Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 42, 31 December 1917 — Page 7
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM," MONDAY, DEC. 31, 1917.
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BOTH RICHMOND SCHOOL TEAMS TO PLAY HERE - - High Meets Huntington and Earlham State Normal on' Coliseum Floor. The Richmond high school and Earlham basketball squads are preparing for the two home games at the Coliseum. Friday night, Jan. 4, Richmond high with Huntington and Earlham with State Normal. Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock Coach Mullins has called a practice of the Richmond high basketballers at the Coliseum. An attempt will be made to overcome the poor shooting displayed by the team in the last few games. The Huntington five is a worthy opponent, having defeated Anderson 22IS on the Anderson floor. Basketball fans who have seen the Huntington quintet in action say it is fast and will show Richmond a strong fight for the honors. To Work New Years. Captain Guy Tontius has called buck the Earlham basketball squad for practice New Year's day. Some shifts are expected in the Earlham lineup soon in order to strengthen the pasting machine, by the time Earlham meets the old Wabash five, Jan. 12. Professor E. P. Trueblood, Earlhamathletic supervisor announced Monday that a contract had been signed with Ray B. Mowe, of Rochester, Ind., to assist Coach Lewis in coaching the Earlham five. The exact time that lie will coach Is not yet known but it is thought that he will spend several weeks here. Mowe has had personal experience in the game having been considered at one time the fastest and best forward in the state. lie Is a member of the state athletic association that won the state championship. He was one of the best referees on the Bloomington floor during the state high Hchool basketball tournament last yea''. Nothing is known of the training of the Earlham men during the vacation period with the exception of Jessup, Pitts and Brown who played in the alumni game last Wednesday night. It is thought that all the men will be here for practice Tuesday in order to get in some good work before meeting the State Normal team.
Commercial Club to Get Boy and Farm Together Plans are being made by Secretary Albus for a survey of the Wayne county farmers and Richmond boys to find out what farmers need help and what Richmond boys are willing to go on farms. It is the plan of the Commercial Club to aid the Wayne County Council of Derense In distributing the boys wmorg the formers who need help. Small questionnaires will be sent the boys soon to discover how many wish work on farms this summer and what kind of wirk they, wish to do.
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German prisoners at Fort McPherson, Ga., playing the American pastime The process of Americanizing the German prisoners at Fort McPherson, Ga., is beginning to show progress. It has been agreed that if anything will fctart them on the way of becoming Americans it is the American national pastime and the men are now showing a lively interest in the sport. They no longer need urging as they have formed a real liking for the sport. Ball games are played most every day.
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Few towns have ever been able to brag of the turning cut of so many star battlers as St. Paul. At the present time four of the chief stars ot the ring game make their homes there and are proud to add that they spent quite a bit of their childhood therre as well. The well-known Gibbons brothers, Mike and Tom, are the products of St. Paul and so is the new middleweight champ, Mike O'Dowd. The two Mikes from St. Paul are great rivals and the time is going to come when O'Dowd will have to show Gibbons that he is every Inch a champ. Such a battle should pack 'em in in St. Paul or anywhere for that matter where both boys are very popular. Johnny Ertle, in some respects the bantam champ, is also a citizen of St. Paul. Three players with the Si. Paul Association team last season have enlisted in service. They are Dick Niehaus, Fred Smith and Bert Ellison. Ellison was supposed to return to the Detroit Tigers for another trial. Niehaus and Smith formerly were with the St. Louis Cardinals. Hugh Duffy, baseball veteran, has been re-engaged as coach for the Harvard .University baseball squad. He will be in charge of the freshman and "informal" teams next spring, according to the announcement, which might Indicate the varsity team will be in other hands. The Cincinnati Reds hit atr awful slump in the winter league a few days ago when they slipped from first place to the bottom of the first division. It's tough luck when they had the pennant all cinched in the winter league. The enlistments of Rath and Kopf were the cause of It. But the team hit a better stride and went ahead to second place when Russell Blackburne was signed. According to areport from Cincinnati. John McGraw has offered to trade Charley Herzog to the Reds for Helnie Groh. It is said the friendship of years between McGraw and Mathewson came near being ruptured when Matty hear McGraw's proposition. Big Ed Ruelback says that he is through with baseball for keeps annd announces his fiual and well considered retirement.
