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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22
Jesse Burkstt Was
The Original Grab

fTOHNNY EVERS is sometimes re-
ferred to as the human crab" but
che real original crab OF the baseball
was Jesse Burkett, OF late years the
manager and part owner Of the Wor-
cester club OF the New England league
and long a prominent major league
player. Burkett ranks among the vet
Grams OF the pastime. for he is forty
I'VE years old.
The appellation OF "crab,' so often
bestowed upon Burkett, was no more,
deserved in his case than it is by the
derry Trojan OF the Cubs and Braves
In his major league playing days
Burkett was bit different. and he was
sometimes considered surly and quar-
relsorne. but he was popular among his
fellow players and enJoXed the favor
OF all the fans who came in contact
with him. It is said that the nick
name OF crab was first applied to
Burkett because he wore a pin with a
crab design in his tie, but after awhile
the public began to inpute to him the
alleged surIy disposition of the crus-
Was a Star SIugser.
Rurkett was good ball player at
the age OF forty, and in his prime he
was one Of the star sIuggers OF the
game. He started his baseball career
As q pitcher, but failed to get away
With It. Then he became outdelder
and graduaHy developed that capacity
as a batsInan that made his name IA
NOUS throughout the baseball world
while with New York, Cleveland and
st Louis Burkett sgF atted the pill over
the 800 mark for eleven years. and in
three seasons-1S95, 1896 and 18S9-he
batted over 400. Burl<ett is the only
player In major league history since
the organization OF the National league.
In 1878, to bat over 400 three years
Burkett's ability with the bat was the
fruit or long and tireless practice. He
was below the average as q. batter
when he began playing in the majors.
Having failed as tw1rler and realtz-
ing that only good stickWork would
keep him In the game, he set about the
task OF mastering the art of batting.
Few other players the game has had
have been his equal in the science OF
place hitting. His batting was mar
velous, and, although he was not very
fast, he nearly always beat out his
hunts. He could make long drives and
home runs when the occasion seemed
to demand. but his great speciality was
placing them where the f1elders weren't
when he began his great swatting ca
reer the foul strike rule hadn't yet been
pitchers goat he could stand up to the
plate and foul 'em on until the slab
artist was soaring high in the blue en-
pyxean. Jess certainly wasn't one OF
those who Favored the foul strike rule.
for it put one of his favorzte stunts on
the blink.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22

glass tank filed with FISH. The place
was called the Aquarium, deriving its
name. from the fish. no doubt
Running out of fu1..s McCovern
soaked his watch-not in the tank. but
with the owner of the pIace-in order
that he and his newly made friends
might imbibe more of the wares of the
joint
Some time after leaving St. Paul Nc
Govern desired to redeem his watch
and sent a letter to St Paul making
inquiries about his tirnepiece. This is
the way the letter was addressed: TO
the Saloon Where the Fishes Are. st.
Paul."
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22
PACING CHAMPION BACK IN FORM

After the three defeats administered
to the worlds pacing champion. sDfrec-
tum l., by his younger rival, William,
early in the season, few horsemen ex-
pected to see the chestnut horse come
back and display such form as he
showed at the fair track in Syracuse.
He set a new wor- DIS record eclipsing
the mark of :5S which he set when
he defeated William in the match race
OF Columbia last fall After the trio of
defeats at Detroit, North Randall and
Montreal, it was apparent that the
champion was no match for William.
Directum /. first showed that he was
recovering his 1914 form at Hartford,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22
College Football Thirty-nine Years Old

which. with its various changes from
that day to this. constitutes the pres
ent intercollegiate game.
Today It must he with prufoun I
pride and pleasure that the survi {ots
of these eight cOlIegians view the Gtui-
ton of their genius In these thirty
nine years the six original football
teams have grown to 1000 college and
school organizations. The 30 players
who participated in that intercoLegiate
campaign in 1876 have now been re-
placed by an army OF 10000 men, and
the total attendance of the games of
1876. approximating 1000 persons. had
grow n to the. amazing figures in 1915 Of
6, 100000 spectators. In 1876 only four
games were played under the newly
adopted rules. Last season the num-
Der of school and college contests APP
preached 3 900. and the sport itself has
equaled in general interest its conpan-
ion, baseball.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22
ain EFoR TENNIS NETS.

