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Immediately after the close Of the re-
cent worlds championship series Barney
Dreyfuss, president of the victorious
Pittsburg club, sought out Manager Fred
Clarke and requested him to ask his men
10 pass up their proposed transforming
trip. The Pittsburg players respected the
wish of their boss and the trip was called
or. The reasons for President Dreyfuss
request are sound and sensible. and II
would be well II other club owners OF the
big leagues followed his lead and put
permanent end TO the practice OF prolong-
ing the base ball season with a series OF
more or less Joke eN,2;bition games.
To be sure. ball players want to make all
the money they can and no one can blame
them for it. But the fact that they are
so manifestly 'out for the coin hurts
the game directly and themselves indi-
rectly. In other words the practice
cheapens the national pastime and does
more toward making ii look entirely COM
mercial than any other one thing. Fur
thermore, the big leagues often are made
to look cheap artistically in these post
season exhibitions. 1t IL practically inn
possible to keep the PLAYERS in shape
after the real campaign Is over. Con-
sequentIy they are not capable of show
ing their real class. And il Is almost al
ways the case that several regulars are
missing from the club that goes barn
storming Thus. the Pittsburg club, for
example minus some Of its best men, and
with the men II has not in the best OF
condition, might go out and lose to
team which ordinarily would have alb
solutely no license to win from IT, The
result is that the fans believe that major
league base ball is not as high class an
affair as the magnates would have one
believe Suppose the Cubs had lost their
three games to the Leland Giants, and, by
the way. none of the big leaguers victo-
ries was easy. does any one think there
would not be a large number of persons
who would have been convinced firmly
that the Lelands would be right up there
fighting for the National League pennant
if they were asked into that organization?
1t is all right to make money. but let us
make IL without losing our dignity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

crown to roots. decorating the nerve. The
pain was eXcruciatinS. Willie was wildly
anxious to finish the fight and rush for a
dentist. He knocked CurZon cold in the
next round. But it was Saturday night
and in Paris. Not a dentist could be
found for Willie until Monday.
Dave Sullivan was fiOored with a blow
on the mouth by boxer named Madden
one or two of Sullivan's teeth were
Ioosened. Before getting up he JAM
med his thumb and finger into his
mouth in spite OF the glove and pulled
the loosened teeth out the rest Of the
way. Then he went on lighting az II
nothing had occurred
Bert Keyes was fighting some one or
other-I forget who ii was-when ter
rifle smash on the mouth Knocked out
his front teeth. Reyes turned toward
his corner, and splitting the teeth on
the floor, said, with a laugh: There
goes the crockery"
OF different character was an ex-
perience of Harry Clutch. Harry wears
a great, big solid gold tooth that shines
like a headlight. While fighting up IN
Harlem a few months ago his rival
seconds coached their man to aim ms
blows at the gold tooth. Several Solo
whacks landed. Go on--youll get 1T.
they yelled. Finally an especially hard
thump landed and the gold tooth flew
ont on the floor Hes got the sinner,
yelled the seconds. And in spite OF
Referee ShorteIrs efforts to rescue il
they piled into the ring nd carried on
the chunk of gold in triumph. Cutch
had TO buy another.
A funny incident happened at a pri-
waite fight held on the publlc road De
tween Barlow station and City Island
The fight being prevented In Harlem
principals and spectators piled into TWO
trucks and drove away into the country
AT last they selected spot on a lonei!
road and the fight began. The fighters
were known as Potts Ryan and Dobb,
sew Potts knocked Dobbsey out, Du'
Immediately after his victory missed U
big gold tooth that was his pet and
pride. Down went Potts on his knees
in the dusty road, blubbering and hunt
ING for the tooth. The spectators joined
in the hunt Eventually they round the
tooth and Potts stuck it on with piece
of chewing gum until he could reach
dentist.
The latest fighter to join the foot
less" class is our friend Stanley l<et-
cbeu STANLEY is said TO have lost three
teeth when Johnson landed the knock,
ont blow Instead of feeling sad ano
lonely. stanley grins. I've "A rev lel'
~ he wants another crack he says.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

