Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 139, 24 April 1917 — Page 5
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, "APRIL 24, 1917
'PAGE FIVE
Local Sport News at a Glance
Central Club to Hold Day For Kiddies; Hade's Team Appears Ready For Fray
Management of the Richmond Central League team has a treat In store for the. youngsters of this city.. Club directors announced today that every Monday the team was at borne boye and girls under twelve years-of age would be admitted to Exhibition park free of charge. Of course this courtesy does not extend to the grand
stand.
"Small boys are real fans ' and we want them to be loyal supporters of
the home team, so we tare decided that every Monday the teafl is at home the youngsters will be admitted to the grounds and bleachers without charge," one of the club directors said today. Plan to Hold "Ladies Day. " The club directors also plan to have one "ladles day" each week, the day selected to be announced later. On "ladies day" every woman coming to .the game with a man will be admitted to the park without charge. The club management expects to interest, many Richmond women in baseball and enroll them in the ranks of thirty-third 'degree fans. - i The Tain today gave the players the first layoff in, their training activities Jfcr over a week. The recent warm weather lias put the players In first class condition, with the exception of Catcher Texter and Infielder Stadfeld. both of whom are nursing sore arms. 'Texter's arm was so lame that he decided to go to Battle Creek for treatment. Saturday. He expects to return to Richmond some time today or tomorrow. I New Short Covers Works. t Manager Myers worked out a new 'infield combination yesterday, with Gygll at first, Evers at second. Jennings at third and Kelly at short. Kelly reported for a tryout yesterday.
He was with Terre Haute for a time last season. He gave quite a clever exhibition in the short field. Donald Donelson. the kid outfielder secured from the Toledo A. A. club, has the earmarks of a star, and Myers Is more than pleased with the work ttiis boy has exhibited. He bats left handed and meets the ball squarely. In the field he has shown no weaknesses, lie is especially good in going back after hard driven balls. He has a powerful throwing arm and no man on the club has it on Donelson in peddling around the bags. This is only hl3 second year out as a professional. Catching Staff Is Strong. Incidentally this big fellow Krycl whe has been working out behind the bati s looming up mighty good and with Texter in form no club in -the Central will have anything on Rich-,
mond's catching staff. Kryci has one of the most powerful whips ever seen on a, local lot. The pitching staff is the least of Bade's worries. Ainswortn, Hart, Young, Fromholz and Wagner are all in top form and ready for the season to Open. Its a crew of slabmen that is bound to cause havoc with many a batting average. Ainsworth, working with the Muncie independent team Sunday against the strong Kokomo semi-pro club, turned In a game that was a marvel to the fans who witnessed the combat. The sorrel top, using only his fast ball, held Kokomo to one hit and struck out eighteen men. Incidentally he won his game.
INTERSTATERS HOLD MUSKEGS TO DRAW
HIGH MEETS DAYTON Oil EARLIIAM FIELD
. Richmond high school's track meet with Steel, of Dayton, will be held on the Earlham lot, Reid Field, Saturday afternoon. The Playground track is not In shape for the meet. Despite the fact that several of his most promising lights are on the ineligibility list. Coach Nohr still entertains hopes that the regulars will come through with enough talent to down the Dayton visitors. Jessup and Long, stars of last year's" team are out of it for good. The hopes of R. H. S. rest with the work of Dollins, C. Smith, Leiter and Grimes. Dollins looks especially good in the high jump. Smith Js speedy in the dashes, Grimes in the weight and Leiter in the middle distance runs. .
Members of Glenn McCann's Richmond Interstate club had a busy time of it Sunday despite the fact that the game with the Muskegs billed for the local lot, was cancelled. With nothing more to do the Richmond outfit took on the Muskegon boys at Wiedemann park, Cincinnati, and held Hamilton's crew to a five all score in nine innings. At close of the ninth frame it was decided to call it a draw and the two cluba adjourned to Redland Field to wltress the Cub-Red flaretip. McCann is trying to book up his team with Johnny Nee's Dayton Vets this coming Sunday. In case Dayton Is not booked, Mac will list Price Hill, of the Tri-State. The following Sunday the Eagles club of Cincinnati, plays here. FIGHTS INCENDIARISM
TOPEKA, Kansas, April 24. A nation-wide appeal for a rigorous campaign against incendiarism was sent out today by Lew T. Hussey, president of the Fire Marshals' Association of North America, which' included members from every state.
