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Libertyville Independent, 23 Dec 1926, p. 10

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o L-liudmlc \3:*' lieves that a comparat:rely unimpor-- tant game between Cleveland and De-- 7u,--1919, was won 2 C3bN Spexter 24,° ways won ' 4 Joe" Wood under the grandstand be fore hostilities began on the field the wagered upon the game, in which both tited of the game in wh'ch ho shone aam:tmulu" goue back on hbim--are mmmm Jt is shown their resignations were turned in just when the ijuvestigation which culminated in the presoent ex-- pose was at its height _ commissioner réfuses to Say. -- Neither will he say whether be be-- lNeves that Speaker and Cobb won and ut does he:commant upon Wood's admisszsion that' he and Leonard and "twadcimun(.-vzm baseball" wagered $600 game "It's all in there," he insists, jJab bing one lean forefnger at the hun dred pages of testimony. "Read their testimony and judge for yourself whether they are innocent or gulity." "What do you think was Leonard's motive 'in -- turning-- those letters am-mxthmmxiumuf'ni was asked. x & Landis® eyes twinklsd. "I gather he dKin't care much tor Cobb," he re-- plied laconicaly. .1 Now that the frst shock of fAnding in virtually all basoball circles since Cobb and Speaker suddezsly resigned tlh-l.':tcxl):a ..; Cleveland this fall on excuses that. ably q-.wo-nu-. what all the EKvyen Ban B. Johnson,> president of the American League in which fur-- ther sordid doings in 1919 ars dizs-- they a guy off there." So Lat| ---- / dis &bnfi went to Cdl& hss got hold of Leapard and from him ob | -- _ r.mvfih,mgh- blotted the escutcheons of four of its one--time famous players, two of themn: among the greatest figures twat ever yrianced upon a diamond. . ' f let the seven years that hav> elapged aince <the incidents. cunucerned oc entred stay bhis heavy hand. > The name and fame otf Tyrus Ray-- mond. . Cobb -- and --Tristam . Speaker were fiot great enough i~ save them when he thought that the good of the game demanded pitilsss publicity for them because the finger of suspi-- ~In--the eyes of Kenesaw V.; Landizs, anything is justified that will Leep the name of baseball clean. ' Job L--ever faced," 'he said, referring to the bhundred pages of typewritten about it," he said. s Which seemed to throw coll water on the beliet that his recert burying of the hatchet: with <Landis at the recent joint meeting of th*e American and National Lenagues here was for the purpose of <presenting a united Out tho torrent --of testimnoy somewbhy af two of its greatest idols besmirched Landis" .action in giving out every: 'Nd'lluifloll'.hnl&n'.d-- fice yesterday the sequence of events which led to the expote was being picked out today. Apparently it would nevser have come out it last year, Cobb, having NW' signed him for t not fired him toward the end of the last season and waived him out of the big leagues. sagse he: believed injustice because he was compelled to pitch out of turn referred to a bet upon that long stuce game, "M clonln'-lhcd' Leon-- The other was a letier from Wood to Leonatrd in which n»o ambiguity v--n-': 'flsmm of what money had been wagered and club by producing two letters. _ _ One was a letter from Cobb to him in which veiled ryeferences to "bust+ that won by the two= of them was The Detroit club, Landis says, then informed the executire~coummittes of the American League whit Leonard du possescion of the leagas. Leonard h-uh,hmmdvi:l.l&'n them. --~On September 6, last, they were passed on to Land:s _ > * Eilorts by the squire oi goi Loonard to come to Chicago 'were Satile. The former --ax uthpaw pitcher made x OfF basoball was--at=--stake,"* and so come to Chicago because * e F2 s t * 8 * / 6 4/ f We . * = LSF i fk a. .X x o e PS is P o ga is ceeeie 2 o ol n Py i oA gel oo :454 : 7* y -- o t ie f ' ' f c eP Eies N C Pink. ue T Nee + .22 o ol 3 e Te anote Tess +o. s To i is . saer es . Maone .o * uol Wl rorge 1hxg. * S 2.3 $ ¢ f o y * a © o rarduatign [ es e n _ e' : s s en m in 4. .. Pn sns MEANLE f * & K T EN in 4 m . "Ai ts s Aoman. . s : jcl y ul 4 YYI ' C x.i g . e A Y f F i i , a J Ee2T 1t _# [ K 8 c (4 whage ie at 25. 