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Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
MEMSIC AND ENGLISH
TO FURNISH MAY GO
BOYS WILL MEET AT EVEN
WEIGHTS
Memsic Too Heavy for Lightweight
Ranks and May Do Better by
Advancing Into Other
Division

Fans of the fistic game are turning
their attention toward the coming ten
round go between George Memsic and
Clarence English. These boys have
been boxing others at the lightweight
limit, but having grown too heavy Tor
this class they have decided to meet
at catch weights, thus assuring the
best work they can do.
Memsic admittedly was at too light
a figure when he met Brock, and it is
probable that with the chance to get
in the ring at his natural weight he
will be able to make a much better
showing than he has of late. Memsic
weighed 144 before he went into train
ing for the match with English ana ne
will not go much under the 14O mark
in his preparation. He is working at
the East Side club with the Turk as
his aid. He has not selected boxing
partner as yet, but will look over the
field and make a choice today.
English is already well advanced
with his training at Watts, where he
will have the assistance of Howard
Baker and Kid Dalton in the ring. A
tent has been pitched on a ranch at
the suburb, and English has built a
ring and furnished the place with all
the modern equipment for a training
spot. Dalton was to have started work
yesterday but failed to show up. He
has promised to appear as sparring
partner today.
There is some curiosity to see Eng
lish in the ring in Los Angeles, and
Manager McCarey has given him and
Memsic Tuesday evening, May 5, to
settle their relative merits at the
fighting game. Two good prelimiparies
will be introduced before the main
event and the old prices of one, two
and three cases will prevail at the
initial contests for the month of May
at the Cabin.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
SAN PEDRO SHIPPING

by Associated Press
SAN PEDRO. April 24.-The Pacific Coast
company's steamship Queen, Capt Thomas, ar
rived tonight from San Francisco and way
ports with large freight and passenger list.
She will clear tomorrow for San Diego.
The steamer Whittier, Capt seamen, cleared
today for San Diego. carrying 10000 barrels Of
oil for the Union Oil company. Thence In
ballast for Port Hartford.
The big oil steamer Roma is due TO arrive
here Tuesday from San Francisco to load 25.
900 barrels Of oil for that port.
The steamer Claremont, Capt. Walvig, COM
rleted the discharge of cargo of ties and
tmbers at the Salt Lake wharf and cleared
today for Grays Harbor via San Francisco to
reload.
schooner Fearless at South Bend have been
chartered to load lumber cargoes for whole-
saiers at this port.
Merchants Independent company's steamer
Hanalei, Capt. McFarlane, arrived this morn
ing from San Francisco and way ports with
passengers and cargo for the Crescent Wharf
and Warehouse company.
The steamer Melville Dollar. from Raymond.
and the steamer Western from Astoria arc
out two days for San Pedro, lumber laden.
The steamer san Gabriel, Capt. Green. ar
rived today from Umpqua river, bringing 500, 900
feet of lumber consigned to the Kerckhon- Cuz-
ner Mill company.
The new steamer Olsen and Mahoney, Capt
Hansen. arriving from Grays Harbor via San
Francisco, has commenced discharglng 1,5OO,OOO
feet of lumber nj the Salt Lake wharf.
The steamer Cabrillo cleared last night for
Santa Barbara.
The u S. s. supply ship Culgoa and the hos
pital ship Relief. Lieut. Commander Patton.
sailed tonight for San Francisco The flag
ship Connecticut and battleshps Vermont.
Louisiana and Kansas. the dispatch boat
Yankton and the supply ship Glacier will get
under way for Santa Barbara early tomorrow
morning, where they are due at o'clock
Saturday afternoon.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
ANOTHER LEAGUE LAUNCHED
BY THE HON. RED PERKINS

Perkins the Promoter gathered In
200 dobies last night when he collected
% apiece from eight managers anxious
Independence league. The mines which
will cross bats in a twelve weeks
schedule are as follows: Lukes, Meeks'
lands Home Council, Labor Council,
and the Temple Street Merchants
The big shooting will commence next
Sunday when the Lukes and Florence
the WieIands and Home Council oc-
cupy the Thirty-eighth and Alameda
diamond, and the Pendos and Labor
Council mix at Thirty-eighth and santa
Fe 1t will be an off day Tor the o'ner
two teams.
OF the $25 turned in to Mr.. Perkins
three-fifths of the coin will go into the
Jackpot and the rest will be heid as
a guarantee that the season VIII be
finished in the league. Then 1t Will
he returned, says Red.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25

