Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 22, 1909, Page 3

lQTIIIflP & SONS, N.rwlei. c-u\. kinds placed in mg md reulhk American and for- ‘eign companies. Careful attention giv. uto-nordm ‘We solicit a share of Your itros €. oty nov2idaw lald up for the winter at very reasonable rates. B. P. LEARNED & (0., Thames’ Loan & Trust Co. Building. Agency Emhllllud 1846. OctIZMWEF ALWAYS ON THE MINUTE +1s when you will find us, we have never ‘been known to let a policy lapse. If vou place your Insurance matters in our hands, you can set worry aside. ‘We represent first-class companies - ,only, and our rates are as low as the lowest. ISAAC S. JONES, Insurance Agt. Richards Building, 91 Main Street. decl4daw N. TARRANT & GO., . 117 MAIN STREET. Fire, Accident, Health, Liability, Plate Glass and Steam Boiler ... INSURANGCE Norwioh Unlon Fire Insurance Society, . 8., " Assots 32,759,422.10 Western Assurance Co., U. €, . Assets §2,397,608.00. declla THE OFFICE OF WM. F! HILL Real Estate and Fire Insurance, 18 Jocated In Somers’ Block, over C. M. . Williams, Room 9, third fioor. febl3a ‘Telephone 147. —New [undnnTa Norwich h Road Reaard s dxff Hilton, Foremost Local Runner, Will Try to Set New| Mark—Run on Christmas Afternoon to Beat Two|Z Hours—Auto will Make the Pace. me New London Y. M. C. A. to the| Burlys—Sullivan ¢, Houlihan rg, M.,C. A. here on Christmas after- | Simcox lg, Slattery 1f, Driscoll rf. noun Hilton has been training on the ‘Heavyweights—Brennan, Riordan <, quiet for his long hike and has no [ Shea rg, Foley lg, Haley 1f, Fields, doubt but that he can beat the mark |Lovell rf. of two hours, which stands credited to | ‘The club has recently made some] Sergeant Walsh, who passed through |changes in its rooms which will much here last April, and was paced by Tom |better fit it for the winter season of Wilson with Roan Lady, his pacing 'indoor sports. Under the direction of mare. Indoor Captain Joe Desmond a basket— In local sporting annals there is rec- | ball court has been laid out in the big ‘ord of another Walsh who did the dis- | Toom and one end is arranged with a tance in 1867 in two hours. Detective [ backboard so that handball can Chérles E. Hazlehurst and Fred Kasch | played.. The baskets for the game were went after the record a number of |a present to the club from Blacksmith years ago, with Steve Coffey as ref- | William Blackburn. °All the appdratus eree and timekeeper. Hazlehurst hung | which was in the big room has been up figures of two hours and one min- | moved to the small room in the rear, wute, while Kasch came in thirteen | which will be used for boxing and ap- minutes later, making his mark two |paratus work. The club expects to hours fourteen minutes. give its members basketball three Hilton figures on shaving at least a [ nights a week and two nights in the quarter of an hour Off the best time |week will be the regular class nights, vet. He is to be paced by an auto- | of which the first begins tonight. The mobile which has been kindly offered | next social affair of the club is its Dby William R. Frisbie, who will drive [ smoker at the installation of officers in the machine. Sporting Editor Whit- | January, when there will be an or- ney of The Bulletin will select some- | chestra on hand and exhibitions in the oné to act with himself as timekeeper | athletic line. and judge ,accompanying Mr. Frinbie in the machine. The plan for the run is to start from the New London Y. M. C. A. at about 2.15 p. m, which would bring the run- ner up to Norwich just about at # o’clock, giving the Christmas afternoon strollers a chance to see him finish his long run as he comes down through Main street and up Broadway to the local ¥. M. C. A. building. Mixup on Wrestling Dates. Considerable confusion was oceas- joned among local sports on Tuesday because the sporting editor of The Bulletin got his dates mixed and an- nounced the McGrath-Barnes wrest- ling match for Tuesday evening in ‘Westerly, when it should have been this evening. Barnes drrived in this city by the 3.25 train on Tuesday and went on to Westerly later in the aft- ernqon. He has made a date for Chief Fighting Bear to meet McGrath at Union hall in Greeneville on Christ- mas afternoon. Dan Murphy and Bill Collins will go on in & limited match for the semi-final. There is a Russian wrestler named Harry Litovsky, who wanted to wres- tle McGrath on Christmas afternoon, but he did not send word in time and will have to wait for a later date, when McGrath will meet him. START BASKETBALL. Two Teams in Close Matches st C. A, C. Rooms—Winter Activities Plan- ned. The Central Athletic club, which hl: lately fixed over its rooms in the Stead building so that basketball can -be played, had its first games Wednesday night, four team appearing. The first game was between the Blues and the ‘Whites and was won by the former, 6 to 4. Joe Desmond was referee, Ja: Bgrr}l:e !t(mekoeper Tim Fields scofer. e Klaus Forces Fight for Decision. Boston, Dec. 21.