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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-22
HOT SHOT FROM CHANCE.
Hurls Wordy Bomb at Murphy
Owner of the Cubs.

CHICAGO. October OF dare Presi-
dent Murphy TO release me. He lacks the
nerve to do il. He started something he
can't finish. i am getting tired of this
cheap talk, and dare him to go through
with what he has started"
This was the bomb hurled at the owner
of the Cubs last night BY Frank Chance,
manager OF the Chicago team. Tainted
to desperation by the insulting innuen-
does of Murphy. the peerless leader is
anxious to settle the wordy controversy
once and for all. He added:
Il will give Murphy $1,000 for every
good player he Shas ever secured. with
the exception of three men, since he has
been at the head of the club. l am the
put the club where 1t Is. I have almos,
begged him on my knees to go out and
get me certain players to help me- but
the answer has always been my team
was the best there was and that 1 did not
need any more payers.
What Murphy wants is a manager he
can run in his own sweet way | have
refused to let him run the team since
have been there. and that is one reason
he doesn't want me. In 1870 when We
We're fighting for the pennant and i
looked as IL my pitching stan was coins
TO give out, Murphy ordered ME to plan
three double-headers in one week, and
absolutely told him / would not He wOul,
have put the team out of the race al
that time by Gripping the pitching stan
just for the sake of getting a little largel
returns from games with the Pnillie
and the Pirates.
I'VE could have won the pennant las
season IL he had given me a little help II
getting men. / am going to stay here fo1
a few days to answer anything he want.
TO say
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LARRY'S GOT HIS NUMBER.
His Automobile License Corresponds
With His Batting Average.

Napoleon Lajoie. the second baseman
of the Cleveland base bail team. is an en-
thusiastic autost. The bali player re-
Gently made a trip in his machine from
his home in Cleveland to New York and
back He does all his driving in the ma
chine he got two years ago for being one
of the best batters i'm the American
League. Ty Cobb topped him by n frac-
ton Of point.
When Larry got his car he applied for
license number. He was not satisfied
with any number the secretary Of state
chose to send him. but he wanted a num-
Der to correspond with his batting aver
age at the finish OF the season. 1t was
discovered that the number Larry WAS
seeking was held by another autoist in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-22
JOHNSON LOSES OUT
Chance to Fight for $50, 900 in
Australia Gone.
THREATENS AN ATTORNEY
Throw Him Out of My Place or I
Will Kill Him. Says Pugilist.
Accused by Police.
THREATENS AN ATTORNEY

SYDNEY, Australia, October 22.-Jack
Johnson will not fight in Australia. Hugh
Mcintosh. who had offered Johnson 500 600
for fights with Sam Langford and Sam
McVey or Joe Jeanette, cabled yester-
day to w. W. Kelly, his representative in
Chicago, to cancel all negotiations.
Mcintosh explained that Johnsons part
in an alleged abduction had SO angered
the sporting men and public of Australia
that the matches were no longer desira-
BILE.
CHICAGO, October 22--When Charles
Z. Erbstein an attorney representing the
mother of Lucille Cameron, visited Jack
JohnsOn's saloon yesterday in company
with United States deputy marshals to
serve SubpoenaS on witnesses who are
to appear before the federal grand jury
today, the negro pugiist became excited
and threatened the lawyer with personal
injury.
Throw that lawyer out Of the place or
/ Will kill him. shouted Johnson to one
of his bodyguards. Federal officers pro-
tected the attorney and served the pugi-
lists aged mother and nine employees of
the saloon with Subpoenas before leaving
the place.
Several important witnesses against
Johnson have disappeared. but federal Of
ficers continued their search. The federal
grand jury investigation into Johnson
alleged violation of the Mann white slave
act is scheduled to begin today. when
Leslie Cameron, her mother and twenty
five other witnesses are expected to
testify.
The police have reported to Mayor Har-
rison that Johnson has violated the 1
o'clock closing ordinance dozen times
in the last month and have recommended
the revocation of his license. Mayor Har-
rison has taken the report Of the police
under consideration.
Federal officers entered yesterday after
noon the home of Jack Curley a fight
promoter and manager. where Miss Cam
eron stayed after her mother began
search for her. They took maid, who
gave her name as Miss Thomas, to the
federal building, where she was question
ed by Martin Line. acting superintendent
of the Department of Justice. She is said
to have furnished the government with
important information of events during
the time Miss Cameron lived in the Cur
lev home.
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Tech Appear to Have Best Chances in Scholastic Series

