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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31

eeIecuon In securing BUCKLEY as the third
man IN the ring Tor he IS fearless, has ref
creed many contests ana knows the game
thoroughly.
Sam Lewis, manager OF Charley Griffin,
the Australian fighter, last night received a
telegram from Baron Long, Of the Jeffres
n. {, OF Los Angeles, Cal, offering Griffin
a match with either Johnny Murphy or
Johnny Powell. the California iightweIghts;
70 DC decided next month. IF Long accepts
our terms" said Lewis, Il viii take Griffin
to the coast on the first train that leaves
atter we get our transportation"
There is talk now 0; match being
eiinched between Harry Lewis the Quaker
CITY, mldde-welght, ana Willie Lewis, the
local Hghter The matchmaker OF the Edge
wood A. C., Of New Haven, Conn, is AJAX
ious TO bring them together In a ten-rouni
pout az the next Ttag OF the club about
GoY. 10. Willie Is matched to box Tom
carey, the local heavy weight, slx-r0und
poLt az the Dry DOCK A, {. stag on Mon
-Four. fighters from ths city win NEE,
I9eI % ne best they have In the quaker
Guy at the National A. e. Of Phia GelpH i
nnlghi, jim Donovan wiz tackle Tbmio,N
sullivan, Paddy Sullivan, Of BROOKLYN. XIII
take on Paddy LAWN, Teddy Ma.Oney. Of
inllade !phia, VIII meet Tommy Dutton Of
England; Lou Sheppard, u TITS city, VIII
bgA Young Sltch!e, u Ph'ladtlphll, and
Harry stone, OF Brooklyn, VIII exchange vol
tops Win Tommy Langlgn, Of Phlladelphia
Al The bouts will be tor ak rounds
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31
FOUR CLUBS TO HOLD
BOXING STAGS TONIGHT

-Four clubs will pull on star.
night. ana every one OF them ma, a
court Injunction which Will prevent n,
police from interfering with the enter
tainment
Al she Clinton A. C. Monroe street
me principals In the bout will be Jeff
O'Connell and Jimmy smith. OF Brook.
lyn; In the semi fnal Jimmy Moran
will be for six rounds ''
AZ the Long Acre A. c. Kid Wilson
and Joe Gaynor VIII be the, principals
card Of bouts will be staged. Ave con.
tests making up the programme
At the Terminal A. C.. of South
Brooklyn, George Gunther and George
Cole. OF Trenton, the colored boxers.
will nsure In the main bout for six
rounds -Four other bouts viii pre-
esds IL.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31
UIKE PRoPREsKI is the name OF
NU Jimmy NcAleer's new pitching

X n IKE PROPRESKI is the name OF
MI Jimmy McAleer's new pitching
@sA phenom.
Fortunately for tho baseball public.
Mike got a good steer that he had
bum name for a baseball player and he
had It amputated.
As member of tho Wilkes Barre
team OF the New York State League,
Mike was known as plain Jim Swift.
Some one dubbed him Swift because of
his great speed. Should he make good
In the American League he will con-
tinue to be known as Swift.
Propreski has a great chance to make
good. simply because he was a coal
miner before he started TO play ball for
a living. He is Il Polander, hut Is a
right nice looking chap and appears to
be every inch a Yankee. Just glance
over a few other miner pitchers who
have been successful and you will real
ize why Swift looks so, good: Brown. of
Chicago, and Covalesla, OF Philadelphia.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31

racers Will be duplicate parts. all spe-
cially made and transported at great
cost. An average of 5000 as the cost
for putting these cars through the
race is not an excessive estimate. the
total being not les than $4,000. The
entry fees will be about $4,000
The city Of Savannah Is evidently ap-
preciatve OF the great value the race
will be TO that city from an industrial
and general business standpoint. for
the sum OF $4,000 has already been ex-
pended upon the roads to be used for
the course. although the State gave
the work OF 1000 conv!cts for the pur
pose. A grand stand capable OF seating
is. 900 has been erected and the State OF
Georgia gives the use OF Ave regiments
of the National Guard. armed with ri
fies and real ball cartridges, TO keep
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31
KLINE AND WAGNER BOX
FAST SURROUND DRAW

