Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1912 — Page 2

HOW FAMOUS ATHLETES DETERIORATE

man attains his greatest strength "between the ages of twenty-seven and thirty-two. Then he begins to go "back. He does not necessarily lose his strength, but he is not as agile as formerly and he tires more quickly” Such was the remark made by Frank Gotch, the world’s wrestling champion, while in Cleveland on an exhibition tour recently. Continuing, he said: “That fits my case exactly. I am as strong, perhaps stronger, than I ever was before, but I am getting slower." The ‘old get-there’ spirit is not present In the old days when a man tore into me I would have torn right into him. But now I merely sidesidestep and bide my time. "That is why I have made up my mind to quit the game in the near future. If I keep at it long enough some man will , come along who will down me.. Of course, if some logical opponent shows up in the next few

GOSSIP T AMONG SPORTS

Harry Howell will umpire in the Eastern league in 1912. New York State Baseball league has reduced the salary limit from $3,000 to >2,500. The Louisville club has sold Infielder Howard Baker to the Hartford (Conn.) League club. A Cuban baseball team whipped the New York Giants and, strange to say, nobody Vas spiked. Playing managers in the major leagues may soon be an extinct species of the “early days.” A Nashville writer says meeting Ty Cobb Is like drawing off a real tight shoe—it feels so comfortable. Ottawa, Ont., if admitted to the Canadian league, promises Sunday ball at a park across the river in Hull. Frank Owens, catcher for Minneapolis, was married recently to Miss Helen Winslow in Toronto, his home town. San Francisco does not think it will miss Tom Tennant on first base, since it has Jackson, the Texas recruit to fill hie shoes. •_— Summer baseball in north and winter baseball in the south is a platform that seems the. part of a winner for some. Fielder Jones has received his annual appointment—by western newspapers—as chief mogul 4 of the Northwestera league. "Walter Slagle, recently purchased by Los Angeles, has bought a farm near Glendale, Cal., and will make, his home on it. ' A London fight club has barred the kidney punch, but the Olympic club of New York got a scoop on that several days ago. Only nine football players are reported killed this year, thus demonstrating that football is not as great a game as deer hunting. < It is told in Minneapolis that the Cantillons have reasons to believe they can get Long Tom Hughes back from ■ Washington next year. All two fighters have to do nowadays Is to take different sides of the contlneht and fire broadsides at each other until the promoters take notice. James O’Brien, better known aS Skimmer O’Brien, who pitched for Lawrence a part of last season, has been signed to play with Worcester. If Walter Camp is prejudiced toward the east he didn’t let it enter his family.' Walter Camp, Jr., wasn’t induded among the all-star selections.

All-American Track and Field Team for 1911 lpO-yg.rd dash Gwinn Henry, unattached, Eden. Tex. 220-yard dash ...Ralph Craig,"'University of Michigan. Md-yard dash ...E. F. Lindberg, Chicago, A. C. 88U-yard dash Melvin Sheppard, Irish-American A. C. Qpe-mlle rup J. P. Jones, Cornell University. Two-mile run Baker, Oberlin. Five-mlle run George Bonhag, .Irish-American A. C. Ten-mlle run •••••••«.....Louis Scotty South Paterson A. C. • Mft-yard high hurdles George J. Chisholm, Tale. MO-yard low hurdles John J. Eller, Irish-American A. CL Running high jump.. Harry Grumpelt, New York A. C;; - ’ Running broad jumpPlatt Adams, New York A. C. Shot put Pat McDonald, Irish-American A. C. Discus throw Martin Sheridan, Irlsh-Ahierlcan A. C. Hammer throw ..............Matt McGrath, unattached, New York. 56-pound weight .....Matt McGrath, unattached. New York. Running hop, step, jump,.....Dan Ahearne, Irish-American A. C. Javelin thfow Ollie Snedlgar. Olympic A. C., ’Frisco. Pole vault. Harry Babcock, Columbia. Cross-country „....William J. Kramer. Long Island A. C. All-around competition ..Fred Thompson, Princeton Theological. Team showing Irish-American A. C., New York.

months, I will take him on, but it will have to be soon as I intend to quit a champion. I shall not meet with Jim Jeffries’ fate. Jim lost because he was a mere shell of his former self. He had the strength but not the Speed nor the ability to withstand punishment that he had had once. Jn his former fights he was always punished severely but he could stand it. When he fought Johnson he couldn’t, and that is all there was to it. “But that never will* be my fate. Not for every cent that Jeffries got at Reno -would I go through what he ’did before and after that fight, particularly afterward. I intend to quit with the respefct of the public and settle down and live the simple life. I have enough money laid aside now and do not need to wrestle any longer. Why should I continue? Zbyszko? No, I will not meet him. Why should I? I tackled him once and made him look cheap, and he has done nothing since to entitle him to a return bout.”

