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Evening star., 1923-10-14
PROGRESS OF MODERN SCIENCE
Wallace Irwin $ Letters Of Japanese Schooboy
To Editor The Star who have a mania
for World Movements & other
Comick Strips.

To Editor The Star who have a mania
for World Movements & other
Comick Strips.
~ EAREST sIR:-what will
Il Science s. sa sh.,s be doing ne1tly' and
D ask to know.
tell you how 1 como 20 get this
dense thought wedged In my brain.
Last Thursday p. m, while resting
from my .-girlish employment
in Hon. Kitchin OF Mrs. & Mr.. c. w.
Quackmire. I took a slight recreation
in Zoology Park for look at annimles
& choose which one 1 am descended
from, IL any.
Right befront of very fierce cage
I stood with Darwin expression while
reading enlarged signal:
AMERICAN LION, HANDLE HIM AT
YOUR OWN AxPENsE."
My brain commence galloplng and I
think, Everything cost something
nowadays. You cannot even handle
lions without paying for It,"
might have thought still more,
but OF suddenly I was scared out of
my left shoe by enlarged rory sound
like Hon. Lion was hollering at his
sister across the street. Jumps by
me. And what I seen then? Shuxi
Or was It? Standing 80 close I could
scratch him were a sort OF sidewise
gentleman with considerable intellect
under his straw hat tied on with
string. One glimp at his bias
whisker informed me that he was
Professor.
"Ah. Star-faced Japanese boy!" He
shout that megaphoneticaily. "I are
so relieved 20 see you are interested
In scientifick Fax"
PLEASED to meet them, arc
sure!" This from me.
"Goodyw he club. Then let US
knock our brains together on yon-
derby bench while holding q discuss
ing match. I can unscramble the
Progress OF Science for you all the
way from A to 2 or In similar letters
IN Jewish"
So we go 10 the bench where I set
down greatly pressed by my newborn
friend. Mr.. Editor. ! have met sew
eral great statues in my life, but
never before have I observed such
concentrated eyeglasses like that
Hon. Professor had.
SSyTYHERE shall we begin?'' he ask to
w know, setting his wise elbow on
my knee.
What kinds have your" I .requite
baffably.
Let US commence with Science Of
Electricity" he sober up. "In yr. 1923
electricity have advanced in leaps and
hops You have heard Of DR.. Steinmetz?
You have This Hon. Steinmetz can ac-
cumplish anything by electricity. BY his
suburb genius he have invented an Elec-
trickle Massage which will do away with
hair, thusly making BARRIERS unnecessary.
He have invented an electricle ottomo-
bile which will do away with hivvers.'
He are indeedly more of an Elec-
tricllle Lizard than Hon. Thos A Edl-
son." exit excitely.
'Indeedly Isl" narrate Hon. Prof.
What have Hon. Edison ever accum-
plished axept make picked music and
restless photos? But this Hon. Stein
metz can manufacture lighting which
jump out of box"
DO he know some way to get 1t back
again?" beseek nervely.
THAT will come. That will come"
dib Hon. Prof "In meanwhiles this en-
larged Steinmetz brain keep on thinking
new Science for benefat Of human race.
You know what ne say? He say that
Electricity will be only thing needed
Evening star., 1923-10-14
Tests for Diamonds.

THE true diamond is not cut by a
i file, has a specific gravity Of 3.25
and q luster that shows clearly even
when the stone Is immersed In wa
ter A small drop of water dropped
on the face Of clean. dry diamond
preserves It's globular form and does
not spread. When fine line Is drawn
on a diamond with an aluminium pen
ell, and 1t is then rubbed briskly with
a moistened cloth. the line disappears.
The commonest test is to draw the
edge of the stone over glass; the dia-
mond cuts 1t without much pressure,
while the initiation merely scratches
it
Evening star., 1923-10-14

Of the scraping is done at night after
the state police is either in bed or on
a drinking party. New England OIL
Is a non-divident paying curb stock.
but can be boughten through rela-
tfveS
Evening star., 1923-10-14

Community of 3,75OO0O Buzzes at Largest
Experimental Apiary In World, Conducted at
Somerset, Md-Secrets of Honey Gatherers
Yield to Scientific observation-disclosures
tions by Means of DanceEke Movements.
Some Serve as Living Fans for Ventilation.
Evening star., 1923-10-14

