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goals thrown. and not on simple at
tempts.
The guard has the most unsatisfac-
tory position, from a personal stand
point, on the team. yet one of the most
important from the standpoint of the
game. He it is who prevents the OPP
ponents' forwards from making goals,
and the prevention of scoring is as
necessary to the successful outcome Of
the game as making goals by his broth
er guards. He must be quick, accurate
and cool TO a marked degree, and as he
is the one most liable to make fouls,
must know the rules thoroughly. The
value of an efficient guard is never un-
derestimated by his team.
The Officials
The officials, as the rules state, must
be competent, honest and impartial,
and not members of either organization
represented in the game. Most Of the
abuses present in the game are due to
poor officials. They can make or break
the best game ever begun. All organi-
cations accept the responsibility for
training the team, but few for training
officials. Every school should begin
at once the training of at least half
dozen officials for games between other
schools, and thensthe dishonest and in
competent ones would De kept out OF
the game and players. Poor officials
are often used because good ones are
scarce. know of no way to better adj
vance the game on right lines than to
produce each season two or three COM
petent officials from each school.
Spectators may be trained to enjoy
clean play or allowed to deteriorate
until they want only the kind played
IN some cities not many miles from
New York. Clean games develop a de-.
sire for the right kind of sport in the
spectators.
Good plays should be recognized,
whether by the home team or visitors.
Kissing should be reduced to a mini
mum; audible uncomplimentary COM
ments about the decisions of officials
should not be tolerated for an instant
Usually they are INDUCED IN by the
spectators who know least about the
rules and would not know correct de-
cision if they saw it.
Yelling Or kissing when the visitors
team has free throw for goal is not
only unfair, but abominable, and the
alternative of going out peaceably or
being put out forcefully ought to be
presented to persons behaving in this
way, and acted upon at once. I re-
member attending a game where a
young man, after decision by the ref
cree, yelled, Rotten" The man in
charge Of the gymnasium where the
game was played Immediately blew a
whistle and announced publicly that
such actions would not be tolerated,
that the young man could get his mon
ey back if he was not satisfied with tbs
game, and that if such conduct oc-
Cured again the perpetrator would be
assisted to the street without getting
his entrance money. Nothing of like
nature occurred during the remainder
of the game
The game is a vigorous one, played
by vigorous individuals, and often wit
messed by vigorous spectators, and at
times needs vigorous action by those
in authority to keep down the unruly
spirits who are ignorant Of the rules
and purposes of the game. The object
of the game is to assist in the develop
ment of clean, wholesome character. If
it cannot be conducted in this spirit
1t ought not to be conducted at all.
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friends nearly separated him from his
clothing as they bore him off the floor
trlumphantly on their shoulders to the
dressing room, and when the facts were
MADE known to his opponent he also
congratulated him. His place on the
team was assured after this game. and
he never betrayed the confidence placed
In him. He now holds a position of
trust.
The other player, who began with the
one described above, had to be dropped
because of his mean playing, and last
year | saw him play in a game where
the same tricks were in evidence. Both
illustrations could be multiplied. The
game itself will not produce good char
acter, but offers the opportunity for the
development of those traits which go to
make the kind of men parents are
proud of. employers trust and nations
honor.
The Team
Several years ago, in one of the
basketball championships, club en-
tered a team of players who had not
played together long enough to de-
velop team work, but were stars Sc
lected from five different organiza-
tions. They went~into the champion
ship sure aef success, but when the
tournament was over they were in the
fourth place. The question arose why
such an aggregation of stars did not
carry off the honors. The answer is
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from everyday conversation, they have
survived more or less in chirography
A study of the old manuscripts
shows this plainly. Handwriting seems
to have been copied from one person
to another, and since the days when
the nobility and the elite wrote with
an exaggerated slant, this style of
forming letters has fingered among
penmen, except when they were under
stress either of time or volume of work.
