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ginia from Lawrencevillo made their
local debut in the dashes. and showed
up exceptionally fast The former an.
nexed the century and gao. while tho
latter boat out Holcombe and Briggs
In the quartcr-milo
Wiltshire, brother OF Turner Wilt
shire. the former crack Quarter-mllcr
for Virginia, won two points for Vir-
ginla Military Institute In the .220-
yard dash.
Summary of Events,
loo-yard- dash-First, Tools, Vir-
ginia; second. Walter; Virginia; third.
TODD, virginia: fourth, Hawkins, Vir-
Binia. limo 10 1-5 seconds
High hurdles-First, Ward. Virginia
second. walter, Virginia: third, Rixey,
Virginia.: fourth. Barron, virginia
Time. 16 as seconds
Mile-run--First. Cooke, Virginia;
second. Dieboit Virginia; third. Max
son. George Washington; fourth, Mo-
Ailister. William and Mary. Time. 4
minutes IS seconds.
o-yard-dash-First, FcIton. viz.
ginia; second. Holcombe. Virginia:
third. Briggs. Virginia; fourth. Fulton.
Johns Hopkins. Time. 52 40 seconds.
Two mile-run-First. Jones' Viz
ginia; second. Rumbough. Virginia;
third. Fleming. George Washington.
| Time. 10 minutes II seconds
Low hurdles-First. Stacy. virginia:
second. Thornhill. Virginia; third,
Hamlin. George Washington. TIme'
81 30 seconds.
22o-yard- dash-First, Toole. Vir-
GINA; eecond. Holcombe. virginia;
third. Wiltshire. Virglnie Military In
stitute; fourth, Hawkins Virginia.
Time, % % seconds
Shot put-Flrst. Blanchard. virginia.
second, Mayor, Virginia: third, Cooke,
Virginia: fourth. Furrow, Virginia.
Distance, 40 feet D inches.
Pole vault-First Dlenner. George
Washington; second, Cochran, virginia.
Height, 10 feet inches
Broad jump-First. Gooch. Virginia:
second. Walter. Virginia; third, Ward,
virginia: fourth. Mayer. Virginia. Dis
lance, % feet IS inches.
High tump-Ward Virginia, and
Nichols. Emory and Henry, tied for
ilrst place. feet inches; Walter.
virginia, and Rixey. Virginia, tied for
third and fourth places
-yard-run-First. FELTON,. Vir-
GINA; second Lewis, Virginia: third.
Beckett. Virginia; fourth. Hart, Wiz.
ginia, Time. minutes. 3 2-5 seconds.
Hammer throw-First Farrow, Viz
ginia; second, Cooke. Virginia: third.
Jones, Virginia fourth. Blanchard,
Virginia. Distance. 1lS feet inches.
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TRINITY AGAIN DEFEATED.
washington and Lee Wins nv scor,
or 30 3.
Especial to Tho Times DIspp tch.

OF 2 10 3.
Especial to Tho Times Disnatoh.,
Lexington. Va. April lin the acc i.
ond game with Trinity. of Connecticut,
washington and Lee defeated the v.si-
.ors to-day by the score OF 10 2
mo gamo Was decidedly faster and
more Interesting than yesterdays CON
tes- w. & l.. hit we'll, finding Warner
aoF ten safetics. Malcolm pitched tho
hrst i've innings for the home team.
~ the beginning OF tho sixth Ibis
S %as put IN. tho score being 10 3.
MS was his first appearance in the
bo% for W. d Il Hc.fanned six men
and allowed only two hits. ending the
EaIne with no further scoring for
lrlnitE- Moran played second to-day
ano WITH Itaftery. starred at tho bat.
the latter getting one clean homer and
one on z hit ana an error webster
PLACED h!s usual good game a, centre.
pulling down several hard flies.
score by Innings: L. II. Il
y. 6 l.. .....2 oo1o20o'-5 10 2
trinity ........0 0 c2o0o % 5 Z
Struck ,out-By Warner, 8. BY NAL
COLIN. 2. by Lille. 8. Bases on baIis--
On Warner, !: of Malcolm. 2. stolen
bhscs--W obstcr. PEBBLES. Murray
lowell Umpire, Smith
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the manager gives the lights out"
command.
