EVENING LEPftER-PHILABELPHIA', TUESDAY, JANUARY 25. 1916
PHILLIES HAVE NO REAL CLAIM ON THE SERVICES OF GEDEON, WASHINGTON'S CAST-OFBl
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Confidence of 1915 Second Baseman Probably
Will Be Shaken by Knowledge That Club
Is Looking for Successor
Atifj tlio tnlk about Uio Phillies liclnp bo bitterly disappointed nt not potting
. Joes tjedcon, who was purclmscd by the Ynnkccs from Unrry sinelnlr, Is
not iroliiR to Improve liert Nlehoffs ronfldence. Lack of confidence In Ills own
nblllty nnd the fecllnf? tlmt some one wns always hustllriK for Ills position
affected Nlehoff's work last year, nnd the knowledge that the club Is trying
to Secure another second baseman mny ruin n pretty good ball Player.
If the Phillies hnd a chance to sot Oedeon by lodging ti protest with tbo
National Commission, thero would be some exeuso for the publicity; but as
Sinclair has n perfect right to sell any player whose contract bo holds, necord
lng to tlio peace agreement, nnd did not ncccpt the Phillies' offer, it Is hard to
bco where tho local team can profit by airing tho fact that It Is dissatisfied
with Ntehort.
NIohoft -was far from n finished fielder nt Becond last yenr, but ut times
ho played brilliant bnll. Marring tho world's series, there was not n. critical
scries during tho season In which Nlolioff did not surprlso tho fans. In
cidentally, Cobb and othors have failed dismally In world's series. Nlolioff
was- always a good hitter and deserves nnothcr chance. Thero were many
better second basemen last season, but bo lit In well with the Plillly marhlne,
and ns It Is the combination nnd not the stars who win pennants, It might
bo well to think twice before awarding a minor leaguer his position even boforo
that minor leaguer Is purchased.
Coast Leaguers Not Much Impressed With Gedeon
As to Ccdcon, It Is doubtful If bo will make good despite the largo batting
livcrogo ho had last season. Excellent Judges of ball players on tbo Pacific
coist declare that Oedeon got his large average because thero woro few
good curve ball pitchers In that league. This Is evidently tbo truth, ns Hill
Orr, Harry Hcllman, Jimmy Johnston, Jack Ness and several other sluggers
In thp Pacific Coast League were marks for a good curve ball when tried
in the major leagues.
"When Gedeon wa? with Washington he chafed curve balls a foot outside
tho plato and did not look like a natural bitter, having a bnd stiff arm swing,
so noticeable In many long hitters on groove balls. Tho fact that Manager
Griffith, of "Washington, who knows him better than any other baseball man
In tho East, had turned him over to Minneapolis In spite 'of his excellent
record nt Salt Lake Indicates that the leader of tho Senntors Is certain Gedeon
will never be able to hit In the major leagues, although Grllllth Is now fighting
for him In order to sell him to tho highest bidder.
In this connection is might be well to remark that Cliff Plankcnship, man
ager of Salt Lake, scouts for tho Washington Club, having been the discoverer
oi tho wonderful Wtltcr Johnson, nnd he advised Griffith not to bother with
Gedeon. Tho best rccommendntlon for Gedeon Is that "Cap" Neal, the Plillly
scout who picks but few bad ones, recommends him highly, but It must bo
remembered, however, that Nenl did not see much of him, and not against
high-class pitching.
That, a small floor handicaps the Red and Ultio was apparent when It
went down to defeat In its first Intercollegiate game away from home. Penn
profited by Its mistakes, and In the future will open up Its game, even on
tho smaller floors away from home. Even with the handicap of lack of
weight and size, Penn has a wonderful chance to win the championship. The
games at Cornell and Princeton are the only ones remaining on Penn's schedule
which should cause unnecessary worry, unless Jourdct's men show a comploto
reversal of form.
Local clubmen are wagering on George Urooko nnd Joseph Wear to win
tho national doubles racquet championship at Boston next Saturday. Brooke
and Wear have shown wonderful form, and twlco within the last 10 days
defeated C. C. Pell and S. G. Mortimer, tho champions. Brooke has tuken
off a great deal of weight and is In better shape than ever before.
