Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 November 1908 — Page 2

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HAPPENING: OF | WEE

PERSONAL.

John D. Rockefeller, president of the Standard Oil Company, for over two hours before Judge Ferriss in New York reviewed the history of the early oil trade and the development of the first compa.njes that -later grew into the present se-called oil trust. He was a witness for the defense in the suit to dissolve the Standard which is being prosecuted by the United States government. - ' Harry S. Reardon, alias Arthur Spencer, convicted at Kansas City of fmpersonating a government interpreter, was sentenced to serve 18 months ‘in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan.

Capt. O. M. Carter has been made manager of the Mexican Brick and Fire Clay Company at Mexico, Mo. W. R. Ridgely, president of the National Bank of Commerce, Kansas City, has disposed of his stock in the bank and will retire. _ Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, daughter of R. T. Crane of Chicago, was sued for/ $82,500 by the United States government' District Attorney Sims asking for the forfeiture of property which she was alleged to have smuggled into this country last Au<ust. ; . W. J. Bryan in an interview at San Antonio, Tex., practically ~admitted that if conditions made it advisable he would be a candidate for the presigdency in 1912.

Secretary of State Root said he would serve as senator from New| York if elected,~though he was not seeking the office. The pope celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his joining the priesthood. C. W. Burton, former cashier of the Tri-City State bank of Madison, 111, was indicted for embezzlement. President-glect Taft announced that he would call a special session of congress soon after March. 4 to take up tariff revision.. ; : Senator Elkins made the: emphatic announcement that no engagement ex4sts between his daughter, Miss Catherine Elkins and. the Duke d’Bruzzi. ~ Rather than suffer the disgrace of arrest on a charge of forgery, Rollo T. Sturgis, one of the state’s chief witnesses against Abe Raymer, alleged leader of the Springfield (Ill.) race riots, shot and killed himself. The German politician and theologian, Dr. Adolf Stocker, well known as an anti-Semite leader, resigned his seat in the reichstag after almost 20 vears’ continuous membership in that body. : Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Metcalf tendered his resignation to the president to take effect December 1 on account of ill health. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Truman H. Newberry will be named as Mr. Metcalf’s successor. - 4 : William Arnold Shanklin, president of Upper lowa university, Fayette, la., was elected president of Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn. GENERAL NEWS. : The emperor of Japan held a grand naval review at Kobe, in which 110 fighting ships, besides a lot of submarines, were inspected. & J. B. Walton, representing the Corn Products Company, Known as the “starch trust,” had a most uncomfortable time trying to answer the questions of the house ways and means committee at the tariff revision hearing and to explain why his company sold -its products much cheaper in England than here. :

Herbert Grigg, alleged accomplice of Cline Wheeler and Walter Zeller in the murder of Willilam Read at Vineland, N. J., was arrested in Philadelphia. , : Reuben Crown, a New York attorney, shot and seriously”wounded his brother Jozfph in Pittsburg and then committed suicide. The supreme court of South Dakota granted a new trial to Mrs. Emma XKauffman, wife of the Sioux Falls brewer, who was found guilty in the circuit court of manslaughter on a‘ charge of causing the death of a servant through beating. ‘ Peter Van Vlissingen of Chicago, well-known real estate dealer, confessed to wholesale forgeries of trust deeds and notes amounting to about $700,000, and within four hours was indicted, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term not less than -one and not more than 14 years. George M. Kellogg, a florist wellknown all over the United States, died at his home at Pleasant Hill; Mo. Three men were killed outright, two were fatally injured and two others were seriously hurt in an explosion at a sawmill plant in Wise county, VirgiMrs. E. A Caulfield ' of St. Louis was instantly killed in Kansas City by falling 12 stories down an elevator " The missionary congress of the Catholic church in America began its sessions in Chicago, with Papal DeleThe mu ~Albert T. Patrick,

Mrs. Alphia M. Shevaller, convicted of perjury in connection with the Horn will case, was sentenced to five years in prison by Judge Lincoln Frost at Lincoln, Neb.

Two warehouses of the Tom Moore Distilling Company of- Bardstown, Ky., in which were stored 15,000 barrels of whisky, were burned, entailing a loss to the firm of about $400,000 and to the government of $750,000. :

INDIANA.

