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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10

- CIENCE predicts that the invasion
of the Southland by major league
ball players for Spring training
~ will be accompanied by startling
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
Determining the athletes timing instinct:

spins at different speeds An electrical
recording device attached to the ma
chine computes his score as registered
by his various hits or misses.
THE technically trained scientists now
interested in athletics are trying to
prove or diSprove the verify of the pop
ular statement that athletes die young"
They seek to determine the longtime
effects of regular systematic and violent
exercise on the human body. The sta
tiStics collected over term of years
at Yale University indicate that gradu-
ates who were former athletes and now
are engaged in diverse occupations have
lived little longer on the average than
thir classmates who did not compete in
college sports during their undergrad
uate days.
White rats are the actors in the ex-
periments now in progress to discover
the effects of exercise on longevity
These rodents are divided into three
groups. One group is under exercised
another Is overexerciSed, while third
is subjected to a conservative amount
of physical exercise. The research will
be continued through five generations
of white rats in order to study the eff
fects of regular exercise, or lack of it,
on the progeny.
The base ball knowledge and skill of
the amateur or professional player can
now be ascertained accurately without
any test of the player in uniform. A
miniature playing field, with the reuui-
site number of electric midgets as play
ers, is used in this novel examination.
The player under test sits at a table
in front of the game board. The ex-
aminer manipulates the electrified play
ers from a neighboring room. The play
or is required to answer various base
ball riddles instantly as they flash be-
fore him on the dwarf diamond.
1t takes only few minutes of such
tests to demonstrate the class of the
ball player.
This base ball game board Is also
used advantageouSly in schooling tyros
in the fundamentals and inside points
OF the popular American sport. AS the
dummy players move about the dimi-
nutive diamond, various crises of the
game arise. The beginners are taught
just what to do at the vital moment In
each critical play. They practice the
maneuvers repeatedly on the game
board. Base ball plays become almost
automatic as result of the intensive
use of this device as a silent teacher |
When the unseasoned players appear
on the regulation diamond, they are |
rarely "stumped" by the plethora of |
plays which must be faced and solved. |
Psychology. which has thus far cen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
BY GENE A. DAY.

- CIENCE predicts that the invasion
of the Southland by major league
ball players for Spring training
~ will be accompanied by startling
innovations, including expert
psychologists and complicated electrical
equipment recruited to assist worried
managers in solving the riddles of the
ivory market.
There's an old saying among the dia-
mond "vets" to the effect that there's
only one creature dunber than a base
ball rookie-and that's another of the
same species"
Applied science, which is nothing more
than organized common sense, has
formed the habit these last few years
OF poking into corners and prying into
cubby holes. In this apparently aim
less search its emissaries came face to
face with the never-ending perplexities.
puzzles and viciSsitudes which attend
the positions of base ball manager. cap
tain, coach and owner of major league
club.
Science attempted to answer some of
the conundrums of base ball once and
for all time to come, because its dis
ciples In most cases gain diversion from
laboratory research in the SUM-
drenched bleachers, where American
fandom congregates and turns thumbs
up or down on the play of its favorites
Furthermore, science almost invariably
Is intrigued by unusual problems. Base
BAH offered plenty of them. Hence the
game which is played on diamond
has had the powerful microscope of
science focused on it. Science has
standardized and systematized its study
of base ball. 1t has thus far restricted
the application of its ingenious tests
and theories to amateur sandlot and
college mines. There is too much at
stake in a financial way in big league
base ball to offer such an organization
as the source of scientific expert
nentation. Hence science has confined
its pathfinding tests to college mines
and diamonds. AS surely as the fight
of migratory birds, however, the results
of this research will eventually perco-
late to professional diamonds and revise
certain features of the sport.
Take the case of Walter Johnson,
veteran moundsman, but new manager
of the Nationals, for example. His
troubles and worries would be curtailed
measurably if dependable scientific
means were available for measuring the
value of the rockies and of surveying
the skill of the odd hands" Technical
contraptions which would diagnose
what was wrong with a pitcher when
he contracted case of muscular ten
aion, or which would predict when an
tnfielder was going stale, or when an
outf1elder was about to lapse into a
batting slump, would be invaluable.
It would create laugh for the en-
tire league sidesplitter which would
endure until another pennant was
awarded if Walter johnson should sign
pre-eminent psychologist to assist the
coaches and to mold the Nationals into
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
Psychology Perfects Strange Test
ing Methods Which Solve Curl
Gus Secrets-Electrlcal Devices
Serve as Reliable Fortune Tell
ers of Diamond-Tyros Play
Ball on Game Boards With
Midget Dummies.

