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The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
1.-The Big Fight is Fixed and
Johnson Will Fall for Jeff
JOHN IL. ROBINSON.

few daYs ago II JEFF wins they will
be worth 100000 AT the lowest. II
Johnson wins they will be worth not
less Titan s3tt,ttt. And here is where
the mystery comes in.
Up to Three Men.
Three.quarters Of a million swaved
between three men Enough money
to put the average man beyond the
ken OF want. Jeeriss the most con.
ceited, egOtistical man on earth. fight
ing negro he lespises Bullheaded
Ne would never take a chance OF los
ing that fight. Berger, behind the
guns, crafty and wise. able To talk
st. Peter into giving Joe Cannon the
keys Of the Pearly Palace; Johnson
money 10y ing. crooked, recognized
fakir. lacking backbone. handled by a
man who made his money out of the
lowest form Of vice on the Chicago
levee-here is the combination
against which the American public
must line up.
The combination is ] to loo
favorite. The poor public is NJ
against a harder clique than the beet
trust ever dared TO form. Pick the
combination and write your own
ticket
In plain language. the fight is fran
ed and Johnson will go down. Still
Johnson framed fight on the coast a
number OF years ago and at the last
minute he double-crossed and won.
My advise. 10 YOU. readers. is NOT
10 bet dollar on The fight. Forget
your prejudice against the black race
and keep off ="
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
LONGBOAT'S RECORD SAFE.
Boston Marathon Today Will Be Rur
on Roads Heavy With Mud.

BOSTON, April 20-Two hundred
and fifty thousand persons are ex'
pected 10 witness the fourteenth b.
A. A. Marathon, I'm which 1913. contest
ants Rill start, at Ashland. Mass, AZ
noon today to battle for the mastery
over hilly. winding roads from Ash
land to this city. Heavy roads ar
expected to prevent any possibility of
breaking the record which Tom. Long.
beat. The Canadian Indian made IN
1907 The Indian covered the course
in hours - minutes and "a seconds
Mike Ryan OF the Irish American A.
c.. OF New York; or Henry p. Jensen.
OF the Pastime A. c.. OF New York.
are figured by the followers OF the
sport as most likely TO win the event
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20

LANGFORD is FAv0RITE,
BUT WHAT If HE is!
philadelphia public Ledger1

on form, experience ana all,
round ring ability Langford
should be pronounced favorlie
over Ketchel. Hence. the fol
lowing gentle reminders: Den,
yer Ed Smith beat Goddard
with the odds OF 10 to ! against
him: Walcott defeated Choynshl
when you could get 10 To ! that
he wouldn't: although John l."
Sullivan was favorite at 4 to
over Jim Corbett, the later de-
throned the big fellow at New
Orleans. Jim Jefries trimmed
Fitz. Young Corbett stopper
McGovern, Lavigne put Burge
away and Mccoy handed Ryan
his beatings when The betting
was . To and better that the
final winners of these contests
would be defeated. Some form
reversals, those.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
GLEACON WANTS WELSH.
Promoter of Big Civil War Think
Johnson's Choice Good

CHICAGO. April LIT begins 20
look like Jack Johnson struck the
right note when he said he would In
sist on Jack Welsh as referee for the
big fight on July l.
Jack Gleason. one OF the promoters
OF the fight today said he agreed en-
tiIely with Johnson and would GER
tainly favor the selection OF Welsh
Gleason is plainly fearful that the
question of selecting referee will
cause a serious disagreement between
Jefieries and Johnson. though he
says he is confident that Jerrles will
accept Welsh.
On account of the rain and cold
weather Johnson has quit boxing. but
continues road work. His staff OF
trainers will leave for the coast
Thursday evening.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
BY W. r. C. LArsoN. 3. s., NJ. o.