More and Hotter Athletics at Penn
Tho Student Committee nt tho University of Pennsylvania Is following in
tho wake of many other colleges in the United States In Its efforts to put
athletics on sounder nnd more universal basis. This committee has recently
recommended" to tho Athletic Association that It tako control of all class com
petition as well as thoe contests In which tho University Is represented by
varsity teams.
This conclusion was reached, unfortunately, not by tho maturing of tho Idea
which has been fostered for a decado by tho National Collegiate Athletic Asso
ciation, but by a fatal accident.
Shortly after the death of a Penn student In the recent bowl fight between
tho freshmen and sophomores, tho student committee decided to make up for
the abolition of this event by substituting more interclnss contests of both major
and minor sports.
Collegiate Control of All Athletics
As mentioned. It has been a hobby of the N. C. A. A. for many yeara to
develop athletics by putting everything In tho hands of either tho fnculty of
tho various universities or under tho guidance of tho athletic associations, who
would be guided in all final decisions by tho faculty.
That this condition of affairs is being brought about Is shown by a recent
Investigation by Dr. G. L. Meylan, physical director at Columbia University.
His report shows that nfter Investigating athletic conditions In 232 Amerlcnn
colleges, 145 are working to have absolute collegiate control over all athletics.
Ho states that as late of 1910 only four Institutions had such control and but
32 others were considering It.
Doctor Meylan shows tho trend of the times also by proving that at present
?Q per cent, of the collego athletic directors have chairs In the faculty, while
five years ago, only 75.7 per cent, had faculty voting privileges.
If Pennsylvania finally decides to put all Its athletics In the hands of the
association, or at least under a control higher than tho students' committee,
there Is no doubt that with Its vast enrolment tho Hed and Bluo will tako its
place at the head of collcglato competition In all branches of sports and will
develop a stronger and better student body.
Scholastic Coaching for Athletes
Columbia University oarsmen aro doing college athletics a good turn by
the emphasis they aro placing on the scholastic standing of all crew candidates.
It la true that tho primary purpose of the rowing authorities is to get and
keep their mon eligible rather than to make scholars of them. But thq result
will bo the same. The scholastic standard of the university will be raised and
the crews will be stronger 'In consequence.
"What the Columbia men are doing leads at once to the query: Why should
not collego athletic associations havo a committee to Investigate nnd keep
tab on the scholastic standing of all athletes? Tho Syracuse athletic
authorities started such a system several years ago, only they employed a
tnember of the faculty to watch up the athletes and get reports from nil de
partments'. If he found an athlete on the ragged edgo scholastlcalTy, ho
either coached him back Into good standing or warned him.
Doubtless some purists will Insist that this sort of aid to an athlete because
he la an athlete, savors of favoritism. But If It makes better students of
athletes, it la worth while.
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SOCIETY SHOWS
CAGE QUINTETS
Elite of Washington, D. C,
and Kensington See
Fists Fly in Rage
JASPER BEATS CAMDEN
Clubs Standing
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Following the noble example of fnimer
Societnry of tlio N'nvy G. Von I... Meyer
nnd soeloty lion Truxtnn Heiile, who
stirred Washington's upper i?et yester
day by a common stiect brawl, tho
Camden and Jasper teams of the Eastern
Iinshotuall League brightened up tho cor
ners of Nonpareil Hall last evening with
a similar flsllc production.
ISaetzel rcfciccd tho Kensington bouts
which occulted simultaneously with tho
basketball giuno. llnctzel wns not able
to handle the ilcllcato blttiatlnn and
callcil in tho cops much to the dlHsust
of tho big crowd. Tho blucconts put an
end to the exhibitions of tho manly art,
then Jasper pioceeded to trim Camden,
31 to 21.
Tho game last mgnt was tho play-off
of tho contest scheduled for January 6,
which Camden refused to play because
Hill Kiimmur was In tho J.iapor line-up.
Jack Adams caused tho trouhlo before
and wns tho ocnlro of tho fistic attrac
tion last night.
Friedman started tho fuss by flooring
Adams, who, because of his slight build,
is essentially a dolegnto of perpetual
peace. Then Hoy Steele, tho ilcmon South
Jersey Bluggor, crashed his right to
Friedman's form. Thnt started a huily
buily of blows that might havo continued
indefinitely but for tho rudo interference
of tho law.
