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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Webster City Freeman-Tribune: It
looks now as thought the divine right
of kings was to be shot so full of
holes that even the divine Fighters
themselves will not know 1t when
they think they see 1t. Isn't it mar
Vicious that any civilized people in
this day and age would believe in
such nonsense?
Knoxville Express: 1t begins to
sound like an old fashioned American
Thanksgiving in Palestine, where the
British have just taken $4,000 Turks.
Council Bluffs NonpareiI: II the
kaiser is unfamiliar with the term.
unconditional surrender" it's high
time for him to get busy.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: The interest
of the fourth Liberty bonds is 4A
per cent, but the popular interest in
the bond is 100 per cent
Davenport Times: If you are not
holding down an Essential job, don't
be surprised if Uncle Sam, in the
person of some federal official, taps
you on the shoulder and politely re.
minds you that the United States is
at war with Germany.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The en-
peror of Austria-Hungary can put his
ideas on peace in his will They
would not be of value, but would
serve to satisfy curiosity.
Des Moines Register: That German
who unsolicited drafted a constitu-
ton for the league OF nations is evil
IDENTIFY related to the Buttinsky fam.
lily.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: Judging
from recent events, the devil Is hav-
ing hard time making up his mind
that he ought to mix Lenine and
Trotzky with his innocents.
Carroll Herald: The Hun will soon
be driven back from Reims. What
will they do when they are out of
range of that magnificent cath edral ?
When there Is no hospital or cathed-
raj to bomb the Hohenzollerns will
surely have cause to abdicate.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
Too Late.

Passing Show. A physician was
examining a class of nurses. He de.
scribed the condition OF a patient,
and asked one nurse how much NOR
phine, in her opinion, should be adj.
ministered to the sufferer.
Eight grains promptly replied
the nurse. The doctor made no
comment, and the girl passed on.
When her turn came again she au.
peared greatly confused, and SAID 10
the examiner:
Doctor, wish to correct the an.
swer / made last time. I meant TO
say that one-eighth of a grain Should
be given to the patient
Too late" remarked the physi.
clan, without looking up from bis
question paper. THAT mans dead"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30

seefurther and better. Men a,
women do not write such letters
the one printed herewith, do u
write such articles as Colonel Roos
velt's simply because they hs
learned the trick of weaving wOr
together, but because they mel
every word Of what they write.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
EQUAL PAY FOR WORKERS.

Two principles of great Importance have ap-
parently been established in England. One is
that men and women are to get equal pay for
equal work The other is that in fixing the rate
of pay of workers, their other sources of income
will not be considered. 1t makes no difference
whether the government is pensioning workers,
whether they have means of their own or de-
pendents to provide for, the same work, who
ever performs it, is to earn the same wages
paid to anyone else The justice of this is APP
parent and England is probably settling these
questions for all the rest of the civilized world.
The war is so knitting the nations together and
,unifying their aspirations that reforms adopted
in one land will be demanded in others. The
british worlImen advocate equal pay for wom-
en-, both as matter Of justice and of self-inter-
est. They do not want the competition of
cheaper labor after the war. They see that if
male labor is more efficient, more dependable
and less inclined to regard job manke-
shift until marriage those facts will operate in
their favor under system of equal pay, as they
would not if women could be hired for less than
men receive
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30

People always expecting to get peace in heaven:
but you know whatever peace they get there will be
readyrade Whatever, making they be best
for, be the earth here.-Ruskin.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30

A Kansas paper predicts that if the war lasts
another two years everybody will be in uniform.
Let's hope that prices will be uniform, too.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30

Our men stick at nothing in this war They
not only take French towns from the enemy,
but try to pronounce them.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30

1t must have been great surprise to Herr
Hohenzollern to learn that the American eagle
had never learned to COO
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30

England's adoption of baseball may be all
right, but yet there have been no reports of
mobbing the umpires.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30

If Germany sinks many more ships loaded
with Goldfish she may receive ultimatum from
the mayor of Boston.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30

Another good reason why Germany cannot
win this is the last United States census
report.
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
THE OFFICIAL FOOD PRICES IN KEoKuK

