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Show THE PROVO HERALD returns rcruLAR umpire - ;TO Ar.IERICAN-ASSOCIATIU- BABY EMPEROR OF CHINA CUBAN A: WONDER Clarence Owens Only 23 Years of Age, But Mai ALFRED OE ORCT CALLED GREAT-- ' dicator for Six Years. EST" FLAYER GAME HAS ' 'i Clarence "Brick' Owens, who has EVER PRODUCED. In the to aimd a contract "umpire American association this season, was the best indicator ban' IS MAN OF UNLIMITED NERVE regarded dier in the league last year, and when ' he went to the National league at the " BeateiUnUI the Last. Ball lj close of the minor leagueseason he Never " pec4edto-e"maIn Ihere.TPresl Pocketed First VV6n TiMe of Cham, was i. dent O'Brien, ol the American associa-- ' with Two. Exceppioivm 18S4-n- d tioa liked his work so well that he oftions Hasx Held It Ever Since fered him a contract at a higher figure " Great Match with Keough. -- from than tljeniaior . 'league,. .wMchjQwensaccnted. "VVhwwdo "BrickOwens, as be is known to player? Not a very hard question ' nearly all the ball players In half a and one readily answered by 99 out of doxen associations, ttears the dlstlnc- 1UQ people who are ianiiliar with the ' game ol pool, sakl a pool authority one day recently. "My choice is Alfred Lte Oro, the fa. nious Cuban player," whp, during bis long career as player, has never had an equal a man noted for his nerve, stroke,' precision in executing a shot, manipulation in handling the cue ball for position, and bis wonderful fore- I sight In picking out two er UlreeJiaUaJ ahead nas made him an opponent for the: best e tie masters the . world has ever seen, la all his big matches he has -- demonstrated conclusively that he has wonderfuInerve andl8 never beaten until the last ball has been . pocketed, '"De Oro first broke Into the game back inlSSI Jn previous expel1eT1ieconTpete(l In a championship tourtiKtnent and "by"" de-- j feating such stars as Albert Frey and' James Malone, then noted pjayersrlie tied for, the leadership with those- - two, players.- - Prey, who held the emblem then, forfeited" to Malone, who Jif turn forfeited to De Oro. ""The :Cuban,.JoweverpTefu6e,cl Been-Handli- Ml nWlTHifOOL.CUE N ng W EW-DE Vf t-- AGONf'-GfVE- S A SCARE. POLICEMAN ; W ... ! -- condpf-t1ie;.'greaist-Io- : - ': - i t - , ii--fcLb. t'jdf - ; . Wm v .::-.'- - t w vivXvicv.; - - . j - s Xv::X:. v d ("Pro-m"npir- "i"-Tr-fr- ft rr IS DANGEROUS SPORT , . - bails,, and pocketed the necessary number without giving Maloue another shot. HUNTING WILD HORSES IN COLO- The victory gave him the championj, flADO MOUNTAIN RANGES. shlprand", harrTng oneear ln whlchj he did not compete and three years when he was ill, he has held the titles Ranchmen Have Turned to Business ever since. j of Trapping Animals and Find It "During these 20 years, the longest i of Exciting as-- ; Wen as period any TJhampionf of any line Profitable, sport has held the title, he' has met and defeated all competitors,' amoffz , of wild Denver, Col. Thousands horses are running the mountain ranges between the' White and the Bear rivers In Rio Blanco countyand a a business and sport of which little is known In Colorado. The ranchmen of that section have turned wild horse hu&ters, and , are making It profitable to trap the ani mals and break 'them for the market. 'i; - The first game umpired by Owens was an amateur a?air in Chicago, and for two years he waaJled "upon occasionally to referee on similar occasions. Early In the season of 1902 he was offered a berth In the Northern league and remained there until August of the- - following went to the Western league. At the Beginning of the season salaries were ordered cut and Owens quit, going to the Missouri Valley league now the Western' association.: In 1905, 1906 and 1908 he worked in the American association, and In 1907 he worked Jn the Eastern league.? ; ,f i . Mm .. g "Cy"-Youn- ' i- , ; tbe youngster- sPete Husting, the "former "Athletic ".! t wirier, V. - L'i for"Tdftd pKcBT du-ta- O n , this season. i:;IIyjGUbprt haa signed a.SL.Loui3 funtract, although that document- is s.i id to call for a few hundred dol lars less than be drew last year, The Mluneapri'is infield will :ntv ,l 'os. fo!!ows; First baae, Gill; t vnRt base". Jerry Downs;, shortstop. t .,'. k , i ' i"f ii r.I VaserJUviniy X'OIHnK Ciu:sDi'd "13 "Of lliir opinionr-tha- t t Cree will make .good tor !;,niM 3. Cree is a whirlwind '! and a natural, tafman. 