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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
CICOTTE HAS
\ A mystery" BALL
White Sox Pitcher UncorkS Curve
Called "Paraffine."
When II Is Being Thrown, Pellet
Takes an Uneven DiscoIoration,
but Umpires Regard It al
Within Law of Baseball.

They called it the "shine" ball for
time, and later it was called the
"paraffine" ball. 1t appears now that
the ball which Eddie Cicotte has so
completely mastered should be known
as the mystery" ball. Cicotte, or
some other member of his team is so
skillful in his massage work on the
pellet that even the umpires are in a
haze about it. Once in a great while
ball is thrown out, but most of them
stay in the game, despite the numer-
GUS protests of opposing players.
There is no denying the fact that
CicOtte is as smart as any other pitch
er in the game, smarter than most Of
them; also that he has plenty Of nat
ural ability and probably would be a
consistent winner without the freak
delivery which he alone seems to have
mastered. But it is likewise true that
when he is pitching, the ball takes on
an uneven discolOration that can be
noticed in the grandstand. Umpires
examine it, realize that it is djscol-
Oleu, DuI IeSdIu II as WllHlu Ine DdSe-
ball law. Last summer Joe Finneran
of the Yankees used the delivery with
some success but nothing like that of
Cicotte. At Comiskey park the Chi
cago players put up protests against
Finneran, but Billy Evans, who was
umpiring the series, declined to throw
out the ball when Finneran was pitch
ing, since he figured it was no differ
ent than when Cicotte was working.
Finneran's mode of doctoring the
ball consisted in rubbing paraffine into
the seams on one side of the ball.
By pressing his glove into the dirt and
rubbing the ball into the palm Of the
glove the dirt entered the seams and
stuck there, thus making the side Of
the ball containing the paraftine and
dirt heavier than the other. Without
the paraffine the dirt would not hold
but the wax substance kept it in. Fin
neran could make the ball take pc
culiar gyrations in practice, but he
could not properly control it in a
game.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
GOODBY,
WOMEN'S
TROUBLES

The tortures and discomforts Of
weak, lame and aching back, swollen
feet and limbs, weakness, dizziness,
nausea. as a rule have their origin in
kidney trouble, not female complaints"
These general symptoms of kidney and
bladder disease are well known-so is
the remedy.
Next time you feel a twinge of pain
in the back or are troubled kyith head
ache, indigestion, insomnia irritation
ia the bladder or pain. in the loins and
lower abdomen, you will find quick and
sure relief in GOLD MEDAL HARLEM
Oil Capsules. This old and tried rem
edy for kidney trouble and allied de-
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dreds Of years. 1t does the work.
Pains and troubles vanish and new life
and health will come as you continue
their use. When completely restored
to your usual vigor, continue taking q
capsule or two each day.
GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Cap
sules are imported from the laborato-
ries at HARLEM, Holland. Do not ac-
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three sizes.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
Manager Kid Gleason.

wins the respect and confidence Of
every member of his aggregation from
the greenest recruit to the oldest regu-
lar.
The White Sox, as Gleason took
hold Of them prior to the opening Of
the 1919 season, were doubtful look
ing combination. Fans and critics who
were on the inside of affairs as they
pertained to the Sox entertained we'll
grounded lunches that they were
divided against themselves.
Fact is, there was at one time not
long ago two factions i'm the Sox
camp. The wiseacres whispered that
these factions were the Rowland and
Collins factions, and the Sox machine
failed to hit on all six cylinders as a
result.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16

Captain Cook, athletic director for
Camp Lewis, believes that the disci-
pine Walter "Dutch" Ruether, Cincin-
natl pitcher, received in the army
helped make him one of the most
feared hurlers in the big leagues.
Cured of Irritation.
The captain told how Ruether was
cured of one cause of irritation.
1t was at the service game last year
and Del Baker, now with the Portland
Coast league, had been thrown out
of the contest. This made Ruether'
angry and he refused to pitch. Captain
Slim Scott tried to get him to continue,
but he would not.
II won't pitch another ball; Baker
did not get square DEAL" he said.
Captain Cook pleaded with him after
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16

In baseball. Clarence, accompanied by
five of his ball players, tried to get
through the pass gate in the Indian
apolis park. The guardian of the gate,
who is faithful watchdog, according
to McGill, stopped Rowland with the
question:
"How many are you trying to bring
in hereW
give, count them," answered Row.
land.
"Well, one bat boy is all you need"
was the answer.
Rowland had to summon help to get
his ball club inside the park. They
looked like candidates for the bat boys
Job to the trusty gatekeeper.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
NORMAN ROSS TO RACE AGAIN
Big Californian Is Expected to Par.
ticipate in Water CarnivaIs in
This Country.

