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Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-18
CALENDAR OF SPORTS
MONDAY

 Annual Canadian Bowling association Toron Hartford  Jimmy Howard Billy rounds at Pittsburg
 
  Florida championship  speed skating championships Syracuse N Y. in  opening Bnghaupton N r. n New York. Leach Crossys Rolnd" Ho q NewY
  al championships in Boston championship opens at Pine Athletic York city automobile shows Louisville Annual Oklahoma State Checker rounds at Kenosha Jack Roberts Danny Goodman rounds Keuosha Wis.
 THURSDAY
  DC. A A U. 22Oyard swimming championships Pittsburgh and field Annual York State Chess association city. Opening of annual how in Concord N H. a Freddie Welsh Btton, 20 Attel Kibane, Baldwin Knockout speed skating champions a Mike Gibbons Willie Lewis. 10 rounds, New York 5OOyards swimming championship at Pittsburgh Aquatic club Intercollegiate boxing wrestling and 
 games University New York city Automobile cauon
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-18
ATHLETICS BEGIN ID
 TRAIN FEBRUARY 22
Connie Mack'S Men Are 10 Thaw Out at San
 Antonio

SAN ANTONIO, Teas. Feb. IT, Special )-In a telegram received here from Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics. it is an nounced that team will arrive here the morning of Feb. 22. Plans are under way to give the champion ball players a cordial reception on theii arrival and it is probable a large crowd will march to the station with band to greet them. Manager Mack wired he would have about twenty five in the first party and about twenty others in a second party of the Ath- letics to reach SaI Antonia about one week later, making about forty-five in the training camp this year. In the first party will be Collins, Baker, Murphy and others of baseball fame, and most Of the recruits. Younger members of the club. in point of years if not in service. will compose most of the first bunch.
 With Connie Mack will come 0 cou- pie of the San Antonio Bronchos' re cruits, who live near Philadelphia All of the members of the local club will drift into the city next week. making the baseball colony here quite a Sizeable one.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-18
BASEBALL NOTES

Honus Wagner has equaled Pop" Anson's record of hitting for 300 or better for Is consecutive seasons.
 Duke" Charley Farrell, the former big league catcher. will coach the pitchers with the Boston Braves the coming season.
 With president Ban Johnson in the chair, the American league meetings are peaceful affairs. "Banny Pulls the Strings"
 Hugh Jennings was born in Moosic, Pa, and therefore has a fine ear for melody--as rendered by Ty Cobb and his mighty bat.
 Steve Flanagan has sold his inter est in the Brockton New England league team, and will scout for the L-Icago White Sox.
 John A. Elliott, of La Crosse, found CT and former pilot of the Minnesota Wisconsin league, has been reelected president of the organization.
 Both the Boston Nationals and the Milwaukee Club claim Pitcher J. w. Brady. The National commission will have to determine which club gets the twirler.
 If the new Cotton States league club in New Orleans is successful, Birmingham. Atlanta, Memphis and Nashville will have two ball teams in different leagues next season. Gabby Street, the Washington back stop, who has caught 931 games dur ing the past nine years says he ex- poets to increase his record the com ing season to 1000 games.
 The Chicago Cubs have signed Charles A Moore, of Los Angeles who is called a second Bill Lange. Lots of them have been called Q sec ond Bill. but there has been only one Little Eva"
 An innovation at the White Sox park will be a couple of benches in left field for the use of battery men between their warming-up sessions. and perhaps a Morris chair for Ed Walsh will be added to the scenery. Rube Waddell has signed a con tract with the Minneapolis Club, which calls for $10 bonus a week dur ing the playing season if he does not drink funny cows milk. He will re- ceive his salary in a lump at the end of the year, and Joe Cantillon shud- ders to think what will happen when Rube gets the bunch of lettuce. Manager Bobby Wallace. of St. Louis, has served notice that the Browns will make the American league teams fight all the way next season. Unable to forget his experience of 1911 Bobby now sings the Missouri classic: Every time I come to town The Boys keep kickin' my dog roun'
 It makes no difference If he is a houn
 They gotta quit kickin' my dog roun
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-18
MOTOR BOAT SHOW