—By continued ag- gressivéness Frank Klaus of Pittsburg, Pa.,, won the decision over Jim Flynn of Boston in twelve rounds of hard hit- ting before the Armory Athletic asso- ciation tomight. Fiynn secured but four of the twelve rounds, when he sent straight lefts to the face which slowed the Pittsburg boy. In the rest of the bout Klaus forced Flynn about the ring with right and left swings to Clifford Hilton, the Norwich distance | Several cleverly caged baskets in the runner, who has won half a dozen cuulnfl clash gave the Burlys the de- hols rf, Shea rg, Kearns If, Riordan c, Foley lg. Whites—Fitzgerald ¢, Simcox rg, Chapman lg, Busch rf, Welch If. Then followed a game which was hotly contested between the Heavy- weights and the Burlys. At the end of the second period the score was a tie, 13 to 13, so that another five min- utes was ordered to settle the game. and medals in different competitions |cision by the score of 17 to 15. ~Luke FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. the jaw, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, . BROWN & PERKINS, Atforneys-at-Law over First Nat. Bank, Shetucket St. Entrance, Stairway next to Thames Nat. Bank Tel. 38-2. Open Monday and Sat- urday eveningt. oct29d REMOVAL, .Dr. Rush W. Kimball has removed his office to 21 Broadway, Wauregan. Block Hours, 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. Sun- days, 3 to 4 p. m. Telephone 45. dec2d CHIROPODY and MANICURE Treatment of Cerns a specialty. Also Hairdressing and Shampooing, Puffs, Switches and Pompadours made lrom your own combings. MRS. B. BURTON, Chapman Block, Broadway. NOTICE! I will repair, remodel, redye and clean your furs at & very reasonable price, and all my work is guaranteed. & postal and I will ecall for work, Telephone 254-3. BRUCKNER, The Furrier, nevlOMWF 55 Franklin Slno‘t. Drop MISS M. C. ADLES, Har, Scalp and Face Speciafist DPIBEASE AND DEATH may result from wearing artificial hair. The papers have recently chron— icled a case of actual leprosy frem this cause. That is why Miss Adles re- fuses to use any except her own direct importations of ¥rench peasants’ hair, healthy and clean. If want hi‘h grade work and material call on Miss Adles. In Nor. wich week of December 27th. WAUREGAN HOUSE, Norwich New York. Boston. Telephone 704 dec20d Carriage and Automobile Painting i Trimming GOM-.Q and Wagen Werk of all kinda Anything on wheels built to erden PPRICES AND WORK' RIGHT., ton repetition of rumors of a melon this season in New England, is to at- | Riley was referee, Jack McGIbney tim- tempt to lower the road record from |er, Joe Desmond scorer. New London to Norwich, running from | The lineups: WATCHED THE MONEY MARKET. Stock Opeutorl Su-pn ous of Possible Developments There. New York, Dec. 21.—Operators in stocks kept one eye on the money market today and geemed to be sus- picious of possible deviopments in that field, in spite of the superflcw tran- qullmy there. The calling of loans by some of the ban{s yesterday was followed by a rise above 5 per cent. in the call losn rate late today. The largest of the New York clearing house banks had a credit balance at that institution today of $17,000,000. The action of the foreign exchange market today definitely settled the question of gold shipments to London tomorrow In the negative. Tomorrow's steamer fs the last which will deliver consignments in London in time for the new year’s settlements. Exchange for Friday's sailing commanded lower rates than for current delivery. From this it is inferred that exchange rates are likely to decline with the ssing of the speclal demand for remittances incident to the sending abroad of Christmas money and for payments of January first interest and dividends on foreign held American securities. The January foreign exchange mar- ket is by no means clearly defined, however, accogding to the views of in- ternational exchange bankers. The London money market is expected to face the exigencies of the electoral campaign and also of the maturity of loans from the Bank of France to