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Evening journal., 1912-08-02

NEW YORK, Aug. with the ar
rival here recently OF the advance
contingent Of the American Olympic
team, which performed In all around
winning fashion at the Stockholm
games last month, began the home
invasion. which is TO end In what Is
expected to be national demonstra-
tion and carded to take place in this
city August "a. The greeting tender
ed to the competitive heroes as the
liner Vaderland steamed into the har-
Dor and was towed to her pier was
almost the equal OF the rousing send
on they got when the complete team
started away nearly seven weeks ago
on the specially chartered Finland.
Twenty-four track and field men were
IN the large party. Besides the track
athletes were the members of the re-
volver and rife teams, together with
fencers, cyclists and trainers. the ma
jority Of them proud possessors OF
the coveted Olympic medals. Among
the bronzed, husky fellows the figure
OF Nike Murphy, the great trainer was
conspicuous. The grand old veteran
looked pale and weak. A big crowd
Of admirers greeted Castor Strobino
Evening journal., 1912-08-02
SEAFORD TENNIS MEN
TIE CRISFIELD

sEAFORD. Del. Aug. 2.-The ten
mis- tournament conducted here be-
tween the Criterion Tennis Club, Of
Crisheld. and the Seaford Racquet
Club was very interesting, the
matches resulting in tie. The dou-
bles: Dutton and Johns. Of Seaford,
defeated Riggin and Bouthett, of Cri-
terion. 6-i, 6-2, 6-3. The singles:
Boutchett, of Criterion. defeated Dut-
ton. of Seaford, 6-3 and 6-3.
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SATURDAY SPORTS
Baseball.
ALL WILMINGTON LEAGUE.

@AAD " AAlhWlLs
Rockford VS.. Hillside. at Hillside,
1.-TWO games).
Riverview VS. Vandever, at River
view, two games)
Speakman VS.. Parkside, at Park
side, 1.-TWO games)
DUPONT VS.. Highland at Highland,
1.-TWO games)
SEMI-PROF. LEAGUE.
New Castle vs.. Marshallton, at New
Castle.
Fort DUPONT VS.. Highland at Front
and Union.
Madison VS.. Pennsgrove, at Penns-
grove.
CHURCH LEAGUE.
Newport VS. Edge Moor. at Newport.
Old Swedes VS.. Silverbrook, at
Landlith
Eastlake VS.. Central, at Shellpot.
WILMINGTON JUNIOR LEAGUE.
Lancaster VS. Elsmere. at Military
Grounds.
Wilmington Jrs. VS.. South Side, at
Eden Park.
Belmont VS.. Old Sweedes at Ninth
and Rodney streets.
Colonial VS.. Tigers, at Elsmere.
GENERAL SPORTS.
Matinee racing. Horse Show Park.
Trap shooting. DUPONT Gun Club.
Golf and tennis, Wilmington Coun-
try Club.
Evening journal., 1912-08-02
Sporting Gossip
and Comment
Lef'S
Get
Together

lahan smashed out another victory
for the White Sox by lamming the
BAH out of the lot.
shanks. Of Washington. hit by
pitched ball, was painfully injured
and knocked unconscious, but will
soon be back in the game.
The St Louis Cardinals are the
only big leaguers WHO have been IN
train wrecks this year They have
figured in two. But hat isn't what's
the mater with them
The Cleveland team mas made such
vigorous raids on its farm. the To
ledo club that IL has practically ruin
cd Top3y Hartsels team.
Pickpockets don't consider baseball
players legitimate marks. Some
mushy dip has just returned a watch
and fob he lifted from Grover Gil
more former Buffalo player.
And Sull they so. Inc BUCKS
County league has just blown up.
Bobby Wallace, after seventeen
years in the major leagues, is about
due to quit Stovall is talking OF
getting rid OF him. Wallace says he
will never play except in the major
leagues and he probably means it,
Buck Taylor. of the Carolina asso-
iation. who has been kicked about the
league from team to team this sea-
son. pitched a no-hit game the other
day for Spartanburg. Roy Rada-
baugh. who opposed him, gave up
fourteen hits.
Safety Razor Blades. Electric power
automatic sharpening machine Sat
fcf Tod -u- Marlaf
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He Understood.

