Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 149, Hammond, Lake County, 11 December 1916 — Page 3

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Stonewall Defense of Hammond Though Far Outweighed Wins Admiration of all Who Saw Game. B ST IFF "W ITU TEAM,) LAFAYETTE, IND., Dee. 10. Darkness has fallen on the muddy gridtrou at League Park. More than four hundred Harrnmond fans "on the banks of the "Wabash." are streaming over the Jong bridge that leads to lights of Lafayette's inviting business district and Ubtle Rialto. The gallant Clabby football tea-m has last a game and won a victory. Touted to humiliate Hammond by "50 or 40 to nothing. Pine "Ullage. ivKh ail the stars it could gather into its galaxy was fought to a stand still and only through the medium of an element that may soma day be ruled out of the game aa foreign to football the drop kick was she able to reia:n tor the fourteenth consecutive yeartbe state championship in professional football. Belonging to soccer, the dTop kick was employed by King of Harvard a few minutes before the end of the otherwise acorecles game. Just aa Hammond defeated the Cincinnati Celts a week previous and considered "herself lucky, therefore, did Fine Tillage win today. The great football season of 1916 has closed. The turnstile at League Park has ben left to the fortunesoi winter-deserted by the fans. The twenty-hve members of the 'Tine Village team are leaving on trains in tivery directions with fat salaries and small honor for having defeated "a prairie team from Hammond". In the lobby of the 'handsome Fowler hotel the men who have followed the Clabbys through victory and defeat and trying times are singing the praise., if their players patting them on the back and offering congratulations. -Pap" Clabby. batting 200 for the moral support it would give the team and not afraid to lose, is beaming as happly as though he had won the 3'0 o-f Charles Preston, the Monticello editor's money. The "Howling Hundred" gathers to cheer the tea.ni. "Are we downhearted?" they cry. and answer. "Hell, no." The band directed by Barney Young wihich led the more than five hundred rooters into the lobby of the hotel before the game and played "The Gang's All Here"', is" at it again. What other Indiana city and couniy can send four hundred fans on three football excursions in a season win or C?V? . t other town has better sports? BI.OC KKR - STAR. Waptain Frank mocker, playing with injuries in the muscles of the theft which would discourage one of less stout heart, duplicated his great game against the Friars at. 1 the hundred and .-ixtv-three pound line surrounding hi H on the powenui oucnsive oi ."41 .nan The Utile Genera"! i . ..." ... L-Tr'inn. worked steadily, reliably -ntinuotisly. Young. Ford and Talbot in the backfield "gained nearly as much ground as the AU-Aniei lean backs. The lineu-p at the start of the game was as follows: Hammond. 'ne Hinge. Stinchneld L. K Ofstie Volkroan U T Buck Ebert . .1 G Hooker F. Blocker. ; C Green It. G. . . Kuffner It- T.. . Kohl K- E--Finn Q. B.. Talbot L II... Ford 1- H... Bergie Keeto Iav:s Helvie Sheeks Erhart Thomas j . King; Young F. B. Green won the toss and selected to be referee while. Davis of Princeton acted as umpire. The head linesman was Berve of Notre Dame and Ileze Clark of the Indianapolis Star and Associated Press acted as a timekeeper. Hammond selected the east goal. Thomas kicked off to Green, the game starting at haif past two. The kick-off of the Butler star was advanced by Green to the thirty-five yard line. Talbot lost a yard on a line buck and Ford punted twenty-rive

yards to King who returned ten yards j Calvin caught the next kick-oft and Thomas punted to the Pino Village ma(j0 a sensatwm run to Hammond's two yard line, the ball rolling to that ! forty -one yard line. Finn pnsscd to point after Finn, let the slippery oval yori for a gain of five yards. Two P iss him. Ford kicked off-snle - on I incomplete passes followed and Pine Hammond's Mxty-tive yard. Fhomas j village received the ball on hr sixtyir.ade an incomplete forward pass, j flve yard line. Fenters made a thirtyKing gained a yard through tackle. flVe yard run and would have gone for

