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Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-07-08
We are authorized to announce
II A DAY

Of Maytown as candidate for Represen-
tative from the 9lst Legislative district,
subjective the democratic primary, August,
1915.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-07-08
CANDIDATES. ANNOUNCEMENTS.
We are authorized to announ
CHAS. D. ARNETT

as a candidate for the nomina ton fol
Secretary OF State, subjectto the action
of the democratic party. T.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-07-08

We are authorized to announce
&c. b. BARKER
of Wolfe county, as a candidate for the
democratic nomination for Representative
from the 9lst district, primary Aug. 1915.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-07-08
LICKING VALLEY COURIER

Enrered as second class matter
April 7, 1910, at the post-otfice at West
Liberty KY under the Act Of March
8, 1879.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-07-08

Man wants but little here below;
Twill hold him for the nonce.
You ask, then, why he labor s
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-07-08

Many of our older citizens will
remember hearing the justly fa-
nous Historical Address of the
eloquent Colonel Hazelrigg, and
because of the historical value of
it to Morgan county we have
printed and bound it and offer it
for sale while they last at 80
cents a copy, Address
The COURIER,
r West Liberty, KY.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-07-08

For things Friend Wife wants.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
Players Foolish To Jump When Feds Break
 Ironclad Agreements

How any major league player wear ing a hat larger than 6 5A size would think of Jumping to the Federal League in the Eghtsof their recent re pjudiation of so-caIled ironclad con , tracts will be mystery, writes James : c. Isaminger in the Philadelphia North American.
 Chief Bender was another victim Of the square dea1'' system that the in dependents. thought would caapture all the players the county when they started to compete with Organiz- ed Baseball.
 .sYou players have been oppressed for years they said. f.and have been too supine to fight for your rights. It is not fair for a player to be bound to contract that his employer can make scrap of paper of on ten days notice
 Then came the ironcIad contract in which a player was guaranteed salary and position for the term of years named in the document and with no 10-day clause to save an owner if he finds he has made a bad bargain. '. This did look attractive to players, and many jumped Organized Base ball was forced to follow suit and re move the 10-day clause in all of it's new contracts.
 Connie Mack and Chief Bender had differences last year and Mack decid- ed to ask waivers on him.. Before clubs had a chance to put in a bid for Bender, the Chippewa jumped to Bal <timore. He said at that time that he didn't want Mack to profit by his~sa1e even to the extent of the waiver price.
 Bender signed one of the Federal Leagues .tsquare deaP' contracts for a term of two years. It was said that his salary called for $7,500 a season. The Indian thought he had made a good bargain for the few years that he stfn had left in his baseball career
 But the Indian didn't win many games for Baltimore. The whole team, picked last winter to win the pennant, slumped and, of course, Bender slumped with the rest Finally the owners became tired of, paying Bender his big salary. The crowds weren't coming in at the gate to pay it.. So they gave the famous Square deaI' contract the hawzhaw, surnmar- fly dismissed Bender and sold Mike Doolan, another high salaried man to the Chicago Federals.
 All of which is rough on Bender Barred from Organized Baseball, his only chance to make a living pitching is to sign with some other Fedora. League team at it's own terms or play independent baseball.
 It has often been printed this year that. the Feds were about to fall, -yei they went on merrily just the same but there have been rumblings in the past two weeks that would indicate that the league would dissolve at the end of the season. Baltimore i, through, and losses at other cities range from $75,0O0 to $150,OOO on the season.
 Without the slightest prospect tha1 there will be any change for the bet ter. the packers are getting cold fee and refuse to<put up another dollar Gilmore and his associates may try te bluff it out during the winter month: in last effort to come to compro- mise with Organized BasebaIIy bu they will never succeed
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
VETERAN GILMAN
 IS ELIGIBLE AGAIN
 FOR HARVARD TEAM

