BRINGING UP FATHER By GEORGE McMANUS
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M'GRAW LIKELY
TO QUIT BENCH
Another Pennant for New
York and Muggsv Is Ready
to Turn Over the Rems.
By THOMAS L. COMISKEY
NEW YORK, Feb. 1. -At the risk
of being hurriedly dispatched to .1
generously cushioned cell, \ye limor
ously offer that John .1. MeGraw ma
retire as man .ger of the Giants aft-.-:
the world's aeries next fall.
Hi3 retirement, as wo gather 1
Is contingent on the .success of tir
Giants in winning the Nations’
iBcague pennant the coming season
and the world's series a- well.
If MeGraw lcad3 his Giants to vie
tory in another world's series, h
will have accomplished something no
other manager has ever done. It
would bo four world's championship
for tho Giants; three in a row, too.
Both would be records.
Mark to Shoot At
-Prompted by sportsmanship, h
may then decide that lie has set a
mark for other managers to shoot
at, and give 11 of them a chance to
bans away at it without further
handicapping them.
Wo use "may” advisedly, despite
-some information we have glean- .
on the subject. Baseball is the “Lit
tie Napoleon’s" heart’s blood. Giving
up the reins he has held for a score ;
of years as manager of the Giant
may prove too hard a ta3k.
The popular belief is that Me
Graw would be boss of the Giants,
even if ho had to hobble in the dug
out on two canes, or bo carried in
and propped up. Suggestion of him
retiring for years yet to be, hale
and hearty .13 he is, evokes all man
ner of ridicule from a great legion. '
Won't Believe It
jvteuraw nor manager or the.
Giants? Cuckoo stuff." So say a
Brest chorus. They argue that for
him to quit as boss would be folly.!
declaring: "it would rob the team of
its greatest figure, its greatest asset
And, with the Giants and Yankee
fighting for patronage with, two of!
the greatest parks in the game? Man.
you’re cuckoo." So goes the argu-j
mont.
However, McGrow may hand overl
the reins to someone else, possible j
Hughie Jennings, who has been hi-|
assistant for several years, out ofj
the spirit of sportsmanship. Me
Craw is a sportsman.
■It might also follow that he could1
give up active direction and yet con-'
tinuo to exercuso much control—a
watchful policy, as it were. This1
would he quite likMy. Duties as;
president of the club, for instance,
might also enter along with sports-j
manship in him retiring from the!
Uugout.
Tied for Titles
'Connie Mack and'his Athletics of
other years are tied with McGraw
and his Giants in the matter of
world's championships. Mack guide I
his great machine of 1910, 1911 and
1913 to success in the classic. In
two of the scries, 1911 and 1913,
'Mack and McGraw wore the nppos-!
ing managers. Tim Athletics defeat i
ed the Giants, four games to two ]
in 1911 and four games to one in!
1913. Back in 190.", when the Giant
won their first world’s champion
ship, the Athletics were humbled, j
four games to one.
If McGraw is successful next fall.;
making it three world’s series 'n a
row, it would be a target that h: 1
fair to stand for quite a stretch ofj
jear.-. That and four world's i ham
pionships would crown McGraw’
groat achievements in n manner mo- >
becoming lo his genius.
JOSE RAY BREAKS
OWN TRACK RECORD
NEW YORK. Veb. 1.—Jose Ray, of!
the Illinois Athletic Club, today broke I
his own record for a mil** and on-'
half run indoor?, finishing in 6 min
iites, 41 nn I 4-5 seconds. The record
was broken in Madison Srjnaro G !r
dens. I
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‘‘Uncle Joe” Cannon
Takes Up Golf,
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Untie Joe Cannon, (Uand Old
Mail of Cong ret.-'., whore foreswore
smoking for all of one day, has
fallen from prate again. This time
he lias taken up golf, despite his
88 year?. He has all the clubs,
but refuses to make public his
scores.
SPRING SCHEDULE
OF MAJOR LEAGUE
SET FEBRUARY 19
CHICAGO, Feb. 1,—Tile- spring
schedule meeting of the American
League will bo lioli! in Philadelphia
February 19, President Johnson an
nounces.
The decision to hold the m .ng
in Philadelphia instead of here w i
reached because the annual banquet
of the Philadelphia baseball writ .
will be held on that date. President
Johnson, together with Ty C bh and
George Sislrr. will her the gti?-- of
honor. More than 1,000 will at' *n:l
The principal question to be c u:
sidered at the mooting will be th >
adoption or rejection of the plan to
cut down the epidemic of fluky hum ■
runs. The Xutloiml League, however,
apposed il, and Commissioner L titd. •
lias since stated that he does n o
favor it, and that ii will not tv
adopted by both major leagues.
