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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-10-15
Bank Teller Commits Suicide

Reading, Pa, Oct. 9.-Joseph l..
Babb, teller of the Pennsylvania Ma
tional bank, committed suicide by
shooting. His books were correct and
no reason for his act is known. Babb
succeeded William E Gehry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-10-15
Sculotor Found Dead.

San Jose, Cal, Oct. IA sculptor
named John Van Rensselaer, was found
dead of heart disease in hotel here
Van Rensselaer, had been here since
SeDtember 3, and was believed to have
co1pe from the East
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-10-15
Stork 10 Visit Queen

Rome, via Paris, Oct. 7.-Offcfal an
nouncement is made here that the &C
couchment Of Queen Helena is ex-
pected next January. The king and
queen already have four chtldren-a
boy and three girls.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-10-15

Another member, DR.. A. Dastre,
gave details Of the successful use Of a
powerful electro-magnet for the ex-
traction of splinters of steel and even
rife bullets One such employed by
Professor Rollet drew to the surface
fragments imbedded six inches and
bullets two and quarter inches.
Other members advised the adop-
ton of specially prepared paper IN
derclothes to prevent cold.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-10-15

August Destouy, a New York me-
chanic, invented in 1852 the first
curved needle to sew turn shoes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-10-15

The invention Of the barometer
dates back to the year 1913.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-10-15
British May Be in Antwerp.

London, Oct st is reported here
that a British ezpeditionary force Of
formidable strength has entered Ant
werp after passing through Client The
war Office refuses to confirm the re-
port, but it comes from a creditable
source. The expedition is said to con-
sist almost exclusively of artillery and
a naval detachment with heavy guns.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-10-15
BELGIUM MOVES
The CAPITAL TO
CITY OF OSTEND
Forced to Retire From Antwerp
Because Ct Bombardment
by Germans.
FIGHT AROUND LILLE
Though ALLIES Claim Success the Re-
sufts Arc IndecisIVe-5eriin Salts
aed With Progress Aade-5oth
Sides Claim Victories In
East PolsnoHRspoTt
gSaFahips Sunk

Amsterdam, Oct 9, via London
The Nieuv Dan Dan Dag says that
the Belgian government has been
moved from Antwerp to Ostend-
The bombardment of Antwerp By
the Germans was continued
The German commander Of the
forces besieging Antwerp sent an Of.
doer carrying white flag into the
city to announce that the lombard,
ment Of the temporary capital would
commence at once. Many refugees
left for Holland and the government
was transferred to Ostend
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-10-15

London, Oct s.-German victories
from Berlin:
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
c. Thompson Wants to Play Here
First Practice at Ponce De Leon

office the first thing he did was to
order a bushel of grass seed.
Every pleasant day from now on, =
said Billy, referring to the practice.
Billy is out to t the jump on The
rest of the help.
NTEALON LYNCH, candidate for
~ third baseman on the Cracker
club, has accepted terms and trans
portation has been sent him. AS
Nealon lives in Oakland, Cal, 1t will
take him three days, three night and
eighty-five iron men (this last from
the Crackers exchequer) to reach the
scene of his destined labors. He will
star in this direction week from
next Sunday. This leaves only three
prospective Crackers unsigned: Out
fielder Kirscher, Infielder Jennings,
and Pitcher Hedgepeth. with c..
Thompson trying to break into the
pitching fold, we should advise Mr..
Hedgepeth to pull the PEN scratching
pretty quick.
d SMITH is achieving renown as
~ a speaker. Right on the heels
of William Andrews oratorical essay
at the Atlanta Theater when he ac-
cepted from the bottom of Harry
Welchonce's heart the three-foot bat
ting trophy offered by "Honey Boy
Evans, Mr.. Smith has contracted to
speak at the ad mems weekly lunch
con Thursday at the Hotel Ansley.
His topic will be Inside Baseball" )"
or words to that effect. A full house
is anticipated, with Bill as the star
performer.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18

