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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15
A New Hybrid in the Bird World

A New Hybrid in the Bird World.
In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside the editor of that publica
tion reports, the case of the recent
crossing of a guinea fowl and an
ordinary chicken. The editor owns
the trio-Papa Leghorn, Mamma
Pearl Guinea and Offspring What-is-
it. In regard to the hybrid the ed
itor says in part:
1--WE are going to keep this happy
family together, and see if we can
carry the experiment further. The
voluntary mating of these birds un-
der ordinary farm conditions is very
remarkable. We rather expect to
hatch more hybrids this summer, but
the really interesting phase of the
affair will come when the test of the
offspring as to fertility is made. We
cannot say as yet whether it is a
male or female, but we rather in
cline to the belief that it is hen.
1t slightly resembles a female hen
hawk. Its voice is about midway be-
tween the characteristic notes made
} by hen and guinea fowl and its
: manner and style of carriage arr
sufficiently in contrast to the CORE
| spending qualities of Papa Brow
f Leghorn to be considered feminine
S IF so, will it lay? If it lays, will
: it follow the law of fecundity o
: which DR.. Raymond Pearl tells us
: and lay according to the rule pre-
|. vailing in its fathers family, or vii
l. it confine itself to SO or so eggs
h summer, as does it's mothers people
e Will its eggs be fertile, or will the
o refuse to hatch as do those of mos
is hybrids? The Indian jungle fowl
It much closer relative to the con
r mon chicken than is the guinea, an
r readily crosses with the domest
IN fowl, but the hybrids are usually il
of fertile, like the mule"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

The first of June is near at hand,
the date set for checking off all de-
linquent subscribers. On running
through our list we find a number of
subscribers who are delinquent. We
do not want them to miss an issue
of the paper, and we hope that all
subscribers will respond to the no
tices now being sent out. Please pay
this month and do not miss an issue.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15
others praised without resenting it,
how much better we would all be.

Oftentimes q newspaper is criti-
cised for having said something good
of some man which displeased some
one else. The writer's old boss used
to say: "If a man kicks on some
thing discreditable you have said
about him or his friends give him a
respectful hearing, and if there has
been a wrong done, right it. But if
man kicks because you have said
something good about someone else,
tell him to go straight up-or down.
He is too jealous and small to de-
serve notice."
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

Quite a bunch of Hawkeyes were
in evidence at the Masonic gathering
Friday evening. There were ten or
more former residents of Iowa in at
tendance. 1t is remarkable, in a
gathering of that kind, or in travel
ing, how many people one meets
whom they have known elsewhere,
or who know friends of theirs. This
United States is not very big place,
after all, and you never know when
you are going to meet someone you
have known heretofore, perhaps
thousands of miles away
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

There are two views of everything.
Many people believe the future of the
country is dependent upon legisla-
ton. Jim Hill, of railroad fame,
says that if congress would adjourn
for ten years the country would pros
per as never before. The old school
doctors say that unless they are en-
trusted with the management of the
sanitation of the country we will all
seek premature graves. The homeo-
pathists, the osteopaths, the chiro-
practices and the Christian Scientists
believe that freedom to choose me-
dicinal and sanitary methods is guar
anteed by the constitution and a part
of the inalienable right of life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness. "
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15
A Nut for Ashland High School Base.
ball Admirers to Crack.
(By Henry G. Gilmore.)


