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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16
Team Is Composed Of Good
and Fast Players.
CLYDE KELLY MANAGES NINE
Schedule Includes Games With Several
Fast Clubs-Team Secures Van
Ness Park for Season,

The athletic spirit displayed at Column
bian University this spring has far ex-
ceeded that Of past years. when this all
important feature was woefuIIy lacking
Columbian has about twice the mum
Der Of students of any institution il
washington, and from this ample sup
ply of material a good baseball team
should be secured.
Athletics nave never been taken up
seriously at Columbian, and such thing
as an experienced Instructor OF ath-
Ietics is unknown at the university This,
II measure, may account for the lack
Of athletic spirit in past years What
Is needed, if the institution hopes 10 take
the place il deserves in athletics, is a
man st the head of this branch one who
understands his business thoroughly and
has been through the game from begin
hing 10 end II such a person is in
stalled then Columbian may be looked
upon TO assume q station in athletics
equal to that Of other colleges ana uni
versities OF the same grade.
Team TO Be Congratulated.
Considering this handicap. the boys
are TO be complimented this spring on
account Of the intense interest taken
in the baseball team. due mainly 10 the
active part played by Manager Clyde
Kelly. Every fair day, for the past
month. has found the team hard and
faithfully at practice at Van Ness
Park
Heretofore Columbian never bcasted
of a ball park. and its games were
played wherever they could obtain
grounds for the occasion. AT mass
meeting Of the students held month
ago it was decided 10 lease q park for
the season Arrangements were com
pleted a few days later for the use Of
the Y. N. c. A. grounds. which viii be
used by the team until The close OF its
schedule.
From thirty to forty candidates re-
ported for practice this spring. and
from these a fast team has been Sc
Ieeted and good schedule, in fact,
the best ever had by Columbian. has
been completed The stride taken by
the boys. &who. on account Of the lack
of an experienced man at the head Of
athletics. we're compelled to take the
initiative themselves. is pleasing to the
many admirers and shows that the right
spirit is there, and should anything be
done 10 better the system on which It's
sports are run, Columbian may be ex-
pected % rapidly assume the position
in athletics which has long been her
due.
IN addition 70 this handicap Colun-
biaR boasts Of no gymnasium, an ad-
tunet necessary to an institution which
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16
RAIN PREVENTS OPENING
OF NATIONAL LEAGUE
All Of the Eight Clubs Are Scheduled
to Play This Afternoon.

The opening Of the National League
baseball season in Philadelphia and St
Louis was postponed yesterday on &C
count of rain The Boston club was
scheduled TO play at Philadelphia and
Chicago was 10 have played at St. Louis.
All eight Of the National League clubs
the aid OF few sgnbeams
Boston viii open in QuakerJown today
with the PhiIIies. who are probably II
better playing condition than any team
IN the league.
Ned HanIon's Brooklynites viii cross
bats with John McGraw's New York team
IN Gotham: the champion Pittsburgs will
line up against the Reds at Cincinnati,
and Chicago and St. Louis Will fight it
cut in the Missouri metropolis.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16
COLUMBIANS BASEBALL,
PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT

hopes TO meet with success on the ball.
or athletic field Then. too a gym
nasium is essential to every student
body whether the students hope TO enter
athletics or not Physical exercise Is
the best tonic for a tired tagged out
brain, and is recommending and insisted
upon az all Of the large colleges and
universities
If Columbian had a gymnasium many
students of no mean athletic abiI-
jty would be discovered. whereas now,
when a man has to voluntarily come out
and tell what he can do. many a good
athlete is lost sight OF. because he is too
diHdcnt to f0fst himself upon the pub
lie by telling what he is capable OF
doing.
Fast, Strong Nine.
That Columbian has baseball team
OF no mean ability this year IS demon
strated by the two games they have
played. The boys opened up the season
with Johns Hopkins and thrashed the
Baltimore lads to the tune Of S to O..
Then later they met the Brown Uni
vcrsity team at y NJ. c a. Park. and in
fast game lost TO the doughty Brown
ties by "a score of . TO , II the game
could have been won by roofing. the
home team would certainly nave made a
walkaway of the contest. Leather
lunged Tooters were out in force armed
with orange and black banners and
megaphone, and the yelling done by
them would have been a revelation TO an
old Columbian graduate.
The game scheduled with Iehigh
Tuesday was declared OF on account Of
rain. and the PennsyIyanians left the
city without measuring bats with the
orange and black team. The next game
viii be played with St. Johns on Satur-
day afternoon at y. NJ c. 4 Park. and
the boys hope to drag their opponents
coloTs in the dust St Johns has a
good, strong team. having won the ma
joTity Of its games played on its South
ern trip. The teams look to be evenly
matched, and good contest should re-
suit
Tbs Columbian schedule for the bal
auce Of the season IS:
Saturday. April 1S-st Johns at
Washington
Wednesday. April 29-MaryIand Agri-
cultural College at College Park, Md.
Saturday, May I6-Western Maryland
at Washington.
Saturday. May 20--Gauaudet at Ken
DAN Green.
Lineup of the Team
The following is the lineup of the
team: Service. catcher: Fulcber and
Holland. pitchers: Kennedy. first base:
Earnest, second base; Huck. shorts5op,
8ieIaski, third base; Everett. left field,
Winchester, center field; Heinie, right
field
Manager Kelly is much pleased with
the showing Of the players. and predicts
bright prospects for the team this sea-
son. The nine is strong in every de
partment Of the game, and should any
thing go wrong with the pitchers, Ken
nelly is ready 10 step in the box at a
moments notice, and twirT good ball.
Stevenson, AfcMann. Bowen, Streetman.
Pierce and Kinidenier. who are doing
/ bench duty, are all good men and ready
! 10 jump into the game al any time.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16
NEW, SPLINTER LOOMS UP.

NEW YORK. April 16.-P J. Walsh.
the American and Canadian champion
Splinter, at the Twenty Regi-
ment Armory. Broadway and Sixty
eighth Street. did seventy yards in a
trial last night in 6:O7 2-5. Walsh will
attempt TO better this performance at
the games of the Twenty-second Regi-
ment Athletic Association of which he
is a member. on Monday night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16
GOLDEN RODS 0RGAuIzE.

The Golden Rods have organized a
baseball club for the season and desire
10 arrange games with teams averaging
fourteen years Send challenges TO
Phillip Roaehe. .835 D Street southwest
The Golden Rods line up as follows:
Burdine. center field; Fitzgerald. left
field. Roache. catcher; Fay. first base;
Pierce. shortstop; Eoyes, right neId
Bailey, third base GIvaunonia, second
base; CantweiI, pitcher.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16
MIDDES. BEWARFl

WEST POINT. y Y April 1.-THE
baseball team Of the Military Academy
defeated Williams College in a seven
inning game yesterday by the score Of
3 TO .. The score by innings:
RHE.
Williams 80 O 0 ? e . 2
West Point.1 . I 0 x-5 >
Batteries adswOrth and Parsons.
Carter. Phillips. ard Graves
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16

The question Of the captaincy of the
Brooklyn team is still undecided. Dab
len has been offered the position, but has
not yet accepted.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16

AS result OF war salary" Monte
Cross. Of the champion Athletics. has
bought o $4,000 house in PHILADELPHIA.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16

Frank Foreman. Tony Mullane, Jack
Haskell. and William Moran have been
appointed umpires OF the American AS
ISOLATION
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16

As the outfeld now lines up. Washing
tons meadow men come very near being
the fastest in the business.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16

The baseball business says Barney
Dreyruss. is much the same as d
theatrical enterDrise-the public likes to
see an aU-star east
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16

Keller. SO, coo: Chesbro, $4,000; Tan
nehiIl, S Geo, are few of the fancy sal
aries alleged to be credited on the books
Of the New York American League club.
Divide these figures by two. and the
quotient would be a more truthful re
cital Of the actual money these men viii
receive this season. The statement
comes officially that Lajoie is the high
est salaried player. receiving ST, 600 from
Cleveland
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16

The American League pitchers are
catching batters mapping by shooting
over fast ones before the men at the
plate recover after a vicious swi1e at
the leather. batter will be seriously
injured or perhaps Killed by this prac-
tice if the rule is not enforced
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16

Ned HanIon says the catcher is the
hub Of a baseball team He controls
he situation and the other players look
to him for inspiration" says the man
who ought to know.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-16

Patsy Tebeau, once famous. talks OF
entering the arena again He thinks Sc
riousIy Of buying out his brothers. inter
est in the Kansas City Western League
club lie may manage and captain the
team as well as To play first base.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-15
THE WORLD MARKET.
International Trade From Ancient
Times to the Present.

