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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-09
PhiIlie Nationals
Change Hands.

Philadelphia, Dec. S.-The Phillies have
been sold. 1t is not rumor this time
that the Philadelphia ball clubs fran
chise, property. real estate and good will
have been purchased for sum close to
81. 100000 The information comes oincial-
~ from banking interests and Robert a.
Balfour and Gov. John K. Tener of Penn
sylvania are interested in the deal.
The club has been bought by a syndi-
cate of local bankers who consider the
purchase of the club property at Broad
and Huntington streets well worth the
investment.
Mr.. Balfour refused to deny that he
was one of the purchasers. In fact ne
refused to be interviewed on the subject
The sum of $4S6.0O0 is said to have been
1aid for the franchise and players.
Charlie Doom will probably be retained
as manager and given full charge of the
team. There is no indication that Hor-
ace Fogel has been provided for, though
the plans of the bankers in this connec-
ton have not been made known.
None of those concerned in the deal is
as yet ready to make any announcement
of the plans for the future of the club
further than the bare facts of the sale
and the amount involved.
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


Yung Hing, a member of the On
Leon Tong. charged with killing zee
Toy. rival Tong man in Chinatown.
June II last. was Saturday. found
guilty of murder in the first degree
by a jury in special sessions court,
at New York. This is the second trial
of the case, the first jury failing to
reach verdict.
Comparatively low prices were realized
at a sale of historical letters held in
Philadelphia. Saturday The highest
price was paid for a letter from Martha
Washington addressed to Mrs. +. Wash
ington. which was sold for $780, A let
ter from John Paul Jones brought s725
Other letters in the collection were writ
ten by Gen. Nathaniel Greene Capt
Henry Lee. John Adams. Ralph lizard
and George Washington
A petition to President Taft that the
administration seek IAN honorable and
amicable settlement" with Great Britain
of that country's protest against the
Panama canal act. has been forwarded
by Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of
the University of California; David Starr
Jordan, president of the Stanlard Univer-
sity; Archbishop p. w. Riordan of the
Roman Catholic diocese of San Francis
co; Representative William Kent and
other influential Californians. to whom
it seems that parts of thc.act are vio-
laton of the -Pauncefote treaty.
Mrs. Eleanor II. Clark, wife of j. Ell
ton Clark of birmingham, member OF
the cotton brokerage firm of 1ngersoll &
Emory & Co. of Boston, was struck anu
almost instantly killed by a south bound
train about J.. miles north of the Union
station at birmingham, at 1150 Saturday
forenoon. Mrs. Clark was walking down
the tracks to the station to catch the
very same train that struck her. when
the engine hit her, badly mangling her
body. The train was brought to step
and Mrs. Clark was taken aboard but
she died before reaching the Union sta
ton in birmingham
George II. Rounds, head bookkeeper
at the Parker House, Boston,, since
1907, was arrested, Saturday, by n
spector Linton of police headquarters,
charged with the larceny of $3l 900
from the ]. r. Whipple Co., proprie-
tors of the MOTEL. He has confessed
thefts to that amount. the inspectors
say According to the police, Rounds
populations have covered four years
1t is said he was in such a position that
he found no difficulty in juggling the
hotels accounts to suit his own pur-
poses His arrest, late Saturday aft
ernoon, the police said, was due to the
fact that Friday he deviated from his
usual method of obtaining cash, and
instead of taking faoney destined for
the bank changed a check from IS to
$4,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-09

Ten years ago the individual was lost
to a large extent in the team or the
machine; last year team effort went
almost unnoticed in the prominence
of some individual; now a happy
medium has been found, and individ-
ual effort is rewarded as we'll as
team work. Truly the game of foot
ball has passed through narrowing
time, but it has managed to survive
the sings and arrows of the would
be reformers, the hammer and tongs
of the self-constituted critics and
even the trials and tribulations of
theoretical rules which constrained
and hampered. 1t has come out of i.
all better and stronger and while it
is still strenuous game, and even a
more or less dangerous game, it has
been freed from much unnecessary
roughness. some foul and unfair
methods and certain hazards that
were not commensurate with the
sport.
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FROM THE HUNTING GROUNDS

