I ' ..... ? "! SOLONS TO DE(M MOVIE OF A MAN WHO WAS ONCJB A CZAR TREMBLE AS BASEBALL I'LL BE M16HTV ENTERS 191? SEASON, BUT THEIR. ROWING QUES1 ULRU WHtN ' ,!', PEARS WILL PROVE GROUNDLESS ihi5 wini u -. nnJ 2 TlRGD OP IHia City Schoolboys Await tional Game and Kindred Sports Will Prove tion'of Supervisory Con Their Real Value as Means of Developing mittee Tomorrow National-Efficiency in War Time GAMES ARE POSTP0N1 mn HSVfc NOTIFIED TY C0BB THAT itE NOW CAN PLAY BM WITH -Ho MUM- WISH I "r.... .. ... AWMM -I UktC IUf.-.F I I ' 1 didn-t ViV'.lY MM collars ' ' J 3LAI HH.SiL it t TDsy jyu lri J& K b tie y? wym ;i t rr HAS beoatnany years slnco the men who have their money Invested In baseball 5haVB approached an opening day with so much feor and trembling for tho future, and! this at a tlmo when the national pastlmo should bo at tho portals of a period , iood sport and financial success. When tho last disturbing factor was cllml- 'kated from tho baseball world last winter every one prophesied a wonderful Mason for the sport. But tho outlook has been dimmed by a war cl?ud, and most ,' a the magnates are Just about as comfortable as Larry McLcun formerly was 1 hi fc dry town. They have visions of empty seats and lean purses, with a. dozen fear two high-priced stars expecting Inflated checks twice a month. There Is reason lo believe, however, that the magnates are worrying themselves unnecessarily, nd, while the attendance at games will undoubtedly bo cut down by the war, 'there will be plenty of fans filtering through tho turnstiles with regular coin of the realm. There Is talk of selective conscription for men between tho ages of , nineteen and twenty-five, and, of course, the enlistment of 1,000,000 men In tho '"course of the year wilt make a difference, not only In tho attendance at baseball .fames, but wherever mon gather. It must bo remembered, however, that tho real a. a. a .a . a..- 1 ,1 1 . . I ii.iin1ti . i I ... a rt .rt tnffn rf ( uwila-eyea ran me ayoa-in-uie-woo. oaseuuii uug ia usuuuj nm ..-.. ,t...u .. ' . AM. fit ftVBf There aro a number of reasons for this. Tho joung man prefers to taiso nis ibaieball first hand. Tho time that he has to devote to sport finds him out on tho .i.Mfamnnri nlnviniT the enmo himself. Further, a largo percentage of men between .1. u.L - . a A .... ....... A..M ainHHn. ntfn.fi rt nttAVial HnQAVafill P1imf4 flflV tJXna ages 01 nineteen unu in.ui;-nvu luiihui ut.u.u .v. M..(.u ..... -.. -.-.. Kf4 after day, and so we find tho "regulars," the men who attend from three to five 51" ,i.l- A H ""Is baseball a waste of time, or does It give an adequate return for tho time spent by promoting physical health In a nation?" Long on Spirit, But Short on Logic ntHE college athletic heads who fostered tho movement to do away with all lntcr- collegiate sports with the coming of war ore now wondering whether they did not make a big mistake. Military and naval men aro advising those In charge of intercollegiate athletics to continue the work, and some even go further and favor an expansion of athletic activity. With logic once moro enthroned, it is likely that the college athletic heads will heed tho advice of those who understand tho wonderful asset athletics are In war time and reconsider their action In sweeping away all sport. It is even probable that official wordwill be sent from Washing ton to resume athletics and do everything posslblo to keep tho athletes In military W 'tralnlnc. $sf In promoting sport at such a time It Is Important that thoso In charge keep Wh in n..t.il two salient renulsites. First, to avoid letting athletics intcrfero in any way with recruiting. It Is better for a team or a crew to lose every event on its schedule than to hold a man for ono minute who Is needed By his country. 