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Show TBE JORDAN JOURNAL . MIDVALE . UTAH -----~--- • • I~N....e_w_G....o·...;-;-~-:-~-~·-·i:-:-~-·-·. . .-., . Most Valuable Player in League Quite Interestin g One of the most unusual propos11ls In tile history of golf has he!'n pres!'nted handlc~p Celebrated 'Moon Hoax' a Se nsation Here ~nd Abroad. u. 9y PROEHL HALLER JAKLON AN gets a big kick out of M fooling his fellows. 'l'here seems to be something dellci~us In baiting a trap nnd seeing someone bite. The Stone age and the age before It probably had its practical jokers, and all history Is full of jokes and hoaxt>s, perpetrated to the delight of some ond to the embarrassm ent of others. Sometimes the foollng Is for gain, llometlmes for fun, and often for b_oth. Individuals Indulge In It, and ev-en nations have been known to attempt a hoax on other nations. \Vltness the wooden horse of the Greeks and the tulip craze of the Sixteenth century, when all Holland set cut to make the world crl!ve the tulip, which, It was learn!'d, would thrive on certain types of Dutch soli useless for anythln~ else. Soon all the world wanted this new flower, and bulbs "A Scene sold for as high as $5,000 apiece. The Duteh growers waxed rich, and then the fad waned, lenYing purC'hasers all over the wor·ld with exp!'nslve bulhs but no market. Centuries later Americans were to fall for ginseng, alfalfa, mushrooms; and silver foxes. It's a great game. Perhaps the most eelebraterl hoax In history ~s the "moon hoa:"C," conceived by Richard Ad:1ms Locl{e, n newspaper reporter, and yJerpetrated by the Xew York Sun In 183fi. Its f<UCCeRS depended upon man's Interest In astronomica l phenomena, that in!';atiable cnl'iosfty to know what lies beyond t11e veil of space "·hich surrounds the earth. Science toda~· Is convinf'ed that the moon bas n<l life upon It, bnt a century ago, before the day of powt>r!ul tf'lescopes, the public knew little of the hean•ns beyond what It could see with the naked eye after dark. Speculation was always keen as to wl1ether or not life existed on the moon. Today we wonder the same thing about tbe planet :.\Iurs. Moon Hoax Fools Two Continent s And so the New York Sun chose a very fertile ftel d In 1835, when It began the publication of Locke'R fantastic Imaginings with all the seriousness of a great scientific discovery. For a time the credulous public of two contln!'nts, and even the sci<'ntlsts, were completely deceived. ,.This stupendous fNtt brought the Sun the largest circulation In the world, and In the opinion of J.::dgar Allan Poe established the penny newspaper as an b.JWtution. Locke could write about almost anything. Hls fund of general Information was huge, and he -coulcl turn out prose or poetry, politlcs or pathos, anecdotes or astronomy. In 1834 Locke heard of an astronomica l expedition to South Africa. Now, during July and August, f835, things were a bit dull on the Island of :\funhattnn, and the newspapers were running short of material with which to entertain and attract their rf'aders. Locke needed money, and so he laid a plan before Mr. Dn~·. the Sun's editor. On August 21, the following Item appeared on the second page of the l';un : Celestial Discoveries -The Eldlnburgh Courant eays: "We ha,•e learned !rom an eminent publisher of this city Sir John Herschel, at the Cape of Good Hope, has made some aetronomlca.l discoveries ot the most wonderful description by means or an Immense telescope or an entirely new principle;'" Then after four days the Sun published what \lurporQed to be a reprint from a supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of Science. There had been such a publication a few years before, but It was not generally known that It had ceased publication. In thr·ee columns on page one the Sun carried the astonishing announceme nt of "recent discoveries which will build an lmperlshn:ble monumeht to the age In which we live." They Describe the T eleacope A technical description of the telescope followed, and a. hypothetical account told of the channels through which thls remarkable nows had traveled from Cape Town. Thus was laid the foundation of what was to follow. To queries as to where It had obtained its supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of Sclen<'e, the Sun declared In an editorial that "lt was very pol!tely