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GAVE $1,40o TO STOP
DEMOCRATIC RAID
NJ. ID. Wilson, a Contractor.
Tells Of Fund to Defeat
Legislative Bill.
HELP FOR HOOKER BOARD
Osborne Threatens to Have Dis
trict Attorney Alexander
Superseded at Albany.
HELP FOR HOOKER BOARD

ALBANY. Jan. :o.---M. II. Wilson, con
tractor Of Guilford. Chenango county. who
constructed roads In Fulton county during
IN. Hooker administration " l?os-ls1o.
testified before Commissioner James w.
Osborne to-day that he contributed sl.foo
10 "A fund collected from contractors to
defeat the legislation. proposed by the
Democrats. to legislate the Hooker COM
mission out OF office.
Mr.. Wilson would not admit that inns
fund was to be used among the lesiS-
lutors but said II was To lie spent III IN"
preparation OF arguments ana data
against the bill which sought to provide
FOR "A Democratic state Highway Commits
sion.
ave raised this fund to protect our
selves" said Wilson. so that the Hooker
commission would not be legislated out or
existence, AS We were told that under IN.
new regime there would be combination
,f hiy contractors o. freeze out IN" little
ones.
The Witness said that :. Percy Hooker
was "A, the Hampton Hotel Albany. wh"r
some OF the contractors were planning
"A campaign to- defeat the legislation which
would put tn. Hooker good roads BOARD
on, of commission. Wilson did not get
much work under the Democratic High
way Commission.
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THINK WILSON WILL
LIFT EMBARGO SOON
Washington Officials Expect
Action FSvOring Rebels
in Mexico.
CONFIDENCE IN POWERS
President Says All Nations In
terrsted Give L. :. Moral
support.
CONFIDENCE IN POWERS


