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SECOND SECTION SECOND SECTION a DURHAAl, X. (, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY (J, 1916 TWENTY-THIRD YEAR. tRICE ONE CENT. . N E NEWSPAPERS And as a Consequence Their t Business Has Suffered I Greatly MAKE A COMPLAINT The Game Has Lost Ground That Cannot Be Re 7 gained By FRANK G. MENKE. Now Vorl.. Feb. 5. The daily newspapers have been indicted by the "TroCer and Pacer" magazine, in a recent editorial, on the charge of having forgotten the "harness game; of ignoring it almost entirely in the;? news columns. ' "It is entirely safe to say," asserts the editorial, in part, "that there Is j not a famous stallion in this country If or a fast performer which would be known outside of his own narrow local sphere, were it not for the pub licity given to him by the turf pap ; ers." In a way, the Trotter and Pacer is right. The newspapers do not give very much publicity to the harness game, but the fault does not lie with the newspaper. It lies with the of ficials of the grand circuit, and the other harness horse organizations, who fail to realize that publicity means life for a game of sport; who fail to avail themselves of the oppor,' tunity to secure this publicity. Thirty years or so ago the harness game was among the leaders, in the sporting field. It got as much public ity as baseball, football! pugilism and other sports. In some sections it got more. But since that era, these other sports have come to the fore wKh a wonderful rush and practically have crowded the light harness racing news off the sporting pagea. . . OFFICIALS AT FAULT. The explanation for that is simple. The men connected with baseball football, pugilism, golf, tennis and other sports came to realize the value of publicity and they organized plans to get it. They didn't wait for th paper to come to them. They went to the newspapers and kept them in formed at all times of their doings. But the light harness racing officials are asleep. They seem to ignore the existence of newspapers. Every big college today maintains a department akin to a publicity bu . reau. It is the duty of that depart ment to supply the newspapers with news and pictures concerning till the athletics in that college. Those bu reaus labor unceasingly to gain news paper publicity. The baseball clubs have secretaries whose business It Is to inform the newspapers of every move that club makes. It sends out every item of news it can, realizing that publicity is the food that nourishes the game. Each year the leagues send out to every newspaper in the country the statistics covering each player durin the past season and they also send their schedule to each newspaper in the country. No meeting ever take place without all the papers being In formed as to the date and place. Practically every pugilist in the country has a press agent. It is his job to get publicity for his man. He bombards the newspapers with pic tures and stories and he is contentee if he can see in print one o.'t of cv?ry 'en stories he sends out. Every club in the country that stages pugil'stTu bouts also is an entry in the race for newspaper publicity. MYSTIC HOSPITAL IN THE GROUND KING AND QUEEN OF SWEDEN. London, Feb. B. The correspond ent of a London nevvspapei.describes a wondeiful subterranean hospital, only 500 feet from a French fron: trench, which he has just visited "somewhere in France." His de scription is as follows: "But here am I, ten feet below the ground and 500 yards from a front trench, and I stand in the most mod ern and up-to-date operating thea tre. . "One's ncstrils ore assailed by the smell of soap and chloroform; soft footed nurses, flit about; doctors malny of the fashionable ,Parisian surgeons, walk from bed to bed, dressed in spotless white smocks. Iron bedsteads, painted white, with white counterpanes, shelter patient waiting for 'he operating table. A man's life often hangs by a thread after he has been hit, and the thread would often snap if he were takeu along the shell-swept roads in a motor ambulance to a hospital behind the lines. , ' i M '.,.., "This underground operating thea tre :s by way of being an experiment, and its undoubted success will lead to the rapid establishment of similar hospitals right along the front in France. "By night operations :ire performed by