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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
WARD MAY GO AFTER
TOM LYNCH'S POSITION
Rumor Has It Former Ball Player
Will Be Candidate for
President.
SURE TO CAUSE FUSS
IF HE ENTERS RACE
Ban Johnson Will Oppose Him and
Even War Is Not Unlikely-To
Change Pitchers Averages.
Dispatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, December IF the rumor
grows large enough within ten days the
National League meeting, which begins
here December H. is to be the storm
center OF one of the most bitter fights
since the days of the interleague war.
The trouble which is somewhat expected.
will start the moment an effort is made
to propose the name OF John NJ. Ward as
president of the National League to sue
coed Tom Lynch. who has held down the
job for two years.
If the friends of Mr.. Ward insist on
presenting his name. Ban Johnson. presi-
dent of the American League, will draw
his sword and step into the fight 1t will
then be up TO the National League to de-
eide whether ii is able to run its own at
fairs or whether 1t will have to be die
tated to by Ban Johnson. 1t will be re-
nenTbered that Ward was the candidate
for National League president against
John Heydler when Lynch was selected as
q compromise candidate. At that time
Mr. Johnson issued a statement in which
he said that he would not sit on the ma
tional commission if Ward were a MEM
Der. Notwithstanding the fact that john
son later left town and sent word back
that he wanted to get out of the way so
as not to cause the National League en-
barrassment, it is generally believed that
his statement in regard to Ward is what
caused the latter not to be elected.
\ few months after this famous cleo
ton Ward brought suit against Johnson
for libel, and won judgment in the
United States circuit court. Despite the
fact that Johnson disclaimed the author
ship of a newspaper article to which his
name was signed. and which attacked
Ward, he jury gave verdict in FAVOR
of the old player.
That vindication of Ward still rankles
in Johnson's breast. and it is believed
if Wards name should again be proposed
for the presidency the American League
ditch
If this fight should break out 1t will
make the ticket investigation look like
a plaything.
The friends of Tom Lynch declare,
however, that he will be reelected with
out opposition. They say that his adj
ministration entities him to another
term
Mr. Ward says that he is not seeking
League. At the same time if Wards
friends urge his election it is not be-
lieved that he will throw cold water on
the scheme.
An important matter to come up at
the annual league meeting is the adop-
ton of rules as to simplify the re-
cording of pitchers averages. 1t has
been difficult matter to satisfy all con-
cerned in the scoring of victories and de-
feats. Heretofore it has been left to
the judgment of the scorer to a large ex-
tent. To obviate this as much as posi-
BILE. an attempt will be made to fix a
definite rule which will decide what pitch
err gets credit for a game in the event
that more than one are used.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
STORY IS UNTRUE
A. A. U. Has Not Started to
Investigate CosteIlo's Record.
NO TRUTH IN Statement
Claimed by A. A. U. Officials That
There Is Absolutely Nothing
to Rumor.

The attention of the registration COM
mittee of the South Atlantic Associa-
ton having been called to a story in
a Washington afternoon paper to the
effect that "a representative of the ANA
teur Athletic Union has been making an
invest cation into the status of Harry
Costello, the chairman of the commit
tee. with the approval of the other MEM
berS of the committee. last night made
the following statement:
The publication in the local paper was
the first Information that the registra-
ton committee had that the Mr.. Costello
who ofiiciated at games played by the
the Mr.. Costello who is registered as d
member of the Georgetown University
track team. Therefore, the statement
that a representative of the Amateur
Athletic Union has been making an in
vestigation into Mr.. Costellos status is
not true. Neither any member of the
registration committee nor any other
Official of the South Atlantic Association
has. as yet, made any such inveStiga-
''presuming that Costello would apply
Tor registration. the A. 4. L. started It's
probe in order to be prepared to give
him d definite answer at once" is also
untrue. The records of the registration
committee SHOW that Mr.. Costello is reg
lstered as a member OF Georgetown Uni
versity, that his registration number is
soc, and that he was reg stored under
date OF March 1. 1911 for one year.
Mr.. Costello has not Yet been asked to
appear before the reg stration committee,
and the committee has, therefore, not
taken any action either for Or against
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
BY J. ED GRILLO.

