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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
PUBLIC ABLE To
SEE ONLY CANS

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1S.-Joe
Cans and Boer UnhoiE will rest today
both lighters being already in shape
for the 2o-round bout in which they
will participate al the Coliseum
Thursday night. .~
Cans has been at l34 pounds for a
couple DAYS and can easily reduce TO
the 1873 pound mark called for in the
articles. while the Boer can always do
the weight without trouble.
The sporting public evidently
thinks that Cans will be able TO handle
the thickset lightweight as they have
installed the champion TO fayo-
rite. and Unholz money is scarce at
that.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13

PUGILIST MAY
Die FROM BLOW

PEORIA. H. May l2.-Jack Nor
gan. OF indianapolis. knocked ont The
original Kid Farmer. OF Chicago, after
one minute OF lighting in the tenth
and lasT scheduled round OF their rght
before the Peoria Athletic club last
night Farmer is still unconscious
ana near death In the hospital as re-
suit or the blow delivered The doc
tors say that the chances are 10 10 |
against him.
Farmer worked a wicked left In the
early rounds and had a shade on the
first four sessions, but Morgan came
back strong and compelled Farmer TO
hold on continually until the knock
out A straight left 70 the jaw turned
the trick for the Indianapolis man.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
SUGGS HERE, GETTING
INTO SHAPE TO PITCH

The Detroit baseball club left the
west minus one OF the members OF the
team. George Suggs will remain IN
this city, getting into shape TO pitch.
Suggs was somewhat disappointed
at not being sent for by the club. but
admits that he may be able TO do bet
ter work by virtue OF his vacation.
In the meantime Suggs Is practic-
ing daily and is under the care OF Or.
Keane the club physician.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13

Well. the battle Il on. The west
has won first blood.
Before the thousands OF eastern
baseball rooters the four western
clubs made their seasons debut yes.
terday and. when the smoke and dust
had settled and all the returns were
In. three OF the western clubs had won
their battles and only Chicago had
fallen. Detroit. Cleveland and 81.
Louis had all won their games and the
honors of the initial class were with
the invaders.
BUT EVERY GAME WAS A FIGHT,
ALL THE SAME.
In three OF them a hin at an appro-
pirate stage would have changed the
verdict. Boston and Washington
were fighting as hard as their vietori-
Gus rivals and finishing sprints were
all that won for their western oppon-
ents.
All over Detroit a groan went up
when Eddie Siever's name appeared
on the blackboards as the selected
twirler for the Tigers. The Detroit
rooters had completely lost confidence
In the once effective southpaw. whose
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
WeII-KnOWn Stables Will
Bring Best to Windsor

That the owners OF running horses
appreciate the liberality of the De-
troit Jockey club in offering increas-
ed stake money for its annual offer
ings in the line OF special events TO
be raced at the coming meeting. is
evidenced by the fact that the en-
tries are not only great in number
but are also OF a quality which seems
considerably above the average.
Among the stables which will be
seen az the clubs meeting in Windsor
are such well-known ones as those
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13

Eddie Cicotte. who in the winter
time runs a buffet in down-river sub
urb OF Detroit and who gained his first
baseball fame as a Detroit amateur,
twirled for Boston and had the Tigers
Worried at all stages. His own single
tied the score at one run apiece In the
middle stages and Boston scored what
looked like the possible winning tally
in the seventh on bunts by Wagner
and Carrigan and two errors by
Schmidt.
But were the champions down-heat-
ed? Not on your life.
The heavy guns opened up on CT
cote in the eighth. Schmidt hit
safely and Davy Jones was put in to
run for him. Cicotte hit O'Leary In
the ribs. Oavy Jones tore for third In
order to be on hand to score on an In
field out and made the steal suceese
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13

spring form reversal had lbsen so
marked this wear They called TO mind
his steady run or Overwhelming dereal
and predicted a certain Boston We
tory
But for once the dope went wrong.
Siever pitched a very eredtable
game and. though touched UP with
considerable freedom, manager 10 scat
ter the ten hits secured by Jim Me-
Cures proteges. so that they were
productive OF only two runs. The 5os-
ton club. which leads OF with four
minor league graduates in the batting
order. was pie for him, Shortstop
Wagner being the only 5ostonian who
located his curves with any degree Of
frequency. He struck out no less than
eight men and was the same old re.
liable fielder Of his position that he
has always been when winning.
II was a last trial for Siever, beyond
question. and his victory has unques-
tionably prolonged his life on the club.
II il gives a right line on his returning
ability he will be invaluable for use
against Boston. Washington and Chi
cago. while the club has now four
other twirlers who may bear the brunt
of the burden against the clubs which
have always been difficult for Sieyer
TO beat
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
FINE CHICAGO
b0TTLE-H EAVERS