the aid of acetylene. The most exacting surgeon would find nothing lacking in this wonderful place. Hot water appears by magic; the floors are scrubbed three times a day; on glass shelves in glass cupboards are all the instruments for easing pain. And all this ten feet below the ground and 500 yards from the front trench." Scientists' Solicited. Melbourne, Australia, Feb.! 5. Aus tralia is about to take a loaf out of the German's book. A national in stitution will be established lor scientific research along industrial lines, rremier Hushes, in uiscussin: the matter with scientists!, leading business men and statesmen, said the British in the past had ignored science and depended on "muddling through." Germany's position today, her victories, her amazing industrial development were due largely to the fact that the scientist) is t!i9 pilot of German industry, he said. "We must enlist the services of scientists to prepare to meet the conditions which will arise after tha war," he added. WARRANT SWORN OUT. Charges Merchant With Unlawfully Retailing Wrrre. A warrant charging "Rats" Cash, proprietor of a grocery store and drink stand on the Bragtown road near the bridge spanning the Norfolk & Western railroad track, for retail ing wine, was sworn out last night and will be served early this morn ing. Mr. Cash will have to appear before the recorder Monday morning and answer to the above mentioned charge. The arresting of a drunken man and the finding at a quantity of cider wine on him last night, let the cat out of the bag. r it ! v N s& I k t,A I threatening attitude fu AN ADVENTURE . ON THE AISNE OTHERS SEEK PUBLICITY. The same thing is true concerning the golf and tennis officials and also the jockey clubs which govern the running department of 'he turf game. They are alive. They, too are among those who realize the value of news paper publicity. They don't wait for the newspapers to seek them out; they seek out the newspapers. But how vastly different is 'he at titude of the light harness racing of ficials. Not only are they minus a publicity department, but they con sistently ignore the newspapers when ihey have highly important news to j sporting news from the publicity bn- didn't send out the news to the news papers in general. In a dozen ways the officials ignore the newspapers. The trotting game has been losing in popularity through the past twenty years because the newspapers grad ually have ceased giving it b'g space. A new generation has arisen during that period. If the trotting peoplo had sought and fought for news paper publicity they would have se cured it and thus recruited to its Chinning ranks many of the new gen eration. But they haven't. TROTTING GAME DESERVES SUPPORT. The trotting game is one of the cleanest and squarest in the sporting world today. The men connected with it rank among the finest sports-1 men in the country. The game it self is one of thrills; one that brings together that wonderful combination of man and thoroughbred animal; a real sport the sport of kings! It is a game that should flourish; that should increase in popularity yea after year. But it doesn't simply be cause Che men behind it seem unaware of the fact that newspaper publicity is life; because they lack an organrz ed plan to get it. The trotting officials probably feel that because their's is a game that is straight and clean and thrill'ng it ought to get ncwspiper surn'ort with-. King Gustav-V, of Sweden, is a cen tre of interest now on account, of , his controversy with Great Britain.' His A SWISS TRAVELER TELLS OF REBELLION Zuericli, Feb. 5. A "Swiss traveler who recently returned I from northern Africa reports that i the rebellion in Tripoli has largely been organized by German army officers. According to the report of this neu tral observer about seventy German and nearly two hundred Turkish offi cers were m Tripoli wnen naiy en tered the war. The Germans and Turks at once started to organize the natives for the "holy war" proclaimed by the sultan and aided by the large and powerful secret order of the Gen ussi, they also carried their agitation into Tunis, Algiers and Mororco. Arms and ammunition for the re bellion were brought from Asia Min or by many sman i umisu ir which, evaded the fleet of the allies in the Mediterranean and the Italian coast guards of Tripoli. Rifles