The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 37

SECTION 3 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1912. ms OF TMW BIG LEAGUERS si are made to fit every II Clincher ber "13" in any form, but particularly when attacned to a Puilman uerth. But Chance always insists, whenever possible, that he have lower "13." says that if he can just crawl in under that number he is sure of a good night's rest, a safe 'journey and a victory the next day. He has been in two or three minor railroad accidents, and lie declares that all these occurred when he was sleeping on other shelf besides "lower He can usually satisfy his hobby, too, for most travelers steer clear of the berth. McGraw believes a stateroom brings him good luck, or at least he always insists on having one when he can get it.

"Chance can have 'lower savs "Mac," "but give me a stateroom for luck." Most ballplayers nowadays treat the superstitions ot the game as jokes, probably because they are a little ashamed to acknowledge the.r weaknesses, but away down underneath they observe the proprieties of the ritual. Why, even I won't warm up with the third baseman while I am waiting for the catcher to get on his mask and the of his paraphernalia. Once, wnen I first broke in with the Giants, I warmed up with the third baseman between innings and in the next round they hit me hard and knocked me out of the box. Since then I have had an uncommon prejudice against the practice, and I hate to hear a man even mention JINXES" AND WHAT THEY MEAN TO A BALL PLAYEA By CHRISTY MATHEWSON. Arn.irjin oi mine wo luuh.

o. different fork in the' road from the one that I have followed when we left college, was walk Quick Detachable Clincher ing down Broadway with me one morning after I had joined the Giants, and we passed a cross-eyed man. 1 grabbed Mechanical tstnagM siaei Fisk eft my hat and spit in it. It was a new- It. Dev knows of my weakness and never suggests it when he is playing Uie hat, too, and not guaranteed water proof.

"What's the matter with you, Matty?" 11 bag, out occasionally a new periormer will drill into the box score at third base and yeW: he asked, surprised. A "Come on, Matty! Warm up here while NY type of tire that you want moment or because the team couldn't giive him any runs by which to win. No wonder the newspapers began to speak ot Ames 'as the "hoodoo" pitcher and the man "who couldn't win." There was a cross-eyed fellow who lived between Ames and the i'oio Grounds, and "Red" used to make a detour of several blocks en route to the park to be sure to miss him in case he should be out walking-. But one day this last summer, when it was his turn to pitch, he bumped Into that cross-eyed man and, in spite of the fa-t't that he did his duty oy his hat and got three or four small boys to help him out in the battle, he failed to last two innings. When it came time to go West on the final trip of the season, Ames was badly discouraged.

"I don't see any use in -taking me along, Mac." he said to McGraw a few days before we lett, "The club can't win with me pitching if the other guys don't even get a foul." The first stop was in Boston, and on the first day it rained. In the mail that day addressed to Leon Ames cam'; ra necktie and a four-leaf clover from a prominent actress, wishing Ames good luck. The directions were inside the envelope. The four-leaf clover, If the charm were to work, must be worn on both the uniform and street clothes, and the necktie was to be worn on the street clothes and concealed in the uniform, If 'Spit in your hat quick and kill that is to be had in Diamond Tires. jinx," 1 answered, not thinking for the minute, and he followed my example.

I forgot to mention, when I said lie took another fork in the road, that he had become a pitcher, too, but of a different kind. He had turned out to be sort of a conversational pitcher, for he you re waiting. It gets me. I'll pitch to the first baseman or a substitute catcher to keep warm, but I would rather freeze to death than heat up with the third Dascman, Thai Is one of my pet "jinxes." And speaking of Arthur Devlin, he has a few hand-raided "jinxes" of his own, too. For instance, he never likes to hear a player hum a tune on the bench, because he thinks it will keep him from getting a ba.se hit.

He nearly beat a youngster to death one day when he Kept on humming after Devlin had told him to stop. "Cut that out, Caruso," yelled Arthur, as the recruit started his melody. "You are klllinc base hits." was a minister, and, as luck would have it on the morning we met that crosseyed man he was wearing a silk hat. I shocked, pained and mortified when aw what 1 had made him do. But lie was the right sort, and wanted to do the tiling according to the standards of the professional man with whom he happen- eu to be at the time.

