Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 103, 19 February 1909 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY", FEBRUARY 19, 1909.

SPORTMEH HAPPY BY BILL'S DEFEAT r Claim Quail Will Have Chance To Propagate by Being Protected Two Years.

FARMERS TO FEED BIRDS SNOW AND ICE COVERING THE GROUND MAKES IT HARD FOR THEM TO FINE FOOD UNLESS IT 18 PROVIDED. local sportsmen arc rejoicing over the defeat of the bill in the .state senate making it unlawful to kill quail for ft period of two years. Senator Strange of Grant covnty, argued that the quail was one of the best friends the farmer had and advocated the passage of the measure. Senators Wood and Springer opposed the passage of the bill as they said it would be an injustice to the hunters and farmers. They held that hunters were frienda ot the bird and the Jaw was unnecessary. If , the present weather conditions continue the hunters say there will be no need of a law for the protection of quail as there will be none to protect, with the ground covered with a thick covering of ice and several inches o now on top of that the birds will starve to death unless farmers come to their rescue and place food where they can get it. Almost all foodstuff on which the quails feed during the winter is encased in Ice and the birds are facing starvation. If the farmers wish to protect them they should see that they get food, says a local sportsaan. CORBETfS NEXT "BATTL6." Former Champion to Try His Skill Against Freddie Walsh Fab. 20. Young Corbett, the former featherweight champion, is making a desperate effort to "come back" and regain the lost prestige that followed his defeat by Jimmy Britt in 1904. The little Denverlte's recent achievements In the roped arena have won him commendation among the ring contingent from coast to coast, and the popular little glove wielder Is praised generally for his plucky attempt to regain his lost laurels. . . Just a little over slat months ago Corbett witnessed a bout In New York between two so called stars who were exchanging wallops like two novices. Corbett turned to Joe Bernstein, a former pugilist, and said: "Have you aeeo any real fighters around here FRBDDXS WKLSB A!D TOUKO CORBETT. lately? By gosh, I'm going away and get Into shape and then see how good those fellows are." Off he went to a road bouse the next day to begin training all over again, And the old guard, smiled. "Jnst another down and outer looking for a shoestring," they said. Theft came the news that the once great champion had won his fight on the occasion of his return to the little square arena. Phil Brock, a fresh, hard bitting lad, fell before the science and brainy work of McOovern's conqueror. That same old guard couldn't believe that Corbett had any fight left in him. He remained In New Orleans, and Harry Ferns was sent for. It looked as if Corbett would be shown up this time. But, no. Corbett wasn't knocked out wltb the first punch fact Is, he knocked Harry Ferns out after having been put down himself. Ferns was never thought to be a coming champion, but still he was good enough to fight Frankle Madden two bruising battles, and Madden has recently been the star In several New York entertainments. Corbett Is matched to fight Freddie Welsh, the English featherweight, twenty-five rounds . before the , West Side Athletic club in New Orleans, Feb. 20. In Welsh, Corbett will meet one of the cleverest men that ever donned the mitts. He has defeated many of our crack lightweights and has a draw with Packy McFarland to Ma credit '

