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The San Francisco call., 1913-11-29
Federa|sAreDangefous
Warning to the Majors
By SAM CRANE

stars and stripes floating from their
iagstaff in center field for % years.
Why, that ancient old glory was
run down at the heels, frayed at the
edges and as black as your hat from
the smoke of years that the engines
on the old Providence railroad blew
into it's folds.
The fences, the stands on the old
Union grounds In Boston were as
and plucky old glory that tried SO
hard to live UP to its name.
The conditions at Boston were a
living example of how the entire
National league had. by its supine
overconf1dence in It's strength to hold
the baseball public. overreached itself.
FORCED TO ACCEPT TERMS
Belated and, of course. futile ef-
forts were made to stem the tide of
the more vigorous younger rival.
Clubs of the American league were
installed in other cities than Chicago.
In Cleveland, st. Louis, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Detroit and finally in Bos-
ton and New York, the American
league found foothold, and by fight
ing every inch Of the way, by signing
National league players, the Ban
Johnson organization finally forced
the National league to accept the
improved situation and from a war
to the death make terms.
And since peace was declared the
national game was never more pros
porous. Tt has been proven beyond
doubt that there is room for two
clubs in any big city. The rivalry
established has forced both to obtain
the best player talent that can be
engaged, without regard to money
expended.
The entrance of the American league
into the big league fold has been a
distinct benefit to the game, artistic
ally and financially.
The Federal league has just as much
moral right to butt in as had the
American league. but the question
arises whether the sport is rife for
third big league. Surely there is not
room enough for three clubs in any
one city. ut that should be open for
those hackers who are willing to take
chance.
HARD FIGHT AHEAD
The only way. though, the Federal
league has a living chance tor succeed
is to do as the American league did
and sign players of reputation who
are not under contract. The new or
ganization must fight its way. Person
ally. do not think 1t can buck sue
cessfully against organized baseball
as is now so firmly established. And
yet 1t has a moral and legal right to
make the attempt.
Tt will take more money than any
visionary minded hacker of the new
league has any appreciation of. A mill
lion dollars will be only mere baga-
telle.
Those players who may have the
most courageous desire to cast their
fortunes with the new third proposed
league will be found to be the ones
who know their existence in either the
National or American leagues are very
short.
In other words, a bird in the hand is
worth two in the bush. A whole flock,
in fact, to my way of thinking. But
what think does not disrupt the Fed
eral league in its incipiency.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-29

1t would be well for the national
commission. club owners and all those
who are interested In baseball not to
hold the Federal league too cheap.
There were several National league
magnates who felt safe In their own
self -conceit as to their pre-eminence
in baseball, and the Gibraltarlike de-
fense that the National league could
place against all corners when they
pooh poohed the contemplated assault
of Ban Johnson and his American as
ISOLATION against the fortifications of
the present baseball organization.
The National league people were
badly fooled. They underestimated
the strength of their "upstart" rivals
and failed to take due precautions,
owing to having the false idea that
they were so firmly intrenched in
popular feeling and financial solidity
that they never could be deposed from
their permanency as the real and only
organization In baseball.
The old fossils were so sure of the
mate strength of their league that
they even allowed Charles Comiskey
to install an American association
team In Chicago, thinking. in their
conservative obtuseness, that the ven-
ture of the new and unsophisticated
minor leaguers would result in dire
failure.
FORMED ENTERING WEDGE
That advantage. gained without
overmuch friction, was the entering
wedge for the formation of the
American league. the name adopted
in place of the American association,
the instant the young and vigorous
new organization, headed by Ban
Johnson. obtained its first foothold in
a National league city.
All that the shrewd Ban Johnson,
Charley Comiskey and the followers
needed and wanted was the foothold.
They appreciated that the National
league father of the national game. as
they were pleased to call themselves
and be called, was plodding along in
an old fashioned way. satisfied with
itself ard the style of playing the
game that had been in vogue since
1875. the year the old league was or
ganized.
Too much conservatism is next door
to decrepitude, and Ban Johnson and
his bunch of huskies were fully aware
of the stagnation that prevailed in the
ranks of the National league mag
mates. who in the simplicity of their
old fogyism were satisfied to leave
things as they were, thereby, with the
denseness that Is invariably associated
with continued success, leaving just
the opening that the young, vigorous
and I'D to date promoters of the new
American league wanted
INDIFFERENT TO PROGRESS
suninely Indifferent to the inroads
the new organization was making on
the standard OF baseball as adopted In
1876 and never altered, the American
leagues path to prominence was made
easv-ridiculously SO, in fact, consid-
ering all the older organization mad
at stake.
Rut what could be expected from
o1dtime magnates like the Boston tri-
,,mvfrs-Soden. Conant and Billings
who from 1876 to 1900 had the same
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-29

