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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
Challenges Billiard Cbamp.

Sedalia, Mo, March 2S.-A formal
challenge has been issued to Emmett
Blankenship of Detroit, winner of the
recent worlds champion pocket bill
lard tournament at Chicago, by John
Layton, the Sedalian, who was second
in the tournament, for the worlds
pocket billiard championship. Layton
specifies that the match must be
played within 40 days and suggested it
be played at Detroit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

Lawrence, Kan. March 2S-A teIe-
grow has been received by Manager
w. o. Hamilton from George (Potsy'')
Clark, Illinois football star. accepting
the position of assistant coach in the
K.-U- athletic department next year.
Clark had several other good offers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

Lewis Hoffman. the North Topeka
wrestler, was defeated for the first
time this year at Wakefield, Kan, by
Clyde Ross. Ross won in straight falls,
getting the first in 81 Y minutes and
the second in II minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
TRAINING TRIP GAMES

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

The new Half Shell cigar, fresh
made every minute, of Porto Rican to-
bacco.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
Ribbons, Etc.

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

Smoke the new Half Shell cigar
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

The half Shell cigar, made fresh,
every cigar is a good one.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
A CHASTITY SIGHT
n. Y. Writer Says Fight Was a
Bloody Butchery.
Refined Women Hid Eyes From
the Cory Spectacle.
BY RIGHT CROSS.

New York, March 2S.-The fate of
prize fighting in New York state was
sealed Saturday night at Madison
Square garden. The ghastly spectacle
of two big, human animals, trying to
render one another unconscious with
clenched fists. was the climax to an
over-activity of pugilism- This coarse
picture, which was trickily termed a
ten-round exhibition, presented an
anomaly in a supposed era of enlight-
eminent
Even as a sporting event it was
Grass failure. The majority of the
$4,000 fans who crowded the garden
carried with them into the street de-
basing impressions of a match that
was unequal, depraved and unneces-
sary.
The weird green light thrown down
upon the ring and which was neces-
sary for the moving pictures-a fur
Their commercialization of perverted
taste-serYed to bring into vivid re-
lief the innate brutality of the thing.
1t limned, as a sculptor might, the
brute lines on the faces of the an
tagonists and pounded home the ami
malistic frenzy of combatant and spec
tator The entire structure of pugil-
ism is predicated upon precisely this
spirit which the weird, green light
brought unerringly into the fore
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
EM@I


Feeling that affairs of attention.
secretary
North Carolina dis favorte diversion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

Upon his arrival in Chicago the
champion said he would not retire be-
cause he is not quite that kind of a
fool. And he would certainly be
branded as foolish to pass up the easy
coin so soon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
Moran Was Helpless.

Moran was Helpless.
Willard, a giant of $500 pounds,
cut into ribbons and drove before him,
Moran a dwarf by comparison. There
was never a chance for Moran. In
ten minutes he had been slit over the
eye by blow from Willard, keen as
the thrust of a rapier. The blood cas-
caded down his face and breast and
was smeared to the four corners of
the ring.
1t would have been more merciful
had it ended sooner. But the end was
not to be until the full quota of rounds
had been fought. Previously in Los
Angeles, Willard had knocked out
fighter when he turned loose the full
power of his attack The fighter new
er regained consciousness Saturday
night women, fashionably attired. and
occupying ring boxes, turned away
from the demoralizing spectacle. Why
they ever were in those ringside boxes
was inexplicable.
By the sixth round Moran's wound
ed eye had been puffed shut The
styptic treatment the eye received be-
tween rounds was unavailing. Will
lard, with the cunning of his craft,
made it his business to reopen that
vivid slit above Moran's eye at the
beginning of every round.
Moran, bleeding, a dwarf by com
parison, was pushed, pulled and
knocked about the ring exhibiting
what fight fans were pleased to call
an astonishing gameness, in the hope
that his mallet-like fists eventually
might reach a vital spot upon Will
lard's face or body and even the
bloody score.
But Willard was too big. The
match was unequal. even as it was de-
PRAYED. Moran, bleeding and weak
! kneed from the unceasing punishment
/ delivered by a man who lowered so
| far over him as to eliminate any as
sured sportsmanly justification for
such a match, left behind him trail
of blood.
In every clinch, when his head was
buried in Wizards chest he left
dull red splotch on the champion
which seemed to smolder. The steady
green light drove home this picture
az it drove home that of low browed
seconds, swabbing the blood off the
antagonists between rounds.
There never was a time when this
debasing brutality could masquerade
as sport. From bell to bell. from
start to finish the dominant idea of
either man was to punish. Even the
art and science of boxing was tossed
to the winds. especially by Moran
who, finding himself in a grossly I'M
fair match, struck out with the blind
| instinct of self preservation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

