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Country Club, Of which he Is captain
and one of the charter members.

Charles White. "a member OF the Busi-
ness High School faculty, who assumed
charge of the foot ball eleven last fall,
will coach the base ball team this spring.
and has already taken active steps to
arouse interest among the students in the
sport. Last Wednesday afternoon, at the
close of the daily session, more than fifty
prospective candidates for the ball team
attended a meeting held in the assembly
hall of the school.
Coach White. Capt. Burley and Man.
ager Shore were among those present
and spoke briefly to the men. explaining
the necessity of loyal support and con-
sistent training. The meeting provoked
more enthusiasm than has any event dur
ing the entire scholastic term, and should
the candidates show just half as much
interest in their training, successful
season will be assured. Practice has al
ready started in the school gymnasium,
and as soon as the weather will permit
outdoor work will be started on an ath-
letic field in the vicinity Of the school.
pionshiD foot ball team at Central High
last fall. is now being touted as a posi-
BILE fourth man on the relay team that
will present the Blue and White in the
championships on Franklin Field, Phila-
delphia, next spring. Coach Foley is de-
voting a great deal of attention to the
big fellow these days, and hopes TO round
him in shape in time for the trials War
ner's most formidable rivals for the po-
sitiOn will probably be Hunt, the crack
timber topper. and King. another foot
ball player. who Is experiencing his first
season on the track.
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Athletic News and Notes.

The next two months will be busy ones
for indoor athletics in all branches.
Meets and tournaments OF every sport are
scheduled and athletes cannot complain
Of not having enough work to do in their
line. Last Saturday night at Convention
Hall the meet season started with the
George Washington games The scene
shifted last night to Baltimore, when the
Johns Hopkins-5th Regiment meet was
held. The curtain will rise again in
Washington next week, when the South
Atlantic y. A. Z. championship cross
country run will occur. Closely follow
ing the cross-country of February ~ will
be the Georgetown meet of March 1, and
IT. In turn, will be followed by the Ma
tional Guard games Of March and 10
Between the dates given above, will be
the National Guard. and South Atlantic
championship wrestling bouts of Feb
ruary IA and 16 and March IL and IS, re-
SpectlVely. and any number of basket ball
games. Although there have been ru-
mors galore regarding the possibility of
another Baltimore meet being held, moth
ing definite has been decided, and it now
looks that last nights meet will be the
only open one which will be held in the
Monumental city this season. 1t is quite
likely that the 9TH Regiment Athletic
Association will pull off a military meet
similar to the annual one OF the focal
National Guard. but even this is as yet
undecided.
Entries will close Friday, February II.
Tor the South Atlantic A. A. L. champion
ship cross-country run, which will be held
February % over the Brightwood course.
Manager Stuart expects an unusually
classy list this year, as most of the dis
lance cracks are in splendid shape. Wash
ington Grove. with Stecker, Connor,
Hildebrand and Norton. looks to have a
splendid chance at that team trophy, as
well as a probable winner OF the event.
With the full quota of Baltimore athletes
and Johnnie Bolac. Fleming, Holland.
Curley and the balance OF the local dis
lance men. a race worth seeing should re-
suit. Don't forget those entries!
We will have to give it to that little
fremont bunch. The youngsters cap
tured three relay races in last weeks
games, their senior. intermediate and
junior teams all bringing home the ba-
con. This Is a record performance. and
too much credit cannot be given this
bunch of hustling youngsters.
Henry C. Elphinstone has decided to
quit the running game. The eX captain
Of the Baltimore Cross Country Club and
present title holder Of the south Atlantic
states for the five-mile run made this
statement at the George Washington
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IN OLD WASHINGTON
By James Croggon.

