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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
HAS CONFIDENCE IN MAJORS
Connie Mack Expects to Make Great
Pitcher Out Of Youngster-Lack-
ing in Experience.

Connie Mack is confident he can
make a great pitcher out Of Jack Ma
bors. There is not another manager in
the game who would have sent
youngster, with as little knowledge OF
the fine points of the game as Nabors
has at the present time, to the mound
to pitch an opening day contest before
a strange crowd. Mack did it and got
away with it in splendid style. In TAX
ing this great chance Mack killed two
birds with one stone. He did not think
Majors would win, but, knowing that
he must get more experience and con-
fidence, figured that he could get twice
the amount of each in an opening day
game in preference to an ordinary con-
test.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
REBEL M'TIGUE is BOOSTED
Buck Freeman, Old-Time SIugger Of
Boston Americans, Hands Ex-Tiger
Large Bouquet.

Buck Freeman, one-time slugger with
the Boston Americans, and now umpir-
ing in the International league, comes
to bat with the assertion that Rebel
McTigue, former Brave and Tiger
hurler, but at present pitching for the
Toronto Leafs, has more stuff than
any other pitcher he ever worked be-
hind.
McTigue, who, despite a good record
on the spring training trip, was turned
back to Toronto by Manager Jennings
Alternative innings of big-league ball, is
making quite record in the minor Or
ganiZatiOn.
With sixth-place club, the lengthy
southpaw has registered six wins, four
defeats, one tie game and twice hurled
one-hit shutouts, one against Rochester
on May 80 and the other against PrOvi-
dence, league leaders. In each of the
above contests the hits were of the de-
cdedly fiuke variety, and the slow
roller to the infield which spoiled a
perfect record in Rochester on Me-
mortal day came after two men had
been retired in the ninth inning.
The pitcher twirled three times in
one week, winning all three of the con-
tests, two Of which were shutouts, be-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
jAPAN'S FOREMOST
BANKER RESIGNS
Baron ShibusaWa Will Devote Re-
mainder of Life to Charity
Work.
HAD AN INTERESTING CAREER
Lived in Two Worlds, the World of
FeudaIism and the Present World
of Banks and Limited
Companies.

TOkio.-Baron Shibusawa, president
Of the First National bank of Japan,
resigned his position at the annual
meeting of the bank and retired into
private life. He is seventy-six years of
age. He proposes to devote the re-
naming years Of his life to the pro-
motion of charitable works and the
betterment of international relations,
particularly between Japan and the
United States.
The baron is well known in America
to which he made his last visit carly
this year. When In New York he had
long consultations with leading Ameri-
can financiers, his object being to in
terest them in the propositions which
Japan intends to exploit in China.
Japan has the brains, America has
the money" was in effect what he said
In trying to persuade Wall street
mOneyed men to take an interest in the
business. The proposal was turned
down. New York business men thought
Il they were going to find the money
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

they would provide the brains as we'll.
The suggestion was sort of second
edition of one which Count Okuma
made to England a year before when
he threw out the idea that the Anglo
Japanese alliance should become an
economic as we'll as a military pact.
He made practically the same PROPOSE
tiOn-"Japan has the experience, Eng
land has the caSh"-but the Britishers
came to the conclusion without any
special delay that they had enough
brains to exploit China with their own
money if they wanted.
Lived in Two Worlds.
Like every old man in Japan, Baron
Shibusawa has lived in two words
q world of feudaliSm and twO-SwOrded
samurai and the present world of,
among other things, banks and limited
companies. He entered the govern
ment service under the old regime
while the emperor who died three years
ago was still virtually q recluse in
KyOto and the empire was ruled by the
Tokugawa Shoguns. Shibusawas first
mission out of Japan was an education
al trip to Europe with one of the Sho-
guns sons who did not dream that his
family'S tenure of the sovereignty of
Japan was over. This was in 1S676S
when Andrew Johnson was president
of the United States in the interval
between Lincoln's assassination and
Grants election. He returned and went
Into the government after the upset of
ShOgunate and was an official until
1878 when he resigned over q differ
ence with the finance minister of the
day and never entered politics again.
Instead, he founded the First bank, so
called because it was the first bank in
Japan on modern lines. That was 43
years ago and in that long time Baron
Shibusawa moved on from one tinan-
cial success to another until in 1909
he was president of 40 concerns. When
he started the First bank its capital
was q million and q quarter dollars
borrowed money-now it is ten and
three-Quarter million dollars, or If re-
serve fund is counted in-fifteen mil
lion.
This is not the first time that the
baron has thought of retiring. In 1901
he was i'll and not knowing whether
he would live, made will in which he
named as successor in the presidency
of the First bank, Mr.. YunoShine Sa-
saki, the manager who now actually
succeeds his old chief. Then in 1905
he was again ill and he resigned from
many of his positions. but picked them
all up again when he recuperated. His
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