/; son. The animal. which is splendid
specimen. was shot at Tomah Stream a
short time ago and was brought to East
port. Thursday. and since then has been
hung up in Mr.. Wadswerths storehouse,
opposite his large general store on Wads-
worth's wharf, and has attracted much
attention as it is one of the largest ever
seen in this vicinity The moose weighs
between 100 and 1900 pounds and was
brought down by Mr. Wadsworth at a
distance of about 10 PAGES. The animal
has a splendid head with web antlers
having breadth of IS inches. one OF
the antlers has II points and the other IL
while the width of the horns from tip TO
tip measures 50 inches. The guides in
the neighborhood of Tomah claim that it
is by far the largest moose ever shot in
that region.
Elias p. Meservey of Mariaville, one of
the last of the old time bear hunters
celebrated his SOth birthday. last week
by a trip to Aurora and killing big
black bear which had been terrorizlng the
neighborhood and killing sheep and
calves all the fall. The bear ranged
among the farms on the edge of the for
ests and although many of the modern
steel bear traps were set for him, he
avoided some and got out of others The
bear had been shot at scores of times,
but althoug,, hit several times, none of
the hunters could get" him. Elias
rugged UP an old-fashioned uead fall, I"
an arrangement of logs which falls upon
the bear and breaks his back. pinning
him between two big logs. The bear was
a-,,Ft trDf1f
very careful account but thinks that he
has killed nearly 300 bears in his life
time.
William l.. Small of Hartland, near
Fuller's Corner, can testify to the fact
that 1t is not always necessary to go far
from home into the big woods of Maine
for large game, as he reports that
week ago last Monday morning he
shouldered his gun and started towards
Sibley Pond for deer, which is only a
short distance from his house. The SNOW
which had fallen during Sunday night
made conditions very favorable for hunt
ing, as there was an absence of crust,
the snow being very light and fluffy, re-
vealing footprints very easily, and he had
only been out few minutes when he
found he was on the trail of game. Be
fore noon Mr.. Small had been rewarded,
having shot a buck weighing over 200
pounds. which when dressed weighed $50
lbs Old hunters claim they have no re-
membrance of such large deer and Mr..
Small is receiving congratulations for
the big prize which he secured with so
little effort The next morning Mr..
Small decided to try his luck again, and
this time succeeded in bringing down
doe which weighed 200 lbs.
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w. e. Walker of North Newry recent
" shot a bear that weighed 924 POUNDS.
He received for the meat, skin ana ln-
Guiding the $500 bounty, s522
Del Salisbury of Otis has good claim
to being the most lucky one OIL '"e
hunters in his locality. He has shet Two
deer. two bob cats, one bear oesioes
bagging lots of birds.
Thus far this season Bernard Meoaus-
land has shot one coon, fox 81 raopits'
1s cartridges, six skunks and SIX MUSK
rats.
Mark Savage of Patten came down
from Trout Brook, few days ago. Win
Ravmond Sibley and load of deer and
sportsmen. Deer come by loads now
Most any little boy can go out and shoot
his deer.
A doe which was brought down the
line Wednesday tagged for George a.
