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The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

meet Of the st. Paul club last year got
away without killing altho Charley
Meyer and one or two more were In
serious danger before the meet was
over, Meyer ripping up several rods OF
fence with the Fiat.
When any "sport" reaches pcrus
where it is necessary for men to fis
with death to play the game 1t is time
time. Driving heavy horsepower ma
chimes on mile circular track 10 just
as dangerous as blowing in the muzzle
Of Krag.J Jorgenson while another man
fingers the trigger. The local club 10
entitled to pin badge upon itself for
calling off the August matinee.
i. Barn Battling.
n PAIR Of amateur battlers and
~ about forty Of the blood
- thirsty lovers Of the sneak
fight, hied them away to barn near
Lake Calhoun the other night and In
dulged In one Of those get-the-monsy
affairs. It was carefully planned
coup, neither the police nor the report
ers getting wisely request. The re-
porters learned Of it tho next day. The
Doyle division is still wandering In the
darkness Of Ignorance.
Some Of these sneak fights will re-
suit in death one Of these days and
then some one is going to learn the
noble art Of broom-making over at
Saltwater. The Minnesota law
fighting is about the most stingso. "a
the union and the real lovers Of b Adna
do not care to fool with the game
while that bit Of legislation cumbers
the code. 1t is too productive Of q
change of occupation to suit most
people.
Where They Get It.
THE eastern crews may have II
all over the western IN the mat
- ter Of water supremacy, but one
cannot help noticing that there 10 lot
Of western muscle and Drawn in those
"eastern' shells.
Now the player
Full Of vim,
With 4 new suit
Onto him,
Will come and expectorate . In either hand;
Then he'll wipe them
On his clothes.
Then he'll loudly #'
Blow his nose, ,.|.F
Then he'll stoop and rub his meat hooks in ths
sand. -, $50
Then he'll firmly
| Grasp the bat
| And he IL smartly
| Rap the mat
Where he stands and straightens up to hsnA
| a clout 1855
| To the horsehide r
As It dies; IN
But its curves
| VIII fool his eyes.
And the chesty nifty player will strike out
| II!
While he trudges to the bench with features
| .- grim.
1 .
| - -
| I'll
| - -?!?!"s
sThose blanks things the bleachers yell
] y. II. Lewis in Houston Post
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

jeff could come near taking the en-
tire collection into ring Of this di-
mension and going thru them like a
blue racer down plowed furrow in tho
Nebraska prairie.
McCary needn't be cooking up any
series Of shows when the net result
could be gained in at least an hour and
the outcome never in doubt.
We for the front see seat when Nc
Cary announces battle royal with the
reformed boilermaker going against all
of the present heavyweight champions
in one glad, joyous bunch.
The Woman Umpire. .a
~ OUTH DAKOTA has woman UNI
pire who Is said to be about the
~ best preserver Of the peace in the
whole northwest. She knows, baseball,
knows her business and is said to be
making success Of the arbitrating
business. s,-Ef l...E <......s
Her name is Amanda Clement and
tits whispered that the Dakota players
in the heat Of the game call hel
"Mandy. ~ : 1S%< .. x
Before finally passing upon the young
woman g success as an umpire I'd have
to take look at the players over whom
Miss Clement swings the rod Of disci'
pHne.a They must be an unusual sort
out there in the prairies. @-
Imagine If you can seeing Miss
Amanda on the field and calling close
one against Jimmy Burke. Picture in
your mind what would happen to Miss
Clement when Joe Cantillion came tear.
ing up the first base line splitting out
Gaelic adjectives as fast as the exhaust
of six-cylinder automobile engine al
full speed. Think Of our own William
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

outside de ring. Go to it youse ter
riers.'' 80" ~. .5- !,
Following the command the fighters
dropped into their crouch and "went
to it, That is, Mr.. Fitzgerald did.
Mr.. McGarry didn't go anywhere ex-
cept where Mr.. Fitzgerald sent him.
1t was case of the railroad italian
who tried to break open the torpedo
with pick, all over again. 1t was
zip, slam, woof, and Mr.. Amby Nc
Garry, the human juggernaut, the royal
Bengal tiger Of the prize ring down on
the floor, trying to suck all Of the wind
out Of the canvas for use in his lungs.
One round and Ambrose to the arbor.
New York rode back home for the
reason that no one, had thought to back
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01
CROWDS THRoNG TRACK
New York Sees a Fine Card at the
Sheepshead Course.

