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The mirror., 1923-04-19
Minute Sermon
Acts 17:23. The Unknozcn God.

HCB I.Eo. ne CHfHOIsH oO"'
IN HE faith of the Atheist, must
arouse admiration, even in the
minds of those who embrace ortho-
doxy. He looks at man and sees an
accidental union of some unknown in
gradients. True, this happened long
time ago and Dame Nature has only
recently evolved man from this union,
but he places his faith in that accident.
AT night he looks up into the heavens
and he sees once again the result of
an accident, though prior one. He
cannot explain it; but he believes. The
watch has maker, the bird just hap
pened. In faith he is supreme
The faith of the ignorant is almost
as wonderful. Having no knowledge
of the Bible they believe in God. 1t
never occurs to them to doubt any
thing that they are told is set forth in
Scripture. Every once in while they
are frightened by some unusual oc-
currence into believing that the world
is coming to an end. Many of them
believe that the dead come back, or
that messages are sent by mysterious
beings in another world In short
they believe what ever is heard, be-
cause of religious matters they know
nothing. They build their houses of
faith on foundation of fairy tales,
or worse.
The unknown God was worshipped
by the people Of Thessalonica because
the gospel had not vet been preached
to them and they knew not Christ
Only through Christ can the unknown
God become known to man. Thou
sands of people are in the same con-
dition today Many never hear vital
message of Christ and His power to
save and so they go through life pray
ing to an unknown God. God is al
ways unknown to the Atheist and to
the man who refuses to seek Him. To
the heart hungry seeker, He is re-
vealed in Christ and Christ is revealed
in the Scripture.
&C. 4. NJ.
The mirror., 1923-04-19
, WHITE MANS OPIUM

The literature of people is the an
tithesis of its life From the miserable
novels of squaid Ireland came the worlds
most gorgeous fairy tales. The marvellous
tales that comprise the collection known
as The Thousand and One Nights" were
born of the rest hours of the camel driver
and his like. Fettered by circumstance
man seeks ever to escape through imag
nation. The exigencies of life do not per-
nit us often to seek the kick" in life
that always lies in the other fellows
sphere. So we give vent to our suppressed
desires in the vicarious experiences of
our favorite fiction characters. Any ic-
ton that complies with the fixed rules of
the art and transports the reader out OF
his surroundings is literature Literature
in the sense that it fulflls the fundamen-
tai principle of the art-which is to create
an illusion so closely resembling life as
to be acceptable and yet so exaggerated
as to seduce the interest.
DOOkS are tnt WHITE lldn opium,
whereHith he drugs himself that he may
achieve the same purpose the chop head"
seeks when he toys with the "yen hok"--
the obliteration of the present and the
substitution of the desired.
Consciously or unconsciously, every
writer sets himself up as a teacher and
critic. Consequently readers reac-
tions will vary according to his individual
prejudices and interests. Certain inter
ests are common to all mankind. The
literary interests of reader are limited
by his mentality and education. 1t ma
turally follows that the writer who treats
of subjects of interest to the majority of
people in manner suitable to the intelli-
gence of the majority will have the
greatest following. He is the popular
author."-H. r.
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ANENT FREE VERSE

Free Verse was written in an idle mo-
ment with little thought that it would
arouse the ire of the man behind the pen
who is at the helm of the Leavenzvorh
libre was taken more seriously than | in
tended it to be. Nevertheless l believe
that most free verse is SILLY stuff" and /
am open to argument on the subject. |
had the so-called young Intelectuals in
mind, net the sincere master of that form
of poetic expression" as the editor has
said of Whitman. There are at the
present time in America two distinct
schools of literature, one fundamentally
American and the other hybrid class of
rro-German, pro-Scandinavian and pro-
British, who lampoon American ideals
ard traditions, and laud anything that
shows a European brand. -
Is it not fact that the average writer
of jabberrocky poetry has name that is
distinctly un-Amercan? These purvey-
OTIS OF Jazz verse nave taken possession
OF many of our oldest and best literary
publications. but can they last? Flap
pers have had their day, and the poet who
speaks of "dappled bricks under slith-
cring SUM- will pass after brief period
of bewilderment on the part of the Amer
ican reader.
Free verse is all right as long as it is
''terse word picture" that is sensible in
construction, but when a writer attempts
to thrust weird SMILES and metaphors up
ON the dippy public as a type of free
verse then we arise on our hind legs to
register an American protest If Rus
slams care for futuristic and bizarre eff
fects in poetry that is their own affair.
And if the New Moderns were not so
blatant in their denunciation of what we
have accepted for several hundred years
as poetry they would not have public
to read their twaddle.-R. L. NJ.
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To healthy mind the world is con-
slant challenge of oppotunities.-LozoeH.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-12
BRECKENRIDGE
TO. PLAY UNDER
k|LGORE AGAIN
Football Coach Assured Of
Reappointment, With
Cannon Assistant.
MORRISON TO MAIN
Will Help Clarke and Then
Take Over Athletics
After Grid Season.