Pine Village was penanra ve for off-side playing and Shecks kicked to Finn who advanced the ball five yards from the twenty yard line. Ford made three yards through tackle and Young lost a yard, Talobt made a gain and the Clabbys secured their ftm down. Ford lost a yard around end and kicked thirty-five yards to Sheeks. The great King was thrown for a loss. Ofstie was stopped and Finn received Thoma' punt and ran twenty-five yards, dodging and diving through a broken field. Young was held through tacklr. Ford and Finn lost and Ford kicked to Pheeks who received the punt on h!s twenty-five yard line and advenca, it to the forty yard line. Thomas kicked fii) yards to Flnn'wlio let the ba!l fall untouched on Hownmond's ten yard

A MEMORABLE GAME

"With tbe most tremendous odds ngnlnst thru but heartened by the magnjflcent support of 44M) loyal and unbeatably optimistic fans, Hammond's premier football team played the mighty I'lne Village triple squad to practically a draw nt Lafayette. Forced to yield twenty pounds per man. to the millionaire's" team, the t'lanby'a baffled them. The gigantic Keele, the mighty King, the powerful Unrk, the resourceful Sheeks, the clever luvin. the wonderful Ofstie, the crafty Thomas and other physical marvels were stood on their beam-ends, thrown for no sains. I pushed back for losses nd out played by Hammond's doughty little warriors. The 1 V. ends were boxed, their stonewall pierced, their tricks uncovered, their kicks blocked by Hammond. llammond'a line was granite. In j that last famous, desperate, wonderful Ktand, battered and bruised Hammond made on, her one yard line, with the 1'. V. giants playing like fiends and unable to take the ball over, when the moneybags of Pine Village offered ten to one their team would an over for a touch down, a football picture was painted that will never fade from the mynory of the fans who saw it. i'lne Village met Its equal. line. Ford gained a yard and kicked to Sheeks who advanced fifteen yards. Ertiart made eighteen yards. Kohl was taken out and Nolan put in his place. King made three yards and was downed . by one of Talbot's hard tackles. The first period ended with the ball in the possession of Pine Village on the twenty-yard line. THE SECOND QUARTER. Erhart gained five yards and Pine Village was penalized fifteen yards for holding. The Villagers tried a pass and failed. King failed on a dropkick from the forty yards line. Finn ran the ball back. Ford's punt was blocked and his next attempt put the oval in safe territory. The remainder of the half saw the teams playing in central territory. THE iECOD HALF. Hammond fana were jubilant at having held the Villagers 0 to 0 in the first half of the game and were hoping against hope for a tie score, Had Hammond's offense compared with its defense it might have scored, but the g"ame could not have been a prettier exhibition. Between halves the- movie man took pictures of the players. E. Fenters went in at quarterback for Sheeks and Milligan in at center for Bergie, the Pittsburgh University man. Thomas kicked off at the start of the second half. Ford and Talbot made short gains and Ford was compelled to kick, Fenters receiving on the P. V. eighty yard line. Thomas kicked to Finn and Ford again punted. These exchanges of kicks continued through, the remainder of the quarter. At only one time was the ,Hammond goal in danger and that when Ofstie blocked Ford's kick and the ball waa recovered by Helvie on the twenty-rive yard line. Hammond held, however. Sheeks was in for Erhart in the third period. On the kick-off Thomas sent the ball outside at the P. V. thirty yard line. Talbot made two yards off tackle and Ford punted forty yards fto King who returned ten yards before be'.ng tackled by Volkman, It was a sensational tackle but costly to the Hammond player who wrenched back and was very painfully hurt remained in the game, howevi-r. V GREAT STAND. Pine Village had the ball on her fifty-second yard line and fresh men were shot in. Scott for Thomas and Winters for Hooker. King made three gains and advanced the ball to . the thirty-five yard line. Shocks made thirteen yards on a delayed pass. Fentera gained fifteen yards around left end and Pine Viila.ge started from her eight yard line for a touchdown which only the bitterest fighting prevented. King made two and a ha'f yards through left tackle. Meyers was substituted for Kohl. King made another gain and advanced the ball to the one yard line. Scott plunged against the stonewall and the ball wa3 within a foot and a half of a touchdown. The Clabby line held like iron. King, the Harvard star, was stopped and the ball went over. On his punt to get the ball out of danger Ford kicked outside and Pino Village li,id triti Dall on her fourteen yard line. civin went In for Talbot. A few piays later King tried a drop kick from the thirty yard line and missed. Hammond could not'.advance the bail and Ford kicked to Fenters who waj ; downed in the center of the fieljl. , Shecks made a thirty-five jard pass and Pine Village hnd the ball on her; i fifteen yard line. She could n;t gai" ground but got in position for the ; drop kick by King which won the J game. King'was standing twenty-two! vards from the goal post when he ; drop kicked accurately. touchdown Dut ior rains tackle. The ball was in neutral territory at the end of the game. THORNS PLAY TIE WITH ARROWS, 0-0 Battling against a weight handicap of twelve pounds a man, the Thorns of Pullman held the Citizens' Arrow Club of Minneapolis to a scoreless tie yesterday. In the last minute of plav Getz of the Pullmanites hurled a thir-ty-five-yard pass- to gammy Manila, who ran to the visitors' 15-yard line, where he was 9rught from behind hT Hall. On the nevt play a drop WcT failed. -. .i.-p.

