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Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
ATHLETES CONTEST
FOR PLACE ON TEAM
Baseball Center of interest at Clare
mont and Good Aggregation lo
Promised from Material
at Hand

CI,AREMONT, March 2.-Baseball
is supreme over every other student in
terest now at Pomona, and the large
number out for places on the team
gives promise for stronger team tnan
even that of last year. The new dla-
mond Just completed south OF Alumni
field football grounds has added to the
facilities for the game, as II is one
of the best If not the best graded pail
ground in this part of the state.
A new face will be seen in the
catcher's mask, that of Dutch" SMUT.
who played star game at halt WIN
the pigskin bunch in the fall.
Gally will be relieved of the strain of
a continuous season of pitching by the
addition of Craig to the pitching force.
Hart Nesbit of Pomona high school,
Noble of Ontario, brother of Coach
Ralph Noble; Neuls of the sophomores
and Henshaw, another fast freshman,
are after the third sack, and the con-
fest promises to be a close one.
Graf. who last season held down
third base a good deal of the time, Will
be shifted to second base at his own
request. Birdsall, pole vaulter and
football man, is showing up well tor
second base.
tween Richards and Henshaw, While
for short Captain Mahoney, Hitchcock,
both of last years team, and Hare
shape, freshman from Compton hlgh
school.
In the outfield a promising bunch of
material is out, among the better look
ing men being Wood, Jennings, Pan
hoe, Neuls and Prizer, all of whom
have had previous experience with the
horsehide.
The games in which the Claremont
athletes will take part are as follows:
April IL, with Oxy at Occidental; April
IT, u. S. c., u. S. c.; April "a, Whittier
at Whittier; May 1, Oxy at Claremont;
May s. u. S. C. at Claremont; May IL,
Whittier at Claremont.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
FRANK COTCH RETAINS TITLE AS
HEAVYWEIGHT WRESTLING CHAMPION
E2'A at - o ss'sI5R

other fairly useful racing tool. He also
brought Jockey Risden with him. DAILY
sent in the name of Angieface to the
Jockey club registration bureau ana
misspelled the name, so II reaiiy IS
nothing angelic now except IN memory
However. 1t Is q fair racer.
AL Koenigsberg, one of the most un-
popular horsemen- bookmakers on the
turf, has arrived from Emeryvilie and
was about the ring and paddock yes
terday with varying success. lie
brought Rose Queen south to start IN
the Oaks, and II she should win there
will be q wailing and gnasning OF
teeth among the regulars that VIII De
quite novelty at santa ANITA
Jockey Howard left last evening for
Emeryville to ride Rocky O'Brien In
the Bell stakes tomorrow. He was en-
gagged by MRcManus to ride IN the
oaks, but the conductor-owner decid-
ed he preferred the Bell stakes and
sent Howard north. Powers VIII go
this morning. having been engaged 10
ride in the stake event. Both VIII re-
turn Saturday night.
The protest lodged against payment
OF the purse won q few days ago by
Albion H., on the grounds that she was
ineligible, has been overruled by the
stewards after investigation, and Joe
McAdams will get the 1926 that looks
as big to him as a square meal looks TO
a hungry tramp. Joe deserves this and
a few more even kinks In fortunes RIB
bon.
Quite a number of horses arrived
yesterday from Emeryville, the follow
ing being among the number: c: D.
Jones with three, six belonging to Bar
ney Schneider. Mike Daily with two and
Billy Cahill with Rose Queen, which
will go In the Oaks tomorrow afternoon.
Jockey Rettig arrived yesterday from
Emeryyille and will ride for w. p. Fine
in future He had a leg up on Sand
piper, but showed little, as Sandpiper
seems to be a false alarm and would
not keep company with his field.
Wherewithal was ordered scratched
out of the sixth race yesterday after
betting had started because the owner
could not satisfactorily identity the
horse. The books were laying mil
lion to one on his chances, but the
judges could not figure him out and
would not let him start. Some horse
men said that he was Waldorf, while
others identified him as Wherewithal,
but no definite identification was had
and he was not allowed to start.
Jack Atkin\ will not be seen in races
here any more this season, Barney
Schneider having decided to rest him
up until he gets back to New York,
hoping that he will win a few thousand
dollars in his many important stake
engagements during the spring and
summer. He has entirely recovered
from his lameness and is in fine con-
dition just now.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
SKATING RACE ENDS
IN MINIATURE RIOT
TWO ARRESTS ARE MADE BY
BUTTE POLICE
Participants Fall to See signal to
Stop and Crowd as Mob
Surges on the
Course