It is possible, however, that the
American League will act independ
ently. The plan is lo restrict home
run territory to anything beyond
II' feet, lram the homo plate. Whip,
iho plan may appear to tv radical.
President J. hnson oaid it would no.
he a handicap on the r -a 1 horne-run
hitters, inch K :i Williams and
I!1, be Ruth.
SLATE SEVEN MEETS
I ill.'.: \, P-. b. 1 in addition
:h tournament for the intercollegiate
wrestling championships, which will
be held here on March 2d tend 21, th ■
1 ornell mat team will participate hi
seven dual meets.
The schedule:
1-ob. S, Syr.a ii ■; 17, Reuuselaer;
2tl. Brooklyn Poly at Brooklyn; 24.
Columbia a! Now Tork; March -1.
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; 10,
Perm State; 17. Navy.
four contest.' have horn arranged
for tho fencing team as follows:
.I.m id, Columbia; Feb. 17. Navy
at Annapolis; 24, Army and Yale
(triangular) at West Point; March 1.
Pennsylvania.
Old papers tor sake s. Tlie Empire
CORNELL GRAPPLERS
Congress Unlikely lo Interfere
With President’s Desires
on Vacation.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Prob
ably tl iv never •will be an end to
the effort to establish u summer!
White House. The beciuest of J.
\Vil.en Lea kin of Baltimore of |20t),
000 to pay for the erection of a]
summer homo for American Pro,1
dentc is merely the latest ot a long]
list of similar offers. Mr. Harding,:
when his attention was called to it,;
remarked that more than fifty offer !
of that kind have been awaiting his;
decision for nearly two years.
Tilcr. will probably be no summer'
White House, for two very good rea-‘
on.. In the first place. Congress!
weald hardly have the courage to:
accept a gift of that kind, and in1
•lie second place. Presidents nndi
tliclr families want to feet free to1
ro and come as they please during
‘.ho vacation season.
It is true that Congress, with n|
shamed face, accepted the gift of J.|
Plerpont Morgan of a home for tHo1
American Ambassador in London,!
and of John I). Rockefeller, Jr, of
a home for the American Ambassa-!
dcr in Paris.
A summer White House, however,1
is altogether an impracticable thing.
In the first place, it, would entail u
heavy cost to niaihtsin it throughout
the year; in the second place, no
two Presidents ever have had the'
same Ideas with respect to summer!
vacations. Lincoln tpent his sum-,
tners in a commodious cottage on
the grounds of the soldiers’ home in
this city; (Jrant went to Long
Branch, Now Jersey; Hayes went,
back to bis old home, Fremont, Ohio;;
Arthur liked nothing better than)
Northern New York; Cleveland spent
his summon- at Buzzard's Bay; lfar
1 iron in traveling about the coun
try; McKinley, like Harrison, and
;1 a much greater extent, spent I he
rummer months, when Conferees was
not in fv.-vion, in making trail.-icon-!
tinental touts; Roosevelt always
nt to his home in Oyster Ba . ;
left liked the north shore of Mas
‘• ichusettr. and Wilton parsed sev-l
cr.,1 summers at Shadow Lawn, on!
.Im New Jersey toast.
JOE STECHER IN MAT
AFFAIR THIS MONTH
NEW YORK. Fob. 1. Joe Steelier,
sri. sors-hold expert of the wrestling j
game, will bo a part of the double I
windup of the wrestling show bein;;j
promoted by Doc Krone for the even-;
ing of February 5 at tin Ashland |
Boulevard Auditorium. Krone au-|
pounced last night he had secure!1
the signature of Steelier to a con-!
tract, calling for his services on that!
date against some good heavyweight!
grappler to be selected later. With
George C.ilza and Stecher to build
a; ind Krone believe., ho lias the!
nuclru.a of a snappy program.
BATTLING SIKi
IS BARRED FROM
SOIL OF ENGLAND
I. ON EON, Feb. 1.- The home of-}
fire lias refused permission to Bat-!
tUng Siki to land in England.
DEMPSEY-WILLARD
FIGHT NOT IN N. J.
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NEWARK, N. .1.. Fell. 1,—The[
l> mpsey-Willard fight will not be j
P rmitted in New Jersey, according
to Eotils Mass and, chairman of the
, State Boxing Comm!: .;.on, In an an
! nouncement today.
YOUR “UNUSED” ASSETS—that
typewriter, musical instrument, fur
niture, office fixture or appliance—
nre marketable, for cash, through!
I' lie classified columns of The Empire.;
" REWARD
$200.00
For information enabling the
undersigned to meet Roy Zott.
MRS. CECILIA CORDA,
Petersburg, Alaska.