TT te 70 be hoped that the Olympic
,,,,h will be able to see its way clear
TO accept the challenge OF the lhlnois
Athletic club to have the midoie
western swimming champions come 70
this coast. A. visit from such cham
Mons as Hebner, Raithel, McDermott'
perry. McGilivray, Roth and Handy
would have as much drawing power
as Duke Kahanamoku. 1t is NOT o1ten
we get an opportunity in this Tar
west to measure "crawls with tne
far east. and this is a cnance tnae
should not be overlooked We 90 not
like the talk of commerciailshi IA
connection with amateurism, put
hrirgtng this eastern team here
would entail some expense that mas
20 he taken into consideration Inere
ioors TO he a good chance for the
xuinved O to make both ends meet
On such a proposition, and that Is
about all the club wants out OF atm
letics.
1rLa Kahanamoku is out house.
rha u. has ruled that no special
prizes such as tne
1,dars wanted to present Duke are
iaga1 from an amateur point OF view
Dvt<e can not accept any trophy
bigber than the stipulated value OF
sg5 As called for by the A. A. u laws.
IIara 1uck Duke, old boy, but just
,at. little. You are going to meet
,,o,,r match some day. and when your
ooy,netition days are over 1t VIII be
varv nice TO have that house pre-
senfed to you. Ich ka bibble then IL
they call you a pro-
X
s--I~k k~.xz -
pat Donovan's 56 pound weight over
the bar record of 15 feet ~ Inches
has been accepted by the a. =. =.
This is a new worlds figure, and the
popular local Irish lad Is now looked
on in the east as the greatest Juggler
Of the 56 pound pill in the country.
Pat also holds the worlds record
with the weight for height, but has
yet to master the art OF throwing it
for distance. With a little coaching
there is not the least doubt that DON
ovan can break the existing distance
mark.
This boy Morton is a g1utton for
work. After winning the 10 mile
road championship of Thanksgiving
day, he jumped on a train and sped
down to San Jose. There he entered
a distance of more than four miles.
He placed fifth out Of IL starters,
which was a remarkably good show
ing after the strenuous race he had
run a few hours before.
x
The new Century WheeImen are
planning winter cycle season. The
FIRST race is scheduled as midwinter
handicap five mile race, TO be ridden
at the stadium track December 21
and %. Another event will be Hill
climb. the dangerous stretch In Fill
more street between Green and Broad
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-29
WEARS A CLOSE CROP

The old DAYS of tie. players with
football hair" have nassed They
no longer have Yale locks TO act as a
pillow for the head when a gridiron
crash comes. As he gamboled around
on the stadium turf in the final game.
Charles Brickley was seen to have a
haircut OF the finest variety, with d
very close clipping all over. Brick
lev doesn't depend on his heavy shock
Of hair TO save him from injury. but
leaves that for his headgear 10 do.
He uses his head for other things
besides a buffer.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-29
NE " PROCESS OF
PAINTING AUTOS

The latest process in connection
with the automobile trade to make
its appearance in the local markets is
the new auto painting process for
which the rights for the IL Pacific
Coast states have been secured by an
Oakland firm, which, is opening head
quarters this week in Oakland.
The new process is paint material
manufactured by secret process
which enables the local house to paint
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-29
Trotting Champions
of Last 10 Years

Following is list OF the fastest
trotters in respective seasons of the
last 10 years:
191s-Lord Dewey. 2:03A.
l9I2-Baden, 2s05A.
.1911-Charley Mitchell. 2:04A.
1910-Colorado +, 2:04A.
l909-Penisa Maid. 2.04A
I90G-Hamburg Belle, 2.84A.
1907-Sonoma Girl 2:05A.
I906-Oro. 2.051z.
1g05-Admiral Dewey, 2:04&.
19e4=Tiverton, 2:041z.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-29
STICKING WITH 1T
By L. w. NELSON

