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Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22

Summary--Runs: Young Cobb. Neach,
Heilnlann Bassler Errors: Galloway,
Neach. Two-base hit: Bassler. Home run:
Hetlmann. Stolen base: Blue Sacrifice
hits: Flsgstead. Ehmke. Double plays:
Dykes to Griffin; Galloway 70 Dykes 10
Griffin. Left on bases: Philadelphia. 6;
Detroit, 4. First base on balls: Off Har-
ris. s; off Ehmke. /. Hits: OFF Harris,
I in innings; off keefe in l in
ming. Hit by pitched ball: BY Ehmke,
Dugan. Struck out: BY Harris, ]; by
Ehmke. L. Balk: Harris. Wild Pitch Har-
ris. Losing pitcher: Harris. Cmpires:
Chill and Moriarity. Time OF game; 80.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22
shalt not steal," sayeth

~" HUI ShaIt not Steal, Sayeth
the 10 commandments.
"Steal and you'll regret it."
reads the statute book.
And so since the beginning OF this
little OF world, everyone has con-
trived to make it tough for a thief.
Then along came King base ball.
"Steal if you can get by with il"
he says. And every since this was
written in the good rules some bird
has been making lie miserable for
pitcher and catcher by rilfering
base.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22
Shelton Victorious.

Shelton, Neb.. Aug. 20.-Ahelton de-
feated the Kearney base ball team at the
American Legion picnic held at Kearney
thousand persons witnessed the game.
which had been widely advertised by the
Legion men. The heavy hitting Of the
Shelton players and a double by Conroy,
Kimbrough and Bills featured. The bat
teries were: Shelton II. Conroy and
Murphy: Kearney, Crawford and Panek.
Umpires, Laws and Slattery.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22
Speed of Over Three Miles ~
Minute Must Be Made to Break
1920 Pulitzer Race Record

Three miles minute the terrific speed which
broken here Nov the 1921 the Pulitzer trophyhe
worlds most important for speed the upper rea
dir H.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22
sixth by agreement.

Dy . a
Tulsa ...,............o d-ss
Summary-Runs: Brannon. Gleason, Hev-
ing, Harbor, Metz. Errors: None. Two
base hits: Harbor. Metz. Sacrifice hit:
Thompson. Double play: Graham to Metz
First base on balls: OF Tesar 2: off
Richmond, 2. Left on bases: Tulsa, 6;
Sioux City, 8. Struck out: By Tesar. 5;
by Richmond, Z. Urpires: Daily and Burn
side. Time Of game: 1:10.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22

xNicit batted for Russell in eighth
Score by innings:
Boston ..........0 0 0 0 0 0 o %
Cleveland ......,.0 l 8 0 0 0 0 x-4
Summary-Runs: Wambsganss, Smith,
Seweli Sothoron. Errors: Pratt, Scott
Ruel. Two-base hits: Lebod, Sewel. .:
Sothoron. Stolen base: Collins. Sacrifice
hit: Jameson. Double plays: Scott to
Ruei to Foster Russell TO Pratt to Nc
Innis: Sewel to Wambsganss to Burns;
Burns, unassisted. Left on bases: Boston.
4; Cleveland. {. First base on balls: Off
Russell. 3. Hits: Off Russell, in
innings; off Thormahlen, 0 in ! inning.
Struck out: BY Russell. I; by Sothoron
:. Losing pitcher: Russell. Umpires: Ev-
ans. Dineen and Hildebrand. Time of
game. 134
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Second game:
ST. LOUIS.
Totals 80 42413
XDeYermer batted for Collins in eic

