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The Washington times., 1912-09-15
big MONEY BACK
Of PLAN UNITING
CAPITAL UTILITIES
Clarence P. King to Be Head
Of Company Planned to
Control Lines.
Continued from First Page.)

Washington, Arlington and Falls
Church Railway Company.
This consolidation was effected by
Mr.. King and a coterie of strong finan-
cial friends in Philadelphia.
This Is another link In the utility
chain It Is understood that the Mary
land-Virginia Corporation has in III
vaults q large block Of the stock of the
washington- Virginia Railway Company
and that its absorption is part of the
general plan. =
A little more than a year ago Clar-
ence p. King succeeded c. r. Norment
as president Of the Washington Railway
and Electric Company. His mana Fe-
ment has been satisfactory TO the d.
rectors. and he Is generally given ere dit
In financial circles for the general utili-
ties unification plan. He has large
financial backing. and during the year
that he has been in control he has, ac-
cording. to general opinion. done great
Electric Company.
Must Be Clean Deal.
Milton e. Allies, a director and mem
ber of the executive committee of the
Washington Railway and Electric Com
This scheme will not GO through
unless 1t Is clean, clear, and all right
through and through. Mr.. King has
the ultimate say. in the matter IN 70 far
There will be no wild bidding for the
stocks of the other corporations.
THE proposed corporation which will
be, organized when the matter is ripe
will then offer the gas companies and
the Capital Traction Company the nee
essary facilities for getting together.
promising enormous savings through
the handling Of all utilities by one cor
poration.
1--WE will have no trouble at all get
ting the financial backing necessary to
acquire the securities of other corpora
tons on a fair valuation basis.
THE Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Company under President King s
management has made many important
changes, has builded for the future and
not in any makeshift manner. He has
demonstrated that the system has a
bright future, even though 1t is but
a matter of few years since the re-
Mobilization of the property was
undertaken. We have absorbed numer-
GUS smaller companies, with lines in
outlying districts that have been, slow
in coming to the point where they were
profitable.
Offer Universal Transfers.
I'VE are better equipped and in a
much more favorable position to bring
about the unity of the utilities than
any other corporation. But we will go
slow, make no mistakes. and in the end,
IL successful, will cater to the. people
of Washington in all things that they
desire, offering one corporation and one
The Washington times., 1912-09-15
Anniversary
In Balloon History

Aviators ought TO keep today in mind,
for on September IS. 1Tss. the first bal
loon ascension was made In England by
.Lunardi. who was the first TO go up
with hydrogen inflated balloon. Tay-
lor, who went UP in Edinburgh year
previous, and the French predecessors
of Taylor used fire balloons.
Fifty-eight years ago today the first
Kansas newspaper wss published. s1t
was the Leavenworth Times-Herald
and was pro-slavery in sentiment The
by Congressman Anthony and is a
standpat organ.
The Washington times., 1912-09-15

head, with universal transfers, and
working in harmony with the District
ana Congress
We are not planning to night any
thing. or buck either the Commits
sioners, the heads of other corporations,
william B. Hibbs acted as representa-
tive of the Maryland-Virginia Company
In acquiring large blocks of stock OF the
pany and of the Washington Virginia
Company. Nothing as sensational as
the movement in the former has ever
been known on the local exchange.
the common stock Of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company, a
steady, continuous upward movement
that carried the stock from s45 share
fS @ %h sgs M oHf Hsss shs
were mystified at the advance, until
recently the story of the Maryland
Virginia Corporation leaked out, gem
eraffy under pledge of secrecy.
Stock Widely Scattered.
No one interested In eithe. the Capt.
tai Traction Company or the Washing
ton Gas Light Company can deliver the
control of either corporation. Tho
stock Of both these corporations. other
than a few blocks of 1000 or 5000
shares, IL distributed widely in Wash
ington and elsewhere, both being con-
sidered high-grade investments and
sure dividend payers.
Howard s. Reside, vice president of
the Washington Gas Company said.
The Washington Gas Light Company
would not consider any proposition for
an exchange of stock in any corpora
ton. A sale might be made, but It
would BE- with fair treatment and a
cash price that every shane holder in
the company would be satisfied with
consider ed such movement"
II Is understood that President Ham
ilton and the directors of tive Capital
Traction Company take the same posi-
tiop
The Washington times., 1912-09-15
EnliStS Another Year.

