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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-01
FEDERALS TO FIRE FIRST
GUN IN BASE BALL WAR
Will Not Wait for Organized Base Ball to Start
Something, Says Weeghman
laws Confident of Success.

CHICAGO, Ill, January I've won
wait for the major leagues TO start the
fight. We are going 10 fire the first gun
and we are going to make it hot for or
ganized base ball The fact is we have
the goods ON them, and. what's more,
they know it,
Charles Weeghman ventured fortn Win
the above statement yesterday. The local
Federal League magnate has come 70
this conclusion after looking the field
over ne said Mr.. Weeghman is more
confident than ever over the sure success
of the project.
sThe major leagues are infringing on
the Sherman antitrust law and 1t IS
about time they stopped i. We have
hired competent lawyers who know how
to handle a case of this Importance. and
before the war is over there viii be
some astonishing facts made known to
the base ball public They have been ex-
ercising an injunction restraining player
from competing in the Federal League,
and We are going to force them INTO
court TO settle IN. dispute
No Strings on Players.
The Federal League wants 10 clean
out organized base ball, and now is a
very opportune time TO disentangle their
coiflplicstteu SCI VI Iuies- Inc reuefdi
League is open 10 the star ball player
and intends to treat them like human
beings. We viii have no strings at
t2ched 70 the players.
81 am not attempting to convey the
idea that organized base ball is being run
by a swarm of crooks. To the contrary
the majority of the men behind the game
are of highest character. There are.
however, as Mr.. Johnson stated. a few
greedy ones who should be gotten rid of,
and their expulsion will prove a help TO
the game
President Charles Ebbets of the Brook
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-01
BY J. ED GRILLO.

According TO the runors enauating
from Federal League sources, but few
OF the players of the two major leagues
will remain with their clubs for the COM
ing season. A large majority of the stars
of organized base ball are already claimed
by the so-called "out avs and the prom
Ise is made that the raid has only begun,
Ii stands 70 reason that IL requires a
lot of money 10 persuade the ball players
TO jump from organized base ball. and
where the Federal League is going to
lind the angels to furnish this vast fund
is beyond conception. for the reason that
most OF this will be expended or tied up
long before the time for opening the
season rolls around There is not the
slightest doubt that much is being
claimed by the invaders which cannot be
substantiated. There seems TO be no
question that both Tinker and Brown
have signed with the newcomers, but
further than that there appears TO be
only rumors regarding other players.
But some definite line will be had OH
the situation as soon the conference
between the national commission and the
committee from the players fraternity
has been held. after which il is expected
that the payers will be given permission
10 sign with their respective clubs.
About the most absurd claims being
made by some OF the Federal leaguers
are that they win play 25-cent bali and
not subject the players to a reserve
clause. The time when major league base
bah could prosper with the 25-cent gate
limit has long since passed. Salaries are
much too high 10 allow such q reduction
Of the admission fee. This was demon
strated In Philadelphia during the 1872
season, when Nack's team, though il was
In the race from start to finish. quit
only something like $1,000 to the good.
At that time four-iifths of the capacity
OF Shtbe Park was sold on 2J-cent
basis, and though the attendance was
good the price of admission was so low
that IL was impossible to make any
money.
So far as not having a reserve clause
IN the contract, the Federal League NAV
be able TO survive one season under this
plan, but it means the doom of the ven
ture in due time.
1t was naturally supposed that in the
event OF Joe Tinker tying himself w
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-01

Freddie Welsh Is expected tooutpoini
Johnny Dundee in ten rounds at New
Orleans The leading bouts here and else
where follow:
Gunboat Smith vs. Arthur Pelkey, TWEEN
tv rounds San Francisco, Cal.
Leach Cross VS.. Bud Anderson, twenty
rounds, Vernon. Cal.
Freddie Welsh VS.. Johnny Dundee, ten
rounds, New Orleans, La.
AID Wolgast vs. Sammy Trott, ten
rounds. Milwaukee. Wis.
Sapper ONeil of England VS.. Johnny
Harvey, ten rounds, Fairmont A. c.
Bob Moha vs. Freddie Hicks, ten
rounds, Irving A. G.
Battling Levinsky VS.. Tom Daley, ten
rounds, Atlantic Garden A. c.
Porky Flynn VS.. Tim Logan, ten rounds.
GOwanuS y. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-01
PENN CHESS TEAM IN LEAD.
Has Won Nine Games and Lost
Three in College League.

