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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-07-30
FIRST POLO MATCHES
PLAYED IN LONG AGO
EnqIish Team Brought to United
States in 1886.
Member Of Huriingham Club Writes
Interesting Letter Describing In
ltIaI Contests for Interna-
tional Title.

In 1885 John Watson brought an
English team to the United States to
play the first matches for the interna-
tional polo cup. What comment that
visit caused! Americans were eager
to see the game and everyone knows
with what avidity 1t was taken up
when society said 1t was good to look
upon.
The following letter, written by
member of the Nottingham team, who
PLAYED In those games, will be read
with interest, even though the writer
has begged not to have his name made
public. The letter follows:
american polo in 1886 was not, as
far as team play went, up to the
standard Of first-class English polo.
The American rode very handy ponies
Il believe mostly Argentines. They
were not so we'll bred or as fast ponies
as ours. The American team did not
play well together and thought too
much Of their individual play. They
had not then mastered the backhander
and did not try to keep the ball up
and down the middle of the ground.
The English teams had learned their
polo to start with mostly In India,
where there were full-sized grounds
600 and 200 yards), and no boards
It was, therefore, necessary to keep
the ball in play by playing up and
down the ground.
1.-THE Nottingham team was cap
tanned by Mr.. Watson, one Of the best
players Of his day. When playing a
practice game before the matches he
| over-balanced himself and fell off his
pony. His horsemanship on this ac-
| count was much criticised by the
| American press. He was, however, a
very strong and good horseman, which,
:, l think, the Americans realized in the
matches. We were to have played
several matches in the United States,
but as the Nottingham team beat the
best team the United States could
then produce in two consecutive
matches, the other matches fell
through.
/ 1.-THE ground at Newport was very
good and well kept, but much too
small even for ponies Of the height
then played. The game in the United
States was commenced by placing the
ball in the middle Of the ground. The
No. rs started from behind the line
and galloped for the ball. This rule
was decidedly to our advantage.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-07-30
Diamond
SquibS

Baseball teams and fishermen both
have their castoffs.
They are calling the Baltimore ORR
oles the nonstop team.
.Swat the fly" is the motto of other
players besides Babe Ruth.
Connie Mack doesn't care how poorly
q ball player goes so long as he tries.
There's is difference between
swinging at the ball and on the ball.
New York fans haven't given up the
Idea Of a local world series this fall.
Manager Jawn Evers sometimes
leaves the field during playing hours
by request.
Rogers Hornsby gets more mileage
out Of the ball than Babe Ruth. He
hits 1t oftener.
ID. Hinkle, baseball coach at But
Ter college, has been signed by the
indianapolis A. A. club.
They ought to let pitchers work In
4 trench instead Of on mound. They
have to duck lot of drives.
Tommy Taylor, Birmingham in
aelder, is rated one Of the best in
the Southern league this year.
Long George Kelly is about ready to
admit that Ruth still has something on
him as a home-run manufacturer.
The Robins have signed Clyde Nc
| Carly, an infielder from the Okpul-
gee club Of the Western association.
Pitcher Bill Doak Of the st. Louis
Cardinals had just got going when
on Decoration day he cracked his arm
again.
The Dodgers are playing good ball
these days, regardless OF what has
been the previous comment Of the
experts.
Jim Reynolds and Clyde Williams,
pitchers, have been traded to the Jop-
lin club by Kansas City for Pitcher
Jack. Schenberg.
John Huber, infelder, after having
ais tryouts with Detroit and else
where, is back with Greenville In the
| South Atlantic league.
Galveston has 'loaned" Pitcher Bill
Buscha to Shrevepo4-,. There is a
National association rule against such
oans, but they all do 1t.
John NJ. Clark, star catcher Of the
Columbia team during the past sea-
ION, was elected captain Of the Blue
md White Varsity nine for the 1922
reason.
The Brooklyn club has made an Of
Ter to Danny McNichols, second base
nan Of the University Of Pennsyl-
7ania team, who has made big rep
station in college ball this season.
Francis Pratt, the Alabama COLLEGE
IN who joined the Chicago White Sox
recently, then was sent to Nashville.
8 still on the 60. His latest stop IL
with Rock Island in the Three-I
eague.
Julie e. Nee Of Chicago, former
University Of Illinois shortst0p nndeT
sbntract to the Detroit Americans,
las been sent to the Portland club
, II the Pacific Onast leasue under ~
optional agreemcht s s.s
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-07-30
VERY CLEVER FIELDING FEAT
cnr%er6elder for Peoria Three-l Team
Made Record Throwing Out Five
Runners.

