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Goals from door-Gormsn, Almon t3). Hunsche
90, McLaren Herbert ~, Parker, Powell. Two
points allowed Stalwarts Parkers toss into
formers basket by mistake. Referee-Mr. Col
!edy Ismer-Mr Hansen. Scorer-G. b..
White. Tune Of hayes-10 minutes each
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INGRAM WINS TWO.
Churchmen Capture Both Ends of
Basket Rail- Double. Header

Ingram took both ends of . double
header In its own gymnasium last
night. the Cardinals Of Alexandria receiv-
ing their first defeat In a Section A
League contest by a score of % to IA.
and the Columbia A. c. being defeated
by the Juniors in a closely contested
game by a score of IL 10 10. The Car
dinals were considerably weakened by the
absence OF Williams, their star forward,
and played weak offensive game. Jack
Dodge was the star performer for the
northeast quint. making fourteen of his
teams twenty-five points, besides playing
4 good all-round game. Cockrell and
Roberts played the best game for the
visiting i've.
In the preliminary contest the Juniors
rarely defeated the Columbia A. G.. by
one point in u sensational finish, Gless-
ner scoring two field goals in the last
minute of the second half. Balkum also
p.ayed a strong game for Ingram, max
n- seven OF his teams eleven points.
Humphrey and w. Gibson did good work
fni the losers IL the first contest.
The lineup.
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Gibson. GIessner (el, BaIkum icl. Goals from
fouls-Balkum ca. Fouls committed-Donn 81.
Humphrey, W. Gibson ~. Stevenson t2l. I'm
pire-Mr. I,pas. Tfmcrs-Mr. Wilson and Mr.
Patterson. scorer-Mr. Gable. Time OF halves
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An interdepartmental gymnasium meet
will be held at Georgetown January 81.
The regular gymnastic events will not be
placed ON the program. but instead the
affair will be devoted Solely to wrestling
and boxing. The tournament will be a
new affair, but it Is thought that 1t will
be Q success In every way. Several en-
tries In each event are practically as
sured and some good bouts are likely to
be seen.
The following classes viii be contested
In boxing: Bantam, under 100 pounds;
featherweight. under lis; lightweight, I'M
der 1885; welterweight. under 15; middle
weight. under 1853: heavyweight. over 15s.
The wrestling bouts will be contested IN
each Of the mentioned classes also. All
the bouts will be according to A. A. U.
rules. and medals win be given to all the
winners.
The tournament IL to be held under the
direction OF Prof. Joyce. physical N
structor at Georgetown
There is q great deal Of dissatisfaction
being expressed among the managers OF
the various local scholastic teams regard
ing the cancellation Of games at the last
moment. Every season II happens tnat
games are scheduled between several OF
the schools and are cancelled on very
short notice. Such procedure naturally
brings about much adverse comment
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Field goals-vnrela %. Dodge 90. Straus-
laugh ca Entwistle. Roberts o.. Cockrell GU.
Fouls committed-varela 90, Dodge GU. Nc
Canrey. Hayden a., Entwistls. Patterson, Cock
rell t2. Referee-"Jimmy" Collfdower. Timers
Mr. Toomey and Mr.. haas. Scorer-Mr
Gable. Time Of haIves-2o minutes.
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virginia Position. Gallaudet
Kearns. Belts. Right forward ......... keels
Riaey. Dulaney. Left forward. .Arras, Rockwell
w Rixey, Duncan. Center Roller
Churchman, Gill Left guard .Classon
Nen Christian. -. Right guard .DuIan
Goals from feld-kearns "a, L. Rixcy, w
Rixey i2,. Churchman. Gill, rockwell 20, Arras.
Goals from fouI-Arras ia Referee-Mr Ianni-
Fan Of University OF Virginia. Jmpire-AIr.
Sprati Of University OF Virgiuia. Time OF halves
20 minutes each.
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The fact that the Navy barely won
from the st. Johns College five yes
terday indicates that Georgetown VIII
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upon what 1t would mean to him IL his
folks failed to send him back to Wash
ington; how it would break up the
habit OF his life, and the relished routine.
the rosy rut.
Comes election day. and the blow falls.
