The evening times. [volume], January 03, 1907, Image 6

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"TED" SCHUMACHER
10 MICE III
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Will Meet Orr Anderson on
Seven Corners Ice Rink on
Jan. 6.
'Ted" Slnmiacher oil this city,
champion half mile skater of the west
has accepted the challenge of O. W.
Anderson the St. Paul whirlwind for
a match to come off in the city at the
Seven Corners rink. The race will be
puled of on the night of Jan (i, best
two out of three half mile heats, win
ner to take the side money and per
centage of the gate receipts. The
event will be one of the big ones of
the winter sports in the Twin Cities
as both men have reputations that will
stand them in good stead with the
metropolitan crowds that swarm to
the rinks on special nights.
"Ted" Schumacher the local man is
one of the most popular of the ice men
In the state and outside of Xorval
Baptie, the world's jnampion skater
who is also a North Dakota product,
has no one who can touch him for
speed. He has speed to burn and
from the rapid strides forward the
past two years will undoubtedly be
one of the top notchers in the coun
try within a very few years. He won
his laurels in this city and over the
state last season by defeating all
comers. P. S. Pohnson and Halcrow
In O. W. Anderson, the North Da
kota champion has a Jiard row to hot
ter the Twin City man has defeated
everything In Duluth, Superior, Minne
apolis, St. Paul and several other large
cities. He is matched to go against
Chas. Rankin at Calumet, Mich., dur
ing the month. Rankin is the holder
of the championship of Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Michigan.
WILLlUflURES
Prominent Skaters Will At
tend 'Fest'' in This City
on Jan. 10.
Will Raymond of the firm Soren
son and Raymond, proprietors of the
Belmont Ice rink, announces that a
speed tournament will lie held on
the local ice probably on the 10th of
the month. Ed. Smith, of Duluth and
Webb a Superior man have announced
their intentions ot entering and ne
gotiations are pending with Rankin,
Anderson and other good skaters. Lo
cally J. S. Johnson and "Ted" Schu
inacher will "do stunts" while Hal
row of Bowesmont and several other
men in the state are invited to be
present Norval Baptie is now tour
ing the state and may possibly lend
his presence to the gathering for a
few handicap races and skating ex
MMUons. Baptie is a great favorite
In the city and his return is sure to
be a big drawing card.
The local skaters to the number of
balf a dozen are out afternoon and
evening training for the events and
by the middle of next week will be In
fine fettle.
BY THE COAST
COLLEGES
Substitution of it for Ameri
can Game Was a Rank
Failure.
In-so-much as Rugby lias been of
fered as a solution to the football
problem, the following is highly in
teresting:
Three different solutions of the foot
ball reform problem have been tried.
In the East Columbia has covered her
self with distinction of a certain sort
(akin to extinction) by abolishing the
game, while other colleges have play
ed the new gaifie, the game of the on
side kick and forward pass, of the
ten yards to gain and the "neutral
zone." In the far West, on the coast,
the Rugby game has been tried. The
story of the experiment is seasonable
and mighty interesting and not very
flattering to the exponents of the Eng
lish game for American colleges. At
Stanford for instance—and Stanford
is the coast champion for 1903
—there is a vigorous demand for
1903—there is cigorous demand foi
the new American revised game.
The advocates of the reformed Am
erican game at Stanford insist that
comparisons must be made not be
tween Rugby and the game of 1904, in
which mass play was predominant,
but between Rugby and the open game
of 1906. Special claims made for the
English game in California were:
First, its open play. But the Stanford
students argue that the "reform"
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NORTH DAKOTA CHAMPION.
"Ted" Schumacher who is Matched
Against Anderson of St. Paul for
Race on Jan. 6.
both holders of the championship ot
the North Dakota at different times,
were pushed to the rear and Rinde,
the Grafton speeder, was clearly out
classed.
game is just as open, and—they em
phasize this—more in accord with the
spirit of American sport, striking the
fairest possible balance between in
dividual work and team play. Second
ly, it was argued that the Rugby game
being new to the coast, could be sup
ervised from the start with the idea
of keeping out the evils of "commer
cialism." But, is the answer, this
watchword "commercialism" is bor
rowed. from the East, and the spirit of
it has never invaded the intercolle
giate sport of the far West. Thirdly,
the advocates of Rugby argued that
its adoption would do away with the
idea of sport for the sake of winning,
and would be a game for the many,
not for the few. To this the "new
football" people reply, with a year's
experience to back them up, that this
year, as previously, the teams have
been pointed for a final championship
contest, while the number of candi
dates for the team was practically the
same as the year before.
