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New-York tribune., 1913-11-23
Nerich Training Hard and Has a
Chance to Capture Middle
Distance HOnOrS.
WINGED FOOT TEAM is FAST
Seems Certain to Prove Winner
of Relay Title - Many
Speedy Newcomers.

The metropolitan indoor swimming sea-
son which is about to open gives every
Indication OF being an active and inter
esung one, for the new material In the
field is Of unusually good calibre and
there Is assurance of hot competition In
the fight for district honors. Several oi
the national championships Will be held
in New York, and the local candidates
should make a strong bid for the most
coveted titles.
Otto Wahle, one OF the best authorities
on matters aquatic. has more than once
expressed the opinion that Nicholas
Nerich, OF the New York Athletic Club
would be the fastest OF American middle
distance swimmers II he could be pre-
vailed upon to train faithfully, and THIS
view ia fully warranted by the lads time
trials.
Since meeting defeat last year at the
hands of the speedy Perry McGillivray'
Nerich has beaten the latters times IN
practice. and as he seems inclined al
present to knuckle down to conscientious
work. Il Is not unlikely that he VIII rise
10 leadership. lie VIII lih'' w ~ " ~
best, however. even to successfully defend
his local titles. for some OF the newcom-
ers are close on his heels.
Among the sprinters looked upon as
dangerous rivals to the all round holder
are Walter Ramme and Joseph Wheat
ley, his own eliminates; Harry OSuliivan
and Eben Cross, OF Princeton; f. d.
Frerichs. OF the City Athletic Club. and
Hal Vollmer. OF Stuyvesant High School
O'sullivan and Cross are credited with
doing the century under bs seconds In
their 1OO-foot home pool Ramme, Wheat
ley and Vollmer have shown between 5s
and 50 seconds, and are improving stead
fly, and Frerichs Is said to be moving
consistently within even figures. Judging
from the fact that Nerich has never
beaten IS seconds in competition. his 100
yord laurels appear to hang by thread.
At go and 500 yards Joseph Wheatley
Eben Cross. James Reilly. Bud Goodwin.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-23
Indoor Swimming Season
Promises Much Activity

J. p. Mantell and Zoltan Tobias will fur
nish good pace for the champion. Wheat
ley won the quarter-mile national event
last summer, and II he can master the art
OF turning he should prove very fast at
both distances Reilly has recovered from
the sickness which kept him out OF the
game during the winter OF 19l2-'l3 and is
rounding into the form that made him the
500-yard champion I'm 1911: and Cross and
Goodwin must always be reckoned with.
In relay racing the New York Athletic
Club may be conceded an easy victory,
for no organization in the district can
muster a quartet OF sprinters 10 compare
with a team chosen from among Nerich,
Ramme. Wheatley. Vollmer. Culman.
Reilly and Ash.
The Mercury Footer. Arthur McAlee-
nan. will carry public favor in the metro
politan fancy diving contest. but chance
to win is granted to Kurt Behrens, of the
City Athletic Club. while ]. +. Dunn.
Frank Mullen. T. II. Barrett and A. z.
Downes rank among the probable scorers.
There is no prospect OF district cham
ponships being held in breast and back
stroke swimming or in plunging for dis
tance. These events are not favored in
the East, and few men have taken them
up As a consequence there are no can
didates in this district for the national
or even the metropolitan contests.
Louis Manley, formerly OF the New
York Athletic Club. is reported to be
punging around 72 and 73 feet and 10
nave designs on the title, but unless he
can do better than that his prospects are
not bright. f. B. Willis. Of Philadelphia,
has done 80 feet. and at least Brown and
Reitman. OF Chicago. and Kaiser, OF st.
Louis, can beat 70 feet.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-23

TITLE RUN DRAWS
BIG ENTRY LIST
Twelve Teams Expected to Try
for p. S. A. l.. Championship
on December 6.
RICHMOND HILL Is FAVORED
Many Prominent Persons Invited
to Elementary Schools Meet
Next Month.

