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The sun., 1916-10-15
BY DAVID A. CURTIS.

UT HEY IS some questions what's
open 10 argument" said old
man Greenlaw, placing both
lands on the bar and leaning slightly
forward with an earnest look at a Gus
toner, and some what amt"
'Oh, ! don't know" murmured Mr..
Gwen Pepper, who was looking on with
a foolish smile. Il reckon tn Old man
Sars.fy onto any on 'em II they was
70 t- r.'c ly anybody else"
THIS remark was not intended for
The Old mans ears and II did not reach
'hem. It was heard, however, by a
lev husky gentlemen who. together
with Mr.. Pepper, were looking with
IVll'h interest NJ the old man and his
customer and they seemed to be some
what amused by IL. though they were
't''ill o. rcpress all appearance OF
hlF'1. II vas as II they looked upon
L as d r.be inspired by the personal
'iif1'''ri,tics Of the Old man rather
'hau n contribution to the discussion
te was engaged in.
! certainly have no desire to enter
w. .Iv Ig-ument with you" said the
customer, WHO was a scholarly looking
man g somewhat frall physique. but
" ' equally certain that ! desire to
inter most emphatic protest against
your ..rs. y dollar a drink Is a most
uo.r'rd of charge for whiskey."
I"- statement seemed incontroverti-
u'' certainly no one in the Old mans
1'|''u ~ the time had ever before
l''l1 ~ "h.skey being sold at that
'll'' I4' there were circumstances.
IT," customer had entered the saloon
N"' 70 'uporcilious air and had looked
'''4' nm In a manner that failed to
sr"ia,e him with the company be-
,'f' Do" Invited them to Join him In a
1rnk II was therefore with sullen
's4Nl.'''nce rather than cheerful
aa'r'y that they responded to his In
ylta,.or.
iad he been II man of wider expert
en,e or more dlscernment 1t Is prob
que mat ne would have refrained
ION speaking overmuch, but no. AZ
VT ne mad slipped "A little OF his drink
,v "e' MS glass back on the bar and
~ Il - bill beside IL and spake thus:
came In here because I desired to
~ CNo.1 MI phases NJ life In Arkansas
wy before leaving Il forever. l have
V" mere now for the better part of
~ N''r and have seen everything
The sun., 1916-10-15
% ENCLANDS MONSTER GUNS MEAN A NAVAL REVOLUTION
18 Inch Rifles Believed to Be Answer to Smashing
Blows Delivered by Germany in .Jutland Battle Stout
est Armor Shattered by Masses of High Explosives

nevertheless he realized what n
future possibly had In store. for on
January 10. 1901, he said:
Il think all the artillerists In the
world are looking forward to the day
when they can fire safely large guam
titles Of high explosives. OF course
there is no question as to their de-
structive effect as compared with the
gunpo WIDER shell Of to-day. You take
u IL inch shell and explode II on board
ship to-day and the local destruction
viii be considerable. Everybody in
the neighborhood would be killed and
the small machinery, pipes, wires. &C..
would be cut, but the ship herself
probably would not be put out Of &C
ton by IL or would not be fatally hurt.
Now II you can put a very large guam
,ity of high explosive on board safely
and explode 1t there Is no telling what
would happen" This was in substance
a prophecy.
The men here who have probably
lone most to achieve the very results
that Admiral O'Neil pictured are Louis
Gathmann and w. s. Isham. These
men worked out their problem In DIFF
ferent ways, but each Of them proved
c,,,o, GA o,nIos,va .oia,,na sro,n
Inns and a, The Same time N achieve
n, o.,o,ishi,, n.os,ro n, aono,,,ior
sovo,,oer years ayo tho navy had
n, ,..s, ono ,nan oliya 20 tho ,,,ua.
ton Tha, wo. Ass,stan, Naval CON.
s,ruc,or pohert a Dashis,, a man
ina, dia p,,cb IN ,mnroye naval ord.
nance during nj, sbor, hut brilliant
career I'm rlv In 1899 he wrote 10 thu
senate Naval Committee:
"Exnerimcn,s with submar,ne rnines
| ~dc,onated at VARYING stanc from
,he hull and the recent de,onation Al
sandy Hook ~ s. ~ inch shell Mt high
v~c,o,ity against n heavy armor plate
all show conc,usiveIv that tho detona.
ZION Of n shell containing Ave hundred
pounds OF gunco,ton either against a
I ship's side or even in the water n few
seet away from her hull Is sufficient
20 Mace her hors dc coinhat. Such q
result il no. TO be measured by or
gompared with any outlay Of money
ny which 1t NAV be Accomplished"
The lavman NAV possibly be be-
vildcred by the freouent use Of the
term ~"detonation," Briefly II may be
described as that form OF EXPLOSION
which causes the simultaneous ignition
OF every particle OF an explosive mass
and not It's progressive confederation.
This brings into play an extraordinary
measure of energy. The process is
thus explained by Sir Hiram $. Maxim:
In all high explosives. such as picric
acid. ritroclyccrine and guncotton. the
exp,osiye wave runs through the mass
a, ,Ip,os, incnoceiy,hla yelocity. the
wave passes through the mass as q
wave OF light passes through a block
OF glass II propcrly detonated the
The sun., 1916-10-15

