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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
EFFECT OF COLLEGE SPORTS
PRAISE BY PRESIDENT SHARP
LESS OF HAVERFORD.

PHILADELPHIA, December Pres
ident Isaac Sharpless of Haverford Col
lege the old Quaker institution of learn
ing, declared in an address yesterday that
in the last twenty-five years college NOR
velopment of athletics. In his college, he
said. foot ball had not usurped the func-
tons of intellectually, but appeared to
have promoted them.
This declaration closely follows Swarth-
more Colleges refusal of the million-dol-
lar bequest made with the proviso that
athletics be abolished there
Among other things, President Sharp
less said:
1--WE have had at Haverford a most sue
cessful foot ball season. do not merely
refer to the fact that we won three
fourths of the games when 1 say success
full. There are other matters which go to
make up the count in our favor, which
appeal to me more strongly than that.
think we have gone through the season
showing the foot ball world that we are
able to play reputable foot ball here; that
we treat our opponents in a SportSmanlke
way; that We play games on a clean and
legal basis.
1T is also a satisfaction to me to note
that in looking over the marks of the
foot ball men tor the quarter. taking into
account the eleven who began the game
with Trinity, only one of them had an av-
erage of less than c. only one of them
had an excess of cuts, and that was, l
think, not due to foot ball. The captain
of the team, who certainly did his duty
in the field as captain. had an average of
"A for the quarter, and he had no cuts
at all.
II think probably the foot ball players
how bx-o durip
the time they have played than many of
the other students"
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cause. though. the fact remains that the
six greater games of the year, those of
Yale-Princeton, Yale-Harvard, Harvard
Carlisle, Pennsylvania-Cornell, Army
Navy and Chicago Carlisle. will probably
call for a total of $500, 200 in admissions.
With smaller contests scattered through
the season, each one of them attracting a
fair-sized crowd to the various foot ball
arenas, it can be seen easily that an enor-
nous sum of money has slipped into the
college Golfers.
OF all the games those between Yale
and Harvard and Yale and Princeton net
ted the greatest amounts. For the game
at New Haven the bulldog and the tiger
made an even division of $4,000, and for
the Harvard contest the Els and the
Johnnies shared $6S0OO in equal parts
The game between Harvard and the Car
Isle Indians, which was perhaps next in
attendance, with 81, 600 spectators, brought
in approximately $4,000, and the receipts
from the PrincetonCarlisleg game in this
city were almost as great, although the
contestants did not benefit so much there
by. When the Indians met Chicago 1900
persons crowded through the gates of the
Maroons' athletic field and brought $4O,-
600 into the treasury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
G.W.U. INDOOR ATHLETIC GAMES
TRACK AND FIELD SPORTS TO
BE HELD JANUARY rs.

The greatest event in the athletic his
tory of the George Washington University
will be inaugurated on the occasion OF
the indoor track and field games, which
will be held in Convention Hall Saturday
night, January %. This will be the first
time in the history of the university that
track and field sports have been attempted
on such large SCALE but the student
body. faculty and alumni are giving the
athletic council such strong support that
and it has been determined to make them
an annual event, ushering in the opening
of the indoor season in the south.
The meet will be under Amateur Ath-
leuc Union sanction, and will be of the
broadest nature in it's scope. Certain
events will be for school boys only, be-
sides those open to all registered athletes
The usual relay races for schools, colleges
and clubs will be on the program, and
these will be so arranged and the partici-
pants carefully matched to produce the
most interesting races and finishes. Ger
tain novel features. open only to George
Washington students, have been added to
the program by Manager Fleming, and
these include 5O-yard dash and half
mile run. The complete list of open indi-
viduai events is as follows: 5O-yard open
novice, 50-yard open handicap, 5O-yard
open hurdle, ,6OO-yard open novice, mile
open handicap, 4iO-yard-open handicap,
pole vault open handicap, 16-lb. shot-put
open handicap, high-jump open handicap,
JO-yard open scholastic scratch, 1,OOO-yard
open scholastic scratch, 12-lb. open scho-
lastc scratch.
Invitations have been sent by Manager
Fleming to every school and college south
of Philadelphia, and the number of ac-
ceptances already received indicates that,
in spite of the early date, the inaugural
games will have very large representa-
tive list of entries.
That there is substantial interest
among the. undergraduates in the various
departments of the university is shown
by the fact that relay race has already
been arranged with teams from the meGi-
cal school, the college of pharmacy and
the law school. There is an intense rivalry
among the students in these departments,
and this race, which will practically de-
eide the championship of the university,
promises to be most bitterly fought from
gun to tape. The college freshmen team
will also be seen in action, as negotiations
are now pending for a relay race with the
freshmen teams of two other leading
southern universities.
There will be a relay race for the in
door high school championship, and
another open to all junior clubs in the
District.
Entry blanks for the games will be
seat out early next week, and entries will
close January 18th. Entry blanks can
be had of Manager r. F. Fleming, 100
18th street northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
COLLEGE BOWLERS.
Sport of the Alleys Taken Up at
Georgetown.

