Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 May 1897 — Page 3
THE DAILY BANNER TOILS, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA.
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Th« re seems to be a strong probability that next set son will see some kind of protective union among the players of the major league. It Is alleged that the great majority of the players In the National and Western leagues are dissatisfied. The changing of the contract dates has been the bone of contention this season. While the players are expected to report just as early in the spring for practice, they are not reimbursed until one week before the season starts. Then, after the season is closed, the revenue of the exhibition games, which formerly went to the players, now goes to the club. President Nick Young, of the National Base Ball league, makes the following anr.ouncem< nt: “To base ball scorers: I have received several communications asking for an official Interpretation of the rule (section 0. rule 71) relating to earned nips. An earm*H*run is tte run that reaches henv- without the aid «»t' A fielding or battery error. A ‘stolen base’ cannot cut any figure, although there is no chargi able er or, stiil some one is at fault in one of the several ways which wculd not justify the scoring of a fielding error. A base runner who makes a base hit and is advanced a base by a successful sacrifice hit is entitled to the credit of an earned run if he reaches home base before chan- os have been offered to retire his side. The section must be considered intelligently as a whole and not in part, and admits pf no other fair interpretation.” Bane Hall Brevities. Petblc .Tack Glasscock looks as though ho was yet gcc.i (or another century or two of the national £ame. Breton seems to be as unlucky this season with scores of five us Baltimore* seems fortunate with scores of ten. Jack Glasscock now says that he began playing ball in 1878. Jack must have neon In a trance during his first ten years on the dia n mi
J. Earle Wagner Is at last out with a predlc
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and finish in the first division.
Mr I’hyle, a pitcher who hulls from St. Paul, had considerable to do with Thursday’s game. He pitched. He kept the hits well scattered, and that with the Blues’ errors tells the story, says the Kansas City Times. The ball players’ revolt, which was born in the Chicago team, seems to have had a jolly short existence. From the tone in which the Chicago players sprung the ‘ great conspiracy against the new contracts’" on the public, one was led.to believe that a lot of gumshoe work
tad been done by the Colts.
Last year internal dissensions wrecked the PHladelj Mu team, finished them In the second dlvis.cn and knocked the tar out of the receipts on the Philadelphia grounds A large an l Juicy BUI ply of harmony is the thing the Philadelphia team needs, and as Stallings has injected it into the boys, watch out for the Phillies. New York Times: Pitcher Mullane continues to be ore of the wonders of the dlamon 1. He has pitched since 1878. a period of nineteen years, rnd he is in condition to-day to pitch almost us well as he ever did. Last year he stood seventh in the list of forty-one pitchers. Wcrd ( omes that Mullane ia in excellent condi-
tion this season.
Indlauapclls News: It is odd-ln fan. almost Ineaplb nble—how young na n who would, of v the ball Acid, sonrn the theft of a red penny that doesn’t l clong to them, will larceniise the noperty of a rival ball t am. Such tilings as caps, bats, shots and sweaters—especially sweaters -seem to be regarded by ball players as merely common property for every one to pilfer, and the best part of it all is that the robbed teams never feel any special soreness o or the matter, but go and get even on some
otl cr folk w.
How i nt£.
J. H. Simpson, stroke of the Yale crow during all the preliminary training this year till the present time, and bow last year at Henley, who has dropped out of the bo.if and stopped training, says that his action was taken because of dissatisfaction with the present system, in an interview he severely criticises Robert J.
According to the Pall Mall Gazette. Defender is likely to race in English waters, the only question between the American syrdieate and H. \Y. Walker, who wishes to buy the yacht, being the price. In the event of the purchase being made, it Is further stated. Lord Dunraven will fit out Valkyrie III. to meet Defei der. H. W. Walker is .i brother of A. Barclay Walker, the owner of Ailsa. -4- -4- -4The challenge from the Harvard Yaeht club for a regatta to be held at Newport In the latter part of Jure has been received by the Yale Corinthian Yacht club. It has been impossible to take action on the challenge, however, on account of the uncertainty of the place of the Yale-Hurvard-Cornell race. Athletics. Yale and Harvard have, of course, agreed to go on with their athletic contests. and the settlement of their trouble was hailed with Joy by the followers of cr liege athletics. They are firmly convinced that they are going to have no more disputes, for announcement has been made that Walter Camp, on the part of Yale, and J. J. Storrew. Jr., of Harvard. have been appointed a peace committee to decide all disputes. -f- -r- —rJames I.athrop, on behalf of Harvard university, has accepted the Invitation of the athletic committee of the New Jersey Athletic club to compete in the college team relay race the club will give In conjunction with Its carnival of sports on Memorial day. Mike Murphy, of the University of Pennsylvania, will send on his best t’am, and Oapt. Gerard, of Yale, has promised positively that Yale will be represented by a team. In addition there will probably bo at least two more entries, and the race will surely be an Interesting
one.