SAW the Queen Mary and the
lndrfatigable 20 down. 1t
/ would be wrong to say the
! o.e,u Mary went down: she went up.
sss must have taken two or three
,rosdsides right into her, and some Of
.,s shells must have landed in the
u,r,zlnes. for the great vessel went
m in pieces into the air"
So a personal narrative describes
.,v INC Of Great Britain's formidable
: .tlos we're suddenly destroyed. It was
all over in a few seconds.
The question has arisen; Has the
British Admiralty kept from the public
~. real reason for the quick destruc-
Inn cf those magnificent vesselsf In
IN. opinion of some naval experts the
rroposed adoption Of the Is inch gun
,r the English superdreadnoughts
,or being built supplies an answer to
N. question. 1t also suggests aues-
Ton, regarding the United States
,.v. Some of these questions are;
Ar. all of our superdrsadnoushts
sr,clas,ed 40 the Queen Mary I'M
aoubtedly was?
Have the greatest Of nj battieships
A.come obsolescsnt owe nishtf
Have some OF the European navies
A vastly superior power Of attack?
And do they intend 10 hold this lead
a, all odds?
Americans have been decidedly proud
81, the navy's IA inch weapons. and
very recently the Pennsylvania
showed what these modern Long Toms
could do at more than eleven miles.
DESPITE this the Navy Department has
,bou, decided TO put Is inch guns on
me ba~t,lesh!ps last authorized. But
|,,ov comes Great Britain with Is inch
weapons.
The IS inch gun Is undoubtedly a
more formidable piece than the ia
.rcb rife Of our fleet. but the Is inch
weapons will represent a still longer
lead over the rs inch gun. This Is be-
cause the power to damage or TO de-
s,rov Increases as the cube or the
larger calibre instead Of being directly
p,,portional TO the increase in calibrt
'rco by inch. A IA inch shell weighs
ipp bounds: the lG inch p~rojcct!le
weighs something like 2.100 pounds
|. nd the y inch gun will probably nrf
missile approximating 5000 pounds
Before the present conflict the imme'
tla,e assumption would have been ina
.tf OBJECT H. adopting the IS inch 2ur
vas 10 obtain a longer range primaril,
ana trer TO Increase the capacity e
trek through thicker walls OF defen'
sve stti This used 10 be the wei
r.sa universal principle OF attack
BIZ: the battle cruiser action in I'M
!or,h Sea and later the stnl greater
'sht uf the coast of Jutland have
HANGED the views Of naval men.
Ttr British technical press has con
fiently asserted that the Germans de
! yelopcl no surprises in those two &C
tons. either in the form OF guns or II
\ proiectl.es, Just the same there Il
reason FOR believing that the Is Incl
4 eelpon Is an admission Of the con
'-ary and is Great Brita!n's hope In ar
Effort TO recover her ordnance SUI
iremacy. Otherwise why should she
van, 70 ahandon her present Is Incl
y,-s f5r which so much has beer
claimed?
The sun., 1916-10-15

The coming of the 70 inch gun announced by the British naval
,,,borues means great changes in warfare on land and sea. It's
Srnfesnce as il concerns the defences designed to protect New York
s rS, attack from the sea has been described in THE SUN. Why it
MAY render necessary the development of q new type of dreadnoush,
,r other words. the making over Of naves. is explained in the fol-
owIre article.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08
NESTOS TO MANAGE
CUMM|NS' FIGHT
Ward County Attorney Will Be-
gin Active Work in the
Near Future.

