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Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26

i, short man should always make use of his
advantage over the pitchers to make
them lay the ball over the plate. If a
short boy uses too long bat he cannot
stand close enough to the plate to get
good action on balls pitched on the in
side corner.
Whether the boy uses q long or q
short bat, chokcs or holds the bat at full
or standard length, he should be care
full when he buys q bat, see that it bal
ances when held where he wants to hold
| it.
Bats are made, for the most part, to
be held in one spot. Some bats may be
held long, threequarter length or
choked. These are useful bats for boys.
As a matter of fact really finished
hitter should be able to shift grips, to hit
with a half length, three-quarter length
er full length bat as the exigencies OF
the occasion demand.
Next Lesson-How to Step Up To
| The Bat.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26
City and County
:: :: NeWs :: ::

Uncle Wiggily's Frierds--With an i'm
Piled sentence of execution for Uncle
Wiggily if he did not make good, his
friends are coming to his defense. The
first one to take up cudgels for the
bedtime companion was little Claire
Newkirk, S6S EUCLID avenue, who wrote
out her protest and brought it to the Of
flee III person, not trusting to any such
lame means of communication as the
United States mails. This is what the
Press wants to know. If Uncle Wig
gily has made any friends during his
short acquaintance in Ell Centre, let
them rise up and say SO.
Shorty's cafe, Jacumba, is the place.
adv.
New Tractor Agency-The Cletrac
Tractor Agency Of Brawley is to open
a branch agency in Ell Centre in the
building and Fourth and Main streets,
formerly occupied by Hermon & Beck.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26

Meeting Postponed d-The mass meet
ing scheduled this afternoon at the
Brawley high school for the purpose Of
organizing county branch Of the
California Farm Bureau has been post
poned until Thursday evening. DR.. W..
H. Walker of Berkeley, one Of the
principal speakers, was unable to ar
rive in time for today's meeting.
Dancing at Seeley every Wednesday
and Saturday evenings. 24t6
Diner On New Train--C. w. Runge
has been advised that the new Day
light Limited train between San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles, will carry a
short order diner, which will be open
all day. This new 13 hour train will
be put into service April 28 for the
benefit of tourists desiring to travel
by day over the scenic route of the
coast Line. The train will leave Los
Angeles Fridays and Saturdays at 7:45
m. and arrives in San Francisco at
S:45 p. H., and the same schedule ap-
plies between San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
Dancing at Seeley-Every Wednesday
and Saturday evenings. Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26
NEW KING OF SWAT
BABE RUTH is SICK
United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, April 26.-Kenneth
Williams is swat king if only for a
day.
The last four days, the long brown
outfielder has hit six home runs. By
hitting five in three days he equalled
the records made in 1884 by Kelly of
Chicago; by Muldoom of Cleveland in
1882 and by Babe Ruth in 1921. In
hitting six in four days he cqualled the
record made last year by Ruth.
Williams is the home run king right
now and it is not sure that his reign
will last only until the return of the
old king, the Bambino.
Ruth is going to enter the hospital
next week to have his tonsils removed
The home run king has been bother.
ed for year with throat trouble.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26
Sport Briefs
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
United Press Leased Wire

United Press Leased Wire
NEW YORK-Legislation to rule
out athletes who bet on themselves or
allow friends to wager ON them will
be passed by the A. A. U. according to
h. Ruben, secretary.
NEW YORK-Charlie Ebbetts was
granted a license to conduct boxing in
the Brooklyn Ball Park, and said he
was going after Benny Leonard and
Johnny Kilbane.
KANSAS CITY-Strangler Lewis de-
feated Stanislaus Zbysko here last
night. Lewis took the first fall in SO
minutes 1S seconds. Zbysko the sec
Ond, and Lewis the third.
CHICAGO-Maurice A. Kent, Iowa
State baseball, basketball and football
coach has been appointed head basket
ball and baseball coach of Northwest
ern University.
BERKELEY, California - " Brick
Muller, football and track star has
been elected 1923 track captain at the
University of California.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26
Grand Master coming-samuel D.

