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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02
BOXING IN AUSTRALASIA.
English Scrapper Is Looking for Mid
dIeweiqht Honors.

Arthur Everden, the English mid
dleweight is the first boxer to take
advantage OF the Australian rule maxi
ing immigrant boxers eligible to Aus
tralasian championships after IA years
residence. He has settled at sydney
and intends going for the middleweight
championship, now claimed by Nick
King, though there is no generally ac-
credited champion since Dave Smith,
who cannot fight except at well over
100 pounds, has announced that he will
retire from the ring.
Joe Shugrue is now looked upon as
about the best lightweight in Aus
tralasia, and has done we'll since emf
grating from the United States. He
easily outpointed Milton Saylor from
Indianapolis when they boxed in sgd
ney on July II, but when they met lat
er Saylor had the best OF the go" both
being twenty rounds. In Melbourne,
on July %, Shugrue knocked out
Hughie Michigan, lightweight cham
pion OF Australia, in the eleventh
IOuIlu OI pretty bdlllt. AS SlluBIuc
had previously knocked out Bert Nc
Coy, who is rated as first-class, mis-
star seems i'm the ascendant.
Fritz Holland. who comes from the
United States. put a decided crlmp in
the aspirations of Les Darcy, IA young
blacksmith's apprentice from Maitland,
n. 5. w, who had ambitions for mid
dleweight honors. The young black
smith had been doing so well in minor
fights that there was a crowd at the
sydney stadium said To he the largest
since Tommy Burns fought Jack John
son there. They met on July rs, and
Darcy was so raw that Holland made
n show of him in a contest for points.
Darcy Is hut nineteen. mas clever
footwork, and good right, but lacked
the skill of the finished boxer. and SO
had to accept defeat for his portion.
The critics believe, however, that he
has the making OF a good boxer in him.
Much interest is being shown in the
plans OF Snowy Baker for instructing
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02
WARSHlPS STOP SWIMMER.
A. Brown Not Allowed to Try the
"Channel" Swim.

Alfred Brown, professional swimmer,
has just returned from England where
he went to make an attempt to swim
the English Channel. He said, in
speaking OF conditions abroad:
"The very day England declared war
a thorough and systematic patrol Of
the coast was established by the navy.
l had taken quarters at Dover to do
my training and started To work every
morning. on the second swim | had
after the beginning of the trouble
ventured couple OF miles Off shore
and was Immediately seen by torpedo
boat. which at once headed my way
and asked me to turn back, warning
me also not to do any more swimming
so far out.
After that no motor craft, or even
rowing skin, was allowed any distance
from the beach, and ! realized that II
was quite useless to think OF carrying
out my plans, so | decided to sail for
home, and now thank my stars that
was able to secure n berth.
1T was great disappointment to
me. however. not TO have chance at
the big swim, because / am convinced
that il can be made in about fifteen or
sixteen hours. During my stay in
Dover the water was at times as
smooth as a mill pond and its temper
allure consistently above sixty degrees.
so that man training on the spot and
able to pick his day should have no
difficulty in finding favorable condi-
tons.
II ascribe the many failures chron-
lcled principally to lack of speed on
the part of the candidates. The opin-
ion prevails abroad that only breast
stroke swimmer can make the eros
sing, and any one who speaks of want
ing to use the trudgeon is promptly
discouraged and told the very idea is
absurd, which explains why the major
ity say that the journey cannot be
completed und,r twenty hours. My
own pilot actually refused to accom-
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02
SPORTS
STILL GOING ON
Britons Decide That 1t Is Benefi-
cial to Play Games