II was Jenkins Hill before the title
Cauitol Hill was bestowed upon 1t When
the site of the building was located. IL
was described as a ridge partly covered
with scrub oak, from which the descent to
the low grounds thanking the TiOer and
the stream south of the present Union
station was partly gradual and partly
abrupt. And north of the Capitol grounds
between 1st street east and LIST street
west in the territory proposed as an add
ton TO the grounds some mighty changes
have taken place in the topography. But
rittle of the original natural grade Is to
be seen. and in some portions there are
tho roofs of tHree-storiei buildings about
the height of the old grade. and III other
portions the fill has been twenty feet or
more, much of the earth having been USED
in tb, CAPITOL grounds and other places.
Most OF these conditions have been
brought about in the past sixty years. In
fact. with the exception of improvements
i'm that norton Immediately adjoining the
CapitoI square. known as square gu, all
of them could be counted on your thumbs
and fingers, notwithstanding in all THESE
years its convenience To the Capitoi lui
nished sites for the homes OF many EN-
ployed there.
When the grounds were plated the
north line east of North Capitol street
was on an eishty-ioot street known as "A
street and " estgard Is street marked the
boundary. Consequently the two squares
east o. the Capitol plaza which We're ap-
sorhed under the act OF May, 1877, We're
building squares, and that north was wen
settled on the south front IN the carry
DAYS OF the last century. Whlle on paper
me original lines were as above, all north
and south of y street. and outside a
seni-circular fence. erected about 1916,
AMI extending about half way from the
center OF the building to lst street on the
prtpri commons
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AMATEUR BILLIARDS.
Dr.. Mial Defeats Joseph Mayer by
400 to 26O.

NEW YORK. February 11.-Dr Leon
idas L. Mial Of Morristown. y. j.. dis
played some perfect billiards in the
afternoon game. which he won from
Joseph Mayer Of Philadelphia by 400
to ESQ. The doctor showed vast i'm
provement over his earlier efforts this
week, and his run OF 81 in the tenth
inning was made up OF delicate shots
and position drives.
Mayors best runs were As and Al in !.
his seventh and thirteenth innings He
has lost four games with only one
more to play-against j. Ferdinand
Poggenburg of the local club, former
national champion.
The score:
Mial-o. 81. 0, z. 8. s. 81. SO. Z. g.. 3, 10.
10. |, 9: 20. O.. q. o. o. IS. Is. 0. 8, .. ).
II o. e.. Total, 400.
average. Is 1880 High runs. SO. 50. 50.
Mayer-16. IL. 10. Is. O. o. As, IL, 2. O. o.
]. A. Is. |. !; o: !, o. o. 5. =. is 10. l. IL
2, 3. IS. Total: ce0;
Referee-Ajhert G. Cutler. Il
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YALE WRESTLERS WIN.
Win Four Of Seven Bouts From An
napolis Team.
pecial Dispatch to The Star. :.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, February 1.-THE
Yale bulldog got a hold on the Navy's
goat in the opening wrest ing contest
of the Middies' season here tonight that
the sailor lads could not break and
tucked a decided victory under their
collar before returning to New England.
There were seven bouts ranging from
bantam to heavyweight, and of these
the visitors captured four. All but two
of the bouts went the full nine minutes
and were won on points. In the 125-pound
class Knott of the Navy put Culver of,
in ) minutes and As seconds, and in the
145-pound event Scofield made quick
work of sending Skene to the mat with
half nelson and foot hold in 1 minute
and Ii seconds.
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Midshipmen to Be Dropped.

Acting. Secretary Winthrop of the
Navy Department has approved the rec
ommendation Of the Annapolis academic
board dropping thirty-seven students for
failure in studies at the recent semi-an-
nual examinations. three of the first
class. eight of the second class, five OF
the third class and twenty-one of the
fourth class.
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Four Dead, Five Seriously Injured.

CHICAGO. February 11.-Four meE
were crushed to death and five others
perhaps fatally injured today when a ROOF
OF brick shed of the Illinois Brick Com
pany in Blue Island. ILL.,. collapsed. Ton
Of brick covered the men until they were
dug out The dead are John Gross, FREQ
Ruiz, John Leggett and John Newman
all clay workers.
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An All-.American Track Team.

