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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1914-12-01
Church items.

Services in ST. James, Catholic Church
Tseesnd Sunday. mass s.45 a. M: fourth
sunday. 1880 a. m, evening services 7.SO
D. M.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1914-12-01

I'll be in Charles Town on Saturday. Dec.
5, at our repository or Palm Hotel. Please
call to see me then about a buggy. surrey
Or runabout.
milford Slough,
For Thrush & Slough,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1914-12-01

Mr.. Frank Bane, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Snyder Bane is recovering from
an attack of typhoid fever.
Mrs. Ada Tabb, wife of Mr. Airing
ton Tabh, of Clearbrook, Va, died
very suddenly at her home on Monday.
Mr.. c. w. Brown, our up-to-date
Jeweler has most attractive show
window inviting the Christmas shop
per.
Mr. VIM. c. Clpp has bought
through Roberts & Shearer, the Ro-
binson house on N Mildred street
Consideration $4,000
In printing the directory of the
Jefferson County Telephone Company
an error was made in emitting the
name of DIR. H. P. Hirst, popular
physician of Leetown. His telephone
number is 207-12 and is connected
with the Charles Town exchange
Hog cholera has caused serious
losses to number of farmers in the
vicinity of Kearneysville Mr. Lee
Creamer has lost q, and Mr.. Arthur
Benner 81, the latter losing all of his
butchering hogs. Losses have also
been sustained in the Zoar neighbour
hood by Messrs. NJ. B. and n w
Myers and the Misses MichaelS.
All the guarantors for the 1915
Chautauqua in Charles Town are here
by requested to meet in the Coun y
Court room at the Court House on
evening, December 2, at
80 O'Clock. The object of the meet
ing is to decide upon the program for
the next Chautauqua.
F. L. BUSHONG,
Chairman
Roy Hamilton, formerly of Charles
Town, now foreman of the Berkeley
Springs News office and Miss Agnes
Emma Courtney, daughter OF Assessor
E. Perkins Courtney, were married
Thursday, November 10, at the United
Brethren parsonage, by Rev J. H.
Brunk, pastor The happy couple
will make their home in Berkeley
Springs.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1914-12-01
Quality Cards.

Do Your Christma as Card Shop
ping while the assoltments are COM
plete. They are ready now. The
largest and finest line ever shown
in this city at
TAYLOR'S
VARIETY STORE
Weirick Bldg.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1914-12-01

All Ten Cent Tickets will have number for Tia. 5r
The lucky number will entte the holder to Suit of ~,t
at any store the town you wish to deal The Co,bs u
TO cost over $1,000
Evening star., 1914-01-25

Under the threatening. darkening skies
of San Francisco that hovered so low on
the first day of this year stood man.
He was an old man-over eighty years
old-and his white hair accented him
sharply against the somber background
of rolling clouds. He stood in the ring
in which Pelky and Smith were soon to
battle. He stood there as he had stood
for over thirty years-the most familiar
figure in the game-the prize rings
grand old man, and with upraised hand
he brought silence within the arena,
then with voice quavering, Billy Jordan
spoke:
Gentlemen I am about to retire as
market inspector. February l 1 go to
the Soldiers Home at Yountville, Cal,
to spend the rest of my days. But I will
always be ready to come out and an
nounce at fight if they will have me,
for>I will never retire from the prize
ring as long as there is breath in my
body"
The applause that acclaimed Old Billy's
remarks were greater by far than that
which greeted the winner of the battle
that followed.
So after twenty years faithful service
as market inspector in San Francisco,
Evening star., 1914-01-25
II IADY' BALDWIN A PITCHER
OF NOTE IN THE OLDEN DAYS
Did His Best Work for Detroit in 1885, Winning 42
Out of S Games, and Shared Honors
With Getzeln.

