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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-01

enemies OF racing
James A. Rector, the great Virginia
Splinter. has gone to Philadelphia to
train for the coming olympic tryout
In the Quaker City next Saturday.
Friday and Saturday last he wit
messed the Champion Club Intercol-
legiatc meet on Franklin Field, and
saw Cartmell and others of the fastest
sprinters in the country run the 100
yards dash. Rector saw them but
does he know that he can beat them?
II he does: II he has the necessary con-.
fidencc In himself lie will defeat every
body in this country, and in the world,
too. for he is apparently the fastest
man that has ever been timed. Let
Southern admirers OF athletics hope
that he has az much confidence in HIM
self as we have in his ability.
Perhaps the greatest tennis tourna-
fnen. ever held in this State is that
which begins at the Hermitage Club
to-day. when players Will start con-
tending for the Hermitage challenge
cup.
The best racquet wieiders from many
States, not counting Richmond's Own
excelle1. players. will face each other
across the net. and the contests prom
ise to be OF the true championship
orde-
The winner OF the mems singles will
be required to play Mr.. Fred Pollard,
who has twice won the prize. Mr.. Pol
lard is a player of marked ability, and
IN Will take strong opponent to de-
feat him.
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SOUTHERN LEAGUE

AT Memphis
Score by innings: Il. ~. ~
Nashville 49,. o0010o00 OIL 4
Memphis O020O1O a---4 II q
Batteries: Perdu and Sea baugh;
Shields and owen. Time. 1850. I'm.
pire. Pfenninger
SCORE ~ Innings. r. Fl. H..
Little Rock,... Q 0O10001 o-a q
New Orleans... 5000 1000 2
Batteries. Hart and Wood; Ryan and
Matthews. Time. l.55. Umpire, Brown.
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Standing of the Clubs.
Gnncs ,rn-pny,

Pittsburg at Chicago
Philadelphia at Brooklyn.
New York at Boston.
st. Louis. at Cincinnati.
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Took Twelve Innings to Turn the
Trick in Poorly Played
Game.
|RuBE WADDELL ON DECK
Chicago and Detroit and Chicago
and pittsburg Break
Even.
AMERICAN LEAGUE


First game-Chicago. /, Detroit o..
second game.-cficago, 4; Detroit. 2.
st. Louis, 9; Cleveland, 2.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Result. YESTERDAYS

At Chicago: First game-chicago.
pittsburg, 3. Second game-Chicago, =
| pittsburg, Is. 60
at Cincinnati: Cincinnati. o. ~.
Louis, twelve innings).
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THAT steeplechasing has become an
exceedingly strenuous sport Is paipable.
Will, barely a dozen classes run since
the opening of the Belmont season, two
valuable horses. Ailsou,~and Penarris,
have been killed, and two jockeys Sc
riously hurt. while al tbs recent meet
of the peep Run Hunt Club. the
casualties were as bad in proportion.
at the races here. Mr.. Robert NJ.
Taylor, the most widely known gen.
tIemnn rider in the United States, es-
caped death by a miracle. and was
painfully injured. while five other
Jockeys In timber topping events. re.
ceived bad falls.
What Is the cause of this and what
IL the remedy?
4 well known horseman gives as the
reason the fact that riders no longer
ride or attempt to ride. They straddle
a horse with the lower part of the
leg. the ridiculous short stirrups do
not permit them to grasp the flanks
OF the animal. they crane over tho
wt,hers and neck. and the slightest
stumble or peck" sends them off.
The horses are urged to top speed.
from start to finish. They are raInmed
at their fences. there is no attempt
to place" horse. or use any science.
II is simply mad scurry round an
ordered lawn, having six to eight
orthodox, well known to horse and
rider, and the one standing up longest
at the highest rate of mad speed wins.
For Improvement 1t seems necessary
to have steeplechase courses of such
calibre that it Is imperative to cease
taking risks. If the horses capable
OF negotiating such fences are few,
the steeplechase contingent must be
made to stand or fall by the average
quality. No accidents occurred at the
United Hunts meeting last year, for
the fact that the course is such that a
man must absolutely ride with care
and Judgment. To clear the fences he
must gather his horse, and to a GER
tain extent. place It.
are said to be due to a certain bank
topped by a hedge. There Is the usual
white rail to indicate where the bank
ceases and tho brush begins, and this
Is fastened by four-inchw wide cleats
of iron. II horse strikes the or
binary VI bite rail he goes on his way
with a Nagger and recover. II he
strikes these cleats lie is done. down
end out. i seems extremely probable
both these valuable horses struck these
cleats. and such cleats have no place
In any decent steeplechase fence.
That the arrangement OF the course
and fcnces ut the Fair Grounds is bad
has been proven by the great number
of accidents which have occurred there,
Including one death to a jockey.
a weeks race meet. with many
steeplechases will be held at the Fair
Grounds next October, and it seems
advisable that the fair officials should
see II the course cannot be improved
in some way before then, so as to les
sen the risk to life and limb.
To ignore such risks is placing a
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nnling Of the Clubs.
Games To-Day.