and cartridges were obtained by the Ges ussi through members of their order in Egypt and the Soudan. Within three months the rebel were armed so well that they could attack the Italian posts in the intcr '6r of Tripoli. The garrisons were driven to the coast and the hinter land of TriDOli.'is now practically in the Dossession of the rebels. The whole territory will have to be re conquered by the Italians after In, present war. The array of the Genussi which in vaded Western Egypt and has cap tured two coast towns is commanded by German and Turkish officers. This army consists of about 10,000 men and Is well equipped, as it possesses even a number of machine guns. ggests that Sweden may throw in hfcr lot with the central powers. His queen, a sister of the grand duke of Baden, is an ardent pro-German. Sentiment favorable to Germany has been growing in Sweden ever since the beginning of the war. nnnn iran rnn I mil VHIH UIH uuuu i Lnu i un i RING FIGHTERS i I The Various Championship Divisions Are to Be Ad justed . A FEW fWORt BATTLES Many Disputes of Long Standing Will Be Settled BEGGARS ARE NUM EROUS IN RUSSIA Petrograd. Feb. 5. During the last Bix months the number of beggars has increased enormously in Russia! es pecially in the central and eastern provinces. I.arge bands of "pan handlers" travel from village to vil lage and seek alms under the pre text or being fugi:vcs from the dis tricts occupied by the German troops. The beggars are mostly elderly men. but many wnien, have also taken up btgging as a trade. out seeking it. They probably are un-j The alleged fugitives have become aware of Hie fact that the newspapers j irli a nuisance thai the authorities ccch day get throe times as much I fid themselves forcd to .ct. In nirny dispense. In some instances, they rvon balk attempts of the newspapers to get trotting news. They seem un conscious of the fact that a new era lias come; one in which a sport shall live and thrive or die according ;o Hie amount of newspaper publicity it pets. Here is an instance of the way it conducts itaelf toward newspapers: rcau of baseball, football, golf. casos the bonds have terrorized 1h population of small viilar s av.:l r nis. boxing, t-tc. as they can print. Therefore. Miey are not in a mood to spend a lot of time pursuing trotting officials, who do not seem, -to want publicity anyway. What t'-.e trott'ng game needs and needs immediately is a lire publicity j found, hi an ofliria! 5 urc.ii:; oie that mill keep the news- ! minister requests tin several instances they have cojiiniit ted robberies. To dismrs. and suppress the lag ging lTordes the m'nisU-r of 'he in tfror, Chwostow. has ordered tho police to arrest all tramps wh-n-vT Mat-n-cnt tTi- publii- not to The grand circuit. Ih bigtet trot-j papers all of them informed at all eive alms to any :r.h idvals. a :!i ting organization In the world, re- j times of the doings of the men and j government and irnunn ra'ile chari ccMtJy named its !Ji1 neetir? d(-s. tin- hcr-es connected with the light ; table societies ar.. amply taking are yet w- daresay tho circuit ddn't harness raring; one that will supply of all honest and ceeily persons. to the trouble of sending those dates ' pictures and human interest stories! to a dozen or the newspares in the, and statistics, so that the pubic wilrj Mr. and Mrr. I.. C. T'.?s kiiurt' and ounity. A- the same meeting the, know what the trotters and pacers Miss Jessie Jarr.-tl Urt vord"- af and their drivers and owners are do- temoon 'for I'niversiiv to r sai.ization adeptrd some new and iniporiant rules, but the stewards i ing and how well they are doing. itives. New York. Keh. .".This year may prove a most productive one for Ssti ana. After a lapse of lo! tnese many years, rlv various divlinions final y are to be adjusted v.iih a rocoguized champion for each class. The mid dleweight situation is clarifying itself as is the welterweight muddle. It will take about two more bouts to settle the middleweight question, while the welterweight tangle may be straightened out with the holding of three or four battles between Hie leading claimants of t'.ie title. It requires but a Mi!;e (iibbons-.l McCoy match, and a Gibbons-I.e? Darcy battle to establish the righi'ful for H c:n 1:oPe 'o b. middleweight champion. Little doubt is entertained of dibbons' ability