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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-16
YANK POLOISTS WON.
Defeated BIoomin' British by Narrow
Margin.

Neadowbrook Club. Westbury, Long
Island June 16.-By the narrow margin
of one-quarter of one goal. the American
Polo team won the second and deciding
game of the International cup series al
the Meadowbrook club and thereby re-
tains the trophy for at least another year.
The score was AZ to IA.
The slight advantage of the United
States four over the English challengers
at the end of one hour of the most des-
perate kind of play is fully indicated by
the triflfng difference in the scores of the
two teams Polo play of-tlles type shown
by both fours has never been seen here
tofore in either national or interna tional
contests in this country.
The spectacle thrilled the crowd of 35 600
persons until it was fairly carried away
and rooted" like typical baseball crowd
during the final period of play.
Never for moment did the action lag
and the game was one continuous spec
tacle of rushes.
In the sixty minute melee, the English
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-16
FACE SERIOUS CHARGE.
Duck and Marcelle Charged Sending
Obscene Matter in Mails.

Ernest Duck has pleaded guilty to
the charge of sending obscene matter
through the U. S. mails and John Mar
celle. colored. pleaded not guilty to the
charge and his preliminary hearing
will be held in the U. S. District
Court. tomorrow afternoon.
Duck is charged with sending obscene
letters to girls working in a Topeka
factory and attempting to make a
date with the girls in North Topeka.
One of the girls found the letter and
factory who Immediately gave it to
Chief of Police ]. w. F. Hughes. A
trap was led for Duck by the chief
which led to the arrest of two men.
A date was made by Police Woman
Miss Eva Corning and Miss Jennie
Smith to meet the two men at a dyke
at North Topeka.
Four police officers, Sergeant Ross
and Lytle and Officers Hall and Han
non accompanied the women who ap-
peared at the dyke at the appointed
hour. They We're met by John Mar
celle. a colored man, who was immed-
lately arrested. Duck was hiding in
some tall grass at that time. Mercelle
was taken to the police station where
he revealed Ducks identity and gave a
description of him. Later Charles
Lyle located him at the City park
and arrested him.
Marcelle, who is suspected of being
John z. Jordan. is in the city jail
awaiting trial and Duck was released
on a $500 bond Duck stated that
Marcelle had written several of the
letters. He (Duck) signed his name as
Delbert Charlton and Marcelle changed
his first name to Leon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-16
HELPING The BOY.
Professor McKeever Helps Lot With
His Boy Bulletins.

William A. McKeever, professor or
philosophy at the Kansas state Agrl-
cultural college, Is helping soIVe the
boy prcbIem-what Young America
shall do, how he shall " ork, and where
he shall play. The author OF Farm
BOYS AMI Girls has a famous slogan;
'GTrain the whole boy and not merely
a part of him. In addition to lecturing
on child problems. Professor Mckeever
In issuing a series Of Home Training
Bulletins treating the following sub
1ects: The Cigarette Smoking Boy;
Teaching the Boy to Save; Teaching
the Girl to Help in the Home; Assisting
the Boy in Choice of Vocation; A Bet
ter Crop of Boys and Girls; Training
the Bow to Work; Teaching the Girl to
Save; Instructing the Young in Regard
to Sex
'I have profound faith in the COM
mon boy" DR.. Mckeever is quoted as
saying. THE common boy has within
his being at infancy all the latent pos
sibilities of intellect of morals, or
spirituality, necessary for developing
him into a citizen of great worth, and
all these may be wrought into his char
acter provided we begin his training in
time and deal with him intelligently
throughout his growing years"
DIR. McKeever is a recognized au-
thority on questions of child culture;
his words carry weight. Home IRAN
ing Bulletin No. g. deals with the
timely subject of the Boys Vacation
EmpIoym emit
Take the boys point of view. Is
Professor McKeever's first warning
work the boys in groups" is another
suggestion. DIR. McKeever touches on
the necessity of play and gives an in
teresting list of possible summer occu-
pations. In the introduction he says:
1.-The vacation period is a time of
peculiar trials and difficulties for the
parents of the typical American boy,
especially if they dwell in the town or
city. What TO do with such boy during
the summer season, how to direct his
energies into ways that will be help |
full to his character, how to select his
employment suitably for giving him |
training and discipline such as will be
properly related to the joyous activities |
that are his as a kind of divine in |
heritance-these are the questions they |
must try to answer. Parents may be |
assured that the boy continues to learn /
either good or evil during practically |
every day of the summer season. His
buoyant energies, if not directed into
ways that are praiseworthy, will most
lead him into ways that are
permanently hurtful.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-16
NOT WAITING FOR CARS
The Crowds Walked and Drove to
Gage Park Sunday.

