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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-31
Tuscarora CanOeists Score
an Overwhelming Victory

An overwhelming victory was
gained Saturday on Weequahic fark
lake by the Tuscarora Canoe Club,
when the athletes representing the
club rolled up twenty-nine points and
won the city championship and the
Hamburger cup. The Wyona Canoe
Club finished in second position. with
nine points. The Tuscarora BOYS took
first place in each OF the four events,
the best Individual performer being
William Schooley, who won the hurry
scurry championship of the State at
the recent Deal lake carnival. Schoo-
ley won the hurry-scurry event and
teamed with William Burt. also cap
turing the quarter-mile doubles race.
This pair set a new record for the
event by covering the distance in Pm.
LIS. Schooley then padded in the
stern Of the second Tuscarora four
canoe. and his team took second place
in the quarter-mile club doubles.
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BY HAROLD
NJ a C G r 4 T H
Copyright, 1914, by
Harold MacGrath).
$4,000 FOR 100 WORDS

The million Dollar Mystery" story
| will run for twenty-five co7secu-
| tive weeks in the Newark Eveninx
| Star. BY an arrangement with the
| Thanhouser Film Company it mas
been made possible not only to read
the story In the Newark Evening star,
| but also to SEQ IL each week In the
various moving picture theatres.
CONDITIONS GOVERNING THE
CONTEST
The prize Of $4,000 will be won by
the man, woman or child who writes
the most acceptable solution OF the
mystery, from which tie last two
made and the last two chapters OF
the story written by Harold Mac
Grsth.
Solutions may be sent to the Than
houser Film Corporation. ut New
York, any time up to midnight. De
cember IA. They must near posfomce
mark not later than that date.
A board of three Judges Will deter
mine which of the many solutions
received Is the most acceptable. Inc
jud gInent of this board Will be ADJ
soIute and Anal. Nothing OF . liter
decision. nor given any preference In
| the selection of the winner Of the
$4,000 prize. The last two reels,
which will give the most acceptable
solution to the mystery. viii be pre-
scented In the theatres. The story cor
responding to these motion pictures
will appear in this newspaper CO.
| incidentally.
Solutions to the mystery must not
| be more than 100 words long. Here
| are some questions to be kept In
mind In connection with the mystery
as an aid to solution;
No. 1--What becomes Of the mil
| Iionaire:
No. z--What becomes of the w.
100000?
| No. 3-Whom does Florence marry:
No. 4-what becomes Of the kus-
sian countess?
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let go In that fashion. II Is sign Of
weakness; and he dared not let even
Susan see any sign of weakness in
him.
So the reporter had found her, and
she was safe and sound and on her
way to New York? knowing by this
time something of the reporters
courage, he was eager to learn how
the event had come about. When he
had not heard a telephone message
from Norton in forty-eight hours, he
had decided that the Black Hundred
had finally succeeded in getting hold
of him. 1t had been something of
blow; for while he looked with dis
favor upon the reporters frank re-
gard for his charge, he appreciated
the fact that Norton was a stan to
lean on, and had behind him all the
power of the press, which included
the privilege of going everywhere
even il one could not always get
back.
AS he folded the telegram and put
Ii into his pocket, he observed the
man with the opera glasses over the
way. He shrugged. Well, let him
watch till his eyes dropped out of his
head; he would see only that which
was intended for his eyes. Still it
WAS lIh6Oluc " A0CA that A4O AhdAA0A
when or where you moved, watching
eyes observed and ohronicled these
movements.
Suddenly, not being devoid of
sense OF dry humor, Jones stepped
over to the telephone and called UP
her highness the Princess Perigoff.
who is it?'
He was forced to admit, however
reluctantly. that the woman had
marvelously fine speaking voice.
sit is Jones. madam"
"Jones?"
"Mr. Hargreaves's butler, madam"
"Ohi You have news of Florence"
Yes" 1t will be an embarrassing
day for humanity when some one in
vents a Photographic apparatus by
the telephone may observe the facial
expressions of each other.
what is it? Tell me quickly"
Florence has been found, and she
is on her way back to New York. She
was found by Mr.. Norton, the re-
porter"
II am so gladl Shall come up at
once and have you tell me the whole
amazing story?"
IL would be useless, madam, for
I know nothing except what l learned
from Il teieBIdIH L nave just TeCciNSu.
But no doubt some time this evening
you might risk a call"
Ring up the instant she returns.
Did she say what train?'
mo, madam" lied Jones, smiling.
He hung I'D the receiver and stared
at the telephone as IL he would force
his gaze in and through It to the
woman at the other end. Flesh and
blood Well. greed was stronger than
that. Treacherous cat! Let her
play; let her weave her nets, dig her
pits. The day would come, and it
was not far distant, when she would
md that the miid-eyed mongoose was
just as deadly as the cobra. and far
more cunning.
1Continued in Wednesday Evening
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SYNOPSIS.