BUTTE, Mont, March 25.-The six
day roller skating race ended last night
in a small riot in which two arrests
were made by he.ypolice. Through a
misunderstanding the racers failed to
note the signal for the end of the race,
and sped on.
While endeavoring to make sharp
turn Shotz of Salt Lake swerved too
acutely, and barely saved himself from
fall by grabbing Bradford of Butte.
Bradford shook Shotz from him, send
ing him sprawling on the floor. At this
Shotz' partner. Hardy, jumped into the
mixup and sent Bradford tumbling over
the floor. The crowd, noting that the
racers were still going, despite the sig
nal to stop, apparently thought some
one was being wronged, and as a mob
surged onto the course the fight began.
The race ended with the Salt Lake
and Butte teams on even footing.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
Renson EuIoaizes stearns

when the Stearns goes to the tape
Sunday" said Expert Benson yester-
day afternoon, "she will be the very
finest car that stands on four wheels
in the world" Benson's face was
abeam with enthusiasm, and his fea
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
JONES OUT OF
GAME FOR GOOD
he REFUSES TO LISTEN TO
C0MISKEYS OFFERS
WILL NOT EVEN WRITE HIS OWN
CONTRACT
Former Manager Of Chicago White
Sox Makes Emphatic His De.
cIslon to Leave Base
ball Alone
LBy Associated Press.1

PORTLAND, Ore, March 25.-"Co-
miskey, there is nothing you have to
offer that will get me back into the
baseball business"
"Not even If you write your own con-
tract?"
mo; I am out OF baseball for good.
That's final"
This dialogue today between Presi-
dent Charles A. Comiskey of the CHI
cago American league baseball club
and Fielder A. Jones makes It certain
the former manager of the White Sox
will not go back to Chicago with CO.
miskey on any terms
Jones took the wind out of Comis-
keys sails by giving blank refusal
before Comiskey had any opportunity
to make an offer.
The men appeared to meet in perfect
friendship and while Comiskey was
wringing his former managers hand in
farewell he seemed greatly affected.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
MAKES NEW YORK ON
WORLD WALKING TOUR
Servian Is Six Months Out from Los
Angeles and on His Way to
Pay King Peter a
Visit

NEW YORK. March 25.-Stephen
Stan, a. Servian, who started six
months ago from Los Angeles on
walking trip around the world, reached
New York yesterday and dropped in
on Mayor Mcclellan to obtain the
mayors Endorsement in a little green
memorandum book he carries.
Before another six months have
passed Stan expects to reach Seryia
and pay a visit to King Peter
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26

THE two great racing machines-the
Locomobile and the Stearns-
"A which will battle for supremacy
Sunday afternoon at Ascot park in
grueling 150-mile race, are at last In
perfect tune" and will be at the course
this afternoon in their final tuning up.
Murray Page, who will drive the Lo-
comobile, arrived in the city ON the
Owl train from the north yesterday
morning, and is ready to take on MS
coat and don the goggles for the
weighty task that is before him.
Bert Latham, the driver Of the
Stearns, has been here all along and
has waited patiently While the expert
machinists were tearing down and re-
assembling the car that he will drive.
With the machine shop work completed
and the car ready to turn over to the
track experts, nothing further can be
done until the starters pistol sends
the two cars away on their errand of
speed except to give Latham all the
preliminary tryout practice possible, In
"wiseing' him up to the more minute
details of the car in which be may
be lacking.
Latham has never driven a Stearns
car in a race, and, indeed, has never
ridden behind its wheel until the past
few weeks and in this respect has much
has Murray Page, who knows the Lo-
comobile as a mother knows the hairs
of her babe at breast.
Cars Tuned to the Minute
So far as the preparedness of each
car for the ordeal before it is con-
cerned, If the enthusiastic words of
the two expert factory machinists, who
are at the respective shops of the COM
peting cars for the sole purpose OF
training the cars to the minute, are
any criterion, no two cars ever went
to the tape in finer shape, so capable of
such tremendous speed or of such eX-
traordinary display of endurance.
These two factory experts are w. j.
Orr and C. B. Benson, of the Locomo-
bile and Stearns factories respectively.
These two men are perhaps the most
scientific machinists who have ever
visited the Pacific coast. Orr is the
man who tuned the two famous Lo-
comobile racers that ran first and sec
ond in the Vanderbilt cup race of
year ago, and while modest man,
unassuming almost to fault, he has
a head for mechanical geometrics that
approach the dimensions of a wiz;
while Benson, though a younger man,
is every bit his equal, If past per-
Torrance goes for anything in human
calculations.
Benson is as old an automobile eX-
pert as the automobile industry is old,
and the development of his mechanical
abilities has been coincident with the
development of the Stearns car itself.
1t was Benson who designed and di
rected the construction of the famous
big Ben" racer, with which Barney
Oldfield has made many of his worlds
records, now owned by Eddie Maier,
and his presence in Los Angeles and
at the Stearns shop at this time, like
the presence of Orr from the Locomo-
bile factory, is a significant augury
of the intense interest both factories
are taking in the outcome of the strug-
gle.
Benson EuIogizes Stearns
when the Stearns goes to the tape
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
HAVE SIGNED PITCHERS AND
cATcHERS FOR STEEL CITY

