Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 115, 2 March 1910 — Page 2

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V70LGAST HAS HAD EVENTFUL CAREER Man Who Trimmed Nelson Also Has a tfery Brilliant Future. . MAY MEET FREDDIE WELCH SEVERAL CLUBS HAVE OFFERED GOOD SIZED PURSES FOR THE CONTEST CHAMPION IS 22 YEARS OF AGE. Who will be Ad Wolgast's next opponent? This Is the main topic of conversation in the pugilistic world at present. Since he wrested the lightweight championship crown from Bat Kelson the "Milwaukee Wildcat" has received dens from l'aeky McFarland, Owen Moran, Toniiny Murphy, Joe Gans and Freddie Welch, the British champion. There is little doubt that Wolgast will take things easy for awhile, as he has been hard at it for the last two years or more. When he does decide to fight he will most likely take on Welch. Wolgast figures that several clubs would be willing to hang up good sized purses for the contest and that he would experience little difficulty in stowing away the Britisher. "Wolgast has also promised to take on Owen Moran. Adolph Wolgast, a featherweight a year ago and today champion lightweight of the world, has had a wonderful pugilistic career, and his victory over Nelson was nil that .was needed to cap the structure his wonderful fighting powers and gameness built. With a record totaling seventyone fights Wolgast has but once been ID WOLGAST, WKW IIJHTW EIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD. beaten. He has been outpointed in a few short bouts, but these contests were held in cities where no decision could be rendered. The worst Wolgast ever got officially was a "draw." Born In Cadillac. Mich., in 1888, of German parents, Wolgast is the first German to become a champion fighter. When a kid he moved to Milwaukee and at sixteen began to box as an amateur. He won so many bouts and in such decisive fashion that he was nicknamed the "Milwaukee Wildcat" and has fought like a catamount ever since. So rapid had been the strides of the little Milwaukee scrapper that by the time he was eighteen he was anxious to get at the best men in the featherweight class and jumped the simon pure ranks. His first fight in the new class was. strangely enough, with a Nelson Young Nelson, a fellow townsmanwhom he knocked out in three rounds. Then. Nelson again, his only losing bout was with this same boy. From then on Wolgast has fought all comers, and his record alone, carefully studied, proves that Battling Nelson, wonderful warrior that he is, should not have been made a 2 to 1 favorite over him. . In his fight with Lew Powell in San Francisco Wolgast was also the short ender, and he amazed the sporting world by beating his opponent with little trouble in twenty rounds. , When the majority of newspaper writers gave the decision to Wolgast when he fought Nelson in Los Angeles some time ago it was a terrible blow to the IMine. He is as proud as a prima donna, and to think that this new boy had outboxed him in a ten round bout bothered him considerably. For months Nelson had been longing for another crack at what he consid ered a soft mark. The day before the fight he said that. Wolgast was In for the finest trimming of his young career. Had Nelson put the reverse English on the wire he would have tipped it right. SPECIAL SESSION COUNTY COUN CIL. Notice is hereby given .that special meeting of the Wayne County Coun cil will be held on Wednesday, March 9, 1910, t 10 o'clock in the forenoon for the purpose of considering an ap propriation for proposed improve ments at the Wayne County Infirmary. Very respectfully, S it Denias S. Coe, Auditor.

