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The Prescott daily news., 1912-05-04

Secretary Herndon, of the History Commission .has been notified by Capt. F. E. Beatty, U. s. N that one of the relics of the battleship Maine, lone ships block, or fair lead" will be sent the commission upon the pay< ment of $1.25 for packing and shipping.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-05-04

Mrs. Jno. A. Davis is spending today in Little Rock.
 Miss Irene Royston is spend ing the day in the Capital Ciiy.
 Nat Martin was in Hope this afternoon attending to business.
 Mack Rogers, of Waldo is transacting business in Prescott today
 Prescott and vicinity was visit ed by a severe thunder and eleu- trical storm this afternoon. Considerable rainfall was also had No damage of any con sequence has been reported.
 We are glad to see our friend Richard Porter out again Mir. Porter has been critically i'll for the past month. He is now able to be out and we trust that he will regain his former strength at an early date.
 Mrs. Mattie Wilson will leave this afternoon for Macon. Geor. gia, where she goes to attend the Reunion and visit relatives and friends in points in Georgia, her former home. She will be accompanied by her daughter, Miss Fannie Wilson.
 A suitable silver service from an Arkansas silver mine studded with Pike county diamonds would be the proper gift for Ar kansas to present the battles ship of that name-Jonesboro Tribune That would be all right if there could be found in Arkansas mine that would yield enough silver make a service of plate.
 The Clarksyille Herald says there is likely to be some difficult ty in securing sufficient pack ages to handle the peach crop of Johnson county. Itis estimated that the county will have at least 100000 bushels of Elbertas, be- sides about 10000 bushels other varieties. This means over 1000 car loaos of peaches, and the railroad will have to get a hustle to handle a crop of such mag nitude.
 The postoffice at Carolan, Logan county, has been discontinued and that town is now served by rural free delivery. $. T.Carolan who was postmaster at the time the office was discontinued has served as postmaster there for B years.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-05-04
The Churches Tomorrow

Methodist Church Rev. A. M. Shaw, pastor.
 Sunday School at 9:45 a. n.
 There will the regular com munion service at II a. m. The subject of the morning sermon will be, The Conditions and Value of Brotherly Love in the Church. Subject of the even ing service, The Kingdom of God, and the Laboring People" Everybody cordially invited. to meet with us.
 1st Baptist Church.
 Sunday School at 9:45 a. m.
 Everybody cordially invited.
 Presbyterian Church. Rev H. W. Steen, pastor.
 Preaching by the pastor at First Baptist church at II A. M !. and 7.45 P, M.
 Sunday School at 3 P. M. All are cordially invited. Christian church.
 Bible school at 10 a. ID.
 Preaching at II a. m. and 7:3O D. m. c. H. Gilmore, minister.
 2nd Baptist Church.
 Sunday School at the usual hour.
 The public is cordially invited to all the services of the day.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-05-04
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The Prescott daily news., 1912-05-04
NOTICE

May l5l1 Some of the business men ol the town have subscribed very liberally towards the sprinkllng of the streets others have not subscribed at all and still others are not ready, for sprinkling' Fol thisreason the sprinkler will no' be run for the present. Sprinkling is purely a buslI ness proposition and if the mer1 chant doesn't get value reed II is not right for him to pay for ls1 On the other hand if l can no| collect enough to justify 1nY hiring of a man the keeping ol team it doesn't justify me \ run the sprinkler.
 Respectfully
 Sam Logan.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
Twenty-Five Greatest Southern League Players
No. 1---Sparks Wore Ball Room Pumps at Debut

1910, Sparks led the league in
pitching.
Arm Gone, Won With Head.
The next season found him again
with Dobbs. only this time he was
back on his old stamping ground
in Montgomery, where fifteen years
before he had faced his first pro-
fessional batter and bravely brook
ed the taunts in reference to his
pumps and crimson stockings. He
pitched Dobbs' outfit into second
place IN 1911, but his arm was
practically gone. His thinking APP
paratus remained intact, however,
and he was able to be one OF the
leagues leaders.
He saw that his baseball days
were over. His careful living in the
days Of his prime had guaranteed
fat bank account and 1912 found
him, still looking the business man
and now real business man, en-
gagged in the pleasant pasttn1e Of
making two dollars for one In the
little north Alabama town from
which he emanated.
There he teaches a Sunday school
class and votes for Richmond Pear
son Hobson and other prohibition
lists. but among his holy of HOLES
are pair of patent leather pumps
and blazing set of hosiery. He
has never forgotten that baptism of
blood and native hunnor.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
VANDERBILT LEADS
SOUTHERN ELEVENS
WITH 3O7 POINTS

