HENRIETTA CROSMAN DEBUT OF WILLIAM NORRIS. Actor's Experience in London as a Music Hall Performer. William Norrls. now playing in tha comic opera, "Tom Jones," tells the following story of his stage debut: ".My first appearance on any stage I was on a Christmas night in London. I had run away from home in San Francisco, determined never to return, tnd equally resolved to become an actor. I chose a music hall start, i "The hall was patronized by tht j laboring class, and accommodated | about 7,000 persons. The crowds !»■ j pan assembling about five o'clock in the afternoon, to be sure of seats, and, as this was too early for supper, there j was an army of men with baskets >f 1 luncheon, which they peddled among ! the waiting throngs. The favorite j article of food provided by the venders ; was sheep's trotters, or feet. Of course, there were bones. "My turn came, and 1 began my act. I had got. along to the first chorus, , when, chancing to glance at the side of the proscenium arch, I beheld a j glaring sign which read: " 'Gentlemen Will Please Not Throw 1 Trotter Bones at Actors on the Stage.' j "The significance of this request j hit me instantly. Visions of sheep's j feet filling the air and headed my way petrified me with apprehension, j My tongue stuck, my feet grew numb, j my whole being was paralyzed. To I jht<s day 1 do not remember getting off j the stage, though I have been told the , stage manager dragged me off. "I remember hearing him say: 'You had better get out of this as soon as j you can,' and my next clear recol- j lection is being in the cab on the j way back to my room. 1 removed my make-up as best 1 could with my hand kerchief, and ventured no further ap- J pearance as a song-and-dance artist, j Next season I came back to America ] and went on the stage in a legitimate : company, though 1 confess 1 told the manager 1 had had experience in | London as a music ball performer." GOSSIP OF THE STAGE. Charles I'rohman is in conference j b> cable with Otis Skinner with a ; \iev. to presenting Mr. Skinner in a Shakespearean repertoire next season. ■ Forbes-Robertson, the English ac tor, is negotiating for the British rights to"The Witching Hour," which he intends to produce in London. Clyde Fitch's latest comedy, "Girls," | deals with the fortunes of four young women who go to New York with the determination to light their own way in the world without any male assist-! an< e Three of them start in business, 1 bat quickly yield to the temptations I of matrimony and retire. The fourth trie.-; the stage and becomes famous in a night. Pees education, or at least the edit- I cation of the schools, mean success? Augustus Thomas, who is credited > with more stage triumphs than any other American author, is said not to ! have attended school after his twelfth ' year. In the new comedy, "The Traveling Salesman," produced by Thomas \V. I Ross and company in Washington, the i action is laid in a country depot, a ' drummer's hotel room, and a general ! store. Henry W. Harris decided to with- i draw Dust.in Farnmrt in"The Rector's 1 Garden," which played just one week ! at New York. "It is stated tha■ in early life Sam I Bernard was a paperhanger. He does j not particularly believe in papering the house now," observes a Philadel- j phian. Manager Florence Ziegfeld is now ; rehearsing "The Follies of 1908," his I new musical revue, which will open at his Jardin de Paris, atop of the New York theater, June 1. Messrs. BU kel and Watson. Mile. Dazie, and | Cnarles J. Ross will be prominent j members of the organization. Charles Frohman has engaged Har-1 ry liulger for of Joe Mivins in ! "The Dairymaids?" Martin Harvey will produce Stephen ] Phillips' version of Sir Walter Scott's I "The Bride of Lammermoor" in Glas Sow. GALLANTS ANNOYED PLAYERS Managers Could Scarcely Keep Them Off Stage in Revolutionary Days. The theater in New York during th« period of occupation by the British whs ; really quite a social if not an artistic ! success. The town was filled with tories, who were glad to attend in ! order to show their love and affection ' for the British officers who appeared las actors. Othello was a great favor ; ite as was Richard 111. One advantage the soldier folk had ' over the civilian actors who preceded j and followed them. The orchestra was | always made from the regimenta' bands, and there were 14 musicians al a dollar a head a night to make pleas | ant the entr'acte and to provide th« | chills and fever accompaniment fot i the slaughter of Desdemona. The scenery is said to have beei; insufficient and of a quality hardly cal culated to arouse vast