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I ------- ----- - - - r i - ? - . : - : -s iiiiiiifflii '7 I THE WORLD OF SPORTS HANS WAGXER QUITS AGAIN". IWuovs Flayer S7 He With nsebaU Appears to Before IUmbm Club Has Not et Tender ed Him a Contract -He Grows Sa- StSburr. P-. Feb.-2. John "Hon s Warner, king of batters and king of shortstops, will pkr no more lw ball. The king's edict was issued 6at uiday in the form of an interview in which the famous player sets f orth i his intention to retire perroanenuj the diamond and devote his remaining itars to peaceful pursuits. Selling au tomobiles and conducting the circus he end his brothers will soon place on the toad will take up Wagner's "me in the future, he saysr V Wagner was seen at his home n Cragie to-night. Wh asked if the rumor concerning his. retirement was ccrrect. he aald: -Tea, son. I shall not again p-3Y baseball.- and the big shortstop em phaslied his assertion with the air or vn: driving a tenpenny nail thru-J Mch word to make it stick good and 2i&rd. . ... "But your contract the fans aro muter the Impression that you are tiert up tight with the Pittsburg team for 10S." faltered the reporter. "Tes I know, but as to a comran. thst was outside talk. I never said I e:rned one. Mr. Dreyfuss has not sent rre any contract for this year. lm a his-been. I am Just beginning to lind tnat out. I used to be able to llar some, but I tell you I'm a has-been. Pesides that. I can make more money ut of the automobile business than I can out of baseball. I have Just oo talned the agency for a well-known manufacturer. Then there's the circus that my brothers and myself are going to put t n the road this year. All the time I can spare from the circus enterprise I s'all devote to selling machine ow, where Is baseball coming in. even I had not decided to leave tht game?'" Concerning the Warner tented show 21 onus said 16 cars for its transporta tion will arrive in Carnegie within a f w weeks. The advance car 13 expect ed rot later than next. Tuesday, and ii ill be lettered immediately for properly heralding .the show's com- With a chuckle the star swatsman switched back to automobiles. T got a letter the other day from fim Leever." he said. "It was in arwer to one. I had written asking I im to race one of my cars In the en durance contest to take place in th- tcction March 17th. Sam agreed ar.d fUo he would beat tho life out of me. Kow I'm going to race one of my cars mjtelf. I don't care much about wln-M clog the contest, but I do want to teat Leever most thunderlngly bad. DETROIT TO IIAVE XEW PARK. Owners of Tigtrs Purchase Site and Will Build at Once, Detroit. Mich., Feb. 2. Detroit will J have a new baseball park. A deal was completed Saturday whereby the De troit baseball club comes into posses sion of a tract of land in the north eastern portion of the city 563 feet wide and 735 feet deep, the ball club paying 150.000. The ball club has a lease upon Bennett Park until 1911. and It is planned to have the new park ready for the opening of the sea son in 1911. The new park will possess every modern improvement, and the tands will be constructed of concrete and steel. It is estimated that the new park, when the stands are completed, will cost the local club 300,000. niriT. RAfilmATJi COMEDY IS COXMXED TO 31LNOR LEAGUES , Jimmy Casey Write Some of the In cidents of Unkme Variety Ke En countered in Eastern League Green Hands" Do Some lltnny Things. I ' . i "You've got to go to the minors u you want gethep to the real, live juicv comedy in baseball. You fellows ap here In the lig league miss half your lives because you don't get it. Doctor James Casey began rolling a cigarette in the office of the De troit baseball club, and, as usual, uite an audience collected for the en tertainment. , , Montreal is placing her faith In "Jimmy" to secure the ltf pennant. Land yesterday he started out to see what he couia ao ior me viuauiaii fans. He began his pilgrimage with a visit to President Frank Navin. of the Tigers, to see if there were any young sters who might as well play in the Dominion as in Tigerland, and after he carefully perused the roster of H. Jennings he started his anecdotes. .Vow, during the past season I saw about as many funny things as ono would care to crowd into an annum. I can remember but a couple of them. "I bad one fellow last year one of those tall, rangy type of ball slingers. whom we called Andy. He looKea good at first, but later on he showed ud to be not quite as sweet a baby a we had doped him out. He was a great