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The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04

A elashing of dates between the
American and the. National basebai
leagues in all probability will be avoid
ed this season. AT the recent meeting
between A. G. Spalding, the disputed
president of the National league. and
Ban Johnson, head of the American
organization, the fixing OF the scheo-
ules for the two leagues was prln-
cipal topic of discussion. 1t Is asserted
that both the magnates agreed 10 NIX
the dates so as not to CONNECT With
each other.
The time is near when the magnates
of the leagues will have to settle down
and arrange dates for the respective
clubs in the league. The conflict OF the
dates between the two organizations
last season was not profitable 10 elther
and for this reason alone the magnates
are anxious to arrange their scheuules
to prevent a repetition OF the trouple'
No matter what the outcome OF the
baseball controversy may be there Will
be little conflict of schedule between
the American and the National leagues
wherever it will be possible TO aVolo
it. Ban Johnson, president or the
American league, all along has been
in favor of his leagues steering as
clear as possible from conflicting dates,
| because profitable ball without frlc-
| ton is much more to be desired than
| costly conflict.
How much of a conflict, if any, there
| will be between the two leagues over
| dates this season will not be known
| until some action is taken in the
| makeup of the National league, and
| whether there will be four or eight
| clubs playing ball in that organization
According to present indications the
old league will open its season with
| only four clubs and should this be the
! result it is more than probable tina,
| there will be no conflict of dates or at
| least not enough of a clash to speak
of.
1t is expected that the schedule fol
the American league clubs will be
announced long before the white
stockings go on their journey for the
spring practice games.
Just how soon the National league
will prepare it's schedule is not known
There is no one in authority, II
seems, to bring about a schedule anc
none will be made until it is ascertain
ed how many clubs will play ball II
| the organization when the season
| opens in the spring.
The expected conference between
Henry Killilea, the new owner or tn
Boston club of the American league
and Jimmy Collins, playing manage
of the hub club, scheduled for Chicago
did not take place.
1t is announced from Nationa
league headquarters that Manage
Frank Selee of the Chicago CLUB VII
return to that city within a few days
Selee has thirty players signed an
it is expected that as soon as ne ar
rives he will begin the wedding GU
process.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04
Root I. Better Than Gardiner

In the seventh round of what was to
have been a twenty-round encounter
between George Gardner OF Lowell
Mass, and Jack Root of Chicago. at
San Francisco, the latter was awarded
a decision upon the claim of foul. In
a hurricane fight that developed Gard
ner as the aggressor, but Root as the
superior boxer, the Lowell man was
beaten, and finally forfeited the fight
upon a blow conceded by the specta-
tors to have been a straight foul. Gard
ner found in Root no such easy OPP
ponent as kid" Carter had been. nor
did Root find in Gardner so easily a
handled man as was Byers, when the
two met here. Gardner, however,
fought on the outside in wild and
uncertain style, while Root fought
on the inside determinedly and we'll
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04
s,Nou Arr aIrA TowN
ass 1900 People. and II Located
side . Navy Yard.

The existence Of a singular town
brought to notice by the intrOducti0
of Senator Mallory of Florida of bin
to provide public schools, one Tor
white the other for colored, children
in the town of Warrington. Fla The
reference Of the bill to the Secretary
OF the Navy for his opinion on its
merits is apparently unusual and UNI
necessary but it is really highly prop
err, as the facts about Warrington show.
At the close of the Civil War the
business of the navy yard at Pensa-
cola was considerable, and the number
of employees was large. Many of the
persons working in the yard "squatted'
upon the unoccupied land comprised
within the naval reservation, and OBJ
tanned permission from the department
to build homes thereon. The NUMBER
of home builders increased even after
the temporary activity of the navy
yard was succeeded by the lethargy
| that came over the navy and lasted for
nearly twenty years. In time, the
group of houses assumed proportions
| of a town; then it took a name, and
| became Warrington. The Postoffice De-
| partment recognized its rights, gave 1t
| q pOStOfhce, winch later 1T Iudue d
money-order office. and now the town
has some 800 houses. six churches, sew
eral stores, and a population of more
| than 800 persons.
| The commander of the Pensacola
| navy yard rules the town; the lnhabl-
| tants pay no taxes, and have no votes.
| The place is kept in order by the cap
tain of the ward, and 'policed' as the
rest of the naval reservation is. The
bureau of yards and docks Installed
and maintained the electric lights and
the sewer system, though very few OF
the inhabitants are employed by the
| government By far greater part OF
those who thus enjoy the nations care
are engaged in fishing or in farming
| for a living.
Now Senator Mallory thinks that In
addition to providing light. clean
streets and sanitation of the most i'm
proved type the COVE nment should
also provide schools for the children
of the untaxed jewellers in Warrington
and accordingly introduced his DILL
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04
Greeproom Gossip.