the London money market, and which were to he repaid in gold on falling due. 1160 Internationai Bump 350 Toya Central ... ‘| The likelihood is pointed out that New York may be called upon to pay this London debt to Paris. This week the domestic interior has discontinued its remittances to New York and is retain- ing funds for holiday demands. The sub-treasury, however, is contributing liberally to the banking reserves through large government disburse- ments. This is offset in part by the shipments of gold to South America. Another complication in, the January money market will be the large pay- ments which are to be made on sub- seriptions te new securitles which fall due peridoleally during that month. The body of the security list was inert today, and the only perceptible play of prices was in speclalties which are not usually leaders in comprehensive stock market movements. Even in these the movements were not sustained. Consolidated Gas had another advance 2500 Pl!hhu\‘l Coll . 12300 Do, pd cutting, but lost all of its advance lat- er. The disproof of the rumors which carried up the Atlantic Coast Line group has proved discouraging to fol- lowers of this kind of vague reports. The Atlantic Coast Line collateral bonds today fell back to about the level they started from on the sensa- tional upward movement of last week. The copper stocks enjoved a brief spurt of activity and strength on no other news than the steps taken in the Guggenheim merger, heretofore report- ed a.nd an advance in the price of the American Smelting com- pany umors of coming dividend in- -creases were effective in moving a number of industrial stocks, but with- out awakening any general response in the market. The market leaders, such as the great railroad stocks and United States Steel, were under more or less pressure. The report of a set- tlement by the Lehigh Valley of the demands of its railroad engineers seemed to he accepted as a precursor of similar action by other railroad companies in the matter of the wide- spread demand for increased wages now pending. Bonds were irregular. Total sales, par value, $3,449,000. Unit- ed States threes advanced 1-8 per cent. on call. . pfd 25900 Southern Pacific 8100 Fog B 5800 Utah Coppe 1900 Wabash 6200 Do. pra . 1300 W. Maryland cafs. 500 Western Union_Tel 5700 Weatinghouse Mn. 100 Wheeling & 1. FErie Total sales, 24 shares MONEY. ! New York, Dec. 21.—Cotton spot clos- firm, 4@51-4 per cent, ruling rate 47-8, last loan 4, closing bid 47-8, of- fered at 4 718. Time loans soft and fairly active: sixt; days 41-2 per cent., ninety days 41-4g41.2, six months 41 4. COTTON. New York, Dec. 21.—Cotton spot clos- ed quiet, 20 points higher; middling uplands = 15.40, middling gulf 15.65; sales, 200 bales. New York, Dec. 21.—Cotton futures closed barely. steady. Closing bids: December 15.10, January 15.19, Febru- ary 15.37, March 15.52, April 15.65, May 15.82, June 15.72, J‘uly 15.79, Augult 15.56, September 14.21, October 13.54. CHICAQO mum MARKET. Open. RS May 113 13 AR A CORN: l 01 |-u fia Sales. 100 Allis Chalmers Co. YN R, S Yoo & F . Close. Sus5% 116 111 11-16 111 11-16 1021-16 102% ss?szzfi'miifii ERRRTERRES: n-ddbn First With g;r_u... mmwr&.rm ‘ear Olds. Thirty race horses have won total ot wtscoo o t.he Aporlg:.n uul" C. Hfld.rctn(l o h.cidm gan to campaign him or the eastern Joc Madden started 15 times, first in. five races, second nine tlmu and thirg once, being never out of the money. James R. Keene's two year old Sweep, by Ben Brush- Pink Bomino, is second in the list with 341.8" all of which was earned on the Jockey club’s coursés. Sweep was the biggest winner among the two year olds, therefore, starting eight times and winning five races, with two seconds and one third. “Hildreth's four year old King James, Dby Plaudit-Unsightly, is third with $38,253. This horse started in 12 races, winning 10 of ‘them, incldding the Metropolitan and Brooklyn handicaps, also finishing second twice. Mr. Keene's three year old Hilarious, by Voter-Harpsichord, won $36,585, and stands fifth with four victories.and one second.in five starts. Then comes Hil- dreth’s Fitz Herbert, the famous three year old colt by Ethelbert-Morganatic, with 14 victories and one second in 15 races for a total of $34,757. Mr. Keen: three year old filly Maskette, by. Di; guise-Biturica, follows with five vic- tories and one second in six races for a total of $22,715. James MacManus’ Rock O’'Brien, a two year old Meddler- Suisun colt, winner of the Hopeful at Saratoga, is seventh .in the list with $22,070. He started-19 times, won five races, finished second twice, third five times and was unplaced in seven events. High Priyate, a three year old ‘son of Addfellow-Commena, who was raced in turn by F. A. Forsythe, G. F. John- son and C. C. Smithson, his present owner, faced the barrier 23 times. He won 15 races, was second four times, third «three times, and was unplaced once, his yross earnings amounting to $19,010. . C. L. Harrison's Waldo, by Planudes-Salama, who was the cham- pion two year old colt, won $14,880, with eight victories, two sefonds and one third in 13 races. Olambala, a fine three year old, by Ornus-Blue and ‘White, for whom R, H. Wilson, Jr., paid $10,000 to John G. Greener during the Saratoga meeting, comes next with $14,632, winning seven races with four seconds and three thirds in 15 starts. Rose Queen, a three year old filly, by Kingston-White Rose, bred by Mr. Keene and racing in the colors of A. Koenigsberg, had a strenuous cam- paign. She faced the barrier 42 times, won 16 races, finished second 11 times, third eight times and was unplaced in seven events, her total winnings being $12,760. Hildreth’s Firestone, a four year old, by Royal Flush III-Modrida, ran 26 times, with 11 victories, four seconds, six thirds and $12,580 to his credit. ‘Woodford Clay’s Ocean Bound, by Star Shoot-Flying Ship, who was the champion two year old filly, wbn four races and was unplaced twice in six starts for a total of $12,545. BOSTON'S THIRD BASEMEN. Hot Corner Always Well Played in Bcantown.’ Boston fans who have followed the American league team have always seen artists on that bag for the past thirty years, remarks a diamond his- torian. First there was Uncle Ezra Sutton, and the old timers still recall how pret- tily Uncle played the bag, how well he gathered grounders, how rifielike he threw. . Sutton was fading, but not yet a dead one, when Billy Nash came to the club. Nash was a wizard at the bag, and his skill was a glorious fea- ture of Boston’s play, year in, year out. In 1890, when Boston had two teams, the standard of third base work was not lowered, for McGarr, in opposition to Nash, put up magnificent ball. Nash was getting toward the sere and yellow leaf, though still' an im- pressive performer, when the wonder— ful Jimmie Collins came into the big circuit. For the next few seasons the third basing of Collins was the despair of the enemy, the richest joy of Boston fans. But the day came when Collins grew too fat and slow. He passed, and Boston bugs thought at last that their long record of swell third base play was over. Not yet. Harry Lord took up the mantle of Collins, and so splendidly did he field and bat the past summer that many critics pick him as the best !hh'd baseman in. the game. ‘Thus it chanced that Boston was never oppressed by bad third basing, even as it chanced that Chicago has always had a great catcher. How the Two Big Fighters Size Up. Here 1s a comparison of the heavy- weights: Jeffries, Johnson 34 Age 31 225 Weight 195 | 6.3 Height standing 61-3| 17 Girth of neck 17 1-4 ~ Girth of upper 44 in, chest, repose 41 in, 37 1-2 Girth of waist 24 Girth of upper 14 in. arm 14 1-2 in. 50 in, Girth of shoulders 49 3-4 in. | 12 1-2 @Girth of forearm 3 1- 24 Girth of thigh 241-2 17 Girth of calf 151-2 16 Breadth of waist 14| To summarize in physical measure- ments the men are akout as even as any one would wish to see. has it in youth, agility and lack of nervous temperament. Jeffries has the call on height, weight and reach. Of| the two, Johnson is decldedly the less muscle bound. From past records of the two men it would seem tbat Jeffries can deliver | the harder blow, and if he is to win at | all he must get his punch in early in | the game or his younger and more lithe adversary will wear him down. But he will have to be most aggre: sively quick to get Johnson, as the lat- | ter’s” footwork and backward spring | Furthermore, John- | cannot be beaten. son will be able to withstand head blows the better. Now a few little items as to the inner training life of this pair that are in the public eye. Johnson never diets; he eats any- | thing that appeals to him up #o the | ! eve of the fight, and Jeffries is not much more careful. It is doubtful! whether this is a good plan, as it has been proved in the case of tests with university crews that dieting has much to do with condition and lasting pow- er. Both are drinking men. Johnson never drinks whiskey, but trains on champagne and beer. Much will de- pend