In view of the fact that an interesting event is expected next spring, Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has been forbidden by her physicians to hold her customary private audiences. The body of Brent Woodall, secretary of the University of Cincinnati, and former newspaper man of that city, was found in the Ohio river at Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Howard Gould was allowed $25,000 a year alimony by Justice Bischoff in the supreme court of New York, pénding the ded®ion of her divorce suit. ; Mrs. Kate Cigrand of Chicago claims the estate left by Jacob Cigrand of Rockford, 111.,, asserting that she is his widow. At an interview betwe¢n Emperor William and Chancellor von Buelow the emperor made formal promise to his people that in the future he would not act except through the chancellor and his associate ministers. s Famous old Lookout Inn, on -the crest of _Lookout mountain, was burned to the ground, together with all its contents, and four cottages. Fifty state convicts employed in the mines at Pratt City, Ala., formed a conspiracy to set No. 3 mine afire and escape during the confusion, and -as a result eight of them were burned to death, one is missing and the other 41 were safely locked in the stockade. Witnesses in the trial of Ray Lamphere at Laporte, Ind., told of the love affairs and quarrels of Lamphere and Mrs. Belle Gunness and of his threats against her. ; . The Hawaii Shimho of Honolulu published what purports to be a text of a new treaty between Japan and the- United States, ‘the official announcement of which, it says, will not be made until next February. Mrs. Sophie Eastman, daughter of the late Carter Harrison, former mayor of Chicago, was married at Asheville, N. C., to Baker E. Edwards of Norfolk, Va. The plant of the Indianola (Miss.) Cotton Compress & Warehouse¢ Company and several adjoining buildings were destroyed by fire, the loss being $300,000.

Emile Stricker was killed while driving an automobile in a race at Birmingham, Ala., the tires of his car exploding. - The Citizens’ National bank of Monticello, Ky., closed its doors on account of a shortage of $20,000 in the cashier’s department. Denver celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its founding with a big banquet. : The racing balloon TUnited - States, which started from Los: Angeles crossed the Sierre Madre mountains and then was blown back alriost to the starting point. The demurrer of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad to the bill of information by Attorney General Malone of Massachusetts, to prevent the New Haven railroad from holding stock of the Boston & Maine railroad, was sustained by Judge Loring. The schooner Jennie Thomas of Savannah, Ga., was abandoned at sea, the crew of seven being rescued by the steamer Afghanistan. Herman Billick of Chicago for the fourth time was sentenced to death, the date of his execution being set at December 11. ;

The contributions of the Democratic national committee during -the presidential campaign recently ended were not sufficient to meet the expenses of the campaign, according to Norman E. Mack, chairman of the committee. Mr. Mack said thst he

would make the deficit good out of his own pocket. : i

Six men were instantly killed and another dangerously injured at Ellsworth mine No. 1, in Washington

county, Pennsylvania, when a cage fell 285 feet down the shaft. |

Secretary of War Wright told the house ways and means committee that he favored a limited free entry on sugar and tobacco from the Philippines. The fourteenth annual meeting of the National Municipal league, the sixteenth national conference for good city government and the fourth annual meeting of the American Civic association assembled in joint convention in Pittsburg, Pa.

The United States government has sued the American Sugar Refining Company for forfeitures and customs duties amounting to $3,624,121, alleging fraud in weighing shipments. The bodies of Deputy Game Warden Julius Salmonson of Michigan, his brother Martin and Deputy Sheriff J. C. Hazeltine were found in White lake. :

Morris Haas, who shot Francis J. Heney, shot and killed himself in his cell in the county jail at San ¥'rancisco. Mr. Heney was stated to be recovering rapidly. Two trainmen were killed and two badly injured by the explosion of a freight engine at Hayti, Mo. Muskingum, Tuscarawas and Hancock counties, Ohio, voted out the saloons. . In a football game at Monmoutb, 111., between Knox college and Monntouth two of the Monmouth players, MecKiterick and Richards, were Dadly hurt. ' 1 _ Rev. George Brinley Morgan, D. D, rector for the last 22 years of Christ Protestant Episcopal church of New Haven, Conn., was run down by an automobile and killed. George A. Burnham of Detroit, Mich., general factory manager for Morgan & Wright .and well known among automobile men, was accidentally killed while duck hunting at thg St. Clair flats. The new divorce law, increasing ths period of residence from six monthd to one year was carried on November 3 in South Dakota by a vote of two Aas veen appolnied o - succeea iy

JOINN FENRY ON THE | ¥/, . DRUMMER a 7 BOYS

BY GEO. V. HOBART, (“HUGH M'HUGH.”)

