The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 227, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 25, 1939 Page: 3 of 4
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Annie Oakley at the height of
her career, wearing some of the
medals she won in shooting
matches.
thing at all times—especially
when a Grand Duke of Russia
believed himself a good shot.
But Annie Oakley and her hus-
band had a different idea.
" ‘If what we hear of him is
true,’ said Miss Oakley. ’I
wouldn’t have to let him beat me.
I’ll have to do my best shooting
to even tie him.’
“ ‘Shoot him off his feet I" said
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because he ia losing wel
idly in training for his
weight title defense
against Gue Leane-
vich . . . The New
York boxing com-
mission has recog-
nized Lou Salica aa
top challenger for
the vacated ban-
tamweight title . . .
Ose Simmons.
Iowa’s former great
Negro back, is now
playing for the Pat-
erson Panthers in
the American Foot-
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vailed upon her to shoot against ■
the professional.
The girl not only won the
match, but also won the heart of
Frank Butler and a year or so
later they were married. She be-
gan taking part in her husband’s
act and for some time they were
billed as “Butler and Oakley.’’
Then Butler, who was a skillful
showman, began giving his wife
more and more of the limelight
and pushing himself more and
more into the background. With-
in a short time she was a noted
flgbre in the eastern theaters.
At one time while they were
playing in St. Paul a delegation
of Sioux Indians, who were on
their way to Washington for a
conference with the “Great White
Father,’’ attended the theater
where Butler and Oakley were
presenting their act. One of the
delegation was the famous Sitting
Bull, who gave evidence of his
approval of the girl’s marksman-
ship with many a “Waste I’’
(Good). Finally as she per-
formed her most difficult feat,
that of shooting the end from a
cigarette held between the teeth
of her husband, Sitting Bull arose
in great excitement shouting
“Watanya Cicilia I” (Little Sure
Shot). Little Sure Shot was the
name of one of his daughters who
had died, and so greatly was he
impressed with Annie Oakley’s
prowess that he sent an interpret-
er to her after the show and
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ing shoes and a bag wMeh allows
for the convenient traaspeatatioa at
the hall and tho ahnoo.
In selecting year ball, shoos, ettia-
•r tho two-hol. ar three-hole sphere,
depending npen which feels meat
aataral In year hand. Next avoid
a toe-narrow or a two-wide flngor-
to-thamb spaa.
To determine the proper span,
place thumb in the thumb holo to
flat on’th. surface of the ball, with
the middle finger extended over th.
finger hole. The knuckle joint of the
ter’inch past the inside edge
linger hole. This allows a litth
tor manipulation
amount at i‘
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of the hand i
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finger should extend about one-quar-
ter inch pest tho inside edge of th.
Anger hole. This allows a little room
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play has been allowed, a
just fit between the palm
and th. ball.
BOB FELLER
Greets Sister Marguerite
phia batters to tie the major league
________________t single game strikeout record. Dur-
Nate Salsbury, whilfi the be-whia- tag that season he won five games
and lost throe.
On April 24, 1837, after fanning 11
By ROBERT McBHANE
•"THOUGH Bob Feller reached
1 man’s estate onlv recently, the
Iowa farm boy has been doing a
man’s work for the Cleveland In-
dians since he was 17 years old.
Baseball’s most publicized young-
ster, who had to take time off from
the major leagues to return for hw
high school diploma, is just 21. But
already he’s a veteran of the pitch-
er’s mound.
Bob’s birthday in no way disrupt-
ed the calm routine of tho Feller
family on the farm at Van Meter,
Iowa, Mrs. William Feller, attrac-
tive mother of tho pitching ace,
didn’t get at all excited about tho
event. To Bob’s friends in Van Me-
ter he’s the same popular, likeable
lad who left home three years age
to write new pages in the history
of baseball.
Though Bob is one of the best
known ball players in the game to-
day, it is generally conceded that he
is just starting a career which will
rank him with baseball’s immortals.
Here are a few of his achievements
before he reached man’s status:
In 1930, at the extremely advanced
age of 17 he struck out 17 Philadcl-
Speaker placed on Bob
ago may be a reality
couple of years.