Then the tendency Is to revert to the
primary or more natural condition of
straight up and down and straight
back and forward strokes. AS one
studies ancient fragments and quaint
parchments 1t comes as a surprise that
the so-called vertical handwriting now
so generally taught in American schools
itself merely revival of the popu-
lar and familiar round hand of our
immediate ancestors-is not something
new. but something very old.
Handwriting and Forgery
While experts on the whole favor the
natural hand, and while it is coming
Into more common use every day, one
meets strange cases of misunderstand-
ing regarding it. It has been suggested
that it promotes deception and protects
the forger, yet expert students of man
uscripts will tell you that the simpler
and palmer chirography is the more
difficult is is to initiate exactly. On
this point DIR. Persifor Frazer, Of the
Franklin institute in Philadelphia, who
is the author of "Bibliotics, or the
Study of Documents, Determination Of
Individual Character of Handwriting,
and Detection Of Fraud and Forgery"
says: ''The relation of any system
of writing 10 the prevalence of forgery
is, in my opinion, to he represented by
zero. Even typewriting, which seems
to offer the foTger the greatest oppor-
tunities. is likely to prove to him a
snare. Systems of penmanship can
have no effect on forgery through fa-
cilitating or rendering more difficult
the imitation of anothers hand. There
are SO many characteristics In every
handwriting, unknown and Invisible to
the possessor. that the shape or ap-
pearance of the writing is of the least
importance In seeking the author"
Curiously enough, opposition to ad-
vance in educational matters comes, as
a rule, not from educators, but from
the laymen, who, under our American
system of management, have ultimate
control. 1t is safe to say that most of
the opposition In such matters as that
of vertical writing comes from these
outsiders. They suppose it to. be an
unjustifiable innovation, and most Of
them would be nightly surprised to
find that in the handwriting Of all
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In the reign Of Elizabeth the new
chirography reached Engl@d in state
documents, and the queen, greatly fam
cylng the queer characters, made it the
fashion at court. So, historically speak
Ing, slant writing is only a fad which
was bequeathed to English-speaking
people by the whim of woman:
whereas, the vertical is as old as civ
h1zation and will last as long as cul-
ture and learning. Indeed, the persist.
ence Of the natural hand applies even
to the type in which these words are
set, Tor modern type is merely modi-
hcation of the pen lettering of the days
when type was first used in the occi-
dental world.
The finest collection of old manu-
scripts showing the development Of
handwriting is in the so-called museum
OF man at Harvard university. In the
several museums which compose this
one students of handwriting from that
of the earliest time down to the hale
written, half printed letters of the
American schoolboy find every kind Of
manuscript.
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The st. Paul man may pride him
self upon the fact that he is a very
different man from his grandfather, but
his grandfather's shade can show that
In one thing his offspring has not i'm
proved himself. 1t is in the matter of
handwriting. Our ancestors wrote as
well with a goosequill 200 years ago
as we do today with our steel and gold
pens. The twentieth century man may
sit down at a piano-like contrivance
and hammer out his letters at a ter
rife rate, but he must admit that
"grandpap" was just as good a pen
man.
All of which goes to prove that there
is nothing new under the sun. The
yokes with which them steers" drew
Scion Chase over the hills of Maine,
the ''ox harness" still employed in the
tar heel region of North Carolina or
the Red River Of the North are little
different from those pictured on As
syrian pottery and Egyptian stone. The
ploW the Tagalog uses today in the dis
tant philippines can hardly be distin-
guished from that with which Jewish
slaves of the pre-Mosaic period culti-
waited the alluvial fields of the Nile.
But most extraordinary of all is the
knship of the present with the ancient
past in the preservation of language by
means Of written symbols.
!. Can Be Traced to Antiquity
The little. tot who,~ with dots and
straight lines. draws picture story on
a slate uses the same method that
Aztec and Hittite alike employed. The
most modern face of type is merely a
revival, or rather survival, of the
handwriting of medieval days. as NAV
be seen by an examination of the an
cient manuscripts. And this handwrit-
ing, IN turn, can be traced back, cen
tury by century. to the hieroglyphics of
the earliest times,
Fads in writing may come and go,
but it's essentials do not change. In any
great library one may see the infu-
; ence of the renaissance on even such a
homely matter as this. "The fine Ital-
ian hand" OF metaphor had very real
foundation in fact; it was the art and
social leaders from the south of Eu-
rope who produced what might be
called euphenism in handwriting as
wen as In speech. While the quirks
and -quiris' and graces have dropped
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times and by all people, the vertical
has prevailed.
