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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21

hit and then continued in the game,
but rating them as pinch hitters
only, the. list is headed by Mike
Gazella of the Yankees who had ar
average of .444 in ten games.
The real leader, however, is Her
schell Bennett of the Sts Louis
Browns, with a mark of .42S in so
games. He was at bat % times
and cracked out a dozen blows. Gene
Robertson, teammate of Bennett's,
who hardly hit his weight as a regu-
lar, proved himself 400 hitter IN
a pinch.
Johnny Neum OF the Tigers played
in 4S games in the role of pinch
hitter only.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
RIrRGER REATS HART

DODGE CITY, Kans., Dec. 2O.-P)-
Roy "Hoot" Burger, Dodge City heavy
weight, knocked out wild Bill" Hart
of Butte, Mont, in the fourth of a
scheduled 1O-round bout here tonight.
Hart went down for a count of eight
after a pair of lefts had landed on his
jaw at the opening of the round.
Groggy, he rose, again to receive the
nightcap.
Elmer )McMullen of Dodge City and
Joe Marks of Philadelphia fought an
eight-round draw. Walter Page of
Dodge City knocked out Tommy Lane
of Denver in the fourth of a scheduled
eight-round bout.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
HUSKY EASTERN
STARS
TO INVADE West

CHICAGO, Dec. 20 P).-A score of
the huskiest college boys of the ease
and middle west gathered here 20.
night for an invasion of the west,
seeking the scalps of an equal num-
Der of westerners in the annual east
west game at San Francisco New
Years day.
Thirteen are from eastern schools
and seven from the Western con :
ference. Taking their measurements
tonight for the blue and gold jer-
seys they will wear in the game
showed that they are mostly size
"44," bulking around 18O to 200
pounds apiece. They left tonight at
S o'clock on the Chicago and North
western Oriental Limited.
The lineup of the eastern all-stars
is as follows:
Ends: Kenneth Weston, Penn
State; William Flora, Michigan; Mike
Goodman, Carnegie Tech.
Tackles: Harry Hawkins, Michi-
gan; Earl Wilkie, Wisconsin; Rot
Johnson, Northwestern; Lloyd Yoder'
Carnegie Tech.
Guards: Ross McHenry, West Vir-
ginia; Butch Slaughter, Michigani
sgd Dewey, Michigan.
Centers: Austen Struebel, ,Wiscon
sin; James Desmond, Loyola, Balti-
more.
Backfield: Dan Allen, Yale; Wal.
ter Diehl, Bucknell; Louis Raber'
! Washington and Lee; William Prit'
chett, Penn State William Amos
Washington and Jefferson; Frank
Kirkleski, Lafayette; George Neal
Western Maryland.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
FILLINC THE Box SCORE

Four clubs in the American league
sent as many as 20 players into
baseball game during the 1926 sea-
son. The clubs were Washington,
Philadelphia, Boston and New York.
On April 13 a score of Red SoS
graced the box score, six of them
pitchers. A week later, Manager
"Bucky'' Harris of the Senators used
20 players. The Athletics shot 20
names into the box score when they
played the Tigers on August 20, and
the Yankees used a similar number
against Macks gang on August 81.
The greatest number of men in
one game was 35. On July 10, Chi
cago used 1S players and Philadelphia
IL On June "a, Philadelphia marched
out 16 players against the Senators
who came back with 10.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
REALM OF SPORT
(By the Associated Press)
FEWER BALL PLAYERS USED

Fewer players saw service in the
American league during the 1926
season than the year previous. There
We're 243 players entered IN the 1926
box scores, while a year before 264
got their names in the records. This
season 80 of the registered players
were pitchers or classed as SUCH as
compared with 1O2 players who We're
listed rs twirlers in 1925.
The major league rules permit each
club to carry 40 players until the
season is a month under way, when
the rosters are trimmed to 25. Again
in the closing month the clubs can
increase to 40 again, to enable them
to look over newcomers.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
FRENCH sTALL1oN,s RECORD