applause, awj 1 yet it is known that Maj. Andre was ; one of those who helped paint t.h«. scenery for several of the productions l Thomas Harrow, originally a coach : painter and afterward New York's ' only dealer in engravings, was his as- I sistant. They painted roadside flats, ! drops, side scenes, including in the 1 general effect "streets, woods and wilds, chambers and palaces," accord i ing to a writer familiar with their efforts. A Capt. Delaney also gave 1 his talent with the brush as a con j trilnition to the success of these a ma, ; ietir shows. The costumes were of the best, how ever, for, no matter what the play, | the actors appeared in the uniforms of ! their regiments. The young subalterns | borrowed the gear and millinery ol their friends among the torv dames of New York and cast back to the j days of Shakespeare, when all the fe j male parts were played by men. For a long time in these early days of the New York stage the hardest tight the managers had to make was ; 'o keep the gallants of the day otl j the stage. They insisted upon tin: i privilege accorded box seat holders in London and dawdled about the stags (hiring the action of the play, bab ; bling among themselves or talking : io the actors who were not actually 1 engaged with their lines. That they were an addition to tht scene slightly incongruous and foreigi ! was not only admitted, but insisteo I upon by the managers of those earl> days, but ii required a vast amount i of nerve on the part of an actor-man ; agor to insist upon the withdrawal ol a Schuyler or a Clinton or a Living .-iton from the stage in the New York of those days. Culture and Agriculture. Richard Carle, the hen-pecked hero of "Mary's Lamb." delights in exploit i ing sham. Sometimes his quick re torts strike deep, This was the case ! not long ago when be was one of a party at supper. In the party was ! a man who was boasting about his farm in Maine and boring the others j with a long account of his four blood- I ed cows. "Of what breed are the cows?" : asked Mr. Carle. "Really," replied the bore, "1 can't ! say offhand." "What!" said Mr. Carle. "You mean j to say you have only four cows and I you don't know their breeding? Why, ! you ought to know their initials." Piece, Not War, the Cause. During the rebellion a dramatist at | tended a performance of one of his j plays at a theater in Baltimore. The ! house was quite empty, and the play wright in discussing the circumstance j with his leading actor, remarked that j the poor business probably was due to the war. "No," replied the actor. "* should judge it was due to the piece," and the dramatist changed the subject. His Objection lo Shakespeare. "What is your object in saying that i Shakespeare is not a great poet?" j "Oh," said the modern author, "you i think it is a professional jealousy, but i I assure you you are wrong. I feel | it my duty to attack all sorts of preju dices, and the prejudice in favor ol | Shakespeare's works is one of th« I most conspicuous that I know of." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1908 / AW /yMNCIES I i=. Tho American turf is weaker in Jockey material than it has been for some time. Otherwise Miller, who, barring his quickness at the start, is far from a finished horseman, could not have headed the list of winning jockeys with 224 victories to his credit. This year the conditions are likely to be even worse, as four or five boys who ranked well up last season may be unable to secure li censes. Among these are Mountain, who is under suspension at New Or leans; Willie Knapp, Radtke, J. Mc- Intyre and B. T.yneb, a boy who gave great promise at Oakland. Jack Mar tin. too, has decided to give up riding, it. is said, and no matter what their faults may have been, Mountain, Knapp, Radtke and Martin are riders above the average and with a far better knowledge of pace than either Miller or B. Dugan. Willie Shaw and Tommy Burns, who rode abroad last year, will be back again and thus help to fill the gap, and two or three boys developed at the winter tracks, not ably V. Powers, who han been liding well and stands next to Notts v on the iist of winning jockeys at New Or leans, and Gilbert, a lightweight in California, may also take a forward place, but the outlook is not encour aging. T. H. Williams has paid $lO,- 000 for Gilbert's contract, and the youngster, who rides at 85 pounds, is said to be one of the best jockey prospects ever developed on the coast. The jockeys who must be depended on to do the bulk of the riding this year are Miller, E. Dugan, Notter, McDan iel, Nicol, W. Burns, Shaw, T. Burns, C. Koerner, Shilling, Sumter