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The Newark journal., 1911-11-24

" It'll lCSdIu LO lIlC DllA llltlOuliS- ed in congress by Congressman w. A. Oldfeld at the request of Senator Davis, which MT. Campbell is making so much fuss about, the records show that Con- gressman Oldfield IS entirely blame less, and only did what ony other member of congress would have done. In proof of this, extracts from the Congressional Record bearing upon the bill are publish ed herewith.
 On the 18th of February, 1910, a subcommittee of the Committee on Public Lands met with Hon. A. J. Gronna presiding as chair man. After the bill was read, MT. Oldfeld was invited to make a statement, and did so, as follows:
 "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, 1 desire to make only short state ment with regard to this bill, H. K. 19637. 1 desire to state to the subcommittee that l have intro duced. the bill at the request of United States Senator Jeff Davis, of Arkansas, and that 1 know nothing about the merits of the bill except what Senator Davis has told me, in addition to what Mr. Jean Williams of Forest City, Ark, has told me, and Captain Miller and MT. Brasher, of Harrisburg, and also Mr. Teller, of Little Rock, and Mr. W. J. Driver, of Osceola, Ark.
 "Now some of these parties are interested in the passage of the bill and some of them are interest ed in the defeat of the bill, and, as 1 introduced the bill at the request of Senator Davis, 1 have no doubt but that he and the persons who have placed the different conten- tions before me will make their statements to this committee and whatever 1 would say would be merely hearsay. They are all here or in the city, 1 believe, and 1t IS my understanding they all de- sire to be heard. All the interest 1 have in the matter is my desire that absolute justice be done to both sides in the controversy
 Other interested parties were then heard, and Congressman Bruce Macon then made the fol- following statement;
 'I will just say, MT. Chairman, that 1 represent the district in which these lands are located. This controversy having come on, 1 desire a full and complete hear ing, so that 1 will know what to do in regard to the matter. 1 have even gone so far as to state to gentlemen on both sides of the question that 1 thought 1t would perhaps be wise, if you want to enter into the very bowels of 1t, to take testimony under oath, and find out just exactly the pc sitions here-the true positions. For instance, if any of these squat ters, as they are sometimes called these people who have gone there to make their homes-can come here and state under oath, or if their representatives can do so, that they represent certain things, let 1t be said, and whatever these gentlemen on the other side have to say, let them say it, so that they will have an equal chance be- fore you in regard to this matter. want the truth brought out. I want to ascertain what IS right in connection with this matter, and when l find out what is the right, 1 will do what is proper"
 SENATOR DAVIS STATEMENT
 Senator Jeff Davis, at whose in- stance the bill was introduced,
The Newark journal., 1911-11-24

pected to return to Washington to be present during the winter ses- sion of congress and must depend upon the people to learn the un- truthfulness of MT. Campbells charges which he declared they would do and tell MT. Campbell to remain a private citizen.
The Newark journal., 1911-11-24
CONCRESSMEN SPEAK
Oldfield and Campbell Present Their Claims Before Voters
 of This Community

Congressman w. A. Oldfeld and Hon. Tom Campbell, candidates for congress, addressed a fair-sized crowd of voters here Saturday af- ternoon.
 Mir. Campbell was introduced by Mayor Williamson and spoke for about an hour, during which time he severely arraigned MT. Oldfeld's record in congress, dwelling at length upon what he termed the attempted land steal bill introduc- ed in congress by MT. Oldfeld. He declared that if the bill had passed 1t would have deprived many set tiers of their homes in the St. Francis valley and given them to a private corporation organized for speculative purposes.
 About six million dollars worth of land was involved in the bill and he declared that MT. Oldfeld acted in very bad faith toward the people in introducing such an iniqutious bill.
 He also criticised Mr. Oldfeld for his part in what he termed the reckless expenditure of the pub lie funds on the various rivers of the country. He declared himself opposed to this and in favor of national aid for public highways, saying that the first bill he would introduce when he got to congress would be a bill to help build good roads.
 Congressman Oldfeld followed and launched at once into a dis cussion of his record. He showed that the land grant bill was intro duced by him at the request of Senator Davis and that he had no interest in 1t whatever.
 He ably defended himself upon the expenditure of the public funds and declared that he was glad he had been able to bring more appropriations into his dis trict than any other Arkansas con- gressman had ever done.
 He defined his attitude upon various issues before the people, declared himself in favor of good roads and the improvement of the rivers. In closing he accused MT. Campbell of having voted to ex- tend the Arkansas legislature while he was member of that body. He said that he would be unable to remain in the district and defend himself against the at tacts of MT. Campbell, as he ex-
The Newark journal., 1911-11-24
PASTOR INSTALLED

