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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-12-20
BY DONALD SINCLAIR

Hello-Everybody! 1t was with
great pleasure that I accepted Mr..
Mayar's kind offer, and with joy, in
deed, that I add you Echo folks to my
ever widening circle of nephews and
neices.
And now, boys and girls, young
men and maidens, and all you older
ones, invite you to come to me,
unresevedly and without hesitation,
with all the things that trouble or per-
plex you, and I will help you if can.
For that is the purpose OF this depart
ment, and the purpose for which I am
engaged as its editor-to help you
over the rough places. And remem-
Der this, that my home is far away from
Leavenworth, so that cannot meet
you and talk to you face to face, but
must depend for my information
entirely upon the letters which you
write to me, so please be as explicit as
possible.
Now, let me explain one or two
things. that we may fully understand
each other.
When you write to me, address
your letters to Uncle Donald, Care OF
The Leavenworth Echo, Leayenworth,
Washington. Sign your initials, or
any fictitious name which you may
choose to assume, and only such ini-
tials or fictitious name will be published
in answering your letter through the
columns Of the Echo. However, you
must also give me your full name and
your address, or your letter will not be
considered, though you may rest in
perfect assurance that your confidence
will be maintained as sacred. and that
will in no case disclose your identity
to any one-indeed, I could not afford
to do so. Your letter will be received
by the Echo, and forwarded to me I'M
opened, and owing to the delay occa-
stoned by thus keeping my whereabouts
and your identity-secret from the
rest Of the world, your letter cannot be
answered the same week that it is re-
ceived, but letters received up to
Thursday night of any week will be
answered in the Echo for the following
week.
Now, hope to receive letters from
many Of you this coming week, ant
just here I am going to say goodbye
for this time, with the wish that each
and every one Of you may enjoy very,
very merry Christmas.
Ever Faithfully Yours,
UNCLE DONALD
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-12-20
Nut Race Is Fun,

A nut race provides plenty of excite
ment for young and old. Place bowl
of nuts at one end of the room and an
empty bowl at the other. Each con-
testant, holding the hand fiat, with
fingers close together and extended,
dips 1t into the bowl, getting as many
nuts as possible on the back of the
hand. These must be carried across
the room and dropped into the other
bowl The victory is not always to the
large handed. and the game is great
revealer of steady nerves.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-12-20
Public Library

The Leavenworth Public Library is
in the Commercial Club rooms. The
Library is open Wednesday and Satur-
day afternoons from 8 to 5 o'clock.
The Library reading room is open
all the time, and is supplied with mag
azines and daily papers for any one
who desires to have a place to rest or
read 3otf
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-12-20
How to Bankrupt the Doctors.

A prominent New York physician says
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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-12-20
FoiIs A Foul Plot
read

When a shameful plot exists be-
tween liver and bowels to cause dis
tress by refusing to act, take DR..
Kings New Life Pills, and end such
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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-12-20
A Country Named For Christmas.

South Africa was discovered by the
Portuguese. who were searching for
an ocean road to India. Bartholomew
Diaz was the commander of the two
little ships that formed the expedition
in 1883 Eleven years later Da Cana
took another Portuguese feet south
He discovered Natal on Christmas day
and thus named 1t in consequence.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-12-20
State News Items

The IS year old rancher ]. E. Mad
dix who was confined in the county
Jail of Thurston county because he
could not pay a fine and costs OF
1913. 90 imposed upon him because he
turned out his old horse to shift for
itself, has been pardoned by Gov. M.
E. Hay. He was arrested upon COM
plant of the Humane Society about a
year ago and at the time of the prose-
cution claimed he could not pay the
fine. The matter dragged along for
wear and he was allowed his liberty,
but short time ago he was committed
to jail for failure to pay the money.
His wife who is aged and bedridden
has had to depend upon the care OF
neighbors and a young girl, and when
the governor learned the facts he set
the old man at liberty.
o. T. Larson, who was awarded the
sum of $4,000 damages for injuries
received because Of the swapping OF
cable while he was riding up hill on
car, by the King Co. court will not be
able to get the money, as the supreme
court has recently ruled against him,
holding that he had no right to ride
on the car to save himself the trouble
Of climbing the hill and that he as
sumed the risk when he did so.
The supreme court has ruled that
the word children" as used in the
law does not include students at the
university, pupils attending business
colleges and night schools and there
tore such students are not entitled to
half fare on the street cars in Seattle.
This ruling is in accordance with the
finding OF the lower court which held
that university students were not enti-
tied to claim the privilege of half
fare rate on the street cars.
Before assuming his place as COM
missioner Of public lands, Clark V.
Savidge, who was elected at the Nov.
election to that position, wishes to be-
come familiar with the duties Of the
office, and to that end he is going to
spend a month working in the office
of E. w. Ross, the present commits
sioner, so as to become acquainted
with the work of the department be-
fore his term begins in January.
H. o. Fishback, state insurance
commissioner elect announces that
Stewart E. Smith will be deputy in
surance commissioner and Grant T.
Houghton will be retained as actuary
in the department.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-12-20

