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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-23
BLOCK WILL STAY FOR 1912.
Sox Catcher Signs Contract for Com
ing Season.

Chicago. Dec. 23=Rumors that
Catcher Jimmy Block of the Chicago
American club being traded to Mil
waukee were set a rest when the big
backstop signed his name to a South
side contract for next season.
Blocks contract was the first one
signed and Manager Callahan an
nOunced that the catcher would be a
fixture for at least another season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-23
CARDINALS GET DICK KINsELLA
Bresnahan Says He Has Best Scouts in
the World

St. Louis. Dec. 2S.-Manager Bres-
nahan of the st. Louis National league
baseball team before going to Toledo
today. announced that he had OBJ
tanned Richard Kinsella of Spring
field. H.. as chief scout for the st.
Louis team.
Bresnahan had previously said:
Il have the best pair of scouts in
the world
It is said he has made a flattering
offer to William Armour. Bresnahan
said he had come to terms with Ar
mold Hauser. bridegroom shortstop,
who threatened to become a hold
out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-23

We have a few sets of Roger Bros
best 1S47 forks we wish to close out
at less than cost. Chas. Bennett, OPP
tician, 9OS Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-23
sAYs 10 ONE Is WORRIED.
August Hermann Does Not View Out
laws With Alarm.

Cincinnati Dec 23=August Herr
mann, chairman of the national base
ball commission. says that major
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-23

The Denver Grizzlies apparently are
repeating their record of early con-
tracts last season. Lee CULLEN being
the last to forward his signature Nc
Gill and Hendricks keep a nice line on
them have comparatively little trouble
with hoIdouts keep the big money
theory grounded
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
REVISION OF FOOTBALL
RULES AGAIN DEMANDED
BY EASTERN EXPERTS
In Yale-Princeton Game Tigers
Failed To Make First Down
Once, But Won.
TOO MUCH KICKING NOW.
Constant Booting Without Pos
sibility of Gaining BY Rushes
Tiresome To Spectators.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2l.-A revision
OF the football rules calling either for
shorter distance TO be gained in
three downs or for rules that will
make the game SO open that II will be
possible TO rush the ball ten yards
is demanded by the football experts
II is pointed out that in the Yale
game Saturday, Princeton failed to
make first down in single instance,
though she won the game. Football
men declare that team drilled az
Princeton was. in defense alone can
hardly be scored against on straight
football
Where teams are evenly matched IL
is almost impossible TO make ten
yards In three downs without kicking
The result is that there is too much
kicking and too little football. Al
ways there were two attempts 10
break through the line-then a kick
Then the other side would try the
line. fail and then kick. And so II
went through the whole game. 1t be
came tiresome to spectators There
We're some who asked Why don't
they call of the rest OF the players
AMI let Camp and Dewitt kick IL out?'
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
THE TIMES SPORT PAGE
Iyes0s and Tisrs
Trrth and Sincerity
Seriously Injured Before Actual Racing
Savannah Has Begun, What Will the Final Toll BeP

Even though the actual racing on
the Savannah speed course has not
yet been begun. death has already
claimed one or the drivers who was
entered in the Savannah speed con
tests and serious injuries have been
inflicted upon another driver and a
mechanician
Jay McNay. who drove Case car,
has sacrificed his life and his mech
anician H. A. Maxwell and Joe Daw-
son, who drives a Marmon, lies in a
hospital with arms and legs broken.
Such men as Theodore Roosevelt
and President Eliot have cried out
against the sacrifice of human life
for the sake OF speed and sport.
But the public Graves speed, and there
are drivers who are willing 10 risk
their lives to satisfy that craving.
So Savannah's surgeons are sharp
ening their knives, assistants and
nurses are preparing bandages. splints
and antiseptics. ambulance crews are
seeking shortcuts 10 field hospitals
for use on the days when the dare
devils make their bow In response TO
the cry OF More speed when the
Vanderbilt cup and the Grand Prix
races are run next week.
Never since automobile racing be-
came a recognized sport has there
been such an insistent demand for
more speed II comes from the pub
lie, which spends money for automo-
biles; ii comes from the beauty whose
tired eyes glitter as men strive like
mad for the ephermeral thing, glory,
endangering their lives for the
~bravos" of the spectators who lust
for the sacrifice.
II was only a few years ago that
the United States was unmentioned
In the long distance record books,
but now this country leads the world.
It's drivers and cars need not take a
back seat for foreign dare-devils or
foreign machines.
Savannah demands the long dis
lance road record. now credited 10
farmer boy. who made II with an
American car on the Santa Monica
course, Los Angeles
There is little doubt but the Savan-
nah course Is faster than ever The
roads have been surfaced and re-
surfaced The turns. every one OF
them, have been heightened and bank
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
BARNEY OlOFIElD MAY
DRIVE IN SAVANNAH
Joe Dawson Will Not Be Able To
Compete-Maxwell Is In
Critical Condition.

