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La prensa. [volume] (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1912-1924, 1921-05-21
i. N0TICIAS De la RfPUBLICA MExICANA /.
Ell GOBIERNO COMPRA DOS
AEROPLANOS MAS VI
GILARAN LA FRONTERA.

Ciudad de Mexico Mayo 49,
La Secretaria de Hacienda acabs
de comprar EN- la suma de siets
mil quinientos dolares cada uno
dos aeroplanos de fabrication
americana, con ell objeto de poner.
los en- Ell servicio de vigilancia de
70 f~rontera, para evitar las plagas
de contrabandistas, centre los Es-
tados Unidos y Mexico.
Este medic resulta, segun nues-
tras noticias, sumamente prove.
chose para ell case, y asi Sc des-
|rrende de las pruebas realizadas
Embellishments despues de haber-
Sc recibido las maquinas de los
vendedores.
Aver mismo, ell Administrator
de la Aduana de Nuevo Laredo
Tamaulipas, ocupo la canastilla de
uno de los aparatos, realizando un
complete recorrido desde esa ciu-
dad, por TODD 10 largo de la from
terra hasta la plaza de Matamo-
ros, pudiendose dar cuenta de la
efectividad del servicio, que con
tanto exito han puesto tambien en-
rractica las autoridades aduane-
ras de los Estados Unidos para
combatir a los contrabandistas de
licores.
Los aparatos adquiridos por la
Secretaria de Hacienda seran tri-
pulados por photos americanos, y
haran respectivamente ell recorri-
do de Nogales a Piedras Negras
uno, y ell otro de este punto hasta
Matamoros, constantemente du-
rante ell dia.
La prensa. [volume] (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1912-1924, 1921-05-21
SECRETARIA DE AGRICUL
TURA Y FOMENTO.
OFICIALIA
Aviso.

FL Presidente de la Camara Ma
|cional Agricola de Villahermosa,
Tabasco, Sc ha dirigido a la Secre-
taria de Agriculture y Fomento
informando que hay gran escasez
de braceros en- esa region para los
trabajadores agricolas y para TO-
mentar el cultivo del Roatan que
esta tomando gran incremento, y
que pueden obtenerse jornales de
uno a tres pesos diarios y en- mu-
chos casos la alimentacion, no
siendo dificil obtener c~ontratos de
aparceria en- csc mIsmo ramo con
Ia utilidad del cincuenta por Glen
to. Sc pueden obtener hasta tres
cosechas al aho, en- ell cultivo del
maiz, frijol, arroz, etc. La Secre-
taria de Agriculture y Fomento
tavorecera la repatriation de los
&c. mexicanos que quieran dedi-
carse a estos trabajos, facilitando-
les pasaje desde la Frontera hasta
Puerto Mexico o Veracruz, y dan
do noticia a la Camara Nacional
de Agriculture de los mexicanos
que Sc repatrien por conducto de
ella.
Mexico, 80 de abril de 1921.
FL Official Mayor,
Jes1s Oropeza.
La prensa. [volume] (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1912-1924, 1921-05-21

Mrs. H.. Donovan, de u anos
de edad, y maestro de escuela, fue
Nevada a carcel de ciudad por ha-
berse robado un vestido de un al
macen de ropa de la Gale de
Broadway.
La prensa. [volume] (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1912-1924, 1921-05-21

Mrs. Jessie Jaconia, de 40
amos de edad, ACADIA de ser senten-
ciada por ell Juez Federal Trip
pet, a seis meses de prision y $500
de multa, por vender licores en- ST.
casa del numero 6o5 Santa Fe
Avenue.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1921-11-05

