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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
SPORTING NEWS OF THE WORLD
SPORTING EDITORS NOTES.

Catcher Johnny Hughes Of the Col
onels may join the Indianapolis this
season as owner Grayson and Hughes
do not get along together as well as a
player and owner should.
Paul Howard, who broke his arm
last spring, while training with the st.
Paul team, has recovered from the in
jury and will be with the Saints this
spring. He will play in the outfeld.
Another baseball scandal has cropped
cut. A number Of baseball fans claim
they mailed checks TO the Chicago club
for tickets. but that they received no
tickets and no money was returned TO
them. The national commission is in
vestigating the case.
Cincinnati fans figure they have
The report is being circulated around
the county that Fred Parent is to be
released by the Chicago American
league club. Some of the wise scribes
released Freddie last winter about
the same time, but they were a little
too hasty.
INttp AbhI eye bIl Juht IduDtIls
says Bill Dahlen. He will be better
than Hal Chase next season." I'm
questionably Daubert is the best first
baseman who has broken into the
game in years.
Leo McGraw, the young catcher
signed for the White Sox. is sure to
make good. according To Charlie Babb
former manager Of the Memphis team
and once member of the New York
Giants.
Elliott, 1.-THE new inhelder OF the
Yankees, has just been willed $4,000
Ivy a relative, but says he won't quit
baseball on account of that. when
ever l want to hold out for more pay
I'll be prepared" is his idea OF il.
King Cole says the life of an actor
Is not so much better than that of a
ball player after all. There are a few
thorns in the stage life as well as on
the diamond.
Clarke Griffith says he is through
with the antibooze clause i'm his con-
tracts with BAN players. All Griff
wants now is n promise from the bad
actors that they will behave. and If
they keep the promise he will hand
them a little reward at the end of the
year.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
FIGHT ON OFFICIAL BALL.

Cincinnati, o., Jan. 25.-That tho
fight which has been started before the
National league relative to the adop-
ton of either a new official league bal
or one which will give the league a
large sum Of money has resulted i'm the
withdrawal of President Stanley Rob-
inson and President August Hermann
from the rules committee is one Of the
facts made known at baseball head
quarters here this afternoon. The fight
promises to be pretty warm. and these
officials are said TO have decided "a
get out of ii before the real fireworks
start
Under the present system the Spald-
ing baseball is used without any mon
cy being given to the league for its
use According to statistics given by
Manager Griffith this afternoon. the
National league clubs use 100 dozen
balls a year and pay SIS a dozen for
them. 1t costs one club approximately
$1,000 a year for balls, or $4,000 for
the entire league.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
FIGHTING IN SOUTH AFRICA
Brief skirmish with the Natives, az
Described by the Late Henry
M. Stanley.

In the following language Sir Henry
Nj. Stanley describes an attack of ma
tives upon his party during one of his
African expeditions: The Leviathan
bears down on us with racing speed,
it's consorts on either flank squirting
the water into foam and shooting up
jets with their sharp prows; a thrill
ling chant from 1900 throats rises
louder and louder on our hearing.
Presently the poised spears are
launched, and a second later my rifles
respond with ripping, cracking ex-
plosion, and the dark bodies of the
canoes and paddlers rush past us.
For a short time the savages are
paralyzed, but they soon recover. They
find there is death in those flaming
tubes ia the hands cf the strangers,
and with possibly greater energy than
they advanced they retreat. the pur-
sued becoming the pursuers in hot
chase. My blood is up. II is a MUIR
derous world, and i have begun to
hate the filthy, vulturous shoals who
inhabit It.
II pursue them upstream, up to their
villages; skirmish in their streets,
drive them pell-mell into the woods
beyond and level their huts, and end
the scene by towing their canoes into
midstream and setting them adrift."
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
SEAL COLONY ON
LAKE SUPERIOR
sEALSKlN COATS AT SIS is THE
DREAM OF UNITED STATES
FISH COMMISSIONER
BOWERS.

