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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
FOOTBALL WORSE
THAN BOXING

mo football for NINE" says Johnny
Kilbane, the clever Cleveland feather
weight.
The crowds at these football games
give me a pain" continues Johnny.
Some poor fellow runs into a bunch
of players and comes out with a brok-
en- leg. They carry him off to the hos
pital and the crowd shouts 'Hooray.'
He's a big hero.
"a man doesn't have a chance to
protect himself in football the way
he does in boxing. It's a kick in the
heart or 200 pounds of beef falling on
the cramped arm and you're out for
good. with no chance in the world
to escape.
IN all the time I have been box-
ing I have v been knocked out. I
don't know what it is to be uncon-
scious from a blow. That's more than
most of the football players can a y
why. ven baseball is more dan
gerous than boxing. The ball is hard
and it comes fast. A crack over the
heart or on the head and goodbye Mr..
Baseball Man. I'll stick to the boxing
and avoid the rough sports"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
HERMANN PUTS
IN

New York. Dec. 9.-Presidcnt Car
ry Hermann OF the Cincinnati club.
chairman of the national commission.
arrived in town yesterday. Hermann
was the first Of the magnates who will
meet next week to make his appear
ance. He spent several hours in
consultation with President Thomas
J. Lynch of the National league. talk
ing over business that will come be-
fore the national commission. Presi-
dent Ban johnson of the American
league. the third member of the com.
mission. will be here Monday. The
commission will hold u preliminary
meeting at the office of the National
league to talk over the evidence that
has been secured in regard to the tick
ct scalping scandal that married the
worlds series between the Giants and
Athletics.
1t is known that Johnson has evil
dence that is likely to cause quite a
stir when given to the public. John
son made the statement not long ago
hat spectators handled 5000 seats,
for which somebody was paid 81
apiece in advance.
Former Secretary William NJ. Gray
of the New York club, who has been
succeeded by Joseph ". O'srien,
former president of the American as
ISOLATION. declares that he was in no
way connected with the scalpin , of
tickets for the series and deties any
body to prove anything to the con-
trary. 1t is expected that President
John T.. Brush Of the New York club
who leaves today for San Antonio,
Tex. to spend the winter will furnish
the commission with the evidence he
has been able to secure regarding the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
M00RHEAD CUNT
. PLAYS VARSITY
First Basketball Game of the
Season Scheduled For
This Evening

Tonight at 8 o'clock the referees
whistle will start the first basketball
game Of the season, when the univer-
sity quint will meet the fast five from
the Moorhead normal school. The
players from across the Red have been
for the game with a will that
bodies i'll for ~iL-prepared quints and
they expect to do things toe numer-
GUS. to mention to the varsity five.
In the minds of those who have had
opportunity to watch the .Flickertail
basketball men play. there is no doubt
but that all of the opponents this year
will have the biggest work Of the sea-
son cut out for them.
Hemp. who in the olden days. when
N. D. N. G. Co. G of Valley City was
cleaning up the quints in that section
of the state with ~despairing regular
ity. played with Heimes. the new man.
will be unable to play this year. Such
is the dictum of DR.. Dunlap. Hemp
was unfortunate near the end Of the
Since then he has had considerable
trouble with it. but tried to chase the
ball back and forth on the gym floor.
His loss will be felt. but his old side
partner will be right in the game. The
other members of the team are also
some class and 1t is expected that
whirlwind basketball will be displayed
this evening.
. Just what the lineup will be has not
as yet been announced but it is proba.
BILE that Heimes will take the center
position. BY the way he can out
jump any man at the ~" by a foot.
Sagen, Blewitt or Sad will play fon
wards and Wilcox at guard.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
MIKE GIBBONS TO


Philadelphia. Dec. 11-Michael An
gelo Gibbons. the streak of lightning
from st. Paul. nay be. seen in Phila-
delphia t~wenty-four foot territory dur
ing the present month, as certain fstic
promoters of this burg r trying to
hook the westerner up with some
thing in local shape able to give Mr..
Gibbons an argument.
Matters in regard to the importa-
ton Of Mike. who is considerable of
a welterweight. have not been
Strengthened out for keeps vet. but
it is probable that the National a.
c. will match the man against some
good welterweight Of local persuasion
weighing somewhere in the neighbour
hood Of Joe jeanette.
Gibbons cuffed the fight out of his
second eastern victim when he flung
his bunch of fives with such skill
and steadiness into the anatomy of
Walter Coffey. the big California hope
that he beat him after the first round.
Just to demonstrate that he carried
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
TICKET sC.ALPNG suspect