H. o. Fishback, state insurance
commissioner elect announces that
Stewart E. Smith will be deputy in
surance commissioner and Grant T.
Houghton will be retained as actuary
in the department.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
MURPHY HELD CUBS
DOWN; HE WOULDN'T
SPEND ANY MONEY

CHICAGO. Oct. 21.-Frank L. Chance
today answered President Murphy's
statement regarding the need of more
speed for the Cubs"
Speed" said Chance: "of course we
need more speed That's what | have
been telling Mr.. Murphy for three years.
| begged him to spend money for ball
players, and mentioned several whom |
would like. He said he was not a sucker
to pay fancy prices for young players.
He said we had a good enough team; that
[ ought to make it win
What Murphy needs is scouts and
nerve enough to spend some money for
players. He has brother for a scout.
| told him he ought to get two or three
experienced baseball men; somebody who
would know player if he saw one
1--WE had the shortest training season
we ever had this spring, and the worst.
We did not even go to West Baden for
preliminary boiling out because Muir
ply would not stand the expense"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
BY Harry CHASER.

tn HE worlds series that has just
passed into history was re-
markable for many things.
Records of all sorts were broken
and outside of the fact that the Red
SoX won. few Of the predictions
made by experts and players came
true
Players of whom much was eX-
pected accomplished little, while
some of the lesser lights who we
were told would jeopardize their
teams chances took a leading role
in fighting for the laurels. All of
which again proves the fallacy of
trying to dope" out a series.
The struggle was unique in that
the leading hero Is a member of
the losing team. Mathewson, with
ont a doubt, stands out as the most
prominent figure of the great
championship tussle, the most ex-
citing and interesting ever contest
ed, despite the fact that many of
the games We're loosely played
The Giants veteran hurler is
truly as great in defeat as he
could possibly be in victory. for
never did a pitcher struggle more
gamely and valiantly, only to have
his best efforts go for naught
through the fault Of others. If il
could have been known beforehand
that Matty was capable of pitch
ing three such excellent games as
he did there isn't follower of the
pastime in the land who would not
have conceded the championship to
the Giants at the start
Thought He Would Fail.
It was freely predicted that he
would fail: that he had seen his
best days. The Matty who gained
everlasting fame by his feats in
that other worlds championship in
which the Athletics thrice went
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
MATHIS RECORD
SINCE JOINING
GIANTS IN 1900
Games Pitched.

down to defeat before him was no
more, said the critics Time had
left it's trace and robbed him of
skill and strength, There is no
doubt that he is no longer the pitch
err of former days, still he proved
himself a marvel and amazed even
his admirers by his splendid work
Matty has been in the game close
to thirteen years, which is beyond
the limit of usefulness OF most
baseball stars In that time, too
he has figured more prominently
before the public than any pitcher
in history. He has seen scores of
others come and go. yet there is
not one who has stood the test Of
time as has the Giant star.
The granddad of the pitchers
who engaged in the series, Matty
shouldered the brunt of the work
and outpitched them all Wood
was looked upon as head and
shoulders above any pitcher in the
major leagues. But comparison
OF his work in the series with that
of Mathewson's shows the honors
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
Chsty Mathewson A Although He Was Defeated
HEROES OF THIS YEARS WORLDS SERIES-NO.l

to be in favor of Big Six. He la
bored harder and better than the
Boston star under greater naEGs-
caps, for which he is charged WisN
two defeate. while Smoky Joe gets
credit for three victories.
Lost BY Ragged Defense.
Every one Of the three games
Matty twirled should have and
would have been victory had the
Giants been able to rally to his
support. Ragged defense lost the
first battle several times over when
it allowed the Red Sox to tie the
score after the Giants had over
come their early lead. and it went
as no contest.
When Matty took up the fight
second time he was opposed by
brilliant young twirler in Hugh
Bedient. who outdid himself in that
one game. Never had he displayed
better form, yet the Giants star
might have won had 1t not been
that again one of his team mates
faltered at a critical moment and
allowed the winning tally to trickle
over the~plate
And then came his third effort
that ail-important tussle in which
Matty carried the hopes and fears
Of the Giant followers. That, as
every one knows who has kept In
touch with the game, should have
been his at all odds
But once more the players be-
hind him were unequal to the task
that the veteran twirler was carry
ing on so successfully and that IL
the reason Boston boasts of a
championship team today.
It matters not that the Giants
lost. Their defeat can not detract
from the great work of Christy
Mathewson, and his name win be
linked with the 1912 worlds series
as the hero OF heroes as long as II
continues to be a memory.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21

