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The Washington times., 1911-05-09
Senate Committee to
Confirm u. q. Denman

The Senate judiciary Committee has
removed all doubt on the confirmation
of L. G.. Denman, as district attorney
taken favorable action in his case and
confirmation will follow. A long fight
has been waged against Denman.
The Washington times., 1911-05-09
Englishman to Fly From
Philadelphia to Chicago

NEW YORK, May Sit is announced
that TON" Sopwith, the British aI-
ator who won the Baron De Forest prize
of $4,000 for a flight from Eastchurch,
England, to Beaumont, Belgium, will at
tempt Philadelphia-to-Chica fight
between August u and %.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
BOWLING CONTEST
DRAWS TO CLOSE
Liberal Reward Offered to
Hard Workers.

The Contest Editor OF The Washington
Herald announces a new feattre in con-
nection with the bowlcrs' popularity con-
test. Beginning to-day. and continuing
until the end of the contest, a liberal
commission will be paid on all new paid
in-adSance subscriptions. This commits
sion will be paid Immediately upon re-
ceipt of subscription.
This new feature will assure each team
a handsome return for all efforts put for
ward from this time until the end of the
contest. This plan appears to be a most
equitable one. as each team will be re-
warded in accordance to results OBJ
tanned. No doubt there will be consid-
cradle good-natured rivalry in securing
subscriptions between individual MEM
bers of teams.
Remember the contest closes one week
from to-day. Teams that delayed putting
in their hardest licks should get busy at
once.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
CATHEDRAL SCHOOL DEFEATED.
Yankees Win Fast Basketball
Game, 40 to 32.

In a houy contested basketball game
yesterday afternoon the quint of the
National Cathedral School for Boys was
defeated by the Yankees of the boys
department of the Y. NJ. c. A Score 45
to 81.
The entire game was played with much
snap and the Yankees won on their con-
siStent basket shooting. Crane was the
first to score. tossing a try from the
floor after a minute of play. From then
on the playing was nip and tuck, first
one and then the other team leading.
For Y. NJ. c. A, Rutherford displayed
great skill in tossing baskets, getting
seven from the floor in this half When
the referees whistle blew at the end
of this period the score was 2 to %.
In the second half the Yankees played
the Episcopal school of their feet, Steed
starring in Pasket-shooting. landing the
ball in the netting four times. The visi-
tors appeared as if they were not used
to the gymnasium, and to the ''out of
bound'' rule. Both Davidson and Crane
played star games for Cathedral. and
the defensive work of Lamond was par
ticularly noteworthy. Summary:
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
MCBRIDE'S MEN
ARE AGAIN IDLE
Cold Spell Continues at Hot
Springs Camp.
Special to The Washington Herald.

Special to Tne Washington Herald.
Hot Springs, Ark, Feb. 22-The weather
continued too cold to-day for active
practice. but the cold spell, it is pre-
dicted, will be broken by tomorrow, and
then the Washington and Brooklyn play
erS will unite for a good days workout
To-day Manager Dahlen and those of his
team here accompanied the baseball
squad on a Notwithstanding jaunt. The
ball tOssers who have been used to
hiking up the mountains and who have
succeeded in getting the stiffness out
men the laugh. for they set too fast 4
pace. which the Brooklyn players on
their initial climb could not maintain.
Tonight Manager and Mrs. Dahlen and
the BROOKLYN squad were the guests of
Capt Nc Bride and the Washington team
at little spread served in the Park
Hotel. Dahlen has inspected the new
grounds at Wilmington Park and pro-
nOUnces them immense. So many play
ers are praCtiCing at Majestic Park that
it would not he surprising to find that
Mcbride and his followers had joined
Brooklyn, who are rather lonesome at
Wilmington Park. Dahlen stated to-day
that when the twenty-siX other members
of the Team get here next week the en-
tire squad will commence active train
ing, and he is already arranging exhibi-
tion games with a team composed of Ma
tional and American League players now
in training here.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
NOTES OF THE MEET.