Aa for tho game Itself, thero was noth
ing to It but Jasper. Camden wns with
out tho set vices of IJIeglmn. Puither
moio, llttlo Harney Scdrau shut out
Jimmy Urown. whilo Fiicdinnn and Fix
held tho Camden forwnids to 0110 lonely
Held goal,
While theso stirring events woro taking
Plnco In tho northeast section Groystoek
was trimming tho 'rigors InTronton bj
tho count of S3 to si.
n1iurts.n"i')r,"., 'iroulmVt. ho Tennsyl.
Kano "Musifsy,
position.
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, iVv.l "l.onPSnn. tho former Hastern LeaBUe
frort at 'wfiif ",',' v!11" ,ho !mn, oft S
ifnm. "Jmouih. Ho is now ejntaln of tlio
Acmrdlnjt to up-Suto nnpera Jasper lias
hicn look nR for eintro player to miccctd
JSivanaiiBli IlasHetball ColtiB loo cood In
M!on?' rl'';1C",!, fr m,' "UDrs "ea8 thi"
.J'r??,'l.y'. fi!1Kcr' whn ""a had trouble with
tho I'ittbton management all tenson !aB V, lit
tho team and la looklnc for anotl"t Vnh 'jlo
j a dtiir nlajcr. mm. io
TnKBiTt. tho het official up State ha ,in,
the I'cnnsylvnn .1 Ktnto I.eaguo beeauta nfq. ,.
naming of tho Wllkea-Uarr" eluL?Uprc"lqlnt
lw 3 Is having 110 end of troubfo In m-curlnu-officials
who uro WsKir than tho jilajcri
, Tlio, wlnnlni: club In tho Interstate I-encue
h.m tho sanction of that body to play tho
champion team of tho Huitcrn Leacue, This
match would not ho nny more interesting than
tlio Troy-HcadliiB names of tovcrul ymra aco
because of, the vast diffrrenco In tho lules
under which tho teams play.
St. Andrew's second tiwm his won 12 frames
In a row In tho Ifrothcrhood Second Team
League.
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RACQUET CLUU STILL
LEADS SQUASH TEAMS
Takes Six Matches From the Cynwyd
Men Ifcsteruay
Tie lesults of yesterday's mntches In
the Inleiclub squash lacliets champion
ship Intrenched the Itacipict Club firmly
In tlio lead. Tho Racquet Club players
did quite what wns expected of them In
defeating the Cynwyd Club nt tho Hac
quet Club by six matches to norc. Team
II, of (icrmmiluwn, not only served thn
liecquot Club a good turn by winning
0110 match from Team A, of the snmo
iluh, at Manhelm, but thereby virtually
put their own club out of the running for
the championship. The Hccquct Club will
meet Team 1J, of Mellon, tomorrow, and
cun alTord to lose one match and still win
the championship.
BOWLING RESULTS
Itojal Arcanum League
In the lto.il Artanum nmtchei rolled on
the CiKlnn nllcjH Mai liluht Ilaverfonl, I'lilU
Orlrlll.L No. 'J nnd (irriliatilnwn won their
scries from West l'hl la.Hlnlil.i. I'cnnsj hnnla
ami l'lillj(lclihl.i No. 1 respectively.
M'llrhlu.. ls im 110 flatten... 1.1! lfift MS
Marker... 14' im 1:1s llnrter... Kit ire 1.W
llcnner... 77 77 VI 1 llr'man 11:1 1S"J i'10
I'inkerton 1!ls 101 losc.llr'mnn lis S7 nil
liatby 14S li-.l Hi! (Iloeckner pit in 14!i
Handicap. 'JTi '-"I 1
Totals... 703 750 733
Totals... cm r,23
IIAVnUKOHI. WUST riui.A.
Hacker... 201 lsl 101 Clymer. .. llil i: W!
lteed in isn vn conneli.. ls'i w. 1.1(1
Mealy..., 1ST. 1.11 1SI Wilson... 1 HI lit)
llellof.... 1BI 1CS lflt Hvam 12H lit 111
Handicap L'l -1 21
Totals... 732 &SIS W3
Totals... OU Ml 591
l'Hir.A. NO. 1. onnMANTOWN.