With the aid OF an Injunction which
the club OH cials obtained yesterday
the Tucker A. C. pulled OF its weekly
stag last night.
Only small crowd OF members were
present, but they thoroughly enjoyed
the bouts. In the main bout Patsy
Kline, Of Newark. and Joe Wagner.
OF this city. fought slashing six
round contest with honors about even
at the end.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31

regret TO inform you. Mr. Fisher, that
swat Mllllgan's opportunities FOR eduea'
tion were very limited. and that the only
chance he ever had 10 pay football was
when he attended the district school an
the edge OF the great Willow swamp. The
records OF that place show that he did
take part in one game, and as TO the
merits OF his performance it will DE left
- you u judse.
The WHOM Swamp school challenged
the Bobble,own boys for a game on
Thanksgiving. Milligan was fullback for
the Willow swamps. The. space selected
for the great game was not entirely free
Of obstruction, due To the fact that a high
pole formerly used for fodder stack
htOld Just inside the boundary line OF the
gridiron, Being a thinking person, swat
Immediately devised a plan by which iAis
pole could bo put into use. Mlllgan was
a great DInter, ana some OF hls long kicks
were made with remarkable accuracy,
Tie game had gone through the first
la.f without a score, and II began to look
u4d for the Willow Swamps In the second.
IN two downs tho swamp boys had failed
10 gam and IT became necessary for swat
ID 5siia side Of the field from the fodder
Jack pole, and Milligan's brilliant mind
Immediately conceived play that you
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31

but who IS privileged to accept mounts
in the english classics. 1t would, in
deed be double triumph II an Ameri-
can bred horse, guided BY an American
Jockey, should win one Of the many
historic English features.
Richard Croker's Derby winner, orby
was an American bred horse, but he
never raced on this side OF the ocean.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31
COBB MAY PLAY
FIRST FOR TIGERS

Ty Cobb may be seen next season
playing first base fob the Tigers. This
would put Davy Jones' back In the feld.
Jennings has been dispLeased with Ross
man since he gave out "a, interview say
ing baseball player needed ability to
hit and few brains 10 make good. Jen-
nings has given Cobb cha,,ces to prac-
tise at first. When asked about the
change he said:
stranger things have happened"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31
RACEHORSES SELL
FOR GOOD PRICES

The dispersal sale OF the McGrathiana
Farm stud at Lexington, KY. proved
that the racing game 10 not In the de-
plorable state that a lot OF people pro-
Tess to believe. -Four weeks before the
the owner, offered 10 sell the 4S6 head
on the farm for $4,000. At auction sale
the same horses brought n tSl.2s5.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31
o'TooIs and Baker Draw.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 81. - Tomm,
o'Tools. OF this city, last night fouxiA Harry
Baker, nf San francisco. to q draw In
whirlwind six round bout At the state A. C.
The fastest Kind OF boxins character 'Isd
forcing the pace, Al the end OF The nth
round Saksg held the upper hand throuAh
his eleyeruess In blocking OGools's blowSs
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31
m'FARLANp FIGHTS IN PHILLIE.

Harry Gilmore, manages Of Packey MeFar-
and. last NIGHT verified the story in The
Evening World yesterday that the slx round
bout between Mcfarland and Tommy Murphy
A. C.. % Phlladelphia- Gilmore said that
Harry Edwards, managar OF the club. was In
match, as = q ist Mcfarland know today
tls date OF ths bAttls.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31
COLUMBIA FRESHMEN
PLAY SENIORS A TIE

In the interclass series at Columbia
University tho seniors and juniors
played a 90 tie game. neither team
being able 10 score In the two fifteen
minute halves. The seniors were out
played In the hrst half, but braced up
in the second and held their opponents
SAke
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31

