Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 10, 1913, Page 1

2 - stay among the elect BASEBALL TODAY IN BiG LEAGUES After Months of Training in Sonthern Camps, Players Make Initial Bows This Afternoon. RACE FOR CHAMPIONSHIPS At Top Spéed, Teams Will Work Until Final Games in October— Start Means Much, FOUR NEW MANAGERS APPEAR Evers, Tinker, Huggins and Stallings Make Debute.—O0ld Timers Still On Hand. By HAL SHERIDAN. By United Press. . New York, April 10—Sixteen major ball clubs face the barrier today in the grinding race which carries from young April into young October. In other words the gay and giddy en- semble has arrived again and the most interesting season—due to a number of mid-winter upheavals— the game has ever known is under way. From the far west— from the far south and even from an island in the Atlantic Ocean, these sixteen clubs have come back from their training trips and with few exceptions they are now ready to take the first jump, in far better condition than they were in April of 1912. The pennant contenders without any sort of exception are in excellent condi- tion, ready to start at top speed. The dazzling ju which John MecGraw _and his Giant) obtained last, year put other rivals upon their guard so.ill-| conditioried cfiubs will not be among those in today’s annnal getaway. The opening schedule is as follows: American -League. Philadelphia at Boston. New York at Washington. Chicago at Cleveland. = Detroit at St. Louis. National League: Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. St. Louis at Chicago. Brooklyn at Philadelphia. Boston at New York, Brooklyn opened a day in advance to dedicate her new ball park but with this one game played switches back for the regular start in Phila- delphia. | In the American League. In the American league chief inter- est in the season’s opening turns to four eastern clubs. The firsh -clash between Boston and Philadelphia will be eagerly watched as these two clubs dre halled by critics as the strongest in their league. They are picked to fight out the championship ‘and so both will rush together at top speed to obtain first blood and the jump which should have a psychological as well as a strong physical effect. Both clubs look to be stronger and in bet- ter shape to start at good speed than last year. The Boston Red Sox have {mproved a world ‘series winning team while Connie Mack insists that he has his' two-time champion Athle- tics geared again for their old time stride and capable of picking up Where they left off when suddenly in- terrupted in 1912, Stahl in this series will send Wood, Bedient and ©O’Brien or Collins against Coombs, Bender and Plank and the -opening session will be one of the most bit- terly fougth of the year. Next in interest comes Frank Chance’s first American battle with Clark Grffiith’s revived Senators op- posing. -Griffith has the only club left in the American league conceded a chance to cope with either Red Sox or Athletics. He has announced that the redoutable Walter Johnson will be used to“give Chance a baptism of smoke in his new American league job and the ex-Cub = warrior starts 4gainst tough ‘'odds as. the Senators are in wonderful trim and are anx- ious to show their upward-flash, of a year ago with no fluke. They are anxious to show they have come to and Chance, ‘with his tail-end club fronr 1912, can count on a rough voyage from the . start. In the west the feature opening is Cleveland vs. Chicago for these two clubs are both great uncertainties, possessing quite an array of potential strength. - Many believe that Cleve- . land, with a good break, can come . forward and challenge the leaders: while the Sox look to be a greatly| '~jmproved club. with ~ the wonderful BIG ED WALSH Of the Chicago White Sox. CITY TEAM TO PRACTICE. The baseball players in Bemidji who are in favor of a city team have decided to hold their first practice Sunday morning at the fair grounds. There are about fifteen players who have shown interest: and who will report for practice. Two pitchers have. promised to report as candidates for the team and as there are several catchers who will come out a battery is assured. At present the candidates run in age from seventeen to twenty-five years of age. Those who have stated that they would be candidates are Smiley, Brandon Jacobson, Bell, Peck Neumann, Johnson, Bailey and Rip= ple. Walsh ready to resume where he left off. . Detroit and St. Louis meet in_the opening duel of what may:bie a battle to Keep out