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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05
GOLFERS REFUSE TO
GRANT SHORT PUTT


Golfers at the Country and Hermit
tage clubs win be Interested to know
that war has been declared against
the custom of the short putt. by de-
voted band OF the Montclair N. J., golf
club. These professionals call them
selves the ''tightwadss to meet with
Spartan fortitude whatever criticism
or derision that may arise as result
II their stand. y
Their excuse for organizing the
"tiEhtwad" society Is that 1t is not res
golf and they Wish to bring the game
up to its old and proper standard.
For years this habit OF giving short
puts has been generally accepted rs n
proper courtesy In all bur medal play
tournaments. Every golfer wiz con-
cede that 1t is not real golf. Every
putt should DO holed. Yet IL an or
binary round this is rarely lone. The
Montclaff club has started the ball
rolling to get back to real scores and
good portion OF the membership,
without joining the "tightwad por-
.tion- OF tia club, has aa Freed neither ia
accept nor give the short putt during
1912.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05
MANY STYLES IN
M0TOR.TRUCks
RICHMOND COMING INTO FASHION
II SLOWLY ADOPTING
UTILITY VEHICLE.
\ EE ID OF IT HERE
CITY "> SEVEN HILLS IDEAL
'-.'; r.stJ1. ran waTnIs seo @sa.l2.
FEATs or MACkEY
WITH TRUCKS.

Motor trucks are just coming to be
appreciated In Richmond. AT present
there are about fourteen In use in the
entire city. but as the first one made
fts appearance only three years ago
,the. h,assrssa. .ctsf4sar.ss, thai aye obliged
to use vehicles cannot be accused OF
being particularly backward, Besides
the advance in the construction Of
motor trucks themselves, the changes
and improvements have been so nu-
merous that merchants and concerns
using wagons and trucks have been
prone To wait until they can get the
best
There is considerable difference be-
tween the first Gabrowsky truck that
made its appearance in Richmond and
the latest product Of the American
Locomotive Company.
Many Styles of Trucks.
There have been as many special
designs as occasions have demanded.
Richmond has yet TO see the dust
less and garbage trucks used by the
street cleaning department OF Paris
and which are being adopted In this
country. The people here have not
yet been introduced to the great coal
carrying trucks and tractors, but they
have seen the ordinary trucks for
carrying freight OF all descriptions.
the light motor wagons and municipal
utility vehicles, such as fire trucks,
They have seen and approved them.
particularly the humanitarians who
sympathize with every horse and mule
that has to pull load up any one OF
Richmonds seven hills.
AT present there is represented in
Richmond the Packard. Peerless, Ga
broksy, White, Mack and Alec trucks
and the smaller Ford wagons. But
motor trucks have not come into gem
eral use as yet. although campaign
OF education in the advantage of these
utility vehicles 10 beinS conducted, es-
pecially by George II. Mackey. OF the
Alec truck.
,, Record Performance.
Recently Mackey took a 5-ton Alec
truck ana delivered eighteen rons or
brick ten miles away making a round
trip Of twenty miles, in seven hours,
Another time he delivered seven and a
half tong Or brick eight miles away.
y round itstp az sixteen miles. n three
e eeesss - g Z ;l 8
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Especial TO The Richmnnd y IrE4niin-4
BALTIMORE. MD. May 4.--Johns
Hopkins practically walked away with
the point trophy Of the FIRST meet held
under tbs ausnices ar the South AZ
.,ess3laA satg,.s 4,se.sss >$s
citation. the finals Of which were run
on az the Homewood. The Black and
Blue go; q total Of IS IL points. Tho
next was North Carolina with IS
points.
Georgetown finished last with IL
points, and this Was surprising. Elier.
whose work on Friday was remark
allie. failed TO show expected FORM II
the 100 hurdles he was fairly beaten
by F4orrsts. and was then disqualified
for knocking down four hurdles. Nag-
rtStt u6S.d MIN .Y&is 81 I'VE ie9, ahiE iii
the 22o lie didn't deign TO finish.
Hopkins work in me relay race WAS
especially unexpected. The team was
composed Of two veterans and Two
green men, Stiehei and thlcr hu- all
f3ar ran well and oquaied the Hop
ilIns record for mile relay. When
Fulton. the last man To finish, breasted
thp tape, he was $50 yards in the lead
Of the Georgetown man.
florrax WAS the individual point
winner for the games. with a total
Patterson Clips Record.
Patterson. of North Carolina. had
full day, and captured both dis
tarce events In fast time His work
in the mile wasn't equal to that or
Lee. But In the two-mfle ne Clipped
twe, seconds oil the Hopkins record.
Carter Glass again ran Il sprintinS
quarter and made il in. 81 l5 seconds.
This was fifth OF second better
than his time In the trials on Friday.
ard ii lower than the Hopkins mark
The most hotly contested race was
the twe-.uiie, wh'ch had an excellent
field Patterson won II. but he csh,e
down the hnnc stretch neck and neck
with Smith. ~ Agricultural and Me-
ehanical College, and many thought IL
WAS 4 dead heat. Both aprinted hard
80 the finish aud II was more lika the
end of II quarter than grueli.is
twn-mi.a run
Warner, in the dashes, did himsaif
nroud ard captured, lhoth Of the snort
ones in fast tire, The records .t.s-
t4rday have of.c'al standing as the
marks OF the Southern intercollegiate
Association and Will be 80 recorded.
The track at Homewood was In good
condition.
summary Of Games.
IL lee Yard pasf4, s.emi-ffRa4 Wen
~ Elier. G. D.: second, Mason. n. &.
Time, 1896. Second semi-fnal won
ty Scars. n. c.; second. Wagner. J.
III. ~. Time. 10 SIS.
I20-YHrd Hurdl0s-F'inals won BY
derrcx. IA, u.: second Ellsr. a. 4.
a. ~ o&S31xu& 7 NJ 1aSS7th 49, q U 4 &
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BAD ROADS CAMPAIGN
MAY AID MOTORISTS
LOGAN WALLER PAGE
ENDORSES HIGHWAY
United States Department Of
Aurtc uiture

