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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-22
By Percy H. Whiting.

where the whales come from.
Likewise a pool that fur
nishes a couple of four pound
trout is a pretty good pool to go
back and fish over again.
What has this to do with South
ern league outfielders in the big
league?
Just this That the major league
fishermen, which are scouts, have
landed a slather Of good outtielders
from the Southern league. And
year after year these same scouts
come back, hungry for more.
iris Speaker came from the
Southern league.
So did Joe Jackson.
Also Dode PaslSert.
Likewise lack Wheat
So did Beals Becker though it's
nothing to be particularly proud of.
Not to mention Hahn, Oldring
and a lot of others.
Also. in a perfectly illogical way,
the Southern league shines with a
little of the reflected glory OF such
men as Cobb, Milan, cakes, who
were born in the South, even II
they never did honor the Southern
by their efforts
So naturally. when a big league
owner or manager needs man to
plav the outfeld he thinks of the
South. And forthwith scout
grabs the l.. & n or the Southern
or the l. c., or some such line and
burns it southwark.
OF a considerable batch of out
~ helders who were sold to big
league clubs by the Southern, or
drafted from the Southern, only six
are still the property of big league
clubs,
These six are Welchonce, jim
Johnston, Jack Johnson, Jacobson,
Walker and Stengle.
How many of these will stin be
up there" October /?
TN the opening article of this
L series the case of Baby Doll"
Jacobson was mentioned. Mike
Finn sold him to the Giants and
McGraw will take him to Marlin in
the spring.
The prediction was made that he
would shine in practice, but the
doubt raised as to his ability to
keep shedding the kind of rays that
dazzle the eyes Of a hardened old
sinner like John McGraw, who has
sorted through a couple of thou
sand recruits in his day and chron-
ically wears smoked glasses.
Do you remember last spring?
Mobile papers were fun of Baby
DolI' and his doings.
Best outfielder in the world
Nothing Ike him in history"
Better than Joe Jackson and
iris Speaker rolled in one"
That was the line Of talk.
In the exhibition games he hit
everything a mile. When the reg
ular season opened he continued it,
A batting average of 400 and still
a growing" was his mark at the
end of the first couple Of weeks.
Then the brutal pitchers began
to get their arms working Instead
Of pitching straight ones they be-
gan to bend them bit. Where
upon something happened to ia
cobsons batting. He Just couldn't
seem to see here the pesky things
We're going. The old-time swing
was there-but the ball wasn't
The curved ball made a monkey
out Of jacobson. He couldn't hit
| EN-. From something over 400.
Jacobson's batting average slump
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-22
BLEASE WANTS FOOTBALL
ABOLISHED AT u. OF S. C,

COLUMBIA, S. c, Jan Ex-Governor
Cole l.. Blease, in his inauguration nd
dress yesterday, attacked football PLAY
ing at the state university. and urged
the passage of bill forbidding the sport
at the University of South Carolina
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-22
Whitley ALPERMAN SENDS
IN HIS SIGNED CONTRACT

Whitley Alperman, temporary acting
manager of the Cracker team last fall.
has signed his 1913 contract.
He will be second baseman and field
captain of the Cracker team.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-22
CROSS AND DUFFY DRAW

BUFFALO, n. Y, Jan. 22.-Leach
Cross, of New York, and Jimmy Duffy.
or Lockport boxed ten rounds here
last night The newspaper decision
made the bout a draw
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-22
AUDITORIUM SEATS
AT POPULAR PRICES;
Cards BEST EVER

The complete card for Friday I
nights bout at the Atlanta Audi I
torium- Armory has been arranged I
as follows:
Arthur Worthy and Young Sam I
Langford, four rounds. 4
Joe Bernstein and Frank Car 4
roll, six rounds Z
Meyer Prizes and Kid Young, Z
eight rounds.
Knockout Brown and Jake Abel, 4
. ten rounds.
A scale Of prices which Will Z
prove feature in itself has been 4
decided upon. 1t is Ringside, 50; {
rows back of ringside, $3.50; rest q
of the auditorium and all box q
. seats, 81; the entire gallery, so Z
cents.
Never before in the South has Z
such card been offered at such Z
prices, and only the vast size of 4
the Auditorium -Armory makes it Z
. possible.
The ring will be pitched in the Z
center of the hall and every seat 4
in the building will command a Z
good view Of the proceedings q
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-22