What's the idea?" he asked as he laced his hat. Worst 'jinx' in the world to see a cross-eyed man. 1 replied. But I hope 1 didn't nurt your ilk hat, I quicklv apologized. -Not at aii.

ttut how about these ball- players wno masticate the weed? Do, km i jinxes, too tie wanted to know, And I had to admit that they the main exterminators of the I 'Minx." I The busher kept on with his air until Devlin tried another form of persuasion. Arthur also has a favorite seat on the the bench which he believes Is luckier than the rest and he insists on sitting in just that one place. But the worst blow Devlin ever had was when some young unknown admirer of his In his palmy days who unfortunately wore his eyes crossed Insisted on sitting behind third base for each game so as to be near him. Arthur noticed her one day and, after that, it was all off. He hit the worst slump of his career.

For a while no one could understand it, but at last he confessed to McGraw. "Mac." he said one night the clubhouse, "it's that Have you noticed her? She sits behind the bag every day, and she has got me going. She has sure slid the casters under me. I wish we could bar her out or poison her or shoot her, or chloroform her. or kill her in some nice, mild way, because, if It Isn" done, this' league is' going to lose a ballplayer.

F7fw cm vou expect a guy to play with, that necktie could he concealed anywhere. It would have done for a headlight and made Joseph's coat of many colors look like a mourning garment. "Might as well wish good iuck to a guy on the way to the morgue," murmured Ames as he surveyed the layout, but lie manfully put on the in-cktis, taking Iiis first dose of the prescription as directed at once, and, he tucked tne four-leaf clover away carefully In his wallet. "You've got your work cut out for you, old boy," he remarked to the charm as he put it away, "but I'd wear you if you were a horseshoe." The first day that Ames pitched Boston he won, and won in a stroll. "The necktie," he explained that nllit at dinner, and pointed to the three-sheet, colored supplement affair that he was wealing around his collar, "I don't change her until I lose." And lie didn't lose a game on that trip.

Once he almost did, when he was taken out in the sixth inning, and a batter put in for him. but the Giants finally pulled the victory out and he got the credit for it. He swept through the Wes: ihen, he went on. "I'm glad that1 ie percentage of wearers of cross eyes small." What a "Jinx" Is. But there is only one Diamond Quality.

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AT YOUR DEALER'S OR The Diamond Store Cor. 3d and Breckinridge, Louisville. lheJianOnd jabber (ompanij AKRON, OHIO WE COULD BUILD THEM CHEAPER, BUT WE WON'T WE WOULD BUILD THEM BETTER, BUT WB CAN'T I have just looked into one of my favor Every Car a "Show Salesroom a Show. Each OWsmobile delivered to a purchaser is a "finished product" in every sense of the word. Inside and out; engine as well as body, the car you buy is as finely finished as most cars which are specially prepared for exhibition.

Of course you saw the Oldsmobiles at the show. You got as near them as-your time and the crowd would allow. Now drop in here and look them over more critically. Every OWsmobflo salesroom mighty good motor car show at that Nothing finer is exhibited here or abroad, than the models you can see right on the floor, ask questions about or try out on the road if you like. Take your time and take ours, without feeling any obligation.

We exhibit and explain our product freely at all times. Ask us what these cars will do as" well as what they are. Or let us show you in a demonstration. Above all, ask this question: and get a definite and interesting answer "Where is the difference between the Autocrat at $3500, completely equipped, and any 4-cylinder car built which sells for more?" OLDSMOBILE of Kentucky (Incorporated) E. H.