Pmllh.... 1.".2 111! Ill I.eRB 1MI 1.1(1 1R1
Itocdcl.... 103 ll 122 I.lttlo.... 1112 1.11 1.17
I'cncard.. li!i 1!U 11.1 (honme.. I'll! 130 17t
Ilrnwn 1117 117 1111 Heyer.... 171 K.S 171
M'Cahan. Ill 140 131 Walls.... l.HI 132 122
Handicap. 1.1 1.1 13
Totals ..707 72SI 712
Totals... H29 TCI b20
Western Electric
KTonns. novAr.TV.
Patterson. 112 131 13(1 Kratz 1.1.1 132 132
Mencr. .. UK 150 1.11 Wick nil 141 121
t.nzler 133 142 131 Ilend'rson im! .. ..
Wrist.... 171 lflii 1IHI Lane 172 171 1(15
Tewes 141 1.18 130 Neelv 157 1IW 130
Orlfnth.. .. 1.1II 124
Totals.. 710 721 720
Totnls.. 730 705 1)78
KWiTrimoAnn MAiNTii.VANrn.
Crosset... 1.11 1 1ll 21R Ifenil'rson 10 III 00
liptlhcr... 7 113 100 llnwers.. 142 122 151
l.nuet... lit: l.'tl ins Amisfeld. 110 13H 07
Waltjen.. 171 110 157 Colfax .. mil li'.K 130
liaruwell. 107 101 130 ScKclkin. 101 173 237
Totals.. 712 727 77H Totals. ."TOO 3 720
INSPUCTION. ACCOL'NTINfl.
Vetters... t32 101 207 Weir.. .. US 1311 O'l
llnlirman. llh 113 135 Whuers.. 122 120 i:t.
liuriiH,... 1.12 mo 1.1:1 Li-wIh ... i:ii i;io 121
'I'rouland. KOi 1.11 12S Kennedy. 121 .. ..
Louiks... 1.17 172 102 I'lrman.. 130 102 1,'to
Creumer. .. 130 HID
Totals.. 710 MO M3
Totals.. 031 740 050
American League
siro. ii:pt. main office.
iJinKo... 12-1 KH ion Itleh 107 loo 150
freeman tl 107 1.1.1 Arinst'iiR ill 114 Ills
Welch .. 101 121 100 MIbpII... ii.o 14'l 173
Sommers. 12.1 110 PS McC'dless 1ST 10 10S
fowler... e!i Lewis... US 150 177
llenschl'n ... 1 82 ,
Hdcp.. 53 M M Totals.. 71S 733 M2
Totals.. 570 fiKT (Tio
STATION 8. STATION 20
MrC.mil.. 140 US im Miller... INI 120 117
Qultk.... Ill l.'l'l 10S M'llklns'n 13.1 HI lmt
Hums... 12.1 123 1(17 I'rown... 121 102 101
Hepslicr . 170 J Ml 110 lloutKeols 12.1 i:t'l 1TI
Dickson. 150 125 1.11 Crnnston 131 151 151
Hdcp... Ill
Totals,. 700 081 734
Totals, fins 718 012
STATION 4. STATION 0.
Callahan 14S v HI Ijinrty... Ill) 107 127
Ilerfct... 07 123 101 Keating. M 118 Oil
lenity... 122 os no NiikcII... las ill lai
Uiane... 137 lit 145 Nagcll.A. 1'IS 114 lai
bhaw.... OS 111) 110 Nncell.It. 110 151 181
CrovWey. 118 113 118
Totals,. 022 0J0 GUI Hdcp... 0 0 0
N Totals., oiu" 5iT 001
Jolly Five Good Bowlers
I.ist'nlghl, at Starr Garden, the Jolly Fivo
defeated the Hnndolnh Club In a bowling
match, score 5) to StO. The feature of the
Kamo was tho howling or Captain Marks, of
.folly Five, who made the hlghe&t scoro. Jolly
rive, by virtue of this Wctary. vent Into un
disputed first place In the league.
Others!-
WHY.SHE DOESN'T LIGHT!
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SMOKE.-EXHAUST OPEN. TE SAFETY'
CATE CLOSED AND THE OVERhLOW
TUBEATMAl.rLui.r,, mu no-
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STAR ATHLETES
WILL BE LOST
BY GRADUATION
Twelve Letter Men Get
Diplomas at Northeast.
