Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, October 20, 1915, DAILY EDITION, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER BO, 101.1 DAILY BOGUS IUVEB COURLEB . PAOK nvn HOLDS BIRTHDAY PARTY AT CAGE OF LION. BROTHERS FAIL III 610 i LEAGUES fflHUD P. $Q$ TELLS OF II CDIiDITIOIIS OF FflEflCU BATTLEFIELD nnrrrn rv. v 0 Ifi "7 "T ,fovf l'hoto by Amrlrn Pra Aaso:uitlon. ! Mum Tula Tudor, who wan christened among lions to Coney Island twelve out of the same lloim. which hi now at Prospect park soo, Brooklyn. YOU CANT BUY PENNANT WINNER Mskey of Soi Tried It This Year, but Failed. SPENT CLOSE TO $120,000. Owner of Chicago Americans Believed Ho Could Caaily Land Flag With Ad dition of Cotlini, Jack ten and Mur phy Manager Rowland May 8a Lot Out i Tito theory or building a bull club with high prlvod uutJ sure llr Mar, which President Charles A. Coiulskey of the Chk-ugv White hi iiirrlml out thU ycur ut K i vii I t-XH'iio. la revclv lug a hunt blow from buxebtill crit ics throughout I Ih A me i k. hi league circuit iblM fi'iittuu. Tin' Ulilic Sox represent more money mi I lie hoof tliuu any other ulleetlon of bull player lit the country, ami et .they uro proving a big disappointment to their owner i.wn udniliilug iti.it the Uul of Uiim aiura. Joe JueLM'ii. wan nniiie.i too lute to keep the leu in In the llulit for tlie i)iiiiiil thU yt-ur. Hint ili'iiot explain the onr slmulim of tin- leuui lu the lust few WfiUs, iIiii.Ij !ii'ii timet It ban been on the iloclin. . .i.-plie nil of the milled strength. Tbo Whlio 8i uro a great imueiion of aiuin right now, lint the Ih-mi effort of Eddie Collins, J oo .lucksou, Eddie Uurpby anil Nemo Llebold fulled to check the slump, I DOLLAiR Do Of If you are away, come back ;: If you are sick, get well, and come to Grants Pass October 23, 1915 GRANTS PASS M ERCHANTS J mm mi Tbo advisability or bavlug several ft an on ono club bua loutr been dla puted by munnj;'r. The objection aualnat them la the nuuio ono that ataito wanuser baa ukuIuhI a collec tion of prtiua donuna lu one cnit. Too luauy otnni apoll the teumwork. 8 tan and prima donnaa alike bo in for In dividual Rlory Dint and lam. Kdtflt Colllna la one of CouiUkey'a Kara who help In teamwork. In fact It waa a a umlu cog lu a xrent nia cblue that bo made bla reputation aa much aa by bin Individual efforta. Ue alwuya directed the teumwork for the Athletlca. and be bun been doluir tbe hiiuio thine for the White Roi. ' Hut It la claimed that Joe Juikmiu thlnka more of bla own record than he doea of the auctvsa or Hie team. They Bay that tbe only lime Joe work lu with tbe othcra I when Ihere la noma (dory In It for Joe. Tbo flint day Jackxou played with the White Soi. which waa lu a srotne acaliiHt the Yankee ut Chlcauo. be bad a cIiihIi with Kddle C'olllua over bla fulluio lu work uu a aucrlllce piny. liiKtenJ of luylnu down u bunt Jackaon took three healthy nwlnpi ut the ball and at ruck oui. Am Colllnx puioed blm colnit out io the field he xuld. "You know even Ty i'olib liuuta once In awhile" rrexltlcut L'omlxkey lina paid out about sr.tMMxt for Hie xturn he ndded to hta club thla year. When he toe trail liidutlntx prleiK and jiuiherlmr In pln.vein lie Mleved be would te able to win n pennunl. He bud ii'me dla Kuated with the experiments with minor lensue recruit. Throuulnuit the wet the feelliiK prevalla lluit the White Hox will lirww tliroimh to a peuiuint next .veur. but their present allowing la not very primlln. tin lea they do win a iwnunut next year Comlnkey will have in be i lun u'ed with havlnu mode n bad luveatnieut. Uumor bun It thut there la to bo a 0CT0BES 23 Remember it :: Keep the Date Open :: Stupendous, Marvelous and Wonderful Values for ONE DOLLAR Fail to Attend ill f I ' i 3 1111 n years ago, calibrated bar birthday wit change In tbe management of the Chi cago White 8o next aenaon Comla key la not autlafied with the way Mow land baa bundled bla team, no tbe atory goea. and aome one ela la exiwcted to be In charge when tbe lell tap In I01U. Itowlund la accuaed of baring made ninny nilatnkea. One of thee occur red In a genie on the Washington grounda during the last aerlea of the Box