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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-26
PERSONAL.

Mrs. +. H. Hurlburt has returned
from visit of several weeks in Bos-
ton.
Miss Minnie Brasor Of Woodnlere. l..
l., is visiting her father, Egbert Bra
sor.
Fred Chamberlin spent Christmas in
Townshtnd at his home. returning last
night.
Ray II. Mixer of Northampton was a
visitor in town over the holiday with
friends.
Miss Pearle Wright went this morn
ing to Orange, Mass, to visit during
the holidays
Louis Hanley, clerk in the Brattie
boro Drug Co., spent Christmas at his
home in Rutland
Miss Emma Mixer finished work for
the season Saturday in DonneIl & Da-
Wis s millinery store.
Bernard Dunlevy, who is employed in
Windsor, was at his home on Harris
place for the holiday.
Mrs. o. II. Stickney is visiting in
Springfield (Nt.) with her daughter,
Mrs. j. Warren Miller.
Nh. and Mrs, L. J. Fenton and sons
visited over the holidays with her
mother in Bellows Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. y, J. Currier went Sat
urday to Springfield, Mass, to be guests
of Mrs. Addie Currier Gowdy.
Miss Maude Stoddard of Springfield
Mass, came this morning and is a guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. II. 2. Wellman.
/ Charles II. Atwood of Pittsfeld
Mass, was guest yesterday in the
home of his sister, Mrs. G.. c. Gould
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Diekcrman and
daughter of Hinsdale were Christmas
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank p. Bar.
Der.
Mrs. b. &. Harris and Mrs. Henry
! Williams clerks in the Huntress- Wood
store, are confined to their homes Will
| illness.
| DR.. /. Randall Doane and family OF
Springfield (Vt.) and Miss Rutl
/ Streeter spent Christmas with Mr.. anC
Mrs, w. G. Sargent.
| Everett l.. Odds Of Dartmouth col
! lege is spending the Christmas reces,
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs II. L
/ Olds of Chapln street.
Mrs George Kimball of Hinsdale i.
visiting here few days with her sis
ter, Mrs. c. S. Hopkins. Mr., Kimbal
was here for Christmas.
Silas Hamilton, who is student il
Worcester academy, is spending tn,
| Christmas vacation with his mother
Mrs. Minnie Hamilton.
| Miss Emma Mead Of Mount Vernon
y. T., and Charles Bemis of Dallas
Texas, were guests Christmas OF Mr.
and Mrs. Barney S. Mead
Mrs. Patrick Connarn and daughte
OF Dummerston spent yesterday in tow
with Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Richardson
and Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Connarn.
Mrs. Robert Kathan, Miss Cor;
Kathan and Miss Florence kathan o
Springfield (Vt.) came Saturday an,
are spending few days with Air. IN,
Mrs w. b. Smith.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-26
Sporting Notes.

The Company | basketball team went
TO Springfield Saturday afternoon and
defeated the Springfield independent
team, u to Is. These teams opened the
season in Brattleboro a week before,
when Springfield was soundlv beaten.
Colgate, Rutgers, Williams. Amherst,
Trinity and Vermont have all been
dropped from Brown s home schedule
and Johns Hopkins, Holy Cross, Boston
college and Colby have been SUBSTITUTE
ed. Harvard will he pla ,,ed at Cam
bridge Oct. - and Yale at New Haven
Nov. 10, with Colby interposed as an
easy game between the Yale game and
tie concluding contest with Dartmouth
al Springfield Nov u.
The Brown university athletic asso-
citation announced Saturday night at
Providence that the long hoped for
Brown Dartmouth renewal of athletics
on the gridiron will be staged in
Springfield, Mass, Nov. u, 1917. The
game will undoubtedly be staged on the
Eastern States exposition field in West
Springfield. The two institutions last
met i'll Springfield in the fall of 1906
The game was played at Hampden park
IN 1913. the United States National
Lawn Tennis association ranking com
mlttee looked over the names of 2,697
players to determine who should be
named among the country S . first
/ ten. y In 1916, the names of 1906 court
performers were examined-an increase
| of 81 per cent over the previous year
| This is only one of the many proofs
! the association has found that the
game 5 popularity is growing with eacl
succeeding season.
Oscar Egg and Marcel Dupuy woi
the oath annual six-dav bicycle race
in Madison Square garden at New
York, which closed at | / clock Satur
day night. Root and Madden finished
second in the race, with Spears and Nc
Namara third. Kaiser and Cameron
were fourth Hill and Drobach fifth
Debaetes and Walthour sixth. TIL,
six teams covered 1925 miles Thu
record is 2.759 miles and two laps mad,
by Goullet and Grenda in 1914. Thu
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-26
SAM RICE PROMISING HITTER.
Stands Chance of Being Contender for
American League Honors