Vanderbilt. with 3o7 points SCORED
against their opponents, leads the South
ern football teams Here Is how the
Southern teams rank this morning.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
SOME GEORGIA
DOPE P|CKEDUP
At BIC GAMES
By w. S. Farnsworth.


TUST before the last game of
the worlds series in Boston l
- had a long talk with Frank
Farrell president of the New York
league club. He tipped me off that
he doesn't believe Tommy Me Mil
Ian, NYellow Jacket star, will
stick up in the fast company be
cause of his inability to hit.
Il am going to give Mcmillan
another chance next spring" said
Mr.. Farrell but | don't believe he
will do. He can't hit. The little
fellow is a mighty good infielder
and fair man on the bases, but
! have got to get some hitters for
my team next season, and unless
Mcmillan takes a big brace / fear
| will have to ask waivers on him"
A PHILADELPHIA scribe at the big
games told me an. interesting
story about Claude Derrick. former
Georgia crack, who has been secur-
ed by the Yankees for next year.
1t seems that Connie Mack let Der
rick go to Baltimore the past sea-
son. where he played corking ball
Mack tried to get him back by draft
this fan. but Washington drew him
and then traded him to New York.
The shreWd Mack hung onto Der
rick for two years. but Claud went
to the bad after the Athletics had
made their first Western trip to
Chicago last spring Mack sold him
to Baltimore, believing he had
reached the end of his career be-
cause of an accident that happened
in the Windy City But Derrick
soon recovered in Baltimore and
today is considered the best of the
youngsters drafted by the Majors.
The accident was the result of a
lot of tOmfOolery A member of one
of the SWEETEST clubs in Chicago in
Nited the Athletics one hot night
down to his club to take a plunge
in big pool. In the party were
Derrick Bris and RUDE Oldring.
Oldring and Lord thought they
would have some fun with Derrick
and began holding him under the
water First one and then the other
would push him down. Finally he
became exhausted and nearly
drowned. 1t took two physicians
al that night to bring him around.
The shock Derrick suffered was
50 great that he Went al to pieces
and was unable TO play any kind of
ball Mack as a result sold him to
Baltimore, But the Georgia lad
is 9. X. now and all the scouts at
the series predicted that the Yam
KEGS have made a swell catch"
4 GORGE STALLINGS believes
~ he will land in the first divis-
ion with his Boston team next year.
An | will need to finish better than
fifth is a>couple Of pitchers" ne told
me on the return to New York after
the deciding game.
Wise baseball men consider
Stallings as great manager as
McGraw and Mack Hughey Jen-
nings claims that the Georgian
knows how to handle players bet
ter than anybody in the world
Look at the way he carried that
New York bunch into second place"
said the Detroit manager. And
look what Chase did the next year
with the same outfit he added.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
BY Fuzzy Woodruff.

