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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20

horse" and I began TO search for a Mt
man to fill that hole. The Brooklyn
club was having trouble with Red
Smith and he was making threats
about jumping TO the Federals. | ar
ranged a deal that would bring MN 10
"Don't do it," warned pretty wise
baseball man and a friend OF mine
ocYo,Tl never be able to do anything
with him. That fellow is baseball
But. Notwithstanding this tip, !
wired Smith TO come to Boston AFTER
completing the deal with Brooflyhl'
and we agreed to terms In one taik-
MIR. Gaffney was at the conference,
and as "Red" was leaving the omces
he remarked to Mr.. Gafney:
"Well, III see you at the PARK TO-
morrow afternoon"
boss. 80. a
Morning practice was the answer i
"What? Do 20. fell, rs still hold
morning practice up here? We haven't
had any in Brooklyn for month"
eve all like it," told Smith.
Cuts Into His Mornings.
He went way wondering whether ne
would or not, an, not quite sure
guess he thought it would cut into ms
mornings: but he showed up the next
dav. and il wasn't long before he was
enioving it. or at least he said he WAS.
LET me point out right here that the
club engaged in morning practice every
dav we were at home or when we nad
the opportunity for it right up TO me
and Of the season, and even during the
worlds series under circumstances
that | will relate in a subsequent ar
ticle. This morning practice was not
a "stall." either, as some managers
make it, but each player put on MS UNI
form and actually got out on the nelu;
unless he could show some very good
reason why he shouldn't. Toward tne
end of the season Johnny hVers iaIu
off because he was down IN MS Weign'
and wanted him to build up, as ne oe-
sired 70 do himself. 1t is not neces-
sary to urge any work on man WIN
Eyers's temperament. You are IhoIe
likely to be forced to ask MIN 10 taAe "
easy. ,I wan IN
eli the hole at third at that time. and
he added to the team just what we most
needed. hitting strength. lie could pole
them with any sticker on the CLUB.
never. in all my baseball experience,
have seen a player come to a club In
midseason and fit INTO the t1am play
better. | don't recall his missing one
sign after he joined us and went to
work. The trade was big thing for
the team, because it rounded oct the
infield, giving m a chance to rest Deal,
and added hitting strength.
In fact, was very lucky IN all the
trades that | made during the season,
since the playe.s | obtained fitted into
our machine just as ! wanted them to.
I don't claim that | out-jockeyed any
one in deals through shrewdness, since
some of the men | gave up figured to
be lust as valuable as those ! obtained
i'm exchange, but the players | passed
along did not at into my plans so well.
Managers should think of this IN max
ing swaps. 1t is not necessary for
either man to get the best or worst Of
il in a trade. One club may need
pitchers and the other outfielders. The
man with a lot of pitchers can afford
TO trade one for some outfield talent,
and METER will be tuck.
The Whitfield and Gather trade about
this time rounded out the club nearly
to my satisfaction. and We started to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20

travel in only one direction-ahead.
Whitted was lazy when he first cane
with the team. but, like other men who
came to me supposed to have certain
bad habits, he soon got over this and
full of ambition and pepper. It is easy
to take "A lad habit out Of a man If you
know how to treat him and study him
carefully beforehand.
In another article | will have some
thing to say on how | act on the bench
and how | treat the different men.
Much has been written about me on the
bench-so much, in fact, that | feel
now as if | would like to have some
thing TO say myself. Most fans were
surprised when | played Whitfield in the
outfield, but it all fitted into my plans.
Now / have reached the stage in my
story where the team was ready to be-
gin its plunging journey to the
worlds championship. | intend TO tell
in the other articles how we all fought
along, shoulder TO shoulder, until our
dream was realized and we had won
the worlds championship. Some of the
most interesting phases Of the develop
ment of the team lie in this part of the
story, / think.
Copyright. 1914. by the Wheeler Syndicate. Inc }
The Tribune next Sunday. Mr.. Stanu Will taks
ur some Of the phases Of the wonderful sprint which
carried the Braves from the cellar to the tsp sf the
National League
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
COMISKEY A SPHINX
Refuses to Discuss Reported
Deal for Fritz Maisel.

