New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1915, Page 9

" PLAYER AND UMPIRE ENGAGE IN FIST FIGHT “Red” Smith and “Lord” Byron, In “ Altercation in Chicago—Players In- tervene—Braves’ Chances Impaired. Chicago, Sept. 16.—(Natianal).—A fist ight between Smith, third base- man of the Boston Braves, and Um- pire Byron marked the final game of the year between Chicago and Boston yesterday. Chicago won the contest, .1 to 0. ®r At the conclusicn of the game, Smith rushed up to Umpire Byron and the arbiter walked to meet him. Both exchanged words and Byron dodged around several of those who had gathered about the two and made a lunge at Smith. He apparently made two swings at him and was rushing his man when big Ball James, the Boston pitcher, put his arms about @ umpire and lifted him to one side. Smith came back with his arms swinging wildly and Umpire Orth at- tempted to stop him. Smith was in- furated and seemed about to hit Orth, when his teammates stepped in- to the fray and escorted Smith to the clubhouse. The umpire then walked to the dressing room. Several hun- red of the fans who witnessed the lash, cheered Byron. Umpire Byron refused to comment on the battle, merely stating that he would make his report to the presi- dent of the league. However, several of those who were close to the par- ticipants said that Smith was ‘“rid- ing” Byron because of his decision on balls and strikes and that the two Y had engaged in strong personalities ' prior to their coming together. News of President Tener’'s decision an the arbiter's report is eagerly \awaited about baseball headquarters fiere. The Braves have a fighting i chance for the National League pen- j. nant and already have three of their regulars out of the line-up. These are Schmidt, Maranville and Snod- grass. HERALD BOWLERS READY, iy Newspaper Men Ready for Fray With Veribest Team Tomorrow Evening. Tomorrow evening at the Aetna Alleys on Church street, will be de- cided a battle at duckpins, which should prove to be a hummer, when the Herald five will try concusions With a team from the Armour com- pany in this city, known by the mon- icker of the Veribest team. The boys on Church street are in trim of their lives and expect to administer a severe drubbing to Captain *‘Heinie” Hornkohl’s bunch. The game will act as a sort of a practice game for the contest with the National Biscuit company’s team “hext week. The lineup tomorrow eve- ning will be as follows: Captain Ed- wards, McEvoy, McAllister, Daly and Jackson, O'Brien or Bachmann. The first game will start at 8:15 o'clock: N R e CARDE 'BUY ' OUTFIELDER. Topeka, Kan., Sept. 16.—Moose ) rown, an outfielder, has been sold ¥y the local Western league club to o the St. Louis’National league club. according to an announcement here yesterday. JUDGE SOMERVILLE DIES, AGED 78 President of Customs Passes Away at Summer Home— Held Many Positions. New York, Sept. 16.—Judge Hen- '\ derson M, Somerville, president of the tional Board of Customs Apprais- ers, died at his summer home in dgemere, L. I, today. He was born in Madison county, Virginia, 78 years BEO. Judge Somerville was associate jus- ce of the supreme court of Alabama “from 1880 to 1890, and member s Appraisers Indiana to Celebrate Natal Day of ]. Whitcomb Riley JAMEFS WHITCOMB RlLEQYMInd PROTEGE~ RONT oFf HIS October 7 of this year will be a red | letter day in the city of Indianapolis and the state of Indiana. It is the sixty-sixth anniversary of the birth of James Whitcomb Riley, the poet, and there will be great doings: Here's what the New York Times says editorially about the coming mo- mentous day: What will they say now—those critics of the American people who have, some of them, la- mented and other rather exulted over, our inappreciation of the literary man as a national asset and object of re- spect? The importance ascribed to d’Annunzio and his work by the Italians of all ranks has been re- peatedly instanced of late as indica- tive of their possessionof an aesthetic intelligence and sensitiveness utterly or almost lacking among comparative barbarians like ourselves, and the no- tion that we, too, could take a mere poet otherwise than as an amiable trifier would doubtless have been treated with disdainful laughter if ever entered the minds of, these critics—which, of course, it/ didn’t. ‘¥et Samuel ‘M. Ralston, who, as he has been raised to the high office of governor by a mnot inconsiderable group of American citizens, represents, it can fairly be assumed, the ideas and judgment of that group, has just set his hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the state of Indiana