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Evening star., 1911-08-23
NEW TENNIS CHAMPS
Little and Touchard Beat
Alexander and Hackett.
THE MATCH.IS A LONG ONE
Twelve Games in First Set and
Twenty Eight in Second-Third
Easy for Challengers.

NEWPORT, R I. August 23.-The ma
tional championship In lawn tennis dou-
bles passed yesterday into new hands for
the first time In Ave years, when Ray
mond d. Little and Gustave Il. Toucharo
OF New York, the challengers, defeated
Frederick B. Alexander and Harold III.
Hackett, the four-year holders. in three
out OF four sets. The scores were 7-5.
18-1D. 6-2 and Ga.
The match was one Of the longest that
has been played In q championship match
on the Casino courts for many years. and
came down 10 . question Of endurance.
in which Little and Touchard proved in
better shape
The challengers started the match by
making Hackett the object OF attack and
repeated shots on his side OF the court
developed surprising unsteadiness on his
part The set went to Little and Toucha-d
after twelve frames had been played
In the second set the defenders played
moro aggressively and Little bore tho
brunt OF their shots. The set ran through
to t,senty-eight games before Alexander
and Hankett won.
The long second set appeared to havS
wearted the defenders, and Little eud
Touchard had no difficulty in taking the
third set. although toward the last Alex
ander and Hackett made brave rally.
The fourth and what proved to be the
last set came down to q question Of en-
durance. and the defenders weakened up-
der the strain, although ten games were
necessary to decide the match and the
championship. The result was q surprise.
as It was generally believed Alexander
and Hackett would win for q fifth time.
The points on the match follow:
FIRST SET.
Alexander and Hackott, ABA. 2S3 S4A, S36-
A6.
SECOND SET.
Alexander and Hackett 40, $50, S<8, 442 -.
62l, lO3, $40, 34b, 6-1-l6.
Little and Tbuchard, La, $40, SIS, 614, 262.
Gal. 146, Ala, Gas. 40l-i3.
THIRD SET.
Little ana Touchard. 4S4, AS, $3.50.
Alexander and Hackett. Isl. ll3. b5-22-2.
FOURTH SET
Littie ana Tuuchard, Az, 646 657, 4-42-6.
Alexander and Hackett. 2A4, 30s, lb2. 2-S2-4.
While the doubles championship was be-
ing decided play In the singles tournament
continued, and among the surprises was
the defeat OF e. p. I.arned. brother OF
the national champion, and recent winner
OF the Longwood tournament, by A. >.
Dabney OF Boston.
Behr defeated Schwengers I'm straight
sets and Mathey won from Whitney.
Evening star., 1911-08-23

Eddie Plank appears to get better as the
race grows older. The Gettysburgian al
lowed st. Louis only two hits yesterday.
which is his best pitching performance
OF the current season.
No person who knows Barney Dreyfuss
Will accuse him Of having O'Toole ad-
vertised to pitch merely for advertising
purposes. The Pirates president was as
much disappointed as any one when
Marty failed to go in at Philadelphia.
President w. H. Watkins has made
statements that he will not sell any In
dianapolis players, no matter what the
demand is. He declares that he will
stand the loss Of one by draft. He de-
clares he had terrible time buying men
this season and hopes to avoid the same
predicament next spring.
No matter what kind OF building ma
terial q pitcher is named after, Philadel-
phia batsmen treat them all alike. Wood
of the Boston Americans. after pitching
no-hit game this year. was knocked
of the rubber by the Athletics. Steele
Of the Pirates, who held Brooklyn down
to one safety. was driven off the mound
by the Quakers In ono inning.
Art Griggs is not in the Toledo lineup
as yet. because Of = difference Of opinion
holding out for a major league salary.
which Armour does not think him worthy
Of. It Is expected that all differences
will be adjusted shortly and Griggs may
be used as cleanup clubber.
Following six straight defeats. four
Of which Were lost to Minneapolis. Man.
ager Mike Kelley Of St. Paul called
meeting Of the team August and.
following a stormy session. suspended
Pitcher Leroy indefinitely for Indifferent
work and announced that this was the
first Of what. he says. will be a genuine
housecleaning.
Lawrence Tierre. a Newark bieacherite,
who grossly insulted Manager McGinnity
Of the Newark team, and was promptly
knocked down by the Iron Man." was
given a hearing before Judge Hahn in
the third precinct police court and was
fined SO. In imposing the fine Judge
Hahn said the conditions at the ball park
revealed by the testimony in court were
highly detrimental to the interests OF the
national game and disgrace to the
sport-loving public.
Evening star., 1911-08-23
pOST.SERIES GAMES
TO BE PLAYED TODAY