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The American Association season opens at Indianapolis April 14, when Toledo fuiTiishes the opposition to the home team. Local rooters will be pulling for the capital city boys again this season if they give any promise of a likely bunch. Simon Pauxiis a university of Pennsylvania star athlete has signed to play ball with the New York Americans. What's in a name? George Cohan, the musical comedy star is credited with saving Mike DonHn to the New York Giants. Donlin wanted $S.n and the management would pay but !$i,O0O. Cohan is said to have come forward and made an of fer to pay the difference and keep Mike. Splendid races are being run at Oakland, Cal. The purses are large and the cards of the last few days have beeu excellent. Terry Turner's arm is still bad. In a letter to Lajote the cotton top writes that his "wing Is still mighty sore," and he does not think that he will be able to play for some time. They are having a great deal of fun at that Chicago meeting of baseball WABASH HORSE SALE Kaugherty Brothers Will Have Largest Sale in History Of This State. ANIMALS FOR EXPORT Wabash, Feb. 19. Every preparation Is teeing made at the Daugherty pavilion for one of the largest horse sales that has ever been held in this country, beginning March 16, when animals with fancy prices and fast track records will be placed before the buyers, among whom will be some of the largest owners and breeders of the world. There will be at least 300 of the fine animals sold during the week and on Saturday about 200 common horses, suitable for farm work, will be placed on the market for the benefit of local buyers. All Are Fine Horses. All the horses to be sold during the first part of the sale will be fancy ones. Horses that have made records on the track, and saddle horses which will bring high prices. They will be sold to buyers from all over the country, the horses themselves coming from nearly every stable in the United States. Some of them wilr be sold to English buyers who will take their purchases home for breeding purposes. Others will go to Mexico and Canada. HEW HOCKEY LEAGUE Chicago, Pittsburg, St. Louis and Cleveland In New Circuit. BASEBALL LAWS TO GOVERN. Promoters of New Organization Fop lea Sport to Follow Diamond Regulations as to Reserve and Waivers of Players. By TOMMY CLARK. If the present plans of the promoters do not fall through professional Ice hockey will receive quite a boom in this cotfhtry next winter. Recently in Chicago a new ice hockey league was formed, which is composed of three teams in Chicago and one each in St. Louis. Tittsburg and Cleveland and backed largely by baseball magnates, and will be governed by baseball laws in regard to players. A strong effort will be made to put the hockey league on practically the same basis as organized baseball, riayers will be forced to sign contracts and respect waivers and reserve clauses the same as under the national agreement. The promoters feel that by doing this they can in a measure keep their teams intact throughout the season, and that is Important, as a great deal of the success of a hockey team depends upon Its team work. A representative of the men who are interested In the forming of such an organization has made a tour of inspection to the various cities in this country In which the game is supported and In Canada, and his report has been favorable. It appears that this representative devoted a great deal of his time to solving the problem which has menaced the Western Pennsylvania Hockey league throughout the present seasonviz, the binding of the players. He bas reached the conclusion that the only way to overcome the contract Jumpers and "holdup' men is to draft rules much along the same lines that govern baseball and make the hockey players recognize drafts, waivers, purchases, etc.. just as the ball tossers have to. The men who are Interested in the founding of this new professional hockey league are very optimistic as to Its success. They fully be'ieve that the enthusiasm of the followers of the game can be aroused in the cities mentioned to such an extent that goodly profits would be made above expenses. President Charles A. Comiskey of the Chicago American league baseball club has been mentioned as one of the promoters of the new league. Comiskey has bad a lot of experience In the rink game, baring been Interested In the game in St Paul when be waa runalog the baseball team there, '