The following includes most of the food sa
u.s
one special committee
Elder food and published w
public information
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30

Knoxville Express: 1t begins Il
sound like an old fashioned American
Thanksgiving in Palestine, where tn
British have just taken $4,000 Turks
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30

Burlington Hawk-Eye: The interes
of the fourth Liberty bonds Is AZ
per cent, but the popular interest IL
the bond is 100 per cent
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: If the
kaiser is unfamiliar with the term
unconditional surrender" it's higl
time for him to get busy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30

Out OF the mists and the mys.
terry, the chaos and the confusion of
the war, we are learning a clarity
which we did not know before; out
OF the darkness of despair we are
coming to have clearer vision. to
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
ECHOES FROM PAST

Tommy Burns defeated Marvin
Hart in 20 rounds at Los Angeles
twelve years ago today, Feb. %, 1906.
AS result of this contest, the Cana
dian claimed the heavyweight cham
pionship of the world, the title which
Jeffries had handed over to Hart
when the latter whipped Jack Root
at Reno in 1905. Hart, a native of
Kentucky, was a great scrapper in
his day but as a heavyweight cham
pion he was something of joke After
losing his "honors" to Burns he went
from bad to worse, and was knocked
out by Mike Schreck, Carl Morris and
other hopes. Tommy Burns although
little fellow for heavyweight, was
good enough to hold his title against
the best of the whites, but there were
several gents of color who might have
beaten him, and one of 'em did. After
the downfall of the Canadian it took
a mighty big man to recover the
! laurels for the white race. Tommy
made a neat little bundle of kale in
the ring, and has since added to it
as a clothing dealer and real estate
in Calgary and boxing promoter in
New Orleans. Tommy was in his
twenty-fifth year when he won the
| title
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
hanlOn and Robinson in
Favor Of Ban on Spitball
Old Baltimore Leader and
the Robins Manager
Speak in Support of Gov.
Tener.

Baltimore, Feb. 25-Edward Han
Ion, Wilbert Robinson, Jack Dunn
and Joe Kelley, men who have made
history in baseball, stand firmly be-
hind President John K. Tener of the
National League in his efforts to
abolish the spitball.
Moreover, they are firmly convinced
that the former Governor of Pennsyl-
vania has the right idea about Kidding
the game of something that is coll
sidered a menace by many critics and
numerous close students among the
fans.
1.-THE splitter" said Hanlon, once a
manager, and one of the shrewdest,
as indicated by the five pennants he
won with the Brooklyn and Baltimore
teams, lis very had to hit effectively
and difficult to field well. There are
seven other men on the ball field
besides the battery, and the object
of the game is to give them chance
to show their ability
They have duties to perform, but
they do not get the opportunities. The
batters are puzzled by the splitter and
when they do connect they usually
drive the ball into the ground and the
infield is placed at a disadvantage in
handling it. Not only are wild throws
often made, but fumbles too result
from the saliva on the ball. In that
way the game is robbed OF many OF
the lightning plays which please the
spectators.
players are censured for slips they
make in the field when they really
are not to blame, and nothing disgusts
fan more than a wild throw But, in
addition to those bad features, the
splitter prevents batting and the lack
of batting prevents pretty heldlns
plays.
| There are other Objectionable
features also. for it is not pleasant to
see pitcher slobber all over the pail
and it is an upsanitary practlce.
Wilbert Robinson, manager OF the
Brooklyn Robins, says:
1T is disgusting, it is dIfhcult Tor
the fielders to handle and it does pre-
vent the players from accepting more
chances, but I side with President
Tener for personal reasons For
three years have done everything
possible to discourage young twlrlers
who want to Use the splitter. L like
the pitcher who has the curve the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
CARL NORRIS, 81,
F|zzLED OUT
AS ''HOPE"