Rabelais, the Oldest stallion in the
French thoroughbred stud, heads the
list of sires that produced the best
winners of the season on French
tracks. He is 26 years old and is
still going strong. Fifteen of his
foals were registered this year ana
his card for next season is full,
A large part of the sums credited
to Rabelais were won by the sea-
sons scrack, Biribi, who was first
in the half million Triumphal Arch
stakes, and placed in the Derby and
Grand Prix.
Rabelais was foaled in 1900, by
Saint Simon, the English sire, out
of Satirical.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
GREATEST DEAL EVER
MADE IN BASEBALL
INVOLVES $5OO,OOO

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20 (AP)-Rogers Hornsby, man
ager Of the worlds champion Cardinals has been traded
to the New York Giants for frankie Frisch and Jimmy
Ring pitcher the St. Louis Globe Democrat said tonight
The paper said that the announcement had been made
at $50 p. m. by President Sam Breadon after long
distance telephone conversation with Charles Stoneham
president of the New York club.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
pErRoLLE KO,s MURRAY

MILWAUKEE,, Dec. 20. - tR - Billy
Petrolle of Chicago knocked out Les
Murray, Australian lightweight. in the
third round of a scheduled 1O-round
bout tonight. Spud Meyers, Pocatello.
Idaho, and Russi Leroy, Fargo, N d.
welterweights, fought a 1O-round draw,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
Gets Good Break

Getting good breaks plays, perhaps,
just as important part as pub
licity in creating fame.
For three years at Illinois, Grange
was the big thrill of western foot
ball The west knew what he could
do, the east had heard of him, but
was skeptical. The Atlantic sector
wanted to be shown.
With Grange at the top of his
game, Illinois scheduled a meeting
with Pennsylvania at Philadelphia,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
GRANGE DEGREES THE
ARREST OF SELE and
IN DALLAS

DALLAS, Tex. Dec 20 (AP)-Harold E. "Red'
Grange footballs "galoping ghost" and four members
Of his professional Yankee football teams tonight de-
plored misleading" the reports concerning arrest at
small hotel here at a. m. Monday.
They admitted that fines of $40 each had been paid
for them, but declared they held themselves guilty of
nothing than maybe making too much noise at
o;rr III
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
GERMAN PEOPLE IN SPORTS

The firm grip that sports have
taken on the German people is laud-
ed in an official report which says
that between Is and 20 per cent
of the population between the ages
of IA and so participates in athletics.
The figures do not include students
in public schools or universities.
Approximately one out of every
seven inhabitants, including men
women and children, is an active
member of an athletic club. The
German Turner's alone have mem
bership of 100000. The sport clubs
which are united under the super.
vision of the Olympic games cons
mittee number more than 100000
athletes.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
small College Star

If the big colleges secuted for
material as do the major leagues
many Il grid star would be dug up
in the smaller colleges.
Every now and then we find some
student athlete suddenly departing
from his small college for wider
athletic activities in the larger uni
Versities.
No doubt such cases are the result
of an enthusiastic alumnus of this
or that university bringing pressure
20 bear on the small college star by
painting a beautiful word picture of
what he was missing by hiding
himself away in the sticks.
While the athletic council of any
of the larger universities would
frown on the very thought, l am
inclined to think that some of the
coaches would welcome a scouting
system that would bring them in =
few small college stars every fall.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
MONTANA TO PLAY PURDUE

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Dec. 20. Up =
Purdue university today scheduled a
football game here October 30, 1921
with Montant State college. The game
replacing the contests heretofore play
ed annually with Wabash college, gives
the Boilermakers two intersectional
games. The other is with Harvard
early in the 1927 season.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
WARMERS team
PRACTICES FOR
ALABAMA GAME