Last year our high school baseball
players very gracefully but none the
less energetically carried everything
before them in the Rogue River Val
ley and the coasts thereof, in the
high school contests, and present ap-
pearances would indicate a similar
triumph for the season of 1913.
If it be true-as the Duke of We'll
lington declared it to be-that the
real battle of Waterloo was fought
on the cricket grounds of England,
what cannot be deduced, as a nation
al asset, in the development and eff
cheney of brain and Drawn as regis
tered on and around the thousand
and one diamonds to be found in the
country from Dan (Boston) even
unto Beersheba (our athletically live
ly Ashland of Roguish proclivities)? ?
While our Goliaths are battling for
fame and glory here and there, along
| the line of the Southern Pacific rail-
road, why can't our stay-at-homes. in
the persons of prospective graduates
of both persuasions of the Ashland
high school, unravel the mysterious
entanglements bound up in the fol-
lowing baseball situation? 1t will be
found refreshing exercise for all
who desire to do little sound think
ing on their own account. This is
the nut that invites the cracking:
"If Jack Brown of Medford and Bill
Smith of Ashland face each other
112 times and Bill Smith pitches 416
balls out of which there are S6
strikes and II fouls and 81 passes,
and the number of passes is one
third of the hits, how many hits did
Jack Brown lam out?"
Teacher-Hands up, pipils of the
Ashland high school. But please re-
frain from answering all at once!
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

At last accounts the windows of
The Hague peace palace were all
boarded up, but the caretaker goes
in once a year to see that no one
steals the furniture.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

The diplomats at Washington may
not like the Bryan grape-juice din
ners, but perhaps their wives will be
pleased to have them come home at
more reasonable hours.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

There will be a continued unrest
among the college undergraduates
until proficiency at baseball is given
the credit marks it should have on
the examination papers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

The board of directors of a school
district in Douglas county ordered
warrants for school money drawn di-
rectly to the pupils. A taxpayer
complained to the attorney general,
who ruled that it was illegal. The
board were held to violate their oath
of office in so doing.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

One has the feeling that the new
English ambassador, Sir Cecil Spring
Rice, rather enjoys writing a good
fat name, and wouldn't object to
autograph albums.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

The only trouble with those Futur-
ist painters is that you can't always
tell their pictures from the board on
which they mix their paints.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

The automobilists of Ashland are
complaining of the number of pieces
of boards containing nails which are
to be. found on the streets of the city
menacing tires and horses feet. 1t
has been suggested that thorough
use of the street sweeper on the
paved streets would obviate the
trouble.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15
Odds 6 Ends
Picked Up by the Reporter.

The Grants Pass Masons who visit
ed Ashland Friday afternoon were
strong in their commendation of the
beauty of this city and expressed
their appreciation of the ride around
the city given them by local auto
mobilists.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

We are all too prone to try to
climb up by pulling someone else
down. We are too apt to feel that
good word for some other man is
slap at us. In how many such cases
it is a question of "a guilty conscience
needs no accuser," must be left to
the individual consciousness. If we
could all bring ourselves to hear
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

The city officials have been doing
good work on the dirt streets this
spring in the way of grading Winner
street is a fine example of the work.
This should be followed up by con-
sistent use of the plit-log or wing
drag as it is called. If this were
done whenever needed throughout
the fall and winter it would save
much money.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

The action of the California legis-
lature in appropriating money to pay
salaries to convicts in the peniten-
tiary is arousing the wrath of great
many of the inhabitants of that state
who are so unfortunate as to be out
side the pen and not have both jobs
and wages guaranteed by the state.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

The city dads and Street Commis-
sioner Fraley are doing excellent
work in the way of grading the
streets this spring. One thing which
appears to have been neglected in
the past has been the keeping the
dirt streets in repair. A stitch in
time saves nine, even more surely in
street work than in other lines.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

The United States imported 95,-
100000 pounds and exported TO-
100000 of tinplate in 1911.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

Wanted, foot stoves and hot bricks
for Wall streets cold feet!
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

1t is just as useless to try and fix
up dirt street once year and ex-
pect it to keep in good shape as to
try and clean out garden in the
spring and expect it to keep clean all
summer. Eternal vigilance is the
price of good roads.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland
Tidings one year $2.75 to old or new
subscribers. Regular price Of Sunset
Magazine is $3.50 per year.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

Ashland Tidings and Weekly Ore
gonian one year, $3.50.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-15

Take any old chair in the house, even
though it looks like wreck of its former
self, and give it coat of JAP-A-LAc. You
will say, II never thought that old chair
could look so fne." JAP-A-LAc makes
old things new.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
Ford Quits Splitter;
Goes Back to Curve
Yankee Hurler Claims That Moist
Delivery Hurts His Wrist
and Shoulder.