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140; Home 002. ite works for that word, "jinx," and found it not. My search was in Webster's dictionary. But any ball player can give a definition of it with his hands tied be- mna mm that -is. any one except Arlie and.

with his hands tied, he is deaf and dum'b. A "jinx" is so me tiling which brings bad Iuck to a ballDlaver. and the members of the profession have DUiit up a series ot iuckv ami unmekv omens that should be catalogued, yet all ballplayers seem to know them instinctively. And besides the common or gar i den variety of "jinxes," many stars have a series of private or pet and trained ones that are more malignant in their forms than which come out in the open. A jinx is the child of superstition.

that overlooking him every afternoon?" McG raw too Devlin out of th am for a time after that, and the newspapers printed several yards about the cross-eyed "jinx" who had ruined the Giants' third baseman. With the infield weakened by the loss of Devlin, the club began to lose with grat regularity. But one day the "Jinxes" was missing and Fbe never came back. Shrf must have re.id in the was doing to Deviln, her hero, and quit the game or moved to another part of the stand. With this weight off his shoulders Arthur went back into the and played like mad.

"If she'd stuck much longer." declared 'McGraw, joyous in hi rejuvenated third baseman, "I would have had her eyes operated on and straightened. This Hub couldn't afford to keep on losing ball games because you are such a Romeo. Arthur, that even the cross-eyed ones fill for you." Superstitious About Bats. and ballplayers are among the most superstitious persons in the world, notwithstanding all this conversation lately about educated, men breaking into the game and paying no attention whatever to the good ajid bad omens. College men are coming into both the leagues, more of them each year, and they are uomg their share to make the game better and the class of men higher, but they fall the hardest for the linxes.

Ana uon Know as tr is anything to be ashamed of at that. L.uck is a combination ot connaence ana getting the breaks. Ballplayers get no unbeatable, letting down Pittsburgh with two or three hits, cleaning up In St. Louis, and finally breaking our losing streak In Chicago after two games had gone against us. And all the time he wore that spectrum around his collar for a nocktie.

As it frayed with the wear and tear, more colors began to show, although 1 didn't believe it possible. If he had had occasion to put on his evening scenery. I believe that tie would have gone with For my part. I would almost rather have lost a game and changed the since it gave one the feeiing all the time that he was carrying It around with him because he had the wrong end of an election bet or something of that sort. But not Ames! He was a game fellow.

He stuck with the necktie, and it stuck with him. and the combination kept right on winning ball games. Maybe be didn't mind it because he couldn't see it himself, unless he looked in a mirror, but it was rough on the rest of the team. Columns were printed in the newspapers about that necktie, and it became the mo fame us 'sea rf in the wo Id. Ames used to sleep with it under his pillow alongside of ids bank roll, and he didn't lose another game until the very end of the season, when he dropped one agai ns roo kly "1 don't liardly lav that up against the tie." he said afterward.

"You see. Mac put all those youngsters into it, and 1 didn't get any support." And now I am told the tie is in a ga-sa case in' a cabinet in Warren, and Leon lets the natives look at it on holidays and feast days, but for the rest it Is kept in a dark room so that the light won't hurt it, and he can trot out the jinx" destroyer next season. Analyzing is a distasteful pastime io me. but let's- see what it was that made Ams win. Was tt the necktie? Perhaps not.

But some sliver of confidence, which resulted from that first game when he was dressed up in the scarf and he four-leaf clover, got stuck In his mind. Arfd after that the rest was easy. breaks wuioui con uuence in inems-vi ves, and lucky omens inspire this confidence. On the othpr band, unlucky signs take Ballplayers arc very superstitious about the bat-s. Did you ever notice how the it away.

The lucky man is tne one who clubs are all laid out in a neat, even row With The Golfers. hits the nail on tne head ana not fingers, and the ability to swat th" rui.it betore the bench and are scrupulously kept that way by the bat boy? If one on its receptive enu is a combination lelf -confidence ana an aptitude ior Ham THE EARLY of the bats by any chance gets crossed all mering. Good ballpkiying is rhe combination of self-confidence and the ability to Play- the players will shout: "Uncross the bats! Uncros- the bat!" It's as bad as discovering a three front of their bench topsy-turvy. They call this changing the luck and any other club would consider that it was the kind of "jinx." But it is the same tlie-ot-v that ca-d player have about shuffling the card? up good to bring a different run of fortune. Then, if the luck changes, the Athletics throw the bits around some more to keep it.