'c li.'jr-( w ! i PO f r 1 's te 1 v ni'it ' ;i!'l t iys why he bhould fc'.n.Ii b CHICAGO lndmar Grazed." Carter Harrison Residence to- - Give . Way to Apartment House.-- " Chicago. Another landmark Is being removed to make way for the 'Modern apartment building. The old homestead of Carter H. Harrison, at one time considered one of the handsomest homes in thecjty1..ls.Jnllje.l)ianda.of tbe. wreckers. V Not only was the old hullding the home of .the Harrisons, but Mrs, Potter Palmer once lived there; It having been built by her father, H. H. Honore, m the" early fifties,- - , , ; . ". -- -- one-piec- e n i - - v- n1a"-stran- "craft-andprpce- eded t : one-cont- :7) est. . " 7'T - ra d -- -- (I IHjT'-- to-d- aj ', """"" : j ttttFI -- ... New Tork.....-.r.;;;..f:.v5.Boston Chicago 1... ...... .438 i .,.......,...445 , Pittsburg .....................422 Cincinnati Philadelphia Brooktyn .....'........ St. LqulB 346 342 10 61 82 S5 43 i ' " ....... .,...287 .S,2U 353 Total '4S7 .7 E2 27 43 600 , " ' 457 44S 3981 '369 330 S.564 would' bet the makeup of the National league's most - formidable team f pitcher workers. - Its member v Mp.-- tt will-be be-raii- l?f " . r : "" -- representative On the combination ' Roy thomas. The team: C.B. 1I.P.B. Ttl." N. Y, catcher. .84 7" : 91 rWweHrWr-Y.;-ho,tstop- ,-. 1 g ' ' ,5 1J f Sheckard, Chicago, left n'ld.67 Thomas, Plttaburjt, c. fleld..69 Magee, Phlla., right Held.. ..62 11 '. 63 Totals , 548 2 4 - 13 to . "' - ' r 71 75 -- , "" Club," Position. Bresnahan, Wlltse, N. T., pitcher ......12 Tenney, N. Y., first base.. 84 Evrs, rChlcagoJ sec. bane.. 71 Devlin, N. Y., third base.. ..63 - ", ' riayer," " I confined to players whose salaries were paid last'season by John T. Brush and J CrWebb Murphyr Pittsburg has one f" " f - - not,-is-ncipalrnr7:!- rlir 7, 8 T" 69- 63 601 " Secretary .Heydler of the National leaguej?robabIy will, incorporate the bases on balls-hi- t batsmen statistics InidTthe next records, making not otfly. more work for himself but for the of- flclal scorers. In 1887 a, base on balls waa counted 4U A hit - Had thla mode of8corlng been in vogue in .the last campaign Hans Wagner would Bavt-haA batting average of .398, . ho -- if h one-piec- -- .r . s d y e Boland, who breeds a few fancy fowls, his three hens have lately .taken says James la a deputy game warden, and ant much op knows more about the White river re- to chewing tobacco. to the use of tobacco in any gion than any man In Colorado. He posed' but I hardly "know how to comhas lived there for over twenty years. form, A lot of trouble in this world comes bat the tendency in my fowls," says There Is no other sport which com Mr. Boland. "I, can't watch them all of men Interfering In other people's pares with it," declares James', and he the time.' troubles to Bettle them. ' them two. foreigners, the Swedish has hunted about every wild animal in i ri rtnnryenpjej-q'u' ' ' champion, Dankelman, and the great the category. J , Roberts, England's pr(de for 15 years. RESUMES PRACTICE : OF LAW There are quite a. number, of men in "His most notable victory occurred Rio Blanco- - who make a business Of in the championship tournament held hunting ; the homes for the market. in. St. Louis during the-- : worlds fair,-Ill- Their work la not only interesting," but :!"..' opponent was Jerome Keough, the decidedly dangerous. Buffalo wonder; and the Caban needed Tha method of capturing the wild a vlctbttto U.KtoOgft'Ky Bfftt jMOBe " horse is simple enough, and is in many - - . , j! This he dltt bttt onlr after an exhlbiby-tb- eways big ' llonlthatwilOe jreinembereOyalL same-trappeK . a -. of African who saw. it as a true test of the won small-sizeA which Is really a trap, derful ability he has shown at all times "In the. final match Keough needed corral, is constructed by the hunter on but "nine' halla to "wlnrwhile De Ott A 4raii4ollowedby the: horsea-iT- he was 77, beWnd. Bjr mavelous speed trap is usually about thirty feet across, and great Judgment he outshot and out and open at