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Middletown transcript., 1922-04-15
THE BRIDES DISCOVERIES

This is the time of year when the
June brides have discovered
That Monday Is wash day.
That theaters have balconieA
That Harold's mother cooked things
differently.
That taxicabs are a foolish expendi-
ture OF money.
That installment furniture isn't all
it's cracked up to be.
That engagement solitaires some
times have flaws in them.
That credit men are the most obsti-
nate things.
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Picked 1000 Chickens
To Buy; Stole Them

An enterprising chicken thief
visited J. F. Strange, a farmer
of near Sheldon, Ia, and asked
him to crate up 1000 chickens so
that he could call for them the
next day. That night the fake
buyer returned TO the Strange
farm while the owner and his
family slept and stole the crates
filed with chickens from where
they had been stored in the hen
house.
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Discover Amber In Canada

Vancouver.-Ilundre of tons Of
!espised culm from the Coalmont col
lieries in the Nicola valley Of British
Columbia have turned out on expert
examination to contain amber. This
Is believed to be the first amber dis.
covered on the North American con-
tinent.
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Found EATING Wasp Nee.

Texarkana, Ark.-Eagerly eating
wasp nests, man who said he was
John Zing was found the other day
under a bridge near death from star
vation. He said he had been unable
to obtain sufficient food by begging.
He was turned over to a charitable
institution.
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WORDS OF WISE MEN

knowledge advances by steps
and not by leaps.
The truest of this life's Joys
Is making others glad.
The best part Of beauty Is that
which a picture cannot express.
A foolish man thinks all are
friendly who meet him with
smiles.
Beware Of idleness 1t is the
root that bears the fruit Of most
other sins.
Many a man has made good
living who has made poor life.
Some men have made splendie
lives who have made very mod
crate and even scanty livings.
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Kept Marriage Secret Eleven Years.
After keeping their marriage a Sc.
cret for II years, Sarah Howell and
Tobias Henderson, Of Vienna, N. J.
have announced that they were mar
ried In 1910,
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STARS AND STRIPES

Movie actress took drink of lysol
by mistake. BY mistake for what?
The cellar sure Is living up to its
reputation Of being the dampest part
of the house.
The telephone company says: "The
voice with a smile wins" You bet 1t
does-but the wrong number!
Some men achieve fame by hard
work; others move out of town and
have their wives murder 'em.
AS far as the exonerated White Sox
are concerned, with big league base
ball hereafter they will be wonder
full bunch of Chicago
Herald and Examiner.
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MAxIMS OF NAPOLEON

They walk quick who walk
alone.
The best cure for the body is
to quiet the mind.
We must laugh at man to
avoid crying for him.
Every hour Of lost time ere
ates a chance of evil for the fu-
ture.
Paradise is central spot
where there remains something
to be done.
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Four Children In One Yea,

Four babies in one year have ar
rived at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ.
n. Young of Abilene, Tex. A set Of
triplets and single son are the quar-.
tette. The mother Is thirty years old
and now has ten children.
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Spontaneously considered, 1t IL n,
natral and refreshing az a spring bi
the roadside.
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"Multifariously konsidered, 1t IL just
us different from ennything else az II
IL FROM Itself.
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"lAFFlN' "

Theoretically konsdered, 1t kan
t-argy all the logik In existence.
"Analitikally konsidered. emmy part
Nv it IL equal tew the whole.
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"Phosphorescently konsidered, II
lights up like globe lantern.
"But this liz too big Talk for me;
theze flatulent words waz put into the
dlkshionary for those giants in kn6"i-
edge few use who hav tew load n
kanon klean up tew the muzzell with
powder and ball when they go out tew
hunt ants.
"If man kant lafr there IL sum
mistake made In putting him together,
and II he won't laff he wants M mutch
keeping away from az bear-trap
when 1t IL sot.
"I have seen people who laffed al
together too mutch for their own good
or for ennybody else's; they laft like
q harrell ov nu slider with the tap
pulled out. perfekt stream.
Billings (Henry w. Shaw.
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"Phosphorescently konsldered, 1t
lights up like a globe lantern.
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JAMES n. BATTEN
Collector for Red Lion Hundred.
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If ycl CIT yo,Ir fi.scrs when ycu cut
The wedding cake, it is a bad omen.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19
GOLFERS ANXIOUS TO
KEEP BELOW NINETY
Overwhelmingly Large Number
Battle Curse of Dufferdom.
Short Hitters Are Usually in the 90
Class, Says Jim Barnes, Open
Championships Too Hard
for More Distance.

