Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 226, Hammond, Lake County, 14 March 1911 — Page 3
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EAST CHICAGO. j The baseball committee, of -which Abe Ottenheimer Is chairman, met laat night and made their plana for. a campaign to secure for East Chicago a berth In the new northern Indiana base ball league. The committee started out this morning and will not quit working until they have visited every merchant, factory and, in fact, every business man in East Chicago and obtained. If possible, the co-operation of all these people In the baseball project. A general meeting will probably be called for Friday night, wehn'a permanent organization will be formed and all necessary1 steps taken to launch a team in the league. The Home and School association will meetin the McKinley building Friday evening, March 17. The subject. "Domestic Science," will be discussed. Miss Edith M. Docker domestic science instructor in the Whiting schools, will handle the subject. She will tell us what is being' done In Whiting In the domestic science department and endeavor to show in what ways It Is helpful to the girls and why It should be a part of their school work. Every patron of the schools should hear this talk. As the meeting night falls on March 17 F. I Evans will give us something appropriate for St. Patrick's day. The full program will be announced later. Mrs. Peter Stirling spent yesterday in Chicago shopping.
Mesdames Abe Ottenheimer and Abe Goodfriend were the guests of Chicago
. friends yesterday.
Rev. V. Q. Leazenby a former East Chicago pastor, until recently a pastor
. of South Bend, but now district super intendent of the Crawfordsville dls
trict, has been procured by the Men's Bible class of the M. E. church to give
a lecture Tuesday evening, April 4
1911. at 8 p. m., to be given in the church. Proceeds to be devoted to the
church building fund. His subject is
The Strife Between Aristocracy and Christian Democracy." Rev. Leazenby is one of the best pastors in Indiana,
as well as a noted lecturer.
INDIANA HA&tiOR. Mr. and Mrs. W. Thomas, the newly-weds, entertained a party of atx of their friends at dinner Sunday In their new home on Grapevine street. The Girls' club is busy preparing for the two plays wh'ich they intend putting on at the Auditorium soon. Mrs. Fred Stephens is in charge of the affair and is busy coaching the boys and girls who will take part. The plays will be a farce called ,.A Box of Monkeys" and "The Three Chauffeurs." The latter play was presented by the girls last year. Jut since then it has been remodeled and much improved. The Baptist Ladies' Aid society will meet next Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. , Sadie Evans, on Fir street. Latest styles in spring -millinery will be shown by Miss L. Grace Codding on Friday, the 17th, at the Singer sewing machine store, on the Fir street
side of the Barker building. 14-3T
Mrs. Fred Stephens entertained Misses Harriet Stormont and Ruth Thomas at dinner last evening at her home on Th"S-ake front. The entertained to be given . next Thutsday night at the Baptist church, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid society,, promises to be one of the, best of the season. Miss Beth Constance
White of Chicago will have charge of
the affair, which will consist of readings and musical selections. The ad- . mission will be 2 5 cents.
The Eagles will have Initiations at
their meeting tomorrow night, and all members are requested to attend. )
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Memphis, Tenn. March 14. Posting a $500 forfeit and promising to concede at least twenty pounds, Jimmy Howard, the Chicago middleweight, today opened negotiations for a match with Charley Schmidt, Detroit's catcher and Arkansas' "white man's hope" for the heavyweight t(Ue.
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Krall rolled with machinelike precision, and his three games netted 256, 219 and 224 respectively. The work of the Windy City contingent was only a part of the good work which seemed to run throughout the day.- Five times individual bowlers made a bid for the leadership In their division and four new teams found places with the topnotchers in the doubles.
IN THE SPORTING WORLD
PURDUE FIVE NOT 10 PLAY FOR CHAMPIONSHIP Boilermakers Disband and Decide Not to Meet Minnesota.
HOPE TO LEGALIZE BOXING IN MISSOURI Jefferson City. Mo., March 14. Representative Paulus last night called up his bill legalizing prize fighting and it was engrossed by the house of representatives without opposition. This bill provides for a state boxing commissioner whose duty is to regulate the boxing game, and was fathered by St. Louis sporting writers and Ben Westhus, former federal revenue collector. The commissioner Is . empowered under the proposed law to issue license to clubs and associations for the holding of boxing bouts.
