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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT THURSDAY OCTOBER s1
BASE BALL RECORDS.
Official Batting Averages of the State
 LeagJie

If James H. O'Rourke is the secre- tary of this league of baseball clubs he should have made it his duty to send to the papers throughout the state the official scores of the baseball players in this league. It is from the newspapers of this state that the league expects to get boom and cer- tainly when there are any favors to be shown they should be distributed. Of course there is no newspaper man to blame if he can get q scoop every year on the official averages. Last year the Democrat was one of the two papers of the state that had the lead on the others and at that time there was a big kick from some of the others and you cannot blame them. The rec ords this year were compiled by s. ". Challenger of the Bridgeport Post and they were published Tuesday evening. We will have to differ somewhat on the averages of the Wa terbury players and while we do not like to criticise the averages yet every record keeper believes his own are correct Here are few instances:
 Luskey is credited in the records sent out from Bridgeport with bat ting average of .313. The records kept in Waterbury give him an aver age of BOT. Weisbecker is given but .2S9 of a batting average, while the To- cal record gives him 300. Clancy is credited with an average of 312 while the local average was 294 Fitzpat- rick was given .263 while with the home scorer he had .252 McCor- mick has by the official record .244, while the local record gives him .249. Matthews is officially given 25S while at home his record Is .241. Waller is given officially .243 while his record here was .234. Courtney was given .234 while here it was .230 O'Rourke was given .231 while here it was .229. Of course some of those are almost similar. but where the mistake oc- cured in some of them was in the number of games played. For in stance Matthews played 1O3 games and he is credited officially with play ing only 102. Mccormick played 102. games while he is given credit for but 1O1. Waller played 39 games and he is credited with but 36. Courtney played S6 games and he is credited with 8. Clancy played 39 games and he gets credit for but 38. This would make a difference in the times at bat and certainly would then make a diff ference in the standing.
 But aside from all this it is a very difficult task and the man who can ac- complish it without several errors would be wonder. The records of the players for batting are as follows, for those who played in fifteen games or more:
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
COW WITH FALSE TAIL.
1t Involved Its Owner fn a Lawsuit Which Had a Rather COmicaI
 Termination.

The Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph tells this story of cow with false tail which figured in suit for dam ages before Alderman William A. Means, and because the tail was bogus the suit was withdrawn and the costs were paid by the prosecutor.
 Charles Campbell, of Mohler street entered suit against Henry Meller, of Wheeler street, for damages alleged to have been caused by the ravages in Campbell's garden by COW, which was said by neighbors to belong to Meller. It was Campbelfs own COW,
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
DIVER AND KELLY.
The Professor Accedes to All Demands
 Made by Kelly.

Made by Kelly.
 Professor Dwyer heard so much talk on the outside about the terms that Kelly proposed to him that he made up his mind that he would allow every thing that Kelly asked for. His for felt of S25 is still in the Democrat of fee and he will place the other $25 in the same office when Kelly agrees to meet him. In order to show that he is i'll earnest he wants Kelly to place the $25 he wants to bet in the same hands and then the rest will be easy. He wants the match to take place next week in the Auditorium and he will meet Kelly tomorrow morning at nine or half-past nine o'clock i'll the Demo crat office to arrange all the plans. His agreement is that he will throw Kelly four times i'll one hour, with the double Nelson and the strangle hold barred. or he will forfeit $50 to Kelly.
 Great interest is being manifested in the wrestling match which is to take place this evening between Hen " NJ. Heating of this city and Thomas T. Carroll of New York. While the match has not been talked of so much as other matches in other cities, still there is more betting on the result than on any match that has taken place in this state in many years. Heating is still the fayorite and while no odds are offered his friends seem to have the most confidence and the most money. Both men are clever and know all the points of the wrest- ling game and they will be watched by some of the wrestlers in the coun- try. Professor M. J. Dwyer will be there and so will George Bothner, the champion lightweight wrestler of the world. There will be preliminary to the big match when Billy Loucks of this city and Jack Fox of New York will wrestle at 130 pounds. Billy Freeman of Naugatuck may ref cree the matches. The contests will be worth going to see for each man is clever and will try hard to win.
 Mehmet Nachad, the opulent young Turk. who is related to the governor of Constantinople and lunches at the Wal dorf-Astoria has succeeded in inducing Ernest Roeber to consent to a match. The principals will meet at the Wal dorf-Astoria, where Nachad lunches, and ratify the agreement. The meet ing will be held this afternoon. The conditions will be best two in three falls. and for $250 side. qRoeber in- sists on three weeks in which to train.
 Articles of agreement for a straight cateh-as-catch-can wrestling match be- tween Hjalmar Lundin of Worcester and M. J. Dwyer of New York have been signed and the contest will prob ably take place in Mechanics hall, at Worcester. November 14. +Lundin is planning to pay more attention to catch-as-catch-ca wrestling than he has in the past, as he thinks the style will prove more attractive to patrons of the sport in Worcester than Graeco- Roman. He has in mind the making of match with Harvey Parker in case he beats Dwyer, but until he has tested himself against the latter he will not make a match with Parker Dwyer and Parker are hard competi- tors, evenly matched in science and cleverness. Lundin thinks if he can beat Dwyer he need have no fear of the little demon, as Parker has been termed for his cleverness on the mat
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
uMc Aesson.