tc knock out McCoy, a third r.ite fighter, who is grimly eliii-'ing to a cham pionship claim by virtue of his one punch knockout of George Chip. It has been intiniat d that McCoy "crossed" Chip after the latter had agreed to let him stay the limit o." ten rounds. McCov ias been ,rin:- , med mcsl persistently since :hat evening, tiiird and second rater;; handing him immeasurable punish- nieht as wel! as middlowoi:;hts r i better calibre. I Gil bons and M Coy i jiisht at r Prooklyn club in t-Vjiuary, lilt. On tha' occasion (;il)b:ns disarranged McCoy's features mi - il he was al- , most iinrcconiabl". Only Gibiioiis'. compassion for an n;ri'rir opponei.' raved McCoy from .i knockout. Gib bons still maintains ;! same propor tion or class- over M Coy. and would not have any trouble, in severing Mr Coy from his cii.T.i:iioiisbi;i j:sp:-a- liens inside of li.i" rounds. That naturally would Itina the issue dwn to Cib'ioiis and Umicv. While (iilibons !i.is b en rnai;i.(l iv e iniinalini; -tie i:ifiih weight i;.i lendcrs in t is o ntry. I;ircy ha l-een eminently .-i:co--fi, in press- r.L'. ii'le tampHun o:i lie ihe; iid' of tie ii!,i ; . In far.iway Austral;;! larcy ois uev ie;e u 'njoi j a,, .-. fonnidal.l- middl-ui is n. Already ;ljsI0!.(l arrived in ii "un 'v iisjlin fri nns in Simmons and Stanley Ketchel, al- I though lacking the eombativeness of the ill-fated Stanley. Darcy has stilled the championship" wai's of such good performers as Kddie Mc (loorty, .limrny Clabby and Jeff Smith. The winner oii a Gibbons-Darcy match 'would of a certainty be recog nized universally as the world's premier middleweight. And rightly ! so. too. We call mild attention to the fact that this eolmun, two days before the Gibbons-Young Ahearn fight, asked the pertinent question: What is to prevent a recurrence of Gib Ion's previous knockout of Ahearn?" Nothing whatsoever: not even Ahearn himself. Result: Gibbons flattened Ahearn this time in one minute twenty-eight- seconds. Ahearn claimed the middleweight champion ship of Kurope. so that empty honor la! s lo Gibbons. As mentioned s?vc:al months ago Darcy will not. com1 to this country for another year. So Gibbons will have to tramp across to the ether sid (if the world if he is desirious of be coming the world's championship middleweight. Mike has already been on en d several iiiscious purses lo make the junkei. but he demands the equivalent of ?2u,'tMh). in purse and round -trip tickets for three. The welterweight bauhe is still in abeyance, although Ted ICid Lewis is the foremost, claimant of i he tit'e. And he is rapidly enhancin'g his claims by winning consistently. He has eliminated Willie Ritchie. Charley White. Milbuni Saylor and several other overgrown light weights, and also has disposed of the leading wel terweights, among them Kid Graves and Jack Pritton. Lewis, however, must first dispose of Mike Glover be- toked upon r.s the legitimate tit'e holder. Glover holds a point decisiivi over Lewis, and a retain match is eagerly sou-ill1' by Lewis, so that he may w ipe out j the insignia of that defeat. Now. hurdling over to still another division. It would occasion little surprise if a new champion was to be crowned in the light weight divis ion before the calendar year of 1 0 1 C is out. Certain it is that Kr.ddie Welsh will be knocked out he ever consents to take on a h irdy l'ghl weiht for any disla'wo over twenty rounds. Hut it is -.mlikely that Fred die wil' permit hiins -If to be inveigled into a maraMi'.m uiri'eh uniess ic is amply icconiiicnsi d -say something like $JH.0:mi for twenty rounds. Welsn, be it known. Its been leading an ir ngular Tie for n-arlv a vi-aalid the wonder of it aJI is t! al he hasn't oftn stopped in some of his te.i round bouts. Welsh is wary old ring bird. -:nd s-o far outgenerals the other lightweights iliut 'r? tan r.early al ways maiiac to- sta!' Iv's way through ten rounds. As Ion : as he"-s on his i t al the nd of t n rounds. Fred die leniains ba:i'pio!i. Pul the 'iiif i:; no! far off win'i a inir hittin ;cl;teiT:t will Kt h Fr-diiiP tin -snares and slij l.iui th"' p;iiuh seporifie. London, Fb. .". if. Warner Allen the official observer with the French armies for the British newspapers sends the following account of the present situation along the Aisne river : The struggle for every point of vantage