This act na-i'ly cost them one their best players in the third Krime of tiie late, lamented world's The players had tossed their bats to break their run of luck, foi the t-x-ore was 1 to ') against them, Case of "Red" Arrfi es. alarm fire in an excelsior factory. Don't And the choicest in the rarden, too. brought together a good time Is easily The next is "Red" A.mes, although assured, and the hospitality of the Xash- called "Leon" by his family when a very vnie Lroit and country ub can be vouch small boy before lie began to play bail. believe it? listen to what happened to the Giants once because a careless bat boy neglected hi" Muty.

The team wd playing in Cincinnati the -eason of when one of the b-its got crossed through the or thf b.U boy. Wha; was the re-mlt? "Mike" Donlin, the star of the team, tlid into third ba-t-and came up with broken ankie. THE president of the Southern Golf Association, Mrs. George Harrington, of Atlanta, lias written letters to the various players of the game among: the fair sex. urging ed for by the men golfers who have played over the club's snort course.

In ad (He Is still called "Leon" in the winter.) dition to an assured delightful visit the So if you want FIRESTONE TIRES, the best on the market, vou will have to order early this year, while we are able to- get them from the factory. In 1 fill we sold more than S20.000 worth ot tires of other makes, simply because we were unable to get Fire-stones, the kind our customers prefer. I'uy earlv and get satisaction. Ames is of Warren. and tne uiants I whfn Hnker came up tne nmtn inning.

He cracked hi now famous home i run into the right field bleachers, and and he is said to hold the Marathon record for being the most unlucky pitcher women ougnt to take into consideration the wonderful assistance their own game would receive from watching the play of the women cracks who will contest for that the Southern women add good golf Ever that time we have carr.ro tin- pla ei-s on the bench hurled the that ever lived, ana i agree with tn- say- For several seasons Ames could awn boy us because a ciub with huts wildly into tne air. in jumping up championship aspirations can't to arid reach intr for hut to throw. Jack tne JJonors. seem to win a ban game, no matter mow Harry, the shotstop, hit his head jon the ike a cuance thoe fore. go iirti'ts well he pi ten en.

iwh Jteo pitched a to their list of attractions this year. Mrs. Harrington's letter follows: "Last we held a golf tournament In Atianra under the auspices of the At You can't keep your eye on the bail and 928-32 Motor Row. ame on the opening uay or uie season ROY E. WARMER CO.

In Love With Lower 13. against Brooklyn that was the work of master. For nine innings he held his your mind on the If you would succeed at golf you must concentrate. opponents hitless, only to have them win handling the bats. They l.keiy io throw you down at any time.

The Athletics have a funny superstition which is private or confined to their team as far as I know. When luck seems to be breaking against them in a game they will take the bats and throw them wildly into the air and let them lie around in i onorete roof of the. bench and was for a minute. He said that little black specks were floating in front of his eyes, but he gamely insisted on playing the contest out. 'Connie" Mack was so worried over his condition that he sent Ira Thomas out to inquire if lie were all right, and this interrupted the ithout confidence and concentration the skill of a Vardon can only land one Frank Chance, the manager of the Cubs, has a funny superstition, which is of the personal sort.

Most ballplayers have a natural prejudice against the num in the thirteenth, nine aim again Ames has pitched brilliantly, only to be beaten hv a small score because one of the men tic Clul) for the purpose of Women's Southern Golf As-We were delighted with the year r- are well ab -in good running order, with a very tourna- among the It is well enou, lanta At hi forming th fcueia tiun. bcgi nning: 1L1W and prospects this behind him made an error at a critical the t'i H.J say hi'ii this biiil pari Tie is appi prevail to be a happy-go-lucky golfer when you are out for an afternoon's fun with some tame in the iast half of the ninth inning. A Sot of the spectators thought that Thomas was out there, bearing sonic se-c re e.ya gc from 'Connie" Mack. kni'W that he was ascertaining tht- health of mi player who had almost killed n. in-self while killing a 'jinx." The Athletics, two seasons, of your cronies, but it is mighty bad prac roach-in all year.

