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tie brother. much less base ball. He couldn't
play on rag carpet with a broomhande
He couldn't play jacks on the front steps
He ought to be rolling a hoop down hill
He's a fat-head and a shoemaker He
belongs with some grip league on the class
q circuit. Maybe he might do as a utility
man with the White Horse Rapids team up
in the Klondike-but only maybe. Look at
him fall all over himself, the big slob!
Yah! There he goes again, bootin' easy
one! He couldn't hit street car with
popgun If he was standing inside of 1t. Hi.
watch him drop that little bit of an easy
one that any kid from the foundlings'
home nd eat up alive! There's
a-talkin'. that dub ought to be driving a
brick wagon Whoever picked him out to
play bali with a major league nine must
sure have had one of them Thaw storms at
the time.
And that's the way this type of rOoter
bawls along. nagging players that are doing
their best-that may at the time, be sui
fering from the temporary dodrums in
which the very best of players find them
selves on occasions.
He isn't any nice kind of a fellow, this
type of roOter. But tbs age when the
elimination Of the more disagreeable types
and species Is going all along the line.
Maybe the nagging rooter will take fall to
himself one of these blithe old days and
evanish adown the asphodel meadows. He
won't be missed.
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M|DDIES WILL ROW
At POUGHKEEPS|E
Secretary MetcaIf Tells The
Star That He Will Grant the
Necessary Permission.

Secretary Metcalf told a Star reporter
yesterday that he had decided to grant
permission for the eight-oared crew of the
Naval Academy to compete in the annual
regatta on the Hudson river, opposite
Poughkeepsie. June 26. The Secretary said
he felt justified in this action by reason
OF the fact that the regatta was to be
rowed in the vacation Of the midshipmen.
and, consequently would not interfere in
the least with their studies.
Rear Admiral Sands, superintendent of
the Naval Academy, who is known to favor
the proposition. will visit Washington early
this week and confer with Secretary Met
calf in regard to the matter.
Expense Question Solved.
The question Of finances. 1t is said will be
easily solved. The expenses of the trip
will be large, and the Navy Athletic Asso-
citation. which is the governing body Of
athletics at the Naval Academy, admits
that its treasury is not rich and will be
unable to bear the burden, since a new shell
has been bought and this represents a big
outlay. However, a very generous offer to
donate the funds has been made by several
New York alumni now living in civil life,
who are anxious to see the MILDLY crew
compete. The names of the donors have
not been made public. 1t is known, how
ever tildt muCn correspondence mas Deen
going on between the New Workers. and onl-
GERS at the academy. Capt. Ingram and
Manager Hollyday of the crew.
First Time in History.
When the Middies meet the crack varsity
crews at Poughkeepsie next summer it
will be the first time in the history of ath-
letic sports that the Naval Academy has
participated in an outside event IN which
one or more colleges competed. The only
athletic events in which the Middies COM
pete outside of the city are the annual foot
ball and base ball games between the Mill
tary and Naval Academies. and the inter-
collegiate fencing tournament.
The foot ball games have generally been
played in Philadelphia, while the base ball
contests take place alternately at West
Point and .AnneI oils AS to the fencing
tournament the Middies are allowed to en-
ter this principally to contest with the
West Point cadets, who also belong to the
intercollegiate asSociat ton.
The only boat race lost last year was that
with Pennsylvania, and the Middies were
In bad condition at the time. This years
crew. under the tutelage Of Richard Glen
don of the Boston Athletic AssOcia ton. who
has coached for three years. is without
doubt the strongest that ever represented
navy and has already defeated George
town. which will also be tn the Pough
keepsie event. 1t Is the general opinion
that the Middies will make a strong show
ing in the regatta.
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MR.. PARKER MAKES
THE BEST SCORE
Handicap Medal Play of the
Chevy Chase Club Golfers
Yesterday Afternoon.