4 " , l -- + s Arcrct eP . --. eeie yO ies o se ce w ie e ; o * ua A is . o e es bt ce t io > _ > § > * § _ % we 5 4: ® s * . k * e f * E TX 6 *h im > . Bz { £ ) j * | w K i dh " ¥4 M M e mey ge% C "* % a t es k «4 -- £-- mebits he >A# Fhoadtl ACigne m * e 5 % ay h e xC . s ~ o ;'" Cl AT : e 5 ""k'm' f ""ifl.lf#fie '. m{ « x ig* 3 x ( s f m m ALRE@ M ' v P s & 3 7 " tions" and sums of money Cobb was HE SAYS was waived out of ~the 'American league that bhe made the statement that I was a fine kind of a friend to have and that ho would 'get me.' 1 must say he took a fing way to make good on his threat. He should have taken into consideration that I was <ouly the manager, not the owner of a bail club, and that I bad an obliga-- tion to my employer, the late James C. Dunn to protect his interest by not adding a man to the club roster whom xmwhhzu-hmt_himu-na as a major pitcher. "It has been a terrible strain and dicate me. Iam anot mentioned in the letters written to.'Dutch' Leonard by either Ty Cobb or Jose Wood. --The reason is --pliin. I knew nothing of any wagers or of any 'titing' the only thing they eay they have against me is the word--of the man who is 1: hay al:nln-lm that ¥e * Leonard be brought in to face me but he has positively refused to come in to a meeting. § "Lednard has deliberately falsified in any statement' ho has made that and was entirely ignorant of any bets :dua:'- until, as llil:..hhu. in une. seems strango powers-- to--be of baseball should take the word of a man Leonard's calibre when my name--does not appear in the case.:© June when the matter was called to man to substantiate the charges, in & Speaker Afzisted that evidence in Judgo ~Landis'> hands should prove that he had no knowledge of the sup-- believe me when I--say I am entirely innocent of any wrong--doing in con-- nection with the alleged throwing 'of real satisfaction in knowing that my name is not connected with the case Leonard, it he has a spark of man-- hood In him, will agreoe to appear before--Landis and clear my name. 1 am absolutely guiltliess. -- : mmtub%&fi. the testimony togetber with planation given by both Wood and co»mthnfl-unm of wrong--doing on the. part of ' man., And there is absolutely nothing to show the: ball gameo wa£ fized." mouth of a *"Why is poker so popular in..%®@ tiety nowadays?" . -- . ~. _ "TawAy, L take it, because 708 Lbave 10 vartnar." "I--have been made the goat of that Going It Alone never Santa "Cau 1 feel ¥First Flapper--Now that Maud's en gaged, she docsn't sppak*io the rest of us, 4 4 -- Second Finpper--No, her Kead is so Ing to Nemil wahrs QAMM _ which holds from fre to ten gailons of water. <It is hung in the sun and the ~rapid. evaporation, which "is the result--of the porous material of the jar, keeps the water cold. g x The desert--ctooler or oH8 is a 8% tive product af the Southwest, 'It con» There is a pedantry in manners, as in all arts and scighces; and, some> times in trades.. Pedantry is properiy the over--rating any kind of knowledge we pretend to. : And, if that kind of is an entree containing two pleces of meat, genérally cooked together, but prepared in: different ways--as one Breaded and one plain, Ebabké "To what % nt of literaturé Annce's Action.* In some places the layer-- of gray-- matter which --Gomposes the brain is a quarter of an inch thick, while in &"@Rbbflm of an jnch M 'This rain wilt do a lot of=zood, Patrick," remarked Mr. Blank to his Irish gardener. o "It will that, Bir,*--returned Pat, "whure, an bhour of it now will-- do more--good in five minutes than .a month of it would do in a week at any Qnce upon a time there wal 8 long apell of dry weather.. What made it all the more wonderful is the fuct that this: astonishing event took place in 'An "epigramme," applied to foods, Cooled by Evaporation Composition of Brain * is the greater-- e 'lldu--&yu. Wa were Intro-- doced at 10:20, became engaged at 11, aund T broke it off before miduight, _ ticle, says Cappor's Woeeklig. =. ~/(A plece of 399; paper placed dn a war stain and rubbed with a hot tron will soon: remove the stain, Takis fate io stven en 00 Youn like him when your show is good, But not when it is bad. . M'.w. c. T., v-m 'pk p in a bulletin, > "Appeal m Jaunched . a. Gdrive Against, the sale 6t hip flasks. "Don't sell hip {lasks" The term "beaux arts" 4s applied to phinting, sculpture, architecture, en graving and muzxical composition. -- day some of the public houses were closed and some remained open. This year it seems the very reverse will be the case."--Boston Transcript, Christian A real politician is a man who can by the addition of a little saive make a platitude sound like an idea.--Ar "Did she call a doctort?" . _ . "No--a dresamaker."