furnished us by a medical gentleman immediately from Scotland. Xo great e:s:dtement had been caused so far, but the next day the town was jolted by four columns of n<'tual descr·iptlon of the landscape of the moon. Sir .John's telescope was so powerful, the story asserted, that It brought objects to within a feu· feet of the obser·ver·. This Is what the u~tronomers In Cape Town were reported to have seen: "The trees for a period of ten minutes were of one unvaried l<ind, and unlike any except the largst class of yews in English churchyards. They ere followed by a level green plain which must avd been more than half a mile In breadth." A C'olumn farther on, In a wonderful valley of this wonderful moon, life at last burst upon the l!cene: "In the shade of the woods on the southeastern l<le we beheld contlnuou,s herds of brown Qlladr'.lped•, ha.ving all the external characteristi cs of the bhwn, but smaller than any species of the boa genus In our natural history. . , . It had one distinctive feature, which we a!terward foun<! common to nearly every lunar quadruped we have discovered; namt>ly, a remarkable fleshy appendage over the eyes, crossing the whole breadth of the forehead and united to the ears. It Immediately occurred to the acute mind or Dr. Herschel that this was a protective covering tor the eyes agalnot the great extremes o! light and darknesR to which all the Inhabitants or our side or the moon are periodlcll.lly subjected." Find Humans on the Moon The issue of AuguRt 28 satlf!fied pubJic curiosity as to the presence of human creatures on the ·moon. 'l'he astronomers were looking at the cliffs and erags of a new part of the satellite: "But whllst gazing upon them we were thrilled with al!tonlshmen t to perceive tour successive flocks of birds descend with a slow, eveh motion ~1'1"om the cliffs on the western side and alight upon the plain. . . . About half of the tlrst party bad passed from our view, but of all the others we had a perfectly distinct and deliberate view. They averag"d tour feet In height, were covered, except on the fa co, wl th short aud glossy coppercolored hair, and had wings composa4 ot a thin The 'Cardiff Giant' Took in Credulous Public and Much Cash. \ I i~n~~e 6~:;·.~;s\~:nr;1<:~.:~~u~o~,~~~~~~ f I tf'e by Arthm K. Trt>nholm, chairman of that commltt!'e. According to the plan. players WOlllcl start out on eY!'n terms but the winner of the fin;t hole would ~-:lve his opponent one ~troke on the second hole. If the winner of the first hole repeats on the second on~>, then he grants his oppon!'nt two strokes on the third hole. In Trenholm's opinion this method of fiSC'ertafnlng handicaps would make for better golf and more Interesting matches. I! the dollars of the cui-Ions. P. T. Barnum tried to buy It, but a local syndicate nlrPndy ha<l obtained control, and his otl'er was r!'jected. This new company, one of whom Is said to have been the original from which the eharacter of David Ilarum was druwn, paid $30,000 1 for a three-fourth s interest. The I succes!'l of the exhibition led Barnum to ha'l'e car'l'ed a similar figure which was likewise exhibited ~ ....................... I I I I I ..... I I I I I .. I I I ,:_:; as the "Cardiff giant." The owners of the original sought to obtain a restraining order against ·the LACROSSE HURTS Barnum counterfeit, but It was reBASEBALL GAME fused. Both giants, therefore, continued to draw the crowds. Now, the assumption had always Inexpensiveness One t1een that the dlsco'l'ery of the figure had been accidental, but Reason for Increase. there were those who doubted this version. Re!'idents of the county That lacrosse is rapidly forging to In which the well diggers worked the fr·ont a.