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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-06-28
Very Fishy.

iotiys
She was fsherman's daughter, she
wore her hair in a net. and she pre-
ferred love in a piscatorial way.
"My love" he whispered, you hold
first place in my heart! Although
founder about in expressing myself.
my sole wish is that you will save me
from becoming Grabbed old bachelor.
shall stick 20 you closer than a linn
pet From yon Wink II be The road
to guide me. Together we will skate
over life's rocks, and when look at
your hand beside me | shall say to
myself, Fortune was mine when | put
herring there
And then the lady dropped her eyes
in sweet confusion and murmured:
Pass the salt Boston Globe
Vegetable Cast Iron.
Official tests of the many valuable
hard woods native to Western Aus
tralia have made known the extraol-
binary properties of yate believed TO
be the strongest of all known woods
Its average tensile strength is 240OO
pounds to the square inch. equaling
that of good cast iron. But many
specimens are much stronger. and one
was tested up to seventeen and half
tons to the square inch whicAis equal
to the tensile strength of wrought
Iron. The sawed timber of yate is
probably the strongest in the world.
The tree grows to a maximum height
of hundred feet and has sometimes
a diameter of two and a half or even
three feet.-Harper's Weekly.
His Helpful Suggestion.
In church which could be named
the pastor was DESTROYS of bringing
about in tactfuI way some improve
ments in the midweek service and an
nounced for subject THE Ideal Pray
er Meeting" A number Of helpful sug-
gestions had been made when one
brother known to be harmless as q
dove If not wise as a serpent got up
and said:
Il think everybody should come pre-
pared to say something, so that no
time should be lost except that which
is taken by the pastor"
AS he was known to be a great adj
mirer of the pastor the gravity of the
meeting was somewhat disturbed
Youths Companion
An Unusual Attribute.
Little Johnnie, who cannot pronounce
IS" has been frightened into keeping
out of the attic by tales told him by
his nurse of dreadful ghost that lives
In the dim recesses under the caves.
The other day he was overheard to say
confidentially to small friend:
We've got an old gho't in our attic"
To which his friend, much interest
ed. responded, do he butt?" y New
York Press.
Bees In Warfare.
Certain Nigerian tribes find bees
very useful In warfare The villagers
on retiring before an enemy excite the
bees and set them free. and painful il
the experience of the man who Is at
tackled by them in the Iabyrinths of
NH f.lx
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-06-28

Twelve Inch Guns.
A shell from q twelve inch gun
makes its flight of nine miles in forty
two seconds.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-06-28
An Unusual Attribute.
Bees In Warfare.

Certain Nigerian tribes End bees
very useful In warfare. The villagers
on retiring before an enemy excite the
bees and set them free. and painful is
the experience of the man who is at
tackled by them in the labyrinths of
cactus which surround the villages.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09
NOTES OF THE GAME

Danville won yesterdays game all
right, and there was no one to say
them nay.
Bloomington here tomorrow and
Monday, and then comes Peoria for
two games.
QUeisser didn't seem to have
thing. Whenever he put one over the
plate some heartless visitor would
clout it out for a timely bingle. Most
of the hits came with men on the
bases.
Some Of the fans are thinking seri-
ously of making up a purse and buying
Davidson an alarm clock. He loafed
on two balls hit into his territory yes
terday and the result in one instance
was very costly.
Davidson made a couple of bad plays
In the game yesterday, plays that the
fans believed foreign to Davy's train
ing. Twice he rushed up to fly balls
and at the last moment stopped and
let the sphere hit the ground in front
OF him, giving the batter a hit when
a putout should have resulted. Hide
brand of the visitors captured one the
day before that was five times as
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09
A RETURN MATCH?
New York Hears That Jeffries
Will Again Challenge John
son to Fight.
WILL GO ON A LONG HUNT
st. Louis Sport Arrives Home With
Money Won at Reno Stuck to
Him With Porous Plaster.