Britton sums up his work of prepa-
ration for a bout "Of course, we
go on the road a bit, and stall
around in the gymnasium some, but
that is only play. l box when I
get into the ring, don't I? Then why
should l practice on doing a lot of
other things that will really be of
little benefit to me in the ring"
ITS all work, believe me-" This
is what Savage thinks about it. Il
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27

And the funny part of it Is. when
easily make up what 1 want and palm
1t off as genuine and you'd never be
the wiser nor the more unhappy. But.
on the assurance. of a Chinese gentle
man whose integrity the telephone com
pany can attest through its employ
or more-from Mr.. Gum Shoe (that's S
his name in point of fact) / have the
following to submit to your now aban-
doned attention:
Yee Quon Ying means somethins
highly allegorica1 and begins to mean
something from the back. Pieced to-
gether in our idiom 1t suggests a place
of assembly, place of freedom and a
place of friendly association. For
some reason the name was changed a
few years later and Heun Far Chun
is distinguished by a characteristic
significance. It means "A Place of
Flowers" botany being drawn upon In
Chinese dramaturgy for Its terminol-
ogy of distinction rather than astron-
omy. But Dane Quai Yuen was the
hardest to bring over to a meaning
suceptible of translation. 1 think it
needs liberal education in Chinese to
comprehend it. AS near as I can ap-
proach it-and this, is liable to be ex-
ceedingly long and wearisome-the ex-
pla nation goes like this:
When the Chinese drayy,ot tist ,,,alx = c
up his mind to write q play he has
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27

and energy than were required to find
Chinaman in Chinatown who would
or could talk about his native drama
and / have an idea that perhaps the
reason for this reticence does not lie
so much In unwillingness as In orien-
tai inability to explain itself to Cauca-
sian intelligence; or. rather, to Cauca-
sian incapacity to comprehend the met
aphorical Mongolian.
Even in so slight a matter as the
names of the now departed playhouses,
the Offices of a dozen Chinese were
implored without result. Most all OF
them had forgotten. What did it mat
ter, anyway?
Finally, one was found who remem-
bered. The one In Washington street
the older-was called in the late 7o's,
zee Quon Ying. Later 1t was named
Hun Far Chun. The Jackson street
theater was called Dane DUAL Yuen.
Now, for the life of me, / can't tell
why / went to such pains to get the
names, because, l dare say, there are
many other ways OF spelling them, my
informant himself being none too GER
tain in the matter; but once having
achieved the information and the spell
/ ing, l was fired with e desire to know
what it was all abouts
Socrates looking fcir a wise man
or Diogenes for an. honest; Tyltil
looking for a bluebird or Eurydice for
a spouse had nothing TO boast of over
me as Questing interroEator.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27

Billy told me OF visit that Sir
Henry Irving made under his guidance
to the Chinese theater. That was in
1898. In. the play, the episode was
told how g. father bade goodby to
his son, who was about to be beheaded.
The play was. I should Judge, one of
the ancient dramas that Voltaire ad-
mired. and Irving was authority for
the statement that never had he seen
more poignant, effective acting on any
stage than that of this Mongolian ira
gedian bidding his unfortunate son a
final farewell.
After the performance Billy took his
distinguished visitor to a joss house
to disclose to him the mysteries of
Buddha as far as they are revealed to
Sir Henry couldn't seem to get the Chi
nese actor out of his mind. When
opportunity afforded, and noting that
the temple attendants were not averse
to discussing mundane and temporal
affairs under the eye of the craven i'm
ages, he asked one of them what he
thought Of this great tragedan In par
ticular and of actors in general There
upon the guardian of the serenities of
esoteric Buddhism LAUGHED out upon
the somewhat unfamiliar sea of Ameri-
can profanity in order to find express
sion for his contempt for the tragedian
in particular and actors In general. Sir
Henry had never heard so eloquent and
frank a critic of actors before, and,
though he was ignorant Of the caste
prejudice that was asserting itself, he
was not above enjoying Che ingenuity
of this Mongolian's translated feelings.
Sir Henry gave him a IS note, which
proves the contrary to a prevailing
impression that Sir Henry was parsi-
monious and devoid of a sense Of
humor-at least that's how Billy re-
CARDS the matter.
HORTLY after the fire a committed
of leading Chinese merchants and
capitalists met in Chinatown to
consider the feasibility of reconstruct
ing one of the burned playhouses.
They examined the situation from its
various angles, social, financial and
artistic, and came to the conclusion
that it was an impossible undertaking
from any one of the three points OF
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27
CORT