NEW YORK, July 12.-Russeli
Ford has practically given up his
spitball. It is but occasionally that
he uses it now. He has returned
to his curve.
At the beginning Of the season, and
in fact, until just recently Ford
could not work the kinks out of his
arm He noticed it more particularly
just after throwing a spitbau. He
came to the conclusion that this style
OF delivery was too much Of a pull
on his wrist and shoulder and he
has virtually decided TO give it up
altogether
Before Ford adopted tho spitball he
had a very fine curve. He practiced
continually for more than n year be-
fore the splitter" was added to his
repertoire. After mastering the moist
fling. Russell seldom employed his
curve. He mixed the amphibious toss
with a good change Of pace, anc
as long as the splitter worked vel
he had little or no use for the curve
Ford has gone back to the curve.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
Griffith Blames Heat
For Clubs Poor Work
Manauer of Senators Claims That
Players Are Affected by
Climatic Conditions.

WASHINGTON, D. c. hlIy r.
Manager Griffith, managgT Of the
local American League Club, contepds
that his ball players are handjcspped
bv local climatic conditions He as
sarts that the heat during the sum-
mer months here is such that it takes
all the stamina out of his players,
and that this accounts for the fact
that the team always plays better
han away from home than it does
here.
He believes that the players can
not keen themselves in prime condi-
tion because they do not get the
necessary rest as a result Of the heat
Griffith has a scheme whereby ne
nroDoses to secure quarters in the
outskirts of washington, where he
will house his players. 1t will be
A sort Of q summer hotel, far from
the city, where the club viii also SUI
peryise the players food.
1t is the intention to have the
nIavers brought TO the ball park In
time for the game and then SEND
them back to their quarters imme-
diatelv after the game 1t is figured
that bv this mode of living the play
ers will get better rest and diet, anC
consequently retain their CONDITION
through the season.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
By w. W. Naughton.

n AN FRANCISCO, CAL, July "a
y A correspondent wants to know
who, in the writer's opinion, was
the most perfect boxer of all the
Australian ring men who came to
America in the SOS and 90's. And,
while I think of it, 1 might remark
Correspondent" is asking me to fiji
a pretty large question.
In the communication embodying
the query, the gentleman says:
Il am a close geader Of all that IS
printed in regard to ring happenings
and l have noticed that quite often,
when discussions about comparative
cleverness of LatteP-day boxers and
former pugilists ape in order, some
critic Will make reference to the
marvellous Critic" as if he were the
standard by which all that is clever
in the glove game is reckoned.
have a friend who says that Critic
was simply a trick boxer and that
for useful cleverness he could not
compare with George Dawson, Petar
Jackson or Jim Hall, who were also
Australians. What is your opinion on
this? Who do you think was the most
perfect boxer of all the Australians
who came here in the sos and 90's?"
IN regard to Critic I can only say
L that I did not have an opportunity
of judging the young mans merits
when he was at his best. l did not
see him in action until he had passed
his heyday, and then only once or
twice in events for which he had had
no training and seemed little con-
cerned as to which way the decision
went.
He had degenerated into a Queens
berry clown at the time Of which I
sneak and was more fired with the
ambition TO make the spectators laugh
than anything else. He retained suf-
ficient of his hardness with the
gloves to make things interesting for
his opponents but his blows we're Of
the mushy order and his defense not
nearly so complete as 1t had been in
former years.
Whatever he might have been ear
Her in his career, Critic was certainly
more of a trick performer or juggler
when I saw him.
So far as Critic may figure in a
discussion Of this kind l would pre-
fer to pass the question on to other
critics who had opportunities Of max
ing comparisons between Critic and
other Australians when Critic was al
his best.
A USTRALIA sent US some exceed
"A ingly clever ring men and now
with my experiences and recollections
mellowed by years, I have no hesita-
ton in saying that Peter Jackson was
the most perfect boxer" of all tbs
Antipodeans / have seen in real &C
ton.
George Dawson had ideas Of his
own and did not hew to the lines OF
the Mace ideals of boxing. judged
nv what he accomplished In the ring
he earned the right to be described
as clever. but he was far from beins
as well balanced a piece of fightine
machinery as Jackson.
Many Of the Australians We're ex-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
LEADERS
MAY LOSE JOBS
NEXT SEASON
Detroit RumOr Says That Birm-
ingham, StahI and StovaIl Will
Be Shipped in 1914.
N ETROIT, MICH, July 12.-That
managerial heads in the Amer