Batesville, Nov. 20. The Rev. A. F. Cunningham, formerly of Belton, Tex, was formally install ed as pastor of the Presbyterian church in this city at the Il O. clock services Sunday morning, with solenmn and impressive cere- monies. A large congregation was present.
The Newark journal., 1911-11-24
RESIDENCE FOR SALE

We have three beautiful cottag- es for sale, just two blocks from Newark public school building; all first classs condition; three to four rooms each; good water, and most desirable location Tn town. Will be sold at a sacrifice. Henderson Real Estate Co.
The Newark journal., 1911-11-24
AUCTION SALE

l will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in hand, in front of the postoffice in Newark on Saturday November 25, one team of mules and wagon.
 G. w. PRICE.
The Newark journal., 1911-11-24
NOTICE TO HUNTERS

Notice is hereby given that hunting on my land is forbidden, and all hunters are notified to keep off. w. C. SANDERS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-13
DISTRICT LEAGUE MAY BE
DISBANDED BEFORE LONG
Lack of Finances Will Probably Force Cir
cut to Go Under-High Schools
Celebrating Victories.

they have won this spring: Capt. Narela.
Manager Sanderson. Coach Donnelly and
McCaffery. Lyon. Evans, Parker. Daley,
Cohill Fisher. Fftzhugh. Defendorf and
Harris
A game is scheduled for today between
the Maryland Agricultural College team
and a nine representing the alumni. Much
interest Is always manifested In the con-
test every year.
The alumni team has not defeated the
college team In so long that the stu
dents cannot remember when 1t was. Inc
old grads scored a victory over the stu
dents team about nine years ago, but
since that time they have never been
able to get together team strong enough
to compete with their younger rivals
This year a special effort has been mace
to have good team out and 1t is hKely
that the present collegians will not have
things easy BY any means TO get away
with the contest today.
If the Commercial Labor team wins
from the Interstate nine in the Depart
mental League today IL will have much
better hold on first place. AS the clubs
stand at present the Laborites are Just
one game ahead of the Post Office, which
is in second place. The Interstate team
has been playing good ball lately and
may prove a stumbling block 10 the COM
merce and Labor aggregation.
The Hamline team, which led the Sun
day School League during the early sea-
son with clean slate, Is in slump
Within the last week 1t has lost two con-
tests, yesterday failing to defeat team
which is supposed to be much weaker
than it,
Four Maryland Agricultural College
PLAYERS are at present signed UP with
the Sewage Pumping Station and II is
that another will be added To the
list soon. 1t is rumored that Hoffecker,
who was the star of this years pitching
staff. will do some twiring for the Pump
ers Timanus. Grason, Shipley ana
Duckett are the four men VINO are al
ready members of the Station team.
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questionable whether they will be able
to get back in the game again this year.
The death of Mitchell is causing no end
Of grief to his many followers in the
Suburban League circuit He was one Of
the most popular players I'm the league
and had shown good ability as a player.
His loss both personally and as player,
certainly will be felt by the Park View
team.
The poor showing made this season by
the Takoma team IL somewhat OF a dis
appointment as these boys have yet OF
win their first game. The one game
credited to them was gift, Silver Spring
FORGETTING. Manager Terflinger has been
doing his best to scare up new players
Of ability. but to date the new men he
has corralled have rot been much of an
Improvement over those they displaced.
He hasn't given up hope, however, and
expects to show several new faces when
he lines his men up again Saturday.
The way those Park View and Pet
worth teams are sticking together makes
it look as If the race will be between the
two Of them Park View is now leading,
but by a very small margin. and the
chances are that the loss of It's three
pitchers. Mitchell. Castor and Hillary.
will weaken the team to such an extent
that it will be unable to keep up the
winning streak which it is now ex-
periencing. On the other hand, Pet
worth is going better than ever An
odd thing about these two teams is that
although PetWorth has won two pen
nants, it has managed to beat the Park
View boys only once out Of twelve games.
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Commerce and Labor VS. Interstate Com
merce.
Darkness and rain played prominent
part in the games on the White Lot ell
lipse yesterday afternoon. Having two
available diamonds, the directors of the
league decided to play the scheduled
game and work in one of the postponed
ones. Post Office and Interior were down
on the schedule for yesterday, and they
occupied the south diamond, while Agr-
culture ana Navy fought out the post
poned game on the west diamond.
That umpires' might differ in judgment
was proven yesterday when those heavy
black clouds gathered over the ellipse.
Umpire Erwin had the game In charge
on The south diamond and thought 1t
too dark to continue play, so called the
game. He probably meant to call time.
because in a few minutes it became a
little lighter ard he tried to get the
teams TO resume play. The Interior
team, thinking the game was at an end
piled into their coach and left the field.
The jumps" ordered both teams on the
field for play, and as Post Office was
the only team to line up he declared the
game forfeited in its favor. 1t was not
a game far as playing the required
number of innings is concerned, and will
have to be played over unless the board
uphoIds the umpirc's decision. Post Of
flee had the best Of the battle as far as
runs We're concerned, scoring > to !.
Umpire Finnegan did not consider the
darkness as anything to hinder the prog
ress of the game, and made the boys
play until old Jupiter Pluvius butted in.
The teams managed to get in six innings.
Of poor base ball, which ended in Navy
winning by the score of IL to .. The
Coil OH 10 frct
round and maintained 1t until the end.
although the Aggies made it hot for
them in the last few sessions.
The only thing of interest in either
league was the batting of Bill Taylor for
the Aggies, who smashed out four beau
tiful hits out of the same number of
trips up.
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New Ball Responsible.