Athony Woida. coxswain on the pri-
son ship Southery, at Portsmouth. n.
H., has extended his term of enlistment
for one year. He is the first nan IN
the service to take advantage of the
Few law. Formerly. having completed
the first term of enlistment, the only
way for one to remain in the service
was to re-enlist for a new term OF four
years. Under the new law a fist en-
listment may be extended from one
to four years at the election of the
sailor.
The Washington times., 1912-09-15

$3.50 pair California Wool Blank
cts, pink and blue bor- CS 90
$500 Beacon" Plaid Blankets,
pink, blue, gray, and tan 60 20
enects ...,.................... USscC
Sl.O0 Comforts filled with pure
white cotton and covered with
Colors ......................... COC
The Washington times., 1912-09-15
Wed in Wilmington.

WILMINGTON, Del, Sept 15.-George
H. Butterworth, aged "a, OF 243 Mechanic
street, Camden, N. j., and Miss Mary
Sullivan. aged nineteen, the same ad-
dress, came here last night securing a
marriage license from Magistrate Gluck.
man. They then went to the residence
of the Rev. George L. Wolfe, where
they were married.
The Washington times., 1912-09-15
Col. Herbert Slocum
Ordered to Havana

Col. Herbert slocum, cavalry, has
been ordered to Havana. Cuba, where
he will be stationed as military at
tache at the leagiton there.
Colonel Slocum has served in Cuba
on several previous occasions as an
officer in the quartermaster's depart
ment and also helped organize the
Cuban rural guards. He knows prec-
tically every public official in the
island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
By NAL EAS0N,
Umpire National League.


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POCKET BILLIARDS
FOR NATIONAL TITLE
Frank Sherman in Big PhiIa-
deIphia Tourney That
Starts Tonight.

Aspirants for the national championship
at pocket billiards will compete in tour
nament, to begin tonight and con-
tinue every afternoon and evening there
after for two weeks, at Horticultural
Hall, Philadelphia.
The schedule for the first four games OF
the tournament have been arranged. One
game will be played Monday night and
two each day during the rest of the week.
Inasmuch as twenty-eight games, without
considering possible ties, will have to be
played in twelve days. on three, perhaps
four days, of the final week three games
will be scheduled.
William F. de Laugh of Philadelphia
and James Mature of Denver will play
the opening game. De Laugh is selected
for the Introductory contest because he
is the local representative in the tourna-
ment. Natures defeat Of Alfredo De Orc
at Denver. in January, entities him to be
a first nighter. Tuesday afternoon
Charles Weston of Chicago and w. w.
King Of New York play the second game.
Tuesday night Alfredo de Orc Of New
York and Thomas l. Wilson of Hacken-
sack, N. j.. will occupy the table. Wednes-
day afternoon will bring together Frank
Sherman of Washington and Edward
Ralph of Hightstown. Their game will
Succeeding games will be scheduled with
a view to eliminating losers and reserving
those who establish superior class for the
final contests. The schedule will be ar
ranged arbitrarily by a representative of
the BrunSwick-Balke-C Ollender Company,
who have provided championship tro-
ply. and added 81 COO in cash prizes. Each
player will be expected to be promptly on
time for each game for which he may be
scheduled. Failing to do so. he will for
felt and another game will be arranged.
If any player retireS from the tournament
none Of his games will count for or
against any other player. This seems to be
an equitable provision, because the play
ers who go through the tournament will
have to depend on their relative scores
for positions.
An erroneous impression respecting the
operation Of the scheme of ending play
for each frame when fourteen balls have
been pocketed, and leaving the fifteenth
ball and the cue ball where they come to
a rest on the table, seems to have been
obtained. The general assumption is that
closing of a frame will have to play on
the object ball left on the table when he
resumes operations. This is incorrect. 1t
is not imperative that he shall play on
the fifteenth ball. He can do SO or
play at the pyramid. If he plays for
safety he will have to force one ball
from the bunch to a cushion, or cause the
cue ball after contact with an object ball
to strike cushion or forfeit one point.
That player who pockets the fourteenth
ball will endeavor to leave the fifteenth
ball in a position of value must be as
Sumed. Whether he does or not will be
of personal importance. When the fif-
teenth ball is apart from the frame a
|. dummy ball will be used to set the
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BLISS PLAYS MANY GAMES.
Will Meet All the Scholastic ant
Two College Teams.

