Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 43, 1 January 1918 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. TUESDAY, JAN, 1. 1918.

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TWO SECTIONAL TOURNEYS FOR TITLEARE URGED Lafayette Writer Urges State Be Divided for Basketball Play. LAFAYETTE, Ind.. Jan. 1. High school basket ball in the Hoosier fetate has developed in recent years until ' it now is the most prominent branch of sport on the athletic calendar. As it has progressed the methods of deciding the championship each year have been changed, each time putting the teams on a more pqual basis but the system as it is now is not as proficient as the brand of ball played by the high school tossers and

it couid be greatly improved with but little trouble and at the same time would make conditions more agreeable both for the teams and their followers. A new plan is being discussed in

this section of tho state. Instead of

having various sectional meets and

one tournament, why not have two big

sectional meets and then let the winners play each other in the championship battle or a series of contests, lKHslbly two out of three game3, one to be played on the floor of each contestant and the third, if necessary, on neutnil ground. The state could be tUv'ded into a northern and southern hoctio-i, with twelve or sixteen districts it: each section. . Two Bq Tourneys. District winners would play at Pur

due and Indiana Universities for sec-; tlonal championships. Each sectional champion, would have a chance to rest before the state title game or games, and their rooters would have a chance to get to the scene of action for the deciding contest if it was played on a neutral floor, or to see it if one of the series was played on each home court. It would eliminate deciding the championship with a single combat and be less of a physical strain on the combatants. This would be an ideal condition. The winning teams, would not have to play so many games to win the right to represent, that district in the sectional tourney. The winning team in the sectional meet a sectional meet lor the northern section of the state at Purdue and the southern section at Indiana would not. have to play a large number of games and it would be a gradual working up process until the best team from the north and the best from the south would meet. Team Set Fast Pace. The pace of advancement set by the ' high school teams on their road to present conditions has been wonderful and Is worthy of a review. Until 1911. the championship of the state always was disputed, as the team to stt on the throne at the end of each season was chosen bv the comparative score route

or on the percentage basis. , iPpth of

the methods were unreuaDie, opcause often a quintet would finish a season without a defeat, as it played only inferior teams. ., -.1 . 4 In d91t Indiana University inaugu

rated a plan which has proved quite successful. That year the teams of

the state were invited to participate in a big tournament held inr'the old gymnasium at Eloomington. ; Teams from all over the state flocked to the ' downstate town and the affair was a big success. The tournament that year was won by Lebanon, the team which now has the title, having won it for the second time last March. The tourney was staged on "the-sur-vival-of-the-fittest" plan and as a team was defeated it dropped from the race. The contests began on Thursday and the teams played that day and the day following until the semi-finals were completed and then the two undefeated teams rested on Saturday and played the deciding contest on Saturday night. It was a strenuous ordeal for lads of high school age, but was continued until 1915. The Wingate Giants. In 1912 Crawfordsville won the pennant and then Homer Stonebraker and his crew of giants put Wingate on the map by grabbing the bunting two consecutive years in 1913 and in 1914. The fact that Wingate won twice in succession proved that a change was necessary. There were many good Seams in the state, but the players from the city districts did not have the brawn of the urbanites, and the siant Stonebraker practically pushed his team through a winner both years. The Wingate team won because it was the best team, but it went to show that a change was necessary, because the Wingate players went through the Ktrenuous ordeal without flinching, while it was too strenuous for the majority of lads of high school age. . In 1915, the year Thorntown won the title of state champions, the state was divided into districts. This was a move of progression. The lesser lights In the high school athletic world were eliminated and the sixteen best teams in the state journeyed to Bloorainston to decide the championship. The plan has been continued and is in use at the present time. In 1916, Jefferson High School of Lafayette won the title. Last March Lebanon

' won, although hard pressed by Emer-

fou and Gary In the closing game. Lebanon won the deciding contest, 34 to 26. Last year, and it is presumed : the authorities intend to do the same ' this year, there were twenty district tourneys and twenty teams competed for the" crown in the meet at Indiana. I This, to be sure, is a big improvement ! over the old system, but the winuing team still have a very strenuous task. It must win four games in two days to win the championhip.