Fielder Jones, in an interview in Port
land Greg, to-day declared that the
ousting OF Eversais one of the worst
moves that possibly could be made at
this time and will prove the severest
blow handed the National League in
years.
Johnny Laven, with the St Louis
Browns a part of last season, has been
purchased from the Athletics by the
Browns.
Rube Waddell, once one Of the most
effective pitchers in baseball, is through.
He returned contract offered by the
Virginia club of the Northern League,
declaring that he can no longer take
his turn on the slab.
New York Yankee players to day are
heading for Hot Springs TO begin train :
ing for the coming season. Pitchers
McHale and Keating started from New
Pitchers Caldwell, Schultz, Criss and
Rose and Catchers Reynolds and Co.'S
sett.
American League pitchers, VIII Doubt
less have an army of Federal League
scouts on his trail unless Connie Mack
signs him up immediately.
The Gettysburg hero has sent back
his contract to Connie Mack with come
again scrawled upon it.
The manager -stockholder Of the Ath-
letic states that he has offered Plank
as much cash as the club can afford,
and he will not raise the first bid.
ira Thomas tips off the Quaker
fans that JACK Coombs, whom he Wis
spring in first-class condition
Having received no answer to his
10000 offer for Ty Cobb, "Old Fox"
Grif is expected to break out at any
moment with a similar offer to buy
the Federal League.
Charley Ebbets. the Flatbush
squire. is concocting deep. dark plot
to shift the Newark team TO his own
eral League movement in his domain
Colonel Hedges is not bit worried
by the Fearsome Feds. AS proof that
offered George Stovall $500 TO play
with the Browns.
The Federals did not think they were
crippling Ebbets enough when they
eopped q neat bunch of his men. They
have now gone further and are going
to place park in his city. This. OF
course will hurt him to a certain de-
gree. Poor Old Ebbets.
Iris Speaker is holding out on the
Red Sox. asking for an increase in
salary. Speaker ia the only reserve
player that has not signed with the
Red Sox.
Carlton Molesworth, manager OF the
Barons, has now turned his attention
toward getting the outcasts of the
majors having failed I'm several deals
sought by draft. Molesworth has lost
five promising players al the hands of
the majors, and every one of them had
a batting average of 81 or better,
Only three Of McCormick's men have
not signed yet, they being Balenti, Slime
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
Newark Club Not to
Invade Brooklyn

NEW YORK, Feb. 1S.-The plan of
organized baseball to place an In
ternational League team in Brooklyn
to compete with the invading FEEDER
al League team was abandoned yes
terday after negotiations between
Presidents Charles H. Ebbets. of the
BROOKLYN National League. and
Thomas Fogarty, of the Jersey City
International League clubs, had fail
ed of their purpose.
Ebbets, II was learned, desired to
charge the Jersey City team a sum,
reported to be $4,000, for permission
to play in the Newark ball park,
which he controls. Ebbets held that
tn eJersey City players would enjoy
the patronage which last year sup
ported a championship team
Had the plan been carried out. Eb-
bets intended to transfer the Newark
club, which he owns, to Brooklyn,
playing on the National League
grounds there. while the Jersey City
team would play in Newark. Fogar-
ty, however, refused to meet Ebbets'
terms.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
By O. B. Keeler.