ABOUT

The first year Hammond has had of professional football has gone into history. The last punt has boon booted, but the last word will not be said for a long time. The Clabby eleven has crowned a most brilliant year with what is practically a great victory over the greatest professional football eleven the Pine Villagers. Though a flukey drop kick gave them a technical victory,, Hammond really tied the score, and to hold that scintillating galaxy of college gridiron heroes to a draw is a moral victory for the Hammond lads, many of whom never wore moleskins till this year. If a year ago the sporting world had been told that such rin as Clink Meyers and Johnny Xolan. who never saw a college game, would play man for man as good a game a3 the mighty King of Harvard, or Buck of Wisconsin, a loud giggle would have been beard, but such ha3 been proved. Hammond has received a tremendous amount of good advertising from the Clabby football team. The town is now on the athletic map to stay. Next year the team will probably be further strengthened by Palmer and Benton of Gary and will be a' world beater. Who is responsible for This? Leaving out Pop Clabby, the team's most loyal booster, and sustainer, Frank Blocker is responsible for this great advertisement for Hammond, and the time has come to show appreciation for his magnificent work. The team has been built around Blocker. He has infused into it a knowledge. of the game that is remarkable. He has led it to victory; he has been its backbone 1n defeat when his racked body almost refused to go further. He encouraged the team in its dark hour, and finally brought it to the very pedestal of victory, all in a modest, retiring, gentlemanly way. that is'incomrarable. Now, Hammond owes something to its splendid football team and to Frank Blocker. In other cities a good athletic team is considered worthy of support by a chamber of commerce. It is given the hand of good fellowship by city officials and civic organizations, and the time has come for Hammond to show its appreciation for Frank Blocker. We suggest a testimonial dinner to him and to the team. Frank Blocker has turned down an offer of $500 and expenses to play with Hammond this year. Not only that, but he waived a $400 guarantee the Clabby association agreed to give him. Xow that in some way ought to be made good. . f. It is up to the business men of Hammond and the Chamber of Commerce to get busy and fee that Frank Blocker is given practical demonstration of what Hammond thinks of him. Who seconds the motion?

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:' ' V ' ' - - ' " ''""' f L ni" .unci i' uiiu ii.'i 1' IL'IHII : : y- : ' ' ' - ""t Wounded, may bo the means of bring-. ; .. g j "" ' ln" together Georges C lrpent.. r, chainf f pion of Europe, 175 pounls jnd Je-?s x s - - T 1 W ill ird, hatnpion of the liiittd States. t I f 275 pounds, in a ten-roun 1 bout in 4 .v,- ' .i Madison Square Garden. And if W'il- xf ' Vy: -V:. : V ' " f lard knocked out Carpcnticr theie or if r"- '" X S. ' " ' Carpenteir knocked him out either ? ':s ' ; ' f I I wou'd have a clear right to the -world l 1 , I I t tie of the ring A 1 irae share of the H ? ' "X i : : .;""': . receipt would go to the American :. . .v:.: ::i : . . ',: s? j-v I Fund, and inasmuch as "this would b $ ' ' ' . -. . & j si Jt a larKe sum that Is the only feature of ? ss':. :i;:J'-i : tlie affalr ln which Mi'.s Morgan is In- i J''v.,, i ; terested. But her connection would s i1; : ; . : o J '" f f cause all society in tne east to attend, -A k-::i , h. r:-- and the fight would probably he before ft -v. ? I, j : f. ?--Z -. : a social gathering such as was never i

