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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-20
villa RAIN CHECK
From 1.-The Ten Thousand Dollar Arm
and Other Tales Of the Big League"
Copyright. 1912 by Small. Maynard L. Company
PART III.

est home run ever seen in. Arizona.
Aud just as 5he white pm point WIS
blOtted out by the line Of the fence.
just as the three base runners were
getting under way. just as 1000 wild
men and women came up in a cheer
Ing wave. Just as Tom Blake's new
cigar slipped down inside his speckled
waistcoat. the FIRST great drops Of rain
began to whisper TO the shingled roof.
Silver Bill Barrett. the umpire. was
the last man TO leave the. diamond.
Pausing an instant at the plate. he
looked at his watch. and. in stem
torIan voice which sounded above the
bowling wind and the pelting rain,
Silver Bill called time #..: ....r.
Oily Tom Blake seized the dripping
umpire as he hoisted himself into the
stand.
Its called of. amt itT" demanded
the gambler anxiously. 1T oughtn't
to go unless they play the full nine
innings
Silver Bill reached into his hip pock-
ct and brought out well thumbed
volume. -.
'Ilule "a. section IT, he beloved.
'If II rains for half an hour 1 have
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FACTS ABOUT KAISER

The man holding the interest of the
world today is William III. Emperor
OF Germany, who within three days
put his country at war with Russia,
France, Belgium and England. What
sort OF man is this who has confidence
TO attack almost all of Europe at
once?
William il (Friedrich William Vic
tor Albertl. Emperor of Germany and
King of Prussia. was born in Berlin
January "a, 1859. At birth he suf-
fered an injury to the left arm, but In
spite OF the practical uselessness of
this arm, he received thorough mill
tary training. He entered the Univer-
sity of Bonn as first lieutenant. His
principal studies there were political
science and law He left there TO de-
vote himself to actual military service
and In 1885 became Colonel of the
Hussars of the Guard.
He came to the throne of Prussia
in 1886, trained in body and mind.
Statecraft he had learned in the
school of Bismark and he brought,
too, a conviction of his divine right to
the imperial position. His personal
aggressiveness and military training
soon earned for him the name of
War Lord" though he has at the
same time been active in all peace
parliaments. SIX. IT..
From the moment of his ascension
to the throne he has actively con-
cerned himself with every department
of German life. He has consistently
endeayored to make his rule a per-
sonal one, qualified only by the con-
stitution and public opinion. In 1890
he virtually compelled the retirement
of Bismarck, substituting for the
master-chaneellor other statesmen
more compliant to the imperial will.
But in many matters of statecraft,
such as the maintenance of the Triple
Alliance, William has followed the
ideas of Bismarck E.E...
William has sought. above every
thing else. the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Ger
many, her industrial and commercial
supremacy, colonial expansion and
primacy among the great powers. The
army and navy he keeps in strong
control and he holds the press to as
strict account as is possible. So far,
he has extended the imperial infiu~
ence to Turkey and Asia Minor and
he has strengthened Germany into in
terests in the Far East, in Africa and
South America. ~ .>s. -.. ..,...
Now, with the marvellous German
army at his back, he has declared
war, against Russia. France and Eng
land, and is threatening Italy. In
speech from the throne the Emperor
defended his action in these words:
I'VE are not pushed on by desire
of conquest. We are moved by the
desire to secure for our
selves and those coming after us the
place in which God has put us.
1.-The present situation arose. not
rom temporary conflicts of interest
Dr. diplomatic combinations. but is the
result of ill-will existing for years
against the strength and prosperity
Of the German Empire
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]. B. WILLIAMS
AGAIN KNOCKED
FROM THE HILL

