New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1915, Page 9

WALKER CANNED. Tack of Temper One of Causes For “Dixie’s” Release by Indians. Cleveland, Aug. 31.—The release of Roy Walker by the Cleveland club is a blow to prospects for next seasan, but it was something that could not be helped. Walker was a better Jpitcher in some ways than Morton, though lacking Guy's control. But a violent temper brpught about his re- turn to the minors. In effect, it was a case of get rid of Walker or stand to have one per- sonal altercation after another. They tell o laughable story about a run-in between Walker and Joe Jackson, sWhen the Carolina slugger was still with the Indians. General Joe feared Walker was going to climb him with a knife. So the Carolinian went out and bought himself a revolver and was loaded for trouble. Onc night at New York while Jack- son was host to a number of Cleve- land players the door was opened and in strolled Walker, Joe's gun was on the dresser and Walker was between Joe and the re- volver. The players who were on hand say it was really funny to see the way Jackson tried to edge over toward the dresser so as to get to that revolver, but Walker was always in between. Nothing came of the little by-play, however, as Dixie was in a good hum- or on this occasion. ’ SR P BAN AFTER GAMBLERS. American League President in Boston to Investigate Stories of Gambling.. Chicago, Aug. 30.—President B. B. Johnson of the American league is ex- ercised over the stories from Boston that gambling is flourishing unchecked in the ball parks there. He said yes- o terday that he would not have paid “any attention to the reports had not the American league park been men- tioned, and now Ban is going after the bettors with renewed vigor. He went east today and may start some- thing as soon as he gets to the Hub. “I think that the charge that there is gambling at the American league park in Boston is unjust,” said Mr. # Johnson. “We stoppea gambling there a few years ago, and we have done the same in every city in the circuit. We arrested forty-nine in the Philadel- phia grand stand at one time, which showed that we were in earnest about the crusade.” President Johnson will head for “Philadelphia, and he will also make flying trips to New York and Wash- ington. While in the east he will look into the reported raids of the Federal league and see how they can be checked. REDS GET TWIRLER., “Pay $1,000 to Try Out Hurler and Remainder If He Makes Good. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 31.—Pitcher ‘“Steamer” Cochran, the main stem of the Norfolk Tars’ pitching staff this year, has joined Cincinnati on approv- al, it was learned yesterday. Cincin< nati is to. pay Norfolk $1,000: for the opportunity ‘of looking Cochran over, 4 with the understanding of an addi- tional $1,500 when the twirler makes good with the Reds. Comenting upon and explaining the sale cf this pitcher at this stage of the season, President Walker of the Nor- folk association declared the backers of the team could not take the chance of having Cothran drafted when it % had the opportunity of making such a sale, even if it meant to slow up the chances of the Tars in their effort to land at the top of the race for the second 'half of the season. The Tar backers were burnt last __ season, when they refused an offer to dispose of Pitcher Markle by sale be fore the drafting season, and held on ? to him, to lose him by draft to one of the teams in the Texas league. Markle was sold to the Yankees two weeks ago. FAKE RACE INVESTIGATION. New York, Aug. 3l.—Acting upon an account of a fake foot race at Ilion, N. . on Aug. 21, which appeared in _The New York Times on Monday, > Jacob W, Stumpf, chairman of the Metropolitan A, A. U. registration committee, yesterday suspended, pending further investigation. Don- ald W. Lippincott, the University of Pennsylvania sprinter, and Hal Hell- and of Newark, N. J., a former mem- ber of the Xavier A. A: of this city. The power to suspend these men is contained in Article XTI., Section 10, of the A. A. U. rules relating to sus- picious circumstances, which states that if, in the judgment of the com- mittee or any member thereof, suffi- cient evidence is presented to make the status of any athlete a matter of reasonable doubt, an investigation may be started without the presenta- tion of formal charges. Lippincott and Helland were notified yesterday by registered mail of their suspen- slons. “LEFTY” BACK TO BIG TIME. St. Louis, Aug. 31.