CHICAGO. May 12-Judge Scovel
yesterday fined two pop bottle iends
who had been arrested by the police
at the American league grounds last
Saturday, S25 each. He made IL en-
phatic that the next time a pop bottle
thrower came up before him a Jail
sentence would accompany a heavy
f1ne.
President Comiskey OF the White
Sox. said the pop bottle throwers had
worried him for long time and he
was glad Judge Scovel had come out
30 strongly against that nuisance.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13

The Delta baseball club which will
hereafter be known as the Defender
A. C., has a few open dates and would
like 10 hear from Wayne. BEDFORD. Ro-
chester. Plymouth and lockwood for
Nav 30 and July L. Address C. n.
Davenport. go Lysander-st., Home
phone. City 4l43-R.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
Baby Trotter Files.

viii Evans has already developed
another one Of those phenomenal year.
lings The latest Is by The Bonds
man. and has been a quarter in 3S
seconds
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
Tries 20 Wake EN- Up.

BE alive" or be awake" are two
favorite expressions OF Cantillon on
the coaching lines. Sounds like Joe
had lot OF dead ones or sound sleep
transporting Life.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
AMERICANS RULE IN OLYMPIC RECORDS

tied for
other while England holds the nnete nth or the 10 decided IN
o.
France Greece Canada The first table gives the
holders
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13

BOSTON. May 13.-Willie Fftzger'
aid. of Brooklyn. won an easy victory
over Aurelio Herrera, OF California.
in their l2-round encounter at the
Armory Athletic club last night. Her
rera boxed in his usual lazy fashion
OF blocking and keeping away. not put
ting up his hands half the time.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
CMALL -CPORTING
- TALK ~ WOkLD

BY topping the bar at a height Of
IL feet. Il inch,
Arthur IrwIn's Washington Union
league club IS IN second position IN
the outlaw organization, and Wal
soon open AZ home
Philadelphia Jack o'BrieB has agreed
10 meet Jack Blackburn In the
Quaker city the latter part OF TINS
month O'Brien figures he WILL clean
The Southern MichigRn got under way
Yesterday with hne weather Gnd big
crowds. Kalamazoo. Flint. saginaw
and Flint were the winners, thouSh
all the losing teams hut Tecumsrh
battIed hard. The Flint-Jacksoh
game went l. lnning. 49,
The annual dinner of the n. VI. e. A..
physical department took place AZ
tie association last evening. the
state champion basketball team re-
celved fobs and sweaters, and Mont
go.nsry the ll-rOung gymnasium
stat, cot haHds0me cup,
Snm NSt ~. the coIored heavyNcig ht
who Is "a Paris making ali kinds Of
money iu boxing. refused to make a
nsteh WIN Tommy Burns because
The. promoter wanted 10 give him
O~iN = .00G for lis end. IL IL good
Betting that foxy Tommy suggest
ed the amount
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13

\ Busise.s-iike Prinsfng. No fuss and
no feathers The plain. neat kind. that
looks right. Times Prfstiag Co.. is
John r. st Phone l49s.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13

Ran for siever I'm eighth.
;Thonry out, hit by bsued bail.
4Ilatted for ticotte In ninth.
aPRyne out, hit by batted ball.
81 ~ y II
Detroit % U v % o.
Boston % u v o. 2
Thrce-base hit-Crrwford. sacrifice
hifs-Carrigan =. McIntyre. stolen
bases-Lord, cobb, Laporte, O'Lenry.
Jones. Double pIay-Lord and In
gInub. Left on bases-Defroit 3, Bos-
ton y. First base on baiI.-On Cicotte
q. First hose ON errors-Detro1t 4.
struck ouf--Dy sieyer =. by Cirottc A.
Hit by pitched ball-By tieotfe \. Time
-iit5. Cmpfre-O'LouGh
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13

