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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-30

In baseball, Pleasantville was
represented by. it's old favorites, the
Regulars. With a lineup of stars,
this team started in from the begin
ming to clean up all opposition. If
there was any championship of
South Jersey at all, the team should
have won the laurels. At the end
of the season IA out of % games
had been won. Tile only teams
that gained victory over the To-
Gals were the Atlantic City Police,
Melrose, Morris Guards, Beach Ha-
ven, Bridesburg and Bacharach Gil
ants. The Cops and Melrose were
both defeated three out of five
games by Pleasantville.
Emory Helfrich, versatile athlete
copied the batting honors for the
team, chalking up an average of
.448. He was closely followed by
Kuehnle, with 1923.
The Pleasantville A. C. football
team, after great deal of prepare
ton, started like house afre, but
something happened in the middle
of the season. The team seemed
to crack, and the season ended with
the balance pretty much even in
games won and lost. Defeats at
the hands of Sylvania and the
Olympics precluded any claim to
the South Jersey title honors.
The high school football team, in
it's first year under Coach AL He
delt, did very we'll The team won
8, lost and tied games Several
of the contests were lost by narrow
margins, and some hard fought con.
tests were seen on the Floral ave-
nue. gridiron. The team scored 81
points, against LAG for its oppon-
ents. A wealth of young material
was discovered, and Coach Hedelt
has predicted that next years team
will be hard to beat.
In basketball the American Lee
gion team won five and lost five in
it's first season on the courts. The
PleasantviIle high school team dur
ing the 1926-27 season did well,
playing some of the toughest OPP
ponents in this section
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-30
BY JACK soRDS

Like Eddie Collins, Joe Bush
will spend the sunset of his base
ball career with the Athletics, the
team with which he first gained
fame as a pitcher. He comes from
the Toledo club where he served
as pitcher and pinch hitter last
season.
Few baseball players have had
more meteoric rise to fame than
Bullet" Joe. He served only one
year in the minors, and that in a
class D league, the old Union
Association league. He won 20
games and lost II for Missoula of
that league in 1912 and immediate
ly hurdled the c, B, A and AA
leagues and landed right in the
American league in time to win a
game for the Athletics before the
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-30
Peasantville Teams Close Successful Year of Spor

Another ball player who left his
home town callow youth with the
world ahead and success merely a
hope, goes back to his old haunts
with an enviable record as a ball
player in the selection of Frank
Snyder as manager of the Houston
club of the Texas League.
Snyder started his professional
baseball career with the Victoria
Club in the Southwest Texas
League back in 1910. The next
season he moved over to the San
Antonio club and then broke away
from home ties the following sea-
son to play with Flint (Mich) in
the Southern Michigan League.
1t was his work as a catcher with
that club that caused the st. Louis
Cardinals to sign him. They farm
ed him to Springfield in the Central
League part of the following sea
son and then tossed him into the
game regularly. He became one of
the steadiest catchers in baseball
and served the Cards until the end
of the 1919 season, when he was
sent east TO the Giants in a trade.
For seven years ne was one of
the mainstays of the Giant staff
and then, at the close of the 1926
season, was offered chance to re-
turn to Cardinalville. This he re-
fused to do when he refused a CON
tract satisfactory to him.
While he was cooling his heels
the Cardinals won pennant and
Snyder's share was passed out am
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-30

Why not make the winter season
bit interesting by some real novel
trades?
Why not have Sam Breadon swap
what he thinks of Rogers Hornsby
for what McGraw would like to do
to the folk who still insist on call
ing him Muggsy?
Or have Barney Dreyfuss sell
Earl Smith to the Dodgers and have
the movie men snap Earl and Da-
vey Bancroft embracing each other
at the station (railroad and then
police?
The Pirates, having disposed of
Yde, are in need of a southpaw.
Why not offer DOME Bush's opinion
of Clark Griffith for a good left
hander-who won't mind batting
ninth, let alone second?
Or let Frank Navin trade the
things he said about Ty Cobb for
whatever he can get to help George
Morarity?
Or let Charlie Comiskey trade
whatever satisfaction he got out of
snubbing Ban Johnson as he step
ped out of office for a good short
stop?
Or give Bill Carrigan a chance to
trade his Red Sox team for the
winners of the National Amateur
Baseball Federation title last sum
mer?
Surely something could be done
along this line The trading done
so far has brought but little benefit
to anyone but the uniform makers.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-30

curtain came down on the 1912
season.
He won Is games and lost seven
the following year, his first full
season in the majors, and with
Wallie Schang, also serving his
first year, formed the kid battery
that turned back the Giants in the
third game of the world series.
That year made Bush a fixture In
the big leagues until he went to
Toledo last year
Since leaving Philadelphia after
the 1917 season he dished them up
for five other major league clubs:
Boston, New York, st. Louis and
Washington in the American
league, and Pittsburgh in the
National. His best year was 1922
when he won 26 games and lost
only seven for the Yankees.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-30
Baseball Team OutShineS
Others In Accomplishment;
Outlook For 1923 Is Good
Regulars Go Through Season Winning IA Out of % Games
Coping Mythical South Jersey Championship
Football Teams Good

