Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1919 — Page 3

OVERSEAS ARMY ATHLETES WILL ENGAGE IN GREAT INTER-ALLIED OLYMPIC MEET

American Soldiers Engage in Hurdle Race in France.

Plans are under way in the army for the most extensive series of- athletic contests ever held. The series is to terminate in a great interallied military Olympic meet. While yet tentative, the plans have been approved by General Pershing, American * com* mander in chief, and the finals of the contests will be held in Paris if possible. Plan Competitive Games. The plans provide for competitive games, sueh as track and field sports, shooting matches and.'the like. The competition will begin by platoons and progress through companies to regiments, brigades, —divisions and- army corps and to the allied armies.

BOB M’DONALD HAS NEW JOB

Golf Professional Quits Indian Hill to Take Position as Instructor at Evanston. Bob MacDonald, former golf professional at Indian Hill; whose interesting articles on the game appeared in Chicago Daily News some time ago, has secured a new position. He will be

Bob MacDonald.

instructor at the New Evanston Golf club next season, having been selected from a number of high class applicants for the place. His position at Indian Hill will be taken by Joe MacMorran.

TO PLAY POLO AT HEMPSTEAD

Greatest Series of Matches Planned by Meadow Brook Club to Be Played in Spring. Signs have been ppsted on all five poio fields at Hepipstead, L. 1,, warning every one not to walk over the field, and the men at the Meadow Brook club have been warned not to allow any fine to use the field for anything. It is planned to have the greatest series of polo matches there next spring that that section of the country, has ever seen. " •, t

FOOTBALL CRACKS FOR 1919

University of Pittsburgh Looking Forward to Having Some of Its ~ 1917 Stars Back. . Now that the war is over University of Pittsburgh is looking forward to having some df its 1917 football stars back for, the 1919 eleven. If all of the students who were eligible Jor the Harvard. Tale and Princeton varsity elevens of 1917 and 1918 report for practice next year with this year’s freshmen, the “Big Three” will surely have fine elevens. • .

TWO CHINESE SOCCER TEAMS

Boston as Well as New York Has Eleven Made Up of Orientals— Mostly of Students. Boston, as well as New York city, boasts a Chinese all-collegiate soccer football eleven. The New England team is composed mostly of members of the Massachusetts’ Institute of Technology. and Is carried on under the supervision of Students

When completed the program will embrace events for every branch of the service, such as competition between machine gun organizations, the artillery, trench mortar and other branches and between platoons and companies of infantry. The army will be assisted by the athletic trainers of the Young Men’s Christian association, the Knights of Columbus and other organizations in* rounding out the men for the track and field events. .Purely American events will be confined to the American soldiers, but British, French, Belgian and Italian soldiers will be asked to meet tho A morinaflnulH of OthfiF /IIU vll vCHJB XULUU xxilCttCT vr wmv* events.

SON SUPPLANTS FATHER

George S. Lyon, veteran of three score years, has been looked upon as the leading amateur golfer of Canada for the last decade, but he will have to look fast to his lautels, for a new star appears in the" golfing firmament. This is none other than Mr. Lyon’s son, Seymour, whose Injury ‘in a European battle does not appear to have impaired his playing ability. The other day he was paired against his father in a war-fund fourball match and honors were with the son, who had a round of 76, as compared with his father’s 79.

RING SENSATION OF FRANCE

Bantamweight Criqui Was Ordinary "Ham and" Scrapper Until Injured in Late War. Criqui, a bantamweight, is the ring sensation of France at the present time. Criqui was recently discharged from the army after a German bullet tore away most of his teeth and part of his jaW. ■ ' But a peculiar thing is that Crlqui’s fame as a boxer was acquired only after he suffered the injury. For eight years or so Criqui was just an ordinary equivalent of the American “ham and” scrapper. All but two of Ills bouts were fought In Paris. .He boxed twice with Percy Jones in Liverpool, each a 20-round affair, and he split even on the decisions,.,_ Criqui was a good boxer, but he never had a punch and his lack of hitting power kept him in the lower ranks. However, after he was wounded Criqui suddenly discovered that he could hit. This new punching ability, combined with the ring skill and generalship which did not leave hlm, makes him one of the best scrappers on the European continent today and he is much more in demand than Carpentier, the heavyweight of France,,, or Jimmy Wilde, England’s flyweight idol. It is not at all improbable that Criqui will be seen in the United States before the war ends.

