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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
ED FOR PLAYING A SMOOTH
GAME.
Buys Promiscuousiy About Town and
Gets SO From the Harras
Meat Market.

Representing himself as a foreman
on the w. & c. R., man giving the
name of w. Brown was able to secure
So of the Gus Harras meat market
this morning after purchasing a
quantity of choice meats which were
to be delivered to the company's con-
struction car at the East Main street
depot. When the time came for de-
livering the meat the delivery boy was
unable to locate tine car and an inves-
tigatiOn by Mr.. Harras led to the
discovery that no such man was en-
ployed on the road. Mr.. Harras con-
cluded that he had been swindled and
reported the matter to the police.
1t developed this afternoon that
Brown had been buying rather pro-
miscuously about town last night and
this morning on the strength that he
was a railroad man although in no
other instance was he reported to
have made an effort to secure money.
At the Davis Kaser company he
bought big bill of goods last night
promising to come in this morning and
pay for them. AS this was necessary
the shipment has not yet been made.
He is also reported to have bought
goods at the Chicago store and the
Gardner grocery in East Alder street.
Brown secured the So Of the Harras
market by pretending that he was
short that amount to meet bill across
the street. The market was ITO add
the amount to the bill of meats and
receive a voucher for the whole
amount.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVE
BEFORE GRAND JURY At
PORTLAND.
The Senator Refuses to Give Out Any
Statement to the Press-Ap-
pears Worried.

PORTLAND. Dec. Ex-senator
Mitchell was before the grand jury
during the entire morning session ex-
planning his alleged connection with
the land frauds. He finished his tes-
timony at the afternoon session and
was followed by Congressman Binger
Hermann. Mitchell declined to make
a statement for the press saying, Il
can say nothing about it. I was sworn
to secrecy. Senator Mitchelps re-
ton in advance was refused. He ap-
pears much worried.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
LOCAL ITEMS.

Born, in Walla Walla. December %,
to Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Church, a SON.
The Woman's Reading club was en-
tertained yesterday by Mrs. John L.
Sharpstein at her residence of Pa
louise street. There was a large at
tendance of members and a profitable
meeting is reported.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28

FOR RENT-THE J. 3. ALLEN
house southeast Of city and 5 acres
of ground. Price reasonable and
the place is very desirable.
Groom house and barn; choice To-
cation; cheap.
BAXTER REALTY CO., 27i2 Main.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28

The famous Dixie Jubilee Singers al
Whitman Chapel New Years eve
This entertainment promises to be
one of the treats Of the season.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28

We have just received a car OF
Eastern Corn. Electric Feed Mills, r
H. Johnson, Prop. Phone Main G.
Third street bridge.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

ST1CK-PIN; HORSE
shoe, diamond settings. Finder
leave at Davis kaser's receive re-
ward.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28

J. w. Cookery, licensed embalmer
and undertaken. Babcock block. ~
First street. Tel. Main 379.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28

The best hay and grain on the mar
ket at Alheit's feed mill.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28

Prof. McMinn will give a Leap Year
dance at the academy tonight.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28
The Chicago Grain Market.

CHICAGO. Dec. 28.-Wheat, $1.14A
GILL; corn. 45% @45%: oats, $3.50
3lH
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-28

Don't forget the Leap Year dance at
McMinns dancing academy tonight
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LEASE TO SELL

on 81 sections land for years; 10
head of work horses: 5 set harness:
wagons; gang plows: 1 header;
all good; 800 acres in crop 220 ready
in bunchgrass: y miles railroad sta
ton; miles west of Washtucna,
Wash. Price $500: will take some
Walla Walla property. Address,
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10y so 'ao4
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-03

