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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-10

Coach Mccormack OF Northwestern
makes his men wear padding covered
by leather of the shade Of a football.
This idea Is not original with Meteor
mack. nor did ! ever see 1t result IN
any special benefit TO the team wear
ing them. Tricks of this sort seldom
work against a first-ciass team and
they are OF little use against "a weak
opponent, on which straight football
would net more ground than any rick.
The most notable successful trick
worked on a top nOtChcr was that
which Coach Warmers Carlisle Indian
team slipped over on Harvard "a few
years ago. 1t was on the KICKOFF, The
crimson kicker booted the leather 10 an
end on the Indian eleven. As soon as
The red man caught the bali ne started
for the other side of the field He iGl-
mediateiy was surrounded by his team
mates. In the bunch he slipped tho
ball under the sweater OF Q big guard.
The Harvard team tore down the neld,
making viciously for tho man who ned
caught the ball. The acorigines made
a blum attempt 10 interfere, and IN the
excitement the biz guard leiSurely
sauntcred across the Harvard g0al li1e
and placed the ball between the posts.
Ii was some minutes bsiore it 0aW1 FL
upon the dumfoundsd Harvard players
and rooters that they were scored IN
II is n peculiar thius. You VIC Id
naturally think that indian teams eN-
eel their white opponents because Of
the superior endurance. disdain OF ply
steal pain, and because OF the speed
f-H al al q "a
have. Although the Carlisle and has
keIl teams have disposed of almost al
the teams in the immediate sections in
which they are located q Is fact that
the best teams of the white players
always have defeated them. This Is
popularity explained on the score that
the whites depend largely OH head work
10 defeat their native rivals. while To,
poor Indian, has only his physical at
tainments upon which % fall back.
This explanation listens good, but it
IS wrong. There never was team at
either Cahlisle o. Haskell that WAS
heavy. There never was an eleven at
either school that was not tricky. The
fact Is that The Indian teams. on Gc-
count OF lack of weight. always have
been forced to extend their head work
10 the Init Really most Of the teams
that the Carlisle boys meet are heavier
than they, and the Indians have won
only because they outgeneraled their
white opponents.
=
Talking about tricks, Sweeney, The
old Illini captain, got Of a "bsaut"
against the Eureka college team IN O.,
The game was between the latter and
a team OF Illinois scrubs reinforced BY
sweeney and Van oven Of the regulars.
II was played IN a sea OF mud. There
was no fence around the gridiron. and
the crowd allowed the struggling teams
a circle OF about ten yards ~ diameter
in which TO play. Han the time the
attack was directed due west. and the
other half straight north Ia the first
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-10

That illustrates what lunches win
do. Many persons are becoming pes
sinistic about racing, but careful in
vestigation leads me TO believe the
game is just as hard 70 beat today as it
was ten years ago, unless you are
lucky. II you are you do not need to
make your fortune at the track.
The experience Of two toutS who were
playing the ponies in the Kentucky
club pool room at Hot Springs last win
ter during the week OF weather so cold
that Essex park. the local track, had
TO suspend its meeting for time, IS
lesson for bunch players.
One Of them said 70 the other. you
know that last night I could dream CT
nothing but bats. Bats. bats. bats;
could see them dying around In the
dark an about me, and I was standing
waving my hat to keep them ava
from me. I had the same dream tire !
times. I believe it's a hunch.'
The TWO OF them stud ed the boards.
looking over the entries at Oakland.
Los Angeles Crescent City and City
park. Finally one Of them shouted:
There's the horse. Bats. Leave US
bet the roll"
The horse was in the first race at
Los Angeles. and the two regulars
scraped up 81 between them and bet
on Bats at 10 to /.
A moment later the telegraph oper-
ator shouted: They're off at 54os An
geles in a bunch.''
Tick-tiek tick tick tick. tick, went tho
telegraph sounder.
At the quarter: Bats by one length,
George r second, Tessie third. head
back"
Tick-t ick-ticiz.
Same at the half
The two touts began 10 hug them
selves.
Into the stretch. Bats by three
lengths: Tessie second by half q length:
George r is third"
Then the wire Yot into trouble. The
touts stood first on one foot and then
on the other.
at looks pipe" they whispered in
unison.
Meanwhile a whole race came over
The wire from New Orleans. but the
Los Angeles wire was still In trouble.
Finally. when the touts were shaking
from excitement Ike 2 couple Of live
wires. the operator sang out:
Finish at Los Angeles Fly-by- Night
wins"
The tout who had the bunch nearly
tainted. Then he turned on his pal 10
relieve his mind
Wait a minute" said the pal That
IS not official YET. The judges won't
stand for it. Didn't you see the awful
ride that boy gave Eats il the
EtTetch?''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-10
II Q Y N E
LUNCHES BEAT DOPE
ON RACING.
sY THOMAS T. HoYNE.

