OLD-TIME BALL PLAYERS PLAY “OPENING
GAME” OF SEASON ON A CHICAGO STREET
Left to right: Clark Griffith, pitching; Tris Speaker, at bat; Pop Anson,
umpire, and Hughie Jennings, catcher, in the “opening game” of the 1920
baseball season, played in front of the Congress hotel, Chicago, following the
baseball convention held there recently.
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FIGHT FANS WANTED MURDER
Winner of Bout at Fargo, N. D., Com
pelled to Knock Out His An
tagonist Twice.
Many old-time fighters are worried
lest the mitt game degenerate into a
pink tea and chiffon proposition.
However,’ a battle was pulled off in
Fargo, N. D., not long ago, that would
have satisfied the most bloodthirsty.
A fight had been staged between Labe
Safro, a clever welterweight of Minne
apolis, and an unnamed fighter ot
more or less ability.
It took Safro one round to feel out
his opponent and in the second stanxa
he waded in and in a short time had
the Unknown at his mercy and cleanly
knocked him out in the second.
Fargo fight fans want their money’s
■worth and howled for more. They
wanted more than a knock out; they
were anxious for murder. It didn’t
particularly matter to them which
fighter was killed, they wanted action.
To satisfy the crowd the manage
ment induced the fighters 4o go back
in the ring. In fact Safro was told he
must continue the fight or there
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'■ Labe Safro.
would be no money forthcoming.
Safro was furious to think that there
was a chance of being beaten out ot
his end of the purse and after the
fighters had been given a few minutes
rest, they reentered the ring.
Safro was master at all times and
after fiddling around for a few sec
onds sent over a punch that carried
with it full strength of his powerful
shoulders and sent the Unknown clear
through the ropes and into the strug
gling and howling spectators. He was
so far done for, that there was no
chance for further fighting. The fans
were satisfied.
RUTH WORTH $200,000
Babe Ruth has been insured
for $200,000 by the Yankee
owners.
This is probably the first case
where a club has insured a play
er, at least to such a great
amount as this. Ty Cobb is re
ported to have been insured by
the Detroit owners, but no team
ever spent as much as the
Yanks to protect a star.
PENN LOSES GRIDIRON STAR
Harry Robb, One of Foremost Backs in
Collegiate Ranks, Will Graduate
Next June.
Harry Robb, the Pittsburgh boy,
will be lost to Penn State next sea
son. Robb was one of the foremost
half backs in the collegiate ranks
Idst autumn. He will graduate next
June, together with a number of
State’s other gridiron stars. Football
followers claim Robb is one of the
greatest open-field runners in the East,
and he has also proved himself to he
a great field general.
(Conducted by National Council of the
Boy Scouts oi America.)
MOTHER'S VIEW OF SCOUTING
Here is wlmt the mother ot a Chi
cago scout told his scoutmaster over
the telephone one day:
“Mr. Scoutmaster, 1 am very much
disappointed in the scout organization.
I thought my boy would be changed
completely after he joined the scouts.
I thought he would attend to his
chores cheerfully and be more thought
ful of his mother.”
The scoutmaster at the next troop
meeting gave a talk to his boys con
cerning home duties, and noticed that
the boy in question did not seem to
pay much attention to him, if he heaiM
what was said.
“I heard you all right,” said the
scout. “But if I should help at home
the other fellows will find it out and
cal] me sissie.”
“Will the other fellows stand by you
when you need a friend? Is it not
your mother that you go to for a lit
tle change for the movies, and when
you want a favor granted? Why not
return some of these by helping her
whenever you can? If you cannot
stand a little chaff from the boys you
are not a brave scout, are you?”
The lad went away, and not long
thereafter the mother again tele
phoned the scoutmaster and said:
“I do not know what you said or
how you accomplished 'it, but my boy
is completely changed since I spoke to
you last. I have never had to talk to
him a second time about his work and
he is most courteous and thoughtful
of me.”
HEADQUARTERS TROOPS HIKE.
How would you like to start a hike
with an envelope containing sealed
orders, knowing that all the rest of
your troop were going to do the same
thing? Each envelope gave instruc
tions to follow a route according to
photographs of landmarks, supple
mented by compass directions, and
each scout would thereby come to the
spot where the troop was to have its
campfire.
It was in this way that the treasure
hunt of Troop No. 413 of the national
headquarters office began, and at the
end of the trail there were treasures
consisting of kits for each of the suc
cessful scouts. A number of these
found within the kits their badges for
advanced classifications which they
had earners within the month.
Accompanying this troop was a
party of scout officials from national
headquarters. Roast chicken and pork
chops, campfire songs and stories, and
a talk by Scout Executive Lawrence
Harris of Hammond, Ind., ended the
seven-mile hike.
Troop 413 spends each week-end in
its tents somewhere about New York
city, and will always welcome boy
scout visitors provided only that they
have their own equipment.
NEWSBOYS HAVE SCOUT TROOP.
Thirty-three boys attended the first
meeting of the Newsboys’ Troop of
Scouts, composed of boys working for
the Muskegon (Mich.) Chronicle.
Scout Executive Charles D. Maddox
addressed the boys on “What a Scout
Is, and What Is Expected of Him.”
Every ear was strained to hear his
words. Every boy was held breathless
as he was told what a big thing it is
to be a scout, the meaning of the ten
derfoot badge, and the fact that when
business men see a boy wearing the
scout badge they know that that boy
will be a success. “No matter if you
are a millionaire or the son of a labor
ing man, you will never be a success in
life unless you live up to the scout
law, even if you are not a scout,” said
the executive.
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