~ UR old friend, Carl Thompson,
was up in baseball headquar-
ters yesterday afternoon, and
he was regretting that the way
things look just now he won't be
able to do something he wants to do.
That something is to play ball with
the Crackers the coming season.
Here's the way of it, with the hope
that it gets Strengthened out SO Carl
can be in our midst when the flag
drops.
UT'M willing to admit that 1 made
L a mistake in saying last fall
that i didn't expect to play ball
i'll earnest at the time. Now l feel
differently about it, and i want 10
play ball here in Atlanta"
So when President Farrell, of the
Yankees, sent Carl his contract just
month ago, Carl wrote him and
requested very courteously that he
be permitted to play another season
with the Atlanta club.
UT TOLD Mr.. Farrell that I felt. sure
another years seasoning would
make me much more useful to his
club" Carl said, "and asked him as
a favor to let me play with Atlanta"
Mr.. Farrell didn't reply, and lit
tie over a week ago. Carl wrote him
again. He is now waiting for an an
swer, and hoping it will be for the
best.
But it looks like rather forlorl
hope" he said. "Mr. Galloway tells
me he saw Arthur Irwin when he
was in New York recently and the
Yankees scout was positive that
was scheduled to work for Farrell"
Still, Carl is hoping, and the At
lanta mana cement is hoping. For
with Carl on the slab staff, with
Price and Dent. there would he
mighty little picking over left to do
before the flag dropped.
E1RsT practice at Ponce DeLeon
ball park!
Tuesday afternoon saw the sun
light glancing on the spangles. and
the big, empty stands echoed the
merry crack of the bat, driving fungo
wallops across the blue vault Of
heaven and all that sort of thing.
These were the practitioners:
William Andrew Smith. manager
of the Crackers; J. Carlisle Red
Smith. Brooklyn third -sacker; Tom
my MCMILLAN, hOcHe3leT SnOrISIOp,
and Harry Holland, Washington
utility inf1elder.
sGLNTE had a swell practice" said
w William Andrew Smith. mo,
we absolutely did not creak a bit
Neither did our joints pop. ] was in
esnecially good shape-right where
left off last fall. Full of pep as
sprihg colt and all that sort of thing.
| batted most of the flies"
Apparently somebody had been
tearing up the earth at the first prac-
tice, for when Billy got back to the
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
Charlie White Stops
Kid Kansas in Third

BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb 1S.--Charlie
White, Of Chicago, looked still bet
ter than when he met Jimmy Duffy
here a few weeks ago by stopping Kid
Kansas in the third round of a
scheduled ten-round go. A left hook
to the jaw followed by right cross
put Kansas to the canvas in a heap
few second after the fatal round
started.
This is the second time White has
stopped Kansas, the Chicago boy
turning the trick in four rounds about
two months ago.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
Judge Kavanaugh
Takes Hot Rap at
Catcher Schmidt

LITTLE ROCK, ARK, Feb. 1S.--
IF it is true, as claimed by George
Stovall, that Charles Schmidt, the
Mobile catcher, has signed Federal
League contract. then Schmidt will
have to play with the Federal League
next season; the Southern League
will not have him." said President
w. M. Kavanaugh. of the Southern
League, last night.
IF man is of the class that he
does not regard contract with the
Southern League as binding, then he
is welcome to go"
Schmidt, 1t is stated, has accepted
terms offered by the Kansas City
Federal League club.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
EV0rS Case Will
Be Settled Saturday

NEW YORK, Feb. 1s.-Governor
Soah Tener, of Pennsylvania, presi-
dent Of the National League, has
.5--ed an adjourned. session of the
-'si'onal League and an adjourned
nlee5 tt ing of the board of directors Of
'eague to be held at Sinton Hotel.
l't0l nnad, next Saturday at 2
Dt.pck. The final details of the
y 3A&Ter of former Second Baseman
. 'l'n Evers, of the Chicago club. to
S.t Boston club viii be completed.
considered
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
Food
-5y GEORGE e. PHAIR.

BY GEORGE e. PHAIH.
3. JOHNSON TO C. MURPHY.
Like a GreGSer loreS a 0rtngo,
Like a Bul0Gr loUes a Turk.
Like bdtsmdn IoCeS strfkeout,
Like hobo lOUes to t1ork,
Like an athlete loUes his o1cner,
Like gambler loucs to lose,
Like mdgnate loUes a holdout-
That's hoio / ioUe yoase.
1t is freely predicted that Henry
O'Day will be manager of the Cubs
as long as he does not attempt TO be
manager.
Bill Bradley still can boast Of the
fact that he once was manager Of the
Toronto Federal League team, even
though Toronto never had team in
the Federal League.
The fisherman up York State who
caught 10000 pounds of carp may
have done a heavy days work, but
why should anybody catch 10000
pounds of carp?
Branch Hickey having issued an
Browns will play some baseball for a
change.
If Mr.. Murphy ever develops a
o-udoe AGAINST Tom Needham he can
wreak horrible vengeance by trading
him to the Browns.
AMMUNITION.
A baseball mignp aot0 and then
Is duck soup for as ioriting men.
Jack Johnson sustained the hardest
blow Of his career in Paris the other
day. A heartless judge forced him to
pay debt.
As we expected, the world touring
athletes are not bearing up we'll un-
der the endless succession of ban
quets. Ball players are accustomed
to free lunch in winter.
Paul Samson, rassIer, claims he in
iured his head rassIins with Frank
ootoh, just as If rassler could in
lure his head.
Not that we are particularly inter-
ested in Eddie McGoorty, but we
sometimes wonder how he passes his
time when not fighting Dave Smith.
Those University of Wisconsin
profs have disqualified thirteen more
athletes, showing that they still can
bat in their old time form.
Clark Griffith having offered $780,
600 for Ty Cobb, i behooves Frank
johnson and get like amount Of
cheap advertising.
The British expert who writes that
golf is far more cruel than boxing
must have been at the rinaside when
Mcfarland and Britton fought their
alleged fight.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
Tech High Defeats
Donald Fraser, 29-l7