between the two lines is a continuous and desperate one. Every little' mound and every bit of coer .in the debatable ground between the trenches is fought for again and again: is won, lost and won again. In his give and take lighting, the initia tive and dash of the French soldier are invaluable, and so little are they cast down if the enemy succeeds for moment in occupying one of these disputed positions that they set out to recapture it the next day. On th:- banks of the Aisne. just half way between the French and the German positions; there is a small mound or hillock that overlooks the German lines. One night fifteen men and a, non-commissioned officer crept out. of their trench, crawled through the barbed wire entanglements, crossed the river? and ;uietly in stalled themselves on tin; crest of this mound. In absolute silence they set to work to dig themselves in, and constructed two trenches and a f.iirly strong dug-out. They spent forty eight hours in their dangerous posi tion unobserved, and they admitted later that they were the longest hours in their lives. At last they were discovered, and big projectiles from a German eight inch battery began to burst on their make shift entrenchments. After the bombardment th". French roldiers came out . and peeped over the edge of thejr shattered trench only to find a new "menace. The Germans, considering that 1'ie French position had by this ;ime been cleared, had sent forward forty men. This detachment had already reached the first trench which the French had dug, and was hard at work repairing the damage caused by their own shells in order to use it for them selves. .When-they had finished their work - they advanced towards the second trench. The French hastily scuttled back to th"ir dug-out, aaJ remained there in perfeel silence. The enemy's men actually en.ered the trench and reconnoitered, bat concluded that, none of the French men were left in the position, and re turned to the first trench. The position of the French soldiers cooped up in their dug-out, was any thing bin pleasant, and ihey decided to send back word to the French troops behind them, and a corpora volunteered to carry the message, and somehow or other he made his wy out of the trench, crawled along the river bank, and slipped into the river itself. There, with tin water up to his waist, and not thirty feet l?Iow the German position, he passed aero is to the French lines, and delivered his message to the officer commanding. The oilier, after consideration, de cided that the men must try to get back to the French lines. The cor poral wont back across with his mes sage. One by one, at intervals of two minutes, the sixteen Frenchmen crept past the German position, and slipped into the river. The enemy did not discover them until just 'as the last man was reaching the French lines, and then opened a heavy fire. The whole party regaind the French trenches without losing a man. FUNNY STORIES FROM THE FRONT: A Newspaper Is Printed Jn the Trenches in ' France SERfDS BOY AS PRESETIF German Officer Sends Bus sian Orphan to His -Wife - TO FREE ITALY FROM THE GERMANS Berne. Feb. 5. Italian newspapers have started an agitation to force the government to free the industries of Italy entirely from German domina tion. As many of the largest fac tories of the kingdom are practically owned by German capitalists, the papers 'demand radical action. They advocate the confiscation of all indus trial establishments which are wholly or in part in the hands of Germans, even if this step should lead to a de- clarat'on of war by Germany. The "Corriere delle Sera" savs: "The chance for the industrial emancipation of Italy lias arrived and must be used. Too long we have re lied on German capital. German mark ets and German coal.' We can now create real Italian industries by simp ly confiscating the German owned factories. The offenses of Germany against Italy more than warrant this step. Germany may answer with a declaration of war. but th's is hardly probable, as the kaiser has his hands more than full now and could not help the Austrians much anyway. "Working capital for Hie industrial establishments we can easily obtain from England and France-, and our al lies will be able to furnish u.