ONE of the really important things
~ done by the National Lawn Tennis
association at its meeting in New York
was the -ass5ng of a resolution adopt
ing an ofneial measurement FOR the
width of the tape on the top of tennis
nets,
In the past the tapes on the nets
have varied in width from an inch to
six or seven inches. The new otftctal
measurement provides that the taps
must measure not less than two end
no more than two and one-half inches
in width.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22
Suggests a P81aity
For FGm6Ijng FOOibal

E7EOM Arthur Poe. the famous end on
the II -ncetOn teams of 1898 and
1889 cones a suggestion that a tumble
n football should net result in the loss
of the bail, but should incur a distance
penalty cniy. This is a radical sug-
gcstion, bat not one to be dismissed
without careful consideration.
Poo. it viii lie recalled. defeated Yale
in 1898 zby getting the bail out of a
Yates halfIa-4l's a3Tna just as the lat
t@" was scoring on Princeton. where
upon Poe run the entire length Of the
field Tor the winning touchdown;
hence Iooe's suggestion carries with it
tie personal prestigc of a great player
who wen q great game as the result
of a technical tumble.
Poe contends that the entire work
of a year. coaches. councils during the
winter, individual practice of the play
ers in spr- n8 and summer and COM
bincd coaching ana practice through
out an entire fell should rot be multi
fed by 4 tumble which can happen at
any time 10 the very best of players,
which cannot be prevented and which
has been designated blythe most repre-
hensib!e word in football, "huke," car
rying satisfaction 70 a winning team,
but not credit
Poe's suggestion is that a tumble %
penalized by the loss of fifteen yarrts
or, if made within ones fifteen yard
line, by half the distance TO the goal
1ine. the furlbler's side still to retain
possession of the ball This in general
is the suggestion. IL. OF course. in
wolves details. a definition of tumble.
etc. but all of easy solution.
FRENCH BREEDERS NEED HELP.
WHILE open racing is still regarded
~ as impossible in France, breeders
of thoroughbred horses for profit rather
than sport find the situation there
critical. The lack of market for
young horses has encountered the
breeding establishments with year
lings and two year odds and the eN
penses for maintenance arc becoming
burd easo1ne Strong arguments have
been made for a partial resumption Of
racing in order to class the thorough
breds with a view to maintainiTe the
standard of future production.
American owners have made several
entries for next years French turf ft7S-
lures In the principal three-yeaT-otd
events W K Vanderbilt has named
twenty eight colts and fllies- August
Belmont has entered fifteen. Charles
Carroll seven. Frank ]. Gould hVe
Harry p Whitney four. J. E. Widener
four. w. Aston ChanIer three and John
Sanford one.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22

play and a certainty about their attack
that was so good I sat in admiration
and watched them go to it.
1T may seem strange for one foot
ball coach to be boosting another, yet
arm a coach at a small colIege and
know what a coach is up against when
he. has 700 undergraduates. which I
think was FolwelPs limit at Washing
ton and Jefferson. You get couple
of real players and you have to build
your team about them. If you have
teams like Penn, Yale and Pittsburgh
to meet you are up against it. FoIwelI
has faced these very conditions and
shown himself to be a miracle man il
such situations
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22
WOULD INSURE FOOTBALL MEN.

FRANCIS NEWTON THORPE, head
of the political science department
in the University Of Pittsburgh, in dis
cussing the fatalities of the football
field, said that universities and col
leges cannot be held responsible for
personal injuries to players and advo-
Gated the adoption of an accident policy
system on the part of the athletic as
sociations of the schools
He said that thousands of dollars are
taken in at the gate for football games
and sufficient money should be taken
from this fund to pay doctor bills and
to afford financial relief in case of ac-
cident, fatal or otherwise This sys-
tenn would do away with the objection
able practice of passing the hat for
players that have been hurt.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22
SHE SAYS HIT TENNIS BALL HARD

MoLLA BJURSTEDT, woman's ma
tional tennis champion, believes
that her success has been obtained by
hitting the ball hard Miss Bjurstedt
probably hits the canvas coated spher-
old harder than any woman player in
the world today She hits the ball
harder than many men.
81 find that the American girls do
not hit the ball as hard as they
should,v Miss BJurstedt said.
81 believe in always hitting the ball
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22

when he paced in 1:481z la a tria
against the track record of 300. La
ter in the day the champion gave a
still more remarkable exhibition OF
speed.
form of his life right now. and it seems
a pity that he cannot have another try
at his great rival William, but the
latter is now a member of the Billings
stable, which means that he will NOT be
seen in public again except in trips
against the watch. The mile in I:56%
of DirectuIn I. is the fastest ever ne
Eotiated in the open without the aid OF
a paCernaker.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22
CALLAHAN TO HAVE FULL Az
THORITY