Latest reports from Australia are that Miss Winifred O'Sulllvan has entered a convent. She was Les Darc'ys fiance and, accompanied by her aunt, came to this country to share the Australian boxer's triumphs in America. Instead she was summoned to Darcy's deathbed in Memphis, Tenn., and then accompanied the remains back to Australia. Steve O'Donnell, Australian heavyweight prominent in boxing in the United States during the days of Fltzsimraons, Mather and Corbett, has a nephew now creating a furroe in the Australian ring game. The nephew is Ray O'Donnell. . He is a welterweight. Ray has a brother, Les, who is considered a fair heavyweight Steve O'Dcnnell was considered as

clever a heavyweight as Jim Corbett. but be lacked the stamina and a glass jaw kept fcim from climbing to the top. , , .

hess of partisanship by the sweetening influence of our devotion to our common cause. . i ' , . . - It is to be regretted that only . they who are of military age seem to be patriots. Every farmer who plants an extra plot of ground, every laboring man who does an extra hour of work, every employer ?who strains to the limit the capacity . of his business, every man, woman, and child, who whole-heartedly pushes the internal activities of the Republic, is enabling the army to be well fed, well cl6thed, well supplied. , The war is going to be fought to a successful conclusion. Upon the individual, whether in the army abroad or at work at home, depends its duration. '

In the hour of peace every man has a right to have, and I hope does have, his individual shrine at which he wor-

Joe Brooks, former star, football player of Colgate University and the coach, of the 1916 Williams college eleven, sends word from France, where he is a first lieutenant with General Pershing's expedition, that he is learning all about the workings of the machine gun. "It is remarkable," says Joe, "how interested an ordinary peaceful gun can become in the art of killing. And the machine gun is the daddy killer of them all. I don't say that I don't think of the gang back home often. I do, and hope some day I'll return and see them. all. But I wouldn't change places with any

SCHVAN ANNOUNCES

WINTER SCHEDULE

The schedule for the Y. M. C. A. physical activities for the winter term was announced Monday, evening by Physical Director Schwan. . For business and professional men the men's recreative gymnasium Classes are open on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 5 to ( o'clock; for busy men, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, from 6 to 7 o'clock. For seniors over 18 years the Classes will be - open Monday and Thursday from 8:15 to 9:30. and for leaders of all classes Monday from

7:30 to 8 o'clock and Saturday from 4 to 5 o'clock. Every Saturday, volleyball will be played from 5 to 7 o'clock. Wrestling, boxing and games will be scheduled on Tuesday and Wednesday from 8:30 to 9:30 o'clock and on Friday and Saturday from 7 to 9 o'clock.

of them now, although I'm here in France without a cigaret and with only a few friends near." They think as much of Tris Speaker world's greatest outfielder, up. in New Hampshire as they do in Cleveland.

Poston or Texas or at leasi one sman boy does. Trisj with a bunch of the Red Sox, visited the Draper-Maynard camp on 'Squam lake after the Carrigan team had vanquished the Phillies in 1915. There was a woman there who was helping cook and clean up. The ever restless Spoke had to do something that helped, so he assisted in washing the dishes. "

ships. I hope the hour will never

Jack Dempsey. latest sensation ' come when, pursuing the peaceful pur-.

among the heavyweights and touted suits of life, men shall cease to cry.

' Lo here, lo there is salvation, but., in the hour of war there can be only one shrine for all men who are really patriotic, and that shrine incases a vision of the God of the Republic. Let men divest themselves of political garbs and personal trappings. Let them, as Moises at the burning bush, come unshodden. Let them cry out to the Republic, "What wilt thou have me to do?" and day and night unceasingly let them worshipand adore the God of the Republic, who for 141 years has not turned His face away from this people nor punished them, save in such hours as they have sought to serve themselves rather than to serve the common weal. The darkness will disappear. The light will break over a world, grown old in want, in sin, in misery, in autocratic king-craft. II will be the light of a newer and a better day, and anything else that America has ever accomplished will pale into significance before the light of the sacrifices which it shall have made for humanity and for freedom.