SAVANNAH, Ga, Nov. 2i,-Barney
Oldheld. the outlawed Speed King,
may participate in the Vanderbilt
cup race He has been offered car
for the event and has declared he will
accept II reinstated by the American
Automobile association II Is said Of
ficials OF the association are inclined
10 consider favorably an application
from Oldheld.
Physicians attending Joe Dawson,
famous driver of the Marmon ear,
who was injured in "A smash-up yes
terday. declared today he would hard
" be able TO drive next week
Knlpper and Barnes, drivers OF the
Mercer cars who were in collision
with Dawson. are not seriously injur'
ed and will drive their cars.
Maxwell mechanician for J. ID. Nc
Nay driver of the Case car, who was
injured when the cal. overturned Kill
ing McNay, is still in critical condi-
ton
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
BIG THREE" TO CHECK
GOPHERS, SAYS CHICAGO
Michigan Wisconsin Chicago
Combine Will Hold Up Mime
sofa, Thinks Stages School.

CHICAGO. Nov 2l.-That Michigan
is preparing TO return TO the western
conference is the persistent report
reaching Chicago University IL is
believed here that last Saturdays
game is the last the Wolverines VIII
play with Pennsylvania.
The report of Michigan's re-entry
into the big eight OF the west is found
ed on the assumption that Michigan,
Chicago and Minnesota will affect a
sort of combination OF interests in the
conference. and practically dominate
it, In this way, change in the
eligibility rules such as Minnesota
has been demanding would be forced
and Michigan would undoubtedly try
70 gain the post OF conference cham
piun-a position of definite standing
in the football world. Just now the
Wolverines hold an anomalous stand
ing
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
YALE LOSES NINE
PLAYERS THIS YEAR

NEW HAVEN, CT, Nov 21.-It
looks as though Yale is going to be
up against it next year. Nine of this
years outfit are to be graduated next
June. And the worst of il is that the
young material at New Haven has
not shown up any too well. Here are
the men that are wearing blue toys
for the last time: Francis, Scully,
Childs. McDevitt, Paul Howe, Free
man, Loree. Reilly and Strout.
Camp, Spalding. Bomeister and
ketcham are the only first string men
on this seasons eleven that will be
on the job when the call for candi-
dates is issued next year
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21

When you refer to football players
as "pigskin chasers," or state that
Smithly can boot the pigskin" you
display considerable ignorance, ae-
cording TO the man who manufactures
the spheroids used on many of the
big and little gridirons.
For the football is not made of pig
skin, at ALL at ALL In fact no part
OF the lowly but luscious bird enters
into It's construction.
Football covers are made from the
material tha-g goes 20 make eotif pest
shoes-caIfsAin And only the very
hest grade or skin is used for good
balls Cheap balls, such as kids buy
az the corner store, are made OF
The bladder. which Is in
the ball is rubber.
A. visit 10 the factory where the
greatest number of footballs is turned
out. elicit more interesting informa.
tion. For instance, shop sage says
that the reasC the ball Is called
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21

"pigskin." is that in the old days, a
pig bladder was used to give buoy
ancy TO the ball. The bladder has
been discarded and rubber substl-
tuted.
The regulation intercollegiate ball
weighs froIl 13 Ia TO IA ounces. The
Soccer" ball from 13 to Is ounces
Skins for football covers are care
fully inspected and are sent 10 the
factory after special treatment The
slightest flaw in a hide means rejec-
ton.
I'm the cutting room skill is requir-
ed 10 prevent waste. Cutting is done
with machinery. The cutter divides
The hide into as many oval sections as
possible and sends the pieces to girls
who take up the next stage. which
consists OF carefully lining the leather
with cotton will This is the only
work entrusted 10 girls II is slow
and must be done perfectly. ~"
The Innings are stitched together
on one machine and the covers on an.
other. From the last machine the
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21

