A Composite Picture of Jimmie Wilde title, is going to « laurels until they dry of what The litile old man the 1 i rolng to he 1 gles with are apt to relieve him of his prestige A wise hoy Johnny. Seeks Easy Picking. According to the bantamwelight to and world te his been value they of wiore one present wrung POSSESS, Neve the persons who is the champion rhn best informati leave these tur he easy picking Britis Sporting Squibs “of All Kinds over HX} hockey nats ¢ With the assistance of dis basel attained tual as * * Harvard w Harv Penn ill meet Dartmouth in the d stadium on October ZR, next State originally had the date. - * » of the associntion The Elks’ will be held at Chicago beginning Feb- 14, next annual tournament National Jowling ruary » » - Harry Strong, first baseman of the Rockford Three.l league club, has | been obtained by the Beaumont (Tex.) league club. - - * Washington and St. Louis universi- ties will November 4 instead of Thanksgiving day for the first time in eight years, . * * meet on Maybe the suspension of Ruth and Meusel—Iif not lifted—will give Hinkey Haynes, the college star, a chance in Miller Hugging’ outfield. * » - France preparing to decorate Carpentier. Most of us were under the impression that Jack Dempsey took care of that job last July. Ld * * is International team races for the British-American six-meter yacht cup will be sailed on Long Island sound off Oyster Bay next September, . - » Easterners are talking of the forma- tion of a strong college conference to handle sports. One writer declares all that Is needed Is some varsity to take the initiative, The conference, if formed, will be of schools other than the “Big Three.” ¢ (on Left) and Johnny Buff (on Right). can trin the figures neces Wilde honors and SATY the world's flyweight the physical displacing grown to requ I best some of the abroad Fight Managers Protest. program for Buff has This overseas ’ . Fei Hy, aroused a storm o ! f ficht The: V natura test from the manage or hi Hvision the chample Bezdek Is Enthusiastic Over Gienn Killinger Signed by New York Yankees. LL Glenn Killinger, He and star. and has the natural Also | the | | brilliant in baseball physique, temperament ability to develop the of ambition, “Killinger played into the a has love game third base for me, but he can play anywhere in the in field or outfield and do it well | “Hitting is his only doubtful feature, | As hitter he did Big league pitching, however, is different.’ Killinger has been signed with the New York Americans and will go a college well, Famous Mute Ball Player Had Forty. | Five Assists in Outfield While With Chicago Americans. Billy Hoy, the famous mute ball | player from 1880 until 1902, seemingly | holds the record for the greatest num- | ber of mesists from the outfield for | one season, In 1900, while with the Chicago Americans, Hoy had 45 as. sists in 137 games he played. Mike Mitchell, who was with the Cincinnati Reds in 1907, and Harry Niles of the St. Louls Browns of 1008, each had 30 nsslsts and since those seasons have been accepted as the best records In this respect, If the baseball guides are correct for 1000, then Billy Hoy holds the ree. ord for assists from the outfield In the major leagues, Hartman, playing right field for the 8t. Joseph club of the Western league in 1902, had 50 assists from his position In 189 games, GRID CHAMPIONSHIP Elimination Plan Is Urged by Russell Palmer. i i | ONE WAY TO SETTLE Famous Dartmouth Athlete Would Ap- ply System Employed in Golfw Football Given Interesting Task to Figure. Russell high time famous ut Palmer, jumper one and hurdler in Chicago, has a plan that the Natlonal Intercollegiate letie association, His plan calls for a solution of the annual football tangle of teams In dif ferent sections pla “In 4 at He would apply | tem used in golf to measure nay Ath- est ring" the the ving present. emerge real “Take the the country,” a championship eleven, leading football teams of says Palmer, this: Yale, Dartmonth vania, Anot ad of Wa 1Igton nr Jefferson, Lehigh, Ls and third group I Willing fn hools of that + Strong them In Ham groups like vard, Princeton, and Pennsy group would be compos vellie herst, er conferend cago, Ohlo them Fred Archer's Riding Record Still Is Best £ i FOLWELL WILL RETAIN POST Coach Navy Football Squad Has Signed New Contract for Period of Two Years of F well head Naval academy foothal two years, has signed the of inue in RaIme another Playe their period re and athletic satisfaction over Bob Folwell, ment, praising the work done by Fol. well and voicing confidence for the fu. ture. Folwell relieved Gilmour Doble, who went to Cornell prior to the season of 1020, During both of the years in which Folwell has directed the Naval team It has def@ated the eleven of the Military academy, the great objective of the Middies, The team this year wis hy many observers considered the best the Naval academy has ever bad. CENTRE HALL, PA. J 1d ddd ddd LET us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it. ABRAHAM LINCOLN s hi ul ti! \ WM if “ayy i jr saseiave DUTY WELL Worthily Honored Lincolm’s Memory. Writer Who Knew the Great President Commends Placing of Tablets at Points of Interest. Which Was Lincoln's Law Office, as well as at midnight and limited no longer by Lindsay's poetic vision of “Lincoln Waiks at Midnight.” The poet wrote: It is porgentous and a thing of state That hédre at midnight, in our little town, A mourning figure walks, and will not rest, Near the old Courthouse pacing up and down, Some of the locations marked are more Intimate than others to the writer, though all are worthily and correctly placed, Four of the tablets mark places and events where I was) present and familiar with the events cited. These are the ones at the old Journal office, where Lincoln received routine udent, joy the most personality and instruction of this remar man of his of nptury The office 1811 end of his presence at the law came the I recall seeing Abraham Line that the out of his down the narrow On the fol departed evening of February oln passing night, for last time, office and to the moming on stairway fireet lowing he Springfield his strenuous has embalmed his memory endure in the heart of the ages Foresaw Coming Events, No place in Springfield, not even his tomb, throngs with memories such this office brings to the students Lincoln's history Lincoln's studious years gpent here, well the most aspiring into 1 life i § i mission strange, sacrificia that were ns ones, It WRITTEN AT TOMB OF LINCOLN Here idle lies behind this gate, Where little children and the great Forget-me.nots and laurel lay, All the useless, hallowed clay Of Lincoln, in his lonely state. A spirit, vast, compassionate, Unfaltering in a world of hate # Of little men who rage when they Hear idle lies, Lord, how we silly humans prate Of life's inconsequential date, And epoch passes while we pray, An epic sung while asses bray; A god went by that we, too late, Here idolize! son Streets, Springfield. gentle, strong heroic and constitutionally man, who his anid was called from this the helm of state In civil fellow countrymen and placed at to our national union that time of political turmoil preserve and | through blood and fire and tears, with a steady, unshaken faith in God man, Truly “A Man for the Ages” It was not the opportunity nor the such as the delivery of his speech in the Ninos state capital “a house divided itself cannot stand.” nor the debates with Douglas that followed it. nor the opportunity before a New York audience at Cooper institute, that ac. count for or explain the progressive development of Lincoln, It was ‘not Salem. Springfield or Washington; it was neither Stuart, Logan, Herndon, Douglas, Baker, Har. din nor the able men in his cabinet and who surrounded him in so many other capacities, both civil and mili tary : who ean have the credit of prom- inence in the making of Abraham Lin. coln, much as those places and some of those men have contributed to it After and beyond all these influences and those times and men that he there moved among, and rising beyond all comparisons with them, we clearly dis cern the unique and exclusive persons ality of Lincoln himself, and stress of great oceasions on
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