Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 41, 29 December 1917 — Page 5

" . THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUNTELEGRAM, SATURDAY, DEC. 29, 1917.

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SPORTS

BOTH ENDS OF TWIN BILL WON BY EATON HIGH Brookville, 0., and .Alumni Basketball Squads Humbled by Same Team. EATON, O., Dec. 29. The Eaton high school basketball quintet took both game3 in a double bill at Eaton, Friday night, the second with Brookville. Ohio, high school five by the score of 59-11, and the first with the Eaton alumni, 15-12. In the second game on the bill the Eaton high leather tossers outclassed the visitors passing the ball all around the Brookville five and shooting at will. The Iliesiand-Churchill combination played a star game. Heistand made of the points and Churchill made 17 points. Ayers who went in for Kubler at center In the second half made four field goals. In both of the games the same Eaton high school team played. For the alumni Saunders made four points and Ressler eight free throws. The second half of the alumni game the Eaton high school five made only one point. Second Game. Eaton Gls. Fls Heistand, f 10 2 Msd.Pts. Churchill, f S Kubler, c 3 Sherer, g 1 Highland, g ....... 0 Ovcrholser, f 2 Ayers, c 4 Hunt, g 0 Weaver, f 0 1 0 0 Totals Brookville Falkner, f . . . . ShiU, f Michael, c . . . Xictert, g . . . . Mundhunk. g . .28 Gls. . 1 '. I . 0 . 0 Fls. 0 1 t I) 0 Msd.Pts. 0 2 5 4 0 0 Totals 4 ?. 12 11 Substitutions Eaton high, Overholser tor Churchill; Ayers for Kubler; Hunt tor Highland; Weaver for Hielland. Fouls committed Eaton high Ilicstand, p, t; Churchill, 3p; Kubler, t; Sherer, 2p, 2t; Highland, 2p; Ayers. "t. Brookville, Michael, p. t; Mundhunk, 3p, 2t. Officials Referee, sock, Brookville. Scorer, Stroh, EaNohr, Richmond. Timekeeper, Newton. First Game.

Eatou Gls. Fls. Msd.Pts. Heistand. f 3 2 3 8 Dverholscr. f ........ 0 0 0 ,0 Kubler, c 1 0 0 2 Acton, g 2 0 0 4 Highland, g 0 0 0 0 Churchill, f o 1 3 1

Totals J 3 6 15 Eaton Gls. Fls. Msd.Pts. Saunders, f 2 0 0 4 Magill, f 0 o 0 0 lohnson, c o 0 0 0 easier, g t S 7 8 Uiltenberger, g 0 0 0 0 Totals 2 S 7 12

Fouls committed Eaton high, Overholsor, 3p; Kubler, f, Acton, 4p, 4t; Highland, p. 2t. Alumni; Saunders, ',p. t; Magill, t: Ressler. 2p; Miltenberger, p, t Officials Nohr. Richmond. Referee Raney. Timekeeper Stroh, scorer. Time of halves 15 minutes. SPORT SNAP SHOTS When the players were signing contracts for the 1917 season, Jovj Judge, the former New York semi-pro player of Hie Washington tram, asked tor aj bonus, the same to be determined by j his stick work, ('lark Griffith was j agreeable and it was finally decided that .Indgp would receive .1600 extra in the event that, he closed i In? season with a batting mark of .283. The official batting records of theAmer1?an league recently have been made public, ad they hhow that Judge won tils bonus, but did not hit ns much ss our percentage point, above the sprcilied figure. He hit exactly 2S5. Unofficial records had him batting .281 In August, when he sustained a fracture of tbe tight ankle in a game at Detroit, this injury forcing him out of the game for tho remainder of the season. He did not have to wait until the official figures became known before being assured of his bonus, as Griffith j announced the day after .lunge was injured that he was prepared to give Joe the extra money regardless of anv figurps. "He has satisfied m- that he is entitled to it." was Griff's remark. K Bill Br.ker and Conni-j Mack entertained any notions that the feeling caused by the deals in which thty disposed of their bes bRll players would wear off with the wintrr. they are fasi being disillusioned. Philadelphia sport' writers will never get over the shock of those two deals. They simoly can't reconcile themselves to the Phils and Macks with Alex, Killifer, Bush, Schang and Strunk among the missing. And Phllly ' fans well, the fans don't ;et the chance to express themselves in thr newspapers, but the boys who write baseball are betting on the total number of empty seats that the Phils and Macks will nlay to next season. It's a gay life! Johnny Evers has been offered a position as baseball writer on a Chicago paper. TheTrojaii talks and writes baseball clearly and intelligently and ought to succeed if he accepts the offer.

