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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-13
Sporting Briefs

Home Run Johnson, the Trenton
outfielder, is some hitter. He leads tho
Tri-State League batters with an aver
age of 1915.
The Boston Red Sox dropped five OF
their nrst seven games on the hrst trip
west. and on the second trip won five
of the frst seven.
Manager Fred Clarke of the Pirates
will place Jimmie Wick in Wagner's
place when the big Dutchman decides
to give up baseball for good
Johnny Evers has been a bear with
the stick OF late. About three hits in
a game is Johns idea OF doing some
thing to help the cubs.
Pitcher George Mcconnell of the
Highlanders Is now showing some of
the fancy stun that made him famous
in Rochester last season.
Reindeer" Killifer makes clever
understudy for Charlie Doom. The
Quaker catcher has a great wing, and
ne can hit with about any backstop in
the league.
The Business Mems League of Mont
gomery, Ala, has guaranteed a supple
ment fund of $4,000 per year for three
years to retain Southern League base
ball in that city.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-13
CALENDAR OF SPORTS
FOR THE WEEK.
TUESDAY.

O TUESDAY.
o Opening of grand cfrcuit-trot- I
o ting meeting at Fort Erie.
. Opening of Michigan short ship 4
q trotting circuit meeting at Jack I
0 son, Mich.
q Opening of great western trot- I
y ting circuit meeting at Akron. O. I
. Opening of annual exhibition I
= of coburg (Ont) Horse show as I
. ISOLATION.
= tionai Archery association opens =.
q in Boston.
q Third in the series Of interna-
q tional yacht races in Chicago.
. WEDNESDAY.
q New York Yacht club races for
. the Aston cups off Newport, r. l.
q Annual tournament of Wiscon-
= sin woman's Golf association
. opens at Kenosha
o Annual western handicap trap
= shooting tournament opens at
= Kansas City, Mo.
o Fourth in the series of interna-
. tional yacht races at Chicago.
O THURSDAY.
q Annual tournament of the Ma
. tional Association of Scientific
. Angling Clubs at Chicago.
= New York Yacht club races for
. the Kings cups off Newport. RI
. Fifth in the series of interna-
. tional yacht races at Chicago.
q Grand American championship
. motor boat race at Chicago.
- First In the series of yacht
. races for the Upton cup at Chi
. cago.
q FRIDAY.
y Biennial tournament of the
q North Pacific Sharpshooters' I'm
q ion opens at Portland, ore.
q Middle west championship ten
. mis- tournament opens at Omaha,
@ Neb.
. Swimming and diving cham
Q pionships of the Central A. A U.
o at Chicago.
q Second in the series of yacht
. races for the Upton cup at Chi
Q cago.
. Tennis tournament for the
. championship of Ontario opens
o at Toronto.
. Annual bench show of the
= Amber, Pa.
Q Annual ten-mile river swim of
. the Missouri Athletic club at ST.
q Louis.
= Third in the series of yacht
q races for the Upton cup at Chi
= cago.
Q Swimming marathon of the
q Illinois Athletic club. Chicago.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-13
EAST CHICAGO.

Mrs. Alfred Berquist and her guests,
Rev. and Mrs. Jones of Oshkosh. Wis.
are spending today with friends in
Chicago.
Mrs. Lester Murphy of Beacon street
is entertaining her sister. Mrs. Purcelle
and daughter, Irene. of Fon-du-Lac,
wis. They arrived yesterday.
Miss Ida Philips and her guest, Miss
Mabel Mold. left this morning for a
lake trip TO St. Joe.
Miss Blanche Jones of Girard, Ohio,
arrived Saturday for few weeks visit
street.
Mrs. Alfred Berquist will entertain
Thursday afternoon in honor of her
guests, Rev. and Mrs. Jones. Tea will
be served on the lawn.
Martin ]. Smith of South Chicago.
was a business visitor in East Chicago
today
Mrs. Sarah o'Mally of Pullman is
visiting East Chicago friends this after
noon and tomorrow.
Mrs. George Stevenson. who has been
visiting her sister. Mrs. Anna Havill.
of Bering avenue. for the past month.
will leave the fore part of next week
for her home In Columbus. Nebraska
Mrs. Kenneth Mcintosh. edith
Evans). who went West for her health
in June. after being secretly married a
few days before her departure, is ex-
pected TO leave for here Sunday. ar
irving in East Chicago the Sunday fol-
lowing. Mrs. Mcintosh, who has divid-
ed her time between Monterey and Los
Angeles. Cal, is much improved in
health. her letters to her friends indi-
eating that she never felt better in her
life She is now in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Charles Donovan, Miss Belle
Donovan and Carter Donovan spent
last week ct Hudson Lake. Mr.. Dono-
van and Miss Lettie went down OF Sat
urday and the entire party drove back
In the family auto Sunday, reaching
East Chicago in the evening.
Mrs. Nick Snyder spent Saturday and
Sunday with friends at Rochester
Ind.
A beach party will be given tonigh,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-13
WORLD TOUR rs
SURE TO BE TAKEN

