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September 27, 1908 CELEBRATE K. U. VICTORY.
Students at Lawrence Parade After First Football Game.
LAWRENCE, KAS., Sept. 26. -- (Special.) Headed by the K. U. band, 200 K. U. students participated in their annual shirt-tail parade in a drenching rain through Lawrence streets tonight. The students celebrate their first football victory every year with this sort of a parade.Labels: Lawrence, sports, universities September 8, 1908 GAVE PAPKE FIRST LESSONS.
Ernie Potts, or Kid Selby, Reviews the Fighter's Beginning.
"So Billy has won again. Well, what do you think of that?"
It wasn't the wail of a disappointed sport who lost money on the fight yesterday. It was the expression of genuine surprise from the man who taught Billy Papke his first lessons in boxing, and who thought two years ago that Papke would never amount to much. Ernie Potts is his name. He, with Mrs. Potts, is doing a bag punching and singing turn at the Orpheum this week.
Two years ago Potts was doing stunts with a show that broke up at LaSalle, Ill. A few days later he drifted down into Spring Valley, and there met a man who asked him if he wouldn't take hold of a young miner who had the ambition to become a prize fighter. The young miner was none other than Billy Papke, who was then going on in preliminaries at $6 per.
Potts's introduction to Papke occurred in a little grocery store in Spring Valley, where he had fixed up a punching bag. After a few rounds Potts saw that the young man might be made a fighter, and at the earnest solicitation of the man who is now Papke's manager he secured work in Spring Valley and gave Papke lessons for six weeks.
"He's a good, tough fellow, with an unlimited amount of endurance," Potts said last night. "I was in his corner in the first professional fight that he ever made. He was inexperienced at the time, as any young fighter would be, and for the first four rounds was inclined to stand up and box with his man. But he was cool -- just as cool as any old fighter I have ever seen, and when I told him to bore in like Nelson does, he went at it and whipped his man in the seventh round.
"But even at that I didn't think much of the kid's possibilities. He was determined, though, and told me time and again that he was going to work his way to the top. I told him to keep at it, just to encourage the boy along."
Potts is a fighter himself. He is better known as Kid Selby, and under that name he has won no less than thirty-four fights. His home is in Minneapolis.Labels: sports, theater, visitors September 4, 1908 BASKETBALL MAKES GIRLS QUARREL, SAYS MISS CAPEN.
New Physical Director of Y. W. C. A. Will Not Allow Dr. Naismith's Game to Be Played.
"Basketball cannot be played by girls without making them quarrel," said Miss Julia Capen, who yesterday took charge of the physical education work of the Kansas City Y. W. C. A.
That is the reason that there is to be no competitive basketball in the Kansas City association this year. Miss Capen is following the lead of many other physical directors throughout the country in putting the ban on the most strenuous of girls' sports. Dr. Clark Hetherton, director of athletics at the University of Missouri, aroused much criticism last year when he contended that the game was bad for women and that every girl who played basketball on the university teams suffered from a nervous collapse before she left school or immediately afterwards. Now Miss Capen says it is bad for the girls' tempers and will forbid it for the association girls. A little mild practice might be allowed, but no real scrimmaging.
Miss Capen succeeds Miss Tamson Weatherbee, who goes to Milwaukee. She plans to enlarge the enrollment in the gymnasium classes, especially the classes for little girls. Children ranging from 6 to 12 years of age will be given instructions in all manner of games, such as Boston ball captain ball, indoor baseball, volley ball, long base, and others.
The Swedish system of correctional gymnastics will be introduced by Miss Capen and instruction in dancing and fancy drills will be given the older girls' and married women's classes.
"It is alarming the number of women you see every day with one shoulder higher than the other or with some other defect which the girl scarcely notices herself, but which is remarked at once by all who see her," said Miss Capen. "Careless habits of standing and walking and breathing are to blame for these defects, which could be remedied by proper gymnastic exercises."
Miss Capen graduated from the Boston Normal school of Gymnastics and has taken work in the Yale summer school. For the last five years she has been physical director of the Binghampton, N. Y., Y. W. C. A. and taught in the Lady Grey School for Girls.Labels: sports, universities, women, YWCA July 9, 1908 NEWSBOYS AT FAIRMOUNT PARK.
Were the Guests of Union's President and Park Management.
As the guests of President Sam Milinkowsky and the officials at Fairmount park, about 100 newsboys, members of the Newsboys' Union No. 1, enjoyed a picnic at Fairmount park yesterday. The boys made the trip to the park in a special car and spent the day at the various amusements and in games of their own. They were given the privilege of visiting the merry-go-round, moving picture show, rocky road to Dublin and mystic cave in addition to the swimming in the lake. Ice cream and cake were served as refreshments.
In the afternoon contests in footracing were held. Abe Sheftel won the dash for boys under the age of 8 years, Max Ducov that for boys under 10 years, Joe Sheftel for boys under 12 years, Tom Cohen for the boys under 14 years and Alec Greenberg for boys under 16 years. Each dash was 100 yards.Labels: children, fairmount park, picnics, sports July 6, 1908 SWAM 20 MILES DOWN THE KAW.
CARL KURZ LEFT STREAM ABOVE DESOTO, KAS.
Insisted That He Could Finish the Long Swim From Lawrence to Kansas City, but Was Not Permitted. 
CARL KURZ.
Who Swam Twenty Miles in the Kaw
River at Night.
Kurz entered the water at 9:30 o'clock Friday night and left at 2:35 Saturday morning, three miles above DeSoto, Kas.