and V. Powers. Of course there are many others who may or may not shine, in cluding Delaby, G. Swain. Musgrave, Horner, Brussel, J. Lee, Garner, Lie bert and Preston. Lucien Lyne ex pects to ride for the greater part in England, but will accept engagements in Ireland, Prance and Belgium. He has an understanding that he will ac cept mounts for Richard Croker, James Buchanan, Richard Dawson and some others. The American team of athletes that will journey to London in July to compete in the Olympic games will b:' accompanied by a professional train er. "Mike" Murphy, the veteran at the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected for the position. Never before has an American team had the services of a professional coach, but it was considered advisable to have one this year in view of the excep tional size of the team and the impor tance of the games. Murphy is one of the most prominent trainers in the country. For more than 15 years he has been known as a great developer Of athletes. He formerly trained for Yale university and the New v ork Athletic club. During his career as a professional coach he brought out such champions as Berne Wefers, the world's 220-yard record holder; Alvin C. Kraenzelein, the world's greatest hurdler, and Tommy Conneff, a cham pion miler. He is also a great foot ball coach and trainer. During the last 15 years the teams Murphy has trained at Pennsylvania and Yale have won every intercollegiate champion ship but three. Harvard and Cornell being the only other winners. Mur phy's selection as trainer means that the members of the American team will toe their marks at London with the minimum of men out of shape. "Wizard" Jake Schaefer, dean of the expert billiard players of the world, retires from championship contests, acknowledged as the greatest perform er with the cue in every respect that ever stepped up to a billiard table. Recently he defended his title as champion of the world tit 18.1 against Willie Hoppe at Chicago in the last contest lie will compete in for world's honors, and after a sensational match proved the winner by the score of 500 to 423. The championship emblem will be given back to the donors by Jake, and it is possible there will nev er be another game played between professionals at this style. Schaefer will confine his entire attention here after bo exhibition gaaiea. TRAVELING COST OF BIG TEAMS MAJOR LEAGUE CLUBS TO SPEND NEARLY $70,000 FOR CAR FARE THIS SEASON. PIRATES COVER MOST GROUND Smoky City Aggregation Will Make 37 Trips and Cover Distance of 15,057 Miles—St. Louis the Premier Tour ists in American League—Average Cost Is $1 Per Mile. In order to fill their scheduled cham pionship dates next season the clubs of the American league will have to travel 95,722 miles, and the National league teams 92,405 miles. At the rate of 2 cents a mile and at the average of 18 men to each party, the sum of $67,765.32 will be paid to the railroads for transportation alone. Of this amount the Johnsonttes will con tribute $:14,477.92 and the Pulliamites $32,287.40. Of the American league teams St. Louis will be the premier tourist. The Browns are booked to journey 14,307 miles, and will make 31 trips. The White Sox will make 30 trips and will travel 12,222 miles. Their longest Jump is from New York to St. Loui.-s, 1,066 miles, ihe St. Louis Browns twico will make the biggest leap possible on a circuit, going from Boston to St. Louis, a gap of 1,229 miles. Of the National league teann Pitts burg will find circuit chaßing the most expensive. The Pirates are to make 37 trips and will cover a distance of 15,057 miles. The Phillies have to trav el only 9,4'{j spiles, the reason for tho difference in mileage of the two teams being that Barney's Rwceaneers con stantly have to leave home to flls Sun day engagements in Chicago and Cin cinnati. The Cubs are due to make 28 trips and travel 12,271 miles to fill their schedule. Chance's champions have to make the jump between St. Louis and Boston once, the Doves and the Cardi nals also being down to make this trip. The number of miles each club will have to travel, trips to be made, and the amount to be expended for trans portation (railroad fares alone) by the big league teams during 1908 are as follows: NATIONAL U3AGTTE. < v Trips. Miles. Fares. Pittsburg 37 15,057 $ 5,420.52 St. Louis U',417 4.470.12 Chieasc US 12,271 4,417.56 Cincinnati 31 12.131 4,367.16 I SOHTON L"i 11,524 4. 14^.