The sports year in Pleasantve during 1927 marked
by several high spots AS whole the records made be local
teams fair with number of individual athletes show
ing great promise This city represented in almost
cry branch of sport during the year. from the showng
made it is indicated that 1923 will greater things
cOmpiShed by local athletes. = ,o.an n,...,.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-30
BAPTIST QUINTET
TO PLAY OUAKERS
Teams Will Face On Bap-
fist Gymnasium Tonight

The Baptist Juniors quintet viii
play the Quaker Juniors tonight at
the Baptist gymnasium. The church
team is one of the fastest on local
courts, and has not been defeated
this year. Although Adams, Bap-
fist center, has sprained knee,
Coach Ryan will probably start
him in the game. The teams may
line up as follows:
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-30

1erre baseball became civil
i;xed the man in the electric
char had it on the umpire. He
krsW when he was going to be
Tiled.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-30
BOWLING
AHeoTT's LEAGUE

The scores in the Abbott's
League play last week follows:
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-30

ong the other players of course.
Last year the vet saw the error
of his ways but the long layoff ham
dicapped him. He was heavy and
slow.
The Houston club is one of the
Cardinal farms, SO that he is still
in Sam Breadon's employ and is
counted ON to produce future greats
for the National League entry.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-30

Rutgers college students are taxi
ing up boxing. A lot of EN- will
dive for dear old Rutgers
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-10
"Lincoln's Best Story"
Conveys Good Lesson

Sometimes we think the study of sci
entitic agriculture is a new thing and
only thought of within the last few
years. Giants of intellect, Ike the
great and dearly beloved Lincoln, saw
far ahead of their times, even con-
corning such homely matters as the
fertility of the soil. We give our
readers below what is considered / IN
coins best story. 1t was told to an
assembly of farmers at the end Of an
address. We commend it, and the les
son it conveys, to every thoughtful
reader:
'An eastern monarch once charged
his wise men to invent him a sentence
to be forever in view, and which
should he true and appropriate at all
times and situations. They presented
him the words, And this, too, shall
pass away And yet, let us hope 1t
is not quite true Let us hope, rather
that by the best cultivation of the
physical world beneath and the moral
world within us. we shall secure an
individual, social and political pros
perity and happiness, whose course
shall be onward and upward, and
which, while the earth endures, shall
not pass away.'-Farmer and Breeder.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-10
AMan of Sorrows
In Memory, February L.

They thought him but a clown, tact
less boor
Who filled his days and nights with
quips and jests;
His hours were needless as his purse
was poor;
Without ambition, blind to worthy
quests,
He dragged along his days; a human
clod
Who scorned religion. Knocked and
fouted God.
How far they erred! A man of sor-
rows he,
Who bore within his heart fatal
wound.
Bereft of those he loved. the sympathy
He craved and hungered for could
not be found;
The men with whom he walked from
day to day
Knew not he trod dark and lonely
way.
A man of sorrows, born to pain and
grief,
Yet would he not inflict his woes on
men.
In jests and jokes he sought to find
relief;
Thus gaining strength. he walked
erect again.
Such was the man they called wag
and clown,
The bywood-and the glory-of his
town.
Thomas Curtis Clark.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-10

repeating with emphasis plain peo-
ple), take them as you find them, fare
more easily influenced by broad and
humorous illustration than in any 9TH
er way, and what the hypercrltical
few may think, l don't care
TN speaking Mr.. Lincoln had a Pc
culiar cadence in his voice, caused by
laying emphasis on the key-word of
the sentence
''In answer to the question how he
knew so many anecdotes, he an
swered:
"'I never invented a story, but I
have good memory ana, l think, tell
one tolerably well. Ny early life was
passed among pioneers who had the
courage and enterprise to break away
from civilization and settle in the
wilderness. The things which hap
pened to these original people and
among themselves in their primitivG
conditions were far more dramats
than anything invented by the prcfGs-
sional story tellers.
"'For many years I travelled the
circuit as a lawyer and usually there
was only one hotel in the country
towns where court was held. The
judges, the grand and petit juries, the
lawyers, the clients and witnesses
would pass the night telling exciting
or amusing occurrences and these
were of infinite variety and interest.
Inharmonious Cabinet.
Referring to Lincolns adroitness In
handling men and his personal humil-
ity, Mr.. Depew says: ea-sa.z
mo President ever had q cab
which the members were so inc
ent, had so large individual fol
and were so inharmonious. Tb
dents sole ambition was to Sc
ablest men in the country for
partments which he assigned
without regard to their loyalt
self. One of Mr.. Stewards sec
would frequently report to me tie acts
of disloyalty or personal hostility on
the part of Mr.. Chase with the la
ment: The old man-meaning Lin
coln-knows all about it and will not
do thing"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-10
Lest We Forget
LincoIn's Gettysburg Address.
November 10, 1853.


