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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-13
HER GREAT SECRET.
Che Guarded Il Every Moment % Keep
Il From tho World. 5

Che Guarded Il Every Moment % Keep
Il From the World. :
For many years Sac had borpe her
secret, never TOR ope whole day 6scap-
ING tn terrifying influence. Day BY.
day she had developed into coward,
4 creature always afraid, as though
one stray word would condemn her.
There are those associated with her
youth who knew her secret and she was
afraid OF them as though they carried
pistols. She avoided her family, except
to see them privately when no stran-
gers were around, none Of those who
made mp her present life.
She avoided visits to her old home
town for fear Of some chance mention
81 It. In that old home town were peo-
pie who knew! Sometimes one Of these
offenders died, and she experienced re-
Lief; there was one. less to tell to be-
tray her.
Time that generally lessons the acute
torture Of things only added to hers.
Every time any one looked scrutiniz-
ingly at her she experienced a little
tremor Of fear that they had discovered
or heard. She took to lying about her.
self and her life to lead people astray
of the track. She denied her press
ence at certain places at certain times,
even denied her acquaintance with cer-
tain persons more or less Intimately as
ISOLATED with her. Her father knew
them, or her brother. but not she.
At last she fell i'll, and it was not the
illness that caused her the terrible
feverish anxiety. 1t was the fear that
Il she died her secret would leak out.
Even the papers might get hold of 1t.
It would be printed broadcast. and
then
She grew pale-she writhe0 In the
agony not Of death, but Of fear.
Her secret was her ag=.-G. We're
Tyler in Judge.
lndecision.
The tragedy Of life IS indecision.
They bury suicides at the crossroads,
for that is where turks all tragedy-the
indecision Of which way to choose.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-13
GREEN PAINT ON
CHICAGO STANDS
CAUSES TROUBLE

Chicago, April 12-After the game here
today hundreds Of patrons complained to
President Charles Comiskey Of the local
club that their clothes had been daubed
with fresh green paint from newly reno
waited seats in the stands. During the lat
ter part Of the contest band played
1.-THE Wearing Of the Green
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-13
ST. LOUIS s, CLEVELAND /

Cleveland. April 2.-Cleveland lost "a
-. Louis 70 ! today. chiefly bscauss
Il could not hit Groom. Ex-Fedefai
League .pitehsr. '
Trs Speaker played his flrst game ~
: cssvsIAad player. He field spsctaeu-
ssray ana walked three times, being
pesesd pufpoesly twicA The scors:
y. Louis ......o1 - 40 o 1911
Cleveland ......1 . eAs4 ~ ee-l-e-l
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-13
His Official Capacity.

William Collier and a couple Of &C.
tors were dining in hotel cafe when
Collier directed his companions atten-
ton to very dapper looking man with
a suspicious big red nose that had just
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-13
COPPERS BOSTON
Exchange Closes Good Friday

New York, April 12-The governing
committee of the New York Stock Ex-
change today voted to close the exchange
on Good Friday, April q. ..-.-{
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-13

w. s3.lx Chicago, ApEdI u
Bullish crop conditions throughout the
winter wheat belt, including serious 1ack
Of moisture In Nebraska. carried the
wheat market sharply up grade, Closing
prices although unsettled weresf - to
July at 1T Ia Corn gained Q shade TO
1-Bc, oats finished 1-801A to 106-8 down,
and provisions up &c to 2ac.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-13
BOWDOIN GAME
IS POSTPONED

Cambridge, Mass, April 12.-Har.
ward Bowdoin game postponed, wet
grounds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-13

Dosten Stock Market.
BOSTON RAILROADS.
B. q NJ. .................. ~ ~ ~ l32
Maine Central ...........i0O 100 100 lou
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-13

x-Batted for Majors in 9Th.
xx-Batted for Meyers in 9Th.
Philadelphia .....0 o 0 0 o 0 o o OIL
Boston ...........0 o. DOLL 0x-2
Two-base hits, McInnis 2. Stolen
bases. Pick, Thomas. Sacrifice hits,
Crane. Thomas, Ruth. Scott. Sacrifice
ny. Scott. Double play. Pick and Nc
1nnis. Left on bases, Philadelphia s;
Boston 8. First on errors. Boston 8.
Bases on balls. of Majors g., Bush l.,
Ruth Q. Hits. of Majors, 2 in I inn
ings: Bush, in innings: Ruth, ain
Is innings: Foster, in 2-s innings.
Struck out. by Bush 4: Ruth 8. Um-
pres, Dineen and Nallin. Time, 1.55.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-13
National
Wednesday Games