Detroit has an excellent case In
point in Jerry Utley, probably the best
player ever turned out by the Uni
versity OF Michigan.
Ii wasn't baseball that attracted
Utley 10 the big Ann Arbor school. His
parents were people OF scholarly tastes
and Jerry never figured as a baseball
sensation before entering school. He
took up baseball as a means OF exer-
else and speedily developed surprising
ability as a pitcher and a speedy all
round ball player. He graduated with
honors from the difficult engineering
course, coached the team for couple
OF years while still further completing
his studies, and played bit OF profes-
sional baseball during the summers. In
the fast little Northern league he was
easily the best pitcher in sight and
some good ones have been graduated
thence TO fast company.
Two years ago Utley made up his
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
THE BIGiLEAGUE RACES ATAGLANCE
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Yesterdays Results.
( Detroit 4. Boston 2.
Philadelphia 3, Chicago 3.
Cleveland 2. New York y.
st. Louis 6. Washington 3.
Today's Games.
~Detroit at Boston.
Chicago at Philadelphia.
Cleveland at New York.
ST. Louis at Washington.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
Record.
Event.

Olympic
America
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13

Another squIres7
An Australian syndicate is going to
send Bill Lang, the heavyweight cham
pion OF that country. 10 England.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Yesterday's Results

Yesterdays Results.
New York S, Pittsburg 2.
81. Louis ?. Brooklyn 0.
Philadelphia 6, Chicago 2.
Cincinnati s. Boston !.
Todsy's Games
Philadelphia at Chicago.
New York at Pittsburg.
Brooklyn at 81. Louis.
Boston at Cincinnati.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
CHAT AND It'd CPORT AND
OOMMENT Ct OPORTSMAN
: By Fauf =, Rruske - -

mind 10 give baseball thorough trlal
He chose the Southern league as
starting point and surprised the world
by handing Cleveland shut out deiest
with only a fair minor league team
at his back. lie won his first ana ohiy
league game. fell out with manager
over his refusal TO play Sunday pail
contracted malaria and came home
Some weeks after he accepted
position In the city engineers office IN
his home city and there he is still
regularly al work. though keeping up
his baseball for the same reason wnlch
led him TO adopt IT at school.
The writer saw Utley workout the
other day al the Detroit Athletic CLUB.
He has grown bigger and stronger
than in his college days and has added
70 his perfect control and fielding
ability. speed which is surpassed by
few big league pitchers OF today.
The writer does not need TO rely on
his own opinion in the belief that
utley, had he followed professional
baseball would today have been with
the top-notchers. for there is not one
OF the D. A. G.. veterans who is not out
spoken in the same statement.
why don't you go out and show thls
stuff 10 some OF the big league man
agers?" somebody asked the former
Michigan star
Well, why should II" was Utleys
reply. In the first place. 1t would
mean financial sacrifice. In the sec
ond. II Is too difticult 10 get chance
when a man draws the line on sun
day baseball.
II don't know that winter OF Idle
ness appeals TO me either. and YET
fellow can't give any employer con-
scientious service and hold down po-
sition if he isn't on the job the year
through. with reasonable regularity.
We asked a question up above. Is II
answered?
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13

A s THE years drift by, professional
"A bali for some reason or other
seems to be rapidly losing the college
BOYS who were once SO prominent as
&-----------& OF the big
WHY COL teams, east and
LEGE BoNs west There are a
FIGHT SHY. few OF them left
H------- very few-but
their number is steadily diminishing
and. when one OF them drops out,
there is seldom a coliegian 10 take
his place.
In addition. most OF the college men
now in baseball are players who were
drawn into the schools during their
early youth. by virtue OF financial ben
ehtS which accrued 10 them through
their baseball ability. Among the re-
mainder are athletes who. after achiev.
ing prominence in the game have edu-
Gated themselves for the day when
they may no longer be able 10 earn
living on the diamond
Bona fide college players in the big
leagues are race virtually extinct.
And why?
There seems TO be no falling on In
the array OF talent In the colleges. At
any rate the public prints carry almost
daily announcements OF offers made 10
college stars by big league managers,
and as quickly turned down.
For some reason or other the lure OF
the game has merely ceased 10 at:
tract.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
Herrera Boxes Lazily.

We asked a question up above. Is it
answered?
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-05-13
De,tae Nav Defender A. c.

