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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05
HARVARD GETS MEET
Syracuse Failed to Land Inter-
collegiate Games.
FRESHMAN RULE KILLED
Small Colleges Vote Against Having
First Year Men Barred From
Competition.
By Edward r. Bushnell.

1t is getting to be almost an annual
habit with the Intercollegiate Association
of Amateur Athletes of America to re-
verse not only it's executive committee,
but previous rulings of the association it
self. in it's keen desire to find the best
possible field for holding the annual track
and field championships. The action Of
the association at its annual meeting last
week in turning down the application Of
Syracuse University in favor of Harvard
was not entirely a surprise to those who
were acquainted with the condition Of
things at Syracuse and who likewise I'M
derstood how particular the l. c. A. A. A.
A. has always been to secure the most
ideal conditions possible for these games.
The action Of the association reduces
the number Of suitable fields for holding
these games to two. They are Harvard
and the University of Pennsylvania. It
was the hope Of Syracuse that the SYRIA
cuse track would meet with the approval
Of the 1. c. A. A. A. A. But there were
two very good reasons why Syracuse lost
the meet. The first was that Syracuse
does not have a good 22O-yard straight
away for the furlong sprint and hurdle
races. Syracuse maintained that she
would have a suitable track for these
events. but investigation disclosed the
fact that the races have to start in
tunnel and that artificial light would be
necessary to enable the runners to see
the finish. This was in reality the insur-
mountable objection.
But in addition it was found that the
Syracuse cinder track was not complete,
that it still required a top surface. While
Syracuse promised to have this attended
to in good time, the !. c A. A A. A. is so
careful to give its athletes q fair chance
to make records that many of the dele
gates were influenced by this considera-
ton as we'll as by the condition Of the
Quarter-mile track.
The Harvard delegates acted in a most
SportSmanike manner throughout. The
position assumed by the Crimson was
that it would not ask for the meet. par
ticularly if the association felt that 1t
was under obligations to Syracuse to hold
it on the latter's track. The other
colleges were the ones that wanted to
give the games to Harvard, and they did
so by a decisive vote, without the assist
ance of the Harvard delegates.
The quality of the Harvard track MAKES
it one of the fastest in the country.
Three of the present intercollegiate rec
ords were made on 1t. They are the mile.
All as. by w. G. PAUL. Of Pennsylvania;
the two-mile 9.27 3-5, by P. J. Taylor Of
Cornell, and the quarter mile, As 40 sec
onds. by j. B. Taylor. Pennsylvania. In
addition to these distance runs the pres
ent records for the high jump, feet 81
inches, by T. Moffitt, Pennsylvania, and
the shot put, 46 feet 81 inches. by w. F.
Kruger, Swarthmore, were made on the
Harvard field. Therefore, given a good
day and the usual keen competition, rec
ords are likely to go by the boards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05

Steve Griffin, who led the Danville Red
Sox to the championship last year. has
been given his release. this coming after
the Danvlle association tried in vain to
get piece of money out of Griffin's re-
lease. Griffin played mighty good ball
here last season, but the Virginia League
is about the foxy ones limit, for he is no
longer a spring chicken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05

formation Of a league with clubs in Har-
risonburg. Staunton, Covington and Cliff
ton Forge. in Virginia. and Hinton and
Lewisburg. In Vast Virginia, show some,
thing of the growing interest In base ball
in the Old Dominion. The proposition to
launch this circuit with sixty-game
schedule looks to be go. and the season
will probably start about May 10 Such
a league would almost certainly be a good
ira ming field for players for the Vir-
ginia League.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05

Mrs. Silas d. lewis, 1888
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ly Endorsed II I'm 1905. My
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was almost Impossible for
me to stOop or 60 up or
down stairs. The least sud-
den movement sent sharp
twinges through my kid
neys, almost taking my
breath away. Soon after I
began taking Doan's Kid
ney Pills, I found that they
were helping me, and the
contents OF two boxes en-
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I have had NO cause for
complaint since"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05

Arthur Zimmerman. a younger brother OF
Heine, the utility infielder of the Chicago
Cubs. who has signed with Lynchburg.
made quite a record for himself last sea-
son when playing at third for the Melrose
A. A and Hawthorne clubs of Gotham.
In thirty-two games he welded the bat at
.3O3 and fielded .964. Manager Stocksdale
will give the youngster trial at the west
corner. and he believes he will make
good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05
Why Freshman Rule Was Lost.