eater, my how that man Could stow away grub. He was hardly ever on time for a ball game and the reason was that he wanted to corner the Montreal food market. He had a commissary department equal to none, and it wasn'k big enough to suit him. "One dav he comes to . me and e ays: 'Say, Casey, I'd like to go home for two weeks. I got to go home.' " 'What you got to go home for?' I asks. " 'Casey, the food up here's pretty good, but say there hain't enough of it. Now at home my mother knows Just what I want and she can cook the best in the land and there's none of this hetre acute stinginess about her layouts. What I wants, Casey, is one souare meal.' " 'An it'll take two weeks to get it, will it?' I calculated, which remark kind o' dampened his enthusiasm. CHARLOTTE ' . DETECTTVE ' BUREAU - . wants to protect your interest by lending you our assistance. We have twenty-flve men of experience selected from ! dif ferent States and can give any and all business intrusted to us prompt attention. We solicit criminal and civil and divorce cases, and anything that may come under the' head of de tective work. We wish .to se cure 10 good men at once. V, .Charlotte Detective Bureau' Room 8, 3rd Floor Jordan's . Drug Store P. O. Box 115. 'Phone 1075. field. 'Well, he can play first for you.' "We started out to talk things over with the chap. The minute he saw us coming he started across the field. We chased him around a 'few times, not able to get within hailing distance of him. Finally McGraw ran and nail ed him. " "I had the right hunch he says the minute I came up. 'I heard the boilers rumbling the minute I seen you-pikin it across, Johnny what d'you do this fur?' "'Oh, klddopipo the tin horns.' "He was full of that stuff. He never did make a first baseman, but he de veloped into a sweet baby of a hitter." " 'One day the game was pretty tight and you know the kind of ex citement in the stands about that staee. Ajidv was Ditchin'. There was a man on "first, one on second, and no one out. I was on third and when the batter up bunted into the pitcher's box I yells to Andy, 'Throw her here.' "Andy, he looks at first and he looks at second, and .then he walks back to the box. all the while holding the ball. He faces the next man up and starts to wind ud. That got me. I walked over and I says to Andy: " 'What's up here?" " 'What's ud?' he repeats, 'what's SENATE WRESTLES WITH CRUM CASE Tillman Ieads P-jlit Against Negro's Re-Appointment. Washington, Feb. 1. The Senate went into executive session . at 1 o'clock to-day to consider the nomi nation of William B. Crum. for re appointment as collector of customs at Charleston, S. C. The Democrats opposed closing the doors, but a mo tion of Senator Frye. chairman of the commltte on commerce, prevailed by a vote of 33 to 18. Crum was confirmed a year ago af ter a fight extending over three ses sions, but is again opposed by Sen ator Tillman, who is supported by his Democratic colleagues. It is said that President-elect Taft desires to have the nomination disposed of so as not to Involve his administration - at its beginning in a fight with the Senate over an appointment. 1 ill III i 35 East Trade St. Capital... ..... .. ..$200,000.00 ' Surplus and Profits:. .. .$135,000.00 AB(BOUNTS GEO; E. WILSON, President. JNO. B. BOSS, Tice President. W. 0. WILKINSON, Cashier. jiMpme in Iril Monet)99 i ... . We offer for sale a five-room cottage' on North Graham r street extension. .The place is in excellent shape, surrounded .with at- tractive - fence and located on high level lot. property. Let us show you. the ' J E. MUPHY & COMPANY "43 NORTH TRTON PHONIC 942. A BEAUTY ! A BARGAIN! w .u. m.vm. ouiv a.t a uai gaiu 111c muaii aiiiauiive IOI in Elizabeth, has frontage on car line of 66 feet by 198 feet deep, and a corner lot too -well elevated. If you want something pretty and your moneys worth let us show you this lot. A. G. CRAIG, Secretary W. J. CHAMBERS, Treasurer Room 305 "Realty Building." Phone 377 PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to Affcer the doors were closed and the Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. Crum case laid before the Senate Mr. Tillman asked that consideration be allowed to go over until to-morrow. His request was granted. Legislative session was then resumed. un? What d'you mean?' " iiean, i yens, mean: wny. why didn't you throw that ball to me?' "Andy looks me over, then this: 'Why you yells. "Throw it here," an I looks as first an' I see that man I Kcl sale liiue. auu x fuuao a. u svwa.u I and I sees no chance there, and