Sumnarl-RuUS. UUIII, SIbItI,
Williams. jacobson. >; McManus, Bayne.
Errors: McNally, Schang. 2; Gerber. Two
base hits: .Pipp. Ward siser. Home run:
SEVERED Sacrifice hit: Eperbe. Left on
bases; New York. {; st. Louis. I. f-rst
base on balls: of Collins, 3; off Piercey,
I; off Bayne, .. Hits: Off Collins, in
HIT by pitched ball: BY Collins McMan-
US Struck out: By Bayne, 10; by Col
ins, 4; by Piercey, .. Wild pitches: Col-
lins, Piercey. Passed balls: Schang. ..
Losing pitcher: Collins. Umpires: Nallis
and Connolly. Time Of game: ! 90.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22

XBressIer batted Tor Geafy m seventh.
Score by innings:
Cincinnati .......3 I 0 0 0 I 0 O.
Brooklyn ....,......0 ] 0 90 l 0 x-9
Summary-Runs: Neale, Groh Duncan,
Kopf. Olson. Johnston, Wheat, Kilduff,
Schinandt, 3; Miller. Ruether. Errors:
Bohne, Crane, Johnston, Neis. Two base
hits: Bressler Johnston, schmandt. Kill
duff. Ruether, 2. Sacrifice hits: Roush
RiXey. Neis. Kilduff Double plays: Kill
duff to Schnlandt; Kopf to Bohne. Left
on bases: Cincinnati, 4; Brooklyn. g.
First base on balls: Off Ruether. 4. Hits:
OFF Rixey. 10 in 8 is innings: off
Coumbe. in l-3 inning: off Geary,
in 13 inning; off Eller 2 in . in
nings. Struck out: BY Rixey. /; by Rue
ther. 5. Wild pitch: Ruether. Losing
pitcher: Rixey. mpires: Mccormick and
Klein. Time Of game: 1:53.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22
Giants Win Double-Header
From Omaha All-Stars

The South Omaha Giants won a
double-header from the Omaha ALL
Stars yesterday, II TO f and 5 to g.
Both are colorcd teams. Score by in
nings:
First game.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22
Greybull Trimmed.

scottsbluff. Neb.. Aug. 21.--scottsbluff
today, s 10 .. Score by innings:
RH e.
Greybun .....ooo oooo2 % .
Scottsbluft ....0 ] 0 o Q 0 Ks 0
Batteries: Greybull, Kelly and Moore;
Scottsbluff, Kileen and Benninghoven.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22

Sutton. Neb. Aug e1.--Hoffnan had R
combination on the ball that Sutton slug.
gers could not solve and Bruning won,
to 0. Bruning got most OF It's scores
through Sutton's costly errors. Score BY
innings: ~ II ~;
Bruning .......o 0 5 o ! u
Batteries: Sutton, Wright and Sharkey;
Bruning, Hoffman and Schultz. struck
out: BY Wright, /: by Hoffman. :. I'm
nire: Harry SAGE.
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Tulsa ,...e...1 oo12 0 o.
Sioux City .........0 l 0 x-I
Summary--Runs: Burke, .; Thompson,
Spe1lman, Harbor, .; Leard, Metz. Hoff-
man Query, Davenport. Errors: Thomp-
son, Leard Metz. Robson. Query. Two
base hits: Metz, 2. Sacrifice hits: Daven-
port MARI Stolen bases: McGinnis, Spell
man. Thompson. Robson. Harbor. Double
plays: ostergard to Leard to Metz; Leard
to Metz: McGinnis to Gleason to Bran
non. Left on bases: Tulsa, s; Sioux City
10. First base on balls: OFF Davenport.
6; off Cullop. g. Struck out: BY. Daven-
port. Z; by Cullop, 6. Wild pitch: Dav-
export. Passed balls: Query, 9 Umpres:
Burnside and Daily. Time Of game: 1865.
Second Game:
Called end of sixth by agreement.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22
Indians Lose Three.

Beaver City, Neb.. Aug. 21.-The Kicha-
poo indians were defeated at Hendlcy,
- to 9. Beaver City defeated them
here, to l. The three defeats dis
couraged the Indians and they cancelled
reservation. ''e-'
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22
|Se1l1iP1o!61l I
eAn]dteluoI
Bennington Blanked.

