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The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-15
INDIANS SIGN UP SOTHoRoN
spitbalI Artist, shunted From One
Club TO Another, Finally Lands
With Cleveland.

Allan Sothoron, spitball pitcher is
back in the American league. After
the Browns had released him to Bos-
ton on waivers and that club, after
using him in three games. discovered
suddenly that his contract had not
been made clear and therefore re-
turned him to st. Louis, he was sent
to Columbus. Before he could get into
actlcn In the Association Iris Speaker
concluded he might be Of use to the
Indians, so an arrangement was made
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-15

Failing to get KohIbecker from Lit
tie Rock, the Atlanta club decided to
hold on to Ollie Thurman.
seattle's whole catching stan 10
more or less crippled, with Jack
Adams being the worst of.
The Reading club Is In a sad way
and seems destined to drop clear out
Of sight In the international race.
Atlanta has sent Pitcher william
Koneman, a young Highlander, to La
Grange Of the Georgia state for sea-
sOning.
The International league race viii
look like a kitten chasing It's tail In
a circle II Baltimore perslgts in adding
victories.
The Cincinnati club is trying out
two infelders just out Of college. One
Is COons, a shortstop. OF the Universe
ty OF Cincinnati, and the other John
son, a third baseman, who comes from
the North Carolina State college.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-15

full If there is another record equal
ing his in length of service; "WahoO"
Sam Crawford, Jake Daubert, Harry
Vaughn, Heinie Groh and ball players
equally as noted in their time.
And the managers, Huggins, Clarke
Griffith and others, and pitchers, Or
vii Overall, "Three-Fingered" Brown,
Noodles Hahn, Fred Toney, RUDE Ben
ton, Theodore Breitenstein, the best
left-handed finger of his time-but the
list is too long to mention all of them.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-15
HEINZ GRoH
CHAS AConrSkEY

"Was you effer in Zinzenatte7" says
the Prince of Pilsen.
Well that's the town that put base
ball on the map. Properly it's the
hub Of baseball, because 1t was the
first town OF organized ball, or more
properly put, it was the first town Of
professional salary-paylng baseball
IT is the town that has rounded out
more baseball celebrities than any
other city In America. 1t can right
fully lay claim to Buck Ewing, Long
John Reilly and Charles Street, the
first human to catch a baseball
dropped from the top of Washington
monument. This was in 1898, and but
one other, Billy Sullivan, was able to
accomplish the trick. Asa Brainerd,
one of the best pitchers Of his time
is another.
Just imagine the picture back in
1S68 the AdOnis of baseball, with long
flowing muttOn-chOp whlskers dallying
with his underhand delivery, an ex-
pert and the greatest exponent of
pitching Of his time.
And Cincinnati was the first club
TO adopt the baseball uniform as we
know 1t. They formerly wore long
trousers, much after the pattern of
those worn by lawn tennis players
now.
The grand old man of baseball,
Charles COmlskey, was member of
the Reds in 1892, 1893 and 1894. This
is sufficient honor to make any club
noted for COmmy has done as much
rs any other living man toward per-
petuatlng the game.
There was Charley RadbOurne, who
pitched more winning games, consecu-
lively and continuously, than any
other living man. He had the ball
jumping and curvtng as much in his
day as any Of the fingers of today,
or as the fellow who discovered the
splitter" "knuckle," or whatever the
modern kinks are called. "Klng''
Kelly, the most talked of player that
ever played the national game; Pete
Browning, Bobby Caruthers, Arley
Latham, Tip O'Neil, "Bug" Holiday,
George Tebeau, Jim White, "Kid
Baldwin, Harry Coveleskie, Steinfeld
Elmer Smith and as many other
nOtOrieties in the baseball world were
produced In Cincinnati.
Never Had a 400 Hitter.
With all these the Reds never pro
dueed 400 hitter
But she did have several mighty
near that goal ]. b. Seymore WOE
the batting hOnors In 1905 with .877
and Chase In 1915 with .889, ROusci
in 1917 with BAL, and again In 1915
with 321, and a host of swatters like
Mike DOnlan, Jake Beckley VIII,
played at first and at bat with the
leaders for "a years, and It Is doubt
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-15
SOCCER FOOTBALL in FAVOR
Receipts for Spurs and Villa Game
Amounted to SIS, oOo-crowd Of
1891 Attended.