Jerry Akers, veteran pitcher, once with Washington and after that in various minor leagues, has enlisted In the aviation service.
With so many more serious propositions before baseball the mere matter of clarifying the rules, putting restrictions on freak deliveries, etc., seems to have been passed temporarily.
Stanley (Lefty) Baumgartner, former Philadelphia National league pitcher, who coached the Delaware College football team the past season, has been retained by the athletic council to also coach basketball and baseball.
days and the days that are now passing, politics, religion, war, fairy land and variety, dream and hard fact, love and hate and good and evil all mingled in together, yet not without order, the whole mighty spectacle pointing toward and finding its completion in the great truth laid down by the Apostle in the thirteenth of First Corinthians; now abideth faith, hope, love, but the greatest of these is love. MURttETTE Misa Juliette Day, the scintillating little star of "Upstairs and Down," the Hatton's Broadway hit, and whose success in "The Yellow Jacket," "Chin Chin" and "Twin Beds" are equally well known, has been given a .very satisfactory medium for display of her clever acting in "Betty and the Bucaneers," at the Murrette today and Tuesday. Miss Day is caBt as Betty, the pretty little dreamer of Twin Oaks manor, whose father, a professor of antiquities, is lured by a pirate, euphoniously christened Tobias Crook, into a wild adventure on a desert Pacific island. Betty is left at home and when the pirate comes back, having marooned Betty's Pa on a rocky coast, and she is rescued by Dick Winthrop. who is Joe King, in a series of exciting adventures.
Hoosier Happenings
CONFESSES HE SET FIRES , EVANSVILLE. Dec. 31. An 18-year-old boy at Dale, Spencer county, has confessed to George Felthaus of Evansville, deputy state marshal, that he was responsible for several recent fires in Dale, one of which destroyed a large tobacco warehouse. Relatives have the boy in custody and will be responsible for his appearance in court when called. '
FOUR TOWNSHIPS ERECT SCHOOL)
HUNTINGTON, Dec. 31. Mount Etna, which is situated at the corners of four townships, has a new grade school building, which was erected by Lancaster, Polk, Wayne and Jefferson townships at a cost of $17,000. All four- townships will maintain the school.
On The Boards
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Leppert, single, has been missing for several months and his friends and relatives fear foul play. Leppert is a German but he has been very pronounced in his loyalty to the United States. He has been missing for more than a week.
MURRAY From the enthusiasm with , which the vaudeville bill was greeted at the Murray this afternoon this new policy promises to be a favorite. Finn and Finn, those funny people with the fuuny feet, soon danced their way into favor with their audience. Vine and Temple, who present their epochal idea of vaudeville, have one of the best acts of the kind seen here in an age. The young lady of the act, a remarkable good looking, well gowned young lady, acts as an excellent "feeder" for the comedian. The feature picture for today and Tuesday is Alma Reubens in "The Gown of Destiny," a picture that at the present time is most timely. The picture is adapted from the story of a woman and a gown, a slacker and a patriot. There will be two performances tonight, one at seven, the other at eight forty-five.
boT, a war munition factory employing 1,500 men, were foupd to be untrue when gas fumes and dense smoke cleared away and tno6t of the workers were found to be merely stunned or or overcome. Two men. were fatally burned. The damage was estimated at $2,000. ORGANIST PREVENTS PANIC EVANSVILLE, Dec. 81. Fire in the basement of the Princess theatre here was first noticed by the organist, Mrs. Marie Specht. When motorcycle officers entered the playhop.se and asked the audience to remain quiet Mrs. Specht played ragtime music on the organ that jdrowned out the noise of the firemen working below and a panic was averted.