'Second, tho goal tp bo striven for is to get and keep Just as many youths in physical shape as Is possible, making tho winning of victories for alma mater a secondary consideration. games of professional baseball a week, aro fomowhat older. w NATION at war has no tlmo to waste, and tho paramount question Is, rif Fj .' . ATHLETICS so conducted will do much to augment tho fighting power of the nation. Let us have athletics, and then moro athletics but let ua have them right. Another Gotham Review of the Cobb-Herzog Battle JUDGING from belated reports from tho ringside, Tyrus Cobb was entirely to blame for tho fist fight with Buck Herzog in the South recently. This Is not at all startling, but the mere fact that Herzog had nerve enough to challengo Cobb means that the Detroit slugger is losing his reputation as a "bad guy" among the players. It also means that the Terrible Tyrus will not bo ablo to get away with his customary rough stuff on the diamond without defending his right In some back room after tho ball game. W. O. McGeehan has a few Ideas which ho expressed In the NEW YOItK Tribune: "With tho opening of tho season the spiking of Herzog by Cobb will be for gotten," writes McGeehan. "Tho pair hardly will be pitted against each other again, unless, of course, the Tigers should meet tho Giants In a world series. Should this happen there would be a world series in which tho extra emoluments idnn tho tilavers would bo distinctly a aido Issue, a mere bagatelle. In tho opinion ggtTof your correspondent, who saw tho spiking from a lofty perch' at Gardner Park, at &f Dallas. Cobb was entirely to blame. He 'threw his spikes high. He afterward KK . ... . ... ..- -a. a. A- I .t.. nl. nl.ua. -nana 1 n t ATi t ( At. fl 1 51 tl t T.rOmedi- aamiucu inai ine auerap. iu ...m... me uwh j,,.-c , ...... ..-...-. , tated. His excuse was that Herzog had been riding him and that ho told him that 'he would spike him at tho first opportunity. -TTIHIS certainly will lower the prestlgo that Cobb has held as a baseball . JL player and a sportsman. A man who will let his ego and his temper carry him that far has no right to play baseball or any othfcr game. In work and In play the man who cannot stand a 'riding' is not fit to take part. "U "Cobb Maintains a Germanic Attitude" P TO this point Cobb has been maintaining a Germanic nttitudo toward tho game and to tho opposing players. It had been reported that ho would use his pikes on anybody that tried to stop him, if ho could. The success of Cobb in his base stealing was due largely to 'the fear of'hls flaying spikes. But at last ho met a man who had the nerve to challenge his right to slide steel-shod Into whoever tried to check him legitimately. He got the same sort of shock that must have been felt in Berlin when tho United States failed to recognize Germany's right to sink everything afloat. It Is recognized that the base-runner has tho right to hurl - m -. t.n i.na nA Un ia mrm nnvorlnr flin linen must nrntect .ilTnHelf n 5,1, J1U.U.CI.- -l wllV UvWlU ill! hiu -.w ...a.. V.w....B ..- I rtfti. he rn. But th n-nma does not nermlt the base-runner to throw his spikes Kt . m. a 4 a. ..- a, ..at ...j.1.l 4tin wn V..I. 1 I It, l-l f tVlf. m tl tl rlof AtlHI tl 1 Xi, Blgn ior mo purpose, nu. ui icuuuui, mo u-, w. u j"o - . -..-.. . It Cobb was not trying to reach tho base. He was trying to injure nerzog. Ana 3 . ....... ... Be aammea 11. "There is a certain type of man who is temperamentally unfit to play any game. This Is tho man who, in tho heat of play, resorts to primordial savagery c to aln a noint. Unless Cobb can see that no was wrong in inai uauaa auair thArfl are manv who will nut him in this class. If he Is really as big a man as his M .ardent admirers insist he should have admitted his error-before this. ' .' "rtno in mnwrt to wonder If the challeneine of Cobb by Herzog may not have f'aome psychological effect upon the baseball career of Cobb. Hitherto the glamor Yaf his name has awed opposing players, and