Why is it that so many golfers
are never able to keep below the COS?
The CONAN in golf is probably the
most numerous in the sport. After
year or so of play your average
golfer finds himself cutting through
the 100 level and dipping into the 9O's
with pleasing regularity. If It were
possible for him to improve his game
10 the extent that he now shoots in
the COS, whereas he used to shoot in
the 120's. why, you ask, and so does
ne, no doubt, can't he get into the
5O's or even the 7O's?
Of course, some of them do. A great
many, in fact. But the number that
remain struggling in the COS with the
curse of dufferdOm eternally soaring
their soul, is overwhelmingly big.
Short hitters are usually in the 90
class, says Jim Barnes, the open
champion.
"a hole around 300 or 400 yards is
par five for the short hitter" says
he champion. They can't get on with
.wO shots and if they make a mistake
his usually means six. There is
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19
Sporting Squibs
of All Kinds

NOtre Dame plans the erection of
a new grandstand to be finished before
the big football game with Indiana on
November f.
Mary K. Browne, former national
woman tennis champion, will not play
in tie national tournament in the
East this summer
About the sweetest sound to hear
on the golf links is from the oppO-
nent: Aren't you ever going to miss
one of those putts?"
Sam Richards, veteran Boston long
distance runner, is on his way to Eng
land, where he will attempt to swim
the English channel.
We admire the energy of the man
who plays golf in the sun these days
when he might just as well be lying in
the shade somewhere.
Nobody can say that Mr.. Dempsey
is not fighting for his country now
Furthermore, two or three more purses
and it Will be pretty nearly his.
The sculling match between James
Padden and Richard Arnst for the
worlds title has been declared off. 1t
was to have been held at Melbourne,
Australia.
After winning the national open.
Gene SarazeE said he suffered with
insOmnia-out of sheer gladness. But
what golfer after winning such an
honor would want to sleep?
Harold H. Hackett and Dean
Mathey two veteran American tennis
players, have warned the United
Sta res that the Australian tennis team
will be hard to beat in the Davis Cup
matches.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19
Diamond
Squibs

The Boston teams are staging a
great endurance test in the matter of
straight defeats.
Jack COombs, former big Lacquer.
has been re-engaged as baseball coach
at Williams college for next year.
Baltimore is said to have declined
an offer of $4,000 for Jack Bentley,
pitcher, Outtielder and first baseman.
The New Haven club has obtained
from Rochester Pitcher Bill Tierney,
the former Lafayette college twirIing
star.
Harry Hooper cost the first big
league club that had him something
like $500, and he started in at a
salary of something like 81, 800.
Pitcher Red Ainsworth, formerly
with Hamilton, and before that with
Flint and Saginaw, has been traded to
Bloomington, in the Three-I league.
Baby Doll Jacobson Of the st. Louis
Browns may have slumped in his hit
ting, but he has covered center field
like a blanket" as one critic expresses
it.
Attention might be called to the
great work Horace Ford is doing at
short for the Boston Braves, making
the fans forget that Walter Maran-
vile ever was there, while Larry KOpf
seems to fill the bill at second base
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19
HORSE HAS EARNED HIS OATS
Old Rosebud, $500 Yearling, Hac
Captured Over 100000 When
Finally Retired.

Old Rosebud, the famous race horse
recently destroyed after an injury was
purchased by Ham Apologize an'
Frank Weir from J. f. Madden rs
yearling for 500. He first raced al
Jaurez. Mexico, where he won in !
gallon. He went through his two
year-old period with marked success
In 1914 he was trained for the Ken
lucky Derby and won the blue ribbon
event. running the mile and a quarter
i'm 2:C3 % which is the record fOl
the Louisville track and the race.
Old Rosebud had won over 100000
in stakes and purses. He performed
twice at the jamaica meeting. anC
after finishing second in one event he
was unplaced in his other start Boil
races were for platers of the 800 toy
and bottom variety. 1t was a pity t.
see him rUn. The old gelding did moi
have loot enough TO oUtrun the cheap
est HCr-t :.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19
Baseball
Notes

