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The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08
POPULAR ID SKIP
 WITH BOYS
WIVES OF PARIS RESTAUPA- THURS DESERT MEN FOR
 BEARDLESS YOUTHS.

PARIS, Oct 2S. An epidemic of elopements has broken among the wives of restaurant keepers in Paris The first to start off with a younger and handsomer man was Madame Brequessac, wifs of the proprietor of the classical restaurant Noisin Madame Brequessac was nearing the half century mark when she permit ted herself to be carried eff by great blow to the fraternity as the owners of the Noisin and their fam fly who own the Boeuf a la Mode restaurant are the aristocracy of the trade and have been intermarry- ing for 150 years.
 Another well known victim of the elopement epidemic is Pruinar of oyster fame. Pruinar's oyster house in the Rue Dupont is known to every American who visits Paris His wife, buXom young Breton, deserted the great oyster house and her successful husband for young and useless young man about town
 Another victim of the epidemic is Madame Havenet, whose husband was the manager of the Hotel Two Her, while she directed department in the Louvre stores. In the days when Chaucard owned the Louvre he declared that Madame Havenet was the most beautiful woman ever employed there. Madame Havenet has the runaway habit and her elope- ment with a young country squire from the neighborhood of Brest is her fourth adventure.
 The epidemic has also laid waste two happy homes in the Rue Monta- bor. The wife of a butcher who supplies Baron Alfonso Rothschild with meat has eloped with the baron's chief butler and the wife of restaurant keeper at the back of the hotel Bristol, who is the mother of five children has skipped with a Russian.
 Physicians are studying the caus- es of the epidemic which they think is due to the power of suggestion over semi-hysterical women.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08
NOTICE OF FORFEITuRE.

S%~-~NSW3 To John Joslyn. Wade Jossan leds- ert Kelly and Hugh Rogoss, .thaSr
 heirs and assigns: -,... -
 You and each of you are hereby notified that during the yeafs fySs, 1909, and 1910, have exfend@si eps hundred dollars in labor1: ax,d .ir- proyements upon the AnaG0Dda~ asso- citation claim, on the left llnif of Engineer creek, tributary 't1 SH& stream. ill the Fairbanks Rec cs1.diAg district, Alaska, in order to Asssd ssekl claim under the provisions of s2st ipp 232l Revised Statutes of the United Revised Statutes of the rHfSh States Said labor constituting eae annual assessment work fnEz tAe years, 1908, 1909 and 1910, and If within 90 days after the last pug!f- catien of this notice you JSfPHrN 5os Iyn, Wade JOslyn, Robert keltpsINu Hugh Rogers, fail or refuse ,ea.-5ssk the undersigned as co-owueL yayI proportion of the expenditure 1eg61P required to hold said claim as f6feS said for the years 1908, 4904b@.ali,t 1910, together with the cost. 0Lf1ass advertisement, your interest .ip- said claim will become the property Of the undersigned, under said Sftid 2@2I Revised Statutes of the .U4atesI States. ...s-g...
 W. R. CALDER,s First Publication Oct. 2, 1911. ''Z' Last Publication Jan. B. 1912;.'- '''ss
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To Al Morancey and J. s. Bibby,
 their heirs and assigns:
 You and each of you are hereby notified that during the years 1910 and 1911 have expended two hundred dollars in labor and i'm prOvements upon the Eagle associa tion claim, on Engineer creek. trib- utary to Goldstream, in the Fair banks Recording District, Alaska, in order to hold said claim under the provisions of section 2S24 Re vised Statutes of the United States Said labor constituting the annual assessment work for the years 1910 and 1911, and if within 90 days af- ter the last publication of this mo- tice you, Al Morancey and J. s. Bib by, fail or refuse to pay the under signed as co-owner your propor- tion of the expenditure legally re quired to hold said claim as afore- said fer the years 1910 and 1911. to- gether with the cost of this adver- tisement, your interest in said claim will become the property of the un- dersigned. under said section 2324 Revised Statutes of the United States.
 F.. A. WILLIAMS First Publication Jan. s. 1912.
 Last Publication April s. 1912.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08