Before the race Elphinstone, the win
ner, in conversation with the writer and
n few of his friends, said he could run
the distance in forty minutes. His mark
of thirty-nine minutes and forty seconds
comes near to his prediction.
Much satisfaction was expressed by the
participants in yesterdays run with the
course. Although not entirely new it has
been slightly changed and is considerably
better. Some OF the boys who were
! careless in regard to the way they took
the barbed wire fences. went home pretty
| badly scratched up. This was true, par
tiCularly, of Elpinstone. When he fin
ished he looked like he had been in a
small war down in Mexico.
Those who failed to start were Edward
Donnelly, unattached: H. Ryan, Balti-
more Cross Country Club: F. c. Lee.
Johns Hopkins University; John G.
Stecker. Washington Y. NJ. c. A, and
]. J. Callan, Of the Baltimore Cross
Country Club.
AS is usual in such cases, the press car
was crowded with people who had no
right to be there and the representatives
Of three of the local papers had to seek
accoulmodations elsewhere. Other than
this. the arrangements for the accommo-
datiOn of the athletes and spectators
could not have been better.
AS the crack of the starters pistol
sent the runners away the horse of one
OF the mounted policemen, who were
keeping the course clear, reared and
dashed among the athletes. Ralph St
Martin, of the Fifth Regiment, was
knocked down, and several Of the others
had narrow escapes from injury. Martin
jumped up. and as soon as he found he
had not been hurt Joined the others and
finished in twelfth place.
BY taking home the silver cup offered
for the team winning the cross-country
championship, and the three individual
medals of gold, silver, and bronze the
baltimore Cross Country Club sets
record which 1t will be hard to equal.
Although they were decisively beaten
by their Baltimore rivals, the Washington
Cross Country Club came out of the race
with good deal of credit. Hullfish and
Bolac tried hard to catch up to the Bal
timore lads. but they were up against
the real thing, and had to be content with
holding on to fourth and fifth places.
However, the Washington club landed
four of its men among the first ten and
ordinarily this would be sufficient to land
the team trophy. Washington lost the
club banner not so much on account OF
the poor work of it's runners, but through
the exceptional ability of the boys from
the Monumental City.
The start and finish OF the race was
near the site of the old Brightwood Hotel,
and the course was in a northwesterly
direction. across fields and over roads, to
Piney Branch. south along the bank of
the branch to the Military road. and then
east along the latter road to the Piney
Branch road. Turning south on the
Piney Branch road the runners went
another quarter of mile to the terminus
of the Fourteenth street car line, where
they turned and went back over the
same course in the reverse direction,
finishing at the starting point
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
SPORTING SIDELIGHTS
BY BILL BAILEY.

Cleanup for Baltimore cross-country
runners.
John Nolan, the old Potomac Boat Club
oarsman, is now down to 24S pounds. He
looks to be Washingtons only White
Mans Hope
The press car at the crOsS-country run
contained five journalists, three office
boys, and couple Of photographers. The
men assigned to cover the affair had
to run up and down near the finish line
to keep from freezing to death. Twas
ever thus.
Kid Elbcrfcld an ump? Quit your
kidding.
Has anybody seen the "good-looking
quarter back, lately?
Jonn 1. Taylor is signing all his players
up to bonus contracts. No workee. no
payee" is the motto of the genial John.
It cannot truthfully be said that all the
Boston players have embraced the idea
with avidity, but what Taylor says US
ually goes. He means it.
Joe Cantillon announces that he will
''either tame Waddell or know the reason
why" Will some one kindly push Mr..
CGntillon adjacent to the reason why
at an carly date and save his system an
abnormal amount of useless wear and
tear?
Cy Young starts this week upon his
twentieth trip to a Southern training
camp. And his color scheme has never
faded yet He is still in ''the pink of
condition." according to a Cleveland ex-
change.
Speaking of names of ball players,
Grantland Rice. Of the New York Mail,
notes that Cleveland has a pitcher named
Fanwell. Detroit a recruit named Roach
er; Ball is now with Portland; Bender
pitches for Philadelphia; Gardner is
Pirate outfielder, and Steele one of
Clarke's best young base runners; Fan
ming is a slabman for ST Louis: Leach
is still sticking after sixteen years serv-
ice, and Young is the oldest twirler in
the league; Jack Swatz is with Meridian
in the Cotton States circuit, and Dick
Hurler operates in that capacity on the
Pacific coast
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
TITLE Is IN DOUBT.
Three-cornered Tie in Scholastic
Basket-bnII Championship Race.

A three-cornered tie now exists be-
tween the scholastic basketball teams of
the District. the Georgetown Preps, East
en High School, and the National Ca
thedral School. In all probability no
game will be played between the Cathed-
raj School and the Georgetown Props,
but the Tennallytown boys meet East
ern High School in the Capitol Hill gym
nasium Friday. If the Eastern team is
beaten it will be up to the Cathedral
team to play the Georgetown Props for
the championship, as they have once
beaten the high school boys, while they
have never met the Props. Eastern is
tied with the Georgetown Preps. each
team having won one game. The decid-
ing game will be played some time in the
near future.
If Fridays game ends in a victory for
the Eastern High School lads, they will
be tied with the Cathedral team as well
as the Props. This Is the first time in
the history of scholastic circles that such
a thing has occurred.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
USES CLEVELAND'S CUE.
Mike Donlin and Hal Chase Engage
in Billiard Match.

