Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1911 — Page 2

HAS MADE TOWN OF SAPULPA FAMOUS

There is an old saying to the effect that “Every cock lights best In his own back yard,” which appears to carry considerable weight with one Carl Morris, the Oklahoma "hope,” who has been giving spectacular exhibitions of pugilistic pyrotechnics around his native state. In other words, Morris has deftly avoided the lure of every promoter of fistic events who has tried to sign him up for fights outside of his own bailiwick, says the Kansas City Star. Carl's manager announces that the state in question where Morris has won all his battles up to date will continue to be the sphere of the big chap’s scrapping activities for some time to come. Sapulpa people are proud of Morris, and well they may be, for since the new “hope” appeared on the scene persons who were never aware of the existence of such a burg on the map now speak of it in familiar accents. Morris probably knows his own business best and his assertion that he can get as high as $12,000 for a purse in the native diggings whenever he wants to fight is a reasonably good argument why he should remain at home and force challengers to come to him.

NEWPORT TENNIS DATES SET

All-Comers' Championship to Begin There on August 21 —Players to Be Sent to Australia. Monday, August 21, Is the date selected for all-comers’ championship tennis tournament opening at Newport. Though the 1911 contest will be played on the Casino courts, as it has been for the last forty years, another movement Is on foot to take the annual event to Philadelphia next year. Newport won only after a bitter struggle and the opposition to the fashionable watering place will be united next year under Karl Behr and Lyle E. Mahan. In the National Lawn Tennis association meeting Dr. Philip B. Hawk carried a motion that the three best players available be sent to Australia in quest of the Davis international challenge cup. The details were left to a committee to be appointed. The proposed dual matches with England were turned over to the executive committee. ■* The delegates also decided to place a penalty on any prearrangemeat of the draw: “Infraction of the rule requiring a random draw renders a club or other organization liable to loss of their tournament the following years, except that in competitions between nations, states, cities, clubs and similar bodies, where the competition Is between such bodies and not between players as individuals. players may be placed in such manner as may be agreed upon by the management of the competitions."

Madden Backs Soprano.

Proposing a big sweepstakes race, which will bring together some of the best trotters in training next season, John E. Madden the other day threw down the gauntlet In behalf of Soprano (2:07%) by posting his check for SSOO to bind a race for SI,OOO a corner, open to all trotters, except Uhlan (1:68%) and The Harvester (2:01). The race is to be trotted over the track that will add most money to the stakes. Mr. Madden's stipulation is for mile beats, best three in live. Horsemen regard the dell as- being aimed especially at Joan (2:04%). bolder of the world’s record for fouryear- olds.

Richards Badger Coach?

It was rumored around the campus Saturday night that one of the men that is being considered for football coach for ltll Is John Richards, the former Badger track and football star of the ’Ms. RlCbkrds has had considerable success with his teams in the west and Is at the present time principal of the Butte. Mont,, high school k■■ . -

Carl Morris, Heavyweight Fighter.

instead of prowling around in search of opponents. Nevertheless, the majority of fight followers would have preferred to see him come out in the open and give them a taste of his quality. There is no denying that Morris has done all that has been asked of him by his home admirers. But it must be remembered that, with the exception of Marvin Hart, who is a physical wreck in a sense, none of the men who went down before the giant’s {lunches were known to fame in the slugging business. It reminds one rather of the many youths who take;, part in “bush battles.” fights pulled off in private, and the like; score up a long list of knockouts to their credit —and then fall down miserably when pitted for the first time against some ringster of proven quality before a bona fide athletic club. This does not necessarily mean that Morris belongs in the fourflush category. He may be all that is claimed for him. and more, but the public likes “to be shown.” Booming a coming champion is all very well, but there comes a day when the long advertised pudding is put to the eating proof.

SIGNAL FOR HONUS WAGNER

Manager McGraw of New York Giants Tells Pitcher Marquard to Give Pittsburger “Anything." "The giants have signals of their own, and not a team has ever even come near to getting onto them," said “Rube" Marquard, Giant pitcher. “We tell what’s coming off in so many words, too. “The old style of Hfting caps, tugging at belts, standing on one foot, and then the other, and gripping the bat is obsolete with us. We use the mute language which Dummy Taylor taught us when he was with the team.

