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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1913)
Minister Praises this Laxativt Rev. H. Stubenvoll of AJllwon. Ia., hi praising Dr. King's New Life Pilte for constipation- writ: "Dr. King's New Life Pills are mtch per fect pills no home ahould bo without them." No better regulator for the Hver end bowels. Every pill guar anteed. Try them. Prce 25c, at Fred E. IToMen's. Aug 7-28 Rheumatic ruins are rHIarpd by Dr. Miles' Antl-I'nln fills. Sold st aU ruf Mores, f Actve-rtlrment. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Kates: One-inch cards, 50 cents; two-inch cards, $1.00 BRUCE WILCOX Lawyer and Land Attorney Practitioner In civil courts since 1893 and Register U. S. land office from 1903 to 1907. Information by mall a specialty. Office in Land Office Building ALLIANCE : : NEBRASKA BURTON & WESTOVER Attorneys at Law Land Attorneys Office First National Bank Building PHONE 180 ALLIANCE : : NEBRASKA li. M. BULLOCK. ATTORNEY AT LAW ALLIANCE NEBRASKA F. M. BROOME Land Attorney Long experience aa Receiver U. 'S. land office is a guarantee for prompt and efficient service. Office In Opera House Block ALLIANCE : : NEBRASKA WILLIAM MITCHELL ATTORNEY AT LAW ALLIANCE NEBRASKA O. E. SLAGLE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office phone 65 Res. phone 52 Alliance, Nebraska. Orie Coppernoll Res. Phone 20 F. J. Petersen Res. Phone 43 Drs. Coppernoll & Petersen Osteopaths Rooms 7, 8 and 9, Rumer Block PHONE 43 GEO. J. HAND, Physician and Surgeon EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT H. A. COPSEY Physician and Surgeon Office Phone 360. Res. Phone 342 Calls answered promptly day and night from office. Offices: Alliance National Bank building over the Post Office. Dr. Oliver McEucn Physician and Surgeon SPECIALTIES: Diseases of women and children, and Uenlto Urinary Or gans. All calls answered promptly day or night HEMINGFORD : NEBRASKA HARRY P. COURSE! LIVE STOCK AND GENERAL AUCTIONEER Farm Sales a Specialty TERMS REASONABLE PHONE 64 " ALLIANCE : : NEBRASKA DR. r. 13. TYLER Dentist PHONE 167 OVER FIRST NATIONAL BANK ALLIANCE : : NEBRASKA POPULAR TALKS ON LAW By Walter K. Towers, A. B., J. D., of the -Michigan Bar NATIONAL GAME AND THE LAW Dr. JAS. P. HAXFIELD Dentist OVER BRENNAN'S DRUG STORE PHONE B25 RED All electrical equipment. Oas admin istered, i Evenings by appointment A. J. KENNEDY Dentist Office In Alliance National Bank Building over Post Office PHONE 391 Q-eo. Or. G-SLd.s"b37" LICENSED EMBALMER PHONE: Day 498 Night 510 ALLIANCE NEBRASKA At 10. A.. iiiouiirciiT CITY DRAY Office Phone 260 Residence Phone 182 Wilson's new and second-hand store rAUL W . 1 HOMAb INSTRUCTOR ON VIOLIN Phonel75 Alliance, Neb. flutomobilel aundry Prices on application Work guaranteed Leonard Pilkington AT KEELER'S GARAGE THIS SPACE FOR SALE PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER At The Herald Office REASONABLE RATES PROMPT SERVICE EAT AT NohesCafe BUY Nohe's Bread Pure and Wholesome AUQUST HORNBURQ Professional Trained Nurse Room I, over Rodgers Grocery Alliance - Nebraska CONTRACTOR and BUILDER PLANS AND ESTIMATES FURN ISHED ON APPLICATION I employ only first-class mechanics. All work guaranteed. PHONE 279 Residence and Shop, 7th and Mississippi. Alliance, Nebraska. WM. MAUNIER All kinds of Scavenger Work Bonded by the City PHONE 57 ,..7i a DYE & OWENS Transfer Line Dray Phone 54 Household goods moved promptly and transfer work solicited. Residence phone 636 and Blue 574 Let Us Do Your Job Work In a sense baseball is a law unto Itself. It Is the magnates who make the laws that Rovern the game, end when disputes arise dt is the nation al commiBslon or the genial auto crats who act as president of the several league who settle most of the cases: When men swap horses and one of them feela that he has (been cheated he l likely; to take, Ms complaint Into the courts. When Frank Chance swaps Hal Chaae to Callehn for Zeider and Borton and feels that he ha been cheated, he takes his complaint to the head of tiro league. As it seems that the American League heads are to take no action In the matter, Chance might bring euit; but t.here Is little probability that he will do so. Man agers who have traded player have taken the matter imto the courts and have discovered the great principle of sales caveat emptor, which Is us ually translated as "In the buyer take care," surely wise injunction. But there ere not few casee In volving baseball that find their way Into the count and Judges have ex pressed eome interesting opinions and made some ingenious and learn ed explanations of the national game. Most of the ce Involving baseball are either difficulties over the player's contract or questions of Sunday baseball. Before the law, if a club give a player a. contract for a definite time ut a definite uuarv It