United States Department Of
Agriculture,
Office of Public Roads.
Washington, D. c.
Tire Richrond-W ashington
Highway, is much needed, and
will be of great service TO con-
meet Washington with the South
and il ought to DO built.
Tire method of managing this
particular piece of road construc-
ton is apparently unique, ano
the outcome will be watched
with great interest. have con-
fidenee that good road building,
un6er wise management. can
never fail to bring corresponding
benefits to communities which il
serves.
L. w. PAGE,
Director.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05
Standing of Clubs.
Games Today.
Pittshurs at Chicago.
Cincinnati at st, Louis.


WASHINGTON. May f.--~'rhe Ma
tionals went into second place IN the
pennant race this afternoon by de-
feating Boston to Z. After the first
inning. when each side talliAl three
runs. the game Soc sawed back and
forth, " ashington finally ciinchlne
the argument by cluster IT three
In the seventh
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05
WASHINGTON GOES
IN SECOND PLACE
Defeats Boston Again in
American League Race
for Pennant
CINCINNATI LEADS
NATIONAL TEAMS
The New York Giants Press
O'Day's Men Hard-For-
mer Boston Tail Enders
Now in Third Place
american League scores.

.xTEItFEVaH EltHE tIE %tUFtN-
cleveland, ! Chicago, 3,
st, Louis. 10; Detroit, s.
Philadelphia. 10; Ne. York. 5.
Washington. 8; Boston. z,
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United States League Scores.

Reading. 8. Richmond. 0.
Washington. II: New York, 4.
Chicago, 8: Cleveland. g.
pittsburg. 8: Cincinnati. d.
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Boston. 6; Brooklyn. 4.
Pittsburg. 70; Chicago. IL
New York. 4. Philadelphia, T.
Cincinnati. 8: ST 1.ouis 10 ms
niugs(
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STANDING OF Clubs.
UMW UGAy'
Chicago af Cleveland.
pittsburg at Cincinnati.

