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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-01-26

The young folks gave a dinner the
other night over in Newport to raise
| funds to build a walk to the ceme-
terry" The object was a worthy one
and if folks want to dance their way
into the cemetery over a nice board
walk they should by all means be
permitted to do so. This calls to
mind a remembrance of my boyhood
days spent in a little town in Iowa
where the cemetery was about the
only SHOW place" at the disposal of
the people We had a walk to the
cemetery and on every pleasant Sun
day, the cemetery was the mecca of
those who strolled for pleasure. 1
used to go there myself but, even
then, I couldn't see any particular
pleasure in wandering around the
grave stones and reading the inscrip-
tions. 1t was further, out to the fair
grounds, but it always pleased me
better to go there, sit in the empty
grand stand" and gaze at the weed |
grown race track, than to stroll amid |
the marble shafts in the beautifully |
wooded tract on the hillside. But !
the cemetery was the only approach |
to a park that the town had, so it |
was used to the limit When Cousin
a week at our house the first place
we took them was the cemetery. We
showed them the big granite column
that Banker Stone had erected over
the grave of his first wife" and that
paved the way for bit of gossip re-
garding the rumors that Stone and
his second wife didn't get along very
well and that Mrs Jones who went
here to beg a dollar for the preach
RS salary, and had been admitted
to the front parlor, said that the
irst Mrs, Stones enlarged picture
lad disappeared from the place over 9
he mantle where it had hung since
he fall that Stone and his wife had !
made that visit to Chicago. We
howed our Ohio relatives the graves
n the potter's field and told how the
.illage drunkard had passed away "
nd nobody had cared enough about
i'm or his family to save his remains
rom reposing in that lonely portion
( the silent city" oh, it must have .
cen an enjoyable afternoon for the <
buckeyes. The young swains and o
heir sweethearts used to stroll out d
the cemetery on pleasant Sunday d
fternoons and make love under the l
1ady naples down where the rip II
ling river slipped past in soft and 81
reamy gurgles. To be sure the birds q
illed their happiest chorus amidst -
lie whispering leaves and the sun y
lone, and the breezes kissed our o'
leeks with a soft caress. but still. ru
e hallowed precincts never w.~e pa
lite forgotten and it was the las. pc
ace one would seek. it always Ga
emed to me, for a pleasure siesta. -
5 the last place folks expect to IN
!. and the average run Of humanity
esn't want to get too familiar with 20
before they go to stay.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-01-26

A brighter era Is dawning Tor Al
oany. A new wheel came for their
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-01-26

Referring 10 the communication.
printed IN another column. signed
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-01-26

A disastrous conhagration occurred
In Forest Grove the other night nc
cording 10 the newspapers. A tee
phone pole caught fire and immcdi-
ately a general alarm was rung in
and every piece Of apparatus I'm the
city responded instanter. The great
fire illumined the country for miles
around until folks in Hnlsboro
thought Mt Hood was erupting. An
immense crowd gathered and watch
ed the grand sight and commended
the Efforts OF the brave hreraen to
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-01-26

Candidates petition blanks i0r '
at The Observer Office.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
Minor Colleges Growing Strong, Old Eli Is Worried
COACH HElSMAN CAN'T SEE HOPE FOR TECH

