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TO WORK PITCHERS
WITH REGULARITY
New System to Be Tried Out by
New York Americans
Next Season. ,
New York, January 21.?"Rotation''
is the Keynote of a hew systoni of
handling the pitching Muff which has '
been adopted by the 'management of
tlic New York Americans the coming |
season- Six pitchers?Kord. Quinn. i
Vaughn, Fisher, Qaldwell ami Warhop? I
arc relied en to carry the team through !
the summer, and they arc to be work- j
i'd in turn with clock-like regularity ?
Manager Chase believes ?hat Kord's >
success lust year was wholly due to
ti c fact that ho did not pitch out ol
his regular turn, lie positively refused .
t?t po into the box unless lie was ah- '
kolutoly tit and ready, with the re- I
salt that ho was always at his best, j
Under this method of procedure Ford ;
knew exactly when lie was expected |
to pitch, and consequently nerved hint- j
sell for the task. Chase maintains !
that if the other pitchers are worked
in a similar manner, they will prove
vastly more effective and in this be- <
lief he Is supported by many close !
students of the game. It is argued j
thai a pitcher cannot be expected to.
do himself justice if lie Is suddenly
called upon to enter the box at a time i
n-hen he is hardly ready for a gruelling !
test. I
KMOKY AM) 11 lOMtY
defeats iioanoke
I Special to The Timcs-Dlspatch:j
Roanokc, V.l., Ja'ndary 24.?In one
of the prettiest basketball games evei I
played on Roanoko's-court, Emory and .
Henry last nigh I defeated Ihe local
ijuint "3 to 1 ti. The game was fas!
and furious from start to finish. Thw
score at the end of the first half was
i" to 3 jji favor of the visitors'.
In the second half the locals made
13 points to their opponents' 10. The
Bmory hoys snowed a great know?
ledge of the inside game by doing
pretty pass work. .Smith, its 'right
guard. played an excellent game,
throwing three held goals and seven
fo il goals, as well as guarding bis man
so as to keep hint from throwing any
goals whatever. For Roanoke. Reeves,
captain, and Mavis, centre, did excel-,,
lent playing.
The line-up was as follows:
Roahoke?Reeves. right forward;
Carltoh, left forward: Davis, centre;)
r:. Carl ton. right guard; Vale < Knglc
'.?>?>. left guard.
Kmory and Henry?Allen, right for?
ward: Sa ff ell, left forward; Nichols,
centre; Smith, rieht guard; Hogan, left
u. ua rd.
Coals from Held ? Reeves, 1: Yale. 1;
Davis, ::; Kngleby, 2; Allen. 2: Saffell,
2; Smith. .1: Kog.in. l. Goals from!
tree throw?Davis, I ; Yale. 1- Smith, 7. I
Referee. Smith Trent.
Major Leagues Expend Big Sums
in Preparing for Ball
Season.
New York, January -4.?A baseball '.
statistician here has just ligured that
the spring training of all the major'
league teams this year will cost about
5-00.000. The clubs hope to gather In
enough money from exhibition games
to pay a part of these expenses.
The players draw no salary tintiI
April 15, but advance money can bo
drawn by those who respond to the
early call. This privilege is generally
used pretty freely, for it Is usually
the ease that ball players have empty
pockets, after Ihe long winter lay-off.
It is ligured that nearly ?00 players
will begin practice at the major league
camps this year. Of this number at
least laO will have to be dropped when
the proper time limit arrives. The
remainder will draw about $1,000,000
in salaries, averaging $2,500 to a man.
A club that manages to get through
the se?son with less than $100,000 ex?
penses will be regarded as a curiosity.
This includes salaries, railroad lares,
hotel bills, rent, taxes and assessments,
also an outlay for new talent.
ESCAPES 'I'llROUGH WINDOW.
Prisoner GuIu.h Freedom While Officer?*
Wait for Kim
[Special to The Times-Dispatch.']
Alexandria. Vs., January 2 1-?Thomas
\j. WHson; ..sheriff of Wo'odhury. Glou?
cester .''codnty. N. .T.. accompanied by
Commonwealth's Attorney Rodgers,
also of that place. came hero this morn
Inj: armed with requisition papers for
Wilbhrn Jones, charged with wife de?
sertion. Tlioy secured the services of
city Sergeant R. H. Cox. and went to
.fones's home. 222 North St. Asaph
Street, for the purpose of taking him
back to Jersey. Jones readily con?
sented to accompany them without
hesitation.