Eight minor leagues out of twenty have announced that they will play ball next year. They are the Pacific Coast American Association, Western league, Southern Association, Texas league. Eastern league. Blue Ridge league and Central Association. Sevrti circuits must be reorganized If thev expect to resume operations. They Sre (he International. Central, Three-?, South Atlantic. New York State,

MARTINSVILLE HAS TOO MANY VETS ON TEAM

Opponents Trounce R i c hmond High School Quintet by Score 33 to 22. The Richmond high school basketbailers were downed Friday night by the Martinsville five, at Martinsville, by the score of S3 to 22. Too many btight lights on the Martinsville five caused defeat to the Richmond quintet. The Martinsville aggregation, besides having Curtis, an all-state man, on the team, has three other veterans of lasi je'ar's squad. The Martinsville forward, Pipps, with Meredith and Curtis passing the ball to him, made the points with ease for the Martinsville passing machine. Pipps made twenty points. Curtis, the all-state man, only made two field goals anc five out of nine free throws. Simmons, the pivot man for the Richmond leather tossers, played well on the defense, but was unable to locate the basket, making only eight points. Van Allen was out of training, but played a good game, making fourteen points for the Richmond five. Put in Seconds. In the first half the scoring was slow, but in the second, when second string men went in for Martinsville, the game became faster, and Richmond managed to gain a larger end of the score. In the last half substitutions were made for all the positions but center and one guard by the Martinsville coach, but the change was not made soon enough for the Richmond five to beat the second string men. The score: RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL. Gls. Fls. Msd. Pts. Van Allen F. 5 i 2 14 Robinson F. Q 0 0 0 Simmons C. 4 A 2 0 Harding G. 0 o 0 0 Stegman '.,. 0 0 0 0

Totals 9 A 4 22 MARTINSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. Gls. Fls. Msd. Pts. Meredith F. 2 0 t) 4 Pipps F. 10 0 0 20 Curtis C. 2 5 3 Gibbs G. 0 0 0 0 Frye F. 0 0 0 0 Crone G. 0 0 0 0 Young F. 0 0 0 0 Hasting F. 0 0 0 0 Totals 14 5 3 33

Fouls committed By Richmond: Van Allen, 1 p., 2 t; Simmons, 2 p.; Stegman, 2 p. By Martinsville: Pipps, 2 p.. 1 t.; Curtis, It.;. Gibbs, 2 p., 1 t.: Crone, 1 p. Substitutions Martinsville: Crone for Frye. Young for Meredith, Hasting for Pipps. Scorer and Timekeeper Mullins. ByS p - in B shrdl shrd uat Northwestern and Western Association. Those already out of the game are the Virginia, North Carolina, Dixie. Georgia, Alabama and Northern leagues. Pitcher "Snipe" Conley drafted by Cincinnati from Dallas, is said .to be ripe for the big show, and if he displays the form in Redland that he did in the Texas league will strengthen Matty's club greatly. It is rumored that Hugo Bezdek, i i iiiaiia-s"-! i" i" ruaieM ;tuu wain m the football team of tho University of Oregon, will oe engaged as successor to Sol Metzger, coach of the Washington and Jefferson eleven, next year. Jack Dunn of the Baltimore club' who still believes that the International league can be saved, has nominated a friend to fill the presidencyleft vacant by Edward G. Barrow's resignation. Merwin Jacobson, former Giant youngster and now the property of the Cubs, hit .281 with Toronto i his year and Fred Mitchell will look him over very carefully in the tpring. Clark Griffith has already collected over $32,000 for the purchase of baseball equipment for soldiers. Sam Crawford is quoted as saying -.that Ty Cobb is the real manager of the Detroit Tigers. Waite Hoyt, the kid pitcher, stands an excellent chance of being retained by the Giants for the en'Jro Beason of 1918. He has been farmed out to the minors for the past two years.

