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New Britain herald., 1917-02-12
BOOSTS GIANTS
Secretary Foster, Editor of RaselnIl
 Record Book, Says Sweet Thlngs
 About His Clubs 1010 Performances

Record Book, Says Sweet T7.iags About His Clubs 1010 Performances New York, Feb. 12.-John B. Eos ter, who finds time in addition to his duties as secretary of the New York Baseball Club to edit the SpAiding Official Baseball Record. has present ed in this years edition, which has just been published, an interesting re- view of the last year in baseball.
 The two remarkable performances of the Giants-the interrupted string of seventeen victories away from homo and the twenty-six straight at the Polo Grounds-are presentel az being the most important occurrences of the season. of more interest than even the subsequent world series. In addition to the picture of the players who took part, the complete ofYtcial box scores of each of the forty-fou games, including one tie game. are given in full.
 As in former years, Part II. gives major league records of importance since the organization of the National League in 1876. and also includes . chapter comprising records and re- markable performance on the ball field.
 For the last several years the Rec ord has published as Part III. a sec tion devoted to college baseball, and this is as complete as the division allotted to organized baseball.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-12
VERMONT SCHEDULE
Williams and Holy Cross Back on List After Two Years Lay-Off-Edmunds is Head Coach.

Burlington, Vt, Feb. 12.-Four new teams appear on the University of Vermont football schedule next fall. Williams and Holy Cross again appear after an absence of two sea- sons The other new teams are Massachusetts Agricultural college, and Union, Brown, Rochester and the Connecticut Aggies are missing. Dr. William P. Edmunds will act as head coach.
 The schedule is as follows:
 Sept. 2s, St. Michaels, at Burling ton; Oct. s,eM. A. C., at Amherst; 13, Columbia at New York; 20, Williams, at Williamstown; 27, Clarkson, at Burlington; Nov. 3. Union at Schenec- tady: 10, N. H. State, at Burlington; IT, Norwich, at Burlington; 24, Mid dlebury, at Middlebury; 29, (Thanks- giving Day),) Holy Cross at Worces- ter.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-12
FOUR TEAMS TIED
 IN RACE FOR LEAD
Factory League BoWlers Display ing Fine Work on Etna Alleys

With seven victories and two de- feats, four teams in the Factory league are furnishing plenty of excite- ment in the race for leadership of tho league, the Landers, Frary & Clark. Russell & Erwin, Stanley Rule and Level and Union Works quintets being the contenders for the pace making. What should be a corktng contest is scheduled for Thursday evening. when the Union Works will stack up against the New Britain Machine company five. The latter aggregation started the season at fast clip, but were bumped during the past week by the Landers team. However, the defeat has had it's effect on the Machine builders who hope to clean up for the remainder of the season. The race for individual honors continues to be interesting, Huck, the star of the Cutlery five, has assumed the lead with an average of 108, with Cusack. Anderson, Freeman and Bertini tratl- , ing.
 The local representatives in the Inter city league will roll at home to- morrow evening, meeting the strong Starlight quintet of Meriden. Man.
 ager Rogers will probably start the IOllOWlnS prayers TOT the AeIna Alleyb 1 team: Anderson, Larson, Hines, /, Foote and Rogers.
 The schedule for the week is aa ! follows: 1 Monday-Russell & Erwin vs. Skin-
 ners, Stanley Works league. i Tuesday-Inter-city league, Star
 light of Meriden, in this city. | Wednesday-Berlin Construction | loo nd ,iv,o l Thursday-Union Manufacturing vs.
 New Britain Machine, Electric Light ! girls. u ! Friday-Berlin Construction vs.
 Fafnir, Landers vs. Stanley Rule and
 Level, Landers and Stanley Rule and <. Level girls, Skinner league.
 The standing of the Factory league
 teams and the individual averages are
 as follows:
New Britain herald., 1917-02-12

New York, Feb. 12.-The ice skat- ing speed marvel are at war. At least one would think so if you were close to any one of the icy blade artists and listened to their line of talk. Nor val Baptie recently offered to show 'em all how to skate. Later Oscar Mathiesen of Norway hurled a chal.
 7enge broadcast. Edmund Lamy of Saranac Lake got hot under the col lar and accepted the challenges from both. Not to be outdone by the other three, Morris Wood, the veteran, did not want to be slighted so he offered to meet Baptie, Lamy and Mathiesen In a series of races at any distance for any amount. Promoters here are anxious to have these stars meet as there is very little doubt that some new worlds records at the various distances would be made. The four named are the greatest ice skaters in the world. It is more than likely
New Britain herald., 1917-02-12
SPORTDOM SPARKLERS