WAsHINGroN. Jan. 2s.-President Will
son to-day made 1t known that his policy
~,,,b rovara IN Nex,co In still a day
., .,,,,,.,. 90 tho ,,o.si.
w ""'
phity Oh chahte III t"c N"'i"u' P
Confidence that the other Governments
t,,.,,,a e., Nex,co are doing all that
W -, go, .,,.
the! can properly wv w 'e,'-
port to the United states III any eHor's
Ia s,lv, the Mexican problem was ex-
.., ,,. ,ha President To-day He
=, -, 49,, h.
specifically dehieu 'hat '"pa" "'" '.."
overlooked or Intentionally slighteu IN the
matt.r Of keepipy that Government in
formed ~, what the United states has
h..r do,ry with Regard TO Mexico. Japan
-, ,anai,,.a ,,.c,s.lv the sam. informa-
- ~. 49,. - ,.,,.r,r.,,a have rc.
80 -. ,y..,,g,,,
eemeo o','ah! sih.','s ,s,,,,,, 4.
me iac' u's' VIC saani,a "a Gxsd
NJ ~. -. Wv -. q, a.. A., ,nnr.c,io,,
pIos anime ca,ne GU. 49,. s,,,,..s,,or
WIN ms 'ol ', ,,a .,i,'ron, NJ
N.a' ~. 49,, ,-or, ,ha IIn,ted states
a,, iI,,nS
Tn, ,nnression that the President Is
likolv to uft this embargo which has
prevailed her. since the gathering OF
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
at the White House last Monday night
was strengthened AS result OF dc-
velopments at the White House.
Much significance was attached 10 the
defamation OF the PRESIDENT 10 au'"oI.c
uehial OF reports 'hau NJ in'e.''' ~ ,,''''
w ~. ~ e,, 49,, ,..,,,,,
ting the northern revolutionists to buy
n.w on, having originated late last sum.
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Zapatistas in that rugged region. Their
/ success was du" to the drunkenness.
| among the rebels and IN. confusion which
/ resulted from til. death OF Gen. Neri.
Gen. olea found the body of Gen. Neri
and claimed the Federsls had killed him.
Tn. Governor OF Vera Cruz announces
that the Federals have recaptured Tlal-
chichiico. in northern Vera Cruz.
| when the rebels captured a pay car
at the station OF Oriental about two weeks
4 ago their chief objective car con
tanning dynamite and powder. The cap
tur- of the pay car with its 100000 was
| on.y Incidental to the other. They got
| ~" cases OF dynamite and many kegs OF
powder, which they look on "A train IL
! Mart.l. whore they stopped and destroyed
| tine track Denind them rnen they ioaded
the explosive in wagons lined with straw
which We're ia waiting and took It toward
Cignajuapan and Zscatian. which towns
they still hold. menacing the great power
plant at Necaxa.
II Ia feared that 1t is their intention
to destroy tn. power plant on which not
only Mexico city but the great mines
In. mines will lose their pumping power
| and will b" hooi-d and many million.
lost.
Train service between san Luis Potos
and Tampico has been resumed but worl
on repairs 10 the line north of san Lui,
Potosi Is still paralyz-d.
Hope tO Get Arms From Guate mala
The Government says Enrique Camar
Wales, the Msderista Governor OF Yucatan
u most dangerous p,otter. who is a r.la
tive OF Castillo Brito and the late Pin
Suarez. the Mader!sta Vice President, VIII,
WAS assassinated at the same time a
President Madero, has entered GuatemaL,
Wales IN endeavorlng Ia bring IN arms AN
ammunition from that country Tor Ia
rebels IL is known here that Castnl,
Brito Is near Santa Barbara, Guatemala
engaged in nlibustering, The Goyernmeu
is trying to eNtradite him on ,rumped VI
charges of having committed a crime
The Governor Of san Luis Potosi say
trains will he running IL Saltillo within
, three days.
| Secretary Of the Interior Alcocer say
| the Government Is comma deering all tn
horses II can find. II has already gath
cred many OF them up In states wher
they are most exposed 10 capture by TIN
rebels
The Government has offered LOO
armed and equipped rurales to the Ian,
owners in the Torreon district to protec
their millions of dollars worth OF cotton
Another thousand rurales have been of
IA. IanA Ia,
Y corn and wheat district Of Sierra Arteaga
r. between Sierra Laon and coahuila. TIL
A land owners IN each case will be require
to pay and maintain the rurales, Tn
> Government intends to extend the sam
system to other regions.
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Cost of Work Increased.

Commissioner Osborne called Alteration
20 about , dozen contracts. awarded after
public competition under the Hooker ad-
mnistration. which wer. aftef"ard
changed by supplemental agreements ="
that thu cost Of the work was tire" times
the original price, which was NOT read
vertised
"A. instanC.d one contract with Con
tractors Bush and p.rciVal of Buffalo.
witch was awarded after competitive bid
ding AL slS.TN7. and then Mas changed
from , ,nacadalu To- a brick road To cost
s4b43l the contractors being permitted
to build the brick road without compet-
tive bids being received on the changed
contract.
Commissioner osborne also referred 10
another contract IN Monroe county. let
about the same time for si2,b15. which
was changed to cost s23,sei. In another
instance Henry 4. Burgard Of Buffalo got
a contract after competitive bidding AT
$1,000, which was Increased 10 s34.52l
This shows that even under the Hooker
administration" said Commissioners Os-
borne. STEPS We're taken To- annihilst- the
law providing for free competition In the
awarding of contracts.
When Commissioner Osborne learned to-
day that District Attorney Harold d.
Alexander of Albany county had an
nounced that the Grand Jury had ad-
journed without taking action in the cases
of SIS repair contracts approved 10y Ben
sci, Reel and Peck he declared that II III.
District Attorney does not do his duty he
| would ask the Governor to appoint a
| special Deputy Attorney-Generalt to super
, sede the District Attorney.
AT the present time" said Commits
| sionsr Osborne. the District Attorne.
! seems to he in state Of mind that |,
| negative, but II he does not get into
positiv. state of mind quite soon I shall
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wanted the girl so much that he was will
ing to marry her. but the old man
wouldn't stand for him at all, said he was
crook and an all around no good. The
old man ordered Fay out Of the house
Fay told the Ave OF US that he was
going to have that girl and that we had
to steal her. We fixed IL mp to slip into
the girls room when the old man was
away, take ner to "A saloon at Elizabeth
and Houston streets and turn her owe
to Fay. He was to give Us 800 apiece
for the job. The money was as good ~
Ina our kicks.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-18
Baseball Players Are Superstitious
-;H:- -:I- -:II:- -:II:- -:II:-
Many Signs Considered III Omens
RY SAN CRANE-