Ted Meme. playing center field Tor
Peoria against Rockford one May y,
made the near-record Of throwing out
FIVE base runners, four Of them at the
Mate and one at third base. On the
offense in the same game he got three
hits out Of four times up, walking
once.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-07-30
IMMENSE OFFER IS REFUSED
scottish Soccer Star Spurns $4,000 to
Attach His Signature to
Contract.

D. McAlpine, the crack outside LEFT
Of the Queens Park Soccer club Of
the Scottish league. has refused the
record amount Of $4,000 to attach
his signature to provisional form.
He has resigned as an amateur FOR
his old club for next season.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-07-30
WHEN MAILS MET BABE RUTH
Famous Sluaqer Faced Cleveland Hurl-
er In California After 1919 Sea-
son Had Closed.

The story has been told that the
first time Walter Mails ever faced
Babe Ruth was after he Joined the
Cleveland Indians last fall. Mails ex-
plains that Is q mistake. He pitched
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-07-30
Teams of Bear Cats.

Texas and California are
bear cats when 1t comes to
furnishing ball players to the
major leagues. Outside OF
couple of infielders from Texas
one could select a pretty fair
team from each state. For ex-
ample:
Hornsby, Cards (Winters),
2b.
Terry, Cubs (Denison), IS.
Falk, White Sox (Austin), II.
Speaker, Indians (Hubbard),
Ct.
Mcdonald, Braves (Houston),
Ainsmith, Tigers (Yorktown),
Gibson, Braves (Austin),. c.
Vaughn, Cubs (Honey Grove),
Baumgartner, Phil. (Houston),
Napier, Reds (Hutchins), p.
Kerr, White Sox (Paris), p.
California.
Heilman, Tigers (San Francis
co., Id.
Boeckel, Braves clos Angel
esq, 2b.
johnson, White Sox (Laguna
Beach), IS.
Witt, Red sox (Oakland), Sb.
Meusel, Yankees CLOS Angel
esq, If.
Meusel, Phillies CLOS Angeles),
Ct.
Hooper, White Sox (Oakland),
Walters, Red Sox (San Fran
CISCO, C.
Ruether, Dodgers (Alameda),
p.
Portica, Cards (Santa Bar
bara), p.
! Ehmke, Tigers CLOS Anseles)'
p.
Leonard, Tigers (Fresho), p.
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Pe Have Lost Every Sense Dignity and Their Whole Chaac-
TT, French Journalist Says-Country Has Come to
Look Upon Help From Abroad as Matter
Of Course

New York.-An interesting picture
Of conditione in Austria is given In the
following article written for the New
York Herald by w. John Lenglet, q
Trench Journalist attached to the
Japanese military mission in Vienna:
After having been year in Austria
have come to the conclusion that the
country specialixes in the art OF peg
Rins ana insulting. These two faults
combined have been brought to sucn
a helsht that the people have iost
every Dense Of dignity and their wnoie
character.
This i specially clear to the TOT
eigner who stays good deal ID vienna.
The foreigner who merely passes
through brings nothing back out
remembrance Of more or less gay eve
ninex ana Of fantastic figures OF WORTH
iess currency; but he who has to i've
there and take part In the everyday
life " Vienna, especially Il ne take
the trouble to look deeply into the
heart 81 things, Is certainly convinced
that side BY side with certain misery
q the lower middle classes and priva-
tions among the upper classes, there
er,sfs among the new rich-scnieD-
arer-an Indifference to all the inter
Get. Il Austria which Il. hardly beiiev-
able. 49, ,o,aa,e
man of business transactions OF even
a.. .,.,. hnsIness man quite simply. The
..s. ~. 4 also the "bucket snop
teener. who speculates Illegally in
exchange. who leads the freinanos'
ffree commerce), and 1t - ne Wno
Miles Miles mn bundles Of bank notes, !,
s.rr,e one Of which he will NOT Spend
unless Il bring him the equivalent y
pleasure or goods. The interest OF nis
country? He laughs at It as =.
splendid joke-the starving cnllu, 8.
ssn he looked after by foreigners. He
.sn cot white bread and he does &c
without scruple. He can drink cn1m
paene at 1900 crowns a Dottle. ns
provides his wife with magnincen1 Iuls
ana precious Jewels. He knows DC
duty but that Of spending the money =.
which he has gained by exploring -.
countrymen In pleasures ana luAu1.s.
He is the immoral being VINO na.
sprung from the Austrian SOIL sinc'
misery spread over the land.
The Value All Important
when the little bourgeois or shop
r.ener smells the foreigner, he imme
d,atelv s,xes up his "valute." You ar
created IN accordance with the value
a. vour national currency and the snop
man tries to convince you that Il d
charges you three times as mucn q
4nstrians are charged he y SUI
:, you 1 great service: wa
mecht das dem In hire ValuteI
1Wnst does It matter compared Z
~. i rs,ue Of your moneyD This be
comes az familiar - the greetl1e ~
sef when you 50 into q shop. Z ~
sre rood natured you win smp''
.cc.nf this Is part Of the business.
wore things exist. for the Austria.
n.s brought the art Of begging 70 sue
! mitch that he has made the wnO y,
,rorld helieve IN him, and the wn .
wO Or. and the United state
= ~ 40 y nsad--allows Itself to be fooled
= nommittees have been formed-Aua
ia has been helped on every slue
- .,.,,a,on have been sent % ever
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-07-30

