Records Reveal Queer Ceremony

ST. CHARLES HERALD. HAHN VILLE. LOUISIANA. EMSUE IN ÏMé TIMELY HITTING AND SPLENDID WORK OF IDLE WORKMEN PARADING IN BUDAPEST PITCHERS HAVE KEPT GIANTS IN FRONT Umpire Bob Emslie was the victim of a peculiar pla'y at fin- X: cinnati recently, when a hard throw from Mefkle hit him on r ' ’ ' ■ ; the wrist and painfully injured him. Daubert had tripled to -, j*-«? h the score board and Merkle ran p ? out into center field and took P a sk e rt’s throw . .Take stopped at third, but Merkle threw to ward the plate with all his force. Umpire Emslie, seeing Dau- bert stop at third, was backing away into the diamond when the line throw hit him on the mMzÆï left wrist. The injury was so annoying that the game was de layed for several minutes while many of the athletes urged the veteran official to leave his post and let Bill Klem handle the ^'J\yyvAjYAGtr/^ game alone. mm W&sC/aH/ff1?G#AW Bob, however, refused to do so and remained on the job for the entire afternoon, though hik bruised wrist was giving him One of the huge parades of idle workmen that murk the rule of the com m unists in Budapest, the capital of Hun constant pain. He received the g a r y . unusual compliment of a round of applause from the fans when it was seen that he was going to or in the territory which is now sa stick to his work. known. \ y s j j Records Reveal Practice Died Before Revolution. There is nothing to show that the practice outlived the revolution. In PRESIDENT JOKNSON Maine, up to 1S52, a husband w as lia Queer Ceremony ble for d e b t s of his wife contracted before marriage, and no such subter PREDICTS BIG YEAR *- fuge as the smock marriage could re bride, retaining title to (lie same in Lawyer Unearths Interesting In- lieve him. Himself. Tliis he did in the presence of Smock marriages were frequently Chief Executive of Junior Organ förmation About “ SmoCk witnesses, that lie might be able to performed in Vermont about a century ßSAv r y / t w r prove t lie fact in case lie was sued ago. They were entirely honorable ta ization Is Optimistic. Marriages.” for any debts, she might lmve con both the participants, for they put 'Æ m F" ß&vrcsr tracted. wholly aside all considerations of A marriage of this kind occurred nt financial and selfish interest. Accord Says Baseball Never Was in Such Con Bradford in 1773. and the following is ing to tradition, they all turned out dition and Expects to See Attend yovsfG WERE COMMON CENTURY AGO a true copy of the record of the same: happily, and well they might. The ance Figures Largest Bradford, Dec. ye 24. 1773. principle involved in them may he said Some Leading Factors in Keeping Giants on Top. This may certifie whomsoever it may to have triumphed in our social life— Ever Recorded. Brides Appeared in Scant Attire to The hard and timely hitting of the Giants and the work of two pitchers, concerne that James Bailey of Brad the great majority of marriages being Protect Husband From Liability for Byron Bancroft Johnson, president Barnes and Benton, have been the leading factors in keeping the Giants ford who was married to the widow now smock marriages in the sense that o f the American league in speaking of in the front row of the pennant race thus far this season. Tite terrific Her Debts—Various Expedients Mary Bacon Nov. 22 last, past by me Ike parties arc financially independent the outlook for baseball this season, batting of Young, Kattff and Burns especially has been a big aid to the to Preserve Modesty. ye subscriber then declared that he of each other. said that baseball never was in such team in the flag fight. Young and Kauff are among the first five bats took said person without anything of By the way, one of the earliest and a good condition. He declared that men of the league and Burns is close behind them. Doyle has also been Bangor, Maine.