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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24
CAIUIFLOWER EARS DO NOT
GROW ON FIGHTERS IN RING
Pueilists Receive Theirs in Training in Gym
nasium or Trough Housing" But Not
in Actual Fighting.

gymnasium one afternoon, and the tltng
never got any better.
who is as clever lad as anybody-yes,
I was going to say Abe Atteli. but III
qualify that q little-never was punished
any in the ring and was knocked down
but once. Yet look at the corking piece
of tripe he sports Well, he got that fool
ing one afternoon up at O'Connell's with
Big John Willie.
George Brown also got one I'm the
same way-just foolin' around and not
watching out.
There's only one way you >,an ac-
tect himself to the last outside limit. He
is ever on the alert for a punch, slipping
his head, ducking, sidestepping and all
the rest Of II. to escape punishment.
Hence a fighter who knows something Is
seldom hit on the ear
Carelessness the Cause.
But in a gymnasium it's different
The men go on to box. usually little
fellows with big ones. and they get care
less. They aim to get exercise merely.
and the alertness OF the actual encoun-
ter is not shown. Hence all sorts of
punches are landed. and the first thing
you know. zowie! up swelis the listener
and the fighter is disfgured Tor the resi-
of his natural life.
And there's no seeming cure Tor tnse
infallible and unmistakable badge OF the
PROCESSION, either. Many q fighter has
tried to have it fixed ND. but without
success. They get worse. II enytnns'
the more they are treated
when a fighter gets one It's his for eli
time"
right. and one good head hold. With the
% much pulp and givD him t. eaA0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24

BIG LEAGUE CLUBS WANT
BEST HITTERS FROM MINORS
Major Circuit Nets Capture Many Players
Who Were Batting and Pitching Lead
ers IN Lower Classes.

nell OF the Eastern League will draw his
salary from the New York Yankees. while
Hovlik, the Three-I League leader has
already been tried by the White Sox.
The National League failed to get such
a classy bunch of pitchers. Chicago took
the Union Association and Slapnicka OF
the Wisconsin-Illinois League. Hess or
the Southern League goes to Boston.
while Cincinnati took Boyd, the leader In
the Central Association.
But there were a number OF batters ano
pitchers who led their leagues who failed
to advance. Among them were the lead
Ing pitchers of the Central Blue Grass.
Ohio State, Southern Michigan, Virginia
and Western Canada Leagues and the
champion batsmen of the Carolina Cen
trial. Western. Connecticut Eastern.
Southern Michigan, Tri- State and Cotton
States Leagues.
The South Atlantic League has pro-
mulgated the most remarkable set OF
rules governing it's next years season In
the history of base ball in the first place
the league takes a stand against "has-
beens." and rules that no player who has
played twenty games in a league OF high
er classification is eligible to play in the
or catcher none who has played ten
games in league higher up is eligible.
Then again, no player who played in
that league last season and drew more
than $50 month will be allowed to
play.
with vengeance Suppose all the class
and ID leagues should adopt similar
regulations? What would become OF the
veterans of the game who find themselves
slipping and no longer able to hold their
own IN the more select classes?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24
FANS WANT YOUTH
Tire of Old Players When
Team Isn't a Winner.
ELBERFELD LATEST TO GO
Scrappy Player Was Among Most
Popular for Many
Years.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLEVELAND. December 23.-It's rath-
er tough on the veterans. the men
who have performed nobly. but who
have passed the zenith of their careers,
to hear the never-ceasing cry for young
er ball players.
Age must give way to youth in this
game of base ball as in everything
else. There is a constant demand for
youth.
Each year marks the passing of an
other coterie Of aged ones who have
passed their prime. and who are regis
istered as has-beens. The latest to draw
that notice was ''scrappy Kid" Elber-
field, one Of the hardest and most con-
uniform.
All Admired the Kid.
Fans used to rail and rave at Elber-
field. Yet they admired him. All the
world loves a fighter, a man who is
always out to win. Elberfeld knew
nothing else. He was a ball player who
thought only of victory. Never in his
long career could 1t be said Of him that
he did not fight to win, no matter how
great the OQOS were dSdIItSt HIS
When all is said and done the highest
type Of athlete is the one who fights for
victory when the odds are greatest
against him.
Returning to the subject Of youth 1t
is doubtful if a major league club ever
entered a championship race possessed
of so much youthful material as that
which Harry Davis will lead next
spring.
Look over that group of pitchers
Gregg, Kaler. Knapp, Mitchell, Demott
Steen, Banding. James, Bair, Baskette
, his twenty-ffth year. Demott, Kalel
and Mitchell were given the privilege tc
vote just short time ago.
! OF the infielders. LaJoie, Turner and
Ball are the only men who can rightly
be called veterans. and Ball is still youne
in years.
| Birmingham and Graney are the vet.
Grams of the outfeld. Birmingham be-
cause Of his long service is considered
an old stager, yet Joe Is only twenty
seven years old. Graney is twenty-six.
| Paddy Livingston is the only member
Of the catching staff well along in years
as base ball players ages are consid
cred. Paddy is thirty. Easterly, though
a veteran in service, Is only twenty-five
years old. OF the thirty-five players or
the Cleveland clubs roster only five have
passed the twenty-sixth year mark.
vast majority Of the men have been 1r
! existence less than twenty-three years.
| No wonder President Somers looks or
| the distant future with pleasure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24
snec,al DISPATCH to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO. December 23.-Did you ever
stop to figure how many fighters nave
tin ears and then wonder how they
came to get them. There is scarcely a
wrestler in the business who doesn
sport a large order Of caulifiower au
grattn on at least one side of his mead
but 1t is natural that they snouio se'
them: after one considers the strenuous
ness of the mat game.
A bunch Of fighters were talking about
this the other night, and somebody asked
where all of the caulifiowers on the night
ers come from.
i've seen lot of fights and never saw
a fighter pounded on the ear enough to
give him a hunk Of gristle like that,
he remarked.
Then Nate Lewis. who has managed
some of the good ones and seen all OF
them all over the country, drifted into
the discussion.
Get Them in the Gyms.
You're right. the fighters don't get
those ears in the ring at all; they pick
them up in the gymnasiums." quoth
Lewis, and made everybody sit UP and
agree with him.
When / had Kid Herman, who was
about as shifty a fellow as any OF the
second-rate ughtweights and better than
some of the topnotchers." Lewis con-
tinued, The picked up timer that was
nothing short, of beaut. Billy Scnt,
the middleweight, gave 1t to him In
How They Get Them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24
BILLY DELANEY IN BAD WAY.
Famous Trainer May Never Appear
in Public Again.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
SAN FRANCISCO. December 23.-Billy
Delaney. the well known trainer Of pugil-
lists, is confined to his Oakland home
with an illness which his physicians fear
may end fatally. They say he will never
enter another training camp.
Delaney, who is suffering from internal
complications. came here from New York
thirty years ago. He put Corbett In con-
dition to meet Sullivan in New Orleans
In 1892. When Corbett retired he de-
yeIoped Jeffries for the match in which
EYtzsimmons lost his title. Delaney's last
work was the training OF Jack johnson
for the championship contest ct Reno
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24

