Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1913 — Page 3

GOTCH DEFEATS BULLY IN THE KLONDIKE

Showing How Gotch Pins an Opponent With the Half Neleon and Crotch.

GOTCH roughed it for six months in the Klondike in 1901, meeting all corners. He departed from the littld old farm house south of Humboldt empty handedHe returned with a bag of gold and Canadian paper valued at 135,000. His wrestling triumphs in'that Arctic region ranged from a defeat of a bully to a victory over the champion grappler of the Yukon. One of the Butler brothers, wealthy miners, tried to persuade “Farmer” Burns to accompany him to the Klondike. Burns declined but gave Gotch such a glowing account of the great fortunes to be made on the Yukon that Gotch decided to go. The Humboldt farmer lad was known in the Klondike as Frank Kennedy, one of the host of miners washing gold dust from"the sand He passed a month or* more as a placer miner before opportunity knocked at his door opening the way to an independent fortune. The camp, fortunately for'Gotch, had a bully. Thiß fellow was not a wonderful wrestler, but had a habit of intimidating other miners by a show of strength and bull dog courage. Gotch had not been in camp many weeks before he had a “run in” with the bully. Gotch rushed into his traducer, grabbed him around the waist and hurled him to the ground. Then he pinned him with a hammerlock until he cried for mercy. The story of Gotch’s victory over this "bad man" caused much excitement Billy Murdock, champion wrestler of the camp, challenged him to a finish match. The challenge was accepted and the whole camp turned out to see the young stranger’s finißh. The bout was held in a saloon. It lasted just four minutes. Murdock, to the surprise of the miners, was thrown heavily and pinned to the floor in such decisive fashion as to remove all doubt as to who was champion wrestler of those diggings. Gotch’s fame spread to other camps and he was challenged by two wrestlers named Riley and Murphy.’ The matches were for $2,500, the mysterious stranger agreeing to throw both in an hour. He accomplished the task in half the time. The miners and sports of Daweon

TENER FAVORS SUNDAY BALL

Bill Introduced In the Pennsylvania Legislature Said to Have Back* Ing of Governor. »The introduction at Harrisburg of a bill to legalize Sunday baseball In Pennsylvania discloses the fact that strong Interests are behind the measure. It is freely asserted that Governor Tener favors the project. The bill was introduced by Representative

Gev. Tener at Bat.

James Wiltbank of Philadelphia. The political interests that are financially identified with the Phillies are really its backers. The fact that Gov. Tener has had so many conferences with President Locke is said to indicate that some plan waa considered before the governor’s friends Invested their money in th* enterprise.

were told of the wonderful prowess of the youngster from the “states.” There was a wrestler in Dawson named White who had the reputation of being the second best in the Yukon country. He challenged Gotch to a finish match for $2,500. Just to adver. tise himself and get a match with the champion.' Gotch agreed to throw White three times in an hour. Gotch rushed in at the call of time and. drove to the edge of the mat. , White went down in a heap and Gotch tried for a bar arm. White darted out and then put Gotch to the mat with a crotch hold. Gotch was up Instantly, his wonderful strength enabling him to break a waist hold. Then he went to the top and gained a partial hammerlock. White spun out of this dangerous grip and came to the top Once more, , the miners giving him a big hand. White hung on and Gotch raised up with his antagonist on his back, an exhibition of strength that made the miners' gasp with astonishment White threw Gotch to the mat, and both came to their feet in a desperate mixup. Gotch rushed in, grasped his opponent by the legs, dangled him In the air and then bore his shoulders to the mat for the first fall after five minutes of wrestling. Going to it again Gotch rushed White to the ropes and secured a leg hold and the Dawson wrestler went to the mat Gotch fastened a double nelson which the Dawson wrestler broke with difficulty. Gotch finally pinned his man for the second fall in eight minutes.

The miners who had laid (heavy bets op White were panic-stricken. Gotch was not only a surprise—he was a sensation. When White came up wobbly for the final bout it was plain he could not last much longer. Gotch rushed him and when he was about to fall from the mat, he caught him, pulling him back, and saving him possible injury. White broke many holds but finally succumbed to his more powerful opponent in 5:06. This match set the whole mining region of the Yukon talking about Gotch. It enabled him to secure a match for the championship of Alaska and the Klondike. (Copyright, 1912, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

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BORTON IS A “FIND”

White Sox Recruit Best Youngster of 1912 Season. Probably la -Best Player Coming to Either National or American Leagues From Minors or Bush 'Leagues—is a Giant William Borton, White Sox recruit first baseman, was the fielding and batting “find” of the season'in the American league in. 1312. No young player coming to the younger major league showed the class of this Western league product. He probably is the best all around performer coming to either the National or American league fresh from the minors or the bushes. This giant lad was the prize pick of the season in the American league. He is the best hitting player on the Chicago White Sox for many years.