Sam Rice, converted from pitcher to
an outtielder, stands a chance of being
one of the contenders for the Ameri-
can league batting honors next season,
says a Washington scribe.
Rice was the eighth batter in TIE
Johnson league last season, with an
average of .3l6, made in only 80 games.
In at least 10 of these games Rice was
4 sick man, suffering from malaria, and
during these games his batting aver
age naturally slumped and his speed,
by y hich he beats out many infeld hits
also left him.
He got back in the game n the fall
ol the year and gave the best hitting
exhibition of anyone in the American
league n'ttng at a 800 clip n The
rl,sing games.
Ty Cobb said of him this fall that
he was by far the most promising hit
ter he had seen break in in recent
wears, and that he was sure that he
would be contender in the batting
struggle next season.
Cobb gave Rice particular attention
IN tuc closing series at Detroit, and
b" found that there was nothing ht
could not hit, that pitcher had moth
ing which would fool him, whether il
was a right or left handler Manager
Griffith made it even stronger so faI
as Rice's hitting was concerned
81 never saw such hitting as Ric,
did in Philadelphia and New York il
the closing games of the season II,
| drove i'll all the runs we got with Ions
clean-eut line drives between fields
and he looked to be the greatest hitte
| have ever seen. He will be in gooC
health next season, and ! look for hin
to come near leading the league il
hitting.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-26
PERSONAL.

Dir. Henry d. Holton is i'll with grip,
but is improved today.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Tatro of Greenfield
spent Monday in town with relatives.
Miss Gertrude Gum returned today
to Providence, r. l., having been home
over Christmas.
Louis Bresslin of Newark, \. J., a
former resident of Brattleboro, spent
the holiday here.
Miss Goldie Johnson, assistant town
clerk, who had been flr witfs grips Ne
turned to her office work this morning
Frank Moore of New Haven, Conn.
and Miss Annie Ferriter of Winsted
Conn, spent the holiday in the family
of Eugene Ferriter.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-26
OF
.SPOHDOM

No matter who plays, in most of the
football games the ticket scalpers are
winners.
All of the clubs in the Western
league are said to have made money
this year, except seven.
According to latest reports, the
Dodgers haven't cracked under the
strain of having so much money.
Gloomy Gus says: The man who
invented basketball was in all other
respects a respectable and decent citi-
zen.
Minneapolis boxing promoter would
give bonuses to fighters scoring knock
outs. He automatically bars Freddie
Welsh.
The McGraw who plays tackle for
Princeton is not John McGraw of
Giant fame. If he were he would be
a great kicker.
Miller Higgins has been given Der
mission TO trade any player on his
team. He might he able to get a few
broken bats in exchange.
In the good old days of boxing q
champion often fought on "winner
take all' basis. Nowadays all a cham.
pion wants, whether he wins or loses
is everything.
/ futurity candidate recently placed
in Tommy Murphys stable at POUCH
keepSie is a yearling filly by Main
street, 2:05. out of Lady Jay, 2:13, by
Jay McGregor, 2O7A.
+ revised version of the sale of tn,
Red Sox shows the club went TO
. ST50,O0o instead of S675.OOO. Ye
. Charley Ebbetts had nerve enough t,
ask million and a half for the bod
gers.
All of the big league parks nov
seem comparatively quiet and de
serted and melancholy. except Shib
park, Philadelphia, where the AT
tendance continues about the sam
as it was in September
John L. Collyer is coaching Cornell
university oarsmen. assisted by fol
mer Coach Charles Courtney, in a
advisory capacity The early workout
attracted 80 candidates for the varsj
~ and freshmen Fights.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-26
Berlin point system was used in the

Berlin point system was used in the
scoring.
Anyone desiring to see the Dartmouth
football team in action against strong
opponents next season will not be
obliged to go far. Among the teams
to he played at Hanover are the Uni
versity of West Virginia, which tied
Dartmouth last season, and the Penn
State, one of the strongest teams At
Boston Dartmouth will play the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and at Spring
field Dartmouth will meet Brown.
/ Other games at Hanover include
Springfield Y. NJ. c. y. college, New
Hampshire State, Colby and the Massa-
chusettts Aggies.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-26
PERSONAL.