Frank Chance will have the greatest
is able to play first base we will be right
In the running all the time, for he is the
biggest portion OF our team. II ne can
not piay-well. L won't make any predic-
tons.
Other handicaps We are likely to be
under will depend upon the condition OF
JOHNNY Evers and the reported intention
Of Mordecai Brown to remain in Cali
fornia.
Il expect to see Brown in San Fran
cisco, and l do not place much credence
i'm the reports of his intention to play
independent ball. If Brown reports. our
pitching staff will be O. k.-if not, it's a
gamble.
In case We lose Chance, Brown and
Evers I look for Pittsburgh TO prove the
winner. providing this O'TOole lives up
to expectations. Pittsburgh STANDS
very good chance to be In the running
all the way. for O'Toole displayed signs
of becoming winning pitcher. and, with
the veterans OF that team, IL he shows
to the form expected OF him. will make
the Pirates a team hard to beat
Giants Only Dangerous"
With McGraw at the helm in New
York that club can always be figured
as a dangerous proposition. Mathewson
is far from being a has-been, and Will
do just as good work for the Giants next
season as he did last. despite the pre-
dictions of few wiseacres who dope
him as ''all in because Of his defeats
at the hands of the Philadelphia club.
Figure out the number Of runs the Ath-
letics made off Mathewson and compare
that with the number New York made
behind him and you'll see why he lost.
There are not many Philadelphia teams
in either league and Mathewson will not
be beaten so often during the coming
race.
New York can always be figured Is
contender, at least for the next few
years at any rate.
Respect Phillies.
Philadelphia in the National showed a
lot of class last season, but the trouble
between Doom and President Fogei may
handicap that team next season. With
Doom on the job and working for the
interests of the club there is every like
lihood that the Phillies will be in The
running from the start.
St Louis is an unknown quantity, ana
sometimes is looked upon as posi-
bility. Bresnahan may surprise again
next season, but 1 do not see where he
has improved the club any at the pres
ent time. Hank ODay was q very
good umpire, but what he will do as a
manager remains to be seen
any better than last year. though Bos-
ton may surprise with Mike Donlin in
the lineup.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24
TINKER CLAIMS FLAG
Thinks Cubs Will Win National
League Pennant in 1912.
FIGURES ON THE VETERANS
If Evers, Chance and Brown Come
Back Chicago Can't Be Beaten,
He Says.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, December 23-The pennant-
claiming season is hereby declared open
In the American League there is none
courageous enough to dispute Philadel-
phia's bid for the 1912 championship
and so far as Is known no one has actu-
ally taken unto himself the Nationals
streamer as yet.
But Joe Tinker edges in so close to
grabbing it for the Cubs that it would
be quibbling. nothing more, to bar him
from the ranks Of the claimants should
he seek recognition as such. To all in
tents and purposes he awards the 191.
title to himself and his mates.
Gives Pirates Look-In.
But with a string attached. If Chance
directs his campaign from the bench, II
Johnny Evers fails to report In condition
and if Miner Brown decides to give uI
base ball and devote all mis- time and at
tention to extracting gold from Cali
fornia mine, then Pittsburgh has chance
to slip through-providing Marty OToolf
proves to be a real twenty-two-thousand
five-hundred-d dollar finger. Tinker is now
on the coast playing a vaudeville circuit
Tinker figures the 1912 situation in this
manner If there is any truth In Fortlano
Ore, interviewerS:
AT this stage Of the season II is some
what out Of order to predict any pen
nants for any of the favorites, but SO raj
/ look for the race to be another Tour
cornered fight between Chicago. New
YORK pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Quite
naturally I think the Cubs will have
look-in, but their success depends on
many things.
In the first place. the condition OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24
NEW MOTOR SPEEDWAY.
Metropolitan Association to Build
New Course in New Jersey.

