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BATTING PRACTICE | IS MOST ESSENTIAL HITTING NOT DEVELOPED AFTER REACHING FAST COMPANY BUT MUST BE ACQUIRED EARLY. CONFIDENCE IS NECESSARY Player Who Can Hold His Nerve While Facing the Pitcher Is Successful Batsman—No Set Law Regarding Position at the Plate; Most Natural One the Best. I A good hitter is the combination of confidence, a good eye and a knowl edge of how to land on the ball. Not many poor hitters are turned Into good hitters after they come up into the big developed the skill by that time in struction doesn’t help them much. But with boys it’s different. They are just starting. They haven’t faults to cor rect; that is, no faults that have be come second nature. And while every boy can’t become a slugger, neverthe less such a one, if he works intelli gently, can get enough hits so that he will be able to maintain his place and turn his infielding or outfielding abili ties to advantage. Teams do not get enough batting practice. This is one reason why we -don’t see more good hitters. Watch a lot of boys getting in shape for the sea son. The infield is handling ground ers and throwing the ball around. The outfielders are catching flies. Pitchers and catchers are working together. But how often do you see the boys caking turns at hitting, while the pitch ers send up the best speed and curves they have, and the other members of the team in the regular positions chase the balls? It isn’t much fun to practice this way. There is a whole lot of waiting. The men in the infield and outfield have to wait a long while for a ball to come their wray. There is lots more fun in other kinds of practice, but it is this hatting work that wins games. You can’t hit without practice, all the time, early and late. If you don’t get this kind of work when you go up against good pitching, it is new to you. You don’t know what to do, and before you get accustomed to the speed and curves the pitcher has you beaten. The .worst batters in the world are pitchers. They are jokes, as a rule, and the reason is easy to see. They get virtually no batting practice. If you want to hit the ball, get out and practice doing it. First of all, you must have confi dence. Never let the pitcher think he has anything on you. Make up your mind that he is nothing more than any other twirler and that he has to put the baif .vithin your reach to get a strike. Let him do the worrying, es pecially if there are men on bases. The man who feels comfortable at the plate, cool and collected, no matter who he faces, has made a big start in the right direction. The man who pulls away, who dodges from every ball that threatens to come anywhere near him, has the worst of any faults. Unless he can cor rect it, he never will bat well. Because a ball is coming straight at you is no reason for pulling away. Per haps it may be a curve ball that may break and go straight over the plate. You pull and it is a strike, or even if you manage to hit it when you are pulling away, you* are not in a position to get any power on the drive, and are an easy out. The habit of pulling away can be remedied, but it takes nerve. Teach yourself to step into the ball before it reaches the plate. There is no law for position. Bat ters stand in all kinds of ways. Men like Keeler and Stone bend way over the plate. Lajoie stands almost straight. There are all kinds of varia tions. The thing to do is to take the position that seems natural and com fortable to yvu. Then don’t let the pitcher scar* you out of it. Many son/ twirlers will shoot a ball close to Trou every once in a while to make you get away from the plate. Don’t Jot them get away with it. Wait to the rery last second before dodging. Dcoi’t use too heavy a bat. It is a mistaken nation that only a heavy club wiM drive a ball out. A pitcher with a good change of pace can make a joke of a batsman who is swinging a bat too fceavy for him. Use a bat of medium Weight, one that you can handle easily. You don’t have to swing so hard either. All that is needed is to meet the ball fairly, to get the weight of your body back of it the moment you land. Player Traded for Ball Uniforms. One of the oddest deals in the American association has just come to light. Oscar Graham last season w r as a pitcher for the Minneapolis team. In 1907 he was with Washington. Char ley Carr, manager of the Indianapolis team, entered into a deal. “The price?” asked Carr. “Enough uniforms to supply the Minneapolis club,” was the response from Manager Mike Cantillon of Minneapolis. Carr is in the sport ing goods business. The uniforms were sent and Graham was signed. Little Money for Stars. Magnates didn’t always have to pay