upon the necessary curtailment of aleohol in each. How an Hour in the Ring, Palace and Stage Compare. Assuming that the Jeffrles and Johnson fight lasts 45 rounds of three’ minutes each, with one minute inter- missions, the earnings of the winner, exclusive of the big picture profits, will compare as follows, the income of Ca- ruso, Lauder and Mary Garden being figured while actually on the stage: Income per heur. Jeffries or Johnson. Sees John D. Rockefeller. Czar of Russia. King Edward . Caruso ..... . Mary Garden . Harry Lauder Johnson | mmmmm ‘Training and Boxing. M“. ¢ ndi- “but, if my. h(l match with ‘Johmny mers, Welsh says: the referee thinks there is too1 much time wasted in ¢l , it I8 in kis power to stop it. But y object to hanln{ and permit clinching at all? To object to clinching in boxing, how- ever, i8 almost like objecting to the use of the knight in chess because its move makes a right angle. Clinching cannot be eliminated without also cut- ting out of the game some of the sub- tlest and most scientific blov-—hlow- at once of exact and perfect legitim: and yet of the most terrible punl-hlnx character. “Often when Summers would start: one of his fearful blows I would leap inside of it into a clinch. But the clinch was only one part of what re- sulted from my getting inside of his blow. Not only would I be in perfect safety, but he would have received punishment on, the body before he could recover and on the head after he had recovered. The blows would be given h{ fists traveling from six to nine inches, but with pistonlike rigid- ity and landing with a force conceiv~ able only to oen who received them. “I do not hesitate to take direct is sue with Mr. Scott, the referee, and the entire spirit of conservatism he repre- gents, and T am free to say that it Is a great pity that such an attitude should be taken by the great and in- fluential National Sporting club. Un- der the influence of fetlch ‘worship the British boxer has grown decadent and the palm of superiority is borne tri- umphantly aleft by our American cous- in. If this were because there are bet- ter men in America, not anather word WA'III AND LWI, One is Am but m While fln Mhflnfl'-l. After n(oh!n' ‘great Wagner perform E the big series’ lt would b.; Wole In fact, says ould be an easy matter(ur the C hnder to advance all kinds of ‘ments to show where Larry the “big smoke,” It's a rather difficult to compare the two, they are so lfi“ Wagner doés everything in an ankwnrd manner, while Lajole is grace personified. At the bat Lajole stands close to the plate, while Wag- ner stands at least three feet away and well back in the hox. In only one department has the Teuton got an: thing on the Clevelander—he is his su- perior on the bases. Lajoie, however, has thd edge on Wagner in the field, 80 with the batting even, it's about even Stephen. Milwaukee Revives Pugilism. Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 21.—Plgilism was revived in Milwaukee tonight af- ter a lapse of more than a year. The star bout of the evening was a ten- round go between Bob Moha of Mil- waukee and Harry Mansfleld of Eng- land, welterweights. No decision was given. Both were strong at the finish, but Moha seemed to have a shade the better on points Pool Champion Wins First Leg. Boston, Dec. 21.—Tom Heuston of St. Louis, Mo., world’s pool champlon, won the first leg of the world’s cham- plonship pool match which started here tonight, defeating Benjamin Allen of Kansas City, Mo., 206 to 186. The match will be continued tomor- row and Thursday nights. ] Reappoint Navy's Football Coach. Annapolts, Md., Dec. 21.—At a meet. ing of the executive committee of the need be said, but the men of England are as good as ever they were, and need only to he ljfted. helved-klcked if necessary—oue of the ruts they are in to make them once more the leaders of the world in the sport. They cling to antiquated methods of training as well as boxing fiwith the result that they are taking second rlace. “Certanly I was greatly hampered in my fight with Summers by the rullns’l. which prevented me from us- ing quite two-thirds of my ringeraft. Perhaps it is presumptious to say so, but I am convinced that if I had not been afraid of offending, but had been given the liberty accorded in every American prize ring, Iwould have been able to finsh the contest within fifteen rounds.” FIRST BATTER GOOD TARGET. Story Says Great Games by Fright Almost every great pitcher has won games bz hitting the first- batter. So says a Chicago baseball