The solar pleXus punch is now
the best known blow of all the knock
out blows, and is perhaps the most
effective when employed at the right
time.
The solar plexus" is the center
thence its name. from the Latin.
Sol" the sum OF that division OF the
nervous system which regulates the
action OF all the vital organs.
Shock at this point means that all
The activities OF heart. lungs. stomach.
liver and intes,ines are stopped
stopped sometimes for a few seconds,
sometimes for few minutes, oc-
Icasionally forever.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20

A well-trained boxer while fresh
and on his guard, is fairly safe from
This knockout. TO. the muscles or the
abdomen which cover the solar
plexus." can be SO firmly contracte
tina, no blow. however heavy, can BEND
them
But when the boxer is tired; OF
when he incautiously relaxes the ao'
dominal muscles, or when, as resui'
OF a blow upon the jaw or some other
sensitive point. he gives a sudden
easp-then the abdominal muscles re
lax their protecting frmness; then
the abdominal Drain" is exposed: AMI
then is the time when his willy antag
Cnisj snaps IN The punch tHat enus tue
battle.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
RAIN PUTS STOP
TO THE BALL GAME
Detroit Will Say Farewell To the
Tigers on Wednesday, II Grounds
Have Dried Out.

On account of the rain which fell
continuously through the forenoon OF
Tuesday, the Detroit management was
compelled 10 call of the game sched'
uled for the day, with the ST. Louis
Browns. An effort Will he made 10
secure an open date for the contest.
later on in the season. The announce
ment was held up until the last
moment but look at the field early
in the afternoon convinced Manager
Jennings that there would be no
chance. even If the rain had terminal
Ell 1T that luucture.
"Wednesday will be the las game
of the tigers present home stanI.
They leave that night for Gle sciaud,
where they are booked 10 open the
Maps new park Thursday They re.
turn for game here SUNDAY win
the Maps. after which they play in ST.
Louis and Chicago returning tele
with The ScA. May g.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
Sporting N otes

There have been ~ pos,pon-ments
lean leagues
The bowlers all went 10 the fire lust
hEht, So the start of the city tuurua-
neut WAS postponed Tin tonight
kroh aud Zimmerman Of the Cubs
were fined for keeping late hours at
81 Louis.
Killing IL going into vaudeville He
stu insists tidt he intends To Join the
cubs but won't hpd the welcome sign
out II lle doesn't do SO speedily.
Fred l.. Cameron. "a >o,n scotia run
ner, won the Boston Marathon ia
2.2S.52 80.
Michigan viii send n r-Iny team 10
does.
BRADLEY. of the >nps. was put out Of
the game al Chicago. yesterday. for
protesting a decision by Prrrinc. Cleve-
land MAY have Perring at third tomor-
row. as the result
Jen slept most Of yesterday hut
there was no wild-eyed report that had
him Ia the last stages Of sleeping sick
ness.
Hornet H.. the new Dodge Bros.
cfdft, launched yesterday. Is expected
10 be- the fastest thing on fresh water,
with possibilities OF ~ miles an hour.
NJ
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
JEFF CAN'T COME BACK"
NOW SAYS BILLY DELANEY

Billy Delaney. Jeffries' old
trainer and manager. is out with
a Statement: that the big boiler
maker cannot come back
'Jeffries Ia not even a shadow
OF his old self, says Delaney.
He cannot be put in condition
by being sweated That will
only weaker him He has been
out OF the ring too long
Delaney says he is sorry FOR
Jeff. and would like 10 see him
defeat Johnson.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Yesterdays Results.
Rain everywhere.
TOdny's Games.
Boston AT New york
Philiies at Brooklyn
Pittsburg at Cincinnati.
Chicago At ~. Louis.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
REDsox QUIT HOT SPRINGS.
John !. Taylor Will Take His Men
To California Next Spring.

BOSTON, April 20.-President John
r Taylor, OF the Boston Americans. re-
turned from California in the best OF
Health. lie confirmed the rumor that
tie team has trained for the last time
Al Hot Springs and next year will see
them in California
Next year" said President Taylor
u win take the team 20 Paso Robes
Or Bakersfield, Cal
Both of these places would make
deal training camps"
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
KLAUSE AND PAPKE
WILL GO Is ROUNDS
VIII Meet at Calmn During June or
July In Long battle.

