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MORNING ENTERPRISE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1912
GLASSY CATCHERS
L BRING BSC SUMS
Next to PitcHsrs, They Are
Most In Demand.
RAY SCHALK COST FORTUNE.
Former Milwaukee Backstop la Sixth
Player Whose Release Has Brought
Price In Five Figures He Has Made
Good Since Joining Chicago Team.
Next to pitchers, their battery part
ners, catchers, now seem to bring
about the highest price on the open
baseball market -
.One of them, Ray Schalk, recently
brought $10,000, that sum having been
paid by the Chicago Americans to the
Milwaukee club of the American asso
ciation. Schalk thus becomes the second back
stop to be purchased at a price running
Into the five figures. His only prede
cessor backstop to cost that much was
Mike Kelly, who was sold by Chicago
to Boston for $10,000 in the same trade
that took Mike Kelly to the Hub two
and a half decades ago, but it must be
remembered that Mike Kelly was the
Ty Cobb of bis day, a universal genius
who could play, any position, was a
great hitter and base runner and the
best drawing card in baseball.
Boston didn't gamble in buying Kelly.
The Chicago Americans did undergo a
certain risk in adding to their team at
such a cost a minor leaguer who has
yet to. prove his right to membership
in the fastest company. x
Schalk thus becomes the sixth ball
player whose release has cost into the
five figures, the other five being
O'Toole, Marquard, "Lefty" Russell,
Clarkson and Kelly.
For Catcher Kelly, O'Toole's back
stopping partner, Pittsburgh paid $6,
000, which up to that time was the
highest purchase price for a minor
league catcher.
Schalk has now been playing with
the White Sox for several weeks, and
it is the general opinion of those who
have studied his work that he is going
to make good.
Schalk is twenty years old. He was
born at Harvel, HI., of German par
ents, but his home is in Litchfield,
same state. He has been playing base
ball for about three years and began
last season with the Taylorville, 111.,
club In the Illinois and Missouri
league.
In July a year ago a scout in the
employ of the Milwaukee American
Association club saw the young man
catch several games and then recom
mended his purchase. The Milwaukee
club bought him for $1,000 and he
caught In about thirty games before
the season closed.
When the 1912 campaign opened
, Hugh Duffy, the Milwaukee manager,
decided to make Schalk his regular
catcher. The youngster quickly sur
prised the critics with his wonderful
catching and throwing and as he Im
proved steadily the major league
scouts flocked to Milwaukee to look
him over.
RARIBEN GREAT BLOCKER.
Boston Catcher Best In Game at Pre
venting Players In Reaching Plate. .
There is not a backstop in the Na
tional league who has it on Bill Rari
den of the Boston Braves when it
Same Thing. .
Sandy MacWhustle was fond of a
drop of whisky indeed, he owned that
sometimes be did take more than was
good for him. On the occasion, bow
ever, which led to hi appearance at
the police court be had not felt so bad
as to Justify admission of the offense.
"I was nae drunk V he protested Indig
nantly. "I had a wee dram certainly:
Intoxicated ye mk-ht say. But drunk
decldejily not!" . ..
"Oh, in that case." said the magis
trate, "certainly there Is a difference.
For being drunk I should inflict a fine
of 10 shillings. Giving due considera
tion to your explanation, I will make it
half a sovereign V
Photo by American Press Association.
CATCHER BARIDEN OP BOSTON NATIONALS.
comes to blocking players at the plate.
It takes titrvt, to do it, too, more nerve
than it rtoes at the second sack, but
that la where Rariden shines.
"He's an earnest, hardworking young
fettow, and the more games be is al
lowed to catch the better he likes it
Quite Right
A good story is taing told of a reply
given by a Srutch student to a question
-set in an examination paper.
"If twenty men leap a field in eight
hours," ran the question, "how long
Will it ta!;e tilteen men to reap tile
same Held?" '
The student thought long and eare-'
fully before setting down the answer,
and when he handed i.ii bis paper this
is what the examiner read: "The Held,
having already been reaped by the
twenty men. l-oiiM nut be reaied a sec
ond time bv the fifteen "
The Prim Dutch Girl.
The etiquette of Holland is exceed
ingly strict in nil classes. The young
girl is most carefully chaperoned, and
she never goes anywhere, even to
church, unless accompanied by ber par
ents, some male relative or other equal
ly trusted attendant At a dance the
parents sit round the walls sipping
their coffee or wine, and the young men
must make the best of their chances in
the opportunities afforded by the dance,
for when it pleases the guardians to
depart there is no help for it the girls
must go too An unmarried girl always
takes the right arm of ber escort while
the matron takes the left perhaps be
cause it is nearer the heart '
THE BRIGHT SIDE.
There's a bad side, 'tis the sad side
Never mind it.
There's a bright side, 'tis the right
side
Try to find it, '
Pessimism's but a screen
Thrust the light and you between.
But the sun shines bright, I ween,
Just behind it.
Great French Hurdler Coming.
Jean Anderson, the greatest hurdle
high jumper and all -onnd athlete in
Brance, is getting ready to come to
this country and enter the University
of California. He is expected in De
cember. Deceiving the Evil Spirit.
The blacks in Australia have a very
curious way of burying their dead.
The grave is so constructed that the
"evil spirit" coming to claim a body,
shall find it without a tenant .
