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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07
VIRGINIA LEAGUERS
First Breach Between Out
laws and Organization.
PITCHER JUMPS DANVILLE
Cold Weather Hurts Base Ball At.
tendance-All the News and Cos
sip of Clubs and Players.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va. May 6.-The state
ment made some time ago. which was
credited to President Hannah of the Tide
water Outlaw League. that the outlaws
would respect the contracts of organized
clubs as long as the contracts of the
teams in his circuit were undisturbed
seems TO have been forgotten by the Nor
FOLK team, for Ray Mullenex, a Baltimore
player, jumped his contract in Danville
and Is playing with the Norfolk club.
Monday Mullenex twirled for the outlaw
Norfolk team against Suffolk, defeating
the Suffolk aggregation to ). According
to the Danville papers, Mullenex not only
jumped his contract with the DanviIle
team, but he left owing the association
$50 advance money. It remains to be
seen. however, whether President Han
nan Will permit this player to participate
In more games when this condition comes
to his knowledge.
There is no doubt that Mullenex went
to Norfolk by a Encouragement, for he
seems to have deserted the Danville team
Saturday and Monday he worked for the
outlaws at Suffolk. Mullenex was picked
up last fall by Steve Griffith. then man.
ager Of Danville, but who is now at the
helm Of the Norfolk outlaws and whose
team there is made up largely of former
Virginia Leaguers, of whom MulIenex
seems to be the only contract jumper.
The Virginia League seems to be suf-
fering from bad weather conditions as
well as some other circuits for this
league has not had more than two or
three good days since the championship
race started. and this has resulted in
some mighty punk ball. The pitchers are
frequently very wild, and 1t has been
nothing to see as many as ten men
walked by q pitcher in game. Errors
have piled up behind the pitchers in an
unusually large number, because none
Of the teams has had an opportunity to
get into good playing condition. While
there have been a number Of very one
sided scores, the beat of Danville by
Richmond Tuesday by the score Of "a to
is record for the circuit.
Fans who watched the work of John
Sexton. the A. & NJ. of North Carolina
star. who pitched last season for the
local team. will be delighted over the
fact that he seems to have earned him.
self berth with the Birmingham
(Southern League) team for this sea-
son. Sexten is mining engineer. but
there are quite a few fans who believe
he has a brilliant future before him as
a slab artist. as his work last Sunday
against Mobile, when he yielded three
hits. seems to attest. Few men have
entered professional ranks equipped
with better habits or a more gentle
manly personality than Sexton. who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07
INQUISITNE FANS.

Sporting Editor Star:
Kindly answer tho following in the pink
sheet Of May z: % Where did Christy
Mathewson play before Joining the New
York Giants? e. Where did tho Ath-
letics get Collins? % Are there any for
big leagues now? a. What does EB.
mean In the batting average columns?
G) Which pitcher holds the strike-out
recordf There seems to be some doubt
as to whether Walter johnson holds it
or not. c. d. X.
~ Norfolk of VIRGINIA state League.
(2 Columbia University. 90 No. "a Ex-
ira bases o. The record is held by Rube
Waddell.
Sporting Editor Star:
WI YOU please answer in the pink
hanty ever make q homo run In Wash
ington, the ball going over center field
fence? Thanking you in advance, I re-
main, respectfully, w. I. B.
No one seems to remember such q hit.
Sporting Editor Star:
Please state in your Sunday pink sheet
the age Of Hal Chase, manager Of the
New York American League team
NJ. BOWMAN.
Hal Chase is twenty-eight.
Quar- ~ DIOWu
strike out Cobb three times in the last
game Of the worlds series in 1907?
CD How many men did Cole strike out
in the Saturday game Of the worlds
series Of 1910? 60 Who Is the best
all round man in the world? 90 How
many bases did Cobb steal in the 1907
worlds series? o. J. N.
% No. twice. 90 Five in eight in
nings. CD Theodore Roosevelt. 90
None.
Sporting Editor Star: % Runners on
second and third. Batsman hits a fly
ball and both runners start with the
ball. Ball is caught by fielder and
thrown to third. Third baseman
fumbles ball and player running from
second to third touches third before
ball Is recovered. Player running to-
ward home. obeying instructions from
coacher, starts to return to third. AS
the other base runner is now on third.
the umpire declares the player running
from third to home out. Is he right?
(2) Was he right in declaring the man
running from second entitled to third?
CD Does section 10 or IL of rule Sc
apply? G. W. SCHROEDER.
u If the third baseman held the ball
on third before the runner who was on
third could get back there after the
fly was caught. the umpire was right.
That apparently was his decision. CD
Runner from second was not entitled
to third unless he retouched second
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07
Horse With TWo-Minute
Speed Most Notable Product
of Twentieth Century.
STORY TOLD IN RECORDS
OF MANY GREAT TRIALS
Mark for Mile Reduced From
2.O3 ga to 1.58 IL by Lou
Dillon in Ten Years.
By Henry Ten Eyck White.

