Students Needed to Fight Typhus.
Professor M. I. Pupin, the Servian consul general, through the New York Committee of Mercy, has issued an appeal to American college students who own or can operate an automobile, to join a volunteer corps to fight cholera and typhus, as well as to convey food to the civilians isolated from the food camps in Servia.
The Committee of Mercy has appropriated $10,000 for the equipment of a special sanitary camp for the college[{63}] men, in which they will be entirely protected from the dangers of infection.
Professor Pupin’s intention is to form a Servian organization of college men similar to that now in France, and one that will relieve the suffering that is not caused by lack of food, but by the lack of families for carrying the food from the food camps to the isolated sections.
The Committee of Mercy asks that those who intend to aid the sanitary equipment of the college volunteers send contributions to August Belmont, treasurer of committee, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York.
“Home-run” Baker Gets $10,000 Job.
“Home-run” Baker, who refused to play with the Athletics until Connie Mack gave him more money, and who recently signed to play with the Upland team of the Delaware County League, was recently engaged by John P. Crozer, of Upland, a wealthy farm owner, at a salary of $10,000 a year, to manage Mr. Crozer’s extensive stock farms, according to information received from Harrisburg, Pa. Baker will prepare the Crozer prize stock for fairs and exhibits, and will seize the present opportunity, it is believed, to familiarize himself with a business that will bring him greater financial returns than baseball.
Connie Mack refused to comment on Baker’s latest move other than to declare he had never said he intended to blacklist the famous third baseman. “I want to say, however,” continued Mack, “that I never want to see Baker again. He has treated the club unfairly, and I have no time for a man who is unfair in his dealings.
“So far as preventing Baker from coming back to the Athletics is concerned, I have not that power. Our contract is mutual, and he can force me to take him, but my sincere hope is that he sticks to his word and remains away. A man who breaks his word once is likely to do it again, and once and for all, I don’t want Baker on my club. We miss him greatly and want his services, but I prefer a losing club to having men whose words are unreliable.”
United States Seed Wheat for Spain.