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WILSON ON STAND ACCUSES PINCHOT Clash When Ex-forester Said Letter to Dolliver Was Authorized. PINCHOT NOT INSULTING HE SAYS THAT HE MEANT NO DISRESPECT TO THE PRESIDENT SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WAS MAD. Washington,. March 2. A dra matic clash between Gifford Pinchot, and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, enlivened the proceedings late yesterday before the Ballinger-Pinehot in vestigating committee. The ousted chief forester testified emphatically that he had the authority of Mr. Wilson, his superior, to send to Senator Dolliver the letter bearing on the controversy which led to his dismissal from the head of the forestry bureau. He declared he had discussed the matter in detail with the secretary. The proceedings were then inter rupted while Secretary Wilson, at' his own reouest, took the stand and asserted vehemently that while he had given Mr. Pinchot permission to write to the Iowa senator concerning "de partmental matters," he never did and never would have given his subordi nate permission to write a letter criticising the president of the United States. Pinchot Denies Disrespect. Previously Mr. Pinchot had read into the record President Taft's letter dismissing him from the service. He asserted that he had not been disrespectful to the chief magistrate. "I contend that the expression of an honest belief that the president had acted under a misapprehension is not disrespect." he said. ' "If the president had signified his purpose to take matters into his own hands I would have been happy to leave it there. But his letters showed he would continue to leave it in Ballinger's hands and that he had great confidence in Mr. Ballinger.'' Mr. Pinchot denied that he had been embittered by a dismissal which he considered was not justified. He insisted also there was no specific movement to discredit Mr. Ballinger. He added, however, that he and former Secretary Garfield, Glavis and others were concerned in a movement for the conservation of natural resources and regarded Mr. Ballinger as one of the greatest enemies of that movement. Question of Insubordination. The clash with Secretary Wilson came after the reading of Mr. Taffs letter of dismissaL Mr. Pinchot was asked by Chairman Nelson if he considered that he had been disrespectful. "I was not, but I do not desire to lavstress upon that point, for I should have been insubordinate without a second thought if I had considered it necessary to bring the facts before the public," replied the witness. "Wero you in fact insubordinate?" asked his counsel. "As a matter of fact, I was not But I have no desire for a personal vindication and would rather not go into that question." "Why not?" "Because it is not important and I would regret the necessity of bringing out a difference of opinion between Secretary Wilson and myself. It would be a painful thing to get into a controversy with him. and for that reason I have kept still." AKt.Aita: Mother says "thT can't say aaythla to good about Gold Medal Flour. C&iarrx.

RICHMOND FALXADIU3I AXD SUN TELEGKA3I, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2. 1910.

One Year of Taft, President His Party in Ribbons, His Popularity Gone, the People Disappointed and Resentful, Says Editor Walter Page

The latest attack upon President , Taft comes from the World s Work j magazine, edited by Walter II. Page, j former member of Roosevelt's country j life commission. The article says that Taft himself has said that, because congress rep-1 resents districts, sections, etc., the j i president is the only real representative of the people. ' No man in recent times has gone into the white house with so, nearly a universal trust of the people," writes the editor. "But now, at the end of a year, his party is divided into fierce factions, his well-nigh universal popularity has waned. "He made a logical and well-thought-out plan for his administration. He contended for a better and more sincere tariff revision too late. The people respected his sincerity while they regretted his yielding. They saw clearly that these leaders of the party (in congress) could not be trusted. Yet they accepted the unsatisfactory result without severe personal criticism of him, and they said, 'Now the president sees that these leaders do not represent the conscience and sincerity of the party and henceforth he will not yield to them.' They hoped that he had opened the way to a shifting of leadership and they still kept a high expectation of his administration. "If the Republican masses could have voted on the question, 'Shall Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Cannon be retained as leaders in congress?' nobody doubts what their answer would have been. "The president must decide between party regularity and the leadership of the people. The old leaders stand for the undue influence of wealth on government. "There is something terrible and cruel in many a wave of popular disapproval that sweeps over the land, but it is public opinion that is dominant in our democracy and public opinion has fast withdrawn approval from the administration since last summer. v "The people feel that the administration has gone out of touch with them. They are saying that the cabinet has not a single man who has ever held an elective office of importance (except the secretary of agriculture.) "The president has able counsel: gentlemen who have all won distinction as counsel for corporations and railroads. But the people, right or wrong, feel that these gentlemen may not know their case. "The people expected that the tariff would be revised, that the conservation policy would be developed and that new regulative acts would be passed. The failure was three-fold. "And still, it is pointed out, Taft hopes to hold his party together. The people think the Republican leaders will treat the conservation plan as they treated tariff revision. "If the party leaders again give him what THEY want and not what THE PEOPLE want, and IF THE PRESIDENT AGAIN SUBMITS TO SUCH TREATMENT, his party will be hopelessly split and HIS CHANCE OF LEADERSHIP WILL BE GONE. "The people cannot reach Mr. Aidrich. He comes from Rhode Island. But they will not elect a congress that will dare to elect Cannon speaker. "THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BELONGS TO THE FACTION NOW CALLED THE INSURGENTS, BECAUSE THEY REPRESENT THE CONVICTIONS AND CONSCIENCE OF THE PEOPLE. "Party control Is about to be shifted. To lead a party was a worthy aim, but our parties now are dissolving groups. "THE MAKERS OF WEALTH AND THE MAKERS OF PARTIES AND