Waseda (Japan) university will
send its baseball team on tour next
year to the United States
This here AdOlph Rettig is said to
be a smart young pitcher, and yet he
signed with Connie Mack.
Ty Cobb continues to slam the ball
with telling effect. He has passed
George Sisler for batting hOnOrs.
Maybe Babe Ruth remembers that
when be was a little boy he used to
hear them talk about an Old-time ball
player named Ty Cobb.
Paddy Shea, former Giant hurler,
has been purchased by the San Fran
cisco club of the Pacific Coast league.
Jimmy Caveney is fielding wonder
fully for the Cincinnati Reds, but he
is proving a sad failure as a batsman
According to one Detroit scribe 1T
is common gossip that Howard Ehmke
is not trying to do his best for the
Tigers"
Ben Koehler, having played ball for
20 years or more and done it well, has
quit the playing end and taken a job
on the Mint league umpiring staff.
The San Francisco club has dug up
another possible phenOm, so it is stat
ed, in Dave Kyle, Outfielder, Oakland
boy, who has been playing independent
ball.
Buck Freeman. formerly with Con
ME Mack and sent by that master mind
to Tom Turner's Portland team, has
joined the Decatur team of the Three
l league.
Chick Maynard, the Dartmouth col
lege ShOrtstOp, who was going to burn
things up for the Boston Red SOX and
was given columns of bull by Boston
scribes, didn't last.
Just think, for instance, where the
Chicago White SOX might be in the
American league race if Dick Kerr was
in there, pitching with Faber and the
rest of the bunch.
George Matthews, outfielder, VINO
was given permission to play indie
pendent ball by the Salt Lake City club
until needed, has been called in by
Manager Duffy Lewis.
Veteran Tom Hughes, with Los
Angeles, is a booster for Lefty George
Burger of Seattle and thinks the for.
mer Western league pitcher will be q
star in the big show next year.
The veteran Byron HOuck, who
joined the Vernon Tigers in ar
emergency, coming out of his retire
ment at Hollywood. has decided not tC
return to movies for Tie time being.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19
REMNANTS BOUGHT AND
SOLD

When the ajOr leagues few
years ago legislated against the
purchase or trade of players
after August ! they took IN i'm
pOrtant step to curtail the in
iquitOus practice of virtually
buying baseball pennantS. But
the alleged trades that have
been made between the New
York and Boston American
league clubs since the close of
last season emphasize the need
of still further action if baseball
is to retain its high position in
the minds of American sport
lovers.
Last winter the pennant-win-
ming New York Americans went
to Boston and enlisted the serv-
ices of two of the leagues best
pitchers in order TO assure them
selves of a commanding position
in the race of 1929. But now
that the season is well along
and St Louis is riding in first
place the New York manage
ment again goes to Boston and
secures the leagues best third
baSeman and a star Outfielder in
exchange for gang of minor
leaguerS. A glance at the per
sonnet lists of the New York and
Boston teams is all that is nee
eSsary TO establish the fact that
Boston is making no serious eff
fort to turn out winning base
ball teams and that her Ameri-
can league franchise has no
more important purpose To serve
than that of affOrding a TRIP ming
school for Ne. York.
The spOrt-lOving public de-
mands nothing more than fair
competitive conditions for all
contestants whether the game
be baseball, golf or any other
form of sport. 1t will not long
be content to support such Il
game as baseball, however. if re
latiOnS like those existing be-
tween New York and Boston are
permitted to continue.
Judge Lands accepted a posi-
ton as baseball dictator in order
to place the sport on a higher
plane and clear out abuses that
were threatening it with ruin. In
the New York-BOstOn American
league relationship he has IN ex-
cellent place to begin. Baseball
fans are willing - pay their
money to see pennantS won by
hard, open, free competition.
They have no interest in seeing
them bought and sOld.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19
GOLF CLUB HAS QUEER NAME
NChagrin Valley" Is to Have Course
Near CIeveland-Fitting for
Average Member.

If a new golf club in process of
organization near Cleveland, o., sticks
to the name of the locality it will be
well named for the average member.
This is the Chagrin Valley Country
club, which is to have a course IA
miles from Cleveland. More than one
golfer has passed through the valley
of humiliation during a poor round of
play and has been unable to classify
just what he has been through. Cha
grin-that's the word for the unfor-
tunate mortal who gets up on the tee
expecting to make a 200-yard drive,
only to slice out of bounds, pull into
the woods or dismally top. Perhaps
no other place in tho world has
club where the game and the name
are so eXpressively linked.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19

really no reason why anybody should
be unable to hit a golf ball 200 or 210
yards.
THE main trouble starts with poor
pivOting and is followed by lack of
snap in hitting the ball A short hit
ter as rule is trying too hard to get
more distance. This generally means
that he isn't giving the club head
chance.
Il have seen many golfers over So
years old and not particularly husky
who could drive more than 200 yards
by timing the stroke in the right
way"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19
RAWLINGS Is VALUABLE MAN
Giants Substitute Second Sacker Was
One of Outstanding Stars in
Last Worlds Series.

