The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-04
AttabOu!
sUFFRAGE AT THE bar.

The outlook wasn't rosy for the old machine this yearl
The suffragettes were fighting for a finger in the smear;
4 4R ao Tae ms ahy won n the S9o legal right n to to vote up E. with dsHr ens rest
The days rolled into weeks and then the fight grew tense and keen.
The sufs were hitting wildly, but were Maggie on the scene,
the T5sv O @ss5 mere re up up and q on 6at their to toes !, and fighting Ugh ~ with ~ - 2 kick
But they had failed to reckon with the nifty suffrage ways,
E Eoq s sGOa T tssS s ssHpipg Il in a. a trance nee as " well IL as in in a ancient nass tricks.
The SUITS found blocking easy as the Crackers find the Chicks
Now, John the Boss went out to buy their leader, Annie Wise.
1 + i stooP pt to n fimt fRf , 5Sea T ri ie ne E &c told int II, a tsfts sfai' men.
But beating this here suftragette is something else again"
THE sEvEN-PLAYER RULE.
hat, me most important item to be discussed by Southern magnates at
caused so much discussion in 1915. As you are probably hep the rule
ing by any team in the circuit, In other words, It has cut down the ef-
h., The The result ssua has been very Unsatisfactory; no good has developed
In order to maintain the heretofore high standard of the Southern
It viii be necessary to take some such definite step a an absolute recall
Of the joke and a substitution Of the old system.
The merry pace set by glastonbury must be agonizing to Charley
Frank, Of the Crackers. Early in the year the Dutchman couldn't see
Chris with a high,powered telescope. Naturally he applied the can
td L1 S1sS@f d Lou is now oH hit hitting ing up up q $3.50 pace pace with VIII the ! bl I'd! and and
astrs and then watch him Outht your heaviest star is discOncerting
A least. heavy hitters in most cases take up their Stands in that locality
There e IS n \ real rsa reason for the situation it merely exists -
and the club is batting .249.
One outhelder is second to chrigtenbury and between Lou and Con
now why the Chicks are where they are.
Still, it is a tough job attempting to smash a precedent. /. seem,
that the Chicks have been destined for a 3econd division berth since
Brs Lord lei. and have no idea of changing their minds.
The trouble attached to moving out Of one place and into another
is too worrsome in this excessive heat.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Whats in a name?" quoth Shakespeare,
When a guy named c~offindaffer comes
Advancing to the bat.
Never before In the stirring history of the Southern association ha
the box score been infested with such a weird variety of names. AL
the old handles are gone and the new array sounds like an explosion ii
a boiler factory.
No longer do we find, Kelly, Tlrke, DUNCAN, Cannon and Beecher
or Miller. Archer, Mcintyre. Goodwin and the like. In their place i
a most international assembly, Printers these days stumble over sucl
names as Coffindaffer, Lankenau, Slapncka. ,Kohlbecker. Neiderkor1
and Schepner, or such titles as Christenbury. Bernsen, Brottem, Ducote
Styles, Frierson, Kinsena, Hairston, Summa, Goodbred, Dykes. Demoe
Dtstel, Damrau and Helfnch.
There are many more as bad, but the above batch gives you a fai
idea of the general condition.
The foregoing proves, for one thing. that baseball is being takel
up by all styles and nationalities No longer do the Irish and the Ameri
cans RUE the field. They are still there. it is true, but not in the old
time way. The ancient gang is crowded for space and is daily bin
driven to cover. ~