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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-19
(By Hillary H. Olmann.)

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-The years ra-
cling season in the east will be open on
April Is and from present indications
the struggle for turf supremacy will
lie between James r. Keene and Sam
uel c. Hildreth. Mr.. Keene by far has
the most promising string of entries
friends declare that his plans have
been kept more or less in the dark and
he will dawn upon the turf in Apri
in all the splendor of a winning stable
On account of the renewed activity
in turfdom in the east the Jockey club
has been having a difficult time to as
sign dates for the spring, summer and
fall so that there will be no conflict
The advent of Brighton Beach back
into active turf affairs rather compli-
Gated matters. With Brighton we shall
have racing at Aqueduct, Jamaica, Bel
mont Park, Gravesend, Sheepshead bay
and Empire City. Rather an important
layout, Ell? Looks pretty nifty for old
1910 Notwithstanding the urgings
which Governor Hughes is giving the
New York legislature. Think we shall
do some lively business in the east
this summer.
Saratoga made application for the
entire month of August, another prom
Using outlook The annual meeting of
the Saratoga directorate was held this
week when extra emphasis was given
to this request AS the Spa manage
ment furnished the best sport of 1909
in the east, and as they have hung up
nearly $25O,00O worth of purses and
stakes for the coming summer their
desires are receiving respectful atten-
ton.
The management of Brighton has not
been backward about advancing it's
claims for restoration to full and COM
plete racing Nearly 300 entries have
been made for Brighton this coming
summer which is a mighty fine au-
gusy.
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THIRD CONTEST CALLED
OFF BETWEEN , SCHOOLS

The Walla Walla high school and
Whitman college will not meet in bas-
ket ball any more this season. Such
is the word which has been passed out
by the management of the two teams.
The reason for not playing the third
game is because the two institutions
can not agree on what rules should
govern the contest. The high school
refuses to play any but A. A. U. rules.
Whitman, on the other hand, is forced
this year by the other colleges of the
Northwest, to play intercollegiate
rules. Coach Blanchard has deemed
it imperative for the varsity to use
only intercollegiate rules in the here
after in all, games which the college
will play with outside teams. This
step is taken because it is necessary
in the development of the VARSITY to
play only one system of rules and the
coach and other basketball authori-
ties at the college feel that this sys-
tenn should be that which the varsity
is compelled to play in all of its inter-
collegiate contests.
So far this season Whitman has
played A. A. u. rules in order to be
able to meet other teams in the city.
If the high school will play inter-col-
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Empire City's Bio Meet.

The Empire City Racing association,
of which James Butler is president
will offer Is stake events to be run at
Yonkers this year. The Empire City
handicap one mile and a furlong,. will
be the feature as usual, and will have
a guaranteed value of $6,000-$1, 900
more than last year. The values of
the other stakes will be proportionately
made known at an early date, togeth-
er with time for the closing of entries.
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legiate rules the varsity will meet
them for the third game of the sea-
son. The high school lads however,
have already declared that they will
not play inter- collegiate rules, so it
looks very much as though the games
between these institutions for this
year will be discontinued.
This move does not at all please
the basketball fans Of the city, as
they were anxious to see the two
teams clash for the third and decid-
ing game Of the series. So far both
high school and the varsity have won
a game and both scores have been
exceedingly close. The high school
won the first game by a margin of
one point and the varsity gathered in
the second game by the majority of
two points.
Friday night of this week the Y.
M. c. A. team of this city and the
collegians will clash for the second
contest of their series. Coach APP
plegate Of the "Y" team has very
kindly consented to play inter-colleg-
late rules for the benefit of the var
sity. This game will be played in the
basket ball cage at the Whitman gym
nasium.
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FIGHT FRAMEUP IS
BEING REVEALED
Looks Now Jefries Is Planning to Double Cross Ne
gro Out of Share of Purse.