Every now and then some of the unin-
itiated have conniption fit because the
contract signed by ball players virtually
makes them the property for life Of the
ball club they sign with. On the face
of the proposition it does seem an in
justice, and yet were it not for the re-
serve clause which gives the club the
right to hold a player year after year.
and yet to release him outright after ten
days notice. base ball would not be
thriving as it is today.
1t is because of the apparent slavery
to which the ball players are subjected
that base ball has grown and prospered
Were it not for the fact that the weak
cities in a circuit stand as good chance
of winning a pennant as those with the
largest population there would be no
leagues or interest in the sport.
If it were possible for club to go out
at the close of. every season and sign up
such players as it wanted the strong
teams would all be in the larger cities, and
within two years base ball would be
dead sport.
True, the contract which the player
signs might not hold in court, but with
out that contract there would be no base
ball. Nor does the player suffer by rea-
son of his being forced to sign for life
for because of this clause the game has
prospered and the player has shared in
this prosperity. Ball players salaries
have advanced in keeping with the in
creased attendance Entire teams played
throughout a season of five or six months
for what a single player receives nova
days for pitching twenty-five or thirty
games during a season. II the contract
was working an injustice on the players
they would be the ones to do the kicking.
But the players know on which side their
bread is buttered, and they do not OBJ
ject to entering this slavery clan, for 1t
is a most profitable proposition from every
viewpoint.
Ball players as a whole are peculiar
lot. 1t does not do for manager 40
be too familiar with them and yet IT is
a serious mistake for him to hold him.
self aloof. There is really more in know
ing how to handle players than to IN
struct them in the fine points OF the
game In fact, there are not many men
in base ball who understand the art:
which accounts for SO many managerial
failures.
with having been too easy with his play
ers. Hugh Duffy went down under "a
predicted, will fail because the players
claim that he did not associate enough
with them as a player.
In any other walk of life such op1ec.
tions would be laughed at. but in base ball
they are taken most seriously. The av-
erare manager gives more thought as to
how he should conduct himself toward
the various players on his team than ne
docs TO the playing of the games. He
realizes that to have the good will of his
PLAYERS is half the battle and yet all
PLAYERS are not alike. Some want 1oi-
living, while others want to be driven,
nhiie stilI others want to be allowed to
do as they please.
A troupe of soubrettes could not bring
q greater strain upon their manager than
does the average ball team, and THIS not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
BASKET BALL SCHEDULE.
Revised List of Games in the City
League.

The revised schedules in classes A
and B of the City Basket Ball League
were announced last night. In class A
which is composed of eight teams.
there will be fifty-six games. accord
ing to the new list.
In class B there will be but thirty
games. This section is made up Of re-
serve teams from six Of the f1ves In
class A. The schedules follow, the home
team being first one named:
Glass A: December-Saturday; 2. Y NJ G A.
Reg; Carroll: Tuesday. s. Carroll -Corcoran: We'd
A. Reg. .Rosedale; Y. N. 6. A. Stall Memorial;
IL sa,a &c A. E r. F IT.
A. Stal. -corcoran: Wednesday. 20. Corcoran-
Memorial; Thursday. q. Cardinal Ingram; Wed
NJ. c. A. Reg. -corcoran; Ingram Memorial \.
n. c. A. Stai-Cardinal.
riaag & sa,uraay
e A. Reg lnsra% n g. A. s s1.i Wsanss;
gram Cardinal; Tuesday; Is. Carroll Memorial a,
ThuTsday Is
Tuesday. q. Carroll Cardinal: "wednesday. p,
Corcoran-Ingram: Thursday, % Cardinai paa NJ
n g s.sI: tuesday, SO Carroll s, Ingram %.na1,,,.
g. Carroll Memorial; wednesday I. Corcoran-
CARDINAL: Friday, .. Rosedale.I Ingram; Monday,
T. Irssas saturday
II. Y. n. G. A. Reg. Memorial: Monday, I9'
Rosedale-Y. n; G; A. Req; wyednssdayC; T.
w sseSssya is. 6erco!an-Y: u. c. A. staL;
G. Aa r. Rss. rSgarsd.y.
SATURDAY. 8. Z: II. c. A. Res.-cardinal; Y. NJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
MAKES CONDITIONS.
DR.. Lasker Stipulates Unheard of
Things for Match.

