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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
GREAT LITTLE BALL PLAYER
Only One Thing Wrong With Mary
Ellen Was That, as a Pitcher,
She Lacked Control.

Four-year-Old Mary Ellen dearly
loves to play with her seven-year-old
brother and his little friends. To
make herself what he labels "good
fellow" she initiates all their traits.
Now she is permitted to go with them
outside and play outside games.
And recently they have begun to
play ball. Mary Ellen's part in this
has been for the most part chasing
stray balls. But in her heart she
aspires to be pitcher, And the 9TH
er day when her mother was out In
the yard she exhibited her ability in
that line. "Don't you think l pitch
good, mother2" she asked. "Why,
throw out my leg every time / throw
the ball--just like the man did out
at the ball park"
And she did, too, every time,
though the ball went wild and landed
quite in the opposite direction from
which it had been aimed. Exchange.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05

A sawfish, Is feet and Z inches long
and estimated to weigh 800 pounds,
was caught by Captain 3, P. Bell and
Captain w. M. Sterry while SEEMING
In, Matagorda Bay, five miles east OF
Matagorda, Texas, Friday.
A gross margin of profit not to ex-
coed SO 1-3 per cent will be permit
ted clothing retailers of Texas under
decision announced Wednesday by
State Fair Price Commissioner W. A.
Cooke, following conference with
representatives of the Texas Retail
Clothing Association, department OF
justice officials, the local fair price
committee and consumers at San An
tanio, Texas. This margin applies to
suits retailing for not more than $45.
higher priced clothing and other wear
ing apparel on which the federal gov.
eminent imposes a luxury tax being
exempted from the provision.
]. P. Connally of the Metropolitan
Hotel at Fort Worth was elected
president of the Texas Hotel Clerks
Association at their 14th annual meet
ing, held at the Gunter Hotel, San Am
tonic, Friday. Other officers elected
were: Frank c.. Hustled of Houston,
first vice president; Pat O'Donnell OF
Waco, second vice president; Carl Nc.
Clure of Bangor, third vice president;
w. L. Kleebprger of Fort Worth, sec
rotary; Neal Hostetter, Hudson Nc
Adams and R. E. Wood of Houston,
C. F. Smith of Waco, J. D. Farr Of
San Antonio, board of governors;
Fred Flato, Waco, sergeant at arms,
The 1921 meeting of the association
will be held at Houston.
The thirty-sixth annual convention
of the Texas Bankers Association,
said to be the greatest in point of at
tendance since the association was or.
ganized, came to a close at Galveston,
Texas, Thursday, with the election OF
Eldred McKinnon, vice president OF
the Citizens State Bank, Austin, as
president, to succeed F. M. Law of
Houston. San Antonio was selected
as the next meeting place, winning
out over El Paso.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
For Grip. Colds and
MALARIA
III CHILLIFUGE
kills the Malaria germ and
regulates the liver
rs CENTS
GREAT "FIXER," IS LARDNER
According to chauneey Depew, Humor-
list Is "AlI to the Good" as
a Diplomat.

Chauncey NJ. Depew is a great ad-
mlrer Of Ring Lardner and d flights to
relate an anecdote concerning the we'll
known sport writer and humorlst. 1t
was at a club In Philadelphia and a
certain gentleman whom the crowd
was trying to entice into spending the
evening there declared he could not
remain because he had promised his
wife he would come home.
"Ill fix 1t for YOU" said Lardner, and
darted into the phone booth. Present
ly he emerged, shouting:
'It's all right, old chap, your wife
says you can stayP
''How in the world did you manage
Ato bring her roundT asked the amazed
IMAM.
Easy" replied Lardner. Il told
her you we're roaring drunk and should
/ bring you home or keep you here
and she said:
"'YOu can have him, Mr.. Lardner.'
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
YOUNG Ball PTISS
DECREASE m mn
Few Good Performer, !,
Up From Bush / -. .
Recent War Killed Off Man.,
er Circuits, Thus Lss..,i5, "
Of Promising Recruit. y
Thing for vet,,,,, W