he could not get out 20 the races only
on Saturdays except by special effort.
Therefore. nc told me: If YOU hear
anything good leave note for me IN
Watson's. and VIII get it when drop
In for lunch. ] don't want any tip bur
a good one. and one that win be at
price"
Weeks hoped By, as they have =
habit of doing. and ] left no nGte for
Jim. Then / heard something that
made me believe Glenrice. a no-ac-
count, was IN right on a Thursday In
the third race a. Hawthorne and would
be at long price. So left the tip for
Jim Thursday morning.
Glenrice was coo TO In the betting
and my betting heart turned TO water.
The mutt vas beaten several blocks.
and | casually mentioned TO myself that
Solomon's wisdom compared 10 my own
was baby thought
On the following Saturday Glenrics
was in the third race again, I laughed
when I noticed that a few bets we're
made on the horse 10 win at . and 20
10 I. I walked into the paddock and
watched the race from there.
Did the mutt win? OF course. There
was no doubt Of II. Swinging his head
and leisurely eating his chin strap
Glendice just rolled home.
I rushed up to man who had SONS
connection with the horse. You're
something ] don't care 20 say" said I.
why d dn't you put me wise that this
was the day and not Thursday"
Get away from me" said he. Don't
come worrying me. Do you suppose Z
knew. I bet Thursday on Gienrice and
on another one to-day"
While we were Sill discussing the
matter UP came Jim with the big con-
graduation.
You're all right" he shouted, slap
ping me on the back. II won S40e. II
don't seem much TO you, perhaps, the
way you cleaned up. but IL is enough
for me 10 get married on. The racing
game is of for me from now on.
II have been sick I'm bed since last
Monday. bus I dreamed the house was
on fire last night, and II gave me the
hunch TO get up this morning and come
downtown. I found the note you had
Just left HE and got here IN time TO put
down a bet"
Jim cannot understand TO this day
how II was / kept so calm and showed
so little enthusiasm over the race.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-10

Football men are no less free from
superstition than are professional ball
piayers. l remember IN 1860 when we
were going 10 the grounds to play Min
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-12
Coal Rates in West viroinia,

The coal operators of West vir.
ginia are urging President Roosevelt
to call special session of Congress
at once TO consider the railroad prob.
lem, The West Virginians do not
want to wait until October, Senator
Elkins, of course, excepted.
The Wess Virginia operators have
been paying $1.35 { ton to the ran
roads as freight money from theil
mines to the sea. while the rate on
Pennsylvania soft coal to the sea has
all along been, and is now, $1.20 q
ton. The West Virginia operators
could stand the difference of fifteen
cents, but now comes an advance &c
SLIGO ton. The Chesapeake and
Ohio and the Norfolk and Western
have ordered the advance in rates on
coal. The higher rate went into eff
feet March 10, and no shipments can
be made to the sea from the Pocahon
tas. New River and Kanawha sections
of West Virginia below SLIGO a tor
freight money.
The West Virginians are full OF
wrath but the President will not be
apt to change his programme, which
looks to a special session in October
in order to please the West Virginia
operators. Why the rate was sudden
ly increased to SLIGO is not known, but
the West Virginians say the Pennsyl
yanians are trying to squeeze them
into the sale of their coal lands al
low prices.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-12
Sprlnu Practice Renewed.