z PAIR of pumps, entirely prop
~ er for a ball room. but
strangely out of the picture
on ball field, and a pair of hose
as red as a blood stained Balkan
hillside made a debut of a career
notable. And the career afterward
made baseball history, and base
pail history that the lovers of the
game are proud to boast about.
The shiny slippers and the in
carnadined hosiery were worn bv
Frank Sparks on his first appear
ance as a professional ball PLAYER
They were discarded the next dav.
but the brand of baseball that the
youthful hurler pitched to the ac-
compartment of the fancy foot
wear remained to keep him as one
of the most formidable slabmen the
National league knew for years.
Not more incongruous to his sur
roundings than the adornment of
his neither limbs was the man who
made his debut that afternoon in
the early nlneties.
The scene was set in the old
Highland park grounds in Mont
gomery. Birmingham was the op-
posing team. John McCluskey.
afterward manager of the st.
Louis Cardinals, was manager and
first baseman of the Montgomery
club. He had dug Sparks out of
Howard college, where he had
starred for Alabama's Baptist in
stitution of learning and baseball.
Fans Have Never Forgotten,
McCluskey's club was dragging
along in the race, and then. as now.
the finances of the MONTGOMERY
club were not of J. Pierpont Nor
gan proportions The attendance
was slim that blazing August aft
ernoon, but right now Columbus
himself could not discover a man
between the ages of eighteen and
eighty in Montgomery who will
not swear that he saw that debut
There were fine and resounding
Whoops of derision when Sparks
took the slab and began tossing TO
old Heinie PETIT, who caught him
Those crimson stockings and that
pair of pumps could not be over
looked by the native wits. Some
choice jests were flung across the
field for the benefit of the embfv-
onic star.
He seemed as much like ball
player as Roosevelt is like Taft.
lie was not of a pitchers size and
helft, though those were not the
days of the gigantic hurlers. He
was blushing a beautiful accom-
paniment to his hosiery and his
delivery was as awkward as real
debutantes
The Birmingham batters were
not slow TO go after him. Old Dad
Phelan. with his brigand mus
tachios, and all the rest of the
rough neck crew threw badinage
that added to his discontinue. The
home fans settled back to watch
the revelry
Was Sold to the PhiIIies.
Then Sparks began to pitch. He
used the same slow ball and
sweeping curve and absolute con-
troll that later made him a terror
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21

and Black is to show well through
the rest Of the season, it needs
some of its many loyal alumni to
come to the rescue and to give
their time as individual coaches
If the Georgia material can learn
the rudiments and can leave Alex
Cunningham free to teach the big
principles of football, it will yet
come through the season with the
record of only one defeat For the
material is surely there.
g ATURDAYS game was adver-
- tised as a duel between Nc
Whorter and Hardage. 1t came
mighty near turning out an I'M
equal but mighty brave fight be-
tween McWhorter and the whole
Vanderbilt team. 1t wasn't quite
that, for Henderson and Peacock
played good ball and several other
Georgia men did fairly we'll But
in the main McWhorter played the
largest part of the game for Geor~
gia
1t is pointed out that McWhorter
did not gain as much ground as
Hardage Well, hardly
Suppose conditions had been re-
versed and McWhorter aided by
the brilliant Vanderbilt interior
ence and starting behind that
hard charging Commodore line. has
played with Vanderbilt against
Georgia. And suppose Hardage
had been working with the demon
allied Red and Black eleven.
Would Hsrdage have gained as
mucn ground as McWhorter did?
We don't know the answer, But
it's worth oonsidering
No danger that we shall try to
detract anything from the brilHau-
cy of Hardage's performances.
There's a halfback worthy of the
very highest position, What John
Craig at his best had on him we
don't pretend to know. Also. be it
mentioned, his running mate. Col
Inns. is only q step or two behind
in brilliauCy. but he is a shade
fragile to compare with the Com
modore captain.
7 was our impression that after a
football game. he ball belonged
TO the winning team. If this Is
true, it was poor sportsmanship on
The part of the Georgia team TO
attempt to get away With the ball.
From our own personal viewpoint
il would seem that. to the Geor-
giaus. that bah would he 4 rather
sorry souvenir.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21

Then Sparks began to pitch. He
used the same slow ball and
sweeping curve and absolute con-
troll that later made him a terror
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
BY Percy II. Whiting