JIMMY CALLAHAN is going to make
an effort to fill up the holes which
exist on the Pittsburgh team with
some Federal league stars if he can get
them Jimmy says he does not care
where the players came from, if they
have ability he will add them to his
squad, and he seems to have the sane
ton of Barney Dreyfuss in doing any
thing he sees fit.
Dreyfuss already has turned over the
affairs of the team to Callahan. There
will be no interference, and Callahan
for once will have a chance to run his
team as he sees fit.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22

with all my might. Many of the girls
have played with or against just be-
heve in getting the BAH over the net.
This is very bad, for the opposing play
er can place the ball any place she
wishes and the point is lost
Hard hitting is not so much mat
ter of strength as it is of taking the
ball at the proper point and putting
ones body behind the stroke. The
strongest women will not put much
speed on the ball with only the stroke
of the arm
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22

McCredie, held out his hand and said:
Hello, Walt. Guess you don't re-
member me-
you guessed right" was the reply
after careful scrutiny.
Why, I used to be your bat boy"
replied Mails.
And then Dug wondered why Nc
Creole glared and told the Seattle mag
nate again that he was a lucky. cuss-"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22

very fascinating both to the
young and old. In Norway children
travel to school on skis, while business
men, statesmen and nearly everyA1dy
else can be seen going around on the
wooden runners. OF recent years this
winter sport has taken q firm hold in
the United States, particularly in the
middle west, where numerous Journeys
are held, and the men compete for
PRICES. These are mostly professionals,
but the real sport Is among the anna
tours.
To see one on skis you would think
it was easy TO skim around on the
snowy surface, but try them son and
see It is tEe easiest thing in the world
TO fall, especially If you try any iumP-
ing. There Is nothing prettier than 70
see an experts gIid down . hill at q
fast rate, but the hardest thing of IL all
is for one to keep perfect balance.
The accompanying Illustrations give
good idea of beginner on axis. Mo.
shows the beginner coming down a
steep hill; No. z, the skier about TO
start; No. 3, shows the IMAM being
tripPed up on q stone orss piece of
wood; No. A, bad tumble; No. 5, the
skier and his skis entangEed; Ne. g,
the skier at the end of his journey.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22

DIR. n. T. MACKENZIE IN ARMY.
sculptor anatomical expert for
merIy of Toronto and McGii1 and later
physfca1 director at the University OF
Pennsylvania Is q major in the British
army medical corps stationed at Man
chester.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22
COLUMBIA GETS TANK MEET.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY will hold
the annual intercollegiate swim
ming championships in it's pool March
"a Ten other meets are on the winter
schedule of the New York institution.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22
aPAiN 10 HAvE.RAcE couRsE.

SPAIN TO HANE.R RACE COURSE.
EUROPEAN horse racing is to be in
creased by the establishment of q
course at San Sebastian, Spain, which
will have the patronage of King Al
fonso- He Will race under the name
OF the Duke of Toledo.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-22

WAvE you ever tried to travel
on skies? This very ancient
Norwegian winter sport 10
very fascinating both to the
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1916-12-29
SO LongLetty" Is To
Be Here Next Week
Famous Ingersoll Company Booked
For Two Performances At Weller
And VasconcellOS Houses