John Mason opens fortnights en-
gagement at the Cort theater tomorrow
evening in LAS Man Thinks"
Since the death of Richard Mans
field and Joseph Jefferson, John Mason
rightfully became Americas foremost
actor This much was credited him by
the New York and Boston critics three
years ago when he gave his first per-
formance of the polite gambler, Brook
field. in "The Witching Hour" and 1t
was reiterated during Mason's por-
trayal of the sympathetic physician,
Dr. Seelig, In Augustus Thomas new
play, "As a Man Thinks" at the Thirty
ninth street Theater in New York. Ono
critic said in this connection that IL
Mr. Mason's work in THE Witching
Hour" did not convince his followers
of his clear title to the mantle Of Mans
field ct ais, his Doctor Selig in LAS
Man Thinks" certainly swept away
all doubt along these lines.
Local lovers of the drama will have
their own personal estimate OF the
popular actor during the next two
weeks at the Cort theater.
The Shuberts' after keeping their
favorite star in New York all last sea-
son and part of the present, are pre-
senting him en- tour with a notable
organization including Julie Herne.
daughter of the great James A. Herne
of Shore Acres" fame; John Flood,
George CASTOR and Jane Salisbury.
"As q Man Thinks" will be presented
In thorough metropolitan fashion. The
Shuberts have sent out special an
nouncements to the effect that there is
no mo. q organization Of the new
Thomas play.
The Passing Show of 1912" will be
seen for the last time tonight.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27

symphony concerts and patronizes the
American stage. Chinese music Is re-
served for the tourist and If 1t were
possible to secure playhouse and com
petent actors to dc the old dramas
they would be given mainly for the
entertainment of the white visitor.
Rest assured young China would pay
but little attention to them.
THE Asiatic art of acting was
given a body blow at the old Jack
son street theater and the career of
that place was really closed peremp-
torily before the fire of 1905.
1t was during the time of the bubonic
plague scare" when a victims body
was found in one of the little rooms
under the stage. He had been one Of
the actors and he was believed to have
died from the plague. In any event,
the certainty that he was dead was
beyond peradventure of a doubt, and
had been for several days before his
body was found. The board of health
closed the theater for good" and the
guides had another interesting bit TO
add to the mysteries Of the maze of
underground apartments where the
miserable actors cooked their rice and
lived out rattish lives.
Oh. but they dressed gaiIy on the
stage and were extravagant heroes.
Not all of them. indeed. were forced to
live in the reeking chambers where
was found the bubonic victim. Indeed.
Billy tells me of popular actor who
somehow managed to slip through I'm
Gle Sans sometimes relaxed grasp and
into local Chinese theatrica1s. He was
under contract for a year at salary
of $4,000 per annum. But he was an
exception and only lived three months
after coming here. 1 hope he was the
actor that Sir Henry admired.
K
r COULD secure an interview with
| Maude Adams, the uninterviewable
star, at the expense of less industry
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27

One of the most popular types to re-
produce on the stage is the senior
classman who, over in emma, Is NeiS
important individual, indeed, anu q
great hero. A senior classman may DC
20 years old before he comes 10 MS
distinction and graduates at the heau
of his class. Perhaps he's spent 1V
wears getting into the university. what
he has memorized out of 2o'ooo Chs
nese classics may only be surmlseo py"
the Caucasian mind. But When ne
comes out at the head of his class ne
has indicated himself to be a man
of extraordinary character, and IL MS
parents can not enjoy his triumph, at
least his grandchildren can and no
doubt do.
Thus he becomes person for ira
gedians to treat of, and, as evidence OF
his scholarship. he is given token
and somehow this seems to me TO De
one of the finest touches that ever
fancys fingers laid on humanity's as
pira tions The token is not gold
medal, suitably engraved" nor jew
eled ring nor even wreath OF IVY
or of laurel 1t IS not an unperish-
able parchment with the names OF tho
professors scrawled at the bottom. 1t
is a little flower. The name of the
flower? 1t is Dane Quai Yuen.
I'm sorry that that had to be the
name of the Jackson street theater
where the bubonic victim lay dead.
X
lilly made a sage remark with
X which I'll end this story. He was
telling me about the plots of the
old plays in the old days at the Chi
nese theaters.
Despite the din Of the music and the
squalling OF the one actor who accord
ing to time honored custom had to
sing(?) his part. in spite, too, of the
murders and worse crimes wherewith
the action was crammed and wherein
the audience was nightly refreshed;
notwithstanding also the tortures and
the poisonings, the slow lingering
deaths and the sacks Of red paint
spilled for blood-despite all Of these
things the Chinese plays always ended
ultimately in tranquility. peace and
happiness. The Chinese refuse to take
their cares, their surgery and their
pathology into the playhouse. Chi
nese edict of ancient date makes it
capital offense punishable by decapita-
tion for a playwright to produce an
| immoral work for the stage
You will readily imagine Billy's re-
| hection
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27
'TY WlALTER ANIFON1

