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games year. It even is speculative
whether that team, be it Notre
Dame, Duke, Texas Christian or
Tennessee, could retain following
over that period. Basket ball is
played by many hundreds Of schools
and colleges. The average schedule
will call for perhaps 20 or Is games.
Big fights-boxing matches that
draw national attention-occur no
more often than half a dozen times
year. But baseball goes on and on.
AS we suggested before, this is a
big year for baseball. It is the in
dustry's biggest anniversary. Count
less reams of publicity are emanat-
ing from newly created bureaus,
which baseball suddenly has deemed
necessary for studied tub humping
and newspaper hullaballoo.
Basebalrs Father.
1t is pointed out that history usu-
ally makes generals. In the case of
Doubleday it was different. Maj.
Gen. Doubleday made history, at
least according to the current litera-
ture which is being spread officially.
There are some who insisted that
Alexander Cartwright, and not
Doubleday, was the real father of
baseball and that the date of the
games invention is wrong. To set
tie the matter, a special Baseball
Commission was formed in 1907 to
investigate the origin of the game.
The commission was composed of
former Gov. Morgan G. Bulkeley of
Connecticut, first president Of the
National League; former United
States Senator Arthur P. German of
Maryland, A. G. Mills, third presi-
dent of the National League; N. E.
Young Of Washington, D. c., fourth
league head; Alfred J. Reach and
George Wright, famed as playing
pioneers, and James E. Sullivan, who
was president Of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union.
The commission went thoroughly
into both theories and definitely
credited Doubleday with the found
ing, established the date as the
spring Of 1889 and the site as
Cooperstown, N. Y, where now
stands baseballs Hall of Fame.
Rules Simplified.
But, while it was Doubleday who
designed the first diamond and SIM
plifled the rules of the old game of
town ball." it was Cartwright who,
In 1845, organized the first club. His
was the Knickerbocker baseball club.
which drew up set of rules and
played the first official game on
June 10, 1886. The game was the
feature of an outing, and the oppo-
sition was pickup" team called
the New York club. Even in those
days there must have been . few
Yankees on that New York club, for
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was slow, unwieldly and argumen-
tative. It was hard on pitchers
This was changed by the National
Association, which also fostered the
first paid contest between the best
players of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
It was held at the Fashion race
course on Long Island on July 20,
1858. A crowd Of $500 paid so cents
apiece and in honor of the occasion
both teams wore uniforms, featuring
long pants, fancy blouses and wide
peaked caps.
1t was quite a game. Manhattan
won it, % to 10. They played a
second game on August 20 and
Brooklyn won, 20 to 8. Then third
and deciding contest was played and
Manhattan won, 20 to 18.
AS the scores will attest, there
were no Lefty Gomezs or Bob
Groves or Walter Johnsons around
at the time. Not until 1867 did the
curve ball come into the picture.
Arthur Cummings, Brooklyn
pitcher, is credited with having in
vented the throw. On this score
the baseball historians seem be-
wildered. In the American Leagues S
official motion picture for 1899 the
history of the game is depicted and
several feet of film are devoted to
Cummings. He is shown watching
a billiard player curve a ball with
his cue and getting the idea from
that. In the propaganda being
spread by the leading baseball bu-
reau, however it is said that he
figured out curve pitching after he
had scaled clam shells over Long
Island Sound. At any rate, he
brushed up on the delivery and tried
it against Harvard. The Crimson
couldn't hit Cummings and couldn' t
believe the ball actually curved. It
still battles some of the abler minds,
but a ball today not only is made
to curve, but to sail, hutter, drop
and shoot in.
War Furthered Growth.
The Civil War at once hurt base
ball and furthered its growth. When
the war first broke out the teams
disbanded and took to the grim
business at hand. But the Union
troops carried the game to the war
with them. Army leaders, Double
day included, proposed that the
game be featured in the recreational
programs at the training camps.
Col. A. G. Mills, who later became
>f
said that he packed a ball and bat
as part of his equipment when he
went to war and that his regiment