I LEAGUE STANDINGS f . NATIONAL LEAGUE Clubs W. L. Pet New York 6 2 .750 St. Louis 8 4 .667 Boston ... 5 3 .623 Cincinnati , 7 6 .538 Chicago 6 6 , .500 Philadelphia . 3 6 .223 Brooklyn '3 6 .333 Pittsburgh .4 9 ' .308 AMERICAN LEAGUE Clubs . W. U Pet. Chicago ,.... 8 2 .800 Boston 6 3 .667 New York 5 3 .625 Cleveland . 5 5 .500 St. Louis ...... 4 6 .400 Philadelphia 4 6 .400 Washington 3 6 .333 Detroit 3 7 .300
Ackerman Describes Poles
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but plenty of . canned fruit and preserves.... ' The next day, while, walking about the city. I saw that practically the only
food; displayed for sale In grocery
stores was canned goods, coffee, tea
and meat, and German soldiers were buying" all of the canned products which .they could carry away- ,Much of this food was sent to Germany, by mall. Vilna, which is ft city of a half
million people In peace times, bad,
even at this time, only a few days after
the German occupation, many thou
sands of unemployed. Idle men and
women stood about the city watching the' German troops come and go. Some of them would get in trouble from time to time with German soldiers. Small street fights occurred until the German army militia began to make arrests. Warsaw Prosperous and Gay. A year later in Warsaw I saw the city at Its gayest It was August. Re
ports had been received that Germany was about to establish a kingdom of
Poland and place a Polish prince on the throne. The streets were crowded. Business houses were doing an enormous trade. Money seemed plentiful. Private automobiles and carriages were to be seen every where4 in remarkable contrast to Berlin. German merchants were beginning -to open branch stores in Warsaw, and on practically any business street one could see announcements over stores saying "Patronize German Merchants." Warsaw seemed to have plenty of food. Meat shops displayed great, quantities of hams and bacon. Eggs were so plentiful that officials estimated there were over 1,000,000 eggs in cold storage in the city. But as I
In the Majors
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
Women clerks will hear the ages of women who register to vote at Terre Haute. This was done in order that the new voters, would not be embarrassed by telling their ages to men. .
FROM BASE TO BASE
We may be badly mistaken, but on paper, at least, the umpiring staff selected by President Dickerson looks good. The umpires are, Con Daly, Ducky Holmes, Kuhn and Bo Slear. "Richmond has landed a good man In Donald Donelson," writes President Dickerson in the Grand Rapids News. Thanx. - Ray Brubaker, former Earlham star, now shortstop for Muskegon, refuses to report to that club until after he finishes his college term, in June. Grand Rapids is going to have two mighty hefty agate wallopers in its lineup this year, namely Mathes, who mi tor .354 in 74 games with Terre Haute, last season, and Miller, whose average with Grand Rapids last year was .333. Mathes led the Central league in batting in 1917.
Joe Dunn, Springfield manager, is much worried over his pitching staff. Several men he has purchased have refused to report. Swarz. who worked against Richmond, Sunday, looked fairly good. "Springfield has not got neatly as good a team as It had last year," is the verdict of Bade Myers. "It I get the two inflelders and the outfield I am after I'm going to give 'em all an argument," Myers added. He believes he will secure all three men he is dickering for. By dedicating every Monday as "free day" for the small boys the club management will earn the gratitude of a legion of mothers. Its tiresome work mending trousers torn by fence climbing.
Clubs W.. L. Pet. Kansas City ....... ... 7 2 .778 Indianapolis ..10 3 .769 Louisville 8 4 .667 Milwaukee 5 3 .625 Minneapolis .......... 3 5 .375 Columbus 5 8 .385 St. Paul 2 7 .222 Toledo 2. 10 .167
GAMES TODAY National League. Chicago at Cincinnati. .Pittsburgh at St. Louis. Boston at New York. Brooklyn at Philadelphia. American League. Cleveland at Chicago. St. Louis at Detroit. Philadelphia at Washington. New York at Boston. .