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I magnates. If they do not accomplish 'anything the owners will know that they met. The press comment tells what is thought about the meeting:, however. Abe Attell and Jem Driscoll of England, enter the ring tonight. Tomorrow Driscoll is to leave for England to box Moran. The Chicago Americans have asked for waivers on Catcher "Buck" Weaver and will probably send him to Minneapolis, as no club seems to want him. A Detroit statistician has figured out that Cobb drove in 101 runs last year to 85 driven in by Crawford. Begins to look as if York will be the eighth club in the Tri-State league circuit. Catcher Spencer, the man who was procured from the Browns, along with a cash consideration for Catcher Lou Criger, has accepted the terms offered him by the Red Sox. Billy Kiester, a major leaguer only a few years ago, must be nearly all in, as Buffalo has put him on the market for $400. WAGNER'S PRESS AGENT BUSY Pittsburg's Star 8hortstop Announces His Retirement From Baseball. Almost every baseball fan in the country knows that Honus Wagner of the Pittsburg Nationals is interested, with two of his brothers, in a circus which Is to take the road this spring. One of the first things Honus and bis brothers did was to engage a real live press agent, and the latter has started In. Here's his first contribution: John Honus Wagner, king of batters and king of shortstops, will play no more baseball; The king's edict was issued in the form of an interview in which the famous player sets forth his intention to retire permanently from the diamond and devote his remaining years to peaceful pursuits. Selling automobiles and conducting the circus he and his brothers will soon place on the road will take up Wagner's time in the future, be says. When Wagner was seen at his home In Carnegie and asked if the rumor concerning his retirement was correct he said: "Yes, sir. I shall not again play baseball," and the big shortstop emphasized his assertion with the air of one driving a tenpenny nail through each word to make it stick good and hard. "But your contract the fans are under the impression that you are tied up tight with the Pittsburg team for 1900," faltered the reporter. "Yes, I know, but as to a contract that was outside talk. . I never said I signed one. ' Mr. Dreyfuss has not sent me any contract for this year. I'm a has been. I am just beginning to find that out I used to be able to play some, but, I tell you. I'm a has been. Besides that, I can make more money out of the automobile business than I can out of baseball. "Then there's the circus that my brothers and myself are going to put on the road this year. All the time I can spare from the circus enterprise I shall devote to selling machines. Now, where is baseball coming in, even If I had not decided to leave the game)" Harness Racing Dates. At the annual meeting of the Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania trotting circuit, held recently in Wheeling, W. Ya., the following dates were agreed upon: Baltimore, June 8-11; Fairmont, W. Va., June 15-18; Clarksburg-, W. Va June 2225; Wheeling-. W. Va.. June 29-July 2; Canton. O., July 5-8: Rockport, O., July 13-18; Salem, O., July 30-23; East Liverpool, O., July 27-30; Greensburg-, Pa., Aug. 3-6; Dawson, Pa., Aug-. 10-13; Rockport. O., Aug. 17-20; Canal Dover, O., Aug-. 2326; Canton, Aug. 30-Sept. 3; Wheeling, Sept. 6-10; Fairmont. Sept. 14-17; Clarksburg. Sept. 21-24; Morgantown. Sept. 28Oct. 1; Cumberland, Oct. 5-8: Hagerrtcwn. Oct. 12-15; Baltimore, Oct. 19-22. I CURRENT SPORT NOTES. The University of Michigan baseball schedule provides for an eastern trip, during which the nine will meet Syracuse, Pennsylvania, Cornell and Brown. Hugo Kelly, the Chicago middleweight, and Joe Thomas, the California heavyweight, are to box ten rounds before the Fairmount Athletic club In New York, Feb. 23. Annapolis will have four dual athletic meets this spring. Besides Pennsylvania, on May 15, and Princeton, on May 22. Columbia and Johns Hopkins will be met later in the season. A baseball date, March 3, with many well known players on the alleys, will be a feature of the annual American bowling congress at Pittsburg. The series begins Feb. 27, lasting three weeks. The first cross country championship run given by the South Atlantic association of the Amateur Athletic union will be held in Washington, Feb. 22. The distance will be about six and a half miles. Jimmy Britt, who postponed his fight I with Adolphe, the Frenchman, until after his coming bout with Johnny j Summers, bas announced that he will ! take on the former early in the spring. : The fight Is scheduled for Feb. 22. An amateur championship basket ball tournament will be held In San Francisco from Feb. 15 to March C There will be five classes, according to weights, and trophies win be awarded winners. It will be held un der the auspices of the Pacific A. A, and .sixtj. teams axe exjuxtedjo .play. STRIKER OUT. The baseball bee is buzzing at Muncie and there is talk of the formation of a league. This city probably will be asked to join. Last year Richmond dropped from the Indiana-Ohio league acid it soon aiterwaxd hit-the