BY Il w. NELSON
"I'll win with ease" said Luke McGluke
And then he went into the ring
To fight until the finish came
With Jesse James, the lightweight king.
The fourth round came and Luke McGluke
Was holding to save his skin.
'I'll beat him yet" he suffered to
Reporters just outside the ring.
The tenth arrived and Luke McGuke
Was houndering upon the floor;
"I9l beat him yet he won by luck"
And then the fight fans grinned some more.
week had passed and still McGluke
Was not sure he was seeing right;
Reporters came to interview,
Said Luke, I'll win next time we hghtw
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-27

BY FREDERIC E. HAMLIN.
Pass Christian, Miss, Dec. I'll
have just been over the Herndon
residence here, the golf course and
the whole town. My trip didn't take
more than an hour.
wanted to find out for you just
what kind of place is this Pass
Christian and why the president of
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-27

the United States has selected it for a
Christmas vacation. . Tn, .
Answer: '.->
The president wants rest.
He's going to get reaI-for-sure
rest here or-I am pretty poor judge
of vacation places!
.- -
1 took the train from New Orleans
as soon as I heard Pres. Wilson was
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-28

Los Angeles now has six clergymea
enrolled as special police officers.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-28
2OOOPER|SHNFLOOD|
GREATEST FLOOD OF RECENT
TIMES CARRIES AWFUL TOLL
BEFORE 1T.
FRIGHTFUL SCENES IN MOST PLACES
Houses Swept Away-Horror Height
ened by Fires Breaking Out, With
No Means of Coping With
the Flames.

At Dayton, Ohio, 1000 to 5000 are be-
lieved to have persisted. Flood in
streets six to 80 feet deep.
Appalling loss of life and millions of
dollars worth of property destroyed in
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and
Pennsylvania.
At Peru, Ind, 200 or more reported
to have been drowned.
Hundred thousand persons homeless
in Indiana. Property loss may run to
$4,000 900.
Terre Haute, Indianapolis, Lafay.
cite, and Peru, in Indiana, and Dayton,
Delaware, Columbus and Hamilton, in
Ohio, particularly stricken.
Railroad and wagon bridges are
washed away.
Governors of Indiana and Ohio order
out the national guard to aid the suf
ferers.
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STORM VICTIMS GET HELP
Mobile Citizens Raise Money and
Supplies for Survivors of OBJ
liberated Towns.

Mobile, Ala.-Mobile citizens are
canvassing for money and supplies for
the relief of storm victims at Lower
Peachtree. Ala, which virtually was
wiped out by a cyclone March 81.
Reports from the stricken district
have brought the death list in that
section up to %.
Besides sending appeals to President
Wilson and Governor O'Neil Mobile
citizens are raising a fund for the
immediate relief of the sufferers who
have lost their homes.
Reports tell of great damage in
Greenville, Forest Home. Burnt Corn,
Coy, Vreedenberg and Beatrice. but
no loss Of life. Reports from Thomas
Vile that five had been killed could
net be confirm I'd. One report from
Lower Peachtree says the wind blew
the clothes off some bodies found and
chickens were stripped Of their feath.
ers.
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QUESTION OF MONEY
THAT Is ALL THAT WILL FORCE
BALKAN-rURk WAR TO
CONCLUSION.
EACH IN NEED OF THE LONG Green
1t Is Thought Allies Will Accept Terms
Now Offered-commanding Gen.
eraI at AdrianopIe Says He Has
No Thought of Surrendering.

The developments of the last week
appear to make the conclusion of the
Balkan war a matter of only a few
days. Turkey, having no hopes Of OBJ
tanning more money, has entrusted
her interests to the good offices of
the powers and the allies have &C
cepted the powers offer of mediation.
The representatives of the powers at
Sofia handed the Bulgarian premier
their scheme embodying a basis for
mediation. Their plan includes two
provisions to which the allies will
likely object. The demand for indem-
nifty is vetoed and the powers stipu-
lated that hostilities must cease when
their proposals are accepted.
Has Come to Deadlock.
1t appears improbable, however, that
the allies will refuse to settle on the
terms now offered. The war has come
practically to a deadlock. Fighting on
the T~chatalja lines has been indecis-
i've. Adrianople, which the Burgarians
proposed to reduce to submission in
a few days, seems to be holding out
as strongly as ever after a five months
siege and a wireless message from
there declares that the Turkish COM
mander has nc thought of surrender.
Austria has sent a second note to
the Montenegrins, requiring that the
bombardment of Scutari be confined to
the forts and giving one week for King
Nicholas to comply with her other de-
mands. Russia is not backing the Aus
trian policy and as the powers have,
agreed that Montenegro shall not keep
Scutari, even if she conquers the gar
rison, but that that city shall be in
corporated in the new Albanian state,
King Nicholas seems to have no alter
native but to make a virtue of neces-
sity.
Allies Money Almost Gone.
If the allies attempt to Withstand
the mandate of Europe they might
prove to be a hor cts nest, but the
weak point in their armor is that their
finances are almost as near an end as
Turkeys.
The ambassadors in London, who
had scattered for the Easter holiday,
have been recalled and are in constant
consultation over the details of the
situation. Their view of the outcome
is optimistic.
Austrian UIutimatum.
The Austro-Hungarian government
has addressed a strongly worded note
to Montenegro, which was in the ma.
ture of an ultimatum.
Beyond promising that the future
bombardment of Scutari will be di'
rected against the Notifications and
not against the town, Montenegro's
, reply to Austria's remonstrances is a
refusal to comply with the Austrian
demands.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-28
Nurses and Doctors Sleepy.
Murder King George of Greece.