tations were not listened to, but they
were hustled out of the grounds,
Two Charlestonians, laboring more
or less under the depression common
ly produced by beverages Of the blind
tiger variety, were parading the side
lines with two brooms, to which were
attached the crimson and blue of the
Charleston team. They were hurrah-
ing loudly for Charleston.
AS they stood for moment besides
drag in which there were a large
number of Savannah supporters the
ribbons were stripped from their
brooms and the colors Of the Savannah
team were attached to them. The two
enthusiasts marched off down the line
singing Charleston songs, with the
blue and white fluttering from their
improvised standards.
When the second touchdown was
scored by Savannah, enthusiastic root
ers who had been trying to make bets
at any odds yelled 800 to l that
Charleston doesn't score" This looked
good to bystander, though he almost
knew that he would lose. He counted
out a dollar in change and offered it
up to the man in the carriage. When
the layer of the odds saw the small
change, he waved it aside with dis
dain, saying, go and get bill or a
silver dollar; I haven't got time to
count that change"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-03
THE NEW YEARS
FIRST CHASE.
Chatham Hunt Club Had One of the
Best Runs of the Season.

Chatham Hunt Club Had One of the
Best Runs of the Season.
One of the best meets of the Chat
ham Hunt Club this season was the
New Year meet. A large number start
ed from the kennels at the tollgate.
The morning was glorious. A heavy
frost lay on the fields and the roads
were fine for riding.
The gallop out to Cattle Park was
eXhilarating. The hounds were dying
for q chase and they flew along far
ahead of the horses, and when they
reached the hunting grounds picked
up a hot trail at once.
1t was not a long wait, for the jump.
Reynard got up and began to dust
earlier than usual and it was killing
pace for three hours. When the chase
was at its height, the woods fairly
rang with music, and many who rode
out in carriages waited on the new
Isle Of Hope road, and saw a great
deal of the running.
The dogs followed the fox as il he
were pulling them by string, through
all sorts of thickets, bays and plough
ed ground, barking at every jump.
ReyItard played around Cattle Park
a few minutes, then tore away to Sand
fly working g. few smart steps in the
cypress ponds, where many of his
ancestors have been Tapped up by the
hunt club hounds. He did not tarry
in Sandfly, however, but ran bark to
Cattle Park, broke across toward
Skidaway and lodged about in bays.
But there was no peace for him and
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-03

commentator and most of their gains
We're largely due to the superb work
of this character by the halves and
full. The fierce bucking and reckless
tackling of some of Charleston's play
ers also came in for their share of
applause, and more than once the big
bass drum gave forth its hungry burr
rr-rr' when a Charleston man broke
through and downed the runner with
no gain.
"The first indications of the pres
ence of the germ causing kicking
came out towards the last few min
utes of the first half. Savannah had
scored one touchdown and Cope had
sent the oval straight between the goal
posts. Savannah was in possession of
the ball, which was about the center
OF the field. A Savannah back made
a long run and the hearts of the
Goober-Grabbers waxed light. Mr.. r.
II. King, referee, calmly pulled out a
wet blanket and placed 1t on the en-
thusiasm of the Georgians, which en-
thusiasm turned from gladness to
growing. Mr.. King said that the
twenty-yard penalty should be i'm
posed because a Savannah man had
interfered illegally, using his hands to
keep the Charleston player from tack
ling. Mr.. Harry Blum, the umpire,
was asked to decide the matter and
he stated that he had seen no illegal
play. The visitors then contested that
Mr.. King had no jurisdiction what
ever over that end of the game. but
1T was shown that Mr.. King and Mr..
Blum had agreed, before the game be-
gan, to assist each other in the adj
ministration of justice, Mr.. Blum point
ing out illegal plays which may have
taken place in Mr.. Kings territory
and which may have escaped the eye
of the said Mr.. King, and Mr.. King
pointing out slip-ups which may have
occurred in Mr.. Blun's end, and which
may have been perpetuated without
the said Mr. Blum seeing them. After
pow-wowing for about a half hour the
good offices Of Head Lnesman Buck
were called into service and this off
cial said that he was unable to give
any opinion, as his attention had been
directed elsewhere when the incident
took place. Then 1t was that the $50
checks which had been placed as a
forfeit should the game not be fin
lshed, grew trembly and green about
the gills.
After long dispute. in the course
of which Left Guard Forsythe gently
Informed Capt. Cope that he was ar
old woman, to which doubtful compli-
ment Cope replied with some refer.
ence to the assistance of Clemson
players, the matter was adjusted, Sa.
vannah was penalized twenty yards
the Charleston crowd cheered hilarious
ly, the visitors commented rather free
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-03
SAVANNAH'S HARDNESS MAY CAUSE
ABANDONMENT OF BASEBALL LEAGUE
y and the game went merrily on.

