The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-07-30
PLAYERS WERE ELECTED AND
AMHERST BEAT WILLIAMS 70
TO 80 IN 20 INNINGS.

intercollegiate base ball as it is
played now presents a decided con-
| trast to the game of fifty years ago.
1t is now more thar half century
since the students of Amherst College
met after chapel one morning and
took action which led to the first inter
collegiate base ball game, passing a
motion to the effect that Amherst
challenge Williams ito a friendly
game of ball" The contest which was
played between the two institutions
the other day marked the fifty-frst
year of base ball relations between the
two colleges.
| OF the Amherst men who played or
took part in that game at Pittsfield
July / 1859, only three are now living.
| The umpire was Luther r. Smith, Am.
kerst, SO. Marshall P. Cushman, now
in the patent office at Washington, was
one of the players, and the Rev. F. E.
Tower of Poughreepsie, N. Y, is the
of the Amherst victory.
Although a rule was adopted that
sixty-five runs should be the limit of
the game, the interest among the
spectators became so intense and the
rivalry between the teams grew so
keen that is was necessary to extend
beyond the stated limit After four
hours of playing Amherst was declar-
ed the victory by a score of 70 to 80.
Whether there was any "Hughey"
Jennings paving the ground and chew
ing grass on the coaching lines during
those strenuous hours of play the ac-
counts of the game do not state. Even
though a raucous "E-E-Yah" may not
have aroused the slumbering Berk-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
out who makes the worlds wheat
market. He learned that small
group of rich Liverpool grain dealers
controlled private systems for gath
ering crop information from the whole
world and by so doing they controlled
| prices. They got the first informa-
ton about the worlds crops, kept it
to themselves, made their prices &C
cordingly, and speCulated on a sure
thing"
Lubin decided that what those men
did for their own profit the nations
ought to do for the benefit of the
whole people. He proposed a uni
versal clearing house of crop infor-
nation and he carried his idea to one
government after another, explained
it to economists and at length King
Victor Emmanuel offered the services
of the Italian government to lay his
project before the governments of the
world.
So, in 1905, by invitation of the
King of Italy, thirty nations sent de.
legations to a conference in Rome to
develop Lubin's scheme into a practi-
CAL working project. Lubin went as
delegate from the United States.
The Italian King set aside from his
personal fortune handsome endow-
ment for this new international In
stitute of Agriculture, in considera-
ton of Rome being made its head
quarters, and built a palace for ner-
manent offices. The convention drew
up a protocol looking to a treaty for
cooperative establishment and main
tenance Of the institute. That treaty
has been ratified by practically every
nation in the world
In January, 1910, the first normal
bulletin of crop statistics, modelled on
the crop reports of our own national
government was issued from the in
stitute. The work is not yet per.
fected, but there is every reason to
believe the plan will be great sue
cess.-Hampton's Magazine.