Timely hitting by the Heading team
yesterday won the game. ana the
Rebels went down To ignominious de-
feat. which made It harder for the
ten thousand fans to bear.
With the score Ave 10 nothing, It
cannot be said That The game was not
good one After the fatal third In
ming Taylor sottied down and held the
Presidents Pets down 10 three hits
neither of which counted for any
t,s,fag
Richmond fans as a rule are friend
" to visiting teams. and this was
shown especially In the game yester-
daF.
The applause was long and loud
whenever a man executed an sxocp-
tionally clever turn. whether he be-
longed at home or happened 10 be a
stranger In our midst
some Iast Halt
Zig league ball prevailed all
IllgtagA nae, contest. !" This Taas tssas
Reading happened TO have two men
on bases at the time that Eioal hit for
"a homer did not disappoint the crowd
at all They liked tho play. ana
handed libel a handful of applause
WHsn ne fouiioeu TIC coIAetS
Reading came fresh from two VIC
tories In New York, and thew did not
seem at all surrised wen the victory
went their way yesterday.
Newman was shocked 10 some OK
tent to have his victories nipped. but
the fans encouraged him by alapping
him on the hack and giving him the
hand and a hope that the game tomor-
row might go Ais way.
The Incidents OF tho game may be
summarized here;
Incidents Of tho Game.
Prout singled in the hrst inning.
hut he got no farther than third. al
though Hoffman helped him along by
sa crifice. In the second. after Bo-
harmon singled, u pretty double was
executed by the Reading inheid. and
both 30 and Blue died.
Newnham famed in the third. while
TAYLOR banged for two bases.
Some noise. prout hit for far cen.
ter. but Sheckard was there. and thor
| Hoffman persisted Mt first.
1t was three strike outs in the
fourth.
Three men went out at first In the
fifth.
After the death Of Taylor at first
base In the sixth. Prout safed at first
on the mutt OF his fly by Beal. Excite
ment increased. Hoffman safsd Al
first on Brouthers' tumble. and two
men were on. O'Hare tried hard, but
oil he could do was to die at first base.
Then Seybold was allowed to walk.
Filled the Rases. I'm
Tho bases We're FULL The, crowd
yelled. Mcfarland. who had not
even fouled the ball, went TO hat. but.
like Casey. he famed.
| 1t looked like this last chance and
L IL proved %.
Bahamas smashed the bai1 ~ ~
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05
TIMELY HOMER WINS
GAME FOR READING
JOHN HOPKINS
WINS THE MEET

Points scored by the various
teams In the South Atlantic In
tercoitegtate Athletic Association
meet werei
John HOPKINS IS -.
North Carolina ~.
4. and VI. -.
v. y. I. - Ia.
". and l.. Is.
Georgetown II.
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EiUSfUU 81. 20 U y y q V -
summary: Earned runs--Washing-
ton. &: Hosron. ?. First base on arrors
Boston. / Left on bases Wash
ington. 9 Boston. 10, First base Oh
balis--On Cashion. g.: on Akers. 8 !:
of Hediens. 4; on Cicotte, 3. Innings
tsifched- i3x fsABhtOn, Z Is: nv Akers.
Z $3.50 80 .sy Gasest s !:
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05

Games To-day
ST. Louis at Detroit,
Cleveland at Chicago.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05

The applause was long and loud
whenever man executed an sxocp-
tionaliy clever turn. whether he be-
longed at home or happened 10 be a
stranger In our midst.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05

Richmond fans as a rule are friend
w to visiting teams. and this was
shown especially In the game yester-
5aS
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05
summary Of Games.
-InA-Y.aetl--iaae;a.--s.4tfli- irintl =,

II CO. ard f4ttt-ff5 S~t fnf-FfhAf --r Won
~ Flier. G. H.: second Mason. y. e..
Time, 1896. Second semi-fnal won
tx Scars. ". c.; second, Wagner. J..
H. ~, Time. 10 3-6.
I20-YHrd Hurdles--Finais won BY
IIerrcx, a. H. ~: second. Eller. a. Iy.,
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Continued on Second page,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05

Especial TO The Richmond Alrgtnl4n,4
BALTIMORE. MD, May 4,--Johns
Hopkins practically walked away with
the point trophy Of the first meet held
under tbs ausn!ces or the South Al
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-17

that Taft can not be elected even If
nominated. and that he is likely to be
defeated for nomination anyway the
delegation must go somewhere and to
some one. 1t will not so to Roosevelt.
Neither can 1t go to LaFollette. 1t has
no candidate of its own unless 1t might
be Hughes and from all reports and
circumstances Hughes is not available
thru his own unwillingness and the
personal hostility Of the delegates.
Big business does not fear Cummins
tho it prefers a candidate OF its own
biddably subservlent TO its dictates. 1t
knows that il will get a square deal
from Cummins We're he to be nomi-
mated and elected and that while he
laws and put the common welfare
above all other considerations that the
just rights of corporations would be
defended by him with equal sincerity.
Woe to the conquered has never been
Cunmins motto in or out OF politics.
There is nothing astonishing in the
assertion that failing with Taft the
New York Representatives of large
business interests should turn &c Cum
Minis over any other candidate now be-
fore the consideration Of national dele
gates.
The general disgust of the state over
the action of certain Iowa delegates
to the last national convention who
used the prestige given them by their
positions as Iowa delegates TO sidetrack
Dolliver from the vice presidency as a
punishment for his independence of
their orders has NOT been forgotten. II
probably lost Iowa the vice presidency
in order tina, Young and Perkins, ct al.
might feel the personal satisfaction
offered by the chance given them 10
lay the vengeful lash OF their brief au
thoriry and prestige upon the back Of
Jonathan P. Deliver who had failed in
subserviency 10 their orders The same
spirit If given opportunity may lose
Iowa the presidency.
Nobody doubts the presence Of Iowa
opportunity. Il is Iowa's chance. II
il De out-a chance why should Iowa not
accept il: Is there any good reason 10
offer why Iowa should not 60 into the
convention solid behind great Iowan?
Is there any reason except the hatred
Of the Danites who have unayailingly
trailed Cunlmins during the past ter
years?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-17
Topics of the Times