Ritchie deserves full credit for his hours notice he entered the ring against a challenger who had been groomed for a worlds championship battle Willie lost by the wides, of margins. but there were times when Welsh's supporters would have lik- ed to close their eyes on the scene.
 LOS ANGELES. Nov. IS. - I'd have bet on Frankie Conley if he was fighting a mule." said a jubilant Vernon spectator. This from a sec. ond enthusiastic patron of the bat tie: If they staged only fortE-round bouts Conley would eventually fight his way into the worlds heavyweight title"
 Perhaps these saying were a bit exaggerated. but they voiced the feeling of the big crowd which cheered throughout the long ring fight between Conley. the bulldog of the American ring, and Joe Rivers the California boy.
 Conley matched his gameness an ability for assimlating punishment against the eleverness and reputed strength of Rivers. and from the outset tried to rush the local boy off his feet. With lowered head and thrashing arms, he met Rivers in the latter's corner at the opening of every round. Then ensued a series of rallies in which the pair traded punch for punch, Rivers lefts and rights for the jaw striking regularly on Conley's gloveprotected face and Conley's swings for the body landing with few exceptions on Rivers el- bows. Occasionally. when the fight. ing became particularly fierce. each landed clean blows, but neither scor- ed clean knockdown during the cn- tire twenty rounds.
 Rivers. by diligent use of straight left. opened up an old cut on Con ley's eye, ill the early rounds in these rounds he had a slight lead, but from the twelfth round on Con ley's aggressiveness fully evened this up.
 The winner was to have bsen matched with Abe Attell for the featherweight championship here Jan uary |
 During the earlier rounds Rivers cut, slashed jahbed and swung to Conleys jaw with every punch known to modern pugilism without ever so much as shaking this mar vicious lad up. From the fifteenth round on Conley w"o much the stronger of the two and kept throw ing himself upon Rivers with one vicious rush after another. fighting the Mexican all over and, upon. three or four occasions, out of the ring
 Rivers was dog tired" in the twen- tieth when Conley put up the final spurt that probably gained for him Eyton's draw decision.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08
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By w. w. Naughton.

Time was when Jim Flynn, the heavyweight who defeated Al Kauf- man and White Hope" Morris says lie Was quite content if he could make his way alone to some point where match awaited him. Now Jim boasts manager and worse than that has become a mark for theatri- cal booking agents But Jim does not cotton 10 stage work He wants 10 gel back into the harness of the prize ring and he is not particul'r Aho is selected to go against hiln.
 Jim, being an actor man and incl den ally a challenger of Jack John. sOr. is much sought by interviewers who, by the way, do not find him a promising subject Most would-be champi -ns put their best foot-or rather their best speech forward when they talk for publication, but Jim is as rough and ready as when li' M ''H VI 'iN hllit7 NOdl Oll NiIt ldlll Odu locomotives running out of his home town Pueblo.
 A writer asked Jim recently if he considered himself a clever boxer. Jim said in reply, T don't claim 10 be one; l don't expect to be one, and l don't want to be one"
 Then he added: Whats the use oi being clever when you can defeat clever men?" Of course. Jim was oblivious to rhe fact that whatever cvercomes cleverness must of ne cessity be cleverness of some kind.
 Flynn Says Jack Will Fight.
 Flynn considers that he is the man i best entitled to go against Jack l Johnson. He docs not believe for a moment that Johnson is sincere in his talk about retiring and prophecies 1 that Jack will return to the game just as soon as he is shown that he can annex a goodly wad of money l DS uOIHS so.
 Johnson will be back all right and when he gets ready to fight Jim Flynn is going to force him self 10 the front as the man to meet him." said Flynn. Of course, John scn beat me once and made an in formally good job of it besides, but think il will be different if we get together again. The reason I want to fight Johnson is that l believe he will be easy for the first good man who goes against him. l figure that Jack Is much older than he says and feel that he will not be anything near the fighter he used tc
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08