American Security VS.. Pet
worth, 18th and d streets north-
east, 5:15.
Southland VS.. Naval Medicos,
f0th street and Columbia road,
6s1S.
Pest once vs.. Sherwood, 1st
and M streets northeast, 5:15.
Evening star., 1911-08-23

Priest, Revelie and Martin; Fort Wayne,
Hardin: Altoona. Zinn.
BY Chicago-FTom Paragould, Hays: 81.
Joseph. Barton and Powell; Minneapolis.
Mayer; Los Angeles, Delhi: ST Joseph
Jones: Peoria. Hovlik: Dubuque, Pan
dock; Kewanee. Berghammer: Galesburg.
Mogringe; Dubuque. Krietz: Des Moines,
bensi Springfield (Mass.l. Genest: wichi-
ta- Slight: Ottumwa, Seno; Saskatoon
(Canada). Carney and Ems: Green Bay.
Mayes; Cleveland CTenn.). Thompson
Macon. Douglass: Des Moines, Matticks
and Matowsky; Wichita, Clemens, Berger,
Davis and Middleton
Evening star., 1911-08-23
THREATENS OTTAWA MAYOR.
Unidentified Man Promises DsstYuc
tion Even as to Eternal Death"

OTTAWA, August 23.-Mayor Hopewell
Of Ottawa Is the recipient OF threaten
ing letter from Rome. Italy. 1t Is written
in combination of Italian and dog
Latin, which translated means, In the
name OF the, Roman kingdom you and
your friends I will destroy even as unto
eternal DEATH
II is supposed to have been written by
an italian Immigrant who was dep0rted
by the Dominion govefnment
Evening star., 1911-08-23
VALUE OF TRANSFERS.
Abolition in New York Costs 8,
100000 Annually.

NEW YORK, August 13.-The difference
that the abolition Of the universal free
transfer system has made to the New
the public service commission, showing
that 5,513 fewer transfers were issued
last year than In 1901. when the universal
transfer was In vogue. This means an
additional exrenss to the public Of nearly
5000 OOO year.
Evening star., 1911-08-23
TDAY'S GAME