Under the auspices Of the United
States fisheries bureau an attempt will
DC made TO establish a colony of seals
in one of the great lakes. Commission
err George NJ Bowers. who is in charge
of the bureau. believes that the expert
ment will succeed, and that ii is des-
tined TO settle the long sealing contro-
versy between the British and Ameri-
can governments. 1t has been already
proved that seals have no particular
affinity for salt water. 1t is the food
they are after. and there is reason TO
believe that If i'm Lake Superior they
could find as many fish as in the North
Pacific, they would thrive as well there
as on the Pribyloff Islands.
The supply of fish for the seal is not
discussed by Commissioner Bowers
and there may be enough whitefsh,
salmon and herring in Lake Superior
to provide food for thousands of seals.
There is not enough i'm Lake ontario,
or In Lake Erie and since the supply
in all fresh water lakes is decreasing
some stringent means for protection
will have to be taken if the present
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
EXPECTS WARM
RACE THIS YEAR
CHRlSTY MATHEWSoN PREDICTS
1T WILL BE CLOSER THAN
THAT OF THE PAST
SEASON.

New York, Jan. 25.-Baseball fyans
and even the players are already fig
uring out pennant winners for 1911.
"The race for the National league
baseball pennant i'm 1911 will be hot
ter. closer race than the season just
closed" says! Christy Mathewson OF
the New York Giants.
"A great many people have picked
New York 10 win. OF course. l per-
sonally believe 1t is a little too far i'm
advance to say with any certainty. or
L. hazard even a good guess as to
which club will win. l do believe. how
ever, that New York will make bet
ter showing in 1911 than last year:
not because New York will be stronger
that IL was. but more especially be-
cause / believe Chicago will be weaker
Pttsburg win make better showing
than it did last year
while it is true that the Pirates
pitching STAFF was not always TO be
relied upon-I say this as a general
proposition, il has always impressed
me that way that Pittsburg In 1910
wasn't hitting like the Pittsburg Of
old. Until very late in the season none
Of the Pirates heavy hitters was bat
ting around 300 Even Wagner didn't
until the last six weeks. That in my
opinion. was responsible for Pitts.
burg's failure TO land.
This talk about Wagner being re-
leased, or traded, or sold is poppy
cock. Honus will be playing for the
Pirates next next season. If there's any
likelihood Of Pittsburg letting wag-
ner go. New York will be the highest
bidder for him. II we can't use him
anywhere else I'd like 10 use him be-
hind the bat. They call him an old
man. but he's pretty live one for all
that, and he hasn't reached the age
limit by any means. Cy Young at ~
is still playing and Arson played after
he had crossed the two-score line. OF
course, the life of the average baseball
player doesn't extend to 40 years. and
the men that exceed IL are considered
among the worlds seven wonders: but
there have been instances and there
will be others.
Il don't look for Chicago to show as
we'll next season as last season. be-
cause | believe they will be much
weaker in their pitching STAFF. be-
lieve Reulbach will do better. however.
for the reason that he had diphtheria
last season and was not himself at all.
! know what that is. for ] had diph-
iberia myself four or five years ago
and I wasn't any good that year.
Il look for Boston TO get away from
for Pittsburg to be i'm the running"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
Newspaper English.

There were two principal faults of
newspaper English. First, incorrect
ness. which might be due to haste or
ignorance, and. secondly, bad taste,
which showed itself in striving
smartness, desire TO write in what
these writer's themselves called a
crisp style" The latter fault was
the worst of the two. though he had
no desire to excuse incorrectness. Bad
taste was not only seen in the abuse
of language; IL was shown also in the
protrusion of the writer's personality.
II might be said that he was an unduly
severe critic of the halfpenny papers.
But he thought he was justified in his
criticism. These papers were often
enormously wealthy, and could well
afford to employ better writer's or to
encourage a higher standard of writ
ing in their columns Moreover, from
their great circulation they could in
fluence a far larger section of the
public than could any other form OF
literature.-Sir Robertson Nicoll, in
London Home Messenger
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
Laurium Department