Alfred Kilgore will coach football
again at Breckenridge High School
this year, Principal Marshall john
ston said Saturday night.
As Phillip s. (Spitz) Clarke, whose
three-year contract as Main Avenue
High School has season to run, will
be head coach at Main again, Mr.:
Johnston has re-engaged Kilgore and
taken advantage of Superintendent of
Schools Rhodes promise that the two
senior high schools will be treated
exactly alike on the coaching PROPOSE
ton. that if one has coach who
is not q faculty member under con-
tract the other may employed such n
coach. Thus, the plan of DR.. Rhodes
to place the coaching of high school
athletics under faculty control will
not 20 into full effect until after the
football season.
Kilgore will be head coach at the
South Side school, as he has been
for several successful seasons. d.
G. (Bobby) Cannon, former Texas
University star, last year principal
and athletic coach at Del Rio High,
will become a member of the Brack-
luNultH anu "A'A
assist Kilgore with the football team.
He will become the full-fledged fac
ulty athletic director and coach of
all sports on the onening of the base
ball season, since L. d. Williams, a
member of the faculty who has sue
cessfully guided the baseball destinies
of Breckenridge for several seasons,
will not be at the school next spring.
Morrison Assured Place.
Guy Morrison. the San Antonio
Bears pitcher, graduate of West Vir-
ginia Wesleyan University and a
teacher in Terre Eaute high school
I'D coach of the athletic teams there
IN the past winter. was assured by
Or. Rhodes IN an interview Saturday
morning that he would be appointed
athletic director at Main Avenue
High School.
Morrison said it had been agreed
that he would assist Coach Clarke
with the football team while he was
getting his bearings and that, after
the football season. he would take
charge of basket ball, track, baseball
and other sports.
Morrison will teach history at
Main High.
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FOOTBALL in AUGUST
They Are Also Going to Use Old Gene.
terry for Gridiron in San Angelo.

San Angelo, Aug. 11.-Something
pew has been introduced in West Tex
ss-football in August!
Before Old Soils rays begin beating
down their fiercest. n dozen or more
boys are booting the p;gskin around
every morning on the Senior High
campus. They are candidates for the
1923 squad. Winning of the title in
this district of the University of Texas
fnterscholastic League is one of the
aims that has spurred them to early
training. Ed Keyee isseaptain.
c.. H. Kellum, captain OF Southwest
Texas NoVnal's football team at San
Marcos in 1922. will be grid mentor
here this fall. Superintendent Felix T..
Smith has already matched five games
tor the locals. Sweetwater will play
here SATURDAY. October 13. the closing
lay of the All-West Texas Exposition.
San Angelo will go to 'cOwnwood De-
.ober 90 and the Brownies will close
the season here Thanksgiving Day. ms
they have done for several years
r---sr games will be with Coleman. one
there and the other here Armistice
Day. probably Monday. November 10.
tince the fourth anniversary of the
AosinS of the war falls on Sunday.
BalIinger. Santa Anna, Brady, Men
ird. Junction, Sonora and Ozona will
likely furnish further opposition as
,bout ten games planned for the
Blue and Gray eleven.
Bleachers seating 400 people will be
tvailable for football games this year
rhey were purchased to serve first dur.
ng the historical PAGEANT of the West
Texas Chamber of Commerce conven-
ZION at San Angelo in May. A new
ootball field will be laid out on what
vas the towns first cemetery, now
chool properly. Just across the street
.ast of Senior High School.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
PULLING OVER
UNUSUAL PLAY
Queer Batting Out Of Or
der Situation Mixes
Up Umpires.

