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Charlevoix county herald., 1914-08-01
Government Appropriates $1,000 or
~ More TO BE Used i'm Paying
Lookout Waterman.

Washington.-A cooperative fire
agreement, which has been entered
into between the United States De-
partment of Agriculture and the State
of Michigan provides for an expendi
ture by the government of not to eX-
coed So, 600 year toward meeting
the expences of forest fire protection
in Michigan.
This form of cooperation between
the government and state is made
possible by a law which congress
passed in 1911, and which has already
been taken advantage of by the states
of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Maryland, West
Virginia, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, South Dakota, Montana, Ida
no, Washington and Oregon.
100000 Appropriation.
The law, besides providing for the
purchase by the government of lands
on the headquarters of navigable
rivers for the purpose of creating ma
tional forests to protect these rivers,
appropriated 100000 which the sec
rotary of agriculture might expend
to protect similar lands in state or
private ownership from fire, in CO.
operation with the states. 1t was pro-
vided in the law that the federal eX-
penditures in any state should not ex-
coed the amount spent by the state
itself in the cooperative work. Pro
visions for continuance of the work in
the fiscal year which began July l
has been made by an appropriation
of 100000 for the year. The original
appropriation of 100000 was avail
able until expended, and with a sup
Elementary $4,000 has carried the
work to the present time.
Must Submit Plan.
The secretary of agriculture re-
quires as a preliminary to cO-0perat-
ing with any state, that the state
authorities should submit definite
plan showing in detail exactly what
it is proposed to do. With these
plans are required maps showing
areas to which protection should be
given. These areas must be actually
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06
AMERICAN LEAGUE OWNERS MEET
agnates Claim That Peace Can De Obtained Only by the Absorption of the Federals-Frank Farrell Declared Yankees Are Not For SaIe-Mack Refused to Make a Formal Charge Against Jennings.

them were James Lannin of the Boston club. who praised the New York pres ident's efforts to make the Yankees 8 winning team and said he for one would oppose g. change.
 Except that some of clubs had as many as forty men on their payrol1s and could not dispose of them because of the fear of the Federal League, there was no reason found to warrant recognition of the FederaIs, the club owners said. Plans for distribution of extra players among the minor leagues in a way to assure their not being signed by the Federals, will be left to President Johnson and the minor league owners at the Omaha. meeting.
 Manager Mack of the Philadelphia club. refused to make a formal charge against Manager Jennings of Detroit, who was accused of giving out the news of waivers being asked on Plank, Bender and Coombs. Mack said he had buried the hatchet after commun- icating with Jennings.
 The charge that Manager Griffith of Washington had informed the Boston Braves of the Athletics weakness'' thus contributing to the defeat of his own colleagues was not taken serious ly.
 The league approved the financial re- port made by the board of directors and awarded without argument the 1914 pennant to Philadelphia A short session tomorrow is expected to wind up the meeting.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06
DEAN OF AMERICAN LEAGUE
 uMPIREs DEAD
Jack Sheridan Passed Away After
 Three Weeks of Illness

Jack Sheridan, dean of American league umpires, died of heart failure at San Jose, Cal, Wednesday. Sheridan had been i'll for three weeks. He was 62 years old, but still a competent arbitrator With Bill Rem he accom- panied the worlds tourists last year.
 Sheridan was a native of Illinois, born in Decatur, but made his winter residence in recent years in San Jose, Cal. He began his baseball career in 1884 as second baseman for the Reno team, of San Francisco. In the follow ing year he played in Chattanooga and occasionally acted as Southern league umpire. Beginning in 1886, Sheridan umpired for four years in the Califor- mia league. He cast his lot with the Brotherhood league in 1890. returning to the Coast league after the war. The National league obtained Sheridan's services in 1892, but in the following year he was with the Southern league. The Western league added Sheridan to it's staff in 1894 and when it became the American league he remained with it until the end, with the exception of -wo seasons, in 1896 and 1897, when he umpired for the National league. lie made the trip around the world last winter with the Comiskey -McGraw tourists.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06