ton, and | see no reason why II
can not happen at Yale also. or at
any other college, big or little.
1t all comes back to this college
spirit stuff. It's like love and
electricity-a something intangible
invisible, unweighable and unmeas-
uraole, yet none the less real and
potent. and a thing to conjure with.
II college boys don't keep a sharp
lookout their spirit is Just as ant
TO run down and out as an electric
battery Everything may look Just
the same on the outside and even
on the inside, but. the fires out"
just the same.
Loud Walls in the West.
In the West. Minnesota was
beaten the other day by South
Dakota. Can you beat it? Yost is
complaining that his material at
Michigan is the poorest he has had
IN a long time, and Stage is saying
the same thing at Chicago.
In the South. Vanderbilt ALWAYS
gets good material and McGugin
knows how to make good juse of it.
Their big score of 105 to 0 against
Bethel college has only been sur
passed in this section, so far as |
Know, by a score that Clemson
made against Guilford college in
1901. This was 1872 to 0. Yes: il
was simply a case of. 1OO-yard
dashes' one after, the other up and
down the field, and then take out
time, and rest. while the goals
were being kicked.
In the Matter of Spheroids.
In the past ] have smiled more
than once at the general emptiness
of rule ?, in the Official Guide.
which deals with the football itself.
Until this year the rule simply
said that the ball should be OF
leather, containing a rubber bIad-
der, and should have the shape of
a probate spheroid 1t said nothing
whatever as to how long the ball
should be. what it's size of circum-
ference, what it's weight whether
new or old. That was where pro
late spheroid" covered a pretty
wide field. | venture the assertion
that, aside from the assumption
that football possessed the shape
of probate spheroid just because
the rule said it had to be that
shape, not one player in thou
sand and not one official in a hun
dred could have told what a pro-
late spheroid was Where igno-
rance is bliss, etc, which was
probably the reason no one ever
cared to raise any arguments over
rule ?.
But so far as the rule was con-
cerned, team could have brought
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip

Joe Wood received number of threat
ening letters from New York fans. promis-
ing to shoot him il ne trimmed the Giants.
In any other city it would listen like a
joke, But, you see. in New York they
really do shoot
In 1904 the Giants refused to play the
Red Sox for the worlds title. Maybe it
wouldn't have been a bad idea To have
done the same thing this year. Time will
tell.
The National league won three worlds
series in a row in 1906. 1907 and 1908 If
the Red SoX cop now they will make it
three in row in the American league.
Fans cant seem to get away from the
idea that it pays the players of the world 3
series to string things out. 1t doesn't.
The series is -four out of seven" After
the fourth game the players don't get any
thing out OF it but the exercise So nat
urally II doesn't pay them to string it
along.
}, Franklin Baker has contributed his
dollar toward the Woodrow Wilson fund
Jesse Becker, the former Cracker out
fielder, was the second best batter in the
Virginia league this year, with .525. Steve
Griffin topped him with 1856
Three of the Red SoX players come from
far off California Hooper from Capitola.
Lewis from Alameda. and Hall from Ven
tura.
Well, Perdue has scored another vic
tory. Yes, downed DePauw 81 to O. You
see there are several Perdues, in addi-
ton to Hub
Pitcher Lacount. of Wanatah (Which is
somewhere in lndiana) broke Edward
Totes arm and dislocated Frank elf
ford's jaw with pitched balls in one ball
game. il appears needless to add that
Lacount was somewhat wild that after
noon.
That Balkan championship affair which
takes up SO much first page space may
last longer, but it's tame compared with
the worlds series.
Powell of Kansas City. Patterson of
Minneapolis, and Cutting of Milwaukee
each pitched five shut-out games this
year
1t is likely that Almeida and Marsans
will be forbidden by the Red management
to play ball in Cuba this winter. 1t is
feared that a lot of winter ball will cause
them to go stale when the league season
begins,
Chance has already had three offers to
manage National league clubs this year,
none of them from Charles Murphy
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
RAIN THREATENS TO
KILL CHICAGO GAME

CHICAGO, Oct. 1O.-Encouraged by
the fact that their teams played Wed
nesday despite the threatening wealth
er, thousands of Cub and SOx fans
wended their way to Comiskey park
early today to secure the choice seats.
The weather this morning was worse
than threatening. A light mist began
falling about o'clock and continued
for several hours. The sky was over
cast with heavy clouds that Indicated
rain in plenty. But the fans ardor
could not be dampened, and it is es-
timated that if the weather clears off q
larger crowd than Yesterdays 10000
win be on hand to see the game.
Walsh pitched in rare form yester-
day, holding the Nationals to one hit
Only 2S men faced him. He did not
issue a base on balls and struck out
seven men. Lavender also pitched a
mastery game. He held the Americans
to six scattered hits and received bril-
liant support The score was 0 to 0
and the game was called at the end of
the ninth on account of darkness.
The receipts were S11 ,62425. of which
S6,2S8.43 win go to the players, $2,096.16
TO each club owner and $1,164.25 to the
national commission.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
Techs Assistant Coach Analyses Which Play Here Saturday
ALABAMA SHOULD HAVE SLIGHT EDGE ON TECH

Piggy Hightowev got away with a
number. Ala bama was only sue
cessful in working two out of seven
last Saturday against Owenton coll
lege
At the kicking game Tech has
the call. as Mcdonald punts much
better than Joplin. the Alabama
quarrer.
All In all, 1t looks like a toss up
and a fight to the finish, II will be
one Of the best games of the season
as far as the evenness of the teams
is Concerned.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
By j. w. Heisman.
Coach of the Tech Team.)