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Calif,
Dec. 20 lR.-Coach "Pop" Warner
sent his Cardinals, who play Ala
bama at Pasadena's Rose bowl New
Years day, back into scrimmagH
practice this afternoon after a nine
day layoff during which the squad
tackled it's examinations. Plans call
for daily session until Thursday.
when members of the team whose
homes are in Southern California
will be allowed to visit with their
families over Christmas. The re-
mainder of the squad will journey
south Sunday night and assemble at
Pasadena Monday to get in as much
work as possible before the game
Warner who personally secuted
the Crimson tide, has said that Ala
bama has a smooth-running and
powerful machine and he has warned
the Reds against overconfidence.
The veteran coach is quoted az
saying that Coach Wallace Wade
has heavier and perhaps better lines
men. than his own and that what the
tide may lack in driving power in
the backfield it makes up in speed
and deception.
Thirty men, including six firstt
string haifbacks and two thoroughly
trained men for each of the other
positions, comprises the squad that
Warner will take south.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
ALABAMA PRACTICEs

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Dec. 20 R.-
A long practice, made up mostly Of
snappy scrimmage, was held today
by the University of Alabama foot
ball squad, three times champions OF
the southern conference, on the eve
of it's departure for Pasadena, Calf,
to meet Stanford university, Pacific
coast champions, in its second New
Years day game in California tonrn-
ament of roses. Coach Wade said
the players were in the best condi-
tion of their career. All the regular
backfield regulars were in today's
scrimmage.
Much action was seen during to-
days practice. Combating Stanford
plays, as simulated by the scrubs.
the varsity men flashed brilliant
work as they ripped and tore
through the line and perfected their
aerial attack. A special train of
eight coaches will leave tomorrow
morning, bearing the team ana many
supporters to California. Hundreds
of other Alabama rooters inteno
making the journey by other trains,
and still others already have started
by automobile.
The Alabama special will make
stops en- route at New Orleans, San
Antonio, Ell Paso and Tucson.
In the latter two cities the team
will be given light workouts ana
practice will be tapered off at STAN
ford, where the gridsters will arrive
week before the game.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
BASKETBALL RESULTS

At Iowa City-Notre Dame, 49,;
Iowa, IS.
At Chicago: Northwestern university
32 Michigan State %.
Illinois, "a; Drake, 26 (overtime).
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
Publicity Helps Fame

Publicity makes for fame in sport,
particularly in football, where the
season is short. Intensive press
agenting has put over many an
athlete with a bang, who might have
been just run-of the-mine stuff had
he not been taken up by the experts.
"If this fellow was playing on one
of the varsity elevens of big
university, he would be in the head
lines constantly
That has been the gist of many
letters I have recently received from
writer's, coaches and officials in ex-
pressing their opinion of this or that
player, as All-American calibre.
1t is very true that certain play
ers of outstanding ability are almost
unnoticed because the small college
which they attend is comparatively
unknown.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
REFUSES ONE YEAR CONTRACT

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20.-P)-Refusing a
year contract at salary of $4,000,
Rogers Hornsby, manager of the world
champion st. Louis Cardinals, failed to
come to terms today at conference
with Sam Breadon, club president.
Hornsby requested a contract for three
years or more.
Breadon left the Cardinal offices fm-
mediately after the conference and
could not be reached for a statement.
Secretary Clarence Lloyd said, however,
that before departing, Breadon express
cd himself as less hopeful than ever or
coming to an agreement with Hornsby.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
Great cred" Grange

Had Red" Grange been playing
on Siwash instead of University of
Illinois and performed like feats, he
would not have gained national recog-
milton because of his super perform
ances on the gridiron. Who cares
what Grange of Siwash did?
However, Grange was at the great
University of Illinois, and did he
not in one game against Michigan.
coached by Fielding Yost. run through
the wolverines for four touchdowns
in - minutes of play?
That performance alone caused
Grange to get headlines even in the
village papers. Tt was first page
stuff there just as in the New York
and Chicago dailies.
Grange was a marvellous college
player and he represented the great
University of Illinois. That made
him big time copy.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
PINCH HITTERs LED REGULARS

Pinch hitterss in the American
league had considerable eGge over
the regulars last season. Freqrent
ly men were called upon to pinch
The critical east packed Franklin
Field with fingers crossed.
A few minutes after the whistle
had blown announcing the start OF
the game, Grange began doing his
stuff. His work against Penn rivaled
his Michigan performance.
In his one big chance in the east,
he more than delivereds
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21

The International Club. Quality and
service, in Aqua Prieta.-Advt.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21

