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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 , 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 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 in successful. When I picked up my pa- ers In the league.” papers which would fix the guilt upon satisfied Two Spurious Financiers. escape, were quite at not hav- his system, for Moran doesn’t take on agents in Italy. Accordingly, two high- ing him in their custody. A great Accompanied by them, Cortese would flivvers, and he has an uncanny habit ly Expert safe blowers and bank rob- number of followed, arrests and it has go to a bank, commonly the most Im- of nicking offball players who cast bers who were serving life terms in are PRAISE FOR been apparent from developments re- portant and influential institution in aside by other clubs and molding them an Italian prison were made agents of cently that this nest of plotters had the community where he was operat- into a winning machine. Leader of St. Louis Cardinals Laudefl the secret police. been the headquarters of about all the ing, would have himself Introduced by DIAMOND all probability Schulte will take Good If the story as It is accepted and Austro-German spies In Italy. the bank, In by Fans for Showing Team them to the management of the place of Whitted or in Italy correct, modestly by Cravath la Making. believed In is these two A Swindler or a Spy? and would stand while di- the Fhilly outfield if he shows signs expert criminals were taken Into con- rections given to the bank offi- The story of “Count Luca Cortese,” were of stinging the ball in his old-time •NOTES* Huggins being lauded to ference by the police. They proved, cials that he be provided with Miller is Jennings the bogus Neapolitan nobleman who should form. Schulte is a vet, but he is one because the Car- Hugh lias reduced the Tl* as so many criminals In all the war- such sums of money as he required on the skies In St. Louis gers’ 22 players. carried on an astounding series of of the old-timers who hasn’t lost the dinals in the league fight roster to ring countries have proved, that In which carefully are National * * * swindles, was very different. Count conditions were indi- snap from his legs. He can still can- be. their somewhat irregular fashion they Usually the money thus sup- when no one expected they would Cortese was arrested nominally for cated. ter around the gardens and haul down The White Sot are wearing khakf were just as patriotic as people who plied was deposited the bank from About a thousand fans in St Louis swindling a Roman bank out of $365. in the tough ones with as much agility oft the field and look like real soldiers. managed keep of They own stock in the Cardinals, which • • • hod to out Jail. fact, which It was being drawn. the authorities that they As a matter of It Is very well as many of the cumbersome youngsters his operations So perfect was the illusion that the up every year. Fred Mitchell must have finally con- ould be trusted with a great state understood that amount- who come The fact Eonviuced vastly and his booty thing went on for many months before legs troubling vinced the Cubs that they are a poor secret, and finally were promised their ed to more is that Cravath’s have been estimated at $1,250,000. suspicion was aroused despite the him makes Schulte an asset to the ball team. freedom if they would go to Zurich, ex- • * * spectacular operations in which the Phillies, kept amine the Austrian consular establish- There Is still much mystery about for Cravnth con be on people being “count” was notoriously wasting vast more runs than ment, and rob it of the documents that the case, many convinced bench if Schulte cun fill the bill in the Weaver has scored sums. The banks appeared not seri- be any other player in the American were desired. that the count was in fact an espionage garden, and Gavvy’s hitting will officer of the enemy countries, and the ously to have concerned themselves enlisted in the pinches usual. league year. two expert ns this The safe blowers prompt- about what was happening to the • • * ly accepted the commission. They funds advanced to him under the Schulte was a teammate of Moran’s were guise of frauds were somehow money they were advancing so freely. champions/and nside Ty got five hits In a ball game equipped with every detail of informa- or other on the old Cub Cobb provided by either He seems invariably to have got all the only member of the other day, which shows that Ty Is tion that the police could give them, Vienna or Berlin. from Evers he is the Italian government has refused money he wanted without the slightest champions still showing up. and provided with plenty of money and The to the Cub of 1006 who is accept this view, nnd all difficulty. • • • means to disguise themselves and their comment on flghtin’ off the lusty punches of 010 the has been required studiously police last investigated business. Then they went away to Zu- case When the at Doc Time. The Dodgers are not only playing to avoid the suggestion case, upon to rich, took their own good time and did even that es- the nnd called Cortese Olson at shortstop again, but he Is the pionage wds Involved. explain where he got his money, he a patriotic job In high-class safe blow- PLAYING IN VENEZUELA lead-off batter. well-nigh convinced them that he really BALL • • • ing that must be set down as unique. One of his first ventures was the Intimate friend of the two au- creation' of a trust including practi- was an Many Attracted Fronr Stuffy Mclnnls still Is hitting alt They discovered that the coveted tomobile magnates. It Is said that he Diamond Stars cally all the Italian dramatic Interests. Result of Expansion of kinds of pitching. He Is the big card and incriminating documents of the conceived and at times Cuba as paid prices even carried - kept in building ad- He unreasonable for con- Sugar Industry* at Shlbe park. consulate were a plan getting himself into •. • • • trol of many concerns, and not only out the of . jacent consular establishment to the subsidized the companies but doubled association with the two genuine not supposed be occupied by With, discouraging comment on all Grover Alexander was the first box- and to It. the salaries of actors, supplied financiers In order that he might