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Pulls Good One.

O'Loughlin pulled a good one tC An
napolis one day that shows pretty we'll
the hardships of an umpire's life in
the old days. President Johnson sent
him to the seat of the naval academy
to umpire a game between the mddes
and West Pointers High military and
naval officers Were in attendance at the
game, and they were all crazy over
C'Loughlin's handling of a ball game
The military were calling Silk" gen
eral' and admiral" After the game
a acknowledgement and q rearad-
miral congratulated silk" on his fine
umpirfng and then asked to which
branch of the service he belonged, not
knowing that the committee in charge
of the game had arranged for league
umpire
WELL" said O'Loughlin, Il never saw
any real fighting with cannon or tor
pedo boats, but I've umpired ball games
in which McGraw and Kelley played"
The education of the fans to the fine
points Of the game makes it harder for
the players to prejudice the patrons
against the umpires. The first law OF
baseball for most players is TO protect
themselves That is. if one makes a
very bad play he looks right away for
an excuse The umpire for years has
been the handy little alibi.
case iii point. A catcher hands the
ball down to second with the would
be base stealer still five feet away. Ii
looks like a cinch that the runner Will
be out, but by a fine slide he manages
to avoid being touched. Of course,
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athletes will be pointed for the annual
p n. A meets. With Joe MalcomSon
as captain, and such men as Billy Mar
tin, Edmundson. Nelson. Gish, Court
ney, COOL, Holdman, Paulding and
Bantz as nucleus, there should be no
trouble in keeping the Blue Diamond
prominent on the track Egon Erick-
son. the crack Mott Haven Athletic
club high jumper, says that he will be
living in Seattle next year and expects
to compete for the $. A. G. All things
considered, prospects for a winning
team next season are bright.
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has the nerve to tell me YOU have any
friends. you can have all the passes
I've got"
But President Johnson set his um-
pires up on high standard. and backed
them up so fearlessly that the plane
has been getting higher all the While.
Clean ball." was the American
leagues trade mark when it expanded
and fought for existence with the Ma
tional league. But the National. as
soon as Pulliam got squared away as
chief executive. adopted the same slo-
gan. and since then all other league
presidents have discovered that in
reality the easiest way to run their
leagues is to lag down hard and fast
rules governing the conduct Of play
ers, and give their umpires full power
to enforce them to the letter.
Purifying the sport brought tremen-
dous popularity 20 the game from peo-
pie who naturally hadn't seen fit to
patronize the leagues in the days when
Pat Tobeau and others of his kind
made playing baseball secondary to in
citing riots in which umpires were al
ways the center of attraction.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-25
BIG IRISH FESTIVAL.
Athletic Carnival Will Last Two Days
With Famous Entries.

WASHINGTON, Aug 25.-An Irish
festival and athletic carnival, to last
two days. was opened at the Benning
city many of the most prominent Celts
in the country.
The program provides an exact rep
lica of an old Irish tourney, with stone
netting, log balancing, tugs of war
Melvin Shepard. John Flanagan and
other Irish athletes of world wide
fame are entered.
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6an johnson Opened Way.

Before President Ban Johnson, of the
American league, started the reform
in the umpres behalf, it took a lot of
nerve and moral courage to handle an
Indicator in any league. Players were
in the habit of riding rOughshOd over
umpires and the spineless league ex-
ecutives allowed them to get away with
that sort of thing The players ran
things pretty much as they pleased, and
the umpire was the goat all the time.
The fans always sided with the play
ers, right or wrong. and there was
merry war all the while. The umpire
was the common enemy of peace: sort
of a necessary evil. but needed to be
very rugged to last till the first pay
dav. Many of them didn't care to re-
main after that.
The umpire's standing about 10 years
ago. lets say. has often been we'll illus
trated by story told on Joe Can
tillion when he was an umpire-and, by
the way, one of the greatest that ever
lived Joe asked Comiskey foi couple
of passes on day. saying he wanted
them for some friends.
Friends roared the old Roman
Well, if you or any other umpire
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-25
NAVY IS HUMblEO
BEFORE THE ARMY
West Point Lads Have 1t Over the
Midshipmen at Nearly Every
Turn in the Road as Far as
Athletics Go.