Has any one called the attention Of
the Taft managers TO the onimous fact
that 1912 added make 10:
Speaking Of figures, add Illinois and
Pennsylvania and substract a leading
candidate
Moreover the Mexicans have got TO
quit kicking Americans around. Next
can memory needs jogging.
Wilson isn't the only one. If Presi-
dent Taft were to get out a search
warrant for Roosevelt headquarters he
might find a few OF his suit cases on
the premises.
Having dragged roads assiduously all
winter by the stove what is being done
in that line out of doors right now:
II makes a difference whose dog it
is. There is a new note in the yelp-
ing in Illinois and Pennsylvania which
indicates the can has changed dogs.
It's no more use 10 call Roosevelt "a
menace" than TO apply the term TO an
automobile. People want them both
and insist on having them.
There's more difference than the
spelling between Clarke and Clark in
Iowa.
The most significant feature Of the
coal strike in Great Britain has been
the refusal of The men 10 follow the
advice Of their leaders.
Des Moines people have taken 10
stealing garden tools They probably
need them to work those vacant lots
With.
Will Taft bolt if he can not control
the convention? The question is quite
as pertinent and impairment in his
case as in RooseveIt's.
When the fishing and baseball and
golf seasons open for good politics will
take a slump.
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ONE LESSON OF A TRAGEDY.

There is a lesson to families and men
and women in the separation of hus-
bands and wives and children which
took place on the decks Of the Titanic.
While the tragedy was played out to
The end in the middle of the ocean,
husbands rallied and wives nasged and
children forgot their duty safe
on land from Immediate death
anu away from imminent Gan
ger. But with the shadow above
the ship and the heaving waters
under II the voices Of contention were
stilled and the note was OF parting and
sorrow, not of anger.
And yet the inevitable separation
goes on day by day. quietly, sorrow
fully, but not the less surely. The
plank on which life rides is a narrow
one and the depths lie JUST below il.
There is a lesson in the Titanic trag-
edy Separation is always near a,
hand There will come time soon
10 all when the ties which bind lives
together shall be torn asunder as the
waves swept apart those who waited
on the slippery decks and those who
sailed away to longer lease and q
later day.
And in the shadow Of it ali men and
women and children war bitterly over
petty things. Cod help them
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-17
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

II was a great convention which
gathered al Chicago in 1880 The
greatest military hero Of his time had
after successfully conducting the great
est war Of his generation been elected
to the presidency, served his terms and
had but Just returned from globe
girdling tour which had been a tri-
umphaI progress around the world for
himself and his nation. He was q
candidate for presidential renorn ina
ton. Opposed 20 him was Americas
acknowledgedly greatest statesman Of
the years succeeding the civil war
Gathered about these two great lea ders
were men whose names are conjure
words Of national and party history
Roscoe Conkltng silver tongued, keen
as steel blade and absolute in po-
litical ascendency in the greatest state
OF the union, led the Old Guard OF
Grant. Blaine, magnetic. postmaster OF
politics. generated his own enthusi-
astic followers John Sherman came
10 the COW With S4AV FchNo VI
Ohio. It was magnificent convention.
not only in the greatness Of its candida
cies but in the personnel Of the dele
gates and their leadership.
Neither Blaine nor Grant alta ined
his desire. Sherman was never actual
~ contestant The forces Of the two
leading candidates deadlocked The
irresistible force of the Blaine enthusi-
asm met the immovaole body Of the
Grant phalanx Like the Household and
the Old Guard the famous hollow square
If Grant delegates were ready TO die
but not to surrender With Conklin at
their head they stood fast. obdu-ate.
unchanging while ballot upon ballot
was taken.
Garfield had come 10 the convention
with the Ohio delegation. Ohio sprung
his name Il was as a match dropped
in DRY prairie The convention was
ready to blaze II turned TO Ohio and
her candidate. less known perhaps than
Cummins IS now and made him its
nominee. And the country approved
it's action. Garfield defeated decisively
General Winfield Scott Hancock who
TO a splendid war record Of service and
suffering. united the surname Of the
great signer Of the declaration and the
christian name of the hero Of the
Mexican war.
Iowa is no more the frontier Of presi-
dental possibility now than Ohio was
then. Cummins is as we'll and favor
ably known as Garfield. He is quite as
representative of common Am ericanism
as Garfield, the boy who rose from
canal boat to high service. He is even
more representative of the issues which
are being forced by the common atty.
His chance in the onventton-wh ich
is Iowa's opportunities greater than
Gardelds Everything points TO a re-
newal of the main conditions of the
convention which nominated Garfield in
the convention OF 1912. Iowae chance
there is greater than Ohio's in 1880.
Ohio took the chance.
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Will NEW YORK 60 TO cuwwIks?

