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Wcig Man Secret Police " HHBV MMK’ fPjrvM'a" l * ***{«*••?¦r MHH3R i > *\ ¦ r , Wcig PHILLIES GET SCHULTE GOOD CLUB ON PAPER NOT ALWAYS BEST Man Secret Police Former Cub Player Is Seoured by They discover a nest ofGerman spies and use 11 Lb Manager Pat Moran. • patriotism of two criminals to get vital evi- . life, )]l| (l< Veteran Has Several Years of Major dence by theft:: Story of the nobleman who League Baseball in His Bystem — ir4 ) Probably Will Replace Whit* stole a million dollars and more , ( |[ ) f ted In Outfield. f___ |WO striking romances have (By VEIOCK, I''¦'•l lately been disclosed by the JACK International News police, one Sports Editor.) the Monte Ole Frank Schulte recently made his 111I'Cristo tale of a bogus count I A third as a major leaguer when ¦¦¦¦ who swindled banks out of a .move m^^on he went to the Phillies. |W xSr] and-a Quarter of dol- Philadelphia ¦¦¦¦» iars and spent He was sold to by the money as Pittsburgh for the waiver price of sl,- If it were water; the utterly other an 600 and, according to all reports, Pat different story of operations the of the jumped Italian secret police in Moran at the chance to land detecting and him. breaking up a vast espionage conspir- acy operated from We say “Ole Frank” because Schulte neutral soil. thirty-fifth year. When ball Some fragments is In his a of both stories have player passes the “three-ten" mark he been given public; to.the even In Italy is called a veteran, yet veteran not nearly all the details that of either are Schulte is, his services are still In de- yet known. Both stories testify to the skill of the police. mand. Italian secret Early in the season SChulte cracked The tale of the robbery of the Aus- wrestling match trian a floating rib in a :h- consulate at Zurich has all the with one of his team mates. As a makings of a.novel of adventure. The --i-ritoe consequence he was out of the lineup Italian authorities had Information, hitting ri- even for a time and his fell off. before Italy’s entrance Into the Jimmy Callahan decided that he would toe war, that from some neutral quarter sell Schulte and give some of the IF. a great conspiracy of espionage was young buckos of the Pirates a chance he being engineered In Italy. It became to All his shoes. When be asked for 11- more and more apparent that this con- rs, spiracy had Its agents in very high aff places, where they enjoyed access to the most confidential Information. iiellng into the house where the safe ous moral repute from the Italian cutting stage. Ultimately suspicion was deposited, and then of the was directed cased against Mgr. Gerlach, pope’s electrical connections in some All this time the “count” was trav- the Ger- eling Italy stay- man private chamberlain, and switching off the current to false about in a private car, who had been ground wires in other cases In such ing at the most expensive hotels, giv- allowed to remain in Italy despite his nationality, fashion that all danger would be ing valuable presents to scores of because of his relations avoided. people, unfailingly contributing gener- with the Vatican. Month after month of ready, they ously purposes and investigation led finally the When everything was to all charitable XAYCAIDW£LL to convic- put plan execution. They war relief. He fitted for himself elabo- tion that the Austrian consulate at Zu- their into approved rate offices In the chief Italian cities, rich was the clearing house and head- wore the most and effective gas masks, and engaged a numerous staff of quarters of the whole Austrian and were disguised In art- es- ful any actually agents, and servants, In- pionage in Italy. agents of the manner. At rate they secretaries Secret in the safe, al- cluding big valet. Italian office for special police inves- succeeded blowing and a Moor as NEWSPAPER TEAM. though some the gas mains were spectacular SOME STARS OF CHAMPIONBHIP tigations watched the establishment at of It was noted that the opened and the filled with gas, highly eccentric; then, Zurich and its agents in Italy until room “count" was but “Without any doubt,” remarked per I was surprised to find that wd their oxygen argued, wealthy people they were satisfied of the correctness masks and tanks saved It was all are Smiling Bill Donovan, as he rendered were In third place and only a few the operators. They able to get less eccentric; of their suspicions regarding Zurich were likely to be more or perfect exhibition of a ad- games ahead of Detroit. I was going away with large of the doubt that the a dentifrice