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Fans Busily Engaged Doping Out Positions of League Teams. EARLY SPRING TRAINING. Managers Not All Agreed as to Benefits to Ba Derived From Anti-Season Trips to Condition Men The Financial Side. This is the busy season in the Cigar Store league, and the argumentative baseball fans that comprise its extended circuit at their nightly meetings are doping out the positions of the 1909 clubs in the major leagues and settling the peunants in both organizations. These comfortable enthusiasts, who, to judge from their conversation, know more about running a baseball team than any of the managers, have nothing but past performances to rely upon in making up their lists of clubs, and yet nothing is more unreliable. It has been the history of more than one championship season that a club which started out with the brightest prospects for a good position iir the race has yet proved a grievous disappointment. How often has It been figured out on paper before the season opened that such and such a club on the batting and fielding averages of the previous year and the strength displayed by Its pitchers was almost a sure one-two-three proposition, and yet before the season was half over was hopelssly struggling in the second division? Take last year's New York Americans as an example. The Highlanders started the season in a manner that gave every one the impression that the American league pennant was going to be a runaway race, yet toward the last of May the team began to drop, and it never stopped until it hit last place, where it remained for the rest of the season. There is no doping out a sure pennant winner any more in either organization, and, while it will be pointed out that Detroit and Chicago ran true to form in 190S, both clubs had the closest kind of race, and the Cubs only won the flag on a technicality, while the Tigers were forced to the limit to win by a narrow margin. A club like Chicago In the National league may and did last year have a clear lead for the pennant in mideeason and be going at a fast gait, and fans can see nothing but the flag for the Cubs, yet some such sensational spurt as the Phillies made toward the close of the season may shatter all calculations. It is a matter of history that Covaleskie In three games beat the Giants out of the National league flag. Incidents such as these, with the many minor ones of sore arms, players having an off year, accidents, and so on, show what a hazardous thing It becomes when trying to foretell the standing of baseball teams at the close of a season. To what extent does the early spring training have on the fortunes of a baseball team? All the major league clubs now take these ante-season trips to condition their men, work out new plays, signals, etc., but it is a singular thing that no two managers seem to agree as to the exact degree of latitude a team can secure the most beneficial results. One will go just over the border line of the south, another as far as the geographical limits of the United States will permit, while still another will hike to the warm climate of southern California, not to mention those who favor the medicinal springs of Indiana, Arkansas and Texas. Measured by results, it is not always the team which goes farthest that fares the best Both Chicago teams last year took in the sunset country and both were successful, though Detroit and the Phillies almost paralleled their results without going a tithe of the distance traveled by the Cubs and White Sox. There were the New York Americans, for instance, who did their preliminary work in far Texas, and yet not only finished last, but were never in the race after a little over a month. Managers argue pro and con about the baleful effects of suddenly jumping from the salubrious climate of the far south to the uncertain temperature of the north in early April. Some claim that the change stiffens the muscles and practically undoes any beneficial work that may be accomplished by the stay south, while others believe they offset a calamity by working north in easy stages, thus getting the players gradually acclimated to the changing weather conditions. These latter have the added advantage also of playing minor league teams on the way, which is not only a diversion for the men. but gives them better real practice than when the squad is divided into two teams, as the members of both nines are familiar with each other's signals. There is still another thing to be taken into consideration besides the benefits accruing to the players, and that is the financial returns. Playing teams in southern cifles and charging a nominal admission fee, more than one manager has been almost enabled to meet training expenses. Take the Athletics. Last year Manager Mack took his squad to New Orleans during the Mardi Gras season and played with the Southern league team of that city all during the festivities, when the Crescent City was crowded with visitors. The attendance duriE-i t! week was nominal, but on