Sometimes a club that happens to have tall overland pitchers will grade the pitchers box to an eleva- ton of foo. higher than the bat trrs' T. siuou to add 10 the ef- tetiyeuess ol the pitching. Doctor ing the dirl' in the pitchers box l. "almeSf universal" The earth may be "doped" with some greasy substance. SO that when the visiting pitcher rubs his perspiring hand in it to give him better grip on the tail his hand becomes greasy. while the home pitcher has a special pol kept clear for his use or else tfeHar.s fir the situation by hay ing a pocket in his trousers full of clean dirt, Mechanical devices have al~o been frequently resorted to for signalling 1o the batter the kind of taH the pitcher is about to deliver For instance. the New York American League club had ar one time. not | Lg ago. a sign on the fence in lh, rear of he ceuterfield. on which Vas an advertisement in which the letter II was very prominent. The middle bar of the letter was made moveabie. and behind the fence a man with ueld-glasses caught the signal of the catcher to the pitcher. and by moving the bar gave the signal 10 the batter.
 Tricks of the Baseball Field.
 H.orking a base runner is another of The tricks constantly resorted to- has to h- done skillfully. just enough 10 throw the runner out of lis stride. bat not enough to war iat' ihe umpire in declaring it oase of intentional interference. Ty ( hh. probably the fastest base t4Hner ill Ihe country. some time ago tried an experiment. He made the circuit of the bases. when no hasemen were present. in thirteen and on,lifh seconds passing each Lag close 10 the inside corner. Then al subsequent time he made the circuit with each baseman in place acting just as he would in a game \ol one of the basemen did any thing that an umpire could call interfer 'nee. Ntt before Cobb got around he Vas actually interfered with five times. Each baseman stood by the inside corner of his bag, compelling Cobb tO go OH the outside thus in eroasing considerably the size of the circle he made The short-stop ( ntrived 10 keep in the runners path just long enough to shorten his stride between second and third. and then, running across the line from third 10 home as if to back up the catcher. he again made the runner shorten up his stride, yet avoiding actual contact in each case. Ii to Cobb TWO and a half addi- tioral seconds 10 make the circuit because of this interference.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08

better contrivances 2" TO his delight there was a frank reply, Why. yes, l really think I have" Tn what re spect? We'll, drawled the parson.
 yen see, when I want to shut out anything disagreeable from my sight. can draw down my eyelids. and it's all done, but. unfortunately. I haven't any flaps to my ears" Free conversation ceased at about that point
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08
FAILURE OF FLAPS.

A certain skeptic was contending before a minister that the works of creation are manifestly imperfect. Have you not yourself" he asked, noted defects in the human organ ism. for instance. and thought of
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08

All the men who have been dis appointed in love are not bachelors by a long shot.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08
Ritchie Wakes Up.

For ten rounds Ritchie took his came out for the eleventh with the obvious intention of finishing his tantalizing opponent or being slab bed himself. Welsh feinted and jumped in only to be met by a solid left swing squarely to the point of the chin. Ritchie's seconds stuck their heads through the ropes shriek- ing like mad men under the excite ment, while the entire house came to its feet with one long, loud roar, Before Welsh could recover from his surprise Ritchie had swung his right to the jaw and was following up this unlocked for attack with perfect fusillade of rights and lefts to the jaw
 Welsh backed slowly away for about five or six feet, when he stopped and threw himself into a desperate slugging match. The Britisher was neither hurt nor ex- cited, but the way he threw caution aside, shelved his cleverness and started trading blows with the heav. fer man brought a look of terror to Baron Longs face. Toward the lat ter part of the round Ritchie had | been fought to a standstill, but the round belonged to him by a clean margin.
 Welsh Seems in Danger. From the twelfth until the eigh, teenth the battle was waged on the old grounds, Welsh jabbing, punch ing and chopping his opponent al will.
 Ritchie made a rattling hard nine, teenth and twentieth round finish and one that looked dangerous to Welsh Many a good hard punch he sent to Freddie's chin, and all during the final six minutes of mill ing Willie was mixing it on even terms with Freddie, while the lat teI's seconds were crying for their man to stay close in, crowd him fight for the body, that's it."
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08

me average young man has his hopes raised more frequently than his salary.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08
to take matters very coolly.