Chicago. Dec. 19.-Charles A. Comis-
key. who returned to-day from French
Lick. admitted he was trying to get
new third baseman for the Chicago
Americans. He declined to say whether
it was Maisel, of the New York Yam
KEGS, or Foster. Of Washington. but It
was rumored he had an engagement
soon to meet Griffith, Of the Washing.
ton club, here. Comiskey reported
himself fully recovered from his recent
illness.
Lee Magee assumed his new duties as
manager Of the Brooklyn Tip Tops to-
day. and his first business came in the
offer of trade by Joe Tinker. of the
Chicago Feds, involving the acquisition
by the latter Of Danny Murphy, the
outfelder. Mngee took the offer under
consideration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
LEADERS OF FORMER YEARS.
COLUMBIA TO TRY
ANDOVER PLAN
ONLY One or Two Football
Games To Be Played if
Sport Is Restored.

If football is restored at Columbia
next fall a new plan in the development
of an eleven will be adopted, if the
scheme Of the student board of repre-
sentatives, which is engineering the
movement, is followed out. The plan
of campaign which will be used is the
one which has been tried out at And
over so successfully for the last three
years under the direction OF Ted Lii
lard, the old Dartmouth player.
Lillard will probably be asked by
the Columbia authorities to outline the
scheme and suggest any notifications
necessary before it could be applied to
conditions at Columbia. By this plan
Columbia will play not more than two
and possibly only one game next fall,
provided, of course, the red tape which
stands in the way is all cut by that
time. This in itself is enough to con-
tradict statements that Columbia rep
resentatives have asked options on the
schedules Of small college teams for
next fall.
Although the student board does not
plan to make known its report until
after the holidays, some of its ideas
have leaked out. II is generally felt
problem that the only way in which
the sport can be re-established with
full support from faculty and students
alike is by going slowly in the first
year or two, and gradually building up
a system on firm foundation.
In 1899, when Columbia took up foot
ball for the first time after lapse of
five years, the mistake was made OF
80 hoG put tnr q - a
building up from nothing. That year
Columbia, under the coaching OF Fos-
ter Sanford, defeated Yale, and came
close to winning the intercollegiate
championship. The basic plan upon
which football was restored at that
time proved after two or three years
to be unsuited to the conditions, and, as
an old Columbia football man said
ical conclusion the university would
have had to have been turned over to
the football team. In order to stop the
evils which had sprung up football was
stopped.
Jim Rice, who has coached the CO.
lumbia crews since 1906, believes that
football will mean the regeneration Of
all athletics OH Morningside Heights,
and especially OF rowing. hIce CONTENDS
that in 1906, when he took hold at CO.
lumbia, he had more and better mate
rial than he has had since then, and he
attributes this to football, because the
game had been dead only one year
when he arrived on the scene.
In Rice's first varsity eight Star
buck, No. 4; Won Saltza, No. 5, and
Boyle, No. Z. were old varsity football
men, and G. Mackenzie, No. 8; j.
Mackenzie, No. 2, and Spalding, No. ;,
had played football on their class
teams. In the following year Starbu- K
a Ryan, No. 6, were the ly football
men in the boat, although Won Salt .
vas in the squad. The first of these
crews rowed Cornell to that memorable
three-foot finish in 1907, and the sec
ond defeate Cornell and Wal beaten
only by Syracuse
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
BOY SKATERS SHOW WELL
Arthur Healy Defeats Brother
in Handicap Race.

