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The Pleasantville press., 1926-12-17
lie High School Is NOSed Out BV MarOOnS
CUMBERLAND COUNTY BOYS LOSE
TO HELFRICHS FIVE, SCORE 1914
Victory First in Six Years for High School Over Visiting
Team-Small Cage Hampers Both Teams
Piaying-Terry Stars.

When those forwards and that
center man get their eye on the
basket, High school will have a
basketball machine which will have
an excellent chance to defeat any
five in hits section. This was clear
ly shown as the Maroon five made
its home debute against Millville
Tuesday night, defeating the Cum
berland county boys, for the first
time in six years, by a low score
of 1914.
While the backfloor department,
Bradley and Saracinsky, played a
game which held the Millville for
wards and center to five field
goals, the upfloor and scoring
branch of the Maroon five failed at
any time to get going. They regis
tered but six field goals, one more
than Nillville, missing d.. many
more baskets through SOS which
were thrown instead of shot.
Paul Terry was the real hero
Of the game, the little colored for
ward getting three field goals in
the second half which placed his
team in the lead, and enabled it
to win. The last came with but
two minutes to play, and made the
score 1913. Rodgers, Millville
guard, made foul goal shortly
afterward, and a second later Cap
tain Green dropped free toss
through the nets, making the score
| 16-14 the final result.
Captain Bill Green was "dogged"
all through the second half by the
! Millville center. Jones, then Churc-
hill, and then Langford, Coach
| Harry Smith of the invading five,
pulling the players when they grew
| tired of chasing the big center
around the cage. Two field goals
were the lanky players total to-
wards his teams score. Saracinsky,
at a guard, pushed one more
through the net for the total of
field goals scored by the Maroon.
Guards seemed plentiful Tuesday
night. In Marten a colored boy who
plays the same type of shifty
The Pleasantville press., 1926-12-17
HUNTERS VISIT
WOODS AS DEER
SEASON OPENS
Game Reported Plentiful in
Vicinity of ElwOod-
Many Lodges Open.
Deer season opened today,

Deer season opened today.
So if you are anything related to
a hunter, get red hat, observe the
rules of the New Jersey State Fish
and Game Commission, and-get
out after them.
Needless to say, Pleasantville
sent out a large delegation which
will attempt to bag some of the
deer which farmers declare have
been causing so much trouble in
the past year as the animals have
destroyed crops. Several have made
promises that vension dinner is
in store for family and friends.
Already hunting lodges have
been opened near Hamnonton
Egg Harbor and Weymouth. Four
days comprises the season this
year. In the vicinity of Elwood,
deer are reported SO plentiful that
it is impossible to keep rabbit
dogs on trails of the smaller game
Don'ts for deer hunters, safety
suggestions made by the commits
ion for deer season. are printed
below:
Don't enter the woods during
deer season unless you wear red
hat or coat.
Don't forget your hunting license.
Don't carry a loaded gun in your
automobile.
Don't hunt at night, use dogs or
carry missiles other than buckshot.
Don't shoot at moving brush un-
less you crave distinction as the
defendant to man-slaughter
charge.
Don't pull trigger until you have
Unidentified absolutely a buck deer
by its antlers.
Don't forget that ninety-nine per-
cent of deer hunters are sportsmen
and gentlemen, desiring to uphold
both the spirit and letter of the
game laws.
Don't forget either that every vio-
lation of game law is a deliber-
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The Pleasantville press., 1926-12-17

in the world at that distance.
While the action of the commit
tee gives Paddock the credit due
him there is a note of sadness in
the action, however, i'll that it rele-
gates to the eX-champion such
springsters as Howard Drew, Dan
Kelly and Cyril Coaffee, the men
who, with Paddock, held equal
claims to the previous record in the
100-yard dash, that of 8 3-5 sec
onds.
Arthur Duffey, track wonder Of
Georgetown University 25 years
ago, also stepped the distance in
that time and by an odd coinci-
dence the amateur officials, at the
The Pleasantville press., 1926-12-17
BY NORMAN &. BROWN

CHARLES PADDOCK, long un-
officially called "the worlds
fastest human" is now officially
such. In other words the officials
of the Amateur Athletic Union
have just put their stamp of ap-
proval on his worlds record break
ing feat-that of stepping the 100
yards in $40 seconds.
And by the same sweep of their
official pens the aG5----ee pody rati-
fled the worlds record of 20 5-10
seconds for the 220-yard dash, set
by Roland Locke.
The recognition stamps the Ne
braska U. star as the fastest man
The Pleasantville press., 1926-12-17

VETERANS AND
W
CLOVER CLUB
MEET TONIGHT
High School Scene of First
Contest of Season
For Teams.

