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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-21
MINORS FAVOR
PLAYING after
END OF SEASON
President Tearney of the WeSt.-
League Wants to Get Into
Southern Clash.

| Chicago, Dec 21.-Pennant vi,
ming baseball clubs in minor Iaa,n.
circuits are entering the miniatnro
worlds series field which promise,
to increase popularity of the snor,
as well as offering financial "a
muneration TO players.
President Tearney of the West
ern league announced today that
the pennant winner in his organ.
ton desires to break into the an.
nual clash between pennant WIN.
ners in the Southern association
and the Texas league.
These two organizations clash
each year in miniature worlds
series after their 154-game sched.
uIe is completed. This wear Fort
worth won the struggle for su-
premacy OF the south. defeating
Memphis. Intense rivalry has besp
developed in professional baseball
circles by such inter-league series
IN addition to the benefit derived
from such a series, each player re.
ceives financial remuneration. In
addition to getting all expenses and
the regular salaries, the members
of the Fort Worth club. the win
ners of the southern championshin
this year received $I,l3O each az
their share Of the melon. The TO-
tai series Melted approximately
100000.
President Tearney is expected to
present his plans for breaking into
the southern series TO the club
owners of the Western league at
the annual meeting which is to be
held at st. Joseph, Mo, Feb. 20.
The Western league includes four
southern cities and the real SUI
in the south cannot be de-
termined unless the Western league
is a participant in the champion
ship, Tearney said.
President Tearney proposes to
have the two southern organfza-
tons clash in their annual post
season series and for the winner
Of the series to meet the pennant
winner in the Western league. He
also has plans for the team win
ming second place in his league to
share in the post-season money.
The Western league schedule is
irafted for 164 games. All three
# these circuits are in class A.
This is not the only class, how
yer, that is holding miniature
worlds series. Glass IA baseball
ans got a treat at the end of the
921 season when the Baltimore
Tub of the international league
nd the Louisville, Ky, club Of the
american association clashed in
'ost-season series.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-21
SPORT a al
|zS.ARIE|
|R@elA H
~ 80 R Q Y
1S.>G R o " 81
WE LIKE RASSLIN'-wITH A
NICE, THICK, JUICY STEAK!

| WE LIKE WITH A
NICE, THICK, JUICY STEAK!
Bob Meusel says Judge Lands
has no right to take his hard
earned world series money. There
are many who doubt the hard
earned"
Harry Greb wants to fight Demp-
sey for the championship. We
wanted to be president.
Two fighters needed money, so
They got themselves a guy
Who was eager to collect the dough
And cared not how or why.
They had the fight dOped out
ahead
One was 10 miss the other:
But when they got into the ring
The "Other' yelled for mother.
Baseball magnates insist on the
draft. Drawn from the wood, as it
were.
Some eastern football teams
have by this time learned their
men were good basketball players
Lands says that Empires are
human, which makes him eligible
for pop bottles.
THE SOFTEST JOB WE KNO =
OF THIS WINTER IS CADDY To
AN INDOOR GOLF BUG.
Perpetual motion-money pass
ing from fans to promoters.
Now. if they'd only eliminate the
toe-hold, Zbyszko might win every
rasslin' match by just shaking
hands with his opponent.
Now who'd suspect we'd read If all
wrong,
Centre VS.. NOtre Dame?
IT'S a bit different, but from the
same song,
It's Centres against Notre Dame!
Athletics make colleges" Vas
sar ought to get WaIly Reid to
coach something.
After knocking out Happy Little
ton, Downey says Bring on YOUR
Wilson" Bryan shouldn't talk
that way about the dead.
Who'll replace Ruth? Why not
put the judges famous bench out I
On the diamond and let him come !
o bat with a mallet?
GOLF ABOARD SHIP IS THE
ATTEST. ONLY ONE HAZARD
HE SEA.
1t would be possible to select
'retty good eleven from the plav-
RS not picked for the All-America
leVens.
People who live in glass houses
houldnt play winter golf.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-21
KANSAS TO OPEN
AT MINNEAPOLIS
Arrange Several Basketball Games
Prior to Conference Title
Race.

