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Arizona republican., 1913-01-07
CROUCH START IN ATHLETICS

MANY old timers say Lon Myers was
 the first man in America 10 use the crouch start An old friend of Lon said recently that while prac- ticing one day on the old Manhattan A. C. grounds. New York. Lon. to handicap himself, got down on all fours and permitted the other runners to start from the then customary upright posture. None of the old timers thought the crouch start ever would enable a runner 10 get away from his mark faster than from an upright pos ture.
 So much has been written in rela- ton to the crouch start that Mike Murphy recently was asked by James F. Sullivan to shed a little light on the subject The following announcement was made recently from Sullivan's office
 Mike Murphy says the first time he ever saw the crouch start used was by Charles Sherrill in Cedarhurst. MT, Murphy also says he used the crouch start ln 1881 in professional race and no one seemed to care for it except himself. He used the crouch start in Philadelphia in 1883.
 "'When George Turner told me to start that way I told him to stop his fooling.' says Murphy, who also says that in 1881 there was match race in which he agreed to allow the other contestants to start in the regular way. he to start from all fours. Profession als never took to the crouch start and did not like it, but Sherrill did. He always started in amateur races with that style"
Arizona republican., 1913-01-07
WOLGAST GETS BACK AT OLD
 TRAINER.

AD WOLGAST has found way to
 get back at Hobo" Dougherty, his former sparring partner, who recently deserted his camp and went over to Joe Mandot The dispute between the lightweight champion and his former trainer arose over matter of $200 which WOlgast claims Dougherty owes him. WOlgast now states that until the sum is paid he will cause to be in serted in the articles of agreement Of all his matches that Dougherty is not to be allowed to train his opponents and point out to them the champions weaknesses.
Arizona republican., 1913-01-07
HARVARD GETS STAR
 IN FRESHMAN CAPTAIN

lEDDIE MAHAN, captain of the liar @ ward freshman football team, has out -Brickleyed BriCkley and now looms up in Cambridge as a coming star next year of even greater fame than the Everett sophomore.
 With pair like Brickley and Mahan in the lineup next year Harvard ought to be first favorite for the football i championship, both east and west. : Like Brickley, Mahan is a Greater Boston lad He halls from NatiCk.
 Football authorities consider Char ley Brickley a marvel yet Mahan out played the Everett boy when both at tended the rival prep schools, Exeter and Andover
 ! Mahan is a wonder In a game against Worcester academy he dis tinguished himself by dropping the ball between the goal posts from the forty seven yard line. a feat that has seldom been accomplished.
 The longest drop kick on record is sixty-fi five yards. But Mahan is only a mere boy-he is nineteen years old who is improving all the time and who has years ahead of him to accomplish a more remarkable feat.
 Mahan will play on the varsity team at Harvard next year and will prove a valuable successor to FeltOn, the only great punter that the Crimson has had for the past few years
 Kicking is not the only department that Mahan features in, for he IS a pIunger of exceptional ability a good defensive player and a youngster who uses his head to advantage in the tightest of pinches.-
 Eddie is a vertiable giant, being si1 feet tall and weighing over 175 pounds He is finely built and carries his weight well. Speed is a big factor 1T his success. He has often run 10l yards under eleven seconds and il several instances did the century dis tance in ten seconds fiat.
Arizona republican., 1913-01-07
IS THE KNOCKOUT UNNECES
 SARY?

IN an article under his precious sig
 nature Packey Mcfarland, the Chi cago boxer tells his readers that a knockout is not at all necessary in modern day fighting. What is the difference whether a man wins by a knockout or by points," asks the stockyards champion
 That's great dope for Packey to be peddling, but fight fans the world over like to see a knockout Perhaps it's the brute in the man that is cropping out, and again probably it's just that true red blood but take a New York or a Philadelphia fight club during a bout and any sort of an advantage . gained by a favorite will bring out a yell of Knock him outl" That talk about winning on points is all right if a boxer can get away with 1t, but after a few appearances a gentle hitting boxer is drawing the misses of the crowd.
Arizona republican., 1913-01-07