Minot, N. D., Jan. 7.-R. A. Nestos
of this city, who has been at Battle
Creek, Mich, for some time, recelv-
ing treatment for his throat, has
agreed to undertake the management
of the campaign for Senator Cum
Minis of'Iowa in this state in the pres
idential primaries. This decision
was reached yesterday at confer
ence of large number of Cummins
managers from the northwest, who
met at Battle Creek. Mr.. Nestos was
urged to take charge Of the campaign
and push it from, now until the close
Of the polls. q
Mr.. Nestcs is rapidly recovering
from the trouble which took him to
Battle Greek and will be at home in
a couple of weeks and the campaign
will be launched in short time at
ter his return. ~ A4t3 ~ t'7 hAn'@
Details of the campaign have not
yet been worked out, but both liter
allure and speaking fight will be
waged. The work of organizing in
the several counties will be taken up
early in the campaign and the plan
will be to get the followers of the
Iowa man in every locality united in
an effort to carry the state in the
primaries.
The indications now are that Sen
ator Cummins will go into the con-
vention with Iowa. Nebraska, Mime
sofa and South Dakota solid for him.
If he can add North Dakota to the
list, it will give him a solid geograph-
ical backing that will force recogni-
ton, even if the sentiment of the
country were not already largely
turning in that direction
After the decision of Mr. Nestos
to take charge of the campaign in
this state he received the following
telegram from Senator Cummins:
"Your undertaking OF the manage
ment OF my campaign in North Da-
kota is personal favor which | ap-
preciate more than can express. 1t
assures clean, manly campaign de-
void of bitterness and based the con-
tentions of my friends as to my logi-
cal selection for the high position.
My interests in North Dakota are in
capable hands.
"A. B. CUMMTNS."
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08

as to his ability to handle his body
which he developed in the gymnasium.
He can handle himself on the bars
and rings and other apparatus with as
much skill as he can play football
and other sports. He can turn
backward and forward flop and no
knows the other tricks OF gymnast.
He is fast on his feet still. In
officiating in big college games |
have seen him outrun some of the
fastest men on the football field, keep
ing with them on their long runs to
the touchdowns. Sharpe could row,
run fine relay. jump, put the shot.
and, in fact. do about anything on
the athletic field
Big league company naturally had
it's lures for AL Sharpe, the same a.
other men who have made athletics
and the physical man a study. The
colleges OF the east looked upon his
work with wistful eyes. Cornell finally
drew the prize. His success with
baseball and basketball made him the
logical candidate to fill Glenn War
ner's shoes with the football squad.
He was given the place, and if per-
sistence and the study Of man will
win, Sharpe has bright future
ahead.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08
FEDERAL MAGNATE
LEAVES FOR EAST
Harry Sinclair Will Make Effort
to Purchase New York Giants
Baseball Team.

Cincinnati, Jan. 7.-Harry +. Sim
clair, bank roll of the Federal league
and The man who made baseball
peace possible, will leave for New
YORK TINS afternoon, ready to close
the deal for the Giants. He will go in
company with Charles Ebbets or the
Brooklyn club, and the latter has been
instructed by his fellow maSnates to
DO everything in his power TO further
the deal.
This is not intended as a slap at
President Hampstead of the Giants,
who is popular with the ciubowners,
but is meant as a reward for the OIL
man for what he has done ior base
ball in general. 1t was made known
here that Hampstead is ready to step
down-in fact, would welcome such
move-Dut as there are number OF
stockholders in the.,New York Ma
tional league club, he has not the en-
tire say.
Ashley Lloyd, part owner with Mr..
Hampstead, was here today and he
gave his friends to understand THAI
the deal is near contamination. The
only thing which will now block the
negotiations is the interference OF
outside interests.
Mr.. Sinclair is willing to 60 con-
sidcrably higher than his original
bid, bnt be will not bny the team at
a $2.GOO.0OO valuation, which has prac-
tically been fixed. He is willing to 60
a little over the $2,OOO.0j0 mark. how
ever. ...- ...
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08
BASEBALL CHANGES
ARE COMING FAST
Part Owner of Cubs Did Not
Know Team Had Been Sold
While He Was Away.

