendent and minor league PLAYERS,
hls crowd saw their game and a band
ron 2 tnited States battloship msdo
music between innings,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28
SPORT SHRAPNEL

Fred Mitchell, manager Of the Cubs
was once tu the shoW business. not
only Mas he ia the show business, but
ne was half owner Of a slow and ucca
SlonaIlN took a small part. His Ghiel
loh- however. was raising the tent
IuIlig the gasoline torches, lighting the
same, doing d balIyhOU iu front of the
i"'i. selling t|Cltcts, counting the money,
n"lnE a turn in the uiio and getting
the show out Of town without the con
. Stbuic'S' Interference
'Nr-,' SAID Mitchell. 81 was in the
Show business buck IN the DAYS before
IN" MOVIES. We did well, although /
have seen better shows since. At that
time, though. ! thought We had "A great
SHOW.
cone day We showed in Il sman town
ma Maine ami | learned later there was
an old mcu't home in the town, and
most Of the iuWatcs We're feeble in the
dome about an hOur bcf1fe We opened
tn" doors "a venerable gcsZer came up
TO th" tent. lie had long white, bencyo-
lent Wh5shCrs and he looked like Il
pretty wise Old sutrap
''NhoS the manager Of this show
he asked.
"I atu,' said ] what do YOU want
"'Well. ! just wanted to tell YOU
that a lot Of inmates Of the old mems
home are coming to the show tonight
ard most Of them are shaky In the
Wltg. They UlUy GuugC "a GttIn dfstnpb-
aucn NJ tbo eLoo f tho,' ~ a ~
Hgt dor, nav onv a]tttanIti 6 S'' to eNI,ssn'
rnrrc1I be sn'rnho,J, nero tn le a" ISL LIS.
out If thny ramsn ,romLie % Ell toI trei,.
actors mar tn nav, any a]ttentiimr So4 IT
Nom "'' !" '"' '"N "''e''lon 10
'' ,lIprh ,bIiernd soid ! ,,ra nho .ra
youo' wv WIN are
., Il n, tho uunol c,hr;,,r .otJ -
valEnI ,wn, '"'" Nv ana
"IIig rctTraSrls eorrdol an ri,h,
rcpt tnaf L"st rrarE ahoit hnisSg Ea
h,i.,I ,,,n, ''Sa I'",N ano1t pelhs "a,
IN" show how hc Cgan' I naf d naAI'[ IL r out 1nIil
wac nTn, .5ott,i IA ~ lmSI '4Lh
third ,rn "aWI''t >" Mn'9hetS ~ the
wns nm Nc f %e1 we mrAh "liI,ute ne
y]cIiine BGo -, T%,t"6 'S arnih dil1
CC nave r"n,o ', l, ,mn'' H. eoaplS oI
TT,inn",' as '"a,e Iu"m tit "'HrG aiH led
n 90 INA w, ~ was ''o ''St lelloW
~ ~ '''' '"''
Larry DOYLE admits he was awful
green when he broke into the hig show
WITH the Giants. II believe" said Lar
~, chat was the Grpenpst huaher
that ever broke into the major leagues
/ thought McGraw. Dahicn and McGann
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28

is subject to draft. He says that may
take him away from his business, but
never again would he play ball profess
sionally,
Coombs Joined the Athletics in 1906,
and was on the pay roll until Oct. 20,
1914, when he was unconditlonally re-
lea sed along with Chief Bender and
Eddie Plank. In 1915 he signed with
Brooklyn and staged a comeback that
lasted as long as baseball did.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28

ger ON the cord of his opponents little
toe.
lie knew practically nothing about
the game when he started, hut Is an
apt candidate, Between the tricks en-
ploNod In Japanese wrestling and the
fancy holds employed IN Ju- Jutsu this
lad with the breakfast food name ought
TO inject II few new twists into the
sport when he gets going.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28

Chick Harley, all-American halfback
I'M two years, Is awaiting his commis-
OH as lieutenant in the aviation sec
on OF the army. Harley showed the
tm8 sticktoitiyeness IN irving to get
|ato service that he showed white max
I'll history for himself on the Ohio
ate university football eleven. lIar-
IN was rejected by air service Off
AIS three times because Of 2 mtnor
bysicai defect. but was finally ao,
pted. he is just q.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-28
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