PUEBLO, Colo, March 25.-The d.
rectors of the Pueblo club of the West
ern league. announce they have secur-
ed Pitchers Bailey and Edlich, and
Catcher Wells, from the st. Louis Am
erican laauQna club
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
ATHLETICS

nHOSE who dote on large fields,
juicy prices and races between
n horses that figure so closely that
everybody seems right when trying to
pick the winners will find the card Tor
this afternoon at Santa Anita park
about made to order. Large fields will
be the rule, not the exception, and
horses of about the same class will
meet in all events, with little prospect
that 100 to / shots will be quoted very
extensively. The feature of the card
will be a purse race at one mile, in
which such cracks as Critic, Edwin I.
Fryer John Carroll, John Louis,
Molesey, Norbitt, Pedro and Quagga
will start. With a fast track prevail
ing, these birds should put the time
keepers watches on the blink for this
distance and another mile in better
than 1888 is almost assured. The last
race of the day once more Is coming to
be one of the features of the caro-,
and will fill only q secondary position
today, with such speedy birds as G. w.
Burt, Hazelthorpe, McChord, Valley
Stream and nearly a dozen others
starting. The entire card, although a
Friday offering, looks good to the reg
ulars on paper, and another day of
good sport is in prospect.
jim bOueu, WHO TSCcuIiy SHlppeu hlS
horses to Emeryville, was at the track
yesterday, merely looking on. He has
all his horses up above and is winning
more regularly than when here. He
will be here for two or three days.
Charley Pike, the famous Salt Lake
route city passenger agent, was out at
Santa Anita yesterday, the first time
in a fortnight or more, and had his
usual line of encouraging talk for
horsemen, with whom he is most
popular. Charlie says that racing at
Salt Lake City is assured for this sum-
mer and that the banner meeting in
that part of the country Is in prospect.
He is arranging to take care of horse
men who will ship to Salt Lake City
after the Santa Anita meeting closes.
Jack Bennett got in bad again yes
terday, as usual. He bet 500 straight
and place on infection and stood
around and watched his own horse,
Abihu, win at unheard of odds, while
Infection failed to show enough speed
to save even the place dough. He is
the same wise man who allowed Mo-
lesey to win for him recently at juicy
odds without having a bet down. Pop
Millard did not let Abihu slip by, him
and pulled down nearly enough to
build another cottage on Bemay place.
This wise old owl seldom lets anything
get by him and If he Is not mill
ion dollars ahead of the game, he sure
ly has been throwing his dough in the
river.
Jockey Treubel, who was severely
injured a few days ago in one of the
baby race spills, has been removed to
the( California hospital. He is in no
danger, but time passes slowly on his
hands and the boys should drop around
and see him. He has ridden his last
race for several weeks and 1t becomes
very monotonous for one to lie in bed
day and night and gaze out at a bum
die of blue sky that means nothing
more than an unchanging bit Of seem
cry.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
WESTON AT ROCHESTER

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, March 25.-Ed-
ward Payson Weston arrived in Roch
ester last night on his way to San
Francisco. He was in good shape and
a little over an hour ahead of his
schedule.
Weston made thirty-nine miles yes
terday
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
LOCOMOBlLE AND STEARNS CARS
WILL TRYOUT AT ASCOT TO-DAY
BOTH CARS ARE TURNED OVER BY FACTORY EXPERTS TO
THEIR DRIVERS

Murray Page Arrives City Back of the Locomobie
Today Speed Orr of Locomobe
Factory and Macnst of Sterns Pronounce Their
Charges in pink of Condition" and Prepared to Make
the Fight of Their Lives Sxty-Mle Clip Said
to Be Necessary Win the Race
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
GIVE ,EM A GAME

The Santa Fe baseball team, which has been
putting up a fast article Of ball during the
past three weeks, desires a game from any
amateur club in the city. Call Main 5000 be-
tweer IL and / o'clock for further information
or answer through The Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26

Mike DAILY arrived yesterday from
Emeryville with Angleface and an
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
ANITA ANITA PARK RESULT,

rA rs. HUNDRED AND SECOND DAY. Weather
st. A. presiding j. j. Hoffman. starter
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
SEVENTH RACES fuongs year-old
Horse and owner.

rIme--la Is. q ID. 8. q 4.s. 1:ls 4-5.
Connecticut western news., 1909-10-28
DENIES DR. COOKS CLIMB.
Mountaineer Says No One Ever Reach
 ed Summit of Mt. Mckinley.