New York American: Maybe there
is nothing in the fact that Billy Gray
was pushed out of the berth of secre-
tary of the New York Giants on the
eve of Ban Johnson's time to expose
the men who handled the tickets for
the spectators during the worlds Sc
ries. Blu, it seems strange just the
same h a Gray should be ousted at
this psychological moment. and every-
body will believed that he was fired
because of the proximity of the ma
tional commission investigation. Gray
was o one to whom YOU would
warm. anyway. He was of hat Pc
culiar species that is always there with
the honey lamb language, and turns
down a friend quicker than Il wink. 1t
is a cinch that the members of the
fourth estate in New York. assigned
to do baseball. Won't weep any briny
pillows over the exit of GRAY.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
BROWN TEAM STILL
LEADS THE LEAGUE

After losing the first round in Sat-
urday's contest, the w. H. Brown vol
leyball team came back strong and
won the two remaining rounds and
thus kept themselves in first place in
the percentage columns. Their oppo-
nents were the c. w. Graves team and
they succeeded in winning the first
round. 21-8. The Brown team took
the remaining two rounds, ELLA and
Fill.
The first game was won by the E.
A.. Swendson team, with the VIM.
Spriggs team as opponents, the former
players taking the game in two
straight rounds.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11

a generation Of new coaches. or a re-
generation of old coaches.
Ihe rules open the game, admit of
a loose ball. give speed, brilliance and
strategy. Coaches have failed to
make good and the majority turned
out teams playing old football.
.Dr. Harry Williams Of Minnesota.
last year produced, from ancient his.
tory: a rejuvenated formation-the
snitt. n year no team so lowly as
not 10 nave a variation Of his simple,
oVerrated lineup.
Two reasons have passed and this
is about the only new thing in forma-
lions. OF original development of the
ware pass and onside kick as little
may be said.
Easy 10 Understand.
Bearing this in mind, it is easy to
understand why many elevens are
The loose ball bogcy has been a
coach's nightmare.
Complaint is made that the rules
produce scoreless games. Against
princeton Yale had eight chances to
score by field goals and realized once.
Harvard had three chances against
yale n Yale had two, but both fall
ed TO count. Princeton had n
chance against Yale and two against
OA0 i dedlISI JOIN.
is h failure of Yale and Harvard
% ne charged against the rules or to
miserable execution? The rules give
opportunity to score, but l do not un-
derstand they are to hand up field
goals on a platter. No team I saw
mis- fall failed to score through fault
Of the rules.
The forward pass had advanced
little. Many coaches profess to think
little OF 1t. but in secret acknowledge
It's potentialities and are not up to It.
Used without great skill it has the
oanger OF a loose ball. but no play
offers more strategic value.
Poor Play.
This year showed the penalty of
poor play. Harvard and Yale failed
Tor no other reason. For the same
reason Army failed and Navy made
GOOD. The year laid a heavy hand on
unciean handling Of the ball and
laundering effort to turn Opportunity
into points.
~cet Dartmouth, Navy, Car
isle, Trinity and Chicago deserve men
ton, though nom showed the quality
the rules encourage.
The rules brought what football
needed. BY increasing the difficulty of
making ten yards, they balanced at
tack and defense. They prevent mass
ing on an individual and force open
play. They put a premium on brains
make for a higher grade Of play.
II there Is trouble 1t is with coach
es VINO won't forget the old game. or
lack of ingenuity to get awav from
It Let there be no tinkering with the
rules to cover coaching deficiencies.
Rather insist that coaches come mn to
date"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
BASEBALL YEAR
STARTED TODAY
Magnates in Session in New
York-Ticke Scandal
Is Probed