NEW YORK, Feb. 17:-The annual motor boat show, given under the au- spices of the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers. op- ened today in the Sixty-ninth Regi- ment Armory and will continue through the coming week Every available foot of space on the main floor and on the elevated promenade of the big armory is occupied with attractive exhibits. which range from the smallest parts used in the con struction of marine engines to luxur- iously furnished and completely equip ped power cruisers of forty feet and more in length. All of the prominent makers of engines and motor boats in the country are represented
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-18
PRESIDENT LYNCH SAYS THAT
 THE FANS KNOW RULES BEST

Thomas J. Lynch, president of the National league and a member Of this years joint rules committee, is one of the closest students of the game Of baseball to be found anywhere. Lynch is familiar with the great American pastime from every one Of it's many angles. The man who now directs the des- tines of the old major league has served his apprenticeship in almost every field of the diamond sport. He has figured as Q player, umpire and promoter. Lynch in the old days was familiarly known as the king of um- pires." Consequently the views of such an authority cannot but be vastly interesting to the great fra ternity of fandom
 For the New York American MT Lynch authorizes an exclusive inter- view on the subject of rules, a very timely topic in view of the approach ing major league joint rules com mittee meeting. On this phase of the sport no one is better qualified than Mir. Lynch to express an opinion. de would never have earned the sobri- quet of king of umpires" but for the fact that he knew every phase and angle of the rules of play and every intricacy frontwards and backwards Following is Mir. Lynch's view of tho question:
 Too little thought is paid the play. ing rules of the game. Just stop q minute and consider. How many ball
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-18
DRIVE OF JACK RABBITS

SPOKANE. Wash, Feb. I7:-One hundred and fifty gunners, carriers and drivers, armed with double-barrel shotguns. a ton of ammunition and bikes, will start for Marshall, Wash, early tomorrow morning to partici. pate in the biggest hunt ever arrang. ed in this part of the country. It will mark the beginning of campaign or. ganiZed by the Inland Empire Game Protection and Propagation associa- ton with the object of clearing the intermountain country of jackrabbits, which have damaged crops for many years. The game bagged by the army of hunters will be presented to the Salvation Army for distribution among the poor of Spokane and other cities.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-18
BASEBALL GAME
 OPENS SEASON
Real Article Is Promised to Fans at Warren Park and Will Whet Up
 All ADpetites
PLAYERS IN DISTRICT

A real baseball game with real hic- kory sticks, horse-hide balls and other standard paraphernalia will be played at Warren park this afternoon at 2:3O o'clock. There will be "9people-S' on each of the teams and the game in every way will be the same as the game played on the polo grounds in New York City.
 The game this afternoon is thing apart from the Warren district base bal league. or more correctly, the Irl- Town baseball league. and is mefely an "eyeopener. in a manner of speaking, of the regular baseball sea son. Roy Gill has corralled a bunch of pros and semi-pros, a blank verse sort of team therefore, with the idea of showing up those Callahan Colts, champions of the season of 1911 and and the question before the fans Is can the Colts come back?" The Colts or the Warren team as it is known this season. has been practicing for sever al afternoons at the park and they. at least have afflrmatiyely answered the question before the bug house.
 If the weather of yesterday comes back" today there should be a rip ping season opener at the park this af' ternoon.
 The following list of ball players in the Warren district was reported by a committee appoint | ed for that purpose to the meeting of baseball fans Friday night:
 J. C. Chapman, Frank Champion Ross Champion, J. N. Chapman, Don Allen, H. H. Le Valley, A. W. Engeld CT, s. w. Bankard. John Bankerd, Mo | Glously Dick Farrell, w. Hicks, H ! Dugan, Roy Gill, Bill O'Malley, Curtis ! Woods, George Gill, James Callagahar WIn. Critchley. Buchanan, Lee Blair ] Frank Bledsoe, Cottrell. R. E. Dayen
 port, Floyd Brown, w. Hrolts, Jack
 Pierce. B. J. Kelley. s. P. Kreos, JcS Doris. Kisselberg, Tom Hughes, Wm
 Walsh, Ben Jackson, Henry Williams ! J. NJ. McClintock, J. Burgess, O. W
 Wolf, John Watson, Green, Sharpe | c. c. Warner. McClelland, Jack Con
 nelly, Wm. Lemin, Ernest George
 Harry Jones. E. F. Irving. A T. FlaI nLFan, H. H. Fricke, Wilson Howser
 If any ball players have been over
 looked, they are requested to hand
 --eir names to a member of the board
 lf directors early this week.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-18
GIANTS OFF FOR SOUTH

