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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-08

ing hero on the strength OF his tWS
clean cut victories If he had not been
mixed up In the overwhelming defeat
on the day New York tied the series.
1t fell to Bedient's lot to pitch one
winning game over the Giants ana TO
participate. in three other games. In
GLIDING the tie.
With better luck Mathewson would
have been crowned with the seasons
laurels. as he was in 1905. For Chris.
ty would have won the final game OF
the series but for the mix-up OF
Meyers and Merkle and the muff OF
Snodgrass. Mathewson also was I'm.
fortunate enough to be the victim OF
h drawn game.
There was no disputing Frank
Bakers title to the laurels in 1911.
for his bat copped two Of the four
games Philadelphia won. and no 9TH
er played did more than thai toward
mailing the worlds pennant to the
staff at Shibe park.
Going back to 1910. ii was Jack
Coombs who stood out before all his
mates. because he pitched in three OF
the games in which the Athletics de-
feated the Cubs. Chief Bender. who
was the only other pitcher used ny
Manager Mack in that series. won the
first battle. but was the victim Of de-
ACdI "A1CA ~ SuOS CdpS04 GU IltCII oiIs
ly game that year after going ten in
nings to win it.
No one has forgotten the series OF
1909 and Pittsburg's Babe Adams,
who shot into prominence from al
most nowhere. He was a youngster
of meager experience, and was not
counted on in advance of the combat
to be its chief actor. but the fortunes
of war gave him the honor of pitch-
ing in two of the games h Pirates
won from Detroit.
the talk of the land, and marked him
as the public's idol. while such veter-
ans as Camnitz and Maddox. each of
whom was on the slab during a Pitts
burgh victory, stood by and listened to
the plaudits handed their inexperienc-
ed rival.
Two Pitchers Earn Honor.
In 1907 and 1908 Orval Overall and
Mordecai Brown, of the Cubs, were
awarded the, laurels pretty generally.
although these two series produced
no such genuine heroes as Baker and
Coombs and Adams were destined to
be in more recent years.
Going back to the civil war of 1906,
when Chicago's White Sox and Cubs
fought out the only worlds series that
ever has been played entirely in one
city. Big Ed Walsh was picked by
Dame Fortune as her favorite.
1t was the beginning Of the great
spitball pitchers career as a star. and
his work against the. Cubs in that Sc
ries has made him the bette noir of the
whole West Sile eve since.
To Chrjsty Mathewson belonged all
the hero stuff in the worlds combat
Of 1905. the first that was waged, UNI
der present conditions. The lanky
master Of the fade-away delivery
pitched three of the five games in that
series with the Athletics ami shut out
his opponents in all three games.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-08
ATHLETIC
UNION May HAVE A
RIVAL IN THE WEST


Portland. Ore. Oct. S.-The Anna
leur Athletic union may have a rival
association in the northwest. Plans
are being formulated for the intro
duction of the European system Of
amateurism in nearly every city of
importance in oregon and Washing
ton.
Clubs will be organized and boxing
II wrestling meets put on a regular
schedule.
O~ut-and-out professionals will he
barred. according to plans. but wages
will I've paid from the receipts for all
time lost by the boys during trips.
While the hackers of the circuit
refuse to come out into the open yet,
1t is known that plans have been
brewing for nearly six months. the
circuit to be patterned along the lines
of the old Caledonian clubs.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-08
would CUT DOWN
SHARE Of BOARD
Ban Johnson Would Give
the Commission Smaller
Amount of Jackpot.

New York. Oct. s.-Presilent john
son OF the American. league and a
member of the National commission,
is prepared to advocate the reduction
of the commissions share of the re-
ccipts of the worlds series i'll future
years and ven to declare the commits
sion out, of all share in receipts if his
associates agree.
AT present the commission deducts
10 per cent of the gross receipts of all
post-season series conducted under it's
auspices. The growth of baseball has
made that 10 per cent amount to such
a sum that it has excited the cupidity
Of the players who share in the re-
ceipts of The post-season series.
Would Cut. 1t i'm Two.
President Johnson's suggestion is
o to increase to any extent the emo
luments of the ball players from these
post-season series. but to do away
With the present system Of paying the
cost of conducting the National COM
missions officers. The American
league executive favors cutting the
National commissions share of post
it nut altogether.
Gnder the present system the club
owners whose teams take part in the
worlds series urn over to their re-
spective leagues . per cent Of their
share of the receipts of the games
played.
Ban Johnson's Plan.
Inns will suggest that hereafter
the gross receipts of the first four
games be divided 60 per cent to the
players and 40 per cent to the club
owners. and that the club owners split
receipts after the first four games, Civ
ing 25 per e n of their total shares to
each league and that the commission
assess; each league equally for its
maintenance.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-08
CRIMSON and THE
TIGER Teams ARE
LEADING IN EAST

