mW iJltitQtt SPORTS FINAL VOL. f-.NO. 142 SPORTS FINAL otemnn PniLADELPHIA, FRIDAY, rEBEUARY 2G, 1015. rBIOB OlOfl OB-tTl! CorimaitT, 101B, pi tjib Pontto ttttion CouriNt. "DAREDEVIL JACK" FALLS FROM FIFTH STORY; BREAKS LEG ATHLETIC AND PHILLY BASEBALL SQUADS AS THEY STARTED FOR TRAINING CAMPS TODAY FOUR DARDANELLES FORTS RAZED BY GUNS OF ALLIES' WARSHIPS M Tr unigiiiisiiiLJI.J.LILJI II mi II I sssMiweWeMtMWMetMi "'" i IT ' ,nriiimiiniui In, m W I f Loses Grip "While Climbing Chestnut Street Office Building in Sight of m Crowd ol 5UUU specta tors. Fingers, Chilled by Cold, Re fuse to Serve Him and Ho Plunges From Lofty Height. Undaunted by His Terrify ing Experience. Five thousand breathless persons stood on Chestnut street between ICth and 11th today with their eyos flxed upon tho 131 pound form of Jack Reynolds, known ns "Dare Dovll Jack," ns It suddenly shot '- tht-miirh tho air after ho had fallen from tho fifth floor of 1011 Chestnut strcot, while crawling up tho front wall of tho building. Thoso who expected to sco him killed wcro treated to a dramatic scene. Lying In a semiconscious condition In the roof of the Philadelphia Business Col lege, at 1017 Chestnut street, whero ho had fallen, Reynolds mumbled: . "I'm hurt a llttlo sorry It happened. 1 11 try again." Reynolds Is In Jefferson Hospital, suf fering from a fractured right leg, Inter nal Injuries and contusion of tho head and face. Phvsltlans declare that Rey nolds must have escaped death through soma miracle. Recently Rcj nolds amused several thou sand persons by performing all sorts of hair-raising balancing stunts from tho roof of tho Wldcner Dutldlng, on South Penn Squaro, now In tho course of con struction. Ho seated himself In a cane seated chair whllo 350 feet abovo tho street. jHo rocked himself and amused himself In other ways. WATCHED BY BIG CROWD. An audience composed of shoppers, mer chants, brokers, crews of trolley cars, stenographers, standing at tho windows of olllco building across tho street, and others saw Reynolds when ho started to climb up tho front wall of tho Mutual Life Insurance Company, and also saw his form for a whllo circling through tho air. Tho cheering" crowd suddenly becamo a silent one. As Is tho case whenever Reynolds puts In an appearance In fr'mt of an olllco building on which ho Intends to amuso himself by climbing up to tho .roof, ho k cheered and followed by boys Tho same happened today when Reynolds put In an appearance In front of loll Chestnut street, owoooyo lursub iiiuu ucwa- tteyoilWHnlred youth, who Is 24 years old. "Pretty cold on tho hands. Isn't It?" 'aske'd a young man attached to the United States Weather Bureau who happened to pass by. "Cold weathor can't fcazo me," re plied Reynolds. CLIMBING UP WALL. Both sides of Chestnut stroot were lined with porsons when Reynolds be gan to crawl. It wasn't his first crawl on the wall of an olllco building. "JuBt like eating plo for him," said a newsboy to the question of an olderly man who wnnted to know whether Reynolds was In his right senses. Cheers which could bo heard for two Continued on Face Two THE WEATHER FA I R Unheralded and unsung, but not alto gether unexpected by those who have been keeping track of tho weather vaga ries, we had snow this morning. The flurry was accompanied by a drop of some 17 degrees In temperature, which would mean severe cold under ordinary condi tions, but In this case simply brought us tack to normal temperature for this sea ton of the year. It all goes to prove there Is plenty of winter left yet, and that the , flowers that bloom In late February, tra. la! are not at all Indicative of the true climatic prospects. But it was rather tmuslng this morning to see numerous finicky persons bundled up In warmest winter togs with the thermometer at 3X Everything by comparison, A If a Mrtt- nnl J wVin Vil VAtt i) " """ """ """ FORECAST For Philadelphia and vicinity Generally fqir tonight and Saturday; colder tonight; strong northwest winds, diminishing Saturday, For details, see page S, Observations at Philadelphia s a. ir. lim!J!i!r, so-n w72S"lwa ..........., . j 'Sky Northwest, 12 milts frclplUilon Lit si hobVi. J".".'