and censure But lately his critics have
stopped lauding his horsemanship. In
stead they point to the fact that one OF
his employers is the reputed owner and
hacker of pOoroomS.
1t is pointed out that many of the
horses on which the jockey has had the
leg up in the past have been top-heaVy
favorites. and that they have been beaten
through the bungling work of the rider.
This scandalous talk has become so gen.
eral that casual racing patrons criticise
his work freely. 1t is things like this
that harm racing.
The coup that John f. Madden made
with Hampton Court on Saturday was
the first that astute horseman has made
i'm many days. 1t was therefore surprls-
ing to hear spectator yell:
Look at Hampton Court, He must
have winged hoofs with aluminium plates.
the same as PentecOst had years ago at
the Gravesend track.
When Pentecost Won Fortune.
This shaking OF the bones brings up a
skeleton of the past. Pentecost had not
shown any startling amount OF speed
until one day he was tossed into a race
with 100 pounds. Then, presto, the speed.
Before this display Madden had backed
him to win fortune. Racegoers could
not understand the reason for Madden s
great confidence in the horse in the face
of the previous poor showing made, but
the sequel came out after the race. 1t
seems that the colt had poor feet. brittle
and tender and that The Wizard" had
found the remedy. He placed aluminium
plates on Pentecost and the youngster
showed marvellous speed with them.
Firm in the conviction that PentecOst
would win his race under that kind of
plating. Madden backed the colt for a
large amount and cashed.
While there Is no certainty that Hamp-
ton Court was shod with aluminium
plates on Saturday. it is a sure thing
he improved 20 per cent in form, even
if he did win maiden race over the
mile course in 1.42 30. Madden's expla-
nation OF the colts sudden improvement
was that Hampton Court had been sick
all summer and was just rounding into
condition
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
A Funny Business.

This base ball business is a funny game
when you think it over. Throughout the
season, during the regular playing period
the fans have read and reread about this
player being out of the game because OF
a bad ankle, lame arm, weak knee. or
that player being afflicted with tonsilitis,
malaria or ptomaine poisoning.
Now that the sea son is over many OF
these delicate young men are starting for
the coast. Cuba or Florida, to play during
the winter. while others are transforming
the bush towns, and playing in weather
that would cause postponement in the
big league. Often they receive as much
as $3.50 for such games.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
Clarke's Unique Souvenir.

One OF the freak characters at the
worlds series was a former boxer named
"Kid" Kennedy, who was dressed like
q farmer In the harvest time, and who
carried a goose under his arm. He was
dubbed the goose man. The Kid pa
raded the grounds both at Detroit and
Pittsburg with the goose under his arms,
and he was particularly obnoxious the
day the Tigers shut Pittsburg out
At the end OF the series a Pittsburg fan
bought the goose from the kid" for $40
and presented It to Manager Clarke. The
latter ordered the bird shipped to his
ranch I'm Kansas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

Outfelder Wilson of the Pittsburg
champions picked up some mighty easy
money in the worlds series. In seven
games in right field he had only two
chances. He caught one fly ball and
threw a runner out at third, who at
tempted to 60 from first to third on a sin
gle hit into his territory. For performing
these two tasks Wilson received a check
calling for 81. 800. his share Of the prize
money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

Although the Cincinnatis did not win
the pennant this year. Cincinnati fans
have decided that Clark Griffith is enti-
tied to another chance" Griffith did
remarkably well with the material at his
disposal this season. II allowed to travel
at his own speed the Old Fox may have
a much better ball team next year, but
he never cared to be urged. Redland is
q most impatient town. and just for tn at
reason many competent managers have
been compelled to throw up the sponge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
Jockey Under Criticism.