Copyright. 1911, by the Tribune Company
The minute trotter. long dreamed
about by the enthusiasts in the face OF
the assertion by several mathematical
sfarps that no such rate of speed possibly
could be obtained by a horse of that gait,
unquestionably is the most notable prod
uCt of the harness turf during the last
ten years. for in that period the mile
record has been cut from the 2.O3N of
Alix. made in 1894, to the 1.5S1a of Lou
Dillon, which was put on the books In
1903, and so many trotters have excelled
the performance of AliX that the name
of the little mare from Iowa, which
1t one time was the idol Of the race
going public by reason of her beauty and
gameness. as we'll as her speed, is unfa-
miIiar to present-day lovers of the sport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07
INTEREST IN YACHTING.
Eighteen Constructed to Compete
for Emperor's Gun,

KEEL. May 6.-The sonder-class yacht
races for the Emperor William cup. the
fourth annual contest for which is to be
decided during the regatta week here the
coming summer. are attracting greater
interest than ever. No fewer than eight
cen new sonder-class yachts have been
constructed, one for Prince Adalbert, and
Of these three will be selected to meet the
three American competitors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07
Cornell's Foot Ball Plans.

Cornell foot ball men are making ex-
tensive preparations to put the 1thacans
on az high foot ball plane as they are
in rowing. track athletics and other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07
after the fly was caught. q, Section

10 applies.
Sporting Editor Star: With base
runner on first, the batsman hits q foul
which lands quite a distance from first
The first baseman gets the ball and
throws it to the pitcher. then takes
his position at first, the runner not hav-
ing retouched first. He calls for the
ball after the pitcher and batsman are
in their positions. and touches the base
runner. Is the man on first out? CD
If not, why not? READER.
"a No. (2) Rule IS. section /.
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The Abbot Trots in :O23<.

The Abbots champion mile stood as the
best by a trotter less than q year, as in
1901 Cresceus trotted the Cleve-
hand track, July IS. in 5O2s4. and the fol-
lowing week at Columbus put 2:O2A to his
credit The Ohio stallion was, in my esti-
nation. the greatest trotter ever foaled,
when what he accomplished as a colt and
an aged horse, winter and summer, over
Ill sorts of tracks, Is taken into account.
But his championship mile lasted only
two years. as In 1903 Lou Dillon, a trot-
ting marvel. began beating all previous
work In the speed line and never stopped
until she had hung up .5Sh. which still
stands as the fastest mile by trotter
That pile, however. and a previous one
In Zoo fiat are separated In the latest
volume Of the Year Book from other
Chang Dnship performances and marked
by kne reading. Preceded by dirt
shieldP, AS records no longer can be
made SRder such conditions, the 1854
mile OF Uhlan last year. with no runner
IN front Of the horse. generally is regard
ID as the best work by trotter. AS both
{, X. Billings. the ruling simply gives
nat - two champion trotters
AT u close of the last century Alfx
Hss <3>giited with the best mile by q
trotter IN race. 205fs. a performance
which looks common, indeed beside the
work In 1900 ofSHamburg Belle which,
won from Uhlan- in 20I1x. 2O13<. and 1t is
only fair to say that no other trotter ever
seemed like being UP TO that perform
hnc4, and the two consecutive heats av-
braSing 201h made the mare look like
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07
Flora Temple Beats $50.

