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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-11
BOXING NOTES.

Harry and Willie Lewis will meet at
New York. Monday, might.
Willie Fitzgerald hnd Willie Lewis hav"
been signed by the Colma Club for next
month.
Al Fellows got his" from Mississippi
in New York, Thursday night. Fellows
was put away in three rounds
"kid' Goodman, who expects to be tied
I'D with matches before Il month. has
gone to Diamond Hill. r. T., to get into
condition.
If Young Nahoncy defeats Hugo Kelly
ut indianapolis. this week. he will be
given Il match with Jack CTwn) Sullivan
at Los Angeles.
Mike Schreck. who was recently defeat
cd by Jack Crwin) Sullivan, has been
matched to meet Dave Berry at San
Diego, Cal, Dec. 10.
Blink McCloskcy says that he is to meet
Harry Center at Lawrence in tHo weeks.
Terry Martin, who was picked ut Center S
opponent must have been sidetracked.
The Buddy Ryan and Dick Fitzpatrick
bout which was booked for Chicago, Sat
urday night. was called off. as the :u-
| thorities would not allow the bou. to tax :
place.
Tommy Murphy, the crack local feath-
erweight, returned to the ring. Saturday
night. at the Polo A. c.. New York where
| he met Frank Carsey of Chicago. in a l.
round bout with no decision. Murphy
easily outpointed Carsey and at one stage
of the combat had the Chicago man near
ly out.
Maurice Savers of Milwaukee. had thu
better of the windup at the National A.
c., Saturday night, with INK Russell
in Philadelphia. 1t was an exciting bout
from start to finish. Russell. although the
aggreSsor nearly the whole time, was I'M
able to get away from Savers hard right
and left swings. which after the first
round nearly always landed on the face
CT jaw.
Portland Telegram: Harry Edels and
Larry Conlcy will both be here, Monday
or Tuesday, to finish training for their
big bout at the Auditorium, Wednesday
night. Both men say they will be in the
finest of trim. and the match should be
fully as rugged as any that has been
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-11
TREES FIGHT EACH OTHER,
Arthur A. ShurtIeff Tells Why Cutting
Is Necessary.

AS an answer in part to those who
decry the cutting of trees by the Me-
tropolitan Park Commission. Arthur A.
Shurtleff presented a paper before the
Boston Scientific Society at its last
meeting. which was entitled THE I'M
provement of the Forests of the Metro
politan Park System" The paper. says
the Boston Transcript. was one of IN
usual interest and of Il nature to give
an insight into some of the principles of
forestry for picturesque purposes. 1t
was illustrated throughout by artistic
chalk illustrations and apt expressions.
"A humane person. said the speaker,
could do no better deed than the
stopping of war or a fight EctWe cen
individuals, yet this same person will
cry out in dismay if a single tree is cut
down. 1t is one of the duties of the
forester to stop the fights between
trees, which are between ephemeral
trees and permanent ones. and which
can have no other result Il continued
than grave injury to the permanent
trees. while the ephemeral ones will be
lost to us by natural processes within
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-11

delicate as any he has to meet. The
peach mas to be plucked and shipped on
the yesterday it was too green,
tomorrow will be too ripe-and the rail-
road has to make it's elaborate prepar-
ations against the psychological mo-
ment for shipping. Changes in the
weather may advance or delay this
period for Il fortnight, or after the
railroad has estimated the crop and
brought great number of freight cars
from distance and altered them-for
pea cEeS are so delicate that the cars
must be provided with shelves for the
baskets-a sudden blight may greatly
reduce the crop and force the railroad
to operate at d loss. Thus late in the
present season heavy rains in the Con-
necticut fruit belt reduced the crop
from 100000 to between 4OO.O0 and 800
600 baskets, 50 that many of the cars
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford had ready We're practically useless
ana the whole crop netted "A dead loss
to the railroad of close to $1,000 An
other way in which the railroad is like
~ to Lose is in the case of sudden
change to cod weather after the road
has got together several score of re-
friGerator cars for the transportation of
the fruit. The cold weather makes the
refrigerator car useless and the ship
pers refuse to pay the extra expense
for them.
But in spite of these acknowledgements
the railroads have fostered and in
creased the scope of the peach-growing
industry. Only by an intelligent adap-
tation of rates to meet the exigencies of
varying seasons and different localities
have they been able to accomplish this,
and this policy has been possible under
our flexible rate system. when under
the government-controlle European
system it must have failed Thirty
years ago the peach season" i'm cities
Ike New York lasted from August 10 to
September Is; today it extends through
nearly half the year. Thirty years ago
practically no peaches were grown for
commerce outside of Michigan. New
JerseS' Delaware and Maryland-the
so-calied peach belts" today the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-11
CLOUD RISES
On Baseball Horizon Of
Princeton and Harvard
Could Not Agree on Number Of
Games to Be Played
And Relations Are Called Off For Season
Of 1906 at Least.

