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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

So long as Billy Weeks says he
wants Frank to come down to
1853 pounds for a match, there'lI
be no bout between those two.
because Farmer can't do 1t. But
l will box him at anything from
160 to ITO.
Farmer and his little man
ager are just stalhng. IL How
ard could get mtach for his
man In the east, they'd beat II
In a minute. Both of them are
ham-and-egging around here.
and the public is swallowing
Howard's CUFF.
Il never met Farmer, but IL
wasn't my fault. | was matched
to box him once, after he had
boxed a draw with Joe Swain.
| knocked Swain out, and Farm
er Cancelled his match with me.
saying that l was too rough
I'm trained down to the MIN
ute right now. There's a punch
ing bag here in the jail, and I'm
working out every day. l was
foolish awhile ago by hitting the
high spots after l had won a few
matches, and | guess that l got
what was coming to me when
they jagged me.
But I'm ready at any time to
show these fellows that can box
and can win. Just pass along
my challenge to Frank Farmer.
III bet he's afraid to box me-"
Romeo looked up, to see a po-
lice guard standing by, cycling
him none too friendly.
We'll. goodbye. I've got a
little work to do" he said, as he
jauntily resumed his snow-shov-
cling task.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05
BUTTE TEAM
IS ASSURED

BUTTE, Feb. 5.-Butte's posi-
ton In the Northwestern league
this year Is assured. At high
ly enthusiastic meeting last night
OF committees having charge Of
raising subscriptions for the new
team, 1t was reported that 3d.
900 had already been pledged.
The committees set out to make
the sum SIS. 1000, and decided not
to send word to President Blew
EFT until they had raised the
larger sum. Great Falls wants
admittance to the league but will
guarantee no cash. The directors
Of the Commercial club of that
city voted last night their desire
to Join the league, but declined
to guarantee pecuniary assistance
OF sufficient amount to put a
team here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05
Questions Asked Beginners In
The First School For UmDireS

What is the distance from plate to pitchers bo
How the pitchers
base?
Within what limits the weight o the ball
What is the limit for the length diameter a bat?
What is the regulation for TAPPING bat?
Within what distance from home fair territory,
obstruction be to require ground rule?
Why is the weight of a bat not limited?
What the limit allowed the catcher behind the
confined limits playing posi-
tons, other than the pitcher and catcher?
What is the restriction as to the size of gloves?
the who the place another bat
ting order give the whose he has taken?
How late in the afternoon be legally started?
How far of the line from home plate base base
without being declared out?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05
Big League Officials Show Interest
In Public School instruction for Umps

John Heydler, secretary Of the
National league, is gathering facts
about the school for umpires
which is part of the public
course of Cincinnati, O., to ad-
vance the idea of having similar
classes made a part of school
courses in every city in the coun-
try.
Heydler's attention to the
school was attracted when stu
dents, in the course of study,
found discrepancies in the rules,
especially one regarding laying
out a diamond.
School officials of various cities
have pried into the matter with
the idea of starting classes.
The school was the idea of J.
Howard Renshaw, supervisor of
recreation on Cincinnati play
grount ). 1t was approved by the
superintendent of schools and put
through by the board of educa-
ton.
The purpose Ia to make umpir-
ing a profession, provide grad
yates with diplomas, just like
lawyers and doctors and prepare
young men to earn the good sal
aries paid competent umpires.
The teachers are Billy Hart,
former National league umpire.
and Billy Carpenter, International
league umpire.
The classes are open TO men
and boys between 16 and 20 years
of age. There is an advance
class for those who have had two
years umpiring experience and a
class for beginners. Members Of
the advance class will graduate in
one year, the beginners In two
years.
Persons desiring to enter the
school must furnish a certificate
from an oculist showing the re-
suits of an eye test, must be free
from deformity OF physical weak
ness, must have a voice adapted
to the work and must state, in
case he has played ball, the posi-
tion he has filled, so It can be de-
termined II pitchers and catchers
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05
BIG TENNIS
TOURNEY TO
RETURN HERE