Hoosier Happenings

WILL FINANCE FARM. TERRE HAUTE, Dec. 29 The Terre Haute Rotary club has pledged itself to finance a farm in Vigo county for the boys' working reserve. It was said the cost would be between $4,000 and $6,000. The action followed an address by Dr. Stanley Coulter, dean of Purdue university. PREFERS TRENCHERS TO PRISON. EVANSVILLE, Dec. 29. "Send me to the front line of trenches in France instead," pleaded Harry Murray, when he was sentenced to serve from-two to fourteen years for forgery. Judge Givens did not. follow the suggestion, however. He sentenced Murray's wife to serve the same term in the Indiana Woman's prison on a similar charge. FAIL TO MAKE RETURN. RUSHVILLE, Dec. 29. The Rush county selective army board, which has been classifying registrants for the last ten days, has placed Edward S. Combs of Covington, Ky and Crawford A. Shandoan of Carthage in class 1, because they failed to return ( their questionnaires within the seven days' time limit.

Murray to Present Vaudeville Again - Commencing next Monday, Manager Murray will install a new policy at the Murray of feature pictures and vaudeville. ',' " : The pictures, as heretofore, will change on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, with the vaudeville acts changing twice a week, on Monday and Thursday. For the first half of the week Alma Reubens, In a society drama, "The Gown of Destiny," will be shown, and the vaudeville acts will be Finn and Finn, "those funny folks with the funny feet," dancing team, the equal of which has not been seen in Richmond in a long time; also Vine and Temple, in "An Epochal Idea of Vaudeville." I "

MURRETTE A vivid idea of the true cause for patriotism on the part of every American in connection with the great world war can be had from the new Mary Pickford-Artcraft picture, "The Little American." appearing at the Murrette theatre Sunday. In producing thi3 subject Cecil B. De Mille, the genius of screeneraft, based his play on actual facts and carefully avoided exaggeration so often prominent in films of this nature. Every detail was staged only after it had received the endorsement of an authority and various experts on matters pertaining to the great war, were called in to collaborate in the presentation of different scenes. As a result the picture has been named as the most faithful reproduction of true conditions, by manay who are in a position to judge. Miss Juliette Day, the scintillating little star of "Upstairs and Down," thaj Ilatton's Broadway hit, and whose successes in "The Yellow Jacket," "Chin Chin" and "Twin Beds" are equally well known, has been given a verey satisfactory medium for display of her clever acting in "Betty and the Buccaneers," a new American-Mutual production at the Murrette Monday and Tuesday. i Miss Day is cast as Betty, the pretty i

little dreamer of Twin Oaks manor, I Once the sheltered wife of a Wall whose father, a professor of anti- j street financier, the bandages of ignorquities, is lured by a pirate, euphoni-, ance w?re torn from her eyes by her ously christened Tobas Crook, into a own husband. She saw the world for

wild adventure on a desert Pacific island. Betty is left at home and when I tne pirate comes back, having marooned Betty's Pa on a rocky coast, she is rescued by Dick WTinthrop, who 1 io Tno T-T 1r ry n l- in 1 n ci nf nv.if i n . . . 1 . ' ?w el . . ti . 1 1 0 LAviuug adventures. Charlie Gunn says that for real thrills moving pictures have matinee idol-ing "hacked clean off the boards." He speaks from a vivid experience, having recently performed the little stunt of having a live rattlesnake coiled around his bare chest, while the reptile's head was shot off with a 45calibre revolver. This thrilling incident occurs in Triangle's newest thriller in Western drama, "The Firefly of Tough Luck," which was produced at Hartville, the film company's 1,800-acre ranch-studio in the Santa Monica mountains. Ama Ruebena and Walt Whitman are featured in the leading roles. Playing at the Murrette Wednesday and Thursday. LYRIC The New York American said. "Thrills Mark New -Film Play 'Come Through,' striking melodrama shown t:i screci. at the Lyric, is latest work of Geoe - Bronson Howard. .'Ccmo Through' may be George Itrnnson Howard's mightiest melodrama. Tne romance of 'Come Through' is unusual. There have been shown before, on the screen, marriages performed at the pistol point, but the ceremony in Mr.