Stanley Hargreave, millionaire, after a
miraculous escape from the den OF the gang
q brilliant thieves , Known 5,9 rs ee for
eighteen years Hargreave accidentally
meets Braine, leader of the Black Hundred.
knowing, Braine VIII Try 10 n &c, h bslioon.
Before escaping he writes a letter to the
girls school, where eighteen years before
he SssrSts e ce Gray THAT
Hargreave also draws one million. dollars
from the bank. but It is reported that this
dropped into the sea when the balloon ne
escaped in was punctured
Florence arrives from the girls scnool.
Countess Olga. Braine's companion VISITS
her and claims to be relative. Two bogus
detectives call but their plot is foiled by
Norton. a newspaper man.
BY bribing the captain OF the. Orient
Norton lays trap for Braine and his gang.
Countess Olga also visits the orients cap
tain and she easily falls into the reporter
snare. The plan proves abortive through
Braine's good luck, and only hirelings rail-
into the hands Of the police. "a.
After failing in their first attempt the
Black Hundred trap Florence. They ask
her for money. but she escapes, again Toll
Norton and the countess call on Florence
the next day. once more safe at home. Inc
tion Of flooring, and from cavity takes
box. Pursued by members OF the Black
Hundred. he rushes 70 the water front ana
succeeds in dropping the box into the sea-
Countess Olga scheming to break the en-
gageinent existing between Florence Har-
greave and Norton, invites them ooth 20
her apartments and pretends to faint IN the
reporters arms. Florence appears IN the
doorway just at the planned moment, ana
as a result gives Norton back his ring
Accompiices of Braine succeed In kidnap.
ping Florence while she is shopping ana
hurry her off to sea. Norton receives WIRE
less later informing him that the girl mad
leaped into the sea and been crowned
Florence Is picked up 10 dazed CONDITION
BY a marty of fishermen. The Black Hundred
locate her and Brane disguised as her
father succeeds in taking her back to sea
with him. Florence sets fire to the boat and
is rescued by ship on which Norton has
been shanghaied
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TUTTLE'S SURE OF
MORR|S'S SUPPORT
Democrats Favor Him by a Big
neutrality-suspicious. for
Capstick.
Special TO the Evening Star.

6IftAiai TO the Evening star.
YOUNGSTOWN, Aug. s1.=With
the approach of the primaries the
political pot in Morris county is boil
ing. The big interest, of course. is in
the nominations for Congress- The
Democratic nomination, so far as
Morris county goes. will be given to
the present congressman, William e.
futile. The Republicans are rally
ing to the support of John II. Cap
stick, a retired buCiness man of
Montville.
Realizing that Union county's vote
will be divided between William T.
stuchell and Charles N. Fowler, with
Mr.. Capstick getting a big slice. too,
the two former. gentlemen. aspirants
for the nomination. are doing q lot
Of missionary work in Morris. Mr.
Fowler is working quietly and he. too,
II is said, is finding the going hard.
The Republicans have a merry bat
tie on over the nomination for sheriff.
William H. Thompson, Lewis A.
Waters, Oscar B. Smith, Edwin Orr
and the other candidates are working
hard. The Democrats have three can
didates. Leonard Elliott of Dover, is
again in the field. with John w Fan
cher. of Mt Olive. as a running mate
Marshal John Mcdonald, of Wharton
is also a candidate. For the Republi-
can Assembly nominations no one
will contest the denomination of the
present assemblymen from Morris,
George w. Downs, of Madison, and
Harry Mutchler, of RoclSaway. The
Democrats who have filed petitions
were Joseph D. Budd. of Chester and
Charles, Scribner, of Boonton.
The only Progressive candidates to
flo petitions were Frederick L. Wal
ters. of Chatham, and Joseph r.
Williams, of Wharton, aspirants for
coroner nominations. The Republic
cans to file petitions for coroner were
George w. Hill and A. Lincoln Col
Inns, of this town, and Adolph Bax-
from, John H. Martin and Edward
Totten. of Dover, together with Al
bert e. Esther, of Boonton, and John
Riggott, of Rockaway; the Demo-
Gratis, John F. Kiser. of Wharton, and
Frank Cox. of Dover.
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Local Athletes Capture
Places in Moose Games