CALLAHAN TO STAY IN GAME

New Manager of White Sox Not Ready to Pilot Team From Bench—Will ; Listen to Bleacherites.

Jimmy Callahan’s bat will figure in next season’s chase for the American league pennant. The veteran player and new manager of President Comiskey’s White Sox the other day put at rest rumors that he is to be a bench manager. “I’ll go. to the bench when the boys in the bleachers behind me tqjl me to take off my uniform. The bleacher boys are the barometer of baseball, and when t£ey say you’ve played your

Manager James J. Callahan.

best game, then, like a good soldier, I’ll stand at third base like Hugh Jennings and say, ‘I guess the bleacher boys were right.’”

Germany Has Good Swimmer.

Germany has developed a breaststroke swimmer, G. Barthe, who-prom-ises to be a formidable contender for international honors at next summer’s Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden. Barthe is credited with covering 200 meters in two minutes and thirty-five seconds and 400 meters in six minutes and forty-fife seconds. -

IS GREATEST PITCHER

Christy Mathewson Has Made Great Record. "Big Six" Bids Fair to Win Hia 500 Games—Will Retire From Baseball When He Has Finished His Task With Giants. Careful examination of the performances of major league pitchers for the last ten years Ip not needed to show that Christopher Mathewson is the greatest pitcher of the day. “Peerless Matty,” the title Which was bestowed on the big fellow when he won the world’s championship for the Giants in 1905, does not seem to have been misplaced. At the present Mathewson is the dean of National league pitchers. Without taking any credit away from the grand old man of baseball, Denton Young, the assertion that “Matty” is dean of them all, American and National included, would not be without foundation. Young is one of the best_ preserved athletes now in the big leagues. He

Christy Mathewson.

has twirled in both the National Snd AmericanUeagues ever since the year 1890. ■ • . At the end of the 1910 iseason Young had won 506 games. Imagine it, at least 200 more victories than has been scored by any pitcher now with a major league club. Few doubt that Mathewson also has it within, his ability to win more than 500 games before he retires. He has already won close to 280, and who knows that he may not win the other 220 before his pitching days are over? If Mathewson were to enter another league after his National. league days are over it is likely that lie would be as effective for six or eight seasons against a new set of he was during the prime of..his career. The trouble is that “Matty" will retire from baseball when he is finished with his task as a Giant, but that day is still at the end of a long lane. Young benefited by such a change. He pitched the first eleven years of his baseball life in the National league. Then for ten seasons he served his benders to American league batters, and now he is back in the National league again. Those who have seen both Young and Mathewson work for the last ten years claim that if Mathewson were to start today as an American league pitcher he would more than equal Young’s half-thou-sand victory mark, and that his life as a major league twirler would be extended -several years.’ It stands O to reason that the batters of the National league are bound to have become accustomed to Mathewson’s service afier batting at *it for so long* but even at that, judging from Mathewson’s recent work and the futile attempts of some batters to gauge his delivery, "Big Six” still maintains most of his cunning. Comparing the records of Mathewson and Young for the first ten seasons of their respective careers, it is found that “Cy” won 268 games and lost 146 games, while MatheWson captured 262 and lost 120 games. Young’s Mathewson’s .686. Included in “Matty’s” record are two games which he lost as a Giant in 1900. The other 118 games he lost in the ten complete seasons from 1901 to and including 1910. Thus it will be found that for eleven complete years his average would be slightly better than .686. —For his entire life Young has an average of .689 per cenL, but it wouldn’t be exactly fair to compare Mathewson’s ten years* work to that of Young, who has done duty for twenty-two seasons.

Cornell Runners May Go Abroad.

A movement is on foot among Cornell undergraduates, and it is expected that the alumni will also join it, to make an effort to send the Cornell cross-country team abroad next summer to meet English teams and possibly continental teams about the time of the Olympic games.

HAS COMPLETED ITS REPORT ON THE WOOL TARIFF

HERE is the tariff board appointed by President Taft, which has just completed Its report on wool for the guidance of congress in readjusting the wool schedule. The document is a comprehensive digest of the difference in the cost of production In this country and abroad. The board members, from left to right are Thomas W. Page, Alvin H. Sanders, Henry C. Emery, James B. Reynolds and William M. Howard.