GET ORDERS TO KEEP DRILLING
Captain Myron Malsby, of the Rich' raond militia company, announced Monday he had received Instructions from Adjutant eGneral Smith that the company should continue drilling. . Monday night the first drill as a militia company will be held In the Coliseum. The enlistment papers of the men who were 6Wora in under Colonel Garrard were received Saturday.
The shortage of German dyeB inspired Le Blair Hampton of Picayune La., to devise the scheme of dyeing cotton as it grew.
EXPLOSION KILLS TWO HAMMOND, Dec. 31. Rumors that
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If the Boston Red ox keep on enlisting in that particular branch of the service the navy will be well supplied with yeomen. Herb Pennock and Loren Bader, both pitchers, are the latest to take the yeoman's oath, according to reports from Boston.
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No qther major league club has been as hard hit as the Brooklyn Dodgers when it comes to pitchers going into service. Cadore, Smith, Miljus and Joe Pfeffer have gone from the club. No wonder President Ebbets refused to consider any deal for Rube Marquard.
On The Screen
WASHINGTON About "A Daughter of The Gods" at the Washington today and New Years, with Annette Kellerman, Rev. Tnonias B. Gregory writes: Of the "Daughter of the Gods" we may say what Enobrabus said to Cleopatra as she reclined in queenly state in her guilrled barge on the Cyruns. that "age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. For her own person it beggared all description." One cannot describe "A Daughter of the Gods." The wonderful photodrama defies the fondest descriptive powers and laughs to scorn every attempt to tell just what it is. It is a little bit of everything the Orient and the Occident, the ancient
NEW YORK, Dec. 31. Herbert Witherspoon, the opera singer, on returning to his apartments Saturday night, discovered a light burning at the far end of the hallway, which attracted his suspicions. He had appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House that evening, and left the apavlment locked and dark. Mr. Witherspoon's den and writing room is located next to the front door so he stepped in quietly and possessed himself of a revolver that he always keeps in his desk. Thus armed, the singer advanced down the hall toward the lighted room from which he could now hear mumbled voices, and suddenly appeared in the doorway with his weapon leveled at the head of one of two burglars who were busily occupied trying to open a drawer. Witherspoon is of course quite a majestic figure and not at all the kind of person who loses his composure under any sort of conditions, consequently it was very significant of him to remark in his deep voice: "Good evening, genttemen."' Both men sprang around and discovered the pointed gun; one of them bolted for an open window, but the other was too surprised to move and respected the businesslike way in which Witherspoon kept him "covered." His hands went up automatically, and he proved to be a model and docile prisoner. The opera fetar marched his prey out to the telephone and
DR. BARNARD TO ADDRESS GROCERS
Dr. H. E. Barnard, state food dictator, will address Wayne county
grocers Wednesday night in the Com-i mercial club rooms at 7:30. I
Wa .-ill fty-laln th fnftH arlminlctra.
tion's rules as they relate to dealers. !
Every grocer in the county is urged to attend this meeting.
stood over him while the burglar had the remarkable experience of calling the police himself. Witherspoon's sense of dramatic values certainly displayed itself in the above episode, and his only regret, he says, is that there was no one there to enjoy the scene.
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Dazzling the eye, astounding the mind, stirring the heart and overshadowing anything previously concived or executed by master-minds of moving pictures. A genration in advance of all other film achievements. Georgeous and Glittering Fairyland. Wonderously appealing and fascinating blending of the Arabian nights and "Never Never Land" for the children. Completely absorbing and amazing the imagination of the grown-ups. The Only Million Dollar Picture Marks the Sun Height of Success. Shows Continuous 1 : 45 to 12:00. Tueseday 1 :45 to 11 :00 p. m.
The Crowning, Flawless, Fairy Film Achievement of the Generation. The Transcendental Triumph of Screen Spectacularism. The unanimously conceded climax of lavish production, enchanting beauty, scenic slpendor, exquisite art, staggering magnitude. ' Special Tonight We will remain open until after midnight and those wishing to usher in the New Year are invited to do so at the Washington. ORCHESTRA MUSIC NEW YEAR'S
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