One of the serious result, :,
from a baseball standpoint !, y !,
the lack Of young bali nlsrs aaI
up from the minor league. % 3 /
recruits taken south BY \. NtI
MAJOR III Tn a league seams but very h
TO 1p'. be seen on the team nov = \
championship season is wv y. y
sway The scarcity of youDs s' e
ers is a good thing for d. y, !.
for it will keep them IN ss,. V
er, but 1t means that it viii !. Y
and more difficult to reern s,9, !
league teams unless there i
increased interest in minor ~
as played in the smaller citje,
The war killed off most O. T. !,
er leagues thus lessehing tn !
young ball players to bo =.
and drafted. For two years r. ts'9
were either not operating { ! !
Ing so on a very small scale !,
inferior players. Most Of the NJ
would have been starting on /.
baseball career were in the \
those days and many of them 3
er go back to baseball. Tina ,,,,'
baseball talent was almost eptbs
off for at least two years and /.
suit is that most of the main !,
clubs are shy of recruits and an
ahead with their veteran Mar
The present condition si1e, ],
minors is much improved 50 &
pecially as the larger leagues \
1t is not at all like 1t was hpi.s
war. The reason for this i n
aries and wages in other uoslHn,
so vastly increased that 4 nd I
real skill or ambition can DO nrs
ter by sticking to his Job Thanh
by playing in a minor league d |.
classification. 1t used to be tAn,
off the lots looked upon d Sill
$3.50 a month as pretty good !,
for starting out with a ball team
he can earn much more than a
staying at home and playing Il
days and holidays with some Ii
dent team.
It is hard to get smart young
start at THE bottom Of the Ii.
ladder. The rewards of the sal
ers up above are ample, but tes
player who is not sure Of mathl,
In a couple Of years hesl6is /
giving up a good position at ID
join out with a Glass G or D GaI
problem will gradually adjust hi
things in the business world I'D
their former level, but It ID III
be difficult to recruit largely nd
minors for a season or two i
least.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
BY . klnn,a necree

Up to 1855 handkerchiefs were Of
every conceivable size and shape.
Then one evening Queen Marie An.
toinette in fit of passion or indig-
nation at Versailles, said that all kerr
chiefs should be uniform If they were
TO indicate good taste. The result
was that Louis XVI issued a decree
early In 1875 that all pocket handkers
chiefs should have right-angle edges.
80 right angle they are and have
ssen ever since.-Tfe American EN-
brsiderer.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
Take "Dodson's Liver Tone" Instead!

If you feel bilious, headachy, con-
stlpated and all Knocked out, just go
to your druggist and get a bottle Of
DOdsons Liver Tone for a few cents
which is a harmless vegetable substi-
tute for dangerous calOmel. Take
spoonful and if it doesn't start your
liver and straighten you up better
and quicker than nasty caIOmeI and
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
USE MOTION PICTURES

Mirrors and motion pictures
will be used In the training of
track athletes at Harvard this
season. Runners will have an
opportunity to observe and cor
rect their faults before the mir.
rors and hurdlers and jumpers
will have their efforts at prac-
tice criticized from the screen
reproductions.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05

without making you sick, you just go
back and get your money.
If you take calomel today you'll be
sick and nauseated tomorrow; be-
sides, it may salivate you, while If
you take DOdson's Liver Tone you will
wake up feeling great, full Of ambi-
ton and ready for work or play. You
can give it to children, too.-Adv.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
GOLF GAME RUNS IN FAMILY
Charlie Hunter of New York, Hls Son
and Grandson, Are Devotees Of
Ancient Snort.

