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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04
PORTO RICO HoMESICK
FOR SPANISH REGIME

When. by the terms of the treaty or
Paris, tho allegiance Of the people OF
Porto Rico was transferred 10 the
United states, the change was welcomed
by most OF them as the dawn Of a new
era The coffee planter expected TO gain
new market at as least as good a price
as they had had IN France and Spain;
business men looked for now openings
for easy money, and the ordinary gente
seem to have had n hazy idea that
with the advent of the new freedom and
the new government cornucOpia would
dump its contents into every mans lar,
and plenty would take the place OF
want.
Have these expectations been realized.
and has the condition Of the people been
improved under our government? There
can be no two answers to such q oues-
ton, although 1t Is probable that many
a Porto Rican, calling. to grasp the full
extent Of the tremendous changes in the
material conditions or the island thar
have taken place during the past five
years. ard misled by the noisy clatter OF
self-Seeling politicians. bent upon secur-
ing public office and aggTieved by dis
appointment, throws an occasional long
ing glance backward 10 the good ola
Spanish days Of easy going want ana
iron-fsted paternalism--"Porto Rico"
from Army and Navy Life.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04
ARMY AUTHORITIES
REVISE SCHEDULE
West Pointers Profit by.
Lessons Of Last Years
Losses.

NEW YORK. Aug 2-The announce
ment Of the West Point football schedule
for the ensuing season shows that the
Army authorities have at last decided
10 abandon a policy which for years
past has been equally praised and con-
demned by football experts in this cOun-
try-the policy OF playing so many hard
games on succeeding Saturdays.
This change was caused by the de-
cisive defeat the Navy administered to
the Army last fail on Franklin field
On four Saturdays preceding that game
the sturdy Army men met and played
20 a standstiH Harvard, Yale. Prince
ton, and Syracuse But the price paid,
without deJracJing at all from the praise
due TO the Nevy team. was the loss OF
the final and most important game on
the schedule. After the Navy game IL
was generally conceded by football aus
thOrites that the Army men had played
themselves out and were not Up 70 their
usual standard Of play. Besides. the
Army lost several Of its best men in
the Princeton game and many OF the
others were more OF less out OF cOndi-
ton This year an easy game precedes
the Navy struggle
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04
In Which He Talks On the
False Alarms of ROOters'
Row