A summary of the season's history
shows that the attempt to introduce
Rugby into the preparatory schools
of California was a failure. High
schools ii and about Frisco and the
neighboring cities played the game
under the revised tales used univer
sally in the East. In the high school
for Polo Alto, the Stanford town,
where the school authorities made a
determined stand for the English
game, it was only after suspending
seven students that they were able to
coerce the school into playing Rugby.
One small college, Columbia like, drop
ped the Bport entirely To attempt to
transplant the English game made
trouble because it was impossible to
wipe out at a stroke the old tradi
tions, and because the milder spirit of
English sport could not be grafted up
on the sturdy American stock. As
the Stanford Sequoia puts it editorial
ly: "We began with Rugby thirty
years ago, and it has taken three de
cades to build up the splendid game
that is all our own."
But the hardest obstacle the Rugby
people had to buck up against was the
fact that "reform" foot ball, the open
game, was having phenomenal suc
cess among the colleges, big and lit
tle, of the East. Aleck Chalmers, cap
tain of Stanford's 1905 team, is dead
against the Rugby game. "Is Rugby
a worthy substitute for the old game?"
he writes in response to a request for
his opinion. "I can't say that it is.
There were many objections to the
old game. but. the only important, one
is that of the "mass plays.' They
don't, appeal to the spectators, ana
much less to the player. Three hard
seasons of such play is too great a
strain. Such plays should be done
away with, and they are done away
with in the game as it is now played
in the East.
"There is no reason why this Amer
ican game can't be made even more
open than it is without further change
of rules—such as passing the ball on
kickoffs or after any kick. Its plays
and formations are more constant
than they are in Rugby. Every man
is detached and free to use his skill
as he is taught. In Rugby half of tht
players are strung out clear across
the field, while the other half are
tightly jammed together, heads down,
hands and arms used as ropes, one
foot Tor pushing and the other for
hooking the ball out. Such a forma
tion is too much like mass play, with
main strength as the requirement.
"We changed to Rugby because the
American game was corrupted in the
East now the new American game
has been adopted almost universally.
Why shouldn't, we consider it—at least
give it one year's trial?"
Others are with ex-Capt. Chalmers,
while there is a faction which is for
Rugby, fearing that if a stand is made
for the other game the faculty will
put the ban on foot ball altogether.
Half a loaf may be better than no
bread, but most men prefer to make
a bold try for the whole loaf. A good
argument brought forward by the
anti-Rugby majority is that next fall
the English fame will be harder to
boom than ever, because the new rules
have made good, and there will be no
such confusion as there was this year,
when the sport in any form was in
danger.
HOMAS
Unplaced once in 44 starts in the re
markable record of E. S. Gardner's lit
tle gelding Charlie Eastman, now rac
ing at New Orleans.
Why do they want another first
baseman in Detroit. Didn't Sam Craw
ford lead the American league first
sackers last season?
Parties in Detroit are trying £o ar
range a wrestling match between
Hackenschmidt, the "Russian Lion,"
and Fred Beel, the Wisconsin wrestler.
George Blackburn, who is to man
age the Vicksburg club the coming
season, won the Cotton State league
pennant in 1902 with the Natchez
team.
Two Central league clubs besides
Grand Rapids will probably start the
season with changes in ownership.
One is Wheeling and the other South
Bend.
From present indications it looks as
though the American association will
have more new players next season
than any other baseball organization
in the country.
Frank Farrell, owner of the New
York Americans, will join the colony
of horsemen at Sheepshead Bay next
summer. He is now building what
will be one of the finest houses in that
section of Long Island.
The continued cold weather through
out New England bids fair to make
this one of the greatest hockey sea
sons in years. Harvard, Yale Prince
ton, Columbia and no end of smaller
colleges are hard at work on the cie.
Stockton defeated San Jose 5 to 4 in
the last game of the championship
series of California, thereby winning
the $1,000 purse. Both teams were
made up of major league players and
as the game was played in Los An
geles we would like to know what
Stockton and San Jose had to do with
it.
THIS IS MY 52D BIRTHDAY.
James A. Tawney.
Representative James A. Tawney of
Minnesota, whose name is being men
tioned in connection with the Speak
ership of the Sixtieth Congress in
the event of the retirement of Mr. Can
non, was born in Adams county, Pen
nyslvanla, January 3, 1855. He lived
in Pennsylvania for twenty-two years,
a considerable part of the time in the
town of Punxsutawney. He was a
blacksmith by trade, but his fame in
those early days rested chiefly upon
the fact that he was the leader of the
Punxeutawney bana. In 1877 Mr.