J. H. Stoddart enjoys the distinc
ton of being the oldest actor on the
American stage.
Miss Grayce Scott has been selected
to create the role of Hope Langham in
Augustus Thomas stage version of
Soldiers of Fortune"
Nancy Price, London actress, has
been engaged to play Calypso in the
production of "Ulysses,' the part just
resigned by Mrs. Potter.
Nine. Marcella Sembrich has ruptur-
ed an artery amid her vocal chords.
The injury is not serious, but will keep
her from singing for a time.
James X. Hackett could not begin
to count the number of applications he
has from people who want to join his
company. Every young actor seems
to have an ambition to play with Mr..
Hackett during his first season under
his own management.
Agnes Halls hobby is pretty stock
ings. She claims to possess more
stockings than any other stage cele-
brity. and although her part in The
Explorers" requires but four changes
of costume, nevertheless she displays
seven pairs at every performance, and
never wears the same pair twice in a
week.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04
CeCilia LOTUS.

Miss Cecilia Lotus has had a career
in many ways unique in the annals of
the stage. She first gained prominence
as a vaudeville entertainer. Her first
venture in the legitimate was so sue
ceSsful that she at once abandoned the
vaudeville ranks for all time. Miss
Lotus is now leading lady with Mr..
E. H. Sothern appearing in III I
Were King" Her work has been high
ly commended. While playing at De-
troit recently Miss Lotus was stricken
with q severe attack of gastritis, but
has recovered and Joined the company.
Upon the retirement of Miss Ellen
Terry from the London Lyceum COM
pany, which is believed to be close at
hand, Miss Lotus is to become the
leading lady with Henry Irving.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04

Tom LOTUS senators will train On
their own grounds at Washington.
The Pacific Northwest league begins
it's season April 80 and ends Oct. IL.
"Algie" Mcbride will play with the
citation.
Jack Carney has card in the fleet
Marty" Hogan, who has seen major
league service.
The well-known manager, Louie Ba-
| con, has been wintering at his home
in Binghamton, N. Y.
Comiskey's team will play a series
of six games with the Notre Dame
| IndD club. beginning Monday,
April Z.
The American league had on it's
roster last season 1S4 players. Chica-
! 90 made least changes, with Boston
second.
Arthur Twins University of Penn
sylvania charges will play the Univer-
| sity of Virginia team at Charlottes-
Vile, Va, March %.
]. F. Kilfoyl, the Cleveland mogul,
was once an amateur ballplayer in the
Forest City and covered second for
The latest report from the south
saws that q $50, 900 syndicate has been
formed with the idea of getting Louis
Vile back into the National league.
When?
Fred Tenny will coach the Tufts
college nine this spring. Ducky
| Holmes of Detroit has been engaged
in a similar capacity for the Detroit
College team.
Manager McAleer of the st. Louis
Team hopes to induce Pitcher Hustine
to reconsider his determination to quit
baseball for the law, and try his hand
in another campaign.
Owing to his duties at Cornell, Hugh
.Jennings will not be able to join the
Philadelphia team until about June
Oscar Lang will probably be used al
first until "Hughey" returns.
Worcester was hot on the train o
Erving ]. Waldron, who was corrallet
by Charley Nichols for Kansas City
II know I have secured a good man,
said Nick. He will bat considerabl.
better than 300 for u.s.
Amos Rusie has decided to give III
the profession of ditch digging will
the hope OF again breaking into base
ball. The former great twirler 4
planning to get berth in the Califor
! mia league and goes to the coast mex
month.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04
ABsINTHE AND ITS ORIGIN.
French Physician Said to BE the Invent
or the Stuff