“Manager McGraw has shortened the sign talk to letters for quick work. When he wants the hit-and-run played he flashes H-R from the coaching line. L means delayed steal, and so on. The other teams know what we use, but the Giants are so speedy no other players can catch on. I*l was up against it the first time I faced Hans Wagner. I looked at McGraw on the bench. He flashed back A. Hans hit A high fly, which I thought was lucky for me. because I didn’t know what ball bothered him. I asked McGraw what A stood for. “ ‘Anything,’ he replied. ‘That Dutchman has hit every kind of a ball a mile. Juat give him anything and trust to luck and the fielders.”’

W. A. Haxard. secretary of the National Polo association, has cabled to the Hurlingham club of England accepting the conditions of that club that if an international match was desired this year it should be played prior to June 10. Mr. Haxard suggested May 81 and June 3 and 7 as ths dates tor the games. It is believed this removes the- last obstacle in the arrangement of the laternattora) match.

Hans Wagner.

Yield to English Polo Players.

SPORT ASSOCIATION IS PLAN

Horsemen After Dinner at New York Recently Want an International Body. The horsemen’B dinner held in New York recently, at whibh August Belmont announced his intention of giving several valuable stallions to the, United States government, ? probably will lead to the starting of an association of horsemen, binding together more closely such organizations as the Jockety club, the Polo association, the various bunt clubs and the steeplechase committees. Aa suggested by Harry W. Smith of Worcester, who arranged for the dinner, the organization will be broad, open to all sports of turf and field. "We plan,” he says, “to make it open to sportsmen in the broadest sense of the word, including members both here and abroad. Prom every foreign country, almost weekly, come gentlemen who are fond of country life and have made a life study of horses, hounds and other animals. “The provision of entry should be only that the prospective member be a sportsman and a gentleman in hiß home’ town. There is no reason for restricting the membership to certain cities, for why should one wait till he takes up a residence in some center of population before he is " allowed to mingle with the sportsmen of America? The main thing is to restrict it to sportsmen, for we are* really an exclusive class and the true sportsman has a language of his own and a meaning to his words which others can never understand.”

LIGHT SULKY FOR TROTTING

Vehicle Invented for Racing Purposes That Takes All of Driver’s Weight Off Shafts. In order to make a sulky that will be very light, aDd one in which the weight of the driver will be entirely removed from the shafts, an inventor has adopted a bicycle design. The two wheels of the sulky are mounted in tandem, and are supported in a

Bicycle Trotting Sulky.

frame of the bicycle type, which IN not only very light, but Is also very strong. The shafts of the sulky are connected to the steering post of the front wheel of the bicycle, so that the wheel will follow the horse around curves and sharp turns. The tractive effort with a vehicle of thiß sort will be practically negligible.

GOSSIP OF SPORTDOM

Manager fluffy of the White Sox says he believes the “can’t come back" theory is all nonsense. The season of consistency! Doc Roller says the toe hold should be barred, but keeps right on using It. Addle Joss’ arm is in a plaster cast again. Cleveland baseball stock for 1911 has slumped 30 per cent. Thirty-three “John Smiths" were arrested at a cock fight in Pittsburg. Maybe they will "get together" after this. Kid McCoy punched Jack O'Brien in the nose and also in the eye in a private workout, and now there is a big ado about it in Philadelphia. "Knockout” Brown of New York has had 80 battles in the ring and lost only one. He has scored 34 knockouts. Pretty good for short bouts. Jack Curley says he has lost all hope ! of matching “Hack” and Gotch. Both grapplers are training to be in shape if anything “drops,’’ just the same. Tommy Ryan, too, wants to take a punch at that old fallacy so often heard that a fellow can’t come back. Maybe Tommy never “went back” at that. Harry Lord of the White Sox has paid a glowing tribute to Hal Chase as , & prospective manager. It is now up | to Hal to tell what a good third sacksr ! Harry is. Those westeVn college golf players, who kindly formed a western organization, might stage a match between Chick Evans and Paul Hunter, and save a lot of expense on preliminaries. L Mathewson and Chief Myers are batting about .128 on the road, but their average is expected to pick up about* April 12, when they start doing a little 1 “playing" for the entertainment of the j New York baseball fans. Hal Chase will give Birdie Cree a chance on his Infield the coming season. Cree was a wonder in the outfield last season, and Chase wants to keep him in the game for his hitting and base running again this year.'. Davy Jones is the greatest comeback In the American league. The Chicago Nationals passed him up several years ago and sent him to the minors. Detroit then took him Ip and Davy was a member of three championship teams and is still a star base runner. President Murphy does not stand alone in hi* >elief that the coacher at third base should be compelled to remain in the box and refrain from assisting the base runners who overrun the bag. Clark Griffith of th« Reds entertains the same notion and wants Murphy to make a fight to have his suggestion incorporated in the rules.

