Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 26, Hammond, Lake County, 18 July 1908 — Page 3

THE TIMES. BIG CRUISE ID REGATTA TODAY GARY FOREIGNERS TO BENATURALIZED Republican Club to Take Action in This direction Soon. PORTING NOTE Members of Downer Family Whose Head, G. E. Downer, Helped to Slay Benders STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Both candidates took their matches today In the semi-finals after the most sensational battles of the tournament. Phelps, the young Midlohian entrant, gained the mastery over Paul Hunter, his club mate, 3 to 2, and tied the professional record for the Rock Island Arsenal course at the same time. NATIONAL. LEAGUE. Yachts Will Race at Jackson Park and Will Run to Sturgeon Bay. W. Pittsburg 48 New York 47 ("hlciiKO 441 Cincinnati 43 Philadelphia 37 Boston 36 Brooklyn 30 St. Louis 29 L. 33 33 33 3D 37 44 47 50 Pet. .593 .58S .524 '.500 .450 .390 .367 STILL B0BBLLNG OVER GAME.

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Pet. .593 .56 S .563 sr.t .500 .444 .392 .33 St. Louis 46 Cleveland 45 ( hlpiKo 4." Philadelphia 39 Boston 36 AVashington 31 New York 31 35 35 .Kl 3! 45 4S 50 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. AV. L. Pet. .615 .562 .556 .549 .512 .4 4 6 .435 .435 Indianapolis 56 Toledo 50 Louisville 50 Columbus 50 Minneapolis 41 Kansas City 41 Milwaukee 40 St. Paul 29 35 39 4 0 41 42 51 52 60 CENTRAL LEAGUE. AA". Dayton 4 4 Grand Rapids 46 Kvansville 46 South Bend 44 Zanesvtlle 40 Terre Haute 40 Fort AA'ayne 40 Wheeling 3S I Pet. .557 .56S .554 37 3S 37 39 40 39 .53 06 .494 RESULTS YESTERDAY. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Chicago. J ; New York. 0. Cincinnati, 2; Brooklvn, 0. Pittsburg. 0; Boston, 4 (Called seventh inning.) St. Louis, 0; Philadelphia, 3. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Boston, 4; Chicago, 3. New A'ork. 5; St. Louis, 3. Philadelphia, 2; Detroit. 21. AA'ashington, 1; Cleveland, 3. In "TINK" IS THE BOY 0. K. Joe Tinker is the boy. Good, old, Btouthearted Joe. He beat the Giants three difTeernt ways yesterday, his grand home-run smash being the only tally made in a hitter and beautiful set-to between Mordecai Brown and Chisty Mathewson. Talk about joy. That wallop turned a crowd of 10.000 sane citiens Into gibbering maniacs and crazed one fan on the roof back of the clubhouse to such an extent he fell off the house and cracked his skull. Tinker's mighty drive was delivered In the fifth inning. By extraordinary pieces of fielding Joe had twice prevented the Giants from scoring in the earlier innings, and his home run, coming as it did after Brown had settled down to hi sfinest work, spelled victory. REDS DOWNS THE WHITE. Boston, July 17. ATith a handicap of three runs, the White Sox were unable to beat the Red Sox this afternoon in the second game of the series here, for the locals closed up and nosed out the ex-champs by the score of 4 to 3. "What the Boston batters lacked In hits yesterday they made up today by getting ten safe drives off White. All of the hits and runs made by the Chicago men were made off Arre-

lanes, the young California that Mc- 1 have been made to stop the 1 1 :15 MichGulre has recently added to his staff ! igan Central In order to accommodate

