The evening world. Newspaper, September 6, 1911, Page 3

po MRE NEES HE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1911, WOMEN’ TRAMPLED | Wid? Women Ever Bzcome Superior to Men as Athletes? Experts Believe Men’s Laurels Safe in All but Sw.mming INPANIC ON FERRY ~~ STARTED BY DOG Gamage i ‘Leap Into Water to Escape*Mad Newfoundland , Aboard the Albany. MAN4/AND BOY BITTEN. (Animal ‘Invades Both ‘Cabins and Is Finally Shot by 4) ¢ 4Policeman. ive minutes before the 8.2 ferry from ‘West New York to West Forty-second street was due to pull out to-day a large dog leaped through the Gwowded cabins, snapping right and left @A/ creating a panic in which women @md children were thrown to the deck @/1 trampled upon and several men Japed over the rail. One man and o Were badly bitten by the dog before could be cornered and shot by & po- an. ‘The ferryboat ‘Atbaay wes crowded “with workers bound for Manhattan. The crowds were still streaming down the Gock toward the boat when at the etreet entrance a commotion was observed and ‘the yell “Mad dog” arose. Down the @ock with the frightened men and ‘women making a wide lane for ite rogress came the huge animal. Ae ft Ten it threw tts head to the right and Beft, snapping its foam-flecked jaws. itraight to the boat the dog ran and flyto the women's cabin. With shrieks +@f terror women and children olfmbed ‘to the benches and window sills or wought to escape through the forward doorway. The dog leaped et several ‘women in its path. Suddenly tt swung @round and dashed out upon the after deck and ran into the men’s cabin. The men, Were put to rout, several of them «limbing or jumping over the rail. into ‘the water. Tho latter were pulled’ out ty deckhands. The yells of the men frightened the log and sent it scurrying back to the ook. On its way it passed close to stwelve-year-old Alfred Spoth of West iNew York, an employee of the Barrett ‘Manufacturing Company at No. 17 Bat- tery ‘Place. The boy tried to get out of the way, but the dog utpped him in the wight leg in passing and made @ severe gash. P Out on the dock # number of men @rmed with clube tried to corner the maddened antmal. William MoOnbe, swho was driving « team belonging to ‘the American Can Co! ot No. +@ West Forty-seventh street, Jumped from ‘his wagon and tried to strike the dog cwith a large stick. The animal leaped ‘at McCabe and sank its teeth in the man's right hand. So powerful were the dog's Jaws that McCabe's hand was almost severed from his wriet. Patrolman James Furlong of West Now York joined in the pursuft and after @ hard chase in which he sent five bul- lets after the animal without effect, the succeeded in cornering tt and put- ting @ bullet through its brain, MoCabe was taken to the Pasteur In- @titute, but the boy Spoth insisted on woing to work, Tt was learned afterward that the og had gone to West New York on the ferryboat Kingston at 6 otclock. Its actions made the deckhands suspicious and they drove it from the ferry and @ock with clubs and stones, The ant- mal wandered to Monitor Park and Attacked a boy employed by @ contrac- for on some work there. The dog Knocked the boy down, but was driven way by workmen before it could bite the lad. Afterward the dog was seen wandering around West New York until it made a dash for the ferry slip. A Long Sentence But not as long as it is important: Last week The World cut a “blue streak’ through the publicity firmament, printing: OOO 4,026 “Situatiom Wanted” Ads.— 151 more than the Herald; 18,207 “Help Wanted” Ads.— 10,743 more than the Herald; 6,698 “To Let” Ads— 8,455 more than the Herald; 1,154 “Business Opportunity” Ads.— 646 more than the Herald; 650 Vacation “Resort” Ads.— 857 more than the Herald; And gave all these ads. a circulation 100,000 greater than obtainable through the Herald and Times COMBINED. The Herald is the only New York newspaper that prints even half as many ads, as The World Results of Contests in the Water Indicate That Supremacy of the Male Is Threatened, but Doc- tor Says It’s a Matter of Chill, In All Other Athletic Sports Men Still Hold the Records, and Auth- orities Declare They Will Continue in the Lead. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Ts woman about to become man's athletic superior? Recent contests in the favorite branch of summer athletics, swimming, cer- tainly seem to lead to this conclusion. Two weeks ago Miss Hiaine Golding, who has been called. the champion woman swimmer of America, outdis- tanced fourteen men, ali members of the United States Volunteer Life-Saving Corpse, in a long distance swim from Battery Potmt ¢o Steeplechase Park, Coney Island. The course was excecd- tngty rough. Only one man finished at all, and his course was shorter than Miss Golding’s, white ft took nim longer to evim it. ‘Mies Adeline Trapp, a public echoo! teacher of swimming, last month out- swam two male competitors in a rave down the Hudson from Yonkers to West Twenty-sixth street, a distance of twen- ty-one miles. Miss Trapp aleo swam through Hell Gate one rough day when fifteen men gave up the struggle. Miss Rose Pitinoff, @ Boston school- girl, recently awam from East Twenty- mixth street to Steeplechase Park, Coney Ialand, @ feat which no man has yet succeeded in duplicating. Yet authorities, athlettc and medical, will not admit tl there ts any danger of woman's immediate or even ultimate supremacy in eports. A New York Physician gtves an interesting explana- tion of feminine success in swimming contests, WOMAN STANDS CHILL BETTER THAN A MAN, “The chill ts the great handicap of the good swimmer,” he says, “And just here women possess a peculiar advan- tage. In the times when all dwelt in caves men were able to keep themselves warm by fighting and hunting. But the women had to stay at home in the caves to look after the bables and cook. The women, who had no hunting to warm their blood, suffered. So Mother Nature set to work and ‘n the course of some thousands of years built up on women | layer of productive fat. it is that fat which enables the modern woman, despite her com- parative musoular weakne: to outstrip the modern man in en- durance swims." Dr, Dudley A. Sargent, physical dl- rector at Harvard University, puts ail this in a nutshell when he says “Woman is not man's athletic superior but nature's favorite.” |, Other things being equal, it may be conceded that women can outswim men But there 1s no other athletic feat on record in which some man does not take higher rank than any woman has yet reached. The college girl 1s the person who has sent up the scale of feminine athletic achievement. ) At Vassar their 50-yard dash “time” 1s but 68-5 sec., as against 61-2 sec. for men, The women seem to do less well in the longer runs, where muscular en- durance counts. SOME RECORDS MADE BY VAS SAR GIRLS. In the fence vault Miss Mildred Vilas, a Vassar champion, recently put the recor up to 4 ft, 2% in. 4s against a masculine record of 7 ft. 3% in, Miss Helen Dorothy Clark, another Vassar girl, has made a running high Jump ot 4 ft 2% in, which compares favorably with the 6 ft. 6% in. of a college man champion, M. F. Sweeney. Miss Inez Milholland, suffragtst and Socialist orator, made and br athletic records two or three years Hor shot put of 31 ft, 8% In, stands ur beaten, in feminine contests, and she also made a wonderful basket-ball throw of 77 ft. 9 1n. Miss Marg: A, Graham, @ mill work er at Ludlow, Mass,, distanced all com- | petitors of her sex wing the | baseball, She ts on! ut & . Gin, rd for wo! 0 she on |year ago she t | also holds the world's skating, her time being 1 min. | tor a half-mile, She swam 100 23 seconds, and beat all the college girls by making @ 10-yard dash in skirts tn 21% seconds, |, Miss Isabelle Lengel, one of the taah. | tonadle women of Scranton, Pa., recent- cord by lift- fog about six times her own weight, to ly made an interesting ‘de exact, 67% pounds. Two months ago Miss Bertha Rapp, in Cincinnatt, Proved herself a first class wrestler on the return trip of the White Star To help in a Fourth he took on two of the men passengers, who believed they catch-as-catch-can wrestling. Miss Rapp forced her first Her second, who teacher of calisthentes Miner, Adriatic, of July celebration, were clever at opponent to the mat. was thirty-five pounds heavier than the woman facing him, was unable to g@oore any advantage over her. MANY RECORDS HELD BY MISS SEARS. ‘Miss Eleanora Sears holds many rec- ords in her set for driving, riding, ten- nin, golf, polo-playing