NEW YORK, January I.-Pennsylvania
was still in the lead last night at the
close of the third round in the annual
tournament of the Triangular College
Chess League. The Pennsylvania players
had won nine games and lost three. Cor
nell was close behind, with eight won and
four lost. Brown had won only one of
the twelve contests and was practically
out Of the competition.
The league elected the following officers
for next year: President, Walter Under
hill of Brooklyn: vice president, n. s.
Perkins of Cornell, and secretary, Her.
mann Helms of New York. A PROPOSE
ton made by Columbia, Harvard, Yale
and Princeton to play an annual team
match on six boards was favorably re-
ceived. The date suggested for the match
was April 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-01
CUTTING WINS BY DEFAULT.
Lands First Title to Tuxedo Chal.
lenge Gun at Court Tennis.

TUXEDO, n. Y, January by the
default of J. Gordon Douglas Of New
York yesterday r. Fulton Cutting, jr..
of Tuxedo won the first title to the
Tuxedo chal enge cup in court tennis
The final match was to have been played
today. but Douglas announced his IN
ability to play. as he is incapacitated by
water on the knee.
In addition to getting the first leg on
the new trophy. Cutting will be awarded
o. special cup In the semi-final Cutting
won from c. s. Lee, while Douglas de-
feated p. Lorillard, jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-01

lyn Dodgers has no one to blame for the
fact that he is now the victim of the ia
nous Tinker deal but himself. If he
had answered perfectly decent telegram
sent to him by Tinker soon after the
agreement was<made between Ebbets and
Hermann in New York Joe would now
be likely safely signed to a Dodger con-
tract
When Ebbets was in Cincinnati ten
days ago comforting with Hermann about
the agreement and making arrangements
to turn over Players Yingling and Moran
for Tinker the ex-Red manager was wait
ing anxiously at home here for some wore
from the Brooklyn magnate- He finally
sat down and wrote a message to Ebbets
asking him what were his best terms for
three-year contract.
Receives No Reply.
Joe naturally wanted to know some
thing about where he stood, but no re-
ply came to the telegram. Ebbets de-
eided not to meet Tinker in Indianapolis
the following Sunday and sent Manager
Robinson on to take his place. When
Tinker learned that the club head was
not going TO be in Indianapolis to meet
him he made up his mind that he would
not go. Robinson called him on the
long distance telephone and in the con-
veTsation told him that Ebbets was sore
over his telegram asking about terms.
Then and there Tinker made up his
mind that the Brooklyn club could go
its own way without him IL the Federal
League could offer him the proper induce
ment. The Federals found him in re-
ceptive frame of mind and had very
little trouble in convincing him that it
would be for his best interests to do
business with the new organization. If
Eobets had replied courteously to the
inquiry of Tinker and showed any dispo-
sition to do the right thing he would
not now be holding the bag and nursing
the grudge that he has against every one
and everything in general
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-01
Major League Magnates Displeased

Pitcher Ralph Glaze, formerly Of Spo-
kane. Northwestern League. has been ap-
preached by directors of the Indiana Uni
versity with a proposition to assume
duties as chief athletic supervisor at the
Bloomington institution. Charles c.
Carr. leader of the School of Base
Ball." was the first to suggest the nomi-
nation. Glaze was graduated from Dart
mouth University and ranked well in base
ball. foot ball and other collegiate ath-
letics. It is reported that Glaze owns
the best chance to land the position.
Eddie Foster of the Washington Sena-
.ors. they say. has Joined the secret
service this winter IL he guards the
governments interests half as well as he
loes third base he will be hailed as an
other Bill Burns.-Ncw York Tribune.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-01
BOXING IN MANY RINGS.
Gunboat Smith and Arthur Pelkey
Settle Question in Frisco Today.