He proved much easier to hit than his name is to pronounce, and his debut was short after three innings, for the White Sox piled up four hits In the opening round and Isbell got another In the third inning. Three runs had been made off him, and it looked as if the game was lost to the Pilgrims, but Cicotte, who took A.rrelanes' place, shut out the visitors for the rest of the game without a hit or a run, while the locals gradually crept up one run at a time and tied the score in the fifth. MISCELLANEOUS BALL GAMES. At Warsaw, Ind. Winona Lake, 4; Plymouth, 3. At Maquoketa, la. Maquoketa, 4; Muscatine, 1. At Silver Lake, Ind. Silver Lake Grays, 7: Summitville, 1. At Oak HU1. O. Nebraska Indians, 10; Oak Hill. 1. At AVheatfield. Ind. Wheatfield, 4; North Judson. 3 (12 Innings). At Mount Vernon, III. Mount A"ernon Merchants, 2; Marion, 1. At Sterling, 111. Sterling Infants, 8; National Indians, 3. At Monticello, la. Monticello, 1; FuQua Giants, 0. JOE GANS' WIFE GETS DIVORCE. Former Champion's Sponse Claims To Be Bonrdlng-IIonse Kftptr Here. Baltimore, t Md., July 17. After having several times entered and withdrawn divorce proceedings against her husband. Joe Gans, the colored pugilist, Mrs. Madge N. Gans, today finally secured a decree of divorce. A denizen of Chestnut street was the co-respondent in the case and Judge Sams quickly concluded that the evidence prevented was abundant to justify a decree on the ground of infidelity. Mrs. Gans, who represented herself to be the proprietress of a boardinghouse at 2712 AA'abash Avenue Chicago, was a member of a colored theatrical company wrH'ii -in 1900 she married the lightweight champion. in 1905, their marital infelicities were brought to light by a divorce suit instituted by Mrs. Gans. A recon ciliation was affected and the suit wlth- , drawn, but the following year another suit, this time for partial divorce and alimony, was Instituted. On this occasion Gans himself and Al Herfofd, his manager, went on the wit- . ness stand and both swore that Gans was a pugilistic "has-been," that his punch was gone and he would no longer ' be able to earn a living In the ring. The alimony case was lost on this evl dence and shortly afterward Gans won his biggest and most profitable fight. TWO NOMINATIONS MADE. Rock Island, 111., July 17. Mason Phelps of Chicago and H. W. Allen of St. Louis are nominated for the office of western amateur golf champion.

1908. Sporting Editor, Dear Sir Please say that in answer to the remarks which hove recently been printed in your paper severely arraigning us for our conduct and our faeiness at our grounds, we wish to say that the conduct and behaivor of the rooters for the Blissmer Colts was unsportsmanlike, uncivil and more like the hobbling of an insane crowd, made so by the over-indulgence in intoxicants. The insolence practised by the female rooter (sad to state), was something that would not look well In print. As for unfairness, called cheating by the Blissmera, we, the Ilegewiseh boys, can oly say that acording to the unbiased opinion of all. the game could not have been more fair. The rooters for the Blissmer Colts were repeatedly ! reiuestel to stand back from the first base line without the least movement on their part. I Should any Hammond team desire a 'game with the Ilegewiseh team, the Ilegewiseh team will be exceedingly pleased to administer another drubbing to any team in Hammond that can consider itself our equal at the municipal grounds at Calumet Park, or East Side. 111. Hammond Royals and Blissmer Colts preferred. Signed, HEGKAA'ISCH BASEBALL CLUB. SOME SOUTH CHICAGO GAMES. The Alma Maters and the Northern Lights, champions of last year's Am ateur league will meet Sunday after noon at Hand's Park, Sixty-seventh street and Stony Island avenue. The game will be called at . 3:30 and! a large number of local fans and folowers of the Am Maters will be on hand to wit ness the game, which promises to be one of the best of the season. Arrangements are being made whereby the park can be used each Sunday, and if this date is clinched it will mean a much welcomed solution for the local fans who are compelled to pass up games as there is no park here. The strong Anderson & Drews will journey to Lowell, Ind., tomorrow to meet the team from that town in a baseball game. The Anderson & Drews are one of the stongest teams in the Calumet region, and although knowing they are up against a stiff proposition, expect to bring back the bacon. Irwin, the Lowell pitcher, so far this season has been invincible, but the local boys believe they can touch him up for a few runs. K. C. TEAM AT MICHIGAN CITY. Unity Council, Knights of Columbus baseball team, travels to Michigan City tomorrow for a return game with St. Mary's council team. Arrangements all who wish to accompany the local boys. The return train gets to Hammond shortly after 9 o'clock in the evening. Hammond defeated Michigan City several weeks ago when Michigan City played in Hammond, the score being 3 to 2. Both teams are confident of victory for tomorrow. During the absence of Captain Carroll, Louis Eder will take charge of the team. GOES TO VALP0 TOMORROW. Hammond's big team goes to A'alparaiso tomorrow for a game there. Humpfer expects to do some of the pitching and possibly Halfman will be put in the box. Halfman has shown great development as a pitcher during the past few weeks, and with Huinpfer's arm getting back into trim and Halfman developing, Hammond is having a battery that promises to be strong. RICXARD RAISES HIS FORFEIT. Nevada Promoter Now Thought To Be Assured of flans-Nelson Go. Ely, Nev., July 17. "Tex" Riekard's interview with business men here and at Reno has proved satisfactory, and there will be no difficulty about the for feit of ?10,000 which will be placed by the promoter to guarantee the fight between Joe Gans and Battling Nelson. This money will be posted in San Francisco by wire. Nelson and AA'illus Britt are expected here tonight. G0TCH PLANS RETIREMENT. Houston, Tex., July 17. Frank Gotch, champion wrestler of the world, announced that after his exhibition in Galveston tonight with Herman Bernau he will retire from the mat. ERIT0NS STILL IN LEAD. England Again Leads In the Olympic Games and America Ild Not Prick Off Any More Firsts. Harry J. Hebner of the Illinois A. C. aod C. M. Daniels of the New York A. C. won their heats in the 100-meter back stroke swim. The final, however, was taken by Bleberstein of Germany in 1:24 3-5. Dane of Denmark was second and Haresnape of the L'nited Kingdom third. This was Germany's first win of the meeting. L. G. Rich of the Brookline Swimming club failed to show his expected form in the final, although winning his heat. J. D. LIghtbody of the C. A. A. and University of Chicago lost his heat in the 3,200-meter steeple chase, but this is not surprising, as he recently slipped and threw out his kneecap. He was in no shape to make the final sprint. England, as was expected, won the ten-mile walk. G. E. Larner, the winner, reduced the mark to 1:15:57 2-5, nearyl two minutes better than the previous mark. G. G. Cameron of the Irish-American A. C. was second in the