No flag fis half-mast for me, No somber folds will hide the Wallsr But oh, if can only be Content to close my eyes and free From terror when the angel calls- If can say: His. will be done!''
 And calmly wait And know that men shall find No hateful stains upon The record that leave behind
 l shall be great. -S. E. Riser. in Chicago Record Herald
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
women Are Expert smugg,ers.

Smuggled goods in large quantities are brought from Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit. Most of this work is done by women, who secrete the smuggled articles under their skirts. In some of <tbe Windsor stores are private dressing rooms for the patrons, where they carefully prepare themselves to elude the vigilance of Uncle Sam's cus- toms officers.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
LARGE PUGILIsTIC FIsH.

Snow Sturgeon, an Australian mid dleweight, is promising. Jimmy Sean Ian, the Pittsburg middleweight, writes from Australia that he consid- CTS Sturgeon so good that he does not care to go up against him. T don't want any of his game" says ScanIan, ''and I fully believe that he can whip both Tommy Ryan and George Gard ner." It is almost time that Austra- lia produced another great boxer, and Sturgeon may prove to be the man.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31

Great Brlsa..l Y----.--ea put 7,24s beel<s last year, being beaten by over 5000 by Italy.
 The English book trade is bad. The unpromising outlook is due to the Boer war and the forthcoming coronation.
 One hundred and thirty-two books have taken their titles from Shake speare's works. 40 of them from Ham, let.
 The crown prince of Siam. a recent student of Oxford, is preparing vol- pns of essays on war and the Polish succszsion- '''---
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
A Warning NOte

The faintest echo at first. It's strange warning not heard, but felt Day by day 1t increases if you heed The back sounds the of trouble The aches and pains and lameness of the back Are warnings from the kidneys. Kidneys have much to do They're overtaxed with work. Nature intends that you should know this The backache warning often life. Those who listen it hasten relieve the kindneys There is only way sick kidneys. Waterbury people are learning how,
 that DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS never fail Here's another Waterbury case to prove t:
 Mrs Thomas " Judd of 69o North Main street says For o suffered female troupe as call it. medicines trial but recesea @ very very i @ help Pills pro cured w. They relieved my pack They anything took and can conn deny All druggists sell DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS. Remember the name of DOANS and take substitute. Price 50 per box. FosterMiburn Co., Buffalo, N 4 Sole Props.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
WHAT HEGARTY NEEDS

"Tim Hegarty really does not seem to know what he wants He has shied at the match with Lavigne, and has refused $5O0 guarantee to meet Au- relic Herrera says w. A. Phelon. Hegarty may not know what he wants. but what he needs and what he'll get if he enters the ring is a sound thrashin9
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
1.ura About.