NEW YORK. December 23-It was an
nounced tonight that the Metropolitan
Motor Speedway Association has acquired
$50 acres of land on the Kearney meadows
in New Jersey for use as a motor speed
way and aviation and athletic ground.
The association has received authority to
issue 81 100000 capital stock, and it pro-
poses to construct motordrome two
miles long with sc ats for 10000 persons.
1t was stated that work would begin
February /
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24

Superior and Duluth are in the unfortu-
nate situation Of being too big for their
company, at least they feel that way
about it. and announce that they will not
put clubs in the Observation-Disclosures
League next year. There has been some
talk Of forming an independent league,
with Winnipeg and Brandon and teams
in Minneapolis and ST. Paul, but there is
slim prospect of that, as it would mean
invasion Of protected territory, and out
law base ball Is easier talked than ac-
complished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24
MAKE UP SCHEDULES
Major League Dates to Be
Arranged This Week..
NO TROUBLE LOOKED FOR
Ban Johnson and Barney Dreyfuss
to Be Principal Members of
Committee.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, December 23.-Those mag
mates who are to frame the big league
base ball schedules are expected to get
together next week and form the playing
dates for the coming season. johnson
Of the American League said he had
received a letter from Barney Dreyfuss
Of the National League regarding the
schedule making. and that the commit
tee of each league would attend to that
work between Christmas and New Year.
The place of meeting has not been
chosen.
Johnson and Robert McRoy. his former
secretary, who is to become secretary OF
the Boston club, will act for the Amer
lean League, and Dreyfuss of Pittsburgh,
Hermann of Cincinnati and Heydler,
secretary OF the National League, will
act for the older organization.
st should take only an hour or two
to fix the schedules, said Johnson, 'for
they will be arranged just as in the past
being the reverse of last year. OF course,
the season will be closed about a week
earlier next fall, but there will be l54
games, just as in the past"
Rules Committee.
At the same time the schedule commit
tees are meeting there will be session
of the rules committees of each league.
johnson appointed Jimmy Callahan,
new manager Of the White SoX, as one
of the three members of that body. He
wants a manager. an umpire and a club
owner to serve and announced he would
appoint Tom Connolly as the umpire
for the job, but mad not decided Yet
which one Of the club owners to name.
Callahan says he knows of no changes
to be made IN the rules, but there may be
some matters Of minor importance to
bring I'D. Cal thinks the rules in gen
eral are just about right as they stand.
Fred Clarke of Pittsburgh has wagered
nineteen suits OF clothes that he will not
take part in a single game next season,
the wager even including enacting the
part of a substitute batsman. When he
arrived in this city. on his way to his
ranch at Winfield, Kan, he stood to
win only eighteen suits. When Murphy
of the Cubs expressed polite doubt as
to Clarkes winning his other bets he
was promptly taken on for the nineteenth
suit.
Not Easy to Keep Out.
ing of his wager to Robert McRoy, the
new Boston magnate. at the American
League offices, and Sir Robert expressed
the Dellei tnat murphy Hd0 q Shooo -
the proposition, as it would be hard Tor
Clarke to keep out Of the game II the
pennant fight got hot.
"4Ali right: If you think so, you're on
for the twentieth suit" said Clarke;
mot on your life," said McRoy. That s
not in our league. I've all L can attend
to there.
Some Of the party present expostulated
with Clarke that even II he did not play
regularly, he might like to step to the
plate for pitcher in tight pinch, where
a hit would tie or win a game.
That's just the point said Clarke
when you decide to quit playing, you
must quit. Wen be equipped next sea
son with one or two men just for that
very purpose, of hitting in a pinch, fell
lows who can deliver better than could. y
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1911-12-22
FIRE AT LANTZ HALL.

