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tempered with courtesy.
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If you are not, a trial will put you in the satisfied
class.
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First-Class Modern
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We transmit Russian Money Orders to the Imperial
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most convenient method of handling money orders to
that Country.
Money Transfers to Russia by Cable.
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McGraw Makes
Player Out of
A “Bonehead”
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—In the re
cent trade which sent Ered Merkle,
veteran first baseman of the Giants, to
;the Brooklyn club in exchange for
Catcher Lew McCarthy, nothing
stands out more prominently than the
perseverance of John McGraw, mana
ger of the Giants, in making a -ball
player of Merkle after the latter had
made his famous bonehead play of
Sept. 23, 1908. It was on that fatal
day that Merkle failed to “touch sec
ond.”
Merkle, hooted and hissed by the
fans, derided by sport writers and
twitted by rj^val players, but all the
time patted on the back by John Mc
j Graw, has held his head up all these
eight years and has proved to the
world that he is a real ball player
in spite of his lapse of memory which
gave Chicago the National league
championship. McG raw’s faith in his
! young first baseman is entirely re
sponsible for the fact that Merkle
still is a big league ball player.
Not only has McGraw stuck to Mer
kle in spite of his failure to touch
I second, but after the 1912 world’s se
ries, when Boston won from the Gi
|ants through Merkle’s failure to catch
an easy foul fly, McGraw again stood
by and insisted Merkle was good
enough for him. Fans have howled
and laughed at Merkle for those two
plays, but always McGraw has stood
pat.
i Merkle has vindicated the judgment
of his former chief. When he perpe
trated the first of his famous bad
plays he was only a youngster and
McGraw knew that censure probably
would wreck whatever chance there
was for Merkle to show any class as a
first baseman. So, instead of harsh
words, Merkle was given encourage
ment. At every slip McGraw was rea
dy to pat the youngster on the back
and urge him on in his effort to live
down the miscue. And Merkle did it.
The work of this first sacker has
been a prominent feature of every one
of McGraw’s drives pennant-ward.
Merkle has been a heavy, consistent
jj batter and a heady, dependable field
| er in nearly every emergency. His
5 slips have been no more than players !
11 considered wonderful have made, but'
| they have come at a time when they
5 stood out. No one has ever taken the
a trouble to proclaim his brilliant feats
= under the same pressure, so he has ‘
j been called a “boitehead.”
j Merkle has slipped in his hitting
a this year, but the averages, for the
1 long number of years he has been a
jj1 major leaguer, show he has batted
i1 consistently around the .300 mark,
j; Last year he hit just one point below
■ that mark, and his fielding average'
■ j was .989.
:! Pretty fair for a man called a bone
head by the critical public.
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j j Rumor has it that both managers of
■ the Chicago major league clubs, Joe1
; Tinker and Clarence Rowland, are
; slated for the soaped runway before
j another season opens. Of course the
j customary denials have been made by
j the club owners, but records are rec
j ords and when managers fail to de
| liver, with the materia! given Row
| land and Tinker, the fans are certain :
1 to demand a change. And, since the
I fans pay the freight, their demands'
usually carry some weight. Eddie i
Collins is said to be slated for Row-,
land’s job and Art Wilson is reported i
to have been taken back from Pitts-:
burg to step into Tinker’s shoes.
. Young A1 Walters, who is spending
his first year in the big show as first:
string catcher for the Yankees, alrea
dy is called one of the best catchers 1
in the business. On a recent visit of i
the White Sox to New York Gotham j
writers took great delight in compar
ing the Yankee find with Ray Schalk,
the Chicago star, and not to Walters’
disadvantage. Walters has been ac
cused of conceit and an inclination to
grandstand, buj the fans in New York
are for him just the same.
With the passing of Babe Adams
and Hack Gib:on, Hans Wagner is the
only remaining unit of the famous old
Pirate machine.
Medicated Mineral Baths, $1.50. Six
for $$J)0. Turkish Baths. Tub baths
and furnished rooms. Lady attendant
for ladies at Electric Bath House, K.
, St., between 4th and 5th. I’horie 26-Y.
8-30tf "^1
Lily Gloss Starch, five cents at
I Pilger’s. 9-5-tf
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FUNERAL DIRECTORS
LICENSED EMBALMERS
An borage
MatanusV
Paul Buckley
Meets Team-mate,
Billie Sunday
(Setittie Star)
One interprets the la .vs of r, h|.
T he other enforces the laws o mar.
north of “53.”
Wednesday they met for the first
time in over 20 years—Billy Sunday,
the evangelist, and Paul Buckley. U.
S. deputy marshal at Unalaska.
Both were sorry that it isn’t the
American fashion for men to give one
another a friendly hug. They wanted
to.
Sunday and Buckley, before they
drifted apart, were teamsters on Pop
Anson’s famous old Chicago National, i
’way back in the ’80s.
Before that they played together in
the Marshaltown, la., team, the crack
aggregation of their day in that neck ;
o’ the woods.
Billy Sunday played third and
Buckley caught.
1 hen Buckley went north, chasing
the will-o’-wisp, while.Sunday staked
claims for God Almighty in men’s
souls. And for 20 years their trails .
dodn’t cross.
Wednesday the “sourdough,” who
had come out from Unalaska on bus
iness for a few days, was getting into
a Pullman at Portland on his way to
Seattle. He bumped into another pas- j
senger. The two squared off—and ;
fell upon each other.
And then they almost broke that j
American bar against hugging.
Buckley met “Ma and the Kids.” I
The two men looked at the bumps and j
bruises on their hands, souvenirs of '
the old days, chuckling like kids. They
talked about God and gold and the
grand old game.
Sunday went through Seattle on his
way to Victoria and Vancouver.
And now Billy Sunday is planning j
to go into Alaska next year and Buck
ley is going to arrange the trip for \
him.
That ought to be a great combina- ■
tion, the minions of God’s and man’s j
law working together north of “53.” i
And unless Billy and Paul cross
their signals, I predict a shut-out for i
the backsliders up there under the i
northern lights.
NOTE—Paul Buckley, referred to j
I in the above, was one of the original
.discoverers and locators of Crow
,creek, in the Turnagain Arm country.
He is one of the pioneers of the Ke
nai peninsula. Last year he was ap
pointed U. S. deputy marshal at Un
alaska, in southwstern Alaska.
Two for 25 cents, Fatima cigar
ettes. Two days only, Sept. 13 and
14. Robart’s 9-12-tf
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W. A. Taylor, Manager
Manufacturers of all kinds of
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Syrups.
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President—Andrew Stevenson.
Vice-President—J. T. Westermann
Cashier—W. H. Warren.
Teller—M. McVean.
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Liberty National Bank, New York.
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