view. Beginning backward. as is the
prevailing Chinese custom, IT was
found that even though a class A
be to conform to the new fire laws)
could be financed, plays could not be
staged properly because of the scarcity
OF actors. The old ones were incapaci-
tated through length of days, many
had died, several had returned to their
come, and the present generation Of
new Chinese" do not raise actors.
That settled the question on its artis-
tic side, for why a theater without any
actors (there's no such thing as Mon
golian musical comedy? On it's
the enterprise was equally forbidding
Chinatown was and is being decimated
An authority whose position as realty
agent for large land holders in that
section entities his statement to re-
spect, told me that not more than 5000
Chinese all told occupy that portion of
San Francisco where in the anti-ex-
clus1on days of 1882 and 1883 10000
souls huddled. The old ones have left,
never to return, and the rising gen.
Grafton, queueless and dapper, are
renting f1ats-even in Berkeley.
Il remember WE'LL" says Billy, in
corroborative mood. when in all
Chinatown you could scarcely find such
a thing as bed. Rude boards laid
on horses and covered, sometimes
with mating, provided beds for the
men. A raised bench of wood was the
pillow.
The women placed their heads on
spools made of wood and so rounded
as not to disturb their elaborately
gummed coiffures. But now the new
Chinese owns an automobile goes to
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27

Chinese audiences are new faces and
elaborate agony. The latter even
ceases to be engrossing, though the
slow starvation or exquisite torture
when new faces do not mirror the In
reresting stages of anguish and the
same old players die over and over
again.
BY the time the FIVE came to assist
the board of health the Chinese play
houses were already on the point of
closing up their doors for lack Of
patronage, due to scarcity of perform
ers.
The players. particularly those who
lived in the underground holes beneath
the Jackson street playhouse, de-
veloped a surprisingly high death
rate which might have concerned the
Mongolian play patron more IL he ever
permitted his concern to stoop in in
terest to the personal affairs OF an
actor-which. of course he didn't,
though the player were Salvini from
Canton and he, the emaciated wreck
and opium shattered refuse picker in
noisome alleys where. the best was
nearly rotted.
AND that reminds me of a story
~ that Billy tells. But first I must
tell you about Billy. Everybody
calls him Billy. He sits every afternoon
and almost every evening at the cor
ner of Dupont and California streets.
He has been sitting there or there
abouts for AZ years; but he sits there
now, more than ever, for business is
dull nowadays. The sight seeing cars,
like evil Juggernauts, have run over
Billy's living and nearly killed It,.
Billy is a guide. He began when he
was young man in the year 1866 and
he has seen Chinatown proceed
through those stages that his life and
all life experience. He has observed
its growth from tiny thing to the
maturity OF a fabulous noon and now
he sits on the corner, perched on a
refuse can, watching it die.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27
The Big Noise

When Colonel Roosevelt goes to
South America even the revolutions
may stop to see the procession pass
Philadelphia Ledger
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27

for choice Of personages to present all
the castles and characters known to
him through history or by contem-
poraneous contact. Like Ibsen, he can
choose the most unpromising material
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27

COULD secure an interview with
star, at the expense of less industry
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-27

whatever else the orient may
N teach the occident when the
w fine line of demarcation that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-21
SIDE BY SIDE IN DEATH
Veteran and Wife Asphyxiated
Adopted Child Is Revived.

James Cresley a Civil War veteran,
eighty years old, and his wife, seventy
years. died OF asphyXiation in their
apartment at No "A Ainslie street,
Williamsburg. yesterday afternoon,
while three-year-old child whom
they had taken to live with them sur
vived. she was growing and playing
happily in a cot at the Williamsburg
Hospital last night.
The odor of gas attracted neighbors
To tire Cresley fiat, where they found
the old man and old woman stretched
side by side on the kitchen floor. a
window was partly open. and in the
next room on the bed lay the child,
unconscious but breathing family. An
ambulance surgeon soon revived the
youngster, but the old couple failed 10
respond.
The police. who were busy last night
trying 10 find two grandchildren of the
Cresleys. believe that the death OF the
aged couple was accidental.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-21
HER BABY CHANGED COLOR
Painters Carelessness Gives
Mother Scare of Her Life.