He, however, asked to be given per?
mission to dress. This was agreed to
by all three. Jones slipped upstairs
to his room, arid there war? a little
commotion for a while as if he was
hastily preparing.
'oc sat In a room downstairs
awaiting .Ton. s's appearance as the
clock-, licked off the minutes on" by
one. Ten minutes gone, and no sound
coming from Jones's room, the min?
ions of the law became somewhat
alarmed. Without further parleying
they walked up to Jones's room, and
upon entering found he had changed
his mind about accbmpar.ybi?; th.;m,
and left by the hack second story win?
dow without leaving a note of ex?
planation.
The New Jersey officials this after
? bo'n departed for Jersey without
Jones, and it is understood they will
make no further effort tn capture hlrn
!n Alexandria.
>lnr? In?r,eo.
rPr-eclal to The Times-Dispatch.]
Frederickshurg. Va., January 24.?
Arthur Martin, of Unlonvllle, and Miss
Mattie Lee, of Spotsylyanla county,
were married at the residence here last,
rvr-nlng of Rev. It. A. Williams, who
performed the ? eremony.
For "0 Years the Hou-*" t.t Quality
Straus, Gunst & Co.,
Distillers and Hlnnders ol
Pine Whtftklea.
Drink Old Henry
Ita Long Record Proven lta Merit.
The buyer who knows the dift'erenc
n automobiles will own a
Jone<T Motor
Car Co.
Auen Ave. anrl Br?iJ Strait
The. Worft Acto Sales Co., 439-501
W Main Sl Phone Madison 706?
Destinn says,
"The Hardman
has become an
intimate part of
my daily life."
Let ns send you a catalog
FREE.
?j
Walter D. Moses !
103 E. Broad Street.
Oldest Music House in Va.
and N. C.
Barley Thorpe, Favorite at 4 to j
5, Is Disappointment of
- Day.
Jacksonville. Fla., January 2 1.?Cold I
weather curtailed the attendance at '
Moncrlef to-day. The greatest disap?
point ment proved to be Barley Thorpe,
the 1 to 5 favorito in the fourth race,
who finished outside the money. Her?
bert Turner, at 10 to 1, captured the
long end of the purse. Summaries:
First raci--purse. 5 100: two-year
olds, three furlongs?Efficiency (7 to !
5) first, High Brow (ti to lj second.
American Girl (S to 5) third. Time.
:34 4-5. I
Second race?selling. $100, three
year-olds, six furlongs?Congo (13 to
?'?> first, Dress Parade II. (t; to 1) sec-:
und, Detroit (4 to 1) third. Time,
1:14 2-5.
Third race?selling. $?00, threo-ycarv
olds, live and a half furlongs?Grenada j
(5 to 1) first, Premier (even) second,'
Golden (7 to 5) third. Time, 1:07 1-5. j
Fourth race?purse, $500: three-year
olds and up, six furlongs?Herbert !
Turner (40 to 1) first. Bye Straw (6 |
to 5) second, U. See It (? to 10) third.
Time, 1:13.
Fifth race?four-year-olds and up,
six furlongs?Bell Mawr (3 to 11 first.
Harcourt (6 to 1) second. Mapleton (15
to t) third. Time. 1:13 415.
Sixth race?selling, $400, four-year- '
olds and up. one mile and a sixteenth? >
Spindle (15 to l) first. Queen Margue?
rite (1 to 1) second. Merman (IS to 5)
third. Time, 1:4S 4-5.
V. arj C. Ai to Piny College.
[Special to The Times-Dispatch.j
Lynchburg. Va., January 24.?The
local V. M. C. A. basketball team will
play Emory and Henry College here
Thursday night. The local association
team is probably one of the best Y.
M. C. A. quints in the South, and it.
seems to be stronger this winter than
heretofore.
AM?SEMENTS
Academy?"The Honey Boy Mins?
trels," nuit In re mid night.
Bijou?"The Little Girl That He For?
got."
I ai bin?Vaudeville.
The Only One In Its Class.
As a minstrel show, the aggregation
now on the road as George Evans's
"Honey Boy Minstrels," stands alone
Not on\y was the house packed auf
jammed last night, although Cohan and
Harris presented, with one or twr
changes, the identical performance las'
April, but hundreds in the audience
were seeing it for the second time, and
yel the same howls of uncontrollable
laughter swept through the house time
and time again, and the same roars of
applause rolleSl up from the orchestra
and down from ihe balcony and gallery.