The "A1l-American" idea which Walter
camp made popular In foot ball has
branched out in another direction. James
i. Sullivan, secretary OF the A. A. o.,
has applied the principle to track and
field athletics and has evolved both an
all-American track team and an all-col-
lege track team The critics can have
little fault to find with the selections of
Mr.. Sullivan, because in most cases he
merely took the champions Of the year
for the various events. In only a few
events was 1t necessary for him to make
this honor. Some OF the selections which
are rightly open to dispute are the 40
yard run. in which Mr.. Sullivan awards
the premier position to Gissing Of the
New York A. C. According to the opin-
lon of good many critics Davenport of
Chicago Reidpath Of Syracuse and Rams
dell OF Pennsylvania, all of whom did
40 2-5 seconds or better, should be ranked
ahead OF Gissing. in spite of the latters
to understand why Berna of Cornell
should be ranked ahead Of Baker of
Oberlin, Taylor of Cornell or PAUL Of
Pennsylvania in the mile run. A third
athlete whose position is questioned is
Walter Thomassen Of the New York A. c.
in the high jump. Although Burdick of
Pennsylvania and Palmer Of Dartmouth
did not come up to their usual records at
the l. c. A. A. A. A. championships, they
in consistent high jumping.
But on the whole the selections Of Mr..
Sullivan, being made by a man who has
personally seen more Of these men in
action than any other critic, are strong
and eminently fair selections.
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PENIS Eligibility Code.

Apparently the University OF Pennsyl-
vania is not ready for the radical changes
In its athletic eligibility code proposed to
the board OF directors some time ago by
DR.. Carl S. Williams, who is one Of Penn
sylvania's representatives on the inter-
collegiate foot ball rules committee. DR..
Williams proposal was that the univer-
sity shQQd confine membership on all
athletic Teams to students of the college
department.. This drastic measure would
have reduced Pennsyivania's available
athletic material at least one-half and
possibly more.
When. the. measure came up for a vote
by the board OF directors 1t was amended
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RULES NOT CHANGED
Gridiron Code Practically Un-
altered at Meeting.
TRAINING QUARTER NEEDS
Sullivan's All-American Track Team
Could Be Improved In
Several Instances.
By Edward r. Bushnell.

We are not likely to have any radical
changes in foot ball rules unless the great
American public, represented by the press
of the country, gets up another agitation
similar to that which followed the season
Of 1905 and again showed itself in the
fall of 1909. Left to its own devices the
foot ball rules committee Is content to
let the game alone. The committee proved
this last week when 1t held its annual
meeting in New York. Stand pat" was
the order of the day and not one of the
few changes made will alter the game to
any appreciate extent
Before the meeting OF the committee
nearly every member had expressed HIM
self to interviewers as favoring certain
definite changes, and some OF them were
pretty radical. However, when the men
got on the scene they decided that the
1910 game was pretty satisfactory after
all and agreed to let it alone until the
wisdom of the 1910 changes had been
demonstrated little more carefully by
another season.
The comparatively few changes which
the rules committee made may be sum-
married as follows:
I. Intermission between first and second
and third and fourth periods reduced from
three to two minutes.
2. Upon agreement OF captains the SUI
pervision Of offside play on the line of
scrimmage may be transferred from UNI
pire to head linesman.
3. Tackling man after referee declares
the ball dead may be a0Judged unneces-
sary roughness.
4. Restriction upon tackling man catch
ing forward pass until he has advanced
one step Is removed.
8. Umpire is made timekeeper in place
Of field judge.
6. A forward pass legally made and
touched but fumbled is declared an In
completed forward pass.
These are practically the only changes
which the committee made. What other
action it took was Of q negative nature
Among the matters which the committee
considered but refused to rescind were
the rules providing that the man making
the forward pass or onside kick shall
stand 5 yards back of the line OF scrim-
mage, the 2O-yard zone for these plays
and the protection of the man going
doxn the field under them. Next year
some OF these features may be altered
but not now.
1t seemed to be the consensus Of opin-
ion among the members OF the commit
tee that 1t was unwise to consider the
abolition OF the forward pass. AS one
member stated to the writer:
THE forward pass was not approved
year ago through any notion that 1t OF
itself would prove good ground gaining
play. On the contrary. 1t was passed for
the sole purpose of opening up the de-
Tense. This need is still imperative, and
the play should be left intact. Within an
other year the game may have been open
ed up sufficiently for US to restrict or
eliminate the forward pass altogether"
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. Rogers, and vice commodore. Ray Car

Rogers, and vice commodore. Ray Gar
rett.
About q hundred canoes are on the
racks at the Washington Canoe Club at
the present time, including war canoe
and two racing canoes when were
bought in Canada.
Several members Of the club are goins
to try to revive an old sport this spring
which has been allowed to back-side
since the advent Of the power ooat'
namely, sailing canoe racing.
In the past few Of the boys with
keen appetite for the excitement OF
fresh breeze and a buried gunn'le have
endeavored to get a place on regatta
cards, but have failed because, OF lack
mer will see a good-sized fleet of smali
windjammers afioat on every breezy day
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It matters little what It is that you
want-whether q situation or q servant
"a want ad. in The Star will reach the
person who will I'LL your need.
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improvements Were Slow.