Cleveland at Detroit.
Washington at Philadelphia.
Chicago at st. Louis.
Boston at New Yorh
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VIRGINIA STATE LEAGUE
standlng OF the Club.

Games To-Day.
Richmond at Roanoke.
Danville at Lynchburs.
Norfolk at Portsmouth,
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of hour
being
thccf
prizes
won
fall in
Lin mi Ii seconds y
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fearful weapon In the hands Of the
enemies OF racing.
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Olympic Try-Outs.

FIELD EVENTS.
Standing broad jump.
Standing high jump.
Running broad jump.
Turning high jump.
Hop, step and jump.
Pole vault.
Hammer throw.
Shot put.
Discus throw.
Javelin throw.
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REVIEW Of WEEK
IN SPORT WORLD
League Teams Bunclled as
NeyerBefore, With Law.
makers Close Second.
---
THE FAULT FOUND
In STEEPLECHASES
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Fair Grounds Course Should Be
Improved to Prevent Accidents.
Rcctor's Showing Rests With
Sclf-C onfidence-Old Do
minion Tournament
Big Event
BY E. ]. GRIFFITH,
Sporting Editor Timcs-Dispntch.

w taking three out OF four games
with Lynchburg. and Norfolk losing
one and tying one with Portsmouth. the
Lawmakers have clambered UP to Sec
ond place again. Also Danville's de-
feats. at the hands OF Roanoke has put
our team within easy striking distance
of first place. and the results OF to-
day can turn the trick.
The standing OF the clubs to date
shows the teams punched rs they never
were before. Roanoke, the fifth team
In the list, can also jump to first place
in one day, as Shaffer's team is only
forty five points behind the leaders.
at present Roanoke is playing the
best ball In the league. and 1t may be
expected that Richmond will probably
lose both games 10 be played In the
Htghlanders' city. while nothing better
than an even break should be looked
for. Az Roanoke has agreed to play
here Wednesday, double-header Will
take place at the Broad Street diamond.
and tho Lawmakers then will be In
shape to give anybody run for their
money.
All along I have had faith in the
local managements efforts to secure a
winning team for Richmond this year.
and lately this credence has been
strengthened. AS previously stated. the
management realizes the necessity OF a
rArong aggregatino to hold the sup
LIT Of the baseball crowd. and II the
Team IS not OF the winning caiibre yet,
I have positive assurances that It is
xoing TO be. and shortly.
or course. this is not saying that
The team is going TO win the pennant
There's many q slip between the cup
nnd the lip. as the old saying goes. but
II the Lawmakers lose. tie winners
viii doubtless beat a good team.
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charred PARTICLES to appear in the fat
This same result may ais he due to too
high temperature OF eli or the milk or
tie acid. Ins' fi lent mount Of scid
or 100 weak aciu or too low temperature
OF the milk may result in a white or
cloudy test.
Much more complete directions &C.
company each out6i-the p incipal OBJ
ject of this article is to impress upon
farmers the simplicity Of the test and
that tfere 10 nothing mysterious or
mystifying about it. 1t is 30 simple
that any one Of ordinary intelligence,
willing to give it little time and pa
iirnce, can easily master all its details.
When the farmer fully realizes that II
furnishes him key not only for weed
ing out his Improbable COWS, but also
for checking up his creamery man, he
will not be Glow to make use Of the
Babcock test.
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not one of his comrades a more dam
gerous fighter. He was as good a rider
as any, better shot than any, AMI
the ferocity that had slumbered within
him was reused to pitch that made
him as denoniac as the rest of the ini-
quitous brotherhood of butchery.
The exploits of the guerrlllas, In
which Jesse soon took active part,
were almost beyond belief in their
reckless daring, their frenzied brutal
ity. The affair at Centralia illustrates
the actuating spirit. One day-It, was
September "a, lSG4--a train bearing
twenty-four Federal soldiers rolled into
the little station. Upon the platform
awaited Bill Anderson, one Of Quan-
trell's most savage followers, and
enough Of his associates to overawe the
soldiers. The twenty-four were march
ed out of their car. stood In a line and
slaughtered to a man.
Soon after 300 troops under Major
johnson sought to punish this deed.
and approached a rendezvous where
there were 282 Of the guerrillas. John
son adopted suicidal tactics. Evident
ly he did not understand Quantrells
way. He caused his men to dismount
and thus they stood awaiting the on
slaught. On came the guerillas like a
whirlwind. They could not be with
stood. Human courage could not en-
dure against these grinning devils, who
rode with teeth barred and holding the
reins. After one volley the troops fed.
They were pursued as foxes are Dur.
sued. and of the 300 only eighteen es.
capped. The rest were not wounded
They were dead.
In this charge Jesse James, having
the best horse, was In the lead. 1t was
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Death of His Stepfather Recalls
Memories of Americas Most
Desperate Outlaw.
WAS A SLAYER AND R0BBER.
outrages Upon His Family Incited
Him to Deeds Of Maniacal
Fury.