as if Richard is standing alone with
the negro, and that COffroth will line
up with the other crowd when he re-
turns from Europe. He controls the
moving picture patents and can dictate
to a certain extent anyway.
The embarrassing that is going on
in San Francisco between Gleason and
Supervisor Herget, formerly young
Mitchell" the prizefighter, is harder to
understand, but about the best advice
to Johnson is that he better look out
or he will find himself holding the
small end of the purse. In the first ar
ticles framed, there was every indica-
ton that the negro was being treated
fairly. The money was to be divided
rs and 25, the picture money evenly.
But in that agreement, Richard was
furnishing the backing, and, of cOuse.
expected to be the dictator. His would
be the large share or the promoters
profit, and of course that would not
go down we'll with the San Francisco
easy-money sharks. Relying upon the
inevitable, that the fight must come to
San Francisco, Gleason has allied him
self with the chairman of the Police
Board, who has declared rnat q san
Francisco man must be the moving
spirit. If Rickard drops out rather
than accede to that, it will call for a
new agreement, and Johnson will find
that it will either be no fight with
Jeffries for him, or that he must go
at the terms of the white men, who
figure that every dollar that goes TO
outside their own combina-
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Hughes Keeps Up Fight.

Governor Hughes thought to take
another fall out of racing upon
the occasion of the New York state
legislature when he asked in his mes
sage that racetrack betting be stopped
even when no money was passed over.
BY this he hoped to put q quietus on
memory" or oral betting, a scheme
of transaction which has gained con-
siderable prestige in the east. | per-
sonally do not look for any further
death blows than have already been in
f1icted. There couldn't be many more
but it wouldn't surprise me to see his
royal Whiskers try to have a law en-
acted to put hobbies on all racehorses
just before each race.
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Paris Mutuals Compromise.

Since horse racing and track betting
have been receiving legal jabs in sew
eral parts of the country l have heard
rumors that an attempt will be made
as compromise. In Kentucky it is a
legal manner of laying wagers, and I
understand it has given satisfaction at
Louisville, although not at Latonia.
Some time ago the Kentucky courts.
through the state racing commission.
took plans to regulate just how racing
shall be conducted in the Blue Grass
commonwealth. Treasurer Hackmeis-
ter of the Latonia association has I'M
dertaken to explain and compare con-
ditions. He says: Conditions at La
tonia are different from what they are
at Louisville. While the former is a
Kentucky track, like the latter, La
tonia's patronage comes from Cincin-
natl in tn emain. l may be mistaken.
but l don't believe meeting can be
held at Latonia and be a winner with
the pooling system of betting. If any
thing like liberal stakes and purses
are hung up. If the Kentucky racing
commission could wipe out the hand
books in the Queen City then we would
have a chance. Racing patrons of
Cincinnati, or so far as the majority is
concerned, are welded to the booking
system, and if they can't play the
horses the way they fancy at the
track they don't go to the races, but
stay in town and play the handbooks.
The big operators at the track also
shun the auction and mutual pools and
wire their money from the track to the
handbook
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pleted, dedicated to his memory and his
work, the Institute of France refused
to hive him credit for his discovery.
DIR. M. T. c.. Morton, another dentist,
and DIR. Charles T. Jackson, both of
Boston had put in their claim just be-
fore Wells arrived These two men
were little entitled to consideration az
Morton had been a partner of Weis at
Hartford and it was from hi mthat
Morton learned the secret. And Jack
son had worked with Morton, and the
two agreeing to share honors The
former was a chemist and prepared the
nitrous oxide, which was at first doc
tored" and patented under another
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Developments are following thick
and fast in the Jeffries-Johnson fight.
and the followers of the fistic game are
able to see the frame-up. In the dis
patches Johnson, in New York, said
Richard had offered to put up the full
amount of the purse, 100000 with
big Tim Sullivan, and that he
would cast his fortunes with Tex
and rely upon his pulling off the
fight in Salt Lake or anywhere else
he wanted to. Rickard, at Salt Lake,
said Gleason had not put up cent for
the fight; that he had financed the
whole deal and is backing it, and that
Gleason only got in at all on the
leverage of Sam Berger, Jeffries' man
ager. Then Jeff, himself, from Joliet,
ILL.,, spoke and said: Jack Gleason is
the man behind the gun, and the fight
will be held either in San Francisco or
across the bay at Oakland. l haven't
any faith in the talk that Rickard IS
booming Salt Lake City as the battle
ground. Gleason is the prime mover
and for my part I'd prefer to fight on
the Coast.
In the mixup the fighters are really
principals and promoters of the at
fair. Gleason has not cent Of his
own, and is really the representative
of Jeffries in bidding for and staging
the fight. Richard or CoHroth IS
the real manager of Johnson. If Coli
roth is, then Riczard is merely the
representative of Coffroth in the bid
ding. because Jimmy is in bad with
.ha authorities TT looks now however.
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PARIS. Jan. 19.-The latest chapter
in a story filled with tears and sobs
and madness and death, the hero being
an American native of Hartford, Conn,
is now nearing a fitting end here.
\ monument is being erected in the
Square des Etats Unis, Avenue d1ena,
near the famous Champs Elysees, IN
memory of DR.. Horace Wells, the dis
coverer of the practical use of laughing
gas nitrous OXIDE. Discredited at
home and abroad. deceived by friends,
hooted at and jeered by students, the
great man lost his reason and at New
York in 1S4S, committed suicide.
The monument now building here
Will be dedicated in March, but cur
ious mistake is being made by those
Americans and Frenchmen in charge OF
the work. 1t is announced that the
dedication will be made in honor of the
late Horace Wells "discoverer of anes-
thesia."
This last is untrue. Though without
suggestion or aid from any one, DR..
Wells discovered the anesthetic proper
ties Of laughing gas and for his dis
covery deserves the undying gratitude
OF mankind, it was DR.. Crawford w.
Long, of jefferson, Ga, who is entitled
to the credit of making anesthesia
known to the world, he performing an
operation by the aid of ether in 1912.
DR.. Wells first used laughing gas in
lN4t in tooth pulling
All Meet Tragic End.
Few people know that practically all
nose connected with the discovery of
anesthesia died tragic deaths. Yet this
Is true. The story of laughing gas and
ether is sad enough.
DR. Long and his friends in the
country about Jefferson. Ga. used to
'hhase the fumes of su'phuric ether for
iun' The physician noticed that they
would fall about and hurt themselves.
''ough at the time no pain was felt.
ne OF these friends, James venable
Au TWO tumors on his neck and. half
uiiy' consented to allow DR.. Long
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-19
ENNIS
WRESTLING
RACING
BOXING

