Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 166, Hammond, Lake County, 3 January 1910 — Page 3
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VrJan. 3, 1910.
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EAST CHICAGO. ! ; i The New Year's services at the Meth- ; odlst church yesterday, were well attended and particularly interesting. Dr. : J. H. Palmer, the pastor, conducted the '.'services and preached the sermon in ;the morning, and District Superintendent Dr. A. T. Brlggs of Hammond de- ; llvered the evening address, after which communion was served. The choir during the services was without a director, t as Mrs. F. C. Evans, the leader, is visilting friends in Michigan with her husband. ' Mrs. Mary Ross entertained her sister and family from Whiting over New 'Year's. , 1 Miss Lottie Ross has a friend from h out of the city as her guest. F Miss Ella Lyons of Elkhart, who was
formerly a teacher in the East Chicago i high school, spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. August Johnson. Miss
1 Lyons was on her way back to Elkhart
'from Brooke, Ind., where she passed Christmas. Mr.' and Mrs. IT. K. Groves went to Chicago New Year's day and fook in "The Kissing Girl" during the afternoon. Herman Fedder spent the week end in Laporte. Mrs. W. C. Bailey of Grasselll entertained a club, of which is a member, on Thursday afternoon ' and evening. The is composed of Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Caleb, Mr. and Mrs. .Sam Ogden, Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Schlieker, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Funkey, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lewis. The ladies spent the afternoon with Mrs. . Bailey, and in .the evening , the gentlej men appeared. Mr. and Mrs. Max Ottenheimer of Louisiana, Mo., are" the guests of Mr. Ottenheimer's brother, Abe. ' LOST Last Saturday a bunch of keys i on a brass ring between the city hall and Olcott and One Hundred and Fiftieth streets. Finder please return to police station.
J. D.' Kennedy was1-out again last Friday after a two weeks severe illness. The tea, which was to be held by the '' Ladies' Social Union of the Methodist
church at the home of Mrs. Giles, on
One Hundred and Forty-fifth street
next Wednesday, has been postponed
for one week, and a busienss meeting of the union will be held instead at the
home of Mrs. Edward Pickard, on For sythe avenue.
Mrs. A. H. Whitesitt has been sick with the grippe for two Or three days,
but is now much better.
Dr. G. W. Miller is complaining of an
attack of the grippe contracted vwhlle
ott his w8yo visit. a patient iri noum
Deering last week.. '
The family of Robert! Sterling received a telegram Saturday Informing
them that Miss Marie Sterling, who went to Colorado two years and a half ago on account of her lungs, had been
attacked with a severe hermorrhage, and was dangerously sick. Mr. Sterling replied asking to be kept posted on her exact condition, and yesterday re
ceived another message stating that the
hemorrhage had been stopped and that
the young lady was much better.
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Mr. and .Mrs. Walter Danks' of Pitts
burg, Pa., have been the guests during the holidays of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Stephens. Mr. Danks returned to Pitts
burg last night, but Mrs. Danks will
remain for a longer visit here. V ; Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Lundquist enter
tained Mr. and Mrs. Kay Wells of Gary and Miss Edna and Mr. Russell Landell of Ogema, Wis.,- at a New Year's week
end party. ,
Mrs. Frederick Sauer attended the matinee in Chicago New Year's after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. 'A. Patterson spent
New Year's with friends In Chicago.
Miss Smith of Chicago was the guest
over New Year s at the Home or Jonn Galvln.
Dr. Frederick Sauer, who has been
sick with the rheumatism for the past
two weeks and has been in Mudlavia for a week, is expected home today or tomorrow. "
Mr. Purdy, the mail carrier, spent
New Year's at his old home in Cleveland, O. -
Miss Ruth Thomas, who teaches in
the Pittsburg schools, has been spend
ing the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas of Grapevine
street, returned to her work in Pittsburg yesterday.
The 15-months-old baby of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Sterling of Block avenue is sick with diphtheria.
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Van Vleck Faces, League
.Banishment. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 3. Eddie Van Vleck, the Yale pitcher of last year's nine, may be suspended by the national baseball commission in a peculiar ruling. Last summer he pitched
one game for the Waterbury team of
the Connecticut league. He refused to sign a contract. Now Manager Durant of Waterbury claims that Van
Vleck can be suspended because, after taking money for playing a game, he
refused to sign a contract.