Pacific Northwest tents tour
naments for the 1916 season
again give Tacoma the big event
q the year.
According to announcements.
the Northwest championship
matches will be played on the
courts of the Tacoma Lawn Ten
MO club again this year. Tacoma
gets this event because the club
here is the oldest in this part of
the country.
Dates for the various Journeys
follow:
Inland Empire championships.
Spokane, July 3 to s.
Oregon state championships,
Portland, July 10 to Is.
Pacific Northwest champion
ships. Tacoma, July IT to 22.
Washington state champion
ships, Seattle, July "a to29.
Western Washington cham
pionships, Everett. July 81 to
August 5.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05
INDIAN SPORTSMEN
GET NO IMMUNITY

mute, a Yakima Indian, to be ar
rested for spearing fish within a
mile of a dam in the Yakima
river and the Benton county
court held that the Indian was
immune from prosecution.
By a treaty with the Indians
signed by Governor Isaac /. Stew
ems in 1859 the redskins were al
lowed freedom in pursuit of game
and fish. When Washington be-
came a state, however, this right
was abrogated, according to the
court.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

PORT ANGELES, Feb. 5.-If
you have the least bit of an itch
in your fingers for a fishin' hole,
you'll be interested In the big,
mysterious trout of Crescent lake
near here.
He's the fighting Beardslee.
Nobody knows whence he came
or how he got into this noun
tain-locked lake, the only spot
he's ever been found. The Dig
blue-black Beardslee Is an enig-
ma to scientists and to anglers.
Attaining a weight of % to 80
pounds, and resembling a sal
mon, this aristocrat of Lake
Crescent is a scrapper of the
gamest order. Men who have
taken him speak with pride of
their catch.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05
FARMER WILL
RETURN EAST

Returning last night from
Portland, after a weeks vaude-
Vile engagement, Frank Farmer
and Sammy Howard, his man.
ager, are resting in Tacoma, pre-
paratory to returning east. How
ard said today that they would
probably start next week for
Wisconsin. He Is even more en-
thusiastic over his man than
ever, and declares that Farmer
will knock 'em cold" when he
gets back to the eastern boxing
centers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

OLYMPIA, Feb. 5.-No long
er will Indians in Washington be
allowed to fish and hunt at ran
dom, without observance of any
of the game laws adopted by
white men for the protection of
fish and game.
In test case taken to the SUI
preme court by State Game War
den Darwin it was decided yes
terday afternoon that Indians
have no exemption from the law.
Darwin had caused Alec Towess
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

Fishermen from all over the
world have of late made pilgrim
ages here to pit their wit against
him. And not few have gone
away empty-handed.
For those who can tempt him,
however, the Beardslee trout
bites late into the winter, and
among these is Horace c. Hardy,
a Seattle silversmith, who uses
precious metal to lure his lord
ship.
Fashioning a spoon of solid sill
yer, with a string of coral beads
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05
u. OF w. TO
NAME COACH

SEATTLE, Feb. with 80
candidates on the waiting list,
a coach for the University of
Washington football team will be
selected this afternoon by the
athletic board of control. A track
coach will be chosen at the same
time.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05
they're WELL FIXED

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-While
some ballplayers will receive sal
airy cuts this year, with the war
over, some will continue to draw
big pay because, during war time,
they signed long-term contracts.
Joe Jackson, Eddie Collins and
Johnny Evers have good contracts
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05
AND STILL
HE GROWS

SPOKANE, Feb. s. - Otto
Webb, a young giant of Idaho,
has been added to the list of re-
cruits who will try for the Spo-
kane team this spring. Webb is
8 feet 4 inches tall, measured in
his socks. He is only 10 years
OF age. In amateur baseball he
has proven a wonder.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05
SENSATIONAL

CORVALLIS, Ore, Feb. 5.-In
one of the most sensational
games seen here in years, the
Oregon Agricultural college bas-
ketball team defeated the Uni
versity of Washington quintet
last night, "a to 81. The game
hung in the balance until the last
of play.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

The man who makes the
weather is certainly putting pro-
hibition to a test. II the people
of Washington can go through a
storm period like this without
being tempted to cheat the law,
then they should certainly be
able to stand most anything.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

that have two years to run. Jake
Daubert has a nice contract that
will not expire for three years,
and so has George Sisler.
The contracts of Ty Cobb and
Walter johnson, calling for big
sums, will carry them through
this year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