w Randolph Granger, the crack
half-miler of this city, led Abel
Kiviat, the American champion. to
the tape in the 1000 yard handicap,
the feature event on the program of
the Moose carnival games last Sat
urday at Jersey City. Granger
started from scratch with the Irish
American runner and the pair raced
stride to stride until Kiviat stumbled
In the stretch. Granger was unable
to catch E. Barrow, the limit man in
the event. and had to be content with
second place. Harry Slater, of this
city, competed unattached in the 100
yard dash and won second place.
NJ. Toohey, OF the T. A. B. s., won
the 300 yard dash novice.
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GOLF STARS BEGIN
PLAY At EKWANOK
Field in Twentieth
Battle for National Anna
teur Championship.

More than hundred Of the leading
golf players Of the United States
started play this morning on the
links of the Ekwanok Country Club.
Manchester, Vt, the opening round
OF the twentieth annual national ANA
teur championship. 1t was an I'M
usually high class field. Among the
prominent participants were Jerome
D. Travers. Of Upper Montclair. the
present champion: Francis Onimef.
Of Woodland. last years open cham
pion, and Charles Evans. IT., Of Edge
water. Today's play was an 1S-ho;s
medal qualifying round.
The sun was breaking through the
clouds as the first players started
around the course. There had beef
a slight shower earlier in the das
The gallery was a record one. TraVers
Ouimet and Evans were followed by
big crowds as they started play.
Favorites carried off the honors ir
the last practice rounds yesterday
The biggest gallery Of the day fol
lowed Travers, who paired up in TIT
afternoon with Robert g Watson
president Of the United States Golf
Association, against Fred Herreshofl
Of Garden City, and Eben NJ. Byers..
Of Pittsburgh.
After taking five for the first hole
Travers played faultlessly to the turn.
going out in So. 1t began to look as II
he had 6s coming, but he slipped up
on the last four holes and had 10 be
content with a 49,
Ouimet figured on the losing side in
a four ball match IN the afternoon.
Ouimet had W II. Cady of Brae Burn.
for a partner against F. II. Martin
of EkWanok, and Ray Gorton. Of Brae
Burn.
The best individual round Of the day
went to the credit Of Evans Even
with seven at the seventh hole, the
Western star reached the halfway
point in 80, and then he electrified
the gallery by coming home in g.
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WATERS PUZZLES
LOCAL BLUECOATS
Newark Athletics Pitcher AL
lows But Two Hits and Reg
listers ShntOnt Victory.

The able pitching of "scotty'
Waters, coupled with the hard hitting
of his teammates. enabled the New
ark Athletics to win by a 10 to 0
score from the Newark police depart
ment team yesterday afternoon at the
Roseville Oval. Waters allowed two
hits during the game, while his fell
low players found the ball for sixteen
safetles. !. Waters. Fischer. Coen
and Mailing did effective work at the
bat for the winners. The Athletics
had a busy second inning, scoring
seven runs on Jack Leary. The score:
ATHT ,ETICg pOTICF
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speedways Continue Fine Work.

Having contracted the habit of win
ming two games a day. the Speed
way A. c. boys worked hard yester-
day and managed to keep up their
reputation. Both games were played
at Speedway Oval, Irvington, and the
losing teams were the Milford A. A.
and the Original Roseville Tigers. The
Milfords were retired on the short
end of a to 3 score, while the Tigers
were humbled in the afternoon by
the score of to T.
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pau.eweln check- ArlIngtons.