The swimmer got along fine as far as Eudora, Kas. Here the boat carrying reporters from The Journal and the Lawrence World, went ashore to telegraph to their papers. The other boat, containing Roy Stratton, a riverman, went on with Kurz.
Three miles below Eudora, the boat was thrown into a snag and in attempting to get out, Stratton broke one oar clear off just below the carlock. The swimmer and the boat drifted helplessly down the stream. Kurz did not want to go ashore, but after drifting five miles and having many narrow escapes from snags, he decided it would be best to land and wait for the other boat.
That five mile drift was full of adventure. Kurtz had to stay near the boat, widely seen to have taken a sudden liking for snags and whirlpools. Once it floated up on a submerged corn field and Kurtz for a moment got his feet tangled in a barb wire fence.
Helped by the swimmer, Stratton finally landed at 2:35 a. m.
THEY HAD NO LIGHTS.
The second boat came by an hour later and tied up with the other It was agreed that the current was too treacherous and the snags too frequent to permit one boat to tow the other in the dark. All the light the party now had was a coal oil lantern A chemical bicycle lamp the press boat carried eploded a few miles below Eudora and this boat jo urneyed seen miles in the dark.
It was decided to wait until daylight and then drop down to DeSoto, get another oar, an start a new race from DeSoto to Kansas City.
A fire was built on the bank. Over his web bathing suit Kurz put on his coat and trousers and lay down on the damp sand by the fire He slept about an hour, being awakened at daylight. He was thoroughly chilled and in no condiion to re-enter the water. But he insisted that he would be ready to start from DeSoto for Kansas City as soon as the sun rose.
The sun was up when the party limped up to the bank in front of the Santa Fe depot at DeSoto. Kurz stayed in the boat, sleeping under two overcoats. He would eat nothing. It was found that oars were as scarce in DeSoto as children in a high class apartment house.
TOO WEAK TO GO ON.
Kurz was warmed up by this time and eager to start. He was weak, though, and was really a little afraid of the cold water. A council of war decided that since it was doubtful whether Kurz could cover the remaining forty miles in his present condition, and since the prospect of another oar was so bad that it seemed likely that one boat would have to be towed several miles before another oar could be procured, the affair was called off.
Kurz came into Kansas City from DeSoto by train. The boat will be shipped back to Lawrence.
The swimmer displayed great nerve and endurance throughout the twenty-mile swim. Disappointd by the withdrawal of the other entrants in the race, he started alone, just to show that he was no quitter. And he wasn't He plowed his way down the dangerous river through treacherous whirlpools and around snags for twenty miles, the last five miles of which were made in front of a drifting boat.
Twenty miles in that cold water is a swim that few men would care to undertake. Most of them would want to get out of the dampness long before the last mile was reached. But Kurz did all this for fun, and because he refused to take a dare.
HE WASN'T AFRAID.
After he swam over the dam at Lawrence, several weks ago, a Lawrence merchant asked him why he didn't try to swim to Kansas City.
"Pretty far, isn't it?" said Kurz. "And the water' cold this time of year."
"You're not afraid, are you?" the merchant said.
"No, I'm not."
"Well, why don't you try to do it?"
And Kurz tried hard to do it.
He still contends that he can make the distance, and is willing to make another attempt if he can find any one to race against him. He has no money, so can n ot make any bet wthat would ring out the swimmers who are not swimming seenty miles for fun.
Kurz has studied art at the Chicago art institute and the St. Louis art institute. He was a promising artist, but gave up his art to become a plumber. His father is an evangelical minister in Chicago. He has been all over the United States, and for several months practiced his trade in Panama. His home is now in Lawrence, but he probably will move here.
Kurz believes in fasting after a long race. After he started on the swim he did not eat a thing until yesterday morning, when he ate an orange. As soon as he arrived here he bought a chocolate ice cream soda. That was all he ate yesterday.Labels: Chicago, Kaw river, Lawrence, sports, The Journal, visitors July 2, 1908 MANY WOMEN ATHLETES.
Nearly 200 Members Enrolled at the Club Now Forming.
Within another week the Kansas City Women's Athletic Club, which for some time has been promoted by Mrs. Viola D. McMurray, will have become a reality with nearly 200 active members enrolled. Negotiations for a building are now under way and before early fall the structure will be equipped with the latest improved apparatus.
Thus far more than 100 paid-up member are on the roll, the majority being members of well known families, and because of the rapidity in which they have been enrolled, the promoters expect to have received the quota before July 7.
Although at this time there is said to be no intention of competing in the various classes with those of similar clubs for the sterner sex, it is not denied that eventually there is a possibility of it. Therefore, the style of "gym" clothes to be worn is occasioning not a little inquiry from young women who already have entered their names and those who contemplate joining.
The club is to be entirely independent and what is accomplished will be the result of the members alone, under the supervision of Mrs. McMurray.
Although the building already has been decided upon, the location is being kept secret. It has been said, however, that it is in one of the principal downtown thoroughfares and within easy access of all car lines.Labels: sports, women June 29, 1908
BOY IS KILLED BY A BASEBALL
THROWN BY MARION GREEN, 11 YEARS OLD.
MORRIS CROWE IS THE VICTIM.
HE WAS ALSO 11 YEARS OLD. AN ACCIDENT.
Little Sufferer Dies as the Angelus Is Calling the Parish to Prayer. Thrower of the Ball Crazed by Grief.