We velik6 vaIce lid jedne ma
rodnosti, ba ami ne jednoho
plemene. 4 t6chto pficin OBJ
zvlaste Sc hOdf, ably Amerika
uctila neznameho vojaka.
Pristi patek bude narodnim
svatkem a smutefni slavnost
nd hrbitov6 Arlingtonskem bu
de dustojn6 velkolepa. Budou
tam pritomni nekteri Z nejv6t-
Sich vojevudcu soucasne histo
rie - marsal Foch 2 Francie,
gen. Diaz z Italie, gen. jacques
2 Belgie, admiral Beatty 2 Vel
Ike BTitanie a bude tam ovsem
Amerika zastoupena vrchnim
velitelem sve yalecne vypravy
do Francie, gen. Pershingem a
6etnymi jinymi hodnostafi z ar
mady a ValeGneho lod'stva. Bu-
de to v pryni rade slavnost vo-
jenska, coz jest ovSem samo-
zfejme, kdyz konan bude vo-
jensky pohfeb, nez mam-li pro-
n6sti sv6 mineni, nerad bych
vid6l, ably tou slavnosti ma Ar
lingtonsk6m hfbitov6 valka by
la n6jak idealisoyana.
Amerika nepotrebuje sc o.
mlouvati ia to, re zasahla do
posledni valky. Ba vzdycky mil
re byti hrdou ma sve dcasten-
stvi We sV6toVem konfliktu, ne
bot teprye az kdyz americk6
armady uderily svoji plnou 81
lou na zapadnim bojisti, obra-
tilo Sc Stesti ia stranu spojen-
cu a zmafeny plany moderni-
no Attily, jeste ctizadostivej-
siho a krut6jSiho, nezli byl o.
nen starry hunsky nacelnik,
jenz malem 81 podrobil Evropu
V patem stoleti pc Kristu. To
bude vzdycky Americe ku cti
a slave, nez chybou by bylo,
kdybychom Sc naucili zboz1o-
vati Valku, kdybychom videli
jenom tn jeii slavnou stranku
a kdybychom Sc smirili 5
mySlenkou, ze "prlsti valka",
Jest otazkou jenom nekolika
roku.
Podle meho skromneho mi
neni, kdo zacne mluviti nebo
psati o "pristi yalce" jako o
necem, co Sc rozumi samo Sc
bou, mel by byti dan ihned do
sv6raci kazajky a ziven jenom
chlebem vodou, ably ztratil
trochu kuraze = i kdyby to
byl sam omen slavny vojevudce
j. S. Machar, generami inspek-
tor ceskosloyenske armady,
jenz rad mluyi 0 "pfisti valce".
Ackoli nezustayam "a nikym
Y 1cte obdivu pro marsala
Focha, pod jehoz vrchnim ve-
lenlm zvlt6zili spojenci We sVe-
tove valce, nemohu Sc mad
chnouti pro jeden odstavec jeho
feci, prosloVene Kansas CT
ty Slavny francouzsky vote
Vudce, divaie Sc ma neprehled-
ny pruvod Americke Legie,
'jenz bral Sc koIem neho hu-
debnimi kapelami V cele jed
notlivych oddilu a pod vlaji-
clml prapory, pravll totIz u
kazuJe to, co valka .udelala
Vynesla na ncvrch 2 Telikeho
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1921-11-05
FEUILLETON.

Pristi patek, ma narodnim
hrbitov6 Arlingtonskem, Ame-
rika pochova sveho nezname-
no vojaka. Ktere matky jest
to syn. jemuz t6 velike pocty
Sc dostane, &c bude odpoGivati
ma mist6 nejcestn6jSim2 Kde
stala jeho kol6bka, ma kter6
pevnin6, v kter6 zemi? Jake
barvy jest jeho plet'?
To isou otazky, jez. pro yse-
chny easy zustanou nezodpov6-
deny. Amerika pochova sv6ho
neznam6ho vojaka. neznam6ho
hrdinu. Y mem uctdni budou
VSichni ii neztotozn6ni mrtvi 2
naSi armady, kteri zivoty sv6
polozili We velike valce. Nenf
jich mnoho, tech neznamJch
nrtvych, jenom nepatrny Zlo-
mex u onech 5000, ktefi ulo-
zeni byli do francouzsk6 pudy.
Nekteri budou tam odp6civati
az do konce casu. 'Strouchnivf
ieia ieiich, ably snad zahadnym
procesem zdrodnila zemi, KITE
rou ii mrtvi krvi svoii skropili.
Nekteri podruh6 pfepluli oce-
an, ably nasli vecn6ho odpocin-
ku We vlasti sv6, kde ruka milu-
iici kladla by rok co rok meme
kvety ma jejich royy
Ony royy We Francii sverili
jsme peel sestersk6 republiky
a ona bedliv6 Il verne plni L.
kol strazkyne a opatrovnice.
Jako ty americk6 mrtv6, tax i
mas svatek zdobeni hrobu priia
Ia ia svui
Z tech neznamyeh neztotoz-
nenych americk1ch mrtvych
vratil Sc jenom ieden. Ten hu-
de pochovan pfisti patek na
narodnim hrbitoye. O nezna-
me, neztotozn6ne, nemcl sc
kdo hlasiti. Pfihlasil Sc tudiz o
iednoho q Mich cely narod a
VIDA mu cest We Vyroci dine,
kdy pred tfemi roxy prohlase-
no pfimeri. Ktere matky asi
Jest to syn, Il jehoz hrobu, a.
spon Y myslenkach svych, sklo
al Sc cely americky narod pfi-
Sti patek?
Kdyz ltalie pochoyala sveho
ueznameho vojaka, bylo prav-
depodobne iisto, re byl to ltal,
Francie pochovala Francouze,
,Anglle Angllcana, nez my ne
lsme iisti, zdali neznamy vo-
iak, ienz bude pochoyan ma
narodnim hfbitove, byl Ameri-
can rodem. Snad byl to pfist6-
hoValec, jenz ienom ldmave
mluVll rec. zeme t6to. Snad byl
jeden 2 prynich, ktefi spell
pod prapory, hdyz valka pro-
hla2ena, snad byl to jeden Y
tech, kteri povolani pod prapo
ry povinnym odVodem
Neni ma to odpoVedi a neni
tfeba po nj patrati. Zcela Sc to
shoduje $ Vyvojem a tradicemi
Ameriky, re pochovava sveho
neznameho yojaka, . nemz ne
vi, lake byl narodnosti, Jake
pleti, Jake rassy. A'nerika ne
nj d1lem Jednoho nstoda, jed
2loho plemene a pod tou jejl
Vlaikou hvezdnatou nehoicval
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1921-11-05