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THE MAKERS OF PRESIDENTS ARE NOT REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS, AS THEY ONCE WERE. "FACTIONS, PARTIES. EVEN PRESIDENTS. HAVE LOST POWER TO ALLURE OR OBSCURE OR FRIGHTEN. WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT IS A LEADER, A LEADER WITHOUT HESITANCY. THEY HAVE BUT ONE ENEMY IN POLITICAL LIFE; AND THEY ARE IN EARNEST IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THAT. THAT ENEMY IS THE POWER, WH ETHER DEMOCRATIC OR REPUBLICAN, THAT MONEY HAS TO DO THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS OUT OF THE PEOPLE'S SIGHT AND BY SO DOING IT TO SECURE IMMUNITY AND PRIVILEGE AND MORE COMPLETE CONTROL." i IT'S DIFFERENT NOW. The salary of the average major league club these days is anywhere from $00,000 to $70,000. This shows what a wonderful increase has taken place in the players' pay within the last forty years. The old Cincinnati Red Stockings, which went through the season of 1869 withx out losing a game, is reputed to have had a salary list of but $9 x 100 for the season, and the plays' ers those days did not have the protection that now exists, and consequently their work was harder. Catchers then wore neither x masks nor gloves. In fact, ? gloves were unheard of, and, consideriug the great scores that ? were run up, every man on the team must have been thoroughly ly exhausted when a game was over. X To receive $700 for a season's playing marked a player as a star of the first water, and yet today the kings of the diamond receive more than that for a single montn. INDIA MAY SEND POLO TEAM. British Officers From Empire and Indians Ponder Trip. Faraway India will probably send a team of champion polo players to America to compete against the stars of the east and west. The team will be composed of British officers serving in India, but will also include one or two native players. The plan is said to have the Indorsement of the Calcutta Tnrf club and of the maharajah of Cooche Behar, who Is an enthusiastic follower of the sportParis Tiring ef Fight Game. Paris is losing interest in the pugilistic sport. COMING SPORT EVENTS The Brighton Beach (New York, twenty-four hour automobile race will be run May 13 and 14. The annual Oxford and Cambridge sports will take place at the Queen's club, London. March 19. The two greatest classics of the English turf will be run follows: The 2,000 guineas. April 27. and the English Derby, June 1. The amateur championship of the Metropolitan Golf association will be held on the links of the Morris county (X. Y.) club May 25. 26, 27 and 28. The Irish-American clnb ef Toronto. Canada, will hold a fifteen mile tryont race March 17 and wii send the three first men to the Boston Marathon In April " - - -