And you can bo sure
throughout Darke county
>n to Cincinnati where ho-
the
Fans 18 Batters
The next season he established a
major league record by fanning 18
Detroit batters, though he lost the
game 4 to F. Two other records .
were established when he struck out
28 batters in two consecutive games;
38 batters in three consecutive
games. He won 17 games and lost
11.
In 1939 American league fans wore
quick to acclaim Bob as the hero
of the All-Star game, in which tee
allowed only one hit in 3H Innings.
Ho relieved Tommy Bridges, who
had loaded the bases, and forced
Arty Vaughan to hit Into a double
play. During tho season he fanned
246 batters, the largest number
since Waiter Johnson struck out 303
in 1912. He won 24 games and loot
only nine.
Feller ia by no means the fastest
pitcher of aU time. Some ball plav:
ers swear that Jack Wilson of the
Red Sox throws a speedier ball. Oth-
ers claim Van Mungo has more
speed. At their prime Lefty Grove
and Walter Johnson pitched smokier
balls. But Bob is plenty fast-even
his critics will admit that.
Dangerous Curves
Batters know full well how fast
Bob serves up his pitches and are
fearful M digging In at tho plate
and of being not to knock the ball
ever the fence. Feller to wild, and
one ef his wild pitch., to likely to
brain a batter. His speed, coupled
with wikhiese, makes him the moot
feared pitcher in the league.
He has always studied himself,
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to constantly improve. Ho has, and •
has always had, a remarkable abil-
ity to sc and understand his own
problems', and a willingness to ap-
ply himself to the solving of thos.
problems.
Unlike altogether too many play-
ers, he’s always eager to learn. Ho
has, toe, the ability to see tho fan
damentato back of the box score
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Ev.n to victory ho to net satisfied
with himself, always feting that
somewhere or other bo ceuM—and
s*>ou*<* have done better.
The "30 game" stomp which Tris
two seasons
to the next
mat he will
hav. earned every game.
YOU can’t play bawball with a
1 fish pole, nor can you hit home
runs with a football. You must have
the proper “tools of the trade’* to
be deficient In any sport. ’
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Heference has already been
made in this article to Annie Oak-
ley’s famous shooting match with
the Grand Duke Michael of Rus-
sia, one of the outstanding events
to her career. The match was
arranged by the prince of Wales
(lator Edward VII) during Qtmn
Victoria’s jubilee to 1887. The
story of that match, which, as it
turned out, had political results
of considerable importance, io
told to considerable detail by her
biographer, Courtney Ryley Coop-
er, whose book, “Annie Oakley—
Woman at Arms,” published by
Duffield and Company of New
York the year after her aeath, was
the first accurate account of her
career, minus the embroidery of
legends fostered by imaginative
preas agents. Cooper’s version of
the shooting uifttch follows:
"The request of the Prince of
g Wales g brought consternation—
and much argument to th* eamp
of the Buffalo Bill Wild West.
“ ‘Go on!’ said Nate Salsbury,
you can"beat him!’
“ ’Hold on there!* Buffalo Bill
broke in, ‘there's just this hitch.
She shouldn't beat the Grand
Duke. That’d be terrible.’
“Thus the argument went on;
Cody, the showman, believing
that one should do the proper
Sitting BaU, ehlef ef the 8tow,
who named Annie Oakley “Little
Sure Shot” and adopted her as
his daughter.
asked permission to adopt her aa
his daughter. She consented and
the ceremony took place at the
hotel. After that managers were
more eager than ever to book the
act of Sitting Bull's adopted
daughter.
In the meantime Col. W. F.
Cody, “Buffalo Bill,” had organ-
ized his Wild West show, but the
first year had been almost a
failure. While it was playing to
New Orleans, Frank Butler and
Annie Oakley, who were then
traveling with a circus, visited
the show and decided that they
would prefer being a part of this
outfit than of the circus. Cody
could not afford to pay the salary
that Butler asked so nothing came
of it at the time. But the next ''
year their traito crossed again at ,
Louisville, Ky., and Nate Sals-
bury, Buffalo Bill's partner, who
happened to be passing by while
Annie and her husband were re-
hearsing their act, was so im-
pressed by it and its possibilities
as a part of his show that he
hired them on the spot. So in
the year 18SS Annie Oakley joined
the Buffalo Bill Wild West show
and there began that series of
amazing triumphs which this for-
mer Ohio waif was, to share with
one of the greatest figures the
show world has ever known..
