FART ROLY
Practically all branches of sport
were continued last year despite the
war, with the possible exception of
yachting. Yacht racing on the Pacific
and Atlantic was at a standstill be-
eanse most of the yachtsmen were in
different branches of sea or coast gery-
Ice, A few races were staged on the
@reat Lakes, but none of any impor
tance, for the same reason.
Professional baseball was cut short
Because of the work-or-fight rule, but
the big leagues played until
ber 2.
The
can league and
the National league
pennants, Tyrus
more led the Ame
and Zack Wheat won the honors in the |
old league,
Net Honors Divided.
Despite the fact that of the |
ten ranking stars of 1917 were in the |
service the net gs gained in popu-
larity by leaps and bounds, The con- |
test for the honor of being placed first
in the ranking was so close that offi-
cials finally rearranged the system of
ranking and placed two men, R. Lind- |
ley Murray and William 7. Tilden, Jr, |
in Class 1, designating Murray as No.
T in that class. The men in the next |
four classes of two men each compare
to the others of what ordinarily would
be the ranking ten.
Molla Bjurstedt, the
gian star who
Septem
Boston Red Sox in the
Chie
won the biz league
Ameri-
the ago Cubs in |
Raymond Cobb once
rican league batte
ning
nine
ine
Norwe-
tennis |
robust
electrified the
a
BODIE LOSES EXCESS FLESH!
Hard Work in Shipyard at Weehawken
Causes Yankee Qutfielder to
Reduce Weight,
Ping Bodie, Yankee outfielder, will |
never regret the work he did daring
the last few months in the Tietgen &
Lank shipyard, in Weehawken, By
i
1
Film hid
Ping Bodie.
toiling from eight to twelve hours a
day in the hold of a vessel the once
rotund Italian wax enabled to dispose
of more than 15 pounds of excess flesh,
Ping hopes, therefore, to be faster
than ever next year. He now is con-
eerned mainly in preventing a reaccu-
mulation of fat, especially in the reg-
fon of the neck. i
indicates “Some Baseball”
A trifling shipment of 30900 base.
balls, 2280 bats, 10,200 gloves, and
other paraphernalia, including 5,000
score cards, have been sent overseas
by the Y. M. OC. A. for use among the
expeditionary forces in Europe, This
would indleate “some baseball” before
the boys come home,
as
nr Ar IT EE
ve pl WHEAD
PRED BE rw
IRD Pn ew
world a few years ago by her wonder.
ful debut, remained queen of the
courts. The tennis comimittee right-
fully placed her as No. 1 In the wom-
en's lists,
Ducote Gridiron King.
Football, under new and novel con-
ditions, had the greatest season in its
history. Army
developed at os
and navy service teams
training sta-
tions produced gre The Cleve
land naval reserve eleven, by virtue of
r over Glenn Warner's Pitts.
showed It !
eames, if ne
Dick Du-
gtand
5 and
fat stars,
5 out
His pow-
iis de
Chick Evans Stars.
There
naments in golf.
the
The leading stars o
however, gave thelr time
to stag
their efforts netted thousands of dol
lars. Chiek
of t
Evans was easily the star
hese tournaments, lis playing in
fiber, which indicates the type of man
Evans is. He gave the gallery his best,
though there was little at stake. Miss
Elaine Rosenthal, winner of the wom-
en's western championship, is the star
of the women golfers,
.
ali fi ae te
INTERESTING
+ SPORT
Great 1 #8 naval
boasts ten new bowling
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The Cubs and Red Sox
together this spring,
big in the provinces,
* » *
Fans will be glad to hear that
at managing the Browns.
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sociation tourney will be held in San
Francisco the third week in May.
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Reul of the Yanks, may do the'bulk
of the Yank's catching, but Truck Han-
nah will continue to supply the most
bulk.
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Joe Cantillon is quoted as saying
that he would like very much to shift
from Minneapolis to Milwaukee as
manager,
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Boxing is certainly very much on the
upgrade in the West. The sport will
be legalized in several states before
spring.
.
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Harold Carlson, a Pittsburgh star
pitcher, writes home from France that
he ig in fine health and expects to re
turn to America before the winter is
over,
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Hans Lobert will continue at work
in the Hog Island shipyard until Feb-
ruary, when he will return to the West
Point academy to instruct the baseball
squad,
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Chicago fans have cheered up a lot
since they learned Eddie Colling has
decided to come back to the diamond
when Uncle Sam can dispense with
his services,
* "0.
Hugh Jennings does not believe that
Ty Cobb seriously intends to quit base.
ball, as Ty intimated upon his return
from nor does he think Ty
takes the “free agent” idea seriously.
KID GLEASON IS NOW
WHITE SOX MANAGER
Pepper Pot of Comiskey’s Team
Is Named as Leader.