possible. and it is just barely possible
hat the veteran Danny Murphy may
come back. though the chances are very
much against that happening, for play
er of his years. once he meets with a
serious injury, seldom comes back
Charles Webb Murphy of Chicago has
without doubt shown himself at various
times man of business acumen, and
yet no man in base ball contrives need
lessly to get himself so criticised. He
has faculty for doing the wrong thing
at the wrong time. When he first became
owner of the Cubs no club had more
loyal supporters than his at the end or
his first year.
Somehow or other he has contrived to
make himself unpopular in his own city
The result is that It is necessary for him
to have a winning team in order to draw
big crowds. The White SoX park. on
the other hand, will draw thousands
whether the team is winning or losing
This is due to the personals lily of Charles
Comiskey, fOndly known as the old Ro-
man. 1t was Murphy who by a piece OF
sapstick humor almost brought on big
league war. 1t was Murphy who prob
ably cost his team the second place by
statement issued at the wrong time.
Now it is Murphy who by his own vo-
lition separates himself from his greatest
drawing card in the person of Frank
Chance and deprives his team of one OF
the greatest leaders that the game has
ever known
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-22
BY j. ED GRILLO.

Jack Johnson has about succeeded in
eliminating himself from the pugilistiC
world and that without suffering any set
backs in the prize ring. The notoriety
which he has gained by his escapades
ever since he became the champion of the
world has been Of such a nature that
even the pugilistic game cannot afford to
have him identified with it. and the
chances are that Johnson, even if he re-
tains his liberty. will find it difficult
matter to locate a place where he can
pull off fight.
The game will be better off without
Johnson. AS a fighter he may never
have had an equal, but his conduct out of
the ring is such that anything that he
might be identified with would suffer
thereby. Had Johnson attended strictly
to his ring affairs he could have named
his own figures for appearing, but now
the situation Is such that he seems to
be virtually barred everywhere. and il
will only be a question of time when he
will find himself without funds and with
no means so far as pugilism is concerned
to replenish his Golfers.
Public opinion cannot be catered to
by the man in charge Of a ball team. SO
cerned Patrons of the game frequently
! make favorite of player who is not
deserving. and it is up to the manager
to take a stand for the best interests
of his team. regardless of what public
opinion may be.
| 1t will be recalled what a howl wen,
! up when Griffith's first action as the
manager of the Nationals last winter
was to trade '"Gabby" Street to New
York for Jack knight and Alva Will
liams He was condemned from most
every quarter for making this deal be
cause it was the general impression
that Street was one of the best catch
ers In the circuit. There is no doubt
that for several years Street led the
league catchers. but Griffith knew thai
he was about at the end OF his string
| and subsequent events have proved hin
1 to have been correct
! No catcher ever gave better services
| to his club than did Street to Wash
ington. Though on a tailender during
his entire career here. Street was ar
luntiring worker and a brilliant catch
] er. In fact, there Is no doubt that his
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6ERTINENI COMMIT
XssHappenin$$S1 Sportdom