one f end.: The hunter gamed Keough at the finish, winnlni merely herds the horses into the trap. hv fhroA hnlln Slnnfc nennirln? th Catching the horses Is the simplest title at St. Louis he has defeated Clearf thing "abdul tha ,H6le "business. - If 18 T disposing of them after they are cap water, Eby. Hueston,' Keough Stoff :... . . .. . a. Western Sherman and several other tured "which affords interest tothe . hunter. . ' of lesser light, and be remains where he placed himself 20 years ago. The. horses must he cut out of the the king of the pool world. " trap one by one, and broken. The mes- - selected ior th work-nte- r ."Eie.Xlraliaaalisaya.lieen a very-J-ti the dependent "inan lh "his business deal trap afoot, and rope, throw and fie a Ings owing to the fact that he fg ' horse, 'after" the custom "pursued Hby wealthy man. Ills motto of .'a matel horse breakers the world over. Then welLroade is. half won, figures promt a saddle is put on and lt is up to the breaker: to tide and break the horse. uontly in all his dealings with hia fo and when a match ia pet Some of the horses-a- re easily, subfected he will never pass up a bet, bul dued, while others are never broken. will -- accept "them- - all, Tib matter- - ho w It Is tnighty dangerous business for large they may. be. or how .often thef gainto the trap and'rope . are offered.. the' horses," andafterwards," too, ""IIet3 thoroughl- y- honomble-,-i-t 8ometimea the animais" will put word being hi Ijond, and devoteestl up aDrtersIfuggle7"and "many have pool can well be proud of their cham been badly Injured In their efforts lo De Oro." pion, Alfred conquer the sarage nature of the beasts. Eastball Newfl. "41 K- atate of Colorado The claims the First Fnn Nihetecn hundred and nine is going to be a great year for horses, and the hunters must pay five dollars a head for every horse taken fee. (ia en inspection The horses, mri! s do How rrn that you feennd CliiwiliBU, Wihlxltoo. W. V " ' fier they are lrc Bill gr;i for TtotnlpR copytlgliUJjf out? R. James Interior Carfieid, . the secretary shout a $15 under .President Roosevelt Iwad, H hns been mnde a er.T-thDosca't Hi t r.a Tu-- n and one of the members cf the tatter's famous "tennis cabinet," who hat .Taiily profitable business by some, one turned s hi ii ? t J i..'. i i ; i O .. hls home toJMeveland, city, and resumed tha practice Cf.Javy county, Bimilar-to-that-nse- . Lou .Criget-orlglnall- y ., started. ftUt with the Kalamar4Q club. The Eastern league season will open April 21 and 154 games will be played. Jack Dunn, the Baltomlre mahager; has purchased Shortstop Phil Lewis : . ; from Brooklyn. needs to win only 22 hla major garnpsihis-yeajl-lfln- g league total of victories up to 500. Boston's new California recruit Out fielder Fred Back,' is sald to be a con enrt singer of great ability. Billy Sullivan, veteran ..White Sox, v i'l devote much of his time in coach outfit claiming to have taken 500 head of horses in a single year. AoA0' year,-when- -he IT' ffiore-wilPhe- om - - hook-and-ladd- Thefirst Carter JJartlsop purchased Innddition, it furnishes them tKn t II IT wt -Jn Li derfully exciting if rather dangerous T the- family USed J1Qnore ftnd It'almOSt sport The wifd horses are a menace to the 'settlers in more ways continuously until 1872. It again became the family home several years than one,1 and there are so' many of j; them that it will take a long time to after." It was iathe broaT hallway that . get rid of them. was shot "Edward James of Rangeley, Kio down byTendergast in October, 1893. Blanco county, tall, tanned and pic turesque, wag inDenver recentlyaad he told the atory of hoy they hunt the ISHatea tolSeeHls' Hent"Chew, Z'Z wild horses In his country Rio Blanco v North Brookfield. Mass. Albert W. .t livelihood: -, r Zi the-lat- e -- -"- . f-- . -- ous j-- . hr jri-t-- 1908.