While playing a game of ball yesterday morning, Morris Crowe, 11 years of age, was struck on the head by a pitched ball, and died a few hours later from the injury. Morris, with six of his playmates, was playing ball in the side yard of James Green's home, 1122 Prospect avenue. Marion Green, the 11-year-old son of Mr. Green, was in the act of throwing the ball to John Crowe, Morris's brother, when Morris attempted to cross the yard. In crossing he ran directly into the course of the ball, and before his little friends could warn him of the danger, the ball had struck him fairly on the left side of his head, just above the ear.
Morris staggered and cried for help. His brother and Marion Green ran to him just as he fell to the ground, unconscious. The lads carried Morris to the terrace and began to throw water in his face in an attempt to revive him. Marion ran into the house and told his mother of the accident. Mrs. Green came out and told the boys to carry Morris into the house, but Morris had regained consciousness and refused to go in, saying that he wanted to go home. Mrs. Green bathed the boy's face and his bruise, then bandaged his head and his friends took him to his home, 2711 East Eleventh street.
ABLE TO WALK HOME.
Morris seemed to have recovered from the effect of the blow on his head and was able to walk home with little difficulty. His conversation was rational and he ate dinner as usual. After dinner was over he began to grow rather stupid, and his mother decided that he should have medical attention. A physician was called, and said there would be no serious result from the injury, but that the lad would naturally be somewhat bewildered by so hard a blow on the head.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon Mrs. Crowe noticed that her son was growing worse, and immediately called in another doctor. This doctor informed Mrs. Crowe that there was no chance for her son's recovery, and she would better send for a priest at once. Two hours later the child was dead.
When Marion Green heard of Morris's death he became frantic and his talk was irrational. He dept repeating: "I killed him; I killed him." Neither Mr. Green nor his wife is able to do anything to quiet him, and he mourns over the death of his little schoolmate and playfellow bitterly. Mrs. Crowe said that she realized the little Green boy was entirely blameless, and that he felt the death of Morris as keenly as did she.
DIED AS BELL TOLLED.
At the time of the accident Mr. Green, who is connected with the T. Green Grocery Company, was away from home. He did not arrive until after dinner, and at that time it was not thought that Morris's injuries would result fatally. It was not until 7 o'clock that the Green family heard of the lad's death.
Just as the angelus was ringing in St. Aloysius church, which is located only a few doors west of the Crowe home, Father J. C. Kelly, four Catholic sisters, Mrs. Crowe and her family were gathered at Morris's bedside. They sank to the floor on their knees in silent prayer, only to arise and find that life had left the child's body while the angelus was calling the parish to evening prayer.
John W. Crowe, the father of Morris, is a conductor on the Santa Fe railroad and was in Texas at the time of his son's death. Mrs. Crowe telegraphed the train dispatcher of his district and received the assurance that her husband would be released from duty as soon as he could be informed of his son's death. He is not expected until tonight.
Morris and Marion Green had been fast friends. Both of them were in the same class at St. Aloysious school. Almost every day the boys of the neighborhood would gather at the Green home for games of some sort, and Morris and Marion were the favorites of the crowd.
CAUSED A CONCUSSION.
They boys who were playing ball at the time of the accident said that the ball which struck Morris was thrown with such force as to rebound from his head and strike a tree some feet distant. After striking the tree the ball again rebounded and rolled quite a distance away. The physician who attended Morris last said that the blow on the head caused a concussion of the brain and it was from the hemorrhage that death resulted.
When the news of Morris's death spread in the neighborhood, the little friends of the boy visited the Crowe home, each expressing with unmistakable sincerity, his sorrow.
Morris was one of three children in the Crowe family. He is survived by an older brother and a baby sister.Labels: accident, children, churches, death, Eleventh street, Prospect avenue, railroad, schools, sports June 28, 1908 SEAVER IS THE GOLF CHAMPION.
TRANS-MISSISSIPPI CONTEST TO EVANSTON MAN.
PLAYS IN SPLENDID FORM.
GREATEST FINAL ROUND IN AS- SOCIATION'S HISTORY .
Defeats Harry Legg of Minneapolis, One Up on 37 Holes -- Evanston Makes a Fine Record in the Contest.
In the greatest final round that the association has ever seen, Everett H. Seaver of the Evanston Golf Club, Kansas City, defeated Harry Legg of Minneapolis, 1 up on 37 holes, yesterday and won the Trans-Mississippi golf championship after a struggle that was a hair raiser from the first tee.
It was the steady plugging of Legg that made him almost win the Trans-Mississippi championship yesterday. A lucky stymie on the sixteenth hole on the second round by Seaver, that gave him the hole, was the only thing that gave the Evanston Club the championship. The sixteenth hole of the afternoon round was the turning point. They came to this hole with Seaver 1 down and 2 to go. Legg had a splendid chance to halve the hole, but Seaver's put got in the way and Legg couldn't hone in, giving the hole to the Kansas City boy, making it even up at the sixteenth.
Seaver dubbed his drive on the way to the seventeenth, and it looked all off for Evanston when Legg won the hole in 5. It was dormie one when they started for eighteen. Both drives were good. On the second shot Seaver got on the green, while Legg's iron shot was short. Legg's approach was good and he seemed to have a chance to halve the hole and win the match, but Seaver made a splendid twelve-foot put, holing out in 3, two under bogie, and winning the hole.
This made it even up on 36 holes and the men had to play an extra hole to decide which would take the Trans-Mississippi championship.
ON THE DECIDING HOLE.
On the deciding hole, both drives were good, but Legg topped his second shot. His third put him over the green in the high grass. Seaver was almost on the green in two and making a nice approach, holed in in 4, one under bogie, winning the hole, match, and championship.
