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make the latter game more difficult
they barred the tWo-shot in style, thus
compelling professionals to drive one
of the balls out of balk at every shot,
4 Il x
But let us get back to the good old
days when a tournament or match
game would draw a standing room
only house. Old Chicagoans will re-
member the three hundred tourney IN
which VignauX, SlosSon, and myself
took part. It was held at Central
Music hall, beginnin~ on Nov. Is, 1885,
The game was at 14-inch balk, each
contestant to meet the other twice in
6Q0-point games, with $3.50 added to
the net gate receipts. Although we all
broke even, each winning two games
VignauX made the best single and
grand average and also the highest
run. His best single average was IS,
his grand average was % I'll, and
high run was 1876. We divided all the
moneys equally, excepting the billiard
manufacturers $1,000. which we were
forced to play for. We played off the
tie, 500 points up, on Dec. 21-23, and
again broke even. 1 hung up the best
average, 211z. in that series, and Wig
naux scored the highest run, 1872 The
second play off, also 500 points up, fol-
lowed Immediately, which l won with
the best single average of Is Al, a
grand average of % %, and a high
run of 1877. That was the best and
most interesting tournament in the
history of billiards. Vignaux's aver
age Of IS astounded the billiard world
and it stood as a record for that style
of game and the number of points
played for nearly ten years, when both
Ives and I broke it by averaging 100.
Then lines then were increased from
Ia To Is inches
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writer. The last sentence he had writ
ten read this way:
And Annie Rusie made a SvengaIi
pass in front of Charley Reilly's lamps,
and he carved three hicks in the wea-
Their"
Among the players who have helped
make the language of the game Tacks
Parrot stands at the front. Tacks got
so that he couldn't talk anything but
baseball, and, If he strayed away from
2 crowd Of fans and wandered into
districts where baseball was merely in
cidental, he was lost until he could
find an interpreter
Homer Davenport, the cartoonist.
who used to umpire up in the old
Northwest League, halls from Port
land. and Tacky Tom came from the
same town. When in Chicago Daven-
port lived with his uncle, Judge Smith.
and, one day while st. Louis was play
ing Chicago. Davenport met Parrot
and invited him down to the house to
dine. On the way Davenport remarked:
Tom. don't talk baseball to the Judge.
He is great lover of amateur sports,
but he hates the professional, and be-
sides. he don't understand baseball
talk" Parrot promised. Shortly aft
or Parrot had been introduced to
Judge Smith, Davenport stepped out
OF the room for a moment, and while
he was returning he heard the follow
ing conversation:
'Ah. Mr.. Parrot, you are from
Portland? What brings you east?"
I'm lobbing 'em across for the
Browns"
"Ah-h. yes, I see-I see. Are you sue
cessfuI?'
Successful? Well. you ought to see
the old whip unlimber. It's zip, zip
1va ,@f, Il
to the bench"
Then Davenport rescued the judge.
= =
Lennle Washburn, who met death in
a railway accident in Chicago. was
postmaster of the art of comparison in
baseball. One day Williamson sIashed
not one past third. The grass was
bit high and the ball instead of bound
ing, Rugged the ground and SKINNED
along through the grass, and the next
morning Washburn wrote:
1T sounded like the hired man eat
ing celery"
But the funniest baseball writer that
ever wrote didn't intend to be. He was
one of the editorial writer's. or some
thing that way, of the New York Her
aid, whose health failed so they gave
him the job of reporting baseball. He
came to the Polo grounds in a frock
coat and silk hat, and SAT- upstairs. in
lonely grandeur. while his assistant
kept the score. He wrote baseball lust
as an editorial writer thinks a base
ball writer writes. And the rest of us.
remembering poor old o. p. Caylor's
wonderful descriptions, read and
Rugged ourselves with glee. Here is a
sample extracted from one of his re-
ports:
Bang, a single 10 right BifY!
double 70 left. Wow. a triple, bz-z-z-z-I
a grounder past third: bang, another
single. And then the banging ceased.
New York had made three runs"
y
The most expressive word In baseball
Is 'bazzazzaz. which was invented by
Matty Kilroy. Sometimes Matty was
at loss for 2. word to express some
thing. SO he invented "bazzazzaz" and
applied it universally. It means a
good drive. fast curve, a batsman's
leg, baserunner's foot-or anytbsno
else. 1t is to baseball what "zug' and
'schlag" are to German.
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FULLERTON .s Oh !,