OF which the umpire was the sole judge.
In 1883 BALDWIN dropped out of sight,
but in 1880 he was for a short while
with the Brooklyn National League
team. He was released early in the sea-
son and joined Connie Mack's Buffalo
team of the Players League. where his
stay was also brief That was the last
heard of Lady Baldwin.
One of the best games Baldwin pitched
was on June 5, 1886, when he defeated
the Philadelphia team at Philadelphia in
fourteen innings by score of , to 0.
Dan Casey was the Philadelphia pitcher.
Great Batting Record.
Later in the season, September 10, 1886,
he saw the team in a game at Chicago
beaten by the old White Stockings IA
to s. The pitchers were Pete Conway for
Detroit and Jim Mccormick for Chicago.
In that game Dan Brouthers, Detroit's
first baseman, got five hits. including
a two-bagger and three home runs, a
total of fifteen bases. This set the record
for individual batting in the National
League and remand the record until
1889. when Larry Twitchell. then with
the Cleveland team, August 1J, in a
game against Boston at Cleveland, hit
Mike Madden six times safely. Among
his hits were double and three home
runs, a total of sixteen bases. This mark
held good until May 30, 1894, when Rob-
ert Lincoln Lowe of the Boston team. in
a game against Cincinnati at Boston. hit
Elton Chamberlain for a single and four
home runs, total of seventeen bases.
which is still the record. 1t was equaled
by Ed Delehanty of the Philadelphia
team. who July 13, 1896. in a game
against Chicago, repeated Loves feat by
hitting Bill Terry for single and four
home runs. total of seventeen bases.
Getzein in 1889. after the withdrawal Of
the Detroits from the National League.
pitched for the Indianapolis team. 1t was
the last year of the Hoosiers In the
league, and in 1890 he was with the Bos-
ton National League team, which Charley
Camel had Joined the year before, and
so the famous pretzel battery was again
in action. In 1891 Getzein remained with
Boston, but was released in July because
of lame arm. He then went to Cleve-
land, for which team he pitched only one
game. August p he faced the Chicagos
at Chicago and was beaten to g. Bill
Hutchinson and Malachi Kittredge were
the battery for Chicago. while Getzein
was caught by Chief thinner, and Tom
Lynch was the umpire. 1t was the last
game pitched by Getzein in the National
League.
The other end of the pretzel battery.
Charles Camel. was with the Bostons
nine years-from 1859 to 1897, both in
elusive. He is now in bad shape at his
home, suffering with some fatal illness.
Evening star., 1914-01-25
AFTER PERFECT ATHLETICS.
College Association Trying to Elm
mate All Abuses and Evils.

NEW YORK, January 24.-The control
and regulation Of intercollegiate sport
furnished a fruitful theme for discussion
at the recent convention of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association at the
Hotel Astor. The moral and ethical value
of athletics to the college student was
admitted, but the means of impartins the
knowledge of athletics as a physical
benefit developed many suggestions OF
more or less value. 1t was asserted by
Prof. George W. Ehler of the University
of Wisconsin tha' faculty control has
eliminated many abuses and evils OF ath-
letics, but has failed to develop any con-
siderable moral force of constructive
type except in so far as there has oeen
recognized and made effective the para
,,ount function of the athletic director
and his associates, namely. moral ieader-
ship of a positive and virile type.
Evening star., 1914-01-25
lnquisitive Fans.

Sporting Editor Star: Dear Sir: Kindly
advise me how the following should be
settled: A. and c are engaged in a
game of poker Gack pots). opens the
pot; B and C stay in. and all draw cards.
After the cards are drawn A. who opened
the pot throws his cards in the deck.
+ claims that B and c cannot bet, and
that the pot is dead: that the cards must
be dealt over, allowing A to play. G
claims that B and G can bet, and the
one holding the better hand wins the
pot. B claimed that a should have shown
his openers. agreed with him in that
respect. A SUBSCRIBER.
II either = or C has openers play is
not prevented by AS action.
Sporting Editor Star: Kindly state
in your pink sheet if the Federal League
was in the field last season. FAN.
Yes. 1t had a circuit in the west.
Sporting Editor Star: In the event that
ball club fails to send a contract to a
player by a certain date does the player
become free to go where he pleases? And
what is the date that the contract must
be submitted? SUBSCRIBER.
Organized base ball demands that every
player must have a contract submitted
by the club holding claim to him by
February 1 or the player is declared a
free agent.
Sporting Editor Star: I read in a
paper the other day that both Cobb and
Walter Johnson had cost their respective
clubs. Detroit and Washington. $50. Is
that true? Please answer in pink sheet.
J. x.
Cobb was purchased by Detroit for
$50, but johnson was not In organized
base ball when Washington signed him.
and cost nothing more than railroad fare
and travelling expenses from Weiser.
Idaho to Washington.
Evening star., 1914-01-25
WISE CHARLEY MITCHELL.
Veteran Boxer Says English Fight
ers Are All BloomerS.