The woman aviator and the
woman skijumper were said to
have just about reached the eli
max of daring in outdoor activity,
but here comes the woman ice
boater as rival to at least the
ski-jumper in bravery.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

make the best umpires.
The course includes lectures,
study of the rules, duties of UNI
pires and practical demonstra-
tions. Pitchers and catchers give
exhibitions of battery work. and
students are taught to call balls
and strikes. Exhibitions are given
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

Fortify the System Against GRIP
To remove the cause of Colds,
Grip and Influenza take LAXATIVE
BROMO QUININE. 1t destroys
germs, acts as Tonic and Laxative
and keeps the system In condition
to throw off these attacks. There Is
only one "BROMO QUININE" f..
W. GROVES signature on box. csc.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05
NOW HE'S A BOWLER

AKRON, O., Feb. 5.-Frank
Cook of Akron became a bowler
after he became expert in rolling
rubber tires along an aisle in his
tire factory.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

Pictures of ice boats Swimming
across ice are pretty and 1t looks
like a cinch to pilot one, but ice
boats, propelled by strong wind,
whiz across the ice at a mile-a-
minute clip and when turned tilt
dangerously at an angle of As
degrees or more. 49,.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

Cook used to inspect tires and
shoot them into any bin he
pleased. A friend noticed Cooks
accuracy, induced him to bowl a
game, and he started his ten-pin
career with eight spares.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

Plotting an ice yacht is a job
that requires lot of practice and
skill besides nerve. 1t is a game
women have not tackled until
this year. Now that they are
in it, there is hardly a sport,
even of the cold weather variety,
in which women do not take part.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

attached, to resemble salmon
eggs, Hardy tests 1t in his bath
tub to see that it spins properly.
The flashing whirl of bright met
al has proved well nigh irresist-
BILE to the fish and the silversmith
has become a nemesis of the
shrewd and gdmy Beardslee.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05
Three Fingered Brown,
Auto Salesman.


Golf bugs of Tacoma are be-
ginning to get worried. They
are afraid that II the snow lasts
much longer they will have to
learn the game all over again.
There hasn't been any golf here
since 1915. The weather Is also
hitting the sporting goods men,
according to Homer King, who
recently put in a complete stock
of clubs and balls.
It's an odd coincidence that
both Romeo Hagan and his late
manager, Dick McQuade, should
be In custody here at the same
time. Hagan says that he sew
cred his relations with McQuade
Immediately after the match at
Wilkeson when Billy Weeks put
him out In two seconds of box
Ing.
They do say-That the new
Elks' gymnasium IL going to be
one of the finest on the entire
Pacific coast.
And II 10 frequently suggested
that, with their new equipment.
the Tacoma Elks may decide to
stage o few high class smokers,
such as have made the Seattle
Elks' lodge q prominent factor
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

in Northwest sporting circles this
year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-05

HouFH-6 O. N. TO 3 ,. m.
1ailYj Wednesday and Saturday
({q6tngA Z 70 8 O'clock; Sundays.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-02-25
Prosperity Strikes
White Pine County

Andy Stinson, state mine Inspector,
returned yesterday from an official
visit to Ely, White Pine county,
where he had '<en for number Of
days Mr.. Stinson says that section
is the busiest in the state and that
a smaE-sized boom prevails. In add
ton to the copper product, which
has already made Ely famous, the
county is reaching for honors in tue
production OF tungsten. During the
past few months many locations Of
ground containing that mineral have
been made and development has
opened up some great bodies of the
ore, and mills are now being erected
for the purpose Of reducing it.
Money is plentiful in that section,
said Mr.. Stinson, and everybody is
feeling the effect of its presence. The
year 1916 is going to be one of ie-
markable prosperity for White Pine
county.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-02-25
P. H. Petersen, One of City's Oldest
Citizens, Meets With Sudden Death