THE big football teams of the
East have just finished their
preliminary games. IF the
scores Of these games alone told
the whole tale, we should at once
assume that Princeton and Penn
sylvania had strong elevens, while
vale, Harvard and Cornell were
undeniably weak.
Both the first named have won
derful back fields this year, and it
is fairly probable that the prelim-
.sar+ performances of these two
are by no means pan flashes" But
with the wealth of material that
both Yale and Harvard boasted of
a couple of weeks ago and the sys-
tenn of coaching, that obtains at
these places, | am far from be-
lieving that they viii not soon be-
gin to show us something vastly
different.
In Al Sharp, Cornell has a new
coach-that is, new to Cornell and
college ranks, but not to coaching.
Sharp is really one of the wisest
football men in the entire country.
and dare say we shall soon be-
Gin to note the effect of his work.
But Cornell is another of those
colleges that teach little outside
Of engineering, and when you try
this Lnl
have a real task before you. no
matter where your college is To-
Gated nor how many students it
enrolls
Some part of the answer to the
question. Why don't the big fell
lows invariably make monkeys of
the little chaps as they used to-"
lies in the fact thta the little fell
lows are growing some them selves.
Colgate plays pretty good football
nowadays; so does Washington and
jefferson. and so, occa stonally, does
Wesleyan.
Is Old Eli Stamping?
Yale men are seriously agitated,
none the less over the suggestion
that Old Eli is going through a
period of actual athletic decadence.
Il is true the Ellis haven't won a
college championship in any i'm
portant athletic sport in several
years, and the charge is openly
made by sons of Yale that now
adays the students at the New
Haven institution go out on the
field with the sole idea in their
heads of making their "Y," and
not with the pole-star Of athletic
supremacy for Yale as their aim
Well. that has been the case often
enough at many another institu-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
PHILLIES FIELD POORLY
AND LOSE TO ATHLETICS

PHILADELPHIA. oct. 1O.-The Phil
adelphia American league baseball
team won its second game in the To-
cal inter-leagup series here yesterday.
defeating the Philadelphia National
league players by a score of 4 to 0.
Houck, the young oregon twirIer,
pitched for the former worlds cham
pions and gave only three hits Chai-
.mers pitched a steady game for the
Phillies. but received poor support
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10

out a football as big a a barrel
had they chosen to do so, and one
that weighed a ton or an ounce,
and the other team would not have
been able to pull a rule book to
beck up a kick. SO long al the
blooming thing had the right
shape
Putting One Over on Vandy.
The only time | , ever saw the
question of kind of ball come up in
a game was in 1906. when a match
vas on between Tech and Wander
.hilt at Tech park. 1t was fear
fully wet and stormy day. and in
four seconds after the game start
ed the ball was slicker than the
head of a Chinese doll. Well. we
had determined al Tech that if we
scored we were going to take. out
the old ball and substitute for it a
new. dry ball with which TO kick
goal. And so it befell. else would
. there be no tale to tell Imagine
the CONSERVATION of the referee
and the loud protests from the
Commodores when we threw out
the ball and called on our substi-
tute, who was carrying the new one
under his sweater, to let us have
il. The referee said we couldn't
do it, but we asked him. to show it
to us in the rule book. He looked
and he looked, but he found moth
ing, All ne had to argue on was
the probate spheroid proposition,
and he decided not to tackle that
one And so we kicked the goal
with the new, dry ball, and made
sure of our extra point
Before we forget, the rule this
year reads that. in addition to the
former requirements. the ball shall
henceforth be tightly inflated"
shall have a circumference of %
to % - inches around its long
axis. of p II to % inches around
its short axis. and shall weigh from
IA to 10 ounces. Presumably all of
ficials are going about this year
with tape line and a pair Of
scales in their hip pockets
Tech Outlook CHASTITY.
Tech managed to squeeze
through the games with Eleventh
cavalry and Citadel without being
knocked out. The cavaIrymen had
pretty good team-iust about
such team in all respects as
expected to see. They were a fine
looking set of men and thoroughly
good sports. Had Tech euuaIed
them in weight l have no doubt
the Yellow Jackets would have
won. Had the day and the ground
and the ball been dry, I make no
doubt Tech would again have won.
for the Jackets had little chance
Of bucking that heavy line of SOL
diers down to a touchdown on q
wet field: and yet what else can
one try on a soft footing?
Tech will be gritty, as l have said
before, but there are few latent
possibilities of development into
high-grade and powerful machine.
How can there be with an average
weight of 155.1-2 and absolutely
no substitutes?
was doubtful whether we could
win from Citadel or not But we
did. | am even more uncertain
about Alabama. They tied us last
year when we had better team.
Every game Tech plays this fall
will be a life and death struggle,
with the accent on the death"
But there's some glory even in dy-
tng-if you Go it with your boots
on.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
PIPE DREAMS
ODE TO AUTUMN.
BY GEORGE {. PHAIR