Borneman of South Paris, was hit about
as effectively as would be possible Evil
IDENTIFY the bullet struck the forehead
souarely in the middle just above the
ewes, taking the brain out as cleanly as
II could have been done with instrn-
ments
Ed Herrick of Greenwood has caught
IL foxes this fall, one being silver
gray. also one skunk and three eoons.
This heats the record on foxes with one
execution when several years ago he
framed the same number. And his son
Randall was also one of the lucky deer
hunters; he went out soon after the
snow storm Sunday night. and in an
hour or two shot two deer, and could
have shot the third. had the law allowed
1t.
A special to the St. John Telegraph
from McAdam tells of battle royal,
Friday, between a bull moose and Will
liam Lawson, a resident of that village.
Mr. Lawson was on the Harvey road,
about five miles from McAdam, when the
moose came on to the road about %
yards from where he stood. and he fired
a shot from his combination gun, the
bullet taking effect in the animals chest.
This infatuated the moose, which charged
on him, and he, being excited. could not
extract the empty shell in time to load
again, but fired charge of buckshot
from the other barrel which brought the
Dull 10 MS knees put ihiyia6 a"iSn's ~
again charged and struck Lawson a
glancing blow with one forefoot. Law
son was knocked down but quickly in
serted another cartridge In the gun ana
fired at the bulls neck and killed him.
The bull was one of the largest shot In
this vicinity. Mr.. Lawson's friends are
congratulating him on his narrow es-
cape.
To Frank IT. Wadsworth of Eastport
goes the distinction of having shot the
largest bull moose In the State this sea-
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coaching the water polo team, which
is praeticing in the Dunster Hall pool.
Morgan Belmont, Bob Keene and
others interested in polo made an eff
fort to organize team at Harvard
similar to that at Yale. Lack of suit
able grounds prevented the eulmina-
ton of the plan.
Sam Anderson, former middleweight
wrestling champion, returned to Har-
ward, last week, and will start imme-
diately on his duties as coach Sew
eral meats have been arranged by
Capt Bill Tyler. Yale's grapplers will
come to Cambridge, about the middle
of February.
The Harvard hockey schedule is
still Incomplete Despite the reports
anent a disagreement between Yale
and the Cambridge puck chasers over
the time and place of their third and
deciding match, if one is necessary,
the rival managers have practically
decided upon the playing surface. st.
Nicholas rink, New York, will get the
third meeting. with the Boston are
ma staging the deciding game of the
Crimson-Tiger series.
OF the present captains of athletic
teams Mt Harvard six hail from Mass
achusetts. while New York is second
with four representatives. Here is the
present list of captains: Football, p.
L. Wendell; baseball, ID. j. p. Win
gate: crew, c. T. Abeles; track, j. g.
Cummings, hockey. II. b. Gardner; as
ISOLATION football, Il. l.. Barron; la
crosse, r. S. Simmons; tennis, A. J..
Lowery. swimming, ]. G. McDonough;
gymnastics ]. r. Morton; golf, +. Sar-
gent rifle team, L. p Carver, shoot
ing team, ID. Lockwood; wrestling, w.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-09
Killed in the Surf
After Plucky Fight.