PITTSBURG Pa. April 19.--Frank
klause. the local pugilist. and Billy
PapKe Will meet In 25-round battle
before Jim CofTroth's club at Colmd,
Calif. ia june or July. according to
George EUgle. Klause's manager. The
match will replace the one for next
month which was cancelled.
Offers to meet Jimmy Gardner In
Boston MAY 3. and Jack fTwin) Sulli-
van In New York, May 8. have been re-
ceived by Klausc.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
Hornet H., q
PimIIco opens today.
Rerqer Nav Now Paw on.

Sam Berger's fight news bureau
collapsed. The only thing that Der.
ger got ont of it was bundle of bills
-tHPeNriters- and stationery anti
the knowledge that newspapers are
somewhat like concrete walls-bad to
buck against.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
Work for savant.

DR. Eliot. whose hve-yard shelf Of
literature Is on the market. hopes 10
lave his masterpiece ready by next
hll The title OF this life's work is,
blow TO understand the new football
rlies,' in twenty volumes.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
The American League
Race in a Nutshell

Il ralned everywhere but at
Chicago and Boston.
The Redsox took the holiday
dolble-header from Washington,
cicotte and Wood pitching against
Oberlln and Johnson.
The Cleveland club managed 70
get Pitcher Smith OF the Sox In
the twelfth, scoring run on
singles by Turner and Lajoie. and
Lords infield out. Each side had
scored in the eleventh.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20

John Z. Robinson. manager OF Bat
Ting Nelson and former sporting
writer OF Detroit, takes slam al
ferries. Johnson and THE promoters
OF the big fight for the championship
He thinks that Johnson can whip jet
iri.s 81 the ight is on the level, bu;
advises everyone not 10 bet.
Here is what Robbie" saws.
5y JOHN r. ROBINSON
TO defend tie honor of the white
race
The diabclical irony OF the phrase
~ being illustrated today In the fran.
tic efforts OF James j. Jefries and his
CORPS OF advisers TO fool the peOple
into the belief that the former world 5
champion IS back in the ring solely
To gather the laurels from the bullet.
shaped head OF one Jack Johnson.
joke biggest joke Of the much
abused prize ring
Il Johnson and Jeffries fight on the
level Johnson viii whip the boiler
maker sure as fate Jeffiics can never
come hack Johnson is the greatest
.avyweight fighter the world has
ever produced lie is faster than Cor
bCtt. can hit almost as hard as JEFF.
fries could when the latter was ia his
prime. is crt,rtier than Fitzsimmons,
u greater ring general than Joe
Choyusk. q grander boxer than Nc
Coy or Tommy RYAN.
This Is johnson as a hghter As a
man ne Is conceitcd. a natural born
vagabond mean and tyrannical and
petty. a moral coward and discredit
TO the colored race He spends money
so that the people may witness him
and NAVEL tie wants 20 associate
with che whites
JEFF Fat and Slow.
Jefrics, ~ ] saw him four weeks
ago weighs Pas pounds. Is slow and
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
w. U Coach is Dead.

CLEVELAND. d.. April 19.-Coach
Budget seaman. OF the Western uni
versity football aud track teams. died
here suddenly OF acute pneumonia.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
Not the First Experience.

Spring series between the Athletics
and Phillies ended i'm a tie. but Phila
dc lphians eXDect TO recover from the
shock Philadelphia North American.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
Tlp to Lynch.

4 Mr.. Lynch needn't stop at barring
photographers at the National league
Coll parks. Why doesn't he 20 steI
further and keep the public from see
M the games?
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
THE RIG-LEAGUE RACES
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Yesterdays Results.
Boston Is. Washington IL.
Cleveland >. Chicago ] tl@ innings.
Today's Games.
ST Louis at New York.
Cleveland at Chicago.
Washington at Boston.
New York az Philadelphia
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
True 70 Old Form.