While walking on the street of a
Grecian city March 10 King George
of Greece was shot and almost instant
ly killed by a Greek of low mental
type. The assassin was captured.
King George was of Danish birth and
was elected king of Greece in 1863. He
was born in 1S45. His son, Constan-
tine, born in 1868, succeeds to the
throne.
A funeral service for the late king
was held March % at the Greek church
in London. 1t vas attended by repre-.
sentatives of King George of England,
Queen Mother Alexandria and most of
the members of the diplomatic corps.
Athens.-The funeral of the late
King George L., it is officially an
nounced, will take place March 80.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-28

on many parts of the city and
country without regard to human life
property, and visited the greater
portion of the residential portion of
Omaha, demolishing $50 homes, dam
aging hundreds of other buildings and
causing a monetary loss of $4,000, 900,
according to reports available up to a
late hour tonight from the main path
of the tornado in and near Omaha.
Fire broke out in the debris of many
wrecked buildings in the Nebraska me-
tropolis, and these were menaced for
some thine as the fire companies were
hindered by fallen walls and blockaded
streets. A heavy rain followed the
wind and drenched the hundreds of
homeless persons, but it also put out
the flames.
Fatalities and Injuries in Storm.
Totals of the dead in the track of
Sundays storm are as follows, accord
ing to latest reports:
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-28
Bio Strike at Sydney.

S. Iney, N. S. W.-With the metrop-
oils crowded with people from all sec
lions of the country, come to attend
the racing show carnival of Easter,
the deckhands and engineers Of the
Sydney ferries, which tap practically
every crowded suburb of the city,
struck today, throwing the public into
indescribable confusion and tying up
traffic.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-28

the physical condition of the storm
section. The figures follow:
Houses totally destroyed and unin-
h%abitable, 642.
Houses partially destroyed, 1927.
People homeless, 2179.
People entirely destitute, 1852.
Plans for rebuilding the wrecked
portions of the city are already under
way.
Omaha Counts Dead.
Omaha, Neb.-Groups of men, aided
and encouraged by women and chill
dren, labored necessarily Tuesday and
Wednesday among the ruins of homes
and other buildings in the section of
this city which was practically ami
hilated by a tornado Sunday, in search
for living or dead that had been buried
beneath the tons of debris. Added to
Mondays death list of 152 were 16
more bodies recovered Tuesday under
the brick and iron beams of the Idle
wild cluD hall.
Sixteen Bodies Found in Ruins of
Theater.
A thorough search in the wreckage
of the Diamond moving picture thea
ter failed to reveal any bodies and it
is the opinion of searchers that all
who were trapped in the building by
the panic that ensued Immediately
upon the rush of the terrific wind
have been found. Sixteen bodies al
ready have been removed from the
ruins of this building.
The total number of missing persons
is materially increasing.
Snow Falling.
The heavy snow which had fallen
since midnight, Tuesday, and is still
falling, made rescue work particularly
slow and difficult.
AS quickly as bodies are found they
are being rushed to morgues which
have been established in various parts
of the city affected by the tornado
Relatives are claiming most of the
bodies, but some remain unidentified
None of these are being buried, the
coroner delaying interment until pos
sibility of identification becomes more
remote.
Funerals and burials of the dead
whose families have claimed the
bodies were held Tuesday and Wednes
day from all churches and many
homes.
Nurses and Doctors Sleepy.
Scenes in hospitals and public build
ings which have been converted into
hospitals beggar description. Nurses
have been on duty, many of them since
Sunday night. Not only do they have
to administer to the injuries of theil
patients, but give much of their time
in consoling desperately anxious rela
tives.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-28
DR.. friedman Going to Berlin.