If Carl Morris has recovered suf-
ficiently from the licking he got at
the hands of Jack Dempsey at Buff
falo a couple of weeks ago, he will
no doubt do something in the way of
celebrating his thirty-frst birthday
today. Carl, whose ancestors were
Cherokee Indians on the one side,
and Irish on the other, was born in
old Kentucky. at Fulton, on Feb. %,
1887. Carl was locomotive engineer
before he put Sapulpa and Tulsa on
the sporting map. In a way he was
responsible for Jess Wizards entrance
into the fight game, for it was fame
and shekels gathered by Morris that
inspired Jess with the idea of redeem
ing the white race from its pugilistic
bondage. Morris is only six feet four
in height, and Jess figured that if a
little runt like Carl could get away
with it, he, Jess, six feet seven in his
hosiery, ought to stand some kind Of
a chance.
Morris started fighting in 1910, and
all his early fights were by the knock
out route. In 1911 he travelled to New
York and knocked out Jack Geyer,
and fought ten-round bouts with Jim
Flynn, jim Stewart and Tom Kennedy.
Carl was considered top-notcher
among the hopes until he fought
Luther Mccarthy at Springfield, Mo-.
in 1912, said was knocked out in the
sixth chapter. He then fought several
| victorious bouts in the South. but
| lost to Al Kubiak in Atlanta. In 191 8
| Carl knocked out Fred Mckay in
| Winnipeg and Al Reich in New York,
| and fought ten rounds with Jess Will
lard, but lost on a foul to Gunboat
Smith.
There was at time, not so very long
ago, when Carl looked like a rival of
Willard, but that time has passed.
| With Fred Fulton and Dempsey in
the field he is apparently definitely
| outclassed. His latest defeat at Buff
falo put him back another notch. The
referee disqualified Morris in the sixth
round because the Oklahoma giant
| insisted upon hitting below the belt
when he found himself in danger of
being knocked out.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
WEEGHMAN WARS
ON HIS HOLDOUTS

Chicago, Feb. 23-Charles H.
Weegkman, President of the Chicago
Cubs, last night served notice on play
ers regarded as "holdouts'' that I'M
less they come to terms before the de-
parture of the club for the spring
training camps, early next month.
they would be obliged to seek other
employment.
81 shall not be bothered with hold
cuts this season." Weeghman said,
I'VE did not make any big cuts IN
salaries, despite the war The club
cannot afford to pay enormous sala-
RES and the players should be made
to understand the situation confront
ing the owners
One of Weeghman's hold-outs is
Grover Cleveland Alexander, Who
wants a $4,000 bonus. Another is
big Jim" Vaughn. star southpaw. If
these two pitchers do not come to
terms the pennant chances of the
Cubs will resemble Trotzky's hope of
winning the Russian Worlds Series
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
Ring History of
Terrible Terry
sso-Born in Johnstown. Pa.

1SS0-BOrn in YOUNGSTOWN, Pa.
1894 - Supported widowed
mother and family as vegetable
pedler in South Brooklyn.
1S96-Won several street fights
by knockout.
1S97-Had his first glove bout
in the old Greenwood A. C.
1898 - Knocked out Harry
Forbes, formidable bantam, in the
18th round at the Pelican A. c.,
Brooklyn.
1899 - Jimmy Barry, bantam
champion of America. retired,
leaving title to McGovern.
1S99-Beat Pedlar Palmer, Eng
FISH bantam champion for the
worlds title at Westminster A. c.,
Tuckahoe, in half a round.
1900 - Knocked out George
Dixon, featherweight champion of
America, in the eighth round at
the Broadway A. C.
19OO-Knocked out Frank E,rne,
lightweight champion of the world
in the third round in handicap
match, Erne being restricted to
1928 pounds, ringside.
19O1-Knocked out by Young
Corbett in the second round at
Hartford, for the featherweight
championship of America at 1876
pounds.
190S-Last bout in the ring with
Spike Robson. .
Estimated earnings in ring and
on stage, $2O3 900. r...
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23