and oven sero- planing. when it comes to swimming, been compelled to hand the laurels to Mias Constance Warren of New York and Newport. On the 16th of July, this year, Miss Warren swam the distance from Bailey's Beach, Newport, to Forty Steps, six miles, in 2 hour and 8 min- utes. ‘The American athletic girl is not, gen- erally speaking, an Amazon. The rec- ords sho makes are the result of merely normal development and exercise, In fact, {t seems to be the alight, wiry girl who excels, Success is seemingly due more t> nerve control than to great strength. Is this increased athletic development a good thing for women? There are many who decry {t as a destroyer of beauty. Stys Louis Potter, the soulp- tor: “There ts little of symmetry or of beauty in this new woman's figure, with its hard, knotty muscles, lke those of & pugiliet, where once you saw a th, firm flesh, well knit, not bunchy, mus- cles aud lovely curves. This new ath- letic womau has a flat chest, extremely broad shoulders, large waist and smail hips. Tue fat has been worked off untit curves are few anc far between. So you have the masculine figure.’ The artist John W. Alexander clares: “The average woman for physical culture overtrains. By hei careless system of exercise and her ath- letle excesses the modern woman will certainly create a race of girl children with figures that resemble men's yot lack manly beauty; figures that resem- ble woman's without womanly grace The modern female figure does not rep- resent splendid strength and ability to endure It !s merely ungainly through lack of symmetry." But vhether or not her at robbing woman of he of his physical supremacy, viously adding to her strength, pei 2 SE BREAKS BACK BY FALL. fos are or man ney are ob- health and John Barri Floor Window While Asleep, John Barrl thought he heard the call | to work early to-day. He only heard it In his sleep, however, so when he jumped out of bed, instead of going down the stairs as he would have done had he been awake, he walked out the back window of his apartment on the third floor, rear of No. 181 Thompson street, He was n to St. Vincent's Hospital where Dr. MeNetl found he had broken his back and cannot live Arapahoe Is Towed Into Port, The steamer Apac from Charles: ton, after towing her slster ship, the| Arapahoe from that port, passed in Quarantine at mi having left the disabled Arapahoe iravesend whence she was towed by two uarantine at 1.04 A. M. tugs past Q She once organized a wom- fan's polo team, which beat the men's team on Point Judith grounds. But she has Plunges from Third ‘FENCE VAULT ATKINSON Jers ILORED Vilas 1 STAGE FOLK PAY TO BURY BEAUTY SENT TO MORGUE Charitable Women Help Raise Fund for Decent Funeral of Virginia Adams. Former theatrical associates and sev- oral women who are especially interested in relieving distress among player folk are raising a fund for the funeral ex- penses of Virginia Adams, the pretty young actress who died Saturday et Bellevue Hospital in dire want and whose body lay in the Morgue until yesterday. “She was just a deautiful, frafi, einged butterfly,” said one of the women who has interested herself in the case to- day, “and we're going to see that ehe has @ funeral worthy of her younger girlhood. Life has been Mitter-sweet to her since she came to Broadway from nd pity should ber her por- Miss Adams was twenty-four years old, tall and blonde. She oame from llttle town, Gurdon, Ark., and drifetd to the stage in Chicago as a chorus girl, and during the run of “The Girl in the ‘Tax!’ in that city two seasons ago she played a small part. She came to New York with this company and played at the Astor Theatre and later in Boston, During the summer of 1910 ehe was in the chorus of Eddie Foy's “Up and Down Brondway” at the Casino. This was her last theatrical engagement. For months before her removal to the hospital in August, she rarely ever left her apartment at No, 300 Weset Forty- ninth street, and was said to be almost constantly under the influence of m; phine. Morphine poisoning caused death Attempts which have been made to reach her father by telegraph have been She is belleved to ea hus- Underhill in Chi > WATER MAIN BURSTS AND FLOODS STREETS. 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