Herman. Neb,. Aug ci-Herman de-
,eatea bennington here today, to 0. The
last tkree innings were played in a lirht
rain. Score:
r. H. E.
bennington 30 0 0 0 0 o 90 q
herman .'.....0 0 0 l 2 x-S ]
Batteries: Bennington, Mccarthy and
NJ. Lonergan: Herman, McKercher ana
krause. Umpire: West
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22

Fairfield. Neb.. Aug. eo.--In a hotIy
contested lo-inn!ng game here before a
large crowd, Blue Hill defeated the local
team. to 4, in the last game Of the
tournament. Score by innings;
R.H.E.
Blue Hin 49,. % 0 o0s 600 2-6 6 s
80 0 0 . 0 0 l o. 4
Batteries: Irwin and wilett; William
and Kelly. Umpire. Lynch.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22
Geneva Wins.

Grand Island. Neb., Aug. 21.-Geneya
derea.ed Grand Island today. s to 4. The
Eller held Grand Island to four. Two
walks. two two-bass hits. a single and
Two errors gave Geneva five runs in the
second. Score by innings:
ca,. r. II. E.
Grand Island. i 0 0 . 0 0l o. 4 !.
Batteries: Eller and Yost; Zlornke ana
Llhderhamp. Umpire: King.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22
Stage Pitchers Duel,

Beatrice. Neh., Aug. 21.-Beatrice de-
feated Seward in a fast game here +oday
oy score of 2 to /. The game was n
pitchers duel between Dull and Movers.
Meyers allowed four hits and Dull five in
the flrst four innings and thereafter not
man reached first. The Beatrice team
gave Dull excellent support.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22
Bertrand Loses,
Blue Hill Victorious.

Trenton, Neb.. Aug. :1.-Trsnton de.
feated Bertrand today a 10-inninx game
at Atlanta, 8 to 2.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-22

Operation was success. But operating
on patients adenoids is easier than Oper-
stinr on his pocket. Minute he migrates
from hospital his memory evap0rates like
dew in hot sun.
The New York herald., 1921-10-16
Bits of Horse Lore Out of the Usual

Jackson later General and President. owned
several famous quarter racers and rode
them himself in plenty of contests He had
one slim sorrel that to his thinking could
beat the wind. This was while he in
his legal chrysals at Jonesboro. where upon
a certain Saturday saith tradition, he lost
a race which in turn cost him pretty much
everything he had, including his piety-
after il he outswore the army in Flanders.
But he never lost his horse love; as Presi-
dent he had two special ambitions-to save
the Union and find and buy a racer that
could beat Haney's Maria"
Harking back to cocktail, it strikes me
as possible that the cant name comes re-
motely from the Arab practice of bending
the tail bone of newly dropped foal over
the forefinger till its upper vertebra is dis
located This insures, after healing, a high
carriage of the tail. something more bar
barously secured by the farrier's practice OF
nicking.
Thus the cocktail came TO be held an in
dication of spirit. eke of bood--horses show
ing foot and gameness might well be en-
titled to il.
AS to how the name came to fit also a
drink here is a theory not so far fetched
las some. with a few facts behind IL. when
Washington fought the redcoats for pos
session of New York town he and his staff
rested at house of call i'm what is now
The Bronx, and were there waited on by
buxom landlady, widow who had a fine
hand at mixing things spiri;uous One day
she tried a new brew, slipped, then swal-
lowed then passed the potion as stirrup
cup to her guests already in saddle say
ing:
Drink hearty, gentlemen. It's good
say so. Twill make ye each feel as sassy
n cocktail"
She, no doubt. knew quarter horses under
their English name and could think of
nothing sassier than such creature in
whipping finish.
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What do you want to see him about?"
Il want to pay him some money, that's
what l want You see, / wanted quite
sum of money for a special purpose a week
or more ago and borrowed it from him at a
daily rate of interest. | only wanted it for
a few days and he knew it. He specified in
our agreement that the money was to be
returned to him personally. Now / can't
find him, and l can't find anybody to give
the money to. My interest is going every
day."
There was considerable profanity inter
spersed in this conversation. but being
firm believer in maintaining the purity of
the press we purposely omit it,
Our friend, the East Tennesseean. re-
manned away three weeks. He returned to
the city shortly after noon one Saturday
and let it be known that he had returned
by standing in front of his Office window.
At three-thirty the Georgian came plung
ing through the door Of his Office. He had
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did not take it. They stiffened just a little
and one Of them answered very calmly
but very determinedly
I'VE don't want him to give us money"
she said I'VE are not willing to receive
charity. We want to borrow the money.
We expect to pay it back"
We returned to our friend and told him
what they had said. He also stiffened just
a little.
well, if they want to borrow my money
what security. can they give me?" he said
coldly.
"They have security" we answered,
except their word
He slowly destroyed the check, having
first torn his signature Off it.
"As a business venture he remarked, "I
don't think very highly of it. I'll not file
worthless paper in my safe"
And there the matter ended
We have told the little story TO introduce
our friend the East Tennesseean, who bested
The New York herald., 1921-10-16
By MARTHA MCULLocH-wILLIAMs.