ORLEANS LOSES HOPE

“Pretender” Changes Plans in Attempt to Form Monarchy. Royalist Leader Attempts to Reconcile Few Warring Followers—Populace Care Nothing for Restoration of Throne.

Paris. —The royalists, who are always fervent in France, although their political influence ceased to be important long-ago, were surprised and rather dismayed to receive from the Duke of Orleans an order that he will have no direct representative in France hereafter. The Duke of Orleans, the royalist pretender to the French throne, of course, who is an exile in England, writes an open letter in which he expressly says’ that any one assuming to be his personal representative will do so without authority. In this way the duke hopes to end the discord which began several months ago after he changed his representative here. On the one side is the newspaper known as Action Francaise, of which Leon Daudet is head; on the other are individuals who oppose the militant methods of this newspaper. ■ In his letter the Duke of Orleans says he has undertaken to reorganise his followers in an effort to decentralize the royalist movement, as he has always been opposed tb centralization. The political bureau is suppressed, but delegates will be appointed who, by means of committees, will carry on the royalist campaign. As a matter of fact the cause of the Orleanists, the most important branch of royalism in France, has shrunk to a mere shadow. Tourists, particularly Americans, visiting France, are prone to discuss the possibility of the monarchy some day replacing the present republic. But these spring more from romantic speculation than from any knowledge of the situation. The French republic was never stronger, more solidly placed on its foundations than at this moment The royalists proclaim themselves openly tn the senate and chamber of deputies, but their number is insignificant; they fall to hold even the balance of power when the other parties are closely divided. Among the working classes no desire for the restoration of the monarchy is apparent The last Strong-

Clever Russian Swindler

He Got Insurance Money by Fraud— Now Bt. Petersburg Police Have Him In Custody. St Petersburg.—A widespread swlW die effected by fictitious life insurance operations has just been discovered by the St Petersburg police. The chief figure is Sigismund Poplavsky, son of an insurance agent He has owned frauds on the New York Life, the Urbaine and the Kertch Insurance companies., . Poplavsky received a 'high school education in his native town of Tiflis and started swindling parly. He got appointed to the traffic department of the Vladikavkag railroad and there sold six wagonloads of wheat belonging to a shipper. He was indicted and his mother balled him out giving him the title deeds of an estate she owned as security. He sold the bail security and hid in the Caucasus.

His first experiment in fraudulent life insurance was a dozen years ago. He insured himself with the Urbaine company for 15,000 rubles. The following year a very sick man presented himself at the Pskof office of the company, far away from where, the policy was taken out..and duly paid the premium. He showed all the passport identification documents of Poplavsky. ’ Soon the sick man, whose true name was Ivan Fedlounin, died,; and Poplavsky, who had taken the ottyTs identity, drew the insurance policy. Still keeping Fedlounin’s name he went to Narva and in a year had spent the money. Then in 1901 ho insured as Fodjounin with the New

of those who still retain loyalty to a king of France is found among the aristocracy, but even there the sentiment is not nearly as strong as it was a decade or even five years ago. The Catholic church has always been royalist in its tendencies, but since the separation of church and state this influence is not as far-reaching as it was.

Many officers in the French army and' perhaps the majority of those holding highest rank In the navy belong to the old nobility or aristocracy, but the new generation is quickly crowding these representatives of the ancient life of France into the background. In spite of the Socialists* efforts to decry militarism, the army is Intensely loyal' to the republic. In a word, the old ghost, the restoration of the monarchy, seems to be laid definitely. Therefore, the letter of the Duke of Orleans, completely changing his past plans, awakens Interest Only among his few followers.

Tug Hits Whale During Fog

Strikes Sea Monster Asleep Off the Pacific Coast, But Escapes Damage Tacoma, Wash.—With a mighty thump, that sent CapL Crosby sprawling in his deck house, and deck hands flopping wildly out of the bunks, put the engineer on his back and set the mechanism shuddering, the tug Redondo came to a sudden stop near the light four miles north of the fork of the Fraser river on the sturdy tramp ' ship’s trip here from Vancouver, B. C. At first Capt. Crosby thought the tug was aground. But the real reason for the big thump and the cessation of the engines was even more hair raising. For it was discovered the Rodonda was on the. back of a whale. And It was a whale something more than three times as big as the tug. CapL Crosby said the sea monster must have been asleep, for otherwise he would not have lain about in thf deep in that way and got bumped into. Whales have been reported as extraordinarily plentiful off the mouth of the Fraser, and constant lookout was kept for them, but the night was misty and completely hid the whopping, napping ocean giant The tug smashed into the whale