better. Fifty per cent of the new brick
other a brick that had been in an en-
recently manufactured brick, and the
badly pitted by the fire and washed
away by the stream of water The
the sample of cinder was very poor.
burned coal, which ignited and left the
surface of the concrete badly pitted.
The granite concrete probably behaved
the best. The damage in no case ex-
tended very far into the concrete, prob
ably not more than one and one-half
inches. The evidence shows that even
at this depth the temperature was COM
paratively low. The rapid heating of
the face of the concrete, while the
back remained cool, caused the con-
crete to crack vertically for some dis
tance back from the face. The crack
ing of the concrete can be avoided, 1t
is believed. by using metal reinforce
ment, which would distribute the ef-
feet of the expansion. The tests also
brought out most clearly the low rate
at which the heat travels through
concrete This Ia one of the desirable
qualities in materials intended for fire.
proofing purposes.
Tags Not Damaged
Linen tags which were placed in the
hollow concrete blocks when they were
nodded were found to be undamaged
after the fire test. In many instances
the hollow blocks split after being sub
jected to the fire and water test. 1t
was noticeable that the richer the NOR
tars used in these blocks, the less they
were affected by the test. The NOR
tars mixed with the greatest percent
age of water gave the best results. The
wetter, richer mixtures in these tests
stood out apparently undamaged in
contrast with the damaged faces of
the leaner, dryer blocks. 1t Is appar-
ent that one of the causes of weak
ness in the hollow cement building
blocks is in the weakness of the con-
crete, due to a too dry and thin mix
ture, which, coupled with the thin
ness of the webs-the thin nieces con-
Meeting the walls of the blocks to give
strength-provides insufficient strength
to resist the rapid expansion of the
face of the blocks under test. BY
making the webs thicker they can be
made to stand the fire test satisfac-
torjly-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
AMERICAN WINS
IN ITALIAN CAR
Strang Leads Twenty-one other Ma
chimes Over Briar Cliff Course.
Auto of Domestic Make
Is Third
By Associated Press.


BRIAR CLIFF. N. Y, April 2..-
Louis Strang, in fifty-horsepower
Italian car, won the 259 mile auto
mobile race over the Briar Cliff course
today. Cedrino, also in an Italian car
was second, and Guy Vaughan IN a
thirty horsepower car of American
make was third.
Herbert Lyttle and Paul Sartorl the
only other racers to officially bnisn the
long Journey, finished respectively in
fourth and fifth positions. Lyttle
drove a fifty horsepower car of Amer
lean make and Sartori a forty-horse-
power Italian machine. The other cars
of the twenty-five which started woulu
have been able to complete the Jour-
ney, but the race was oftlclally ue,
clared off as soon as the fifth car hau
crossed the finish line, to avoid any
possible accident to the spectators VINO
overlooked the course.
The time made by the racers was
comparatively slow, and to this fact
is probably due the absence of serious
accidents.
There were numerous minor mis-
haps, resulting in the withdrawal OF
several cars from the contest, but IN
no case was anyone seriously hurt.
The course has been recognized as
one of the most dangerous ever Sc
lected for a speed contest between
high powr machines, and the drivers
exercised unusual precautions.
Strang took the lead early in the race
and at no time was his position in
danger.
The position and time of the five
leading cars follows:
Strang. No. 4, first; elapsed time
5:14:13 1-5.
Cedrino, No. 2, second; elapsed time
5:21:05 2-5.
Vaughan, No. 8, third; elapsed time
528:29 2-5.
Lyttle, No. 3, fourth; elapsed time
5:29:15 2-5.
Sartori. No. /, fifth; elapsed time
b.23:45 3-5
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
Pepper Cured Hiceoushs

A new and immediate remedy for
hiccoughs was discovered at the Hahn
emann hospital Friday evening by DR..
Peters, by whom George Mcclellan was
cured of hiccoughs which began Two
days ago, by means of a pinch OF pep
per.
Mcclellan had tried all kinds of reme-
dies before coming to the hospital, but
without avail. Two hospitals were Wis
tied. but the treatment he received was
apparently as little good as the drugs
he had taken at home. He became
weaker and weaker, and could not eat
or sleep.
peared at the Hahnemann hospital last
evening.
Here is something you have never never
tried.' said DR.. Peters. He gave the
man a pinch of pepper. The man was
hiccoughing violently at the time; ~ but ut
managed to inhale the stimulant. Tears
90 me- from his eyes as he did, and he
sneezed violently. He sneezed again,
and when he was through sneezing Ine
hiccoughs were gone.-Philadelphia IN
uuirer.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
The official standing of the teams in
MULTNOMAH CLUB HOLDS
PROGRAM OF GOOD SPORT