The only thing that will keep Jess
out of the ring is the failure of the
hunters to find a suitable opponent for
him. Heavyweights of his caliber are
scarce. and no wise promoter will pay
Wizards price for another go unless
the opponent has ear marks of the
real thing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

And if Jess should quit the game
next fall, passing up a chance to make
several additional hundred thousand
dollars, he will be the marvel of all
pugdom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

WIZARDS fame is assured. Patent
medicine manufacturers are now buy
ing his signature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

Bowling, the new infielder, comes to
Topeka with the dust of the Copper
league in his shoes. After leaving the
Lincoln club of the Western league in
1918, he went to the Union association.
where he played in 1914. In 1915 he
received a call to the Coast league, but
refused to accept the terms offered
him and was forced to play desert ball.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

c. White and Mat Wells are to box
in Kansas City on April 6. But the
first team of the White Sox will be
here on that date, so why worry?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

1t may be all right for the Western
league umpires to belong to the union
if the union will make them stick to
the standard of efficiency President
Zehrung demands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
MaonesIa In Sea sheIIa.

Chemical analysis of starfshes, sea
urchins and drinoids, collected from
all parts Of the world, show that che
skeletons of these animals contain
much magnesia.F The amount present
Is found to vary with the temperature
of the water in which the creatures
lived. The percentage OF magnesia is
highest in those specimens that lived
in tropical waters and lowest in forms
from the icy seas of Greenland and
the Antarctic, with a regular grada-
ton between which even shows the
local effect of cold ocean currents
upon life at the sea bottom. The in
yestigations suggest that the skele-
tons Of these animals have the compo-
sitson Of the manganese limestone,
or dolomite. and it is possible that
they furnish clues not only as to
the climatic conditions under which
imestones are now formed, but also
as to the temperatures of the oceans
in different regions of the earth where.
during different periods of geologic
history, great deposits of magnetism
limestone were formed
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
orinlnaI Forms of Ilfn.

It Is believed tnat tie original forms
Of life began in the ocean many million
years ego and al no time since has life
there ceased. Many OF the earliest
forms are now extinct. others have
gradually increased in number and
variety from their beginning to the
present time. How long ago life began
no one mas definitely determined, but
1t is Known to nave peen many mill
lion years ago. for the remains of ex-
tinct animals ana pants are round in
the oldest sedimentary rocks.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
Come to the Mission
SHOW GROWTH OF CHURCHES
Statistics as to Seating Capacity Elk
plain Spread Of the Various De-
nomlnational Bodies.

The total seating capacity of
church edifices reported in 1906, ac-
cording to the census bulletin of Au-
gust 20, 1909, was So, 1858 an in
crease over 1890 of 14,976,767, or
34.4 per cent. The seating capacity
reported for the Protestant bodies
was $3.50, AS; for the Roman Cath
olic church, 4,494, 377; and for the
remaining bodies, 76O,O08. The rate
of increase was practically the same
for both Protestants and the Ro-
man Catholics, being 1876 per cent
for the former and 1873 per cent for
the latter. The increase in the seat
ing capacity of the churches has kept
pace with the increase in population,
the seating capacity being 69.2 per
cent of the population in 1890, COM
pared with 69.5 per cent in 1906.
The average seating capacity per or
ganization for the Protestant bodies
taken together was 81, and for the
Roman Catholic church, 1876. With
the single exception of the Roman
Catholic church all the denomina-
tons showed an average seating
capacity much in excess Of the
average membership. For the Prot
estant bodies the average seating ca
pacity was three times the average
membership per organization, while
for the Roman Catholic church the
average membership was almost 21A
times the average seating capacity
indianapolis News.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
Day ct the Bottle.

