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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-17
SPORTS
Pei. LEAGUE is
GETTING READY

league, a speedy shortstop. arriv-
ed Tuesday in time to work out
during the afternoon. Hall has
also received word that he will
get McNulty, a catcher from the
Sacramento club, as second string
backstop for the Tigers. Russ
still Is in need OF a FIRST baseman,
but he isn't worrying much as he
has two or three likely young
players in view.
Seattle fans aren't happy a-tall,
Several players that Manager Bill
Leard had signed up haven't put
IN an appearance, and the infield
Of the Giants is all shot full of
holes. Frantic calls for more
players are being sent out.
The Portland team, ira ming at
Pendleton, is getting good prac-
tice, altho cold raw wind yes
terday prevented any workout
Sumner Peterson, a Pendleton in
fielder, may be signed by Manager
Fisher to pitch for the Portland
club. He is reported to be a
find.
Barham, the big right handed
pitcher of the Vancouver club, has
turned down a fat offer for this
season and notified Bob Brown
that he would continue to work in
Portland shipyard
Manager Dick Egan of the Alb
erdeen club and his players are
due to arrive in the Grays Har.
Dor city late this week. They will
start practice at once.
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ELMAN SEAT
SALE FRIDAY

Micha Elman, Russian violinist,
who is to appear April 23 at the
Tacoma theater, does not by any
means confine his activities to
playing the violin.
He finds his avocation in COM
posing, and has acquired nearly as
much proficiency in this creative
field of art as .he has in the inter
pretative fields of playing.
Elman's compositions comprise
music to words by many of the
lgreat English poets as we'll as
music now being written for a
ballet for which Adolf Bolm has
created the dancing.
The seat sale for the Elman
concert starts Friday morning at
Sherman Clay Co.'S.
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With reports from all other
cities in the Pacific Coast lnterna-
tional league indicating that ball
teams are shaping up nicely all
over the circuit, Russ Hall, owner
of the Tacoma Tigers, is more
than confident for the future OF
his club.
A few more nice afternoons, and
the Bengal tribe will be in shape
to open the season, Hall says, and
there are already enough men on
hand to make up a fast team.
Harry Daubert, late of the
Evansville club of the Central
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Orpheum Sends
Ruth St. Denis

Heading this weeks Orpheum
bill at the Tacoma thea .er Friday.
Saturday and Sunday is that queen
[of terpischore, Ruth st. Denis
with new and deliberately set
series of pictorial and dramatic
dances. Miss st. Denis has been
seen in Tacoma several times and
is here as we'll as elsewhere ex-
|ceedingly popular with theater-
goers.
Among the creations Miss Denis
will present are Japanese Flower
Dance, The Moon of Love Waltz,
The Peacock, Dance From an
Egyptian Freize, Nautehq Dance,
Syrian Sword Dance, and The In
dian Temple Girl. III
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Excursion to
Attract Manv

From the big advance sale of
tickets, members of the Hopkins
Athletic club anticipate large
crowd for their first excursion OF
the season, to be held Saturday
might at Arletta. The club will
leave the Muny dock at 8 o'clock
on the steamer Bay Island, return
ing in the wee small hours after
dancing all night. Proceeds of
the excursion will go to the Hop
kins A. G. baseball fund.
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lead and be on your way.
Baserunners take their chance
of being retired when not standing
on a base except when they over
run first base. They are required
to return to the base they left
when the ball is hit foul, and also
when a catch is made, either from
fair or foul hit ball. However, the
moment the catch is made, either
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United Press Leased WireJ

United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, April t7.-Hov
the naughty have been downed.
Grover Cleveland Alexander Of
the Cubs is among those defeated
today. He is in the same class
with Walter Johnson of the Sena-
tors. Urban Faber and Eddie
Cicotte, not to be outdole by just
plain, ordinary pitchers, went into
the same classification with all
their worlds series fame when the
Browns arose and showed them
under.
Alibis are useless, witness that
triumph of the Reds over Bob
Harmon and Lefty Cooper of the
Pirates, Likewise peruse the
stubborn resistance of Rope Perry
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-17
STAR PITCHERS IN
BIG LEAGUES HAVE
UNHAPPY OPENING
BIG LEAGUE STARS
SUFFER IN OPENERS