There are some good voices among
the fellows, and Fritz Hoffman has
been elected leader of the musical pro-
gram. a quartet Will be founded to-
morrow. One of tho enthusiastic Suf-
folkians is Granville Holland. His
automobile is made to do yeoman SER
vices in carrying. fans to and from
the grounds. lie is one of the most
accommodating and Incidentally one
of the hustlingest young men in Suf-
folk, and one OF the men who Is re-
sponsible for the rapid growth of the
town. No request is too great 10 make
Of him. and he Is also largely respon-
sible for the Richmond clubs training
here. But Mr.. Holland is merely a
type of the local general public. No
body ever feels like a stranger in Suf-
folk. The ball players already regard
1t as their home. and are going to find
1t hard to finally break away when
the final summons comes TO start the
season.
Naturally, most of the men were "a
trifle sore tonight Mac, whose
arms have been working all winter
in the bowling games. complained of
sore ankles Fritz Hoffman smiled
when he tried to raise his right arm
at the supper table. He was shooting
EN- across to-day Just as II ii wasn't
his first day out.
Jack Goshorn and Otto Parmeiee are
the babies of the out6eld. and are to-
gether all of the time Neither of the
Riddles found any fault with the work
of the first day, and were crying for
more when the whistle blew for quit
ting time. Tom O'lTare and Hugh iIeg-
sarty are pals. They are boys who
Ian III ali IT,,
think alike. 1t is altogether Il friend
ly bunch
Old Friends Together.
Mcfarland and Scybold spent the
wakcful moments tonight in fam
ming bee. 1t was case OF Don't you
remember and 500" and Sure and
DO you remember somebody elsc?" 1t
has been a long time since the two
met and while they were friends in
friends to-day. Manager Newman
announced tonight that he thought it
probable that an exhibition game
would be played Saturday with one
of the amatcur teams IN Richmond. \
game is also being arranged with the
receiving ship franklin nine Prcsi-
dent I.andSraf is expected Tomorrow
IL Glue and Froutt get in either to-
night or early III the morning, the
team will he lined up approximately
as it Will be on May |. when George
Brown and his Washington outfit
open the season at Richmond
AS whole. the club IS composed or
big men. Most of them were fast in
the initial workout, ana give promise
OF getting specdicr MS the days so by
One OF the remarkable features Of
the days work was that every man on
the club was awattinG the ball. No
soft love taps sSmc from ths sticks il,
the hands Of the men, aut good healthy
swats which counted every Time. II
looks like big league, AS this story
is being filed the men are sleeping.
To-morrow will really see the real
work begin.
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Carolina Association).

Carolina Association, 3.
At Raleigh: University of South
Carolina, 2: A and NJ, 10
AT Jackson: Mercer, 4 Mississippi
a. and NJ, 3.
AT Oak Ridge: Oak Ridge, .; ifor-
ner. 2.
At Athens Ga: University OF
Georgia, . University of Michigan, .
twelve inningsl.
AZ Durham. y. c.: Raleigh Highs. !,
Durham Highs, 3.
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ion that that club could

ton that that club could come ia
terms with the player.
II seems TO have failed in this, and
hioerield reverts back 10 the Wash
!nSton club. Griffith sent him q con-
tract some time ago. which he has
s,Ened. lie has instructed Elbcrfcld
that whenever he Is in condition 10
llay he will put him on the pay roll.
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i<tD El.BERFELD 10 PLAY
WITH WASHINGTON kGArN

Philadelphia April il.--I<id Eibcr-
'cld IS to rejoin the Nationals lie
sent his signed contract 10 Manag gel.
Griffith to-day and he has hoen or
dercd 10 report as soon as he Is IN
condition Ia play Elbcrfeld was sold
10 the Chattanooga club OF the South
ern League last winter. on the conhi,
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SOUTHERN LEAGUE

Vt Atlanta: Chattanooga, ., Allan
Ia, T.
At birmingham; montgomery, l..
Birmingham, /.
Al Memphis: Nashville, 3; Mem
phis, /.
At New orleans; Mobile, 81 New
Orleans. o.
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BASEBALL. RESULTS

Al Norfolk; Toronto OIuternatonal).
s; Norfolk, 3.
~ Winston-Salcm: Danviilc tvir-
Sinih Learuc). =: Winston Salem
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are interposed five cabinet ministers, one
of whom was premier of Great Britain.
One would imagine that nothing could
be more plebeian than the name of Smith.
