Evansville Press from Evansville, Indiana • Page 4

THE EVlSVILLE PEESS. Not a Shubert Chorus Man, But" LflrS OnmhfirUff if As He Was a Pitcher evansville Good a Politician mu uui uoii ft faster today," is: uthern LEAGUE IN "When you consider the pitch ers were much closer in my day and remember Rusie, Baldwin Crane, Stivest, Keefe and Claris son, I don't believe they ai equaled today. Think of Ansoi Brouthers, Richardson, Ewip and a score of others, and whei are their equals now?" Nashville and Chattanooga, while the southern would embrace New Orleans. Mobile, Birmingham and Old Timer Who Wouldn't Let 'Em Walk, and Was the Greatest Batting Pitcher Ever, Held Down Job- of Sheriff at Pittsburg for Four Years, and Is Now Pitching for the Public Charities XT Atlanta. In comparing Exsusvllle and Little Rock, the "only two towns capable of supporting a team in the Southern league, the Indiana town is better than Little Rock from a mileage viewpoint.

Evansville is 213 miles closer to Nashville than the Arkansas town, 107 miles closer to Chattanooga, 213 miles nearer Atlanta and about the same distance from Birmingham and Mobile as is Little Rock, while the latter town is 177 miles nearer Memphis and 251 miles closer to New Orleans than Evans 1v He- had perfect COMTTH.O Department. OinimUiio fans see a ebanee for Kvar.sviilo to grab off a big league franchise. Xot a Central or a berth one' still better in thejaaufl.em league. The rA vantage of Evansville as a Vkastball city, its distances between oilier cities of the southern circuit and causes why Evansville wouM nutfce a toed addition to th organization are contained in an article reo published in the M. -ninhis Commercial-Appeal, The Montgomery team of the Southern league is having a runi-rus over securing money for a franchise.

Should the rumpus go much further it is not improbable thru Evansville might be included in the big league company. Part of the article appearing in the Commercial-Appeal is as follows: "Evansville is well situated geographically for a Southern league city, a team being able to leave there at night and arrive in any city in the league the next morning, with the exception of Mobile and New Orleans, and a schedule could be drafted eliminating such jumps by having a northern wing comprising Evansville, Memphis, HE i-CFT BASE TO EnTEA DouTsC With Hooper on first, Yerkes on seoond, one run needed to tie the score and Tris Speaker at bat, Ad Gumbert, were he pitching, would shave the ball across and Speaker would have to hit it. Gumbert never let them walk. He made all hit Dan Brouthers, Sam Thompson, Willie Keeler, Jennings or McGraw one and all, that hard-hitting, hard-fighting crew of the reconstruction period had to whang the ball when Gumbert was on the firing line. No matter what the score, or how populous were the bases, This attracted Capt.

Anson, and in '89 Gumbert joired the fence busters. Here he played in 40 games, getting 44 hits and an average of but he stole only one base on the big league catchers. He joined the Boston Brotherhood team in 1S90, and the records show he led the league with 22 games won and 9 lost. He was back in Chicago in 1891. Gumbert went to Pittsburg in 1893, winning 13 games and los this home ville.

In the comparison of the population of the two towns Evansville has a far larger number of people from which to draw its baseball audiences than has Little Rock, the last census giving the former town 70,000 and the latter 4 5,000. Evansville besides having 25,000 more people than Little Rock has a network of trolley lines running into it on which towns with populations exceeding 50.000 in total within an hour's ride of Evansville." I -A KT. I To You're MAMMA HE WAS ing t. tie nattea. zou; tne next SHERIFF" OF mm year he won 18 and lost 14, and in 32 games made 34 hits for an average of with Brooklyn 1 JliA A LLEGH COUMTV in 1895 he won 11 and lost la games, hitting .34 4, however.

In 1S96. Gumbert pitched for Philadelphia. The records con Eiection In China a Real Complicated Affair Gumbert's control and superb nerve enabled him to put the ball where he desired. If he was pitching to Cobb, Lajoie, Jackson or any of the other fancy base-hit accumulators, he would do the same. It is little more than 16 years since Addison Gumbert quit baseball, and he has been successful in politics, in Pittsburg, where he was born October 10, 1867.