there. It will be recalled tbut the gox acorcd alx rnna In the eighth in ning and took a lead of four run over the National, ftowlaud then put Wolfguug on the rubber, aud iwfore the smoke bad cleared away the (Jrlff men also bud made six runs, winning tbe game. 8 to k Comlakcy never for gave Itowlund for this blunder. Ue upbraided him for not bnrlug put In Kals?r right after getting a four run lead over the National. A lot of other mistake are charged up to Itowlund. aud ComlNkcy la said to be determlued to get n new man for the J"h next sea son. Kowtund hud quite n ball team turn ed nver to blm. The acquisition or Ed die Collin and Joe Jackson, two of the greatest playcre In tbe game today, seemed to make tbe White Sox real contender In tbe race. But the team tin not come up to expectations and bud a hard time finishing In tbe first division. All this talent waa turned over to Rowland, and In summing up the re sult attained Comlxkcy I said to be for from satisfied and flu-urea that a better ostcrt mnnin-'er on the affair of major league IniscIiiiII would have been able to land the team u notch or two higher. Runner Hacking Now a Oantiat. (uy IIiirUIiis. the former University of Pennsylvania athlete, who eight year iu- held the astern intercollegi ate one uilSe running record. I now a iletiiM In I'hrlsichiitvji. New Zealand. This Sale DAY Kin of Facicus Baseii Piiy ers Seidob Mi Gcsd.' GAME'S HISTORY SHOWS THIS Many Inatancee Cited Showinfl Where Brothtra of Famoua Pill Chaaara Fail Down Two 8ta In Big Show Today. Another Maiaal to Bo Oi van Trial. To Play With Detroit An utereattog question for baseball fans to dlacuHB In their leisure mo menta away from the ball grounda is the reason for the failure almost ab soluteof two brothers attaining ouc cesa on the diamond aMbe same time. This condition la true of the majority of a ports competitions, and only a few cases can be cited where brothers at tained aucres together. In baseball Ibis season there are two sets of brothers who are posvoaseil of considerable ability, for tbey are hold ing down their berths In tbe major league. Bill KllUfer of tbe Philadel phia Nationals and Wade KllUfer of the Cincinnati Reda are brothers, and ao are Wally Scbaug of the Athletlca M tr 1 1 il ts i v ' Mill f V( x mm '5 f '. - - ft vr: v; 'J Photo by American Presa Association. lint VAIHBL, NRW TOHX .AMKBIOANS' SPEED BOT. and Hobble Scbang, formerly of tbe Pittsburgh Flrates and now with the New York Giants. Frltx Maisel has a brother, George, who Is a aeusatlon In the New York State league and who will get a trial with Detroit this fall. In the old days there were tbe Te beaus and tbe Gleasona; then came the Delehantys. Ed and Jim and Frank. Fred Clarke. Pittsburgh manager, and his brother Josh were In the majors at tbe same time for a short period, when Josh was with Cleveland. Jess Stovall waa Just going back , when bla brother George came up. Bobby Roth, once of tbe Chicago White Sox.' now with the Indians, has kept the family in the game since but brother Frank dropped out The Illnehman boys. Bill and Harry, were on tbo Cleveland club together for a abort time. Family failures have been more nu merous. Ty Cobb's brother Paul Is only a fair minor leaguer. Christy Matbewson'a brother Qank couldn't make a go of it; neither could itoger llresnahan's brother Joe. Johnny Tv er's brother Joe Is a minor leaguer, aud ao Is Ed Groh, a brother or Heinle or tbe Cincinnati Reds. Harry Covelcskle has a brother who, be says, is a better natural pitcher than he, but this boy has yet to get above the .Pacific Coast league, and another outtleldlng brother of Covey's lever got above a state league In Penn sylvania. Veun Gregg's younger brother was tried by Cleveland and sent back. Ed Waters brother looked good for a time, then went to the bushca. Tbe same thing happened to Harry Comnlta, a brother of Howard, who starred with Pittsburgh. George Tyler, tbe Boston Brave left hrtiiilor. had a brother who was tried by Boston ns a catcher and sent back. 1'ivrl Smith, brother of Charley, who vn with Washington, Boston and the culm did fairly well. 11 (By United Press Leased Wire.) By