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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
KING Of ENGLAND
ENJOYS BALL GAME
Requires Few Explanations OF
the "Points" When Wit
Messing a Thriller.
GIANTS AND White SOX
IN HARD FOUGHT BATTLE
His Majesty Applauds, and Says
Game Is We'll Played"
Score. 5 to 4.

LONDON. February a7.-The King of
when the Giants and White sox played
here yesterday. was thrilled just as every
base ball "rooter' the world over is thrill
cd when a long hit breaks up an eleven
inning game.
1t is true that his majesty did not slap
/ the Earl of Lonsdale OF the back, nor did
he jam Baron Desboroughs hat about
his cars. after the manner of the spec
tators from Chicago. but he clapped his
hands and cried well played
i And indeed it was in spite of the Soggy
field. for the White Sox took the victory
from the Giants only after eleven innings
of red-hot base ball. The score was ) to
g. More than 10000 persons were in the
stands at the Chelsea foot ball field when
the game began.
Walter Hines Page. the American am
bassador. sat beside the king ready to
explain any difficult points of play, but
he found that there was surprisingly III
tic for him to tell. When Faber. who
was pitching for the Giants, retired the
side without a run, after filling the bases
with only one out, his majesty applauded
with as much vigor as any one IN the
big stadium.
Later in the game. when Faber threw
high in-shoot at the head of Buck
Weaver. the king smiled as the player
fell fiat to save himself. An American
not ten feet from the royal box shouted /:
Kill him. Faber!" and the king and
all his party burst into hearty laughter.
Jimmy Callahan. manager of the White
SOX. may have something to explain Wnen
he gets back to the Archey Road, for he
was presented to the king just before
the game and never said word for the
freedom of Ireland. John j. McGraw,
manager of the Giants, also met the
English ruler.
Schaefer ..Cans" the Comedy.
All the baseball tourists had good
time except Germany Schafer. The
comedian of the Washington Americans
cut no capers and made no speeches to
the crowd. He confided to friends after
the game that Jimmy Callahan had
ordered him ito can the comedy"
Comic relief came from an unexpected
source. For some reason or other the
English took Bill KLEIN, the umpire, as a
comic character and. much to the chagrin
of the official. greeted every move and
every announcement he made with roars
of laughter.
Although the game was a splendid
example of the best that base ball has
to offer in the way of excitement 1t
must be confessed that in the minds of
many of the English spectators wonder
was the strongest emotion. They sat
dazed. or if they did applaud play it
was at the wrong time.
When Larry Doyle seized an easy
grounder and threw the ball far over
Merkle's head a thousand Englishmen
cI1eered his strength of arm. Again. when
Jim Thorpe raised towering pop fly
right in front of the plate many APP
pauded for the man who could hit a
ball SO high.
Americans in all parts of England
flocked to London to see a game Of ball
again. The dictum that one must do
in Rome as the Romans do was thrown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
GILMAN OUT OF GAME.
Harvard's Tackle Fails to Keep Up
in His Studies.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. February I'll
A. Gilman, jr., OF Honolulu. tackle on
Ilarvard's champion foot ball team last
year. will not be able to play with this
years eleven it was learned today. Gu
man failed to meet requirements in his
midyear exaInjnations and has been
forced to leave college. He will be al
lowed to return in September but can
not participate in athletics until he re-
gains his piece III scholarship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27

When one stops to consider the sta
tistics of the bunch at the training camp
it becomes evident that Manager Griffith
is not thinking solely of the present sea-
son in the development Of his material.
No less than three of the pitching staff
are yet in their teens. Harper. Shaw and
Bentley each having turned their eight
zenith year in the past few months.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15

and weight lifting contests; first day.
 August 6-International dumbbell and weight lifting contests; second day.
 August 6-Junior track and field championships of the A. A. |.
 August 7-Senior track and field championships of the A. A. |.
 August 12-Ten mile run; seven mile walk
 August l2-International tug g-of-war Olympic rules).
 August 13 and 14-International re- lay racing.
 August 13 and Pacific International exposition intercolleg. fate championships.
 August r and 1S-Decathlon Uen events).
 August 24 to 2s-Modern Pentath- lon.
 September 6-Pentathlon Give eventS).
 September 9-Pacific Association track and field championships.
 September 13 to 1S-United States soccer football championships.
 September 26-MarathOn race.
 October to 9-Panama-Pacific In ternational exposition lacrosse cham pionships. October II to 16-Pacific coast soccer football championships.
 October IS to 23-State of Cali fornia championships, basketball, and swimming
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15
Mineral Creek is Good.


