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Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
ATHLETE WILL
TRY NOVEL FEAT
STARTS ON 24-H0UR WALK TO
SAN DIEGO
WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY OBJ
SERVER IN AUTO
EunenA Ee{nnnaU of Dae,dana Ie ia
Eugene Estoppey of Pasadena Is in
Training for 1000 Miles in 1000
Hours at AIaska-Yukon Expo
sition This Year

Eugene Estoppey, the professional
athlete of Pasadena who won the Pas
adena Marathon race New Years day,
announces that he will start upon an
attempt to walk from First and Broad
way to San Diego at noon Wednesday,
allowing himself only twenty -four
hours in which to do the 10 miles.
He will be followed by an observer in
an automobile and will proceed down
Broadway to Fourth street, east on
Fourth to the road to Santa Ana and
thence south, following the coast road
from there to San Diego. In the event
of continued rain sufficient to make
the country roads difficult of travel,
he will postpone the trip until the
roads dry out, but he expects to leave
Wednesday noon if at. all possible.
Estoppey is in training for a novel
feat in that he proposes to run 1000
miles in 1000 hours at the Alaska
Yukon exposition in June, and is TAX
ing the San Diego trip as a training
stunt. He expects to run a mile every
hour for 1000 consecutive hours at the
exposition, sleeping between miles As
he will be running mile every hour
for about forty-two days he realizes
the big task ahead of him in getting
sufficient sleep and yet keeping in
condition.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
CHANCE AND MURPHY
SETTLE DIFFERENCES
President of Chicago Nationals and
His Great Field General Patch Up
Peace and Latter Goes Home
Wednesday

Frank Chance and President Murphy
of the Chicago National league club
have patched up their differences and
Chance will leave Wednesday morning.
for the Windy town to begin prepara-
tlons for taking the team on the spring
training trip. Harvey T. Woodruff Of
the Chicago Tribune sporting staff ar
rived in Los Angeles last Saturday
morning, and after a conference with
Chance he succeeded in making peace
between the president and manager of
the club. Woodruff came to Los Ar
geles as the representative of Murphy
There were several minor differences
between them, but the principal quarrel
was over the control of the team
Chance, as captain and manager, in
sisted upon having full charge, control
and direction Of his players on and off
the field and insisted that Murphy
should not interfere. There was a
salary difference, and probably the
post-season world championship series
cut figure in the quarrel, as Murphy
promised his men quite a sum for win
ming the pennant and the championship
and the national commission stepped in
and declared he should not keep faith
with his men. All differences have
been settled in satisfactory manner,
however, and the captain and manager
will be on the job again when the 1909
pennant chase starts.
Chance is regarded in baseball circles
as the greatest field general and team
manager that is doing business in this
day. He has won flags for Chicago SO
frequently that failure to land the
pennant would be something in the ma
ture of a form reversal for him. He is
high class player and is hustling him
self and his men at all stages, and
seldom is charged with overlooking any
detail that would give his team victory
All baseball fans will be pleased that
he is to go back to the team.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
ST. VINCENT'S TRACK is
TO BE MUCH IMPROVED
Curves. Are Cut Down, and Cinders
and ShaVings Will Be Rolled
in for Path

ST. Vincent's track is being placed in
first class shape under the direction of
Manager Casey, who thinks the i'm
proved condition of his men will en-
able him to put in a record smashing
team.
The curves have been cut down with
a siX-inch bank on the inside, which
has been covered with cinders in which
shavings will be rolled heavily.
Unusual interest is taken in track
work by the Saints, new candidates for
the team appearing for work daily.
The students seem to be weak in the
jumps and hurdles only, and it is pos
sible some of the new men will demon
strate their ability to take care of these
events.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

ing. at the excellent showing they are
making. Walsh is well known to Los
Angeles fans, as he was out here last
spring with Comiskey's White SoX
team for spring practice and became
quite popular. Mathewson almost
pitched the Giants to victory last sea-
son-did SO, in fact, until the rough
house incident at the polo grourEs
caused the Merkle bsent-mindednesS
brand of hophead playing to become
famous by losing the rag that his club
had won. The collegeians have a pair
of very capable instructors and should
learn some new kinks of the art be-
fore they are turned out as finished
performers
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

play this year. He also announced
that he will devote his entire time and
abilities to the management of a. cir
Gus which he owns and which he be
lieves will furnish him with a much
greater net income than he could de-
rive by playing ball. He also will es-
tablish an automobile agency in Pitts
burg and settle down to a strenuous
business life. He has amassed a for
tune by his great ball playing. If he
sticks to his determination to retire
from the diamond his loss will make
a big hole in the Pirates lineup and
will materially weaken the team in
the 1909 pennant chase.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