Gloucester, Mass, Dec. S.-Valentine
Powers, aged AZ, lost his life, today
in the heavy surf on the reef of Nor
mans Woe, after a pluckY struggle.
Powers put out in his dory to haul
some of his lobster traps when huge
sea kicked up by the southwest gale,
capsiZed him. After great eXertions
the fishermen climbed astride of his
overturned craft and was driven rap
idly by the wind directly towards the
reef. AS he drifted into the surf, a
big comber tore him from the dory
and smashed him against a rock
causing probably instant death Pow
ers lived alone here and little is
known of his family.
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HE FOUGHT POLICEMAN.
John Bradley Died, Sunday, from
Wounds, at Pawtucket, r. |.

Pawtucket, r, l., Dec. S.-As a re-
suit of a bullet wound received dur
ing a scuffle with a policeman here,
last Thursday John Bradley. a plumb
er of Boston, died at the Memorial
hospital. tonight. According to the
police. Patrolman John +. Devanney
tried to arrest Bradley on a charge
of breaking and entering a liquor
store. Bradley, the police say. seized
the officers club, and, when Devanney
drew a revolver and warned Bradley
to give up, Bradley renewed the fight
and the shooting followed. The police
officials claim that Bradley, before he
died, called Devanney to him and adj
mitted that the shooting was justi-
Ged
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The clubhouse of the Danvers Golf
Club at Danvers. Mass, was destroyed
by fire. early Sunday. at a loss of s15,-
600 An overheated furnace is believed
to have started the flame.
Tie harbor ferry steamer Beaver
Tail, which grounded near Newport.
r. L. during a fog, Friday night. was
fioated at high tide. Sunday. The yes
sci sustained about $1,000 damage,
which will be repaired in drydock at
Providence.
Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice, khe
British minister to Sweden, who will
succeed James Bryce as ambassador
at Washington, gave farewell re-
ception, Saturday, to the members of
the British colony at Stockholm, who
presented him with bronze statuette.
Rev. Mr.. Swenstead delivered an adj
dress in behalf of the British congre-
cation.
The American Line steamship ST.
Louis. which sailed from New York, Nov.
/, 30. met with serious accident, last
Thursday, during stormy weather. A
piston rod broke and was hurled from
the cylinder to the top of the engine
room. 1t did much damage, but no one
was hurt. Repairs are expected to occu-
Ply two months. AS a consequence of the
accident the ST. Louis was = hours be-
hind time in arriving at Plymouth, Eng.
John Rutger Planten, for 70 years con-
sui general from The Netherlands, died,
Sunday at his home in Brooklyn, n. Y.
Death resulted from heart trouble. Mr..
Plainten was born in Amsterdam, Ho-
land, in 1885. He came to New York with
his family when IL years old and had
made his home ever since in Brooklyn.
With his father he engaged in the man
ufacture of medical supplies and later
became head of the business.
Two brothers, Louis J. Pazoa, aged
40, and Peter p. Pazoa, aged 55, We're
asphyxiated in their tenement on I'm
dcrwood street, Fall River Mass.
Sunday. when gas fixture in their
bedroom became loosened. Peter had
planned to leave, Sunday, for his old
home in the Western islands. Other
members of the family discovered the
accident on tracing the strong small of
gas to the room occupied by the broth
ers. Both were married and leave
small families.
Resolutions favoring an S-hour day for
all engineers and the placing of engineers
employed by the state under the civil SER
vices rules, were passed, Sunday, at the
semi-annual convention of the Massachu-
sets State Branch of the International
Union of Stationary Engineers at Haver-
hill, Mass. The following officers were
elected: President, Thomas B. Constant,
Boston; vice president Fred ID. Wheel
er, Salem; secretary, Albera w. Hersom,
Wameset; treasurer James l.. Wilmeth.
Somerville. 1t was voted to hold the next
convention June s, at Brockton.
bronze tablet in Home Science hall,
of the Moody school, was dedicated,
Sunday. at East Northfield, Mass, in
memory of Mrs. Julia Billings of New
York, wife of Frederick Billings, a
former president of the Northern Pa
cific Railroad. The tablet was present.
ed by Mrs. Lawrence Billings Lee OF
New York. daughter of Mrs Billings
and was accepted by Mrs. w. r.
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WHAT WILL NEW ENGLAND DO
TO THE U. S. SENATE?
Continued from Page one.l

of the cities will name their chief ex-
ecutives for the coming term on that
day. Lawrence, Lowell and Newton
mayors were elected, last year, for
two years, and in those cities menu
sbers of the city government AM
school board are the only officers to
be voted upon.
Mayor James c. Chambers, who
seeks reelection in Everett is the
only unopposed mayoralty candidate.
In Newburyport, five names will APP
pear on the ballot; Beverly has four
candidates; and Chicopee, Melrose,
Somerville and Woburn have three
each. The other cities, Chelsea, Lynn.
Maiden. Medford and Worcester each
have two candidates for mayor.
In several of the cities, women are
planning to go TO the polls in large
numbers to vote for school commit
tee members. Lowell has a registra
ton of 5000 women and Somerville
is next with 1900. In Lawrence not
woman's name appears upon the list
Five of the cities. which vote, on
Tuesday, have license and 10 no IL
cense. The license cities are Chel-
sea, Chicopee, Lawrence, Lowell and
Worcester. Temperance workers are
making their usual fight to increase
the number of no-license municipali-
ties and to retain those that they now
hold. No-license rallies were held
in many cities tonight. and in Lynn
10000 school children took part in a
temperance parade. yesterday. The
question of allowing permanent fire.
men one day off in five will be voted
on in all of the Is cities.
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Roosevelt Carries
Cal. by ia Votes,