. An interesting feature of
!. the opening of the 1918 ball
!. season in the big leagues is
!. the treatment accorded to the
/. leading pitchers of both
f" leagues.
/. The New York Yankees hit
(. Walter johnson, Il times il
I. the opening game at Wash
{. ington Monday. and trimmed
g the Washington team, 6 to 3.
9 Alexander was hit hard at
o st. Louis yesterday in the
Z: opening game, and lost his
I. game for Chicago, to 2.
/. Cicotte, star Of the last
(. world series, was pounded
Z. out of the box in the opea-
:. ing game at Chicago, and the
{: st. Louis Browns captured
/: the game, 6 to l.
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Nazimova, the great little Rus
sian actress, who closes a very
successful engagement at the
Apollo tonight I'm Revelation"
shows her ability as an artistic in
terpreter of classic dancing in this
photodrama.
Dressed as a bacchante, a
priestess of Bacchus, god of wine
and revelry, with leaves in. her
hair, a garland of grapes across
her shoulders, with a goblet in
one hgd, and a cluster of grapes
in the other, she performs La
Danse BacchanaI." typifying the
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ADJUSTMENTS
o @ = 9 o . y o . . q y .
FISHERMEN MAKE
SOME BASS RECORD

, Here's new fishing rec
> ord for you nimrods to aim
> at,
. Mr.. Grace of the Donnelly
!. pool hall and Mr.. Dolan OF
. the Tacoma Taxi Co. went to
. Lake Taps yesterday for
. bass.
!. They were gone exactly
. two hours, and when they re-
I. turned, they had a sack bulg-
/. ing with the spoils. They
/. caught 10 bass weighing a
I. total of 10 pounds, and the
o largest was ID inches long.
/. Grace and Bolan were two
!. of the happiest mortals IN
/. town when they came tipping
o back Tuesday evening to dis
{. play their catch.
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exhuberant spirit of revelry Of
a Partisan cafe.
The great Nazimova executed
this dance with true artistry and
poe ry of motion in graceful move
ments which we're ideal for reg
istration by the motion picture
camera. On the screen, this dance
is a revelation in accurate pre-
sentation of dance movements in
motion pictures.
Norma Talmadge in her latest
offering, Poppy will be the
attraction at the Apollo starting
Thursday.
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''hOW DAD TAUGHT NE BASERumNlNC"
EXPLAINED BY SON OF BIC EnANaCER

the base while making a steal and
just tagging the sack with an out
stretched foot. In this way the in
fielder with the ball has a smaller
chance of touching the runner
than il the latter were to slide
straight into the bag.
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Grover M lore
RecDnciIed

ST. LOUIS, April 17.-Grover
Alexander was more reconciled to
army life today following his de-
feat here yesterday by the St
Louis Cards, to 2. Kilduff's err
ror and a flock of hits downed the
Cubs at the start. Tyler of the
Cubs was expected to oppose Doak
of the Cards today.
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value to ball
clubs. This is
a department of
the game where
the quick think
err, the fellow
who can call the
turn on the OPP
posing pitcher,
always proves
his W o r 1 h.
Speed alone will
not make you a
successful base
runner. Y o IL
must know just
when to take a
n n m m auding
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-17
Shut.Out Game

Victory Hauglund, pitching for
the Logan school team, shut out
the Irving schoon nine by a to
0 score in fast game on Irving
grounds yesterday afternoon.
Sather caught him. Johnson and
Thompson were the Irving bat
terry.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-17
SMOKER FOR JEWISH
MEN IN NEW DRAFT

A big smoker to be held III
building No. 81 of the officers
training camp at Camp Lewis
Thursday evening at 1880 will
have as honor guests all Jewish
men In the new draft. Jewish
members of all organizations al
the cantonment have been invited
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Beats Lewis
Omitted Press Leased Wirc.,

MILWAUKEE, April 17.-Joe
Egan of Boston was called winner
IN tame bout with Welterweight
Champion Ted Lewis here last
night. Egan led in what fighting
there was, Lewis mostly stalling
and trying for points.
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Decision Over
Jimmy Dundee

OAKLAND, Cal, April II. =
Harry Pelsisger had a decision
over Jimmy Dundee today. In
their bout before the shipbuilders'
association last night, he had a
shade the better of the battling.
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alter next Monday.
In these days of strife Otis
Skinner has become more and
more an optimist. He believes in
looking on the bright side of life,
and in bringing all the joy posi-.
BILE into the lives of others. This
is one of the reasons why he is SO
happy in. the role of Tony Camar-
adonia, organ grinder and philoso-
pher in the Booth Harrington
play, mister Antonio.
MIR. Skinner comes to the Ia
coma Monday night, and his COM
ing will undoubtedly be one of
the real events of the theateri-
cal season. Mr.. Harrington wrote
the play especially for Mr.. Skin
ner, and the role of Tony is a
most lovable one.
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BY ROY ROWLAND
Son Of Manager Clarence Row.
land of the World Champion
| White SOx.