buildings and art objects. The facade of the cathedral of Padua kaa blown down.; , Pope Benedict has protested to the Central powere against the raids over Padua and Trevlso and asked that they be abstained from In the future, , Repulsed in their attempts to retake Jerusalem the Turks have been pushed back to the northwest until four defensive lines now stand between them and the Holy City.. General Allenby's

forces inflicted heavy losses on . the Turks and captured more' than 600 prisoners. In three days, the British advanced seven miles northwest of Jerusalem. " "I have good hope that before this new year is passed the purpose to which we have set our bands will be completely accomplished," says Premier Lloyd George in the New Year's message to the viceroy of India. "The advent of 1918 finds the allied

forees in strong position from the North Sea to the Adriatic, especially in Flanders and on the Aline front. " Troops of the Bolsheviki government have been defeated In a pitched battle In southwestern Russia by the Ukrainians and Cossacks. According to an unofficial report recetrad in Stockholm the Bolshevik! lost nore than S00 machine guns and eight big guns. The Cossacks are pursuing the retreating Bolshevik!.

as the best big fellow turned out by California since the time of Jim Jeffries, is son going east. Milwaukee promoters want to match him with Billy Miske or Fred Fulton. Bobby Bryne, who shared in trie world's series plums., with the Pirates and Phillies and almost got into another with the White Sox, is now conducting a bowling establishment in St. Louis.

Fred Mitchell expects to start the season with - Williams,- Barber - and Flack in his outfield. If Saier returns to the Cubs, Fred Merkle may be used in the outfield. Chief Meyers is wintering on a farm in Connecticut and is. anxious to sign with one of the major league clubs.

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KING MAKES TEN

STRAIGHT STRIKES

. "Art" King broke all records for high bowling scores on the Twigg alley Monday night. Bowling in the "double tourney," King made ten straight strikes beating Quinlivan who held high score by 18 pins. The highest score rolled by King was 28S while Quinlivan who now holds second rolled 275. In the ingl and double tournament which ends Tuesday. E. 8. Sherer elads Itae singles with 6T2 and King and Lahrman leads the doubles with the combined score of 1219.

McGill to Take Time in Selecting Manager LOS A'NGELES, Jan. l James C. McGill, president of the Indianapolis American association club, said today that no newnanarer-for the Indianapolis club would be chosen to succeed Jack Hendricks, for four years the Indian ramanager, until after 4 the

American association meeting in March. Mr. McGill confirmed the report from S. Louis that he bad given Hendricks permission to accept the Cardinal berth.

FULTON TO MEET MORAN

NEW YORK. Jan. 1 Fred Fulton and Frank Moran will meet in a twenty-round bout at New Orleans on January 28.

HERZOG TRADE SEEN

ing your life for wrong; you are dealing unfairly with your fellow-men; you cannot, cannot win." This belief, firm in my mind and abiding with me, dispels whatever gloom may now rest over the battle

fields of Europe. . Accepting any reasons or all reasons that may be given for the failure of Russia to continue in the fight, we again have had disclosed to our vision that two things are essential to a democracy: education and what Senator Root has so admirably described as "organized 6elf-couTrol." This disposes of the Russian situation. From education and organized selfcontrol proceeds individual initiative. Each day more and more our young men are going to France. They are not mere cogs in a machine of efficiency. Every college in America has

its service flag, and the aggregate of

the stars on these rlags reveals a mighty army of intelligent, educated, thinking Americans, who have initiative. Brains alone will win in . the long run over mere brute force. Brains plus a clear conscience speeds the victory. .

I do not minimize the courage of the German soldier; but men are as they are, and racial characteristics will show themselves. Germans will fight with desperation, shoulder to shoulder, and die. witfr courage-;- - but the individual soldier among them will not think until tomorrow of the thing he should have -done this morning.