Norman Ross is expected to take
part in the water carnivals in this
country now that he has returned from
France, where his victorious path
amazes many aquatic sharps. Ross
stands over six feet and weighs
around POS pounds. He uses a notice
ably slow, powerful stroke, spanning
the length of 75-foot pool with half
a dozen strokes, and until a short time
ago he used the four-beat, single trud-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
RUDE PARNHAM BIG FACTOR
Baltimore's Giant Highlander Has
Three Times Won Two Games
In Afternoon.

RUDE Parnham has been big factor
in winning the International League
pennant for Baltimore. The giant
highlander has three times during the
season won two games in one after
noon. He may be secured by Connie
Mack to help the Athletics in the Amer
lean League race next year.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
500 Reward, 500

Catarrh is a local disease greatly infiu-
enced by constitutional conditions. II
therefore requires constitutional treat
ment. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
Is taken internally and acts through the
Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the Sys.
tenn. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
gives the patient strength by Improving
the general health and assists nature in
doing its work. $4,000 for any case Of
Cetarrh that HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE fails to cure.
Druggists 75c. Testimonials free.
+. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
PARENT AS MANAGER

Freddy Parent, the old Boston
American and Chicago shortstop,
is mentioned as the probable
manager of the Hartford team
in the Eastern league for next
season. Parent and Owner
James II. Clarkin of the Hart
ford team recently conferred on
the subject in Sanford, Me-,
where Parent has managed a
fast semi-pro team for several
years.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16

Scott had failed. Ruether was obdu-
rate.
"Tll not PITCH" was the stubborn
def.
1t finally got on Captain Cooks
nerves.
Ruether Finished Game.
"Private Ruether" he snapped.
The left-handed pitcher came to at
tention automatically.
'Private Reuther," said Cook, "you
have just thirty seconds to get out in
the box and pitch or go back to Camp
Lewis under guard, and you won't go
on that California trip, either"
eyes, sir" saluted Ruether.
He finished the game so angry that
the ball came over looking like pea.
But he finished it just the same.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
Zelder COMING Back.

Rollie Zeider after quitting the To-
iedo team as manager, has been play
ing ball with an independent team in
LaPorte, Ind. He is quoted as saying
that he expects to be back In big
league ball next year.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
INJECTED PEPPER INTO s0X
scrappy Little Manager Of Chicago
Team Has Way of His Own in
Handling Players.

Kid Gleason, hard-fisted little mana
ger of the White Sox, has injected new
life and pepper into the South Siders.
The peppery Kid has a way about
him that is distinctly his own when it
comes to handling men-a way that
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
She AGREES.

Il am not worthy of you-not
worthy, I am not worthy of you--"
"All right, George, go ahead" inter-
posed the girl sweetly. "We've got
that much settled. "-Louisville Cou-
rier-JOurnal.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
HANSEN BEST RELIEF HURLER
Most of Work of Milwaukee Player
This Season Has Been to Rescue
Distressed Pitchers.

A Milwaukee critic says that Roy
Hansen, the young pitcher secured by
Rowland from the Chicago White Sox,
is the best relief hurler in the associa-
ton. Most of his work this season has
been filling in for some other pitcher
who has gone wrong.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
Seeds Grown By EJectrjeitv

An English scientist has had much
success with an electrical treatment
to increase the termination of several
kinds of seeds.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
Not Much "Eat" in "Meat"

NOT MUCH Eat" IN "Meat."
Camp COOk-Did you bring the
meat?
Scout-Sure, l got six cents worth
OF steak.
Camp Cook-Are you crazy?
Scout-No! 1 paid 80 cents for It.
BOYS Life.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
Stocked Up.

II hope next winter will be mild"
"Why?' "We have little room in our
celler for coal"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16

Insist on "Bayer Tablets Of Aspirin"
in "Bayer package" containing prop
er directions for Headache, Colds,
Pain, Neuralgia, Lumbago, and Rheu-
matism. Name "Bayer" means genuine
Aspirin prescribed by physicians for
nineteen years. Handy tin toxes of II
tablets cost few cents. Aspirin is trade
mark of Bayer Manufacture of Mono
aceticacidester Of Salicylicacid.-Advs
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16

A cnbic foot of water contains seven
and one-half gallons, or lips cubic
inches, and Weighs 621a pounds.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
Be Careful of Southpaws.

