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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-16
CBy W. w. Naughton.)

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. ITO the
writer, one of the surest signs of the
widespread interest taken in the JEFF
frieS-Johnson matter is the increase
in the size of the afternoon mail. l am
in daily receipt of a number of COM
munications bearing upon different
phases Of the championship battle.
Many Of the letters are not worth
the paper they are written on. They
are Of a venomously partisan character.
Others are highly interesting, and one
at least which arrived few days ago
contained valuable suggestion.
nj a certainty. Constant Reader
and Fair Play are extremely alert
iust now, and woe betide the critic who
slurs over anything or is adjudged
guilty Of faulty reasoning in anything.
Here Is One of Them.
The letter l refer to is from San
Luis Potosi, Mexico. After working of
a compliment or two which modesty
lorbids a repetition of, the correspond
ent says.
There is one point connected with
al this pro and con talk, talk which
l have never heard discussed and L
9r-ng it to pour attention, hoping you
viii touch upon it in one OF your Sun
dav talks.
Should not Jefries' retirement have
worked to his advantage. since he has
oeen 11t OF training and it has been a
p"r.od Of rest? While Jeffries is a few
>e;IS Older than Johnson. is he not a
'"i'hSer man from a fighting stand
p"i'it, ard hasn't Johnson been in ac-
i've training longer than Jeffries-and
Sh'rldnt Jeffries be classed as the
Younger CT the two? Didn't Jeffries
start in lighting later in life than the
oclored gentleman and hasn't he had
"sS lighting to sap his strength? Isn't
rot also a fact that the physical life
~ IN" Saxon is longer than that Of
The Ethiopian?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-16
(By Willie Hoppe.)

Few things have afforded me more
amusement than the varying opinions
Of billiard enthusiasts as to my age
AT a time when | wore knickerbock
and long stockings l played a game of
billiards that many man who was a
voter could not duplicate, and the i'm
preston seems to have been created
that I was dressed in a manner to give
the appearance of youthfulness. So far
more than anxious to don trousers, in
which respect I did not differ from
all other boys.
Nevertheless, many persons who
saw me play reached the conclusion
that was considerably older than the
family Bible indicated, and in many
instances the doubling Thomases were
willing and ready to back their opin-
ions with cold cash.
An example of this sort occurred
when ] was meeting all corners at
1S.1 to my 1872 balkline billiards in the
academy of Cation & Greene, in Chica-
go. At this time / was II years of age
and I was playing a very stiff game.
On the first night of my appearance at
the academy my opponent was Ben
Saylor, a shortstop of considerable abil-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-16
1853 GAME SCHEDULE
American Association Meeting Tuesday
Decides to Play Long Season This
Year.

CHICAGO, Feb. 15.-The American
association adopted an 1853 game sched-
uIe, opening on April 13 and closing on
September 20, at it's annual spring
meeting today. 1t was several hours
after the schedule committee submitted
it's draft that the adoption of the
dates was announced. 1t is stated
that many minor changes were found
necessary to satisfy all club owners.
Action On the proposed amendments
and revision of the constitution was
deferred until a special meeting OF
the league on May 8. Many changes
in the constitution were suggested
at the December meeting, but tn club
Representative today asked for time
to ,HSiJer
President C. n. Chivington said that
the proposed changes were to be made
to bring the constitution up to date
The present constitution was adopted
in 1901 and has not been changed
since 1904.
The business was finished in a single
long session.
/ The meeting was harmonious all
| the way, according to President Chlv-
| ington.
Following are the opening games
Opening: April 10, st. Paul at Kan
sas City; Indianapolis at Toledo, Lou
isville at Columbus; Minneapolis a
Milwaukee.
! The other four teams will have then
| first home games as follows:
April 81, Indianapolis at Louisville
Milwaukee at Minneapolis; Kansas
City at ST. Paul. April %, Columbus
| at Indianapolis.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-16

The faculty of the Washington State
college at Pullman has recently hand
ed ont an edict which will seriously
effect the future of athletics at the
after no athletes VIII be allowed to
compete in more than two branches
of inter- collegiate athletics during any
school year In the past the state
college has always had several men
who were strong in at least three
branches of athletics and the recent
ruling of the faculty has put an end
to this.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-16
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i
Pullman Faculty Puts Ban
On All Around Athletes