Sheepshead Bay N. Y, June 30.-
;ney to this track today to escape the
torrid heat Of the city and enjoy seven
fine races. Nearly 100000 was idistrib.
uted by the Coney Island Jockey club
in stakes and purses today, the chief
stakes being the Great Trial, at six
furlongs, for 2-year-olds, worth about
$4,000, and the Advance stakes, fol
3--yearolds and up, at mile and three
eighths, valued iat $4,000. The Or
mondale stable, 0ran, at Is to / In the
betting, won the 2.year;old event, while
starter, took the other big event.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

streets or knock seventeen holes in the
speed regulations If he wishes to take
the risk, but when it comes to speeding
the spotlight into our lovemaking the
limit has been reached.
A bas the spotlight. (We hand out
this knock, not on our own account, but
at the urgent and repeated request Of
some Of our unmarried friends, Merit
Harrison, Charles Gilman, Govey Ives
ct al.) ..t I'll T..
-#E f I. +
I... Used Good Judgment.
IN HE members of the Minneapolis
Automobile club used good
judgment in calling of the pro.
posed races on the Hamline track. It
is little less than criminal to turn loose
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01
ON. LONG FLY
Homing Pigeons Coming from McCook
Neb., Today. e s .t.""

The Minneapolis district of the Ma
tional Federation Of Homing Pigeons
will fly their 500-mile old-bird race
from McCook, Neb., to Minneapolis to-
day. The winning bird 8 owner will re-
ceive a $25 purse and the national
honors. The second bird gets q club
purse and cup. There are l16 birds en-
tered in the race. They will be released
at $3.50 this morning and the last
bird is expected in Minneapolis by sun
down Monday at the latest.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01
Appropriate All Right.

TIME family must have known what
they were about when they
named that chauffeur Sziz, in
his infancy. He has just won the big
French roadrace in style that set the
other drivers to wiping the dust off
their binders and taking notice.
Sziz as name for an auto-driver
makes a noise good deal like half
gallon Of gasolene and six ounces Of
picric acid. ,s-f, q. ,."
,1t> .4.. f. + +
=. A Sinful Proceeding.
n ROM the parks comes a doleful
r. cry. 1t is all about the automo-
- bile-drivers not attending to
their own business.
They do say that some of these shat.
fers, whose machines carry those
searchlights on the dashboard. are get.
ting altogether too fresh. Those Ii ghts
will throw ray half a block and in
a circle in which furniture van could
be driven thru. The complaint is to
the effect that the shaffers run thru
the parks slowly and as they progress
turn the limelight Of publicity into the
dark benches where the young man il
wont to cuddle his Clara and where Ole
loves to sit and hold hands with Olga
This is measly shame.
The constitution Of these United
States Of America and the township OF
st. Paul guarantee to every man, life
liberty and the pursuit Of happiness
If the youth Of the metropolis wish te
foregather in the parks and hold hands
and pour verbal poison promises Of un
dying love into each others ears, it ,.
none Of the chuffer' affair. They are
just as much entitled to protection al
tho they were sitting in the back par
lor at home and making father heavy
saving on gas. This, practice Of illum
mating Cupid g gridiron has got to stol
if it requires the throwing Of ostricl
cgg-size stone into every prying auto
mobile that infests the boulevards.
It is all right for the man behint
the lamp to run over people in th'
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

Geclan, second base; Busch, third base; !;
Hill. shortstop; Phyle. left feld and
pitcher; Price, center field; Cole, right
field; Schraeder and Aronson, pitchers.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

Last season 1t was thought Scranton was q
writing there are practically no other residents
OF the burg. The great work OF Asheubackss
bunch since the season opened has infected The
entire population and ali other questions nust
now take back seat until you answer, Whats
the scorer'
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