and the Implication of Mgr. Gerlach. a proportion and there was no people vertisement, “I have the strongest to call up that newspaper office and most incriminating documents. who were most familiar with his opera-, The rest would have been easy If baseball team in the country—-on pa- pan ’em when I saw that two or three The whole performance engi- thought he was of perfectly sane Zurich had not been neutral territory, was so tlons per. other papers had made the same mis- neered the Italian mind and highly clever individual. and if there had not been very special that authorities a “I am handicapped by an attack of take. could not possibly have held reasons to avoid giving offense to the been Where the man had acquired his Clndnnatitls with which the valiant Strongest Team on Paper. responsible for it If there had Swiss governirifent. Above all things, been a wealth was a mystery quite beyond so- baseball scribes of this thriving little “Without any doubt we have the fluke, or If the expected revelations pa- Italy not afford to do this be- lution until after the whole plot was village have been afflicted. But for strongest team In the league—on cauld had not been forthcoming. When there is strong pro-German the exposed. Then everybody marveled at fact all of our players except per. Just listen. In the first place we cause a thing accomplished the that sentiment In Switzerland, and the Aus- was finally and the its simplicity as well as its Ingenuity. Duke Farrell and myself were crip- have ten pitchers, which is more than Italian authorities held the papers, Cortese had two accomplices, one a pled at some one time last season any other club in the league, and every tro-Germans would have all the advan- which proved a wide-reaching tage if Switzerland should be drawn conspir- notary public and the other a poor and I strained my voice on several oc- one of the ten is sound In wind, limb acy had been carried from Into the war and its territory thus on Swiss devil from Como, who served his pur- casions saying sweet things to the um- and appetite. According to the Morn- soil, it of Italy, not Switz- opened for movement of their forces was course pose because they bore remarkable pires, we might have won the pen- ing Clarion, Bob Shawkey Is the best a erland, had the grievance, and the • that the league. The Evening against Italy. , likeness to two Piedmontese automo- nant. pitcher In necessity for secrecy was at end. Expert Burglars Employed. an bile magnates. Cortese carefully cul- “Those misfortunes furnished much Blatt says Ray Caldwell is the clasa The documents that were thus se- resemblances, costuming capital boys down to of the circuit. The. Morning Universe The story goes that when long-con- tivated these to the who went cured contained amazing revelations. and making up his accomplices with the training camp with us this spiring. declared Ruth Is but a novice compared tinued observation had established be- only Mgr. Frank Bchulte. Not Gerlach but other people the greatest care to preserve the illu- They proceeded to win the pennant with Slim Love, Mogridge or Nick yond reasonable question the character of only slightly less eminence, of some sion. One of them was got up to re- waivers Pat Moran made a flying for us and they actually won it before Cull op. The Midnight Sun says Rus- of the operations that were being con- whom suspicion had never been under Signor Diatto Turin, owner tackle and landed Schulte, whom he April 11. They had so far out in sell and Shocker are the two best spit- ducted from the Austrian consulate In In Italy, were semble of us involved. Mgr. Gerlach of an automobile factory, while the had tried to purchase from the Pirates lead at that time that I really did ball pitchers In the country, while the Zurich the Italian secret police decided escaped just In time to avoid the arrest, other the image of Signor Dante last winter. not much reason why we should Broadway Bazoo asserts Ray Fisher is not only that they would break up the though there has been suspicion was see in Ferrarls, manager of the Fiat Automo- The confidence shown in Schulte by play the schedule. Since April 11, the greatest pitcher of the age. So, business but that they would make a some quarters the Italian out that authori- bile company. Moran indicates that he still has sev- however, we have not been- quite so you see, we have the eight best pitch- desperate effort to get possession of ties, without actually conniving at his eral years of major league baseball in successful.
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