At about o'clock this morning
death ended the life ACTIVITIES OF
Peter H. Peterson, one of Carson S
Oldest and most respected citizens.
Shortly before that hour he lett
home, complaining to his wife that
he felt slight pain about his heart.
Coming up town he stepped into one
OF the storerooms in the county
building to get a glass Of wate--,
passing Henry Rosenbrock on the
way and whom he greeted with cor
dial good morning. Almost imme-
diately he fell to the floor uncon-
scious and before medical aid could
be secured life had left his body.
Death was undoubtedly due to heart
failure
Mr.. Petersen was native OF
Bradeup, Schleswi2- H olstein, Ger
many, where he was born on Janu-
ary II, 1S43. He came to America
in 1862, landing in New York. He
served through the Civil war with
the New York volunteers and retired
with honor. After living in the east
for a number of years following the
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-02-25
WILL INSIST THAT GERMANY
RESPECT ALL AMERICAN RIGHTS
Speaker Clark States That House Is
Two to One In Favor of Warning
Citizens to Keep Off of Armed
Merchantmen--Cabinet Is With
Wilson On His Decision

issuing warning He added: THE
president stands on his letter to Sen
ator Stone, hut think the whole
matter will remain in status quo"
There was a two-hour session cf
the cabinet and the members are SOL
idly behind the presGent, resIovi1g
not to close the Lusitanla incident
while the armed merchantmen decree
threatens to invalidate previous Ger
man promises Senator Gore intro
duced in the senate a bill making it
illegal for Americans to travel on
armed vessels in time of war and a
resolution requesting warning citi
zens TO keep off of such ships SEN
ator Jones introduced a resolution re-
questlng the president to not sever
relations with any country or place
America in position where she
could not avoid war with honor. The
Jones and Gore measures were botn
tabled. The moven ent is a compro-
mise to the issues started. Senator
Stone disbelieves the reports that
Germany will postpone its decree.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-02-25
[By nited Press1

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Speak-
CT Clark and Congressman Flood and
Kitchen conferred with the president
this morning, but after an hours ses-
Sion they still disagreed over the
question OF armed merchantmen
Congress will not act today, at least,
as a result of the conference The
president emphatcally declared he
would not bulge in his plan of insist
ing that Germany recognize every
American right. Speaker Clark said
that the house overwhelmingly favors
the warning Of Americans off armed
SHIPS. A cabinet meeting is sched-
uled to follow at once. The conferees
promised to support the president II
preventing summary action by the
house. Speaker Clark has issued a
statement to the effect that he nad
heard Germany will postpone enforc-
ing its decree until April 1st He
said he told the president the house
was at least two TO one in favor OF
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-02-25

back to and including the summit,
where they feverishly set to work or
ganizing the position so it would be
stronger than ever. All night they
worked, but with the dawn came the
Blue Devils as the Alpine Chas-
Seurs are called, swarlning up the
precipitous slopes of "Old Armand"
and despite machine guns, rifle fire
and bayonets, they reached the top
and put the Germans to rout onSe
more. Immediately the Germans
tried to rally but failed, though they
established trenches within seven
top.
Throughout the summer the little
war in the middle OF the big war
kept going, first the Germans gaining
a section OF trench at this point or
that, then the French driving them
out and taking "a corresponding slice
of the German trenches bit lower
down the slope.
On September 9th the Germans,
after period Of comparative calm,
slammed home a surprise attack and
retook the summit. The French, IN
dismayed, came back at the Germans
the same night and in the dark fought
like the b'ue demons people call
them. They retook their trenches
and many German dead were left be-
hind.
The same thing happened all over
again October 18th when the kaiser S
men sent wave after wave again st
the bitterly contested mountain top,
finally taking the whole works, driv-
! ing the French back down the hill in
the direction of France But on Oc-
tober 16the the French came tearing
up the hill again and drove the Ger
mans out.
The Germans came back in Decem-
Der several times, gaining foothold,
but just before Christmas the French
drove them back with heavy losses,
including nearlJ l,4O0 prisoners. Two
days iateT the Germans retook part
o. the lost ground and some French
prisoners. Then the French surged
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-02-25
Five-ReeI-Feature
Tomorrow Night

