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KANSAS CITY. Jan. 26 —oeoige'
Stove“, manager of the erstwhile Kan-
gm (My Fedoealn; contends he is more
{thiamine tna‘n‘noge‘r' Bresnahan,
S‘upplanled manager of the Cubs. Sto
WEI, yesterdA), demanded his uucondi
tion release. on the ground that Kan-
one City bar. no ball club and no lea—
”goo in whim to play.
"I'm one of the princinpal stock-
holdera‘iu‘the Kansas City club my-
' iaolf." commented Stoval. ‘and I do-
119! see allow a rival club owner has
any right to sell for his can profit
Ny contract calls for managing the
j club next season, but there isn't any
club. and [therefore are In no post-
I tion to serio Kansas City. «Neither Is
ytilat club iii any shape to pay me for
' my serlices, so it looks as if the Only
“ thing I can do is to get out and bus
tie for a job in organized baseball. If
I don't catch on In the minors I will
be satisfied with managing in the min-
om.
"i have been Informed by President
. Gilmore that I am the property of the
7 Kansas City club and must deal with
them Therefore, this is a matter
' strictly between Kansas City and inv-
. eelf. i got them their ball club for
.. loos _than a iourih what it cost other
managers to recruit players and in
addition obtained a lot of players for
other Federal teams. The least theyi
can do in justice to me is to let me go
and Jill find a place for myself elsgI
where
”IX y, one of my men signed by
meBonly a few‘weeks 'aao—Johnoton
of the Coast Leagueww as cold foe M.
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fhim alone. And. furthermore. l,
of. It,3
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E's up the $1, 006 advance money neupolie, former Yale ”foothalI star:
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summary to tot his name to a 'Conv
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President Johnson has given out a
p osperity announcement for thoi
Ailwican league. He sees a 3N8!
tearilor his circuit owing to better-
eti"condItIOlls in baseball.
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.“111 1915 we had the strongest
league in baseball," said President
Johnson. “Our circuit will be still
t-ironaer this your. so we allould have
1~ prosperous season and a great race'
“Ficlder Jones will bring another
pennant contender inlojthe American
‘ league in' all probability, which will
mean greater interest and larger ill-1
tendance. The settlement of the war
was bound to come this winter in one
form or another. and now that it is
‘ all over ‘the major leagues emerge
alsongei' than ever. The National.
too. will ‘be benifitted by the change
.. and more interest ill the poatlseason
‘ series is bound to «mull.
“Pow persons may know it. but the
a
,1 fact remains that Dreyfuaa is one; of
4 the beat posted men on schedule mak-
ire. Ill baseball. He in an expert at
it 1 business and is also a good base-
3 it ill man
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BOSTON Malia, 1J1111.26.—-Battlii1g‘
lmiusky is the Jack the Giant killer
oi the roped arena.
3 Another of the big fellows, Al Belch,
‘ VI (1 has 11 sitingdf K. 0.11 to hia‘ni'tme
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‘ small end when the third man in the ‘ ' ' '
ring ga1e his decision in the, 12.15am
bent in the Arena here.
Lovineky weighed in at 176 and
., Reich weighed 217. The men fought.
._a hard fast and bitter bout for 12‘
defines and the tans and the noise"
;Corneil and Dr. Harry Williams
”Minnesota, but it has agreed to begin
000 recently and i didn‘t get about '
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. ecliiou name. it than by fan-haze? ",
the Boot was one of 11:31.4“th ’ ”’
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SEIIGIS IAB MES
NE“ HAVEN Jan. 26. —For the
third time the Yale special committee
on selecting a head coach for non
season and recommending a new sys-
tem of football administration has
picked 11 coach. it has failed in he at-
tempts to secure Dr. Albert Sharpe of
of
negotiations with Ted Jones, the for—
mer _Yale quarterback, now head
coach at Exeter. in connection with
the move an attempt will be made to
assure Johnny Kilpatrick as advisory
coach and Mike Swaeney of the Hill
school as coach ot’the track team and
councillor in handling the football
squad. while retaining John Mak as
football and track trainer.