<>4 NPVV Vork 25 10,102 3,636.72 Mnioklyn L' 3 9.532 3.431.52 Philadelphia L' 7 9,431 3,395.16 Totals 229 92,465 $33,287.40 AM ICR [CAN T,RAOrn. Club. Trips. Miles. Fares. St. Louis 31 14,307 ) 5.150.52 Cleveland 3,3 13.501 4.X60.36 Detroit 34 13,295 4,786.20 Chieaßo 3n 12.222 4.399.92 Boston UK 11,963 4,306.68 Washington 37 10,529 3,790.44 New York 29 1 0,524 3.788.04 Philadelphia 29 9.431 3,395.16 Totals 241 95,772 $34,477.92 According to the books of one major league club it costs in the neigh borhood of $1 a mile to cart a ball team around the circuit, including rail road fares, Pullman and hotel bills, the average number of men in the par ty, including manager, secretary and trainer, being 19. One remarkable feature of the trav eling done by baseball clubs is the way in which the teams dodge accidents. The only bad smashup in which play ers have figured in recent years was the wreck of a special train carrying the Si. Louis and Cleveland American league clubs from Cleveland to St. Louis in 1904. Some of the men were hurt, but none of them badly, and the Sunday game was played as scheduled. In 1893, while the Chicago Nationals were returning home from Cleveland, their train ran into a freight, near Fremont, 0., and three men were killed in the wreck. Of the players, the only two injured were Jimmy Ryan and Malachi Kittredge, who were badly cut about the head and body. Kittredge was able to play in a week, but Ryan was out of the game for the balance of the season. So fur as known no player of prom inence ever has been killed in a train wreck while traveling with his club. Capron Ousted from College. George Capron, Minnesota's greatest football hero, who, through his mar velous drop kicking last fall, brought victory to the maroon and gold ban ners in more than one game, and who is regarded as the greatest all around athlete that, ever attended Minnesota university, has been expelled from the institution. It is claimed that "crib bing" caused his downfall. There have been rumors for some time to the ef fect that the famous gridiron hero would be seen at Minnesota next fall, but it was due mainly to the reports that he had tempting offers by many of the big eastern schools, and for a time it was even said that Capron would be missing before the present school year had been completed. Ac cording to the university authorities, Capron been expelled until next fall, but he will never return to Min nesota. Swenholt to Lead Badgers. Helmer Swenholt of Madison, Wis., the flaxen-haired lUtle forward, has been elected captain of the basket-ball team of the University of Wisconsin for the ensuing year. The only other candidate was Ewald Stiehm of John son's Creek, the giant center on both the basket-ball and football teams. The election was decided by tostting a coin and Wwenholt won. STAR SHORTSTOP TO RETIRE N OOHN ("HANcf 'X WAGNEU Hans Wagner, the big Pittsburg shortstop, has refused absolutely Uy • ign a contract for the present season, declaring he is going to rest for oh least n HANS WAGNER DETERMINED TO HAVE SEASON'S REST Star Pirate Shortstop Turns Down Tempting Offers—Will Raise Chickens Thia Year. rijmu Wagner gave Pittsburg base ball fails a jolt recently by announcing tßat he would not wear it l'irate uni form this season. There has been no trouble between President Dreyfuss and Wagner. Hans is not holding out for more money. He simply says he wants to get out of the game and will not play. Wagner says when the season opens he will lie found superintending his fine chicken farm near Carnegie. War ner is worth more than $<50,000, and has been anxious to quil playing ever since last season. Wagner declares his mind is made up and cannot be (.hanged. On finding that Wagner meant really to retire, the owners of the Pittsburg team offered him a straight salary of $15,000 and agreed Jo allow him to cut out the spring training. When he declined this bait a contract signed by the Pittsburg club, with only the salary line left blank, was shown to him, and he was asked to fill the figures himself and the club owners would pay it. This he refused also, saying there was not. enough money in the world to make him play ball, this year at least. There is intimation there was more than rheumatism back of Wagner's re fusal to play ball this year. He has always been opposed to spring train ing trips, and, having always played his best ball with Kitchey, he felt somewhat, aggrieved a year ago when, after a quarrel with one of the club officials, Ritehey was sent to Hoston. Wagner, who was never known to talk much, told a friend that bis busi ness interests were 'now getting so large that he could riot afford to play ball. BATTING EYES MADE TO ORDER Scheme of University Coach to Help Candidates for Team. The University of Pennsylvania baseball