New York, Aug. 1S.--Roger~ Bresna-
han, manager of the ST. Louis Nation
ais, had left the city at the time of
the arrival of the Chicago dispatch in
which Charles w. Murphy, president
of the Chicago club, was quoted in
criticism of Bresnahans reported in
terest In a world tour of the New York
Giants and All American league stars.
Bresnahan's connection with the plan
is said to be only in way OF pro-
spective manager of the All-American
team 1t Is understood that the world
tour, for which a managing company
was incorporated at Albany last week.
will be undertaken regardless OF
whether the Giants win either the
league or worlds pennant
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-13
ERpz Ruey- ~

ped altogether, but that the informa-
ton now in the governments hands
will be presented to the fall federal
grand jury for action.
The government did not desire to
disclose any testimony that will be
used against the pugilist in the COM
Ing trial for smuggling on the crimi-
nal charges, and hence dismissed the
preliminary case.
The prize fighter announced at the
federal building his decision to fight
Joe Jeanette. He declared that he
was going to fight once more. and on
ly once. In order to appease his wife,
who has been insistent that she wants
to see him add laurels of another bat
tie to his pugilistic career.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-13
INDIANA HARBOR

A party composed OF Mr. and Mrs.
E. E. Dubbs, Misses Ann Calvin. Ollie
Shaw, Lyle Jordan, Mrs. Treuham, the
three last named ladies of Chicago, DR..
Frank Stephens. James Calvin and
James Donahue of Chicago, spent the
week end at Geneve lake. The party
made the trip in the Stephens and
Calvin automobiles. leaving the Har-
Dor Saturday morning and returning
Sunday evening.
There will be a stated meeting of the
Indiana Harbor chapter CT the Order of
the Eastern Star tomorrow evening. A
large attendance is requested bust
ness of Importance will be transacted.
Little virgene. daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Newton Hembroff, who is sick
with typhoid fever is reported some
what better today.
Mrs. Fred Stephens of Adds avenue
left Monday for a two weeks visit
with her mother. Mrs. j. W. Aldstadt OF
Muncie, Ind
been quite sick in the Englewood hos
pita1 for some time, is recovering
slowly and was able TO be brought
back to her home in Guthrie street
Sunday evening.
! Mrs. George orr who has been visit
ing her mother for about two weeks
in Henderson, KY. will RETURN on Fri
day Saturday.
| Mrs. Fred Sauer will leave Thursday
/ for Pontiac, Mich. to visit her mother
! in Pontiac, Mich. for few days. after
which she Will go on to Buffalo where
] she will spend a few days more. on
her return she viii stop in Pontiac en-
| route and get her children who hav.
been in Pontiac the most of the sum
mer.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-13
WANT NEW GAMES.

Following a successful season the
ST. Mary's baseball team of asst Chi
cago would like to schedule games
with any team in Lake county, es-
pecfally the Gary Midgets, who lay
claim to the county championship. The
st. Mary's team also has a right to the
championship, having been defeated
only once out of fifteen games, which
Is some classy record. The st. Mary's
are anxious to hook up with the Gary
Midgets and should a game be arrang-
ed an interesting battle should result
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-13
EAST CHICAGO
AND
IND. HARBOR

in honor of Miss Mary Mcdonald of
Brazil. who has been visiting Miss
Leila Mercer.
About six or eight couples Will go
to Rcbertsdale where they will toast
marshal laws and roast corn and pota-
toes.
Mr. and Mrs ]. B. Davis and daught-
err. Marie, of Akron, Ind, spent the
week with Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Snyder of
Forsythe avenue.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-13
JOHNSON FREED
ON A FEDERAL
CHARGE