The Nutmegs gave the Wentworth quintet hard battle in the opening contest at the Y. M. c. A. Saturday night, the Sovereigns block boys man. aging to cop the game, score 30 to 27. In the second game the Pioneers laced the Vikings in sound fashion.
 The Kamels basketball five are in fine shape for the game with the Travellers in Hartford Wednesday eve ming. A large delegation of rooters will accompany the locals.
 Joe Shugrue will make his debut as a fight manager in Waterbury Thurs day evening, when Irish Patsy Cline and Johnny Harvey will be the per- formers in the fifteen round star bout. Johnnie Drummie will face Jimmy Fasane in the semi-fnal go.
 The Starlights of Meriden who will bowl against the Aetna alleys five tomorrow evening, captured the hampionship in the Inter-City league last season and their friends are boasting about repetition this year.
 The pool team of the Y. M. T. A. & B. society defeated the Wallingford Tabs in that town Saturday night.
 The recently organized bowling league among employees of the stan ley Works will open this evening at the Aetna alleys.
 With the opening of the spring training for the baseball clubs. the Wentworth basketball team will be deprived of two star performers, Jacobson and Kopf.
 The Pioneers baseball club will hold social and dance in Holmes and Honfman's hall Friday evening.
 Harvard men were particularly grieved last week to hear of the death at the age of CT, of Dr. William s. seamans-"Dutchy'- played for Harvard against Yale in their first football game at New Haven on No, vember 13, 1875. ''Dutchy' was one of the five tenders for the Grim son and scored one of the four goals. while the Blue got none. Dr. Seamans was Exeter 1873 and Harvard 1877. He was founder of the Harvard club of New York.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-12
U. OF P. DROPPED
Penn State Freshmen Substitutes Syracuse Football Team in Place of Philly Boys-Hcrman to Be Mentor

State College, Penn., Feb. 12.-Penn States freshman football schedule for next season includes eight games, one more than last fall. The Syracuse freshman eleevn has been substituted for the University of Pennsylvania team. Dutch" Hermann, who has drilled two tundefeated teams for the freshman eleven has been substituted youngsters again next fall. He is now coaching the varsity basketball quintet. The schedule follows:
 Oct. 6, Bethlehem Prep; 13. Wyona-
New Britain herald., 1917-02-12

George Findlayson, a we'll known Canadian player, who has coached the
New Britain herald., 1917-02-12

ing will be held at the Waldorf-As- toria tomorrow. The American League will meet at the Hotel Walcott on Thursday. A meeting of the Ma tional Commission will be held at the Waldorf on Wednesday. The Inter national Leagues schedule meeting is to honor Newark.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-12
SWEENEY TO our
Yale Athletic Advisor Will Return to High School at Close of Present School Year.

New Haven. Feb. 12.-Announce- ment was made yesterday that Mi chael F. Sweeney, who has been at Yale the last year as athletic advisor, has decided to return to the Hill school, Pottstown, Penn. at the close of the present school year.
 When Tad Jones was appointed head coach of the Yale football team a year ago Sweeney was engaged to assist in the general reorganization of Yale athletics. It was understood when he was engaged that he would return to the Hill school after about year and he received leave of ab- sence for that time from Dwight Meigs head master at the Hill school.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-12

ing Seminary: 20, Kiski,ninetas school; 27, Bloomsburg Normal; Nov. 3. Bellefonte Academy; 10 Syracuse freshmen; IT, Mansfield Normal; 24, Pittsburgh freshmen, at Pittsburgh.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-12

Kid Norfolk, champion heavy weight pugilist of the Isthmus of Pan- anna, yesterday knocked out Arthur Pelky in the thirteenth round
New Britain herald., 1917-02-12

Naval Academy Lacrosse squad for several years, has been engaged for another season. Midshipman James R. Allen, center on the basketball team for the past two seasons has been selected captain for next year.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-12

The Pioneers baseball club will hold social and dance in Holmes and Hoffman's hall Friday evening.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-12