Chicago, Jan. Harry Ackerland
who owns 10 percent of the stock in
the Cubs ball club, the only part not
purchased yesterday by Charles
Weeghman and his North Side asso-
ciates, bought his 10 per cent OF the
stock in the winter Nof 1912 from
Frank Chance when the latter was
dismissed as manager Of the Cubs.
Since that time the Cubs haven't
prospered as they had done in the
five or six years preceding the advent
of Akerland, but he never lost his en-
thusiasnl.
Last season he made two trips
around the circuit with the West Side
team for no other purpose than to
enjoy the game. On the first tour the
team was winning, but the second
was quite disastrous and, before it
was over Ackerland had become so
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08
BOXERS MUST Defend TITLE
American Boxing Association Has
Started War on Fiehters-Ted
Lewis CIassed as Welter.

The recently born American Boxing
association has started real war on
title holders who refuse to give the
rising generation a whack at the hon.
ors. Acting upon resolutions recently
adopted, it has sent notification to Will
lie Richie that he must defend his
American lightweight championship
by fighting for it within reasonable
time. If he, refuses, or ignores the
edict, the association will pick the
best three or four men in the class
and stage a series of battles to give
the nation a real title holder.
It is the sense of the promoters that
Richie, Kid Graves, Mike O'Dowd.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08

downhearted that he left the boys in
New York and went to Atlantic City
TO recuperate
When the season was over he took
trip to Honolulu for pleasure, and
knew nothing about the sale of the
Cubs and the peace negotiations I'M
til about two weeks ago, when he re-
turned to California. He read with
great interest of the changes which
had taken place and then came to
Chicago.
Ackerland's f0rmer home was in
Cincinnati and i e is related to Max
and Julius Fleischman, who at one
time were principal owners of the
Cincinnati Reds.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08
is SOME WOLF HUNTER.
Pierce County Man Claims to b
Champion, N. D., Nimrod.

Rugby, n. D., Jan. adam Les
mcister, residing north of Rugby,
claims to be the most successful wolf
hunter in North Dakota, as evidenced
by his claim for the bounty on eighty
two wolf scalps just allowed by
Pierce county Lesmeister collected
about $500 from Pierce county during
the past year for Staying wolves,
while he also has collected bonnties
in adjoining counties.
Lesmeister goes about wolf hunting
in systematic manner, being the
possessor of a remarkably we'll train
ed pack of wolfhounds, which make
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08
COACH SHOWS ABILITY
Doctor Sharpe Picked as Great
est Ali-Round Athlete.
Physical Director Of Michigan UnivsT.
sity Picks Cornell Man as Best
Of Sprinters and Gymnasts
In Every Respect.

From time to time athletes have
been put forward as the perfect speci-
men of all-around athletic ability and
development. Now comes forward one
of the best athletic authorities in the
country, Dr.. A. c. May, physical d.
rector of the University Of Michigan,
to pick Philadelphia for this honor.
Doctor May, a former Yale man. who
has been rated as real Mike Muir
ply by those who know athletics,
says that DR.. al Sharpe. who now is
the football, baseball and basketball
coach at Cornell university, is the
greatest living all-round athlete to-
day.
Doctor Sharpe now is coaching
Cornell university in three major
sports, baseball, bootball and, basket
ball, and getting results in all three
said Doctor May. He played all OF
these games with equal merit. and l
say that he was the greatest basket
ball player ever saw. He was a
brilliant football player, especially in
the drop-kicking department, and in
baseball he was wonder. He had
numerous offers from the Athletics to
play ball in past seasons. He could
pitch and play first base and was an
ambidextrous throWer.
Look at him once and you Will
see the reason for his success. He
is six feet one inch tall and weighs
1876 pounds. He is evenly proportioned
and owes his build not to athletics, but
to gymnastics, and he owes his ath.
letic success not to his build so much
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08
SUPERINTENDENT OF
FARGO SCHOOLS

education unanimously elected Ar
thur Deemer Of La Porte, Ind, as sup
erintendent OF the Fargo public
schools, at their meeting.
Mr. Deemer was in the city short
time ago comforting with members OF
the board in regard to- the position,
and made very good impression. He
comes here very we'll recommended,
and will take up his new duties at the
beginning OF the new school year.
The new superintendent salary
was placed at $4,000 per year.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08


Soldier Bartfield. Packey Mcfarland,
Jack Britton and Ted Lewis be classed
as welters. In the case of Richie,
Britton and Lewis, the promoters
voted that these men will have to back
up any claims they might make as to
their still being lightweights by meet
ing all corners at the accepted weight
In that class.
In the middleweight class the pro-
moters selected Young Ahearn, Mike
Gibbons, jeff Smith, George Chip, jim
my Clabby and Eddie McGoorty.
In the new flyweight division
frankie Izzo Artie Armstrong and
Jimmy Pappas were picked as the
three likeliest lads.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08
LITTLE P|(EUl5
Of SPORT !

