The Kenna record., June 19, 1914, Image 6

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THE RECORD, KENNA, NEW MEXICO.
GEORGE M'QUILLAN IN OLD-TIME FORM
PRAISE FOR YANKEES' B0S3
8talllng Declares Frank Chance Has
Finally Developed Real Contender
Lauds Caldwell.
Big Chief Stalllngs, the leader of the
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f ! p ' f Pitcher McQuillan of Pittsburgh.
George McQuillan lias been performing as handBomely and easily In
the box as any hurler In the National league. He has entirely regained the
form he displayed when he was with the Phillies several years ago and Is
going to be a great help to the Pirates in their struggle for the flag. Big
Mac is a grand fielder and he cuts In once In a while with a hit and wins
his own game. Mac objects to being called a veteran pitcher. He Is only
twenty-nine years old, and Is in as good shape as he ever was in his life.
Mac and Dabe Adams will have to bear the brunt of the Pirate defense
In the box. So far they have been able to get by very neatly.
BIRDIE CREE HITTING HARD
Diminutive Outfielder Is Banging Ball
at Good Rate With International
League Team.
Birdie Cree, formerly of the New
York Americans, is now playing with
the Baltimore team In the Interna
tional league. Birdie fell off in Ms
hitting while with the Yankees and
was let out to the minor leagues. Cree
Birdie Cree.
was always regarded as one of the
leading batsmen in the American
league, but his work with the stick
last year was a big disappointment to
Manager Chance. Cree is banging the
ball at a good rate in the Interna
tional. YALE MEN RECEIVE OFFERS
"Long" John Rellly and Harry William
Le Gore Expected to Play With
8ome Big League Team.
Two Yale baseball players will wear
big league uniforms within a year. At
least they have received several offers
and one of them admits that be ex
pects to accept one of the bids.
The pair are "Long" John Rellly, the
Yale third baseman, and Harry Wil
liam Le Oore, who has been called the
most promising baseball player who
has entered Yale in twenty years. He
comes from Merceraburg academy,
where he was captain of the baseball,
football and basket-ball teams. He is
a stortstop, and has been elected cap
tain of the freshman nine. His home
la In Le Oore, Md. " He was fullback
on the freshman football eleven and
made a record as drop kicker. He has
received an offer of 14,000 a year from,
onni Mack, and 1 illtel to accept
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the offer after he finishes his Yale ca
reer. He Is not eligible for the varsity
this season, but will have three years
at shortstop before he leaves college.
He has averaged one home run and
three hits in every game yet played
lor tne ireahmen.
Rellly Is the star of the present Yale
team. He Is batting for .440 and is a
whirlwind at the dizzy corner. He is
easily the leading third baseman of
the Intercollegiate arena. Last year
he led the Yale nine at the bat He
has offers from the New York Na
tionals and Americans, the Philadel
phia Athletics and both Boston nines.
His home is In Brockton, and he Is a
brother of Barney Rellly, the former
Chicago White Sox, and of Jim Rellly,
the former Yale halfback and left field
er. Rellly will almost certainly cap
tain the Yale nine next season, after
which it is whispered that he will
probably be found in a New York uni
form. McGraw is said to have made
him the greatest offer ever tendered to
any college player. He was not in
clined to play professionally till this
offer, rumored to be about $5,000, vr j
made him, but It is said to have lev
him to think moreserlously of ulti
mately becoming a professional.
GREATEST PITCHER ON EARTH
Lady Funeral Director of Dead Letter
Office Sends Pott Card to Walter
Perry Johnson.
Uncle Sain, serving in the capacity
of arbitrator on behalf of American
fandom, the other day was called upon
to decide "who Is the greatest pitcher
in latter day baseball?"
There was received in the Chicago
post office the other day a postal card
bearing the following Inscription:
"To the Oreateat Pitcher on Earth."
Chicago had been nonplussed by
the problem, as a cursory examination
of the records of the Cubs, Sox, and
Chifeds naturally would indicate.
The post card was sent to the dead
letter office, where one of the lady
funeral directors, like a good rooter
for the Nationals, promptly forwarded
the card to Walter Perry Johnson.
"Smokeball Walter" received the card
and has filed it in among the other
acquisitions of his remarkable career,
which include bank stock, railway
bonds and gilt-edge mortgages..