TIoEEY bees have we'll learned the
[ L lesson Of cleanliness and santa
ton. They are apparently ruled by
tho cleanliness is next tc godliness"
slogan for the ordinary beehive is
as .pick and span as the scrupulous
housewives prize pantry All dirt is
Evening star., 1923-12-17

while we would much rather win
the Olympic games than finish among
the also rams" said Frantz Reichel,
mittee, I'VE feel that great benefit
will be derived for athletics in France
by the mere presence and participa-
tton in all branches of sport of the
1000 or 5000 athletes-thc best in
their lines of endeavor in fifty-two
countries. There is one thing. how
ever, that we may win and that Is
the acknowledgment of all Interested
that the 1924 Olympic games were
the best organized since their re-
vival This we Will try to do
In the winter sports. which are to
be held at Chamonix from January 20
TO February 5, the opinion was gen.
eral that France would only place
behind the Canadians. Scandinavians
and Americans in hockey. skiing,
bob-sleigh and curling. They are out
classed in speed skating and only
hold out the hope of getting points in
!. the figure skating. where Mile.
Yvonne Bourgeois, who incidentally
in woman tennis. has more than an
even chance of winning.
French rugby experts were san
guine that the team representing
France in this event had good
chance of winning, especially If
Great Britain maintains her present
decision of not being represented.
In association foot ball every one
admitted that France stood no show.
England stands alone in this sport
and the French team has been regu-
larly defeated by the Belgians and
CZechs, while the teams representing
Italy. the Scandinavian countries and
Spain, have won more matches from
France than they have lost, to them
in the international clashes of the
past few years.
With the advent of polo in June,
teams from the United States, Eng
land and even South America are
regarded here as likely finalists, as
France has no combination which can
place any of the foregoing in danger.
In track and field events, the win
ming of which was conceded by all to
be the real aim of all countries enter
ing the Olympic games. France is not
4 expected to total up many points.
Evening star., 1923-12-17

a player like that nowadays a
manager would have to pay at
least $4,000. They are even pay
ing big sums like that for minor
leaguers \who have never been
tried out in fast company.
1t was at Louisville that l first
met Fred Clarke and all the ia
nous players with whom | later
became acquainted. Fred, you
know, was manager at Louisville
before he went to Pittsburgh.
What's more, he was one of the
greatest managers base ball has
ever known.
Fred was first made manager
while the team was on the road.
Just to make it bad for him he
pulled a bone in the very first
game he played as manager. 1t
was some play on the bases; |
have forgotten exactly how it
went, but that doesn't matter.
Fred came back to the bench
and refused to sit down, he was
so sore at showing himself up be-
fore his players. He walked UP
and down i'll front of the bench
and never said a word. The play
ers kept looking around and also
kept quiet. They knew their new
manager had pulled a bone, but
they knew better than to roust
the boss right off. Everything
was dead quiet, but everybody
knew what everybody else was
thinking.
Finally Fred turned to the men
on the bench.
Go on and say it." he said.
go on. l know you think I'm
boob, so go on and tell me I'm
one. Yes, | pulled a bone"
He then sat down on the bench
and the gang started to laugh.
They told him, all right.
BY that action Clarke made
himself strong with his players.
He never four flushed. After that
they would tell him if he pulled
one. And don't you forget that
he would always tell them, too.
There were no more secrets on
that bench or any other bench
that Fred Clarke ever managed.
Tomorrow: Batting .375
Without the Lively Ball.
Evening star., 1923-12-17

THE duffer has small use for a
- sliced ball. -
Nevertheless, the slice is useful
ff you can make it when you want
to, and then only.
As good golf as / ever played was
that on the fifteenth hole at Cardross
IN 1922, when Harry Nardon and
opened the extended course.
l had had charge of the coastruc-
ton of the fifteenth hole. There had
been those who had felt that 1T had
been made unnecessarily difficult, and
I felt an interest in convincing the
critics that the par ought really
to be bogie 5.
The hole is a dog-leg. measuring
$40 yards.
The first stroke has to be played
along the side of wood. for dis
tance of about 200 yards.
The second stroke must be played
at right angles to the first, with the
pin more than 900 yards distant from
the corner of the wood.
On both the morning and after
noon round 1 played a brassfe from
the tee. On each occasion the ball
flew straight down the fairway until
it reached the corner Of the wood.
when it took a distinct slice to the
Evening star., 1923-12-17
LINES BRAID TELLS:
My Best Played Hole.

