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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1913.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CONSPIRACY WITH WOMAN AS IT'S VICTIM
BASIS OF SULZER IMPEACHMENT DEFENSE
Announcement Made Of Outline In Case Should It Reach
The Trial Stage-Wail Street And Tammany Gave
Tip To Entangle Official In Their Net
SOIZER-GIYNN lANGlE
WILL mmm bosy
Pay For Stale's Soldiers Is Refused On Order Signed By Claimant Of Governor's Chair-Sheriff At Buf¬ falo Also Holds Prisoner For Rulings.
BT  J.VMES   J.   MONT.VGrE.
Albany. N. Y .\ue. Vn —Unless the cliaotic condition of public business occasioned by Wm Sulzer's insiste.ice that he is Governor is speeaily itraigMened out. the State's affairs will soon be in such a snarl that it wi.l require extraordinary sessions of half a dozen courts to untangle Htm.
Vouchers signed by acting Gover¬ nor Glynn for the pay of the adju- t.iBt general's office -were flatly turn- «d down today by the First National bank of which John . Dix is a direc- ;or. The ground stated to the dis- app6ir.ied soldier^- was  that the bank
pards Sulzer as jrovemor for a'.l mail addrested to the "governor." is tak¬ en directly to him by the uniformed letter carriers and his secretary sign- rd fnr registered letters and pack- cges.
Despite the opinion of the attor¬ ney general, that the assembly had the right to Impeach Sulzer and that Mr. Sulzer shou'd vacate his office this   is  certain,
.A,s long as Sulzer maintains his po- Ettion ir the executive chamber not cn^y p'any thousands of citizens, but many state officers as well believe that he has some right  to  be there.
handed much State money and  that   '^"'^ ^^at there is a real question as to
who is  governor.
Until some of the quest!oTis already
It. cannot afford to tak-e a chance on paying any of it ou! without a court ruling.
.Sheriff Becker, of Buffalo. seBit word that hi^ would hold firmly to the ci'stody of Louis Leucht. the Cleveland fugitive for whom Mr. Slynn signed extradition papers. Becker also wants court   ruling.
Sulzer toda\ made another appeal 1^ Mr. Glynn to stake his claims to the governorship on a court decision, but thi< Mr. Glinn ignored. .\t noon ha^¦ing once again asserted that if would no more require a legal opin¬ ion to convince him he is governor than it would be to convince him that h» owns his .\Ibany newspaper. He rut <-.r. his coat and went down to Kassau to attend a Knights of Col- lunbui celebration.
Itewr   stairs   in   the   office   of   the
tttl^rney jenefa:  an opinion that Mr.
fflWn IS governor with al'   the gover-
..JIUtB powecsfl ha.5 be»r dr»wa up, but
M ye'  ni^  official has called  for It.
Officials Cautious.
JLlthcmeh every fetate officer not t^polr.ted by Mr. .''ulzer professes to regard Mr. Glynn as governor, e'ev- n are extremely cautious about do- •ng any work until the present fog dear? up. Tn the meantime Sulzer with his detectives to protect him. ••ades through s-tacks of mail In-the executive chamber and holds it ^ «t».in-:t all comers. .Apparently thej G'vnr'.<5 Rcverrment  of the United   States  re- I rituation
raised, like the validity of Glynn's s-ignature on bank; checks and the re- iiuition matters ar© made the sub¬ ject of a ruling the business of the State wir he attended with much confusion. If, Indeed, it can be trans¬ ected at all.
Mr. Sulzer expected to leave this ir.omlng for Cooperstcwn with hi? wife, but partly because of her ill¬ ness and partly because of his fear that he would be dispossessed In his absence, he decided to remain. "Holil  the Fort."
He was very much more cheerfu". today. Plainly he Is encouraged by the failure of 5Tr. Glynn to attempt •o oust him by force. Hf ha,« had a great rumber nf telegrami bidding bim bold the fort and In these h» '•eads a popular belief in him. which he thinks will quite overshadow the action of the As:?embly If It crmes to A fina show down before the bleh court o' Impeachment.