One of the few instances where a "re?
peater" repeated its success.
The first' part of the program is oi
the conventional minstrel character,
but the house liked every bit of it. The
singing of Yaugh'in Comfort,'the in?
terlocutor of Clarence Marks, a heavy
trough bass: of Tom Kane, a baritone;
of James Median, a tenor, and of Matt
Keefc-, n yodeler, with all their various
methods and tricks, was varied enough
in its range and style to win noisy
applause for each of the singers. And
so warm was the house, that when,
John King, who Is, next to Evans, the
best man In the troupe, told the job',
containing the line, "git out or do way
rabbit, and let somebody run whar Ui/i
run," a Joke Invented by Polk Millet
here in Richmond ninny years ago, i?
laughed heartily. And thas takes noun
warmth.
Toward the close of the first part
James J, Corbett was Introduced am
played interlocutor. Eater, Corbett
made one of the b<g hits of the- evening
In his talk about "the recent quarrel in
Ren i." The man talked so modestly, so
clearly, and so very interestingly con?
cerning the downfall of the "whin
man's hope-," that the house didn't want
him to stop. lie said?but there will be
two more opportunities to hear him.
There was the same remarkable drill
after the Zouave fashion?a number oi
men trotting, double-timing, shuffling
about the stage at. a very fast quick?
step, grounding arms as one man
whirling their guns In the air and
catching them with one rattle, "maze
marching" most Intricately, and all
without a word of command, and. ap?
parently, without a leader. The "Scenes
From BiackvUle" form the least in?
teresting portion of the performance---!
that number was relieved only by the
very clever soft shoe dancing of Tom?
my Hyde.
But George M. Cohan's skit, "Th?
Firemen's picnic," is the cream of the
whole tiling. In this absurd farce. Sam
Lee gets his chance as the "bad nigger."
so bad that the ambulance bells are
his only music, and in it George Evanr
comes into his own. If there is a fun?
nier man In th* world, he hasn't been
to this town In thi^s. geperatlon-yhe it
literally and screamingly absurd. John
K'ng was funny, as he always Is, as the
chambermaid. Charles Hilliard mailt
up well an Jcsimima, but Both well
Brown, who played the. part la?t year
Is missed.
There was so much of fun and clever
nass in Ihe performance that Evans's
bad throat was forgotten and his sing
ing not miss"d. Several others were
out of voice, but It didn't matter?
everybody was happy. Vr. D. G.
! vi (rii to Box Kllbnne.
Cleveland, p., January 24.-?Abo At
tell, featherweight champion, has
signed articles to box Tommy KII bane,
local feat herwelgbt. before a elm, nef.r
here on the night of February 3: i lie
men will weigh 121 pounds at 3 o'clock
and the bout will bo for ten rouuda.
THREE PREMIER SPORTSMEN
liafts From Sportland
By G. MALBERT
Now H is Just eighty-elx days until the
world is right.
James J. Corbett raruo to. Richmond, went
to Murphy's Hotel, sat down at a tab'.c. and
Hi"!! ordered a good, old-fashioned Virginia
dinner?ham and greens. HniBhcd off with a
generous portion of homo-mado mince pie.
Also bo it known that Charlie McKeo was
the tlrst man who evor put Corbett intu '
baseball.
No need to name dates, because it might |
be embarrassing to all concerned, but
Charlie McKeo w?b at the time owner of tho |
Patcrson Club in tho old Atlantic League.
Corbett was champion heavyweight pugilist I
of the world.
Owner McKcc thought that Corbett would
be a good drawing card at the ball park,
so ho made arrangements with tho big fel?
low to go over to Lancaster to play first
base, as Patcrson was to be In Lancaster on
the date arranged.
Alex. Jones was pitching for Taterson.
WcFtlako, an uncle of tho Westlako who
worked for Danville in the Virginia League,
was catching. Corbett was a greenhorn at
the game of baseball, but he was neverthe?
less a great attraction, and tho ball park
was crowded with thousands who had come
to get a good look at the champion and
watch him play ball.
Jim was a little loary of tho pitcher, so
he walked over to Charlie McKec and asked
him to kindly let Jones toss 'em up. It was
all fixed, and Jim threw out his chest, much
as if to say, "Watch tho hero come."
In fact, he had been kidding everybody
In sight about what be would do to that
pollet when It sailed over.