The popularity Of soccer football in
England was again shown by the re-
ceipts for the Spurs and villa game at
White Hart Lane recently which
amounted to nearly $4,000, record
for any English cup game outside Of
the finals. In order that the crowd
might be in keeping with the accom-
mediation, Spurs made the price Of
admission 2 shillings, which kept the
attendance down to 51,991.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-15
1876 an Athletic Year.

The year 1875 marked the In
auguratlon of several athletic or
ganizatlOns as well as the cen
tennial celebration Of the United
States at Philadelphia with the
big exposition. 1t was the first
year of the National baseball
league and the first champion
ship meets of the Amateur
Athletic Union and Intercollegl-
ate A. A. A. A. we're held. The
National Association of Amateur
Oarsmen was formed IN 1872
and held its first regatta In 1873.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-15
ART OF PITCHING DECLINES
Umpire o'TooIe Says TwlrIers Of
Southern League Have Degen-
Grated Into Throwers.

Jack O'Toole, returning to the
Southern league as an umpire has
some observations to make on the de-
cline in Southern league pitching. The
pitchers in the league today says the
umpire, are just "throwers." Pitch
ers of several years ago in the South
ern could wade through the league
and seldom II ever lose, says O'Toole.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-15
MoLANDER TO ASSIST stage
Athlete Accepts Offer TO Be
Assistant Coach.

DR.. Charles o. Moiander of Rock
ford announced that he has accepted
an offer to be assistant to Coach
Alonzo Stage Of the University Of Chi
cago and will take up his new duties
Sept. 1. He played football at uni
versity Of Chicago and was captain
of the basketball team and star
guard.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-15
Another Leaaue h Dixie.

Another new league is reported from
Dixie 1t is called the Alabama-Ten-
nessee and has four clubs and will
play a 100-game schedule. The cities
In the circuit are Sheffield, RussellviIle
and Decatur in Alabama and Column
bic In Tennessee.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-15
DRAWBACKS IN HIS VACATION
Champion Willie Hoppe May Not Play
Tennis, Golf, Bowl, Baseball,
or Pick a Banjo.

Vacation time doesn't mean as
much to Willie Hoppe, worlds cham
pion billiardist, as it does to Mr. and
Mrs. Average Citizen.
Willie's hands are insured for $780,
600. If they are injured so he can.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-07-15

Willie Hoppe.
not aim a cue, he gets the Jack. That
sounds fine, but
There is a vacation drawback in
the things the Insurance policy for
bids him to do. 1t reads that he can
not:
Play tennis, play golf, bowl, play
catch with baseball or pick a banjo
or mandolin.
"Guess I'll have to go swimming, "
says Hoppe.
The New York herald., 1921-07-31
Modern Libraries and Librarians.

From recent interesting discussions
on the development of the modern
library and its place in the COM
munity 1t is evident that the library
is no longer wholly retreat for the
scholar and the bookworm. In the
old order Of things the library would
have been placed in monastic seclu-
sion, beneath the shelter of church
or school. but not at the busiest cor.
ner of the city and in the very centre
Of civic activities, as was New York's
great Public Library.
The great consideration in a II.
brary now is service. The time is
past when the librarians chief duty
was the preservation of the volumes
under his care, a medieval idea
which found expression in the chain
ing of books to the library shelves,
and when the librarians chief quail
fication was ripe scholarship. The
modern librarian takes an exacting
course Of training to At himself for
his duties. and he becomes special
list in all that pertains to books, their
care and circulation. Distinguished
Librarians Of to-day, men such as
JOHN Corroy DANA Of the Newark
library, e. H. ANDERSON, director OF
the New York Public Library, and
HERBERT PUTNAM, Librarian of Con-
gress, possess this training and COM
bine with 1t high degree OF execu.
tive ability.
The growth In special Libraries has
been one of the remarkable features
of the developments In the last ten
years. The reason of this. as set forth
by DonsEY w. HYDE, Jr.. of the Spe-
cial Library Association. is that COM
merce and industry have placed a new
value UPON research work and "the
use Of fact information as basis for
the formulation of business policy and
as guide in the conduct OF routine
matters Of administration" He says
that It is by no means uncommon for
a large corporation to expend for re-
search in one year amounts several
times as large as the budgets OF
Libraries In all but the largest cities.
He cites the case Of dye maker who
spent $50, 700 for one type Of research
and that OF manufacturer who ex-
pended twice that sum In an investi-
cation Of motor truck operating costs.
New Workers may be surprised to
know that there are more than 400 of
these special Libraries in this city,
some OF which require the services Of
chief librarian and a staff Of q
dozen or more assistants.
To bring to the rural districts the
advantages OF the library enjoyed
by the people Of the cities has long
been the'smbition OF educators. When
the westesp States were formed one
Of the important matters considered
The New York herald., 1921-07-31