NEW YORK, January 1-Boxing will
have a big inning today In many cities
throughout the United States. The most
important event is the twenty-round clash
between Gunboat Smith and Arthur Pei
key at San Francisco, for which Smith
rules favorite at 10 to g. Leach Cross
will tackle Bud Anderson in return
match at Vernon. Cal, the New York
lightweight being the choice at 10 to {.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-01

yean Craig is spending the off season
acting as a sleuth in a Cleveland depart
ment store The experience he has had
In determining just the moment when Ty
Cobb Is going to steal n base ought to
mako him fairly skillful In detecting a
shopiifter in the act Of making OF with
the firms goods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-01

John Foster says that the Giants will
not be bullied into paying higher salaries
by members of the team threatening to
jump to the outlaws. They will be in
yited 10 leave, the sooner the better, he
declares. Still the New York club might
be inclined to pariey while with Chief
Meyers or Larry Doyle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-01

1t was naturally supposed that in the
event OF Joe Tinker tying himself up
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-01
Compared to a Cyclone.

Compared 20 q CycI0ne.
The Toxic Times commented as fol-
lows:
Like a cyclone the big men Of America
came and went, creating a whirlwind of
sensation. What did they do? Well ask
Evening star., 1914-01-04
TREASURY IS SANGUINE.
Receipts Under New Tariff Law Ex-
pected to Exceed Estimates.

Treasury officials were inclined to be-
lieve last night that the Underwood-Sim-
mons tariff act will produce several mil
lions more revenue annually than had
been estimated by tariff experts. The
Treasury expected to see revenues fall
off about $45,00OOOO a year, but reports
for the first two months under the new
law have led to the belief that this esti-
mate is excessive.
Some officials predicted the falling off
would not amount to more than $4,000
600 year, which would give the govern
ment 100000 more than was counted
upon for 1914. Customs revenues fell
off more than 100000 during Novem-
Der, but for December figures just out
Show the decrease over December, 1872
was only about s2,7O0,OOO. Although
Christmas business may account for the
increase over November this year. it was
pointed out the normal decrease from
now on will run about 100000 monthly.
The total Treasury disbursements for
December amounted to $61 1896, ,O49, COM
pared with s62 69S,2 for December, 1872,
but the total excess of disbursements
over receipts In December was nearly
100000 greater than in November. The
net balance in the Treasury general fund
December 81 was s11,S54,317, and the
grand total Of assets in the Treasury
s2,O3S, ,s64, ,9T.
Evening star., 1914-01-04
THINKS CAUSE OF GOITRE
is IMPROPER NUTRITION
Cleveland Physicians Experiments
With Liver Diet for Fish Sug-
gest Treatment.

NEW YORK. January 3.-Goitre Is
probably caused by improper nutrition.
according to an announcement made in
the current number OF the Journal OF
Experimental Medicine, the official or
gan of the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research.
The announcement is based on OBJ
servations made by Or. David Marine
Of Western Reserve University in
Cleveland. 1t had been observed that
the disease has occurred In sections of
Germany and Switzerland where livs-
made into sausages Is prominent
article of diet. DR.. Marine. who for sew
eral years has been making study OF
the disease with brook trout, demon
strated that fish fed on liver in hatch
cries developed the disease, and that
a group WHICH was fed with whole sea
fish did not contract it. Fish suffering
from goitre recovered on a sea-fish
diet
"A comparison Of liver az a food with
hsh as food, writes DR.. Marine,
seems to indicate that the liver lacked
something needed by the developing
fish which the diet Of fish contained
1t is probable that the liver contains
some substances in excess. In attempt
ing to utilize which the animal ex-
hausts other elements necessary for
nutrition which are not present IN the
liver in sufficient amounts. As to the
nature of this chemical fault one can
not reasonably speculate"
Goitre, he declares. is an indication
of nutritional disturbances, but he is
not at this time prepared to say that
the malady in man is produced by the
same causes that affect the fish he has
studied.
DR. Marines observations are regard
ed as important because the exact
cause Of the disease has been un-
gest means for treatment of soitre in
human beings.
Evening star., 1914-01-04
BRINGING MACHINERY NORTH
Steamships Are Also Returning
Canal Material Left Over.