The bases were empty and two men down
when tho champion came up. Jones lobbed
one across and Jim swung with all of his
190 pounds, mostly muscle. He hit It, but It
went tnto the air about fifty feet and West
lake grabbed lt. "H-." said Corbott, "do
you expect a man to bit a pin cushion?"
Corbett went over to renew his acquaint?
ance with McKee, and Colonel Murphy, an?
other friend of tho ex-champlon, Joined the
party to swap a few yarns. Tho-older fans
will remember when Corbett played baseball
In Richmond.
Virginia League affairs, by the way, are
in good shape. All of 'ho clubs continue to
be successful in corralling the "onlicst only"
ones in the business, and as the managers
arc all satisfied It looks like a big season.
Strikes me that It's about time President
Williams was making a few remarks about
umpires und affld&v.ts concerning salary.
Much is expected of Williams, and It can
I do no harm to open up his plan of cam?
paign rlsht now.
I Mlley, on the Lynchburg Advance, is hand
I ing out a good line of talk every day. It
: might bo well for some of the other scribes
; to take note of some of tho things he Is
1 saying. Me has a happy faculty of hitting
! the nail on the bead, and it saves a lot of
I bruises to hit fairly and squarely.
Of all the dead ones, slow ones and wood
burning travelers I have ever met tho crowd
of sports' writers In Virginia are the very
worst.
Hero the Amalgamated Order of Sports
Writers In Virginia is more than four weeks
old and not a single man. with the oxcop
> tion of tho Lynch burg scribe has signified
Ibis intention of coming to the l>lj? meeting
I next month when the magnates got together.
I flus Salve. let go by Manager Sullivan, will
likely work In the Pacific Coast League, next
season. At least that's where ho writes ho
is going. Cue caught cold In his arm somo
I time ago and is anxious to get into a warm
country.
i _
j Corbet I tells everybody that while be is on
j parade be keeps his eyes open for future
, hopes of the white race. Going Into the
Academy he got a look at Izzie Bernstein,
Rat and Roach Paste
attracts by odor.
Drives them out of
the house for air
^ and water. They
never die inside.
Sickness means loss of warm. Rat*,
mice, mache?, vermin poison your food
and cause sickness. Protect yourself
by killing them. Insist on Msurer's.
Used 62 Years Never Fails
All Druggists 10c & 25c Boxes
D. MAURER & SON CO., Phila.
*HE CAM THAT HAtf NO VALVfcJS.
Guaranteed Engino Service.
Price, $1,200 to ?2,500.
Imperial Motor Car Co,, Distributern
1B31 IV. Broad St. Phone Mon. J213.
SETS THE
Reo "30" With Fore Doors
Price $1,350
Including wind shield; top extra.
ItEO UOTOn SALES CO.,
South Boston, Va.
the. diminutiv? sp&clmen who handles props
at that playhouse; weight. :i6. The ex- |
champ remarked that he was a pretty husky!
boy. Now they aro enlarging the prop-room
until the swelling goes down.
Over in Baltimore, a howl is being raised
nhottt tho Haekcnschmldt-Amcricus wrest?
ling bout, which huppcncd u few days ago
Tho sports say that thoy cot the worst of
It, and tho papers agree. The match left a
bad taste In tho mouths of the men who
paid the price.
Same old story. Looking fop easy money
Is all that the big fellows arc doing, and
sooner or later the fans wake lip to the facti,
Gus Schoonlcln (Amcrlcus) Is a Baltimore
boy, and he seemingly feels tho adverse
criticism, as he Is out in an explanation say
ing that It's not his fault.
Walter Johnson ts tho tatest holdout. lie
refuses to sign tho contract McAleor sent
him until more money Is ,ln siijht. Some?
times It's good to toll a m.in he's good, and
sometimes It costs money.
The Sporting Writers' Association of Phil?
adelphia is planning to entertain Harry
Davis, Ed. Collins and Sherwood Magee on
February 20 at dinner. Maybe Magee will
sign a contract at the dinner, or after.
Frank Bowerman, he who helped to make |
the old Orioles tho champion baseball team
of the world. Is out of a job. He has had a
checkered career recently. After being with
the Giants he was given a job with tho
Boston Doves, finally managing tho team
until he earned his release. Now Indianapo?
lis has let him out. Thus do we get It when
our hair turns gray. But Frank is pretty
well heeled, so they say.
Marvin Hart, who Is neither a down-and
out or a has-been, seeing as how he Is mere?
ly a never-wna. is out In a statement to the
effect that Carl Morris can !ick Jack John?
son; can really hug him to death. Now,
men, after this statement get busy and put
your money on the?smoke.