Runners representing twelve high
schools are expected to start in the
'cross-country char pionship run OF the
Public Schools Athletic League. to be held
over the Van Cortlandt Park course Of
three miles on December 6.
Far Rockaway and Bryant, of Long
Island, are still unaccounted for, but the
committee expects 10 receive their entries
this week. Those already entered are
Morris, last years champions; De Witt
Clinton. Commercial, High School Of
Commerce, Manual Training. Erasmus
Hall, Boys High. Jamaica, Richmond
Hill and Bryant. Richmond Hill. Clinton
and Commercial have shown to advantage
In practice runs, but as Richmond Hill fin
ished in the runner-up position in the Co.
lumbia University interscholastc event
last week, that team is strongly favored
for the point honors
John G. Moriarity. of Richmond Hill
High School, who finished second i'm the
Columbia run, appears TO have easy sail
ing for the individual title. Morlarity has
succeeded in building up a strong team
at his school Charles Segretto. of Clin-
ton, and Arthur Koeppel of Commercial,
are also good runners and should be close
on the heels of the Richmond lad around
the course.
The event will be started prior TO the
junior national championship run, which
is also scheduled for the same afternoon.
Many persons Of prominence will at
| tend the elementary indoor champion
ships TO be held at Madison Square Gar
den on December 20. The contests will
mark the celebration of the tenth ami
versary of the formation OF the league.
and several novel features will be added
which about five thousand children will
appear. will precede the competition.
The programme will consist OF sixteen
events, divided into four classes, and
each school will be permitted to enter a
team of fifty-two boys over two thous-
and boys will be seen in the various
events, while 1000 tickets will be dis
tributed throughout the schools.
Invitations have been extended to Pres
ident Woodrow Wilson, Secretary of War
Lindley NJ. Garrison, Mayor-elect John
Purroy Mitchell. Governor Martin II.
GIynn, Mayor Ardolph Kline and many
other prominent persons. General George
w. Wingate, president of the league, will
officiate as referee.
Calls for candidates to form a track
team have been issued at many OF the
schools during the week. and the re-
sponse has pleased all of the coaches
Athletes at Manual Training. Erasmus
Hall, Commercial and Stuyvesant have
been training for the last two weeks for
the indoor games which will begin soon.
The marksmen of Curtis High School.
OF Staten Island. have established a
splendid record in the first division OF
the sub-target championship race. The
boys have won eight straight matches
without a defeat. which makes them
eligible to face the Brooklyn winners in a
series match for the title.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-23
BIG ENTRY OF TOY DOGS
Spaniel Club of America to
Hold Annual Exhibition.

The entry list for the show of the
Toy Spaniel Club Of America. which
will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria on
Wednesday and Thursday is satisfac-
tory from every standpoint There are
more classes and more entries than at
any previous show. English toy SPAN
iels head the list, with eighty-two act
ual dogs. and ninety-six entries.
The entries follow:
Dachshunde. u; toy bull terriers, s.;
French bulldogs. 5s; Boston terriers. 81;
sealyham terriers, 8; Scottish terriers,
6: West Highland terriers. ~; Schip-
perkes. lS: Pomeranians. 7s English
toy spaniels. So; Japanese spaniels. "a;
Pekingese. 81 pugs. /; toy poodles' q
Yorkshire terriers, 8; Maltese terriers, lS:
toy black and tans. 4; Griffons, 4; Chihua-
huas. i3; papillons, Z; Shetland sheep
dogs ~: variety classes, IL
New-York tribune., 1913-11-23
HAW0RTH GOLFERS MEET
Elect Officers-Cowie Presi-
dent for Another Year.

At the annual meeting Of the Ha-
worth Country Club w. S. Cowie was
reelected president to serve next year.
Other officers were chosen as follows:
First vice-presdent, Louis B. Harri-
son: second vice-president, Marius De
Brabant; secretary and treasurer. Will
lam f. Kastendike. 1t was announced
that the club has made highly salts
factory progress during the last year
and that some course changes are in view
for next season.
The links never have been In such fine
condition as at present and this is at
tributed largely to the piping of the
course.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-23
BIG PRICE FOR BULLDOG
White Marquis Sold to Daniel
P. Ritchey for 81, 800.

Daniel p. Ritchey las just purchased
tho English champion bulldog White
MARQUIS. Mr.. Ritchey has been AFTER
this dog for some time. but it was not
until the enthusiastic fancier offered
$1,000 that his former owner consented
to part with him. -,
White Marquis is an all white dog
weighing about fifty pounds. He is by
champion Silent knight Of HoilybrooK
ard Thprnwood Beatrice. White Mar
ouis is now en- route for America.
John W. Minturn, owner Of the Rock
cliffe Kennels. has purchased the I'M
ported miniature bulldog, Little Butler
from Thomas Gusdall.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-23
Golf Season at PinehursE'