Ever since 1.-TWO forty ON the plank
road" was the slogan Of the trotting-
horse enthusiasts along before the civil
war. the mile has been the standard by
which all excellence Is measured. The
20 horse was succeeded By the 2.30 nag
early In the game, and in 1850 Flora
Temple, little mare Of abbreviated eau
aal appendage. did what all the experts
Of those far-away days had declared i'm
possfble-beat go at the trot, her mile
being 2-19&. whence the popular lyric OF
that period beginning 'I'n bet my money
On the bobtail hoss." a ditty still occa-
sionally heard around racetracks when
some old-time caretaker sings crooningly
70 "fussy' colt he is handling:
~ bet ny a @sssy s so sas oos'.'l boss
tn bet ug money on tho bobtail boss,
Doodah. doodah, day.
But IN bet my money on the bobtsii boss,
Doodah. doodnh, day.
When the nineteenth century ended the
2:03Z Of Alix looked like hard mark to
beat 1t had been standing for six years
when In 1900 Ed Geers. who then. as now,
waS a commanding figure among horse
men, cut the record to 2:03A with The
Abbot. a hawky gelding over whose edu-
cation from coithood he had presided
The mile was done at Terre Haute.
timed II in 2:02a4. and. meeting Mr.. Geers
that night, asked what his watch show
ed, His timing agreed with mine, and
later found that the three official timers
made the mile 2.02s4. 2.03 and 2G'14. and
that, in accordance with the Terre Haute
ruie for the timing OF trials or races, the
siowest watch was made the official rec
ord. Afterward / saw Mr.. Geers drive
The Abbot mile to wagon at Lexington
In 2:O3k / was a workout and in max
Ing the trip three harrows and some
do1dshAd to be gone around, so the heat
certainly was as good as 2:O3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07

ITO show at a glance what ten years OF
progressive breeding and training have
lone for the American trotter, give be-
low the records for trotters at various
ways OF going as they stood In 1899 and
appear today:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-13

NoveI as this procedure was, 1t was
not an innovation, as it was exactly
the method adopted by Almeida, the
Portuguese admiral and discoverer,
when he was QUILTING a fleet for Just
such descent on the Turkish colony
of Mozambique as the Italians made
on Tripoli
1t was at the beginning of the six
teenth century and Portugal still lack.
ed navy, and the Portuguese tongue
was devoid of naval terms. This fact
did not daunt the doughty Admiral
Almeida, and, hanging up strings of
garlic and onions on the port and star.
board sides, respectively, of his ships,
he instructed his helmsmen to "gar.
lie" or onion" the helm, as necessity
commanded
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-13
100000 FOR HER HUSBAND
Young German Girl Forfeits Right to
Fortune to Marry Man of Her
Choice-Met Him by Accident

Galveston, Tex.-IsabelIa Koenig.
winsome girl of 20, gave up a fortune
estimated to be worth about 100000
for the love of young man she met
while on her way from her home in
Germany to join an aunt who had Sc
lected her as an heir.
The aunt, Mrs. George Elsberg, Is
wealthy widow without children
residing near Fredericksburg, Tex,
and owns several farms and landed
interests. She Is 70 years old and
has selected her favorite niece, the
youngest daughter of her sister, liv-
Ing near Hanover, Germany, the heir
to her estate, and arrangements
were made for the girl to come over
and make her home with her wealthy
relative and become acquainted with
the estate of which she would be-
come owner upon the death of her
aunt
At Bremen the young heiress met
and fell in love with Wendon Phil
lips, whose home is in Los Angeles,
and who is employed in the real es-
tate office OF his father. Phillips
was returning from a vacation trip
and had engaged passage in the
steamship Hanover, bound for Cal
weston. 1t appeared to be love at
first sight for both the lovers.
Upon returning here it was found
that the aunt seriously objected to
the marriage. The niece and her
fiance visited the aged lady and had
a long interview, but she declared
she would disown the girl and cut
her off without a cent in her will
If she married within five years, so
the heiress made the sacrifice and the
cermony was performed; but the
aunt did not attend and did not re-
lent, and the newly welded couple
took their departure for California
without receiving her blessings.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-13
JAVA GROWN TEA is GAINING
1t May Displace Japan Product in
Popularity Before Long-cuItlva-
ton Increasing Fast.

