# jens v1 « baseball season, coming out of the SPORTS GAMES PUZZLES EDDIE COLLINS Answers Boys' Baseball Questions # What Is the Best Play You Ever Saw? By Eddie Collins (Written Exclusively for This Page.) # I have always found this one of the most difficult questions to answer. 'Having participated in-twenty-three hundred or more American League games, numerous world series and countless other exhibition gamies, it is pretty hard to pick out one particular play as being the best. The stage of the game, the closeness of the score, the situation under which the play is performed, have a lot to do with the determination of the best play. As far as actual performance is concerned, I saw Tris Speaker make a catch of a fly ball in Cleveland one day in a league game, when he actually ran up the side of the concrete wall that surrounds the outfield, : that I don't see how it could have been beaten. But the play that stands out so much moré than any wonderful play which I have seen is a doable play that Barry and McInnis en- ineered when they were with the thletics in the World Series against the Braves in 1914. The manner of accomplishment, a seem- ingly impossible stop, force out and throw, that took less time than its telling, and an equally remarka- ble catch of the throw on Stuffy's part, while stretched out at full ngth on his side--bare hand side, too--with a World Series setting and everything taken into consid- eration, I think I would term this as the best that I can recall. What Do You Do in the Winter Time? In replying to this query, I am assuming winter time means the iod extending from the close of the baseball season to the start for spring training. Contrary to a great many of the ball players, I am no way occupied in the off season. It has been my privilege for the last two falls to go into the Maine woods on an extended hunt- ing trip of about three weeks, im- mediately following the close of the woods greatly refreshed and rested after a long campaign. I guess football gets most of my attention --not as a Justicipant any more, although at the time I was in college 1 actually enjoyed playing that game more than baseball. When not otherwise ¢ I play quite a bit of of any game that affords so much Opportunity for socia lowship or one that I Shjoy more. - After Christmas, outdoor sports are over, I managé to engage in some light exercise, the nature of which I will discuss under another heading; but, generally speaking, I do not do much active work the first two months of the year, . i fir i f 3 a Fike tela i : we berwery £ T If. IT don't know lity and good fel- when most of the CHOOSING A BONNET FOR MARY he cma ---- : ¥ J ------ ---n TEE eee. --- _ Here are Mary Ann's three favor- ites of all the hats in the shop. She Now fold the paper back on line E, can't decide which to take, so she forward on D, back on C, leaves it to you to choose for her. [on B, back on A. One by one the Tpy them on her by folding on the [hats will fold down on Mary's head. lities and see which is most becom- The bonnets will be prettier if PUBLISHED with the faces together on line F.J} OGCASION. BY EPHRAIM OWL AP AGE FOR BOYS4»>GIRLS JOKES | STORIES RIDDLES AN ATTRACTIVE SUMMER HAT THAT ANY GIRL CAN MAKE --------/ 5 FASTEN . ARDUND FIRST. \ Np USE DARNING ST YO BIND RIBBON ON EDGE OF BRIM. a h ---- ee wm emt BRIM OF BUCKRAM »~ CUT A PAPER PATTERN FOR THE CROWN. 3} THEN LAY] THE SECT ON CLOTH... \ MAKE!A GINGHAM HAT @) STYLE TOTMATCH A SUMMER FROCK . THE MATERIALS MAY BE.BOUGHT FORS1. hs OF 'THE POPULAR. POKE SEW CROWN TURN - SEAMS INSIDE | J SEW CROAN TO BRIM. SEAMS WITH DARNING: STITCHES = @ "THE SEAM OF THE CROWN AND BRIM. MUST. MEET. The favorite summer frock should have a hat to match it, especially if there happens to be a yard or less of material left from the dress. The rest of the equipment for mak- ing the simple poke hat shown above may be purchased for a few cents. hese are the materials to use: 3 yd. buckram $0.20 134 yds. gingham v 2 yds. ribbon (1 in. wide)... .30 1 skein emb. thread 03 $0.97 There's your hat for a bargain |inches, 34 of a yard will be price! And in estimating the cost we've used the most expensive ma- terials rather than the cheapest, so if you are lucky in getting Prices you may. perhaps make your at for seventy-five cents. ing- ham is not the only material to use, of course. Cretonne is inexpensive and comes in pretty patterns. Einen or pique are particularly nice. [. If your material is twenty-seven |indfies wide, you'll need the full 1% yards listed. If it is thirty-six make a paper. pattern first mistakes, Cut a lower allowing 4 inch on each margin. covering of>material for the, brim, Ne tojcrown first, turn under. Cut two pie-shaped ieces from the material as well as m_ the brim, allowing again a Sew the brim together to make a drooping shape, then slant off the back as the dotted line shows, leav-| enough. |ing only an inch at the center back. | Cut your brim from a fifteen-inch | Sew a headband of buckram, one ircle of buckram. You had better |inch around the tabs at the crown to avoid [to make a more secure frame. Then and top {put on the material as in Fig. 4. It should be fastened around. the then pulled tight to the edge