major league career was shortened by
overwork. He was the only catcher
the Nationals could boast of for several
seasons and virtually did all the work
a strain under which he was sure to
give way sooner or later.
Griffith made no mistake in Kidding the
team of Street, who had passed his days
of usefulness so far as the majors are
concerned. Street took backward strides
rapidly, and he may have a lot Of trouble
holding his own in the minors.
1t has been suggested that one way to
get a better class of base ball during the
worlds series Is to split the players
share OF the receipts equally among the
men of the two contrasting teams, it
being held that because of the fact that
the winners get more than the losers both
teams become nervous and do not play
up to their standard.
The object of dividing the players end
60 per cent to the winners and 40 per
cent to the losers is to produce real ri
valy in the contests. Incidentally the
honesty of the game is safeguarded by
the rule which gives the players share
of the receipts only in the first four
games. But even if the revenues from
the wOr series were divided evenly the
games might not be improved, for their
Importance from an artistic standpoint Is
SO eat that most players would show
the effects of a strain.
1t is for the purpose of preventing any
suspicion of coliusion that the commas
sion Will not allow the players to share
in more than the first four games re-
CARELESS of whether there is a tie score
among them or not. If this were done
thee would be rumors of fraud every
time tie game was played in which the
players shared.
Notwithstanding the fact that Boston
easily beat the Athletics in the Ameri-
can League this year. ii would nc: be at
all surprising if Mack's team were again
installed favorite in the next race. Had
Mack's players paid strict attention to
their business right from the outset in
stead of laborng under the impression
! that they could take the lead whenever
they saw fit. there is no doubt of where
they would have finished. Mack still has
a wonderful team. If he can plug up the
holes on his pitching staff he will have
a stronger team next season than ever
before for the rearson that he is in a
fair way to build up an outfield which
| outclasses anything he has ever before
presented. Walsh. Murphy and Mag
CERT. not to speak of Oldryng and Strunk,
make the selection OF a formidable trio
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-22

Columbia and lost the same number, SO
a Columbia victory will do no more thar
tie things up for first place. On the
other hand, should this club be defeated.
the Virginia club will be in undisputed
possession of first place, and will draw
down the handsome trophy offered by the
association.
Many of'the followers Of the game are
predicting a Chevy Chase victory, as
Eddie Eynon is the only member of
Columbia's team who is now playing his
best game DR.. Lee Harlan is putting up
a good game. but not his best. while both
John Davidson and a. S. Mattingly are
way off form. In any event a good
match should result. and a large gallery
is looked for. The first pair will tee off
at o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-22
INTERESTING GOLF
ON CARDS TOMORROW
Chevy Chase and Columbia
Clubs to Clash in "H0me-
and-H0me' Series.

From local standpoint, the most i'm
pOrtant match of the "home-and-home''
schedule for clubs in the Middle Atlantic
Golf Association will be played over the
Chevy Chase course tomorrow afternoon,
when Chevy Chase and Columbia will
meet to play off the postponed match of
October II. Because of the Columbia
Clubs tournament, which was being de-
cided on that date and of the Bannock-
burn tournament of last week, tomorrow
is the first open date convenient to both
clubs
Columbia ; future depends upon the re-
suit of this match, and needless to say
it will enter its strongest team with the
hope of downing its local rival The
Country Club of Virginia, which is leading
the race, has won one more game than
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-22
Lefty George Undergoes Operation.

YORK. Pa. October 22--Lefty George.
former star twirler of the York Tri-State
team, bat now with the Toledo team of
the American Association. underwent an
operation for appendicitis last evening at
tic York Hospital The operation was
performed by DIR. T.. w. Meisenheider. jr..
assisted by DIR. Roman Wise. Friday
Lefty slipped and fell down flight of
stairs az his home. He had a physician
examine him at the time OF the accident,
fearing he hal strained his side. Ii was
then discoyHed that he was suffering
from a sliSili attack OF appendicitis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-22
Bedient Back on the Farm.

BINGHAMTON. " Y. October -
Hugh Bedient. star Red SoX twirler. has
decided to spend the winter on the farm.
The one he has picked out is al Waverlvs
" Y. owned by relatives. He viii go
there with his wife next week Bedent.
in the worlds series. beat the Giants one
game. and started the finale that Was
finished by Joe Wood.
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Jennings to Grace the Stage

DETROIT, October 22.-Hughey Jen-
nings. manager of the Tigers, has signed
a ten-week vaudeville contract that will
net him $500 week. His partner is a
prominent biVckface comedian and the
pair will '-tryit on the dog" at Paterson
y L.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-22

Cleveland. The ball player wrote to the
man holding the number, who cheeJfuly
transferred il to him.
Larry'e batting average in the Amer-
can League at the finish of this season
was .3S4. That is the license number
that will adorn the tail of his machine in
1919.
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BOWLING BATTLES.
DEPARTMENTAL DUCKPIN.

