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^i^;«*^^;^^iKr*^£^r»*w»a WS OF — i— YESTEETEAB 50 iteans Ago Mefrri! 'Baldwin, who graduates thik June, will represent the school Friday evening ih the annual in- 1 terschoolastte speaking contest held «t St Lawrence University, Canton. The baseball team met their second defeat of the season at B*- .asher Monday'l>y a .score of, .1,1 to 4.. Our team Was greatly 1 weak- Frew, the regular catcher. Otto Quinn was in the box for Brushton and pitched histisual steady game, but was given poor support. Bil- ly^MiTlsw&slnthe box {or Brasher, and kept -His hits well scattered. Our fWmaster, A. B. Allen has* received word that R F. D. rbate % will be started this July. •t 25 YEARS AGO •Henry Quihn, of Marcy, broug- ht Shift mother* Mrs. Jane Quinn, to Jptushton last Week, to spend the hummer. Mr. and Mrs, Leon Lee of New- ark, * Ni Y. were repent callers in Breton. Mr. Lea is a former high scho.ol Agricultural Ttacher. Mr. and Mrs, Earl Clark motor- ed' to Burlingtda, Vt Friday. Miss Wait and her Training Cla- ss girls, accompanied by Miss Ma- rie Lehn aW Miss Mary A'Hearn, Visited Ausable Chasm last Fri. Community Theater, two shows on Sat., 7:00.and 8:45. Adults .25 and children .10. 10 YEARS AGO Frederick Carpenter is visiting his mother. Pvt. Guy Hamlin is home for a short furloW % from Camp Picket. A daughter wfjs born to Mr. & Mrs. Lyle Wemett of No Bangor May 1 6*, The mother is the former Miss Marie Fenner of Mojra. Second Lieutenant F. Lawren- ce Dunn, a co-pilot of a B-24 Lib- erator Bomber in Italy, has been awarded the First Oak Leafe Clu- ster for the Air Medal tor meritor- ious achivement in aerial flight. -**• HYDE'S SHOP M0IRA ESTABLISHED 1879 MACHINE AND BLACKSMITH WORK ' The HAWKINS PHARMACY t * Brushton, N. Y. ' 1903 1954 «w- «w SAID* i.t.ir./ • i,.,iliiM'.iinl..ti.. BUY NOW AT Pearl's Brushton, N. IT. COMPLEX LINE OF SUMMER CLOTHES CffllflN DRESSES H0ISERY SKIRTS SfiOES - BLOUSES HOUSE COATS Open Every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday Evening. BOB MACD0NALD KEROSENE - FUEL OIL Prompt - Courteous Service — DAY or NITE — CALL MOIRA •,*& sa TRAYN0R REFRIGERATION Sales and Service 24 Beglow . MALONE, N. Y.\. 1070 E Dickinson Mrs, Qtzdl Roscoe has returned home after visitirig relatives in Bangor. Mrs, Maude Stiles of 'Moira sp- ent Sunday afternoon with Mr. &, Mrs. Herbert Hastings and family and in the evening *they attended church services in„Malone. Wehdell \Gonyea and family •have moved to the late Alex Dunn place that t?hey recently purchased. Mr, and Mrs, Chas. «Reid Sr. of Malone visited velatives in town Sunday. Mrs. Norman LaMountain and infant soil are spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Meacham. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Atwood have moved into Leon Meacham Jr.,s house. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Austin & son, Rodney and Miss Marion Sindinski of Marion, N. Y, spent the holiday week-end with*Mr. & Mrs. Howard Austin. On Sunday p. m. they motored to Mt. View where they were guests vo£ jheir cousins, Mr. and H Mrs. Darrol Langddn at their camp. Mr., and Mrs. Ralph Martin and Mr. and Mrs. Rufus MacElwain motored to JHoughton, N. Y. Wednesday, Miss Arlie Martin who attends College there return- ed home withtheriju Mr. artd Mrs. fArthur Goyea & Mr. and Mrs. Earl Trim motored to Springfield, Mass. „over the week-end where they visited rel- atives. Gerald Atwood spent ^Monday with his grandparents, \Mr. and Mrs. Fred Orton of the Bacon Rd. * Mr. and Mrs. Howard Austin called on Mrs Margaret Austin in Trout River Sunday evening. Rev Bowes of St. Regis Falls was a caller one evening last week at the Jhome of the R. Martins. YOUR $$ win! GO FAR IF you READ THE ADS REPAIR FARM BUILDIN65 Malone Milling Go. Inc. MALONE'S OLDEST INDUSTRY Foot Of Mill St. ,$wel28. Lumber — Building Materials — Construction mmmm <*-* By '*' SWWfc. Ray Schalk from the book \How fo Pldy'* published by Qtyt Spatthtg NATURAL EQUIPMENT Chapter 10 The job of patching, in my estimation, is the toughest as- signment on the field of play. It has always been my claim that baseball is played for the benefit of the catcher. By that I mean that he is the one play- er who has the game squarely in front of