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• dllMiN.I...n.........E•••••••ImOM••••••IMRM•blMMI•••••••MIO•••••••••, EARLY BASEBALL. The Game In the Days When It Was Played With Bare Hands. MASKS WERE NOT USED THEN. 1s a Result Fractured Noses, Split Palms and Broken Fingers Were Everyday inoldents--The Advent and Development of Protective Devices. \Can you imagine a modern baseball team playing the game barehanded?\ asked a gray haired fan while discuss lug diamond doings of long ago. ''There . would be plenty of business for the bone setters and so many errors in the field that the sport would develop into a burlesque. Yet I can remember the days when ball players never wore gloves and when catchers had neither masks nor mitts. It required great courage to face a swift pitcher and lots of nerve to get In front of a hot grounder.\ Many of our Citizens who played baseball more than thirty-five years ago will tell you that broken fingers, bone bruises, split palms and torn [In- ger mills were everyday accidents and that a player who showed the white feather was tabooed. Before glove) nod musks were invented catchers had endless troubles. The old timers who dared to stand close behind the bats- men had teeth knocked out and noses fractured by the foul tips that could not be avoided. Soon came a habit of putting a piece of solid rubber in the mouth made in such a manner that It covered the lips and provided protec- tion for the teeth. It proved so effi- cient that all the leading catchers adopted it. But even then It was dan- gerous to catch close up until James Tytig. the former Harvard player. In- vemed the mask, a cumbersome affair with broad strips of flattened iron that covered the face, but also partially ob- scure() the backstop's vision. Then came the catcher's gloves, one for each band. These gloves were of light kid, with no fingers and little or on padding. Catchers who handled an Ift deliveries, therefore, soon found that the gloves did not come up to the remoreuieuts, so it was a common thing to see backstops stuffing grass foto the gloves to protect the palms of the hands. One of the first National league catchers to use a left hand glove with fingers was Meyers of Indianapolis,' more than _twenty-five years ago. Sciniebody made a glove for him that caused a general laugh. The fingers were so long and the surface of the glove was so broad that Meyers found It difficult at arta to hold a pitched ball lie was catching the great Hen- ry Boyle in those days. and Boyle had blinding speed Meyers had broken all of his fingers, also both thumbs, in handling Boyle with the fingerless glovea, so that he readily tried the new one, and after much perseverance he proved that it bad merit. After that all the catchers adopted a finger Were for the left band. The glove was Improved upon when the manufactur- er pin solid leather tips on the ends of tile ringers to protect the nails. Buck Ewing. Silver Flint and Char- ley Bennett, three of the greatest backstop. the game ever produced. were among the first to adopt the mitt. which was a comparatively light af- fair, but made it impossible to injure the lingers of . the left band. As the nuinnfacturers gradually increased the size and weight of the catcher's mitt the mania for gloves became general. The In and out fielders adopted them, some using the mitt until the baseball rule makers were forced to legislate spilled the practice. When the rule stipulating the size of the glove to be word was passed the catcher was allowed to wear the same heavy mitt, while a lighter one was assigned to the first baseman. But all the other fielders were compelled to use a linger glove weighing not more than half a dozen ounces. Before the In and out fielders began to wear gloves, however, many stars made re- markable records. Adrian C. Anson played first base for the Chicagos for many years barehanded. The old man was a mark for such swift throw- ing Infielders as Ed . Williamson and Fred ['ferret% who tried in vain to make him wince. Many times Anson went home from the ball field . with awnlien fingers and very painful bone bruises, but never used a mitt or a glove until near the end of his dia- mond career. With the popularity of the glove came an Improved style of mask. The wires were made smaller and stronger. with the padding firmer. Later on the mask had R visor of leather to keep the sun out of the catcher's eyes, to- gether