another championship contender. And
If Manager Johnson should introduce
such innovations as bats and bases
with electrical attachments, the sport
ing press would recount it facetiously
around the world. Yet the future "in-
side" tale of base ball will owe many
of its spectacular consummations to
exactly such appliances, or else scien-
tiflc prophets don't know what they
are talking about.
PIG business, industry and our ma
A. tional defense now use psychology
cal tests effectively In finding the
right man for the right job" These
tests are designed to divulge the par
ticular capabilities and adaptabilities of
the individual candidate for the task
in question. They Gull the At from the
misfit and separate those who can sue
coed from those who assuredly will fail.
This accurate classification of indi-
viduality as to position or profession
for which it is best qualified puts men
in their proper places and expedites
industry and commerce by eliminating
the inefficient workers. Athletics hav-
ing surveyed with great interest the
achievements accomplished by practical
psychology in the commercial world,
now seeks similar standardization for
those who engage in sports.
Washington, seat of four universities
and many secondary schools and equip
ped with all the research facilities of
the Government, is an ideal proving
ground for such athletic tests, although
nothing as yet has been done along
those lines. The athletic research, par
ticularly in base ball studies, has been
centralized chiefly at Columbia Uni
versity and the University of Illinois.
Recently duplicating the work at the
University of Illinois, the Universities
of Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota
have engaged prominent psychologists
as athletic aides to guide the teams
of those institutions to greater athletic
Criumphs.
The means, measures and methods
of indexing the adaptabilities of various
athletic candidates for teams in the
world of sports are extraordinary. For
merly, the athlete has had to prove his
worth on the field of play. This has
been the basis of final decision in select
ing the lineup of base ball mines, foot
ball elevens, basket ball quintets and
track squads. Athletes of latent ability
in one sport have failed of success in
another, purely because they selected
the wrong athletic pastime In which
to compete. Nature prohibits the trans
| formation of truck horse into a race
champion, yet American athletes, time
| and again, have attempted feats as
grotesque.
To know every popularity, idiosyn-
Grassy attribute and hobby of each
player in his charge is the aim Of the
! adept base ball coach. He studies the
players carefully, at bat. in the field
and on the bases. He keeps tab on how
| they catch, pick up and throw the ball,
how they stand at the plate, how they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10

