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The Washington times., 1909-01-13
PUTS BIG CRINP
IN SLUSHY YARNS
Cleveland Writer Wearies of
Stories of Athletes Win
ming Their Brides.

Much obliged to Ed Bang. in the
Cleveland News, for taking the walIop
below at the SickeuIug, slUshy, sloppy
stuff with which newspapers are af-
nicted whenever a famous athlete mar
ries
The Times has not fallen for these
mushy yarns because they make our
sporting editor so sired he refuses to
work for the remainder of the day after
seeing one of them come over the wire.
Saws Bang.
Was there ever an athlete who, when
about 10 wed didn't have to stand for
winning his bride br virtue OI some
doughty deed iu his specialize?
doubtless such condition has at
some time prevailed. bat doubtless his
tory didn't mentioG 81. It may have
occurred, but Official. T. 10 hash I.
III as II may behuOve the writer Of
this piece TO interfere With what may
be the popular conception of facts. a
regard for truth and real knowledge 10
the contrary I'm a good many cases
where the yarn has been sprung, seems
to call for some sort Of justice 70 the
reader who has TO absorb each year a
half dozen or so yarns OF this character.
Investigation the facts discl0ses a
condition that viii. undoubtedly harrow
up the Laura Jean L3bhey adhereuts.
Nine times cut of zen the girl who
V tliiEl bllt StaI aiLlEltI 1l0 50 not DE-
cause hc struck out Hans Wagner ia a
pinch and thereby won the pennaut for
his club, hut beC use she liked him and
knew he was 80 Il TO his folks.
Twenty, ten, and five that the spouse
Of the champion batter used 10 go to
school with him, was stuck on him all
the time and didn't need that homer
in the concluding game Of the series, to
win her belated assent!
a moral cinch t.at the star quarter
back met his future spouse az the home
OF his chum in the Christmas holidays
long before ne Nas anything better
than scrub, and had slipped her a
ring far auteddting the run that won
the championship. regardless Of the
stori"5 that told how she loved him first
at the moment he crossed the goal line.
And didn't the star pugiIi5t's fancee
know he was good prOvider long be-
fore he copied the championship? Why.
o. course.
"A good. common sense view Of the
approaching LOugbOat nuptals is SINH
larry in order. Did Tom really have
10 beat DOTaudO 20 win the consent OF
his squaw's alleged reluctant father?
If so, how did il come that the Indian
maiden had been allowed to wander so
far from the reservation as Madison
Square Garden The night Of the event ?
This romancinE ca athletes is a fine
stunt for idle moments and empty space.
but alas. Facts and human nature are
against it,
The Washington times., 1909-01-13
Timely Tips and Useful Pointers
About Sporting Men and Events

local sporting writer's. Covers were laid
Tor thirty.
Bert Keyes, OF New York, and "Cy-
clone Johnny Thompson are to box at
New Orleans i'm Jwenty-rOund contest
on February IA
The Springfield CMass.) Skating Club
viii give an ice Marathon Tace. which
is to be for the full Olympic distance OF
-6 miles and $50 yards. ana is 70 take
place at the Van Horn reservoir next
SatuTday-
otis CIymer. the Washington Ameri-
can League. baseball player, and Fred
Ehrhorn OF Lebanon. are matched 10
shoot at 100 live birds next week at Leb-
anon for 500 a side.
Jimmy CoGroth is said 10 be trying
10 induce Stanley ketChel to fight Jack
O'Brien twenty-five rounds at Gonna on
Washingtons Birthday
At GIens Falls on Monday night Bill
Hurley. OF that city, and Ed steele, OF
Chicago fought a hard siX-rOund draw
The latter VINO IS negro. weighed
about twenty pounds more than Hurley.
Jim Barry. of Chicago. IS anxious u
box John Willie, Al kubiak, or any otHeE
heavyweight i'm the East.
At Calgary. Alberta. on January Q.
Percy Cove. formerly Of Seattle. stopped
Eddie Marine iu thirteen rounds.
When Young Erne and Mickey Can
non stepped or the scales on Monday
tho beam was set at l35. Neither man
moved it, Then II was put back 10 laj
and each man stepped on the scale
without trembling the beam.
The Washington times., 1909-01-13
TURNER-ADAMSON
BOUT ON TUESDAY

