Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 51, Hammond, Lake County, 20 January 1912 — Page 3

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EAST CHICAGO. Mrs. Willam Meade and Mrs. James Gaylord Allen have issued cards for a social gathering Friday at 2 p. m., Jan. 26, at the home of the latter, 1209 Beacon street. John Burhop will entertain his little

irleivls on Saturday at a Dinnoay party In. honor of his "th birthday. The jarty will take place at the home of his T grandmother's. 1115 Beacon street. The invitations are written on cunning little Japanese paper and read as follows: "Saturday is the day.

Come to Grandma's house to play. In the afternoon at 3 And also stay to tea." Miss Gertrude Brown of Chicago will ..be the guest of Mrs. Clinton W. Lytle of Beacon street over Sunday.' Rev. Alexander Monroe will preach tomorrow morning at the Congregational 'church on "All God's Blessings Given to Bless Others." In tho evening he will deliver a special discourse on

Liberty." There will be special music i

.at. the evening service and all are, invited. . Mrs. O. P. Hubbard has gor e to Chicago to meet Mr. Hubbard, who will arrive today from Seattle. Wash., hav-

the K. of P. hall, orf Michigan avenue; near Pennsylvania avenue, until the new church building is completed for

i occupancy.

Services on Sabbath, Jan. 21, aa follows; Rtble school at 9:45 a. m., conducted by William Dobbie, superintendent. Public worship and sermon at 11 a. mv Kvening service at 7:30 p. rri. Strangers are made welcome at all these services: "Come thou with us and we will do thee good: for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel."

Tandom Discusses Game and Warms Shins

Mr. and Mrs. WaHer MacGregor and daughter Bettle-' of Oak Park are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Robinson for a few days. They came yesterday. Mrs. Clinton W. Lytle and her mother, Mrs. Margaret Budd of Sharon, Pa., who is visiting Mrs. Lytle, were callers on Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. MacGregor yesterday. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C Williams of the South Bay hotel, who

are now in Chicago, a girl baby. The little one made its appearance day before yesterday. Mrs. Williams is at

the Mercy hospital and is reported do

Ing niceljv as is also the little g

Soon the "Ump" Will Be Barking When Winter

Cuts the "Ruff Stuff."

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ing been detained in business in the : spend tne day

Mrs., Fred Nagle is in Chicago to

Washington city for a week longer than i

he had expected to be. They will be in Kast Chicago for a few days before -leaving to spend the remainder of the winter In Washington. D. C. Mr. Hubbard will represent Alaska's interests at Washington, In an effort to get legislation more favorable to that country through congress. Rev. and Mrs. Alexander Monroe have their daughter, Mrs. W. H. Leiserman. of Chicago and her daughter with them for the week end.- They came Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. Karl Jansson of 144tb street will attend the play "Gustaff Vasa" at the Auditorium, Chicago, Sunday, Skating starts again Saturday night at East Chicago Rink. Dancing after JO o'clock. Floor resurfaced. Price 15.

All-Indiana Harbor is real estate mad

these days. There is little doing in society or business sutslde the traffic in lots, blocks and acreage. Dr. F. P- Cox was called to Clinton, 111., Thursday night to see a patient. Mrs. Cox' accompanied him and will visit two or three weeks. Dr. Cox Will return Saturday night. FOR SALE Small store In good, location, doing good business. 'Phone Indiana Harbor' 68 4"-"3- 18-St Skating starts again Saturday night at East Chicago R;nk. Dancing after

! 10 o'clock. Floor resurfaced. Price 25.

material will be secTured. Whiting's foxy manager, Helin, has several things up his sleeve. ,

It is also rumored that the' former H. A. A. ball park is to be leased to, a number of Hammond men, who will take a hold of the grounds and make an ideal park out of it. As yet no deal

has -been closed.

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, .... ... ,,, , , league does not look very bright at now when "old cat will be in vogue: , , .

j . . .... . , , present. 11 nammona aoes noi eiinsr and when we will be able to hear the- . . . .,., , -n . ... v ..v. a team, and there is talk that Gary is raucous call of strike one," "batter , ' .... ,. , .,,.. - ., t. . ' going to withdraw, It is no more than out and all the phrases of our own , f , . ... , t . .f . ,, ... likely ithat the league may be dlspet American game baseball. And, .... , . ,,,,. . ... . , , banded and have an entirely different although the weather is cold enough, to make you shiver at the thought of person baseball, the fans are getting their j Crown Point, who won the pennant heads together and are looking over : laa' year ls retting ready for the comthe. prospects of the coming season. inS season and Manager Reiser has alThere's a hen on somewhere abmany j ready signed up some good material, a corner erocerv store" If tno N" league disbands - they will

The different baseball organizations i schedule good games with Chicago, in Lake county are holding meetings ams. .