the other big games of the year?
You just have to take your
choice, as a coach, of what teams
you are most anxious to win from
and work to that end, letting hap
pen what will in the other games.
A month from now Swarthmore
could not beat Penn in dozen
trials.
Cornell is probably taking the
same sane, slow, but sure, course
of workouts, and the result will
probably be that she will give her
November competitors a hard run
of it.
Right now Princeton looks best
of the Eastern teams, but she may
find in November that she went at
too fast a pace in October, and that
the football Marathon does not al
ways go to the team that runs the
first half the quickest.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
WORLDS STARS TO PLAY
FOR BILLIARD CROWN

NEW YORK, Oct 21.-It was an
nounced today that William F. Hoppe
George +: Slosson and Harry p Cline
or New York; Orlando Morningstar, of
Pittsburg; George Sutton and Calvin
Demarest. of Chicago Albert Taylor, of
Milwaukee, and Koji Yamada, of Japan
lS.2 balk line billiard tournament to be
held here, beginning November /
twenty eight games will be required
petitions. Ties will have to be pIaved off
The. entrants subscribed $3.50 each. or a
total of $4,000 to which $4,000 will be
AIDED -Four prizes will be awarded The
the third $1,000 and the fourth $500
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
JOHNNY EVERS TO
MANAGE CHICAGO,
is LATEST REPORT

CHICAGO, Oct. 21.-Johnny Ev- q
ers, second baseman, has been o
picked to succeed Frank L. Chance Q
as manager of the Cubs. according Q
to reliable authority today. That 9
President Murphy has closed with .
Evers and will announce the new .
manager to the public within g
few days, was stated by this man .
today. Murphy believes Evers is e
second "Muggsy" McGraw, and .
also believes McGraw is the high .
est type of manager. Q
Evers is 20 years of age and has .
been with the Cubs eleven years. o
He has agreed to move from Troy, 9
N. Y, to make his home in Chi q
cago, in compliance with Murphy's Q
demand that the new manager live Q
in Chicago. q
a a a a a q
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
Coach Says Forward Pass No Longer Experiment
NEW FOOlBALL COMING INTO ITS N&=HEISMAN

tempts. Had they elected to run or
buck the ball the three times, they
would probably not have gained the
ten yards, anyway.
The heavy team will naturally
prefer to use its weight and physi-
cal strength in running and buck
Ing game, and if its opponents are
very light, the heavyweights are
liable to retain prolonged possess
sion of the ball and not let the
light team have a chance to show
what 1t can do with it's forward
pass game. If, in addition to this,
the heavy team will put in some
practice on forward passes, so that
they also can do something along
this line, they, of course, make it
impossible for the light team to
cope with them.
But the forward pass is doing
so very much better this year with
all teams that it has made pro-
nouncedly good impression with
both players and public. for the
first time in it's career. 1t has come
TO stay.
BY the way, Howard tried 80 for
ward passes against Mercer in
their recent game. l believe this
is record number. Eight were
successful, or $50 per cent, which
is fairly good percentage.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
About Being
ION Edge.

HE part that being keyed UP
for a particular game plays
in that game is beginning to
be much better understood than
formerly. No team can feel en-
tirely fit. mentally as well as phys
ically, for every match it goes in.
This was amply Illustrated by the
game between Pennsylvania and
Swarthmore shore time ago.
Penn is a much bigger college than
Swarthmore. with corresponding
~ greater rep" and prestige But
she had a lot of new men on the
team who had to be gradually
broken into the essentials of the
Penn system of football, and SO by
the time the Swarthmore game
came along they had learned. as
team. only about eight or ten plays,
Swarthmore, on the other hand,
had an entirely veteran team and,
besides outweighing the Quakers
some ten pounds to the man, they
had had plenty of time to review
their well developed game Of last
yea: and to fire the whole thing
with well directed aim at the Key
stoners, even thus early in the sea
son. The result was to de-
feat for Penn.
But in addition to these handi-
caps, Penn was laboring under the
disadvantage that her coaches did
not dare bring the team to a physi-
"a height this early in the season,
for me reason that Carlisle Michi-
gan and Cornell have yet to be
played much later in the season.
For SNarthmore this game with
Penn was the hardest and most I'M
portant game on her entire sched-
ule. She could afford to come to
height and eXpend her last mite Of
strength and mental alertness in
trying to win the game.
Were the coaches at Penn to en-
phasize too strongly the impor-
lance Of the team winning from
Swarthmore they might win the
game all right. but would they be
capable of fresh keying up in all
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
"QUAKER DID TAuD Will SWEAR TO IT"