C. H. S. Drops Eleven
33 INCLUDED IN LIST
Graduations to bo held this week will
cause a depletion In tbo ranks of Central,
West Philadelphia, Northeast and Soutb
Philadelphia HlKh Schools and incident
ally send a host of well-known student
athletes out Into the business world or
Eivo them six months to Idle awny while
waiting for coIIcrcs In the fall.
nvery high school will send Its quota
of football, baseball, track and baskot
ball men away with sheepskins every
school except Frankford and German
town, who are still In the Infant class and
os yet bno no seniors. In nil, 33 students
who havo dashed Into print on account of
their athletic ability will get diplomas.
Northeast, In graduating an even dozen,
suffers tho Kieatest loss while Central
follows closely with 11. West Philadelphia
has seven and South Philadelphia three.
Football Men to Go
At Northeast the heaviest drain will
come In tho ranks of the footballers.
Dickel and held-, ends; Lechlcr, guard,
and Dudley Thomas, captnln of tho 1Q15
team, are booked to go. From tho soccer
champions last full will ho graduated
Lynch, Stewart and Fullmore, who wns
unable to ncccpt tho captaincy on ac
count of lllnehs. The baseball team will
bo forced to work along without Barker,
star pitcher. From the cage team goes
Wallace, tho toll centre and leading
scoier. Slckel, a crew man; Frctz, cap
tain of the tennis team, and Kbiiidcr,
manager of football and a track athlete,
complete the list.
At Central High a pair of stellar foot
ball ends will ho graduated in Ho Long,
also a Imskethallcr, and Bradley, Hkewiso
a member of tho crow. Another member
of tho football team to go is Voss, half
back, together with .Joplln nnd Boswell,
both letter winners, but not regular men.
Ono of tho most notnblo athletes to
leave Central Is Hampton, the champion
high Jumper of last year's Indoor and out
door meets. Joe Labrum, a distance man;
Russell, n timber-topper, and Tarr, a
mller and basketball player, ulsn will be
missed. Completing the list are Whlto
and Llebermnn, cage men.
West I'hilly Grads
Tim depletion in ranks of tho West
Phillies Is not so great, although Dehrens,
Blcrman ami Bruitt, of the basketball
team, are scheduled to depart. Along
with this trio will go Richardson and
coflln. football players and oarsmen; Ed
Shentou, coxswain of tho champlojishlp
crew, nnd Craig, a harrier. Brenheizer,
a member of tho football team and" a
hurdler, and Heath, a pole-vaulter and
high-Jumper, havo- left and will not com
plete their courses.
South Philadelphia win graduate only
three athletes; but their loss, coming at
this time, will bo felt keenly. They aro
members of tho basketball team Black,
Llpkowltz and Dessen. As Black Is cap
tain of tho team.another leader will be
elected when the Athletic Commltteo
meets. Morse has been chosen to suc
ceed Manager McCloskey, who also grad
uates. ( ctbanCP! THEHLOW -
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Kjnirtri r-t? aRWELLAS THE REVERSE
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FLAME-SHIFT, AHt--i- in
AND'IN PERFECT COINUi
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EAST TOPS BASEBALL WORLD
,IN DEVELOPING INFIELDERS
Best Pitchers Hail Prom West, While South
Gets Call tor Gardeners Other Com
ment in Poetry and Prose by Rice
Dy GIIANTLAND UICE
More Verse Libel
Jess Wlllard fights for 30,600 bones,
Iron men or ilucats, as jou brand tho
stuff;
ror SO minutes he wltl peer and poke,
And hardly ratio a pood, old-fashioned
sweat,
Yet for each minute he will get more
dough
Than man earn by labor through the
J""""' . . ..
And though bjj hard pan value toe should
say
That SO cents yeas closer to the mark,
Vr.t tor the Thirtv Thousand he wilt get
Veep In his heart ho thinks he's under
paid. Slr-I travel with your recent corre
spondent. In a finish scrap Momn will
knock Willard's block off. In 10 rounds ho
may not bo able to do much, but even In
10 rounds I think ho will show as much
stuff ns Wlllnrd docs-nnd maybo a llttlo
bit more. W. L. K.
Almost 21 years have skittered by slnco
John Lawrence Sullivan fell with a thud
at New Orleans. How long after their
claret-drenched fenturcB havo nestled In
hc sawdust will any of tho present crop
bo regarded as Institutions?