large prices for athletes from miDor leagues. Camnitz, the Pirate star, cost Dreyfuss only S2OO. Barney pur chased S. Howard from the Vicksburg club, of the Cotton States league, and farmed him out for a couple of years to Toledo. Hal Chase was bought from the Los Angelas team for $750. Both athletes now are worth decided ly more than what was paid for them. HELPFUL HINTS FOR BASEBALL MANAGERS Treat them well and they will play their heads off for you; cul tivate their good will and esteem. Be a strict disciplinarian, but do not ride over «any of the rights of your players or ever hurl harsh language at them. Do not be a “grouch;” be full of pepper and enthusiasm; in stil your players with fighting spirt. Remember that they are only human beings and crave to be “jollied along” and patted on the back. Pat your players on the back. Praise them for their good plays; do not abuse them for their bad ones. Call attention to their mistakes in a gentle manly way. Make your men like you. Be on the ‘‘up and up” with your players. Treat them all fairly and squarely. Play no fa vorites. Use no cuss words in calling them down. Do not an tagonize your players. They will surely get even with you and throw you down. That’s only hu man nature. Above all things “pat them on the back” and praise them. Get them all working for you, not against you. Get them all “pull ing together” for the success of the team. Let a spirit of good fellowship and square ( dealing pervade your club. When play ers like a manager they will fight for him, win for him. When a manager misuses his men they become sulky and sullen and will “back up” when he needs them most. BOSTON NATIONAL SOUTHPAW 111 | ■ I ** “Matty” Mattern, the Boston Na tional twirler, is a product of the Connecticut league, with which or ganization he was connected for sev eral seasons as a member of the Hol yoke club. It was from this team that he was first drafted by Boston in the fall of 1907. He was given a trial at that time, but because of a hitch on the salary question did not report last year. He was eventually turned over to the Trenton club of the Tri-State league and pitched great ball for that team all last season. Mattern is in the produce business in northern New York state in the off season and is always in good condi tion. He is a southpaw, and has up to the present time proved the Doves’ most effective pitcher. So far this season Mattern has made four balks. HEAVY HITTER OF MINNEAPOLIS TEAM. Be Jf Since Cravath, the coast leaguer, joined the Miller team in the Ameri can association Minneapolis has been playing a winning brand of the pastime. Cravath with Walter Carlisle was with Boston last season. When Fielder Jones failed to report this spring Comiskey began to look around for a substitute. He decided on Cravath and succeeded iu purchas ing the former California favorite. Cravath hit well with the White Sox for the first week, but soon slumped and in company with Nick Altrock and Jiggs Donahue was traded to Washington for Bill Burns, another ex-coast star. “Brother Joe“ Cantillon was overstocked with outfielders, so he shipped Cravath out to “Brother Mike.” And now Cravath is tearing the cover off many pills in the American association. (iKANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCATER, WISCONSIN, JULY 28, 1909. WAIVERS ASKED ON VETERAN. m / It is reported that the Boston Na tional league club has asked waivers on Bill Dahlen, the veterun shortstop. Brooklyn, however, has been after him for some time and he will proba ble go to that team. Dahlen is one of the veterans among ball players still in the game. This is his 19th season in major league company, and in all this time he has been foremost among infield ers. He was born at Fort Plain, N. Y., Jan. 5, 1871. He played as an amateur about his home, and his first professional engagement was with the Cobbleskill team of the New York State league. This was in 1890. The club disbanded before the end of the season. On the recommendation of Joe Battin, the umpire, Anson signed Dahlen for the season of 1891 to play third base, and he was a success from the start, shifting later to short stop. Dahlen remained with Chicago through the season of 1898 and on Jan. 24, 1899, was traded to Baltimore for Gene Demontreville, and when the Baltimore team was transferred to Brooklyn went to that city with Ned Hanlon. In 1904 he was traded to New York for Charley Rabb and Jack Cronin. He played with the “Giants” three years and then figured in an other trade, going to Boston with Dan McGann, Frank Bowerman, Browne and Ferguson in exchange for Fred Tenney, Bridwell and Tom Needham. Pitchers Won’t Let Wagner Hit. Pittsburg baseball fans