KID M'COY MATCHED WITH FITZGERALD Philadelphia,-March 14. Kid McCoy will get his chance to prove that he has "come back" -next Monday, night. Jack O'Brien, manager of the American Athletic club, announced today that McCoy has been matched with Jack Fitzgerald of Philadelphia. Fitzgerald Is one of the Quaker City's best light heavyweights and will make a great trial horse for the former marvel of the ring.
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Indications show thatxthe Hammond athletic base ball grounds will be in good condition for first practice game by March 26th as work is being done on them dally. All those wishing to try out for the' team are notified to be present at the grounds on that date wearing their own uniforms and also notify Manager Ketchell by application. The members of the different , teams of Hammond are invited to be present on the day as there is a chance for those who make good. Some very good material has been secured for the H. A. A. team so far this year and they expect to find some good players in the try outs. The base ball season is near at hand and the boys figure the sooner they begin the better shape they will be at the beginning of the series.
Lafayette, Ind., March 14. Purdue will not play any post-season game of basketball with Minnesota to decide the tie between the gophers and boilermakers for the conference championship. The Purdue squad broke training more than a week ago and will not go into training again for another game. The Purdue schedule ended a
week earlier than the schedules of the other colleges. While Purdue lost two
games to Minnesota it Was while the boilermakers were crippled by sickness. Purdue beat Chicago twice, Indiana
twice and Northwestern twice. Pur
due will not play with the Columbia team if Columbia comes west.
HOUCK TRIMS HARRY RAMSEY Philadelphia, Pa., March 14. In a fast fight at the American Athletic club last night Leo Houck of Lancaster, who fights Hugo Kelly of Chicago at Boston next week, had a shade the better of his mill with Harry Ramsey of this city. Both boys are claimants for the middleweight honors. The bout was full of hard fighting. Houck took the lead in the early rounds and, although Ramsey made a fast finish, he was unable to overcome the handicap. Ramsey's best punch was a left Jab to the
TAFT'S GOLF GAMEJMPROVES Augusta, Oa.. March 14. Yesterday President Taft made the eighteen holes of the country dub golf course in S7, as against 101 on Saturday last, and Is much pleased with the improvement his game has shown.
Sporting Briefs
Sixteen players who have been play
ing In Panama the past winter, will join the Holyoke team of the Connecti
cut league.
Word from Milwaukee has It that Harry Howell, the former St. Louis
pitcher, will try for an Infield position
with the Brewers.
Jack O Connor, former manager of
face, while Houck did most of hia dam-'tne st- Louis Browns, denies the report
age In the clinches.
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oi nis managing a team in the new Union league. Jack says the St. Louis club owes hjm $5,000 and he will stick
around until he collects the money.
jviiire uoniin, tne ex-uiant. is some billiard player. He beat Hal Chase 100 to 82 in their recent three-night
match at the three-cushion game
waiter Johnson, Washington's star
pitcher, is a holdout, and It looks as if McAleer will have to do a sum In addi
tion in order to sign the Kansas won
der.
"Cyclone Johnny" Thompson has de
feated Bill Papke twice. The first bat
tie. a bare knuckle muss, is not on rec
ord
Freddie Welsh 1 expected to arrive
in this country around March 20, pro
vided he is successful in his engage
ments on the other side.
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WHAT HQ! (IELS0N AND BRITT 10 FIGHT AGAIN
Old Rivals Ready to Up Once More Quakertown.
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SAYS 'I EXPECT TO STOP WOLGAST
Champion Recovers Form
.- and Delights Manager in; Workout.
Battling Nelson and Jimmy Britt are to fight again. Four times did these
once great lightweights clash in the dim and distant past and four times did they satisfy Immense coast crowds with their brilliant battles. Old and bitter rivals. It was hardly to be hoped they would ever get to-
getner again, but Jack O Brien, once fighter, now promoter, and the man who almost knocked out J. Anthony
Drexel Riddle's eye, has practically
matched them to fight the week of
April 24 in Philadelphia.