PORTLAND. Ore, April 24.-The
championship program of the boxing
and wrestling bouts under the aus
pices of the Multnomah A. C. continued
tonight. Results:
Wrestling. ll5-pound class-Harvey Donald
son, Seattle Y, NJ, G, A, defeated Fred B.
Hussey. Seattle A. G.
lS5-pound classy. Venables, Seattle A. c.,
dc feated j, E, Finnegan, Multnomah.
f. A. Brownel. Reliance A. c., Oakland
defeated j. l.. Finnegan.
15S-pound class-H. E. Grimm, Seattle A. C..
defeated Walter Dyerborg, Portland Y. M. C.
y,
e. G. johnson, Multnomah, defeated @. j
Anlof Reliance club, Oakland.
Boxinp ll5 mounds hnal-Eddie Dennis
Olympic club, San Francisco. won from Fred
Couture, Reliance, Oakland, in four rounds.
The sports will be concluded tomorrow.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
LONG BEACH COURSE
IS ORMOND'S RIVAL
POOR HANDLING MAKES RACES
RIDICULOUS
Judges Fail to Take Time on Some
of the Events and Officials
Do Not Even Know
Contestants

The far-famed Ormond Beach auto
mobile race course has a rival.
Long Beach with it's stretch of sandy
beach Is the contestant for faVor.
Yesterday morning an attempt was
made to hold several automobile races
on the beach, and while the course was
good and the machines fast the man
agement was such that the contests
had not the slightest semblance OF
races.
Two and a half miles down the oeach
from the pavilion was the startlng
point, and with the aid of field glasses
the officials tried to learn when the
cars were sent away. Di1erence OIL
opinion, however, and at times lack
of knowledge of the start until the cars
were we'll toward the end of the course
prevented the judges getting time on
the contests.
A small crowd assembled and stood
patiently for an hour or more Tor the
races to begin, while the Long Beacn
police tried to keep the long line OF
spectators above the high-tide mark
with Indifferent success.
When the races finally started there
was no certainty that it was race
and when the Durocar rolled across
the line at a fast clip the crowd
thought it was only a tryout, as the
other cars We're so far behlnd. u
McKeague drove the Durocar, but the
time was not taken by the judges. ID;
second and a REQ driven by Freeman
NJ. Mckenzie took third.
In the second event Tourist nm
ished in 3:4212. driven by F. NJ. Varney'
There seemed to be no other contestant
who crossed the line.
The third event was walk away for
the Oldsmobile touring car driven by
i1f
G.. f. Grant was far behind. The Dig
red Mercedes 70-horsepower touring
car belonging to George Bentel and en-
tered by the Continental Tire company
made a lonesome run in the fourth
The Gearless seems to be pursued by
hoodoo in Southern California and
was out of running in the first hall
mile.
Haynes Makes Good Time
The Haynes roadster took the honorss
in the fifth, and under the guidance OF
George Barnes made excellent time
probably the best of the day. The time
was taken as 3:04A for the two and a
half miles, which would be a little less
than fifty miles per hour. AS the
Haynes ought to do better than that II
seems probable the timers were on
with the stop watches.
The last event was for motorcycles
and was won by Allen Murphy on an
Indian. Clarence Clayton on an Indian
took second place and Frank Klecker
on a Racycle third.
The officials in charge of the races
were J. E. Counts, DR.. L. A. Perce and
DR.. A. F. Hamilton as judges and
ANDY Craig, w. F. Shields and E. s.
Bundy as starters. 1t was evident
from the manner in which the affair
was conducted and the lack OF
knowledge of the officials about the
contestants and all other features of the
contests that it was the maiden at
tempt of the men in charge.
The course would make an ideal
place for automobile races. but another
such flzzle as yesterday will discourage
entrants and spectators as we'll.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
NATIONAL LEAGUE