*--Bun Dodger, never shine if polish is applied with a ~___-- '~Baint or Cynie ~~ Fits and Fita . **** "Bo Mro. Bangs Had several fits last FLASK SALES BRING ~HOWE Chicago, Dec.: 2%.----The <Women's "Had Met Mr. Smithk * _ To Tahkhe Out W ~FAHURRDAY.: 1 How It's Done and all of them were ground very thin At the outside edges. They were tuned {h;flnfi.'fi.mw'flh the notes of a harpsichord, writes Archibald Douglas Turnbull in Popu-- Jar Sclence Monthly, : ¥ranklin gave a few pointers on how to play this instrument: "We the glasses with a sponge of clean wa&-- ter occasionally. Turn the apindla away from you. By drawing the An-- As produced--a #lorifed application of running a finger around the top of a tumbler. & ¥ranklin also is credited with har-- Ing designéd the earliest bifocal spec-- tacles, : A phir of such lenses was con In Paris. In describing it, he wrote that it had long been known that men often needed one lens for reading and another for distinguishing distant ob-- Jects. ~His own experience was the msual one--having two pairs of spec¢-- tacies, he always had the wrong one at hand. And at table he needed both pairs, one for-- seeing his food, the other for reading the expression on the face of his opposite French neigh-- Rekimo friend, a wee copper woman: of quaintly Orlental: charm;} --~"Devil and him wife live all time big hole" And she pointed away to milm*n«l-u-'--h.\':: in him hole, Cook him meat. ( wife poke him fire. Make big light in him sky," w« 45 -- Which is utterly reasonable. Imn't ##----Mary Lte Daris in Bcrlibner's "Devil's Wite's Fire" No one seems to nccount for the: avrora borealis with any lucid scien tiflc description, and of a certainty no can : describe its: appearance: mammdw' Ihe best explanation, because the simplent, i# the one that was told me Ay an split lens, the two parts differently ground and then glued together, he was delighted. --He was now able to manage both food and friends merely by dropping his eyes or raising them. The device, he declared, as well} as the rather Gallic gesture of the eye® in "making it easier to understand and ~be understood" in Paris, has "helped my French wonderfully."* *~It is not generally known that Ben-- Jamin ¥Frankiin was the inventor of & musical instrument which be called an "armonica,"--to beplayed with the Angers. -- This he described as "giasses blown as nearly as possible in the form of hemispheres," of varying sizes and.each fAtted with a hole or "socket"* spheres were mounted upon a spindle long emough to accommodate a "keyboard" of three octaves, the apindle being turned, very much like a sewing machine, by a treadie. The largest <spheres--were nine inches in J N 'The popular belief that a person falling from a great height is dead mm-hvom almost 200 feet and Mved. : In some cases of por-- sons weak chearts <the shock of feeling themgeives falling has caused such & great increase in the pressure ummhmmum ruptured <that organ. The nuses all the muscles to contract vio-- lently, the muscles compress the blood vessels, and thus the blood is drtven. toward the heart, 'The falling:itself, however, could not hurt a normal per-- son. _ It is the killn, -- T WAS CLOSED LAST --YEAR -- Ascribed to Franklin ¥ver ran jnfo ihe jorm ol an. epF as. the disease was checked in time by the closing--of the-- school. Measles now has reached the Lof-- tus, Rhune, Nauta and Pavilik fam-- ies and several more are> threat-- This mild plague has worked bavoc «il <through the county this fall and 'vinter--and in Warukegan alone there hare .been more <than.. a hundred cases. . Prompt--. quarantining -- has made it possible to keep the schools For 'the second <time in as many 'years Progreys}ve school, located on Moldridge croagings, has been by a: contagiouns »disease. 3 ~~Tuesday 'classes -- were-- abandoned when measles, which got a start. in the ~community, caused. many ab-- sencés and threatened> many more Progressive School C | o s e d Tuesday as Many Are Absent |-- . . From Effects of lIliness. ' _~+4¥% Hours::1 to $:80 and 7 to 8 p. m > e d oo ntana mok same Popular Beliet Wrong ssday 'classes -- were-- abandoned 4J L measlies, which got a start. in T: P o community, caused: many ab C . w w9 .-- the iden of the # Pual in o y 'ngx'f' :S§ <£ t ic ~" ~ ~ 24 90 m x9 . *k ' € Vo Fi'f, First ond Third Monday Nights A SMM.M;M m © Visiting Companions Cordially invited||| _ Auctioneering E | FARE AND STOCK SAlFs . |l> A SPECALTT / 912 No. County St. Waukegan. IL. 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