The Evanston Golf Club made a record in this tournament that will not be equalled in many, many years. A member of the club won the championship, Paul R. Talbot, a member of the club, won the consolation prize, and the Evanston team won the Brock cup for the team championship. The prizes the club didn't take were those that went to the men who made the lower scores in the qualifying round.Labels: Evanston Golf Club, sports June 25, 1908 TRAIN'S FAMOUS PACER DEAD.
Major McKinley Fell in His Tracks at Elm Ridge Yesterday.
Harry Train's famous bay horse, Major McKinley, with a mark of 2:05 1/4, pacing, dropped dead yesterday while doing an easy mile on the track at Elm Ridge. The horse cost $2,500 two years ago in New York, and was held by its owner to be the fastest pacer in the world working without anything on him, meaning toe weights or straps. Trainer John McKinney had the horse in harness and was finishing a three-mile workout. The horse was 8 years old, a marvelously beautiful creature, gentle to handle, graceful in his step and did his work without displaying much energy.Labels: animals, death, Elm Ridge, sports June 17, 1908 THOMAS MINOGUE IS DEAD.
Prominent in Local Sports for the Past Twenty Years.
Thomas Minogue, for the last twenty years one of the prominent figures in Kansas City's sportdom, died about 6 o'clock yesterday morning at his boarding house, 1325 Brooklyn avenue. Minogue was 45 years old and Wednesday night was apparently healthy and in prime condition. A hemorrhage of the lungs was the cause of his death. He was unmarried, but leaves a mother and sister in Leavenworth, Kas. At the time of his death, Minogue was assistant superintendent of the streets. He had formerly held the same job under Mayor James A. Reed, when T. J. Pendergast was head of the department. At one time he was a bartender in the Pendergast saloon. When the new administration came in Minogue was given back his job as assistant street commissioner.
Minogue's figure was as well known around the racing stables at New Orleans and in the East as in Kansas City. No wrestling contest or prize fight was complete without him. He sometimes officiated as referee and sometimes as announcer. At various times he became a promoter of prize fighters, but never with striking success.
Among sporting men Minogue was considered a "good Indian." He never "laid down" and never left a friend in the lurch. He was a friend of "Doc." Shively and Dave Porteous, and was looked upon as an authority on boxing. He was a member of the order of Eagles. The funeral arrangements have not been made.Labels: boarding house, Brooklyn avenue, death, James A. Reed, Leavenworth, lodges, Mayor Crittenden, saloon, sports, Thomas J. Pendergast June 1, 1908
SUICIDE FALLS AT FEET OF HUSBAND.
MRS. HARRY SETTLE SWALLOWS ACID AT HER HOTEL.
HAD JUST MADE UP QUARREL.
COUPLE WAS HERE VISITING MR. SETTLE'S PARENTS.
All Sunday Morning He Pleaded Out- side Her Door and at Last Believed She For- gave Him.
As an outcome of several months of domestic troubles, Mrs. Mildred Settle, daughter of Richard L. Long, a prominent real estate dealer of Fort Worth, Tex., 18 years of age, committed suicide in her room at the Humbolt hotel at Twelfth and Locust streets yesterday afternoon by drinking carbolic acid. Mrs. Settle and her husband, Harry Settle, had been in Kansas City since Saturday at midnight, having come here to visit Mr Settle's parents, who live at 1308 Oak street. They went immediately to the Humbolt hotel, and nothing more was seen of them until late yesterday morning.
Settle appeared in the dining room of the hotel for breakfast at a late hour without his young wife. After his breakfast he went back to their room to see why she had not come down for breakfast. He found the door locked, and to his knocking he received no reply.
He called repeatedly, and she finally told him to leave her, as she wished nothing more from him. Surprised at this treatment, he began to plead with her, but the young wife would speak to him no more.
After urging a reconciliation for some time, he left the hotel and went to his mother's home. He enlisted her services, and together they went to the hotel, and stood outside of the door, first one pleading with the girl, and then the other. At last Mrs. Settle opened the door and let them in. Mrs. Settle then left the husband with his wife, and soon it appeared that all the trouble was over between them. They left the hotel together, and appeared in a happy frame of mind.
About noon they returned and went directly to their room. Mr. Settle left and went to his mother's home. As he passed out of sight his wife walked form the hotel to Hucke's drug store at Twelfth and Oak streets, where she purchased a vial of carbolic acid.
SHE RAN THROUGH STREETS.
Soon she was seen running through the halls, out of doors and into her father-in-law's home. In the room she found her husband talking with his father and mother. She ran directly up to him, gasping out an almost inarticulate cry: "Oh Harry, Harry," and then fell to the floor at his feet.
The family physician was called and tried to revive the fast falling girl by administering vinegar. His treatment was without beneficial effect and her husbans sent in a call for the police ambulance. At the Walnut street station, the nearest one, the doctor had gone out for lunch, but the ambulance was sent nevertheless.
When it arrived at the house where the unconscious girl lay, she was hastily carried into the carriage and orders were given for a record drive to the emergency hospital, fourteen blocks away.
The girl was almost beyond medical aid before they had reached the hospital and died a few moments after having been taken in charge by the police surgeon.
Just before Mrs. Settle left the hotel she had opened her door and called to Mrs. A. D. Buyas, wife of the proprietor, asking her the date of the month. Remembering this incident, Mrs. Buyas went into the dead girl's room, expecting to find an explanatory note of some kind. As she passed through the door she noticed a leaf of charred paper in the center of the floor with a half burnt match beside it. She stooped to see if she could make out what was written on the sheet and succeeded in deciphering the last word, which was "dead."
BURNED FAREWELL NOTE.