The handicap medal play. eighteen holes.
of the Chevy Chase Club yesterday attract
ed thirty-seven golfers. and in the end 1t
was found that A. Parker, with net score
Of IS, had finished the best of the contest
ants. H. Wylie. with a net score Of 70.
was his nearest competitor. Although the
matches were allowed to be started any
time after O'Clock in the morning. it was
shortly after the noon hour before Samuel
Dalzell and Mr.. Wylie, the second prize
winner, started over the course. After a
few hours A. S. Worthington. J. W. Locket,
L. A. Pradt, F Dec. Faust. T. F. Jewell,
G. P. Van Wyck and other golfers Of the
Chevy Chase Club arrived and started
from the first tee. Later in the afternoon
DR.. Glazebrook. Reeve Lewis, G. G. Laf-
ferty DR.. Ralph jenkins, Fl. B. Davidson.
W. F. Ham and others of the local golf
ers who have done good work within the
past yea so went over the course, Dut
the chilly and sometimes raw wind put on
all hopes Of the golfers to do any really
good work. Both Mr.. William J. Board
man and Dr. ]. MacBryde Sterrett were en-
tered in the handicap. but failed TO turn
The work Of Mr. Parker. the winner OF
the first prize, was especially good. con-
sidering the fact that going out he drove
against strong wind. His gross score
was 81. and in this respect he was tea
by Mr.. Wylte, who won the second prize:
Sam Dalzeli, who Is one of the golf
cracks of the Chevy Chase Club. came o'er
the eighteenth green yesterday AFTERNOON
with a gross score Of IS. or two better
than the gross score Of the winner. but
here again the work Of the handicappers
gave Mr.. Parker the victory.
Dr.. F. r. Hagner, the winner OF the han
dicap match play against par April p, mace
his appearance in the afternoon. and mn.
ished an easy third, with a gross score OF
SO and net score of 70. Mr.. E. H. Lotus
Of the Siamese legation, with handicap
of 49, a gross score Of 81 and net score
Of 81, had also a good score, considering
the conditions Of the weather. Those VINO
entered yesterday were Samuel Dalzell, H.
Wylie, J. w. Lockett, A S. Werthington,
L. A. Pradt, F. Dec. Faust. T. F: Jewell,
G. P. Van WyCk, c. A. Aspinwali II. W.
Scovill, G. T. Dunlap. A. Parker. J. NJ
Rankin, DR.. L. w. Glazebrook. K. Lewis.
j. H. Clapp. G. c. Lafferty. ]. Bolt, H.
DR.. F. r. Hagner. L. B. T. Johnson. Dr.
Ralph Jenkins, A 7. King. s. L. Heap,
William J. Boardman, M E. Gates. II. =.
Davidson. w. F. Ham. T. J: D: Fuller. 8.
B. Miller. Rev. DR.. J. Macbryde Sterrett.
Fl. Putnam. w. C. Ford and b. Miller:
The game played by Mr.. Parker. the win
ner of the handicap. was evidenced oy ms
sharp play at the start when he took the
first holes of the course in good style.
The figures Of the match were:
CIR. Hd.Net.
44547 564 s 6 > 5 81 II rs
The card of Mr.. Wylie showed that he
went over the cOuse as follows:
CIR. HID Net.
$3.50 55345 5e573 63 81 . IS
Those who turned in cards and their
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LOS ANGELENO DUPLICATES
HIS FORMER VICTORY