Grand Master Coming-Samuel E
Burke, grand master Of Masons in the
jurisdiction Of California, will be in
Imperial Valley on May 6. During the
day he will visit the various towns OF
the county and in the evening at p
M. he will address a joint meeting to be
held at the Masonic Temple, Ell Centre
The grand master is the guest of all
Of the Masons of this Masonic district
and as it is possible to hold but one
meeting, FL Centre has been chosen as
most convenient for all members of the
fraternity. The grand master will
leave for Los Angeles on the evening
train.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26
SP0RT HASH
By HAM
B y HAM


The handsome silver trophy won by
Calexico and donated to the cause of
baseball by the sporting firm of Wright
and Ditson, has arrived in the border
city and is now on display. Captain
Stevens says it 8 a beauty, engraved
and all that. Stevens states he is
holding his breath for fear that the
$25 cash prize from the county league
will not materialize. The league treas
urer knows best.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26
Meet Meat Steve IS. Adv.

Brawley Realty Board-The Realty
Board of Brawley is taking an active
interest in promoting subdivisions of
land for the use of trainees in their
section. At the meeting Of the board
this week a resolution was passed
rledging the organization to assist in
every way possible in obtaining suit
able land for trainecs
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26
The Bat.

single and pitched faultlessly, the
Robins beating the Braves to 2.
George Kelly hit his second homer OF
the season, the Giants beating the Phils
8 to 3.
The Senators ll-.ocked Russell and
Collins out of the box and beat the
Red Sox 10 to o.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26

It's kinda late to mention it but
over at Imperial last Friday the
local high school baseball tribe
collided with the Brawley nine, the
latter won by the close score of
16 to 8. That score takes the
pound of seedless marshmallows
offered by the valley confection-
ers. Yeah, Brawley harvested 12
tallies in two innings. How's that
for accomplishing big things?
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26
WATCHING THE scoREBoARD

Frank Baker did his old stuff by hit
ting a homer with two on and starting
u rally that gave the Yanks u six to
nothing victory oyer the Athletics. 1t
was Shawkey's second straight shut
out.
Walter Reuther hit a homer and a
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26

Widow with 4-year-old girl wants work.
Cook, chambermaid, inexp. waitress.
Mrs. Ruth Ross, Broadway rooms.
274W. 26t3
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26

Kid Savage has decided to remain in
these parts for an indefinite stay. He
has given up the idea of going to Texas
and will keep his eyes open for fight
or two in the valley before the Fourth
of July.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26

FOR RENT-S0 acres. Will furnish
teams, tools, seed and water. Party
must have plenty Of help. Clark w.
Adair, Seeley. 26t4
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26

Last Fridays sport department
Of the Press carried telegraphic
story about Tommy Burns in which
he quotes Harry Wills as the only
living fighter on earth. He writes
he refereed two of Wills best bat
ties, one against Sam Langford
and the other against Jim John
son. Wills won both fairly easy,
the report says. Willie Hacker, Ell
Centro's IS pride and winner in many
local fights, takes exception to
Tommy's article. Hacker says Burns
forgot to mention the time when
Langford reversed the tables and
pounded Wills all over the arena.
This affair took place in the nine
teenth rouns in New, Orleans in the
year 1918. n
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26
Too Late To Classify

WANTED-Dairymen to call at 446
Broadway, Ell Centre for mixers.
26t2
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26

Talk about high school athletics.
Looks like the Ell Centre system is
about the best on the market. At
least the system is producing the cream
of the athletes for they are winning
practically all the valley championships
this season. Last fall it was football,
later the track meet was copped, then
the tennis meet at Brawley was tucked
away and now the baseball rag is about
to be tackled on the mast. -Four of 'em
in one year is an enviable record and
no doubt the other schools are diagnos-
ing their ailments.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26

WANTED - Salesman for Imperial
Valley. Experience not necessary.
Earn while learning. See Mr..
Hunsaker, Oregon Hotel, z to 8
D. m. 25tf
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26