Miss Agnes Hathaway is in Barre
for visit of several days.
Thomas Griffin was in town to spend
Christmas with his sisters.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Rohde spent
Christmas in Bellows Falls.
George Messer of New Haven, Conn,
spent the holiday with his mother.
Louis l. Allen and John B. ManIev
are i'll Springfield, Mass, today on busl-
ness.
c. Edwin Sawyer of Buffalo, n Y,
was registered at the Brooks House
Sunday.
Miss Grace Van Gumster went to her
home in lion, n. y, to visit over
Christmas.
John NJ. Lee of Pittsfeld Mass, was
a Christmas guest in the home of John
NJ. Duggan.
Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Dunton went
Saturday to Providence, R. l., to spend
the holidays.
Miss Emily f. Guild of Westfeld,
Mass, was in town for the holiday
with her family.
Mrs. Charles r. Dunklee is i'll in her
home on Western avenue with laryn-
gifts aud cOnjunctivitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter NJ. Kidder of
New York are guests of Mrs. Kidder S
mother, Mrs. Sarah Kidder.
Herbert Winchester, former resi-
dent, came from New York for the holi-
day. He will return tomorrow.
Mrs. Mary \. Arnold of Summit. n
j., is visiting in the home of her son,
\. H. Arnold, over the holidays
Morgan Sherman of Boston spent
the holiday in town with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Z. Sherman.
| Mr.. and Mrs. ID. S. Carey and daugh-
ter, Mary, spent Christmas in Gardner,
Mass, with Mrs. Carey's relatives.
Merrill Whitney, who is employed ii
the Westinghouse plant in Chicopee
Mass, was in town for the holiday.
Miss Susan Hanrahan and niece, Miss
/ Mildred Hanrahan, went Saturday to
their home in Hinsdale to remain until
i this morning.
Miss Clara Tarbox. clerk in the Brat
tleboro China store, went Monday to
/ New York to spend a week 5 vacation
with relatives.
Christopher H. Babb returned this
morning from Canada, where he was
called two weeks ago by the serious i'll
ness of his father.
S. F. Breese Morse, who is employed
in Bridgeport, Conn, came Saturday TO
visit until this morning with his mother,
Mrs. Cola G. Morse
W. H. Bond, who had been confined
to his home with severe attack OF
grip, was able to get out Sunday after
noon for the first time
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Freyenhagen
and son, Clinton, went to Springfield
Mass, Sunday to spend Christmas with
his brother and family.
Mrs. A. f. Weeden and Miss Little
field of Boston were at the home OF
Mrs. Weeden' S daughter, Mrs. j. l.
Stewart, for the holiday.
Wells Miller. who is with the Ameri
can Telephone & Telegraph Co. in New
York, visited his parents, Dr. and Mrs
A. l. Miller, over Christmas.
j Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. Kearney and son
], Fillmore, went to Barre for holiday
visit in the home of Mrs. Kearney :.
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. p. Brown
! Miss Carrie Dunton, who is attend
: ing the teacher training class in lie
land & Gray seminary in Townshend, il
spending the vacation at her home il
town.
Former Lieut. Gov. Frank +. Hove
and Judge f. l.. Bates of Bennington
! were in Brattleboro Saturday after
noon. They came here 70 attend thl
funeral Of Clarke G.. Fits. hut then
train was 50 late that it WAS after
. clock when they reached here.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-26