 Chicago Nov. 5s-Club owners of the American League, in their annual meeting here today, put themselves on record in favor of peace, but except for expressing their sentiments indi- vidually and informally, they brought no nearer the end of the baseball war. Rumors that overtures had been made to the Federal League were denied. a The only discussion by the meeting of the Federal situation lasted but half an hour. In that time every one of the eight clubs, through its repre- sentative, declared for peace but it was the general opinion that peace can be reached only by absorption of the Federal League, not through its recognition.
 There is no room, for a third league they agreed and the elimination of the competing clubs in Chicago, St Louis and Brooklyn must be included in any terms of truce As for the New York club, Frank Farrell, it's president, arrived just as the meeting broke up and declared emphatically to the newspaper men that the Yankees are not for sale. It is said, too, that no decision of the proposed transfer had taken place in the meeting but the in New York was admitted.
 Delay in the arrival of Farrell gave rise to rumors that discussion of the Chance case was taking place in his absence. AS a matter of fact FarrelPs friends in the league were stronger than rumor credited AmonI
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06
Vale Meets Penn at Soccer.

Franklin field, Philadelphia, will be the scene Saturday of the first in- tercollegiate soccer football champion ship match that has ever been played there. The game will bring together Yale and Pennsylvania. Last year Pennsylvania. defeated Yale at soccer, going through the season without de- feat. This is the first game for each of these teams. and their respective strength is unknown
 Coach Stewart feels that he should have an even better team than the one which represented Penn last year. He has retained the majority of last sea- sons players. They have not won any of the games in their preliminary sea- son this fall, but they have played against some of the strongest teams in the country
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06
BLUFFS LINEups pousTFuL.
The Eleven That Faces Harvard and Princeton Will Not Be Picked Until Three Days Before the Games.

Fully as much attention has been given to developing promising substi- tutes as to the varsity eleven itself by the football coaching administration of which Frank Hinkey is at the head. By his constant search for promising players in the ranks of the second and third elevens more than half the present varsity team has been mould ed into form. The Yae coaching staff has made it clear that the eleven that faces Princeton and Harvard will not be picked till within two or three days of these games, and the rapid devel-. opment of two or, three second string players has put them in line for elevS enth hour spurt that may crowd a regular to the bench, as Conroy and Walden have already replaced the first string guards of the early half of the season, Oakes and Jim Sheldon.
 Three of the most promising of the latest players to develop are Waite, Stillman and Betts. Stillman, by re- markable tackling and handling of forward passes at end rush, has made himself a favorite in that position. Waite yesterday showed the fastest form in end runs any Yale player has exhibited this season. This was the role cast for Ainsworth, but he has failed to strike his gait and to play the part this fall as the coaches had hoped.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06

that will not crack is the chief work of the coaches during the two weeks before the Princeton game.
 Any change from the veteran first string backf1eld of Afnsworth, Knowles, Wilson and LeGore will come only through accident Even such brilliant second string backs as Scoyil, Cornell Pumpelly and Easton break the harmony of the wonderful team game of the regular quartet when they are injected into the play.
 With Captain TaFbott back in the game by the last of this week, the fight of Chub Sheldon, Betts and Whittlesey to capture the other tackle position will continue f1ercely Shell don's failure to prove a phenomenal success has been shock to the
 Yale has remarkable and unusual incentive to capture the game with Harvard, which closes the season The Crimson is regarded by Yale as her natural athletic rival, and Yale's rec ord of having defeated her in all three of the major sports that have been played this season Is the best show ing made by Eli athletic teams in years. Yale has beaten Harvard in baseball, rowing and track athletics already this season, and lacks only a football victory to make it sweep stakes year in major sports.
 There is also the natural wish to open the new Yale stadium with a victory. The mammoth structure, the only sunkeu stadium possessed by any American university, is all ready for the reception of the Blue and Grim son elevens, and the Yale-Brown game could be played Saturday if it were desirable. The crowd of 61,000 people that will see the Yale-Harvard game will be the largest, it is believed that ever witnessed football contest in America.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06
YANKEES LOOK LoNeINeLY
 FOR COLLINS SERVICES Eddie Collins May Manage New York
 Americans Yet.