A one-sided game yesterday after
noon at Arlington between the Ar
lington Manufacturers League nine
and the Montclair Holy Name team
resulted in a victory for the Mont
clair team by the score of 10 to 3.
George Bausewein, who was in the
box for the winners. experienced no
difficulty In holdingp the Arlington
boys in check all through the game.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-31

The pictures will be run the entire
week. matinees and evenings. The
new house is managed by Mrs. L. H.
Webbe, who operates the Goodwin
Theatre, which was opened the first
of the year.
The program of pictures which will
be shown hereafter includes the pro-
auctions of the Famous Players Film
Company, in collaboration with the
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CONTINUED from Friday Evening
Starr

Florence fought; but she was weak.
and so the conquest was easy.
Braine was kind enough, now that he
had her safe. He talked to her, but
she merely stared at the receding
coast.
"Aii right; don't talk II you don't
want to.< Here" to one of the men,
take her to the cabin and keep her
there. But don't you touch her. I'll
break you IL you do. Put her in her
cabin and guard the door; at least
keep an eye on It.. -
Even the temporarily dementel
not without q species Of cunRinR.
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Due to the control of Foster, the
vailsburg Athletics pitcher, the Ath-
letics were able TO defeat the Ram
bier A. C. yesterday afternoon at Out
law oval by the score of to 8. The
hitting of Proost, of the winning
team, was another feature of the
game.
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The Fourth regiment team. of Jer-
sey City, was hopelessly oEtclassed
yesterday afternoon at Riordan oval.
Harrison, the Riordans winning by
the score of II to s. Mcconnell, the
Riordan third-sacker, found the ball
three times for long drives.
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Fisher Fans Fifteen.

A nip-and-tuck battle that retained
It's interest until the last minute of
play, took place when the Irvington
Parks met the Hilton f. c. yester-
day afternoon at Irvington Park oval.
The Parks won the game by the score
of 10 l. Fisher, who pitched for
the winners, had fifteen strikeouts
to his credit.
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Miss Marion Fenno and George L.
Wrenn moved up 10 the semi-final
round in the mixed doubles at the
Casino courts, at Newport, r. L. yes
terday. by defeating Mrs. Barger
Wallach and Harry c. Johnson in
straight sets at 6-4, 60 The win
ners PLAYED a better combination
game throughout. Their victory
brackets them with Mrs. Bishop and
Nathaniel w Niles.
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HyIands &c shul oui.

The Hyland A. A. was blanked by
the Orient B. B. c. yesterday morn
ing at Pacific oval. the final reckon
ing being II to 0. The powerful
stickwoFk of Igoe and Ludlum for the
winners was a big factor for their
success.
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Chester Athletics Double winners.

Two victories were scored by the
Chester Athletics yesterday, the VIC
tins being the Alert A. c. and the
Harrison P. G. The Alerts were dis
posed of in the morning game, at
Roseville Oval, by the score of to
6, while the Harrisonites lost out on
the Asylum Oval in the afternoon by
margin of IA TO 1.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-31

Lost Paradise" is the photoplay
attraction with which the Paramount.
the new moving picture theatre, at
Broad and Hill streets. opens today.
The play, which is said to be one
of the most tenscly interesting NOV
ing picture dramas, affords H. B..
Warner great opportunities to dis
tinguish himself as an actor.
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Newark stars Lose Rubber Game.

The Newark Stars journeyed to
Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, when
they played the deciding game of
series with the Empire City A. A.
The locals lost out by the score of s
to 2. The local players lost because
they were unable to bunch their hits.
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The Ironside F. C. suffered defeat
twice in its games yesterday. The
morning contest at South Side oval
went to the Perth Amboy Atlantic
League team by the score of to 1,
while the afternoon game at Brook
lyn was won by the Suburbans bx
the score of s to 0.
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shields and Levine Factors.

Heavy hitting on the part of Shields
and Levine was responsible for the
Westinghouse victory yesterday over
the 7. A. B. S. nine at Columbia oval,
Forest Hill, by a score of to 3.
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seabrIeht Title for Prentice Again.

Bernon s. Prentice won the tennis
championship Of the seabright Lawn
Tennis and Cricket Club yesterday by
defeating Hooker Talcott in the chal-
lenge round, 6--3, SIS, 6--2. Sd. Stead
mess gave Prentice the title for the
eleventh time, which is record in
championship holdings.
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pual vIctorr for Erla a. c.