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Sailing Contest Will Give Real Line on the Candidates Who Will Participate for Lipton's Cup. Two big events will occupy the at tention of local yachtsmen and power boat men today. A 7 o'clock this morn ing the first craft of the sixteen entered in the Columbia Yacht club's cruising power boat race to Sturgeon bay will leave the harbor for the northward run, while 2:30 will see the start of the Jack Park club's open regatta, in which practically every racing yacht In the Chicago fleet has been entered. Both fixtures are important, as the first should decide the question of the relative ability of several crack power cruisers which will make their initial long distance runs, and the latter will afford the first real line on eight of the twenty-one footers which next month race for the Lipton club. The power boat race will be run in three daylight relays, with overnight stopping points at Milwaukee and Manitowoc, the contestants starting on each leg of the race in the same order as they finish on the preceding day. fourth heat of the 5,000-meter cycle race, but did not qualify for the final. Captain AA'. Jones, assistant secretary of the Olympic association, today made a formal statement that the association itself would mke no effert to decide which system of points should be adopted in scoring totals. BAD LUCK FOR GLIDDENITES. W trainn Throws Apple at One of the Favorites, Breaking Ills Goggles and Cutting Face. Boston, Mass., July 17. Bad luck attended today's run of the Glidden tour from Albany to this place. James McLean, observer on car No. 13, smiled at a young woman on the roadside near AA'est Springfield. She threw an apple which hit him In the goggles, smashing them. The broken glass inflicted a gash over McLean's eye which required two stitches to close it. Walter Jones, driving car No. 25 rapidly around a curve, had to dodge a team and drove into a ditch, breaking the rear right wheel, which was weakened by three cracked spokes, in the mountain part of the tour. Pete Estey, a newspaper man, jumped and sprained the ligaments of his left angle. A new wheel was pu in placi and the car finished its run, being penalized 1,000 points for the new wheel. ,, There are now only four teams with perfect scores the Buffalo team of three Great Arrows, the Columbus team of three Peerless cars, the second Chicago team of two Haynes anil an Oldsmobile, and the Bay State club's team of three Marmon cars. Thirteen cars sustained punctured tires during the day's run to emphasize the hoodoo. The schedule for Monday's run of 154 miles to Poland Springs, Me., is six hours. CHICAGO RUNNERS SLECTED. Two hundred boys from the Central, Hyde Park, Evanston, Wilson Avenue, West Side, and Oak Park Y. M. C. A. branches participated in the trials held at Marshal! field for the purpose of selecting the squad to carry the packet from South Bend in the New York to Chicago relay race. Evanston secured the principal honor when R. E. Locke was selected to receive the silver tube at South Bend from the last runner of that station. Locke ran the mile in 5:09 3-5, which was five seconds better than the time made by Levinson of AVest Side. Kirk Sullivan of Oak Park, who was also chosen for the quarter mile team last AA'ednesday, won the right to be the second man to take charge of the message and will receive It at the outskirts of South Bend. He was the half mile in 2:21. The najnes of the boys who will relay the message all the way have not been decided upon as yet, due to the large number who have applied for positions on the team. WEIGHT THROWERS TO COMPETE London, July 17. Efforts are being made to arrange a match between John Flanagan and M. J. McGrath at a weight throwing contest in Ireland on Aug. 3. If the meeting can be arranged it probably will be held at Tipperary. Ralph Rose and other American weight throwers also will take part. A similar series of games will be held at Dungarvon on Aug. 9, at which a meeting between Martin J. Sheridan, the discus champion, and Thomas F. Kiely, the Irish weight thrower, will be the central attraction. CARSEY KNOCKED OUT. Los Angeles, Cal., July 17. Phil Brock knocked out Frank Carsey In the twentieth round of their fight before Jeffries' club, near here, tonight. Brock gradually wore down his man and had him groggy when the final round opened. A couple of well directed punches finished the battle. WHITING BASE BALL NOTES. The Shamrocks of AA'hitiHg will go to Indiana Harbor to engage in a game witha baseball team of that city Sunday. The Slmonettes of AThiting will play the Spartans of Chicago at the hall