NEW YORK, January =; - Charley
MitaheIl, the veteran English heaNS-
weight, who, although sick at his home
in Brighton, England. has not lost IN
terest in the game. says:
THE man who says the fighting IN
stinct is dead in Great Britain is foos.
st wish all the problems of life were
as easy to explain. The British So
called champions have of late years been
boosted into prominence; they have not
fought their way TO the front As soon
as fhey did one or two decent things in
public they were hailed as world whip
pers. when, as a matter of fact, they
were. little better than novices and had no
right in the lime,ight at all.
Evening star., 1914-01-25
NEW TENNIS RULING.
Expenses of an Amateur May Be
Paid by an Association.

NEW YORK, January 24.-An amateur
rule which is likely to meet with the fa-
vorable consideration of the majority Of
American lawn tennis players has been
drafted and will be offered for action at
the thirtythird annual meeting OF the
United States National Lawn Tennis AS
sociation, which will be held at the Hotel
Waldorf Friday. February 6. In the es-
timation of members of the executive
committee the rule proposed for adoption
in this country meets the requirements of
the all-powerful International Lawn Ten
mis- Federation. which is now attempting
to standardizing the rules and laws of
the game throughout the world.
The American rule goes only step be-
yond the European rule in providing
that the expenses Of a player may be
paid by an association of clubs to natiol :
o., sectional and state championsh'. =,
tournaments.
Evening star., 1914-01-25
BLEACHER FAN RANKS FIRST
AS GAMES LEADING CRITIC
Rooters in the TwoBit Stands Know the Game Better
Than the Men Who Wrote the Rules If You
Take Their Word for 1t.

had tripped up on mistakng Spencer for
Shanks, he decided to change his line
of argument.
\ few innings later Dan Moeller, who
had been in a batting stump, struck out.
Immediately Moeller was being picked to
pieces. His failure to hit was aSscrihed
to any one OF a dozen weird reasons. In
defense of Moeller l took a hand in the
situation.
"A lot of fellows wouldn't be playing
if they had as bad a shoulder as Moeiler.
was my explanation.
I'VE have no objection to the way he
is swinging. it Is the way he is missing
replied a fan: there may something
wrong with his shoulder, but there is
surely something more serious the mat
ter with his eye" Once more l was forced
to take the count of ten.
A little later in the game. with the
score close. Chick Gandil attempted to
get a man at the plate. 1t was a beau
tiful play. one that only skilled player
would try to execute. Chick had an easy
out at first, but he chose to try to cut
the scantiest of margins. the runner
avoiding the. touch at the plate A kid
could have made the play at first, still
some thought that the proper play.
Some one ought to handcuff Gandll so
he can't throw remarked fan. Yes,
and keep the handouts on until he gets
to jail replied another. ''He ought to
get thirty days for that"
l tried my best to tell the fans that
GandiI had made a wonderful play on
the ball. but was voted down. Just then
one of the umpires gave a decision that
failed to please. and since Washington
was being trounced attention shifted to
the umpire. Plans We're being made to
mob him, when husky Jim O'Day, Wash
ington groundkeeper and official guardian
of the umpires, arrived on the scene. The
spirit of the mob had been broken.
The bleachers is surely the place to
-. ~.
ordinary.
(Copyrightedl
Evening star., 1914-01-25

in the way Of chess meets ever held
in Washington. Invitations were issued
about a week ago to Messrs Wood
bury and Moorman of Virginia, l..
Rudolph Sze, the Chinese player and in
tercoliegiate champion. w. Penn Shiplcy
and III voight Of Philadelphia. as well
as to DR.. Adair of the Brooklyn club
(formerly Of this city,. l.. Mayer and sew
eral other prominent chessists. All of the
players named are of the very best type
Of amateurs and among the foremost in
the country. and the presence of three
or four would assure a fine tournament
In addition to tho out-of-town repre-
sentation, three or four of the local
nIayers will be selected through pre-
iiminary tourney to be started shortly.
which will also serve to put them IN
good form.
was won by e. NJ. Knapp, to whom first
prize. as well as promotion to class a.
was awarded. A second tourney. to- end
March /, Is now in progress, In addition
to the interesting struggles for the cap
taincy'' OF each claaA
Evening star., 1914-01-25
By Ripley