tice you aspire to success as a compel 106- MILE ROAD BEING BUILT ACROSS THE STATE OF DELAWARE tlve player, writes A. aV. Tiillnghart in it- captain uie i-'nuaaeipnia liecorrt. carried witn them on ail tneir carntu wuii intiii un ljicii the correctly finished stroke is clearly Perry. tin is 11 combination bat boy and mascot a hunchback, and he "out.iinxeu"' pnuLugrapnea in tne Dram oerore it a at outiieHer whom President ill the International iving his Providence club tempted.

Then confidence rules skill and the result is it was conceived, provided there is absolute concentration. But what happens if some thoughtless person clicks thai me worm i-eries. -v mmfiiuauii garded by as the best the world. If a man can just touch hump on the way to the "piate. he is to get a hit.

and any observant uie snuner or a camera just at the in three lor hi-ni a few -wesks ago. signed Detroit in buJJd Perry is a.n exact duplicate -of Sam Crawford, ilr has the same typo t' massive shoulders a like development of tho stant of the swing? The mental picture is destroyed by the unfortunate intrusion of a new thought like a flash of lightning "a camera;" and fn all probability rue stroKe wmcn cannot tie stormed mem. "On May in Xashviile, we will hold our first women's Southern golf championship tournament under the auspices of this association. "We are making ery effort to make this tournament a success, but to do so we must have your assistance and cooperation, i'le-a-e it us count upon your being with us. You must come forward and help to improve the standard of golf among our women.

"Kvery other section of the country now lias and has. had for a number of years just such an organization with better golf played every season. We need your help to better our position. "We hope you will be interested and communicate with our secretary, Miss Wat kins, or if there is any information I can give I will be glad to do Since the tournament is to be played in Nashville and would require only a brief absence from the city, it is, hoped that the women interested in the game, even though they dr. not feel brave enough to compete, would lend their presence and enth usia-sm to the movement of the as-gocia; ion.

Where a crowd of golfers is sure tator Jbing ih" the half baii- c'J IM-11- the hunchback boy befort- braving bench. So attached to this b.y havi players become that they voted him share of the prze money kist aftpr fhi pprit. f.ofs of' rke a lamentable one. Consequently we must "Nig" mem that 1r-of St. fouis nov Diame tne goiter whio 1 annoyed by for the salary than the seemingly trivial happenings, for he nlavrs would tpil vou he wno regard-? tne player as a crank tH) per annum.

an irritable old fuss is ignorant of the exact nicety with which a ball must be. because lie nas won two world nants for them. Another great piece of luck is ballplayer to rub a colored kill's 1: a nd. strucK. During the national championship iun- i ve waiKea a long ne street wit plavers and seen hem stop a uug Engiewood an over-zealous photographer negro and tatte on rus nat ana run their hands through his kinky hair.

The-i I've snapped a camera on Jerome Travers at the instant he was making a very critical seen uie tjittipmv oin ami get two or three hlt.i that afternoon and play the game of his iiff. Again, it is tiA cnnfloVnefi ininh-o1. coimlnd fn spite of the iaik that Detroit in not a baseball town, the Detroit magnates at thdw that they p-ald more to visiting clubs last season than any L-lty outside of Chicago. On the road th-; Tigers 6 rew more people than any club tin- with the possible exception of tii'- champion A iuetk's. Jim McAleer's observations that ba.ll-pl.iyers.

and not managers make winners nas a second from Roger Brcsnahan. who s.ayy; "If a ballplayer hasn't his heart in his ft" he doesn't play the bwcusc he lows it, ihe best manager in the world cannot make a good player out stroke. Had a load of slag been suddenly dumped down behind him the result cou.d not nave been more disastrous. Such jamng interruption not only ruins the concentration on the svroke of thp mo. ability.

