Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 218, 8 September 1907 — Page 2

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THE RICII3IOXD PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1907

LOCAL ARID GENERAL SPORTS

DOUBLE HEADER ill ATHLETIC GROUNDS

Richmond Team Will Try to Take Van Wert Into Camp For Two Games.

VISITORS STRENGTHENED.

FLEMING WILL PITCH THE FIRST GAME FOR THE LOCALS AND HORN WILL WORK IN THE SEC " OND ONE.

f-O. LEAGUE STANDING. Won. Lost. Pet. Decatur 22 16 .579 Richmond 21 16 .568 Portland 18 17 .518 Kokomo 19 18 .513 Van Wert 15 19 .441 Bluffton 13 23 .395

Games Sunday. Van Wert at Richmond (2 games). Portland at Kokomo (2 games.) Bluffton at Decatur. Results Saturday. Decatur, 9; Bluffton, 0. Richmond-Van Wert (rain). Kokomo-Portland (rain). Richmond and Van Wert will play off a double header this afternoon at Athletic park and the two contests probably will draw a record breaking attendance. Van Wert has been con

siderably strengthened since the out

fit last played here and is now one of the fastest teams in the league. Man

ager Jessup hopes to capture both of

the games but the Quakers will be fortunate if they split even. Double

headers seem to afflict the local players with stage fright. The batteries a announced for the first game, which will be called ; promptly at 2 o'clock, are as follows r: Richmond Fleming and Jessup. Van Wert Romine and Farnam. Second GameRichmond Horn and Jessup. Van Wert Hay and Farnam. Romine has never been a difficult proposition for the "locate and it is probable that they will connect with his curves again this afternoon still you never can tell In baseball. Hay is pitching in his mid-season form again and will give the Quakers a run for their , money. Richmond hit the ball hard in the recent Decatur series and it Is hoped that they will keep up the good stick work until the close of the season.

THE BASEBALL RESULTS

NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDIN Won. lxst Chicago 92 37 Pittsburg 73 51 New York 74 52 Philadelphia C7 55 Krooklyn 59 68 Cincinnati 52 75 Boston .. .. .. .45 76 St. Louis 40 89

G. Pet. .713 .595 J5S7 .549 .465 .410 .372 .310

TO BE ONE OF

FAIR'S BIG RACING DAYS

Saturday's Results. Philadelphia l.N' ew York 0, (first game.) Philadelphia 5, New York 9, (second game.) Chicago 5, PIttsburs 4. Brooklyn 3, Boston 1, (first game.) Brooklyn 2, Boston 0,( second game.) Cincinnati 4, St. Louis 3.

AMERICAN ASSN. STANDING.

Won Loat Pet Columbus .. .. .. .S4 59 .587 Toledo 81 60 .583 Minneapolis 74 69 .518! Louisville 11 74 .490 Milwaukee 72 .490 Indianapolis .. .. ..70 75 .483 Kansas City 69 75 .479 St. Paul 52 89 .369

Saturday's Result Columbus 4, Toledo 2. Louisville 1, Indianapolis ft Milwaukee 11, St. Paul 3. Kansas City 7, Minneapolis 1.

Rain Prevents Kokomo, Ind., Sept.

Game.

7 Rain pre

vented the game between Kokomo and

roruauxl lUUilJf ituu it uuuurc uvauti lis planned for tomorrow. BLUFFTON SHUT OUT. Saturday's Contest Was an Easy One For Decatur. Decatur, Ind., Sept. 7. Bluffton went down in defeat here today to the tune of 0 to O before the leaders and was never In the running. Kehl, who

pitched for Decatur, was, in rare form and held the visitors safe at all stages, only five hits being secured off his delivery. He forced seven men to fan. Guhl, who worked for Bluffton, was easy, and was hit at will, thirteen safe drives being secured off him. They all came when hits meant runs. The only error credited to the locals was made by shortstop Wallace, who was too hasty In attempting a double play. The feature of the game was the hiting of WItham and Burns, the playing of first base by Witham For the visitors shortstop Tfifferly, put up the most brilliant game. Score: R. II. E. Bluffton . ..OOOOOOOO O-O 5 4 Decatur . .3 0400101 x O 13 1 Batteries Guhl and Fogel; Kelhl and Qulnn. Two base hits Witham, Burns, Kiehl. Three base hit Wallace. Bases on balls Off Kiehl, 1; off Guhl, 4. Struck out By Kiehl, 7; by Guhl, 1. Stolen bases Johnson, 4; Behringer, 1. Hit by pitched ball Pfifferly. Double plays Behringer to Witham, Wallace to Behringer to Witham. Sacrifice hits Pierce,. Burns, Johnson. Ryan, Behringer. Time 1:30. Umpire Arundel.

AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING. Won Lost Pet Philadelphia 76 48 .613 Detroit 74 48 .607 Chicago 74 52 .587 Cleveland 72 53 .576 New York 56 68 .451 Boston 56 72 .438 St. Louis 50 72 .410 Washington S8 83 .314

Saturday's Results. Philadelphia 8, New York 4. Detroit 4, Cleveland 3. Chicago 4, St.. Louis 0. Washington 1, Boston 0, (1st game.) Washington 4, Boston 1, (2d game.)

The Speed Program Promises Excellent Sport. NINETEEN EVENTS ON CARD.

Indianapolis, Sept. 7. Indiana's great state fair, with the biggest racing program in its history, will be opened Monday. There will be five days of racing, with four races each day. As last year, Monday will be one of the biggest days and cne of the biggest crowds of the week 13 expected.

The first race on the program will be the pacing division of the Western Horseman stake for a purse of $2,100. A big field ' will face the starter. Thursday is expected to be the other big day, although the racing program Is so evenly balanced that there is really little difference. Almost 300 trotters and pacers are now quartered at the track. The racing program follows: , . ' Monday, September 9. Class Purse Western Horseman stake, three-year-old pacers, two in three (closed) $2,100 2:12 trot 800 2:16 pace 800 2:30 stake trot (closed) 2,000 Tuesday, September 10.

Free-for-all pace 2:18 trot

stake race (closed) trot Wednesday, September 11

stake trot (closed) . . pace trot trot

INSECT EXGIXEEEING

FEATS OF THE CARPENTER BEE AND THE TUMBLEBUG.

The Sexton Beetle Is Expert GraTrdiffgrr Wonderful Skill of the Spider and the Great Strata That Hfa Elaatie Web Will Bear.

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CENTRAL LEAGUE CLOSE

COMESJTH TODAY

Springfield, Grand Rapids and

Canton Unsettled.

DAYTON NOT SATISFIED.

GOING TO WEST SONORA. New Paris, O., Sept 7 The New Paris ball team will place the West Sonora ball team at the latter place, Sunday.

WON AT THE LIBERTY FAIR. Cambridge City, Ind., Sept. 7 Bira Boyd won three straight heats and first money in the 2:40 trot with May Barns at the Liberty fair; best time, 2:26.

Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 7 The Cen

tral League race, which will end to

morrow, is decided, except as between

Evansville, Canton and Terre Haute

which are bunched within a range of

eleven points for third position, as they were a week ago, and in the order

named. The Springfield leaders im

proved their standing from .639 to .651 in the week, and Wheeling, in second

place, from .559 to .573. Dayton

Grand Rapids and South Bend trail off

to the bottom of the column, with no chance for a change before the end in

their relative positions, which is es pecially disappointing to Dayton whose fans believed Malachl Kittridge

the new manager, could land the club in the first division. Now they are calling for another manager for next

season. Seven men have served In

that capacity in two seasons.

ARRANGE A POST-SEASON SERIES

Connersville, Ind., Sept. 7 The Connersville team will go to Hamilton, Sunday, where it will open a post-sea

son series with the Krebs. The Krebs beat Connersville out in the K. I. O. race, but the teams quit on even terms

each winning one game.

BATS AT GREAT CLIP.

Toledo, O., Sept. 7 Ernie Diehl, the

Cincinnati infielder, is batting at a

great clip for Toledo. His average up

to date is .357.

WILL GO TO CONNERSVILLE.

Cambridge City, Ind., Sept. 7 The Little Giants base ball club will go to Connersville Sunday where it will

have a game with a team of its caliber An exciting contest is expected.

TALKING OF A GUN CLUB.