. Dear Bunch: In that crowd of swift drummer boys going New Yorkward in the Mr. Pullman’s sleep-wagon yesterday, one of the speediest was Buck Jones. . Buck's wife and a three-year-old were traveling with.him, but he wasn’t giving it out through a megaphone. Buck is one of those goose-headed guys who begin to scratch gravel and start in to make a killing every time they see a pretty girl. Across the aisle seat sat two pet canaries from Plainfield, N. J. They were members of the Soubrette Stinging society, and they were en route to the west to join the “Bunch of Birds Burlesque Company.” Their names were Millie and Tillie, and they wore Merry Widow hats, and did a sister act that contained more bad grammar than an East Side pinochle game. Millie was fully aware that she could back Duse off the map, and Tillie was ready to bet a week’s salary that she could make Bernhardt feel like she was out in the storm we had day before yesterday. : Slim called them the Roast-Beef Sisters, Rare and Well-Done. In a minute the castors on Buck’s neck began to turn. Slim put us wise with a wink, so we lit the fire and began to cook it up. Buck’s heart was warming for the birds in the gilded-cage. “The real Kibo!” said Slim; “it’'s a plain case of Appomattox; the war is over and they are yours, Buck!” b

|/ Buck turned a few more volts into "{his twinkling lamps. : 1 “Lower your mail-sail, Buck, and { drop alongside; you've made the land- | ing,” suggested Burress. ’ Buck began to feel his necktie and | play patty-cake with the little bald { spot on the top of his head. “Stop the hansom and get out; you're at your corner,” said Dave. The Sweet Dreams across the way | were giving Buck the glorious eyeroll, and he felt like dinner was ready. “Hang up your hat, Buck, and gather | the myrtle with Mary!” I chipped in. I Then Buck bounced over and began to show Millie and Tillie what a | handsome brute he was at close quarters. I‘ He sat on the arm of the seat and warmed up. : In less than a minute he crowded the information on them that he was | & millionaire, who had escaped from | Los Angeles, Cal.,, and he was just go- ' ing to put them both in grand opera, | when his three-year-old toddled down x the aisle and grabbed him by the coattail:

“Papa! Mamma wants oo to det my bottle of milk!” “Stung!” shrieked Slim. : ¢

“Back to the nursery!” howled Malcolm, and then as Buck crawled away to home and mother we let out a yell

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Slim was pale but game. “Sometimes!” he answered. - “Do you like a goot seegar?’ queried Sledgeheimer. We looked for the engine to hit a cow any minute now. “Sure!” said Slim, weak all over.

“Vell,” saild Sledgeheimer, “here is my brudder-in-law’s card. He makes dot Grass Vidow seegar on Sigsth Afenue. Gif him a call und mention my name. He vill be glat to gee you, yet.” - ~ Then Sledgeheimer went away back

The laugh was on Slim, so he dared us all into the cafe, and after he got busy with the button we all voted in favor of a Monticello highball. After we had dampened our thirsts, Bill Burress showed us hoyv Hammerstein would Americanize “Bingen on the Rhine.” Bill called it “Der Empire,” in honor of the Empire State Express, Frank Westerton said. (English joke—rotten!) This is how Bill spieled it: An Empire of der Big League lay dying, full mit fears; dare vas lack of players’ nursing; aber nit of players’ tears, but a cop policeman vatched him vile. his life’s bleed ebbed away, und bent mit pidying glances to hear’vot

Ha ,/\“ ////j) j’ . / - (N 2 : N Vil ;:___}f’ﬁ i . ;‘(,gzz’/l;{\)'\ i W Y )] N S ’, 0 /N Buck Turned a Few More Volts Into His Twinkling Lamps. did he say. Der dying Empire filtered as he took dot copper’s hant, und he set: “I nefer more vil see my own, my native lant; took a message und a token to some distant friends of mine, for I vas born at Dopeville—at Dopeville down der Line!” 7 “Tell my dear, short-sighted brothers ven dey meet und crowd arount to hear my mournful story, dot I brafely helt my grount; dot I foozled my decisions und I googooed at der mob, all howling for my heart’s blood (ours is a fearful chob); full many a kicker, ghastly vite, hard on der bench I sat until some players sneaked behind und soaked me mit a bat; Sen I qvite svift und suttenly ve 0 a decline, no more vill I see Dopeville—dear Dopeville down der Line!