Pn&lliam.
William A. Brady. Corbett’s manager, In a chat about the Fltzslmmons-Corbett fight and the outlook, says: "Corbett is undeniably In the championship class, and it Is not necessary for him to fight any man other than Fitz to demonstrate that this Is so. If Corbett Is not In Fltzsimmon’s class, who Is? If the tables had boon turned at Carson and Fitz had smothered Corbett as we think Jim smothered Bob, and then by a chance punch Corbett had won, the American sporting public would have demanded that Corbett fight Fitz again, provided the latter was ready and willing as Corbett now is. We have no desire to hurry Fitzsimmons. We want him to make all the money he can, so that he can put up a big stake on himself when ho meets Corbett ‘gain. We only ask this—I am willing to bet him $20,000 on the side, and a club stands ready to offer him a $20,000 tmrse. We want another fight—the same chance that Corbett gave Fitz. He can make his own terms. What do 1 think 6f Fiiz and his ability to fight? He Is a better man than I thought, and Is more scientific and game, and a better ring general than nine out of ten men concede him to be. He cannot deliver anywhere near as hard a blow as he Is oredlled with. Neither Corbett nor I have any desire to rob him of nny of the credit or profit that he is entitled to for his well earned victory. We do object, however, to eertafn statements that Fitz and his manager are credited with making. Any fair-minded person who saw the contest at Carson will admit that from start almost to the finish tliehe was only one man In It. as far as punishing and fighting w.-nt. and that man was Coit.ctt. llo had Fitz whipped to a standstill a dozen times during the fight, and the Australian only saved himself by clinching and falling. At the beginning of the fourteenth round the betting at the ringside was 2 to 1 on Corbett, who all through the fight had proven himself I he
A GRIST W GOSSIP. Carapanlp! Is said ♦« have been tlie first tenor to receive $1,000 a nijrht, and he received that amount from Henry Abbey, who wanted to get him away from Col. Mapleson. Mr. Abbey’s name has been chiefly associated with the large salaries paid to foreign artists in this country. When he eondueted the first season after the Metropolitan Opera House was built and opened in 1S8283 the high salaries for the first time became one of the burning questions which divided the interests of the American public with the singers’own merits. Salaries have Increased since that day probably to the same extent that wealth In New York has Increased. and it is doubtful If they are proportionately higher to-day. Mile. Calve In her arrangements for n concert tour to follow the season of opera at the Metropolitan demanded $2,000 a concert. She gets between $1,400 ami $1,500 at tlve Metropolitan and forty performances guaranteed. Mme. Emma Eantes Is receiving tills year aliout $900 a night, with a guarantee of at least forty per/onnances. After Mme. Klafsky’s death Mme. Nordlea demanded of Mr. Grau $1,500 a performance, a guarantee of ten performances a month during the season, and exclusive right to the role of Elsa. Plancon gets $400 a night and I.assalle about $700. Mme. Gltvlnne, who has had the hardest work of the season, gets $300 a night. Those salaries will give some idea of the expense nt which the opera performances arc given.—New
York Sun.
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There is probably not another thing on earth that is subjected to as much abuse as the huiimu stomach. Some-I times It reliels, but It Is always willing to compromise and be friendly again. Sunshine Is the cause of more colds than cold and bluster, for a few rays of sunshine will fool a man into thinking he can dispense with his overcoat. or flannels, and then comes the
resulting snuffles or pneumonia.
The brain of an ant Is larger In proportion than that of any other known creature. Thai’s why an ant knows enough to work six months of the year and sleep all the rest of the time.
Small-brained man must work fourteen pieces some lean, juicy beef from tlie months in every year, and then die in round and simmering in a little water
Into which a fried onion Is put. Strain and thicken, adding half a dozen
chopped mushrooms.
—X— —X—- —X— George F. Barton, who died nt Green’s Hotel on November 1. leaves a $30,000 estate and provides in his will that his executors shall “find a good
When the lieutenant calls.
i*' When she is a* home.
debt. “Go to the ant, thou sluggard.