The prevalence of excessive drink
Ing both in Scotland and England is
indicated by Sir Walter Scott in sew
eral OF his works. IN "Rob oy,a for
example, old Sir Hildebrand Osbaldi.
stone, administering a practical moral
lesson to his nephew Francis and his
son Rashleiga, advises them to grad
ually inure their brains to bear a gen.
tlemanlike quantity Of liquor" recon.
mendins them row to set about II
and assuring them that they would be
able in time to carry of their six
bottles under their belt quietly and
comfortably"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
Knew value of His Wn-k

mcomnarabiy tine nest epitaph for
Sir James Murray. greatest OF 1iction.
airy maHerss might De taken from one
Oh the conversations between Johnson
and Boswen. IN odd age Boswell said
TO Johnson apropos d she dictionary:
you die nor know what you were I'M.
dertaking es sir was fhe answer.
a knew very wen wnat was under.
ticking and very Wei now to 40 it
ana nave done It very wen.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17

It IS said that common IRON nails
are now successfully used by surgeons
IN the repair of broken bones The
nalis which are usea to hoId the pieces
IN place while the healing process
goes on. are soon covered with q sort
Of fnstresisting membrane and their
presence occasions no trouble or in
ELECTS, Sioux City Ga.) surgeons re.
port cases in which nails and even
.foh stoRepipe wire nave been used
for this purpose
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
The Next step.

Be the noblest man that your pres
ent faith. poor and weak ana Inn
perfect as it is, can make you be.
Live up to your present growth, your
present faith. So, and SO only. do
you take the next straight step for.
ward, as you stand strong where you
are now; so only can yon think the
curtain will be drawn back and there
will be revealed to you what lies be,
Brooks
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
VERY NEARlT.

Wouldn't you enjoy hearing the
'honk Of your own machine 7"
81 don't miss it. 1 have 3 pei
goose" -,s.,...--,,esa,k5
COULDN'T BE SETTER. :;
7 want to marry your daughter,
How are your prospects p
Every good, SIR. She says she'll
have me-.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
Pinned Hi. nn,.,,-

Sidney Smith was once dining in
cou;pany with a French gentleman.
who had been before dinner iudulging
N 4 number Of rec thinking ,oecula.
tons. and. aad ended by avowing aim.
self a aateriafist Very good SCUM
this said Mr.. Smith. "Oui. monsieur
c'est excellent was the reply. Pray.
sir, do you believe IN a cook?' in.
CURED Mr. Smith.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
q want to marry your daughter,

COULDN'T BE Better.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
Accounting for PrairIes

The treeiess prairies OF Texas. Mex
leo and Central America are attributed
to primitive Indian agriculture Lands
once cleared and afterwards aban-
doned we're prevented by FIRE from be-
coming reforested. until all primitive
agriculture ended in the age Of grass,
prairie fires, wandering buffaloes, and
nomadic hunters.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17

RABBIT rur IS said to De supnianttng
wool in felt hat making in Sr ,,sst.ss,, 2
mere ~ factories are in operation
me Iur Is considered much superior To
me hnest merino for this purpose ana
nually. useu an
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
IT'S PAY

''This dinner of Smiths is certain
" swell affair.""
'eThat's all right. he pays for il
from his inflated stock."
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
MILD PROPOSITION.

He-It is always well to have
something on hand.
She Yes; something nice like an
engagement ring.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
OBVIOUS

"Why do you want this article of
yours leaded'
''To lend weight to my argu-
ments."
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-20
FROM The PL0W
TO EDITORS
CHAIR
One Time Farmer Boy Now
Edits the Biggest Woman's
Magazine in World.

