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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19

LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN
LOST-cameo stickpn Friday night at
Jefferson theatre. Finder return to L.
S. Allen, care w. B. Leedy & Co., and
receive suitable reward.
LOST-Between end of Edgewood car
line and hotel on Shades mountain,
girls tan raincdat. Reward if returned
to A. A. Smith, Ledger Office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19
.WANTED-FEMALE HELP

.NANTED-You lady to help in stor
1908 South Fifteenth street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19

WANTED-To trade South Highlands res
idence for North Alabama farm; no
agents. Address T-40 care Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19

W VANfEffs-Lunch counter, stools and
cr6ekery and any restaurant uten-
sils.e Address 1724 Sd avenue. Uneed
Lunch Room
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
WANTED

lady IN Birmingham TO
know that The Best theatre is giving
silver souvenirs TO the ladies every Fri
day matinee from 1:S0 to p. m.
znaaF 10 -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-19

W,ANTED-To buy a good fresh mich
COW, one that will give at least three
gallons per day. Phone 5221 Main.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-28
REVIVAL OF RACING
APPEARS PERMANENT
August Belmont Confident
That Great Sport Has Re-
turned to Stay.

August Belmont, chairman of the
Jockey club and one of King Horses
greatest friends. predicts that next sea
son racing Will be an even greater sue
cess than 1T has been the past season.
He declared that the revival Of the sport
has proved two things. frst, that the pub
| lie is willing to support the game without
the betting ring, and second. that there
are any number of horsemen willing to
maintain a racing stable without fear
that by doing so they will lose money.
The public has paid fine tribute to
racing all season long" said Belmont.
when men and women go frequently to
the track and sit in the grand stand and
look at the horses race. it shows that they
are deeply interested in the sport, They
want racing just as much as many other
persons want baseball. Another feature
OF the season was the way many new
pa irons Of the turf bought and main
tanned race horses In the face of finan-
cial loss. This showed true sportsman
ship The men paid big prices for horses,
knowing that under the present condl-
tion. with stakes worth only a triflins
sum In comparison with other years, there
was no chance for a return on the money
invested. And yet. in spite OF all, many
new men became members Of the Jockey
club, bought horses and raced them for
the pure enjoyment Of the sport This
ship was well exempllfied by Frederick
Johnson when he offered TO match Cock
o the Walk against Rock View and race
for a pewter mug. That pewter mug
offer caught me, for II Is not the intrtn-
sic value Of race that impresses me.
1T Is the struggle and the contest IT.
self / had to decline the offer much
against my will. I was anxious to have
a race between the pair, and at first con-
sidered the matter favorably. But when
consulted with Trainer Hildreth. he
said that Rock View was not himself
and there was nothing left for me to do
but TO call Off the proposed match"
next year?'' Mr Belmont was asked.
There will be racing, and I feel GER
tain that the patronage will be better
than II was this season. The growth
may be a slow one, but I'm certain it will
OF the Jockey club are working togeth-
er to build up the sport
will there be racing at all the ira cls
on Long Island next year,?
That l cannot say. but there Will be |
racing at Saratoga. You see, the public |
does not quite understand the relative |
cost Of racing at the different tracks |
may be impossible to do so at Sleeps
head Bay or Gravesend, The difference
les In the matter Of values Of the prop
arty. Sheepshead Bay and Grayesend
ire within the city limits and are taxed
accordingly The Saratoga track Is In |
he outskirts OF the village, and the
axes and assessments are as nothing
Say and Gravesend. The taxes OF the
NO Long Island tracks amount to about
100, 600 each This in itself Is great
um TO pay out
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-28
JOHNSON CALIFORNIA
LAD, ASSERTS BURKE
Santa Ana City Clerk De-
clares He Is Original Dis
coverer of Pitcher.
By JOSEPH O. BURKE.