Cambridge, Mass, Sept. 24,-Yester- day, when the Harvard squad played football on the Stadium gridiron, the regulars had their last hard drive be- fore the opening against Colby Sat urday. The 'varsity's showing against the scrubs was far from satisfactory, the first-string men failing to score and the scrubs narrowly missing a count when .Ellison's try for field goal just escaped going over the bar. ~-s 7 The second team, however, played itself out against the men rated as the Crimsons' best. Captain Mshan did some fine bunting but missed easy 1 shot for a 3O-yard field goal. Robinson of the freshmen team last year, tried l for a goal from. the scrubs 42-yard 1 line, his direction being perfect, but | the ball hit the crossbar.
 | The coaches welcomed the veteran
 tackle, Gilman, back t the squad, Gil
 man having passed an examination
 and now being eligible to play, al- l though he will not enter the first
 game In the scrimmage the varsity s
 ends and backs worked much better
 than heretofore, but the line play was
 very ragged. Snow was at left guard,
 in place of Duncan. but did not show 1 Up particularly well.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
YANKS' RECRUITS
 SHOW GREAT FORM  : DOWNING ST. LOUIS

New York, Sept. 24.-Bin Donovan famous smile again appears above the surface when Bills pets -soundly ftrashed the Ricizeyites in both ends of the double header yesterday, even ing up the count for the series or SIX games.
 Once more recruits played stellar parts in bringing home the hacoiE es terday Donovan trotted out two Of his latest acquisitions, and both dehVereo the goods right from the start
 George Mogridge, lately Of Dea A4oines worked for the Yanks in the
 first game The southpaw had all kinds of stuff on the ball and the Browns never had a look-in, the Yanks winning by seven runs to nothing. In the second pastine Cliff Marlzle, from Waco. Tex, occupied the mound for the local outfit and held the Browns to cne solitary run. This. run came m .stae ninth inning after the Tanks had ham
 mered Chester Hoff and Carl Weilnan fer five runs.
 : Mogridge was hits hard in spots in the first combat. but the southpaw Ie1st his bingIes well scattered and pitched at his best with pla9ers on the bases While Mogridge was apply1ng the whitewash brush to the Browns the Tanks were making merry with five of Ricley's pitchers The Tanks rappdd out ten hits in this game, Catcher. Alexander helping himself to a two-baggern in the fifth inning.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
JOE MANDOT AND
 JOHNNY DUNDEE IN
 WHIRLWIND DRAW

New York, Sept. 24.-Johnny Dundee, I the whirlwind Italian lightweight, met his match at Ebbets Field last night in Joe Mandot, the New Orleans boxer. The bout was fast and offered just the
 mixture of slugging and clever boxing that fight fans like. The two went at it at top speed and at the end the hon ors were even.
 Dundee was too fast for Mandot for the first five rounds, but after that the Southerner solved Johnny's defense and gave him a 1ac1ng that made him cautious. Mandot had the busiest right hand that Dundee has ever faced here and Joe shot numerous short arm jolts against Dundee's stomach.
 The Italians f1ashy style had Man
 dot bewiIdered at the, start, and Dun
 dee peppered his opponent with rights and lefts and always got away with out comeback. Johnpy's raps were so light, however, that Mandot expert enced no damaging effects. Dundee weighed 128 and Mandot {131 1-2.
 Dundee hoped around in the first round as if he was on springs and made Mandot believe that he was box ing against a man with half a dozen hands. At the s1ap-and- getaway game Dundee was proficient. He was continually beating Mandot to the punch, and the Southerner wasn't able to get his able right punch in action.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
Mercer and Stivetts
 Were Pitchers Greatly
 Feared With War Club