in this connection Professor Robert
‘N Corwin will remain at the head of
the Yale revised athleiit svotem as
chairman of the Yale Athletic Commit
tee. None of the details of the 1135
tom \1l1itl1 has been agreed upon has
been decided and some of them may
be impossible of consummation but
the special committee, consisting
Brink Thoma, Vance ‘MCCOl'lllat‘k and
John Kilpatrick have agreed upon
them to the general athletic commit-
tee and unilersity corporatiop hunted-
ialrlv provided arrangelnenla can be
contluded With lotion and Sweeney
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The death of Tom She‘lid‘ of M111-
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and coach has Slim ("WWW as,
Eton-111: areal @611»...le you “195;
young. Besides Shevlln, three otltenI
former Yale ”are,“ when «pair I
Q3tiiil'ta at business
loutly on the
rocra that pro
as their gridiron recordl
The other thrdo were Stilliman. lio
gun and Brown. All won letters tilllc0_
1900.
Thea. four great linemen played"
game after same without Injury.
Brown and Hogan plAyod
Iitackle positions. Shevlin was on one
and Stilliman a tackle All made the
‘ All- American team; We or more see-
soul.
One explanation uttered regarding
their deaths in that in their careers
on the gridiron, which included so:
more training seasons as well as srnel- ‘
ling games, they used up so much
energy Lllt‘y had little left to fight ail~
meats of! later.
Another explanation offered is that.
their gruelling athletic activities over'
taxed their hearts and left them 8115-
ceptible to breakdown. . ‘
A third rrgument. is made thin.
the players ov oroxerted themselves
while in college, then. when they eat-
tled down to business lives, relaxed.
pave up exerciii
,suffercd =11, less J stamina.
Other stars 1» other colleges‘ haye
tiled at early J as, but the cases inf
Shejvlin. 'Bm Hogan and Stillman
{Jihad out mo prominently because
all starred at tile same school and all
made gridiron records that will never
be erased from the annals of the
game
‘No one seems to have attempted to
onplaip why more football players
should die at an early, age than men
who starred in other genes. except to
say that football calls for greater phy-
Ialcfl effort than any other sport.
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CHICAGO Jan. ash-President! , li—
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all yeetBrd 11's
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to be as brilliahtii
guard and .
almost entirely and
. heavy no. ..
jail is 11111111. ll not more mead thong-I
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BOSTON, Jan. 26. ——The report from
Baltimore that Charles Schmidt. first
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Jack Ctlriey forgetting for a minute
"iex Rickard, Sam McCracken and 1111‘»
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my: fill will!
Twenty of the professional bicycle'
llldels who will compete in the Chi- I
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NEW YORK, Jan. zit—Moro than
ohundrod athletes, among whom
tW
baseman of the Braves had decided to, ”103° little irritating "0’43 and Dhm- lcago six day race, which will atartI fife SOHO of the lute-t runners in this
quit the game was not an entire aur- ea which have been flying about for gFebruary 2 left Newmk
prise to otticials of the club, although the past ten dais. lumecl yesterday” Imornlng The race
they had not received any formal an
nouncoment 01‘ it last nixhl. Balinese
Manager Walter l1; flamed said that his manager, lke Dorglm. to race the; n
Schmidt had indicated last fall that he
might retire but in a telephone conv
venetian with Manager '1‘. Stallings
only last week. had promised to re-
serve ilnal decision until they had an
opportunity to confer. Schmidt was
under contract to play with the Braves I
another year.
Schmidt has been with the Boston
club for the past two years. Last
season he batted 251 and his fielding
uas of an excellent nature.
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2.6 ——(ial'l‘y Herr-
CINCINNATI Ianr
than said yesterday't‘hat no deal hilt!I
been mqaeiaogoena l'v'y‘ Widen. the
latchdr,v W -W§tou Nominal.
. lf nq‘gmdecnm to pinhole Win-
'30 unis ”some lifetllrge contract he
iexpecta to aeIl“Bl_lfl to the New York
iAnlerlnklla, alwa'yd: provldlhg that 11
imnn m1 be social; to take his place.
The in York old has made 1111 of-
for for thgo.
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Fwd 111115113111 Arabia. 3 match
with Jena Willard but. he is willing
Ilia {11,133}; r hulk delirium 111111 let
the winner meet the champion. His
manager will arlive in New York
shortly to hurl a deft at the Pittaburg
lighter.
Jess Willard iii still without an op
‘ponent. for the bone in New York In
April Moran has been offered :12-
500 with 30 per cent. of the “movies"
.or'»t15.ooo with 20 per cent. of the
pictures, to meet the champion.
ofl’grrhe‘p been turned down.