a game out in California after the
1919 season closed and Ruth was on
the opposing team. Then Babe went to
bat five times against Mails and struck
out three times. He was an easy out
twice,
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-06-10
THIS BIRD HAD REAL TEETH
Lived Is Million Years Ago and
Chewed Its Food, Says Museum
Curator.


Lawrence, Kan.-One OF the two
known specimens of birds teeth
was found In the chalk beds OF west
ern Kansas and has been preserved
at the University of Kansas museum.
according to Curator H. 7. Martin.
who found the specimen.
The other is at the Yale university
museum. The Kansas fossil is of the
cretaceous period, about twenty-five
million years ago and includes ten
teeth.
1t is the most complete specimen
that has been preserved. The bird
was OF the Hesperornis family, was
five feet long. had a short vertebrae
tail and possessed no wings. 1t was
q marine bird.
The specimen is more valuable than
any other, according TO Professor Mar
tin, because it gives a clear idea OF
the semi-plumaceOus feathery cover
ing that the bird possessed. No 9TH
er known specimen gives this evil
dence.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-06-10
MAKE BALLOON INTO CANOES
Hudson Bay indians Get Wonderful
Craft from Wreck of Giant
Airshlp.

Cochrane, Ont.-SOme wonderful ca
noes appeared mysteriously recently in
the James Bay region. They were con-
structed not of birchbark, but OF u
strange material the North had never
seen.
The big balloon that carried three
United States naval aviators into the
wilderness several months ago has
since lain where 1t descended. Officials
of Moose Factory, one of the earliest
posts established on American shores
by the Hudson's Bay company, had
given orders to all the Indians who
owe allegiance TO the ancient fur COM
pany, to leave the great gas bag I'M
disturbed. These orders had been
strictly observed, but a band OF out
law Indians, whose home village is
sixty miles northwest OF Moose Fac
tory, found the balloon and from the
sides of the fallen monster made
canoes that rode the waves like thistle
down.
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BIRDS AS STREET CLEANERS
VuItures Employed for the Purpose in
Costa Rica, and Traveller Says
They Are Efficient.

Garbage collectors in Costa Rica en-
joy their occupation, because they eat
what they find. In his book, Sailing
South" Philip S. Marden writes as fol
lows:
II was awakened on the first morn
ing in town by a sound of wheels in
the street below, and looked out 1t
was an impressive sight. The garbage
man was abroad on his scavenging
rounds. Ahead of his open wagon
walked in sober platoon four enor-
nous vultures, all in sable and main
tanning the chastened demeanOr of sun-
dertakerS at an open grave. Behind
the wagon walked half a dozen other
vultures similarly sedate. And around
the rim of the cart. perched in SOL
emn row, sat twenty-one other birds
Of the same species and same sOmber
hue. l would fain have ImmortalIzed
the scene, but the camera, alas, wasn't
loaded. l began to understand why
the streets of San Jose. which leave
much to be desired in other respects
are at least so notably clean. The buzz
yards attend to that"
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ANCIENT AND MODERN ROME
WorId-Famous Buildings Occupy
s Sacred Sites in the Old Capital
of the World"