Lawrence, Kan, Dec. 21.-Prac-
tlce for the University of Kansas
basketball seasos, which will opea
Jan. ? with a game with the ITn;-
versity of Minnesota AT MIMI
apolis, is well under way under m,
direction of DR.. F. c. Allen, director
OF athletics, George Rody, captain.
Is playing his third year on the
team, and most of the other likely
contenders for places on the team
are for their second year.
The, Minnesota trip was ar
ranged by DR.. Allen to afford the
team a game or two before the
opening of the Missouri Valley con
ference, which, for Kansas. starts
with game with Grinneu here
Jan. s. The Kansas team will as
semble in Minneapolis Immediate
ly after Christmas, and will spend
the last Few days of the wear in
practice, preparing for the New
Years game.
Other members of last vear,s
squad, In addition TO Rody, appear
ing this year are Paul Endacotr
who played guard: Armin Woesta,
meyer, forward. and John WuIf
center. A score more experienced
players are available, and DR. AL
len expects to enter the tourna-
ment with a string of ten or
dozen trained players. ready W
SHIFT the lineup whenever peces-
sary.
The game originally scheduled
with the University of>Nebraska for
Dec. 20 has been set for March 6
and the visit of Kansas to Lincoln
las been advanced to Jan. 10. The
revised schedule:
ian 6-GrinnelI at Lawrence
Jan. 1O-Drake at Lawrence
Jan. 16-Washington at Law !
'ence.
Jan. 19-Nebraska at Lincoln
Jan. 24-Missouri at Lawrence
Jan. 51-Oklahoma at Norman.
Feb. 6-Ames at Lawrence
Feb S-Kansas Aggies al Man
attain.
Feb. 11-oklahoma at Lawrence
Feb. flames at Ames.
FEB. 15-Grinnell at GrinneU
Feb. 16-Drake at Des Moines.
Feb. 21-Missouri at Columbia
Feb. 22-Washington at ST
outs.
Feb, 2s-kansas Aggies at Law
nee.
March s-Nebraska at Lawrence. :
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-21
BONUS, SHARE
IN SALE PRICE
ARE RULED OUT
Sections Suggestions are Approved
Semi Monthly Salary AMI
darits Required.
BY J. L. HUGHES.

Henceforfh, pity the poor, down
trodden ball player.
Minor league FASTENERS afflicted
with the kind of ego that insists
upon a bonus before putting ones
name TO a contract, and which later
bursts out in demands for u portion
of the sale price one may happen &c
command, are due for disappoint-
ment next summer.
In the first place, they aren't
going TO get very far in the matter
of bonus, and secondly, they're
going to learn its a waste of breath
To clamor for part of what their
club may sell them for
M. H. Sexton Of Rock Island.
president of the National Associa-
tion OF Professional Baseball clubs,
'who is back from strenuous base
ball meetings at Buffalo and New
York, has seen to this.
At the meeting in Buffalo of the
minors. Mr.. Sexton stressed the i'm
portance of owners putting the Id
down on players who seemingly
cannot be satisfied. He proposed
that the bonus and the cut in on
sale price, be outlawed, and the
measures were adopted.
This was one feature of his plan
for getting the little fellows back to
a safe and sane basis of operation.
Another called for a strict enforce
ment of the salary limits. He sue
ceeded in gaining the passage of 4
rule making it incumbent upon
club officials to file twice monthly
with him, sworn afidayits of sal
aries paid to each player. These
will have to be in his hands by the
9Th and goth of each month. They
are calculated TO act as check on
club owners who are wont to forget
caution in their enthusiasm to
spend money.
Woe to those found disregarding
salary limits" is the way he sums
the situation up. Anyone who
tries to evade the ruling, or who
seeks TO circumvent it in any man
ner, will be summarily dealt with.
There should be a limit to every
thing. and salaries will have one
in 1922"
Plenty OF baseball players are on
the market at this time, Mr.. Sexton
reports. AT Buffalo the owners
seemed 10 feel there was no time
like the present for unloading high
salaIied, burdensome stars" he
says. Everyone wants to be sure
of coming within the salary limit of
his league when the showdown is
demanded"
An effort will be made to secure
special railroad rates in 1929, as a
means of further reducing ex-
penses. The club owners also
pledged themselves to observe econ /
omy in any other way possible. !
At New York, where Mr.. Sexton /
sat as member of the advisory
council to Judge X. NJ. Lands, base
BALLS high chief, the draft, of
was one of the big topics
Ip for discussion. The board agreed
hat $4,000 for class AA, $4,000 for
lass A, $1,000 for class B, $1,000
or class C and $1,000 for class d,
re equitable prices to pay under
he draft. 1t is up to the leagues to
ay yes or no.
The Three-Eye league was one of
our non-subscribers to the draft in
S2l- Mr.. Sexton quotes Secretary
ohm Farrell of the national asso-
latlon, as saying only two players
1 80 sold by Three-Eye clubs dur
ng the recent season brought more
han the draft figure. This indi-
ates the league as whole would
ave benefited by the draft.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-21
WAS BIG YEAR
FOR SKATERS
Sensational Batting Was the Feat
ure of the American League
Season.