-Four score and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent
a new nation conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal. Now we are
engaged in a great civil war, testing
whether that nation, so conceived and
so dedicated, can long endure. We
are met on a great battlefield of war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of
that field as a final resting place for
those who gave their lives that that
nation might live. But, in a large
sense, we cannot dedicate-we can
not conservative cannot hallow-
this ground. The brave men, living
and dead, who struggled here have
consecrated it, far above our power
to add or detract. The world will
little note nor long remember what
we say here, but 1t can neveH forget
what they did here. 1t is foP US, the
living, rather, to be dedicated here to
the unfinished work which they who
fought here have this far so nobly ad-
vanced. 1t is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining
before US that from these hOnored
dead we take increased devotion to
that cause for which they gave the
last full measure of their devotion
that we here highly resolve that those
dead shall not have died In vain-that
this natlon-under God, shall have
new birth of freedom-and that gov
eminent of the people, by the people,
for the people, shall not perish from
the EARTH
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-10

combat, but extended through a whole
campaign. The meetings were held
in the open air, for no hall was large
enough to accommodate the immense
crowds that assembled at each place
to hear the discussion. The speeches
We're published in all the principal
newspapers of the country and were
eagerly read by majority of the
voters in the United States. The at
tention of the people was thus ar
rested and the whole nation was
aroused on this one vital question of
the day IS it had never been before
Douglas secured the immediate OBJ
ject of the contest In retaining his
seat in the United States senate; but
the vigorous logic, the honesty and
sincerity and the great intellectual
powers exhibited by Lincoln prepared
the way for his nomination and cleo
ton to the Presidency two years later
which was really the goal of Doug
las ambition and the ultimate object
of the Lincoln-Douglas debate.
DOUGLAS Patriotism.
1t Is a touching incident and happily
illustrates the patriotism that inspired
both of these statesmen, widely as
they differed in political policy and
keen as had been their rivalry just
as soon as the life of the republic was
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-10

menaced they joined hands to shield
and save the country they both loved.
When Abraham Lincoln walked out
to the east steps of the capitol to
deliver his inaugural address and take
the oath of office as President of the
United States-facing a great crowd
of people, among whom were many
who would gladly have taken his life
the man who accompanied him and
who stood close by his side, the man
who was the first to take his hand
and pledge his unqualified support
in the great task Lincoln had assumed
as President of a distracted country.
was Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Tn
fortunately for the country, Douglas
died few months later-June 3, 1861
and the cause Of the Union and sup.
port of the administration was de-
priyed of his great influence.
IN RESPONSE TO invit"ti0ns Lincoln
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-10
Lincoln on Agriculture

To speak entirely within due bounds
1t Is known that 80 bushels of wheat
and 100 bushels of corn can be pro-
duced from one acre.
Take so of wheat and 100 of corn
to be the possibility and compare it
with the crops of the country.
Unquestionably it will take more
labor to produce so bushels from an
acre than it will to produce 10 bushels
from the same acre; but will it take
more to produce 80 bushels from one
acre than from five?
More thorough cultivation will re-
quire more labor TO the acre, but will
1t require more to the bushel?-Abra-
ham Lincoln.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-10
Country's Needs
Ever First in
LincoIn's Mind