be developed not only the big ac- sides as to the that war by this man In the major leagues to score ten that • effect It tresses with expensive clothing and seen publicly with them. They ofcourse strong-box of state secrets was thus purpose. country will have on American sportß, victories this season. Jewelry, leased theaters for long runs, were quite Ignorant of his * • • entirely separated from the consular It Is somewhat refreshing to turn to at bought newspapers, founded censorship has been in- that very Ingenious methods a new The Italian least one Instance where the present The Giants will miss McCarty’s office, but publishing house to bring out dra- suppress any hint adopted to prevent a robbery. a structed to at es- war In Europe would seem to have heavy batting, but Rariden Is a more had been matic review suited to his special pionage and complicity the part of own on benefited sports in no little degree. reliable thrower to bases. Not only were electric burglar performances, negotiated the purchase the banks. and his two accom- room Cortese The news comes from Venezuela, • e • alarms installed but the in which of Italian rights on foreign plays with plices have been arrested. It was as- South America, and Is to the effect Jesse Xannehlll, old-time major the big safe stood was piped for as- the object of monopolizing their pro- sumed that a sensational trial would Miller Huggins. such fashion that that the magnitude the sugar Indus- leaguer, has been let out as an um- phyxiating gas in In- duction In Italy and encouraged play- follow In due course, but thfere were of terference with the safe would open try In the continent south of us, re- tncans that at least that number of pire In the International league. wrights to compose Italian plays and those who had doubts. They suspected • instantly place sulting the demand growing out personally what * • jttie valves and fill the operas for him. that if the matter were forced to a from fans are interested in first for of war, many may Manager Rowland of the White Sor yrith gas. It was necessary By way of ingratiating himself with trial. would make revelations the has attracted Cuban the team does. This mean trou- learn all Cortese players to the continent and the future, though it works for rises to remark that Pitcher Clcotte burglars to about this the moral sentiment of the community, as a result of which the scandal would baseball ble In ethod of protection so thaf' they these men have organized baseball popularity during a successful season. Is not guilty of using the emery ball. Eie he,, was particularly strong for the widen. In partial confirmation of this • • • and to play the great ownership of ball might thwart It moral regeneration of the stage. He view Is a recent cable dispatch which teams started The Ideal a club game. control it, with T. M. Murchison Is the name of a col- Amazing Revelations Secured. devoted much attention to projects of announced that Cortese would be tried American colls for one man to just enough good lege pitcher from North Carolina who The Ingenuity of the expert cracks* this sort, winning the support of Influ- before a military tribunal. From this All of the South American countries other fellows to talk soil Is adapted to the cultiva- the club in the right places. will join the St. Louis Cardinals for & men was equal to the occasion. They ential Catholics by his projects for ex- It is inferred that there Is evidence whose about tion of sugar are sending to Cuba for trial. developed ultimately a plan for tun- cluding actors and actresses of dubi- that he was a spy.—New Tork Sun. • • • expert workmen nnd many of those ROWLAND HAS COMPACT CLUB who are responding have been dia- Probably the weaklings of both pole. The dog established himself at rage and made every effort get at leagues would have more success If the WAS VERY “SCRAPPY” MONK to mond stars In the Pearl of the An- Manager of White Sox Gives His Rea- the foot of the pole and barked sav- the chattering monkey, until the mon- tilles. As a result, baseball promises first three batters didn’t always sac- key sons for Success of Team—Men agely, monkey dropped, as before. The teeth and * rifice. Organ Pet, Attacked by Big while the chattered in to t#ecome at least as well known, If Are Hitting. Grinder's were again brought Into play, Not • • • Dog, His Antagonist several dialects and slid up and down claws not ns popular, In Latin America ns it Yellow Puts dog enough. saying Flight the pole, keeping a wary eye on the and this time the had Af- is In the West Indies. The South Clarence Rowland, manager of the Fielder Jones Isn’t a word to days. enemy. ter worrying his antagonist by rolling Americans are a sport-loving people, White Sox, suys his team Is not hitting, these But If the Browns sud- over ran away os as his legs denly brace up he resume his organ grinder In a West- Finally It slid down the pole again him he fast and once the fascination of the ol<* but that good pitching, tidy fielding and will Aa Italian carry monkey daily monkey, the nnd then suddenly bounded plump on could him. The chased cry “Play ball” fastens Itself on them, “getting the breaks” are the reasons talks with St. Louis scribes. 'em (own had a and • * • him for a few yards and then returned should be of enthusiastic compact ran away and was ambling the dog’s back and with teeth and there a wave for his success. “We have a to the pole, where he remained until response throughout the continent. Harry Wolter Is finding the Nation- street when It was attacked claws made the hair fly. The dog club,” explained Rowland the other along, the recovered by his master. The turnstiles at bullfights suf- enlightenment al league pitching far more difficult by n inrge yellow dog. For several sec- jumped and howled and twisted him- ma£ day, but that Is no to fer, but this, in the minds of many, laymen who go to* than that of the , onds nothing could be seen but a cloud self and finally rolled over. The mon- the host of ball again. would be a consummation devoutly to games, for he didn’t explain what a where he was wont to bust fences for dust, ¦from which the monkey key promptly took to the pole Even a fat woman likes to be made of “compact” dub Is. several seasons nnst. , ,‘ he desired. etaerc

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