state as a wanderer. not miner, in 1855.
During the civil war Billy and his two
brothers took up arms-but on opposing
sides. The brothers wore the gray and
young Billy the blue-and that is why
he now goes to Join the slender group of
remaining valiants Of '66 at yountville.
The burden Of years has made the old
announcer difficult to talk with. He has
great fear of being misquoted. or Offend
ing some one
But we learned that Jordan was a
fighter himself along back in the bare
knuckle days. Then Billy became a ref
cree and officiated until 1854, when he
turned his attention from the fighters to
the audience and was on speaking terms
with the announcer's job.
And for thirty years (and for thirty
, more We hopel Old Billy has been telling
us who they were-then concluding with
his famous Let 'er go.'
Boxing has degraded says Billy;
1.-The od-timers were the best-the bare
knuckle boys. There never has been
another like old Peter Jackson--he was
the greatest of 'em all
We expected you would say something
like that-itS natural-but we are with
you, Billy Jordan. May your days at
home be peace and quiet and your days
within the hempen circle be many more
before the Great Announcer shall ac-
claim: Let 'cr CO.
Evening star., 1914-01-25

Notes by l.. Hofrer.

(a) Book so far. Here Black deviates with the
inferior text move. 12'-..... kt-R3 should be
played. Gambits. however. occur so rarely now
adays that it is surprising If a player is au
fait In variation which WAS popular Up to the
early sixties.
ID, II Black had played II ...... KRIS White
could not have captured the pawn because of
10 ...... B-Kt5.
tc) The bishop cannot be taken because of
kt-R7ch and QSQ.
td) most dangerouslo looking attack. II IS
highly creditable to the Young player to have
withstood the numerous pitfalls.
(e) 1t Is essential TO dis0dge the queen, other
wise the counter attack would be delayed Back $
king being surrounded by the opponents forces.
20 II - ...... QxQ then u kt-Kt6 mates.
(gl A fascinating position. Black has now am
pie forces 10 defend the kings position, although
he is not quite out OF danger. and White is loath
to raise the siege The pressure son,d have been
% Kt-KtGch Qxkt so BxQ RxR. 81 RNR. and
wins. Consequently Black must play y
RxR, then % kt-Kt6ch Qxkt, 80 BxQ R-ksch,
81 BE, and should win still.
(h) Somewhat obscure. unless as a waiting
move.
ii Clererly escaping with a perpetual check. A
highly interesting game.
Evening star., 1914-01-25
RAISE BILLIARD STANDARD.
Crack Amateurs Will Have to Show
an Average of s to Play for Title.

NEW YORK, January 24.-Amateur bill
lard PLAYERS who aspire to the class \
championship title of America will here
after be compelled TO show a trifie more
class than has ever obtained in the mat
ter of eligibility among the experts Of
xhis division. as the standard was raised
from a grand average of seven to eight
by the members of the National Associa-
tion of Amateur Billiard Players. who re
Gently held their annual convention in
this city.
Evening star., 1914-01-25
WHITAKER TOPLAY
CHESS CHAMPION
Arrangements Made for Match
Game With Frank J.
Marshall.
PART OF CONTEST TO BE
PLAYED IN THIS CITY
Local Master to Shoulder Handicap.
Play Will Begin in New.
York in September.