discovered Walter Johnson as a
pitcher when he was about IA years
old, big, oyergrown, awkward, lazy
boy: / discovered him one day when
Jack Burnett, afterward a center
fielder for the st. Louis Cardinals, and
L stood up to bat for some kids. We
expected to take the lad down a notch
or two. Instead, he threw us a dozen
or SO balls apiece and we couldn It
touch him. Right then is when 1 dis
covered Walter Johnson
From that day to this I have never
been surprised at anything he has done
IN baseball. I have watched him
through all his career. After he got
to pitching on my team / saw some big
men In Pacific coast baseball turn him
down, but never once has any of his
old teammates lost faith in Walt. We
knew him from the days he played
other boys using our cast-off bats,
balls and mltts, and when he was with
us, green youngster, we saw him
strike out the best men who batted for
Coast league teams We had Walt dis
covered long before he went to Weiser
long before he went to Washington,
D. G.
We have read lot about him, and
there is one thing that gets my goat.
| am proud Of Walter Johnson, and |
think credit for his early development
of the Eastern pink sheets refer to him
as the Big Swede the Idaho Wonder
or the Weiser Marvel. Can those
words! He IS no more of a Swede
than / am, and my name is Burke, He
IS good straight American, born in
Kansas, raised at the village Of Olinda.
Orange county, California, and all his
people before him back to the war
whooping days of the Mohicans were
under the Stars and Stripes.
Start i'm OIinda.
Olinda, the place where Walt got his
start, is in an oil district, close to
valley Of oranges and walnuts
| was bookkeeper for the Santa Fe
railroad, which has wells at Olinda.
Old Frank Johnson, Walt IS dad, was
teamster for the Santa Fe wells, and
had been for a number of years before
Walt got TO tossing balls around the
fiat.
Walt drove team for his father
most Of the time when he was not go
ing to school in the little red school
house on the hill-no fable about the |
Walt did most Of his growing when |
he was about 13 years old. and good
half of him was feet and hands. He |
WAS the awkwardest kid I ever saw. |
1t was along about 1900 when the |
Oil Wells got its first spasm on base
ball Old man Leper, who played base |
ball somewhere back East, got us to |
about it, and we dragged to- |
gether a team and played Anaheim.
Fullerton, Santa Ana, Orange and |
other town teams of the county. We |
were trimmed regularly. We made up |
our minds TO get team. I was elected |
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-28
MEDIOCRE MEN RISE.
IN WORLDS SERIES

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. a7.-A curious
phase Of these worlds series games is the
frequency with which preliminary deduc-
tions concerning players go wrong. # is
quite uncanny the way players named in
advance as the prospective men OF the
hour fade into mediocrity, while men
whose names have hardly been mentioned
arise as heroes. For instance, last wear
Methewson was regarded as practfcaIIv
out of the reckoning. while on the other
hand the things that Smoky Joe Wood
Bostonians shudder AS it happened. the
real hero of the series was Mathewson-
while upon Bedient's brow was placed
extremity o
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-28

manager. Whenever we played team
We spotted some likely fellow among
the opponents, found out what he was
getting for wages, and fixed it up with
a superintendent at the wells to get
him a better job. We got Ted East
erly, now catching for the Chicago
Cubs. For pitchers we found Gran
dali, one Of those chaps with $4,000
arm, but poor control, a wonder when
ne was right. and Cripps, afterward
the oil driiIers Sue jack 'f suppett D q1e nsved oI
short; In picnic contests at Redondo
Beach he beat Chief Meyers, who was
playing. with the San Bernardino shops
team, in baseball throw. We got
Anson Mott, now a Pacific coast
Lacquer; Elwell, Head and Meats. all
Of whom afterward played in Idaho
with johnson; and George Ellis, later
a Los Angeles left fielder and then
left fielder for st. Louis. 1 PLAYED
second base.
When our team got to winning the
evening, they, got together on the fiat
below The old livery stable and played
numbers. We weren' It paying much at
tention to the youngsters, We were
not looking for celebrities that close
to- home Some of the boys got to
talking in the office one day about the
enthusiasm on the fat, and Jack Bur.
nett and / decided to go down and
have some fun with the lads. Some
body told us that they had a notion
that Frank johnson Is kid, Walt, was
some HEAVIER.
Great Walter Discovered.
Jack and l sauntered down and
found Walt idly throwing to another
cid alongside the store 7 gave jack
the wink, and asked Walt to throw
us a few. stepped up to the imag.
mary home base, posed bit, and told
Walt to let 'em come They came. r
made an attempt to bunt, missed,
thought it an accident, tried another,
missed it, got another and missed it.
/ gave way to the slugger. Jack
squared away to put a crimp in the
young bloods, and the way he famed
The air has never been equalcd in front
of Walter johnson from that day to
this. Jack Burnett was the most sur
prised man in California, except my
self and maybe Walt. He took it all
as a huge joke, He was never any
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-28
Ritchie- Welsh Fiiasco Sets
Up Many Mysterious Dou
Real Story of Moving Picture ChampioI
Fight" at Vancouver Has Not Yet Beer
Told; Willie Forestalled ''Frarne.up..