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Temorrow night,
Alleys, on laaac street, the fifth. and
deciding game of the series between
the Norwalk and the Brunswick Bow-
ling Teainb, will ,be played off. Each
team has won two“; games of the ser-
ioa, and this game ltwill decide the un
disputed championship of the city
both teams having put away the Pill?
ace team.»
On Friday Eiternoon all the Nor
walk Alloys, the school teachers who
are interested in the bowling game,
will hold their regular bowling mati-
nee. Last week a crowd of about
twenty ladies was in attendance, and
the popular sport was \greatly enjoy-
ed. *lt.‘ is expected that this week will
see even a larger number of the fair
.sox in the game. '
A number of local basketball fans.
are planhlng to attend the Stamford-
I Patterson game in Stamford orl‘ Satur-
.day night.
iBeckman and Dryt'uas would make
loome 'pair', playing forwarda on the
lunatic tom;
1 Kunz ind Marine are working Ila-rd
for their coming boots in Lockwood'a
”Hall. at their training quarters on the
'East Side.
will heat his. man.
a mom eagde m 1;, oh. I ‘We didn't notice Chrlu W one
olivine George smith any in notice
night’s me. '-
dobe that “Clever" flhriabophor.
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at the Nor-walk!
Kim ‘13 getting inioI~
lshapo rapidly. and is confident that. 113d: tots, Sound vow Terrace trier. Smith; the Stamford titer, was at _cen- --
lo a real matter of holiness and made
a direct offer to Frank Moron througllIl
heavyweight champion of the world I
in truth, the emotional Curiey made?
two offers one of 112500 and 30 per}
cent of the mo1ing picture p1ivlleges.
and another of $15. 000 and 20 per
cent. of the movie plum.
Two weeks ago Frank Moran would
IhllVf‘ gasped. looked pleased and
reached for a pen, but things have
been moving fast in the last few daysI
111d evcrybod1 «come to be getting an
.cxaggeratcd him of the value of.
greenbacks
Ike Iiulgan just h‘llt‘t’lt‘d at the odor
"The idea " he said “Does thin fol
low Curley think Month is a plker?
Dov-11 he think he knocked out Jim:
s‘ofl'oy twice to put on the gloved;
against Jean Willlmd fol n paltry Sm.- I
000?
“Why should we consider 1111 offer
We far below the $20,000 which Jimmy
Johnston aaya he will pay over to
n for a bout'n‘llh big Jean. if
Moran's signature to worth that‘lnuch
money to Jimmy it ehouldbe worth 1111
mdoh. ‘tf not morale Jack Curley.
He'll have to taiec 1111'; bid ir‘ii‘e'mma
busincira. The 11111411; are declined."
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‘l’bonday, Mary 271
Ciermont A. cocoa Taylor va.
Pater Branninghame Hughoy Bodden
va.K.O.-Iggon. .1!“
'4 emu-1m ll.
‘Madleoa Soda?!‘ Carder-Mine
111mm vs ital Lewis. ' I. w
Magneto ‘A. C4-Battling ‘Levinbky
v11. Zulu Kid: flll'ty (“ML vs. AI
Thomas ' 'II
lockwood’a Hall“ ”Kan: vii. Palmer
Saturday. February I.‘
I Harlan 8. 0—499 Rivers 1111 Ben-
into Lennbrd. '
wouni‘tuxliiii ,
ultimatum
The annual convention of the
Women's Auxiliary. of Fairfleld Coun-
ty, is being held today in St. Pauls
church and Pariah Hall and Is very
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all chapters of the organisation In
Ithla county. are in attendance.
The ceremonies were held this
morning in St. Paul’s Church, at ten
o'.clock mm a communion service. In
which all members of the convention
took part.
After the Holy Communion a regu-
lar business meeting of the organiza
tion was held in the church. nbutnp
business topics were taken up and dis-
cussed and the reports from the dif
feront chapters were read. Thmo re-
ports. on the whole were very favor
able, and outlined the work or the
-.organization during the past year
The morning’s; session was adjourn-
ed at twelve o’clook and the members
wont \tn 1: body, tel the Pariah Hall
on Berkeley. street, where a lunchooll'
was served
After luncheon there will be another
session of the convention. held at the
Pariah 11.11.1111 many Important mat~
tore will" be taken up
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REM. ESTATE TRANSFERS.