Apartments to rent-Apply 418 sth
st. 5. 26t6
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26

FOR RENT-40 acres fine land for
vegetables, two miles west OH high
way. Inquire Eucalyptus ranch. 26t4
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-26

The San Francisco ball team is hav
ing things their own way in the Coas
League. The club is leading in tn,
Of games with fair percent
age. In the batting department Ber
Ellison leads with nifty figure Of
.446. Last weeks the Seals again lee
the league in team batting to the tune
of 1928. Vernon closely following thu
proud Seals.
Ora Morningstar, the cue phenom,
is in San Diego giving series of
lectures on the gentle art of bill
liards. He is APPARENTLY sympathe-
tic with the mediocre players in
his home town and is therefore
showing them the cultured shots
of the game. Ora has met the best
billiard players in the country and
has won some rosy wallets in his
haunts over the continent. We
can't imagine why Ora should re-
sort to the tutory method as a
means Of a Evlihood.
Evening star., 1922-12-17
TRILBY MAY SCARS A BIT
Stocks


meantime we had been written up by
young lady reporter who had de-
scribed our enterprise quite en-
Enthusiastically. Effie had SHE'D a little
at SO much publicity, but I told her
it couldn't do US bit of harm and
might be more or less useful.
ssN TIGHT as we'll be getting used
1Nl to that sort of thing" says !,
"for you know we've billed ourselves
to become the Odd-job Queens Of
America"
But you don't think anything
really big will come of it, do you?"
she asks.
why not?' says I. whats to
stop us? Aren't we making good
know our net profits for last week.
And we are working only few
blocks Of New York. Think of the
miles and miles of streets, all solid
" ith apartment buildings and houses.
and behind every push-button are
leaky water Saps. saggme doors.
broken window weight cords, shelf
less clothes closetS-al1 waiting for
our Handy Andys to come and fix
them up. If we don't do the work
no one else will. You know how that
Evening star., 1922-12-17

boats. The gamblers and two or
three handsome woman confederates
board the liners separately. The
women pose in the usual fashion and
manage to meet the gulls, who may
even have been selected before the
sailing OF the ship. This is done. a.
in certain types OF big confidence
games, through agents or comnis
sioners of the big gamblers in variou.
towns. These latter keep their ewes
peeled for rich men of loose incNna
tions who are planning to go abroad.
just as they used to watch for dupes
to be introduced to the wire-tappinc
game. The gamblers and their
'molls" take the same ship and man
age 10 meet the victim.
Whichever one OF the women hap
pens to please the eye of the dupc
, lures him in her own way and USES
all her arts to get him interested
and perhaps emotionaily involved. Al
the same time she sees that her new
friend meets the gamblers, each uf
whom poses as Il person in some
, manner distinguished. wealthy or in
fluential When the ship is half way
across the gambling begins and the
dupe is usually permitted to win i
little. Meantime he is being dsftly
filled full of stories OF Il great sure
thing gambling venture in London.
One of the men to whom lie has been
introduced is gentleman follower
of racing and other sporting events
upon which money may be ventured.
Otherwise he is an insider. who
knows of plan TO trim some rIrh
English fools in a London club.
Before he knows it the gull has
swallowed the story and is eager to
participate in the coup. having been
subtly and skillfully got into this
frame of mind by the charmer, VIII"
is constantly at his side and plays
a strong hand with him in the smok-
ing room games.
AT last the combination reaches
London, the dupe introduced into the
club where the great scheme is to be
worked. He meets certain very Eng
lish looking and acting gentlemen,
who snub him dismally and earn his
immediate wrath. lie does not, OF
course. suspect that the club and all
it's members are part of what Is
called plant. a specially arranged
and baited trap. He doesn't know
that the naughty Englishmen are
confederates. any more than he sus-
poets his friends of being decoys and
gamblers. 81
BY skillful management the man Is
got to put up IA large sum to financA
gambling scheme. At the cruX
something goes amiss and the man
loses all, to the unbridled cursing
and complaining of the gamblers. who
have usually arranged to lose" some
of their money along with his, and
generally have maneuvered so skill
fully that the gull appears to have
made the fatal blunder.
Evening star., 1922-12-17
The Billiard Ball.