(Copyright, by Christy Mathewson.) Next Sunday Christy Mathewson will tell of "Basenmners and How They Aid a Pitcher to ment, but on subsequent ones, for the mind thus rudely Miistur'bed rather anticipates a repent run or tne on ease. Once a rather mediocre player offered to play a match with one who was much better, provided he was permitted to snout "Booh!" just once when the other was playing. As a matter of fact, he did not resort to the artifice at all, vet he won because the other played all 'of his strokes in a fearful fashion, expecting ea.cn time to near "tiooii: shouted in his ears. This anticipation of intermntinn ueMroyea ms concentration. are liik (jittcn- I er walk down to the pitcher, who is fail ing to the psate, and converse with him.

Is he telling him how to pitch, or does he think that a moment's re3t will Wk Camp JSj Engineers' Corps with their Loeonbrls )s he reiresn tiring muscles? likely Big Jeff Tesreau. the Giants' pitching recruit, is regarded as almost a regular. seems to be in magnifi cent condition The citizen who first penned "There's many a slip 'twlxt the cup and tin-Hp" never saw "Bugs' Raymond in action, says an exchange. The New York Sun says: "If th'1 Giants get into the world's series again this year, they will have more baseball in two consecutive seasons than any of the others. In 1911 they went early to Texas, played almost through October, and then had a siege of it in Cuba.

Now they are the is iollvin him hnU tn thn Imes there will be thirty-foot roads for horse-drawn vehicles and heavy traffic. Adjoining each of these last-named roads the bithulitic or penetration system will be used. Both of these systems are alike at the beginning, the basis of both being a concrete foundation about six inches deep, which is laid after the road has been properly graded and drained. In the bithulitic process the top dressing, which THE good roads question is one wnicn to-day is occupying the attention of every thinking man in the United States. This question does not affect alone the farmer or automobHist.

but is one which is of vital importance to all, owing to the fact that every extension of the good roads movement and the itinn of every new artery has re The one best bet against I The Famous I Nobby Tread II and every Nobby Tread jj I user knows it. The II a Nobby Tread has earned I IB its popularity. Made Rn I I UNITED STATES earliest to get going again. There are now three Magees in the big leagues Sherwood, of the Phillies; sulted not only in a greater production of foodstuffs in that particular but has cheapened them on account of Lee, of the Cardinals, and James, of to tire users does not consist wholly of providing high mileage tires. Prompt, convenient replacing is also an important item.

We have established so many branches and tire depots in so many places that every highway in America may be said to lead to a convenient supply house of the small cost ot getting meiu market. Although at the present 'time mere aie between 15,000 and 20,000 mjles of improved mad in the United States, either under is badly needed, but also to work out a practical way a problem that will, if successful, revolutionize the building of roads in the United States. The problem is how can a free country road be built to make It pay its original cost, cost of maintenance and a fair return on the money invested." The solution of this problem as worked out by Gen. du Pent, as a result of his experience on the Delaware road, is a system of graduated assessments, so arranged that all who receive direct benefits from the r6ad are to bear their share of its expense, at the outset, and will later be recompensed by rentals of the unused portions of the road Suppose, for instance, that this Delaware road was being constructed by this method, instead of being given by Gen. du Pont.

On the du Pont road some twenty-six acres of land have been condemned for every mile of road. Revenue from the road win be partially derived from trolley franchises, from water, telephone, telegraph and sewer right of way rentals and partially from the rental of that part of the twenty-six acres per mile which is not used for actual road construction. As laid down, the du Pont road consists 01! some seven parts, although not all of them will be developed immediately, the idea being to increase the size of the road as the traffic becomes heavier. When completed, the road will consist of a forty-foot strip in the middle, which' will be given over- to automobiles, and on either side of this forty-foot strip a fifteen-foot strip, which has been reserved i for trolley lines. Beyond ths trolley! of mind.

He has observed the first signs of "rattles' and this condition is entirely mental. We have all seen a fine run of billiards suddenly terminated bv the intrusion of something which is foreign to the game. After all of my talk about the mentality of che golfer do not' for a moment infer that I am trying to represent our best players as a lot of "high brows." Quite the contrary. Too much theory win ruin any man's game and for the most part the ultra-theorists of golf are mediocre performers, but the man who uses his "noodle" in golf, or in any other gajne, will fly to far greater heights than any to which skill alone would carry him. I am hut attempting to illustrate what a great factor Is the brain and the influence it exerts over the strokes.