1t is inevitably associated with trade"
of which the British aristocracy ex-
presses such a horror. Yet the descend
ant of John Smith who sold tapes and
buttons and dress materials to the wom-
en- of Nottingham is the Marquis of Lin
colnshire. John Smith never dreamed
Of the brilliant future of his descendants
and died a humble draper, but future
Smiths had other ideas and became bank
ers and politicians. Geor-e III, the king
who lost America by his obstinacy, broke
one of his rules of official life never to
raise a man Of trade to the peerage and
made the Robert Smith of his time into
Baron Darlington. The successor of this
first baron thought Darlington much more
aristocratic sounding than Smith. and
dropped the latter entirely. So il is that
one finds 1t hard to recognize in the pres
ent representative OF the family. Charles
Robert Wynn Darlington. Marquis of
Lincolnshire. knight of the Garter. privy
councillor, knight Grand Cross Of ST.
Michael and St. George. Joint Hereditary
Lord Great Chamberlain of England, the
lineal descendant of plain John Smith
of Nottingham.
The present Earl of Dudley is one of
the richest of England's peers He owns
10000 acres of the most valuable land
in the country, much of il rich in min
erals. HIS OfOInef, the HUI JtIlti w al u,
married Jean Reid daughter of White
law Reid, the American ambassador to
England The alliance between this
American girl and the Hon. John was
spoken of at the time as splendid
match because OF the Englis'hman's con-
nection with the noble house of Dudley.
Yet the founder of the Dudleys was Will
liam Ward the son of a poor STAFFORD
shire family. who was apprenticed to
London goldsmith and ultimately made
a large fortune as jeweler.
So fearful are many of the greatest
families in England that their pedigree
will be tainted by contact with plebeian
ancestors that they have manufactured
family trees that really have little re-
semblance to the truth. And when the
families have not done SO, overzealous
genealogists have supplied the omission.
For instance, whenever the rich Fftzwil-
liams come into the news the English
papers fall all over themselves to tell OF
the antique scarf, one of the family heir
looms, which is said to have been pre-
sented to a direct ancestor of the present
earl by William the Conqueror. Yet the
Sir William Fitzwilliam who is said to
have received the scarf has no place in
history and is declared by real experts
to be pure fake.
In this respect the ducal house Of West
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NAJGEN. SlcKLEs

civil war widows to link our descendants
with the days of '61-'65. If the last civil
war widow survives long after APP
pomattoX as the last revolut; onary widow
Esther Damon, survived after Yorktown
she viii be with our great-grandchildrer
in the year 1890. And this is conserva
tive prediction. for Dame Esther was bu
ninetytwo when she died at Plymouth
Union, VT, IN 1905.
This Memorial days roll call of the
great civil war generals will show that
only dozen above the rank Of brigadiei
are still with us. At the War Depart
ment and pension Office / have just check
ed up with the records.
Only one lieutenant general of that
great conflict has won thus far In the race
against Father Time, and he was on the
Confederate side. This is Simon Bolivar
Buckner, who ran for Vice President or
the Palmer ticket in 1896. In his quaint
old log house at Glen Lily, near Mum
fordville, Ky.-one of the most noted
country homes in that state-this ven-
cradle old soldier and one-time governor
Grants pallbearers. entered his ninetieth
year the 1st of April. His friend and
brother Confederate officer, Gen. Marcus
j. Wright, tells me that the other day he
received letter, written in a firm hand
from the sage of Glen Lily. who was ap-
parently enjoying his usual yigor OF
mind.
Besides him. there survive only three
civil war officers who commanded army
corps by assignment of their President
They are Mai. Gems. Granville NJ. Dodge
Daniel E. Sickles and James Harrison
Wilson, all of the Union side.
OF these, Gen. Dodge has the honor OF
being the last surviving army commander
of the war, for he was given command
of the Department and Army of the Mis-
souri, in 1864, when he was only thirty
three. After the war he had directive
charge of the building of the Union Pa
cifc railway, managed many other great
engineering enterprises and served in
Congress. At his home in Council Bluffs
Iowa, he celebrated his eighty-first birth
day April II.
Gen. Sickles' eighty-seventh birthday
will come around in October. He enjoys
the distinction of being the senior sur
viving official Of the federal government.
having been in the diplomatic service un-
der Pierce and having served in Congress
throughout Buchanan's administration.