or OF the stuff.
Temperance people in Europe were
recently much surprised at the dlscoV-
ery that the deadly absinthe was or
iginally an extremely harmless med
ical remedy.
1t was French physician who first
used it, His name was Ordina1re, and
he was living as a refugee at CouVet,
in Switzerland. at the close OF the
eighteenth century. Like many other
country doctors at that time, he was
a druggist and his favorite remedy was
a certain elixir of absinthe, OF which
he alone had the secret.
At his death he bequeathed the form
ula to his housekeeper, Mile. Grand
pierre and she sold it to the daughters
of Lieutenant Henroid. They Guilt
waited in their little garden the herbs
necessary for connecting it, and after
they had distilled a certain quantity
of the liquid they sold it on commits
sion to itinerant peddlers. who quickly
disposed of it in the adjacent towns
and villages.
Finally during the first decade OF
the nineteenth century, wealthy dis
tiller purchased the formula. and very
soon afterward he placed on the mar
ket the modern absinthe, which differs
greatly from the old medical remedy
since the latter contains no alcohol
and very little absinthe.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04

The following table will show how
closely akin are stage and society,
since there are so many actresses who
have married peers:
Miss Eliza Farren, who married the
Earl of Derby Q797).
Miss Louisa Brunton, married the
Earl of Craven QS0O.
Miss Mary Bolton, married the sec
ond Baron Thurlow GS13).
Miss Harriet Mellon, married the
Duke of ST. Adams (2SO.
Miss Maria Foote. who married the
Earl of Harrington QS3D.
Miss Kitty stephens. who married
the Earl of Essex QS3S).
Miss Julia Fortescue, who married
Baron Gardner 1S4S).
Miss Dolly Tester. who married the
fourth Marquis Of Ailsbury.
Miss Farebrother, who married His
Royal Highness the Duke of Cam
bridge.
Miss Connie Gilchrist, who married
the present Earl of Orkney.
Miss Belle Billion, who married the
present Earl of Clancarty.
Miss Rosie Booth, who married the
present Marquis of Headfort.
Miss May Yohe, who married Lord
Francis Hope, brother of the Duke Of
Newcastle.
Miss Ellis Jeffreys, who married, in
1894, the Hon. Frederick Graham Cur
zon-Howe, brother of Earl Howe.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04
Comiskey Is Satisfied.

Charles Comiskey and Clark Griffith
attended a session of the Mutual Ad-
miration society recently, congratu-
Iati-1g each other on the pennant-win-
ming possibilities of the White Stock
ings for next season. When l tell you
that their records on the bases last
season show George Davis to be the
slowest one of the bunch, you cannot
blame me for being satisfied with my
chances" said Comiskey. Last year
Isbeu stole forty-eight bases, Mertes
and Jones forty-four each, DAILY forty
two Green thirty-seven and Davis
thirty-six Any company in which
George Davis looks slow must be
pretty fast"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04
General Sporting Notes.

wild Bill" Hanrahan has posted a
forfeit for a meeting with Sharkey.
Billy Madden expects to get match
for Gus Rubin before some Of the
Philadelphia clubs in the near future.
Tom O'Rourke has offered to bring
Jeffries and F1tzsimmons together for
a limited number OF rounds within 100
miles of New York.
Jim Parr, the English champion
wrestler. defeated Charley Reinoke Of
Pittsburg. Parr won two straight falls
in twenty and six minutes.
Frank Erne brought back from Eng
land the repsrt that philadelphia
Jack" O'Brien has earned only $4,000,
although he has met and conquered ten
men lately on British soil.
Capt Charles Barr, the skipper OF
Columbia in it's victorious races
against Shamrock H., for the Ameri-
cas- cup. has been engaged by August
Belmont to sail his 70-footer Mine
ola, next season.
Jack DAILY of Wilmington, who near
ly won the light weight championship
when under the management of Sam
Fitzpatrick. has quit the ring. DAILY
is at present on the police force at
Wilmington. Del.
Winnie O'Connor, the jockey, and
Green B. Morris. the owner. have ar
rived at an amicable adjustment of
their difficulties, and Winnie will
again ride for Morris, according to the
terms of their contract.
Harry Corbett, who has blossomed
out as one of the pugilistic leaders in
San Francisco, is not averse to helping
Brother Jim's game along bit. Harry
says that Jim really wants to fight
and thinks match may be arranged
with Jeffries for next September.
John L. Sullivan jumped into the
epigram business recently as follows:
when l was champion it was a case
Of fight and take a chance on getting
your money. Nowadays it's a case Of
get your money first and let the pub
lie take the chance on seeing fight"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04
EnrIand's NAya, Power.