—Walter Lev- erenz, former Hartford southpaw, whose pitching helped the Senators win the pennant in 1909, ‘has been * turned back to the St. Louis Browns by the Indianapolis club of the Amer- ican association. President McGill of the Indians took Leverenz on a month’s trial on a verbal agreement to buy him at a reasonable price, pro- viding he made good. The option ex- pired Wednesday. Manager Hendricks . was well pleased with the former ° Hartford southpaw and wanted to keep him, but owner Robert Hedges put a prohibitive price on his ser- vices, and Leverenz was turned back. TO REORGANIZE LEAGUE. Duluth, Minn,, Aug. 31.—Plans are being laid for the reorganization of the Northern Baseball league to in- clude Saskatoon and Regina, Canada, and Superior, Wis.,; with Duluth, Vir- o ginia, Fort William, Fargo and Winni- peg from the present organization, according to a statement made yes- terday by President John Burmister <f the Northern league, EBBETS BUYS CHENEY. Brooklyn Magnate Purchases Cub Twirler to Bolster Staff. Brooklyn, Aug. 31.—Adopting the tactics that Lannin, Comiskey and Navin have been using in their efforts to land a flag in the American league, President Charles H. Ebbets, of the Brooklyn National league club, yes- terday added Larry Cheney, of the Cubs, to his picthing staff. He trans- ferred Third Baseman Schultz an; some money to Chicago in exchange for Cheney. It is hoped in Brook- lyn that Cheney will bolster the Rob- ins' pitching staff, which has been wobbling sadly in the last two weeks. Dell, Appleton and Smith have been working in trio form in several of their games, neither being able to fin- ish a good one. With Rucker able to work only occasionally, and Jack Coombs drawing the heavy end of the work, Robinson needed a man badly. ‘Whether Cheney will be the man is a matter of conjecture. He is the champion hard luck pitcher of the big leagues. Up once, at Cincinnati, he had a bad knee and was turned back to Indlanapalls, where he start- ed., Then he was traded to Louis- ville, whence he went to tho Cubs. After two good seasons with the Cubs he begar to lose his effectiveness. This year, troubled with lumbago, he has won nino and lost ten games. Only last week at Brooklyn he was taken out of the box. PLAYERS IN NEAR FIGHT. Hartford and Brockton Players Arguc Over Postponement. Brockton, Mass., Aug. 31.—Because Umpire Jack Finnell at Providence thought it was raining in Brockton, the Hartford-Brockton game here vesterday was postponed. Double- headers will- be played Tuesday and Wednesday. Up to within an hour of the time for the game to start it rained hard. The sun broke through the clouds finally, however, and the Brockton management insisted on the game being played. The Hartford players did not reach Brockton until 3:15 and they were rushed to the grounds under protest. Both teams donned uniforms, but Hartford refused to take the field be- cause of its muddy condition. At 4 o’clock, one-half hour after the game ‘was scheduled to start, it was decided to postpone the battle. Brockton wanted to play with two players act- ing as umpires, but Manager Dele- hnty refused. The players got to- gether in the clubhouse and several wordy wars and near fights took place, the feeling between the two being bitter. Manager Delehanty ex: pects Catcher Simmons of the Brook Feds to join his team during the present series. COLLIERS GET TROPHY, The Hardware City league man- agers held the final meeting of the season last evening at the Y M. C. A. and concluded the business of the sea- son. The reports showed the league to bhave been a success in all respects. The trophy donated to the winning team was turned over to Manager Charles Burns of the Colliers, and the “Boys’- were on hard to witness this part of the ceremony. The Colliers are elated over the capturing of the championship, and already are mak- ing plans for next season when they expect to go after the “big fellows.” The club has been fortunate in having a manager like Mr, Buyns who has teen untiring in his efforts to mak: the team a winning one. He accepted the position in the middle of the season when the prospects were not the brightest, but by the dint of hard work he succeeded in rounding the club into a winning one. WOLGAST BEATEN. New York, Aug. 31.—Packy Hom- mey, the local lightweight, outfought Ad Wolgast of Cadillac, Mich.,, in their ten-round bout in Brooklyn last night. Hommey had five rounds, ‘Wolgast three; the other two being even. In the sixth round Hommey closed the left eye of the former champion with a hard right swing. Hommey weighed 135, Wolgast 135 3-4. Joe Azevedo of Oakland, Cal.,, defeated Phil Bloom of New York in a ten-round bout. Azevedo weighed 134, Bloom 135 pounds. BANCROFT MATCH. Wakefield, Mass.,, Aug. 31.—The Bancroft match, open to teams of six men from any New England militia, regimental or battalion organization, was the chief event on the ranges here today in the week's shoot under the auspices of the New England Military Rifle association. The trophy has been in the custody of Massachusetts teams since 1910 when it was wrested from the Second Connecticut Infantry Regi- ment. OMAHA MAY GET TEAM. Omaha, Neb., Aug. 30.