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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-01
OHIO STAKE MAGNET ON
GRAND CIRCUIT D
Anvil Proves Victorious Over Helen Sites and Ed. Geers
Is Highly Honored for His Great Race-Big Crowds
Turning Out to Witness the Sport.

CLEVELAND, O.. Aug. 1.-The
largest card, one Of the richest purses
and the championship trotting sweep
stakes should attract a r~eeord-break-
ing crowd to the North Randall
track for the fourth day of the local
grand circuit meeting.
The $1,000 Ohio stake, with ten
starters, and the trotting sweep
stakes, in which only Brace Girdle
and Billy Burker are left. will at
tract most attention.
The Fasig stake, 81. 900. for 2:0s trot-
tiers, "a the headliner yester-
day. First money was pulled
down by Anvil. the bay son
of st. Valiant Vincent, with Pop
Geers. the veteran, in the seat. Six
thousand people cheered as Geers
drove Anvil into first place in two
straight heats. and they cheered
again when Geers was called to the
judges stand and presented with the
silver trophy cup given the Forest
City Live Stock and Fair Company
by Jimmy McGlade.
Helen Stiles was the chief contender
for first honor, and she ruled favorite
at the opening. selling at ? to ;. while
Anvil was bringing . to l. Helen was
not on her best behavior. and Geers
got a lead on Durfee at the jump and
held it TO the finish, winning the heat
in 2:0719
In the second heat Helen behaved
better, and Geers came near having
to make Anvil show the best there
was in him. This heat was in 2:07,
just half a second above Anviis
record.
The fastest heat of the day was
2:05k. made by Jones Gentry, who
won the I'll pacing event in three
straight heats. Gentry negotiated
one quarter in 2sA seconds, the
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A v DE GRACE MEETING

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-The jockey
club yesterday sanctioned the pro-
posal of the Hartford Agricultural
and Breeders Association of Havre
de Grace to conduct a race meeting
from August 20 to September IL. and
from September Is to September 30,
The club approved the appointment
of the following officials: Steward
representing the association, w. s.
vosburgh; clerk of the course, F.
Rehberger; judges, G. III. Pettengill
and J. C. Fitzgerald.
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JohnstoWn's Franchise
Formally Goes to Chester

CHESTER. Pa. Aug. 1.-Curtis
weigand. of this city. formerly
manager of the York Tri-State
League Club, announced yesterday
that the franchise of the Johnstown
Club, of the Tri-State League, has
heen secured by a party of Chester
men and that the team will be
brought to this city. 1t will be called
the Chester Club.
The club has leased the Twelfth
Street Park. Weigand will act as
of the team. which will play
its first game here Friday, with the
York nine.
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Giants, Nov Considered Big
Team in Baseball, Here Sunday

petitors, whereas last year they were
fighting for the lead practically all
season. -,
The regular big league lineup VIII
anpear against the locals and Will
thus afford an opportunity for the
rooters to size up such stars as Doyle
the Giants hard-hitting n hustling
captain and second baseman; Merkle'
Meyers, the fence-busting Redskin'
and other stars.
The Newark Athletics, while they
were beaten by the Cincinnati Ma
tionals, are far from discouraged, n
it's a safe bet that they will put up a
better article of baseball against the
Giants.
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TRENTON. Aug. Large fields
and exciting finishes marked the three
races on the opening day card of the
Ewingville races yesterday. The
track was heavy and the time slow,
vet every heat developed a hard race.
Nata Prime continued her triumph
ant march by taking the 2:1S trot in
straight heats after Amo. the Phlia-
delphia %trotter. had taken the hrst
heat. Paquita Bell, the Trenton horse,
which won at Wilmington, took the
2:30 trot in straight heats, beating u
Model Fortune. Morcessa and kath-
mere in the consecutive heats. In
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MINERAL SPRINGS PLAN :
A BIG HORSE RACE MEEz

GARY. Ind. Aug. Efforts arr
to be made by the Mineral SprinU
Jockey Club, of Mineral Springs. Ind.
to conduct a race meeting of fifteeu
days, beginning September l. accord
ing to reports in circulation here laa
night. 1t is the intention. according
to the plans. to race thoroughbreds
and confine the control Of the affaks
strictly to residents of the State.
The proposed track is to be- bum
on the farm of A. F. Knetts, fornarl
mayor of Hammond. Business men
of Gary. Hammond, Valparaiso ana
LaPorte are his associates in Tn
scheme. The promoters say that NJ
Chicago money will be invested. anu
they say, too. that no public betting
will be tolerated.
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Local Horses Don't Get
in the Money at Parkway