Fox walking up to the affrighted arbi-
tratoress and calmly, sticking his first
digit into the corner Of her eye and re-
marking in his cold cream voice, "You
boneheaded counterfeitl'
Fancy seeing Danny Green salute this
impress with the message: "Well Of
all the umpity, biffity, hinged bonn bats
l ever see you are the limit!" Then
see Edward Greminger, the duke Of
Canton, the old salve merchant, come
strolling up to the intrepid. maiden and
console her as follows: "That's all
right little girl, I know we all miss 'em
now and then and you are doing all
right. That decision was about the
rarest ever made by anyone but Steve
Kane, but I'llo forgive you. You are
doing fine, you fathead.o
just try to think what would happen
II this should befall the young woman.
Miss Clement doubtless knows her
baseball rule book and likes the game,
but in a deep contralto voice ia ad-
wise her to steer clear of the profes.
sional bunch, on hot days and tied
score. That the young woman is sue
ceeding in umpiring for South Dakota
amateurs speaks volumes for the man
ners Of the prairie and that is no joke.
Positively not. ..~'G = 'T
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01
THE MINNEAPOLIS JoURNAL
Sport Section.
fDOVXi = and BOOS1S--by, the DUTCH UNCLE q u
/ Being D ar s RncuonU Uponh he ePssrps
Being Divers and Sundry Reflections Upon the

sweltering Bohannon and exhorted him
as follows;
+ "stick 'em right over, old boyl
Make him hitl Make him hit! Don't
waste one! That's the boy! Keep a
working, old fellow! He hasn i hit
one since last quarterly meeting! Lay
1t over and take chance on our Will
liam Phyle or our Mr.. Perrine getting
him. Make him hit, old chap!" T.
+ Presently Mr.. Egan, the gentleman
ly and urbane representative Of Mr..
Joseph D. O'Brien, called one badly
and Parson Frantz rose in his wrath.
He was consumed by fire seven times
hotter than that which failed on the
three prophets in the fiery furnace. He
was filed with righteous indignation
and burning sensation Of wrong welled
up in his bosom. In other words the
parson was as hot as a Welch rarebit
in chafng dish. ..... +
Great, black, bad thoughts coursed
thru the heat-wracked brain Of tho par
son. Here was condition where the
language Of the cloth was totally mad
equate to that Of the laiety. The COM
smon, blood d-curdling oaths Of the dia.
mond were as water on the back Of a
duck as compared with tho scorn which
| the parson wished to voice. He rat
tied his tongue idly against his back
teeth as his thought cells jumped up
and down in frantic search for an ex-
pletive which would blister and burn
| rhe arbitrator. u. Il. -. .e.' '
At last came surging thru his mind
a word so mean, SO wicked, that his
heart stood still at the mere presence
of such phrase and he was terrified
that he even knew such word or
could summon it from his inner recesses
in time of such dire need. But with
hardly an instant s pause the parson
darted off the bench and gave voice.
He looked the umpire squarely in the
sunburn on the back Of his neck and
exclaimed:
"You mudface!'
Hot Weather Trouble.
~HIS man McCary Of the slope has
i one of two things. A fine pipe
~ or a press agent that would
make Early May and Smith B. Hall
climb tree as he comes down the pike.
| His latest is q grand saturnalia at Los
Angeles in which McCary proposes to
have the championship. of the world
settled for the heavyweight boxing di'
vision. IT. "~t
Just now heavyweight champions are
as thick as fddlers in certain place
o. punishment. The country is sur
feited with heavy champs. One can
hardly walk block without humping
into one, no matter in what city he
may be parading. There is O 'Brien,
Burns, Schreck, Rubin, Kaufman,
Root, Berger and half a dozen others,
including perhaps Marvin Hart who. is
still looked upon as a world-beater-
in Kentucky only. 49,.
McCary plans to let these chaps get
together in a series Of preliminary
rounds and when they have narrowed
! down to one to call James j. Jeffries
forth from his juniper joint and have
him battle the survivor. =; - .,.s>N
This sounds good from afar, but a
better scheme would be to have bat.
tie royal. Turn Jeff loose in a forty
foot ring with the bunch and let the
crowd have good smile for it's money
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

The Millers would like to arrange a game with
the Independents for July % If possible. Address
Churchill Shove, 170s Ninth avenue s, or phone
1900, T. c.
Manager Condit of the Lake City, Minn.,
Whitesox baseball team requests that publish
challenge to any team in the state for a
game with his team. to be played in Minneapolis
or any other town beside Lake City. The Lake
City team is a strong aggregation, and has met
but defeat this season, and this at the
hands of the fast Austin Western team Of st.
Paul The Toozes, Lund Lands or the Toneys
are preferred. For games address W. l.. Condit,
Lake City, Minn
The Millers defeated the Beavers by the score
Of IS to 2. The feature Of the game was the
batting of the winners. The Millers would like
to arrange a game with any II or 12-year.old
team In the city. For games address Frank
Sohner, 1915 Aldrich avenue N.
Manager Stewart of the Zenos will takes his
team up 10 meet the Ethans this afternoon, and
1t is his intention to make the opposing nine
look like kids The Ethans have been after a
game with the Zenos for some time, and to
stop the trouble of refusing them Stewart decid-
| ed to give them game. Young will be on the
slab for the Zenos, and his work is always
Of the highest order. Webster will take care
Of the receiving end Of the points, and his coach
| ing is expected to go n long way toward win
ming the game. II there is any team in the
city state that desires game for the Fourth
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