Frank Farrell was not conmunica,- tive on the subject of Eddie Collins coming to the Highlanders from the Athletics when the newspapermen tackled him for a confirmation or de- nial of the report emanating in Phil adelphia that the game's greatest sec- ond baseman was to be sold outright or traded to the New York Americans
 It is asserted, however, that such a deal has been under consideration for some time Collins as a manager of the Yankees has been FarrelI's idea for several months. When the final break came with Frank Chance he began to lay his plans for acquiring Collins. This Farrell Is likely to deny, but it has leaked out that he has looked longingly to the day when he could get Collins. The player is only too anxious to play in New York. In Philadelphia they say it has been the height of Collins ambition to appear in Highlander uniform and that wire pulling to land him with Far relfs club has been going on for some time.
 Lute Boone, who is a. clever second baseman, will be shifted to the Ath- letfcs. Connie Mack thinks highly of him and believes he can make great player of him.
 Ban Johnson is engineering the deal. The fact that he is interested makes it appear as if Collins would go to New York. The Brooklyn Federals are after Collins too; in fact Collins name has been mentioned in connec- tion with the Brookfeds ever since last summer. The Wards are willing to pay big money to acquire his services, but Ban Johnson will see to it that he remains in organized baseball, say those on the inside
 The Feds may not get Eddie Plank after all. The Detroit Tigers are anxious to sign him.
 Jim Bluejaeket, the Brookfeds In- dian pitcher. is said to be sorry for his jump to the Federals and now wants to go to the Giants. President Hampstead however, said that he won't have any deserters on his team, which leaves B1uejacket with the Feds
 Secretary Foster, of the Giants. is said to have in his possession the Fed eral league contract which was offered to Pitcher Bill Ritter He said that it was drawn up in such way that the F'ederals could cover 1t at any time under certain conditions, and added that the talk about the Feds contract being fairer to the ball player than the contracts of organized ball was boSh.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06

Their crusade compelled the club own CTS in the National and American leagues to meet and top some of the offers, with the result that expenses were almost doubled.
 The Feds had a crude idea of the baseball business at the outset Of their fight. They firmly believed that the public would pay the freight with such liberaIity that large profits would ac- crue. But after staggering through a campaign of disaster the Feds are growing extremely wise. Weeghman makes no secret of the fact that the Feds cannot pay such salaries and survive next year He estimates that there will be some kind of an agree ment with organized baseball that will prevent wholesale extortion. Mean while the players who jumped to the Feds are beginning to worry. They have no idea what will be their finish. Under the rules they are barred from organized baseball from three to five years, and they do not expect to be forgiven.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06
SPECTATORS DEMAND NUMBERS.
Will Be Big Help to the Fans at the YaIe- Harvard Game.

Numbering football players has be- come so popular that persons who in- tend to see the big games this fall at Cam bridge, New Haven and Princeton will hope that this system of identifi- cation will be adopted at the last mo- ment. Take the ale-Harvard game in the Bowl for instancei Spectators who have seats on the top rows will be so far away from the gridiron that it will be difficult for them to dis tinguish one player from another. If Harvard and Yale use numbers, how ever, the spectators can readily tell what is being accomplished. The foot ball managers and coaches at Cam bridge and New Haven cannot deny that the use of numbers has been suc- cessful at Princeton and other univer- sities. In view of the presence of 1000 fans in the Yale Bowl. there fore, and practically all of them favor ing the new plan, why not adopt it without further haggling2
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06
CLEAN FOOTBALL
 FOR THE BIG GAMES
Harvard and Princeton Striving to Maintain Good Sportsmanship.