Smart baserunners, il they are
only fair hitters are OF tremendous
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-17
OAK THEATER
Armstrong Follies Company 4
"CAFE DE JAZZ"

A Gay Musical Whirl
GIRLS EVERYWHERE
Matinces, 3:30. Nights, and o
Bargain Matinees Tuesday and
Thursday. Ladies 1Oc.
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LIBERTY HEATER


Il, Leans :. !fs' ma i $50. $50 $50 . ssS
s:so. $3.50. 8. 7:ao P: m.
n; ' is.so. i:sS. !. e. &. i: D. pi M A.
Trips direct to Soldiers Home,
leaving home 10 min utes before leav.
ing Orting.
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Colonial theater, Bill Hart sup
plies in the way of probability and
treatment what the old dime novel
lacked. He is being viewed with
interes by monster crowds at the
Colonial
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MOVIES
TODAY'S BILLS
AT THE THEATERS

TACOMA
"A Little Bit Old-FashiOn-
ed" with May Robson again
tonight.
Orpheum vaudeville, Friday
to Sunday.
PANTAGES
Singers Midgets; with vau-
devilIe.
HIPPODROME
"Jazzcopation;" with vaude-
Vile.
"Cafe de jazz" by ARM
strong Follies Co.
MOVIES
COLONIAL
1.-THE Tiger Man," with VIM.
S. Hart.
APOLLO
"Revelation," with Nazi-
nova.
MELBOURNE
IAN American Live Wire,',
with Earl Williams.
LIBERTY
Reggie Mixes ln," with
Douglas Fairbanks.
$4,000 u>eo.e>o<,,>e~r<See.
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Our
Boys
~
- ~
Clothing

Department Is
showing up larger
than ever this
year; Ii has
been a problem to
get the goods
fast enough by
express and freight;
last week however,
an overdue freight
shipment of
several hundred
suits came in,
forty-nine days
On the way. SO
we are in good
shape once more.
BETTER than
half of our stock
Is made with two
pairs of pants,
both lined.
Every garment
Ii made with the
same guarantee of
service and the
tailoring Is of
the very best.
Most all of the
coat belts have
buckles this year
and the boys like
them very much.
We bought these
goods eight months
ago and our prices
are based
absolutely on what
we contracted to
pay at that time
and In every instance
our price is
practically the
wholesale cost OF
the goods today.
Our prices are,
SO to 412.
| DICKSON
| BROS.
co. :
1902 Pacific Avesas
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-17

BETTER than
half of our stock
Is made with two
pairs of pants,
both lined.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE

!, o o q 9 o o o 9 o o o o Z. 4
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

launched the Tecla Pearl successful
IN the jewelry trade. He was tho H."
OF the Tecla business when it stsr,.,
and still is the managing direc.o, . .
the sl.5o0,ooo stock company orran;,.
with Lord Tenterdon and other, :,
England more than five year, 90.
exploit the pearl
Branches in the interim were .,,.,
hshed all over the world. the on. ;.
New York being on Fifth Avenue ~.
from them Godsol and his assoc,.,.
are said to have been drawing s.v.,
hundred thousand dollars a year.
Godsol visited this country ssvs,.
times prior 10 the war and boueb, !,
terests in the theatrical enterprise, j.,
Al. II. Wood and the Shubert, q
now holds. among other stage inters,,,
SO per cent share Of the Astor Th..
tire.
Abroad he became the commereIa, A
rector Of the Ambrosio Film Comna,,
of Turin, Italy. and distributed throus.
out the world the big picture, aou
Nadis.'
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
wrecked.
Initiates New
Diamond Idea

