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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
LEU2lUM BRIEFS.


DR.. ]. Vercillini. of Hlbblng. Mimi,
Is visiting friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Briggs left
yesterday for Cleveland, o., where they
will visit their son.
Robert Langford was removed yes
terday afternoon to the Calumet Pub
lie hospital, where he will undergo an
operation for appendicitis.
Walter Moore, a diamond drill OPP
orator employed by the c. & II. min
ing company, has been called to Los
Angeles, owing to the illness of a rel
ative.
The Calumet Laurium Curling clue
is i'm communication with officers Of
the Northwestern Curling association
which will conduct it's annual bonspiel
at the 500. If the dates of the tourna-
ment are favorable the Laurium curl
ers will send a rink.
At the annual meeting of the First
Baptist church this week. officers for
the ensuing year were elected as fol-
lows: President, r. c. Chamberlain;
vice president. William BlacllwOod;
secretary Thomas Refill. and treas
urer, j. II. Green.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03

BEEMAN CLAIMS TITLE.
Former Copper Country Man WrestIes
Draw With Gehrine.

There are now three claimants for
the worlds middleweight wrestling
championship. Henry Gehring was
the recognized champion. but during
the past week he wrestled Pearl Bee
man and Mike Yokel TO draws so that
both of these men must now be con-
sidered i'm future calculations, says
the Butte Inter Mountain. Beeman
and Gehring met i'm Great Falls Satur-
day night and after being on the mat
two hours, without neither man scor-
ing a pin fall. a draw decision was
given. Beeman got a flying fall but
this did not count, as the men had
agreed that only pin falls should be
considered. Gehring is willing to wa
ger $1,000 that Beeman can throw
Yollel.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
TWENTY CLUBS IN LEAGUE.

New York, Feb. "a new baseball
league, the Interstate Baseball assoc
citation, has been launched here, with
20 clubs as members. 1t is the inten-
ton to enroll all permanent amateur
and semi professional clubs i'm New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Connecticut. the object being Ito pro-
mote the game and protest baseball
clubs embracing standard amateur and
reliable professional players"
The board of directors will settle all
disputes and act as a board of arbi-
tration on all points connected with
the playing rules which may come up
during the season.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
FEW new BLOWS
ARE UNCOVERED
PRESENT DAY FIGHTERS DE-
PEND UPON LAWMAKERS
TAUGHT THEM BY THEIR
PREDECESSORS.

Occasionally in the dispatches from
the training camps Of the higher grade
of boxers reports OF new blows in
vented by this or that fighter. to be
used i'm his coming battle with the fell
low for whom he is training, are sent
out, but when IL comes to the day of
the mill the men slam away at each
other in the same old way.
AS matter of fact. there have been
few, if any new blows sprung on the
public since Wild McCoys corkscrew or
Jim Corbett's hook. All of the other
so-called blows said TO be of more
recent discovery have proved 10 be
nothing more or less that the old wal
lops under different names
Some Of the old timers even claim
that the hook was not new when Jim
Corbett launched IL in his battle with
John L. Sullivan. They say Jack
Dempsey used the same blow in nearly
all OF his fights half a dozen years
previous to the Jacksonville mill.
Corbett figured out this blow while
training for his bout with John L. He
realized that the straight left for the
face could be blocked with apparent
ease. owing to it's being in such COM
mon use. so he conceived the idea of
hooking the forearm as he let fly with
the left from the shoulder.
This motion caused the blow to twist
around the other fellows parry and
gave it the same effect as a right
swing to the point of the jaw.
Corbett landed this blow on Sullivan
repeatedly and got away without a re-
turn. Every time he started the blow
John would prepare TO block a straight
left as he rushed i'm TO meet the shift
ty Corbett. and Jims left would de-
scribe a semi-circle around the big fell
lows right glove, crashing against his
jaw with marvellous accuracy each
time
Occasionally, as the fight progressed.
Corbett used the left straight. and by
mixing them up in this manner he had
John guessing all the time.
Another thing that Corbett invented
was the perpendicular guard. Previous
to this time the fighters used a hori-
Zontal parry and IL was not difficult
for swift opponent to get over II.
The 6ld-timers evaded swings for the
jaw by either ducking or stepping
back.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
BOXERS DISQUALIFIED.