There is some skeptcism in certain
English circles regarding the feryent
praise Of the British navy which CO.
mander Richardson Glover, U. S. \.
naval attache to the United States err
bassy. uttered in a recent interview IL
Washington. Commander Glover was
quoted as saying that the British navy
is far more efficient than continental
powers believe. This says the Hamp-
shire Telegraph, lis good thing to
publish to the world. but it is to be
hoped that the continental powers
and particularly the more belligerent
among them-will take the statement
to heart But the British public ought
to be sufficiently informed by now to
be proof aA..inst Capt. Clover's insidi-
Gus fattery. When he says that Eng
land to-day is stronger on the seas than
any two of the most powerful CONT
mental powers. with another power in
cluded, he is merely soaring into
heights of imagination whittier no
British naval expert can pretend to fol-
low him"
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nan Jobn.op.. Explain. ton.

Il made the statement that the Ma
tional league was nothing but minor
league" says Ban Johnson; but 1t was
meant as a joke. Evidently the news
paper men who heard me say 1t did
not take it that way. baseball Or
ganization with the circuit that the
National league has can never be con-
sidered a minor organization. While
the American league will concede SUI
premacy to no organization, we must
admit that the territory that is occu-
pied by the National league is major
league territory, and the National
league has been the leading organiza-
ton for SO many years that it is lit
tie presumptuous to say that it is now
only a minor league
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04
Old Religious Books

The dispersal of the religious orders
in Paris has been followed by the ap-
pearance of a large number of relig-
ious books in the boxes of the dealers
on the Quai d'Orsay. Here they jostle
with Voltaire, under the shadow of his
statue, and with ditties of the cafe
concert" These books principally
come from the Carmelites library, in
the Rue de Vanguard, which was dis
persed two months ago, when the order
turned it's back upon France at the
bidding of an inhospitable law Some
of the books are very old, dating back
200 or 800 years. The signatures of
their pious owners are pale and rusty
on pages that have turned yellow with
age.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04

DtOO0 up ~ VI
his sturdy opponent an ght until
exhausted. Nature refused to support
him any longer.
So passes George Dixon. He has
seen his best days in the modern
arena, he can no longer hold his own
with the rising generation, but his
name will live forever in pugilistic
annals as the finest little man that
ever donned glove.
II his skin had only been white in
stead of black, what a fistic ideal he
would have been!
Another match for the heavy weight
championship has been kicked in the
head. AS punishment for doing the
brother act with Peter Maher at Phila-
delphia, Tom Sharkey will lose his
chance to battle with Jim Jeffries for
q fat purse. Word to that effect comes
from San Francisco and from Harry
Corbett, one of the leaders OF the
Yosemite Athletic club, which had ar
ranged to pull off the fight
With Sharkey off the bills as a
heavy weight attraction, a new effort
will probably be made to get Fitzsim-
mons and Jeffries hooked up. The
prospect doesn't look encouraging for
q championship fight. Up to date not
a thing has been accomplished toward
getting Fitz into the ring again. al
though there have been enough propo-
sitions for a dozen ordinary matches.
The whole business in a nutshell is
that FitzSimmonS wants the money
If he can get enough to fight he will
pull on the gloves. If he can't there
will be no fight.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04
NotabIes OF the Stage.

Charles Frohman has announced
that Virginia Harmed will play the
principal role in his production of
Iris" Author Pinero's latest problem
play. Justin Mccarthy is in London
supervising a production of his play,
IF / Were King" Mrs. Fiske has re
ceived word that a Texas oil gusher
has been named the Becky Sharp,
and she was presented with block of
stock. Alexander Bandrouski Polish
tenor, and friend of Paderewski, will
create the leading role in the pianist
opera, "Manru," when it is sung in
New York. Ezra Kendall, the mono
logist, is to star next season in COM
ady obtained for him by the Lieblers.
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As to New Baseball League.