London, Sept. 1.-The call to the
colors OF the English army threatened
at one time to put "A complete stop TO
all sports throughout the British Isles.
Coming at time right in the middle
of the cricket season and just at the
commencement OF the soccer season
all the clubs were prepared To cancel
their fixtures. but at representative
meeting recently held it was decided
to continue the games and save adding
further to the gloom caused by the war
by throwing a large number Of profess
SIGNALS out OF employment. Only one
county, Buckinghamshire, who are in
the second division of the county
cricket championship, found 1t impos-
sible to keep their engagements owing
to eight out of eleven of their team
going to the war. The following well
known players have also responded to
the call: Sir 4. White, Yorkshire's
captain; Capt. Il. Baggallay, Derby
shire's skipper; A. II. Horribly, captain
OF Lancaster; Major IA. s.. Bush Of
Surrey; Capt. II. S. Poyntz. Somerset.
shire; Capt. w. NJ. Turner. Essex; ID.
ID. Robinson. Worcestershire; A. w.
Carr and T.. z Gregory, Nottingham
shire Sharp and Challoner, Leicester
shire n. J. 4. Foster. Worcestershire,
and five members of the Hampshire
team.
Surveys fine ground, Remington
oval has been taken over by the mill
tary authorities and the,r remaining
fixtures will be played off at Lords,
the headquarters OF MiddleseX.
The call has affected the Scottish
soccw clubs to the extent of all the
teams having to give up one or two
players, and while the English associa-
ton clubs have all felt the loss of some
players, they are able to replace the
men who have gone on active service,
as the season does not commence UNI
til Sept 1. The grounds Of Motifs
county, Everton, Manchester City and
Stockport county have all been seized
for use OF the troops, but with so many
other clubs headquarters in the neigh
borhood. their fixtures will be carried
through on other grounds without any
difficulty.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02
SPORTING EDITORS NOTES.

A. Rankin Johnson, the former Red
Sox twirler. got a fine start in his now
job with the Chicago Federal league
team.
Harold Janvrin has been playing
great ball since he became the regular
second baseman OF the Boston Red Sox
According TO averages recently com
piled, the indianapolis Hoosiers are
first in batting and last in fielding in
the Federal leasue.
Chicago gossip has it that Jimmy
Callahan is To become vice. president
OF the White SoI. and that coach Kid
Gleason will succeed Callahan as
manager.
1t is said that Manager Joe Birm-
ingham OF the Cleveland Maps intends
To drop a number OF veterans and start
next season with Il team OF youngsters.
As the Mackmen look like sure win
ners, there is little left in the American
league race other than the battle Of the
Red Sox. Tigers and Senators for sec
ond place
Catcher Wally Schang OF the Attn
letics is doing double duty, owing TO
the absence Of Jack Lapp from the
game. Lapp is nursing a broken finger
and probably will be laid up for a
month.
In the way OF a bonus the st. Louis
Cardinals will get 20 per cent OF their
salary IL they finish first or second, Is
and 10 per cent IL they land dfth or
.iNth
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02

sChoolboys in boxing. Sydney, Mel
bourne, and Brisbane, the three largest
cities in Australia, have taken to the
scheme, and in each OF the cities 100
picked boys are attending the boxing
classes with lessons two or three times
week. When these boys have learn
ed how TO handle the gloves in a fairly
efficient manner they will he used as
instructors for other lads. The idea is
TO develop physical courage among the
schoolboys in this way, as well as 20
make it a part OF the training for gem
cTal health and strength.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02
ORIENTAL ATHLETES COMING
They Will Compete at the Panama
Pacific Exposition.

FaClnc Exposition
The Withdrawals from the Olympic
games at the Panama Pacific Interna-
tionaI Exposition on account OF the
war will he more than compensated
for by the announcement just made by
James r. Sullivan, director OF athletics,
that more than 500 Oriental athletes.
who will participate in the Far Eastern
Olympic games in Octocer nave agreed
to come to san Francisco in 1915.
Besides these athletes, who have
never participated in big information
al series and whose skin with the jaw
elm end on the cinder path is said TO
equal their Western brothers, Director
Sullivan announces that additional en-
tries have come from Denmark. Nor
way, Sweden. the Canal Zone. Cuba,
and Australia.
Mr.. Sullivan received a letter from
the director OF games in Shanghai,
China, in which he pointed out that tho
records made by Oriental athletes are
very close TO the best marks made In
the Olympic games in stockholm.
These athletes are principally Japan
csc and Chinese collegisns. who have
had the benefits OF American tutors.
and who have taken to the American
pastimes with spirit which the
Shanghai authority says will force the
American athletes to Guido their best
marks to win from the Orientals.
In the number OF athletes from the
East are also representatives from
Siam, Java, and the Straits Settle
ments.
Besides these additions. Ms. Sullivan
has reports from W. II. Davis superln-
tendent Of the Vancouver Island Ath-.
letic association OF Victoria, Il. C.. In
which the announcement is made that
the Vancouver association will send to
San Francisco. besides its original en-
tries water polo team, soccer foot
ball team, cyclists, wrestlers and
Olympic entrants such as Hal Beasley.
who represented Canada al Stockholm.
and J. McNeal, the British Columbian
champiOn swimmer
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02

pany me unless ! agreed to swim the
breast stroke. and had l undertaken
the trial should have been forced TO
look for another handler
1T was evident To me that in spite
of Great Britain's rapid progress i'm
most branches OF aquatics, she Is be-
hind the times in long distance swim
ming. Several OF our American lead
ers have adopted the trudgeon for all
tests Of endurance and held II without
firing for fourteen, fifteen. and moro
hours In waters as cold as the Channel,
and In some instances rougher."
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02
YACHT F|ASCO
0ST$1,500,00O
All Money VIII Be Lost If War Con-
tinues for Two Years