It Was Not a Great Surprise to Many
That Clarence Rowland Was De-
posed-—Career of Both Men
Outlined Briefly.
“Kid” Gleason of Philadelphia, who
wis called the pepper pot of the White
them on the field, has been named
manager for next year in
Clarence Rowland.
While it wasn't a great surprise
that Comiskey had released Rowland,
it was a surprise that the new man
was Gleason,
not even on speaking terms. In fact,
number of years.
Gleason will begin active service at
the New York joint meeting,
management in midseason away back
in 1805 he selected Fielder Jones,
tion, he was not on speaking terms
with Jones at the time.
Outside
matter of his
effort to give
possible
that he felt it
best Judgment in his
Chicago funs the best
baseball results, the South
side leader had nothing to say.
It will be the first attempt of “Kid”
of saying a
the “Kid” will be fifty-three
years of age this year and has served
more than 30 years in the professional
game, 20 or more as a conch, He be-
gan his baseball career in 1887 as a
pitcher with the Scranton, Pa., club,
and later developed into a star second
baseman. He was a member of the
famous Baltimore Orioles from
to 1805, and played with the New York
Glants from 1806 to 1000,
his career as a player with the Phil-
lies in 1007,
Rowland gained his baseball fame as
a “bush” and had major
league experience before sing to
the White Sox in 1915. He had mane
several of in the Threel
was lender of the
, eiub of the Threed league
leaguer no
con
nped ubg
the
Sox in
Year as
Tom Jenkins, Former Sox
Catcher,
Tom Jenkins of the
of the first pl
fu
foe after war wy
White Sox, one
Ayers to go into the sery-
# declared,
» the
Won 8 com.
mission just armistice was
signed.
He was a
Camp Gordon, (
for France. Dur
sergeant before he left
fevers! months ago
ing October Joe took
Lieutenant Tom Jenkins.
the advance, 9
commissioned a second leutenant.
Member of Present Third Class
Elected Captain—He Is Powerful
Defense Player.
ssn.
Ewen of New Hampshire, a member of
the present third class, captain for
which he has played successfully two
seasons, He Is a powerful defense
man, and also has done his part ae
ceptably in forward pass plays, He is
coivell the “N” this season and wil
play nest year. ,
Seventeen players who won letters
and numerals (his season will be avail
able next year, besides Graves, a reg-
ular end last year, who har been kept
Juries. The squad‘ also will be able to
draw from a new class of a thousand
at
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winter, 32.38%; No. 1 red winter, gar-
lie, $2.86% ; No, 2 red winter, $2.25%;
No. 2 red winder, garlic, No.
¢ red winter, 32.21%: No.
ter, garlic, $2.203;.
Corn—Sales of mixed corn,
ered at $1.40 per bu Track
3, quoted at $1.47 per bu.
Standard white, 75%¢;
9 aT. +
dood ig 4
3 red
deliv-
Oats
Rye-—Bag lots nearby rye,
Hay —Timothy-—No. 1,
$31.50@32;: No.
$2829.
$20.50@21; No. 2,
mixed--No, 1, $320.50030: No.
Clover--No, 1, $27
No. 2, $24@28; No. 3, $20923
Straw—Straight rye-—No. 1, $20;
= $15@185.50. Tangled--No. 1,
t13@ 14. Wheat-—No. 1,
@15.50; No. 2, $13@13.50. Oat—No. 1,
$32@32.50;
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No,
$15;
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Live
No. 1
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NEW YORK. «Deeves Steere $10
bulie, $6@ 11; cows, $4.85@9.50.
Calvas—Veals, $13@17; culls, vg
1250; fed exlves, $7868: barnyard
calves, FAG6E0: yearlings, $5@G5.50:
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rnd $17.00G17.50; lights,
SITET 40: pigs $120018.
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Batching,
tirars, $1ZH0G 17.50; Southern steers,
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bros, ¥306pI420;
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wethers, $9611.50,
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Cruel Marauders Destroyed Fer-
tile Farms and Fruit Trees.
MANY VILLAGES WIPED OUT
Stumps of Orchards and Graves of
Thousands of Soldier Dead All That
Remain of Once Flourishing
Somme Fields,
By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
Can the American reader imagine
the fertile fields and
prosperous villages and towns and |
cities in states like New York, Ohio, |
sag, Oklahoma,
Nebraska, Wisconsin,
uninhabited desert? :
That is what the Boche did to the |
Bomme country of France. Before
the war this section of France was |
looked upon as one of the most pro-|
ductive sections of the world. It was |
covered with fertile farms, splendid
fruit orchards, thriving villages and
and prosperous little cities
grou gs EO OA
yardstick to ascertaln the exact place
of cutting, ‘4
Why Germany Should Pay.
