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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-03
Should Syracuse Cop, Michigan
Will Have a Dozen, Alibis,
Whatever They Are Worth.
PROBABLE LINE-Ur
FOR TOMORROW
ey RALPH L. YoNkeR.

Out of the score or more OF play
ers who have been used in varsity
games this season, Coach Iost will
have a big bunch 10 pick from for
the last three games, those with Cor
nell. Pennsy and Nebraska, provided
some more injuries do not place more
or the men on the hospital list.
While these injuries are serious
and are discouraging, II may be that,
like the zephyrs you read about, it is
an IN one that doesn't do somebody
some good There is this consola-
ton. after tomorrows game with
Syracuse, Coach lost will have tried
out in actual tnttles about all the
varsity material that has showed it.
self on Ferry Field.
The Syracusans were expected 10
arrive at Detroit this morning. and
took interurban cars for Crosse
Pointe, where they will practice at
the Country club today before jour.
neying on to Ann Arbor.
The reports from the fasteners
camp are now more hopeful. The
Syracusans seem to think now that
they have been in a slump during the
early part OF the season, from which
they have just awakened They sure
III have something to wake from.
But their chances with Michigan
are boosted nightly. it must be ad-
mitted, by the peculiar situation that
confronts the Maize and Blue at this
time. II is not a mid-season team
which is TO face the Salt DiggersA/lt
Is not machine, smoothed by the
work of weeks, and hardened by vars
ity battles.
Michigan must send on TO Ferry
field tomorrow, team whose mem
bers have never played together, nor
even had good, live, honest scrim-
mage, even against the scrubs. Team
work counts for everything and team
work cant be gained in day.
Furthermore, the most important
cog in the machine, the director of
the squad. will be a new man. with
put a doubt. Shorty" Mcmillan, in
whom Yost places much confidence,
VIII be out OF the scrap, and so may
The second best bet in generalship,
rJimmy" Craig.
Frank Picard, the Saginaw boy.
who has been keeping both the other
aiiarterbacks working TO retain their
Jobs, but who has been bothered with
a bad arm and shoulder. will prob
ably run the bunch,
This places great deal OF respons-
ibility upon an almost green man.
While the work of the rest OF the
bunch may be entirely satisfactory. IL
may all be pied IL Picard gets excited
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-03
cottroth Calls OF Negotiations.

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-The fact that
"One-Round" Hogan has demanded
exhorbitant terms for bout with
Tommy Murphy, the local feather
weight. has caused Jimmy Conrotn.
the Frisco fight manager. to call on
negotiations. He will try to arrange
a 2O-round affair between jim Flynn
and Joe Jeanette.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-03
MANDOT MAY GET
CHANCE AT BROWN

NEW YORK. Nov. 3.-Joe Mandot.
the clever New Orleans lightweight,
who has been rapidly coming to the
front, and Knockout Brown may fight
eight rounds at Memphis soon. pro-
vided Browns manager accepts a
81 500 guarantee.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-03
CENTRAL LEAGUE TEAM
FOR SPRINGFIELD, OHIO

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Nov. 2i.--W.
III. Watkins, OF the Indianapolis Amer
lean association. has completed ar
rangements for a stock company at
Springfield. O.. TO join him in placing
a Central league club in that city,
using the Newark franchise, which
the league sold 10 him
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-03

~ nv vi Wv
last year, Stan
Wells. Michigan 5
right end. drew
warm praise from
Ralph Hoagland
this fall. Wells
is a wonder" said
the famous ex-
player and referee.
He should be the
best line buSker
Michigan has had
- =. -. -
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-03
rrter Thomp.on TnIn.

Thompson, 3)-2.0zis the sea
worlds champion uuvrXed trotter FOR
sac. that was one OF pair Of twin
f0als Was such scrawny youngster
that Ne was gelded Had he been left
cnttrc he would now be worth a lar
rel 81 money
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-03
Nelson Fight Postponed.

NEW YORK. Nov. s.-The 10-round
night between Bat Nelson and Frank
Loughrey, Of Philadelphia. which was
to have come off Friday night. an
Watervleit, y. Y. was postponed 10
Nov. ., at Nelson's request.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-03
MI-. De rore., !. w,p,e,.

