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Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-03
LESSONS IN BASEBALL
The Theory Of Playing Second Base
ppyright, 1922, by the international Syndicate

Miller Higgins, manager Of the New
York Yankees, had poor hands, could
not throw was weak on touching run
ners, but was a great second baseman
because he, more thoroughly than any
other man, who has played second base,
appreciated the Importance of taking up
a standard position as far back of the
base and towards center field as pos
sible.
Higgins always took up a position far
back of second base and well toward
centerfield, save when dead rightfield
hitter forced him to deviate a little
from his usual practice.
The particular advantages which Hug
gins secured we're these:
l. He always had the base in front
of him when he had to make a play
there
2. He kept most Of his plays on
his left side, on the gloved had, and be-
tween him and the first baseman.
3. He got many balls driven hard
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-03

hand side. Rarely indeed was Higgins
obliged to run away from his play, dive
for the ball, turn and throw back to
first base.
Of course there were confirmed right
field hitters who made Higgins move
toward first base
To the young second baseman / can
not do better than to say: "Play sec
ond base as on the theory that Higgins
employed. Take up a position as far
back behind the bag, and toward cen
terrified, as you safely can. Keep the
bag in front of you and as many plays
as possible between you and the first
baseman'
Higgins made play at second base a
picnic.
When touching a runner always try
to make him slide in front of you so
that you can see him as you reach to
touch him. So, when taking throw
fro mthe catcher on steal behind fair
ly astride Of the base and make the
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-03

runner slide in front of you. Never let
the runner slide in behind you if you
can help it.
Whenever ball is hit to left field
move to the inside corner of and stand
on the base. Make all runners 90 around
vou If the ball is hit to rightfield you
may have to go out and help relay 1T
into the diamond. In this case the
shortstop must cover the base. Always
see that all bases are covered. Chase
all flies anywhere near your position to
theend Never give up fly ball until
1t hits the ground.
Stand behind, not in front OF the base,
when taking throws from the catcher.
Throw underhand on all short throws
to the first and second baseman. Throw
overland on double play to the first
Sacker.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-03

over second base which baseman play
ing in the usual position towards first
base could not get.
Higgins was always going towards
his play, always had the play in front
of him where he could see it.
If the ball was hit over second base
Higgins did not have to rush over
there, make a frenzied effort to pick it
up, recover, readjust his position, turn
and throw from a bad position to the
first baseman.
If the ball was hit over second Hug
gins got it with less effort than any
other man that ever played second base,
was in favorable position to throw and
always had the play in front of him. IT
the ball was hit between him and first
base he was always going toward his
play and had the ball on his glove
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-03
CoMIsKEY ESCAPES QUIZ

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, June 3.-Charles
A. Comiskey, owner of the Chicago
White SoX cannot be compelled to ap-
pear in court for testimony in the suit
brought by Oscar (Happy) Felsh to re-
cover back salary and bonus.
Judge John j. Gregory so ruled today
in denying motion of attorneys for
Felsh, who was barred from organized
baseball after the 1919 world series
scandal, that Comiskey be brought into
court for examination under the Wis
consin discovery statute.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-03
MOTOR VEHICLES ON FARM

According to the last census there
were in California, for the number of
farms reporting to the census enumera-
tor, nearly one automobile, truck or
tractor for every farm. The report
credits California with 1850 farms in
1920, and of these 62,453 farms reported
71,51S automobiles, 1900 farms reported
6,4l6 trucks and 12,l3l farms reported
Is states which reported more motor
vehicles per farm than California.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-03
Sport Briefs


HOUSTON, Tex.-George Whiteman,
manager of the Houston League team,
who hit safely in 81 consecutive games,
was stopped yesterday by Pitcher
Voight of the San Antonio Bears. San
Antonio beat Houston ,12 to =.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-03
LEAGUE STANDINGS
Pacific Coast League

Los Angeles, Is; Vernon, l.
Portland, 8; Sacramento, 4.
San Francisco, 8; Oakland, 5.
Salt Lake, Z; Seattle, 6.
Vernon and Los Angeles at Washing
ton park; Oakland at San Francisco;
Sacramento at Portland; Salt Lake at
Seattle.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-03

NEW YORK-Johnny Buff, bantam
weight champion, and Joe Lynch, form
er champion, will meet for the title as
soon as Buff sets the date, according
to Tex Rickard. Efforts are also being
made to match Johnny Kilbane and
Pepper Martin for summer show.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-03