NATIONAL At Cincinnati R. H.E. Chicaga . 020 100 100 4 11. 1 Cincinnati .....000 043 03x 13 13 1 Batteries Prendergast, Carter, Hendrix and Wilson, Elliot; Toney and Wingo.
At St. Louis R. H.E. Pittsburgh Oil 000. 0002 7 0 St. Louis 000 000 0000 3 2 Batteries Cooper and , Fischer; Watson, Steele and Snyder.
At Philadelphia - R. H.E. Brooklyn 100 000 2003 4 3 Philadelphia -....100 000 000 1 6 1 Batteries Cadore and Meyers; Oeschger, Mayer and Killifer.
American Association Toledo at Columbus. Indianapolis at Louisville. Kansas City atrMilwaukee. St. Paul at Minneapolis. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League. Cincinnati, 10; Chicago, 4. Brooklyn, 3; Philadelphia. 1. Pittsburgh. 2; St. Louis, 0. Boston-New York; rain. ; - American League. New York, 9; . Boston, 6. Philadelphia, 4; Washington, 8. American Association. St. Paul, 4; Minneapolis, S, ' Toledo, 4; Columbus, 3. Kansas City, 4; Milwaukee, 3. Indianapolis, 6; Louisville, 4.
John McCormick, tenor while In Lo Angeles recently heard one of bis own records, reproduced over a wireless telephone for a distance of several
blocks... . ... .
AMERICAN At Eoston R. H. E. New York .......000 200 2239 9 3 Boston 001 130 1006 13 4 Batteries Cullop, Love and Alexander; Shore, Foster and Cady. At Washington R. H. E. Philadelphia 100 001 0024 6 3 Washington 000 000 0303 3 4 Batteries Bush and Meyer; Dumont, Gallia and Alnsmith.
ASSOCIATION - At Louisville- R. H.E. Indianapolis, ....010 000 401 6 8 1 Louisville. ..310 000 0004 12 5 Batteries Kanthelner, Dawson and Gossett; Davis, Main and demons.
At Milwaukee R. H. E. Kansas City .000 000 300 014 7 1 Milwaukee ...201 000 000 003 4 2 Batteries Cochran and Berry; Shackleford and DeBerry. At Columbus- R. IT. E. Toledo . ....002 000-101 3 13 0 Columbus .......030 000 000 3 9 2 Batteries Vance and Bresnahan; George, Loudefmilk and Coleman. At St, Paul - R. H.E. Minneapolis ....000 000 000 0 3 2 St.. Paul .... 200 000 20x 4 6 3 Batteries Humphrey. Rose and
j Veaoh; -Williams and Land.
walked through the streets and talked to the people I met workingmen who were begging. They said food was so expensive that the poor could not buy it They said meat was selling at $1.50 a pound and eggs 10 centa apiece. One man told me he had had no meat for two months. Before the Russians evacuated Warsaw they removed the machinery or destroyed the interior of every factory, so that thoueands of men were out of employment. Streets were crowded with men selling postcards and stamps. That was the only thing they could do. In order to attempt to solve the food problem for the poor, who were starving, as even the investigations of the Rockefeller Foundation proved, 'the German military authorities opened soup kitchens throughout the city. At that time over 100,000 people were dependent every day upon this food. Later, when I went thro'igh other sections of Poland, especially In the small cities, I saw the most terrible suffering. People were living in holes in the ground under the destroyed ruins of their homes. In some villages where" a few houses were still standing every inhabitant claimed a house. The German authorities had the greatest difficulty in preventing trouble, because sometimes as many as ten families would claim the same houses and all its furnishings as their own. Life Sentences for Students.