Ancient Rome was built on the hills
south of the River Tiber. Tradition
regarded the Palatine as the site OK
RomuluS' Urbs Quadrafa. Excavations
have brought Is light remains OF
earlier settlement and prehistoric
metropolis. The capitoline was the
center of republican and imperial
Rome. One of the principal ancient
monuments is Hadrian's mausoleum,
which. as the castle of St Angelo, was
the citadel of medieval Rome. West
of this stood Caligula's circus. in which
Nero tortured the Christians; its site
is now occupied by St. Peters. the chief
shrine of Roman Catholicism. reputed
TO be the largest church in the world.
occupying $4,000 square yards and
measuring 435 feet IN its highest part.
North of St. Peters is the Vatican
palace, which covers 1917 acres and
comprises over 1000 halls. chapeIs and
rooms. The pantheon, built by AgrIp-
pa in % b. @. and restored by HadriaD,
is said to be the best-preserved ancient
building IN the city
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that I can't I won't pretend to know
anything / don't know.
Il wouldn't do that for anything
I'm quite sure you wouldn't" said
the first Red Berry
I'm positive you wouldn't" said
the second Red Berry.
I'm absolutely certain you wouldn't, y
said the third Red Berry
do tell me-" said Peter Gnome.
"Shan l tell hiIh?" asked the first
Red Berry.
You tell him." said the second Red
Berry.
yes, YOU tell him." said the third
Red Berry.
I'm ready to hear" said Peter
GnOme.
Well" said the first Red Berry,
again and again we've heard this
same speech or saying. Only today
we heard it"
"Only today" agreed the second Red
Berry
"Only today" said the third Red
Berry.
"SOme one was passing" continued
the first Red Berry. land this person
was speaking to another person. I
forgot to say that two people were
passing, but only one of them was
talking you see.
well, the person who was talking
spoke of her little girl and of how
much the vacation had helped her.
"'She was really tired out said
the person. but now she looks so well
and feels so well and eats so we'll
And she looks just as brown as a
berry. Yes, she is tanned and healthy
looking.
Just as brown as a berry she
looks now
what we cannot understand" said
the first Red Berry, sis how person
brown by any manner OF means. If
she had only turned and looked at US
she would have seen that we were
quite, quite red"
'She would most certainly have seen
that" said the second Red Berry.
''She most certainly would have seen
that" repeated the third Red Berry.
ITS just a saying" said Peter
Guome. "and I'm sure 1 don't know
why people use that saying or ex-
preston so much. But one thing,
Berries. of which you may be thank
full. when they say any one looks as
brown as a berry it means that that
person looks very well and healthy,
SO it is compliment if strange one"
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recommend your medicine to anyone
who is ailing. You may publish my testi-
monialifyou think it will help others. -
Mrs. CARRIE WILLIAMS, Overpeck, Ohio.
For more than forty years Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
been restoring women to health who
suffered from irregularities, displace-
ments, backaches, headaches, bearing
down pains, nervousness or the blues.
In the United States wherein some
woman does not reside who has been
made well by it. That is why Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is now
recognized as the standard remedy for
such ailments.
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income from invested funds given by
Mrs Blumenthal and other Americans.
One OF the new funds TO encourage
painting Is in the name Of Henry
Prick The other, devoted to science.
is 20 be called the "Joffre" bursary. It
Is endowed by an American who asked
that his name be withheld.
When Nine BlumenthaI made for
NAL announcement OF the extension Of
the foundations work to Marshal
Joffre. he began an expression Of
gratitude" Nine. Blumenthal. who
is OF Alsatian ancestry, replied:
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-06-10
SDinner'S Size
Regulates Bets

Chance In 81 against the bettor. The
odds are 10 to Is in favor of the house.
With absolutely even luck. in every 81
bets you will lose one more than you
will win. The odds are all calculated
on the basis of the thirty-six numbers
on the table, and the thirty-seventh
number (zero) Is the perquisite of the
establishment. With this qualification
the game Is absolutely fair.
Few sane men, think, suspect the
Casino Of cheating. 1t does not need
to. That thirty-seventh chance-which
is no chance, but a certalnty-is suf-
6cient 1t operates inevitably; as re-
morselessly as 1.-The blind Fury with
the abhOrred shears" does at the end
of the life of each of US
The tables In the various sales In
the Casino and the Sporting club do
not all run for the same hours. Also
some Of them are for trente eft quar-
ante and not for roulette. But L be-
lieve 1t Is fair to say that the result
is about equivalent to twenty-one
tables at roulette running for ten
hours day. At all events the rough
CdiCuIAllOn Will SuHlce.
How II Figures Out
Now. the time taken by each turn OF
the wheel, with the necessary settle
ments. is about three minutes; or it
has been when have timed it in these
last days. That is to say that on one
or other of the 81 tables seven coups
are being cleaned up every minute.
The house Wills ,One bet In every 81:
and 1t is, again, not unfair to reckon
that same number-37-as the aver
age number Of bets on every table,
taking the two ends together. There
may be only 10 or 200. But 81 Is not
an unjust average. Therefore. If
seven tables clear up each minute, in
each minute the house is seven bets
to the good.
The average unit staked Is impOssi-
BILE t6 guess. The bets range all the
way from the humble ST. white counter
TO (rarely) the permitted limit of six
plaques of 1,0O0f. each. But whatever
the average unit is, the Casino wins
it seven times over every minute, or
420 times every hour, or 1920 times
each day.
So far as the individual Is con-
cerned that 9th chance-the pesky
zero-may not operate to his disadvan-
tage In a long sitting. and IL luck is
with him he will win. Or Ii may
operate so actively as to ruin him in
half an hour. But regarding the pub
lie as a single bettOr, that bettOr is
roughly losing regularly to the tables
4, 200 units (subject to more accurate
every day In the year.
1t has to be so. The Casino. with
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DdddyS
k96Evenin8
Fairy Tale
THE RED BERRIES.
6JWAEY GRALAM BONNER