OAKLAND, Calf, June 81. r..
Ware, 65, Il motoriSt, lost his way at
night ON a blind street and crashed
over high cmbankment into the Oak
land estuary. Pinned to his seat by the
steering wheel of the car he was un'
able to escape and was drowned.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-03
WATCHING THE
SCORE BOARD

Yesterdays hero, Kenneth Williams
hit his fourteenth homer and helped the
Browns win from the White Sox, IL to 4.
Ford doubled in the eighth with the
bases full and gave the Braves a to
8. victory over the Giants.
Covaleskie pinched the Tigers in the
clinches and won, 8 to 4.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
For All Its Friends and Good People Everywhere,
The Star Wishes Happy and Prosperous New Year.
ADMINISTRATION HAS
SHUT BORAH OFF
Says He May Come Back, But State
ment to That Effect Has
Mighty Weak Sound

Washington, Dec. 30.-(Associated
Pressl.-Although privately stating
that he was prepared to offer it as an
to some other bill should
the necessity arise, Senator Borah's
decision to withhold the proposal for
an international economic conference
as an amendment to the naval appro,
priation bill was regarded today as
having finally disposed of it and set
tied Immediately the issue which his
held the Senate in its grip for nearly
a week. Senator Borah's announce
ment that he would withhold the pro-
posal came as a climax to the Sen
ate battle late yesterday after ad-
ministration assurances had been CIV
en- that the president was already
sounding out the situation.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
BRAZIL NEGLECTED BY
BRITISH MANUFACTURERS

London, Dec. 29.-Brazil has been
overlooked by the British manufac-
turer, according to Sir J. E. Thorny-
craft, and the American tariff is aid
ing American exporters in that South
American republic.
Sir John has just returned from a
trip to Brazil, and speaks glowingly
of the latest possibilities of the coun-
try. Brazil is virtually as large as
Europe, and yet there are only about
fifteen or sixteen millions of inhabi-
tants. There is an enormous wealth in
natural resources, and there are vast
areas in southern Brazil suitable for
stock raising, where the climatic con-
ditions are good for Europeans, and
which Germans were exploiting before
the war Then again, the extent OF
Brazil's mineral wealth is often en-
tirely overlooked at home. 1t has
probably the richest iron deposits ir
the world, besides diamonds and other
precious stones, which are by nc
means worked out"
Sir John expressed the opinion that
'the manufacturing and engineering
industries of Great Britain are doom
ed unless we can get some sort of pro
lection for our home markets, and es
pecially get the exchange put right
besides removing some Of the disa
bilities we are under as regards pref
erential tariffs. Owing to the Amer
lean tariff policy, the United State
succeeded in getting no fewer thai
thirty-nine different classes of mann
factured goods put on a preferential
tariff basis for importation into Bra
zil, and this hits the British manufac
turer"
Great Britain lost ground, Sir Johl
:. thought, by not sending a naval com
mission to Brazil at the end Of tn
war. Americans, on the other hand
. took the opportunity to push forwar
and are now firmly established a
Brazil's naval advisers, with a larg
lstaff of American officers.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
DANISH LABORERS SEEK
OPPORTUNITIES ABRoAn

Copenhagen, Dec. 10.-(By Mail to
the Associated Press) s).-0wing to the
industrial depression and unempley=
ment in Denmark, an organized emf
grafton plan has been worked out by
the government with Nicaragua and
Colombia under which these countries
will accept Danish immigrants and
give them assistance in settling.
Another similar agreement is pend,
ing with France, under which Den
mark will participate in the COLOMBIA
ton of Madagascar. According to
the plan announced in the Danish
papers, France has made an effort tc
start public works to be carried out
by Danish engineers, to undertake
forest work with Danish labor, anC
to place land at the disposal of Dan
ish farmers. The Danish settlers art
to be permitted to organize their owl
schools and communities so as to re
tain their nationality.
A committee of French and Danisl
experts will go to Madagascar to In
vestigate the plan, after which tn
Danish rigsdag will consider 1t.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
TRADE IS TAKING
AN UPWARD TREND
Optimistic Outlook for 1928, Accord
ing to Chicago Leaders In
Finance and Industry