1t is not rare to find families Of
golfers. Charlie Hunter, New York.
whose son and grandson are both
prominent golfers, will compete in the
open championship This year. He liz
elghty-four years old and played in
the British open Championship event
In 1860.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Stars and Stripes and the tri-
color of France flew side by side Sun
day over every American grave in
France, while doughboys and poilus
performed the military honors in a
great Memorial Day observance by
the French nation. There we're de-
tachments from the army of occupa-
ton at most of the ceremonies, but
there were a few remote burial
grounds which the American troops
could not reach, and over these
graves detachments of poilus fired
volleys for their comrades in arms.
Several cases of what is believed to
be bubonic plague have been d1scov-
cred at Vera Cruz, Mexico.
Great Britain Sunday bowed in a
spirit of reverence for the 1000 Amer
lean dead soldiers, sailors and ma
rines and the eighty Lusitania vic
tins who lie buried in various parts
of the islands. 1t was an Anglo-Amer-
lean day service which in London
filled st. Margaret's, Westminster,
with British and Americans Of all
ranks of society, under the auspices OF
the American secretaries.
Greek troops began the occupation
of Turkish Thrace Friday and the
first trainload has arrived opposite
Adrianople. The occupation is said
to have been without incident.
General Rodolfo Herrera, who has
been accused of participating in the
alleged assassination of President Car
rama of Mexico, in a message Thurs
day to General P. Elias Gales, min.
lister of war, repeated his previous
assertion that Carranza committed sui.
eide when he saw himself in danger
Of capture by force of so men under
Herrera.
The dirigible airship R-S4, which
flew across the Atlantic from Eng
land to New York and back in 1919.
had trial flight Tuesday and shortly
probably will attempt flight from
Rome to Buenos Aires.
The de facto government of Mexi
co has begun its threatened campaign
against Francisco Villa. Commands
have been sent into the mountains OF
Parral district to hunt down the ban.
did and that Villa has ahead of him
the fastest lodging of his career il
he is to escape the Gordon of troops
closing in on his bands.
Discussion of the special tax on
bachelors and spinsters of France
caused a scene so violent in the
French senate Friday in Paris thai
the presiding senator, Alexander Be
rard, in the absence of Leon Bour
geoise, the president was obliged to
suspend the session.
The bolsheviki in strength forced
passage of the Beresina River
south of Borisov Friday, but the Poles
by concentric attack, recrossed the
river, cutting off the enemy's retreat
and taking hundreds of prisoners.
General Francisco Villa, bidding de-
fiance to the newest Mexican govern.
ment, again has become an outlaw
among his own people The bandit,
with a small force of men, was re.
ported Tuesday between Parral and
Jiminez, Mexico, the hunted quarry
of de facto troops with price of 1OO,.
600 pesos on his head
The automobiles of King Alexander
OF Greece and Count Allan de Ker-
gariou collided Friday in the forest
Of Fontainbleu in France. The king
escaped injury, but the count was Sc.
riously injured.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
GIVE YOUNG KELLEY !
Son of Former Manages 81,
Team to Be Given EvsF y
by Manager oufif

Young Kelley, who i geI
ont in the Toronto inhelO'
Joe Kelley, former planas
Toronto team. former oFlels
all.around notable in baseSa Y.
For old-time sake Hugh y y
promised to give the new hs''''
chance in the world.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
Wedding Rlnu Once RarraA

The Puritans Of the seventeenth
century used no ring at the weddns
ceremony as they considered II e
pagan symbol and superstitious con
trivance." All that they required
was that the man and woman should
join hands when stating their purpose
to live together in wedlock.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
When man is discharged he thinks
that his former employer made the
mistake of his life.
cutIcura soaD for the comnIeyIon.

cutleura Soap for the Complexion.
Nothing better than Cutieura Soap
daily and Ointment now and then as
needed to make the complexion clear,
scalp clean and hands soft and white.
Add to this the fascinating, fragrant
Cuticura Talcum and you have the
Cuticura Toilet Trlo.-Adv.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05

of the clubs he was billed to start
against. He says the big series
taught him a lot.
'Those close games made a pitcher
out of me. had to keep my mind on
what was doing. l had to study
every ball l pitched. In doing this
learned far more than If the Reds
had made 1t easy for me. Yet, while
/ pitched winning ball under ordinary
conditions, | kept on losing. Perhaps
the breaks will be with me this year.
But learned that you must stay In
shape to keep getting them over the
corners"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
Juneau at Kentucky

William ]. juneau, for four years
end on the University of Wisconsin
football team and later coach at
Wisconsin and Marquette, has signed
a three-year contract to coach the
University Of Kentucky eleven.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
sTArE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.

STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Monarch Oil and Refining
Company's No. Hankamer-Pevoto in
the Hull, Texas, field came in Sun
day with an initial flow Of $500 bar
rels of oil day at 2,150 feet.
The ten women war nurses who died
on duty overseas at army base hos
pitfalls, the first to be brought home,
arrived Sunday in New York on the
transport Princess Matoika. On hoard
also we're the bodies of 418 soldiers
who lost their lives in accidents or
succumbed to wounds and disease.
Professional boxing was restored to a
legal status In New York state Mon.
day when Governor Smith signed the
Walker bill to regulate the sport and
to provide for the appointment of q
state athletic commission.
King George Of Great Britain and
Ireland" Tuesday was awarded $751;
SIS damages in a $175,OOO suit brought
In New York on behalf Of the British
government against Ernest Harrah, a
New York steel broker, for alleged
failure to deliver steel scrap as per
contract for use in Italy during the
war.
The first watermelons of the season
made their appearance on the market
at Brownsville, Texas, Monday. Ship
ments of cantaloupes also are under
way.
w. D. Fitzlin, member of the Kaw
Indian tribe, was granted alimony of
$4,000 and a divorce from his wife,
Ruth Conn Fitzlin Of the Usage tribe,
by Judge Preston shinn of the Wash
ington.0 Usage district. Fitzlin, vet.
eran Of the world war, was disabled
while overseas.
The Walker bill lsgahzing the man
usacture and sale of beer containing
not more than 2.75 per cent Of alcohol
by weight was signed by Governor
smith OF New York state Monday.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
LEARNED LOT IN BIG SERIES
Jimmy Ring of Champion Cincinnati
Reds Picked UP More Than Coin
in Crucial Games.

Smart ballplayers come out Of a
world series with something more
than a cut on the gate. Jimmy Ring
did. A year ago he didn't startle any
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
Gibbons Sails for Ennl.nA

Tommy Gibbons, the st. Paul light
heavyweight, has sailed for England
to engage in several contests. He
hopes to arrange a match with Joe
Beckett, the British heavyweight.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
NEW RULE CAUSING ny
Difficult for Umpire 70 Z.
Whether Batter Tried = =
a Wild Pitch

The new rule making w
If 1t hits the bat when 9 pal I. /,
ing a bad pitch Is alre ,Il.,,
trouble. The umplre's illol1 I.
whether the batter tried : ~ Y.
cides and of course that l's ~
disputed according to tls $
gained by the teams pls, III +,
time some batters hit : 'ss.
an easy grounder to the ~, l''lsI
claim they were trying y V
pitch.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
Mostly Wind.

Schreecham-He was a wise poet
who remarked that In this world
man must be either anvil or hammer.
Peacham-oh, don't know. It
seems that most of them are merely
bellows. Edinburgh Scotsman.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
Age Rapidly.
''ls that a genuine antique|
mVnnm rnr,linA +hn Ann1n..

- uIut SCHUHc uHLIQU6E
"Yes," replied the dealer,
why here's mark which indi.
Gates it was made only twenty years
ago."
ave are living in very rapid age.
1t doesn't take nearly so long to make
an antique as it used to-"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
BAREFOOT JOE" VERY
CAREFUL OF THE BALL

When Joe Jackson was play
ing with a team down South
Carolina way many years ago,
he didn't wear $40 baseball
shoes.
For financial reasons Joe
wore nothing on his feet, He
roamed all over the briars, stub
BILE and other litter in the out
field, which included numerous
broken bottles, without it both
ering him.
At the end of the fifth inning
of a certain game Jackson came
in to the bench and expostulated
with the manager.
you'd better get that glass
out of center field" he said, "it's
cutting the ball all to pieces"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05

Olympic Scout
Walter Knox, coaSn tsslE
dian Olympic team, y .s,,sI ]
looking over athletic maze
sport center.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
Wants a couimi''l',.