must admit mad all the elements OF daring
as extreme accuracy was required Tor It's
Perfection
Jimmy 5napskn gave the signal for
kick and MiiIigsn dropped back. II was a
toe in the ba. and sent II whlr'!pg
other side OF the field. The entire Bob
b!etOwn team went on rush for the ball,
but Swat avoided tire scr!mmare and rap
Idly ran down the centre Of the field to
within thirty yards ., Bobb' etOwn's goal.
II was evident that MlllEan had some
thing uD his sleeve, lie did. His kick
went as true as bullet AMI the bail
struck The swayinR pole with great force,
while tbs. Bobbleiown ends gathered arJund
But, alas they were 10 be sadly de-
ceiv-d. The ball caught the pole on its
return sway and bounded In a diagonal
direction straight into Swats hands, where
ne heeled II for a fair catch, the rule be
Ing in vogue that a player could catch a
pail any time he got a chance, Without
further ado Milllgan. not deigning TO make
an ordinary touchdown. shot drop klck
between the goal posts and the game was
over. The Bobbletowns after that were
nek ar able 10 score.
n this Is not the play to which you refer
a further communication from you AMI
your friends would be welcomed
BOHEMIAN BULGER
p. s.-The play made by Swat was
thereafter known as the back action punt.
Is.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31
HOW MORDECAl BROWN
LOST THAT FINGER.

This is how Dave Basley. OF Terre
Haute. Ind, an uncle OF Three
Fingered" Mordecai Brown. has
cleared up the mystery about the
Cub pitcher.
II was responsible for Mordecais
injury" says Basley., "Mordecai
was seven years old when II hap
pened. He was at home and his
hand was caught in a feed chop
per-
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31
SWal Milligan in Football
Makes Clever BQck-ActiOn Punt

3. World:
or
football that he wouc
a ma he grdiron
Thirtieh
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31
Fapke Signs TO Meet
Kelly at Los Angeles

selection IN securing Buckley as the third
man In the ring, FOR he IS fearless, has ref.
creed many contests aal knows the game
thoroughly.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31

Desn selected 10 rsfere. inc twenty i've round md
fight oetNssn bort Keyes and 'KlI" SuII'-
van, Of Washington. which 10 TO Do Decided
night Of Nov. a 1As alub made q sssd
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-31

ffX |ES. l am going to quit base
ball." said Willie Keller with
q grin. But II won't be until
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-22
PLAYING WITH MATCHES.

Scarcely day passes that the daily
press reports do not give one or more
accounts of fires that might easily have
been disasters in moving picture shows.
The film catches fire, there is the US
ual rush, the department gets there in
time usually and the people escape one
way or another. So far most of them
have got out, pretty we'll smoked up,
but with their lives
This isn't always going to be so.
The moving picture man finds a cheap
rent if he can. 1t IS a cheap show, at
least so far as the admission fee is
concerned. and economy is necessary.
1t finds store building without special
advantages of egress good enough and
crowds it if it can.
will be called upon to dig out of the
ruins of it's moving picture show the
charred bodies of half hundred chill
dren 1t is as certain as that all over
the state the inflammatory films and
the narrow "theaters" are defying q
kind providence and bidding for dis
aster. 1t is time to hedge the 5 cent
theaters with ordinances calculated to
defer or prevent a holocaust. After
the horror has been accomplished is a
day too late 1t is time to quit play
ing with matches in the haymow.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-22
MR.. cARneeie's REVELATIONS.

| MIR Carnegie is at the front in
pected to bear very strongly on such
tariff legislation as may be enacted
by the present congress. He is voicing
a Very general opinion when he says
the tariff ought not be used as a boil
ster for Intellectual mana cement or on
account of manufacturers who are un-
fortunately located. His assertion that
! tariff schedules should not shelter
monopoly is repetition and is now
pretty generally accepted except by
monopolists.
When Mr.. Carnegie pointed out that
the testimony most considered by COM
mittees is that of men directly con
cerned in the profits arising from the
schedules it is intended to revise and
asks whether a judge who had direct
interest in case should be upon the
getting very close to things that are
worrying the average citizen who wants
the manufacturer to have q square deal
but who is particularly anxious to get
Il square deal for himself. The meth
DDS of tariff revision have been like
those notorious in the rate inquiry.
Few voters are tariff experts, even
to a slight degree. The average man
does not study and digest the mass Of
schedules. Neither it may be truth
fully stated does the average con-
gresham In fact the average con-
gresham knows as much about tariff
as the ordinary citizen; possibly lit
tie more but not often. The men most
interested in high schedules have had
most influence and persistence. 1t is
natural that they should get what they
could Now. like Mr.. Carnegie. the
people are anxious that these schedules
be examined and revised discreetly and
honestly. but with the consumer as
we'll as the manufacturer in mind.
When men like Carnegie, whose colos-
sal accommodations are the best evidence
of his business acumen, say that GER
tain schedules are unnecessary and
unjust, this common man who might
be confused in the labyrinth of rates
and schedules can find his way directly
to the conviction that revision should
revise, not only schedules but wrongs.
This nom expert is the last court of
appeal He is judge, jury and execu-
toner of political representatives and
political parties. Outside Of any rights
he may have in the premises he is en-
titled to considerable respect because
of the things he can do to those who
he shall be convinced are crooked or
careless.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-22