WEDNESDAY 1ames
Boston s, Brooklyn 1.
Philadelphia 8, New York 4.
Chicago Z, Cincinnati !.
st. Louis Q, Pittsburg /.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-13
indication,

The tragedy of life IS indecision.
They bury suicides at the crossroads,
for that is where turks all tragedy-the
indecision Of which way to choose.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-13

x-Batted for Majors in 9Th.
xx-Batted for Meyers in 9Th.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-13
Best Of Company
Is MAYO'S

You never feel lonely when you pal 'rount
with a pipeful Of Mayo's to; cheer, you up
Those fragrant puffs Of Mayors keep shootint
little CLEANS Of gladness all through you,
system till there isn't even thinking room fo
the ittlest worry to butt in. Mayo's spell
year round Contentment for New Englan'
smokers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-13
Children Cry.
For FLETck Ems.

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
POOR HITTING OF
 BRIDGEPORT GIVES LAWRENCE VICTORY
By Wagner.)


 The entire company of girls who nightly entertain the tired business men at Tom Carr's cabaret occupied front row seats at Newf1e1d park yes terday. They displayed so much pep per that the members of the Harry F. Quinn Fairfield Avenue Country club, who were strongly entrenched nearby, couldn't keep their eyes on the pas time Some stranger asked Proxy, Quinn the score and he replied, That one in blue looks pretty good.'
 But the cabaret girls provided more cheer than did the Bridgeport club. For our noble athletes took another beating, this time at the hands of the Lawrence club, managed by Jesse Burkett The local boys displayed very little hitting ability and lost to g. Something must be done at once to remedy this, batting weakness. A new shortstop and another outhelder who can hit are needed to keep the club touching the bottom
 Johnny Reiger who was signed yes terday morning, pitched a fair game for Bridgeport. Although tapped free 1y he managed to keep the raps seat tered except in the first and sixth Pennington was a puzzle to most of the local boys. Joe Gaudette got two of the five blows. Tip Edwards ard Manager Ball came through with triples. The futility of the Bridgeport batters was shown in the ninth when Ball was on third with nobody out and the next three men couldn't bring him home. The score:
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
YALE RALLY IN
 SEVENTH DEFEATS HOLY CROSS BOYS

New Haven; May 4-Ya1e was fla vored in the lucky seventh and three errors. a sacrifice and a double by Bush scored three runs off Holy Cross at Yale field yesterday after noon, sewing up the game for a final score of to 2. The visitors secured two-run lead on Walsh's wildness in the first but the Yale men supported him in good fashion and rallied when Mccarthy replaced Gill for the wis itors. Nearly 5000 people witnessed the Blue victory, despite threatening skies.
 Neither team scored after that until the sixth. Then Yale got a run on hits by Munson, Holden and Shaffer. In the seventh, with the score to | against them, things looked serious for the Ellis, for it had been agreed to call the game at o'clock. It was the last Yale chance
 Gill had allowed three hits in the previous inning and Mccarthy was sent in to replace him on the mound for Holy Cross. Walsh, the Yale pitcher singled and was advanced on Johnson's sacrifice. Shell and Shep- ley reached first on errors by Morton and Spillane. Munson took first on a heIder's choice and Walsh ran home. Bush's double did the business a mo- ment later and Yale had four runs to two for the visitors.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
Vic Safer, Slugging
 Cub First Baseman,
 25 Years Old Today