In 1909 Frank J. Marshall made good
his claim to the chess championship of
the United States by defeating Jackson
Showalter. From that time until now
no American player has dared to dis
pute his supremacy. In fact. no Amer
lean player has hitherto shown suffl-
cient strength to warrant a challenge
to the champion.
1t is, therefore, with pleasure and no
little pride that we make in this col
umn the first announcement that Mr..
Norman T. Whitaker of this city has
challenged Mr.. Marshall to play a
match for his title. Arrangements for
this great event have been going on
quietly for the past month, and the
encounter seems now assured. A few
minor details remain to be settled, but
it may be stated at this time that the
match will start next September and
that the games will be played in New
York, Bosom, Philadelphia and that six
contests will be staged in this city in
the rooms of the Washington Chess and
Whist Club.
The monetary conditions for this
match, as demanded by Mr.. Marshall,
show clearly III what estimation he
holds the local champion. They are
such that Mr. Whitaker must shoulder
a loss of at least 500 in the event of
his winning and of over $500 IL he loses
Mr.. Whitaker's gameness and sports
nanship in agreeing to such terms can
not be overpraised. In reckoning the
local stars chances to win against so
formidable and experienced an opponent
it must be remembered that Mr.. Whit
aker Is at his best in match play, Mar
hi hat otI ft,a
tricks of playing to the score, jockeyins
with the time, resting up on the weaker
players and the chances of the move,
are eliminated In match play: that Whit
aker is twenty-four years old and Mar
shall on the verge Of forty.
Have Met Before.
In the New York national tournament
Of last winter, after losing a pawn In
the opening, Whitaker put up the great
est uphill fight of the tournament against
Marshall, won back the pawn and came
down to the ending with a rook and two
pawns against rook and two pawns in a
perfectly even position. only to lose the
game under pressure of time on hasty
play after sixty-nine moves. In match
play with a slow time limit, such a game
would surely have been drawn. On the
only other occasion upon which these
masters have met, at the Manhattan
Chess Club in 1911, the game was drawn
Mr. Whitaker is now playing in much I'M
proved form over last years work, when
he was not in the best of health. and
whether he wins or loses this match
chess lovers will be assured of class of
American chess not seen since the Pills
bury-Showater match in 1898.
The following is the score of one Of
Evening star., 1914-01-25
ASTONISHING RULES.
German Olympic Commission After
Migrating Athletes of This Country.

NEW YORK. January 24.-The German
Olympic commission has drawn up some
astonishing rules in connection with the
games that are to be held at Berlin in
1916 The general rules contain a pro-
viso aimed at migrating athletes. Under
this, an athlete competing at one set of
games for a particular country cannot
enter later games from another country.
although he may have become natural
lied in the meantime.
Evening star., 1914-01-25

Jean Ford, brother of Russell and Wal
ter Ford, will pitch for the Edmonton
club the season of 1914. Jean Ford was
a former pitcher in the American Asso-
citation, and more recently labored for
the Detroit Tigers. He retired from the
major leagues for business interests, but
couldn't refrain from base balls glitter
ing spotlight and has signed contract
with Edmonton.
Evening star., 1914-01-25

blanca from Chotmirski in st. Peters
burg. Russia. The profoundly accurate
and brilliant manner in which the Cuban
pushes his attack from the twenty-sec-
ond move until the end tmovc 80 Is
worthy of Morphy at his best,
Evening star., 1914-01-25

Willie Ritchie is
getting a lot of un-
deserved panning
from the knockers
clubs of the country.
For what reason +?
Simply because Ill
ness has twice COM
PEELED him to call
off matches with
Harlem Tommy"
Murphy.
TT Wflfia u-oo,,'%
Evening star., 1914-01-25
BENEFIT TO PLAYERS
Major League Players Pay
Boosted by New League.
CUBS LIBERAL WITH SAFER
c. w. Murphy Believed to Have
Equaled Offer Made by Brown
for First Baseman.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
CHICAGO. January a4.-Base ball
may and may not be helped by
the war the Federal League has
apparently started. but whether 1t is
or not, one thing is certain. great
many ball players will be benefited
financially by the trouble the infant
league has created.
Several men already have proffed by
the attempts OF the Federais to sign
star players who had not affixed their
signatures to National or American
League contracts for next season. They
have profited inasmuch as the offers
made them by the invaders have been
bettered by the major league clubs To
which they belong
Evening star., 1914-01-25
RuY LOPEZ.

The following is the score of the game
between Marshall and Whitaker mem
toned above. as it was published in the
London Field and the American Chess
Bulletin, with notes by the late Leopold