~ b. not often that a 3-year- old
racer wins upward ~ SO 0Oa but the
winnings ~ Miss 10 Forest 2.O5H
exceed that amount
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-03
and hops on the straight and Mario
way of heady football

and hops OF the straight and narrow
way of heady football
Should Syracuse do the unexpected
and cop Saturdays game, Michigan
would be far from disgraced. even
though Syracuse has been making a
very shaky showing in the east.
There are plenty OF alibis that can
be counted almost into the dozens
now.
But with an even break in luck,
Yost stands an excellent chance OF
piowing through the season without
striking single rock. Cornell al
Ithaca a week from tomorrow. looks
like the stiffest proposition in the
future so far. Pennsy has been weak
Nebraska has been badly defeated by
the Minnesota aggregation, but this
much has to be said for the west.
erners, the defeat was some time ago
and much more class has been shown
by them since that time.
In case the dope is toppled over
tomorrow, and Syracuse manages
slip one over the Wolverines, there
still won't be much encouragement
for the teams that are still TO battle
the Maize, for there is no doubt but
that the team which faces Cornell a
week from tomorrow, will be an en-
tirely different sort OF team than
that which trots on to Ferry field
Saturday
The Michigan Central has arranged
to run special trains TO and from
Ann Arbor tomorrow, and has grant
ed an excursion rate of 20 cents for
the round trip. Trains for Ann Ar.
Dor leave Detroit at 1880, s:25, -
and o'clock, all of these arriving
in time for the opening of hostilities.
set for ? o'clock. Returning. a spe-
cial will leave Ann Arbor at s.
o'clock Tickets will be good on all
regular trains except that leaving
Ann Arbor at 1850 p. m.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-03
All-American team

It>was mis- line bucking ability and
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-03

Mems fine fieece-linod
winter shirts and draw
ers. regular 81 gar
ments. on sale at only
6Dc each.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-03

Fine light weight.
low crown. wide brim
black Dcrbies: SPLEEN
did 81 values. All this
week aI.23 each.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-03

y lot OF men and Your
MS overland IL sure is
class SEQ and S2j Suits fror
want one al only SII.5O-a
and patterns,
The Washington times., 1911-07-31
DISCUSSES THE SITE
OF LINCOLN MEMORIAL

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
few words regarding the site Of the
Lincoln Memorial at the south gate of
the Soldiers Home Park. at the head Of
First street northwest. Two million dol
lars worth OF marble, stone. brick, iron,
motar, and cement. and payroll for cm-
ploycs and sugerintendentS. OEe-halt
CT two-thirds of the ordinary help will
come from that region and cast of that,
so they save long walks Iand car fare),
which saves strength for better work
All that material must be hauled, and
must it be through the fine taxpayersO
streets, wearing them out and interfer-
ing with traffic?
4 temporary track could be run across
from the Broo1land or lexington re-
gion and reach the head of First street.
away from improved main streets, SO
that the city would not be disturbed and
the necessary storage and litter would
be out of sight and sound. Even II
some of the materials should be brought
by boat, they could be landed at 4 Gov
eminent wharf and hence by rail. The
injured and the sick have Garfield,
Freedmen, Walter Reed, and Soldiers
Home Hospitals near.
Standing on the south embankmcnt Of
the resrvoir one is surprised at the
splendid scene of the beautiful city be-
low-all public buildings in sight, the
river, anu the NlllS peyuIu 1ne GON-
ernment owns the land: the transporta-
ton direct by rail AMI the saved streets
means thousands of dollars y and
economy of time; an ordinarily fine
bridge (faced at the ends with marble)
will YET be built to save the axis and
Potomac Park be LETT intact for the en-
toyment of the people. Crowds would
90 once or twice to the monument at
the river, but dozens OF times to First
street. Fifty years hence all the sur
roundings will have undergone great
changes, with a large population 20 the
north of the site, ard the wonder would
be that another site was seriously con-
siderej A crowd Of monuments would
injure them all, neither Is it necessary
to make a funeral of the monument.
So these are some homely facts. An
cient Greece knew where to place her
temples TO the gods. Z. s. NJ.
July q, 1911.
The Washington times., 1911-07-31

and safeguard it. Hereafter boxing
matches in that State will come under
regulations administered from Al
bany. The weight of gloves that can
be used is eight ounces; the number
of rounds that can be fought is fixed
at ten, the Legislature apparently be-
lieving that a good enough "scrap"
can be indulged in in that time to
satisfy anybody but a glltton for pun
ishment.
Nt first blush one would think that
this legislation is a move on the part
of fake athletic clubs to pull off prize
fights under color of ,fegalized boxing
match, but the restrictions with which
the law surrounds the contests, if en-
forced with any degree of care, will
probably make the encounters entirely
too tame for the gentry who like to
see, blood split.
1t is an interesting departure, never
theless. Boxing ought to be more popu-
lar than it is, and there is no reason
why boxing contests held under proper
conditions should not be encouraged.
The New York experiment will be
watched with interest.
The Washington times., 1911-07-31
TIME TO REVERSE
MOTHER-IN-LAW JOKE