Whatever you may say about a
southpaw, don't forget yourself and
call him left winger.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16

geon crawl exclusively. Recently he
has been experimenting with the six
beat double trudgeon-crawl.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
LOOKED MORE LIKE BAT BOYS
Manager Rowland or Milwaukee, Ex-
periences Trouble in Getting Play
ers Through Gate.

Jimmy McGill Of the Indianapolis
club tells one on Clarence Rowland,
manager of the Brewers, that will live
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-10-16
important TO Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle Of
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that it
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

with the Washington Square Players
at the Bandbox Theatre, and emerged
again from the intellectual hinterland
to play the young poet in Good Gra-
cious, Annabellc." His Characterization
had precisely the quality of sharp
delicacy and charm the Clare Kun
mer play had - it established him in
that combination Of whimsicality and
satire which is his individual mood.
This week saw the accomplishment
OF tour de force when he galvanized
INTO life the wraithlike hero Of a more
than ordinarily faccid play, "Luck in
fawn 1t is an achievement of
foung's main strength-so much could
be judged by how heavily the rest of
the play thumped after him. Doubt
less, every young actor of robust as
rirations should have in his bag of
tricks, for the emergency when for
tune is at ebb, this extremely useful
one Of lifting himself by his own boot
straps.
But one wonders how often Roland
Young's unusually keen intelligence
and subtle gifts of Characterization
would help him repeat this trick
without tagging. 1t would not be fair
20 test his resistance by exposing it
70 long series Of stupid plays. The
sickness, glibness and inscnsitiyeness
OF the average young actor is so large
~ the result Of long exposure at lou
resistance TO the inanities Of stage draw
ing roons. Rolannd Young Ia tho
occasional fresh material that comes
once 80 often to renew the theatre--;f
there are plays to make use Of him.
When the sophists have decided
whsther the egg was created before tho
hen, or vice versa, they might turn
their energies to deciding whether
type" actors breed type plays, or tho
reyerse. IL IL not easily to be denied
that tho writing Of plays was aoyer
more matter os formula than now
and yet, curiousIy enough, the very
p~oDls who rail loudly about tho de-
ssAense of sesing stand pat on al tho
os0 snsasfscsA nsvacsss r. d.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Soldier Sho,U in Full
S,Cing at the Century

The 9th Division musical success
Lets Beat 1t" opens its second week
at the Century Theatre tomorrow
night. 1t has been big week for the
soldieractors.
To Judge from Lets Beat 1t" one
would never know there had been a
war. And the costumes and sets arc
devoid Of even a suggestion of war.
The show is downright pretty from tho
dresses to the "girls." It's hard to be-
lieve that even the clevcrest makeup
artist could beautify those eyes which
for nine months were peering over
parapets in France, but that feat has
been accomplished. 4
Plans are now being formulated to
take the show on the road at the COM
pletion Of the three weeks run in this
city, If it is decided to take the troupe
on tour the principal New York State
cities probably will be made first.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
By Ralph Block