~ a leading sport In colSenator Frank B. Willis Is shown here presenting to Roger Peckinpaugh began to recall that about a year lege circles and In a number of cases of the Nationals a diploma ::;tamping him as the most valuable player Ill the before the dlscovet·y a myRterlous has alr·eady displaced baseball, Is a on the Moon." Published in Connection With the New York Sun's AmeriC'an league In W2il. Peck's teammates are shown gathered about him four-horse team was ob;;erved statement made by Celebrated Hoax of 183~. Italph G. Leonard, drawing a wagon which cnrrled as~istant professor of physical educa- during the ceremonies held at the Griffith stadium. membrane, without hair, lying snugly upon their n huge tron-bound box. It was headed In the tion at PennsyiYani a State college and backs, from the top of their shoulders to the calves d li'ectlon of Cardiff. coach of the Nittany lacrosse team. of their legs. Boy Golfer Lauded • Professor Marsh of Yale, a paleontologi st, ex- Jl,;o other spun has made such rupltl • "The face, which was of a yellowish flesh-color, I ' was a slight Improvemen t upon that or the orangamined the figure and asserted that It wa!'l clear- strides among the colleges In recent ~ Pop Bottles Barred : utan, being more open and Intelligent In Ita expresly of r!'cent origin and a mor"t decided humbug. 1 years, according to Leonard, who resion, and having a much greater expa11se of fore:I at the Newark Park :I Then, a lawyer of Fort Dodge. Iowa, seeing the cently ~omplet<'d a ;:urvry of the ;:port head. The mouth, however, was very proml11ent, 1 There will be no nwre pop I thoug-h somewhat relieved by a thick beard upon figure at :'<yracu~e. wrote back home: ''I believe for the annual meeting of the Xuthe lower jn. w, and by Ups far more human than ~ bottles at the Xewark (::\1 ••J.) : It Is made out of the great block of gypsum those tiona! Col!E>gfate Athletic a:;:~odatlon. those or the ape. . . . These creatures were 1 park as the re!=;uJt of a "glass- I fellows got at Fort Dodge a year ago and sent He points out that almost thirty colevidently In conversation ; their gesticulation s, : ware show<'r" dirrctPd nt Um· : ba~k east." leges ha H" taken up the sport during more particularly thll varied action of the hands I plre Mngerkurth following a re- 1 and arms, appeared Impassioned and emphatic. We the pn:.,t two years and ure now placGradually the story came to light. In the sumhence Inferred that .hey were rational beings, and, : cent game. Incensed at Mager- : mer of 1868, two men arrived at Fort Dodge, Ing it on an lntercollf'gia te hasis. although not so high an c;rder as others which -we : kurth's decision, fans hurled : and attempted to make a bargain for a block Among the institution~ that he mPn· discovered · the next month on the shores of the , bottles at the umpire as he fiP1l ' of g~'psum at l!'ast 12 by 4 by 2 feet, explaining tions are Dartmouth, Brown, Williams, Bay of Italnbows, that they are capable ot producIng works of art and contrivance. • . . We : from the park at the ftn l·sh, One : that they wished to exhibit 1t In New York. They Union, Lafayette, Carnegie 'l'e1·h, lJniscientifically denominated them as vespertlllof of the bottles strn<'k .T!Un!'R B. ' leased some land and hired a quarryman to get ' verslty of Pittsu\)rgh, Fniversity of homo, or manbat; and they aro doubtless Innocent : Reilley, one of the ~tof'!{holclers, : out a block of the required size. and happy creatures." Its owners Yirgiuiu, Gniverslty of Tenne,.;see and on the head, s!'V!'rPly Injuring 1 announced that It was to be shipped to New York, Georgia Tech. During the more than The Astronom ers Get Careless : him. President Dav i d~ imme<li· : but freight office records showed that lt was forty years since lacrosse was first es• ately is::;ued an order that no I tahlishe<l as a college sport In 18~1, it The next Installment, total11ng 11,000 words, billed to Chicago. : more pop In bottles would ht• : was printed on the three succeeding days. Jn 1t Here a German stone cutter carved the gigantic fs the only sport that has not beeome ' sold among the fans and PUI•er ' was revealed the discovery of the great Temple figure from the block. Great care was taken to professionali zed in America, points : cups have been substituted. out : Leonard. of the Moon, built of polished sapphire, with a give it an ancient appearance. From Chicago the Iu,,,, ___ , _________ _______ u, Among the reasons roof of some yellow metal, suppor·ted by columns advanced by the finlshed statute was shipped by an indirect route seventy feet high and six feet In diameter. In to Union, N. Y. Here the mysterious four-horse Penn State m!'ntor for the growing the valley of the temple a new species of manteam appeared, and the giant, encased In an !ron- popularity or the game are the followbat was discovered. Then one nlght, when the Volk Ends Career bound box, began his wandering in search of a In;::: The rules have been Improved to