Mr. Pul7.er. n*^er conferrlnp with bis attorney this morning be eave cut a letter which he "had desrafcb- pd to Mr. Glvnn. but which the lat¬ ter did not know anything about until h" read it in b'« own paper. a= be -of„sp.1   to  wait   for  It   In   bis   office.
TbiB   letter ."aid  tb = t  the  tptt««r re- tbit   be  could   not  have  Mr.
UNDER HOT HRE GOVERNOR  CONTINUES  TO HOLD FORT
(Telegraph To Independent.)
Albany. N. Y.. Aug. 16.—That a conspiracy was hatched by Wall Street and Tammany Hall to get Grovoruor ionizer hopelessly entangled and in their clutches—a conspiracy Avlth a woman as its unwitting victim—will be chargec? as a basis of the defease of the impeached governor if the impeaehmeni comes to trial.
Sulzer and his counsel confidentally hope that it will not. They believe the action of the as¬ sembly will b? declared unconstitutional and that the impeachmen-t court will never assemble.
The high points of the conspiracy story upon which Sidzer has built his hopes of a complete ¦vindication are these:
1—That while Sulzer was away campaigning Mathew T. Horgan, who was living at the Sulzer home find keeping Charles W. Murphy informed of events, gave Mrs. Sulzer the tip on Big Four.
2—That Sulzer was in debt $48,000 and Mrs. Sulzer saw an opportunity to rehabilitate the family finances by acting on this market tip she was assured could not go wrong.
3—Campaign contributions had been coming in in large amounts and she took the checks, regarding her act as a legitimate temporary loan and bought stocks.
4—She was assured there would be an immediate and sensational rise in the price of Big Four and she could take her profits and reimburse the campaign fund,
5—That her bank books and memorando of these transactions were stolen so she would be unable to iurnish the proof of her acts if ever called upon to do so.
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help In  straightening out the
ASSESSOR lAHM OPtRHTED UPON
humm
County Official Seized Sud-
deniy With Appendicitis
--In State Hospital.
County Assessor Jacob H. Ijahm. of
COACH ABLAZE AS LONG TRAIN REACHES CITY
Carrying   almrt^t   fi,ooi\   people   the' train   enroute   from   L.ake   I>)dore   to) this city stearfled into the station here i last  night   with  'he first ing merrily.    It  was a was discovered
coach  biaz- i hot  box,  that i a short  distance above
Scranton, and the crew, unable to remedy the defect proceeded here with fnf car on fire.
The   picnic wa.^ that   of the  Klng.^-
Hazleton. went on the operating table j ^^^   ^^^j   ^'ompany   keg   fund   and   as
*t the State  hospiral in  that city  last   usual  thare  war a  mon-ster crowd on
night      IT   is  an   acute   attack   of  ap- ! hand.    Thi.= is undoubtedly the largest
,    »   •    ' nicnic to leave this section each year
pend'.itis   and   no   time   was   lost   '" | P|cn'^^^  committee   in  charge   of  the
rushing the county official to the ins-, j^^j  affair seems to have broken all
tltution for the necessary work of the   previous    records.    The    crowd    ¦was
turgeons, | handled without accident.
Reports from the hospital early this'
morning  were  to  the  effect   that the
operation   had   been   a   complete  euc-
cew  and   but  little  douht  of the  re¬ covery   of  the  patient  is entertained.
H* had  not  been at  his office in  the
court house for sieveral  days past but
hto illness was not considered serious. Mr  Lahm is a member of the board
of aCEe.ssors  appointed  and  taking of-
flae at the   end  of  1911.     He  acts   as
the secretarv  of  that   board  and   was
ytT\   active   in   making   the   new   as-
•fcsment      He   is   one    of    the    best
btst  known   real   estate   men   in   the
lower end  of the county and hai: en- ;
tlneered some  of the biggeet deals in ,
that region.    He is also well known in j
Secretary Aided In The Plan.
It is claimed that Louis A. Sarecky. Sulzer's private secretary, had full kno'wledge of all these transactions and aided ^Irs. Sulzer in carrying out her plan to rehabilitate her husband's finances. She is looked on by the Sulzer defense to take the stand and swear that Horgan gave Mrs. Sulzer the tip. assuring her that it could not go Wrong and that she waa certain to make a profit of many thousnad dollars.
