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DEFINED.

Knicker-What are a congressman's duties?
Bocker-To run. sit. lie and stand
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hEMMEp IN.

How did you get that stitch in your sids?~
"Oh. got hemmsd IL . crowd"
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The optimist generates lot Of hope
that never comes out.
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In case the United States we're involved In war.
however he says be would place his device un-
reservcdly at the disposition OF the military
authorities
III Is. OF course possible" he said to repre-
sentative Of the Post tDspateh Sunday Magazine
a few days ago. ito produce electrical effects at q
distance by means of wireless energy. But the
insurmountable difficulty thus far has been TO aim
an electric wave in one direction only. with all
of It's force concentrated on a given target.
Il will go 80 far as to say that after twenty
years OF application to the problem OF transmitting
energy by wireless. | have lust made u valuable
advance In this direction. The stage has been
reached where an extent II Is practicable TO use
this force in war and to predict such a develop
ment as will make electricity supplant cannon in
battle
"It Is impossible TO give details at this time. but
IN general way my invention can be used in
three methods
an explosive body through the air-an aerial tor
pedo flying many times faster than an aeropane-
and to direct this projectie to the spot desired
where II can be exploded by wireless II will be
pnssibie to guide the proIeetile by wireless after
II has passed beyond the range of the eye. and the
alm IS so accurate that II is possible to reduce
the error to few feet in a thousand miles
In the second place II will be practicable with
this apparatus to prodace effects al a distance
which will interfere with the enemy and tend to
make him ineffective
In the third place. II promises to be able to
produce at distance such effects OF electrical
tension as will jeopardize life and property"
The inventor declined TO 30 into specific details.
saying that IT Is safer to be specific after the
fact Bu, one would gather from the words he
did speak that he has contrtyed a torpedo OF the
air flying under its own power as torpedo swms
in the water which can be steered by wireless
and exploded by the same force. Such prolectile
would have a range not Of some twenty miles, like
the highest power cannon. but one limited only
by its own flying endurance II would be harder
to hit with shell and rifle fire than aeroplane,
because OF its smaller size and swifter velocity,
and Il need not be manned by crew who would
be exposed to death at every instant
Snch a missile, aimed according to the mathe-
matIcal formulas used today by gunners whose
target Is beyond the range OF eye and telescope,
could be dispatched for the destruction OF bat
tleship long before her own guns would be able
TO come into play Safe from the shells OF the
greatest ordnance II could start from a point
miles beyond their range and destroy the batteries
without the possibility Of reply.
The second and third methods OF which Tesla
speaks are discussed In rather cryptic language
hut leave the inference that he believes himself
already able. in some degree. to produce at a dis
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lasting results LARGE TRIAL BoTTLE FREI iIH.
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ucdspsndabls Hen.

The hen that spends her time upon
the roost can never be derendsd on 10
boost
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on THEY WOULD Be MUCH TROUBLE.
As rule women look at things differently from
men--and IT'S a good thing for most husbands
that they do--Indianapolls Star.
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Mrs Kawler-Do you consider Alica very good
IN Hlunderby-Oh. Alice 10 pretty enough:
~ wouldn't call her an Adonis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
1900 ENTRIES IN
COLLEC|ATEMEET
Cream of Athletes in United States to
Compete in Annual Track Event
at Cambridge, Mass.

New York, May 1S.-More than / ,203
entries are in the hands OF the secre-
tary of the Intercollegiate Association
of Amateur Athletes of America for
the 41st championship games of the
association, to be held at Cambridge,
Mass, on May 26 and q. Twenty-four
colleges and universities, including
Stanford and California from the Pa
cific coast and Michigan from the
middle west, have entered teams and
the two-day meet in the Harvard stad-
ium promises to be one of the most
closely contested in the history of the
organization.
Yale leads with 146 entrants, the
New Haven university having named
the limit number of contestants in a
majority of the 13 events which com
pose the program Of track and field
contests. Cornell, the present inter
collegiate championship holder, is sec
Ond with 122 and Princeton third with
Ill. Michigan is well up in the list
with 81 names while Stanford has 81
and California 10. Among the other
institutions which have entered large
teams are Pennsylvania, Amherst,
Dartmouth, Harvard. Mass. l. T., Penn.
State and Syracuse. Georgetown is
the only southern representative.
The colleges which have entered
contestants in every event include.
Amherst, Bowdoin, Cornell, Dart
mouth, Harvard. Stanford, Mass. l. T.,
Michigan, New York University, Penn.
State, Pennsylvania, Princeton, SYRIA
cuse and Yale. The University OF
Maine also entered number of ath-
letes but the names were received
considerably after the official time set
for the closing of the lists and there
is some doubt as to whether these
entrants will be permitted to start.
The California entries are confined to
the two hurdle and five field events.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
MOLINE DIVIDES
Twin BILL With
HANNIBAL MULES
Timmersman Batted on Mound In IN.
First Game, but Flows Come
From Behind and Win to-.
VISITORS MAKE SIX ERRORS
, Guy Elliott Blows Up in Sixth Inning
OF Second Game-Peachy Sra
ham Plays In Outfield.