New York. Oct, Son the heels
OF h worlds baseball CHAMPIONSHIP
the intercollegiate football season
VIII be In full swing at the end Of
this week. The preliminary con-
.ests thus far have not given the ex-
per1s a sufficient basis for every de-
mite assumption as to which teams
will loom up the strongest.
The last games provided a tumble
OF results, from which critics Judge
that h big ~elevens are backward in
development this year and that many
OF the so-called minor teams may he
come surprisingly conspicuous before
the a closes or November 20.
Win the army-navy game in New
Yale Showing Disappointing.
The scoreless struggle which the
Yale eleven had with Maine last Sat
urday. after Harvard had beaten
Maine h week before by a "a to o
score. was disappointing to Yale fol-
lowers A game with Lafayette next
saturday will provide a probably
opponent and this contest
Will be looked upon as a rather crucial
one ior this early in the aso Crit
les OF Yale's play assert that the main
trouble appears in the backfeld and
predict an altogether new set Of
backs will be necessary If improve
ment is not shown next Saturday.
Harvard. on the other hand, has
developed a superb set Of backs and
her followers maintain thai she is
easily in the van of eastern elevens
thus far. Bates. with an eleven COM
posed mainly Of young freshmen,
however, proved all but a match for
the Harvard tackles last Saturday.
The Williams eleven is next on the
Harvard schedule for Saturday at
Cambridge. Princeton has a team at
least equal to that of 1912.
Cornell's defeat Of Oberlin by 81 to
~ has prompted encouragement at
Ithaca. a new combination workout
by Coach Sharp having proved a wise
move. In the Carlisle Indians. how
ever. Cornell may meet stronger op-
position next Saturday., judging from
the easy ann in which the Indians
disposed of Lehigh last week, 81 to Z.
Harvard and Princeton appear to
be the class of the big eastern elevens
to date.
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Sport News From Here and There and Everywhere
Hero i'm Every Worlds Series;
Who Will Have New HOnOrs?

Who will be the hero and who the
villain of the worlds series Of 1913?
Will the combat between the Athletics
M Giants produce a national
idol from among the few players on
each team who have yet to face the
ordeal of battling under the tiercest.
strongest limelight ever devised, or
Will some veteran, already laden with
honors. be lucky enough to focus the
eyes Of the world on himself?
Because this will be the third
have met the Giants. and because it
will be the fourth in which each Of
the teams has competed in recent
years. the chances are greuter that
the luck of the play will give the
browning honOrs to some athlete who
already has a niche all to himself In
the hall of fame.
That luck plays an important part
in this hero business is well known to
the men who have watched the
worlds series in the past. Frank
the two home runs which did so much
to beat New York out of the big
bunting,
Oldring Has Hard Luck.
But RUDE Oldring would have writ.
WIZ ~ ~ oA0beSbuO lk11l VI odnOA
in the same series il Dame Fortune
had not played him a bad trick. Old
ring pounded a home run into the left
field stand at the Polo grounds with
two men on bases in the third inning
of the fifth game, and hat wallop
should have ended hat series with
Phtladelphia's fourth victory. But it
was on the cards that Jack Coombs
should wrench himself in the ninth
inning so badly hat the Giants
pounced on him for two runs. tying
game in the tenth with Plank pitch
ing.
This finish to the battle, making 1t
necessary for the two teams to play
another day to settle their argument,
| wiped Oldring's home run almost out
| of memory, but II Manager Mack had
not been too kind-hearted to take
Coombs out of the game in time to
ave it in The ninth the name Of Old
| ring would have been on every tongue
next day and thereafter an infinitum.
No Real Hero Last Year.
So many things happened in the
worlds series of.last fall, which broke
all records because it required eight
games to settle the dispute, hat no
player stood out prominently as the
real hero of the event Instead the
public's attention was focused on Fred
Snoigrass. who was so unfortunate as
to star in the williams role by drop
ping an easy fly. which was RESPONSE
BILE for Boston's victory in the tenth
inning of the ultimate game.
AS a matter of fact the failure Of
Merkle and Meyers to agree on which
of them should catch an easy foul fly
was equally responsible for the loss of
the said game.
Joe Wood and Hugh Bedient shared
about equally the honors Of that series
by their effective pitching. Wood un-
ioubtedly would have been the lead
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-08
BALL TEAMS
TO INVADE THE u. S.

