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INTEREST
(By Associated Press)
NKW YORK, May 6—An enthusias
tic baseball fan arises to suggest that
on September 23 of this year the base
tmll magnates commemorate in some
fashion the seventieth anniversary of
the adoption of the playing rules
which form the basis of the present
code of the game. These rules adopt
ed by the Knickerbocker Association
of New York in 1846, read as follows:
“The bases shall be from ‘home’
to second base, forty-five paces; from
first to third base, forty-two paces, eql
distant.
“The game to consist of twenty-one
counts, or aces (runs); but at the con
clusion an equal number of hands (In
nings for each side must be played.
“The ball must bo pitched not
thrown for the bat.
"A ball knocked out of the field, or.
out side the range of first or third'
base is foul
“Three balls being struck at and
missed, nnd the last one caught is a 1
hand out; if not caught is considered
fair and the striker bound to run.
“If a ball be struck or tipped, and
caught either flying or on the first
be thrown at him.
“A player running the bases shall
be out If the ball is In the hnnds of
an adversary on the base or if the run
ner is touched with It before he makes
his base; it being understood, how
unit III uu mhiitmr I h a Dull l(J
be throrwn at him.
"A player running who shall pre
vent an adversary from catching or
getting the ball before making his
base Is a hand out.
“Three hands out, all out.
"Players must take their Rtrlkes In
regular turn.
“All disputes and differences rela
tive to the game to be decided by the
umpire, from which there is no appeal.
"No ace (score or base can be
made on a foul strike.
“A runner cannot be put out in
making one base when a balk Is made
by the pitcher.
"But one base allowed when a ball
bounds out of the field when Btruck.”
Aubrey F. Taylor, the Australian
cyclist, who recently completed a suc
cessful season of competition by win
ning several Antipodean titles, is en
route for this country. Taylor left
Sydney about the middle of April and
wil tour the Pnited States during the
••■'Mb summer and autumn, fie has
shown excellent racing form this year
winning the five-mile and ten-miles
championships from a high class field
in March In uddition to several other
minor title events.
An interesting sidelight of the re
cent Willard Johnson heavyweight
bout at Havana, Cuba, was the appear
ance of Felix Carvajol, the Cuban
long distance runner at the ringside.
Carvajol’s reputation as a runner In
the United States is based upon his
feat in finishing fourth In the Olmplc
Marathon held in St. Louis in 1904.
Although defeated by Thomas Hicks,
Alfred Corey, and A. L. Newton all
under American colors, the unan ran
a wonderful race \vhen his handicaps
are considered and had the honor of
being the first of the foreign entrants
to finish.
Previous to the race Caravajol was
a mall carrier in Cuba, who Jogged
over his route at a steady and ap
parently tireless trot. He first at
tracted attention when he ran the
length of the island in remarkable
time. As a result of this feat a few
friends raised enough money to send
him to the United States for the Mara
thon in connection with the Olympic
Games of 1904. Carvajol landed In
New York with just enough money to
purchase his meals not realising that
St. Louis was not a part of New York
City.
In order to reach the scene of the
race he wub obliged to spend his food
fund and arrived in St. Louis without
a penny. He had not eaten for two'
days previous to the race which he
ran in heavy street shoes, a colorless
cotton shirt and his only pair of trous
ers, cut ofT at the kness.
Without assistance or an attendant
the unknown Cuban dog-trotted along
the course stopping frequently to beg
food and water from the spectators.
At one point he spent fully half an i
hour on a roadside apple orchard.!
Bespite these delays Carvajol finished
in fourth place, the freshest or all the
runners. It was the general opinion
that had he been properly atended and
coached he would have won the 1904
Olympic marathon easily.
Today Carvojol is guide and runner
for Havana's leading hotel. Sttll
trim and bronzed he can trot mile af
ter mile with little apparent effort but
admits that he Is too old to run In the
next International marathon. He ex
presses regret In a casual way that he
was not prepared financially ana other
wise for his 8t. Louis race, which he
still believes he could have won In
easy fashion. Carvajol is conversant
with athletics In both the United
Etates and Europe and will spend an
evening discussing in broken English
the performances of the startf of the
cinder track. One chapter of his ath
letlc career Is sealed, however, for
Carvajol will not tell how he managed
to return to Cuba. He simply shrugs
his shoulders and changes the subject
when questioned on this point or his
invasion of the United States.
The proposed tour of Australia by
the Iceland Stanford University base
ball team is likely to be abandoned
for the coming year at least. Advices
from Sydney say that owing to the war
such a trip would prove a financial
failure. The California collegians out
lined a schedule providing for a stay
of some thirty odd days In Australia
with the possibility of a side trip to
New Zealand. The New South Wales
Baseball Association did not, however,
feel that conditions warranted the en
couragement of the tour. In normal
times such a series of games between
Stanford and the Australian Univer
sity nines would undoubtedly pay all
expenses of the trip but the unsettled
affairs of the commonwealths proved a
sstumilling block in the present nego
tiations.
ENGLISH SHIP BIERS
MUG BIG PROFITS
LONDON, May 6—Several large
English ship owners are piling u?
profits at the rate of $500,000 or over
a month, and one firm at least Ts re
ported to have averaged practically
a million dollars a month since the
beginning of the war.
It is, of course, only those who have
had their ships free who have been
able to make money. Borne owners
had their vessels tied up by charters
at normal figures and others had their
ships taken by the Government. Then
all the shipowners have had to bear
increased expenditures for wages,
fuel, Insurance and delays In port.