Moose" Englehorn and Wallace De
Witt, the two Spokane boys who were
the stars of the football team and are
now helping w. S. C. in the fight for
the Northwest basketball champion
ship, will be the first men affected
by the rule as they have already won
their letters in two branches of sport
and will have to forego competing in
the spring on the track team.
This will be a serious blow to Coach
Boilers plans, as big Englehorn was
depended upon for the weight events,
the plans left vacant by the graduation
of Joe Hahn, and the high hurdles.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-16

DENVER, Feb. 16.-Jacob Schaefer'
the veteran billiardist, is dying here,
2 victim of tuberculosis. His physi-
cians have declared that he can live
only short time. The expert VINO
won the sobriquet of wizard OF the
cue" has been ailing for over a year,
and if had been known for some time
that his chances of recovery were
slight. Jacob Schaefer is some months
over 81 years of age. He was born IN
Milwaukee. but raisee> IN Leaven-
,,,ortb Kan He was to that age what
William Hoppe was to the oliiiaro
fraternity five years ago. Schaerer
took naturally to the cue ana al ,he
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-16
the game.
Here's a Thorny One.

Then again he asks: Hasn't John
son been in active training longer than
Jeffries and shouldn't Jeffries be
classed as the younger of the two?"
This is a thorny one but figures will
come to the aid of those wishing to
form an opinion favorable to Jeffries.
Jeffries in his whole career fought q
battles, whereas Johnson has been in
action rs times at least Now, among
old time critics and conditioners, 1t
was a favorite argument that much
training and relaxation made the men
Of the ring old before their time, and
assuming that Johnson trained for the
majority of his fights he has certainly
experienced more wear and tear both
in the ring and out of it than has JEFF
fries
The argument that the physical life
of the Saxon is longer than that of the
Ethiopian. is something that j will
gracefully side-step. In a general way
l might say that the negro race does
not appear to be dying out by any
means, but, of course, when Mr.. Next
co speaks of a physical life" he means
the life within a life-the athletic span
which keeps a fighter on top of the
heap for a number of years and the
passing of which does not deter him
from becoming prominent in other
walks of life later.
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Continued on Page Seven)
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age of fourteen was the boy wonder
of the state Of Kansas. Until his re-
tirement, within the past year Schaef-
er was considered one Of the most
expert cue manipulators in America.
Schaefer has held every billiard
championship of the world known to
the profession from the straight to
three cushion caroms- This fact dem
onstrates the versatility of the man.
Strange to say, his last big match was
for the 1871 championship. He beat
Willie Hoppe for the honors in Chi
cago four years ago He relinquished
the title later on account or poor
health. Schaefer is one whom the pro-
fession will sorely miss.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-16
Mo December May Affair.

One thing the man from Mexico has
brought home to the writer is that the
Jeffries- johnson affair is not a May
and December proposition as was the
Corbett- Sullivan affair. Jeffries, who
is So, fought eight years and then only
waded through 81 opponents. Johnson,
who is 80, has been at it nine years
and has toed the scratch over 20 times.
Thinking over these matters the
Mexican correspondents opening ques-
tor seems to me to be hard one to
answer. Here is what he asks:
SHOULD not Jeffries' retirement have
worked to his advantage, since he has
been out of training and it has been a
period of rest?"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-16
WILLIE HOPPE ON
BILLIARD EVENTS

Some of the spectators were so con-
fdent that Saylor would beat me that
they wagered heavily on the result.
Many of them were sOrely disappointed
with my easy victory, and one of the
losers, who had dropped a large roll.
was clearly disgruntled Somebody
made the remark that it was re-
markabe performance for a boy OF Is
years of age to best a seasoned veter-
an like Saylor.
WRONG Tip on Age.
boy of Il, eh?" queried the loser.
with an incredulous look, "why, that
kid will never see is again" 81 think
you are mistaken" said my father,
who was standing near the stranger.
The latter was unacquainted with my
father, and turning on him said:
What do you know of it? You see I
now the facts. know the whole Hoppe
family Ike 81 book. Why, l have
known Willie since he was knee high
to a grasshopper, and his father and
his mother are warm personal friends
of mine Why, use to live in the same
hotel with them, and many game of
pool l have had with Frank Hoppe.
~o>>~~~~~~~.-~->~~
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Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
BREAKING UP BRooDY HENS