ST cannot understand It," said the
first Red Berry.
Neither can L. said the second
Red Berry.
II am sure am very much puzzled"
said the third Red Berry.
what are you all puzzled about,
Red Berries?" asked Peter Gnome.
Were puzzled over something
which has been said a number Of
times" said the first Red Berry.
We've heard it again and again."
said the second Red Berry.
'And we heard it just now said the
third Red Berry. II don't know how
many times we've heard 1t altogether
"But what is it you have heard so
many times?" asked Peter Gnome.
do you suppose you could explain
1t to us?" asked the first Red Berry
oh do you suppose you cOuIdT'
asked the second Red Berry.
I'VE would be so glad to know the
meaning of it, if it has any meaning"
said the third Red Berry.
well, perhaps if you tell me what
it is that is puzzling you so much 1
may be able to explain it TO YOU" said
Peter Gnome. Il can't explain it to
you without knowing what it is, you
see"
mo, Of course you can't do that"
said the first Red Berry.
"It is true" said the second Red
Berry, that you couldn't even try to
explain it to us if you didn't know
what it was"
THAT is absolutely So" agreed the
third Red Berry.
Now these three Red Berries were
on q bush which was covered with
red berries.
do tell me-" said Peter Gnome,
"and then if / can explain it to you
[ viii. And If 1 can't 1 will tell you
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EruptiOns of the Skin
Cause Torturous Itching

II you are afflicted with any
form Of skin disorder, you are well
acquainted with the flaming, burn
ing itching that these diseases pro-
duce.
Skin diseases are caused by an
fmpurity or disorder in the blood,
and there is no real and genuine
relief within your reach until such
impurities are removed.
SIS. has given great satisfac-
ton In the treatment of these dis
orders, because il is such a thor
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all its adjuncts, is an immensely cost
ly institution to support. Besides its
own upkeep 1t provides the money
which makes Monte Carlo the most
beautifully ordered and most luxuri-
ously appointed town in the world.
The dividends of the Societe, over and
above all this, are no secret. And the
public has to pay for it all Against
that memorable 37th chance no system
is OF any avail. except for the fun of
working at it and for the pleasure OF
self-deception. Even the fat man and
the thin man are powerleSS.
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CALOMEL DANGER
TOLD BY DODSON
Says You Cannot GRIPPE Sicken or Salivate Yourself It
You Take "Dodson's Liver Tone" Instead

entirely. vegetable and pleasant 70
tale and IS a perfect substitute for
calomel- 1t is guaranteed 10 start your
liver without stirring you up inside.
and can not saIivate.
Don't take caIomelf It can not Be
trusted any more than a leopard OF
wild cat. Take DOdson's Liver Tone
which Strengthens you right up and
makes you feel tine. Give it ID The
children because It is perfectly harm
less and doesn't gripe.-Adv.
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Easy on Them.

A battery of big guns had just sent
its message of destruction into a COM
pany of Germans at st. Mihiel, and
when the debris had settled all to be
observed were a few scraps of gray
cloth scattered about.
"Wow." CALCULATED the supply Off
Ger. "but there sure are a lot of dead
ferries over there"
II wouldn't go that far" replied the
conservative medical major suspi-
ci0usly like all of his ilk. "But if
they were my men and came to me. /
admit might mark them for light
duty. "-AmericanI Legion Weekly.
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Caiomel loses you day. You know
what calomel is. It's mercury; quick
silver. CaIomel Is dangerous. 1t
crashes into sour bile like dynamite,
cramping and sickening you. Calomel
attacks the bones and should never be
put into your system.
When you feel bilious, sluggish.
constipated and all knocked out and
believe you need a dose of dangerous
calomel Just remember that your drug
gist sells for a few cents large bot
tie of Dodson's Liver Tone. which is