Tlie im})eached rovemor hopes to establish that at the time Horgan was li^-ing at his home, he was in constant communication with her and that the market tip came through him from Murphy.
Sulzer recently said that He has learned that during the time Horgan was living as a mem¬ ber of hi.s iamily he was on intimate terms with  ;Mijrphy.
Tammany foes of Sulzer declare this conspiracy si ory is so weak it will not stand analysis. They point out that Mrs. Sulzer could not have hoped to win in the market the $48,000 her husband owed; that she was not speculating but bought the stock outright. Had the stock gone up as she professed to 1 ave believed her profits on 400 shares could not possibly have been more than a
fe'w thousand dollars. .^ v>-i«.-~—~- -   ' ^ _^ t ¦•   ,.
Thv reply of Mrs. Sulzer's frifrirfSto this is thaTinie'was aslurred there would be a sensa¬ tional riwe that Wall Street had planned to run up Big Four stock from 60 to way above par and fehe antiinpated her purchase would net her profit of more than $20,000.
As a further evidence of her good faith, it is a.sserteu. she refused to buy on margin insist¬ ing that by buying outright she would have the stock to reimburse the campaign fund if by any chance the tip went wrong.
The .^48."00 Sulzer o'wed at this time accounts for the account with Harris and Fuller, the one account of whicii he admitted knowledge in his statement a week ago. Sulzer declared at that tim^ fiud his statement has since heen corroborated by the brokers that this was money bor¬ rowed by him on stock he had accumulated years before.
It is now contended that there was nothjng improper on the face of this transaction. Prior to January. lOTi. a year before he was sworn in. Sulzer took some stock to the office of Harris and Fuller and borrowed $4'v00(i. This was all the brokers would loan on these securities. The letters calling rn Snl/er for more margins are explained in this way: When the market values of the shares b-^gan to go down the brokers following the usual custom, called on Sulzer for margins to protect his loans.
Stock Paid For In Cash
On October 12. Mrs .Sulzer bought 'JflO shares of Big Four. pa>"ing *n.825. from Fuller and Gray. This was accounted 500. The pannent Avas made ii cash and the stock was delivered by thf brokers. It is claimed that Sarecky handled this transaction for Mrs. Sulzer through F. E. C'ohvell and the brokers were told it was for Mr. Sulzer. Ft is said the only persons who knew of this transaction besides the brokers were Sarecky, Horan and Colwell. Four days later the second purchase of 200 shares of Big F^oiir was mado for Mrs. Sulzer by Tolwell. acting through the firm of Boyer and Gris'»vold. This stock cost $12.02.1. The rise predicted in the tip given Mrs. Sulzer had siari^d ahd sne was in a hurry tn get aboard before the sensational climb of a point a trade be'_'an. She did not take tmic to cash the checks and send the currency to the brokers, but turni'd ovf^r a number of campaign checks making up the balance with a $900 ''William Sulzer" check.   This stock was delivered to ("olwell.
FIRST TRAIL HIHER TO LEAVE, TAKEN BY DEATH; AUTO VICTIM IS BURIED
"Vrith impressive services attended pense of eUniinating or even keeping, by hundreds of relatives and friend?,; a man on guard might be great it wa« ' the last tribute was paid to the mem- ' ;ls nothing compared with the protec-
ory of William C. Thomas yesterday afternoon. He was the victim of the deplorable automobile accident of last Tuesday night When he met his death almost instantly and four companions had a narrow escape from the same fate. Three of these were at the serv¬ ices  yesterday.
The funeral cortege moved from tho family home at 309 East Market street at 1:30 o'clock following a .«hnri service at the house in charge of Rev.
tion  of human  ]ife.
R«'vlew of Life.