John Glayde's Honor is the name
of the first five-reel feature contrib
uted by the Frohman Amusement
corporation to the Pathe Gold Roos-
ter program. 1t has been picturized
from the play by Alfred Sutro, the
famous modern playwright, and was
used in 1913 in this country as a
vehicle for our own James K. Hack
ett
The Frohman Amusement corpo1-
alton have cast this play splendidly,
C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Lawton and
Richard Hatteras fitting into their
parts unusually we'll The photog-
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-02-25

war he came to Nevada in 1888, for
a year residing in Carson valley. He
then came to this city, which has
been his home ever since, and where
for twenty years he engaged in ac-
tive business, retiring few years
ago.
Surviving him are wife and adopt
ed daughter, Miss Theresa, a brother
living in Kiel, Germany, Emil Peter
sen, nephew, living in this city,
and two neices, Mrs D. Bartels Of
Inyo county, Cal, and Mrs. J. Ander-
son of Lovelock, New.
Mr.. Petersen was man of consId-
CRADLE means, and though of re-
served nature, was every ready to
aid a commendaible cause. He had
many friends who will learn of MS
death with regret He was a mem
Der Of Scandia lodge, Knights CT
Pythias, of St Louis, Mo-, and the
local lodge of that order will prob
ably conduct his funeral. To his
widow, daughter and other relatives
the Appeal, along with his many
friends, tenders its condolences.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-02-25
Matter of Pride With French and
Germans to Hold Point On Mountain

By William Philip Simms, United
Press staff correspondent
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY
IN ALSACE. Jan. 20 (by maiD "A
feud in the middle of big war, that
is what this position of Hartsmanns-
willerkopf is; feud just like they
have down in Breathit county. Ken
tuaky. For French officers will ad-
NIT, and so will German officers, that
this position on the western battle
front has no more and no less inn
portance than scores of other points
elsewhere between the sea and Switz-
erland.
Every few days the French and
German communicates mention scrap
ping on the knob in the Vosgcs
mountains known as "Old Armand y
or Hartsmannswil!erkopf. One might
imagine that the side holding this
crest held the key to Paris or to Ber-
lin. 1t is not so. 1t is simply the
fcud going on, each side determined
to have the honor OF holding the top
of the mountain. 1t is like the strug-
gle about flag; a matter of pride i'll
taking and holding.
The quarrel began exactly year
ago. A small detachment of French
chasseurs established an advance
post on the summit Of Hartsmanns-
will 'erkopf They were surprised by
larger force, surrounded and beaten.
This was on January Is, 1915,
Fortifying the position strongly as
an observation point, the Germans
he'd the crest until March %. when
the French stormed the hill, took the
trenches at the top, captured ten Of
ficcrs, thirty-four noncoms and 3lS
men, all unwoupded.
Early in April the Germans recap
tured part of the lost trenches, but
the French on April 9th, charged
again, took all they had lost, togeth-
, er with the big rock on the far side
Of the summit.
Humiliated, the Germans prepared
a counter attack which they launch
ed April 10Th, taking everything
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-02-25
forward, making new gains and ia

forward, making new gains and tax
ing about 500 more prisoners.
SO the struggle for the top of the
mountain goes on. To hold it is an
honor. To win this honor many sol
diers have died To the lay1nan their
death may seem vain, foolish, useless,
but to the soldier not drop of blood
has been wasted For in war, vistory
or defeat depends largely on what
the French call moral" and to hold
the top Of Harsmannwillerkopf helps
the morale of the whole army OF he
whole army of the Vosges.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-02-25
SAN JOSE BANKER KILLED IN
HIS OWN HOME BY BURGLAR.
Discovers Bandit In Kitchen and In
Scuffle That Follows Is Cut to
Pieces With a Knife -- Though
Wounded Murderer Makes His
Escape

to investigate and found Jones strug-
Cling with burglar, who plunged a
knife five times into his neck ana
body. His jugular vein was severed
and nose split almost to the mouth.
The burglar fled Behind the house
the +; ice found a trail of blood lead
ing for several blocks, indicating that
the murderer had been wounded.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-02-25
Federal Court March 9th

The members of the Federal court
jury have been summoned to appear
in Carson on Monday, March 9th, on
which day the case of Neasham YER
sus the New York Life Insurance
company will be called. At the con
clusion Of this trial the criminal
cases that remain on the calendar
vii be called and tried.