There is no standard for romance;
avery one creates it and gives his own
shapes to the empty forms of it out
Of his own mind. 1t is like music,
which has as many meanings as there
are minds and hearts to hear. Every
man is D'Artagnan in his own image,
every woman plays all the queens in
her time. The playwright is no excep-
ton. He sees himself in the fine vir-
tues of his most dashing hero. All
the repartee he invents five minutes
afterward, after the docr has closed
on him, he puts into his plays, along
with the several splendid retorts he
thought up at the bottom of the stairs.
The fact that this is the psychology
of romance doesn't, however, throw
down all the fences for dramatists who
go to history for the background of
their aspiration. An artist owes some
obligation to fact, much as it is his
inclination to avoid it. For life that
builds upon the stepping stones of its
dead selves, it is just as immoral to
libel and falsify the past as it is the
present. Indeed, the present may often
deserve attack, where the past by its
many siftings-at least so we conven-
tionally believe-has been rid of its
chaff, and what fact remains comes
fairly close to the truth.
Somewhere between them Mr.. Noel
Ter, who wrote "Moliere," and Mr..
Miller, who produced it, have failed to
consider that limitation 1t is not easy
20 believe their disregard was inten-
tional. It is much easier to believe it
was by limitation of their magma
tions and vision than by intention. In
the composition of historical incident
the dramatist has quite skilfully made
a jointure which fits the hodge-podge
Of events that comes out of the life of
dead genius. The additions to legend
are entirely acceptable as episodes in
a career Of the time Mr.. Miller wears
quite the kind of mustache the great
Snowman of the Grand Monarch's reign
is disclosed with in the portraits. AS
suredly there can be no cavil at what
these collaborators have put into their
play But somewhere there is an i'm
pressive discrepancy; it is not so much
what has been put in as what has been
left out After the length and breadth
Of Broadway's somewhat fashy pave
ments there is an urgency about the
mere production of such play on
such a subject which predisposes you
toward it, makes you agree even be-
fore the first curtain that you will be
suited by it 1t does not even need
Mr. Mi1ler's curtain speech to make
you turn gratefully toward a pros
cenium that will blow out upon
you a breath, however brief, of the
grace and wit and elegance Of soci-
ETY. that still had only to regard the
decoration of life, never its dulness.
This is romance in its commonest and
yet finest sense, TIE strangeness of
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
-4N of Moliere
But His Laughter

another time, when adventure could be
urged on by hot blood without the in
tervention at any moment of the mon
strous discordances of a machine like
age like the present. Here are to be wit
and beauty and perfume and high ad-
venture and fine comedy-nay, even
wisdom. Surely this does not set too
high mark for the playwright and his
actors to reach.
They do not make any splendid sue
cess of such venture, nor do they
deeply fail. AS it is played out in it's
three settings, "Moliere" discloses q
rewarding rhythm in it's action-it has
depths and values and pleasant shad-
ings and harmonious advance and re-
treat that is strange to the conven-
tional contemporary stage. But all
these watermarks of quality do no
more than meet your expectation; they
do not at any point overtop it.
For here expectedly ought to be
something more than the gossamer It's
sue of elegant romance. 1t is consid-
erably more the adventure of q great
mans life which is to be played out,
borrowing from the reality of those
past days something Of the tempo he
set 1T in, and supplying in the recrea-
ton by art a part of the flavor and
unique fragrance of this very special
life of greatness.
1t is here that the collaborators turn
out their audiences empty of favor. 1t
is unbelievable that the life Of so
splendid a figure in the lists Of human
commentary and laughter should be-
come SO insufferably heavy and sweet
ened a person as Mr.. Miller and Mr..
Moeller would make him out. At the
very moment "Moliere" was being
played In the tone Of sentimentality at
the Liberty Theatre M. Copeau was
doing the immortal laughter of the
real Moliere at the Theatre du Vieux
Colombier. The man who laughed out
of court all the follies Of France never
once enters the stage Of the Liberty
Theatre. From first curtain to last he
Is sIrupy, oversweetened, too-heroic,
even priggish, portrait of mana
man who takes himself too seriously.
instead of the genius who would not
take the world seriously enough.
Laughter, the laughter of a man who
sees the comedy of life, is what Mr..
Moeller and Mr.. Miller, have left out
Of their play.
The informal biographers of the time
have agreed to endowing Moliere with
delicacy in his private relations, with
gentleness and kindliness. All this Mr..
Miller has not failed to catch and hold.
But the temptation to overreach the
measure was too much. His "Moliere"
runs on from sentiment to sentimental
ity, until, even with all the elasticity
that romance is allowed, the legitimate
limitations are passed.
The romanticist may have little or
no obligation to the facts. He owes
every obligation to the spirit The
creators of "Moliere" assuredly have
failed to pay theirs.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Roland Young