Victor Swattum Safer, who figures as ''1b' in the Cub box scores, has got a bunch of congratulations coming to
 him on this day and date, which com
 memorates the twenty-ffth anniver- sary of his arrival in this vale of tears Vic was born in Lansing, and started
 his baseball career in the Michigan
 capital, which he still calls his home port He is of Teuton descent, and
 there is that in his physical makeup which is reminiscent of the father land.
 Safer made quite a reputation as ball player while a school boy, and in 1909 he got a job as first baseman
 with a semi-professional club of his
 home city. He covered the initial bag
 with such eclat that in 1910 he landed with the Lansing club in the Michigan League. He batted .339 and covered
 his position magnificently, with the re- suit that when Summer was fading into Autumn he received call from the Chicago Cubs. The Windy City
 club was badly in need of man to cover the primary base, and in 1911 the young Michigander proved to be the best of the candidates. In 1912 Vic became the regular successor Of Frank Chance, and batted .28S. His l1913 swatting average was about the same, but in 1914 he dropped to .24O. Last year he sweI1ed the average to .266.
 Saier's batting figures are not inn posing, but, as all familiar with his work are aware, there is much more to his stick work that greetS the eye of the fan who has to depend upon dry statistics. There are hits and hits, and Saier'S swatting glory rests on the fact that while he does not accumu- late many hits as lots of other play CTS, he doesn't have to take off his cap to anybody in the matter of extra base swats At hit is hit in the bat ting averages, but there is a. vast diff ference in their real value. Besides getting many swats of the extra-base variety, Safer has the reputation Of Icing dangerous man for pitcher to face at such critical times as hits mean runs. And on many an occasion he has lived up to his reputation and won games with his trusty club
 Safer belongs to that class of de- pendable, reliable, Johnny on -the-spot players who are not particularly bril- liant in any single department, but who play all-round steady game day in and day out. They may be unhonored and unsung, as compared with the
 brilliant stars of the game, but the latter need their support in order to maintain their regulations.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
COLLEGE MEN TO COMPETE IN GREAT
 MILITARY MEET

A plan is being discussed enthusias- ticalIy by the alumni and undergradu- ates of Yale. Harvard, CornelII and Princeton, which calls for the partici- patton of the various military organi- cations of those institutions in the war game maneuvers to be held at the Sheepshead Bay Speedway from May 20 to 27.
 Captain Charles J. Dieges, vice chairman of the Military Athletic league, says that many undergraduates of the Eastern colleges, including the Big Four already have entered for the contests. #N
 ''The standing athletic committed '' MT. Dieges announces, ''has arranged a complete program for the champion ship events, and I have no doubt that the affair will prove to be a record making one.''
 The military activities of the big colleges and the interest displayed by the men in the forthcoming war games" in which 10000 National Guardsmen will take part, have prompted the committees in charge to offer prizes for competitive drills.
 Some of these, as well the ath- 1etic field games, will be held at night
 lWorkmen are now busily engaged installing 37O powerful searchlights, each at a\height of 37 feet, arranged in duplicate throughout the grounds so as wholly to avoid shadows. The scheme of illumination, which will be four times brighter than moonlight, was first used at the Panama Exposi- ton in San Francisco.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
ANNIVERSARIES
 OF RING BATTLES

1819-Jack Randall defeated Jack Martin in 19 rounds, and Tom Spring
 eat Jack Carter in II rounds, at Craw- ley Downs, Eng. Randall, the orig inaI "Nonpareil'' of the ring, was the midd1eweight. champion of England and was never defeated, while Spring was soon to win the heavyweight hon ors. The double bill attracted a crowd of about 3O,0OO people, and among these were some of the most ceIebrat- ed men of England and other eounz tries. The Prince Regent was laid up with attack of gout and was un- able to attend, but his royal guest, the Archduke Maxinilian of Austria, was present. So were the Marquis de la. Tour Massbourg, the French ambas- sador; the Duke of Grafton, the Mar quis of Worcester, the Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Earl Cassilis, the Earl of Donoughmore, and a host of other lords and ladies of high degree, with scores of members of Parliament statesmen, politicians and sporting gentry. Much has been written about the class of the crowd at the WflE lard Moran bout, but it will be seen that the ring battles of century ago were much classier in the matter Of drawing exalted spectators
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
THE FIRST PILOT
 OF THE PHI1S is

Robert Ferguson, the first of the long succession of managers who have been in charge of the PhiIadelphia Nationals, led the club only one sea- son, 1883. the first annum of the Quakers in the National League This is the twenty-second anniversary of F'erguson's death, as he passed away in Brooklyn on May 4, 1894. He was with the Hartford National League club in 1876 and 1877 and then went to Chicago. From 1880 to 1882 he was with the Troy Nationals. When Troy and Worcester were dropped from the league at the close of the 1882 season and were succeeded by New York and Philadelphia, Fergu- son was employed as the manager of the Phi1ade1phians. The club fn- ished eighth, and in 1884 Ferguson was succeeded by the, veteran Harry Wright, who led the club for ten sea- sons, in which the Phils never finished better, than second. Arthur Irwin, Bill Shettsline, George Sta1lings, Hugh Duffy, William Murray and Red Dooin followed each other at the Quaker helm without ever producing a flag to nail to the PhiPs flagstaff, and it was not until Pat Moran took charge that the Phillfes annexed their first gonfalon.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
PASSING OF BOATING
 assg s X LAKE WHITING IEN Is eat BLOW TO NEW HAVEN