SAN FRANCISCO. April 13.-The result
of the Thornton stakes was duplicated at
Oakland in the Thornton renewal at four
miles today when Los Angeleno beat
Mamie Algol by a nose. The same dis
lance separated the pair in the previous
encounter. Incidentally the worlds record
of T.1Ch for four miles broken. the
distance being covered in ZIG ID. Mamie
Algcl was pronounced favorite. while
Los Angeleno drifted to to 1, owing to
the fact that ne had been lame. The race
was spectacular. the five horses being we'll
punched all the way. Infammable led for
two miles and then Mamie Algol took
command. Los Angeleno passed her on
the last mile. and though she came again,
Knapp landed the Thornton winner first
by The race had a gross value
OF 5000. The winner received $3.50.
Pirst race. six furlongs: selling Gov. Orman
100 FISCHER. to /, won; Mimo, 1oi (Hunier,
~ to |. second Hugh McGowan. lol 20. Wright
$ To |. third. Time liz 80. Titus H. Tic
Skipper. Billy Mayham Yellowstone and Bounie
Reg also
Love Of Gold, loo Gross. to 1. won: Follie
L., ~ SANDY, Is TO l, second; Creston, lis &c.
Hy and Bra ,9,aa also e ram o' 10 f"'s ''S
Third race, mile and fifty yards; selling Earl
Rogers; lo6 Iycurgus,. to 10. won: cadichon;
,Ssn,iy), 10 to 1. third. Time. Ia l-5. Wood
thornr, FRITZ Ferri. Rack Gem. Duke of Orleans
and Tetnnus also
Fourth race, 1horEsm Renewal: four miles; value
$S.to1-Los Angelcno, Ill (knappp, to l. won,
Mamie Aisol, los "a. Brown. even. second: Ben
volio LOG III SMITH, ! to 1. third Time I;lG Is.
Huston and lnftammable also
Fifth race, five furongs-Entre Nous. 107 wv.
Kelly. TO l. won; Fireball. 100 tBuch anan,. 10
to l. second; CloutiliEht. 1oI I'll smith. ) to 1.
third. Time, Loo. Native Son. Security Silver
Stocking. Lolita Gladstone. Miss Provo and SPIN
stress also ran.
sixth race. Green Lilly handicap; furlongs
- x Tn . Hprfp
lO &C. Ross. Is TO |. second. Princess Titania.
~ SANDY. To =. third. Time. 1.26 10. Con
fcsSor. The Mist, The Borgian and Supreme Court
also Sir Brillar left at tine post.
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won the pot with his threes. but the
dealer was mad enough TO chew nails.
You can't always be sure you're playing
with crooks when you think you are"
said Ruff, as he contemplated the smoke
from his cigarette as it lszily mounted to
the ceiling. Then he told us the story OF
DR.. Martnet and the Cuban.
The doctor had formed a speaking ac-
quaintance with several respectable-ap-
pearing, apparently reputable men on a
steamer that was making the tour OF the
West Indies. When some one suggested
poker twas welcomed as pleasant
interruption of a monotony that was
growing little firing. After the
doctor had been playing for some
time he found himself dealt hand con
tanning three queens. He called for one
card and his eyes glistened and his hand
slightly trembled when he saw that he had
drawn the other queen. His bet was
quickly raised to the limit by a Cuban
who formed one Of the party. The doctor
could hardly walt for his turn to raise 1t.
The Cuban raised in turn. to be promptly
raised by the doctor. In the meantime the
others had dropped out. After the doctor
had raised 1t for the third time the Cuban
said quietly: AS this is gentleman's
game. I guess this has gone far enough. l
call YOU, doctor. Let's see your four
queens.'
DR.. Martinez flushed with disappointment
at being called and with rage at finding
that the other could read his hand. He
flung down his cards and was scarcely
surprised to See the uban lay down four
kings
Mutterlng something about not caring 10
play with persons who could read through
the backs Of cards. the doctor pushed away
from the table.
''Doctpr Ia ba mi
what you think, but let me tell you that
you are wrong. If you will permit | will
see you after We're through playing and
convince you
The game naturally dragged after that
and playing soon ceased Then the Cuban
went to the doctor.
Doctor. said he. you suspect there
was something crooked about that hand
we played for you can't figure out how |
sized you up for four queens. 1t not
a particularly hard task for me. I have
been playing rds for years and | think
1 can say that I've learned the game Of
poker. Such a game that OF this after
noon was chids play for me. 1t WASH
very hard to size up your hand approx
mately. You opened the jackpot, you
know, and drew one card. | saw by your
manner at once that you had bettercd
The only question whether you had
made a full out of two pairs or whether
you had bettered threcs. Your evident
cagerDess to bet. hardly waiting for your
turn, showed that you had an unusually
good hand. Your confident raising and re
raising until you had raised me three times
finally convinced me that you had tours
now what kind of tours? | held four kings
myself. originally. and ace So that
eliminated kings and aces from your hand.
AS you opened the pot you had to have
jacks or better. Therefore you had four
jacks four queens. Which was it? |
didn't know. but made a guess. and said at
random. Show us your four queens As 1t
happened l struck IT..
THE doctor" said Ruff closing the
story. was convinced lie wrong and
apoogiZed profusely''
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THE COMMISSION SUSTAINED.
No Racing at Empire City Track This
Year

WHITE PLAINS. n. Y. April l3.-There
will be no racing at the track of the En-
pire City Trotting Club this year. accord
ing to a decision handed down by Supreme
Court Justice Mills here today The decision
upkolds the contention Of the state racing
commission that no date should be as
signed to the Empire City track. as there
are already six metropolitan racing ssso-
cations, which, together with the Saratoga
Club had been holding meetings their
tracks for many years and had established
valuable annual stakes. The racing com
mission held that these tracks should have
the preference this year.
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Lacrosse at Baltimore.

BALTIMORE. Md, April I3.-The Johns
Hopkins lacrosse team today defeated that
Of Harvard by a score of goals to /. Har-
wards single goal was scored by Vance
within thirty seconds after play began.
The playing Of Wendell of Harvard was
feature.
The lacrosse team of Lehigh University
today defeated the Mount Washingt"',
team by a score OF goals to 8.
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The Funny Fans.