NEW YORK. December 2.-Dr. Eman-
uel Lasker. chess champion, sent his
acceptance to the challenge issued by
j. r. Capablanca to the latter's man
ager. T. d. Rosebault, at the same time
giving his conditions. which he put
down in seventeen paragraphs. There
are a number Of conditions never heard
of before. For instance, the match is
to be one of six games up, drawn games
not to count. whereas in former cham
pionship matches played by Lasker and
the number of games was eight up, while
with Schlechter he played ten games i'm
all, drawn games counting half a point
to each in that contest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
Did Not See Stuart.

The further statement in the same
story that Manager Oliveri'' of the
Vfgilant Athletic CLUB, went TO W. G..
Stuart, Washington's representative on
the registration board produced his
books, showed every receipt and every
expenditure. These papers would indi-
cate that no one connected with that
club has been professionalism through his
foot ball. When this was settled. the
A. \. L. people took up the matter of
Costello is not correct. The facts axe
these: The Vigilant Athletic Club had
scheduled game with the Baltimore
Cross Country Club. to be played last
Sunday. The members of the Baltimore
team are registered athletes, and having
heard that there was some question con-
corning tile status of the Vigilant club.
wrote the chairman of the registra ton
committee. Mr.. Stuart, asking whether
the Baltimore men would endanger Their
amateur status if they played the Vigil
ant team MIR. OIiveri called on Mr..
Stuart and made inquiry concerning the
same question. Mr.. Stuart told Mr.. Oil
yeri, and wrote the Baltimore Cross
Country Club, that under the rulings of
the Amateur Athletic Union, an all
amateur base ball or foot ball team may
play against a professional or semi-pro-
fessional team without sub jectlng the
members of the ail-amateur team to sus-
pension, but that IL one profeS sional
played on an amateur team, the other
members of the amateur team would be
subject TO suspension or disqualification.
The registration committee has not yet
asked to see the books and papers of the
VigiIant Athletic Club, nor have any of
the books or papers of that club, or any
Of its officers been offered for the in
spection of the chairman or any other
member OF the registration committee.
The registration committee has made a
strict rule that when any action is taken
in reference TO any athlete or club. notice
a such action will come from the COM
mittee. through its chairman, and that
rule Win not be broken In any case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
GOOD TOURNAMENT
Will Be Result of Glass B Billiard
lists Meeting,

NEW YORK, December prospects
for the class Is national amateur 1872
balkline billiard championship promise IA
more representative tournament than In
any former year. Nine entries have been
received by j. Ferdinand Poggenburg,
chairman Of the committee. The list in
cludes Charles E. White, holder of the
championship title: ]. Nj. Nillette, Claude
L1yis. Mark Muldaur. George Clark, Wal
ter Leonard of Scranton, Pa; DR.. Eric
c. Beck, c. e. Conway and Charles He'd
don Of Dowagiac, Mich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03

Catcher Tony James of Kansas City has
not decided that he will play ball next
year. If he does he would like to get
away from Kansas City and hopes to
land either in Columbus or Indianapolis.
He has a nice law business IN Columbus.
Pat Newman Houston player, fined and
suspended for his part in the mutiny on
that team last summer. says ne Will pay
his fine. ask for reinstatement. and II he
gets it 60 to the Buffalo Eastern League
club, which has made Houston N offes
for his release.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03

Res; Friday. 81 Rosedac Res. Memorial Res;
Thursday, %. Cardinal Res. Memorial Res.
March-Friday, J. Rosedale Res. Carroll Res. I
Tuesday, 3 Carroll Res Memorial Res
Key to organizations-f. NJ. G A. Reb. T. NJ.
G. A. Rebels: Carroll Res, Carroll institute Re.
serves: Rosedale Res. Rosedale Play Ground
Reserves: Memorial Res, Memorial A &. Ite-
serves; Epiphany. Epiphany Church; Cardinal
Res. Cardinal A. g Reserves
Playing grounds Y. N: G. 4. Rebels. Yomg
building 1882 q street,: Carroll Reserves. 10th
street between New York avenue and X street:
RosedaIe Reserves. Rosedale piaygrounds, lIth
and Gales streets northwest: Memorial Reserves,
play all games away from home; Epiphany,
Epiphany Church. G street between 18th and
Iitb streets. Cardinal Reserves, Armory Hall,
South Royal street, Alexandria, Va
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
Y. NJ. c. A. BASKET BALL
TEAM BEATS CARROLL
Wins Fast Game in Fairly
Easy Style by So to is
Score.