He is beaten at the polls. He Is q lamo
duck. 1t is thunderclap. 1t takes him
days to understand it, much less realize
it. He tries to philosophize. but that's
pretty hard to do. The tugs of Washing
ton and the Capitol are pulling at his
heart. Not to go back to Washington?
The thought OF it causes an actual ache
within the man long used to Washington
as legislator. He must go back. What,
stick at home, in the dull old town twelve
months In the year. talking small talk
with the parochial professional men and
merchants. and to observe the Earring
familiarity in their manner OF address,
ing him, now that he is an ''ex," and not
an incumbent? It is a grisly thought.
Moreover. generally he feels pretty sore
upon his constituents He feels abused.
They have outraged him. Hasn't he serv-
ed them faithfully? Hasn't he worked
hard TOR them? He feels that they can
never be quite the same to him again.
He resents the way they have behaved
toward him.
Anyhow he simply cannot stay away
from washington. Ii ne can't nave the
substance he will have the shadow. In
Washington he will still be called by his
former title. even IL he is q former"
And he bankers for the air of off1cialdom.
Beaten men. who have fought this feel
ing, and. from necessity, settled down in
their home towns. after long service In
Congress. to practice law or engage in
other pursuits, have told me privately
how hateful and irksome their work of
this sort was to them for years upon
years after they'd been deprived OF their
seats: how, during the sessions, they
found the longing to be in Washington
almost irresistible; how they read every
line Of the Congressional Record, and
how they found 1t Unfortunately difficult to
keep their minds upon their business or
professional affairs at home. because the
Washington habit and the Capitol habit
had become SO wrought into the very
wool of their lives.
And SO the dead ducks trudge their way
here in Washington, Stimulating cheerful
ness and don'tcareness, but with the
open, though unseen. wound ever causing
them pain.
I don't see anything funny about them.
And, somehow. just for the sake OF max
ing him feel better, / always take my
hat off to q lame duck and resolutsly re-
fuse to do that same to live one.
CLARENCE l. CULLEN.
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A Wrecker.

9 IMEON FORD was talking to a New
- York reporter about the breakages
that happen in hotels.
IAN average amount of breakage you
don't mind he said, 'fbut now and then
you happen on a waiter or chamber
maid whose breal1ages pass all bounds Of
reason"
Mr.. Ford then recounted the break
ages achieved in one day by q chamber
maid Of this stamp.
At found out after she left" he ended,
that she wasn't q genuine chambermaid
at ALL She was an elephant trainer
really, but she had been compelled to
give UP that profession because she
couldn't handle the elephants without
breaking their tusks.''
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what a fine man and citizen he was. and
they sprung" him But not before he
had been thrust into one of those loose.
baggy suits Of Stops over yonder at Black
wells Island.
These two little incidents speak highly. I
think, for the clever and penetrating
way the authorities Of New York have OF
sizing up visitors lin our midst and
acting in accordance with such a clever
sizing up.
1.-The Automobile AS An Aid to Crime"
is an overdue article 1t is q wonder it
has not been printed long since. The
motor car has been used for adroit and
successful KIDNAPPING ever since it came
into common use. l have heard some
strange and distinctly grisly stories in
New York Of perfectly rational-looking
men being swooped upon on side streets
in the good domicfliary districts and
thrust into automobiles; these grabbed
men being announced. little later, as
soojurning in "sanitariums" on Long
Island under treatment for nervous dis
orders. Highly significant little Incl
dents these. when one is perfectly IA 4
miliar with the fact that Long Island is
and has been for years cluttered with
private sanitariums' to which persons
of wealth. whose wealth is urgently re-
quired by somebody else, have been rail-
roaded by rough-house methods. to spend
the remainder of their miserable lives
carefully guarded in such institutions.
Y
After all, 1t is pretty hard and decidedly
unfair to blame the police in such cases,
or even in the recent amazing hold-up
cases perpetrated by robbers working in
touring cars. The best high-notch po-
licemen in New York confess themselves
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=, . motor car pulling up at the curb back
~ them. Well they might. l do 1t my
self. I'd rather see the black touring
car the machine that has been de-
antomobile robberies in New York; pull
nm in front of me. A gumshoe buggy
,aoks better that way in New York now
adavs- OF course II the thing pulis up
a. the curb in front OF you. there's MOTH
ing to prevent the two or three sei n,a,up
hock and getting you for your little bun
die Rut. somehow. / prefer to see them
draw nm in front. Maybe this Is mere
kinky notion, but l can't help IL.