w pitch. and just passing 3 its eli
max in the Kentucky Futurity
this bit of horse history is timely Since
so many among the hopeful contenders
carry the potent blood of Peter the Great.
horse lovers may be interested i'm a brief
picturing of Octoroon. one of the great
obscurities in his ancestral line.
The horse was in my childhood figure
of romance, even of poetry. Colts at pasture
were my best OF playmates. my own special
colt my one real pal. Lying prone on lush
spring grass, | let her Craze out my pic
ture. cropping specially tempting sprigs
right under my neck and stepping over
me carefully as though she feared to
break me In bits
Octoroon was no neighbor-rather dis
tingushed visitor to our county fair. There
j saw him for two seasons, under saddle and
in harness A handsomer creature rarely
has trodden on four hoofs Black and SO
satiny, white high lights played over his
coat, shapely every way, with maybe
touch of coarseness in the head, his action
was simply matchless-even smooth, stealth
ily-you got a measure OF his speed and
ease only by contrast with his competitors.
They were not a sorry lot; either side the
kentucky-Tennessee state line there were
plenty Of fine horses fun Of blood and breath
and fire and stay. To see them i'm the ring
tantalizing-they hardly got we'll
started before they had to stop But on
the track outside. fine half mile oval. they
had chances to show what was in them
and give it up to the last ounce.
Octoroon, handled by his owner trainer.
one Dick Madison, won oftener than he
lost there-albeit the knowing ones said he
was short bred the DAMS side. Not
wthstanding lac was favoritc, almost
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cent. but spects dey's gettin' erong all
right"
do you reckon they sell many chairs?"
ventured
The old man chuckled The joke he was
going to spring evidently flashed across his
mind All he now had to do was to skill
fully guide us into the trap.
Yes sur dey must sell heap cheers
UP here. I spects dis is erbout de bestest
place dat could be in de whole world for
cheer factory
why Is that Uncle?" we asked.
"Well. sur" he answered solemnly. "yo'
de white folks up round here dos
much settin around dat I des knows dey
can't make enough cheers ter do EN-"
j who went into politics. and having
been elected to the City Council he
vas naturally appointed to the chairman
ship OF the City Council. During his term
the issue had to be sold in New York be-
a shotgun in our town.
1t was before the days of the tubes under
the North River and passengers always
went across the ferry from Jersey City
This fact was well known, even as far away
as our town.
The party that visited New York to sell
the bonds consisted of the Mayor the Comp
troller and the chairman of the Finance
Committee. Just as the train was about to
leave the depot the chairman appeared
81 can't go with you now, boys" he said
"I have a business deal on. I am sorry
too because I have never been to New
The New York herald., 1921-10-16

