Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 44, 2 January 1918 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM . AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, 1918.

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OLD DAD TIME . DADE H AMY NEW CllAMPSm '17 Baseball and Boxing . Titles Handed Around Lively During Year. By OLD DAD TIME T did pretty well In 1917. I made new champions ralore. es

pecially tn the pugilistic world and on me Daseftau dianond. I made "Panto" Rowland kingpin among nig ieagut managers and gave him a world scrips championship. In (loins tbo latter 1 am tree to confess that I had the abli assistance of Hein le Zimmerman, t 1 made Eddie Gcotte the most not ed of pitchers by. influencing Ameri can league batters to the belief that his "shine ball" vas unbtttable. I made Eddie Rousl. the red-hosed wonder of Cincinnati, new champion batter of the Natioial league. What kept me from mak&g a new champion swatter for the lmerlcan was Ty Cobb. I made Hank Gowdy the champion of all baseball by leading blm Into an Uncle Sam unifoim the first big league player to volunteer. I made Mike O'Dowd champion middleweight boxer and no on wko has seen the "Fighting Harp" Jn ring action can 'say 1 didn't do well when I thrust the crown upon Mike's pompadour dome. I made Ted Lewis welterweight champ, although I'm open to argument as to whether or no I made a fizzle of that job. Mtybe I crowned the wrong man. I don't know, but I w ill the minute Tel gets Into a real battle. I made Benny Leonard champion lightweight. That was some neat Job, even if I do say bo myself. Benny has it on all the other million or two promising lightweights. But I do wish Benny would make good on bis promise to enlist. I made Pete Herman champion bantam. , That was a poor job, because Herman is called a slacker even in his home town. I would have made a new champ heavy and a feather, too, but for a couple of good reasonsJess Willard and Johnny Kllbane. I made . Earl Caddock champion wrestler, thus taking the title from one farmer, S teener, and giving it to another son of the noil. Maybe I should have handed the r ssling medal to Olin or Zbyssko. What do you think? I made Pittsburg champion in the eastern football world; Georgia Tech. in the south, and Ohio . State, in the west. I made Miss Gertrude Artelt champion 100-yard woman swimmer, and aided little Miss Thelma Darby In defeating Miss Claire Galligan. national woman's champion swimmer on the 500-yard course. I made Mias Harris M queen of the harneis world, seeing to it that she gained the honor of being the first mare to pace In two minutes. I and, fellows, I am sorry, just as sorry as you took awsy two of the best men who ever pleased a sport loving public, Robert Fitzsimmons and Frank Gotch, than whom better or finer-men never entered the ring or went to the mat. I did a lot, didn't ? You bet I did! And I only had 365 days in which to to do all this. Sam Crawford Tipped As New Indian Pilot INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., 3n. 2. Dispatches from Los Angeles today brought the information that President James C. McGUl of the Indianapolis club has decided to sign a playing manager for next season, but that none of the present members of the team is being considered. He mentioned Sam Crawford as one of tho men be has in mind to succeed Jack Hendricks, who became a big league manager yesterday at the new bead of the St. Louis Nationals. Crawford became famous with the Detroit Tigers and In his many years with that club he always bit heavily. He has slipped badly In the last two j tars, however, and was not. a regular last season. Sam may have toore hits left in his bat. but he has lost his fly-chasing ability. However, he could do valiant service as a pinch hitter and possibly be abb to fill an outfield utility role. REDS LOSE COMER WHEN HE ENLISTS Morris rtath. The Cincinnati Reds are mournim the loss of Morris Rath, upon whom they naa counted to fill out a hard hitting intieid. The Reds expected Rath to make a big showing upon his return to fast company, and though he expects to make a big showing yet it will be in the service of Uncle Sam and not on the diamond. Ratli lecently wired Manager Matty that he bad enlisted.