Apparently Mrs. Settle had written a note telling of her suicidal intentions and at the last moment decided to leave it all to the imagination. Mr. Settle says that he was not greatly surprised at his wife's actions, for on the occasion of their last years' visit to Kansas City his wife had bought a bottle of laudanum and announced her intention of committing suicide. He says that he was able to persuade her not to do so at that time, but the threat had been ever ready with her since.
Mr. and Mrs. Settle had lived for two years on a ranch near Amarillo, Tex. While on the ranch his wife had developed a strange fascination, according to him, of breaking broncos. At the beginning of her riding she was thrown violently to the ground, sustaining a serious injury about the head. Her husband thinks that this fall caused her to become despondent and in constant ill health, which made her very irritable at times. This fact he believes caused her to magnify the family troubles, which have frequently arisen.
Harry Settle was well known in college football circles, having been a tackle on the University Medical school football team for three years, 1899-1901. At that time he was reputed to be one of the best tackles in the West. He is a brother of Mrs. E. J. Gump of 105 Spring street in this city.Labels: druggists, hotels, Locust street, Oak street, sports, Spring street, Suicide, Twelfth street, visitors May 26, 1908
BULGER TAGGED OUT SLIDING TO THIRD.
Shinnick's Bunt Put the Father of the "Ladies' Days" Ordi- nance Out.
Alderman Miles Bulger never reached the home plate with his resolution, introduced in the lower house, to compel the management of Association ball park to admit women, when accompanied by an escort, free to ball games one afternoon each week. He got as far as third base with his resolution, and there he was tagged out when Alderman Shinnick bunted toward that base. Shinnick's bunt was in the shape of an amendment to compel the management to admit women free to all games, when with a male escort.
"I accept Alderman Shinnick's knock," consented Bulger.
"These whole proceedings look a good deal like a huge joke to me," observed Alderman Pendergast. "Bulger's effort was an amusing skit, but Shinnick has made a farce of it."
Aldermen Pendergast, O'Hearn, Smith and Gilman voted against the passage of the resolution. Alderman Brown would not vote either way, "because he is a married man," and only nine other aldermen voted for it. As it lacked one vote of enough to pass, the resolution was referred to the finance committee.
In the upper house the "ladies' day" resolution fell upon rough roads. In the first place, City Clerk Clough couldnot read it, owing to the irregular way in which the lower house amendments had been interlined. He was not able to decide whether the draft asked for one day a week for women to be admitted free to the ball park, or every day in the week Both ways were in the draft.
"It is a little confusing," said Alderman Steele, following with the usual question: "Has it ben approved as to form by the city counselor?"
"From appearances, I think it must have been approved as to form by the city engineer," responded Alderman Isaac Taylor.
Alderman Bulger came over from the lower house and tried to explain his resolution.
Alderman Edwards asked to have the resolution buried in the box of the insurance patrol. Alderman Eaton fought for a vote. In the end the resolution was saved from the hostile insurance patrol and was sent to the finance committee.Labels: Alderman Bulger, James Pendergast, Kansas City council, sports, women May 22, 1908 ALDERMAN BULGER'S LATEST.
Will Try to Force a Ladies' Day at the Ball Park.
Sing, hey! for the gallant alderman, Miles Bulger. He's going to force George Tebeau to set aside one day a week at Association park when women baseball "bugs" shall be admitted free. Alderman Miles is nothing if not gallant. Besides, a good many wives of the Fourth ward voters are followers of the great national pastime and their husbands are growing weary of putting up 50 cents for them to see the home team beaten. Hence, Bulger to the rescue. The alderman will introduce an ordinance in the lower house of the council next Monday night requiring that at least one day a week be set aside for free admission for women at the ball park.
Whether the council has authority to compel Tebeau to grant this boon to the women fans is not known in the Fourth ward. If it hasn't Alderman Bulger may take his measure to the state legislature position. He's going to get the women past the turnstiles one day a week free or know the reason why. Incidentally, he will try to force the ball park license tax up to $250 a year. It is $50 a year now.Labels: Alderman Bulger, Kansas City council, sports, women May 16, 1908 IT ISN'T ALL HONEY.
The Umpire's Life Not a Happy One When the Home Team Loses.
Oh, it's great to be an umpire. Steve Kane is an umpire. Things didn't go just right, from the fans' point of view, at the baseball park yesterday and it looked as though a reception committee might greet the umpire as he left the park by the big gate after the game. At least, the police thought so and they hovered conveniently near until Kane had safely boarded a trolley car for down town.
Last night Steve Kane refereed two wrestling matches at the Century theater. The principals were introduced and then the announcer said:
"And now, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to introduce to you the referee of these matches, the very popular and affable baseball umpire, Mr. Steve Kane."
Enter Mr. Kane, R. U. E., bowing and smiling.
Siz-z-z! Wow! G-r-r-r! Zip-p-p!
For five minutes the audience hissed its opinion of Umpire Kane and then it settled back prepared to roar its disapproval of his decisions in the wrestling matches. But he was so manifestly correct in his decisions that the crowd was forced to acknowledge that he at least knew the wrestling game.Labels: sports, streetcar, theater May 3, 1908 SAYS POLICEMAN HIT HIM.
Ernest Hiatt Had Cuts on the Back of His Head.
Ernest Hiatt, 19 years old, of 1215 Jefferson street was playing ball in the street near Fourteenth and Jefferson streets yesterday afternoon, when a park policeman ordered him to stop. The boy was sent to the Walnut street station later with two cuts on the back of his head. He said that the policeman had hit him with his club as he was about to recover the ball when the game was ordered stopped. Alderman James Pendergast was a witness, and has interested himself in the affair.Labels: Fourteenth street, James Pendergast, Jefferson street, police, sports, Walnut street police station May 2, 1908 THEY HAD BASEBALL FEVER.