Declaration Made that Habit
Is Improving Financial
Situation.
(Continued vrom Page One.)
more common, has helped improve
the financial situation.
Tile idea appeared ia print the
other day when the London Hankers'
Clearing House aunoir . 'I that o‘.
he sums now paid in: > city banks,
only r,even-tenths of one per ceaij
eonio in currency and coin, all the i
rest being transfers of credit by j
.hock. Not tunny years ago the
percentage of cash deposits was sev-;
ir.nl times higher than today.
!: li to been pointed out frequently I
of late that the use of chocks In-J
stead of cash allows banks usefully I
to employ perhaps larger aims tin a1
otherwise might bo possihlc ia piling I
new stone:: upon tho nation’s econo
mic structure.
The Eiytlir.il, so their newspaper,
say, are more given to the check i
habit th n other people, and this!
despite tho fact that, each check is i
iaxe.l twopcnc A chock book cun
not bo had for tho asking, as ia |
America; it must lie bought and paid1
:or. Even housewives make general!
use of chocks when they go to mar-!
nd ’ : .
have hundreds if branches, there is
usually a bank wi.hia walking da
tanco of tho homo. The l-.gh f ■ -s
for postal money orders make il.
cheaper to remit by check for j
amounts over one pound, and tills,
too. liar encouraged he check habit i
Prychologic.illy, some observers:
question whether tli - habit is a good:
one from tho standpoint of thrift. |
since many people who would think
twice before spending a certain cum!
out of ‘heir >■ '. lo nut he-ital
to write a rh ck i.n (lie amount;
jiict as it often scams easier to toll'
a .-u.ro clerk to dirge a purchase
to one’s account ilnn it is to shell
out the actual coin. But others eon
toi d (lint tho inen .ng bank clear
ings—they amounted to more than
37,000,000,000 pound.; sterling in Lon
don .done list year how not only
economic betterment, but also that
iho average Englishman lias preserv
ed his own hone; ty as well as his
1. Hr:' 111 the hone.ftr; of his country
man.
Women Gamblers Not
Wanted Scotch Mills
GLASGOW, Fob. 1. —Scottishi
mill wncrs have do ided on drastic
H t'vi i/) cheek th 1 wamblin'.; craze
which !;■ said recently to have oh
luined a {treat hold on female
workers.
Hereafter it will lie* a condition
if employment that no form of bol
ting he indulged In. It is asserted
lhat women are bad losers, and the
betting spirit is often responsible
for trouble among them.
Engraved visiting cards, latest
ttyles, at The Empire.
THE JUNEAU LAUNDRY
Franklin ftreet. between Front ana eecona in. Fkone BCV
WE FIT CHIMNEY TOPS
put in ventilators and do all sorts
of sheet metal work. l)o it quickly
and expertly. Prepare the tops,
flues, etc., right here and very little
t ffort, if any, is needed In adjusting
tiiont to your building. And you'll
never find charges unreasonable.
Can we serve you in any way?
MARSHALL & NEWMAN CO,
PLUMBERS. STEAM FITTERS AND SHEET METAL WORKERS
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TAX ON BACHELORS
13 ADVOCATED BY
WASH. LEGISLATOR
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OLYi.Ml'I V, Fob. 1. -Washing
:o.i may have another poll tax j
‘ —tilltinre apply:,ns only to
bachelors anti widower.-- more »
tbaa 25 and less than GO years
of ago. H - mutative Churl,'?
Heighten of Seattle has intro
duced H. H. No. 49, which would
impose a $5 annual tax payable
to county treasurers on May 1.
Eighty per cent ol' the tax
would ,"o to the stale general (
fund and 20 per cent to the
com,hies malting the Collections.
County as :.-or- are required
! to list persons from wham the
poll tax is duo, the industrial
! insurance department must fur
nish all the names from its
records and employers must
1 satisfy themsclv^3 that all par
' sons on their payrolls have paid
the tax before they can receive
salaries tv wages after May l
of each year. I
It shall li • the duty of sheriff.'
to < allied from delinquents.
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ALL BALKING AT
JOB OF MAYOR OF
ONE CHINESE CIT*
O.VXTON, China, Feb. 1.—Since
the busty departure of Sun Fo with
his father, Or. Sun Yat Son, last
June, no one .lias been found willing
or able to rill the supremely hazard
ous po ilion of mayor of Canton.
Man after man has been appointed,
only to refuse the appointment, or,j
after a few days in office, to resign.:
It is Interesting to note in this
. mn ction what a good record Mayor
Sun had. An American missionary
of Macao, Rev. John Galloway, is
authority for the statement that
when Sun Fo assumed office Canton
was bankrupt but that he cleared off
the municipal debts and at the same
titiie pushed ahead public works of
- iidling magnitude. Mr. Galloway,
who li : s been in China 14 years, char
ics rized him "us the best Mayor
i inton ever had.”