Van Vleck has been offered large sums to join National and American
league clubs, but has heretofore de
clined them. He pitched the game at
Waterbury to help out that nine when
it was crippled for want of pitchers
Van Vleck is still a leading amateur
ball player.
WOULD MATCH
LIGHTWEIGHTS
Pittsburg Club Wants Nel
son and Moran. Pittsburg .Jan. 3. Negotations were opened here today by Matchmaker
Jimmy Dime of the National Sporting club for the appearance here the latter part of the month or early in February-of Battling Nelson and Owen Moran, the English lightweight. The names of two good- men to meet the "Battle' and the Englishman have been secured, They are Hugh Madole, the fast lightweight of this city, and Jimmy Dunn of Newcastle. An effort is also being made by the National club to stage a fight between Nelson and Moran, but there is little likelihood of such a contest taking place,- as "Bat" has demanded a $10,000 guarantee, for a six round bout. The Sporting clu bcannot see that with a magnifying glass.
WESTON TO START FEB. 1
New York, Jan. 3. Edward Payson Weston, the veteran pedestrian, announced yesterday that he will make one more trans-continental walk and that he will get from ocean to ocean this time within 100 days. Weston will start from Los Angeles at 4 o'clock the afternoon of Feb. 1 and will be due in New York on May 28. His hike from New York to San Francisco early last summer took him 105 days, but on that journey he encountered a long series of storms and unusually hot weather. If conditions are reasonably favorable this spring he is sure that he can cross the Tinted States within 100 days.
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JEFFRIES NEVER WILL GET BACK II OLD COilTIOH, SMflS
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REFUSES TO GIVE
SHOW; JOHNSON'S TRUNKS HELD Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 3. Jack
Johnson refused to fulfill his contract to appear at a Terre Haute theater yesterday and the manager attached
his trunks as he was -about to board a train for Columbus. Ohio. Johnson said the theater was too cold. When a constable served the writ on Johnson
he mounted his baggage and said he would "hit the first man who touched it." The constable called the police and the fighter backed -down when Captain Armstrong, brought.-enough men to take him to jail. Johnson later tried to engage a spe
cial train, but failed, and when he saw his belongings dumped on a dray he told his manager he would sta yhere
until today and fight the case.
New York, Jan. 3.i "A week ago a flash came to this country informing us that Bob Fitzsimmons, . one of the craftiest and best fighters that ever stepped into a ring, went down to defeat and the epitaph was 'he could not come back,' " said Joe Gans, former lightweight champion, today. "This same expression will be written about James J. Jeffries on the night of July 4, after his battle with Jack Johnson for, the championship . of the world Is over. For, no matter how highly they sound the praises of Jeff now,' when he clashes with Johnson he will meet his conqueror. It will be a case of science against brute strength and in this affair the science of Johnson will come out on top. "I want to say that I am not favcr-
ing Johnson because we are of the
same color,' continued Gans. "If I
thought that Jeff could whip Johnson I would be one of the first to express my convictions. I have been in the game too long to allow sentiment to cut any figure. It's simply a case of
which man I consider the superior and
my choice is Johnson, Again, with me
there is no doubt that all fair minded
men will agree with me that a fighter
is a fighter pure and simple, no matter whether he is white or black, so there
fore no one must think that I am pre
judiced.
"When Johnson returned after beat
ing Burns every one got excited and
shouted, 'Jeff will have to lick John
son and . bring back the title to the
white race.' There was a day when he might have done so. But now it is entirely different. In his prime Jeffries was a bunch of muscles and bones that no man could hurt. He has had
years or rest, and at present tne re
tired champion is . simply a mass of
soft flesh that is in such a condition
that It will be impossible for him to
get back to the old days. Jeff will
train hard, but nature has had such an easy time that it ' will not respond sufflcienly to the treatment, and when
he faces Johnson he will be far from
the Jeffries of old.
"Very few realize the meaning of those words, 'He will come back.' Take all the old champions. In their good days It seemed impossible that any one would ever beat them. History shows that the day arrives when the quickness x of the eye is gone, the old speed is lacking, and the wallop that used
to scare all rivals has lost its hitting
power. When this happens and a new champion appears on the stage, the wiseacres make the old remark that
the former title holder 'is all in.' This
applies to Jeff.
"Jeff Is acknowledged to be a grand specimen of a man and without doubt
the greatest heavyweight that ever claimed into a ring. He was, but now he is not. The old saying, "Youth must
be served' goes for Jeff. Despite the
fact that he is a young man, he has
lived longer, than his years.