Recently the death of DR.. Reuben
Samuels OF Missouri, has been an
nounced In line. To the majority Of
readers this Item conveyed no sig
ntfcance. Yet Doctor Samuels was
figure In the guerilla warfare that
made of Missouri and Kansas settings
for the b!Oodlest and bitterest strife
ever waged by banded assassins. SAM
uels was, however, a passive figure, the
accidental center of affairs In which he
took no part. Conflict waged about
him, its fiery pillows surglng up to the
threshold of his home. For he was the
husband of the mother of Jesse James.
woman with the heart of lioness,
loving her own with an intensity as
fierce as the hatred she felt for her
enemies.
The death Of Doctor Samuels recalls
the mad career of Jesse, as intrepid n
freebooter as ever murdered ard
robbed; a man who for years, moving
in community where everybody knew
there was price on his head, never
finched in the presence of danger.
James was man of curious paradoxes.
He was strong In friendship, terrible,
unrelenting In battle, whether under
the black flag Of Quantrell or warning
on the society that had made him an
outlaw. 10 his mother he was always
kind and affectionate; to his wife q
model husband. His children found In
him, so far as their tender senses could
appreciate, every desirable element Of
fatherhoOd. For a long time he as
sumed the name of Howard. There was
no better citizen than "Mr. Howard"
no more thoughtful neighbor. Shortly
before he was killed there had been
municipal procession In st. Joseph,
marking local event. At the head uf
the parade was platoon of police.
Immediately behind the police rode
Jesse James on blooded horse, his
little boy Jesse held before him. Such
were the chances the bandit took.
There have been attempts to exalt
Jesse James. That he was driven into
the hard school of Quantrell must be
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admitted. His mother was native Of
Kentucky, and when the mutterings Of
civil war were first heard her sympn-
thles were with the South. So were
those Of Doctor Samuels In these SYM
pathies II was but natural that the boy
should share. Quantrell's guerrilla Or
ganization had operated before the dec
laratlOn Of war. 1t was sinister
group, wholly without mercy. hideous
in Its methods, Its members made up of
social renegades STEPPED In crime. and
bent upon revenge.
Quantrell's Guerrillas.
Quantrell had grievance against
some of the maurauders of the border.
Others had sworn to kill all the Fed
erals they could In reprIsal against
outrages committed by sympathizers
with the cause OF the North. AS Quan.
trell gained prestige some soldiers de-
serted the Confederate ranks to Join
him. lmpelled by blood-lust not to be
satisfied on the battlefield. They craved
the Joy Of murder. They gave no quar-
ter. No prisoner was spared. As fight
ers they were demons. They relied up
on skill as horsemen and with revol-
vers When they went into action 1t
was with fiendlsh zest that could
not be withstood.
1t was the practice of every Guam
trell follower to take the reins In his
teeth, guide the horse by pressure OF
the knees alone and, with a revolver
in each hand, plunge at full speed into
the heart Of the enemy. There was no
preliminary order, "Trot, gallop" but
the trained horses sprang to the utmos.
gait on the instant. The rush was n
terrifying spectacle, pitiless, awful; O
veritahle swath Of death.
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taken to jail in Liberty, and there, with
her daughter, subjected to hardship and
grossest insults. She was Southern
sympathizer and, far from denying the
fact, gloried In 1t. In community
afame with excitement and prejudice.
growing accustomed to every express
sion Of violence, this was offending
enough.
Slaughter of Troops.
1t was enough, too, to drive Jesse
from the perils Of his threatened home
into the ranks Of the Quantrell guerril-
las. There he found himself among
men fittingly described as crossed be-
tween highwaymen and tigers. He was
n smooth-faced boy, yet soon there was
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Bad as was Quantrell, as monstrous
his cruelty and measureless his passion.
there were bodies opposing him that
lacked none of his malignity of pur-
pose. but did lack his leadership. One
day the representatives of one of these
bodies rode up to the Samuels home.
They found Doctor Samuels at work
with Jesse In a cornield. With oaths
they demanded the whereabouts Of
Quantrell. Samuels could not tell
them. They hanged him to tree AMI
kept him suspended until nearly dead.
Thrice did the doctor have to submit
to this torture, and was left senselesS
and bleeding. Jesse had been obliged
to look on. Then with whips he was
scourged up and down the corn rows,
prodded with bayonets. Little wonder
that there arose within him tumult of
hatred. Unwitting!y the visitors were
training him for place with Guam
trell, that grim Individual who with
his own hand had slain thirty out of
band Of thirty-two that had killed
brother.
Leaving Samuels to suffer, the inter.
lopers next demanded of Mrs. Sanuels
that she betray Quantrell. "I am like
Marion's wife," she responded, what
I know will die knowing" They did
not kill her. A little later she was
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Railway whistles infiict torture on 30
many people that the efforts abroad to
check the plague have won approval from
the people. Austria has introduced a
system Of dumb signaling to start and
stop the trains. Belgium il trying COM
pressed air whistles instead Of steam. and
Germany experiments with horns
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The Coop.