mis- fellow executive from Georgia in bust
ness deal.
One afternoon we saw him near the depot
with suitcase in his hand.
Where are you gong?" we asked
Fishing he said.
"Where?"
II don't care to tell you where am go
ing It's secret Nobody knows: not even
my own family. You see / needed a vaca-
ton anyway, so to-day when ] found an
opportunity to make another fellow pay my
expenses and then some | took advantage
of it. He's going to be looking for me.
That's why can't tell you where I'm going"
We wished him good luck. 1t was not for
a week or more that we found out who was
paying for the trip.
We ran across the other executive the
man from Georgia.
Say" he yelled at us, you know Jim
Brown pretty well, don't you?'
Yes" we answered
We'll, where is hep"
Gone fishing, but / don't know where.
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about two miles out from a little town in
the South. We hired a hack driven by an
old negro and hauled by the remains Of
what once had been horse. Naturally we
improved the occasion with conversation,
but before we had travelled half way to the
factory we had learned all of the events of
Importance in the little town and the con-
versation began to lag.
How is business at the chair factory?"
we asked.
81 amt been up dar ve'y much here of re-
The New York herald., 1921-10-16


- HE story of Lady Suffolk. so well told
in THE HERALD while back, moves
me to ask those versed in ancient
trotting history If ii holds a record of
certain Fanny Pullen. Henry William Her
bert, the English sportsman and authority,
in his best book "The Quorndou Hounds:
A Virginian's Debut at Melton Mowbray,"
makes his hero, Percy Fairfax, American
Attache of Legation at Melton for the
season, say to the Duke of Beaufort: 81
suppose you know. Duke that twenty miles
within the hour done in New York
not long ago. A half bred colt got by
imported Messenger out of a chestnut trot-
ting mare known Fanny Pullen. did il
handily without being distressed"
This is apropos of the exhibition of his
trotting pair, fetched from New York and
i'm charge of a groom. Hight Woodruff,
scion of that famous family" The pair can
make their mile under three minutes--the
off horse thought the faster by several sec
onds. They are described vividly in such
fashion, as to indicate likeness rather to
The New York herald., 1921-10-16

York and / would a heap rather have you
fellows along to show me the way to the
hotel But / will have to wait until the
midnight train"
well, where will you meet us?" asked
the Mayor.
why, at the hotel.' he answered. Which
hotel will you stop at?"
1--WE don't know" replied the Mayor. I'VE
haven't discussed the hotel question"
About that time the train started pulling
out of the she'd The chairman of the
Finance Committee began running along
side the train platform upon which his fell
low officials were standing.
"I1l tell you what to do he called. being
ever ready in an emergency, decide where
you are going to stop on the way up and
leave your address with the ferryman at
Jersey City. I'll get it from him when I
come up
And yet they sold the bonds at a good
price, thus again proving the honesty of
New Workers.
A EOST executives have associated
MI with them, we have learned.
man TO whom we object and most
violently at that He is the Synonym Fiend.
Usually he occupies the position of sec
retary. 1t is his business to take the letter
that tho business executive has written and
with the aid of "a book of synonyms make
the letter so utterly confusing ip its mean
ing that tho ordinary mind is unable to
CLEAN n ray of intelligent thought from the
entire epistle.
The only possible way of ascertaining
what ideas the writer's of these letters in
tended to put upon paper is to secure the
same book of synonyms that they used and
decode the communications into English
that is more or less understandable through
common use.
Now this custom among the Synonym
Fiends has furnished the basis for the be-
lief that Business Executives speak strange
vernacular which only they understand. IT
isn't true. They don't understand the let
ters they receive from each other half the
time until after the secretary has gone over
them with the book of synonyms We know
what we are talking about because we have
played Kelly pool with several of them ana
they easily understand every word we say
except sometimes when we are trying to
tell them that they owe us a dime for kill
ing their ball.
Now that we come to think of IL we have
mentioned Kelly pool once or twice i'm what
we have heretofore written. All well, that's
only natural. Why shouldn't the best un-
handicapped Kelly pool player on Manhat-
tan Island say word or two about the
game every now and then2
The New York herald., 1921-10-16