It is dug very wide and deep, and
one aide is excavated so as to form a
shelf on which the corpse reposes in a
sitting posture with hands . clasped
about kuees. A boomerang is always
placed within easy reach of the dead
one's hand, and a sheet of bark is al
ways arranged most carefully between
.the shelf and the grave. .After the
grave has been filled in a , mound of
sticks is raised over it to protect the
body from wild animals. Philadelphia
North American.
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the ... r v;
Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico
" traversing the states of - - '- v
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in
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Offers, FREE, with the exception of cost of postage on" papers and cost
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BANKERS SHOWN
THROUGH BIG MILL
About 150 representative bankers
of Oregon' were guests of Oregon City
Saturday. ,Papar manufacturing in
all its branches was explained to the
members of the" Portland chapter of
the Ameican Institute- of Banking at
the second of a series of trips to this
city. The plant of the Hawley Pulp
& Paper Company was visited. The
Crown-Columbia Company plant, the
oldest on the coast, was to have been
visited, but the bankers decided; to
inspect it at another time. H. West
president and Sam P. Mullin chair
man of the entertainment committee
of the American Institute of Banking,
were in charge of the visitors.
The, visitors- "were shown - through
the mill by Theodore Osmund, secre
tary and George IPusey, superin
dent "
Knitting In Bed. Big Ben's Accuracy. Poorly P.id Worker
According to a Berlin nerve special- TMe aally average variation of the By woulen iner tu f ranee 6 cents
1st knitting in bed is au excellent and- clock on the EnfI,isn house of parila. an hour is considered good pay. The
dote for tired nerves ment is 0.97 of a second. minimum is 3 cents.
Murder In Ancient Persia. ' Keen Caddies. Certainly.
Among the ancient Persians murder G01 caddies have wonderful sight: Customer-How do you sell eggs?
was not punishable for the first of- hence the term ",lnks eywl.' Ne Bmart Groeer-!n their shellsSt
fense - " York Tribune. Louis Glotw-remofriif.
SCHOOLS TO HAVE
ATTENDANCE
Do
You Use Electricity
The Oregon City schools will open
tomorrow with probably) the largest
attendance in the history of the city.
Superintendent of Schools Tooze an
nounced that everything was in read!
ness for the opening. Improvements
have been made in all the school
buildings and the addition of two
rooms to the Barclay school through
the use of what was formerly th
gymnasium .will make it unnecessary
to teach any of the grammar grades
in the high school.- Mr. Tooze and
several of the teachers have been
busy in arranging) for the classifica
tions, and the usual school work will
be started at once.
We furnish every Electrical Want at Portland prices.
ELECTRIC IRONS
ELECTRIC TOASTERS
ELECTRIC CHAFING DISHES
ELECTRIC PERCOLATERS
ELECTRIC FANS
GENUINE MADZA LIGHTS, ETC.
PORTLAND AT MERCY
OF LOS ANGELES MEN
I PORTLAND, Sept 21., (Special)
j Los Angeles played rings around
i Portland today the -score being 10
2- Harkness and Gregg were ham
mered hard. Gregg replaced Hark
ness in the sixth.
If you do not useelectricity call at our office on Main
Street and let us convince you of its many advantages
and economy.
The stronger and rougher whiskey tastes the more
harm it will do.
Why take chances with your nerves, your stomach,
vour general health.
Cyrus Noble is pure, old and palatable
. botiled at drinking strength.
Sold all over the world.
W. J. Van Schuyver & Co., General Agents, Portland, Oregon
SONG RECITAL TO BE
GIVEN BY OSCAR WOODFIN
Announcements are out for a song ':
recital to be given by Oscar Lawrence i
Woodfin at the Congregatioal church !
Monday evening, September 30. The i
program" will consist of songs in En- j
glish, German and Italian. Miss
Louise Huntley will be the pianist
Mr. Woodfin has an exceptionally !
goon voice ana inis will De his first
appearance before an Oregon City J
audience in sons recital. He has an. i
peared several times in piano recitals ',
wnicn nave been most successful and
enjoyable affairs-
The Portland Railway Light &
Power Co.
MAIN STREET in the BEAVER BLDG.
Knew Herself.
He (on the phonei Is that you dar
llng? - '
She Yes: who is that?
"Let's All Go Down the Strand"
C Sung at the Famous FOLLIES BERGERE New York City
: Management Henry B. Harris and Jesse L. Lasky ,
Written and Composed by HAEEY CASTLING and C. W. MURPHY
Tempo di Marcia.
1. Down.
2. Bur
3. Come.
the Bhine.
glar Ben . . .
with me, ...
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CHORUS.
"Let's all.
"Let's all.
go down the Strand I
go down the Strand!
Let's all..
Oh! what.
.go down the
a hap - py
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meant to have a pio
claim'd to Jaggs, the war
Man - sion . House . a - waits
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nic, Till Jones said,
der, "To me, sir,,
you, A ban - quet.
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must de
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Strand I IU be lead - er, yon can march be -
land!...
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cline Boys yon be ad - vised by me, stay a - way from
-strange The men are tired of go - ing round, round and round the '
plied" But a tar, In grum-bling mood, said "We don't want '
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That's the place for fun and noise, all, a-mong the girls and boys, So let's all.
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Ger - man y What's the good of - go - ing'down the Bhine?"..
same old ground, I pro - pose we make a lit - tie change.".,
an - y food!" Then he turn'd to Shack - le - ton and sighed. . .
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Copyright, MCMIX, by T. B. HARMS & FRAKCIS DAY & HUNTER, Hew York
All Rights Reserved International Copyright Secured
Used by permission, MURRAY MUSIC CO., New York ' Ko.
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