-drawi- three-year-ol- : 4iiii A eept - Mea-Walke- o of China (standing) ; hla father, Prince Chun, regent and the trophy without a battle and controller of the nation, and his younger brother. Before her death the emreturred it to the donors, who Anally press dowager appointed the son of Prince Chun emperor and Induced Malone' to accept the defi Of the prince himself regent When the new emperor was proclaimed he was the rising young player, It was not, declared thr adopted son of the Emperor Tung Chin, and thus the traditions of the succession, broken by the empress dowager when the late however,' until the "following year, or, emperor imperial came to the throne, were maintained. One of the first act th to be exact, 1888, when Malone and baby ruler was to canonize hie predecessor and to punish nominally the docDe Oro crossed cues and the latter tors called to rulers. Forthe new reignjthelttle Hsuan Tung won the match. ' Universally") has been Chosen. "AL.that time they were playing on nrrwuxtjeight-bal- l pool, best in 31 games, and when the last game started both men were on even terms; each hnvingTvon 15 games. De Oro. after Malone had tion of being one of the youngest men ver selected- for the position of um- pi re in the fast company he is in being only 23 years of age. In spite of his. youth he has "been, umpiring professional ball for the past-siyears, having made his debut in the Northern league in 1902, J' Owens is a strapping blg" fellow, weighs nearly 200 pounds, and Is not enly built like a prizefighter, but haa given a number of demonstrations of his ability to take care of himself un- der almost any clrcumst,flncesiHi8 judgment is good, he thinks quickly, and the most obstreperous players in the association haye long ago learned not only to respect him but to obey his mandates without question. rHe haa never. jjlayed ball and says that he never.cared greatly for fthe game until after. circumstances caused him to take up his present work for a Wm -- ol - rnade.a-jdLfficdLs- Fire Appa-- . RECEIVED 'TOTAL OF 91ytIFTS-- . ratut Makes Officer Lose Breath BellsjClang, Whistle Blows Z "d Sparka Fly. , . . ; Interesting: Statistics Gathered .from New York. in arraigning Albert C. Records - of: Secretary - Heydler Webb of Vincennea. Jjid before MagFour Times in d Seven istrate Harris in the Mordsania court . One GameMakeup of teagu;a the other day. Motorcycle Policeman Most FoTmidable List of Strlers.' Nerny declared that the young man of the 4noet -- spectaeuTar Mfe"d vlolafloa of" v, hich" he or " any J Giants turned 'over Roger Bresnahan T other. patrolman had any record. for Johnny Murray, to St. Louis Young Webb had been stopped by "Bugs' Raymond, and Admiral Schlel, Nerny while in the act of driving a he let the Cardinals get the best "pass combination hose cart, fire engine, receiver in the National league. At water tower, chemical least, last season the Toledo sleuth engine, patrol wagon, ambulance and strolled to first base over the four ball wrecking c'arf at the speed of 45 miles :and hit by pitcher lines oftener than an hour along tha West Farms road. any other player in the H. Clay PulWhen Nerny saw the thing-g.by 'be. Ilam prganixation. thought at first.it was some passing Thf.nnw. manatpr nf the Red CaDS --w i locomoti v4)eli waa 4 nisht mare.-fmm clanging-something was whistling. I 84 cotllpllf-in" flingers ladders and fire" axes- - were sticking and being ' out behind, the tank of a chemical en- jnentaries, -. parts of his" anatomy on Beven occa-- gine loomed up forward, hand grenades slons, Fred' Ten ney, his fellow team- j. ::. cropped out to. port and starboard, a mate; trudged.? Jnst - as often as -- did great mass of hose .was coiled up in was only vaccinated five 7-- -the cockpit, crowbars and battering fioger,biit - times. -engines bristled everywhere, electric . the to . athletes Twenty-thre- e . got sparks sputtered from underneath, thfr first sack fifty or more times through " J" man at the wheel wore, a flaming red -pitch-'- foxiness the tteBdness boardf heImeT"and"therman-C'nthe tall twi.-lewbulj a "combination dress parade uniform of ifcKStenI.a brainy In "sticker. a heavy pass deliberately a Long Island vamp and a Welches-le- r at -" to Jba.tsman order: chance a get """ZlZ.