New York, July Aim Jeffries may
ask return match with Johnson, is
the statement contained in a Los An
geIes dispatch received here today.
The information, which is said TO come
from reliable sources, says Jeffries is
credited with declaring he would in
sist on a return match within six
months, following his return from a
hunting trip in the mountains.
Cash in Porous Plaster.
St. Louis. July 9.-ColoneI Abe Slup-
sky. a former politician, returning
home yesterday from Reno, painstak-
ingly and tenderly moistened two por-
Gus plasters tightly stuck on his chest.
From underneath he took $4,000 in
yellcwbacls.
1T is the only safe way TO carry
money in Reno the colonel said. Il
would have stuck nfon my back but
there was no one I could trust TO do
il for me. The only safe way for those
'GiPs' to get the coin from Slupsky was
to skin him.
Say, the fight drew the choicest
bunch of strongarm guys and dips TO
Reno that ever got together on the
continent. The evening of the Fourth
I kicked 20 empty pocketboOks off a
plank walk. The streets were full Of
tin watches. Whenever a dip sized
a mark up wrong and drew a dollar
watch he threw il away.
Won Rig sum.
In all l won $500. Putting up to
win that left me $50 even. And say,
I'd bet that $50 against a car ticket on
the COON
The colonel arose to go to a barber
shop and have his three days beard
removed. After the fight you couldn't
get a shave in Reno" he explained.
''All the BARRIERS lost their shops on
Jeffries"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09

The Boston American in a recent
issue had the following concerning
our own Peachy Graham, whom Rock
Island plucked out of the pastures of
Henry county and successfully trans
planted into professional baseball:
Few ball players have had the illus
trious career on the diamond that
George Peaches Graham, the Doves
stocky backstop, can claim. Rising
from obscurity in the bush league,
Peaches has plugged along until to-
day he has the distinction of being
the leading batter on the Boston
team that hangs out at the south end
grounds.
AS a batter and star catcher Ora
ham ranks with the best, and he has
established his popularity with the
home fans by his fast playing in
every game he shows, and it is hard
to keep Peaches out of the game, as
he plays ball for the love of the sport
and forget5 everything else once the
bell rings ~ action
Very Yew ~ the fans who yell Go
it Peaches" NOW where the sturdy
little catcher got his sweet sounding
name, and figure that he picked it up
from somewhere on the diamond, like
most ball tossers do in the course OF
their existence, but it is different in
Grahams case.
When he was scarcely a dozen years
old, rambling around Aledo, ILL.,, one
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09
JEFFRIES HOME; SILENT
Defeated Pugilist Goes to His Ranch
Near Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, July Still moody,
downcast and silent, James ]. Jeffries
arrived home yesterday from his dis
astrous experience in Reno. He came
from San Francisco with his wife
and party, and, avoiding a few
friends at the depot, stepped into an
automobile and was driven to his
town house. There was no demon
stration at the station. Jeffries sent
word in advance that he would not
talk TO anyone and kept his word. ms
right eye is still badly discolored.
That the optic nerve of Jeffries'
right eye was damaged by the blow
delivered by Johnson in the second
round at Reno was evidenced in a re-
mark by Jack Ripper, who accom-
panied the party to an interviewer.
Jeff" said Ripper, docs not
know anything about the rumors of
doping that have been flying about.
He cannot see to read yet He has
not read word about the fight and
nobody has told him a word of all
lAat has been said"
Ripper himself scouts the tale that
Jeffries was doped. However. he says
the big fellow was not himself men
tally when he entered the ring.
Worry ruined all Jeffries'
chances" he declared. "At the last
he received hundreds of kilograms
which pleaded with him to win, say
ing he had to win, that they had
bet their all on him. This sort of
thing prayed on his mind. This dope
stuff is all rot"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09
ROCK ISLAND LOSES
FIRST OF AFTERNOON

Rock Island and Davenport both
engaged in tight battles in the
openers of the double headers being
played on both diamonds this after
noon. Slow work in the local Outfield
finally helped Bloomington to victory.
Score
Rock Island ....OO0O4OOO O-4 10 8
Bloomington ...1O11OO2O 1905 13 l
Batteries-Cavet and O'Leary;
Roger and Nunamaker.
In Davenport the final score was:
DanviIIe .....OOOOOOOOO-O 6 0
Davenport OOOOOOOO-1 0
Batteries-Woods and Wolfe;
Holycross and Wolfe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09
AIRSHIP TO BE A FACTOR
Speaker Before Engineers Society
Says 1t Will Help Handle Traffic.
Chicago JuIV 9-"Tha dirigibIe hal