Paul Louis Courier. when bitterly as
sailed by a French professor, quietly
remarked, 81 fancy he must be vexed-
He calls me Iacohin. rebel. plagiarist,
thief, poisoner. forger. leper. madman
impostor, calumniator. hbeler. a hor
rible. nlthy, grimacing ragpicker.
gather what he wants 10 say. H'
means that he and ! are not OF th'
same opinion. and this is his only wa,
OF putting t."
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snrrH Side IS RRAYE.

South Side A. c. which has been
going at great clip of late. thinks
they can trim any of the Independent
teams. They have signed few new
players and are greatly strengthen
ed. They would like to play Alpha
for $5 or $40 a side on neutral
grounds All other teams desiring
games should write 20 Joseph Grant.
No. $40 New Castle avenue.
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Header Games AWManee Racing Odds and Ends of Sport
JUNIOR LEAGUE
SEEMS SHAKY

II is most likely that if Old Swedes
and Colonial do not play their VIII
mington Junior League game tomor-
row that the league will disband and
the remaining teams will play inde-
pendent ball II therefore depends
on Old Swedes and Colonial If the
league is 70 continue.
All games are to begin at 2.45
o'clock Wilmington Juniors will
leave Fourth and Market streets at
Las o'clock for Eden Park.
Belmont hopes that Old Swedes
will show up, If not tell them before
Saturday noon. The Tigers are given
the same advice.
Evening journal., 1912-08-02

the little fellow who was third in the
classic Marathon race. Escaping
from the throng which tried to hoise
him to its shoulders, Strobino rushed
over TO his mother and, throwing his
arms around her neck, joyfully ex-
claimed, Il kept my promise to YOU
to finish among the first threei'
Group picture shows some Of the ath-
letes and their friends on the pier
No. / is A. Kruschel. cyclist; No. 2
T. Lilley. runner; No. 3, A. Socka-
] lexis, Marathoner.
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wrona piaanosls.

'Nfy dear friend. can you loan me
500? have just recovered from an
operation for appendicitis"
Appendicitis. Your doctor doesn't
know his business He should have
sperated for gall stones" - Boston
Record
Evening journal., 1912-08-02
The Beat Way.

A correspondent wants to know how
10 pronounce Chihuahua. The hest
way h 20 say Chey .hew.hawa and then
laugh as though you knew better. II
Il IL done artisticaiiy you can get away
with II nearly every time York Dis
..~toh
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AIITNTOWN
Totals q. ..s4

*One out when winning run scored.
Wilmington 20 0 0 2 0 0 0 o 0 %
Allentown o.. 90 90 0 2 900 Is
Runs scored-McKenna. Fritz,
Murray. Cannell Rudolph. Struck
out-Ry Taylor, ?; by Kutz, I. Bases
on balls-By Taylor, 4: by Kutz, 1.
Two-base hit-Fritz. Stolen bases
Mcclellan, Rudolph. Phllbin, Weeks,
Murray. Left on Wilmington,
&: Allentown, z. Wild pitch-Kutx
Hit by pitched ball-Kutz. Time Of
game-1.50. Umpire-Connor.
Evening journal., 1912-08-02

Deserved progress is within the
reach OF all who would get out OF the
rut and make use OF the Wants IN
starting them in bigger, broader
nelds.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1912-08-02
StnndInp of the CInhs.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Yesterdays Results
Athletics-Cleveland, postponed ac-
count Grand Circuit races.)
st. Louis. q Boston, /.
Washington, 6; Detroit, 5.
Chicago, 2; New York. 1.
TOday's Gamos,
Athletics at Cleveland.
Boston at st. Louis.
Washington at Detroit.
New York at Chicago.
Evening journal., 1912-08-02

Chumiey Pyramid
high his clever Arab guide answered
his question follows:
the each succeeding block less
Each 5 height so
just the mid
BUSINESS PUZZLE.
AS
Is o
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HOLLY OAK is ANXIOUS,

The Holly Oak Baseball team would
like 10 hear from any 16 or II year
old team in Wilmington. Send chal-
lenges TO Theodore Dawson. at Belle
Evening journal., 1912-08-02
STAFFORD LOSES IN I4TH.