scribe. It is a trick often worked during the early part of a season, he claims. The tech- nical phrase is “beaning a batter.” Cy Young, Mathewson, Mullin, Donovan, in fact all of the premier pitchers have this little trick or turn of the pitching game. During the early part of a year the vitcher finds his control is not per- fect, perhaps, when called upon to work in a game. He realizes that something strenuous has to be done or he will be hit all over the lot. So he frankly tells the members of the op- posing team that he can’t seem to con- trol the ball and gets them thinking about t. Then, when the first batter comes to the plate, the pitcher shoots a ball as straight at his head as he can send it. In such an instance the batter draws way back and fears the next ball,which generaally comes within a nace of banging his shoulder. Oftentimes it does actually hit him a stinging .blow, and the effect on the other members of the team is magical. Almost every | batter has been hurt many times, in fact numbers do not stand up to tha plate as jauntily as in their youthful days. When once the pitcher instills elementary dread into the batters he has the game almost won, providing he can locate the plate with any de. gree of.success. That is usually the reason you see a pitcher shave th batter at the offset of a game. It usually because he is not sure of him- self and wants to intimidate as many of the hitters as he can. It is no joke eother when men with such_terrific speed as Mullin and Joss and Walish shoot a ball within an inch of your head. One, “beaning” means hours of headache. Donovan of the Tigers earned this distinction of abil- ity to bank a batter years ago and the name of Wild Bill has stuck to him ever since. Reulbach of the Cubs Is another who can be wilder than Dono- van on occasions. Rube Waddel!, the eccentric Rube, has a similar trick, which hurts a batter even more and causes him just as much apprehension. Instead of niming at the head or the shoulder, Rube throws a terrific drop ball, which bounces off the batter's shins. If it doesn't strike him before reaching the ground it is liable to glance off the earth ang catch him coming up. « Tiger Captain Must Pass Doctors. Eddie Hart, who was elected captain of the Princeton football eleven for 1910 some days ago, will not lead the team, or, for that matter play at all if the report of three doctors who are | to examine him, is adverse. His elec- non must be passed upon by Wednes- | day of next week by the graduate ad- visory committee on football, it is understood, from a reliable Nsnurce, will not ratify the choice of the team if it is held that he is in danger of serious injury in playing the game, Hart sustained an iajury I which has been a source of anxiety t his lrlenl')‘- evep since. He has played with a s:jclal headgear to protect a splintered? vertebra in his neck. Syracuse Challenges Canadians. | A despatch from Toronto, Canada, of that city has received a challenge | from Syracuse university for races for four oared and eight oared shells, the contests to be held on Onondaga Lake, at Syracuse. on May 30. | that the challenge w |l| be accepted. Doc Roller Holdl !hl Big Pole. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 21.—Zybysco, the Polish wrestler., lost a handicap match to Dr. B. F. Roller here ténizht. Zybysco agreed to throw Roller twice {in one hour or forfeit the entire re- i ceipts of the match, but he failed tc | get one fall. Navy Athletic assoclation tonight Lien- tenant F. D. Berrien was reappointed head coach of the navy football squad for next year. DIAMOND DOPE. Manager Bill Dahlen of Brooklyn would like to secure Infielder Miller Huggins from Cincinnati. Deacon Jim McGuire says he will listen to propositions for any member of the Cleveland team with the excep- tion of !Ajole Young and Joss. George Bowers, who played first base for the Holyoke club early last season, expects to land a berth as managef in the Atlantic league next season. He played with Reading of the Atlantic league after Holyoke released him. Joe O'Rourke will be with Syracuse next season, and not with Albany, as first reported. He w traded for Hel- mund, left flelder of the Syracuse club. Lefty Wallace, with Hartford in 1908, and Pitcher Hoff were traded to Troy for Shortstop Cargo. | The official batting averages of the National league were made public Sat- urday. Wagner leads the list with 339, Mitcheil and Sepmour have .310, Hoblitzel .308, Wheat, the Brooklyn recruit, .304, Doyle and Snodgrass. 