The government yesterday afternoon
dismissed the prosecution of Jack
Johnson, champion heavyweight pu-
gilist. on charges of intimidating a
government witness In the smuggling
indictment against him and his wife,
Eta johnson.
Prosecutor Childs declared that the
request to dismiss did not mean that
the intimidating charges will be drop
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-13

The decision of Woodrow Wilson
that he will not resign the governor
ship, but remain in office, follows a
precedent set by Governor Hayes of
Ohio in 1876. by Grover Cleveland. who
in 1884 retained the governorship of
New York, and by Theodore Roose-
welt, who was a candidate for vice
president in 1900 while governor of
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-13
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Yesterdays Results.
Chicago, 10; Boston, !.
st. louis, 8; New. York, 8.
PfttsburE, ;; Brooklyn, 3.
CINCINNATI, 2; Phiiadelphia, L.
Games Today.
Chicago mt Boston.
PittsburE at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati at Philadelphia.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-13

Next Sunday they will meet the Calu-
met Juniors at Sawmill park. For
games address NJ. F. keenan,, 1928 TOD
avenue, asst Chicago, Ind.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-13
MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Yesterdays Results.
Cleveland. B; Chicago. L.
No other games scheduled.
Games Today.
Chicago mt Washington.
Detroit at New York.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-16
MILLIONAIRES
by GEORGE FITCH
Author of LAT Good Old Siwash."

A millionaire is a man who has enough
money to live 100 years on $4,000 a year.
Very few millionaires do this. how
500 900 year and some fifty years on
500 a year.
Moreover. some millionaires work
themselves to death in three years while
trying to get enough money to live 100
years at $1,000 a year
And yet we put men in insane asy-
Iums for such triles as trying to chase
pink mice on the ceiling.
Millionaires have no Distinguishing
feature. and II is very difficult TO detect
them, especially during the open season
for assessments. Some millionaires are
proud Of their money and advertise it
by touring cars. fancy wives. and large,
shapely residences with Private. Keep
OUT on the front gate. Others are
a ashamed OF their money and keep 1t
locked tightly in large steel safe so
that IL cannot get out and annoy the
poor.
Some miliionaires can be detected by
the faces they make when they have to
smoke cheap TWENTY-FIVE cent cigar.
On the other hand. some miIIionaires can
be detected by the roar which they put
up when the newsboy on Fhe corner
tries to hold out a penny on them.
Millonaires make themselves princi-
pally in two ways: by saving money and
by making it impossible for any one else
to save any. The latter is by far the
more popular. BY lunchinr on an apple.
wearing the same suit Of clothes twenty
five years. and borrowing his neighbor s
lawnmower a man may possibly be
come a millionaire in time TO write a
will disposing Of II to the lawyers On
the other hand. II man invents a lit
The Washington herald., 1912-08-16
REWARD FOR H0oPsNAKE.
state ZooloRfst Offers
$50 for Proof of II. Existence.

Harrisburg Correspondent Philadelphia Record.
There Is a reward OF SO awaiting the
man who VIII send to Prof II. A. Surface.
State econom!G zoologist. what is known
in tradition, bus never as reality. as a
hoopsnake. Tris hoopsnake is repre-
sented to he a reptile that when excited
forms n hoop OF It's body. completing
the circuit by seizing its tail with its
teeth. and starts TO trundling like a
hoop.
Near the tip OF Its tail II is said to have
a horn somewhat resembling the sharp
spur on a rooster. and when in its rolling
career II strikes tree II Is supposed TO
sink that sharp spur or prong. or what
ever It is called. into the tree. which
brings its trundling TO a halt and pre-
vents further progress until the snake
can extricate the bone prong and resume
rolling. IL II chooses so to do This snake
also according to tradition, crawls like
an ordinary reptile. and It is only when
excited that It does the hoop act. Hence
II is called the hoopsnake.
In the course of many years work in
collecting all kinds of reptiles Prof. Sur
face has had sent TO him many speci-
mems of what were alleged to be by the
donors to the States collection hoop
snakes, but he has not yet found one
that answers the description. and he has
never yet discovered anybody who saw
the snake grab its tail between its teeth
and go rolling along. In order 10 stimu-
late search for this mythical reptile Prof
Surface offers $50 TO any person who will
send him a perfect specimen OF hoop
snake. so called.
One day this week man in Bernville.
Berks County. thought he had won the
reward. and he sent to Prof. Surface the
same kind of a snake that many others
have sent and called it hoopsnake. 1t
was a house snake. a milk snake or spot
ted adder. with a bony point to its tall
but never sign Of bone prong. and II
is perfectly harmless.
In fact. It is a great mouser and rivals
cat as a mice catcher. The Berks
County man will not get the reward. II
have had letters from all parts Of the
country from Florida to New York said
Prof Surface. but not a single speci-
men OF what is called the horn or hoop
snake. II is yet TO be found. In fact. II
will never he found II only exists in the
Imagination" The offer of SO reward is
still open
The Washington herald., 1912-08-16
GOV. BLEASE'S THREAT.
! VIII Put the LAW on ChnrIcston, If
IL Votes for Jones.
Frum the Roanoke Evening Ner..