Johnny Rawlings Of the New York
Giants can be used as an object lesson
for ball players.
Although Rawlings is a cOrking
good infielder. he was not considered
quite good enough last year for the
Giants and the New York club was
casting about for a strong second
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19
NEARLY GOT IN

Pat Duncan, left fielder of the
Cincinnati Reds, tells a story
about the colonel of his regi-
ment during the war who want
ed to raise a strong ball team.
He succeeded in rounding up
eight and sought a ninth.
The men were drawn up in
line and the colonel addressed
them, asking if there was any
other soldier there who had good
baseball experience that he fall
out.
A man stepped forward named
Brown, who had played about
twelve years in a Glass D
league. The colonel asked brief
ly what he had done.
"Well, if you've been in the
game so long how comes it you
haven't gone to a big league?"
he inquired.
81 came close once" replied
Private Brown. 81 was playing
shortstOp and they picked the
second baseman."
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19

again in full Paris
a
K. In the
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19

baseman. Not being able to find any
the Giants had to use Rawlings.
The records for last year show
Rawlings as one of the most valuable
men in the majors. He was one of
the outstanding stars of the worlds
series In the last inning of the final
game he started the double play that
saved l to o game for Nehf and
enabled the Giants to win the title.
Rawlings play was one of the most
remarkable ever made in a world
series or any other series for that
matter He has been a star per
former ever since he became Frisch's
substitute.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19
HURLER EHMKE SHIFTS STYLE
Detroit Player Switches From Under
hand to Overhead or Side-Arm
as Fancy PIeases.

No brainier pitcher ever threw a
ball than Christy Mathewson. He
once said that a pitcher in order to
be successful must develop a certain
style and stick to it.
IF you find that you are most eff
fective as side-arm pitcher, use that
style; if you can get more on the ball
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19

overhead, use that method. OF all
things don't switch from one style to
another as the fancy strikes you"
That is the way MathewsOn puts it.
That is why Howard Ehmke of De
trOit isn't rated as one of the games
greatest pitchers.
Ehmke has no set style, he IS under
hand, side-arm or overhead, and as a
result usually lacks control and is
forced to let up in order to get the
ball over
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19
CHICAGO EAGLE LIVE SPORTS
STEALING SIGNALS

Getting wise TO another clubs
signals often is the result of an
accident. For instance, the New
York Giants had a system of sig
nails that depended on figures on
the score board. We will say
that if certain ScOre-bOard fig
ureS were even" then a finger
sign meant TO do this or that. If
the figures on the score board
were odd" then the finger sign
might mean just the contrary. 1t
all depended; John McGraw
watched the score board and
wiggled his fingers accordingly.
In a certain game between the
Giants and Braves, Fred Mitchell
was coaching on the lines, a GER
tain play was signaled for by
McGraw and Fred TOney balled
it up. Two New York players
met within Mitchell's hearing at
third base and one said to the
other:
'Toney spilled the beans be-
cause he can't read the score
board; hell, he don't know odd
from even"
And So" figured Mr.. Mitchell,
that's the system. We shall
work this out. If the figures are
odd it's so and so and if even so
and So"
And the rest, basing calcula-
tiOns on plays attempted or
made, was easy.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-19

is
he
n
al
third fielding kind Charlie
Deala rite on North for
o a irons
oft
whe he
he
ird place n the
third saer not heavy slugger but always dangerous
ati
the
outbe fore the
Evening journal., 1922-06-03
MEMORY DAY AT
SECOND BAPTIST

1.-TWO Types of Faith-Mystical
and Practical" will be the subject of
the Rev. George D. Allison. Phi. D.,
pastor Of Second Baptist Church,
Ninth ana Franklin streets. tomor-
row morning at 1890 o'clock. The
service will be followed by COM
munion and a welcome to new mem
bers. The quartet choir, directed by
Floyd w. Harper, will sing God
So Loved the World" by Stainer.
Miss Elizabeth Simpson. sololst Of
Columbia Avenue NJ. F. Church.
Philadelphia. will sing "Abide With
Me-" by Liddle. Another number
bv the choir will be Bread Of tl1c
World" by Eggert. Beginning at
1915 noon the Bible School viii cele-
brate Memory Day" Hymns. Bible
chapters and lessons will be given
from memory. The orchestra Of
Harry 2. stausebach will play. At
the evening service DR.. Allison will
give a brief address Popular hymns
will be sung. The choir Will sing
blessed Are the Poor in Spirit"
by Hiles. and Grant. We Beseech
Thee" by Roberts. on wednesday
evening the regular mid-week prayer
and conference meeting will be held.
Evening journal., 1922-06-03
SONG SERVICE AT
MT. SALEM CHURCH