At Detroit on the ,5th of the pres.
ent month, Johnny Williams, the local
baseball product, went through the
now-familiar ceremony Of being knock.
ed cut of the box. This time, however,
another Tiger met with the same fate
I'm the same game. the New York team
against which Detroit was playing
establishing a batting record that will
last for some time.
Johnny Williams lasted enc and one
third innings and was touched for
seven hits.
The following under Detroit date
line is from the New York Times:
The Yankees obtained their revenge
today and took II In very complete
measure, u To 4. TO be precise. They
knocked two Tiger pitchers on the
slab and ill-treated third one to an
unusual eNtert. Their batting was the
most scientt C fusilade ever seen In
Detroit. rs or their % hits being sin
gles-the Hans Wagner STYLE Of pinch
hit Just out of reach OF everybody
and good to advance a runner one or
two spaces There might have been
mere of these hits, except for some
fine fielding by Bush and Heilman.
Peckinpaugh and Boone starred for
the Yanks in defensive way.
The Yankees helped themselves
along today by that habit of running
bases without provocation. a policy
which has set them back in the ear
lier games Of the series. Among the
general thieying acts, q double steal
nv Pekinpaugh and Maisel. in which
Peck scored, was the brightest fea.
ture
The YANKEES started cut to make II
two or no count, and adhered to the
program for four chapters, sending
brace of runners home in the first.
second and fourth rounds. The scien-
tific batting was ably assisted bv un.
scientific throwing bv Tiger felders.
the latter laboring under the misappre-
hensicn that the Yankees could not
score from second on base hits. and
throwing home instead of to second
base On various occasions. thereby
permitting the hitters to run two
blocks on their own drives and two
remaining blocks on the hits Of their
successors OF bat A couple of these
throws went wide and got on the
books as errors
In the siyth inning the Yankees
concluded that the two-by-two pill
gr'm's progress was too slow and ran
N enough to stand for three innings
Of the old methods of advance. Never
was more effective sequential base
hitting seen in ball game The first
six men up. commencing with Boone.
singled and al six scored The pro-
cess seemed bound to gn On forever.
until Sweeney made the fatal mistake
cf sacrificing and advanced the two
Yankees then on the trail to posi-.
ten whence both could score on the
next single 1t broke the spell. for
though both runners finished on the
succeeding WALTON. II was bad throw
by PBker instead Of safe hit thar
permitted them to. Then Caldwell
struck out and Boone. on his seond
time at bat. flied to High Boone set
cut tn make hit every time he went
to bat. and would have gotten by with
il had he not tried to take two IN one
round As II was. he obtained only
five out Of six. He was not particular
where he hit them to, sending two to
right field and one each to center, left
and past second sack.
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AMERICANS MAY
LOSE FORTUNES
IN HORSEFLESH
TBy Latest NALL