ing to better law enforcement.
If the Iowa legislature desires. as
without question it does desire. the
enforcement of the statutes by it made
and provided. it will listen TO Web
Byers and see that he and his success
ors are turned loose" The attorney
generals office has worked under the
greatest difficulties: the county attor-
neys of the various counties have had
hanging over them the threat of the law
defiant, threat that we have all seen
fulfilled again and again when the at
torney was bull headed' enough to
actually do his full duty. Byers' plan
offers the attorney a, choice between
doing his duty fairly well or giving
way to some one who will.
This is about what we want in Iowa.
isn't it?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-22
DR.. ABBOTT ON FOOTBALL.
Thinks Courage Game Develops Worth
All the Accidents and Deaths.

Thinks Courage Game Develops Worth
All the Accidents and Deaths.
The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott in re-
cent sermon preached at New Haven
to the Yale students on what Think
About Cod incidentally referred to
football
II do not know how many accidents
are due to football or how many deaths
result from the game" said DR.. Abb
bolt. but do know you can't de-
velop manly courage without facing
real perils, and it is worth all it costs
if it is necessary in order to get this
courage.
THE end of life Is not skyscrapers,
railroads or ,nerriment, pleasure, JOY
or even happiness, but character. We
are in the world to develop manly men,
and womanly women.
Pm glad that am in won
can be lawless If want to, bee. isiN'
I can be virtuons. ! would rntl u
in this world with all its wicleAaSN II
crime and misery than II its iatseoAt
ants were mere puppets. even b 0sA
pulled the wires. In such wnsW ~
men would be mere puppets and not.
men,"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-22
HIS ALIBI.
II Cleared the Accused, but Furnished
an Odd Sequel.

Il Cleared the ACCUSED, out fuFHisheu
an Odd Sequel.
A highly respectable gentleman ar
rived at York one evening with lug
gage and dined well, went to bed
early, rose in good time and had
substantial breakfast. After this meal
he casually asked the landlord If there
was anything of special interest In
York, "The assize3 are on, but do
not know if there is anything partlcu'
larly interesting in the list" was the
response.
.sThanks," drawled the stranger
ell look in IL happen to pass the
court and see"
He did look in and heard follower
Of Dick Turpin in the dock, charged
with highway robbery, pleading his
innocence vehemently to a stolid judge
and jury, who, with firm faces, did
not look as If they placed much ere
dence in the prisoners profession OF
innocence. Suddenly the prisoner
caught sight of the stranger. who had
strolled in from the hotel out of curl
osity.
''Here, thank God, is some ole who
can prove my innocence" cried the
prisoner, pointing to the stranger, who
was aghast at becoming the center OF
interest so unexpectedly.
He seemed astonished and shook his
head.
ooh, yes" cried the accused: "just
think! You were at Dover-a long
way from here. You came out of the
Ship hotel. and l took your luggage
in wheclbarrow to the Calais packet
at the pier. That was the day am
supposed to have committed the crime
up here"
The stranger seemed bewildered.
The Judge, struck with the tragic ear
nestness Of the prisoner, questioned
the stranger. but the latter could not
assist him much.
"Have you any notebooks" asked
the judge-"any memorandum OF your
movements on that day."
Gam merchant" replied the stran-
ger. CONNECTED with an old established
firm of bankers in London. l travel q
lot and of course enter everything IN
my books. Eere are my keys If the
court cares to send to my hotel and
bring here the books out of my case.
I can easily settle the point"
The books were fetched. The gentle
man had been in Dover that day and
had left by the Calais packet. This
was sufficient for the judge and jury
The prisoner was acquitted.
Comic sequel: Both the "banker from
London and the hlghwayman were
placed in the same dock shortly after.
ward charged with daring burglaries
in the neigE5orhood.- Furniss
in London Standard.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-22
Topics of the Times,