TODAY'S GAME
American Security and Trust Company
VS.. Petworth. 18th and D streets north
east.
Several hits landed by the Petworth
boys in the opening and third innings
across the pan to down the Andrews
team. the final score being 5 to 1.
LeDuc did the heaving for the winners
and held the Commercial Leaguers to six
bingles. Only one Of these was good for
an extra base, this being g. triple which
Moore landed. He famed six batters
gave three free passes and uncorked a
wild pitch.
Chism. who has worked in nearly every
game the Andrews team has played since
the opening Of the post-season series. was
again on the rubber. He pitched a fair
game. In only two innings were the win
ners able to bunch their hits Eight safe
drives were made off his delivery. He
had seven strike-outs to his credit and
gave four bases on balls.
Aside from his pitching Le Due had a
good day at the bat. Out Of four trips up
he connected safely three times. One of
some speedy boy on the bases also, land
ing three stolen sacks.
Moore's triple. which was the longest
oAiSO " SAS ooaAAos AsiiNO0 AZ AASAAJ oAA
street.
One Of the best catches OF the game
was made by Milans when he landed
Jones' Texas Lacquer behind second base
in the seventh round.
Joe" Mulvey was robbed Of a triple
or possible circuit drive in the sixth
inning when Clayton, after a hard run,
grabbed tho leather.
Andrews had enough men left on the
sacks during the seven innings to win
an ordinary game Eight members of
that team failed to get in after they had
landed safely.
The only run made by the Andrews
! team came In the sixth inning, Moore 8
triple in this round and a single by D.
Howell landing it.
The game was put on the ice In the
third. After Mess had singled ana stole
he fell asleep near the bag and was
nipped. LeDuc singled and stole. Clay
ton came up with the timely hingle on
which LeDuc counted. Hiser likewise SIN
gled. Milans missed throw to get a
runner and Clayton scored Moore made
mess of an infield grounder by throwing
wild and two runners scored.
The game scheduled on the Sunday
School League grounds this afternoon
ought to be q corker. The Bankers are
fighting to retain top honor, while the
Petworth boys are determined to get 1t
also.
Evening star., 1911-08-23
Is SOUGHT BY FORTUNE.
500 900 Awaits Girl Who Ran
AWAY From Uncle's Home.

NEW HAVEN. Conn, August %
Dear Niece: If You see this In the paper
please let me know. for your uncle IS
dead, and he left you well of in money
and property. Please notify your old
school friend. George, or your cousin.
DR. Clark Your loving aunt,
MRS. DAY"
This notice. addressed to Mrs. Mae
Deffney Baldwin. appeared I'm the New
Haven papers. Mrs. Baldwin will re-
ceive 100000 II she is found. She ran
away from her uncle's house In Mime
apoIis while visiting him a few years
ago and was married to Baldwin. whom
she met while on her trip west. She had
often visited here, and there were re-
ports that she had come here to live
Mrs. Elisabeth Rebecca Robertson,
widow of DIR. William II. Robertson.
died at the home of her son, Walter
II. Robertson at Norfolk. Wa.
Evening star., 1911-08-23
.G0TCH IS FAV0R|TE
Bookmaking on Big Wrestling
Opens Today in Chicago.
4 TO 5 ON AMERICAN
A Good a. 6 TO 8 Offered on Hack
enschmidt-Both Men in Grand
Shape for Labor Day Struggle.

CHICAGO. August 23.-Fearing that he
might 60 stale before the time OF his
match with Gotch arrives. George Hack.
enschmidt last night decided that he will
not do any more hard mat work until
next Monday. For almost twelve weeks
he has included hard mat work In his
daily routine and he believes that for
the present he has had enough OF that
sort Of training.
Monday" said Or. Roller. ono OF the
trainers. Hack will go the limit on the
mat with Americas. Koch and myself.
The tapering down Of the careful but
nevertheless strenuous curriculum that
he has gone through In training for this
match has become q science. Hack will
not risk going stale He would not FISK
a chance Of having snything happen to
his muscles 10 keep him from being IN
perfect condition to meet Gotch."
Prices on the result OF the contest were
posted for the first tins yesterday. Gotch
is made the fayorite at : to by one
bookmaker. On Haclrenschmidt he offers
|6 to 3.
Not much money was posted yesterday.
most Of the wagers accepted being OF tne
Short order. II is not expected the event
will be a big betting affair, despite the
fact that II Is a championship event. 40
cordinR to local bo0kmakers most or the
money to be placed on the result VIII
probably como two or three DAYS oei0re
the match.
The task Of distributing complimentary
tickets has assumed q serious aspect on
account Of the insistence OF both primes.
pals that only those leginmaaely entitIeo
to them be given free tickets. Requests
from newspapers have been filed from
fourteen states.
0otch to Weigh 2o4 Pounds.
HUMBOLDT. Iowa. August 2a.-Frank
Gotch. the champion wrestler, now
weighs close to 2O7 pounds. and whan he
steps upon tho mat in Chicago Labor day
to meet George Hackenschmtdt he expects
to be three pounds lighter.
In his previous match with Hacken-
schmidt. Gotch weighed only 197 pounds.
Thursday the public win see the cham
fore the match. for after that he will
tahe refuge behind barrier that Will
not permit sightseeing. This il done for
the purpose OF enabling him to try out
his special holds OF offensive work and
also practice his line Of defense designed
to meet Hackenschmidt should he be
forced into the defense. The fear OF
visitors too friendly to the Hackenschmidt
camp In observing the special work 10 the
To relieve the monotony Of camp life
and its drudgery a ball game between
Gotch and his trainers will be played to-
day against q pickup nine. composed
largely Of the celebrated FATS" whom
Gotch in the past has captained.
Evening star., 1911-08-23
Protest Against Manhattan Not Likely to Be Upheld
ATL ANITA MAY HAVE TEAM
IN INTERUTY SERIES
Representative Of That City Has Approached
President Young Regarding the Matter.
Protest Not Likely to Be Upheld.