"This doesn't mean that Jeff has dissipated his strength away. But all his friends, know that the big fellow
is an inveterate cigarette smoker, and the man who fills his lungs with that poison for years , can .hardly expect to
go up in the mountains for a few
weeks and wear off the bad effects of
nicotine. This makes it look to me as
though his ,wind would be bad. and
that, for a man of his size, would be a
handicap that would mean disaster."
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One of the latest enterprises of the
Hammond ''Athletic association is a glee club. George Love, who Is the principal exponent of the musical side of the club, has been given the direct
orship of the club.
This will provide one of - the best
forms of entertainment for the club
imaginable. It Is to be expected that in the near future the glee club will
give a public entertainment for the benefit o the members and their friends.
Serenades on warm summer evenings
is also one of the possibilities of -the
glee club, and the local Lochinvars will get into training to lay siege to
'my lady" In the balcony.
It is believed that there is entfegh
talent in the club to make possible tn? organisation of a singing society of considerable proportions.
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The Hammond Athletic association
indoor baseball team will play the team representing the George Young Co. of Chicago, in this city next Thursday. The teams are well matched
and a good game is expected. There
yrill be Informal dancing after the game. The lineup of the Hammond team wi'l; be as follows: - Rhode, 3b; Bob Smith, rs; Enrlght, If; McMahon, p; Mead, c; Dibos, lb; Savory, 2b; Bet,
Is; Stewart, rf. .
H. A. A. Basket Ball Wednesday Night, January 5th. Hyde Park vs. H. A. A. Seconds. Basket Ball Thursday Night, January 6th. Geo. Young Co. vs. H. A. A.
floor was cleared sold
which was by far fh
the polo game. J
feature of the ,
INDIANA HARBOR. Civil Service Examinaton.
An examination for clerk and carrier will be held at the postoffice In this Oity on Jan. 21, 1910. Age limits, 18 to 45 years on the date Of the examination. Married women will not be admitted to the examination. Unmarried women will be admitted to the examination, but are eligible for appointment only as clerk. Applicants must be physically sound, and male applicants must be not less than 5 feet 4 inches in height without
GILMORE'S CHAMPS
SCORE KNOCKOUTS
Leatham and White Trim
Joliet Pugs.
Fred Gilmore's two champions, Ja6k
White and George Leatham, returned
to Chicago yesterday toting the scalps of a pair of ambitious fighters of Joli
et. In ' the show staged at the peni
tentiary city Saturday night before the
Eagles, Leatham, a rugged light
weight, disposed of Kid Lawrence in
five rounds. White disposed of Tommy Barrett in the second. - Both fights were set for ten rounds as a double
windup.
SYNDICATE BALL" IS SEEN IN
TAFT'S PLAN TO BUY PHILLIES
The fans from both the Harbor and
East Chicago were rooting continually, which made the game all the more ex
citing.
After three periods of hard play-
insr the game finally ended with the
count 1 to 1. . East Chicago scored In
the first half wiien the bal on a lucky
bound . passed the Harbor goalkeeper.
In the second half the Harbor scored
As a result of the energy of Walter a goal, tieing the score. The puck left
Sohl In the department of athletics, j the floor and bounded against the ceilthere is considerable activity reported. jnK and into Kast Chicago's goal. This
Eddie Mason, the manager of basket-1 tied the score. In the last half neither
ball, has organized two teams. The side was able to count and it was de
an hour trying to fight our- way through a huge drift. "
evening, -was started. t j "When we reached a point three
The game proved to b accUJaay Bfo mPey Egjet.-rf-AijWl3on tie JU1 griwT i1
some sensational Diocmng ana iasx mm a ancn six ieet deep, bending the
teamwork was shown by both teams. J gear shafting iod. "We, were laid up
Chairman Walter Sohl of the athlet
ic committee of the Hammond Ath
letic association has arranged for
lbaskt-ball classes to be conducted
under the direction of Physical Di
rector Stewart. The classes will be gin Monday evening, Jan. 3.
