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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21

New York can put out the best team
of distance men of any city in Amer
lea.
Announcement is made that Martin
j. Bergen, the famous ex-Princeton
football player. will have charge OF
the football team of the Iowa college
at Grinnell this fall. Bergen will re-
port on Oct. /. He coached Grinnel In
1894, and was the first man to intro
duce modern football tactics into
Iowa
Joseph Rack, champion wrestler OF
northern Indiana, offered to throw
Fred Scott, an amateur of East Chi
cago. Scott, angered at Racks taunts,
seized Rack catch-as-catch-can, throw
ing him to the floor and falling heav-
ily on top of him. When picked up
Rack was unconscious. His leg was
broken below the thigh.
Walter Christie, in his 13O-horse
power auto car, lowered his own and
the American kilometer record on the
beach at Cape May, N. j., Aug. ~, TO
twenty-three and two-fifth seconds,
and coming within two seconds OF the
worlds record, made at Ostend, Bel
GUM. He won the Cape May $500 xii
ometer cup with this feat.
One of the longest, dullest summers
the fistic world has ever experienced
Is drawing to a close, and the eager
pugs are now living in hopes that the
coming of autumn will mean a general
awakening. The great outside world
of fight fanciers is also stirring, and
from all quarters comes the clamor
of give us a scrap or two"
The twenty-five round fight at Col
ma. Cal, Aug. %. between Jimmy
Gardner of Lowell, Mass, and Bud
dy' Ryan of Chicago ended in the six
teenth in most unsatisfactory man
ner. Referee Roche giving the fight tc
Gardner, but declaring all bets OFF, as
Ryan's seconds persistently claimed
foul at the end of the fifteenth round
George II. Ketcham of Toledo, th'
bI eeder, owner and trainer of th'
worlds champion trotting stallion
Cresceus, 2:02A, has decided to dis
pose OF that famous horse, and has
arranged to have him sold to the high
est bidder at the Fasig-Tipton com
pany's auction sale. to be held at Mad
ison Square garden New York. in No
vember.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21
In Old Soldiers, Homes.

Uncle Sam now maintains nine
homes for old soldiers, but they are all
one as regards uniformity in opera.
ton. The various homes are known as
the branches" The Illinois branch,
located in Vermillion county, is one OF
the most notable of all and carries
1858 veterans on the rolls. The vari,
GUS homes are located as follows: To.
gus, Me-. Columbus, o.; Milwaukee.
Wis; Hampton, Va; Leavenworth,
Kas. Santa Monica, CAL; Marion.
Ind; Danville, H.. and Johnson City,
Tenn.
The last named is the latest, having
just been completed. Besides these a
sanitarium is to be erected at Hot
Springs, Ark, which will be open to
any or all of the members of the sew
eral branches, whose ailment necessi-
tates treatment.
Col. Isaac Clements is governor Of
the Illinois branch and is widely
known. He was superintendent of the
home for soldiers orphans at Normal,
III. The cottage system is used for
housing the inmates, although the
fourteen cottages are known as bar
| racks" Each cottage will comforta-
bly, accommodate IT'S members. All
of the old soldiers eat at common
mess hall, which cost $4,000. There
Is one general kitchen where all food
is prepared. while there is an annex
where special food for the hospital or
those who are sick. is made ready.
The members pass away the time
playing backgammon, chess, checkers,
cards, tennis, billiards. pool, croquet
and cribbage, all of these games being
supplies by the government There
are also other amusements. such as
swimming in the large artificial lake
on the grounds. In addition. there is a
large and well stocked library free to
| members.
Daily concerts by brass, string and
orchestral bands, are pleasing diver
sion. while many theatrical companies
appear and give plays in the thester.
Each company appearing puts on an
afternoon performance as well as one
| at night.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21
American Association.