New York, Feb. 22.-Mike Donlin and
Hal Chase. ball players and billiardists
and the former also an actor. each made
thirty-three points to-day in their 100
point three-cushion match at Doyle's.
The grand totals are Sc to s. in Donlin's
favor, and the match will be finished to-
morrow afternoon.
Donlin plays with a cue which bears
the name OF Grover Cleveland in Gothic
letters on the mother of pearl which or
naments the handle. The reported his1
tory of the cue is that Cleveland left 1t
in the White House, and 1t passed along
to President Taft, who gave 1t to Hoppe
or his manager when Hoppe exhibited
in the White House recently, and it was
in turn presented to Donlin-
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
INDEPENDENCE IN LINE.
Managers Hope to Be Able to Use
McDeyitt's Field Again This Year.

While nothing much was done at the
meeting of the independence League,
which was held at the residence of Harry
F.. Worley, A U street northwest, last
night, the managers and officials ex-
pressed the determination to have a
league and to play at McDevitt's field if
possible. movement has been started
to raise money to fix the grounds up so
that the league can still play at Nc
Devitts.
Much regret was expressed that Presir
dent II. F. WOrley will be unable to
again serve as president, as his ad-
ministration has been very successful
one and he has the friendship of all the
managers.
Another meeting will be held in a few
days, when it is hoped a definite an
nouncemet regarding the personnel of the
league for the coming season can be
made.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
BOWLING AT CHEVY CHASE.
BaILeII and McCammOB Win in Re-
spectiye Classes.

In the bowling tournament held at the
Chevy Chase Club yesterday, Mr.. Sam
Dalzell won the first prize in the tenpin
class. having III, IT., and 15S for a total
of 5O1 pins, to his credit. George Mimi
gerode received second prize, with 132, 126,
and 152, a total of Ill pins.
In the duckpins, Ormsby McCammon
got first prize, knocking down 50. 95, and
ia, for a total of 2S9. The second prize
went to E. p. Grosvenor, having made
10S, 106. and IS, for a total of 2f. Mr..
McCammon received the prize for having
the highest single score.
The prizes awarded were: First prize,
tenpins, gold cuff buttons; second prize,
four-piece smoking set; first prize, duck
pins, gold cuff buttons; second prize,
pigskin picture frame.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
v. L. Team Cancels Game.

Lynchburg, Va, Feb. 2-The ". P. 1.
basketball team to-day Cancelled the
game scheduled with the local Y. NJ. c.
A. quint for Thursday night. The i'm
preston here is that the game was can
celed because the Techs d.d mt are t.:
take the chance of being defeated by the
team which gave them hard fight last
night
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
DOUBLE BILL AT ARM0RY.
Ordways to Meet An-stnr Basket
ball Team.

In a double header Of basketball Fri
day night the champion Ordway team.
recently organized. will line up against
the all-stars, and Company f will line
up against the First Battalion at the
National Guard Armory. Both games
should be interesting. Should Company
E win from the First Battalion it will
decide the championship Of the Military
League. The exhibition game between
the Ordway and All-stars is a pre-
liminary game for arranging a series.
which will be played at the Arcade dur
ing March.
Both teams have been putting in hard
practice during the week. and should
give basketball lovers a treat. The pro-
fesslonai teams will probably line up as
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23

The Oftcias WerP-Rcieree-J. EdWard Tyler, n,
rrcsidcnt South Atlantic Association.
Judges at the hnish-Henry G.. Pcnniman ]. j.
Rettaliata. James A. o. shea. and W. q. Stuart.
Timers-J T. England. W. @. Thacher ]. v
Mulligan. Z. G. Crane, and c. Z. Edwards.
Starter-C. T. Beckett.
Clerk Of the cuyrse-Dr. w. r. Hudson.
ScnrcT-A. Mcdonald
judges on the cCurse-C. A. Watson, J. J. Farley
o. w. Stratton, Harold Keats J. K. Mossbeg
e. H. Dampier J. L. Haas, DR.. J. J. Kaveney.
Frank Young Charles King NJ. A. Joyce J. A.
Keene Charles Orine Gardiner Orme, Harry w.
Long Nils Hansen, W. W. Tenny. g. H. White,
Chase Taylor, ]. Z Meany. and O l. smithsou.
Authorizations Of the competing clubs are As fDl-
lows: B. c. c. c., Baltimore Cross Country Club:
B. G. Y. NJ @. A.. Baltimore Central Y. NJ G.
A. Fifth Regt-, Fifth Regiment, II. N. g.; J. Il.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
Fighter Buys AeropIane.