team candidates are doing cage work daily. In addition to trying out the battery men the coach has a scheme to put an edge on batting eyes that is regarded as a wonder by all who have seen it. The apparatus consists of an upriglv. with horizontal arms at top and bot tom, between which, on an elastic cord, is a ball. The ball may be shifted to any desired height, and consider able practice is needed to clout it squarely. When hit true the ball springs straight ahead, but if struck below or above the center it jumps down or up. The men who have used the device claim it is the best ever for line drives. Capital on Outlaw Circuit. Arthur Irwin, now coach of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania baseball team, will manage the team that will repre sent Washington in the outlaw Union league this year. A decision to have th® capital on the circuit was reached at a meeting at which it was an nounced W. F. Hart, will lie president of the new club, W. J. Lambert vice president and E. EL Ueim secretary treasurer. • -.j V HARVARD'S ATHLETIC RECEIPTS DECREASE Treasury Is Shy $16,0C0 in I*l6 O-E. Compared to 1905, Acccrdin to Annual Report. The annual report of the treasurer of the Harvard University AthlftJe as sociation for Ihe year 190K-7 show.s ~ considerable decrease, both in receipts and expenditures* over '(».• showing of"the previous y<»ur. AK in the past, the financial importance oT fool hall was again demonstrated. 'I he gross receipts for Uic year $110,110.56, as against $ 127,?*fHM© V:ir the preceding year. The expenditures were $!'5.470.09, as against ?88.7;;&.2I' for 1905-6. The decrease, both in re ceipts and expenditures, may ac counted for by taking into considera tion anil comparing the rwo footfe.!! seasons. In UtOG the Yale gasie »a., played in New Haven, meaning ?MS.OOO' less than when ih<> game was play<>dl in Cambridge in 1905. The «!(.((»• son of 1!) 06 showed a loss of RJS.ttWi in the receipts, as compared with the ma son before. This is miiKlil.v Ifofi amount of the total decrease in the gross receipts of the year ISOS-7 that of the previous year. As the Harvard graduate manager sar> in his report, "the surplus of the year de pends on the surplus of the foothafJ re ceipts over the football expendi tures." There is practically no change* in the receipts and expenditures of itv* other sports. The baseball! team paitved a little, owing to its expenditures re maining the same while its reeeiyfcs increased. The crew and track were, as usual, not self-supporting and had to rely for financial assistance <m the association funds. Of the nitnr«r teams, only the hockey and tetmi** teams paid their own way. The hockey team has always stood well financistlly, while the fee charged for tin u«e «# the college tennis court accomts r or the showing of that branch cf sfiwi The freshman football team and? lost money, while the other fresfimeta teams paid their expenses by tions. The total loss in the Trvjstiraan branches of sports was sl,KfS.of>. In concluding bis report th<- ate treasurer calls attention to rtie great need of reclaiming the r.p • land on Soldiers' field to rae<;t *f in creased demands for room, and tliv- ne cessity of building fireproof hawbaZl bleachers. FIELDER JONES' REAL NAME Reporter Thought White SOK Ceaiisr V.'as "Kidding" Him. Is Fielder Jones' name 3 "itlde.r Jones? That's a question that 3«rr. asked ever since—or iaefcee—Ut« noted leader of the Chicago Wbio broke into fast company. Hvidently it is, for here's Kiiul lit told the Portland (Ore.» Post matt about it: "When I left the littlo Pennsyi'vcima. town where I had been playing professional ball to join the Pittsburg; club an enterprising rejtorter came to men and wanted my pedigree. He com menced: "'What is your full name?* " 'Never get full,' 1 replied. "'No kidding. I mean yeur real name,' said the scribe. " 'Fielder A. Jones.' " I know you are a fielder* said ibe scribe, 'but what's the handle to the Jones part of your name?" " Fielder is my given name.* J re plied, commencing to get ho! utKiet the collar. " 'Well, I'll have to take it, bur where are you from?' " 'Sliinglehouse, Pa.* " 'You're too fresh for a lu° ginner,' angrily replied the iMerncn er, and 1 really believe thai lit wnuhl have toasted me unmercifuiH j r g hadn't been lucky enough to *ret uf! good with Pittsburg and bau«d JHvt. a fiend for that season. He foully thought 1 was kidding him, ln.it 1 not, for my name is Fielder Aldtru Jones, and i was born at t>binglehovis©, Pa." That ought to settle the qw-sti&n!«:.• some years—but it won't. 13
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