Des Jardiens of Chicago also did some brilliant work in middle posi- tion.
 There were a number of good quarterbacks this season. Among those who proved themselves good field generals are Gillette of Wis consin, Pazetti of Lehigh, Crowther of Brown, Bacon of Wesleyan, Do- rias of Notre Dame, Gardner of Har- yard and Marshall of Pennsylvania
 Thorpe of Carlisle and Brickley of Harvard were the two greatest half backs. They were also the two most brilliant players of the season, 0th- CT men who played well in the posi- tion at half are Hardwick of liar, yard. Baker of Princeton, Van Riper of Wisconsin, Craig of Michigan and Pumpelly of Yale.
 The season produced no really great fullbsck Those wh3 played steady and sometimes brilliantly in the position are Wendell of liar yard, Dewitt of Princeton, Mercer of Pennsylvania, Mauthe of Penn State and Thomson of Michigan.
Arizona republican., 1913-01-07
Lawson Sponsor For McGtaV.

| l. LAWSON, founder of many base
 ball leagues and the man who pat John J. McGraw in the game was one of the prominent baseball men who at tended the FoEel trial recently. Among other things. MT, Lawson was talking of the first time the Giants manager eyer played ball for him
 He had organized an All National league team for the first invasion of Cuba made by big league players. The team played exhibition games on it's way south, and among the men Law son took with him was McCiraW. It was during the winter of 1890
Arizona republican., 1913-01-07

titled, because Australians discovered the crawl but unprejudiced people who have given the question close study will not join in the cry. There is more difference between the Austra- lian and American types of crawl than between the old trudgeon and the original crawl. The stroke advocated by Dick Cavill of New South Wales. who is quoted as one of the best of modern coaches, is the one mainly used by the foreigners we have seen here
 Perry McGilivray of Illinois univer-
Arizona republican., 1913-01-07
ATHLETES FEEL

dulge in some pastime. l think the Australians are the biggest hearted people in the world. They certainly like Americans and l ind in many things copy American methods.
 In south Africa the climate is very hot could not produce my best re suits consistently. although at times I ran faster in Johannesburg than l ever ran in my life Without a doubt in that city. where it is 6.oO0 feet above sea level. a man can run two yards faster in hundred than he could in Europe or America, probably due to
Arizona republican., 1913-01-07
BETTING EVILS

the more rarefied air. l should imagine the same results could be duplicated in Denver from what l hear of it.
 During my travels in the last four years have studied every branch of athletic sport. studied different ath- letes and their methods. of training and have learned by experience the best thing to do under certain Condi- tions Traveling is educational no matter what the subject may be, and l have been able to pick up knowl- edge of things that the average coach or trainer will perhaps never see"
Arizona republican., 1913-01-07
By TOMMY CLARK.

'|HE sensational work of American
 swimmers this season has been looked upon by coaches and instruc- tors in this country as complete vim dIcatlon of their methods, for never before has such sprinting been seen. and all the men who figured promi- nently used the form of crawl stroke introduced and developed among Americans.
 Doubtless there will be raised again abroad the cry that we are claiming credit to which Americans are not en-
Arizona republican., 1913-01-07
AMERICAN LEAGUE BETTER CONDUCTED THAN NATIONAL

NEARLY all the scandal that base
 ball has furnished in recent years has come from the National league. While the old organization can boast of having among it's club owners some of the best sportsmen identified with
Arizona republican., 1913-01-07

the game. they are unfortunate in be
 ing associated with some who are ab- solutely a detriment to the sport. Mat ters appear to be conducted more smoothly in the American league There appears to be little or no fric-
Arizona republican., 1913-01-07

ton among the club owners and the head of the leagues word is always final To a great extent this condition is due to the fact that the American league club owners display confidence in their president by eIecting him for a long term of years. while in the old league one year term is usually in order and politics is worked to a
Arizona republican., 1913-01-07
WANTS TO BE WITH A WINNER

TACK WARRIOR, the Highland fling CT. lives at Freeport, III. The fa- nous raise ball hurler hopes that some time he will be able to get with a real ball team, so he can show what he is capable of doing.
Arizona republican., 1913-01-07

fare you-Weu the year around The ap- parent desire of the old league owners to be in the Hmelight has been the cause of most of the trouble in that or ganiZatiOn. The public is mostly in tercsted in the players. not in those who own the Clubs-a fact which does not seem to be realized by the mag mates of the old league.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02
|BABY'S AWFUL
ECZEMA CURED
Face Just Sore. Scratched TIL It
Rled. Resinol Stopped Itching
Almost Instantly. Soon Well.

