“No quail to be shot, and all rabbits to be saved and sent to Oklahoma City, to be distributed among the poor.
“Also please remember, no shooting in the center at round-up ground. The drive will be held immediately west of Greenfield.”
Is Champion Hose Knitter.
Without doubt “Aunt Sallie” Hardly, of Big Laurel, Va., is the champion hose knitter in the world. She has just celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday by knitting a pair of men’s hose. Her hobby has always been knitting. She could knit a pair of men’s hose in two days when she was nine years old. Aunt Sallie thirty years ago began keeping a record of hose knit, and since that time has completed 10,005 pairs, she says. “I believe that in all I have knitted over fifteen thousand pairs, and have hopes of making it twenty thousand before I reach one hundred, which age I believe I will live to see,” she said.
Girl Rifle Team Gets “Defi.”
The girl’s rifle team of the Iowa City High School, Iowa City, Ia., has been challenged by a girls’ rifle team of Washington, D. C., and probably will accept the “defi.” The coach is Professor C. E. Williams, a member of the Iowa university national championship team of other days, and now coach of the national high-school champion five of Iowa City.
Small Pitching Staff Best, Says Old-timer.
Jimmy Ryan, veteran player and one of the best of the famous Chicago Colts, believes baseball is going back to the old days, when five pitchers were all the biggest club would carry.
“At present,” he says, “we find big-league clubs with ten or more pitchers on the pay roll, when three or four are actually doing the work. What is the result? Why, these regulars are liable to be fretty because they have to perform the heavy tasks and at the same time see six or seven men sitting on the bench drawing pay and performing no actual labor in championship games.
“‘Why do I have to do so much and wear myself out, when those guys are having it so soft?’ they frequently say to themselves. And you can’t blame them.