Topeka didn't bother about waiting
for a street. car line to Gage park Sun
day. The city's beauty spot was crowd
ed from morning until late at moon
light.
And the Gage beach-at one time
Sunday afternoon, ITO legs, no arms,
and 30 bodies were splashin5, frolicking
and plunging in the cool waters of the
small lake.
Many entire families spent the af-
ternoon in the waters-the women
catching their breath in the shadows,
the children padding and wading along
the beach and the bald-headed fathers.
bleaching their naked "domes'' out in
the sparkling sunShiney ripples.
The city has just completed new
bath house with 40 additional lockers
for the convenience of the bathers. A
new board wa1k-rivalling in attration
and sensation the famous board walk
at Atlantic City-will be built from the
bath houses to the edge of the water.
1t was a gala day at Gage park-a
day that should have been witnessed
by the city commissioners who voted
against a street car line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-16
LONG ROW BOAT TRIP.
Navy Man to Travel Length of Mis-
sissippi River.

ST. Paul, Mimi, June 16.-Andrew
Koehn, honorably discharged quarter
master of the United States navy. who
is out to row the entire length of the
Mississippi river, left Lake Itasca on
his long journey. He will Renter the
navy when he finishes his trip, which
he expects will consume about 80 days.
The trip is being made in a galvan-
lied steel boat of Koehn's own design.
He expects to cover the distance be-
tween here and Lake Itasca (about 500
miles) in 20 days. He will not leave
the boat until the end of his journey
has been reached and will pay his ex-
penses by selling en- route the official
of the navy. The adventure
has been approved by the navy depart
ment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-16
BIG FIRE AT RESERVE.
Business Section Damaged to the
Amount of $4,000.

St Joseph. Mo-, June 16.-The business
section of Reserve. Kan, little town
about fifty miles from here. was almost
totally wiped out by fire which Is sup
posed TO have started in a pile OF OIL
soaked rags in a harness shop. The har-
ness shop. a restaurant. general store,
a furniture store, a newspaper plant and
butcher shop were destroyed. The loss Is
estimated at SIS. 600. Citizens of the town
turned out in force and fought the flames
by forming a bucket brigade
Reserves business section was almost
totally destroyed seventeen years ago by
a cyclone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-16
shannon BUYS Cuba Paper.

Cuba Kan, June 1.-THE Cuba
Daylight, published the last two years
by Ernest Smith, has changed owner
ship, VIII Shannon, formerly of the
Clay Center Dispatch and later of Ma
haska. having bought the paper, and
it is said will take possession next
month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-16

showed a better team attack than the
cup defending four, and their ponies, too,
pIayed the game as If they Knew me IN
only by daring flashes of individual play
that the Americans were finally able to
emerge victorious by a score of Az to "A
goals
Evening star., 1913-12-02
Christmas Stamps Offered to Public
at Another Department
Store.