May 20, 1913:-4'My baby's face
broke out with eczema. We tried many
prescriptions. ointments and lotions,
but the baby's face kept getting worse
all the time. He would scratch it until
it would bleed, and finally his face on
both sides was just an awful sore. 1t
bothered him SO much that he could
not sleep much at night.
Il sent for samples of Resinol Soap
and Resinol Ointment and used them
according to directions. The result
was something wonderful The itching
stopped almost instantly, and from the
first application we could see marked
Improvement. / then bought fifty
cent jar of Resfnol Ointment and a
cake of ResinoI Soap, and by the time
the jar OF. Ointment was used, the
baby's face was almost entirely cured,
SO I bought another jar and used only
half of it, and the cure was complete.
My doctor recommends Resinol very
highly, and l cannet say too much
for Resfnol Soap and Resinol Oint-
ment." {Signe6 S. L. Carter, Salem,
Va.
Physicians have prescribed ResinoI
for eighteen years and every druggist
in the country sells Resinol Soap and
Resinol Ointment. For samples write
to Dept. Pr, Resinol, Baltimore, Md.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02
Tyler Henshaw's Bride to Be Visits His
Mother at Her Home in Santa Cruz

con in honor of Miss Genevieve Hatchs
Miss Erma Aauerbach is asking 9the
members of the Hatch Stetson bridal
party to accept herr hospitality at dim
ner Friday evening
X <
DR. Harry Anderson and Mrs. Alder
son, formerly Miss Cordelia Bishop,
have returned to thdr San. Francisco
home from a motor tpip to- Tahoe9 They
Will spend the weekend with Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar Bishop. the parents of Mrs.
Anderson. in 0their Santa CRUZ noun
tain place.
Mr., 9and Mrs. Hiram Hall wifi join a
party of friends this month on motor
trip to the north.
FL. g. Graduates Wed
BERKELEY. Aug Miss Edna
Suggett. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs G.
r. Suggett of College City. and Robert
Percyo Wisecarver, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. n Wisecarver, were married last
evening at the home of the groom In
Walnut street Eev.aA. " Skee ofici-
ated. The marriage eliminated col
lege romance, both young people hav-
ing attended the University of Cali
fornia- The bride graduated with the
1910 class. She is a member of the
Alpha Phi Delta sorority oMra WISE
carver graduated in 1912 and has since
held a position with an insurance firm
in San Francisco. The couple will make
their home inoSeenic avenue.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02

OAKLAND. Aug. Miss Irene Pa
tFieia O'Connor, whose betrothal TO
Tyler Henshaw, son of Mrs Grace Hen
house guest of her fiance's mother at
her summer place in the Santa Cruz
mountains Miss 0Connor will he ex-
tensively feted during the early sea-
son. among the compliments planned
being thai which Mrs. Donald Graham
will Offer her while the house guest
of her mother, Mrs. Guy C. o11arl. oMiss
OConnor was among the bevy OF
bridesmaids who attended Miss Mar
riage with thea young southern Cali
fornia business man last sprinS.
x X
Mrs. William G. Henshaw opened her
country place this afternoon at Santa
Barbara for bridge whist.
n x
Mrs. George .. Greenwood IS staying
in Santa Barbara for short time.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P. Neville are at
the Potter.
Mr.. and Mrs. 4. c. Coogan will leave
early in the fall for an extended tour
of the Atlantic coast.
r
Mrs Neal Harris, Miss Etha Musser
and Miss Dorothy Capwen will share
in the honors of the bridge party at
which Miss Helen Downey will enter
tain 40 guests Thursday afternoon Au-
gust Z
4
Miss Edith Beck returned today after
visit of several weeks in Mill Valley,
the guest of friends.
K
Early in the winter Mr. and Mrs.
Philip F. Bowies Jr. will come north
for visit at The Pines" the Clare
mont estate of the bridegroom's par
ents
More than half o hundred guests
were entertained at a musicale this
evening by Mrs. William G. Hind. who
asked her friends to meet Mr.. and Mrs.
W. n Black. Miss Tryphosa Black and
Miss Minnie Bell Black. The Blacks
are spending several weeks in Cali
fornia. from their home in Georgia.
Mrs. challen Parker and Mrs. Fred
eriek Dieclxmann have gone TO Deer
Park, Tahoe. where they will remain a
fortnight or longer Mr. Dieckmann
will join his wife next week. making
the trip by motor.
Mrs. Harry Thomas viii be hostess
Tuesday to a dozen guests at lunch
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02
mrs. [AFLER, REJECTING
lL|M0NY, Gets D|llRC[
Wife of Clubrnan Accepts
Support for Year Only
Under Protest