Broodness may be delayed and even
prevented in different ways. The most
important and probably the most eff
fectiye of all things to keep hens from
wanting to set is to gather the eggs
almost as soon as they are laid. Ac-
tivity has a tendency to prevent brood
mess, and hens that are extremely
nervous, being easily disturbed and
continually on the move, are not so
likely to want to sit. Hens having a
male bird with them are more apt to
become broody than those without the
presence of the male.
In breaking up a sitting hen, the
sooner we get at it the easier and
quicker it can be done. Harsh treat
ment is unnecessary. The point is to
get the hen to think of something
besides her nest. l have pen or room
for this special purpose-breaking up
broody hens. Everything is removed
from the room in shape of nests, in
fact | have nothing in the room but
pole for them to roost on. A lively
cockerel placed among them will help
some, by keeping them on the move.
A broody hen should not be deprived
of feed or water, but avoid giving
very much fattening food. | have
found a coop with a Slated bottom
very good thing to use in breaking
UP sitters. But trying to break up
hens from sitting by resorting to cruel
methods is unnecessary; better kill the
hen right on the start. When | am
using trap nests and have only fifteen
or twenty hens in pen it is easy to
find out when the different ones stop
laying, and as soon as l learn which
they are, by changing these to diff
ferent pen | can easily prevent their
wanting to sit It's no easy matter
to break up a broody hen if she has
been allowed to set for a number of
days. and this is true especially of
strain that has a tendency to broodi-
ness. From my own experience with
flock of Rhode Island Reds l am sat
isfied that the tendency to incubate
can. in a great measure, be bred out
of a strain of fowls. If we are care
full and have patience in selecting we
can certainly improve on flock III
this respect.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
VALUE OF THE POULTRY CROP

The Crop Reporter, published by
authority of the United States secre-
tary of agriculture, announces that the
United States census of agriculture is
to give the number and value of poul-
try over three months old. The poul-
try includes chickens, ducks, geese,
turkeys, guinea fowls and pigeons. 1t
is also to tell the value of poultry of
all kinds raised in 1909, whether sold
consumed, or on hand; amount re-
ceived for poultry sold in 1909 guam
tity and value of eggs produced in
1909; quantity and value of eggs sold
in 1909.
The Reporter gives the following
table showing range of prices for best
fresh eggs for each January, begin
ming with eggs for each January, be-
ginning with 1903, viz.
For the market of December l, 1909,
Massachusetts and Nevada paid the
highest wholesale rate for eggs-47
cents per dozen, and Alabama, Texas
and Arkansas paid the lowest %
cents. The average for the United
States was 2S.4 cents per dozen.
For the market of January 1, Ne
vada paid 60 cents per dozen. and
North Carolina. Kentucky, Alabama.
Louisiana and Arkansas the lowest, 20
cents per dozen. The average for the
United States was 305 cents per dozen.
For the market of February, Nevada
again led with As cents per dozen and
Alabama was the lowest at Is cents.
The average for the United States was
25.S cents per dozen.
For poultry meat December l. Nevada
paid a fraction over Is cents pound
and South Dakota was the lowest at
fraction over 8 cents a pound. The
average for the United States was 10h
cents a pound.
For January /, Ariz> ma led at 20 cents
a pound, and Oklahom,4 was the lowest
at about Slh cents pound. The aver
age for the United States was frac-
ton over 101s cents pound
For February 1 the highe-t price was
16 cents, paid in New Hamr shire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut and the lowest was cents,
paid in Minnesota, North Dakota, Ne
braska. Kansas and Oklahoma. The
average for the United States was
fraction over 91s cents pound.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
SELL THE OLD BOOSTERS