It was practically known in advance
that the attempt to exclude freshmen
from the annual meet would be lost on ac-
count of the opposition Of the small COL
leges. Seven members Of the association
Harvard, Yale. Pennsylvania, Princeton,
Cornell, Michigan and Dartmouth-ob-
sports. and they were very anxious that
the intercollegiate American Amateur
Athletic Assoc alton should do likewise.
The small colleges naturally opposed the
suggestion. and their argument was a
good one. They demonstrated that the
condition of their athletics demanded that
they be allowed to use their entire stu
dent body to maintain interest in the
sport, that If this rule were forced upon
them their track teams would be reduced
a third, and that some Of them would be
obliged to drop out OF the association
They further pointed out that none Of
them threatened the supremacy Of the
big colleges. anyhow. and that they
ton to that imposed upon them by their
small numbers. When the matter came
to vote 1t resulted just as predicted in
these columns. The big universities could
not be won over by argument, but they
were outvoted as they always will be on
this point.
OF the rules adopted. the most impor-
tant was that which provides for the dis
qualification Of q hurdler who knocks
down three or more hurdles in q single
race This means that the association
will have to decide upon a uniform hur-
die, one which Is not easily displaced. The
swinging hurdle-a combination of the
high and low-used at Harvard and Penn
sylvania, which drops the moment 1t Is
struck by the athletes shoe, will have to
give way to a firmer hurdle. Possibly
the association will adopt the sort Of hur-
dies used in England. which are all Of one
piece and fastened to the ground, 80 that
when an athlete hits the hurdle he and
not the hurdle falls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05
Three Championships Decided.

Although their intercollegiate schedules
last week resulted in the decision of three
intercollegiate championships. Columbia
has now won enough basket ball games to
permit her to lose all the remainder on
her schedule and still to take the premier
title in the sport Yale has likewise scored
enough triumphs in swimming and water
polo to give the Blue the champions shin in
BOTH In all three sports PENNSYLVANIA
has been runner-up. In basket ball it look
ed for a time as though the Quakers had
an even chance to beat out the New York
ers, but the loss of the second Yale and
first Columbia games by very small mar
gins put the Quakers out of the running.
Only twice has Columbia lost an inter
collegiate championship in basket ball,
and each time it was Pennsylvania whose
team took the title from her. In SWIM
ming. Pennsylvania and Yale have won
the honors about the same number of
times. Yale. however, has more water
polo victories to her credit.
1t Is apparent from an incident that
occurred in the first Yale-Columbia game
that roughness in college sports Is not
confined to foot ball In some sort of
a melee the fist OF one of the Yale play
erS dfslodged three teeth from the mouth
OF Columbia player Botn players dis
claimed any Intentional roughness, but
the incident made such an impression
upon the Yale athletic authorities that
the edict went forth to play the game
more gently hereafter.
What basket ball needs more than any
thing else is stricter officials No blame
Is to be attached to the present set OF
officials. tor they enforce the rules TO
the extent the college men desire. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05

Pittsburg's new outfelder. Max Carey.
is a ministerial student
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05
To Cut Down Foot Ball Expenses.

Dean Briggs Of Harvard has come for
ward with a somewhat scathing denuncia-
ton Of the extravagances permitted ip
college athletics. In particular he MAIN
tains that foot ball costs the university
great deal more than 1t should. His con-
tention is that an economic management
could pare down these expenses very
much, and that 1t must be done at Har-
ward. The dean Is particular to explain
that he is not opposed to legitimate ex-
penses. but that undergraduate managers
spend too much money on luxuries. such
as taxicabs. sweaters and the like.
AS a matter of fact there are just two
sports at Harvard which are self-sup-
porting. They are foot ball and base ball
The surplus from them is used to main
tain all the other sports, and frequently
the balance on hand Is mighty small The
same conditions exist at Yale, Princeton
and Pennsylvania, though the Quakers are
not always assured of making their ex-
penses from base ball. There Is no doubt
that competent management could pare
down foot ball and base ball expenses at
most of the big universities by from 10
to 20 per cent without reducing the eff
ficiency of teams or coaches. That looks
to be the next reform that will be practiced
by the intercollegiate athletic world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05