ly and the game went merrily on"
The reference made in the last par
agraph to the "old woman" incident
was not as accurately recorded as were
some of the excellent plays of the
Charleston men. During a controversy
over ruling made by Mr.. King For
sythe, of the Charleston team said
Come on and let's play the game. you
all talk like a lot of women" Cant.
Cope ready response to this was yes
we have to talk like women when we
have an old maid to deal WITH" refer
ring to Mr.. King, of the Y. M. c..
A, who was conscientiously, but hard
ly capably, filling the office of referee.
In conclusion the News and Courier
says: That the visitors played a
great game no one will deny. They
knew to second the style of play of
their next door neighbor and played
accordingly. Team work, or concert
of action, superb interference and hurd-
ling, were the most prominent points
in the game played by the visitors. So
far as individual work is concerned the
Charleston men compare most favor
ably with the Georgians, but their team
work was at a discount. and team
work is what counts, Rossiter, Har-
mon. Mcneil and Black. of the Geor-
gians, and Sullivan, Sadler Hunter,
Forsythe, Holcombe and Buist, deserve
especial mention. All of the players
on both teams did good work, and
should be commended for the admir-
ahle efforts"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-03

( be figured on and the season is ready
to open. The season could be opened
easily on an outlay of $500. and yet no
one has been found so far who has
faith enough in the success of the I'M
dertaking to invest their money.
League Depends on Savannah.
The success of the South Atlantic
! Baseball League depends on Savannah.
Without Savannah The league will never
enter into actual existence, and all
OF the work that has been done so far
towards its establishment will have
been done to no avail.
At present the Indications are that
Columbus will not come into the league,
and President Boyer is figuring on get
ting Columbia, S. c., in to make the
sixth city.
All of the cities have made their
arrangements for managers, and many
or them have signed their full list
OF players, and are ready to begin the
season. In Charleston and Jackson
Vile handsome new parks are TO be
fitted up, and lovers of the game are
enthusiastic over the prospects of again
having professional baseball during the
summer months.
Team Would Pay i'm Savannah.
There is no doubt but that a good
team would pay handsomely in Sa-
vannah. Abner Powell went to At
lanta to take charge of the team there
IN the Southern League, and spent $17,-
900 before he got dollar back. When
he closed the season he had balance
in bank to his account something like
$4,000. This was proven at the meet
ing of the promoters of the South At
lantic League in November by Presi-
dent Boyer, who was secretary and
treasurer of the Atlanta team last
season, and who had the balance sheets
of the Atlanta club with him.
With the small expense that would
be necessary for the establishment of
a team from Savannah in the South
Atlantic League there Is little doubt
but that such an investment would
prove a prosperous one.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-03

yards with the struggling Charlestoni-
ans clinging to him. Harmon remark
ed as the team lined up again, Keep it
up, Joe, none of us were able to help
you that time, but we will next" AL
most the same play came up again,
and Rossiter could not be downed I'M
til he had wriggled off seven more
yards.
McIMtire Was PIuclSy.
Frank Mcintyre was playing a
beautiful game when he was injured
and was ordered from the field. He
objected strenuously, but he was forced
to the side lines. He was opposed by
the most aggressive man on the
Charleston team, Sullivan, a powerful
ly built stone mason, who has every
appearance and qualification of foot
ball player.
Harmon won the admiration of the
thousands of spectators in five minutes
after the ball was put in play. WON
derful, wonderful" the referee was
heard to remark under his breath as
Harmon went through tackle, around
the ends and over the line. Holcombe,
the old Clemson half back, was great,
but Harmon was greater, and after the
first assault, when he only made one
yard at gains center, he never failed 10
make as much as nVe yaruS on d Sill
gle play. In following his interference,
he was perfect, and an opening large
enough for 8 rabbit to get through was
all he wanted.
Sullivan only received the ball a few
times, but his gains were creditable at
all times. He was opposed by BUST,
the best home player on the Charles
ton team. In the comparison OF the
two men, Sullivan had the better Oh
1t, and he was full of play at the
end of the last half.
Mcneil did some of the prettiest
tackling of the game. He had three
chances at Sadler, and the way in which
he disposed of the Clemson captain
ELECTED much admiration. Sadler has
a way of jumping up when he is about
to be tackled. Everytime he did this
Mcneil would turn him over on his
head and these tactics were soon aban-
doned.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-03