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r,.,,!-.i, f h,-..ori -r, speeds the melodrama thrills, there is a veritable deluge of events. Through it all, the romance eventually scintilates with success." Educational Secretary To Speak at First M. . Ralph E. Diffendorfer of New York will give an address at the First. Methodist church Sunday night. Mr. Diffendorfer is educational secretary of the Methodist church and his work calls on him to address the young people in all parts of the church. Ferguson Arrives Safely An France A cablegram was received, Saturday from Clem Ferguson, of theNTwelfth Aero squauron, uy uis parents, .vir. and Mrs. T. J. Ferguson, 103 South j Sixteenth street, telling of his safe! arrival in France. j Ferguson, who was formerly em-j ployed in Dayton, enlisted there. ( BAN ELABORATE SPREADS. OWEXSVILLE. Dec. 23. The Masonic lodge of Owensville and other lodges here will not - observe their long-established custom of serving an elaborate dinner for lodge members and their families, -fhe action has been taken as a food conservation measure. MAY FORM TWO COMPANIES. .MUXCIE, Dec, 29. The Muncie state militia company has ten members above its maximum and a -second company may soon be organized. The. company, which is drilling regularly,' will be mustered into state service Monday night. MURDERED WIFE, CLAIM. : WARSAW, Dee. 29. George Bartholomew is under arrest in -connect tion with the murder of his wife at Milford. The couple had been married only a year. Officials said they would place a charge of murder against Bartholomew. His wife was found with her throat ut and her slashed and several bullet face wounds in her body.

MUSICAL SHOW HERE THIS WEEK Good music, new and catciiy tunes are said to be a feature of "His Bridal Night," the successful musical comedy in which Frederick V. Bowers will be seen at the Washington theatre Thursday night, Januery 3. The music is all from the pen of Mr. Bowers, who besides being a comedian of note is one of the foremost composers of popular songs in America. In the piece in which he is starring he will offei" sixteen musical numbers giving all of his' latest compositions, none of which have yet been published. They are fully up to his standard and it may be expected that several new song hits will be credited to him ere the present season is far advanced. In order to present his music to tha best advantage, Mr. Bowers has secured the best singing talent available. The Duane Twins, who play the roles of. the sisters in the piece, both possess voices of unusual merit, while the prima donna role is carried by Alma Youlin, a singer who needs no-introduction in any city in the country. Sue Talmpdge has. a voice well suited to the task. A good singing chorus and a full symphony orchestra carried by the company, complete "the musical equipment which should 'render "His Bridal Night" one of the most tuneful offerings of the season. MURRAY the first time, in all its sordid naked - ness. Witn tne kiss sne saw Ler nusband give the "other woman," her life's happiness was crushed. Then she had been Mrs. Roger De Haven, rich, beautiful and envied. Now she was known as Mme. De Berry, and though still rich, beautiful and envied, she was feared by the wives of all the men who made her famous New York salon the meeting place of Wall Street's biggest men. Then it was that Mme. DeBarry met

Bob Spalding, for her. a new type of Fm. one who hag been ,n picture?. man. He was not of the puppets who as , ag Warguerite Clark she shows had danced at her heels, but he alsola charniing sophistication about the fell under her spell. When she re- raechanjcs of the art. Miss Clark re

turned to iew York sne carneu nib heart with her, if not his mining stock; and on this hinges the plot which makes "Fuel of Life" the Triangle play featuring Belle Bennett and Texas Guinan a photodrama of unusual mer uit. To be shown at the Murray the atre on Sunday. With the fate of a picture lA stake and after a reward of fifty dollars had i failed to bring any results, a posse of j heavily armed heroes from the TriI angle's Culver City studio spent all I day and most of the night in a thrill ing chase a chase for an elusive maneating shark. Carrying fathoms of rope, hooks closely resenfbling hay-hooks, and bait of all descriptions, an entire company of men led by Director Wyndham Git tens finally succeeded in landing thequarry after the entire population cf a Japanese fishing village near Santa Monica had failed. This shark is seen i in tne mange piay, ine snip ot Jjuum, at uic .uui i . luraf ii. iiuijiii. That the root of all evil was money was the expressed opinion of a famous character of olden days. That it is the root, the tree and all the little hiFnrhi3s th pvnrpastpH miininn of ' Albert Parker, who directed Winifred Allen in the Triangle play. "For Valour," at the Murray treatre next Thursday. When Director Parker returned to the States from Toronto, where he took his company for some exteriors, he thoughtfully brought back some Canadian bills real bills, mind you, no stage money for this director. But from the moment that these Canadian visitors lauded In the studio they seemed bewitched they never knew their rightful place they had no keen perception of what an extra should do. The climax oame one morning when the Canadian rctmey. was urgently needed for a most important scene. "Where's the Canadian money howled Director Parker. "Hurry up with it now." Then someone remem-