terested in the Jaurez track in Mexico,
left FL Paso on Sunday for this city
and announced that upon his arrival
here he would proceed TO let the con-
tracts for many extensive improve
ments at the Westchester course. 1t
is understood that Mr.. Butler is we'll
satisfied with the present winter meet
ing at Jaurez and believes that next
year the new track will prove an un-
qualified success.
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accidents both times. He showed
plenty of speed and endurance.
Trotting Men Meet.

LEXINGTON, KY, Jan. 18.-Omcers
&C the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breed
crs' association in Lexington today,
declare that the past season has been
an exceptionally prosperous one for
the association, and that the prospects
are good for an even better season
this year Secretary Wilson has been
tusy for the last month with the flu
tire stakes, which are attracting much
attention.
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Slim Chance for Santa Anita.

/ was sorry to hear of the drearv
outlook for the Santa Anita race TRACK
in California Some time ago Thomas
Williams, president of the New Ca
fornia Jockey club. in discussing coast
racing said he did not think that there
would be racing at Santa Anita track
either this winter or in the spring. j
asked him the cause and he attributed
it to the anti-betting law in California
Speaking of the Santa Anita track re-
calls that E. G. Smith, who for TWO
years was racing secretary there, mas
been made secretary of the Coney
Island Jockey club.
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name Though it was not until 1916
that these two men became so much in
terested in laughing gas, they con-
trived to keep Wells from getting any
honor at all, during life, pooling their
interests against his, in congress and
everywhere.
Poor Wells at last went to New
York. There he became mentally de-
ranged and killed himself. a dlsap-
pointed, discredited, laughed-at, much
mistaken man. Perhaps in spirit DR..
Wells will rest more content If he can
see the likeness of himself in marble,
adjoining one of the most beautiful
streets of Paris.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE marriage
Of Miss Caroline Aston Drayton, grand
daughter of Mrs. Astor, and William
Phillips, first secretary of the Ameri-
can embassy in London, which was
set for today, has been postponed.
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aral in the East.