New York. Feb. 3.-The disqualifi-
cation at one blow of a national cham
pion and a metropolitan title holder is
announced by the registration COM
mittee of the Amateur Athletic union.
The two athletes are w. w Barbour,
national title holder of the heavy
weight division I'm the amateur boxing
world, and ]. ]. Garretson. metropoli-
tan champion. They disqualified them
selves from further amateur competi-
ton. the committee rules. by boxing
on Monday night at an unsanctioned
exhibition i'm Cooper's gymnasium
here
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
NEW WORLDS RECORD.
Skaters Clip Fractions Of Seconds OFF
Old Time.

Boston. Mass. Feb. 3.-Two worlds
records We're broken in the first ice
skating meet ever held in Boston FOR
the New England championship under
the auspices of the International Skat-
ing union In the goo yard race Fred ].
Robson of Toronto bettered his own
mark of 10 1-5 seconds by doing the
distance in 1S.seconds fiat, establishing
new figure.
The other record 10 go was for the
high jump. the best previous mark be-
ing feet inch. William III. Quinn
of Harvard, after three trials, made 4
feet. q inches. Edmund Lamy. the
amateur champion of America was not
present having been suspended just
previous TO the meet by the interna-
.tional union and his entry eliminated.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
TOM JONES TO MILWAUKEE,.
Tiger First Basemsn Passes From Sc
leet Baseball Society.

Tom Jones has passed out of the big
league society The Tiger first base
man has been sold to the milwaukee,
club of the American association.
Jones, while never classed as star,
was most serviceable man. He was
always i'm condition and could be de-
pended upon. But Tom has aged. and
with his advancing years came slow
ness.
Toms career dissipates the theory
that an athlete. to be successful. must
break into the game in his younger
years. Jones was 26 years old before
he played professional ball. He goes
out Of select baseball society at the
age of Sc.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
GREAT BASE RUNNING.

The greatest base running of the
past season-not counting the class OF
the leagues-was Zimmerman Of the
Utica team. New York State league
This gent played 1876 games and nailed
IO5 bases. which is something dazzling
Another startling performer in the
minors was Morse. who played inl the
Western Canada league. and clipped
IS steals i'm 81 games.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
SEVERE TREMORS
AT POLO GROUNDS
HOW THE GAME OF BASEBALL
WAS DESCRIBED BY A MAN
WELL VERSED IN SclEN-
TIFic LORE.

on the large metropolitan dailies as
signments are distributed TO the re-
porters best fitted by experience to
handle them. So, the financial repor-
ter, the society reporter, the police re-
porter or the ship news man travels,
we'll beaten and familiar path each
day in his quest for news. I'm an en-
Urgency. however, il may be found nee
essary to switch one Of these special
lists, and he will be called upon to
| Cover some other reporters territory.
To his credit ii may be said that he
turns in good story, too, as a rule
There was one good story sent in by
a substituted man, though, that the
public never read, that is, until they
see it here printed.
A few years ago a special writer.
who had been assigned to report the
deliberations Of a number OF profess
sors commissioned by the government
to investigate the causes and effect Of
| a great earthquake that had startled
/ the whole of the civilized world, re-
turned to his paper after having COM
pleted his work. 1t so happened that
the man who usually wrote the story
Of the baseball games, then playing
i'm New York City, was taken sick and
this man who for three weeks had
/ been delving into scientific mysteries,
was given the assignment. His copy
/ follows:
"The selsmograph at the' Polo
grounds bureau of observation rcgist-
cred the severest shock of the season,
today. The tremors began at three
minutes past four in the afternoon and
continued until interrupted by u thun-
der storm at approximately 1850. The
period of the strongest vibration was
about 4:27 (second innng)
1.-The first preliminary tremors be-
gan at four o'clock with one of the To-
cal investigators holding the seismo-
graph rigldly-three noticeable vibra-
| tions could be seen with the unadorned
eye and the expert pronounced the
shock a "strike-ou not a new term
i'm baseballology but much avoided by
students of the club. The next man
to hold the instrument discovered two
heavy vibrations-and then immedi-
ately found the center of radiation,
making a record on the books of the
official record keeper. The vibrations
continued some minutes when there
was a cessation-side out
"A committee Of nine appointed from
the famous Chicago laboratory. then
essayed a vague investigation into the
origin of the disturbances. They re-
ported unsuccessful.
''The motion Of the grounders con-
tinued regardless of the sphere experts
and the recorder closed his report at
$50 with the ratio amplitude of mo-
/ ton exactly three to one. The earth
quake lasted about fifty minutes and
when the seismograph was raised-be-
cause of the thunder storm--the move
ment was still going on, though much
| lessened.
"The final record was: New Yorks,
three; Chicagos. L."
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
Quotes Old Rhyme.