Bill Smith, captain Of the New Castle team,
has asked for his release. Smith was Win
Toledo two years ago and now has an ofrse -
return to the 4. 4.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

The Nashville club has rejected 5000 oner
from New Orleans for Pitcher soErelL
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

Little Rock has aiSned Pitcher Quick, lat
lot Omaha Fk
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

The Y. M. G. A. team will travel over the
500 line for Belgrade, Mimi, where they are
scheduled to play the team representing that
place July 4. Players requested to report
at the 500 line depot at am. sharp Wednesday
morning. The following players Will be taken
for the trip: Kneeland. Willcockson, Nicholson,
Augustine, Swanson, Stixwood, Lawrence, Arun-
del, Adams, Kroh, Stone and Engvall.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

The Millers will play the Madisons on Thirty
eighth street and Third avenue s today at 3
o'clock. The following players are requested to
be there: Hansen, Lempke, Strate, Matson,
Shove, Bear, Cummings yareo, Kelly and Foley.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

f The riymouths WIN leave the Union station
at 3 o'clock tAis moening for Delano, where
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01
AmbY Assimilated.

~F ALL sad words to sting and
q y blight, the saddest are these,
~ tthe aone swarn, RIGHT -
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

The Golden Valleys are without game for
this afternoon, and would like to hear from
fast team averaging 1e years. Phone T. c..
l4168.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

The billing department of Wyman-Partridgc
defeated the Sixth Floor Loafers by the score Of
~ to 8. The feature Of the game was home
run by Kacher Of the winners. Batteries-Ous-
dahl and Kacher; Arnoldy and Gregory t
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-01

The gChroncle team win travel by rail to
Excelsior, where they will be met by automo-
biIss and will journey to Chaska to play the
The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-04-14
Eleventh Page
I've Been Thinking CHARLIE, BATE. .oon,,
CHARLES BATTEL LOOMS

information Of many kinds All silently the knowl-
edge Is borne in him that "Energyscose Is the fuel
food OF life Better pewter plate and Energyscose
t than golden platter and nOught but stalled OK
II he tire of reading about the virtues of Energy.
scose he may turn his eyes to the colored
box on the right and learn that "Grpek knots are un-
like any other food preparation. Being entirely di.
gested they naturally wean strong from coffee,
and can be eaten without practice by teethng babies
They contain nothing that will give the stomach the
slightest trouble, and persons who have used our
food for years do not need their stomachs at all.
They are made OF devtalized chestnut sawdust, and
II is possible to eat them without the use of sugar or
cream"-or anesthetics. Properly compressed they
can be used by the children building blocks, and
can then be reduced to q powder and taken once
every two hours, when they give oil the effect of
having eaten without It's foolish pleasures"
When William has read, and one side IL thor.
oughy dgestedfor the literature Is not predigested
like the contents Of the box--mama will turn il
around, and he may read inspiring letters from In.
valids who lost their OF taste years ago and
who have enjoyed Gripe-knots ever snce or else on
the third side he may learn how to make simple,
nnocuous desserts of bran.
Really literary families seldom content themselves
with one lettered box OF patent food and some cul
tivated Bostonians have as many as five or six
brands, of various shades of yellow and brown,
merely that Acibiades Beacon tired Of reading about
Cornena and its stimulative properties, may turn
to the box OF Wheatoast or Puttyjims Oathusk, or
the box of Noegud with its entertaining anecdote to
the effect that "a lady in Seattle who had not been
able to take step for fourteen years, ate single
box Of Noegud and imediately took steps to keep II
constantly in the larder"-and away from the break
fast table Or his little mind, unable to cope with
his fathers arguments to prove Aguinaldo bigger
man than Washington, turns with relief to the state
ment that "Mrs. Bentley of Shogticocoa, Minnesota
unable to take anything solid without facial
paralysis. She ate one box OF Noegud and now says
that she would rather eat solid rock than be without
It," Mark the subtle sarcasm OF her remark. II Is
dollars to doughnuts that Alcibiades Bostonian
though he be, does not that II she would not be
without 1t she would not have II within her.
Some may carp at the coors OF the packages;
some may even wish that the food could be put in
china receptacles and the literature set beside each
say that there are not many aids to conversation
among the elders and much Of an improving nature
to children in the unobtrusive and absolutely
veracous writings Of the food companies.
The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-04-14