“Tell Pulliam his udder sons must comfort his olt age!—ach, how .I luffed to put dis head of mine mitin a. cage! For my father vas an Empire bold, und efen as a.child my heart chumped fort to hear him tolt of struggles fierce und vild, und ven he died unde left us all ve hat to ttook our choice I let dem half yust vot dey vished but kept my father's woice, und mit boyish yells I. practiced on der leedle olt cat nine on Sleepy Street in Dopeville—dear Dopeville down der Line!"

“Tell my brothers in der pitzness not to stood und bolt deir breath und vatch dem awful players celebrationing my death, but to look upon dem proutly, mit a cold und codfish eye, und fine dem to der limit—as I dit in days gone by; und if der players fuss demselfs, und mit deir words - eggsclaim, yust listen at dem brieflessly und chase dem from der game—for der Empire’s rank decisionings must be backed as I backed mine for der honor of olt Dopeville—sveet Dopeville down der Line!” b His voice chumped to a visper; his grasp vas childish veak; his eyes put on a played-out look, his speaker ceased to speak; der copper bent to lift him, t, chee viz! It vas too late! Der ire of der Big League vas ouid—oui er plate! Three strikes, py Chimineddy! wund he hat no chance to call like he used to dit do often: “Say! dot last vun vas a ball!” Vell, he’s gone, I eggspectation, vare der voodbine does der tvine, but dare’s plendy more at Dopeville—dear Dopeville down her Line! By this time we had reached Utica, and I had to quit them. Yours as usual, (Copyright, 1908, by G. W. Dillingham Co.)

WORTHY OF FLAG SHE CARRIED. Historic Incident Participated in by American Warship. Of the old sloop of war St. Mary’s,, now ‘to be consigned in her sixty-fifth year to the tender mercies of the auction, it is written that she bore no conspicuous part in war in all her long service. This may be true, but the St. Mary’s was once associated with an event which is worthy of commemoration. Under the command of the late Capt. Colvocoresses she was the means, 40 or more years ago, of postponing the bombardment of Valparaiso by the Spanish flest. She was anchored before the city, and the Spanish admiral hinted that she was in the line of fire. Capt. Colvocoresses remarked that he was perfectly satisfied with his berth, and that while the St. Mary's carried but 22 guns, she represented a navy that had 2,200 guns at sea. Valparaiso was eventually bombarded, but not while Capt. Colvocoresses was present. The peculiar name of the ship commemorates an early colonial capital of Maryland. It was given in the samse spirit of historical association as was illustrated by the Jamestown and the Plymouth, her sister ships.

Fish Chased Ashore by Whales.

A serious menace to health is threatened at Nahant by the large quantity of fish which have been thrown up on the beaches and rocks following, it is believed, the appearance of porpoises and large fish, supposed to be whales, Although the fishermen gather them as fast as the tide recedes, many are overlooked. It is the opinion of the natives that the fish, which include mackerel, hake, pollock and:herring, all small in size, have been forced ashore by the larger fish, ‘whlc'nﬂo?:n; invaded the 'vaters r ly ~— Boston

FIGHTER WHO ASPIRES TO BEAT NELSON

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PITCHER JOSS MAKES PLEA FOR “SPITTER”

Says Any Time a Twirler Has It Working, He Is Practically Invincible.

BY ADDIE JOSS. The proposed abolition of the *“spit ball” by certain members of the = rules committee is : *‘ causing much spec- \, ulation among fans and players as to [ P whether or not N such a move would be advisable. / ~ The general im- \ pression seems to N / prevail that it will ot //, '] not be done. Even NN ” 1 though the “spitter” is abolished, the chances are it will not be done away with until the pitchers who use it have had at least a year in which to become proficient in the common or garden variety of foolers. . There is no question but what this form of delivery has had, and always will have, a bad effect on the hitting end of the game. Any time a pitcher has the “spit ball” working, and by tha; is meants having it break low and fast, he is practically unhittable. The “saliva slant” takes more of a break than an ordinary curve ball, and what is more, when handled by an expert, it can be made to break either in or out. . It is practically impossible for the batter to follow this break in the ball, and hence his inability to hit it successfully. / Fans seem to have taken a dislike to this form of pitching; particularly when the opposing flinger has the home batters on the run with it. ; When the home twirler is making monkeys of the opposition with the “spitter” there is very little said agalnst it. Another reason given for its abolition is that it causes the fielders to make | errors, which otherwise would not have occurred.