Spring Malady Affected Many City Hall Men Yesterday.
The baseball fever took possession of many heads of city hall departments and employes yesterday afternoon, and the malady extended to the board of public works. There was no meeting of the latter body. Next Tuesday the board is scheduled to meet.
During the early hours of the afternoon Mayor Crittenden, R. L. Gregory, president of the board of public works, a number of aldermen and officials sat in carriages and followed through the streets a band that announced the opening game of the baseball season here. "Wearing of the Green" was played as the procession started from the city hall.Labels: city hall, Mayor Crittenden, music, public works, Robert Lee Gregory, sports April 28, 1908 WANT GOLF LINKS MOVED.
Players Are Interfered With by Sightseers at Swope.
A request was made to the board of park commissioners yesterday, and taken under consideration, that the location of Swope park golf links be moved from the concourse to the hill in the vicinity of the athletic field. It was represented that the present site is unfavorable to the golfers, and that it is impossible for them to pursue the game with any pleasure when the course is crowded with sightseers and visitors. Dr. Byron C. Darling urged the change, saying that with the links on the hill it would be possible to build a shelter house and fit it out with shower baths and other appliances of comfort.Labels: doctors, sports, Swope park April 18, 1908
 HATCHED.Labels: sports March 5, 1908
TRACK MEET FOR CHILDREN.
Will Be Held in Convention Hall Some Time in May.
A track meet to be held in Convention hall some time in May, in which the school children of Kansas City will participate, is now proposed for the benefit of the Public Play Grounds Association. The principals of sixteen of the Kansas City ward schools, accompanied by Superintendent J. M. Greenwood and Dr. Fred Berger, physical director of the public school, met at Convention hall at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon in conjunction with a committee of the play grounds association and discussed the feasibility of the plan.
Superintendent Greenwood was heartily in favor of the plan, and it was upon his suggestion that a committee of the principals will be named to work in conjunction with a committee of the play grounds association. Superintendent Greenwood will name a committee of five today or tomorrow.
The plan is to have the children of the public schools from the fifth to the seventh grades compete in this meet All kinds of races will be run, including the relay and the medicine ball. A similar plan has been successfully carried out in New York and Buffalo, and Martin Delaney, physical director at the Kansas City Athletic Club, believes that it may be just as successful here. One of the women principals who attended the meeting yesterday afternoon suggested that the girls should not be left out of the meet, and it is probable that they will be included in athletic sports of some kind. Prizes will be awarded in all the events, and in this manner it is believed that the considerable rivalry may be worked up between the various schools.Labels: children, Convention Hall, Kansas City Athletic Club, schools, sports, Superintendent Greenwood February 29, 1908 BASEBALL IN FEBRUARY.
First Game of Season Played in Kan- sas City, Kas.
To Kansas City, Kas., belongs the credit for the first baseball game of the season. It was yesterday afternoon and the opposing teams were the Chelsea schol and the second team of the Kansas City university. Seven innings were played, the university team winning by a score of 13 to 11. A member of the Chelsea team reported the contest. He said: "They run in three men on us, understand, I mean men, not boys. Three men. The umpire was a little shady on a few of his decisions, too, and he ought to get his lamp wicks trimmed. Put this dope in the paper, now, for I want to send a copy over to the captain of that team of yokels. If they hadn't run in those ringers on us we would have eaten 'em up."Labels: Kansas City Kas, sports February 10, 1908 NOT REMEMBERED AS A BOXER.
Kansas City Men Who Attended Har- vard Know Nothing of Prowess.
If President Roosevelt was champion lightweight boxer when at Harvard, there are no Harvard men in Kansas City who knew about it at the time. Hugh Ward, Dr. J. W. Perkins, Joseph Meinrath and six other men live here who were at Harvard with the president. None of those who could be located yesterday ever heard of him being a prize boxer. L. A. Laughlin missed the president at Harvard, but was with him at Columbia Law school. He never heard about the president beign handy with his fists.
"I think there has been some nature of faking," said a Harvard man yesterday. "If the president really wrote that biography of himself, as the Journal of Saturday says he did, then I will have to admit that I have forgotten some things I learned while studying at Harvard. I was something of an athelet myself. I do not believe I missed a single fight while there. I never saw Roosevelt strip but twice, and once was when a man named Hanks put him out. I am willing to bet right now he never was anywhere near a lightweight champion fighter."Labels: President Roosevelt, sports, The Journal January 24, 1908 WANTED ROOMS WITH DRAFTS.
Alaskans Were Looking for Cold, Italians for Warmth.
"Five nice cold rooms, please, with a draft in each."
The keeper of the register in the Savoy hotel dropped his pen and straightened to face ten men in double fur coats standing by the counter.
"Yes, we want cold rooms," resumed the spokesman. "We're the basketball team from Nome, Alaska. At the athletic club tonight, you know."
"All right," says the clerk, "and if the row on the top floor facing north doesn't suit, I'll have beds made up in the roof garden."
The next comers were members of the Italian grand opera company, which sings at the Willis Wood this week's end.
"It iss so cold here," said a little miss with her chin drawn down into her fur boa. "You have the very warm rooms for us, is it not?"
"Yes," said the clerk.Labels: arts, hotels, Kansas City Athletic Club, Savoy, sports, visitors January 19, 1908 PLAN TO "GINGER UP" ALL TWELFTH STREET.