It was through her influence
that another feature was added
to the show which greatly en-
hanced its popularity. For some
time Buffalo Bill had been trying
company. But the old Siouk lead-
er steadfastly refused. After
' Annie joined the show Cody tried
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Proposed Memorial to Annie Oakley
Fails but She Remains Enshrined in |
Hearts of Thousands of Americans
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Annie Oakley to action as sharpshooter.
again. He sent an interpreter to.
Sitting Bull with the «vrd that
“Watanya Cicilia” was with his
show and wanted Sitting Bu.’l to
join also. There was no further
argument. Sitting Bull came
forthwith! And the crowds which
turned out to see the reputed
leader of the Indians at the Cus-
ter battle, the great buffalo hunt-
er and the great markswoman in-
creased at every city in which
the show appeared.
After a successful season of
1886 on Staten island and in Mad-
ison Square garden, New York,
Buffalo Bill began looking around
for new worlds to conquer. He
found it first to England where
he took his show on the occasion
of Queen Victoria's jubilee in Lon-
don. It was during this engage-
ment that Annie won her famous
shooting match with the Grand
Duke Michael of Russia, a match
which had been arranged by the
prince of Wales (later' Edward
VII).
Two years later Buffalo Bill’s
Wild West show was showing in
Paris. Cody had met with finan-
cial reverses and he hoped to re-
coup his losses in the French capi-
tal. But on the grand opening
day, with the president of France
and other high officials present,
it soon became apparent that the
show was doomed to be a “flop.”
The French simply couldn't “get”
the meaning of it all—the buck-
ing horses, the mimic warfare be-
tween the cowboys and the In-
dians. whom, incidentally, they
thought were fakes.
But when Annie Oakley gave
her exhibition of marksmanship
—then it was different. Here was
something they could understand,
and she was given an ovation that
g queen might be thrilled over.
For the French had never seen
such shotting aa this. Here are
a few of the stunts that she per-
formed : In shooting clay pigeons,
she stood 20 feet back of the
traps, started with the pulling of
the trap, ran the 20 feet, picked
up her gun and broke the pigeon
while it was still to the air. Us-
ing three double-barreled shot-
guns she broke six glass balls
thrown into the air at once. She
shot a dime from between her
husband’s thumb and forefinger
at 30 paces. Perhaps the most
famous of her stunt* was that of
shooting the ashes from a cigar-
ette in the mouth of Kaiser Wil-
helm, then the crown prince of
Germany. Had her alm been a
little leas true, the World war
might never have been fought I
Tragedy Comes Again.
Annie Oakley ended her career
with the Buffalo Bill show to 1901.
Then tragedy came into her life
again. On the last journey of the
season the show train was
wrecked in North Carolina. Annie
Oakley was desperately injured.
But the same courage that had
always carried her through every
emergency carried her through
five operations and years of
agony. Although the doctors had
said she could never handle a gun
again, she staged a “come-
back,” and at Pinehurst, N. C.,
in April, 1922, she broke 100 clay
targets straight, shooting from 10
yards.
, Annie Oakley had many other
interests besides her shooting.
She was probably the first advo-
cate of the one-piece bathing suit
for women, coming out for it aa
early as 1894. Although st one
time she was making 01,000 a
week—a large salary in those
days—her estate at the time of
her death was comparatively
small. Perhaps the fact that she
supported and educated an adopt-
ed family of 18 children, as well
as giving generously to many
.charities, had something to do
Witt the smallness of her estate'
She died in the home of friends
ito Greenville on November 3,
1928. Her husband. Frank But-
ler, was seriously ill to a hospital
to Detroit at the time and be
died 20 days later. They are both
buried to a cemetery near Brock,
Ohio, where stands a simple mon-
ument with this inscription:
“Annie Oakley-1920-At Rest.”