AT HEN the Yale and Harvard base
wv ball teams line up for the sea-
son play late in the spring,
Christy Mathewson and ''Spitball Ed
Walsh will have an unusual degree of
interest in the results of games played,
as these great big league twirlers are
picking up some easy money this win
ter in coaching the pitchers Of these
teams. MathewsOn has a squad Of
four Harvard pitchers under his direc-
ton, and he is teaching them the how
and why of the shoots. Walsh has an
other squad of Yale pitchers taking his
instructions at New Haven. Walsh
has promising bunch and is enthus-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
LUCKY BALDWIN Is
REPORTED IMPROVED

!. Advices up to midnight of last night I
= were to the effect that Lucky Bald (
. win had shown some Improvement In {
3 the preceding twenty-fOur hours and
{. that the change for the better is be- Z
I. lieved to be the beginning of steady (
3 improvement that the attending ply
> sician hopes will result in complete re- Z
3 cOyery.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
GOSSIP OF The DIAMOND
By RED PERKINS

N HE world Of professionalism is
forced nowadays to view with
Il pleasure the spread of amateur
sports, especially baseball among the
people of Los Angeles. We young
Americans have come to appreciate
the joys of various outdoor life and
the pleasure of competitive athletic
sports and today we see our brothers
and sisters indulging in all branches
of athletics and excelling the best ath-
letes of other nations.
Baseball is peculiarly adapted to Los
Angeles. Every one, even the small
babies, before they can walk, plays
ball or tries to play. The A. A. u.
has taken mighty step in encouraging
amateur baseball and establishing a
love for the game in the hearts of the
youth.
The Angel City at present supports
four amateur and about twenty mis-
cellaneous clubs and more and more of
these amateur organizations of the
junior class are developed each day
in the week.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

Frank Chance will leave for Chicago
next Wednesday morning to take up
the duties of captain and manager of
the Cubs. Everything having been set
tied to his satisfaction, he began ar
organize his regulars and youngsters
for the spring training trip The team
will leave Chicago about March 10 for
West Baden and after a brief stop
there will go to Shreveport for practice.
On the southern trip the two teams win
play several games with southern and
Texas league teams.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

TT ANS WAGNER, one of the great
IT est baseball players and field
generals in the history of the ma
tional game, has startled all fandom
by the announcement that he is about
to forsake the diamond for the saw
dust ring and the ringmaster's job.
Wagner is the great shortstop of the
Pittsburg team and one of the truly
great batters in several seasons. He
signed a contract a few months ago for
two years more service with the Pi-
rates at $4,000 a year, it is said, but
recently he came out with a statement
in which he declared that he was done
with baseball and positively would not
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
sPEEpwAY vs. FINANCED

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. THE much
talked-of motor speedway in Indian
apolis, to vie with the Vanderbilt and
Savannah courses, in attracting the
worlds prominent automobile racers,
dianapolis Motor Speedway company,
capitalized at $250, 900, filed articles of
incorporation.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
LONG BEACH HIGH SCHOOL
HAS TWO FAST ATHLETES
One Holds Y. M. c. A. Record for
World in Half MiIe-Other Is
Swift Sprinter

two fast athletes whose advent has
been eagerly looked for. Louis Thomp
son, who is claimed to be the best pupil
in the 100 and 220-yard dashes in Los
Angeles county, has just returned to
school after an absence since last June.
Thompson has been in training all the
time and is expected to show up well in
the track meet scheduled for February
% against the Santa Ana high school,
Bert J. Dodd, who holds the worlds
Y. M. G.. A. record for the half mile,
will compete with Thompson, and each
Of these athletes is expected to make
a reputation for himself in the coming
interscholastic track events.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
The pitchers records in the
league for 1908 are as follows