Al least John Titus has not gone
back. lie was caught mapping Ia the
first inning of the opening game
PHILADELPHIA Exchange.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20

Busioess-Iike Printing. No fuss and
no feathers. The plain. neat kind that
looks right. Times Printing Co, no
John R-st. Main li9s. or City 33ss.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20
AT BIMI.ICO,

Al
First Race--Four furlongs: .. J.
Buster. 1ol vito o.. lO7: Plsnetus l6g;
May Wood go old Squaw. iO4: George
10. Dorchester. 1l2. Sam Rank. 1Oi,
Bedkin, 1903; sir Chiffon. i12.
second Race--Three- year-olds ard
up. furlongs Astoccot IL. 81. Lazy
Fitzherbert los; Belle OF Brass lGg;
Reyburn. loo Earl Rogers, lis; HaVre,
lis; Racinette, los; Golden Castle, 10,
Third Racc-Three- year ODDS and up.
Patriot H.: Cooney X. 104; shirley
RosSn'orc, 100; Ruble. III, Royal Cap
tive, To-. Everd salvolatlle. l07; Croy-
don, l0i; Chepontuc. lo7; Lurid, 10;
Prince. 1OI, Tom Melton, 81. star
Gcwan. 80; Gypsy Girl, So
chase. i-year-oIds and up. selling .
miles; Decra, l45, pr- Heard. los,
Round Brook lj3. Nebcc, 49,. stella
Land LOB. Grandpa, 100, Usage, 100
Jimmie Lane. %; ENpansionist las.
Flfta Race Two year-olds fur
Longs Rash. l09. Hereto. lO9, Nina,
Gold Leaf. i0g Bondage los. Primt
Luce. IL. Laclede, loe, Rapid Flight,
109
sixth Race-Country club purse. g.
ytar-olds apd up mile and 40 yards
COLTS Ormshy. 100. Pins and Needles,
ll5. Pulka. ZOE, Martin Doyle. 10;
High Private los; biAle knight %
Al OAKLAND.
First Race-FiVc and unc-half fur
longs purse. SuilS 1l5, Cauttm. ll2,
Vespasian. l15; Basel H.. ". ".
BIumby l12. Ethel Nick, no, or
monde. Cunningham. llZ, DircCteilo,
10, Billy Saunders, H., bOWerCss,
10. M1oIook. li2. CuVina. 10.
Second Eacv-SIN aud one half fur
longs. selling Ampcdo. 10. Bonnie
I.ru IL. Sarucinesca. ll2. Lord OF the
Forest H., Ben stone. liz; Adena,
10, Dcuteu, 1I-, Airs. 10.
Third Race Mile. selling: Ruhric
l11a; Beaumau. loo Aftermath, NJ,
Follie l., iu5. Liyius. 10: Orielcnc.
1O5. ocean shore. 100, Roberta, 30,
Martinmas 1OT. Eddi, GraneY. 90.
Fourth -FutJrity course. scll-
ing: Jim CARNEY, 10; Faneuir Hall
1872, Johnny Lyons. go, RinOcular. % !,
Kid North IS, br. DOugherty, So,
Firth RaCe-Mile. selling Or Dow
RE. los. Special Delivery TO-; Picka-
way 100; captain Burnett, 100. Mat
tie Mack los. Tiflls. l03. Camera. 81.
Contra costa. 30, Deimas 81.
sixth Hace-SiN furlongs. sFllng:
gervicence. 113. Father stafford 10;
Arthur Lyman, 1l3. Lena Lech. los.
French Cook 49, Emma O.. log. Paul
CIinord. li3; He's, 1O2- 'Bufning Bush,
lls. Lord Clinton, ll9; Coriel, lltt
ketchel 90
.Apprentice allowance; weather
CLOUDY, track last
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20

Woods Full Of EN-.
Just now there are more lightweight
champions OF the east than discover
ers of Chr!sty Mathewson.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-20

Jefrics, rs saw him fouF week
age, weighs Pas pounds. Is slow an,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-16
Choice Of Eplthets.