On April 24, 1827, after fanning 11
men in ike first six Innings, he raf-
. ---------- ---- fared an arm injury that was te
and Frank Butler and hia plague him throughout the balance
wife went into the arena where of the season. L________
the contest was to be held. There nine and lost seven, twice striking
they made use of a little private out 12 Yankees. Later that same
information. The Grand Duke season be put down 10 Boston Rod
bore the reputation of being one Sox by the strike-out route,
of the best shot* to Russia. But
from what Annie Oakley and her ' Fans 18 Batters
husband had heard of him, he got
his best results on clay birds,
which flew about 40 yards from
the trap, a slower flight that
Annie Oakley prepared for hint
on that day of their private
match.
“ We ll just make’ it a good
test,’ she said, and ordered the
traps to be screwed down to 65
yards. “That'll be something to
shoot at.'
“Promptly at 10:30 o’clock, ac
cording to Annie Oakley’s recital,
four carriage* rolled into the
Wild West grounds. They con-
tained Edward, the Prince of
Wales, Alexandra, the Princess of
Wales, the Duke of Clarence,
George, now king of England, the
grand Duke Michael of Russia
and his suite, the Princess Louise,
the Princess Maude and one ver/
important personage in the eyes
of the Grand Duke Michael, the
Princess Victoria. The English
papers had not been at all hesi-
tant about stating that Michael
was in England upon a special
mission, that of uniting the twe
countries by proposing a mar-
riage in which the Princess Vic-
toria and himself were to be the
principals. Some opposed the
marriage; others were in favor
of it.
"The contest began . , . while
the royal party assembled to the
boxes to watch the battle . . .
And when the end of the match
arrived, it brought a result by
which Annie Oakley had missed
only three targets out of fifty,
while the Grand Duke of Russia
had failed on fourteen.
“Then began a perfect torrent
of lampooning in those papers un-
favorable to the Grand Duke’s al-
leged mission.
“ Tt was the most amazing and
unexpected publicity I ever expe-
rienced,' said Annie Oakley in
later years as she jotted down
notes of her memories. “The
papers that were against his
courting expedition were pink
with sarcastic accounts of thia ; _______
flatting cavalier who was cut- “J". “T’
dona at hto own game by a little *— *"
girl from America, of this Lochin-
var who was no match for short
dresses and whose warlike career
faded before the' onset of the
American kindergarten. Whether
thia had anything to do with what
I followed, I ot course can only
I guess. But about that time the
I engagement was broken off ...’ “
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single football game, pedom-
ihow . . . Ohio State football
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Ose Simmons
Lail association . . . Lou Gehrig
may be voted into baseball’s hall of
fame wd Rogers Hornsby and Rube
Waddell are likely candidates . . .
Northwestern and Yale are two
schools barring portable radioa from
the stands. They cause too much
confusion ... A head linesman
covers more than four miles work-
ing a r _*
eters show
teams have averaged about 43,000
spectators per game in the 40>odd
they have played under Coach Ffan-
cia Schmidt . . . Bowling pin spots
are 12 inches apart, measuring from
center to center ... A Texas high
school game played on Friday,
October 13, was decided when a play-
er wearing No. 13 dropkicked tho
thirteenth and winning point . . .
Emmett Crowe, the last of seven
brothers to compete in athletics at
Notre Dame, la playing professional
football with the Columbus, Ohio,
Bullies.
Dusky Work Horse
IMMEDIATELY after Heavyweight
1 Champion Joe Louis disposed of
Bob Paator in a title bout a few
weeks ago he announced he would
not fight again until next September.
The Brown Bomber’s plan seems
to have gone slightly awry. Mike
Jacobs, New York promoter, who
has exclusive rights te the cham-
pton’s services, has a way of mak-
ing him change his mind. Naw
Louis is scheduled to defend his
ehampionship against Arturo Godoy
to Madison Square Garden Febru-
ary ».
What the duaky leather pusher’s
future plans are remain a mystery.
His near-retirement has been an-
nounced, or rather rumored, fre-
quently. But nothing ever comes of
it.
Last month a story came out of
New York intimating he would re-
tire from the ring after a cham-
pionship defense next summer and
open a riding club and restaurant
on the outskirts of Detroit.
Chances are the ehatnp win still
be swinging fists for a couple of
years. He would like to make a tour
of Europe before hanging up his
glaves.