A curious fancy presents itself to me. know of a number of golfers who are past masters of the various strokes, but despite their beautiful form they seldom win. They belong (to use a rather inelegant but expressive term) In the "louse-heart" class. They have everything but courage and confidence. If It could possible for them to play a la Trilby, with courage infused by a hypnotist, who by a few passes of the hands might rob them for the nonce of their own timorous minds and lend them the "I can and I will" resolution.

It is only a flight of fancy, but it would be droll to see some of these chaps playing around, each with a Svengall caddy ing- for him. is roiled until three or tour inches thick. composed of crushed stone whieb has been thoroughly coated with asphalt by being run through a mixing machine. In the penetration process the crushed stone i- graded over Xhe foundation and melted asphalt is then poured on top of it. In either case a top course of asphalt and sand is carefully applied and rolled and this not only a binder and levels any slight inequalities of the road surface, but also serves to keep rain or snow water from penetrating the road structure.

While the bKhulitic process is more expensive, it withstands the action of the elements better in many respects than the penetration system. In the penetration system the stones not having been even-lv covered with asphalt are apt to shift when the asphalt is softened by the heat of the sun or is contracted by extreme cold, thus causing breaks and mevenness in the The project undertaken by Gen. du Pont is important and valuable, not alone to the residents of Delaware, whose benefits are direct and immediate, but indirectly construction or proposed, no section of "in be dirt roads, fifteen feet wiae, under which will be laid water sew-ern, telephone and telegraph conduits, etc. thus eliminating any necessity for tearing up the paved portion of the road. As will be seen, the total acreage utilized for the road, in spite of the mag-nilii'ent width and arrangement will not come near taking up the twenty-six acres reserved, an It is from this remainder that it is expected considerable revenue for road maintenance can he derived.

Gen. du Pont has conceived several other features, which he intends to put through, and whi-h will be of great value to the State. One of them is the foundation of several agricultural experimental stations, in charge of trained men, which will be maintained by the revenue of. the road. At these experimental stations It is proposed to work out carefully the special problems of each individual section of the State and.

-thus be able to advise the farmers In such a way as to increase their material prosperity. Gen. du Pont also Intends to set monuments l.ooo feet apart along the whole length of the road, these points being established so accurately that they can serve as "base points" in any future surveys of the State. In the. actual construction of the road manj experiments are being tried, which i will be exceedingly useful for reference purposes and for the guidance of future roaamakers.

Although different system? ot road construction have been experimented upon, it is probable that either road is receiving the caretui investigation the Browns. The nrst and last are brothers. The acquisition of Mike Donlin by Pittsburgh is taken to mean that Fred Clark will make good his threat not to play ball any more. Donlin has undoubtedly been secured to fill the gap which the absence of Clarke would leave on the Pittsburgh team. The Springfield (111.) Journal is authority for the statement that Dick KInsella is the highest-paid scout in the business, the St.

Louis club paying- him $5,000 per annum. "A ballplayer who doesn't want more money is a curiosity," says Dreyfuss. Likewise a President Garry Herrmann, of the Cincinnati club, has decided to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors or is being watched as closely by the road makers of the country, and by good roads advocates, as is the 106-mile road which Gen. T. Coleman du Pont is constructing at his own expense through the State of Delaware.

Gen. du Pont felt that any amount or money which he might give for -a road would be of far greater benefit and could have a far greater influence on the happiness and material prosperity of the people of his State than any other project he as well to the entire country, for many new and complex problems in road building have been solved by Gen. du Pont and "Mv in building the road is not D. K. GOODRICH CO," AIiri3.

OMS. Louls-rillc Tire liepot, 941 -S, 3a St. tne corps experts assisting mm in tne task of building this contribution do tne good roads movement. only to provide a good highway where it.