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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1908
Page
7
The author recounts farm life with a kodak as a constant companion for walks and drives. He details unpredictable results, humorous mishaps, and lessons learned about animals, weather, and landscapes, noting cows and sheep dominate rural scenes, and that patience and timing influence every shot.
A garbled OCR piece presents poems and aphorisms exploring love youth and weather with lines about a little girl a father and mother, a kite of ideas on ambition and virtue, and musings on leap year and modern trusts. It blends sentimental verse with reflective quips and maxims.
John Titus, famed Phillies right fielder, and other early baseball stars once wore mustaches as a standard part of the game’s image. The fashion shifted in the 1890s and by the modern era the Titus style had vanished, leaving no big leaguer with the upper lip adornment.
A compact list of NL team leaders and managers by city and captain figures includes Chicago led by Frank Chance, Cincinnati with John Ganzel, St. Louis under J McCloskey, Pittsburgh with Fred Clarke, New York headed by John McGraw, Brooklyn with Mike Donnin, Philadelphia with Pat Donovan, and Boston led by Joe Kelley with Wm. Murray.
In the AL leaders race key figures include Fielder Jones of St Louis and James McAleer of Detroit. Other names noted are A Wallace of Detroit Hugh Jennings Cleveland and N Lajoie of New York. Connie Mack and Harry Davis are listed with Boston while J McGuire and R Unglaub are connected to Washington.
The article argues that many top baseball managers work from the bench rather than as on-field leaders. It notes Connie Mack of Philadelphia as a prominent example, while suggesting trends toward bench management across the country amid players juggling multiple roles. Detroit refers to regional context.
Umpire Johnson signs for four years with the National League. Recruits Chech and Lattimore join Nap’s Toledo staff, and Orth is nicknamed Ginger. Descriptions of players include a 6'4" 230 lb Brooklyn recruit and Rube Waddell’s southern pitching preview. Summers aligns with Detroit. Winters may join Boston. Dodgers trip to Jacksonville praised by Patty Donovan as season opens approaches.
The passage notes Hughes Jennings and Jimmy McAleer as former stars now managers. Connie Mack is the sole nonplayer on the bench. Clarke Griffith, Joe Cantillon, and Jim McGuire also manage. In the National League Brooklyn has Donovan and McGraw, New York and Murray in Philadelphia, and St. Louis with McCloskey Jones and Lajoie as managers. Chicago’s Chance, Clarke, Ganzel and Kelly manage in the National.
Comiskey plans a week to ten days in Honolulu for next year’s spring training. Griffith contemplates Libya Egypt desert. McGraw eyes Java Tillitja clear underbrush. Jennings negotiates Congo River league plot with clubhouse and showers. Frank Chance leases Betropavlovsky field near Okhotsk coast. Ebbets trains in New Jersey.
The Northwestern Ohio Trolley League forms clubs in Toledo Findlay Fremont Sandusky Tiffin and Fostoria for weekend games. St Paul boasts the only Indian battery in Le Roy with pitcher and catcher Meyers. Veteran Jack Taylor shines in Columbus while Hallas in Louisville looks to be a future star. Dwyer skippers first base for Toledo. Monte Crona impresses in the field though batting lags. Ohio State league to pool travel costs. Manager Armour of Toledos vows to ban picture hats at games.
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