Tech High School defeated Donald
Fraser yesterday, 20 to II, in a well
played game of basketball.
Tech High took the lead in the first
few minutes of play and ran up a
large score before Donald Fraser
could register at all. The score at
the end of the first half was Tech
High II, Donald Fraser 5.
Czintz. Meyers and Thomas starred
for Tech High, while Phillips and
Burgess did the best work for Donald
Fraser
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
Stone Mountain Wins
Over G.. M. A., 37-l4

The Stone Mountain team defeated
the Georgia Military Academy in
fast game yesterday, 81 to IA.
The playing of Reeves, Branigan
and Gibson, for Stone Mountain, and
Porter, for G. M. A.. featured.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
Boys High Beats
Peacock Fleet, 1918

Boys High triumphed over Pea
cock Fleet SO to 13 yesterday.
The 3. H. s. boys took the lead
early and the outcome was never in
doubt. Scott, of Boys High. was the
individual star of the game
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
Colleges
All Want
Good Men.

business or walk of life care a hang
where they hail from. If we have
induced men of worth and ability
to link their fortunes with ours 1t
is to our credit, and it helps to spell
prosperity for the future Schools
and colleges, cities and States, cor
porations and nations the world over
go out after them and take them
where they find them.
Every college wants the best
president it can afford or can find;
and some of them hunt for years
until they discover the man they
are after In the same way col
iesges want the best athletes; and for
me same reasons they have the
HIGHT TO get them if they cam
NO one need be alarmed; the col
reyes are all right, and athletics are
ton
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
Princeton
Men for
Wilson.

rog9rdIess of personal political
views worked his head off trying to
have Wilson elected? OF course he
did That would be for the honor
and Glory of Old Nassau. though
notifies has nothing to do with col
lege work. And WHENEVER
representative, either graduate or
UNDERGRADUATE. goes out INTO THE
WORLD (not into a restricted class
room-which spells merely narrow
competition between members OF
the SAME coilege) actually
DOES something, his college is as
proud of him and brags rs much
about it as they do when their ath-
letes distinguish themselves in
competition with the direct repre-
sentatives of other colleges.
Courtney exclaims at the idea of
Cornell having some 81 contests
scheduled for the year in the various
forms of undergraduate activities.
Again l ask what of it?
He loses sight of the fact that
Cornell has something like 5000
students. And he loses sight of the
fact that those 81 contests are spread
out over nearly 20 different kinds
of sport. There are, besides the
major sports of baseball, football,
track athletics and rowing, a whole
slather of minor sports and teams
and contests-such as basketball,
hockey swimming, water polo, ten
mis-, cross country, shooting, chess,
wrestling and golf in big univer-
sity like Cornell. And some have
lacrosse. soccer football, polo and
gymnastic team contests, and good
ness only knows what all else. Now
when you come to parcel 81 games
out among all these, where does the
abuse come in?
Consider, for a moment, what
would have to be the size of city
that could produce some 5000 fairly
normal, healthy young men between
the ages Of, say II to 25. all of whom
had sufficient means to go to col
lege. The total population of such
a city would fall not far short of
100000 [ venture to say Would any
one think it a strange madness that
should possess the people of city
OF that size to learn that there were
TO take place within one year some
81 contests, engaged in by this, that
and the other kind of athletic team
drawn from that city? All, or near
ly all, such games and contests
would have to be carried on by the
particular 5000 able-bodied young
men that are able to represent that
city in such sports.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
FIEISh[ANS
]R2;l,lCQLEGE
2lfaCMUnN 20
RrI w Heisman.