First Wrote in Stone
From the time when writing was ex-
ecuted with chise1 and mallet the
characters have been straight up and
down. When great Assyrian king OF
1000 B. G. wished to preserve to pos
terity the record of his achievements
in peace or war, they were cut into
stone. which endures to this day, In
a strictly vertical hand 1t is quite
plain that if vertical writing was a
fad 1000 years ago it is too old to be
one now; the slant is the fad, rather,
for 1t can trace It's ancestry back only
about three centuries.
The evolution of the American
schoolboy's vertical writing is interest
ing. 1t was not until the early days of
the Christian era that writings with
the reed pen and stilus became at all
common, and then the languages chief
ly employing it were Greek and Latin.
Manuscripts preserved from that time
record the birth of the natural hand.
The 'CodeX Alexandrinus'' of the fifth
century is an example Of strict vertical
lettering, and indeed verticality pre-
vailed until the end Of the seventh CEN
tury, when decay set in.
The round, broad letters then began
u give way W AdTTOW ana oval ones.
and in the eighth century a distinct
slant to the right appeared Following
the laws of evolution, which seem to
show that it takes a handwriting about
500 years to develop, flourish and de-
cay, chirography became more and
more illegible during the ninth cen
tury; but in the tenth the monasteries,
which were the seats of learning, came
to the rescue. There was an immediate
resumption of the former round, YER
tical script, and so complete was the
restoration that the missals Of that
time, judged by their lettering, are
scarcely distinguishable from those or
three centuries before.
Influence of Italian Writers
Writing as an art continued thus un-
til the renaissance; then the fantastic
Italian school brought italics" into ex-
istence. This peculiar slant writing,
which still Is seen now and then in
type, was the forerunner Of the So
called ornamental writing systems so
popular few years, but now disap-
pearing again before the faster And
more legible modern vertical. How. the
slant hand spread from the place of it's
origin appears in a document of the lat
ter half of the sixteenth century, to
which are attached the signatures of
eighteen of the clergy of France, all
slanted and all practically illegible.
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BY GEORGE T. HEPBROW.
copyright. 1904, by w. R. Hearst)
"HE game of basketball was invent
ed by James Naismith while an
Instructor at the International
Training School for Y. M c.. A. for Ex-
ecutive Officers, situated at Springfield,
Mass.
Value of Group Games
Sport is a great revealer of character.
Especially is this true OF sports having
the group characteristics, such as bas-
ketball, football, lacrosse. etc.
The coach is responsible not only for
the physical training Of the boys, but
the ethical training as well. The coach
who neglects the latter should be given
q ticket-of-leave, and that quickly If
the boys do not learn self-control, hon
esty, fairness, poise in victory or defeat,
Difference to the decisions and self
sacrifice, something is wrong with the
system of coaching, and either change
in coaches should be made or the game
given up entirely.
President Roosevelt says: 1.-The whole
test of the worth of any sport should be
the demand that sport makes on those
qualities of mind and body which in
their sum we call manliness.' This
same stands the test. No amount of
physical benefit would warrant the
adoption of the game if the ethical re-
suits are wanting.
recall the effect of the game on two
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To think what time was wasted in
arguing about the house Of lords, To-
ries saying it ought to be preserved
because 1t was clever, and Radicals
saying it ought to be destroyed because
it was stupid, and all the time no one
saw that it was right because 1t was
stupid, because the chance mob Of or
binary men thrown there by accident
of blood We're great democratic pro-
test against the lower house, against
the eternal insolence of the aristocracy
of talents.-F'rom Chesterton's "Napo-
leon Of Noting Hill.''
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The Automobile Consumption cure

Motor-car exercise will cure con-
sumption, says DR.. Blanchet, of Lyons.