'"Thls fat Is a mere COOP"
"Yes, John" said his wife sweetly,
"and the cook has just few it."-Pitts
burg Post.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-26
PRACTISE TWO FAITHS
Cyprus Islanders Who Are Both
Mahometans and Christians.

Most persons have made up their minds on re-
ligious matters. They do not doubt their ability
select the truth out of a thousand faiths ana
dogmas However. there is sect in the island OF
Cyprus that follows the principle Of the man VINO
when asked whether he believed the world moved
from east to the other way around, re-
piled. "A little of both These modest believers
hold that il is beyond mortal ken 10 estimate the
comparative merits of Mahometanism and Chris
tianity. They refuse to make an exclusive choice
and practise both religions with extreme devotion
They lead a double life from the spiritual stand
point and Gull all the material advantages pertain
ing 10 a dual cult. AS Mahometans they cannot
eat swine but as Christians they free to enjoy
the pig. Being followers of the Prophet they Will
not touch wine while a recollection Of Christian
ity enables them take a little for the stomach
sake. They limited to wife by the practice
of one creed and allowed TO keep a harem in con-
formity with the other faith. When they die they
are buried with the solemn rites of both churches
and they expect learn definitely tbe gates OF
Paradise which religion has done them the most
good.
The name of Lino-bambak Linen-cottOn is
derisivey applied TO this by those inhabitants
of Cyprus who have made up their minds the
religious question The origin of the half-andhalf
was probably due to a time when the island
was successfully ravaged by Turkish and Chris
tian conQuerors. says r. l. n. Mitchell, in The
Nineteenth Century for May The natives who
belonged to the Orthodox Greek Church pretended
10 De hanouletdIlS anu the IOllO"tIS u iSIdI44
pretended to be Christians according the change
in government and as a means of self-prOtectOn.
Since the coming of British rule in 1878 there has
been necessity for dual religion from pru-
Dental motives. but the people have acquired the
habit of attending both mosque and church and
dislike to give up the faiths OF their fathers.
There are many stories told of difficulties over
in the practice of two religions. In the lat
ter days of Ottoman rule Cyprus a Greek
bishop arrived a village in the morning and
all the flock attended pay their respects.
AT evening Turkish official came the scene.
and the villagers hastened to entertain him hos
pitably good Mahometans. Not long ago one
Hassan shouted to a friend and co-relgionist on a
Friday. II going 10 the mosque. Are you COM
New-York tribune., 1908-07-26
HE'S BEEN THERE BEFORE, BUT
He's willing to try it again, just the same!

the public streets, while anti-bark section
read follows:
mo person shall permit any dog owned or con-
trCled by him to disturb the sleep and rest OF the
neighborhood by barking bowling between the