Bellingham, Mass, Oct 27. - ''Dr Frederick A Cook never reached tue summit of Mount Mckinley, and no other man ever made the top," says David Suter. the famous mountaineer 'It is physically an impossibility, for the peak of that mountain is a pyra- mid or pinnacle of solid glaring ice, almost perpendicular, and no man. even if he chopped steps in the ice, could climb up.
 "NIy statement that Dr. Cook did not reach the top of Mount Mckinley is not based on mere hearsay evidence, for I was there at the time Dr. Cook and his party tried to make the as cent.
 'There were four of us in the party. the Mccarthy brothers of San Fran cisco, Sam May and myself. We were prospecting in the gulches and along the creeks at the base of the mountain when Dr. Cook and his men arrived"
Connecticut western news., 1909-10-28
JUSTICE PECKHAM OF
 SUPREME COURT DEAD
Highest Tribunal Loses a DiS-
 tinguiShed Member.

Albany, N. Y, Oct. 27.-Justice Ru- fus Wheeler Peckham, associate jus tice of the supreme court of the Unit. ed States, died at his summer home at Altamount, near here. He was ap- pointed by President Cleveland in 1895 Previous to that he was associate judge of the court of appeals of this state and prior to that a justice of the su- preme court, to which position he was elected in 1883.
 Justice Peckham was born in Albany in 1888. studied law in his fathers of flee and was admitted to the bar when twenty-one years old. In 1869 he was elected district attorney of Albany county.
 Mr. Peckham was an ardent and az gressive Democrat He was presiding officer of several conventions of the party and took an active part in the national conventions of 1876 and 1880. He was elected justice of the supreme court of this state in 1883 and while holding that position in 1886 was elect ed an associate justice.
 The term of office was fourteen years, and before that term had eX- pired he was appointed by President Cleveland associate justice of the su- preme court of the United States. This was in December, 1895. For the last two or three years the justice had not enjoyed good health.
Connecticut western news., 1909-10-28
PRINCE ITO SLAIN BY
 KOREAN AT KAREN
Japan'S Leading Statesman an
 ASsdsSiR'S Victim.

Harbin, Manchuria, Oct. 27.-Prince EIirObumi Ito, Japan's leading states man, met his death at the hands of an assassin at the railway station here, Whither he had come to hold a confer ence with NJ. KokOvsoff, Russian min ister of finance, in regard to the situa- tion in Manchuria.
 Prince Ito had descended from his railway carriage and, with the Japa- nese consul general and the president of the South Manchurian railway, had just started to meet M KOkOvsOff when six revolver shots were fired by q man in the crowd. Prince Ito fell to the platform, dying a few minutes later. The doctors found that three bullets had penetrated the princess ab- dOmen.
 Three others of Prince Ito's party his private secretary, NJ. Hawaiian, the Japanese consul general, and NJ. Tanaka, general manager of the South Manchurian railway-were hit by the assassin'S bullets. All three were bad ly wounded.
 The assassin made no attempt to es cape, but with the still smoking weap- on in his hand stood calmly waiting to be arrested. Two other men who were with him stood quietly beside him until the police also took them into custody.
 The assassin said he had come to Harbin from Korea for the express purpose of killing Prince Ito, because while the prince was resident general in Korea he caused the execution of several of the assassin's relatives.
 The two others. who are also Ko- reans. admitted that they aided in the assassination because of the wrongs Japan had inflicted upon their coun- try. They had no personal animosity against Prince Ito, but abetted his as sassinatiOn from patriotic motives.
Connecticut western news., 1909-10-28
JOHN J. ASTOR'S WIFE
 hSx,S 4 SEPARATI0.l
Referee kp29int:4 h Suit For
 Limited Di70rGa.