In the house which he has occupied al
most since the war he lives in New York
city. which is also the home of the only
other American who sat in Congress be-
fore the war-the Confederate brigadier
general. Roger A. Pryor. who will be
eighty-four during the coming summer.
The seventy-fifth milestone of Maj. Gen.
Wilson will be passed September 2. He
was a major general also in the Spanish
war, and was in command of the allied
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kent1sn apprentice and the wearer of
the strawberry leaves
NO less than three peers-Earl Cromer,
the architect of modern Egypt; Baron
ReVelstoke. one of Englands greatest
bankers and a governor Of the Bank of
England. and Earl Northbrook-are de-
scended from one John Barring, a son of
Bremen parson, who started in business
as a cloth manufacturer on the outskirts
of Exeter. One of his sons was raised to
a baronetcy by William Pitt and sec
ond entered the peerage as Baron Ash
burton, raked in a pot of American dol
lars by marrying the daughter of Senator
Bingham of Philadelphia, became so
powerful in the banking world that the
Due de Richelieu once called him lone
of the six great powers of Europe" the
other five being England. France, Rus
STA, Austria and Prussia. One of the
grandsons of the Barring who received a
baronetcy was created Baron North
brook, and his successor raised 1t to an
earldom, another grandson became Baron
Revelstoke and a third Lord Cromer
When the daughters of the fabuously
rich erstwhile American Bradley Mar
tin married the Earl of Craven she no
doubt imagined that she was allying her
plebeian American house with some of the
bluest blood in England. Nothing could
be more removed from the truth. Up to
few years ago visitor to the Yorkshire
village of Appletrewick might have seen
a single-story howell which housed the
founder of the fortunes Of the proud
Cravens.
Only three generations separate the
.oung Craven who came to London from
the humble cottage and the present noble
carl, captain of the Yeomen of the
Guard, in personal attendance upon an
English king. the possessor of untold
American dollars. and the owner of one
of the finest mansions in Mayfair. Will
liam Craven, the son of a husbandman
came to London in carriers cart with
little. or no money in his pockets. Before
he died he became lord mayor of the
worlds greatest city. His eldest son won
fame as a soldier. became the intimate
friend of his king and was created, in
turn, Baron, Viscount and Earl of Craven
No more distinguished family exists In
England today than that of Ripon. The
present holder of the title, to be sure, is
chiefly known to the public one of the
finest game shots in the world, but his
father. who died at a great age three
years ago, established record as cabi-
net Office holder that future British poll
ticians will find 1t hard to equal.
For fifty years he held job in every
liberal government with Q single excep-
ton. The exception can be understood
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and under. 223; and ten and under, %.
Some of these twenty-five youngest
lads, mostly drummer boys. entered the
service during the last year of the war.
If any of them, of this category, equals
the record of the last revolutionary SOL
der, we will still have a civil war veteran
left fifty-two, ffty-three or perhaps fifty
four years hence, or, say about the year
ton is celebrating the Tooth anniversary
of the return of peace, after Lees sur
render. Gen. Ainsworth's figures are of
the safe kind that life insurance compa-
MES gamble on and he was dealing only
with the average man, while we have
been specializing upon the exceptional
man. And out of the 100000 individ-
uals who saw service in the civil war
some are very exceptionable men.
is not unrea sonabIe to assume that Amer
lea Will have civil war veteran to
honor when mere boys of today are griz-
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honored soldier Of the second war with
Great Britain, did not hold the longevity
record among our pensioners. There was
one other who beat him hands down.
The last survivor OF the revolution,
Daniel F. Brakeman. according to the pen
sion records, died at Freedom, Cattarau-
gus county. N. Y. as late as April 5.
1863. at the age of 100 years. months
and days. He was a youth of sixteen
when independence was declared, was
twenty-five when CORVALLIS surrendered
and he lived to see the war of 1872, the
Mexican and civil wars fought to a fin
ish, the administration of Andrew John
son brought to a close and that of Grant
commenced.
AS stated, many boys far under sixteen
served in the civil war and many of these
entered during the last months of that
struggle. / have before me an unofficial
table showing that those of sixteen and
under who enlisted numbered 81, sol
those Of fourteen and under, ,523; twelve
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American and British troops which cap
tured Picking during the Boxer troubles.
There survive also four Union generals
who n the civil war We're corps COM
manders by virtue of their presence In
the field of operations. These are Peter
j. OSterhaus and Julius III. Stahel. who
were major generals during the war:
David McMurtrie Gregg and Nelson \.