Joe Turner. the Washington champion
wrestler. and Ed Adamnson. Of Lynch
burg. Va. viii meet iu Washington ON
January lg iu the National Guard
Arm0ry gymnasium.
TURNER was fu Baltimore las. Monday
10 arrange q bout FOR Jack Spau.dlHE
and has succeeded i'm booking Andy
smith the clever Baltimore grapplr-
for a 60 with Jack as a preliminary To-
his own bout. Besides these Two bouts
FRYE King, a promising young pupil or
Turner's. viii wTestIe Young Parker, 100
0ornde of Baltimore. 10 a finish. Iur-
ucr beat Parker two seasons ago ana
thinks Frye has a good chance TO land
q victory There viii be no iutermis-
sion between bouts as soon as one
gains q fail the other match viii go on
for a fan. then the preceding pair viii
start for their second co.
All falls on or of the mat VIII count.
p. r. O'C0uueT viii referee.
The Washington times., 1909-01-13

Rucker and Wilhelm, TWO Of Brook
lyu's best pitchers, have signed for
next season.
New York city viii probably form a
city association OF lhe American Bowl
ing Congress next Sunday afternoon
Henry Ordemau. Of Minneapolis and
HjalmaT Lmdn, the champion of Swe-
den. wTestle at Minneapolis, January is,
The last shoot for the WaIsrode tro-
ply viii be held by the Highland Gun
Club this afternoon over The Edge Hiil
traps.
Jockey Miller refuses to pay the S2u9
fine imposed upon him by the Oakland
judges, ard may quit the turf FOR good.
Pitcher '.HuH" Durham. whom .lew
York secured from Indianapolis, says me
prefers 70 return TO the Indians rather
Than play with the Giants.
The Young OttO-Leach Cross fight has
been postpOned[at tho Fdtrmont Club
from January 20 90 January 2l
Sam Langford is Disguised because the
lighters on the coast refuse to meet
nina, and ne is about 10 return TO the
East.
Eddie Graney, Of San Francisco, viii
act as referee for Jh- Abe Attell-Fred
NVeekes fght at GOldhelG tomorrow
night,
Edwin d PETER, the new city bowl
ing champion, OF Chicago. celebrated ms
success in the recent tournament by
giving a dinner 20 the officials O, the
Chicago Bowling Association ant the
The Washington times., 1909-01-13
YOUNG ERNIE BEATEN
BY JIMMY CLABBY
Milwaukee Welterweight Makes
Punching Bag of Quaker
City Man.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13.-Jimmy
CIabby, the Milwaukee Welterweight.
made a punching bag Of Young Erne,
the Port Richmond boxer. in the wind
up at the Douglas Athletic Club last
night
CIabbv showed himself 90 be a clever
two-handed boxer, and with someone
TO give him q chance 20 extend him
self he would no doubt put Up "a first
class article Of boxing. As lr was, ire
simply made q playthiug of Erue. Who
covered no and stalled all through the
six rounds, never taking a chance and
seldom landing a blow on the Western
boxer.
At the end OF the contest Clabby was
loudly aDDlaUded for his clever work,
while the Port Richmond boxer was
hoOted bv the spectators
The Washington times., 1909-01-13
WASHINGTON WINS
BILLIARD MATCH

Washington biIliardists. captaiued by
Frank Sherman, went 90 Baltimore yes
tcrdaE TO play the second series OF four
games with the Baltimore team, cap
tanned hy John b. Klein The visitors
Won the evenings session by a total OF
lflr-seEeu points.
In Washington. January g.. the Wash
lugtOuiaus won by a score OF 400 10 Zg3,
giving it a lead of IGl points BY mis-
count It had been reported 103 points.
The games are al 900 points each meet
Ing, each pair OF players SCORING the
first 100 to win, and the total points IN
the four games played at each session
games To- win. A cup is the trophy .
Last year Washington won the series.
The Washington times., 1909-01-13
DOWNS
CHARLEY OLSON

the Bulgarian heavyweight wrestler.
maintained his uubealel record IN this
country by throwing Charles olson the
Indianapolis light heavyweight in
straight falls. at the Coliseum Monday
night
Olson was unable TO make good his
PROMISES of carrying war 10 the big ma
from the ottoman empire, and tor the
most part was ora the defensive
MaHmouI secured the first fall in s. -53
with a bar arm. scissors, and head loll,
and the second in 1880 with a grapevine
and wrist lock.
olson tried the same rough tactics he
used when lost % "AmcIicus,' In Bait
more and ar one stage it looked as If
he was trying 10 break q hold by using
his teeth on MahmOut. The Turk dis
played his usual ability 10 break Ao-as'
md never was in serious trouble.
The Washington times., 1909-01-13
BIG BOWLERS COMING.