Catcher Stoner has been transferred
from the Kansas City club to the
Louisville club.
Pitcher Jaeger, of Minneapolis, has
now been sold to Indianapolis. He
has done fair work with the Millers.
Two serious accidents have hale
pened in the association this year.
Fake Wrigley broke his arm and Tip
O'Neill leg.
Roy Brashear. formerly of the ST.
Louis and Philadelphia Nationals,
leads the American Association in hits
for extra bases.
The Milwaukee Club has sold First
Baseman Bateman and Pitcher Ar
thur Goodwin to the Cleveland and
Pittsburg Clubs respectively.
Manager Barrows has two-yeai
contract with the Indianapolis man
agement and of course has turned
down the offer from the Toronto
Eastern League Club.
Pitcher Ferguson of the Louisville
| Club is credited with having the
brightest future of any Of the pitchers
of that club, having plenty OF speed
fine curves and the best of habits.
| j. Ed Grillo, of Toledo, has TRADED
| Gilbert, Zearfoss and Cassidy TO
Nance, OF the Kansas City team ant
cash. Nance has been the captain o
the Kansas City Club for several sea
sons.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21

mark better than 2 minutes. went
around the track in 2:O5 The track
while smooth and dry, was cuppy an
the way around. After taking every
thing into consideration, horsemen
agreed that the outfit was fully 2 sec
onds slower than grand circuit track
on perfect day, so Delmar was really
a 1903 horse
The Privateer won the fourth race
of the series for the National Sports.
mans cup. Although the Columbia
was first over the finishing line, the
race went to the Privateer on time al
lowance. The victory of the Privateer
shows that If it was not for the acci-
dent in last weeks race she would
have captured the cup. When Berg.
man. one of the crew, fell overheard
in the last race, the Privateer was
leading, but Bergman's accident
forced her to drop out, and she re-
ceived no points for the race.
Thomas Curtis, first president of
| the American Bowling congress. and
known throughout the country as the
father of bowling in America" died
| from typhoid fever at his home in
Brooklyn. He was 70 years old. I'm
til he fell i'll he had bowled every day
! for more than twenty years. In 1883
| Curtis organized the first tenpin bow
| ling tournament in the United States.
Within the next few years he assisted
in organizing many clubs, and became
| the author of the rules now regulating
tenpin bowling throughout the coun-
| try.
| Directly following the announce
ment that Elmer Thompson, the crack
Andover guard, had selected Cornell,
! il was learned that Dutch" Schild-
miller, his team mate, had also decidr
ed to enter Cornell this fall. Schild-
miller was considered the best prepar-
atory school end in the country. He is
already in the city, and will be ready
to work with the team when the prac
tice opens Sept. IL. Kirkerger, a 22O-
round center on last seasons Mer.
cersburg Preparatory school, will also
enter Cornell. Luby. the crack quar-
ter on the Mercersburg team. and four
other men, all said TO be the best pre-
paratory school men in this section.
are planning to enter. Four OF them
will come from Syracuse, Buffalo and
Rochester.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21
American LEAGUE Notes.

Captain Jimmie Collins never cares
to lay off game.
Fielder Jones thinks Hub Hart is in
last company to stay.
l1aloie's men maintain their supre-
macy at long distance hitting.
Detroit's new first baseman, Lind
say, is hitting close to 800, and looks
like fixture on the Tiger team.
Zoe Cassidy has grown desperate
over his poor stick work. Although he
hits the ball hard, 1t won't go safe.
Rumor has 1t that Joe Cantillon, OF
the Milwaukee club, will manage
either Cleveland or Washington next
year.
There is a possibility that Bill
Coughlin will be member of the
Ail'American nine that will tour the
Pacific coast.
NO matter how we'll Harry Howell
pitches in other cities he is firmly i'm
pressed with the idea that he canno
win in Washington
Petty, of the Browns, and Moore
and Hess, of the Maps, are the onl,
American pitchers who haven't beef
taken out of the box.
| Catcher Spencer is from Scranton
Pa, and is called Hackenschmidt b,
the Browns. He is big and stron;
like the famous wrestler.
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Harry G. Legg of the Minikahda
Golf Club of Minneapolis won the Min,
resota state championship from Lynn
II. Johnson OF the same club by the
score of up, to play at the North
land Country Club links. The cham.
pion is but is years of age and the
runner-up is one year younger. John
son was also runuer-up for the eastern
interscholastic champion this year.
Aerolite, 2;12A, winner in 1904 %.
the Cleveland Gold Challenge cup for
trotters, and Leola, 2:10A, owned
and driven by II. M. Hanna, president
Of the Cleveland Driving Park club,
trotted mile TO pole at the Glenville,
Ohio, matinee in 2:10 fiat. thereby
breaking the worlds record for trot.
ting mares and winning credit for be-
ing the first trotting team to beat
2:15 without prompter.
Kramer defeated Fem at the Walls
burg track in Newark Aug. % in their
| $500 match race. The champion won
the first heat by length and the sec
ond and deciding heat by foot,
though he finished sitting up. In the
|
Bedell defeated liver Lawson by two
feet Teddy Ellington made sue
cessful runaway and captured the
half-mile open amateur event.
The Pilgrims, the team of English
football players who will make two
months tour of the United States and
Canada, were passengers on the
| steamer Bpyarian which sailed from
Liverpool for America Aug "a. The
team includes number of the best
association players in the United
Kingdom and is captained by Fred
Mines of Sheffield Sir Charles XII.
patrick. the Scotch baronet, is one Of
the members.
Northwestern lost great Indian
football player when Arthur Sheldon.
captain of the 1904 Carlisle team, ac-
cepted an offer to coach at the Indian
school. Sheldon had entered North
western three weeks ago. AS he was
eligible to play on the Purple team
on account of the new six-month rule,
he intended to assist Mccormack in
coaching this years team. Next year
he would be eligible to play. AS he
has accepted the position at Carlisle
he will not be available for the Pur
pie next year.
The fastest mile ever trotted al
Washington park (Chicago) track was
witnessed Aug, 25. when Major Del
mar, champion gelding and the only
trotter aside from Lou Dillon with
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21