At that hour thinner called up the
station and asked that Simons be per
mitted to talk to him. The request
was granted.
rs that you, Henry?" thinner
asked.
Yes. yes" said simons eagerly.
Who are your"
Archie Zimmer," was the answer.
Good cried the prisoner. For
heavens sake, come around and get
me before the reaches eat me up.
Somebody has put up a joD on me-
Just heard about it, said Archie,
Compassionately, and we are all wor-
ried about it. We hope it isn't as bad
as they say 1t is. The worst they can
prison and fine OF 500. 1 have set
powerful influences to work and we
may be able to have the sentence cut
down on account Of your age"
why, what have I been doing?'
called back Henry In tones of anguish.
You are charged with cruelty to
animals" answered thinner, and that
is pretty tough in Louisiana, you
know"
"Why, I hope" Simon began, and
thinner cut in:
Never mind about that; tell It to
the judge. know all about it, but
feel sorry for you Just the same.
You're old enough to have more sense.
Why do you de- those things?'
What things% pleaded Henry.
go, come off, said thinner.
Didn't you starve that little, half
starved, light WASTED, one lunged
wind-broken, fourteen hand pony,
ROndolet, today and made me and Air
Plant Casey bet on herr"
With this thinner hung up the re-
ceiver.
Simons was sprung at daylight.
%k
Simons is the hero OF another one
that may bear repeating. In this one
known on the turf was the other half
of the sketch. 1t was on the breaking
up day of a southern meeting. Poole
was preparing TO ship. He was going
though his trunk in his stable on the
backstretch and he discovered an
ivory handled smoke wagon of ancient
design mixed up with the flannel
shirts.
ct won't do to leave that there"
he said to himself. The baggage man
might be a little careless in hand
ling this trunk and the gun might
so off and shoot somebody. I'll just
stow it in nay pocket"
Now, Poole never knew the use of a
gun since the days he drove trotters
in Missouri, and then he was only an
innocent bystander. Having pre-
pared his freight for shipment he jour
neyed over to the grand stand 10 bid
good-by to his friends, who were TAX
ing different directions. He met ST.
mons and an Old matter was dug up.
The conversation became tart as it
progressed. The distance between the
retOTt courteous and the lie direct was
about three furlOngS and the going
was fast
SimOns was the aggressor He
showed signs of swinging with his
right. Poole saw him coming and re-
membeTed the gun in his hip pocket.
SimOns was as quick as he was. He
made a dive for his odds and came up
with a syringe.
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8 PORTING GOSSIP By EXPERT
$ LIE r pus on
SIMONS is STRUNG AGAIN
BY HUGH E. KEoUGH.

They have been stringing Henry
Sinlons again. This has been a pet
diversion with the wags Of the turf
since the 2-year-old year Of Luke
i-Blackburn. Henry has been having
Things DOM to him in all these years.
His disposition and temperament are
sui generis His troubles are unique.
They generally are OF trivial origin.
IHe starts them himself and there al
ways is somebody about to carry them
on for him. The latest to make a
mark of the sorely harassed Henry IS
our cheerful friend Archie thinner,
who takes everything, himself includ-
cd, lightly.
Recently Simons had a misunder-
standing with a stable boy in his en-
ploy. This is no uncommon occurrence
IN the SimOns menage. The boy in his
iinnOcencc iDla Sined that he would
fhavc use for little money. In a
fatheTly spirit Henry informed him
lthat lie would be better without II.
The boy could not see it that way, and
an alteration ensued. It was a bad
match for the kid to take on, but with
rare intuition ne essayed TO equalize
The odds by placing himself within
easy reaching distance of a half a
Fdoze,i empty bottles, whose recent
contents were Of miscellaneous char
Facter. These he let go singIy and in
Ebunches, at the head OF his master.
Being law abiding citizen, SimOns
did not attempt to respond in kind, but
called IN q policeman.
On the way TO the BOBBY hatch (the
scene is laid in New Orleans) the boy
explained to the policeman that Henry
had not been treating him in the proper
cOInInerCial spirit. The TeSentful swtpe
WOh the heart of the harness bull who
"a IA
against him. The boy was released
promptly, and thereupOn his new
found friend in uniform advised him TO
swear out warrant against his boss.
This he did, and that afternoon
Henry was gathered IN and held at
the neighbOTinG police station. The
securing of a bond would have been
an easy matter but for the interven-
ton Of thinner, who at once placed
himself in telephone communication
with the sergeant of the station. Over
the phone thinner asked: Have you
man there that gives his name as
Henry Simons: The a sWer came
back, I'VE have. What about him ?'
This is the secretary of the Proven
ton Of Cruelty to Animals" replied
thinner y don't want you to release
that man under any circumstances
until you hear from the attorney OF
this sOciety.".
Why. what's the matter? He is
only charged here with assault and he
has responsible bCndsman to sign
for him"
! have a more serious charge than
tnat TO prefer against him." said Zim-
ger. and I demand that you hold him
without bale anita cue attorney gets
time TO draw 1t 40. This may not take
more than tTcnty-four hours 1 will
hold YOU responsible for the safe Gus
tody of TIE prisoner until that time
Do you understands
%Ali right, sir" said the sergeant
SimCns was placed IN one of the
strongest cells in the station and kept
there until u O'Clock that night.
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1 LANGUAGE OF BASEBALL
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON.