& dcIega ton of New York bowIers-
members OF the National Bowling AS
ISOLATION, viii arrive i'm Washington
some time this attic noon. to boost the
big $4,000 b0Wlius meeting to be
held IN Madison Square Garden for four
weeks. beginning May q. The part
includes D.. j. Ginger. H. c. Stevens.
William CordeS, Maurice Wymau, and
George HalIer They viii hold q
meeting al the Palace about %. IN.
The Washington times., 1909-01-13
TOMMY QUILL WINS.

49, fy9 iD->, Jan. To- tommy gum or
tory in twelve rounds here over Young
LJuEHrey. Of Philadelphia. who pre-
yiousIy had put a bed dent iu his repu-
tatiou as "a puGilist. LoUEhrcy. who was
clearly outclas-cd during the early
stages OF the bout, had q shade the best
of &c from The seventh to the eleventh
round, but was ON The short end again
i'm the closing round
The Washington times., 1909-01-13
CAREER
IS ABOUT ALL OVER
MCGraw Asks Waivers on the Famous Iron Man,
Who Says He viii Not Go to
the Minors

himself who was making his exit.
For ten years Mac" has been one OF
the stars of the game. He is the in
ventoT of the raise" hall, made pos
sibIe by a peculiar undcrhand deliv-
cry. was one of the first 10 get wise
10 the spit EalI, and was a pioneer
in the gentle art of pitching double
headers on suItry afternoons.
He got his name of Iron Man
from the strength IF his right whip, %
and the further fact that he owns an
iron foundry at his Indian Territory
home He says he will go back to the
foundry rather than return to the
minors.
The Washington times., 1909-01-13
BURNS is FOULED
BY TERRY McGRAW

BALTIMORE, Jan. l3-S0idler Burns
won over Terry ATcGraw on "a f0ul I'm the
eleventh round of their fight before the
Nouparcu Athletic club at Highland
town last night Burns had been
erlothering his opponent with blows,
when 1IcGraw kicked him. Referee
Fred Sears declared the soldier lad the
winner.
The contest was fast and furious from
inc tap or the gong. Tor the FIRST few
rounds fEe men fought al an ever clip,
Iut iu the 9Th Burns caught NIcCraw q
singing blow over the eve and raised a
lump In the eighth round lIl.ravr
seemed weak and until the end or the
battle. Burns continued 20 wade lu ON
IFE man.
The Washington times., 1909-01-13

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-Its to the
junk pile for the Iron Man" Joe Nc
Ginnity. who for years has been one
of the box artists of the National
League
Manager McGraw. of the Giants, has
asked waivers on his one-time star,
and up to today no club had objected
to the return to the minors of the man
who used TO shrink the batting aver
ages of all opponents.
The passing of McGinnity is a base
ball drama with a throb in it almost
as great as though it were Cy Young
The Washington times., 1909-01-13
EVERS MARRIES.

TROY Y. r., JAN 13.-John j. Evers.
second baseman Of the Chicago Va
tiouals was married last night % Miss
Helen Fitzgibbous at ST. Joscphs par
souage. i'm this city. After the cere-
m0uy Mt. and Mrs Evers departed on
an extended wedding trip. They will
reside in Troy
The Washington times., 1909-01-13
FOUR DAYS RACING.

NEW YORK. Jan. I2-Erom present
indications racing al an OF the Jockey
clubs tracks seems assured for tie
wear Today 10 was said that there
would br racing al least -gur DAYS a.
Week-Tucsday, Wednesday, THURSDAY
and SatUTday-sud that II the snort
could be conducted without q loss. an
other day-Mouday-mig be added to
the schedule
The Washington times., 1909-01-13
= q - BEST TREATMENT
aSo &@Do So FOR CKTARRH

s. s. is the
purifier It the only medicine that able down the
entirely catarrhal
trouble
kept named iraed impure condition the
blood Catarrh will Its dsage and
ringing the dropping back throat
aches difficult breathing and stomach disorders
weakened health be permanently relieved until the blood puri-
lied Nothing equals s. this
fluid mucous sur
qualities of
anty tated indamed by impurities the
begin when SIS
BLOOD Car permanently cured and the general health greatly
medical advice
The SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA.
The Washington times., 1909-01-13

The Holy Name basketball Quint
would Ike to arrange ID game with any
local team for Saturday night Address
Manager c. Ashton, Carroll Institute.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-15
POLICE COMMITTEE
TO HEAR BINGHAM
Condescends to Enlighten Al.
dermen as to Changes He
Made in Brooklyn.