On the subject of international trade
routes and the world market DR.. John
Franklin Crowell Of the treasury bureau of
statistics gave his second lecture yester-
day afternoon in the course of ten on COM
mercial geography and International trade.
before the School Of Comparative Juris-
prudence and Diplomacy Of the Columbian
University. The historical DEVELOPMENT of
the world market was traced by showing
that line drawn from Singapore to Gibral-
tar represented the backbone of the world
trading area in ancient times The valleys
of the Nile and the Euphrates, together
with the Mediterranean, the Arabian and
the Indian seas, comprised the chief move
ments of the worlds commerce down to the
fall of the Roman empire During the 900
years which followed this event the world
market buIged out in two directionS-north-
ward over the central and northern portion
OF Europe and southwark around Africa
The geographical area Of the worlds trade
was thus extended to an extraordinary de-
gree by reason of its increased depende nee
upon water routes Of trade. Medieval COM
merce is closely connected with that of an
Gent times through Consta ntinople. To
this center oriental trade converged and
from this point the line of traffic ran over
land up the Danube, thence across by way
OF Nuremberg, and down the Rhine to the
sea.
But the chief centers Of medieya, COM
merce were at the western end Of the Medi-
terranean and included the cities of Venice,
Genoa Marseilles and Barcelona. From
these ports of rivalry overland routes
reached the German ocean. By concentra-
ton or warehousing facilities at Venice the
northern nations helped to make this citv
the mistress of the Mediterranean.
Modern times bring a new elemen. into
the world market. Ancient and medieval
commerce were overland. river traffic and
coasting trade, but modernity annexed the
oceans. and made itself master of these as
highways of commerce. In round numbers
there are fifty different geographical groups
of peoples. each of which enjoys to some
degree an economic life of its own. and
constitutes one of the important organic
units of the worlds trading life. The vol
rme of the worlds commerce, measured in
dollars, has been variously reported rs from
S2o.toooOO0 to $25,000 100000 annually.
including both imports and exports. The
competition among ma tons is for a share
or TINS enormous service. Altogether there
are l,o'3 steamships engaged in CARRYING.
the trade of the United States to the differ
ent divisions of the world comprising 1870.
600 .cas registry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-15
CHAFFEE ADMITTED HIS FAULT
Ioo Sharply Criticised German Soldiers
for Looting in China.

Inc publication of an interview with At
torney General Griggs in which he recalled
an unpleasant passage between General
Chanee and Field Marshal Waldersee of
Germany while the allies were acting in
China in 1900 gave rise to an energetic
search of The official records here. It an
pears that while the published reports de.
scrIptive OF the Chinese campaign make no
reference to such an Incident, 1t was actu-
ally the case that General Chaffee yehe-
mently protested against the German loot
Ing Of Chinese observatories
?der date OF December g. 1900 General
CAaGee telegraphed the War Department
from pekln that he had sent note to
count Nalcorsec calling attention to the
observation Of tna Astronomical oI,se-ya-
tory ~ German soldiers General Chaffcc
tod ire German field marshal that the
Tilted States government would not have
coJHteraaced an act as such barbaric char
nct'r on the Part Of it's soldiers and he
kht v L would not be willing to let pass ~
noticed a similar act dore by soldiers of a
reign raticr with which the En!.ed States
arm. was allied for common Durpose. He
tte-efc-e desired to respectfully protest
agStns. the vandalism Of tbs German
tyCJpS
II" Incident was discussed by- tho presi.
don's cabinet here, with the result that
Secretary Pcot sent 4 cable message "a
General ChafTee that the President deeply
regretted tho severity OF tee LANGUAGE usei;
by HIN in his letter - Count Won Wdider-
see.
Though the records do not disclose :ho
facs. Y Is Known fA2t General Chafree sub
kcfi-ertly came to az aaiicabic ,,r,Gerst., nd
l1g v.,h the fed marshal. ADMITTING. tiat
be lad zone beyond his rights IN cri:fcisica
the soldiers or another naiicn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-15
SEED DISTRIBUTION.
Secretary Wilson's Report to Con-
greSS,