Cambridge Mass, Dec 10.-BaSeball
relations between Harvard and Prince
ton have been severed for 1906 at
least.
Ever since the annual meeting of
the two great universities on the ball
field was resumed several years ago
Princeton has endeavored to have the
Cambridge university agree to a
championship series of three games
but Harvard refused to grant the re-
quest, putting forth the claim that she
cared for only one baseball champion
ship season, and the series with
Yale has always been considered the
climax of the Crimsons baseball sea
son.
This year the Tigers hoped to be
able to arrange three game series
and late, Saturday afternoon. Capt
Reed Of the Princeton Varsity nine
was in consultation with Manager
Kelly OF Harvard at Cambridge. Tho
conference was Il very important one
as it had to do with the mapping ou
of the coming seasons schedule.
Heretofore the two teams have
played only one game, but this veal
Princeton insisted on three games. II
was learned at Cambridge that Man
ager Kelly was agreeable to two
games, but the New Jersey men in
sisted that two games would not de-
eide championship, and stated thai
unless q series of three games was
arranged there would be no meeting
between the teams next spring.
The Harvard manager was as equal.
ly obdurate. and the conference re-
suited III naught for either college
AS matters stand now there will bt
no game in 1906.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-11
Baseball Notes.

Lew Whistler. for two years man.
aser of the Memphis club. has signed to
manage and play first base for the Terre
llautc Central League club.
'Badc'' Myers. manager and captain of
the Canton Central League team, has re-
covered from an operation for appcndici-
tbs. and h. is now in fairly good health
FOR The first time in two years. Myers is
now IN ONO looking up players for the
season of 1906. Myers states that he will
have winning team, this year
=, Charles DeArmond. who gained fame at
lerre fiautc two years ago by rising from
the bush to the National League within
one year, is to re-enter baseball, and in
lo6 viii play with the Little Rock South
ern League team. DeArmond suffered
with rheumatism soon after being drafted
ana was Obliged to leave the game. He
has recovered
Teddy Frice. the sensational left field
er of the Wheeling Central League team
ana u former manager of the champions
refuses to return to the camp of the .'sto :
E!es and states that unless he secures
ms release he will accept an offer from
the Tri-State League. Price wants his
release because of friction with Manager
ShriNer South Bend. Springfield and
nerre Haute arc trying to buy him of
wheeling, but the latter club has placed
tco nigh value on his services
Cleveland carried off the honors COY hit
I ing nr. IN tie ;so- season of the American
not orly. contained the heaviest individual
hitter of the league. but Cleveland led in
Team batting with an average of .255. al
though Philadelphia was but two points
behind. Lajoie of Cleveland. led the
lea"ne in batting, scoring 81 hits out of
~ tunes ut bat. an average OF go.
Nahn of New York. was second with i
hits out of 100 times at bat. an average
| OF 3ls: The heaviest hitter of the cham
pion Ph.ladelphia team was Davis, who
made .2sf. The best batting for Boston
was done by Collins. who tied for 18th
place with Hartsell of Philadelphia.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-11

peach industry is carried on in all
states except Maine, Vermont and the
northwestern states beyond the great
lakes. Georgia peaches go not only to
the northern cities. but also to England
by way of refrigerator cars and the
cold storage vaults of the steamship
lines Solid fruit specials. running on
passenger train schedule. rush the pro-
ducts of Michigan orchards to the east
ern markets. and they are for sale at
New York grocery shops on the third
morning after they left the tree or at
Boston on the fourth day. Peaches
grown in the mellow orchards of Cali
fornia exc out the fruit supply of the
metropolis. Finally, the householder i'm
Boston or Providence may have at his
breakfast table peaches that the day
before were still on the trees in Con-
neCticut.
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WHY IN THE GREAT WORLD OF MANLY SPORTS,

