The mirror., 1923-01-11
QUERIES
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NOTICE-In order to regulate the conduct
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submitted for publication. Inmates names, Of
course, will not be published, only the initials
OF each querist being used.-Editor.
O:--Kindly state through the columns of
the approximate distance by rail from
Which is the shortest route Pc. D. S.
A:-u) 22S.41 miles. (2) Grand
Trunk Ry. via London.
Q:=Who invented the "foot' of the Sim
ger Sewing machine which makes it pos
sibe to sew back and forth to 'back" the
cloth at the end of a stitch? Has any
other machine the same foot I'M. S.
A:-The Singer machine, which was
patented in 1881, was based on the Howe
machine, but it's special feature was the
presser foot with the yielding spring. 1t
was evidently invented by Singer himself.
O:-Please publish in THE MIRROR the
longest hit that was made on prison ball
ground from 1913 to 1922 and the inmates
name that made it-W. MEG.
Alt is impossible to give correct
decision on the longest hit that was made
during the seasons of 1918 and 1922 in
elusive. It's only a matter of choice and
it would not be fair to all players involved,
during that period, to bestow that honor
upon some particular star, because, to the
scorers knowledge, no long hits were ever
measured. 1t is only matter of guess
work in distances that aids us to give this
decision in favor of two players and these
hits were made during the season of 1921.
On account of these two players clouting
out three hits of the same caliber in one
game and as these three hits were the
longest hits ever made by inmate players
on the local diamond, it puts the scorer
in difficult position to decide, which, of
the three hits was the longest. However,
when Bona clouted out two hits in sue
cession that hattened the cold apple" up
against the corridor wall, leading to the
mess hall, we are rather inclined to give
him the honor of producing the longest
hits. In the same game, Bur walloped out
one hit that was an exact duplicate of the
two that Bona produced, which, may or
may not have been, a longer hit than those
of Bona. On this day when these long
hits in question were made, they were ma
terially aided by heavy wind blowing
from the northwest. Bur's hit took well to
the air, between left and centerfeld and on
its first bound it landed on the second or
third step, leading into the corridor near
the deputy's Office. On Bona's first trip to
the plate in that game, he walloped the
ball out over the same route, that Bur's
hit travelled, although Bona's hit, on its
second bound bounded up against the
corridor wall some ten feet or more west
of the steps leading to the Deputys office.
His second trip to the plate was non-pro-
ductive, but on the third trip, he lined one
out over centerfeld that bounded up
against the corridor wall with force
enough to cause the ball to rebound some
ten or fifteen feet. These three hits men
toned are the only hits ever made on the
Prison diamond that have come in con-
tact with the corridor wall. There has
leen several "Auke" hits that have come
in contact with the corridor steps leading
to the mess hall but they were the kind
that took to the cement sidewalk and con-
tinued to roll to the steps. In reality they
can not be classed as clean variety of
hitting There have been many other long
hits made to different territories of the
outer gardens during the seasons of 1918
and 1922 inclusive and in that case nearly
every player involved would have a voice
in procaiming the longest hit. According
to our judgment, we are inclined to be-
lieve the greatest distance from home
plate to any specified point in the outer
fielding territory, is the corridor wall in
left centerfeld. Consequently we give
Bona the credit for the longest hits while
he stands in tie with Bus for the longest
hit. r. S.
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