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MANY GOLF TOURNEYS
Three National Championships to
Be Held In East Shortly.
AMATEURS MEET SEPT. 14-19
Garden City, N. Y., to Be Scene of
America's Blue Ribbon Event—Wo
men’s National In Washington Oct.
19*24—Myopia Club's, Aug. 27, 28.
Dame Fortune has certainly been
kind to eastern golfers this year.
Many Important tournaments have
been successfully run off, and several
more are to be decided. Among them
are three national championships. The
amateur fixture, regarded in the coun
try as the blue ribbon event of the
year in American golf, will claim at
tention at Garden City, N. Y-, the en
tire week beginning Monday, Sept 14.
On Aug. 27 and 28 the well known
links of the Myopia Hunt club, near
Boston, will once again become the
scene of a national competition. As all
close followers of the game know, the
attraction will be the open champion
ship, which has already been held
three times over the Hamilton links.
Until the tournament awards were
made at the last annual meeting of the
United States Golf association it had
been expected that the west would put
in a bid for the open rather than let
the 1908 season pass without one of the
three national attractions. But some
how or other the professionals are not
sought after nearly so much in this
country as abroad.
The other national tournament is the
women’s, to be held on the Chevy
Chase links in Washington, Oct. 19-24.
This will be the first time in the his
tory of American golf that a club so
far south has been selected for a na
tional championship. It was claimed
at the meeting by W. Fellowes Mor
gan, secretary of the United States
Golf association, that a serious mis
take would be made in sending the wo
men to Washington, where there are
practically no women golfers. The
delegates then lost no time in voting
almost unanimously in favor of Chevy
Chase, despite the fact that the women
had in written communications ex
pressed a preference for the Philadel
phia Country club.
But, after all, it must ever be at mat
ter of opinion whether or not the dele
gates acted wisely in their distribution
of the three national plums. At any
rate, New England, and more particu
larly Massachusetts, with their beloved
Myopia, are again satisfied.
In addition to the three national
tournaments, the east has its own cir
cuit of important gatherings. Every
year the tri-city competition for the
Lesley cup deeply interests the Phila
delphia, Massachusetts and Metropoli
tan associations.
Dates have been set aside in Sep
tember for an open championship of
the Metropolitan Golf association, and
all that is needed to make this tourna
ment a certainty is for some club to
offer its course and Incidentally con
sent to assume half the expenses.
There does not appear to be any dan
ger of the clubs all speaking at once.
Taking it all in all, however, the cir
cuit of competitions, including impor
tant tournaments as well as cham
pionships. is the most compact and at
tractive ever arranged in the east
EWRY IN THE OLYMPICS.
Great New York Jumper Hurpbled
Britishers.
Ray C. Ewry, the greatest standing
broad and high jumper in the world.
I
RAY C. EWRY, OLYMPIC JUMPING CHAMPION
is a member of the New York Athletic
club and lives in Bayonne, N. J.
Ewry’s exploits at the recent Olym
pic games in London will long be re
membered by sporting enthusiasts of
this country.
He won the standing broad jump and
the standing high jump for the United
States and attained marks that were
really sensational.
SHOOTING THE SUN.
Simplest Way of Locating a Ship’s
Position at Sea.
The average transatlantic traveler
displays very little interest in the nav
igation of the vessel beyond watching
the ship’s officers, sextant in hand,
making observations, says a writer in
Travel Magazine. Very few have any
idea of the process by means of which
the modern navigator is enabled to ac
curately place the ship’s position at
a stated time on the chart. Out of
sight of land a ship’s geographical po
sition is determined either by keeping
a careful record of the course steered
and the distance run, known as dead
reckoning, or by the combined use of
chronometer and sextant—that is, by
observation of the heavenly bodies.
The operation of finding the latitude
and longitude of observation can be
performed in a number of ways, of
which the simplest and most conven*
lent is by measuring the altitude of the
sun the horizon at noon, as is
indicated on the vernier of the sextant
and spoken of at sea as “shooting the
sun." An arithmetical computation by
the aid of logarithms is thus quickly
made which shows exactly how far
the ship is north or south of the equa
tor, or, in other words, the latitude.
Finding the longitude, however, is a
somewhat longer process. An observa
tion is made either in the forenoon or
afternoon, the chronometer time of the
horizon contact of the sun’s image be
ing noted. A calculation is then made
which gives the exact time at the spot
where the ship happens to be, and, as
the chronometer carried aboard shows
the exact time at Greenwich, the prime
meridian of longitude, the difference
between the two expresses in hours
and minutes (easily convertible into
degrees and miles) the distance east
or west of Greenwich.
Having thus, roughly speaking, found
the latitude and longitude, a dot placed
on the chart at the exact point where
the lines of latitude and longitude
cross denotes the ship’s position.
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A MAN’S HAT.
Why Is It Always Regarded as a Fit
Subject For Jokes?
“I wonder why it is," says a young
gentleman who spends most of his lei
sure time studying human nature at a
populous street corner, “that a man’s
hat is always regarded as a fit subject
for jokes? Anything that happens to
his shoes is a serious matter, and, al
though his vest, especially if it is out
of the usual in design or color, is
sometimes made the subject of pointed
remarks, disaster to any other garment
is regarded as a matter of sympathy.
“But if he goes to church and puts
down his hat at the end of his pew,
where somebody kicks a dent in it
and knocks it five feet down the aisle,
or if he places it carefully beside him
in a lecture room or theater and a
preoccupied young woman comes in
and sits down on it people laugh with
out seeming to feel the slightest sym
pathy for him or his sky piece.
