The Yale Democrat (Yale, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 88, Ed. 1 Friday, August 1, 1919 Page: 5 of 8
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THE YALE DEMOCRAT
V
M’INNIS ONE OF BASEBALL’S WONDER
MEN NOT BUILT ACCORDING TO STANDARD
Nifty First Baseman of Boston Red Sox.
John (Stuffy) Mclnnis, first baseman
of the world’s champion Boston lied
Sox, has been for many yenrs now
past one of the striking wonders of
the game. If one were looking for
a first baseman among a crowd of uni-
formed men on the bench Mclnnis Is
about the very last man he would sus-
pect of clnss for the position. Phys-
ically he Is a living refutation, In ap-
pearance, of everything a good first
sacker is supposed to be In these
times of highly developed specialties.
To begin with he is a chunky look-
ing fellow who belies his five feet ten
Inches, lie Is somewhat deliberate of
action off the field.
Class of First Basemen.
Yet Mclnnis comes very near to be-
ing the class of first basemen of the
American League, a circuit which
boasts of a number of rare profes-
sionals of exceptional merit, Wally
Plpp and George Sisler among them,
the last two mentioned of the south-
paw variety of course.
To begin with Mclnnis Is one of the
niftiest and surest lnflelders of the
game, for if he lacks any way In phys-
ical handicaps he more thnn makes
up for the deficiency In ngility. And
If he foozles a wild throw now and
then that a bigger man—a Chase or
a I’lpp—might get he more than makes
up the difference In the deadly punch
.he carries at bat. For Mclnnis Is a
.300 hitter In every accepted sense of
the word.
In the last nine campaigns, since he
first gained recognition ns n regular
player In fast company, Mclnnis has
LIKE MATTY, LANNIN
IS CHECKER EXPERT
EFFECTIVE MEASURES FOR PREVENTING
EROSION OF MUCH VALUABLE FARM LAND
Magnate One of Most Capable
Players in Country.
failed but twice to bnt better than .300.
His successful campaign last seuson
with the world’s champions witnessed
Ills lightest hitting performance. lie
butted only .272 in Boston. Once be-
fore, only, he failed to qualify In the
chuilned circle. That was In 1916.
He clubbed for .205 that year as a
member of the Athletics. But It was
only a remnant of the old machine
with which Connie Mack had won four
championships and three world cham-
pionships. Mclqpis at the time was
the sole survivor of the illustrious
‘‘hundred thousand dollar Infield.”
Best Hitting Year.
In 1912, the year Jake Stahl’s Bed
Sox nosed out the Athletics, Mclnnis
had his best hitting year, a .327, and
that year, too, he stole the most bases,
27. The next year, when the Quakers
beat the Giants for the second time
in the world’s series, Mclnnis hit
.326. In 1911 he clubbed .321. He hit
.314 in each of the seasons of 1914
and 1915, and .303 In 1917, Id's last
year with the Athletics. It can be
seen, then, that Stuffy is a consistent
as well as a brilliant hitter.
Mclnnis was one of many brilliant
phenoms unearthed and schooled by
Connie Mack for the purpose of re-
construction after his great team of
1905—which was beaten by McGraw’s
Giants In the world’s series—had gone
to seed. The list included such other
Illustrious personages as ‘‘Home Run”
Baker, Jack Barry and Eddie Collins,
ull of them still in the game and go-
ing strong as ever, apparently.
Long Before Owner of Boston Red Sox
Ever Thought of Becoming Owner
of Champion Baaeball Team
He Waa Checker Fan.
Baseball fans have heard so much
about the expertness of Christy
Mnthewson In checkers they have been
led to believe that Big Six Is without
a rival in the ranks gf organized
baseball. Such Is not the case, how-
ever, for Joseph J. Lannin, erstwhile
owner of the Boston Bed Sox and lead-
ing spirit in the International league,
when he Is in practice can give Chris-
ty the game of Ids life at the checker-
board.
Long before Lnnnln became identi-
fied with baseball he was n checker
fan. Not only did he Indulge in the
game for his own amusement and pas-
time, but he backed with his bankroll
some of the leading checker players in
the United States.
Long before Mr. Lannin ever thought
of becoming the owner of a world’s
champion baseball team Ids thoughts
were on checkers. He was only
eighteen yenrs old when his Interest
turned to the game up in Massachu-
setts. He soon perfected his play to
such n degree that he vanquished all
the so-called couutry store champions
in the locality. Then he set nbout to
conquer the champs of the towns In
the Immediate vicinity. As a mem
ber of the Boston .Checker club he
took part In a great number of club
matches und often traveled long dis-
tances to see matches played. Less
than ten years ago he traveled from
Boston to Toledo to watch a match in
which a player he had backed was en-
gaj|ed. He was rewurded for his pains
by seeing his player lose.