- This is -especially true where an infielder, who is obliged to make a hurried play, grabs the ball on the moistened side. A wild peg is the usual result.

But after all is said and done it is unlikely that the ‘‘spitter” will be abolished, for it would hardly be fair to the men who depend on this form of delivery for their success. The pitcher who uses the *“damp shoot” is only taking advantage of his peculiar skill in this line, investigation. having shown that there is something besides merely wetting the ball which makes it so hard to hit. 2 .

It took Ed. Walsh, Comiskey’s great pitcher, a couple of years to acquire the “spitter}" and it would surely be a hardship to deprive him of the use of it after he has worked it to a point where it is a near-science. If it is abolished plenty of time should be given to the ‘“spit ballers” to acquire some other form of defivery with which they can retain their effectiveness. Oneé season will sgurely not be too long. e Dorando Coming to, America. - Dorando, the-Italian runner, who finished first, but was disqualified, in the Marathon race at the London Olympic games, is coming to America. It is expected that he will race against well-known American long distance runners at Madison Square garden November 25. John J. Hayes, winner of the Marathon; Tom Longboat, the Canadian Indian runner, and A. A. Shrubb, the English professional champion, who has been employed at Harvard as a coach, have been invited to meet the Italian at that time. | A ‘ h‘ﬂdﬁ j S 4>4 32\ ; & S SEuIrrER SENT :«E: f‘ =5 Sunt 70 COLIFGE, ' 1/ Dvr . : Eim ORI ; L/ crirs Aracx! 40 ’ ¢ 2 A Ky Joarrr yrve 700 ' e&*&w D Darzars 5 ,'.:,." : . v K AN ArD cor 4 . 1 Byl G sex A KRB NS S @.m e O T oLI e s

NO NEW STARS PRODUCED DURING 1908 GOLF SEASON

Records Show More Boys Playing Than Ever, But Youthful “Phenoms” Are Lacking.

The 1908 golf season was not a rec: ord breaker so far as developing youthful “phenoms.” .In fact, it is quite evident that the past season has been unusually barren in this particu lar, although tournament records throughout the country show moré boys playing the.game than ever be fore. :

In the recent national championshiy at Garden City, N. J., the younger ele ment cut practically no figure. By this it is not meant to infer that the honors were carried off by battle scarred veterans. On the contrary, most of the glory rewarded the efforts of young men, but not boys. i A glance at the names of the fou: that adorned the semi-final bracket— Max Behr, Fred Herreshoff, Jerome D Travers and Walter J. Travis—fails tc reveal anything bordering on extremt youth. Behr graduated from Yale several years ago, while Herreshoft who lost to Behr in this semi-final round, missed by the narrowest o} margins a chance to reach the final a distinction he gained in 1904 at Baltusrol, when he was a youthfu prodigy. So far as Champion Travers is concerned, this remarkable golfer cel ebrated his twenty-first birthday last May, which was\after he had gained the triple crown of national, metropolitan and New Jersey title holder. It is, therefore, hardly fitting to refer ta. Travers any longer as “the boy.” The blush of youth has long since faded from the cheek of Walter Travis. In fact, almost from the time he became prominent as a golfer he has frequently been referred to as the “Old Man.” Always playing with head |as well ag hands, Travis has been able, in scores of notable encounters, to more thau offset the greater brilliancy of his youthful opponents by exercising rare judgment at critical stages. There have been times, however, when even with this great exponent of the game execution has not kept pace with intention. , = Because Albert Seckel, a western entrant, enjoyed the distinction of being the youngest player in the recent championship his movements were watched with more than passing interest, but the boy did nothing to startle any one. ‘ £ When Warren K. Wood carried Travers to the home green during the national tournament at Euclid a year ago the Chic&o boy was promptly proclaimed as the coming champion, yet he failed to qualify at Garden City.