—The Cleve- land American association franchise may be transferred to Omaha for the 1916 season. A committee of local business men, headed by Tom McVit- tee, is behind the deal. An attempt will be made to trans- fer the Omaha franchise in the West- ern ieague to some other city and bring the association team here, CY MORGAN AN UMPIRE. Denver, Aug. 31,—Cy Morgan, for- mer Athletic star, has obtained an umpire job on Tip O’'Neil's Western league staff- He started this season as a pitcher around Tulsa, Okla., but his old skill had disappeared and he had to quit forever. PAWNEES TO ORGANIZE, Members of the Pawnee football team and candidates for places on the team are notified of a meeting to be held Friday evening at the home of John Scharff. Plans will be made for the coming season. DUNDEE FLOORS MITCHELL. Milwaukee, Wis.,, Aug. 81.—Johnny Dundes, Now York lightwelght, had the botter of his fight here last night with Ritchie Mitchell of Milwaukee. lne floored Mitchell twice. WANTS EQUALITY FOR JAPANESE WOMEN Mrs. Yosano Hardly Believe Sis- ters Ready for Suilrage (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Tokio, July 27.—The Woman most talked of in Japan, excepting only the LEmpress, Mrs. Akiko Yosano, Doetess, essayis preacher to the “common people’” and leader of the dramatic Japanese movement to ac- quire greater rights for Womanhood. Both Mrs. Yosano and her accom- plished husband are “‘dreamers” (they call it that themselves) but they are writing every day about life, in such a simple and practical way that even the least educated and simplest minds understand. Mrs. Yosano’s writings appear in newspapers and magazines through Japan. Her extraordinary versatility is evidenced by her writing classical verse at one moment, insist- ing on woman’'s freedom the next and following that with an article on .bad manners in street cars. In a tiny Japanese house tucked away in the heart of the great Oriental etropolis, where this poetess and apostle of woman's rights carries on Ler work, she received a correspon- dent of The Associated Press. The tinkle of the bell was answered by a young Japanese maid, who prostrated herself on both knees, in Japanese tashion, to welcome the guest. Hav- ing removed his shoes, the correspon- dent was escorted to a small recep- tion room upstairs. Mrs. Yosano came in, accompanied by her husband and by Prof. K. Wada- gaki, of the Imperial University, who acted as interpreter. The poetess was dressed in a simple blue kimono. Her black hair was coiled around her kead; not arranged in the classical Japanese style. She modestly, almost timidly, extended her hand in formal greeting. Spent Some Years in Paris. The impression of Parisian atmos- phere in the picture and furnishings of the room was justified for Mrs. Yosano explained that with her hus- band she had spent some years in Paris and had not only lived in the Latin quarter but also in the historic district of Montmartre. Her husband had gone to Paris to study a new school of poetry and she as his disciple rkad followed him there. With fervor they had flung themselves into the art life of the great French metropolis. She came back first to Tokio and began to write. For a considerable time she devoted herself to writing of love and her “Songs of Love’ were printed throughout Japan, She quickly developed a taste for writing upon the practical problems of her fellow women and it is in this field of effort particularly that she has come to be known as a national figure, taking the lead in all this modern Japanese movement which is inau- gurated for the betterment of the women of Nippon. Not Opened to Women, is The universities of Japan with one exception are not opened to women and the first practical step which should be taken for the emancipation of women in her country she believes is to open at once the gates of all uni- versities and thus give to woman the opportunity for a higher education and self-development, . “I have heard somewhere that in American and Europe the economic independence which I seek for our women has caused a certain loss of charm and feminine attractiveness,” she said. “but I do not fear such a thing here.” Doctrine of Confucius. She recalled the doctrine of Con- fucius which gives to women the infer- jor place and alluded to the proverb on that subject that is printed today in almost every Japanese schoolbook. It concerns the old Chinese idea that when women becomes too active—lit- erally, when the woman talks too much—the household falls. Man is the fountain-head and man alone is responsible. The story is told in this way, Years ago a Chinaman heard his hen crying every morning