“A man chasing his hat through the
street on a windy day will always at
tract a grinning, unsympathetic crowd
ready to lay bets on the distance the
hat will travel before he catches up
or on the amount of damage it will
sustain before it is finally recovered,
and so irritated does the owner be
come when he finds his vicious dabs
and grabs at it greeted with ironical
applause that he generally forgets to
thank the man who stops it by stamp
ing on it and hands it back. I be
lieve Joe Miller perpetrated jokes about
chasing the liat, but the heavy felts
and cocked hats of Miller’s time did
not lend themselves readily to joking
purposes, for when those old fashioned
headpieces were blown off they drop
ped to the ground and stayed there.
A panama, a stovepipe Qr even a derby
may run and fly by turns from Broad
way to the postoffice and attract as
much attention as a runaway team.”—
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Soldiers In Battle.
Those who have taken part in a bat
tle have confessed that were it not for
the shouting and the noise they would
lose their nerves and run away. There
is always an interval of cowardice in
the soldier, but it Is quickly overcome,
and he fights grimly, unmindful of im
pending death. Bands were, of course,
invented to raise the spirits of so l •
diers. Martial music, whether from
the drum or the bugle, has done a
great deal in saving campaigns. No
body can fight in a cold blooded man
ner, and in the excitement of a gen
eral engagement the most nervous of
fighters recover wonderfully.
Smoothing It Over.
Irate Individual—l’m going to square
matters with you right now! You’ve
been telling it around that I lie!
The Other Man—Nothing of the sort.
All I have said about you is that you
are habitually unveraeious.
Irate Individual (calming down) —Oh,
I don’t mind that, If that’s all. I ac
knowledge I do get that way once in
awhile. But how can a fellow help it
when everybody insists on treating
him?—Chicago Tribune.
A Scrap of History,
“General Washington, the soldiers
of the Continental army are men of
Iron,’* exclaimed the Marquis de La
fayette in admiration.
“And as a consequence,” remarked
the great commander with a sly twin
kle, “they are hard at work pressing
the redcoats.”—Woman’s Home Com
panion.
At the Barn Party.
“These country dances are enjoyable,
after all, aren’t they?”
“I tell you, the old fashioned dances
are the reel thing.”—Baltimore Amer
ican.
GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WIS., AUGUST 29 , 1908
What He Was Looking For.
“I do wish, Edward,” said the lady
of his choice, “that you wouldn’t stare
at other women so much. It’s very
rude and Is certainly no compliment to
me.”
“On the contrary, my dear,” replied
the resourceful benedict, “I was look
ing to see if I could find a prettier
face than yours, and I confess I really
cannot.”—New York Press.
Cured Hay Fever and Summer Cold.
A. S. Nusbaum, Batesvillfe,
Indiana, writes: * ‘Last year I suf
fered for three months with a sum
mer cold distressing that it interfered
with my business. I had many of
the symptoms of hay fever, and a
doctor’s prescription did not reach my
case, and I took several medicines
which seemed only to aggravate it.
Fortunately I insisted upon having
Foley’s Honey and Tar. It quickly
cured me. My wife has since used
Foley’s Honey and Tar with the
same success. ” J. T. Bennett.
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SEPTEMBER 1.2,3
BASE BALL E, %.,
Anson’s Colts of Chicago
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r,rst Base vs. Lancaster
warn .
The Fair management have secured the greatest base
ball attraction ever before the Wisconsin public. Capt.
Anson’s colts base ball team of Chicago city league is con
sidered the best team in Chicago and every base ball fan
will be able to see the grand old man play ball. Capt. Anson
was manager of the Chicago National league team for many
years and under his management they had the fastest ball
team in the world. They will positively play a game at the
GRANT CO. FAIR, Thurs., Sept. 3rd. Game called at 12:30
On Wednesday, September 2nd, at 11:00 O’clock
BLOOMINGTON VS. FENNIMORE
These teams have played a series of games—this will decide the championship for amateurs of Grant Co.
Don’t Forget the Greatest Free Attraction (Two Exhibitions
Daily) Ever Seen in This Section of Wisconsin.
THE GREAT HERAS FAMILY
The Races are filling and promise to be some hot Contests
Don’t fail to See the Big Side Shows at the Fair
Greatest Exhibits of Cattle, Horses, Sheep and Swine.
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ALL DRUGGISTS; COc. AND SI.OO.
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“Jack is so brave! He went right
into the library and said to father, *1
want to marry your daughter.’ ” *
“And what did your father say?"
“He said: ‘Good! Which one?*"—
Lippincott’s.
Indignant Disclaimer.
Vanilla Beane—How odd! That solid
gold ring of yours makes a black mark
around your finger. Hazel Nutt—Thi
ring didn’t make that mark. That—
that’s dirt!—Chicago Tribune.
How to Avoid Appendicitis
Most victims of appendicitis are
those who are habitually constipated.
Foley’s Orino Laxative cures chronic
constipation by stimulating the liver
and bowels and restores the natural
actiou of the oowels. Foley’s Orino
Laxative does not nauseate or gripe
and is mild and pleaseant to take.
Refuse substitutes. J. T. Bennentt.
* —Subscribe for the Herald.
Ready For Business
I take pleasure in announc
ing to the public that I have
started business in my
SAW MILL and
PLANING MILL
Located south of the cream
ery, in Lancaster, and am
ready to attend to all orders
properly and well. I will
also be sawing soon, in my
other mill, at Little Grant.
HENRY PAGENKOPF.
If you’d be dubbed a handsome girl*.
And win a handsome Knight,
The secret here I do impart.
Take Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea
at night. J. T. Bennett.