Golf at Pinehurst. n. c., Will se' -.
der way tomorrow. The season wiz .,r,
tinue until March q, and in the inas ''.,.n.
something like twenty-five compe"u,r Ma
of various kinds will be run on:
than a hundred trophies are ohersux su,a
On March l6. II and Is, the ee enc, ls
annual championship tournaine" aey.
scheduled, conditions calling ior .ound
four holes of medal play, one .hres.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-23

James Davey, secretary Of the Manhat-
tan Chess Club, announces programme
beginning with the annual class tourney
ON November %. Magnus Smith, CLUB
champion, will follow with simultaneous
exhibition on December 4. and two days
later the championship tournament VIII
begin. On December IS a. Kupchik VIII
figure in simultaneous exhibition and on
January ] there will be held the annual
New Years Day rapid transit scratch
tournament under a time limit of fifteen
seconds a move.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-23
APAWAMIS CLUB.

Only three cards were returned !" aps'
sweepstakes over the links OF t1e NssA
wants Club. yesterday. Edmunn n,,innsf
with a card Of 96-lS-1S. was the WET wsrt
The others who handed In sGoi.n sG.s,on
w. A. Pratt, 9-9-Sl, and Har'ho'
Graves, SS-6-S2.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-23
MINORITY MAKES HARD
FIGHT ON FREE WOOL
Senator Warren Calls Meas
ure Tariff for Politics
Only

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-stubborn
opposition to free raw wool and the
radical reductions in wooden manufac-
lures proposed in the democratic tariff
bill was conducted by republicans of
the senate all day today and will be
resumed tomorrow.
Senators Warren OF Wyoming and
Penrose OF Pennsylvania addressed the
senate for six hours, the former char
acterizing the proposed bill as tariff
for politics only instead for revenue
only and the latter asserting that the
woolen schedule was distinctly
against America and for Europe"
In the midst of the discussion, SEN.
ator La Toilette of Wisconsin intro
duced the third minority substitute for
the wooden schedule, the others having
been proposed by Senators Penrose and
Smoot. The wide divergence OF minor
fty views on the subject OF wool DEM
onstrated in this triumvirate of meas
ures was pleasing to democratic lead
ers, who confidently asserted that they
did not need to talk because I'VE have
the votes"
Senator Stone, in charge Of the wool
schedule, failed in an effort to get an
agreement for q vote on the wool
schedule tomorrow evening
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-23
A WEED SEASON DISEASE

Next week the annual convention
of the United States Hay Fever as
sociation meets at Bethlehem, N. H.
To any one who has never been or
seen a victim of hay fever, SO called,
or autumnal catarrh, its other name,
the announcement may mean little,
but there are literally millions to
whom it means much.
Hay fever is one of those diseases
which are not deadly in their effect,
but which, while they last, are most
annoying. The weeping eyes, the
running nose, the almost constant
sneezing, the stopped up passages OF
the head make the sufferer a pitiable
spectacle, and, unfortunately, no med
ica1 science has found either cure or
a permanent alleviation. The victim
of hay fever must suffer on and on
until the end of the weed season.
For hay fever, so far as knowledge
goes, is confined to the season of the
seeds Of weeds 1t is carried about
if not caused, by the floating pollen
of wayside weeds like golden rod
ragweed and pigweed, for example.
If weeds were kept down in this
country as they are in Europe this
most distressing disease would dis
appear, for it does not exist in Europe
except in those parts where weeds
are allowed to thrive and it does not
exist in the United States whereveI
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-23
A GAMBLERS BLUFF

Not even a good joke was the at
tempt of a gamblers club, alias social
club" man to have acting Chief of Po-
lice Mooney arrested for disturbing
the peace when Captain Mooney
ordered policemen to enter the
Phoenix club at all hours in quest OF
evidence of gambling
Mr.. James J. Ryan, proprietor of
the Phoenix club, who claimed that
the disturbance of the peace was done
in order to harass him, is probably as
correct in one claim as he IS in the
other
OF course District Attorney Fickert
refused to issue a warrant charging
Captain Mooney with any such friv-
plous charge.
The people Of this city, and Mr..
Fickert. not to mention the absurd
Ryan himself, know full we'll that
Captain Mooney is not going to
harass any one who hasn't a good job
of being harassed coming to him.
Captain Mooney knows what kind
Of social club" the Phoenix is, and
so does any man who has ever en-
tered its doors, and if the ridiculous
Ryan thinks he is going to get by
with his ridiculous plea he also has
good bawling out coming to him.
Harassing Ryan is game which
Captain Mooney is not playing, but
putting the Phoenix clubs of the city
out of existence is something the peo-
pie will back him up in doing every
time he gets action against such rob-
bers of the homes as these social
clubs" have been shown to be.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-23
ARMY ORDERS