 Clifford Phillips and Earl Hinds the two placer mining operators, have a crew of men working on their placer claim on Mineral creek and have met with exceptional good results, says the Valdez Miner The work is hampered by the water and no great depth has as yet been en out by the men shoveling in and it is said to be better than wages. The owners of the claims have re- fused to announce the result of the work so far done.
 Gold was first found on Mineral creek sixteen years ago but no eff fort was made to thoroughly pros pect the ground as the water drove the prospectors out of their cuts. Last fall Phillips and Hinds secured an Empire drill and drove seventeen holes, meeting with prospects far in excess of their expectations and this spring they sledded an outfit and lumber to the claims and have start ed active work and will give the claims a thorough tryout.
 The ground varies in depth from 12 to 20 feet and carries values from the surface down.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15
Henry Roden Denies
 Aiding Financiers

Quite contrary to the sensational report In the Times Thursday morn ing, in which it was announced that Henry Roden, Territorial senator from Iditarod, was reported missing on his trip to that city from Seward, was the story told previously by Ed. Austin, who arrived in Fairbanks early in the week on the steamer Washburn from Iditarod. MT. Austin declared that he had personally talk ed with Mir Roden in Iditarod after the latter had arrived there from Seward.
 To Mr. Austin, Mr. Roden denied that he received anything for having written to Secretary Lane opposing the construction of government railroad in Alaska The letter to Secretary Lane, he said, was not prompted by anyone, and was his own individual act. Mir Roden also denied that he had been employed by the Guggenheim interests in any way.
 Mr. Austin is one of MT. Roden's closest friends and supporters, and the two spent some time together just before the former sailed for Fairbanks. Thus the sensational story in the Times about MT. Ro- den's disappearance, seems to have been without the least foundation, and was purely a myth.
 When asked by Mr. Austin to ex- plain his business relationship with the Guggenheims, MT. Roden is quot ed as having declared that he never was employed by the latter. This, however, is contrary to news item recently appearing in Juneau news paper to the effect that the Guggen- helm interests had filed a formal notice with the secretary of the Territory, that MT. Roden was no longer their legal representative at Iditarod.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15
Latest Outside Sporting Dope

April Is and 17-Amateur Athletic Union wrestling championships.
 April 22 10 24-Pacific Association boxing championships.
 April 26 to 3O-Fencing champion ships of America.
 May 1 and San Francisco Pub lie Schools Athletic league days.
 May 5 to s-Panana Pacific Inter- national exposition boxing champion ships.
 May and S-Pacific coast college track and field championships.
 May Il and 12-San Francisco parochial school days.
 June II to 19-Pacific coast ten his championships.
 July ? and 3-Pacific Association swimming championships.
 July 15 to 29-Public Schools Ath- letic League and Interscholastic championships.
 July 30 and 31-Far Western championships, boxing. wrestling, track and field.
 August ? to 4.-Panama Pacific International exposition cycling cham pionships.
 August 5-All-round championships of the A. A. L. of United States.
 August 5-International dumbbell
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15
Soldier in rison
 g Years, Pardonec

ROME Corporal Vincenzo Ro- mano, an old warrior who fought under Garibaldi, has just been granted a royal pardon for murder he is alleged to have committed, and is now free after 52 years in prison.
 "The cause of my misfortune,' he says, was a Bourbon spy, who pass ed into the service of Italy after l left Garibaldi in 1861. He denounc- ed me as having evaded my regu- lar conscript service. We had high words and he hit me with his gun, knocking out several teeth.
 "In anger unluckily exclaimed, when my recruiting days are over I'll come back and shoot you Some how or other that man actually was riddled with gunshot shortly after my return from military service in 1863.
 Twenty days later I was arrest ed, tried, and condemned to death, though the truth is I was an in nocent victim of strange coinci- dence."
 When the president of the assize court asked him if he had anything to say after his trial, he said: Gentlemen of the jury. I've fired thousands of shots on behalf of our country. Forgive me. then. this soli- tary shot which the prosecution says I fired on my own account"
 m xhoA
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15
Believe in the Rod.