to take matters very coolly.
 For the first three rounds Cohen kept boring into the shifty Abe, with the sole purpose of landing a lucky punch that might win the cham pionship.
 But Abe had all his old time speed and cunning His defense was impenetrable. With gloves and arms he smothered Cohen's leads and snapped back stinging left jabs that had his adversary completely upset by the end of the fourth round.
 After that it was simply a proces- sion for Abe. Matters came his way so easily that he very rarely made use of his right. He won the mill with one hand his left. with which he peppered Cohen's head and body
 In the fifth round Attell's stinging lefts almost completely closed the Englishman's right eye
 LOS ANGELES. Nov 30 Fred die Welsh. the veteran, has stood his California trial. and the result is a hung jury.
 Welsh conceded nine pounds in weight 10 the game and hard hitting Willie Ritchie and administered decisive whipping of the scientific brand to the San Francesca welter.
 The battle was fought in the Yer non arena of the Pacific Athletic club today. where the stage had been set for the worlds championship af- fair between Welsh and Ad Wolgast. red gloves that were to have GOV cred the hard little fists of the stricken champion.
 The emergency Thanksgiving Day card went the full limit of twenty rounds, and at the finish Referee Eyton did the Cnly thing possible when he raised the British boys right arm in token of victory.
 The question on the lips of 90 per cent of the spectators was, What would have happened had the Wolgast Welsh match gone through as originally scheduled?" And the remaining 90 per cent of the house had their answers ready. For every six enthusiastic men who roared forth the information that Welsh is has been; Wolgast would have killed him. there were a half dozen strong gents who insisted that the Pontypridd boy is the same fast, clever and dazzling performer or old.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08
M any Rounds Tiresome.

Seventeen of the twenty rounds were so one-sided as to bettiresome. In these rounds Welsh so far out fought Ritchie that Willie must have wondered how so many boxing gloves could fly through space in d tWenty-four foot ring Welsh jab- bed Ritchie's lips until they bled, punched Willies nose, mouth. eyes. chin and cheers until the game vol unteers entire face was as red as the gloves he wore; battered the upstate lads stomach so that it will be sore for several days to come, and punched him about the kidneys in such a vicious manner that he finally quit this latter line of at tack through pity fir his game but beaten opponent.
 Throughout this steady beating of Ritchie the holiday crowd sat in sullen silence. Three times only during the afternoon did the gallery gods and the usually more dignified members of the reserved seat sec tions come to their feet with a real show of enthusiasm. The dem Onstrations occurred in the eleventh, nineteenth and twentieth rounds. when Ritchie went on the aggressive in such tigerish fashion that he brought serious look over the faces of the handlers of the English
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08

NEW YORK, Nov. 15. Abe At laid it all over Young Cohen of Eng land throughout the ten round wind night In the second round only was the Briton able to hold the time And in this period Attell was content
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08

NEW YORK, Nov 15. - The box ing commissioners of New York have at last made move to have New York rings made regulation size. Recently two of the largest fighters fought in the smallest ring in this city, when Carl Morris, 245 pound CT beat Denver Jack Geyer, a 194 pound man. Morris depended on strength, Geyer on speed. They fought in a 12 foot ring, when a step either way and one was against the ropes. Geyer was forced to stand toe to toe with the giant from Oklahoma and slug. When he start ed to step away from a swing he would run into the ropes and be thrown back into the blow with greater force. It was like a light weight against a middleweight In regulation size ring, which is 24 feet, it would have brought different results.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08
Peculiar Baseball Ethics.

Another magazine writer, Hugh $. Fullerton. hangs some observations of his upon the peculiar ethics Cf the game In the American Magazine he tells us that baseball has the straneest code of ethics of any game played by men. A hundred things that would be considered "mucker- ish" ill any other game are counted fair in baseball almost anything, in facr. that will win games. except maiming or injuring opponents. play ing for personal record rather than for team. and laying down. He goes on 10 describe some of the tricks adopted in our national game as played hy The professionals. Fix ing the grounds" is. we are tcld, the commonest form of trickery. and is carried 10 all amazing extent.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08

First Publication, Jan &, 1912.
 Last Publication April s. 1912.
The Washington times., 1912-11-11
MERCURY ATHLETIC
FOOTBALL TEAM IS
AMONG STRONGEST
Independent Eleven Displays
Great Form in Defeat
ing Collegians.