With $100, the sum total of his
available assets, Frank thereupon re
newed his quest Of fortune alone. Then
was born his imitation diamond idea
Ialt, Montana, Saretccora Brazilian.
Take your choice. They are all the
names of the same "diamond." Next
to his Tecla pearl, the invention which
has enabled women of wealth all over
The world to appear collared, coro-
neted and tiaraed as usual while their
real pearls reposc in safety vaults.
this was undoubtedly Godsol's best
little idea" But in discussing it the
other day he remarked regrctfully that
it was the thing that convinced him
Bnrnum was right. "There is one born
every minute"
part of that 500 bought barrel
of them,' he said. 81 really didn't in
tend to sell them for a dollar each.
Honest | didn't. | priced them at p
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
OL-ADVENTURER IN FINANCE
Extradition Demanded ON Charge of Receiving
$l,500000 Excess Commissions on Motor
Trucks Bought in o. S. for French Army

sell only through him. and that he
robbed France in one instance of 81,
G3,10a, by causing manufactures to
add his commissions to the price
charged the French government. TO
this Godsol answers that the trucks
ne sold to France cost less after he
had obtained his commission contract
than before. He asserts that the whole
matter s the result Of one Of the
perennial political battles in Paris.
And he is frankly worried by this
political phase. How seriously it has
been regarded is indicated by the fact
that William j. Bryan and other men
well known in the political life of this
country have been interested in the
case seeking interviews with Secrc-
tary Lansing of the State Department,
who will have final say as to the honor
ing of Frances rcquisition-whlc for
mcr Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey, as
chief counsel looks after the court end.
On the other side of the water there
have been violent debates in the Cham
Der of Deputies, where M. Thomas, for
mer Minister of Munitions. has been
II, C1Iu
although the latter declares he has seen
Thomas but twice in his life.
The debate was on proposed res
olution requesting the French govern
ment "to make known the accomplices
of the adventurer Godsol" and who was
responsible for having permitted him
to avoid his military duties.
In the debate it was brought out that
Godsol was made courier to q general
in August, 1914; was arrested at the
front as an espionage suspect and later
as an automobiist attached to General
Faurie. He obtained a permit to go to
Turin, although Italy was not then at
war. From Turin he telegraphed every
day to his agents in Berlin, whore he
had a cinematograph business, and
later was sent as interpreter to the
French purchasing mission in the
United States.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Starts Business
In London Store

Soon he became acquainted with Ed
Harrigan, bookmaker temporarily out
Of business He bought for Harrgan
a membership in the Metropolitan Turf
Association. That entitled Harrigan to
make books in the betting rings. Bad
selections as d Dettor had already de
pleted his roll. The operations of the
Harrigan book were not as success sful
as anticipated. The roll steadily
lost weight, and finally Godsol went to
bookmaklng alone.
That was along in the summer Of
1898. The season had Just begun at
Saratoga. That is q period Godsol does
not like to talk about. A trusted rela
tive was his cashier. One day, when
he vas widely extended on Il long shot
that won, the cashier disappeared. tax
ing with him about $25,0o0, practically
every dollar he had left after a rather
disastrous campaign.
From one friend, a Judge in Cleve-
land, Godsol. by telegraph, obtained 8
loan of $4,000. He went South to
raise more money and wound up in
New Orleans, where he again went into
business as a montana diamond" mer-
chant to make the balance he needed to
pay off his obligations.
BY the spring of 1890 he had oil he
needed. Through Ike" BlumenthaI,
now one of his organization in Europe,
he paid out s25 900, and with the 5 200
remaining he went to England.
Frank Godsol had nothing to do with
his brothers. business lie played a
lone hand after the break in Cleveland
until he went to Europe. lie landed in
London with bat little money and alb
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
American Born Adventurer Started With Moth.
inc and Made $4,000 900 on Imitation Jewels
in World Encircling Enterprise