Win Mercer and ''IRig Jack'' Stivetts were the bosses of all right-handed pitchers when it came to hitting the ball. Both of these great pitchers have had five consecutive seasons wherein they hit the ball for aver age of 300 or over. Their records stand as the best since theg anne be- gan.
 4Stivetts was a terrific hitter and was used at every opportunity in the outfield on account of his ability to drive them out. The call from the bleachers. Twin yer game. Jack" was a familiar one to Big Jack g and possibly he fulfilled the request more than any hurler in the game
 Win Mercer was a clever batsman and a hard man to fool; during the seasons of 1897-189S he hit for an average of .333 and .324t resp actively. His very first season in the big league Mercer had an average of 1908 in 36 fu1l~games. Not only was Mercer a grand batter, but he could steal bases, and without a doubt he holds the record among all pitchers for pilfering bases.
 Al Orth, once a famous hurler and later a famous umpire, was some hit ter. Orth was known the curve Jess pitcher and, although not famed for bending them over, had the happy faculty of strengthening out the other fellows benders. Orth had five sea- sons during his big league career wherein he averaged 300 or over WithN the bat.N He was considered a most consistent hitter all through his long career on the diamond. Roaring Bill'- Kennedy was some sweet hitter and could swat the pill just as well as hec ould pitch it. Bill touched the magic mark 1900 four times during his extended and somewhat stormy career in the game.
 By being able to hit the ball in a pinch the noble "Kid' Gleason ac- quired a reputation which kept him in the game and in the big leagues for many moons after his pitching arm was pronounced unfit for further hard
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
PICK OFFICIALS FOR BIC CONTEST
 OF YALE ELEVEN

New Haven, Sept. 24-For the first time in Yale football history the ques- ton of officials for all the games of the season has been settled before the first is played. Some of the breeziest newspaper controversies of the past have been waged over the selection of the officials for the big games, and the larger universities had a way of failing to agree on their officials till close upon the date for the games, while the columns of the press ragged with the points of the disagreement.
 That for the two principal games which Yale will play, the bouts with Harvard and Princeton, differs little of Brown, who filled the position last year, being chosen referee for both the important matches. Although a comparatively newcomer in this inn portant role. he has proved more satisfa ctory to the big universities than any of the other candidates for the referee honor; as two years con secutive appointments indicate.
 Next to Tufts, Dave Fultz, also a Brown University former player, is most sought by Yale and Harvard. although not by Princeton. FuItz will have the appointment of officiating g in most of either the Yale or the fddTVdFo games InlS Id11, ana VIII referee their match in the Harvard stadium which closes their season.
 The Yale football management an nounces that for the minor games of the coming season only portals 10 and II of the Bowl will be used for entrance purposes, and portals 10 to IT, inclusive, will be used for exits These portals are enarest the trolley lines.
 Automobiles are requested to ap- proach the Bowl via Chapel street and Central avenue, and go to the parking space which also is near the portals named. Automobiles will not be allowed upon the gravel walks surrounding the Bowl
 Saturdays game with Maine starts at 4 o'clock. All other practice games start at 3 o'clock
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
ANNIVERSARIES
 OF RING BATTLES

1887-5Jake Kilrain sailed for Eng land to fight Jern Smith, the British champion, for the worlds title Smith had issued a challenge to fight any man in the world, and Sullivan was expected to accept the def, but for some reason John l.. backed out Jake Kilrain, who had also vainly attempt ed to get Sullivan in the ring, then volunteered to fight the Brftisher Shortly before sailing Kilrain was presented at Baltimore with the Fox belt emblematic of the heavyweight cham pionshfp\ of America, and the zcostliest pugilistic trophy ever award ed Charlie Mitchell accom- panied Kilrafn to England, and it was ar ranged that the fight between KiIrain and Smith take place in December on an island in the Seine, near Rouen, France, for the belt, thee hampionship p Of the wor1G, and $5,0OO a side. Tie men fought 106 rounds, when dark ness put end to the contest, which was called a draw, although Ki1rain had the shade When Kilrain return ed to America. Sullivan consented to meet him, and Jake lost in 5 rounds.
 18s4-Billy Trimmer and Johnny Murphy fought 25-round draw at New Orleans
 19O5-BflIy Rhodes defeated Rube Ferns in three rounds at Kancas City.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
" COBB BREAKS
 RECORD OF MILAN
 IN BASE STEALING

