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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-03-10
GARRICK

Nine Eszimova has not appeared
IN Detroit for three years, hence her
engagement In the Garrick theater
next week IN Ception shoals" by
Austin Adams IL creating great
deal 81 interest f" Ception shoals"
r. said 90 be an appealing and daring
play and those who like their ORA
matte food highly seasoned will enjoy
It, MI Adams d. declared 20 possess
vivid sepse ~ dramatic appeal. and
10 be an adept 81 Character-drawinE
~ IL said that there H. no moment
from the rise % the FIRST curtain 20
the fall or the last when the audi
ence is not held In state % expect
ant suspsnHe Philip Riake'H Easo-
line yacht has gone adrift on sand
bar near Caption shoals iiEht. on tho
coast ~ southern California In this
light house lives Joe coffin an old
man. who spends his time lighting
The great lamp and praying He has
reared his 1Rughtrr I've IN ignorance
~ the world and not until she grows
10 womanhOod has she r@~1 man
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-03-10

Elaw and FrisuEer's new produr.
ton Of Ben Hur." which has been At
tracing the theater crowds In New
York 20 the Manhattan opera house
as never before will be the tenant
beginning March 10 N ~ tho home
coming OF an old friend. who has con
quered the stage world beyond all
precedent and being American made
In every way there is bound 20 be
hearty greetings. whether 10 - the
thrilling chariot race with 20 madiy
RallopinR horses. the battle between
the Ralleys. the soul stirring scene on
the Mount 81 olives, the reyerentiat
treatment OF General wallace reii-
gious story has had n singular power
and hold upon the public There are
$50 people Ia the cast. and the pro-
duction IL 80 massive that ~ travels
by special train. the baggage alone
requiring six special cars
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-03-10

the worst kind lie IL finally per-
suAdod by those in authority 90 be-
come n sheriff IN order that he may
track haifbrred raider. tho " u
the hope % the authorities that both
viii be slain and thus render the
state two services in one. One can
easily appreciate. ~ Ia said. the many
exciting situations that result and the
opportunity ~ affords this popular
star 90 portray tho character IN n
manner for which he is famed Mrs.
Vernon Castle iu RED Night. the
eighth episode ~ "Patria." Viii be
shown as well as the regular vaude-
Vile bin.
Singers Midget Revue. comprising
90 tiny men and women. 20 ponies
and two baby elephants. 10 announced
for the Orpheum theater the week or
March "a, This BE- the third engage
ment OF the midgets in this th@ater
ln two years The company includes
Ann Neider and her high school pony
Dora Ncig and carl Tloraln. singers
ard dancers Aiola NAshbeck, the
strong man" % the troupe and Ca
Dor. Baggo and Fritz, boxers The
mtdgets stage regulation musical
comedy In which is introduced CIR
Gus, hippodrome and other specinliies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01

French insurance companies keep records
of their clients teeth to insure identified
ton after death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
UP to the Minute
SPORTINGNEWS
From Everywhere

men could be classed as worthy of a
champions skill. Aside from these
bouts Welsh has engaged in many ten
round affairs and has demonstrated
that no one can catch him over the
ten-round route when he chooses to
run.
Jess Willard, the heavyweight trail
blazer, has been even worse Follow
ing a circus in the summer months,
and protesting against publicity at
other times, the big hulk has engaged
in only one bout, and that with Frank
Moran over the ten-round route.
There seems to be no chance of get
ting him into a longer bout, altho
several attempts have been made.
Johnny Kilbane has defended his
title just once in a bout of more than
ten rounds, and he easily disposed of
George CLANCY on that occasion.
There is some excuse for filbane, for
there are no men of his weight COM
petent to give him a real tough fight
He has been angling for a match with
Freddie Welsh, and if he gets it, he
may help stir things up in the game.
Al Mccoy still is the alleged mid
dleweight champion, with no one TAX
ing his claims seriously.
Hopes for Future.
Les Darcy has taken on everything
he could find in Australia and has
headed for this country for new fields.
1t may be that this youth will help
bring back the old-time pep.
Tex Richard, the man who made
possible the worlds championship
bout between James r. Jeffries and
Jack johnson at Reno, has been doing
his best to kick little life into the dy-
ing game. Negotiating for Madison
Square Garden and some of the best
bouts the world could produce, this
master promoter has promised a re-
vival of championship contests that
will liven up New York to suit any one.
Aside from the Carpentier-W Willard
go, one between Les Darcy and Jack
Dillon or Georges Carpenter. Richard
has announced that he will go after a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01