times help a laundering lot to make =
good bail player better, but let me give
you a tip that the most important thing
in the makeup of ball player is the
framework which the Almighty planted
in his shoes.
1t is a blamed sight truer with ball
players than with poets that they are
born and not made. In either case. IL
a kid isn't peddling the goods you can
squirt dope and chuck wads Of advice
into him Till it slOps out of his eye
sockets and he'll never show pay dirt.
Throwing advice into a vacuum is like
chucking money into a sewer for an in
vestment. It's a waste of good material.
and about the only thing you'n accom-
plish is to plug up the sever.
No, kid. 4 great big chunk of your
success or failure depends on your own
little self. and II you fail It's you that's
got the kick coming to you. The dope
that's pumped into a guy is only the
fertilizer which joys along the seed
already planted. You cant raise a crop
on nothing but fertilizer
There are too many guys Ike that
stif you think you are going to cop
for a daddy-in-law. who have got it
in their knot that they're hep 70 base
ball, yet their knowledge of the real
points Of the game IS just as extensive
as the crop Of snow balls on the sunny
side Of the equator And 1 want 10 hand
you tip right here not to lay in any
dope from the bugs that buzz in the
bleachers. These guys cough UP the
dough that makes your pie and cake
and are Johnny-on-the-spo with their
applause and knocks, but their little
salvos and raps too often crop out in
the wrong place, like the peach bloom
on the old maids nose.
You often hear a bunch of stiffs IN
the stands busting their larynx yelling
sweet things at a guy in the outfield
who beats II back 20 the Ealings ana
pulls down a line drive over his Shout
der, while they roast the tar out of the
guy who comes IN for n high fly and
lets the pill ooze through his mitts. Up
in roOter's row they nurse the dope
that a hot swat raked in while facing
the whiskey ads on the outfeld fence
is a hard chance. while the s1y-rocket
poke is a cinch- But kid, II you've
chased both you're hep 10 the fact
that the boot Is on the other leg. and
when IT comes to tough contracts the
sky-scraper chased in and picked off
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down 70 sporting sentiment is clearly
demonstrated IN connection with the
forthcoming meeting at the Empire City
course. Yonkers. y. Y. AS soon rs
James Butler announced the engagement
Of NJ. T. VIM. or Louisville Ky, as
his general manager, a tremendous hue
and cry arose from the local press on
the renissness OF the YOnkers percep-
tor In overlooking home talent"
Gotham's Provincial Jealousy.
When winn put chaos In order over
night, you might say, the squealers
realized a turf Moses had come amongst
them, and from the second day Of his
engagement the president Of the Amer
lean Turf Association has been accorded
a break But he had 10 make good 20
enjoy a fair word.
Then came the announcement Of
Lyman Davis as racing secretary, and
Joseph A. Murphy as steward Again
the New York turf writer's yelled muir
der But It remained for Joseph A.
Murphy 70 earn the enmity OF the small
souled and jealous incompetents OF tina
metropolitan turf ofiCialdom.. Murphy
took hold Of the proposition at Kenil-
worth Park. Buffalo. n. Y, this spring,
with Sam Lazarus, Of Texas, as his
financial sponsor. BY genuine ability
and all-around executive cleverness,
Murphy made the meeting the most
brilliant success. socially and financial
". ever known at Kenilworth. Then
sour critics wrote Of Buffalo" Murphy
and said he was lucky"
Behind in Turf Matters.
l. -.
the sight Of Western and Southern peo-
pie, entirely overlooking the fact OF the
stars OF the big clty's newspapers, thea
tiers, and politics are largely drawn
from beyond the Alleghenies. In rae
ing matters the officials Of the West are
as far ahead OF the New York official
talent as was Tod Sloane in front Of
the English pockeys when he made his
now famous invasion Of Newmarket
Heath.
Outside OF Frank ]. Bryan and Chris
j. Fitzgerald there is not an Eastern
steward who takes his position seriously
enough to study the dope" A knowI-
edge Of "angles" IS foreign to the real
ization Of the majority Of them. The
letter OF the law from a Jockey Club
standpoint is in effect that If there is
any betting going on the Jockey Club
isn't cognizant Of 1t.
However, the spirit Of fair sport re-
quires the stewards, the protectors of
the race track patron, from the guile OF
the paddock manipulators. to know in a
practical way what is going on. For
years the rawest deals ever known to
racing have transpired right here in
New York
Commencing on Monday the Empire
City racing viii be placed under the
strictest and most expert surveillance
1t is possible TO obtain at this time. The
standard set at James Buffers course
may cause August Belmont to jack I'D
the stewards now serving on his Jockey
club circuit. The incident Of the En-
pire City Racing Associations entry into
the Jockey Clubs racing circuit shows
that New York turf officials dread the
coming to hand Of smart and successful
Western talent
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And Hands Out a Bunch
of Dope On the Tickle
Fan

absorbing knocks like a chunk OF blot
ting paper and finish up so far down IN
the averages that they couldn't touch
the leaders with Standard oil affidavit,
while the husky house cleaner who hits
fourth cops all the sweet things. yet
these dump hitters who never butt into
the good graces of the fans are the real
velvet goods at bringing home the bacon
because they play a sure tip and take
no chances
Another tough nut for the baseball
player is the way partisan feeling puts
the fans judgment on the blink When
visiting player Ta2s with the bases
full. the stands throw a compton At
over the good pitching Of the home
HEAVIER. but II a home player fractures
the ozone with the cushions populated,
they let out a roar about his punk
pelting. You hear an awful fuss from
the fans now and then about the scar
city OF real hitting IN the game as It
Is played now, but you can take my
tip that the only kind OF hitting that Is
popular with the. fans is the kind the
home team IS doing
This dope that the fans peddle puts
lots OF ball players on the blink. and
don't want you To get IN wrong on ac-
gence which exists in the stands. Plug
up our ears 10 the noise from rooters'
row, and play the game 70 &c: the runs
over the glad gum and not 20 get the
merry music from the fans You know
a baseball fan is a numbering lot like
wagon; the less there is IN it, the
more noise IL makes when IL gets in
action.
There's one thing you've got to get
next 70, kid, II you're going 10 keep in
the baseball business. and that Is the art
OF being equally uncoucerncd whether
you are star or a dub. The most un-
pleasant feature about the lie Of a ball
player Is that one day he's a star and
the Idol OF the fans, ana the next day
q dub, with the fans chucking down
his awning and shutting of the sun
shine. The best player that ever tuned
Up the fans, hands out a bum number
once In awhile. and there is no more
disguised guy in this little old dump OF
q world than the ball player who has
just put up a punk exhibition
The fans are mighty tickle bunch.
kid, and after they've stuck Up your
image in their hearts, they're always
there with the hammer 20 smash IL
into smithereens when you fall down in
pinch. It's a blamed queer condition
OF affairs, but the more you are there
with the goods. the harder time you'll
have ducking the hammer. once a guy
gets a rep as a sluEEer. every time he
fans in a pinch the fans let out an aw-
ful howl But the dub can pull OF the
punk stunt and get away with scarcely
a passing notice. the fans taking IL as
a matter Of course A three-cushiOn
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04