—A Bangor lawyer estate and that Lydia the wife of strongest arguments for woman suf already the total attendance through playing a strong game, both at the bat and in the field. The problem which attending court in the ancient town of Eliazer Burbank & Mary the wife of frage was tiie necessity of relieving out the league was greater than in 1916 Manager McGraw has on his hands is that if these heavy hitters should fall Wiscasset. Lincoln county, recently Thomas Stickney and Margaret the women from the financial bondage that at this time of the year, and that there off to any great extent the extra burden which would be thrown on the (vent rummaging In the Colonial court wife of Caleb Burbank all of Bradford they were under to their husbands 50 were witnesses that the clothes she was every indication that the figures pitching staff would he so great that it is doubtful if the flingers would records of the place and in the course years ago. All th at a woman Imd then then had on were of his providing and of 1913, baseball’s Mgh-water year, stand the pressure. vf his reading came across the official practically belonged to her husband. bestowed upon her. would be eclipsed. registration of a “smock marriage.” Wendell Phillips, in his address at the WILLIAM BALCH. "Baseball has come back complete Not knowing what a smock marriage first national woman suffrage conven Minister of ye Gospel. ly," said Big Ban. ‘^Throughout the en PITCHING FOR STRIKE-OUTS was. the lawyer looked farther, and tion. held at Worcester in October, It is noted by the same writer that tire circuit the crowds have supported got considerable light upon a strange 1851. called attention to a curious case in all eases of smock mnrringes that that lmd lately occurred in tills state. the sport in most loyal style, and the DIAMOND Manager Pat Moran’s Twirlers Are custom prevalent in England a cen have come to his notice the brides A man married a woman who had good old game is on the road to even Urged to Fan Out Batters on tury or more ago and also to some ex have been widows. $50,000 of her own, inherited from lier greater heights than it reached in the Opposing Teams. tent in the American eololiies. Smock marriages were weddings It is thought that during the reign father. Dying about a year after his days before the world war. In a state • NOTES of George in there were many smock marriage, this man left a remarkably Pat Moran urges his pitchers to work where the bride appeared dressed in a ment which I sent out today to the var Felsch has few superiors throwing marriages in Maine, then a part of the generous and manly will—he left those ious club owners I said that the attend for a3 many “strike-outs” as possible. white sheet or chemise.^ The reason xnne. for such a garb was the belief that if province of Massachusetts Bay, chief $50,000 to his wife, so long as she ance figures were already ahead of Long ago Manager Pat was converted a man married a woman who was in ly in the counties of Lincoln and York, should remalu a widow! those at a corresponding tkne in 1916, from the “let-’em-hit-lt-and-trust-to- McCabe, utility Cub, weighs 180 debt he could be held liable for her which was the second greatest year in your-support” crowd of managers. The pounds and is in fine shape. band-box Philadelphia field was what Indebtedness If he received with her .American league baseball.” * * * any of her property: and also, that If In discussing the plan to send the converted him, for on that arena the Dave Robertson is considered one strike-out pitcher is a king. Even a a woman married a man who was In American and National league pennant j.f the best outfielders in the National MAIL SERVICE BY feeble hitter is apt to hoist a fly that debt, his creditors could not take her eague. • * * will carry over the near-by walls, but vroperty to satisfy their claims If he when a man Is struck out he is dead had received nothing from her at Sam Larocque, once a big league In- for the rest of the inning. Alexander, marriage. AIR IS SUCCESS *le!der, is now an umpire tn the Virgin who did his finest work for Moran, al In England, says an antiquarian, *— ia league. there was nt least one case where a • * # ways plays for strike-outs to the limit, Wilson and other officials figured prom bride was clothed In puris naturalibus Postoffice Department Says and Eppa Rixey has always been a inently, and sent letters-just before the Babe Adams Is still raising the while the ceremony was being per firm believer in the efficacy of the fan Has Speeded Delivery All aviator started. Since that time the deuce, although he was staring ten formed In the great church at Birming out ball. With the Reds Pat has sev service has continued without inter rears ago. ham. The minister nt first refused Over the Country. • • • eral pitchers whose leaping curves are ruption. to perform the ceremony, but. finding always apt to make the batters miss Postage for airplane mail at the time The St.

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