A large field of ambitious young
sters faced the starter yesterday in the
first of the series of weekly schoolboy
skating races held at the st. Nicholas
Rink. The quarter-mile handicap, open
to schoolboys under fourteen years, de-
veloped into thrilling contest between
Tom and Arthur Eealy, starting from
20 and rs yards, respectively. The for
mer, gaining an early lead, appeared to
have tn race we'll in hand until the
last lap, when his brother, by { eat
burst of speed. came up on even terms
with him, but on rounding the last
turn was carried wide and was beaten
out by three feet.
Quarter mile handicap tJuniorsl--T Healy. All
Hallows Institute go yar.is) won: A. Healy. All
lie MIR Clinton 40 yarJLl), third nnne
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
Marlin Men Give
Giants Their Field

John B. Foster. secretary of the New
York Giants, received word from Mar
lin yesterday that the citizens of the
Texas town would hand to the Giants
next spring the deed for the property
which the New York club uses for its
practice games during the spring train
ing season.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20

professional.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
Gather and Whitfield En-
abled Manager to Try
His Outheld Shift.
DEAL, DISABLED, HAD
TO TAKE A REST
sped" Smith Learns Something
About the Uses and Meaning
of Morning Practice.

81. A, IN, fsUrtA 81 the snb serle, Of articles.
-. - ,tt,,s ~ George staIllnss en- ths svsi.s, o.
49, -. m a baseball team, and the fsmeus Mirs.
s5hS,.s~ ~ baseball takss the public lase Ms tut
49,. ans tells exactly hsw he teek hoIo o. 2
ebsts 49, Tsds ths BestoR Braves the werie's
ssss... !. the shsrt space Of tao seasons.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-02-26
PRESIDENT JOHN WORST.

President John Worst of the Agri.
cultural College will in all human pro-
liability be candidate for the Office
of United States Senator, so it is stat
ed in Fargo. This will bring an I'M
looked for element into the field. The
suggestion that he might be a candi
date brought forth very large mum
Der of newspaper endorsements, many
more than both of the others, Miller
and Gronna have 80 far received and
II one is to Judge from this Mr.. Worst
will have very easy sailing. An at
tempt was made to connect his name
with the recent unfortunate affair in
Fargo when the Equity Society and
Chamber Of Commerce clashed, but
that is not taken at all seriously and
since Worst has always been a farm
er and so closely identified with the
progress, in better farming. in the
state it would seem that he will be 3
very strong candidate and 4 probable
winner. There may be later develop
ments that will change the forecast
but at the present time the President
Of the North Dakota Agricultural Col
lege has the press Endorsement and
stands to win with the farmers.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-02-26
MAY NOT BE CANDIDATE.

John Burke, United States treasurer
stated that If he had his way about
it he will be out Of the senatorial
race" This statement Is characters
tic Of the man and may mean any:
thing, and Is undoubtedly so intended
The job which Mr. Burke was given
was very unsatisfactory. not alone to
Burke but to friends and enemies alike
in the state. The position is one
which "buries a man" so far as influ
ence is concerned and has heretofore
been filled by colored man, which OF
itself was taken unkindly by the dem
ocrats of this state as well as by the
friends Of Burke in other parties
Notwithstanding the newspaper re
ports which might be taken to mean
to the contrary it is not unlikely that
Treasurer Burke will make the race
for senator since it is understood that
it would in no way interfere with his
holding his present position, should he
fail to land the toga.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-02-26
chine, sometimes not returning until

chine, sometimes not returning until
3 a. m. in the morning.
When a man wishes to have his
teeth fixed, or has any kind of sick
ness that he does not care to have the
prison physician attend to, and has
the money to pay expenses, he Is sent
to the best doctor in Bismarck for
treatment. This is what We call pros.
on reform. And for fear that some
that read this article may think that
Warden Talcott is giving the men too
much privilege we want to state right
here, that all Of the privilege that is in
the gift Of the warden and board of
control we receive.
And what are the consequences?
You never hear Of any more assaults
upon officers by inmates. You never
hear of a fight between an inmate and
his fellow workers, a thing that was
an every day occurrence not more
than twelve months ago. The factory
is running fifteen hours a day, the
Irvine is better because the men take
an interest in their work, the report
blanks Of the officers are clear, and
seldom does a report have to be turn
ed in"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-02-26
DOES NEW LAW BENEFIT7