Mainland Post of the American
Legion and the Glover club open
their basketball schedule tonight
opposing each other in the Wash
ington avenue gymnasium. Both
teams will be strongly represented.
The game will start promptly at
SIS.
Mainland Post will have a lineup
which will include Beauthias,
Ortendahl, Ragan and Myers at the
forward berths; Edgar Baker, Ferd
Eble and Fred Thompson, centers
and Payne. Emmons, Conway and
Davis at guards. s
The team the Post will send into
the contest will be practically the
same as will oppose fives when
the Mainland League starts. The
veterans will make a strong bid
for the cup which will be offered
the winner of the league.
All players have been seen in the
veterans uniform before. Eble and
Baker both played college basket
ball. the former at Pennsylvania,
the latter at New Hampshire.
The Pleasantville press., 1926-12-17

same meeting, settled a 25-year
effort to have his record accepted
by refusing to recognize the mark
Duffey's action in turning profes,
sional (after his spectacular run
if records at hand are reliable) has
been the bone Of contention al
these years.
The recognition of Locke's mark
oddly enough, takes from Paddock
the honor of holding the worlds
record at that distance. Paddock
reeled off that distance in 20 At
seconds.
There is still the technical ques
ton as to whether the marks viii
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The Pleasantville press., 1926-12-17
HIGH SCHOOL
SCHEDULE FOR
1927 ANNOUNCED
Football Team to PLAY Ten
Games-Five Here and
Five Away.
Times have changed,

1t used to be that management
of high school basket ball would
form the fall schedule about a week
before the opening contest, some
times getting games from one week
TO another.
But now, the Maroon football
schedule is practically completed,
and has been announced, with the
exception of one open date by
Director OF Athletics Emory "Ty"
Helfrich.
The eleven will open against
Clayton High school, October l, and
will journey to Cape May where it
meets that high school Oct Sth
Vocational High school of Atlantic
City, will be met October 16 in the
resort
Because Glassboro plays nothing
but Friday games, and the Maroon
can not afford to lose on the large
guarantee it would have to offer,
this team has been left out of the
1927 schedule, leaving the date Oct.
% open.
Vineland High school is played at
Vineland Oct. 10, and Wildwood
High school is met at Wildwood
Oct. 5.
Millville High. which is becom-
ing every year greater riyal of
the Maroon, is played here in a
feature contest Amistice day, Nov.
Il. Hammonton is played away on
Nov. 19; Ocean City High has its
annual date of Thanksgiving, the
game to be played at the Floral
avenue park grounds here, and the
Alumni is met the Saturday after
Thanksgiving.
Director Helfrich has announced,
with the exception of two games,
contracts for the contests have
been signed and delivered. An
nouncement of the eleven which
will replace the Glassboro game on
the schedule will be made later in
the year
The Pleasantville press., 1926-12-17

Such sportsmanship only brings
the Maroon a bad name. II the
heat of the contest one is like
Iy to forget, but the occurance
at the first game should end 1t.
Director HeIfrich and other
school officials, present all
compIimented Mr.. Barker for
his action in requesting for
silence.
The Pleasantville press., 1926-12-17

Attending the first game of the
season, High school students show
ed themselves poor sports Tuesday
night as Millville played here.
Three times they shouted Whistled
and made any kind of a noise i'll
an effort to make a Millville player
miss try for foul goal. Once
referee Barker had to sound his
whistle, and ask the spectators to
remain silent.
The Pleasantville press., 1926-12-17

Alumni who desire to play
in the game have been request
ed to send their names to the
President of the Association.
Rodney Smith, or to the Sports
Editor of this paper, who will
make plans accordingly.
The Pleasantville press., 1926-12-17
The
Sport Shop
by
JOSEPH w. WALKER.

Alumni and high school again
meet, this time at basketball, the
game to be played in the high
school gym, the coming Thursday
night. After their defeat at football
by the grads, and with strong
five on the floor, the Maroon viii
attempt to avenge themselves by
giving the former school boys a
lacing they will long remember.
In preparation for the contest
the Alumni will hold several prac
tice sessions this week, and en-
deavor to place a strong team ir
the cage to win the game. an6
keep their record for the season
clean.
Evening star., 1926-10-03
Marie of Rumania Who Will Visit This City, Leader of
BY ALICE ROGERS HAGER.