Only an interviewer hardened to
suffering as this one is not would
have stayed after seeing how acutely
unhappy it made Roland Young to be
interviewed So, after FIVE minutes
with Roland Young in the dressing
room Of the 44th Street Theatre,
whsrc he is playing in "Luck in
Pzwn," the sight Of the young mans
suffering touched mo with pity, and 1
left
The results in personal information
we're mcagre. They were, chiefly, that,
/ having achieved dazzling failure as
d1AIghtsman in his fathers archi-
tertural Office, Young was faced with
the Englishman's alternative Of Aus
tr1iis or Canada, whereupon he bolted
for London and Joined the company of
Arthur Bourchier.
Roland Young is still less than
thirty, and has already achieved list
Of unusually vivid impersonations
Fortunately, his fine eagerness and in
tcI1ixenos have not wasted their edge
on dnu plsys- He came To this country
IN 1919 with the Engiish company
which byought "Hindle Wakes" that
fresh and vigorous play OF an English
Mil torn girl who refused TO indcYnni-
~ a day OF Madness by lifetime
Of expiation in marriage. Young
D1aysd the part Of the mill owners
sos, VINO ssducsd the girl. II IL is
ever risnnsA 70 nasnscis Young TO his
at far sonnedy, xons o1iS should in
ysa1s tho memory of his intense por-
trsyai nj TIM stDiid and suiien lout.
4 little later 10 appeared with Ernanue
u RsiehAs IN "Johs Gabriel Djorkmsn,' =
ysAySsg ~ ysst ef the old friend who
= Dterinp3As link wffh ft4 esssids
ssws fo~ . ~A~,rss hs zr5sksd
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

recipient of the reminder. Moses q
valet to Johnny Dooley. the acrobat;,
comedian of "Listen Lester" at tn,
Knlckerbocker Theatre.
"Greatest thing in the world" he
told the mystified bystanders.
Il take lot of falls" he explained.
"Now it is al very we'll to say that an
acrobat doesn't hurt himself because
he gets used to it, I've been doing
acrobatics for years and get pretty
we'll bruised up.
There's where the charts come in.
They enable me to catalogue the bumps
| receive. You don't understand Lis
ten Lester: After every performance
| find out what new bruises | have
received and make a record of them
on the chart, with the date. figure it
takes week for all the soreness to go
out of the average bruise, and the chart
helps me to remember where | am
hurt. For instance, if l fall on MY
left ear and hurt it, the next time I
want to fall or my ear l collapse on
my right auricular organ. If | get
'em both bruised up, l gotta fall on
some other part. use a new chart
every week and have adopted car
ried forward system for all unhealed
bumps. Of course, it necessitates TAX
ing weekly inventory of bumps, but
wait until Mr.. Cort sees my charts.
How can he resist an impulse to give
me raise in salary when I show him
the painful record of what am doing
for art?"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Vaudeville

Dressler's return to
vaudeville after two years spent in
war work and Jack Norworth in
new act are the principal features
of the bill. Other features are
Sheila Terry in tabloid musical
comedy, Toney and Norman in a skit
Lou Holtz, singing comedienne, and
Winston's Water Lions.
ROYAL - Nine. Petrova is the head
liner of a bill that includes Josie
Heather, Georgia Price, Henry
Keane and company in Aaron Hoff-
mans sketch, Ward Bros, Belle
claire Bros, the Gliding O'Mcars,
Devine and Williams, Karl Emmys
Pets and the Royal News Pictorial
ALHAMBRA-Ge George White and his
dancing quartet head the bill.
Stuart Barnes in songs and mono
logue, Frances Nordstrom and Will
lam Pinkham in sketch called "The
Memory Book" the Mellette Sisters
in songs and dances, Frank J. Arcath
in rural travesty and Frank Joyce
and Flo Lewis in songs and dances
are other features of the bill.
RIVERSIDE ~- An all-star bill with
Bert Williams, Van and Schcnck,
Chilson-Ohrman, Lillian Shaw and
the Ford Sisters is this week s
special offering. The supporting bill
will include Edmund Hayes and COM
pany in Arthur Hopkins's play
"Moonshine, Henry Master and
Jack Kraft in songs and dances, and
Burns and Terrence in THE Awak-
cning of. the Toys"
COLON1ALrFivc members of the 27th
Division presenting a military play
Intelligence" is the leading feature
of the bill. Herman Timberg in
"The Viol-Inn," Ethel Cochran and
Neil Moore in tabloid musical
comedy, George Whiting and Sadie
Burt, Felix Rush in "Crosby's Cor
ners," Mignon in impersonations,
Counte Peronne, barytone, and Ishi-
kawa Bros, acrobats, complete the
bill.
LOEW'S N-Tbe Jarvis
Footlight Revue is the principal
vaudeville feature the first part of
the week. j. Stuart Blackton's pro-
duction "Life's Greatest Problem -
with Mitchell Lewis, is the picture
attraction. Temptation" musical
comedy production, heads the bill
the second part of the week. The
picture feature is Alice Brady in
The World We Live In"