Apprentice allowance claimed.
Weather. clear; track. fast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-22
About $50 Suits==Amd why
the Best Dressed Men
Come Here

in
good That's OUR
The
mhes Washington
eoualed by but wv the
OF the
the
clothes
not
n all
There's a wide variety of browns, tans, olives.
blue and black thibets, unfinished
steds-every fabric that's right for the season is we'll
and prousey shown
THESE Suits Are the Acme
of Clothing Values ait $50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-22
DIR. LEON CONVICTED.
Jury in Criminal Court No. g Rem.
ders Verdict of Guilty.

Edward Leor Thompson, known as Dr.
Leon. was convicted late yesterday after
noon by jury IN Criminal Court No =
under an Indictment charging the per-
forming of original operation on Lillian
Bryan. colored. He was released or
81 GGn bail to await sentence.
Trial on an Indictment charging similar
offense has been set for June 1. DIR Leon
was convicted last spring of a similar Of
Tense and was sentenced to serve two
years in the penitentiary. An appeal was
taken and the Judgment of the court re-
versed. The case has not been called for
retrial
TIE prosecution was represented at yes
terday's trial by Assistant United States
Attorneys Mcnamara and Turner At
torneys George ii. Macdonald and Thomas
c. Taylor appeared for the defense
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-22

Mary Clark. a write woman fifty-flve
years OF age. of AZ nth street northwest
was struck by car of the Washing ION
Traction Company at 11th and f streets
southwest this morning and received
slight conclusion of the head. She was
removed TO the Emergency Hospital in
the ambulance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08