demand and the additional consump-
ton by several thousand seals is to be
provided for. Since seals are such
great rovers the crossing of the lake
would be a mere exercise swim for
them, and Canadian hunters would be
as likely to profit by the industry
as the Americans. Some joint arrange
ment as to protection would be neces-
sary.
If the attempt to establish a branch
sealing industry i'm Lake Superior
would have any effect on the seal trust
it would be welcomed on both sides of
the line. 1t is the trust that makes
sealskin garments so expensive, for all
a good sealskin will fetch is $40 The
plucking, dyeing and dressing of the
skin should not put more than another
$40 on the value; but the selling price
is more apt to be about 5000. In 1873
when the industry began. sealskins
were worth only 81 or SO apiece. and
for a half century they increased only
slightly Before 1890 they were never
higher than $17. Then they jumped to
$50, and now command $40. This in
crease is due to the greater scarcity
of seals, but at no time did the price
of the raw pelt bear any particular re-
lation to the price of the sealskin
sacque. A great sealing industry on
the fresh water lakes and sealskin
coats at SIS Is the bright dream of
Commissioners Bowers.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
Wanted a Family.

Pat, who has just come over from
the old country, was very much afraid
of women, and, II the truth were
known. was very unattractive to the
fair sex. Consequently he had never
married.
When he applied for employment
the man rejected him because he
wasn't married and didn't have a fam.
fly. Thereupon Pat decided to marry.
He had seen sign over a restau-
rant which read:
Families served here" so Pat
braced himself and went in. do you
serve families here?" he asked.
"Yes, sir" said the clerk at the
desk
Pat reached for his wallet in HE
hip pocket. and carefully removing a
greasy bill said:
well, give me a wife and two chill.
dren."
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
BEzDEK HAS THE NERVE.

Word comes from Madison that HUI
go Bezdek. who had accepted the posi-
ton of coach at NJ. A. c. and then
"reconsidered." is being considered by
the authorities at the University OF
Wisconsin as head football coach at
the Badger school Bezdek was a for
mer Maroon football star and was well
thought of by Stagg. He was to have
resigned his position at the University
Of Arkansas on Jan. to take up his
work at East Lansing. but he failed 60
appear and John +. Macklin was chos-
en- to take his place.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
PLAN FENCING TOURNEY.

New York. Jan 25.-It will require
two evenings and one afternoon to run
off the semi-finals and final bouts--135
in number-in the annual champion
ship of the intercollegiate Fencing as
sociation. which will be held at the
Hotel Astor i'm this city on the evening
by March 81 and the afternoon and
evening of April 1. Last year there
were only ffty-four bouts i'm the finals
contested by four colleges. but at a
meeting of the association held recent
ly it was decided to allow six teams to
qualify this year
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
CALUMET HOCKEY TEAM.
Effort viii be Made to Arrange Games
With Crack sevens.

Murray Bateman of Laurium. man.
ager Of the Calumet hockey team, is
in communication with the Houghton
management. with view to arrang-
ing n series of games between inc
Portage Lakes and Calumet.
Bateman also Is cndeavoring to ar
range games with the Mohawk team
He is getting together n strong ag-
gregation and declares his seven VIII
make the rest of the teams go some.
The proposed games. IL arranged VIII
arouse much local interest.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
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LAU2iUM BRIEFS.
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Dr. and Mrs. John II. MacRae, and
daughter, Alice of Centennial, left
yesterday for Miami. Fla, where they
will spend several weeks.
Scores of children are daily using
the Toboggan slide erected by Mr..
murphy on Florida street, Laurium.
The sport is exhilarating and pleasing
and is witnessed by many grown-up
people.
Prof. Johnson, who has been organ
list OF the Swedish Lutheran church OF
Calumet, left recently with his wife
and family for Seattle, Wash, where
he has accepted a position Mr.. John
son resided on Woodland avenue
Laurium.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
WHY WOMEN SUFFER.
With Piles and How to Find Last
inq Cure.