Miles. who were brigadier generals at the
time of Lees surrender.
Osterhaus entered his ninetieth year
last January. Since he finished his eleven
years service as our consul at Lyons.
under Johnson and Grant. he has re-
manned In his native Germany. at Mann
helm. Seven years ago Congress ex-
pressed the nations gratitude to this old
soldier BY placing him on the retired list
OF the regular army, with the rank or
brigadier general. Gen Stahel. a native
of Hungary, who before our war had
fought for his native independence under
kossuth, lives in New York, and will en-
ter Upon his eighty-eighth year of old
bachelorhood I'm November lie served In
the consular service after the war Gen
Miles will be seyenty-three in August lie
is retired lieutenant general of regulars
and is a striking figure in the social life
of Washington. Gen. Gregg, who also
served in the consular service after the
war, entered his eightieth year in Aqril
and lives in Reading. Pa.
The five surviving Confederate major
generals are r. L. Hoke of Raleigh. y
G.. late president OF the Seaboard Air
Line. who is seventy-five: George Wash
ington Gusts Lee. president emeritus OF
Washington and Lee University. who in
seyenty-nine; Lunsford l.. Lomax. one
OF the commissioners of the Gettysburg
Park, who Is seventy-six; William T.
MART of Natchez Miss, now In his
nlnetieth year, and Count Camille Jules
Polignac. who is eighty.
Count Polignac, like Gen. Osterbaps r.
turned to Europe after the war. he cam.
to America from his native France AT the
outbreak of that struggle and after the
surrender fought with his French kins
men against the Prussians; then led an
expedition to Algiers. He married an
Austrian countess and, besides his chateau
outside or Paris, owns a mansion i'm thar
metropolis, another I'm London and an
estate in Podwein, Austria his present
home.
OF these surviving heroes of our war Of
wars Maj. Gen. Osterhaus is the
eldest. The greatest age thus far
attained by general OF the civil
war was that of Gen Sheridan's father
in-law, Brig. Gen. Daniel II. Rucker. who
In 1910 died in his ninety-eighth year
He was born before the outbreak OF the
war of 1Si2. and lived under the admin
istrations of all of our presidents save
the first three.
1nasmuch as our civil war officers were
OF class older than the men in the
ranks, it is improbable that a sword will
rest upon the coffin of the last survivor
of that bitter struggle.
Copyright. 1912. by John Elfreth watkins.l
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n My One Army Com
~ mander and Four Corps
Com m a n d ers Left-More
Than Three-fourths of Boys
of '6I-'65 Have Now An
swered Last Roll Call-Near-
ly 100000 Graves to be
Decorated This Year By
Only 100000 Comrades of
Both Sides-Ofhcial Estimate
as to When Last Survivor of
Great War Will Pass-If
Revolutionary Record Is
Paralleled Our Last Civil
War Soldier Will See the
Centennial of Appomattox, in
1865, And the Last Civil War
Widow Will Survive Till
Ieeo-This Years Roll Call
of the Great Civil War Gen
erals-How They Are Now
Earring in the Century Run
Against Father Time.
BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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The Average Count.

u REPRESENTATIVE HENRY OF Texas,
~ apropos OF a Galveston heiresS mar
riage to a count. said with a smile:
1T is stated that this is a love match.
but / have my doubts; for nay experience
is that the average count won't touch
the bonds of matrimony unless they are
gilt edged"
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One of the richest of English peerA,
whose brother, the Hon. John Ward.
married Jean Reid, daughter OF
WhfteIaw Reid. The Wards are de-
seconded from a poor goldsmith's app
prentice who eventually made a large
fortune as a jeweler.
son trace their line back further than to
certain Richard de Grosyenor. who
lived in England a full century after the
conquest. and, in the words of an Eng
lish writer, had no more traceable con-
nection with Rollo than with the man In
the moon"
Copyright 1917 BY Curtis Brownl
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HIS Memorial days
roll call will show
that more than
three-fourths of
I n e civil wars
3 u e and Gray
braves have gone
beyond.
They tell me at
the pension Office
that our Union
veterans are now
dying of at the
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+ c Z y L political
tendencies in Eng
land have drawn
attention to the
fact-which is often
lost sight of-that
blue blood was not
always blue; that
some of the proud
est families I'm this
country have their
origin in lowly an
ceStry; that, as
a