him; he faces both the ihfield and the«outfield and also has the base runners in full view, Thus, he is the one player in position to see\ everything that is going on. For a young player seeking to make good as a catcher, adequate physical equipment is the first requisite. By that I not only mean a sound body, *but a good pair of hands and a stroifg ^throwing arm. Also, it is necessary to have a cool head, as well* as the ability to think quickly. A catcher must be able to take all the knocks that borne with his job, day after day; banged-up and broken fingers;\the split and bruised hands; the bumping and the cuts from collisions and spikes on close plays at home plate. Aside from nature's equip- ment> the young player aspir- ing to success as a catcher cannot be too careful about his choice of equipment- mitt, protector, mask and* shoes. All should fit him snug- ly and comfortably. It was always my firm con- viction ,that,the catcher and pitcher should have no more than two or three sets of sig- nals, and the simpler these signals, the better. The bat- tery should function as flaw- lessly as possible, and nothing can prove more costly than £or the pitcher and catcher to get crossed up in their signs. From experience I have found that this frequently happens when the battery is working with more than two or three .sets of signs. The catcher can use a glove sign or s a knee sign, along with his finger wig-wdgs. Use of the glove or knee in flash- ing the sign to the pitcher eliminates the maneuver of going into a squatting posi- tion and then standing erect, thus saving plenty of energy ove'r a period of years. Footwork around the home plate is v a most important fac- tor in a catcher's play. Shift- ing requires alertness, and if a catcher can go to his \right as effectively as to his \left that is all in his' favor and adds to Bis value. The Catch- er should move out in, front of the plate when a throw is coming in from, the outfield ahd, whenever possible, re- ceive the balloon the fly. Then the catcher can slide back to the plate with -the base run- ner, keeping ahead of him so as to qomplete the tag and re- tire him. In my opinion, tfiis is one of the most effective plays a catcher can make and, from the viewpoint *d£ the fan, one of the best to watch from the stands. Completing this play re- quires gameness on the part of the catcher. He does not have a bag to touch with any part of either footj as the first baseman has :when he receives a thrown ball from an infield- er, or as one of the othef in- fielders has on a force play. Unless the bases are full, making it a force play, the catcher must charge the baste runner, who is coming into the home plate at top speed, hitting the ground in his slide, his spikes flashing and with the one thought of knocking over the \catcher and scoring his run. On such plays, the catcher is like the fullback on the gridiron buck- ing the line. That is why it is advisable for the catcher to move well up in front of the plate whenever it is safe to leave his position after a ball has been hit and base run- ners are racing around the bags. I repeat—the throw-in to the plate should be re- ceived on the fly, when possi- ble, so the catcher \v^all be in position to slide into the plate with the runner attempting to score, keeping ahead of him in order to tag him out. Learn to go after pop fouls from all angles, the high ones behind, or to either side of, the home plate, and those in the vicinity of first or third base. Learn the trickineSs of shadows, for they differ in all ball parks. Allow for the wind. To become adept in this all-important department of catching, one has to practice, constantly. I cannot empha- size this too strongly. •As related to Harold W. Lanigaiji This is the tenth in a series of articles to help give proper instruc- tion to boys in How to Play Baseball. Future columns will include ^Infielding, Outfielding and Base Running. :efi prior to this &t$ rt$ 00le from this newspaper, or you \MOW TO PLAT/' &mM^& of m pages, from '\f m g?o«€Ne MSWashington Am* 0i,'.%6uis 3, Mo., for fifty cents a copy. Illtilii nlU'iii [iiiriiiiffii'vr «^Vll»5fa> •a»>«jalli;.rth8.«aarfflrt i»rtWW><HiariMllWa., •- '\I linl <III'I'IIIIII.II|»I|IH»W --'--\\\ay- ll .,ffiiMfi* J '- , *-'Sa\iltW- 1 I