Announcement that William Day, grandson of James Day. father of boating at Lake Whitney, has disposed of his boating and grocery business at theS lake and is about to move out of town means the passing of an old NfW- Haven .BBstjt1tipno dating back over 70 years says. the New Haven Register.
 The present MT Day recently dis posed of his big string of boats and closed shop and, as a consequence, boating at Lake Whitney comes to a rather sudden ending. No more moon light nights for hundreds of spooning couples, no more f1otillas of canoes and trim row boats on festive Yale occasions, not only because MT. Day has sold out. but because there will be no more festive Yale occasions.
 The New Haven Water Go. has put it's foot down on Yale rowing regettas, but this act of the company didn't force MT. Day to wind up his business. It is understood that the company has had gentleman's agreement with : the members of the Day family to aI- low them to use the lake for boating privileges as long as they wanted to, and now that the last of the familiar old family has left the city and sold out, there will be no more boating there.
 It was in 1843 when James Day, one of the leading citizens of the Whitneyvi11e district, opened a small grocery store in the building now standing opposite the Day boathouse. The lake at that time was 30 feet lower than it is now. it being raised in 1860. There was no street there until years later, the lakes banks running right up to. the Day store. The lakes were really three good sized ponds. but there used to be. plenty of good fishing there and because of this fact James Day got together. a few boats of the old hatbottom model. He occasionally rented them to those who would try their luck, but he did more fishing himself than most of his customers put together. Pretty soon, there was such a demand for his boats that he increased his fleet to half a dozef5 bdtl at that time in the nine teenth feenturyZ few people thought of the lakes as place for an exercise row or an outing, such as the lakes have been used for the past 30 or 40 Wearz
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
TENER THROWS OUT
 PROTEST ON COACHER
 TOUCHING BASE RUNNER

NewaY orlx4 May 4-President John knTeners afs the NatdenaA League an. nounced yesterday that he had disal- lowed the4 protest of the Pittsburgh club against a decision by Umpire Byron in the game with St Louis on April 20. Pittsburgh objected to a ruling Of Byron, in calling a runner out at third for interference by Man ager Callahan.
 President Tener since then has is sued an interpretation iof the rule, w4fftl1 elae Arn pine dIlecided7 was .vio- lated. s -ff8sfa $ President Tenere says he personally witnessed the occurrence and that Manager Callahan was warned by l. .Umpires Byron and Quig1ey not to touch the runner. but that he took. no heed
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
FOOLISH RUNNING : ON BASES PROVES
 COSTLY TO GIANTS

New York, May 4-The exhileration of winning a game on Tuesday made the Giants so dizzy that they were still suffering from the effects yesterday. They wobb1ed and tottered around the Polo Grounds for the greater part of 10 innings and the Brook1yns won by to 4. If it was possible for the Giants to play worse than usual, they did yesterday. The disaster again put the Dodgers in the lead in the pennant race.
 Although Brooklyn got a running start and had the Giants on the short end of to 0 score after six inn ings, McGraw's men showed traces of a fighting spirit and overlook the Dodgers. Chances to win in the eighth and ninth were actually thrust upon the New Workers, but just when the feelings of the crowd had scared up sto+ high pitch of enthusiasm and victory was in sight these same feel ingsI Were dashedAby -ama+eurish base running.
 Christy Mathewson was doing the coaching at third base in the eighth and ninth, and whether the resulting f1asco was due, to his suggestions or to the foolish ~base-running theories of the players themselves may never be known. Take the eighth inning for in- stance. The Dodgers were leading by to 1. Doyle was safe on Smiths error at first and Kauff singled.
 Fletcher sent a single to left and Doyle started home from second. Matty, for some reason or other, or dered him to stop, and Larry hesitat- ed for a few seconds and turned back. Kauff, in the meantime, had seen Johnston tumble the ball for a mo- ment, and he came tearing around sec ond base toward third. The crowd then witnessed the tragic spectacle of Doyle and Kauffs both approaching third base from opposite directions. Kauff was tagged out as he slid into third, which gave Doyle a chance to collect his wits and score.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
RAY KEA:II ING
 LOSES ANOTHER
 CLOSE CON TEST