Lakewood. N. J., Feb. 22.-owen Moran,
the English fighter, who returned to
Lakewood on Tuesday after starring for
six weeks in vaudeville, announced to-
dav that he had placed an order for
biplane and expected to take up aviation
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
ATTENTION, BOWLERS.

Beginning to-day and continuing until the end OF the
Bowler Popularity Contest liberal commission will be paid on
all NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS This commission will be paid the
individual turning the subscriptions All subscriptions
be paid at the Circulation Department The Washington
Herald.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23

Holdout stories have been circulated
about Hans Wagner at this tive every
year for several seasons, but this year
a little different press story is being
circulated. When IL comes to reporting
at Hot Springs, Honus win be there in
spite OF the jury duty that threatens him.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
Mount st. Mary's Team Wins.

Special to The Washington Herald.
Emmitsburg. Nd, Feb. FIN list
less game the Mount st. Mary's basket
ball team defeated the Mount Washing
ton hve. of Pittsburg. to-day BY the score
Of u to Q
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23
Baltimore Wins Cross Country championships Other Sports

o., Johns Hopkins University; s. A. c.. Standard
Athletic Club. Washington; unat. unattached; w
Q. c. c.. Washington Croes Country Cub; W. G..
A. A, Washington Grove Athletic Association.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23

Goals from foor-Crane a. Davidson to-. Stone
Cg. Lockwood. Steed ~. Rutherford (9, Mason "a,
SchweCler Free tries-Crane (6} Steed- Time Of
halres-l5 minutes each. Referee-Mr. Green. Timers
-NesSrs March and Zirkin.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23

Others who viii probably be In the
game are Rickenbauck, Reyes, Haas
Chisn, and Fowler.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23

1t may be only an accident, or 1t may
be a reflection of how Manager Chance
feels. but the Chicago Cubs will be
garbed in dark blue travelling suits this
year. 81 want a change" said Chance
recently. Some OF the fellows are
tired of wearing gray all the time. and
always did like blue uniform. 1t
looks better on the ball field than any
color. We will look about like the Chi
cago Americans look when they're on
the road, only we viii not have the
white stockings.T Chance also said there
would be a decided change in the style
OF the home ,sults. OF course, the pre-
vailing color will be white, but there
will be a blue stripe in, the goods and
blue trimmings. The blue travelling uni
forms were the general thing about
fifteen years ago and were gradually
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23

Manager Jimmy McAleer announced
yesterday that he had signed young
outfieIder named keefe, recommended by
Bill Bradley, of the Cleveland Maps.
Keefe is an amateur who is said to pos
sess the usual requirements for big
league star. He will be tried out by
Manager McAleer in Atlanta.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23

Hughey Fullerton has set the Cleve-
land scribes up in the air in long
article published recently in the Chicago
Examiner to the effect that he would not
give s. for all the Cleveland recruits,
which include Outfielder Joe Jackson,
Pitchers Gregg and Yingling, and others.
It's a cinch that the Washington club
would pay $4,000 for Gregg and jackson.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-23

Cleanup for Baltimore cross-countr
runners.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-18
NEVADA METAL PRODUCTION.
Increases Sixty Per Cent According
to Government Statistics for 1909

Complete returns for mine produe-
ton of gold, silver. copper, lead and
zinc in 1909 in the western states
are just published by the United
States geological survey as a separ-
ate chapter Of Mineral Resources of
the United States" The report has
been greatly delayed, owing to the
cooperation between the survey and
the bureau of the census in obtain
ing the returns of the elaborate
schedule required by the ensus
In Nevada the value of the pro-
duction of gold. silver, copper, lead
and zinc in 1909 was $~30.072,932,
an increase of S~11,254,704, or go per
cent over the corresponding values
in 1908. The gold yield furnished
nearly s5,0O0.0 900 of this total in
crease and the copper yield nearly
s5,500,000. Silver. lead and zinc
also showed increases.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-18
LAUGH REVERSED.
Badger Proved "a Live One and
Crowd Took TO Their Heels.