of the terroTs of the neighborhood,
like all American youths are, there
was an epidemic of peach stealing,
and Graham was innocently accused
by some of his frieids of being a Gull
prit, and "Peachy" was the nickname
he became known by among his young
playmates. The luscious sounding
name chung to him, only it developed
into Peaches when he grew older and
is likely to stick to him for the rest
of his days, for it seems to fit in so
we'll with the style of ball playing he
puts up.
1t was with the Pueblo team that
Peaches first got agoing, and the story
of how he became a major league
player is interesting and is different
than the majority of the rank and file
He was pitching for the Pueblo
team, a punk one at that He was
such a counterfeit that the manager
of the club was quick to throw Ora
ham in as so much junk when a trade
came along with Minneapolis with an
other player for a second class pitcher
named Archie StemmeIl.
As a versatile player Graham as
serted himself before he had been with
Minneapolis long. He was on the
books as pitcher, but one day after
he had twirled a two-hit game, the
only catcher the team owned was put
out of commission and Peaches Of
fered his services, and surprised the
manager by shaping up fine behind
the bat. The following day the short
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09
WHAT THEY THINK OF PEACHY GRAHAM IN BOSTON

stop was laid out, and it was Peaches
again who came to the rescue and
held down the short field to perfec-
ton. And so it went. In 10 days Ora
ham had covered every position on
the field. and made a record for an all
round player that few could equal.
Graham will tell you he started pro
fessfonal ball playing out in the West
ern league, going through the minor
stage process of moulding, but when
he began playing he had no idea of
being a backstop; but that came &c
him in time, and once settled in the
spot he can't very we'll vacate it as he
has become too valuable in that loca-
ton.
He had a taste of big league ball in
1908, when he joined the Chicago
team as a pitcher, but his days were
numbered in the Windy city. as he
was not quite ripe enough to keep in
step with some of the veterans that
made up that club.
1t was in 1906 that the Boston Ma
tionals secured him, to fill in as a re-
ceiving general, and there is no uues-
ton that he has made good, and his
services are highly appreciated by all
who go to the south end grounds.
Manager Fred Lake is certainly
sweet on his catcher He says he is
one of the grandest fighters in the
game today. A player who never let's
up till the last man is out, and defeats
disturb his equilibrium more than
anything else.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09
ARMED; AFTER JOHNSON?
st. Louis Machinist Arrested in At
tempt to Enter Jacks Home.


tempt to Enter Jacks Home.
Chicago, July Orchard McGuirk,
st. Louis machinist, was arrested
here late yesterday after he had at
tempted 10 force an entrance to the
home of Jack Johnson, champion pug
list. at 3344 Wabash avenue McGuirk
was armd with a rifle and the police
were called by excited neighbors who
feared that McGuirk intended to kill
Johnson
McGuirk is being held in jail pend
ing an investigation of the case by the
police. When examined at the station,
McGuirk said that he had lost S25 as
4 result of the Jeffries-Johnson fight.
On further questioning he said that his
home was in Bransford, Canada, but
that he had been working in st. Louis
for some months.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09
RIckard to Sue Governor Gillette

Richard to Sue Governor Gillette,
San Francisco, July 9.-Tex Rick
ard has announced here that he will
start suit against Governor Gillette
next week in an attempt to recover
100000, which he claims he lost on
preparations to hold the Johnson
Jeffries fight in California Richard
will base his rights on the claim that
the governor told him at one time
there would be no interference with
the proposed fight and later, after
work had been started on the arena
and other preparations made, called
out the militia to prevent it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09

Tommy Leach. Hans Wagner and
Fred Clarke have been playing to-
gether for thirteen years.
Manager Mcclure OF Cleveland has
lassoed B. Hamilton DE Mott. the phe-
nomenal Lafayette college pitcher.
No second baseman in the American
league has anything on Gardner of
Boston when it comes to cutting a
ball 10 first on double play.
There is little doubt that Captain Hal
Chase OF the Yankees and Captain
Harry Lord OF Boston are being groom
ed now for future managerial honors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09

Two base hits-Vogel. Hildebraud,
LOOMS. Three base hits - StOfer,
HiIdebrand. Sacrifice hits-Callahan,
Sullivan, Stofer. Stolen bases
Manusch, Vogel, Sullivan. Bases on
balls-Of Queiser, 3; off LOOMS, 3.
Wild pitch-Queisser Struck out-By
Queisser, 8; by LOOMS, 3. Time of
game-1:40. Umpire-Carruthers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09
Exhaust Pipes.