AGGIESTFALL BEFORE

LITTLE GIANTS, 32-26 Michigan Champions Are Swept Off Their Feet by Swift Attack.

RUSSIAN ELEPHANT

LOSES TO CUTLER Ivan Romanoff, the Russian Elephant, was defeated .by Charlie Cutler in the

wlndup of the wrestling -ard 'at thj Empire theater last night. Romanoff was hurt by a toehold which Cutler ap-' plied after thirty-two minutes of wrestling. He was in such a position that lye could not . roll onto his back and begged the referee for , five minutes to call th fall before, the official

acted. The Russian could not go on 1 for the second bout. Mysterious Waffles won two straight falls from' De- ; mont in the other contest. I

FERNS STOPS RUSSELL.

j ivansas city. Mo.. Jan. 29. in a

whirlwind ten-round fight here last night before the Grand Avenue A. C,

Kid Fernsf of Kansas- City beat the Philadelphia veteran, Unk Russell. Russell was saved from a knockout wheh the referee, stopped the fight in the. last round. In the ninth Ferns rent Russell to the floor with a right to the jaw from which he was barely able to recover. ,

- .:- CALENDAR OF SPORTS 4 ' -.'". FOR THE WEEK. 4 ; , . - ..

4 . Annual meeting of the Western

i Golf association at Chicago. . . 4 4 vilntercoilegiate "basket-ball con-

test .between Columbia and Cor4 nell at . New . York. ; 7 Annual Indoor meet of the First ' 4 Regiment A. A-at Chicago. , .Intercollegiate basket-ball con4 test between-Princeton and Penns'ylvania at r. Philadelphia, - -; 4s Bobby Waygh VB.--.i- Freddie .Welsh, ..twenty. roun3 at, Vernon. Cal. . - f-.

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Crawfordsville, Ind., Jan. 20. The crack Wabash college basketball quln-

teit took another scalp last night in a J fast game with the Michigan "Aggies"

toy a sccre of 32 to 26. The Michigan champs put up a stubborn battle but the fine team work of the "Little Glanits" paved tme way to a hard-earned

victory. Both teams made several sen- Pauw university basketball team was sational field goals during the. contest, defeated by Indiana, 23 to 15, last '. night. The locals pulled out a victory

i in the second half after the first seaj sion had ended 9 to 7 in favor of the

" ( visitors. The Juniors and the Dave Lederers i " ;

INDIANA 23; DEPAUW 15 Bloomington, Ird., Jan. 20. The De-

BOWLING SURPRISE.

and are preparing for a., prosperous season. Crown Point recently called a baseball meeting and has signed up some of the last year's pennant winners.' Just what the prospects for a baseball team in Hammond this season' are so far not known. But it is' being noised around 'that an independent team will be organized and some good

Indiana Harbor, Whiting and East Chicago are also getting very busy and the different managers are preparing to put good teams on their diamonds. The probability is that East Chicago and Indiana Harbor will join together in on team. That's the. dope now. In Gary the scheming is mighty various, but it is a little too previous to give out now.

CARD OF THANKS. '.Mrs. Barney wishes to thank the many friends and neighbors who so 'kindly sympathized with her and her -family and Bent flowers during the time of their bereavement, and espe- ' cially the police department, not only of East Chicago and Indiana Harbor, " but of Hammnd and Whiting, who assisted at the funeral of her husband, Joseph Barney.

TRENDALLTO MEET RITCHIE Si. Louis, Mo., Js.n. 20. Harry Trendall, lightweight fighter of this city, announces tVtat he has' signed a contract to meet Willie Ritchie at Pittsburg on Feb. ?.. , ..

INDIANA HARBOR. V FJrat ITnited Preabyteriaa t ho rota, Indiana Harbor. Rev. A. J. Crooks, pasRegular services are being held in

Bargain! For Sate, 2 story brick business block, rents for $80 per month. Price $4,500. PETER DUMA 3116 Gutherie Street Indiana Harbor Imdiana

FRANK UFER IN LEGAL BATTLE Tulsa, Okla.. .Jan. 20. Frank B. Ufer, the millonaire manager' of Carl Morris, the pugilist, left here today with an attorney for New York to defend a libel suit brought against ITfer by "Bait" Masterson, sport writer and former "wild west" marshal of Dodge City, Kan. Attacks upon Morris in a Kew York newspaper, . said to . have been, written by Masterson, aroused the ire of Ufer and he is charged y Masterson with having made remarks reflecting upon the Jatter's early career. Masterson sued for $10,000. -

WACO, TEXAS,. SELECTED AS SOX TRAINING CMP Callahan Announces Choice for Conditioning Activities This Spring; May Head South on March 1.