Yes, this old town has been warm; !;
humid. too. And. take 1t altogether,
for stretch of month.
Sometimes when 1t was not broil-
ing day it was boiling day. Some
times it was steaming turn, some
times poaching. Once in a while
everybody took all of it at the same
time. 1t Uds trying.
Yet the millions of our people who
were not a-holidaying plugged along
cheerily with their work. Many Of
them in truth worked even little
harder than usual to cover the
ground of the somebody that would
be gone until their chance came.
They were patient, good natured,
aniable. They wilted in the offices,
blistered on the pavements, smoth-
cred in the tunnels, but smiled.
So they got through. busy, plucky,
happy. And here, for the next work
day. rain or shine, cool or sultry,
will be new month, August. All
right. whatever it may bring.
Good old New York! Fine people!
The New York herald., 1921-07-31
Village and City Morals.

A woman up State, commenting on
an unpleasant episode in the village
where she lives, reaches some con-
clusions which are Of obvious accu-
racy while others she sets forth raise
interesting questions.
When. for instance. she says that
villages are not what they once were
she clearly is on firm ground. When,
however, she suggests that the
morals of young men are better safe
guarded by conditions in the large
cities than by those prevailing in the
country villages she opens field Of
inquiry which our sufficiently numer-
GUS sociological experts. both profes-
sional and amateur, might explore.
She says.
"In the city a man has to work to
keep going. In the small town he has
got plenty of time to figure out some
devilment. II ever have a son I'm
going to raise him in the city where
1t costs 500 for the same wickedness
you can get in a small town for a
gallon of gasolene."
The specifications in the upstate
woman's indictment Of small town
morals seem to reduce to four items
flivvers, hooch, cabarets and jazz.
These. apparently, are the rocks on
which arcadian simplicity in rural
communities has split. But all Of
these. save the flivver. are ephemeral.
Hooch is working out its own exter-
mination. The cabaret is lingering
but none the less an episodical freak.
Already there are cheering indica-
tions Of revolt which in the not
distant future will silence the boiler
factory jazz uproar.
Not that villages will become the
isolated communities they once were.
That day Is gone. Village life as 1t
was a generation or so ago has van
ished. Interurban trolleys have
brought the city almost to the farm
yard front gate. The telephone and
moving pictures, to say nothing Of
the swarms Of automobiles on all the
country highways and byways. have
done the rest. Country and city con-
facts have become so close and so
varied that the rural state Of mind,
once an actuality, is now little more
than legend for stage and jokesmith
exploitation.
1t has been swift transition. Natu-
rally 1t has involved more or less
disturbance Of the moral equilibrium
of some communities. But that, too,
Is transient. There will be settling
down to just about the old standard
averages of good and bad behavior.
And that holds for both the city and
the village youth.
The New York herald., 1921-07-31