, The fielding of Borton for the last three seasons has been near the perfect mark. His record for 1911 in the Western league rested at 993 when all the returns were footed up by the baseball statisticians. He aocepted nearly every, chance that came his way without 1 an error. Borton played in 31 games in. the American leagde and committed only one error. This stands as a record for the lnflelders and outfielders who appeared in 15 games. This might be considered an accident, if It was not for Borton’s record before he wore a major league uniform., SJnpsLh«_haßjjerformsi_MJ!sreditably in a long series of games, his .achievement shines the more brilliantly.

There is one thing peculiar about Borton that led wise ones like Callahan and Gleason to let him go to St. Joseph when they had him on the spring training trip. He fails to show major league class in the spring. It takes some time for Borton th warm to his task. Hlb batting eye seems defective in March, but by the time the umpires sound the signal to “Play ball!” in the spring the old judgment of distance comes back. At any rate, Borton admitted as much recently when asked he failed to show si ass in the springtime. Borton has solved a big problem for Manager Jimmy Callahan for the new White Sox of 1913. He has filled a gap that was made conspicuous and never filled acceptably after the departue of Jiggs Donohue. Borton plays with ease and bats with nerve. He hits any kind of pitching and is a difficult batter to “play for.”

Pennant-Raising Day.

The Toronto champions pt the International league will have Rochester as their guests on their pennant-rais-ing day, June 2. It will be something new for Rochester players to help haul up another team’s flag, but they expect to lend a hand with good grace. ~- .■ - . i ■

PALACE OF ST. JAMES

Meeting Place of Balkan and Turk Peace Delegates. Historic Building In London Was Mads Royal Residence by Henry VIII— Commissioners Attracted All Attention at Conference. London.— St. James’ palace, on which the attention of the whole lized world has been fixed on account of the momentous peace conference, a dark, gray pile, every stone of which enshrines historic memories. For years the visitor from America and elsewhere has made early morning pilgrimages to the palace, for it is here that the picturesque ceremony of “guard mount" takes place, and it is generally one of the regiments of flashing guards that supplies the officers and men to pursue their o d-world task of protecting royalty and the Bank of England. It is also e haunt of the London nursemaid, for here she can combine the morning outing in the park for her aristocratic charges and the glimpse of the worshiped guardsman.

During the recent peace meet between the Balkan and Turk delegates the guardsmen and guard mount lost their attraction, and it was a more favorite occupation to stand among idly curious crowd and watch the prominent statesmen arrive at and depart from the great conference. * s nothing hero to suggest the bloodshed and the carnage that Lave stained red the page of recent European history. The sequel of this battle of wits, carried on amid all the mild surroundings of metropolitan peace, sacrcely recalled the roar of the Creusot and Krupp guns. Men who looked upon or guided the course cf the struggle gazed aefoss the park, where the out-of-works sleep through the summer days. Now the park is - _a vista of frosted grass, with a flurry ofi sea gulls showing whitely against dull sky and blue-fc-anched trees There is no hint anywhere of the passion below the surface that accompanies the changing frontier lines and the making of a new map of Europe. Although “our Palace of SL James" Is no longer used as a royal residence, it still gives its title to the English court. The levees are held in the fhrone room, well known to the late Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and the

ASTOR TO JOIN N. Y. MILITIA

Son of Ttlanfc Hero and Heir to Million* Will Enlist In Naval Branch ' of National Guard. Albany, N. Y.—Vincent Astor, son and principal heir of Col. John Jacob Astor, will enlist in the naval military branch of the National Guard of New York. Mr. Astor was the guest at

Vincent Astor.

dinner and for the night of Governor a.id Mrs. Sulxer. Mr. Astor, according to an announcement made by the governor, will become a member of Che First battalion, naval militia, stationed at New York City.

Edison Refuses $1,000,000.

Cleveland. O. —Thomas A. Edison, tbe inventor, was offered $1,000,000 for the rights of his new talking machinery Invention, but Attorney Brady, wbo represented the capitalists, said Mr. Edison only laughed ct the offer.

Bill to Pension Mothers.

Tacoma. Wash. —Destitute mothers of this state will be flowed sl6 a month for tbe first born and $6 a month- for each additional child born If a bill introduced in the legislature becomes a law.