I 1t would not put the Churchmen in the
lead nor even give them a tie. Aloysius
will have to win both OF the remaining
| games to beat out Cornell for the cham
pionship Of section A.
IL satisfactory arrangements are made
whereby team from Atlanta is entered
| in the intercity series it will mean a
great deal to the clubs winning the
majority Of the games. Instead of the
championship Of two cities, the premier
ship Of the entire south will be at stake.
While it is doubtful that arrangements
can be concluded this year whereby the
Georgia team can be brought into conf
petition. it Is more than likely that
matters will be arranged next season so
that 1t can be done.
The st. Stephens team OF the Mar
quette League will play the An-Star
team, r. R Y. M. c. A., on the grounds
of the former. at 35th street and Wis
consin avenue, at pm. Saturday, Au-
gust 26 The batteries will be as fol-
lows: Ar-Star team. Forest Thompson
and Callow; ST. Stephens team, McDon-
oUgh and Loci.
Evening star., 1911-08-23

The only run made by the Andrews
team came In the sixth inning, Moore 8
triple in this round and single by D.
Howell landing ii.
Evening star., 1911-08-23

Andrews had enough men left on the
sacks during the seven innings to win
an ordinary game Eight members of
that team failed to get in after they had
landed safely.
Evening star., 1911-08-23
BASE BALL BRIEFS.

Eddie Plank appears to get better as the
race grows older. The Gettysburgian al
lowed st. Louis only two hits yesterday.
which is his best pitching performance
OF the current season.
Evening star., 1911-08-23

SECTION IA.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Evening star., 1911-08-23

joe Mulvey was robbed Of triple
or possible circuit drive In the sixth
inning when Clayton, after a hard run,
grabbed the leather.
Evening star., 1911-08-23

One OF the best catches OF the game
was made by Milans when he landed
Jones' Texas Lacquer behind second base
in the seventh round.
Evening star., 1911-08-23

Post Once and Sherwood will meet
again this afternoon, and the game win
be watched with more than passing in
terest. even though 1t cannot have any
bearing on the championship Of the sec
ton. In the opening game Of the series
Post Once was defeated by the Sunday
School leasuers in rather easy fashion.
although by a close score. and whether
the game was in the nature Of a fiuke
or not VIII be shown today, when the
two teams meet for the second time. The
same twirler will face tho Mailmen. as
Porter was worked yesterday.
Evening star., 1911-08-23

Moore's triple. which was the longest
drive Of the game, landed in Kenyon
street.
Evening star., 1911-08-23

The Cornell and Aloysius teams will
meet tomorrow In the first of the two
games remaining to be played between
the two clubs. II the Paperhangers win.
the remaining game will not be played,
Evening star., 1911-08-23

