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I TO HOLDERS OF COTTON Wc have a profitable working plan to offer you. on your part. Write for letter C 50 without obligation Rose & Son Cotton Brokers 24 Stone St. Service New York THE STOLEN BASE INTO THE DISCARD with the other team way ahead and Commerce Pushes Famous Old Buildings Aside In Rome . W , • Mj* : ^ r T no one cared w'hether the runner was on first or third. We don’t get those any more. The only time I try to | steal is with two out and one run] Rome, June 22.—Slowly the god of needed to tie or win. Then I want to comR :erce is grinding away a little i be on second so I can score on a at a t j, ne t i ie romance and antiquity single.” I of this cradle of civilization. Harry Hooper, another great base j The Cors0( from t h e time of Homan runner > takes ‘ h ® 1 same view as C ‘"!: | emperors the busiest thoroughfares Chicago, June 22.—The stolen base, llfp^.hicaL^VhUe^orUTs Umt'the' of the city, is losing its ancient charac once one rf the n.ggeet r.c.or. I. the; ot ^.y .ren't a.lnr.; t»r. The attack of world championship base-; as those of past years. He said: i (l. suoved ceiuuries ago. Palaces and ball teams, has been thrown into the i "Why have them steal, when t e t .| iUrt | 1CH were i e ft but the palaces discard by the major league managers! chances are they’ll get thrown out or a;f} f.,j]j n g before the irresistablo de- of today. Records show that there i picked off the sack after stealing. he in . in j s 0 j- commerce, were nearly three times 'as many 1 said. "The batters are hitting and Two huge t)ltl 1)a i a ces occupying a stolen bases in the American league and that’s the best way to get the | site half way up t i ie Corso have al MANY REASONS URGED BY MAN AGERS AND MEN FOR PASSING OF THE DARING STUNT. i _-U-vA! 'Uirni Ml Shipped from factory in easy-to- handle sections. Quickly and easily erected by our simple instructions. Absolutely rigid and weather tight. Double walls in most designs. En during. 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While all agree that heavy hitting has helped in the ten dency to make the stolen base extinct, seme also blame the ineffectiveness of pitchers, failure of umpires to en force the balk rule and the scarcity of fast men. Ty Cobb, the greatest base runner in history, says that the stolen base has been discarded only temporarily and will return soon. Cobh declares that the game moves in cycles and that following the cycles of great pitching and great base run ning, we now have the cycle of great hitting. "With the sluggers to today, base stealing is a hack number," said the Detroit manager, whose stolen base mark formerly was close to the 100 figure for a season, the hitting runners home.” j ready gone down before the couuuer- The records reveal some unusual C j u i onslaught. In their places have facts about base stealing in the major been reared two big, gaudy structures leagues. The number of total stolen t 0 be occupied by banks, which stand bases was decreased rapidly, more so out in hold contrast to the quiet col in the American league than in the oring of the ancient gems of arehi- National which now has replaced tecture. ^ x , the junior circuit as the leading base stealing organization. In 1912 there were 1,910 stolen bases in the American league, 1,450 in 1915, 906 in 1919 and only 750 last year. Thus far this season there have been 197 thefts at the ratio of only 591 for the season or little more than one- When the palaces are not torn i down, they are modified in such a way, that the interior decoration, 1 some of which has stood the test of centuries, is effaced and sometimes plasteied. Numerous alterations are; made to suit the necessities of busi- 1 ness. i in the quarter where the church of. fourth the number in 1912. Where gt j 0 j m L, a t eran j s located, a new! Clyde Milan led the league in 191- amusement company has taken pos with 88 thefts and Cobb in 1915 with se8s j on 0 f a large square of vacant 96, the leader last year—Sam Rice— g roun d and has erected carrousels, stole only 63, and George Sisler with roller-coasters, t'erris-wheels and side ' 42 was the only other man to pass the shows. The romance and beauty of 25 mark. Eight years ago there were the spot has vanished. nearly 30 men with more than 25 WHY DOES SHE LOOK SO OLD? >Y— d Grocer le ITL J I;1 k GOStS: C“=»t--rer,j 0 - a; too to I lefTt iSDOM k ♦ i. > iMysi ieratoH KEEP DARK -we have Palm Beach suits in stormy colors. SOME men are too sensitive to wear light colors so we stock Palm Beach suits in somber hues of dark blue, gray and green that you cannot tell from woolen materials—unless you are inside one. JUST as cool—but not as conspicuous. YOU take your cooling off in the shade—while your friends wonder how you do it—for you havehr’t-changed in appearance—or tempera ture since January. YFS, the price is low—all ours are this summer— we want your business. G. T. WALKER CO. INCORPORATED PHONE 150. 35 E. EVANS. stolen bases each. The National league runners, orig- i — | inally stealing fewer bases than their ( This question has been asked about j American league rivals, now’ are ahead many a woman under thirty, who has of the junior circuit. In 1912 -there j married and taken upon herself the were 1,576 stolen bases in the Nation- cares of a house and young children. ^ al, 1,214 in 1915, 1,165 in 1919 and 96!) j When a woman is suffering from fe-i win pass. VhenTwe wTu again return i last year. The ratio thus far this year male weakness, bearing down pains, to the cycles of pitching and base- i would bring 654 for the season if con- head and back ache and nervous irri-; runnina Eive vears from now my tinned to the end—litMe mere, than tation, it is well night impossible to ^ running. Five years from now my base running marks may be eclipsed by some youngster now in grammar school.” Tris Speaker, managei' of the world champion Cleveland Indians, combines ineffectiveness of pitching with heavy hitting as the reason for the lack of stolen bases. “The base runner of today is the man who can go from first to third or i from second home in a single, not the man w’ho can steal seventy-five bases j in a season,” said Speaker. "The in- ' effectiveness of the modern pitcher has brought about the heavy hitting and, indirectly, the decrease in stolen bases. We have no pitchers today like Matthewson, Joss, Walsh, Plank, Waddell, Brown and other stars of ten years ago. The average pitcher of today throws the ball up and hopes it won’t hit him coming back.” ] A well known National League man ager, who did not wish his name used, but who is looked on as a student of ' baseball psychology, blamed the leni- , (jncy of umpires in tenfofctyig) the I balk rules as one reason for fewer stolen bases. ! "Heavy hitting has been one factor,” he said, "but another factor is that the pitchers today can hold a man I two steps from first base. The run ners can’t get a start; pitchers make balk after balk and the umpires re fuse to call them. The rule that when I a pitcher makes any motion which he habitually makes in throwing to the plate and does not pitch to the batter, that it is a balk. The pitchers today repeatedly make motions to pitch to the hatter and then snap the 1 ball to first, so that the runner can’t I get any Kind of a lead.’ Eddie Collins, who once was one of the greatest of base runners, declares that the catchers are not throwang any better than in the years past and that the runners are not any slower. | “Why should I try to steal when I have men behind me who usually ad- ’ vance me by hitting?” asked Collins, j “I’d he foolish to take the chance. An- ! other thing, the rules are more strict now. We used to get a lot of free ] stolen bases when there w’ere two out one third as many as in 1912. [attend to, her duties and retain the ! charm and freshness of youth. Must NOTICE. she then struggle on toward the in- In widening the Florence, Evergreen evitable nervous breakdown or pre- and Pamplico road, if there are any mature old age? complaints to make, please see the Lydia E. Pinkhatn's Vegetable Coin- County Supervisor at once. 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