AsS" oa4A AACStOnolO
But there is only one answer to this
Neither faulty spring training trips nor
the appearance of new batsmen has been
responsible. To my mind it is simply
a question OF the livelness of the bail
that ball may be subjected to. nor what
claims may be made to the effect that it
is no lvelier than those that have been
used before. ! know that hitsAthat hard
~ had steam enough to travel down 10
second base last year are travelling out
to center on the hop, skip and a jump
this season. l know that intielders are
getting their legs batted off and that
first and third hasemen should rightfully
be wearing catchers masks and chest
protectors to Withstand the battering
OF the drives hit down to them.
Hard Time for Pitchers.
l will not mention names All you
have to do is to examine the records of
the pitchers who did the cleverest work
in the American League last year. See
how they are being hammered. Any
pitcher who gets away with less than
nine or ten hits being found off him is
pitching wonderful game today. And
last year a man could hold an opposing
team down to six bingles and no one
thought the performance anything Won
derful.
livelier just watch the way that the ball
travels down to third base. One hard
bound and the sphere is over the third
baseman's head and well on it's way to
left field. Last season it might take
half dozen hops and the third baseman
still get his hands on it.
This new ball is raising the mischief
with pitchers and infielders. l look for
more hits and more errors than ever be-
fore. The team that can hit hardest is
pretty certain to win the majority of its
games. Fine fielding will not cut such
a figure this season, as the ball comes
at the fielder SO sharply that it will have
to bound pretty nearly true In order for
him to get his hands upon it.
Speed Is Necessary.
The pitcher with the greatest speed
and the greatest curve is the one who
will have the most success this season.
In other years a twirler with moderate
speed, good control and good head
could win the majority Of his games and
have a good record. But 1t is different
today. Unless a man can shoot the
sphere over with wonderful speed like
Johnson or Wood, or throw a fine curve
ball, he Is bound to be hit. Good head
work is only minor asset to a pitcher
in these troublous times.
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TODAY'S GAME:
Navy Yard and Eastern.