Consider her ways and be wise.” —X— —X— -—X—
Macaroni served in the Italian style means simply boiled macaroni over which a highly-seasoned brown gravy is poured, grated cheese being sent round with the dish. Tlie gravy is
nicest made by cutting up in two-inch I homo for my dog ‘ray,’ pay his board
and when she waits tor her lover. and itt his death place his body In a box and have him properly buried.” The residue of his property is left to relatives. Philadelphia Ledger.
The Suitor I have come to ask for your daughter, sir. The Old Man Take her, my boy; you are the only fellow who ever asked for more than ner hand. New York Journal.
THE AMERICAN GIRL IN PARIS.
Cook, who has coached the crew all the j bettel ? man . am , „ seemed only a matter
year, lie says that Mr. Cook does tot seem to know what he wants and that the crew Is in a deplorable condition. He flatly leclares that he will not row this
year.
Mr. Cook, seen In regard to 'he matter, said: "The change of stroke In the Yale boat was not unexpected to those close to the work of the crew. There is no lack of harmony, but there is of iniverslty material.” Mr. Cook declined to :ulk further In the matter, except to say that Simpson was of a very nervous temperament and he believed that hard work had temporarilj' unsettled the young man. He hoped that Simpson would return and be a candidate, but thought ho would not be a suitable candidate for stroke, ov. lug to his nervousness. Longford, last year's stroke, was put back at that place hi the boat. Fred Allen, a freshman, took Langford's place at
No. B.
”4“ *4~ “r” The college boat races will bo rowed at Poughkeepsie this year. It has not been so slated officially, but that announcement will be made in the course of the next few days. There are four of theso
of time when he must wear Fitz down and knock him out. Then suddenly by a chance blow, not calculated and seemingly not hard. Fitz landed on a vital spot, and Corbett succumbed for not more than twelve seconds, which, by the W’ay, were counted like lightning by the men having the tinting In charge. Fit* at the end was the most surprised man in the arena and could hardly believe his eyes. The other people also say that Corbett weighed 18S pounds and Fitz lofl. The fact is that Filz weighed about 170 and Corbett about 170.”
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The following are the measurements of “Kid’ MeCoy, given in r< sponse to a re-
quest from a correspondent:
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races a ’Varsity and a freshman race ; between the crews of Yale. Harvard and Cornell, and a 'Varsity and a freshman race between the crews of Columbia, Cor-
nell and Pennsylvania.
Cornell refused to row anywhere but at Poughkeepsie, and Jias an agreement with Pennsylvania and Columbia to row over that course. Tlie Harvard oarsmen favored New London, because of their boathouse there, and Yale. too. favored the New London course. There have been several meetings between the representatives of the colleges and the citizens' committee of Poughkeepsie, and an agreement
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There Is much talk going on now about tho Yale boats. Boatbullder W. F. l)avey. whose workshop is next door to the Harvard boat house, says that he is about to b' gln the construe lion of a boat for the Yale 'varsity crew. He received the order last week. Long-drawn-out correspondence resulted in Yale's deciding to give the contract for the building of a boat for the 'varsity race next June to Daivey. The boat wdll be built almost on the lines of the Harvard crew's boat, whh h Davey considers his best model.
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Champion Gaudaur has signed articles with Erastus Hogers, of Worcester, Mass., for a two-mile race to be rowed at Orllla on May 24 for the championship of America and ?r>00 a side. Gaudaur refuses to risk the world's championship on a twomile race, but agrees that if Rogers beats him at that distance he will accept a challenge for a three-mile race for the championship. Gaudaur allows Rogers $1U0 expenses to come to Orillia.
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Yule has written to the University of Wisconsin declining the proposition to low tlie Western college at New Eondon, and ptatlna that Yale can row Wisconsin only on Wednesday, May 20, or Saturday,
May 29
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SHF. KEPT HIM V HA! IIELOK. Yet Gave Him the start That Made
Him u SueeeM.
A Michigan lawyer whose mii ha» been mi estublbh. <1 la.a lor yaif tells one .ii l i nt In Ins lift. or sordini to tho 1 «.-tr. It ( I •• *■> from which lie dotes the beginning of his pnsk! J , 'l'Vud gone from a farm up in New Hampshire to Boston In worldly matters 1 was <leVi ably Ignorant, hut In book lure 1 must hive been something of a phenomenon, tor so much that 1 lind read was literature such as occupied the thought* of ihs scholar a oi otury or so ago. 1 had said farewell to the folks at home and positively assured them that when 1
oatne back l would be a lawyer.
