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THE DA PORTIN YOUNG COLLEGE BOY THE SEASON'S SENSATION Here Is Pitcher Who Made "Babe' Ruth Look Like Ten German Marks. When Christy Matthewson's oid right arm became so weather-beaten 'it no longer could control "the fade away' thers passed from the major leagues one of the most difficult freaks of pitching delivery any ath- ete ever possessed, wo difficul® in fact tat Matty's contemporaries be- ~yond numbers tried tor master it and is failed and those who followed in the * wake of "Big Six" suffered a similar Mate. § Managers, coaches and pitchers al- - nwost unanimously agreed that never agalm would any athlete mas'er the Peculiar curve that made Matty the terror of the great sluggers of his time. In baseball, the "'fadeaway' came to be regarded as somewhat of a divine gift, therefore to duplicate ¢ It was simply out of 'he question. But now in 1922 along comes at 21- year-old kid, not yet through with his | lessons in trigonometery, without even the semblance of minor league seasoning heretofore regarded as so essential to a big league diploma, . B80 nevertheless possesses as beauti- i ful a "fadeaway" as Matty himself | he's a southpaw at | . ever threw. And dhat! This jvvendile phenomenon, who Bliles the castor from the offside, is Hubert Pruett, ative of Kentucky, reared in Dexter, Mo., but more re- centiy the particular devil of the Uni- versity of Missouri baseball nine. (Or, if you wish to be still more up to date, Pruett is one of the very pot- ®nt reasons why the St. Louls Browns climbed to the peak of the American League pennant scramble during the | middle of June, in which process 5 there was junked a flock of high- © Priced hurling talent carried on the | . Payroll of the New York Yankees, ~ If this same Pruett were a member of the Yanks, it might never be said | Of him thyt/he has become famous | overnight, for in such a situation he | Would never have the opportunity | "of pitching to the mighty Sultah of | Swat, Babe Ruth. However, it is be- | gtause of his remarkable success | "8gainst the Babe that Pruett just | OW is one of the sensations in the | merican League. : | In the eight games the Browns and | 8 have played thus far Pruett | "has gazed upon the devastating blud- geon of the Bambino on six occasions. | Consarvely, four times has Ruth's een eye endeavored to fathom the | 'twist of Pruett's pitch, for just that | | frany times has Babe swung for the | third strike and missed. | Twice Babe walked, but one of | | these was an inten@onal pass, so or. | dainéd from the bench and conse. quently beyond Pruett's jurisdiction | Nor.is that all the story. Against | the youthful "'fadeaway" expert of the Browns, Ruth this year has the | monumental achievement times. He has missed this away" eight out of nine swings. of one puny | foul in nine swings. | that at they cou ot put it over Lake- In other words, Babe tipped the { oy J Bot Pw ye ; ball just once in striking ou [therefore pooled their players and {formed an all-star team which will \ out the glad | tidings that he sent Ruth back to th [ |bench a strikeout victim four times Hr six trips to the plate, whjch is, precisely the reason St. Louis fandom in linking. voices with the the %college campus at the University | of Missouri in giving three cheers 'and a tiger for young Mr. Pruett TY COBB TAKES OLD PLACE AT HEAD OF BATTING LIST boys on | Leads' George Sisler by One| Point as Result of Tues- day's Performance. RESORT | A | | | "By Cobb was back in his old placa} 'at the head of the American leaguo+-- batters leading George Sisler by one | point. The Tiger manager took the | lead Wednesday, when, in five tin.