of Tast place, as neither club is counted as a first division con- tender. In the National League. The feature opening in the Nation- al League is Pittsburgh vs. Cincin- nati. Fred Clark’s Pirates have been tipped far and wide as the next pen- ant winners in that circuit while Joe Tinker’s start in the Red strong hold will be closely watched. Pittsburgh hopes to get away flying this season in order to keep pace with McGraw’s Giants who are notablé for fast sprinting in the early sweep of the race. Last season McGraw had Clarke hopelessly stranded before July arrived and the Pirates’ fine fin- ish came too late. 2 The Cubs, under Evers, are another ball club = carrying an ' abnormal amount of interest, Just how much the loss of Frank Chance will affect this once great machine will now be shown through: daily box scores and the standing of the clubs. Evers has a fine"lot of material left and by curbing his fiery tempera- ment and obtaining a running start may yet fool the crities. Beyond weakness in the box he has a team upon a par with any in the game. All told four new National league managers are debutting today. They are Evers of Chicago, Tinker of Cin- cinnati, Huggins of St. Louis and Stallings of Boston. Stallings must lead a 1912 tail-end club against the Giants at home and as McGraw has returned with a finely conditioned club and one strengthened above last year the lowly Braves have a hard job ahead before picking up a winning start. In this league the race is tipped to rest between New York and Pitts- ly matched. Upon first team strength, Pittsburgh has the advantage, but New York is better fortified against accident. McGraw - has replaced Fletcher at short with Shafer and has added George Burns to his out- field. He expects to repeat through Tl puxer B ‘|he could apen-the baseball season |climbing Washington Nationals, ex- -| but-he wasn’t particularly a fan. Wil- *led the sale. / burgh. The two clubs are womler{ul-\cal instruments ever brought to Be- By United Press. : ‘Washington, April 10.—President Wilson got ‘out hisnice gold pass'to the American League games today, put it in his pocket and started out| to clean up his desk in a-hurry so that| - here late ‘this afternoon: i Old Fox Griffith, = leader of -the pected to have .the president throw the first ball ‘to lanky Walter John- | son,, the Kansas cyclone, and thua bring good luck during the seasoii:to the home team. '_ Vice President Marshall said today when he arrived at his office at the senate that he also hoped to sneak away from legislative cares and keep & score-card on the Washington- Yankees game. If President Wilson follows out his' tentative promise, he may-be a real baseball president. Taft used’to take in an occasional game, son is.’ He knows the fine points of the game. Vice President Marshall promises to use his.annual pass as|. much as did his predecessor, the late “Sunny Jim” Sherman, who hardly ever missed & home game. 5 MANY ATTEND LAND SALE (Copyright) e Theodore Nelson Disposed .of 1,309 FALLING TREE KILLS M AN Acres Wednesday Morning—Was | - e First of the Season. John Petrie a Prominent Farmer of “ 4 Liberty, Dead as Result of Ac- HIGH SCHOOL INSPECTOR HERE cident. Yestbrdey. Theodore Nelson, deputy state aud- itor, gold 1,309 acres of state land at the-first sale of the spring held in the court: house yesterday morning. One of the largest tracts, which con- tained 200 acres, was sold to F. Mil- ler, of Nebraska. F. Trautman of Minneapols;: p 480 ar res. Many other putchasers from Minfie- sota and southern tate points/attend- WAS MEMBER or»fbown BOARD John Petriq, one o& the most prom- inent farmers ln“th&.;s’aw of Liberty,; téraay afternoon by a falling tree. The.dead man and his two brothers, g Champy and Victor; were working in State Agricultural Inspector Storm |the woods near Deer Lake. At the was. the guest of the High school to- cry of “timber”,-John Petrie stepped day.and Koo s banquet wasasrvad out of the way: of the falling tree. It in -his honor by the girls in Miss v g Eddy’s cooking class. Those pres-|took a second in its path, Vhowever, and the second one. fell on Petrie. He ent at the dirner were Professors Storm, Dyer, Carson, Kuhlman and|ywsg dead when his brother: picked him up. Bailey. "Mr. Petrle was about forty years of age and is survived by a wife and six children. He was & member o: the town board of Liberty and had always taken an active part in local politics. = He had intended accom- panyinig A. P. Blom and L. A. Han- son, the other members of the boaic to Bemidji yesterday to. attend the meeting of the county commissioners. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. MRS. KE@YJS ILL Mrs. J. W. Keley, wife of Captain Kelsey, is i1l in her home on the Lake Boulevard. Her condition has called forth the following = expression from her friend, Mrs. M. E. Minton. ! RUN-A-WAY. ON MINNESOTA Team Bélonging to Hans Nelson Be- comes Frightened Near Creamery A team of horses belonging to Hans Nelson of Movil Lake became fright- ened by the Soo train, while hitched in front of the creamery this morn- ing. The horses were tled to the hitching post and as the switch en- gine passed by the horses broke the strap and started up Minnesota ave- nue at a mile a minute clip. In front of the Schroeder store one of the horses tripped and fell dragging about a’'hundred feet to a point opposite the city hall- where the other fell also. In the mix. up the wagon . upset. No serious damage resulted to the team or wagon. BISIAR OPENS NE“‘? PI'ANO STORE “Dear girl, the shadows are falling * Across your beautiful life; For you, there is naught appalling. You’ve been a‘true friend and true _ wite. Occupies Room Where He ?omerly Did Business with Murphy Joseph Bisiar has taken possessicfi of the store at 117 Third street where he was_formerly in business with R. ToMumhy e 3::;;2?;"“:‘:”: Are the things that give us comfert shipment ol WO o 2 X \ 8. 18; 8 10w, which fs the largest stock’ of musi-| ' oon:sickness lays u ; “Your loved ones are all around- you, Thank God that, this is so. For loving eyes, hearts tried and true “You've had your trialssurely Many- times has gorrow been' rife; But you’ve been loved most truly midji. The line includes the Kimball, Chase Brothers, Hamilton, Carlisle and Hackley pianos. 53 Mr. Bisair is making arrangements AR dnishitay frlendf_n;} ‘Sf;:flnton for-an inspection .day for which he Soating S i will issue invitations to the general public for the purpose of-introducing 'the new lines. : JA. A Rahn, of the Crookston Lum- ber company,‘is in Bemidji today. CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS A clever bit of advertising was obtained by David Gill for Gill_Bro- thers last Saturday afternoon when Dr. L. A. Ward, city health officer, was inveigled into wearing the first straw hat of the season. Dr. Ward and the Hat. The doctor was urged to try on a straw hat and when it was once on, he was dared to appear with it on the street. He took the dare but was caught by the camera before he could escape. .Mr. Gill had dreamed that spring was here and thought he could start a rush on straw hats if some one would set the ball rolling. The doctor did his part but the weather man has refused to let him wear it since. POPE HOLDS HIS OWN Rome, April 10.—Special at 10 a. m.—There i8 no improvement in the condition of Pope Pius. London, April 10.—A Central news dispatch from Rome says the Pope yesterday -afternoon suffered from a fainting fit lasting two hours and it A was rumored in the lobbies of the Italian chamber of deputies that the pontiff was in extremities. Professor. Marchiafava,. however, continues to assert that the Pope is no worse, and that there are noj- grounds for-anxiety. Mrs. M. Malone returned home from Crookston this noon after spend: ing the last week.as the guest of rel- Norman. |atives in that city. panied by her dau She- was accom- ghter, Mrs. J} F. 2 u-:n. BILLS GOING THROUGH ] ‘Legislature, With But Ten Days Left, Scores By Passing Public Service .. Rate Measure, DUNN AMENDMENTS ALLOWED /St. Paul, April 10.—The senate p iNolan house bill 39 [ regulate the rates and Bervice of pubs | Democratic membeérs of the se c service corporations, A plea was mada for it in behalf of Minneapolis, which has no home rule charter, and which if the public util- ity bills should by any chance fail to pass would be’left without much, if any power over its public service cor- porations. The measure by its terms, however, applies to all communities. The senate bill passed the house two yaTs ago,/but:toa Iate-to be reach- ed in thé senate before adjournment. The house passed the Béndixen- Schwartz bill divorcing = the state boards of grain appeals from the rail- Toad and warehouse commission .and giving it independent jurisdiction with power to employ its own samp- lers, etc. The vote was 62 to 28, The authors of the bill are mem- bers of the house committee which has been investigating the grain trade, but they were opposed on this i1l by