The Bliss Electric School has a good
list Of ball games that it will play during
the coming season. Practically every
scholastic nine in the District will be me,
at some time during the season, besides
many Of the amateur clubs. The college
teams that will be played are the Mary
land Agricultural College reserves and
Galiaudet. The schedule is as follows;
March 2a-Episcopai High School. Alexandria
Va.
March 30-GOnzaga College. Washington, D. G
April Cuisines High School, Takoma Park
April 6-TokOma Park team, Takoma Park
April S-National Club. Washington, d. G.
April 13-Walter Reed Hospital Takoma Park
April 1S-Maryland A. G. Reserves, Takoms
Park.
April 26-Army and Navy Prep, Washington
ID. c.
April 27-wal.er Reed Hospital. Takoma Park
May 3-Business High School. Washington D. c
May 4Western High School, Washington
d. c.
May 11-walter Reed Hospital. Takoma Park
May 1S-GeorgetOwn Props, Washington. ID. c
May 25-Hiton Athletic Club, Washington
d. C..
May 29-Maryland A. c. Reserves, Colleg.
Park, Md.
May 31-Gallaudet College. Washington, d. c.
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EIGHT HEADS TO FEEL
HEDGES Ak AT BROWNS CAMP
Two First Basemen and Probably Bill
Bailey Among Those Ex-
pected to Suffer.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, March 25.-A
guillotine invaded the Browns camp Sat
urday. disguised as President r. l.
Hedges. The colonel came here to lop
the heads of several juveniles who al
ready have proved they are unfit for duty
In the big ring. Who the unlucky ones
are is a matter of conjecture, but at
least eight of the present crop will be
relegated to the discard before many
more days.
Wallace has four first-sackers and an
other man who is trying desperately
to fOrsake the first sack for a catcher S
job. Two of these-Danzig and Tenant
surely will hear the rattle of the tin
can, while Mr.. Miller, the young collegian
from Pennsylvania, will be either held
or farmed out for the coming season.
Miller gives great promise
George Stovall is / to 10 shot in the
betting at present, and unless George
breaks an arm or a leg he will guard
the initial cushion this summer Joe
kutina will require months of practice
before he ever will round to as a catch
err, and there is every indication that Joe
already is eager to give up the ghost
and deturn to his favorite trade of first
sacking. AS catcher he has shown lit
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tie, although Wallace keeps him working
with the mitt and mask as much as pos
sible
That Wallace is sorely in need of an
other catcher was emphasized yesterday
when Paul Krichell pulled up with a lame
back and was forced to remain at the
hotel during the afternoon. That left
Wallace with Jimmy Stephens as his only
receiver. and, as a last resort, Manager
Bob called on Lou Criger. the ancient.
who went on the job and did better than
most youngsters could do. kutina is so
far from being a catcher that Wallace
seldom calls on him in an actual game.
Joe's chief duty now is to warm UP the
pitchers, which he does with Indifferent
success.
Kricheirs hurt is not serious but on
the advice of DR.. Lawler Paul did not
don his suit yesterday afternoon. Law
Ter says Krichell will probably be ready
to work again soon.
Wallace's decision to play Eddie Halli-
nan at short in the coming series with
the Cardinals probably means that the
Scots career as an active player is near
ing an end. Wallace has not stepped
down for good-nay, perish the thought
but he has stepped down for the present
Roderick is reaching that age where he
finds it a tedious task to get in shape
early in the spring, and he is happy in
the thought that in Mailman he has an
able lieutenant.
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BY J. ED GRILLO.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHARLOTTESVILLE Va. March %
When the Nationals leave for home
Tuesday there will be at least one set
which will be pleased. the walters In the
Saunders dining room, who have grown
stoop-s houldered in the discharge of their
duty
IL good appetites are an indication of
good condition then Griffith's men will
have nothing to fear at the opening of
the season. Under the training system
in vogue here the diet has been liberal
but the appetites even greater. 1t was
a fortunate forethought that Griffith had
maAy of the supplies shipped from WASH
ington. or there would probably have been
a famine in Charlottesville. Up to the
time that the team came here the Saun-
ders dining room was frequented only
by dainty-eating students of the univer-
sity. But college boys and professional
ball players differ in more ways than
one. which the cook and the walters have
learned in most forcible manner.
Whatever else may be said to the detri-
ment of the Nationals, assurance can be
given that the team which will be de-
livered In Washington Tuesday night is
by far the best fed that has ever repre-
scented the nations capital.
1t rained nearly all day Sunday, and
some of the players hoped that if Mon
day should be a disagreeable day
Griffith would pull up stakes and start
for Washington a day sooner than was
intended. but Griffith killed this idea He
proposes to stay here to the very last
moment, and will work out Tuesday IL
the weather permits. The chances are
that the team will not leave here until
ITO Tuesday night and will take two
workouts that day. Griffith does not
believe in a let-up, except those which
are forced on him by the weather. Every
man, for instance, will have to be in uni
form every morning until July /. at
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MAY SEND TWO MEN.
To Row in Doubles and Singles in
OLYMPIC Events.