Moline and Hannibal divided a dou-
BILE bill yesterday afternoon at the
Plow City lot, Hughes men taking the
opener to 4, then losing the second
6 to 0. Manager Hughes again expert
mented, this time with his two new
hurlers. Zimmerman and Elliott, and
neither showed much stuff, in fact FL
IiorJ blew up completely in the second
game. Timmersman was released re-
Gently by Manager O'Leary Of Da7en-
port for failure to get into condition
and Elliott tried out with Rock Island
this spring
Hannibal really threw away the first
game, two wild heaves in the sixth bv
Kruger resulting in three runs, and in
the fourth Clarke and Waring got
mixed on singles and two scored on
passed ball. In the second game FL
lott went along swimmingly to the
sixth inning In that frame three
bases on balls, four singles and an er
ror counted five for Hannibal. The
| scores:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
JUDGE WILL DECIDE
WHICH IS MAT CHAMP

New York, May 1S-Whether Ed
ward tStrangler) Lewis or Alexander
Aberg has the best right to claim the
worlds wrestling championship is a
question placed yesterday before Fed
eral Judge Mayer.
Aberg procured from Judge Mayer
the issuance of temporary iniunc-
ton enjoining Lewis, whose real name
is Robert Friedrich, from going about
the country posing as the champion
wrestler of the world and using cir
culars and pictures detailing his de-
feat of Aberg for the world honors.
The injunction is to run pending the
suit in equity brought by Aberg against
Lewis and William Sandow, his man
ager.
In his complaint Aberg claims the
championship, saying he wrested the
honors from Lewis in their recent
bout here
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
CONVICTS
STAGE A BALL GAME

Columbus, Ohio, May 1S.-Murder-
ers, burglars, confidence men and pick
pockets, composing the Ohio peniten-
tiary baseball team, today played an
amateur team at the local American
association ball park. 1t was said to
be the first time that a convict team,
unguarded, had been permitted to play
outside of prison walls. Proceeds of
the game will go to charity.
The prison band, composed of so
convicts, accompanied the team to the
park and before the game and between
innings entertained the crowd with
likely airs The sporting editor of the
Ohio penitentiary News, which is pub
lished by convicts within the prison,
represented his paper. which will carry
full account of each play
Several prison officials attended the
game, but none of them was armed.
all of the cOnvicts being on their honor
not to attempt to escape.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
AUGUSTANA HANDED
BEATING BY IOWANS

Errors and numerous hits lost for
Augustana nine yesterday when St
Ambrose Travelled across the plate II
times, winning L. to l, at Davenport
Fifteen hits, one of them a home run
by McLain, were the big factors of the
game, although costly errors at criti-
cal moments gave the lowans big
advantage Woods of ST. Ambrose
showed superiority in the box through
out and neither Blomberg or Captain
Johnson could puzzle the Catholic
batters. Score: X. II. +.
Augustana 49, 00000001- 4 s
st. Ambrose / 0202 53x-l2 u 3
Batteries Blombcrg, Johnson and
Samuelson, Woods and Ryan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
ART SALzMANN IS
AGAIN PIN CHAMP
Member of Edelweiss Team Takes In.
diyiduaI Bowling Hon0rs for
Third Time in Three Years.