covers come. wrong side out and the
better grades are reversed by hand
The cheaper are turned right side out
by machinery.
Turning a football cover by hand
requires great strength Some men
do nothing else and as result be-
come exceptionally strong of hand,
wrist and arm.
The rubber bladder is inserted and
when inflated the oval begins to look
like the finished product now seen on
many fields. But the ball Is not ready
for delivery. II is stamped on hot
press and worked until its outer
''rface Is smooth and ready for the
kick-off --.
Although the game has changed
greatly the ball remains about the
same as the old Rugby. From June
to November $4,000 oval footballs are
turned out by this factory Some or
the best balls are made from hides
imported from England, but the skin
OF the domestic calf vs. considered
good enough for the majority.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
YALE'S ANNUAL BEAR
STORY NOW APPEARS

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Nov 21.-
Yale sprung her annual Bear story"
today, looking for easy Harvard
money. The story is that the Blue
football squad has gone stale as re-
suit of it's hard work against Prince
tom. No strategy board is better than
that of Yale bettors, who ca. con.
stantly send out their hard luck
stories to hold down the odds for Har-
ward game.
With the exception OF Francis, who
was Knocked out in the Princeton
game, all the Yale regulars seem in
good shape for Saturdays struggle in
Cambridge
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
FOUR FIGHTS IN 30
DAYS FOR X. o. BROWN

CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-Four fights in
the next thirty days is the busy pro-
gram which was announced today for
George (Knockout) Brown. Three
are scheduled at Pittsburg-with
George Chip on Nov. %; Buck Grouse,
Nov. 80, and a man yet to be selected,
on Dec. 2. The Chicago boy will then
take on Fritz Holland at Oakland, on
Dec. 90. Bob Moha will probably be
his opponent in another early battle.
II Brown makes good in this series.
he is to be given try at Frank
Klaus.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21

SAVANNAH, Nov. 21.-Jay McNay
the autoist who was killed yesterday.
here, while practicing for the Wander
bilt race in his Case car, was TO pave
been married TO Miss Daisy Jennings,
a Texas young woman. Immediately
after the Savannah Challenge Trophy
race.
All arrangements had been made by
members of the J. l. Case racing camp
to act as attendants. Mrs. j. Alex
Sloan. wife OF the manager OF the j.
/. Case racing team, was 10 have been
bridesmaid. Rev. Arthur II. Robinson
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
TICKET SCANDAL MAKES
APPEARANCE IN FOOTBALL
Investigation CT Alleged Scalp
ing of Army Navy Coupons
Yves Begun Today.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2l-of-
ficials of the Army and Navy today
instituted a quiet investigation into
the fact that a large number OF
tickets for the Army-Navy game. Sat
urday. have found their way into the
hands of spectators and are now on
sale in hotels in this city.
All the tickets are numbered and
the names of the persons to whom
they were issued have been kept. Any
person selling a ticket is blacklisted
for life by the military officials.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
PRACTICE FOR
NAVY FROM NOW ON

ANNAPOLIS, Md. Nov 21.-Secret
practice will mark the balance OF the
Nays work in preparation for the
game with Army next Saturday, in
Philadelphia. The Nays first string
squad is in prime physical condition
and II is probable that all the regu-
lars will enter Saturdays struggle.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
POTTER AND FELTON,
WILL PLAY SATURDAY

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 2l.-Joy
reiens at Harvard today Quarter
back Potter and End FELTON,, on whom
the kicking will depend, are almost
certain TO start against Yale, Satur-
day.
Coach Hanghton- has decided that
as Sprackling was smotherea m the
Brown game, so will the entire Grim
son eleven pay close attention 10 the
Whereabouts of Bomeisler and Howe.
Every scrimmage OF today showed
that Haughtons instructions were to
smother these two men when Harvard
meets the Blue
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21

ed. Hair pin corners are no more.
David Bruce Brown, last years win.
FER. averaged 20 miles an hour for
400 miles. He has been over the
new course and predicts rs miles an
hour this month.
The speed limit OF the course Is
speculative. Before his death, Nc
Nay, in Case car, built for the late
Lewis Strang. averaged 90 miles an
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
McNay, Autoist Who Was Killed,
Was to Have Been Married Soon
Miss Daisy jennings Girl Was To Have Been the
Speeder's Bride After Trophy Race.