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HISTORY OF TRUS l Being Revealed by Reports of Tobacco Company Monopolies Now Filed. TELLING MANY SECRETS Washington. D. C, Feb. 19. Tobacco trust history, methods and manipulations are to a great extent the burden of a report, to be followed by others, sent to President Roosevelt yesterday by Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations. Incidentally the report condemns the methods that enriched the men said to have acquired tobacco stock control. The report sets forth the rise of one of the great combinations of the country. Starting in 1S90 as the American Tobacco company, a manufacturer of cigarettes, with a capital of $25,000.000, the combination is now credited with a net capitalization, excluding inter-company holdings, of $316,340,S21. The combine has, according to the report, absorbed some 250 separate concerns, and now controls about fourfifths of the output of each important kind of tobacco manufactured in the United States, with the . exception of cigars. n IS BOSY WITH HIS HATCHET Claimed Too Much Legislation And Sloughed Down on Four Bills. WAS DONE IN COMMITTEE SUGGESTION TO GIVE CLERKS FEE FOR ISSUING HUNTERS' LICENSES AMONG MEASURES ROSCOE ANNIHILATED. Indianapolis. Feb. 19. Senator Kirkman appeared before the senate criminal code committee this morning and succeeded in killing four bills. He took the position that it is folly to make a new law for every little thing. He called attention to the fact Governor Marshall says there is too much legislation. The bills killed were: To provide a penalty for persons making a false financial statement to obtain credit; to require the weight marked on flour sacks; to prohibit hitching horses to shade trees in towns and to give 25 cents of the dollar hunter's license fee to the county clerk. FREE MRS. STORMS Winchester Woman Pardoned After Fifteen Years in State Prison. WAS ACCUSED OF MURDER Winchester, Feb. 19. Mrs. Lizzie Storms has been released from the woman's prison at Indianapolis and arrived in this city, Wednesday evening to spend the remainder of her life with her son, Charles Storms. Mrs. Storms was taken to prison fifteen years ago on Christmas day to serve a life sentence on conviction as an accessory in the murder of Kent Browne, a colored barber, in a woods one and a half miles south of Winchester. The murder was committed in August, 1893. Mrs. Storms, together with Samuel Price, were found guilty of the crime, and both were sentenced for life. Price was released six years ago by Governor Durbin. Mrs. Storms was paroled by Governor Marshall, after her son, Charley Storms, had signed an agreement to take care of her and see that she does not become a public charge. The woman is a helpless cripple, having fallen down stairs at the woman's prison a few years ago. Her husband died while she was in prison. Her mother is still living, however, and is eighty-one years old. There are about twelve generations of flies year, the sexes being about equally divided, each female laying about 1,000 eggs. A SPORTY A Volcano of Fca.

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QUAKERS AND ROSE AT BASKETBALL Game at Coliseum This Evening Will Decide Secondary Championship.

