Semi-weekly herald., 1909-10-04

club baseball teams were piayAnB eoh | ~
last game Of the season on sand i
lotr baseball diamond near Belmont o
avenue and the Lake Shore drive. n
There were three Badgers on bases, c
the score stood 10 o In favor OF the
Beimonts, and Eugene Swinbank. II
years OF age. the shortstop and heavy t
hitter Of the Badgers was up II
crowd of the followers OF both teams 7
stood on the side lines, frantic with
excitemept. and q number OF auto ,
| ,sts and equestrians, who had come
lup along the drive and were attract
ed by the shouts. had halted to see
what the batter would do.
The pitcher. Antoine Pruchio. glanced
lnervously at the three runners anu
then turned to the catcher, Edward
lHayes. Hayes signaled for high In
shoot The ball whirled from the
lpitcher's hand and came shooting 10
ward the batsman. Just before II
reached him It curved sharply across
the plate. Swinbank bent back, as nc
Thought, out of the balls course. but
Ithe nfgn east Wihu h"u ~""e-> -
sweeping It in toward him and II
> struck him full on the chest. dropping
"dead' at his feet.
swinbank gasped with pain and
then started off at r trot to hrst
base. an force In one run, anyway,
he said, with grlmace of pain, 10
one of his team mates as he passed
him.
Inst before he reached the bag. how
. lever. he reeled and fell He was on
his knees in moment and was start
ing to crawl toward the base when
he crumpled up again, unconscious.
The young man died on street car
On route to the hospital.
NEW YORK, Oct. with Com
'e mander Robert e. Peary and every
" member of the crew that accompanied
Shim on his quest of the north pole
81 aboard, the steamer Roosevelt, Just
% back from the region OF eternal ice
~ was a salient feature of the naval
"a parade today up the lower Hudson To
gu meet the Half Moon and Clermont at
ID New Burger. Commander Peary, &C
companied by his wife. arrived here
us this morning from Portland, Me,
a This naval parade was the princi
e' pal incident of the celebration today
iia 80 Ear as Manhattan was concerned
~ In the Brooklyn historical pageant o.
NJ last Tuesday repeated and there wal
everywhere the usual expectation o.
's' leroplane flights, but the great ma
iei jority of the sightseers flocked to th'
'ai bank OF the Hudson. There they saw
Z" great fleet of excursion steamers
VI steam tugs, yachts. motorboats ant
nc other craft which at about 10 o'cloci
os fell into line for the fifty-mile four
oh ney to Newburgh. The RooseveHi
III progress from quarantine to her doci
'h' at the foot OF West Forty-second stree
L. was marked by n continuous blast o
Wy whistles and when she came off River
anu started on her way up the rive
' the salute was taken up by thousand
.e of cheering voices. At the momen
''n when the Roosevelt plowed up tn
7'e harbor this morning Commander Rol
ert E. Peary stepped from a train II
!" the Grand Central station returning t
New York from his trip to the mort
las , % o,.,.,na. a., ~ ty,,,,.o, r.,
ys' ton naval parade up the Hudson river
ias The Roosevelt was well ON her wa
'' from quarantine station on Staten IL
land to the pier at the end Of Yves
"e Forty-second street, where the exploI
er was on board her, wnen Commando
g" Peary arrived at 7:15 a. m. He wa
'se accompanied by Mrs. Peary The hou
.e of their arrival was SO early tha
en- few persons were at the station Il
'e' greet them. They have been warml.
ar received all day up to o'clock.
Isl NEW YORK. Oct 1-"Let him g,
In my care your honor" said DR.. Sieg
ne fried Block yesterday in the Gate
ne avenue court. Brooklyn. Il have hin
hs under hypnotic Influence, whateve
as we're his evil purposes. have correct
w. ed them"
vi Dr. Dleek Is connected with Lont
en Island hospital. AS he spoke to Magis
III ;rate Nash he had placed his hand af
We Eectionately on the shoulder of Ber
81 nard Scharf. 16 years old. The you'll
Sc fssd been arrested last July. charged
co with having robbed baker OF lit
lie money.
10 Il have known this boy n long time.
eh said DIR. Block, after the magistrate
ne had discharged young Scharf in ths
VI physicians custody Il realized tina,
ee could cure him by hypnotic sugges
er lion az ! have cured others. He has
'ii been under my hypnotic control. While
io he had been thriftless and lazy. he
has become Industrious and honest In
e. The last two months. assert and
II shall assert everywhere that hypno
'ii ism has reformed this boy"
y NEW YORK, Oct. LIN the tamast
~ convention ever held In Tammany
y hail. Supreme Justice William Gaynor
10 was nominated for mayor last night in
III Carnegie hall Robert I. More was