THE globe of ivory that is knocked
about q table in game of bill
lizards costs, if of good quality, at
least SIS. This represents its cos
in money. There is, however. a IA
more important and formidable ele-
ment in the price that has been paid
for it. The billiard ball of pure ivory
represents. as it lies white and glis-
tening upon the cloth, an expenditure
Of human blood as well as of money.
Elephants tusks are brought down
to the African coast for the most part
by caravans. generally in charge of
Arabs who have been trading in the
interior Very often they have pick
ed up slaves as well as ivory, but this
phase of the matter may be left ou;
Of the account.
1t is estimated that every large
caravan bringing ivory to the coast
has cost more than $50 human lives
through fights and murders in the
course of the expedition. Thirty more
men are likely to have succumbed TO
fevers and other diseases and the
fatigues of the march.
The hunting Of the elephants and
the capture of the ivoty. are very
likely to have caused the death of
ten men altogether. Such casualties
are the rule in elephant hunting
rather than the exception.
An average tusk does not furnish
more than enough material for two
good billiard balls. OF course, the re-
mainder of the ivory in each tusk is
made use of in other ways. A per-
fectly cut billiard ball requires spe-
cial quality. or so-called nerve"
which is found only in one part OF
the tusk.
The chances are that billiard ball
Of the first quality has cost at least
one human life. and there is not one
such ball which may not be truly said
to be stained with mems blood.
Evening star., 1922-12-17

0F course, the papers aren't ready
~ yet. Our two sets of attorneys
are still working on 'em. But the
prospects are that the Handy Andy
Shops Company will no longer be
close corporation. There'll be bonds,
and preferred stocks, and common
shares and I don't know what else.
Ef1e and I are to have a lot of 'em.
Salaries, too. And cash Oh. just gobs
of cash. Bonus. or something. Any
way, it's going to bulge my bank bal
ance. And the odd-job business is to
go on and on, just as I said 1t would.
only Efie and haven't got to go
hunting around for vacant stores and
checking up work bills any more. 1
should say. not. There will be experts
for all that work, and we shall tell
the experts how to do it.
Honestly now." says Ef1ie. only this
morning, 'I feel as If we were rob-
bins those Wall street people"
Hang onto it, Effie," says I. ITS
UNIQUE feeling. I doubt II any one
else ever had one just like it,
But don't you have it-just lit
tie" she insists.
IF I do,"\says I. you can tell by
watching my fingers when they get
chance to close over that settlement
check. Somehow I have a hunch that
my grip is going to be good"
Copyright, 1922, by SeWen Ford.)
Evening star., 1922-12-17

Well tide them over the slack spells.
keep 'em busy at fair wages. and tinker
up everything that needs tinkering in
all the broad land. Isn't that service?
Eh?"
EFFIE gasped and her baby blue
Il eyes opened wider than ever. "It
its almost staggering to think about.
Trilby May" says she. "Can we do 1t
just u.s."
I'VE don't have to- says I. .All
we need to do is to start the SNOWFALL
right. and then sit back and see it roll.
Oh. Of course, We can give it shove
to the right or left now and then;
but mostly we'll be telling somebody
else how to do the showing
Il don't know" says Effie. shak-
ing her Head. 'It all sounds so-big
that I'm a little frightened about go
ing on
POOH says l. You'll soon get
used to it. Besides. We haven't built
that skyscraper yet, and all that's on
the card today is for us to rustic up
in the Handy Andy chain. Come
ahead
We were a little over two hours
about it. and soon after luncheon /
was back at the Office in No. 1, with
a map of the United States spread
out on my desk planning how it
would look when it was all dotted
with little red spots, showing where
our shops stretched from coast to
coast. In other words. was soaring.
You know-vision stuff.
Evening star., 1922-12-17