last resignation was in 1909 when ne
quit all his presidential chairs eX-
cept that of the bank.
Why He Resigned.
interviewed as to his reasons for re-
tirement the baron said: 'The child
is grown and able to walk by himself"
meaning that japanese finance was
now so advanced that his influence is
no longer needed. But even now it does
not seem quite clear that the veteran
intends really to cut himself adrift
from the world where his long life has
been spent, for he added that he would
still contribute to the commercial and
industrial interests of the nation be-
side taking an active part in work for
a better understanding between Japan
and other countries. When the KOkusai
News agency was founded three years
ago in order to disseminate the true
truth" about Japan by cables and news.
the baron became president of the COM
pany, a post he still holds. This COM
pany owns the Japan Times and Japan
Daily Mail, two newspapers printed in
English in Toxic, and controls the Reu-
ter cable service, both inward and out
ward from Japan.
His retirement gives rise to the Ques-
ton of who will be his successor as
leader of the financial world of Japan.
There is no single man in sight who is
big enough to fill his chair. The can
didates with the best chance are
thought to be Mr.. r. Nakano, president
of the Toxic chamber Of commerce;
Mr.. r. Fujuyama, vice president of
the same body, and Mr.. S. Ohashi. who
was vice president until last year.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
BLOOD Tests TO
AID EGG-LAY|NG
Connecticut Agricultural College
Is Conducting Interesting
Experiments.
RHODE ISLANDS IN LEAD
With LISP for SO Weeks to Their
Credit, They Draw Away From
English Entries-PIan Hen
merry Eugenics.

StOrriS, COMBINE productive anu
wealth-producing hen is having her
blood tested at the experiment station
of the state agricultural college here.
This, with the idea of improving the
breed of hens with the hopes that
their progeny which escapes poaching,
scrambling and so on will be even
more healthy and egg-fruitful. In
word, the experiments going on at the
agricultural college will form the basis
'of hennery eugenics.
Hen scientists know that many
chicks inherit an intestinal disease.
TO determine the proportion OF hens
from which this disease descends, the
scientists of the agricultural college
offered to test, free of charge, the
blood of all the hens entered In the
fourth international egg-laying con-
test now going on at the college,
contest which is nearing it's course OF
a year.
What Tests Prove.
The test has proved, so far, that 80
out of 100 of the birds in the contest
are affected with the disease. The
test known as the "agglutination meth
cd" involves drawing from hens
wing vein few drops of blood. After
that chemicals and the microscope
come into play.
Good Americans and lovers Of
broiled chicken and omelets will re-
joice to learn that the Industrious
Rhode Islands are steadily drawing
away from the English pen, entered
in the contest by Tom Barron, the
'Poultry King of Catforth, England,
who has won so many prizes in pre-
vious contests. The White Wyan-
dottes, entered by Obed G. Knight Of
Bridgeton, r. l., have total Of 1852
eggs to their tally at the end Of the
thirty-ninth week, while the English
birds can show only total Of 1875.
Another English pen, the White
Wyandottes of Abel Latham of Brier-
field, England, have busily run up a
total score of 1889 eggs.
Near the Top.
Other pens which stand near the
top are:
Plymouth Rocks-Rock Rose Farm,
barred breed, Katonah, N. Y, 1906;
Albert T. Lennon, white, North At
tleboro, Mass, 1,474; Jules +. Fran
CATS, barred, West Hampton Beach,
L. I. 1,455.
Rhode Island Reds-Pincrest Or
chards, Groton, Mass, 1,49S; A. W..
Rumety, Danville, N. H., 1,474; Spring
dale Poultry Farm, Durham, Conn.,,
1,42S.
White Leghorns-Will Barron, Bar
tie, near Preston, England, 1873;
Francis F. Lincoln, Mount Carmel
Conn.,, 1925; Frank r. Hancock, Jack
sonville, VT, 1,463.
Miscellaneous-Oreg Agricultural
college, CORVALLIS, Ore, 1,49S: J..
Collinson, black Leghorns, Barnacre,
England, 1,406; A. Schwartz, Rhine
landers, Burlinghame, Cal, 1886.
The hens in the contest altogether
laid $3.50 eggs during the thirty-ninth
week, or 20 more than they produced
together during the corresponding
week of last years contest.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
COLLINS IN BATTING SLUMP
Going Through Unusual Expert
ence in Hitting Line.