To the surprise of everyone but
the fellow who pulled the rope, a real
live, monster badger was pulled
from the barrel last night and Jacobs
the bulldog, was given a tussel he
will not soon forget, says the Elko
Free Press.
The little, old toothless badger
that has nightly produced such a
great amount of fun for the past
several months, was secretly removed
from the barrel and a savage mon
ster. captured at Deeth, was substi-
tuted.
The fellow who pulled the rope
and a former sheriff did the loud
laughing this time. Curly, Mark,
Wally, and Others usual officials,
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-18
A Warm Hat.

The Reno Journal tells of a young
lady of that city who had a narrow
escape. AS she was walking down
the street her new spring hat sudden
ly burst into flames. The wrecked
bonnet. together with several yards
of rats, ETC., were torn off. The pa
per further stated that 1t was believ-
ed the fire started from a cigarette.
In the future she should be more
careful where she carries her cigar
cites.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-18
GET RICH QUICK SCHEME.
Includes Initiation Into Supposed
Secret Order.

A e get-rich-quick scheme,
which rivals some of the swindles of
recent years for its ingenuity. is be-
ing successfully operated in some of
the Pacific coast states. Its trail is
said to reach as far East as New
York. Secret service men are work
ing on II.
Prospective victims are told that
the United States government is
short of money and that to avert a
panic the treasury is quietly float
ing an immense issue of national
bank notes. IL is represented that
a coterie of New York fnanciers have
undertaken to underwrite the issue.
which is offered to victims. Secret
service men say the swindlers usually
exhibit a genuine S. national bank
note as a sample of the issue.
Sevral citizens of Seattle are re-
ported to have paid In sums ranging
from $500 to $1,000 with the ex-
p~ectation of receiving double that
sum in genuine national bank notes
before next winter.
Secret service men have found
gathering of evidence difficult, as the
victim Is first initiated into a suppos-
ed secret order and sworn to secrecy.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-18

have chosen It TO be the greatest CON-
mon measure of achievement That
is the secret of the mystery. II Is al
least the best answer We a give to
the riddle OF the err and lis mag
ic appeal.
Yet It is not wholly the gold itself
that attracts men 30 irresistibly. 1t
is partly the glamour and excitement
OF the search. II is the fascination
OF life at high pressure. when hope
thrills men like the shock Of an cleo
trio current. IL is the ecsIacy OF
finding a pot of gold at the foot of
a rainbow. and making the fairy
tales Of childhood come true To
find the magic door, to say Open
seasame," and TO walk into the
reasure-eaye and become its owner
this is the enthralling dream that
lures the ~gold-seekers into the utter
most parts of the earth.
Then, too, there is the semi-say-
z freedom OF the camps. There is
the rough spirit of fair play and
democracy. The special privileges. as
well as the comforts Of the cities. are
left. behind. and life becomes a
simple contest in which every man
wins what he a get and hold fast.
This. 10 strong primitive natures, is
inducement that outweighs all the
risks.
There are the many who lose. Of
course. as well as the few who gain.
But the search for gold is the game
in which the entrance fee is the low
and the prizes are the highest. IL
still opens the door of wealth to the
whose only capital is his health
and energy.
Several years since, a a in Idaho
was sentenced o be hanged for muir
der. A lawyer became interested in
case, believed him to be innocent.
and secured his pardon. On his re-
the lawyer "grub-staked" him.
put him astride a burro. said Good
luck, Jack" and sent him out into
the desert. Jack was an experienced
miner. and he went to the search de-
termined to prove himself worthy of
on6dpnr A wear later the
received a sack of gold. Soon
other sacks followed; and today both
he and the man he befriended are in
.iependently rich.
At about the same time that Jack
made his famous ride, there was a
young Californian who had been
dreaming golden dreams. He, too,
believed that he could find the pot Of
gold at the foot of the rainbow, and
be set u in search of It. One even
ing, in the heart of the Nevada des-
he came to a spring and camped
'or the night. Noticing that one of
he burros was ~straying too far from
he camp. he walked after il. and lit
rally fell into one of the richest gold
mines of the west. That is the story
If Jim Butler, of Tonopah.-N. II.
%,osson, in Los Angeles Mining
Review.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-18

jumped over the lunch counter. tore
down a door getting out, and took
for the sage brush with a burst of
speed heretofore unheard of.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-18

whoever has gold is. to the extent OF
that gold. one of the rulers of the
world.
Gold is power. The master nations
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-18
CALL OF GOLD REACHES AFFAIR.

CONTINUED from page three.)