The Secretary of Agriculture has sent to
Congress report upon congressional seed
distribution for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1902, in compliance with the require
ments of the act appropriating for his de-
partment The total appropriation for this
work was s27O, 600, of which sum $247. 232. 10
was expended for seeds, plants, labor. ETC.,
in the congressional distribution proper,
and SIS. 80 was expended as authorized
by law for the introduction and dissent
nation of rare seeds and plants from for
eign countries.
The securing Of all miscellaneous vegeta-
BILE and flower seeds and the paeketing and
mailing of the same" says the Secretary,
were provided for in a contract with the
Henry Philips Seed and Implement Com
pany of Toledo. Ohio. The contract provid-
ed for 81, 299, SIG packets of vegetable seed
and LOCO, 56S packets Of flower seed, all to
be put up or assembled in packages of five
packets each and to be mailed under the
direction of the department. Besides this
contract, arrangements were made for the
handling of cotton seed, tobacco seed, lawn
grass seed. sugar beet seed. sorghum seed,
forage crop seeds, bulbs, trees, grapevineS
and plants by the various offices Of the bu-
reau. In the case CT all these special seeds
efforts were made to secure varieties of
promise and to place them in localities
where they would improve the agricultural
conditions prevailing therein"
In order to properly handle the large
quantities of seeds required in connection
with this work 1t was essential that build
ing, conveniently located and properly ar
ranged. should be secured. No such build
ing was available. and consequently ar
rangements were made by the Henry Phil
ipps Seed and Implement Company with a
local firm for the erection of a building &C
cording to plans satisfactory to the Secre-
tary of Agriculture. This building was
erected near the department grounds, was
we'll lighted and heated, and in every way
adapted to the work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-15
WORK OF IRRIGATION.
What It Has Accomplished for the
West.