YELL. it was this way. The
AN/ West Side branch of the
v Handy Andy Shops had
been running only lit
tie over week before we
were swamped with orders and max
Ing II nice income. There was no
trick about it. Simply the idea had
caught on. We were filing a long
felt want.
OF course, Effie-that is. Mrs. Ad-
shaw-was tickled pink over her first
venture into business. She reported
that hubby was still stunned over
her sudden crash into a game that he
thought could only be played by male
ahBlahs. but that all the protest
he registered now was To sulk at the
table whenever they met for meals.
which was only once DAY, at dinner.
I'D love to see Harold glaring into
;he soup" says l. why don't you
offer him the job of manager of
Branch No. 2?''
Which got a giggle out of Ellie.
Wouldn't that be rich" says she.
But. Trilby May. 10 You think We
really should:''
"What?" says l. Take in Mr.. Ad-
shaw?"
NO. no." says she. Risk another
branch just now. / mean?'
absolutely" says l. Were not
pikers. you know. If we can run two
shops and make 'em pay, why not
three. or a dozen. or half hundred"
III tell you; we'll promote Andy Mill
sh, put him in charge of the West
Side branch, and open up another on
the East Side. Well do it today"
And we did You should have seen
Evening star., 1922-12-17


been ignored, overlooked. Too trif-
fling. l suppose. You can get con-
tractor to build a house for you. or
tear one down, or put in steam
heating plant: but where can you
turn when you need pane of glass
set in a basement window, some loose
bathroom fixtures frightened. and a
few licks of paint put on in the but
ler's pantry"
'To the Handy Andy Shops" says
Effie.
That's the answer" says l. "And
by tomorrow there'll be exactly three
of 'em for goodness knows how many
million homes to draw on. Just think.
Effie. Thousands and thousands of
doors that will not shut, bureau draw
ers that stick, windows that will
neither go up nor down. Some of 'em
have been that way for months. some
for years. causing strong men to
swear and weak women TO weep.
From Bangor, Me-, to kamloops, B. c.,
from Cloquet, Mimi. to Largo, Fla,
they call to US to send our blue
junpered handy men who can use a
plane one minute, putty knife the
next, and finish off with few strokes
of inside white; all at 50 an hour.
cash payment required when you sign
the time card. They don't know were
here, but we know the jobs are there
and We're headed that way. We are
going ahead a bit slow just now. A
should try to do. But just wait until
We strike our stride. 1 figure that
about twenty branches will take care
of New York, say fifteen in Brooklyn,
and half a dozen in Newark. Then
we'll begin to spread out-one branch
at least in every suburb. Next we'll
jump to Philadelphia. Then Bridge
port. New Haven, Fall River. Hart
ford, Springfield. Boston. After that
Well start west. BY that time,
though, weIl need to have general
offices, heads of departments, efficiency
systems, and so on. There'll be gen
eral managers. assistant managers,
vice presidents, directors. Probably
we'll have to have a building of our
ing 5th avenue. and I'll be in another,
and when 1 want to spring a new
idea on you, or find out how soon
you're going to lunch. I'll have to ask
my secretary to tell the phone girl to
send word to your secretary that I'm
calling you on the wire"
How silly" giggles Effie.
That's what you get to in big bust
ness says ]. "And ours Say,
can't you see the way it's bound to
grow? Can't help it. For we'll be
doing odd jobs for the nation"
But when we get them all done?"
suggests Efie.
That will be-" saysI, when all the
chewing gum has been chewed up,
when every man has enough safety
razor blades and every woman enough
hair nets. Odd jobs are always bob
bing up. Finish them in one home
today, and three months from now
therell be another warped door, an
other smashed window. We shall
need a regular standing army of
Handy Andys to keep up with the
work.
That's so," says she. Thousands
of them. But where can we find SO
many?"
I've shall absorb tine army Of the
unemployed" says I. land that will
solve one of our great industrial prob
lems Workmen are always getting
thrown out, from one reason or another;
always drifting here and there. hunt
ing for new places, waiting for mills
and factories to reopen. Wen take 'em
III ior as Ions - they want 70 stay.