The new tariff law may work Out
good to the working man, but the
northwestern farmer does not appear
to be greatly benefited. The dairy
man who markets his butter in New
York is now selling the product o. his
COWS at q greatly reduced price, the
direct go suit Of ::-.' v3r derful !rc e,.e
in imported butter received in New
York during the past few weeks, be.
cause Of the removal of the tariff. For
instance can Of cream recently sold
in St. Paul for $40 less than it did
before the new tariff law went into ef-
feet. Dairying Is not the only indus
try to suffer- Almost everything raised
on the farm is hard hit but perhaps
nothing is so vitality effected as the
growing sugar industry which had
such splendid start in Southern Min
nesota. That factories will in all pro-
liabilities be closed next season, If re-
ports are to be believed, and since this
state is adapted to the raising of sugar
beets, North Dakota is also affected by
the lowering of the price of this i'm.
portant commodity, which Is after all
a luxury. There may be benefits to
Offset this but the average farmer is
waiting to be shown.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-02-26

In the departure OF Professor Charl-
ton Andrews. for a number Of years
head OF the Department of English at
the State Normal school, Valley City
and the state will lose a scholar and
student, as we'll as teacher of unus-
ual ability. Professor Andrews came
to Valley City from a long experience
in newspaper work, in the news and
dramatic departments, and he leaves
to take up similar work but in a far
broader field. He goes directly to the
New York Tribune, and his work will
be largely devoted to dramatic critic
ism, field which will afford an outlet
for his abilities, such as he has not
had. Mr.. Andrews has already made
for himself a name in the world Of the
Drama, and his friends believe the op-
portunities offered in the East assure
him brilliant future.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-02-26
Daddy's Bedtinne
a.. The Little
DIOlV Girls Agreed
" About the JAy

- OLDs Evelyn each had nat
being kept the house to be cured
~ wasag deal Of grumbing, may be sure
cold, too," said daddy It's pretty sao
little handkerchief pretty often
a guest named Jane Jane also had cold
little girls neezed and smiled and feh 30 very
both bundled fo
given hot things to drink
still the third day hey
we'll enough to get and play about Indoors
Pink in to see them Resale cried:
"Oh Rosal went I've
chicken aad
medicine
TERRIBLE said the Pink Lady If had knewn
like jsay
they?
ayes and we'll too, limited Rosaie
Then ought to the
Jelly myself
If having cold such great
thing cold ought be noticed too
a told, isped.
the Pink Lady turned to her.
Mines
big
great awful bid told!
yours from me-.
denied You dot told from me-
"No couldn't Rosaie urged, l first
Jelly little Jane looked ready
b
Of jelly for
bread and butter.
Pink Ladys Jelly perfectly fine"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-02-26
HOW TO ADVERTISE.

There is probably not a firm in the
state today who are advertising that
are securing better results than that Of
A. H. Gray & Son and yet the man who
h writing the copy has never had
training in this work. and perhaps an
expert might ind some fault with the
copy. nevertheless the advertising is
getting results and that 10 the main
point in this story. Now as to the
reason, first the advertisement is a
clear concise statement Of ordinary
facts that anyone can understand,
second prices are quoted ON staple
goods and thirdly and perhaps the
main thing that makes the advertis-
ing effective is that the goods ad-
vertised are In every Instance exactly
as represented in the advertisement.
Advertising pays, always has and al.
ways will but not everything is adver.
tising which runs under that head and
while It may be a beautiful display Of
type, cuts and borders unless properly
written, looking toward some definate
end Is Liable to have tho opposite ef.
feet than that for which Il was in.
tended
In Valley City there are several
Arms who have the happy faculty Of
quitting the drew" In an advertise.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-02-26