First Game for Giant.
Al Damaree succeeded in getting the
first victory for the Giants. The chap
with the "Ralph Rose delivery," as
Jack Miller once put it, is a pitching
marvel simply because no one can
figure out bow he does it. Doing it
and getting away with it may be two
different propositions bat they amount
to the same...
Pecklnpaugh Pralaed.
The New York "Sun" rises to re
mark; "Going over the field situa
tion carefully one cannot discover
any shortstop in either big league
wno excels recitinpaugn to any no
ticeable extent. This chap is about
as good as they come, day In and
day out, and the New York club would
give a fat wad of money for a sec
ond baseman of the s&m caliber."
Braves, figures Frank Chance's New
Yorks as the real dark horse of the
American league.
"Chance Is one of the greatest lead
ers in the game," said Stalllngs, in
commenting on the club. "It has taken
a whole lot of nerve, and a whole lot
of executive ability to do what he has
done. He simply cleaned house with
all the dead wood Wolverton left and
within a year he has built up what
strikes me as one of the best balanced
clubs In the Johnson circuit
"There is ho one in the American
league that has any better pitchers
than Chance. To my mind he has the
greatest pitcher in the game in Cald
well. That fellow has the greatest
curve ball I ever saw, and he has al
most as much speed as Johnson. Fish
er Is a rattling pitcher. I am told
that the young fellows who came aft
er I left are equally promising. Their
work to date has shown It true.
"Ed Sweeney is not traveling be
yond his speed. For me in 1910 he
was the best catcher in the American
league. But the greatest player of all
that Chance dug up Is Jimmy Walsh.
There is an outfielder for you, one
of the very best in. the game. How
Frank ever got him away from the
calculating Connie Mack I cannot fig
ure. A manager has only to have a
few players of the Walsh stamp to
make a team.
"Where Chance really made his
team was in the acquisition of Trues
dale. I may be prejudiced but I
think he Is a better ball player than
Maisel. He Is as good a fielder as
Maisel and will outhlt him, too, in a
season's stretch. Though no faster
than Truesdale, Maisel is the better
base runner. Fritz is one of the best
base runners In the country. But
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Frits will not get any more bases
on balls.
New York fans tell ma Truesdale
has looked like a bloomer with the
stick. I cannot understand that He
should hit .250 In the American league.
And hitting .250 there will be few bet
ter second basemen. I think Trues
dale must be a little nervous In his
new surroundings. He will hit bet
ter the further he goes, I am sure. I
used to bat him second In the order,
because of his speed and his fine bunt
ing skill. He legged out many a
safety trying to sacrifice for my Buf
falo club."
AOTrS of the
DIAMOND
Pitcher Rube Benton has been doing
excellent twirling for the Reds so far
this season.
Outfielder Tennant of Sacramento
made four bits in four times up off
Pitcher Malarkey of Oakland.
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Catcher Arthur Wilson has been hit
ting hard forthe Chifeds, but not suffl.
clently so to keep them out of the
division.
One argument in favor of the Pi
rates' copping the National league
hunting Is that none of the experts
picked them to do so.
Pat Ragon believes that to be la
good shape he will have to pitch every
other day, and he ts pestering Man
gar Robinson, to let tim do U.
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Washington Explorer Finds Strange Cave Men'
T ASHTNGTON. Caves hewn in the solid -rocks of sug&rloaf mountains.
If sometime to the depth of 150 feet large enough to hold from 1,500 to
1,000 people. Men Who think nothing of running 40 and 60 miles a day
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the explorer and lecturer and contrib
uting editor of the National Geographic Magazine, who arrived In Washington
after an absence of almost two years, spent among the troglodyte tribes of
southern Tunisia. Mr. Johnson gave out his first interview since his return
to the United States, after reporting to the National Geographic society In
Washington. . '-
While in Tunisia Mr. Johnson conducted extensive researches among the
burled Roman cities, and traced the old Roman highways, which have been
hidden for centuries by the shifting sands of the Sahara. He succeeded In
following for S00 miles the route of the road that was built from Carthage
to Leptls Magna and to Alexa&Jila nearly two thousand years ago.