Batting of the most sensational
character featured the games of the
American league throughout the
season. Phenomenal fielding plays
were a natural sequence to the
heavy hitting and fast and clever
base running on hit and run plays
was the order of the day. The art
of base stealing, however, was al
most discontinued, it being obvi-
Gus that to take two bases or more
on the probable forthcoming base
hit was better strategy for the run
ner than to risk being cut down
on the attempt to steal.
No less than 1885 safe hits were
made in GIG games of which 2,14O
were two baggers, 694 for three
bases and the hitherto unpreceden;-
ed number of ATT were home runs.
They averaged a little more than
20 TO the game of which more than
five were for extra bases.
The Detroit club led the sluggers
with an average of .316 for the sea
son. followed by Cleveland with
.30S; st. Louis, .3o4; and the cham
pion New York Yankees with an
even 800
"he champions, led by Babe"
Ruth. G-"ve out 1874 home runs and
were first IL Total bases. St, Louis
gathered log trlt,ccS and Detroit
100, while the Cleveland Indians
whaled 355 two base hits. The ex-
champions also coaxed GA bases on
balls from the nervous pitchers
New York being awarded 5SS and
Detroit 582.
The greatest individual record
of the year, attracting more inter-
est than anything that has hereto
lore occurred in baseball was the
performance Of George II. Ruth. !
who broke his own world record
for home runs by making SO safe
blows that were good for the round |
trip. In three successive seasons !
Ruth has raised the record of 25 |
nome runs made in 1899 first 10 |
70. then to "a and now to SO.
Harry F. Heilmann, Detroit out
1elder, beat out Manager Cobb by
i've points for the league leader
ship in batting with record of
1874. Heilmann made 237 hits in
40 games for total of 365 bases. I
3 OF his safeties were for two
'ases, IA were triples and 10 were
Iome runs, Heilmann scored ia
uns and was responsible for 100
more OF the Tigers total of $50. He
credited in the R. r. F. column
nth 139 runs but these include his
3 homers. Heilman led ali in
ending runs across the plate ex-
ept Ruth, who was credited with t;
10 of which SO were his own four
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-21
START BUILDING
OF TRACK SQUAD
AT MICHIGAN u,

Ann Arbor, Dec. 21.-Tha Uni
versity of Michigan varsity track
squad will be built around Can
tain Simmons, Walker. Hoffman,
Van Orden, Slaughter, Stipe and
JOINER Coach Steve Farrell faces
hard job in moulding a team out
OF these few men, having lost such
stellar performers as Butler. Wet
eel, Forbes and Westbrook
The strength OF the team appears
TO be in the dashes. with Captain
Simmons, Burk, who placed last
year in the Cornell meet. ana
Weeks. Davis, Martin and Siemons
all from last years freshman
squad Kelly, a member of last
years varsity, is at his best in
doors.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-21
EXTRA PAY FOR PLAYERS IS BANNE
FORWARD PASS
is CERTAIN TO
BE CONSIDERED