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
1t is time that the much hackneyed
joke Of the mother-in-law lis exploded
and justice be given where 1t belongs.
1t is natural to love one who is dear
to those that We love, and only
vicious nature can repel this love. A
man is beguiled into marriage with
a pretty girl of whom he knows MOTH
ing; won by a pretty face and artful
ways, devoid of good principles and
virago in nature, and when she feels
secure in the marriage ties, gives vent
to every impulse regardless Of right
and hates her mother-in-law for no
other reason than that her nature can
not come down to her level. How,
many families have suffered, and moth
ers' hearts ached, by bringing such
dauRhter-in-law in a refined and hon.
orable family! Such women domineer
over the mother-in-law and husband,
and the fear of publicity prevents the
son from protecting his mother anc
himself, from the insolence OF Virago.
Reverse the joke, and believe where
ever you find Ruth" you will find a
Naomi" JCoAlCI'
The Washington times., 1911-07-31
SURE THERE IS TRUST
IN PROVISION MARKET

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
In your editorial entitled Cutting
Down the Cost of Living" it is msn-
toned as remarkable circumstance
that trade in the necessaries of life is
free in this country IN CNE CITY
Why is it not so in Washington 1
think YOU will find in an examination OF
the laws of the District a law passed
some wears ago that requires a farmer
selling his produce from house to house
to nay license Of $l2 per year for the
privilege. l have never heard Of its
repeal.
Farmers VINO did not wish to main
tain a stand in the markets when going
to town would usually manage to take
in a load of produce, chickens. etc, and
by selling reasonably would dispose OF
II very quickly, to the advantage most
ly of people of limited means When
the proposition, solely In the interest OF
the people who wish to handle the pro-
vision business as a close corporation.
was put~un to the farmer. who was not
a professional hCckster, to put up Slz
TO sell two or three dollars worth OF
produce perhaps, he quit calling on you.
Living went UP, naturally, as II was
yery common to see many tunes udy
these farmers wagons surrounded oy
ANXIOUS housewives in almost any Sec
ton of the citv where people OF nooer-
ate income prevailed.
I hrljeve there is trust in the pro,
vision market Of Washington city, and
mas been for years.
The Washington times., 1911-07-31
CONSUMER" STATED
THE CASE TOO MILDLY

To the Editor of THE TINES:
The letter from Consumer in Tho
Times of July q, concerning the dider-
ence between what the farmer gets for
his products and what the consumer
pays, Is interesting. but he states the
case very mildly. l took a trip down
the Potomac last week. At the landings
along the lower part of the river
found the farmers selling tomatoes for
Ii cents a basket, delivered on the
wharf. Two days later, in the Wash
ington market, l asked the price of .
similar basket. and it was offered NE
for 65 cents. There evidently Is money
in tomatoes, but 1t comes out of the
pockets of the consumer and the farmer.
Some plan ought to be perfected where
by, through cooperative associations or
in some other manner, these two most
vitGlly interested parties could be
brought together to their mutual ad-
vantage R. S. MOORE.
The Washington times., 1911-07-31

but 1 am countryman all right and
know how: but it is impossible. has been
in my experience. to get even cost OF
isinS for 1t from any commission
house OF dealer. Here Is cne instance in
proof of what Il say. Two years ago,
having 2 surplHs. I sent two barrels OF
az 6ne kale to the commission houses as
over went to narket. No one would
buy II even at 25c barrel. THE MAR
kET WAS SUPPLIED. AS the party
who took it in. a dealer in provisions In
the country, could not handle il. his
customers supplying themselves by their
gardens. I was interested to ind how
kale could be drug on the market, So
/ visited two stores in your city ana
found IL selling for 1oc a quarter peck.
and I think chat is about what you pay
all the time when In season. / could not
sell In the market to dealers turnips at
sc a barrel When l was farming
have sold as good cantaloupes as any
man would want for cent apiece, ana
saw the dealer sell one, while unloading,
for 10 cents. off my wagon. nice
prait'
The secret Of high cost of produce in
ordinary seasons is right there. Dig
and you will find the reason. was in
4 city lately where they catch f1sh FOR
the Washington market. There was
only one fish dealer there. l think, and
fish cost more there by cents pound
than bought them here for.
There's a monopoly in foodstuts IN
your city, and not all of your farm
ers' wagons contain real farmers.
F. A. COGSWELL.
Rallston Va.
The Washington times., 1911-07-31
ADMIRES LA TOILETTE
BUT DISTRUSTS TAFT

