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to play. And the other members of
the team are feeling the uplift along
with the premier first baseman.
But the Whales are doing some
good work now. The main hole lies
at first base, where neither Fred Beck
nor Jackson seem able to fill the bill.
A Both have been light in their batting
and the Whales need all the batting
strength possible.
Jimmy Smith is the most improved
man of the team. This is due to the
fact that he has been placed next to
RoHie Zeider, an experienced veteran,
who has exerted a steading influence
on the youngster. Smith is remin
iscent of Buck Weaver when the lat
ter began shortstopping for the White
Sox.
His ground covering ability is re
markable and some of his stops are
sensational. But Jimmy is quite likely
to injure some spectator setting back
of first base with a weird throw. He
has not been guilty of this fault so
frequently lately, due to Zeider.
After looking over the other teams
in the Fed circuit, none of them im-,
presses as a better crew than the
Whales. Tinker has been forced to
change his alignment several times,
but now it is doing all that could be
asked.
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PIECE OF SCAFFOLD WHANGS
OUT BASE HITS
George Perring, inflelder of the
Kansas City Feds, uses a bat made
from a piece of the scaffold on which
many an Ohio criminal' went to his
doom.
George's father, who was a ball
tk player, secured the piece of scaffold
" when the old Ohio penitentiary was
dismantled and turned out a bat He
used the club 20 years. His son fell
heir to it and has been using it seven
years. George win not let any other
player use the club.
CERTAIN OF IT
Ethel (to grocer) Mamma wants
a loaf of bread and It must be today's,
because yesterday's wasn't
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STATE STREET STORES HELP IN
RESCUE WORK
Downtown department stores ren
dered valuable aid to city and county
officials in the work of rescue and
salvage of the Eastland. As soon as
the magnitude of the disaster was
realized Marshall Field and Carson,
Pirie & Scott threw open their doors
to the police and their shelves were
swept of hundreds of blankets in
which to wrap the rescued and the
dead.
E. L. Howell, representing Marshall
Field, directed this portion of the
work, assisted by a corps of store em
ployes. Late Saturday, when the bodies
temporarily placed in Reid-Mur-
dock's wholesale grocery were trans
ported to the Second Regiment ar
mory, where .they law awaiting iden
tification, the Field store and the
Fair provided auto trucks in which
the bodies were removed, eight be
ing carried in each truck.
f It was a repetition of the Iroquois
horror, when the stores furnished the
same assistance.
MONEY FLOWS INTO RELIEF FOR
FAMILIES
The Western Electric Co., whose
employes made up the most of the
death roll, donated $100,000 to the
citizens' relief committee, to be di
rected by the mayor.
The big financial men made large
donations to the committee's coffers.
Julius Rosenwald, financial head of
the body, reported the following con
tributions received yesterday: Wes
tern Electric, $100,000; Mayor Wm.
Thompson, $1,000; James A. Pugh,
$1,000; William Wrigley, Jr., $1,000;
Samuel Insull, $5,000 for Common
wealth Edison Co., and $5,000 for
Gas Co.; Sir Thomas Lipton, $1,000.
Hundreds of the victims were the
sole or partial support of families and
the majority of those whose Uvea
were lost were wage earners. The
cash will be used for immediate sup
port of stricken families and funeral
expenses.
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