organized a team which played
against other military contingents.
Baseball is said to have been played
between Union prisoners and their
Confederate guards in prison camps.
There was report, too. that during
the siege at Vicksburg Union SOL
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lar sport. The rules were vague and
organization slipshod. In New Eng
land around 1856 there was d1f-
terent version of baseball, called the
Massachusetts game. This still en-
braced many of the old features OF
town ball." including soaking the
runner with the ball.
Association Formed.
Not until March 10, 1858, how
ever, was anything done about the
rules. On that date Is clubs united
IN a convention and formed the
National Association of Baseball
Players. The first reform came
through called strikes. Up to this
time batter could wait for as many
pitches a. he desired. The game
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President of the United States at
its opening game. This is the debt
owed baseball to Clark c. Griffith,
son of a Midwestern pioneer and
69-year-old president of the WASH
ington ball club. 1t was Griffith
who, back in 1912, visited the White
House with an engraved season pass
and prevailed upon President Will
liam Howard Taft to come out to
Washington's new ball yard and
throw out the first ball. Taft agreed,
kept the date and since 1912 no
Chief Executive has missed the ira
ditional opener.
The gaudy title of Americas ma
tional pastime was claimed for base
ball since that epoch h-making presi-
dental appearance, which has no
parallel No President has yet
thrown out a first football, or a bas-
ket ball. No mat promoter has sue
cessfully talked a President into
throwing out the first rassler.
Basket Ball Draws More.
Whether baseball is the national
pastime, in the strict sense, is dubi-
Gus. Sporting goods manufacturers
say they sell more golf equipment
than paraphnalia for any other
sport and that baseball ranks well
down the list. More boys are play
ing golf, tennis and football than
baseball There seems to be no just
method of determining the box Of
flee appeal of one sport as against
another. Attendance figures for the
country reveal that basket ball
draws most spectators. BY the same
token many more basket ball games,
independent, scholastic, college and
professional, are. played than are
games of any other kind. The Army
Navy football games draw an aver
age of 100000 spectators, who pay
$40 for a ticket. Baseball never
has drawn 100000 spectators for any
single game. A big heavyweight
prize fight will send customers run
ming to buy ringside seats at $25
apiece and unsuccessful buyers have
been known to pay 500 and more
to a scalper for the privilege of hold
ing down IA inches of pine board for
an indefinite and unguaranteed
period of time.
Baseball has been slipping in one
respect and reaching new heights in
another. The source of supply seems
to be diminishing and worrying the
major leagues. At long last they are
ready to take steps to improve this
condition. Surveys reveal that young
ball players of exceptional ability are
few and far between. Those who
make good invariably come from the
rural districts. North Carolina is
the most prolific State per square
mile. Boys to whom golf courses and
tennis courts are not readily avail
able play baseball. 1t is a cheaper
game.
Industry Prospers.
On the other hand, baseball's box
office appeal never was greater. The
industry is prospecting. New attend
ance records have been established
since the economic depression. They
would indicate that the man on the
street still likes the game. And in
any argument relating to the respec-
tive popularity of games the base
ball man always will inquire: What
other game is played every day tor
the better part of six months? What
other game could be played on a
worthwhile, paying basis? What
other game commands such vast
amount of free publicity?
The baseball man has something
tnere. OF course, it Is at least q
physical impossibility for q football
Team to play 154 championship
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There than hitting fielding th7o,ino and running
the bases IN Anaercas attonal pase The major
oaH gas cemra an. fgHys % IN baH clubs system the
cdtcner snoao ooo0e can0 1or ow one Star Staff Photo
additional photographs commemorative the Tooth
a'ni0ersary OF oase6au may be found Totogravre
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Baseball Is 100 Years Old
AS 1899 Season Opens
West Point Cadet Originated
. Game Which Attracts
Millions Annually
By Francis E. Stan.