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The sanctity of marriage and the home is one of the vital matters discussed in Norma Talmadge's new photo play. In it is shown the struggle between a woman's love for her husband and her devotion to their child. It is a compelling story, filled with tense dramatic movements, and one that will bring home to its audience the tremendous lesson it teaches PATHE NEWS. ORCHESTRA MUSIC. SHOWS CONTINUOUS 1:45 TO 11:00 P. M. . . MATINEE 10c. ' NIGHT 15c. -

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bered seeing an assistant property man with some bills. He was hunted up and jammed into an Inquisitorial corner. "Where's that Canuk kale?" demanded the property man. "Them phoney lookin' bills? Why I passed them on a flower peddlar," stuttered the assistant. "Great grief," " howled Director Parker, "that'll get him pinched." The result was that the Yonkers police searched five hours to locate a Greek flower peddler with a wad of Canadian money. They found him trying to pass a Canuck dollar bill on an Irish saloon-keeper.; It is thought that Greek will be wiser in the ways of foreign currency when he is released from the hospital. V .

WASHINGTON In every part that William Courtenay plays both on stage and screen there i3 evident a sincerity of purpose and a rapid-fire quality that have made him one of the most popular actors in the United States. He is to be seen Sunday at the Washington theatre in a Puihe Gold Rooster Play entitled "The Recoil," in which he is supported by Lillian Greuze, the famous star of Nev York's French Theatre. Courtenay brings to the photoplay a wealth of experience from the Amori on the screen is equally unviable. "The Romantic Journey," "Kick In." "Tbe Huntine of the Hawk in whicu he has been seen here recently, attest in tVint Hla rnlfi in "Th' Recoil" gives him ample opportunity for the particular kind of work that has made him famous. With newspapers throughout the United States printing stories about; the losses of life along the Atlantic coast caused by attacks on bathers by man-eating F.harks, William Fox's com- ! pany of 20,000 players, who were makmg his cinema spectacle, a uaugmer of the Gods," at the Washington Monday and Tuesday, was in Jamacia and threatened with the same horrors that befell American bathers. In "A Daughter of the Gods" there i are numerous water scenes in which j mermaids appear and other scenes in J which Annette Kellermanu, world's j greatest swimmer and star of "A i Daughter of the Gods," appears. rntlv ,,.ont tn thi first chnwintr of Bab's Matinee Idol," her most recent picture in which she is to be I seen at the Washington theatre on j Wednesday and Thursday afternoon, i with which a Paramount pictograph I is also shown. The latter showed men diving off a spring board and, by reversing the film, showed them springing from the water and alighting on the board twenty feet over the water. "That's a remarkable feat," said the little Paramount star quite seriously. "I don't see how they do it without hurting themselves when they hit the spring board on the jump." "Bab's Matinee Idol" will be shown at the Washington theatre on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. A novel profession figures in the story of "Nearly Married," the new Goldwyn starring vehicle for Madge Kennedy, to be seen at the Washington theatre Friday and Saturday. It is personified in the character of Hattie King, a professional co-respondent. The "Nearly Married" situation is that of a young couple who have quarreled because the husband objects to having his wife's brother accompany them on their honeymoon. The wife, Betty, stimulated by her brother, Dick, j wno is a rising young lawyer anxious i to begin ms first case, proposes that they get a divorce. So the husband, Harry, consults his lawyer friend, Tom Robinson, and together they engage Hattie King. . , Morton Lake Thronged With Skating Parties 1 - : . , r r i , i -i , i t , with a firm structure of ice, which is theh source of the usual joy to RichFriday and Saturday the lake was I , i thronged with skaters. . Palladium Want Ads'Pay.

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