I Outside of the T. M. C. A., so far as I
know, there is not another athletic club in
Richmond. Why? Simply looking for in
I formation. Will somo kind friend please an?
swer?
I Gus Rchoenleln. of Baltimore, whose stage
name, or rattier mat name, is Amcrlcus
presumably because he canto from Germany,
will journey to New York to-morrow, wherd
/Shyscko has agreed to throw him and
I "Yankee" Rogers and Padow.*ki all In one
I hour. Quite an undertaking for tho role.
Boston, where happened a tea party and
where the bean flourliheth. Is to have an
aeroplane factory. "Mental aborratlon,
coupled with ambient heterodoxy," will bo
tho opinion of the highbrows.
Abe Attcl! performed as usual ?>londay
night, lie toyed with Billy Allen, the Cana?
dian champion bantam. It was a six-round
affair, and Abe simply kept It going to get
tho money and another match. Oh, you
feed money!
"Poker," remarked the aviator. laying
down a copy of Hoyle, "Is the safety valvo
of tho thinking man. There Is nothing
which will give a man a chance to get rid
of verbal pyrotechnics under perfe-ctly justi?
fiable conditions as poker. Great Is the
game, and greater Is the Inventor."
The latest rumor from Windyvdlln Is that
Archer is to play first base for the Cubs this
sea'son. Such foolishness. If Archer didn't
show tip Kling durnng the world's series,
then show me. Better try some one else and
let Archer continue where he belongs.
! Brownie Irwin, who, we are Informed by
Lynchburg, lives lu Woodstock, will have a
hard t lino making good in the Virginia
League, next season, says Mlley. Maybe,
maybe.
Mr. Fan had Just as well realize now as
later that Virginia is going to have good
baseball next season. The best ball this
league has ever had was when the salary
limit was considerably less than It is to?
day. That goes.
Pennsy has been forced out of the Big
Four, and next year will have no game with
either Harvard or Yale or Princeton. The
Quakers wif] build an entirely now schedule,
attempting to get such games as will prove
their strength.
Wm. Earle Hammersley
Another youngster nerurci! by Stilll
. vim vtho will try to make ?ond tin a
?ucaiJier of lUckmond'? pitching utnff.
THREE REMOVED
FOR SAFE KEEPING
I _
[Special to The Times-Dispatch.]
I Palmyra, Va., January 24.?A rumor,
which is thought here to be witnout
foundation, that a mob wats terming
to take the throe men, Harlow and hie
son and ProiTott, who wero lodged in
jail here for tho murder of O. B. l'aco,
I resulted in the removal of tho three
prisoners to-day to the Charlotlesvlile
jail.
On Christmas Day, It is alleged. ..ar
! low went to Pace's house, in his ab?
sence, und insulted Pace's sister. In
! the afternoon of the same day Harlow
returned with his son. and-nis friend,
Proffctt, and Pace, who was then at
j home, ordered them not to enter his
' yard. Pace, standing on his own
ground, knocked down the first to ap
preach, it is reported, and the three of
them attacked Pace, who was unarmed,
I and in the tight Pace was stabbed in
j the neck by Proffctt, and died from the
j wound three days later.
Much indignation is felt over Lie
matter, but Fluvanna is a law-abiding
county, and expects the law to give I
the murderer his deserts. I
Missionary Society Committees
Outline Program for Big
Event.
A tentative program was formulatod
and committees to arrange for the
Interdenominational missionary Jubi?
lee to be held February 5> and 6 were
appointed yesterday at a mooting of
tho President? of" the women's and
girls' societies held In St. Paul's Epis?
copal Church.
Tho proposed program follows:
February 5?Prayer services at 4
P. M., conducted by Mlsa Miller, fol?
lowed by a short talk by Mrs. Helen
H. Montgomery. 8 P. M., address by
Mrs. Montgomery and Dr. Mary Noble |
February 6?10:30* to noon, denomi?
national rally. Luncheon at noon, with
addresses by Dr. Noble and Miss
Mtllor.
Tho committees named Include:
Committee on music?Chairman. Mr.
Hill; assistants, Mrs. Arthur Scrivenor,
Miss Mamie West. Miss Digga and
Joseph White.
Committee on young people?Miss
Kalo Meado, chairman; Mrs. W. L.
Lenke, Misses Lillian Bowman, Hester
Tabb and Katharine Rhoads.