Art Salzmann of Rock Island leads
the bowlers in the Tri-City league,
for the third successive season, &C
cording to averages compiled today by
Secretary Hans Clemann, with an av-
erage of 1S9 for the season. His near
est competitor was Pete Petersen of
Davenport, who finished with 1S1, just
a fraction ahead of John Bergman.
The Edelweiss team, champions of the
league, led in team average by a wide
margin with 1855, the Cubs being Gec-
ond Harry Erickson Of Moline rolled
the biggest three-game total and John
Bergman holds the single game rec
ord.
The annual banquet Of the league
will be held this evening at Hotel
Harms at 7:30 at which time the
prizes for the season will be distriD-
uted.
Individual averages for the season
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
SHERRARD REGULARS
TO MEET SHEFFIELD

The Sherrard Regulars will open
the 1916 season at Sheffield Sunday.
meeting the fast independent team
from the latter place. A large crowd
of rooters will accompany the team
to Sheffield in a special coach. The
Sherrard club will open the season
on It's own grounds, May 80, with the
East Moline Cubs as opponents. The
Sherrard Dancing club will hold its
next dancing party tomorrow evening.
"rixon's orchestra of Rock Island
furnishing the music. The Sherrard
club is angling for dates with the Cub
an Stars of Havana, Cuba and Chi
cagO Union Giants.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
REJUVENATED CUBS
WHIP DODGERS z TO 2

Chicago, May 1S.-With the tender
to the new Cub machine loaded with
pep the Bruins, headed by Field Mar
shall Heinie Zimmerman, bumped the
Brooklyn Dodgers into 7 to defeat
yesterday. The wailoping pulled Eb-
bets pace-making crew down to a tie
with the oncoming Braves and boosted
the TinX into fourth place, which made
it full afternoon for all hands. The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18

Andy Ware, new mount artist, dis
played his goods for the first time
yesterday. He is a rugged boy, expe-
rienced, and fields his position admir-
ably.
Holding those smuggling Boomers
hitless for six consecutive innings is
no mean feat. Ware did it. And Andy
has only three fingers on his flinging
mitt, like Mordecai Brown.
Erlewein pulled off some Jekyll and
Hyde stuff again yesterday. Although
he made three errors he fielded in
sensational manner at other times.
A sure sign of poor baseball weather
smoke issuing from the club house
chimney.
A youthful popcorn vender ventured
into the grandstand yesterday after
noon. He stopped in front of a bunch
of half frozen bugs and yelled ice cold
pop" The fans ran him out of the
stands.
Heine Clayton damned three long
hits into the outfeld yesterday, but
some pesky fielder got under them each
time.
Lister got Is of the 81 putouts yes
terday.
There will be several new faces in
Peoria's roster at Rock Island today.
Manager Jackson has started on a cam
paign to eliminate the wobbly spots.
The new men are Pitcher Paul Brown,
who Joined the team at Rockford, and
Outfielder Vovesny, who is playing in
Rafferty's place. Vovesny is an old
teammate of Pechous.
Jake Ehresman, the DistillerS' big
spitball artist, goes to Muscatine to
join Ned Egan's club, which is lead
ing the Central association at present
Charles kapp, touted as one of the
most promising youngsters in central
Illinois, will join Peoria's hurting staff
Sunday. Last season kapp twirled two
games against the Chicago Feds, win
ming the first l to 0 in 10 innings and
the second to in II innings.
Manager Darringer of the Boomers
has released Dave Tackle. who played
| first base. Since the coming of Ray
Schmandt, Tackle finds no place on the
team. The question is what will Oar
ringer do with Joe Wilson, who played
last season with Davenport Wilson
has reported.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18

Extra base hits-Two- base, thinner
man, Packard, Williams, Schultz;
runs, Schultz, Williams. Strike outs
BY Pfeffer, /; by Appleton. l. Bases on
balls-Off Packard, 4; off Pfeffer. 3;
off Appleton, /; off Mails, l. Double
play-Pa Packard to Safer. Left on bases
Chicago, 4; Brooklyn, L. Passed
ball Miller Umpires -O'Day and Ea-
son. Time-i:45.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
White Accents Offer.

New York, May lS.-Nate Lewis, on
behalf Of Charles White, yesterday
agreed to the terms OF the South Amer
lean promoters for a 20-round bout
between White and Freddie Welsh, 10
take place IN Buenos Aires the middle
OF July.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
National League.
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
Three-Eye League.

