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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-18
ABLE LINED. UP
WITH HASBEENS

II New York fight critics can be
depended upon to give the true facts
Of the recent bout between Abe Attell
and Harry Thomas in the metropolis
the other night the once peer pug of
the "22" Founders can safely be ad-
ded to the has been" class. and that
his endeavors to regain his lost title
from Johnny Kilbane will surely prove
fruitless.
Attell tried his utmost to box
Thomas from a clever standpoint. but
It seemed as If his feet were stuck
to the mat. and he shuffled around
the ring like a flat-footed novice, his
better ring generalship saving the
foxy one from going the route. Ac-
cording to that. one Foxy Abraham
Attell will in all probabilities have the
to secure bouts. So 1t would be a
good idea for Able to retire.
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FOND
Of BASEBALL
Many Teams are Organized
and Regular Games Play
ed in Shanghai.
(By Marshall d. Taylor.)

(6y Marshall ID. Taylor.)
American baseball lis making great
inroads in the world Of sport in the
orient. This is all the more remark
able when one considers the immense
distances which intervene between the
various white settlements. After leav-
ing sa nFrancisco for China, our ma
tional game is played only 1T Homo
lulu and Manila, before Shanghai 10
reached. After leaving Shanghai for
the states. via the sues canal and the
Mediterranean. no baseball IL played
until New York is reached.
o. D. Rasmussen Of Shanghai. Chi
ma. at present a member Of the Log
Angeles Cricket cub. plays shortstop
on the Shanghai baseball mine. This
team is n Of the best In the orient.
1t numbers among it's players the
very flower OF our colleges and uni
versities. .
Numerous games are played with
visiting warships Of Uncle sam'e
Asiatic feet. Teams from the Gin
%cinnati. Maryland. Virginia and Hell
ena keep up the interest In our ma
tional game whenever they are in
port. Even the Villalobos and other
war vessels captured during the
AS0u WdE AuQ low 0OI0k
river duty on the Hoang-ho and
Yangtse-Kian8. send their baseball
teams to play Shanghai.
The Chinese and Japanese have
taken kindly to the game and are
proving expert players. St. Johns
college. which Is preparatory to Yale.
the Imperial Polytechnic college and
the Japanese Military college, play
regular scheduled games.
Last year was a banner season for
the Shanghai baseball nine, as 1t in
|cluded such players as D. Anderson,
lcatcher. T. Merritt. third base, both
of the University Of Virginia; 7. G.
White left fielder Of the University Of
Pennsylvania; c. F. wolsiffer, right
field Of the University Of Chicago; W.
E. sauer, center field: F. W. Ha.tley
and I. N. Jameson. pitchers Of the
University of California; c. N. steig-
er, pitcher Of Yale: o. D. Rasmussen.
shortstop Of the West Melbourne high
school. Australia. and T. Wilson, first
base, and ]. Sneed. second base.
Most Of the above named players
are connected with the American d.
plomatic corps and large commercial
houses. such as the British American
Tobacco company. which manuiac-
lures daily some 100000 cigarettes.
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Many Notable Drivers Are
Entered in Grand Prix Race