Y. NJ. G. A. kept up it's winning
streak in the City Basket Ball League
by defeating the fast Carroll Institute
five in the formers gymnasium last
night. Score, So to 16 The game was
the fastest yet played in the league
and although the score is one sided,
the relative strength Of the two teams
cannot be determined by it,
Both teams put up corking good
defensive game. Carroll can attribute
it's defeat to the fact that it tried too
many long shots to the baskets, while
nearly all of Y. NJ. c. AS goals were
made on short. snappy losses. Another
thing about the Carroll outfit was that
it is far from being in condition, and
when it once gets into its stride it should
prove to be strong contender in the
city league.
Y M. c. A. started the game with a
rush, and within a few minutes after
the game commenced had scored 10
points to Carrolls nothing. From this
to the finish of the first half 1t scored
eigh: more. while Carroll was tallying
eleven. Carroll showed it's best form
shortly before the close of the first
half. when Croghan, the former
Georgetown star, made four shots in
rapid succession, all Of which were
good.
L
commence the second half, Y. NJ. c. 4
putting in nearly new team before the
period was finished. In this half Y. NJ. c.
A. scored the same number of points as
ii did in the first session, which was
eighteen. Carroll was unable to keep the
fast pace set by Prof Beckett's five in
this half. and as result scored but five
points, two field goals and one free toss
from d foul
A istic encounter between Miller OF
Y. NJ. c. A. and Bolac Of Carroll came
near putting an end to the game about
a half minute before the time was up
Both players were elected from the game,
and as Y. NJ. G. A. had no more players
to substitute the battle was finished with
but four men.
Bolac put up the best defensive game
for either SIDE and but for his good work
y. NJ c. A. would no doubt have run up
a much larger score. Time and again
this player broke up an attempted try
for the basket.
The other star performers Of the even
ing were Frazier and Walk for Y. M. c. A.
and Croghan for Carroll. Frazier tossed
seven goals and Walk four. Croghan
scored eleven of Carroll's sixteen points,
with five field goals and one free toss
from foul.
The lineup and summary follow:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
GRIFFITH'S TEAM TO
TRAIN IN VIRGINIA

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03

Field goals first half-Hall, Frazier (5), Walk,
Allwine, Croghan a.. Duncan. Free tosses first
half-yalk (2), Croghan. Field goals second
half-Miller (2). Frazier (2), Walk 90, Barnes,
Croghan. Rice. Free losses second half--valk
ca, Rice. Referee-Mr. Hughes. Scorer-Mr
Gable. Timers-Messrs. Allen and aullivaa. Time
Of halyes-20 minutes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03

Roper, who has outlined some Of his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03

player or two through the early months
of the season when the big league clubs
cut down their lists of players.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
At The sign OF THE MOON
"vVonder What Will Say Today?" Store Closes D
Mertz:zS')a
Says:
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Come No trouble
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02
Rubbing Elbows.
From the Atlantic.

From the Atlantic.
The young OF our species learn as much
from rubbing elbows with each other as
from their formal schooling The little
boy usually is turned out to find his own
with other little boys. while
his sister Is more cautiously guarded in
her companships. This. l suppose. is due
to our instructive presumption of a more
delicate moral fiber in the girl and a
keener senstiveness to impressions. So
she is apt 10 grow up with the hallmark
OF her home always in evidence. while the
boy has IL pounded out of him. He may
Loyalty believe that his father and mother
are the wisest of human beings, but this
faith finds its counterpoise as soon as
he enters into controversy with larger
boy. He has the best of the argument
logically when he makes affirmative as
sertions on the authority of his parents, to
which his adversary youchsafes no more
answer than Rats The next
course on his argumentative menu is
knuckles au naturel, and although no
myriad of bruises and abrasions would
convince him that his father and mother
have borne false witness, he begins to
realize that other persons can have views
on the same topics worthy of examina-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02
ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS.
Training That No Longer Fits Men
for the Tasks to Be Done.
From the National Review