Machinery that played its part in the
erection of the big locks of the Panama
canal and for which there is now no fur
ther use at the Canal Zone is being re-
turned to the home offices of the con-
tractors for the work. About six weeks
ago a Norwegian steamship brought a
cargo of the material from Cristobal,
Canal Zone. and landed it at Baltimore
for shipment to Pittsburgh. Thursday the
Norwegian steamer Brynhilde arrived at
Baltimore with a cargo of machinery be-
longing to the McClintock- Marshall Con-
struction Company Of Pittsburgh, which
used it in the building of the Gatun
locks.
In: addition to the machinery, the vessel
also has aboard a quantity of material
LEFTOVER from the canal works. The ma
chinery and material will be sent by rail
to Pittsburgh. Other shipments of ma
terial from the canal works are expected
to reach Baltimore at intervals for sew
eral months to come.
Evening star., 1914-01-04
TRY A LITTLE SALTS IF kidneys
and BLADDER ARE TROUBLING YOU

ing and sometimes very painful, this
is really one of the most simple all
ments to overcome. Get about four
ounces of Jad Salts from your
pharmacist and take a tablespoon
full in a glass of water before break
fast; continue this for two or three
days. This will neutralize the acid
in the urine so it no longer is a
source of irritation to the bladder
and urinary organs, which then act
normally again.
Jad Salts is inexpensive. harmless.
and is made from the acid of grapes
and lemon juice, combined with
lithia, and is used by thousands OF
folks who are subject to urinary
disorders caused by uric acid irrita-
ton. Jad Salts is splendid for kid
neys and causes no bad effects
whatever
Here you have a pleasant, effer-
vescent lithia-water drink which
quickly relieves bladder trouble.
Agent-O'Donnell's Drug Store.
Evening star., 1914-01-04
VIENNA'S FIRE LOSSES
ARE REMARKABLY SMALL
Past Years Total, 1856, 900, as Com
pared With New York's
$500, 900.
VIENNA. December "A ,a,.

VIENNA, December "A, 1913.
For city Of 2.09s 900 people, extending
over an area of log square miles, Vienna
enjoys a remarkable immunity from seri-
GUS fires. The total losses for the last
year amounted only to S355, 900, arising
from 1,062 fires In the first half Of the
same year New York city's losses are
reported as s5.s20O0o from s,4I5 fires.
OF the Vienna fires only forty-seven
We're classed as large f1res-that Is,
where two or more lines of hose were
brought into play. There were 2l1
medium fires, requiring only one hose.
Carelessness with matches and lights
caused 214 of the fires. There were only
thirteen known cases of arson.
The total alarms were 3,15S, for in
Vienna the services of the fire depart
ment are requisitioned in all kinds OF
accidents in the streets and buildings,
some of them of the most trivial charac-
ter-a pigeon entangled in the telephone
wires, for instance.
Evening star., 1914-01-04
Salts Flushes Kidneys Without
Injury; Also Neutralizes
Uric Acid, Ending Blad-
der Irritation.

Kidney and Bladder weakness re-
suits from uric acid. says noted au-
! thority. The kidneys filter this acid
( from the blood and pass it on to
( the bladder, where it often remains
( to irritate and infame, causing a
burning, scalding sensation, or set
ting up an irritation at the neck Of
the bladder, obliging you to seek
relief two or three times during the
! night The sufferer is in constant
} dread, the water passes sometimes
with scalding sensation and is very
J profuse; again, there is difficulty in
: voidins it.
! Bladder weakness, most folks call
it, because they can't control urina-
( ton. While it is extremely annoy
Evening star., 1914-01-04
Miss Brance in Sanatorium.

NEW YORK, January S.-Miss Ade-
Iaide NJ Brance, whose life for three
years in a room Off Melville Couch's of
flee in Monticello. n. Y. was revealed
by his sudden death, is now in a sana
torium on Long Island. where she was
placed by Mrs. J. P. Warbass. wife of :,
Brooklyn physician. Her recovery, it is
said, will take more than a month. after
which she expects to seclude herself from
the world.
Evening star., 1914-01-04
FUND NOT AVAILABLE.
Care of Criminal Insane Not Charge.
able to District,

That the appropriation for the care Of
the Districts INDECENT insane is not
available for the maintenance at the Gov
ernment Hospital for the Insane of So
called criminal insane persons. commit
ted under the law by the Secretary OF
the Interior. was the substance >of an
opinion rendered to the Commissioners
yesterday afternoon by Corporation Coun-
sci Syme.
The opinion was submitted as the re-
suit of claim by the superintendent or
the hospital that the District is Charge
able with the cost OF maintenance at this
institution Of its insane convicts.
Evening star., 1914-01-04
Customs Regulations to Be Revised.