THE melancholy days have come,
The saddest of the year,
When Murphy fights the Demon
Rum
And not voice to cheer
Mr. Murphy, who will train his ath-
'etes IN Florida next spring, overIoo<s
the tact that he can procure the use of
the Desert of Sahara rent free.
after listening to various magnates,
one CLEANS the impression that aside
rom Beng the acme of perfidy, inqui-
y and deoauchery, baseball is clean
sport,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10

works it will gain more ground than
any other football play. 1t should
be easier for Alabama, with Van
degraaf running with the ball TO
go around Techs weak defensive
ends than it will be for Cook or
Fielder, Techs halfbacks. to get
around Alabama's strong defensive
ends
Both Weak at Pass.
Neither team has shown much in
the forward pass line so far, Tech
has never had much success with
the forward pass since 1908, whaa
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
BAND.

T'ay'ng Onward. Christian Soldiers.
MEMBERS OF w. c. T.U.
CAMEL.
Driven by F. SchuIte.)
FLOAT.
demon Rum in Chains.)
c, WEBB MURPHY.
Guarded by 5000 Pinkertons,)
-O7ORT OF PROHlBlTIONISTS.
CUBS.
'H'dng on Water Waaon.)
BAND.
'pIaWng Funeral March.)
THE ELIXIR.
SEE Hank ODay
One summer dav
10 johnny King. seq he:
one moment, John,
Before you're gone
J." nave a word with We.
You used to be
cub" SEE he.
And winked knowing wink
Just let me know
Before you go
what brand of booze they drink"
GRACE Toge who fain would clean
09seoail, possesses the chief requi-
'''s OF vacuum cleaner.
.,...., '0 tans have only one fault to find
=. .''0 the suspension of Hon. Finneran.
~ Is not permanent.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
CARDS WIN OPENER FROM
LOVELY ST. LOUIS BROWNS

ST LOUIS. oct. lo.-The local Ma
tional league team won the opening
game OF the inter league city cham
pionship series with the American
league club Yesterday r 90 q. In ten
hard fought innings lr the 6na. in
ming slow fielding by The Americans
permitted the Nationals fn nN The
bases Two ucre oJt when the win.
ming run crossed tine plate.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
DEATH OF BRUCE-BROWN
DUE TO NARROW COURSE

MILWAUKEE, WIS, oct. 1O-The
coroners jury which investigated the
death of David Bruce Brown, the au-
tomobile driver who was killed when
his machine went into the ditch prior
to the Vanderbilt cup race last week.
has returned a verdict that the road
on which the race was driven was too
narrow for safety.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
A. A. c. TENNIS TITLE
WON BY CARLETON SMITH

c. Y. Smith has Just won the club
championship of the Atlanta Athletic
club for the third consecutive time.
In the final round he defeated E. V.
Carter, Jr., whom he met in the finals
last year also, score 6-3, GA, As 6-3
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
MERELY A SUGGESTION.