NEW YORK, March 25.-Several oars.
men who view the probable non-repre-
sentation of amateur crews from the
United States in the Olympian sports as
regrettable, have suggested that a way
out may be found by sending Titus and
Mehrhoff in double-scull shells to Stock
holm. The question of who shall row
in singles will enter into this suggestion,
however, as both men are former cham
pions. and. naturally, each will want to
start in this race also. Perhaps this
can be settled on some satisfactory basis
One important factor which enters into
the consideration of sending these men
to Stockholm is that both are always
in the best physical condition, and with
one months training will be as hard as
nails.
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SHUT-0UT RECORD
Nationals Must Score II
More Blanks to Make 500.
CY YOUNG LOCALS HOODOO
Veteran TWirler Has Banked Wash
ington Club Eleven
Times.
BY ERNEST J. LANIGAN.

before the Nationals reach the 800
notch in the Whitewash League they will
have to use the brush on their opponents
SeVenty-tWo times. Since Washington
has had team in the American League
Its representatives have handed out III
sets of ciphers and received from the
opposition 1S9. The Maps have BANKED
the Nationals 80 times; the White Sox, 81
the White Elephants, 81; the Tigers, %:
the H1ghlanderS, 23; the Red Sox, IS: the
Browns, Is; the Brewers, 2, and the
Orioles, l. The most lopsided shut-out
affair in which the Nationals figured on
the wrong end was the game of April "A,
1909. when the Highlanders Inundated
them II to 0. Joe Lake was the enemy's
moundsman that afternoon, while Bert
Kelley and Walter Johnson operated on
the hill for the locals, then directed by
Joe CantiIlon. The record shut-out event
TENDER 10. 1901, when the Detroit Tigers
clawed the Cleveland Maps, 81 to 0.
Denton ]. Young. now in the National
League, can look back on his record of
shut-outs against the Nationals with more
than pardonable pride He blanked them
eleven times, on ten occasions when he
was with Boston and once when he was
drawing salary from Charles w. Somers
of Cleveland. Other gunners who have
acquired the habit of keeping the resi-
dents away from the scoring zone are Ed
Walsh of the White Sox, Jack Coombs of
the White Elephants and George Mullin
of the Tigers Walsh claims nine rum
less games against the Nationals, Coombs
seven, and Mullin eight.
When COombS made his debut in the
American League he had the Washingtons
as his opponents and he Immediately
made himself solid with his boss by pilot
ing the Mackmen to 80 win.
Below will be found list of the men
who have claimed the Washingtons as
shut-out victims from 1901 to 1911, in
elusive, and the number of this char
acter of games each has pitched:
CLEvELAND-35.
Moore. >; Rhoades. 4; Bernhard, 4; Donahue,
Berger Faikenberg, 1; Gregg, l; Young. l.;
CHICAGo-32
Walsh. 8; Smith. s. White, I; Owen, 3; Scott
2; Burns >; LANCE, /.
PHILADELPHIA, 81
Coombs, 4 Plank, 5; Waddell 4; Dygert 4:
Bender 8; Krauss, 3; vickers, 2; WiItse, q
Coakley, l.
DETRoIT-2e
Mullin, S; Killian. 4: willett. A. Donovan, 8;
Siever, 3; Mercer, 2; Donahue, 2; Summers, l ;
kitson, l; Miller, 1.
NEW YoRK-2s.
CHESHIRE. 5; Ortiz, 2; Doyle, 2: Lake, 2: Brock
EFT, 2; Vaughn, 2; Griffith, /; Manning /; Neuer,
1: Fisher, l. Hughes ], 1; Hughes II, 1; Tame
hill. l; Caldwell, 1.
BOSTON-1S
Young, 10; Dinneen, 1; Tannehill, 1: Wood l.;
Winter, /; CfcOtte, /; Pape, l; karger, l.;
Glaze I.
ST. LOUIS-1S.
Powell, 4; Petty, 8: Lake 81 Glade, 2; wad-
dell, l.; Sudhoff. 1; Spade, 1; Bailey, l. Buch-
anan. I; E. Brown. /.
MILWAUKEE,.
Reidy, /; Garvin, 1.
BALTIMORE.
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NATIONAL WORK WITH KNIFE
AND FORK A BIG SENSATION
If Appetites Are an Indication of Good
Condition Griffith Will Have
Nothing to Fear.