IN1IY sHECKARD. formerly with the
Chicago Cubs but this year manager of
- the Cleveland American association
team, is a believer in signs and omens.
He always goes to bat in a certain way. The
same holds true Of his manner of walking
70 and from the clubhouse before and after
the game.
Frank Chance is considered the most su-
perstitious leader in the major leagues. The
worst thing he can conceive is TO see the
score board during a game. If he accident
Iy sees the score. luck is sure to change. He
has had score boards in two ball parks
moved so that he could not see them from
his bench.
clark Griffith manager OF the Washing
ton Americans. is sale to be the least su-
perstitious of the managers, yet if he dreams
that pitcher IS batted hard, that pitcher
is kept out of the game for a few days. He
says he isn't superstitOus, but he can't af-
ford to take chances.
Most every ball player Is superstitious
about barrels and hay. A load OF empty
barrels is good luck. a load Of barrels filled
with auything is unlucky q load Of loose hay
is lucky, and a load Of baled hay is IN
lucky.
The worst luck in the world follows the
sight Of a cross eyed person. according to
the ball players. However this ''jinX' may
be broken by splitting in your hat immedi-
ately. IN procuring bat boys to carry the
clubs from the home plate back to the bench
and keep them neatly piled in order, base
looking youth to be found He is retained as
long as things go well, but when the time
arrives that the team hits slump another
homely boy is taken on.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-18

Ew YORK. April 1S.-Fight fans
NJ generally are wondering how
L = long Al Mccoy, who surprised
evarvbodv BY knocking out george
chin last week in the first round WIZ
retain the middleweight cham ploii'i-'P
gained by that lucky punch. Tho
INC sDOrtfnE public, as wen a. -
,,aIt-snaDe1. men. are divided as 20 me
credit deserved by Mccoy 1oI MS VII
tory, but it has Deen pFeLts .s,tsi
esfS blished that Mccoy was not sta1-
IiT7e-'' when he entered the ring WIN
chin and while he himself aoHlts
that he was somewhat surprised =" Hoii
his swift uppercut to emp cIIu, - -
octIv one minute and 80 seconds aLLer
time was called for the first rOunus
laid the champion out for the count
there is no doubt that he was DenI u
giving the champion hard battle ana
had trained faithfully for the contest.
SToC,ov's victory has caused the
greatest sensation in the puglllsLlc
world since young" COrbett won the
fearbervveight championship from
Terry McGOvern on Thanksgiving Gay
Of 1901. at Hartford, Conn II IS the
first time that a championship mas
been won and lost in so snort a 4me'
since Joe Cans defeated FRANK EiTne
af Fort Erie in 1902. incidentally It
is the first time that championship
has been decided in New York since
rbe Frawley law has been in force
I'D to the time Of his meeting the
champion, Mccoy says he never framed
for y fight. on three days notice he
fought Mike Gibbons took a hard beat
ing from him and four nights later
fought Joe Chip, brother of the ex-
champion. Then came return matcn
with Joe Chip. Later George was SUD
srft1ted and Mccoy decided that the
time had come to DO some real train
ing. That the training was not IN
vain, is now history.
training now that he has the title and
viii meet all Corners in defence Of his
newly won hOnorS.
Eddie McGOorty, Jimmy Clabby, Mike
Gibbons and Billy Murray all desire
:. chance at the new champion and Nc
Gov has signified his Intention Of TAX
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-18
Al MCCOY, NeeO Champion
In the MiddLetOeight Class
s,,rnrised Fans When He Came Into Power; Wonder Is
gu Now T Expressed as to How Long He viii Stay;
Another Brooklyn Product; Joe Jeanette, the
Negro LooEdngfOr Matches in Europe.
nnAr. G. 11ENKE.