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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
A Log On the Track.

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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21

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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21

faithfully according to instructions He
again returned to the drug store and
said: Il came back to get three more
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21

As limbs ached. He would cough up
great chunks Of mucous After eating
his meals he would be in misery TOR
hours. and some things would not agree
with him at all Headaches were "A
common occurrence and continuous
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simply awful and his tongue contin-
uously coated
During the time that this man was
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
MICHIGAN TARS WINNERS
OF NAVY CHAMPIONSHIP

NORFOLK. VA. Oct. 21-The football
team of the United States battleship
Michigan won the gridiron championship
Of the North Atlantic fleet by defeating
the team from the battleShip New Hamp-
shire, IL to 0, in a fercely contested
and beautifully played game on the field
at the St. Helena naval training station
The Michigan had won from the other
battleships in the first division and the
New Hampshire had done the same in
the second division
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
By J. W. Heisman.

T last the forward pass seems
u to be coming into its own.
For the first time in the
seven years it has been expert
mented with we are beginning to
find quite a lot of teams who can
make successful use of the thing.
When the play first became per-
MISSILE by rule, l predicted that it
wouldn't be much of play to
bank on for several years.
knew that the old players who
had never handled it and who had
been schooled in the old style of
nav could no more readily learn it
rhan utter football novices, for it
vas TOO radical-too far away from
the whole trend and nature of
football as it had been played for
the old men to derive any special
benefit from their past experience
in other departments of the game.
But if the play were taken up
in The prep schools, as, of course, it
would be, by the time a varsity
team was composed entirely of
nlayers who had been familiar with
fr from the first day they ever
stepped out on a prep gridiron,
we could expect to see some nice
forward pass work cropping out
We pause to note one point that
may strike the unthinking as pc
rultar and that is that the small,
light or unknown teams are using
re play more frequently than are
the big teams, and with rather
more success. The explanation is
simple. What chance has a light
superior line for touchdowns? What
chance to beat them by even an
END running or a kicking game?
Absolutely none-any more than it
ever had
But the forward pass game is one
that they can play to equal advan-
tage with the big fellows And
that they are meeting with rather
more success with the play than
the big teams is due to the fact
that they recognize ii as their one
and only chance In the game, and
so they practice the play deal
more than do the big, heavy
teams. And they also pull off the
play oitener in games than do
the bic fellows. for what else have
they learned to play?
Take Citadel--a team weighing
sboa; 80 pounds They do not pre-
tend 70 bucking ability. nor even
10 end running strength. notwith-
Standing their back field is as fast
as any | have seen in some time
But they have put in a lot of prac-
t.ee on forward passing and are
comparatively sure on the play.
Very We'll, Why hammer and smash
roei light men up against heavy
weights? NO; it is far easier on
them To- throw ,he ball and let
'nei" fast men run for it. TO be
sure, the forward pass is more apt
10 fail lnaN not, no matter how
proficient d team thinks it is in its
execution.
Bur even if it succeeds only once
IN four iia.s the team using it
has undoubtedly made first down.
feIoass il has gained long run
Out oS it, ana not merely the re-
CURED ten yards. Therefore. if
.led an average could be main
i2.H'o. team could view with per
fig. elu-Himity the three failures
art with out of the four at
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21
MCDONALD AND SCOTT
REGISTER NEW RECORDS

NEW YORK, Oct GA worlds rec
ord at shot-putting was made by Patrick
Mcdonald. of the Irish American Athletic
club. at Celtic Park, increasing the dis
lance to AZ feet AZ inches
Louis Scott of the South Paterson Attn
letic club, 10-mile national champion
broke, the American 4-mile record. his
time being 0:0S 1-5
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-21

Here is a woman who speaks from
personal knowledge and long expe-
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SON. Pa, who says: Il know from eX-
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For Group there is nothing that excels
it." For sale by all dealers. (Advt)