WHERE UNCLE SAM MAY GET LIGHT AND POWER

W.SHINGTON.— If congress adopts the plan that has been submitted to it, the city of Washington will be supplied with light and power from the great falls of the Potomac, fifteen miles away. The government now pays* $60,000 a month to a local company for electricity, and much of this large sum would be saved if Uncle Sam should harness the “Little Niagara of Washington,” as the falls are called., *

PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS

Ten Eastern States to Be Visited This Year. Seventeen-Year Variety Shows Indisputable Signs of Appearing in New Jersey and Other Nearby Commonwealths—Habits of Insect. Oceon City, N. J. —According to State Entomologist John B. Smith, New Jersey and nine other states will experience a plague of locusts this year. The state entomologist has a corps of workers, studying methods to ward off the threatened plague, among whom Is Mrs. E. S. Starr, of this place, who, under his direction, is observing the underground habits of the insect. Mrs. Starr has made a statement on the result of observations. She says: “There are 15 species of the cleada septendecum. or 17-year locusts, in the state bureau of entomology. This makes the study of the insect almost With each appearing of the insect something is added to give the entomologist a new problem to work out. In Cape May county the insect gave indisputable evidence of its presence months in advance of its regulation date for appearing, in April, when its seventeen years’ sleep underground will end. “Last summer a breaking out on the surface of the earth was noticed. It resembled circular spots about four inches in diameter. The soil in these spots was different in color from that nearby. The layers of the mounds were even and appeared to have been blown from a central cavity, such as the ashes from a volcano. There was no central opening visible, but inves-

“GREEN” TEAS TO BE BROWN

After First of May No Artificially Colored Product Can Be imported Into Country. New York. —Popular brands of. How priced teas, including “gunpowder” and other time honored favorites, will don a motley garb after May 1. After that date, according to government direction, no more artificially colored teas can be imported, and as a result many .of the teas which have appeared in beautiful green shades for 100 years or more will come in hereafter In hues of brown, yellow and green. According to a statement from the Importers’ association, “thq. trade all over the country is unanimous in approving the new regulation. Green tea will still be green, but the color will be more natural. The artificial coloring heretofore used by the Chinese to emphasize the greenness of their product and to Impart a uniform color and gloss to the leaves, a harmless dye. will be eliminated. “The general public here knows little about tea. America is not a great tea drinking nation. The per capita consumption is only one pound a year, whereas in Oanada it Is six pounds and in Great Britain nearly seven pounds. Tea is popular all over Europe because of its economy. A 50 cent pound of tea will provide at leaat 250 cups of generous strength, while a 25 cent pound of coffee, the American beverage, ia good for not more than 30 cupa.”

Recalls Peace of Ghent

Brussels. —A committee has been formed at Ghent to arrauge for the celebration In 1914 of the centenary of the congress of Ghent where peace was concluded between Great Britain and the United States In 1814.

German Navy to Shift Base.

Berlin.—lt Is reported that the German submarine flotilla will shortly be removed from-the Baltic to Wilhelmshaven, which is to be Its base in the future. »

tigation showed that it had been covered with sand. There was no cbanga in these mounds until after a rain, when the central portion seemed to rise. Later galleries in the mounds were discovered. Some of these extended more than three feet beneath the surface of the earth: It was in these that the locusts were sleeping. “The range of the outbreak, so far as has been discovered, extends along both sides of the West Jersey and SeaBhore railroad ffom Mt. Pleasant to near Ocean City, and over uncultivated ground for a mile to the northwest. There are mounds to be seen in the woodland but they are different in formation from those in the open country. “With the first indications of an eruption word was sent to Dr. L. O. Howard of the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, and to Doctor Smith of the New Jersey bureau. Both pronounced it the work of the 17-year locust, but without precedent, it then being a year in advance of the time scheduled for the insects to appear. Doctor Smith sent an assistant to make an investigation. He reported that the mounds were the work of the cicada septendecum, but that it was of an unusual character. A careful observation of the appearing of the locusts is to be made in Cape May county, where, it i 3 believed, they will be more numerous. “Brood XII. of the cicada septendecum is due to appear in ten states next spring, the territory ranging from Saratoga county, New York, to western Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, and ending in the north central portion of North Carolina. In New Jersey the locusts underline the state. The last appearance of the locusts was in