It is an unusual experience for Eddie
Collins to be away down in the Ameri-
can league batting list as he is this
year. Eddie's mark up to date is but
PSI. 1t is probable that he will better
this before the season closes, as he is
hitting in better form than he was, but
he will have to go some to get within
the charmed 300 circle, where he has
been a shining light for a number of
years. Last year Eddie finished Sec
ond to Cobb in the American league
batting averages, with 1872. This year
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
PAPER From Cotton Stalks.

Berlin.-The royal material testing
office at Gross-Lichterfelde, a suburb
of Berlin, announces the interesting
discovery that, paper can be manufac-
tured from cotton stalks. The discov-
cry is not considered of much impor-
lance for Germany, which produces no
cotton, but is pointed 70 as of vast
importance to the United States be-
cause Of the shortage Of paper reported
in that country. The stalks were cut
and ground, boiled and bleached, and
the paper-making then proceeded after
the usual methods.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
The Beneficiary.

professor Diggs has just succeeded
in deciphering an ancient papyrus
given up by half dozen savants."
swell, what good will that Go hui
manity?"
perhaps it won't benefit humanity
In general, but it will enable Profess
sor Diggs to sign few more lecture
contracts"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
COMES BACK AFTER 81 YEARS
NidIer Sees Spot on Site of Seattle
Where Indians Once Chased
Him.

Spokane, Wash.-After a lapse of
80 years, Franz Nidler of Portland,
Ore, arrived here to find the spot from
which he was chased by hostile Indians
on his former visit now occupied by
thriving modern city of 10000 peo-
ple Mr.. Nidler, who Is eighty-one years
old, came to visit his daughters and to
register for the Colville land drawing.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
Sparrows Leave Oiled Street.

Lancaster, Ga.-Maj. James Burn
side says that oiling the streets is the
cause of the disappearance of the spar
rows. These birds get oil on their feet
and then on their eggs. These will
not hatch then. He also says many
sparrows leave town for the country
as soon as the oil is spread in order
to get their dust baths.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

Kan.,-she seemed the very picture of
her first name-was embarrassed by
the acclaim and looked vainly about
for way off the platform, but the
leaders would not let her go.
The report of the Kansas delegation
of SO years Of prohibition in its state,
the effectiveness of the law and the
overwhelming sentiment in favor of
it becoming stronger all the time, ac-
companied by the presentation of Miss
Andre, turned the convention into a
cheering, enthusiastic crowd.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
It ia imnossihle for anv woman who
A Qualification.

"You go to church more frequently
than you used to-"
"Yes. And apart from the instruc-
ton 1 derive a great deal of satisfac,
ton from my attendance. It's a great
comfort to be where people sing and
play fine music without aHybody's
spelling it by putting in ragtime words
or wanting to dance"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
Refutes Golf Stories.