Economy, Ind., Sept. 7 There Is talk of organizing a gun club here this

fall with the following sportsmen

back of it: Anderson, Cook, Edwards,

Atkinson, Massy and Will Stoltz.

GOSNELL WINS IN PENNSYLVANIA Cambridge City, Ind., Sept. 7 Curt

Gosnell won first money with May Ross, J. S. Lackey's green trotter, and third money with Flying Jim at the

races near Pittsburg, Penn.

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Long before man had thought of the saw the saw fly ha.d used the same tool, made after the same fashion and used in the same way, for the purpose of making slits in the branches of trees so that she might have a secure place to deposit Ler eggs. The carpenter bee, with only the tools which nature has given her, cuts a round hole, the full diameter of her body, through thick boards and so makes a tunnel by which she can have a safe retreat in which to rear her young.' The tumbkbug, without derrick or machinery, rolls over large masses of dirt many times her own weight, and the sexton beetle will in a few hours bury beneath the ground the carcass of a comparatively large .animal. All these feats require a degree of Instinct which in a reasoning creature would be called engineering skill, but none of them Is as wonderful as the feats performed by the spider. This extraordinary little animal has the faculty of propelling her threads directly against the wind, and by means of her slender cords she can haul up and suspend bodies which are many tiircs her own weight. Some years ago a paragraph went the rounds of the papers in which it was said that a spider had suspended an unfortunate mouse, raising it from the ground and leaving it to perish miserably between heaven and earth. Would bo philosophers made great fun of the statement and ridiculed it unmercifully. I know not how true it was, but I know that it ruiht have been true. Some years ago ia the village of Havana in the state of New York a spider

entangled a inilsuake in her threads and actually raised it some distance from the ground, and this, too, in spite of the struggles of the reptile, which was alive. By what process of engineering did this comparatively small and feeble insect succeed in overcoming and lifting up by mechanical means the mouse or the snake? The solutiou is easy enough if we only give the question a little thought. The spider Is furnished with one of the most efficient mechanical implements known to engineers viz, a

(closed) ' $4 100 1 stronS elastic thread. That the thread

is ouuujj is wen kliuwu. luuetu, mere

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$ 800 800 2.000 800

,..$2,000 800 ... 800 800

pace 800

Thursday, September 12. Western Horseman stake, three-

year-old trotters, two in three

stake pace (closed) 2.000 trot 800 pace 800 Friday, September 13. trot $ S00

pace 800

Free-for-all trot

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CAMBRIDGE GRAYS TO MEET WONDERLANDS A Good Ball Game Is Expected At Cambridge City Today.

A CHANGE l!I THE LINEUP.

Cambridge City, Ind., Sept. 7. The line-up for the Grays Sunday afternoon will be a change from that of previous games, as Shiverdecker will be on short and Murley in the box, with Boyd the twirler from Greensfork, on the bench. The other positions will be fielded the same as heretofore. No doubt it will be an exciting and close contest, as the Wonderlands put up a good game when they visited here before. The local team has been strengthened since that time and anticipates a victory.

Tiarowics Mod. fnless words without meaning are used a person's vocabulary must be bounded by his knowledge. Many years ago I was teaching a class of poor children in the school connected with the Church of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. One day I exhibited a picture of a hayfield with men carting hay. I asked the children what the men were throwing tip into the cart. They answered, without a moment's hesitation, "Mud!" It then occurred to me for the first time that these children had never seen a hayfield or the carting of hay, but the scavenger's cart, carting mud, they were quite familiar with, and hence they spoke within their knowledge. London Notes and Queries.

The Word "Tar." Why is the word "tar" a synonym for "sailor?" Some dictionaries say that the allusion Is to the seaman's tarry hands and clothes the "savour of tar" of Stephano's song In "The

Tempest." Burns uses "tarrybreeks

as equivalent to '"sailor." But It is re

garded a3 much more probable that

"tar" is short for "tarpaulin," since Clarendon and other writers colloquial

ly use "tarpaulin to signify a seaman. Of course, this ultimately gets back to tp.r, a tarpaulin being a tarred "palling, or covering (the same word as "pall"). Sure of His Cbotr. A peppery New England parson who was disturbed by Jhis choir during prayer time got even with them when he gave out his closing hymn by adding, "I hope the entire congregation will Join lu singing their grand old hymn, and I know the choir will, for I heard them humming it during the prayer." A Carlo. Reggy Frappe Yes. I met the chawming Miss Flasher when she was on her tour, and she asked me for my picture, weally. Miss Tabasca Yes, I heard her say she was collecting pictures of all the curious objects she ran across in this country. Chicago News.