with a steel protection for the k and throat The chest protector came into Use in the eighties, but at first it was not inflated. It was a fiat affair with a bamboo frame over which was a buckskin covering. This did not prevent catchers from being par - tinily knocked out by sharp foul tips In the bread basket, so the pneumatic chest protector was bailed with de- light and is now indispensable. Roger Bresnahan was the first major league catcher to wear shin guards ^tut as cricketers use. He was ridi- Ailed at drat, but when a special make was put on the market Roger was vin- dicated. The guards now worn by many backstops have a joint at the knees so that they do not impede catchers In their hurry after foul files. 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Exclusive Steger & Sons Representatives Yankton, S. D. Mitchell, S. D. Watertown, S. D. GEYSER JUDITH BASIN TIMES Published every Thursday at Geyser, Mont. M. E. Parrish, Editor and Publisher Entered as second-class matter March 25, 1911, at the posroffice at Geyser, Montana, under the act of Mart -h 3, 1879. MITHURSDAY, juLt 18, 1912 AN UNPUBLISHED NOVEL Burnaby's Handwritin g Was So Bad It Could Not Bs Read, It wits stilted at the time of Colonel Burnaby's death that he had left be- hind him the mannspript of a novel for which tiwre was eonsitlernble competi- tion among the 11111)Ilshem• This is quite trite. 'file manuscript, a bulky parcel. was handed to me with diseretiontiry power either to pub- lish it myself or to Use It in connection with the proposed biography. Here a eIngufar thud, as It finally proved, a fatal obstacle presented it- self. Familiar for minty years with iturtinby's handwriting. I coil Id not lifter diligent endeavor make out more than n sentence here nod there on the crowded page of manuscript. Ituniaby's writing was, possibly with the exception id Penn Stanley's, the worst I ever saw. It looked as If be- fore sitting down to write 'n letter he had pulled a twig out of the hedge, mixed a little blacking and then gone ahead. Ile wrote the whole of his \Ride to Killen\ and his \Ride on Horseback Through Atria Minor\ with his own Mind But before they reached the printer they were fairly written out by a copyist. The hapless' man used to make out AR much as he could. then leave blanks for filling up which he had to seek the assistsince of the author. Sometimes there were more !dunks in a page than words. Despairing of making anything of the manuscript of the novel, it was submitted to a publisher. who turned upon It his most skillful decipberist Neither head nor tall could be. made of the manuscript. and the intention of publishing the novel was conse- quently abnndoned.—Sir H. W. Lucy In Cornhill Magazioe, THE ORDINARY MAN. Some of the Snags He Struck In His Journey Through Life. The ordinary man walked Into n dor tst's shop and. pointing to a beautitui flowering pin lit, asked its price. \That Dmidecitniun tiorintum?\ ask ed the florist as nearly as the ordinary man understood blin. \It Is worth a dollar.\ tie dropped in at his physician's of flee and requested that gentleman to tell what was the matter with him. \Oh you're Just go i a slight mani- festation of Nasopharyngeal comMom merus.\ the doctor said, or words to that apparent effect. The ordinary man stopped to leek at an automobile. and the agent said: \You see, the ditTerential Is set at a tangent to the assimilator. and that brings the obloid paralireing clime In diametric connection with the itivivet ing trunnion.\ as nearly as the ordt nary elan enught the remark. The ordinary man consulted his law yer. \We will appeal to have the decision' reversed.\ declared the attorney. \cm the erounilla ut lex judicarnm eaa temire posse mullion's\ Al least that is what the ordinary . man gathered. So be became so bewildered titer the way things are told to ordinary weete that he was careless when lie eros,m1 the street and wus run down by 1 uu all tomobile being demonstrated hr the agent end was pli•kial up and carried Into the do -tors office and called the lawyer to make his will, and later the florist got an order And, to pursue him stlii flirt her. they carved on his monument. \Requieseal In Pace.\—Chicago Post. Standard of Persian Beauty. \Great care Is laktiu that the Persian girl shall conform to the reeognized standard of Inau iity. will. h requires he, to have a cypress waist, a full Weil 11 face, gazelle eyes and eyebrows that meet.