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’ 1 in Coroner Pnelan'a'otllce there is a
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1 esterday
will be run under
the sanction of the new governing be
dy. which was organised at the insti-
«lion of riders dissatisfied with con
uditions under the National Cyclifig aa-
soctatioh.
The riders who went to Chicago are Leonie, the Natitnal champion, whoI
Slurry Kaiser, Geolge Cameron, Peters
lilrobach, Frank Corry, Martin Ryan,I
Percy 0. Lawrence, Morse, the national champiou'at 220i
Lloyd Thomas,
{Jake Maain, Ernest Ohlt, Norman An-l ""13
Wohlrab Joseph Kopsky Ilflrooklyu, also are entered in
demon, Gus
'lhoulas Smith, Willie Coburn, Franki
(‘avanagh Thomas Grimm, Eddie
Madden. Willie Henley Rudolph
Ruddllluese and Vincenzo Madonna,
lvor Lawson, Ned Young, Francisc-
Verrl and other cyclists who wil'
intake up the field in Chicago. are al-
ready in the Wool.
Reggie McNamara. Bob Spears, Al
fred Goullet and Dale Mackay will
loin the riders on Sunday.
(Will _IIEIII it hit
memo mm 1.. all!
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letter which is conning him much deep
thought. and the coroner wm be greet
iy obliged it the owner of the letter
will come and take it away.
street. b
Conn. it was mailed In 111$an
Jabuary 111 ‘61 tut your. and iii“ the
upper left hand come lit the envelope
ls. written. “if not do ivered return to
Coroner; J. J. Phalan,fl Bridgeport.
Connecticut." The letter was petal-11a
ed to Mr. Phelan from the dead letter
once marked, deceased.
Upon opening the letter Mr. Phelap
found inalde a United States Army dis
charge. loaned to James Houbton, at
Baton Rouge. 1.11.. January 7.1868
The discharge is yellow with age and
is very Interesting? Along with the
discharge there are two meeipted bills.
receipted. by H. A. Meeker of parts
unknown and a notification from the
Bureau of . Pension: at Wellington
that the application of James Hou-
ston. for a pension- for service in the
Civil War had been received. and
would be given prompt attention.
This notification is dated my 8. 1902
There is also a circular from the
Bureau of Pensions, addressed to
Nomton, asking for Information of a
soldier who Was a member of his com-
pany, during the war. There is also
a discharge Issued to Challoa Hone
ten, for service In the Spanish “Amer
loan war. and it is dated al Angler“-
Iand. '..Cal August 7,1899.
While Coroner Phelan, admits the
papers are very interesting; neverthe-
less he .tulahes the owner would take
them out or his hands. as he aayl
they diatprb his peace of mind. He
is very pure that. the latter was not
sent from his onlco And therefore is at
a loss to decide who put his name in
the corner of the envelope requesting
that they be. returned to him.
Coroner Pholan has requested the
publication of this story so that
through its wide clrculatlon someone
who might be able to throw. some
light on the matter would see the
story so If you should be any chance
ltdow the owner of the papers kindly
communicate with “Coroner Phelan.
BECKMAN ~‘AGAIN A STAR.
The following sales have been re
corded at the once of Town Clerk
Herbert 1R. Smith:—
{Romy J. flflller to Mary K. Arm-
Strong, lot. Sound View Terrace. War.
Bernadette Moloiiho and J. ‘thdor‘
Molochb to William 3. Katee, five
icon- email WSWW tract wait
. item-y J. Miller? to J. Wilder .Meloobe
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1M 11 float-o to Jim-once Health
jbnaht and shining on in the basket
According to all reports, Johnny
Blackmail, again proved himself a
‘bail world. last evening, when the
'Brldge'port Blue, Ribbon: handed the
crack Jeriiay City team, a beating to
the tune of 21 to 12. , Johnny Shot ten
lf'oul seals besides casing we held.
baskets for the Blue Ribbons. George
tbr‘ for the 1111111111, but Was noun 1111'
usual feral. getting only one basket
the, letter .1. addrooaed to ma ' ’
. Houston, N White
James Houston, at the Soidlera' Home.- .