In the event that ho retires as
undefeated champion he wpuld
be the aecond man to achieve this
ambition—Gene Tunney was the oth-
er. In addition he would be the
first of his race to accomplish the
trick.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
|R«1«msS by Western Newspaper Ubkm.)
I AR ESS dispatches recent-
r—^ly carried the news of
*• an unsuccessful effort by
the Greenville (Ohio) Histor-
ical society to convert the
earlj home of .Annie Oakley H|
into a shrine in her memory.
The place, a 10-acre farm
near Greenville, was lost
through lack of funds and has
now become private proper- H|
ty. But even though the plan
to make a public shrine of
this home failed, it will make nK
no difference so far as the
. preservation of the memory
of Annie Oakley is concerned.
For long ago she was en- .
shrined in the hearts of in-
• numerable Americans and
her place there is secure.
Long before the movies made
Mary Pickford ‘‘America’s
Sweetheart,” that title had
been won by Annie Oakley
and in the minds of many she-
never surrendered it to any
successor.
Born on August 13, 1868, in Pat-
terson township, Darke county,
Ohio, a short distance from the
ge once known as Woodland
now"called Willowdell, she
was christened Phoebe Anne
Oakley Mozee but she was des-
tined to make the shortened form
of her name, "Annie Oakley,”,
known throughout the world. For
she became “Little Miss Sure
Shot,” undoubtedly the greatest
markswoman in history.
A Modern Cinderella.
But there was more to her
fame than her skill with a rifle
to give her the place in the hearts
of Young America which she
F once held. Her life story was a
combination Cinderella fairy
story, frontier melodrama—but a
clean melodrama—and a sort of
female Horatio Alger-rise-to-fame
yarn. The Cinderella part of it
began in that little log cabin in
Darke county where lived Jake
Mozee and his wife, whom, as a
e 12-year-old child he had rescued
from a brutal stepfather in Penn-
sylvania. He had given her a
'i home with hia sister and, after
marrying her when she was 15,
set out with her to make a new
home in the Ohio country. In this
new home Mozee and his wife
fought a constant battle with pri-
vation and poverty. Then Mozee,
♦- returning from the mill, was
frozen to death in a blizzard and
upon the mother fell the whole
task of prdviding for her seven
i children.
At the age of six Annie began
helping All the family larder by
trapping quail and a few years
later she had made the first start
on the rifle career that was to
make her famous. One of the
few possessions which Jake
Mozee had brought with him from
Pennsylvania was a 40-toch cap
and ball Kentucky rifle, which
hung over the fireplace, but
which had never been used be-
cause Mozee was s Quaker with
the Quaker prejudice against fire-
arms. The tomboy Annie, how-
ever, did not share that prejudice.
She saw to the weapon an instru-
ment for getting more food for
her brothers and Bisters, and
finally gained her mother’s reluc-
_ tan t consent. _____________-
But the beginning of her career
as a markswoman was soon in-
terrupted. She went to the county
infirmary to get the chance to at-
tend school, and while there a
stranger appeared and offered to
take one of the girls at the in-
firmary towQik for her “board
and keep.>*xAnnie was the girl
selected and to the home of this
man began her Cinderella exist-
ence. The man was a brute and
his wife a virago. Annie was
held aa a virtual slave subjected
to all sorts of cruel treatment.
Once when she fell asleep over
a basket of mending the woman
threw her .out into a snowstorm
half-naked. After two years of
this existence she finally escaped
and returned home.
There she continued her for-
mer role of provider for the fam-
ily with the rifle and thus laid
the foundation for the marvelous
skill which was to make her
world famous. News of her skill
spread C
and even--
tel keepers had
game which ahi
Annie was 15 there came to Cin-
cinnati the **far-famed team of
Butler and edmpany, performing
deeds of daring and dexterity
with firearms, seldom exhibited
before the eyes of an audience.”
Aa a publicity stunt, Frank E.
Butler waa accustomed to issue
a challenge to all comers to a to Induce Sitting Bull to join hia
shooting match. The challenge
up by one of Annie's
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Sport Shorts
DILLY CONN has rejected
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be so unkind to royalty!
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