NETTIE H. DECLARED RINGER

Emallne Dillon and Owner Expelled From American Trotting Asso- - ciationCircuiL Emallne Dillon, a pacing mare that has been raced under the name of Nettie H„ and its owner, F. E. Holliday of San Jose, Cal., were expelled from the American Trotting association circuit by the board bf appeals. The mare, according to W. P. Ijams of Terri Haute, Ind., president of the association, participated in many races last season under the fictitious name. . The patronage of the 1918 racing season was larger than in previous years, it was announced. J ■

YOUNG DARCY VERY POPULAR

Brother of Late Les Has Created > Quite a Stir in Boxing Circles at Newcastle. Young Jack Darcy, a slxteen-year-old brother of the late Les Darcy of Australia, and said to be a replica of his famous and greatly mourned brother, both in t appearance and ring methods, has created quite a stir in Newcastle < boxing circles. Of his first six bouts ha won five by knock-

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. ’ RENSSELAER. IND.

BRAND-NEW GOLF IDEA

There’s a golf professional who marks every ball he sells to elub members. When a caddy or workman finds one of these balls he Tnrns tt Tnttv the gets lO cepta fonit. and thbn coF~ „ lects 15 cents from the member, jwho gets his ball buck. The past Season 4.200 balls were turned in. On the assumption that the member losing the ball would have bought another, and valuing the kist.Mll at KLcents, dub members saved Caddiesmade $420 out of the arrangement apd the pro $2lO.

IS SCORING EASIER ON STRANGE COURSE?

Good Player Should Be Able to Shoot Good Golf Anywhere. ■ • Professional Claims That It Is on His Own Course That He Makes Poor Showing—-Chick Evans Was One Exception.“A good golfer should be able to shoot good golf anywhere,” says Jack Hoag in Chicago Evening Post. “It is fairly easy for am intelligent man to study his home course until he can go around it in respectable figures. He has his own w&tf of playing each individual hole and he can score around 80 most of the time, but the real add test of a player’s game is to try him on a course that he is not familiar with. The finished player will face any situation and come through with the stroke called for, and it is the golfer who studies the game until fie has the most importantstrokes at his command who makes the real showing in our tournaments.” What will those say to this who assert that it is often easier to play a course for the first time than it is later when one comes to know it? Didn’t Gil Nichols, the professional (wasn’t it Gil?), who explained not long ago that a professional so generally makes a poor showing in a championship held on his own course because he knows the blamed links too well ? Anyway, Isn’t it a fact that Chick Evans bobbed up at the Garden City Golf club with a 32 for the in. holes in the qualifying round of the 1913 amateur championship, qprding six 3s oil the nine thus: 3584 33 5 3 3 —32? That string of 3s on the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth was one of the greatest achievements in medal scoring in the United States. True, that great score of 39-32—71 was made in the second elimination round, his first being 77.

Then, too, he had played over the course several times before in practice, so that the links could not be called absolutely strange as in th(P .case of Vardon and Ray, the British professionals, who in their 1913 American tour, would hasten from the train to a course and often smash the local record to smithereens, <• Some day, perhaps, some goli psychologist Tike Marshal Whitlatch, formerly the Dyker Meadow champion, will take up the question and determine just how much influence the strangeness of a course exerts on a player, eithei' for good or ill.