at the outside. Bind it with your ribbon or cotton bias tape. Cut the crown from Paper, al- lowing 3 inch extra on al edges for seams. Lay the sections on your material as in No. 7. then sew the sections firmly to- SNOPPYQUOPS GIVE A BIG PARTY FOR MURRAY u This is the first Snoppyquop that was ever drawn. It is published here today in celebration of the birthday of Feg Murray, papa of all the Snoppyquops. It hung on the side wall of the banquet chamber where the Snoppyquops gave a big indig today beginning with soup and ending with salted peanuts ind speeches. After presenting Mr. Murray with a stem-winding tooth- brush, a gift from all the Snoppy- quops, Will Barrow, the toastmas- ter, asked Mr. Murray how old he is Say. "Not very," said Mr. Mur- ray. ¢ then made an elaborate "thank you" speech after which he gave an explanation of how he came to invent Snoppyquops. Feg drew Snoppies in a French class in col- lege when he was supposed to be listening to the professor. Now he gets money for them. Pretty soft, isn't it? In reply to the letter from the young lady of ten summers (and seventeen winters) in Quebec who wrote asking Feg if he got his ideas for Snoppyquops by looking in the mirror, the answer is "No." On the other side of the picture is a report of the speech Feg made, telling how the Snoppies came to be. Be sure to read it. ALLY on tout temps ot on wat Bou, sur Particle sot ln volonté de bien agir. SNOPPYQUOP @ - - $5 areal 4 i» # : . Ge) : 0 N Mi RY ' [= ales] {TRY SA THE ANIMAL NEWSPAPER THE FIRST SNOPPYQUOP THAT WAS EVER MADE Text of Mr. Mdrray's Address: In answer to numerous requests from readers I took typewriter in hand to write this speech telling the anxiously waiting world how Snoppyquops happened to be. One little jumping bean in Tiajuana, Mexico, wanted to know if I ate too much mince pie before going to bed and. then dreamed them. Well, the truth is that in 1915 I was wasting my time in a French class at Staniord University trying to sleep and look wise all at once. We were translating "Francois le Champi", whatever that means, and whenever we'd come to a with very little French and lots of white paper on it, I would draw a pic- ture. Then when I'd get home at night my nine-year-old sister, Ly- dia (who is now a bobbed-haired freshman ap Stanford), would be very much interested in the draw- ings. "Who's this?" she'd ask, "what's this one's name?" So I'd have to make wn A foolish Sitle for each pic- ture. ey were "Snoppyquops", and "Gigglegoops" and PW hide. poofs", but "Snoppyquop" was the name she liked the best, so she'd always say, "Please draw me a Snoppyquop!" I saved the very first one, and here it is hanging in the Snoppyquop art gallery, Cut, | fro gether and turn in the seams. When you sew the crown to the brim, yo may find that the crown is a trifle too large. If so, put a gathering string in it and draw it down to fit the brim size. Place most of the gathers at' the back. Daming stitches of black thread sewed over and over make a nice finish for all edges and seams. Use the remain- der of your ribbon in a bow around the crown, sew in a lining taken m a discarded hat, and you're ready to parade in your handiwork! ------------------------------ Take It to the Jury \ Ching Wong Song and Ching ang Fuey Started in to eat suey, cho They ate and ate until they died, id they commit "Chop suicide' ?' Read the Directions Dactor: "Just drop some of that medicine in your eye three times a day." Harry: "Before or after meals?" Easy to Get In Catherine: "I have finally got in- to the movies." Bert: "How did you do it?" Catherine: "Paid "them a quar- ter." v His Order A dealer in building supplies in Arkansas received the fol owing letter from a customer in a small town: "Deer sir: Pleas send me enuf striped paint in a can for my barber-pole, the pole should be read and white." Something Wrong Here Customer: "Where's the proprie-- tor of this restaurant?" Waiter: "He's out to lunch, sir." A Wise Old Bird "Why does the stork stand on one he raised them both, le Because if he'd fall down. SPECIAL 1924 OFFERING A YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION--FREE ng. : : ou color them with your crayons. old like this: Evely dotted line : i indicates a fold. Crease the paper the cheeky 5 He es ay Be hie : an er "hair ow with a blue Sct} Stato ha, hair ribbon. Make the top hat green Fern: "It's a little flat at the bot. Tk evade and Pink flo debiidbe, tom, but the rest of it's O. K." The middle hat may be bright red Unfair Play and the one nearest Mary blue with Willie: "Father, didn't you tell tan ribbon whe : me the other day that it was wrong to strike] any one smaller than! yourself? * Father: "Yes, Willie, that's what Wilie "Well, 1 : : ell, and tell my teacher. she knows of it." Pretty Poor "There is no present like the time," said the boy who couldn't resist making a pun as he gave his mother a wrist watch. A Flashy Bird "Yes, mum, I knows them Afri- can parrots. to . whistle Subscriber: (to information - ator) "Please give me ' Mr. Bits telephone number." Biyperator: "Is the initial B as in 1 - Subscriber: "No, its Dilt ain Modern Version Romeo: "Come down from the ~ DANDY LIONS WERE GAMBLING? ON THE GREEN - 7 |