Baseball by Sections
Various sections produce various base
ball talcilts. The East leads by a wldo
maigln In Infloldors with Dnubort, Mcln
nls, Collins, Evers, Barry, Wagner, Ma
ranvlllc, Horzog, Hnker.
Tho West has tbo call In producing able
bodied pitchers with Johnson, Alexander,
Leonard, Foster, Tesrcau, James.
And neither Rectlon classes with tbo
outflcldlng South, , which has Cobb,
Speaker, Jackson nnd Milan to offer.
Joe Jackson and 1910
Which recalls the Impending future of
Joe Jnckson, labeled by Gordon Mackay
as "Tho Carolina Crashsmlth."
For some reason or another Joseph suf
fered a serious depletion of base hits last
summer. He finished nbove .300, but not
very far above, at .308, wheio In tho old
days his mark extended from .340 to .408.
Jnckson was transplanted last summer
from Cleveland to Chicago. This chango
may havo been responsible for his slump.
As a White Sox regular ho may rlso
again to his o.fiTimo heights as first mate
on tho Walloping Window Blind, cap
tained by T. Raymond Cobb. And then
again bo may not. Hut Jnckson cannot af
ford to slump. As Ty Cobb's only batting
rival he Is needed for a number of spe
cific Bpnco-fllllng purposes. For three
years he gave Ty the battle of his dizzy
young life and thereby ' added copious
quantities to tho gaiety of things.
In the matter of Jackson's slump Noll
Goldsmith bad the right Idea:
"111 fares the land, to hastening Ills n
Prey,
Where fielders accumulate and batsmen
decay ;
Pitchers or catchers may flourish or may
fade,
Tho Bush can make them as tho Bush
has made;
But a great slugger his township's pride,
When once destroyed can never bo sup
plied." Down South recently wo lnmped two
bluebirds, Hnihlnscrs of Swat. The blue
THE FAR WEST
IS DEVELOPING
GREAT ATHLETES
University of Washington
Has Made Wonder Rec
ord on the Gridiron
NORTHWEST CHAMPIONS
"A now era has come In athletic affairs
In tho Far West and along tho Pacific
slope, an era that has bi ought tho West
ern universities to a point wheio they
rank ulongsldo tho greatest In Amcilca
la athletic achievement," says Coniad
Brevlck, of tho University of Washing
ton. "Just a few years ago athletics in tlio
big colleges in tho West were Just aborn
ing. The colleges woro comparatively
new, and up to that tlmo so much at
tention hnd to bo paid to providing tbo
proper courses of book learning that ath
letic activities were neglected.
Now at Front
"But the Western ntbletes have come
to tho front with a rush; they havo de
veloped In every department In a re
mnrknhle way, and today they lank ns
the equals of the best In the East In foot
ball, baseball, track or rowing.
"University of Washington bns Just
finished its eighth eur of football su
premacy In tho Northwest Conference
a record uncqualed. In thoso eight years
not one of tho Washington elevens suf
fered defeat an unparalleled record.
"Washington and Leland Stanford
crows, finding that tho mountain would
not come to Mahomet, themselves went
to tho mountain, and followers of rowing
everywhero remember tho splendid ability
and rowing power that theso two ciews
displayed on their trips to Poughkeepsie,
N. V. Stanford probably will bo back In
the spring, and Washington will line up
for tho gun in 1917, a faculty ruling pro
hibiting their competing before. And theso
brawny big boys from the far side of the
By
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Your I GETTING A LEMts I
bird Is the forerunner of "Play Knll" . I
plqunnt phrase sometimes used to de'not.i
upuiiiug uay or mo i-irst Oamc.
Wo wlBh Johnny Evers would go baelt (,.
the Cuba and Vlo Saler would chania Vu
nnmo to Frank Chnnco. Them woVit,:
bonnio days In Stvatland. a N"
The Joy Taker
Slr-Tlte Giants for the first dlvlslon-mi
chance-not a chanco In thn ,..?."
Braves, Cubs, Phillies and Dodgers ha. J
Ij ab-so-tlvc-ly. Tho Glnnfa m o-i'.Vi
fifth, but they will have to go soma ii . '
bent out the Reds or Pirates. But as fi. i
1-2-3-4 those places aro already niJ
Jammed tight. Watch and see.
