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The Washington times., 1911-02-09
COLT WORKING LAD
KILLS JOCKEY LANG
Bolts and Falls In Jackson
vile Race-Jockey Goose
Escapes.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Feb. o.
Jockey Austin Lang. who has ridden at
Pimlico for several seasons and in the
Canadian circuit for E. F. Cooney, the
owner OF Guy Fisher, rode to his death
in the first race at Moncrief Park.
Lang had the mount on WHrking Lad,
a two-year-old, belonging to William
Gerst, in the three and half furlong
dash, while Goose had the mount on
Mack B. Eubanks, from the Previtt
stable. Both horses were at long odds
in the betting, the latter being backed
from so down to 30 to l at post time.
There were twelve starters and as the
field reached the three-eighth pole with
Efficiency in the lead the spill occurred
and both Mack b. Eubanks and Work
ing Lad went down. Goose escaped
luckily with a severe shaking up, but
Lang, when picked up was unconscious
ana was hurried into the automobile
of General Manager II. D. Brown. He
died en- route to the hospital.
According to Jockey Butwell, who was
lying close to Lang at the time, the &C
cident was caused by Working Lad sud
denly bolting.
The unfortunate jockey was one of
the most gentlemanly lads at the track
and had been riding recently for the
stable of Willie Shields, though he was
% have severed his connection with the
stable last night. He was a native of
Bay, L. l., where his parents
reside and his body will be sent there
for interment.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
CarliSle'S Date With
Pennsylvania Coveted

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9.-During
the meeting of the athletic association
of the University of Pennsylvania the
dropping of Carlisle Indians from the
football schedule was suggested.
The University of Pittsburg has
been clamoring for a place on PENIS
football schedule since last fall. and
a good many of the Red and Blue ad-
visers and admirers would like to see
Pitt substituted in the place of the
r Redskins. who have practically run
themselves out as a first-class attrac-
tion at Franklin Field.
Pittsburg's wonderful record last
fall made a deep impression on the
football followers in Philadelphia,
and many really demanded that Penn
take on this husky aggregation from
SteeItown in order to demonstrate
which section of the State really
boasted of the strongest football
team.
Pitt has a good many admirers here
and they are working hard to get
Penn to give them chance.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
Cup Race Possibility Re-
vived BY Motorists Eff
forts to Land II. \
TRAGEDIES OF LAST J
MAKE 1T DOUBTFUL
Question of Safely Staging Great
Classic Discussed In
Many Cities.
BY HARRY WARD.

Savannah wants the Vanderbilt Cup
race this year.
A representative of the Savannah
Automobile Club will soon be in New
York, and will make an effort to land
the classic race for the Southern course,
but the chances are he will meet with
failure. The grand prize race is sched-
uIed for Savannah again, and q y
hardly possible the Southern city VIII
get the two biggest racing events OF
the year.
The burning question just now is what
will become of the Vanderbilt race.
Many persons interested in automobile
sports say the public outcry after the
fatalities attending the running Of the
race last fall makes its revival out o.
be policed by militia it Is believed thS
race will not again be held on Long Is
land. A well-known follower Of AUTO
mobile racing sums up the situation e
follows:
"The only thing that will save the
Vanderbilt race to Long Island will be
the guarantee of militia for the policing
arrangements. There cannot be another
race held there under last years condi-
tions. With troops, however, 1t would
be a different story. The course az
Savannah and Elgin were policed BY
troops and there was no trouble with
the crowds. 1t could be the same on
Long Island. l am convinced that un-
less the State of New York looks favor
ably on the militia policing proposition,
the Vanderbilt will have to pack up and
move elsewhere.
Il heard a Detroit man say his city
was after the big race. He declared
that if New York was unable to stage
the event, Detroit would be one Of the
first with a proposition. Chicago would
also be right in line were the Wander
bilt to be put on the market. Savannah
undoubtedly wants the race, but that
city's chances are remote"
Mrs. Leslie Carter, the actress, has q
limousine car that was built to her or
der by the z. r. Thomas Motor Com
pany The machine is on exhibition this
week at the Buffalo automobile show.
1t is built on a model K 7O-horsepower
Thomas chassis, and in body, design and
interior fittings is unlike any car ever
built in this country. The color scheme
is yellow and green. A gold speed
ometer and clock are among the Law
ish interior fittings; in fact, all Of the
inside work is in gold, including
quantity of gold lace from an original
design made for the Sultan Of Turkey.
The Iatter's coat-of-arms is woven in
the design every three inches.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
EGAN AND CHANEY
DOWN TO WEIGHT
Washington Fighter Getting
In Trim for Baltimore
Battle.