by Associated ITesss
CHICAGO, April 24.-The visitors hit
Lundgren hard and often. Only two
of the locals reached first in eight IN
nings. Score:
Chicago 2, hits 4, errors 1.
Cincinnati 4, hits 8. errors 1.
Observation-Disclosures Ruelbach king
and Moran; Campbell and Schlei.
BOSTON, April 24.-Boston won a
slow game from Philadelphia today,
to 3. Each pitcher was hit freely and
was rather wild. Boston won by
punching hits and battery errors
Score:
Boston 5, hits s, errors 0.
Philadelphia 8, hits IL, errors 2.
Batteries-Flaherty and Bowerman;
Hoch, McQuillin and Jacklitsch.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Brooklyn
won again from New York today, to
1. Manager McGraw tried Crandall,
one of his new pitchers, for eight in
nings, and Malarkey pitched the ninth.
Score:
Brooklyn 4, hits 7, errors 0.
New York 1, hits 3, errors l.
Batteries-Pastorious and Ritter;
Crandall Malarkey and Bresnahan.
PITTSBURG, April 24.-St Louis
shut Pittsburg out today, to 0. Clarke
was put out of the game in the eighth
for questioning a close decision. Botf
pitchers We're strong. Score:
Pittsburg 0, hits 6, errors 3.
st. Louis 3, hits 6, errors 2.
Batteries-Young, Hildebrand ant
Gibson; Raymond and Hostetter.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
FOUR GAMES SCHEDULED
IN HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE

Four games are scheduled to be
played in the Los Angeles county high
school league this afternoon. There
were no contests last Saturday and the
games that were scheduled for that
time We're postponed until today. The
South Pasadena high team will meet
Poly on the Poly diamond, and the
Santa Monica nine will be seen in
action against the Harvard bunch on
their own lot. There viii be two games
at Pasadena. The local high school
viii meet Pasadena at Tournament
park and the Long Beach high school
will meet ThrOop on the latter's dia-
mOnd.
The official standing of the teams in
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
AoUEpUcT RESULTS
BY Asrnciated Press

AOUEDUCT, N Y, April 24-Results:
one mile-Samuel II. Harris. won Sea
second Master of Craft third; time 1:4O go
-Four and a half furlongs-Siskin won
Warden second, Sight third; time :55
Six furlongs-James B. Brady won, Hy-
perion II second, Fleming third; time
.1:132-5
One miIe-Zienap won, Berkeley second
Poauessing third; time 1:4O 1-6.
Six furlongs-Black Sheep won, Harcour'
second He Knows third; time 1:14 1-6
CO.. frrlongs-Robert H. Copper won. Trou-
HE second. Montauk third; time 1;2O 20.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
Goes by Default

The game scheduled between the
First and Second squadron teams at
.Joy park yesterday failed to material
ize. owing to the absence of the First
hunch. The game was declared for
feited and awarded to the Seconds by
a score of nine to nothing, along with
the pennant offered by the Southern
State league managers.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
RESULTS AT LEXINGTON
By Associated Press.

LEXINGTON. KY, April 24.--Results;
Four furlongs-Direct won, Transfer Sec
ond, Cassowary third; time $50 1-5.
Six furlongs-Hasty Agnes won. Whisk-
broom second, Lazour third; time 1:lS
Five and a half furlongs-Natasha won
Lizzie Mclean second. Anna Scott third
time I'll 1-5,
One mile-Ed Kane won. Rustic second
Bill Herren third: time al
Four furlongs-InIa won, Miss Hapsbure
second, Guard Aleen third; time ;51 S-5.
One and one-sxteenth miles-Quagga
won. Mortiboy second, Plantland third; tim@
.62 2-b
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
SUMMARY

Home run-Hogan. Two-base hits--Dan-
zig, Madden. Groom. Sacrifice hits-Van
Haltren, Haley. Groom, Cooney Bases on
baIls-Om Groom 6 Mcfarland IL. Struck
out-By Groom 6. Mcfarland I. Hit by
pitcher-Raftery. Wild ptch-Groom. Time
Of eame-2:3O. Umpire-Perrine.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
Little Difference in STRENGTH

The testing engineers report that it
was difficult to determine whether the
concrete made of limestone, granite,
gravel or cinders sustained the least
damage. Their surfaces were all rather
test was unfair to cinder concrete, as
containing large percentage of un-
latter seemed to withstand the test the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
PORTLAND WINS FROM
OAKS IN NINTH ACT
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press -.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 24.-With
the aid of five timely hits Portland
pulled out in the ninth and won today
from Oakland, to 8. Some ragged
playing by Oakland toward the last
helped to make the result what it was.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
San Francisco Shipping

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. April a-Arrived-Steam-
er ], B. Stetson, San Pedro; oarkentine D. NJ
Griffith Redondo.
sailed-Steamer National City. Redondo.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
SAN FRANCISCO
sTwo out when winning run was
SCORE BY INNINGS
SUMMARY Y