of the Alabama democratic state ex- ecutive committee for eight years prior to 1880. He was for many years a lecturer on law in the University of Alabama, was formerly . trustee of the Alabama Insane hospital, member of the state commission in lunacy and trustee of the Peabody Educational fund. He was a member of the Am- erican Academy of Political and So- cial Science and has been president of the Alabama soclety of New York The Source of Vitai Power Nothing helps more to counteract the daily drain on human endurance than pure, revitalizing food. organs, for adults. Grape-Nuts is concentrated nourishment made from whole wheat and malted barley. Itsupplies all the nutriment of these wholesome grains, retaining all the vital body-building salts— 4 potash, lime, iron, etc.—lacking in white bread and many other foods, but which are absolutely neces- sary to rebuilding of sinew, brain and nerves. Grape-Nutsis partly prédigested initsmaking— hence demands but little effort from the digestive Delicious and splendidly satisfying, it's the ideal school ration for ch1ldren—-a wonderful rebuilder “There’s a Reason” Sold by Grocers Everywhere. at the capital, in the city of Indianap- olis, to a long and solemn document which proclaimeth, That October 7, this year, being the sixty-sixth anni- versary of James Whitcomb Riley’s birth, shall be Riley day. And urgeth, | That all the people of the state ar- range in their respective communities, in their own way, appropriate public exercises in their schools and at their other public meeting places, and that they display the American flag in their homes and places of business on that day in honor of James Whitcomb Riley, Indiana’s most beloved citi- zen! There’s appreciation for you, and of a poet too! When has or will Italy or any other country in Europe do a thing like that ? To be sure, In- diana is not the United States, but it is quite as distinctively American as any single one of our states could be, and if. or rather as, of all its citizens Indiana loves best a maker of verses, one doesn’t have to be a resident of that particular literary belt to feel authorized to scorn the scorners men- tioned above. Precisely what are “ap- propriate public. exercises” for the state-wide celebration of a living ‘poet’s .birthday 'Governor Ralston, in caution or inadvertence, refrains from telling. He trusts his people to find right things to do, if they do not know them already, and- there need be no fear that his| confldence will be be- trayed. for several years. His home was in this city, but burial will be at Tus- caloosa, Ala. ELMER A. SPERRY, MEMBER OF NAVAL ADVISORY BOARD Elmer Ambrose Sperry, who per- fected one of the first art lights in America before he was twenty years old and who today is one of the world’s foremost inventors of elec- trical appliances, i5 one of the mem- bers of the naval advisory board. He was one of the first to produce elec- trical mining machinery, electrical street rallway cars, electric motor ve- hicles and gasoline automobiles; he perfected the gyroscop:c compass and ‘was the first to produce entirely prac- tical apparatus for the stabilization of ships and eroplanes, His achieve- ments have been recognized by the first prize of the Aero club of France and the medal of the Franklin insti- tute of Philacelphia. FOX’S FORMAL FALL OPENING Monday, Sept. 20th World's Greatest Photo-Play Produc Change Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday HIGH CLASS VOCALISTS AND INSTRUMENTALI %= Changed Every Week =& We beg leave to announce that commencing Monday, September 20, add a high class vaudeville feature, either vocal or instrumental,as an added attr; in response to the popular demand for high class entertainment of this addition to the already established policy of this house in giving its patron: VERY BEST Money Can Procure in Motion Pictures. Prices: MATINEE Balcony .............. ¢ Orchestra .......... 10¢ EVENING Balcony . .. New Schedule of Prices in Effect 4 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th The Now Famous Equitable Productions Every MON. and TUES. EVERY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY V. L. WILLIAM FOX Poosmescms EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY . E. Perfo Daily 1:30 5:30 p. m. 6:30 10:45 p. m. SATURDAYS AND HOLIDAYS ——Contin 1:30 to 10:45 p. m. SHOT OUT 800 TELEPHONES. ‘What William A. White Said to the Boy Who Dia it. (From the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette.) Eight hundred telephones were out yesterday after the rain. That meant danger for 5000 people who might be sick or need a doctor