He speaks from personal experience,
having recovered his own health by
regularly covering about a hundred
miles day in an open motor car. He
AYERS that by this remedy the cough of
tuberculous patients is gradually abol-
ished, or greatly diminished. and
healthy sleep and appetite, produced.
1t is most essential that the body
should be duly protected from cold.
The elements of the cure are the long
stay in the open air and the increased
atmosphere pressure due to the rapid
motion, which expands and strengthens
the lungs.-London Mail
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tinued to harass him, a very unsports-
manlike trick, to say the least but he
was equal to the occasion, and his
propmters cautioned him less than in
the first half Finally the timers whis-
tie blew, the game was over his team
won, but a vastly greater victory was
his. He had come out victorious over
self The scene that followed is inde-
scrihable. Those who were on the in
side cheered themselves hoarse; his
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players and have the knack of getting
into an uncovered position, so that the
other players may pass the ball to him.
Accuracy is the chief qualification OF
this position, as the game is won on
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HERE IS THE LIST OF PRIZES
In addltlon-ta the foregoing prizes The following
SPECIAL PRIZES For EARLY ESTIMATES Will be paid:

For the nearest Correct guess received be-
fore July 1st .......................... $4,000
For the nearest correct guess received on or
after July 1st and before July 18th. ...... 10000
For the nearest correct guess received on or
after July 18th and before August 1st ). 10000
For the nearest correct guess received
after August lst and before August 18th 10000
For the nearest correct guess received
after August 18th and before Sept. 1st.. 10000
For the nearest correct guess received on or
after Sept. 1st and before Sept. 15th..... 10000
For the nearest correct guess received
after Sept. 18th and before Oct 1st...... $4,000
For the nearest correct guess received
after Oct 1st and before Oct. 18th. ...... 10000
Total 500 prizes. amounting to.......... 10000
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It is no use leading some sheep into the
green pastures; they would only sigh for
the bIiars over the fencs.-Ram's 's Horn.
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Conditions of This Great Contest.
guess as follows: ~
$L0O ON SUBSCRIPTION GUESS.
$500 ON SUBSCRIPTION 3 GUESSES.
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Evening journal., 1904-08-15
YANIGANS ARE
AFTER THE A. A. S.
Manager Murphy Believes
His Team Can Cope
With Them
ANY TERMS WILL BE ACCEPTABLE
Special TO the Evening Journal.

SpHeiAA 10 klt evening dNuiNatf
Kew Castle. Aug. l5-John r. Murphy,
manager of the Yanlgan baseball team
OF this city has come TO the conclusion
that he has a bunch Of bali players here
that can give the Wilmington A. A. a
run for their money and expects In a few
days to issue a challenge for a game or
series OF games to Manager Frysinger.
In speaking Of the proposed game or
games Manager Murphy says that mis-
team is not afraid to go UP against the
a. AS and although 1t may not be able
to wallop them that the Wilmington ag-
grogation can't afford to take any maps
during the contest.
In the event OF Manager Frysinger ac-
cepting a challenge, which will be issued
in few days the Ysnigans viii present
the following lineup: Countiss, catcher;
Scarborough, pitcher; McGrory, short
Duny, first; Leach, second, Chase. third
Hobbs. right field: McGin!ey centre field
Newlove, left field.
This team. Il is believed, would give
the A. AS all that Is coming to them.
Manager Murphy is willing that the game
should be played In Wilmington either on
the a. AS own grounds or at Front anc
I Union streets. Any reasonable terms that
may be proposed by the A. A. manage.
/ ment will be acceptable TO the local team
I 1t has been suggested that the double um
1 pire system shall prevail, eacn side choos
! ing one and that the proceeds, after eN
penses are deducted be divided in th'
] proportion Of seventy per cent. TO tn
winner and thirty per cent. to the losinl
4 team. In the event OF the game beini
4 arranged at least 200 "rooters" from thi
/ city VIII attend.