pulled off IN Portland, this season. The
management OF the Casco Club promises
something very warm in the way OF pre-
inns. Kid Mcdonald, the boy sluggei,
will probably meet Johnnie Frazier. the
pocket Fit2simmons.' and there Will be
another sizZler as well.
Joe Humphreys, Terry McGovern's man
ager, insists on a forfeit of $1,000 for
weight and $500 for appearance for their
battle at Philadelphia, Jan. g. Yesterday,
the articles for the contest were received.
They call for a forfeit of $500 for weight,
1333 pounds ringside, and $500 for appear
ance Joe says Nelson could afford to
lose SOC and weigh what he liked. Joe
will insist en- the $1,000 weight clause That
must go. Terry will show at New Haven,
next week; Philadelphia week after next,
New York Christmas week, and Buffalo
New Years week.
Benny Yanger, the ''Tlpton Slasher,''
made his metropolitana debut in the ring.
Saturday night, at the Hudson River \.
c. in a Ground bout with Tony Moran,
an Italian boxer of some note. Moran
was not in it with Yanger in science and
generalship. Moran rcsorted to all kinds
of unfair fighting and the bout was stop
ped in the third round. In the second
round, after Yanger had sent Moran
gro%Gy, the Italian deliberately brought
up his knee On rangers groin. 1t was i
barefaced foul When it looked as if
there might be trOblc the referee called a
halt. 1t was Yangers fight all the way
Boston Traveller: Arthur Cote. the cIcvc.
Rcddeford boy who ment INK Russell in
Philadelphia few nights ago, appears to
be in line for the limolight as the talk in
his home town includes some important
possibilities for him. Incidentally he is
| mentioned as likely to meet Briggs again,
this time being Christmas at Augusta.
" lille Lewis at Portland is another rI,-
NOR, but il is not likely to be booked.
Young Corbctt is also mentioned" this
tine for Biddeford. kid Goodman for
either Portland or Chelsea is the last. 1t
looks as though Cote would be kent busy
ana he ought to stay the limit or win
from any New Englandor ir his class
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fruit on time. Whole communities
turn out to work in the orchards while
the picking, sorting and packing are in
progress, and on the larger farms hun
dreds of persons camp at night under
the trees, to be on the ground to re-
sumo work as soon as the sun shows
himself in the morning. 1t is as If
Georgia had Il great agricultural
standing army.
AT the close of the season, the expert
packers move northward with the rip
ening of successive peach crops, as far
as Maryland. Then many of them go
to California or Florida for orange or
vegetable packing. The negroes VIII"
assist in gathering the peach crop
spend a week or so in "picncking" as
soon as the season has ended. and
thereafter they set to work picking cot
ton in the fields.
There is one peach grower who be
gins his harvest in Georgia and brings
it 10 a close in Connecticut. He is j.
III. Hale, the Peach King" who has
Just completed the harvest of his great
| crop In his orchards at South Glas-
| tonbury and Seymour, Connecticut.
and at Fort Valley, Georgia, there are
about 100000 trees.
Early in July the picking, sorting
and Packing begins in his Georgia Or
cha:ds. In good peach years th.rn are
over 400 persons camped in the orchard
curing the entire season, which lasts
ABOUT 1--WE weeks. and while the main
part OF the rush is on over 900 men and
women work at harvesting the crop.
'wo-thirds of the number negroes. Last
year MIR. Hale's Georgia crop amount
tu TO 2oS carloads. and the cost of har-
NestlnS reaching the total of s121 600
Sl''oo0 for labor, $4,000 for crates and
oaSheis. $4,000 for ice for refrigeration.
s't'ooo for freight carriage and COM
MISSIONS of sale. This year MIR.
1aie Georgia orchard yielded only 20 :
wv paskets, or 81 carloads, while his
connecticut farms. which are mich
smaller. produced 100000 baskets. or
aoout rs carloads. Peach growing.
apparently. is subject to vicissitudes.
Ihe Georgia orchard is an examine If
genealogical effort on the largest scale
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-11