why I'm handing you the tip not to
take your cue from the noise which
ooZes from the stands. as It's mighty
tempting for a player 10 pull OF the
stunt which gets the glad music from
the bugs instead Of the play which will
benefit his team The crowd will yell
their heads OF for the husky slob who
keeps slamminE the leather away out
10 the suburbs and gets three out OF
every four olamped in nelder's lunch
hooks or lines into double play in the
pinches, but the guy who IS showing
a runner around toward the glad gum
by dumping the pill for a sacrifice or
ChoppinE a punky hole IN the right
place don't stir up enough fuss in the
stands TO drown the bugle OF the peanut
boy.
The life OF a ball player is a tough
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04
BETTER THAN WEST POINT

"A case is known to us NJ a vouno mon
LeslaIhS near an army post, who had
sluuled Tor the West Point examination
out falied or appointment owing to adj
verse Poltieal influence brought to
Much depressed. he told his troubles to
the commandment at Fort Thomas. who
advised him 70 enlist and fight his wav
up. Ills rather and older brother were
cierSyinen, another brother held a good
place in the civil service, and ali were
opposed to the suggestion, but he per
sisted. Within a year he was a corporaI.
a little sdrmish IN the Philippines gave
him another lift, and he received his
commission as second lieutenant in less
time than II he had gone TO West Point.
Such facts seem likely TO make the work
of our recruiting Officers less disheart-
ening.-Collier's Weekly.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04

the shoe laces has the long swat faded
70 a pale whiteness.
Then you often hear these stifrs hand
ing out the bunk that it's funny why
some guy In the inheld slips up on the
easy chances and gets the hard ones.
They peddle this much because they're
not next that a slow roller is a blamed
sight tougher to handle than the hot.
true bounding grOunder, and the scorch-
ing liner that sticks when It hits the
mitts pipe, compared with the punky,
twisting pop that comes into the mitts
with a reverse English.
It's the truth, kid. that there isn't
more than one in every twenty-five OF
the population OF the stands who are
hep 70 the fine points OF the game, and
this one is seldom one or the bunch
who are making the noise. And that q
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04

deiion. winner Of the recent Sea. Shore
Handicap. the most likely looking of the
probable entrants.
Durnsll Picks Faust.
The Newcastle stables McCarter
whose second to Peter Pan in the BriRh-
ton Handicap stands as a worthy per-
formance, will take a lot of beating If
the track stands soft, while Boots
Durnel says Faust will be the hard
horse to beat over a fast course.
The Flash Stakes, for two-year-olds.
is the sidelight to the big fixture.
Nearly all the big sporting men are
now on the ground. For several days
big play at faro and whist has been
seen at the Spa in the semi-priyate
clubs. and from what the ring heads
heard today the town will be s'oDen''
this season. The reformers who closed
up Canfield's kept thousands and thou
sands of holiday seekers away from the
Spa last year. public sentiment being
overwhelmingly In favor Of a more lib
eral policy respecting the high class
gaming clubs as a result.
Big Gamblers Ready.
Such being the case, BILLY" Dubois.
Jesse Lewiston, Sam Lazarus. Or
lando Jones, Charley Celia, Billy
OdeH. George c. Bennett, Sol I.ich-
enstein, Eddie" Burke, Mike" Tue
hey, Eddie Mcdonald, Cap Bradley,
George Kessler, Emil Herr, Boots"
Durnell, Alex Ullman. BILLY" Davis,
Senator Pat" McCarren, "PhiT" Dryer.
and the legion OF high stake players
who gave past seasons their spark of
sporting vitality will be seen in action
once again. With a normal population
of 1900 Saratoga Will be a city of E0.0OO
souls for the next few weeks
That New York is the most provincial
town In the country when it comes
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04

combination OF circumstances. kid, with
the whole population OF lis home county
yelling for one play and hiS manager
ordering up another, and then having
10 stand for the harpOon from the au-
dience for doing his duty. But don't get
down In the collar when you're getting
the hooks from the stands. kid. and
don't bulge out in the garnet when
you're coping bouquets. A ball player
can't dish up his best goods without he
Is impervious alike 10 both criticism and
praise and forgets that the stands are
populated.
There are lots Of guys hitting third
IN the batting order 70 push the leaders
down the line with q graveyard poke
who never get the glad music from the
stands or work up a rep - a hitter.
and they plug along through the season
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04
TICKET TAKER
MADE CAPTAIN
OF MILWAUKEE