\ says a traveler \tier eyes brows nod hair must be block as night her lips, cheeks and giant( as red as bluod. her skin and teeth as white as almonds and her hack, limbs and tin germ tong. If these conditions are nal orally absent they are supplied a s fat as possible by art. Persian women are always [(glinted. their eyes darkened with khol and their fingers a w ne d with heuna.\--Chicago News. Land Decisions north, range 12 east, Montana • dian, has tiled intention to make final commutation proof to establish claim A mere filing of a map and state- ment with the state engineer cannot of itself t reale a valid and permanent water right any lucre than the con- struction of a canal, but it is the actual diversion of the water and the applica- tion of the same to a beneficial use. The filing of a notice fixes priority of such filing but must be dilligently fol- lowed tiv construction and beneficial use. \\ here. without filing a notice, unappropriated water is diverted through irrigation works and applied to a beneficial use, the right of the ap- propriator will date from the construc- tion of his works and subsequent ap- propriations cannot divest hiin of the right so acquiled and maintained. \hen an . assience fakes a desert land' entry in assiniunent he not only exhausts his rieht «Mier the desert land law precisely as if he had made the initial entry. but he also assumes ! the burdens well as Ow benefits of ' such entry .ind is ohli;:ed to comply with the tequiiements of law within the statutiny period as I-0,ed by the date of the entrt'. iii ,t I iS the date of to the land above described, before NI. E. Parrish. U. S. commisstiner. at his office, at Ge:. ser, Montana, on the 5th day of August. 1912. Claimant nanis as witnesses: 'Rob- ert Harwood, Benjamin Shortley, Lor- ena Shortley. Mike Hinds, all of Stan- ford, Ittontana. 6-27Register.\ Notice for Publication• (Non -coal.) Department of the Interior. 1.T. S. Land Office at Great Falls, Mont., June 17, 1912. Notice is hereby given that Jese Albert Ctabtree, of Geyser, NIontana, who, on Nlarch 10.1911, made home- stead entry 021025, for nw,\ section 35, township 19 north, range 11 east. has filed intention to make final com- mutation proof, to establish claim to , he land above described. before NI. E. Parrish, U. S. commissioner, at his office. at Geyser. Mont.. on the 5th day of August, 1912. Claimant names as witnesses: Ed- ward Quenby. Robert Anderson. Chas. Ross, Adrian White, all of Knerville, Mont. E. L. 13ARNFS, Register. the assignment. IN hilt! iii. iiebt under Notice for Publication the entry is first iniii;ired l a ht ce (Non -coal.) mum it rel;Pcs I, k hen so initi r0 the date Of the viola . fly assien- merit the t hilt Its 111 • ( \ Mit% 31141 the date thereof is the date \viten it wits first lii lilt , . LEGA I, NOTICES Notice for Publication (Non -coal.) Department of the Interior, I'. S. 1.and Office at Great F ails, 's lout.. June N 17 ;ai l v t -e n i . s hereby given that Guy Harwood. of Staniiird, N Ii ti I . who on jule 5. 1912. made homestead coils No. 027M/5, for SW , 05' 1. i sw Jersnw j. section 34, township 19 ./epart mem of the Interior, 1 7 . S. Land Office at ('heat Falls. NIont.,June 17, 1912. Notice is hereby given that Ole G. Osnes. who, on June 5, 1912, made homestead entry No. 027604, for vv 1 : se e ' sw , 1 .4 sect ion 26, toss n - ship 20 north, range 11 cart. Montana meridian, has filed notice of its to make final five year proof, to estab- In.h claim to the land above described before*'Chas. H. Boyle. U. S. com- missioner, at his office. at Fort Benton, Montana, on the 5th day of August. 1912. • Clainia\ni names as witnesses: Chas. Lundy, I.ars K. Lundy. Erick John - all of Knerville, Montana. and l\ uliiam P. Sullivan, of Fort Benton. ft 27 E. L. BARilES, Register. General Blacksmith Horseshoeing Wagon and Carriage Repairing All Work Guaranteed Agent for J. I. Case Machinery J. A. Sanders Geyser, Montana All Information from the LAND OFFICE and Plats Furnished Promptly T HERE are enough uncertainties about trading in lands without guessing at the title. Be on the safe side —demand an Abstract of Title. The Hubbard Abstract Company Great Falk, - Montana. Dr. C. 0. Robinson Office in Postoffice Block STANFORD, - MONTANA ADAM HRUBY Carpenter and General Building Contractor' JOBBING AND REMODELING GEYSER, MONTANA COL. 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