-| es up, he made four safeties whila | his rival was getting one out of! three. . | The figures showed that in $1 games Cobb has been at bat 219] times, making 131 hits for an aver age of 411, while Sisler in 92 games, batted 378 times and hit safety 155 making / his averaga I GUESS I'M 'BOVT, . THE (ONESOMEST GLY IN ALL" THIS GAY ILY BRITISH W HIG. G IT'S ALL TONKYTALK: ; MOAN THIS ON YOUR MEGAPHONE. I WISH I KNEW A (MCE 'CIRL_HERE -- AOME GIRL THAT TL "COULD COURT 410, Cobb's, admirers. here feel 'conifi- dent he will remain in the lead. Re- cords show him at his best during | {| July and August and they count! upon him piling up a safe lead dur-| | ing the four or five remaini of hot weather SPORT. EVENTS PLANNED | FOR CIVIC HOLIDAY HERE "Punch" Derry and "Ted! Gallagher Will Carry on Pitching Battle. Civic holiday will be observed on | Monday, July 31st, and a big celebra- | tion will be put on at the fair ground | by the Kingston Gentlemen's Driving | and Matinee Club. THE™ occasion | will be marked by the presence of | the Kingston star baseball players | who for several years kept Kingston | in a high position, probably repres- | enting the best baseball team east | of Toronto. These players will bs! ng weeks | GRE I'D LUKE TO BE A - ha t SAKOR ~ WITH A "GIRL IN EVERY PORT" | ° pitted against each other in the Oshawa-Cobourg game to be played in the afternoon. The opposing pit-| ¢ chers are "Punch" Derry and "Ted | Gallagher. There will be another game, Wolfe Island vs Retailers. |é The racing seliedue will open at{ Usually failure to follow some sim- 1.00 p.m. and the offi¢ial starter is|ple rule of baseball produces Claude B. Fletcher, Evans Mills, N. | worst kind of bonehead plays on the Y., who became very popular by his | tall field. handling the last 'event here. The | Ninety-nine times out of a hundred local horsemen have been working [the fallure to properly complete the out their trotters and Pacers and, |play is not due to lack of knowledge, from the list of entries, which includ--| but rather to sheer carelessness on €s many horses from outside points, the part of some player, there will be some records broken. | Failure to touch a base is the eas- -- iest way to create a bonehead play. ey | As long as baseball is played L Baseball's Biggest Bones. ! : |will continue to fail bases. TO-NIGHT. If such faflure does not prove cost- This evening at the cricket field |v, the omission Gananoque All-stars will meet the [Otherwise the careless player goes Lakeviews in another fast exhibition [down in history in the list of "bone- mateh, The Gananoque teams found |heads." In all probability the most costly failure to touch a base is charged to Fred Merkle. Chicago was playing New York. It was the ninth inning, the score was views by th€mselves and they have | | | | [ the | fic [ren within afew feet of second, and, {seeing the rupmer had crossed the | | players [on the field. to teuch the and Merkle wae called out. His fail- | is soon forgotten. | | Chicago, called for the ball, which tet tied, two were out, and runners were on first and third. Merkle, then play- (ship. Chicago won the game and the ing first base for the Giants, was the [right to Pldy ip the series, runner on first. : Merkle's "bone" was the costliest The batsman hit cleanly to the out- [8ver made. Had he touched second id, and the runner jogged across | the plate with what Was apparently the deciding run. Merkle, on first, tifully. Cents. Here is a g rid your feet| Plate, dashed for the elub house. Johnny Evers, playing second for ple, painless way to was thrown to him by Hoffman. In corns or callouses- the meantime the crowd was surging Evers touched second f Lain in results. Just cover corn or callous with Putnam's Pain- ure to touch the bag simply made a |!