Both Kid Egan, of this city, and
George CLANCY, of Baltimore, are down
to weight for their fight in Baltimore
tomorrow evening.
The articles call for 11S pounds at 6
O'Clock. For a while it was feared that
Egan would have difficulty in making
that limit, but this morning at the
Southern Athletic Club he showed that
he was at 119, and does not expect any
trouble IN coming up to the require
ments tomorrow.
Egan will do some light work late
this afternoon. and when he goes to
Baltimore tomorrow will be accompan-
led by a large delegation of Washing
tonians who believe he will have little
difficulty in winning from the Balti-
more boy.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
North Carolina Five to
Play Virginia March 1

CHARLOTTESVILLE Va, Feb. a.
Only one more basketball game at home
remains on Virginias schedule this year
and that is with North Carolina on
Wednesday. March /. On that date Vir-
ginia meets the Tar Heels for the first
time in this branch of athletics.
Following is the schedule abroad:
Friday, February 10-Washington and
Lee.
Saturday, February 11-Vfrginia Mill
tary Institute.
Friday, February 17-Georgetown.
Saturday, February 1S-Navy.
Monday, February 20-St. Johns.
Tuesday, February 2l-Pennsylvania
Military Academy
Wednesday, February 22-Delaware
College
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
IUldIs''' w o. '-II IUNdIs.'. OF o
NATIONAL. CAPITAL. IEAGTE.
PhenOms Are Failures
Season After Season
COMMERCIAL DUCKPIN LEAGUE.

NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Every spring
the baseball scribes from the differ
ent cities in the major league pen
stories about the great finds that
have been unearthed.
4 year ago this time every club
boasted of at least one youngster who
was going to burn up the circuit. AS
1t turned out, however, there never
was a season when there were so
many false alarms.
In the American League, especially,
did these finds" blow up. The most
prominent sufferers were the Browns,
Maps and White SoX, and this was the
real reason for these three clubs fin-
iShing so low in the pennant race.
Although the Yankees had no real
star when they boosted to the skies
last spring, Moose Mitchell, the back
stop, was expected to prove a good
partner for Sweeney, but he was far
from being on the job when called up
on.
Mitchell was the only member of the
Hilltoppers who can be said to have
been a false alarm. Others did not
make good, but they did not come
with the reputation which preceded
Cleveland had its share of false
alarms. Laddie Link took the biggest
tumble of Jim McGuire's recruits. In
the South, during the spring training
trip, he displayed lot of big league
class. and in the opening series
against the Tigers, he looked like a
real bear cat, trimming Jennings
team to perfection.
Last spring Hughie Jennings thought
he had world beater in the Midget
Browning. He won his first two starts,
both against Cleveland, succeeding
where Mullfn and WiIlet failed. But
the Maps were the only club Browning
could defeat, and Jennings give him free
transportation back TO San Francisco
shortly afterward
Jack O'Connor had three twirlers last
spring IN st. Louis who looked like big
league regulars, but before the campaign
had ended the entire trio had found
their way back to the minors. They
We're all pitchers-Gilligan, Stremmall,
and Kinsela.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
jim NJ 'ALEER TO CO
DIRECT TO CHICAGO
Manager of Nationals Will
Not Come to Washington
Until April /.

Unless he changes his present plans,
Jimmy McAleer will not appear IN
Washington again until April l, when
the first exhibition game of the Ma
tionals in this city will be played with
Georgetown.
President Noyes will leave here Sun
day afternoon for Chicago, where he
expects to meet, the manager. but what
will be done at that thine has evidently
not been decideed, as McAleer has not
been heard from for long time. At
the schedule meeting Noyes and Nc
Aleer will have a conference and then
something definite may be learned rela-
tive to the plans and policy of the club
for next summer
Business arrangements for the Atlanta
trip have not yet been completed. but
who will be in charge will probably be
decided tndau or tnmnrrnu
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
New Bowling Record.