There is a jockey now riding horses on
the local tracks who has the racegOers
by the ears. His work is a variation of
skill and blunders. Some days he pilots
his mounts brilliantly: at other times he
makes more mistakes than an amateur.
His work calls forth alternately praise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

Billy Lewis fought CurZon. an English
middleweight, in Paris. The first blow
CurZon landed was a swinging uppercut
II struck under Willie's chin and damned
his teeth together SO hard that II crushed
several OF them. One was split from
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

The POtomacs will hold an impOrtar
meeting Wednesday night at their boat
house, at which questions will arise loOh
ing forward to the improvement of thei
present quarters to meet the demand
made on them by their increased member
ship. The other question of interest.
regatta here on the Potomac river. durin
1910. will be thrashed over and finall
settled.
BY order OF the superintendent G
bridges of the District, the Potomacs hav
erected a guard rail extending from thei
entrance gate to the stairway leading int
their structure. This was ordered by I'll
District in order to avert any one walk
ing off into the causeway Of the old cana
that used to run across the AqueduC
bridge into Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07


The long rest Harlem Tommy Murphy
look the past summer seems to have
cone him a pile OF good. Besides cleaning
up Ad Wolgast. he added Young Nitchie
To his list Of victims the other night.
Nitchie IL considered some fighter around
Philadelphia, and the fact that Murphy
bested him in five out OF the six rounds
speaks for itself. The matchmakers all
over the country are sending him offers
and the coming season will be a busy one
for him. The San Francisco promoters
are anxious 10 syn him up for Lew
Powell, who stopped Tommy Frayne the
other night. That would make a great
card for the coast. as Murphy has been
strongly boosted out there for several
years. The Californians figure that any
lightweight who can Outright Ad " OIL
CAST must be some pumpkins Great
house Murphy and Powell would draw In
San Francisco.
AllaA Murray and Billy Pierce, the man.
agsTs OF the Armory A. A. Of Boston, are
having big luck with their club this sea
son. While they have not been putting
any champions, their contests have
been giving good satisfaction and draw
ing wei at the gate. They have ar
ranged the following bouts for this
month: November 8. Tommy O'Toole and
Jimmy Walsh: November 16. Ralph Col
ioway and Porky Flynn: November q.
sIarry Lewis and Kyle Whitney. All the
AaYts will be twelve rounds to a decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

Bert Reyes was fighting some one or
other-I forget who il was-when Il ter
rifle smash on the mouth knocked out
his front teeth. Reyes turned toward
his corner, and, splitting the teeth on
the floor, said, with laugh: There
0oaS the crockery'"
The Prescott daily news., 1909-10-28
Chimes as a Hustler.

My, how quick the times goes. now the Metropolitan tower clock is strik. ing every 15 minutes!" exclaimed the busy woman. Tt is beautiful to hear. but 1t makes the minutes simply fly away. You think you're getting on line with your work and will have something to done by a stated time. when 'ding-dong-ding! will go the chimes-another quarter hour gone. and you're not half through. It keeps me hustling as never before. New York Press.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-10-28
Sam Harding s Trophy Duke sy c.y',,

Among the first who built their cabins on the shore of the beautiful Ossipee lake was a man by the name of Sam Harding. Alone with his wife and child he had threaded the forest that lay be- tween the settlements at Dover Point and the lake, and, once arrived upon its banks, he built his cabin, and set about his work at once of clearing up homestead.
 For many years there had been sus- pended from smoke-stained beam above the broad fireplace trophy of the early days he had spent on the shore of the lake.
 It was an Indians scalp.
 So long had 1t hung there that 1t was as dried and smoke-begrimed as the beam itself
 Few there were of his visitors who, remarking it, failed to inquire why it was thus preserved.
 To these he did not fail to tell it's history, as we shall do now.
 We will give it in his own words. so the reader may imagine that he Is sitting in the cabin of the old pio- neer. with the strange trophy sus- pended before him.
 You ask me why it is that 1 keep that thing in the house? We'll, I will tell you.
 When first came up here to set tie on the banks of the Ossipee. it was a bowling wilderness for miles and miles on every side.
 'I hadn't but one white man for a neighbor, and he lived two miles away. down at the foot of the bay.
 But 1 had plenty of another kind. There were wild beasts and savages on all sides, and there were times when they both gave me lots of trouble.
 With the beasts I could get along pretty well.
 When they got too neighborly, I would spend few days in hunting, a time could live in peace.
 But with the redskins 1t was diff ferent. It want no use to try and thin them out, although there was times when I had to try my hand at 1t. My plan was to keep on the right side of them if could. but could not all ways tell which side that was. They were mighty uncertain. You never could tell for certainty when they were friendly to you or when they were waiting for a good chance to take your scalp
 "A big bear, one which judged by pounds. had been into my corn. and the way he had finished 1t was enough to make anybody's temper rise. It seemed as though the critter had trampled down and destroyed a good
The Prescott daily news., 1909-10-28