ers in a single road race. The money
Is to be split up among the first five
competitors, the winner getting S.
600. in addition to the Grand Prize
cup. The International rules. which
govern the race. are simple. There IL
no restrictions regarding the power OF
weight of the car. All machines must
have. first. a reverse gear, driven by
the motor; second. an exhaust which
is not directed to the ground; third,
the overall width of the car must moi
exceed 6 feet, Q inches. Any agent OF
oxidation other than atmospheric all
Is forbidden, as is the cas- with all
automobile races nowadays.
Last year at Savannah. the Wander.
bilt cup race was run before the
grand prize event. There is a rever.
sal Of things this year and the Van.
derbilt will be run four days after the
Grand Prix contest. on September 81
On the day preceding the Vanderbilt
cup race will be run the aces for the
Pabst trophy and the Wisconsin chal'
lenge trophy. Inasmuch as the Crane
Prix is an international race. 1t Is sane
toned by the Automobile club o,
America, whereas the other three
races are sanctioned by the American
Automobile association. which ha!
control of national racing in thi'
Sou1ASiS. AuS cUeHlSs AOWSN0Is Will "
conducted by the Milwaukee Automo
bile Dealers association.
The Vanderbilt u race has a no
table list Of drivers. many Of whom
will be seen in the Grand Prix also
Among the pilots are Ralph Milford
Knox; Hughie Hughes. Mercer: Spen'
Ger Wishart, Mercer; Teddy Ttezlaff
Fiat; Ralph De Palma, Mercedes. and
Harry c.. Nelson, Lozier. The race II
to be a class e." or non-stock, event
which is open to class co. cars Of no
more than 500 cubic inches or les.
than sol cubic inches piston displace'
ment. The ars will v the circuit
thirty-four times. making a total o.
about 1865 miles. In accordance will
the deed of gift. the winner Of the
Vanderbilt may retain the cup for one
year. In addition he will receive $500
ir cash and a permanent donor,
Some Notable Drivers.
trophy.
Considerable interest will be cen
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The first event of Milwaukee's speed
carnival, the Grand Prix rae has
sent back to September % and
will be run over a course of SO miles
in length. The circuit, which was i'm
proved at a cost of more than $4,000.
speediest of road courses in America,
and the race drivers who have tried
it out are of the opinion that some
new road race records will be hung
up. Practice has been going on all
during the last week and will continue
until tonight. That the ace for the
grand prize cup Of the Automobile
club Of America will be a slashing con-
test from start to finish is made GER
tain by the character OF the drivers
Who are entered in it.
David Bruce-Brown. the two-time
winner of the Grand Price ace in
America, will be seen at the wheel Of
a monster Fiat machine. Ralph De
drivers who captured the Hottest hon
ors at Elgin, are entered. De Palma
will drive a Mercedes and Hughes will
be seen at the wheel of his wire
wheeler Mercer. Teddy Tetzlaff. the
best known OF western drivers. who
averaged 1875 miles per hour in the
Santa Monica road race, will be a
teammate of Bruce-Brown. and Caleb
Bragg will also drive a Fiat. Bragg
a%lternated with Tetzlaff in the 500.
mile race at Indianapolis last May and
scored second place with him.
Bob Burman Entered.
The speed king. Bob Burman. who
has out-sped everything but a bullet,
will be at the wheel of a Benz ma
chine. Erwin Bergdoll will be a team
mate Of Burman's as will also Joe
Dawson. the winner Of the last 500
mile race at Indianapolis. provided he
is reinstadted by the contest board OF
the American Automobile association.
There are several other noted drivers
who have made tentative entries
whose names will be announced before
the entries close today.
The Grand Prix race will be a 40
mile affair, covering A laps of the
course. The sum of $4,000 in gold,
in addition to the trophy is offered
the largest sun ever put up for driv-
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WHY DON'T THEY
GET TOGETHER
Adarnson Writes That Wal
ter Miller is the Man
He's After.

Duluth. Sept. 1s.-wil Ed Adam
son and Walter Miller ever wrestle?
That's a question that is no nearer
. solution today than 1t was some
six months ago. when the Little De-
mon Of Chicago first hurled a chal-
lenge at the head Of the little st. Paul
Pole.
Today there. are three men in the
world who dispute the title at the
middleweisht limit. Miller. Gehring
to lay q just claim to the title. The
three great little wrestlers are In dis
pute as to the rightful claimant.
Walter Willoughby and Ed. Adam
son look with covetous eyes at the
claims set forth by the three men
mentioned. Adarnson is fair in the
proposition he makes. He offers to
wrestle all Of the wrestlers claiming
the title. to let the claimants Of the
title choose who shall come first. and
agrees to abide by the decision of
middleweight champion. when the
contests have been settled.
Late yesterday a letter came from
Adamson. under a Waterloo. Iowa.
date line. Evidently the Little De-
mon has not given UP the hope Of get
ting Miller on the mat. Here is what
Edward says in part:
II have not given up the chase Of
slippery Miller. He has evaded me
for over three years, giving as the ex-
cuse that he has turned middleweight.
Right on top of this he refuses to let
me come in at the middleweight lin
It. Will you or any other fairminded
man show me any reason IN this?
miller seeks one excuse after an
other, like a drowning man grabbing
straws. First he said that he was
only after the middleweights. I am
after the same game. 1 WIZ wrestle
Yokel, Gehring or Walter Willoughby.
and I will let Willoughby come in at
1853 or loot don't make any differ
ence to me-. I will beat them, too. But
II I beat that bunch. do you think
Miller would give me a chance?
II have always Thought Walter was
game. as a gruelled him for over two
hours once and he didn't even whim-
per. But when you make every fair
proposition that a be made to a
man. and he then refuses to wrestle
you. 1t Is only reasonable that you
should think he is afraid of you.
miller is the man I want. 1t Is a
personal matter with me. He has be-
Titled me on several occasions. tell
ing some Of his friends that I said
] was weak from making weight
merely as an excuse to let me down
easy.
Let that 60. 1 came out like a
man and said l was beaten fairly. I
will wrestle Miller winner take all.
permitting him to come onto the MAJ
without getting on the scales. while I
will jump on the beam before taking
of my bath robe and will agree not to
move the notch at 1853. I will agree
to let any fair minded man Miller
may suggest act as referee, and to
make the match interesting I will
post $3.50. as a forfeit ana side bet.
81 have written to the Chicago and
Kansas City sporting writer's. submit
ting a similar proposition to them. I
am going to force Miller on the mat.
IL it takes all winter. I am going into
business in the spring. so this will be
my last year in the wrestling game.
Before I hang up my toys I want to
have the scalp Of Miller. Does he
want me to cut off an arm to wrestle
him."
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AUTO NEWS
+ 4 +