ing them on. Chip has asked for re-
turn match and in all likelihood viii
Chip had held the title but short
time, having gained it in October Of
last year, when he knocked out Frank
Klaus; KLAUS had taken the title from
Papke, who resumed the midd1eweight
honor after the death Of Stanley
Ketchel.
BIcCoy's real name Is Albert Rudolph
and he is Of German-Hebrew extrac-
ton. He is the fifth champion hailing
from Brooklyn. They are:
Jack McAuliffe, the retired unde-
feated lightweight; Terrible Terry
McGovern, Matty Matthews. welter-
''NOnpareil," and now Mccoy. Dempsey,
although born in ireland. county Kill
dare, did his fighting from the City OF
Churches, and first sprang into prom
inence in the Greenpoint section Of the
city.
Joe Jeanette, the American negro
boxer, now in England, is looking for
another Johnson to box So far. he
has defeated two Jim JOhnsonS one
John, one Charles, two Battlings and
one Andrew. The last named, a husky
negro, black as coal and weighing over
200 pounds, suceumbed to Jeanette in
the fourth round, when the HObOken
negro laid him cold with a mighty up-
percut on the point Of the jaw
jeanette is to be rematched with
Carpenter, the French champion,
whom he defeated recently in a 90
round encounter. Jack Johnson. heavy
weight champion, has had seven bouts
with Jeanette, but they all took place
before Jack won his title
=
The claim Of Nile Carpenter, who
although Of the same name, bears no
relation to the great French boxer, that
she is the champion woman boxer Of
France, wiz have to go undisputed, as
the proposed match in which she and
several other female boxers had prom
ised to appear, has been forbidden By
NJ HenniOn, project OF police.
The police received many protests
against the match on the ground that
it would foster brutality among
women.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-18

tries to box Welch he viii look ike
a how who never had the gloves on
before Fred made Joe Rivers appear
a raw beginner and Rivers ouIDoXed
leach will have to pull an al Nc
Gov" or be retired to the rear for
~O0d and all. On recent form he
hardly can be considered IN the rum
ming any longer, and 1t VIII REQUIRE
something sensational TO restore MIN
to good standing.
They All Challenge Mccoy
Challenging Al Mccoy is the regular
thing for middleWeights these days.
Two weeks ago Al wasn't given tum-
BILE. Chip just took him on 10 Try MS
mended hand out. Now the oIher as
pirants for the tlIle rechoH 10y ~ as
their own particular prey But II IS
hardly likely that any of the top
notchers will get an early crack at
old Jack Doughertys champion"
jack hasn't had anything so close TO
a title in his stable in Is years or
more I think Matty Matthews was
the last bonafide champion the veteran
trainer chaperOned. And he isn't go
ing to take any chances of losing out
this time-even if it is only a near
title-at least not until he gets all
the easy dough in sight. Jack told me
the other day that 1 am not the only
"aCtOr"-and that I will have to figure
Mccoy as a rival from now on. Well,
put that lucky punch over. Neither
DOUgherty nor Mccoy attempt to deny
that it was of the lucky" variety.
1t was very lucky for both of them,
and unlucky for Jimmy Dime and his
New Castle scrapper.
Back Into Game If Act FIOps.
If Mccoy proves an attraction he
will be kept on the stage as long as he
can draw, and there will be absolutely
no chance for George Chip, Mike Glib
bons, Jimmy Murray, or any other
middleweight to get a match with the
zone punch champion" before next fall.
But if the act flOps, Mccoy win be
back on the job shortly. And, accord
ing to manager DOugherty, Chip viii
get first chance.
Personally I think It absurd to hail
Mccoy as champion. Where did he
earn the honors and how? George Chip
was never champion. His. boosters
advanced the claim for him on the
strength of the victories over Frank
Klaus, and as the latter had defeated
Billy Papke, to whom the title auto
matically reverted on KetchePs death,
on that line of reckoning there is
nothing else to do but to hand over
the laurels to Mccoy.
But if anyone viii take the trouble
to look the matter up he will find that
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-18
interest IS KEEN
IN TENNIS TOURNEY
Border States Match VIII Be
Largest Ever Held in the
Southwest, IsOpinion.