Guy E. Mitchell, secretary Of the National
Irrigation Association, has returned to this
city from an extended tour of the arid re-
gion. Mr.. Mitchell attended the national
irrigation congress at Colorado Springs
early in October and then visited the prin-
cipal irrigated sections of Colorado, Ari-
iona and California.
'If one keeps in mind while travelling
through the western half Of the United
States" said Mr.. Mitchell, that practi-
cally the entire development has come
through irrigation. he begins to realize of
what Importance 1T is, not only to the west,
but to the entire country. Take away the
eight million irrigated acres from the arid
west and what would remain? Only the
veriest skeleton. If the watered acres were
dried UP, many factory in New England
would shut down, because practically every
manufactured supply used by the west is
drawn from the east.
irrigation Is known as the sure science
Of farming, since the grower does not have
TO watch anxiously for rain, or rush his
Nevertheless. trrigators have their troubles
too. The southwest has suffered from a
series of dry years. and the water supply
from the mountains has been yery scant
so that many orchards and fields have suf-
fered severely from water shortage How
ever this has In reality been a not I'M
mixed disaster; indeed, I heard a gentle
man in southern California declare that
it had been for some sections a blessing
in disguise, since 1t had stimulated search
after underground water sources and the
discovery of subterranean rivers whose ex-
istence beneath the arid surface of the land
had never been suspected. Certain it is
that thousands of little fruit ranches and
homes are today supplied with water
pumped from wells by small oil engines
or electricity generated by mountain tor
rents, which years ago depended upon sur
face ditch water.
Interest is rife throughout the west on
the question Of the proposed government
irrigation works. With about $4,000, 600,
Immediately available for the construction
Of government reservoirs, the western
states realize that at last national irriga-
ton is actually fact.
with the great consumptive power of
the immense and growing west and the
urgent demand of the orient for food prod
ucts the traveller realizes that the products
of irrigation from the western irrigated
farms will never come into competition with
the lands or products Of the farmer Of the
eastern states"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-15
Falls Church News.
correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
FALLS CHURCH, Va, JAM Is, 1903.
The town council held a meeting Monday
night with Mayor Walters presiding and
Messrs. Crump. Thompson, Mabin, Walters
was appropriated to the three wards for
street and sidewalk purposes. The bill Of
the registrar Of the town for services rem
dered was again deferred.
The mock court held by Pioneer Lodge
Of Good Templars on Tuesday night at
tracted a large attendance of the members.
Prof. e. c. Sine presided as judge, Dr.
George 7. Mankin as clerk and Mr.. J. H.
Mari as sheriff. Rev. W. H. Woolf and Mr.
fer the prosecution and Rev. W. f Miller
and Mr.. J. d. Payne for the defense. The
case set for trial was for assault and bat
duced considerable merriment. After argu-
ment by the attorneys the case was sub
United to the jury and verdict Of not
guilty rendered.
Mrs Mary Money. wife Of Edward Money
and daughter of S. W. Putnam. died Tues
day of consumption. Her funeral took place
this morning, the services being conducted
by Rev. w. r. Miller of the Vi. f. Church.
Interment WAS in lakewood cemetery.
District Lodge. No. 13. Good Templars,
embrac cling Within its jurisdiction the lodges
Of the order IN Fairfax. Loudoun and Alex
3ndria counties and city Of Alexandria, will
meet here February 10.
Union services OF all the churches in
town were held Wcdnes day night IN the
Baptist Church and Rev. Il. A. Dawson OF
the Presbyterian Church preached 70 large
congregation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-15
GAITHERsBURG NEWS.
Robert Andrews Dies Suddenly-First
National Bank Election.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
GAITHERSBURG, Nd. January IA, 1903
Mr.. Robert Andrews died suddenly at Il
o'clock this morning. He was an attorney
practicing in the courts Of this county and
the District Of Columbia, and was in usual
health and at his Office in Washington yes
terday. After his return home in the even
ing he took dinner and walked to the post
office for his mail. While sitting there an
attack of acute indigestion made him crit
ically ill., and Dr. Haddox and other friends
afforded him temporary relief, later taking
him to his home on Summit avenue. Early
this morning second attack of indigestion
terminated In death before his physician
could reach his bedside. Mr.. Andrews and
his family are we'll known in this county.
having for some years resided at Rock,
sixty years. Mrs. Andrews, with a son
and daughter Mr.. Frank Andrews of The
Navy Department, Washington, and Miss
The First Natiote "a Bank o of Gaithersburg
held its annual election at the banking
house yesterday and the following were
selected as board of directors: Nathan
Fulks, s. s. Hays Albert F. Meem, Phile-
mon M. Smith, H. Maurice Talbot, DR..
William A. Waters, Horace d. Waters.
James s. Windsor, Capt. James Anderson,
I. Belle Ward, Ulysses Griffith, Clarence
H. Hoskinson, DR.. E. c. Etchison and j.
Wesley Walker. The latter two directors
were newly elected, Messrs. James E. Ay
ton and Somerset o. Jones having declined
reelection on account Of Ill health. Sub
sequently the board elected the following
officials President, Mr.. John B. Diamond:
vice president, Mr.. H. Maurice Talbot;
cashier. Mr. Robert B. Moore; assistan.
cashier, Mr.. James E. Trundle; clerk, Mr..
Arthur Hogan.
quiet wedding took place this evening
at the home of Mrs. Benjamin Thompson,
near Ashton. her daughter, Miss Nettie, and
Mr.. Herman P. Willard being the contract
ing parties. Rev. II. c. Smith, pastor OF
the Methodist Church at Ashton, was the
officiating clergyman. Owing to the recent
death of the brides father only the i'm
mediate relatives Of the contracting parties
witnessed the ceremony. Mr.. and Mrs.
Millard left for their new home near Laursl,
where the groom Is engaged in business
DR.. E. Henning Etchison, executor, sold,
at public sale, near Ounce Orchard, yester-
day, the personal property Of the late Mrs.
Annie Small to settle her estate. The sale
was largely attended and good prices were
paid for the stock and other property.