Followers OF the Mercury Athletic
Club football team are today satisfied
that the eleven has one OF the strongest
independent teams In the South when
considering yesterdays - to i victory
over the Annapolis Collesians. Out
weighed trine tn. Mercury team put
up a clever exhibition OF football and
earned IT'D points on speed and clever
ness.
The game was played at Indcpen-
dence league park, and the victory was
the means of getting game with the
" mich Is claiming the championship Of
this section OF the country. Certain 1t
Is that the Mercury team played hard
all the way.
Captain Hale for the winners was al
most team in himself. his work be-
ing at all times OF the best. Two runs
OF 80 yards were earned By the Mer-
curry captain. In addition he backed
up the line In fine style.
Others OF the Mercury eleven gained
applause for their consistent work dur
ing the four periods. O'Leary ans
Lemeric being especially in the fore
ground with their clever generalshlp
at the quarterback position.
At the start Of the contest II was seen
that the boys were inclined to mix II
TAP. but the efforts OF the officials very
quickly stopped the rough work and
the game went on without interruption.
Conway. Hale, OLeary and Thomas
scored touchdowns, while Herrel for
the losers scored a safety. There were
n number of substitutions during the
game some thirty-hve players taking
part In the game.
The Washington times., 1912-11-11
NAVY IS NOT YET
RECOVERED FROM
STING Of DEFEAT
Failure to Develop Offense
Blamed for Loss to
Bucknell.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. Nov. ll.-Mem-
recovered from their Chagrin at the de-
feat Of their team saturday by Buck
nell by II to !, when a decidedly i'm
proved showing OF the local team and
victory over the visitors was fully ex-
pcctod. Failure to develop any offense
except straight line plays and lack Of
judgment and fumbles at critical times
game. II is admitted that Bucknell mad
a strong team and sprung something
entirely new along the line OF forward
passes. To this play the midshipmen
fell easy victims as they were COM
plctclv in the air when BuCknell sent
IA group of four players almost 10 the
side lin" and had no idea as to what
opponents should be covered.
In spite OF the decisive defeat, there Is
still confidence that the team will round
into shape. Navy followers point to
years when the showing OF the team In
the local games was just as bad, yet
the team rallied and defeated West
Point. The friends OF the team point
to the remarkable material on the
squad this year, and do not waver in
their confidence of a vastly improved
that II Is unfortunate that the midship-
men will have no real hard game to
try them out before they meet the
Army. Neither North Carolina A. and
NJ. nor New York University has shown
much strength this season.
The plan of,the coaches Is simply to
go along the same lines as heretofore
and try to overcome the glaring faults
which the team still has, II this Is ac-
complished and the team develops more
fighting spirit there Is still hope of a
chance against West Point
The Washington times., 1912-11-11
GEORGETOWN QU!NT
TO MEET BUCKNELL
ON ARCADE FLOOR
Pennsylvanians Should Have
Strong Team of
Veterans.

One of the best games on George
town University's basketball schcd-
ulc this season Is booked for March
IL at the Arcade. when the Blue and
Gray quintet Will he opposed by the
Buckncl. University fve Of Sunbury,
Pa. The Sunbury institution IL just
~ famed for the wonderful basket
ball teams II turns out yearly. No
matter FCw poor the teams represent
ing BuCknell in the other branches Of
intercolle g,ate sport are. the winter
season always finds a brilliant quin-
tet lighting for the Pennsylvania uni
vcrsity On the basketball floor and
judging from all reports from Sun
bury, this season promises to be Just
as successful as past seasons have
been.
only two men Of last years vlctori-
Gus quint were graduated from Buck
nell last June, and with veteran
nucleus of five letter men, the coaches
at Sunbury. expect to turn out a
team. which will eclipse all records
for the sport at that institution Be
sides the iive letter men. the greater
part Of last seasons brilliant substi-
tute material Is available and every
thing seems to point to the fulfill
mcnt Of the coaches expectations, for
many of this years freshman class
have made enviable regulations on
mntriculating at the Sunbury institu-
ton this fall.
Last year Pucknell vanquished
Georgetown In the last game OF the
season by the score OF II to 81 and
the Blue and Gray quint VIII exert
by defeating the Bucknellians on
March 10.