Colonial Club of Dorchester, rolling at
the Boston A. A, put up a new worlds
record in Boston pins Of LIS, fifty
three pins better than the previous
mark held by the Newtown club. The
team strings were 566, 56S, and 5S4 in that
order. The highest total was S5S, and
two scores of $S6 were low. DR.. E. E.
House, the new president Of the Ma
tional Duck and CandIepin Congress,
rolled 351 with the CoIoniais,
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
New York Nationals
Entirely Signed Up

NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-With the arrival
from California of the signed contract
of Fred Snodgrass, the entire New York
National team is now signed up for the
ing the document, Fred explained that
he had been playing with a semi-pro
team in California and that he signed
the contract as soon as he got back
home.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
Collins Base Stealing.

A statistician has found that Charley
Street, of the Nationals, was one of the
four catchers who allowed Eddie Col
Inns, OF the Athletics, to steal two bases
in a single game. The others were
Stanage, Bemis, and Payne.
In the course of the season the fleet
Philadelphia pilfered eighty-one sacks,
the ST. Louis backstops having the least
success in stopping him on the paths.
Collins record, against catchers and
clubs, follows:
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
Record on Motorcycle.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. s.-De Ro-
sier broke all world motorcycle records
from one mile to ninety-Iwo miles here.
De Roster has made many records on a
motorcycle, and he eclipsed his previous
marks in a daredevil style OF riding
that aroused the enthusiasm Of a big
crowd
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
Baseball Notes

All the new members of the Chicago
White SoX have fine records as minor
leaguers. and the chances are that
Hugh DUFFY will develop a few stars.
Charley Comiskey believes that he
has solved the cause of the poor show
ing of the White .Sox last season, and
Is preparing to remedy the fault this
season. Il had a loser in 19O9," he
says, with a team of wornout veterans,
and l had another in 1870 with a bunch
OF raw recruits, but for 1911 I'm
to mingle a few smart veterans with
the promising youngsters"
George Moreland. president of the O.
and P. League, is trying to interest
Sharon, Pa, in organized baseball.
Moreland has promised that town a
franchise II the necessary money is
forthcoming. Moreland plans a revision
of circuit next year.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-14
Wrecked Liner
Delhi Is Doomed

GIBRALTAR, Dec. 1.-THE rising of
a fierce southwesterly gale, which has
piled up a heavy sea, has made even
more dangerous the position of the
Peninsular and Oriental liner Delhi,
which went ashore off Cape Spartel
on the coast of Morocco early yester-
day morning. The male passengers
and the crew, who were left aboard
after the women and children had been
transferred to shore by the launches
of the French cruiser Friant, may
have to abandon the ship today.
The rescue of the women and chill
dren, among whom were the Princess
Louise, Duchess of Fife and sister of
King George V, and her daughters, the
Princesses Alexandra and Maude, vas
carried out at no little risk, both to/the
rescuers and the rescued.
Princess Alexandra nearly lost her
life when the launch from the Friant
in which she and others were being
taken ashore capsized in the surf. The
Princess Alexandra disappeared for a
moment. A sailor grabbed her, how
ever, and held her up until they were
dragged ashore.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-14
Fewer Trains
for Wdverly
Since Moo. 20

Pointing out hat the southern part
of Newark and the factory section of
Waverly was not getting the same
train service as before the opening of
the McAdoo high-speed line, Trolley
Inspector Joseph Crawford today pre-
sented his report on the Pennsylvania
schedules to the Board of Works.
According to the present timetable
there are rs trains a day from New
ark to New York, and Ga trains from
New York. This is not materially
different from the timetables in force
before the opening of the McAdoo line.
From the South street station, how
ever, there Is a loss of ten trains
eastward and twelve westward.
Prior to November 26, the Waverly
station had a train service of twenty
eastward and twenty westward trains
a day. Since the opening of the Nc
Adoo line, according to the trolley in
spector. there has been a loss of
eighteen trains each way.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-14
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES
They Are Closely Observing Public
Health Conditions