OAKLAND. Aug with the dec
laration Of her attorney that all ali
mony was waived and the formal sign
ing Of the decree by Judge Wood, Mrs
Gladys Courvoisier Madden Lafler was
granted an interlocutory divorce
against Henry Anderson Laf1er today.
The court was in session three min
utes. Attorney William A. Powell for
Mfs LATER said that his client did
not wish alimony, and then passed to
the court prepared order Of the de-
cree which Judge Wood signed Neither
Mrs. LATER nor her husband was In
court
The small money settlement which
figured in the divorce hearing yes
terday did not receive official cog
nfzance. cash payment was MADE
to Mrs LATER by the clubman, ana
she is to be supported only during the
life Of the interlocutory decree
Friends of the young woman said
that she had not attempted to get any
money from her husband for her sup
port and it was only after Judge Wood
ordered that there should be some
provision made for her that she would
consent to receive aid from LATER
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02
SUPERVISORS HALTED IN
INVESTIGATING DEFICIT
Discover Alleged oOverdraft by PrOba-
ton ofscer Ruess, hut mo Way
to Inquire Into 1t

OAKLAND. Aug. Upon the dis
covery that the finance committee of
the board of supervisors has no pow er
to control the expenditures OF the pro-
baton officer and detention home, the
proposed investigation of an alleged
$1,000 deficit In the department of Pro-
baton officer Christopher Ruess. was
not taken up at meeting today of
w b. Bridge. ]. F. Mullins and J. D.
Murphy, mem bers Of the committee.
They learned that they have no
power to regulate the expenditure OF
money by Ruess when he has secured
an order of court.
Ruess asserted that he is under his
appropriation, but the county expert s
Office showed an overdraft of about
81 ,000.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02
Fiancee Is Entertained
Miss O'Connor Guest

Miss irene Patricia Conner fancee Of Iyter HeashaR
pho the guest Of his mother Santa Cruz mountains She
Dil be feted extensively during earlu season ss s
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02
Il CQuNTR|
HAVE ACCEPTED
1915 INVITATION
Eight Nations Decline Out
right to Participate in the
Panarna-P Pacific Fair
II Undecided

WASHINGTON. Aug. Replies
from s5 of the 40 nations to whom in
vltations We're dispatched to. partici-
pate IN the Panama Pacific exposition
have been received at the state depart
ment Twenty-Seven accept and eight
decline outright. Among the IA gov
ernments yet undecided are several of
the great powers of the world. A Curl
Gus feature of the list os the accorded
acceptance of Canada, although Great
Britain has declined.
The countries which have accented
invitations are Argentina, Bolivia.
Brazil Canada Chile, China, Costa
kHa Cuba, Denmark. Dominican Re-
public, Ecuador, France. Guatemala
Haiti, Honduras, Japan, Liberia, Mex
leo. Netherlands. Nicaragua, Norway,
Panama, 9Peru, Portugal Salvador, Swe-
demo apd Uruguay.
The following have declined: Bull
gafia, Egypt, Great Britain, Morocco,
Russia9 Servia, Siam and Turkey.
The countries that have not acted
upon the Invitation finally are Abys-
synia Austria Hungary. Belgium. Co
lombia, Germany, Greece, Italy. Monte
negro, Paraguay, Persia, Roumania.
Spain Switzerland and Venezuela.
Germany Very Doubtful
BERLIN, Aug. 1.--Although the Ger
man secretary of the interior declared
Ptoday that Germany had not yet taken
any action In regard to the question
of participation in the Panama Pacific
exposition at San Francisco in 1915, the
opinion is freely expressed In official
circles that the German empire will
not be represented there.
1t was pointed out today that the
D~.sk e-1~
participate settles also the action of
Germany aso the only factor which
might have induced the German gov
ernment ito bring pressure to bear on
unwilling business men to exhibit was
l0the fear of unfavorable competition
with Great Britain.
Business men In the majority of
cases declare themselves tired of the
expense connected with frequent ex-
of financial returns should they exhibit
at San Francisco.
comfnisson Will Come
VIENNA, Aug. IA commission of
representatives of the gAustTo Hun
garian government and of the local
Chambers of Commerce is about to go
to Toronto to visit the exposition there
and will subsequently proceed to San
Francisco.
On this. commissions, report depends
the reply Of the Austre- hungarian
government as TO participation in the
Panama Pacific exposition.
The question is largely one of finance.
The government hesitates to appropri-
ate a sum sufficiently large to assure
representation ION a scale commen-
surate with the dignity of the empire.
italy Sure to Accept
ROME, Aug commenting on
Great Britains decision not to partici-
Ipate in the Panama Pacific exposition.
the Tribune, the Italian government S
mouthpiece, says Italy can not fail to
do SO. 1T says parliament already has
appropriated 100000 for Italy's par
ticipation In the exposition. and besides
eSan Francisco contains one of the
largest and best Italian colonies, which
must not be defrauded Of the repre-
sentation of the fatherland at the great
world meeting.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02
OAKLAND BREVITIES