Bloomington, 5; Rock Island, l.
Davenport, 6; Quincy, 5.
Moline, 60; Hannibal, As.
Rockford, 10; Peoria, 8.
American League.
Boston-Chicago, rain.
Cleveland-New York, rain.
st. Louis, Z; Philadelphia, 4.
Washington. 6; Detroit, 4.
National League.
Chicago, Z; Brooklyn, 2
New York, 8; st. Louis, 3.
Observation-Disclosures, rain.
American Association.
Toledo, 3; St Paul, 2.
Milwaukee, 5; Indianapolis, 2.
Kansas City, 4; Louisville, 2.
Central Association.
Burlington. 2; Muscatine, 0.
Clinton, 10; Cedar Rapids, Z.
Mason City, 6; Fort Dodge, 0.
Waterloo, 2; Marshalltown, l.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18

*Batted Tor Poole in eighth.
Quincy .....0 0 0 %
Davenport ! l l ID
Two-base hits - Lynch. Conger.
Three base hit-Golvin. Sacrifice hits
-Sundheim. ,; Kuhn. Higbee. Keep
ping, O'Brien. 3; Poole. Stolen bases
Boyle. Vogel, 3; Lynch. Double
plays-Poole-M Mills Duggan Bases on
balls-Off Poole. 4; of Gould, 2; on
Higbee, 6. Wild pitch-Higboe. Hit
by pitched ball-Duggan, Graham.
Struck out-By Gould ,; by Poole, Z.
Left on bases davenport. IA; Quincy.
u. Time of game 81, Umpire
Struthers.
Rockford. Ill. May IS Romine and
Carlson were both pounded hard yes
terday afternoon. but the former had
little the worst OF ii and Rockford Won
10 TO 9. Score; r. Fl. +,
Peoria . 001 3 o. Is
Rockford II l0S 2 90 2-l0 10
Batteries -Romine and Sullivan
Carlson and Cox
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
SI00 in SiamnS St0len.

Camanche. Ia. May 49, Stamps to
the amount of 500 were taken by a
thief who entered the local posCoffice
through window early today The
stamps are Of the eight and 10 cent
denominations.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
PIRATES CLUB is TO
BE SOLD, NEW RUMOR

Pittsburgh, May lS.-A report that
will not down has it that Edward ".
Gwinner. former president of the de
funct Pittsburgh Federals. and Fred
Clarke, former manager of the Pitts
hurGh Nationals, soon will purchase
controlling interest in the PiratGs
from Barney DrcyfuA.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18

Rock Island .....0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0-I
Two-base hits H. DarTinger Sac
ritice Schmandt. Stolen bases
KYLE O'Berta Double plays Erie
vein 10 Lister, ?. Bases on balls of
Watson. 8 OF Ware, J.. Wild pitch
Ware. Struck out-By Watson, S: by
Ware. Z. Time Of game-l.5J. UNI
pire-krOWn.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
ISLANDERS FAIL
TO HIT IN PINCH;
LOSE FINAL 5 TO |
Doc Watson Issues Nine Walks. but
Tightens Up Like Vice in
Close Situations.
ANDY WARE LOOKS LIKE FIND
New Hurier Shows Some Great Curves
and Admirable Control, hut
Mates Make Errors.

GAMES TOMORROW.
Peoria ut Rock Island.
Quincy AT Moline.
Hannibal at Davenport
Bloomington at Rockford.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
Boomers Come to Life.

In the eighth RolIie Darringer sin
gled over second with two down.
reached second on a wild pitch and
scored on H. Darringer's single. A
batting rally in the ninth, in which
three fiuke hits figured prominently,
netted two more runs. Donica hunted
safely, Schmandt sacrificed and Simon
scratched a hit 10 Cerny J Watson
hinged one at Ware. the ball bouncing
high and of his glove, Donica scoring.
Simon counted on Kyle's hit to right
In the last half of the ninth Lister sin
gled after TWO were out, and Marks,
batting for Cerny, scratched an in
field safety. Vance fouled out TO
Schmandt, ending the rally. The
score.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
RECORDS FOR YEAR.

High individual score, one game
j. Bergman. 2G5.
High individual score, three games
ii. Erickson, $40.
High team score, one game-Fitz-
Gibbons. 1094.
High team score, three games, Fitz-
Gibbons, 3,005 Cubs, 2,919.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18

Three-base Nicholson, Kruger.
Sacrifice hits-Pettigrew, Morrison,
Nye. Stolen bases-F'aIk, Pettigrew,
Bossoloni. Bases on balls-Off Clarke,
5; off Timmersman. q off Anderson, ..
Hit by pitched ball-Clarke Struck
out-By Clarke, 5; by Timmersman. /;
by Anderson. 8. Passed ball-Waring.
Time of game-1:55. Umpire-Gaston
Second Game,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18

By CARL ED.
Manager Lister announced this
morning that he had released
Pitcher Dannie Miller. II is said
that Miller will go Ia some Gen.
trail association team, probably
MarShaIIt0wn. Pitcher Stone ar
rived last evening from Terre
Haute. He will work in the box
Sunday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
Sox Win Prolonged Tilt.

