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A High Old Timefor Everubody | effort to speed against time by walk. ing. Swimming is perhaps the slowest way in which, man travels. One hun- dred yards have been swum by Charles M. Daniels in 55 2-5 seconds, while the Duke Paoa Kahanamoku pf Hawaii, the Olympic champion, did 100 meters | last year in 1 minute 1 3-5-seconds, Verhaps the .warm weatler makes }it a trifle inappropriate to speak of winter sports, but two of these at least to a major after the player has acquired more ot enter Into the subject under discus- From Unele Sam's navy baseball clitb is some jump, but less of a reputation following one or sion. -Ice yaching and ice skating league Flanagan of the two sfiperlatively gooil sensons on the have been added to the world’s: craze that is what Charles sold diamond and has acquired a case of for speed. Ice yachts particularly cruiser. Maryland did. He-was St. Louis Browns by Owner lain swelled head because of the keep pace with the fastest express to the Bears plaudits of hero worshipers. Disregar trains. The Scud, on the Shrewsbury’ Dick Cooley of the San Diego Southern California Baseball of rules and rank disobedience of th river, New Jersey, with a, favorable of the. league. Flanagan's star began to shine same are the usual results of “temper. wind, went a mile-in 30 seconds. In became captain of the Cruisef ament.” Then the manager- becomes a twenty mile run the ice yacht Wol- when he team... Dick Cooley properly vexed and there is a “show verine covered the course in 39 min- Maryland's ball him play and signed him up for down.” utes and 50, seconds at Kalamazoo, saw the San Diego team. Mich. Last year the ice skating rec- Flanagan coujdn't travel with the Letting Out a Winning Veteran. ord for 500 meters was annexed by O. when it was on the road, but he That. it is a mistake to drop a wins | Mathisen of Norway, who glided over team licks at home, and ning veteran on a major league team the line in 44 1-5 seconds. put in some hard Cooley began to receive telegrams from before recruits of brillfant promise DOES IT PAY? big league managers back east. Chance demonstrate their remarkable playing While time is money and doing of. New York, Huggins of. the Cardi- is more than spasmodic was shown fn things in the shortest possible time is nals, Tinker of the Reds and others advantageous in material ways, phy- were interested. The St. Louis Amer- icans got him for $3.500—a recom price sicians.say that we pay a high price for it. They point ta, the, startling for a lad of his experience. and growing list of victims of nervous breakdowns and the institutions filled Time's Changes. with the mentally deranged as the Five years ago Bob Wallace was the result of, this mad pace of ours, only member of the*present St. Louis tena The city business man, exhausted Browns working in the employ of Own- meme from the preceding day's strenuous er Bob Hedges. toil, lies in Bed until the last possible eat minute. Then his alarm clock wakes Amos Strunk Forging Ahead. him. A hasty toilet and he is at the Amos Strunk, the speedy outfielder of the Philadelphia Athleties, has de- FERRER breakfast table, his morning paper and watch beside him. Gulping down his veloped remarkably since last season, food, he dashes madly for his train. and today he Is one o the most valu- ' Tarun Arriving at his place of business, he able men Mack has on his team. Not rushes through his work, at noon be- only is he one of the greutest fielders rare grudging the half hour or less it in the league, but he is a fast base run- er takes him to bolt down a sandwich and ner and is hitting at a 340 clip this | a piece of pie. His day's hustle over, season. TR he rushes for the train to take him home, having barely time to get Balenti a Crack Shortstop. Tee, aboard as it starts off on a race to its Mike Balenti of the St. Louis Ameri: | destination. Then, completely worn cans, the former Carlisle Indian, is out, our quick moving passenger drops qualifying,as a star shortstop. into the nearest seat, proud of the | fact he will be home in an hour and Plays Ball by Machinery. five minutes. : Photos copyright by American Press e@ | Alex McMillan of Chelan, Wash., bas Association. received a patent for an automatic RECORDS IN SPEED. |USING UNDERGROUND WATER. ball pitcher. The device is so ar- | ranged that as the ball is batted it! 1.—Steamship has crossed At- lantic in 4 days 10 hours 41 | Steel Sheet Piling Assures Irrigation lands on a sloping canvas, up which it minutes; 31.14 miles an hour | Supply For Wyoming Farmers.