What might have proved to be 3
disastrous fire was discovered in
Lantz Hall on Tuesday morning. Ole
of the boys, who has had the mumps
too badly 10 leave school, was trans
ferred to Riddleberger Hall for a
few days, In returning to his room
in Lantz Hall on Tuesday morning TO
get suitcase, which was packed ready
to go home, he found the contents Of
the room smouldering under dense
FIRE. which must have been eating its
way through the bedding for long
time. The room was practically
alright. which prevented a 1raught
and, consequently, another story.
The damage to the room was about
$50, and the student lost two suits of
clothes ard other articles. 1t was a
very fortunate discovery. 1t is pre-
sumed that the fire originated from
burning electric globe which was
left to lie on the bed. The building
had been thoroughly cleaned and the
switches had been turned, but the fire
must have caught between the hours
of twilight and Up. m, when the
switches were turned and the door wa
locked. Through M. ". Magruder
Esqr., the loss to The contents has
already been made good, and the
authorities ale thankful that it was
no worse.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1911-12-22
Cantata At Bethlehem"

On Friday evening, Dec. %, at 1870
O'Clock, in st. Paul's Reformed
Church, cantata entitled, SAT
Bethlehem" will be given by chorus
OF thirty voices and ms trumerts, un-
der the direction of Prof. Benchoff.
This is rather an annual affair with
the music lovers of Woodstock and is
Q popular number on the program for
Christmas week. No admission will
be charged-but q silver collection
will be lifted to defray the expenses
of music and programs. The Sym
phi ony Male Chorus will render q
number O. two, and Miss Williams
will sing solo.
Members Of the chorus Sopranos
;i1a 3 uit Mrs, J; 3, Bush,
Mrs. L. s. Walker, Mrs. 81. o. Nico,
demus, the Misses Mamie Williams,
Carrie Pence. Emily Walton, Carey
FunkAouser and Stella Rinker.
Contraltos-Mrs. H. Morrison, Mrs
S. ]. Hoffman, Mrs. s. 81. Bowman,
Mrs. q. ] Benchoff, the Misses Alice
Co ffman and Gertrude Funkhouser.
Tenors-Messrs. M. Fl. Hotel, F. S
Bowman, c. C. Skyles, w. L. Dun
can, and Fl. j. Benchoff.
Bassos-Messrs. ]. 81. Bowman, C.
L. Gibbs, j. L. Shaffer, A. w. Bar
ley, T. n. Fravel and H. Fanseler.
Instruments-1st Violin, Chas
Hsun, Clarionet, J. r. Miller, Slide
, Trombone, r. l.. Bs,gelt, Cornet
Fred S2iker.
Organist-Miss Catherine Hotel.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1911-12-22
List of COnveyan CeS.