the biggest man in the pugilistic
world, fought only one engagement
during he year and that was consid-
cradle of farce. Freddie Welsh. me
lightweight champion, took on numer-
Gus opponents, but as in years past,
he succeeded in outdancing them all.
The wrestling game was promised
real event in the match between
Stecher and Gotch, but the latter was
unable to fulfil his contract because
of an injury and for the last few
months the game has been rather
dead.
RivGling football and baseball In
point of popularity, golf and tennis
made great strides during the year
and both sports succeeded in drawing
thousands of new devCteeS into their
rcrks. The big event of the golf sea-
son was the winning of both the anna
teur and open champi> nships by
Chick" Evans of Chicago. Interest
in tennis was greatly increased by the
invasion of the two japanese players,
and for a while it looked as tho Ku-
m0gae might take the American title
back to the Orient with him, but the
yellow peril was avoided and r. Nor
riS Williams II carried off the pre-
mier honors of the season.
Local Sport Events.
Locally. there were few outstanding
sport events in Topeka, a!tho golf and
tennis both enjoyed q pre- spcrous year.
as did the powder burning recreation
INDUCED in by the members of the
| Topeka Gun club and the Topeka
| Rifle club. In a football way To
peka did not get into the limelight as
was expected, but local gridiron fol-
| lowers got an ample reward for their
pains in keeping tab on the teams of
K. U. and the Manhattan Aggies, the
former accomplishing a prodigious
task in defeating Nebraska and the
| latter making a very ervi2ble record.
Altho space forbids the publishing
! of a summarized record of the sea-
sons accomplishments, the following
will show the triumphs Of those who
reached the pinnacle in all major
sports and those who now hold new
championships in their special line:
Professional Baseball.
Worlds champions-Boston Americans.
| National League champions-Brooklyn.
American League hampions-R0ston.
Western League champions-Omaha.
Champion batsman, National League
| Hal Chase, Cincinnati
Champion batsman, American League
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
DULL FIGHT YEAR
PugiIiStic Fans Have Had Little
to Enthuse Over.
Tex Richard Promises to LiVen
Things Up During 1917.

New York, Jan. IA year of in
action by fighters and their managers.
another year of demands for enormous
sums to box, and a year in which
some of the flabbiest champions ever
produced have been content to sit Sc
curely on their laurels is the pugilistic
analysis of 1916.
Championship bouts of high caliber
have become so scarce that the man
who formerly became all worked up
over the prospect of seeing a cham
pion and near-champion get together
grows very little excited nowadays
when the word is passed out that a
title-holder is about to risk it. No
decision bouts and the mercenary ten
denotes of the fighters nave done their
duty. The old fight game is laboring
under a tremendous handicap
In the year that is Just slipping by
there have been mighty few bouts for
cha mpionships. The elusive Freddie
Welsh. lightweight title holder, has
engaged in two mixups over a mara
thon route. First he tackled AID VOL
CAST. poor old wobbly Ad who still
thinks he can beat the best-and then
he shared Charlie White and the pub
lie for a tWenty-round affair in Col
orado Springs.
Both Bouts FiZZIes.
Both bouts were ridiculous, judged
from the standpoint of champion
making exhibitions. Neither of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01