five bushels of it.
 There was not any trouble in fol- lowing the trail he had left behind, for his feet were as big round as a peck measure, and you could see where he had planted 'em, half dozen rods ahead.
 The valley became narrower and narrower as you went up, until at last the rocks came so close together that they shut out the sunshine, and kind of twilight filled the place
 "l had just made up my mind that should find his bearship not far from here when all at once I heard a deep growl only little ways afore me.
 "The next minute saw him-he had seen me and was sitting up on end, to give me hugging when l come near enough.
 It was good chance for a shot, and bringing my rife to bear, took good aim for the spot right between his fore shoulders and fred The next moment he was kicking among the dry leaves, giving up the ghost
 "I knew that there would be no need of another shot, so did not stop to load my rifle again, but rushed right up to the spot.
 T wasn't long in getting there, and when I did, I found that there was somebody before me.
 "A redskin, fellow had had some trouble with before, was standing over the bear, who was jest gasping his last, and the varmint had sent an arrow into it, and knew in a moment that he meant to claim the carcass for his own. But l had no intention of being cheated out of my meat in this way. so 1 walked up to the bear and whipping out my knife, cut its throat.
 The redskin looked as ugly as p'izen and in broken English wanted to know what did that for; the bear was his, and he was going to have it, he said.
 ''I showed him that it was my bull. let, not his arrow, that had killed 1t, but that did not mako the matter any better
 White man let it alone, or Injun have his scalp he cried, as he drew his knife
 "'YouIl have to take it first. you thieving redskin,' said I.
 'T had not hardly got the words out of my mouth before he sprang upon me. But l was ready for him. Il knocked aside his hand, which he meant to twist into my hair.
 For about a minute it was as hard tussle as ever had in my life; but at last l managed to trip him up. and down we went across the carcass of the bear. As good luck would have 1t I came uppermost, and the next min ute plunged my knife to the hilt into his heart
 That did for him: and rolled his !! carcass of the bear, and went to work a-skinning the animal. l took as much of the meat as l could carry. and the | scalp of the redskin and started for home. When I got there hung the | scalp up where you see it, and it l hasn't been moved since."
The Prescott daily news., 1909-10-28
Wlse Girl.

What? You're going to marry Tom Speed? Why, he's awful"
 What makes you think so?"
 T hear he's been blackballed by every club in town"
 Yes, l heard so, too. That sort of husband won't have much excuse for staying out nights, will he?"
The Prescott daily news., 1909-10-28
Alrship Gossip.

How is 1t she doesn't manage to get along very well with her hus- band?" said the porch lady.
 'She says he's too slow. He always wants to be pottering round the Uni tec states in an automobile. Puck
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06
WILL 1T BE SOLVED THIS SUMMER?
COMING WEEKS THE PLANET WILL BE NEARER EARTH THAN MANY YEARS