Mr.. Baug,. has been reelected pres
ident; Mr.. Sheppard, vice-presldent,
secretary and treasurer, and Mr..
Vaughan, maLager of the Birmingham
baseball Association. This perfects
the organization for the approaching
season, and these officers are now en-
gagged in gathering a team that will
represent this town throughout the
warm months in the Southern league.
The officers of the home team are
men of skill and experience Each
and every one of them knows the
difference between a first division and
a second division team. Mr.. Vaughan
knows that he Is expected to put in
the field rst division team. and be
will assuredly do his best to secure
one. At present there is an inclina-
ton to be skeptical. The time for
skeptjcism mas not arrived. This IS
the time for optimism. Other towns
are full of it, and this town has
plenty Of reasons Tor being optimistic
also.
The chances are that there will be
this year in the Southern league eight
we'll balanced teams, and that every
ono of them will endeavor to crowd
into the first division. Insthe crowd
Jig of the teams much good sport
VIII be brought out. Fast ball will
be played. and the rivalry of the
teams will be friendly, but fierce, and
the patrons of the game will get from
it the full value of the money they
leave at the gates.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-12
Ovama's Great Victory.

Because Kuropatkin succeeded IN
withdrawing his army from Lao Yang
to the large, we'll fortified, well
equipped city of Mukden, it is not Ger
tain that he can transfer it to Tie
Pass. The circumstances of the two
cases are not alike.
In the first place, it is plain the
defeat at Mukden is much more thor
ough than the defeat encountered at
Lao Yang. More guns have been lost,
more men have been killed, and more
prisoners have been taken. Kuropat-
kin has undoubtedly lost many of his
heavier guns, and heavy guns are a
feature of this war, the Japanese en-
ploying mortar5 that throw an elevea-
iIch shell.
Nor is this all. The Japanese have
cut the railroad, and the Russian line
of retreat lies through hills north Of
Fushun, from ten to twenty miles
east OF the railroad. No provisioning
of the fleeing army is possible, and
il they arrive at Tie Pass unopposed
they will come to a mountain village
supplied with no stores and no forth
fications except sor improvised ones.
1t is not probable that Oyama will
permit the Russian to make a stand
at Tie Pass. The two armies are rae
ing there, the one going full of the
spirit of victory, and supplied no
doubt with food, the other the reverse.
Beyond Tie Pass--what? There is no
place in that fiat country, hence to
Hardin, about three hundred miles,
where an effective stand can be
made.
Rojestvensky has been recalled to
the Baltic, and Kuropatldn's army IS
wreck Ii these things do not point
TO peace, lnen SANITY anu iiilt"i
science are no longer a part of Rus
sian politics. Peace on Japanese
terms may be in Russian threats hard
to swallow, but peace is all that IS
left to the Russians. 1t is what the
masses of the Russian people desire,
especially ii it be accompanied by a
revolution at home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-12
DeIaware's PiIIory.

In 1717 Delaware established the
pillory as punishment for crime, and
ever since that time the courts of
that state have sentenced assailants
of women, highwaymen, burglars and
forgers to the pillory, in addition to
a prison punishment. 1t consists of
a high platform l. the court house
square, on which is post of a mans
height. On top o. the post is slop-
ing board through which are holes for
tie head and hands of the victim. He
is thus pillored before all spectators.
The Delaware senate, by a vote Of
IA to 2. has, however, passed a bill
to abolish the pillory. and it is be-
lieved the bill will be passed by the
house, and Governor Lea strongly
favors it. The bill passed by the Del
aware senate is brief, as follows:
BE It enacted by the senate and house
of representatives o. tne state OF Della
ware in general assembly met:
Section L That hereafter standing In
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-12
THE STREETS OF NEW YORK.