Baseball is one of the Invest lam
guages in the world today. Compared
to it golf, horse racing, circus and rail-
road are expressionless, and the only
one of the undictionaried languages
that approaches it in richness of ex-
preston, in terseness, and point, is
skat, which, however, is more limited.
The men who write and talk base
ball stop at nothing. They follow Pro-
fessor Brander Matthews theory that
the best language is that which con-
veys the meaning most clearly, and
they adapt from English, French, Ger
man. Chinese and other languages, and
when these fail to fit the occasion they
invent word. Every one who knows
baseball knows exactly what they
mean-no matter what they say or
write, and regardless of the fact that
n. Webster might scratch his head a
week trying to think what they meant.
The foundations Of baseball Ian
guage were laid by Charles Seymour of
Chicago, and since then such well
known persons as Taclzy Tom Parrot,
Pietrs Gladiator Browning, Chicken
Wolf, Dad Clarke among the players,
and o. P. Caylor, Rem Milford, Len
Washburn, and the lamented Joe
Campbell have added richness to the
vocabulary. Even the Jones flew,
Smith biffed, Brown skied" school of
afternoon literateurs occasionally have
added something to the language of
the game by coming an apt word.
x <
Once upon q time there was one Of
those gems Of purest ray serene, hid
IN orl- 1c
ocean-or to be less poetic, at Quincy,
H.. who made language while you
waited. ] remember an extract from
his classic report Of a baseball game
between Quincy and Omaha, which
read something like this:
1.-THE glass armed toy soldiers who
represent the Gem City in the reckless
rush for the baseball pennant were fed
to the pigs yesterday by the cadaver-
Gus Indian grave robbers from Omaha
They stood around with gaping eyes
like a hen on a hot nail, while the
basalisk-eyed cattle drivers from the
west ran bases till their tongues were
long with thirst. Hickey had more err
rors than Coins Financial School"
The Omahogs were bad enough-but
the home team couldn't have fallen
out Of boat and hit the water
Joe Campbell Of Washington really
was the Shakespeare Of baseball. He
wrote classics. and probably was the
best story writer Of the "Jem Mace
told the writer school that ever hap
pened He would have said "Rameses
II told the writer" If old Ram had
been in the sporting game.
Campbell really was a wonder. He
was ore of the cleverest dramatic crit
les in the country. a Shakespearian
and perhaps the most intimate
friend Sir Henry Irving had in Amer
lea. a deep student of stage history a
Hebrew and Sanskrit scholar. besides
writing the baseball of the century.
One evening Campbell and I were sit
ting in his office I'm Washington. and he
was bemoaning because $50 he said)
the editors of his paper would not per-
NIT him 10 write slang.
They hold me down to straight
away English he lanented. IF I try
to be g bit picturesque. there is a kick
Without speaking I reached over
and pulled the paper out Of his type
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BILLIARDS OLD AND NEW
BY JAKE scHAEFFER.