Johnny Taral, son of Fred Taral, who
has been doing some good riding at
Jacksonville, may. be seen in the east
next summer
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FOOT BALL
BASKET BALL
BALL
AUTOiNG
Fighters in Old
Days Were Game

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-There were
giants in the old days.
How the old timers love to sit down
and fan up the ghosts of the fighters
who used to be. How they do kill it
when they get to talking about Jack
Dempsey and Slavin and McAuliffe and
the rest of the bare knuckle boys Ten
years from now they may include Bob
FItzsimmons and Battling Nelson in
that list.
1t is human nature to figure that the
GOOD old days are always the days
which are gone. BY the same token,
there are old timers who believe that
in the last 10 years we have not the
like of the average fighters of the
generation ago.
They Had to Fight.
One thing is sure, the fighter of 20
years ago had to be a fighter. 1t
slope shouldered narrow chested youth
with runaway legs and a left jab that
wouldn't break an egg. 1t wasn't soft
game in those days, and the man who
went into it knew that he had to take
punishment as well as give it, and the
fighter with the streak quit before ~
began.
There wasn't much of an inducement
Tor a young man to enter the prize ring
If he was lucky he got a broken nose
TWO tin ears, a wall eye and bare
living. Those were the, boys who
fought down in cellars or up In lofts
or out on the bare turf, and after a
man fought for his very life, he turned
the hat upside down and was thankful
for what came out-$10, SIS or maybe
$40.
1t Wasn't Business.
Fighting wasn't a business then; it
was the hardest kind of hard work,
and if the game was not on a very
high plane or it's followers were not
the cream of society, they at least saw
real fighting-fighting with bare fists
picked in brine.
Can you imagine the battered old
ghost of the former gladiatOrs trying
to get it through their shadoWy heads
that two men of their profession are
70 fight for a purse of more than $780,
900 Some of these old boys took
dozens of beatings, and never saw as
much as $50 at any one time Sensible
young men didn't go into prize fighting
in the early eighties, if there was any
thing else on earth out of which he
could make a living.
Big Purses Began.
Then the game began its boom and
the purses started to climb. The yell
low backed bills began to whisper to
al sorts of fellows, most of whom were
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-19
Honor DiSCOVerer
OF Laughing Gas

to administer ether to him while one of
these was removed. Venable said he
felt not the slightest pain. This took
place March 80, 1912, and besides the
original entry on DIR. Longs account
book Che charged 81 for the operation)
four witnesses saw the accomplishment
of this first painless surgery. The Sec
ond tumor was removed later, in the
same way. The ether was poured on a
towel which was held to the patients
nostrils and mouth.
On December II, 1914, DR.. Horace
Wells attended lecture on chemistry.
Nitrous oxide came in for it's share of
experiments. A man, under its inf1u-
ence, fell over bench and struck his
shin cruelty against it. After the lee
ture Dr. Wells rushed up to him.
Are you hurt?" he exclaimed.
What do you mean?" the subject
asked
why" replied Wells, you struck
your shnn with such force against a
bench" And sure enough, upon ex-
aminating the member, it was found to
be cut and bleeding.
Tries Gas on Himself.
This gave Wells, who was a dentist,
his idea. The very next day he had
one of his own teeth extracted, just to
see if it hurt 1t didn't. Then he be-
gan himself to pull teeth with the aid
of the so cal ed laughing gas, or nitrous
oxide. In Boston, the gas was tried
QS45) in major surjery. 1t failed, and
DR.. Wells was hooted and chased from
the hall by the students who were at
tending the lectures. The patient. who
very probably had not been completely
put under the drugs influence. had
cried out in pain 1t is said the indig-
mites they heaped upon Wells made
him ill and for long time his life
was despaired of.
From this time on, DR.. Wells led
cherries existence. He came to France
and here in Paris, close to the spot
where the manument will stand COM
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ketch and Bat of Old School.