Whether or not the board of faculty
advisers will agree to recognize tennis
Az a major sport this season is not known
at present, but the fact remains that
this branch of sport will receive unusual
attention from the student bodies Of the
various schools this year. Every season
tennis clubs are formed at Western and
Business, and interschool matches are
played. This year Central has Joined
New-York tribune., 1911-10-01
Think More of Convenience

+ receiving new pupils especially after the
opening school authorities are prone ,o
consult the convenience Of the school rather
than the needs I'd. the child liza child comes
from the third grade but Is not quite so tar
advanced as the third grade of the school he
enters be !, Tar less likely 90 receive that
individual attention which viii bring him
up % the standard than 20 be placed m the
grade below. And yet how many parents
who are planning 90 rent new house or
New-York tribune., 1911-10-01

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Middletown transcript., 1911-08-19
DELAWARE COLLEGE CRITICISM

THE TRANSCRIPT gives else.
where lhe statement of Prof.
Hayward Of the Agricultural De-
partment of Delaware College,
answering lhe criticism of the
american Agricnlturist.,
That Joura.t having a very
large circulAti,n, in Delaware as
in every ot!l + State, The TRAN
SCRIPT upon lr request of sever
al farmers, called the attention
of the College authorities to it,
offering its columns for any refu-
tation.
AS Professor HAYWARD explains
it, the animus of the whole affair
appears to have been a personal
pidue Uf some member of the
Agriculturist's staff.
That journal though in pos
session Of the professors charges
for two weeks has not seen lit to
deny them.
The TRANSCRIPT has been
pleased to learn since expressing
the editorial wish that far more
students would take the agricul-
tural course, that three students
have spt,h en- their regrets at not
having done So.
We arr also gratified to see
that sew W.T. of the Peninsula
newsp prs have editorially ap.
proved THE TRANSCRIPTS senti-
ments upon this subject.
Middletown transcript., 1911-08-19
WARWICK


Mrs. Josephine Wilson il visiting 10
Elkton.
Rev. c. NJ. Culium, 10 being enter
tanned by Mr.. w. J. Lofand, this week.
Miss Bessie Gunkel is entertaining her
cousin, Miss Gertrude Sweeney, Of Phila-
delphia.
Mr.. VIM. P. CHM. Of ne Mt. Pleas
ant, spent Wednesday Ni:h Mrs. V. /.
Vinyard.
Mrs. Hannah Mcdowell is entertaining
her daughter, Miss Lucy Rudrow, Of
Philadelphia.
Mr.. w. j. B. LoHand. Of Philadelphia.
is spending his vacation with his mother,
Mrs. Mary A. Lofland.
Mr.. Harry Royds. and friend, Of Ger
mantown, are visiting the formers sister,
Mrs. VIM. Williamson.
The Aid Society will hold its regular
meeting Friday evening at the home Of
Mrs. R. B. Merritt. Jr.
The Misses Bessie Gunkel, Bell Hill
Lucille Warner and Cara Duryea spent
Tuesday in Philadelphia.
Miss Clara Blackburn, Of Viii.
miRton, is being entertained by Mrs. ].
R. II. Price near this town.
Middletown transcript., 1911-08-19
THE MAINE INDICATED

At last the long shame of the
neglected sunken warship Maine
is ending, and the few pitiful
relics ef her heroic sesmen given
D saiIIr's honorable burial.
IL il shown also that the pri-
mary explosion which caused the
ships oN b magazines to blow up,
las from Without-the upward
snt keel proving that conclu-
vely TO the regret of some Oh
retired naval pooh bah junk,
have been aching to make ii
tEae Mainas ! own officers
we're ID blame
Middletown transcript., 1911-08-19