right and advanced about twenty-five
yards toward the pin.s
There was no wind blowing and
/ heard one of the gallery ask Var
don, Did Braid play that shot?"
Harry laughingly replied: That's
one of Jamie's easy strokes"
l hope l may not be accused of
conceit in repeating this incident. 1
merely mention 1t to emphasize the
fact that a slice may have its uses
and that the duffer who suffers from
unintentional slicing would do well
to ascertain the cause or causes.
Having learned how to avoid slfc-
ing, he also will learn how to make
use of tiff he perseveres sufficiently.
At any rate, having rounded the
wood on my drive in the morning
round, I laid my brassie within ten
yards of the green. Clipped a mashie
close to the pin and took four.
In the afternoon. after an Identical
drive. my second shot was into the
rough and my third short of the
green. :.
: However, sank. a mashie fourth
and thus twice demonstrated. to my
own mind at least. that par on the
hole could as well have been four
as to have been five.
Copyright. 1923. The Republic syndicate.l
Evening star., 1923-12-17

to any notable extent.
The Cubs sent Friberg to Kansas
City in 1921 to play under otto
Knabe II figured I was failure
said Friberg, when they sent me to
the minors, and l was discouraged
and downhearted to point wheEe
was just about n total loss. Bun IL
turned out to be just the thing Tor
me- Knabe cheered me up. and
1t helped me more than l can tell.
that season under Knabe."
But, according to Bill k1lllfer VINO
succeeded Mitchell as the Cubs lead
er. TT made him."
Killifer was not so clear however,
this ordinary outfielder into a great
II don't know" said Killffer. HE
had the action of an infielder; we
needed one SO badly that l was des-
perate, and I just planted him there
better than a carefully figured out
Friberg himself was just as un-
satisfactory in his explanation OF his
third basing talent.
II was always flddling around sec
ond base after Joined the Cubs" he
said. 81 Just liked infield play. When
I first took hold of the hot corner 1t
was strange and worried me. Seemed
like l had to work every second. l
know. worke ed there in practice until
was worn out, day after day. Now,
though, it 9se ems. natural and regular.
No worry at ALL.
His record last season was remark
able. He batted above 800. ham,
mered out a dozen home runs and
stole a dozen bases.
Friberg lives in Swampscott, Mss.
Evening star., 1923-12-17

These men are now in the midst of
plans for Ffrpo's spring and summer
campaign, leading UP to fight with
dempsey, which, according to Tex
Rickard, will not be held until Oc-
tober Of next year. If Firpo is will
ing and there is no doubt he will
be. the Argentine puncher will fight
all over the country between the first
OF May and the last of September.
Has Plenty of Offers.
Every city that has a big native
son is bidding for Luis, and the
chances are that such battles as one
between Firpo and Miske in st. Paul.
Fulton and Firpo in MINNEAPOLIS
Martin Burke and Firpo in New Or
leans, and 50 on. will be held.
What we want" says Garland.
"is to fill Firpo to the brim with ex-
perience against the best fighters
available. That is all he needs to
Dempsey than he had last Septem-
Der. And by this I don't mean so
much lighting experience as knowl-
edge of ring strategy and acquaint-
ance with the methods OF referees
The manager added that from the
way managers of various cities Of
the United States and Canada arc
blddlng Tor Firpo'S services he could
night every week from the time hc
arrives in this country until the time
comes to get ready for Dempsey.
AS for training the big Souti,
A American, that will be attended to br
Billy Bloxan, who was associated
with Mickey Walker and other good
boys. and is now in the employ of
Garland and McCarney
Dempsey Enjoying Himself.
Jack Dempsey is in the city enjoy
ing himself. In a business sense. his
presence is being used by Jack
kearns in the way of publicity. AS
in the past, the champions sheer
presence here is all that is required
to fill the newspaper columns.
Kearns says that one fight is as
sured--that against Firpo-although
no papers have been signed and none
will be until the dapper manager is
certain he has squeezed every cent
out of a proposition that can be
squeezed. Right here 1t might be
said that any figure Kearns has
hitherto named as the price for the
services of his man will size up as
moderate compared to his present
ambitions.
(Copyricht 1922
Evening star., 1923-12-17
CHAPTER zThe Base Ball
That Blew Up.
BY HANS WAGNER.