WINTER - DIAMOND GOSSIP Rumor has it that Davy Jones will play left field for Detroit next year and Mecllntyre will be traded. Factional trouble is said to be the cause. Mcllveen, the Highlanders’ recent recruit, is a football player of no mean ability. \ He is now assisting in coaching Penn State. : Hans Wagner says that now he has reconsidered his retirement stunt, he will try to put Cy Young's reputation’ as a sticker to the bad. It is hinted that Harry Wolverton, who won two pennants for Williamsport in the Tri-State, will manage the Newark team in the Eastern league next year. f Bill Armour intends to turn loose all players who refuse to obey Armour’s orders, no matter how valuable they may be.. : ‘ - Jimmy Stephens and Sid Smith will probably do the bulk of the catching for the St. Louis- Browns next yeayr, provided Hack Spencer is sent to new and greener pastures. : . Brooklyn fans nicknamed Outfielder Tom Catterson “Tom Cat.” " Fred Merkle left an order with =a news clipping bureau before going into wintes hiding. : ; ~ Bill Dineen has put three teams out of the runni)xg',,during his career as a big leaguer” He spoiled the Yankees’ and Naps' chances in the American and beat the Pirated in the deciding game of the big series, s& “ﬁ#iiwa%éﬁh i R f%’tﬁ';g secsiy

JENNINGS SERIOUSLY THINKING OF PLAYING STAR ON INITIAL : SACK' NEXT SEASON. ) GEORGIAN HANKERSAFTER JOB. Many Combinations Can Be Figured Out Wheretby Tigers Would Benefit—Would Inject Spice Into Infield Work—ls Natural Ball Player and Could Play Any Position® : Ty Cobb a first-baseman? Maybe or maybe not, but the truth is that Manager Jennings is already thinking seriously of playing the Georgian on the initial bag. The suggestion was made to Hughey before he left Detroit and found favor at once. Jennings replied at the time and with all seriousness: : “Stranger things have happened.” Many combinations can be figured out whereby the champs would :be benefitéd. Cobb is a natural ball player. He hankers to play first and thinks that he would make good at the jump. - At the same time such a shift would necessarily leave a vacancy in the outfield, but fortunately Manager Jennings has a good player in Davy Joues. : . The club is possessed of another good outfielding first-baseman. Sam Crawford has jumped into the breach a number of times and has always delivered the goods acceptably. Many will argue that Crawford would in the course: of time mature into one of the best first-sackers in the business. They

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say he is naturally adapted to theposition, being a left-handed thrower and thus able to complete plays to second and third bags. !

Cobb, too, would ‘make an ideal player for the position. He is able to reach out either way and gobble up wide throws and his natural speed and ginger would inject not a little spice into the infield work. This was sadly needed during this season just passed and Manager Jennings will go to extremes to accomplish improvement in the inner workings of the Tiger machinery. i .

The first base problem, of course, will hardly be settled before the time comes for actual experimenting next spring. It comes from a good authority, however, that Jennings thinks most favorably of the proposition to play Cobb on first -and that the Georgian himself is eager to take a whirl at the job. Cobb is a natural ball player and can make gocd in almost any position. ' o

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Centers seldom take any part in the scoring, but Nourse of Harvard saved hig team from defeat in the Annapolis game by getting the ball on a fumble and running 50 yards for a score. {

Yale is said to be advocating a change in the footbalt rules which will designate five yards as a gain for a first down when a team has possession of the ball between its own goal line and the middle of the field, and for’the present ten yards between the middle of the field and the opponents’ goal. Six touchdowns in 25 minutes against a freshman team is not a bad showing for a varsity team. Wisconsin did this in practice the other day, and Cardinal rooters are more than hopeful of winning the western title. = A unique custom &t Annapolis is for the cheer leader, at the beginning of the games, to make announcements regarding the success or failure to get. up bets. For instance, during the first half of the Harvard-Navy game, the fellow leading the cheering and songs shouted through his megaphone: “Boys, the $252 put up in room 12 has been covered. I .can’t tell yet what has been done about the money in e - o e - A number of former Michigan stars have rushed to Ann Arbor to assist M. o nd “Will Heston

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