New York. Dec. 1.-THE baseball
year of 1919 virtually begins this week.
O there remain some unsettled
matters from the season of 1911, par
ticularly the world series ticket scan
DIAL, the main business of the severn
Dig baseball meetings here during the
next three DAYS Will have t. do with
the new year in baseball. Members
OF the supreme council of the game,
heads of seevral leagues and presi-
dents of many clubs are already in the
city holding informal conferences
which reflected a current of harmony
and optimism.
New business of the week will in
GUIDE action by the national commits
sion on the elevation of the American
association. the Pacific Coast league
double A" class. The respective
presidents of these leagues-Chiving-
ton. Ewing and Rarrow-had all arr
rived in New York Sunday and with
Secretary J. H. Farrell of the Nation.
al Association of Professional Base
ball Clubs, were in consultation all
Sunday afternoon.
The league representatives express
ed confidence of favorable action on
lleved the proposal to call the East
ern league the international league
owing to the fact that it includes two
Canadian clubs. would go through.
Harmony" was the theme Of the
National league magnates. Opposition
to the election of President T. j. Lynch
of the National league was certainly
not evident in the magnates' confer
ences. 1t was said generally that Mr..
Lynch would be reelected at the meet
ing Tuesday and Mr.. Lynch himself
said Soft the election was conduct
on a business basis"
There was also peaceful talk bout
the protests about the long schedule.
August Hermann of Cincinnati said
he was in favor of the 1854 game sche-
dule. but would he glad to see the sea-
son closed earlier. He thought it
would be agreed to close October g.
or about a week earlier than last e
President Ban johnson of the Amer
lean league was on the wya here Sun
day to complete the baseball trium-
rirate of which he and Mcssrs. Lynch
Hermann are the members. The
meeting of the national commission
was called this morning and it is
known that President johnson has had
with hi mevidence relative, to the
in worlds series tickets
last fall,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
WAS 4 GOOD SELECTION

The election of Mcknight as cap
tain of the varsity eleven for 1912 has
received the commentator of nearly
all of the students. For a time it
was thought that Stack, his years
fullhack. would have come chance at
the leadership. but he ave way to
Mcknight. The latter has put in
some hard work for his alma mater in
the past three years and was entitled
to the position. Next year he will
graduate and would have no further
chance for the captaincy. Stack will
be IL junior in 1912 and may get Il
chance at the captaincy in 1913.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
SAYS LET WELL
ENOUGH ALONE
Eastern Football Authority
Is New Advocate of the
Present Rules

New York. Dec. 11.-Caspar Whit
ney. the football authority. has made
public his view Of the agitation for a
change in tho football rules.
I'VE are about to engage in the an
nual pastime. finding fault with the
football rules" says this authority.
I'm mis- 1t is Uncomfortable that the
Yale-Harvard 90 game should be the
logical result Of poor play. For such
a contretemps the rules must he at
fault. So the disgruntled shout More
attacking power
Il have been asked what changes
are necessary, and l answer: None
hat are radical
T fundamentally disturb the game
would be a mistake from n view
point save that of coaches unable to
take advantage of opportunities Offer
New Coaches,
Football is now more interesting
and nearer sport: it's strategic posi-
arc greater than ever. Play
ers do not ask revision: nor the pub
lie. 1t Is the coaches, but not the best
of them.
Football needs. not new rules, but
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
going after him strong and he may
accept their propositions.
WORKING THE N.APLANDER.

Harry Davis. active in his duties al
manager of the C%levelands, is confer.
ring with President Somers in the For
est City. Davis has planned to have
the Maps arrive in New Orleans on
March 10, where two weeks will ba
spent. Davis is opposed to exhibition.
games with other major league clubs
while in the south. He says he pre-
fers to develop his team slowly. after
the plans of Connie Mack. and in that
way have his men in splendid trim az
the championship campaign progress,
es. Davis is anxious to make a Whirl-
wind finish. instead of a sensational
beginning that may peter out. He
will have more than thirty players in
line when the southern training trip
begins.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
JI-sT TWO

Tom SheNlin. the former Yale star,
thinks just WI changes arc needed in
the present rules, I'm not strong for
a game in which the team on the Of
fcnsive plays the hazardous game,
takes all the risks (the only error on
which a team can score is one made
ly the other side in possession of the
bald and can't get anywhere. I'd like
to see a game in which there isn't so
much kicking on the second down and
in which the rules don't play your de-
tensc for you as they do now" Shev-
Inns suggestions are: First, keep the
ten yards and have four down instead
of three: second, have the four backs
on III defense ten yards behind the
scrimmage line when the ball is put in
play.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
TWo WILL BE MISSED.