the point where the game Is clean astronomers finished work, they carelessly lett likely grave. and sc:entlfic. Because of Its bodily the teiescope facing the eastern horizon. The contact, This Hoax Paid Big Divider~.:ls lacrosse appeals to the rising sun burned a hole through the reflecting 1 American youth. It builds character, chamber, and ruined part of the telescope. \Vhen One of the men was George IIull, a relative Ronald MacKenzie, the boy golfer orie of the main purposes of physical the damage was repaired the ruoon was Invls'l.ble, of 1\'!lllam Newell, the farmer on whose property of Washington, D. C., received great and the !,>Tent moon narrative came to an end. the giant was "discovered, " uud!'r the personal dl· , edncatlou and athletics. The game is praise from the English newspapers By this time New York was talking of nothrectlon of Newell. Both men made thousands lnt>xp<'nslve, being probably 50 per for his expert playing In the British cent less costly than baseball or track. Ing except these astounding discoveries; they of dollars out of their unique Yenture. amateur golf championshi p at :.\lulrwere the sensation of the day. French and EngAnother hoax which goes on from generation And, finally, although requiring a high fleld, when he defented W. J. Gulld llsh papers abroad translated or copied the Sun's to generation 1s one eoncerning the "original 1 degree o:f skill to play, the sport Is of .Murray field, and won 3 and 2. easy to te:ach. fabrication, and the sensation in Europe was equal Jog of Columbus." Despite the fact that the only j l\lacKenz!e made the tirst nine holes VIsits of a combined Oxford·Camto that In this country. The Sun, founded only undoubtedly authentic hand·wrltlng of Columbus. in 33, which Included an engle and 1 two years before, saw Its circulation Increased a four-page letter, Is in the possession of thca brldge team to this country three three birdies. to 19,300, exceeding by more than 2,000 the cirking and queen of Spain, the "original Colum- years ago and a return vlslt to Engculation of the London Times, hitherto the largbus log" turns up every few years. In 1024, 1t land of a Syracuse team one year est In the world. turned up In :Mexico. Strangely enough, it was later have pluced the game on an International ba!!l;::, says Leonard. The wrltten entirely In German I Meanwhile, Sir John Herschel In South Africa Oxford-Camb ridge tf'am will play a was busy with his telescope entirely unaware of The literary hoax seems to be the most popular llch!'dule of ten games In this country the "discoveries " credited to him. \Then he at form of fooling and almost the easiest of perpe- next spring as a furtherance of this last found out, he was overcome, saying that he The Blue Ridge league Is employing tration. A recent one fooled the literary editor Internationa l relationship. never could expect to live up to the fame that the double umpire system this year. ot the New York Times, who conceded that while had been heaped upon him. ''The Diary of a Young Lady or Fashion, 17(HCubs Get Stephenson Harry Albers, star s!'cond baseman 6ei," had not "any of the Importnnce that atO:f course, many persons suspected the hoax, on the St. Xavier college team, with taches to such a monumental record as was left but the detail of the story was so minute and the Cincinnati Reds. behind lavish that ne one dared say anything. Many by Pepys" the author "did throw the beams of her candle here and there on the feaof the rival papers were fooled along with the • The current season Is the best the tures of her times." Now the New York Times publle. The Journal of Conunerce was on t11e National league ever has seen, says Itself qlscovers that a nineteen-yea r-old miss is point ot reprinting the Sun's story "In justice President John Heydler. to Its readers," when Locke himself gave the the author o:f this successful hoax. hoax away. • Some hoaxes go unchallenged until the author In the words of Edgar Allan Poe; "From the Pete Donohue, of the Cincinnati can refrain no longer from informing the public epoch of the hoax the Sun shone with unmitigated Reds, has pltci1ed twenty-one consecuhow he has fooled 1t. Such Is the history of the \Yheu the last man was out In the splendor. Its snc<;ess firmly established the tive victories over the Phlllles. "bathtub" hoax, put over