least. and some of those who are not 60
ing well then will not be exempt. Grit
fifth contends that practice makes perfect,
and that a ball player cannot get too
much of it.
If conditions are right there will be a
game played this afternoon, and john
son and Cashion are down to cut loose
as if there were something at stake. This
not only is figured to be splendid help
to the two pitchers. but it will key the
batters UP to championship form. which
is really the object of having the two
star twirlers pitch.
When the report reached here that the
Detroit club was thinking of letting
George Moriarty go there was some I'M
eaSineSS among the infelders now trying
for a position the team. The fact
that Griffith made an effort last fall to
secure MOriarty is still fresh in the minds
of the players, and now that he appears
to be on the market there was some ap-
prehension as TO whether Griffith would
renew his offer.
Griffith. however. is silent on the SUBJ
ject. He says that he knows nothing
about Detroit wanting to get rid Of the
player and that when the matter came
up he would talk about it, but not until
then, as he was not sure that it was
true that Morey is to leave the Tigers,
and he did not want to appear in a posi-
ton of being after the player or hurting
his reputation by discussing him in any
way
1t is, of course. not likely that Griffith
would take Moriarty, for the reason that
he is now we'll supplied with infielders.
When he made an effort to get him last
winter he did not have Jack knight and
that, of course, made difference. But
now that he has Knight and seven or
eight other 1nfielders it is not likely that
he will make room for Moriarty. The
very fact that Detroit is willing to part
with this player would indicate that he
has gone back, for the Tigers are none
too we'll supplied with third basemen,
though they have several south who are
touted as making good, but it Is quite
different between making a good show
ing in practice and making good in ball
game.
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NEW TENNIS STAR.
Braly Does Well Enough to Defeat
McLoughlin,

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 25.-A
new lawn tennis star has come to light
in California, which has produced many
a champion. The conner" is Hal Braly
of Los Angeles. who has recently de-
veloped into a player of high caliber and
is preparing for a tennis campaign In
the east.
Braly created a sensation in a recent
tournament at Long Beach when he
forced Maurice Mclaughlin, the mainstay
of the American team that went to Aus
tralia, to go twenty-four games to win
set. Braly showed excellent FORM and
with little more confidence would have
done even better than 13-11
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Coming Wrestling Bout.

Young Monday, the Brooklyn grappler.
will be seen at the Gayety again when
he takes on one of Washington's oldest
grapplers, Rob Roy Mackey, who in
the past few weeks has been trying to
get match with him. Arrangements
have been made and agreed upon by both
men, and they will meet Wednesday
night at the Gayety for a finish match,
best two in three falls, for side bet of
500 and a purse of 500. winner to take
all. This match will show whether Rob
Roy Mackey is still in the game and
the contest ought to prove an interest
ing one Pat O'Conhor, the we'll known
sportsman, will officiate
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DIRECT FROM BUSHES.
Grover Goes to Majors From ANA
teur Club.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 2J.-It is sci.
dom that major league pitcher goes there
direct from an amateur nine. but Pitts
burgh has such a one in Harold Grover
of Rockport, Mass, who is ''southpaw'
of ability. according to Murray, the scout
of the Pirates. Grover was the pitcher of
the Rockport amateurs last year, and
won every game he pitched against mines
from nearby towns and teams from vari-
Gus warships.