There is now regular craze for divining rods among the prospec- tors and many place implicit confi- dence in the witchery of the rod. Among the most devout believers in the divining rods is Louis Stevenson of the Pioneer Mining Co.,. but there are others In fact it is safe to say that when a person opens up with a prospector on the question he is likely as not to pull one out of his hip pocket with the remark:
 Now here's one that's as true as a compass" "-Nome Industrial Work
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15
COMING BOATS
 ARE BRINGING
 MUCH TRAFFIC
STEAMER YUKON AND PANAMA EACH HAS A LARGE PASS
 FINGER LIST.

Much passenger and freight traf season is giving promise of unusua activity in this line. The steamer Yukon left Dawson with a big load of people and freight Monday, bound for Fairbanks. and the day following another large load of people and freight started for this place from Dawson on the steamer Tanana
 Thomas Riggs. Jr, of the Alaska Engineering commission. who will begin the work of surveying the government railroad from this place left the steamer Yukon at Dawson and with a force of men is coming here on the government steamer Midnight Sun.
 The passenger list on the Yukon bound for Fairbanks, including the engineers who were transferred tC the Midnight Sun, is as follows; F.. o. Archibald, F. F. Bauer, F. D. Hayden, G. T. Bennett, J. E. Delax. T. J. Garfield, J. s. Sterling George Bird, D. H. Medium, Herb Stewart, o. G. Blass, William Pelli tier, William Finnigan, w. Winter. bottom. E. w. Barnette, J. w. Will son, J. w. Pitt, c. A. Stanton, s. s. Suman, Miss Duffy, E. Lissner, L. R. Robert, T. S. Darlington, M. K. Sniff fen, c. L. Dickenson, A. H. Patter- son, George Mayo, Dan Berg, M. L. Nelson w. H. Gilbert, Miss L. K. Line, Mrs. A. Christopher, Jack Hen ry. R. R. Stoddard, Mrs. Sam Sea, Mrs. w. H. Handley, A. G. Fox. wife and baby, Harvey A. Wentz, H. N. Ford. E. J. Bailey, F. s. Ryus, Thom- as Riggs, Jr, w. B. Raeburn, T. H. Bacon, R. A. Gay, F. w. Griffin, F. B. Nolan, H. s. Schuppe, F. A. Fenton, F. J. Butler, E. R. Blewett, w. B. Bennett, R. Bedding, Joe Ben nett, E. F. Pren, D. c. Kessler. C.. H. Wilson. G. s. Richardson, H. A. Wooden F. Rogers, J. c. Ryan, C. H. Carroll J. s. Darwin, J. Foley
 Passengers were listed on the steamer Panama, when she left Daw- son, as follows:
 airbanks-George Gould, J. H. Miller, Mrs. L. J. Grey. H. s. Park CT, B. Stewart, E. Hansen, Clara B. Brown, C. w. Felch, Dave Dun bar, Walter E. Hall, Mrs. Walter E. Hall, Dr. w. w. Trabue, Mrs H. R. Seddon, Mrs. Fern Johnson Mrs. Maude Bishop, Miss Hazel Cooper, Joe R. Chambers, William Pritzow, Mrs. J. A. Sargent, Fred Crewe, Sr., T. B. Waller, William Mallard
 Circle-Charles Hogan, J. o. P. McGriff l.. B. Tanner
 Tanana-Mrs. M. G. Butler. M G. Butler, H. Fenton, Andrew Mo- Kinley, E. Steinback, Jim Harkin.
 Ruby-J. R. NiXen.
 Russian Mission-T F. Schwalbe, Mrs Schwalbe.
 Hot Springs-Mrs. c. F. White, D. Russell.
 Dikeman-Charles Ross
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15
Baseball Comment.

AS a Canadian reader of this pa per wrote us recently, the growth of baseball in the northern empire during the past few years has been little short of phenomenal. writes x. H. Cobb in an Outside newspaper Ten years ago the game was practi- English possession. Lacrosse was the popular pastime. but today it is different.
 Take Montreal for instance, and in season you will find the play grounds and vacant lots, in nine cases out of ten. filled with youngsters playing the American game.
 The smaller towns, too, have their teams, and are well supported across the border. In fact. according to our correspondent, the French Can adans are real bugs" and although the press has not been especially friendly to baseball the sport has taken firm hold on lovers of out door pastimes In the provinces.
 Just why there should be the op- position by legislative bodies to Sun day ball in some parts of the coun- try, where the majority of the peo- pie are manifestly in favor of play ing the game on the Sabbath, is one of the things that is hard to eX plain.
 There may be logical reason for opposing certain kinds of legislation, but it has always been beyond us to understand how any man with good American blood in his veins could consistently oppose the play ing of the game on Sunday
 Baseball is not only profitable to the promoters of the sport in pro- fessional way, but for those who play the game for the pleasure they get out of it, it is healthful, and for this reason, if no other, should not be discouraged or drowned upon. Should the ban on Sunday ball be eventually removed generally, it would mean the addition to the amateur field of thousands among those who, because they are com pelled to work six full days week, do not have an opportunity but pos sibly once or twice a year to see game, much less participate in the pastime.
 The game where played now on the Sabbath furnishes a pleasant outdoor recreation either for the spectator or player, and just why those who control the political ma chnery in some Of our Eastern states do not listen to the voice of the majority of their citizens and make the game one to be enjoyed in quiet, effective and advantage ous way, is one of the things that only the politicians can explain.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15
General Mining News