Be more economical in the use OF
your mother tongue. Apply your terms
Of praise with precision; use epithets
with some degree of judgment and
fitness. Do not waste your best and
highest words upon inferior objects,
and find that when you have met with
something which Is superlatively
great and good, the terms by which
you would distinguish 1t have all been
thrown away upon inferior things
that you are bankrupt in expression.
If thing is simply good, say so; if
pretty, say so; If very pretty, say so :;
If grand, say so; if sublime, say so;
If fine, say so; If very fine, say so; If
magnificent, say SO; If splendid, say
so These words all have different
meanings and you may say them all
of as many different subjects and not
use the word perfect once. That is
a very large Timothy Titcomb.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-16
How We All Take II.

Miss Elizabeth Marbury, the we'll
known dramatic agent of New York,
told, at tea at the Colony club, a
story both amusing and true.
ITO grow old properly" she said.
is to grow old keeping the mind and
the heart young. Few accomplish this
feat, but all think they do so. This
misconception prevents old age from
being tragic.
you all know Helen Dash. She is
a great-grandmother now, but she was
once famous actress. She chung to
the stage to the very last she saw.
year by year, her applause lessen, her
salary decrease, and her press notices
shorten. Yet. do you think that Helen
Dash was unhappy? Not at all!
Not at all. When, one night In
her sixty-eighth year, Helen, in a new
role, got instead of tumultuous 3D.
piause, cold silence and even a few
venomous Kisses, she took the contre-
temps calmly, and on the way home
she said to her maid, worn old WON
an like herself:
81 think I'll retire. Acting is thank.
less work nowadays The public has
aged So
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-16
Novel Way to Raise Money.

ITO raise a considerable amount Of
money with very little trouble is to
form story chain, for a winter says
Martha Landon, in Womans Home
Companion. <
"A group OF ten women meet at the
home of one of them on an afternoon
and one reads aloud story. some
thing worth listening to, like The
Toy Shop" or THE Man without a
Country" or any OF the best short sto-
rles; then tea is served and perhaps
there is little music Each person
present pays an admission fee Of 20
cents. In turn each of the ten guests
give a similar tea at her home and tho
same programme is followed, and each
of these guests gives a tea; when this
has been done three or four times the
chain comes to an end, but the treas
ury Is filed"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-16
LIVING in TWO HOUSES
Various Advantages Found In Ar
ranaement Of One Home In
Country.

AT a place where lately visited
said a man just back from the coun-
try. Il found that my host had two
houses which stood about two hun
dred feet apart He had not built
these houses but had bought them.
one after the other, together with
the grounds and some acreage proper
ty around them. II he had built here
for himself he would doubtless have
built one big house; but these two
houses served his hospitable purposes
and his own comfort very we'll
lone of these two houses was com
monty occupied as the family home
and under its roof also were sheltered
guests when these were few in num-
Der, but If the visitors were more nu-
merous quarters were provided for
them in the other house. which was
thus practically guest house.
I'm another way the two houses
served conveniently and comfortably
for the family's own use. II either
house was being done over or repair
ed or torn up in any way the family
simply dwelt for the time in the 9TH
er. With two houses equipped for
use they can always have one in
which they may live quite undisturb-
ed"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-16
WORKING Backward.

A Japanese house is built different
ly from an English one. The roof,
which with us is the last important
part of the outward structure to be
completed, is with the Japanese the
first thing to be finished All the tools
used by the carpenters and joiners
have reversed action. The Japanese
carpenter does not push a plane away
from him, but pulls 1t toward him.
The gimlets are threaded in the op-
posite way to ours; the saws are made
so as to cut on the upward pull and not
on the downward thrust; screws have
their threads reversed, and keyholes
are always made upside down and the
keys turned backward In the house
If the clock is an old one 1t will have
stationary hands, with the face revolv-
ing backward and the hours marked
s, Z, 6. 5, 4, and so on. reckoning
from noon.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-16
oreat Man Of the Averaao cIaaa-

It is one of the first things to be
said about Macaulay, that he was In
exact accord with the common average
sentiment of his day on every subject
on which he spoke His superiority
was not of that highest kind which
leads a man to march in thought on
the outside margin of the crowd, watch
Ing them, sympathizing with them. hon.
ing for them, but apart. Macaulay
was one of the middle class crowd in
his heart, and only rose above II bv
splendid attachments and extraordinary
gifts of expression. He had none of
that ambition which infiames some
hardy men, to make new beliefs and
new passions enter the minds of their
neighbors; his ascendancy Is due to III.
srary pomp. not to fecundity Of spirit
John Morley.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-16
S ..a UP THE LEAK
Painful Experience Results From
Mans Desire to ePutter" Around
the House During His Wife's
Temporary Absence.