Mrs. Fay Heller Of 80 1853 Pros
pect Place, Brownsville. went into 4
grocery at 40. AZ Ralph avenue yes
terday afternoon leaving her twenty
months -cld baby. Harriet, in a car
riage on the sidewalk. When she came
out OF the store a black baby was in
its place
"Kidnappers." shrieked the woman.
This is a negro baby. Ny baby is
gone"
But the black baby was her own
Harriet. : workman IN the roof Of
the building had simply upset a pot OF
paint. The transformation was the re.
suit. Mrs. Heller discovered Ter mis-
take. and oyerjoyed. took her baby
home and gave her 2 nne scrubbing.
The painter was not arrested
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-21
TWO-DAY MEXICAN BATTLE
Huerta Forces Thought to Have
Advantage at Ortiz.

Douglas, Ariz., June .O.-From be-
hind houses and walls and from roofs.
the forces Of General Ojeda and the
Constitutionalist leader. Obregon, have
been battling in the town of Ortiz,
forty-hve miles north Of Guaymas.
for two days. Conflicting reports have
reached here, but ii is believed the ad-
vantage lies with the federals, al
though they number only 1000, against
5000 Constitutionalists.
Federal agents say Ojeda took the
aggressive and fell upon Ohregon. who
was in line Of battle at ortiz. yester-
day morning To-day 1t was declared
the fighting was renewed at close quar-
ters in the streets Of the town, and the
federals forced the rebels 10 break and
retreat toward Hermosillo.
Mexico City. June 20.-Fifty million dol
lars Of the Mexican government loan may
not be available for six months. accord
ing 10 the Minister Of Finance. who said
to-day that SS0,0oO.0O) wo. ID be at the dis
nosition Of the government after June 2f
and the remainder in two options OF six
months each.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-21
SHE'LL GUARD MT. VERNON
Mrs. Wood, Former Fly Swat
ter. Gets ION the Force"

The city Of Mount Vernon has fol-
lowed the example of Newport by ap-
pointing Mrs. James S. Wood. leader
of the -suffragette party there, as
n special police officer The appoint
ment was made by Police Commits
sioner Connor at the request Of Mrs.
Wood Mayor Edwin w. Fiske said
there was plenty for her to do looking
after the health of children and cases
of cruelty to animals.
Mrs Wood is past state regent Of tho
Grand Army of the Republic. For
several years she was president OF the
Westchester County Woman's Club
and chairman of the committee on the
fly determination campaign. She is
the wife of a Mount Vernon lawyer
who is fighting the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad for lower
Communication rates.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-21
MAYO WARNS OF DELAY
Cancer Always Curable if dag
nosed Early, He Surmises.

l1F A'4'N4hI To i'' s''..''''
Rochester. MINI. June 2O.-"Eish-
teen years Of investigation Of cancer Of
the stomach have made us assured
that the disease IS durable" said Or.
William j. Mayo to-day, in amplify!ns
his previous statement that cancer
was durable, before the American
Medical Association at Minneapolis
Wednesday.
Nearly one-third Of all cancers oc-
cur in the stomach" DR.. Mayo added,
$50 our observations prove that cancer
is durable.
THE main point in the treatment OF
cancer is early diagnosis. Perhaps all
the cases we have operated on could
have been cured If the disease had
been diagnosed in time. Between jan
uary /, 1894. and December 81 last we
operated on 1000 cases. OF these 3IS
resulted in cures and the lives Of 2lG
were prolonged
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-21
GIVES AWAY $1,000 LEGACY
Wants Only Money He Earns,
Says Brothers Heir.

Benjamin Flusser. a Newark mer-
chant. who inherited $1,000 from the
estate Of his brother. Max Flusser. who
died more than a year ago, yesterday
declined to accept the legacy for his
own use. Half of it he mas allotted to
charitable institutions and the other
Ealf he is going TO give 10 relatives.
In explanation Mr. Flusser last night
said: Il want to earn with my ten
fingers any money | get. | don't want
anybody elses money, and for that rea-
son l am giving the legacy away"
There had never been a break in the
friendship of the brothers, so far as
their friends know.