WANTS TO HEAD CHILDREN’S BUREAU

This is Mrs. Robert W. Wickiiffe, widow of the late congressman from Louisiana, who says she is a candidate for the position of chief of the federal children’s bureau to succeed Miss Julia Lathrop.

members of the American ambassy, as well as to the citizens of the United States who have been presented to his majesty George V. and been allowed to kiss his hand. The site of St. James’ palace was formerly occupied by a leper hospital, founded in, 1190 and dedicated to St James the Less., Henry VIII. pulled down the old structure, laid out a park, and in 1532 began the building of a palace. The Staurts were particularly fond of St. James’ palace. That ill-fated prince, destined to be James U., was born there. Queen Anne lived there, and George 11. was the last of the English monarchs to reside at this place. Though he finally quitted it

MANY LEFT ORPHANS

Judge Declares Chicago Is Worst City for Divorce Frauds. Assert* Decree* Now Granted Would Not Be Asked If Proper Restrictions Were Placed About Marriage and Divorce. 7 Chicago.—“ Chicago la the worst city in the world for fraud and collusion in obtaining divorces. In a single year oar lax divorce laws result in the wrecking of 3,000 homes and in the orphaning of 4,000 children in Cook •county alone. Fifty per cent of the divorces now granted would not even be asked for if proper restrictions were placed about marriage and divorce.”

These made by Judge Marcus Kavanagh, speaking from experience gained in personal hearing of 1,000 divorce cases, made a profound impression upon the other members of the Illinois commission on marriage and divorce. The commission was ‘ considering three tentative bills, one of which it is proposed to select and offer to the legislature for the purpose of ameliorating the evtt. Prof. Ernst Freund of the University of Chicago urged the commission to adopt a bill on the general lines of the one drawn by the conference on uniform laws. The discussion was not one-sided. Senator Juul was not sure that there was Anything wrong with the present laws. “No one has pointed out the fault specifically,” he said. “I want to know what the real trouble is. Of course. I will support any truly progressive bllL But I do not see bow the state will benefit by makfhg two persons live together whose married life has been a failure. The chancellor, 1 should think, ought to be able to look into an unhappy marriage relation and say: This is hell on earth, and I will sever these bonds.’ “ The measures proposed by Professor Freund provide: Marriages of persons coming into or going out of the state to evade Illinois statutes shall be void; affidavits shall give full information regarding 'the parties, and fifteen days shall elapse between application for a license and Ita issuance; the state’s attorney's office shall be a party to divorce proceeding*. Senator Juul objected to the fifteenday clause, saying It would "enable busy-bodies to thrust their noses Into affairs in which they have no business."

But nearly all of the comment was In favor of mors stringent laws. “Persons should be compelled to think before rushing into marriage." said Representative Michael L. Igoe. “Chicago is the worst city In th* United States for fraud In obtaining divorces.” “It’s the worst In the world." corrected Judge Kavanagh.

for Buckingham palace, he continued to attend the services at the Chapel Royal. There, according to Bme. d’Arblay, the king stayed so long over his prayers that “the queen and family, dropping off one by one, used to leave the king, the parson his majesty’s equery to freeze it out together.” Hitherto the only dispute associated with SL James' palace was, when Queen Victoria wished to Install hey mother there, but was thwarted by thg selfishness of the king of Hanover. Every other association has been oven shadowed by the Balkan conference, which in times to come will be looked upon as the most important event la its history.

"1 know that is true," Interjected Senator John E. Madigan. "My own observation has been that at least 60 per cent of the divorces in this county are fraudulent" Charles N. Goodnow urged thatl health certificates should be it “Divorce V » symptom, not a nm* edy," he said.

BELMONTS BRIDE IS LOST

Former Ethel Lorraine Vanishes After) 1 Completing Demand for Heavy Alimoay, \ ' "* f New York.—The romance of Ethel; Lorraine and Raymond Belmont, who; eloped and wqre married in Jersey} City last November, is about to endj after various interruptions by the; bridegroom’s angry father. August! Belmont It was learned that the papers In a; separation action brought by Belmont against her husbmid will bej filed during the week.

The former actress Is suing on tbej grounds of desertion ahd non-support, The plea will include a demand fori large alimony. After their marriage* the young couple lived in the Gosford; apartment# for two weeks, and then; the husband suddenly disappeared. Efforts extending over several days) to serve Raymond Belmont with a, summons in the case have failed and; It was learned that he was having a vacation in South Carolina. Application 4rfll be made In the supreme court next week for permission to serve him by publication. Mrs. Belmont, who continued her residence In the Gosford apartment* under the name of Ethel Lorraine, left that address recently without giving any indication of her new address. Her lawyers say they are aware of her present address, but decline to give it out at l)er request Albert Linder, father of Mrs. Belmont reiterated his offer to provide a home for the pair la case they should come together. “As far as I can see it” he said, “it is only the young man’s father wbo stands between them, and if h* could be brought around to agree to their happiness 1 would do everything that I could for them. They are quit* welcome at any time to take tip their abode at my home." The romance between the two commenced three years ago and resulted! In their elopement to Jersey City. The young man’s father had been steadfastly opposed to the marriage, and when it was announced it was said that he insisted upon Raymond immediately giving up his wlfa.

Is Arrested for Kissing Flancee.

Hartford. Conn.—Because he klasod bla fiancee, Mtaa Cor Inna Colby, In the Union station here and refused to dealat when warned by a policeman. Jerome Evans of Franklin. N. H„ van arrested.