Remember that little rhyme they
used to recite several years ago? 1t
runs something like this:
"If Candlemas day be fair and bright.
Winter will take another fight
If Candlemas day be dull and drear.
Winter will not come again this year
well, that rhyme has just about as
much foundation as old Mother Hub
bard, Little Jack Homer and that
thing about the COW jumping over the
moon. Some people do like to hang
on to those childish things. Amt IL
the truth? I've been on this job now
for forty years or more. and I'm tired
of IT, | don't care If a million people
believe in my prophecy. I'm not going
to make a fool of myself and come out
of my hole again, Candlemas day or
any other day, until I'm good and
ready.
well. | guess it's me for my leafy
couch again. You can have your snow
and cold and wind. don't stay out
this year and go through 1t. The suns
with me and I'm glad of II. Give my
best to Richardson and tell him he's
the only weather prophet in Duluth
now, excepting the oldest inhabitants
I'm a weather prophet no more. I'm
just an ordinary. everyday groundhog
and that's distinction enough for me-"
Whereat the grounding took a last
squint at the sun. a look at his shadow,
n glance around at the snow-covered
earth. and, with a nod to his inter-
viewer and a whisk of his tail. he dis
appeared into the hole he had made
through the drift.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
FIGHTERS ARE RETURNING.

Three of the four American fighters
who have been fighting in Australia
for several months have quit that
country and are now on their way to
England. Those who have deserted
McIntosh's country are Billy Papke.
Ray Bronson and Jimmy Clabby who
recently fought Dave Smith. the Aus
tralian middleweight champion. The
trio sailed from sydney last week Cy-
clone Johnny Thompson. the other
American fighter, is still there.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
WANT RETURN MATCH.
Digger Stanley and frankie Burns May
Meet Again.

New York. Feb S.-Negotiations are
pending here for another match be-
tween Digger Stanley. the English
bantam, and Fankie Burns, the result
of whose recent bout in this city
aroused so much discussion. II is un-
derstood Alfred Mack. Stanley's man
ager, has under consideration a num-
Der of propositions made by Manager
O'Rourke of the National Sporting
club and that the prospects are favor
able for a second meeting of the ban
tams in something over a fortnight.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
TO RfAPPORTION
PRIMARY funds
HOUSE AT LANSING VOTES TO
PUT MATTER UP TO THE PEO-
PLE-BlLL UNQUES-
TONED.

The House at Lansing has put
through the McNaughton concurrent
resolution providing for submitting to
the people a proposed amendment to
the constitution to eliminate from the
apportionment of primary school mon
" those districts which have a sufii-
cicnt amount of primary money to pay
teachers salaries for two years. FaV-
ordblc action was taken on this meas
urc with no oratory features.
There was some surprise when the
resolution to submit an amendment to
the constitution relative TO the pri-
mary school money went through
with no discussion Of its terms and
purpose. Usually such measures, no
matter how well understood they are,
bring on an outpurst OF specchmak-
ing, but these two important bills
were disposed OF with not even word
Of explanation. The Farmers club
had approved of McNaughton's reso-
luton and the discussion of the mat
ter during the past two years has APP
parently brought about such a thor
ough understanding of the necessity
OF some action which will prevent a
further stacking up of useless funds
that the members were evidently of the
opinion there was no excuse for talk
ing. Rep. Mcbride of ottawa cast the
only negative vote.
New Bills introduced.
There were eleven bills introduced
In the house this week one introduce
cd by Representative Tufts of Luding-
ton Is intended 10 prevent in the flu
ture a candidate of one party at n
primary election being made the NOM
iuee Of another party by virtue of a
few votes cast for him. 1t is the shape
Of an amendment to the present pri-
mary election law, and makes void
the votes by the members of one par
ty for n candidate on the ticket OF
another party.
Representative Kerns of Saginaw In
troduced bill prescribing the quail
ications OF a locomotive engineer. II
provides that the engineer must first
serve three years as a fireman before
he can become a freight engineer and
two years as freight engineer before
he can take u passenger run. Penal
ties are provided for each days vio-
lation of tho law
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
GOOD PICTURE AT LYRIC.