MILWAUKEE. Wis. Aug. q
President Havener. Of the Milwaukee
club, has announced that the captain
OF the Milwaukee team is Hiram
Grant. the portly gentleman who Of
hciates as ticket tsker At the grand
stand entrance TO Athletic Park
This announcement comes in re
Spouse TO a demand made by Presi-
dent O'Brien 10 know who the cap
tain Of the team IS. so that he may
levy a fine OF 500 against him for
failing TO protect Umpire werden
against an alleged assault last Sat
Urday
% 20 rnis time detectives had
failed 10 locate the real captain OF
the Brewers. Now the question
arises. II Mr.. O'Brien fines Grant,
VIII NJ. Havener compel Hiram TO
pay the fine? And II Hiram refuses
to cough up can the league president
suspend Hiram from taking tickets7
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04
Written and illustrated by
Jim NASIUM.

~ EAR SON: So your prospective
daddy-in-law thinks that you
ought to have the tickle god
Success buffaloed with both
your baseball coach and your dad
pumping dope into your system. Well,
kid. if he's got it into his knot that
baseball players are manufactured en-
tirely out Of dope plastered up with
wads of advice he's got the wrong
recipe. These ingredients will some
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04
By ]. S. A. MACDONALD.

NEW YORK. Aug. S.-The clatter Of
The hoof beats down the quarter stretch.
The rustic Of Dame Fashions silks, and
the gentle whirr OF the roulette ball.
while welI-groomed sportsm9n ply their
luck under soft, glowing green lamps,
win signaliZe to the mind of the average
citizen OF Saratoga Springs, n. Y, on
Monday, the fact Of the annual Sara
toea sporting season" having arrived.
Commencing on Monday. August 8.
and running until August ., the Spa
will see the sporting faithful enter into
their paradise. for that is the length Of
the racing period Of the Saratoga As
ISOLATION for the Improvement Of the
Breed Of Racehorses, after which comes
a return to Sheepshead Bay, with the
running OF the $4,000 Futurity and the
inauguration of the autumn racing sea-
son about New York.
Big Prize Money.
Including all stake money, overnight
purses, and special sporting races, the
tremendous sum of S411,2S5 viii be dis
tributed this season at the Spa. Among
the noted and richly endowed fixtures
on the months calendar are the Sara
toga Handicap. the opening day feature:
the $1,000 Spinaway Stakes. the famous
$4,000 Saratoga Special Of August 10.
the Travers Stakes. the s25.OOO Hopeful
Stakes. the Saratoga Derby, and the
Saratoga Cup Of August "a
The Saratoga Handicap, one and one
quarter miles. for three-year-Olds and
up. worth $1,000 is the big race for
opening day, as aforementioned. At this
time ii looks like a cracking fine contest
with Emil Herz's Montgomery. a three
year-Old; James r. Keero's Ballot,
another colt of the same age, and Dam
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04

The national regatta rowing cham
pionships at Philadelphia next week
VIII be fine affair. Oarsmen from
all the clubs Of the East will be
on hand. and foreign oarsmen, also,
Will compete One of the most notable
Of these will be Waldmar Sands. Of
the Berlin Ruder Club. In the senior
singles. Germany will also have an
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04

has shown such excellent form IN the
herdles that Wefers probably viii use
him In the timber-topping champion
ship. IL viii be a speedy man that viii
fly The low fences ahead OF Iaugan.
Among the contestants in The Brigh-
ton meet next week viii be X Oxura.
the wealthy japanese, who drove a Fiat
racing car in the first meet in the
Brooklands track. England. and finished
second among a score OF starters. Okura
has made a proposition to Mr.. Tango
man. OF the Holtan Company. and II &C
cepted will pilot a Fiat car in the 10
mile race The Jap also wants to
handle the famous little Fiat. Jr.,"
which is entered for the free-for-au. but
Cedrino is not likely to let anyone else
handle his pet
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04