SARATOGA, y. Y.-American turf
men who are racing horses in Europe
fear they will lose their racers, stall
lions and broodmares in England,
France and Germany. The foreign
powers can press into service all hors-
es, no matter who owns them, in war
time. In the civil war many thor
oughbreds were taken from the breed
ing farms in the South. .r.."
August Belmont, William X. Van
derbilt, ]. w. Widener, John Sanford,
Herman b. Duryea, Francis Hitch
cock and Thomas Hitchcock have been
racing strings OF hors-s in France and
England several years. England be-
ing engaged in war August Belmont
might be d great sufferer He might
lose Traeery, the greatest race horse
in England in 1913.
Belmont refused 100000 for Ira.
Gerry. The horses stud book has been
closed for five years to outside mares,
with a total amount of $4,000. Ira
Gerry is considered the most valuable
thoroughbred in Europe. He is only
five years old and is by the, celebrat.
ed Triple Crown" winner, Rocksand,
which died in France recently.
In addition to Tracery, Belmont has
four other thoroughbreds, stations
and many broodmares on stud farm
about 80 miles from, Paris. His CHIEF
stallion is EtheIbert, a great race
horse in his day in America. Ethel
bert has been in France three years
In the civil war the identity of
many thoroughbreds was lost and the
breeding, of horses received black
eye, inasmuch as the pedigree could
not be traced.
w. K Vanderbilt has about 3O0A
stations broodmares, Stockings, wean.
lings, yearlings and horses in training
in France. 1t will be impossible for
him to ship these horses out OF
France now that she is engaged in war
None of his horses is as valuable as
Tracery, but as he has many which
have been frequent winners on the
French turf in the last ten years. his
loss in the event of coRfiscation would
reach $500, eS0.
John Sanford, member of the
State Racing Commission, has several
broodmares and four or five race hors.
es in France. Among the broodmaresi
is La Tosea, which the late General
Stephen Sanford purchased for ST.
000. J. K. Widener Francis Hitch.
cock and Thomas Hitchcock own near
ly 40 broodmares and racers between
them in France. g.. -.>.. !
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~ 800 os'~'r~~'
POSED by Beseher New York GiantSl
the power to terminate the game.
Want to see the book?"
Oily Tom did not wish to see the
book.
But the BETS" he asked.
"They stand. OF course
Gould they go on and finish the
game in half an hour?" Tom was
begging now.
"Say?" demanded the umpire sud-
denly. (which club have you been bet
Ting on? Finish the game. Man, this
amt no rain. This is a food"
Blake sat down. looked at his watch.
examined the somber sky. but found
no comfort there. looked at his watch
again. and then settled down. chin
on his chest. TO the melancholy con-
temptation OF the diamond. fast being
turned into n lake. he was working
out sum I'm mental arithmetic. and
the result caused him to vince as II,
in pain.
Silver Bill watched the gambler out
OF the corner of his eye. He also was
working out a little problem of his
own Over In one corner OF the stand
the victorious Eagles were holding an
informal reception. and Silver Bill
Barrett noticed the fact that Eli Bates.
the incompatible one. was not ceIe-
brating with his fellows He sat
apart. staring out on the field.
Silver Bill was no Sherlock Holmes.
but he could put two and two together
as well as the next man.
Darkness wus settling down over the
city. The storm had spent itself,
though in the distance the lightning
winked and the thunder niuttered.
Two men were picking their way
down side street which led to the
railroad yards.
well. jake said the red headed
one. ''you've got great business head.
I've got to hand it 10 you
That's right" snarled the man ad-
dressed as Jake. Blame me for IL!
made it rain. suppose.
A man came running after them,
splashing through the puddles.
r'All bells loose he painted. "Ev.
erybody In town is on to us. They got
Mayhem sonsed. and he gave up.
They'll tar and feather yon both-'
Jake aud the red headed one looked
at each other with bulging eyes.
Tar and feathers" said Eli Bates.
This Is no place for minister's SON.
That's what get" painted Blake.
for listening to a pair of cheap crooks
ike you. I've got TO jump the town
and lose COCO bucks"
Over In the railroad yard a heavy
freight engine began to cough hoarse-
ly. and a long string OF empty cars
clanked into motion. Red Lynch look
ed at Jake Hartwell and then at the
freight train. Then both looked at
Tom Blake.
"What do get for my $6.OO0:" de-
manded the gambler bitterly.
Il guess we'll have to give you a
rain check for it." said Lynch. Come
to think Of it we owe you something
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The removal of the appendix from
two months old baby was accom-
Dlished by Dr. Ray Taylor at Denver
The baby opened its eyes few MIN
utes after the operation and is re.
ported to be in good condition.
1t is reported that Great Britain has
forbidden the landing Of any foreig-
ners on her shores.
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GoLFIN6 HINTS.
BY STRAIGHT DRIVE.

pN - haIG0l Univ r.
y A GOOD FORMULA - Some =
y years ago an English golfing =
journal published a formula =
y which every golfer should read =
when he is temporarily off his =
y game -s..- ~. =
l. Stand up 10 your ball. hav- =
y ing made up Your mind what shot =
= You are going TO play 2. Take =
y a stance where your feet are =
= firmly on the ground. ;. Give =
y your club waggle forward 10 =
y see whether all is we'll 4. Pole =
y your club lightly behind the ball. y
y .. Tighten the grip with the left =
y hand, and start the club back =
y with that member s. Keep your =
= eye on the ball and head still =
= and make the stroke like the un- =
winding of a spring, attempting y
= to get the highest speed and force y
just as the ball is nipped away =
= and during the follow through" \
y What world of wisdom and y
y sound sense this man puts into a =
= few words! 1t is simplicity it. y
= self, yet how few can consistent. =
= ly control the mind. body and \
y muscles. J.
= The idea of the backward swing y
being the winding up process OF a y
y spring. with the forward tension \
y producing greater sreed at i'm =
pact, is suggestion worthy of y
careful consideration and appliea- \
\ ton. r.. = \
= y \ y y y +%%% AXAAAs
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AKANA remains
At TOP OF THE
BATTINGLIST