The people who are really making
the money, according to a London ship
ping journal, are the Greek shipown
ers. "For the last few years," It ex
plains, “ the Greeks have been steadi
ly buying ships, and they now have a
very considerable merchant marine.
They can take full advantage of the
high rates, and do not have to face
the risks British shippers do. nor apy
the extra wages.”
DR. HALL ACQUITTED
OF SECOND CHARGE
Dr. P. M. Hall, of Pairbanks, who
was placed on trial last week
charged with having attempted to
rape Hllma Johnson, of that city, a
girl under the age of consent, was ac
quitted of the charge by a Jury in the
district court. Hall has not yet been
sentenced for the asault upon nine
year-old Selma Lapp).
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STEAMER SAILINGS
SEATTLE TO CORDOVA
The Bteamers of the Alaska Steam
ship Company leave Seattle for Cor
dova on the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and
30th of each month.
The steamers of the Pacific Alaska
Navigation company leave on the 6th,
16th and 25th of each month.
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NOTICE
We will not be responsible for any
debts contracted by men working for
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Decline in Sugar. 97.60 Sack at
1 S. Blum A Co.
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Keep Dry with an $18.00 Mackin
tosh for $12 50 at Finkelsteln. A Sapt
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LITEM CLAUSE;
IN SOUTH
TESTED
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Mny 6—For more
than fifteen years the "Grandfather
Clause" has been Inserted in consti
tutions of southern states. The most
popular form has been to exempt rrom
educational and property tests for
voting those who could vote In 1866,
1867 or 1868, thus leaving the tests to
apply to those who did not vote at
those dates.
The Oklahoma grandfather clause
provides “that no srpeon shall be
registered as an elector In this state,
or be allowed to vote In any election
herein, unless he be able to read and
write any section of the constitution
of the State of Oklahoma, but no per
son who was, on January 1, 1866, or at
any time prior thereto, entitled to vote
under any form of government, or
who at that time resided in some fore
ign nation, and no lineal descendent
of such person, shall be denied the
right otregister and vote because of'
bis inability to so read and write sec
tions of such constitution."
In Maryland the Clause was Inserted _
In the lawH governing elections In j
various cities. In 1908, It was inserted V
in the law governing municinnt oloc.lit.
,y
lions In the city of Annapolis. It au
thorlzed the registration as voters of #
all taxpayers of the city assessed for :jS
at least $f>00; all duly naturalized #
citizens, all male children of natural
ized citizens 21 years of age, and "all $
citizens, who prior to January 1, 1868, |
were entitled to vote In the state or §
Maryland or in any other state of the
United States at a state election, and
the lawful male descendents of any :%
person whi prior to January 1, ’868,
were entitled to vote in the state of
Maryland or in any other state or the
United States at a state election.”
V’arious arguments were advanced :j:
to meet the attack that these clauses
violated the Fifteenth Amendment to
the Constitution providing that ” the
right of citizens of the United States
to vote shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or by any state
on account of race, color or previous
condition of servitude.”
Another line of argument was that
the clauses did not “deny ’ or
“abridge” the right of negroes to vote, y
as forbidden by the fifteenth amend- |
raent, but it merely discriminated •
against them by allowing those ne- -
groes to vote without meeting the ,
qualifications Imposed ostensibly upon [I
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NEW WAR QUARTERS i
ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT
—
LONDON, May 5—Xiong the peace
ful green green slopes of St. James's'
Park, which marks the center of fash
ionable life in London, there have
sprung up almost over night a host of
temporary buildings, to be used as an
emergency extension of the war offi
ce. They will house a staff of a thou
sand clerks, representing the account
ing department.
80 rapidly has the work of this sec
tion of the government grown that the
huge War Building In Whithall is bad
ly overcrowded. Early in the war
an extra story was built up on the
roof to house part of the emergency
staff. I
The new buildings in the Pary are
not jerry built, although they have the
appearance of mere shacks. They
are solidly constructed, with founda
tion walls of brick four feet high, con
crete floors, and walls of carefully 3
selected timber, asbestos lined. The 3
buildings are not only temporary, of 3
coifse, but provision was made, when 3
they were planned, for a war that !
might last several years. <
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SALMON WASTERS ARE
FINED BY COURT
The Fidnlgo Island Packing Com
pany was fined $600 by Judge F. M.
Brown for wilful w'aste of salmon last
year at the canneries of the company.
Five Indictments were brought against
the company and $100 was charged for
each offense. The company pleaded
guilty.
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Petaluma Eggs, 36c. per do*, at
3 Blum & Co’s.
THE NORTHERN LIKE INSURANCE COMPANY has
again to report a successful year, with marked gains
In every direction.
The assets were Increased One hundred and Thirty-five
Thousand Dollars! the resrve for the protection of Policy
holders, One Hundred and Sixteen Thousand Dollars.
Accident and Sickness Claims of *28.478.00 were paid,
and Death Claims of *33,453.00.
No death Claim has ever been disputed.
All claims are paid immeditely on receipt of proofs.
Total paid to policyholders in 1914 was *116,209.26.
The Company's yearly income was increased to *415,
606.00. !
After paying dividends of eight per cent, to stockholders
and dividends of *32,661.24 to policyholders—
The net surplus of the Company was increased more
than seventeen per cent, over the preeeeding year.
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