. . . The Exceptions. . Mrs. White And do you mean to say that you and your husband always agree about everything? Mrs. BlackAlways except, of course, now and then, when he's out of humor or pigheaded, or something of that sort. London. Aasvrec I

are few substances that will support a greater strain than the silk of the silkworm or the spider, careful experiment having shown that for equal sizes the strength of these fibers exceeds that of common iron. But notwithstanding its strength the spider's thread would be useless as a mechanical power if it were not for its elasticity. The spider has no blocks or pulleys, and therefore it cannot cause the thread to divide up and run in different directions, but the elasticity of the thread more than makes up for this and renders possible the lifting of an animal much heavier than a mouse or a snake. This may require a little explanation. Let us suppose that a child can lift a six pound weight one foot high and do this twenty times a minute. Furnish him with 350 rubber bands, each capable of pulling six pounds through one foot when stretched. Let these bands be attached to a wooden platform on which stands a pair of horses weighing 2,100 pounds, or rather more than a ton. If now the child will go to work and stretch these rubber bands singly, hooking each one up as it is stretched, in less than twenty minutes he will have raised the pair of horses one foot. We thus see that the elasticity of the rubber bands enables the child to divide the weight of horses Into 350 pieces of six pounds each, and, at the rate of a little less than one every three seconds, he lifts all these separate pieces one foot, so that the child easily lifts this enormous weight. Each spider's thread acts like one of the elastic rubber bands. Let us suppose that the mouse or snake weighed half an ounce and that each thread is capable of supporting a grain and a half. The spider would have to connect the mouse with the point from which it was to be suspended with 150 threads, and if the little quadruped was once swung off his feet he would be powerless. By pulling successively on each thread, and shortening it a little, the mouse or snake might be raised to any height within the capacity of the building or structure in which the work was done. So that to those who have ridiculed the story we may justly say, "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy." What object the spider could have had in his work I am unable to see. It may have been a dread of the harm which the mouse or snake might work or it may have been the hope that the decaying carcass would attract flies, which would furnish food for the engineer. I can vouch for the truth of the

snake story, however, and the object of this article is to explain and render credible a very extraordinary feat of Insect engineering. Follies of Science.

Era of Actlnm. The "era of Actiuno," adopted during the early days of the Roman empire, commemorates the great victory gained by Octavius over the troops of Antony and Cleopatra, Jan. 1, B. C. 30. It was often used among the Romans both In writing and colloquially, just as In England people speak of events as occurring before or after the conquest, or as persons In this country frequently refer to events as having happened before or after the war.

A straight life is the tanee between honesty Saturday Evening Pest.

shortest disand honor

A Specimen or Res! Irish Wrt. The kirg heard one real Irish yarn la Ireland. On the train there was a typical Irish .honeymooning couple. You never beard sveh sweet blarneying tones in your life as came from the happy groom. Every time the girl spoke there waa "I will, my jooL" and "Ochoae, ay Jool," and "To be sure, my jool," uttrly oblivious of other auditors. At last the blushing bride bridled. "Whist, Tim darlin not so much Jool." "An why not, Jool?" "Whist, I tell ye; there's thavea

THE FALLOT HATIOHS How Great World Powers Have Passed Into History.

MOST HAVE DIED FIGHTING.