drew Ritchie into the schemo
pointed out to him that the
On account Of their internati0n
acter, would prove a ttknoc1
Dear Old London ~ and the
inces.
Possibly the separate arti|
agreement, if a glimpse Of thc|
be had, would show that botb
pinned their faith to the pic|
a means of reward, rather tha1
prospective gate money.
Project Falls Flat.
Ritchie, after he went to Va
discovered that the fight was A
ating any particular degree 81
slasm. 1t was bad enough u
spect before Welsh nspIained
kle," and after the postponeu
cording to the best informatIon
able, the thing fell flat. ju1.
this time, too, Ritchie saw q
bottom was falling out Of t11
game and he noticed a dispoz||
the part of the principal pro-
dispute some Of the points in u
ment made in his behalf by o@
Mcintyre.
Ritchie, who is a shrewd yo1|
noticed other things He
Welsh g manager was playlne
loose with him. Pollock. a.
man referred to. had Ritchlo
a dance as late as 10 o'clock
while Welsh as midway in
sleep. Pollock, for that mat
credit to himself for outwit!
chic, saying that he had kepl
guessing as to when the hn4
for the match would be comp!o
all this time Walsh was train1u
ly and getting plenty OF sleep
Ritchie Bolts for Home.
According to Harry Foley. u
north with Ritchie, this younf
overreached himself. BY dispI.
The managerial tricks he hHo
lp while handling Jack Mun
other stars Of the arena, ne
n imbuing Richie with the q
here was a plot afoot to give
worst OF the deal. and this
is anything caused Ritchie g
negotiations and make a bolt g.
Tbara 10 reason for supp01|
Pollock did not pin his fait1
o the moving pictures. ae
hat if he could, by hinder1ne
lement of questions connect3
he match, delay the time y
HE would start training, be
rove Welsh g chances OF vi
new. as anv sensible mana {
now. that if Welsh could &c,
f lightweight champion Of \
would be worth more 20
IL the interest in the nioyasf
ne "articles OF agreemens
renee to. -
ollock s game. Willie founu
rowing short and, feeling tnz
OF in condition and thai Y
robably have difficulty ~
eight, framed up an excuse : !.
Say Even at that, If tng Y
J $4,000 had been ION w 1.
m tb;nkino Willie would hHV' Y
, there and taken g chanee.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-28
AS to Attendance.

Owing to the number OF games
played last fall, the figures for total
attendance and total receipts will
probably not be broken this year. al
though the shares Of the PLAYERS in
the receipts Of the first four games
may be larger. A steady increase in
interest has been reflected in the rec.
oros for many years, and players and
o"ae1s snxe are anxious to know
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-09
Rare Attraction for a sideshow.

"I next have the pleasure. lay-dees and gentlemen" announced the side show lecturer in orotund tones, indica ting a pale, wan, spectacled person on the platform, "of calling your kind at. tention to one of the most remarkable curiosities on exhibition. He"
 "Huh!" hypercritically calculated Tobe Sagg, who had nosed into the forefront of the crowd around the ros- trum. "He looks just about like the rest of us.'
 "Very true!" replied the orator. But, despite that fact, he is, so far as we have any knowledge, the only specimen of his kind in existence-a country editor who worked and fought and labored for his party, with heart and soul and might and main, merely because he thought it was right and not because he wanted the postof. feel"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-09
Household Maneuver.

