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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1908
Page
8
Eastern players debate spring training for umpires arguing for fitness routines to match players. The piece notes calls for rules to send umpires south for exhibition-season conditioning, with mixed views on umpire quality across eras and a general concern over on-field decisions affecting games.
The article notes many stars who left the Phillies for the American League have died or left baseball. Ed Delehanty died by jumping from a bridge over the Niagara River. Frank Donahue left Detroit to run a Philadelphia hotel. Monte Cross manages the Kansas City club. Bill Duggleby moved to Rochester in the Western League after stints with the Phillies. Bernhard seeks a pennant in the South as a manager. Elmer Flick is ill, potential return unknown. Lujoie, Chick Fraser, and Harry White remain in majors, all stars of 1900, now few in the game.
A look at how college players have moved into major league rosters. Connie Mack signed Barry from Vermont and picked Dubec and Sin cock from Notre Dame and Michigan. The piece imagines a college made big league lineup with Powers, Carrigan, Spencer, Plank, Coombs, Stahl, Chase, Nichols, Hartzel, Gessler, Birmingham, Hahn, Barry and Hughey Jennings as manager.
Christy Mathewson records eight shutout wins while Pittsburg eyes Barry Alstein and Frock for 1909. New York Highlanders spend about 30000 on new talent. Worcester leads the New England league as a likely third straight title. Irwin says a winning team will feature three top pitchers used in rotation. Burkett weighs Hugh Duffy offer with possible $200 game chances. Ma loney hailed as bell for the outfield. Carrigan sidelined by appendicitis ending season early. Ed Greminger named permanent manager for 1909 and 1910 replacing Jimmy Ryan at Montgomery. Smiling Al Orth sold from New York to Lynchburg after long Yankee tenure.
Washington reports Milan as the standout player for the club, leading in stolen bases with 22, extra-base hits including eight two-baggers and ten triples, 88 hits and 116 total bases, 44 runs, and a .251 batting average. The piece contrasts him with Cobb, Thoney, and Jones, notes his fielding at .931, and cites his speed and broad range in right field. It also highlights sobering anecdotes on base stealing from Cub Stricker and a discussion of umpire bluffing techniques from the past.
From Popular Mechanics comes a note that locomotives bound for the Philippines rely on lignite coal retaining wood texture from formation.
An English rail passenger cites examples from the Official Guide of Railways comparing American cross country lines unfavorably with British routes. He notes slow segments on short US lines and asserts substantial improvements in the United States over two decades, while praising comparable efficiency on long London to Glasgow runs.
After extensive testing officials of the Burlington railroad decide concrete ties are unsatisfactory and will build the world’s largest creosote treatment plant for wood ties and bridge timbers, costing about $270,000.
A party of about 100 men will leave Winnipeg to survey the proposed railway route to Hudson Bay. Parliament will receive the surveyors’ report early January, with construction possibly starting next year.
Joseph M. Alexander, a veteran railroad engineer at South Station yards in Boston, has worked over 50 years without costing his companies a penny in penalties or layoffs. Born in Jm mfield on August 7, 1834, he began as a brakeman in 1858, became a fireman, and since 1864 has driven the throttle. Once called Buffalo Joe, he helped inspire engines named after him, including the Niagara yard shifter and the Farmington, built in Liverpool. At nearly 75, he remains among the road’s best, with sharp eyesight and flawless signal reading.
Hollis W. Field argues that the least responsible freight agent can expose a railroad to heavy damages Yet many railroad presidents started as capable small agents and rose through the ranks Today such capable agents become the road’s leaders as headquarters.
A Chicago Daily News snippet narrates a train car scene where the big brakeman shouts Anychoomengoshmash and amused drummers speculate on its meaning. The conductor clarifies the phrase is not a station and explains the speaker often calls out a jumble of words while asking for a light.
Railway staff of England claim a device fixed in the engine cab provides audible signals to the driver indicating signal positions. A whistle denotes danger while an electric bell means all clear. The invention aims to improve safety during fog by conveying exact signal locations to the engine driver.
The Quaintest Station near Forest Hill is a large spreading tree with a circular wooden awning around its trunk and lower branches. A platform, seat, and simple amenities exist while trains pass by and locals claim to see people boarding and alighting at the spot.
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