Naval Academy Lacrosse squad for several years, has been engaged for another season. Midshipman James R. Allen, center on the basketball team for the past two seasons has been selected captain for next year.
 Madison Square Garden will resume it's high function as a Temple to Fistiana tonight. Frederick Fulton. the ponderous but precocious plaster CT of Rochester. Minn., and Charles Weinert, of Newark, N. J., and Buda- pest. Hungary, will offlciate at the opening ceremonies.
 In an effort to supply a real need for the visiting college athletic teams at Hanover, N. H., the Dartmouth col lege athletic council has equipped a strictly private and collegiate hotel, known as ''The Gable House" Visit ing teams have heretofore been obliged to utilize inconvenfent hotel accommodations in towns adjacent to Hanover, since the only hotel in the village large enough to care for the athletes has been obliged to decline to serve them, owing to engagements of space for other purposes. '"The Gable House" will be conducted by the Athletic Council and will be equipped for thirty men. with single rooms and large living and assembly quarters. A conference room for the private use of visiting coaches is also provided. A nominal fee for lodging will be charged and meals will be served at the college Commons in a separate dining room. t ~.
 Kid Norfolk, champion heavy weight pugilist of the Isthmus of Pan- anna, yesterday knocked out Arthur Pelky in the thirteenth round.
 Phil Carter and s. J. Graham, of Nassau and Greenwich, respectively, defeated Alex and George Smith in a best ball exhibition match yesterday by 4 up and 2 to play. Carter and Graham established new amateur best ball record for the course with a 65.
 Colonel J. J. Morrow, acting gov ernor 1.-the Panama Cannal zone has extended through his secretary, c. As McEivane, an invitation to Charles A. Comiskey, president of the Chica- go American league baseball club, to train his team there next year. ,Presi- dent Comtskey said tonight he probably would accept the invitation.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-12
NOTED ATHLETES DIE
 FOR ALLIES CAUSE
Battle on Somme Takes Away Football Stars Famed in Englands
 Athletic World.

London, Feb. 12.-The names of large number of prominent sportsmen again figure in the latest casualty list issued as the result of the activities on
The Parker post., 1917-07-14
ARIZONA'S LEAD IN COPPER,

Recent figures issued by the Geo.
logical Survey showing the produc-
tion OF copper in the United States
give Arizona the first place by sur
pris11ig margin. Arizona as a copper
producer has occupied first place for
several years, but last year it's lead
was more pronounced than ever, with
694,847,3O7 pounds. Montana was
second, with 352,129,768 pounds;
Michigan third, with 269,794,531
pounds, and Utah fourth, with 232,-
335,950 pounds. The list includes
twenty-five states and Alaska terri
tory. The total production was l.
927,S50,548, so that Arizona pro-
duced more than One-third of all the
copper turned out in the United
States.
The Parker post., 1917-07-14
WILL ATTRACT THE TOURIST
City of GuayaquI Making a Bid for
Travellers Who Delight in
the Picturesque.

Ecuador will soon be ready for a
greater business with the world and
for the tourist. Guayaquil, the coun-
try's chief port, is now undergoing a
thorough sanitating. Streets are be-
ing moderniZed, and otherwise the city
is improving. The ancient capital of
Ecuador, Quito, lies nearly 300 miles
by railway from GuayaQuil. A few
tourists have used the new railway
"alOng the roof of the world" and WIS.,
tied the interesting old city.
Guayaquil lies up the Guayas river
60 miles from the ocean, so the average
ship passenger does not even secure q
passing view of the second port Of i'm
pOrtance on the west coast of South
America. However, on clear days,
when the ship is not many miles from
shore, it is possible to sight COtOpaxi
or ChimbOraZO, the former sending to
the sky smoky column from it's snow
white cone.
NOrthw0rd $40 miles we sight the
iage-bedecked islands in the Bay Of
Panama, and shortly thereafter drop
anchor near the entrance to the
worlds greatest canal.
The Parker post., 1917-07-14
BUMPER CROPS IN U. S.

A three billion bushel prospective
crop of corn this year is the answer
returned by farmers of the United
States to President Wilson's call for
food for Americas allies In the war.
Never before has such a crop been
grown.
In It's first forecast of corn produc
tion this year the department of ag-
riculture announced that July / con-
ditions forecast crop of 3,124,OOO,-
900 bushels. Sixteen million acres
more this year were planted to corn
than last year; the acreage exceeds
the former record of that planted in
1909 by 100000 acres.
The wheat crop, responding to
better weather conditions during
June, shows an increase of about 22.-
100000 bushels in prospects, with a
total of 67S,00O,OOO bushels, or &c.
100000 larger than last years crop
A record crop of white potatoes
also is forecast with a production of
452,000,O0O bushels That would
exceed the previous largest crop,
The Parker post., 1917-07-14
REFUSED PERMIT.