6S NAO@AB SAs
At the MiddIetown Hotel of DeIaw are
the following described real estate, late o
John Drummond, deceased, to.Eit:
Ali that certain lot, piece or parcel of
land, with frame dwelling house, stable
and carriage-house thereon erected, ,situat
ed in the Town of Middletown,St. Georges
Hundred, New Castle County and State Of
Delaware, bounded on East by Church
Street, on the South and West by other
lands formerly of William Green and on
the North by Green Street, the metes and
bounds OF which are as follows:
Beginning at a stake set at the curb
line on the Southwest corner of Green
Street; thence with the vest side of
Church Street, south one hundred and
fifty feet to a stake, corner for these pre-.
mises and other lands formerly ofWiIliam
Green; thence for line dividing this lot
from other lands formerly of the said
Green, West one hundred feet to stake,
corner for this lot and other lands form.
erly of the said Green; thence for line
dividing this lot from other lands form-
erly of the said Green, north one hun.
dred and fifty feet to a stake in the curb
line OF Green Street, corner for this lot
and other lands formerly Of the saidGreen;
thence with tine curb line on the South
side of Green Street, east one hundred
feet to the place Of Beginning. Contain
ing within these metes and bounds fifteen
thousand square feet Of land be the same
more or less.
Attendance will be given and terms
made known by J. Frank Biggs, Esq,
Trustee, or by his Attorney.
Attest: Joseph G. Jolls, Reg. G. G.
Wilm ington. Delaware, August 7th, 1911
Middletown transcript., 1911-08-19
CHESAPEAKE CITY

Miss Ida Bouchelle is spending tile week
end in WI nington.
Mr.. Harry Morgan is quite i'll at bis
home here with typhoid fever.
Miss Mary II. BarWick is visiting her
friend Miss Elizabeth Scott at Elkton.
Miss Stella Bishop 10 visiting Whining
ton, Chester and Philadelphia this week.
Miss Esther Banks, OF Wilmington, is
visiting her mother, Mrs. E. H. Banks
this week.
Mr.. Nelson Cooling, OF Philadelphia, is
spending this week with friends aud rel
asives here.
Mr.. D. Palmer Bulden and daughter.
of Philadelphia, are visiting his sister Mrs.
Irwin G. Griffith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Hsgg and dangh
ter, of Wilmington, spent the past week
with bis sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Hagg Banks
Mr.. Thomas B. Hopper, Of Phiadel-
phia, spent Saturday and Sunday with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James S. Hop
per.
Mrs. Alice Woodal, Mrs. William Le.
Gates and daughter, of George town, Md !,
spent Monday with Mrs. Joseph 8. Hop
per.
Miss Nan Harris Wright, who has just
returned from visit South, left on Mon.
day for weeks stay with Atlantic City
friends.
Mrs. Joseph DeCoursey, Mr.. and Mrs,
E. @. Walker, all Of Philadelphia, re-
turned home on Monday after a short
visit at the home Of Mrs. A. ]. DeCoursey.
Misses Addie Williams, Veda Ire
land and Mollie Foard: Messere. Clayton
T. Ellison, Robert B. Foard E. F. Bishop
and George Ireland spent Wednesday at
Betterton.
Mr.. Charles Pearce, Jr., of q. S. A.,
stationsd at Reading is touring New Jer-
sey, Delaware and MARYLAND on his
motorcycle, and has stopped for a few
days with bis father here.
Middletown transcript., 1911-08-19
FIGHTING THE PLAQUES