Charlie White, landmark of the
ring, who passed away at his home in
New York few weeks ago, was the
most prominent referee of pugilistic
contests in this country. In nearly all
the big events, when championships
changed hands or were defended sue
cessfully in the Eastern states, he was
the third man in the ring" The last
big contest in that vicinity where
White was the arbiter, was the Will
Iard-Morgan contest in Madison
Square Garden, March 25, 1916. He
was at the ringside when johnson de-
feated Jeffries in Reno, New, in 1910,
as alternate referee.
Among other prominent fights in
which White officiated as referee
were: Jeffries-C orbett, Fftzsimmons-
Sharkey, at Coney Island; Fitzsim-
mons-Ruhlin, Maher-Ruhlin, Walcott-
Smith, Walcott-West, WaIcott-Cree-
don, Jordan-Dixon, McGovern-E rne
and Erne-Gans in Chicago, and Young
-McGovern, in Hartford,
Conn.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
CHARGES COMBINE
AGAINST LEWIS

New York, Feb 23-B. c. sandow,
manager of stranger" Lewis,
charges that a wrestling combination
has been formed to the detriment of
his grappler. Judging from the sched-
ule for local contests, which will con-
tinue with a bout between sZbyszko
and Stecher on March, Shadows con-
tention has some elements of truth.
The fact is that in the championship
controversy Lewis stands higher than
any of the others, and with the
Stranger asking for a chance to
wrestle Zbyszko, Stecher or Caddock,
we fail to see the necessity for an
Immediate meeting between the Pole
and the scissors expert. Steeher has
not been in the title hunt for some
time, since his defeats by DIN and
Caddock, and Zbyszko was eliminated
by Caddock recently. The public is
entitled to the best bouts available,
and if it is convinced that some first
class wrestler is being Disseminated
against.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
Copyright, 91S, by Sol. Metzger.)

Copyright, 918, by Sol. Metzger.)
If Congress has not already done so
it is quite likely to make eligible for
the draft young. men who have pass
ed the age of twenty-one since June
5, 1917. Should that bill become
law intercollegiate sport will have an
other period of hysteria not unlike
that which seized it Immediately fol-
lowing the declaration of war if it
doesn't watch out. Indeed, our entire
system of collegiate education will get
jolt that is bound to result in fur
Their financial retrenchment.
The results of such a draft law,
should our army be materially in
creased, is bound to make big in
roads into the ranks of trained college
athletes 1t has already become an
established fact that the athlete IS
the raw material from which to
mould an ideal soldier. What more
could be asked then than that such a
law be passed? 1t would Immediate
ly make available for fighting pur-
poses those of our youth perhaps best
fitted for duty abroad and once more
put it up to the colleges to give every
encouragement to the work of pro-
ducing more men of the same type.
Every time<a college athlete enters
the service, no matter by what route,
the college in question has a patrio-
tic duty to perform, no matter how
costly to it's athletic prestige the loss
of said start may be. This duty is
nothing more than putting another
in his place on the team, thus auto
matically giving the second man the
athletic training which is found to
be SO valuable in the training of a
soldier.
This war is forcing US to learn a
great deal relating to athletics we
never imagined before. Dreams are
actually coming true. The draft law
proposed will but accelerate these
dreams. For example, not long back
this column dealt with what was a
more or less ideal conception of sport
for-all in the colleges. Its meat con-
sisted in the proposition that varsity
teams should be made up of members
of the senior class only, thus making
the varsity the goal and paving the
way for a more general participation
III dlI competitive 5dLICo Ny dIAOCA
graduates. This plan placed intercol-
legiate sport at the top both as a
stimulus for athletic efforts by all
students and as a means by which
money could be raised for supporting
the whole program.
Although our colleges are not think
ing of adopting any such program
they are now being forced into one
quite similar to it.
Varsity teams are beginning to ex-
list for one season only. Penn, for ex-
ample, has already had eight of its
1917 football team enter service; 9TH
er colleges are experiencing the same
thing. At Harvard, Princeton and
Yale freshman teams are supplanting
the varsity. Consequently, the job in
athletics at most institutions today is
to develop new teams in all sports
each year. That is good and it is serv-
ing the country, too.
Those who advocate sport-for-all
and no intercollegiate competition
have not looked far ahead. Where is
the money to come from even in peace
times While that plan may be ideal
in the army those engaged in promot-
ing it at the cost of interdivision con-
tests and championships, all without
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
ASTEy TO MEET
JIMMY WILDE
MAY 9Th.