Princeton and Harvard have set in motion a movement, says Herbert Reed, that promises to spread rapidly looking toward the curbing of muck err football. That they will be joined by the other leading institutions at an early date seems assured, In word the plan is that each institution shall visit punishment of the severest sort upon any of it's own men who so far forget themselves as to deliberately slug. trip or play any other kind of what is commonly known as dirty football.
 The two great institutions. which meet Saturday at Cambridge, have pledged themselves through their foot ball representatives and 1t is worth noting that the faculties have had nothing to do with tito bar from further participation in football throughout his college course any man who plays with unnecessary rough ness, where the intent Is plain.
 It must be remembered that the men who have entered into this agreement are men who have played through the hardest kind of football games, have never hesitated to bring down their man as hard as possible and have never hesitated to go into the tackleI with all the speed and power that is in them.
 No molly-coddIe agreement this, but
 
 tical coaches who know the dierence between hard, honest football and the other thing. They stand of course on the common ground of sportsman ship, but are perfectly frank in say ing that no man who Is giving his best to his team, and who is doine himself justice as ,well, can hope to be of service to lis own university on the fleffld, and may even, through habit, incur penalties that will cost the game should he indulge in muck err football. even if undetected by the officials
 There have been a great many dis qualifications on the field this year six on one Saturday, if memory serves land the trouble has reached the danger point. The big universities art determined not to have any of theil own men on the list, a list that prob. ably will grow, since the officials art determined to stamp it out. These latter de not intend to let the game "get away from them in the future and the larger institutions intend tC stand behind them by seeing to it that their own men come out of the biz games with clean hands.
 | In the case of institutions that dC not subscribe to such an agreement as | that made between Harvard and Princeton, it is to be hoped that the central board of officials will stand b. | it's appointees a little more firmly thaI has been the case recently When { man who has been banished for slug ging follows the official who remove him off the field and into the dressin room after the game, and there threat ems to "beat him up," it is time fo the central board of officials to stifreI it's backbone and take some action thai will be of lasting importance.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06
WHY JOHNSON HASN'T JUMPED
FederaIs Refused to Bank His Salary Three Years in Advance

The true story of Walter Johnson's refusal to sign with the St. Louis Feds last week has leaked out When Field CT Jones tackled the famous Washing ton pitcher with an offer of $15,00O a year and 8 three years contract he struck an unexpected snag. Johnson demanded more money and notified Jones that the St. Louis Feds would have to hand over a years salary in advance, also. putting the salary for 1916 and 1917 in the bank to his credit. Jones consulted with the St. Louis Feds packers, who promptly ad- vised him that they would not post Johnson's entire salary before he sign ed with them. Johnson, when told of this decision, informed Jones that he would end the negotiations then and there. as he did not intend to run risks. Meanwhile Johnson received an inside tip from somebody in organized baseball that the Feds were anxious to make peace and that he would be returned to the Washington club if he took the jump. As Johnson did not care to antagonize the fans in Wash ington, he decided to remain on the fence indefinitely. He will sign with Clark Griffith at the proper time.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06
Pirates, owner seriouslv iIL

The condition of President Barney Dreyfuss of the Pittsburgh National league club, who has been i'll for couple of weeks. took on a serious turn today, and it is giving his physicians a measure of alarm MT. Dreyfuss went home from his office on October 36 with a cold which was considerably worse before the next morning and has been getting worse gradually ever since.
 Other complications have set in- and it begins to look as if the Pirate boss is in for a serious time before the skill of the physician can stop the malady which has oertaken him. He had in tended to go to Omaha next week to attend the meeting of the minor leagues, and expected to meet Fred Clarke there.r but the trip, has been called off.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06
Trinity Ready for Wesleyan.

The decisive victory of the Trinity football team over New York univer- sity election day gives every indica- tion that the date of the Wesleyan Trinity contest at Middletown, No vember 14, will find the Blue and Gold eleven playing at its top-notch power The Hartford eleven, upsetting the tradition of past years, played true to and, did not experience the slump so marked in former years on the occa- sion of the annual holiday clash The three .touchdowns forced over the Vio- let line by Trinity were in all cases earned, and football authorities gen orally agreed that the Blue and Gold outclassed N. Y. U. in all departments of the game
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06
VICTORY FOR VALE MEANS
 sWEEPsTAKE SEASON IN sPoR-
Eli Lacks Only Football Triumph Over Crimson to Make 1914 a Banner Year.