was books for free circulation, as in
the Atlantic coast States. Allotments
of books were made to counties and
townships; but from the lack Of
proper custodians and a practical
system of distribution most of the
books were soon lost New plans were
adopted and tried and from these
experiments grew the commission
system. which reached its highest
success In Wisconsin. In this stage
of development came the travelling
Libraries and the despatch of books
from the chief library centre. usually
the State capital. to all parts of the
State. It was not uncommon for
from twenty-five to one hundred
boxes. holding nfty books each. to
be sent out daily. In Montana, where
the plan was particularly popular.
transportation by horse and mule
over the mountain trails was specially
provided.
This in measure was pioneer
work In the building of rural libra
ries, but 1t became an important
step toward the next stage Of develop
ment, the county libraries-the Cali
fornia idea 1t was called. because the
plan was most successful In that
State. The gain was In quickness of
service in that the county seat in
stead Of the State capital became the
centre of distribution. "The county
libraries are taken care of by public
tax, thus making books educationally
and recreationally as nearly free as
possible among selfTespecting, in
dependent people," says M. L. FERGU-
SON, California's State Librarian.
Branch libraries In small towns are
kept up to date with new material
from central supply; deposit collec-
lions, frequent exchanges, parcel post
deliveries, book wagons and the tele-
phone are all used to bring books to
people who wapt them. Mr.. FERaU-
son thus sums up the county library
movement in his State: Forty-one
county Libraries in ten years; income
in 1919-2o, $71S,9S4.30: books, 1.519,-
331; branches. 1884; school districts
served, 1882.
The librarian to-day is thoroughly
alive individual with determination
to make all the information, enter
tainment and recreation which he has
filed on his shelves available to the
greatest number of persons and in the
quickest possible time.
The New York herald., 1921-07-31

ing to their means. This encourages
early attention to conditions which
otherwise might be neglected. Will
this early attention be given. this
confident appeal be made, II the feel
ing becomes general that fee as
high as $1,000 is to be charged? Yet
II the surgeon cannot make his in
come in few high fees he must
make 1t in many not so high. which
would lead to neglect and unneces-
sary suffering and disability among
the poor.
AS to ''profiteering surgeons" how
many physicians and surgeons col
lect all their bills and how many Of
them leave large fortunes?
The New York herald., 1921-07-31
The eau.

I hear the voice Of summer calling me
To drop my burdens. bid my cares be
still.
And follow her DER valley and DER hill
Unto the ways Of gladness. Happily
The daisies star the meadows. and the
free,
Gay morning winds the forest path
ways fill
with keen delight: and wild and sil-
ver-shrill
A. thrush fiings Wide his Joyful eostaSy.
The trcetops weave upon magic loom
Green mysteries to tempt the lyric
htrdA
TAs gardens breathe . spell Of fra
grant words,
Tho bees go buzzing to their honeyed
doom;
And Love cries all his promises once
When summer beckons At my open
doorl
CHARLOTTE BECKER.
The New York herald., 1921-07-31
Religion and the Press.
Causes of the Attitude of Some New
Workers. and the Remedy.

TO The NEW Y DIRK HERALD. Ae q
small instance of the cry Of the epoch.
the unfamiliarity of things religious.
comes the following observation: Re-
Gently in walking through a store
noticed in the Bible section of the book
department a conspicuously posted spe-
cial Sale sign spelled "Testements." This
was not crude. amateurish sign, but
an imposing. professionally made affair
Of confident air. Beneath It was va
ried assortment Of Old and New Teeta-
ments with their gilt titles wonderingly
upturned 10 the sign above. II only that
same sign with its scathing indictment
OF the bringing up of~its maker could
have been as convincing as the allur-
ing prices beneath!
Taking a bit Of -rnisspelling too seri-
ously? No. indeed II was significant of
the very thing that so many spiritual
teachers and preachers and writer's are
everywhere depioring. the woful unfa-
miliarity of religious matters. My no.
tice of that same sign was not at an
early morning hour when perhaps It had
just been placed there, but late in the
gers and hundreds Of persons had passed
and repassed. and yet no one had rem
edied 1t. 1t was fundamental
That many people are unfamiliar with
religious things 70 due to the modern
sort of early home training which does
not have q Bible around the apartment.
at least not where 1t is easily accessible.
You have to make things easy in these
days Of thousands hurrying daily of
to business and getting home to eat and
sleep. Maybe II that same Bible were
more conveniently placed It might occa-
sionally be peered into by the Jaded soul
from ONCE or shop.
Politics. finance. culture. prizenghts-
ah. yes. our New York public press is
thorough and generous to it, readers.
But cooperation, the keynote of the age
Does that sanc press cooperate as fairly
with the religious activities that with
equal fervor long to be known7 Give
them the square deal and let US zee
what will l.~poen. Have we all become
infidels?
It may be argued that the very ma
ture Of religion makes 1t impossible 90
to- describe religious activities that they
will appeal as news Of current general
interest. voluninous articles on the
brutal subject OF that recent Jersey City
prizehght were rendered amazingly at
tractive. setting and events delightfully."-
picturesque. and q sort of glamour was
shed over all 20 AZ almost to obscure
for time It's fundamental loathsome-
ness. Many people who at heart detest
the ringside bout unwittingly found
themselves dcvouring these entertaining
press reports. Why not apply that same
degree of journalistic cleverness TO sway
US more on religious subjects7
NEW YORK, July 30. M. e. X.
The New York herald., 1921-07-31
Tho Prairie Schooner.

