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em r Tffi EVENING GAZETTE PORT lERVIS, N. Y, \ Rogers Hornsby Hardest Hitter in History of Baseball No less autliority than John B. Sheridan, the veteran baseball writer, editor and commentator, declares that Rogers Hornsby, ace of the St. Louis Cardinals, is the greatest batsman of all time. Sheridan argues his p<nnt with calmness and cold logic. He had seen and known and admired all of the old-time famous ones, Anson, Delehanty, Lajoie, Wagner and Crawford. He considers the Ruthian age. He sets forth the strength of the half dozen hardest hitters and also the weakness of Hornsby, and yet still is forced to the conclusion that the Cardinal'second sacker Is tlie premier t»atsman of all time. Hornsby hits ’em on the nose and drives ’em through and over the defense like a bullet. And therein lieth his supremacy. Anson and the old-timers hit hard, but great infielders of their day often shrank with »aked hands, where the ordinary infielder of today boldly traps with the raltt There were great pitchers then, but tliere are more good pitchers now. And still Hornsby hits for a higher average year after year than the greatest of them. Homsby Hits Straight. - ^ Ruth lifts and pulls the ball. Homsby drives it j he cracks it straight through the center Of the oppositlok NO ■short right field fence helps the calm-faced, earnest Cardinal clouter. He gets that .400 average from the power and «peed of his drives alone. His hits have the “whang.\ Nothing in all the history of haseball approaches Hornsby’s daily drives through the assemble^ defense of six fielders for the highest batting average for VOO consecutive games on record. Cobb compiled his record from speed, craft and his left-hand advantage of start towards the base. Homs- fey compiles his from clean, true, hard, consistent socking, alone. Out to Break Record. Hornsby out this year to break the Wagner record of four straight seasons of National league batting supremacy, ts batting over .410. Other batsmen lift ’em and bunt ’em and beat ’em but Hornsby drives 'em through. As a hitter, f)ure and simple, his record seems to place him above all the batsmen of the old time and of the present day. The facts and the figures give him his kingship to rule without a rival or a superior. ^ Manager Kelly Was | % Sore at His Stars % There will probably always be ^ Kellys managing clubs, which X 4* brings to mind a little incident in Spartanburg the other day. X The Kelly who handles the X Spartans goes by the name of X *1* Mike, but his front handle ac- X X tually is Bernard. Y Kelly is like most of the de- X % .?eendants of the Auld Sod, and X has a quick, biting wit. The ^ X team which had been given a *j* good beating this day was being X ^ transported to the hotel in a speedy bus. The owner of the X bus happened to be a passen- X ger along with the players. Y “Slow down there,’’ command- ^ % ed the owner of rhe chauffeur, A 4* “we’ve got a valuable cargo X X aboard.’’ *!» X “Go ahead.” roared Mike, “kill X <1* every blankety-blank one of ’em, X they’re no good, anyway.” X S’ ' N © T E S The New York American baseball club spent $0,053.00 for baseballs last season. * * * Winning Texas league pennants seems to have become a habit with the Fort Worth team. The veteran Tris Speaker has just ^rounded out bis fifth year as manager ■gf the Cleveland Indians. As to firmness and rockboiinfi •strength—4Jibraltar is a bowl of jelly when compared wdth a big league um pire. As a feature of class day exercises at Yassar, girl students defeated their fathers in a baseball game. The score was 13 to 10. The Boston Nationals, disrupted by Illness and injuries, took over Mgrty Sihay of the Worcester Eastern league team to play shortstop. ' * « « May 10, 1871, the Chicago baseball team defeated the Olympics of Wash ington, 9 to 0, scoring all of their nine runs in the ninth inning. * ♦ * Ernie Quigley, -who has been um piring in the National league, for ten years, is a first-class basketball referee and an excellent football official. A baseball manager must have a c-lear and penetrating voice. Other wise how can he wake up his athletes from leaden feet to concrete dome? The oldest pitcher in the New York State league seems