Game After 13 Runless Innings.
SEAFORD. Del, Aug. I'm four
teen-inning pitchers battle Federals-
burg won from Seaford here / to O.
Seaford played an errorless game.
Federalsburg-
100000 OOOO1-1 8 y
SeaforC-
10000 10000 OOOOO 90 s o
Bring your Safety Razor Blades to
707 Market. and have them sharpened
by an experts
Evening journal., 1912-08-02
YESTERDAYS BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Yesterdays Results.

Yesterdays Results.
Phillies, 4 st. Louis. g.
Chicago, 9; Brooklyn, 3.
Pittsburgh. 1 Boston, 0.
New York, 5; Cincinnati, 4; first
game.
New York, Z; Cincinnati, 8 second
game.
TOday's Games.
st. Louis at Philadelphia.
Chicago at Brooklyn.
Pittsburgh at Boston.
Cincinnati at New York.
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TOday's Games.
Reading at Harrisburg.
Trenton at Allentown.
Wilmington at Atlantic City.
York at Chester, two games.
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TRI.sTATE LEAGUE.

Yesterdays Results
Atlantic City, 3; Trenton. 2; 10 iu-
nings.
Harrisburg, 1 Johnstown, 0.
York. 4; Reading. 3.
Allentown, 3; Wilmington, 2; 10
innings.
Evening journal., 1912-08-02

Safety Razor Blades. Electric power
automatic sharpening machine Sat
Evening journal., 1912-08-02