IN K ARIE of Rumania, when
nH she comes to the United
IVY States. will come as one
4 i of the best known rulers
of Europe. Like her ROYAL
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Yankee Sullivan fought 81 rounds
to finish. sullivan being the man
finished. though the historian says
that Morrisscy received many injuries
Morrissey's weight WAS 115 pounds
and his height feet 1l34 inches. sui
livan'S weight was I50 pounds and
his height feet S. sullivan had be
come for the second time champion of
America. and Morrissey became cham
pion by beating Yankee sullivan. This
man plays a part in our story.
l have found sketches of Yankee
sullivan in T. :. Andrews Ring Bat
ties of the Century" and Richard X.
FoX's "Champions of the American
Prize Ring" He was born at Bandon
Ireland, near Cork. April l., 1913, and
was reared in the East End OF Lon
don. He gained experience and hard
knocks in the English prize ring and
held membership in the high society
of pugilists when he came to the
United States in 1871. Mr.. Fox says
that he went back to England in that
wear to fight the famous Hammer
Lane, whom he beat in l9 rounds for
a stake of 100 pounds-about $500.
Prize fighters worked harder for their
money then than now.
In the record of Yankee sullivan /
see that he was back in America in
the Fall of 1S41 and beat Vincent
Hammond of England and Philadel-
phia in a prize fight ON League Island
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September ., 1S41, for 500 a side. On
January "a, 1912, he beat Tom Seco!
in 67 rounds on Staten Island, "on
Mr.. Aspinwall's grounds. between the
Narrows and Fort Tompkins." On
August %, 1912, he beat prize fighter
who seems to have been publicly
known only as Prof. Bell" on Hart S
Island. And this note from his rec
ord may interest you: May II, 1S47,
he met Bob Caunt. brother to Ben
Caunt. The fight took place in Lou
doun County near the Blue Ridge
Mountains" Some Virginians may
have heard grandpa tell the story.
Yankee sullivan went to California,
and in both sketches of him which
l have read is this: He was killed
by the vigilance committee at San
Francisco, May 81, 1856"
This prize fighters name was not
Sullivan but James Ambrose. l un-
derstand he was called Yankee be-
cause he wore an American flag in
his fights, but why he changed from
Ambrose to Sullivan | do not know.
When l was a boy l wandered
through the graveyard that lay around
the old mission at San Francisco
the Spanish adobe church of the Mis-
sion Dolores. Once / came upon a
tombstone with the name of Yankee
Sullivan. I had heard the name.
gathered some roses at his grave to
take to relatives who had lived in the
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Gallagher be transported out Of the
territory of the United States at the
earliest possible moment, and that
they be ordered never to return to
California under penalty of death"
The next day, while the vigilance
committee was trying cases, an officer
Of the vigilantes announced to the
committee that Yankee Sullivan had
committed suicide in his cell. The
guard of Sullivan was called before
the committee and said that early in
the morning of May 81 the prisoner
had asked for drink OF water. He
was in something like a frenzy, and
told Of having had a dream that he
was being hanged. The guard gave
him water. left and returned in two
hours to find the prisoner dead In
his cell, having cut an artery in
his arm.
1t was charged by some men and be-
lieved by thousands that Sullivan was
killed by vigilantes The record is
that the committee of vigilance or
da~ed him deported. If the committee
had thought him deserving OF death
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amber Follows Story Of John Morsey West Coast Scene