Beldame has run her last race. II
has been decided to retire her to the
farm and her appearance under colors
In the Saratoga cup was her last.
Manager Jake Stahl of the Wash
ington team announces he has pur-
chased Pitcher Falkenberg of the To
ronto team and Center Fielder Stan
ley of the New Orleans club.
Hal Jewett of Detroit. Mich, has
been engaged to coach the track team
at the University of Notre Dame. He
holds records of ;09 AS for the hun
dred-yard dash and 21 2-5 for the 220.
James j. Corbett ditched the auto
mobile he was driving on Long Island
to-day, avoiding collision that prob
ably would have resulted in death or
serious injury to the occupants of two
cars.
Eddie Durham of Toronto won the
sculling championship of America
from Thomas Sullivan of New Zea-
land. The course was three miles,
with turn on Toronto bay. Durham
won by FIVE lengths, his time being
20:55 AS.
The Multnomah Fair association
has made the announcement that the
| racing season at Portland, Ore, has
been declared off. The decision of the
association was the direct result of
| the decision of the courts forbidding
| betting at the track.
Sir Thomas Upton, interviewed on
his yacht the Erin, at London, said: 81
am quite as DESTROYS as ever to &c
on with fresh challenge for the
America cup. but it would be futile
effort under the measurement rules Of
the New York Yacht Club"
The Northern Indiana Elks Base
ball league, composed of South Bend
Elkhart, Goshen. Marion, Ligonier and
Laporte, was organized at Spring
brook with the following officers: A.
B. Dell, Elkhart, president; James Ar
thur, Goshen. secretary; George Metz
ger, South Bend, treasurer.
without exertion. Holcombe Ward
OF New York and Beals C. Wright OF
Boston successfully defended the ma
tional tennis championship in doubles
on the Casino courts at Newport. r. T..
Aug. 23, defeating f. B. Alexander and
II. II. Hackett, both of New York, In
straight sets, GO, 6-1, 6-3.
1t Is likely that the Metropolitan
athletic clubs will send a five-mar
Marathon team to represent New
York in the Marathon race to be helt
in Chicago by the Illinois Athletic
club on Sept. %. 1t is believed tina
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21
National LEAGUE News.

Hans Wagner in SO games hit safe
ly As times
Mathewson certainly is the main
stay of the Giants.
Maloney has been dropped in Chi.
cago's batting order
Harry Arndt's hitting has been OF
much benefit to the Cardinals lately.
Nal. Eason. the Brooklyn pitcher
has been turned over to Baltimore.
The Cincinnati club has closed with
the Utica club for Pitcher Vowinkel
Hugh Duffy has practically decided
to remain with the Phillies another
season.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21
Southern League.

Outfielder and Pitcher Otto Wagner
has joined the Birmingham team.
The New Orleans club has sold
Pitcher Dygert to the Athletic club of
Philadelphia.
Six Birmingham Miller,
Delehanty, Regain. Hafford, Hennessey
and Moore-went on strike August Is
because certain deserved fines were
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21
Letter That Mas Well Lost.