Tawney found his way to Winona,
Minn., where he took up his trade as
blacksmith and determined to become
a master mechanic. He had studied,
in common school fa and in night
schools and developed a decided liking
for the law. He pursued the study of
law and was admitted to the bar in
1882. Mr. Tawney was elected a mem
ber of the fifty-third Congress. The
late Thomas B. Reed was attracted
to the somewhat raw Western states
man, and encouraged him in his con
gressional work. Mr. Tawney's de
votion to his duties in the house, his
aggressive nature and his popularity
among his colleagues earned
him consideration and prominence
very early in his congressional life
and aided in his successive re-elec
tion as the representative of the first
Minnesota district
•!$%•--
THE EVENING TIMES, GRAND FORKS, N. D.
Is the world coming to an end? It
would appear so when a committee
of Atlanta, Ga., business men announce
as a result of their investigations that
the recent race riois in that city were
the work of the "tough" element.
Twelve persons were killed and sew
enty wounded, of whom ten were white
and sixty negroes. Two white and
ten colored persons were killed, two
being females and ten males. The re
port says:
"Among the victims of the mob there
was not a single vagrant They were
earning wages in useful work up to
the time of the riot. They were sup
porting themselves and families and
dependent relatives. Most of the dead
left small children and wives, mothers,
or sisters, with practically no means
of support. The tough element has
crucified Atlanta in the eyes of the
world, and shocked the moral sense
of our people."
The Civil Service Commission is
struggling with another question in
volving the rights of the cjlored race.
A negro is the only eligible for the
position of clerk at Hattiesburg, Miss.,
and he has been notified to report for
duty, but the whites of the town have
also notified the colored man that he
had better not accept the position,
and if he has good sense that will set
tle the matter. The people of the
South will not accept certain condi
tions, and to try to force matters
results in trouble every time.
The same might reasonably be said
of the presence of colored troops at
Brownsville, Tex., where the War De
partment had been notified that it was
the intention to get rid of the color
ed soldiers. If the hint had been taken
in time and the men transferred to
some other post the entire trouble
could have been avoided, but Wash
ington officials are adament in mat
ters of that character. They are ab
solutely supreme, and a move is not
made until they are "good and ready."
High officials have been known to
roundly denounce hotel and amuse
ment proprietors for refusing to ad
mit enlisted men of the navy while
in uniform, and a man was discharged
from the Norfolk navy yard for re
fusing to rent a room to a marine. Yet
the "Big?" man responsible for this
action will order the Marine band to
play at a reception at his house and
even offer them a sandwich or a cigar
when they have finished several hours
hard work! Consistency, thou art a
jewel!
Secretary Taft is hot on the trail
of the presidency, but his path will not
be a bed of roses. The fact that the
president endeavored to place him on
the bench of the supreme court shows
plainly that he is not Roosevelt's first
choice. Suspicion is directed at Sec
retary Root as the president's favor
ite, but whether he can dictate the
nomination convention will "all come
out In the wash." The luck of some
men never appears to desert them, but
some day they must fall.
Secretary Root is said by friends
to be considerably irritated over the
interpretation placed on his recent
speech on centralization of Federal
power. From his viewpoint it has
been misrepresented from one end of
the country to the other by newspa
pers of both parties. It is explained
that the Secretary only meant to sound
a bugle call to alms against the rapid
drift of centralization, hoping to stir
the State governments to a realization
of their dilatoriness. What do you
think? There is such a thing as too
much explanation after the damage
has been done. Hie people of the
country are "getting wise beyond their
years," and a politician must be in
deed shrewd to fool all the people all
the time.
Is William "Jay" Bryan getting
ready for another trouncing? He is
hot on the trail of the Democratic
nomination, and is generally given
credit for a large Bhare of common
sense, but If he runs again in 1908 he
will get what's coming to him. The
THIRD TERM FOB "TEDDY"
Usual Sensational Stories of Public Men Being Sent Out by
Washington Correspondents—Atlanta Citizens Depre
cate Recent Race Riots—Intimation That Officials Have
Been "Winking" at Illegal Land Entries.
Amoclatpd Preaa to The Ertnlif Times.
Washington. Jan. 3—With con
gress through its holiday recoss,
Washington has returned to its usual
gossiping regarding the possibilities
of the next presidential election.
Rumor mongers and mud sllngers are
numerous at all seasons of the year,
but the inactivity incident to the tem
porary adjournment of Congress has
given the erst-while correspondent a
opportunity to "take his pen in hand,"
and the result has been the normal
number of sensational stories regard
ing the alleged prospective actions ot
various public men. Many of the
Washington stories are builded on
nothing more tangible than the de
sires of the writer, while others are
promulgated that the mentioned one
might aid in the promotion of the
clerk-correspondent.