Snap!

Special bargains in large improved business property, rents for $1,140 yearly; 110-foot front, on Cedar street. Bargains in business lots, only two! left, Cedar St. One 35x125 feet, Price ..$1,375 The Other 30x125 feet, Price . .-, $625 If you are looking for bargains in business property, here is one: 2-story brick store and flat building, rents for $1,640 per annum. Price $11,525.' FERDINAND KET C 1 K 1317-19 CEDAR ST., INDIANA HARBOR.

DIXON SIGNS FOR GO. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 20. Tommy Dixon of Kansas. City ami Ollie Kirk of this' city have been matched to fight star rounds toefore the St. Louis Athletic club on -Jan.' 29. Kirk is one of the eighteen pugilists who were suspended

by the Western A,- A. V.

ART WARNER BEATEN. London, Jan. . ? 20. In a ten-round fight here last nigl.t between the English ex-champion pugilist, Arthur Warner, and an American named Richard Cooper, the referee stopped the bout In the fourth round as Cooper was unable to continue.

Jimmy Callahan's clan of white sox athletes will head south-ward next month bound for Waco, Texas, where the spring, training festivities' will"be staged. The 'location of the camp was decided upon yesUrday, Commy's representative. Harry Grabinel1 wiring his choice from the Lone Star iate after he had looked over other, .available

spots and found them not exactly suited to the wants of James J.' Callahan, who is going to , be .the tooss for time Indefinite.. The selection of Waco came more or less-unexpectedly, but, this community of approximately 26,000 natives was named 'because the inducements appeared more alluring. Grabiner visited the other cities named previously as prospective camps, but in each things were no what they had seemed when painted in -words. The citizens of Corsicana will Tje tie most surprised of any as this place had just albout been selected and the deal was ready to close two months ago, btit an eleventh hour hitch in hotel accommodations caused the shift.

well of any variety is excuse enough to build, a city. As far as its location

Is concerned, it will te more advanta

geous to the Sox. as the cities in which exhibition games have been billed are

within easy reach.

Grabiner wired the Sox manager ithat Waco is. willing to do anything reasonable toghow the ,gox travelers a royal

time. -Tlie party, according to a, tenta

live schedule, will reach there about

March 3 or 4, and the stay there will

continue for about two or three weeks.

A few exhibition games will "be sprink

led through this time and the remain

ing Jays will be spent in grinding toil

at the 'ball park under Texas' .burning

sun.

v.ai insisted on naving a park ex

ciusiveiy ior nis marges, ana we regu

lar Waco, Texas, league club grounds

have Jteen secured np to March 10. After this new grounds, now under construction, will be available From what Grabiner wires one can picture a tour' de luxe for the White Phln legion, A new hotel will practically be set aside for the visitors.

Eprung a surprise and loomed up as dark horses Thursday night, when they took two 'games apiece from tht1 Spartans and E. B. A.'s, respectively.

These- two victories changed the-

-standings considerable and. the 'E. B.

A-'s, Spartans and the Plantistas arfall In a bunch now. being within a few

games apart. The games were interesting and were attended by a goodsized crowd.

Today the Dave Lederers and the

Juniors, who are the tail-enderg in the

league, are wearing a -broad grin to think they slipped one- over the lead

ers.

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-HELP GOPHERS Cambridge, Mass., .Jan. 20. According to a dispatch from St. Paul, Minn., published here today, Col. Roosevelt has given his word to Dick Grant, former Harvard runner and now . trainer at the University of Minnesota, o ask Harvard's athletic managers to schedule" a meeting with the Minnesota foot

ball team next fall.

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CORNELL TRIMS YALE. NewHaven, Conn., JartT- 20. Cornell's basketball team mowed down

Yale last night, 23 to 17, ' plunging

ahead in the last five minutes of play,

after Yale had evened up the score. It was nij and tuck till then, Cornell

leading y only 9 to 8 when the first

half closed. '" "

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Waco is situated in the east central ! who will be able to enjoy a natatoriiim. part, of the Lone Star state, and tradi-lgolf links, tennis courts, artesian nation has it that the own grew' upjter, excellent weather, and last, but around an aresian well. In 'Texas al not least, quantities of wholesome food.