fashionable. sire, yet it must have been
chance rather than intention, or attention
to blood lines, that produced the daughter
through whom his fame is handed down.
He had been brought to our country from
up in the blue grass and was popularity
thought to have some of the Chief blood
how truly cannot say. All I actually know
OF him is that he went like the wind to
sulky. and was reputed to have a knack
of all but breaking, then finding his feet
miracuously and going on to win.
The Gold Dust strain. now all but extinct.
furnished his keenest competitors. A hand
some lot. true to name in color, splendid
in conformation, though a bit too fine to
last they were reckoned pearls of price
one enthusiast waved scornfuly aside an
offer of ten thousand for his six -year-old
Lucille.
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ment.
~
n UT we started out to say something
~ about business executives. We
knew two of them once who were a
perfect match for each other They were
both just as kind and considerate as any one
could possibly be except where a money
transaction was involved One of them
hailed from East Tennessee, where they
watch their possessions so closely that the
little children are said to have formed the
habit of hiding their savings banks from
their parents every night and the other
came from Georgia, where there are a
great many homes that have no front door
keys at all.
This East Tennesseean had accumulated a
good deal of money. He was just as kind
hearted as any man we have ever known
and gave away a great deal of money in
charity. Once he told us that IL we ever
found a case where little money would
relieve distress to let him know about it,
Some time later we happened to meet two
sweet old ladies, sisters they were, whose
lives had been so simply spent and who had
so filled their minds with kind thoughts
about every one in the world that to hear
them speak seemed like receiving a bless
ing. They wanted to open a private school
for small children. They needed $500 for
the purpose of fixing up a couple of rooms
of their modest little home, which was in a
splendid section.
We assured them we could secure the
money and FASTENED to the office of our
East Tennessee friend with the statement
that these old ladies. both of whom were
known to him, wanted to borrow $500.
why let's do better than that" he said
Il know these ladies and / would like to
see them have good start I don't want
to lend them the money, but I will gladly
give it to them. I am sorry you told them
where you could get the money because
would much rather not be known, but as
long as you have already done so it is all
right. ] will give you a check for them
right now"
He did so. We were elated. We returned
to the old ladies in triumph, told them what
he had said, and proffered the check. They
The New York herald., 1921-10-16

hackneys of our time than the fashionable
trotters of to-day
T'he story's era is the middle forties--it
appeared serially in a magazine in 1851
Our big garret had daGo of such stuff.
Browsing through the books I found the
story. and read it over and over till almost
i knew it by heart. To this day. though
am familiar with most of the celebrated
sporting literature. none other quite comes
up to the story of the Quorn
Herbert may have been romancing as to
the twenty mile trotter--yet / hardly think
so. A careful man. giving throughout names
actual. real personages, I do not think he
would have faxed a record. Such per-
Torrance SHOULD certainly have been set
down--if it ever took place. Naturally | am
not n little curious as to Fanny Pullen and
her half bred colt
Herbert was a devotee of distance He
nveighed strongly against tracing In the
gristle," otherwise the use of two-year- -olds
and the increasing preponderance OF dashes.
which he said barred from the sport of
kings almost half each seasons yearling
crop as being too lengthy, too growthy for
rounding into training form, consequently
useless except for hunters or carriage pairs.
With all the greater prizes for three-yea
ods and under barring a few like the
famous cups, owners were forced to breed
for early speed. This he prophesied meant
the loss of stay and stamina, consequently
the lowering of thoroughbred quality.
w THAT is a cocktail? BY the horse
\N/ books, an English county equiva-
lent for the American quarter
horse To run like a quarter horse" was
2 colloquiaism OF my upbrnging, the
synonym of rapid fight. This since the
quarter horse knew the business in hand
was going from the word GO" Quarter
racing was the favorite Saturday afternoon
diversion OF backwoods sports Andrew