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George Downes, who is dying in Chicago, in telling the story of the fearful Bender crimes in Kansas on his deathbed, says that he helped, to kill the perpetrators of the fifteen infamous outrages an dmurders years ago in Kansas. park at Forsythe Sunday afternoon at 1:30 p. m. The LaA'endors will play the Joe Long Colts of Hammond at the Forsythe ball park, oposite the AA'olf Lake club house, Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. An umpire from the Amateur Manager's Baseball league will be present and a good game is expected. The tickets have found ready sale and the fowns being well billed a record breaking attendance is expected. STEEL AND RAIL MILLS TO PLAY FOR CHAMPIONSHIP. Two Teams of Steel Compnny to Clash ut Bessemer I'nrk Tomorrow Morning at 10 O'Cloek. Tommorrw the rail and steel mill teams of the Illinois Steel company will cross bats at Bessemer park at 10 o'clock in the morning. The game promises to be a lively affair, and as both the teams are con-, fident of victory, it is hard to tell which is going to win. The teams will play for the championship of the steel company and a large amount of money has been wagered on the game. SF0RTING BRIEFS. In spite of injuries to their players the Chicago Cubs keep on the job. The Springfield, 111., club has released Pitcher Jokerst. This is no time for any bum puns. Rube AA'addell says they can have their Hans AA'agner day and Cy Young day, but as for his he prefers pay day. Sam Crawford is plaing a great game for Detroit. "Old Sun Down" is keeping swell step with Ty Cobb. About the worst case of grouch that baseball fans take on is when their team wins a pennant one season and thn sticks near the bottom the next year. The Toronto club has released "Sandow" Mertes for being too slow. A few seasons ago "Sandow" drew ?7,000 per from the New York Giants. The Philadelphia Nationals came very near sending the Pittsburg Pirates down in AA'est A'irginia, with all hopes for the pennant gone. And now Stanley Robinson is going to jump the National league and place his St. Louis team in the American association. As Confucius once said, "St. Louis is the home of bunk baseball stories." LABOR NEWS Brewery employes in Toronto, Ont., recently had their wages advanced to the average of $1 per week and hours reduced 2'2. Engineers and firemen in the breweries received an increase of 10 to 25 per cent. rians are being made in the Structural Building Trades Alliance and the Central Labor Union of Spokane, AA'ash., to erect a large labor temple In that city, to cost $75,000. There are 7,000 union men in spokane. The United States government, within the next few weeks, will begin a series of scientific investigations into the causes of disasters in American coal mines, in the hope of reducing the present frightful mortality to a minimum. The International convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, at Columbus, O., voted to admit to membership the engineers of all electrically drawn trains on steam railroads. Admission of engineers in Cuba to the brotherhood was also voted. " It is reported from the headquarters of the United Mine AA'orkers of America that the two years' wage contract entered into at Toledo last month by the miners and operators of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana has