Three-base hit-Zeider rwo-base hts-NIon-
Ter. smith Delmas, Koestner, Melchor, Easter
Iy. Sacrifc hit-Zeider, First base on errors
- os Angeles 10; san Francisco. 2. Left on
hases-I.os Angeles 10 san Francisco, 3.
I3ases on balls-On Koestner, 3; Off Skillman, 3.
Struck out-By Koestner. 4. Double plays
smith to Bernard to Dillon; Bernard to smith.
passed balls-La Londe. Wild pitch-Skillmau.
Tlme--215 ITmpire-O' Connell.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
AMERICAN LEAGUE
AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING
By Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, April 24.-Cleveland
defeated Detroit in a pitchers battle, 2
to 1. DetrOit's only run was scored
on Crawford's triple and N. Clarke S
error. Score;
Detroit l, hits 4, errors l.
Cleveland 2, hits 8, errors 3.
Batteries-Mullin and Schmidt; Joss
and N. Clarke.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25

PHILADELPHIA, April 24.-New
York was defeated today in a great
twelve-inning battle between Glade
and Bender, to 2. Philadelphia won
on a pass, an error by Elberfeld and
Nichols double in the twelfth. After
the second inning the home team did
not get a hit off Glade until the ninth.
Score
New York 2, hits 10, errors 2.
Philadelphia 3. hits 10, errors 0.
Batteries-Glade and Kleinow; Ben
der and Smith.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
Will Meet on Diamond

The mines rel resentlng the Haas
Baruch company and tho w. L. Craig
company win cross bats this after
noon. and a hot game is expected
The diamond at Thirty-eighth and
Santa Fe will be the scene of battle.
Visit Pasadena's finest hotel, THE
CpTTJTN
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25

WASHINGTON, April 24.-Cy Young
held Washington to four hits today
and Boston easily won, to 0. Score:
Washington 0, hits 4, errors 5.
Boston Z, hits g. errors 8.
Batteries-Falkenurg Gates and
Street; Young and Criger.
ST. LOUIS. April 24.-In n pitchers
battle between Waddell and Smith, st.
Louis today defeated Chicago . to in
the opening game Of the series here.
St Louis punched hits in the sixth.
Score:
st. Louis ., hits 6, errors /.
Chicago ], hits 4, errors 0.
Batteries-Waddel and Spencer;
Smith and Sullivan.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-08-08
CONNEcTlcUT'S NEW STONE
BRIDGE.

One Of the Finest and Most Remarx.
able Of Its Kind in the World.
Across the Connecticut River at
Hartford the last stone has Just been
laid in the construction OF a stone
bridge which IS OF more than ordi.
nary interest. 1t has taken nearly
three years to build it, and the cost
has reached nearly 100000. There
are nine spans, making a total length
OF 1925 feet. This structure out.
ranks the famous London Bridge,
which is G. feet wide and 1905 feet
long. while the new bridge is 50 feet
wide.
The bridge is crossed by two street
car lines on a roadway 60 feet wide.
and has 10-foot sidewalk on either
side. In the cor struction of the bride
concrete was used for the foundations,
Leete's Island granite. a stone of
neutral color, for the top of the foun-
dalton to the sprirging line Of the
arches. and Stony Creek granite, .
stone Of light p:nkish hue. for the
arches and all Of the structures above
The foundations were made by the
pneumatic caisson process, end the
deepest foundation is about fifty feet
below ordinary low water mark. One
OF the largest caissons GAG by III
feet) was used. The largest finishe1
stone used in the construction o. the
bridge weighed forty tons. A1ont
1875 900 barrels of cement were used
in the construction of the bridge.
A novel method was employed to
make the intrados, or curve Of the
arch, perfect semiellipse, it being
customary to approximate this ellipti-
cal shape by the use Of SIX or seven
radii A large loft without columns
was selected, the floor levelled and q
rect2ngle, % by 100 feet was covered
with planed boards screwed down.
The two axes Of an elhpse were then
laid out by the use Of transit. and
upon the transverse axis points one
foot apart were marked on square
pieces of zinc, the centres beine
marked by two intersecting scratches.
From these points. using an ordinary
pin as a rod, perpendicular lines we're
drawn. and upon them were marked
OF the ordinates Of the ellirse, as
found by solving its equation. The
points thus found were joined by M-
inch square pine splines, nailed tight
ly in place 1872 of an inch from the
required position and sprung to con-
form to the curve. The stones form
ing the border of the arch were then
laid out with this semi-ellipse as
base, and sheet zinc templets cut out
with a diamond pointed tool. These
templets were sent to the stone yard.
enabling the stones to be made &C.
curately to size-New York Tribune.