we went to the table to play the last
block was 10U to 20 on Ives, and my
beating him out caused the barring of
the anchor nurse.
] hope the readers of this article
will not think I am egotistical when
state that I was practically account
able for all the changes in the game.
When L mastered the rail nurse the
game, presumably TO make it more
difficult for me, was changed to the
balk lines. They began by drawing
the short lines, 14x2S, the lesser space
on the short and the longer space on
the long rails. This, however, gave
me a short cushion to nurse on, seeing
which they heightened the lines to 2Sx
Sc. I was kept at that style for some
time, and after / overcame its difficult
ties they shifted the lines to the pres
ent day balk. They sent me at the s.
inch balk first, then changed it to II,
later to ii, and then to 49, And to
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BY HENRY TEN EYck WHITE.

Among the horses consigned to the mid
winter sale in New York are the PAGERS
Planet, 2:04%, and Elastic Pointer, 2:06i2,
and the trCtters Fantasy, 2:O6, and Billy
Buck, 2:0714. A couple of them are in the
sere and yellow leaf in the matter of
age, and the others, while not oppressed
by years, are no longer racing material.
But in their day these four horses made
turf history with a vengeance.
Planet is a little PAGER that was bred by
George Starr at Terre Haute. The we'll
known driver has for years done little
horse breeding on the side, and he was
particularly fortunate in the case of
Planet, whose dam was a good mare, as
besides Planet she produced Home Cir
Gle, another pony PAGER, even smaller
than Planet, and that has a record of
2:07 When the colt afterwards called
Planet was born it was not much larger
than a poodle dog, and certainly not Il
promising prospect. but it had the best
OF care, and with age came speed at the
pace. Starr was just the man to handle
such d youngster. He broke, trained and
drove it himself, and it was not long I'M
til he found that the runty PAGER could
step away like a real race horse. When
the time was ripe he started on a cam
paign with Planet, and won lot of good
70 ces, selling him right at the top of his
career for 5000.
After planet changed owners his name
was changed to Borough Park, and for
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DENVER AND RETURN, $40.

On Jan. n and % the COLORADO
MIDLAND will sell round-trip tickets
Salt Lake to Denver and return. GOOD
until Feb. 10. for $1,000. Through Pull
man observation car daily. See Colo
rsdo's best scenery on this line. Ticket
office. II West Second South, Salt
Lake
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DIRECTORS MEETING.

A meeting Of the Board OF Directors
Of the West Mountain Lime and Stone
company for the purpose of electing
officers for the ensuing year and
transacting such other business as
may come before the board, Will be
held at Room 216, D. F. Walker build
ing at ESQ D. m. on Tuesday, Jan 50.
JOHN GREEN. Director.
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D. J. SHARP COAL CO.

Telephones 719. 20 Main street. New
stock of Crested Butte anthracite; all
sizes.
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CALIFORNIA EXCURSION.