For nine years he as clerk of the court of common pleas of 0i tain no tabulated report of his ToOAY HE is assistant Director, of work, but among the comment Civ z-f on the year's play it is noted that 4N G-REATEft. PlTTSOUfia ing confidence in him. Despite criticism, he kept Gumbert and coached him, and when Gumbert made good Anse was satisfied and the critics silenced. Gumbert refuses to name the game's greatest players, on the ground that there have been too many, but he says Amos Rusie was the greatest pitcher that ever lived. His observation in reply to the query, "Is the game Luther McCarty, Heavyweight Champion of the World.

against Baltimore, with his team winning 15 to 8 in the last inning, Gumbert was hit for eight runs by the Orioles, losing the games with but two Baltimore players retired. Capt. Anson "made Humbert a great pitcher by hav- DASHING YOUNG MAN SAID TO HAVE "ABUNDANCE" OF WIVES JAP PLAYS BILLIARDS. Ilj- The I'nitrd CHICAGO Jan. 11.

Koji Yam ada, the Jap billiardist, came with, in an ace of defeating Geo. Slos-son in the billiard match played here for three nights. Yamada played a remarkable game Friday night, scoring a high run of 123. LOCKE GETS PHILLIES; TENER BACK OF DEAL abie property rf the same valued, ami being a pnJuate of a school higher than the elementary or primary or bavins: art equivalent T.e qialifieatio.ns for a member of the lower house are: a man over 2. years of aero.

Opium smokers, insane merk men ill not know how to write r.nJ lead, officers of the army and of tne navy, police, Taoists. BuOi'iists and religrioxts teachers of element ry schtols. students are not emltleJ to vote or be elected to office. It is likely that the authorities have experienced rumerous 0ffi-k-uUies siice it is the first election and so the number of voters may be accurately estimated. The time for the preparation for the election instead -rf six months is hurriedly done this time in all the auuhoi'lies i.Uve but about two months in to make the nec-erary Further, a larjre.

number of citizens may eUher he ignorant or indifferent to the election. An investigation recently conducted by P. D. Maddox, the girl's father, revealed the fact that Poe 1'ts wo -ether in Greenburg and Told-cos. Poe as arre-stei in Central City WVOiusday night.

Jan. 11. Chin i has just its first popular; nobody knows how it to the proclamation 1 r-: by ti Government there wi'l be- one rt presentat've for; evtry S000 people. The and regulations gov- i ruin? elections are extremely i The Shanghai elee- t'on. however, will convey some iile.r as to the elections elsewhere.

1 he eirsrOinar the elejiion of tUorors for lnembera of tTK provincial Asemhly ami the House of i -r the Lower House, are shout tXe same. IV the A rtriet of cHs-Hiv t.e settlements. the: ciiy. aiul tVe country lac in the -iahborhooj of cer ies have been sent out to' those to vote. The tiers for arty citizen to c.

st a vote are: a man ever 21 y-ars of Rse. betr a resi.er.t for at least two years in oti- area, paying an annual O.sr. rt tax of $2 over, havmsr an i properly xvlueit at more i than the nomaJie citizens of i to Tfce Press. OWEXSBOllO. Jan.

11. r.obt. A. Toe, 30, diish'ng juuns is in jail here charged with hisamy, having been indicted by the grand jury. The man is to have been ni rrieJ to three Kentucky w'thout securing a divcrce from Allegheny county.

What the voters thought of him was shown when he was elected sheriff for four years and the sheriff of the county in which Greater Pittsburg is located has some considerable job. Today Add is assistant director of charities of Greater Pittsburg. Baseball has known no greater batting pitcher than Gumbert. In 1JW1, while a member of the White Stock- ings, he hit 32i for '28 games, being second tv Billy Hamilton, who led the league with .338, while Pete Browning ran to show. To prove this was not a fluke, Gumbert repeated in 1804, with.

303 and in '95 with .344. It was at Zanesvilie, in the Tri-State league, in 1888, that Gumbert began his career. For the Ohio team he pitched 5 7 games, in which he made 64 hits for an average of .324. He also stole 25 bases to prove he was ambitious. fiVCARTY MAY HAVE TO F.1EET WIUIARD Luther M'Carty claims to be the champion pugilist but he must first put the quietas on Jess Wil-liard.

The Texas cowboy remembers that not very long ago he bested McCarty in a 10-round battle in New York. The stain of the Williard defeat still clings with McCarty. A fight in New York City may be arranged soon. Lly the Vnltrd Press. NEW YORK, Jan.

11. The Philadelphia National league team will pass into the hands of Wm. Locke next Wednesday and the stock will be transferred on money said to be furnished by Gov. John Tener, former Police Commissioner Baker and Locke himself. any.