New York, Feb. 2S.-Dave Astey of
this city, former amateur bantam
weight champion, will meet Jimmy
Wilde, bantam champion of England,
at the Liverpool Stadium in Lover
pool, England, on May 6.
Joe Jacobs, manager of Astey, yes
terday received the following cable
from A. H. Taylor, director of the
Liverpool Stadium:
Accept your terms for match with
Jimmy Wilde and Dave Astey. Will
give you $1,000 and three round trip
tickets, first class. Date to be May g.
Gable if satisfactory"
81 sent a cablegram to Mr.. Taylor
telling him to send the tickets and let
US know when to START said Jacobs
last night.
'Astey has several engagements al
ready booked in Providence, Pitts
burgh, ST. Paul and Baltimore, and he
will go through with them all before
he goes to England"
Jimmy Wilde is a. tail, rangy lad,
exceptionally slender, but with ter
rifle punch. He has beaten several
American aspirantS for his title.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
TO N MY SHEA'S
HAND SMASHED,
VALCAR WINS

Boston, Feb. 23-Benny Valgar, re-
cent conqueror Of Joe Lynch, was
awarded a referees decision over
Tommy Shea of New Haven at the
close of a fast IL round bout here last
night. Shea eluded many of Valgar's
right and left drives but none of
them reached vulnerable spots to
weaken him. AS the bout progressed
Valgar played for Shea's ribs ~occa-
sionally rocking his rival with rights
to the jaw.
Shea landed fairly often but there
did not appear to be much force in
the punches. The bout was fast all
the way.
Shea, it was stated here last night,
broke his right hand, early in the
second round.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
Grim Reaper Busy
In Boxing World

N An EN- who have made name
I'VE and fame in boxing are go
Ava ing fast. 1t seems almost
as if some peculiar twist of fate
had brought about the sudden
snufIing out of those who have
been great in the sport.
Within nine months the follow
ing have answered the last call:
John l.. Sullivan, Bob Fitzsimmons,
Terry McGovern, Les Darcy, Billy
Madden. Charley White, Bob YER
non, Dick Roche, Al Palzer. CIar-
ence Forbes and Soldier Johnny
Shaw.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
NATIONALS HIT BY
ARMY ENLISTMENTS

The Nationals have been hit hard
by enistments. "Joe" Kelly, who has
had very sensational athletic record
at the Bridgeport High school, and in
the Industrial League, as well as
while member of the Nationals, has
enlisted in the Aviation Corps and
has been promoted to sergeant.
"Herby'' Hayes is in line for COM
mission in the forces of Uncle Sam S
Birdmen. "Steve" Cain, star first
sacker, and Gavin" Hansen, second
sacker, have enlisted in the Aviation
Corps and have gone to Fort Slocum
for training. win Cogan, backstop,
like his predecessors, picked the Az
iation Section and will leave for Fort
Slocum the early part of next week.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23

fast one and the brain-and also the
control of all three-so have en-
deavored while coaching twirlers to
get them to depend upon natural
stuff.
But I am mighty glad President
Tener favors eliminating the moist
delivery by a gradual process, for
that will work no hardship upon the
men now in the game. This is not
the time to revolutionize things, as
my own case will prove.
Already I have lost three perfectly
good pitchers Pfeffer, Smith and
Cadore-and if the splitter were ruled
out I would have to pass up two more.
That would just play havoc with my
club, and every other manager in the
National League would be in the
same fix.
THE best way is to make the
youngsters on the back lots and those
in the schools and colleges understand
that the splitter is an undesirable
thing, that major league clubs do not
want pitchers who depend upon that
sort of a delivery, and all who desire
to become professional players soon
will cut it out entirely The reform
should be started at the bottom of
the ladder and soon the splitter will
be forgotten"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
YALE TANKMEN LOSE.

New York, Feb. 23-The New York
Athletic clubs swimming and water
polo teams last night defeated the
watermen from Yale. leaders in the
intercollegiate League, in the N. Y.
A. C. tank. The winners won by
the overwhelming score of 50 to IS.
while the veteran polo men of the
local organization triumphed by 80
to 5.