TODAY'S GAME:
Navy Yard and Eastern.
Despite inclement weather Sewage
Pumping Station and Navy Yard fought
six-round battle yesterday afternoon
in the Capital City League to a tie. L
to /.
1t was two men out for Navy Yard IN
the sixth, when Mr.. Rain played his part
In the drama, and you should have seen
the crowd beating 1t for the dry places.
Priddy and Moore were the opposing
slabmen. and both twirled a creditable
game by holding his opponents down TO
a small number of hits The former was
touched up for three safeties. while the
latter allowed only two safe swats in the
six innings Ii might be said that Moore
pitched shade better than Priddy, ow-
ing to the fact that he made seven batter5
whip at the air to his rivals three.
Jack Carr and Buck Becker were tbs
only men in the Navy Yard lineup that
Davis. Steele and Murray did the hitting
for the leaders.
A fast double play OF Becker and Me-
Donough and the brilliant playing OF
George Mullin at first base We're the fea-
lures of the game.
If it doesn't rain any more today Navy
Yard will tackle the tail-enders, Eastern
Athletic Club. This should he a good
game, as Eastern has strengthened up
and is right now putting up
a corking good game.
II surely was a quiet day for the Pump
ers' outfielders yesterday, as TAYLOR WAS
the only one out of the trio that had to
move out of his position.
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GAME TODAY.
Anacost!a VS.. Ingram.


Sherwood upset the form sheet and
tumbled the percentage of Hamline yes
terday by defeating the Methodists In
rather hollow fashion by the count of
. to .. The Sherwood men rung up three
buttons in the first period and gathered
another in the second and four in the
third, while Hamline could score only
in the fourth inning. Hamline was out
hit and outfielded. and the Presbyterians
excelled in base running.
Rhoades and Porter did the pitching for
Sherwood, and they had complete COM
mand of the game at all stages. though
Rhoades was inclined to be a trifie Wild.
Four hits were all Hanine could gather
from the colaborative delivery, four be-
ing passed and five tanning.
Ltchfield, on the mound for Hamline,
appeared TO have nothing with which to
deceive the opposing batsmen, total
of fourteen hits being collected off his
shoots.
Brauner and Sayres each had perfect
days at the bat, three hits out of three
times up being the portion Of each. One
of Sayres' clouts was good for two bases
Lipp. Spaulding Hinrich and Carr were
the ones who hit safely for Hamline.
Hinrich's hit, triple to the car barn.
scored both his teams runs, but Dutch
was out at the plate trying to stretch 1t
into a home run.
Heck Hiett and Porter were response
BILE for six of Sherwood's hits, each man
securing two.
Porter was a busy man In the field,
taking care of eight chances without
slip-up.
Yesterdays game makes Ninth heavy
favorite, as Hamlne was considered it's
strongest rival The Ingram Infants,
who have lost but one game, should
prove sturdy contenders, but Ninth
ought to dispose of them if the dope holds
good.
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WEBSTER WINS.
Defeats Thompson School in Fast
Game of Basket Ball.

A series Of basket ball games has been
played during the last month by the boys
of the eighth grade of the Webster
School for the benefit of the school play
grounds. the class being divided into
two sections. the Blues and the Reds.
The Blues won three games out of the
series Of four.
The season was closed recently by a
match game between the Webster and
Thompson schools. The Webster won by
score of Is to s. The feature of the
game was the playing of Wilson and
Cosimano for the Webster School and
Atchison of the Thompson School, At
Gibson making five points for his school.
The lineup of the teams was as fol-
lows:
Webster. Position Thompson.
Ebaush. ...,.... Right forward. ....... EisinRer
Cosmano. Left forward. Atchison
Wilson. Center -............. Taylor
Hueter. ......... Right guard. Ridgeway.
BrTimbaugh
Remiek. ..... Left guard. .......... Walters
The referee was DIR. w. b. Hudson, while
the timer Mr.. Thatcher
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was little Johnny Jones. the diminu-
tive second baseman OF the Tenley-
town team. He played a sensational
game at the midway station through
out the whole game. taking five
chances. some of them seemingly inn
possible. and felded all of them with
out miScue.
DeLeary, the star second baseman
OF the Naval team. led his team in bat
ting yesterday. connecting for two
safeties out OF three times up. He
did not have many chances to distin-
guish himself in the field. only having
one assist.
Tenleytown made good attempt to
tie the score in the final innirs. and
did send one man across the : - How
ever, with a man on second. Cleye
Donaldson went to the bat and being
a heavy hitter. was begged by tho
large crowd to make a homer. but DR.
Rice used his little hypodermic needle
on him. with the result that he struck
out retiring the side. Just then the
rainstorm broke, and every one ran
for shelter.
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in the box. the Aggies are a hard team to
beat
Manager Dfckerson deserves lot of
credit for the excellent showing of his
team, for Agriculture was tailend
team when he took the management last
year. He has gathered together a fast
bunch of players and their fine showing
is a tribute to his managerial ability.
The Bureau team still maintains it's
reputation for heavy stick work. If the
Engravers would brush up on inside
base ball and use a little fast work on
the bases they would be up among the
leaders. 1t is up to Manager Reynolds
and Captain Pollard to get busy.
The Interior team established "a record
Saturday when 1t pulled off the first
triple play of the leagues history. Pol
lard was on second base and Graves on
first when Armstead hit a line drive
toward first base. Wilkerson raced over
and caught the ball on first, doubling up
Graves and threw to Eddie Savoy. at sec
ond, before Pollard could get back to the
bag. The play was a fast one and the
large crowd gave Capt. Wilkerson
great ovation.
Besides this play Interior pulled off
three fast double plays, but the Redmen
lost, after all, 8 to 6.
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SOUTHERN RY. LEAGUE.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.

STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
WI Pct w l.. Pct.
I I1snsorsrs s SO Eooskeepcrs 900
Traffic. 49,. .5Js
Only Eve innings were played yesterday
before the storm necessltated calling the
game, but this was time enough for the
Treasurers to slip another one over on
the Traffic aggregation, to 3.
The storm looked threatening in the
fourth inning. but Umpire Credible re-
fused to call the game, and Traf1lc scored
three runs and came within one OF tlefng
the game up. After the Treasurers had
taken their turn at the bat in the NTH
inning 1t began to rain. Trafhc batted.
and in second had tied the score and
had a man on third base. At this juno
ture the game was called and the de-
cision went to the leaders.
Cooke was on the mound for the Treas
urerites. and as in previous cases, held
the Traffic aggregation safe all the way.
While seven hits were registered off his
delivery, these were scattered, and with
men on bases he was particularly effec-
tive.
In the first Cooke was safe on Crabilrs
error, and was Immediately sacrificed to
second by Gaines. Herring singled and
Cooke crossed the pan. In the second the
TreaSurerS scored two more. Two were
safe on errors and Cooke hammered out
pretty double, scoring both. The final run
was scored in the fourth inning, when
Chew reached first on an error by Brown
and counted on Cookies safe slam.
Traffic tailed all of theirs In the fourth
on five safe drives. No errors were made
In this inning and only fast fielding held
down the total
Jones' at third for the winners. played
an exceptionally good game The big fell
low accepted his five chances in APPROX
ed manner, but was unfortunate at the
bat going hitless. He had plenty Of COM
pany in this line, as his teammates, with
the exception Of Cooke and Herring, were
powerless before Risdon.
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OLYMPIA LEAGUE.
STANDING OF THE TEAMS.
GAME TODAY.
Emmanuel VS.. Silver Spring.

Rain broke up what seemed would be
one Of the best games Of the year yester-
day. Woodland and Braddock were fight
ing hard. with the score 8 to . in favor
of the former. and the struggle was be-
ing watched by a good-sized crowd.
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BLAMES NEW BALL
Heavy Hitting in American
League Due to Cork Center.
HARD ON THE PITCHERS
Manager Hughey Jennings Says
Basemen Should All DON Armor
to Save Themselves.
By Hugh Jennings,
Manager of Detroit Tigers.

Time after time this season l have been
asked the reason for the inability Of the
pitchers to come through as they did
last year and in preceding seasons. Re-
peatedly I have been asked to give an
opinion as to whether unfavorable train
ing trips or the advent of a lot of new
batsmen has been responsible for the
avalanche Of base hits and the shattered
regulations Of SO many first-class twiri-
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LEAGUE.
STANDING OF THE TEAMS.

The above Is the correct standing to
date. eliminating the two games ordered
repayed by the directors.