Phlladelphia's direclo IS, I
safety, James 7. Cor's',ss sDl
a boxing commission "
Quaker City game
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-05
DIAMOND
NOTES

NOTES
Plans for a Glass B Central league
are abandoned.
Hugh High has been doing some
fancy fielding for Vernon.
Early averages Of the Coast league
show Portland leading as a team in
hitting.
Johnny Evers is doing some work
as scribe on the Albany Knicker-
booker Press.
George Gibson, catcher-manager is
another to show that catchers make
good managers.
Jack Nellis, a catcher who halls
from one of the Boston high schools,
has been signed by the Boston Ameri-
cans.
Baseball is the only thing that is al
lowed to run" on Sunday at Chick
asha.> Okla, everything else being
closed.
Uncle Wflbert Robinson is a good
picker. Bernie Neis was his first
rookie to come across with big time
stride.
Physicians have told John McClos-
key, the veteran Memphis manager,
that the sight of his left eye prob
ably is gone.
Pat Moran, after the Reds had TAX
en- their lickings from the Pirates,
broke out into eulogies of George Glib
son and his team.
Bill James, one of the stars in the
sensational squirt of the Boston Braves
in 1914, believes that he can stage a
successful comeback.
Another Brazil in baseball this year
is John BRAZIL, who halls from Scran-
ton and has signed with the Pittsfeld
Eastern League team.
Lippett of the University of
Georgia, pitched no-hit game
against the University of Pitts
burgh, Georgia winning 6 to 0.
Umpire Rigler is taking singing les
sons. Since the lamented Bill Byron
went West some one must vocalize
for the amusement of the fish.
Otto Koepping, second baseman of
the Moline Three-I league team, has
quit organized ball and Joined an in
dependent crew In Sterling, Neb.
.
The strong Holy Cross team has sus-
tanned a severe loss in the injury of
Captain Barb DAILY. The Purple lead
er is out for the season with a broken
ankle.
Detroit probably will have a better
pitching staff than last year, but at
present no great amount of confidence
Is being placed In the ability of the
Tiger fingers.
The more one sees of Perkins, the
peppery receiver Of the Mackmen, the
stronger becomes the impression he is
rapidly forging to the front as the
best In the game today.
When 1t comes to picking the most
versatile player in the National league
dent overlook George Whitfield of the
Pirates. He can play strong game at
any infield or outfeld position.
The National Board has awarded
rights to 0utfelder George Orme to
the Brantford club.
Merlto Acosta, the Cuban with
Louisville, won a $4,000 prize in a
Havana lottery the past winter
The Senator'S have three "Shush"
ball players on their roster. They are
Shanks, Shaw and Schacht. The lat.
ter Is new hurler.
George Hughes, veteran minor
Lacquer and last year manager of the
Moline entry In the Three-T league,
is managing an independent team at
Davenport Ia.
Ed Barrow is satisfied with his in.
field arrangement of McInnis, McNally.
Scott and Foster, so he intends to use
Oscar Witt as utility infielder until the
Sox hit losing streak.
-
In the old days a player used to
come into the home stretch feet first.
When the catcher got up his face
generally resembled meal ticket
with all the holes punched.
The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-09-18
TROOPS QUELL RIOTS
IN TERRIFIC BATTLE.
ARTILLERY, RIFLES, MACHINE
GUNS AND BOMBS FREELY
EMPLOYED IN ITALY.
VIOLENT RIOT IN TRIEST
Soldiers Wounded by Bullets from
Rifles of Entrenched Soldiers
Numerous Casualties in the
Socialstc Ranks.

: Triest.-A Socialist revolt in which
barricades were erected in the
streets and artillery, rifles and ma
chine guns and bombs were freely en-
ployed in struggle between the riot
ers and the military, broke out here.
Italian troops and naval forces sue
ceeded in completely restoring order.
Troops are patrolling the streets and
a destroyer anchored in the harbor
commanded the public square.
The fighting was sharp while it
lasted. The Socialists, who were well
armed and amply supplied with am
munition, challenged the troops to ad-
vance upon their barricades. Both
sides then opened fire and sharp vol
leys were exchanged. Several of the
soldiers were wounded by bullets from
the rifles of the entrenched Socialists,
while numerous casualties occurred in
the Socialist ranks.