swing and if they are in balanced po-
sition when the bat meets the ball.
The coach knows that by persistent
instruction he can improve the play
ing postures of the various players 1t
is more difficult, however, to educate
dull base ball wits into a keen diamond
mind-a mind ever ready to snatch VIC
tory from defeat by clever, heady
play.
Psychological tests bring to light
valuable information about individual
ball players, which may never other
wise be disclosed. They are of immeas-
urable Importance in increasing the
coaches knowledge concerning the play
ers they tutor They have already been
efficacious in inducing at least one for
mer big league player to acknowledge
their importance. He Is Carl Lundgren,
former prominent pitcher of the Chi
cago Cubs and now coach of the Uni
verSity of Illinois base ball nine.
For the last four years, Coach Lund-
gren has followed the advice of an ex-
pert psychologist, who co-operates with
him in making adept and finished ball
players out of crude raw material. The
mines coached by Lundgren are among
the leaders. Psychology plays no minor
part in their athletic victories
X X X
GENERAL bats used both in indoor
~ and outdoor practice are provided
with electrical connections. These do
not handicap the use of the bat in any
way. The wires which carry the mes
sage showing exactly when the bat COL
lides with the ball to special record
ing device in the psychological labora-
tory are several hundred feet long. The
batter's box and first base are also
equipped with electrified recording con-
nections.
The arrangement is such that science
can accurately time the interval clap
sing after the ball is struck until the
batsman dashes from the batter's box
and finally reaches first base, Strange
to say, this novel equipment proved
that it took many college players as
long to hit the ball and cover the first
10 feet to first base as it did for them
to run the balance of that distance after
they had developed full speed.
Science uses variety of statistical
tables in keeping track of the playing
peculiaritieS of the diamond athlete
One object of these records is to ascer-
tain the natural batting goal of the in
dividual player. The direction and final
position of all the balls which he hits
In batting practice are diagramed and
cl1arted. Thus, If a left-handed bat
ter hits persistently into the "fiy CATCH
ing" range of the right fielder, this hit
ter Is OF small use In scoring runs The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
Drop in Meat Eating.
The average American ate about

THE average American ate about
= pounds less meat last year than he
did the year before, and pounds less
than in 1926. a summary prepared by
the Department Of Commerce indicates.
There has been steady decline In the
amount Of beef and veal Consumed.
while pork has climbed but insuficiently
to balance the loss in beef produces
Lamb and mutton have held about evNA
Beef consumption has dropped from Q
per capita figure of 63.6 pounds in 1928
to SIT In 1928. while pork has risen
from $751; to 1919. Lamb and mutton
have stood at approximately So pounds
and veal has dropped from 80 pounds
tn 6.8 3ounda. \
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
Elk Pets Offered.

A NY one wishing an elk for o pet
need only apply to the Biological
Survey of the Department of Agricul-
ture, and make arrangements to remove
the animal from the National Bison
Range at no cost to the Government.
The elk herds have increased beyond
the carrying capacity of the range.
which is in Western Montana, and it
is necessary to dispose OF the surplus.
Some have already been sold, but now
the Government is willing TO give the
others away.
The cause for the action is the desire
to save what forage Is available for
buffaloes as we'll as to conserve hay.
Because of the lateness of the season,
the elk meat Is not now good for food.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
BEAVERS UNGRATEFUL

THE beaver has no gratitude. 1t is a
snake that bit the hand that fed it.
Any one doubling this statement is
referred to the authorities at Grand
Canyon National Park.
It all came about along the upper
stretches of Bright Angel Creek. The
beavers were active at this point and
many a cottonwood fell before the sharp
teeth of the water animals. The park
authorities, after some consideration,
decided that beaver was beaver while
a cottonwood was only cottonwood
The trees could be seen most anywhere
along Western streams, in the parks or
out, while beaver settlement, with the
dams made from trees sometimes of
almost unbelievable size, felled by the
beavers, was novelty that would in
terest the tourist sitting the reserva-
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ton. Therefore the beaver was well
coined and allowed to flourish.
Everything would have been all right
If the beaver had not turned explorer
and sought new worlds to discover.
Down the creek on the canyon bottom,
near Phantom Ranch, an interesting
lodge has been developed, surrounded
by shade trees which were planted to
give protection from the SUM- 1t was
an ideal little spot and virgin territory
so far as beavers were concerned. The
exploring colony took one look and went
no further. Now the shade trees are
coming down faster than park officials
can plant them.
Something must be done about It,
The Biological Survey of the Depart
ment of the Interior Is seeking a means
Of saving the shade trees as we'll as the
cottonwoods of the Phantom Ranch
without sacrificing the beavers.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-08-23
TELEPHONE COMPANY
BUILDS LINE TO jeAs FIELD