New York.-Dr. F. F. Friedman
will sail for Berlin three weeks hence
to complete laboratory tests unfinished
when he came to this country a month
ago to demonstrate his treatment for
tuberculosis, but will come back to
America again two weeks later.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-28
Offices in Spokane.
Waterways Association to Meet.

Wallace R. Struble of Lewiston, &C.
Of the Columbia and Snake
River Waterways association, has
issued the call for the annual meeting,
will be at Pendleton April IA
and Is. Governors Haines, Lister and
West r expected to be present and
participate in the program.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-28

Denver's art commission is starting
an anti-smoke nuisance crusade.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-28
Eco Is Six Inches Long.

Pomona, Cal.-An Easter egg, six
inches long and eight inches in cir
was laid by a Rhode
Island Red hen belonging to DR.. A. ].
So far as the poultry ranches
in this valley are concerned the Farley
hen has the record. Nexti
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-28

Falls Ciy, Neb.-Half of the city of
Omaha was swept by a tornado early
Sunday night, according to informa-
ton gained here by long distance tele-
phone. All railroad and commercial
telegraph lines into Omaha are out of
commission.
Berlin, a small town near Omaha,
damaged by the storm, is said to be on
fire.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-28
NEW FRUIT SELLING
AGENCY NOW PLANNED
Distributors Will Make Contracts With
Organizations of Nine District of
Four Northwest States.

Four Northwest States.
North Yakima, Wash.-The trustees
of the North Pacific Fruit Distributors
union have a complete selling and dis
tributing agency for the fruit tonnage
of the four northwest states. The
marketing machinery will be devel-
oped and directed by j. H. Robbins,
manager of the Yakima Valley Fruit
Growers association; H. F. Davidson
of Hood River and H. G. Sampson of
Spokane.
The distributors will handle all
fruits that are shipped in carload lots,
strawberries, cherries, pears, prunes,
plums, peaches and apples.
1t vas voted to prepare contracts
and to perfect a plan of selling fruit.
Contracts With Districts.
The distributors will make contracts
with the organization of the nine dis
tricts designated at Spokane in De-
cember and represented here by the
nine trustees. Each district will have
it's organization, which will sign con-
tracts with the individual growers.
The nine districts of Wenatchee,
Spokane, Montana, Lewiston, Boise,
Walla Walla, North Yakima, Hood
River and Rogue River last year pro-
duced more than 10000 carloads, of
fruit. In the next two or three years
it is estimated their tonnage will reach
nearly twice that and the marketing
machinery of the North Pacific Fruit
Distributors is planned to handle that.
Offices in Spokane.
Secretary Sampson will open offices
in Spokane Immediately, and secre-
taries of the distributors will be there.
Salaried statesmen will be put in the
field this season to get in touch with
the eastern markets.
The chronicle=news., 1913-01-13

From The. Cincln Conn Tnb4Ge.
D, othroAsb {. things blind
and womc a 1t f'
through ci"fed slases''
hing a ever world
something
tand think to who
and religion, all in one
And In "remcm
NOS sunlight
healthy the Is the great
purifc and % Sorld.
Tru. sc. q IL
all the breeder OF pestenai things
and Il OF 'l
Ther., not feel In
noy motives
that OF the human mind
unnhonablc'
GIrard q the education
forget the
bcau;i. of
man has II UI a enterprise With
OF h.
be measured
phlanthropic connected
advertising the Socialist
mind when
wrought
right
and ,houy through coorcd glasses
oy I Is Of his
,w,
til. mani cnvies.
The chronicle=news., 1913-01-13
Yamnilsky.DusSard.

\ pretty wedding took place SCn-
day morning In the study OF the
Christian church when Miss Edith
Dussard OF Aguiiar and G. l., Yam
nllsky. also o! that city. were quietly
united in marriage. Only 4 few in
innate friends and relatives. includ'
Ing the brides mother. were pret'
ent. Mr.. and Mrs. Yamnilsky left on
the noon train for Aguilar wher,
they will make their home. III,
groom being employed in the mine
near Rugby. Both young people ar,
tayorably known and their many
friends wish them happiness in theii
married life.