"And what" asked the caller. after he had been shown ali over MT. Bobb's new hoGsc. lis that pretty little article hanging over the piano?"
 Don't you know?" answered Mir. Bobbs, enthusiastically. "Why, that is a handy match receiver, made by Mrs. Bobbs. I scratch match and use it. It must not be thrown on the floor-there is the receiver. Holding the burnt match carefully in my fin gers, I move the piano away from the wall to the center of the room. Then I go down i'll the basement and get the stepladder. I place the stepladder against the wall mount it, deposit the match in the receiver climb down again. I then return the stepladder to the basement, come back and move the piano into its former positions There's nothing like having these handy things about the house. It makes for neatness and discourages smoking"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-09
When Eloauence Didn't Work.

There is such thing as being too eager, as witness the following re- mark:
 "Yes." said the statesman, T de- feated myself by my own elo- quence once"
 How was that?"
 II was candidate for the nomina. tion to congress, and got up and made speech to the convention. in which I just naturally flung Old Glory, with a capital o and capital c. to the breeze in so enthusiastic man. ner that l took the house by storm. l dilated on the greatness of our country and on the responsibilities of the man who should be called to make it's laws till one old fellow from a back county got up and said that I had convinced him that 1t was too big job for so young man as l was to tackle, so he moved that the con. vention nominate man of more ex- perience; and, by gee, they did It."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-09
Reap X Crawford Furnitu

for fifteen minutes he kept the dele gates, many of whom were governors, congressman and senators, in an up- roar.
 The young newspaper man, with Judge w. T. Woodbridge and George P. Darby, represented the Pine Bluff Chamber of Commerce. He was called to the platform after he had been speaking for five minutes by Chair man George c. Diehl, who said
 Come up here, we all want to hear you.''
 MT. ,Solmson reviewed the maca- dam road work that is being done throughout the State of Arkansas the good roads legislation that has been favorably disposed of by the Arkansas legislature and the great benefits that are resulting from good roads i'll his state. 2. He created much laughter when he referred to speech of Secretary of State Robert of Loui- siana, who preceded him and had de- lclared that his, people were looking for q ssdrys place to stand on."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-09

Because of the recent floods my people, said MT. Solmson, 'are try ing to find a wet place to stand on. for Statewide prohibition is likely in 1914"
 The speaker also referred to the accomplishments of the automobilists ln Arkansas and was cheered by the New York automobile crowd when he said that the Arkansas speed manlacs' are too fast for the officers to catch up with them and enfore the speed law.
 The Arkansas visitors are prepar Ing to return to Little Rock on Sat urday. Secretary William Hutton of the State Democratic Committee, Sen ator William Kavanaugh, Senator Jas r. Clark, Harry Hale, Lee Montgom- cry of New Lewisyille, Walter Little of Hot Springs, R. P. Allen of Van Buren, George B.. Pugh,p J. H. Harrod and others will arrive in Little Rock Monday.
 In the Supreme Court yesterday J. Il. Harrod and George B. Pugh of Lit
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-09
HOW ROMAN WENT COURTINC
Prospective Wife Had Nothing to Do With the Match, Though Ac-
 corded High Position.

When boy had completed his studies and had reached the age of perhaps twenty-five or thirty, it was his duty to marry. After deciding upon a lady whom he thought suitable to be his wife he arranged the be- throthal with her father, as the maid en was usually too young to be con suited in the matter, and, furthermore, Roman women were always under guardianship. The marriage cere- monies began with the feast and sac. rifices in the house of the brides ia. ther.
 In the evening procession of youths, torch-bearers, musicians and guests escorted the bride to her fu ture home, where the groom carefully lifted her over the threshold, as it sill with her foot. In case the wed ding was of the ancient sacred form termed confarreatio, the newly mar ried pair, after entering the house, ate together a sacred cake in the pres ence of ten witnesses and of the chief pontiff an, priest of Jupiter. The ceremoniei of the evening ended with a bridal song by the guests, and on the following day the husband gave a marriage feast to his friends.
 Though early custom placed the wife in the power of her husband, she went freely into society, attended the theaters and public games, taught her children, and sometimes aided her husband in his political career. Her position as mistress of the household commanded respect from government and society.-EXchange
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-09
NEW MERCANTILE co.
 FOR PINE BLUFF
WOLF NICHOLS DRY GOODS COM. PANY WILL OPEN FOR BUSI.
 NESS SOON.
We'll known Citizens Are Stock hold crs-Business Will Occupy Store
 On Main Street.