Pocket billiards CHAMPION. Howard,
Shoemaker New York.
Professional Billiards.
Worlds balkline champion-William F.
Hoppe, New York.
Three cushion champion George Moore,
New York
Taberski. Schenectady. n. Y.
Track and Field Athletics.
100-yard dash-A. E. Ward, Chicago A.
22o- yard dash-A. e. Ward, Chicago, A.
4f0-yard dash-Thomas j. Halpin, Bos-
ton A. A. 0:49 10
ssoysrd das s5io Scott, Mississippi
e-mile run-Ivan A. Myers, Illinois A.
c., %.
Five,mie run-Joie Ray, unattached, Chi
attached 81 80 IS.
120-yard high hurdles-Robert Simpson,
University of Missouri. OH 40
220yard low hurdles-Fred Murray, I'M
attached. San Francisco, 0:24.
440-yard hurdles-W A. Hummel, Multi
nomah A A. G., "a As.
Three mile nil walkIGsorge II. Gouldng,
Seven mile waikiki f. Remer, N Y. A.
c. 81 SO :5-5.
Pole vault-Sherman Landers. Chicago A.
16.:pound shot-Arlie- w. Muckle. Uni
ve15ssit ty, of Wisconsin. 4 feet y. inches;
American A. c.. ia feet inches.
56-pound weight..Matt McGrath. Irish
american A. u. ID rect Jh2 inches.
Broad jump-Harry T. Worthington, Bos-
ton A. A, % feet 21@ inches.
High jump-Wesley NJ. O1er, jr, N. Y. A.
c., feet inches.
Discus throw-Arlie w. Mucks UNIVERSE
ty of Wisconsin; 145 feet AZ inches.
! nois A.. c., 46 feet " inch.
| Javelin throw-George Bronder, Irish
American A c., 100 feet inches
All-around champion-Aevery Brundage,
| Chicago A.
| Team champ ion-Irish- American Athletic
/ oh Znr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01

Iris Speaker Cleveland.
Champion batsman, Western League
Butch Butcher, Denver.
Leading pitcher. National League-Grover
c. Alexander, Philadelphia
Leading pitcher, American League-Babe
Ruth Boston.
Leading eastern team-Pittsburg.
Western conference champion-Ohio State
university.
Leading Pacific coast teams-University
of Washington and University of Oregon.
Leading southern teams-Georgia Institute
of Technology and University of Tennes-
see.
Leading Missouri Valley teams-Nebras-
ka. Missouri. Kansas Aggies.
Leading Kansas conference teams-Em-
poria Normal, Southwestern, Pittsburg
Normal.
Intercollegiate mpion-Haverford col
National and American challenge cups
Bethlehem.
Evans, jr., Edgewater Golf club, Chicago.
National open champion Charles Evans
National women's championships Alexa
/ Stirling, Atlanta Ga.
Professional Golfers association cham
| pion-James NJ. Barnes. Whitemarsh Valley
Country club, Pennsylvania.
Tennis.
National singles champion-Richard Nor
ris Williams II, Philadelphia.
Griffin and William NJ. Johnston, Sar
/ Francisco
National mixed double champions-Willis
f. Davis, California, and Miss Eleanor
Sears. Boston.
National Junior champion-Harold A
Throckmorton, Elizabeth, N. j.
National boys pion-Benjamin Let
son, New York City.
Intercollegiate singles champion-G
Co1ket Gamer Harvard.
Intercollegiate doubles championship
Colket Gamer nd Richard Harte, Harvard
National women's singles championships
Molla Bjurstedt. Norway.
Automobiles.
Leading driver-Dario Resta.
Trap Shooting.
Grand American handicap-John Wulf
Milwaukee.
Worlds professional championship
Philip Miller, Dallas, Tex.
Turf
Biggest money winner-Campfire.
| Light Harness Horses
Champion trotter-Lee AXworthy, :5SL
| (wOrld'S record.)
Champion pacer-Napoleon Direct, :59A
| Amateur Billiards.
| Class balkline cham pion-Edward w
! Gardner, Montclair, n. j.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
Sport Wheezes
by CLUG-