• I had my whole campaign mapped out. and you cun infer I was a novice from my line of procedure. In my mind the mayor of a great city exercised a M>rt of patriarchal sowr dgnty. From what I had read In my old hooks, he was the father of his people. So I went to the mayor of Boston not to his office, but to bis house, In the evening, and without invitation. He was the central figure in Home sort of social ♦uncti >n. ai <1 I w in practically paralyzed when ushered Into his august presence. The fine ladles about him put th^ : nlshing touches on my timidity. As 1 look back 1 can recall that 1 would speak first, then think, and finally suffer indescribable horrors. I was in a state of irresponsible extinction. But it was one of those t ne ladles that came to my rescue. With
tlist would have won her fame as a miner, sin* drew me out. was delighted
a tact eross-e
Interested The nu yor in spite of himself, and lie actually put me into an office where I was
the start.
bar I found an
self-sustaining from
“When admitted to the opening to come West, and
satisfied that It was the mayor who found for me. 1 tried to Induce that fine young lady to come with me. but she was Just as tactful In refusing my proposal as she had been in helping me U a start. I think It Is her f«i.lt
that I am a lawyer. ---* 1 ‘
that I’m a bachelor/
know it's her fault
'Wniitfil to Know Indianapolis Journal: “It was so funny," said the Sweet Young Thing, "that I Just thought I would die.” "Well." asked the Social Wet Blanket, "why did you change your mind?"
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THE KING OF PERSI A. THE MOST EXALTED RULER IN THE WORLD. /n HU Mind Imagine* that He I* King; of All the Other Kings, Princes and Potentates on Earth -A \ isit. to Europe. NCR again It is announced that the shah is coining to Europe to visit his b r o t her emperors and kings. Not the old shah; he is dead, but the new "King of Kings" who now reigns in Teheran. His Majesty heard of the intention of the King of oiam t<> be present at the rejoicings in honor of Queen Victoria, and ordered his ant hassador in England to discover whether the presence of his august Oriental self would he appreciated. Lord Salisbury and his cabinet, it is asserted, protested to a man. 1 bere is nowhere to put him,” “What on earth could we do with him ? and "Where could we place a monarch of such exalted Ideas of his own importance in the processions?” These and other interrogatory remonstrances were hurled at the Persian minister, and his excellency, being a sensible fellow, wired to his monarch: "Better come next year, queen monopolizes too much attention this year. No proper appreciation for you.” However, the rumor has caused the papers to be flooded with personal descriptions of the new monarch, who seems to lie a very busy man. He rises early, performs his devotions, has a thin pieee of pasty German bread and a glass of sweetened tea. Then, at about eight
THE KING OF PERSIA,
o’clock, he receives his ministers. He is slovenly in habit, and walks up and down the room with his slippers flipflapping; indeed, the reason he parted with his first wife was because she constantly complained he did not wash himself. He dictates dozens of letters, hears dispatches read and attends minutely to every detail of business. This continues for six hours at a stretch. Then ho has his principal meal. All the food is carefully prepared, and a prince of the royal blood is responsible that no tricks are played. Every dish, as it is sent from the kitchen, is sealed, and the seals are broken in tli<’ sovereign's presence. The shah, according to etiquette, eats alone. Formerly he squatted, and ate from a big tray placed on the floor. But since coming to Teheran he has been persuaded to sit upon a matress and eat from a table about a foot high. At first a chintz cloth was on the table, but he was told it would be much nicer if he had a white cloth, and so a white cloth is now used. Between fifty and sixty dishes are served, but His Majesty touches only two or three. First he will eat greased rice, followed by a chicken or some grilled morsels 3f mutton, laid between two sheets of thin bread—quite the ordinary Persian fare. Knives and forks are things unknown at court, and the king eats everything with his fingers greased rice, mutton and fruit. His favorite delicacy is marrow, and he loves to stick his hand among the ric^ searching out bones from which he can suck
the marrow.
Then the shah has an hour’s sleep, and when he awakes is served with some glasses of tea. For the rest of the day until he retires to his harem, where he takes his supper, lie amuses himself with working a little telegraph instrument, playing backgammon with his ministers- who are careful not to win—setting and resetting plants in the gardens or takiilg photographs. The shah is quite an expert camera fiend himself, and some of his pictures are stated to be really excellent. Ho enjoys being photographed—in fact he has a positive mania to be taken in every conceivable attitude and dress. He has been photographed in bed, and there are photographs of His Majesty in the attire of a Prussian offleer, and even as a high church English clergyman. Both officer and clergyman were present at a levee, and the monarch sent word that they were both to stay after the general guests had left. Then he borrowed their clothes and was duly "taken.”