Battling Nelson said last night that he had agreed to tight any time O'Brien
wanted him to and that he would bat tie Britt "at the drop of the hat."
Britt has sent word to O'Brien from
London that he is preparing to sail and
to be sure and get Nelson Into the ring with him. These veterans will put up
a mill that should be a treat for the
eastern fans, as it will be the first time the pair ever fought outside of Califor
nia. '
Bitt is still fast and clever, as he
has been fighting quite a bit in Kng
land. Nelson thinks he is as good as ever, though many are Inclined to dis
agree with the confident Bat. Anyway both should be good for a lively six
round battle and should draw a good
crowd in Quakertown.
Wonders in the pugilistic matchmak
ing line will "never cease. s -
Nelson and Britt may fight their sixth battle in an airship some day. One
can never tell.
Frank Chance, the boss bear of the
Cubs, is an optimist this spring for thei
first time. The Peerless leader wrote President Murphy a letter, the arrival of which cheered the latter mightily yesterday, in which he declares the present Cub outfit the best he ever took out on a spring training trip.
The most gratifying news in the let
ter was the information that Chance's legs are in the best shape they have been in years. Chance has been out of the game more or less the past four
years with bad legs and feet, and his absences never fail to slow up the
team. Chance writes he has given his
legs the severest kind of a workout at
New Orleans and has failed to find a
joint or muscle the least bit out of
gear. He avers that the Cubs will find him at first base every day for the first time in several years. .
Chance really is about the best steal
er in the league. He has had to quit
pilfering for two or three years, but with his underpinning as good as ever can be relied on to boost the Cubs' base stealing average this summer.
Chance also tells Murphy that Reulbach already has gained control and
that he will pitch him right from the
start of the season, perhaps in the first game, instead of waiting until about
June 15 to get the big fellow into pitch
ing form. This will mean much to a
pitching staff that has lost Overall, al
ways a good beginner. The Cub boss also writes that Jimmy Sheckard is in unusually- fine condition this spring, being lighter than in years,
and that he expects his crack left field
er to have a great year. Which reminds
us that a year ago this spring disgruntled Cub fans were criticising
Chance for not letting Sheckard i go.
Jimmy Is one of the most valuable outflelders In the game and has plenty of
knows that better than Chance.
FRANK MORAN GETS TRIMMING New York, March 14. 'Jim Savage, the big heavyweight of Orange, N. J., defeated Frank Moran of Pittsburg at
the Olympic Athletic club last night in
the seventh round of what was sched
uled to. be a ten round bout. Savage beat tlie Pittaburger badly and in the eeventh round Joe J;annette. acting as one of Moran's seconds, threw up the sponge.
Los Angeles, Cal., March 14. A tigerish little Queensberry fighter Is George Memsic, who, after a full month of
training and with a chance at
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CALENDAR OF SPORTS . FOR THE WEEK. .