few years even if they survive the
conflict with the long-lived ones.
Mr.. Shurtleff showed first how trees
affect one another when growing in
close proximity noting that some of
them, the pines. hemlockS and others,
when destroyed by the ak or by fire, do
not SprOut again from the same root,
while others, the oak, maple and beech,
are in the habit of sending up sprouts
from the old stumpS. OF the seedlings
which spring up in the forest SO to 80
per cent die at an early age. but they
leave their mark. Certain of the sur
vivOrs, but at the same time trees of
short life. endure the term of their
existence. but they also leave their
mark on the more permanent trees.
The bircheS make war on the slow
growing oaks: a birch. whose life is but
fifteen years. may have permanently
injured or disfgured an oak which
would have been joy to the lover of
the woods for a century or two. 1t is a
work OF mercy to remove the birch
Dead trees, with their insect pests
which threaten to destroy the living
ones; wOlf-trees. which, by their mass
and shade. destroy the seedlings. vet
which. being already under the shadow
OF death, cannot themselves long en-
dure, and many other forms of strife
between the trees, all come within the
scope of the forester. The cutting
down of trees, therefore. even if there
seem to be in the destruction of fine
specimens. means, when in the hands
of a competent forester. the preserv-
alton of other and better trees for the
enjoyment of posterity.
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GladiOlus bulbs will not stand much
frost, hence should be removed as soon
as there is danger of frost, dried in the
sun, and then the tops cut off to with
in an inch of the bulbs. If the top Is
well ripened it may be broken off at the
bulb readily. After drying in the SUM-
gather the bulbs and store in paper
bags; do not separate the corms (neW
hulbS> from the old bulb for they VIII
separate themselves during the winter
as they dry out, or in the spring can
be more readily separated. After plac-
Ing in bags store them away in COOL
dry place. but not where the bulbs can
be frosted.
Gamma bulbs are best stored by tax
ing from the ground and cutting off the
tops to within two or three inches from
the roots. Then shake off the bulk OIL
the soil. dry the roots a little in the
sun, and then set them out in soap
boxes filled with dry soil, pushing the
soil in around the roots. Set the boxes
in the dark part Of the cellar for Inc
winter. Do not water until about
month before the roots are 10 be started
up in the spring
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-11
SIX MONTHS OF PEACHES.
How Growers and Railroads Have Pro-
longed the Season.

The peach season. in the large
eastern cities begins In June and con-
tinues into November. Probably few
people who sit at their matutinal
peaches and cream during these au-
tumn months stop to think where the
fruit comes from.
The average consumer, indeed. is
likely to be astonished to learn that
the peach crop district changes stead
lily during the season. beginning in
the sub-tropical climate of southern
Georgia. Alabama and Texas, and
progressing. in the succeeding weeks,
northward through the southern and
Ihioole states. until it comes to a close
IN central Massachusetts. whose crop
Is last To come to harvest. AS soon as
one district is stripped of its fruit.
the district next to the northward IS
ready for the harvest. The peach chops
~ ieAas' Aiabma, Georgia, South
Suroiina' North Carolina, West
Hrslna. Virginia, Delaware, Mary
land. Pennsylvania. New Jersev
New YORK, Connecticut and Massa
.se''s' ripen in succession
90 i"ea"whiie the tables of all classes
vi persons In Boston. New York. Pbi,a
vi washington are being SUP.
pneu steadily with the fruit. irresnec
tive of whether ii comes fro,, ,I,t,i,e
of Connecticut. He
georgia is now the greatest peac,
s'ate OF the East. Last wear the orc,
was estimated at 1000 carloads -
auout ooo baskets each. This is a TO
tai OF 100000 baskets. or. saw Owe
4oo'ooo'ooo peaches. about five for ev
cry person in the Union. This vaa,
however. the crop was to a large ex
tent ruined by heavy spring rain
ana was scarcely half of the 100
product In year when the fu,, GRO
Is realized the peach harvest seaso
Is tne busiest period of Georgias agri
cultural year. The crop comes ia
head rapidly and must all be harvasta,
In few weeks. The railroads .ar
pressed to the utmost to transport th,
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There are 365.000 trees in solid block,
the spring during blossom time, the
whole country is transformed into d
great pink and white bower. The
rows of trees are three miles in length.
To cover all the avenues of the orchard
i'll one day would be a test for the
sturdiest horse. for they are no less
than forty-three miles in all.
The Connecticut farm on the border
of the great tobaccO-groWing country
about FIVE miles south of Hartford IS
the place where the Peach King" got
his start. Here he began with Il few
trees and peddled his fruit in a cart
Here now an enormous harvest has
just been disposed of. Here Mr.. Hale
makes his headquarters, and. by tclc-
phone and teleSra phi. is in instant com
loading trains, his representatives. in
north and south, and is kept Informed
from hour to hour of market conditions
i'll the great cities.
The main packing shed stands in the
midst of orchards that crown all the
nearby hills. During the recent har-
vest these orchards were alive with
pickers. Low orchard wagons bring
the fruit to the shed, and deposit their
baskets on one side, while, at the other,
the wagons which carry the fruit to
the trains. all sorted and packed, are
constantly being loaded and moving
away. The process of sorting and
packing is carried on with great care.
Nlmble- fingered girls of the neighbour
hood assert the fruit into proper grades
and sizes and foremen hustle about
among the workers, seeing that no de-
fective peaches go out in any of the
baskets. On some days during the ~e-
cent season no less than 5000 baskets
of peaches were sorted and got away.
and the output Of the other Connecti-
cut orchards of Mr.. Hale sometimes
raised this output to 5000 baskets.
To the grower the peach is a tickle
product. likely to make or break him
any year of his existence: to the con-
sumner it is simply delicious edible
ior the table, and to the railroad man
u IS problem in transportation as
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-11
Ten-Yard Gain and Less
ening Of Brutality
Al Provided For in Revised Foot
ball Rules by Committee
In Meeting at Phi|adeIphia---Iron Bound
Rules for Brutal Plays.