Ketchel is one of the fighters of the
old time and STYLE and Bat Nelson is
another. Bat would have been a star
in any period. There has always been
a premium on a man who would stand
up to the gaff and take it without
f1inching. Bat has never been a one
punch fighter; he never possessed the
knack of finishing a strong fight with
a single wallop, but he does know how
to hang around until constant jabs
wear down a tired man.
Tn the coming battle between Jeffries
and Johnson every sporting man hopes
to see a real fight not a dancing match
Johnson, with his cleverness, may try
to evade the issue long enough to tire
the white man. Jim Corbett skipped
out of danger for % rounds, and hardly
had his hair mussed until Jeff landed
the one finishing punch. Johnson has
been called the black Corbett. If he
had Corbett's neat, clean footWork, he
would come closer to the mark set by
that master of tactics.
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for being one full-grown hustler in
this baseball business With O'Leary
and Brett and Dickson of Waterville,
Wash, and Lord and Johnson of Van
couver scrapping among themselves
as to who really owns the Vancouver
club, Red Robert Brown, who has put
est in the club, is going right ahead
building up a cracking good team. Bob
has a warranty deed for the money he
put up for the controlling interest IN
the club and he is confident that his
claim will stand with the directors of
the league.
Just list to the deals this energetic
young fellow has pulled off already:
He has bought Dick Breen, steady
young fielder who was with the Port
land Coast league club last year to
play second base for him. He traded
Davis and Cartwright last year with
Vancouver for Dode Brinker and Bob
by James Jack Clynes and Dick Boet
finger, Harry Rush and Erve Jensen
are four others Brown has secured
from Spokane. So that within one week
ty fair team. This is about the way
his team lines up at present, though
he will no doubt make several changes
III his pitching staff before the start
ing gong rings:
Catchers, Joe Sugden, Dick Boet-
tiger; pitchers, Harry Rush, Ed Erick-
son. P Standridge, Ed Flanagan, Dell
first base, Bob James; second base,
Dick Breen; third base, w. Smith;
shortstop, Scharnweber outfielders,
Brinker, Clynes, Swain, w. Quigley;
manager and utility, Bob Brown.
Bob James is going back to his old
position at first base, or if Brown
happens to land a youngster who can
play the first sack and hit at good
third, and put James back at second.
That looks like a pretty fair infield.
That quartet ought to field at steady
clip and hit pretty we'll Smith is the
only kid in the bunch and he ought to
be better for last years seasoning. He
is Iusty young fellow who hits the
ball hard when he does land. 1t was
almost a foregOne conclusion that
Brown would ret rid of Cartwright.
He and Cartwright have not been on
speaking terms since they had a fight
in Aberdeen two years ago. Cartwright
will come in handy on the Spokane in
field and will probably be used at
third base. Rockenfield is slated to
play second and Nordyke will cut up
around first.
Joe Cohn, of Spokane, was very anX-
brew, who played short for Portland
last year. but when he came to dig
into the matter he found that Cooney
had been signed by the Cleveland
American league club. Jim Mcclure
was out here last summer as scout
for the Cleveland club. He was much
taken with Cooney's woIk, but de-
plored the fact that the little fellow
was so feeble with the bat. Now Nc
CURE is manager of the Cleveland club
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Butler Buyinq Horses.
The rumor current during the clos
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Dugdale sent on a check yesterday
to pay for Pennington. an infielder, and
Zachert, a long-legged, left-handed
pitcher he bought from Waterloo, 10
wa Zachert is described as looking
something like Slim Nelson, but it is
copper riveted cinch that he is not
in Sims class as a tobacco cheWer.
Eddie Gleason umpired in that league
last year and he recommends the two
youngsters very highly. Waterloo gave
Seattle Lee Magee, and MaCee writes
that Pennington had as much to do
with winning the pennant for Water
loo two years ago as ne did. Penning
ton is a right handed hitter He is
rated back there as better hitter
than Magee lie knows the game and
is a good inside man like Magee. If he
steps to the front and center like Lee
did here last year, he will do all right
Zachert had good success last year and
if the cold weather out here does not
put his arm on the blink his friends
predict that he will make good. He and
Fred Miller will scrap it out for the
position of left-handed finger on the
Seattle club, for it is not likely that
Dugdale will carry more than one port
side beovnr