HUGGINS GETS HIS RELEASE

Manager of New York Yankees Free to Return to Civil Life—WasTur Naval Service. They are gradually sifting back to baseball. Miller Huggins, who managed the Yankees last season, has been released to civil life and has retired to Cincinnati, where he expects to spend a quiet winter. Hug

Miller Huggins.

gins, because of age, had no chance to get into active war work, but gave his services to the training camp activities ■ commission and was assigned to the naval training station at P*»lham Bay. -—— A Huggins is an attorney by profession, and practices law off and on during the winter months. His Yankees last season did not flourish like the green bay- tree, but he had a lot of success In St Louis with the. Cardinals when; they were owned by Mrs. Helena Hath

WORLD NEEDS FOOD

Demand Makes Opportunity for Returning Soldiers. Thousands WITT Seo Glorious Pdasl* bllities In Settlement of Avall- . able Farm Land In Thlb Country and in Canada. The war Is over, peace will soon be signed, the fighting nations have sheathed their swords, and the day of jeqpnstruction has come; What of It? Hundreds of thousands of men, taken from the fields of husbandry, from the ranks of labor, from the four walls of the counting house, and the confines of the workshop, taken from them to do. thelr part, their large part, In the prevention of the spoliation of the world, and in the meantime removed from the gear of common everyday life, will-be returning, only to find in many cases old positions filled, the machinery with which they were formerly attached • dislocated. Are they to become aimless wanderers, with the ultimate possibility of augmenting an army of menacing loafers? If they do it Is because their ability to assist in laying new foundations, in building up much-required structures, is underestimated. Men who fought as they fought, who risked and faced dangers as they did, are not of the caliber likely to flinch when it comes to the restoration of what the enemy partially destroyed, when it comes to the reconstruction of the world, the Ideals of which they had in view when they took part in the great struggle whose divine purpose was to bring about this reconstruction. Inured to toil, thoughtless of fatigue, trained in initiative and hardened by their outdoor existence, they will return better and stronger men, boys will have matured and young men wlll have developed.

They will decide for themselves lines of action and thought, and whht their future should and 'will be. On the field of battle they developed alertness and wisdom, and they will return with both shedding from every pore. Action was their watchword, and it will stand them in good stead now that the din of the battle no longer rings in their ears, or the zero hour, signals them to the fray, and it will continue their entire existence. But if they return to find their old avocations gone, their places filled, the Institutions with which they were connected no longer existing, new walks of life and employment must be opened to them. It maj be that the counting house, the factory, the workshop will have lost their attraction. The returned soldier will look elsewhere for employment; within his reach there is always the “Forward-to-the-Land” necessity. In this lies the remedy that will not only take care of a multitude of those who may not be able to return to their former occupations, whose desires are not to do so. whose health prohibits them from indoor life or whose outdoor habits from the past one, two, three or four years have given them such a taste and desire for it that confinement would be unbearable. Farm life will thus appeal to them, and the indications are that it will be taken advantage of by thousands. It means much to them as well as to the continent of America that provides the opportunity to the world at large, and to the stricken and famished nations of Europe, who, not only today, but for years to come, will require the sustenance that can only United States and Canada. By following the pursuit of agriculture the returned soldier will continue the cause he so greatly advanced when fighting on the field Of battle. Both countries have undeveloped areas yet open to settlement ♦

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lr< wi _ gg IKWrjdF Western Canada is as profitable as Grain Grouinq|l Tn Western Canada Grain Growing is a profit maker. Raising Cattle, II Sheep and Hogs brings certain success, it's easy to prosper where you || can raise 20 to 45 bu. of wheat to the acre and buy on easy terma, I Land at sls to S3O Per Acre —Good Grazing Land at Much Lesss lab '“-Railway and Land Co’s, are offering unusual inducements to home- || 81/SrwWKz seekers to settle in Western Canada and enjoy her prosperity. Loans made || VvV&mSt for t^le Purchase stock or other farming requirements can be had at low interest. I, The Governments of the Dominion and Provinces of Manitoba, Saikatcho- II iylWfi ‘I wan and Alberta extend every encouragement to the farmer and ranchman. U You can obtain excellent land at low prices on easy terms, and get high price* I mrSSB If for your grain, cattle, sheep and hogs- low taxes (noneon BBffllfflL I improvements), good markets and shipping facilities, free jj&UM schools, churches, splendid climate and. sure crops. _ KpBBIS For illwrtrated literature, mapa. deacription of lands far tag fa Manitoba, IF Saskatchewan and Alberta, reduced railroad rates, etc., apply to Superintendent II of Immigration. Ottawa, Canada, or II C. J. Broughton. Room 412. 112 W. Adams Street. Chicago, HL| M. V. Machines, 176 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit. Mich. IK Canadian Government Agents