Within a week it is possible that Wash
ington may witness the novel sight of an
intercollegiate bowling match on one of
the alleys of the city.
Georgetown University is responsible for
the new scheme, and already has formed
a bowling club, from which team will
be shortly chosen. Among those who will
roll the sphere are Sam Simon, the base
ball and foot ball player; Ray and Ed
Danaby, AL Tighe, George CoSan and Rice
of rowing fame, these men from the law
department, and Smith and Corcoran OF
the base bali team; Glennon and stuart of
the foot bail eleven. and Fitzpatrick, Cul-
kin, Reilly and Sullivan of the college de-
partment.
Howard Smith is managing the club and
has formulated plan by which strong
team may be developed before the end of
the present bowling season. He proposes
to arrange a series of interclass games
between the various classes of the dill
ferent branches of the university. After
these games have come off, the best men
from the several departments will bowl
against each other. with view TO pick
ing a representative team to bowl against
some other college.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
BEST PAYING SEASON.
Attendance at the Big Foot Ball
Games Unprecedented.

NEW YORK, December There has
never been SO successful a foot bail sea-
son from the financial viewpoint as that
which came to an end November 80.
Every foot bail game of Importance that
has been played in this section of the
country this fall has brought a demand
for tickets greater than the supply. and
the associations have wept and wrung
their hands as they thought of what
greater accommodations for spectators
would have brought into the cash boxes.
The attendance at the big games has
been unprecedented this year, and the
only explanation that can be given is that
the new style foot ball has caught on
with a vengeance, and that at last the
majority of the spectators can witness a
game with understanding, due to the
open play that prevails. Whatever the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
HARVARD BEATS PRINCETON.
Annual Shoot on Soldiers Field Re-
suits 1911 to 1877,

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, December liar
ward won from Princeton in the annual
dual shoot at Soldiers Fled today. 191
to 1877. The conditions were almost ideal,
there being no wind, and the contest was
very close until near the end.
The shoot was in two strings of twenty
FIVE each, with bird shot at known angles.
Score:
overwhelmingly, A; Brooks, 20:
Brewer, IS: Gilman, 81; Wlgg esworth
(cdpt), SO. Total 191.
Princeton-Wight, IL; Wood tcaptD. ~;
Wastenhaven. 40; Latta. "a; Madina, 26
Total, 1S1.
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For Featherweight Championship.

NEW YORK, December 7.-Owen Moran
and Abe Attell will box for the feather
weight championship. The contest will
go to a finish, and the boys wish each
Other a happy New Year" on the after
noon of January l. Jim Coffroth, who is
looking after Moran, while he is in the
west, is getting busy for the contest, and
will likely pull it off before his club at
Colma. e
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Frayne and Murphy to Meet.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 7.-Decem-
Der 10 Johnny Frayne and Johnny
Murphy will try to settle the question
of superiority over the thirty-round route
at Colma, as the managers of the two
lightweights have signed articles of
agreement to this effect with Promoter
Coffroth The former battles between this
pair were rafting fast exhibitions, chock
full of hair-raising mixups, and, even
though it will be the first of the winter
boxing bouts over the line, the men have
such a big following that large house
is looked for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
Ice Hockey in New York,

NEW YORK. December New York's
one great winter sport, ice hockey, has
begun in the measure that the five teams
making up the Amateur Hockey League
have commenced practice at the St.
Nicholas ice rink.
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Continued on Second Page.l
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-08
Between
Unsuccessful People.

But for unsuccesS there is ever an.
antidote, and of the many thousands
who suffer from 1t there is not one
who can not overthrow it if he but
choose. Unsuccess never annihilated
man unless he first decided to al
low it to annihilate him. AS the
same medicine is often obtainable in
the form of a capsule, pill, or a
liquid, so the antidOte of unsuccess
exists in forms as varied as the ma
lures of the sufferers. One person
finds the antidote in one of the so7.
called new religions, which demands
the exertion of the mental faculties in
forcing fear from the horizon; an
other in the companionship of che
sen individual, who infuses him with
courage, and enables him once more
in spirit to stand on firm legs. One
imbibes this antidote from books of
philosophy; another from the COM
temptation of indefatigably. shining
stars, and the bravery Of the tiniesr
of created things-ants and spiders,
which never own defeat. The anti
dote is everywhere, and he is half
way to a cure who recognizes that
unsuccess is not force but lack
of force The conditions change nat
urally with the state. and this is
true, and worthy to be accepted
lunsuecess cannot exist where hope is.
where will is, where enthusiasm
burns like fire in the art.-From
1.-THE Failure That Spells Success"
by Meary Mears, in the Circle. e
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-08
CHILD LABOR IN ENGLAND.
Thirty Thousand London Children
Are Wage Farmers on Half-Time.