Not so long ago artists Of the comic
supplements delighted to picture the
automobile as an absurdly cumber-
some piece Of machinery. propelled
for the most part by farm and truck
horses. rather than by power sener-
ated by gas food. However. that stage
has long since passed. and, now, the
motor car might be compared to a
swallow for grace and so fully able
to care for itself that not even q pass
ing glance is given it's fast disappear
ing oldtime friend. And one need
not be a Samson. a locomotive engi-
neer nor an expert mechanic in order
to operate the mechanism Of the
|modern automobile.
The sales managers conYention. de-
cided upon a short time g by the
trade committee Of the automobile
board Of trade. will be held at Its
headquarters in New York on Monday
and Tuesday. September 80 and octo-
Der 1. 1912.
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CARLISLE AT PRACTICE

Carlisle, Pa, Sept. lS.-The pre-
liminary football practice of the car
Isle Indians under Captain Thorpe in
dicates that the team will be in fair
~ good shape for the early dates.
honors have made him the idol of his
team mates. is in the pink of condi-
ton. His great speed and punting are
features and lend a great deal Of in
terest to the practice. Daily scrim-
mage will he the order until after the
first few practice games.
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CHANCE UNDER KNIFE.

New YORK, Sept. 18.-ManageI
Frank Chance Of the Chicago National
league baseball team. who was oper-
ated on here yesterday for a blood clot
at the base Of his brain. was reported
believes that the operation will result
in q permanent cure and that Chance
will be able to return to baseball as q
player.
Chance has been troubled with vio.
lent headaches for more than a year.
His affliction a believed to have
caused by a blow on the head from
~ 80 '" 10" - --.--
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tered In the small a i. or "baby car"
event for the Wisconsin trophy. This
Is a class c non-stock race for cars
having 126-230 cubic inches. The lit
tie machines will cover twenty laps Of
the course. making a total Of 1855
miles. In addition to the trophy the
winner will receive $1,000 in gold and
also a donors cup. In this race are
entered three Mercer cars. a Mason, a
Case and a Cino.
The competition for the Pabst
trophy is open to class &C" non-stock
cars having a piston displacement Of
231-3O0 cubic inches. The cars In this
event will be required to v twenty
five laps. making a total distance Of
2l8 miles. The award Of possession
Of trophy for one year carries an adj
ditional prize Of $4,000 in cash to the
winner. Analogous to the Vanderbilt
cur conditions a special donors
trophy for permanent ownership will
go to the winner. The cars so far n
tered in this event are three Masons.
two Flanders and Herreshoff ma
chimes.
Everything is in readiness for the
meet A grandstand, seating $4,000
people, has been erected. Bart J..
Ruddle. manager Of the meet; I. g..
Hickman. president Of the M. A. D.
A.; August A. Jonas. chairman Of the
racing board and others Of the COM
mittee have made every provision to
safeguard the public and contestants.
Milwaukee expects to have about 200,-
600 visitors.
Unlike the majority Of farmers Of
Long Island, who, at first, were OPP
posed to the running Of he Vanderbilt
cup race there, the farmers along the
Milwaukee race course are co-operat-
ing in every way possible with the race
managers for the success Of the meet.
They have gone so far as to repaint
fences. plant flowers. ETC., to make
their places presentable for visitors.
This shows the spirit which the peo-
pie Of Milwaukee are showing in the
race meet,
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of Kid Gleason would be an irrepara-
BILE loss to the White Sox, there is no
denying that Comiskey's head coach
is Of managerial size in spite of his
diminutive stature. Gleason is the
biggest little man in baseball. He is
universally liked by baseball players.
has a knowledge of the workings Of
inside baseball possessed by few men
in the game. and 1t Is subject for Won
der that this light has been hid under
a bushel SO many yearS
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Chicago. Sept. 17.-Kid Gleason,
who has been head coach of the Chi
cago American team this season. has
been offered the job as manager of the
Cleveland Maps for 1913. and it is
more than likely he will accept. Pres
ident Somers of the Cleveland club be-
lieves Gleason is the best man avail
able for the position and should make
a winner out of the Maps with the ma
terial on hand. While the departure
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his record the Giants were playing
great ball. whereas the team behind
Johnson didn't make nearly so many
runs to help him. Connie Mack says
Johnson is worth $4,000 and that il
he were added to the Boston Ameri.
cans pitching staff the Red Sox would
without a doubt win the worlds ser.
les.
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American League
Mans Take Double Header.