Fair Phyllis makes no show of wit
 Concerning matters polite, And right demurely she will sit
 While display my rhetoric. And she will breathe little sigh
 And gaze upon me pensively And murmur: ~Ah, I wish that I
 Were even half as wise as hep But when in a department store
 follow her with feelings strange, dominate the scene no more.
 l scarce know how to count my change, If a bargain seek to buy,
 And, humble then as I can be, I stand aside and wish that
 Were even half as wise as she. Washington Star.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
Interesting
 Prize Competition

Each day during November our ads in this paper will be headed with 8 quotation.
 Guess the Authors Names. Cut out the ad each day and write your guess plainly on each one. At the end of November put them all 6here will be twenty-fiye) into an en- velope, seal it and write your name and address on the outside. Hand 1t or send it into our store on or before December 4th, 1901.
 list PriZe-S26 in Gold.
 End PriZe-Funk & WagnalrS New
 Dictionary in Two Volumes. Srd Prize -Any OVerCoat in Our Store. 4th Prize-Any Suit in Our Store. 9th Prize Ladies Handsome Chate-
 laine Watch. December 9th all envelopes will be 1 thrown address down on table, dis interested person to pick out one at random. The first envelope we open which contains the twenty-five quota tions with the correct names of the | authors written on them will receive first prize; the next envlope opened that contains the correct names, or the 1 nearest to being correct, will receive second prize, and so on until the fifth | prize has been awarded. The competition is open to every one, young or old, and prizes are well worth trying for. Respectfully,
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
DOUGLASS WHIPS HAMIIToN.

New Orleans, Oct 31.-Bob Douglass of St Louis knocked out Eddy Ham, ilton of New Orleans here last night, before the Young Mems Gymnastic club, in the eighth round.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
FCR -RE1TT

One family hoase Of eight rooms, with large lot, on Burton street. $22. If you want a well drilled, or your old one has gone dry and you want it deepened. we can do it for you. and do 1t right.
 w. P. J-ARR EII
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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
DUFFY GAINED THE DECISION.

Detroit. Oct 31-Martfn Duffy of Chicago last night was awarded the decision by Referee Siler over Art Simms of Akron after ten rounds of hghtning-fast fighting before the Twentieth Century Athletic club. Duff fy, who did most of the leading throughout, got to Simmss jaw with his left repeatedly. He landed al- most two blows to Simms's one
 In the third round Simms was dazed when the gong sounded, but came up fresh for the fourth. In the prelim- inaries Tommy Gibson of Detroit won over Jack Palmer of Kansas City, and Tom McCune of Detroit got the decis- ion over Paddy Nagle of St Catharines, Ont.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.
Cross Counters From the Stable
 of Boxers.

Jack Root Knocks Out Australian
 Jimmy Ryan-Martin Duffy Gets the
 Decision Over Art Simms-Bob
 Douglass Whips Eddy Hamilton
 Notes on the Game.
 Louisville, Oct 31.-Australian Jim- my Ryan last night was knocked out in the second round of q twenty round contest in Music hall by Jack Root of Chicago. The fight was for the mid- dleweight championship of the west and Root was a decided favorite. Ryan, who has but one eye. forced the fighting but Root blocked him through out and in the first round held him at his mercy and hammered him on the blind side continually
 Ryan forced things through the first half of the second round until Root landed twice on his chin, when Ryan began to stagger. Then Root, seeing his man going. landed left swing on the point of the chin and Ryan fell like a log, the referee counting him out. It was about fifteen minutes be- fore Ryan recovered consciousness.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31

New York;, Oct 31-Dwight school football team defeated Barnard school st Manhattan field yesterday by d score of 20 to 0. Young Herbert Croker, who played fullback for Dwight school. figured prominently Tn the victory. The lineup:
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
ON THE GRIDlRoN.
Yale Is Showing Up Better Than the
 Others in Practiee.