FEW NEW RECORDS IN AMATEUR

Above, left to right: Though few new records were es-' tabllsbed and though there was little championship competition the past year of amateur sports was not an uninteresting one. Sports in most every field were kept alive, but they were valued mostly as a means of di version and physical fitness in time of war. Neither in golf nor in tennis were any national titles passed about and the few large tourneys in these sports were benefits for various war charities. Chick Evans still retains the two crowns he won in 1916 as both open and amateur champion, and Miss Alexa Stirling remains the women's champ; Xorris Williams Is still the national singles tennis champ. , In spite of the setback occasioned by the war, golf enjoyed a flourishing year and the many exhibition matches, replacing the competitions of normal years, had almost as great interest as the more important events of other seasons. Bobby Jones, the boy wonder or. the south, continued at his best clip, and Jerome Travers and Chick Evans, though neither had part in any tournament play, played their greatest game in the exhibition matches they had part in. Mrs. W. A. Gavin's twogreen handicap match with Jerome Travers was one of the most interesting affairs of the golfing year. Miss Mary K. Browne seems to deserve first mention among the performers in tennis through the . past year and her many brilliant victories NEW COACH OUT AT FIRST DRILL IN FRESH YEAR Mowe Puts the Earlhamites Through Paces Will Be Here Six Weeks. The Richmond high school and Earlham basketball camps are preparing for the double-header clash at the Coliseum Friday night, R. H. S. with the Huntington five and Earlham with the State Normal team. The first practice of the year was held at the gym at Earlham college Tuesday evening before the new basketball coach, Ray B. Mowe. Mowe, it is understood, will be with the Earlham basketball hopes for six weeks, and possibly the entire season. The entire basketball squad was out with , the exception of Brown, who is out of town. No unusual amount of practice was held. A scrimmage game was played, and some practice in shooting was the sum total of the day's work. Johnson at Guard Johnson, who has been ineligible, was practiced Tuesday, at the guard position. He is one of Earlbam's most likely new men. and it Is thought by Earlham fans that he is a coming bright light of the team. In the practice game Edwards was put at center, Pontius and Jessup, forwards, and Meeks and Johnson, guards. The hopes of the Richmond high school were . again dashed to the ground when it was learned Tuesday that Stegman, one of'the mainstays of the squad, would not be able to play In the Huntington game Friday night. Regardless of this fact, the high school five are still optomistic and expect to take the bunting Friday night. . Very little is known about the Huntington five, with the exception of the defeat it registered against the Rochester quintet this year. The Rochester five 'last year put the Richmond basketball hopes out of the state tournament, but It is not known how many regulars still play on the Rochester team. Lahrman will probably get a chance to play stegraan's position in practice tonisht at tho Coliseum. MAY HOLD TESTS IN WILLIAMS' OFFICE An examination for departmental clerk will be held Saturday morning at 9 o'clock at the Richmond post oSice. Superintendent of Mails Wilscn is considering the advisability of holding thste examinations in County Superintendent Williams' office. Only twelve persons can be accompioflated at the post office.

Miss Alexa Stirling, Duke Kahanamoku and Miss Mary Joe Guyon and Clinton Larson.

were enough alone to give the year 1 some distinction. Another outstanding feature of the tennis season was the brilliant playing of R. Lindley Murray, who displayed a form that in the opinion of a great many would have won him the national title had there been championship tournaments or official rating. The season also saw wonderful playing on the part of Holcome Ward, Malcolm Whitman and Frederick B. Alexander, tennis stars of ten years ago, as well as brilliant performing in the junior class. Charles Garland .of Pittsburgh, the national junior champion, won a place of distinction by defeating consistently some of the best of the game's older stars. Though track athletics were greatly curtailed, the year was not without interest, and Clifton Larson of Brigham Young university was generally acknowledged to be the brightest star of the field Larson's high jumping was of a class to adorn any year of sports, and though the Amateur Athletic union could jiot accept the unofficial measurements, he set a new world's mark In a special meet at Provo, Utah, by jumping 6 feet 7Ts inches.. His average jump for the season was slightly under 6 feet 4 inches. - The indoor season saw brilliant performances on the part of Joe Loomis In the 60-yard dash, Andy Kelly in the 300-yard run, Johnny Overton in the 1,000-yard welkasthe one-mile, While they were passing out belts of anything of the sort in the recently completed wrestling tournament in New York there should have been a belt offered Sula Hevonpaa who, in one respect at least, was the champion of the affair. The tournament would have been a bore to many of those present had not Hevonpaa been there to enliven things with his nonsense. In every match he had part in he was sure to bring laughs from the customers with his comical behavior or his humorous remarks. A great part oft he time these were directed at the referee. In one of the final matches he started in at once without the formality of shaking hands. The referee told him to shake .hands with Joe Rogers, his opponent. "Why should I shake hands with him," says Sula, "I've known him for years." While the Western league is . looking far and wide for two new cities it also is giving consideration to another plan that . meets with some favor because it means less mileage. This proposition is that Hutchinson be 'retained and that Topeka be taken back into the circuit to succeed Denver. A Pennsylvania graduate writes from somewhere in France of an incident that will interest followers of college football. A group of American army officers on a few days' leave of absence wandered into the Folies Bergere; the famous variety theater of Paris. "One of the performers, a professional strong man, took an iron bar about four feet long and, gripping it with his two hands, challenged anyone jn the audience to keep a grip on the bar for sixty seconds. Several spectators tried, but the Frenchman broke their holds and landed them in a net hung for protection. Finally, observing the American officers, the professional made a direct challenge to them, and one broad shouldered American accepted. In ten seconds' time the Frenchman was in the net and the officer held up the bar. He was Eddie Hart, the former Princeton football captain. Rumor In New York at the v National league meeting had it that Bill Byron will not be reappointed as an umpire and that Bill Brennan is to get his place on the Tener-Heydler staff. Lacrosse, the national sport of Canada, will be introduced into the American training camps. The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse league will have charge of the Bport. Many former college players are training in various camps. Soldiers of the Australian and Canadian armies are proficient in playing the game. Pitcher Lou North, formerly of the St. Louis Cardinals, who finished the season with the Milwaukee Brewers, has joined the