Did Capt. Fowler" said the doctor,
ever tell you the story of a letter
.nat came to him six months late?
Inc course of one of the most active
Ampaigns of the war Mrs. Fowler,
her home in Wisconsin, was pros
ua'ed with dangerous illness. Her
physician felt in duty bound to tell
mrs fowler's mother that the chances
we're against the recovery of her
laughter, and advised that letter be
written at once to Capt. Fowler, ask,
"g MIN to come home.
IL so happened that this very try.
%s interview was held in a room ad.
O'nihg That occupied by the sick won.
VI ana at a table in the corner of the
yum entirely beyond her line Of Wis,
W. Inc door between the rooms was
ppen' however, and the mirror on a
suieau IN the room in which the doc
W. ana the mother sat was in just the
snt position to reflect their figures
mirror in Mrs. Fowler's room
which the invalid could look with,
y" s, changing her position.
,.p WINE the doctor and the mother
ron u IN excited manner about the
lent IN the next room, the patient
,sS heir faces and every movement
Ea ae , IN the mirror. She knew by
tro 'ooK on her mothers face that the
div,, we're talking of her case, and she
tb., GU mat the doctor was insisting
sbs APT Fowler be sent for. Then
par,s saw her mother take pen and
aaS u and write letter, seal It, and
p,nss IT, Before the letter was
tLs ~ MRS F told her mother that
' anew what the doctor had advised
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21
veoetable Post Card.

Miss Tenny of Hall place, Spalding,
England, has just received through
the post from New Zealand the leaf of
tree, which was sent without any
envelope or protection whatever. This
most card" with a message on the
back arrived in good condition, thus
bearing excellent testimony to the
cave of the postal authorities.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21

Edward M. Reulbach, the Chicago
National League pitcher, who was the
hero of twenty-inning battle with
Philadelphia, Aug. 4, is beyond doubt
the sensation of the year in baseball.
No other untried college youth ever
came into big league and leaped in
to fame as suddenly as Reulbach has.
Managers of National League teams
admit that Mathewson is the only
other National League twirler in his
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21
The Giants are actually above their

The Giants are actually above their
percentage of a year ago, and so are
the Pittsburgs.
Steubenville, o., Knights of Column
bus have presented Catcher Needham,
of Boston. with fine gold watch
Young ICY" Young led the National
League in shutouts for good while,
but Matthewson has supplanted him.
Fred Lewis has resumed his place at
short for the Brooklyns. He was out
of the game for ten days with a bad
leg.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21

class. Reulbachs feat was scarcely
less notable than his eighteen-inning
victory over Jack Taylor of the st.
Louis team earlier in the season. The
cub pitcher is possessed of great STAN
ina, and has good nerve in trying
places, as was shown by his retire.
ment of the two strongest batsmen on
the Philadelphia team in the TWEEN
tieth inning, when runner was on
third waiting for chance to score the
run that would tie the game.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21
The

deducted from their salaries. The
matter was amicably settled.
The Jacksonville club, of the South
Atlantic League, has laid claim to
Pitcher Moxie Manuel, whom New Or
leans purchased from the Baton Rouge
club just prior to disbandment of the
Cotton States League. Manager Frank
has sent his evidence to President
Kavanaugh
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21
I.,..,s Resented Discrimination

