f 8 Thuradaj^JnneJU^lW^ B1LT V AULE Y TM» BELT MONTANA Fn» T CHRISTY MATHEWSON GAINING IN i HEALTH DAILY AT SARANAC LAKE ; Pool Selling at Golf to Be Taboo Hereafter { OSS G] and - eh Pool soiling ut golf champion * • ships is to be taboo hereafter Î In America with the announce^ f ment of President J. Frederic Z Ç epb Byers of thevünlted States Golf > ' association in a letter to A. T. iA Packard, golf editor of the Chi­ I, r cago Evening Post, that his or­ ft ganization was opposed to the « ci practice. The Western Golf association, '»m JT* he said, has prevented pools for \ O some time, and as the associa­ t! V ;\ ist tion controls the courses during o a tournament, pool sellers will % co be barred. 4 Pi' ) <e A t l «3 UMPIRE’S REJOINDER •r__-> \\\ I * SQUELCHES PITCHER Pi dD ■ i el R A * -i. I hEMroijCr ■i m Moriarty Resorts to Drastic \\ippiMpp n V-5 ^rFpp'U'-' . Measures to Curb Hurler. tffrprmjri . A V%.i '#* \ Twlrler Who Pitched Nothing but Strikes Caught Off His Stride and Could Not Locate Plati Is ,W. V Given Deserved Call. «,■ 4 ©MrMMg ©if ©&© Sometimes an umpire is forced to OPEN TO THE PUBLIC c* resort to drastic measures to silence a fV3 protesting athlete. George Moriarty, r i American league umpire, was up against such a situation one day last summer. i) 9a A certain American league pitcher, 3 i who throws nothing but strikes. If yon ■B I “Big SI*" as H.e Appeared In Pitching for the New York Giants. would fake his word for It, wa* doing pelBP^ Ilf’ Christy Mafhewson, formerly slar twlrler of the New York Giants, Is Im­ proving hi health dally at Saranac Lake and sees his ultimate recovery within \ 1 h it a short time. The lapses which he has suffered have not dimmed his optimism * or shaken his resolve to "come hack." This Is the substance of a message which “Big Six" delivered to George Wlltse, his roommate In the days when they il i1—1 Karl fjf-\ V were both shining lights on the New York team. Pi In the first personal Interview that "Matty" has given since he was sent v> Into virtual exile by his physician, thé old war horse said: "I am really feel­ ing Hue now. I am gaining In strength every day." Christy looks well and * speaks dn a strong voice, considering the terrible siege he has undergone. J-\rch. Sfreerf- X d pniladelph UL.. * Philadelphia to Have Diamond o ÏPS5 School of Umpires Squibs TIjc Philadelphia Baseball'as­ Weather I* never postponed on ac- 1 sociation announces it conducts count of baseball. ETSY BOSS is no myth— from his Quaker training not Inclined about a wife and child In Philadelphia a school of umpires to assure M---• so maintained Levi L. to perpetrate a He on the public, when “Claypoole (with 215 prisoners) was uniformity in enforcing rules, f.owrence, with Independence, Kan., Alrlch during his life, and he In 1870 prepared a paper on the placed on board the ship Symmetry not alone concerning national In the Southwestern stole 08 bases last so says Emma B. Alrich, Flag which he read before the Penn­ and was exchanged on reaching Amer­ year. lv.1l his widow. The Alrichea sylvania Historical society, also told ica. He sought out Mrs. Ashbum, regulations governing the sport, were editor and associate the story, not from tradition, but as who was so favorably Impressed with but In regard to the various grounds on which the many lo­ For sheer ability, no southpaw editor of the Public Rec­ told by Mrs. Ross to Mr. Cauby.” him, that they were married. May was as good as Rube Waddell, and none ao ord of Cawker City, Kan., Then follows the refutation, among 8, 1783. Five daughters were bom cal twilight contests are to be played. More than 125 “pupils” Irresponsible. for 35 years (1883-1918). the papers of Mr. Alrich. as he used It to them, one. Clarissa, married a Wil­ • • • . Mr. Alrich died In the year 1917. already are enrolled. on previous occasions It contains the son, and succeeded ber mother In the Edward Hughes of Wlndber. Pa., "As I could not lift the forms alone, following : Flag making business. has been elected captain of the la»- and everybody was 'gone to war,’ ” "A myth exists only In the Imag­ "The original number and street of Umpire George Marlarty. fayelte college freshman baseball team. says Mrs. Alrich, T was obliged to ination. Is Betsy Ross a myth! Did the Flag house was 89 Mulberry the pitching. Ordinarily, aaid pitcher close business, such a person live, and did she make street ; but Mulberry was changed to POP" FOWNES STAR AT GOLF New York Nationals have released is a mighty hard man to hit. This par­ "The statement was made in the the first Stars and Stripes which we Arch. The numbers began at the a young battery, Percy Malone, pitch­ ticular occasion was one of hia few off National Tribune, Washington, D. C., now reverently speak of as ‘Old Delaware river, alternating on north Father of Former National Champion, er. and Frank Samlde, catcher, to the days. He wti wild, and when he did that 'the story of Betsy Ross and the Glory’? and south side of the street. In Although WoM Along In Years, Waterbary club of the Eastern league. manage to get one over the batter flag Is a myth.’ I want to get the “It Is recorded that some time be­ 1856 the present system of n uni tier­ Flays Good Gama. • • • would take all kinds of liberties with * refutation of Mr. Alrich before the tween May 23 and June 7. 1777, ing In oil cities originated In Phil­ With a baseball league operating In it. At such times it ta always the cue public. I shall send a copy to every Commander in Chief George Wash­ adelphia, giving 100 to each block “Pop” H. U. Fownes of Pittsburgh, Paris, Franc*, this summer. It should for the pitcher to alibi himself at the historical society In the United States. ington. accompanied by the committee, (or square, in local parlance of that Pa., father of the former national not be long before the American expense of the umpire. The Kansas D. A. R. state convention Robert Morris and Col. George Ross city), the Flag house becoming 239. na- rhamplon. W, C. Fownes, and C. B. tlonal game la played all over the Moriarty. who was umpiring halls took It up and indorsed It and placed (a relative of Betsy) called on her, The writer lived below the old house (Chick") Fownes. and uncle of Misa world. and strikes, was displeasing the pitch­ if in their records." and there after consultation, in­ a short time before the new system • • • er most of the afternoon. The pitcher Mr. Alrich, In the Civil war, was structed her to make the Flag. The of «numbering was adopted, when ___ 1 Joe Mattes, a pitcher who came to managed to win his game despite the a member of Company B, Baker's Cali­ Mrs. Mund then kept a tobacco »tore American congress resolved, on Sat­ ' the Boston Red Sox from the Hamli- fact that the opposing team made fornia regiment (Seventy-first Penn­ urday, June 14, 1777, ‘that the Flag In It, and refused large sums of j ton team of the Mint league, haa been eight runs. In the eighth Inning, after sylvania infantry). Mrs. Alrich Is of the United States be 13 stripes money for parts of the house as M released to Albany of the Eaafern Moriarty had failed to cal) a certain relics." senior vice president of the National alternate red and white, that the j league. batter out on strikes, the pitcher let Then follows "William J. Cnnhy's Woman’s Relief Corps. Alarlc G. Al­ union be 13 stars, white on a blue the world know that he thought the / statement” : rich, their son. Is past division com- field, representing a new constella- • A * Mlsglvinga concerning Joe Dunn's umpiring was sour. mander. Sons of Veterans of Kansas, tion.' This was substantially the “It Is not tradition, It Is report from -, Denver team seem to have been ‘That !■ 14 you have missed on Mrs. Alrich has printed a pamphlet design agreed upon by the commlf- the Ups of the principal participator war- ranted, for the new Grizzlies have not me !” he yelled. with the title, "History, Not Myth,” tee and made by Betsy Ross, In the transaction directly told not m looked good in the early games of the “How tunny?" asked Moriarty In a which contains her husband's “refuta­ "But who was Betsy Ross? Her to one or two, but to a dozen or more > i season. voice equally loud. maiden name was Orlscom. Elisabeth living witnesses, of whom I am one. tion" mentioned in the foregoing. • • • "Fourteen !" replied the pitcher. Griscom, horn In 1752, of Quaker par- though but a little boy when I beard Mrs. Alrich's pamphlet begins thus: The home run by Boh Veach In the Then in a voice that carried all over ents. Samuel and Rebecca Griscom. H- I was eleven years old when Mrs "The statement recently made that I opener at Cleveland waa one of the j the park, Moriarty replied ; the story of ‘Betsy Boss and the Flag Samuel was a descendant of Andrew | Ross died In our house, and well re- "Some one must have told you to Griscom, who brought the first cargo j member her telling the story.