even umpires. He mu as no pieasea. ;He was seldom crossed or contradicted, because he was Cobb. He was accorded W liberties that vpuia not oe extenaea to mo average uaaeuaii imi.u.. t . uTTioit once his right to rldo over rules, customs and ethics was chal- lenfied by a smaller but pluckier man. Will this not lead other plaj ers to challenge the great Tyrus when his ego runs amuck?" Tramhootina Might Help in Hun Gunnina l?f ANE of tho most likely of all sports in these parlous times Is athletic endeiivnr fiJ before tho traps with the highly explosive shotgun. Army and navy officials Bf.j themselves have been among the many to take up the causo of spurts and to urgo .against their abandonment until there is more serious need for It. There are few 1 . 41. ..a la.ai.aVa... v.tf.ta.1. .va.aaa.at II.A aa. n. A nlatlm trm a. , , a.a. . fa. a .L a , ByuriB Mil tail's Laiciiuai wuiv.it jficat.111. iiio Dtuui lamiui iui uitciliiujl xu me UUvcrn- f mem as a means 01 mung persons ior polling mo enemy mat practice rrom tho U, ..., . . . .. , .... a... a, .... . .'. trap aecK gives, r.01 me ieasi important among tno attacKing or annoying bands fc the Infantry Is the sharpshooter troop. There Is the gas-bomb-hurling strlntr. b which has Its uses, as has the cutlass-armed, throat-cutting delegation which fellows In Us train. But among the most feared of tho land adversaries aro those AlMtt hide in the ruins to pull the old-fashioned surprise trigger on tho casual I'Mdeatrian in a war zone, or the persons who creep up disguised in some of the r-&Vhea. and other scenery tied to their backs to represent a section of tho land- sape. and. thus do their sniping unnoticed. There is a great need for sharp- hooters in our best armies, and thus there would seem to be a wldo opening for thousands of trapshooters in, America who mingle in the "sport alluring," as It is ailed, at the traps. Persons able to collapse a spinning disc In the bat of an eyo a.K sails out of release are being figured by military experts as most promising to. fold upwlth a bullet the Hun coming forward, broadsldo first Expert trap Shooters report that there Is' quite some difference between an army rifle and the twelve-gauge-shotgun used to shatter the hurtling clay, But it would seem that !JMa difference would dwindle rapidly with practice, so that gun work Is being uraged. For to the average person and the gun lubber an army rifle is as ruly. a. handling a barrel over Niagara Falls. A- tmUtm-IVni Dm aa PinuUr WUU U ?-..,. ,. 4U o ' II ' V " - ji. rr iui m.,., uivfyo us IC aillUllfJUX I ways are sei ior a cnango in me metnoa or tossing foul goals In tho Eastern At a recent rules Interpretation meeting Coach "Bill" McAvoy. of 1 Collese. suggested a method which he contended will riiminntn rm.M. ('the roughnese. His Idea Is to have the man committlne an offense ittkehall at the opponents' baet. If he cages the leather he has atoned for hut H; fee falls the opposing side in credited with a point It -looked so that H wasjiae in the form of a motion at a meeting , of ithe Eastern League wilMt . tlflafa.1.. k'a. .-...- V.ft.a.K Ota.. a..aa.Kt if a. h . iwwj iiasai 11 ' niivn mnv. uifiaiiuaiiuu cunvenes next weeK. . ,. nl wasjrtvea, a trial when Owstock played Oermantown T. M. BtektrATbat t proved 'a s'uecesa is' expresslmr it mlldiv. Th W, expressing iiwr .approval, and, furthermore Ger- i k.' 1fi-9Ll AttUntrikk'touli the Eastern League jg5"Lg mt W-tftm OatrtMlswa only fell down ,& , - -.. y ' rrSsr.'r II I rnkWrn , "AVAa that I HOME ERLYj HOPE t IVAM jK"6? ThST'S 'ILL CATCH '" ft THT ') I (YS I NlCK " IDR- The DEvtl WOO KICK! rXy -Sjjj Jhc- ROMKOFP A BUMCH of for mot j0 "a y ffiVyyMMW r vJHERe m FCLLOWS AT seig hom& "SV w mMP fiZmiw mfe E oU) (& THC I)0MA SPORT HAS ITS PLACE IN WAR-TIME FOR PHYSICAL STAMINA AND NERVE JUST AS MUCH AS NEW ARMAMENTS As Long as They Don't Interfere With the