The Struggle Between the Empire cf the East and the Empire of the West. Venice, Its Secret Three and Its Long Reign of Terror. Most countries which have died have gone down fighting. The Roman empire perished like that, and by the irony of fate the power of the Caesars came to an end far away from Rome. After it had existed for centuries the Roman empire became so vast and unwieldy that it had to Ik divided into two, the empire of the west and the empire of the east. The capital of the former was Rome. The empire of the west became so weak at last that it couid make no stand against its enemies. Rome was sacked by tha barbarians and eventually became not the capital of a vast empire, but the city of the popes, over which the ponti.Ts reigned as kings. The temporal jiower of the popes lasted till 1S70, while the capital of Italy was first Turin and then Milan. Finally the city was takea without a real fight by the soldiers of the king of Italy. The empire of the east had its capital at Constantinople. For centuries it was the greatest power In the world. But it became honeycombed with vice and enervated with pride and luxury; also it grew old and weak. Then ia 1422 the Turks made a tigerish spring

on Constantinople and took it by storm. The last of the Greek emperors died sword in hand, and his descendants are living in Englaud today in very

humble situational. Fgypt, once so powerful and so famous under the pharaohs, was conquered by Rome and was afterward swamped by the Moslems. The crescent was supreme ia the land of the Nile, and the aforetime haughty Egyptians were slaves for a thousand years. The great moguls used to reign in India. In the days of Queen Elizabeth the mogul or emperor of Delhi, as he was sometimes called was so power ful that he thought it a vast condescension on his part to receive an embassy from the maiden queen. But as time went on the groat rajahs, or tributary kings, rebelled against the moguls. India was rent asunder by the wars between rival rajahs. This gave the Europeans a chance. France at first heid the upper hand and nearly conquered the land, but then England drove France back and seized the empire of the great moguls for herself. The heir of the moguls, bj the way, still enjoys a pension given by the British government as a compensation for the throne lost by his ancestors. Poland used to occupy a big place on t';e mr,.:. of Evi-'v ,t one time

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was much larger aud stronger than Russia. The czar of Russia aud the emperor of Austria were only too glad to be on good terras with the king of Poland, and there was no king of Prussia in those days. Noble adventurers from all parts of the world Cocked to the PeUeh capital at Warsaw, eager to terve In the Polish armies. The Duke of Monmouth, son of King Charles II. of England, thought of dclng this. But Poland priihed through her own faults and follies. The mass of the common people were slaves in all but name. They were not allowed to move from one part of the country to another without leave, they could not own a foot ef land, and they could never be sure that they might not be sold by the great noble they served to a new master; hence the nobles and the people never stood together In times of danger or disaster. Poland was a big country, but it wan divided against Itself, and Russia Prussia and Austria combined wore more powerful. They all three Joined hands, and each took a large share of Poland in 1772. That waa the "first partition of Poland." The Poles submitted tamely, for they were still divided. In 1703 the trio of robbers made u second swoop. Only the ghost of Poland was left. Another year saw the end. of the tragedy. The last remnants of Poland were swallowed up by Russia, Prussia and Austria. The fate of the republic of Venice Is one of the most dramatic in all history. For hundreds of years the City of the Lagoons was one of the most powerful states In the world. Its doges ranked ns the equals of the proudest kings. Its alliance was coveted by the greatest powers. Its government was one of sheer terrorism. Tho doge was har-dly more than a splendid figurehead. All real rower rested In the

nanus oi ij uivudea council of ten and the secret three. The latter were a trio of living mysteries and were known by name to practically no one in Venice. Sometimes a man was one of th secret three and his own wife and children never dreamed It. Their most dreaded servants were masked mutes. If a Venetian, no matter how high his rnnk, was denounced by the council of teu or the secret three, he knew he was no better than a dead njan. So the government of Venice was a terror to its own people and the outslda world. Then Napoleon, came upon tho scene, aad "the lion of St. Mark licked the dust." Pearson's Weekly.

"I have generally found that fan man who Is pood at an excuse Is rood for dothlnr else," said Franklin to a norvavt who was always late, but always ready Hth an excuse.

Superstitious Bonaparte. The Bona partes always were sopec stltlous, especially the mother of Napoleon. She always had a presentiment that the rise and fall of her family would occur In the same century, that the glory which waa prophesied for tbem would be followed by disaster. And the prediction waa verified. She died in her eighty-seventh year, having lived long enough to see the downfall of all her children. Napoleon I always feared Dec. 2 as an unlucky day, and It la related of him that before every Important battle ha would throw. dice to ascertain If ba were to lose or win. The "red men' whom he always saw going to battla with him was a delusion that caused him much suffering. '

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