G. q. Snarr, special comr to Ag
mes Windle, tracts Of land in Shen
andoah county; $3.50.
William Clica and wife to PhiliI
T. Golladay, acres in Ashby dis.
trict: $50.
Jas. P. Sherman and wife to John
81. Wetzel, % acres, l rood, and 25
poles on Narrow Passage Creek; 5000
G N. Hoover, executor w. H..
Sites, Decd, and Hugh NJ. Sites, Ella
Manor, and John L. Manor to Noah
C. Wampler, two tracts, 1863 acres, 2
roods. and Is poles near New Market;
s6,1S677.
3 roods, and "a poles near New Mar
ket; s2,3l326.
J. H. Smoot and wife to Ida A.
Hoover and w. H. Hoover, tract OF
land in Stonewall district; $500.
John w. Bowers to Lena Bowers, 6
acres, 3 roods, and 9 poles in Madi-
son district.
Laura Lineburg 10 81. 81. Snarr,
26 S0-160 acres near Wheatfeld; $3.50
Bessie NJ. Saum and husband to
Clinton A. Fravel, two tracts, 34s
acres in Stonewall district; $500.
Catherine Crabill's heirs to w. n.
two tracts, "a 1-3 acres 10
Shenandoah county; 81 $50
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1911-12-22
THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN

The Confederate Veteran publlsneo
at Nashville, Tenn, should be 10 the
hands of every Confederate veteran
1t dissem mates news which will inter-
est not only Confederate veterans, bos
every lover OF the cause for which u Q
Confederate veteran fought IL Sc
cures inter communication between
friends who were once close to each
other but who have been separated for
years. 1t publishes list of veterans
as they pass over the river. 1t gives
accurate descriptions of battles from
the pens of men who we're there 1t is
distinctly Southern magazine which
every lover of the South will be glad
to read. 1t is we'll printed on fine
paper and is we'll worth binding at the
end of the year It costs only SLIGO a
year. Sample copies sent on applica-
ion.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1911-12-22
Plants 10000 Trees

DR.. Fletcher, on his farm, near
Fishersville, Augusta county, is dig
dug up an old Ben Davis apple orch
ard and replanting the ground 10
Stayman Winesaps. When he finishes
this planting the will have an orchard
of 10000 trees, one of the largest
In the country. Apples are one of the
surest and best paying crops in the
world and Virginia is the best place
on earth to grow them.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1911-12-22
Church Notes.

A series of union services will DE
held in the several churches of Wood
stock during the Week of Prayer, be-
ginning Sunday evening, January I.
A complete pro gram will be issued
next week.
A Christmas service, entitled 1.-THE
Gift of Love-" will be rendered akA1
Calvary church on Sunday ev0 al
I o'clock. You are invited.
There will be preaching services in
St. Paul's Reformed church Sunday
morning: no evening services On
Christmas Day, there will. be an early
morning song service at O'Clock
The regular Christmas services will be
held in the evening at I O'Clock. All
are welcome.
The Presbyterian Sunday School
will hold their Christmas service next
Sunday morning.
The Methodist Sunday School will
hold tRir entertainment in Ian
Eall on the night of the 9th inst.
Regular services were held in the
Presbyterian, Methodist and Lutheran
churches last Sunday morning al d
night and in the Reformed church.
The Union Sunday School at Triu-
ity Church will conduct their CLOSING
and Christmas night. The school
will m arch from the brick church at
6:30. One special feature of the ex-
ercises will be good order. This in
vitation is given only to those who
will respect the service and observe
order. SUPT.
On Sunday ike Lutheran Church
will observe the day of the Nativity
Beginning with an anthem by the
choir Colony to God in the Highest"
Followed by Order of Morning Ser
vice.
Hymn by congregation.
Sermon by pastor-''The Child Of
Bethlehem.
Offeratory-Duet-"When He Shall
Come" by Mrs. Il. Morrison and MIR.
F. S Bowman.
A special Christmas Offering will
be taken for Orphan Home, Salem,
Va.
Prayer, Hymn and Ben |,
In the evening service 3nday
school will participate.
/ Anthem by choir- gold
bring you good tidings." -
2. Hymn by -Congregation.S
3. Scripture Lesson.
4. Hymn by children-"Jesus Gentle
Savior"
5 Scripture Lesson.
8. "Luther's Cradle Song" by the
children.
7. Address by Pastor.
8 Hymn by chilGren-.'O little town
of Bethlehem.
9. Offering-Eymn and Benedic-
ton.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1911-12-22
Large Gains Shown in Virginia
Farm Land.

The annual report of G. W. Koiner
commissioner of agriculture for Vir-
GINA, has just been submitted and
shows q gain in farm values in vir-
giuia for the last ten years of more
than $3.50, 600, 900. The paper contains
200 pages of printed matter devoted
to exploiting the virtues and values
indigenous to Virgins, farm LANDS.
Alfalfa as crop pays the largest
returns per acre, but corn, wheat,
tobacco and peanuts still lead as
staple crops.
Cattle growing is said to be picking
up annually and immigration is large
~ on ~ increase.