Red Cross Christmas seals were
placed on sale at the Palais Royal to-
day. the sale being in the hands of the
following volunteers: Mrs. W. J.
Ecardman. in charge: Miss Mildred
Gre5el. assistant; Misses Helen Heyl,
Esther Foote. Rush. Anderson. Sara
Allen. Mary stead. Dorothy Dickman.
Hcloise Orme. Eleanor Griffith. Nancy
Wiley. Jeanette Allen. Helen Buchanan,
Katharine Dickman, Sarah Wiley. Kath-
sTine De Bose
The American Security and Trust
Company yesterday purchased 500
worth Of the Red Cross seals which
arc to be used on the mail sent out
BY the company. Other firms which
naNe purchased seals TO he used On
their outgoing mail include the Thomas
J. Fisher Company. Byron :. Adams r.
Harris 4 Co. the Washington Loan
and Trust Company and NJ. Philips
born x Co.
Pupils of the drawing class of Tech
niral High School have designed artis-
tic posters 10 be placed i'm the Wash
iHgton high schools TO advertis the
Christmas seals. The posters bear the
design Of the Red Cross seal the let
teriRg being in the colors of the par
ticular school where the posters arc 10
be displayed.
Evening star., 1913-12-02
COST OF THE CAMPAIGN
Expense Account Shows That
Montgomery County Demo-
Gratis Spent ST ,65O.16.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md. December =, 1913.
Robert G. Hilton, treasurer of the
democratic state central committee for
this county, has. as required by law
lied with the clerk of the circuit court
here sworn statement Of the recelpts
and disbursements Of the committee dur
ins the recent campaign. The totai re-
ceipts were S1.6t9u. and the dlsbuTse-
ments. which We're for printing. postage
nav OF chailengers. automobile hire ana
other TRANSFORMATION. sample ballots. etc-'
amounted to s1,6JD.l6, leaving dehcit
of SHE
The contributors to the campaign iuhu
we're: L. Brooke Lee. $4a1-t1; Dr' Eugene
Jones- sooo: Robert 6. Hilton. Benjamin
T.. WhaIen and Alexander c. Carlisle
S1na each. David J. Lewis. George II.
I amar. John T. Lewis. Odorion v.
Rob.v and Crittenden III. Walker. $50
each. Philip d. Laird. Berry T. clark
Iobn l.. Brunett. ii. Clinton Allnutt.
Francis Snowden. J. F'urr White and
Andrew J. Cummings. 81 each; Robert
r Peter. $50: Clifard L. Howard. SO;
Preston B. Ray. Richard T. White. w
q Spates. Arthur Peter. Merrill Il.
Knight and Earle B. Wood. siJ each:
oscar l. Johnson. J. II. Saunders,
Joseph r White. Eugene W. Cissell,
Edward w Broome. Henry $. Frisbie.
Mrs. Octavia B. Wood, Joseph W. Buck.
wellington W. Welsh, Orin J. Field. -
each.
Evening star., 1913-12-02
ARGUES NEWMAN
CONTEST IN BRIEF
Continued from First Page.)

sons set forth in the petition are suf-
ficient in law. Had it been intended to
limit the right of the persistent relator
to inquire into the holding of office in
private corporations. and deny all right
of inquiry into alleged usurpations of
public offices except to the Attorney Cen
eral and district attorney. it would have
been easy to say So The absence of
such words OF distinction is an argu-
ment against purpose to distinguish
Under no rule of statutory construc-
ton had the court the right to read into
the statute his view that there should
be no inquiry into the holding OF public
office except by the public prosecutors.
The code. too. was adopted after the de-
cision of the Supreme Court that the
private citizen has standing to seek the
performance of d public duty. and of
this court that taxpayer has standing
as such to secure an injunction against
a threatened public wrong.
The statute must be considered as
adopted in the light of these judicial de-
cisions and to have been intended to ac
cord Herewith, as also with the construc
ton given for 200 years to the statute of
Anne. under which Il was always held
that the right of an alleged usurper of
municipal Office might be tested by a
private relator.
Again. we suggest that under our
Evening star., 1913-12-02
No Distinction Made.

I'VE submit that since there are no
words in the statute distinguishing be-
tween proceedings in the two cases Judge
Anderson was without warrant for the
assertion that 'manifestly it is the poilcy
of the statute where the right 10 noid a
public office is involved. the writ may
be asked only by the Attorney General
or district attorney. and that upon their
refusal to ask it. citizens. taxpayers and
other interested persons are without
remedy against a manifest iusurpation-
The statute is distinctly to the contrary.
IF the construction given the statute
on this point by Justice Anderson Is cor
rect all other questions discussed IN MS
opinion become immaterial for no matter
how great the interest of relator he
may not challenge the right to public
office otherwise than through the Attor-
ney General or district attorney.
Counsel for Mr.. Newman nave twenty
days in which to file a reply brlef After
this reply is filed the case may be placed
on the calendar for the January term.
Arguments are not expected to be reached
until the first week of February.
Evening star., 1913-12-02

statute the proceeding to test the right
of holders of Office in private corporations
does not differ from that TO test the right
to public Office In either case the Attor-
ney General and district attorney must
first be applied to. and in neither case
may the private relator obtain the writ
without the leave of the court.
Evening star., 1913-12-02