New York, Oct 27.--SOciety here was astonished to learn that Mrs. John Jacob Astor, leader of the Four Hun dred, had begun legal proceedings for a separation from Colonel John Jacob Astor. The suit has been conducted quietly and is now in the hands Of Charles H. Young, a referee appointed by Justice Mills of the supreme court at White Plains.
 Mrs. AstOr returned from Europe on Oct. 15. Colonel Astor is now on his yacht NOurmahal in Cuban waters, having sailed on Oct. 12, three days before his wife's arrival home.
 Mrs. AstOr did not go to her recently remodeled city mansion on Fifth ave- nue nor to her beautiful country seat at Rhinebeck. She went to friends in the country.
 While the basis of the action is not known, it has been known that there were serious differences between the couple.
 Colonel and Mrs. AstOr were mar ried on Feb. 1, 1891. Mrs. Astor was Ava l.. Willing, daughter of Edward Shippen Willing, a banker of Philadel- phia. They have two children-Wil- liam Vincent Astor, born Nov. 15, 1891, and Ava Alice Muriel AstOr, born in 1902. The son has entered Harvard.
 Colonel Astor was born at Rhinebeck in 1864 ard was graduated from liar yard with the class of 1888. On the death of his father, William Astcr, i1 1892 he became the male head of the family and took over the mana cement of the estate. He built the Astoria hO- tel in 1897 and ill 1906 built the St. Regis and in 1906 the Knickerbocker. He gets his title from his appointment to the staff of Governor Morton. He presented a mountain battery to the government for use in the Spanish American war.
Connecticut western news., 1909-10-28

 Carren became something more than a local figure. He grew suddenly to the full stature Of boss, became q na tional figure, a man to reckon with when presidents were nominated.
 For six years he held the Demo cratic organization in Kings county gripped in his fingers. He held it against Tammany raids, the rebellion of district leaders. the furious assaults of pulpit and press, and gained the distinction of being the most astute politician developed ill many years.
 McCarren was, born June IS. 1S40, in East Cambridge, Mass. His father was Owen McCarren, who was a natural born politician. Tn 1851 the elder Me Carren moved from Massachusetts to Brooklyn. where he ran for alderman and was defeated.
 Young Pat was apprenticed to a cooper after picking up a common school education, and while making barrels he got to thinking about poll ties. Tn 1881 he was elected assembly, man from the Fourteenth and Eff teenth wards. After that his influence spread rapidly.
 He was returned to the assembly in 1888 and in the following year at tained his senatorial ambition. With the exception of the years 1894 and 1895 he was continuously in the sen ate. In 1893 he went down with the general overthrow of the Democracy.
 His big opportunity for leadership came in 1903, when George B. McClel- Ian was first nominated for mayor. Hugh Mclaughlin, the veteran Brook, lyn leader of the Democrats, and his lieutenants, James Shevlin and John L. Shea, rebelled, but McCarren stayed with the nomination and became the party leader.
 For many years Senator McCarren was said to be the particular friend of the Standard Oil company and the sugar trust. In 1897 when the Lexow committee was Investigating the sugar trust in Brooklyn McCarren came right out as the defender of the sugar trust. He fought for the trust in the committee and dissented in a minority report from its findings.
Connecticut western news., 1909-10-28
MAJOR GENERAL o. O. HOWARD.

MAJOR GENERAL O. o. HOWARD. country needs me-" He went 70 the war as colonel of the Third Maine vol unteers.
 At the first battle of Bull Run he commanded d brigade and was made a brigadier general. He lost an arm at the battle of Fair Oaks on June l. 1862, but resumed his command the next month and saw. action at Antie- tam, Gettysburg and Chattanooga. For his services during Sherman'S march to the sea he was made a brigadier general in the regular army.
 It was at this time that Sherman wrote to Grant concerning Howard, 'I find him polished and Christian gen tleman, exhibiting the highest and most chivaIrous traits of character"
 In 1877 General Howard engaged iD Indian fighting, commanding an eXpe- dition against the Neg Perces.
 He afterward became superintendent of the Military academy at West Point. Tn 1908 congress passed a bill placing him on the retired list and thanking him for his meritorious service.
 The honorary degree of IL. D. was conferred on General Howard four times, and the French government made him chevalier of honor ill 1884.
Connecticut western news., 1909-10-28
SENATOR iits.'G.R9EN X.
 DIES OE bnI2.:',D|cIT|S
Brooklyn Democratic Leader
 SuCCumbs After Operation.

New York: Oct. 27.-State Senator Patrick Henry McCarren, the Brook Iyn Democratic leader, died in St. Catherfne's hospital, Brooklyn, ten days after he had submitted to an operation for appendicitis.
 Senator McCarren, who was sixty years old last June, had been the abso- ute master of the Brooklyn Democ- racy since 1903, when he overthrow the old leader, Hugh Mclaughlin. He had been a power for years before that, but with the fall of Mclaughlin Me