New York, Oct. s.-"France is the
coming athletic nation Of continental
Europe" Thus speaks James f. SUI
livan. who recently returned from a
tour to the other side of the Atlantic.
on which his quick eye caught about
everything that was worth seeing. At
first We thought the American COM
missioner was Joking. Mean it?"
snapped James E.. his husky eyebrows
bristling up as though he had scented
an athletic CRATER. "Of course l
mean It. The Frenchmen are COINS
about it in the right way. and you'll
see them with a team at Berlin that
will take a lot of beating.
The great thing in France now
is the tremendous sport awakening
that has swept the republic from end
to end. All France is playing out
doors. Football the French are crazy
about. Boxing is Furnishing. and the
same goes for golf, tennis and ath-
letics. France is going to be a won-
derfnl baseball country. too: once the
game gets hold. 1t has a good start
now. and inside of five years you'll
see French teams coming to the
United States to play our best ANA
temr Mines"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-08

New York opened it's fourth inning
suspiciously. Burns slamming a dou-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-08
label MAKES HIT
With Mr.. MURPHY
Cub Owner Says He Would
Not Sell Former North
ern Lacquer for $1,000

Chicago, Oct .S.-George label. who
game to the Cubs from the Winnipeg
Northern league team via the draft
route. IS some pitcher, according to
President Murphy.
After watching label NOV down the
Pirates in five. Murphy declared he
would not take s2O.O for him.
label has been used against the
u regulars in preparing them for
the post.season with the White Sox. In
II exhibition game. he made monkeys
OF the regulars. He has everything
that a young pitcher needs, saws Mur-
pny, and will be of the shining
4lshts OF the league next
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-08
WINS
G o CONTEST

Cleveland. Oct. s.-cleveland again
defeated the Pittsburgh Nationals 2 TO
] in an eleven inning pitchers battle.
Gregg. Cleveland's star southpaw OPP
posed Robinson. Pittsburgh's best left
handler Inc the honors were about ev-
en-. Gregg's first base on balls helped
Pittsburgh to their only run and Rob.
inson's base on balls allowed Cleve-
land to score the deciding tally.
r. H. E..
Pittsburgh (National) ...... 1 Z ?
Cleveland (American) 5000. 2 8 o
Robinson n Simons; Gregg and
O'Neill.
The other post-season games were
postponed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-28
CAR CRASHES INTO AUTO
Miss Myrtle Fields Slightly In
iured With Broken Glass.
Vehicle Damaged.

While crossing at the intersection of
21st and Z streets northwest last night
about Il O'clock an electric automobile
belonging to w \. Mearns of 1901 5
street northwest was struck by a street
car and practically demolished. Joseph
r. Klein. chauffeur residing at as
Myrtle street northeast was thrown
from the vehicle and slightly hurt
Miss Myrtle Fields. 2511 Hall place
northwest. a passenger in the street
car, sustained slight cuts about her
lace, pieces of broken glass having
inflicted the injuries.
Klein was operating :he electric ma
nine south on 21st street on mis- way
rom the home OF mis- employer to
garage and he did not realize the da.i-
ger OF collision until it was too late
To prevent il. 4 west bound car in
,.tiarae of NfO.orman f. J. Weaver
reached the crossing before the autumo-
bile had cleared the ear tracks and the
rear end of Inc latter vehicle was de-
molished.
The breaking Of several windows OF
the car created some excitement am nS
the passengers. but Miss Fields was the
only one to sustain an injury. Traffic
on the car line was interrupted short
time. 1t is thought the damage 10 the
will exceed $1,000.
An Investigation OF the accident il be
ing conducted by the police of the third
precinct They reported this morning
that a warrant will he procured and the
case aired in the Police Court
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-28
PRESIDENT CALLAHAN FOR.
LARGE MEMORIAL HALL.
Head of Chamber of Com
merce Urges Erection of an
Auditorium.