There has just been issued by w. b.
United States military academy al
West Point, and president of the army
athletic council. the annual athletic re-
port of the cadets for the past year
The report takes up 120 pages, and
shows that the soldier boys We're eX-
ceedingly proficient in athletics. Many
important trophies were won by West
Point during the season. The inter
collegiate fencing trophy, presented by
the Racquet and Tennis club of Man
haitian. was captured by Cadets Sears,
10. Cocroft. 10 and Sohlberg, 10.
Army won the prize from Navy Aaie'
Massachusetts School of Technology,
Cornell PENNSYLVANIA Harvard, Prince
ton and Columbia.
Several football trophies have also
haan cantured by the cadets. rms Is
the most important sport at the acao-
envy. and the annual game against 'he
p,iddies is the championship contest u
tbe wear. West Point was not eApe0
Oh to win last fall. To the surprise Oh
tho knowing ones. Army defeated Navy
~, franklin Field The victory
gave the academy a leg on the ARMY
and Navy life football trophy o'nei
..,,, +ronn,es now IN the possession
,f West Point include the cup olleieo
nv COL Robert Means Thompson anu
49,, nv. the same officer the folioWlHs
wear
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PITCHERS WORK IN
NORTHWEST LEAGUE
Wright the Real Leader of the List,
Although Brinker and Flanagan
Have Perfect Scores
Up to Date.

The pitching averages of the twirlers
in the Northwestern league have been
computed up to date and are given be-
low. Rronker and Flanagan lead with
but they had only pitched three and
two games, so cannot be reckoned as
absolutely the best men in the box.
Wright. Allen and Thompson are at the
real head of the list. The following
scores are given:
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0'LOUGHL|N SAYS
UMP|R|NG IS C|NCH
Traditions of All Baseball Memory Are
Becoming Obliterated and Um-
pire May Yet Be Desir-
able Citizen.

What? Is baseball losing it's most
ancient and honored tradition?
After all these years is it possible
that the umpire is going to win the
right to hold his head up and say: Be
hold desirable citizen
Silk O'Loughlin says so, declares a
Boston exchange.
According to Silk, old. chap, the time
is not far off when an umpire's job
won't be any more hazardous than play
Jag with dynamite. Mr.. O'Loughlin has
delivered himself of the opinion that
within two or three years the life of
the arbitrator will be all to the merry.
He bases his forecast on noting the i'm
provements of the past few years.
when l broke into the game as an
umpire" said his nibs, the Silk one, the
other day, 1.-The life of an umpire was
the concentrated essence of what Gen
Sherman said of war About the eighth
inning of every game the happy umpire
would begin figuring out which means
of escape would be most likely to land
him in shelter And that first escape
wasn't all. About every other game
would be protested and, like as not
the whole scene would have to be en-
acted again.
Not much like that now. l have
long since ceased to expect to be the
party after a game. Mind you, | don't
say that the whole change which the
umpires hope has been brought about.
Oh, no. There is still a lot of prejudice
for the umpires to overcome. Not yet
is their life all sunshine and roses, but
the transition is we'll under way, a1id it
is reasonableto suppose that in the not
too far distant future the position of an
umpire will be regarded as one of hon
or and dignity which, according tc
Win Irwin. in Golfers, was the case If
the very early days of the game.
The other veteran umpires of major
and minor leagues share the views of
O'Loughln, and they attribute the
pleasant change in their business to
two causes:
First the strong backing given them
BY the league presidents; second, the
wishing up of the public to the fine
points of the game, so that the patrons
became able to judge for themselves
in a dispute between player and official
as to whether the latter was rob
Der, etc.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-25

Remember in making your dates
that WaIha Wala day comes on Sept
ember %.
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velop a seven of any great strength.
Fourteen games were scheduled, but
owing to lack of ice, all but two of
the contests We're Cancelled
The report of the treasurer shows
that the season Melted $S,736.92.
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"A f1e
of
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to
meet Lemm n
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h one were asked to pick a real fnd1-
vidual star on the Red Sox team he
couldn't do it. Even Iris Speaker who
started the season by hitting like a
whirlwind, has slumped away back.
But that Boston tribe is playing the
game and while Detroit and Philadel-
phia are clawing a. each others throat
Boston keeps coming right up TO the
top. On its recent western trip the
team captured ten straight games. 1t
may blow up-any club composed of
youngsters is liable at any moment to
do that-but right now the Boston team
looks like a big contender for the
American league honors. Pitcher Ed
die Cicotte is at present the clubs
leading twirler. Harry Lord, captain
and third baseman is one of the BRAIN
lest men in baseball. Hooper, who ca
vorts around in center, is one Of the
prominent members of the house OF
swat. Scene shows close play at third
base in a recent game with Cleveland.
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NORTHWEST GIVEN
RECOGNITION NOW
CIean-Cut Victory of the Washington
Athletes In A. Y. p. Games Has
Opened Sporting Eyes of
the Country.