To show the various city Fairgrounds
we'll advanced in the national sport.
coaching of oliver Best, has developed
fast team and already several MEM
bers have advanced into the ranks Of
faster company by joining the clubs
of the two Los Angeles high school
teams.
The value of this experiment under
taken by Coach Best and other play
ground directors shows the playground
children take to the game as ducks 10
to water.
Well, boys, how are you all? Aren't
you glad the winter is fling by and the
big leagues will soon be at it again?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

| Of course you like the winter, with
| its snow on Mount Wilson and Mount
Lowe. Fine dOingS, but just think for
minute how those poor fellows in the
east wish they were in a land of sun
shine and flowers throughout the win
ter months and that they could play
ball on a Sunday afternoon!
I have been calling for more play
grounds for you, boys, and have had
friends of mine working on the play
ground commission, and as a result
Chief Stub Raitt an
nounced yesterday he was considering
plans for laying out in other parts
of Los Angeles three more grounds
having large baseball diamonds. And
believe me, Los Angeles is compelling
other Southern California cities to pro-
vide for junior baseball clubs. for I
have received information to the ef
feet that San Diego and Santa Bar
bara will have grounds within the next
few weeks.
The reinstatement of Bill Moriarty,
former shortstop of the San Francisco
team, who jumped to play with the
Stockton nine of the outlaw league.
shows the organized forces intend to
strip the State league of as many play
ers as possible.
Harry Melchoir has signed with the
Seals.
Manager George E. Covert Of the
COvina team is determined to give the
fans of that city the best article OF
baseball ever witnessed on a Southern
California diamond A challenge has
been received by the sporting editor
from the Covina manager challenging
the Belvederes for game February Z,
EsperanZas, February IA; Los Angeles
Athletic club, March IA; Santa Monica,
March Il, and Tropico, March %. Any
of these teams desiring these dates
answer through The Herald. address
Baseball.)
There will be a baseball game next
Sunday between the Redondo Beach
club and the Los Angeles Colored
Giants. Good prospects for a large at
tendance are seen, as both teams are
evenly matched.
The Boyle Heights Tigers are after
the scalps of the Esperanza team of
Pasadena, and want a game for next
Sunday with the PaSadenans Follow
ing is the lineup of the Tigers: Norton.
first base; Hit, second sbase: Penerie
shortstop; Reynolds, third base; Red
den. center field; Kelley, right field.
Answer this def through the columns
of The Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
FEBRUARY TIDE TABLE

Have you had birthday this week? Then
see The Herald Junior section with Sundays
Herald and try for a prize.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

Nobody who desires to aid in ele-
waiting the turf will complain at the
extreme penalty permitted under the
jockey cllfb rules for fighting +hA
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

There will be a baseball game next
Sunday between the Redondo Beach
club and the Los Angeles Colored
Giants. Good prospects for a large at
tendance are seen, as both teams are
evenly matched.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

II you want to go east. (. Haydock AEent
III Eois Central r. r.. ;l& w. Sixta street.
Eat at the Angelus grill.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

The reinstatement of Bill Moriarty,
former shortstop of the San Francisco
team, who jumped to play with the
Stockton nine of the outlaw league,
shows the organized forces intend to
strip the State league of as many play
erS as pOSSihIe
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

Harry Melchoir has signed with the
Seals.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
Would Instruct White Convicts.

There is an honest difference of opin-
ion among the members of the board of
penitentiary trustees on the question of
providing an instructor for the Junior
white convicts on the Rankin p~eniten-
tiary farm to follow up the work begun
by MISS Emily Butt. Col. Leroy Tay-
lor, the chairman of the body, recognizes
the principle, AMI in the absence of a
Juvenile reformatory system, believes the
precedent set by Miss Butt is a good
one, and if the way was cleared of con-
stitutional and technical barriers, or the
finances were in such condition as to
warrant it, would vote for any measure
within reason.
Col. w. A. Montgomery and his neigh
Dor from Jefferson county, Trustee G. c..
Smith, both faver the plan, the former
directly and outright, believing that they
have plenary power for the handling of
the question, and would nave no hest
fancy in the selection of a convict we'll
qualified to carry on this instruction.
MIR. Smith is disposed personally to IA
vor the plan, holding that they would
be as fully justified in designating a
convict for this duty as for setting them
apart for other duties, such as keeping
books, nursing in hospitals, or any sim
liar duty, all being under the general
"trusty" system.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
Like an Earthquake.