must fulfill the conditions' of that contract. All that da required of the player' i.s he ordinary knowledge and skill com mon to members of hw profession. So it la that we e players who have been discharged by the clubs bringing legal action to enforce their rights, as Hoffman ds suing the Chi cago Cuba because of his discharge before the expiration of his contract. The reserve clauee in all profes sional baseball contracts, which gives to the club magnate the exclusive right to a player's services, even af ter the expiration of the term of a contract and hu prevents a player from securing a position with any other club, has involved many legal disputes. Now that baseball Is thor oughly organized under the national agreement this rule is strictly en forced by the clubs and the mag nates insist that It ! eeeential to organized baseball. It was because cf this reserve clause that Ty Cobb was at the mercy of the Detroit club and was forced to take his choice between playing with the Tig ers and not playing at alJ. It was these circumstances that caused an agitation that reached Congress and that threatened to change this situ ation by force of law, changing baw- ball law by national law. In many cases the courts have re fused to sustain the reserve clause, and because the contracts were one sided, aind all in favor of the mag nate, have refused to prevent a player from playing with another club than the one which "owns" him under baseball law. These mat ters do net now find their way info the courts, because no . other club will hire uch a player, and so base ball law reigns supreme. But there have been oases in which the courts have enforced a eomtract against a player. Such wis the famous Iajole case which arcse when "Nap" uttempted to break his contract with thte Philadelphia dub. It brought forth an interesMt-i.; opin ion in which the court had the fol lowing to say of the great player: "The court below flnda from the testimony that the defendant is an expert baseball player In any posi tion; that he has a great reputation aa a second baseman: that his place would be hard to fill with as srood a player: that his withdrawal from the team would weaken it, as would the withdrawal of any good player, and would probably make a differ ence in the size of the audiences at tending the game.' We think that In thus stating it, he puts It very mildly, and that the evidence would warrant a stronger finding as to the ability of the defendant as an. ex pert ball player. He has been for several years In the service of the plaintiff club, and has been re-en- .gaged from season to season at a constantly Increasing salary. He has become thoroughly familiar with the action and method of the other players In the club, and his own work Is particularly meritorious as an integral part of the team work, which is so essential. In addition to these features, which render his services cf peculiar and special val ue to the plaintiff, and not easily replaced, Lajole Is well known, and has great reputation among the pa trons of the sport, for ability In the position which he filled, and was thus a moft attractive drawing card for the public. He may not be the run in the baseball firmament but he Is certainly a bright, partlcu lar tar. The question has Detn raised as to whether baseball may be arbitrar lly prohibited by a municipality, and the answer seems to be no. Merely (playing baseball Is not, in itself, nuisance, unless done riotously or in an improper place or at an lm 'proper time. "Baseball, says the Misnour court, "does not belong to the saint class, kind, species, .or genius hcrse racing, cock fighting, or card playing. It Is to America what cricket is to England. It Is a sport or athletic exercise, and is common ly called a game, but It is not a gambling game nor productive of im morality. In a qualified scnae it is affected by chance, but it is pri marily and properly a game of s ci ence and physical skill, of trained endurance, and of natural adaptabili ty to athletic skill. It ia a game of chance only to the same extent that chance or luck may enter into any thing a man may do. But when chance or luck ia pitted against skill and science, it U as fair an il lustration of what will rettult as any test that could be applied. If the view of the Williams. Case had been adopted, this statute would have been elRrtlc enough to cover every game that ever was or ever will be Invented, no matter whether it was harmless, promotive of physical or mental development, or deleterious to both. It would prevent games of chess, backgnmmor. Jacks, authors, proverbs, faro, keno, and poker alike." While a statute may forbid the playing of baschnll on Sunday alto gether, it. Is usually only profession al ball that Ia aimed at, and the courts seem Inclined to Interpret laws which do not definitely prohib it Sunday baseball 