In the meantime. men who need guns
m protecf themselves can't carry guns
In New York. Woodworking newspaper
men. who go to their homes, some Of the
homes in remote suburban districts. at
:: or 4 O'Clock in the morning. have diff
Guilty i'm getting permits to tote guns for
use in case of need, many OF them
can't get the permits at all.
The nO-gun law is being beautifully
enforced over here. but the motor car
boys who do the stick-up work don't ap-
tainly seem, gives them what Is known
as a shade on the citizen who gets his
living otherwise than by sticking-up. but
this Is the epoch when the shade goes
i'm every relationship Of life. public and
private. and there's nothing to be done
shade" he has q ''shade"-thus We
gamble. 1t Is q beautiful game. and an
exciting one. But the man who is knock
cd over and robbed by touring car per-
formers can't b. expected to see the
Joke when Ls Is lying Ga hospital COT
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and back, bearing notice something IKE
this: II have only lunch money and car
fare upon my person" Even then they'll
probably have to wear steel helmets COM
pletely inclosing their heads. don't be-
lieve the ordinary sandbag would have
much of dentful effect upon a steel
helmet. OF course there Is always a pos
sibility of hold-up man "a New York
automobile hold-up MANI carrying a hy-
draulic puncturing kit for the purpose of
breaking up these steel helmets so that
the sandbag or the piece of gaspipe could
he applied all in due form and order. But
folks living in New York can't provide
against all possibilities.
I notice that men fairly we'll dressed.
men who look as If they might have ten
or fifteen dollars in their wallet or pocket,
now turn suddenly and glance back ap-
prehensiveiy. as IL on the point Of bolt
ing for it. when they hear the chug-chug
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Landed.
wv ALTER DAMROSCH. at a musica.
w dinner I'm New York told a IeaS

WALTER DAMROSCH. at musical
w dinner in New York. told a leap
year story.
There was a bachelor he said, who
had courted young lady for long time
without coming to the point, and one
evening in leap year, the young lady
being very musical he took her to a con.
cert.
THE orchestra played No. 6, q selection
that seemed to the bachelor very beauti-
full He bent over his companion and
whispered:
How lovely that is. What is 1t, do
you know? ~
"She smiled demurely and replied in 9
low. thrilling voice:
a. 1T is the "Maiden's Prayer
And at the same time she handed him
her program. pointing to No. with her
finger.
He read and started, for the real
name of the selection was eMendelssohn's
Wedding March The bachelor bought
the ring, l believe, next dag
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Importance of Detail.

CHARLES FROHAEAN was talking to
importance OF detail.
'Those who work for me-" he said,
follow my direction down to the very
smallest item. To go wrong In detail.
you know, is often to go altogether wrong
like the dissipated husband.
"A dissipated husband, as he stood be-
fore his house in the small hours search
ing for his latchkey, muttered over and
over to himself:
Now which did my wife say-hic-
have two WHISTLES an get home by
twelve or-hic-have twelve WHISTLES an
get home by twoT
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locked up in a cell charged with carrying
concealed weapons.
OF course, 1t was foolish thing for
the Texan to have done. There was no
tilious in observing the law of q state
not his own. The best he got Tor ms
cOnscientiousness was night In a oirty
New York police station cell and consid-
cradle difficulty in convincing the mag1s-
trate on the following morning that ne
wasn't lying in his account Of the AFFAIR.
for the desk sergeant. finely backed up
by a bunch Of cops who'd been lowering
around the station when the thing hap
pened, told an entirely different story-a
story almost weird in its amazing depart
ure from the facts in the case. The Texan
was severity admonished and turned loose.
The next time he comes to New York
he will have his gun. but he won't men
ton 1t promiscuous-like, SO to speak
An Oklahoma man who came here with
a gun q couple OF weeks ago also de-
sired to obey the law. So. feeling that he
didn't care to actually let his gun get
away from him. he wrapped it In a piece
Of newspaper and carried 1t in his hands.
His idea was that. thus packing the
shooting iron. 1t would not be a con-
cealed weapon" and therefore he would
be abiding by the law. He got almost
half block, thus toting the gun in the
piece OF newspaper, before he was
grabbed by q cop. He was taken before
an intelhgent MAGISTRATE who sentenced
him to six months in the penitentiary.