the best, judging t{y the performance of Lefty George, who turned in three straight shutouts for York. New Orleans ’ reports that the Yankees, Dodgers and White Sox would like to have Johnny Hollings- ^vorth, star member of the Pelican £>itcMag staf^. Charley Schmidt, catcher with the Detroit Tigers for many years and snanager of the Springfield Westerss at^sociation club, has si|;ned a contract to umpire in the Western association, S3hmldt began his career in tli4 association 2S y&ars ago. PITCHER THURSTON LET GO BY ST. LOUIS Not Considered of Any Par ticular Value by Browns. Hollis Thurston, star twirler for the Chicago White Sox team, was turned loose by the St. Louis Americans early last season. St. Louis concluded that Thurston would never become a good pitcher and keeping him was wasting Chicago needed material, pitchers especially. The training season had been a disappointment. The recruits failed to come up to the promised mark. Chicago was grabbing about desperately for players and when St. Louis let Thurston go Chicago signed him. He could not be wor.se than some of the others the White Sox had been trying out. As the first half of the season of 1924 came to a close the leading pitcher of the major leagues was this same Thurston. He had a record of 13 consecutive victories. That is the best record shown by a pitcher in sev eral years. Thurston is an excellent pitcher. He has a lot of stuff and he seems to know how to pitch. He created hiS record with inferior catchers, chiefly, for Ray Schalk, the crack receiver of the White Sox, was out of the game most of the time with injuries. iSo Thurston is pretty much responsible for Thurston’s sensational success. In St. Louis they moan over the absence of Thurston. If George Sisler had Thurston this year they believe the Browns could win the pennant. In July of 1915, Connie Mack dropped Bob Shawkey, having con cluded that Shawkey could never be come a major league pitcher. New York picked him up at the waiver price and he was a big factor .In win ning pennants for the Yankees. Connie Mack dropped Warren Oig- den this year. Washington signed him. Ogden has been a factor In pulling Washington to the top. Any pianager is likely to make the same mistake. All of them have. Girl Wins Broad Jump Is Own Press Agent A year ago baseball magnates didn’t know that George Earl Milstead was a baseball pitcher so he sent each and every one of the major league presi dents literature concerning his ability. President William Yeeck of the Chi cago Cubs became interested and had the Bonham (Texas) team give the youngster a trial. His work was I good and Milstead is now a reguiar ' Cub pitcher. fporfNo^es f ; f Mme, Anavoisard, winning me standing broad JiraiD in tlio ivomen’e Bthletic Chflffiplonftlilp, of France, mak ing the distance of 2,§1 meters. The events were held at the I Pershing sttdlaiii fa Paris on Bastile day. Horse racing has become popular in Peking, China. Nashville has just opened its first municipal golf course. Australia obtains a'revenue of $1,- 000,000 a year by tax on race-track betting. ^ Master Willie, an iSJnglish horse, holds the world’s record for six fur- ! lOHgS at 1 ;07 1-5. ^ ^ It Is up to the ethnologists and Uie physical directors to explain why the Finns are world beaters. I’aayo Nurmi, the greatest individu al hero of the Olympics, plans to jour ney to America around Christmas. The municipal golf course in Jack sonville, Fla., cost $226,(K)0, and is earning 10 per cent on tfle investment. The Olympic chess players got away to a good start and probably will have an exciting'finish along about election day. « 4s « Jim Rice, assistant crew‘coach pf the University of Pennsylvania, will return to the Red and Blue institution for another year. Afl to most of those you know in the ep/sftlng world, kGQD your mouth shut about them. Do you want to 0L pinched for us^lng bad language? ^ Possibly QoorgPH carpentler fe mt- ting more praise than he deserve® for being a geed loser. Most ajgrbody ought to be good after as inuefc m peidence as Georges has had. ^ / SPORTS YESTERDAY’S RESULTS AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington . 2 ,. Cliicago 1 St. Louis 11, Philadelphia 2 (First game) Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 4 (Second game) Boston 2, Cleveland 1 (Ten innings) Other clubs\not scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 8, St. Louis” 4 * (First game) New York 12, St. Louis 1 (Second game) Brooklyn 2, Chicago 0 Cincinnati 11, Philadelphia 0 Boston 7, Pittsburgh 6 (First game) Pittsburgh 5, Boston D (Second gajftie) STANDING OF THE CLUBS AMERICAN LEAGUE , Won Lost P.C. New York .. ... 49 .578 Washington .. . ___ 67 52 .563 D e troit .............. ___ 64 53 .\547 St. L o u is .......... 55 .526 Cleveland.......... 64 .458 Boston ............... ___ 52 64 .448 Chicago............. 84 .443 Philadelphia,, .. ...52 •67 .437 ■ NATIONAL LEAGUE Won P.C. New York ........ 43 .626 Pittsburgh .. .. 48 .579 Brooklyn .......... 51 .564 Chicago ............ .....62 51 .549 Cincinnati . . . . ___ 61 58 .513 St. L o u is .......... 67 .422 B o s ton .............. 72 .374 Philadelphia .. .. .42 71 .372 WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit at New York Cleveland at Boston St. Louis at Philadelphia Other clubs not scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE New York at St. Louis Brooklyn at Chicago Boston at Pittsburgh Philad§lifii’ia at Cincinnati TUBERCULAR TESTS FOR CATTLE IN PIKE Pike county farmers are realizing the importance of freeing their herds of tuberculosis and having healthy herds both from the standpoint of health and financially. This fact is shown by the interest that has been taken in tuberculin testing and the fact that three herds in the county sion of the bureau, will be accredited herd list. The herds of William Brodhead of Egypt Mills, Leo W. Wertheimer and the Model Farm of Milford have been under the super vision of the Bureau of Animal In dustry and have passed two consecu tive tests tvitliout any reactors there by making them eligible to an ac credited certificate. Four other herds in the county are under the supervi sion of bureau and will be accredited as soon as they have passed two clean consecutive tesjt^'. i These men, (say that they are well satisfied with the dealings of the Bure^-u of Animal In dustry and are glad they have had their herds tested. Many fields of potatoes which we have visited are affected with diseases that are uncontrollable by spraying or any other method except selection or roguing: Roguing consists of pulling all diseased hills which, is Im- practieal except \where seed, can be raised and disposed of at a good ad vantage. It is usually more satisfac tory to buy certified seed from a re liable seed source each year. The yield will be enough greater to pay for any added expense. However, ragu- ing helps in keping out the disease and in keeping up the yield of pota toes. Emil Schoenagel of Green- town who grows ten acres has re quested us to roguh enough to -pro vide seed for him next year. This service can be secured free by apply ing to the county agent. NEW COUNTY BRIDGE AT WILSONVILLE FRIDAY. AUGUST 22, 1924 MARS NOT TOO ' COIkTO PREVENT ORGANIC LIFE lbs Astronomer Thinks He Made Important Discoyery Lovrell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., Aug. 21—'Heat conditions on • Mars are vastly different from the conditions previously supposed to exist there, it has been revealed in special studies •made in Lowell Observatory. Using specially designed instruments that re acted directly to heat reflected from the planet, the scientist found a state of affairs not at all inhospitable to organic life. The results are in con flict with those obtained from mathe matical computations. , From this the scientists infer certain unknown or imperfectly known factors govern the temperature of the planet. In no other way can they explaiii the discrepancy between ihe instruments and the theoretical computation. The investigations reveal that con trary to prevailing belief the tem perature of Mars instead of being be low freezing is probably much above that point. Not taking into account the factors that seem to operate upon the sun’s light on the planet’s surface, Mars reacts to the heat coming to it across the space much as does the earth, test& shows. It was found that practically no heat emanates from the Martian .poles which are covered with snow until well into the summer season. ’The morning