SPORTS

K. Browne.' Below: Joie Ray, and Jole Ray in the male-and-a-half and two-mile runs. Joie Ray showed himself to be the superior of Johnny Overton in several competitions, beating him in a special one-mile race at New York and In a one-and-a-half-mile as well as the twomile event. Ray set a new mark of 6 minutes 45 1-5 seconds in the mile-and-a-half and 9 minutes 112-5 seconds in the twomile. Football had one of its most interesting seasons in quite a while and mostly because the cantonment teams were'lhere to put life into things. In spite of the fact that Yale, Harvard and Princeton, the leading football schools of other years, were practically out of it, the season was full of thrills, and football fans were kept on edge. Among the . camp teams the most important were the Newport naval team, directed by Cupid Black; the army ambulance team at All fentown, the Tjharlestown navy yard team and the team of stars at Camp Sherman, O., captained by Bud Talbot. Georgia Tech looked to be the most powerful of college teams, with a backfield never surpassed in any year and an individual star in the Indian Joe Guyon. Glenn Warner's Pittsburgh warriors and the O- S. U. team at Columbnawere among the season's beadllnersT The powerful Rutgers team,, developed by George Sanford from scant material, was one of the season's real features. . . . - army aviation corps. North was sent to the Brewers in the deal Cithat made Marvin Goodwin a Cardinal and now both have enlisted in the same service. Hal Chase has interested himself in an oil venture in Kentucky and is trying to sell stock in the concern to his friends among the fans. He tells them there's millions in it. The Philadelphia Nations, who drafted Justin Fitzgerald from the San Francisco club, need not figure on him, for report comes from San Francisco that he has enlisted in the quartermaster's department of the army. RETIRED SIGNAL MAN TO SPEAK James O. Fagan, retired railroad signalman, will make an address at the meeting of the Richmond Commercial club Friday evening at 8 o'clock. He will tell the duty the community owes to its business enterprises and the important part Richmond can play in helping to prepare American industry for war and peace. The address will be in substance an appeal for the formation of a great co-operative alliance oomposed of wage peyer, wage earner, the consumer and the community for the protection of American industry and for the mobilization of the country's industrial re sources for, war. He comes to Richmond as a repre sentative of the National Industrial Conservation Movement of New York City. Every member of the Commercial club is invited to attend. Shaffer Goes to Harvard to Study Radio Work Edgar E. Shaffer of Richmond, leaves Monday for Harvard to complete a course in radio telegraphy. Shaffer lives at Carlos City but had moved here to work and enlisted In the Navy, going to the Great Lakes training station where he' took up radio work. He is now back on leave. Queer Mixup in Names. People with queer names often get associated in 'a way which furnishes the editorial paragrapl;ers with material. Such a mixing up of names with only one real change of name was that involved in Miss Bertha H. Fea ring's marriage to John B. Bold before Justice Coward of South Norwalk, Conn., with Miss Anna Hngg as attendant. The production of explosives in the United States during 1916 was in excess of 500,000,000 pounds, , an increase of about 44,000,000 over 1915.