New York, Sept. with the depar-
ture OF Sir Thomas Lipton's steam
yacht Erin on her homeward journey
last week. the last visible reminder OF
the Americas Cup races scheduled for
1914 was removed from these waters.
High and dry in the shipyards at Bris-
tol, II. J., City Island and South
Brooklyn, stand all that is left of what
only few weeks ago were the four
fastest racing sloops afioat. Today
stripped OF their spars and rigging,
with their sails slowed and their decks
boxed up for the winter, they are little
more than symbols OF one OF the costli-
est fiascoes in the history of interna-
tonal sport.
Taken together they represent an in
vcstment of nearly $1,000, 000-money
as good as thrown away 50 long as war
or some other cause makes cup racing
impossible. Officially the contest is
postponed until 1915, for a year the
boats will be as good as new, but If
the war goes on two or three years,
the chances OF any of the boats racing
for the Americas Cup are small.
When II was arranged to sail the
1914 races with seventy five footers.
one OF the advantages OF the smaller
type of boat pointed out was the ex-
pense. They would be cheaper to build
than ninety Hooters and the crew
would be smaller. The seventy five
footers needed thirty men, the ninety
footers fifty men.
Exceeded Estimates.
But when the time came to build.
those who had talked about saving
money were disappointed. The cost of
ninety footer was $4,000, and some
had predicted that that amount would
be cut in half. but only one succeeded
in doing it. and that was Defiance, built
at Bath, Me-. for syndicate of Boston,
Philadelphia and New York yachts
men. She cost exactly 5000 but AL
eXander Smith Cochran's Vanitie cost
100000. and Resolute, the candidate
Of the New York Yacht club syndicate,
cost $4,000.
The cost OF Shamrock W, has never
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02

Seventeen players in the National
league and twelve in the American
leagbe are hitting for 300 or better
Last year there were seventeen 300
hitters In the American league and
twenty-six in the National.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02
American Association.

Louisville IL; Milwaukee 2.
Columbus IL; st. Paul 8; first game.
Columbus 6; st. Paul 3; second
game.
indianapolis j; Kansas City 9.
Cleveland o; Minneapolis 2; called
in fifth; darkness.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02
GIANTS SECURE o'TooLE.

Pittsburgh, Pa Sept 2.-Martin
O'Toole OF the Pittsburg Nationals, the
p,tcher purchased from the st. Paul
club in 1911 for $4,000. has been sold
Tn the New York Nationals.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02
Federal League.

Chicago o; Indianapolis 4.
Pittsburgh 2; Baltimore 1; 10 in
nings.
st. Louis Kansas City game post
poned; rain.
Buffalo Brooklyn game postponed;
rain.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02

Dan McKettrick, manager OF Frank
Moran, is marooned in London. He
writes friends on this side that he has
not yet been able TO get Moran's end
Of the purse for the johnson
battle.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02

The Lowell club Of the New Eng
land league has sold Pitcher James
Ring To the New York Americans for
$4,000. Ring signed a six months con-
tract for 1915 with the ten-day clause
eliminated
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02
BROWN GOES TO BROOKLYN

Chicago, Sept. 2.-Mordecai BroWh'
the deposed manager of the ST. Louis
Federals. signed a three-year contract
today with the Brooklyn Federais a,
a salary said to he $500.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02
Federal League.

Kansas City at st. Louis.
Indianapolis at Chicago.
Baltimore at Pittsburgh.
Brooklyn at Bufraro.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02
Federal League.
TODAY'S GAM ES.
National League.

National League.
Chicago at Cincinnati.
Pittsburgh at St. Louis.
Boston at Philadelphia.
New York at Brooklyn.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02
National Lsslus.

Cincinnati Z: Chicago s.
st. Louis-Pittsburgh game postpon'
ed; rain.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02

The Cincinnati Boxing Commission
will not permit women to attend fights
I'm that city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-04
TAKING A FAMILY
BACK TO THE SOIL
Being the Experiences of Gov
ernment Clerk Who Sets Out
to Lower the High Cost of
Living.