Frum the Roanoke Evening NeNs.
About the rawest thing vet developed
in politics this year has come oG courss
in South Carolina In Charleston last
Friday Gov BIease candidate for re-
election, addressed his audience as fol-
lows:
Il want to put a proposition to you.
and you answer 1t at the August pri-
maries Whatever you do, will he
Governor. anyway. for September. Octo-
ber November. and December. and
twenty-one days in January II you
want government by injunction and Il
metropolitan police force. you vote tor
Ira r. Jones. and I'll give 1t TO you
Judge Jones is Gov. Bleases opponent.
The meaning Of the threat is that ii
Charleston. at the primaries in August.
votes against Blease. the dispensary law.
to which Charleston most strongly OBJ
city votes for BIesse it will he left free.
sell liquor freely. regardless of the law.
Yet a majority of the audience is report
ed as having been with Blease and IA
vorinS him enthusiastically. as indicated
by the applause bestowed upon his ut
terHnCes.
In the following kindly terms he al
ludsd to Mayor Grace. of Charleston
another popular idol. recently his de-
voted friend and follower. and elected
last year to preside over the destinies OF
the city:
He intimated that he recent break
The Washington herald., 1912-08-16
ROYALTY IN DIVORCE COURT
TONGUES OF GOSSIP WAC

kissed by the First Lord of the Admir-
atty Is generally regarded as the genuine
enc Its singular reputation is supposed
to date from the time of Queen Eliza
beth. when the Lord OF Blarney. bssieged
by her troops, was so successful in hum
bugg1ng their commander that the word
"blarney' became permanently added to
the English language. The stone bears
this inscription:
camac Mccarthy Forts Me
Fien Fecit. A. ID. LAG.
Cormac Mccarthy was the Lord of
Blarney at the time when the castle
was besieged by Queen Elizabeth's
troops. ana II Is said that Queen "Bess"
herself was the first to use the phrase,
1T Is all Blarney."
Paris has learned from an interesting
official report made public recently what
1t costs the French republic to entertain
Kings or Queens Thus the expression
treated right royalty assumes a def
mite meaning for the Parisians. Figures
show that It cost that city something
more than 100000 to be host for the
Car Of Russia on his memorable visit,
which marked the French-Russian alll-
ance, but only S6.Ooe was spent to give
the King of Sweden q good time while
In Paris. Three times that amount was
dlsbursed to entertain King Alfonso on
the visit when an anarchist threw a
bomb at him. The King OF Portugal was
comparatively cheap guest, costing
only about $4,000. On the King of Nor
way $50. 600 was expended; on the King
OF Italy ss5.00o. and on the late King of
Denmark $4,000 FLANEUR.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-16