In some cases the exhaust pipes
from the muffler are so placed that the
exhaust gases. SCOT and OIL impregnat.
ed. impinge upon painted portions OF
the chassis with bad results. All that
is necessary to obviate this is to bend
the pipe downward so that the ex
haust gases will be directed away from
the car toward the ground.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09

loon will become a factor in transport
ing freight, as well as passengers"
said w. A Blunck last night in an ad-
dress to the Western Society of Engi-
Eeers. The speaker has been investi-
eating aviation in Europe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09

Rusty Owens, foreseeing that his
job with Sterling will be short, has
applied for a place as umpire in the
Central association.
Waterloo has bought Pitcher Biers-
dorfer. a left handler, from Des
Moines. Another Western Lacquer to
see if he can maintain the gait in the
Three-Eye.
Jack Herbert, who has been drop
ped by Jacksonville in an effort to
economize, has been signed by Keo-
kuk, which club has also secured
Pitcher Patrick, formerly with
Springfield.
Each club got $500 out of the
Fourth of July pool, the total at
tendance being about 5000. This
is considerably below the figures for
Memorial day.
Waterloo has won four out of the
five games played with Springfield
and the Boosters are foolish enough
field will play four games during the
series opening today.
Well, well. A petition is being
circulated at Bloomington asking the
association to change managers. God
win is favored by some for the job
and Roy Snyder mas also many fol-
lowers. They simply can't stand this
losing streak and Pa Keenan, is not
doing anything to stop it. One thing
the knockers are after him for is the
dropping of James Novacek, who be-
came manager of the Lincoln team.
Allan Roudebush, who played with
the Boomers last year and has been
practicing law this season at Gin
cinnati, has finally been induced to
report. 1t is expected he will join
the team here tomorrow. He has
been playing Independent ball Sat
urdays and Sundays and batting
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09

Summary: Stolen bases - S challer,
Lotion, Taylor. Bower. r. Darringer
81. Two-base hit-R. Darringer Three
base hits-Bell, II. Darringer. Struck
out-By Faber. 5; by Laudermilk, Z.
Bases on balls-Off Faber 2; off Lau-
dermilk, 4; off Schroeder, 1. Umpire
Bannon.
Timely Swatting Downs PeOrin.
Waterloo, Iowa, July 9.-Timely hit
ting by Waterloo, coupled with Peo-
ria's errors, gave the locals two runs
and the game. 2 to 0. Clark was a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09
ILLINOIs-MIssOURI LEAGUE
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
THREE-EYE LEAGUE

Rock Island, 0; Danville. 4.
Waterloo. 2; Peoria, 0.
Davenport, 7; Bloomington, 2.
Dubuque, 5; Springfield. 4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Chicago, 3; Cincinnati, 2.
Brooklyn, 6; Pittsburg, ).
No other games scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
New York, Is; Chicago, 4.
Philadelphia, 4 ; Detroit, 8.
Boston, Sc; Cleveland, 1-2.
Washington, -; St. Louis, 8.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Kansas City, 10; Minneapolis, 2.
Milwaukee, 8; st. Paul, 1.
Louisville, G; indianapolis. 5.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
Sioux City, IL; Lincoln, 8.
st. Joseph, II; Denver, s.
Wichita, 8; Topeka, 2.
Omaha, 6; Des Moines, s.
CENTRAL LEAGUE,
Dayton, 2; Wheeling, 1.
Fort Wayne, Z; GAINESVILLE. 4.
Evansville, "a; South Bend. d
No other game scheduled.
CENTRAL ASSOCIATION.
Hannibal, 3; Galesburg, 0.
Quincy, 8; Kewanee, 2.
Ottumwa, 10; Monmouth, 1.
Keokuk, 8; Burlington, 2.
WISCONSIN-ILLINOIS LEAGUE.
Green Bay, 6; Fond du Lac, 3.
Aurora, 8; Madison, l.
Oshkosh, 7; Appleton, 8.
Rockford, 8; Racine, 8.
ILLINOIS-MISsOURI LEAGUE
Lincoln, 4; Clinton, 2.
Canton, 4; Macomb, 1.
Pekin, z; Beardstown, I.
NORTHERN ASSOCIATION,
No games played.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09

spectacular as either OF Davy's chances
could possibly have been made, and
Hildebrand is not expected to be the
fielder that Davidson is as he is
change catcher.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09

Summary: Stolen bases - Ohland,
Breton. Sacrifice hits-Darringer, Sny-
der. Two-base hits - Geyer, Higgins.
Bases on balls-Of Smith, l. Struck
out-By Higgins, 3. Umpire-Daly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09
ONE FOR DUBUQUE
Miners Best Springfield in Ex-
ira Inning Game by Con-
sistent Hitting.
BOOSTERS BEAT PEORIA
Davenport Bunches Hits OF Higgins
and Easily Gets the Better of
the Boomers.

Dubuque, Iowa, July 9.-Dubuque's
consistent hitting and fine fielding won
a 10inning game from Springfield,
TO 4 Score.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09

Compiled by The Argus, including games of July D.