1t isn't necessary to be cvoyan to predict feaome growth in
mortality
casual of
the
Sixteen finely raired major ball
veteran fan He will have picked the ticket he ordered February
wouldn't
and ehind
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-07-27
Is First To Get
Crop Insurance

A. G.. Westwood, Jr., wheat
farmer of the Lodge Grass area,
WAS the first in the state to re-
ceive payment for crop losses
insured under the Federal Crop
Insurance Corporation for 1889,
according to w. S. Bailey, chair
man of the state committee OF
the Agricultural Conservation.
Mr.. Westwood claimed a loss
of 722 bushels, which was al
lowed by the corporation as a
loss due to winter killing Of his
winter wheat crop. Mr.. West
wood received a payment OF Al
cents on the 722 bushel loss, or
$29O.97.
Federal Crop Insurance in Big
Horn county is under the direc-
ton of the county agricultural
conservation association under
ROW G. Riley. Crop insurance is
again available for the 1910 crop
and farmers in the county are
urged to apply at the local Of
flee of the association at the
court house in Hardin for fur
Their information regarding the
insurance.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-07-27
Receive Checks For
AAA Range Program

Approximately 100 Big Horn
county ranchers received $780,
450.71 for maintaining the pro-
ductiyity of their range land
under the AAA range program
in 1898, according to George
Miller, chairman of the county
Agricultural Conservation COM
mittee.
More than 10000 acres, with
an average carrying capacity of
Al animal units were under the
program in the county in 1888.
The largest practice in the
county was deferred grazing to
permit natural reSeeding of
range grasses. This WAS prac-
ticed by 95 rancherS on about
292 500 acres. The second largest
practice was stock water reser-
voir construction, under which
II ranchers built AZ dams and
moved nearly $4,000 cubic yards
of dirt. The purpose of stock
water reservoirs is to provide
additional water and bring
about a better distribution OF
livestock on the ranch. Also to
provide water on dry range and
better distribute stock, ranchers
developed 16 springs and seeps,
moving 1884 cubic feet of dirt;
and dug two wells to a depth of
486 feet. Sixthy acres of crested
wheatgrass was seeded for arti-
fetal reseeding OF depelted
range land.
A similar program is being
carried on in 1889 for the i'm
provement of the range, to
maintain productivity, and to
increase the carrying capacity
of the range in the county.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-07-27
Scouts To Rosebud
Lake For Camping

Fifteen Boy Scouts left Har-
din Saturday morning, bound
for East Rosebud lake on the
saltwater for a six day fishing,
camping and hiking trip.
They were accompanied by
their scoutmaster, Rev. r. n
England and William Langraff,
a member of the WPA recrea-
ton staff. Frank Nice ormack,
case worker for the state re-
lief office joined the boys. on
Sunday.
The following boys made the
trip: Harry Henderson, Jr., Lyle
Achenbach, Bobby Shoemaker,
Brooks Van Houten, Lowell Bull
lis, Lawrence Schleining, Ralph
Strand, Pat Conver, Wallace
Schoer, Ronald Litton, Junior
Cryder, Henry Haug, Alvin IN
versaZt, Sam Haverfield and
Earl Cammock.
Transportation was provided
in the truck belonging to Roy
Cool. Expenses were met partly
by the boys and partly by the
American Legion, the sponsoring
organization.
The party will return to Har-
din today.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-07-27
DeMoldYs And Cubs
Cross Bots TONIGHT

Softball fans will see one of
the best games of the season
tonight when the league leading
Cubs meet the DeMolays on the
softball diamond near the
swimming pool at 6:45 pm.
The DeMolay team has de-
feated the Ramblers IA to II
and lost a game to the Outlaws
IA to 4. The game with the Out
laws will be taken before the
Softball directors as the Out
laws used three borrowed play
erS, it was stated
The Cubs have defeated the
RamblerS Is to II and the Out
laws IA to S placing them in the
league lead for the second di-
vision.
Ray Kalberg will he on the
mound for the DeMolay team.
Tuesday night Kalberg struck
out eight batters in the De
Molay win over the Ramblers.
The batteries for tonight's
game will be Kuchera and Hell
man for the Cubs and Kalberg
and Conver for the DeMolays.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-07-27
BIDS ON STREET 0IuING TO
BE LET HERE ON AUGUST 9TH
Council Also Posses Resolution
To Create New Lighting
District In Hordin

Temporary work is being done
in Hardin in preparation for
the letting of bids August 8,
for the oiling Of the streets and
furnishing materials for the
curbs and cutters.
P. w. Hastings and crew Of
men are surveying the streets;
and are establishing a grade for
proper drainage when the street
project is completed.
The WPA crew under the SUP
ervision of Mike Roche, is work
ing on the curbs and cutters
preparatory to the running OF
concrete. Trenches are being
dug and drainage cutters on
the street corners are being re-
paired and rebuilt. The WPA
crew is working on Cody avenue
at present.
At the last meeting of the
city council the members passed
resolution No. 1888 to create a
special improvement district for;
additional street lighting. A. ne:
tice Of the resolution appears in
this issue of the Tribune Herald.
The lighting project would in
clude lights from one-half block
west of the courthouse to $50
feet west of Miles avenue.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-07-27
All Livestock Tour
Conducted Friday