Constipation is most frequent
cause OF piles. That is why women
suffer more often from piles than
men. Indoor work and lack of exer-
else brings on the attacks.
Eagle Pharmacy. Calumet. Mich
and Laurium Pharmacy, Laurium
mich. and druggists everywhere
sell Hem-roid, an internal tab
let remedy for piles. on the under
standing that you can have the mon
ey back II dissatisfied 81 for a large
bottle DIR. Leonhardt CO., station h.
Buffalo. N. Y. Mail booklet on re-
quest.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
~wHITs HOPE" is JOKE.
That's How AID Wogast Refers TO
Would-be Champions.

Cadillac. Mich. Jan. 25-"AIl that
n man needs To do today is TO weigh
200 pounds. box twice. gain the deci-
sion once and he is rated as a great
prize fighter. a heavyweight and a man
ht 90 be called the white mans hope
and capable OF whipping Jack John
son. But that is all bosh. There's
nothing to IL and when a man comes
up who can whip the black man he
will get plenty Of support from others
than the old has -beens' like Corbett.
Sullivan and others who are crying
their heads Off now over this man
Morris" Thus did Ad wolgast light
weight champion pugilist Of the world,
deliver himself today regarding an as
pirant for the heavyweight title He
also gave IL as his opinion that Al
Kaufman is the only white man today
who stands any show at all TO whip
the black.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
The Shortest Name.

A correspondent thinks he has dis
covered the shortest shop front name
In London. 1t is above a shop In
Gray's Inn road-simply S. Be. There
is some sort of accent on the "e," but
the sign writer seems doubtful about
it. Can you beat that name for brew.
ity?
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
Is CARL MORRIS
COMING CHAMP?

New York, Jan. 25.-The fact that
the Tulsa Athletic club in Tulsa, Ok,
has announced through its matchmak-
en- II. c. POuder, that the club man
ascment will hang up a $4,000 purse
for a fight between Carl Morris and
Jim Flynn, Tony Ross, Al Kubiak, Jim
Perry or Al Kaufman makes the fol-
lowers of the fistic art throughout this
section wonder whether future
championship possibly will really come
out Of the west in the person of the
young giant from Sapulpa. The Tulsa
promoters state that i'm event of such
battle Being held, they are prepared
TO build an amphitheater capable Of
seating $4,000 spectators. They be-
lieve contest of this character would
net $4,000 in receipts and thus repay
the necessary outlay.
In spite Of his size and weight. Nor
ris is said to be extremely fast and ac-
tive. 1t is rather interesting To COM
pare such of his measurements as are
known with those of Jack Johnson.
The two shape UP as follows.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25
SPORTING EDITORS NOTES.

otto Knabe. second baseman OF the
Phillies. Yesterday signed a contract
for 1911 He has been holding out and
It is believed he received handsome
increase in salary.
Long Bob Robertson. pitcher, who
was with Jimmy Burke at Fort Wayne
last season. has been secured by In
dianapOlis.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25

about the strongest pair of backstops
in the game is Tom Clarke and Lar
" Mclean. hut the Cubs are right
there with John Killing and Archer.
who form n team behind the bat that
can't be equaled anywhere.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25

Watch for something unusual dur
ing the next three days of the Big Sale
Broken lines are fast being closed out.
get in on these low prices before the
sale closes Saturday might. The Red
Front store company, Calumet 20
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25

Hub Hart. the former white sox
catcher. is TO play with the Toledo
team next year Hub was ono OF the
players secured last fan by the Cieve-
land Maps and has been sold TO Tole-
do by that club.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-25