Chauncey NJ. Depew, former United
States senator, in an installment of
Leaves From My Autobiography"
Scribner's Magazine, a retrospection
of his childhood, youth and public
service covering a period of eighty
years, told some new anecdotes of Lin
coin, Grant, Andrew Johnson, Seward,
Chase, Commodore Vanderbilt and
other notable men of Civil war days.
II had a long and memorable inter-
view with President Lincoln" Mr.. De-
pew writes of visit he paid to Wash
ington in 1868 when he was secretary
of state for New York. GAS I stepped
from the crowd in his reception room
he said to me: What do you want?
I answered: Nothing, Mr.. President.
I only came to pay my respects and
bid you goodby, as I am leaving Wash
ington.' TT is such luxury he then
remarked, to find a man who does not
want anything. Iwish you would wait
until I get rid of this crowd
Some Lincoln Stories.
"When we were alone he threw him
self YEARLY on lounge and was evil
IDENTIFY greatly exhausted. Then he in
dulged, rocking backward and for
ward, in a reminiscent review of the
different crises in his administration
and how he had met them. In nearly
every instance he had carried his
al
his adversaries by a story so apt, so
'on all fours,' and with such complete
answers that the controversy was
over. 1 remember eleven Of the
stories, each of which was a victory"
Lincoln was always on the lookout
for a good yarn, although he told De-
pew he never invented" one
One night there was reception in
the executive mansion. Rufus c. An
drews, surveyor of the port of New
York and confidential adviser of the
President on New York affairs, at
tended the reception with Mr.. Depew.
AS the procession of handshakers
moved past, Lincoln stopped Andrews,
anu, lCet4I4I4S ONNIy SpbhS NClS NCIlll-
dentially to him, delaying the cere-
monies for some time. Momentous Is
sues were impending. Lincoln was In
the midst of the campaign for renomi-
nation, his cabinet was inharmonious,
the war was on and decisive battles
were about to be fought, Newspaper
men and politicians buttonholed An
drews on his return to his hotel.
Andrews made great mystery Of
his confidential conversation with Lin
coin and so did the press" Mr.. Depew
writes He explained to me when we
were alone that during his visit to the
President the night before he told Mr..
Lincoln a new story. The President
delayed him at the reception, saying:
Andrews, I forgot the point Of that
story you told me last night; repeat
1t now"
Appealed to "Plaln People"
al am accused Of telling great
many stories.'" Mr.. Depew quotes
Lincoln. "'They say that 1t lowers
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-10
Public Sentiment First

Public sentiment is everything.
With public sentiment nothing can
fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Consequently he who molds public
sentiment goes deeper than he who
enacts statutes or pronounces deci-
sions. He makes statutes and deci-
sions possible or impossible to be exc
cuted.-Abraham Lincoln,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-10

visited the cities Of indianapolis, Gin
cinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Pitts
burgh, and other places in the East
on his journey from Springfield to
Washington-a journey that occupied
about ten days, marked by official re-
ceptions and great crowds of people
anxious to see and hear the man upon
whom the destinies of the country de
pended. Every word of the President
elect on this journey was carefully
scanned for some light by which to
read the troubled and uncertain fu-
ture. Measuring his words with I'M
usual caution, he avoided any an
nouncement of policy, but the coun-
try was nevertheless able to read be-
tween the lines that it had made no
mistake in the man to whom 1t had
conflded the preservation of the gov
eminent.
Pathetic Leave Taking.
Nothing in the history of Lincoln is
more pathetic than the scene of his
departure from Springfield on the
morning of February II, 1861, when
he babe farewell to his old friends
and neighbors. The scene is thus de-
scribed by Lincoln's biographer:
"a throng of at least a thousand of
Lincoln's friends and neighbors had
gathered at the dingy little railroad
station at Springfield to bid him good
by. 1t was cloudy, stormy morn
Ing, which served to add gloom and
depression to their spirits. The leave
taking became a scene of subdued
anxiety, almost of solemnity. Mr.,
Lincoln took a position in the waiting
room where his friends filed past him
often merely pressing his hand in 81
lent emotion. The half-tinished cere-
mony was broken by the ringing bell
and rushing train The crowd closed
about the railroad car into which the
President-elect and his party had en-
tered. Then came the central Incl
dent of the morning. Once more the
bell gave notice of starting, but the
conductor paused with his hand lifted
to the bell rope Mr.. Lincoln ap-
peared On the platform of the car and
raised his hand to command attention.
The bystanders barred their heads to
the falling snowfiakes and standing
thus his neighbors heard his voice for
the last time in the city of his home"
May Have Foreseen Fate.
Lincoln's farewell address to his
Springfield neighbors is expressed in
words so chaste and pathetic that 1t
reads as If he already felt the tragic
shadow of forecasting fate. mo one,
he said, "can realize the sadness I feel
at this parting. now leave, not know
ing when or whether ever l may re-
turn. go to assume task more diff
ficut than any that has devolved upon
any chief executive since Washington.
Without the assistance of that Divine
Being who ever attended him | cannot
succeed-with that assistance | can
not fail. Trusting in Him who can 20
with me and remain with you, and be
everywhere for GOOD, let us confident
ly hope that ell will be well. To His
care l commend you, as hope in your
prayers you will commend me. bid
YOU an airectionato farewell" And as
he waved his hand in farewell to the
old home, to which he was never to
return. the ferveut response from
many Of his old friends: God bless
and keep you; God protect you" They
were Borrowing most of all for the
words he spake," impressed with d
rceius that they would see his face
80 -"