Nearly all of he All baby
beef feeders in the county at
tended the All livestock tour
conducted Tuesday under the
direction of George w. Gustaf-
son, county extension agent, and
Howard Lewis. livestock special
ist of the state extension serv-
ice.
The group visited and inspec-
ted many of the All club calves
on feed in the vicinity of Har-
din. Crow Agency and Wyola.
Mr.. Lewis instructed the feed.
ers in the proper methods of
finishing and preparing calves
for the shows and fairs at
which club members will exhibit
this fall. eliminating with the
Junior Livestock show and sale
at Billings, beginning October
Most of the calves inspected
were in very good shape, but
Mr.. Lewis emphasized the neec
for heavy feeding btween now
and the fall show IN order to
finish the animals for the prime
class.
The members attending the
tour visited the homes of the
following baby beef feeders to
inspect their calves: Bob and
| Eunice Torske, Bud Randall,
| Montana Sorenson, Vera and
Marguerite Plummer Of Hardin;
Harold Benzel, Floyd and Plus
Realbird, Albert Capeltt and
Y. Nayematsu of Crow Agency;
Clifford Ripley, Edgar Spriggs.
the Donohoe brothers and Ev-
erett and Harold Hager of Wy
ola. A total of Al calves were
looked over.
About IS calves are being fed
by All club members in the
county.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-07-27
Shoulder Broken In
Softbdu Come Here

Bob Kerrick, ShOrtStop on the
DeMolay softball team and ace
pitcher for the Junior American
Legion baseball team received
a double fracture of the left
shoulder bone Tuesday night in
a softball game played here.
Elwood Bailey, opposing team
batter, hit the ball into left
field and as he came to second
base Kerrick came over to make
the catch and the two players
collided. Kerrick was taken to a
doctor by team mates.
He was taken to Billings this
morning bv his brother, Clifford
for further examination anC
treatment of the fracture.
A special fund is being raised
by softball players and fans tc
be given to Kerrick. Anyone
wishing to aid in this cause il
requested to leave their money
with Colin Macleod at the Safe
way store.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-07-27
Group Returns From
Congregational Meet

Misses Marie Wilson, Jean
Warren and Jean Barnett ano
Mr. and Mrs. R. N. England re-
turned last week from the Con-
gregational Summer Conference
on the Boulder river.
The conference was attended
b. a total of 235 delegates and
extended from July II to 20
Representatives from Congrega-
tional churches throughout the
state attended the meeting.
Leaders from out of state were
DR.. Ernest M. Halliday of New
York, Mrs. E. E. McClintock OF
Chicago and MI. and Mrs. Yea
zie Markham, missionaries from
Dondi, West Africa. The assem-
bly, was directed by Rev. c. H
Conner of Livingston and Rev
R. N. England OF Hardin.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-07-27
GARAGE HERE
CHANGES HANDS

r.. D. Staunton of Roundup
completed a deal Wednesday for
the purchase of the Ka1berg
Motor company here.
Mr. Stanton is also interested
in the Hammer-Staunton Chew
rolet company in Sheridan, Wyo.
and the Staunton Chevrolet
company in Roundup.
The name Of the garage is to
be changed from Kalberg Mo-
tor company to Graham-Staun-
ton Chevrolet company.
Jens Kalberg, former proprie-
tor. will remain in Hardin and
will act as a salesman for the
garage.
Ward Rooster of Roundup will
be service manager. John Bur
orac Of Sheridan, Wvo., office
manager and Miss Lillian VII
liams of Roundup bookkeeper.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-07-27
SCHOOL TO OPEN
SEPTEMBER FIFTH
Numes Of New Teachers
For High School
Revealed