The Hague.-Java comes immediate
ly after japan as tea producing
country and takes the fourth place In
the tea exporting countries Of the
world, of which British India with
Ceylon is first and China second. II
looks now as If Java would soon beat
Japan in the markets of the world, for
the cultivation Of tea is increasing
rapidly, and the product is gaining In
quality. At present the United States
is the only nation to which Japan ex.
ports its tea and perhaps it will not
continue to patronize Japan very
much longer, because it's tea has been
found to be "colored" and is lacking in
flavor.
In Java it is otherwise; both the
government and the planters are CO
operating to insure improvements in
the growth, preparation and packing
of the product. Java tea can now be
kept for upward of two years and
even improve in flavor by the keep
ing. This has been found out already
in Australia, which promises to be
come the principal tea market for
Java
Tea grows exceedingly well in the
Dutch Indies, especially in the Trean-
ger province Of Java, where there are
already 400 tea estates. The export
in 1910 was 100000 pounds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-13

meant more to the common people
than merely time for feasting and
revelry, for giving and receiving; it
had been also a season for holy OBJ.
servances, for they refused to go to
church on New Christmas day, the
holy thorn not being then in blossom.
So serious became the trouble that the
clergy found it prudent to announce
that Old Christmas day should also
be kept sacred as before. Only an
other story Of mems weak, supersti-
tious minds? True, perhaps; but they
are better who evidence some spiritual
weakness than those who wallow in
the wholly material, and when we
cease to be careful of the cup and the
platter, we become not over careful Of
their contents.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-13
Raise Price of Shaving.

London.-There will be a host Of
new recruits to the ranks of those
pains-taking individuals who shave al
home if a proposed general advance in
BARRIERS prices is carried into eff
feet.
The executive committee of the Lon
don and Suburban Master Hairdress
ers' association is taking steps to as
certain what support raising the
charges by so per cent, so that six
cents would be charged, would receive
from its members.
Many individual hairdressers have
expressed themselves in favor of the
higher price, for they find the in
creased cost Of living demands an In
creased cost Of shaving.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-13
HUCKSTERS' CRIES IN NAVY
Ropes and Sails on Turkish Fleet Are
Named for Vegetables and the
Result Is Amusing.

London.-The discussion incident to
the present unpleasantness between
Italy and Turkey of the unprepared-
ness of the Turkish fleet has recalled
an unusual difficulty experienced by
the founders of the original Ottoman
navy.
They were hampered by the fact
that there were no words in the Turk.
ish dictionary for the various ropes
and sails of the warships of that day.
An ingenious officer solved the prob.
lem by tying different vegetables to
the various ropes and spars of the
rigging, and the sailors received or.
ders to Hoist the tomato!" 'T1et go
the potato!" until a more formal vo-
cabulary could be supplied.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-13
Me9@ai7 sc hHstmdS Rose.
MOTHER of those spiritual
parallels is the legend Of

the Christmas rose, and it
tells how good things, fit for giving,
spring up ready to the hand which
earnestly desires to give to the Child.
1t is said that a certain maiden of
Bethlehem was so poor that she had
nothing to give to the Babe to whom
kings brought wealth from afar, and,
as she stood. longing and mourning,
and angel appeared to her, saying:
Look at thy feet, beneath the snow"
and 10! on obeying the maiden found
that new flower had miraculously
sprung up and blossomed at her needs.
Every since then, runs this story, this
exquisite flower, with it's snowy petals
just touched by suggestions of pinkish
bloom, is to be found at this season;
and, indeed, it's half-opened cups are
like chalices Of love, and it's fully
spread petals are like a happy inno-
cence, fit symbols for the gifts for the
Babe Of spotless innocence, whose
heart was the vessel of love.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-13
Notice of Sale.