Being one of the four Americans
in all Macao. Mr. Calloway has conn
to know Mr. Sun. who is a graduate
of the University of California, very
intimately. On bis return from
America, Sun Fo became a Christian
and with his wife Joined Mr. Gallo
»ay's church. Another member ol
tin1 same church in Macao is the
former wife of Sun Yat Sen.
MILLIONS OF FEET OF
TIMBER KILLED IN CAL.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1.—One'!
hundred million loot of timber In
the Modoc National Forest of Cali
fornla h :s bena billed by pine beetles
during tiie last three eyars, according
to tiie United States Forest Service
here. In ail, 430,000 acres of yellow
pine tlmberland in this section, 14.">.
000 of which is in private ownership,
have .boon destroyed by the pest
which for v ars lias ravaged western
forests.
Stringent control measures are now
being undertaken by Federal agen
cies of Southern Oregon and North
ern California, as well as by pri
vate owners.
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MORE CREAM!
[N EVERY BOTTLE OF OUR
MILK.
And our motto is ‘'Absolute
Cleanliness.”
JUNEAU DAIRY
PHONE 145.
MADE RIGHT,
Right in Juneau
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CONFECTIONS
and ICE CREAM
Buy home products—in
this case a pleasure as well
as duty.
Bargain hunters always read The
ITnpire's classified columns.
Juneau Public Library
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and Free Reading Room
City Hall, Second Flooi.
Main Street at 4th.
ReadtnK Room Open From
8 a m. to 10 p. m.
{ Circulation Room Open From
| 1 to 6:30 p. m.—7:00 p. m.
i to 8:30 ; in
I Current. Magazines, Rewapaper*
Reference Book* Etc. i
FREE TO JXI f
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Ci<l bundles or newspapers at the
Kinplre, 26 eeufs.
FINE POULTRY
FRESH SAUSAGE
EVERY DAI
DELIVER* HOUR
Week Days, S p. m. Daily.
Saturdays, 10 a. m. and 8 p. «.
i rye-Bruhn Markei ^IU»ewJiCi[^.lt*''
WHAT KIND OF BREAD WILL YOU
EAT THIS YEAR?
Bread is just about your most important article of food. Yon
owe it to your health to see that it is wholesome and nourishing
as well as good tasting.
For years PEERLESS BREAD has *r.et the most exacting
requirements as ‘ your best food.” Stan the new year right by
resolving to cat lots of PEERLESS BREAD.
PEERLESS BAKERY
127 Front Street TeWnone 222
ALASKA MEAT COMPANY
Wholesale and Retail Butchers
PHONE 89 SEWARD STREET
PLENTY OF BAD WEATHER
to be exported yet. Old Winter has
a habit of ‘'lingering In the lap ol
Spring.” So don't let your coal sup
ply become exhausted. Have ua send
you a ton or bo of line, clean coal
that will insure you a comfortable
home and Have the family from many
of those dreaded spring colds.
Wo also carry a full line of teed.
D. B. FEMMER
PHONE 114.
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CHOKER #*
A lady entered our shop the other day and said:
"My ear won't pull at all 1 think there Is some
thing wrong. There is thick black smoke coming out of
tlie exhaust pipe.” , f
Mechanic: "Too rich a mixture, 1 believe.”
Lady: "I guess you’re right. I didn’t have any place
to put iny purse o 1 hung it on the choker.”
G. & B. MOTOR COMPANY
RITTER’S TRANSFER "
! COAL, KINDLING, BAGGAGE,
HAULING.
Office Cliune 292.
Residence Plione 27*04.
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THE RENOVATORY
i Expert cleaning of all outer
i Raiment*. Hat* cleaned and
blocked. Gloves cleaned
Phone S94.
APPLES
Special prices on apples
as long as they last.
Conte and see them.
GIOVANETTI’S
GROCERY
Corner Calhoun and Dixon It*.
Tim Hrore ihat eaves you monay.
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NOTICE
Mr. Krause is now In Ket
| chikan on contract work and
| will be gone for several weeks.
For any information wanted
about the business, new work,
etc., please phone Mrs. Krause
j at the Gastineau Hotel.
G. E. KRAUSE
Manufacturer of concrete brick,
j block, roomie; aewerplpea;
l automatic sealing burial vaults
| Chimney blocks with ventllat*
j Ing chambers. Postoffice base*
| ment. Phone 439.
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I. J. SHARICK
Jeweler and Optician.
Watches, Diamonds,
f-~>. Silverware
^ Jewelry