Police Commissioner Bingham has
lice Committee OF the Board OF Alder
men and give the members an insight
into police matters with few sug-
gestlons thrown In. City Clerk Scully
succeeded where the formidable board
failed. He called up the Commissioner
on the phone from the City Hall and
had heart 10 heart talk with the Gar
OF Mulberry street.
Certainly I'll go down and give the
members OF the Police Committee all
the enlightenment they want, but don't
propose to neglect police affairs II the
committee Is not serious, the Commits.
sloner said He added that ne would
hold himself in readiness to appear be-
fore the committee when assured that
none but the most patriotic and I'M
selfish motives prompted the desire TO
have him testify.
II appears that Brooklyn resents the
action OF the Police Commissioner in
transferring all OF his executive stan to
Manhattan, and the Police Committee
IN tdNlnS up lne Cuugel LOT tH' borough
across the bridge. Concurring In the
findings OF the Kings County Grand
Jury In opposition to the Capitalization
OF the police system, the committee
proposes to investigate II wants a
deputy returned to Brooklyn. new
police headquarters building erected for
the borough. and demands to know the
necessity OF photoRaphing persons
charged with crime before such persons
are convicted, Friday has been set ~
the date for the public hearing, at which
the Commissioner will be the star Wit
mesa
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-15
DOGS AS JAN|TORS
FOR PERTH AMBOY
Good Jobs Wait for Great
Danes, Needed to Scare Bur-
glars Who Steal Ink.

T, psrtb Auboy N 7. they ar. MAX
:" ~ 49,, 49,. -. G.
Ing school 1anltors OF their dogs some
time ago the school board OF Perth Am
how vas confronted with the nroblem Of
wy VOC .0, H.,
protecting the schools In their town
from the depredations OF the Jersey
lolgs NJ the Learned Burglars AssocIa-
r,, .,.,.,, ho,,oh.o,Lor.
tioh' ihese oiis'.'a' "ouseu' e""e's
went In strong for books ana Ink and
things like that, and almost every morn
,,,n so,o s,,ooI 1rou,d be found N bavs
.''s 'o''e se','0' "ou'u We .ou''u w nov.
been robbed OF such implements OF
learning.
A ,ivht t,r,,or could mt h. had for
',e"' .a'''s'' .N.,N nv
less than 'p month ana a place 10
sleep while on the Job, and the value
n, ,ba th,rvs ,.oIsn was Iess than tina,
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-15
SAVED GARAGE,
BUT He AW0KE
MISS De WOLFE
Chauffeur Backed Burning
Auto Into Street and Noisy
Firemen Alarmed Actress.

Miss Elsie De Wolfe, the society act
ress, was aroused from sleep In the old
Washington Irving home. Nineteenth
street and Irving place, at $50 o'clock
this morning by the Changing OF bells,
the rafting OF wheels and the yells OF
aremen
James Duffy, chauffeur, employed by
the Melvin Stable Company, OF No. 81
Irving place. had Jus, rolled his ma
chine into the garage after taking some
fares to the Waldorf-Astor!a.
This machine needs cleaning"
suggested Duffy as he kept on back to-
ward the Mushroom.
A washer turned the hose on the au-
tomobile. only to discover that 1t was on
fire. One Of DuTys late IA es had
dropped lighted cigarette in the bottom
OF the tonneau, and 1t had set the
cushions on fire.
Duffy was quick TO act. He backed
his automobile into the street In front
Of Miss De Wolfe's residence, and as
he sped along he unscrewed the gaso-
line tank. Then he left the automobile
to burn. and sent in an alarm for the
fremen.
The firemen came with their usual
noise, Miss De Wolfe was aroused, and
the automobile burned until 500 damage
had been done.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-15
BRIDE, LEAVING
CAR, FALLS IN
STREET DYING
Mrs. Edgar Ahrensdorf, of the
Bronx, Dead Before Alnbu-
lance Reached Her.