Chicago, Dec. 30.-(By Associated
Press).-Optimism for 1923 permeat-
ed summarizations from a business
standpoint of the year now closing
as made public today by some of Chi
cago's leaders in finance and indus
try. They gave their reasons for
this satisfaction, the chief of which
were the upward trend of trade, a
tone of greater confidence, improved
conditions in agriculture and increas-
ing business activity generally. There
is more favorable condition of bank
reserves, interest rates and the whole
credit structure. There is a more
normal relationship between prices of
different classes of commodities and
better foreign exchange quotations,
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
URUGUAY WOULD DIVIDE
LARGE PRIVATE ESTATES

Monteviedo, Dec. 16.-(By Mail to
the Associated Press) the OBJ
ject of forcing the subdivision of the
immense landed estates in Uruguay,
ard at the same time to promote ag-
riculture and stock breeding, the min
lister of industries, DIR. Luis Caviglia,
has drafted bill to apply a special
sliding scale land tax upon all estates
of more than 1000 hectares 5000
acresl. The scale slides upward per
thousand hectares, but exemption of
the half or the whole of the tax is
offered if the proprietors comply with
certain conditions to make the land
productive.
The measure is of special interest
to all the countries of the River Platte
in which enormous landed estates,
largely idle and tenaciously held by
their wealthy proprietors, are COM
mon, and thus far legislators have
not been successful in finding consti-
tutional methods of breaking them
lup for disposal to settlers and small
farmers and preventing their forma-
ton in the future.
The conditions for exemption pro-
posed by DR.. Caviglia are that GER
tain percentages of the estates be de-
voted to agriculture, dairying on
stock breeding. They fix the stand
ards of the stock in the case of stock
breeding, and specify what equip
ment shall be necessary.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
ATTEMPT TO HELP THE CATTLE
INDUSTRY

Secretary Hoover of the depart
ment of commerce and Secretary Wal
lace of the department of agriculture,
conferred with the Senate banking
committee today on features of pend
ing bills to extend short term mar
keting credits and provide long time
credits for the cattle industry. Mem
bers of the committee said the bill
would be reported to the Senate prob
ably next week, embodying features
taken from the four farm credit
measures on which hearings have
been held.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
SPRING BOOM IN
BUILDING PREDICTED

New York, Dec. 30.-Gonfidence in
the outlook for an unprecedented
building boom in the spring of 1923,
based on an exhaustive trade survey
conducted through ffty-five branch
offices in the United States and Can
ada, has led executives of Johns
Manville, Inc, producers Of building
material, to order substantial in
creases in the output of the COM
pany's existing factories, and to rush
to early completion two new plans.
one at Asbestos, P. O., Canada, and
the other at Waukegan, Ill.
The working forces at the COM
pany's various factories are to be in
creased shortly by 10 per cent, and
in order to create reserves for next
year, the production of insulating and
roofing material is to be increased 26
per cent.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
CHRISTMAS At
CHATTAHOOCHEE
Happy Occasion for the Wandering,
Minded People at the State
Hospital

Chattahoochee, Dec. 29-Christmas
day at the hospital was marked by
an air of cheerful serenity befitting
the holy day, and the glorious sun
shine following many days of dismal
weather.
All the buildings of the institution
were elaborately and tastefully dec
Grated with profusion of greenery,
mingled with the cheerful red Christ
mas bells and holly berries. The pa
tents dining rooms, newly painted
and clean as hands could make them,
were veritable bowers of greenery;
the shining windows were hung with
fresh new curtains, the tables, spread
with snowy cloths, were fttingly dec
GRATED, and the savory steam from
the great cookers in the new kitchen
gave promise of a good dinner. The
mountains of crisp poultry-Chiekens
and turkeys beautifully crowned and
tender as butter, from weeks on cold
storage; the rows of hot mince pies,
the ice-cold celery and the cheering
smell of good coffee, made one think
involuntarily of Dickens "Christmas
Carols" The menu appended shows
that the dinner justified the day:
Roast turkey and chicken with
dressing, young celery, cranberry
sauce, candied sweet potatoes, green
peas, steamed rice, potato salad, hot
mince pie, raisin and nut cake, hot
coffee, American cheese,
While this dinner, served late, that
the patients might be "good and
hungry" was in progress, most i'm.
pressive Santa Claus marched thru
the aisles, delivering to each one 9
gayly decorated Christmas box filled
with nuts and candies, and a bag Of
fruit, of which the hospital furnished
abundance, supplemented by generou:
gifts from friends outside.
At the receiving hospital, whose
wide halls and pleasant rooms were
also gay with Christmas greens, {
charming little tree was laden with
funny gifts for the training elias:
and the hospital staff, which, later il
the evening, furnished much merri
ment.
/ Santa Claus, followed by a chorus
of nurses singing Christmas carols
went through the wards delivering t,
the patients candy boxes and fruit
such as his namesake had bestowed Il
the dining rooms. Every feature pro
vided fof&he white inmates, was like
wise furnished for the colored pa
tients in dining rooms and wards.
i Vesper services were held, in tn
. evening, at the hall used for enter
L. tainments, and a charming program
. was very we'll rendered readings
soils and songs by the choir of th
hospital, with MUSIC from an excel
lent concert hall victrola, just pur
! chased for the patients entertain
ment, winding up day fChristma
ipeace and good will unexcelled in hos
pital annals.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
MUSTAPHA KEMAL
POPULAR IN INDIA