quick; or might have a fire and could not get the de- partment. It also meant about $50 to be spent by the telephone company in hunting for the trouble and re- pairing the trouble. And when they found the trouble what do you suppose it was? A boy back of the Whitney, shooting at a sparrow and hit a cable. His .22 bul- let was found inside the lead casing of the cable. In the hole the rain poured, and short circuited 800 tele- prones. The boy didn’t go to do it; yet by that shot he might have Kkilled scmeone, or burned down a house. He certainly put 5,000 'phone users who are dependent on 800 'phones to a lot of trouble, and the company to a lot of expense, in this world as it is now arranged, no man can ef- ford to take a shot in the dark. We are all crowded together in civiliza- tion, and the innocent shot may be fatal. In the meantime, what is the earth- ly use of a gun? Why should any- <ne have a gun He spends twice the amount in ammunition that he gets in food, and a gun is a menace to the safety of scores of persons. The sale of guns should be strictly regulated by city ordinance and no one should own a gun in a town who will not consent to use it under cer- tain definite restrictions. And one of these restrictions is that no boy should use a gun on the town site for any purpuse, Headlights’ Glare, (Meriden Journal.) Now that practically all of the au- tomobiles carry electric lights there is no reason that motorists when cars approach one another from opposite directions should not dim their lamps. That accident, told in The Journal vesterday, which was caused by the blinding glare of headlights, could bave been avoided no doubt if the operators had dimmed the lamps. A turn of a button is all that is neces- sary. Autoists travelling through Hart- ford at night must keep thelr lights from dazzling brightness and so in most other citles there is a feeling that bright headlights are only for the open road. We think that anoth- er session of the Legislature will com- pel autoists to use their dimmers when cars are passing, This should be a matter.of courtesy and when electric lights first became prominently used the owners of cars thus equipped dimmed their lights when approaching other cars but that bas somehow fallen into disuse of late, TIf the Legislature passes the measures all ears will have to live up A SMART EFECT IN CRAVANETTE FOR STORMY DAY This good looking coat is designed for stormy weather. A buttoned belt holds the three plaite that give the skirt’s fullness. The deep cuffs are trimmed with buttons, and the turn- over collar is faced with white broad- cloth. Please notice the airship wings on the sailor hat. Archibald’s Plight, (New Haven Register.) James F. J. Archibald was here in the spring, trying to fill the lecture shoes of Irvin Cobb, and a good many who took note of him suspected him, His alleged lecture was as viciously pro-German as Cobb's was notably neutral, and he gave an inter. view to the Yale News for the follow- ing day whioch was worse, There was apparently some reason to wonder how, If he thus colored his war cor- respondence, it could be of great value to the provisions. to any American newspaper, Now, if the:allegations are trué, Archibald has been caught with the g0ods. Admittedly he was acting as errand boy for the Austrians and their ambassador in this country, though he professes that he did not know the character of the papers he was carrying. That is a matter which may be settled later. Involved in it, however, are some unpleasant charges against Archi- bald. The administration at Wash- ington believes, it is sald, that Archi- bald has forfeited his rights to the protection of the American govern- ment. It is generally belleved at ‘Washington, moreover, that Archi- band may be in danger of indictment before the United States | violation of our neutralif ie unlikely, however, that charge, which would, i volve a punishment of # prison and a fine of $10, pressed unless the eviden: impressive. Some owners tions plants are said, ho ready to press charges th bald is gullty of conspirae) their business, 80 the plight of this pondent, who to say the been somewhat indiscreet, promising one. Nobody any more harm than he h on himself. V4 4 PRODUCTS Make Life-Long Friends. Magee Ranges so constructi insure perfect heat circulation around all sides of the and with Spec agee Damper . the most excellent results in baking are obtained. Economis cal and easy to operate. Gas Attachments and Glass Oven Doors are some of the features that make Ranges always so satisfactory.: £ " J. A, ANDREWS & GO, fl”fl Magee Furnace Co., Inc., Boston, Mass.