The application of e. F. Sanguin-
etti and F. L. Ewing of Yuma for a
certificate of convenience and neces-
sity authorizing them to construct
and operate an electric transmission
line in Yuma county has been denied
by the state corporation commission
The applicants planned to construct
and operate an electric power line
from the Arizona side of the Colorado
river across the county of Yuma, out
side of the city of Yuma, and with
several branches, one extending to
Parker They declared that they had
entered into a contract with the CO.
achilla Valley Ice and Electric COM
pany for electric power
The Yuma Light, Gas & Water
company filed a protest against the
granting of the application of San
guinetti and Ewing, declaring that
for fifteen years they had been serv-
ing that territory with electric pow.
er. In view of the fact that Sanguin-
etti and Ewing had no franchise from
the Yuma county authorities the ap-
plication is denied, so the order of the
commission states.
The Parker post., 1917-07-14
LITTLE DAMAGE BY RIVER,

The crest of the highest flood ever
recorder along the Colorado river has
passed and the Palo Verde valley, with
the exception of its unprotected lands,
is high and dyr.
Unusual damage was done at MANY
points along the river by the phenom-
email food of 1917, but the levees
along the Palo Verde river frontage,
with the exception of the new work
toward the lower end of the valley.
have held intact with a safe margin
at all times.
A small acreage in the lower end
Of the valley which is not under the
levee system was flooded. Much of
this land had never been subject to
overflow until the unprecedented del
uge of waters this year Between one
and two hundred acres of crops south
of Neighbours suffered, due, accord
ing to the residents, to the small
break six miles south of Blythe, but
officials of the water company are of
the opinion that this land would have
been submerged by back waters in
the sloughs regardless of the breach
in the levees.-Blythe Herald.
The Parker post., 1917-07-14
Famous Polish City.

To the tourist the most interesting
building in Galatz is the Church of
st. Mary's, which contains the tomb
Of the celebrated COssack chief Ma
Zeppa, whose intrigue with the wife
of a noble at the Polish court and his
dire punishment (being bound naked
to the back of a wild horse and set
adrift on the deserD have been i'm
mortalized in Byron's poem. The
tomb is supposed to have been rifed
of it's remains by the Russians dur
ing one of their several descents upon
the city, for the memory of Mazeppa
is execrated by the soldiers of the
czar, inasmuch as he became an ally
of Charles XII of Sweden. He died
Of poison in the same year that Peter
the Great defeated Charles on the
field of Pultowa.
The Parker post., 1917-07-14
SEPARATED FROM HIS WEALTH

Nicholas Romanoff laid up a part
of his treasure in the bank Of Eng
land. Just how the figures became
known is not stated. but the dis
patches report that the former czar
has $35, 100000 to his credit with
| the old lady of Threadneedle street
and it doesn't do him a bit of
good, for he cannot get over to Eng
land to enjoy it. AS a matter of
fact, Mr.. Romanoff might worry
along in some degree of comfort with
the income from that tidy saving,
only sundry Russian guards that for
merly took orders are now giving
them and one of their suggestions Is
that sea voyage would be bad for
him.
The wealth Of the Romanoffs was
almost fabulous Roughly estimated
it was Millionaire family, and Rus
sian authorities place the figures at
1858, 100000. Of this, the provis-
ional government has already confis-
Gated property worth about $780,
900, 900, for the benefit of the state,
income property, and is hesitating
whether it shall commander more
property not of the income character.
palaces and the like
Some recent revolutions which
shook crowns out of place were more
kind to the retired ruler. Dom Pedro
of Brazil for instance, was shipped
to Spain and enough of his wealth
had preceded him that he lived his
remaining years in luxury But Dom
Pedro had left no such scars as did
the iron rule of the Romanoffs, and
il having lost his crown Nicholas
saves his head, he may consider him.
self In considerable luck. AS for his
property, it is at least reasonably
certain that he will no longer quail
fy in the Rockefeller class.
The Parker post., 1917-07-14
From a Great Diary.