and Mitchell now is Cub manager. The
Cubs gave up Outfielder Joe Kelly and
cash for Mitchelrs release
While Mitchell never was an acgres.
opinion among baseball men, particu-
larly among managers, that Chicago
made splendid move in getting Mitch
ell. A few years ago Stallings went
TO New York to trade. Il will trade
any man on my club but one" he said
and defied the crowd to guess his name.
After they all had put in their guesses
he said: You are all wrong. / am
referring to Fred Mitchell | don't
know what / would do without him"
Mitchell is a baseball veteran whose
education and temperament have made
him an ideal coach of pitchers. He is
thirty-eight years old and was born
in Alton, \. H. Mitchell started play
ing minor league ball as pitcher in
1897 with Concord. y H., and got his
first big league job with the Boston
Americans in 1901.
The next season he was with the
Philadelphia Americans and with Wad-
dell, Plank and Hastings formed the
pitching staff Of Mack's first pennant
winner. He was with the Philles in
1903 and part of 1904. when he was
released to Brooklyn. remaining with
the SuperbaS until the end of the 1903
season. He Went to Toronto, and, his
arm going bad he switched from pitch
ing to catching. He did so well in this
new field that Stallings brought him
10 the Yankees in 1909
/ Mitchell wound up his playing ca
recr as catcher for Rochester in 1911
and 1912. When Stallings was appoint
ed manager OF the Braves in 1913 one
of his first moves was to give Mitchell
commission as coach of pitchers The
Brave pitching staff during the Stall
lings regime is Il splendid tribute to
/ Mitchelrs coaching genius.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-26

A bear in the stock market may
have bull luck.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-26
WOMEN SELECT GOLF DATES
First Time in History of United
States Golf Association Fair Sex
Have Had Privilege.

A committee Of women will select
the course and dates for their next
national golf tournament. An an
nouncement at headquarters of the
United States Golf association says
the committee has been asked To
choose three clubs and the date which
they consider best for the woman golf
ers, SO that their selection can be
voted upon, which is TO be held in
New York next January.
This is said to be the first time in
the history of the organization that
the women have been permitted to
select the course and the dates.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-26
MITCHELL TO LEAD CUBS.
Baseball Men Have Words of Praise
For New Chicago Manager.

Failing to bag the big game he was
after, Charley Weeghman, president of
the Chicago Nationals, did the next
best thing-he landed the biggest thing
in sight. Weeghman wanted a man like
McGraw or Stallings to manage the
Cubs and did everything possible TO get
the latter before he saw the futility Of
further dickering with Percy Haugh-
ton, president of the Braves. Recently
Weeghman closed deal with Haugh-
ton for Fred Mitchell, the Brave coach.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-26
Organize Colleae Bowlers.

Steps are being taken to organize a
college bowling league in the west,
Chicago being the prime mover in the
scheme Besides the University of
Chicago it is proposed to include Pur-
due, Northwestern, Illinois, Michigan,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Notre
Dame and possibly others Chicago
already has an intercollegiate league
which has developed some of the best
Senpin men In the west.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-26
ONE ON CHIEF MEYERS.

3 Several years ago, when Chief :
q Meyers was a Giant, he asked 3
> Christy Mathewson to advise s
= him how to invest some money. q
+ Buy Rock Island was Mat i
$ tvs reply. SO the Chief put up i
8 $500, only to see the stock drop &
= to nothing. OF course, the In &
s. dian, who loves his dollars well, 4
= was bitterly disappointed. He s
80 couldn't talk to Matty without !
% showing his feelings. q
> Last spring when Meyers had 4
s. been sold to the Brooklyns Matty 8
! faced him in a game at the Polo I:
= Grounds. AS the Indian came to 4
j the bat McGraw, who was eager &
3 to discomfort him, shouted from 4
+ the bench: 4
= 'Matty, pitch the Chief that I
3 Rock Island fadeawayn' I
. The Chief then carved the air. ::
= i
4, :, - i, e. 4, s, + - T. Il SO y - = q j
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-26
CoAKLEY IN NEW CONTRACT
Veteran Pitcher Signed by Columbia
University--Eias New Duties and
Increased Salary.

Andy Coaklcy, veteran pitcher who
has been baseball coach of Columbia
university for three years, has signed
n new long-term contract, with more
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-26
Advocated Preparedness.

$N0NOSalSo SPot SSnSScr
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
y WASHINGTON Jan. 26.--7yarlaas
views were expressed in the house
today regarding the probable effect Of
Republican Leader Mann's speech ad-
vocating preparedness. leading re-
publicans declared that while Mann
generally reflected the republican
viewpoint, he spoke for himself alone
and gave his personal views for per
sonal reasons, without attempting to
guide the republican members.
Although there is greater unanimity
among the republicans than tho
house democrats on preparedness.
leaders admit many republicans do
not share Mann's Views regarding the
necessity of large standing army.
Sentiment for building up the militia
rather than greatly increasing the
regular army or creating the conti-
mental reserves is widespread on the
republican side.
With the responsibility resting up
on the democrats to provide the reve-
nues, the republicans have fewer ma
tional defense insurgents" but minor
members as we'll as the democrats
profess to regard the question aa
largely non-partisan and one of per.
sonal responsibility. without follow.
ing party leaders.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-26