Individual batting averages Of the
Oahu league. including last Sundays
contests. show that Lang Akana Of
the Chinese is still in the lead with
the healthy swatting percentage Of
All. Sadtler, of the Punahous, re-
mains in second place, net having
come to bat since the last averages
wer compiled Flizer, p. A. c.. comes
from fifth to third place and Yen Chin.
who was third in the last table printed
takes an awful tumble to twelfth po-
sition. Zerbe sticks as No. 4. having
worked his averages up two notches.
The figures follow:
nAHII RASEBAiI LEAGUE
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Crockett Williams, a negro, was TAX
en- from the jail at Eufala, Okla, and
1ynched by mob which overpowered
the guards. The negro is said to have
confessed thst he killed Johnson King,
a wealthy Indian.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-20

There is rumor afIoat now to the
effect that the wreckage recently found
on the beach near the Cliff House. San
Francisco, was caused by an explosion
on the British cruiser Rainbow. Twen-
ty-four hours later the Rainbow was
sighted off the Washington coast.
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Mienael j. Ryan, national president
of the Union Irish League of America,
has sent out an appeal for $30e.e0 TO
be used to purchase arms for the de
fenseless people of Ireland. .
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During the three nights after the
heavy fighting at Biege the Germans
worked till daylight gathering the
bodies of their dead, and after a short
service and firing of the salute the
bodies were burned in long trenches.
Some bodies were thrown into the
river and drifted out to sea.
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the attributes of the huge s polo hound belonging Harold
animal Oahu Castles
island
climate polo
hounds F
Oahu did become generally known
King of Spain this side of the "a.
1t Castles has
S him.
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Colonel Sam Hughes reports that
he has received enough offers from
American citizens, who want to go to
the war in Europe to make up four
companies.
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The great rise in the price of food
stuffs in Berlin is causing many riots
in the streets. Grasping shoDkeepers
have been arrested and their shops
locked uD Nothing but gold and sill
yer will be accepted for food.
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YESTERDAYS SCORES
IN THE BIG LEAGUES
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

At Boston--6oston 3, Chicago 1;
Boston 4. Chicago I.
At Observation-Disclosures :, De
troit 8.
At New York-New York z, cIeve.
land 5.
At Westinghouse. Louis 8, Wash.
ington 5.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.

NATIONAL LEAGUE.
At chieago-5rookIyn s, Chicago o.
At Pittsburg-Pittsbu 5, New
York 4.
At cineinnati-Boston 3. cinefn-
natl 2.
At ST. Louis-st. Louis-PhHsdelphIa;
rain.
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NATIoNAL LEAeuE.

Steps are sometimes taken for
divorce at public halls. -.
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Sunday, August %
HAYAIl VS. ASH

Tickets on sale E. o. Hall G. Son,
and at office; Park phone 5132.
Main entrance on Kukui st. Auto
mobile entrance on Beretania st.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-01-31
GOTHAM NEWS AND GOSSIP

New York, Jan. 31.-The graft
probe, as it has involved big politi-
clans connected with Tammany
Hail. has furnished one of the great
est sensations of the week, over
shadowing even the appointment of
a police commissioner of such re-
markable status as Col. Goethals.
Certainly Tammany has reached the
end of its rope and followers of the
wigwam no longer ieny that the
days of the leadership of Charles E l..
Murphy are numbered. 1t does not
take a very observant person to see
that the next big men in the Demo
cratic party in New York will be
Jchn Purroy Mitchell, of New York,
and dudley Field Malone, collector
of the port of New York. Both are
young men but they have the back
ing of the president of the United
States, important political jobs and
the best element in the own party.
No one could wish more.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-01-31

From the same Office is issued
THE LAKELAND NEWS,
A weekly newspaper giving resume
Of local matters. crop conditions,
county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere
for $l.OO per year.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-01-31
GOOD ROADS FOR POLK COUNTY