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I ( Spec t a 1 t . WHITING. IND nual charity game Tim Ti.mk .-.. , Dec. 11. The i n- ' playrd y tne Owls Club basketball learns ror the benefit ( the Tri Kappa Chanty 'fund.' Saturday night, were a "howling success,'' inasmuch as the funds used by the sorority girls of the city to administer to the wants of the poor and needy, were enriched sevftity-tive dollars. One of the largest crowds that have ever witnessed basketball games in

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the Oil City, packed the lugu scnooi ,Uip at the nmldiewcst. rne local noys auditorium where the games were . went into the lead in the early. part oi istaged and much satisfaction was f-x-;the game and this they maintained? impressed over the showing of the Ow ls tu the last five minutes, when by -an and the Polarines who are expected to extraordinary spurt the Clippers made

brine to Lake county tne cnampion - el-,! r.f their respective class m the mid-west this season. In the main attraction of the evening, the Hamlin Outlaws proved to be no match for the Owls who were in be best of trim and . prepared for a hard fight such as the Hamlin team has alwava been' able to put up. The team work of the locals proved to t" exceptionally good and kpt th yisi - tors "up-in-the-air" throughout the

Membra POINT ! UM-A US THE

late J. Pierpont Morgan, of the American Fund Wounded, may be the means of bring in una jess W lllard, champion of the I nited states, 275 pounds, in a ton-round bout m Madison Square Garden. And if W ll- . . lara Knocued out tarpenticr tliere or t caipuieir itiiocHeu mm out eitner . . . ...... , , .. . would have a clear right to the world title of the ring. A large share of the receipt would go to the American U Fund, and inasmuch as "this would hn yi - ...... ... a large sum mat is tne oniv lea.iurc or the affair In which Miss Morgan is In terested- But her connection would cause all society in tne east to attend, and the fight would probably he before a social gathering such as was never i before seen at such an affair. i This photograph of Cai-pentier shows "i him iu flying costume before Verdun, wbere he has become famous as one of the daring French aviators. CHARITY ESPIES game, and this coupled with the splendid basket shooting of Girard. Gevirtz, Vater and Kinzel. and the close guarding of Springgate. Bartuska and Exton, enabled the. Whiting boys to run up a score of t'J to the opponent's 13. Referee Joty. Timer Gillett. Scorer Butcher. Much satisfaction was to be had ' in the showing of the Polarines agaiast the Hamlin Clippers of Chicago, holders of the A. A. U. 12j pound champion- ; ten of their nineteen points ana wot: out by a score of 19 to 18. The next game on the schedule of the Owls will be played iu their '.gym" on Wednesday evening, when the fast Garfield Boulevard M. E. church team of Chicago will make thei rfirst apj pearance in Whiting, The Polarines i will meet the Garfield second team in a I curDain raiser. j On Saturday evening of this week the Owls will clash with the Wet S-io

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FIRST GAME

(Special to The Tixtu.-:.) CUoW.N POINT, IND.,' Dec. .11. The Crown Point high school five won it? first ba-sUetball game in the Lake County High school championship con- j test last evening at the local gyinnasmm by defeating Whiting in easy fashion by a score of 42 to 14. Only at times did the Crown Point playeis loosen up and show their best form, they playing a listlesa and rather ragged game during the balance of the game. The rough tactics of the Whiting players is partially responsible for the local five wandering from the splendid team work they displayed against Wheeler two weeks ago. Whiting has! a whole lot to learn about basketball as a game qt good clean sport, ineir players while at times displaying some excellent individual play, resorting to some of the rankest fouling and rough stuff seen .in a local field in years. Re ft.-vee Glover was kept busy call ing fouls, with Whiting players as the; chief oe finders, their object seeming' to! be to lay out the crow n point players. At haidiy any stage of the game was; the Oil City visitors making their scores on a few well directed and lengthy field baskets a,nd the balance j on fouls. ' Every man on the Crown Point team played a hard, fast game, but there was a noticeable lack of unison ind team work in their playing. The lineup: Whiting:. Crown Point. Fishrup E. G Tench Denhanr K. G Krost Gill O Brady Sugar F Bisselherg Rundrat R. F Faaen ff i jl Si t ii ZL JLS VvlLLARP Tigers, of the West Side Y. M. C. A., Chicago. The West Side Y. M. C. A. have a splendid reputation and it is ox1 ected that they will go the limit to come out first in their arguments with the Owl. As a curtain raiser to the big game, tiie Polarines will play the Cherokee A. C of Chicago. "These two games will he played in the high school auditorium. WELLING VS. MITCHELL SOON W1EWAUK.EE. WIS., Dec. 11. After squabbling over the date and piace nt the Richie Mitchell-Joe Welling scrap, which was to have been held at KafHn ! Friday night, the difficulty was irotieu j ,.nt la.it ni-rht bv dating the encoiint-ri rw --. or .,rn rtv between Christmas and Now Year's day. Well - ing's signa., i -e- was attached to the original contract by his manager, and his unfamil arity with the terms wa given as his reason for not desiring v: box Friday. . His manager, Jimmy Johnston, wanted the mill moved to Milwaukee, but this the state boxing commission will not allow. The contract prevents W'elling meetings Mitchell anywhere else before they cla-sh in the Budger ring. CHICAGO, Dec. 11. The biggest crowd of the season saw the CornellHamburgs walop an All-Star eleven, 2S to 0, at Schorling's Park yesterday. The proceeds were donated to Coach j Joe McDonough's campaign fund.