a picture film that will attract moro
Than ordinary interest i'm Calumet Is
That depicting, THE Battle of Red
wood" which is being shown this
week at the Lyric theater of Laurium.
The picture is of a semi historical ma
lure purportipg TO be an exact repro
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
Lauriium Department

duction of the famous Redwood mas
sacre The picture is an intensely in
teresting one and will undoubtedly at
tract large crowds. Manager Crehan
states that he has provided four other
pictures in addition to the above and
that the program is one of the best
that has ever been offered at that
playhouse
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
CROUNDHOCCIF
BACK IN HOLE
SAW HIS SHADOW YESTERDAY
AND SUPERSTITION SAYS WIN
TER WILL REMAIN SIX
WEEKS LONGER.

"Well well, WELL" the grounding re-
marked yesterday as he shook the
snow from his fur after having pushed
his way through the five-foot drift
that covered the mouth of his hole, i'm
order to satisfy the demands of tradi-
ton and take a look around on Candle
mas day.
After the grounding had relieved
himself of the particles of snow that
had attached themselves to his fur I'm
his boring through the drift, he pen
sively rubbed his eyes with one chilled
paw and then looked around.
well, there's the sun breaking
through the clouds and there's my
shadow behind me on the snow" he
said. II guess you're in for six weeks
more of hard weather and l can go
back and finish my nap.
II don't see why ! should be dis
turbed and called out here every year,
anyway" he suddenly exclaimed petu-
lantly, bristling with Indignation. my
prophecy doesn't count for anything
Even if | don't see my shadow and, in
Difference to tradition and superstition
give up my nap what do l get? Snow
four or five feet deep to wallow
through, temperatures running any
where from freezing to twenty degrees
below zero. wind that goes right
through my hide and chills me so that
| have to burrow through the snow
/ for protection. Anybody with any
brains knows that winter doesn't end
here Feb. or March 2, either and
still they break up my sleep and DRAG
me out of my hole every year to look
around.
I'm just as much out Of date as a
prophet as the stage coach as a means
of travel or the courier as a means OF
communication or the court herald as
means of spreading news. I'm q
! back number and l know IL I'm ready
to quit my job any time the dear pub
/ lie is ready to shake off superstition
and catch up with the time. I'm will
/ ing to live as a grounding, digging
around in the earth during the sum-
mer and sleeping peacefully In the
winter and L would be content to be
just that If people would only leave
me alone
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
!. -: ':.:*:. :*':**':* ::
COBB INTERESTED IN
NEWSPAPER COMPANY.

Augusta, Ga. Feb. 3.-"Ty''
Cobb is one Of the stockholders
in a company that yesterday
announced the purchase Of the
Augusta Chronicle. The extent
Of the ball players holdings i'm
the newspaper was not given
out. The Chronicle is one of
the oldest papers in the South.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
HEMLocks TRIM PINES.

The Ehls' bowling league match be-
tween the Pines and Hemlocks last
evening resulted in a victory for the
Hemlocks who took the first and third
games. The individual scores made
were as follows:
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03
SPORTING NEWS OF THE WORLD
.:*.:*...:* ****:.*:*:
WILLIE HOPPE TURNS
DOWN FOREIGN OFFER.