Evelyn, the great diarist and cour-
tier, is blind to many things which
his readers would gladly have had him
notice and record.
He tells us nothing Of the condition
Of the mass of the people, rarely
speaks of poor persons or servants,
rarely mentions the clothes he wore Or
the food he ate, never, at any rate.
with that pleasure of memory un-
ashamed which gives such details the
smack of life in Pepys or Boswell.
He never gossips; tells us little Of
his neighbors' vices, and nothing of
their follies; would assuredly not have
recorded, if there had been any such
matters to record, his wife's jealousy
Of his attentions to her mind gives
no such touches of rude veracity as
that of Pepys' sister, for whom hus-
band must be found at once as "she
grows old and ugly" or that of poor
Mr.. Pechell, "WhOse red nose makes
me ashamed to be seen with him,
though otherwise a good-natured man."
The Parker post., 1917-07-14

so free your mind and state your
easel"
well, stranger, since you've been
so frank, I'll roll aside the hazy bank,
the misty cloud of theories, and show
you where the trouble lies. 1 left
my dad, his farm, his plow, because
my calf became his COW left my
dad-'twas wrong, of course-be-
cause my colt became his horse |
left my dad to SOW and reap, because
my lamb became his sheep. | dropped
my hoe and stuck my fork, because
my pig became his pork The gar
den-truck that l made grow-'twas
his to sell, but mine to hoe It's not
the smoke in the atmosphere, nor the
taste for life that brought me here
Please tell the platform, pulpit, press,
no fear of toll or love of dress is driv-
ing Off the farmer lads, but just the
methods of their dads! !''-J. Edward
Tufft.
The Parker post., 1917-07-14
GREED MET PROPER REBUKE
Incident on Street Car a Case OF
Righteous Retrbution and Some
Embarrassment

The day was stormy and the car
carried only limited number of pas.
sengers. The Woman Who Saw spied
Il shining coin glistening on the floor
JUS front =. iashiOnably dressed
woman who might have posed for q
Daily Hint From Paris, so fault.
less was her get ., despite the rainy
day. Everytl bespOk- affiuence
and iackless expenditure, and the ne
cesSity % add to her probable store
Of ready money was not apparent.
However, she was eyeing the coin as
on it at the first favorable Oppor-
tunity. simultaneously the gaze Of a
dapper elderly gentleman, seated next
the Woman Who Saw, lighted upon
the glittering object. 1t would have
been an easy matter to have stopped
and possessed himself of it, but the
eagle eye of his fellow passenger fol,
lowed his every movement, betrayin2
her desire to appropriate the coveted
prize. After few seconds of irreso-
grabbed the lucky find. Opening his
closed hand he took one glance at the
treasure: A peculiar expression crossed
his face, and his fingers closed tightly
again. This was too much for the
well-dressed woman, who could re-
strain herself no longer; greed took
possession Of her, and leaning for
ward She addressed the finder in icy
accents: Pardon me- sir, that belongs
to me. | just dropped it,"
With a courteous bow the gentleman
replied: Permit me to restore your
property, madam" and he placed in
the immaculate glOved hand, now
eagerly extended, shining tobacco
tag.
The Parker post., 1917-07-14
MINERAL VALLEY MINES ACTIVE

WENDEN, July 11.-Messrs. Dom
nelly and Walcott have taken a lease
on the Bullard ground southeast of
the Critic mine and the former is
trip. This property has a fine record
of past shipments, several cars run
ming close to 80 per cent. 1t is ex-
pected that the new lessees will be-
gin active operations within a few
weeks A sensation was created at
the state fair some years ago by the
exhibition of ores from this property
which are said to have had the high
est copper content of any on display
The new owners of the Ocotillo
mine, situated to the south of Min
eral Valley in the Alamos, five miles
northeast of the North Star mine and
seven miles from the famed King of
Arizona, plan an immediate campaign
of active development of the great
old mine which has a record of pro-
duction in excess of SIC, 100000 with
a total depth of less than 800 feet.
Hipsohn and Saundercock last week
shipped car of high-grade from the
Fleming and Davis ground adjoining
the Black Giant. Preliminary re-
turns from this shipment indicate
that it is one of the richest that ever
left Mineral Valley, the copper con-
tent being between 81 and 33 per
cent for the entire car
The hot weather has brought no
cessation of activity at the Black
Giant mine and the work of sinking
the 500-foot shaft is proceeding with
every possible dispatch and will be
largely accelerated by the arrival,
about the middle of the week, of the
new compressor, which was ordered
and shipped in May.
With depth of more than 325
feet in the shaft and active sinking
being continued, the indications at
the BLACK Reef mine in Cunnlngh ham
Pass are said to be be better today
than ever before in the history of
the property.
Capt. Salano is reported as being
ready to ship several cars of ore
from the Santa Ana 1t is said that
the smelter has expressed itself as
more than satisfied with the quality
of some sample shipments that have
been made
superintendent Jesus Casanova re-
ports that he is taking out some high
grade glance at the Jerome Wenden
and that car will go forward to the
smelter within the present month