Delhi, India, Dec. 5.-(By Mail to
the Associated Press).-Three air
planes and a finely decorated sword
are to be presented to Mustapha
kemal Pasha by Indian Mohamme-
dams as tokens of their sympathy with
the cause. These gifts have been Of
fered through the central Khalifat
committee, which recently has been in
session here. One of the airplanes is
to be given by the Agra PROVINCE:
The Khalifat committee, in the
resolution it passed, congratulated
Mustapha Kemal Pasha and the ma
tionalist Turks upon their recent VIC
tories over the Greeks, and approved
of the establishment of an Argora
Legion in India. The governments of
France and Italy were thanked for
the aid which they had given to Tur-
key. Appreciation was also express
ed to the King Of Afghanistan for
granting equal rights to Hindus, in
the interest of Hindu -Moslem unity.
With regard to the anti-Turkish
policy recently displayed by Great
Britain, the Khalifat committee was
outspoken in it's condemnation. Reso-
lutions passed On this subject were as
follows: HF
"This meeting of the central Khali-
fat committee accepts the challenge
thrown by Mr.. Lloyd George, the
British premier, in his speech al
Manchester, to Asia on the one hanG
and Islam on the other, and assures
him and other persons of his way OF
thinking that so far as Islam is con.
cerned, this challenge to the Moslems
of the world, alive to their response
bility, are ever ready to meet in ev
cry possible manner.
"This meeting of the central Khali
fat committee considers the British
activities, in their attempts to inter
nationalize the Turkish straits, as un
just and coercive, and in the opinion
OF this committee such international
ization could only be iustifiable ip cas-,
other powers, especially Britain, in
ternationalize the seas under thei
respective influences, and, further, il
the opinion of this meeting, such at
tempts are detrimental to the free
dom of the Khalifa of Islam and tn,
seat of the Khalifat."
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
GERMAN STRIKE CAUSES
LOSSES IN FOOD SUPPLIES

Dusseldorf, Germany, Dec. 5.-(By
Mail to the Associated Press).-With
pleas for winter food supplies coming
in from all over Germany, 400 car
loads of potatoes were permitted to
freeze m the railroad yards here be-
cause of strike of transport work
ers. The station warehouses also be-
came congested with goods, and fol
a time all of the Rhenish- Westphalian
industry was threatened with great
losses on account of the tie-up. The
issue centered primarily in the aues,
tion of wages.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
FAMILY QUARREL
HAPPILY SETTLED

Belgrade, Dec. 1o.-(By Mail to the
Associated Press).-The quarrel be-
tween King Alexander and his elder
brother, Prince George, who renounc-
ed his claim to the throne of Serbia
in 1909, has been brought to an end
by the action of Prince George in
writing to the king that his actions
were incorrect and offensive. The
quarrel was started in connection with
the latter's civil list allowance.
Prince George concluded his letter
by entreating the king to forget the
past, and he gave assurances that in
the future he would fulfill his obliga-
tions as member Of the royal fam
lily and respect its statutes.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
BALTIMORE JAIL GAVE
MekOIN BRONCHITIS
Surest Cure for Him Is to Accompany
Louisiana Officers Back to The
Sunny South

Baltimore, Dec. 3Q.-(Associated
Press).-Speeial Deputy Calhoun Of
Morehouse parish, who has with him
requisition on the governor of this
state for the return to Louisiana of
DR.. B. M. McKoin, is expected to ar
rive tomorrow. Owing to a holiday
Monday it is expected Governor Rit-
CHE will not act on the case until
Tuesday. McKoin was reported to be
suffering from an attack of bronchitis
at the city Jail this morning. He was
ordered to bed by the Jail physician,
who issued instructions that visitors
be denied the patient. He was not
regarded as seriously i'll, however.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
PORTRAIT
SOON WILL BE PAINTED