New York, Sept. 24-By stealing his S.9th base in the Detroit-Athletic game last Wednesday, Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers. won the title of cham &oion base pilferer of the twentieth century. Ty passed Zeb Milan's American league record of 8S, which the Washington speedboy hung up in 1912. Yesterday Cobb stole his 90th base.
 His ambitions are to make it 1e0 before the year is over. He has nine games to get his 10 sacks. or a little more than one base a day.
 This is the fourth time that Cobb has shattered the American league stolen base record.
 The major league record for all time is held by Harry Stovey of the Philadelphia Athletics of the old American Association in 1888, who stole 156 bases. However, they dom t steal bases like that any more and Cobb easily excelsx all National league baserunners since the eighties. Bob Bescher, now with the Cardinals, holds the modern National league recz ord with 8e-stoIen bases, collected while with the Cincinnati Reds in 1911.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
JOSH DEVORE'S
 ANNIVERSARY

Although he isn't in the big show any more, Josh Devore, former out fielder of the Giants the Phillies and the Braves, hasn't been forgotten by the fans Joshua, made his National League debut seven years ago, come tomorrow, when he went in as a pinch hitter and worked Spade of the Reds major league career in a blaze of glory with the worlds champion Braves. This season he has been managing the Maysvi1le club in the Ohio State League, a class D. circuit. As a pilot Josh is said to, have smashed all rec ords in disposing of a player at a low price. According to the yarn, Devore swapped a southpaw tWirler of Ahis staff to the manager of another Ohio League club, receiving in return a baseball bat. Josh's brother, Harry. broke the bat the first time it was used, and Josh has shrewd suspicion that he was stung. Hooker Leyme is said to have been the twirler who figured in this dead. which is reminis- cent of the famous major league af- fair in which a player was swapped for a dog. Josh was born in Ohio, but began-his professional career with Meridian, Miss, and later was with Raleigh, N. c. He was bought by Nc Graw in 1907, but was farme dto New ark, and did not get a chance with the Giants until Sept. 25,~19OS He stuck with the New York club until 1913, when he was traded to Cincin- nati. The Reds sold him to the Phil lies, and in July of last year he was traded to the Braves for Inhelder Mar tin, and got chance to share in the worlds f'serious'' coin.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24

service. Bill Gleason was a much feared man with the stick when the bases were occupied. The ''Kid'' had the faculty of getting the opposing hurler's goat when the game was close and the other fellow was work ing under high pressure.
 George Mullin, the famous boxnan of the Detroit Tigers, always made the cold chills run up and down Connie Q Mack's back-and they had a long; way to travel, when the suave mana ger of the White Elephants cast his lamps along the score card and notic- ed the name of the fat boy from the banks of the Wabash engraved thereon. Mullin was a grand hitter. For IA seasons he hit the ball well he batted over the -250 point, and during 1902 and 1905 he was inside the glory circle.
 Perhaps Otis CrandalI, formerly of the New York Giants, and now with the St. Louis Federa1s, is the greatest batsman (of all right-handed pitchers of the present day. CrandaII showed real batting ability in his very first season in the big league, and in the season of 1910 he led the batsmen of the National League. Walter John son is absorbing much honor and otherwise by the manner in which he is banging the ball.
 When the famous MT. Johnson be- gan his career in the American League in 1907 he batted an even Ill The following seaso he wasn't much bet ter However, in the season of 190S1 Walter began to show sluggfng pro clivities by sIamming an occasional ball over. the fence and from that date has been steadily gaining a rep 11tation as a heavy hitter. During the last three seasons Walter has bafted like a real batsman and is consider ed very dangerouS-at times.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
SOUTHERN ASSO.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
President Tener Was Some Twirler
 In Playing Days