The forward pass in football is
certain to receive much consider
alton from the rule makers when
they meet to discuss the new angles
presented by the 1921 season
Harvard has already come to the
front with a suggestion that the
forward pass be eliminated during
the final five minutes of play.
In all probability the defeat suf-
fered by Harvard from Princeton
is the base of their contention.
1t will be remembered that long
forward pass, Snively to Gilroy, fol-
lowed by a 50-yard run by the lat
ter player, produced the touchdown
that caused a Crimson defeat.
If the forward pass is permissible
during the first three periods, there
IS no good reason why it should
not continue in good form through
out the final quarter.
OF course, ii Is in the last few
minutes of play that a beaten team
takes long chances with the pass.
If a touchdown means a chance to
win or tie the game, the losing
team very logically uses nothing
but forward passes, in a hope one
of them might be. successful.
There is always a chance that
such a pass will be intercepted.
However, that is the only chance
the losing team is taking.
Unquestionably the forward pass
is being overplayed. However, the
public likes the play, and for that
reason it has become an integral
part of the game.
The thing TO do is to place some
limitations on the pass, that will !
protect the defending team to a /
extent than merely the loss /
OF down when the pass is COM
pleted. /
Like the squeeze play in base
ball. the forward pass is a great !
play II 1t goes over, and a sucker /
play when it fails PROFESSIONALLY !
the checks and balances in foot
ball have been upset by the for
ward pass.
The aerial game has unbalanced
both attack and defense. It has
given an exaggerated value to one
play. 1t has caused coaches to neg
ect important features of the game
n an effort to highly develop a
passing game.
1t is pretty tough for a team to
gain, say so yards, on plays
through the line and runs around /
he end, and then have the opposi- .
ion make up all that hard-earned {
ground by one 50-yard pass. -
Limiting the distance the ball can
'e passed, is one way to lessen I
he value of the play.
Another is to make the penalty 7
more severe for the incompleted {
'ass. lC
The suggestion that after the
rst down, the ball shall be put e
4 play from the spot where the v
hrower of the incompleted pass
TODD is another check. l
Spokane Walter Miller, Los An a
eles, won two falls from George 4
'ineau, New York. Z
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-21

Spokane Walter Miller, Los An
geles, won two falls from George
Pineau, New York.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-21
ALL-NATIONS IN
BID FOR GAMES

The All-Nation basketball team
is seeking games with any teams
in the tri-cities or vicinity. 1t
would particularly like to hear
from Geneseo and Milan. The All
Nations present the following
lineup: ]. Exner and Ole Swanson,
forwards; Dude Larson and o.
Mintz, guards; and NJ. Koch, CEN
ter. For games call Marvin Koch
at Rock Island 1925 or address him
to $40 Ninth street. Rock Island.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-21

7 further; he developed what he calls
a fork ball" He has so named it
| because of the peculiar way he
holds the ball between his fingers
/ before delivering it to the batter
| The season of rest seemed to re-
store strength to Bush's arm. He
| worked more than so games in 1920,
but was unable to get better than
an ever break, winning and losing
/ Is.
Bush couldn't get the old stuff
on the fast one. Because of the
difficulty in controlling the fork
ball, Bush didn't use it during 1920,
but constantly worked with it to
develop control.
After working for nearly three
years mastering the new delivery,
Bush started to use it in the early
summer of 1921 Batters soon OBJ
jected, saying Bush was using a
spitball. which he had no right to
do. The umpires. however, knew
such was not the case. The fork
ball. breaks very much like a spit
ball.
Had Big Season in 1921.
The season of 1921 was a big
year for Bush. after a lot of people
thought he was done as a big
Lacquer. His success was centered
around the fork ball" This ball.
coupled with his curve and fast
one, with a change Of pace thrown
in. made Bush over into a new
style pitcher,
Instead of depending on terrific |
speed, Bush stood the batters on |
their heads by mixing them up. |!
Bush is again great pitcher be !
cause he refused to give up when !
gloom was thickest.
When nature weakened on him,
he called on his brain for assist
ance.
The fork ball" a most deceptive
delivery, has given Bush a threat.
which he constantly holds over the
batter. The fork BALI was the re-
suit of three years of effort 1t was
worth while.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-21
PETER BEnER,
YOUNG TROTTER.
TO BE MISSING

Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 21.-Peter
BeiIer. the promising young trotter.
VIII be missing from the Grand
circuit races next season. He was
sold at the old glory sale in New
York for export to Holland. An
other Grand Circuit racer sold for
export was Rose Azoff. She will
be sent to Belgium.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-16

that the process of evaporation gives
the rootlets $1.65 worth of ammonia to
the acre.
"When the World War cut off Ger
man supplies Of potash and it scared
to $4OO a ton, geologists secured the
United States for the priceless fertiliz-
er with little success, Yet the process
of evaporation generously hands out
more than half hundredweight to the
acre, in war and peace. This automatic
fertilization is worth an additional
$3.50 an acre to the farmer at present
prices, and would have cost him $40
an acre at war prices.
From this it will be seen that the
s12 to s25 an acre that it costs the
average farmer to grow wheat is
small figure indeed, compared to what
he saves by having Nature as his
water wagon and fertilizer source"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-16
VALUE OF A RAINDROP
Annual Downpour Means More Than
Work and Fertilizer.