There is little need here to direct attention to the wealth that has come to the farmers of Canada within the past few years. It is not only in grain growing that unqualified and almost unequaled success has followed honest effort, but the raising of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs has been a large source of profit. These are facts that are well known to the many friends and acquaintances of the thousands of farmers from the United States who have acquired wealth on the prairies of Western Canada. Farms of from one hundred and sixty to six hundred and forty acres of the richest soil may be secured on reasonable terms, and with an excellent climate, with a -school system equal to any in the world, and desirable social conditions, little else could be asked. Canadian statesmen are today busily engaged planningforthefuture of the returned soldier with a view to making him independent of state help after the immediate necessary assistance has been granted, the main Idea being to show In the fullest degree the country’s appreciation of the services he has rendered. But now that the war is ended, and the fact apparent that of all avocations the most profitable and independent is that of the farmer, there will be a strong desire to secure farm fends for cultivation. Canada offers the opportunity to those seeking, not as speculation but as production. The deepest Interest is taken by Federal and Provincial authorities to further the welfare of the farmer and secure a maximum return for his efforts. Large sums of money are spent In educational and experimental work. Engaged on experimental and demonstration farms, and In the agricultural colleges, are men of the highest technical knowledge and practical experience, some being professors of International reputation. The results of experiments and tests are free and available to all. Educational opportunities for farmers are the concern of the government and appreciation is shown by the number of farmers who attend the free courses. Agriculture In Canada has reached a —high—standard, notwithstanding which lands are low in price. Thus upon the United States and Canada for many years will rest the great burden of feeding the world. With free interchange of travel, difficulties of crossing and recrossing removed, Canada may look for a speedy resumption of the large influx of settfar* from the United States which prevailed previous to the war. During the war period there was a dread of something, no one seemed to know what. If the American went to Canada he might be conscripted, put In prison, or in his attempt to cross the border he would meet with innu-

merable difficulties, most of which, of course, was untrue. These untruths were circulated for a purpose by an element, which, it was discovered, had an Interest in fomenting and creating trouble and rffttrust between two peoples whose language and aims in life should be anything but of an unfriendly character. The draft law of the United States, adopted for the carrying out of the high purposes had in view by the United States, kept many from going to Canada during the period of the war. The citizen army of the United States was qplckly mobilized, and contained a large percentage of the young men from the farms. In this way many were presented from going to Canada. That Is all over now. There are no real or Imaginary restrictions; there is no draft law to- interfere. On the contrary, there is an unfathomable depth of good feeling, and the long-existing friendship is stronger than ever. This has been brought about by the knowledge of what has been done in the recent great struggle, each vying with the other in giving credit for what was accomplished. In thought and feeling, in language, in aims in life, in work, in deslrgqto build up a new world, there has-been bred a kinship which is as indissoluble as time itself.—Advertisement.

The Modern Way.

Back Number Old Gentleman—Jimmie, do the little boys and girls still take a big red apple to'their teacher to make her happy. Jimmie —No; we make her happy by bringing a certificate from the doctor that we’ve had our adenoids and tonsils removed and have been inoculated for diphtheria, scarlatina and influenza, and that we’ve had our teeth repaired and our eyes examined. Then if we want to make her feel real good we all get up and recite the calory catechism. .

Wise.

“Would he sooner be right than preaident?” “Oh, no ; he’s a wise guy and would sooner be about fifty-fifty.”

A man’s reputation for wisdom depends less on what he really knows than it does on what he doesn’t say. Happy is the man who owes nothing and whom no one owes. The wings of thought bear us on to action. The higher the price of meat, the more food we have for reflection. W. N. U., CHICAGO, NO. 1-1919.