Hornsby pointec out that he had
acted as manager nearly two years and
received only his players salary of
$4,000. He was appointed manager
after his three-year player contract,
which still has one year to run, was
drawn up.
A three-year contract at $4,000 a
year, Hornsby said, would including
the last two years "be at the rate of
$4,000 a year extra for managing the
team, which / do not think anyoneewill
say is unfair
Breadon so far has refused to offer
a contract for more than one year, be-
cause, he said, he did not want to inn
pose financial burden on the club in
case revenues should fall off after next
year.
No arrangement has been made for a
further conference between Hornsby
and Breadon, who have been at odds
for several months over various mat
ters pertaining to club management.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-21
"No Breakfast Complete Without
Tho Dispatch"

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AMERICAN LEGION
Minnesota Membership Jumps
Another 1000

Figures tabulated December
4th show 1000 Gopher Legion
naires in good stand-for 1927,
where ordinarily the race begins
January 1, 1927. Illinois, home
state of National Commader Saw
age, is a scant 1000 ahead of Min
nesota, while Michigan, rival for
Legion Little Brown Jug honors,
is way down on the scoreboard.
The home district of DIR. A. F.
Branton of Willmar, 1927 Men,
bership Director, is leading, hav-
ing passed the 1000 mark. Joe
MCGOWAN of Appleton is district
leader. Commander Morrow's
district, the first, is next in line,
then comes Commander Rand's
district, the Fifth (Mpls), these
places being rated on basis of per-
centage of 1927 quota enrolled.
Never in Minnesota Legion his
tory have so many members paid
dues for the next year at this ear
ly date. Indications point to more
than 10000 reinstatements by JAN
uary LIST when the battle, in other
years, was just commencing. Ev-
cry week is adding another one
thousand to the paid-up fold, de
termined to revenge that Michi-
gan football victory on the Legion
gridiron, as Membership Director
Branton urges.
Thirty thousand Legionaires in
Minnesota for 1927 is the slogan.
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Running Out" of Potatoes

The so-called running out" of
potato varieties, formerly attribut-
ed to lack of vigor due to long
propagation by vegetative meth
DDS, in most if not all cases is
caused instead by one or more of
several so-called degeneration or
I"virus" diseases, among them be-
ing leaf roll, mosaic, streak, and
spindle tuber.
While no method of seed treat
ment known will rid seed stock of
these diseases, careful research has
shown that by starting with strains
of potatoes discovered in localities
where little or no disease was
present, it is possible to grow
these under careful supervision in
isolated fields and thereby procure
superior seed.
By controlling insects which
spread the diseases and by prac-
ticing careful system of field
and bin inspection and roguing,
seed can be produced which is
not only true to variety and of
high productive capacity, but
which also carries minimum of
the virus and other diseases of
the crop.
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months August LIST to November
LIST or September LIST to December
LIST. In any event they must book
passage through Edwin l.. Lindill,
Minnesota Legion Department AID
jutant and France Convention Of
fcer, who will furnish all details
on request.
For those taking the regular
trip the cost for the various steam
ship Accommodations together with
U. S.. transportation and travel
ing expenses from Antwerp to
Paris and battlefield tour, also liv-
ing expense in Paris during the
convention, will range from 1920
to $500. What each buddy spends
on luxuries is another matter. A
$50 deposit is required when fill
ing official reservation, balance due
next spring, except U. S.. train
cost, which is paid direct to rail-
way ticket agent on presentation
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Oily one sure way 10 teHwhese a Cow belonss

er or not a cow responds to an
increase in feed, her maximum
milk production can be ascertain
ed.
The milk scales give the first in
dieation of the proftableness of a
dairy COW. By keeping a daily
record of the weight of each cows
milk, the dairyman knows def
nitely at the end of the year which
cow is good producer and which
is not. Weighing the milk daily
also enables him to feed each cow
according to her milk yield. This
is the only way to feed economi-
cally.
In order to make absolutely
sure, the butterfat content of each
cows milk may be determined by
the Babcock test. Such a test is
usually made once a month on a
composite sample of each cows
milk, covering a period of from
three to five days, to show the to-
tai amount of butterfat contained
in the milk production as recorded
daily on the milk sheet.
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Flax Growing Costs to be Studied