Wm. P. Slmms. (Copyright 1915 by the United Press.) Paris, Oct. 20. In the middle of the Champagne battlefield my first impression was that Judgment day bad come; that I bad been left be bind to roam tbe disrupted earth alone. Aa far as tbe eye could see, along the undulated stretch, it waa a vast pitted waste of chalk, with snags and annihilated forests sticking np gaunt and white, covered with dust against tbe sky line, and with arms, legs and other fragments of dead men lying stinking like common garbage on a titanio dump. This waa the work of the French artillery. Here Germans had been. Here many were still rotting. : Hell's furies seemed to have been forestalled and outdone. For three daya I was permitted to wander over this ground recently won by the French. I had a talk previous to my trip with many at the war office re garding the efficacy of the French shell fire, but even thus prepared, and despite what I hitherto had observed personally, I was totally surprised br what I saw. . Over many square miles practically no vegetation was left Even the rabbits and rats had not escaped. -Almost 3,000,000 shells had been fired into this area In three days, dig ging pits from five to 75 feet deep. the , latter 130 to 150 feet across. Aa a result of this concentrated fire the whole country was covered with a white powder. A general told me that the German troops 'were so demoralized that droves of prisoners tbe French took were sent to the rear without any other escort than a single guide; that many were almost insane for days. Numerous French regiments have been trying to clean up the, battle field ever since, but without seeming jto make headway, so vast is the un dertaking. Their excavations bring to light dally fresh war stores or huddles of dead Germans, as if this were some new Pompeii. : What I took first to be the stump of a shell-torn bush turned out to be a crisped, red hand on a human arm protruding from a caved-in trench. What seemed to be an old sack had a human foot Inside. A dis colored blue sweater had a man's trunk within it. Under the French fire trenches be came gravea for the living, while the graves of earlier victims were ,ex- posed to the air. This man made earthquake shows what is now necessary V an advance Is to be made.t Without such an earthquake advancing infantry would be paralyzed by German guns form erly used against Galiclan forts. The Germans had woven entire forests with (barbed wire, under cover of which they had dug trenches which zlg-zagged eight feet deep along their entire line. Their front was covered by a mul titude of machine guns, many with four-Inch steel turrets with revolving tops all save the tops embedded in the ground. These held 'each a 50 milll meter rapid fire cannon and to serve it three men, who, the French say, were locked in. I personally Inspected a captured turret the doors of which were fas tened with chains outside. The, cap tors declared that three unwounded but unconscious Germans were found inside. This was what the French had to go against. The general command ing the French Fourth army told me it took .two months to prepare this part of the attack. He constructed about 500 kilometers of new trenches, some of them wide enough for two horses to pass through, together with many new railroads and dirt roads. I personally rode along the new dirt road, 13 kilometers long, laid ao that the troops and convoys could pass day and night,' unseen owing to cuts and improvised hedges. When all was ready the artillery cut loose. The battle, which took two months to prepare, was practically over in one day, aa the subsequent fighting was really a settling down process. Local attacks and counter-attacks are still occurring, "but the original re sult has not materially changed. The cannon actually seemed to touch wheels. Batteries were every where, their crewa active in shelling new enemy positions in response to telephone calls from hidden observers near the German line or wirelessed commands from the specks Covering In tbe sky. Aeroplanes of both sides are exceedingly busy photographing opposing trenches and plotting them to a scale. The rit-tat-ut-tat of