WASHINGTON. Aug 22.-By direction of the
president First Lieutenant John Cooke, Fifteenth
cavalry, is relieved from duty at Wentworth
military academy, Lexington, Mo-, and will join
his regiment
Captain James NJ. Loud Eighth infantry, will
report to Colonel William A Nichols, general
staf San Francisco. for examinatio by retiring
board.
Captain Charles E. Stodter, Ninth cavalry, will
proceed to Fort Leavenworth for temporary duty
thence to Philippine islands for duty.
Orders of August G, relating to First Lfeuten
ant Frank Z. Davis, Seventh cavalry, are re-
yoked and he Is transferred to Fifth cavalry.
First Lieutenant Rodeman Butler. cavalry, II
relieved from duty at Fort Logan, Colorado.
The name of First Lieutenant r. M. Parker
Fifth cavalry, is placed on the list of detached
officers. and the name of First Lieutenant Rod
man Butler, cavalry, is removed therefrom and
he is assigned to Second cavalry.
First Lieutenant James e. Mcdonald Fifth
infantry, Is detailed for recruiting service and
viii proceed to Fort Slocum, New York, for tenn
porary duty, thence to New Orleans, relieving
Lieutenant Colonel Percy E. Trippe, retired, who
will proceed to his home.
Captain Franklin s. Hutton, Twelfth infantry
Is detailed for recruiting service and will pro
ceed to Fort Mcdowell, California. for duty.
QUINCY, ILL.,, Aug. 22.-Fire, which
started in Osgood's livery barn, today
quickly spread to adjoining buildings
The loss Will reach $200, 900.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-23
DENATURED ALCOHOL LAW

The wonders to be performed by
the passage of the denatured alcohol
law have never come to pass, and the
law is nearly seven years old.
It was to have enabled the farmer
to utilize waste fruit and vegetables
of all kinds, from apricots TO corn
stalks, potatoes and tomatoes. What
the European farmer has done and
does was thoroughly exploited and
the same profitable economies were
promised to the American farmer.
Why have they not been realized?
Because the chief opponent of de-
natured alcohol caused the passage of
an amendment at the next session of
congress after the passage of the law
which efectually put stop to the
small farm production.
The inertia of the average Ameri-
can farmer has done the rest. He
has been too Indifferent to his own
interests to make congress re-enact a
law which should produce the results
foretold
Senator Lane of Oregon, accord
ing to the Washington Evening Star,
has taken up the subject and has SO
far enlisted President Wilson'S inter
est that the latter has asked the sem
ator to brief the need of new law
The Star says:
"Ats the present time the president
and the secretaries of agriculture and
the treasury have the recommends
ton of new industrial alcohol law
under consideration, and it is prob
able that before the end of the regu-
lar session of congress American
farmers will be given chance to
equal the accomplishments of Ger
mans in manufacturing denatured al
cohol or perhaps exceed them"
Many farmers have written to Sen
ator Lane saying that the enactment
of the denatured alcohol law, which
will be for the benefit of the farmers,
will assist the development of agri-
culture in this country more than any
other piece of legislation.
In no state more than in California
will denatured alcohol law, which
will do what it has done in Germany
be of greater benefit. Our farmers
need no campaign of education tc
teach them what such law would
mean to them. They do need cam
paign of stimulation to induce them
to write to their representatives II
congress urging them to cooperate
with Senator Lane in securing an ade-
quate denatured alcohol law
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-23
ARTILLERY OFFICERS
TO RIDE NINETY MILES
Army Men Will Leave Let.
terrnan Hospital August
n for Three Days Test

