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Jj JVest VirgSISTBRSVILLE: Dennis O'Day.

said to have been the oldest resident ofTyler county, is dead at his home hearhere, aged 99. He was born in Ireland,

MARTFNSBURG: The Polish ImmigrationSociety, of Xcw York, is consideringthe establishment of a largePolish colony in this section, accordingto Thooaore F. Irabaclis, the wellknown orchardist.

SISTERSVILLE: Oscar Billerer.aged K>, is dead of tetanus, which setin after he had accidentally shot himselfwhile out hunting:.

PARKiERSBURG: Mothers of thiscity are planning to send numerousChristmas gifts to West Virginiaguardsmen on the border.

FAIRMONT: Voters of this cityratified a bond issue of ?760.l»00 forconstruction of bridges arid improvementof streets.

GRAFTON: The Business Men'sAssociation nf this city is seeking anextension of the Monongahela ValleyTraction Company's interurban linesfrom Clarksburg to Grafton.Ip .

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Another Great Ballad.Againthis newspaper lias scored a

tremendous beat upon its-contemporariesin being able to publish for thefirst time the words of the most patheticballad ever written. Sung tothe air of the "German Hymn ofmale," it will bring tears to everyeye. All ready? Let 'er fo, professor:"I didn't raise my boy to be a boxer,"

Says a sad and weeping mother toher son.

But the wicked kid only Jeers andmocks 'er.

And says he, "I'm going to get theeasy nion."

He was brought home that night upona stretcher,And he murmurs, as he gives his

ina a hug."I'll heed your words hereafter, you

can betcher,For you didn't raise your boy to be

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At the meeting of the executV/ccommittee ol" the L'niied States NationalLawn Tennis Asociation. sched'I*

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dnia BriefsGRAFTON: The First Regiment.

West Virginia National Guard, will l>emobilized soon for service on the Mexicanborder, according to the beliefheld by military men here.

iELKINS: Del Gainer, first baseman

of the Boston Red Sox. "world's championbaseball team, may conch the lias-ketball team of the local young Men'sChristian Association.

CHARLESTON: Compensation isnot payable to guards employed by aprivate corporation, according to theworkmen's compensation department.The decision was in the case of Mrs.

j F. D. Wvatt and J. C. Bragg; of WindingGulf.

CHARLESTON: Rates will bo in'creased by the People's United Tele-!! phone Company operating in Lewis.Upshur, Harrison and Doddridge counities, permission having been granted

; by the public service commission.WHEELING: J. F. Miller, one of the

larger employers of stogies makers,has signed a scale granting an increase

t ol' ?1 per thousand to the stogie rollers.This is the first break in the strike ofstogie makers which has been in prog-

i ress a month.

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. ultd for tomorrow, many opinionswill be heard as to what shou'd bedone for or to the fool fau't rule.William A. Larned. former nationalchampion, believes in the retentionof the present rule, so modified as togive the umpire discretionary powerto call a foot fnult a let. thus makingit possible to equalize the penaltiesduring a match. Larned's view isthat the foot fault umpire be permitted,but not required, to call the first <foot fault on any first, or second ser- jvice at let. If the service be good inother respects.if you get what wc

j mean. j * * »

Gloomy (ius Says:It always makes me shudder to see

baseball fans eating nuts.it's somuch like cannibalism.

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They're Off In Havana. !They're off in Havana.in Havana 1

the gay.yes, the gee-gees are run- ening In Cuba today. And in fancy we jsee. in Old Sol's brilliant light, thewild, cheering populace of black, tan Band white, eaeb one tinwlinc the U

' name of his favorite steed, some for Ij love of the sport, and some mad with cthe greed of the gold that they hope £by good fortune to win. O, Havana. |!Havana, fair city of sin! We cry outagainst you, bright Havana the gay.and we're sorry' you are so darned far