Pittsburg, Aug. IL. - Baseball
abounds in unusual situations and
often the majors produce freak plays
that would never occur among the
amateurs.
Who should be called out?
That's a mystery that still envel-
ops batting-ou .of-order play that
came up in a recent game in which
Pittsburg was the offending side.
The Pirates batting order called
for Rawlings to be the first man up
in a certain inning. Grimm followed
him in the batting order and then
came Gooch.
Instead of Rawlings going to bat
first, Grimm stepped to the plate
and singled. Grimm, of course, had
batted out of order, but ut the time
no attention was paid to the fact.
Then Rawlings, who should have
batted first, stepped TO the plate and
singled. sending Grimm to second.
In other words, Grimm and Raw
lings simply reversed their positions
in the batting order. Then Gooch
stepped to the plate. Had ball
been pitched to Gooch all would have
been well. but before any pitch was
made to Gooch the team in the field
realizing a mistake had been made
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in the batting order, appealed to the
umpire for a ruling.
Who should be called out?
The umpire in charge was called
upon TO give ruling on a play that
has never before come up in the
jor leagues. There was no precedent
for him to follow.
The rule says that il player bats
out of order the mistake must be
discovered before a ball has been
pitched to n succeeding batsman and
an appeal is made to the umpire for
ruling.
Grimm batted out Of order, but no
appeal was made, and the pitcher
threw to Rawlings, who also singled.
Then a decision was requested.
The umpire, trifle confused be-
cause Of the strangeness of the hap
pening, decided to call Rawlings out,
permit Grimm to remain on first and
allow Gooch TO bat.
On thinking it over that evening
it was said he decided that he had
been in error, that the proper thing
to have done was to simply disre-
gard Rawlings and when he hit
safely after Grimm had singled that
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-12
DALLAS WINS IN NINTH.
Jack Ryan Gets Credit for 5-4 yictorr
Over Shreveport.

Dallas. Tex, Aug. 11.-Oid Jack Ryan
gets credit for another win. not having
Texas League. In the ninth inning rally
here Saturday afternoon. Dallas won
see-ssw game from the Gassers. to Z.
on a double by wano, n wild throw by
Moore and wild pitch by Schillng. The
have the Steers tie the score in the sew
enth on Connlly's double following an
error by Riley. The Gassers again took
the lead IN the eighth. Stow. who
walked and went to third on Moore's in
field out then stole homo. Umpire
O'Toole first calling him out but chang
ing his decision. The play for stow wat
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it would have ben correct to have
called out Gooch, who was the
player who should have followed
Grimm.
Such a ruling would have elm
mated Rawlings entirely, sent
Grimm back to first and retired
Gooch.
Since then another angle has been
raised.
Some major league umpires con-
tend that the succeeding batsmaa can
only be the player called for in the
lineup as given TO the Umpire. Other
umpires contend that any batszian
who steps into the box after another
batter becomes the succeeding bats
man.
The new angle to the play is that it
would have been proper to have sim
ly called Rawlings out and made
Grimm bat over.
1t seems that who should be called
out depends entirely on who is re-
garded as the succeeding batsman.
Three solutions have already been
offered and major league umpires are
still arguing the point without being
able TO agree.
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Phil May. the English black and white
rtist. was VIGOROUSLY absentminded. Ac-
ording TO his colleague: Edwin Ward.
10 arrived one day at the Savage club
m horseback and left his horse in
harge OF a club servant. After time.
he man holding the horse called the at
ention Of the hall porter and asked "
Or Nav was in the club. NO." said
he porter. he left an hour ago" The
Members were consulted and eventually
k.-horse was put in livery stable In
n STRAIGHTFORWARD. Several days elapsed
Most extra ordinary thing" he said. u
ave lost my horse. / started from home
nth II all right a few days ago. but
Or the life OF me can't remember what
-ecame OF H." After little cross-ex-
Sntnatior. ''Dld you drop II down an
-, - and so on, they relieved his mind
y producing the missing animal -
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ing but one other hit. Not a Panther
reached first on Carlson until the fifth
worth put over run. The Cats tied
the count on clean hitting in the sew
enth and won out in the eighth by
twice after Carlson had walked
the first man up. Kraft was the hit
ting hero of the day with a double and
a triple, which paved the way for tho
Cats first two runs. caivos knock put
the Cats ahead in the eighth. The score:
Wichita Falls All r. IL o. A. E.
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xBatted for Adams in ninth.
nv INNINGS

Stolen base. Black; sacrifices. Lothes,
Strong, Allen. Black, Schultz; two-base
hits, Black. strong; home runs, Huber.
Turgeon double play, Turgeon to Black
to strong; runs batted in. kirkham ca.
Black (2), Strong ;(0, Huber CD. Tur-
geon, Todt (2). Simon, Schultz: innings
pitched by Marshall l-3. Gray 1-3; hits,
off Marshall 3, Gray !; runs. off Marshall
5, Gray J.; bases on balls. Off Gray 4,
Marshall !. Jacobus ,; struck out, by
Gray ], Adams ), Jacobus ;; winning
pitcher Gray; losing pitcher, Marshall;
hit by passed ball. by Gray (Simon); left
on bases, San Antonio ~. Beaumont q:
time, 2:l5; umpires, Tanning and Kane
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xBa,:ec for Edwards In ninth.