From the Topeka Capital
Slow was the weary. toilsome way
Where creaked the heavy laden
wain--
Quaint follower Of the speeding day
Across the plain.
White canvas covers, buiging, fair.
Enclosed fond hearts athrob with 10Y I;
Tho builders OF an empire there
Found safe convoy.
Along its course child voices sweet
Marked all the strangeness OF each
scene;
While parents sought new homes TO
greet
With vision keen.
NO luxury or ease was there
To lap the traveller into rest,
But staunch II bore the pioneer
On toward the West.
Deserted now. its ragged sails
Arc furled--the port has long been
won.
Sport Of the boisterous. hurrying gales.
Through cloud and sun.
Unused, forlorn and gray. It standa
A faded wreck cast far ashore.
The MAynower Of the prairie lands
Its journey Ger.
CxAPIrs MoRsAu HAsosA
The New York herald., 1921-07-31

with SARAH BERNHARDr and Is now
an actor in the vernacular: Lou TEL
LEeES. who was introduced to the
stage in the same way-these are
some of the French speaking players
who have learned to act In Eng
lish. HoRrENsE RHEA also accom-
plished the task years ago. taking
example by the Polish MoDJEsKA.
Nowadays the public demands. how
ever, complete freedom from foreign
accent. SO the task is more difncult
than 1t used to be.
The New York herald., 1921-07-31
First Radio Ship News.
Lucania Reported by Wireless to thu
"HeraId" Twenty Years Ago.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: r. M. s.
Putnam is correct. It was Horatio and
not Alexander Mckay who was skipper
of the Lucania in July, 1901, and while
the old man was fond of entertaining
little parties of passengers in his cabin
at tea time. for landlubber to have
been there at 10 80 p. NJ. on July 6,
when Mr.. O'Keeffe recorded tho exces-
sive temperature. would have bean un-
usual II not unprecedented.
was on the Lucaria on her return
trip. sailing from Liverpool on August
2. noteworthy voyage. a. Il marked
the beginning Of reporting steamships by
virelesS. THE NEW York HERALD had
been instrumental in having installed
a Marconi wireless equipment on the
Nantucket Lightship and another AZ
Siasconset. and had built line Of land
wire connecting a shore station with
Woods Hole. Tho late James Gordon
Bennett &ent mo to New York on the
Lucania to observe and describe the
elimination Of tho silence Of the track
less seas.
Shortly before midnight on August 8
the Marconi operator. whose instruments
were In q little decShouss almost d.
rectly abaft Captain McKay's cabin,
and who had been sending out calls since
O'Clock. picked ZIP the answering sig
nal from the Nantucket LiEhtship at .
distance Of ffty miles. An account of
the voyage and messages from some of
the passengers were resdy. and although
not more than a maximum Of eight or
ten words a minute could then be trans
nitted accurately, we got or several
thousand words before losing commun,-
cation with the lightship.
The next morning when we reached
Quarantine copies OF THs NEW YORK
BERALD with the account OF the voyage
were brought on board the Lucania.
MiLroN v. SNYDER
NEW YoRx, July 30.