side of the planet, the side just turning into sunlight, shows less heat than the afternoon side. The equatorial regions are warmer than those on either side of the equa- ’tor. And the dark areas of the planet are warmer than the bright ones. Dr. W. W. Coblenz of the U. S. Bureau of standards, designer and constructor of the instruments, and collaborator with Prof. C. O. Lamp- land, of Lowell Observatory in the tests estimate the Martian average range of temperature to be up to 50 degrees centigrade. - '• How far below zero the range is, he would make no attempt to estimate. “The only thipg that seems certain in ithat ^-espect,” he Said, “is the ; mean temperature probably much above zero. ODD FELLOWS RULE OUT KLAN DEBATE New York, Aug. 22—The Grand Lodge of the Odd Fellows of .New York State ended its three-day con vention here yesterday by smother ing a resolution declaring it to be op- possed to the Ku Klux Klan. The reso lution, sponsored by a score of dele gates, was not debated, being promptly declared “out of order.” Throughout the sessions it had been rumored that a resolution attacking the Klan would be presented and there was promise of a hot fight. But the Officers maintained with firmnes>s that the order’s oft-repeated stand of non-discrimination in matters of reli gion should be continued. Niagara Falls was selected for next year’s convention. In adjourning the lodge lauded Mayor Hylan by resolu tion for his efforts in behalf of the delegates, and Grover Whalen, former Commissioner of Plant and structures and Chairman of the Mayor’s Frater nal committee. Others also were men tioned as having contributed in mak ing the. stay of the Odd Fellows £ pleasant one. The appointive officers were ■ an^ nounced by Grand Mlaster Mortimer Piederspiel as follows: Grand Chaplain, the Rev. William MacLeod, Pulaski; Grand Marshal, Samuel T. Argue, Lockport; Grand Conductor, Charles' Manas'haw, New York City; Grand Guard, George C Utting, Saranac Lake; Grand Herald, . Frederick G. Davis, Elmira. The county commissioners of PiFe and Wayne counties met in joint ses sion with representatives of the Pen nsylvania Light and Power Co., at Wilsonville last Thursday to discuss plans for the new‘county line bridge over Ihe Wallenpaupack to replace, the present iron bridge, which must be abandoned w‘hen the countrj’ there ■IS flooded by the huge dam. The engineers of the power com pany submitted to the Commissioners specifications for the proposed bridge The new bridge will be consideifibly longer than the old bridge eind tliere- rore require more, money to be ex pended in the upkeep. In view of this, the Commissioners asked the power company to put on a concrete floor instead of planks also to make a WiclQr tol’idSe than the specifications' nallod for. The po-wer-company then requested each county to put up $6,000 towarq the bmidlng of me bridge, the commisgioners refused to do. P. Huddy,a.goUcltor for the Pike County Commissioners, is to put the nw»'tter before the PttfeUo iServIc^ Com- mution at UanM DUTCH SIGN TREATY ON , BOOZE SMUGGUNG Washington, Aug. 21.--The ninth treaty between the United States and foreign nations preventing the illegal importation of intoxicating liquors in to this country was signed today by Secretary of State Hughes and by the Minister of /The Netherlands, Jonk- heer, Dr. A. C. D. de Graeff. The treaty is similar to those sign ed with the same object between the United States and Great Britain, Ger many, Denmark France. Norway Swe den, Italy , and Panama. All of the treaties have not yet been ratified by the Seneite. At the time of the signing of the treaty notes were exchanged to the effect that in case the Senate should give Its asseii't to President’s 3prb- poea.1 for pa-rtieipation by the united states in the permanent ,<?ourt of In- ternatioDal. Justice the two GaYel’h- monte would GOMidOD tlis maKinF of an agreomeni Under whieh dtepates of the nature described, xn th« |rea.ty could fee referred , to tho Porfftapient Court of International Justice. ^ WOMAN SUES BARBEWHO BOB^ HAIR Claims He Injured Her Scalp and She Will Be Per manently Bald Poughkeepsie, August 21.