The necessity Of erecting the pro-
posed George Washington Memorial
Hall in this city. emphasize by the
abandonment of the inaugural ball this
year. was laid before the board Of di-
rectors of the Chamber Of Commerce AT
its first meeting since the annual cleo
ton OF officers last night. by President
d. }. Callahan. He pointed out that q
revival OF interest in the George Wash
lngton memorial. or in some other
great auditorium, was sure to follow
soon, and he suggested that the cham
Der lend it's aid in bringing about the
erection of such a building
Other matters Of Importance 10
which Mr.. Callahan called the attention
of the board were the erection Of pub
lie baths and the laying out Of a public
golf course
Ralph w. Lee was elected treasurer of
the chamber. and Thomas Grant was
Reelected secretary. 1t had been ex-
pected that Isaac Cans would be put
forward by his friends for the office of
treasurer. but Mr.. Cans asked that his
name be not considered. Chaplin Brown
was Reelected general counsel George
W. Stuart and George Judd were elect
ed to fill vacancies in the board Of di-
rSCtOrS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-28
NEW NATION ARISING.
Hannis Taylor Talks on Com
ing Power of Balkan States.
SOON TO REPLACE TURKEY
Influence of Ottoman Empire Wan
ing in Europe, Former Minister
to Spain Declares.

The body of Turkey is now being re-
moved from Europe because il is dead
body. said Hannis Taylor. formerly
United States minister to Spain. in an
address yesterday afternoon before the
Naval War College extension in the audi
forum OF the New National Museum.
Its place" Mr.. Taylor continued, will
soon ne taken by the young and Stalwart
Balkan nations now ready to enter upon
an eventful career. Even Mr.. Carnegie
has admitted the necessity for the exist
ing war, whose area has been limited by
the new public sentiment expressing it
self through the parliament of the world
and through its agent, the concert of
Europe.
During the last sixty years the appli-
cation of steam and electricity to inter-
communication has made the family. of
nations such in fact as well as in name.
There is now a real parliament of the
wOrlC' in which its diplomatic problems
are discussed and settled with a rapidity
known.
''fnis family of nations is now grow
ing rapidly. and that growth involves
questions of territorial. expansion, OF ma
t.Unal existence which are DeyOn1 the
Ieac.l OF arbitration. Germany, Japan
ana Italy, not being able to Iced them
selves all the year round, must expand
Jr perish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-28
MAKES ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.
Mrs. Martha Tyler Swallows Guam
titv of Carbolic Acid.

Mrs. Martha Tyler, sixty-two years old.
swallowed quantity of carbOlic acid
while in her home, SIC 9th street south
east. Yesterday afternoon. She was taken
to Casualty Hospital, where ii was stated
today her condition is improved. Miss
Sarah A. Tyler, "a niece of Mrs. 1yier,
discovered that she had swallowed the
poison, and her prompt action in having
her taken to the hospital, probably saved
her life. When Mrs. Tyler reached that
institution her condition was such thai
there was but little hope expressed for
her recovery She rallied during the
night. however, and unless she has re-
lapse it was stated she will recover.
Mrs Tyler is said to have recently sur
fered from typhoid fever which caused
her to attempt self-destruction. she was
in her room alone when she swallowed
the acid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-28
READY TCR LENTEN CROWDS.
Atlantic City Maintains Reputation
as Friend of Human Race.

Atlantic City is getting ready for the
Lenten crowds. Often called The friend
OF the human race the city was incor-
po-ated in 1854. the far-scattered fisher
mems huts of that day being given the
dignity of a municipality by its leaders
without tie slightest idea that in later
wears the resort would grow TO have a
permanent population of $1,000. as it has
under the 1910 census, or q transient pop
ulation, as il had some summer days last
year, Of 10000
To this Friend of the human race"
the ailng go TO regain health. the rich
20 TO find amusement and relief from
ennui the poor go to gain inspiration for
the bate of life. and the moderately
we'll off go TO find relief from the ordi-
nary business and domestic cares Of a
workaday world
The health giving air that blows III on
the salt seq breeZes from the direction OF
TIL, BermudaS has brought 10 Atlantic
City an amazing multiplication of hotels
and boarding houses. and the resort, not
withstanding the great demands that are
made upon il, has never yet been found
lacking in entertainment for man and
beast The true lover of the sea finds
every phase of its enjoyment available
there Not the least OF these attractions
lies in the fact that their enjoyment is
availa BILE throughout the year, every sea-
.son having a call o. its own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-28
UNIVERSAL PARCEL POST.
Criticism of Rates, the Zone System
and of Special Stamps.
To th- FL tor Of The Star.