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Football's Dusky Hero,That, football is not exclusively a

white man's game has been demon-strated in the past by Thorpe and oth- jer Indian gridiron stars, and now jcomes Fred Pollard, the negro halfbackof Brown University, with a recordthat cannot be overlooked by thedopesters of the inevitable all-American elevens. In almost every line of |jathletics, Amateur and professional,the black man has won a place forhimself. In the old days Moses Walkier, a catcher, and Frank Grant, a secondbaseman, were stars in league

| ball, until the unwritten law barredj colored men from the diamond. In' pugilism there have been scores ofgreat boxers of African descent, startingwith Tom Molineaux, who was

really the first world's champion, althoughtricked out of his honors; andincluding such names as Peter Jackson,George Dixon, .Toe Gans, JackJohnson. Sam Langford and JoeJeanetto. Cuba lias today several colordedball players who are said tocompare favorably with big leaguers.The name of Howard Drew, thesprinter, will live long in athletic annals.Fred Pnllnrd. the Intent ii'ildl-

1 tion to /the roll of negr® athletici stars, was born In Chicago twenty-oneyears ago. He is only five feet sixand one-fourth inches in height, andweighs 155 pounds. He is a great jhurdler as well as a football player. |He expects to become a physician, and 1is laying at Brown the foundation for 1

: a future course in medicine.« » * *

Ohio Pennsylvania and Massachusettsfans have doped out some strong ;"native son" baseball clubs, but thereare others. F'rinstancc:

; Georgia: Tyrus Cobb. 1

Texas: Tris Speaker.[ * 1t

j A strong team composed of Buckeyetalent would be: Sisler, p.:Sisler, c.; Sisler, lb.; Sisler, 2b.;Sisler, 3b.; Sisler. ss.; Sisler, cf.; Sisler,If.; Sisler, rf.

Father Gander.Peanuts and pop. peanuts and pop. |When winter comes fans smoke pennanthop;When summer comes their hopes go

ker-flop;Peaifuts and pop, peanuts and pop.!

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Pleasant thought for a wintry day: ,

St. Louis or Washington bleachers Jwith the temperature a hundred In ]the shade,, and no shade.

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j Today In Pugilistic Annals.! John L. Sullivan pulled a big surpriseparty on the sporting worldtwenty-eight years ago today by call-ins at a New York newspaper oflicc Iand depositing $5,000 as a financial |backing for his challenge to Jake Kilrain.John Lr. had long refused tofight Jake, although Kllraln had issuedrepeated challenges, and the impressionhad gone abroad that theP.ostonian was afraid of his rival. The cprevious year Kilrain's admirers hadpresented him with a belt said to be temblematic of the world's heavy- \weight championship. Jem Smith. tthe English champion, then chal- \lenged Jake, and .they fought 106rounds In France. Kilrain having the abest of it. although it was called a cdraw. Even after John L. had putup the money many sports thought hewas blufllng, but earjy the followingJanuary a- meeting was held . in «

Toronto and the arrangements for r

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Will Play_ St AugustineTeam hriday Wight

The St. Mary's high school basketiallquintet will play tlie first homo;ame of the season at'S o'clock Friday

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night when the fast St. Augustine highschool team of Grafton will clash withthe locals.Although the St. Mary's boys were t

defeated by a onesided score at Wal- glace last Friday night they arc not. (discouraged and after a week of hard ipractice following the Wallace game, jmany of the errors made at Wallace ihave been overcome and the team is cplaying much better basketball atpresent. "

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The Washington Irving high school Ibasketball team will play its first agame of the 3916-17 season Friday Ievening at the Washington Irving 1gymnasium with the Shinnston highschool five. The game will start at i8:15 o'clock. £The Shinnston team has boon play- 9

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condition, while the local boys have anot played a game yet and have had tonly a week of practice but it is <Jthought that the class of the material tof the local team will show and Wash- iington Irving should win the game. aMorrison, Peck, Thorn, Carter, McNarryand many of the old stars of last -1

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The county court In special termrefused late Wednesday afternoonthe petition of the Pittsburg andWest Virginia Gas Company for permissionto lay a pipe line in the publichighway at Enterprise.

Spain has erected a new wirelessstation at Cape Juby, on the Atlanticcoast of Africa.

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