—A story of ■ sorrow and humiliation' in which '' is mixed the unfilled expectations of added charm and beauty, is contained in an action brought by Mrs. Minnie Day against J. Scaralata for $10,000 damages. The action is brought by Mrs. Day against the barber, whose place of business is at 5 North Clover street, for injury to her scalp, which the complaint alleges will make' her permanently bald. On July 28, Mrs. Day repaired to the barber shop of Mr, SCOrralata tO have her blonde locks removed and to have them trimmed into the latest bob. At the same time she gave in structions to have them curled with an electric curler, and the complaint alleges that she first asked the bar ber if he could do the work satisfae- Upon his assurance that the work would be done in the most satisfac tory manner, she says she instructed him to go ahead with the work. After the hair had been cut according to her wishes, she say that She inStrUC- ed Mr. Scaralata to use the electric curler and that he fWt festened this upon the front part of her hair. ,He also fastened another on the part in the hack just where the hair meets in. the scalp lock. After the iron had been fastened to her hair for a short time, she says she told him that it was burring her forehead but he assured her that this could not be the case as the irons would not burn. She finnally in duced him to remove the one from the front part of the head, and now claims that she is still suffering from the burns there. She also says she told him that the one in back was scorching her ha-ir and also burning her scalp. She says that he informed her’ that he was fully a- ware of what he was doing and that there would be noi trouble. Finnally he removed tlie electric iron from the back part of her head and then it was found that the hair had been burned to a crisp, and also that the scalp was njured she alleges. Mrs. Day states that she then left the barber shop and returned to her home and within a few days an ^in fection broke out where she had beenr^- burned. She then went to Yassar Hospital for treatment where she is still confined and it is claimed that she will be compelled to go through life with a bald spot, about three in ches in diameter, on the top part of heT head and no certainty that this will not spread to larger dimensions. William A. Mlulyey is attorney for Mrs. Day and in' the complaint al- - leges as follows: ‘Hhat the defendant negligently and ’ unskilfully conducted himself in. the premises and in attempting to cut the plaintiff’s hair improperly unskillfully and negligently burned the plaintiff’s head and otherwise treated and hand led the plaintiff so that the same be come diseased and inflamed, thereby permanently and seriously and pain*\ Lilly injuring and disfiguring this 'plaintiff and asks that she be awarded the sum of $ 10 , 000 .” GENERAL McANDREW CITED FOR GALLANTRY ■Washington, D. d . , Aug. 22 General Janies W. McAndrew, during the World War chief of staff of the A. E. F. and following the war de tailed to reorganize the Army War College at Washington; has just been cited posthumously for “gallantry in action” twenty-six years ago. Gen-- eral McAndrew died In Washington .several years .ago, but by an order President Coolidge he is awarded a silver star citation for an act of brp.v- ery at El. Oaney, Cuba, during the Spani.sh -American War. The citation reads as follows: “James W. McAndrew, major-gen eral, United States Army, then First ’ lieutenant, 3rd infantry. United States Ara<r. For gallantry in ac tion against Spanish forces at the battle of El Caney, Cuba, July 1. 1898. Nearest relative, Mrs. James W. McAndrew, -wife, 2400 Sixteenth street, NW., Washington, D. C. En tered Military Academy fronf Penn sylvania.” • i Major General W. H. Hart, the quartermaster ge'neral of *the army, has just forwarded to the -widow of General McAndrew the silver star to be* placed on the ribbon of the Span.- j PI l ish ca,mpaign medal. Berlin, Aug. 21—The people of Ber lin are today revelling in whipped cream. Luring the War, and for a ions time .thereafter, thle th0 tafelP was unknown in Germany^ (so mtich.eo that fhie youpg generatioa not . know what the words meant, recently it was found thal them was onough milk and honey to satisfy a rfevivefi demaua so all restrictions i were .removed at the request of the t«*sfeetioners. t'!' '. , ' . - • V