HOfJAN,
Whnt bns becomo of the Old FashloWlt
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Loaguo race sowed up at this time eicS i
season? I
Maxims of the 19th Hole
In both Golf nnd Llfo moro shots
played In bunkere than out on th fair!
on tho fair.
way.
Thcroforo
It PrOtltCth onn PTenllu i.
practice tho gcntlo nrt of emereln imii.
In ono stroke out of Trouble.
Wo predict a green nnd tender spring
fragrant with npplo blossoms ana bast
hits. After last season's snow-rlmmed
gale-frlngod sprlngtldo tho rovcrso Is dua
this March and April. If wo aro wrontr
any protestor or protestant will rcceiva
an notion snapshot of Bcnnlo Kauff beat
Ing Christie Mathowson a game of chess
down nt Mnrlln.
"If McGraw," writes Lucius, "should '
drop Kauff, what would ho bo?" A has
Bcnnlc. "Is It pronounced Kowf or Koft?" re
quests Rolllo. Ifnuff, undoubtedly,
"Fred Toney, tho Red star, says he
would llko to get moro money." So say
wo nil of us, as tho old chorus runs.
But thnt doesn't always mean, etc. '
Fred Toney would havo made good trlth
tbo Cubs six years ago If somo ono hadn't
printed that yarn on him about killing
a rabbit with a rock. That was enough
to dlscourago nny original young farmer
Just breaking In.
Tho U. S. of A., horrified nt tho money
Europo Is wasting on war. Is willing to
pny Wlllard $30,000 for CO minutes, Who's
looney now? i
Faille ,
Once upon a tlmo there was a pitcher,
whn, nfter winning a ball game, was
novcr advertised as "having hnd a hop
on his fast one."
Moral Can't you tako a Joke?
Hans Wagner is now writing his base
ball experiences. As If nny man could
ever recall inf Idents that happened nearly
a hundred ycais ago.
This Is tho first tlmo Hans has ever
fallen for the wilting game. He held out
for 11 years, hut naturo at last seized
her couise.
Rocky Mountains nre going to keep com- .
Ing and coming again until not so far In"
the future a now name will head the list '
of llnlshers In the Hudson classic.
Still New College
"In n good many ways this University
of Washington Is so new th.it the varnish
Is still wet. Wo have no ivy-covered
wenthor-benton bulldlnus to wrltfi odes'
about. Hut the school is buildcd solidly.
Is In the midst of a (Inurishlnir period of.
growth, and, spholastleally, has a major
loaguo rating, ranking within the first
dozen unlveisltles of the land In nth
lullcs, whefo hoary ago Is not so essential
to succva1!. oho lias taken t'velopean
Mrldes, nnd in tho spneo of elaht years
has developed fiom praetlml oblivion to
a university whose deuds have been her
nldcd tho country ovei."
jfoono.ono firm will ije
INCORPORATED IX DELAWARE
St. Louis Corporation Will Run Big
Pig Iron and Manganese Plant
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23.-A Si.nnO.oOO cor
poration, to opeiate a pig lion and fcrro
nmnguncse plant In this city, will he in
corporated on Tuesdnv of iicct week in
Wilmington, Del. A t7-ucre tract of Iron
producing land bns been ncMUlred at
Wnukon, la., fiom which tho llrm will
get raw material, while, with tho ad
vantages incident to cheap coko and
river transportation, it Is expected the
plant will ho nblo to produce pig Iron
$2 cheaper a ton than It Is now produced
In Pittsburgh nnd other lion eenties of
the Eastern States.
Tho Incorporation Is to ho effected In
Delaware because tho Missouri laws pro
hibit ono corporation from owning the
stock of another. It wns found neces
sary to tako over several linns in the
organization of tho now corporation. The
most Important of theso Is tho Missouri
Iron Company, which has expended more
than 11,000,000 In developing Iowa Iron
properties.
RECORDS
BOUGHT
Why not sell thou
YICTOK or COLUMBIA
Ilecordo J ou ure tired
of? Ilrop n poital,
our reirrentutle HI
ufudlr cull KVKIiV-
JIOIIV'S llcronl M"H.
100 N. 101U Street Open Ktenlns ;
WALT McDOUGALL
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