In many locations the barn yard fowl
will not give way to the improved
breeds. If you cannot afford to buy an
entire breeding pen of pure stock, at
least obtain a full-blooded cock and
send the old common rooster to mar
ket. This will greatly improve mat
ters. if you are careful to retain the
best pullets of this oss-breed, and
when you have a stock of good ones
sacrifice the old hens. Cannot farm
ers be prevailed upon to do this. when
the supply of eggs, even in the VII
lagos. is too small in winter? When
eggs are scarce and the prices high, do
not some diminish home consumption,
and even then complain of the small
number they have to take to market
A thoroughbred hen of a good strain
will lay nearly so per cent more in the
number of eggs than common hen'
IL the prices diminish little the in
creased production of eggs will much
overbalance the account. Too many
persons raise poultry without regard
to the use of pure breeds and regard
less of an effort to maintain the high
standard to which our domestic fowls
have attained. The increased evidence
of the fact that high class poultry
pays, is surely sufficient to encourage
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
THE POULTRY HOUSE

When furnishing a poultry house, if
a busting bath of wood ashes, into
which has been mixed a can of Persian
insect powder and tobacco dust, be
furnished, the hens will keep them
selves free from lice.
The dust bath is a real necessity
where board floors are used, but may
be dispensed with when earth floors
are provided in the houses. 1t makes
but little difference whether the nests
be off the floor or close to it, and where
it is important to economize in room
the roosts should be placed over the
nests with a removable dropping board
to allow daily cleaning.
Avoid heated poultry houses. The
principal reasons for this are: That it
is almost impossible to keep a heated
room dry and disease is usually preva-
lent in damp quarters; that the fowls
do not need to exercise to keep warm
and so from lack of exercise fail to
give the best results; that they are
harder and more vigorous when kept
in unheated rooms and will stand bet
ter the changes in temperatures and
conditions. When fowls once become
accustomed to unheated rooms and
have developed their own strength and
cigor, they impart these qualities in
marked dgree to their offspring.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
PRACTICAL SPRING NOTES

Sunshine is a life giving tonic tc
chickens; they can hardly get too much
of it. | have seen small chickens leave
warm brooder in quite cool weather
and bask in the sun. We cannot make
the sun shine, but we can arrange the
brooder and houses so as to give the
chickens and fowls some benefit of it.
1t is a mistake to allow the deformed
and puny chicks to live and undertake
to raise them. | know from expert
ence that it takes some nerve to kill
them outright, but it is not right, either
on the part of the chicken or the own
err to permit these weaklings to live
longer than is necessary so they can be
picked out. For once try disposing of
all these runts and cripples right on
the start and see if you don't have
better and more even lot of chickens
than you ever raised before. l think
there would be less trouble from bowel
ailments among chicks If this matter
of selection was carried out promptly
and thoroughly as soon as the hatch
comes off.
1t has been said that a good time to
raise a crop was the next year after
most everybody else had grown that
crop, and as is usual sold it at a low
market price. From all indications it
would appear that nearly every one
was going into poultry raising this
spring, so whether this will be the year
for profit in the poultry business or not
is the question. There is a great call
for small farms for poultry poultry
supply houses report a big trade every
where; incubator manufacturers are
prepared for the largest trade ever. In
fact, everything points to many VEN
lures in the poultry business this year.
Have you cleaned up around the hen
yard yet? This should be done every
spring. If the run is not plowed, the
ground should be turned over. The soil
gets very filthy and poisonous when it
lies year after year and hens kept run
ming over it. Even if the poultry is not
yarded there is always certain space
around the buildings, where the hens
stay a great deal of the time, and this
spot gets in bad shape and needs puri-
flying in some way. A lot of rubbish,
boards, old worn-out farming tools ly-
ing around the poultry house looks
bad.
Give the grass a chance to grow or
clear the way for a pillow to break up
the sod If there are any holes in the
ground where the chickens run, such as
postholes, fill them up with dirt or
straw If a small chicken falls in he
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
is MEAT IN DIET NECESSARY

Hens are meat lovers. While on
range they are constantly hunting
worms and bugs, and in order to do
their best they must be supplied with
meat in some form. Prof. w. r.
Wheeler of the New York experiment
station says, in commenting on ex-
periments made at his station, the
rations in which from 40 to 80 per cent
of the protein was supplied by animal
food gave in every trial more econom-
ical results than the contrasted rations
in which most of the protein came from
vegetable sources. The vegetable food
ration, supplemented by bone ash,
proved equally efficient for limited
periods. 1t appears also that while
cheaper vegetable food ration can
sometimes be made to equal or sur
pass in efficiency a ration containing
animal food by supplementing it with
suitable mineral matter there are plain
limitations to its economical use.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
MAY AND JUNE CHICKS