"On the trip Just concluded," said Mr. Johnson, "I camelnto a more Inti
mate contact with the Innermost lives Of the peoples of the extreme southern
Tunisia than ever before, and I had an unequaled opportunity to sfudy them
at closer range than any foreigner has ever enjoyed. There are probably
more than one hundred thousand of these people in a section hitherto sup
posed to be almost uninhabitable. They are pursuing an exceedingly primi
tive life.
"All the troglodyte strongholds are difficult of approach.. Their warriors
could see the enemy approaching for many miles, unless they came by night
and then the zigzag path that led up to the great walls, worn smooth by
centuries of hard use, with a surface like polished marble, was too danger
ous, for a stumble meant sudden death on the rocks hundreds of feet below.
It Is difficult even tor the mountain goats born and bred there."
Capital Folk Scramble
THERE'S a scramble on among several hundred Washlngtonlans for rent
free housed during the summer months in the city's most exclusive resi
dential districts. Few people outside
this city scores of beautiful and costly
homes which are turned over to cars
takers, sometimes without rent, and
with coal, gas and electric light bills
paid. On some occasions, even, care-:
takers are paid a nominal sum to live
In the houses.
Now Is the season when these
caretakers are the busiest Those who
have had these positions in the past
are the most active and they besiege
almost dally the various real estate
offices in the city. For this business
Is one of the hardest for real estate
they must be able to Judge character "on the Jump" and be able to pick men
and women who would be capable and honest Then after selecting the
names of applicants the agents have to Investigate their standing and trust
worthiness. In the selection of the tenants widows almost always have first -choice.
A good widow with children Is always regarded as the best caretaker.
Uncle Sam Needs Rifle
WITH the probability that citizen soldiery may be called to national serv
ice, the national board for promotion of rifle Dractiae of the war denarfc
ment has Issued a statement explaining
tive use of the service arm. A long step in the right direction was taken by
the present congress when it enaoted a law, through a paragraph In the army
appropriation bill, authority for the war department to issue rifles and ammo-
nltlon free to certain civilians. .
"It Is a fundamental principle of national defense that citizens should be
trained In the use of the service arm. Rifle instruction is the keynote ol
national defense of Switzerland. If we were to train our citizens in the
same proportion as that small republic, we would have about 3,000,000 trained
civilian expert riflemen.
Varied Lot of Plants Grown by the Government
IN CONNECTION with Its Investigations, the Smithsonian institution under
took some years ago' the collecting of a series of cactuses. Not only
herbarium specimens, but many examples of living plants were secured
The problem of the care of these
living plants while under observation
was solved through the co-operation
of the department of agriculture, which
assigned special greenhouse No. 7, at
Fourteenth and B streets northwest
for housing them. Today a veritable
desert flourishes In it, filled with all
kinds of strange desert plants, espe
cially cactuses from North and South
America, of which there are perhaps
In 'the neighborhood of five thousand
specimens.
The collection has much to attract the ordinary visitor. No such collec
tion In Europe has so many unique and rare species. Each pot contains a
label which gives the key number to record books giving the history of each
plant The collection contains about twenty-five species of the night-blooming
cereus, several plants of the so-called bishop's cap, and some striking
specimens of Turk's head cactus. -
The photographer of the National museum makes photographs of the
flowering plants when any special features are to be noted, thousands ol
Jhese cuttings being distributed by the department to the various botanical
institutions throughout the world.
Tba collection is directly uuifj tUe ctuurg of E, M. Byraea, anriaUiU
e&t of gArdeo and ground, .
without taking a drink of water.
People who never set eyes on
fruits or vegetables.
. Towns of 8,000 to 8.000 inhabi
tants, in which there is not a building,
the people living in holes In the earth.
A land of no shadows between 8
a. m. and 5 p. m.
- A nation In which women are
never seen.
. These are some' of the wonders
described by Frank Edward Johnson, -
for Rent-Free Houses
the capital realize that there are in
men to look after. In the first place
Ranges for Civilians
the need of rifle ranges for practise,
which has been made possible by th
present congress in providing for th
free distribution of rifles and ammu
nition to civilian rifle clubs and school
cadets.
"Again we are faced with the pos
sibility of sending untrained youth!
from their homes to the battlefield."
liw nisicuicuv say. xitscruiis can a
taught to march, drill, and take care
of themselves in the field in a com
paratively short period, but such li
not the case with the care and effec