300, These seven make up the soclety cir- cle. It was reported a few days ago that the Giants had offered five men, said to be Tenney,Seymour, Snodgrass, Herzog and Crandall, to the St. Louis Cardin- als for First Baseman Konetchy, but that Roger Bresnahan couldn't see the proposition at all. Bresnahan says that if he allowed Konetchy to go he might as well sell the whole St. Louis team. “Criger will make the Highlanders win next year,” says.James McAleer, manager of the Washingtons. ‘“The veteran catcher is not all in by any means, for he caught great ball for me | in St. Louis last season. He has al- wayvs been anxious to play in New York, and I know he is delighted with the deal just made. Criger, in my opinion, is the best catcher in the American league right now, and under congenial conditions-he will be a great man for the H(ghl.lml(-r\ BOXING BRIEFS. The attachment which a western dentist had placed on the Jeffries- Johnson fight stakes because of a bill owed hi by Tex Rickards, has been vacatedyby a supreme court justice. Memphis has drawn the color line on Sam Langford. That dark skinned gen- tleman is certainly having a hard time making a living. Practically all the boxers of his weight drew the line on him some time ago. California fight fans think they have another lightweight champion in Frank Picato, a Mexican, who fought a ten round draw with Ad Wolgast several months ago. Picato is being groomed ofr another bout with Wolgast and af- ter disposing of Ad the Mexican will start for Batttling Nelson. Fighting Dick Hyland, who knocked out Leach Cross in California last sum- mer, was easily beaten by Cyclone Johnny Thompson in a ten round fight at Kansas City Friday night. In the fifth round Hyland was sent down twice for the count, but Thompson could not put him out. Tt will be re- called that Thompson several weeks ago gave Packey McFarland a hard which, | Claims Divorce Was Ob! to his neck while playing at Tixeter: | a decree of divorce granted from Will- | states that the Argonaut Rowing club| charges contained fight in a bout of similar lcn).(h ned Through Fraud. Chicago, Dec. 21.—Miss Grace B. Guggenheim of New York today filed in the circuit court a bill of review wherein she asks the dissolution of jam Guggenheim in 1901 on the ground that it was obtained through fraud on the court. Mrs. Guggenheim had previously sought to have the decree set aside through suits which failed. In the bill for review she recites the same in former plead- ings. 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Sun. i flowers, music, tennis, boat. fishing, hunting, motoring, driving and riding. 100 miles of dustless sheil roads. No Storms or Fogs on the West Coast. Information and booklet for the asking, Address Tampa Bay Hotel or any Agent. Seaboard Air Lin Afllmlo Coast Southern Ra lory, Savannah and aydo 8. 0. Li CLARK'S TWELFTH ANNUAL Cruise L0 e ORIENT February 5, 73 days, $400 urA includin, shore excursions, etc. Cruises aroun: the world; Tours to Europ FRANK C. CLARK, Times .T- New York. novidweg Ille United -States Finishing Co. 320 Broadway, New York, Dec. 16, 19 Coupons N¢. 11, due Jan. 1, 1910, on consolidated mortgage 5 per cent. gold bonds of this company, will be paid at the office of The Trust Company of America, 37 Wall Street, New York City. Coupons No. 17, due Jan. 1, 1910, on first mortgage G per cent. bonds of The Sterling Dyeing and Finishing Com- pany, will be pald at the office of The Trust Company of America, 37 Wall Street, New York City. F. 8. JEROME, Treasurer. dec18d The United States Finishing Co. 320 Broadway, New York, Dec. 16, 1909, Preferred Stock Dividend No. 43. The Board aof Directors have this da; declared the regular quarterly dividen of one and three-quarters per cent, 1% _per cent.) upon lha Preferred tock of this company, Jan, 1, 1910, to Stockholders of rd at the close of business Deec. 20, 1900 Common Stock Dividend No. 4, THe Board of Directors have this day declared a dividend one per cent. (1"per cent.) upon the Common tock of this company, payable Jan, 1. 1810, % Stockholders of Fecord at the cless of business Dec. 20, 1909. ¥. 8. JOROME, dec18d Treasury Winter Millinery A CHOICE LINE OF THE LABEST STYLES AT MISS BUCKLEY'S, 308 Main St. nov27d Evening School IN CITY HALL NOW OPEN TUITION and SUPPLIES FREE Relatives of a young Pittsburger who married a cloak model want his head examined. Even if a man picks out a model wife he Isn't safe, evident- ly.=-N. Y. Herald. ! 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