Before the kingdom of Poland was announced to the world, there were a great many internal troubles, especially in the large cities. German authorities at first could not prevent the revolutionary propaganda which the students started. From time to time students were arrested and sentenced to
military prison for life. On Christmas
Day of 1915 twelve students of the University of Warsaw were arrested and imprisoned. From time to time others were similarly dealt with by, the German military authorities. Although Germany, had entered Poland and posed as a liberator, the German authorities were adopting the same measures in conquering Poland that the Russian imperial government under the Czar had used. . In Poland however, there had always been a pro-Polish party and a proRussian party. The former expressed the desires and hopes of the Polish people, but was always persecuted by the Czar. The latter was composed almost altogether of Russian officials, who were known to be loyal to the im
perial government. After the German occupation there soon developed , a . pro-German and a rro-Polish party group. Those who
sided with , the Germans were mostly members of Polish royal and noble families of princes and counts, who were in disfavor with the Russian government and who were anxious to obtain control of Poland. The German
military authorities immediately open
ed negotiations with these Prussianized Poles. Although the administrative officials were Germans, the advice and assistance of these nobles was accepted. So when the Kingdom of Poland was
established, under the temporary rule of Governor General von Bessler, these
pro-German Polish nobles were given positions in the hew government The Kaiser desired, if he could, to establish a .Prussian. Kingdom of Poland. Germany realized, however, that Poland could not be made a kingdom success-
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iuuy, wuuuui uuuws uauv-ui auu ure Polish section " of Germany - centred about Posen: So the Kaiser made overtures to Emperor Fran Josef, suggesting that Galicia be ceded by Austria to the new kingdom. But the old Emperor, who always was suspicious of the German Kaiser, replied when his ministers made the proposal to htm: "What! Those Prussians want to take ' soother pearl from mr crown?" - Franz Josef Hindered Plans Germany had intended originally to establish the kingdom of Poland as early as July, 1919, but because of opposition to the plans by Emperor Frans Josef and by the Poles of Posen Germany was forced to postpone the announcement until November. Even at that time Germany did not get to announce the kingdom she had expected to create. . The Chancellor could only announce that that section of Poland which was occupied would be considered as the kingdom of Poland and that the official boundaries would be determined at final world peace negotiations. Because the German General Staff was looking forward to the time when it could mobilize the unemployed of Poland and use them as units in the German army the German government had to perfect as soon as possible all plans for the new kingdom in order to at first get the backing of a sufficient number of Poles to make the proposed Polish army a success. That was Germany's real purpose' In announcing that she was about to free the Poles. Germany needed soldiers, and the General Staff had estimated that 1,200,000 men could be recruited in Poland. To win the Polish people the first thiBg Germany did was to issue new passports so that each resident of Poland became a Pole no longer a Russian. Germany's second step was to create a Polish Diet and a Polish Ministry. But Germany was careful to see that not only during the war, but after the war, she would have a controlling voice in all affairs of Poland. It was provided that a majority of the ministry and the diet should be selected In a wawy which would guarantee balanceof power to the German element. Almost at the very beginning of the
war' the Polish soldiers of Germany and Austria were organised Into a Polish legion. Germany and Austria sent what was left of these Polish legions to Warsaw to form the nucleus, of the new Polish army, which was to be raised, not by conscription, but by the voluntary system. . Only S11 Poles Volunteered. Recruiting agencies were established throughout Poland. Soldier of the Polish Legion, who had ' been decorated both by Germany and Austria, were made recruiting agents. In December, 1916, I was told by a source directly connected with the Prussian House of Lords that after three months of - recruiting enly 311 Poles volunteered for the new Polish army. What the situation Is today I do act know, but I doubt whether the number has Increased under this voluntary system. It was the impression of many people In Germany with whom I talked, now that recruiting In Poland was a failure, and now that Germany was becoming more and more la need of fresh troops, that conscription would be Inaugurated In Poland, either publicly or privately. In order that the army of 1.200,000 which the German General Staff counted upon cculd be created. When I was In Poland last fall there was no mistaking the fact that the Poles were bitter against the Csar. While they suspected and hated the Germans they felt, nevertheless, that they would be better treated by Oermany than b7 Russia. This situation must have changed. The Poles did not fear Russia: they feared the Czar and the old imperial regime. These Poles, as much as the German people, need a liberator from without .And the entrance of the United States in the war will give the Poles the courage to hold out against Germany until peace is made.
REPORT ON CANVASS Solicitors for the Y. M. C. A. $,000 contribution, fund will report the result of their canvass st luncheon tomorrow noon. Unofficial reports Indicate the goal will be reached.
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