10y TefcN IL. W nltlng.
n TLANTA is off again on an
~ other footballless week. ON
Saturday the Tech team
plays-b but it plays in PARKWAY
Jacksonville Not until a week
from Saturday will there be
contest in Atlanta And that day
there viii be real one, for Au-
burn plays here that day, and the
Auburn-Tech game is always some
performance
Georgia has very moderate
game Saturday with the Universe
~ Of Alabama as the opposition.
The following Saturday Cunning
hams men get busy with Sewanee.
Vanderbilt takes on light game
Saturday, with the University of
Mississippi provided that team
doesn't canceD, but the following
Saturday gets busy in earnest with
Virginia At that the fact that
-
trounced Saturday by V. NJ. !.
(Which latter team lost the pre-
vious Saturday. 81 to o. to Prince
tom, makes this game look rather
cinchy for the Commodores. and It
viii not surprise anybody here if
the Commodores run up almost the
score on the Nirginians that they
did on Georgia.
Sewanee plays Tennessee Sat
urday in Chattanooga. and lit
should be an interesting game. The
Knoxville team is all of an uucer-
tainty and nobody is absolute
~ sure as yet Just what to expect
Of Sewanee.
II appears that. in the South at
least, the coming week doesn't
promise any stirring football do
ings
NOV that the mud, dashed up into
the semhlance of bllowy
ocean by the heroic struggle on
Ponce DeLeon field SATURDAY after
noon, has begun to settle back to
its normal smoothness and the
football folks have had chance to
think over the strange happenings
Of that fateful game, Georgiaus are
asking themselves a LOT of things.
among them this. How the dick
ems did It happen. anyWay?"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
GORDON AND RIVERSIDE
IN BIG BATTLE TODAY

Gordon football team emerged from the
Locust Grove game with only few
bruised players Today Gordon journeys
TO Gainesville, where a game will be
played with the fast Riverside team Both
teams appear 10 be pretty evenly match
ed. and hard game is sure to be the
result.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
BIG PREP GAME TO-DAY

LOCUST GROVE. GA. oct. 21--An m
terestug game in prep school circles viii
he played here today, when the Stone
Mountain team comes To Locust Grove
for a game with the locals
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21

70 National league hitters. That
light he owned Montgomery. The
next season saw him in a Birming
ham uniform, but he was sold ear
ly in the race to the Phillies, and
for nearly fifteen years he drew
salary and earned ii, too, as
slabman servant in the City of
Brotherly Love.
Sparks career in the National
league is too recent in date to re-
count Managers came and man
ayers went, but Sparks stayed. All
the time he pitched steady, heady,
consistent baseball He was rarely
brilliant. but he nearly always
managed to go Though a. season
with more wins to his credit than
losses. however poor the team be-
hind him happened to be.
1t is extremely doubtful IL
hurler ever remained in the major
i. leagues so long with so little stuff.
His fast ball was absolutely of
negative quality His curves We're
wide, but broke nicely, and he had
that great asset for pitcher-an
ability to outthink a majority OF
batsmen.
Was a Gentlemanly Player.
He was one of the first Of the
gentleman" ball players. He was
a rare bird when he first broke
into fast company. Those were
The halcyon days of the rough neck,
Sparks Stunned demon rum, to-
bacco. eur Sc words and all those
other pleasures We are told to
escheW when we are young and
practice when we learn wisdom"
He never played Sunday ball He
was always Immaculate in his
dress, being in appearance rather
tinnicky business man rather than
demon athlete. His voice was as
soft as the whisper of a spring
zephyr and his words as carefully
chosen as those Of A Sunday school
superintendent when he explains
why the lions didn't eat Daniel
Until 1910 Sparks remained on
the Philly pay roll When he was
through he was given an uncondi-
tional release as 2 reward for long
and faithful service and was not
stow to grab on with Johnny
Dobbs. of Chattanooga. Though
the Lookouts finished fourth in
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
|; FUZZY WOODRUFF
WRITES SPARKLING
BASEBALL SERIES

. This is the first of a series of
stories The Georgian will print on
Twenty five Greatest Southern
. League Players" written by Fuz-
zy Woodruff. There is no one
. better acquainted with Southern
. league doings for the past fifteen
years than Mr.. Woodruff, and all
his articles. like today's, will be
. filled with spice and ginger. He
opens his series with Frank
. Sparks, who, after graduating
from this circuit, went to the
. Philadelphia National league club,
. where for years he was consid-
cred one of the worlds greatest
. pitchers.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21

At Lyric this week, the
Mother Love" drama a,
Madame X"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
Atlanta Is Off Again on Football-less Week
Georgia Plays Alabama Saturday and VIII Win