Sox Win Prolonged Tilt.
Conger's two-bagger with Graham
camping on second in the 18th inning
with two down, won a hard fought
game for Davenport over Quincy yes
terday at the Pretzel yard. The score
was 6 to 5. Brock was sent in to
pinch hit for Poole in the eighth and
Gould relieved him. Conger's hitting
featured the game, the little infielder
getting four slams. He also drove in
the tying run in the ninth. Carroll re-
placed Lynch in the outfeld in the
sixth inning. Lynch is still bothered
with an injury to his side. The score:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
On ODE Sidelines

Andy Ware, new mount artist, dis
played his goods for the first time
yesterday, He is rugged boy, expe-
rienced, and fields his position admir-
ably.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18

Total 40 8 32'12
*Two out when winning run was
scored in 18th inning
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18
Errors Figure in First Two Runs.


The Boomers hoped into the lead
light off the bat with two TALES Kyle
scratched an infeld hit to Erlewein,
who threw past first in trying to catch
him, and Kyle reached second c. Wat
son went out, Stocker to Lister, Kyle
taking third. He scored on Rollie
DaTringer's hit to left H. Darringer
doubled to right, Clayton misjudging
the pill. OBerta knocked a high fly
TO Wolfe. who dropped the ball after
getting under it squarely, and Rollie
DarTinger dented the rubber.
Cerny and Vance reached first on
scratch hits in the second. but died
there when Wolfe famed. The Island
ers had three on in the fourth on two
walks and an error. but Wolfe whitfield
again for the third out. In the fifth
Clayton led off with a single through
second, with two down. 1t was the
first clean hit the Islanders got off
Watson Stocker followed with drive
TO left Clayton scored on Listers hit
to left, Cerny famed, ending the
rally
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18

Inability to connect with Doc" Wat
sons siants when hits meant runs lost
the final game for Rock Island with
Bloomington in the present series by
a score Of to / yesterday afternoon
at the local ball yard. Il was the fifth
straight defeat for Listers men. Wat
son was wild as a March hare, but in
variably grew careless after two were
down, and the local boys failed to utiI-
ize his passes. doc" issued nine
trips during the game. He had the
high sign on both Biltz and Wolfe
leading Islanoer singers. He famed
HeIne once and forced Wolfe TO Whit
on two separate occasions with the
bags loaded.
Andy Ware, Listers new pitcher. lost
his first game. but we might add righ1
here that Andy hurled one smell SEES
sion. Out of the nine hits credited
against him four were on the flukiest
order imaginable. Ware passed only
one batter and never allowed any Other
hitter TO get more than two balls, hi!
control being excellent
Bloomington has a smuggling team
vet nary a batter secured a semblanct
of a hit from the first inning to th'
eighth. Ray Schmandt, who previou.
to yesterday had secured seven hits il
10 trips to the plate, failed to push The
ball out of the intield with his stick
The Darringer brothers each secured
two clean blows, but the manager
double in the first would have been al
out on a quiet day. Clayton misjudgint
the ball The high wind bothered tn
feeders throughout, the ball taking
:reakish course each time it was hi
intn the air
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18

Holding those smuggling Boomers
hitless for six consecutive innings is
no mean feat. Ware did it. And Andy
has only three fingers on his fiinging
init, like Mordecai Brown.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-18

DLhI 90 ~ II ~
"Batted for Pfeffer in sixth. TBatte
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-04-27
BAD AUTO ACCIDENT

Fred A. Brown suffered severe
bruises, Hazel and Lottie Washburn
sustained broken arm each and other
injuries, Browns touring car was
wrecked and Great Northern freight
car so damaged as to have to be set
out for repairs as the climax of a
"Joyride" at St. Cloud last Friday
night. A travelling man who had been
one OF the party escaped luckily, hav-
ing been let out of the car at his ho-
tel few minutes previously. Brown
tried to "beat" freight to crossing
but his calculations went wrong. He
was "going some" nevertheless as the
speedometer of the wrecked car
showed AZ miles an hour when the
crash came. Bottles of beer and wine
in the car wreckage, both empty and
full, gave reason for styling it "joy-
ride"