Philadelphia Times: Topsy Hartsel
and Paddy Livingston will both be
missed from the ranks Of the worlds
champions. The former was one of
the greatest stars in the first cham
pionship team that the American
league ever possessed in this town, and
he was a crackajack ball player even
before his term Of usefulness as a
playing member of the Athletics was
ended. Paddy came into the fold in
time to catch q grand game when the
regulars We're out of business for a
time. and there is no question that he
would have stuck longer only he
couldn't reduce flesh fast enough to
get into condition.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
PACKEY REFUSES
TO MEET GIBBONS

Chicago. Dec. flight fans are
wondering today why the heretofore
overly-courageous Packey Mcfarland
suddenly acquired discretion last night
and refused a $4,000 guarantee with a
privilege of s5 per cent for a ten
round go at New York with Mike Glib
bons. Mcfarland said that the weight.
142 pounds at 2 o'clock, didn't suit
him.
The s%tockyards fighter leaves for
New York Monday for a bout with
Young Hickey on December 10.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
TWO BIG CITIES OPPOSED.

TWO great football critics, BY the
way. are opposed in the matter Of
changing rules. Camp says that it is
absolutely necessary to have some sort
of change. and Caspar Whitney, an
other acknowledged authority, says
this yearly kick about changing the
rules is d farce. Caspar holds that the
rules are o. K. and that the teams are
not. Gaspar also states that if a COL
lege has a great eleben the sort Of
rules that the team plays under does
not cut SO much ice.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
BAN JOHNSON HAS
RADICAL NOTIONS

Chicago, Dec. 11-Ran johnson has
a brand new idea for the national
commission which should make a great
hit with the fans. He will insist. it
is stated that in the future worlds
championship contests be played at
general prices which prevail during
the season.
Ban is also determined, if possible,
to arrange major league schedules that
will permit the respective pennant
winners Of 1912 to start the great
clash on Monday. Oct. Z.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
BAPTIE STILL HOPING

Norval Baptie has mo- yet given up
hopes OF seeing Il skating and curling
rink established in Grand Forks with
himself as manager. 1t might be re-
marked that he knows the business.
Baptie was in Crookston Saturday Civ
ing a skating exhibition. The Crook
stonites are trying to secure him as
ger of a rink which is likely to be
built. Bap;.c has stated his prefer
cnce for Grand Forks. but the Crook
ston followers OF the winter sport are
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
INDEFINITELY POSTPONED

] <1II6IC NICIyVIIdIU TAU UP IN OeU
through the effort to have his cauli-
flower ear. the trade mark of the pro-
flesh. subdued. it begins to look as
though that Mcdonald eitz match
would be indefinitely postponed. An
gle admits that Deitz got the first fall
in their last match in a fair and square
manner. but he claims. that Deitz'
would no have gained the second
n winning fall had his (McDonald's),
leg not been injured in the application
of the first fall toe hold. There may
be something to 1t. =
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11
NEWS OF SPORTDOM

a mighty punch in hi. hands. Mike
swattcd the lad with the black bev-
erage name a couple Of jolts and had
his legs doing a s%erpentine dance and
Coftey was almost settled at the end Of
the argument.
This makes the second man who
has. felt the iron right of Gibbons.
his first candidate for an artistic
licking being Kaiser William Lewis.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-11

Congressman are also talking SER
iously of revising the antitrust law.
and so is President TAFT, hut that is
no sign they will agree upon the
proper manne of revision.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
STAGE COACH
OVER THE CLIFF
One Killed and Several Injured When
Party of Tourists Took
Tumble.

MERGED, Calf, June 5.-R. S. Lie
eniring of Allentown, Pa, was killed,
three women were severity injured
and seven others less seriously hurt
when a stage was overturned and
thrown over cliff in the Yosemite
Valley. The injured were members of
an eastern touring party. The horses
became frightened as the stage was
coming down winding road. They
became unamanageable and bolted.
The brakes failed to hold the coach
and its momentum forced one of the
horses to its knees, sending the lead
ers over the edge of the cliff and
dragging the vehicle after them
The most seriously injured are
Miss Martha Bettehers, Boston. arm
fractured; Miss Disenberr, Boston,
shoulder dislocated: shoulder bone
broken; Mrs. F. jacket, New York.
deep cash over right eye
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
BARROW SATISFIED
WITH INVESTIGATIONS
viii go to indianapolis Before Re
turning to the West Next
Month.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 5.-Ex-
pressing satisfaction with his investi-
cations in San Francisco, Clarence
barrow, chief counsel for the McNa-
mara brothers, indicted in Los Anga-
les for completely in the destruction
of the Times Building, has left for
Chicago.
Before returning to Los Angeles in
July, DarTow plans to visit Indianapo.
lis to confer with the leaders of the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers.
Hall of Records Case.
LOS ANGELES, Calf. June 5.-Tha
arraignment of B. H. Connors, B. Ma
pie and F. P. Ira Bender, indicted by
the grand jury on charges of conspir-
ing to dynamite the Hall of Records
is scheduled for today, according to
statement from the district attor-
uey's office. All three men are held
in the jail in default OF $4,000 bail.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
CORONATION COST
WILL BE GREAT
Money Will Flow Like Water to Get
Ready for the Great Event,
June %.