This chicken business has me guessing.
If the thing is as profitable as they
say it is l can't understand why John
D. Rockefeller doesn't sell out all his
other interests and go in for hens. He'd
have all the money in the world in year
or two.
Those old bonanza kings back in the
days of the Comstock lode were miser-
able little pkers alongside what the pro-
pretor of a modern chicken farm must
be-accordng to the figures, Just listen
to this: \ poultry farm in New Jersey,
where there are several thousand hens.
claims 4 net profit of S6.45 a year per
hen. The fact that the claim is made for
the purpose Of inducing people to pay
high prices for breeding stock and eggs
for Matching might tend to discount it, but
they come back at you with a statement
from a firm of certified accountants
which has audited the books and attests
to the correctness of the figures. An
other concern, which sells incubatorS and
other supplies, declares a man can make
a good living by keeping few hens on
a city lot. and offers to tell you how In a
book which costs a dollar. If that is true,
on eight acres l ought to make at least
as much as the President of the United
States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-04
Belasco.

Even the storm which wrecked the
atrical calculations Monday and buried
the company to such an extent that it
could not reach here on time could
not rob the delightful little Scotch
comedy, "Bunty Pulls the Strings of
the warmth and beauty of its homelike
charm or chill the splendid reception
which it again received last night at
the Belasco Theater. The little play
is not a stranger to Washington. but
the enthusiasm and genuine enjoyment
shown by last nights audience is ample
evidence that it is not guest which
has worn out its welcome. An idyll
of Scotch home life, wholesome, sweet.
natural and delightful in its every
phase, it re-established itself in the
esteem of it's friends and made many
new admirers.
Miss Molly Pearson. who has come
to be identified with her role of
Bunty Biggar. the girl who never fails
to extrjcate her family and friends from
the most trying troubles of IA simple
life. as to become known as "Bunty'
Pearson. is still with the company.
which in all respects presents the pretty
little drama in way to lose none of
its inherent beauty and charm Will
liam LennoX is the "Weelum." Polly
Griffin the irrepressible spinster with
designs in her heart" against Bunty's
father; Teenie Dunlop was a pleasing
Violet Dale, Mabel Stanton an excellent
Aunt Ellen. J. E. McGregor and James
Finlayson, respectively, all that could
be asked for the father and brother of
Bunty. Clara Coleman and Hudson
Liston also made minor parts a
pleasant feature of the performance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-04
JAMES K. HACKETT, ACTOR,
INHERITS NIECE'S ESTATE
Will Get Bulk of So, 5000 Fortune
Left by Mrs. Minnie Hackett !
Trowbridge.

James X. Hackett, the actor, has in.
herited the bulk of the sc,50O,OOO estate
left by Mrs Minnie Hackett Trowbridge
who died at her home in New York city
yesterday from the effects of a stroke OF
apoplexy suffered in 1908
Mr.. Hackett will receive the money be-
cause he is an uncle of Mrs. Trowbridge
and is nearest of kin and entitled to a
residuary estate beaueathed TO her hus-
band. Francis E. Trowbridge. who died
in 1910.
Suffering from aphasia at the time OF
her husbands death, Mrs. Trowbridge
was declared incompetent the following
year by the courts. which made it i'm
possible for her to make a new will, al
though in lucid intervals it was a matter
Of poignant grief to her. for she wished
to leave her property to others than Mr.
Hackett.
James Henry Hackett, a famous actor
of the early part of the last century
took second wife when he was an old
man, and James X. Hackett was the only
child of this marriage, born in 1869, when
his father was sixty-nine years old. The
second marriage of the actor was never
received with favor by other members OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-04
Madame, Who Are You?'

Jake Goldenburg will present the two
act musical burlesque built on musical
comedy lines, Madame, Who Are Your
at the Gayety Theater next week, with
the mechanical and electrical devices.
Will Fox and Harry Marks Stewart, in
character roles, are the leading funmak-
ers, while James J. Lake acts as foil
for their humor as the department store
manager Beatrice Lotus is a female
hoorwalker and Rose De Young a pert
young stenographer Harry Won Tilzer
wrote the music of the play and Jack
Mason staged the dancing numbers.
Carol Shredder has the title role that of
a mysterious woman who succeeds in
making trouble for the comedians. Eddie
Nelson assists the comedy principals,
while Carrie and Dorothy Raymond give
several vaudeville specialties. A chorus
of more than twenty introduces the many
musical numbers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-04
Maids of Athens