Sacramento, Calf, Dec. 1s.-Roose-
welt carried California by ia votes,
although he will have but II of the
states 13 electoral votes. The other
two will be cast for Wilson.
These figures are final, but will not
be made official until the returns from
Los Angeles county have been form
ally audited by Sec. of State Jordan.
Jordan announced. yesterday, that he
would certify the result to the Gov
ernor immediately upon the compile
ton of that audit. next week
The Roosevelt plurality is based on
the totals of the two electoral candi-
dates receiving the highest vote. They
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SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

A lobster weighing z pounds propelled
itself into one of George Dyer's traps
at Vinalhaven, this week. Its extreme
length was 3S inches. 1t was sold to
James Rogers of the Boothbay hatchery,
who will have it mounted in Boston 1t
will probably be exhibited at state fairs.
The big lobster is all the talk among
the Penobscot bay islands.
John Borden Of Chicago is having a
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Undue Roughness.
Condemned By
Basketball ASS n

Many of the Roller Rink patrons
on basketball nights will commend
the edict of the Intercollegiate Bas-
ketball Association to the effect that
undue roughness must be eliminat-
ed.'' The local basketball league
has been launched < with pleasing
support and, with the clean, young
men making up the teams. has an OPP
portunity to give followers of the
game some of the best sport in
Northern New England.
But, while true lover of the game
would deplore lady like" spirit en-
1t does seem that much unnecessary
roughness has been ignored and pal
pable fouls passed without rebuke.
Repeatedly, men have obtained a
clear field to the objective basket
only, In the act of shooting, to be
struck from behind by an opponent
with such force as to be hurled vio-
lently to the floor. Then. too, one of
the centers playing has been a per-
sistent offender at holding or con-
tinually interfering with an adversary
not holding, nor even being near. the
ball.
The last meeting of the intercol-
legiate association was held in the
Astor Hotel in New York. when the
rules committee, coaches, officials and
players met to interpret the rules as
they have been ratified for the COM
ing season. The underlying point in
nearly every statement was to im-
press officials with the fact that
number of supposedly slight offences
that have hitherto been disregarded
by referees or umpires. shall incur
penalty in every case.
To aid the officials, matters that
have previously been left to their
discretion, have been specifically en-
bodied in the code. There is no
longer any doubt, for instance, as to
what the term blocking" means
where man interferes with an OPP
ponetit not holding the ball officials
were under the impression that only
the use of hands or arms constituted
an Illegal action in such a case. II
was made clear by DR. Joseph +. Ray
croft, of the University of Chicago.
who presided as head OF the Rules
Committee that any bodily contact
constituted an offense and was liable
to penalty.
1t was furthermore agreed that a
foul is committed when man
charges into a player who is between
him and the goal and is in the act OF
throwing TO the basket. IL a man
has shown sufficient speed and
strategy to get a elca~ field for n
throw he has won the privilege for
an unrestricted shot. and an OPP
ponent attempting to block him from
behind is guilty of foul. No guard,
II WAS argued, can spoil such throw
from behind without undno rough
ness or without bodily interfering
with the man throwing The penalty
for blocking in such a case is now
more severe than any other. for not
only is the offender charged with a
personal foul, but the opposing side
is supposed TO be awarded two free
throws for a basket.
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We're A. ]. Wallace, Republican, 2S3,-
6f0; Thomas Griffin, Democrat, $685.
436; Griffin ran 7S5 votes ahead OF
r. +. Delvalle, the other Democrat
elected, who, in turn. was but three
votes behind Ralph Bull the nth
successful Republican The high man
of the two defeated Republicans ran
81 votes behind Delvalle.
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COLLEGE SPORTS.

George Faulkner Plimpton of Buff
falo is the new Harvard football man
ager.
The swimming team has arranged
its first contest of importance with
Andover at Andover, for Jan. 25. Dur
ing February. Yale will be encoun-
tered at New Haven and Amherst at
Cambridge. Brown will entertain the
Crimson water dogs at Providence,
in March. Ed Jose of Cambridge is
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make his first appearance in New
York ring, Saturday night, when he
meets Tommy Nelson in a 10-round
bout at the Fairmont Athletic Club.
Brother Tommy is reported to be al
most as good as Mike.