Manager Barrow, l think, took
sort of fancy to me. | must
have made him laugh. He knew
that | could hit that base bali
sock the old onion, as they cali it
nowadays-and let me do lot of
things. played in about every
job, except pitch. He had heard
about my pitching in Akron. He
did let me pitch i'll an exhibition
game once. 1 was always willing
and eager to do anything. | was
a big. husky boy and simply loved
to play base ball.
While l was playing with Pater-
son they got up the first idea of
playing night base ball. You see,
that idea is not new at all.
Barrow and Mckee made ar
rangements for our team to play
the first night game at Whining
ton, Del. They had the place all
illuminated with big electric lights
and it looked like it might be
success. When darkness came
on and the crowd got there the
prospects didn't look so good.
The light was too dim to see
line fly and it was impossible to
make a good catch in the outheld.
To hit an ordinary base ball
would have been out of the ques-
tion. They had made up a sort
Of base ball like the indoor base
balls they use now. 1t was even
hard to see that.
The public was disappointed
from the start AS the game
went along they got worse and
worse and gave everything the
razz. The players began to take
the thing as joke.
Wilmington had pitcher
named Amole who was quite a
kidder. He had been planning to
get me all evening. The second
time l was un he pitched the big
white looking base ball at me
and when / smacked into it the
whole thing exploded and came
near blowing up the place.
They had got torpedo and
put it inside one of those balls
iust to have laugh on me. Thew
certainly did get one. I'll never
forget that thing flashing and
going off like a cannon when l
Slammed it.
The crowd didn't get any laugh,
though. Instead they got sore
and made a rush on the box Office
to get their money back.
What Stallings Wouldn't Give.
Before that Mckee and Barrow
and the Wilmington fellows had
counted up and divided the
money. I'll never forget the way
those fellows scooted down the
street to escape that crowd and
save what little money was taken
in.
Evening star., 1923-12-17
American League Plans to Boost Boston No Chance Jeff

Hans Wagner's name appears
on every all-American all-star
base ball team for all time, and
what the time star doesn't
know about base ball doesn't
amount to much. In this, the
story of his career told by him
self, he tells you what he knows
the skill of men and teams and
plays, the development of the
American national game, all the
ins and outs that the base ball
fan of today wants to know
about. He gives pointers to the
youngster and the college player
and he tells the old hand where
he can look for new delights by
watching for fine points that
most of us overlook. Hans Wag.
ner's story is more than this,
however; to it he has brought
his sound philosophy and knowl-
edge of men, so that the diamond,
as he talks of it, becomes as
broad as the whole world. And
with a simplicity that makes alb
sOrbing reading, he has accom-
pIished what many skilled writ
ers fail to achieve; he has given
a living, fulI-length portrait of
man-himseIf.
Evening star., 1923-12-17
RECORD GOLF PURSE
OFFERED BY TEXANS

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, December Il.
Southern golf clubs will pour ap-
proximately $4,000 into the hands of
Americas golf professionals during
the winter as prizes for seven lead
ing tournaments. The state season
will start with the big Texas open
golf championship in San Antonio
February 1416 for a $4,000 purse
the largest ever offered in golf.
The tournament for 1924 promises
to attract the worlds greatest golf
ers. for Arthur Havers. the British
open champion. and James Ockenden.
French open champion, who are in
America, may be here 10 contest the
laurels now held by Walter Hagen.
Nearly all the leading professionals
including Hagen, Jose Kfrkwood, Jim
Barnes. Gene Sarazen. John Black
Macdonald Smith, Bobby Cruikshank
Bob Macdonald and scores of others
have announced their intention of
competing in the San Antonio classic.
and then proceed on through the
south for the other tournaments.
Evening star., 1923-12-17

That was the end of night base
ball | had almost forgotten that
torpedo ball until Barrow re-
minded me of it while | was Dig
ging up old incidents.
Ed Barrow was smarter base
ball man that | realized then. He
must have seen that | would land
in the big league some day so he
; set about to get good price tor
me. There were scouts around
there every day toward the end
of the season. There were hve
OF them on the bench at one
time.
George Stallings, who was
managing the Philadelphia club,
came over to take a look at me.
He and Barrow were close
friends and Ed had tipped HIM
off
On that day | was playing the
outheld and, in trying to show
off. made two long throws to the
plate. l got them entirely too
long and both throws went into
the grandstand. making the spec
tators scatter. Stallings must
have been disguised.
well, what will you give for
him?" Barrow asked George.
"Give for him." Stallings re-
peated with a sniff. Why, |
wouldn't give that big bum his
carfare from here to Philadel-
phia." -,
That is why, reckon, l did not
ioin the Phillies. And | don't
blame Stallings at that. | GER
tainlv was heaving 'em wild.
Then there came a lot more
scouts. Prominent among them
was Harry Pulliam, then con-
nected with the Pittsburgh club,
of which Barney Dreyfuss was
the owner. Harry Pulliam. you
know, was later president OF the
National League.
In case you do not remember
that far back. Barney Dreyfuss
first owned the Louisville club
and when the twelve-club league
was cut down to eight he took
the whole club to Pittsburgh,
where he IS now.
Puliiam stayed around there
watching me for FIVE days. Some
days | would play good and at
other times l would be bad. He
decided, though, had the max
Evening star., 1923-12-17
ings OF ball player in me. He
wanted to put in bid.
$1,000 q Good Price Then.