New Tohk, Jan. 3. Brother Charles
H. Taft has purchased the Philadelphia grounds of the National league as
a present for ' his wife. He already owns a large interest in the Chicago
team of the same league. On Friday
Philadelphia who will not believe that
one man has a right to own interests in two clubs in the same league. Suppose Brother Charles P. bought the Philadelphia club and at the end of the season the cubs should be ou tin front
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Brother Charles announced he was fighting hard for the flag and the Phil
"thinking" of buying the Philadelphia lies should be well back In the second
National league club as well. Brother division. Suppose that the pennant de-
Charles would do well to have an- pended on a three or four game series
other "think." I between the cubs and Phillies, and sup
Arter all, it is the gentlemen on the pose, for the sage of argument, that
bleachers who make a baseball club a ! the Cubs should win these games in
good investment, and the bleacherltes hollow style. . Now, those games
are unalterably and Irrevocably oppos- might have been contested honestly by
ed to syndicate baseball, and it doesn't both clubs, but could you make old
make any difference . to them who Mr. Fifty Cent Customer believe it?
wants to own shares in two clubs. ! Not in seven million years!
Big BUI ftimseir couldn t get away with ; Syndicate ball! That's what they
first team has been admitted to the
first division of the Intercity Basket-
Ball league, composed of the following
si xteams: The Illinois Athletic club.
Hull House, First Regiment, Central
Turners, the White Eagles and the
Hammond A. A.
The schedule opens Wednesday
night, Jan. 5, with the Hammond Ath
letic club at Central Turner's hall. The
elded to play the game off in about two weeks.
A hundred dollar side bet was up o
the game.
The lineup: Indiana Harbor (1) Cooksey.. first
rush; Sternberg, second rush; Thomas,
center; Bralne, half back; Lewis, goal.
irura i u ciocs oaiuraay morning n. til. 5 .o'clock in the afternoon repairing, the car. . Finally, about 8:30 that night, we succeeded in, reaching Elgin, a distance of eighteen miles.-After a stop of two hours for supper, we resumed the trip, striking St. Charles at .11:40. . At 12:15 we passed the Fox River country club, having been on the road over twelve hours. VAurora was reached at 1:15. and from that point Into Chicago it was a case of shovel, tug, push and fight for every inch of ground. The drifts were particularly heavy on the last' leg, but we managed to reach , Chicago parkways at 6 o'clock; The rest was easy. . "Under ordinary ; conditions the car should have gone over the 100 miles with a gasoline consumption of six or seven gallons." We used exactly thirty-five gallons, together with almost
East Chicago (1) Mitchell, first'.1"" Ka .v,,. .
rush; Carroll, second rush; Hanneman,
present line up of the Hammond Ath- center; Schelly, half back; Blake, goal.
letic ClUD is: uuarus, ouui uiiu ia-ui
mering; center, Schillo; forwards, Pol
lard and Hunter.
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The other day Charlie Murphy an
nounced that Mr. Taft owned only, 25
would say.
The best interests of the national game demand that no man shall own
The second team of the Hammond
Athletic association belongs to the sec
ond division of the Intercity Basket-
Bail league and will play against the following teams during the season: Hull House, Midgets. Battery D, White
Eagles (second team), Hyde Park and
Mercury Athletic club. The first game
of the schedule will be played at the gymnasium of the Hammond Afhletio
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National club. It has previously been The Philadelphia clug might be a good stated that Mr. Taft owns the con-1 Investment for Charles P. Tart If he
trolling interest in that club. It doesn't owned no other baseball stock. With
make any great amount of difference his Chicago interest in mind, there is
how much stock Charles owns in the ' every reason to believe that it would
Chicago club, when he admits this be a very poor investment.
ownership , of stock and prepares to buy - another club. 1 T"ET?T 3TTfV7
lie unuuu u icui xcsaiua a. uts.il ciuu
as a good investment; the fans will ,
not look at it in the same light. They ! will say, "Syndicate baseball!" and open the door to all sorts of ugly ru- . mors.
Sporting men the world over do not I
like to see the dollar mark too closely
allied with the sports in which they
are interested. This was clearly shown by the storm of criticism which
rained down on Riekard and Gleason when they met in private session to close the deal concerning the JeffriesJohnson flo-ht.
"It is all a frameup for the money!"
was the howl which went up to heav
en, prcbably unjustly, but it will be
some time before the secret session will be forgotten, and the drawing
Park. The lineup of the second team
will be: Hoffman and Gau Schllder,
forwards; Blocker, center; Blosser,
Parsons and Gauthier, forwards.