Mr.. Buchanan of Duval County says
he believes war will be made on his IA.
nous educational law when the Legis.
lature meets next spring, and he has
accordingly entered the race for the Sen.
ate with extraordinary vigor, as he
wants to take hand in the war and
defend his famous measure against the
assaults OF its enemies. We don't doubt
that efforts will be made to amend the
law, perhaps to repeal 1t, but the sub
ject was so well considered by the last
Legislature and such progress has been
made in carrying out the provisions OF
the law that we do not believe any ef-
fort at repeal will be successful. The
State press, with very few exceptions,
does not indicate any public sentiment
against the law.--Live Oak Democrat.
From all accounts the only member
OF the Florida delegation In Congress
who will have opposition in the coming
primary Is our own Billy Lamar.
Sparkman, in the First district, and
Clark in the Second, will have things
their own way, no one yet having APP
peared with sufficient nerve TO try re-
suits with them. As for Mr.. Lamar
well, over in Jackson County there's a
young fellow named JEFF Stephens who
thinks he is in the race for the place,
but he'll find, when the ballots are
counted on May Is, that he has another
think about due.-Madison New Enter
prise.
The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-04-14

The grand jury of De Soto County has
just completed a thorough examination
of all the facts surrounding the case of
!. Il. Cooper, convicted of the murder of
Marshal Bowman of Punta Gorda. The
jury examined forty-three witnesses, the
names of most of them having been fur
nished by Cooper's lawyer, j. w. Brady,
who was called into the jury room and
himself questioned many of the wit
nesses. The grand jury found no facts
on which to base other indictments for
the crime, and no facts warranting the
claim that Cooper was innocent Cooper
will now be legally hanged, and the Jack
sonville Metropolis will get up on its
hind legs and yell "We told you SO; the
Metropolis did it," The News wants
each of its readers TO ask himself these
questions: Has justice been defeated
by deferring the execution of Cooper?
Has not the majesty of the law been up
held by necessary delay and thorough in
vestigationi Will not every citizen of
DE Soto County and the State of Flor.
ida feel better, after Cooper has been
hanged, because of the full, honest be-
lief that the right person was executedl
The blood-thirsty Jacksonville Metrop-
oils should confine itself to the publish
ing of dirty stories and little things of
that kind, in which it excels.-De Land
News.
The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-04-14

Judge G. B. Parkhill has announced
that he will be candidate TO succeed
himself on the Supreme bench. The
Judge, besides being one Of the most
polished and courteous gentlemen OF the
State, Is at the same time one of our
most learned jurists, and by retaining
him in his present position Florida
voters will make no characterization
New Enterprise.
The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-04-14

scheme, or suggests q criticism Of the
State Railroad Commission, the little
editors OF the little administration news
papers rise up in their littleness and
proclaim that said newspapers are
Flaglerized, and that Is the extent of
their argument. These little peewe edi-
tors possess brain about the size OF a
punctuation point. Their little souls
would rattle In mustard seed and make
no much noise that they would think
that they were inhabiting q bass drum
Ocala Banner
The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-04-14
THE SUN

you want him to get and reduce him to mere ignor.
ant errandboy status.
Then he, a man who perhaps dominates political
assemblies or sits high in church councils or delivers
valuable legal opinions, shuffes into the store, meek
eyed and difdent and going up to the spool counter
latter wandering all over the store looking for it)
says, "Give me some of that" and pointing at the
paper shoves it at the young saleswoman And she
looks at him with plying eyes as poor fool and,
reading the directions, hands out the goods.
He goes home with them and ten to one they are
wrong but he is safe.
His wife can say nothing because he was merely
the shower OF a message, not thinking being with
two halves to his brain.
But the best way to do is to 90 yourself and thus
your husband from encounters that cannot fail
to reduce his exalted opinion of himself