in 2 most unusual way. One day while returning from a visit to the Emperor the man was Kkilled. The neighbors noticed that the hen stopped crying immediately so the cr; ing hen became symbolic of peril. When the Japanese adopted this tale with the thousands of other.Chinese fables they made the hen stand fox woman—and so the crying, troubled and revolting woman became the sym- bol of family disorder and disaster, ‘Wants Fighting Chance. Mrs. Yosano did not agree that the predicted evil would follow greater freedom for women. But she wanted Japanese women to be given a fight- ing chance. She wanted some sort of equality. She scarcely believed that the women were ready for suffrage. That might come later. Meantime there were so many other things that were just and must be had. “I want more European houses in Japan for Japanese,” she declared, “and I want Western dress for women, 1 think we must come to it, 1 ad- mit the old court costume for women would please me most, but since we can’t have that, let us follow the peo- ple of the West. Wants Food Changed. “I want our food changed, too. We need to strengthen the stamina of our race. We must get into the habit of eating meat. Eternal fish may give us brains but it will weaken our bod Our body must be made stronger. We are a tired sleepy race and cannot compare with Western races in point of energy or persistence in any under- taking.” She became immensely absorbed in her topic, and continued: “Are we reaily lacking in the ds- sire to iive, as compared to Euro- pean?” She did not like to believe ILY HERALD, TUESDAY. AUGUST 31, New York, Aug. 31.—The delcgatesl to the tenth annual convention of the National Retail Jewelers’ asso- ciation discussed the question whether the wrist watch for men is a proper style in jewelry. The majority didn't seem to like the new fad. When the i was at its height Second Vice resident G- . Manahan of Chicago, in charge the $3,000,000 fewelry exhibit, moved that, as the wrist watch was the best thing he had seen at the show, the convention indo it. Delegate R. C. Barnau of Gree: ot Wrist Watch Only for Men With Time on Their Hand? Some Busy Men Wear It “There’s ring her boro, N. C., got the floor. some excuse for a woman we watch on her. wrist,”” he said, “but a man has no such excuse. He has plenty of pockets. A man can wear his watch in his ‘wesco’t’ but a woman hasn’'t any ‘wesco’t’ She might as well wear her watch on her wrist as tucked in a bag or some- where else about her person. I am opposed to recommending wrist watches for men. They're all right woman until she gets some better {o carry her watch wrist watch will never be a common timepiece,” said Louis Ebel- a this to be true and would prefer to think that the lack is a ‘‘temporary suspension of desire.” The chief rea- son for this, she believed, is the paucity of nourishment in Japanese food, with the result that the Japan- ese physique is inferior even to thab of the Korean or Chinese- “We can- not expect energy to spring from a bad physicque, and it is quite rea- sonable to assume that this singu- lar lack of desire to make the most of life on the part of the Japanese is due to bad nourishment of the body and a deficient education of the spirit.” Lack Intellectual Ability. She went on: “With the body and the spirit of the people both impell- ed to sleep it is no wonder that they have less power of appreciation, of creation, of understanding and en- durance. Take people who fall asleep so easily on trains. Naturally, they lack the intellectual ability to study scientifically how the cars on Wwhich they ride daily are constructed. They can afford to be at ease without even understanding the nature of things half way- “They have no attachment either old or new things. They not mind in what way they live as long as they can continue to live. They are willing to temporize in or- der to get along for the time being and will adopt or adapt any old or new thing so long as these things render a temporary service.” Great Changes to Come. It was a pity, Mrs. Yosano thought, that the Japanese are so content with the surface of things and do not seek to penetrate, to delve to the bottom. The picture she painted was pessimistic, but she was supremely confident that great and good changes would come. “Remember,” she said, ‘“that to make life more ample, more complete, to make it more new, strong, broad, fine, systematic and happy is the wish of Europeans, but the Japanese ways are lukewarm; they rest satisfied with what they have on hand. They do not rise to be real ‘researchers,” thinkers, or ginators, appreciators. Their civil zation js an imitation, not the pro- duct of their need. They have a love of nature in their own fashion; they have their play with tea, their Buddhistic abstraction, their