utrpeni to, co jest dustojn6 a
slime krasne V lidskych du-
sich. Ona to ucinila pro mas a
vsechny, kdoz bojovali mani
" dlouhem zapase. Byla to du-
stojnost a sila, jiz jsem videl
dnes techto pochodujicfch
druzich svych."
Videl jsem pruvod Ameri-
cke Legie pri jejim lonskem
sjeZdu naSem meste a bylo
to opravdu neco velkolep6ho,
neco slavnostne vzruSujiciho -
nez zaroven pred mym dusey-
MIN zrakem rysovaly Sc ameri-
cke hfbitovy We Francii sc 75,-
600 bilych kfizd. A vzpomneI
jsem 81 ma vice nez million mrt
vych Francie a skoro million
mrtvych Velke Britanie a ma
desltky tisicd mrtvych synu
Ceskoslovenskeho naroda, ma
diva milliony mrtvych Rust a
ma ty milliony mrtvych v ar
madach, proti nimz jsme bojo-
vail kde ii prosti vojaci nell
Sill Sc podstatne Cd on6ch We
spojeneckych armadach a jist6
mic 81 neudelali, mic 81 neubli-
zili, ably Sc vzajemne zabijeti
museli.
Tato obet' We svetov6 valce
musela byti pfinesena, nebylo
vyhnuti. Pachany hTichy po
desetileti, ba po staleti. VSte-
povany lidem falesne ideally a
celia pokoleni klanela Sc fales-
nym bohdm a tomu naSemu po
koleni usouzeno, ably Ia ony
hrichy odpykalo.
I'll, kdoz We valce bojovali, a
mezi temi nebyli ii, kdoz il So
snOvali - nevid6li V nj mno-
no slavneho. VideIi smrt V nej-
hroznejsich formach videli 10
hayena hnijici lidska t6la, krev,
blato, bahno, odporny hmyz,
zakopy pine pachnouci vody
- tech sc ptejme, co soudi o
"pffStl valce". A jak by zabf-
jeni, vrazdeni lidi mohlo vzbu-
diti V lidslxe dust n6co silneho
a krasneho? Nikoli, nesouhla-
sim marSalem Fochem V jeho
mineni o valce. Jedine pravdou|
Jest, re valka podrobila Glove
censtvo zkouSce plamenne a
re n6ktefi narodov6 v te zkouS
ce obstali, nez "a jakou cenu !!
Ia cenu pOtoku tie nejslechat-
nejsi klve prolific, "a cenu
nejlepsich lidskych III
votd zmafenych. Muze 81 tax
zvany civilisovany Sv6t casteji
dovoliti takovych orgii? Po-
Valka zahubila mno-
no slechetnyeh lidi, ale zahu-
bila tez hnusne odporne lid
ske rrySi, ktere 2 nj tezily?
Valka byla nekdy nutnosti,
jindy byla vedena "a osvobo-
zeni naroda, nebO ma odrazenf
Gtocneho nepritele, nez ii, kdo
vid6ii V nj neco idealniho, by
Ii obycejne hodn6 daleko od
mista, kde srapnely prask ally a
kreV tekla.
Ma Arlingtonskem hrbitove
president Harding proslovi rec,
jez pomoci telefonnich dratu a
mnoziteln zvuku bude slysana
az New Yorku a San Franci-
sku. Dne 10. listopadu 1868, ma
Gettysburskem bojiSti, proslo-
vii Abraham Lincoln SVoji nej-
kratsi, neislavnejSi vSak rec, V
niz pravil, g. Jest to pro mas
zde zasvetiti sc velikemu uko-
lu, jenz Zustava pred nami -
od techto uctivanych
nacerpali zyysenou od
danost ku yeei, "a niz oni dali
posledni plnou miru oddanosti
= abychom 81 Zde slavn6 slibi-
Ii, re ii mrtvi nezemreli nadar-
mo -
Nynejsi pokoleni k tomu me
10 by pracovati, ably ii mrtvi
We svetoye valce nezemreli ma
darmo.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
Celebrates
Birthday With Layod