Regarding a dispatch from Sioux
City. Ia. which stated that new base
ball league was being formed which
would include that city, O. II. T.
Briggs of St Paul, who has been
instrumental in promoting the new
league. said: We have our arrange
ments about concluded for new cir
cult. to include Sioux City, Des Moines
and Dubuque. Ia, and Quincy, Peoria,
Joliet. Elgin and Aurora, Ill. My in
formation is that Des Moines Will be
dropped from the Western; that
Omaha will be abandoned by the Am
erican association. and the Des Moines
club placed in that city. This, will
leave Des Moines free to join the new
league"
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Edmund Milton Holland.

Mr.. Holland has been identified with
the American stage for many years.
Among the numerous important roles
which he has created, may be mention
ed Captain Redwood. the detective, in
Jim. the Penman; Col. Moberly, in
Alabama" and Col. Carter, in Col.
Carter of Cartersville." For thirteen
seasons Mr.. Holland played at Wal
lacks theater New York, from 1867 to
1880. The following ten seasons he
was with A. NJ. Palmer.
With his brother, Joseph. Mr.. Hol-
land starred in "A Social Highway
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reform. mo more short-skirted serios
for me- says one. No more red-nosed
comedians. I've done with them as
soon as existing contracts run out
The disappearance, in fact, of the
'short-skirted serio' has been remark
able bit of music hall jugglery. She
Tags superfiuous' here and there, but
generally speaking, she is as extinct as
the dodo. Red noses. too. are at a ter
rible discount, and comedians seem at
last to have made up their minds that
humor cannot be purchased in yelling
ton street at so much a box
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04

One of the most important indoor
events of the winter athletic season
will be held at the Academy of Music
in Philadelphia, Feb. 81. when Yale,
Princeton and Pennsylvania will meet
in four-mile relay race. The event
will be held in conjunction with the
Indoor intercollegiate, interacademic,
and interscholastic athletic carnival.
ALI three of the universities will send
teams, and the race promises to be the
biggest of its kind of the season. A
silver cup will be awarded to the first
and second in each event and cham
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-04
New Owner for Boston Club.

Henry Killilea has secured con-
trolling interest in the Boston club.
The terms of the deal whereby the
wisconsin lawyer secured a majority
of the stock of the Boston club were
the payment of S45 600 in cash for five
ninths of the stock, and there was a
condition that President Charley Som
mers who sold the stock, should be
given all opportunity to redeem at the
first of the year if he was able finan-
cially. and SO inclined Instead Of
III. stock being repurchased by Som
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Frau Gadski sang Aida IN New York
in place of Emma Games, who was i'll,
and scored a big success. t..t it,l
PerOai's Scale.

Here is a story of the Italia" COM
poser Perosi which is worthy to be-
come part of the standard musical an
ecdoatage. 1t was told to journalist
in Europe by an Italian priest who
knew the composer: do you know
Che explained that Perosi had said).
do you know, those telegraph wires,
one above the other, outside my. little
window, remind me of a musical staff;
and I, in travelling to and from from
my casinetto can divert and amuse my
self by affiXing notes to them" For
which, continued my newly found
friend on his own account, ''the rail-
road be blessed, in spite of its disa-
greeableness; and blessed above all for
it's slowness. the tortoise, snail-like
pace of our trains, which permits the
Maestro to attach so many, many
notes to those wires"
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Grand Circuit Dates.

The stewards of the Grand Circuit
Trotting association have agreed on
dates for the coming season as fol-
lows: Detroit, July Ia; Cleveland, 81:
Columbus, %; Buffalo, August a; Glens
Falls, Ii; Readville. IS; Providence,
Is; Hartford, Sept /: Cincinnati, %;
Terre Haute %.
Syracuse refused a date because it
could not get the week OF August 25,
and will have an independent meeting
on that date.
Brighton Beach will buy Glens Falls
dates and Glens Falls will have
meeting in September.
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Owns ST. Louis American League Club
Ralph Orthwein, son of rich man
and wealthy in his own right, has been
agreed upon as president of the cor
poration which will own and control
the American League club in st. Louis.
This agreement was reached after an
hours conference between Robert Lee
Hedges, who recently purchased the
club from the killiiea's. Mr.. Orthwein
and Ban Johnson, president of the
American league.