York Life for 35,000 rubles and in the following year he took a man. from the hospital who was Incurably ill and equipped him with all the Feriounln papers. The dying man was installed in the apartment' of Poplavsky’s brother, where very soon he died. His real name is so far unknown, but he was buried as Fedlounin and once again Poplavsky got the insurance ffioney. \ Then Poplavsky married a young woman named Smurnoff and forthwith insured her with the Kertch company for 1,500 rubes. Soon he found a female patient in one of the SL Petersburg hospitals whose case Was hopeless. He was able to get her furnished with his wife’s civic papers, and when she died ,he collected his wife’s insurance money. She also was burled ln ( the name of Fedlounin. Then he settled in St Petersburg as Boleslav Kupinsky and' opened a timber business. He tried to insure with the Helsingfors company for 25,000 'rubles, as he now. admits, intending to repeat the swindle that had so far succeeded. But by this time he was being watched. a The police will exhume his and his wife’s doubles to try and learn how they died. They believe that he had several pupils, who worked the trick on other companies. The obligation tn Russia to produce passports and doeumena showing one’s antecedents really made the swindle easy, because the production of them had the effect of stopping the Inquiries that would b*vo followed ngtnral mpictou. ? V ■ ■ '■

HAS WORKED A FULL CENTURY

Coloradan Retires at Age 114—Saldl to Be Nation’s Oldest Man—Wanted to Retire With SIOO,OOO. Grand Junction, Col. —“Cherokeei Bill,” an Indian-negro, said to be one hundred and fourteen years old, and declared by the United States census to be the oldest man In America, has announced that he will retire. “One hundred years of work is enough for any man," said DHL ’ "1 wanted to retire with >IOO,OOO to myi credit, an average of SI,OOO for every year of my life, but I cannot make it" He is -reputed to have 800 pounds of gold cached away in hiding places about the little shack which he calls home. His gold, according to estimates, Is worth between $75,000 and SBO,OOO. His fortune has been made, within the last fifteen years from gold mining tn Leadville, Cripple Creek and along the Grand river. The only name by which he has ever been known in this part of the country lai “Cherokee Bill.”

with terrific Impact, and "as the big! fellow struggled, the tug’s propeller blades sank Into bls sides. That put the engine out of commission. "The tug,” said Capt Crosby, "was really at the mercy of the big fish for several minutes. If he had been inclined to get mad over his loss of sleep and try tossing about a bit he certainly could have turned the Re*, donda over. But he was apparently a peaceful fish, for, Instead of trying to throw us up in the air, he only; struggled enough to get the propeller blades out of his ribs and then left us' on the dive. - »

Finds $10,000 In Wooden Leg.

Oklahoma City, Okla. —An old wooden leg may not be much of a legacy, but when It contains SIO,OOO. It certainly Is worth having, thinks Jacob Randall, a pauper at the poor farm of Canadian county. The leg' was given to him by Alexander P. Hamilton, a supposed pauper at the farm, just before he died a few day* ago. Randall later discovered a large roll of money in the stock of the artificial limb. If Hamilton had relatives they are not known of here

MAN 71 TO WED WOMAN 38

Professor H. F. Fisk of Northwestern University and a Former Pupil to Marry In Spring. Evanston, 111.—Dr. Herbert F. Fisk* member of the faculty of Northwest ern university, and Miss Carla Bargent, formerly a student in one of hid classes, are to be married next spring. . Dr. Fisk is 71 years old and his fiancee is 33 years his junior. The romance began several years ago, when Miss Sargent was a pupil listening daily to Dr. Fisk’s lectures. Dr.. Fisk has been an instructor in Northwestern university for nearly 40 years and- is one of the best known educators in the west He is a graduate of Wesleyan university- In 1873 he became principal of the Evanston academy, which position he held until 1904, when he resigned. Since then he has been principal emeritus of the academy and professor of pedagogics in the university. Dr. Fisk’s first wife was Miss Anna Green, whom he married In IMU They had two daughters, the elder being the wife of Fros. Charles Zueblin. and Miss Neil Fisk. Mrs. Fisk died in 1908. Miss Sargent was a student of Dr. Fisk, first in the academy, from which she was graduated in 1891, and later in Ms classes tn pedagogics in the university, from which she graduated in 1895. She is a member of the PM Beta Kappa sorority. In 1897 she be= came a member of the faculty of the academy. ' ' She resigned, giving as her reason