several years ago by ninth Inning of the Mines-Color ado 'penny system' throughout the counl:ri' and Henry L. Mencken, now the editor of the Amerl· university game at Golden, Colo., the • (through the Sun) we are indebted to the genius can Mercury. Mencken wrote a short, Informal Clyde Sukeforth, catcher from the curtain was rung down on the athletic of Locke for one of the most Important steps yet account of the origin of the bath-tub In AmeriCincinnati Nationals, has been bought career of one of the greatest confertaken In the pathway of human progress." ca. The first tub, he said, was Installed In the by the Minneapolis Association club. ence athletes of all times, "Rut" Volk. Fifteen letters were won by the scraphome of a wealthy ClnclonaUan . He traced the • "Cardiff Giant" Hoax of 1869 ping Miner, all of them ln the mostrise of the tub's popularity, and declared that at In a recent game betweE-n PittsToday, with our rapid means ot communicati on first physicians were violently opposed to Its use burgh and Brooklyn, Umpire Jim strenuous of sports. and transportatio n, a hoax of such g!g:mtlc proon grounds of health. Several states were said to Sweeney was struck six times by foul portlonl'! could not long endure the light of such have passed laws against the Installation ot the tips. publicity. On the contrary, the public seems nll I new sanitary equipment. • • • too willing to stamp any unusual bit of news as Babe Ruth Is definitely coming back. Mencken Exposes Bathtub Hoax a mere •'newspaper yarn," that Is, If they do not There was a picture o:f him In the want to believe it. This will-to-believ e or tonly recently ::'lfencken exposed his trick. No paper the other day signing a bushel dlsbelleve is a powerfu! factor with the human ne he commented, In all the years since this The English Der·by Is considered the of baseballs. mind. It It makes yen feel better to believe blt 'of imaginative history has been current, ques• 1 greatest racing event In the world. • something, psychologist s tea us, you are likely tloned the facts he cited. His original ~tory has 1 Riggs Stephenson (shown in pho• • • McNeely has apparently won himto hold It so; lf It disturbs your peace of mind to been quoted all over the world, and Incorporated tograph) hard-hitting outfielder and self a permanent place In the WashGolf courses for their own use are accept something as true, you are likely to wave 1n solemn treatises. Shortstop Schreiber of Indianapolis ington outfield this year through his being laid out by farmers In the CaIt aside as foolishness or heresy. There are One of the most celebrated literary honxes was have been traded to the Chicago Cubs consistent hitting. nadian Northwest. persons In America today who refuse to subihat of the Scotch school teacher Macpherson, for l\laurice i:)hannon and Outfielder • • • • scribe to the theory that the earth Is round. They who, ha \'lng learned a little old Celtic and Gaelic Munson. Stephenson was one of the Betting on racing greyhounds, one SeYenty-five per cent of a hall like to think of It as flat, and fiat It Is to them. language and literature, brought forth his "Poems leading hitters in the Am<'rican asso- team's success depends upon Its pitch- of the greatest sports of Florida, wlll What's the dlfl'erencel of Ossian." It aroused the world, and has been ciation. ing, according to .Joe McGinnity, the be barred In the future. .A famous l10ax of 1869 was that of the "Carclted as on!' of the cauRes of the Romantic move· • • • "Iron Man of BnF<eball." diff giant." Well dlg~ers near Cardiff, N. Y., ment in literature that swept Europe In the late l That lie-detecting machine would • • one morning came upon the stone figure of a man Briton Claims Money Is ju::;t ruin some of those good golf Eighteenth century. Another curr!'nt double-play comten feet tall, with shoulders three feet In breadth. scores or catches of large fish. There I<~ the eloquent hoax known a" Patrick , Help to Us in Sports bination that lacks some of the hauntThe right arm and hand lay across the body, Henry's "Lllve me liberty or g!ye me deMh" 1 • • • "Although while the left was pressed against the back diathletic victories cannot ing music of the older trios is Bluege Germany is den;loplng many swimspeech, thought to have been d.ellvered by the to S. Harris to J. Harris. rectly opposite. 