Coun try's Leading Purpose, Athletics Still Have a Distinct Place in American Life at Home ..V fv By GRANTLAND RICE "'. The Story of the Drums What is the story of glory that comes From the roll of the drums? The echo of feet keeping time to the beat Of men who are viarching by 'cross-road and street To the call that has echoed by land and by sea For the fate that may be? And the story is this they have come to the day When the big debt is due in the smash of the fray And if it be only the death which they owe, Or if it be only to suffer and grow, Tliey are ready to pay. Even for those who arc ready and strong The road's none too long; Times moves on the fly as the seasons flash by Where the shadoivq drift in and the last echoes die; Where each in his turn passes on through the gate To whatever may wait; And the story is this when the hour is due And it may be for me and it may be for you Today and Tomorroiu arc one and the same If we stick to the highway and play out the game, Be it early or late. Montgomery Fair Adopts Rare Program JIKADINO, r April 10. A meeting of tho MontBomcry County Talr Association speed com mittee was held nt Commlnus's Hotel Windsor, of this it. A. II. Commtnss, chairman, pre sided The program of earlv closlne stake races for the (air. August 14-17. was adopted as follows: 2 10 pace, purse llOOOj !!-15 trot, purse 11000; 2 'J4 pace, purse 11000: 1! I", trot, purse J1000; two.jenr-old trot, purse 50o; three. ear-old trot, purse $r0O Nominations will close April 30. Read. ns Nino Signs Six Pitcher! HEADING, l'n , April 10 Manafter Genrite Willie, of the Heading club In the New York State League, announced tho sienlng of the following phocrs: I'ltrhers Harold DeUnney, William Dona hue, Hal Dals John Clifford, Edward Thomp son nud Ljle Mrlnger. I'atthers John Haddock, Leo Kelley, 1'rank Foley and Jamrs Corcoran. Outfielders Kred Oakes. C. S. Hreckenrldge. Timothy O'Heirn and Olen Washburne, Inflelders Ulihard llreen, Al Holt. Herbert Armstrong, I. Award Harry, George Dlener and Walter Sullivan. Tho fate of rowlntr among tho sch-il will tin .tnnMo.l of .,.! '? ."plOOM vlsory Committee on Athletic .. tomorrow. The matter yeas held i... muii uv-iiuii .nun i me last ti- March. Tho ndvocates of rowlnr m be heard both in faor of contlnuliC w. uraaner siacPherson, chalrm.n rowlnc at tho Central Hlcl. tt..i. lead tho delegates who have, been grtn'lJI hearlnB by the committee In favor t3 (nlnlnif f hn nnnrt TTh ..111 1 . vk 4 ....... ...v ,.u. .. . ,,, ,iave many reasons why this city 'tmould hold it wiiii uiui.1- via veiuera in Eupportlni i The war ha also had Itu effect unn-. 'Im ounuuis, uuu 11, n uiuurcd mat tns lion ui ui-aCuuiinuiiiK an sport wl' iiiuuhiii uciuiu iiiu uuara, Just rhr i schoolboys should cancel their cam.. . turn to military training Is hard to unj stand, but It is said on cood mku that certain representatives will brlnin IJ1U liUVUUlli SCIIOOIi CONTESTS POSTPONED 4 Because of the rain and snow the 'id Dascoaii iieids are in terrible condltlei lliiu oeii innuiiuu in uui OI tlie QUeSti for tho majority of the squads. The mu lng of the Interscholastlo League and Inti academic League seasons will hae to I ueiorreu unin inter in mo week. Ten games .will cither have to b celed or postponed until some future tla renn unarier nopcci to play Chelteni High, but playing conditions even at an excellent field as tho Yellow and iu aimeiei aro iavoreu wan at queen Lanil Impossible. If possible, Coach Merrltt take his playersi out for practice, but i until the grounds have 'been inspected he has a report that conditions are falrl WEST PHILLIES LOSE COACH "West rhlladelpbla High School's bastbtt auiurs uio in iv uiiuuiiu nunc, ior Without! coacn ana iacuity auuscr ana without I nome neiu tno youngsters across tho Scntr kill aro doing considerable worrjlne. Vail, their baseball tutor, has Joined naal coast