Improvement Spreads West; Baseball Club Formed.
Not satisfied with its work in gingering up the 300 block of East Twelfth street, from McGee to Oak streets, the Ginger Club has now decided to begin a campaign to improve all of Twelfth street in the downtown district, hang flaming arc lights on artistic brackets from each trolley pole, and call it "The Great White Way.
The merchants on Eleventh street, from Main to Walnut have an advantage in that they are located on Petticoat Lane, a name that everybody recognizes," said E. J. Richards, president of the Ginger Club yesterday. "We want the women to know that ours is the cleanest block on the city, and the brightest at night."
"Even the negro porters in the block are getting interested. Several of them have been to me today to know what they can do to help. 'We want to do our best,' they said."
ORGANIZE BALL CLUB.
Last night the Ginger Club organized a baseball club at the office of the secretary, L. J. Galbert, 309 East Twelfth street, and has issued a challenge to the Kansas City Athletic Club to play a game of indoor baseball on Washington's birthday. The Ginger Club has secured some of the best semi-professional baseball talent in the city, including men from Iowa and Kansas state leagues.Labels: Eleventh street, Ginger Club, organizations, Petticoat Lane, retailers, sports, Twelfth street January 16, 1908 MINISTER VISITS PLAYHOUSES.
Presbyterian Pastors Want Evidence at First Hand.
Look ye upon the vaudeville while it is good.
And take heed that ye applaud all good acts.
Remember that a red skirt may look as well as a blue, if properly hung.
Let not the kinetoscope delay thy rush for a car.
And be, ye, happy in all things. -- Howesians Chapter 1, verses 1-5
The Rev. William K. Howe of Grace Presbyterian church did not go to see "The Clansman" last night. He could not get the sort of seat he wanted. He may go tonight.
First, according to the text, this is the story of a quest to see whether the theater is moral. Let us take up each phase of the question as it presents itself, noting carefully what is written.
Each year the Presbyterian clergymen make visits to the theaters. Not all of them go, but one or two of their number is assigned to the work. Last year it was the Rev. J. L. McKee. This year it is the Rev. Mr. Howe.
Secondly, Rev. Mr. Howe went to the Orpheum Tuesday night. In considering this section of the discourse, it must be borne in mind that he liked the show. He said so with his hands not once, but many times. There was not one of the allusions, which the vulgar tongue has seen fit to call a "gag," to which the pastor, still adhering to the language hereunto above used, did not "tumble." There was not a merrier man in the house. Realizing, with proper insight, that it was foreordained for him to have a good time, he had it. Just before the kinetoscope, he fled.
Thirdly, lastly and to sum up all that has here above been written, Dr. Howe will visit other theaters and on some day early in the month of March, which is not far distant, he will discourse to his brethren in the cloth upon the theater as an institution and upon its moral effect in particular. Whereupon he will be given a vote of thanks, and the same thing repeated next year in these months.
"Did you enjoy the show at the Orpheum last night?" Dr. Howe was asked yesterday evening.
"Sure I did," he replied, or to that effect.
Directly accused, Dr. Howe acknowledges the following: He is 35, athletic and has red blood. He is a baseball fan, never missing a game on the home grounds, except on Sunday, and never coming away from an unfinished contest without a rain check. He lives at 3009 East Tenth street.
On the following points he refuses to plead: Whether he is for or against the Sunday theaters. Whether Pulliam, Dreyfuss or McGraw discovered Honus Wagner. Whether the championship batter's medal hoodooed Ty Cobb in the Tiger-Cub series. Just when he will report to the association of Presbyterian ministers as to the theaters.
Dr. Howe is a friend of the theaters. They ought to cultivate him.Labels: churches, ministers, sports, Tenth street, theater November 18, 1907 A FOOTBALL GAME BY WIRE.
How Michigan Rooters Followed Each Play in the University Club.
Although Saturday was Pennsylvania's day on the football field at Ann Arbor, it was Michigan's day with the stay-at-home rooters who watched the game around a miniature gridiron at the University club. A special wire from Ferry Field, Ann Arbor, told every play, and a pasteboard football was moved on a miniature gridiron with every announcement. When it was Penn's ball the red and blue side of the pasteboard was up, and when it was Michigan's it was turned over to display a yellow and black "M."
Alderman C. A. Young, a member of the class of '73 of Pennsylvania, was the only rooter who wasn't a Michigan man. It was eighty to one against him.
"Whoo-ee! Whoop!"
This was how the meeting started. Then the conversation changed to "What?"
But the rooters had a period of elation, and when the final score came they yelled, "U. of M." and gave "nine rahs" for the team, anyway.Labels: sports August 26, 1907 BACK TO THE GIANTS.
MABEL HITE SENDS MIKE DONLIN EAST TO REFORM. CUT OUT OF WIFE'S SONG.
TWO VERSES MISSING FROM "I'M MARRIED NOW."
Grease Paint and Gay Costume Hide Aching Heart of Kansas City Actress -- Penitent Ball Player Is Put on Probation. 
MABEL HITE.
Pretty Kansas City Actress Who Has Put Her Husband, Mike Donlin, of the New York Giants, on Probation.
CHICAGO, Aug. 25 (Special). -- Grease paints and uncouth costume can hide a breaking heart from the laughing audience on the other side of the footlights, but when Mabel Hite yesterday afternoon sought the only refuge she had, a 4x5 dressing box -- it couldn't be called even by courtesy a room -- large tears stole down a woebegone, little face.
She wiped them off with the corner of a Turkish towel, taking a bit of the rouge with it and hoped Mike would get better.