!. Willie Hoppe yesterday turned
= down an offer to play exhibit
= tons in Paris academies and
= the champion billiardist will not
(: meet Calvin Demarest and the
= French experts on foreign ta-
= bles. Paris academies offered
= Hoppe $40 a day and expenses,
- but the champion sent word To
= the Brunswicke- Bake Collen-
= der company that for the pres
= ent he preferred TO compete i'm
= American cities, but that he
= might consider a trip abroad
= later
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-03

The members of Court North Star,
No. IL +. of A. who intend going to
Mohawk Saturday evening. Feb. 4th
are requested 10 meet at the hall at
ESQ O'Clock in order to take the 7:10
car.
rs Thos. Bergman. Il. s.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-06-20
Beautiful Dress Linens and Wash
Materials Greatly Reduced

all
S5c 27lnch al
reduced to lie
sc checks At the yard
this 1Sc
Building Fund sale ISC
3Oinch Figured FaNons the Building Fund
3Oinh Figured FaNons marked 19C
lc Holly Rtte stripes, checks and 12c
Blue Bell Lawns 20 inches wide beautiful designs
Figured Lawns width reduced this sale 71nC
ous lawns, coors lhlS :tl1C
inches wide worth from
30
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-06-20
The Seasons Most Stylish Silks and
Dresses Goods Marked Low

We have never carried such department have
prices incentive to the
nomcal
1n
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-06-20

Strictly
design
Lingerie
PRESSES
AISLE at ....... S13
$1,000 FoIard Observation-Disclosures. .$6
s5S S FnF' Poa"a Dress G9s.e @ & this Sale - - | I'll Ell
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-06-20
Great Values in
kimOnaS

You have never had an opportunity
10 buy Kimonas and Children's Wash
Dresses as cheap as you can get them
here during this Big Sale.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-06-20
The Biggest La
Bargains Ever
Offered

One special lot Valenceinnes Laces
Insertions to match. Splendid va
at l-2c to ljc; the Building Fund
price is .................
WIDE VAL lACES
from > 1-2 to inches wide and W
from II l2c to 20c, going in this
sale for ..................
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-06-20
Silk Marquisette Dresse
Marked Low

NIarQulset in this Sale at S133S
sa5 90 silk Naouete Dresses S2 81
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-06-20

$500 Lawn Kimonas. ........ 80
$3.50 Lawn Kimonas .......S1. 50
$500 Lawn Kimonas. ........ 25
$3.50 Lawn ENmonas .......S2. 63
25c Lawn Kimonas, short. .....19c
soc Grape Kimonas, short. SOC
75c Lawn Kimonas, short. SOC
500 Lawn Kimonas, short. ...75c
$1.25 Kimonas in Lawn and
I rape ........ ............ .SSc
$500 Grape Kimonas, snort. 81 %
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-06-20

General price reducing sale in all sectioP
n,ents for immediate buying 1Uas ne4
day and see the most interesting bar
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-05-12
FOREST FIRES STILL RAGING
Flames Continue Sweep Through
Timber in Sawyer County
of Winter Has Narrow Escape.

Conference.-The forest fires which
have been raging near here and in a
number of places in southern Sawyer
county are still burning fiercely.
A number of settlers have had mar
row escapes from being burned out,
The village of Winter was threatened
and the whole population turned out
and fought the flames back. The
fire reached within so feet of build
ings in the outskirts.
The fires are raging uncontrolled
all through this section, but the heav-
lest damage is being done on the
Couderay Indian reservation. Con-
sentative estimates set the figures at
20,000,000 feet of standing timber
killed and the loss will reach many
thousands of dollars.
Large crews of men are watching
the fire, but all they can do is to save
buildings, bridges, lumber and logs
as the forest and slashings are dry
as finder and nothing but a long
heavy rain will extinguish the fires,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-05-12
The Buoyant Person.

Do you know that the buoyant per-
son oftenest has success? The
strong, bright personality, radiating
cheerfulness, decision and courage is
the one that brings friends and sue
cess wherever we find it, writes Sarah
Tyler Steel in Nautilus. Tenderness,
grace and sweetness need not be
lacking, but the "uplift" must be
there the radiant personality must
shine from the body.
| know two girls. One has per-
feet body, her face and form are ex-
quisite. The spirit seems cold and
dull. This girl is not truly beautiful;
she does not make friends. The
other girl has a small. dark face; she
hasn't single good feature, but she
is a glorious creature to know.
Strength, and an irresistible love of
life and humanity illumine her; she
is adored by a host of friends and
has accomplished more good in her
native town than a host of philan-
thropists. She refuses to have the
blues" she refuses to be anything
but wholesome and happy, and she
has had occasion to be both i'll and
unhappy. I wish all girls were i'm
bued with her spirit.