To the Editor of THE TINES:
It Is not that I wish to rush into print
that prompts me to write this article,
but I dislike to see just and fair man
not given credit for his deeds, and an
other man quite the opposite unjustly
praised. I refer to the remarks by one
of your correspondents in the Mail Bag
in regards to Senator La Toilette and
President Taft.
Your correspondent, AZ. B. j." says
that. he has lived in Virginia for the
past ten years, and during this tlme
- has NOT been in Washington. Per-
haps this accounts for his real lack Oh
knowledge of Senator La Foiletite' from,
virginia 9n wand and FOR the past eighteen
mn5tbs has been in washington on
legislative work in behalf Of the rail-
road employees of the Unlteo S.ases. I IN
this capacity, have transacted much
hmsiness directly and indirectly with
Senators Congressmen, Government Of
ficials, among them President Taft
Senator La Toilette % was a total
sbe above work, but have found that
he Is willing and anxious to do every
thing he can for the welfare of the
neopie. while President TaTt will say
one thing one day and another the next
day or so.
NY experience-legislative work-has
convinced me that what La Toilette
saws can be depended upon, but Presi-
dent Taft has written both those rep
resent and myself that he was for this
and that, and afterward we found him
on the opposite side of the fence. I
have no faith whatever In any state
ment he makes.
One bill in particular we took up with
Taft, and he said he was with US. He
= A-aI yf..lza 1ksarV
draft the bill, and 1t was introduced.
That was in the early part of 1910. The
bill finally was reported out by the
committee, and Taft to my personal
The Washington times., 1911-07-31
THREATENED FAMINE L
NICKEL THRILLERS.

Literary circles are stirred over the
threatened famine in one of its most
popular branches. 1t has just been re-
allied that the master craftsmen who
write the Nick Carter and "Old
Sleuth" thrillers are blossoming for
the grave and there are few promising
recruits to take their places in the
years to come. 1t may be that even
the next generation of boys will have
to grow up unthrilled by Crack!
crack! went the rifle, and another Red
Skin bit the dust"
1t is estimated that there are now
in the United States only fifteen people
who have that peculiar order of genius
which enables them to turn out $4,000
words of breathless adventure every
week, with an ending to every chapter
which makes the se-bumps rise, and
of these fifteen more than half the
number must soon meet the death out
of which they have made living.
In taking preliminary survey of
the clientele which will suffer when the
famine becomes a dread realty, it is
pointed out that the office boy and the
district messenger are not the only
consumers of the classic thrillers. On
the contrary, it is said, that class OF
readers constitute only 25 per cent,
while brakemen and plumbers and
statesmen constitute the other three
quarters and will be loud in their lam
entations when the crimson weekly dies
of inanition.
This furnishes a partial explanation
of the contention that the yellow back
really does very little harm in the
world, for if the comic prints may be
relied upon there is little danger of
corrupting the morals of statesmen and
plumbers. The publishers of one of
the nickel series long pointed with
pride to the fact that the creator of
his thrilling literature was a member
of the Brooklyn board of education,
and most of the others have been col
lege graduates, whose equipment was
subsequently enriched by little expe-
rience as police reporters. 1t was not
the educational touches which appealed
to such men as Senator Hoar and for
mer Mayor Mcclellan, for example
both of whom used to buy the weeklies
by the bale-but the absorbing plot
which took them out of themselves and
away from all the fret and worry in
cident to public life.
In the meantime there is no need to
take too gloomy an outlook of the fu-
ture of literature because a few of the
masters are growing old. The cow
boy and the Indian have faded until
they are practically out of date as ma
terial for the nickel novel, but at the
proper moment Fate brought in the
aeroplane, which has not halfway been
exploited yet in novel form, and new
era will provide its own Nick Carriers.
The Washington times., 1911-07-31
ENGLAND AT HER
OLD TRICKS AGAIN