Standing OF the Club.
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to the bottom of the harbor. Dono-
van was directly in the path of the
huge weight. so close that it struck
his air hose within two feet of his
helmet.
Fortunately, the force of the blow
hurled the diver away from the
weight, instead of under it. In the
meantime the men above were almost
frantic with fear. They knew that
the diver was directly under the ham
mer and they naturally supposed he
had been struck. There was ter
rife commotion and the lifeline man
began to jerk and pull as hard as he
could to ascertain whether Donovan
was caught or free. The suspense for
a minute or two was fearful.
In the meantime Donovan didn't
know just what it was that had
thrown him. The water was so muddy
and dirty that he did not see the
weight; in fact he was astonished by
being jerked by the life line and as
soon as he overhauled his air pipe to
prevent fouling it he tugged the sig
nal to be hoisted. Up he went and it
was with many signs of relief that his
big. round helmet was sighted at the
surface He climbed partly out of the
water and rested on the gunwale of
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revolutionary proposal that in future
all our currency shall be printed by
power presses-that is produced by
machinery largely automatic in its
operation instead of turned out by
hand as has been the custom from
time out of mind. The present cla-
NOR for more bills of small denomina-
ton coming on top of other new de-
mands and conditions necessitating
an increased currency output has
finally forced our lawmakers to realize
that the time is at last at hand when
something must be done to perma-
nently expand Uncle Sans money
making capacity. Some of our public
men have foreseen for some years past
the approach of this dilemma, but
they put off matters just as long as
possible because of their anticipa-
ton of just such a controversy as is
now being precipitated relative to the
proper solution of the problem.
The Senators and Congressman who
wish to set tradition at naught and
introduce machines that almost
think to reel off the currency more
rapidly than the eye can follow claim
government 100000 a year They
contend, too, that it is the only way
in which the government can provide
for the natural increase in money
manufacture that will be required in
the future as the population grows
that is unless the government is will
ing to go on expanding its currency
printery until it is pretty nearly as
big as all outdoors.
Opposed to these arguments in be-
half of the proposed innovation are
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ledge of rock, but before he knew
just what was what had that spear
into him. Twist? Well. you have
no idea how that fellow squirmed. 1t
was all 1 could do to hold him down
and we had as lively a 10-minute
tustle as you'd ever want to see.
But I finished him all right and
sent. him up Just to show the boys
what he looked like. That night
some of the boys had him for supper,
but 1 never did like cells so let them
have it all.
LAS for sharks, well. suppose
they would attack a man if he was to
worry them, but the worst sea
creatures are seals. I remember once
1 was working down near Halifax;
working on a wreck, and there was
a school of about 100 seals around. I
cautioned everyone about throwing
anything at them and I went on
down. 1t wasn't very deep, not more
than so or 60 feet, and every now and
then seal would come along, kind
of nose me over and then go on. I
never let on I saw them so 1 didn't
have any trouble.
Now you wouldn't think cat fish
would trouble you much, would you?
Well, they will, and what is more
I they bite hard. I don't mean those
little fellows such as are found in
streams, but the two-footers that are
found in the Great Lakes and along
/ the coast. A pickerel, too, is a nasty
! fish to arouse. He goes for you head
first and when he strikes it's like be
ing hit with a club. A mate of mine
was hit on the thigh by a pickerel
once and it was two days before he
could use his limb. Where the fish
struck was a black and blue space as
/ large around as a stove plate.
There's another queer thing about
fish. If you are wearing gloves that
are split and your knuckles or flesh
shows through the fish will worry
you by biting at the exposed parts.
You can hardly drive them away, but
! the moment you take off your gloves
and expose your whole hand they
won't trouble you at ALL
While there has been but little i'm
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his punt while his helper unscrewed
the helmet.
What the deuce is the matter %
he asked as soon as his head was
free.
His helper. pale and trembling all
over, could scarcely tell him. but he
finally managed to describe what he
and the other workmen had thought
''Humph!" replied Donovan: Tell
those fellows to be just little more
careful. Now put on that helmet and
I'll go get that hammer
In a few minutes he had line fast
to the hammer and it was hauled up.
Donovan doesn't take much stock in
reports Of diving deeper than $50
feet; that is for practical purposes.
He declares that a man cannot stand
such a depth for more than an hour,
or possibly an hour and a half, and
that after he comes up he must rest
for al least II hours before going
down again.
Where it catches one is in the alb
domen,' he said THE upper part
of the body is protected by the ribs,
the arms and limbs are comparatively
solid, but the abdomen has no bones
at all and there is where it hurts. I
heard of a man who got $4,000 for
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the counter claims of the printers
who impress the money under the
present plan and who wish a continu
ance of the hand work method. Just
as the chief argument of the cham
pions of the change is the economy
to be effected SO the foremost con-
tention of their opponents is that the
sanctity of our money will be better
preserved by the hand made money
owing to the alleged greater difficulty
of successfully counterfeiting such
notes. The men who are now engaged
in printing our currency by what is
known as the hand-roller process as
sert that notes thus printed are
slightly embossed which renders it
very difficult to satisfactorily photo
graph them-the first step in coun-
rfeiting-whereas notes printed on
power presses would, SO tits said, ap-
pear absolutely fat and could more
easily be photographed and repro
duced.
The plate printers who, to the num-
Der of hundreds now print the cur
are banded together in an effective
union and in their agitation against
the Introduction of machinery they
are having the active support of or
ganized labor all over the country.
Congress is to be the jury that will
decide this question and it would be
difficult to forecast the outcome.
However. it is safe to predict that
whatever be the conclusion it will not
be arrived at without a lot of talking
pro and con and it would not be sur
prising if any departure from prece-
| dent would at first be entered upon