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in some degree because the men met in
secret to talk money rather than fights
The dollar mark has never been the
controlling sign in baseball. The men
who support the game like to believe that the home club will fight just as hard at the tail, end of the procession
as at the head. They have a firm be
lief that baseball, at least. Is on the level, and for this reason' the national game counts among its devotees men who will never go t osee a horse race
or a prize fight, because they believe
that in these spots the money end sometimes overshadows the recent de
sire to win if possible
These are the men In Chicago and
Spars Three Rounds With
Sam Berger.
juavenport. Iowa, Jan. 3. James J.
Jeffries used Sam Berger last night in a three round boxing match at the!
Curtis opera house to show what he will do to Jack Johnson when thev
meet in the ring on July 4. Jeffries
and Berger both made speeches about
the prospective fight, and then put on
the gloves and boxed. Frank Gotch 1 explained that Dr. Roller was sick in
Chicago and took John Voss of Idock I
Island on in a wrestling bout. Voss
stayed eleven minutes and thirty seconds before Frank pinned his should
ers to the mat.
Edward Dibos, chairma nof the fi
nance committee, has posted an order
on the bulletin board to the effect that those who hold membership cards
will be admitted free to all games, pro.
vlding their dues are paid up to the
current month.
Adolph Monsen. winner of third
place in the Indiana trophy race last
summer, is the Elgin-Aurora route
"century" champion for 1910. Driving
a rour-cyiinaer rorty horse power Marion car, with Gilbert Anderson and
Frank Lombard for companions, Monsen wabbled back to Chicago yesterday, morning after a struggle lasting
thirty hours and fifteen minutes on the snowbound highways west of n w n TVi norttr ir Q c" t Via Iama ciiv
vivors of the little expedition which 'couple of years, but has been prepar
Pittsburg "Unknowns" to Get Theirs.
Pittsburg, Jan. 3. Instead of having but one "unknown" to meet in tha all-comers class 'here - on Tuesday night, Champion Jack Johnson, the big black heavyweight, will have two men with nerve enough to tackle him. Both are "unknowns," and while put littla is known of the ability of one of them.
'the friends of the other say that hn ' has been working out ; for several ' weeks and will make the big fellow j extend himself before the three rounds are over." t - ' ; One of the unknowns; secured as an ! ex-amateur athlete, said to be an ex- . ' amateur champion of this city and who I at one time sho wedcolsnderbal aa at one time showed considerable class.'' (He has been out of the game for a
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BREAKER
HOTTTJM COMING
TO SIGN BOXERS
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 3. C. H. Hot-
turn, local boxing promoter, left last
night for Chicago to arrange bouts for the opening of a new club here to be managed by Tommy Ryan, former welterweight champion. Huottum received a' letter from Battling Nelson offering to sign for the inaugural fight.
TEN1XT.HCKT Tr THE TIME.
(Special to The Times.)
East Chicago, Ind., Jan. 3. The
crowd which assembled at the Lewis
skating rink Saturday evening proved to be a record-breaker. The rink was simply packed and not only the floor but the balcony, as well. The management had arranged to keep open until 12 o'clock, which was . accountable for the large crowd. They had also arranged a polo game between the Indiana Harbor and East Chicago teams. After the patrons had enjoyed about two" hours and a half of skating the
embarked from the Chicago Automo-.
HU flub n th Ww Ypar wa bplner
ushered in Saturday morning. j The Marlon crew, nothing daunted : by the withdrawal of A. M. Robbins in his Moon and E. M. Sanders in an Oak- i land, when the drifts rendered traffic, Impossible, resolutely stuck to his task. ! Skidding, plunging and oftimes ca-j reening from the road Into the ditches, the demon motorists kept at the task until finally disabled near AdJison by
an accident. The break was repaired, and from that point on to the finish' experiences 'of every sort and kind enlivened the trip. Here's Monsen's account of the rlve: "There's was no place like home after two days and two nights of it on the roads we encountered. While
we didn't have the freezing weather that . prevailed when the "Chlcago tradesmen went out to meet the New York to Paris racers two years ago. there was fully as much snow and the roads were in about the same condition. At times we bucked snow drifts eight feet deep. I fitted a small plow to the front of the machine and In this way managed to cut a path
way through which the car could run. On one occasion we ; were stalled for
ing for this event. The identity of th
I "unknowns will he made tomorrow.
when :they will be put through a thorough examination to conform with, the new police regulations.
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