Arthur c. Hume. New York and
Charles III. Davis. Petersburg. Va. have
been named receivers by Judge Naddill
of the federal circuit court at Richmond
of the Piedmont Manganese Corporation.
near Lynchburg.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-11
PART III

PART III
While u have always regarded my
job with Mansfield as my start in
baseball, | had played before that. |
have been playing ball as long as can
remember. A lot of fellows, who aft
erward butted into the big leagues, or
came near it, played around Pittsburg
with men when | was kid"
My first assignment in baseball with
a regular club was with team out in
Mansfield, Pa We called ourselves
the A B c team. / don't know why we
called 1t that, but that was the name.
We were all youngsters about four
teen or fifteen years old, and we play
ed baseball every day from daybreak
until dark. We used TO play cur
games on Saturday afternoons.
Many times teams composed of play
ers much older than we were came TO
play us and were tempted to return
whence they came asserting that they
did not want to play bunch of kids. +"
Most of tie time these same teams
left well trimmed.
1t was while playing with that club
that / grabbed an opportunity to break
into faster company. A young fellow
named John S. Robh, Jr.-he's a big
lawyer out in Pittsburg now, and we
often discuss this-was playing sec
ond base on the Mansfield team in
the Allegheny County League: For
some reason or other he couldn't play
one afternoon and the manager Of the
team, "Shad" Civilian, sent FOR my
brother. I've forgotten why AL
couldn't make it, but | went in his
stead. If | remember correctly, chat
was back in 1890. \ -
Wagner played in the little bush
league team for while, but he did not
like older company very well, and re-
turned TO his own team. He pro-
ceeds:
Then came my experience with
Mansfield, Ohio. Now, I'll pick up the
story where | left off after knocking
that ball. over the fence. This man
Taylor,s son owned the Adrian. Mich,
team, and the club out lhere was hard
put So | was sent. there as an in
fielder and captain.
/ got homesick after a few months
and quit the club. Most of the boys
from home were playing with" the
Warren club, in the Iron and Oil
League, and | Joined the same team
Toward the close of the season l was
Iaade an offer by the Steubenvillc
club, of the Tri-State league, and
joined it. That was in 1895. 49,.
went there as sort of all-around
player | pitched for while. | was
so wild that / used TO walk half the
batters and strike out the other hall
had terrific speed and it was hard 10
get a catcher who could hold me. They
borrowed Pete" Layelle from the
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-11
PLAYING OUTFIELD
REQUIRES BRAINS

/ center followed. The center fielder
came up with the ball cleanly and
fired it home. trying TO cut Off the run.
ner going in from second. He failed
10 get his man, and was not blamed
for that. but he was blamed for let
ting the man who hit the ball get
down to second on the throw. The
runner who scored put Washington
within one run of tie. The throw
home let the tying runner reach sec
, ond instead of stopping him at first.
Single Scores Runner.
Another single was made and scored
this tying tally from second. then a
grounder ended the lining. Washing
ton won out in the extra innings. The
outfielder who was called down for
losing the game argued that his throw
was just as good as the one the left
| fielder had made in the same inning,
and all the explaining and arguing in
the world failed to convince him that
/, he was not the victim of managerial
prejudice because he was blamed for
the loss of the game The fact that
| If he had held his man on first instead
of throwing home the tying run would
not have been left on second or third
base has not occurred to him yet
This is only small section of what
a good outfielder must be thinking
! about between pinches. He must know
that he is playing in the right spot
for the batsman, as nearly as can be
calculated in advance; he must know
the score, the number of outs and the
speed of base runners and of the man
at bat Taking all these elements into
consideration, he must figure out in
advance what he ought to do with the
ball if it comes to him, either on the
fly or on the ground. Then he must
! do it,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-11
LIANGFORDBACK
FROdCAMPAIGN
in ANTIPODES