For the pretty little Kansas City girl sent Mike Donlin, the ball player, who is her husband, down to New York, buying his ticket and giving him the price of a Russian bath, which boiled out the remnants of the various liquids that had developed four days' spree, with an assault on a cabdriver and a cell in the police station for trimmings.
Donlin has promised to cut out booze in the future and sign with the New York Giants and if he's good for the next six months he can come back -- otherwise a divorce.
WORRIED SO CAN'T SLEEP.
I can't stand it any longer," said the little comedienne -- she's a child in figure and manner. "Now you don't think it's such a dreadful thing for a woman's husband to get drunk and in the newspapers, do you? But it means so much when you love a man and he'd promised not to do it. And every time it happens it's so much worse and it worries me so I can't sleep and I have to go out before that audience and act like a fool and make them laugh, and sing my songs and dance, and my heart is breaking. For he's good to me, except when he forgets himself."
A little while before she'd been singing "For I'm Married Now," and the appreciate ones on the other side of the footlights who'd called her back six or seven times, didn't know how hard -- how extremely hard -- it was to carry a smiling face through the trying ordeal.
TWO FAMILIAR VERSES OUT.
But she'd cut out two verses, and old players who remembered them and had heard about Mike knew the reason.
I'd like to go with you to lunchin'
But I've got a hunchin
That I'd get a punchin'
And I just hate to wear a veil
For I'm married now.
That was one of the verses that was eliminated from her song in "A Knight for a Day" at Whitney's. The other was:
Tell Mike a lie
I'd best not try.
I may be fly --
But no fly gets by him.
And the villain -- he admitted he was all that and was most penitent -- was in the office of the playhouse. He had slunk past the policeman who has been on guard for the last three days, fearing a possible outbreak by the ball player and was waiting to send a message of extreme contrition -- a message that Mabel wouldn't receive in person.
CALLAHAN CHIEF PEACEMAKER.
There were plenty of peacemakers, but nothing but a six months' probation will answer for Mike. James Callahan, his friend and manager of the Logan Squares, who had straightened matters up with the police, told how the husband and wife had slept in his house, at Thirty-fifth street and Indiana avenue, last Thursday night, unknown to each other.
After the cab episode, and after Callahan had got the soused one out of a police cell, he took him home. Mabel, who lives a block away, went to Callahan's house in great trouble.
A little earlier Thursday night Donlin went to the theater and demanded to see his wife. His breath was thick and he talked loud. Jouhny Slavin took him down to the corner and argued him into a cab, and that was why the scrubwoman's part in the show that night -- Donlin's role -- was performed by an understudy.
Donlin met Mabel Hite a year and a half ago in New York, and they were married soon afterward. He never saw her act before the marriage. She was in vaudeville or something similar. Off the stage she's girlish and pretty. Donlin met her at a dinner party.Labels: arts, Indiana avenue, marriage, sports, Thirty-fifth street July 16, 1907 HE STOPPED TO SEE SCORE.
And Then "Cop" Pinched Him for Blockading Sidewalk. John F. O'Donnell was so struck with amazement yesterday afternoon as he saw 3 to 1 against Kansas City on the bulletin board near Twelfth street and Grand avenue that he stopped to take a second look. "I have barely got time to think," said Mr. O'Donnell to friends of his at headquarters, "before a 'cop' comes up and says to me, " 'Move on or I'll run you in.' " 'For what?' says I. " 'For blockading the sidewalk,' says he. " 'I have lived here twenty-three years and I never heard the like of that in all this time,' says I, and with that he pinched me." Mr. O'Donnell was charged with blockading the sidewalk and immediately released on his own recognizance. Labels: Grand avenue, police, sports, Twelfth street June 2, 1907
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Labels: sports May 13, 1907 BLUES IN FIRST PLACE.
BEAT COLUMBUS 5 TO 4 IN A GREAT FINISH.
While a crowd of 11,691 wildly excited fans howled and cheered as only raving baseball rooters can, the pinch hitting Blues bunched four bingles with a base on balls and three errors in the eighth inning of yesterday's game at Association park, and scored five runs after two men were out and the most optimistic Kansas Cityan had given up hope. The Blues won from Columbus by a score of 5 to 4, and went to the top of the American Association Standing. This is the first time in the history of the association that Kansas City has had a clear title to the top notch.
It was a glorious finish to what was probably the most exciting game ever played at Association park. The crowd was the largest that has ever been inside the fences adn the rooters filled the bleachers, stood up in the grandstand and swarmed out on the grounds and surrounded the field.Labels: sports May 6, 1907
SHRIEKING HIGH SCHOOL BOYS.
One Hundred and Eighty From St. Joseph Invade Union Depot.
High, Ho! Mm Oh!
What's the matter with St. Joe?
One hundred and eighty high school students from St. Joseph were at t he Union depot yesterday afternoon, advertising their presence by a conglomeration of shrieks, which, when analysed, proved to be the foregoing yell. They were on their way home from Columbia, where they had attended the state interscholastic track meet, and were proving to Kansas Cityans that not even the failure of their team to carry off more than one event in the meet ha dampened their school patriotism.
"Had a great time down there!" yelled one exuberant athlete. "Greatest place ever was, and they treated us fine. The meet was all Kansas City and St. Louis, but we had a good run for our money. Stopped at the Eta Pie Frat house and got enough provisions to last a week. 'Rah for Columbia! Whooppee!"
The excursionists were under the charge of Professor R. H. Jordan, principal of the St. Joseph high school, and J. H. Bentley, athletic director.Labels: sports, St Louis, St.Joseph, streetcar, Union depot |
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