-The- reverse is 'true-of the Am erf can

soldier.- He is not bound by precedence. ; - ' '- ' ' One of the greatest of the generals engaged in this war has told me that all military tactics from those of Alexander down have been abandoned, except the tactics of Stonewall Jackson; yet military men knew that the tactics of Stonewall .jackson were directly opposed to everything regarded as good military strategy. He was an author of military initiative. Observing in the numerous camps of the country our young soldiers drawn from our schools and colleges and from all walks of life, I have been impressed "with the belief that the ranks of American soldiery on foreign soil will contain all the courage and initiative required to do what is to be done. And as the young Americans

do and dare, no ghost of doubt will be

BRITISH HOLD

Continued From Page One. the western front there has been only artillery duels. French troops on the-Italian northern front scored a brilliant rtroke in the capture of important positions in the Monte Tomba sector, between the Piave and the Brenta. Besides the positions, the French took from, the enemy 1,400 prisoners. CO machine

guns and seven large guns. Continue Air Raids ' German air men continued their raids on Padua. As in the two previous raids, the attack caused many casualties and the incendiary bombs did much damage to costly and historic

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Corporal J. A. Dunnigan, private Patrick J. Sharkey and M. P. Conroy, 1 65 th Infantry, U.S.A. (thtfamou fighting sixty-ninth), of the ' 'Rainbow Dioision. " Note the tack of "Bull" Durham in their shirt pocket. That J why they were going away with a smile. The"Rainbo'J Dioision"- is nam in France, where they identify U. S. Soldiers ty those familiar 'BuU"Durhamtast.

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OLD MAN ZERO BREAKING CAMP

Old Man Zero is breaking camp in Richmond and preparing to play an engagement elsewhere, according to the weather forecaster, who says that temporary relief from the b-r-r-r-weatber is in sight. Snow is scheduled to fall, while the temperature rises, Weather Forecaster Moore said Tuesday. "Probably snow within the next forty-eight hours" is the prediction. The temperature may rise as high as thirty-two degrees by Wednesday or Thursday, he said. Then, cold weather will probably return Friday or Saturday.

RIGHT CANNOT Continued From Page One. land in loyalty and devotion to the Union and to its cause. v I should be the last man to provoke a reopening of the question which resulted in the war between the States. I have never been able to dispute that constitutionally and legally the South had its right to secede, but I have always maintained, and I think . the South now admits, that morally it had no right to do so. Without facts upon which to base the view, nevertheless, I entertain it that the South would have won had it not been for the fact that every, blow it struck was weakened to a degree in its penetrating power by a feeling. Vague," mysterious, indefinable, but unmistakably . felt, that it ought not tor break up the Union. - And so it is today with the German soldier. He has a vague and disturbing feeling. He probably is unable to analyze or define it; he may not admit that he senses it. But it is my belief that always there is hammering at his conscience an unseen hand and that always there , is being whispered into his ear by . an unfamiliar voice: '"You are fighting in an unjust cause; you are sacrific

ing to them In sepulchral tones that they are wrong. It is up to us who stay at home to determine how long this war will last. We may advance or we may retard its conclusion. Pessimism will retard it; optimism will give it a mighty, onward, impulsive movement. We are not a perfect people. I would not minimize our weakness. We never say "Good morning" to his Satanic. Majesty until he appears. We apprehend no danger until it is face to face with us. We are impatient. We do not realize that armies cannot grow in a night, as did Jonah's gourd. We forget that there was no army of the north until the battle of Antietam. We wonder why we have not now in France a powerful army, thoroughly drilled and perfectly equipped. We are intolerant; we do not brook delays with equanimity. And yet, we have done more in six months than the English people did in two and a half years. If I had my way T would require every American civilian to repeat each waking hour: 'Patience, patience;

God reigns; the Government at Washington still lives." Men of greatest prominence everywhere, leading men of every, business and profession, men of best training and widest experience, successful men, men of courage and devotion, patriotic men all are bending every energy toward the speedy and successful prosecution of this war. Do not throw cold water of criticism upon the mountain flames of patriotism. I regard it as unfortunate that an election must be held to select Senators from certain States and Representatives in Congress from all States during this year upon which we are entering. It is difficult for a man to believe that another can be a patriot and at the came time differ from him on questions of internal policy. I wish the coming elections could in some way be avoided. Let us take this great cause to the innermost recesses of our individual consciences and let us there examine it and v take a solemn oath, by the memory of the men who made and the memory of the men who kept the Republic, that, to the utmost of our endeavors, we will lessen the bitter-

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