it would have hanged him from the
windows of the committee rooms. as il
hanged Charles Cora. James Casey
and others. 1t was not Il practice Of
the committee to order the assa ssina-
ton of n man. The historian Of the
ViEilanteS wrote:
The cause of this melancholy event
(Sullivan's suicide) it was thought was
denial OF stimulantS To- which the
prisoner was almost mOmentarily ac-
custOmed. 1t WAS shown that drunk
enneSS was his normal state, from 90
to so drinks a day being his custom
airy indulgence Sullivan was an
English prize fighter. He was Il sgd
ney convict who had escaped to New
Zealand. There was no thought on
the part of the committee of punish
ment more severe than il free passage
to wherever he wished to go outside
OF the United States. Some said that
he was slain resisting his guard, but
the San Francisco Herald declared.
We dismiss as entirely unworthy to
be entertained that the guard was an
assassin.
1t is curious that in all the other
matter l have read about Yankee Sui
liVan there was no mention that he
was a deported convict from England
to Australia Most Of his life seems
to be accounted for in prize fights in
England and the United States II
Sullivan was not a Sydney- convict the
historian Of the VigilantcS owes him
an apology.
John MORRISSEY was back from
San Francisco To- New York In
1888 and opened saloon. called the
Gem, near the old Broadway Theater,
and later. year or two Opent-. on
n hav-
this time that the murder Of William
Poole took place IN StanWix Hall, on
Broadway murder which was talked
about in old Washington. Poole was
q prize fighter and, 1 believe, q saloon
keeper. who was conspicuous in New
\ Ork politics as Il member of the
American party. or the Know Moth
lngS. Two wings Of that parry in 1856
named for President ex President Nil.
lard Fillmore and John G. Fremont.
The feature of the American party's
platform was that only natiye-born
citizens be elected or appointed TO Fed
eral, State or municipal office. In the
lower part Of Manhattan tension he.
tween Know Nothings and Democrats
led to bloodShed Poole was "a pghtinc
Know Nothing. Morrlssey was an op-
position leader. He had prearranged
rough-andtumble fight with Poole on
OIc vi tiIt dOtkS, ana DiGtlSdQS or
Poole say he whipped Morrissey, and
the Morrisseanni say that Poole's
gang jumped on MOrrissey. At any
rate, crowd OF men entered Poole's
saloon, and when the smoke cleared
Bill Poole was dead. Know -Nothings
charged that Morrissey inspired the
murder. Morrissey's men clamorously
denied it,
We near the time when John Nor
rissey. champion Of America. was
matched 10 fight John c. Heenan, who
probably had more fame in the United
States and England as Il pugilist than
any other man except John Il. Sui
Ivan. Heenan was known as Be-
nlcla Boy. and | think there is connec-
tlon between that and Benicia Arsenal.
California. / have In my notes a
scrap from somewhere that John G.
Heenan was sent TO California to learn
the machinist trade and, being an ath-
Continued on Sixth pase)
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"HIS is a continuation of the
story of John Morrissey, gang
ster, prize fighter, gambling
i house keeper and politician
who came to Congress ana
made of himself a man respected and
TO some degree honored 10y men OF
different kinds.
He reached San Francisco from
Panama as a stowaway III 1851. 1t
NAV have been the Spring of 1852. but
that does not matter. San Francisco,
an old Spanish ana Indian village, had
become in three or four years seeth-
ing CITY and one of the laWleSS towns
of earth.
A historian of the vigilance com
mittee-the VigilanteS-haS written
that q. district attorney said that IN
the years 1S50-1S53 there were 1900
murders in San Francisco without one
legal hanging The tigureS must in
clude illegal" lansinSs and take no
account Of the shooting and knlflng
Of men who got well. This outlaWry
caused the formation OF the commit
tee of vigilance. officered by men who
aimed To give San Francisco as good
government as older cites.
one crime which stirred san Fran
cisco perhaps az much as any other
was the daylight street murder OF
James King OF William. Il Georgetown
man, who before going West. had
been IA clerk in the Post Office Depart
@ment at Washington and in the bank
ing house of Corcoran & Riggs. In
san Francisco he was Il banker and
editor of the Evening Bulletin. ms
murderer. James Casey, leading poll
tician, was hanged from second.
story window OF the neaGquarters of
the vigilance COMMITTEES N sight of
thousands. kept in order by armed
NigilanteS. | will tell YOU that story
IN its place.
A few months after entering San
Francisco MorriSSey fought George
Thompson, a prize fighter. The date
was August 81. 1852: the place, Mare
Island. Morrissey wo., III l9 minutes.
have not looked up the particulars
Of that fight. and | believe the gentler
readers Will forgive me. All | have
read about George Thompson is that
he was known as Pete CraWley's Big
IN" Pete Crawley was one of young
San FrancisCos art patrons. Mare
Island, between San Pablo Bay and
the mouth Of Napa River. was chosen.
not because there was objection in
San Francisco TO the fight, but 10 in
s,Ire n more select audience or spec
,oria. I'm not sure about that word
'.spectoria." but don't let ii fret you.
To fight on Mare Island required