BY Walt Whitman.
Give me faces and streets-give me these
phantoms incessant and endless along
the trottoirsl
Let me see new ones every day-let me
hold new ones by the hand every day!
Give me such shows-give me the streets
of Manhattan
Give me Broadway, with the soldiers
marchng-give me the sound of the
trumpets and drums.
CThe soldiers in companies or regiments
some starting away, flushed and reck-
less,
Some their time up. returning with
thinn'd ranks, young, yet very old.
worn, marching noticing nothing;
Give me the shores and wharves heavy
fringed with black ships
o such for mel o an intense life, full to
repleton and varied.
The life of the theatre. barroom. huge
hotel for me!
The saloon of the steamer. the crowded
excursion for mel the torchlight pro-
cession.
The dense brigade bound for the war,
with high piled military wagons fol-
lowing;
People, endless, streaming, with strong
voices, passions, pageants.
Manhattan streets with their powerful
throbs. with beating drums as now.
Manhattan crowds. with their turbulent
musical chorusl
Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-12
ANTI nitiinu Crusade.

Both New York end Chicago have
renewed their campaigns against the
m0il who violate anti-spitting ordi-
par ces. On the first day of the cam
paign in Chicago III men were ar
rested. We give below the Chicago
ordinances:
Section /. No person shall spit upon
any public sidewalk or upon the floor of
any public conveyance or upon the floors
of any theatre, hall, assembly room or
public building.
Sec. 2. eny person violating the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall, upon con-
vlcton, be fined sum of not less than
81 nor more than So.
This ordinance is brief and to the
point. and it is to be enforced, which
is better still. The III men were
greatly surprised, not to say shocked,
but all are to be punished as the law
directs, and the law is summed up IN
the ordinance already presented.
In New York similar movement Is
in progress, especially in the neigh
borhood of Brooklyn bridge. The laws
of health and common decency for
bid splitting on the sidewalk where
ladies walk, and New York and Chi
cago propose to have no more of 1t.
Ii splitting must be practiced in pub
lie use the street, never the sidewalk.
Birmingham has similar ordl-
nance, but ~ is a dead letter, although
there is an unusual proportion of to-
bacco chevcrs in this town. Why
should Chief Wier refuse to enforce
the ordinance? A neglected ordi-
nance is an unenforced ordinance, and
an unenforced ordinance is worse than
no ordinance at all. Either the ordi-
nance in question should be enforced,
or it should be repealed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-12
JAPANESE IDEA o FeEAUTY.

Lecture. by Prof. Okakura, of Toxic.
1t might interest them, the lecturer
said. to know the Japanese ideal of
feminine beauty 1t varied little be-
tween Toxic and Kioto, but on the whole
the japanese considered that woman
should not exceed Ave feet in height;
should have a comparatively fair skin
and be well developed; should have long,
thin and jet-black hair, an oval face,
with a narrow straight nose, rather large
eyes, nearly black, thick eyelashes, a
small mouth hiding behind red full lips,
even rows of small white teeth, ears not
altogether small, thick eyebrows and a
medium forehead, from which the hair
should grow in circular or Fujlyama
slape-that was, a shape recalling the
.trunceted conc of the famous volcano.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-12

new tactics and has been successful in
his every movement. He may have saeri-
feed human life recklessly. but he has
achieved victory in every instance. and
military experts of the world are amazed
at his wonderfully successful movements.
The Russians have fallen before him lie
chaff before the wind The teachings
evolved from their past military achieve
raents have been as naught. An oriental
race supposedly devoid of military knowl-
edge. has swept them back into their own
country and achieved victory over them
in every battle which has been fought in
year past.
As it is, Russia has nothing else to do
but to sue for peace through a friendly
power like France. or abandon her far
eastern possessions in toto.
It Is simply the lesson that the student
achieves over the supposedly educated
who thinks he knows it all and abandons
study.
Now a word about local affairs. To the
birmingham district the proposed merger
of the iron and coal properties is almost
as important as is war news to Toxic.
The merger forces are at present sup
posed to be in winter quarters. The
ground is covered with an Hanoverian
snow which is scheduled not to thaw out
until sometime in May 1t is said that one
General Oyama Hoadley is possessed OF
the munitions of war necessary to take
over all iron and coal properties in the
Birmingham district when the legal ice,
which has frozen up the roads and high
ways, shall have thawed out
As a. matter of fact. General Oyama
Hoadley claims to have his army almost
kin Woodward, and as soon as the
weather will permit. will close in and take
possession.
OF course the success of all military
movements remains to be seen and demon
strated. The Birmingham district Is
watching with great interest the develop
ments of the campaign and every detail
of news from the seat of war.
A letter today from the Chief of STAFF of
General Oyama Hoadley would indicate
that the General would be victorious
when the SHOWS shall nave disappeared
and the roads are in condition for divis-
ion movements. Bonds have been under
written. money is available and supplies
are plentiful for the nourishment of the
attacking army and for the development
of the captured country when it shall be
in the hands of those who will make ten
tons of rail grow where one ton is rolled
today.
We shall all watch with intense inter-
est the Oyama- Kuropatkin campaign of
the local situation.
And, by the way, speaking of develop
ment in the local territory, there is
much doing in Birmingham just at pres
ent. All down First avenue to below
where the plaster statue of Vulcan now
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-12