Mr. Lnnnln bus always believed
that checkers were In no small way
responsible for the success of Mathew
son on the pitching mound. Big Six
realized from Ids'experience at the
checker board that a ball game Is not
over in one Inning; the score at the
end of the game Is what counts In
baseball just as it does in checkers.
Checkers helped Matty to plot and
plan at the beginning of a ball game,
as he had done many a time at check-
ers, and taught him many other les-
sons of strategy on the ball field.
BIG ED SWEENEY RELEASED
Pirate Catcher Who Was Thought to
Be Most Capable Backstop la
Let Go by Pirates.
“i
m>Wm
• & -
Gullying Which Causes a Loss of Land and a Lowering of the Water Table.
JOSH DEVORE IS NO VETERAN
Has Played In Four World’s Series
With New York, Boston and Pitts-
burgh—31 Years Old.
Many baseball fans speak of Josh
Devore, Indian outfielder, as an old
veteran. Josh Is a veteran in baseball,
and he has a record of having played
In four world’s series with New York,
Boston and Pittsburgh, but he Is not
n “old” veteran. He is only tldrty-
Josh Devore.
one yenrs old, as shown by the official
dope book, which yearly prints his
record from the time he broke Into
baseball In the Cotton States league in
1906. Devore shows earmarks of mak-
ing a great comeback. His pins are
steady again, he Is n good fielder, n
good base runner and he has been
knocking the stitches out of the old
apple since he Joined the Indians. Josh
was married last winter, and his more
settled habits since that time appear
to have given him new life.
HOW SISLER LEARNED
TO PLAY INITIAL BAG
“Pitching came natural to me;
batting, too; but I was positive
that first base would not be so
easy. I didn’t ask many ques-
tions; simply watched the other
fellows in the league. I thought
if I could catch them with one
hand like Stuffy Mclnnis I’d be
satisfied. I saw how Walter
I’lpp shifted his feet and
stretched for yards, and I saw
how Chic Gandil went In the dirt
for the low throws.
Mclnnis, Plpp and Gandil
taught me how to play first base.
I studied them and used them
for my teachers.
SPORTING
WORLD
Big Ed Sweeney, former New York
Yankee catcher, who was purchased
by the Pirates Inst winter, nnd who
(Prepared by the United State* Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
Soli erosion, or the washing away
of enrtli by water, costs the furmers
of the United States $1,000,000 every
year. Soil losses from this cause oc-
cur In every state of the Union aud
In almost every county of every state.
Nine years ago the National Conserva-
tion congress reported that 4,000,000
acres of farm lnnYl had been practi-
cally ruined by soli erosion. So seri-
ous Is the condition that Dr. N. S.
Shuler, formerly dean of the Law-
rence Scientific school, was once
moved to remark thut “If mankind
cannot devise and enforce ways of
dealing with the earth which will pre-
serve this source of life, we must look
forward to the time—remote It may
be, yet clearly discernible—when our
kind, having wasted Its greatest In
herltance, will fade from the earth
because of the ruin It has accom-
plished.”
RuinS Fertile Land.
Erosion Injures or practically ruins
fertile lands In a number of wuys.
The upper nnd most fertile parts of
tlie soil are washed away until the
land becomes barren and unproduc-
tive. Deep gullies are formed which
result In an actunl loss of land for
cultivation, a lowering of the water
table und a deficient supply of mois-
ture. Drainage ditches are often filled
up with sand, which frequently re-
sults In the flooding of the adjoining
bottom land nnd the destruction of
crops. Itlch bottom lands are often
covered with deposits of sand washed
from the hill lands. Hence the direct
losses of the upland farmer are the
land occupied by gullies, smaller crop
yields each year, and a continued de-
crease In the value of the lund. Some
of the losses of the bottom farmer are
the land covered to a great depth with
snnd, crops damaged by overflows or
deposits of sand, a continued decrense
In the value of the lund, and the
money Invested In the construction of
drainage ditches tlmt hnve been filled
or partly filled with sand. Thus It Is
apparent that both the bottom nnd the
uplund farmer should be concerned In
the adoption of effective measures for
stopping erosion.
Method* of Preventing Erosion.
Since erosion Is due largely to thq
rapid movement of the rain wnter over
the surface of the ground, methods oil
preventing erosion must cause the wa-
ter either to sink into the soli or flow
away slowly over the surface to o
drainage channel. If the rnln water
were absorbed by the soil as fast aq
It falls, there would be very little
erosion.