Former High Sheriff Chesterfield G.
Middlebrooks, whose bungalow at High.
land lake stands partly over the lake
or stone and cement foundations, vas
awakened at four o'clock the other
morning by loud noises which he say
shook his bungalow like an earth tro-
NOR.
He says hat after the household
had been shaken out of a sound sleep,
he, not WAITING to dress, went outside
to ascertain the cause of the noise.
He found, he says, that a monster
frog had it's bed directly under the
bungalow. The frog weighed fully
six pounds, he says, and every time it
croaked the bungalow cracked and
shook.
Mr.. Middlebrooks bought an anchor.
strong rope and enough red flannel to
bait 100 hooks, and will try to save
his property by capturing the bull
frog.-Winsted Comm Dispatch to
New York World.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

HIM 10 ADMIRATION.


At one time Prof. Snow, the well.
known Kansas naturalist, was out
with q party of students On his annual
insect hunt. writes Mr.. G. H. Stern,
berg in Life of a Fossil Hunter"
when the owner of a large herd OF
Texas cattle. who was passing
through. noticed the party out on the
prairie with their nets in their hands,
running about as if possessed. 1t
happened to be the first time that he
had W seen insect collectors at
work, and his curiosity was aroused.
What are those men doing?" he
asked Jim Thompson.
Catching bugs" was the laconic
reply.
II don't believe it," said the cow.
mar. They are grown men,"
"All right" said Jim, you can find
out for yourself if you want to-"
The man started off after the pro.
fessor, and l waited, with a good deal
of curiosity, to hear his report of the
conversation. On his return he was
in a brown study. The professor had
taken him into his tent and shown
him hundreds of mounted insects,
Keeling OFF their names to him until
his head whirled.
We'll, did l tell you the TRUTH"
Jim asked.
THAT man." said the cow-man, lis
the smartest man / eve saw. He
knows the names and of
all the bugs in this country."-Youth's
Companion.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
JACKSON.
~Lumbermen Must Paw.

6uuUcI"eu MUST ray
Attorney-General Stirling now holds
In trust for the state of Mississippi the
sum of $4,000, being the amount tenta-
lively agreed upon and accepted by him
pending decree of the chancery court of
Holmes county, as the penalty due the
state by fifteen of the firms composing
the Mississippi end of the Retail Deal
ers' Association of Mississippi and Louis
lana. This is one of the incidents of the
proceedings instituted by former Attor-
ney-General Fletcher against the organi-
z~ation, charging that they were in a
combination, which constituted an organ
ization %repugnant to the laws and stat
utes of the state.
This settlement came after O. number
of conferences held between the attorney
general and the lumbermen, who, rather
than undertake to fight the case further,
decided to make settlement in advance,
the agreed penalty being fixed at $500
each. The money SO paid does not go
Immediately int the treasury, but will
be held pending the call of the case in
course in Holmes county, where it is
pending, at which sitting the attorney
general will recommend that a decree be
rendered for the amount stated.
There are forty-odd other firms who
were in the compact who decline, as
by their associates, and the supposition
is that they will continue to resist the
proceedings now pending.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
Valuable KNOWLEDGE Spreading.

Every day sees hundreds of new re-
cruits in the war against tuberculosis,
and every day brings new methods for
the fighting of the plague. The Ma
tional association predicts that if the
present degree of interest is main
tanned, within five years everybody in
the United States will have been in
formed on the way to prevent and
cur tuberculosis, and concerning the
infectious nature of the disease. Two
things in particular are needed, and
for these the National association is
working in every way. They are, a
more complete registration of tuber-
culosis cases, and the further isola-
ton of dangerous advanced cases of
consumption.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
ON FOOD
The Right Foundation of Health.