There are numerous signs of anta
gonism to any proposition to further
Roosevelt's political career, and when
the "big" business men of the country
take a hand in the game there will
be "something doing." Rumor has for
sometime connected the name of E.
H. Harriman with the opposition to
Roosevelt, and passing events appear
to confirm the Impression. The matter
may be dropped with the thought that
the President is too big a man to give
any attention to the attacks of cor
poration managers, but there is where
a big mistake is made. Harriman has
tremendous influence with the railroad
men of the country, and as it is well
known in the Republican party, it may
be well to take a reef in the thought
that they can not inflict incalculable
damage to any one man's aspirations.
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Democrats have no show in the next
election, but as sure as the sun rises
I the President elected by the people
in 1S12 will be a Democrat. The
Panama canal bubble will then be ripe
for pricking, the tariff will be under
process of "revision,' and the upshot
of the whole matter will be a Demo
cratic President. Paste that in your
hat! The laboring classes are al
ready becoming flushed with their
victories, have more money in the
bank than ever before, and a working
man with a few hundred In the bank
becomes a mighty important indiv
idual. The majority of the members
of various labor organizations are
Democrats, and their actions will be
like that of the late attempts of the
American Federation of Labor to butt
into politics: Vote for a laboring
man, but be sure he is a Democrat
Senator Hale is the latest addition
to the country's advisers. He warns
the country that two-thirds of the rev
enues of the country are spent in pre
paring for war and assuming the bur
dens of past conflicts. Although our
war expenses are $500,000,000 a year,
according to the Senator, there is not
much liklihood for a reduction. Think
ing men like Capt. J. A. T. Hull, chair
man of the committee on military af
fairs of the house, are mindful of the
advantage that would be taken by any
one of half a dozen nations if they
could catch us off our guard.
More important is the announcement
that the Postoffice Department is an
nually mulched of approximately
$5,000,000 of the people's money in
excess of the rightful cost of railroad
transportation of the mails. It looks
a triflle queer that a member of the
House should discover this fact when
the 'government has a supposedly
highly-Intelligent business man at the
head of the department, and he either
knew nothing of the stead or else—?
Thats the way it goes in Washington.
Men in the West testify that they
sent fifty letters to the General Land
Office regarding illegal entries of land,
yet the officials look wise and blindly
continue on their way. Of course inci
dentally a few land agents who were
pressing the charges too hard were
transferred, but they disturbed our of
ficial slumbers.
After several months of usurptlon
of the power of government in Cuba
this government is beginning to think
of withdrawing. It requires several
months for Uncle Sam to work out one
strong think, and then he holds to
that idea till the crack of doom. It
will be but a short time until the
same farce will take place in -Cuba
again, followed that time by the per
manent sovereigncy of this govern
ment over Cuban affairs. Why not do
it now?
The joke is on Representative Sher
man, the author of the section of the
pure-food bill covering canned goods.
The Representative is interested in
the canning business himself, and
when the local supply of sweet corn
ran short he made arrangements for
a supply from a Maryland firm. When
the time for delivery drew near he
was informed that the firm could not
place Sherman's label on the goods.
They said: "Some fool down
in Washington had a law passed last
winter prohibiting it that the label
must state where the corn was can
ned." Hoist on his own petard!
NEW YEAR'S GIFT.
I stood upon the threshold of the year
Athwart my way a. heavy curtain
fell
I knew that it must rise as I drew
near,
And what might lurk behind no man
could tell.
What would I see, if I might have my
choice?
I am not humble, my desires in
crease!
Knowledge I long for, power, fame's
praising voice.
Yet, sometimes tired, I would give
all for peace!
Beside me came a form, a radiant face,
With shining eyes there was a
voice that said:
"Fulfill but one condition, then I place
Bright Glory's crown on they am
bitious head."
There came another, dignified and
calm,
With stately bearing, low and earn
est tone
"Fulfill but one condition, Honor's
palm
From God and man I give thee for
thy own."
A third, with eyes like summer sky
and sea,
Murmured in notes whose sweet
ness sang of rest:
"Fulfill but one condition, thine shall
be
The peace beyond all knowledge—
gift the best."
Instruct me, beauteous three! I will
not cease
To do thy word! I cried then won
dering stood.
They vanished, Ringing: "Glory,
Honor, Peace,
Shall come to every man who work
eth good!"
—Selected.
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