Thirty Thousand London Children
Are WAGE Farmers on Half-Time.
In London there are $4,000 school
children. 100000 of them over seven
years of age, and of those $4,000 are
half-time wage earners. About half.
of them spend during each week TWEEN
ty-seven hours in school and more
than twenty hours in work. In one
district such children work from
fourteen to fifty hours week and are
paid at the rate of l and cents
an hour. In small laundries the help
ers are employed for two or three
nights a week until 10 o'clock and
all day Saturdays, working in a steam
laden atmosphere and amid surround
ings that are distinctly undesirable.
Lather boys in barber shops have
hours that are much too long, never
less than forty a week. They are
usually busy from to 10 every even
ing. all day and until midnight Sat-
urday and Sunday from to - in the
morning and from to 2 in the after
noon. Grocers' boys average twenty
hours a week for wages equal to Is
cents to 81 a week, when money is
paid. but it is the custom of the trade
to give food in payment.
Messenger boys and girls employed
by ! milliners, dressmakers and in
small shops oftentimes work from fifty
to fifty-nine hours week. Half-tim-
ers who are undertakers' boys are en-
gagged in the cheerful business OF
measuring corpses for shilling a
.w:ek.-From the Craftsman:
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-08
A REMARKABLE STORY.
About a Man Who Was ThaWed
ONT

Out.
A strange procession dashed into
Valeville at full gallop from the TIM
Der out in Putnie township.
First there was a four-horse team
hitched to a bobsled on which was
what appeared to be very small but
quite long saw log with the branches
only partially cut off, and following
this were half dozen teams driven
by the farmers who live out in the
neighborhood of the old Bremslne
place. and whose business in the pro-
cession seemed to be that of provld-
ing continual enthusiasm for keeping
up speed,
With great haste and noise they
made their way directly to the Vale
vile public hospital. and in very rev
minutes later, all the men beng
quickly admitted, disappeared within
the hospital front doors, carrying the
heavy log with them.
It seems that Erringe brave, nlred
man who has been working for Mr.
Bremsine. had ben sent by his EN-
ployer the day before to collect some
money-several hundred dollars-tha1
was due from man who lived severa
miles distant, and that when morning
came Brave still had not returned tt
the Bremsine place with the money
nor without it, for that matter.
Mr.. Bremsine, fearing that his EN-
ployee had decamped with the funds
started out to make search and In
curry. and about noon accidental.
discovered the missing man half-wa.
up small tree out in the deel
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-08

sidered sufficient evidence wherein to
base the death sentence condemning
Nikitenko, Simasky and Naumof to
death by hanging.
How Nikitenko managed to SNUG
gle a camera into this always-watched
garden is puzzling officials and public
alike. 1t is pretended by the prosecu-
ton that a soldier of a Guard regi-
ment was bribed to permit assassins
in the garb of Cossacks to enter and
kill the Car during his daily promen-
ade. 1t is asserted that the assassins
hoped to destroy the Car in the gar
den one moonlight night.
The Peterhof was considered the
only secure spot where the ruler of
Russia could pass his time during the
summer for the past three years. He
passes his winters at Tsarskoe-Selo.
One of the members of the court
was asked by the World correspon-
dent how it was possible to get this
picture of the Cars garden, which, it
is alleged an officer of the palace
found in the accused's possession.
After exacting a pledge that his
identity should not be exposed, the
Judge answered:
Suppose the picture was planted
by some member of the secret police
in order that testimony might be at
hand? 1t would be easy to do, and
thus impress the Car with the facil-
ity with which access to his secret
stronghold could be at hand. 1t was
a way to make the Car connect the
officers of the Liberal party with the
plotters."
For more than three months the
Government has been searching for
an official hangman, but has not found
one. although generals salary has
been offered.
The World correspondent has learn
ed that the leader of the Black Sea
mutiny, Matushenko, who was arrest
ed in Odessa, was kidnapped from
New York. He fed to America, and
passed two years there. 1t is given
out by the Government that Matu-
shenko grew homesick in New York
and returned to Russia. The ex-rebel
has, said that he was made drunk in
New York and shanghaied aboard a
Russian ship He did not know how
he got aboard the ship.
Matushenko was wanted by the Rus
sian authorities more than any other
mutineer, and it is said that a great
sum was offered for his arrest. How
he was secured by trick is now made
known. He says some one came to
him with a letter and big sum OF
money from a pretended friend, and
got him drunk.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-08