Representative D. P. 0'Neiil of Thief River Falls, also a member: of the committee, who said that the bill gave the - appeal boards unlimited power. to spend money out of the grain inspection fund without any check whatever,” and that so far as independent sampling was - concern- ed, the railroad and warehouse com- mission had offered to let the hoards choose their own samplers.. He also contended that the “boards ~had not been hampered by the commission in their work. 5 The House concurred in the senate amendments to the R. C. Dunn: road bill and repassed it as amended. It will g0 to the governor as soon as it is enrolled. ROLLER RINK TO OPEN W. B. MacLachlan, manager of ‘the Bemidji Amusement company, hag an- nounced that the summer season for| - the roller rink will open next Sun- day and will' continue running every Sunday throughout the summer. All season: tickets that:were sold or awarded as prizes during the winter will be void. P THE CUB REPORTER Hacien HE THIS 15 TH 2 BAconY oF ||| NineYy THRD e seviomra ||| Time Tve.- ludd do Del 0507 Si eniorf-fSc'oop' Invented That Gam May to study the cost system. Roy —— thewmegnamutocéniu He May Take. WANTS PROPER TARIFF ACTION Bays.Bill Passed Must Be.in Aocord- " anoe With Promises Made in the WILL ASK .FOR PROGRESSIVES Efforts Will Be Used to Unseat Men Who Oppose His Plans—Met Senate Committee, Washington, April 10.—Intima- tions have come from the White House that the president, if defeated in the present session on the issue of tariff reform, will go before the peo- ple of those states whose representa- thwarted the part program and ap- peal in the primaries for the selec- tion of what he belleves to be pro- gressive candidates. ~ Meets With Committee. Washington, April 10.—In the in- terest of success for the Democratic tariff revision bill, the president stepped over another obstacle in the ‘way of perfect harmony between the White House and the directing forces of congress. - 2 For the second successive day he. left his own office in the White House and journeyed-to-the capitol, thistime ahalty with-the mate-fin. ance committee. i N 5 At its conclusion the president stat- ed frankly he and the members of the senate had .agreéd on nothing-that stood in the way of harmonious sup- port of the “party platform” as to tarift revision. Tne senate situation Wwas canvassed in detall at the conter- ence, + 7 Dangers that might threaten & sin- gle bill, should ‘the opponents of. free sugar and free wool combine, with sufficient strength .tg endanger the Democratic majorityin the w®enate were discussed, but no agreement was reached binding the senate ludeg%w any definite line'of action. 2 While the senate conference was in progrss, a full Democratic member- ship of the housé-was in caucus, dis- cussing the details ofithe. tariff bill, the first schedule of witich was agreed to without a change. 5 Representative Underwood, Demo- cratic leader of the house, stated at the conclusion of the day’s caucus that tariff revision would go through the house as a single bill. At a conference with the senators, the president said: “I hope the sen- ators and representatives will permit me to come here frequently and con- fer with them in a way to save their time and mine.” An investigation is to be made to determine the amount of strength be- {ing mustered by the opponents of the free sugar and free wool provisions. As a result of yesterday’s conference it is believed the president will not object if the senate leaders determine it essential that the tariff be split jnto a number of single measures. SMALL BOY DROWNS Crookston, April 10—Ralph Cowin, the five year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cowin, of 501 North Broad- way, wandered away from home and across the Robert street -bridge yes- terday morning where he fell from a raft into the shallow water a short [distance from the shore of the Red Lake river. knew nothing of the accident until two hours after the drowning. The only witriess was the five year old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Wall who ac- companied Ralph when he left home. 10 STUDY. COST SYSTEM. ‘I Printers of Minnesota will gather in Minneapolis the first thres days in T. Porte, secretary of the Ben Fran] 1in club, of Cincinnati, wilk give an explanation of the simplified cost Bys-. 1 interpretative laiitern ‘Addresses . will :b!“ WILSON NAY CALL O THE PEOPLE Intimation Allowed to OOIIID. From tives in both houses of congress have - The parents: of -the boy