A woman who became suddenly III as
she alighted from a street car in Will
ismsburs and fell In the street and died
before the arrival OF an ambulance was
identified to-day as Mrs. Edgar Ahrens-
dorf OF No. s64 caldwell avenue, the
Bronx.
Mrs. Ahrensdort, well-dressed
woman, about thirty-hve wears old. was
gong to visit friends In Williamsburg
yesterday, and late in the afternoon
was on a car OF the Grand street line.
A. Marcy avenue she so: off, and as
she tried to reach the sidewalk stag
gered and fell In front Of No. 81? Grand
street.
Policeman Krummell, Of the Bedford
avenue station, went 10 the woman's
assistance and called Or. Hurley from
Williamsburg Hospital, but Mrs.
Ahrensdort was dead before the ambu-
lance arrived. she wore expensive furs
and good deal OF valuable jewelry.
Edgar L. Ahrensdort, the woman.
husband, Is a salesman for a firm in
lower Broadway, and they were married
only five months ago. He was Frustrated
with grief to-day. and his six children
by formC. marriage, their ages rang
Ing from eighteen to six, were nearly
as much affected as II Mrs. Ahrensdort
had been their own mother.
The woman left home about 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon to visit Mrs. Abob,
a friend who lives Williamsburg, and
told her husband she would return at
about o'clock at night. The next thing
the family heard OF her was when a po-
liceman from the Morrisania station
went to the fiat to tell them OF her death,
tho police OF the Bedford avenue sta
ton having telephoned to the Bronx po.
lice when they found Mrs. Ahrensdorrs
cards In her handbag.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-15
QUIT HIS DINNER TO
SAVE z FROM FLAMES
Fireman's Meal Interrupted,
Carries Woman and Child
Out of Burning Building.

While at dinner yesterday Fireman
Thomas Miller, driver for Chief En-
sIneer Duffy, OF Brooklyn. heard that
a four-story tenement. No. IS Wyckoft
street. near his home. was on fire. He
rushed to the house and found the third
floor. occupied by John Green. his wifs
and four children. In flames.
Greene had carried his wife and three
OF his children to safety when Miller
arrived. The other child, O little girl
OF four, was sleeping In an inner room.
Miller threw his coat over his head and
quickly brought out the little one. He
was told that Mrs. Kate Callahan, fifty
years DID, was on the top floor Of the
building. He mounted the fire.escape
and found her unconscious near one OF
the rear windows. He carried her down
the fre-escape TO the second floor and
thence to the street. She was revived
by Dr. Gardner. Of the Long Island
College Hospital.
When the fire was extlngulshed Miller
returned to his home to finish his din
per,
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-15
Lone Star State Is Passing 4
Law to Curb Language of
Her Rangers.
NOT NEEDED IN n, Y.
Manager Mccain Says Hello
Girls Here Are Always Polite
and Men Don't Swear.

Down In Texas you cannot break the
third commandment over the telephone
any more. Most any other way you
can. but NOT over the telephone
Representative Vaughan's bill making
It a criminal orfense to swear over
telephone has been reported upon fav-
orably by the House Committee on
Criminal Jurisprudence, Hereafter the
violent Texan ranger will have to stuff
his sombrerO in his mouth when he
feels 1t coming on. We have all had
that feeling But II we are to believe
MIR. II *. Mccain OF the New York
Telephone Company, the citizen Of Man
haitian is not given to uneashIng his
temperament on wire as is the Texan,
AT any rate said Mr.. Mccain
earnestly, there has never been the
need for such bill in New York that
| know Of Not more than two or three
complaints Of profane language have
come to my notice in more than that
many years.
TO commence with" Mr. Mccain
continued, ''in spite OF what people say,
the operatOrs-the Central girs--do not
hear the conversations that are carried
on over the phones. Any one who has
ever been through one OF the big ex-
changes would he sure OF this. We'll,
then, the only swearing that would
come TO our notice would be profane
language used to our operators.
Now, the girls are taught from the
first to say: Number. please with a
rising infection You see. II they say
Number please" allowing their voice
to drop at the end, 1t sounds grouchy"-
and Mr.. Mccain illustrated.
"Our idea is that courtesy begets
courtesy. a man hearing a cherry voice
ln1urng for his number is scarcely
likely TO reply unpleasantly OF course
the girls make mistakes some times. We
are all only human But II the party
for whom they are getting the number
commences to speak rudely to them
they are instructed to switch the wire
directly to the managers office
III pr0tlne language should continue
10 come from any one source We Nould
simply send one of our men to the 1d-
dress to state that 1t would have to be
Stopped or the phone would be 70.
moved. II has not been necessary ia
/ ADOPT such measures more than tvice
IN possibly the last ten years.
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by unthinking people to the disadvan-
tage OF women. They eXultIngly boast
that In the roll call Of the famous ones
women are absent. One reason for this
Is that they have been so busy In the
home that no time was left in which
TO perform the secondary work OF ac-
tually painting the pictures and carving
the marble. writing books and prac-
Using the professions.
ut Is nothing new for women to
work: they have always worked-they
we're the inventors Of work But II Is
new for them to he paid for It, The
conditions under which they must now
work are controlled by men and are so
disagreeable that only those who are
obliged to do so have followed their
work from their home TO the factory.
"All We are asking OF men to give Us
the ballot for is that discrimination
agains: women shah cease-that they
have . fair fisld and no favor"