London, Dec. 10.-(By Mail to the
Associated Pressl-Americans will at
an early date have the opportunity of
welcoming distinguished British ar
tist in the person of Margaret Lind
sey Williams, who will shortly pro-
ceed to Washington for the purpose
of painting portrait of President
Harding. Sittings have been arrang-
ed for early in January.
Daughter of South Wales ship
b1 oker, Miss Williams has had a
prenomenally successful career, and
by general consent, she now figures in
the front rank of living portrait
paitners.
Miss Williams first studies art at
the Cardiff Technical College, and
later at the Royal Academy of Arts,
under Sir Arthur Cope, R. A, and
George Clausen, r. A. She subse-
quently studied for some years in
Italy, France and Holland.
Chief among her academy successes
was the gold medal and travelling
scholarship, the blue ribbon of the
Royal Academy of Arts, for histor.
ical picture entitled "The City ot
Refuge" She also secured the Cres.
wick prize, a much coveted honor.
Miss Williams had the distinction
of being invited by the late G. A
Storey, r. A, professor of perspec
tive at the Royal Academy, to assis-
with the Illustrations for his book
''The Theory and Practice of Perspec
tive"
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
GOVERNMENT HASN'T
GIVEN ITS CONSENT
And Therefore Cannot be Sued. Saw
Federal Attorneys In Pro-
hibitiOn Case

Washington, Dec. 30.-(Associated
Press).-The federal government in
a brief filed in the supreme court to-
day held that appeals of foreign
steamship lines against the recent
prohibition decision of Judge Hand at
New York had failed to show that the
United States had consented to be
sued and the cases could not there
fore be prosecuted. The government
also insisted that the court did not
have jurisdiction for the further rea-
sons that the appeals "do not present
the cause of action in equity under
the constitution of the United States. )"
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
PUTTING UP THE PROBLEM
+ TO THE ALLIED PREM|ERS
American Suggestion That They Leave RepraOns Fnanciers
Was Only Made Alternative

Washington, Dec. S0-(Associated
Pl-ss) Disclosure by Secretary of
tate Hughes in his New Haven
speech last night, of the belief Of the
government that an international
commission of fnanciers, including
Americans, might well be called to
recommend settlement of the repara-
tions crises, apparently leaves the
next move to the allied premiers: The
American suggestion, Mr.. Hughes
specified, was offered as an alterna=
tive in the event that the premiers
at the Paris meeting Tuesday fail to
find basis for adjustment of views.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
CAME TOGETHER AT
A GRADE CROSSING
Another Trial Of Weight Be4ween
Engine an Automobile

Woodbury., N. J., Dec. 3d. EIar-
ence Alexander Wray,-a fcmex cez-
lege football player, and Lewis Il.
Brunner of Philadelphia, died here g.
day as the result of injuries receives
when a Pennsylvania railroad train
struck their automobile here Last
night. Miss Catherine NJ. Johnst1.
of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Elizabetk
M. Price of Washington, were injured
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
PRESIDENTS OFFER TO HAY.
WOODS PARTNERS

Washington, Dec. 30.-(Associated
Press).-The sentences Of eight men,
bers of the Industrial Workers of the
World, convicted in the Haywood case
of conspiracy and violation of war
time laws, were commuted today by
President Harding, to expire at once
on condition that the prisoners leave
the United States never to return.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
RED ARMY Is TO
EDUCATE IT'S soTHERs

Moscow, Dec. 10-(By Mail to the
associated Press).-All illiterates b
the Red army are to be formed into
separate sections for three months
course in reading and writing. a re-
cent aorder issued by Commands q
war Trotzky says illiteracy anon
recruits must be eliminated By FebrF
ary l, 1923.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
CONSIDERATE OF
FRADY'S CONDITION

Miami, Dec. S0.-Lloyd D. Heith,
the Chicago attorney employed by
relatives of Mrs. Dorothy Frady to
assist in the prosecution of Edgar G.
Frady, charged with her murder,
stated on his arrival here that he will
not insist that Frady go to trial on
January 3rd if Grady is in as serious
as reported.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-30
THE BRITISH PLAN

London, Dec. 30.-(By Associated
Press).-Prime Minister Bonar Law
will take to the Paris conference of
premiers a complete plan upon which
the British cabinet passed judgment
yesterday in the hope of obtaining
French agreement for final settle
ment of the reparations problem.