To the Editor of THE TINES:
England is at her old trick of trying
to boss the world. The old phrases.
banded time out of memory, English
interests" English prestige" 1.-The bal
ance Of power in Europe" "a menace
to English possessions" British hon
or" and all those off-repeated songs
we hear now in loud refrain when Ger
many has acted in a mild way in Africa
as England has acted hundreds Of
times on larger scale the world over;
Garmany's mild course in morocco
raisas q howl even in our press about
The mailed first, the iron hand Ger
man aggressions." and a lot OF TS rS.
haS taken possession of Morocco entire,
the world would have regarded as such
a small affair comment would ndo6 be vpn pn, ,
rISbt cah England have in Morocco, IN
Persia, in Afghanistan, or any other
mart Of the world that Germany or
The Washington times., 1911-07-31

knowledge wrote one thousand or more
parties that he was FOR the bill and
urging its passage Those 1 represent
upon hearing from Taft, sent me his
letters, SO l know what I am talking
about.
Later, after the corrupt money in
terests made known that they did not
look with favor upon the legislation.
then Taft went to their side; did SO in
MS message to Congress, and when
those represent and myself wrote him
Ior an interview he failed to reply to
MIN why he wrote one way and acted
just the opposite
He did not get away with the stunt. -
ana II l were allowed space IN the Mail
Bag l would give everything in detail
l might add, however, that 1 have given
10 Inc Washington Times the whole
transaction in the rough, and perhaps
IN time j. b j." will have an oppor-
tunlty to read about this man Taft.
H s JEFFERV
The Washington times., 1911-07-31

We or Mexico has not just as well as
England?
You will tell me that England owns
certain privileges, she has won certain
rights. and has enjoyed these privileges
so long that they have become a right.
If Germany feels herself puissant
enough to desire to assert herself and
cut down the prestige of England and
end supremacy that has turned every
thing to known selfish ends and to de-
sire to be judge, or, at least. have
some voice In saying which side Of the
scales that determines the balance Of
power. should sway on, and that Eng
land should not always control the
scales. and to whose interest should also
be considered then, who can be so mar
row-minded as to say her nay?
GEORGE c. TANNER
The Washington times., 1911-07-31
PEACE CENTENNIAL.
FOR ANGLO-SAXONS
Movement Spreads for Appropriate Celebration of the
Hundredth Anniversary of the Last Conflict Between
the United States and England

Just at the time when President Taft
is seeking to bring about arbitration
between this country and Great Britain
and between this country and other ma
tions the project for a great celebration
in 1914 of the Tooth anniversary OF the
signing of a peace treaty between the
United States and England is beginning
to take shape.
Without much doubt, the anniversary
will be marked by a great international
conference on the subject of peace. The
celebration, however, is likely to take
various forms.
Under the auspices of the American
Peace and Arbitration League, which
has headquarters in New York, there
has been constituted national COM
mittee for the celebration of the Tooth
anniversary of peace among the Eng
disappearing peoples. This committee
is actively at work on plans for the
fitting celebration of the signing of the
treaty Of Client, Christmas Day, 1914,
which would have marked the end of
the war of 1872 had telegraphs and
cables been in existence at the time,
and had there been a means of letting
Andrew Jackson and his British foes
at New Orleans know about 1t.
Monuments Proposed.
Within the last week a subcommittee
of the national committee just men,
toned, has set out to visit the leading
cities along the American and Canadian
border for the purpose of interesting
these cities in the erection Of American
English peace monuments along the
border.
This is one of the numerous plans
suggested for making the anniversary
of the signing of the Ghent treaty a
memorable event, and an event calcu-
lated to promote the cause of peace
and arbitra ton The subcommittee has
already visited Buffalo, and will visit
Detroit. Windsor. Chicago, Duluth, and
various other cities about the Great
Lakes region and farther westward.
The Washington times., 1911-07-31
Reduction Is Ordered
In Commuters Case"

After three months spent in delibera-
ton and consultation on the famous
New Jersey and Connecticut Com
muters Case" the Interstate Commerce
Commission today. issued its ruling on
the subject. The Communication rates of
the Pennsylvania railroad in New Jer-
sey are found to be excessive and un-
reasonable, and are ordered to be re-
adjusted.
None of the rates on the other roads
mentioned in the complaints which in
stigated the investigation are ordered
changed, but the opinion intimates that
the Communication fares on the New
York, New Haven and Hartford, and
the New York Central lines probably
will be reduced.