solutely unacquainted. Yet within three
months, after spending most of his
funds for living expenses at the high
est priced hotel of the British capital.
he had established big business there.
How he did it would be a mystery
unless one has talked with him. Then
it becomes clear. Godsol is quiet.
There is nothing 'cocky" about him.
His eyes are level, and he talks frank
IT, While you understand that he will
try his best to trim you if YOU show
desire to match wits. he gives the
impression that he is perfectly willing
to lay his cards on the table if you
turn up yours. Briefly, he inspires con-
fdenco; he radiates a feeling OF secur-
ity and strength. a number Of wealthy
Englishmen- Lord Tenterdon is now
pany simply caught this feeling and
backed him.
A number of people have been badly
mistaken in Godsol recently. That
quiet manner Of his and bis reputation
as spender have put upon his trail a
flock OF human birds OF prey since the
French govern Acnt filed it's charges
against him.
"you see, it's this way with me-" he
explained a little later "I'll pay 500
for something that's worth only a dime
thing I've got, but friends are the very
ones fnd that can give nothing to.
III tip q taxi pilot ten times the
amount of his bill, but let him over
fight for it. These birds make me
laugh. am never trimmed
unless ! want to be-
Godsols venture in England was not
attended by the street blocking interest
he had aroused in America. His Lon
don establishment was more elaborate
than any he or his brother had had
over here. He spent >re than S25 900
on interior decorations alone, and laid
out vast sums in advertising campaigns.
Yet the business he did was smaller
than that he had enjoyed in the United
States. "The English are too conserva-
tive he explains.
He made money, but not fast enough,
and he sold out, but not before several
Germans had become interested in his
methods, and offered him so per cent
OF the gross if he would establish smi-
lar businesses, on their capital in
Munich. Berlin, Suits art and other
cities Of Germany
"They seemed to think ! had invent
ed something and held a patent on it,
he said NATURALLY, I accepted" And
from that day to the outbreak of the
war; when nearly 81 100000 worth OF
MS property, represented by theatres
and motion picture houses in Germany
were sequestrated or confiscated be.
cause he was q naturalized citizen OF
France, he drew large dividends from
these paste gem emporiums
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
People Blocked
Sidewalks to Buy

No sane business man would and
Godsol didn't, but he says that he had
so little understanding of human nat
ure at that time that he hired a store
i'll Cincinnati for only a month. He
figured that he would sell few quarts
Of the diamonds" in thirty days,
which would be about the limit, and
then he would move on He did move
on, to st. Louis, to Detroit, to Roches
ter and to various other small cities,
because he did not believe a sophisti
Gated city like New York would stand
for 1t. But when he finally did arrive
here he remained for months-on Four
teenth Street-and Brother Louie, who
crlbbed the idea and followed him, re-
mained several years
The Montana diamond scheme de,
pended entirely upon window dressing.
1t still does, though helped immense
ly by extensive advertising. Witness
the great mirror-lined, light festooned
diamond palaces" which Godsol's as
soc!"tes conducted in Europe before
the WAY, and are still conducting in
the Far East
When he arrived in Cincinnati God
sol found that there was only one va
cant store place on busy corner to be
had and dime museum man had beat
en- him to it. He had to suitcase the
store from the museum man, at an ad-
vance rental, for one month, and at the
end of the period he was forced to give
1t up and forcgo the run Of 5000 days
because the Snowman had his freaks in
town and no other place to put them.
Kent took most of what was left of
ms SloO after he had bought barrel
OF. two of 'diamonds' The slender
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Gathered a Good
Field Staff

Before going to Germany to estab-
lish these places, however, he had
gathered around him in England g
coterle of keen, young Americans. Brit
ishers and Frenchmen, to whom he
atterWard gave interests in his various
enterprises, based on the amount of
business they produced These includ-
ed f. S. Higgins and Cyril Deyere-
the latter his wife's brother who CON
Quoted the motor truck transactions
with the French army administration.
which later became the hssis of the
charges laid against their chief, and
Ike and Ben Blumenthal, of New York.
The Blumenthals specialized in thea
trical and motion picture ventures.
they also operated the various branches
of the imitation gem business estab-
lished throughout the world
In Paris, in 1905, he staged his Tccla
pearl performance, really astinish
ing achievement. Codsol himself saws
the motor truck affair was a fortuitous
accident of business, whereas Tccla af
forded a full display of his peculiar
genius and the daring quality of his
imagination.
Shortly after he had reached Paris
and quartered himself at the most ex-
pensive hotel, there appeared in the
Paris edition of "The New York Her
ald' special article dealing with mod
eln methods of producing synthetic
gems.
\ day or two later "rhe Herald
printed a letter over the signature OF
the Count de "" in which the
count took issue with the statements
made in the article with reference to
pearls. The count declared that he had
the honor OF knowing a renowned
scientist who had produced a perfect
pearl by chemical processes. The scien-
tist was not named, and a day or two
later The HERALD carried another let
ter under another signature asking if
the Count de " would be so good
as to name the pear!maker, and state
whether his product was being made
in commercial quantities. Thereupon
the count replied that the producer
was none other than the world famed
American scientist. Professor Maurice
de Tecla," who because of his absorb
tlon IN the pursuit Of knowledge had
never before considc, ed commercial
possibilities. Now. however, that phase
of his wonderful discovery had been
brought to his attention. and upon q
certain day in the near future it hsd
been arranged to have "A public cxhibi-
ton.