1n all forms as applying to baseball the business. When Mayor CSaynor was a mem ber of the bench he was called upon to Interpret the New York statute agaJnM. Sunday baseball in a case in which an effort was being made to convict a man of n crime because he played baseball on Sunday, and he had the following to say: "It is practically the unanimous sentiment of the religious and tlod fearing people of the community, that it la far better for our grown bey a and young men who have to work Indoors all the week tor a liv ing, to go into the fields on Sunday afternoon after attending church, and participate in or witness good, elevating, healthy physical excrttbe, than to be driven lnr:e:il to go to c5ni.ee gardens, drinking places, pool rcjms and worse pijorw; and there i no one trying to wtlr up any ob scure or obsolete statute against that opinion except .hopj who rule the police. Fathers and motlie-is would much rntther know t!,:it their grown sons are at i hill r n ilf game on Sunday afteruon:, than not know where they n-e. Many if our hoys and young men scarcely see the sun at all during the short days of the year, except on Sundnys, an'l have no other day for outdoor ex ercise from .one end of the year to the other. This Is something which our ministers of the Gosiel well know, and the significance of which they fuNy appreciate." "I agree that there is no prohiW Commission announces an examina tion to be held on August 20-21, 1913. in Alliance. Including other cities, for TEACHER. INDUSTRIAL, TEACHER and ASSISTANT In the Philippine service. From the eligi ble list thus secured appointments - The Beet Pain Killer Ilucklen's Arnica Salve when ap plied to a cut, bruise, sprain, burn or srald, or other Injury of the skttj will Immediately remove all pain. E. E. Chamberlain of Clinton, Me., says: "It rob nits and" other injur le of their terrors. A a healing remedy Mft equal don't exist." Will do good for you. Only 21k;, at Fred E. Hotoen's. Aug 7-28 IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE tion against the man who is forced to labor during the, week clays," sadd another New York Judge 1n re gard to the same statute, "prevent- ng him from enjoying himself in an orderly and decent manner on Sunday, so long a the repose of the community Is not interrupted. But the prohibition is clear against Sunday games whdeh are advertised, to whfch the general public are in vited, and which they attend in great numbers, and to witness which money is charged dlrec-tly or indir ectly, or which are conducted for financial prolllt. This la not the wholesome recreation of the individ ual which the law will not prevent Ji. may foa sport, but it is public 6pott and a quasi business under- akiftig. This Is prohibited by the legislature, whether wisely or un wisely dit to no part of the court s duty to say. If the law Is linprcp er, the remedy is by application to the legislature for its repeal; It is net for the court to make the law, or to countenance its evasion." The question of the duty of pro tection which a baseball club owes 'jo a spectator wv discussed in a recent Mdseouri case. One Crane at tended the game us a spectator and palid for admission to the grand stand. Reserved seats were not sold and he had the option of seat- ng himself behind the netting or in an unprotected seat. He chose the latter and during the game won atructk by a foul ball. He claimed damages on the ground that the company was negligent in not screen ing the entire stand. The court held that the company waa not an Insurer of the safety of spectatoifl, but wan only bound to use reasonable care, and that it waa sufficient that they had provided screened seats when Crane might have used had he chosen to. (Copyright, 1913, by W. K. Towers) LETTER FROM DISMERS Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Zehrung re ceived a letter last week from Mr. and JkCrs. F. iB. Diamer who arei In business at Basin, Wyo. They are doing fine and like it there, whik'h will be good news ito their many Al liance friend. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS Civil Service Examinations on the following subjects, on the dates giv en, will be beldi at Alliance. Full Information can be secured from J. S. Johnston, local secretary, Alli ance postoffke. August 18, 1913 Chief, office of Information (male), Department of Agriculture, salary J2500 per year. August 20, 1913 Radio Subinspector (male), $5 per dy, in the Navy Yard, New York Cdty. Assistant in crop accli matization (mate), salary $840 to J1200 per year. Radio electrlc-ian (male), salary M.4N per day. In the Navy Yard, New York City. lab oratory aid in Horticulture (male), salary $720. Laboratory aid in phy sics (male), salary $600 to $720. As sistant preparator In paleontology (male), salary $60 per month. 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