if there's no chance to get a man on first and no chance to get the guy on sec ond, what chance has I to get a man on third? And Andy, having handed me his alibi, winds himself up again and keeps on pitching. Hans Lost His Money. Some years since, when Marty Ho gan handled the Toungstown, O., Club, Hughes was a student at a Pennsylvania college. He got away in good shape against the collegians, so Hogan picked him up. Hughes,was al ways tired, or at least, appeared so. He believed in the least work to ac complish the greatest results. Brook lyn and Pittsburg were taken on" in that season for exhibition games and Hughes tossed such slow balls to the major league batters that he won both contests. Pittsburg blew In me day. under the direction of the mighty ' "Hans" Wagner. Youngstown iron j men were flush at that time, and somebody wagered with Wagner that Youngstown would garner more than three tallies. Wagner wagered they would not. and as soon as the game started, with Camnitz pitching, Pitts burg commenced to try for those dol lars. On Wagner's first appearance at the plate. Hughes struck him out with the punk ball, using an underhand cross-fire. Great glee for Youngstown folks. Jim Sebrlng was in right field for the Pirates then and he joined In the merriment. On Wagner's second appearance he suffered a similar fate. More glee from Youngstown. More kidding from Sebrlng. Later on "Chip" Hanford. who runs slower than Jim McGuire. hit a finer over Se bring's head. He managed to score, and Wagner alleged his own right fielder loafed and wasted his money. The smite brought in three runs, be sides Hanford's, ' and broke up the game, so that Camnitz had to retire. Phlllippl finished the job and Youngs town got a couple off him. The game finally ended 8 to 3 In favor of Youngstown and the downfall of Jim Sebrlng commenced. Wagner and he fussed and squabbled for some time until he jumped the team and was out of organized baseball until tho Tri-State came in. Now he is back in the big leagues. "Andy gets pretty bad and one day I gets a chance to-put him with one of the minor Eastern teams. He hears about it and looks me up. " 'Well. Casey." he starts. 'I guess I got to go. " 'Yes, I guess that s about it, Andy,' I reply, you got to play somewhere else. " 'Casey,' returns Andy, after think ing a minute, youre makin the mis take of your life. You'll be sorry that you let the best twirler in this here league get through your hands an mind. Casey, mind you. I'm givin you a frrendly tip, : but I'll be back here with you, Casey, before the season's put.' "A few weeks later a bundle of pa pers came to the hotel.' There was a paper for every member of the team hut myself. Half an hour later one of the players came over and handed me the sporting page of a newspaper. It was badly marked up with blue ink and red ink, and the ink surrounding a headline which reads something like this: "Andy Pitches Two Games;' " 'He Wins One; loses one.' "Above the headlines in big type, Andy had written this: " 'Show this to Casey, he'll under stand.' " GOVERNOR'S DAUGHTER REFUSED A DIVORCE 3Irs. Edythe Lea Chase Fails to Get Decrees A rain, Army Captain. Baltimore, Md.. Feb. 2. Captain Arthur W. Chase, of .he United States army at Fort Howard, learned to-day through a press dispatch that the Supreme Court of Wilmington had re fused his wife .Edythe Lea Chase, a divorce, for which she applied on the ground of desertion and on the add!-1 tional allegation that he had caused her to be confined in a sanitarium without justification. He refused to comment on the case in any way. Captain and Mrs. Chase are well known in social circles or New York, Baltimore and Washing ton. Her father was formerly Gover nor of Delaware, and she is a maga zine writer and author. A Story In Every Picture. Each one of the 100 or more pic tores of ball players which adorn tha effice of President Havenor and Pres dent O'Brien In the Majestic building Is worth a "story." if one were to lis ten to McCloskey. He knows some thing good about every player whose picture Is displayed, and, what's more, ht- has only good words for the play ers. He didn't find fault with any, but told only of the good work they did on the diamond and of being good fellows when off the field. The talk drifted to some of the big leaguers and if there is one player of whom "Mac" likes to talk about, it is "Bugs" Raymond, who was recently traded with about $30,000 worth of other players, to the New York Club for Roger Bresnahan by the owner of the St- Louis Cardinals. "Raymond