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A picture taken late in the recent fight between Ad Wolgast and Battling Nelson at San Francisco, for the lightweight, championship of the world. It proves the correctness of the news reports as to the fierce clinching" and infighting. Wolgast won in the fortieth round and well-deserved his victory for he had almost a superhuman task. to batter the mighty Battler into weakness and defeat. SEASON OF PRAYER World Wide Is the Plan of Chi cago Local Option Committee. TO DRIVE OUT SALOONS Chicago, March 2. "A world-wide season of prayer," is now the plan of the local option committee as an aid to success in the campaign to vote out the saloons of Chicago on April 5 They hope to make the prayers im pressive by fixing a certain hour at which the world wide petitions will be offered. People everywhere, through various organizations to which they belong, will be asked to stop work momentarily at 9 o'clock each morning and pray that Chicago may go "dry." A. G. Fegert, chairman of the or ganization committee of the local op tion forces, suggested the idea. He ventured to hope that the prayerful co-operation of 50,000,000 Christians throughout the world would be obtain ed in this way. The universal prayer movement was started at the month ly executive meeting of the Chicago Christian Endeavor Union, which de cided to make request of the 4,000,000 members of the world union of the society, through the religious press, to join with the Chicafo Endeavorers in praying for the defeat of the liquor forces. HORTON AT CAPITAL Roy J. Horton. physical director of the Y. M. C. A. was called to Indianapolis today to attend a conference of the directors of the different associations in the state, which had been called by Dr. George J. Fisher, the international secretary of this department. M AH ala: . Gold Medal Flour saves worry. HepzibAw. BUTTING INTO FRENCH SOCIETY COSTS MONEY PrinceDe Drago. husband of Mrs. Josephine Smith of the Lion Brewery, New York, who is now in Paris with his wife, and who is reported to be paying enormous sums of his wife's money in order that they or rather his wife, may be received in the best French circles. Among those who have taken a very large "tip" to help grease the introductory machinery is the Count Boni de Castellane, and his mother has been induced to attend a function where the newly made princess was present. The Irate parents of the prince at Rome, refuse to be. placated. f

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PRO RUNNERS TO INNING RAVE RIG Money Chasers Will Compete in a Big Weekly Meet Next Summer. WORLD'S BEST TO ENTER NEXT EVENT WILL BE HELD IN NEW YORK ON MARCH 14. ATTRACTIVE OFFERS ARE MADE TO THE STARS. Things look roseate for the profes eional foot runners, especially in the east. The fifteen mile race held la New York recently put the sport on Its feet, and from now on the money chasers will be kept busy. The recent contest was only a forerunner of several other bis events. The next big race on the program Is at the same distance as the first one. fifteen miles, and will be held in Madison Square Garden, New York, March 14. This race, with a few others, will lead up to another $10,000 Marathon Derby to be held at the Polo grounds, New York, in April. The promoters of the affair are making arrangements to get the world's greatest distancers in action. Sport followers will recall Henri St. Yves' great race to victory In the last Folo grounds Marathon Derby, when more than 20.0UO persons sat In the ram and watched the contest. The field then, however, was not nearly as classy as the field which will break from the barrier In the coming Derby. In the fifteen mile event to be beld March 14 all the cracks of the country j are entered. It was proposed to make the event a twenty mller, but Shrubb said that would be too far for him, and five miles were cut off to please the little Briton. The rest of the field will be practically the same as that which competed in the recent race won by Fred Meadows. In conjunction with the distance affair it Is possible that Lawson Robertson and Nat Cartmell will meet in two match heats at 130 and 220 yards. Robbie is willing to race Nat at any distance and is anxiously awaiting Cartmell's decision. If the sprint is put on, Robertson and Cartmell will clash in one beat before the long distance contest and another beat after the distance race. Such progress has been made in the organization of the much talked of professional athletic league that weekly meets In New York or Its immediate vicinity are practically assured. The promoters of the league have made arrangements to secure the Polo grounds, American League park and Washington park in New York whenever an athletic meet will not interfere with a baseball game, and the same concessions have been secured at the Eastern league plants in Jersey City and Newark. Throughout the east and middle west this plan will be followed. The league expects to make up a circuit comprising Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Jersey City, Newark, Pittsburg. Cincinnati, New Haven, Hartford, Buffalo and a number of the smaller Connecticut towns. The local league baseball parks will be used In each city. St. Louis and Chicago will probably be brought into the scheme. Nor will the meets be confined to the late spring and summer and early fall months. When it becomes too cold to hold the meets outdoor they will be brought in under cover. The promoters plan to go into the thing on a big scale. Handicap races with an occasional match event will be the rule in the sprints, but in the distance contests 'every race will be a scratch affair. To make this possible the runners will be divided Into classes four-twenty men, four-twenty-five, four-thirty, four-thirty-flve, four-forty, and so on in the mile, for distance. At fast as an athlete becomes too fast fot one class he will be moved up to the next At the close of the outdoor season the championships will be held. Some idea of the purses that will be offered in these title meets will be gained when it is mentioned that $1,000 in cold cash will go to the winner of the 120 yard sprint championship. Dan O'Leary Issues Challenge. Bristling with challenges, Dan O'Leary, the old pedestrian, arrived in New York recently after a tour of the continent. Dan Is sixty-four years of age. but Is willing to wager $5,000 that he can beat anything on two legs in a thonsand mile go-as-you-please race. Daniels Holds Many Records. Charles M. Daniels of the New York A. C. holds forty-three swimmiag rec ords.. If this concern! yoo, read carefully: Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepiin to positively suaraateed to core indigestion, conctipatioa. sick beadacne, onensire oreatn, maiarta ana au nuaaui arising- from stomach troobl.