Refuting the theory that golf ana
baseball won't mix, Iris Speaker the
American leagues best hitter and OUT
fielder, plays golf every day on the
Mayfeld course, when he's at nome !;
and Bob Shawkey, one OF the Amerl-
can leagues best pitchers, plays every
time he gets a chance.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

The Baroness Won Hutton, former
ly Miss Betsy Riddle of Philadelphia,
who was arrested in London on the
charge that she was an enemy
alien"
In court the baroness declared that
she was not German, but American
born. She explained that she had
been divorced from her German hus-
England since, and had believed she
would regain all her rights of Ameri-
can citizenship when she returned to
America.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
Her First Saloon at is.

Chicago.-The vision of a windblown
lass from the Kansas prairies, with
the roses of the countryside blooming
in her cheeks-a girl of eighteen who
never had seen even the outside of
saloon until she came to Chicago to
attend the international quarter CEN
tennial convention of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union of America
brought the thousands of the conven-
ton in session at the Coliseum to their
feet with cheers.
The girl, Violet Andre of Horton,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
SEWN SWafs La One DaX.

Seven good base hits in one day is
some record. Russell Blackburne OF
Toronto made it in a recent double
header with Montreal. He got five hits.
three of them doubles, in the first
game, and two singles in the second.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
EmuIatind " Cobb.

In a desperate effort to keep up
with Ty Cobb, Benny Kauff was put
out of the game recently for throwing
his bat in the air after being called
out on strikes.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

he has hard work in striking his stride
in stick work. Eddie, however, is 8
most valuable man on the White Sox
roster and can always be depended up
on to play his best. His batting slump
is something that all ball players ex-
perience occasionally in their diamond
career.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

sides playing right field on two other
occasions. In addition to heaving me
brand of ball, McTigue is hitting the
ball in great shape, as his nine hits IN
% trips to the plate during the past
week would indicate.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
M,n Enrn,erIN a Caddie.

Jack Lapp, veteran catcher Oh tnt
American league, now with the VIM"
Sox, used to be a golf caddie in Phiia
delphia.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

Ty Cobb is sending briefs of base
hits to President Johnson in an eff
fort to prove his contention that his
patent on the American league bat
ting championship hasn't expired.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

Mathewson decided to keep Hal
Chase on first base permanently, so he
did not need Fritz Mollwitz. Chase
can play first base better than he can
the outfield.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

Another new one with Connie Mack
is a catcher named Stanley Karl, who
halls from an Independent team In the
Shamokin coal region, where he is
said to have played great BALI
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

Brooklyn has given Raleigh Aitchi-
son a lump sum to tear up his IRON
bound contract with the Superbas,
which was to run through this season.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

The twenty-one-player limit Is max
ing big money for the railroads in
shipping players from major league
terminals to minor league junction
points.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
Refuted.

Refuted.
"I've been told that every cent Dub
waite makes goes on Mrs. pubwaite's
back"
"That isn't So"
"I'm glad to hear it,"
Don't / see Dubwaite smoking
stogies every day that he buys him
self?"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07


pitcher.
has much the St Paul
Cincinnati;
the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

Being shifted by the Yankees from
the infield to the outfield seems to
have put kinks in Paddy Baumann's
batting average.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
WHY WOMEN
Write LETTERS
To Lydia E. Pinkharn Medi-
cine Co.

Women who are we'll often ask care
the letters which the Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co. are continually publishing,
genuine?" care they truthful"
"Why do women write such letters?"
In answer we say that never have we
published a fictitious letter or name.
Never, knowingly, have we published
gu untruthful letter, or one without the
full and written consent of the woman
who wrote it.
The reason that thousands Of women
from all parts of the country write such
grateful letters to the Lydia E. Pink
ham Medicine Co. is that Lydia E. Pink
ham, Vegetable Compound has brought
health and happiness into their lives,
once burdened with pain and suffering.
1t has relieved women from some of
the worst forms of female ills, from dis
placements. Inflammation, liberation,
irregularities, nervousness, weakness,
stomach troubles and from the blues.
1t is impossible for any woman who
is we'll and who 49, SsSSSN
has never suffered SNE/ G$S#$N\0NT
to realize how these M 81 WS@A\M
poor, suffering wo- o. w
men feel when re- ~ VI
stored to h ealth; - y n
their keen desire to Es\ \%J9 ~
help other women MN &EN1GsW
who are suffering as GESSIEyS1N0
they did. iS5G pINxfSM
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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