Interest is becoming keen among To-
cal tennis players with the approach OF
the Border States championship match
at Phoenix. May z, g, and 10. The
event VIII be Of national Importance as
regards eastern tennis possibilities, as
the Border States club is affiliated with
the American Lawn Tennis association
and the winner of the match, besides
being champion Of the southwest is
eligible for entry in the championship
matches at Newport this summer.
The match this year viii be the
largest ever held in this section" said
=. E. Neff, president of the club, Fri
day when the Southwestern Tennis
association, which became the Border
States this year. was formed in 1912
there were 81 entries for the opening
match, held here. The next year, at
Douglas, there were 81 entries, and
this year we already have 131 for the
Phoenix match. BY the opening date I
expect there viii be fully $50 names in
Three Clubs Enter.
The Shelter Tennis club, FL PasO
Country club and I. NJ. c. a. Tennis
club have already entered to represent
FL Paso. Amongst the crack ulayerF
who viii make the trip wiz be i.mmetg
Hines, Winchester Cooley 2. e. N5ff J.
+. Williams and the Blackshire BROTH
ers. Roswell viii be represented by
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-18
7 EW YORK, April 18.-If it hadn't

y 7 EW YORK, April 18.-If it hadn't
~ been for that Al McCoy-George
Chip surprise party over in
Brooklyn last week no one would i'm
agine that New Y ork is still on the
IuSilistic map. Hardly a rinC star
is seen about here Wadays-Califor-
MIA and middle west promoters must
lave tlem all signed up or something
jim CoftrOth and Ton AIcCarey have
number of stars corralled in San
Francisco and Los Angeles. Unless
Billy Gibson or the Mcmahon brothers.
the big towns foremost promoters,
hurry and grab a few stars Gotham
fans will have to turn to baseball for
their entertainment. There are any
number of sOcalled boxing clubs in
New York but the matchmakers of
most Of them seem to think that it is
unnecessary to dig up a boxer or two
OF Importance, or a new face, OcCa-
sionaIly They stage bouts between
-and then complain about business
being bad.
Let's look over the programs the
California clubs are working on. First
we have the Freddy Welch-Leach
Cross bout on April ga bang up
attraction-at McCarey's Los Angeles
club. Two weeks later McCarey viii
offer Joe Rivers and Jack Britton in
a 20 round contest, and on June 9 a
match for the bantamWeight champ
iOnship between Johnny COulOn. the
holder, and Kid Williams, of Balti-
more, the recognized legitimate chaI-
1enger. Then on the 4th of July both
McCarey and COffroth will have star
attractions at their clubs
VIII Stage Smith-WillaFd Match.
COffrOth plans to stage the Gunboat
Smith-Jesse Willard match on the big
hOliday-prOviding Tom Jones makes
good his promise to produce the Gun
boats end of $500 and take chances
on getting anything for willard And
on the same day McCarey figures on
holding a genuine worlds champion
ship lightweight match between Will
lie Richie and Freddy WEIGH to en-
terrain Los Angeles patrons of the
sport.
Those are the pretentious and ambi-
tious programs hustling California
promoters are working on.
Cross Plans Impressive Comeback,
Leach Cross will try to pull an i'm
pressive comeback on April % when
he boxes WEIGH. Leach's plan is to
aim for Freddy's jaw with that deadly
right as often as he can get in posi-
ton, with the hope that at least one
will connect and bring the Britisher to
the floor for the count of ten. And
any old way one figures the bout
that's Leachie's only chance. If he
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-18