It was just about a quarter of a cen tury ago that John Kinley Tener, af- terward governor of Pennsylvania and now president of the National League
 twirled his last game. It has been alleged that Tener wasn't a remark able pitcher, but the o1d-tirners who worked with him are unanimous in stating that the big Irish youth was about as good as they make 'em-and they will add that slab artists in those days were just as proficient as the stars who now shine on the diamond
 Tomorrow will be the twenty-s1xth an- niYersary of one of Tener's best per formances in the box. Twirling for the Chicago club, he famed ten of the Bostonians in nine innings Of course, that isn't any record, and falls short of such feats as those of Toad Ramsay of Louisville, who struck out seventeen Metropolitans in 1886 and seventeen Cleveland swatters the foIl lowing season. Or ''Rube' Waddeu
 who famed sixteen Athletics in 19OS
 Or Sweeney of Providence, who put the rollers under nineteen Bostonians away back in 1884. Nevertheless, Tener's stunt was pretty fair, and it marks him one of the great box men of his era. The future head of the National League rounded out his playing career with the Pittsburgh club, but in 1890 he found that his salary wing was growing weak, and, although he was only twer1ty-seven years old, he decided to qut it the game. Old Gap Anson is authority for the statement that neither Alex ander noT Johnson nor Mathewson. nor any of>the other famous pitchers of today could have taught Tener anything about the art of pitchiag
 John could put anything on the pei let that the modern stars can do" de- clared Pop "and he knew a lot of tricks that the present crop of twirl- CTS aren't on to-" Tener's last ap- pearance was in the Players League, to which he jumped from Chicago
 Bowdotn College opened it's 114th
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
Wagner's Watch Tower

Boston on the days the Red Sox and Phillies are not playing in Boston Somebody with a grudge against the world has also suggested that the Gi- ants, Brooklyns and Yankees meet in 9 three-cornered series for the city title.
 Those who saw the Yale Washington & Jefferson football game last season will recall the name of F7lennning the red-h haired halfback who played such a spectacular game for the small col 1ege. team. After four years of college playing he has bobbed up at Mullen berg, a small Pennsylvania college. La fayette has protested against him in the game scheduled for tomorrow.
 There won't be many vacant seats at the worlds series games -~ be play q in Boston. Already the Red Sox m IL agement has received 10000 app1ica- tions. By putting up temporary stands hthe management expects to seat 50, COG in Fenway park.
 Thorne Murphy, son of the late Mike Murphy, famous as a trainer of Yale and Pennsylvania athletic teams, will enter Princeton. He is a crack ball player. Young Murphy was named 1 after Brink Thorne, the former. Yale i football star.
 1 After suspension of 10 days, Heinie Zirnm ern1an, third basenan of the | Chicago Nationals, was eligible to re sume play today. His reinstatement i was ordered by President John K I Tener, of the league.
 
 A national amateur boxing tourna- ment is planned for San Francisco Oct 29 and 80, under the auspices oi the Amateur Athletic Union and ir connection with the Panama-Pacific l Exposition, according to an announce ment made today. Word has been re- ceived from Fred Rubien, of New York, secretary of the A A U, giving held, will be the second since the open ing of the exposition
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
MonoCs, NOTICE.

The Modocs will practice tonight, All players meet at the corner of Bar mum avenue and Helen street, at ': 30- Any one wishing a try out report, all so. The Modocs would like to start off their season October 10 and chal- lenge any 5 or 80 pound team in the city, Mohican Reserves preferred. An swer through the F7arme~,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
WHITE sox IN sAUGATUCK.

Bill McGuire's White sox> baseball team will go to saugatuck tomorrow +o n1,1 the Invincibles. The sox will Ie,ye Meigs' corner on the 1:15 troll 1ev car The following players re- port: Hayes, Egan, Judd, J. Bailey Nelson B. Judd, L. Bailey, Lou Bly, denberg, P. Driscon
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
10000 JAPANESE SEE AMERICAN COLLEGE TEAM
 DEFEAT NATIVE NINE

Tokio, Sept. 24-Twenty thousand Ja panesei baseball enthusiasts saw the University of Chicago team win the first game Of its series with Waseda University here yesterday afternoon by a score of to 3. The Americans victory was due to their ability to make hits when they meant runs. The natives ran the bases well, scoring all their runs with only one hit.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
GAMES TO-DAY.

Brooklyn in Chicago. Newark in. Pittsburgh. Baltimore in Kansas City. Buffalo in St. Louis.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
GAMES TO-DAY

Brooklyn in Cincinnati. Philadelphia in Chicago (2). Boston in Pittsburgh.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-24

There is talk of a post season series between the Boston Braves and the Detroit Tigers. The plan is to have the teams meet fon Braves field in