Committee on luncheon?-Mrs. Chiles
Ferrell, chairman; Miss Bottle Elly
son. Mrs. James Grlgg, Mrs. S. P. Wad
dell, Mrs. Herbert Dalton and Mrs.
James Sutton.
Place of meeting?Mrs. T. C. John?
son and Miss Sallle Doane.
Literature?Misa Katharine Hawes.
chairman; Mrs. John Garland Pollard,
Alisa Jennie Hughes. Miss Sue Noalo,
Miss Gillie Ca it. Miss Elizabeth Wil?
son.
Chairmen on tho cottage prayer
meetings and jubilee offerings?Vice
presidents of the union.
Press committee?Mrs. Lucile Curry.
The union accepted an Invitation of
Mrs. William Hodges Mann to hold an
interdenominational prayer meeting at
the Executive Mansion Fcbrtiarv 2 at
1 P. M.
Arrangements for the jubilee will
be completed at a meeting to be held
next Monday morning at 11 o'clock.
CHARTERS ISSUED
Tho following charters were Issued venter-'
flay l>y _the State Corporation Commission:
The Dungnnnon and Nlokelsvllle Teiepho ?>
Company. Nlekelsvllle, Va. J. W. Broad
water, president: .1. J. QulMan. vice-presi?
dent: R. L. McConnell. .1. \V. Bostlc. L\ P.
Yuillln, IL W. Dougherty. F. B. Horn?all
of Nlckolsville, Va. Capital: Maximum. ?5.
000; minimum. fwO. Objects; Operate a
telephone line.
R. L. Shield Company fine.). Onancnck.
Va. R. I.. Shield, president; F. Bay .Shield,
secretary; Dr. O. L. Powell?all of C'nan
cock, Va. Capital: Maximum. $60, COO; mini?
mum.- JC5.000. Objects: General morcantlie
business.
The Corrugated Taper Company (Inc.),
Norfolk;, Vn. V.". D. Hemingway, president
and treasurer; .1. S. Heller, vice-president;
S.-unue! I.lnthlcum, ?ecreiary?All of Norfolk. |
Capital: Maximum, {J".0.(.?y>; mlniinum.
ooo. Objects: Manufacturing and dealing in
corrugated paper.
Norfolk Truckers' Exchange (Inc.). Nor?
folk. Va. \V. J. Land, president; n. L. Hell,
vice-president; TV. E. Hermanco, secretary;
W. D. Stoak'.ey. sales manager-rail of Nor?
folk, Va Capital: Maximum. $76,(09; mini?
mum. $5,000. Objects: nuylnar and selling i
produce, operating warehouses, etc.
Brown Furniture Company (Inc.). Bleb-i
JAMES J. CORBETT
REVIEWS RENO FIGHT
Tells Big Audience That Jeffries Simply Collapsed
Under Attack of Nerves?Delaney's Quitting
Hurt, Too?Pompadour Jim Scores
Personal Triumph.
I
nv Iiis Jl ALBERT.
"The greatest actor-pugilist and the
j greatest pugilist-actor" is what some
wiseacre has called James .1. Corbett,
and he proved it last night, when ho
I told the people of Richmond?or as
j many as could get in the Academy?
the reason or reasons for the defeat
of the great boilermaker of tho coast.
Gentleman Jim, boxer par excellence,
redeemer of the ring from the sloughs
into which the prize fighters had
thrown it, establlshcr of a new code
of ring ethics, and maker of a new
style of boxing, held thut audience,
j which literally tilled every nook and
I corner ot the Academy last night, for
I exactly eighteen minutes, while he
I spun his yarn and narrated the
I many Incidents immediately preceding
and immediately after the "recent un?
pleasantness" at Reno.
Corbett is a born actor. If lie had
essayed any particular role on tlte
i boards prior to his entree into pugi?
lism, he would have made good. It
took many hard battles to get hiui
before the people, but he's there now,
and he puts his talk over in such'style
that you like it. What is more, ho
tells you his story so .that you
so that you believe it. c fhlyhpreceding
you believe it. Not a single man or
woman in that audience but Is now
firmly convinced that Jeff met his
Waterloo because, of the fact that he
lacked confidence; gave way to a lit
I of nerves.
Jeff A'o Coward.
It didn't, come all of a sudden. It
j was growing all the time. From the
; moment the pompadour olio arrived in
camp to box with the "native son," to
' tho time when he was introduced to
! that immense gathering at Reno, where
? the Alkali bites and the sun shines
I hot, it was growing. Corbett drew a
i line distinction between cowardice and
nerves.