In County Court, Grant County, Wisconsin.
In the matter of the estate of James q.
Hull deceased.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue ans
in pursuance of an order OF license made il
said matter by the County Court of Grant
County. Wisconsin, on the 9TH day of Nov
Der, 1911, the undersigned administrator
with the will annexed of the estate OF James
G. Hull. deceased. will on the 3rd daY of
January. 1912. at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon.
at the village hall in the village of Potosi in
said county, offer for sale and sell at public
auction the following described lands,
situate in said county, to-wit:
The East half of the North East quarter;
the West half of the South East quarter;
the North West diagonal half of the North
East quarter; the South West quarter of
the North East quarter; and Lot ID Qess
LIS acres.l-all in Section ten Q0l Town
ship two (2) North, Range three 90 West
Also part of Lot one a. Section fourteen
(I4J IN said town, containing 1875 acres. and
the undivided two-thirdS I'D of Lot two (2@
Section fifteen q5l in said town. Also in
lots 209, 2l1, and 215 and out-lot Sixty-eight
1884, Section thirty-four (34) Township three
80 North. Range three (3)WeSL
G.. j. RAGATZ.
Administrator with the will annexed of
the estate Of James G. Hnll. deceased.
41w3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-13
LEGAL NOTICES
5ooooooooooO-oooooooooooooc
Summons.
Circuit Court, Grant county.
Mile Cunningham, Plaintiff.

Circuit Court, Grant county.
Mile Cunningham, Plaintiff.
VS.
Frank E. Cunningham. Defendant
THE STATE OF WISCONSIN To the said
defendant:
You are hereby summoned to appear with
in twenty days after service OF this sum-
mons, exclusive of the day of service. and
defend the above entitled action i'm the court
aforesaid; and in case of your failure so to
do, judgment will be rendered against you
according to the demand of the complaint
GEO. b. CLEMENTSON.
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Il. . Address Lancaster. Grant County, Wis
ISt ms. Nov. %: last ms. Jan. 3.
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8eMi91ldS EDe Legends.
HERE are several exceeding
ly touching legends concern


2HgS ly touching legends concern
ing bells, which are heard
ringing from buried cities and villages
at this season. One belongs to a vii
lage near Raleigh, IN Nottingham
shire, and the story runs that once,
where there is now but valley, there
was a village which, with every trace
of life and habitation, had been swal-
lowed by an earthquake; but ever
since, at Christmas, the bells of the
buried church are heard to ring as of
old.
A similar legend is told Of Preston,
in Lancashire, and yet another and
more moving one comes from the
Netherlands. 1t is said that the city
of Been was notorious for it's black
and shameless sins, as we'll as re-
nowned for its beauty and magnif1-
cence. To the Sodom Of the middle
ages came our Savior on one ami
versary of his birth, and went as a
beggar from door to door, but not one
in all that Christmas keeping city
gave the Master of the abundance Sin
he saw rampant on every side, but not
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-13
s. GHHmHOLD Thorn.
Z is not so many centuries
ago since there was that holy
thorn of glastonbury which

ago since there was that holy
- thorn at Glastonbury which
blOssomed every Christmas, and, so
ran the legend, had done ever since
ST. Joseph of Arimathea, having come
as apostle to Britain, and, landing at
Glastonbury, had stuck his staff of dry
hawthorn into the soil, commanding it
to put forth leaves and blossoms. This
the staff straightway did, and thereby
was the king converted to the Chris
tian faith, the faith which preached
life from death.
The holy thorn of Glastonbury -four
fshed during the centuries until the
civil wars. During those it was up
rooted; but several persons had had
trees growing from cuttings from the
original tree, and those continued to
bloom at the Christ-season, just as
their parent, which had grown from
st. Joseph's staff, had bloomed. And
about the middle of the 18th century
it was recorded in the Gentleman's
Magazine how the famous holy thorn
would net deign to recognize the new
style calendar, which had then come
into force but would persist in bios
soming as of old on old Christmas
day!
In those days the anniversary of the
advent of the Babe had certainly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-12-13
a trace of Christmas bounty and good

q trace UI OuIISIudS UOUuLy anu BOOU
will, and he called to the sea, which,
as of old, obeyed his voice, and Been
the city of sin, was buried deep, clean
out of sight, beneath the waves. But
ever at Christmas up from beneath the
covering waters comes the sweet call
ing of church bells buried in Been. It
is legend which appears to tell in
parable that nothing which ever be-
longed to the Christ, and was dedi-
Gated to his service, is ever wholly lost
from him and alienated from service;
that ever and again something of their
inherent beauty and compelling sweet
ness rises from the depths through all
seeming ruin.
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Christmas Bells.

T 5s83 5: =: :.7 s.s: ga .. n
was the hour of midnight