LONDON, June 5.-The cost of the
coronation of King George, June %.
is going to be SO great there is real
ly no way of arriving at an accurate
estimate. A sample of the profiligacy
the people are showing is seen in the
appropriation of s925,000 made ny
parliament to defray the govern
ments expenses. This is 1901, 900
more than was spent at King Ed
wards coronation and no one ever
accused King Edward of being pix
er. 1t is comparatively easy to figure
the coronation will spend, but abso-
luteIy impossible more than to guess
at the number of millions that will
be spent by Englishmen at large and
by the hundreds of thousands of yisi-
tors in London during the week of
the coronation. Every civilized nation
will be represented at the coronation.
Isolated cases give an idea of the
cost. The earl of Crewe, secretary for
India. recently lost his family coach
in fire. He has just had new one
built for the coronation and for his
harness alone he paid $4,000. There
are 1900 clergymen, cabinet ministers
privy councillors, members Of parla-
ment and the like, entitled to attend
the coronation who will spend on an
average of 5000 for new clothes, rib
bons and gewgaws.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
TALESMAN DRAWN
IN SAMUELS CASE
Forty of Them Answered Call in Dis
trict Court This A.
ternoon.

A special venire of forty talesmen
answered the summons In the district
court this afternoon in the Samuels
case and the attorneys resumed their
work of securing jury. All witness
es in the murder case were excused
until Tuesday. The list of talesmen
follow:
John Herbner, Sam Younker. ]. w.
Griffey, Joseph Moeller, Jerry Stack, ].
B. Harmon, Stephen Veith Henry
Keiffer, George Dunnigan, Ed. Moan
der, o. Il. Miller, B. Davis, J. w. Brink
man, l.. w Sergeant. James McCahan,
Chas. Newman, j. A. Jones. Henry
Nelson, James w Murphy, L. Huff,
John McBain, Allyn Sheldon, Sterling
Hawkins, NJ. F. Vincent, Chas, Marks,
]. w. Davenport, Henry T Welsh. G.
H Wolfe, Robert Martin, Frank ]. Ew-
ers. j. w Moore, T. j. Kaiser, John
w. Cronin, l.. j. Wolf, H. T. Danley,
d. w. Anderson, r. e. Strohmeier, w.
l.. Lowitz and 7. r. Board.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
Mrs. Sarah J. Horsey Died Sunday
Morning at 4:1o at Her Home
Three Miles East Of
croton.
WAS WAR TIME NURSE
Mrs. Horsey Served as Nurse in the
Estes House Hospital Here
During Three Years Of
Civil Strife.

Sunday morning at her home three
miles east of Croton, occurred the
death of Mrs Sarah j. Horsey, at 4:10
a. m. Her passing was caused by a
complication of diseases, and came af.
ter three months illness.
Sarah j. Wheeler was born at Nj
agara Falls, N. Y, November II, 1910.
In lS49 with her parents, Samuel and
Margaret Wheeler, she came to Keo-
kuk and Lee county and had made this
vicinity her home ever since.
She was member of Emberry
church near Croton, fro mwhich place
funeral services will be held tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
The marriage of the deceased to
Samuel H. Horsey, occurred on Sep
TENDER 90, 1856. Mr.. Horsey, who
passed away four years ago, was ma
tive of Mount Pleasant.
For three years during the Civil wal
Mrs Horsey was nurse in the Estes
house in this city
Four children of the nine born tc
the union, are still living: Arthur and
Kate of the home place, Henry Hor
sey and Mrs. Belle Felt, of near Gro
ton.