Only the fool breaks all of his New
Years resolutions the first day. The wise
gradually and gets more enjoyment out
Of it.
Soon the ball players will be getting
ready for their spring training. Spring
training. you know, is necessary because
there are a great many nlayers who hard
have to brush up on their poker.
Also, a great many players have to get
accustomed to eating three squares day
before they can do effective work After
several months of hot dog and soup man
has to get his stomach used to ham and
porterhouse and the many other luxuries
of the menu cards.
1t doesn't sound like his brand of stuff.
but Topeka golfer whom you probably
as much pleasure out of golf as blind
man gets out of attending IL musical COM
edy show
Now that Frank Isbell has taken over
the Wichita baseball hub, the Wolves will
probably have their name changed. THE
For long time golf was considered the
natural enemy of baseball But such does
not seem to be the case. an. longer.
Charles Comiskey, owner of the White Sox,
has become golfer and the Chicago Cubs
players the golfing stance.
1t is very doubtful if the acquisition of
ball batter. When you swing at golf
ball it is always stationary and in one set
place. When a baseball batter swings at
the horsehide, however, it may be low or
high inside outside, fast or slow and
no fixed stance can be relied upon
of their clients teeth to insure Identified
ton after death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01

bout between Welsh and Kilbane. He
also is figuring on an elimination
that will place Stanley KetchePs
crown on some deserving head.
The coming year now promises
much more than the one nearly over.
If it doesn't pan out, the game of hit
and run will take an awful shoot down
the incline.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
HOOKS UP WITH MOON
Savage Sells Lincoln Man Interest in
Topeka Franchise, Hanlon Hears.

Sioux City, Ia, Jan. Charles
Moon of Lincoln is to become asso-
ciated with John Savage in the owner
ship of the Topeka Western league
franchise, which may be transferred to
Pueblo, according to reports received
by President E. ]. Hanlon of the Sioux
City club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
soth Bouts FizzIes.

Both bouts were ridiculous, judged
from the standpoint of champion
making exhibitions. Neither of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01

Worlds COMMUNICATION Americans.
National League ampions-Brooklyn.
American League champions-R0ston.
Western League champions-Omaha.
Champion batsman, National League
Hal Chase, Cincinnati.
Champion batsman, American League
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
BIG SPORT YEAR!
1916 Was Good Season in All
Lines of Activity.
Records i'm Every Branch
Baseball Leads.

Looking back over the sport record
books of 1916. the most outstanding
feature of the twelve months is the
growth of the popularity of football.
Altho there were few events to make
the year a notable one in sport annals,
practically all branches of athletics
proSpered greatly. However, sport
followers broke all records in bestow-
ing their attentions on the clashes of
the gridiron and so many thousands
attended the games that practically all
observers agree that football is the
pre-eminent sport of the United States
today.
Baseball, following the demise of the
Federal league, enjoyed a successful
season in the ma jors, altho the most
notable feature of the grand old game
was the awakening of fandom to the
fact that the American league is the
only great baseball circuit just now.
However, the National league mag
mates, as we'll az the fans, perceived
and admitted this fact and there is
every indication that the "Old Cradle
will be renovated and made up-to-date
as quickly as possible.
In the minor leagues attendance was
of the smaller organizations had hard
Shedding, but itfsis thought that this
was due to the fact that the evil effects
of the war were still being felt and it is
confidently predicted that better times
are ahead.
Dull Boxing Year. nc
The boxing and wrestling circles
produced no new champions during
the year, but the former sport en-
joyed a contin uation of it's popular
ity, despite the fact that the bouts
staged were not up to the standard
critics and public demand. Jess Will
lard, the heavyweight champion and
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-23

And now a common, ordinary city
judge at San Diego has fined good
old Uncle Lyman J. Gage $25 for
owning a speedy auto. Give st. Peter
himself a tin Lizzie and it wouldn't
be 48 hours before he'd be crazy to
burn up the road to the gates he's
tending.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-23