Local horses competed in the second
days racing at the Parkway track.
Brooklyn. yesterday. but none was
able to bring home money. The chest
nut trotting gelding Doctor BIZ,
owned by H. Stacy Smith. of this city.
and driven by Otis Erskine. ran a
fair race, yet he broke badly in each
heat. spelling all chances Of getting
in the prize.
Zanzibar. also owned by Smith, was
to have started with Lake Gregory.
another Newark horse, but the former
was not fit for a gruelling race, and
as a result the latter Vas the only
local entry in the 2:15 pace. AT no
stage of the game. however. did
Gregory have a look-in. The 2:19 trot
went to Border King. the ~4-year-old
son of Border Night, owned by Billy
Rhoades. King TOOK the event in
straight heats. The summarizes:
o.ro- -. No. 81 mn
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NEW OWNER TO
R A FROM BARROW MINES

Bisons. and Ward. of the Hustlers,
were the International League home
run hitters yesterday.
Danny Green. former Cub and
White Sox outfielder. who is dam
gerously i'll in Chicago, is a Camden,
N. j., boy.
Bill Louden's fielding at second base
for the Detroit team against Wash
ington was a feature yesterday. Bill
accepted eight chances perfectly and
got in his daily hit.
Pitcher Lake, of Detroit. had a
homer yesterday. Gandil and Stan
age, of the Senators and Detroit re-
s%pectively, also got in circuit clouts.
Hub Perdue, the Boston National
HEAVIER. has again quit the club. Per-
due had trouble with the manage
ment several weeks ago and it was
thought his troubles were entirely
mended. He announced yesterday.
however, that he would never pitch
| aonther game in a Boston uniform.
The Giants victory over the Reds
Yesterday makes it eleven straight.
Lefty George, the former Nap, now
with Toledo, of the A.. A., held the
Minneapolis Club to a pair of singles
Yesterday and won by a shutout, :
to O..
Smiling AL Orth, the veteran pitch
err, made his debut as a National
League umpire in the double-header
between the Phillies and the Cardinals
yesterday. Orth did excellent work
under the eye of President Lynch.
Ad Brennan, the Phillies' southpaw.
added his name to the hall of fame
yesterday when he held the Cardinals
to two hits. Ad had three hits him
self. including a triples
Marty O'Tooole again proved to be
a hard-luck twirler yesterday. He
toiled twelve innings and then quit
with the score a tie. Later on the
Pirates won. but the s22,500 beauty
gets no official Credit for his labor.
Pitcher Hess. of Boston, went ten
straight innings yesterday without
being scored on. During the entire
understanding battle with the Pr
rates he twirled fifteen periods, in
which a Smoky City mar did not
get a chance to look at the home
plate.
Ed Sweeney, the Yankee mask
man, had five singles yesterday In as
Sany times at bat.
There were eighteen hits in the
Phillies- Cardinal first game yester-
day. but none went for extra bases.
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CHICAGO PAGEANT WILL
BE THE GREATEST EVER

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-The largest re-
gatta ever held is the prediction OF
the management for the pageant to
be held here August 1917. John r
Young, of the fete. went
over the course yesterday with Isl
railway, steamship and newspaper
men in a private boat and explained
the arrangements in detail which
have been made by the committee.
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WEST SIDE SENIORS WIN

Lefkowitz's pitching won the game
for the West Side seniors over the
Orange Park team, 10 to l, in an Es-
sex County Park League contest at
West Side oval yesterday afternoon.
Lefkowitz allowed a single hit. The
West Side nine leads in the league
Just now with three victories and no
defeats. Yesterdays score: R.H.E,
West Side ......2 0 , 4x-i0 ~ 0
Orange ..........1 10000 o. 1 8
MISUNDERSTANDING and spidel;
Pinky, Scott and Lavery.
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GUNBOAT SMITH
KNOCKS OUT NORRIS

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-Gunboat
Smith, the California heavyweight.
knocked out Andy Morris, of Boston,
in the second round of what was
scheduled to be a ten-round bout last
night. Smith knocked Morris to the
floor with a right swing and a left
hook to the jaw. The Boston man
took the count of nine and came up
staggering The referee was about to
stop the fight, when Morris rushed at
Smith, only to receive a right swing
to the jaw that put him out.
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TRACK RECORD LOWERED

DOVER, Del. Aug. 1.-The last race
of the season at the Derrickson track
yesterday afternoon drew a large
crowd, who witnessed some of the
fastest racing eel in Kent county in
many years. The contest in the first
race was one of the most exciting
races ever seen in Delaware. In the
f~ree-for-all Royfield, owner of Lew
Bailey, of Philadelphia. beat the track
record in the third heat, making 1t
in 2:10NA
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KEEPS cUP