- gravitates to a point above the pitcher. fastest speed attained. 2.—Mo- | An jngenions method has beqn em- There it drops through a tube down | torboat, mile in 1 minute .7 | ployed by a Wyoming live stock com- on to the “hand” of the machine, and seconds. 3.—Automobile, mile | pany in bringing to the surface and in so doing it touches a trigger which in 25.4 seconds. 4.—Running | thus making available for use the wa- lets loose the spring, causing the arm (John Paul Jones), mile in 4 to shoot the ball over the plate. Only minutes 14 2-5 seconds. 5.— | ters of underground streams, of which when the batter misses the ball does The demand for speed made the ten | Iceboat, mile in 30 seconds. there are many on the slopes of the Mile a Minute Considered Slow | he have to toss it back on to the can- day steamers, considered fast in their 6.—Algropldné, mile in ~30:78 Roekies, says Popular Mechanics. These streams percolate through yas to get the machine in operation Nowadays — Trains, Automo- | day, give way to the transoceanic le seconds. 7.—Race horse, mile in.1 minute 35! seconds. 8.— again. The pitcher throws the ball at | viathans of the present time, the fast- beds of sand and gravel at depths va- biles, Aeroplanes and Other Locomotive, mile in 30 sec- rying from ten to fifteen feet below different vertical angles, making it est of which, the Mauretania, has cross- omer Human Contrivances Dim Glory onds. the surface, but are prevented from very deceiving to the batter. ed from Queenstown, Ireland, to Amer- eoeee eccccoccccecosoees ! ate sinking deeper by underlying strata of | ica in 4 days, 10 hours and 41 minutes. cf Record That Once Amazed In building the irri- | | Wood and Nunamaker Same Age. But since the sinking of the Titanic impervious clay. PGA Ray Seymour at Los Angeles, Cal., gation system a row of steel sheet pil- The Roston Red Sox possess a bat- the World. after hitting an iceberg there has been last year sped for thirty miles, making ing extending across the arroyo, or dry | tery of identically the same age. less inclination on the part of the his first mile in 36 4-5 seconds and the river bed, was first driven through the Wood and Nutiamaker both were born owners of the ocean greyhounds to whole thirty miles in 20 minutes 21 4-5 sand and gravel, penetrating the clay Oct. 25, 1889. Bedient was horn two By JAMES SCHREIBER. strive to) exceed this record. Most of seconds. : bed to a sufficient depth to prevent days earlier. HE engine starts.: The machine the liners now take the longer route in In going across the continent this seepage. ' moves faster. It gains speed. crossing the Atlantic, thereby consum- | Photos by American Press Association. means of travel would no doubt prove The spillway portions of the sheet | “Temperament.” The dust flies, and the monster ing five to five and a half days. But Action and Posed Pictures of Cy More too slow. The best record for a motor- piling were then incased in concrete, | On nearly every ball team there is a auto demon dashes on its that still remains a remarkable time. gan, the Twirler, cycle .trip from New York to San Fran- forming a continuous concrete dam. | ball player with a “temperament.” In course along the smooth stretch ahead. Time is money. Speed is wealth. If cisco, made by Volney Davis in 1911, Since there was no underground es- the olden days it was referred to plain- | the case of Cy Morgan. The Athleticg It has gained in momentum. The veloc- ten trips can be made in the time It consumed 20 days 9 hours. cape for the water, a reservoir was | ly and simply as a “queer streak;" but, let him go to the minors a year ago. ity is fearful. On, on, and with each would otherwise take for nine jour- circle of the wheel the speed has in- quickly formed, providing a permanent | | by whatever name it is known, such He went to Kansas City, winning his neys it means an extra cargo, another RUSH IN EVERY DAY LIFE source of supply for the irrigation sys- i players are difficult to manage. first ten games, and his stock went up creased. It has now touched the real The millionaire, too, has spent bis passenger list and several hundred | tem, by which many acres are being | It usually happens that the “tem- again this summer when Connie Mack starting point and, like a shapeless money.in his effort to cut minutes off thousand dollars to the credit side of reclaimed.
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