He then turned to the subject of th» deceeused and  pictured  in a fine word picture   his   career   from   a   boy   who toddled  into  the Sunday school  room tn   his  arrival   at   the  state   of   man¬ hood;    a    cheery,    .smiling  individual, . highly epoken of hy all who knew him, ; He then related the story of the recent! conversion   of the young  man during i the Punday revival and how the cofn- '
E. J Morris, pastor of the Puritan I duct of the man had been loyal to Congregational church. In the audi- | the church ever since and how the tor;um of that church a large crowd j hand of death had been the instrument awaited the arrival of the remains and j of removing from the church fold when the mourners filed in it was to | the very first of the number who find a crowded edifice. Services j had come to it by the trail route. H» there were in charge of Rev. E. J. | condoled with the mother ¦who has Morris, the pastor of the church, of! lost the only son and the sole support which the deceased was a member,; of the family, but comforted her with and Rev. John R. Thomas, pastor ofj the thought that he had died in the the      Second       'Welsh      Presbyterian i 'Ijord.
church, of Parrish street, a relative, Rev. Thomas spoke briefly dwelUsg of the deceased. upon   the   fact   that   he   had   out   re-
Ortler of Services. ^     | cently arrived   here  and   was  not  fa-
The seriices opened  with  the sing- j miliair   with   his   young   relative   who ' ing    of   the  well   known   hymn   "Myj had met with euch an untimely death.'t Jesus ae Thou "V\'ill. " This was follow- I His few visits and in particular thos^f ed by the reading of a section of scrip- I since his death, however, had discios- ture by Rev.  Morris.     A male chorus] ed the fact  that  a man  wilh a char- i from the Dr. Mason Glee Club, under i acter worihy of emulation referred to the leadership of 'William Davis, ren-d- ( as   "the   best   boy   on   the   Hill''   had ered    "In    the    Sweet   By   and   By " I been taken from their midst.    H"* con- ^ Prayer   was   then    offered    by    Rev.    eluded with advising the young^ mea i
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Thoma.«i. .\nother hymn followed 'Will Not Let Me Fall."
This   gained   its   favor   during   the Sunday   revival,   when   the   deceased
with a number of  companions was a t philus, Hajrden Williams, Walter trail  hitter.    On  the day that he was i liams. Stanley "Williams.  Morgan received into church membership. Rev. j liaims.    David    James    and    'Will%x&' Morris   explained,   the   request   for   a I Wrag.   all   cousins    of   the    decei favorite hymn  had resulted in Thom- j The  flower  carriers   were   Paul   Kar- t as asking for this number to be rend-j ker,   Francis  Lavelle,  Thomas   CaUa-i
that now is the time to prepari ye know not the hour when thi will come.
The pall bearers were Albert l^eo
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ered.    In announcing  the hymn  Rev. Morris related this etory.
The Piineral Sermon. The funeral sermon delivered by Rev. Morris followed. He did not take any text for his eulogy of the dead youth. In opening he reverted to the »ad manner in which his end had come and stated that no doubt the derails were well known to the hear¬ ers. From this he pictured the dan- gens that  waited  men   at all  turns  in
j han. Lewis Hughes, Morgan Davis. I fellow employes: Elmer Da^^6, Robert"X ,1 ! Evans,   David  Jones  and  John   Grif- I fith.    The four latter had bf*n at At I lantic City with  the  deceased   on   hl»<   \ • "-acation. ^
Interment   was  In   the   Hollenbacltjl
cemetery. The members of the Od^l 1 1 Fellows. Sons of Liberty Lodge, X». 1 j i 1103, had charge of the services at th« 1 \ I grave.     The  floral   <t<n»liji'   waa  v»ry ^ i
extensive.  Including tr;buti>e from fel-J -.
life  and  Impressed   upon  his hearers! low employes, companions and nel^«^ ' the need of being right with God when i hors. * -^
they departed for their work, for here ;      John   Griffith,    who    acted    as    dHp
flower  carrier,   was   one   of  the   foul»*"
the   end   had   come   in   the   hours   of leisure.
Censure Grade Crossings.