In 1912 the average value per ton was 10 cents higher than In 1911, duction decreased over 100000 tons, the fact being that in 1912 such de mand as existed was largely the demand for domestic consumption, which preferred higher grades of screened coal and left the slack and lower grades a drug on the market.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15
Cleanups Good.

The cleanups on Long creek, gener- ally speaking, are still holding up, and in many instances are going much better than expected by the operators. The Buckley Bros. made two cleanups this week. The first one of $7,OO0 was made on Monday last and the second of 5000 was weighed up yesterday. In both in stances more was cleaned up than expected
 Weber & Sturtevant cleaned up $6,0OO the first of the week, and Laboski & Stroup washed up $1,50O. Ruby Record. Citizen.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15
Washington Coal.

For the first time in three years the coal production of Washington in 1913 showed an increase over that of the preceding year, according to figures compiled by E. w. Parker, of the United States Geological Sur vey, in cooperation with the State Geological Survey of Washington.
 The production in 1913 was 3,S77.- 891 short tons, valued at $9,243, ,137, substantial increase over the out put of 1912 amounting to 516,959 short tons, or IS per cent. in Quan- tity, and $1,20O,266. or nearly IS per cent in value.
 Even this increase. however, did not bring the output up to the record made in 1910, when the maximum product of 3,911,899 tons was mined. It indicates, nevertheless. a recov- cry from the depressed condition into which coal mining in Washing ton was forced in 1911 and 1912 by the competition of California petroleum as a railroad and manu- featuring fuel.
 The use of petroleum continues, but the increase in population and improved business conditions have furnished a better market for Wash inpfOn coa1 than was available in 1911 and 1912 The slightly lower average value per ton in 1913-$2.38 as compared with $2,38 in 1912 was due rather to the ability of op- orators to dispose of some of the less desirable grades than to any actual decline in prices.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15
1915 CONTESTS.

Arrangements have been made for the following athletic contests 10 take place during the exposition to be held next year in San Francisco:
 February 22.-Amateur Athletic Union basketball championships.
 March 26 and 27-Amateur Athletic Unions gymnastic championships.
 March 29-Pacific Association wrestling championships.
 April g and 1O-Pacific coast in- terscholastic track and field cham pionships.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15
Str. Alaska Brings
 First Through Mail

With the first through mail from the Outside and a large number o1 passengers, the steamer Alaska ar rived at Fairbanks last Monday morn ing. Some of the passengers on the Alaska were only a few hours more than 12 days in reaching this city from Seattle. The passengers arriv ing were as follows: Miss Kline Miss Spain, George Semper, Mrs George Semper, Miss Elsa Gray, Miss Berg, Mrs. Henry Baatz, Miss Ida Groves, Lieutenant Eastman, F. Cox William Peterson, Mrs. Fisher Miss Fisher, D. Goheen, L. Forbes, H Bondels, Mrs. Phillips. Miss Harder Mrs. Smart, Mrs. Trombley, H. E Pratt, F. Taylor, Mrs. Sampson, F. Powell, c. Huzzer, MT. Stevenson Mir. Brice, Mrs. Wilbur and children Miss A. Cook, MT. Wetzler, MT. Fla herty, Miss Weiss, Miss Goldman Miss Brown, Major McManus.
 When the Alaska sailed Tuesday afternoon for Dawson, and Outside connections, she took the following passengers:
 For Whitehorse-Anton Lundgren Mrs. Theo Johnson, Miss Dorothy Johnson, Ruth Johnson, Green White Frances White. H. Marks, Mrs. G Devers, Miss F. L. Gerisch, Mrs Jack Curry, G. Valley, F. Valley G. S. Horton, J. Fred Johnson.
 For Rampart-John Hoffmaster F. J. lloyd.
 For Hot Springs-Mrs. M. A. Nc Cam, Fred Rag, s. H. Pinkerton P. Conta, Paul COnta. B. Nelson l.. H. Koch.
 For Tanana-Major G. A. Nc Manus.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15
Teams Plan Tour.