TORONTO, Aug. 1.-Nirwana won
the second and deciding George cup
yacht race yesterday in light airs
by nearly a quarter of a mile from
the challenger, WATERFOWL. of the
Crescent Yacht Club, of WATERFOWL,
n. Y, and the cup stays with the
r. c. Y. c. another season. She won
by two minutes. The winners time
was 1.49.04, and the watertown,
1.51.O9.
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RAIN INTERFERES WITH
BIKE RACES ONCE MORE

Carmen. Menus Bedell and George
Wiley will be the starters.
If the races are called off again
tonight, they will be postponed until
Sunday, as there are big meets in
New Haven and Boston Friday and
Saturday. and all of the big stars OF
both the paced and the sprint divi-
sions are to compete in these meets
Kramer and Grenda ride a match race
at New Haven and Friol and Pete
Drobach ride at Boston. Carmen,
Bedell, Wiley and Pye ride at both
New Haven and Boston in middle
distance races.
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JONES DENIES WoLGAsT
HAS SIGNED WITH PACKEN

Loss ANGELES. Aug. Tom
Jones, manager for Ad Wolgast, said
yesterday he had received a telegram
from wolgast denying reports that he
had signed to meet Packey MacFar-
land.
4 think Rivers will be Ads next OPP
ponent and that will be some time in
the latter part of the year. said
Jones.
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: And again last night the bike races
at the Velodrome were postponed on
account of rain. This is the seventh
postponement for the same u in
tweny-three days. Riders and promo
tiers are being hard hit his season by
the rainmaker.
tonight. The features of h meet are
the big match between Emil Friol,
the French champion. and Alfred
Grenda, the champion of Australia; a
half-mile professional championship
and a paced race, in which Clarence
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Hard Races for TrOtferS
and PAGERS at EWingviHe

blanket finishes in the second heat
the Trenton mare. reduced her mark
from 2:241h to 2.23i4. Tuck. the Vine
land. n. j.. PAGER. took the 2:21 pace
from a field of ten horses, outfooting
Earle Wilson. Peggy and Choptank,
all of whom were eontenders. In the
third heat of this race Peanut Boy
broke a hopple and was distanced.
While Choptank threw a shoe and ran
almost the entire mile. also being
distanced.
Danish Girl, driven by Doc" b.
denweiser, of East Orange, was 10.
4. I in the 2:21 pace.
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$500 FOR A

CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 1.-The sale
of Badly McGregor's S-year-old trot-
ter, that Tuesday finished in the
in the trotting sweepstakes at
North Randall, by George B. Dougan,
of Richmond. Ind, to John E. Mad
den, was announced today. 1t is I'M
derstood the price was $500.
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STANLEY FANS Is
OF TRENTON TEAM

ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 1.-Stan-
.ley's superb pitching Won the game
for Atlantic City against Trenton
here, yesterday afternoon, by score
of / to 0. Stanley established a new
Tri-State strike-out record in this
contest, flaming 10 of he hard
hitting Trentonians. Stanley allowed
but three scattered hits and struck
out the side in two innings.
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PLAYERS FOR NASHVILLE

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 1.-The
yesterday that outielder Jud DAILY,
of Brooklyn. and Player James West,
of Toledo. had been purchased and
that Pitcher Walker had been sold
TO Cleveland.
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o'Brien and Bonner Matched

TAMAQUA. Pa, Aug. Young
Jack O'Brien, of Philadelphia, and
Jimmy Bonner, Summit Hill. yester-
day signed articles of agreement To
box ten rounds here August IS. each
to weigh in at 1873 pounds or forfeit
500. :
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DEMAREE FOR GIANTS

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-The New
York National League Club yester-
day announced the purchase of
Pitcher Al Demaree, of the Mobile
Club, of the Southern League. Dema-
rec, a few years ago, had a trial with
the New York Americans. He has
pitched many shut-out games for
Mobile.
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DURHAM OUTROWS
RIVAL HACKETT

RAINY RIVER, Ontario, Aug. L.
Durnan. of Toronto, holder of the
American sculling championship title,
defended it yesterday by defeating
Hackett. of this place. the former
champion. The Toronto sculier won
by four lengths. The race had been
postponed from Tuesday.
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MAT M'GRATH MAKES
NEW HAMMER RECORD

DUBLIN, Aug. 1.-Matt McGrath,
New York a. c., and a member OF
the American Olympic team, in the
games here yesterday threw the Sc
pound weight from a nine-foot circle
Al feet ~ inches. This establishes
a new record under the conditions.
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WINNER FOR MAHER