¢88 Corn Extractor a few times, and force play at second. off comes the corn as clean as whistle. It's the easiest, most pain- {less method imaginable. Just try {it and get that glorious feeling that springs from glad feet. Costs little [for such big results. Remember the name, "Putnam's Painless Corn Ex- tractor." At druggists everywhere, This retired the side, and the rules stale no runs can score on a play in which the third out is a force play. That erased the run that apparently had won the game. The game was never finished, as it ended in a tie score. New York and Chicago tled in the pennant race that year, It was necessary to play an {Hot Water, Corn Remov- jer. No Pain. Acts Beau- boi at Costs a Few! hg" | | takes only a few minutes and is cer- | the | | ROBT. J. REID then take a good hot foot bath, and.! a} pe ere tr an | try to do the trick. There are perhaps no end of well- | The management of the I akeviews SOB. As i Ae, Sa Vs hii: CE Se NE ANE oon SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1 -- we------ BADMINTO TO. BOXIN Re-strung and Repaired the Day The Are Brought In We have added a Repair and R ing Department for your service, y e-string- Instead of waiting a week for your racket you can have it in one day. Bring your old one in and we like new, ANOTHER BAS r TREADGOLD SPOR ~ GOODS CO. BICYCLES--RECORDS--PHONOGRAPHS--CAMERAS EET ~ PHONE 520 = make it S ~e S, 6; LB TING » DAVINO and DAVENPORTS extra game to decide the champion- | | | | cee... $28.00 to $125.00 $18.00, for $14.00 Special prices Extension Couches worth \ LEADING UNDERTAKER 230 Princess Street. Ambulance Call 577w. the Giants would have won the pen- | lized a small fortune and each play- nant. The owners would have re- or a fancy figure, rr i nn meaning pitchers in the American |, comin r : iis 1g in for many compliment- eague YERine. howe Xe the Jerks ary remarks from the fans for hav- rr, SE LS pe ol na |/n8 supplied such a good form of Hdd a nau 5 Bar a { baseball for the past month and it is fs0't a hurl in the Ban Johnson fon be hoped that this team will keep rn rein the Ban Johnson on maintaining the same high stand- i ard. Helps a Weak Throat, | 'Strengthens the Voice, | Relieves Bronchitis | Holes the Ball Regardless of Player's * Skill, Breathing the Healing Balsams of | The finale in freak putters has ap- BB asain You Are Made parently not yet come for after near- Well Without Using Drugs. ¢ |1¥ every shape of iron, wood and alu- You breathe through the Catar: minum had been exhausted in an ef- Thozone inhaler medicated air that| fort to give golfers an implement that is full ofhealing, soothing balsams: fn 1d Bol ball al h full of piney antiseptic essences that |" oY Jie 8 Tegardless of the Pesemble the air of the pine woods | avers skill, a Chicago professional 'the Adirondacks. This piney Yale come to the front with a putter has a truly marvelous 'action. on made of gas-pipe. . Following the throats. It brings strength and [school that favors the smoother puit, th to the bronchitic, stops that demonstrated by James I a wat y Ticultb breath Barnes, of New York, this golfer took -throated people more beneficial | five-inch piece of two-inch pipe and han Catarrhozone. It means heaven |*2Wed ign two lengthwise, . To the B earth to the man that has had |°0Mcave side he soldered a shaft pronchitts, catarrh or throat irrita- | right angle. Then he roughened tha convex side of the pipe, so that i. You will realize this the first you use Catarrhozone, which 1s | would grip the ball, Instead of lean- el Rifle Jreparation, Spisially de- | ing forward, so that the putter comes ! or diseases of ® nose, | down on top of the ball, as Barnes bat and bronchial tubes. Get the . Size, it lasts two pi ihe, ¢ does in using a Tanta) puutey, the same effect. DONALD'S Ne. oe ---- NEW FREAK PUTTER. () for 15 Wity Pax More ? By GEORGE McMANUS Beresford (left) congratulating Hoover on winning the diamond sculls. 1.00. 25¢. rrhozone Co., the use of the gaspipe Medium size, 50c.; sample a All storekeepers, or the |Stend erect and get [Auso Packep in Tins of £0) Montreal, : \ "RINGING UP FATHER : : Sn WELL-\ EXPECT HIM HERE ANY MINUTE - WHAT TIME 151792 Cada a WAL WHEN we QUT OF MY GAIL - HE LEFT THE DOOR OPEN AN' THE REST OF THE PRISONE. LOT GOD My WATCH ID LONE!!! "as DARN IT! HE'S EN HERE - TH - BROTHER? {MISSED Hiv! HE'S COMIN YO TOWN