the pillory as a punishment for crime IN
this state is hereby abolished. All the
provisions of the Il ) of this state SO
far as they provide for such punishment
are hereby expressly repealed"
The senators who supported the re-
peal measure denounced the pillory As
a relic of the dark ages, involving a
punishment degrading alike TO the
prisoner and the onlooker. Public
punishments are going out of use as
humanity and public deeency are de-
veloped in a community, and the aboli-
ton of the pillory in Delaware is a
step in the general direction Of a
higher civilization.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
rom the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
There is hardly any vice that seems
as extravagant as raising a family.
When a woman glares savagely at a
man in a street car, it is a sign he gave
her his seat.
You can never get it out of a woman's
head that there isn't somebody she ought
to be jealous of.
Nowadays people have no respect for
the business ability of man who can't
support his son-in-law in better style
than he lives himself
After a woman had sharpened a pencil
TO look as If 1t had been chewed by a
bull dog. she believes that If she had
been born a man she would have been a
great shipbuilder.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-12
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE JAPANESE
VICTORY AND MATTERS OF LOCAL INTEREST

stands and down to the Williamson iron
furnace street. surnamed Fourteenth, It is
SAID options have been secured and great
railroad freight and passenger stations
are contemplated. There is a good deal
o. secrecy about the whole thing appar-
emily, but undoubtedly a, great develop
ment IS proposed or else somebodv is
spending a whole lot of money for moth.
ing.
As a matter of fact. Birmingham is
going ahead more rapidly than any other
city in the south. The railroads and
the big companies are preparing for ex-
pansions contemplate within the next
few years, snd the city itself is pushing
along work of street and sidewalk i'm
proyement rapidly.
The Birmingham Street Railway COM
pany is laying new tracks in every direc-
ton, including its Highland avenue line,
and the wood block aad the bituminous
macadam people are preparing TO pave a
couple of miles of Highland avenue.
And in the meantime an ordinance is
pending before the Board of Aldermen
to fill in that section of Twentieth street
between Avenue B and Avenue H leading
to the South Highlands with some sort
of paving.
"A number of other ordinances 1 under
stand are being prepared, and It looks
like nearly all the principal streets of
Birmingham are to be paved within the
next year. AS matter OF fact, while
paving rs expensive to property hold
errs, it must come in time and we had
just as well have it now. OF course
there will be kiclSers, but there will al
ways be kickers. and there is no good
reason why Birmingham should not be
made a thoroughly inhabitable residence
city as well as a splendid business COM
munity.
Let us pave the entire town.
Apropos of Birmingham, had you ever
Thought that this is strictly a young
mans town? The majority of the heads
OF the great corporations here, as well as
the business men and the progressive
element are under the age of forty-five.
Most of the heads of the banks in Bir-
mingham, with their enormous capital,
are under this age, and several OF them
are under forty. Heads OF all the other
great concerns here are young men.
And speaking of young men. that young
genius Wilson Brown might be mentioned.
Wilson has figured in two great office
buildings here, and nov. he proposes, with
the aid Of some of his older friends, to
build afourteen-story hotel Without vio-
lating any confidence, I might say that
although details are not yet arranged,
this great hotel is only a matter of a
short time; and it will be the best in the
South. like Birmingham is the best town
in the South.
At least such is the opinion of
-