From the National Review.
For three hundred or more years the
whole aim Of a public school education
has been to fit a boy, not for work. but
for the overseeing of work. Until COM
paratively recently for the sons Of gen.
tlemen, and more especially of country
squires. which class formed the huge
bulk of the public school, there were but
three careers: the overseeing of the es-
tate itself, for the eldest son; the army.
which then demanded little or no expert
knowledge, and the church, which amount
ed to the overseeing of the parish and the
position of the squire's right hand man.
Even when, say about the middle of the
last century, the merchant class began
to invade the public school 1t was Gus
tomary after a very brief period of pro-
baton for the merchants son to take up
the position of partner rather than APP
prentice.
To this end, therefore, that the fin
ished product might become an efficient
overseer of labor was the whole sys-
tenn of education directed. And we'll in
deed 1t served it's purpose. I venture
to say that never again will England
see such good landlords. such good mag
istrates. such good clergymen or such
splendid leaders of soldiery as she saw
last century.
But times have inevitably changed, and
in the main. of course, for the better: at
all events the design of giving more
equal chance to every human being born
into the world is a great one To be
landlord at all now is next door to
criminal offense, while in every profession
the tendency is rapidly growing to have
at the head of affairs those who have
been through the mill from the very bot
tom. But one would ask how far has
the curriculum afforded by our great
public schools been altered to meet this
change? In the main hardly jot, and it
is almost truism to say that an ordi-
nary grammar school education fits Il
boy for the struggle of life better than
six years at Eton. Here. then, we see
turned out year by year a large and
ever increasing class, continuing in many
ways the very cream of our manhood, for
which there is at home an ever decreas-
ing demand, and which, moreover. we
find to our dislnay our oldest and finest
colonies do not appreciate.
Luckily, the world is large and opportu-
mites are great, and there still remain
vast tracts of country where what are
held to be the very faults of his educa-
ton will prove to be valuable assets. OF
such countries second to none rank the
highlands of British East Africa And
why? Because it is, l venture to affirm in
the face of inevitable criticism essentially
an overseer's country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02
Prince and Friend.
m the Dundee Advertiser

From the Dundee Advertiser
Many amusing stories are told of the
kaisers friendship for his present chan
celor when the two were students at
Bonn. In those day Wilhelm III was
not noted for his love of learning, while
was a veritable book
worm, and exercised quite a fatherly
care over the hot blooded young prince.
The future monarch fonnd himself so
backward in his philosophical studies that
he asked his chum to help him in his
work Bethmann- Hollweg. of course. con-
and one morning, just before
stiff examination, Wilhelm arrived at his
friends room to be heard his lesson.
HIM" said Bethmann-Hollweg after the
hearing, you haven't read up at all
on this subject. You had better sit up
all night tonight studying" NO." re-
piled Wilhelm. II must drink with the
corps tonight" Without a word Beth
mann II ollweg closed the book and declined
to have any thing more to do with the
princes studies. Wilhelm went off In
a temper, but returned the next day in
a repentant mood. and promised to be
more studious in future. In spite OF his
egotism Wilhelm ii likes to see self-con-
fidence in others, and he probably re-
membered this little incident when he
chose Bethmann-Hollweg as his chan
cellOr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02
Wrecking on the Florida Coast.
From Harper's Magazine.

rom harper MdSdZiuc.
For generations the Florida Keys-a
chain of coral reefs covered with semi
tropical vegetation. stretching from
Miami to Key West-have been celebrated
on all the water fronts of the world for
the trouble they make the deep sea men,
The Keys lie directly In the path Of the
West Indian hurricanes. Tramps,
steamers, liners. schOoners, and all, from
the most ancient to the most modern
often find themselves helplessly stranded,
and, more often than not, are beaten to
pieces. In a recent hurricane 800 craft
big and small, were driven ashore. There
is therefore, in time of gales. salvage to
win. Wrecking Is a profitable avocation-
1t is always ostensibly an avocation-and
is prosecuted with fervor; certain
wrecking matser of Key West has had az
much as $4,000 for his attentions to ii
wreck through a period Of sixteen dayF
Followed with daring and skill and ga
merciless lack Of sympathy for skippersyn
trouble. wrecking has yielded fortuneStt 10
the islanders, and 1t Is thus that ii has
been followed for generations.
Il was hoping the Spanish Princess
would turn up here" remarked a wrecl or
of Key West, with a casual sigh, but I
see by the bulletin that she's safe in Yea
Cruz"
There was a general sigh.
in Key West" added a wealthy manu-
self