.. . SKEX himfcMy , Bi per cent, Minimum temperature ........... sJ JHxlmum Woiperature..:. ....... .'..'...'.I 43 On the Pacific Coast n FnncUco ..Weather, clear, Temp,. 4S Bm DHio . . .WMIber; clear. Tims'., SO Lamps to Be Lighted Autoi and other vehicles etOS p.m. Almanac of the Day !.H uts . s. I9p.ro, fan rlita tomorrow a3Sa.ni! 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The "bunch" wero In high glee, which spirit was none dampened when they espied the crowd of pretty girls that had taken passago on the Apache. Dode Pas kert, however, could not rid himself of tho Idea that possibly a German mine or submarine had managed to get this far away from Its proper sphere. Charley Ebbetts, Brooklyn Dodger mag nate, was on hand to give Wilbur Robert son a sendoff The Phillies, led by Pat Moron and Bill Shettsllne, took the New York express this morning at 9 o'clock, uroad Street Station. A fairly good-sized crowd was present to wish tho National Leaguers bon voyage, but there was no demonstra tion.' Tho party Includes: Manager Pat Moran, Business Manager Shettsllne, catchers, Adams, O'Connor and Fish; pitcher, Mattlson; Inflelder, Martin; Dode Paskert, Tletcher, Welscr, William G. Weart, Mr. and Mrs. James C. Isamlnger and Mr. and Mrs. Howard KIngsmore. The Phllly players and camp followers go to St. Petersburg, across tho bay from Tampa. At North Philadelphia station the Ath letics Joined the Phil squad. Nearly an hour before time of departure members of Mack's team began to arrive at tho sta tion. Most of them had not seen each other since the last disastrous game with the Braves In the world's series. There were many greetings and expressions of hope for the future. The talk of tho play ers as well as their friends who were there to seo them off was largely on tho subject of Frank Baker. It seemed to be Concluded on I'nse Eleven 1IARCY AND SHOEMAKER VIE FOR PENN'S STROKE Eight Crews Under Coach Nickalls' Eye on River. Keen competition Is being shown for the honor of stroking the University of Pennsylvania crew this year. This after noon for the secopd time Shoemaker was again chosen to stroke the varsity eight, and Marcy set the pace for the junior crew, Coach Vivian Nickalls 'nas been using both men as stroke and expects to keep on alternating them until he learns which Is the better man. Shoemaker was the regular stioke last year until he was stricken by typhoid fever. Then Marcy had the position and stroked tho crew in sensational fashion at Poughkeepsie. There were eight crews on t'ne river this afternoon. Coach Nickalls boating two more freshman combinations. This mnkcB four freshman crews and four varsity eights which are working dally. Tho work this afternoon was of the usual uieiy, the men going up the river nnd working out under the direction of Coach Nickalls, who followed them In a launtfi. Penn Lacrosse Practice Starts Candidates for the University of Penn sjivanla lacrosse team began their pre liminary training season this afternoon on the Old Museum field. The work Is under the direction of Cpach likens, the former Swarthmore star, and alsq coach last year He Is being assisted by Clar ence H. ao!4smlth. a member of the ll team. Illanding May Quit Game JETK0IT. Mich,. Feb. S6.-PltcherFred Blandlng, who has been a member of the Cleveland club's twirling staff ever since he broke Into the major league. Is at his Michigan home while his team U speed ing toward Texas Blandlng says he in tends to quit baseball. Corriden Signs With Cubs CHICAGO, Feb .-Shortstop Red Cor riden today signed a one-year contract with the Chicago Cub, thu quoting re port tuat ha would go to th Iftdianap olta AnswioiiB Association team. in i- I. ""MTTlMinBp irniirr" tfTStmf M. . ,. . J.M.. . . , ihe top picture shows the Athletics' squad at tho Njith Philadelphia Station. From left to rijrht they are Foster, Reed, Crane, Harker, Myers, WyckolT, Dressier, Pennock, Hamilton and Schanp. The pic ture below shows Fletcher, "Mike Dee," tho Phillies' trainer; Mattison, who is a "sharp" with tho violin, nnd Fish, of the Philly squad, on the deck of tho Apache in New York today, just before steamer sailed. SINS OF WOMEN RUN GAMUT OF SUNDAY'S WRATH AND SATIRE Revivalist Attacks Race Suicide and Pleads for Home, Marriage and the Family as the Noblest Ideals of Mankind. '"Little girlie on tho street. tou just Heem to pe an ieei Don't you wear no "chlmmy" ahlrtT Don't V04 weir no pettlsklrt? All you ee is corset and hose. Ain't you eoC no undercloil.es? What is going ti keep you warm. With scarcely nothing on your formT After awhile, 1 do believe. You will dress liko mother Be" With the above verse "Hilly" Sunday ridiculed present-day fashions while mak ing a terrific attack on women's lack of Christian character In tho tabernacle to day, during his sermons beforo great audiences of "women only." The recital of the verse brought a storm of applause and laughter from the multi tude, and then the evangelist brought the faces of the women back to a serious ex pression when he charged that much of the wickedness In the world was due to the Indecent, sartorial excesses that wornen Indulge In. 230 WOMEN HIT TRAIL. As the result of the evangelist's two sermons 230 women "hit the sawdu.it trails, JO at the first meeting and 200 at the second, An Interesting feature of the meeting was the personal work 'done by Mrs. D. Dobson Altemus In stimulating the trail- hitting, t'p and down the aisles Bhe went urging and exhorting women to take the evangelist's hand Now It was a poor old woman, uncertain whether to go up or not, and again a young girl whom she led down the Baw. dust trail. Working like a beaver, she stayed until the last call for trall-hltters Concluded on 1'njre Seven THIEVES KIDNAP BANK PRESIDENT; flET $12,000 Bloodhounds on Trail of Culprits. Arrests Expected. HAVANA, Ark., Feb. M Bloodhounds are on the trail today of two robbers, who kidnapped President J. B. Mitchell, of the Pank of Havana, late yesterday, after blowing the safe and getting U,- wo. Two men living near hers are upst4 and arrests are expected, accenting, to the auttioriuu. COURT REFUSES BECKER'S APPEAL FOR A NEW TRIAL Application Was Based on Affidavit by Negro Actor. NGW YOKK, Tcb. 2C -Supremo Court Justice Weeks this afternoon denied tho application of counsel for a now trial for former Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, who Is under sentence of death for the murder of Herman Rosenthal Tho application was based on an affi davit by James Marshall, a negro actor, in which he repudiated the testimony which he gave nt the second trial of Becker HINDENBURG HURLS 350,000 MEN ON SLAV NORTH POLAND FRONT Fresh Alignment Made to Check Offensive Kaiser Shells Ossowitz Czar Claims Galician Gain. Fierce Fray at Stanislau. Admission is made by Petrograd that Marshal Hlndenburg has massed 350,000 troops on the Poland front from the Bobr to tho Vistula to meet a newly developed Russian offensive. Official admission Is made that the dermans aro bombarding Ossowitz and are proceeding against Ostrolenka, on the Narew, their objective In this sec tion. The Germans have forced a passage pf the Nleinen at one point, the War Office acknowledges, but It Is as serted that Slav vanguards, moving frqm that river, have progressed a considerable distance toward the East Prussia frontier, Indicating a move ment to force a. diversion of Teuton troops from present advantageous posi tions, Petrograd dispatches are unanimous In asserting advantage in the Car pathians. Telegrams from various sources chronicle large movements In eastern Gallcla, where Stanislau is the centre of furious fighting. Relnvaslon of Bukowlna on the main Czernowitz railroad line, is reported. Gains by the British In the neighbor hood of La Bassee and fuither suc cesses of the French troops. In the Champagne region are oraclaly an nounced trom. Paris today Other War News on Page 4 CAMPAIGN OPENS TO DELUGE COUNCELMEN WITH FIRM DEMANDS Executive Body of Citizens' Committee of 1000 "Will Wage Fight Throughout City Until Councils Meet Next Thursday. A city-wide campaign to have business organizations and Independent citizens In every ward In Philadelphia deluge their Councllmen with firm de mands for co-operation In the light for real rapid tran sit was begun today by the Executive Committee of the CHIzens' Committee of One Thousand at a meeting In Director Tuy lor's office. The committee determined to keep the issue bquarely before the people, and will wage an open flsht In every part of Phil adelphia between now and next Thurs day, when Councils will meet to consider the "Joker" ordinance now before them. Mass-meetings In ever) ward in the city soon will be arranged. Tho Citizens' Committee of 1000 will meet In the Adelphla Hotel roof garden next Monday afternoon. The Issue will be made clean-cut and will be put squarely before the oters. Public opin ion, the committee this morning declared, now must demand two things; First, That the ordinance reported out by the Finance Committee be defeated. Second, That an ordinance, or ordi nances, prepared In the customary and legal form and calling for the special election, be passed without delay In addition ta the list of seven questions which every Councilman will be required Continued on l'uge Two QUEEN'S NOTE TO BERNHARDT Alexandra Sends Sympathy to "Great est Artist in World." BORUBAUX. Feb 36 - Mme, Sarah Bernhardt, who is recovering rapidly from the effects of an operation Involving am putation of the leg. received today the fol lowing message from Powager Quen Alexander of England: "I hae learned with the deepest regret of the misfortune which has stricken you, and feel the slncrat sympathy for you In your suffering a sympathy which all Kngland shares for the greatest artist In the world " . " . "'II I " I ' ' in in, Britain Blockades German Africa LONDON. Feb -MEsland has de eUred a blockade of the uot of Ger man Vest Africa. rOR1Ht nrnnra PLAMy MACK, A POOR SAILOR, LEAVES BY RAIL FOR BALL CAMP IN SOUTH Athletics' Pilot Will Devote Work on New Pitching Corps Practice Ar rangements Upset by Ab sence of Frank Baker. Paradoxical as It may sound, yet It Is true, nevertheless, that Connlo Mack Is rated ns n great helmsman, but a bad sailor Because of tho latter tho Ath letics' pltot did not wish to rlsfc a battle with tho waves on tho vessel which is now speeding on tho Atlantic, taking the majority of his baseball squad South. Connlo prefers tho train. Ho will lcavo with Mrs. McGlllIcuddy this evening from West Philadelphia, reaching Jacksonville Monday In tlmo to see his men In their Initial workout of tho season. In addition to Mack, Iru Thomas, Jimmy Ganz, Jack Lapp and several other members of the rorular squad will leavo this evening Beforo leaving Mack nppeared to bo optimistic that Is, ns optimistic as could bo expected of the emotionless pennant monopolist. Ho would vouchsafe no real prediction, but it was not difficult to dis cern from his conversation that ho was not altogether displeased at the pros pect. Mack wants some warm weather this spring to give his young pitchers every opportunity of showing all they hao be foro thoy leave tho training camp In Jacksonville. Chnrley Boardman, Pat Bohen, Job Graves, Baldwin and Iloger Salmon, who wero candidates Inst spring for Mnck's pitching staff, will not be among thoso present this season. Tho louths who will take their places for trjouta aro less known than the above quintet, but Mack hopes that they will show enough to Justify his keeping at least threo of them throughout the com ing campaign In tho American League. It Is possible that Mack may change his original plans of training. He stated some time ago that he would have Mo Innls nnd Baker with one team and Batry and Lajole with tho other. Of course, thero isn't a chance that he will use Barry nnd Larry on different teams. Thoy have never worked together nnd must get used to each other. It 'lll not be ery difficult for two such masters of tho bounding pill to get accustomed to each other. At the same time Larry, being somewhat slower than Collins, might cause Barry some Inconvenience. Now that Baker Is not with the team, Mnck will, no doubt, want Kaiser Kopf to -work with Mclnnls and the other ln ftelders It Is essential that the new Infield develop Into a machine beforo the teams get back to Philadelphia to open the spring series with the Phillies, How ever, Mnck has not decided fully on his training policy since his plans were up set by Baker. Lajole Intends to reach Jacksonville soon after the first squad. Larry Is In good condition so far as health Is con cerned, but it takes him somewhat longer to got Into playing shape now than It did when he was In his prime. He has made all of his arrangements to live In Philadelphia, and his family will be here when he comes back after the training season. PENN BALL TEAMS PLAY BRISK FIVEJtQUXD GAME New Men Get Workout Wallace's Pitching Noted. After being obliged to work Indoors for two dajs on account of cold weath er, the University of Pennsylvania base ball candidates got out on the tempor ary diamond at FrankUn Field this aft ernoon and staged a brisk flve-lnnlng game. Coach Bey Thomas gave several of his varsity regulars a rest and tried out mqre new men tjian heretofore. Team A, for whjch Wallace, last year's star freshman pitcher, did the twirling, had the better of the game and won by a score of T ta J. Wallace kept his hits -well scattered and Is delug better work every day. After the game Coach Thomas tried out several Infield combinations and then gave the outfielders some practise In catching long tiles. The two teams lined up as follows: TKAM A BtrhaUerser, 3b. iuun, M. saw HUikott. of Store Wlaaiogi Twsm A. . . Twjua . TBAM D. til" garret t, Col AM A. .nett, M. PFUUML I i'sf.-totik Murna. fch R.H x. I o s o x-TIA f 0 0 1 i-4 j Anglo-French Fleet Al ready in Straits, Paris Announces One Fort Eeported Manned by Ger man Garrison. Mine Sweepers Precede Vice Admiral Carden's Big War ships in Move Upon Con stantinople and tho Black Sea. PAIHS, Feb. 26. It la officially nnnounced that four forts nt tho entrnnco to the Dardanelles wer destroyed lb. jesterdny's bombardment by tho combined Trench and British fleet. (Thrco had been previously reported de stroyed). Tho Allies' ships have entered, tho strnlts and mlnc'swccptng already has begun. Tho Minister of Marine Issued tho fol lowln, statement this nftornoon: "Tho bombardment of tho forts at the entrnnco to the Dardanelles nt long dis tance range waa resumed at 8 a, m yes terday. This was followed by short range shelling. Four forts were completely de stroyed, ono garrisoned entirely by Ger mans. "Mlno sweeping In the straits has be gun under the protection of tho Allies' battle cruisers." LONDON, Feb. 20. Preceded by mlno sweepers, tho allied fleet, under Vice Admiral Carden, has moved past and destroyed Turkish forts nt the entrance to the Dardanelles and, has begun shelling land fortifications on both sides of the strait, according to Athens dispatches today. Twenty-five miles nwny the Turkish fleet Is Ijlng In Nngnra Roads, tho nar rowest part of tho waterway. Official announcement that tho outer, forts of tho Dardanelles have been ro- duced aroused great enthusiasm hore. Military experts. howeer, made no ef fort to minimize the great obstacles still facing Carden's fleet before the warships can emergo In tho Sea of Marmora and begin the bombardment of Constantinople, They must pass through a channel thickly strewn with mines nnd fight their way past an endless scries of forts. Fifteen miles Inside, tho strait suddenly narrows to a width of 1 1-5 miles. Reports from various sources, however, confirm yesterday's Athona dispatches that tho Turkish Government has made preparations to abandon Constantinople. This Is taken as an official admission that ovontually tho Allied fleets roust force their way through tho pardanelles, bottle up and desfrdy the Turkish navy and drive one of Germany's allies from the war. Tho allied fleet Is under command of Vlco Admiral Carden, nnd Is the strong est aggregation of warships on tho allied side with the exception of the British home fleet. It comprises vessels of all classes, including submarines and de stroj ers, and has a strong detachment of aeroplanes convoyed by the aeroplane bnlp Ark Royal. Tho strongest units under the British flag are the battle cruiser Inflexible, which carries 12-lnch guns, nnd tho battleships Agamemnon, CornwnllH, Vengeance and Triumph. Un der the Trench flag aro thb battleships Suffren, Coulols and Bouyet Together these vessels can throw a weight of metal that even tho strong Turkish de fenses could not long nslst unaided. Tho forts previously reported de stroyed aro two at Seddul Bahr, on the north, on the European Bide of the en trance, and ono nt Kum Kaleh. on the south, or Turkish side. TURKS DECLARE FOE'S SHIPS RETIRED FOLLOWING ATTACK CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. M. The Ministry of Marino announced to day that the Dardanelles forts for seven and a half hours yesterday were bom barded. It Issued the following state ment: "Ten armored ships bombarded tho en franco to the Dardanelles yesterday from 10 a. m. to 5 SO p. m. Observers of the bombardment state that some of the ships were damaged by the return fire from the Anatolian forts. "After their bombardment, tho hostile ships retired in the direction of Tenedoa. "One of tho ships was of the Agemem non type." STEAMSHIP MONGOLIAN STRIKES AN ICEBERG Allan Liner in Distress 400 Miles Off Cape Race. ST. JOHN'S. N. F., Teb. 2.-The Allan liner Mongolian, with nearly 200 passen gers aboard, hit an Iceberg, etove In a, plate and is in a disabled condition, with her II rat hold full of water, about too miles off Cape Race, according to wire less advices reaching here this afternoon. The Red Star liner Stephano is racing to the aid of the disabled ship, and was last reported about 1C0 miles away. General Passenger Agent Bradley, of, Montreal, stated this afternoon that the Mongolian could keep afloat Infteflrdtelaf If only the first hold was full of water, as rne compartments in the other part of tho ship would sustain the pressure from the water-filled first hold. Allen Line officials late this afternoon made this statement: "The Mongolian Is expected to arrive In Halifax on noon Sunday." This evidently means that the liner has been crippled to such an extent that the trip to Europe has been abandoned; and that she expects to vu !" to Halt fax for repairs The Kensingtonian Says; Willie Snyder uxis teen ttnUing rt door to door , JtyM4 molrt in fcoad t othr wenlng up aroun4 and Sawtprt The boy a t(uW UKv Snota Ar name. Hill LOST AKO yOTJNTQ r Utato twitM 4e HnUl bead nUr do Bail Ui'i nd P nw nil nw strayed nmm Mm" '5S ,JQSi& J MM furr. v. " n 2 tMdl, llUhUoJ p-Lady S'-.yMp VmjKm m&d rw k' miM mt- WMSWHL mm WB.H & itotfaH) 'Ar!SraBs n r HWlf r.H,4,Msw ns QHu ,!. AfrJ Ai Jt aai
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