BOTH TEAMS ON METTLE ROSE AN OLD TIME RIVAL OF j EARLHAM AND FAST GAME IS j TO BE EXPECTED AS THE RE SULT. The Earlham basketball rooTers will be relieved of their suspense this evening at the coliseum. The Rose j Poly technic team, which is the1 strongest standing between Earlham ! and the secondary championship of the state will be met. Rose for many I years has been Earlharu's strongest : rival in both basketball at?d track athletics. The honors are about divided so that the game this evening will be one for b!ood. During the past week Coaches Vail and Holmes have been sending the Quakers through hard and fast practice. The weak points shown in the game with Wabash have been, materially overcome and it is the hope that Earlham will be able to take the Polys into the camp. It is believed that both teams are about of equal strength. Hotchkiss will be in the game this evening and it is probable that White who has been playing circles around Lindley and Swaini will play center. Tebbetts will be in at guard and with Rees and Conrad at forwards a creditable showing is expected. FOUND FREAK APPLE McLeland Company Came Across "Phenom" in Barrel of Baldwins. A DIFFERENCE IN COLOR After years, of experience during which time they have, handled thousands and thousands of apples. McLeland CDmpany, local commission merchants, have discovered a real freak. The apple which is of the Baldwin variety Is freakish only in color of the skin as in taste and shape it is like all Baldwin apples. Nature in this case colored one third of the apple a bright vermlllion red and the other two thirds the ordinary color, or a mixture of bright red and yellow. The red part of the apple Is divided from the remainder by straight lines and the colors do not run together. EVANS HASJROUBLE Pond Lecture Bureau Does Not Like Everything the Admiral Says. OBJECT TO "RANTINGS." New York, Feb. 19. Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans is having more trouble with his lecture course than he ever had in commanding a squadron of battle ships. The J. B. Pond Lyceum bureau, under whose auspices he started out last January, is threatening to cancel the contract if he doesn't obey orders, and incidentally the navy league of the United States is involved In the difficulties and officers of the navy are more or less displeased with the way things are going. William C. Glass, manager for the Pond bureau, left last night for Columbus, O., where he will meet Rear Admiral Evans tomorrow, and unless the admiral agrees to stick to the text of his lectures and talk less about the upbuilding of the navy league, Mr. Glass said tonight, the Evans lecture course will come to an abrupt end so far as the Pond bureau is concerned. TO QUIET TITLE. Herman and' Bernard Austerman have filed suit in the circuit court against William Wolfe and others to quiet title of property. JORDAN AT INDIANAPOLIS. County Superintendent C. W. Jordan was in Indianapolis today attending the legislature and a committee meeting. -TONIGHTOLD FLIRT Don't Hiss fee Ercptisa. Ever Say Belto?"

Let Us Examine That Unsatisfactory Time-Piece We will clean, repair, and put it in first class order return it to you as good as new. The cost will be slight. We guarantee all our work to be satisfactory. O. E. Dickinson Diamonds Mounted.

Don't Let Coal Get the Best of You You get the best of Coal. We don't claim perfection. We are ready to adjust anything that's not right We feel that we can give you the best coal there is in the market today at the lowest prices. You can get ail you want of it today. 0. C. Ballerdick & Sea Phone 1235 ANOTHER SUIT HAS FOLLOWED FAILURE Indiana Refining Company Also Caught. Suit to foreclose a mechanic's lien was filed in the circuit court this afternoon against the Indian Refining company by the Louck s . Hill, company. It is averred in the complaint that last fall when the oil company located in this city, Caldwell & Mobley. a contracting firm erected the buildings and purchased lumber to the value of $.111.51. but never made settlement. The contracting firm is, involved In financial troubles and the suit Is brought against the refining company for paymenL SCHEDULES Cfckss. CtdsU & Lc!svCh nrcd Ccaj Pkoac tm la Effect November IS. lm. East Bound CM

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Lv Cincinnati. Lv Ct Grove.. Lv Richmond. Lv Muncie ... Lv Marion Ar Peru Lv Peru Ar Chlcaro - IK. nil a 00pm 34pm! 55am!ll. 30am12 am! ?.rm t-3epm S.30pm BOam 2 Sam 14am 13am SOpml 83m 10.10pm 01ftn 23am 35am 40pm! (12th St. Station) All trains run dally. Sunday service same as on week days. Through Vestlbuled Tralna between Chicago and Cincinnati. Doable dally service. Through sleepers on trains Not. 3 and 4 between Chicago and Cincinnati. Fine Buffet service on trains 1 and i. For train connections and ether laformatlon call Home Phone 2042. Richmond. Tnd. C. C. Cl l. Excursion Ratoo. 021.55 Washington, D. C. On account of Presidential Inauguration. Selling dates Feb. 28th. March 1st, 2nd. and 3rd. Final return limit March 8th. $23.45 Round Trip To New Orleans $22.05 Round Trip to Mobile and Pensacola, Fla. On account of Mardi Gras Celebration. Selling dates Feb. 16, 17. IS. 19, 20 and 2L Final return limit March 12th. For particulars call C. A. BLAIR. P. & T. A, Home Tel. 2062. Richmond. Edison's Comedies Are Always Funny

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