~ ETROIT, MICH, July 12.-That
managerial heads in the Amer
lean League will fail is not
unlikely Rumor has fastened on
three in the persons of George Stovall,
Joe Birmingham and Jake Stahl. The
Ferguson incident. when Stovall was
suspended, brought the ak very near
to Brother George, but back of that
were reasons that were not made
public at the time and have not been.
The three games taken from De-
troit helped Stoyall more than a lit
tie, for 1t was the position of the team
and the way that it was going that
weighed more than anything else with
the owner Robert Hedges saw his
Browns win here and that may have
been one of the reasons why he has
since denied that Stovall was to be
shipped.
DAN JOHNSON has never beer
- friendly to Stovall nor has
George held the most cordial feel
ings Of good win toward the presi-
dent of the league. Stovall did not
better his position by openly siding
with the striking Tigers a year ago
and it was freely predicted at the
illllt AltiL ne Ldu lbIltlltQ Ills Cldiltt
of managing the Browns. This did
not prove to be the case but he GER
tainly did not endear himself to Big
Ban.
PIRMINGHAM'S trouble is that he
- has made the Maps too aggres-
sive. In his efforts to put fight in the
team he has overdone the thing, but
now promises to work with his foot
on the soft pedal so that all may still
be well.
CTAHL'S case is still another one
- He would like to quit. but Nc
Aleer won't let him. Factions have
grown up on the Red Sox team. the
old players under the leadership Of
Bill CarTigan being a trifle at odd!
with the youngsters who follow Iris
Speaker and Wood. Stahl keeps then
living in peace as another managel
might not Therefore, he has to sticl
whether he wants to or not.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
Naughton Lauds Peter Jackson
AuStralia'S Most Perfect Boxer