Eastern and middle west competitors
has at last received recognition in the
athletic world. The clean-cup victory
of the Seattle athletes in the A. A u.
games has placed this city on the
and from now on the Blue Diamond
should be reckoned with N al big
meets where entries ara sent from
this city.
Eastern and middle YES competitors
when they went down to defeat here,
but the cold water shock will be good
to discover America. and they found
that the United States is a little BIZ
larger than New York or Illinais.
In the mind Of the average Eastern
er. the only club on the coast has been
the Olympic club of San Francisco. and
the Multnomah club Of Portland. was
grudgingly admitted to have several
and Dan Kelly. either a- present OF ior-
mer members. But Seattle-Well, the
before the junior meet at least. thought
that Seattle would be lucky to get one
first. And it might as we'll be said
here that the most of the semi enthus-
iastic sports around the Seattle Ath-
Ietic club gave their own organization
Int one probable first. and that was il
the half-mile. They couldn't see the
local sprinters with a hinocular. and if
ANYBODY had touted them on to ice
Malcomson in the low hurdles, they
would have yelled for a lunacy com
mission.
FIGURE on Next Year.
But Seattle is occupying big place
on the athletic map now. and the club
authorities are beginning to figure on
keeping the club where it belongs
Among their plans is one to send a
strong team to the next national A. \.
T. championships. which will probably
he held at Chicago. The expense would
he small say the wise ones. compared
ia the benefit of giving the city good
representation there.
Track athletes at the local club will
no fostered from now on, and the clubs
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BOSTON, Aug. 25.-Hats OF TO NAH
ager Fred Lake and his band of young
ball tossers, the Boston Americans
who have jOlted the baseball dopesters
this year The remarkable showing OF
the Red Sox during the present cam
paign has surely been one or TIE rear
surprises of the baseball season oi
1909 While considerable space mas
been given to the great struggle De-
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ICE FAMINE AND HIGH PRICES.
Especial to The sentineI.I

New York, March 3O.-Not since
/ $50 has there been so poor a season
for gathering ice of good quality, and
not since January of the present year
has there been favorable oppor-
tunity to secure this produce except
in sections to the north of us. Those
who improved that early opportunity
did well. but many were unprepared
for II and have been disappointed in
their reasonable expectation that
other chances would follow.
The New York City companies. es-
pecially. are making very poor
mouths, preparatory to marking up
prices to an almost unprecedented
figure II the consumers VIII stand
the terms that they are now discuss
ing. The Hudson river cut is declar-
ed very unsatisfactory. Its yield is
40 per cent less than usual and the
quality inferior Five or six weeks
of cutting are common on that i'm
mense source of supply. This year
there have been hardly as many days
In years Of fatness it is the part of
reasonable business foresight to pro
vide reserve as protection against
an occasional year of shortage.
shortage is an that present con
ditions amount TO. II is still very.
far from a famine and every purveyor
TO the wants of the public in this re-
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spect should have his houses weQ
stocked.
HIS BRIDE is A NEGREss.
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IL
Louisville, Ky, March 3O.-THe
trial of Charles Baker is before the
court today. He has occupied a white
cell in jefferson county Jail for nine
days, while in the part devoted to
negro women has been confined his
bride of a few weeks, who was dis
covered ten days ago, to be of negro
blood, a woman of much beauty ap-
parently of Spanish type. They were
arrested on n warrant sworn out by
Albert Rodgers, alias Brown. ne
gro, who says the woman is his half
sister. He is her guardian, he says.
she being under age and possessed
of some property. He said he had
them arrested because Baker was
trying to get his sisters property
Baker says he had never suspected
the girl was not white
/ have a fine new house in best res
idence section. If taken now. Wit
sell for $4,000; small payment down
balance monthly. r. o. Box PAP.
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Post once address Grand 1unc'i"''
Colorado soo Wet Main
plsee stFee5,f Of business, 500 West Main
Street
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LEON j. CHAPMAN
Post Office address. Grand Junction
Place 'i Of II residence. e27 Teller Ave-
Place aee' of Business, 1si South sixth
Street.
w. w. GOODMAN
Post Office address, 6rahu 'uhS'i""'
pace Sso5f'dS. Of Residence. $40 Colorado Ave-
nue..
Place OF Business.
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filed the
Colorado to b. eli Tuesday, April A
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Razor Straps Van Horn Drue
Co, 551 Main.
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STATE COLORADO
County of Mesa, SIS
City o Junction,
Conley, County of Mesa
State Colorado do hereby certify the above be full
certified the Po
tica Ee
ion to be held April 9Th, 1909.
JOHN NJ. CONLEY,
(Seal) City Clerk
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J. w. SMITH ..,,
pace SSio5i'IS Of Residence. 24s Colorado Ave
plaee aee of Business. 23G Colorado Ave
nue..
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FOE A1DERMEN-sEcoND WARD

CHARLES L. BOND r..,.,,,
post once address. Grand Junetlph-
~, Solof'ffuT ~ Residence. 22s Main street.
pace Of business, 2S1 Main street
GEORGE BULLOCK r.,,,,.,t,,
Post Office address, HriAnu
Colorado ma pIao
place OF Business, Reed b'us
c. II. DERRYBERR4 function.
p,See S9aofdaqR of residence. 2os Grand Ave
plnee aee of business Engineer D. & r.
c. r. r.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-17
LUNCH FOR NOTED GERMANS
Meeting Of BusinesA Men Tkus Pro-
vide for DtstinEuished Europeans
AZ Commercial Club.