Totals. 4S2 451 4G3 Totals. 457 435 49i
Blake rolled second game for O'Connell and
third game for Keith.
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The University of Pittsburgh must be
weaker this year than last. Last year
Carlisle, with practically the same elev-
Ell, was able to beat the Smoky city e'ev-
en- by score of II to q. while this season
il won by Al to s. 1t must not be thought
that Pittsburgh is weak though, because
it is seldom that that eleven is not
strong. The score only tends to indicate
the wonderful offensive power of the
Indian machine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-22

Totals. .544 52l Geo
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The different school coaches are not
much in favor of the idea and before
the game to be played today there is apt
to be much discussion regarding the mat
ter
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-07-13
SWEEP YOUR OWN STEPS

The Chinese have a proverb which
says: when you would clean the city
first sweep your own doorsteps"
This is particularly applicable to
our much esteemed contemporary, the
Tampa Times, in regard to its COM
ments on the Stuckey- Schreck bout
Some weeks ago, quite a brutal scrap
was pulled off in Tampa. 1t was at
tended by large crowd, among which
were two city officials. The Times did
not denounce the fight. 1t did not even
mention it,
On July 4, there was a boxing bout
In Ocala. 1t was open, fair and
straight. The Ocala papers advertis-
ed that 1t was going to happen. their
representatives attended and they gave
q report OF 1t afterwards If they had
considered it such an outrage on puh-
lie decency as the Times considers II
they would have denounced it before
hand in such way as to stop it.
Several days after the bout the
Times. which is afraid to report prize
fights in its own city. at least those al
which officials are present. comes out
with an attack on Ocala for allowing
an event which the Times processes to
consider a crime
The Star did not, as the Times says
defend the Ocala bout 1t does not
consider that 1T needed any defense
Ii was a cleaner affair than shows the
Times advertises at every theatrical
season, and We don't suppose any man
VINO was present feels called on to
apologize.
IL Is very true, as the Times says
that We are constantly reporting af-
fairs that we do not approve of I'm,
We do not advertise them in advance
nor call for special reports of them
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-07-13

The Times announced that the
Schreck-Stuckey bout was going to
occur, and it ordered and published an
account of it, II II had denounced ii
beforehand IT would have been con-
sistent.
The Times says: There was a fight.
or, to give 1t the up-tO-date euphemist-
ic term, a 'pugilstic exhibition at a
place. not in about four or five blocks
Of the Times office but about mile
and a half away, about the time stated
by the star But at this point all re-
semblance TO the Ocala affair ceases.
Warrants were promptly sworn out for
the arrest Of the four men principally
concerned in the crime, three were at
once arrested and placed under suita-
BILE bond TO answer the charge and
search is being made for the fourth,
who fed TO avoid arrest. That is how
we proceed to clean up some Of the
failings of our own city 1t might
produce a beneficial change If our
Ocala contemporary would take some
of his own medicine"
How much did the Times have to do
with the cleaning up?" Did it de-
nounce the affair. before or after it
occurred? Did it report it to the Of
| fcers? Did it swear out any of the
warrants:
Tampa is not, in our opinion, spe-
cially wicked city. But there is
enough sweeping of dOorsteps in its
bounds to keep the Times busy for
quite a while.
| Some months ago, the writer visited
Tampa, and while there saw beer and
whisky sold on Sunday in certain big
building owned by the city. He didn't
think it was any Of his business to re-
port it to the authorities, or write q
ldenunciatory article about it after he
returned home. But he had just as
much right, it was as much his duty
to do so. as it is for the editorial writer
of the Times to denounce a boxing
bout in Ocala. while never scratching
a pen about a brutal prize fight pulled
off in Tampa.
The Times ends by saying: accept
ing as true the showing made by thei1
local journalistic champion, that tht
citizens of Ocala knew perfectly wei
that the act which they proposed t
perform constituted a violation of {
state law, but nevertheless persiste,
in carrying it out, with malice afore
thought, with a premeditated design
etc, we conclude that they are lik,
, Ephraim, Joined to his idols, and W.
think that on this score we will lie
them alone"
This is a wise decision, and If yol
, had made 1t sooner, 1t would have pre-
vented your being under the suspicion
of being inconsistent, if not hypocrit
al You have enough idols in a dozel
squares of your office to keep you
divorce courts busy for quite a while.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-07-13
A CONFUSION OF NAMES
Micanopy, July IL, 10