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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21

ONE thing about the Georgia team
they had some clever PLAYS.
one was "A fake end run which was
built around The known fact that
every opposing team viii play To
Mold McWhofter On this play
New horter and the Interference
are started around one end. Then
the bail is passed to somebody else.
who comes tearing through center
for a good gain. Owing to the
eagelness of the Vanderbilt men
not to let McWhorter get through
their fingers this worked capital
ly several times. Cunninghams
men also uncorked some neat dou-
bile passes and showed that they
knew a lot Of advanced football
What they fell down on. often. was
10 lack OF aptneSs and training in
the rudimeuts- bility TO tackle.
'o start fast, TO charge hard and
the like. And these are things
That Georgia teams must learn
from assistant coaches. if AT an.
For they do not lie within the
scope Of head coach. II the Red
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-04-19
TULSA GRAF TIERS
TO SUPREME COURT

Tulsa. Okla, April l2.--For the pur.
pose Of assisting in the fight to obtain
a reversal of a recent supreme court
decision. affecting the title to hun
dreds of thousand dollars worth of val
liable land in the Eastern District of
Oklahoma, the Tulsa County Bar As
sociation last night appointed a com
mittee to take definite action toward
this end
The decision in question was to the
effect that the probate courts of Okla
homa had no jurisdiction to sell land
of a minor situated in a county other
than in which the court sat In other
words. the decision means that the
right of the county courts of the state
at the present time TO sell the land of
minors under their jurisdiction, is now
seriously open to question. If the de-
cision is taken literally it means that
vast amounts of valuable land in this
section which has been sold by the
county court of another county has
clouded titles.
The Bar association appointed
committee composed of Messrs. Car
roll, billiard. Murray, Biddison and
Hates to prepare resolutions on be-
half of the bar calling the courts at
tention to the seriousness of the ques-
ton involved and to file brief, as
amici curiae. with the supreme court,
for consideration, if the court grants
the pending motion for rehearing.
At last nights meeting the impor-
tant question of the formal opening
of the Tulsa county courthouse was
also taken up. The dedication will
take place about May l, near the time
when the Hotel Tulsa will be opened
to the public
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-04-19

Democratic National Committee
man Davies Of Wisconsin, who had
charge of the Wilson campaign in Illi-
nois, said in telegram received at
Wilson headquarters today:
The speaker had a thorough organ
ization that was perfected three
months ago. while the Wilson cam
paign was only begun the week before
the primary was held The Harrison
and city hall forces in the city Of Chi
cago lined up with the Hearst news
papers and had the polls manned with
workers. This organization was pri-
marily interested in the presidential
primary. The progressive forces that
would naturally have been interested
n Governor Wilson were lending their
activity to the gubernatorial situation.
and the presidential primary was lost
sight of. The Wilson campaign was
devoted entirely to publicity We had
30 organization or workers at the
polls. The time that elapsed between
the passage of the primary law and
the primary little more than a
veek--was too short for such cam
paign to be effective
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-04-19
STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS.

Word has been received from Bos-
ton that DR.. Stratton D. Brooks, the
president.eleet of Oklahoma Uniyer-
sity. will come to the state about May
1st. He has accepted an invitation
to deliver the commencement address
before the Norman high school and
will probably deliver a number of ad-
dresses over the state in order to get
in touch and become acquainted with
the people before he begins his work
in their service.
Two hand ball courts are in course
of construction just south of Boyd
field. AS soon as these are finished
two out door basket ball courts will
be built. This work is in pursuance
of the plan adopted this year to en-
large in every way consistent with
present means the out door gymna-
stun features OF the university. Other
improvements along this line are the
completion of two more tennis courts,
giving the school six of the best clay
tennis courts in the southwest, and
the installing of a second baseball
diamond just east of the old one on
Boyd field. Last year the mammoth
steel bleachers, with a seating ca
pacity of 5000 people, were built.
The university community was sad
dened by news OF the death of Edith
Winifred Bennett and Don Hughes last
week. Miss Bennett graduated sew
eral years ago and was teaching in
the Norman city schools when
stricken She was deep student Of