Maps Take Double Header.
Cleveland, Sept. 1S.-Cleveland
took two games from Boston today
thereby preventing the leaders from
%clinching the 1912 pennant. Both
games were close. Clevelend winning
each time in their final turn at bat.
The first game. a pitchers battle be-
tween Collins and Gregg went eleven
innings, finally being lost by Boston
on successive hits by Turner, Jack
son and Lajoie. Carisch featured this
game by making three singles. a
double and a triple in five times at
bat.
In the second game, after Boston
had taken the lead. in the fourth inn
ing, Cleveland came right back and
won the game on a pass to Turner.
outs by Jackson and Lajoie and hits
by Hendrix and Graney.
First game r. H. e.
Cleveland $50. .......... 4 IA 1
Gregg ana carisch; Collins and
Carrigan.
Second game r. H. E.
Sssss'an "a. -, : : !
Winnings, Banding and o'Neil:
O'Brien and Cady.
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National League
Standing of the Club.

Games Yesterday.
Pittsburgh 3, Brooklyn z.
Cincinnati |, Philadelphia z.
Chicago S, New York 3.
st. Louis 1, Boston 5.
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f MAKING GOOD.

Winnipeg Free Press: Mark Freer,
the old Maroon. has made good with
q vengeance on the Vancouver team,
his playing being a sensation in his
hold a place on the team. He is
about the fastest man in the league.
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1t is rumored that the Boston
Braves intend to release Donnelly,
Brown. Dickson. Kirke. .IIouser. Dew
lin and O'Rourke.
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Washington. Sept. 17.-It is conced-
ed by experts that Walter johnson
delivers the swiftest ball of any pitch
er in the game today. Johnson's rec
ord Of sixteen straight wins also is re-
garded by the critics as better than
the feat of Marquard, who won nine
teen games. When Marquard made
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Cubs e Giants.

OUUS K6EuC VIdnCS.
the deciding game Of the three games
series yesterday by hitting Marquard
hard in the second and third innings.
The score was s to g.. Crandall, who
relieved Marquard, was invincible and
held Chicago to three hits. Cheney
was effective in every inning but the
fifth when New York punched three
hits with a muff by Sheckard scored
three runs. Evers was put out of
the game by Umpire Owens in the
sixth inning when he was called out
trying to reach second on a short hit.
r. H. E.
New York 6 2
Cnlcago & 2
Marquard. Crandall. Meyers and
Wilson; Cheney apd Archer.
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PhilIies Defeat Reds.

TIlII1eS OclCat HCdS.
Philadelphia, Sept. 1S.-Philadel-
phia's losing streak was broken
when Cincinnati was defeated by Z
to I. The visitors were unable to
solve Seaton's delivery, it being his
fifth victory over Cincinnati this sea-
son. The game was won in the
fourth inning when the home team
punched three hits off Suggs, coupled
with three error and a passed ball
by Cincinnati.
R. H. E.
Philadelphia IL /
Clnclnnatl 4
Seaton and Doom; Suggs, Harter
and Severotd.
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Pirates Finally Lose.