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been ratified by a referendum vote of the locals by 77.000 to 7,000. The agreement between the miners and operators of Kansas City, Mo.. Oklahoma and Arkansas coal fields signed in Kansas City recently, provides a scale for two years, and the terms are practically the same as existed Inst year. Under the terms of the contract the average wage of a miner wi':l be $4.29 per day. For the second time within three or four years an attempt is being made In New York to organize the stenographers and typewriters of that city. The Bookkeepers," Stenographers' and Accountants' Union, which has been formed recently, has issued a circular to all bookkeepers, stenographers and typewriters In Greater New York, urging them to join the new body. THE RAID TOOK PLACE (Special to The Times.) Whiting, Ind., July 18. The raid on Whiting saloons which was reported in Thb Times yesterday, took place on schedule time and as a result three of the men for whom warrants were issued were compelled to furnish $300 bonds in lieu of going to prison. The raid was made by Deputy Sheriff James Trost, who had been provided with four warrants. The warrants had been Issued for Joe Pruss, Frank Seher, John Koller and Adam Dudeck. All of the arrests were made except In the case of John Koller, who was out of the citj The men were arrested on the charge of running a saloon without a county license. This is the second offence for all those arrested and Is Is probablv that they may be given. more than, a minimum fine. The complaint was made by James M. Smith ol AVhlting, who has been representing the anti-saloon element of the city. The second raid came as a surprise to t.he people of AA'hiting and to the men themselves. It makes the situation so far as the temperance question In AA'hiting is concerned, very quiet. THE TIMES DOESN'T CARE HOW MANY PAPERS YOU TAKE, IF YOU READ IT, YOU WO.VT BE WITHOUT IT.

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Indiana Harbor, July 18. (Special) The Rev. Israel Ilatton. pastor of the M. E. church, has prepared an interesting program of sermons to be delivered from next Sunday until the last of August. Some of these will be delivered by out of town pastors and are prepared for the evening services. The Sunday morning themes begin ning will be as follows: July 19 The Problem of Temptation. July 26 Christianity and the Prob lem of Poverty. August 2 Christian Socialism. August 9 Unachieved Ideas. August 16 Holiness. August 23 The Exaltation of Jesus. August 30 Daniel's Courage. Tbe Evening Sermon. The themes for the evening sermons are as follows: July 19 Christian Science Rev. AA. F. Switzer of Hammond. July 2 6 The Two AA'ays By the pastor. August 2 The A'illage Blacksmith Rev. E. Kuonen of Hobart. August 9 The Church and Men Rev. T. J. Everett of East Chicago. August 16 The Poor Boy's Chance By the pastor. August 23 The Church and Suffering Children Rev Manfred C. AA'right of AA'hiting. August 30 The Most A'ltal Question By the pastor. STORil M DAMAGE Fire Visits Crown Point During Terrific Electrical Storm Last Night. Crown Point. Ind., July IS. (Special) A terrific thunderstorm broke over Crown Point last evening, and the elements certainly did theYnselves proud for a short time, lightning, thunder, wind, hall and rain coming in plentiful doses. During the storm lightning struck the barn in the rear of the Braglnton residence. The fire department re-

VOTERS BY THE HUNDREDS

Leaders Realizing Tliat Their Strength Depends On This Element Will Put in First Vote. From now on the naturalization committee of the republican club of which, Joseph Coffrey is chairman, is preparing to handle all of th? foreigners who desire to become naturalized and vote at the next election. There has been a careful census taken of the foreign vote in the city and an effort will be made through the republican foreign speaking leaders to get hundreds of the men in line to be taken to the federal clerk's office at Hammond. Backing of Club. The above is the sense of an an nouncement which has ben made by Chairman Coffrey, through the presi dent of the club, George II. Manlove. It is expected that within the next few days the committee will be rloded with applications and they are now prepar ing to handle them as the foreigners declare their intention. The committee wil have an attorney accompany the men to Hammond, where they may secure their first papers at the actual cost of railroad fare and the fee for the paper. This committee is an innovation in the line of politics, because of the systematic manner in which they are to handle the foreign vote at the com ing election. Strength In Foreign Vote. The politicians of the city realize tha their strenght next fall will depend largely on the foreign vote an' over this field will probably be directed the center of the fight. Both i?aocratlc and republican clubs have been formed in nearly every nationality In the city, which includes nearly every type of humanity, with the exception of the orientals. The fight therefor for the naturalization and vote of the foreigners will be an interesting thing to watch during the next few months. The republicans have already resorted to a fixed and well planned method, which has already proved to be a success, and the democrats will undoubtedly In the near future fajl Into line. sponded to the call and were on the scene in remarkably short time, considering the awful condition of the streets, but the barn and it scontents were nearly destroyed before they arrived. A buggy and other miscellaneous house hold articles were lost in the flames, no live stock being in the barn at the time. The water pressure was very poor and had the building been of any con sequence, much loss would have been tbe result, the firemen not being able to throw a stream of water over twenty feet at any time during the fire. Free to I Have a Glove, Mitt, Mask, Ball, Bat, Cap and Belt for Every Boy Who Will Write to Me. lilil mm mm

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