1t was toward 1910. before there were
signs of other improvements. About
fthat time John l.. Worth of the Capt.
tol police and then the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, having erected an en-
CINE house in the neighborhood, some
tof the employees had homes near by.
among them Reuben Collins, even then
Il veteran in baggage department, VINO
lived on the east side Soon after.
lin 1852, the agent of the Baltimore
and ONO railroad, Thomas FL Parsons,
erected the large three-stOry and attic
building on the west side of Delaware
avenue. in which he resided many
i years, now the property of q. W. Van
Nest, who lately improved it by under
:pinnins. About 1S4f William Wurde-
man bought at the corner OF Delaware
avenue and b street, erecting first
frame cottage and later a four-story
brick mathematical instrucment fac
!, tory. where much work was done Tor
the government. There were on the
avenue then or later stephen Coster'
E D. Ferguson and Mrs. Campbell.
On North Capitol street in the fifties
the site of truck No. 1 was occupied by
the Sicily family, of which was the late
policeman of the name. The house south
of the Belt residence was then the frame
upper portion erected about 1910 by +.
w. Browning. 1t was soon after bought
by w. H. Stanford, merchant tailor,
who made il his home for many years.
The brick building north of the truck
house was t.,en "A two-story brick, oc-
cupied by the Gregory family, and later
Mrs. Murray lived there as also the
we'll known Lieut. Ned McHenry of the
old auxiliary guard and the metropoli-
tan Police. then employed on the Capitol
fo:Ce. About the middle of the square
JOHN l.. Writ o. The Capitol police owned
and lived in two-story brick. to- which
was afterward added additional
story by underpinnina. John Hollohan.
then a marble carver ut the Capitol.
and Nicl, Acker, master stonecutter,
lived near. In 1854 ]. G. kolb. tailor.
bought what is now 221 North Capitol
street, Il house to which an addition
was made at the bottom, and his de-
scendants are yet there, probably the
oldest residents
Go be continued)
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coming meet. His loss will place the
burden OF scoring IN the spirits upon
Capt. Minds. who finished third in both
sprints In 1900 and 1910. The removal of
Ramsdell will work to the advantage of
both Michigan and Harvard The former
still has Craig, who won the 2oO-yard and
was second in the 1OO-yard. while Har-
ward retains Foster, the winner of both
sprints In 1909
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Early Property Values.

Mr.. Coumbe's property WIS assessed ate
- 100 at the southeast corner of the
pguare; two. at $500 each. assessed to
sarah Carroll and Katherine Diggs. and
buildings valued at 81 500 on Delaware
avenue to w. Brent, and one at 500 to
John Mulloy near the corner of c street.
ind two of $500 each to Benjamin
Sprigg and ]. C. Dunn. From 1927 Judge
sTanch lived In one Of the Delaware ave-
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nue. houses until his death. in 1854. On
this avenue were Dan Brent, long chief
clerk of the State Department.; Tobias
Watkins, secretary of the Florida COM
mission: W. T. Carroll. clerk Of the Su-
preme Court Of the United States; while
on Is: street We're Thomas Dunn. SER
geant-at-arms of the House: j. Oswald
Dunn. assistant doorkeeper Of the House.
and Benjamin Sprigg, and later Isaac
f. Holmes of South Carolina, William
II. Ball Of the fifth auditors office. and
Ia young ladies' seminary at the corner
street. About 1850 on the Delaware ave-
Brent. Col Thompson. Judge w. F. Pur-
cell and others. The Casualty Hospital
came into existence on Delaware avenue.
and was here when the square was taken
for the Senate Office building.
In square 6sJ, west of the above named.
the grade was in some parts fully thirty
feet above the present grade Of Della
ware avenue. North Capitol and G
streets appears from small portions Of
the original grade visible. There are
some persons living who remember a
frog pond about the northwest corner of
the square on a level with the tops of
the present houses. Settlement was very
slow uD to 1880, the only Improvement
on the square being two frame houses,
valued at few hundred dollars on the
south side of G street west of Delaware
favenue. These were erected about 1916
on leased ground by Nancy Brooks and
Robert Stevenson, colored, and the first
named used hers till about 1850.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-02
REBELS CAPTURE \ TOWN
SAID TO HAVE AS
 SISTED MEXICANS.
Simon BarthoId Is One of the Leaders When Mexicaii, on Texas
 Border Is Taken.