woods. and seeming unconscious,
while all about the tree were discover
ed footprints of wolves, showing that
the man must have been attacked by
a large pack of these dangerous an
imals. and, having climbed the tree
for safety, had been imprisoned there
by his assailants till he was overcome
by the cold and was unable to get
down when the morning light drove
the animals away
The unfortunate man was in a
strange position. In order to hold
himself securely in place, he had
been compelled to wrap his arms and
legs around the trunk of the tree. he
being seated on a small branch at
the time when he was found by those
in search of him. He was so badly
frozen that, even after ladders had
been obtained and they had climbed
up to where he was, he could not be
unwrapped from the tree about which
he was frozen.
The neighborhood is thickly settled,
and in very short time large parry
of strong, vigorous, willing 4uen had
gathered, and steps were Immediately
taken to rescue the dying man if pos
ssible. Several loads of straw were
brought and heaped upon the ground
on the side of the tree toward which
it would fall when severed, and then
it was cut down, although every blow
struck on the trunk hurt the impris-
oned man by means of the vibration
so that he moaned Then as much
of the tree as was absolutely neces-
sary was cut off, and the remainder
loaded onto a sleigh, to which four
horse team was hitched, and the
whole procession set off for town and
the hospital on gallop, which was
not slackened till the goal was, reach
ed
At the hospital the very best atten-
ton was paid to the frozen man, with
the result that in a few hours he had
been scientifically thawed out, and
will not lose so much as toe or a
finger by Eeason of his terrible expo
sure f .tI nr 81
He had lost the money, however, in
fleeing from the wolves, and they
had probably eaten it, for it could not
be found.-St. Louis Republic. :
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-08
THE DIFFERENCE

Between cow and milkman is that
the cow gives real milk.
Between genius and stupidity Is that
G the former is handicapped
Between lightning and electricity is
that there is a charge for
the latter
Between playwright and plagiar-
.,.- list is usually not discern
IDLE, while that
Between a good fellow and a good
9f thing" is even slighter.
Between a bare truth and bear
story, on the other hand, is
the greatest imaginable.
between being sick and being an in
valid is that the invalid
makes others sick. ...... y
Between cereals and serials is that
while the one builds us up,
the other pulls us down.
Between necessity and wealth is that
the one knows no law, while
the other merely ignores it..
Between a careless man and down.
right villain is that the first
is the greater plague to So
ciety
Between a racing yacht and piaas-
ure yacht is often only that
between a ceQtre-board and
a side-board.
Between a savage and his civilized
brother is that the one
scalps his foes while the
other skins his friends.
6etween Her headache and His, is
that She doesn't know what
caused hers, while He only
says he doesn't know what
caused his, either.
Between invention and Intervention
is that while necessity is the
bonafide mother of the one,
she is only mere de con-
venience to the other. t
Between the speech of popular man
and that of great one is
that in the one case we ap-
als plaud the platitudes, while
in the other we can't quite
understand the foresight
and wisdom q t''ift
GsI/ From the Bohemian.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-08


/ 5ntpost. The duke was among them,
but he did not wake when his name
was called.
-"Hardimont!" repeated the SER
geant.
eff you've no objection, sergeant"
said Jean Victor, rising, "Ill take
his place; he is sleeping so well, and
he's my comrade."
"As you please"
And when the five men were gone,
the snoring began again.
Half an hour later, shots hasty and
near at hand were heard. In second
every man was on his feet; the sold
iers left the tavern, stepping cautious
ly, their fingers on their triggers,
peering down the road, white in the
moonlight.
But what time is it? 1 was on
duty tonight" said the duke.
Some one replied, Jean Victor went
in your place"
At this moment a soldier was seen
running down the road toward them.
"Well?" they asked him, when he
halted, breathless.
"The Prussians are making an at
tack; we are to fall back on the re-
doubt"
"And the other sentinels?"
They are coming-all except poor
Jean Victor"
"What?" cried the duke.
"a bullet in the head. He didn't
even groan.
Toward two O'Clock one night last
winter the duke left the club with his
neighbor, the Conte de Saulnes; he
had lost a few hundred louis, and
had a headache.
''If you have no objection, Andre,
we will walk home; the air will do
me good"
GAS you like, old fellow, but the
streets are horrible"
They ordered their coupes home,
turned up their overcoat collars, and
started toward the Madeleine. Sud
denly the duke struck something
aside with the toe of his boot-a big
piece of bread, coated with mud.
To his utter amazement, M. de Saul
mes saw the Due de Hardimont pick
the piece of bread up, wipe it care
fully with his crested handkerchief,
and place it on one of the benches of
the boulevard, in the full glare of a
street-lamp,
What in the world are you up to-"
said the count, laughing, ARE you
mad ?"
It's in memory of a poor fellow
who died for me" returned the duke
in family shaken voice. Don
laugh, Andre, if you want to oblige
me. Translated for the Argonaut
from the French of Francois Coppee