'l'he legs were slightly contracted ming stars by making the instruction great orator In 1775 at St. .Jolm's <'hurch near 1 be purchased like "old mnstf.'rs,'' • • money does as lf by pain, the left foot resting partially upon certainly g!Ye the Americompulsory among school children. Richmond, Va., but really wrltte::- !Jy his blog- ' In no sport hut baseball do athletic cans a good start In sport.'' Lord the right. rapher, Wlllium \Virt, years after Henry died. • • • heroes hold over for more than a few Wodehouse, Internationa l poloist• and In some Speculation ran rife as to the origin of the distant And nil of us know that beloved fuke known I day another great years. Boxing, football and swimfigure may arise in this country to giant, and some of the vb;ltors were quick to as the Washington hatchet nnd cherry tree story sportsmun, thus summed up American ming stars haYe a brief reign. proclaim emancipatio n of the slaves Inv!'nted entirely by Washington' s first biographer, I nscendanC'y in sport. recognize Its value as an exhibit. Before long • • • "1 do not mean to say that It Is to golf. "Parson" Mason 'Veems. the farmer on whose land the figure was found Lengthy explorations A cynic Is one who preserves half a have been made intc the f1wts surrounding both th!'lr wealth whieh gives them their set up a tent and chargcti admission. The ordi• • The Hollywood (Cnll:f.) American the foregoing fictions, nnd the Inevitable con- prowess In polo or any other sport," dozen copies of the baseball expert's nary visitors were usually content with the beClusions have been In agreement with those given said Lonl Wodehouse. "There Is no pre-season prophecy and malls them Legion pre~ented Charley Hoff of Norlief that this was a petrified human being, "Nothgf.'tting away from the fact that they to him one by one during the year. way, with a wrist watch as a token Ing In the \VOrld can ever muke me believe that here. .. are keen, and S!'elll to have a knaf'k of esteem. he was not once a living being," declared a Edgar Allan Poe once announced In a Baltl· of giving themselves as wholehearted After twenty-two years of service, woman who viewed the colossus. • • • more newspape1• that on a certain day he wo~ld "Why, you ly to any special line of sport as they "Doc'' Crandall Is still puzzling batThe national amateur junior and secan see t11e veins In his legs." make a trip from the roof of a building In bl~ do to the urgHnizatlon of a fat'tory. ters In the Pacific Coast league and nior bicycle road races wlll he held Geologists, however, thought d1fl'erently. One lately-Invent ed fiy!ng machine. Several factories "J mean that by reason of th~>lr hopes to win his usual twenty games In Philadelphia Septemher 10, 11, and declared It to be the \vork of the Jesuit fathers allowed their workers time off to witness the great weaHh Americans are able to for the Los Angeles club. 12, as part of the two or ti1ree lmndred years before. sesquicenten nial event, and on the appointed Clay a vast crowd Another buy the best l!uplem!'nts and the best sports. geologist emphasized the antiquity of the statue awaited In front of the building for the spectacle. Unlike most baseball catchers, and caUed attention to the corroding or attri· Poe, Rented In an upper window, sent down bul- tuition. "Another advantage that the Amer"Mickey" O'Ne!l, Brooklyn backstop, Instead of folowlng the usual custlon of part of the under surface of the body letins giving excuses for his delay. After several Icnns have, In my opinion, Is the fact has the hands tom and of naming a premanent captain, fingers of a clerical by the solution, he declared, would have requlreti hours he announced the flight was off because that tl1ey are able to play all the year worker. They Stanford are as perfect university wlll appoint a as when a long period of years. "one of hls wings had got wet." Trndltion hali It round In one part of the country or he field first leader started for each game Iu foothall, In the National league In the meantime, the giant continued to draw that he escaped through an alley wludow. another." six ye'il'fl a~o. baseball and othe~ v~q sportll. i i Its u---.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _. . . . . . . . . . . . . _. . . . ,:: I I I • • • • • • • • • • • If • • I • • • l • • . .. • • • • • • |