Election day brought TO prominent
Brooklynite the remembrance of the
way he spent that day a year ago. He
had noticed slight discoloration on
the ceiling Of his library, which was
directly under his bedroom. With a
mans desire to "putter" around the
house, he decided to use the holiday
TO investigate and see If there was not
leak In the water pipes on the floor
above, one reason for this determine
ton being that his wife was away and
would not return home until after
luncheon.
When he had finished his morning
paper and cigar, he took up a corner
OF his bedroom carpet, and turning 1t
back, removed a couple Of the floor
boards and, sure enough. found an In
significant leak IN a water pipe that
ran between floors. He had seen
plumbers stop little leaks OF that sort
by hammering down the pipe where
the water seeped through, and decid-
ed to try the same trick himself He
took the heaviest hammer he had In
the house and struck the pipe several
brave, resounding blows.
The result was startling. Instead
OF one trifiing leak he had enlarged
that to stable dimensions, and the
rotten pipe giving way had also start
ed another leak. from which a vigor-
GUS stream of water spurted into his
face, knocking off his eyeglasses and
trickling merrily over his shirt front.
The principles Of first aid to the In
jured flashed into his mind and, lying
nat on the floor, he put thumb of
each hand over each leak and called
Justify for help. He was finally heard
In the regions below, and when the
servant girl appeared he besought her
to put on her hat and run for a
plumber.
1t took Bridget some time to realize
that her master had not gone entirely
daft, still more time to array herself
In her outer garments, and anyone
who has tried to find a plumber on a
holiday may imagine how long 1t was
l~SASAN oAS wi ldASu Oub anu brought
him home with her.
At any rate, when the Brooklyn
mans wife returned repeated ringings
at the doorbell only resulted in her
hearing confused and indistinct bel
llowlngs from within which she could
not understand. With the aid OF an
obliglng butcher boy she finally
sprung the catch on a basement win
dow. On ascending to the upper
story she found her spouse fiat on his
face, hanging on to that water pipe
with both hands and using language
more picturesque than she had ever
heard him employ before. BY the time
she had decided she had not broken
into an insane asylum by mistake,
Bridget arrived with a reluctant and
ditfident plumber, and the Brooklynite
was released from his predicament.
He goes out of town on holidays now,
and he still glances at innocent ap-
pearing pipes with shudders of appre-
hension.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-16
THREAD USED BY SURGEONS

When Lister first ADVOCATED thes
ployment of catgut as a material
ligatures, numerous writer's po
out the objections, both theol
and practical, to the use of tb
stance. But time has seen a
and many surgeons at the
time maintain that the only So
material for a buried suture II car.
gut, and that silk should never be-
employed except for skin sutures
In this, as in so many other points,
the surgeon is greater than the detail.
II is certain that millions of silk SUI
lures have been inserted in the deep.
tissue, and have not cut their way
out, for If suture does make its way
to the surface it is probably always
because 1t was septic.
The attempt to find a ligature or
suture perfect in every way has
caused surgeons to employ many diff
ferent substances. Metallic sutures
for time received much support.
though they are rarely seen now
Animal fibres of various kinds such
as kangaroo tendons and threads of
the aorta of the OK, have been praised
by some surgeons, and one surgeon
claimed that perfection was to be
found in fibres obtained from the llga-
mentumnuchae of the narwhal. II Is
fortunate that the medical world has
not fallen in with this latter recon-
mendation, for 1t is to be feared that
the supply would fall far short of the
demand.