Hunsering for America, after an
extended ring campaign in the antipo.
DIES, sam tangford, one Of the great.
est colored fighters who ever donned
glove, is passenger on the Sono-
ma. Langford is accompanied by his
wlfe. his manager, Joe Woodman, and
several lesser lights of pugilism.
The Boston Tar Baby has been
IN Honolulu several times before. and
found no difficulty today in passing
the time while the liner was in port.
lie took an automobile to the beach,
and later in the day got in touch with
local sporting men whom he had met
before.
Langford is going to take things
easy for while, but should some of
the present crop OF white hopes feel
like tackling him, he will be quite
ready to oblige.
Joe Read, lightweight who has
been fighting In Australia for the past
two years, and who is looking for
matches in the states, and ]. ID. Davis.
another ring artist, are with the Lang
ford party.
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Pittsburg club, of the National League
to catch me in couple of games
thinking that it would steady me.
AS a pitcher | was failure. While
in the games as pitcher, however,
banged a couple of hits over the fence
and they made me into an outfielder1
playing me in center George L. More.
land, now the famous baseball Stats
tician of Pittsburg, was then manager
of the club.
The following spring the PittsbuTs
club signed me, and ". w Kerr, who
then owned the Pirates, wanted to
farm me out to Kansas City, but l in
sisted that it was too far away from
home, so he sent me to Paterson, H.
j., in the Atlantic League. l played
with Paterson all of that year and I'M
til June 20, 1897, when the Louisville
club, owned by Barney" Dreyfuss and
managed BY Fred Clarke, and OF
which Harry c. Pulliam, one-time pres
ident of the National League, was Sec
rotary, bought my services.
When | was leaving Paterson the
fans of that city presented me with
a watch. l still have it, and it's soma
watch
During the winter of 1889 and 1890
the National League was cut from q
twelve TO an eight-club league, and
MIR Dreyfuss purchased the Pittsburg
franchise. He took some of the Louis
vile players to Pittsburg with him
and was fortunate enough TO be
among them.
+ Let's see-of course Clarke came
along. as manager, and Tommy Leach
and Deacon Phillippi were amons
those who had been playing viii
Louisville and were taken to Pittsburg
Well, I've been with Pittsburg ever
since Guess that about completes tte
yarn. -. 49,
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r
Yesterday Maurice Mclaughlin and
r. n. Williams both won their matches
in the first days play against Ger,
many, in the second round of the
Davis cup contests That Mclaughlin
was pressed to a fiye.set match to de-
feat his German opponent may be ac-
counted for by the fact that playing
without spikes bothers the California
Comet to a great extent. McLough-
Inns game is SO fast that it is hard for
him to keep his footing without spikes,
which are not allowed in England.
However, tennis enthusiasts of this
country are more confident of the re-
turn of the Davis trophy this year
than they have been since the cup was
taken to England by the Doherty
brothers. Close students of the game
40 not count so much on the strength
of the United States players, who are
now in England, as they do on the
known ability of those to face our rep
resentatives.
Should the United States challenge
Great Britain, local followers will be
willing to wager odds on the return
of the cup, because England will have
to play men of the tC. p. Dixon, j. C.
Parke ana A. H. -ToWe stamp, and
they, have never been able to defeat
our best men. Dixon and Parke are
Fbaseline players of the steady sort
but the dashing, brilliant game OF
Maurice f. Mclaughlin has always
proved winning one against these
players. III. ..............- T..
Presenting that Mclaughlin wins his
two matches in the struggle, all eyes
will be turned ON Williams, the young
star of the American four. He viii
have to show more steadiness than he
| has thus far this year to win, and feal
, is expressed because he is not yet q
consistent player nor has he had suf
| ficient experience to Undue confidence
! in an international series. If he plays
the full strength Of his game he car
| probably win one or both of his match
es, but tennis followers hardly expect
| this outcome If Mclaughlin and Har
| old W. Hackett play in the doubles the
result will be awaited with much in
terest. unprecedented followers of the
| sport in New York believe the Ameri
cans will be defeated in doubles, fol
the combination is too new to wori
| well together and Hackett is not play
ing his old game by any means, -:
! The fourth member OF the team
| Wallace. F. Johnson of Philadelphia, ii
| hardly likely to get into the Davis cuI
| series, unless an accident befalls ont
Of the regulars. Johnson was an elev
enth hour decision for the team, be
cause he was going to England fol
the summer with a West Virginia
| player named linn. The Davis cuI
committee, R. D. Wrenn, II. W. Slo
cum and G.. T. Adee, had no alterna
tive but to put him on the team, be
| cause he finished third in the rankin;
| last year and was one of the few t,
| defeat Williams during the season
| johnson has never been abroad befcrf
and intends to play in all of the i'm
| portant British fixtures before return
| ing to this country.