With only the games remaining against Harvard, Princeton and Brown, her leading university rivals, Yale football schedule was left nearly spent by the game with Colgate. The sltua- tion has shifted but little since the opening game of the season. A vet eran, almost irresistible bacIdleld, and green, cratic, unsettled rush-line give the coaches a perplexing problem as the final matches of the season are approached
 It has been the keenest disappoint- ment of the season that the rush line
 has halted and been checked in its development. compelling the coaches to try out a. large field of even more inexperienced material than was shown by. the unfortunate Washington
 and Jefferson game, to be unsatis-
 factory. The selection of the rush line for the Harvard and Princeton games
 will not be possible until close upon
 the eve of those battles and the Col gate and next Saturdays engagements will throw search1ights on the strug- gling mass of inexperienced candi-
 dates.
 Nearly all the Yale setbacks of the season were focused upon the rush line. The loss of the best guard of the squad, Pie Way, the injuries that
 benched End Rushes Roberts, Higgin-
 botham. Brann and Carter, all of varsity experience, and the illness of Captain Talbott have proved handi- capts that have upset the prospects of the line material Former Yale teams have learned by bitter experience and the university believes that the rush line will take to heart the st1rn les sons of the Washington and Jefferson
 defeat, and will not cruInple again this season.
 Nothing positive, however, can be predicted of a rush line which, with the exception of the captain. was en- tirely new this season, and which, as now composed, Is entirely different l in makeup from it's composition three weeks ago. Yale cIings doggedly to the scientific passing game which was perfected early in the season.
 The hopes of the strateg1sts of the
 coaching staff, Frank Hinkey. Walter Camp and Billy Bull, are hung and pinned tight to this style of game, and
 the Yale veteran backfield has 1t de- ve1oped to the highest degree of per- lection ever exhibited here. The suc-
 cess of the passing game relieved the pressure on the Yale backield in the
 early matches of the season,
 l The Yale backfieId attack carried
 the fight into opponents' territory con 1 tinualIy and there was ltitlf. stress fol l the rush line to worry over. Wash l ington and Jefferson shattered the be- lief that the rush line was steady and
 the task of welding it into a phalanz
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06
RUBE oLDRINe BOOKED
 FOR RELEAs
It Is Understood That Mack Ha Planned to Include Rube in the Re lease List.

In addition to Bender, Plank and Coombs, 1t is reported that Rube Old ring is also slated for release. So far as can be learned O1dring has not been placed on the waiver list, for it is almost certain that no team in the American league would waive on him, but he will very likely figure in a trade unless he balks and accepts an offer that has been made to him to jump to the Federals.
 This raid is one of the Surprises" the Federals declared they would hand to Johnson, Tener and Hermann when the recent peace negotiations failed to materialize. Oldring is one of the most popular players on the Athletics, and his release would no doubt cause a big surprise to the fans, but Man ager Mack is said to have planned to include Oldring in his list of players to be released. and Connie usually car ries through his plans.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-06
YALE HAD FIRST DRILL
 IN NEW BOWL.
The Walls Protect the Field Fron Breezes-Lisht Practice for Ercw Game.

New Haven, Conn, Nov. 5.-Yale's football team had its first drill in the Bowl today. The practice was devoted mostly to catching punts, to ascertain the effect of the air currents within the immense amphitheater and play CTS experienced practically no trouble The walls of the oval, fifty feet high, effectively sheltered the playing field from the stiff breeze that was blowing outside.
 A scrimmage was held on old Yale Field, where the varsity scored two touchdowns against the scrubs Prac- tice will be light, tomorrow in prepara- tion for the game with Brown on Sat urday.