Left on bases, Philadelphia -, Cleve,
land S. two-base hits. Brewer, Scheer,
Welch, Boone; home run. speaker; sac
rifices, summa. Uhle, Miller, Hasty.
Lutzke; double plays, Hasty TO Galloway
Galloway 10 Scheer TO Hauser: bases on
balls. off Hasty 2. off Uhlc 3. off Ed
wards 5. off Boone 1: struck out. by
Hasty 2. by Edwards ! umpires, OTIns-
by. Rowland and Connolly.
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TWO OF THEM SUNDAY.
First Game of DOuble.Header Will
Start at $3.50.

A double-header Will be played be-
tween the Bears and Beaumont at
League Park Sunday, the first game
to start at , 80. Just what pitchers
will be used is question neither man
ager was certain about Saturday
night. Manager Frank Kitchens Of
the Exorters has his twirler trout
bles, too, as Abe Bailey, the steady
chap secured not long ago from New
Orleans, can't work for some time
because of twisted knee. This is
good news from Bear standpoint
as Bailey has beaten us a couple of
times on the road.
Ike Boone's one hit Saturday ran
his seasons total to 195 and his one
run gave him an even 100.
For the information of the fans,
the first names of the latest addi-
tons to the team are as follows: Mil
Der Porter (queer name on a promis'
ing young pitcher). Mike Collins, Karl
Adams and Frank Kohlbacker.
Bob Coleman. though he caught n
complete game on the road several
days ago. isn't ready for steady work
vet. Bobs smashed index finger on
his throwing hand is still swollen
and somewhat stiff. He says it doesn't
affect his throwing in practice when
he has plenty of time but when he
gets in the game and has to let fly in
hurry he has trouble gripping the
ball.
The way things broke on the road
brought about the overworked condi-
ton of the pitching staff. Coleman's
rule-and it seems the logical ONE
is TO use relief talent in the box spar
ingly as long as the Bears are behind.
If the team is pressed for pitchers
and the enemy has good lead, with
only an outside chance of the Bears
overcoming it. Bob's idea is TO let the
twirler take lacing and save the 9th
ers for the next day. But, if the
Bears lead and the enemy threatens
seriously, jerk the pitcher that's fall
tering and get another on the hill IN
an effort to save the game and record
a victory-and let tomorrow take care
Of itself. That's how it came that Guy
Morrison pitched four days in sue
cesion on the road. 1t happened that
the Bears got big leads in these games
and Bob Coleman tried hard TO sase
them. Some he did; some, sadly, he
did not.
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Bluffs BEAT GALVESTON.
Mack From white sSox Loser in Pitch
ers' Battle,

Galveston. Tex. Aug. 11.-Marvin
Goodwin was in fine form Saturday and
the Bluffs downed the Sand Grabs.
To 0, in the first game Of the series.
The Islanders got but four hits OFT
Goodwin and not a man reached their
base. The Bluffs punched four safe swats
in the first round for the only runs OF
the game Score:
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SuniInnr,

Two-base hits. Burns (2), Excel. Col
nns: three-base hits. Tobin; stolen bases.
Collins; sacrifice hits, Devormer. Ger
Der: double plays, Mcmillan. Pittinger
and Burns; left on bases. st. Louis s..
Boston IL; Ira Sc on balls. off Vangilder
,. Davis !. Kolp .: hit by pitcher. Reichle
(by Kolp); struck out. by Vangilder J..
Quinn /; umpires, Owens and Dineen.
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Two-base hits, Griffith, Bigbee. Cooper.
Johnston and Rawlings; three-b base hits.
Rawlings. Bailey and Msranville; sacri-
flee hits. Johnston, Fourier; double
plays Rawlings to Grimm; Schmidt to
Rawlings; Ruether to Berg; struck out.
by Cooper ,, Ruether !; left on bases,
Brooklyn s, Pittsburg s; umpires. Klein
and Wilson.
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Two-base hits. Cobb. Dauss; three-base
hit. Dugan; home runs. Hofmann, Haney;
bases on balls off Dsuss ;, s. Jones :,
shawkey 2: struck out, by James ;, S.
Jones 2; umpires. Evans and Hildebrand
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xBatted for Zachary in seventh.

xBatted for Zachary in seventh.
by Innings.
Chicago ..,...,.......22 go oio 2i-lo
washington ............. fsO wv WV
Summary.
Two-base hits. Falk Gl, Shelly, Hoop
er; three-base hit, Goslin; home run,
Mostil; sacrifices. Gosline. Rice. Har-
ris. Leverette t2f. Mcclellan, Strunk.
Collins; left on bases. Chicago 10. Wash
ington :: bases on balls. off Robertson
3, off Leverett l. off Russell 3, off ZACH
airy 2: stolen base. Ruel; struck out. by
Mogridge =. by Russell 2: umpires, Mo-
rarity and Nallin.