Princeton. Oct 31.-The Princeton football team took it's last hard prac- tice on University field yesterday af- ternoon preparatory to the game with Cornell in Ithaca on Saturday. Nearly all the students were in attendance and they cheered the players in their eff forts to round into form for the hard contest before them. The practice was not the best, as there was a lack of ac- curacy in team work and fumbl1ng was frequent, Both teams scored q touchdown in the second half, but neither could cross the others goal line in the first. The undergraduates, al- though none too confident, expect vic tory over the Comedians.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31

Cambridge, Mass, Oct 31.-Harvard's s second day of secret practice was un- satisfactory The second eleven got the ball three times on fumbles and held the varsity for downs on the sec ond's five-yard line. One touchdown was all the varsity could score. Ris- tine has sore shoulder which will keep him out of the game for about q week and Cutts will be out for two or three days with an injured thigh. Put nam, Bowditch and Randolph were in the signal practice yesterday, but not in actual play. In preparation for the Pennsylvania game the second eleven tried the guards back formation against the varsity and gained twen
 ty yards once before being stopped.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31

Each day during November our ads in this paper will be headed with 8 quotation
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-10-29

is that they participated in the conven-
tion, helped name the candidates and
should stand by them. If it were true
that the democratic convention had
been faithful to democratic ideas there
would have been more force in this
argument 1t is a fact, however, that
the men were nominated largely by
manipulation and that the way was
strewn with broken promises and shat
tered pledges. By the simple process
of combining the particular friends of
certain candidates and secretly pledg-
ing mutual support. the real wishes of
the democracy of the county were de-
feated in nearly every instance. 1t
was not convention run by the demo-
cratic voters but by the democratic
gang, which knows no principles but
those of pelf and ambition. This be-
ing the case, we fail to see wherein
the democrats of the county are bound
to support ticket named by Romans
and Gary and the office-seekers them
selves.
The democrats of the county have
largely appreciated this state of affairs.
The ticket is not their ticket, but the
ticket of the self-anointed leaders and
Office holders and office-seekers. There
are no democratic principles at stake
from governor down to coroner, and if
lAl- IL -.
fall, it will not alone be a republican
victory but victory for decent demo-
cracy that is tired of broken promises
and ''cute" politicians and ringsters
and that wishes to free itself from the
rule of the silver-republican gang at
Denison.
A COUNTRYMAN,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-10-29
THE ISSUES AT STAKE.
(Communicated.)

The republicans of this county are
not in the habit of Dragging. Thev
are accustomed to defeat and know
we'll how to stand the jibes and jeers of
an exultant democracy In spite of
successive defeats the republicans have
always been found ready to enter the
lists each fall and to do their duty as
citizens in upholding that which they
thought was right. Year after year
they hoped that the logic of events
would SO impress itself upon the minds
of the majority of the voters OF this
county that they would forsake their
democratic idols and join the party of
Progress This year the republicans
have cause for particular encourage
ment. There is no life or virility in
democratic principles. The party is
divided against itself, one wing pro-
claiming its loyalty to free silver and
Bryan and the other repudiating both
and wishing to make the campaign on
state issues With this division of
opinion it is hard indeed for democra-
tic speakers to make headway and the
democrats of this county have, per,
haps wisely, concluded that the less
said about the principles of the party
this year the better. Mr.. Phillips was
to have spoken here but he was called
off. Later it was announced that Cato
Sells would come to Crawford but evi
IDENTIFY that has fallen through. The
only speakers in the county on the
democratic side are Mr.. Davie and Mr.
Romans. The whole democratic fight
has been made to elect Mr.. Carey anG
incidentally the county ticket: Thus
the democrats have abandoned any
aampaign of principle and are running
campaign strictly personal in it,
nature. They are making a still hun
seeking republican votes for Carey ant
such other democratic candidates a
they may, and trying to heal th'
breaches in their own party caused b,
the flagrant abuse of power at thei
laSG county CouSCnoioh' "A S"Ln PdiS
of this kind naturally releases demo
Gratis from any pretense of devotion t.
party. The democrats have PRACTICAL
confessed that no principles of the par
ty are involved and therefore an
democrat may feel at liberty to vot
for the best men regardless of who
ticket they may be on. The loyalt
which the democrats are demanding il
in short, not loyalty to democrati
principles but loyalty to a gang {
democratic politicians who constltut
the machine" for the dispensing {
county offices. The republicans on th
81 other hand have never had more
contend for. They can, and do, appe'
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-10-29