Consul General Geissler and n. Kaum-
mans agricultural experts for the Ger
empire. will meet a number OF Omaha
business men at luncheon al the CONNER
cial club on their visit TO the city Wed
nesday. The Commercial club will have
charge OF the plans for their entertainment
and the luncheon Is a part Of the program
They are both Interested In irrigation and
are anxious to meet business men who are
interested In these projects.
In the forenoon they viii be taken
through the packing houses and stock
yards at their own request. The afternoon
probably win be spent visiting some OF the
larger commercial houses In Omaha. They
viii leave at 4 O'Clock In the afternoon
for Scotts Bluff, where they will inspect
the large irrigation works. German citi-
zens OF Omaha had planned 70 hold a re
cepuOn for them in the evening. but the
decision to leave on the afternoon instead
OF the night train will prevent this feature
OF the entertainment being carried out.
Some OF the prominent Omaha Germans
will be given an opportunity 10 meet them
at the Commercial club.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-17

casion recently to investigate, and found
the people OF Nebraska lost nearly
so, OOO,O DOC last year on their crops
as compared with Kansas by reason of
larger transportation charges, Kansas has
railroads to the gulf, is closer to the sea-
board, and the difference in price re-
ceiyed for a like amount Of corn. wheat,
oats and other agricultural products that
Nebraska produced, amounted to almost
so. 0Oo,O 900. Corn in Kansas was 4 cents
more than In Nebraska. Wheat wss 6
cents more. Oats and barley 5 cents more.
Based upon the entire production of the
state Of these differences the loss vas
almost so, 0O0. 600 to Nebraska No doubt
there would have been a difference in
price even with a system of internal
waterways, but the difference would have
been less on account OF the cheaper trans
pOrtation. Kansas and Iowa and Mis-
souri, arc all losing enough every year by
reason of their transportation rates to
more than pay the interest upon the most
extravaganza amount mentioned as required
to develop an internal waterway system.
What is true Of the Mississippi valley is
equally true Of other portions Of the coun-
try. While the soil is new and the expense
OF production comparatively cheap the
producers can stand it. but when con-
ditions are changed by lapse Of years a
more economical method Of reaching the
seaboard must be had. The great master
minds OF transportation have called atten-
tion 20 this and have admonished US OF
our duty. They rave pointed out the
physical i~nadequacy and the economic in
competency Of the railroads in the years
70 come and have warned us 10 be pre-
pared against the emergencies OF tomor-
row. They have told US Of the need Of a
cheaper transportation for certain kinds
OF freight. We should take possession
OF the great Mississippi n Missouri and
Ohio and other rivers for the purposes OF
and where nature has not pro-
vided as with canals we should build
them. And because we cannot and ought
not pay for them now We must charge
them TO the future. The Panam canal
has been a precedent for us in this par
ticular, and surely II we are justified in
issuing bonds to aid the OF the
world, we ought not TO hesitate to do as
much for our own people and the COM
meroe Of the ~forty-six states Of this re-
public.
The question then is not the ~desirability
OF the system. for that is settled. nor the
plan OF its execution. for that VIII come
through skilled hands, but the greatest Of
all problems is to arouse the American
people to sustain congress in providing
the means.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-17
WYOMING SURE ON THE BOOM
State IL Developing Its Mineral and
Agricultural R~eSOurc Rapidly,
Says Frank Walters.

wyoming is surely booming" said Frank
Walters, general manager OF the North
who has returned from a trip
over the Northwestern's Wyoming lines.
''The dry farmers as well as those de-
pending upon irrigation had splendid crops
this year. oil Is pouring from the ground
and mineral resources are being developed
and everywhere you go is an air OF pros
perity and growth.
"At Wypo, near Lander, they have just
completed two uge oil tanks Of $500
barrel capacity each for holding the oil
which is being pumped from the wells near
Lander. While / was there they had q
continuous six-incG stream.
I'VE now have two locomotives equipped
for burning this oil and Monday win have
two more fixed with oil burners. They
make a great saving in fuel"
Mr.. Walters drove from ShoshonI To
Thermopolis and he SAYS tina the Bur
lington has big gangs at work upon this
link, which viii make the second Burling-
ton line across the state.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-17

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