NEW YORK, Feb. 17:-An initial push was given the baseball season with the departure last evening of a bevy of Giant recruits for St. Louis en route to the south. Only few of the players began the trip here, the majority joining the party at St. Louis today and by the time Texas is reached it is expected that nearly the entire list of players reserved by the club will be on duty. The warming-up practice will be conducted at Marlin Springs. After leaving there a series of exhibition games will be played through the south. the team working it's way northward in time for the beginning of the season in April.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-18

players do you think are thoroughly conyersant with the laws of the game by which they earn a livelihood. l do not believe that four in ten of the major league stars are absolutely sure Of themselves In the minor leagues the percentage is even less And ot the four players in the ten that are supposedly versed in the higher ele- ments probably not one but could be tripped up on some unusual point that might arise, very, very seldom. really believe that the fans of the present day are more familiar with the playing laws than are the players themselves.
 Fans Know Game Best
 Within the past two seasons have been struck forcibly by the great inside knowledge of the average base ball fan. It was not so twenty years ago. But this wonderful improvement of the fan is sadly missing in the athlete. The usual type of players is not primed in the rules because he does not have to be. He naturally is familiar with the rougher rudiments, the cut and dried plays that uanspire in the ordinary game. But the un- usual or extraordinary he cheerfully saddles upon his manager or captain. He lets his superiors think for him then as he Is very liable to let them do his thinking in most every crisis.
 Baseball in it's evolution has be- come the game of the public, as much so as that of the promoter and the
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-18
WOULD INCREASE LIABILITY
Seek to Make Bills of Ladlng Really
 Means Sorethind

WASHINGTON, Feb, 17-The cam paign for greater railroad liability as to bills of lading was renewed be- fore the senate interstate commerce committee today by a delegation re- presenting the American Bankers As sociation. Daniel Wllliston, professor of law at Harvard, in his address con tended that when a railroad Is paid to issue a bill of lading Is should be made fS stand back of the bill
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-18

player. This being the case the public should be considered first in whatever legislation is attempted. No changes
 hould be made in modifying play that could in any way offend the patrons of the sport. Let us look at the pres ent playing code from the standpoint of the fan. Wherein are the rules at fault? How could they be improved?
 Games Have Been Snappy
 The American public likes action. For that reason the best game is the shortest. provided of course, that there is something doing every sec ond. Last year the games in both major leagues were unusually spirited. There was plenty Of hitting. which implies plenty of base running. plenty of scoring and plenty of sensational tielding But the games were not un- usually long. In fact, l believe as whole they were exceptionally short The introduction of lively ball early in the season has a tendency to drag out the pastimes because it was the usual thing for both sides to score into double figures. But then, even the contests were usually concluded in less than two hours. The most exacting business man can afford that much time if he can spare any at all. "A mechanic who would tinker with a perfectly attuned and smoothly run ming engine would be fit subject for alienists. If that engine needed 1t he might reasonably be expected to pol i ish it till every inch of its surface shone And in my estimation, speak ing, of course, In an unofficial capa- { city, all that the baseball rules need | is polishing It speaks volumes for l the stage of perfection into which the national pastime has stepped just to ' recoIlect that the rules of today are almost identical with those of ten | years ago. Since the foul strike rule | went into effect there has been prac- [ tically no change whatever in the | playing code.
 | Rules Cover All Points
 And why should there be- l am satisfied that every possible point, \ technicality and issue is fully covered in the rules as now laid down The trouble lies wholly in ignorance of those rules. If players, managers, of ficials and patrons were thoroughly ' conversant wita the code as 1t stands today the position of the umpire would be a veritable paradise; the | life of a league president, a bed of roses"
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-18
WITH THE BOXERS

Brooklyn Tommy Sullivan and Ol- lie Kirk have signed to box In St. Louis March 4.
 A rumor from the Pacific Coast has it that Champion Ad Wolgast has lung trouble and will retire from the boxing game.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-18

Ten of the sixteen major league managers have seen service with eth. CT the Chicago or New York National league clubs. Chance, Griffith, Kling Callahan and WolVerton represent Chicago, and McGrRw. Bresnahan, Davis and O'Day, New York, with Bill Dahlen a former rember of both teams.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-18
Rules Cover All Points
MACK QUITS COMMITTEE
National Business Crowds stats Poll.
 tics Out.