Mexicali Mexico, Jan. 3l.-MeXicali, the first border town to be captured by the insurrectos, is in possession of the Mexican rebels.
 It was taken by a band of lS The only man to lose his life was the Mex ican jailer, who hesitated to release his prisoners. He was shot with rifle through the window of his office and instantly killed
 The customs house was seized.
 Reinforcements are said to be flock ing to the rebel standard from the surrounding country.
 The capture of the town is the first sign of activity Of the rebels on the western coast of Mexico.
 Mexicali is small town in Lower California, inhabited chiefly by na- tives of Mexico, on the southern side of the international line and directly across the border from the California city of Calexico. It is situated on the Imperial Valley branch of the South ern Pacific railway, Al miles south of Imperial Junction.
 Two men were in command of the rebel invading party. Leyva, who ap- peared to be chief in command, gave his title as "El General, in Jefe de Las Tropas Insurgentes."
 His aid was Simon Barthold, So- cialist agitator from California, known in Los Angeles and various coast cities.
 Man Is Sawed to Pieces.
 Reagen, Tenn. Feb. Wilton Neister, a farmer aged 45, fell upon a circular saw in a saw mill and was sawed into six pieces before the ma. chinery could be stopped.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-02
GOULD TO WED PRINCESS
Engagement to Member of Royal Family of Hawaii to Be
 Announced Soon

New York, Feb. 2.-Jay Gould youngest son of George Gould, and Miss Anna Douglas Graham of 15 W est Sixty-seyenth street are to be married in June.
 It is planned to announce the en- gagement at the wedding reception of Miss Vivien C. ] and Baron De- cies, on February 7
 Young Gould's ha is the daugh- ter of Mrs, Hubert E5, wife of the famous portrait paintot By marry ing Miss Graham Jay uld marriel into a royal family, inst, ld of meId nobility. The royal family in que5. tion is not now a reigning family. 1t is the royal family of HawaM, Ms. Vos, Miss Graham's mother, be- fore she married Douglas CT n tle Princess Kaillani.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-02
SLAYER 0F TWO ACQUITTED WRESTLER BURTON STILL LA BILE FOR KILLING OF WENTZ. Does Not Seem Probable, However, That Young Giant Will Ever
 Be Brought to Trial.

Edwardsville, H., Feb. 2.-John Burton of Alton, the giant wrestler who strangled to death Louis Wei brecht and Leo W>ntz in a vacant house at Marine, It,, last August, was acquitted on one charge of murder by a jury in the circuit court here. He was tried for the death of Weibrecht. It is probable the other charge will be dismissed by the state.
 The case went to the jury shortly after 5 p. m., and after taking 12 bal lots a verdict was reached at 3 a. m.
 Burton declared Weibrecht and Wentz tried to rob him while he was asleep in a vacant house at Marine. He told the jury he had awakened to find one of the men trying to pull his coat from beneath his (Burton's) head. In the struggle that followed, he said, he choked Wentz with his hands and stranged Weibrecht with his knees.
 Fully fifty women and as many high school pupils heard the last ses- sion of the trial of Burton. Several of the women admitted they had heard much of the large stature of Burton and were anxious to see him. The court room was filled.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-02-02
MILLION ACRES RELEasED
Much Land Adjoining California or est Reservations Restored to
 Homestead Entry.

Washington, Feb. l.-Approximate- ly 1,062,224 acres of land adjoining the Eldorado, Modoc, Plrmas and Tahoe National forest in California have been released from temporary withdrawal for forestry purposes by the secretary of the interior upon the recommendation of the secretary of agriculture, The unappropriated lands within these areas have been restored to entry under the homestead laws.
 The areas are divided as follows: 147,506 acres adjoining the Plumas for ests, 403.140 acres adjoining the Mo doc forest, and about b09,57S acres adjoining the Tahoe and Eldorado for ests.