boat ride of 20 miles. added to the
cost. and helped to weed out undesir-
ables and restrict attendance 10 the
elite.
John Morrissey was next matched
10 figh, Tom Hyer, then champion
pugilist of America. for $4,000 side.
The fight did not come on. Friends
of Morrissey make 1t plain that it was
not his fault. and the friends of Hyer
make IL plain that it was not his
fault. II is one OF the few things in
the worlds history that the Rambler
is not able to clear up. Tom Hyer
won the championship 10y beating
Yankee sullivan in lS49. Tom seems
10 have been a gallant fist fighter, and
a biographer of him writes: Tom
Hyer was q kindly man and perform
ed many acts of charity. He died in
New Yerk of dropsy. June 20. 1854"
In 1853. October ~, Murrissey and
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nephew, to following his will. How
spicndidly Ferdinand emerged from
this shadow when he became King
showed his character more clearly
than anything else could have done,
but at the time of his marriage he
was very much in awe of his uncle
and had no thought Of breaking with
his ideas.
There were other vexations. The
little crown princess was very home
sick; her motherin-law, the Queen,
Elizabetta, or Carmen Sylvia" was
frequently at odds with her, in pro
verbal mother-in-law fashion, and
there were new customs to learn, local
superstitions to be walked around, a
new language to be taught to her
Wayward tongue. 1t wasn't easy, and
it is not astonishing if there were oc-
casional rebelionS. They We're q very
human group of persons, behaving in
the ordinary ways Of life, in spite of
their royal estate.
RUT Marie had courage and adapta-
bility, and she was too intelligent
not to realize that she had under
best that was in her The country
fascinated her, and her natural
curiosity led her into establishing
habits that were sometimes disap-
proved, but that in the end have made
her probably the most loved of all
the Queens, as we'll as the most beau
tiful.
1t is a long and complicated story,
and the details do not particularly
concern us, but out of the years that
fled by, with the coming of her
children and the breaking down of
the foreign barrier that had at first
surrounded her, Marie emerges today
supremely as Rumanian mother
and a woman. Into the shadowy
corners of her kingdom she went
studying hill and hollow, peasant and
gypsy, shepherd and monk and nun,
and making herself one with them.
Hers was the spirit of the artist, that
sought beauty for the JOY Of the
seeking, and found it on high and
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lonely places, ia sunset light and
cloud, or in the cleaning thatch of
q hovel. 1t is in her books, my
Country" and 1.-The Country I Love-"
and in her reported conversations.
There was no place too mean for her
TO explore, no man or woman too
humble to fail to inspire her interest
and her sympathy.
In 1914 King Carol died of a broken
heart. torn between the factions that
sought to control him. Ferdinand
and Marie came to the throne In the
black days of that terrible Winter
with the most tremendous uncer-
tainties staring their tiny country in
the face. On the one hand was their
partial alliance with the central pow
ers, made by Carol with his Hohen-
zollern background; on the other
where their hearts were, in the
allies ranks, was Russia, their most
distrusted enemy. Even Marie's Rus
sian ancestry could not overcome that
distrust. with the memory of stolen
Bessarabia in their minds. Nothing
to do but wait and hope-and won
der if there would be an opportunity
to regain out of the world turmoil
the dear lost provinces that wanted
so forlornly, to come back to them.
What AlSaCe- Lorraine was to France
those provinces were to Rumania.
This may sound like the veriest
sentimentalism, used to cloak an i'm
perial aspiration, but it was very
near to the hearts of the Rumanian
people and to the people of the terri
tories that wanted to come back.
And to them it was simple Justice
bringing their own back to them.
1t was a terrible decision to make,
with their towns full of spies and
the clouds of the armies of the cen
trail powers and Russia so close. Their
army, at best, was miniature; they
were far from France and the other
allies; they had a long frontier to de
fend. AT last, one night necessity
came--there could be no more wait
ing. Russia was breaking before Ger
many. GERMANY was at the gates Of
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mittee or by it's orders. That historian
was Hubert Howe Bancroft. who pub
lished his book Popular Tribunals"
at San Francisco in 1890
X II X X
SULLIVAN was brought before the
~ vigilance committee on the charge
of ballotbox stuffing in local cleo
tions. He was tried according to the
forms Of the committee, which gave
accused men the right of counsel and
of summoning witnesses. At the close
of the case the committee approved
this resolution:
Whereas the evidence we have
heard establishes conclusively that
Billy Mulligan. Yankee Sullivan and
Martin Gallagher have for years been
disturbers Of the peace of our city, de-
stroyers Of the purity of our elections,
active members and leaders of the or
ganized gang who have invaded the
sanctity of our ballot box, and perfect
pests to society;
Therefore, Resolved. That William
Nulli5sn, Yankee Sullivan and Martin