The wires between New York and Okla
homa fell to blazing then, and q whole
large parcel OF fne-looking chaps from
down that way hot-footed ii to New York
to set their friend loose. They explained
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high and low, felt that they would be
taking their liberties i'm their hands if
they crossed that dead line" Byrnes
promptly showed that he meant the dead
greedy for plumber. and perhaps to test,
for the benefit Of their mates the eff
cheney Of the Fulton street deal line"
crossed It, They hadn't got half q block
Then they were put away for NICE nifty
little periods Of time on suspicion of be-
ing bad characters. This made the dead
line" proposition to be feared. The
crooks. even after the passing of Byrnes,
street, and SO the dead line as shown
by the lack of robberies in the financial
and diamond districts for many years,
was effective until the automobile came
along ad knocked it into a cooked hat
There can't be any effective dead line
against 'big black touring cars" And
the police are scratching their heads and
wondering what they are going to do
about IT. Not single feasible remedy
mas been suggested for beating the game
gies.
The automobile game is what the police
call Chicago stuff" That Is, they claim
the motor car robbery game came from
that town, where 1t has been in operation
Ior more than year. and very success
fully. But 1t is the practice Of the high
up police authorities, when they are baf-
ned, to claim that the Jobs are being
done by crooks from other cities. This,
OF course, is to shaw that they know
what is being done by all Of the local
crooks. and that therefore the "1obs"
can't be the work of local criminals.
There does seem to be q lot Of justi-
fication for the complaint Of the police
over the adjustment OF the morning
lineup at police headquarters. This
morning lineup" proved itself useful
and highly commendatory plan for a good
many years. Every morning all Of the
offenders who had been arrested on the
previous day-headquarters cases, that Is
were 'lined-up'' or passed in review. be-
fore about $50 headquarters detectives,
all of them wearing masks on their faces.
The wearing Of the masks by the detec-
tives, of course, was for the purpose Of
any chance habitual crook who might be
In the lineup parade. Many a "notchy''
crook was spotted by the sharp-eyed de-
tectives when this scheme was in opera
ton. and 1t enabled the headquarters
sleuths to keep q highly useful tab on all
of the devotees OF the criminal game.
When 1t was abolished the headquarters
men claim that they lost out badly.
Meanwhile. the only way, seemingly.
to beat the automobile robbery game
seems to be to ride in one Of em your
SELF And, for some Of us, that plan, not
to express it too mortifytngly, is at least
CLARENCE l. CULLEN.
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GMlen$ New York Letter.

with a highly swathed head. which he
might easily have saved had he been
permitted to pack tool for the protection
of his life and property.
A Texan, middle-aged man, good citi-
zen and taxpayer down in his Lone Star
home, came up to New York on the boat
from Galveston the other day. He was
for his wife. and he had a lot of money
on his person. There's a no-gun law in
Texas. He got a permit temporarily to
pack a gun down there. He had the gun
on him when he reached New York. He
knew about the no-gun law in New York.
He wanted to abide by the law. He tried
to get permit to carry his gun while
give 1t to him. He reflected, still DESTROYS
Of being a law-abiding man. He thought
out scheme. He went around to the
nearest police station that was pointed
out to him. He took the pistol out Of
his rear pocket, and thus addressed the
desk sergeant:
IT am from Texas. and I'm carrying
this pistol because I don't want to be
robbed. understand there's a law
against gun-toting here, and so, having
been unable to obtain a permit to carry
the pistol here, I have come here to de-
post the pistol with you during my stay
in New York When I get through here
and start back homo I'll come around
and get the gun"
'AOh, yuh will, hey?" said the intelligent
desk sergeant. and In something less than
nineteen seconds the highly respectable,
but also highly indignant, Texan was
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Fable Of the Night Given Over to Careless
Revehy-The Alumni and Their Annual
Banquet at Three Dollars Per Head

Of Ornamentation was that which pre-
cipitated the French Revolution.
Beside each Plate was blonde De-
coction named in honor Of the Martini
Rifle, which is guaranteed to kill at
Distance Of 1000 Yards The COM
pounding had been done in a Church
early that morning and the Tempera-
ture was that of the Room, in COM
pliance with the Dictates Of Fashion.