-Lichief of police.' -When he" recovered his breath wholas Auppogedjia be yeakyr lft 23 the willow. Of the Nerpy gave chase "with all the power wteldlBg'of men "five wore Pittsburg livery, "New mabe could get out of his Bobbing York having four men in the list, Chichine - and , overhauled the vehicular ' cago, Cincinnati, Boston and ,PbIladel- at the city line. monstrosity two. St " When he stopped the thing he saw phla three each, and Brooklyn man In half the Loulshad.no century A. F. D. painted In green letters, all list, Bohemian Konetchy getting Just over tha red body of the machine. " ; "What in thunder' have you got 49 free trips. "was most uccess- the J Evers Johnny ..."".' there?" asked Nerny. ful flf-t- he Cubs In prying passes out um the-flr- e departmenL," said of the opposition flingers, He secured in the re'd helmet. !lThe. what fixe department T" asked. 76, five of which were of the Red Crpss kind, and "his rankwas thlrdT the motorcycle cop, was "Any old fire department " respond- Jimmy Sheckard. ranking sixfh, He man. second best pro- Chicago's am these ed young Webb. "I selling 69." was cured Frank 50,. Chance,"wlth things to cities and towns as handy he Cubs' other honor -- man. Inciden fire brigades." Ndthtngfltk tally, lin the peerless leader' received "Vfri&Wdtion of fire engine, hose "cart and water tower. Only two any of his asBociateabn the west side. ' men need work it. Carries 1,000. feet team.' Dan McGann topped the Nation-1 of hose, pumps 700 gallons JifwaterA al league in jhls respect, being winged " 7- - "!' electric 18 Hmes.'- - V 7 minute, bas70-horsepowe- r Roy Thomas of Pirates had one of motor and- - develops a t speed of 70 invention an of hjs Tibs broken on July 23 by getting hour. Greatest miles In the way of one of Nap Rucker's . . . the age. Step rigbt-r-- " A hit by pitcher . that was" ". "Hold on," cried Nerny, Ym not a for costly town the; flinger occurred in the not out am or and shopping city fire depar- morning game of July. 4 on the Polo for any handy one-piec-e tments: You were going beyond the grounds. "Within reach of equaling Ward-Cspeed limit, and that's all I'm - here the Lee Richmond-JohJoss stunt of preventing, for. Spurt up your engine again and Young-Addifollow me to the Wakefield police sta a man. from reaching first in a nine- 1 inning "game, George Wlltse of the tlQn.1. After exhausting further vain argu- Giants winged George McQuillan of the 7 ment the young man rang a few of his Phillies, who was the twenty-seventgongs, blew some half dozen whistles batsman. New York George had two v and shot along In the wake of Nerny strikes on Philadelphia George at the . .. . . to the Wakefield station." There he timer Team in in first leaders base $300 ball, reaching: deposited otf through7thepltchers' wlldness were, his way again to tfee village of West Mldesresnahan.fgjJhj3J31ajitsd Evers for the Cubs, Clarke for Pitts- chester "to demonstrate to JiU-JEu- ral smoke eaters .the value of his wonder- burg; Hugglnff for Cincinnati, McGann' . : ful contrivance. for Boston Magee for Philadelphia, v When arraigned. In Jhe Morrisarila Jordanj for Brooklyn, and - Konetchy court he pleaded guilty and was held for St. Louis. Seven players walked sessions. - Ha said ftojlmet; in- for- - trial The ath-that "he was 21 yearsold and repre- letesTcredlted with such "a stiint were . sentative of the Webb Water Fire Ap- Miller, Hugglns, John Evers, Roger paratus . Company of VIncennes, Ind., Bresnahan, Arthur Devlin, Roy Thomwhich was founded by his father.- - He as, flans-Wagn- er and -- "Peaches Gra-- " forout Harris a bam. , invited j Magistrate ,r e fire eliminator, The Giants got more, passes and had flyer In his ? the after . court, etc., but hearing more batters hit than' any other team. Nerny's description of 1L hurriedly de- The team totals - 7 - ..... clined. . g.B. h'p.b. Tot , One-Piec- e -- iMm W-ZsiS&- . , - tefV .:iU ;l - CARDINAL MANAGER THE BEST GUESSER' AGAINST. TIONAL LEAGUE PITCHER NEW- " -- wetl-kaow- u , PASS RECEIVER RK O Indiana Man's : t Lffl SPEED BOSS BRESNAHAN 1. Gotcltahd .!Hack!L WlH Meet -According to dispatches received at Meih6urne7AusralIarFrank Gotchand ' George Hackenschmidt -- have ' finally agreed to get together in another bout 7 and to wrestle for the world's hpavy- weight title in that city November 8 Btxt,r Although several names hava "" Been given as being Interested In promoting the affair, it is believed that Hugh "D. Mcliitobh, who attended to the Burns-Jo- t n son bout. intends hold- leg the matcn in his arena at Rushcut -' "r |