defense, and .Manager Swing doesn't even know whether he cured a place for tlie game with Gen WWII JUK". (jrl Oermantown High School's athletes nsked to report for tennis, track and 1 Dan tins wcer. ino intcrsectionai ni w 111 Mart next Monday and the school ts nls tournament as soon as tho weather I fit. The track athletes were notified t begin training for the Intcrsectionai m to bo held on Slay 8. m Wednesday's Opening Baseball, in all Its varied span has known but one International crlsl before this. There were no leagues In the das of 'CI. Baseball was then an undeveloped, al most unknown sport a sport Just emerg ing from Its cradle. After tho first league was organized baseball traveled on through over twonty fio j cars of peace before the Spanish American War came on. It has been nine teen years now since that shadow moed by, so no one can saw Just yet what effect tho present situation will havo upon the sport All competitive sport now Is In the shadow. But as long as it doesn't detract from tho main Job at hand and doesn't In terfere with the country's leading purpose It may still have its place until more serious days arrive. If every baseball league In America, with 10,000 physically trained men, would only take Its part In the preparation of the times, a double purpose could be served. War and Sport War and sport are in no sense alike. There Is no touch of sport in war. The two games are entirely different. One Is a phy sical development. The purpose of the other Is physical extinction for the enemy. But sport has Its place In development for war, for, despite all tho new Inventions and new armaments, physical stamina and vi tality are still qualities which havo their place. Other conditions being anywhere near the same, a nation In fine physical shape would have that much of a start. And this country, physically, has In ono way been well prepared. There has never been another nation in history that has sent so many entries Into many varieties of Tiealth-glvlng sport The Player's Attitude "What Is the attitude of the ball player toward war?" we have been freqnently asked. It might be summed up from a recent statement made by Frank Baker, the home run monarch. "I'm not crazy about war," ho said, "but If I have to go In it will be with this idea to figure in advance that they are going to get me, but to go out and get as many of them as I can before Im through." Which, at the least, Is not abad Idea. "If Cincinnati had the jfltchers," remarked a member of the Boston Braves, "the Beds would be o'ne of the most dangerous clubs In the race, for yo ucan gamble that they have the punch." If Matty the Manager was only Matty "the Pitcher of 1906 1 Reader: Alan SKr's "Rendesvous With Death" can be found In his published poems. ,Among. those looking upon wr with a siren ftvo are .some (0 or 100 umpires who, above tmm"ft-. cn chant the old requiem: should havo no great troublo developing nn unbeatable army. Blood and Iron hero aro only half-way ingredients. Harvard to Retain Coaches fAMnniDOE, Mass. April 10. A ajst.m of Informal athletics was started at Harvard Col lege today to take the plai-e of the lntercolleglatn contests abandoned because of the war. The crew, baseball and track coaches will be re tained for the remainder of the year. ReadyMades Are at Best Only Imitations "Factory - made," turned out by the thousands cannot have the fit, finish,' cut, set and hang that "clothes personality" you want. Spring's here! Let us make you a genuine custom tailored suit at the same price as a ready-made. Made to Your Measure Suit A superb collection of all wool, newest, nattiest fabrics bought right from the mills. Astonishingly big values. If you're not absolutely satisfied with the suit after it's made don't take it. Starting at $20, prices range to $35 for some few exceptional fabrics. 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