world's lightweight championship only four days away, is now fit to fight at the beckon of his trainer. All doubt as to the Bohemian's ability to make the ringside weight was set aside yesterday afternoon when Memsic weighed in for the benefit of Referee Charley Eyton and the writer. He tipped the beam at 134 pounds. This was
before his workout, after which Job
George was easily under ths 133-pound
mark. Among the hundred or more spectators at the west side camp yesterday were several good judges of condition, and In the opinion of these George Memsic is in superb condition. In light gymnasium costume Memsic labored through the pulley exercises, slammed the punching bag. boxed six full rounds with Rees and Dalton and then tugged at the iron weights again without taking a long breath. Obviously the boy is in strictly first class shape
for the desperate battle he expects to j put up against Ad Wolgast at Vernon : next Friday afternoon. I "When I fought for the title before, I 4. went against Joe Gsuis, one of the clev- '
MATTY'S QUIVER BALL A FOOLER Marlln, Texas, March 14. Christy Mathewson gave an exhibition of his new slow ball, the "quiver," yesterday afternoon," and its queer and puzzling gyrations caused Coach Robinson, who was In the catcher's box, to fairly gasp in amazement., A large crowd of players and newspaper men witnessed the sensational exhibition. The ball did not twist in the air. It just sailed straight, seemed to halt, and then quiver, and fall with a very perceptible incurve and drop. The regulars today
National Bowling association tourna-1 played the Colts a six-inning game,
KRAL AND STEHNO IN SECOND PLACE; SCORE 1,272 PINS Chicago Bowlers Near the Top in Doubles at Buf
falo Tourney. Buffalo. March 14. Jerry Krai and
Anton Stehno of Chicago drove down j
the alleys in great shape yesterday aft
ernoon, and as a result went. into sec
ond place in the two-man event in the
ment here. The Chicago representatives
scored a total of 1,272 pins, or eighty-
three pins below the world's record set by the leaders, Kelsey and Johnson of New Haven, Conn., Saturday night.
which resulted in the regulars winning
by a score of 4 to 3. Mathewson was in the box for three innings, but did not allow a run, although Merkle and Devore hit him for doubles.
k TUESDAY. Annual indoor games of the Pastime A. C, Madison Square Garden. New York. Opening of annual racing regatta of Palm Beach Power Boat
association.
Meeting of the Minnesota-Wia-
consin baseball league at Roches-
ter, Minn. Iowa - Nebraska intercollegiate
wrestling match at Iowa City, la. Opening of annual bench show of Erie Kennel club, Erie, Pa. Opening of automobile shows in
Denver and Syracuse. Owen Moran vs. Packey McFarland. 10 rounds, at Fairmont A. C, New Tork. WEDXESDAY. Fancy diving championships at Chicago A. C, Chicago. Opening of annual show of the Louisville Automobile Dealers' associatlon. THURSDAY. National basketball championship tournament begins at Osweso. N. Y.
Jim Barry vaf Joe Jeannette, 10
erest men the lightweight division has rounds, at O'Rourke's club. New
ever Known, said iiemsic. Joe outpointed pie, but didn't hurt me at all. ; "This time I get a crack at a cham- t 4. pion who is less clever than I aiti'and who mixes things up the way I like to ! 4, fight. In our previous fights Wolgast! wasn't able to hurt me and I wasn't ! a
near so good as I am now. I honestly expect to stop Wolgast." The matter of weight forfeits was easily adjusted when "Cap" McRae, acting for Memsic, called on Promoter McCarey this afternoon and. put up the $1,000 to guarantee Memsic's delivery in the Vernon ring at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon, weighing 133 pounds or under. This weight Is the same as catch weights for Wolgast, who will be three or four pounds under that.
SALE OF BOSTON DOVES IS DENIED Augusta, Ga., March 14. President William H. Russell of the Boston Doves today emphatically denied the story that the club has been sold to If. H. Frazee, the Chicago theatrical man. A New York report had it that Frazee had paid $150,000 for the club. The regular Boston team .played a game here yesterday. Goode's- home run for the regulars was all that prevented a victory for the secpnd-etring men.
REFEREE RESCUSES TOMMY QUILL Syracuse. N. Y., March 14. After Howard Morrow of Benton Harbor.
iMich., had floored Tommy Quill of Brockton in the second round of their ten round bout last night and Quill had (regained his feet, Referee Cawley, for
some unknown reason,, held Morrow back whilq Quill again rested on his knee. This action saved Quill. Morrow outpointed him for seven rounds, but ln the last three rounds Quill's infighting earned him a draw.
HACKENSCHMIDT BEATS OLSON Battle Creek, Mich., March 14. George Hackenschnvidt, the "Russian Lion,',' defeated Charles Olson of Indianapolis here last night, winning in two straight falls. The first fall came In 30:30 on an arm and body hold, and the second in a like manner in 16:30.
York. FRIDAY. Manitoba wrestling championships at the Y. M. C. A., WinneDCS.