TODAY Ill WALL STREET
country, are entered for the annual in.'
Ideol- track and held games of tho
IMilIroae Athletic Association in Mad-
Icon Square Garden tonight. Fast
time and possibly some new records
Idle looked nor. Interest centers in the
oeventy yard dash which brings to
gether Hoivard P «Drew and Joseph G.
defeated Draw in the last champion
ship games in San hunched. Roy F.'
and Frank Stephenson,
this
aunt.
The 680 yard upeclni is expected to
turniah one of'tho keenest races of the
meeting. with such runners at Ten;
Meredith, winner of the 800 metresI
race at Stockholm; Tom dialpin, for
merly quarter mile champion; Homer.
Baker, iDave Caldwell and Joseph Hig
81118.
In the mile and a half special will be
Mike 'Devanney, the twomilo indoor
champion; Willie Gordon. one mile
metropolitan champion; H. F. Maho-
ney, a New England title holders. andl
Sidney Leslie, of 111111 city. '
Hannea Kohhmainon. Nick Cilantro
hummus William Kyronea. Charla. D.
Pores and Russell Springsteen will he
rivals in the threennile NIL -
Joseph Locally volatility, will be
tested in the runnina high jump and
aeventyzylrd low hurdiel' special In
the high lump be will be pitted against
Han'y Bat-Ilse, the New England title
. bolder and intro othon.
sill; lust tunic: j .
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ry 1H. Stunned-.1111 trial for the-mot.
tier of Dr. 0. Franklin lohr. The
prosecuting officials paid when court
adjourned yesterday'that butane wit
neaa remained to be examined before
the state would not It: can
Capt. George H. Mention of the
Providence police, testified today that
he mooted Brown and that Chief
O'Neil told the prisoner he did not
have to talk, but that if he talked to
tell the truth. ' Brown told Chief
O'Neil, the witness IIId. that. be had
been, to Riverside visiting 1a family
named Doberty about 9 o'clock on the
‘nigbt of the murder.
Doherty bad'testliled that Brown
callad-ot hie home about Ilvominutea
of ten that nixht. ,
Captain Monallan corroborated the
testimony of preceding witnesses rela-
tive to the alleged confession of the
nesroes. Brown and Spellulan repeat
ed their story, he said, when Mrs
Mohr was brought in.
“‘I told them there were newspaper
men present, and that they could
ahan continued. “The reporters want
ed‘to know the motive Mrs. Mohr
had for wishing her husband killed.
got control~of the di :tor‘a property.
Brown declared that \ira'. Mohr had
been after them for tree months to
do the job."
"Do you know die
the State has put 01
H. Lewis. of the o’
examination j‘DoI
are the fifty- seven:
prosecution?" ‘
nany witneseel
asked William
know. that you
Iltness for the
hen ,
“Did Chief O'Neil any to Brown:
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n't hear anything like that!’
surprised
you
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Marianna said he was
there. At police headquarters, he said
the negroe a“aeomed to take great
delight" in telling their story, and
thatthey' repeated it many times. '.
“Did not that little ofiice a police
headquarters ‘with all the nations.
men present resemble an old fashion
ed New England pol; ical caucnn‘
asked Attorney uwik ,
“N0.: sin. . '
The propocutlon rested With the
completion of Captain Melanoma
testimony.
counsel other! that 111-11.111111:
would so nettle stand in her ownyde
tense.
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talk to them if they. desired." Mon ,
and Brown replied theI she wanted to .
~nse. on cross1 .
“No, sin". replied Captain Mona; ‘
“You allot Dr. Mohr and you know
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says:
“Some Long Cut tobac-
cos IooI< pulled up and
at—but when you get
iinside the acIta e--.
, what do— you find?
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“Gee, what a diflerénee
in LIBERTY Long Cull”
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ripe, selected leaves-v
no loose, I1_1_l_1d stems in .
it. CooI~$1iilikittT in a? 7
pipe, lasting 111‘ a chew—-
with a rich satisfying
relish and hagranoeto It.
Mandear, itsrealtbbae’tfl';
Mindwaeelthat’dlestyyon
could [add two Jolie trillion:
hand; and that good-Infidel!
you could kiss your Word.
whenhecakfortheaent
when he went back to the house after . ‘
arresting Brown to find Spelllnan '\
Mann—“1‘
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, weak. Commit
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