But there are rooters and rooters. here
as we'll as everywhere else.
The great majority of them are the
bulliest fellows lima ginable. But there are
Just a few types Of base ball rooters who
are irksome.
They don't know 1t. That's the pathetic
part Of 1t. They mean well. Their inten-
lions are the best in the world. But they
the confused ego. They have the i'm
aginative temperament.
For example, quite a few rooters i'm
agine themselves to be humorists. when
they really are not-not at all; not lit
tie bit.
The sure-enough funny base ball rooter
is q rare bird. Few ball towns have more
than two or three of them at the most.
And they're joy. They're about half the
fun of the afternoon. They're quaint, In
ventive, quippish and wholly agreeable.
They don't overdo it. They don't keep
batting all the time. like megaphonists
on the rubberneck wagons. They pick the
pat moment and send the funny one over,
CONFUSING all hands within sound of their
voices. They have the genuine sense OF
proportion and Of time measurement fhey
know to the eighth Of a second Just when
to shoot in the right one. And they re al
ways good-natured about 1t. The honest
Intun funny base ball rooter Is never a
Crouch He's there for the outing and the
fun, game man willing to take his medi-
cine II need be. as entertaining in defeat as
as he is jovial and generous In victory.
He's got comedy in him. He's there with
the bright mind, stored with auirks and
outlets. He isn't obviously trying to make
q hit with the folks. He isn't posing as a
him that seethes in a naturally joyous mid
riff
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Close Game at Navy Yard.

The Sight and East Gun Carriage Shops
of the Navy Yard Base Ball League met
Yesterday afternoon at the navy yard, and
the former came OF victorious by score
of to s. The winning team would like
to arrange games with teams of the Dis
trIct Challenges should be sent to L.
Nj. Sheers, 1913 10th street northwest
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The Lexington Meeting

LEXINGTON, Ky, April l3.-The official
program was issued today for the spring
race meeting to be given here April -
to May by the Kentucky Racing Associa
ton A total of $4,000 in purses will be
given. the average amount of the purses
being 500
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Waterloo for Fourth Grade.

The fifth grade team of the Dent school
defeated the fourth grade team Of the same
school in a one-sded game by the score
of IL to Friday. The features Of the
game were the pitching of Walter Hughes
and the batting of Kane and Tucker. The
fifth grade team desires games with teams
averaging twelve years Of age. Address
Francis Kane 400 New Jersey avenue
southeast.
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West Point Defeats Union.

WEST POINT n. Y, April 13.-In the
opening base ball game of the season here
today West Point defeated Union College
by a score of to o. The score:
Ri. r..
West Point NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. = l
Union College. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
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To Coach Tuskegee's Eleven.

ELMIRA, n. Y, April l3.-'Deacon" Cos
tello of this city, one of Cornells most
famous foot ball men, has received an
offer to coach a foot ball team at Booker
T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. lie
probably will accept.
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GOLF RATING CRITICISED.
Travers and Travis Placed Above
Egan and Byers.

NEW YORK. April 13.-H. Chandler
Esan. T. NJ. Byers, Jerome D. Travers and
Walter J. Travis. the pick of the home
golfers. aud entitled to rank among the
best opponents anywhere. have been rated
b. the handicap committee of the Metro
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Paul Rainey,s NOW colors.

Paul ]. Rainey has changed his racing
coiors from red and black blocks. used last
year, and his horses In the future will carry
q combination Of white, scarlet cross sa3ises
and band on sleeves, with scarlet cap.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-14
Motor Exposition at Milan.

ROME, April 13.-Milan. the great auto
mobile manufacturing center Of Italy, is to
hold a motor exhibition from May IS to
June 9.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-14

OF BASE BALL FANS
Some of the Rioters That Could
Easily Be Spared From
National Park Crowds.
By Clarence L. Cullen.

Let US now consider the rooters for a
little brief space.
Washington Is renowned throughout the
base ball world as one of the rootfulest
towns ever. With anything like the teeny-
weniest break the Washington fans will
rip enough holes in the circumambient to
make the encircling atmosphere look like
something all shot full Of holes. Give
them a straw to clutch at. just little
piece Of tempest-tossed chicken-coop to
grab at in the tumuituous sea of base ball,
and the hungry. wistful Washington fans
will root themselves right over to the Dor,
derland of the bid divide: will root till
their teeth drop out: will root till the bo-
vines return: will root till their coun-
tenances are OF the color of that Of the
lamented Dorsey Foultz: will root till the
ambulances line UP and drag them. limp
and exhausted, but deliriously happy, to
the reviving works.
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The Knocking Rooter.