nation- alism, their Bushido, their frugality, their comprom But these arc all artifices invented to excuse the lukewarmness of their life.” Just then there came a patter of feet on the staircase and very quietly and solemnly five demure children filed into the room. A little tot in bright striped kimono with splashes of red; a little boy in Amer- ican breeches: an older girl, graceful in gray kimono and fetching obi; an older boy who walked right up and for do said frankly in perfect English, “How do you do, Sir?” “My children,” explained Mrs. Yos- ano with a note of pride. ‘“‘There are three others, but they are at school.” REGARDU. S. ALMOST, OMNIPOTENT NATION Belgian People?hfi Americans Wondrous Race New York, Aug. 31.—Scott Hurtt Paradise, of 123 High street, Medford, Mass.,, who spent five months in Bel- gium as an American delegate in tue employ of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, 71 Broadway, New York, and assisted in the great work of dis- tributing food to the Belgians in various provinces, has recently re- turned to his American home and has written a book, which will probably be published soon narrating his ex- periences while in Belgium. Mr. Puradise tells, in an interesting v, many of his experiences from Tec, 4, 1914, until June 1, 1915. When he started through tne interior of Belgium to begin his work he re- ceived a jolt which was, to say the leust, surprising if not amusing., He had to present his ‘“Passierscheein,” and the German officer who inspected it, read it through to the signature, whereupon he remarked, “Hully gee! what » name,” in perfectly good Eng- lish, It developed that the soldier had lived in the United States for a number of years. Form of Diary. Much of Mr. Paradise’'s story is in the form of a diary, and in April he noted the fact that many letters of thanks were received from the Bel- gian officials and people at the com- mission’s headquarters in Brussels. “An American cannot realize,”” he wrote, “what it means to be one day happy and prosperous and surround- ed by the little luxuries of civilized life, and the next day to be thrust back one thousand years into a world in which starvation and disease seem inevitable. and then, just when the dark spectre looms most threatening, to have some great, scarcely known power step in and furnish food and clothing to the suffering people. That is how the United States appears to many Belgians and wiay they regard it as a nation almost omnipotent.” Continuing his diary for April, the writer siys: “For some unknown rea- son the Belgians had fixed upon St. Valentine's day as a proper occasion ing of Missouri. “While it is stylish, it is going to give us a lot of trounle I think we'd better let matters stand ag they are.” From sentiments ex- pressed it could be seen the jewelers of the larger cities favored recom- mending the wrist watch, while those was a8 pro more in waving fi dressed ag & with a rea] Mexien and, lastly, §n o the village © A 1y like the Godgesy off out and madeg 5 tle girl, similyy, song and Presenteq sack embroidereq gn sofa pillow. The e horse sang a verse gy /y, translated into FI 3 girls waved their armg sang the chorus sevemy well. The schoolmaster of gratitude to/us, and Ly to thank the people in the reception, but, as nea make out, he insisted © us once more instead. Life and Death. Svery American should the question of existencel him intimately, because it tion of life and death Without exterior help, starve. The United St the mainspring of the ganization of vital more than 7,000,000 "% through American Com Relief in Belgium. Even two millions have absolut to eat but pint of soup. loaf of bread they d through the commissions situation grows wrose and of available supplies proaches zero, the numbes totally, depended inei there is need of greater It is hard for us to re means to have nothing itable and volunteer on tween us and starvation; gians realize it, and I have break down and weep h spoke of their gratitude to States. With the departun commission they believe rors of the earlier days would again sweep the vy TENNIS TOURNAMI — Grounds in Poor Entered in National O Forest Hill, N. Y., in the thirty-fifth ann ship tournament of the Tennis association began Side club here today umn weather conditions. A st wind blew across the coul north and the gray light the contestants in the op The turf, except on.tne courts, which had been tarpaulin was still soft cent rains. There was no lack of among the entrants, how, relay of the 128 players all in action shortly after The opening match on the courts brought together legians, in C. A. Major of @ 3 from the smaller towns, particulariy of the south and west, thought men could get along without it. Picture shows prominent men at the Platts- burg camp wearing wrist watches (indicatad by arrows.) They are L Richard Davis; 2, Charles E. Warren. New York banker; 3 Theodore Roose- velt, Jr. independence, and on that day every- onc wore a little American flag. These were strange and wonderful home- made flags. Some three stripes and four stars, and some only to be.called red, white and blue by courtesy. Febe- ruary 14 has long heen dedicated to the love of boys and girls, but never before has it been set aside to cele- brate the heartfelt affection and grat- itnde - f one whole people for another. Just as America has given a new meaning to the word ‘Charity,” so she has added a new and undreamed of signifidance to the words ‘Friendship among Nations.’ " One Great Source of Supply. In May, Mr- Paradise wrote: “There is one great source of supply from which each person can draw a fixed quantity of goods, while no one need gc without because of poverty, Many, once well off, have no food or money so they can obtain a little soup and a half of a loaf of bread, or per- haps a few beans and some rice, upon which they exist for the next twenty- four hours. In fact, Horace Fletcher, the great advocate of mastication— a nervy, r little old gentleman, comfortably ensconced in Brussels-— attributes the unusually good health which is prevailing in Belgium this winter and spring to the necessity for sleeping so much and eating so little and is quite jubilant because of this conclusive vindication of his theories, “There is ona figure, the memory of which supports the Belgians through all of their misfortunes and inspires them with courage and con- fidence in their blackest hour, and that is the figure of him they proud- ly called ‘Our King’' To his people he is the embodiment of every king- ly and soldierly virtue, and th thought of the day when he shall re- turn in triumph to Brussels even now brings tears of joy to every Belgian's eyes.” Amusing Episode. The diary describes an amusing epi- sode that took place in the village of Tessendierloo: ““As we walked down the main street we heard a clattering of wooden tshoes behind us, and saw two little children following, in mingled curiosity and wonder, at the sight of a ‘real American.’ Every few feet the group was augmented by others and the horizon was blue- black with infants, all saying, ‘Leven Amerika!.’ at the top of their lungs. The supposed American priest when he appeared to our vision, turned ont to be a black, polite little Nioca guan. We could not deny that he waz an American, and the Belgians proh- ably thought that he could run over to New York from Nicaragua in a few hours.. “When we were lunching one day with a young count and countess in the beautiful castle of the Prince Bishop of Liege, a parade was given B. C, Law of Princeton. but a sprinkling of spe stands at the start of pla trains from New York b large humbers of tennis enf NEW BASKETBALL Amateur Athletic Union D teur and College Rules New York, Aug. 81.-—A appointed by the Ami ! union to confer with the letic authorities regarding’ announced today that for time in the history of amateur and collegiate will be alike. This result tained through a number meetings held during the a mail vote, i The principal point or & was the dribble rule, The rule now adopted is in follows: Dribbling will be pre: the end of the dribble a allowed to throw for goal makes the goal it will col Heretofore the amateu not permit the scoring of a dribble, but the amateur have conceded this point lege men, and in the fut teams will permit this " BOMBARD LANDERS' Indignant Foreigners At taliate and Attack Two foreigners, whose 0 not learned, in passing Frary & Clark’s factory hurled a stone through and struck Watchman 8 head, inflicting a painful Later the two men @ factory and apologized to # man and explained that utes before they were p tory when someone threw: metal from an upper wi struck one of them on breaking his hat, M son for their assailant th ed him, C. E. CORN ROA New Britain Union Plan Wicgand's Grove for The New Britain Ch deavor Union has arran outing to be held at Wiegs on the afternoon of Sat 11, The affair will take th a frankfurter and corn the picnickers will leave Arch street at 2 o'clock. N stormy weather the roast wil at the South church at 5 oY The afternoon program clude a baseball game b “dog” and “corn” clubs, races, a “hot dog” eating corn eating contest, getting) ed stunts and other gan ENNIS' LICENSE Local Man Takes M., T. Without Permission and Secretary of State Bu suspended the operator's lig that we regarded as decidedly novel. First came infants about two feet high waving American and Belgian tc help the Americans celebrate their flags and led by a schoolmaster who Fred A. Ennis of 2 Rallros this city, for taking an au permission and driving n cated.