tremely clever, having the fine points
of the game at their command to a
degree which made them appear
graceful in action. Among these Jim
Hall was prominent and Steve O'Don-
nell was another; George Mckenzie,
a lightweight, was a very talented
glove wielder and that scamp, George
Mulholland, could make almost any
man who opposed him look foolish.
F'itzsimmons boxed cleverly when he
first came across, but when he began
to study anatomy and devise knock
out punches, he sacrificed art to
utility.
DETER JACKSON was the most
talented exponent of the Mace
school Of boxing the writer ever came
across. He knew how to lead and
counter, and time and measure, and
his footwork always rhymed with his
first play. He would duck snap back
and sidestep in bewilderine way and
he appeared to be always within
range when his adversary tried retail
iation.
l remember Jackson's first match
at the old California Athletic Club in
San Francisco back in 1888. His OPP
ponent was George Godfrey, the Bos-
| ton colored heavyweight who, on &C
j count of his endurance, was known IS
"Old Ironsides" I will never forget
the panied look which came Over
Godfrey's face when he first ran fouI
of the Jackson straight left. Peter
who seemed to have an arm as long
as an oar picked Godfrey off his feet
with a lunging blow and placed him
on his honkers in the floor. Godfrey
| had proved himself q game fellow in
many hard fights but as he sat there
| that night the expression on his coun-
| tenance was one of mingled surprise
and discouragement.
A little later in the evening, George
| received a heart punch from Jackson
right and with glazing eyes and quiv-
| ering ribs he feebly held a hand aloft
and acknowledged defeat.
! TACKSONS accurate knowledge Of
J timing was shown in his battle
with Big Joe McAuliffe, the Mission
! Giant. For number of rounds Jack
son prodded the giant with straight
| lefts and kept his own head bobbing
! to escape McAuliffes numbering bacf
fire. Then Jackson tented McAulifft
| into leading with the left. Jos
| Strengthened his arm and jackson
! threw his head aside and allowed tht
! blow to pass over his shoulder. While
! doing 80 he brought his right across
and a sharp spat followed by trickly
| of blood from big JOe's ear, showed
that the giant had been effectively
! and heavily countered.
| After that, poor Joe was cut doWr
slowly and scientifically. He was, to'
! big to take libertes-Or rathal
! chances-with and Jackson whipped
| him artistically and came out of thu
melee without a scratch
! I am wandering away from th'
point however, and illustrating how
| dangerous it is for old-time critics Il
\ reminisce.
In answer to my correspondent
will simply repeat that Peter Jackson
was the most perfect boxer Of al
the Australians l had opportunity o
| studying.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
By Left Hook.
Lille RICHIE. lightweight

w t champion SltS who defeated ssSi FiT-
ers. July 4, at San Francisco,
says that Geary Steffen is his proper
monaker when in any society but that
of the prize ring.
When Steffen decided TO shake the
dust Of his fathers coal yard from
his shoes and take up fighting as a
business he grabbed the Richie name
to satisfy Papa Steffen, the latter not
caring to have any notoriety Of the
fighting brand added to the family
name.
Papa Steffen was very much OPP
posed to the youngsters entering the
ring under any circumstances, but
he soon found that there was no use
kicking Now that Richie has won
the lightweight title and made a small
fortune in a little more than four
years the elder Steffen is said to De
Richie" cast into the discard and let
the boy sail under his proper name,
Pa Steffen has never seen the boy
fight, and never Will, he says.
Richie is a Native Son, having
been born in San Francisco February
10, 1891. At the proper age he was
chased to school and received a good
common school education Then he
went to work in the Steffen coal yard,
taking his full share of the hard work.
and to this Richie says he owes his
strength.
Four Years in Ring.
Some four years ago Geary did his
first fighting And it was in the
Dreamland Pavilion, San Francisco,
where the four-rOund stars scintillata.
A boxer named Willie Richardson was
billed to fight in one of the minor
preliminaries, but at the last minute
Richardson failed to put in an APP
pearance, and the call for a substi-
tute brought forth a tall, likely look
ing chap.
The announcer and Geary had a
short argument and it was over the
name that would carry the pugilist
through his fistic career After much
debating Willie Richardson's name
was cut TO Richie and to this day
/ Geary Steffen has been known as VII
| lie Richie.
That night he fought a fellow by
! the name of Monk Enok, and Monk
lasted less than two rounds.
Since the night he fought Monk
Enok, Willie has had forty-two bat
/ ties and has won all of them but four
| These he lost through decisions. His
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
PRINCETON AND F0RDHAM
TO CLASH ON GRIDIR0N

NEW YORK, July 12.-The Ford
ham University football team will
play eight games next fall. The
principal new game added to the list
IS that with Vermont. The Prince
ton and Holy Cross contests have
been resumed after a lapse Of three
years. The schedule follows:
September p. st. Peters College
at Fordham; October 4. Princeton at
Princeton: II, Rensselaer, at Ford
ham: Is. St. Joseph'1 College at Ford
ham: Is Vermont at Fordham No
vember 4 villa Nova at FOrdham, S
Boston College at Fordham; Is, Holy
Cross at Worcester