The Columbia River Telephone
company has a crew busy this week
building an extension of its high
line from the Horn on the Yakima
river to the gas wells. The length
of the extension will be approxim-
ately seven miles and it follows gen.
orally the road from the Horn to
the gas wells. The terminal station
will be at the location Of the COM
pl essor now being installed by the
Northwestern Natural Gas company
and is about mile and a half
south and east of the headquarters
of the Walla Walla company. Mr..
Wilkinson says he expects to have
the line in service either the last of
this week or the first of next.
The Northwestern Natural Gas
company, which has franchises for
the delivery of the gas to the towns
of PTosser, -Gfanduiew, Sunnyside,
and Mabton, is making good pro-
gress in the work of getting ready
for the service. The digging of the
six foot pits for the foundation to
be built under the compressor and
the gas engine that will operate it,
has been completed. Water for the
compressor and gas engine will be
piped from springs on the hills
back of the gas wells, distance
of about mile and half. Two car
loads of pipe for this purpose have
arrived in Kionia and the pipe is
being hauled to the fields by trucks.
When the preliminary installation
of machinery at the gas wells has
been finished, the job of laying the
pipe line to the towns to be served,
will be started. Ten inch pipes will
carry the gas from the wells to the
compressor and the distributing line
from there will be six inch pipe.
This pipe line will be buried three
feet in the ground, the trench to be
dug by machinery. The trencher, it
| is said, is capable Of making mile
day.
The six inch line will run from,
the compressor to Grandview, where
the distributing company has estab-
! ished headquarters, and from there
viii be distributed to the other towns.
Officials say that the company ex-
poets to be able to deliver the gas
to its customers before winter sets
in.
There has been no further news
regarding the company that was
planning to bring in drilling rig
large enough to determine the ex-
istence or non-existencc Of oil in
the field. They gave out the state
nent a few weeks ago that they
expected to ship a rig up from,
California capable of sinking ten
or twelve inch hole a distance OF
5000 feet. If there is oil in the field
! it should be found before that depth
is. reached.
Those who have been out at the
field lately say it is attracting many
visitors now, number of strangers
visiting there every day.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-08-23
ACCEPT FREE PAINT "a OFFER
FOR AIR MARKING TOWN

D. S. Wilkinson, as secretary of
the White Bluffs Commercial Club
has received a communication from
the w. P. Fuller & Co, paint man
ufacturers, offering five gallon can
of paint free for, the purpose Of "Air-
marking" the town.
Similar offers are said to have
been made to all Chambers of COM
merce in the state. The letter, in
part, said:
Zone of the major problems facing
aviation today IS the necessity for
adequate city air. markings. This is
borne out BY the fact that the De-
partment of Commerce and the
Guggenheirn Fund are both launch
ing intensive campaigns urging city
air marking everywhere in the United
States.
"The, w. p. Fuller & Co. offer
your community. without charge, five
gallons Of paint for this purpose.
This quantity should prove sufficient
to complete the marking In a manner
suggested by the Department Of
commerce, as OutHHeQ III tHelr kAEI-
onautics Bulletin on Air Marking for
Cities, Copy Of which is enclosed for
your information.
1--WE trust that, in the event your
city is not already properly Air
marked, you will avail yourself OF
our offer, in order that your COM
munity will be brought to the atten-
ton Of the flying public as well as
providing much-needed aid to aer-
ial navigation"
Mr.. Wilkinson says that the club
has accepted the offer of the free
paint and that the location selected
for using it In inscribing the name Of
the town is the west slope of the roof
on ~the John Dover Lumber Comp
any shed. At that, place the sign
will be visible from any point in the
air and can also Abe seen by tourists
approaching the t5Mn from the west
on the Yakima road.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-08-23
NOTICE 70 PARENTS