$500 Los Angeles and return. Elks'
special leaves midnight, Feb. 10th.
See secretary B. P. o. E, No. IS, Salt
Lake.
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How often is this rule adhered to?
How often does a fighter go 10 his corner
Wner his opponent is down? The rule is
miSnOmer for several reasons, as the
marquis, when framing it, evidently had
in mind preventive for a man being hit
when down, and also the London prize
ing rules when ne inserted IF one man
fails 10 come to the scratch etc. He
evidently overlooked the fact that man
is apt to go down in his opponents cor
ner and in such cases, If the man on
his feet goes to his corner, as the rule
reads he must do he naturally will De
standing over his fallen adversary and
doing just what the rule infers he must
not do.
Regarding a man falling to come to the
scratch in ten seconds, l will ask, when
a man is almost knocked out and barely
gets to his feet at the count Of ten, how
can he reach the scratch an imaginary
line supposed to be drawn parallel with
the neutral corners? Or name the fighter
who. after having his opponent on the
verge OF collapse, would wait until his
victim shuffled to the supposed scratch
RULE 3 "A man hanging on the ropes
in a helpless state, with his toes off the
ground, shall be considered down.
Why not with his heels off the ground
as he certainly would be as helpless in
that condition? Or why with either toes
or heels off the ground, when battles IN
this country are not fought on the
ground?
If a man is considered down with his
toes off the ground. he naturally should
be awarded the fight on a foul If struck
while in that position. Do we rule that
Way2
RULE 6. NO seconds or any other
person TO be allowed in the ring during
the rounds"
Do we abide by that rule?
Jack McAuliffe some years ago tried t.
referee a fight ct Coney Island outside
Of the ring, but when the combatants
would not break at his command ne
bounded through the ropes, separated
them. and remained in the ring to tde
finish
RULE :. Should the contest be
stopped Ey. any unavoidable interference,
the reIeree TO name time and place as
soon as possible. for finishing the con-
test, so that the match must be won and
lost unless the hackers of both men agree
TO Graw the stakes
The Righteousness of that rule is too
apparent u argue upon. Billy Myer who
fought Jack McAulffe for the light
weight championship at New Orleans on
Sept. 8, 1872. tried 10 enforce that rule
when he refereed the Ike Wair-Frank
Murphy kid glove battle at Kouts Ind.
on March 81, 1889. The boys battlcd
through eighty rounds. aad rs it aI,-
pcared neither could win, Billy, at the
request OF some of the spectators, called
q naIt to the proceedings. stating that
within 4Renty-fOur hours ne would name
q place for thsm 70 resume and finish
the fight. The boys were in TO condition
to resume. and as their hackers had been
given a run for their money they with
drew the stakes. Myer refused to de
clare the fight a draw or no contest and
has not yet, 70 my knowledge, rendered q
decision on the contest.
MOT 90 - tka sf.- r.,fac fcnot,ol -
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DIAMOND COAL.

Sold only by Citizens Coal company
Removed to I53 s. Main Phone 10.
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All hrst-clasS restaurants and homes
have Vienna bakery bread.
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Not one Of the six rules touched upon,
Tor any Of the other half a dozen Of taG
twelve Whinli the Marquis of Queens
berry rules c1ntain, mention anything OF
hoi6ing ard hitting with the free arm
protecting oneself Gu the breaks, or OF
hitting CT the bFeakaways, the points
invariably argued.
II the rules 90 E6t tapGh on thaSa points
why argue tnesn2 Why net dfsooc5 points
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Let Us sift 4 few Of the MARQUIS rules
rs they arc written. and see how they
are Gsregarded and therefore utterly
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-09
PERSONAL MENTION.

Misses Grace and Edna Pugh of Col
umbus, Ohio, are visiting friends in
the city.
e. H. Sutherland of Indianapolis
was in the city yesterday.
Miss Edith Hawkins Of Lynn is the
guest of Miss Mae Carter.
Ned Hiatt is visiting his sister,
Mrs. Frank Gilbert of North street
Ben Chandlee returned to Cincin-
natl last evening"
Mr. and Mrs Oryille Wilkinson of
Cincinnati are visiting Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Dickinson of South 18th
street.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dill and chill
dren left for Boston, Mass. the last
of the week.
Miss Rae Chandlee has returned to
Indianapolis.
B. L. Owens spent Sunday in Day
ton.
Miss Margaret Taggart of Indiana
polls is the guest of local friends.
Henry Bulla, who has been employ
ed at indianapolis for some time past
has returned to this city where he
will enter some local business in the
near future.
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voted to farming, war and politics.
They have been represented in every
war the country has had since the orig
inal James WIS time except the Next
can war. The son of the man who es-
tablished the family in western New
York was James S. Wadsworth, and he
was successful farmer and a leading
advocate of the antislavery movement.
He ran for governor against Horatio
Seymour, being defeated by the latter
all fought In the Union army during
the civil war, and the elder man was
killed at the battle of the Wilderness.
One of these three sons is the pres
ent representative in congress, James
WolcOtt Wadsworth, Sr. He was born
in 1916, left his studies to fight for his
country, graduating from Yale on his
return from the field, has been an as
semblyman and comptroller of the
state Of New York and has served in
the house of representatives for TWEEN
ty-four years, with the exception of
two terms. His son, James w. Wads-
worth, Jr., is speaker of the New York
assembly. In days gone by the Wads-
worths could travel for forty miles
without leaving their own lands, and
even at the present time the various
branches of the family own about 35,
600 acres in the Genesee valley.