No person who knows Barney Dreyfuss
will accuse him Of having O'Toole ad-
vertised to pitch merely for advertising
purposes. The Pirates president was as
much disappointed as any one when
Marty failed to go in at Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1911-08-23

DsoI ,sis AuIp .1S C9 yy rss No.ts ss 's''
Evening star., 1911-08-23

Porter, who was a mystery to the sun
day School League batters. has been
found rather easy by the teams to which
he has been opposed In the post-season
series, both the Cornell Company and the
Aloysius teams hammering his offerings
hard in the two games he has worked
against the two clubs.
Had Sherwood been placed In the class
A series 1t would have been among teams
nearer its class, and would likely have
made q great showing.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
MARKS FOR "LOAN SHARKS"
Government Clerks In Washington
Display Persistence In Getting
Enmeshed in Tolls.

A most distressing feature of Wash
ington life is the persistence dis
played by government clerks in bor-
rowing money and then getting them
selves thoroughly enmeshed in the
tolls of the loan sharks" Every
once in a while cases of this charac-
ter come to the front in the way of
embezzlement by some trusted clerk.
who hoped to recover himself and pay
up, or when the worm turns, and the
borrower has the loan shark yanked
before the courts. A pretty bad con
dition exists now in the bureau OF
printing and engraving. About ten
employees of the bureau, who are re-
ceiving salaries of only $50, $50 and
$40 month, have been playing loan
shark" and loaned out their small
earnings almost at the rate of dollar
for dollar until some of them have
actually grown rich. Defalcation, or
technically embezzlement, by one of
the trusted employees of the bureau
brought his distressing condition be-
fore Director Joseph e. Ralph. When
an investigation was commenced the
disclosure of the other 10 or IL
sharks" in that department came out.
II is reported that a negro dressing
room employee. who got salary of
$40 a month, was lending money at
tremendous profit to plate printers
and others with salaries of $40 or.
more a day; also that one of the
women employees, whose wages were
$3.50 a day, had been loaning money
at 10 per cent a month interest 1t
was shown that men and women who
were getting large salaries were deep
est in the tolls of the loan sharks"
| 1t is stated that none of these loan
sharks" are to be discharged, but that
they are to be severely reprimanded
To a man Cup a tree" 1t would seem
as though they ought to be fired out
of government employ. and honest
men and women put in their places.
Director Ralph says that he thinks
they have been badly enough scared
to keep them honest for the rest of
their days in the department.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03

tory is chiefly indebted for the notion
that George III. was deep, willy,
clever tyrant-when as matter of
fact he was harmless old gentleman
subject to fits, and passed most of his
time tied up to the bedpost counting
the buttons on his vest. But, to get
back to the point, Mr.. Adams while
endowed with an intellect that would
give an ordinary man headache was
not exactly an Apollo in form. Pom
dering over state questions had given
him something closely akin to dou-
BILE chin, and even the tongue of fiat
terry would hesitate to ascribe to him
anything that could be described as
waist line. Had Mr.. Adams been a
Roman proconsul the sculptor would
have represented him in bathrobe,
with a battle AK in his hand, and such
little physical defects as have been
pointed out would not be noticed. But
attired as a substantial citizen of Bos-
ton, at time when tailors were still
proceeding on the theory that the mas
culine form was thing of beauty and
adorned in knee pants, spiked tailed
coat and a frilled shirt, the Massachu-
sets patriot does not look to the aver
age spectator like man capable of
teetering the throne of England.
Some improvement in the general
effect of statuary hall might be pro-
duced If the sculptors did better team
work. A convention of statuary hall
sculptors which would adopt rules and
regulations and some sort of uniform
specifications undoubtedly would make
for good The first thing such cooper
alton should strive for should be a
Standardization of statues as to size.
AS 1t is, no two are executed on the
same scale, and as result what might
be called the sky line of statuary hall
is very bad. Artistic consideration
aside, the conclusions invited by COM
PARSONS are most unjust to the states
men represented. Some are giants In
size and some are dwarfs Uniformity
of style in the matter of clothes also
would work improvement. 1t ID not
too harsh a criticism to say that the
average fit of clothing in statuary hall
is very poor, and good consulting
tailor would not be bad addition to
the staff of sculptors.
Still, as has been pointed out, statu-
airy hall has its uses. Aspiring con-
gressmen who pass through 1t every
day derive therefrom wholesome
Christening effect such as could be con-
veyed in no other way, except per
haps by the reversal of the majority IN
their districts.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
Junk of Panama Failure.