RYAN SIGNS TO TRAIN FLYNN Cleveland, Jan. 20. Jack Curley, manager for Jim Flynn, today announced that Tommy Ryan had signed an agreement to train Flynn for three months prior to the match with Johnson. Curley next week goes to Salt Lake to complete all details for the posting of forfeits Feb. 15.

OUTLAW LEAGUE "GIRDS LOINS" St. Louis, Jan. 20. Organized baseball will fee fought under the Sherman anti-trust law If it attacks the new Columbian baseball league, according

to John T. Powers, president of the

npw organization, who is here today. , "We are not fighting capital with capital and do not seek a fight with any person or combination," said Powers. ' "On the contrary we have the

statutory right to exist and compete with the 'baseball trust' and we Intend to take advantage of our rights. We have the Sherman nnti-trust law at our disposal If we are attacked. "We have raost of our players lined up and will be in position when the season opens to give high class and popular priced baseball." President Powers while here got an

option on a plat of ground big enough for a ibaseball park. The lease, if the

Is closed, will run for ten years.

RULED OUT OF FIRST

MEET TO-NIGHT

REGIMENT

The

Gary Land Co

CONTROLS EyERY UNIMPROVED LOT IN THE HEART OF THE CITY OF GARY. .... , This Company will pave every street in the First Sub. division. Sewers and water mains are now in every alley in the First Subdivision. The prices of lots in the First Subdivision include the cost of paved streets.

. Seven athletes entered in the annual First Regiment meet, scheduled for decision ithis evening, were declared ineligible last night by the officials In charge of the, games and barred from competition. The action followed a letter written by Everett C. Brown. Central A. A. ir. president, to . H. F. Keator, chairman of the registration committee of the Central A. A. U., calling his attention to the fact that Slater. McCartney. Adair and Johnson had automatically suspended themselves by participating in an unsanctioned meet

at Toledo. , ' The First Regiment officials, acting on President Brown's suggestion, ruled out the four men In question, and added twW of their own men and a Cardinal A. C. athlete to the list of ineliglbles. Dr. G. K. Herman announced that Ben O'Leil anj Samuel Heiss, 'both enlistect men in the First Regiment, had been found to be professionals, and their entries refused. Paul Drew of the Cardinal A. C, who competed in an unsanctioned meet Thanksgiving day, also was ruled out.

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With the beginning of the new year Indiana Harbor will have an up-to-date Automobile, Carriage, Cab and "Wagon Paint Shop at 3416 Pennsylvania Ave. Conducted by ; W. L. WILLIAMS Phone 589-R '

MAROONS WILL DROP BASEBALL IF "BIG 8" o. n sane sport y Stagg Is Expected to Make Sensational Announcement on His Return.

That Coach A. A. Stagg wlH have a sensitlional announcement to make

concerning Chicago's future relations with the "Big EighJ" when he returns ' from the east today or tomorrow "was ! admitted yesterday by the Midway authorit.les. He has hinted at the possi- . bllity of Chicago's dropping baseball

j as an intercollegiate sport in case the

amateur rules are revoked, and the Ma

room are prepared for an ultimatum to

that effect. - .

Couch Stagg referred to the matter in a letter to the Midway camp and his followers think intercla3s baseball will

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take the place of the usual conference: contests this year unless th proposal to permit summer baseball is turned down hard at next week's meeting in

Chicago. According to the Midwayites,

the plan has been under consideration by the board. With Chicago plannUng such an action, a conference split seems more likely than ever at the coming meeting, as Minnesota has threatened to quit unless the White resolution is changed to provide for a majority Inr steal of a two-thirds vote on new rules. The Unlversit . yof Chicago professors reaffirmed their stand against modifying the resolution.

TYNE OARSMAN DEAD. Pit'siburg,Pa., Jan. 20. James Taylor r. died this afternoon at the home of his daughter in Oakland. Taylor was for years an oarsman of international reputation, being a member "of the famous- old championship Tyne crew of England, which invaded the United States in 1876. He was the faffier of John T. Taylor, the local A. A. U. commissioner and James R. Taylor, swimming instructor at the P.-A. A. He was 74 years old.

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m the properties of the Gary Land Conrpany, situated directly south of the Steel Plant and other subsidiary companies of the Corporation, will be the home of the merchant, banker, clerk and workmen. Compare the i price of our Improved Lots with those south of the ' Company's properties. A clear title to every lot.

Is this not Reasoe: Enough?

Why . you should purchase property for. residential purposes in the First Subdivision? Beautifully situated, high and dry, accessible to plants of the Steel Company, to schools and churches and the business center of the city. A few unsold lets in the First Sub- -division ranging in price from vi50 up.

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