CENTRAL TEAMS ARE IN FAVOR DF DISDANDING

Richmond Is Ready to Cast Its Lot With Majority of Teams. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 2. According to Information received from baseball promotors in the minor leagues, few of these organizations will get under way this season. ' The minora that do take the chance in the face of the advene conditions brought about by the war, will arrange short schedules, probably not more than half Ihe usual length and even then will have little assurance that they will reach the goal. . The Central League is one of the organizations that may not start the season, the belief of its' leaders being that it would be exercising wisdom to suspend this season and resume next year. It was a pretty tough Job that the Centra! League tackled last year, facing all 'sorts of difficulties and finally finishing the season after transferring the South Bend franchise to Peoria and assisting the crippled Dayton aggregation over the final stretch. Richmond Ready to Start This year, should the Central start, Dayton will hardly be in line, the club management there facing troubles of a financial nature that possibly cannot be patched up unless there is a com plete reorganization of the company holding the franchise. Muskegon, Ft. Wayne, E vans ville and possibly Grand i Rapids will, it is said, favor suspen sion for the coming season, while Springfield and Peoria are said to fa vor making the start. Richmond which was the "babe" of the Central League last year and which surprised the" older heads by the support given the sport, Is understood to be ready to cast its lot with the Central again if the call is made, but will favor suspension for this, year if the majority of. other clubs seem so disposed. There is no question that all baseball leagues will feel the sting of the war the coming season, though the majors are forced to keep things going even though all teams should be operated at a loss. The miuor leagues are not so strongly entrenched financially and could not, it is said, provide the necessary funds to go through a season without depending on the returns from the patrons. The National commisoion, it is understood, stands ready to protect the territorial rights of minor leagues that suspend during this season. HE STIRS UP DOPE THAT PLEASES FANS John Heydler. Secretary John' Heydler of the National league is a man that many fans would be pleased to meet. Heydler seldom fails to dish up dope each fall that keeps the fans happy through the winter months. By Introducing new features into the yearly averages of the players he gives the baseball fanatic something new to pore over and the latter is usually happy to get it. .:.-. Newfoundland this year celebrates the 420th anniversary of her discovery. Inl497. John Cabot sailed from Bristol on a. voyage which was made famous by the finding of Newfoundland. It was not until 1583 thit'it was formally taken possession of in the name of Queen Elizabeth. There is a stretch of railway along the west coast of Ireland where it was formerly not an uncommon occurence for the trains to be blown from the rails tby the winds from the ocean. Astonished Rheumatics Most Joyous All Over the Country They Are Recommending "Neutrone Prescription 99." "Neutrone Prescription 99" In a few days will permanently limber up and remove all aches and pains that none except a rheumatic suffers. The most skeptical persons have at once become its warmest endorsers. As a relieved patient expressed it, "You can distinctly feel a modification of stiffness in your joints and muscles." "Neutrone Prescription 99" acts in a mysterious manner that is almost unbelievable, when in fact it immediately relieves the most obstinate cases of rheumatism. Are you troubled with rheumatism? If you are "Neutrone Prescription 89" will cure you, yes cure you. Go. to any druggist and say goodbye rheumatism. Mail orders filled on $1.00 size. For sale In Richmond by Conkey Drug Co. (Adv.)

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TWO PASSENGER TRAINS CUT OFF

. Two Pennsylvania passenger trains, which pass through Richmond, will be discontinued, beginning January 6, -to conserve motive power, according to officials of the company Wednesday. The trains JO be discontinued are tho St Louis train which leaves Richmond at 1:35 o'clock in the afternoon for Indianapolis and St. Louis, the other the New York limited, which leaves Richmond at 9:30 o'clock in the morning. ' Further curtailment of passenger trains to conserve coal is expected soon, according to officials of the railroad company. Although the traffic in human hair has not been so brisk during the last few years as formerly, on account of the veering of the fashions in hairdressing toward the extremest simplicity, still there are millions; of pounds of. human hair exported from China. -

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WASHINGTON THURSDAY NIGHT, JAN. 3 THE SMARTEST OF ALL MUSICAL COMEDIES PERRY"" J KELLY AND ROBERT CAMPBELL -PRESENT FREDERICK V. BOWERS

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With Exceptional Supporting Cast VIRGINIA DUANE JOHN A. CURTIS ' CLARICE GREY ANGIE OUANE HARRY LILLFORO BIRDIE ROSS ALMA YOULIN SUE TALMADGE MAZIE CAPPER

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The story of a little Canadian Girl who steale to save her slacker brother from disgrace. Matinee 2:00 and 3:20 Adults, 15c: Children, 10c Evenings 7 and 8:45 Lower Floor, 20c; Balcony 15e; Children 10c CHANGE OF VAUDEVILLE BILL THURSDAY

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ALMA REUBENS in "THE FIRE FLY OF TOUGH LUCK" Tried between love and, the sacredness of her marriage vows, "The Fire Fly" faces one of life's hardest problems. , . adults 10c Children 5e

WOMEN WILL NOT 8WIM

On account of repairs to the T. M. C. A. pool Secretary Sen watt announced Wednesday the women's swimming classes will not meet this week. ... .'. ;. ... ". ; iLyiRnc THURSDAY Episode No. 9 "THE RED ACE" 99 in SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEAT SALE NOW VINE & TEMPLE In an epochal idea of vaudeville. IN-

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