Philadelphia. May s74-Isarry La 3oie, the veteran Nsecomd baseman of
 the Athletics, now' entering his twen- l ty-first campaign inathe big leagues, fendeared himself -toB Phi1Iy fans yes
 terday, when he broke up tie game l between the4 Yankees and Athletics by l driving out "a homefGun in the eighth timing vitfA Oldring- on base. The
 Init enabled the MacknIenS to win, 8
 to 2, and getN an even break their
 four-game series with New York. While Larry Lajoie fully deserves ! the honor of winning the game, it cannot be- denied thatsit looked as
 though Bill Donovan showed very poor Judgment in his pick or a re- lief pitcher. Keaktng and Jack Ma bors had been indufgEng in quite a, pitchers battle, and inT tEhs1 first half of the eighth Majors blew, and Joe
 Bush did some great pinch-hitting.
 With one ball and one strike on
 Keating. Donovan took out Bridge p@a& Ray and, sent in Caldwell to bat, but the other struck out.
 So far so good; Donovan played for runs and didA notfget them. But here his Judgment is open to criticism With the score and 1 and such pitchers as Fisher, Cslllop and Mo 1 gridge on the bench, he sent Urban ShocKer, a green recruit from the ] Canadian Ieagues into the game It i was only the second time Shocker-
 had faced big league batters, and in
 his former game in Washington he i pitched al few innings with indifferent success, after the game had been hopelessly lost
 OIdring greeted the young spit ! baller with a single to left, and La Joie followed with his home run lick i into the left field bIeachers. That hit { did the damag ge, as Bush held the | ninth inning f1are-up of the New l York team to one run.
 K Keating did some fancy pitching
 here this afternoon, particularly with ' runners on the bases. In the first inning the Athletics filled the bases with one out, yet failed to score.
 witt beat out slow roller down the l third base line, and Walsh beat out { his hit to Peck. Strunk was safe
 when Heating fumbled his bounder. l Oldring hit into a double play via Keati4g and the plate, and Baker ] threw out Lajoie-
 Tn the second, with one out, Pick : singled and Gedeon sfumbled on Schang, but Keating again turned the
 Macks back Heating again was call-,
 ed upon to let out a few notches in l the sixth, when Walsh opened with a 1 single and Strunk was safe on Keat- j 1ng's second tumble. O1dring sacri- i feed leaving tIup to Larry It was
 not yet the big fellows inning, and on his smash to Peck Walsh was out 1 at the plate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
GIANTS AFTER
 TEX M DONALD
 BUFFALO STAR

New York, May I've may expect a new third baseman at the Polo Grounds any day now, J ohm McGraw has several agents giving the Class A third sackers the once over, and thus far Tex Mcdonald of Buffalo appears to be the most likely looking of the lot If the deal can be made Tex may join the locals.
 McGraw had a scout watching Me Donald at Richmond last Saturday. and the agent moved with the Bisons to Providence. Tex has been playing a whirlwind game at the hot corner and has also been hitting the old pill pretty hard When queried in Prov idence last night Pat Donovan, man ager of the Bisons, asserted that un- der no circumstances would he sell Mcdonald to the Giants.
 That may be a stall to get as much as possible for Tex, or it may really indicate Donovan's attitude on the matter. The Buffalo club is owned largely by Joe Lannin, master of the RCHl Sox, and a fast, hard hitting in fielder may be as much an essential for the Boston club as it is for the Giants before the season is over.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
Offers Jack Britton
 Good Purse To Take on Battler Coffey

New York, May 4.-John the Bar Der, otherwise known as John Reis1er, dropped his razor yesterday afternoon and gave evidence. of being about as silent as Dumb" Danny Morgn, who was the object of his wrath. It was all because Morgan has claimed the weIterweight championship for Jack Britton since the latter defeated Ted Lewis in New Orleans.
 The noise was principally occa- stoned because Reis1er has Jimmy Cof- fey in his camp, and Jimmy has grad uated from the lightweight class since he arrived in this country from Aus tralia John offers $1,50O to Morgan if he will allow Britton to get into the ring with Coffey.