Henry W. Savage's Viennese operetta
Maids of Athens comes to the National
next week.
1t is the first work in collaboration of
Franz Lehar and Victor Leon. the COM
poser and librettist, respectively, of The
Merry Widow since they wrote that rec
ord-breaking success, and as conse-
quence Mr. Savage has nicknamed Maids
of Athens the Merry Widows Big
Sister, In Europe it has been known as
The King of the Mountains" and Mr..
Savage originally intended to retain that
title in America, but in order to convey
more distinctly the idea Of the predomi-
nance Of femininity in the piece he
changed it to the name by which it will
be known.
There are nineteen musical numbers,
three massive and exceedingly costly sets
of scenery, more than 900 costumes, a
company of nearly 100 and an orchestra
of thirty-Seven.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-04
Gertrude Hoffman.

B. F. Keith's Theater next week will
present Gertrude Hoffman and company
in a big scenic and musical creation in
twelve scenes. Miss Hoffman interpolates
interpretative dances. limitations of new
and old stage favorites and travesties
upon popular plays Dane Claudius and
Lillian Scarlet will present 1.-The Call OF
the Sixties with folk songs and patriotic
ballads. Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Cast e
will be seen in motion pictures of 1.-The
Castle walk and other terpsichorean fig
ures. Other acts include the Harvard
Stafford company in the bal masque COM
edy THE Devil Outwitted'; John and
Winnie Hennings. as the kill Kare Kou.
ple"; Edgar Berger. flexible wonder; the
Pathe weekly review, the pipe organ re-
citals and the dancing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-04
Culp-Goodson Recital.

NO recital given in Washington this
season has seemed to give more delight
to an audience throughout than that of
Mime. Julia Culp, the great Dutch leder-
singer, and Katharine Goodson, the emf
nent English pianist, at the New National
Theater yesterday afternoon. Although
the long program required until nearly Z
O'Clock to present. there were insistent
which were graciously given by both art
lists.
Nine Culp. whose beautiful voice and
wonderful art enables her to give a new
soul to even the simplest household bal
lads, was at her best. She sang a group
OF Schubert songs, including "Heimliches
Lieben." "Des Fischer's Liebesgluck, !"
Die F4orelle" and "Du Dist die Rub"
and group of Hugo Wolf songs, of
which In dem schatten meiner Locken'
and Mausfallen- spruechlein" seemed to
give such pleasure that the latter was
given as an encore at the end of the
group. But 1t was in the quartet of Eng
fish songs that Nine. Culp seemed to
arouse intense enthusiasm. "All Through
the Night by Welsh. with Away
Away. Drink to Me Only with Thine
Eyes" and I've Been Roaming" sung
In pure English without the semblance of
deCeHt, SeeiIieQ 10 nave an especial charm
to Nine. CUPS admirers and to present
her in an entirely new light
The pronounced ovation, however. was
reserved for Katharine Goodson, a
stranger to many doubtless, but one who
quickly won her way to high admiration
by the exquisite delicacy and artistic
technique of her work. Mozart's Sonata
in major Immediately commanded at
tention, and her series of five Chopin
numbers aroused great enthusiasm, espe-
cially the study in C major, No. Z, op.
10; the valse in A fiat op. 81. and the
Polonaise in fiat, which has been pre-
sented here by the artists Of the highest
rank in the world, but none as by Miss
Goodson. 1t seemed a revelation and the
applause which followed compelled an
encore, the Schumann .'Nachtstuck" Her
final group. Rubinstein's "Barcarolle."
the Hinton "Etude Arabesque" and
LISTS Venezia Napoli,'' offered fur
Their proof of Miss Goodson's beautiful
artistry.
Nine. Culp recognized the exceptional
gifts of the accompanist by presenting
Mr.. Bos for share in the applause.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-04
Orpheum.

Little Devil will be exclusively featured
the entire week at Moore's Orpheum
Theater. 1t was as the blind girl Juliette
that Miss Pickford gained her laurels on
the stage, and she enacts the same char
acter in the film production. The play
has been adapted and staged by David
Belasco for the famous Players Com
pany in collaboration with Daniel Froh-
man, and many of the original cast will
be seen These films are now in their
third week in New York. A special
musical score arranged by Mr.. Theodore
Rendix of the Metropolitan Opera House
will be rendered by the Orpheum orches-
fra