(jrriiiHii 1’iiy Weddings. In one country district of Germany "pay weddings” were in vogue until recently, each guest paying for his entertainment as much as he would at an inn, and the receipts being placed aside to set up the happy pair lu their lew home.
Heady for War. France has kept 200,000 tons of coal j stored at Toulon since 1893 to be ready / in case war should break out.
FOR ‘‘DOGGIE’S COT.’-
Novel Entertainment in London to En-
dow lied* for in a Hospital.
T he dogs of England are going to estai lish a free bed in the Great Northern hospital of London, says the New Ycrk Herald. It will be called the ”L''Oggies' Cot.” They will provide the funds necessary by giving entertainments, which will be under the supervision of Mrs. Herbert Allingham of Ixindon. Mrs. Allingham is credited with originating the idea and society high and low gives enthusiastic indorsement. According to the plans made the dog circuses with which the united kingdom is familiar will be completely outdone. Mrs. Allingham is in daily receipt of many offers from dog owners tendering the services of their pets. Thus far more than 1,000 dogs, all capable of performing various tricks, have been placed on the eligible list. It is intended to utilize as many of these as possible. These entertainments will be held all over the united kingdom, patronesses being selected for them as for any public affair which society endorses. Regular programmes will be outlined and the dogs will solicit contributions from those who attend. Tlie first of these entertainments was given a few days ago at the residence of Mrs. Henry Majoribanks, in the west end. Mrs. Maporibanks is one of London's social leaders and her home was thronged with guests to see this, the most novel performance of tho sort which London has seen. The company present gathered in the ball-room of the Majoribanks residence, at one end of which a miniature stage had been erected. An orchestra had been secured and the overture was played just as well as if it had occurred in Her Majesty's theater, only In lesser degree. Following this a huge St. Bernard marched solemnly out from tb® wings and barked what was charitably supposed to be an announcement of what the programme would contain. At the conclusion of his speech the big dog sat upright for half a moment, in place of the customary bow and then retired, barking gleefully in response to the applause. The first performer was a skye terrier, belonging to H:- C. Williams of Grosvenor square. She trotted to the front of the stage, sat up primly for a moment surveying the audience, and then, seizing her tall in her mouth—and every one knows bo w diminutive a skye terrier’s tail is—enacted the part of a whirligig until the onlookers' heads were fairly dizzy. Next came a French poodle, with a barrel. which ho proceeded to roil back oml forth across the stajjfa with his front paws thereon. NexFhe/m'iunted tha barrel and roiled it along, ♦bile turning solemnly about. H , ejrplled bitnself into the wings and out of .sight without leaving his perch. T’here was a long programme and all the perform-
ers were pet dogs.
POSTMASTER OF NEW YORK. Cornelius Van Colt. Recently* Appointed by rrenideut McKinley. Cornelius Van Cott, recently appointed postmaster of New York by President McKinley, has been prominent in local and state • politics for many years. In 1891 be was a candidate for governor in the state convention. and, although he lias not occupied many offices, he has been for years a power in politics. He was made postmaster by [’resident Harrison and tilled that important position ably. Years ago Mr. Van Cott was given a subordinate position in the customhouse, and got into politics with the aid of Hiram Barney, in 1873 Mayor Havemeyer appointed him fire commissioner, and he acted as treasurer of the board. He worked hard as a commissioner, but his efforts were unappreciated, and he left the place to open an insurance business downtown. He figured strongly in the fight on the above ground system of wire-stringing, and lived to see the day when the city was forced to take the action he had so urgently recommended. For a quarter of a century he represented the seventh
CORNELIUS VAN COTT. district on the Republican state com mittee. In 1887 his senatorial district sent him to the upper house ol the legislature by the largest Republicin vote ever cast in that district He was voted for by many Democrats and his majority staggered his opponent. Mr. Van Cott comes of sturdy Dutch stock. He is a self-made man and started out in life with nothing but brains and determination for his capital. He has never sought office.
Story of the Duke of Norfolk. It is said that recently the Duke o. Norfolk, while walking through the streets of London, happened to see an old lady in evident distress. Sh« wanted a cab. and could not attract the cabman's notice. His Grace called » vehicle, and saw her into it safely. Tc his surprise he found three '■oppert slipped into his hand, and the old lady said; “There you are, my man. go ami get yourself a glass of beer!”