For utility purposes chicks Matched
during May and June will bring the
poultryman the best profit, as there is
nothing gained by getting out chicks
before April l. only in case you wish to
raise a few for the early shows. The
early Matched chicks require more care
and attention to keep them growing,
and if they are neglected in any way 1t
is apt to retard their growth, and the
late hatched chicks very often catch up
to them; because at this time of year,
with proper care. they can be kept
growing every day until maturity and
will develop much faster than the ear
lier hatched chicks, the weather being
in their favor People in raising poul-
try have learned by experience that 1t
is not necessary to get out chicks in
January, February and March, and
there is not such a strife to hatch early
as there was some years back. The
next three months are really the grow
ing months.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15

us to strike out boldly and extensively
in this field of enterprise. Every eff
fort in this direction will meet with
such favor that success will surely
follow. Contrast the present with the
past, and notice whether the improve
ment in poultry has been paying ven
ture. Let us not hesitate to try all
the late commonsense methods. We
must not drift from year to year in
the same channel or we will certainly
become the active agents of a system
that destroys progress. The present is
an auspicious time to move in this
matter, and it is certainly something
that should interest all, and must be
conceded to be a theme that should
be discussed by farmers and poultry
men everywhere.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15
HAYES II. B.
Rhode Island Specialist
700 Reds 20 Breeding Pens

Our reds win their share Of the prizes on
this coast and come from eastern stock that
have been line bred for fifteen years and
win In New York and Boston. Visitors at
our yards say they are the best flock of reds
they have ever seen. Yards In Arroyo OPP
posite ostrich farm. Take South Pasadena
car to Avenue Sc. one block north to San
Pasquai avenue. then two blocks north on
same. BOX SO, GARVANZA STATION, Los
ANGELES, CAL. Phone East 1921
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-15

To keep salt meat from molding, rub
every fortnight with white of egg in which
has been mixed a little salt.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20
THE BRIDEGROOM NOW CUTS SOME ICE

ness or even politics upon which she
has set her mind but whatever it is
she devotes herself to it for 10 or 10
years. She intends to marry when she
gets ready-most women do-but there
is no hurry. When she is somewhere
between 80 and 40 and-Iike the men of
yore-begins to think that a home of
her own would be pleasant for
change. she marries. Ard in a wonder
fully large number OF instances she
marries a man S or 10 or even 10 years
younger than herself.
Senile widowers and antiquated bach
elors do not appeal to her-not success
fully at least-and some young man
going through the stage that all boys
must pass, of alteration for a woman
much his senior, is taken at his word
and married before he realizes what is
on the docket-which is much the way
his grandmother was welded. His wife
does the best she can to bring him up
in the way he should go, and if he
departs from it it is with the fervent
hope that she will not find it out II
he has an opportunity to marry sec
ond time he chooses a young girl--if he
has enough money by that time to buy
one-thus going back to the historic
attitude of men left to their own de-
vices
These modern innovations. however
amazing. must be met and reckoned
with. il such unusual attention as is
indicated is to be bestowed upon the
party of the second part in the mar
riage ceremony a new vocabulary will
be necessary for the equipment of a So
ciety writer Beautiful charming, Pc,
tite and exquisite will hardly apply to
the masculine subject and an acQuaint-
ance with the adjectives employed by
the sporting and racing departments
may be good and sufficient reason for a
raise of salary. Newspaper revenues
Will be materially increased when the
new method becomes common by the
extra copies ordered by the happy hus-
band to be sent to his old sweethearts
and unsuccessful rivals.
So, like other inventions, these new
ideas may work out the best good for
mankind. Certainly a husband trained
by an older and wiser woman must be
a blessing to his second wife, and it is
possible that the undue and unwise
prominence given the candidate for
matrimony on the day he has hitherto
spent in eclipse will not make him any
vainer than he was before. Observa-
tion would make it seem unlikely that
1t could.