DEMAND FOR KANSAS WOMEN

Alberta Man Emissary to That State to Secure Wives for Hunters and Lumbermen. Ottawa. Kan. —“We want marriageable women,” was the substance of a message received here by W. R. Hutchinson, from Alberta, Canada. “We understand that Ottawa has lota of good looking widows and girls of marriageable age, who haye no Immediate prospects or intentions in a matrimonial way.” Oliver Moore, formerly of Ottawa, now of Alberta, who is here on a visit, was the bearer of the message. He was in earnest, too. “There are no women at all up there,” said Mr. Moore. “It has been too cold for them. Why, It has been 60 degrees below zero for a Week now." The hunters and lumbermen of Alberta have organized themselves into a society for the purpose of mutual assistance in a search for wives. Mr. Moore, who came down to Kansas on business, was given full authority to bargain for as many womef as he could get. He agrees to take all who will go under the promise of being married inside of 30 days after they are there. He has gone to counting noses here, with the assistance of his friends, and he has found 82 who could “just as well go as not.” Several women have been interviewed and have given their consent to carry on a correspondence with some of the most likely Canadian nimrods. It is rumored that Ottawa is going to lose some of its feminine population and that a few trunks are being packed with “dainty things” just now. This sudden demand for wives has caused the young men of Ottawa a good deal of nervousness, and Judge Chaffee of the probate court has lowered the price of marriage licenses from |3 to f 2.36. Moore said he would probably extend a similar invitation to other cities shortly in behalf of his brothers in the north. "And,” said he, "Kansas City will likely be next on the list. Of

1894, when in Cumberland and Capo May counties the discarded shells of the insects covered the ground. Trees and lumber today bear traces of that* visit. * “Doctor Smith has sent out a warning against '{he pruning and setting out of orchards until the locusts disappear.”

URGES BABY EVERY 2 YEARS

Dr. Eliot, Harvard’s President Emeritus, Gives Recipe for Happiness Though Married. Boston.—As a result of dfference of opinion between Dr. J. Lovett Morse and Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, on the subject of large families, Boston women are up In arms. "I don’t agree with Dr. Morse in his advocacy of small families,” said President Eliot. “I believe no restriction of the birth rate can be supported by morals or economics. The durable satisfaction of life depend upon having the normal number of children, and the normal number of children is five or six to the family. A mother should bear a child every two years. “Granting that marriage should come at the average age of twentyfour, this periodical child hearing should continue until the mother is forty, resulting in eight chldren. This high number, however, would be lowered in average by the death of either parent or two or more of the children. I believe in monogamy, equal chastity and the normal birth rate. “Durable satisfaction of life is not obtained by families that have only one or two children. Therefore, I am not able to accept the economic excuse for limiting the number oT children. The number to be born has a natural limit, and the economical limitation is wholly unnatural.” -

course Ottawa would be first, as it was my home town. But there are no better looking girls on earth than those in Kansas City.” Moore is a /wealthy land owner and lumber man in Alberta.

$1,500,000 TO BUILD ROAD

Delaware Philanthropist Plans for Boulevard 100 Miles Long aa Gift > to Native State. New York. —Gen. T. Coleman Du Pont of Wilmington, Del., Is arranging with New York lawyers a deed of gift for an unusual philanthropy. He plans to contribute 31,550,000 for a boulevard the length of Delaware, from Clay*’ mont on the north to Shelbyvllle on the south. The proposal will be Bub< mitted to the Delaware legslature. Gen. Du Pont proposes the roadway be 100 feet wide and 100 miles long. It will be given outright to the people. The only condition is that a majority of the legislature consent to It This is the first offer of the kIM made to any state.

X-Rays to Find Pearls.

London. —Dr. J. Hall Edwards, In q lecture at Blsbopsgate Institute, saiq that the only practical use to whlcft he knew X-rays were put apart frodh medicine was the discovery of pearls. Instead of the oyster being destroyed in order to find .if it contained pearl* the rays could be use. and if nothingwas discovered the oyster was put back into t£e sea in the hope thaj IN would grow pearls.

Teach Farming in City.

Kansas City, Mo.—The stats agiij cultural school at Columbia will open al night school of agriculture in the Cent trfcl high school. City men will baaij the instructors lecture on sueh sub* jects as “The Money-Making t*arnH and “Improvement of Wheat.'*