Frum the Syracuse Post-Standard.
Gov. Wilson is a radical who has
adopted most of the planks which the
] colonel has in his platform, and who
Z has a fuency and aptness IN expressing
! his ncw-fOund convictions equal TO the
colonels There need he no disputing his
! persona. popularity in those Western
States where the Progressive movement
| is strongest. He represents TO thousands
| in the West. Republicans as well as
Democrats. what Roosevelt represents
Further upon the primary principle OF
( Progress!vism. the principle which gave
the whole movement birth, Wilson is
/ outspoken. while Roosevelt is evasive
! Wilson is free trader. He wants the
tariff schedule cut 10 the bone. He has
no sympathy whatever with the proteC-
: tive principle.
| BY the nomination of Wilson the Dem
oCrats have defined sharply the issue be-
! tween the parties. Mr.. Taft's platform
J is his administration. an efficient and
progressive conduct Of government af-
fairs without any populistic frilIs. Gov.
| Wilson and the Bryan Democracy rep
resent the TadCalism which the people
/ have repeatedly rejected. including the
sort of tariff tinkering with which we
! had an experience under the last DEM
oCratiC administration.
If Col Roosevelt should determine to
become a candidate he will represent
| the Roosevelt policies. which are gen.
orally identical with the Bryan policies
now championed by Wilson. The appeal
OF Wilson and of Roosevelt will be large-
/ " to the same classes. Perhaps in view
of this fact the colonel may decide not
/ 10 run after all. Republicans may await
| cOmplacently his decision.
As between President Taft and Gov.
! Wilson there should be no question Of
New iork's vote, and New York will
decide.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-16
A Peculiarly vicious" Trust.

A great many of the sixty million
readers of the thousands of small news
papers of this country often may have
looked with awe upon the columns of
matter. as a rule printed on inside
pages, from the capitals of the world
which enterprisine publishers manage
TO give them each week But only a
few have been in the secret of the
'boilerplate' and the ready print"
which made such a feat not only pos
sible but very easy.
somewhat aghsst to learn that they
have been saved from becoming vic
tins of a peculiarly vicious" trust by
the efforts of watchful government
which has obtained a decree against
the concerns engaged in supplying this
matter, on the ground that they were
about to form combination that would
mold public opinion"
\ trust in restraint of thought has
been nipped in the bud Since this vast
quantity of words is sold without
change to newspapers of all shades of
political opinion. one would suppose
that it must be rather impartial As a
matter of fact, the bulk of it is no:
political at all, but tells of the latest
fashions in dress. accidents, discoveries.
and. in general, anything that may in
terest. amuse, or even thrill
Yet the Department of Justice fore
sees the misuse OF this power over
the human mind by those who would
pay for the opportunity Of mstilling
certain economic ideas in the minds
of the public This must not be- The
news associations proceeded against
will have TO go to the trouble of cor-
rupting the nation singly instead of
in combination. and the struggling
small city or country newspaper will
be made TO pay so much more for the
legitimate desire to please its readers
with good news and literary matter
which it is not able financially to have
set up in type. +
1t is another case of hunting Offend
ers in the far distance when crime is
rampant at our very doors.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-16
The Hookworm North,

From the Philadelphia Record.
We had long suspected 1t. and now we
have the high authority of the Rockefel-
Ter Sanitary Commission for the Eradi-
cation of Hookworm Disease for the be-
lief that that disagreeable ailment. which
makes men and women prone TO great
laziness is among us. The commission
has found 1t in nearly every county OF
Virginia aaa in West Virginia. and there
is very strong clinical evidence of Its
presence in Maryland" Why should the
hookworm tarry at Mason and Dixon $
line? II one may judge by the scores OF
leisureIy persons who will stand for hours
watching a building operation. the lifting
of a safe to an upper story window, or
any other incident of everyday city life,
the hookworm has already crossed the
border and claimed its victims in Penn
sylvania The commission has found
that It exists in all the Southern States
and in California. Nevada. and Oklahoma.
Evidently the North IS not to escape its
ravages.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-16
Lcrdons Nocturnal Workers.

From Exchange.
There are hundreds Of people who work
while London sleeps For instance. the
big London bakeries are Centers of active
industry during the night. and before I
o clock loaves. rolls. buns. &C. are ready
to be conveyed to the smaller bakers
shops and various restaurants
All night the FISH trains come steamirg
in from the coast and Rillingsgate is a
scene Of constant hustle The toilette
mysteries OF cabs. buses. and other pub
lie vehicles take place during the night
time
Post-office sorting is one of the most
important branches of night work. And
the Office Of a big daily newspaper huns
like a hive.
The policeman who Patrols the city
streets is a man weighted heavily with
responsibility. But. strangely enough.
night duty with Robert is usually fair
Iy popular.
The men in gas house are compelled
10 work at night. and the great under
ground mains OF electric light are also
laid in the silent hours