Superintendent of Schools w.
j. Shirley announced today that
the public schools in District
17H will be opened on Tuesday,
September S, the day after La
Dor Day.
The junior and senior high
school students will register be-
ginning August % in the office
of the Junior high school build
ing. All students in these grades
should come during this week,
register with Principal j. N.
Thompson, and select their sub
jects and arrange their pro-
grams, Mr.. Shirley said.
Steel lockers will be available
for high school students and
will be assigned to them at the
time they register. All register
ing will take place before school
starts 50 that classes can be
conducted the first day of
school. It is to the advantage
of the students to register early
so that periods and subjects
may be selected in the best pos
sible arrangement.
Several new classes are being
offered for the first time this
year. These will include art for
both junior and senior high
schools and dramatics, public
speaking, Spanish and glee club
for the high school. Manual
training classes will be held for
7th and 9th grades as well as
in the high school. Part time
vocation will also be offered
again this year. Students desir-
ing to take this course should
contact the business houses to
find a place where they may
work part time.
The following new teachers
have been engaged to teach
in the junior and senior high
schools next year:
Miss Rose Patham with B.A.
and MA. degrees from the Uni
versitv of North Dakota, who
has attended the University of
Colorado, Stanford University in
California and the University of
Montana, will have charge of
English and public speaking.
For the past ten years, Miss Pat
ham has been head of the Eng
fish department in the Greybull,
Wyo., high school. She was ell
ected to Phi Beta Kappa while
in college, and has travelled in
Europe, the British Isles and
Alaska. She comes to Hardin
very highly recommended. Her
home Is in Carson, N. D.
Miss Margaret Seaman will
teach art and girls physical ed
ucation. She majored in art and
minored in home economics and
English while attending Mon
tana State college, from which
she received her B!A. degree.
She also has had one year of
additional training in the field
Of art. Her home is in Huntley,
Mont.
Gene Garner of Denver, Colo,
Continued on back page)
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Meet To Discuss
Broddus Highway

Three Hardin men, w. H.
Reilly, president of the Big Horn
county Chamber of Commerce,
Carl Rankin, secretary, and II.
D. Kenyon, and Leonard Smith
and S. p. Louk of Crow Agency
met with a delegation from
northwestern South Dakota at
the Billings Commercial club on
Saturday, night.
Representatives of the Broad
us Chamber of Commerce were
also present.
The delegation, consisting Of
about 20 men, was interested IN
the continuation Of South Da-
kota highway No. 8, west from
Mobridge through Aberdeen to
Camp Crook. They were desir-
Gus Of having the road carried
to a point about IS miles south
Of Broadus, interesting what Is
known as the Billings
highway.
The object of the meeting was
to persuade the Montana State
Highway commission to build
about so miles of road between
the end of highway No. 8 and
the BroaduS road.
The Billings Commercial club
road committee will present this
matter to the commission. The
Big Horn county Chamber OF
Commerce looks with favor to
this project and will lend all
possible assistance, members
said.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-07-27
C~rop.Range Report

The following crop and range
report is furnished the Tribune
Herald through the courtesy of
Jay G.. Diamond, senior Agri-
cultural Statistician of Helena.
Weather extremely hot and
dry with light showers in sec
ions of country. Hot dry wealth
err causing early maturity OF
dryland wheat. Wheat harvest
under way. Grasshoppers APP
pearing, apparently Blowing In
from eastern Montana. No local
infestation of hoppers doing any
damage. Cricket control as us
ual. Purple top in potatoes APP
pearing and spraying with lime
sulphur under way. Livestock
and range condition Is good.
Labor ample.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-07-27
PLAYGROUND TO
SPONSOR EVENTS

The Community Playground
of Hardin will sponsor a short,
informal concert and commun-
ity sing at the city park on Fri
day evening, July %, at 800
pm.
Mrs. Lura Strand has volun-
teered to lead the singing and
some of the community play
ground band members will play.
Everyone is entitled to attend.
On Wednesday, August 2, a
girls bicycle race will be held
at the playground. The same
rules and regulations that were
used for the boys race July II
will also apply to this contest.
In the near future, the play
ground will feature a roller
skating carnival at the city
park. There will be races, stunts
and special events.
Members of the staff report
that croquet is such a popular
game that there is always a
waiting line for the one set now
in use. If anyone has a croquet
set, it's use would be much ap-
preciated by the staff and those
who wish to play. Additional
sets would serve many more
than can now be Accommodated
and make it possible to hold a
croquet tournament.
Girls between IL ana IS who
are interested in playing softbal'
are asked to sign up with Mrs
Hawks as soon as possible.