Good Roads Day isn't talked much
of any more. Persons who were
very enthusiastic at the time have
already said that it did not amount
to much after all and it is always a
good while a man has to think so
before he says so, you know. 1t was
this way much noise and but little
wool" as the man said when he
sheared his pig.
Enthusiasm is mighty fine thing
but too closely related to air, and as
air not compact enough to keep
heavy action as road building away
from the fatal rock
1t takes sound knowledge and sys-
tematic hard work to build good
roads; let us hold ON to this fact
and then let us see what good the
Good Roads Day has done or can
help to do. Those who did not know
are informed that we have some
mighty bad roads and therefore real
ICES the other and most important
fact, 'the need of good roads.
At this time it might be clear that
this money--or it's equivalent-spent
here in Lakeland on good roads
day was very poor investment and
the most it can do is to illustrate
how not to build roads.
If those hard working citizens
have not spent all their energy l!
will ask them to entertain a motion
as to what to build. If we can make
clear what to build, to fix standard
for an improved road then we can
settle on some material to build of
and how to get hold of such material
(another article about this subject
will follow later is only a. matter of
search.
The main thing at this moment is
to get the people at large to realize
the value of real good roads. l mean
the real thing, not imitation. How to
educate is matter of opinion The
successful business man finds it
worth his while to keep the facts
before the eyes of the people con-
stantly; would it not be we'll for the
city, the county or the State to print
a few lines in the papers now and
then If not all the statistics
showing the expenditures, repairs OF
bad roads and publicity in every
form that shows this and emphasizes
the good features of good roads.
If we only find out that GOOD
roads is worth having, we will soon
be wanting them so bad that it will
be no trouble at all to get money tc
build them with.
j. NIELSEN LANCE.
Jan. q. 1914.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-01-31
ANOTHER NEW PAPER
GONE To THE WAIT

The expected, we had almost said
the inevitable, has happened. and
Jacksonville's big new afternoon pa
per, The News, launched a little
more than month ago, has sls-
pended and it's plant is in the hands
OF the sheriff. 1t is another melan-
choly instance of misdrected ambi
tlon and wasted capital and it
teaches lesson too plain to be mis-
understood.
Jacksonville, with "a population
around 100000, has two excellent
and long established dailies, one
morning and one afternoon. They
completely filled the field and left no
room whatever for a third paper. No
paper ever yet satisfied all its read
ers or ever will-the thing is impos-
slble-and as a result there is in ev-
cry community small element of
the dissatisfied, which, with no con
ception Of the heavy expense ami I'M
ending trouble incident to the start
ing and publication of a paper, call
loudly for a new one that will better
reflect their opinions and promote
their policies and interests.
There was such an element in
Jacksonville, and predictions of
voice but short on numbers, it was
lncessant in its demands for a new
afternoon daily to knock out the
Met. > Unhappily for the Hanson
brothers they heard and needed this
demand, and, installing sound fol-
substance, put in at enormous ,ex
pense a new plant and started a new
paper. With the field already fully
occupied by the Metropolis, long es
tab!ished and firmly founded, O
course there was no adequate sup
port for The News. The disgruniie(
Lunch at whose bidding it had come
as. is always the case under such cir
oumstances. failed to materializ
with the necessary patronage. an,
after dropping thousands of dollar
IN losing fight the unfortunat
News, harrassed with debts. went t
the wall.
There is no form of enterpris
more difficult and more perilous thai
starting a newspaper in a field al
ready filled. The cost in hard cas-
IS heavy, continuous and merciless
and the income exasperatingly small
and slow. In the large majority O
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-01-31

clean and in good condition. It's a
desirable place and offered at less
than value. JACKSON & McRAE.
1890
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-01-31

This and all other countries have
enough and more than enough of
military heroes in bronze and marble
to symbolic the splendors of war
and the glory of organized wholesale
human slaughter. But the heroes
OF peace have not received their
share of recognition in this forest
OF statuary, and so we are glad that
DR.. Gorrie, who won no martial
glory, but contributed beyond com
putation to the good of the world b,
his process of making artificial ice
Will be set up in marble in Statrary
Hall at Washington as one of the
great men Florida has given to the
nation.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-01-31

such cases the projectors pay for
their mistake in judgment by the
loss of their investment, which be-
comes mere junk on their hands, and
after dropping their money in a bot
tomless hole, quit in disgust, with
their fingers badly burned. That's
about what happened to the people
who put their money in the Jack
sCnville News.