of the Grace Methodist Episcopal
church OF Johnsonyille. y. Y, had
been engaged TO conduct the matri-
monial services.
Both Jay McNay and his fiancee
were automobile enthusiasts and in
fact the romance that has eliminated
in tragedy began on the race course
near San antonio, Tex.
One of the wedding presents for
McNay was to have been new six
cylinder Case racing machine for him
20 drive in the $4,000 race at In.
dianapolis.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
"SPIKE" KENNEDY is
BATTERED BY SMITH

NEW YORK. Nov 21.-"Spike"
Kennedy the California middleweight.
who came out OF the west with repu-
tation. is bruised and battered today
as the result of his fight last night
with jim Smith, of West Chester,
who put him out in the second round.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
Peterson ONE STEP
NEARER TO GOTCH

CHICAGO, Nov 21.-Jess Peterson,
the Danish wrestler, is counting him
self one step nearer a match with
Frank Gotch. as result OF his de-
cisive defeat last night OF Sampson.
The big German succumbed to toe
hold after 81 minutes
Peterson hopes TO take on Mahmout
in the near future, and II he defeats
the Turk, Gotch has promised him a
bout
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
ABE ATTELL is
WITHOUT A SCRATCH

NEW YORK. Nov 21--Abe Attell is
about today without a scratch as a
souvenir OF the party last night in
which he mussed mp Willie Jones, the
Brooklyn feather, whom many re-
garded as one of the best 122-pound
boys in the game. Jones made Attell
extend himself by carrying the fight
10 the champion
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
COBB BASHFUL AS
KID WHEN POSING.

For those who have the idea
that Ty Cobb is as domineering
and sneering of the baseball
diamond as he appears to be
while in the game, J.. NJ. Hayes,
the photographer. has a story
that is surprising.
Ty has posed for him for sew
eral portraits, and Mr.. Hayes
says that while the premier
batsman was waiting for the
snap OF the shutter, he would
hang his head and act as bash
full as a kid.
Mr. Hayes also yerifies the
reports OF Tyrus' popularity
down in his home state.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
Mullen Gave Duffy the Laugh
And Worst of Close Decision
Come See Says Hugh Standing Line; Bring
the Line To Me" Says Mullen.

the close OF the game the Sox filed
the bases with two out. The next
batter hit a line drive over third.
Three runners SCORED and the batter
pulled up at second, when to Duffys
dismay Mullen called the hit foul.
The ball evidently struck close to
the foul line, some 20 feet back OF
third base. Duffy rushed TO where he
believed the ball struck and yelled.
Come here Mullen AMI look at the
foul line"
What's the use wasting time" re.
piled Mullen, bring the line 10 me-"
II was too much for Duffy and he
retreated TO the bench.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
BY BILLY EVANS.

The first year OF major league
umpire is strenuous. John Mullen, OF
Pittsburg. who debutted in the Amer
lean in 1911, will bear witness TO the
fact The players early tried to dis
cover the material the smoky city
man was made OF. Hugh Duffy, man.
ager OF the White Soy. had his share
of arguments with Mullen. Duffy con.
fesses he lost every one, yet admits
he once got a laugh out Of the wran.
gle, even though on the wrong end OF
the decision
Late in the season Chicago was
PLAYING at St Louis The score stood
TO | in favor OF the Browns. Near
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21

hour for seven miles. over a surveyed
stretch.
That there will be speed and all
kinds of il during the Savannah races
Is unquestioned. But with this aw-
full record of one death and two seri-
Gus injuries before actual racing has
begun is il pessimistic forecast TO
predict that the hospital corps will
he busy next week?
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
FIGHT FANS DELIGHTED
AT GOVERNORS DECISION

NEW YORK, Nov 2I.-Men who
are genuinely interested in the pro.
gress OF the fight game in New York
were delighted today at the decision
of Gov Dix that there should be no
decisions in any of the ten-round
bouts permitted under the new law
These men declare the giving OF de-
cisions would do more than anything
else 10 kill the game
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21

Ralph Frary, the former National
league umpire. had his wife arrested
in Spokane for throwing salt cellars
at him and breaking the window OF
saloon whore he was drinking Mrs
Frary has now sued him for divorce.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
Cobb 10 Need Garage.