Annual lnterscholastic . swimming tournament at Northwestern university. ' Michigan championship Indoor athletic meet unde.r auspices of Detroit Y. M. C. A. Ad Wolgast vs. George Memsic, 20 rounds, at Los Angeles.. Bob Moha vs. Mike Gibbons, 10 rounds, at St. Paul. Johnny Coulon vs. George Kitson. 10 rounds, at Akron, Ohio. George Stevens vs. Earl Denning, 10 rounds, at Hurley. Wis. Columbia - Princeton fencing matches, at Princeton, N. J. SATURDAY.
New England A. A. U. championships at Boston, Boston. South Atlantic A. A. f. championships at Carroll
tute, Washington, D. C. Meeting of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen at New
boxing A. A., boxing Insti-
Yrfrk.
Opening of automobile shows In Montreal and Pittsburg.
Chicago-Wisconsin dual aquatic meet at University of Chicago. Intercollegiate gymnastic championships a1 New Haven. Packey McFarland vs. Mike Glover, 6 rounds, at Philadelphia. Annual bench show of the Bulldog Breeders' association at New York. "Porky" Flynn vs. Bill Lang, 20
rounds, at Paris, France.
An Unparalleled Record
49,491,000 JBAiEL; HOT A UFE LOST
Harriman" lines' Plisscagcr
Report for 1910 Show Tie tory of Safety Devices.
ACCIDENTS CUT TO THIRD
Union Pacific Casualties Drop to One-Fifth.; HfcTcet SoeJpise Tft Reduced'
The lljrrim&n. rattwi? linw earned lOpei cant wf the estimated SX0 pawsenger traffic o:tU United. State, cr i9.1M.O00 ppoplm. without fatal Accident. So exy oX th sumbe. This result le ascribed, to the lnetaJta4oo of safety devices and is believe tofttvi no e.ralll In the railroad, world. ; The report, cim talning -th Is dot, 'Jus lies been, compiled la. 4be offices of Julius krutteahnttt. dlreetor of .maintenance n operation on the syatctn. Including' the Southern BsxdAe end Union -PeciBfr railroads, av total of 17.ftg miles. The total number of iMutoeogers oartiea on e. on mile" toS w a.000,000,000. .The "figures' of the country's railroad for 1910 have not yet been compiled by tbe. govern
meet; but in 909 the -interstate commerce
commission reported the' number of peasen
gers carried a "29.000,000,000. The figures for 1910 wilt nofexceed a. billion more.lt la
sals. JTo like 3lecoTd,Xno'j'ft. v. Many other railroad have cone through a year without a fatality -:o any of Its passengers, -but It is said-. that no-syst'm has -made this Record for such- lacge total of nas5en-gers.
The results" on the Harriman lines 'are as
cribed to 'a campaign waged by tbe'mahae ment for years to reduce accldrnts.. .The Har
riman system now has roor.e miles- of automatic block signal protection thaa any other
sysfem in the -world. Mr. Kruttschratt njmsejf has directed veclai. attention to the acclcent problem and began' veraX y pars agt
to- bring about m. .reduction- by giving com
pletp. publicity to all forms, of accidents and
tneir invrrugsnun, hiusb, ii is wiiTvcit, spurred both officers and employes to greater
effqrtsvto' safeguard lives intfuated Jo their
care. Chicago Tribune, February 12th.
Union -Southern Pacific
Not a SiaoJa Fatal Accident. Tha HASBmaJr line "carried 10 par cent or tne country' etttaated panger traffic ror 1910. Sot 4 slcscle fatal accident occurred to A passenger nywbere on tn tystam. . This acfclerement ta tfeecrttfed 84 unparalleled .la railroading, and tt la attributed to tne. Installation of safety, devices cMefly, If not wholly. If small una gets t&rongn year without a fatal accident the result may Itself be considered accidental. A rast system carrying millions of .passengers owes E&f ety 4o Improvements, care and efficiency. Chicago Record-Herald, February I5tb.
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