The rooter who picks on certain individual
players of the home club of whom he
doesn't himself approve belongs also on the
index expurgatorius. There's a deal of bile
in this rooter's system. He is possessed
with a fixed dislike for some certain player
of the home club, say. Well. that settles
It, It's all of with that certain player, so
far as he's concerned. He can't see that
player with a lens as big as q Homestead
6last-furnace stack. and he ~desires-in fact,
deDands-everybody to know 1t. That
player. he asserts. asseverates. vows and
vums, couldn't play marbles with his lit
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my friend stood pat or taken one card. He
won the pot with his threes. but the
dealer was mad enough TO chew nails"
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Hing of Spades showed speed. Sailie K. sho
long with Ivanhoe. Dekaber ran q good race
Scratched -Toscau.
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BENNING, SATURDAY, APRIL Is.

Pu 70 For three-ye
struggling Won acc tine
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andb rGrrnoo or irpcen the ~
Star
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30
CABLE.

Mrs. John Robertson was a Rock Is
land visitor Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. John Haddick, Jr., spent
Sunday with relatives at Cambridge.
Miss Nellie Kouski of Silvis spent
Christmas with her parents here.
Mrs. Dick Rettich of Peoria is here
for visit at the home of her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. l.. Radell.
Mrs. Fred Haddick left Friday for
Richland, Iowa, to spend Christmas
with her folks.
Miss Lima Lewis returned home
Wednesday from a weeks visit at Sill
Wis and East Moline.
Miss Elda Lewis of East Moline
spent Christmas with her folks here.
C. L. Kettering and family of Cam
bridge are visiting at the home OF
, John Haddick, Jr.
Fred Wilde came home from East
Moline for Christmas.
The church Christmas exercises were
held in the opera house Christina.
night to accommodate the large crowd
A very interesting program was rem
dered.
George Hughes of Omaha, Neb., i:
here for a visit with his folks.
S. A. Nelson and family of Aled,
spent several days of the week at thu
home of John Forster and family.
Professor J. B. Lepak is spendin:
his holiday vacation with relatives a
Duluth, Mimi
Walker Brown of Silvis spent Christ
mas here.
Ray Henderson is visiting relative
at Carbon Hill, H., over the holidays
Willie Wahlgren of East Molin
spent Wednesday with his mothe
here.
Thomas German and family of Eas
Moline spent Christmas here.
Miss Lex Parker is home fror
school duties at Macomb over the no
idays.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30

world. The headquarters of this order,
which is open to all master MasonS
and which is similar to the shrine for
|32nd degree Masons, are at Hamilton.
land it now has about 1000 members.
The order was organized in 1890, and
all prominent Masons in the country
are interested in it. Deputy Grand
Potentate McGregory is here for the
purpose of getting availables into line
for organization of this grotto, which
will have exclusive jurisdiction over
100 miles of adjacent territory, includ,
ing Rock Island and Moline.
Obituary Record. - Miss Emma
Franz died at st. Luke's hospital Sat
urday night Miss Franz was born IN
Muscatine May 20, 1869, and resided
there until she came to Davenport to
live in 1901, and since then has
been keeping house for her brother,
Charles, at the Windsor hotel. She
was much beloved and her loss is a
severe blow to the members of the
family and the many friends. In I'D
dition to her brother, Charles, of this
city she is survived by two sisters,
Miss Ernestine Franz and Mrs
Charles Klink, both of Mrscatine.
Walter Hender died Saturday. Born
in Hull. England, Dec. II, 1885, Mr.
Hender when II years old came tC
New York. and soon afterward came
out to Quincy, H., via Pittsburg and
the water trip on the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi rivers. At Quincy he entered
the employ of the ComstockCastle
company, large stove making con
Germ. Some four years later he was
sent up to Burlington to open branch
store, and he had just opened there
when word came from the house to &C
on to Davenport and locate the branch
here. So Mr.. Hender, who had lait
in an unusually large stock, loaded i
onto a steamer and two barges, an(
brought it to Davenport. He secured
a storeroom on Front street, opposite
the Diamond 10 warehouse, and i
was his business location for som,
time. Soon after he came to Daven
port the Quincy house failed and MI
Hender bought the Davenport stor,
and stock and continued the business
Later he moved it onto Brady street
where the Merchants lunch counte
is now located. and it remained Their,
until the business was discontinued
March Is, 1857, at Quincy. ILL.,, MI
= Hender was married to Ann Baker
! who died May 10. 1884 OF their 81,
: sons and one daughter, but three SUI