Something like 10000 tons OF old
French junk from the Panama canal
is being shipped to New York for sale.
This junk includes old locomotives,
dump cars, tanks, barges, boilers, grid
ers, dredges, sheet iron. parts of old
machinery and other things for which
the French Canal company paid mill
lions of dollars and which 1t left to
ruin on the isthmus
The scrap is being sent north In
700 ton lots, and three years will be
required to ship 1t all. Each of the To-
comotives left by the French yields
between S400 and 5000 worth of cop
per alone. The commission will save
the old steel rails on the isthmus to
be used as reinforcement in the coz
crete work and as telephone and tele-
graph poles.
Some of this old French junk has
been found in extraordinary places.
Dredges have been discovered almost
buried completely in sand, hundreds
of feet away from any body Of water
and overg-swn with dense tropical
vegetation. Apparently they have
been carried away from the river bed
by high water or the river itself has
shifted its courEe-
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
ARE A NATION OF INVENTORS
That 10 Proved by Records Of United
States Patent Office In
Washington.

When an American wants something
not to be found on the earth or in the
waters under the earth he calmly gets
to work and makes 1t. That is what
has given this country the reputation
of being a land Of inventive geniuses.
The records Of the United States pat
ent Office shows that 1t received last
year 63,293 applications for mechanical
patents. 1.155 for design patents and
nearly 1000 for registration of trade
marks. More than half the applica-
tions for patents were granted-exact-
ly 35,S07-while 4,329 trade marks
registered. All of these were on be-
half of citizens OF the United States.
From the date of the establishment
OF our patent office to the end OF the
year 1870 there were granted to Amer
lean inventors 12O.57a patents. while
the total number granted in all other
countries in the world during that pc
riod was 23S.437. From 1871 to 1911
Americans received S09,561 patents.
while those of all other nations got
1864
The total number Of patents Issued
by the United States to this time is
99O,154. This greatly exceedr the to-
tai of any other nation. Germany
ranks second in numbers with total
Of 440,8sS. Great Britain is third with
425,374, and France fourth with 24S.-
LOG.
But with all their wonderful accom-
plishments It must be admitted that
the inventors of this country still have
something-or some things-to live
and work for There remains unsatis-
fed Iong-feIt want for a number OF
things which should make their in
ventors rich, of which the following
are examples:
A front door key that will score
bulls eye on the first trial-at any
time of night.
An automobile that will not exceed
the speed limit when you're in hurry.
A home-run baseball bat.
A commuters monthly railroad tick
ct that always comes out even.
A collar button that viii not roll
under the dressing case.
Now that we have mentioned these
few trifies by way Of example. no
doubt we shall get them in short or
der. Anyway, he is a rash man who
challenges the inventive genius of the
American people.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
Canadian Reciprocity.

Washington.-Publ hearings on
the Canadian reciprocity bill practical
ly have concluded by the Senate FL
nance committee and next Wednesday
was fixed as the time when vote
will be taken on reporting the meas
ure. No amendments other than that
offered by Senator Root on the paper
clause. will have any chance for con-
sideration, it was said by member
of the committee
Lumber, paper. and woolen manu-
featuring interests, according to testi-
mony given by Joseph H. Allen of the
firm of Allen & Graham of New York,
offered to contribute to the fight be-
ing made against reciprocity by the
National Grange.