GooDWoOD, England, Aug. L.
Danny Maher, the American
jockey, piloted the winner of the stew
ards cup at the races here yester-
day. Nelks's Goldenrod won handily,
Joel's Poor Boy was second and
Feber's Uncle Pat third. Twenty-one
horses ran. The betting on the first
three horses was respectively 3 to L,
100 to Z and 20 to /.
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]. M. WARD RETIRES
FROM BASEBALL

BOSTON. Aug. 1.-The retirement
from baseball. in which he became
famous a score of years ago as =
player, of John Montgomery Ward
president of the Boston National
League club, was annunced here last
night. President Wards financial in+
terest in the local club vas bought BIZ
James E. Garney. of New York, tho
principal owner.
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defeated the majority of its oppo-
nents and the mines which have taken
the measure of the Subs had to go
the limit to do SO.
In Iron Man Banta and Freddie
Schall. the north end aggregation a
a fast battery combination that could
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AT ST. CLUB

Eddie Kelley. the pride of Har-
iem,' and Dick Peters, of the West
Side, will meet in the main event at
the Saturday night show Of the st.
Nicholas Rink. Thirty-two rounds of
boxing will precede the main event.
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SOUTHERN LEAGUE

At Notwithstanding. 6. s, o.: Mont4
gomery. 4, Z. ;. summers and Eiliofts
Dancing and McAllister.
At ACCOMPLISHMENTS. :. Z, 0: Rir<
mingham. .. :. > t11 innings. Merits
and Seabaugh. Ward and Ganfz.
AT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. rain. I
At Atlanta-New Orleans. rain.
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BALL SCHOOL

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 1.-Presi-
dent Navin. of the Detroit Club.
opened a school for new Tigers with
Jimmie Casey as instructor.
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hold its end up with any in this
vicinity. Banta, known as iron
man. as a result of his consecutive
victories in double-headers. has won
all the games he has pitched for the
Suburbans this season.
The rest of the team is composed
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of players in the north Roseyille sec
ton Of the city who have held their
own with semi-pro teams around this
section. Sunday afternoon the
Suburbans will play the winners of
the Smart Set Watsessing game at
Morris Park.
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The Suburban Athletic Club. under
the management of Walter Murphy,
is making a very c~reditable record on
the diamond this season, despite its
first year. The team. playing its
home games at Morris Park, Bloom
field avenue, Sunday afternoons, has
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-14
SCIENTIFIC WAY
TO FIND WATER

This interesting story is taken from
the editorial column Of the Cincinnati
Enquirer
Thanks 20 device like ;he atetho-
scope. but OF mich greater power the
use OF the divining rod and also the
chance digging FOR water where there
may be no water Will be unnecessary.
In some parts OF our country. even to-
day. there are persons who in looking
Tor water over which TO SIM. a well
will call in the service " the man Win
the divin.ng rod and pay him we'll II
ne Dc lucky. The rod is "a stout branch
OF hazel or peach held in tile hands
oy means OF two pgouss or smaller
lateral branches. The seer hold!ns this
ny mis- two hands at horizontal posi-
ton directly in front OF him IS he
walks can tell the presence of water "a,
some point under him by cipp!n. OF the
butt Of the rod
The phonendoscop patched In Der.
In is very powcrtul stethscope rha
inventors and pateutecs. L. Bazz! ANA
y. Hlanchi had Intended 1t merely
Tor use in connection with the human
nody, but along comes * X. kock.
Wno has discovered that it may be an
pied to the earth. TO detect hidden
waters. lie had happened on one &C.
oas.on' by placing his ear TO the GROUND
ana listening intentiy. to de,ec, tho
muFmur OF running water through the
eaFtA at point where II was supposed
to furnish an opportunity for success
III! Wei digging. Then. coming across
ms new instrument. he found tina, bv
laying it on the ground and applying
The ear pieces to his ear a, a point
where he knew there was running
waterat depth Of nfteen feet he
could distinctly hear tie trickle and
surg!e OF the underground stream.
Irrigation has become great factor
IN the cultivation OF vast norton
or our country In those sts,es jnto
"hicn the Great American Desert las
neen divided much OF the l4ad must
depend upon Irrigation for its produc-
uVeness Not Tor all may the water be
OBTAINED from the storage Of distant
mountain streams held In great resor-
Nolrs ey dams over hundreds OF miles
OF the desert now green with Alfalfa.
grains and vegeta bles. tic water must
come from beneath the farms Borlnl,
IS expensive work. and. as the ranche-s
know by experience. often unsuccessful
bu' TINS new device may become ~
great assistance in detecting the nres-
enoe or the underground streams.
" Uc4 good may come OF il
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