DR.. L. G. Spaulding of Kennewick,
county health officer, when CONSULT
ed concerning whooping cough in
connection with the opening Of the
White Bluffs schools, gave the
SCHOOL authorities the following
information:
Whooping cough is not contagious
after period of four weeks. Child
rem, therefore, who have had the
disease for that length of time may
enter school even if the. cough still
hangs on. But the nature of the all
n1ent, however, makes it necessary
to avoid the chances Of contagion
during the early stages This makes
it essential to keep at home all child
rem who have not had the disease
for the four weeks period, SO that
there will not be chance of the
child spreading the disease before
it is known that he or she is i'll.
These facts being known, the
school board, in order to eliminate
the risk of further spread Of the
disease that might cause serious
trouble during the winter, request
the cooperation of all parents in en-
forcing the following rules:
Children having whooping cough
must be kept at home until they
have had the disease for four weeks.
Children who have not had
whooping cough where there is a
case in the family are to be kept
home for a period of four weeks.
This latter rule may seem a hard
ship to some, but the health Of all
the pupils requires such measures for
it is much better to protect the mass
| of pupils rather than to have them
all at school the first day. Any
children kept out of school by this
ruling will receive special attention
by the teachers on their return SO
as to assure them ample opportunity
to make up the work missed.
Mr.. Underllill says that he will
be glad to consult with parents who
have had whooping cough in the
family SO that he will have full in
formation on the subject before
school opens. Such information will
save trouble both when the school
term begins and in sending doubtful
cases home while they are being
investigated. Anyone who can give
information as to the exact or
approximate date of the beginning
Of cases Of whooping cough can do
a service to the school by phoning
such information to Mr.. Underhill.
In case any children in your fam
lily have had whooping cough during
the summer and you have not seen
or phoned Mr.. Underhill the date
it was first noticed, it will be nee
essary to send note giving this
information, with the child, the first
day of school. If this is not done,
all of the children will be sent home
until the school authorities are con-
vincad that the danger Of contagion
is passed.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-08-23
BIGGER AND BETTER

Mr.. and Mrs. w. +. Shaw and
Mrs. c. I. Virgin returned last Sat
urday evening from Yakima, where
they had been in attendance at the
eleventh Annual State Convention OF
the American Legion and the Ninth
Annual Convention Of the Auxiliary
Mr.. Shaw as delegate from John
Lindblad Post and Mrs. Shaw as
delegate and Mrs Wright, alternate
of the local Auxiliary.
They report that this convention
was bigger and better than ever
very few Of the rs Posts and
units Of the state not being repre-.
scented -
Mr.. Shaw said that the Depart
ment Commander reported an in
crease of over six hundred members
in the state last year. The conven-
ton went on record as favoring and
working for the universal draft, and
passed a resolution asking for leg
islation by Congress for the exclu-
81 n of Filip;nos from this country
along with other Orientals.
The drum corps of the various
Posts, Mr.. Shaw said, were great
part of the entertainment and it was
estimated that they drew the larg-
est crowd ever at the Fair grounds.
William WEIGH Of Port Angeles
was elected Department Commander
fer 1880 and Aberdeen was chosen
as the next meeting place. The con-
vent.on adjournedssg shortly before
noon Saturday, feeling certain, from
Yakirna's hospitality MI. Shaw said,
that the people arcs from year to
year realizing that the American
Legion is trying tol.slive up to its
motto: SIN Peace, as in War, we
serve"
Mrs. Shaw is very proud to pre-
sent to her unit state citation for
meritorious service, signed by Mrs.
Amelia G. Nelson, department pres
ident, and Hazel F. Abdill, secretary
treasurer of the department.
"Our little unit" she said, was
called the Baby Unit in the depart
ment of Washington, for over a
year until Naches took our title
away on August l, when they org
anized with charter membership
Of eighteen. Our unit, with its
twenty-one mebers, was highly prais-
ed for the work it has accomplished
in so short tirte." u
Mrs. Malcolm Douglas of Seattle
was elected department president soi
1.-THE Auxiliary, and Mrs, Fordyce 'oi
Sunnyside, past district president VIA:
succeeded by Mrs. Laura Collins o.
Goldendale.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-08-23

The last news from r. F. Higgin-
bothan says that he is doing very
nicely at the Kennewick hospital to
which ne was taken last Friday in a
critical condition, suffering from an
attack Of angina pectoris.