A thorough revision of customs regula-
tlons will be undertaken Immediately by
a committee appointed yesterday by AS
sistant Secretary Hamlin of the Treas
ury. The last revision took four years.
but Secretary Hamlin hopes the work
can be done this, time in twelve months
Many regulations. made unnecessary by
the new tariff law. will be eliminated and
others will have to be rewritten.
Evening star., 1914-01-04
Free Federation of Princes.

AS a first STEP he had the federal coun
sci adopt resolution declaring that the
German empire was a free federation Of
princes and could be dissolved by them at
any time. With this resolution in hand
he was ready for the reichstag elected in
1887, in which there was clear majority
of socialists, clericals and radicals against
him. The anti-socialist law, enacted in
1878, which made virtual criminals of So
cialists and their sympathiZers and au-
thorfzed martial law In a town harbor1ng
them, was to expire at the end Of 1887,
unless re-enacted by the reichstag.
Delbrueck asserts that Bismarck, al
though he could have secured the extern
sion Of the law from the reichstag. delib-
erately refrained from serious effort to
this end and permitted the measure to
lapse He counted, according to Prof
Delbrueck, that this reichstag would be
dissolved, that the dissolution would be
followed by rioting and bloodshed, and
that the failure Of parliament to re-enact
the law ostensibly designed to cripple So
a storm against the reichstag. under COW
er of which he could safely clip Its wings.
Emperor Rejected Plan.
With the people sufficiently alarmed at
street fighting. and other intimations Of
mob rule, Bismarck planned to have the
emperor announce that he renounced the
imperial crown. With this announcement,
however he was to throw out an appeal to
the reigning princes Of the German states
to renew the federation on the same basis
as before, except the provision for the
election of the reichstag upon universal,
secret and direct ballot. The universal
franchise was to be retained in principle,
but with provisions for open balloting and
that persons adjudged by a court to be
guilty of revolutionary conduct" in 9th
er words, the socialists, were to be dis
franchised.
With his plan matured Bismarck ap-
preached the young emperor The latter
refused absolutel.' to consider it and the
old chancellor retired.
Delbrueck's statements are questioned
by the conservative press, but have not
been authoritatively denied or disputed
and in other quarters have been received
without comment.
Evening star., 1914-01-04
GIRL FRIGHTENED TO DEATH.
Daughter of Worcester, Mass, Ply
sician Unconscious 2111h Hours.

WORCESTER, Mass. January g.
After PIE hours of unconsciousness,
Miss Anna Wheeler, daughter of DR..
Charles D. Wheeler, died today in the
City Hospital. The hospital physicians
declare that the girl was frightened to
death when an automobile in which she
was riding Christmas day was struck
by a trolley car.
Fear of the blow from the approaching
trolley car apparently caused rupture
of blood vessel in her brain.
Evening star., 1914-01-04
Wallace Bruce, Author, Dead.

3.-Wallace Bruce. the well known author
and poet of Brooklyn. n. T.. died here
yesterday as the result of a recent stroke
Of paralysis. Mr.. Bruce was born in
Hillsdale, \. Y, November 10. 1874. He
was poet and orator at numerous cen
tcnnial celebrations in the United States,
Scotland and England During President
Harrison's administration Mr.. Bruce was
United States consul at Edinburgh, Scot
land,
Evening star., 1914-01-04
SAYS KAISER BLOCKED
B|SMARCK'S PROGRAM
Prof. Delbrueck Declares Chancellor
Planned to Overthrow the
Constitution.
BERLIN, December %. 1918.

Bismarck planned to overthrow the con-
stitution of the German empire and abol-
ish manhood suffrage in the reichstag
elections, according to Prof. Hans Del
brueck, the celebrated historian of the
University Of Berlin.
In a book just published the historian
declares that this radical plan, to which
the Emperor William II refused his as
sent. was the cause of the first chancel-
lors fall. The story in brief is as fol-
lows:
Bismarck, who had continuingly in
creasing difficulties in working with the
reichstag and finding majorities for his
various policies. had apparently. at the
beginning of the eighties, become con-
vinced that he would not be able to gov
ern permanently with reichstag elected
according to the constitution of the new
empire and began laying plans for its
abolition.