is a card, for fair," said the new mana ger of the Brewers. "And he's a good fellow, too. He wouldn't harm any one for the world. One night we were traveling from St. Louis to Chicago, and after "being out about an hour. Raymond came through the car and asked the passengers for their tick ets. He had on the conductor's cap nd the conductor's coat and started to make good until the conductor fin ally found him. On the same trip, but later In the evening. "Bugs" hustled through the car with the porter's out fit, and among other things he had a set of false teeth, with which he caused much amusement. One tooth was about three inches long and reached to his chin. He frightened several women passengers before the boys made him quit his kidding. Milwaukee News. . - , "I had another fellow who was playing second base for us. He was pretty much of the punk variety. Couldn't do a thing with him. I got another man for second, who play ed the bag to perfection, and I was figuring on letting Willie go. He got wise to my plans and started to make preparations. I just switched him to first base. " 'I can't play first.' he says to me. 'I never played first.' "I didn't have anybody else for first' so I tells him to stick there. 1 handed him a first baseman's mitt and told him to get- busy. Well, the first day he was on he showed up pretty badly. About that time another fellow came on who was good for first base job, and Willie figured all afternoon on how he could get something other than first base and still stick. That night he goes to the roller skating rink. He weighs about 250 pounds, and when he took a couple of falls and got his right hand under him every time he tumbled, he caused some commotion. BOSTON'S 3UYOR IS, A KEEN FINANCIER In Annual Report Shows He Has Saved City $1,250,000 in Past Year. Boston. Feb. 2. According to fig ures given out by Mayor George A. Hibbard at the end of the fiscal year to-day, he has saved the city during his first year in office $1,250,000. The city auditor's figures show that the largest saving has been accomplished in the street department. Mayor Hibbard claims that the sav ing has been made without impairing the efficiency of any of the city de partments. Good Cough Medicine for Children. The season for coughs and colds Is now at hand and too much care can not be used to protect the children. A child is much more likely to con tract diphtheria or scarlet "fever when he has a cold. The quicker you cure his cold the less the risk. Chamber lain's Cough Remedy is the sole. reli ance of many . mothers, and few cf those who have tried It are willing to use any other. Mrs. F..F. Starcher. of Ripley, W. Va.. says: "I have never used anything other than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for my children and it has always given good satisfaction." This remedy contains no opium or other narcotic and may be given as confidently to a child as to an adult For sale by R. H. Jor dan & Co. Real Estate - Your Opportunity for one of those Beautiful Colonial Lots at first sale prices is lessening rapidly for we have sold or contracted already quite a num ber of the lots offered at starting prices. Eight lots very recently taken by J progressive business and professional men who realize that this is to be the most beautiful suburb of Charlotte. Act quickly if you wish to avail yourself of this opportunity. F. C. Abbott & Co. Everything in Real Estate. Washington Once Gave Up to thre doctors; was kept In bed for five weeks. Bloed poison from a spider's bite caused large, deep sores to cover his leg. The doctors failed then "Bucklen's Arnica Salve com pletely cured me," writes John Washington, of Bosqueville, Tex. For eczema, boils, burns and piles its supreme. 25c at W. L. Hand & Co's. Stoves, Heaters and Ranges ELECTRICITY ! Now is the time to have your horse wired. SWINSON & SPRINGS, Electric Workers. 317 W. Trade. 'Phone 978 W. J. HELWIG Expert Gun and Locksmith. 