EA&AA 6AAV0 AAA9 &6AS~AS
"Washington-Infantile paralysis
now numbers its victims 10 all parts
Of the country, presenting national
peril, according to reports made pub
lie by Surg. Gen. Walter Wyman, Of
the Bureau OF Public Health.
Government experts are engaged
in researches to discover cure for
the mysterious disease. "-Balto. Sun.
Seven hundred cases Of infant
paralysis in the State Of Pennsyl-
vania alone and in many other
places an increasing number OF
this mysterious and dreaded dis
ease that is assailing the hapless
infancy Of our land!0The science
of medicine is baffed; neither the
cause nor the cure of the malady
is now known. That eminent
physician and scientist, DR.. Flex-
ner, who has already earned a
worldwide fame BY his discover
les in the field of zymotic or germ
origin of diseases, is conducting
at the Chicago Institute of medi.
cine, a series of experiments upon
monkeys to discover, if possible,
the cause Of the strange ailment
and from thence to deduce the
remedy. In saving millions Of
precious human lives from death
or lifelong paralysis, dozen
monkeys may be sacrificed and
some slight pain inflicted.
In no other way can these
priceless discoveries in medicine
be made. DR.. Behring in this
manner reduced the mortality Of
that awful scourage Of childhood,
dyphtheria, from so per cent. to
about six and Pasteur, the
dread hydrophobia from 100 per
cent. to less than one per cent.
and those, no doubt, due to a late
use Of shis prophylactic or pre-.
ventive vaccine.
In the course of these expert.
ments by these eminent scien-
lists, who ere freely devoting
their great talents to the cause
Of humanity, it is absolutely ne
cessary to kill a few monkeys,
rabbits, guinea pigs or dogs. A
few beasts die to confer the boon
Of life upon countless millions of
human beings yet unborn-no
matter, q handful of longshaired
men and short-haired women
cranks all-rush into the public
prints inveighing frantically
against this '.barbarity" and
murder" and even invoke the
aid of the Courts to rescue the
poor four-legged innocents, the
monkeys and the rest and let the
millions of babes and children
die!
These inverted humanitarians,
who think more of a so cent rab
bit or d worthless pup than of
human life, are not so much
wanting in heart as in head.
Every community has few of
them indeed, specimens are not
wanting here in our own town,
so strenuously advocating "dog
rights they forget there is such
a thing rs human rights. More
concerned about the comfort of a
few dogs than the lives Of the
whole community. Willing when
the town is threatened with an
epidemic of the appalling hydro
phobia to give the cur the bene.
fit nf tIrt. lf,nht
Middletown transcript., 1911-08-19
Clearance Sale
A WHILE

week
bargains their these
ANCE SALES at the ends of the in order
get rid of stale, outof-date goods-whether they
wanted to not
But wise merchants found that as a
means advertising winning new
friends and customers it pays be liberal at
Everybody likes get real bargains when
they do they keep the firm in mind that gives them,
when they have need to buy other things There is
such a thing as being toe "close" in business and
name of that sort is as bad advertisement for
merchant the of being liberal is a help
You know the fable Esop tells of the greedy dog
which crossing bridge with big piece Of in
his mouth in the water below the reflection
he thought of another dog also with piece of meat
in his mouth, and swapping at it dropped his
piece in the brook 1t is just that way with iIberaI,
closeisted merchants too to give their patrons
real bargains at these tinesheir stnginess really
costs them more twice than their generosity
would. We have been long enough in business to
observe all that-hence Fogel s. B.rstan are giving
you CLEARANCE SALE BARGAINS for this
also without reference to the other enforced
of getting rid of old stocks
Closing Out Sale last but short time onger-ho
the bargains going advise those who
literally something
nothing to call and do
show how big the cut making these goods
Among other bargains have still few of those Fne Lingerie Wai
which
giving say, for S9c.
Middletown transcript., 1911-08-19

EDIr.R TRANSCRIPT. Night after night
for weeks, | meet going or returning
about my business, number OF stray
ours that live on the streets.
DIR. Watson, the expert on the subject
Of mad dogs after examining the Pullman
dogs head, said that il was badly infected
at the time lie was killed.
This mad dog has been running over
this town night and day for several days
and it 10 positively known that he bit
nearly two dozen dogp, 10 Of which have
been shot. Does anybody doubt that
these tramp ours have also been bitten?
II so must run the,risk Of being snapped
by mad dog because your Town Board
will not allow these dangerous animals to
be shot after your dog catcher has been
unable 60 get them2
So take notice gentlemen Of the Town
Board, II you don't order these dogs, n
ready going mad, to be shot will traye
with gun and do the Job for you Is fast
as meet them.
/ am no aIarmist nor the least bit timid
bnt do not feel called upon 20 gamble
sny lifs against few mongrsi ours.
III -
Middletown transcript., 1911-08-19
TRUSTEES SALE
Of
REAL ESTATE

BY virtue Of an order of the Chancellor
OF the State of Delaware. made the Sew
enth day Of August, A. D. 1911, will be
exposed to sale at Public Auction or Ven
due, on
Wednesday, AUGUST 23d, 1911