IN ar "a - Is eeI the Cri-ei
rs a-.e made Ss- mp:o
n +, rar. g. pos. 81. g.. - n
mi q is :! n, a nee,
ne "a ie time was ..tr~s Is
-- f. -..at Il eintroIUced IN ia /
1osolete zone - stem an.
hat with special STAN require
ment
-. morning I opened the New Year
ed ZION OF the British Postal Guide. On
page so find in the left outer margin,
Il nited States OF America. Official serv-
ice. All places in the United States"
This includes Alaska Parcels not ex-
cecding three pounds. Is "a 80 cents, ,
seven pounds - I'd ~ cents; eleven
Pounds. = Sd Is cents. cur domestic
rate FOR the same parcels would be re-
spcctlyeiy. - cents, II cents ana 81 81
while the British parcels are collected in
Great Britain. sent across the Atlantic
and delivered anywhere in the United
States for less money than the American
pays for packages simply traversng his
own country. | might add that on the
same, and the next page, is proof that
The express companies are carrying all
British sem1-ottcial post parcels UP TO
eleven pounds between New York and
any point in the Union for "A cents.
| further lind in the same guide Il list
of some 30 foreign and colonial places
OF destination beginning with Abyssinia
and ending with Zanzibar. 10 which latte-
parcels mated UP To three pounds for
~ cents. seven pounds ~ cents and
eleven pounds - cents: the former has =
.iat rate AZ To eleven pounds for Is 81
81 u.s. Othcr sample rates are tn Italy.
three pounds, - cents, seven pounds II
cents; eleven pounds. - cents: To Eel
-ian kungo, three pounds ~ cents.
seven pounds. - cents: eleven pounds -,
cents. 10 Bermuda. three pounds II
cents. seven pounds. II cents: eleven
pics 10 British India. French india.
I urkiSh Arabia. places o. tnc Persian
If and the West Indies. and many other
localities Even with Ru~sia's vast dis
CtnceS and sparse populations. rates are
VJIte moderate. To all points in Russia
III Europe, including Finland and Trans
"a Icasia, rates are three pounds. Ii
sents; seven pounds. - cents. eleven
POUNDS. IL cents while TO Russia in Asia
they ar only II cents higher. The Brit
.sh merchant can mail goods - Ney.-
fnundland. New Zealand. Maurit.uS. Mo-
rocco. the Malay states. Gambia and
dozens 81 distant spots for three poun ~
for - cents. seven pounds. - cent
eleven bounds. - cents
Thc advantages Of such postal con
renlenccs II needs no word or mine -
'nfOrCe. Why. then. instead "f having
f=fStal COW tntiUnS witt Only som. four
dozen countries, does not til uIt.-ti
States inter INTO conventions with all tHc
world. a. dos t." British post office aud
many others Why Not also avoid IL.
.tssdless friction - tue zon, system and
.-eci..l pslTCc! post stamps. iu our
is'JneStir mail business. AM adopt . Nat
t'e. such - Britain 1ua- 'ss.a uo~-i-
lie even VIII ~ MANY distant l.-
....fifiuu' les CONS ..-a Too ft. IpUru, t.l u
.Ht.Hf- Ia .aV. l'ff f..~, matter .u tH.
ard uf t.' o.. tustt.I Genera. .lud tI,
ne friaf' -'triu-f'' COMMISSION lf '.t,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-28
TAFT TO SPEAK AT BANQUET.
Prof. Chittenden to Be Guest of Yale
Alumni at Annual Dinner.

Prof. Russell II. Chittenden. director of
Sheffield Scientific School. the scientific
department of Yale University. is to
come to Washington to be a guest of the
Yale alumni association at its annual
banquet tomorrow night at the Raleigh
Hotel 1t was learned last night that
owing To illness President Hadiey Of Yale
would be unable TO attend the banquet a.
he had promised 10 do. but that Prof.
Chittenden would bring to the Wash
ington Yale men the latest news of their
alma mater.
President Taft will attend the banquet
and be one OF the speakers. as will JUS
tice Pitney Of the Supreme Court. and
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Beck
man Winthrop.
All Yale men in Washington whether
members of the local Alumni Association
or not are urged 10 communicate with
James II. Hopkins. treasurer of the asso-
citation, at SIS 18th street, i'll regard to
attending the banquet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-28
DIES OF HEART DISEASE.
James Bragan, Inmate Of Soldiers
Home, Found Dead in Room.

James Bragan. fifty-six years old, ma
tive of Philadelphia and an inmate of
Soldiers Home, died suddenly yesterday
afternoon of heart disease. He had been
an inmate of the institution since 1908.
He enlisted In the army in 1879. and in
1903 while transporting equipment and
supplies from one fort to another in Da-
kota. he was caught in a snowstorm and
both feet We're badly frozen.
Bragan had served as a waiter in the
dining room at Soldiers Home several
years. Yesterday he retired to his room
In the Sherman building after he had
served dinner, and when called for sup
per he was found dead Coroner hewitt
gave a certificate of death from heart
disease.