207 W. Fourth St. T'TTTtTtTtTVtTtVTtTtTttVTt We are agents for the celebrated "Jewel" . stoves and Ranges a line that needs no boosting. . ' Ve have quite a variety of Heaters on hand that we want to move before spring and in order to. do this, we are making such very liberal discounts on same that tho prices will be very inter esting 4o you. ' , W: T.;:Mcpy & Co. "The next afternoon when the team took the field for practice I noticed that Willie was swinging the bat with one hand. "What's the matter f I yells to him. " I can't use my other arm. It's hurt. he yells back at me. " "Well, get back to the bench then an' let some one hop up who can drive with two wings. " Oh, I kin get along with one wing as well as some guys kin with two' he yells back, and just about that time I goes up and tells him whereto get off. I then called to the new man and told him to go to first. The re cruit asks injured Willie for his glove. Would he give it to him? Not much. He threw it over the fence. "That night Willie bid us a last farewell. ' . "The real sweet baby for the come dy stuff, though, was a fellow named Evans. He had this George M. Cohan dope down pat, tried to look like George, talk like him, and act like him, and he was a pretty, fair im personator of the crooked mouth comedian at that. I happened to get Evans from McGraw. "I went'to New York in the spring. Just a few days before our season opened. I needed a first baseman and I needed him badly. I saw McGraw and we started across .the Polo grounds. " "See that fellow over thire?' says John, pointing to a fellow In the out- s ik. Keep Ahead of the crow.d. Our Spring and Summer. Buit models will put you a season in . advance. Our f advance Spring and Summer woolens are in and the patterns are beautiful and distinctive. Spring suits Tailored to Taste $20.00 to $50.00. O LiWJ inc. , 9 TrwntV ; - CAN'T GET AWAY from the results that prove the piilling power of the lit tle Munnimaker classified advertisements in The Chronicle.: They find buyers for, you. -But, more than that, they find sellers for folks who want to buy. If y6u; want to hire any kind of work or talent ; if you want, to buy an article; be sure that the right kind of a". munmmaner.ad wili nnd it tor you, and at a price that will be advantageous for both the seller and the buyer. V 1 Office of the Mechanics' Perpetual Building and Loan Association January 23d, 1909. To an appreciating and discerning public: - We hereby announce that on Saturday, will enter upon our the ; 6th of March, we 53 rd Series Dear Mr. Munnimaer, care The Chronicle Class! fled . Columns, Through a little Munnimaker Classified Chronicle I rented storage space in my stable. Yours truly, " Ad In The LTVERYMLAN. Write Mr. Munnimaker, care, of The Chronicle- Dhone him, No. 78, whenever you want anhing.- The subscription books of which will be open on Monday, iFebruary 1st Applicants .for loans must bear in mind our "inflexible rule." "First come, first served," hence the advisability of EARLY sub scrlption and the FILING of the application for loans; but while it is an" ideal institution for borrowers, we are 'warranted, after 1 years experience, thought and consideration, to assert that, for the non-borrower, otherwise known as the "INVESTOR CLASS," there is to-day no moneyed institution in existence which, considering the almost absolute safety of the Investment, offers such large returns as the Mechanics' Perpetual Building an1 Loan Association; come you NON-BORROWERS, let us reason together. If you deposit your money, at 4 , per cent., on which you are liable for a tax of 2 1-6, it leaves you net only 15-6 per cent; money -lent oh mortgage at 6 per cent, leaves you Net (after paying: the taxes of 2 1-6 per cent.) only 3 5-6 per cent., whereas if deposited with us I. e. taking shares, you will make net (a WE pay your taxes) 6 1-4 per centj but this Is not all, as when you deposit in a -avings institution, at your pleasure, you May deposit and again you MAY NOT and more likely you mar NOT; whereas when you subscribe to shares with us, the periodi cal regularity the dues have to be paid is the greatest factor in educating you Into the "saving habit" until it becomes your sec ond nature, as it were, and hence you will and must save! So come on with your savings and you also, you prospective borrowers, and help us to make ' this one ' of our record-breaklnf series, to exceed the heretofore largest (to wit: 3,000 shares), at an earjy aate tne nopea nign water mark of a Million Bbllar Assets i We have now completed paying off our 40th series, amounting to , , $83,500.00. . We have up to now matured and - paid off, regardless of Boi times of bad, : panics or no' panics, and with the regularity of n ture's system itself, 40 series, amounting to We'' have handled $2,000,000.00 id . ; $6,000,000.00 of your morfey without - the loss of a cent. Our weekly cash receipts are now about $8,000.00 and. our. last year's transactions were nearly $500,000.00. ' This is our mirror; look into. It and decide for yourself. S. WITTKOWSKY, Pres. R. E. COCHRANE, Sec. and Treas.
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