ventions adopted by the world. Mrs. Greene sub
stituted wire belts for those of wood first used Mrs
Greene, Mrs. Miller assumed interest in her
patent.
1t is interesting learn that the discovery of cot
ton textile fiber is ascrbed to Semiramis but in
America it is attributed to the mother of the lncas
who taught the PeruvianS to manufacture it.
With the advent of the sewing machine, invented
by Walter Hunt of New York, and patented by
Elias Howe, jr twelve years later, needewomen
were not in demand formerly; but woman
still active in other lines even inaugurating in 1896
the first strike account of reduction in wages
which not successful
Incidentally it may be stated that Sizing Chi
wife of Emperor Hoang-ti, 1000 B. c., discovered
silk, and to this day when the name of China is
toned it is perpetual honor and remembrance to
this inventor.
Gauze the invention of Pamphie, woman Of
Co.'S who shortly after the introduction of silk into
Europe unraveed its web and from this
featured the fabric known to Roman women as
1Vst1s and to moderns coan, gauze.
A woman owned the largest flax mill in Europe
a woman established the manufacture of buttons,
although the business by a man. and the
self fastening button also the invention of
A child the means of inspiring the
spinning jenny, and two girls combing their hair in
spired the machine that combed cheap cotton into
moderately fine yarn. Maggie Knight refused fifty
thousand dollars for her machine for the manufacture
of satchel bottom bags, after she received her
patent Another machine that which does the
work of thirty persons in folding bags
Two silk dresses were spun, woven, and colored
by the skfu fingers of Miss Betty Green of Georgia,
for woman is no novelty to-day. The knitting
chine invented by William Lee, OF Lea, of Eng
land, through observation of his wife handling her
knitting needles In 1924, Miss Lucy Johnson wove
seven pairs of seamless pillowcases and received
premium at the fair held at Pawtucket, Rhode
Island. They were view years ago in
excellent state of preservation. and supposed to
Continued on page IS
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a squeak, glad to get his baby ele-
plant back for that money.
After that?
Working?' he asked me, with
the brevity of the circus boss
Working l was not, and SO l
told him.
""Cook tent foreman went on a
drunk in Emporia, and when he
turns up I'm going to fire him, said
the Ringing brother to me then.
Want his Job?'
Il wanted it, even if / was just
breezing along in front on the chin
strap with the two hundred iron
men to the good More than that,
| took it. That's how l happened to
go into the circus business, at which
shone like a looking glass for nearly
one whole week.
Kansas wasn't so bad. | have
had worse breaks than that which
was my portion when l came to
meath the shelter of mingled fox
grape and honeysuckle hedge. with
a baby elephant tickling my left ear
with the middle toe of his right
front foot"
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any halucination l shouldn't have to go as a
missionary to Beuchistan.
II rubbed the knob on the baby elephants head
for long, long time. We mates kind O. it
appeared. He was lost l knew that They may
raise lot of hell in Kansas but not baby elephants.
Well, SO was | lost lost for keeps.
And so l rose from beneath the shelter of the
fragrant Kansas hedge, put my hand on the knob
of the little baby elephants head to guide him,
and started down the road to Leavenworth-I could
the houses of the town in the increasing light.
The little chap plugged docilely along at my side.
We came to roadside spring, and he walked over
to it and drank gallons and gallons of the clear
water But he didn't drink any of it than l
did, hombres
A S entered Leavenworth's outskirts at the
edge of the Government reservation, four horse
men, coming at full speed round turn of the road,
almost galoped over me and my baby elephant
pal. When they they reined up like
punchers pulling up their cayuses after singing the
lariat.
why, here's tn blamed little pup now dang
him! they all yelled together, and in two seconds
the four of them
off their horses and pet
ting my baby elephant.
" 1t was then that |
made nv worlds record of
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answering six hundred and twenty-seven separate
and distinct questions within the space of ten and
two-hfths seconds. All the questions were about
the baby elephant: where I'd nailed him, how
he'd behaved, where he bound for when | got
him, and all the rest.
They had just got through, they told me, past
ing up bunch of placards, offering a reward of
two hundred dollars for the return of the elephant
to the Ringing brothers circus which to
hibit in Leavenworth that day. The circus had
loaded at Leavenworth the night before. The
baby elephant being weaned and had to be
kept from his mother. In the mx-up of unloading
he had wandered off. He of the main assets
of the show. They had been in fear that
farmer other would pick up the baby elephant
and hold him for two thousand dollar ransom
something; hence the quick offer of the two hundred
dollar reward.
Il told the elephant keeper, who was one of the
four horsemen, about how the baby elephant had
awakened me by tickling my left with the middle
toe of his right front foot
That's how he gets awake every morning
He's been trained to do it that way said the ele-
plant man.
We'll, hike in with and cop out the two hun
dred bucks reward said the man in charge of the
party. And hoofed it alongside of them, and the
baby elephant padding along beside me, to where
the tents were raised. One of the Ringing brothers
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and expermentally tickling my left ear with the
middle toe of that appraised foot.
1t didn't look just normal to me-in Kansas
So lay there blinking at the baby elephant. When
he my eyes open, he put his tickling foot down
but just stood there swaying slightly, and gazed
at pleasantly, reassuringly. But | was not
treasured.
This said l to myself is of those things
This, similarly, marks the beginning of my future
good behavior It's thirty to one at least, that if
close my eyes now, and keep them closed for half
a minute, when open them again the thing stand
ing there will be blue giraffe with double dorsal
fins and stingarees tail
Il tried it. counting out the half minute Then
slowly opened my eyes again The baby elephant
was still there But, obviously for the purpose of
entertaining me, this time he was standing only
his front legs with his cute little hind legs wggng
in the air, and his merry little beady eyes beaming
in that upside down way.
90 Not only is it going to be the mere good be-
havior for mine for the remainder of my bodily
existence observed unto myself, as | closed my
eyes once more, but l intend to become mission
airy in Beluchistan at once; for desire to get just
as far possible, and then some seven thousand
geographical leagues from such purely fictitious
and hallucnative scenes and incidents these. In
the meantime, shall l try closing them
Again then, l lidded my eyes, and this time l
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opening them You see, | wanted
to give that baby elephant all the
chance in the world to evanish back
to the topsyturvy section of No
Such-Land whence / was perfectly
sure he had come.
But when | peered again after
that two hundred count, there again
was the winsome little pachyderm,
this time standing up on his cunning
little hind legs, with his babesy-
wabesy front legs crossed in front of
him, and his cute little head cooked
on one side, looking at me just as
natural as-as eggs.
Then | came to a sitting pos
ture. l felt of my head. 1t was
there. Dawn was breaking out of
the orange east. The hedge was
bespangled with fragrant dew The
Bob Whites were calling in the copse
And the baby elephant got down
on all tours and nudged close to me
and put his head against my shirt
front like as if he wanted me to rub
the knob on his little head.
Il rubbed it. He was really there,
and alive We were pals. 1t wasn't