! MS CIV MbiilS llit dhNdlANdbt VI
thirty pounds in weight three inches
in height and nine inches i'm reach
over the champion. His normal chest
measure is nine inches greater than
Johrson's, and within two inches of
what Jeffries' chest measures expand
ed.
Morris has been I'm six battles, the
longest four rounds. The following
are the names of the fighters he has
faced and finished:
Tim Hurley knockout, third round.
Ed Anderson, knockout, third round.
Battling Britt, knockout. minute,
10 seconds.
Jim Harper, knockout. third round.
Marvin Hart, won, fourth round.
Spike Kennedy, Knockout second
round.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-08-30

for the selling end Of the business in this fashion,
this task Is delegated to his wife. his son his
daughter. Particularly in the case Of the young
people do these periodical visits get to fila large
place In their lives. There Az hardships to be
sure. not the least of them suggested by the fact
that usually the trip to market must begin ere
daylight in order to reach the city in time to
catch the trade Of the earliest marketers, but the
farmer folk who have acquired the habit Of
huckstering in this way are invariably loath to
give 1t up. Many romance, too, has had its in
ception during the progress of the caravans Of
produce-laden wagons to market or in the ex-
change Of courtesies between the farmer folk
whose wagons are ranged closely side by side
in the congested urban market districts.
In the sparsely settled and more isolated sec
tons Of the country there are many odd spec
tacles incident to the transportation Of produce
to market In some localities where canals are
yet In use the quaint, slow-moving boats are en-
ployed to carry the eatables, and in the south one
may see donkeys, bullocks and all manner Of un-
conventional steeds pressed into service to move
the foodstuffs. Just here it may be noted that
the old-fashioned colored folk Of the south take
as naturally to the conduct Of portable market
stands as fish does to water. In kindly cli-
mate such as is theirs most Of the staple vege-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-08-30
PASTIMES OF THE PAST

1t has not been so very long ago-middle aged
mothers and fathers Of today will recall the happy
happy time-when the game of grace hoops was in
fashion. Indeed was quite the rage, though Of
that placid epoch it must be said enthusiasm for
out-of-door amusements as far as the dear girls
were concerned, were as mild as pigeons milk and
never dubbed over the brim of pleasures modest
cup. If there was anything the young lady of
that halcyon time dreamed it was the charge Of
being a Tommy. No. no, she must never lose
sight Of department. and her pretty lips were
framed on prisms and prunes to the proper tucker
for conversational purposes-that is, for the lit
tie conversation that went with the game. So
grace hoops were entirely en- regle with the best
ideas for department.
The charm Of grace hoops was slowly but sure
~ passing away when Maurice Thompson who in
vented "Alice of Old Vincennes,' and his brother,
will Thompson who wrote the thrilling poem,
"Pickett's charge at Gettysburg" brought for
ward the long disused bow and arrow, laid aside
for villainous gunpowder, the Indianapolis News
says Maurice wrote clever little book called
THE Witchery of Archery" and in surprisingly
short time young men and mafdens Joined in arch
cry clubs, were plugging away with blunt arrows
at targets as big around as cream cheese boxes
Of that day. Though these marksmen and women
frequently went wide of the target not so Cupid.
who was there with his bow and a full compile
ment Of arrows. He shot center nearly every time.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-08-30

for it was said that the witchery Of archery, no
matter how poor the score at the cheese box tar
get. was a great helper on Of Cupid. and many
marriages followed
The writer has seen the archery game played
on several occasions, once on the grounds Of the
Knickerbocker school, with only girls engaged
what moribund affair it was!-and once, on the
same grounds, with detachment of young gen.
tlemen-with what delightful difference!
But the archery game was not to last. It was
at last to join the grace hoops and for time its
most ardent votaries were fain to, solace their
grief with the game of croquet and its melancholy
dawwdling.
When one looks back to that day, with its lady
like amusements, one can but wonder at the
astounding progress made by the sex in out-of-
door sports. Now they shoot at target or at live
game. either. more with blunted arrows. but
with revolver and rifle: they play golf, SWIM pad
die canoes, play basketball, even play baseball
after fashion; ride astride like their brothers
what q horror that would have been in the days Of
their mothers-and do anything that any proper
yenng man might be permitted to do without the
slightest censure and quite as matter of course
Yet, there was something in grace hoops that
may be fondly cherished In ones memory along
with the dear old plush album to which you CON
tributed your picture and some verses-and there.
too, lingering in memory, are the doleful cadences
Of "IIorena."