. Vi JlVkl
Hockey is simply new name for it.
Just as many crooks are nicked as
when it was called Skinny on your
own SIDE"
Hank Gowdy expects to do the bulk
of the backstopping for the Braves
next year now that Whaling has been
released.
The Kansas City Polo club has been
organized, with the idea of populariz-
ing the pony polo sport among citi.
zens in that city.
Lung, a full-blooded Chinaman at in
side left on the Columbia university
soccer football team, is one of the
squads most expert players.
II there is anything in this bigger
they come, the harder they fall dope,
there'll be an awful crash when Fred
Fulton drops. He measures 6 feet 4.
The Courtney rowing No. 2 in the
present Cornell first boat is
nephew of Coach Courtney. This
years freshman candidates number
100.
The St. Louis Nationals have signed
one-eyed pitcher as running mate
for Meadows, the four-eyed hurler.
That puts the club one eye to the
good.
New York Sun headline: Yale
Eleven Will Be Heavy Loser by
Graduation The day of humor on
the Sun evidently did not pass with
Dana.
Umpire Quigley worked in 20 foot
ball games during the season just
closed and has now gone to his home
in st. Mary's, Kan, for rest during
the winter months.
Harvard university recently manned
20 eight.oared shells with rowing can.
didates, while so or more oarsmen in
single and double shells also practiced
on the Charles river.
Cassignol, the best billiard player
in France, and julius Adorjan, the
Hungarian expert, may visit this
country and participate in matches be-
fore the year is over.
Gilmour Dobie, Washington univer.
sity coach, whose teams we're never
beaten in eleven years, claims he new.
er will taste defeat as loag as he
lives. He has quit coaching.
-
Coach Al Sharpe OF Cornell univer.
sity has a four-year contract to in.
struct the Ithaca institution athletes
in football, baseball and basketball He
has turned out two champion basket.
ball teams in three years.
AA
Coach Walter Christie, the veteran
instructor liz track athletics at the
University Of California, has organ.
lied classes for instruction in coach.
ing and students training, at which
there is large attendance.
Coach Jim Rice of Columbia univer.
sity oarsmen says the recent tri
umph CT his varsity eight over the
Yale crew should dc much to coun-
teract the growing feeling that Eng.
lish rowing methods are superior to
the American theories of rowing.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08

Willie Hoppe to Play in Hawaii.
William F. Hoppe, the balk line bill.
Hard champion, will visit the Hawaiian
islands next spring and spend the ear
" summer months there and on the
pacific coast. He will be accompanied
BY Kcji Yamada, the crack Japanese
player. :.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08

4 - - . - q - - . - - = .
. Somebody II looking fnr Aslr. .
2 You are looking tor work. kst .
. ~ 1Hd tha nan vho neeA1 yoQ. .
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08
sorersen Elected Captain.

r. g. Sorensen of Norwood, Ohio.
has been elected captain of the Ohio
State university football team. During
the last season he played at full hack
and left half back !,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08

frisco Tee 70 Cross Ocean.
The Olympic club of San Francisco
win send 4 team of IA baseball plsyers
TO Honolulu, p. l., next February for .
series OF games with teams there.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08
MORAN WINS BOUT.

New York, Jan. Frank Moran Of
Pittsburg knocked out Jim 'Coffey in
the ninth round of their ten-round
match, at Madison Square Garden to-
night.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08

short work of the pests when they get
on the trail.
Lesmeister does not depend upon
wolf hunting to provide him with rev.
enue, as he is the owner of a very
finely-developed farm in the north end
OF this county.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08

in
his
Odhed after the money to
in He
with the Chicago Cubs
to q
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08
Hank Robinson With Fed.Y

There is a persistent rumor in st.
Louis that Hank Robinson has signed
to pitch for the Feds next year.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-08

Hockey is simply new name for it.
Just as many crooks are nicked as
when it was called Skinny on your
own side."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-11-23
Bank Statements Called.

The comptroller Of the Currency at
Washington issued call en- Monday
for statements of all National Banks
showing their condition at the close of
business on November 18th. The re-
ports of the two Oakland banks will be
found in another column of this paper
today. Both have splendid showlngs.