A practical turn was given the din-
Injured   in   the released   from
auto th©
wreck.    He was j hospital    Fridajr*;
I night.     George  Ford,  another of th«^ course when he referred to the mod- j victims,    who    attended    the    funeral, ern improvements as being of a mixed } was badly crippled, being aided to th* nature   with  some   of them safe  and   church.      He   was    discharged    front others filled with danger. In this con- ' the hospital yeeterday morning to at.* nection he scored the grade crossings! tend   the  services.     George  'Wllljanui ! evil   in   general   and   the   unprotected' was unable  to attend, being .still coni ^ crossings  in  particular.     He  referred ; fined to his home.   It is feared he wiU^ to the other accidents that have sad- j have   to   be   removed   to   a   hospital. ' dened this community from the same j Benjamin  Jenkins,   the  driver of th*l cause and ctated that  while the   ex- i car, was .ilso present.
TOOK SAVINGS Of AGED MOMR
COINTV RESIDEMS WITH INCOMES EQUAL TO AVERAGE MONTIILY WAGE
this city and his .::ourtesy to all having j busine.ss with his department at the «ourt house has made him many more friends since taking office.
LOST THEFR PfRRES.
Several complaints reached the po "c* heaujquarter.e last nieh tof losing '>i'Mr pocket books in different de- Pirfment.": stores and th-° police are "f the opinion t'nat pickpockets are forking this section an da close watch *''l b"  made on  all strangers in the
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Stanley Burcoski, aged 15 years, of Port Bowkley. stole $200.00 from his ased mother last evening and escap¬ ed before the mother discovered her loi^s. The young man's brother with several of his friends, called at po.ice headquarters at 1 o'clock this (Sun¬ day) morning, and reported the loss. They were under the impression the joung man was leaving on the ex- cur.^ior- for New York, but at that Uour the train had already left this city and they were informed to get into communication with the railroad company with some hopes of captur¬ ing the young man at  Mauch Chunk'.
The mother, on discovering her loss became frantic and threaitened |to take her life by throwing hers^^f t.ider the train and finally was per- ruaded from doing so by her neigh¬ bors. The young man left home about 10 30 and no trace of him had been found up to a late hour this morning
Although Citizens With Bank Rolls Often Prove To Be Real Ta-x Dodgers Here Is The List Of Those Holding $10,000 Or More-Facts Secured From The Assessors' Books—The  Coxe Family Leads In Return
Tax dodging has ling been a gentle , art in old Luzerne county but possib- ] ly  no   other   form   '-f  it   has  been   a<s
well developed and as widely practic¬ ed .IS that regardirg holdings liable to State taxfition. Here, owing to the nature of the property, the authorit¬ ies mu?t depend entirely upon the honesty of the citizen. This is due to the fact that money in the bank for instance is 3. thing unknown only to the citizen and how many of you who have a nice bank rill have certified thf fact to the State and are paying tax on it ?
The assessors cler'-cs  state th.it   but ' few returns of this sort are made and recentb'   a   rumor  spread   among   the working   girls  of   th?  city  it   is    said >v!th the result that    many of    them
from would
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explained
withdrew their accounts banks fearing that they taxed. The situation was to one with the re.'^ult that the with¬ drawals are hack again drawing the usual rate of interest.
Then, again, there are mortgages held against small properties, but no records   made.      In     some     instances
BOY DROWNS IN LAKE WINOLA
Paul Raunso. aged 21, of Taylor, Pa., was drowned while in bathing at Lake 'Winola yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock. The young man was try¬ ing to perform the feat of swimming across the lake when within 100 feet of shore he went donw and before any a.'isistance could reach him das dis¬ appeared. His body was found three hours later after a number of young men had been continually diving for the body. The young man was em¬ ployed at the Moses-Taylor Hospital and had no re1ativej» In thLf country, having arrived here a few years ago from  Italy.
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BARONS LOSE IN SLOW CAME'
REFTSED   TO   MOVE.
The Coxe family residing in Hazle township are the shining examples of honesty in a return of personal prop¬ erty to the State authorltiej! accord¬ ing to the clerks In that office. Their report indicates that the money on in¬ terest chargable to them and held by two individuals and the Coxe estate totals over $4,000,000. Thie is the high water mark In that department j ^p^ed to do as revealed by a search of every orig¬ inal assessment book made by the In¬ dependent.