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 26.-Dele-
gates representing 100000 union coal
miners, decided today by an over
whelming vote not to suspend work
April 1 in case new wage scale agree
ments with the operators have not
been made by that time.
The original intention was to have
the Mobile conference begin February
i, but the convention Will hold the
miner delegates here past that date.
President White said that with the
scale and legislation committee yet to
report and partial reports to come
from other committees, the conven-
ton will continues a large part of next
week.
The conference at Mobile will be
able to determine now wage scale
TOR central competitive fields. Most
of the scales expire April /. Scales de-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-26
Miners Vote Against Strike
by Overwhelming Majority

policy winning by practically a unan-
imous vote.
This vote Is taken as indicating a
powerful influence by President White.
When the convention adjourned yes
terday, strong opposition to the non
suspension policy was apparent, but
lover night the White forces won
many votes.
Those favoring strikes wished them
las club to hold over the operators.
Those opposed to suspension declared
such action would open markets to
Inon-union coal. 1t is now assured,
delegates said, that wage scale nego-
Itiatfons will go on under peaceful con-
Idftions at least until the miners are
Icertain that the operators will not
grant their demands. The miners ap-
peared confident satisfactory agree
ment will be reached. Negotiations
viii begin IN Mobile, Ala. probably
February I.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-26
LEAVES
ON LONG TOUR
VIII Speak in Three Iowa Cities Dur
ing His Trip Into the
Middle West.

fUnited Press Leased Wire Service]
WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.-President
Wilson today cleared up pending ad,
ministration matters preparatory to
leaving Washington for an almost IN
interrupted tour of eight days. In be-
half Of his preparedness program. To,
night the president and Mrs. Wilson
will leave New York. After two ad.
dresses there, the president will re
turn to Washington Friday for q Few
hours, leaving Friday night on his
western trip.
In addition to the regular stops; the
president will make number OF rear
platform speeches. On his way from
Cleveland to Milwaukee Monday, ne
will speak briefly at Waukegan, ILL.,.
and Kenosha, Wis. Enroute from
Chicago to Des Moines, he expects to
speak at Grinnell and Iowa City, and
possibly other points. He Will also
make platform speeches at Lawrence,
Kansas and East St. Louis. ILL.,. and
Racine, Wis.
Owing to the fact that the execu-
tive desires to speak to as many peo'
pie as possible on the trip and hence
will require rest between speeches, no
entertainment offered himself or Mrs.
Wilson has been accepted. All OF the
speeches will be before large meet
ings with the exception Of the break
fast to be rendered by the ST. Louis
Business Mems league, to which Mrs.
Wilson will accompany the president.
While in Topeka, the president ano
Mrs. Wilson will have luncheon with
Governor and Mrs. Capper.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-26

termined on at Mobile will be used as
a basis for negotiations in other dis
tricts.
The convention listened today to
many short speeches by miners from
widely separated districts on the sub
1ect of suspension April 1. David
Fowler OF Scranton, Pa, representing,
he said. fifty thousand anthracite min
ers, said his district does not want a
strike.
The vote was considered substan-
tial proof that the union miners desire
Industrial peace. 1t was taken, follow
ing many brief speeches by miners
widely scattered districts
tn which the non-suspension policy OF
President White was unvaryingly en-
dorsed.
An aye and no vote was first taken,
but division was demanded. The
rising vote showed the non-suspension
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-26
Steel Corporation Declared
Dividend and Gave Every
body Confidence,

United Press Leased Wire Service ]
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-Wall street
whistled on its way to work today.
its Judgment that the country is max
ing money having been confirmed by
the announcement Of unprecedented
earnings of the United States Steel
corporation and the placing of steel
common back on the old lve per cent
basis, the street Is now expected to
throw itself to another display OF
boom trading.
Steel common opened on the stock
exchange today with the sale of 15,OO0
shares at prices ranging from S5B to
Sc. It closed yesterday at S41A. after
having reached S71a at one time dur
ing the afternoon.
The fact that the earnings of the
steel corporation for the last quarter
exceeded by nearly s6.000000 any 9TH
er three months in the history of the
concern was pointed to today as an
indication that the extent OF business
being done in the country has hardly
been realized even by those closest
to trading centers.
In answer to the argument that