swat from the star IS forgotten by the
time he toes the platter again. but II
the dub pulls IL of. the bugs buzz about
II over the ham and eggs AZ the even
ing repast, ana his name is splatLered
all over the sporting pages Of the morn
ing sheets as "a sure-euOugl pinch HIT
ter So, kid, no matter how big a GUS
tard you are, you're going 70 get the
hammer just the same because you cant
dish up the goods all the time And IL
you get next 70 the art of letting the
hammer bounce OF your cOnk without
Earring the inside matter you'll save
yourself a lot OF bad moments.
Bve-bV for this time. kid, have 10 20
down now and coach the kids down at
the school house From your Dad
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04

A more seasonable topic OF sport
would be yachting, and in this line It
may be said that the annual cruise of
the New York Yacht Club. which be-
sins on August s, the rendezvous being
at Glen Cove, promises to be the big
gest and best. in point of numbers and
interest, Of any the club has ever held.
II the schedule already announced IS
carried out the cruise will extend over
period Of ten days. There will be
hve squadron runs, as we'll as special
races for the Astor cups and the Kings
cup, which take place on August 10 and
IS respectively. The most interesting
racing will naturally be in the big
schooner classes, where the Queen, the
Elmina, and the IngOmar will meet.
In class ] the Effort and the Nicola
must fight it out again, and in class X
the three 57-fOoters, the Istalena, the
Winsome, and the Aurora, will continue
the battles they have been fighting all
summer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-04
AMATEUR ATHLETICS
AND AMATEUR SEOR7
NOTES AND GOSSIP
Would Harmonic Football Rules Committees-Big
Yacht Races Coming-Natonal Regatta Should
Break Records
By MANHATTAN.

entry in the race Tor four-Oared crews
Besides. there viii be two Canadian
crews-a four from Winnipeg and the
famous Argonaut eight.
The event which IS arousing the
greatest amount Of interest among the
oarsmen here is an interctty eight
cared race, in which crews represent
ing New York city and Philadelphia
VIII be contestants.
The program includes championship
senior single SOULS. intermediate sin
gle SOULS, championship senior double
SOULS, senior and intermediate pair
cared shells. intermediate and senior
eight-oared shells and octopede. the
associate senior single SOULS, interme-
date four-oared shells and octopede.
the associate senior single SOULS, in
termediate four-oared shells, and IN
ternational four-oared shells.
Henning Fernstrom. chief engineer OF
the Virginia railway and consul Tor
Sweden at Norfolk, has offered 4 costly
trophy cup. to be contested for in a Sc
ries OF rowing races between crews OF
the American battleships at the exposi-
ton, and a crew from the Swedish war
ship F1ygia when il arrives. August 1S.
The program Of races is now being ar
ranged, 70 be submitted TO the Swedish
officers.
The United States army viii be rep
resented ir all probability in the mill
tary steepIechase. 10 be run in connec-
ton with the annual meeting OF the Unit
ted Hunts Racing Association. At
meeting Of the association It was decid-
ed to hold the meeting on October %, Oc-
tober So and November =. on the new
stepIechase course adjoining the Bel
mont Park racetrack.
Gen. J. Franklin Bell, chief Of stan Of
the army, has assured Perry Belmont,
president Of the association, Of the con-
tinued interest Of the army officials in
the military steeplechase. Preliminary
notices OF the meeting have been sent
to the colonies of all cavalry and field
artillery regiments by the general stan
corps, with a request that all officers of
their commands be advised
With the metropolitan championships
less than a month away Both Ernie
Hertberg, of the New York \. c., and
Bernie Wefers, Of the Irish-American
A. c., are putting in their best ticks
toward rounding out and shaping the
teams between which lies the struggle
for supremacy. Paul Pilgrim and Bob
Koch are among the men that Hert-
berg has in training at Travers Island
Great things are expected OF Paul this
season.
In Robert Cloughan, Bernie Wefers
has yearling that should develop into
a great Splinter. The copper-haired
youngster is a recruit from FOrdham
College, and last winter carried the
Maroon to. victory in several sprint
races. Bob ran second to Billy Keat-
ing in the 1Oo-yard dash az the Junior
championships, and then came out and
COPIED the 22O-yard event
owen Langan, the fleet flyer from the
Jersey jungle. has won many points for
the Winged Fist. He Is one of the best
sprinters in the country. This season he