/ The Yanigans are open to challenge
4 from any team In the State and hav
scheduled for this week the following
games: Today, Pennsvllle; Tuesday, For
DUPONT; Wednesday, open; Thursday
Browntown; Friday, X-Wilm'ngton.
Evening journal., 1904-08-15
TIPS FROM THE BAT

Bert" Everson. who has played with
the A. AS for the past three years.
has been given his release. I viii seem
odd to a great many Of the fans TO go
to South Side Park and not see the ven-
cradle form of Pop" either in the box
or on the side lines Everson is not
done with baseball. however, and his
good head work VIII get him a place
with some of the fast ones
There will be but two games in this
city this week. Lebanon is here on
Friday and Saturday. The locals are
at Lebanon today and tomorrow and
at Wilhamsport on Wednesday and
Thursday.
There are rumors of other men i'm the
local lineup being released. Some of
those who are now on the pay roll had
better take brace or they win be
looking for "a job
Hartley and Farrell We're responsible
for the breaking of the hoodoo spell
that has bound the locals for some
time.
Evening journal., 1904-08-15
S p Q r TIN c.
GREAT FIGHT TO LEAD
TRI-STATE LEAGUE
Altoona by Winning Every
Game Last Week Is Now
Close to Leaders

While Wnliamsport and Pom Park
were lighting iiercely for first Mace in
the Tri-State League race last week.
with the advantage first with one club
and then with the other, Altoona was
gradually cutting down the lead be-
tween them and the first two clubs.
Wiliamsport broke even on the week
with three victories out Of six games.
while Penn Park captured four out Of
six. This gave the York club quite a
boost toward first place, and during
the week they held temporary possess
sion of the lead, only TO be forced out
by their defeat at Wilmington on SAT-
urday.
Altoona, by winning all the games
during the week, has now closed up the
gap with the leaders. with the exception
of eleven points, being but four behind
Penn Park for second place. The club
is playing at pace that seems entire
ly too fast for the rest Of the teams,
and TO date they have the Tri-State
League record for consecutive wins,
with eleven straight.
1 The work Of the team has been one
OF the features Of the league season.
From a tailender three weeks ago they
have come to the front as very strong
possibility for the championship The
race between the three leading clubs is
most exciting, and the least bit of a
slump on the part Of any of the trio
means a considerable shift in position
The leading clubs have not such a
comfortable lead on the four remaining
clubs at that, as Wilmington, the tail.
enders, are but lS4 points behind VII.
Transport, lead that is not as large as
it seems. The clubs are so evenly
matched there is no telling how The
\ race VIII result. and it is this uncer
tainty that makes the Tri-State strug
gle one of the most interesting in base
ball.
Harrisburg, by lspitting even on tn
week. made a substantial gain on tn
other two clubs. Lebanon and Whining
ton, for fourth place. Both Lebanon
and Wilmington experienced rougl
shedding during the week, inasmuch a
} they won but one game out of six
} Lebanon has a lead of p points owe
J A1aa Tln1u rrrnrn fanfr1
Evening journal., 1904-08-15
LOSING STREAK WAS
BROKEN ON SATURDAY
Penn Park Defeated by
Wilmington in an Ex-
e. citing Game

Much to the surprise Of the small crowd
a. South Side Park on Saturday the A.
As broke away from the hoodoo that
has been trailing in their wake for some
time and won the game from Penn Park
10 a margin Of 6 to 5.
BON account OF constant kicking on the
rsrt of the visitors regarding the de-
csions OF Umpire Greer, the game was
Yong drawn out. but the neck and neck
doings in the score made 1T one Of the
most interesting performances that has
taken place over the bridge in some
time.
Hone runs were feature. Farrell and
Hartley landed the leather In the right
iisld bleachers for round trip and Lo-
gan's single that got through Campbens
legs gave him walk around.
'Farrell ana Hartley were important
factors In the game. The paying Of the
latter in right field was sensational. He
had six chances, one being a one-handed
catch Of a line drive Evans pitched q
consistent game. and but for the error,
whicn happened at critical moments, th'
score would have been less. The score