ond the own ers of the Pittsburg baseball team are indignant at w r hat they assert is a con spiracy on the part of the pitchers of the National league to keep Hans Wagner, the champion batsman, from hitting the ball by passing him to first base on the slightest provocation. The fact that the Cincinnati pitchers in games on two succeeding days recent ly passed Wagner five times, each time apparently to keep him from hit ting the ball, has roused the fans of Pittsburg and there is a loud call for a new league rule permitting every runner to move an extra base when a batter is passed purposely, as has been the case with Wagner many times recently. Looks Like Banner Year. This will be a banner year, finan cially, for the major league clubs. Not one of them seems to have any chance of winding up the campaign without having a big balance on the right side of the ledger. Biggest money makers of all the clubs will be the Giants unless they blow up, which is unlikely. The Pirates are prosper ing as they never have before. Of course, they are a great road attrac tion, but they haven’t always played to big crowds at home. With the opening of Forbes field, however, the Pirates’ rooters are turning out twice as heavily as they did before. AROUND THE COUNTY What Our Neighbors Are Doing, as Reported by The Herald's Correspondents PLATTEVILLE. Special Correspondence to thd Herald. A new electric hoist is being built for the Empire mine by the Northern Electric people. The hoise will have the capacity of 400 tuns a day. Gollmar Bros, circus will be in Platteville August 19. J. A. Gray is making a combined business and pleasure visit in Wash ington. The new school house proposition was voted down last Tuesday even ing. In order to get along as well as possible with the old buildings new furnaces will be installed in the Rock school and new closets in the Brick school. - J Funeral services for Chas. Micka, who died Monday night of the lock jaw, were held Thursday morning at tha Catholic church. Interment took place in St. Marj ‘s cemetery. ; Miss Emma Golden, of this city, has been engaged as a teacher in the Des. Moisnes. lowa, school for the coming year. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Burg visited in Chicago last week. Rev. W. H. Leary and family are enjoying a visit in Ohio, Massa chuessetts and other eastern states. Mrs. Lee Thomas visited last week in Chicago. From there she went to Lakeside, Mich., for a visit at the summer cottage of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sprattler. Mrs. Schuster left Wednesday on a pleasure trip including the cities of Madison, Pewauke© and Neenah. Frank Barnes is taking medical treatment for rheumatism in the Prairie du Chien sanitarium. John Bride is making an extended visit in Kingsley, lowa, i Prof Williams recently purchased the the Pres. Livingston residence Thomas Tormey an old and widely known Grant Co. resident, died Wed nesday evening at about 7 o’clock at the home of his daughter Mrs Owen Dolan in Platteville. He had been ailing for sometime but his condition bad not been at all serious until a few weeks ago. Mr. Tormey was born in county Westmeath, Ireland, on Chrismas day 1826. When he was 20 years of age his father‘s family enrgrated to America. His mother died at sea on the voyage to this country. The family settled first at Lowell. Mass , at which place Thomas learned the sla ting trade. In May 1848 they moved to Highland in lowa county and the year following the father died. Thomas Tormey was united in Drink It Because It’s So Good THERE is nothing strange about taking the meat of choicest Tropic-ripened bananas, roasting it, granu- f tf/y/f/ | lating it, and making from it a hot table beverage. j £ Not so unusual, when you come to think of it, as taking the bitter coffee berry —poisonous in its natural state —roasting and grinding it and serving it as a V t-l hot drink. Or brewing a beverage from the dried fJ and hand-rolled tea leaves of India and Japan. I '// 1 y We of America have our coffee, tea, cocoa, f ] chocolate, and now our BONANO. Is there any M reason to presume that BONANO —made from */ the most delicious fruit that grows —may not be the best hot drink, better than those you have been accustomed to? It is, and we want you to know it. iMJjjfiiw) We want you to enjoy its tempting aroma, its spicy, appetizing flavor. We want you to see how it strengthens, nourishes and refreshes. Drink BONANO for its own delicious good- 1t ness. That’s enough reason. And you will feel l] llf better for drinking it, too. Let the children have I . IJI/ I all the BONANO they want. There’s nothing in it that can harm them —much that will do them good. j It \ jl ; :rl llf ' L BONANO —pure and clean —handled in a I Iviflffj ((!?:'j L| F sanitary way from the time the luscious, naturally j tawfjjlj j 1 Jjw ripened fruit is picked uhtil you open the sealed ! I j | package in your own home —is sold by your j|- j M!n grocer. A 25-cent can of BONANO makes |||l| jc lUfljjtjl i IjilMS 75 cups of the best hot drink you ever tasted. ' A & For by mm I ttSSL L. ALT & SONS B International Banana Food Co., _C°rn Exchange Bank Bldg., Ch ; cago, T* ' a*****««**iiiiiii*Bßß**^ marriage in 1850 to Honora Norris who died July 27, 1872. La er he was married to Margaret Lawiess who also preceded him to the better land. Mr. Toriney was one 01 the wealthiest citizens of this section and owned over 1000 acres of land in the towns of Fennimore and Liberty. He held various positions of honor and was always prominent in town and county affairs. Funeral serviceo were held Saturday at his old home in Highland and burial took place from the Catholic church. pofbsi. Special Correspondence to the Herald. Mr. and Mrs. H. Brown are visit ing at the home of relatives in Graff, lowa. Mrs. Dickinson took a trip to Du buque last Tuesday. Mrs. H. Barstow and daughter Miss Fannie Van Dyke, of Lancaster, visited a few days here at the home of their sister and aunt, Mrs. Fannie Massey and other relatives. Aug. Schaal visited a few days with friends and relatives in Du buque. Mrs. Hedley returned to her home in Dubuque after a few days visit with her mother in Rockville, Wis. Mrs. Killian Stockert and Wo children Christens and Sylvia, and sister-in-law, Mrs. John visited a few days at the home of relatives in Dubuque. Miss Mabel Van Horn of Dubuque attended the teachers’ examination here last Friday and Saturday; she was the guest of Miss Ollie Willmers while here. Misses VanGons and Lutz of Chi cago, 111., are the guests of Miss Esther Schumacher a few weeks. Mrs. P. Gehring of British Hollow entertained the Home Band at her home last Wednesday afternoon. Phillip Roeach took a trip to Du buque last Wednesday. Messrs. Thao. Runkel and Henry Coons, left for a few weeks visit at Seattle last Monday. Miss Hattie Davis of Galona, 11l , visited at the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davis, at British Hollow. Mrs John McKelvey and daughter Bell took a trip to Dubuque last Fri day. Mrs. Chris Kreizer parsed away at her homo in Tennyson, early Thurs day morning after an illness of an ex tended duration. Funeral was held from the home Saturday afternoon to Congregational church here, services at two o’clock, Rev. R. G. Heddon conducting services. Burial in , British Hollow cemetery. She leaves a husband and a number of daughters and sous to mourn. A number of ladies of the Relief Corps went to Lancaster last Satur day where they were entertained by the Relief Corps at their ball. Messrs. George Myers, Willie Doser and Misses Tillie Kiefer and Ida Bieterman took a trip to Hazel Green last Wednesday. Teachers’ examination was held in the high school here last Friday and Saturday by Supt. J. C. Brockert. ; A QUIET LOVER— ./ WHISPERING SMITH. . « f X - / * HANDICAPPED. This is the Case With Many Lancaster V People. Too many Lancaster citizens are handicapped with a bad back. The unceasing pain causes constant misery, making work a burden and stooping or lifting an impossibility. The back aches at night, preventing refreshing rest and in the morning is stiff and lame Plasters and lini ments may give relief but cannot reach the cause. To eliminate tte pains and aches you must cure the kidneys. Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kid neys and cure them permanently. Can you doubt Lancaster evidence? George. W. Marks, Jr. Fourth Ward, Lancaster Wis., says. ‘‘l suffered from pains in the small of my back, which at times would change to sharp, shooting twinges so acute that I could not get about. The kidneys secretions were also unatural and irregular in passage. Hearing of Doan’s Kidney Pills, I procured a box at J. D. Hatch’s drug store. They scon banished the pain and restored my kidneys to a normal condition.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other. Observed the Properties. One evening when Helen came to the end of her prayer she stammered, evidently forgetting how to close. Aft er a moment her face cleared and she said, “Oh, yes—very respectfully yours, Helen!” —The Delineator. Worse. “So your marriage was a failure?” said the sympathetic friend. “Worse than that,” answered the man who was writing a check for alimony; “it was bankruptcy.” Caustic. "I have adopted a new motto for my life,” sighed the man who resided with his mother-m-law. “What is it?” they inquired. “Everything is rela tive.”