Rain might he looked upon as the
oil which lubriCatcs the worlds cCuno-
mic machinery" says bulletin issued
from the Washington, d. o., head
quarters of the National Geographic
Society in connection with recent re-
ports of world drought damage
to crops
With the smallest estimated cotton
crop since 1893" continues the bullc-
tin, with spring wheat in poor condi-
other wheat countries of the world,
with other important crops below their
average, and with drought cast as the
villain or at least rs an Occomplice, in
each case, the difference that a few
showers make in humanity's scheme OF
things is strongly emphasized.
while everybody realizes in a gen
Cral way that the world depends on
rainfall and fertility fo: food, there are
very fCw perhaps, who even apprOXi-
matoly appreciate how comparatively
great process of crop-growing. To
plow millions Of acres furrow by fur
row, to spend millions Of dollars on
fertilizers, and to reap and gather and
thresh, is no mean task. And yet COM
pared with the part that Nature plays
in the process, mans work seems a
very slight labor. For instance, it
takes about 20 inches of rainfall TO
grow a food crop under our general
farming methods, which means about
2,260 tons Of water to the acre. This
seems a prepOstcrOus figure, but the
doubter can easily demonstrate its
correctness. Suppose the American
farmer had to haul the water his
ground must have to give him a good
crop. and that the distance and freight
rate wcrc the same as the average
railroad haul and rates in the United
States. on that basis. it would cost
him more than $4,000 an acre to water
his place.
But not only would his water bill
he nearly half Il million dollars on a
1OO-aCrc farm. but his fertilizer bill
also would amount to Il neat | title sum
1t is estimated that in the process of
normal evaporation, soil water pres
cntS the rOotlctS of its ncighbOrhoOd
with about fourteen pounds of ammo
MIA year to the acre. Also, it gives
them some 81 pounds of potash. With
sulphate of ammonia costing only
cents a pound Git cost 81 during the
war; and a hundred pounds of the
sulphatc required 10 contribute II
pounds Of ammonia, it will be seen
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-16
REPORT OF THE GRAND JURY
Hope for Accomplishment in Regard
to Removal of the Stdndpipe.
RECOMMENDS TURKEY CREEK BRIDGE
Discharged Tuesday After Having
Passed, on All Matters Presented
Final Presentment in Full.


Before being discharged Tuesday
The York County Grand Jury of which
Mr. G. j. Henry of Rock Hill is fore
man. made the following final present
ment tc the court:
We, !hc Grand Jury Of York County.
beg to report to His Honor, the Pre-
siding Judge of the court of general
sessions of the September 1921 term:
That we have passed on the bills
presented to us by the solicitor and
duly considered all presentmcnts con-
cerning Tie welfare of the county
brought before us.
Committees appointed after the July
term to make personal Investigations
as TO the condition and management
of county property and offices are at
work and their findings will be, sub
mitted in our final report at the No
vcmber term of court.
The Standpipe.
In our last report two important
matters were called to the attention OF
the court, namely, the removal Of the
stand pipe belonging to the city of
York which is considered menace to
the county court house and to persons
compelled to attend court, and two
dangerous railroad crossings, one near
Roddeys station and the other in the
town of Smyrna, both on important
highways of the county. We are
pleased to note that the solicitor has,
by order of His Honor judge Ernest
Moore, served notice on the city of
York the Southern railway company,
ard the county supervisor of York
county concerning these matters and
we hope that something definite will
be accomplished in n short time.
Turkey Creek Bridge.
4 petition being presented and sign
ed by NJ. E. Nichols. Post master, and
also petition made in person from var
ious property owners in this immedia'c
ncighborhood that the bridge over
Turkey creek at Suttons spring, hav-
in- been washed away nearly two
years ago, and said petitioners re-
questing that the said bridge be re-
placed, were presented to the grand
jury for action. After having the re-
port Of the bridge committee Of said
Jury on this project The following res
olution va@ unanimously adoptcd:-
PccoIuiinn. RIColyp1 th1t the conn