The second annual Bakersfield BASKET picnic
will be held August 10 at Mosswopd park n.
III Fish. president and d. b. Rogers, secretary
of the society. have charge
That more facts In the life of Frank Annersoll;
stealing diamonds from the store OF otto n.
Roth Of 1908 broadway. July A., may ee ieafnea.
Judge Donahue yesterday continued the case
until August 26. 49,.
Oyerthrowing precedents of former years, tne
new Alameda county grand jury which VIII meet
Thursday will conduct all its investigations as
whole the committee plan of deliberation being
discarded. John A. Reckwith is foreman and
Walter p. Woolsey secretary
Willie being taken to the county jail on a
charge Of vagrancy Grace Anderson. laundry
worker Is wears old. swallowed poison yester-
day She will recover.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02
DR.. wILcOx0N ARRESTED
Alleged Ring1eader OF Bunko Trust
Charged With Attempted Bribery

Los ANGELES, Aug. DIR L. o.
WilcoxoR. now awaiting a trial on a
a charge of being one of the ring
leaders in a "bunko trust was arrested
again late today on a charge of at
tempting TO bribe county officials and
grand larceny The arrest today was
in connection with the case of Will
liam Lacasse. charged with having con-
tributed to the dependency of Evelyn
Quick.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02
SUMMER SCHOOL CLOSES

BERKELEY, Aug. 1.-The fourteenth
annual summer session of the Uni
versity of California closed today and
many OF the students departed for their
homes. The total enrolment, not in
eering conducted in Santa Cruz was
2461 gain of almost goo over last
wear.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02
SCHOOL BONDS DEFEATED
,acjal Disnatch 40 The CALI

Especial Dispatch to The calD
RICHMOND. Aug. 1.-The election to
vote bonds for $4,000 for new seheois
was defeated today. The vote was 4b4
for and 290 against, lacking the neces-
sary two thirds majority. Only one
fifth of the registered vote was cast.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02
Absurd" Ripley Says

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-"As for the ex-
press company's being a parasite on
the railroads. that's absurd said r. p.
Ripley, president of the Atchison. To-
peka and Santa Fe railroad. tonight.
4 think the proportion which the ex-
press company now pays for service
rendered is about equable, except that
if We were going to- make a new con-
tract as we shall in four or five years.
we would ask for little more
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02
8
Court ii Harvest Field |
&c 90
Judge Sits on q Fence

SPOKANE. WASH, Aug. L-Taa
busy harvesting TO go to his of
doea Justice 0f the Pence H. W.
WiIsGn t0dny sat ON fenee ~
his farm. heard a youth plead
KufIty and se4tepced him 10 pay.
$40 md cOsts for taking liQuox
into forbidden teFrftory. Tshe
prisoner wRs taken to the jus~
tice's farm by the prQsecutfng at-
tOrney, who read the charge
while the Justice wiped the
perspiratiOR from his brow.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02
To YOSEMITE IN A NIGHT
$3.50 Reduced Round Trip Rate Dur
Ing August

Pullman Sleeping Car via Southern
Pacific. Leave San Francisco Ferry sta
ton $40 p. m. daily. Oakland. Sixteenth
street station, 1917 p. M, arriving Ell
Portal z a. m. Rate of $500 from San
Francisco includes stage between Ell
Portal and Sentinel hotel in center Of
vona (A1ariposs Big Trees). 26 miles.
and return. $40 sxtra.-Adver
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02

. . fO4
Value OF companxs property used
in California business -...,--. s6la 2ss C.,
Rate on return per annum, 1856 per cent
Net earnings at 10 per cent, s61.323.
Reduction in net earnings, 80 per
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-04-01
SPRING FESTIVAL.

Brownsville merchants are going
to have IA monthly sales day that
will be sufficient induccmcnt to
bring people to their town from far
and near. 1t ought to be a winner.
but the merchant who does not go
into the thing ought to be compelled
to close his store up tight on that
day and let those who put up their
money and bargains reap all the
benefits.-IIarlingen Star.
If there are any merchants OF
Brownsville who are opposed to the
DroDositiOn The Herald does not know
who they are. However we are great be
~lievers in the policy of showing people
We are confident thai the success OF the
first DAY of the festival will make be
believers of all who have heretofore re
manned unc0nyinced-if any such there
be. The average man is usually alive tC
his own advantage, when he meets il
face to face.