Ar examining physician for one of
the prominent Life Insurance Com
panies, in an interview on the subject,
made the astonishing statement that
the reason why so many applicants
for insurance are rejected is because
kidney trouble is so common to the
American people, and the large ma
jority of applicants do not even sus-
pect that they have the disease.
He states that. judging from his own
experience. and reports from druggists
who are constantly in direct touch with
the public. there is n preparation
that has probably been more success
full in relieving and curing these dis
Eases than any remedy known. The
mild and healing influence of DIR. Kill
mer's Swamp-Root is soon realized. 1t
stands the highest for its remarkable
record of cures,
We find that Swamp-Root is strictly
an herbal compound, and we would
advise our readers who feel in need of
such a remedy to give it a trial. 1t is
on sale at all drug stores in bottles of
two ~sizes-fifty cents and one dollar.
However. IL you wish first to test its
wonderful merits, send to DIR. Kilmer
6 Co. B~inghamton, N. Y, for a sample
bottle. absolutely free. When writing
be sure and mention the Newark
STAR.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-14

santa sits in his office, built of snow, I
and receives thousands of wireless
messages from little children in New
ark who are telling him what t put
into his big sack for them. He has
received so many messages from poor
boys and girls that he doesn't hardly
know how to take care of them all.
He will soon have to tie up his big
sack and start on his journey to New
ark in order to reach here for Christ
mas Eve.
Santa has just sent a wireless mess
& here saying that he hopes very
much that the boys n girls and the
folks, too. will help him to
distribute presents to h little ragged
and hungry children in Newark. There
are so many of them that Santa Will
have all he can do to remember them
all
There is an Empty Stocking Club, of
which Santa Claus is PRECEDENT, and he
wants all those who can help him dis
tribute presents to join that club.
Already a great many have Joined,
but there are a great many more that
should join the club at once, so Santa
will know what help he can depend
upon when he arrives with all his toys
and things,
Two young women. who are school
teachers, Joined the club and gave
SO each to fill three stockings each.
Wouldn't it be just dandy If Santa
had one dollar to put in each of the
stockings of the poor boys and girls
who are in need of clothing and things
to keep them comfortable and warm
and make them happy?
wouldn't you like to join the Empty
Stocking Club and work with Santa
Claus to make some little boy or girl
happy? Read what 1t says about join
ing the club, and then send you name
to Santa Claus, care of the Evening
STAR.
Here is what some of the boys and
girls want:
Dear Santa Claus:
am 10 years old, would like to have
a pair Of cowboy gloves. My little
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-14
WOMAN REVIEWS
FIGHT TO BREAK
CH|NAMAN'S WILL
Mrs. Kingston Persists Undue
Influence Was Exercised
Over Wong Hoey Hong.
PRUDENTIAL EMPLOYEE
GOT MOST OF ESTATE
Court Has Ruled That Bene-
fciary Was Strongest Friend
of the Testator.

In the P~rerogatiye Court at Trenton
Mrs. Susan Kingston Is seeking to have
set aside, the decision handed down
by Judge Davis, on March 81, 1911, by
which he sustained the will of Wong
Hoey Hong, a Chinese merchant OF
/ William street, who left most of his
estate of $40, 900 to Adolph Franz, OF
lis Bruen street, a clerk in the emplo.
of the Prudential, and made him ex
ecutor without bond.
Hong was the ward of the late Mis-
Letitia C..rter, for many years a mem
Der of the Third Presbyterian Church.
Ridden by her parents to take care of
him, she willed him her estate. 1t is
stated that Franz vas friendly with
Miss Carter and Hong from boyhood
and, after Miss Carriers death, he con-
tinued his friendly relations with Hong,
advising him regarding business and
taking care of the store books and ac-
counts.
A. few years before his death, on
September %, 1910, Hong was stricken
with an incurable v disease, and
Franz managed his affairs and took
him to specialists in New York very
frequently. TWO days before he died
Hong changed his will. leaving small
amounts to Mrs, Susan Kingston and
Miss Ward, cousins of Miss Carriers,
and the remainder to Franz. The two
women sought O break the will on the
grounds that Franz had exerted undue
influence over the testator during his
last Illness.
Not Easily Influenced.
In his decision sustaining the will,
Judge Davis said, in part:
From the testimony in the case |
find that the will was properly exc
cuted and that the testator had tesla
mentory capacity at the time. 1t APP
pears from the testimony that Franz
was probably the strongest friend and
adviser tina Hong had. 1t likewise APP
pears that Hong was himself a strong
minded man, having opinions of his
own and not readily or easily in
flueneed."
Mrs. Edward ~. Price, of 112 Bruen
street, who has been a friend and
.neighbor of the Franz family for years
and knows the history of the friend
ship which existed between Hong and
Franz, said today:
Franz was very friendly with Miss
Carter and Hong for years and what he
did for the latter during his illness was
prompted solely by friendship. Other
than Miss Carter he was the best
friend that Hong eve had and, though
he is fully entitled to the estate, I
know that he does not want it for the
sake of the money itself. He once told
me that if he ever did get possession Of
the money he thought of devoting it to
the placing of a memorial tablet to
Miss Carter in the Third Church. The
women who are contesting the will
have no right to the estate, for their
neglect of Hong was more marked
than their alleged are for him."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-14