Those who partook Of the Hemlock
were given Courage to battle with the
Oysters. These came in Societies,
the goth Proximo they had said good
bye to their Friends in Baltimore and
for Hours they had been lying naked
and choked with thirst in their little
Canoes and now they were to enter the
great Unknown, further sacrifices to
the votaries Of Pleasure.
Luckily the Consomme was not hot
enough to scald the Thumbs Of tho
jovial Stevedores who had been brought
In as Extras, so the Feast proceeded
merrily, many Of the Participants de-
voting their spare Moments to bobbing
for Olives or pulling the Irvine out OF
the Celery.
The Fish had French Name. hav-
ing been in the Cold Storage Bastile
for 80 long. Each Portion wore a heavy
Suit Of Armor, was surrounded by
Library Paste and served as a Tee for
two Golf Balls billed as Pommes de
Terra
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Dreaming.

said big Tim Sullivan. At q
banquet In New York, III men treated
their wives with absolute equality There
are too many husbands Of Cholmonde-
ley's stamp.
LAS Cholmondeley blew tho froth from
large glass Of beer ono evening. q
friend said to him:
81 hear you've had your pay raised.
Cholmondeley.'
Yes but 1t did me no good and Chol-
mondeley drained his glass and pushed Il
to the bartender for refilling.
Ibid you no good? Why not?
~ talked in my Sleep Cholmondeley
remarked, and my wife got on to it,
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Happy Marriages.

w It'll all the bachelors wonted Gym
W icism. George AIDE. at an after
theater supper In New York. was talking
about marriage.
What Is. after all, happy marr1age?'
he said. "A happy marriage Is one
wherein the husband endures discomfort
and doesn't Complain. while the wife
doesn't complain and endures discom-
torl.''
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to tune UP along in the Afternoon were
dying on the Vine. Others. who had
tried to catch even on the S. Ticket.
felt as II they had been loaded with
Pig Iron. Up at the Long Table enough
Speakers to supply . Chautauqua Cir
cult were feeling Of themselves to
make sure that the Manuscript had not
been lost. Each thought that he was
the Orator Of the Evening.
The committee had put on the Toast
Program every one who might pos
sibly take Offense at not being Asked.
Also they had selected as Toast
master beaming Broncho whose Vocal
Chords were made OF seasoned Moose
Hide and who remembered all the black
face Gravy that Billy Rice used to
shoot across at Lew Benedict when
Niblo's Garden was first opened.
After every 30-Minute Address he
would spend ten minutes in polite kid
ding Of the Last Speaker and then an
other 10 Minutes in climbing a Mountain
Height from which to present the Next
Speaker
Along about Midnight the towards
and CUTTERS began crawling out Of
Side Doors but most of the Loyal Sons
Of Old Bohunkus propped themselves
up and tried to be Game.
Before o'clock a Member Of the
Faculty put them on the Ropes with
40 Minutes on projected Changes in the
Curriculum.
At 1870 the Toastmaster was making
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Committee on Lights and Music.
Committee on Speakers.
Committee on Decorations.
Committee on Police Protection.
Committee on First Aid to Injured.
Committee on Maynew.
Committee on Liquid Nourishment
Each Committee held numerous
Meetings, at the Call Of the Chairman,
and discussed the impending Festivities
with that solemn regard for pifning
Detail which marked the Peace Con-
ference at the Hague.
The Frolic was to be perpetrated at
a Hotel famous for the number Of Elec-
trio Lights.
The Hour was to b $3.50, Sharp. 50
that by 6:45, four old Grads, with
variegated Belshazzars, were massed to-
gether In the Egyptian Room trying to
flx the Date on which DR.. Milo Lobs-
quosset became Emeritus Professor Of
Saracenic Phlebotomy.
*+
Along about 1880 q Subcommittee
wearing Satin Badges was sent down.
stairs to round up some recent Alumni
who were trying to get q Running
Start and at 7:45 a second Detachment
was sent out to find the Rescue Party.
Finally at o'clock the glad Throng
moved into the Main Banquet Hall.
which was a snug Apartment about the
size Of the Mammoth Cave Of Ken
lucky, done in Gold and various shades
Of Pink, to approximate the Chamber
maids Dream Of Paradise. The Style