Colonel John P. Wiser, coast artil
lery corps. commander Of the Pacific
coast artillery district. and Major ]. G
Gilmore Jr., coast artillery corps, ad
jutant OF the district, will take theil
80 mile test ride on August 27, 2s and
20, starting from the Letternnan gen
eral hospital and riding down the
peninsula.
Colonel Edward A. Millar, Sixth feld
artillery, has been granted one
months leave Of absence, dating from
yesterday.
y
Major Thomas Q. Ashburn. quarter
master corps, has been granted leave
of absence for one month.
Captain Mathew A. Reasoner, medi-
cal corps. has been granted leave OF
absence for "a days.
Captain Ward Dabney, Sixth infan-
try. has been granted leave of absence
for two months and Is days, on COM
p1etion of his duties with the infantry
rifle team at Camp Perry, Ohio.
Lieutenant Thomas s. bridges. Sixth
infantry. will leave today with a de-
tachment of Is prisoners from the
posts around the bay, en- route to the
military prison at Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas.
\
Lieutenant Raymond E. Lee, coast
artillery corps, recently ordered from
Fort Winfield Scott to West Point for
duty, has been granted seven days
leave of absence.
X X
Lieutenant Allan S. Boyd Jr., Twelfth
infantry. now at Santa Barbara. has
been granted two months leave of alb
sence on account of sickness.
X
Lieutenant Asa L. Singleton, Thirtieth
Infantry, Fort Gibbon. Alaska, has been
granted leave of absence for two
months, to take effect September 10.
X
Registered at army headquarters yes
terday were: Captain B. III. Dorcy. U.
s. A.. retired, en- route to join his sta
tion at Mexico, Mo-, and a guest at the
ST. Francis hotel; Captain H. F. Nc
Feely, Twelfth infantry, Preside of
Monterey, who is on leave until August
26. and guest at the Union Square
hotel.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-23
NEW YoRK'S MAYOR

A strangely venomous, malicious,
libelous, irresponsible person is the
mayor of New York, says the New
York World. He seems to be gov
erned only by his preiudices, hts
hatreds. his resentment and his malev-
olent vindictiveness Nobody is free
from the assaults OF his poisonous pen
and his poisonous tongue. Nobody
is free from whatever abuses of power
he sees fit to exercise.
In his latest TRADE against Mr..
Whitman the mayor charges that the
district attorney 4instigated this open
and forcible resistance at Healy's to
the police in the performance of their
duty specifically imposed upon them
by the liquor tax law Nobody knows
better than the mayor that this is a
falsehood deliberately concocted to
deceive the people of New York into
believing that Mr.. Whitman is pre-
venting the enforcement of law.
Nobody knows better than he that
the repeated exhibitions of police law
lessness at Healy's had become =
public scandal long before Mr. Whit
man took personal or official notice
of them. Nobody knows better than
the mayor that no question of enforc-
ing the excise law was involved in
these shameless police raids Nobody
knows better than the mayor that if
Mr. Healy was violating the law, or
if his patrons were violating the law,
it was the duty of the police to make
arrests, yet no arrests were made
Nobody knows better than the mayor
that the police have no more right to
throw people out of restaurant than
they have to set fire to the building.
Nobody knows better than the mayor
that Mr. Whitman intervened in the
name of law and orderly government.
The mayors whole judicial career
was protest against the very sort of
police lawlessness that he now sus-
tains. AS a justice of the supreme
court he once declared that officials
who conduct themselves as did the
police at Healy's ''are more dangerous
to society than all the other vices and
crimes combined"
The mayor is we'll aware that Mr..
IE1l,;%.,o, - 1:,r1,% -, xf,:. $1,000 -
that he and the police are wrong. It
happened to suit his malevolent pur-
poses, however, to direct police cru
SADIE against the patrons of a certain
restaurant. Possibly he did it to
show his contempt for the court that
had dismissed complaint against the
proprietor of the restaurant. What
ever the motive, the mayor undertook
to do with policemen's clubs what he
could not do by law. He was stopped
by the district attorney and SO he is
assailing the district attorney with
the same venomous vindictiveness
with which he assailed him when Mr..
Whitman was prosecuting Becker and
the police grafters.
1t was Pope who described Bacon
as "the brightest, wisest, meanest of
mankind" Mayor Gaynor is not the
brightest or wisest of mankind, but
in his capacity for meanness and
malice he seems to have no rival.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-23
THEATERS OBJECT TO
SNEEZE POWDER SALES

Patrons of the movies are soon to
be saved the discomforts of sneezing,
wheezing and coughing suffered when
mischievous persons scatter sneezing
powders on the floor.
An ordinance, drafted at the request
of the motion picture men, was recon-
mended by the supervisors police COM
mittee yesterday prohibiting the sale
of "Ker-Chew" powders and other irri-
tating substances.
The ordinance which prohibits the
establishment Of a nickelodeon within
zoo feet of a school or church was
amended by the COMMITTEES to include
childrens Fairgrounds