The Wolf Nichols Dry Goods Com pany is the name of a new firm with well known Pine Bluffians as stock holders which will be opened for bus mess in Pine Bluff within a short time.
 Articles of incorporation were filed in the office of the county clerk yes lerday. The company is capitalized at $10,000 with $4,000 paid up. The in corporators are Wolf Nichols, Ben Shafer, Simon Bloom, Irving Rein tcrger, of this city, and Leopold and Dave Bogatzky, of Nashville, Tenn.
 The officers are Wolf Nichols, president; Ben Shafer, vice president, and Irving Reinberger, secretary and treasurer. The officers will consti- ute the board of directors.
 The members of the firm, with the exception of the two Nashville men, arc we'll known in this city. Mir. Nich- ols has been in business here and as a straightforward business man his reputation has been made. Mr. Rein berger is successful attorney and this is his first venture ill conner cial circles. Mr. Bloom, who is soon to take the office of mayor, is known as a successful business men and his name in the new company only serves 10 lend influence. Mr. Shafer is also well known.
 The firm will do a general mer- chandise business. A complete stock of millinery, ladies ready -to+Wear, shoes, notions, etc., will be carried by the firm. The stock of goods will be first class and the business will be conducted on the highest plane.
 Nil. Nichol will leave today for New York and other eastern markets to purchase most complete stock of goods. He will be gone at least a week and will strive to make such purchases as will find a ready sale to the best patronage in the city.
 While the definite location of the new firm was not given out it is known that it will be on Main street, between Third and Fourth avenues a district that is highly des,rable for retail business. The Fore will be remodeled and conveniently arrang ed and MT. Nichol Said yesterday ngiN plate glass font has already been ordered by, wire.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-09
AND IT WASN'T HUBBY AT ALL
MT. Younghusband UnjustIy Blamed for Fault of ChoIeric Driver of
 tho Mules.

Another practical application of the advisability of believing only half of what you hear" had an inning in a South side home recently. An upper apartment Is occupied by bride and groom. The groom on this fatal morn ing happened to be the first one up. A teamster with pair of balky mules on the street below the bedroom windows was admonishing the mules in the only language mules are said to under stand.
 While the groom was in the process of morning plunge he was aston ished to hear sobs coming from the ad- joining room. Hastily repairing to the scene of trouble, he was about to in- quire what on earth the matter was, when in muffed tones canes the heart broken accents of the bride:
 "Oh, how dare you speak to me that way, you horrid thing. I'm going straight home to m-moth-" and the balance was smothered again in the sympathetic pillow.
 The astonished groom stood, gaping duO opeoCuleSS, Wlll0 IuS SOCDluS WdS resumed. Just then, waited in by the gentle morning breeze, came this dull cet admonishment from the street be. low: Get up, you blankety-blink blank lazy houn' pup, yuh! How d0 you expect me to get anywhere? D'you think you kin stay here all day, yoh blankety ip-whoop-blank, etc!"
 The shout of laughter that broke the tense silence in that bridal apart ment made even the aggrieved bride sit up in her misery and negligee and take notice of her convulsed brute of husband. Indignation was begin ming to flame high in her eyes when he recovered his breath enough to tell her to just listen a moment. She lis tened to the choicest bit of profanity the teamster had yet relieved his sys. tenn of.
 "Oh." she gasped, and before the morning was over had the whole apart ment wondering what the joke was.- Kansas City Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-09
PINE BLUFFIANS PUT
 ARKANSAS ON MAP
MEYER SOLMSON KEPT DELE GATES TO GOOD ROADS CON. VENTION IN UPKOAR
 BY SPEECH.
Called To the Platform By the Chair man and Tells of Arkansas Work In Good Roads
 Movement.

Washington, March S-Meyer Solm- son, editor of the Pine Bluff Graphic, thoroughly convinced the several hun dred delegates to the National Good Roads Convention at, the Raleigh Ho- that Arkansas was on the map sndsthat his State was nov ing forward in the good sroads. move mentsas fast as any other,sister state.
 
 He was called on for a speech, and