YES, HE SAW THE GAME, A GDDO TIE IS HAD

(BY PASSING SHHH'.I NEVE It could have done this stuff today if we hadn't taken a package of yeast cakes. ARE we downhearted? .YES, just like a duck's eyebrow. WHERE the h is Pine Village anyway? HEAL, clubby game, eh, wot? j "I'll play these!" "OON'T see how King couid play with Pine Village HE never ran a furrow In his life. A SAO story mates (UTTEE shivery music professor!) 'TWAS a dirty night on the ocean AND the gondolier's daughter was hitinjt pieces out of the gondola! YOU can't keep a good Blocker doiv n. j Yea Bo ! OED Meiv Monnett is going to take a safe with him the next time he goes out of town ' . . THINK cf his poor wife getting robbed in -Pine Village Oil where was it? OTTO GERSBACH couldn't find a s!njp thing to turn over ,r,r.x..-c. .. n, ,rno i Whozall In? I .t El T TEE football now and then, IS relished by the wisest men. A FEEIjOW had about as much ehance of going to sleep on that train as a BOWEKGGED girl in her own town AS the facetious ilr. Gillilan put it. THE Eake County Medical Society headed by old Doc Miltimore of Gary HEED its December meeting on the train AND what Hank Mueller didto it WAS sufficient and then some HE had the right diagnosis and the prognosis. EAMPRELE at last took his boy to see the football game. Li'l Peppef ! ONE way of committing- s-uicide WOl'LP "be to bump into Mr. Keefe of Notre Dame, head-on NOTHING but a bone-head could stand for it. MOST of the Pee Vee rooters were dead from the galways up. FRANK O'ROL'RKK, the w. k. Hammond footer, was not at home yesterday. 11 R. FINN or Rubbei'ball Johnny, when he goes down he bounces. THE famous Mr. King juggled one punt like a man taking the pelt off a hot potato. Peddle. Your Peanuts! i A EE the- wind in the fuss was not in the pigskin.. MIt. HELVIE of Pee Vee played like a parlor tenor calling twice for a. couple of sinkers in a ten- cent beanery. for a minute the spectators at a football fuss had ACCESS to pop bottles IT pains us deeply to contemplate wiiat wjuiM have happened yesterday. THE Hammond football fans are some l"yal (lock of princes AND yoi can take that home and play it on your ukilt-lc. You Said A Spoonful! PEE VEE didn't try a drop-kick because (."aire Rhodes had a bet up HIS team would score by a touchd ' w n 1 loW'S that for truly rural sports-, man ship? AND it's the truth Algernon; PACE I'arduhn was there to see that th- plate ws properly dusted -off. THE Postmortem Club will meet for a short sr-ssion this e'en. YOI'NG was a tower of strength, a refuge in the weary land, he anticipated several Pee Vee trit'k plays AND was on the goop with 1' bail i;k(! a hawk. Pay Me Boys! WBI-E. well, the world may not be all wrong but it is at least UPSIDE down at Pee Vee town night. THE Pine Village rooters were a tot,t of funny guys FENNY as crutches. ALL the football that, will be played around Hammond for some time WILE be cud-runs around the radiator THAT'S w hat makes the jadiator hot . W 1 EE ' Frank HalUt please lead off? A LARGE party boarded the special al Rensselaer j SHE most weighed 225 lbs. dressed. NO place to go now but. home. INDOOR tennis the only thing left which you can raise racket. j NOW it our young hopeful would : only end his football season it would i help some .T that it's cheaper for him than golf. "Hold Me Tight Kid. YOU can't drop-kick through Jil worth of windshield. AND now Green cgn resume aturfiea at the University of hli West Hammond TWO of the Sheridan eleven that we all trimmed saw the game and INCIDENTLY said they were going in for basketball THERE ought to be some gare they can play. (.