BASKETBALL Rose Poly vs. EarlU&sn COLISEUM FRIDAY EVENING 7:30 To decide State Championship.

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MEDICAL SOCIETY WILL ENDORSE IT Doctors Today Will Commend the "Real Fourth" Celebration Plan. OLD METHOD BARBAROUS FIREWORKS DEALERS WILL HOLD A MEETING THIS EVENING TO TAKE ACTION ON THE PROPOSED MOVEMENT. Endorsement to a safe and sane celebration ot Independence Day. July 4, as outlined in the Palladium yesterday, will probably be given by the Wayne County Medical society at Its meeting this afternoon. A resolution was prepared by one of the members and presented to the society for approval. It was anticipated by several of the members that it would be passed. One of the members of the society said that in all probability, the society would tske even a stronger stand than did the Palladium. The elimination of all noisy fireworks is advocated as well as the dispensation of the dangerous varieties. The society regards the celebraiion as now observed as barbarous in some respects. Those endorsing the movement say that if a "real" celebration is held. ! there will be less liability of lockjaw and penetrating woands. Dealers Will Meet. The meeting of the dealers with representatives of the society at the offlxa tt Ka hnanl nf vnrLl this Vnll1f rT I ,V .7." I. -rll - ... aeaiers are uurnng uinnramuii iu the discontinuance of dangerous fire works, and are more willing to co-operate because they believe their business will be protected. They know that laws will be passed forbidding danger ous varieties of fireworks. The medical society today drew up resolutions of sympathy for the members of the family of the late Dr. J. B. Allen of Cambridge City. Dr. Allen was formerly president of the organization and always took a prominent part. A. spec.'al committee. In whose hands the question of pure milk was placed, reported progress of a very pleasing nature being made. The health department of the city will co-operate with the medical society in this manner. SHE IS QUITE ILL Mrs. Eliza Culbertson is reported to be in a critical condition from the grippe at her home on North Sixth street. The Chief End. What." inquired the student, "do you regard as the chief end of man? 'Well," answered the professor, "it depends upon what you want the man it's his bead, and It you want him to it's his head, and if you want blm to run errands it's his feet. Ono Way Colonist Ratco Via C.C.&L R. R. Only 036.45 To CALIFORNIA OREGOff WASHINGTON MONTANA SASKATCHEWAN MEXICO TEXAS, ETC, ETC. Selling dates, March 1st to April 15th. For particular call C. A. BLAIR, P. A. T. A Home Tel. 2062. Richmond. KATDKI

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