Word received from London states that preliminary arrangements have been made for a tour across Canada of the two champion English Asso- citation football teams in 1915. The teams will be those who play in the final for the English cup, and the tour will be by permission of the British Football association.
 The proposed visit of the English teams to the Dominion is the result of negotiations between Con Jones, the Vancouver lacrosse magnate. and F. J. Wall, secretary of the British association, whose headquarters are in Montreal. Wall, who is the little father of football in England, is en- thusiastic over the prospects of the tour, which it is not intended shall be a money making one, but rather educative.
 The British association will retain control of the players while in the Dominion, and the spectacle of anna teurs and professionals playing in the same team will be a novel one, for the Canada matches generally will be between the British cup tie teams, but it is hoped that repre- sentative Canadian soccer elevens will also play the visitors.
 With the consent of the United States association, also affiliated, it is probable that the tour will be extended into the States, a side trip being made from Vancouver to the San Francisco-Panama exhibition
 What a trotting bred mare may sometimes do to earn her oats is shown by the racing record of the bay pacer Beaut Kennedy, 2:08A recently retired at fourteen years of age, and bred to Sidney Pointer, 2:07A. Foaled in 1900. this mare came out as a five-year-old, and in ten consecutive campaigns paced 116 races, of more than four hundred heats, winning fifty-four times, or almost fifty per cent of her races. When a breed produces campaigners like Beaut it is no wonder European army men are waking up to the mer- its of American trotting stallions as sires of cavalry horses.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15
Chinese to Try ElyinQ.

Art Lynn, one of the only two Chinese aviators licensed by the Aero Club of America, has purchas- ed a Curtis biplane which he will take to China where, as instructor in aviation to the Chinese army, he will teach the sons of the new Republic the art of flying.
 MT. Lynn, who is twenty-one years old, is the son of a San Francisco merchant. Born in San Francisco, he studied in the public schools until three years ago. when he be. came a reporter for the Chinese World, one of the leading Chinese dailies of that city. A year ago he decided to take up aviation as a business and attended the Curtiss school at San Diego. receiving his license last June.
 Yuan Shih-kai. President of the Chinese Republic. learned of young Lym's success as an aviator and a month ago instructed the Vice President, Lin Yun-hong. who is also head of the Chinese army, to offer the young man the position of in. structor.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15

It was on a suburban train. The young man in the rear car was sud denly addressed by the woman in the seat behind him.
 Pardon me, sirs," she said, but would you mind assisting me off at the next station? You see, am very large and when get off l have to go backward. so the conduc- tor thinks I am trying to get aboard and helps me on again. He has done this at three stations"
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15

Take heed lest you find what you do not seek.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15

Johnny Evers has promised Bos- ton fans that he will work his head off for the success of the Boston Braves. However, there is no truth in the report that he has requested Manager Stallings to have the schedule committee amend the battle with the Cubs every day.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15

It may not be mooted point just now, but it is interesting to know that Christy Matthewson has said over his own signature that he con- siders Walter Johnson the greatest pitcher in baseball There is an expert opinion for you. even if you do think Matty is too modest
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15

In regard to the attendance at that game the SoX-Giants played in London, it might be more proper to say that 3O.O00 people turned out to see the king while the rival clubs clashed.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15

Says the New York Tribune: The fight between Ebbets and the Wards, outlaw owners at Brooklyn, to discover the more holidays, promises to be interesting. It looks like a busy season for the borough president if he expects to toss out the first ball at all games.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15

Bob Fitzsimmons says he is plan ming to bid adieu to America for ever and pass the remainder of his days in the town in England where he was born. He feels that he has on this side of the Atlantic in re- cent years.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15

Charles Ebbets has arranged thirty games for the Superbas this season entirely apart from the regu- lar schedule. A contest has been showed in wherever an open date has cropped up. 1t is going to take considerable stamina to wage 1855 battles. Some of the men are com blaming about the extra work, claiming that little rest now and then is good for even the best of baseball players.