feel the baby's loss more keenly dur
ing the past month than she did at
the time of the child's death. The
family physician ordered her to be
taken away from the Christmas sights,
but where? What place could be
found whose air was not fragrant with
the ~Chrlstmastide? This was the prob
lem that confronted the young hus-
band, but being a wise young husband
he solved 1t in a truly original way.
| met my friend in the toy depart
ment of a local store q couple of days
ago. She was buying a Santa Claus
mask. l was surprised to see that she
was able to stand the strain of shop
ping, and still more surprised when in
answer to my query about the mask
for the Sunday school entertainment
she replied with a bright smile:
mo, it isn't for the Sunday school,
Wills going to play Santa Claus for
the baby. Didn't you rear about the
baby? Well, two weeks ago Will
brought her home as a surprise. He
took her on trial from one of the homes
to see how the remedy would work. I
wouldn't part with the little tot now
for anything. She's just changed my
life. But come and help me pick out
a doll for l have a whole wardrobe to
make in a few days"
The prescription had worked wonders.
The other child was not forgotten, but
sorrow was tempered byVa new
interest. ,,
Many of us have neither the desire
nor the means to take one of these
waits into our homes, but we cannot
refuse to obey the spirit of Christmas
and leave the hundreds of poor little
ones without n bright spot in this
day of universal joy. Remember the
most unfortunate children are not al
ways found In the public institutions.
There are score of little tots in this
city to whom, in spite of their bound
less faith in a white w%hiskered man
in a red suit. Christmas will be like
any other day. why didn't he come
to see me last night?'" will find no ade-
quate explanation in their childish
brains unless you help in the realiza-
ton of the Santa Claus dream. The
more fortunate Riddles whose last
years toys will be supplanted by the
latest inventions from toyland can ex-
perience the joy of giving If a wise
mother will teach them that altruism
is the greatest of the seasons lessons.
And it isn't everybody's business to
brighten some dreary home, for every
body's business is apt to be nobody's
business, It's your own personal af-
fair. Remember that,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-14
Welded
Bliss Enough
for This Pair

Married one day and separated the
next on account of a quarrel was the
experience of Victor Papszt, a master
mechanic of Elizabeth, and his wife,
Mary Papszt, of 81 Roseville enu
Papszt and his wife both brought
suits for divorce on the grounds of de-
sertion in the Chancery Court today,
Soon after the wedding Papszt brought
a suit for an annulment of the mar
rage on the ground of fraud, but this
suit was discontinued. Papszt and his
wife were married May 16, 1909. The
suits are being tried before Vice-Chan-
cellor Emery.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-14
TO GET RING FOR BEING
FIRST DAUGHTER TO WE'D.

MOUNT VERNON, N. Y, Dec. IA
When Colonel Christopher Columbus
Wilson. former president of the United
Wireless Telegraph Company, was put
ting his personal affairs in order last
summer preparatory to his departure
for Atlanta, Ga, where he is now serv-
ing a three years term in prison. he
divided his possessions among his three
daughters. A large and valuable ola
mond ring he left in charge of a New
York friend with direction that 1t
should become the property of the
daughter that married rst.
1t is now announced that the ring
will go to the second daughter Oneida.
She was quietly married here in octo-
Der last to Urban L'Africain, son of a
Long Island hotel man and a student
at the University of Pennsylvania,