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Evening star., 1912-11-21
BY J. ED GRILLO.

Reports that the Western League in
tends to leave the ranks Of organized
base ball and outlaw itself for the pur-
pose Of changing its circuit SO as to take
in Chicago need not cause the slightest
alarm.
This is the time of the year when
bluffs of this kind are in order, but there
have been SO many of them in recent
years that they arouse but little interest.
The Western League is one of the weak
est minor league circuits. blessed with a
hustling president. Tip O'Neil. who has
held the league boat steady. O'Neil is
not apt to sanction any outlaw
proposition, and once the league turns
away from its leader its days Will be
numbered Under present conditions there
Is no room for an outlaw organization
1t can be crushed at any time that those
in organized base ball see fit to take the
step. If the Western League makes good
its threat it would be in bad Immediately
because it would have to pay higher sal
aries than 1t ever has before, and there
are no cities in its present circuit which
could stand any sort of additional ex-
penses.
1t is hardly fair to Joe Jackson to call
him hold-out. Simply because there is
difference of opinion between him and
the Cleveland club as to the amount OF
salary he is to receive 1t does not mean
that Jackson is holding out. If by the
time the training season starts jackson
is still out of the fold. then there may
be reason for the application Of such
term. but just now he is merely nego-
tiating with his club.
If jackson is a hold-out so is Cobb
The Tigers star has informed his club
as to the amount he expects in his next
contract and the club has not come
through. preferring to take the matter
up later.
Ball players cannot be blamed for try
ing to get all they possibly can for their
services. That difference of opinion will
arise between them and their employers
Is but natural, but there are decidedly
few instances where an amicabie settle
ment Is not reached long before the time
for reporting rolls around.
Willie Hoppe has once more demon
strated that he is the worlds greatest
billiard player. His easy victory in the
tournament which closed In New York
yesterday shows plainly that the little
wizard has not lost his form. and in the
opinion OF many Hoppe is a more finished
player today than he has ever been. 1t
Is questionable whether his superior can
be recalled in the history Of the game.
Even the marvellous Jake Schaefer did
not have anything on Hoppe during the
zenith Of his remarkable career Hoppe is
still young man, has nerves Of steel
and temperament which assures his
Evening star., 1912-11-21
VAN DyNE MAY PLAY
END AT GEORGETOWN
Former Central High Lad May
Be Seen Thanksgiv-
ing Day.

With the arrival Of Coach Dennis on
the hilltop yesterday active work was
started in preparation for the contest
Thanksgiving day. The coaches believe
that they will have a great deal Of trou-
BILE in getting the men in prime shape
for this big contest. Every man who re-
ported yesterday was given the hardest
kind of work.
The contest against V. P. I. Thanksgiv-
ing day is causing a great deal of worry
at Georgetown. The belief Is that this
team will come to the hilltop, and that
it will give the Blue and Gray eleven the
best battle of the year. By no means is
the Blue and Gray defense strong This
fact was demonstrated in the Virginia
game. The trouble with the secondary
defense in not being able to break up the
forward pass is something that the
coaches have been unable to under
stand. Different formations have been
tried out in every game. and SO far none
of these formations has been worked
successfully. The coaches intend to keep
after the backs, because so far this sea-
son V. p. 1. has worked the forward pass
successfully against every team it has
met
Usually before meeting a team the
coaches have a scout on the road trying
to get information as to their opponents,
but up to the present time the George
town coaches have been unable to get
any information as to this southern team.
1t is true. also, that the Georgetown
coaches did not get any dope on the
Virginia team, while on the other hand
the Virginia coaches knew about every
play that Georgetown intended to use.
DR.. Larkin was on hand yesterday for
a short time to assist in the developing
of the team for the final game of the
season. With this assistance a great deal
Of good work was accomplished. DR..
Larkfn is an old Georgetown player. and
formerly coached Cornell He drove the
team as 1t was never driven before.
Coach Gargan arrived from New York
during the practice. and Immediately
went into conference with Coaches Bennis.
Larkin and Capt Hegarty. On account
Of both Bergen and Donnelly, who are
injured. the coaches decided that they
must develop another end for the final
game Since DR.. Larkin was on hand 1t
was thought advisable to pick out Van
Dyne and work with him at end.
Larkin took Billy Martin and Van Dyne
over in the corner of the field, and
worked with these two men for quite a
while. He believes that Van lyme will
make a good end, but has a great deal
to learn about the position, which Is en-
firely new to him. Van Dyne showed
plenty of speed in getting away, and
from present indications he will surely
be used at end in the game Thanksgiv-
well at end, and this clever little young
ster is about the only man on the squad
who can handle a forward pass without
dropping it. It. would not be bit sur
prising to see Martin start the v. p. /.
game.
Evening star., 1912-11-21
remaining at the head of billiard experts
for many years to come