,n.rs Resented Discrimination.
ssyer. except on one OCCASION
ne lieutenant, did I think the
.l;sh way of treating soldiers was
=, than our own way. When we
!, IN Tampa in 1898 a good many
40 restaurants there displayed the
No soldiers fed here. AS we had
,ations and very little money.
Aid not disturb the boys, but 1t
ragged the sensibilities of young
I,lshman in my company. He
IS nv attention to the sign and
4 M man would dare display such
i'm where soldiers were quartered
England.
|instead of proclaiming they would
feed soldiers. the restaurant pro
[Eeors in an English town were re-
|red not only to feed soldiers but
' ne them at half the regular price.
aeping to the story, the men of the
upany began to show resentment,
'tIclarly toward a pretentious es-
klIshment which made a parade Of
Cuban proprietorship and the pride
preof in the American soldiers, but
the while displayed the sign. No
nIers fed here
, On the first pay day the men of
! artillery company decided to have
least. The company was formed as
' Tor duty, the orderly sergeant insist
|, that the cooks take their place in
be Then the company, each man
! med and equipped for hot work,
|rrhed to the restaurant, took pos
Iaon, put the proprietors and their
kpoyes under guard, and then put
own cooks on duty. These pre-.
tnd and served fine supper.
|lfter the supper had been disposed
he company marched out without
hanation or remark, and the indig-
b proprietors made haste to pre-
formal complaint to the colonel
Command of the camp. The colo.
was strict disciplinarian and he
] sure the restaurant men were
ttaken. His own men, he said,
EE not possibly have done such a
Fhg. However, he would order the
|npanies formed for inspection, and
the restaurant keepers could pick
h the offenders they would be pun
ted
Things seemed to be going against
Il boys when the colonel said bland.
TO the compliments: of course,
W feed soldiers at your establish,
eEt?' The 'Spanish-Americans' re-
cantly admitted that they did not.
be colonel asked, not so blandly
GU don't show one of those offensive
acards. mo soldiers fed here" do
NJ" They admitted that they did.
hen, Numbered the colonel, get out
this camp as quickly as your legs
N carry you. Get out or l will put
~ all under arrest And they got
It."
U never saw such sign in the civil
ar" said the captain. 1.-THE Southern
''elkeepers were. as rule, ready to
ed all soldiers who had money.
I've often thought, however, that the
ys In the Spanish-American war had
very limited experience of the un
ual as compared with the expert
ices of the long service men in the
nion army. This was particularly
ae of the things that happened in
9 last year of the war, when the
en- were seasoned to adventure anC
ere thrown largely on their own re
urces.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21

will play the post.season series. pos
sibly with Wheeling finishing second
in the pennant race.
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~. battery Was Taken.

49,. the Battery was 'aNe"'
~" me earliest flush of dawn
a tnobs night was raging on;
[|ft pIl WIZ surveyed the scene
snn TS y rider. hand to brim.
nsnsSS cried out. saluting MINI
snnrai report | make
genSs baf a battery take,
rfbes hattery vas der von!
saelm Speak out! How was 1t
dom and rear--pefore We look
hsnS battery vas took"
sfc,snt you spiked the guns OF
csuIstth the Deutscher's voice was
hes ahIsfik dem guns-dem brand
! new Would I'D shpoil DENT You make
ivn nn . said Grant make fun with
ySss,nly asked: What did you do?
o. ssaid the Deutscher. dot vas PLAIN,
~ voost took dem pack again.
k.,,se Birdseye, in National Magazine
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-11
1T YORK ON lI.ENINGITIS.
DR.. Darlington in FaUor Of Fumiga-
ton after Disease.

Although the Board of Aldermen last Thursday
failed to take any action ne request of Health
Commissioner Darlington for enough money to ap-
point a commission of local physicians to inyestl-
gate cerebro-spinal meningitis the officials of the
Health Department working statistics which
may lead TO the solution of some of the problems
Dr. Darlington said yesterday that he hoped the
aldermen would reach his request at their meeting
next week. He went on:
I think that the detailing of a government physi-
clan help with this meningitis epidemic is a
good thing. We cannot expect to get the results
of Hartford. Conn, year ago, when 1t was visited
by similar epidemic.
We have about seven thousand doctors. They
don't pretend report all of Illness. IL took
years to educate them TO reporting on tuberculosis
and it still takes about fifty letters week TO Keep
them in the habit We don't want to go ahead or
the profession, however, and that is one reason
why 1 want get the opinions of a commission OF
leading doctors of the city before taking any I'M
The question of disinfection is one which must
solved. Contrary TO the general professional be-
lief, I in favor of thorough disintecton. We
mitted. after cases of this disease. But with the
prevailing professional opinion against US We can I
force people to permit us 10 tuInlSate. l do not
think that meningitis is very infectious We do not
isolate cases in the hospitals and we have had no
cases of contagion ] think it likely that people
carry around the germs of this disease with them
and sneeze them into the faces of their fellows.
DR. Mandoul prominent physician of Paris,
says in this weeks 'New-York Medical Journal
that, after investigating number of cases that
under his professional attention, he has de-
cided that schoochildren particularly prone 10
the germ enters the nose, especially when in an In
famed condition.