The Ingersoll Comedy Company
which has been delighting Honolulu
theater goers for some weeks, will be
on Maui next week, according to in
formation received this morning by
Manager Pharos. Two performances
are scheduled $50 Long Lefty" will
be given at the Wailuku Orpheum on
Thursday evening, January 4th, and
another bill will be given on Friday
night at the Kahului Lyceum. The
following is what the Advertiser has
to say about recent performance of
the company:
$50 Long, Lefty" the performance
of which was staged last night at the
Bijou, is putting an unusual ending to
the season of the Ingersoll Comedy
Company at the playhouse. 1t has
already sold out four houses, and bids
fair to do so again tonight. with the
possibility that, if it does, it will be
continued for a week. $50 Long
Lefty" is far ahead of everything else
the Ingersoll people attempted during
their engagement here.
Constant applause interrupted the
performance last night, and the foul
principals deserved all they got
| Frank Vack never did anything better
nor did Pearl Jardiniere, who at last
has a real part and is showing that
she is a good deal more than funny
! Interpolation, and does the best worl
of the season here. Jeanne Mai anC
Kek Schilling are the other members
of the quartet whose romance has
been so comically displayed, and they
are just as good. The music is tune
full, catchy and well sung.
These four are practically all o
$50 Long, Lefty" and no more are
needed In spite of the fact this show
runs forty-five minutes longer thar
the companys productions in the
past, there isn't slow minute in it
nor is there a minute when the situa
tion is not becoming funnier than /
was the minute previous. AS a cleve
comedy with few plays produced il
the past few seasons to equal it, ant
Ingersoll players are doing 1t full
ljustice.-Adv.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1916-12-29
Bullet Through Wall
Kills Sleeping Baby
Peculiar Tragedy During Christmas
CelebratiOnA At HamakuapOkO Camp
Man Held On Suspicious

Struck by a bullet fired by an un-
known hand, Flora, the little three
and a half year old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs John Gouveia, of Hamakua,
without having recovered conscious
ness. The shooting occurred on Sun
day afternoon about 4:30 o'clock, the
balling coming through the wall of
the room in which the child was lying
asleep on a bed. The missile, which
was probably from 80 calibre revol-
yer, entered the baby's head just
above the ear, and lodged in the brain
near the base of the skull.
A Porto Rican named Fernandez
Planesi. who lived in the camp about
100 feet from the Gouveia home, is
being held by the police on suspicious
of having fired the shot, though he
denies vigorously that he even owns
firearm. There is no doubt that the
shot was a random one, since no one
firing at the house, even Intentionally,
could have had any idea of hitting
anyone within.
A bullet-pierced banana leaf outside
the Gouveia residence enabled Sheriff
Crowell, who investigated the case,
to determine the direction in which
the shot was fired, and this indicates
that it came from a window of the
house occupied by Planesi. At the
time of the shooting a party of Porto
Rican merry-makers were playing and
singing near the corner of Planesfs
house, but according to the course the
bullet must have taken, they were at
too low an elevation for it TO have
come from them.
The case is a peculiarly sad one.
The mother of the dead child was in
another part of the house when one
of her other children ran in saying
that the baby had bloody on its face
The cries of the frantic mother
brought a crowd of neighbors, but it
was some time before the excited
community could appreciate how the
child had been shot. The fact that
firecrackers were being fired all
through the camp, in celebration oi
Christmas, explains why the revolver
shot seems not to have been noticed
/ by anyone
| Planesi today confessed to Sheriff
Crowell that he fired the shot. He
was simply celebrating, he said.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1916-12-29
Christmas Service At
Wailuku Union Church

At the Wailuku Union Church last
Sunday evening, an unusually beauu-
full Christmas service was held. In
spite of the very bad weather large
audience gathered. Miss Mary d..
Hoffman, played old Christmas carols
for the organ recital before the serv-
ice. Familiar Christmas hymns We're
sung by the congregation, while a
special choir under the direction OF
Mrs. l.. C. Jones beautifully rendered
while Shepherds Watched their
Flocks by Night" and "Now the Sun
has Sunk TO Rest" Mrs. Jones sang
as a solo Adams Holy Night" The
sermon by Rev. Mr. Dodge the min
lister of the church, was upon the
topic Casting out Fear" which was
listened by most attentiyely.
Some seyenty-fiye enormous sprays
of poinsettia, also bamboo and roses
were used as decorations. The church
was unusually beautiful and was, ar
ranged by a committee Of ladies OF
the Women's Aid Society. The speci
al Offering was for the Hawaiian
Board of Missions.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1916-12-29
Booze Party--Burned
HOuSe-TwO Dead
HanaHaS TragedyFOllO lOwingPrOlOnged
Christmas CeIebratiOn-Fire May
Have Been Incendiarv Origin