ings OF ball player in me. He
wanted to put in a bid.
$1,000 a Good Price Then.
Barrow, in signing me for Pat
erson, after Pittsburgh had sign
ed me to be farmed out III Kan
sas-the scheme that didn't GO
through-agreed to give Mr..
Kerr, president of the Pittsburgh
club. first chance at my services.
Harry Pulliam finally offered
$1,000 for me, which was a good
price i'll those days. Barrow
asked him to wait He then
telegraphed Mr.. Kerr, who said
that he also would give $1,000.
That, of course, made it neces-
sary for Barrow to sell me to
Pittsburgh unless Louisville made
a bigger offer.
This was telegraphed to Kerr
and as he never answered the
message Barrow sold me TO
Louisville for 2,10o The funny
part of it is that / went to
Pittsburgh later on, after all
There has been a good deal of
talk about how | was sneaked to
Louisville and all that, but the
deal was made just as | have
told it. Barrow kept his word.
If Kerr had answered the tele-
gram he might have got me.
Personally. didn't care where
l went. All l wanted was to play
base ball, the bigger the league,
the better.
In the same deal that sent me
TO Louisville George Smith was
sold to New York for $3.50. What
do you know about that? George
was a great ball player. He was
later manager Of the Giants. 1t
was about George. | believe, that
John McGraw had his first run
in with Andrew Freedman when
McGraw first became manager OF
the Giants. The American
League war was on and McGraw
went out to get some players.
He was particularly anxious to
get Smith and signed him at a
big salary, something like five or
six thousand dollars. That was
a lot of money IN 1901.
Just the same Barrow sold him
for $3.50 and New York thought
they had paid good price. For
Evening star., 1923-12-17
NEARLY 200 COURSES
FOR GOLF IN WINTER

CHICAGO, December 17.-Nearly
200 golf links now are available for
winter play in the south, including
the Pacific coast. and most of them
are 1s-hoIe courses with grass greens.
The south has 102 links on which
tourists may play for a nominal fee,
while the far west has nearly as
many. California leads the semi
tropical states with 3S links, while
Florida has 35.
So great was the demand on these
courses last winter after steadily
increasing hegira of golfers from the
north that many new links have been
built recently to keep up with the
demand for playing facilities. With
all this enterprise. however, golfers
report that the stroke of the shovel
ers cannot keep pace with the golfer,
and many new courses are under
construction.
Resort cities have found that the
greatest drawing card for northern
tourists is a golf links. and some of
the newer southern towns have out
stripped older places in winning the
fiocks Of tourists with their wealth
of money by installing a good golf
club before the established resorts
awoke to the situation. Bathing and
fishing still are popular WITH winter
sojourners, but they do not want to
fish all the time, and they cannot
stay in the water or lounge on the
beaches for more than half a day at
a time. they say. Most of them de-
mand golf and they are getting it
as fast as the links can be built.
golf architects report.
Next to California and Florida, the
largest number OF golf courses for
the winter wanderers are found
in Texas and Georgia. each state
having thirteen. Tennessee pro-
yides nine, North Carolina eight
and Alabama and Louisiana six
each, At least those were the fig
ures for the more provident golf
states few weeks ago. But, with
scaper working overtime, course
larger figures almost daily.
Evening star., 1923-12-17
VIENNA FULL OF GAME;
HUNTERS REAP HARVEST
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
VIENNA, December lin proba-
bly, no city in the world is so much
game to be found, in season, as in
the markets Of Vienna. Partridges
and pheasants were lately seen in
every shop, even in the poorer quar-
ters, and now the hare-drive season
is on and carloads of them are COM
mon. They are the large European
hare. ranging from six to twelve
pounds, and form one of the principal
food articles of the country.
These hares are killed in huge ring
drives. Often from ten to fifty or
more guns are invited and. with one
or two beaters between each gun. the
ring of shooters and drivers, some
times a mile in diameter, slowly
closes in. AS shots are directed
groundward there is little danger to
The hunters. 1t is not unusual for
! 900 animals to be killed in one days
shooting.