"Jeff is no coward," he said. "Many
a brave man suffers from nervous
collapse, and that's what happened to
Jeffries. There were many things con
tributing to this condition. The. first
I came when the Governor of California
issued an ult'matum to the effect that
! the fight could not take place in that
I State. Jeffries went nil to pieces. He
i was used to the climate, knew the peo?
ple, was in fine condition, and tho sud
! den order to move to Reno shook liirn
i up a bit.
"We went to the Nevada town, and
the only quarters wo could get were
i in a roadhouse. The piano was go?
ing all night, automobiles were com?
ing and going, everybody wanted to
see Jeffries, and most of them did, and
each fight fan would come, up to him,
slap him on tho back and say, 'Jeff old
man, you've got to win this light.'
j Kons Worry Big Fellow.
"It had an awful effect upon him.
Ho would worry andVworry about what
tlie public, would say if he lost. I told
him frequently that ho shouldn't worry
about the outcome, to let the public
do the worrying. The public had made
him fight when he didn't want to, and
so it was the public's business.
"Jeff Is a hard man to get close to.
He didn't make a confidant of any?
body. He wouldn't even tell me what
It was that, bothered him. I found out
some things after the light, but it was
too lato then."
Corbett then went on to tell of the
days beforo the fight, days in which
he pleaded with the big fellow to un?
burden himself, to brace tip and for?
get, everything. Then he told of the
effect that Billy Helaney's being in
Johnson's corner had on Jeff.
"You may not ,?co this point," con?
tinued Jim, "but to those of un who
knew him, it meant a wholo lot. Von
see, Delanoy had been Jeff'a manager,'
had always been his chief trainer, and
Jeff simply, could not get over the,
fact that he ?was In the other fellow's
corner.
Didn't Sleep Much.
"Jeff dldn'l sleep lor two nights be?
fore the right. Ills wife told me after
it was over that the night before the
tight he had sat in front of the win?
dow all night long. I know that he
did not sleep the night before that. But
the most striking thing happened on
the day of the fight. In the morning
we played cards to while away the
time.
"Jeff didn't know a spade from a
club, or a heart from a diamond. It
worried me. Then we drove out to
tho arena. When we walked in he
looked like a man dazed. Now don't
misunderstand me. He was not drug?
ged. That stuff 1b all rot. He was
simply In a state of nervous collapse.
"He had come back physically, but
the old confidence was gone, and with?
out It you can't win at anything. I
know, because I have been there. But
to return to what I started talking
about. Farmer Burns, who was in
Jeff's camp, was rubbing him down,
Jeff was laying on his stomach when
f came in. I looked at Burns, and there
was a big tear rolling down his cheek.
I didn't ask what was the matter, be?
cause I knew.
Using* Ilend lu Hing.
"When Jeff stepped into the ring he
was a wreck. lie lookod the part as
ho was Introduced to the crowd; A
man would certainly want to look his
best then. But Jeff stood with his head
bowed and his legs stretched wide
apart. He looked what he was?a
nervous wreck. He didn't fight a sin?
gle round. Ho didn't fight a second.
He simply hung on. and that's where,
in my opinion, Johnson was helped.
"Before the articles of agreement
were signed 1 hogged Jeff to cut out
hitting in the clinches. I knew that
that was Johnson's long suits I told
Jeff that I had battled with -him (Jeff)
on two occasions, and that I had found
him one of the poorest boxers I had
j ever faced, and again pleaded with him
I to cut out the hitting in the clinches
land the breaks, but he wouldn't listen
to reason.
"To sum It all up. Jeff lost because
j his nerve was gone. lie worried too
: much, and a big, overgrown boy like
Jeff can't stand much of a mental
strain."
Torheit 4?, but Don't Look It.
I Corbett. was recelvod with an ova?
tion, and received another when he
bowed his way off the stage. The
forty-five years to which he confesses
rest very lightly on his shoulders. He
Is the same big, muscular fellow he
was of yore, lithe of limb and fleet of
foot. He won his way to his auditors
by his strong personality, and the peo?
ple who listened liked hfs talk and be?
lieved him. Not a single telltale mark
remains of his many battles. Robust
' and healthy looking, his black hair and
clear eyes belie his years. i
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Two
One driven by Billy Knipper the
other by Joe Matson, averaged a
mile a minute for every minute
they were on the track at the open?
ing of the Atlanta Speedway.