he went on the field he knew moth
ing of the style of play, the individual
qualifications or even the lineup of
the Charleston team. After the first
snap of the ball he knew where to
send the assaults and when to mass on
center for small gains to keep from
following a style of play that would
soon become too familiar to his OPP
ponents. The men obeyed his calls as
an engine obeys the throttle.
COpe's GeneraIship.
The first exhibition of generalship
was in the line up of the team, when
Charleston prepared to kick off. Capt.
Cope knew that there were many
Clemson men in the game. who stiIl
remembered the tricks of the willy
Heisman. When the heavy guards
were put back in the field, where the
ends were usually lined up, and the
ends were put in the front ranks many
Savannah rooters familiar with the
line up, wondered. Could Cope have
made mistake. or was he going to
change the line up of the team? Cope
knew what he was doing, and he had
whispered to Landsberg and Smith, and
me rest of the team to lookout for a
fake kick off. Just what he expect
ed happened.
When Bremen started on his run to
KICK off one of. the guards ran up
70 the ball and punted it lightly to-
wards the other side of the field so
that one of the Savannah guards. not
accustomed to handling the ball might
tumble 1T and a Charleston man would
oe ready to fall on it. Smith was oft
nying, however. and before the heavy
iHnesmen of the crimson could get to
MIN he had bounced on the oval and
was speeding down the field. He gain
"a nearly fifteen yards before he was
uoWned. AS soon as the team was
switched back to regular formation
and those who understood what had
peen done they remarked at once, "A
great head has that Captain"
r II was thus all the way through that
SSope outgeneralled the noted Buster
hunter. When he was placed on the
shoulders of the enthusiastic admirers,
VINO awaited the coming of the team
At tne Union Station he modestly ask
Gu ., mat he be allowed to get down and
nose who really won the game be
taken up.
Futch's Great Play.
savannah veteran center, Futch,
p,ayed the game of his life. He was
up against a man nearly twice his
SIZE, but when the game was over
me Charleston center was hardly able
~ get off the field without assistance.
ulch had been told that he was not
S,ssresslVe enough, but he made up for
-. an that game. He secured the ball
SmIce on fumbles, and against the heavy
wv, W. OF the Crimson he hurled with all
me force in his powerful frame.
r. DldcK at left guard was the mastiff
TTatch dog of the blue and white line.
knew that Billy Hicks had a task
$40 store him in hadling Forsythe, the
NJ Nj guard of the Clemson team and
NJ ~"t th he could get Johnson out
too me way he backed up Hicks, and
Fe Seuner they soon had the powerful
wa, was perfectly tractable. black has
ss, nS played a hard, consistent game,
- according to Sadler, Clelnson's
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-03
TRAVIS THE WINNER
AMATEUR CHAMPION STILL LEADS
AT GOLF.
BEATS F0WNES AT PINEHURsT
PLAYED 80 HOLES, WITH SCORE {.
UP AND L TO PLAY.