NEW YORK, Feb, 17-N. p. Mack resigned the chairmanship Of the de mocratic state committee and Geo orge NJ Palmer. formerly minority leader of the assembly was chosen his successor Pressure of work as chairman of the national committee caused Mack to resign.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-29

upon to bring about improvements Sc
fan Madsro ssems not only to have de.
monssrutsd clearly his inenpaolty for the
nomentous task, bat htc shiily. shaily.
ing ana weakness in tho beginning Of
his administration have. more thnn
anything else encouraged his patriotic
rivals ana enemies to tnkc tho fold
ton. loot'nF. brigandaSe. arson nni
fratrlcldal murder that prevails.
Even the rank and nle OF the res
ular Fedora! army IS recruited large
ly from ex-pr'soners. 1t is learned,
while the various ultra ntasonistic
main OF tho most irresponsible ele-
ments. The better class Of the youth
OF Mexico are consp cuous by their
absence from the fight. II is stated.
They have manifested little or no
heart in II, or ~ the ultimate fate of
arise. who VIII awaken in them the
spirit of genuine nationaliSm. u con-
cert of genuine patriotism. and an an
probation OF what liberty really means
in itself and its promises and bless
ings. Il is snconceivablo that coudi-
tons should fail to so from bad 20
worse until demand for the interpos'-
tion OF the iron hand OF pacifca,ion
from the outside becomes Imperative.
Logically, such an iron hand would be
that OF the United States This Is
fact. unacceptable. We could not shirk
the responsibility OF interposng il If
we would. and. once interposcd. there
would be many potent interests and
drawn.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-29
THE scnooL INVESTIGATION.

The long heralded investigation OF
tho olty schools is scheduled to begin
ts,is afternoon at 4:3o. Despite the
fuss ana feathers. We are frankly at
g loss 30 understand what the Council
will really investigate beyond the
causes OF the success which the Rich
IL ond schools have made under the
direction of DR.. J. a. C. Chandler. tae
superintendent, and the present city
schoo! board
No impartial snd informed student
Of education could have been satisfied
with ths status and the progress OF
tse nitS schooIs Il fow years ago And
sGrally Is It true that number of In
teu!gent obeervoIe have applauded and
approved the striking advance made in
the public school system or this city
7, in tia last few years.
Doubtless the Council feel. that It
would like to be in closer touch with
formed as TO the work that is being
done IN the various departments Of
public instruction. With this desire
Cor knowledge we fully sympathize
Ths city and the parents alike would
bSnefit by Intelligent interest In public
instruction, but interest of this sort
does not moan CO ptious Intermediates.
The school board is presumed TO be
competent TO apportion tho pay of
teachers, and 20 determine the course
~ E+7,S> ye
board ought 10 be changed. But as
Yong as the school hoard is left In
control the welfare OF the children and
the success OF the system depend upon
the power being given TO that BODY 70
make certain rules and plans. and
cary them out. The whole object OF
the Administrative Board is ~ taxi.
away from the Council the possibility
Ct interfering with the inner admin
istraion OF the different departments
The public schools are worth NOR.
70 Richmond than the wa,er-works
saS-works. and every other public u,,l-
ity combined. and II the universal ex-
pe-ience OF I'll nations has shown Nh.
desirab!l!ty CO giving power ana
au'hoTiiy 70 Certain specified omcers
and then holding them Responsible. f.,
cann0; be FOR the good % the ely ina,
ne co1nc!l should take into i,s hsnd.
"lI'es and supervision thai obviously
ana naturally belong 10 the schoo,
board Whatever the scope q. ,bis
iHfesi'Ea'ion may be. notains ca.
break down the Visible ana adrni,,as
success OF the Richmond scbooI, Ill.,,
'Ht!' 2Eesen: management.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-29
OPEN LoMBAnpr STREET.