The following services will be held
at Mt. Salem NJ. z. Church. Nine
teenth and Mt. Salem Lane, the
Rev. Leonard White. pastor. At the
morning service. beginning at 1890
o'clock, the pastor will preach a
short sermon on the subject 1.-THE
Good News" The sacrament OF tho
Lords Supper will be administered
at this service. Mt. Salem Sunday
School will meet at noon and Rid
die Memorial School at 2.30 o'clock
The Epworth League devotional SER
vice will begin at Z o'clock.
At 7.45 o'clock there will be a
song service. The pastor will speak
on the subject when a Man Dares
Stand Alone" The last two reels
Of the photodrama, "The Son Of
Dem mocracy." will be shown. The
final picture is entitled Under the
Stars"
The Alpha Bible Glass WIN meet
on Tuesday evening at the home Of
Mrs. George Wright in R1kford.
The Woman's Home Missionary So
cietv will meet on "Wednesday after
noon at the home OF Mrs. Willis L.
Overdeer. 1903 West street The
W. c. T. q. will meet on Tuesday
afternoon at the home OF Mrs. Rich
ard Brown, 20O1 Rockford Road.
Evening journal., 1922-06-03
''THE OTHER CHEEK"
PASTORS THEME

The Sacrament of the Lords Sup
per viii be celebrated at 1890 O'Clock
tomorrow morning at the First and
Central Presbyterian Church by the
Rev. Aquflla Webb. DID. LID.
Sunday school and Mems Bible
class will meet Immediately at tina
close OF the morning service.
Evening worship at 7.45 o'clock.
DR. Webb's sermon subject at this
service will be The Other Cheek.
The musical numbers for the day,
under the leadership OF Leslie Cook,
organist and choir director.
Morning Prelude. "AdagiO."
Beethoven; anthem, GOD Is
Spirit" Bennett; Postlude, "CUJus
Amman" RossinL
Evening Prelude, Romance"
Tours; anthem, "Great God to Thee
My Evening Song Shelley; duet,
ain Jesus" Hardness. &c. W. Ora
ham and J. ]. Hayes, Jr.); Postlude,
''Choristers March," Berridge.
The Young Peoples Christian Bn-
deavor Society will meet in the
junior room at as o'clock. Leader,
Miss Cora Allen.
Mrs. Downing GLASS will meet
with Mrs. Fox, S1S Madison street
on Monday evening.
The members OF Westminster
Guild are TO be the guests OF Mrs.
LILLE Weller at the home OF Mrs.
John p. Hyatt, 500 Harrison street.
Junior Christian Endeavor. We'd
nesday, s.45 o'clock. Leader Pau
line Pass.
Prayer and conference meeting on
Wednesday evening in Central Pres
byterian Church, King street, 8
o'clock
Friday evening, 7SO O'Clock,
monthly business Of Christian En-
deavor Socisty. Social hour after
meeting.
Evening journal., 1922-06-03
TIMELY TOPIC
AT AVE. Church
How the Weak Become
Strong" TO Be Theme at
Morning Service
TO RECEIVE NEW
CHURCH MEMBERS

The services tomorrow at Della
ware Avenue Baptist Church, Della
ware avenue and West street, will
be in charge OF the pastor. the Rev.
Joseph Y. Irwin, who win take as
the subject at 1890 A. NJ, How
the Weak Became Strong" ordi-
nance OF the Lords Supper and re-
ception OF new members at this SER
vice.
The Sunday School meets at 12
o'clock. under the direction OF r.
Ross Fara, superintendent. The
Intermediate Christian Endeavor at
o'clock, and the Christian En-
deavor at O'Clock; leader. Mrs.
Lewis Allison.
The evening service. at 7.SO
O'Clock, when the pastor. DR.. Irwin,
will take as the topic. Joel and His
age-Has It Any Relationship
to the PRESENT."
The special musical program to-
morrow will be in charge OF Victor
Pyle, chorlster and Miss Margery
Hamilton Hill, organist.