Philadelphia, Dec. 10.-PrObably the
most important meeting ever held by
the football rules committee began
here, Saturday night. Owing TO the
popular feeling against the roughness
which has characterized the game, II
is expected that this meeting VIII re-
suit in some radical changes In the
rules. The recent declaration OF
President Roosevelt in favor of clean
game will also exert considerable IN
f1uence with the committee. This was
indicated by resolution adopted, late
Saturday night, in which it was stat
ed that This committee is in favor OF
action leading toward opening of the
game and the lessening of brutality,
the placing Of the officials in a ceatral
body and rendering an evasion OF the
rules unprofitable.'
This resolution was adopted after
the reading of suggestions offered by
John c. Bell, representing the Uni
yersity of Pennsylvania. The suGges-
tons which were the only ones offered
during Saturday nights session pro-
posed a more open game by strength
ening the center and weakening the
ends of the line. They were as fol-
lows:
First-The rules should distinguish
between unnecessary roughness and
brutality
The later. viz: brutality" should
include "slugging" and "kneeing.'
The penalty for these Offenses
should be disqualification of the guilty
player until the end of the half, no
substitute being permitted to take his
place; two such disqualifications in
the season to operate as a bar to such
players further participation in any
intercollegiate games during that sea-
son. The former unnecessary rough
ness" should include the use of
straight-arm and elbow Oh defense;
"piling up and other acts of a similar
character.
Second, to bring more open play the
following. changes are recommended:
(A)-Forward passing permissible
back of the line of scrimmage.
(B)-On defense there shall not be
more than six players on the line OF
scrimmage; of the players back of the
line of scrimmage three of them must
be at least five yards back of the line;
tho remaining players back of the
line of scrimmage, if within five yards
thereof must be inside of the positions
of the two players on the ends of the
line of scrimmage.
(C)-On offense the side having the
ball must gain 10 yards on three
downs of forfeit the same to the other
side.
D)-There should be an official
board of umpires and referees chosen
in advance of the football season and
assigned to the respective games by
some duly constituted authority"
The rules committee is composed OF
Paul Dashiel, Annapolis. president;
Walter Camp. Yale; Robert d. Wrenn
Harvard; Prof. J. B. Fine, Princeton
Prof. L. M. Dennie. Cornell; AlonzC
. stags. University Of Chicago and
John c. Bell, University of Pennsyl-
Vania.
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TWO GAMES OR NONE
Understood by Princeton to be Har-
wards Attitude on Baseball Question

Princeton, \. j., Dec. lot was an
nounced here, Saturday night. that
Harvard has broken off baseball re-
lations with Princeton for next season
because of failure to agree on the
number of games to be played. Har-
ward demanded that only two games
be played and would not consent to q
third in case of tie.
Capt Reed went to Harvard person.
ally and offered to play three games
or to resort to the old policy and play
one game each season, Alternating the
field on which it would be played. 1t
was Harvard's turn to play here this
year.
Rather than compromise. the Cam
bridge management severed relations
Since 1895, 90 games have been played
between the two colleges; Princeton
has won 16 and Harvard four.