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stands third crnO htsin onyg
eka cmup d Ipdq nofeahyan d thee at held
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09

Summary: Struck out-By Clark, 3;
by Gilbert, 3. Bases on balls - on
Clark, 2; off Gilbert, 4. Umpire
Mann.
Davenport I'm Easy Win.
Davenport punched hits off Higgins
in the fourth and eighth innings and
won handilV TO . Score.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09
LOOMS DENIES
LOCALS LOOK-IN
Islanders Held to Three Hits IN
Closing Game of Series
With Danville.
FIND QUEISSER AT WILL
TaiIenders Gather Four Runs While
Applying Whitewash Brush to
the Islanders.

GAMES TOMORROW.
Bloomington at Rock Island.
Danville at Davenport.
Springfield at Waterloo.
Peoria at Dubuque.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09

DanviIle won the third and deciding
game of the series by taking the ISL
anders into camp yesterday afternoon
to the tune of to o. It was q white
wash game all the way through. The
champions were quite unable to make
any impression upon the shoots and
benders sent over the plate by one
Mr.. Loomis, the same hurler who had
figured strongly in every game of the
series. Only three safeties were cor
rallied off him and they were scattered
out and usually came after two men
had been hung on the hook. In the
second inning Stark reached third
after two were down, but he persisted
there, and after that not a single ISL
aRder reached second base, with the
exception of Voger, who doubled in the
seventh inning and died when the
third man went down and out. 1t
was Danville's game all the way
through and they deserved to win as
the champs were clearly off color in
every department.
Hit Queisser at VIII.
Manager. McCarthy's bunch seemed
able to connect with Walter Queisser
at about any time they needed to. In
the first inning two hits were made
of him after two were down and while
no runs resulted they convinced them
selves at least that they had his meas
ure. In the second inning three more
bingles were made and this time they
were not bare of results as two men
crossed the platter. led with a
single to left and Id hunted
out on a third stri living Wolfe
still on first. StOfer, however. landed
on one and it bounded over CaIlahan's
head in center and when it was fielded
in Stofer was on third and Wolfe had
scored. Loomis struck out, but Stofer
was brought home by Sullivan, who
singled to center.
In the next there were two down
when Wolfe got a free pass and com
pleted the circuit on a three-sacker by
Hildebrand. who nailed the ball into
tho groove between center and left.
In the sixth the visitors had another
fancy doings with Waters curves and
three more of them hit the ball safely.
two OF them being two sackers, one
by Hildebrand and one by Loomis.
Only one man scored, however, as
LOOMS was nipped while trying for
third on a grounder by Magee. The
-un scored by Hildebrand made the
fourth and the last for the visitors,
and the final count was to O.:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09
AMATEUR BALL
MANAGERS DIRECTORY.

100 Block Team''-Manager, Joe
Gstettenbauer, Rock Island freight de-
pot, Moline.
1900 Team"-Manager, Clarence
Mart, 200 Fifth avenue, Rock Island.
Rock Island, Independent-Manag
E. Saunders, 1876 Fourth avenue, Mo
line.
The Sextons-Manager. T. c. Roam
tree, P. o. Box AGA, or telephone 1175
K, Rock Island.
Thornbloom Tigers - Manager,
Charles H. Crippen, 1412 Twenty-sixth
avenue. Phone East 800 L.
Butchers - Manager, George Huber,
old phone west $40, new 549S.
Young & McCombs - Ralph Kent,
manager, Young & McCombs store.
Bennetts-Manager Mat J. An
drews, phone w. 1884, or address
Turner hall.
Lawndales, manager, Earl Ihrig, 1413
Twelfth street; old phone 1149Y.
reenbush-Manaser, S. Wahlheim,
2713 Eighth-and-a-half avenue.
West Ends-Manager, Ad Molensky,
72O Ninth avenue; old phone 6O9L.
Observation-Disclosures S24 Twenty
first street, old phone 462Y.
Teams from the local Offices of the
Rock Island and the Burlington roads
are to play at Island City park tomor-
row morning. Neither team has been
practicing any thus far, but both are
confident of being able, to play good
enough to defeat the other.
The Rock Island BENEFITS will play
at Coaltown tomorrow afternoon with
the miners team of that village. The
Coaltowners have a fast aggregation
which has won number of victories
thus far this year and as the BENEFITS
will be shy two of their regular play
ers they are a little worried about the
outcome of the contest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-09

Waterloo has bought Pitcher Biers-
dorfer. a left handler, from Des
NIoines. Another Western Lacquer to
see if he can maintain the gait in the
Three-Eye.