The Erie A. C. nine registered
double victory yesterday. In the
morning game at Riverside Oval the
South Newarks were the victims by
the score of to O. while the after
noon contest was taken from the An
Choir A. A. at Kingsland by the score
of Is to 10.
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schmidt In Limelight.

The Marquette F. c. had no trouble
in defeating the Olympic F. c. yes
terday afternoon at Olympic Park.
The score was 10 to 6. The playing
of Schmidt, the Marquette outfielder.
was the feature of the game.
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POLICE.


A well-contested game yesterday
afternoon at the Parkview Oval re-
suited In a hard-earned victory for
the Meadowbrooks over the New
York Colored Giants. The score was
to 4.
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Eleven Straight for Madisons.

The Madison A. A. accounted for
its eleventh straight victory yester-
day afternoon at South Side oval. The
Whirlwind A. A. were the losers this
time, the score being to 5.
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Frank W. Dyer. of Montclair, added
to his golf laurels recently when be
won the golf championship OF the
Thousand Islands Country Club He
also captured the Peacock cup IN the
leading special event of the annual
Thousand Islands tournament Dyer
is the guest of A. o. Miller, OF Mont
clair, at Thousand Islands Dyer re-
Gently graduated from the National
Cathedral School at Washington. D.
c., and viii enter the University OF
Pennsylvania in the fall
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-31

Frohmans and Henry w. Savage, the
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Com
pany with David Belasco, Conan &
Harris and Liebler & Co., Bosworth,
Inc, presenting the film dramatiza-
ton of Jack London's world popular
novels. THE Patchwork Girl of Or, =
one of the famous Or pictures, and
the very best productions obtainable
in the film market
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o"s1a+Aot A1BAA 1NIAE7+
George Nixon defeated Harry o.
Christi by 8 up and 1 to play in the
final round for the August cup over
the links of the Forest Hill Field
Club Saturday. Besides this there was
best-ball foursomes competition,
which was won by Sharp and L. A.
Hutchinson, with a card of sc. 231z--
625z.
A handicap against DOGGY was the
one competition over the links of the
Englewood Country Club Saturday.
James R. Boyce being the winner
through finishing up on the Colo
nell Winthrop Sayer was up and
J. C. Craig was all even.
An eighteen match play handicap
against DOGGY was the feature at Glra
Ridge Saturday. two classes being il
order. In the rst division iAere wax
a tie between y N Oids and Harry
Is. Smith. escf fi:S1sffrg q q.
while in the second division the load
er proved to be B. G. Braine. finfsh-
ing 4 down.
Besides the second round of match
play In both sixteens of the August
tournament the members of the Mont
clair Golf Club yesterday had bali
sweepstakes in three classes. The re-
spective winners were: Joseph Hod
son rs. 6--72: J. A. Kelsey, "a, f5--6<.
c. r. Merrill. IS, 24-62
Herbert Buchanan, with d score Of
IS. euualed the eiEhteen-hole course
record, esta blished last week by Ray
mond Connolly at the Weequaaic
Park golf links Saturday. Connolly
established the new mark on Friday
last. Connolly still holds the nine
hole amateur record of forty strokes.
Connolly and Jack Herbert were tied
for second honors Saturday with %.
Among the golfers who complet
the eighteen hole round under 50. oF
the Deal Golf and Country Club lin
Saturday, for the Allenhurst
trophy, were: F. H. Birch, f.
Luytens. F. B. York. Fl. S. SIN
w. F. Albertson. A. H. Rode, ]. IN
Gillespie. T. NJ. Morrison, F. A. CT
elmire, F. ]. Gubelman. o. B. The
as, T. A. Ennis. f. NJ. Widner, ~ ~
E. G. Fraser and p H. Moore. j.
Rainier turned in the lowest cardng
the field. going the eighteen holes
81. The match was run on a ham,
cap basis.
T. A. Ennis. handicapped IS. We
the ball sweepstakes with 70.
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(Continued in Wednesday Evening
starr
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..Silver Threads" presented by Pearl
Albeit and company. is the leadipg