Late development that Punihale
was murdered and the house burned
to hide the crime. Hu was placed
under arrest today. Witnesses have
testified that burning the drunken row
HUI struck Punihale with a lantern
and then with a heavy bowl, knock
ing him unconscious The police be-
lieve that Hu later set fire to the
house believing the man dead. 1t is
supposed that he forgot the presence
of his own son, who was burned so
badly that he died later.
As q climax to almost week of
Christmas celebration in which booze
played a prominent part, Joseph Pu-
nihale, of Hama, was burned TO cind-
er, Joseph Hu, ten-year old boy was
so badly burned that he died later,
while a murder charge may be lodged
against one or more Hama residents.
The tragedy occurred near midnight
on Wednesday, when the small house
of George Hu, near the county stables
in Hama, was burned to the ground.
Punihale, who was asleep in the build
ing was incinerated, Hu made his
escape uninjured, but can tell little
about the matter, and his young son
who escaped by jumping through a
window with his clothing in a blaze,
was so badly injured that he died
about one o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Earlier in the eveing the place had
been crowded with revelers who had
been hanging about the place and
drinking since Christmas. The party
broke up about eleven o'clock on ac-
count of row which started in
which Punihale is said to have had a
prominent part. All of the crowd left
except Hu and his son and Punihale,
who went to bed.
How the house caught fire is not
known, though from the fact of the
fight, the police are not certain that
it may not have been the work of an
incendiary. Sheriff Crowell left this
morning for Hama where he expects to
hold an inquest at which the matter
will be thoroughly investigated.
! Punihale was luna on the Kaelekr
Sugar Company's plantation. He is
| survived by wife and three
children. The dead boy was MOI
thought at first to be badly burned
but is supposed to have inhaled the
flames through which he ran in escap
| ing from the house.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1916-12-29
Many Prizes Issued
InAgronomySection
List OF Prize Winners And Those Who
Had Entries In One Of Most I'M
portant County Fair Division

Although somewhat late, there is
still much interest in the report of
the prize winners and exhibitors in
the agronomy section of the First
Maui County Fair which was complet-
follows:
Special Prizes and Cups.
Territorial Marketing Divisions
Prize for the best bag of beans of
any variety to Y. Yamamoto, Waia-
koa, Kula.
New Era Homestead FARMS Cup
for the best exhibit of beans to Ere
hwon Ranch, Waiakoa, Kula.
New Era Homestead FARMS Cup
for the best exhibit of potatoes to
Manuel de Rego, Waiohuli, Kula.
New Era Homestead FARMS cup
for the best exhibit of corn to Hale
akala Ranch, Makawao.
Class 3. Pineapples.
Best six ripe fruit
First-Izona, Ulumalu.
Second-Haiku Ranch, Haiku.
Third--Honolua Ranch, Honolua.
Best three growing plants
First-Haiku Fruit and Packing
Company, Haiku.
Second-Haro1d Rice.
Third Haiku Ranch.
Best six each crowns, slips and
lhoots-
I First-Haiku Ranch.
Second-New Era Homestead
Farms.
/ Third-Honolua Ranch.
Best Exhibit of plants and fruit in
different stages of growth
First-New Era Homestead Farms
Haiku.
Second-Haiku Fruit snd Packing
Company.
~ Class c. Field Beans.
<Best 25 lbs. Maui Red
First-Erehwon Ranch, Waiakoa
Kula.
H Second -Makawao Japanese, Maka
wac.
Continued on Page Two)
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1916-12-29
Church OF Good
Shepherd Jubilee
Fift ieth Anniversary 0fChurCh Build
ing In Wailuku To Be Celebrated
Next Sunday

On Christmas day of fifty years
ago, that is, in the year 1866. the
congregation of the Church of the
Good Shepherd worshiped for the first
time in it's own church building. That
building now forms part of the pres
ent parish house. For many months,
indeed, from the 25th of February, of
1866, the congregation had worshiped
under the pastoral leadership of the
Rev. George Whipple, in a school
house which stood opposite to the
present Maui hotel, on the site now
occupied by The Maui News and, by
what may be called Lawyers Row.
The anniversary services to celebr-
ate the Jubilee" of the founding OF
the congregation, and also of the
opening for public worship of its first
church building, will be held in the
Church of the Good Shepherd on Sun
day morning, at the usual hour OF
worship, II o'clock. There will be
special music.
The Rector and vestry very cordial
ly invite all friends of the Church and
the public generally to the services.