The average wage earning in the United States according to the stat¬ istics is in the neighborhood of fifty dollars, por month. The eum of $10,- 000 on interest at six per cent, the us¬ ual rate derives an income for the holder of the mortgage ot %r>a per month, less State tax and hence In compiling a list of mortgage owners that  have money on  interest amounts
John   Parnlck.   who   gave   his   ad¬ dress   a.s   Philadelphia,   waj?   arrested on  Public. Square    by    nfficer    .Mc- Ijaughlln,   charged     with     disorderly conduct.    Barnlck had  been standing on thti curb on the Square the great¬ er  part   of  the  evening  and   was   or- I dered   to move on and  not  b'.ook  the ¦ sidewalk,     .^fter  being moved s»everal I times by the  officer he became abu¬ sive   and   refused   to   move   when   or- po   with   tbe   result   that he wa= arrested and  held for a hear¬ ing this morning.
Elmira. Aug. 18.—In listless gamaJ of base ball at Recreation Park horrfJ this afternoon trailing Colonels toolC' the measure of McCarthy's boastful i Barons by the score of 7 to 4. • Elmira.
Players—¦ ab. r. ^. po. a.
Hunter, If 5     1     2
.=!isson,  rf 4     2     0
l>3udy. :?b 3     2     1
Coles,  cf .4     0     2
McMahon, ss 4     0     1
Kaufman, lb.  ....   3     1     0
Raftis, 3b 3    0     1
Ritter,  c 4     0     0
Na?l.>,  p 2     1     0
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Totals 32    7    T    7    7
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where   the  individual  ie  known  to  be j below that standard    were    excluded wealthy and  fails  to make his return t The facts as disclosed  by the invest!-
C. E Stegmaler, while driving ¦his auto down N'orth Pennsylvania avenue, yesterday afternoon, ran into ¦'. Georeetown car going to the Square, damaging his machine and burstinc a tire. No one was injured and Mr. Stegmaier took all the b'.ame I Deal tor the accident, claiming that his Vrake refused to worki
WUkes-Barre
Players— ab.
Anderson, cf. . ., .. 4 McCarthy,  2b.  ...."?
Henline.  If 5
Hoffman,  rf.   ..   ..   5
Brieger,   c 3
O'Rourke, 3b. ... 2 Brannan. 3b. .... 2 Pfeffer.   S3.   ..    ...   4
Deal,   lb 4
Goulait.    p 1
Nicholson,   p 3
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the clerks refer to the mortgage book | gation  of the  record of the Slate tax at   the     recorder's     office     and     tbe amount   th"re     entered     is     charged against him.
Many  of  the   men     of the
CirTX»F DOES D.\M.AGE.
county '
noted   for  wealth   are  tax  dodgers  in . thi.s respect.    There Is no law to com¬ pel such  a return but there is a law
roverlne falsification of .=uch a return.
department are Interesting in this con- 1 	
Oection and show that the central i Jefferson City. Mo,. .A.ug. 16.—.\ city wards of this city house people cyclone destroyed a large section of of great wealth. The Hazle to^-nship be town of Buffa'.o, Mo . late today, return, however, is the richest owing killing at least three persons and in¬ to the Coxe return. West Pittston also luring many. .A.11 wire? to the town ha« a number of people with big hold-   are  down tonight.     It  ha.' about   son
(Continued  on  pace Three)
population.
Total?! 3fi     4  10   24     S
Score by Iiuiines.
E:mlra    420   100  OOx 7
'Wilke.'.-Barre     000   2II   000 4
T\\-o-hase hits—Coles. Raftis.    Dou¬ ble   play—McCarthy     to     Pfeffer  to Struck out—By Goulait.   2:  by^ Xicholson,  7:  by Xagle.   3.    Bases oa balls—Off Goulait.   4;   off Xicho'son. ?:  off Xagle.   2.    Hit by pitched ball —By   Xagle.    1.      Sacrifice   hit—Mc¬ Carthy   Passed  balls—Briger.     Stolen: Vases—Loudy.   Coles.     Left   on   bases —E'mira  5. Wilkes-Barre  .^   Hits  ofC Goulait. 3 in two innings: off Xichol¬ son, 4 in six innings.    Time  of game —2     hours.       Umpnires—Daley  and Johnson.
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