hours of D. m. and a. m. Of the following day
The death penalty, was oddly omitted from the
anti-hark section; perhaps 1t understood AT
the council meeting of June o. when the ordinance
passed by a large majority. Mr.. Hartshorne
telling about the vast Darkness OF the
night hours, and declared that he was not an
enemy 10 dogs dogs, only the noisy kind ought
TO be shut up in sound proof cellars. The results
of this legislation most gratifying. The dogs
seemed to realize that their barks were at stake
and they made sound except when they
had a good reason. like seeing a cat or the fui
moon. Catcher Steinfeldt redoubled his exertons
and boosted his record up to nineteen "strays
captured in a day for which he got dollar apiece
from the town treasury. These ''strays' were des-
tined TO die the death in Steinfeldts private gas
tank but people wrote to the catcher saying they
would be glad to pay S2 for any imported 800 ca
nine he CHANGED to pick up. and possibly a few
lives were spared this account 1t remained
for Charles V Gabriel. a New York lawyer of No
30 Clinton avenue, to make patriotic sacrifice OF
his kennel of fourteen blooded registered dogs
in the interests of the public quiet. None of the
dogs was worth less than $50 and it is said there
were representative specimens OF bloodhounds
dachshunde pugs poodes bulldogs and terriers
at night but the owner cheerfully parted with
every one of them. He did not sell; he gave away
his pets amid the applause of appreciative neigh
New-York tribune., 1908-07-26
FULL CoRROBORATION LACKING.

While The Tribune representative was unable TO
verify the foregoing incident in all its details,
trip TO Montclair showed that quietude in the
Queen of the Oranges is no idle dream The history
of the growth of silence in this commuters par
adise was obtained by little inquiry among lead
ing citizens who consented 10 talk above whisper
II appears that some time after Columbus discov-
cred America real estate dealer picked out Mont
clair as an ideal sleeping place for New Workers,
and the town gradually filed with sterling bust
ness men, stenographers and journalists These
folk had all excitement they wanted in the day
time and when they went TO their rural bedroom
they asked for nothing but peace. No factories
were allowed endanger the sylvan calm of the
region common sentiment forbade the wearing
of loud costumes the growing Of noisy colored
flowers and vegetables in the gardens attached to
the charming homes The quiet tones of violet and
hIue were popular while opinion condoned few
red cheeks acquired by pretty matdens. Custom
gradually hardened into law. Sunfowers ceased to
he pIanted and a statute was enacted against ped
lers and hand organ men. The phonograph agents
held a convention and declared that Montclair was
frost SO far as mechanical noise making
concerned
Two railroads and two trolley lines were per-
-oitted 10 enter the town for the convenience OF