Micanopy, July II, 1912.
Editor Star: 1 will tell you to begin
with that / am not writing out of any
spirit of anger. But a copy of your
paper of July 9th, 1912, in which you
have a piece about "Dr. Lucius Mont
gomery Of Micanopy," has been shown
me.
l am DR.. Lucius Montgomery and the
only man by that name in Micanopy
or in the state. l practice medicine all
over the state and out of the state,
and your article is calculated to do me
immense harm among people who rave
no way Of knowing your mista!e. /
go everywhere needed in my autN mo
bile, but l have never taken a drink in
Keatings or in any other saloon on
this earth. My son, DR.. Fl. l.. Mont
| gomery, contracted the unfortunate
habit of drinking while at Yale Uni
versity. Notwithstanding a his grad
uation there in a class of GA he stood
third and the distinction is written in
his diploma. He has been graduated
from three of the best colleges in the
United States; possibly the most thor
oroughly educated man in the South.
Still whisky is seeming to be his ruin.
| If you have need to mention his
such correction as will not let injury
attach to me. Very truly,
L. Montgomery.
The Star regrets the mistake. 1t
was perfectly natural to make it. All
| the young mans friends the reporter
met spoke of him as "Lucius." and his
| formal name was not in evidence until
| the receipt of the above letter.
| No man who reads the above can
help a pang of regret and feeling OF
sympathy for DR.. Montgomery, who
with hope and pride, and at the eX-
pense of thousands of dollars educat-
ed his son for a brilliant and useful
career, and sees his plans wrecked
most probably to crafty the reckless
gaits of a bunch of dissipated young
college men.
| The sentence passed on young Mont
lgomery was not pronounced in a spirit
of spite or vengeance. 1t was to pro-
tect the community, which is weary
of being overridden anr peri1ed in life
and limb by the pets of fortune. A
man crushed under an over-Speedine
auto or torn with a bullet doesn't
feel any better because steering whee1
or trigger was controlled by a mad
man. 1t is the states business to i,ro-
tect its citizens, and they Will not be
protected from insult and outrage by
fines laid on those we'll able to pay
them. Montgomery may deserve more
a pleasant room in an asylum than a
number in bunk in the county's trav-
| cling prison, but a series of similar
sentences for such offenses would ma
terially decrease the number of insane
men in the United States. The Star
thinks Montgomery should serve his
sentence to the last day. but it hopes
it will improve his health of body and
mind and that he will return to the
practice of his profession a sane and
sober man.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-07-13
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TAX
Deed Under Section of Chapter
4SSS, Laws of Florida.

Notice is hereby given that W. Fl.
Proctor. purchaser of tax certificate No.
902. dated the 9Th day of June, A. D.
1904, has filed said certificate in my Of
flee, and has made application for tax
Said certificate embraces the follow
ing described property situated in Ma
rion county, Florida, to-wit: NeA of
se14 eX l acre to school sec II tip II s
range % G. The said land being assess
ed at the date of the issuance of such
certificate in the name of Thos. Hall.
Unless said certificate shall be redeem
ed according to law, tax deed will is
sue thereon on the 18th day Of July,
y. d. 1912.
Witness my official signature and
seal this the 10th day of June, 4. d.
1912. s. T. Sistrunk,
Clerk Circuit Court Marion Co. Fla.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-07-13

William Jennings Bryan, as is now
generally known, was the "chiet
cook of the convention. He denounc-
ed Belmont and Ryan and Murphy for
their supposed unrighteous design OF
controlling the convention, and then he
himself proceeded to boss" it. He is
the only man who injected any bitter
ness into the proceedings; and while
being chief fomenter of discord. he
was paid $1,000 a day for reporting his
own doings and views to a local news
paper. Most anybody would be a
bowling democrat for $1,000 a day
Punta Gorda Herald.
Very true, Brother Jordan, but you
and us shouldn't have an attack OF
sour grapes because we can't get it,