Contest Was a Close and Pretty One.
Travis and FOwnes Split Even On
the First Round of IS HOIes-Theu
Travis Steadied to His WOrlS--Is-
Hole Medal Play Handicap Was
Won by NJ. c. Work on a Net Score
of 76-LOwest Gross Score XVa. sO
Pinehurst, N. c., Jan. 2.-Walter 7.
Travis, the amateur champion. pulled
through a winner in the big Inaugural
ton tournament here to-day defeat
ing w. c. Fownes. Jr., of the High
land Club. Pittsburg, up and to
play, SO holes. in the final round for
the first cup.
The contest was one of the prettiest
and closest of the week, and for a
time it looked as if the Pittsbura
player might win out. At the end
of the first round of Is holes, the play
ers We're even up, but the steadiness
of the champion on the afternoon
round resulted in a victory.
The tournament was given a bril-
liant ending with an eighteen hole
medal play handicap, in which over
fifty players participated. M. C. Work
of Philadelphia, with a handicap of
IL, won the Berkshire cup, offered for
the best net score. with rs net. o..
McCammon of Washington, and w. R.
Hotchkin, of the Montclair Club, New
Jersey, and G. B. Carpenter, Chicago,
tied for the gross score up with eighty
each, McCammon winning on the play
off.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-03
.,,ENDID TEAM WORK AND INDI-
vrDUAL PLAYING OF THE BLUE
AND WHITE.
SAVANNAH BOYS WHO WON
SOUTHERN CHAMPIONSHIP.
captain COPE OUTGENERALED
WHILE HIS TEAM OUTPLAYED
CHARLESTON.

rootbnII Season Ended With the
Game in Charleston Friday-Many
Amusing Incidents of the Day,
6atIOOk for Championship Team
Next Year Is Bright-AII of This
Years Team Will Again Don the
MoIesIxins When the Referees
whistle Blows.
Now that the decentralization of the
6rst throes of wild enthusiasm that
possessed all who witnessed the great
athletic spectacle in Charleston, is
over, and the proud badge of honor.
Champions of the South" is pinned
10 the blue and white. 1t is but
right that honor be placed. where
honor is due.
AT who did not witness the game,
and even those who were present dur
ing the struggle, but who were too
far removed to know of the general
ship that was exercised within the
ranks Of the blue and white, are in
terested to know how. and by whom.
the game was won. It was won by
superior team work, by the twelve men
who actually participated in the strug-
sIe and the five who waited long
ingly on the side lines for an oppor-
tunity to get in the scrimmages, the
substitutes. 1t was not their fault
that they were not in the thick of
the fight, and no one doubts that every
man would have done his part.
Was n Perfect Machine.
So perfectly did every part of the
great machine that plunged and
ground its way down the gridiron work
that it would be manifestly unjust to
place the greater credit to one who
was but a part of the whole. It is
so as much in football as in any bust
ness that the unseen forces are Just
as important as those in open display,
and while the whole of Savannah's
play was spectacular, the men in the
line had little opportunity to show
while the fast backs were at work in
almost open field. Taking the indi-
viduals so far as it is possible to re-
call distinguishing features of their
play first mention is not an indication
of relative merit.
First of all comes Capt. Harris Cope,
who engineered the engine of offense
and defense in the struggle. When
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-03
The Cotton Trade journal.

Mr.. j. A. Nelson. for six years con-
nected with the Morning News city
and commercial departments, has re-
the management of the Cotton Trade
Journal, which he founded three years
ago, and which has become a recog-
nized journal of the cotton trade, not
only locally, but throughout the cot
ton belt. Mr.. Nelson has had charge
of the commercial and marine de-
partment of the Morning News for
the last four years. He has a thor
ough acquaintance with cotton men
and his newspaper experience, knowl-
edge Of the cotton trade and his stand
ing among business 1nen, bespeak a
successful management OF the prop
erty which he has built up. The
Morning News wishes him every sue
cess.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-03
FOOTBALL IN PARK
EXTENSION TOMORROW

Tomorrow afternoon the Park Elk
tension will be the scene of what
promises to be a holly contested game
of football between the Young Bene-
dictines and the Whitfield Stars.
This will be the second meeting OF
these teams, the first having resulted
in a victory for the Benedictines by
the score of to 0. In this game the
WhitfieIds were greatly handicapped
by weight, but this will not be the
case this time, as both are evenly
matched as regards weight.
Tie lineup of the Young Benedic-
tines will be as follows:
Henry, !. e.; Thomson, l. t.; Bolan,
!. g.; DUPONT, c.; r. Futch, r. s.; Will
son, r. t.; Rowland, r. e.; Lyons-Cur-
tbs, q. b.; Trapani (captain), T. h. b.;
S. Futch, !. h. b.; Gaudrey, t. b.