known halo illusion. "There are fun
damental defects in the human eye pro-
ducing faint canal Illusions adds
this former chief assistant Of Prof.
Lowell, Prof. Simon Newcomb, one of
the greatest of living astronomers, ad,
mlts that some dark streaks exist on
Mars, but adds that "the enormously
complex, variety of light and shade
which the best observers sec to exist
on Mars. and which IS AT the very limit
of visibility by the best of eyes. NAV
be interpreted by the brain in an I'M
ending number of ways, and the mind
OF each observer will after long prac-
tice choose that mode of Interpretation
which best suits preconceived ideas. -
Are They Volcanic Cracks?
But these workings, which he gees or
thlnks he sees, are proof to Professor
Lowell that life able to fashion them
IS present there at this very moment -
He says that such straight lines are
not natural products. - But how about
straight cracks in volcanic crust 7
Gould they be those9
Professor w. II. Pickering, another
Of Professor Lowell s former assist.
| ants, but who is now assistant pro-
fessor Of astronomy at Harvard. sng.
| gests this explanation According 10
craters from which the straight cracks
have originated and from which they
radiate somewhat as streaks radlate G
from the craters of the moon. In these
cracks may grow vegetation. fed by
carbon dioxide and water issuing from
within.
Newcomb on Marian Fauna.
| Life Of only the '.verv lowest or.
| 1ar'J L < ,
| all, according 70 Professor Simon New.
comb, whose opinion will probably
carry greater weight than that Of any
living American astronomer. In the
| first place, he argues. the atmosphere
| of Mars has only one-fourth the den
sity Of that Of the earth, and is thinner
than that on the top of the Ilima
layas. Furthermore. the temperature OF
Mars must be everywhere below the
freezing point, except possibly in the
torrid zone under high sun. But ever
here, in the equatorial regions. thC
night temperature Is colder than any
| ever experienced on our globe.
! If any water exists on the planet u
not only must be frozen bur the TEN
perature Of the ice must be far below
the freezing point and water in thi!
condition is not very convenient for IT
rigation enterprises. as we know them
! AT le2Sr. L1Tc VIII ueNrlop more rdpiu
(, ~ in n warmer than a colder worIf
! than ours. he further believes, anc
Venus, therefore, would be bette
adapted than even the earth for tht
development of higher forms of life
Finally, as TO Mars. 1T is unfavorable t.
any form of life except that of thu
very lowest order.
So that OF Mars is another case owe
which the doctors widely disagree
Mavhap during the coming weeks thi
brother planet viii approach nea
enough to whisper some answer TO th,
great riddle which it has propounded
'Tis more likely, however, that it viii
venture only within sufficient distance
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06
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Riding an Elephant.


81 am supported by fhe hope that
Col. Roosevelt. in absorbing the avail
able sensations during his African trip.
will have an opportunity TO ride on m
elephant. said ihc 'ropic and Arctic
tanned globe troi+cr, in the cafe of She
Hotel Astor few evenings ago. ''It
would pain me deeply 10 think that he
bad returned before undertaking hat
delightful experience.
80 Let him pause before if is too late
in his raging pursuit of the terrors Of
the jungle and betake himself TO the
more soothing pleasures Of clephaatinc
navigation. | do not mean that he
should leap upon the back of some mn
tanned monarch Of the wild and go
careering rough riderwsc through the
Jungle, breaking the unruly stecd to
his IRON will. Bnt, cvcn if ii should ap-
pear at first too peaceful and lacking
in the necessary elements Of danger and
excitement, let him mount the ordinary
beast Of burden and travel to his next
holocaust upon its shoulders.
ga days journey by elephant is a
liberal education if the expcrimcnter
survives it, He discovers laws of mo-
iion hitherto unrevcaled 10 him. He
finds that it is possible to be yanked
, in twenty seven different directions at
once, whereas he formerly adhered 10
the belief that rush hour crowd at the
I, Brooklyn bridge had placed the maxi
mum number as nineteen. He learns
that the accepted facts relating to an
atomy are false; that his head can be
here, his eyes there, his lungs mile
or so behind and his spleen uppermost.
Before he reaches the end, always sup,
posing that he is still alive at all, he
has discovered that his digestive ap-
paratus in general has been the fgmeut
Of dream. Ii he goes on far enough
he knows what it is to be suffering,
tormented soul, entirely divorced from
base flesh. BY all means let Col. Roose-
welt ride an elephant. He would en-
10Y II. -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06
MEN PAST FIFTY IN DANGER

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