AMT NATURE WONDERFUL!
ChiValry
You've all heard of WaIlie Raleigh,
the chivalrous wolf who took off his
benny and threw it over a bunch of
wet dust so Queen Liz could navi-
gate across the muddy pasture and
keep her dancing pumps from look
ing like a small boys neck.
Well, Leonard, you know how sell
dom a fresh egg are? Well, fresh
eggs are multitude compared to
''Wallie Raleighs."
The other noon we were coming
down to work in our electric. All
the seats were well filed. The only
vacant space was under the motor
mans hat. Across the aisle sat a
foreign gent with muddy boots, a
shovel and 10-pound eyelids he was
trying to keep up. He must have
worked the whole night through and
eight hours overtime manicuring a
cavity for a Waterman. If it hadn't
been for the shovel he'd a fell of the
seat every time he'd doze OF to sleep.
Well, in comes a fat damself about
As with her S-year-old son Chester.
She was probably on the way to the
matinee. She mOoches through the
car with son Chester and comes to a
halt in front of Tony, the shovel en-
gineer. What dye think? Tony
didn't make a move to give the lady
his position! Just think Of it!
Here was that poor lady stuffed in
furs and her son Chester. She woke
up about 9 ,o'clOck, had breakfast in
bed, then had the maid spend the rest
of the morning getting her dressed.
And poor Chester! He had to stand
up also.
She MARBLES: 81 know, dear, you're
so TIRED, but Wen be there in a
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-03
HIS CHEERFUL RECEPTION.
The Compliment Came After He Made
His Little Talk.

A Washington newspaper man was
once a member of congress from an
Ohio district. lie Is not an orator and
rarely makes a speech. When he was
running for congress he got word that
he must come to a small town on the
edge of his district to attend Il meeting.
A famous "spellbirder" had been Sc
cured, and the candidate was expected
to be there, to shake hands and show
himself.
When he arrived at the village he
was horror stricken to find that the
speaker of the occasion had missed his
train and would not be there.
"Come right up to the hail. said the
chairman OF the delegation that met
him. There's big crowd there, and
they are anxious to hear some talking"
The candidate went in fear and trem-
bling. He was introduced and talked
for fifteen minutes. He started to sit
down. but the chairman motioned him
to continue. He went on for another
quarter OF an hour and by that time
had told all he knew or ever expected
to know that was of interest to his au-
dience.
Then he dropp
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-03
COMIC OPERA GELS.
Quotations From cilbert's Works That
VIII Live Lonn

Not the comedians of Sheridan nor
even the tragedies of Shakespeare are
more easily first in their respective
classes than are the Gilbert and Sulli-
van comic operas in theirs. In all hui
man probability they never will be
equalod, and tie best of them have
something OF that quality mot for
day, but for all time which wars
against obsolescence and leads TO their
constant revival even as Hamlet" and
Macbeth THE rivals and THE
School For Scandal" and Goldsmith's
she Stops TO Conquer are constant
ly revived.
Even should the stage in time to
come know them no more they would
not be dead, for, besides adding Inn
measurably TO the innocent Gayety of
the English speaking nations and to
their treasury of enduring songs, the
operas have enriched the stock OF
household sayings.
From "rinafore" we have "What?
Neverl" and the response Hardly
ever" 'his sisters, his cousins and his
aunts." in spite of all temptations to
belong to other nations "You'rc ex-
cecdingly polite. and ! think it only
right to return the compliment" 20
Joy, o rapture unforeseen "Never
mind the why and wherefore" and
Though I'm anything but clever. l
could talk like that forever
From Princess Ida come Man is
Natures sole mistake" and such
disagrceablc man."
From THE Pirates of Penzance" we
have learned that take one considera-
ton with another" "a policeman's lot
is not happy one"
From "Iolanthe" come said l to
myself, said |" did nothing in par
tlcular and did it very we'll and that
perfect specimen of the inverted tru-
ism:
Hearts Just as pure and fair
May beat in Begrave square
AS In the lowly air
or Seven Dials
To Patience" are due "a most In
tense young man. ultra poetical, SUI
peraesthetical," and there win be too
much of me-"
But perhaps the best known of all
Gilbertisms and the one that comes
oftencst to the lips is that refrain in
"The alikado" that almost sums up the
whole science of an enlightened penolo-
gy, Let the punishment fit the crime"
A wiser jest was never penned. From
"The Miiado" also comes Hes got
'em on the list. they'll none of 'em
be missed" Here's pretty state of
things!" Here's pretty how-de dor
"thc flowers that bloom in the spring."
something lingering, with boiling oil
In It, three little maids from school,"
"a source of innocent merrlment" and
"He's going TO marry Yum YUM
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-03
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