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circulation is suggested as one ex-
PLANTATION of the suddenly developed
shortage of small bills. Another
theory attributes it to the growing
tendency on the part of manufac-
tories and large concerns to pay off
their employc- weekly and bf-monthly
instead of Iionthly as was formerly
their practice. Whatever be the cause
it is a condition and not a theory
that confronts the Treasury officials,
and Congress will need to make pro-
vision at its present session for the
printing of not less than forty mil
lion additional pieces of CURRENCY
that is forty million notes in excess
of the already approved estimates of
what would be needed to carry n the
business OF the country during the
current year.
But the solution of this problem is
comparatively simple if the national
legislature chooses to spend a little
money 1t merely needs the employ
ment of some extra money printers
and the lengthening of the working
day of the money printers already on
Uncle Sans pay roll-men who.
since they are paid on the piece
work basis. will suffer no such in
justice as would be worked were they
employed on fixed wage Vastly
more perplexing is another question
from this same hopper which is con-
fronting the nations lawmakers just
now and with which it is expected
they will wrestle for some time ere
a solution is found satisfactory to all
hands.
This bigger problem of Uncle Sam
money making is nothing less than a
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attained and there are but few in
stances on record, yet the foundation
was laid. This job will no doubt hold
the record for commercial diving for
many a day, although there are men
who have gone as deep. and deeper.
in quest of treasure.
1t is said that the record is held by
Hooper, an Englishman. who de-
scended POI feet to the wreck of the
Cape Horn, lost off South America.
In 1896 A. Erostarbe went down $50
feet to the wreck of the SkyrO. off
Cape Finisterre, and sent up bar sill
yer valued at S45O,OOO. after first hav-
ing blown the ship partly to pieces
with dynamite.
Another deep-water record was es-
tablished by Alexander Lambert, who
recovered $780, in gold from the
wreck of the Spanish mail steamer
Alfonso XII, which was in $50 feet of
water. 1t is said that the last time he
went down he remained four hours,
this in itself being a phenomenal rec
ord, as two hours is regarded as about
the limit of any divers endurance.
Diving is a peculiar work and there
are not many who can do it. 1t not
only requires soundness of body, but
one must be something of mechanic
as well, especially if he is going to
engage in under water building. Be
sides that he must be a man who is
willing to take chances, must be able
to keep his head at all times, no mat
ter how scared, and then. maybe. he
will die in bed
A diver named Donovan recently
came very near dying in Baltimore
harbor, but he did not know of it at
the time. He was working in Is feet
of water directing piles that were be-
ing driven by a 4,0OO-pound hammer.
In some manner the hammer was re
leased and the great weight plunged
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enjoy such tidy incomes as many OF
them obtain under the present system.
which enables a skillful and energetic
operative to earn from 81 to S12 a
day. Doubtless this realization spurs
the opposition of the plate printers
and who can blame them
Any present-day visitor to the
money mandatory at the national
capital may have a foretaste of the
proposed short cut in money making
by taking a peep into that section of
the great plant which is devoted to
the manufacture of postage and reve-
nue. stamps. All these little stickers
which were formally produced on
hand presses just like the paper
money is, are now printed on power
presses. Indeed. if they could not
be turned out in this rapid-hre way
it is a pretty pickle the government
would be in. what with the new regis
try stamps. the new Postal Savings
Bank stamps. and the other novelties
that have been introduced within the
past few months. There was some
opposition to the introduction OF the
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;oing down 204 feet, but he only
wed seven days after. The strain
uptured his intestines. In deep wa
er, rs feet to 100 feet. that is our
greatest danger. The only way to
overcome it is by wearing heavy
weights and taking plenty of air. The
air offsets the pressure of the water
and the weights hold US down. If, by
chance, the air pressure should les
sen, even a few pounds, our situation
is critical
"In the water it's pretty much like
it is on land" he continued. IF
man is hunting for trouble he's pretty
apt to find it. I have been diving for
IS years and I've been all along the
coast, from Halifax to Florida, and 1
have never been attacked by anything
except a conger eel. He was a big
fellow, too; six or seven feet long
and as big around as my thigh.
1T has been my experience that if
man keeps busy nothing will dis
turb him. The fish are afraid of him;
sharks are, anyhow, and he has no
trouble. With this eel, however, it
was different. He came at me with
out my doing thing to him. 1 was
so scared that I could not even find
my spear, which I generally carry,
and he stuck his ugly head right up
to the glass in my helmet. Ugh.
! could almost hear his teeth snap, I
was that scared. I stuck my hands
under my belt to protect them and
stood still. I don't know how long,
about two minutes, 1 guess, and then
1 gave the signal to go up.
'What'd you come up for?' asked
my helper when he had taken off the
helmet.
Game up for something to eat
I replied.
"I reckon you did, he replied.
Why man. you're as pale as a ghost
ST didn't let on just what had hap
pened and after getting bite, and
taking a smoke, 1 went down again.
This time I went after my spear and
found it. Then [ let everything else
go while I looked for Mr.. Eel. I soon
found him for he evidently was wait
ing for me. He was lying on a little
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only in tentative or experimental
form.
For that matter the Senators and
Representatives who are most en-
thusiastic over the proposal to intro
duce power presses do not advocate
a sudden upheaval. Their idea is not
to supplant the hand presses all at
once, but to merely dispense with one
fifth of the total mum Der each year.
Thus it would be five years ere all of
the present equipment was retired
and by this gradual evolution it
would not, presumably, be necessary
to dispense with the services of a
single employee. In other words, as
the hand presses were displaced other
work would be found at the money
factory for the printers thus displaced
doubtless some of them would be
assigned to operate the power presses,
although in so far as physical strength
is requisite the feeding of the sheets
to the power presses could be done
by girls. It is hardly to be expected,
however. that in their new occupa-
tions the former plate printers would