The blind senator Thomas p. Gore
was acquitted on a charge Of assault
on the person of Mrs. Minnie Bond
Contrary to the usual custom public
sympathy was with the man in the
case and in public estimation he stood
acquitted before the court had passed
on the case. The whole case seemed
to be an attempt to "get even'' on &C
count Of the failure Of the Senator ia
find position for the woman's husband
and several other political haneers-on
and resulted as 1t should q tho ex
posing Of the whole gNng.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-02-26
"HE HAS MADE GOOD"

Will E. Holbin of the LansforG
Journal and secretary of the State
Press Association takes a rather
broad view of the situation in a re-
cent editorial which is as follows:
We have it that the progressive
republicans have endorsed U. L.
Burdick of Williston for governor in
opposition to Gov. L. B. Hanna. Mr.
Burdick is a mighty strong man with
the masses, and should he determine
to make the race he will make Mr..
Hanna 60 some.
There is one aspect Of the situation
that must not be overlooked by the
most partial partisan, and that is the
fact that the people Of North Dakota
are in the habit Of rewarding their
faithful public servants, and where
they have given good satisfaction one
term OF their Office they are invariably
returned for the second term. This
will tend to assist Mr.. Hanna, for with
out doubt he has done great deal
to get the affairs of the state on a
business basis, and this is the very
FIRST year Of his incumbency. We be.
lieve that he has his eyes on the Unit
ed States senate, and If this is the
case it is sure that during the rest of
his tenure of office, whether it be the
year, or three years, will do all in his
power to merit the confidence Of the
people so that he may have his hopes
relative to the senate realized.
This paper does not believe that
Governor Hanna should be asked to
step down and out, for the further rea-
son that he has been fair to all fac
tons, and there does not seem to be
any great clamor for Dukes Mixture
republican ticket this year, with the
very possible result that a democrat
win secure the governorship as was
the case during the Burke regime. We
know that democrats of the. stripe Of
John Bloom Of Devils Lake. are doing
all in their power to keep up the USE
less strife in the republican ranks for
no other reason than to elect demo.
cratic governor. and it Is about time
the republicans got some horse sense,
and stick to their own brethren. There
Is no danger of a return to Mckenzie
ism in this state. That is dead and
gone. Republicans should not be
scared to death by bygone specter.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-02-26
RADIUM AND CANCER.

Minneapolis Journal: The un
thinking who were ready to hail raj
ium as the long sought sure cure fol
cancer, are now convinced by the
deaths of three well known victims
who had taken the radium treatment
that the precious metal is an absolute
failure as a remedial agent. The truth
no doubt, lies somewhere between.
The fact is that the radium treat
ment is still in the experimental stage
and must remain there for several
years. 1t has apparently cured a mum
Der of inoperable cases in which the
disease had not progressed too far
But even these must remain under OBJ
servation for from three to five years
after discharge from treatment, be
fore there can be any certainty as to
the cure.
The most that can now be said Is
that radium appears to cure a certain
percentage Of cases, to mitigate Ger
tain other percentage, and to be use
less in the remainder The treatment
like so much Of modern therapeutics
is entirely empirical. No one YET
knows precisely what cancer is, and
until that secret is wrested from the
unknown, its treatment must remain
experimental.
One great obstacle in the way of a
wider test Of the effects of radium on
the cancer cells is the scarcity and
high price Of the metal. The process
Of extracting it from the raw ore is
slow and expensive. The demand fo1
it, both for curative and scientific ex
periments, is tremendous. AS result
the price has been forced up to pro
hibitive point. Indeed, it is openly
charged that a large speculative pro
fit is added to the price.
While most Of the pitchblend and
other ores, from which minute guam
titles. of radium are extracted, is min
ed in the United States, the extraction
Of the metal is almost entirely carried
on in Europe. These facts explain the
movement in Congress for a Govern
ment monopoly of the mining and re
duction of the ores. II radium cures
even a small percentage Of cancer
cases, 1t ought to be put within easy
reach Of sufferers from this dread dis
ease with its steadily increasing lis1
Of victims.