Sporting men will probably put their
money on the saloon men in their race
with the ants in a town like OF
tumWa.
This is the lonesome week among
Iowa hotels. Travellers find few Gus
toners who will listen to them and
then the kids ait home have SO much
to say.
Not only is building going on just
the same in Iowa as tho the scene
were southern cline, but the grad
ing of hill in west MarshalltoWn is
being done without interruption this
week.
Because the Cedar Rapids city
council refused to accept 27,-
600 square yards, practically a
mile. of brick paving, which the city
engineer had found 3 per cent below
the specifications, the contractor, M.
Ford, today decided to take it all up
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-22
IOWA AND OTHER PLACES.

Iowa farmers are beginning to real
ize that nowhere for the same money
can they secure the agricultural adj
vantages that they have right here in
Iowa Yet each year the ever-present
real estate agent wins his quota for
the north and west and south, and
every year Iowa farmers take chances
in new fields and leave behind them
land and values they can never again
secure Within the past ten years
Humboldt county has seen dozens of
farmers enticed to lands of promised
riches, only to go, invest. become
heartsick. sell cut and return at loss,
to find the farms they sold at $50 or
$40 per acre now selling for from $50
to 800. Cases within the knowledge OF
the publisher can be cited where land
was sold five years ago that has IN
creased $40 per acre since, and where
the former owners went to Minneso-
ia. the Dakotas or Canada, were dis
illusioned. sold out at a loss of SO or
$40 per acre there, and returned, only
to find their old farms entirely out OF
their reach financially.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-22
awEB. ByERs, PROGRAM.

web" Byers. attorney general of
enforcement all over the state to
which the legislature should give it's
most respectful and considerate atten-
ton. In the first place it is the
most practical and easily put in prac-
tice of any as yet suggested; in the
second place anything in the way of
law enforcement suggested by Mr..
Byers is intended to deliver the
goods and not furnish a barrier be-
hind which any class of law violators
may find security against the laws: in
the third place Byers Is no respecter
of persons or powers that assume to
demand special freedom under the law
by reason of political Influence He has
enforced the law without fear or favor
and will do it again. He is asking a
chance to do it effectively and sweep
ingly. That the majority of the voters
of the state are in ready sympathy with
his efforts was made plainly evident at
the last election wherein Byers< stood
on his record for law enforcement and
won a reelection by the strongest en-
dorsement given a candidate. If the
people Of Iowa are in earnest in their
demand that law enforcement shall be
equal in Scott as in Marshall, in
Woodbury. as in Hamilton, and in
PottaHattamie as in Poweshiek they
should see to it that the legislature
unties Web Byers' hands and gives
him and his successors the power to
make the laws of Iowa supreme in exc
>cution as they are supposed to be in
theory.
Mr. Byers wants to make it possible
for the chief executive to remove peace
officers, mayors, and prosecuting at
torneys who refuse to do their plain
duty under their oaths.
Tn other words he would give the
state and the people who are the state
a chance to- rid themselves of watch
dog that refuses to guard his charge
and insists on killing sheep. The coun-
ty attorneys office is in Iowa one of
the most important and least regarded
Of offices. 1t is an opportunity for
knaves as we'll as for good men There
is no need to enlarge upon it's abuses
which are fragrant and as we'll UNDER
stood. Byers' plan would render it
difficult for the county attorney or the
mayor to pose as a watchdog and run
with the pack It looks good
He would give the county attorney
authority to follow appeals to the SUI
preme court when requested by the
attorney general, with ample provision
for his compensation and expense:
give to the attorney generals depart
ment sufficient force to properly trans
act the business of the office, with sal
aries high enough to secure the best
possible service; general revision of
the laws governing criminal practice
and procedure. Other recommendations
are offered each worth the respectful
attention of legislature that is look