- London, Feb. 5 Mud and water ere plentiful in France if the trencn newspaper of the Twentieth Cana dians, the "Twentieth Gazette," is to be credited. Under "Extracts from (expected) Brigade Orders" appears the following: Commanders of submarines plying in ttie communication trencnes are requested to see I hat these vessels are not used by pleasure parties be tween the lines. X. C. O.'s and men are not .allowed to use the bathing beach at 'XZoO trench. This is for officers only. Men on duty must not Are at the periscopes ot submarines plying oe-, tween the redoubts and the flrlngf" line. Ration and fatigue parties must not participate in swimming races to firing line, owing to the presence of hostile submarines. These ' events will be swum off during the six days' eave under the supervision o th,e battalion swimming instructor. Owing to the scarcity of material for filling sandbags, any man who consumes more tnan ten pounas ot mud per day will be severely dealt with. In the "Strafe column" is found: I tossed a bomb into the air. It fel to earth I know not where, The shock that same was loud ana mighty, When I awoke well, me. for Blighty. Said a C'ockney on ifurlougli Crorii Ypres, It's a rotten oP village for snypres, An" the thing as they do Ain't exactly wot you Reads about over 'ome in the pypres. Berlin. Feb. ". Professor Dr. Robert Moder, a teacher of Frankfort, who is on the eastern front as an, officer of one of the Prussian reserve regiments, has sent a strange Christ mas present to his surprised wife a beautifu' Russian boy. The unique gift was brought to Frankfort by a discharged soldier who"returned from the Russian theatre of war. In a letter to his wile the professor writes that he found the youngster, who is very bright, but knows only his first name. Ivan, deserted in one of the villages captured by the Ger man troops near Barasovitchi. The parents of the boy had fled and ho was nearly starved when, soldiers Ou tho company of Capt. Moder discov ered him in a heap of ruias. The boy at once attached himself to the professor, who speaks a little Russian, and he completely won the heart of the educator. As the pro fessor has no children ot his own, he decided to adopt the orphan ana to send him to i-'rankfort. !' the parents of the boy can be found after the war he will, of course, be returnetj to them, should they object to bU adoption by his savior. Stuttgart. Feb. 3 The German general staff announces that Frldrlcli Kammercr. of Tuebingen, a corporal of the lPJth reserve inrantry rejci ment. has been decorate with the ron cross of the first class and the gold medal for military merit. The corporal, with twelve held a section of a trench neartSt, Die in the Voszes mountains. Re cently the position came under a ter rible fite from the French artillery. Within half an hour five of the twelve men in the trench were Wiled and six wounded. Kammerer alone remained unhurt. Instead of thinking of his own safety the corporal started to save Us wounded comrades. I'nder a hall et shells he dragged three of them two hundred yards to the nearest shelter. When be returned to the trench tha fourth time, a large shell exploded mar him and he .vas buried under coal I tons cf dirt, gravel and sand. Just as cheaply as Germany after the , F ive days later the position was war "retaken by the Germans, wnen ine "The argument that we need the soldiers dug themselvta in again and German marke does not hold and repaired the almost demolished should not influence our government. trench, they were startled by moan Aft, r their sure defeat the Germans ' ing. which, however, soon died away, will remain so impover shed for at In the following night the moans were bast a century that they cannot buy heard' again and njw the soldiers anything in foreign t ountries." started to dig feverishly on the spot . 'from which the sounds came. After s.x hours of work they foand Kara- merer. ho had been buried alive for A. Tiliman. Ijindon. Feb. 4 The 'official state ment of the ar oftic issued today jsays that the British atrillery was active today between the rivers. Ais m !ne and Somme. The British trenches J1 r.iuht an j arc about Klderdinehe tvere heavily shell- ed during the day. nearly six days. The corporal was unconscious and very weak trony f-tarration. but not seriously hurt, li the hospital be fully recovered la three wects. i 1 V
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