Allen Dawson, some years ago a
leading editor in Iowa and who went
to the New York Globe as its editor
when Iowans purchased that news
paper, says the New York delegation is
looking toward Cummins. His COM
munication addressed to one of his old
time Des Moines friends asserts that:
The New York situation is such as
to create ground for the belief that
Cummins in the break UP would re-
ceive strong support in the New York
delegation. Men prominent on the del
eeation say Taft can neither be re-
nouinated nor elected, and are strong
y opposed, on personal ground, to both
Roosevelt and Hughes, and are looking
for Z third candidate, and Cummins
has . good chance as any one II
s.-.sss SSH.:.S1. him
IT. DeWson Is in a position to know
: sresf deal Of what the New York
deleeafson f. thinking. II New York
has accepted the general conclusion
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Photos by American Press Association

very near TO either Penrose or Lori
nler. or that Penrose and Lorimer
would choose the president If they
We're in position to choose.
1t is all because of a hopeless want
of political sagaci,y on the part Of
the president, which has kept him
be put in old bottles.
The president made a fundamen-
tai mistake when he turned tariff re-
vision over 10 the Penroses. He has
never righted himself about in the four
years that have followed. He has bit
terly affronted the old guard again and
again by his subsequent radical moves:
they would relegate him TO the dump
with more pleasure than any president
since Eayes. But he has never cut
himself loose in a way to impress the
public, and the old guard have chung
to him because there kvas nothing else
to cling 10.
1t is an unexp!ainable situation, for
the president had mad unusual expe-
rience before he took his office. His
four years in the cabinet should have
been enough to protect hin: against the
ordinary mistakes of politics. The tar
If was his own issue. Mr.. Roosevelt
had always side-steppfd it. 1t was his
own suggestion that congress meet in
extra session. If he had then and
there done. what he had proposed to
the country his troubles would have
been over or rather, would never have
begun.
He started wrong and he has never
been able to right himself. The pop
ular verdict against him in the con-
gressional elections is still the popular
verdict He has none OF that talent
that enables nimbler men to retrieve a
blunder. He is too slow of motion to
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make wrong start and hope to get
back. He trusted to the Penroses. when
he owed them nothing. and In MISTER
where ordinary prudence should have
suggested caution. Now the condemns
ton of the Penroses hits him over their
shoulders.
There is every reason to believe that
what has happened in the STAGES where
popular primaries have been held will
be repeated in Ohio. and very probably
in Massachusetts. while In Nebraska,
South Dakota and California the YER
dict will be overwhelmingly against
the administration.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-17
N FAD COMPANY.

lDes Moines Register and Leader.]
1t will be said that the snashin 6
defeat of the administration in Penn
sylvania is due 20 hostility TO Sena-
tor Penrose and the old machine as in
illinois it was credited to the unpop-
ularity of Senator Loriner.
But it all comes TO the same thing,
the president is associated in fact or
in the public mind with the wrong
crowd.
How does it happen that a defeat
for Penrose is defeat for the presi-
dent? Or defeat for Lorimer a de-
feat for the president? Nobody be-
lieves that the president has stood
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2%m-1-~
Iona Newspapers
cREosoTE BLOCK PAVEMENT.

[Des Moines Register and Ieader.]
THE only kind of pavement that
object to is the creosote wood blocks,
said Chief Will Burnett Of the fire de-
partment. The wood pavement is gen.
eraly slippery and is bad for the fire
horses to run over. The pavement on
the Locust street bridge came near
finishing me a short time ago. I was
crossing in the auto and bulge in
the pavement turned the machine
around and headed it for the dam. II it
had not struck a support we would
have gone over into the river, for the
hand rail never would have held US. 1t
is the buckling and buIging that con-
stantly occurs that I object to. They
are always repairing this kind Of
pavement"