I1rdEt1 TTIaIIy IUSt.
Brooklyn, Sept. 1S.-Brooklyn hit
the ball hard and broke Pitts
burgh's winning streak. The score
was z to 3. The visitors used four
pitchers. Home runs by Daubert and
Wheat in the fifth inning were the
features. Wheat. Fisher and Wagner
did great fielding. Charlie Stengel, a
Brooklyn optional purchase from the
Southern league, made four singles,
walked and stole a base. 1t was his
first appearance.
r. II. E.
Pittsburgh s 0
Brooklyn II l
Rucker and Miller: Hendrix, Ferry.
Adams, Smith. Simon, Kelley and
Blackburn.
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Senators Lose to Colonels.

Senators Lose to Colonies.
Columbus. o.. Sept. 1S.-Northrop
saved the last game Of the season in
Columbus for Louisville by going to
Gwinn's relief in the ninth with one
out and the bases full. He caused
fielders. A bare handed catch by
Shelton and Fishers batting were the
features.
r. II. E.
Columbus o.. ............ 2 6 IL
Louisville 80. ............ 3
Walker and Smith; CHM and Lud-
wig.
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American Assn.

Millers Lost to Kaws.
Kansas City. Mo-. Sept. 1S.--MiXing
hits with Kansas City's errors. Min
neapolis took the second game Of the
series form the locals.
r. H. E.
Kansas City ............ \ s 2
Minneapolis 80. ......... 6 10 o
Schlitzer and James: Ltllivelt. Wad-
dell. and Owens, Smith.
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Boston Wins Again.

I3OSCON WINS again.
Boston. Sept. 1s.--Bostan made it
three out Of four from st. Louis by
winning by 5 to 4. Perdue pitch
ed a steady game. Boston hit all
three of the St. Louis pitchers. scor-
ing . n each. Evans hit safely each
Of his three times at bat.
r. II. r.
St. Louis IL 2
Perdue and Killing: Merritt, Steele,
Geyer and B~resnahan.
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Considerable interest will be cen
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-22
ACTIVE DEMOCRAT
OF FIT. MADISON
Hon. NJ. c. Roberts Will Later be a
Candidate for the Postoffice at
the Other County Seat.

Hon. Y. C. Roberts. publisher OF the
Fort Madison Democrat, was in Keo-
kuk Friday and spent some time
in the water-power works,
Mr.. Roberts did not deny that a.
the proper time he viii be candi-
date for the Fort Madison postoffice,
since the next postmaster there win
be democrat
Insofar as democracy is qualifica-
ton for he appointment, Mr.. Roberts
can qualify in the finals with any
bodv hereabouts. Ever since he grad
uated from short trousers he has
been writing for the Evening Demo
crat and for years made it thorn in
the flesh of the republicans of this
section For four years he was a
member OF the democratic congress
sional district committee and its
i chairman for two years Also and in
addition, he was member of the dem
ocratic state committee for two years
and its secretary for two years, when
the iowa democracy was working like
a mule pulling at a concrete bridge
and with as little hope Of actually &C
compiishing much. Probably Mr.
Roberts thinks that TO the workers
in those days belongs the fleshpots O
these years of plenty succeeding thu
years Of famine which were more
than seven for the Iowa democracy.
MI Roberts is now an elector from
u<Nfl
over the other democratic electors i
his home town and county The las
time a democratic elector from thi
district of Iowa voted for a presider
tial candidate was in 1852, sixty year
ago-so that casting vote fer
son next January is historical ever
as we'll as a pleasure to the stalwal
democrat who will cast II in the ele
D. torai college.
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ONE MILL
ROAD TAX LEVY
Iowa Good Roads Association Fayors
Immediate Measures to I'M
prove State Roads.

DIES MONIES, Ia, Dec. N.-The
Iowa Good Roads Association Went
on record at the closing session as
favoring a / mill tax levy, bond iB-
sues and the organization OF q state
highway commission with adequate
powers to provide for system Of per-
manently improved highways in the
state of Iowa Every resolution sub
mitted by the committee on resolu-
tions was adopted by conference,
those favoring permanent roads carry
ing practically unanimously
The resolution asks the safe
s25. 100000 for permanent roads
throughout the state and to assess
one mill road tax levy for two years
before this bond issue is available
The resolution was first approved by
subcommittee and then by the en-
tire resolutions committee. A one
mill tax would make available $4,000,
900 a year to initiate the scheme OF
permanent roads in the state, it il
said. The plan also proposes tbs
use of the auto tax for permanent
roads.
Governor B. F. Carroll assured the
members of the Iowa Good Road con
vention that he would recommend thu
plan adopted by the association fol
permanent roads in the state legisla
cure when it convened in January.