Think of what it would mean should
the Boche go through any one of our
own agricultural states and commit
the same terrible depredations. Would
we not say that he should pay? And
can we afford to say anything less for
the farmer of France than we would
#ny for the farmer of América? No,
the American ideals of today, the
ideals which the stricken peoples of
Europe are striving to make thelr
ideals, demand justice for all wherever
and whoever they may be, and Amer
fea can do no less than demand the
same reparation for the French farm
er that she would demand for the
American farmer under such circum-
stances,
There is © othing ilving today on
those Bomine fields. There is nothing
yut stumps and the battered and torn
remains of what were once prosperous
towns and cities. These and the
graves of almost countless thousands
to indicate that man ever passed that
way; all that is left to indicate that
this great valley was ever more than
the desert It now appears,
Boche Must Pay and Pay.
Along the edge © the Somme valley
runs what is left of the Hindenburg
designed with all the cunning of
line,
treating Hun Hordes Is Shown in
its 15 were
Albert, Peronne,
Roye, and
Among
Amiens,
Quent
Hned with
many of
these prog
farm
fromone bh
py, conter
tilled the ws
gathered the
thelr forefathers had done for
generations,
ired to five hun
ted, thrifty
iil of thelr fertile
fru
red hap
people, who
pores and
Upon the farms of this valley all of
France depended for much of its food-
stuffs, for its bread, its ment,
and year after year these fertile acres
and these thrifty. industrious
had met the expectations of France in
the matter of food production.
And then came the with his
dreams of conquest and of loot, and
for four years this valley of the
Somme was a battleground, with mil
Hons of men struggling backward and
forward across jt, the one |
side seeking the selfish purpose of
wm and |
those opposed seeking the preserva
tion of freedom and liberty and world
civilization.
5 rs v
its fruit,
people |
Boche
those on
No Evidence of Many Villages.
The American people, and especially
those of the rich agricultural states of
the North or South, of the East or
West, can look about them at their
own happy and prosperous communi-
ties and easily picture in thelr minds
the Somme section of France before
the war, But it is impossible to pic
ture that same section as it is today. |
It is impossible to put into words tho
devastation that has been
i
lust of a selfigh people.
Every one of the two or three hun- |
dreds of thriving farm villages are |
gone, the great majority of them gone |
so completely as to leave no evidence |
that they ever existed; the material of |
the invaders sought refuge; its cities!
churches and cathedrals, the
the wonderful trees lining the road
ways tora to splinters; the people of |
the valley homeless and scattered to
the four winds.
Like many thousands of Americans,
1 had failed to believe possible all of
the things we had been told were the
work of the Boche,
considerable reservation the descrip
tion of the destroyed orchards where
the fruit trees were said to have been
deliberately cut down. But as I rode
for miles and miles and miles over
Somme valley I could not
lHeve what my eyes saw,
were the stumps of what
in the Wake of the Re
British Official Photograph.
and
broke
ive 10-
at the
& Ix be-
ae jury Ls
» fried to pre.
of the evi
iy that the verdict may
Ameri
with
an people, with
the English
in people, and
(1 sentence the Boche to
pay and pay and pay for several gen-
erations until there has been bred out
of him and his children that idea that
might is right and that
throw the civilization snd the freb
the world to gratify his own
selfish purposes,
The crime Is greater than the Boche
can ever pay for. It is really greater
than the world will ever know, and the
items in the long ad of the crimi-
nal record of Germsany will never all
be recorded.
he can over-
dom of
count
CAPITAL RENTALS ARE HIGH
Sum Paid by President Washington
for Residence Would Not Be Con-
sidered Extravagant fModay.
Rentals of $2500 to $5000 a year
are not remarkable. There are hune
dreds of apartments in this city which
it is likely that the new constructions
in the best apartment-house sections
contain no suites as cheap as £2,500.
When New York was the capital of
the nation and Washington the chief
executive there were few who paid as
high ns $1,000 a year for homes, Ree
ords show that George Washingion
McComb mansion on Broadway while
president of the United States. As
first citieen of the country it was si
lowable that he should pay so high
rental, but only the president paid
anything like that amount. He got a
good deal more for his money then
the man who pays $2,000 for an apart-
ment today,
The McComb house was one of the
finest homes in the capital. It was
built by the best architect in the
amount of money were spent in the
construction of the house, which was
large and had many splendid reoms.
It had beautifully laid out grounds
and from ao business standpoint was
ideal because it was only a short dis
tance from Federal hall gt the north
east corner of Wall and Nassau
streéts, now the subtreasury. Wash-
ington extended himself when he paid
this rental. although one of the rich.
est men in the colonies. : oo