Atlantic City. N. J., June 24.-Jack
Dempsey today is celebrating his 2sth
birthday BY. taking a 24-hour lay-on
from all training activities.
The champion did no real work and
suspended his usual gymnasium exer-
'cises.s The camp wass closed to the
public today and his sparring part
ners rested up preparatory to the re-
sumption of boxing tomorrow.
Dempsey received a hundred greet
ings and wishing him good luck in his
defense of the championship. :,
1. Filth the championship battle only
eight days away, Dempsey is progress
ing 80 rapidly in his training and is
in such splendid condition that Man
ager Jack Kearns has decided that he
will not require the services Of Kid
Norfolk, the negro lightweight, Harry
Greb, Mike Gibbons and others who
were expected to be in Dempsey's
camp for the final week Of training.
I'M present sparrins partners, Kearns
Dempsey until the finish.
1t is planned to have the champion
and his party leave here late in the
afternoon a week from today and
spend the night in Jersey City quietly
at a private residence. He will re-
main in seclusion in Jersey City until
time to go to the arena.
Newspaper. correspondents plan to
give Dempsey a surprise party at his
camp tonight. Teddy Hayes, the
champions trainer, had a cake baked
for him with 26 candles on it. The
newspaper correspondents have a jazz
band to serenade the champion dur
ing the party.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
LUCK IN ~
CARPENTER CAMP

Mahhasset, N. T., June 24.-Omens
Of good luck have been seen in strange
things appearing in the camp Of
Georges Carpenter.
A white horse with a star on its
forehead strayed from a nearby farm
and found its way into the Carpenter
Darn. A youthful admirer Of the
challenger informed him that the
coming OF the animal BODIED good for
tune. The. horse got some oats and
was sent home.
Best. of all. Paul Journee. Who got
4. 4 licking at the hands of Charley
Weinert, down in Brooklyn the other
night. was wandering about the yard.
eyes cast down. He stopped at a
clover patch, became interested.
picked a bunch and showed tenn to
Motorcycle Policeman MCGEE. who Of
iciates at the front gate.
Why" said Niece. -four leaf
clover means nothing but good. Put
them in yiur shoes and some in
Georges shoes and everything will be
.ovely on July g."
Last night somebody slipped a
handful of four leaf clovers into the
~challenger's boots.
Little is on the training program
sparring staff, now numbering six, of
which Joe jeanette is the only heavy
weight. will be bolstered by three
men of more than two hundred
pounds, who are due to report within
a week.
Plans have been made to protect the
camp from the many visitors who call.
determined to see Carpenter in ac-
ton. Additional police. it was an
nounced, mao been employed SO that
the camp will be entirely surrounded
beginning Saturday.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
Flashes From,
Former Fights