By j. w. Heisman.
To-day Mr.. Heisman concludes
.ie article on "AthIetic Calamity
Howers.")
~OURTNEY complains that we
don't send brass band to
- accompany a squad of students
10 the depot when they are leaving
with a professor to go to some big
chemical plant or steel works for ex-
detrimental work and investigation.
III course we don't. That is no
more than comes in the ordinary
routine of their daily work, and is
no different from their going to
classes. To have a professor show
them how to conduct an experiment,
or to point out to them how fur
mace is tapped is not contest with
similar squad from rival insti-
tuition. If it were, and our bunch
we're to come back the victors, we
would indeed meet them also with
brass band-the same as we do
now when our victorious debaters
and orators return from an inter-
rolleqiate contest.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
WASHINGTON, D. G.

The Southern Railway announces
eale of round trip tickets from At
lanta to Washington. ID. c., for $19.35;
tickets on sale February 16, II and
IS, with return limit February 26,
1914, corresponding fares from other
stations.-Advt
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
MIsKE HELD 70 DRAW.

SUPERIOR, WIS, Feb. 1S--Billy
Miske, of st. Paul. fought draw
with Spike Jolly, OF Chicago, here
last night in ten rounds.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
WALTER KEATINo SICK.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1S.-Walter
Heating, Cub youngster. will not join
the Chicago Cubs for week or more,
as he is confined to his home with an
attack of measles.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
BASEBALEaRSRH9!5}fEfEss RRH5Efs y

and Jacobsen. 1t is thought though
that Balenti has already signed. Nc
Cormick has been working hard to
make the hold out list narrow down.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18

When Wood
row Wilson was
run min g for
President don't
you sup p o S G
that every last
Princeton man,
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18

Yes, we all
want all the
good men we
can get hold of;
and we don't
any of us in any
voca tion or
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-15

The Bisons and Skeeters pulled a
swap, Buffalo getting Eschen for
Wright and Lehr Wright is an out
fielder from the Canadian League
and has a rep as a fence buster.
Thirty-five hundred saw the Grays
and the Royals play at Rocky Point,
r. |.
Pitcher Luque, of the Boston Ma
tionals, a Cuban, has been turned
over to the Jersey City Club.
Thirty three runs and forty hits
were registered in the baseball game
at Binghamton, VT, yesterday, be-
tween the New Britain and Pittstield
teams of the Eastern Association,
New Britain winning q to IL. The
winners made as many runs in the
first inning as Pittsfield made during
the game.
Thirteen straight has Baltimore
won and six of them have been taken
by one-run scores. The team that
wins by one run generally has the
grit.
An exhibition game scheduled be-
tween Baltimore and Cincinnati was
called off yesterday because of rain
in the Monumental City.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-15
GOSSIP GATHERED AROUND
INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT

Kitty Bransfield, who says he could
not be paid to manage tailend
team, quit a little bit too soon. The
Montreal Club climbed out of last
place yesterday, while the Skeeters
slipped back into the cellar.
Pitcher Eddie Summers has been
canned by Bill Donovan. Summers S
effort to come back against Newark,
a few weeks ago, was a failure and
he had to bow to the inevitable.
The Jersey City Club has released
Intielder Koehler so that he may
manage the South Bend Und) team,
Toronto waited until the ninth to
win the first battle from Jersey City.
Frill had held them tight to that in
ming. The final in the first game at
Skeeterville was 20.
Wright, the new Skeeter outfielder,
had hit in each game yesterday.
Captain Dave Shean, of the Provi-
dence Club, had homer and single
and stole a base yesterday. 1t puts
a lot of pepper into a player. making
him captain. Roxie Roach, who is
field lieutenant of the Bisons, never
played better than he has since his
election. Eddie Zimmerman is an
other example.