One of the great drawbacks to a
city's growth in the past has been the
utter lack of harmony that often
exists between tho development OF the
suburbs and the city proper. Rich
mond has signally suffered from this
aflictlon. For years the city was con-
fined within very narrow limits.
Suburbs like Barton Heights or Fair
mount sprang MP and grew according
TO their own sweet will. with the re-
suit that the city streets did not con-
meet with the streets and avenues OF
the mower communities This dis
jo!nted growth, though it may hetoken
wealth. does not increase beauty or
add 10 the convenience ana comfort
lameuting lost opportunities, but Rich
mond should certainly take advantage
OF its past experience and avoid all
future mistakes wherever possible.
a case in point is the extension OF
Lombardy Street. The Avondale Land
Company has recently bought tract
OF land lying between Chamberlayne
Avenue and Brook Road, and has Of
fered 10 dedicate 10 the city OF Rich
mond sufficient ground for LombarJy
Street extended II the city VIII open
Lomtardy stree, for 500 feet within
the city limits. II this city accepts
this offer it will mean that a large and
popular section OF tire county viii
secure ready access ana pleasant
approach TO tho city These nd
Tantases are OF commercial worth. and
theE nave been SO highly esteemed in
o'ner cities tina, Paris and BIrning-
ham, Tor example, have made similar
approaches al great cost and labor. BIZ,
II the City does not accept the Offer
and accept il a once, tho owners a.,
this suburb will lay of their lois AZ
they are entitled to 90. upon sueb 81
PAN as VIII make it i'm possible to ever
extend LonbeFdy Street TO Chamber.
.ayne Avenue without expcnsiv. can.
denDat!on proceedings
The opportunity for Richmond /. ono
mat should b. seized. and no, ne~lec,.
Cd as when the ci,y delayed 50 Io,.. -
DlE!Hs land In William byrd Park ina,
me opPoFtuni'y for building up ina,
PFC nag public playground was nope.
!essiy lost The Street Committee can
oo nothing that would add more - 80
eaHantages OF Richmond on ,na -.
S'le 'o-dsy or would more enhance the
,,' Till stimulate the CROWN ia ,ha:
a,ree'ion thar 'ae acceptance ., IN.
q
.9e 1Hd ne opening Of 1onba.4y
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-29
MEyIco,s VITAL yrrn.

TIE vital needs OF Ar.yy,o
young Mexican party" rna an,s.
."e' Oh ne stage Of true. t!s,n-
,es'sted 9a'r!!P: as a ieade- ,he IL
'hs OF c:,r 81. 'cit.f,co for A5.,,,sn.
ana RESPONSE thereto from ,bs
e'e'neH's OF the Lana. rherAi- IL.
hef Present AoPe aaa her tu.u-. .zi.
s'''o'' as II is now there a.e Nv
Hiohmonds more or Less :,
heIa' who. in ,hei- rsrson. .pd ,..l-
io"o"ing. are coming very ~.
verifying DR.. Johnson. cya.cai Ill.,
eS.V1',0h that "patr'o,!ym is ,he ILL.,.
'-"N' o. F" acoundrel' ana 10 jls,itg.
ins Madame Roland'4 lamep, ~.
Liberty. Liberty. how many s-,,,.
committed in thy na,ne!r
Many reports As to III. ...-u
sun''iiuons Mexican condition, ,ou.
OF course, DO discounted. Due .iI,..
Hnce must be made for es,s.,f,.
eoloFing' for vivid imag.n.ars and ,or
the wish being father Of the ,5oge,
WITH certain interests. Tho .,.r. ~
'he eonfict, or rather. ,ne ce,e.c,.
''f mere apn"ar 70 be seycra! N yr,.
tFe9s' mas fortunately neen withdraw.
largely from close prox,n.,v /.
our border Into tho interior ,,a h.
hn''+' detailed ana rcllable D.r. j,
a'"on!' to obtain. But sumaioa,
known 70 place ii b.yo,J n.,,..
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-29
OFFICIALS ARE CENSURED
Report to New York senate CrIticIHcs
Albany County Administration.

Albany, y. y, March 2s.-Williiam
Barnes. IT.. chairman o fthe Republican
state committee. is severely criticized
by the Senate committee. which in
vcstigatcd the affairs OF Albany city
and county last fall. and whica sub
mittcd its report to tho Legislature
to-day.
The committee reviews the evidence
disclosed ut the hearings before it.,
and recommends. besides other things,
that the Chief OF Police. the Commits
sioner OF Public Safety and the Mayor
be removed from office.
Senator Wainwright, the Republicans
member of the committee. does not
sign the report, but joints his Demo
cratic colleagues in all the recon
mcndations except that advising tho
removal Of the Mayor. AS to the
Mayor. he thinks that the subject re-
duires the attention of the Governor.
as to the conditions in the tender
ioin' Senator Wainwright says that
the facts recitcd do not sustain II
finding or justify Il suggestion that
vice in the city of Albany was sup
ported and protected by the Repub-
iichn organization OF tho city of
Albany Commissioner Cantinc. or
the Department Of Public Safety. he
says. should be summarily removed
for neglect OF duty"