Eddie Mahan, the famous Harvard
football player and pitcher, refuses
to sign a contract with big league
team except at a high salary.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07
MOTIFS

McGraw has a bright prospect in
Schupp.
Don't forget that Jim Thorpe is de-
veloping into a real ball player.
Hornsby of the Cardinals is the star
of the league this year in the infield.
Submarines won't do the Athletics
any good; what they need are aero
planes.
RUDE Marquard says that he would
rather beat the Giants once than draw
months pay.
Hook Warner, Dayton Central
league third Sacker, has been sold to
Pittsburg for $4,000.
Connie Mack is going to call on
submarine commander to find out
how to get to the top.
Bert Daniels, once with the Yankees
and now with the Louisville Colonies,
is laid up with broken leg.
]. Luther Cook, the former Yankee
outfielder, has been benched by the
Oakland club for poor hitting.
Certain National league umpires rise
to remark that Johnny Evers is the
boy who put the rave in Braves.
The strongest team in the American
league is the Athletics. Standing at
the bottom, they hold up seven clubs.
There is a difference between that
German submarine and Mack's Ath-
letics. The sumbarine finally came
up for air.
All that Ray Caldwell has to do to
win is to pitch alright ball and then
bat out a victory himself. The Yanks
can't hit for him.
Eddie Rousch, the outfelder trad
ed to the Reds as part of the deal for
Herzog, is a real ball player accord.
ing to latest accounts.
Before retiring last night Presi-
dents Tener and Johnson issued bull
letins reporting everything quiet in
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

Before retiring last night, Presi-
dents Tener and Johnson issued bull
letins reporting everything quiet in
the various theaters of war.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

: A homely girl is always willing to
admit that a pretty rival hasn't any
sense.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

Eddie Rousch, the outfielder trad
ed to the Reds as part of the deal for
Herzog, is a real ball player, accord.
ing to latest accounts.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

Certain National league umpires rise
to remark that Johnny Evers is the
boy who put the rave I'm Braves.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

All that Ray Caldwell has to do to
win is to pitch alright ball and then
bat out a victory himself. The Yanks
can't hit for him.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

There is difference between that
German submarine and Mack's Ath-
letics. The sumbarine finally came
up for air.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-09-07

The strongest team in the American
league is the Athletics. Standing at
the bottom, they hold up seven clubs.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-09

NEW YORK, Feb Through
the Brunswick -Balke-CCuenGcr Com
panl, Firmln Cassignol has cFallepg-
ed Willie HOPPE to play for the
worlds billiard championship. Cas-.
slgnol is willing to play either 1871 o.
is 2 style both titles bong he'll by
Hoppe. A, the present time Wnlia
Is somewhere in the west gising ex-
hibition matches.
In commenting on the prospects Of
the FrenchInan against Hoppe. one
Of the billie"I experts remarked that
while Cassisul is one Of the best play
ers In the world when il is PLAYING
he game Tor fun. his ter,peramen.
is such that he would be fairly easy
for Hoppe playing for money The
challenge Cassignol has Sent is "a
follows.
I herewith wish to challenge Will
lie Hoppe or the championship OF
the world at 1871 or 1sg balkllne
style of billiards The tnnt and place
Of holding said matchc. rs well as an
other details to be mutually agreed
upon
Inclosed pltase find clock for 800
which ! post as forfeit
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-09
Ktlled When Resists Arrest

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb S.-J. B.
Gray was shot and killed BY NJ B.
Chamblin Jr. United states deputy
collector Of internal revenue. on
whom Jones had opened fire when
Chamblin attempted to arrest him as
a dealer in unlawful drugs. Nor
phine valued at more tnan $4,000 was
found later in Jones room, outside
the door Of which the shooting oc-
CURED
The shooting occurred in lower
Market street hotel, where Chamblln
and another deputy had been sent u
arrest Jones.
The federal officers said that Jones
if not the leader. was an important
member Of a drug ring and a number
Of arrests would be made as the re-
suit OF evidence found in his room.