Tldx oTo"ihS SoSSo " JIG SsooiSA
For the purpose of determining
whether the duty on fiaxseed is
too high or too low, to equalize the
difference in costs of production
in this country and Argentina,
our chief competitor, the United
States tariff commission has sent
G. A. Billings, its agent, to ar
range for a study of production
costs in Minnesota, the Dakotas,
and Montana. The present duty
is 40 cents a bushel.
Mr.. Billings explains that where
linseed cake, byproduct in crush
ing fiaxseed for inseed oil, is ex-
ported, there is a drawback on
f1axseed imported according to the
value of the export. This actual
ly reduces the duty on fiaxseed
eight or ten cents bushel.
Points at which the study will
be made in Minnesota are Morris,
Hallock, and Dodge Center. AT
each point representatives of the
commission will interview at least
25 flax growers as to costs of pro-
duction Information given will be
held in strict confidence and used
only in averages from large num-
Der of farms.
1t is expected the work outlined
for the four states will require
about six weeks. The project cor
responds to the study made by the
commission some time ago of
wheat growing costs.
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Plants Can Use Rich Food

Heretofore it has been the
custom to add peat, ashes, sand
and other low-grade or inert ma
terial to fertilizer mixtures in or
der to prevent them from becom-
ing so caked and hard that they
must be reground before applica-
ton to the soil. Investigations by
the United States Department of
Agriculture have led to the man.
ufacture of high-analysis goods,
and later to concentrated fertiliz-
ers which do not cake and become
hard.
The ordinary fertilizers now on
the market have an average anal
ysis of about Is or 16 per cent.
High-analysis mixtures carry be-
tween 20 and 80 per cent of the
plant-food constituents, while con-
centrated fertilizers carry 80 per
cent and more of the fertilizing
constituents.
That the value of fertilizers in
increasing plant growth is not di-
minished by increasing their con-
centration is shown by field tests
of the department. Another de-
monstration of this fact was also
made in California where a new
worlds record yield of potatoes
was recently obtained with a con-
centrated fertilizer containing AT
per cent of plant food. In the
test mentioned the average yield
on 9 acres was 1,001 bushels, the
highest on a single acre being l.
'03S bushels.
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Page Three

of reducfare certificate furnished
when steamship rassage is booked
General John J. Pershing, flrsg
A. E. F. commander, was the first
to secure second A. E. IF. accommo.
dations. Howard Savage, Legion
National Commander, was second
Any eligible buddy may file reser-
walton with Mr.. Lindell any time
now. Passport difficulties have
been eliminated. While going to-
gether, The Gopher Gang may re-
turn in patches on steamships SAIL
ing at intervals between the con-
vention and Dec. Is from various
European ports. All must De
back by December 1st.
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Thursday, December 9, 1926
Agricultural Notes

The surest way to determine
whether a cow belongs in dairy
herd or in the packing house is
by keeping a record of her feed,
milk and butterfat, says the Blue
Valley Creamery Institute. Is is
generally true that two cows of
equal size require the same amount
of feed to keep them at a con-
slant weight.
Additional feed is needed to
produce milk. Therefore, a COW
should be fed according to her
size and the amount of milk she
is producing. By knowing wheth-
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year. Market prices may fiuctuate
greatly between breeding and mar
keting dates, but prices taken alone
should not determine the number
of sows to be bred at any breed
ing season.
The amount of available BY
products, such as skim milk, shat
tered grain from fields, unmarked
able products from the truck farm,
undigested grain in the droppings
Of fattening steers, and other mi
nor wastes of feed should be con-
sidered when calculating the num-
Der of hogs to be raised.
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bureau chiefs reveal interesting in
formation which seldom appears in
the daily press. For instance, the
Post Office Department, tracing
prosperity of the country shows
that the average per capita expen-
diture for postage during the fiscal
year of 1926 to $4.97, as compar-
ed with $4.69 last year. The an
nual reports of all government de-
partments anticipate prosperity
and only few sour notes are heard,
and these are in the agricultural
regions.