In order to drink up surface water
rapidly a soil must be very permeable;
which means that It must contuln fair-
ly large open spnces through which the
rain water can pass easily, or wherq
tt can be stored temporarily. Some
soils are naturally very permeable. A
number of ways of Increasing thq
permeability of a soil are deep plow-
ing, plowing under orgunlc matteil
such ns manure, stubble, stalks and
cover crops; the practice of tlle'draln-
nge, and, In certain soils, the use ot
explosives.
Protection of Vegetation.
Vegetation covering the surface ot
the ground protects the soil from the
direct action of the rain and checks
the flow of the water over the surface,
giving the soil a better opportunity to
absorb the water. It Is therefore Im-
portant that some kind of cover cropti
such as vetch, clover, oats, wheat or
rye, be grown on the land during the
winter or at any time that the land
Is not used for other crops.
Contour plowing, which consists of
breaking the ground along level lines
across the slopes, reduces the flow oil
water directly down the slope. Also!
in planting and cultivating the crops
the same level lines are followed sq
that a shallow trough Is made abovq
each row. Most of the rain water Is
caught and held In this trough until
It either evaporates or is absorbed byi
the soil. Contour plowing should In-
variably he practiced on all hill lands.j
Tlie beginning of a great many gullies
is due to the practice of plowing an<^
cultivating directly up und down tho
slopes.
Louisville finally gave Southpaw Ad
Thomas his unconditional release.
* • •
Bill Brennan has consented to stay
on as an umpire In the Southern
league.
* * •
Caruso Fred Beck, lately back from
France, has signed to play with *he
Peoria club.
* * •
Freshwater Is the name of an um-
pire who has been calling them in the
Three I league.
• • •
Art Ewoldt, former Des Moines third
baseman, has arrived from overseas
aad the management plans to use him
lu the outfield.
• » •
Lefty Bill James, as a pitcher foi
Galveston, shows signs of coming bad
to something like his old form.
Ed Sweeney.
has been with tlie club ever slnc6 It
spring trained In Birmingham, was
handed his unconditional relense.
“Merely reducing our expenses, and
we figured Sweeney could be spnred,”
was the excuse given by the manage-
ment when questioned as to why
Sweeney was let out.
HARRY COURTNEY A WAR HERO
New Haven ditcher Saw Some of Hot-
test Fighting in Recent Mix-Up
—Cited for Bravery.
One of the war’s baseball heroes
about whom little hns been heard Is
Harry Courtney, a pitcher with the
flew Haven team. Courtney saw some
of the hottest fighting In the war, be-
ing a member of the Foreign Legion
and Inter with the Second division of
the American army. Twice cited for
bravery and possessor of the coveted
Croix do Guerre, Courtney came back
and took his place without any fuss
being made over him—he Is not that
kind.
View Showing Eroaion Between Cotton Rows Where Rows Are Run Direct-
ly Up and Down the Slope, a Practice Which Is Responsible fora Large
Percentage of Badly Eroded Lands.
BOLL WEEVIL LOSES GROUND
Second Year In History of Insect That
There Hae Been Reduction In
Infested Territory.
(Prepared by the United State* Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
Due to the hard winter of 1917-18,
the boll weevil lost ground In his con-
quest of the cotton belt last year. This
Is exceptional in the history of the
weevil, In that It is the second yenr
since the establishment of this Insect
in the United States that there has
been a net reduction In territory In-
fested by this* pest.
This does not mean that the move-
ment of the boll weevil* has been per-
manently stopped. In fact, the net
loss of territory for the arear was but
a fraction of the loss at the begin-
ning of 1918. Much of the lost ter-
ritory was regained by the weevil later
In the year.
The losses In territory occurred In
Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Ala-
huma. The weevil gained territory In
Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, and
New Mexico. This Is the first report
of the boll weevil on cotton in New
Mexico, where It was found In tha
Pecos valley.
The weevil has reached the southern-
most limits of cotton production !q
Florida. It is steadily gaining new ter-
ritory In South Carolina. Almost thq
entire sea-island cotton belt Is now In-
fested.
Altogether the weevil Invaded only
16,100 square miles of new territory
during 1918. It lost 40,600 square
miles of formerly Infested territory,,
making a net loss of 30,500 square
miles. Abont 150,000 square miles of
cotton territory still remain unins
fested.
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Roof for Poultry House.
There are many advantages to a,
single-pitch roof on the poultry house.
This type Is most easily built. It|
gives the highest vertical front ex-
posed to the sun’s rays and throws
ell of the rain water to the rear.
The more properly and regularly all
refuse of the household Is harmlessly
disposed of the better for the health-
fulness and comfort of the home.
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