Jack Dempsey played the accom-
panirnent to Jess Wizards swan song
on July 4. 1919. at Toledo, o. It was
all e in the third round. Jess got
100000 for the performance. many
times the amount Caruso earns lin a
whole opera. Dempsey got $1,000.
The champion fell down and got up
so many times in the first round that
the referee became dizzy from count
ing. and failed to hear the bell. This
was or the fifth liason between Will
greeted his nose. :
The gong sounded feebly on the
seventh count, but Referee Pecord
continued chopping the air over Will
lard. When he had finished he in
formed Dempsey that there had been
a Knockout and the champion left the
ring, only to have his manager come
running after him with the informa-
ton thai there had been a mistake.
That first round was awful. But it
prepared everybody for the worst and
no one was surprised when Willard
lost in the third round.
Dempsey opened the fight by ac-
cepting some taps on the face. Then
he hauled off and busted Willard in
the stomach 50 hard hat a dazed ex-
preston o~verspread the champions
countenance. e. Dempsey then landed
several blows to the jaw and Willard
dropped to the floor for six counts.
only to fall again With q. blow that
greeted his noce. ~
AS he got up a second time he turn
Q his head away but the Giant Killer
struck him twice n he fell on his
hands and knees. - ~
Arising once more, Willard was
cornered by Dempsey who pounded
him to the mat with rights and lefts
to the face. Again he got up ana
once more he wa knocked down.
Sonsehow the giant CROPPED his way
through the second round. suffering
nothing more humifiating than a fall
partly through. the ropes Dempsey
tore into him again when the third
round Opened. Willard. was NogEy
and weak, put one eye out of shape
and everything gone wrong. His
seeonds threw the towel into the ring
and called 1t a day.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
PEMBlNA WINS ~.
3 MORE GAMES

Pembina. N. b, June 3s.-on Mon.
day Pembina journeyed to Neche, and
took the yNeche team into camp by q
score OF q to 8. Batteries: Penn
bina-s Stephenson. and Turner; Neche,
Woadville and ,PerkipA
Tuesday. June FL, Masonic day at
Pembina. before the largest crowd OF
the season. Pembina beat Hallock 2
tod. This was 4 close and interest
ing game and greatly enjoyed by the
crowd. Batteries: Pembina. Henion
and Turner; Hallock, Tanning and
Collins
Score: r. H. e.
PemoiHa ...................5 9
Hallock s .
Struck out by Henion 10, Tanning
IS. Henion has won Ave games and
lost none and has only had four run
scored against him, and those in two
innings.
Draytna Lea
At a game played in Drayton.
Pembina won tho third consecutive
victory this week BY a o Of 6 to
2. King Stephenson ri In excellent
form. and had things his own way in
the box: Gooselaw, Drayton's pitch
ing ace, was beaten for the third
straight ganc and was no puzzle to
the .Pembina sluggers.
Score: r. H. e.
~ =
sOrayton ....... B 4
Batteries: Pembina, Stephenson
and Turner: Drayton. Gooselaw and
Cameron. "a
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
tBy The Associated Press.)

Chicago, June 24.-The stolen base.
onc one Of the highest factors in the,
attack of world championship base
ball teams. has been thrown into the
discard by the major league managers
Of today. Records show that there
were three times as many stolen bases
in the American League and nearly
twice as many in the National League
nine years ago as there were last year
and indications are that the decrease
this year yer nine years ago will be
star base stealers there Is now only
ne.
Many reasons for the decrease are
advanced by managers and men who
formerly were noted for their daring
on the paths While all agree that
heavy hitting has helped in the en-
dency to make the stolen base extinct.
some also blame the ineffectiveness Of
pitchers, failure of umpires to enforce
the balk1r and the scarcity of, fast
men. Ty Cobb, the greatest base run
ner in history. a y that the stolen
base has been discarded only tenn
porarily and will return soon.
Cobb declares hat the game moves
in cycles and that following the cycles
| of great pitching and great base rum
| ming, we now ave the cycle of great
hitting. H.
with the sluggers of today. base
stealing is a back number" said the
Detroit manager, whose stolen base
mark formerly was close to the 100
figure for a season. But the hitting
will pass. Then we will again return.
TO the cycles of pitching and base
running. Five years from now my
base running marks may be ec;ipsed
by some youngster now in grammar
school,"
Iris Speaker. manager of the world
champion Cleveland Indians; combines
ineffectiveness of pitching with heavy
hitting as the reason for the lack of
stolen bases.
'The base runner of today is the
man who can go from first to third
or from second home on a single. not
the mar who can steal seventy-five
bases in a season." said Speaker. 1.-The
ineffectiveness of the modern pitcher
has brought about the heavy hitting
and, indirectly, the decrease in stolen
like Mathewson, joss. Walsh. Plank,
Waddell. Brown and other stars of ten
years The average pitcher of to-
day throws the ball up and hopes it
wont hit him coming back"
A we'll known National League
manager. who did not wish his name
used, but who is looked on as a stu
dent of baseball psychology. blamed
the leniency of umpires in enforcing
the balk rules as one reason for few
er stolen bases. -
Heavy hitting has been one factor"
he said. but another factor is that
the pitchers today can hold a maj
two. steps from first base. The run
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
JAPANESE BALL
T0SSERS SPEAK
ENGLISH TONGUE
Waseda University Baseball
Team is Touring America
Coach an Old-timer.