Proper food is the foundation Of
health. People can eat improper food
for a time until there is a sudden col
kinds of trouble follows.
The proper way out of the difficulty
Is to shift to the pure, scientific food.
Grape-Nuts, for it rebuilds from the
foundation up A New Hampshire
woman says:
Las summer l was suddenly taken
with indigestion and severe stomach
trouble and could not eat GOD with
out great pain, my stomach was so
sore 1 could hardly move about. This
kept up until l was SO miserable life
was not worth living.
Then a friend finally, after much
argument, induced me to quit my for
mer diet and try Grape-Nuts.
Although 1 had but little faith I
commenced to use it, and great was
my surprise to find that / could eat
1t without the usual pain and distress
in my STOMACH.
$50 l kept on using Grape-Nuts and
soon a marked Improvement was
shown, for my stomach was perform.
ing its regular work in a normal way
without pain or distress.
Very soon the yellow coating disap-
peared from my tongue, the dull,
heavy feeling in my head disappeared,
and my mind felt light and clear; the
languid, tired feeling left, and alto
gether I felt as if l had been rebuilt.
Strength and weight came back rapid
ly and I went back to my work with
renewed ambition.
To-day I am a new woman in mind
as well as body, and I owe it all to
this natural food, Grape-Nuts."
There's a Reason"
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, "The Road to MELVILLE"
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine true and uh Of human
interest.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13
CROP REPORT
BoLLs BHduTNINo TO OPEN.
PLANT SHEDDING BADLY.
Axkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, His
sissippi and Tennessee Show
Improvement.

Memphis, Tenn..Cotton in Tennessee
Is doing well. The plant is not some
Times SO large rs usual for the season,
but is fruiting nicely. Some sections had
good rains, while others got little; but
as yet no damage from drouth is re-
ported.
Texas.-Moderate showers fell over
Northern and Eastern Texas on Satuf-
day and Sunday. No other rains of CON
sequence fell during the week, and the
crops suffered severely. Central and
Middle West Texas are exceedingly dry,
and it appears doubtful if rains now
could repair more than a part of the loss
that has been sustained. Owing to the
very dry, hot weather the plant is shed.
ding, an the bolls are beginning to open.
Mississippi.-Many local rains fell in
the state, but they were purely local,
and the relief to the drouth was only
partial. Where the rainfall was album
dant the crop has improved greatly, but
the area improved probably does not
equal that where no rain or insufficient
showers fell, and the crop suffered on the
whole.
Louisiana.-Reports from Louisiana
are mixed. In northern and western dis
tricts the crop appears to be doing well.
Elsewhere considerable rain has fallen,
and weevil activity is on the increase.
ADMINISTRATORS have been spotted
and regular throughout the state. Crops
in eastern counties appear best. South.
ern and western districts are now need.
ing rain, and without moisture soon seri.
GUS damage will result.
Alabama.-Rains have now been gen.
eral and plenteous over the state. The
cotton is improving rapidly. The plant
is small and presents the appearance OF
being young, but it has begun to fruit
well, and a fair crop is indicated.
Outside of Texas the entire western
belt, with the exception of Southern
Louisiana, is in need of moisture. In
Oklahoma the progress of the crop has
been arrested, and rain is imperative to
prevent deterioration.
In all states east of Mississippi
the rainfall vas abundant, and with the
exception of North Carolina, where some
excess fell, was beneficial. The crop in
Alabama has improved wonderfully, and
IN Georgia and South Carolina promises
WELL
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

It turns out that the suspicious yes
sci OF the coast of North Carolina
which was under the vigilant surveil-
lance of Uncle Sans revenue cutters.
was not intended for a filibustering ex-
petition in aid of Castro, but for the
S of the Venezuelan government. So
the ship has been allowed to go on the
way rejoicing and no harm done.
while other nations have had an OBJ
5ect lesson as to the vigilance of the
United States in preventing illegal en-
terprises.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

The state board of health of Wash.
ington is experimenting In Yakima or
chards with a fly trap that is guar
anteed to catch a bushel of the insects
every a hours. A trap that can catch
. bushel q day in an orchard ought
to be able toscatch h comparatively
few that manage to get into houses
during the same period Of tiEes and
e this = be demonstrated there vim
be = market for traps and asreductsun
g the annoyancesse n1 d4nxers q
~ time.r
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-13

Messina has had another earth
quake visitation. Comparatively lit
tie damage was done, for the grim
reason that the destruction wrought
last December was so complete. But
SO v were the shocks that, had
the city been in the former condition,
the disaster might have been on a
frightful scale. The circumstances
would seem to discourage the idea OF
rebuilding in so dangerous a locality,