machine guns exchanging courtesies In the clouds wins only a passing glance. bnt every little while one Is deafen ed by the pandemonium of anti aircraft batteries driving tway la- -qulsltlve aerial enemies. The combined scream of shells la absolutely cyclonic, with countless flecks of smoke giving the impression that tbe sky has broken out with a ' white rash. The French advance was gained with small losses, (but considering conditions, even bad the Gallic losses been enormous, the Champagne vie- . tory would bave been cheap. The country was not only electri fied but French troops are sorer than ever that they are fully equal to the mightiest blow that Germany has to offer. 'V'-: ;:' ? My personal Impression is that the line will stick about, where It Is all winter, as Indicated by the statement nt m iron ral a1Vo4 vfth tn til AffACt that much preparation Is necessary to score an advantage under present conditions. One therefore Is Inevit ably led to ask the question: "When wiU the war end?" ROUGH MUSIC An evildoer's Medicine, One Dom f Which Is Usually Enough. There are more ways than one to punish evildoers. Did yon ever hear of chastising a wife beater by means of "rough music?" No. this Is not a reference to tbe phonograph record which the children have played with. It Is even worse. It has been in use in tbe southern counties of England for at least four centuries, and It Is so effective that it is likely to persist for several centuries to come. Tbe one disadvantage of this method of pun ishment Is that it punishes the victim quite as much as it does the guilty party. It is Inflicted on men and wo men alike, bnt It Is most merciless when It is directed against the hen pecked husband.; ' ,, When it Is the consensus Of opinion In the village that a man or woman has been guilty of conduct unbecom ing a decent, self respecting burgher tbe neighbors assemble at tbe borne of J one of them, equipped with tin pans. tire snoveiB. poters, settles, pairs or Iron potlids, cow horns und anything else that will make a hideous noise, and march In silence to the house of tbe offender. Suddenly tbey break forth with a raucous, deafening din. When the rest of the village has been aroused aud there Is a sufficiently large . ! audience tbe wit of the rough music I band" lays tbe charge against the of fender in verses that are not usually distinguished for refinement and con sideration. After this has been done the band marches to every tavern In town, where the charges are repeated. One such punlsbmcut. us a rule. Is suf ficient St. Louis Globe-Democrat RAIN FROM A CLEAR SKY. An Alleged Phenomenon Linked With tha railing or utw. In English dictionaries we tlDd the word serein defined as a fine rain which sometimes falls from a clear sky shortly after sunset The word is French, but has become tbe Interna tional designation In meteorological works for this alleged phenomenon, which Is always described as quite rare. 1 Has tbe phenomenon a real exist ence? , 1 Tbe fact that a stereotyped descrlp' tlon of It has been passed on from one meteorological writer to another since the latter part of the eighteenth cen- uiy u uj uu uieuus cuuciubivq eviueuce on this point, for science has perpetu- aieu many uiyiua uy me process or reiteration. Professor Gustav Hellmann, in a re cent publication of the Russian Mete orological Institute, sees In the concep tion of the serein merely the survival of the old fashioned belief that even ing dew falls from the (clear) sky, and he finds that the serein of early French writers was Identical with that "even ing dampness" which was supposed to be injurious to human health. : It still remains possible that rain may sometimes fall, from a clear sky, though this Is not likely to be a phe nomenon peculiar to tbe early evening. Some cases can be explained aa due to tbe oblique falling of raindrops, carried horizontally by the wind, wben the clouds from which they came have passed away. Cleveland Plain Dealer. CONDITION OF PREMIER ASQUTII SATISFACTORY London, Oct. 20. Premier Aaquith passed a satisfactory night and was Improved at daybreak, though he will be confined today, said his physician.