Zowie! Couple of Zowies! SAFEST place in the world yesterday for srim fcandpainted china WAS Hammond's goal line THAT left wing certainly was l tithe mustard. YOU think Hammond isn't there on the football map WITH the single O? . TOO deep? Well, send for a map. WE didn't see a single pip in l-i-fayette Zat So? THE wiff always called our attention to something on the other side ;' the street WHEN one of them passed. AND that's where Doc Sharrer went to college! A CHAP was just a.s safe in that game as she would b in a trench JKJirEW'HERE in France. THERE were two reasons why t hepill from Pine Village didn't- tack!--harder "111 Say It Is!" ONE was they didn't wanna A NO the other was they daissont. WITH 30 players in uniform the Villagers poured in substitute in th last quarter LIKE a small'lo' hoveling sand iu a gopher hole. IiAFATETTE is a ime piace. Yon could go anywhere and be free from the stink of garlic FROM the time you leave the cho-

- ;hoo tm they tfeased you out of l(rB n Quick Watson, the Cush! ONE dame who was masticating Vorth of 'seven points you know that spearmini, stuff wanted t? aseeitain from us I IF Nolan was married SEZ we to her "He was when he left home" OH we took care of him Mary! POP CLABBY S bankroll going down LOOKED as, big as the left ankle of an Oak Glen girl GETTING on the Chicago Heights bus on a wet day m Little Jass for "The Pretty Baby"! 'ATT A boy Pop, you were there with th"e legal tender! SWEDE CINSY. beat Hammond on that long pass and told the Hammond fans that he WAS even with them at last LI KELLY is. COMING back several of the Howl ing Hundred had floating rear avles 'WHO sidetracked Wilfred Hasting--. AND what for? WONDER where Art Kistier got his? "Cur-rses On You Jack Dalton!" SOMEBODY give Sheeks the Fee Vee Qiiarter an awful BELT in the puss HUT we ain't mentioning any naim-s. FOR the last 'time this year we hand it to Frank Blocker WE give him credit for his game AND a lot more for his LEADERSHIP. ' 'Atta Blocker!. PWEEWELL Clabby s HENCE these tears! ( BUSINESS of mopping 'cm up with a handkerchief which the kid must have used for an inkerascr). PI "EE out the' tremolo stop. . NOW fo the testimonial dinner. Worst Weather Best ! For Duck Hunting . ; j It has i hunting been aptly stated that duck is a "strong Irian's, game." j Especially this is true with the aver age hunter who has to play the garni at the right time in the tight place i under the worst weather condition? I imaginable. To members of duck clubs i along the great lakes and on the great swamps and inland roarsh lake j the hunting pf ducks over feed ter- ; ritory is easy. Such is not the case with i the other ninety-nine hunters in the ( hundred. When you see snow and I sleet begin to blow along on a sixtyi mile gale and the heavens looking like J they w ere coming ilown to meet you. j that's duck weather." That is the time j to get out the decoys, slip on the hig:. boots, pile on three pair of woolen socks, rau.st nil the clothes you own, grab a little lunch, and be on th job before sunrise. It takes time to gathei" some rushes and grasps for a blind and weave them in wiiiow sticks you cut. It is a cold job to do that and to set out the decoys some twenty or twentylive yards from your blind. You must tiide the lwat to get satisfactory results. The more the sleet and snow comes down, the harder the wind blows, the colder you get the bctter the flights and the shooting. Number four, five or six chilled shot, ahead or three and one-Half drams of amber is a good duck load. MACOMBER ON LOSING TEAM COLUMBUS. O., Dec. IE The Coluu bus Pan-Handles football -team yestc!lay defeated the All-Star eleven by a score of 6 to 0. Bart Macornber, tight half, captain of the Illinois university eleven, ws on eof th ecollege stais who composed the All-Star -team organized expressly for the game. VALPARAISO, IND., Dec. 11. Valparaiso High School defeated Wlica'field, 43 to 11. in a basketball g i".-.e Saturday night.

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