Hiram Moe Green, once country
boy from Fremont, o., today occupies
the editorial chair OF Woman's World.
a magazine with a circulation ofmoro
than 100000.
The success Of Hiram Greene Is a
noteworthy example Of the value Of
work and study, Starting out with
only a common school education the
future editor Of Woman's World
worked in bank until he had saved
enough money to help him through
college. Here he studied medical
jurisprudence anu supported himself
by writing stories for magazines.
So successful did he become as a
writer that few years later he gave
up his profession and engaged In the
publishing business, being connected
with the Bobbs-Merril Company for
several years and later becoming cdi-
tor of the illustrated Sunday Maya
zine. It was while in this last posi-
ton that the publishers of Woman's
World. casting about for a successor
to Mr. Charles Dwyer picked out the
former country boy as the one man
suited through experience. and keen
sense OF editorial values to edit the
magazine which comes under the eyes
Of more women than any other pub
dlcation in the world.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-20
Eight Hundred Hotels in New
York Filled to the Overflow
Point Every Night.

NEW YORK. Feb. 19,y-All the
world is drifting throughNew York
hotels at night. Money SPENDING
strangers from Ill corners OF tne
globe are more TO spend inc winter
and Broadwpy and Fifth avenue have
literally become paved win gold.
New YORK. now larger tnan wal
depopulated London, was never So
crowded or 80 gay. IL is est,mateo
that more than 60O,OOV visitors are
arriving every twenty-four hours 70
swell Manhattans home population
OF Six millions.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-20
DIE
soon, SAYS AN
INSURANCE MAN
New Work Life Actuary Traces
Sixty Per Cent Of
Mortality.

NEW YORK, Feb. 19.--John Bar
leycorn was hit another blow wher
Arthur Hunter, an actuary Of the New
York Life Insurance Company, toll
an audience OF young men In thu
Twenty-third street branch Of TIL
Young Mems Christian Association
that sixty per cent q the short-livet
persons werc heavy drinkers. Mr.
Hunters lecture was on Habits ina
shorten the Life" and was full q
figures that support IN every way thu
teachings of the speaker.
The life insurance companies are "
possession OF indlspntablo statistics
proving that the mortality among Tho
drinkers was infinitely greater thur
among the abstainers. Men who take
two glasses Of whiskoy n day wheT
they take out their policies, said Mr.
Hunter, almost always become heay,
drinkers and in many cases Inc
briates. They die long before the,
would had not their vitality beer
sapped up by alcohol he asserted.
"Seventy years ago." said Mr.
Hunter, IAN abstainer was unknown
Every one believed that 1t was nee
essary to take a little stimulant daily
When an abstalner applied for in
surance to a large London COMPANY
at that time he was the frat OF bill
kind ever seen. A special meeting @
the board was called to deal with thi'
phenomenon and in the end q specia
premium was asked. Contrary to al
expectations this man lived to eighty
two years of age"
Lady Nicotine was treated more
kindly by the speaker Mr.. Huntel
laid few deaths to smoke and sale
that only in com binatlon with drinl
did 1t ever make an appreclable DIFF
ference In the lives Of policyholders
There are no reliable statistics II
show the mortality rate among smok
ers, for the companies do not consider
such figures necessary, Unless maj
smokes to excess there is no danger
Cancer of the mouth, Mr.. Hunter
said, seldom came from smoking ant
could not be laid to tobacco. but Il
some injection from the pipe or cigal
itself.
Lack of fresh air, oyereating ant
failure to exercise enough and eaI
health-glving foods were other rea
sons given for short lives.
"There are many kinds OF cranki
now, +" concluded Mr.. Hunter, "but re
gardless OF their fancles, whether
they be non-smokers, abstainers. veg
etarians or fresh afr aends, II the!
have the will power TO live UP Il
their beliefs you will find them good
healthy men who will have useful ant
happy prolonged lives" g