A book entitled "How to Win the SUFFRAGE SOCIETY FORMED IN R0CKP0RT SpectM to The Press. IIOCKPOUT, Jn. 11. Suffrage was gVer. an introduction in Rockport tiris week w'th the form ins of a local suffrage society.

Hiss Harriet Noble, state treasurer of the Woman's Franchise League of Indiana, organized the movement. Sixteen charter members are registered. Mrs. Ada Rude is president. Affect Vns of a Woman" was founc among property.

Poe made love to pretty 19-year-old Yerda Maddox of Livia last October, representing himself, it said, to be a single man and. holding a gooi position with the K. HARDING AND MILLER TEAM IN THE LEAD The Harding Miller team are now the leaders in the Commercial Basketball league by virtue of a victory Friday night over the High Arts by a score of 19 to 9. Other games resulted as follows: Wolfyn-Luhring, 12; Walk-Overs. 9.

Levi. 32; Pascos, 26. Draughon, 14; Beard, 11. FOOTBALL CAPTAIN ILL. MADISON, Jan.

11. Al-vin Landberg, captain-elect of the Wisconsin football team, is in a critical condition. He has Mavhe Rockefeller ha.i been watching Morgan's pile wh'le 1A; was on the stand. and T. r.ilroad Lou's.

Poe i propose! or. the day met the Livia iirl and accepteO him. Everybody's making parcel post mc tenis yes Cevlon's pearl fisheries have for more torn years. ive a liinv- tn.iy "LITTLE STORIES ABOUT LOCAL INDUSTRIES," NO. 8 Largest Manufacturer of Pleasure Vehicles in the World.

A Decade Has Seen This Plant Grow from a Small Concern to One of Stt ndous Size. FTER a trip through Evansville furniture town I was positive '-x- xY ix xx-x -x X'v: -x-x-x- V. modem paint factory which furnishes all the paint and color used by the company. The following year it put up a complete and modern body factory which manufactures all the bodies, seats and Woodstock used. Three years ago, it erected a complete wheel factory.

This wheel factory is considered to be one of the best equipped in the world. All of these subsidiary plants, while operated separately from the buggy company, are completely owned by the Hercules plant. This company has announced that early in the spring they will purchase and remove the Holmes Machine Mfg. of Sparta, to this city. This new company manufactures gas engines, having a capacity of 50 a day, at present, and which will be increased to 75 daily prior to their removal here.

When a part of the Hercules this amount will be increased to about 200 gas engines- daily. About 350 men are employed. But few realize to what a great extent this concern advertises the city. With ,70,000 buggies being shipped to all parts of the universe each year the stamp of merit on each vehicle but proclaims that the buggy was "made in Evansville." that I had received all the surprises that were in store for me but I had guessed wrongly for our next trip took us to the Hercules Buggy the largest factory in the world, of its kind. Evansville possesses among her other great concerns, a plant that is the largest of its kind in the world, the Hercules Buggy who manufacture a complete buggy every two minutes, although as many as three hundred complete vehicles a day have been turned out during the rush season.

The Hercules Buggy Company is the largest manufacturer of light pleasure and business vehicles in the world. From thirty to thirty-five cars are handled daily on its five railroad switches. The products are shipped to practically every state in the Union. The Ilerciiles Company and its three subsidiary plants cover about eight acres of ground, employ from 1,200 to 1,500 men, with a weeklv payroll of from $12,000 to $15,000. The value of the goods manufactured by the company is about $3,000,000 It v- --vwvi I yearly.

This plant con-vsmnes more than feet of lumber each year; nearly 75,000 bides of leather; over 1,000,000 yards of cloth, and 4,000 tons of steel tire. The growth of the Hercules Company has been nothing short of marvel ous. During 1905, the company shipped 31,255 yeliicles. During the last twelve months, the' company shows an, increase of 100 per cent, 70,000 completed vehicles having been shipped. From present indications it seems fair to estimate that this record null increased by 10,000 during the present year.

"I have set the mark for 100 000 in 1915," sid Mr. McCurdy recently, "andl believe my expectations will be realized. It has been an interesting game. Eighteen years ago; figures and volume change with time." i. The Hercules Buggy Company moved to Evansville a little' over ten years ago.

Hardly a year has passed but that some addition has been made to the plant. About seven years ago it erected a I started this company in Cincinnati. Iri those days a carriage factory building 5,000 Vehicles every, twelve months was considered 'in the tile month of MarchA 1912, we built than 7,000 vehicles, so you can see our ideas of.