These two "30's" won every event
offered in their class?100 per cent,
of victories. Their total winnings
for the week were 5 firsts, 11
seconds and 8 thirds, 'including
first and second place in the 100
mile race for the Candler trophy.
Chalmers Quality
Counts
Gordon Motor Co., Inc
"Cars of Character"
RICHMOND. - - VIRGINIA.
mond. L. n. Brown, president: narry Hg>
Lawdor, secretary; J. E. Trevllllan. T. Fj
Bryce??all of Richmond. Capital: Maximum,
$15,000; minimum, fS.000. Objects: Furni?
ture buslucisa.
Meridian b'ales Company (Inc.), Alexun?
dria, Va. W. P. Meredith, president. Manna,
eas, Va.; C. C. Dawson. secretary, Washing?
ton. D. C; Paul V. Porter, treasurer, Alex?
andria, Va. Capital: Maximum. $U,C<6|
ininmum, 51.000. Objects: Automobile- bua
Inesj.
An amendment was Issued to trie charier;
of the Dime Savings Bank, of Washington,
D. C. (Inc.), Alexandria. Va., changing the
nain* to Bank of Commerce and Saving*
i Inc.)
FAYETTEV1LLE MAY GET
, INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE
\i;pnt of .Southern lltircnii of Educu*
tion In Looking Over
Ground.
[Special to The Tlmes-Dlspatch.1
Fayetteville, N. C. January in.??
Rev. Thomas Hambiy, assistant secre?
tary of the Southern Bureau of Educa?
tion, arrived in Faycttovillo to-day, and
Is the guest at Hotel Lafayette of the
Fayetteville Chamber of Commereo
The bureau hua In view the establish?
ment in the South of a largo industtial
college and school for whites only, arid
Mr. Hambiy is here prospecting*. Tha
bureau corresponded with the industiia!
department of the Atlantic Coast Una
Railway, In regard to the best location
on their lines to establish the college.'
The department recommended Fayctte*
villo, and referred the matter to thj
Fayettevillo Chamber of Commerce. The
Chamber appointed a committee, with
Dr. J. J. Hall as chairman. It cor?
responded with the bureau, -with tho
result that Mr. Hambiy came here to
look over the ground. The Intention
of the bureau is to establish a modern,
thoroughly equipped industrial collefe,
at an outlay of SI.300.000, "If a
suitable site with f-,000 acres of land
can be obtained.
The Southern Bureau of Education
har. on its roll of officers and its di?
rectorate some of the foremost men of
the South, such as Bishop Thomas C.
Carter, Hon. W. D. Wright, General
George W. Gordon. Judge R. M. Barton
and others.
REWARD OF SSfiO OFFF.nED
FOR SEWS OF HARRY T. HEARS
New York, January 24.?The polico
were informed to-day that a reward
of $2">0 had been offered for news of
Harry T. Mears. of Olney. Va.. who ha*
been missing since January 14. Mear.=r
Is said to have withdrawn $1.000 upon
that date from a fund which he had
recently Inherited, after telling his
brother, A. W. Mears, of Baltimore,
that he was going to Philadelphia.
Mears reached Philadelphia, and called
upon the firm of Moyor &? Company,
hut has not been heard from since.
Rebherle* Reported
P. J. Lcnahan, of ?0S South Seventh Strret.
reported to the police yesterday that 1:1s
place was entered Monday night and robin i
of $l? worth of whiskey and brandy. E;>~
tranco was gained through a rear window.
Claude F. Patrick, of 1W South Third
Street, reported that his place had been en?
tered .md that feveral nieces of Jewelry
had been stolen from Ullle Booker.
Mnnrlnge> licenses.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday in
the Hustings Court to Richard Turner Pratt,
of Caroline county, and Courtney Tay loa
Gnintp; Vincent lt. Adam*-, of Townsvi?i?,
N* <".. and Gertrude Helen W?U: Douglas
Campbell and Elizabeth Cnbell Hartsook,
and to Charles Rlddlck Crosj. of Durham,
N. C. and Rosa Lee Parrlsh.
TJnldcn-tmed Mnn Killed.
rSpecial to Tho Times-Dispatch. 1
Suffolk, Va., January 24.?An un?
identified man was killed early to-day
on tho Seaboard Air Line from eont"< t
Avlth an overhead bridge, where tho
Atlantic Coast Line crosses the Sea?
board tracks.
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