nelng as the city series is an event OF
'&s' import, it is but fitting that it be
'7'eotated with great eclat. What
'o1.o be more appropriate at this par
"'U.af time than an categorical page
ant to usher in one of the games?
paseant somewhat after the follow
ing fashion.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
AUTUMNAL TRAGEDY.
Old Father Hubbard

N'iu c'titOi Il uDDolu
Went to the cupboard
To look for his winter clothes:
But when he got there
The cupboard was bare,
So he went to the ball park and frothes.
WHO?
Who is the heavy hitting boke
Who laughs alike at curves and smoke
And looks on spitbals as a joke
The weather man.
Who is it beats the Giants, Sox
Or Cubs by twenty city blocks,
And costs the magnate piles of rocks?
The weather man.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10


coutns trip to see Alabama play las
TIME football season will be.
really opened in Atlanta next
Saturday
Tech and Alabama play at Tech
flats and the game promises to be
a thNller. Last year the two teams
fought for so minutes to score
less tie, with Tech having a Slight
edge in ground gaining This year
the two teams are very rvecty
matched and a corking good game
ought to be played Both teams
will probably try everything known
in the football line to bring home
the bacon.
Alabama Has One Star.
The Alabama team will depend
lot on its speedy left end. H
Nandegraaf This fellow is GER
tainly a wonderful football player.
In my opinion he is one of the best,
if not the very best, ends the South
has produced in the last five years.
He weighs close to $50 pounds
stripped and is one of the fastest
men playing football in Dixie to-
day. He has no weakness, His
running with the ball on an end
around end play is his strong suit.
however. No halfback in the
South has much on this lad when
II comes to skirting an end.
Tech will pin its hopes. on the
offense, on H. Cook and Captain
LEehrman. Luehrman is the best
line plunger on the Jacket squad.
end run plays
Visitors Have the Weight.
Alabama will weigh about 1867
pounds and Tech about 1853 Ala
bama also is fortunate in having
much faster ends and backs than
Tech. From this it would seem
that Alabama has the call Tech
figures, however. that the line. al
though lighter, has more age and
experience than Alabama's and viii
play better ball
Techs backheld, while not as fast
nor any more experienced than
Alabama. has better driving force
on line plays Alabama ends Just
simply have the call both on Of
tense and defense. This one impor-
tant department of teams play
gives Alabama the advantage 1t
is a fact that when an end run
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10

K axes Forfeit.
The Atlanta Grays, company K.
claimed forfeited game because the
Fulton Fusilliers, Company II, did not
report for the game. Company KS en-
tire team consisting of Mauck. Stall
ings, Aldred. Jarvis, Kahn and Rosser,
was present.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
REGIMENT TEAMS PLAY
FIRST BASKET BALL GAME
LEAGUE STANDING.

In one of the Cleanest basket ball
games ever played in Atlanta, the
team representing the Governors Horse
Guard met and defeated the represen-
tatives of the Atlanta Guards last night
The score at the end of the first half
stood "a to 7 in favor of the young
caValrymen and the final score was 60
10 16. No class b fouls were called
during the game and a total of only
seven class A fouls We're rung up on
both teams throughout the game This
no doubt sets a new local record for
the feWness of fouls
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
By w. A. Alexander.

assistant coach at Tech, who made a
scouting trip to see Alabama play last
Saturday.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-03-31
DEFEATED
BY SOUTHERN RY.
Railroaders Nose Ont o Streeters
in Exciting Twelve-inning
Battle.

The Southern Railroad team defeated
he Central High School team yesterday
afternoon in an exciting twelye-inning
game at the Capital City League
grounds by the score OF TO g.
The game was Snteresting and fun of
exciting plays. The railroad BOYS won
because OF superior batting and the fault
less pitching of Risdon, who relieved
Young in the eighth.
The playing OF Oberlin and HefIn was
very brilliant. the former taking ten
chances without a slIp-up, while the
latter put up a most creditable game
both In the field and at the bat Young's
spectacular catch Of Oberlins drive in
the ninth saved the game for the South
ern Railroad nine. The pitching OF Cox
and the catching Of Mess for the o
Streeters was commendable. Cox shows
signs of becoming one OF Centrars MAIN
stays In the box.
Central plays her next game Tuesday
with the Alexandria Cardinals, at Alex
andria Score: