m THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1912. PAGE SEVEN MEREDITH'S QUICK RISETO FAME Winner of 800 Meter Olympic Event Is Only Nineteen, WAS TRAINED LIKE HORSE. His Father States He Prepared Boy For Athletrc Career Just In the Same Manner as He Did His Prize Winning Steeds. James Edward Meredith, who won tho 800 meter run nt the Olympic gaincs In world's record time, Is only nineteen years of ngo, nnd his home Is In Media, Pa., where his fattier Is n contractor. Ted, ns he ts known by the athletes, spent u couple of terms at the Williamson trade school learnlnj; bricklaying and In the meantime ran some races for the Aquinas Catholic club of his homo city. Then he went to Moreersburj; academy. Meredith did not meet defeat during the entire scholastic t-eason. It would be iiniosslble to describe tho Joy In the home of Meredith when the news of tils great victory was re lated to his family. Ills five sisters were tho first to tiear tho news, his fattier lelng busy on the farm, which Is near Elwyu. "Isn't that Just Brand l" cried one sister, while tlie others echoed her sen timents. "I had no Idea Ed would win tho race, but we were all hoping for tho lKst Somebody run and tell father. " In the meantime Mr. Mere dith strolled up to the house. "Ed won tils race, fnther!" cried out one of tho Miss Merediths, and Imme diately tho father quickened tils pace. "Tell me nil about It." said he. He 6mlled as he heard that his sou had Photo by American Press Association TED ITEnnDITII. WINSEn OP 800 MLTEIt OLYMPIC EVENT. not only won the race, but also had broken the worl(Ta record for the dls- MUM. "I had Ed picked as a sure thing for ono of tho first three places," said Mr. Meredith. "Tlie men I wus afraid pos sibly would teut Win out wero Daven port of Chlongo university and Gild well of tho Massachusetts Agricultural of, but iveftlier of tlx men was even "Ed lias been trained tust ns I trnln- my lkorscs. I made no distinction t nil Ttila nwhwl nf training, which has made nrlze winners to try on my boy, and my method Ed wlien Iks was fifteen years old, iwuing wry mticn, of eoursu, because to was too young Unai, but Just to coop a watchful eyo on him to x that 10 should get tho proper klea as to ktw to run. IIo had a natural In- merely aicournpul him to continue, saw no reason u-tty EX1, with my M-evloua esperiena) to guido him, lo la tomperato In nil his Iwblts, but no tiling wlilch la gunerany wnphaalz- In tlio training of a runner wbich I Ulnt put much stocti ro was tt cot- atrrio. leu cuenm. almost nnvthlncr. limn hna twin n cfrM nlmilnKwl 4 l.n was In tho habit of fastening him to bock of my dogcart vticnovor I nxti with Ed owl being hloreal train- evui einco no- was a nov. r vena wn wnro of his n Witty os a rouncr and new Just what ho waa 0W0 to do. onseqocntly tho news of bla victory ea not come aa a BUrDriso." sssssVHb issssu AssssssssS IBKmi 2B"f '"iM L' . - , , v ,f" t Vj DALL PLAYER'S ALIBI LATEST. S , The bnll player's alibi is tho latest. Everywhere the diamond r stars aro talking allb!. Fred '$ Clarke clls it playing with tho g "If" deck. If n player makes a j "bonehead" play he has nn alibi. g Hall players ridiculed by their & fellows are called "allblf "Hone- & head" no longer is the terrible expression. Baseball iilllil means Jj simply an excuse for n bad or ; dumb bit of work, and It Is pointed out that a ball player who always returns to the bench k with an alibi never lasts long In w the majors. "Some ball players, & pitchers especially, make you 4 weary with their alibis," said t, Howard Camnltz recently. "The S newspapers help them along with i, alibis. 1 get my beatings, nnd I b have no excuse to offer, because I)aseball isn't built on alibis like criminal procedure." & "CHICK" GANDIL A STAR. Washington's First Sacker Has Strengthened Senators' Infield. Gaudll, the Washington's first base manhis first two names are Benedict and Arnold seems truly n discovery. The price tags on his uniform nre blur rul. Some say that lie cost Griffith the three players sent to Montreal and a bonus of $i),00, and others aver that "Chick" was marked down to $15,000. Also tho Washlngtonlans say that tho Cubs offered flo.OOO and no players nnd tho Boston lied Sox $8,000 and two players. The Montreal manager said that any one of these offers would bo acceptable and gavo Gaudll his choice, Joe Yeager, the Montreal third base man, advised him to go to Griinth, and so he did. Gaudll Is fast and plays almost as deep a field as Mclnnes or Chase. Jack Knight's fault at first was that tie was altogether too slow. Gandil has been achieving wonders with the bat as well. Griffith says that he has strengthened the senators' Infield by 10 per cent. HIGHER BERTH FOR GANZEL Successful Manager of Rochesters May Be In Majors Next Season. John Gnnzel, who as manager of the Rochester team of the International league, lias won three pennants In succession and seems to be in a fair way to capture another this year, probably will handle a major league team next season. Uo didn't come up to expectations when he managed tho Cincinnati Reds five years ago, but lie didn't liavc much of a chance to prove his worth. Ganzel has shown real merit In Rochester, however, and It is 6ald that he has received offers from several major league clubs which are search ing for managerial timber. FAVORS HIT AND RUN PLAY. Griffith Firm Believer In Aggressive, Dashing Style of Attack. Clark Griinth Is a Arm believer in tho hit and run play and will use It nine times out of ten In preference to emplos-lng tlio sacrifice hit The rec ord of sacrificing by tlie Washington team Bhowa this. The Nationals' manager believes in an aggressive, dashing, stylo of attack, with plenty of base running and as much bitting with tlio runner as his team can deliver. At times pursuit of this etyie is disastrous, but It will win more games than It loses, according to Griffith. RICHARDS HAD HIS DOWNS. .Olympic High Jump Winner Failed to Win Point Two Year Ago. Alma Richards, wlio won tlio run ning high Jump at Stockholm, break ing the Olympic record, la twenty-one years of ogis. no was born In lrovo, Utah, onrt has leen a student at tho Brig ham Young university for four years. Two years ago he failed to score nt tlie track meet. T1k follow ing spring he won every event in which he entered. Tennis Tourneys at Night Cleveland Is meeting with sueeofitj in conducting. tonnls tourneys by electric light An electric company of that city makes the announcement that It has iwrfoctod n method of scientific tetv nl; court illumination for night play aud that tlio tests of actual nso law revealed not n single flaw In tlio plan. Will Lamed Defend Tltlef S(ueulatlon Is rlfo iw to whotlier Wil liam A. Lamed will defend his tltlo of cliamplon hiwn tennis Hayer of Uu cocntrj' by working flirough the na tional cimmplonshlp at Nowiiort Jn An gust, wlilch ho nwjst do If lw eltyjts to go niter tho laurel this year. To Build Athletic Field. University of California has been given $7D0,000 for tlio equipment of n new athletic field. Tlio field nnd gym naBtain will not bo completed until 1015. Germany Hae New Stadium. Berlin, Germany, lias a now $300,000 ntndlnni, wfcoro It hopes to conduct tho 1CTJ0 Olympic games. PootboM In Denmark. In Dunmftrfc tho state takes. SO per cent of tho gross receipts t footban nmtcncs. Thirty &05 Trotter. These axe only thirty trotters who navo-wvered a mil In 205. How Major Butt Went to Death With a Smile "Goodby; Remember Me to All Hie (he Folks Back Home," Were (he Last Words of the Author of "Doth Sides of the Shield." Major Archibald AVIllingham Butt. ono of the greatest heroes of the Tl tanlc disaster nnd author of the serial story "On Botn Sides of the Shield. wns born In Augusta, On., on Sept. 2U, 1SG0. Ills early life was spent In Georgia, and he later attended the University of the South. The major's military career began In 1000, when he was appointed nsslstnnt quartermaster In the volunteer forces with the rank of captain. A year later ho was com missioned a quartermaster in the recti lnr United States army with the same rank. He served as n quartermaster In the IMiHIpplne Islands from 1000 to 1003. From Manila he wns transferred to Washington, where he became depot quartermaster. In 1000 he went to Ha vana to 111! the same position in that city, but returned to Washington in 100S, when he became personal old to President Hoosevelt. When Taft was Major Archibald W. Butt. Tho Btnaller picture shows Major Butt on guard besldo tho president 1 elected president bo retained Butt in the same capacity. During tho winter of 1011 ho was raised to the position of major. Ills death 'occurred on tlio 14th of April, when the giant liner Titanic struck an Iceberg and sank In midocean with 1,500 persons. It was Major Ilutt's calmness In this crisis that stamped him as a hero. Mrs. Henry 11. Harris of Washing ton, a survh-or of tho Titanic, In siHjaklng of his bravery said: "This whole world should rise In praise of Mnjor Rutt That man's conduct will remain in my memory forever tho way he showed some of the other men how to beliavo when women and children were suffering that awful mental fear that came when we had to bo huddled In those boats. Major Butt was near me, nnd I know very nearly everything lie did. "Wlien tho order to take to tho boats came ho became as ono in supreme command. You would have thought he was nt a White House reception, so cool and calm was he. A dozen or so women became hysterical all at once as something connected with a lifeboat went wrong. Major Butt stepped to them and said; 'Really, you must not act like that Wo are all going to see yon through this thing.' Ho helped the- Bailors rearrange tho rope or chain that had gone wrong and lifted so mo of tho women In with gallantry. His was tho manner wo nssoclate with tho word aristocrat. 'When tho tlino cmno for It lie was a man to bo feared. In ono of tlio earlier boats fifty women. It seemed, were about to bo lowered when a man, suddenly panic stricken, ran to tlio stern of It Mnjor Butt shot one arm out, caught him by tho neck and Jerked him backward like a pillow. His liond cracked against a rail, nnd he was siuunod. "Sorry,' said Major Butt "Women will ho attended to first or I'll break rvery bone In your body.' "Tito boats wero lowered nwny ono by one, and as I stood by my husband ho said to nw. Thank God foe Archlo Butt! rerhaps Major Butt heard It for ho turned his face toward us for a second. Just at that time a young man wns arguing to got Into a lifeboat and Butt hod bold of tlio lad by tho arm like a big brother ami appeared to bo tolling him to keep his liond. "I wna ono of throo first cabin women In our collapsible bont. Tlio rest were steerage people. Major Butt helped those poor frightened wviplo so won derfully, tenderly, nnd yet with such cool and manly UrmiiosH. Ho was a soldier to tho last" Miss Mario Young, a former resident of Washington, Is believed to have been tho hist woman to leave tho Titanic and tho last of tho survivors to have talked with tho f prosldent'B military mu. ansa ioung gnvo una account or Butt's actions: "Tho last person to whom I spoke on board tho Titanic wus Archlo Butt and his good bravo face e tailing at me from tho deck of tho steamer was the P?i Z f, last I could utstlngulsfi as" tfiS boat I was in pulled away. Archie himself put nie Into tlie boat, wrapped blankets around me nnd tucked me In ns care fully ns If we wero starting on n motor ride. lie himself entered the boat with me to help me get fixed and with as smiling a face as If death was far away. "When lie had carefully wrapped me up he stepped upon the gunwale of the boat and, lifting his hat. smiled down nt me. " 'Goodby, Miss Young," he said Luck Is with you. Will you kindly re member mo to nil the folks back !CnioV' "Then lie stepped to the deck of the steamer, and the boat I was In wns lowered to the water." It wns Major Butt's literary ability more than his military prowess nnd In. teCTlty that won him tho coveted posi tion of aid to President Roosevelt. It wns when Butt's famous serial story. "On Both Sides of the Shield," was published that Roosevelt declared lie considered tho major the best de lineator of life in the south that ho had ever read. A meeting between tho two men fol lowed soon nfter tills, and tho presi dent wns so Impressed by Major Butt's manner that he afterward recalled him from Havana nnd offered him the post that he held to his death. Where Milton Lived. It wns in petty Trance, now York, street that Milton lived when he quit ted in 1051 his official house In Scot land Yard. It was a "pretty garden house next to Lord Scudamoro's and opening Into the park." Here ho lost his sight, there his daughter, Deborah, was born; there In 1G5S, "sightless and dark," he followed his beloved wife. Katherlno Woodcocke, whom ho had brought thither scarce a year before from the altar, to her grave In St. Margaret's. The house was occupied by WUlInm nazlitt in 1811 after his marriage, nnd ho put up a tablet, Sacred to Milton, Prince of Poets." Jeremy Bentham, who owned the house, used frequently to make vis itors kneel before a cotton willow tree that wns said to have been planted by the poet. But when the professor of utilitarianism proposed to cut It down William Hazlltt Interfered In high In dignation, ns may bo read In his "Spir it of tho Ago." The site Is now cov ered by Queen Anne mansions. West minster Gazette. What Made Paris. "What do you consider the most Im portant event In the history of Paris?" "Well," replied the tourist who had grown weary of distributing tips, "so f-ir as financial prosperity Is concern ed, I should say the discovery of Amer ica was the making of this town." Washington Star. - - " ... . "GIRL .FROM WYOMING" TOOK 8,100 MILE RIDE Miss Claire Ended Long Horseback Trip In New York. Miss Allerta Claire, known through out tho United States as "tho girl from Wyoming," arrived recently in Now York, thus completing a horse back trip of more than 8,100 miles, Miss Claft-e Is only four feet eleven inches In height and weighs Just 100 pounds. She started from Sheridan, Wya, rode to Portland, Ore., and thence to Los Angeles. Then 6ho be gan the long trip across tho continent to Buffalo. From Buffalo she rode to Philadelphia and from there to Now York. To prove that Miss Clalro has ac tually ridden all the way her press agent offers signed statements of the railroad station agents In every town through which sho has passed and has also certificates from the mayors of various municipalities. Tho entire trip was made on ono horse, nnd Miss Claire has thousands of photographs taken In towns and hamlets along the routo to verify this statement as welL The young woman has been accom panied on tho trip by a largo dog, an Alaskan "husky," half wolf ami half Newfoundland, of tho tyie used fw drawing sledges In tho arctic regions. Tho dog is accustomed to making long Journeys and was with his mistress throughout tlie ride, except for that part of the trip which lay across south ern California and Arizona, through tlio Mohave desert and Death valley. In traversing tlio deserts Miss Clnlro was compelled to carry water for her self and her liorso aud did not feel that her horse could carry an nddi tlonnl supply for the dog, so ho was shipped ahead by railroad over this part of tho Journey. Miss Claire's longest rido in n slnglo day was from Youngstown, 0., to Pittsburgh, a distance of seventy throo miles, which sho accomplished In nine hours and fifteen minutes. MAMMOTH CAVE HAS RIVAL. Wonderful Hole In the Ground Dis covered In Southern Arizona. Ouo of tho most wonderful caves In tlio world has been found In souttiern Arizona. Unnamed, unexplored and almost unknown Is tho vast, cavern. Only n few persons haye dared to eu tor to viow its grandeur and study tlio wondrous work of nature, This envo Mos in tho foothtlb of tho nuacbueu mountains, about tort miles north- cost of Nognkw, Santa Cruz county. Exploring parties have entered and spent days Inside, but nooc has over discovered tho ond. Tlicy report pas Ba go ways, rooms ond chambers Innu merable. Ono room hza a level and smooth floor, and they call It tlio dance hoTL and there aro unfathomcd pits and chasms. umitrtamtuttnKfflmmmmtmmrmn MARTIN CAUFIELD f I 1 Designer and Man- j ufacturer of ARTISTIC ! MEMORIALS i ! Office and Works; 1036 MAIN ST. HONESDALE, PA. If you have anything to adver tise send your ad to Tho Citizen. The FARM MECHANICS BANK HONESDALE, PA. M. K. SI.MOXS, President. O. A. EJIEHV, Cashier. CAPITAL STOCK - - $75,000.00 Corner of Main & 10th street BANK WITH THE PEOPLE Reasons Why ! It represents more stockholders thau any other bank in Wayne count. ITS DEPOSITS HAVE REACHED OVER THE $300,000.00 mark and is steadily growing with the people's confidence and the bank's progressive yet conservative methods. Its expense of management is limited to amount of business; together with it's trust funds invested in bonds and first mortgages on improved real estate assures its de positors absolute security. 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