e ILWAUKEE, Wis, April ID
MI Boxers, as a rule, have many
Az excuses for losing contest
Int a new one has been sprung by
French fighter. Fred Delaney one OF
the prominent Iightweights Of England
recently fought a French boy named
VoIair before one Of the clubs IN LII
don 1t was Volair'S first appear SllLe0
in England and he showed the Ciie1l
acteristic gameneSS OF ms IeC0
standing nm under severe punishment
when ne could have taken the G l-ll
lust as well In the fifth ROUND no"
ever the Frenchman caught DSLs--Ley
two terrific wauOps on the Jaw vi NJ
ping him for the count OF nlne.
fortunes of war turned again IN ne
sixth round and Delaney sent Iue
Frenchman 10 the floor. Volalr on us
ing sought safety by cllncnlns. go
1T was this part of the game IIaL tHS
Frenchman aid not unueIstatiu5 49,
the fact that he was ignorant OF tne
English language was the cause OF ms
undoine. for in the seventh round alIer
being warned several times Ior noIoIIl6
and hugging, he was dlsQuallIleu- ne
decision was not very popular as the
F'renchnan had been putting up a
really good contest and the rams
wanted to see the finish or H. OnutI
the rules, however, it was only rlgnI
10 disOuaIifv the boy for a violation.
After the contest ii developed that the
boy, misunderstanding the reIeree
warning when ne called 70 him to
break had an idea from what he
had picked up previously that the ref
cree was simply telling them to sep
arate and not understanding that he
was about to disqualify him. 1t seems
that it would be a good idea Tor ref
srees. both in England and France TO
learn the native terms such as are used
in a boxing contest, in warning tight
ers. If the English referee had taken
the trouble TO get the French express
sion for break he could have saved
the little French fighter quite a lot OF
trouble and possibly defeat The same
applies 10 the French referee when
Englishmen and American are boxing
in that country
Parfssans Most EXeitable Fans.
There are no boxing fans IN the
world 50 eXcftable as the Parisians. In
Great Britain and America there are
times when the boxing fan viii get up
and howl, the same as fans do at a
baseball game, but in Paris, where the
boxing game is very popular, the
French fan simply goes crazy when the
bout becomes very exciting, and espe-
worst Of it, After some OF the matches
the Frenchmen think il only proper to
show their enthusiasm by smashing
things in general the same as a lot
of college students do after some Of
the big football matches. The average
French fan is not thoroughly up on the
boxing game as yet, and that is why
they are liable to hurl missiles, etc,
at a referee whether the official is
right or wrong. They figure that he
is there to be bawled at and if there
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-18
.ENWLOISLE p

going mighty fool you this fellow.
The Of this sketch first light of day little town
lying that section of which
GONE He maintains this that his ambition his
opportunity deceit thing that great advantage
him baseball the phOm, slide trombone the local band
the old By influence he to be accepted and
his father of nghbOy complaints the
awful while the young practice
perfection
public the job playing political speaking The politicians
agreed really
embryo sphonst along dummy
all but the at his mouth that the
middle of patriotic
earspng scoTdan blast
broke the show and the siphOm job gone
pumping the at the church. for which he
cred 25 service On occasion during the oertor he went
sleep there nothing doing with the When
with the goods fned illness and for days the recipient
of flowers the oganist and his Sunday school teacher
His first appearance with ball club with Y NJ A. team that
played exhibition game ngborg went to college
another He finally
summers job with regular down east but the league
regular he had expected and blew leaving him flat broke
He then Travelled Potomac and job where he
a that
sold to big league club then made change
But he has made change He write his
check for 100000 and have eashed.
His fayorite reading Lambs Essays"
Who he?
Copyright 1914, by the Syndicate, Ine]
The baseball player yesterdays story is James
CALLAHAN, manager OF the Chicago Sox.