enemies in their party, enough to de-
feat both of them unless the republi-
cans come to their rescue. Gigax has
a fight in his own township. Kuhl
and Huntington and Klinker are not
names which arouse any wild en-
thusiasm.
On the contrary the republicans pres
ent ticket of new, clean men. Men
who have not been asking political
favors of the people of this county
every other year for decade or so.
Men who have no old grudges to pay.
Men who were chosen, not because
they were out cunning for the office,
but who were selected because they
were qualified. The republican party
has in its ticket represented almost
every large element of our citizenship
1t is distinct sacrifice for men to ac-
cept place on minority ticket. They
must give time and energy not with
the almost certain prospect of success,
but for the good of their party and for
the maintainance of its principles.
The responsibility of the party voter
is entirely different in the two cases.
In this county men are candidates for
nomination on the democratic ticket
not for the sake of the party, but for
the sake of their own advancement
There are several candidates, they
fight for local delegations. try to out.
trick each other in conventions and
when the man is nominated it is not
always because he was the best man
for the place, but because he was the
better manipulation and was able te
effect the winning combination. The
, tie of allegiance to such man is very
J light. He did not run for the good O
the party but for the good of himself
J and he is entitled only to such supper
as his personal worth demands. The
republican ticket in this county is mad,
! up not of Office seekers, but of mel
) who have been asked to make the sacri
fee for the benefit Of their fellow re
: publicans, incidentally they may hop
Y to win but the obligation is on the sid
/ of the party and not of the men, an,
: every republican should so consider ii
a The majority of the republican candi
e dates this year did not even attend tn
e convention which nominated then
3 they we're called from the ranks to tax
n the post of danger, to do the disagree
e able and arduous work OF the campaign
8 The republican party is under oblig,
n tions to these men and to all of il
d candidates for they have accepted til
$ challenge of majority party and al
r fighting for the cause of republ
d canism.
u The only ground upon which dem
cracy can base any particular clai
If upon the loyalty of its voters this ye
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-10-29
E. C. PETERSON, Proprietor, tDenison.

with confidence to the voters on the
ground of the success OF republican
principles and the republican admins
tration. They go before the people
with a definite platform of principles,
which they have no desire to repudiate,
they ask the people to give vote of
confidence in the principles of William
Mckinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
they have nothing to excuse or palliate
or explain away. They ask the sup
port of republicans for the principles
of the party and ask for strong united
effort to redeem the county this fall
and to place it for once in the republi
can column. There is no excuse for
republican desertion because their
party stands for something, whereas
democracy stands for nothing, or at
best it does not know exactly for what
it stands.
The democrats having thus wiped
principle off the slate are forced to
rely upon the personal popularity of
their ticket with the voters. This year
they are unfortunate in their ticket.
Had this been presidential year it is
perhaps true that democratic devotion
would have pulled the ticket through,
but the members of that party rightly
feel that they have no issues at stake
save the county ticket and many OF
them feel that it would be better if
that were defeated. Democracy is
hampered by the broken pledges of the
gang which controls it. 1t is possible
, to cheat men a few years by false
promises but when such course is
long continued it is too much to ex-
peet that men will continue like dumb
brutes to kiss the hand that smites
, them. After solemnly pledging itself
) / to two term rule in county affairs
5 democracy has broken that pledge and
t stands befor the people with three thiro
! term candidates. They have not new
5 name on their ticket and democrat:
. find but little in it to arouse enthusiasm
y 1t is the same thing over again. Demo
r Gratis have been voting for John Care!
n so long that it is almost a tradition ant
!. we fear that some of our mossiest
O backed democrats will form such ,
v habit that they will continue to vot
). for poor John even after he has gon
U to his reward and that their ticket
q will read Andrew Jackson and Johl
h Carey for generation to come. Davi
v is another relic of the past. He ha
J, already been on nearly a half doze
G democratic tickets, he has many oil
If scores to pay and to be paid, he ha
;e interfered with every little road affai
,f in his township whether it concerne
e him or not and his only gift is that {
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al Bell and Myers have host {