IL the plan OF giving an automobile
TO the player proving most valuable
to mis- team is continued for few
years Ty Cobb will have to have
special garage built TO accommodate
all his cars.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
SHORT LENGTHS

Liphardt won n haIf-miie skating
distance in 1871 and taking the lead
from field of 10.
Ad woIgnst always manages 40 keep
the police and other courts In cadillac
busy A suit for breaking down "A
farmers fence Is the latest
Charles Baird denies that he has any
intention OF buying the Boston Rust
lers.
Notre Dame whipped Wabash yes
terday at Charlottesville. TO 3.
The q. Of ID. 4. forgetting bis team
basketball for few days, while pre-
pairing for the final gridiron struggle
OF the year with St lgnatius at Chi
cago. Thanksgiving day
James r. sullivan IL again secretary
treasurer. OF the a. a. Z. Gustayus y
Kirby, OF New York, has been elected
president to succeed Everett Z.
Brown.
Pfeiner, western High schools star
fullback. will not be able TO play
against Eastern. He fractured his
shoulder last Saturday when playing
The hay City challenges 60 Central
for the championship OF the state
seem 10 have been useless, for II Is
evident that the athletic managers or
the two teams will not come to an
agreement as to hnanetal matters
Joe Mandot and Matty Baldwin
fought an eight-round draw at Mem
phis last night
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
Konetchy willing

First haseman Ed Konetchy one OF
the Cardinals few stars has declared
himself willing to figure IN any trade
that Manager Rresnahan viii make for
him.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21

IA Walsh. star slabF4an OF the Waite
Sox, has taken kindly interest In
H0vlik, one OF Comiskeys recruits.
and N " ~ possible tn EotnE to make
Walsh out OF him. Ed II Reaching
Hovlik how 10 use the "spit-bar prop
erly. E.E.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21

Pitcher Martin o'Toole. Pittsburghs
,+tl1,soo beauty" ~ on a long hunt
ms trip through the Maine woods.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21

And in the meantime over at Ann
Arbor they are stirring up feeling
against Pennsy by quoting a sport
writer OF Philadelphia paper who
harks back to the time when Schultz
was laid out, and says that Pennsy
wins It's games by laying out players.
II looks as II Ann Arbor sees a
mountainous offense in this molehill
paragraph. for as far as could be seen
from the sidelines Saturday. Pennsy
PLAYED a fast and clean game. Why
rtir up the slime that has been
buried? Let the dead past be dead.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
The Hay city challenges 60 Central
Frary In Had.

Joe Mandot and Matty Baldwin
fought an eight-round draw at Mem
phis last night
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21
rfeiner, Western High schools 81

fullback, will not be able to play
against Eastern. He fractured his
shoulder last Saturday when playing
against Monroe.
The Detroit times., 1911-11-21

treasurer OF the A. \. L. Gustavus \
Kirby, OF New York, has been elected
president TO succeed Everett &
Brown.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-02-24
WEEKS MILLS.

A short series of special meetings
will begin Tuesday evening, Feb. u,
at the Union church. conducted by
Rev. Geo. j. Palmer of Portland.
The congregations were small sun
day on account of sickness which is
prevalent at this time
The people of this place are anxious
ly awaiting conference and looking foi
the resident pastor promised for the
year The people have not enjoyed the
blessing of resident pastor for Ions
time, and we believe that this will bt
the beginning of n new era i'll the re-
ligious interests Of the place.
Mrs. Joseph Segee is i'll with bat
cold.
Ralph Estes WAS out Of town sun
day.
Frank Gardner was recently in
Wndsor
Lewville Proctor mas moved into his
new house.
Bernice Proctor is stopping with her
father Ruel Proctor.
Mrs. NJ. r. Perkins has gone to
Waltham, Mass, for an indefinite
time.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-02-24

and when preparing to stick his cane
into him was drawn off.
tThn-fellow was Immediately traIis-
fefred to tuu uciyilsanihorities. and now
lies in Jail 40 abide his trial at fu-
ture day 1t seems that he had two
pistols. each of which he attempted to
discharge, but they were with per-
cussion caps, the day was very damp.
a thick mist prevailing, and, although
the caps by their explosion must have
been as fine as were vecr used, the
powder did not ignite. They were
found to be well loaded with the finest
powder. and it's almost miracle that
they did not go off. The man is said
to be an Englishman by birth. to have
been as fine as We're ever used, the
be printer by trade. and to have Civ
en- on more occasions than one eyi-
denec OF arrangement. He was asked,
learned by Mr.. Randolph, the SER
eant-at-arms to the House, what led
him to attempt the life of the Prcsi-
dent He replied, Because he killed
my father three years ago." There is
nothing but madness in all this
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