Chicago, June 24.-when Coach
Tobita of the Waseda university base,
FALL team runs over to the third base
coaching lines as his Nipponese bail
players come to bat, he doesn't let
loose a flow of Japanese but yells in
structions in the native language Of
the great American game. All.o of his
players, who are 10 touring the
country, speak English in some de-
gree and all of them use American
baseball parlance on the diamond.
Even the youngsters in japan
call Out and Strike in English"
Coach Tobita said here recently. when
his nine played the University of Chi
cage a three-game series. cot course
all students in high schools n uni
but out in the fields where the small
boys play ball, they use the English
terms. Baseball is the japanese ma
tional game, TOO"
Coach Old-Timcr.
Coach Tobita. who is 35 years old.
has been playing ball for more than
Is years and has been a professional
coach for two years.. He was a t
at1Waseda, which is located at Tokyo,
and captain of The team in 1909-10.
His early diamond training was under
Herbert H. Hunter, a former New
York Giant. who had a large part in
the development of baseball. at
Waseda. Baseball, however, has been
played in Japan for 40 years, Coach
Tobita said.
THE Japanese have two seasons Of
ball" Coach Tobita said, in explain
ing their enthusiasm for the game.
I'VE have a spring and autun.n sched-
ule, each lasting about two months.
In Tokyo we have a league for four
universities and play a regular sched-
ule.
waseda has about 10000 students
but comparatively few of them take
part in athletics, Coach Tobita said,
Members of the team expressed
great admiration for the American
, universities. especially the large
gvmnasiums which japanese univer-
stiles do not vet have.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-24
KISPORIINGN EMS|
Bases Now On The q.
Decrease Will Return, Is The
Opinion OF Slippery Ty Cobb

pers can't get asstart; pitchers make
balk after balk and the umpires re-
fuse to call them. The rule that
when a pitcher makes any motion
which he habitual,y makes III throw
ing to the plate and does not pitch to
the batter, that it is q, balk. The
Pitchers today repeatedly make mo-
tons TO pitch to the batter and then
snap the ball to,first. 50 that the run
ner can't get any kind Of a. lead:
Eddie Collins. who once was sQo
of the greatest base runners, declares
that the catchers are not throwing
any better than in the years past ana
that the runners are not any slower.
Why Should l try to steal when I
have men; behind me who usually ad-
vance me. by shitting?" asked Collins,
I'd be foolish to-take the chance.
Another thing. the rules are more
strict now. We used to get q lot OF
free stolen bases when there were two
out with the other team way ahead
and no n cared whether the runner
was on first or third. We don't. get
those any more. The only time I try
to steal Is with two out and one run
need to tie or win. Then I want to
be on second SO l can score on a sin.
GLE" .
Harry Hooper. another great .basd
runner. takes the same view rs Col
Inns. while Kid Gleason, manager of
the Chicago White sox, say that the
base runners of today aren't as smart
as those OF past years. He sad:
Why have them steal. when the
chances are they'll get thrown out or
picked off the sack after stealing"
he said. THE batters are hitting and
that's the best way to get the runners
home" :
The records reveal some unusual
facts about base stealing in the major
leagues. The number of total stolen
bases has decreased rapidly. more 80
in the American League than in the
National which now has replaced the
junior circuit as the leading base
stealing organization. s
In 1912 there were 1910 stolen
bases in the American League. 1.45O
in 1915. 906 in 1919 and only $50 last
year. Thus a this season there have
been 1877 thefts. at the ratio of on:y
5s1 for the a or little more than
one-fourth the number in 1912. Where
Clyde Milan led the league in 1912
with SO thefts ami Cobb in 1915 with
IS. the leader last vear-Sam Rice
stole only So, and George Sisler with
the 25 mark. Eight years ago there
were nearly 80 men with more thar
25%.stolen bases each. 3, ..
The National League runners. orig.
inally stealing fewer bases than theil
American League rivals. now are
ahead Of the junior circuit. In 1917
there yer 1875 stolen bases in the
National in 1915. 1.165 in 1919 and
$50 last year. The ratio thus far thi.
year would bring 654 for the season
II continued to the end-little NOR
than one-third as many as in 1912.