Corridor, the young infielder who fin
ished the season with Detroit at third
base, is to figure in the deal whereby Joe
Tinker is to go to Cincinnati to manage.
Chicago wants a shortstop, and has
agreed to accept Corridor if Cincinnati
can secure him from Detroit. With this in
view, Garry Hermann has opened ne
gotiatiOns with the Tiger management for
the purchase Of Corridor, and there Is
good chance of the deal going through.
Though Detroit is reported to have
paid the fabulous sum of $4,000 to Kan
sas City for Corridor, there was moth
ing about his playing last fall that marked
him as star Corridor, in fact. has been
mentioned as one of the players who will
be turned over to Providence, club
which Is owned by Frank Navin, Hughey
Jennings and Bill Donovan, but il Gin
cinnati wants him he can be secured Dy
that club. which no doubt is willing to
pay a stiff price for him. Nor is there
any danger of any of the other American
League clubs refusing to waive on him.
for his showing last fall, as said before,
was hardly up to the standard.
Recently some truth was mixed with
great deal of misrepresentation and preju-
dice in regard to organized base ball In
an article which purpOrted to show that
the game is controlled by trust" says
John B. Foster In the Evening Telegram.
If the author Of that article ever got
together with organized base ball he
would find how far 1t is from a trust"
There are more individual opinions con-
cerning the national pastime promulgated
by the owners of the big clubs than
would fill an encyclopedia. Likewise
there is more individual 'scrapping' on
the part of base ball owners than there
Is in any other sport under the sun. The
best part about 1t is that the rivalry and
the contention have steadily made the
game better and improved the general
pay Of the players. and it is a move by
ly help tthe minor league players more.
The establishment of a salary limit
seems as If it were hardship to any ball
player, but it isn't. 1t insures that he
will surely get his pay whether he plays
for the leading club In his organization
or the tailender. Heretofore, when there
has been no salary limit, two or three of
the clubs hardest hit have been likely to
quit business before the season was over.
They couldn't stand the pace set by their
arbitrary leaders and stopped. That hurt
the ball players q great deal more than 1t
did the owners.
Now there is likely to be a steady sea-
son for all of the minor leagues If they
stick to the salary limits which they
have agreed upon. They know pretty
It's sure that the ball players would much
rather get into some organization
where they know that they will be rec
ompensed for what they do than to go
it blindly, as they would buy tickets for
lottery and trust to luck.
If the minor leagues arrange their af-
fairs SO that they may live a healthy ex-
istence from year to year 1t will 10 q
general benefit to base ball.
Evening star., 1912-11-21
SWIMMING EVENTS
To Be Held This Evening by Nau.
titus Club at Y. M. C. A,

The Nautilus Club, which comprises the
swimming branch of the Washington Y.
NJ. C. A., holds its second bimonthly
contest this evening, the events being the
1OO-yard dash and the 25-yard back
stroke. The basis Of scoring is five
points for first place. four points for sec
ond. three for third, two for fourth.
and one for fifth. After the con-
test there will be a scrub water-polo
game The standing In the series to
date is as follows: Ansley. X. B. Han
sen and Burch, tied for first with seven
points each: Miller. second with four
points: Eliason. three points. and knight,
two points. Ansley is the season cham
pion in the 25-yard crawl-stroke DASH
while x. B. Hansen is high man in the
breas9-stroke dash for twenty-five yards
The contestants who show up best in
the club contests will be selected for the
team to meet the Atlantic seaboard COL
leges in tournaments to decide the cham
Of the Atlantic coast.
This evenings meet is open to the at
tendance Of men without charge.
Evening star., 1912-11-21
fashion Is Trying to Improve His Pitching During Off Season
BOWLING BATTLES.
TONIGHT's SCHEDULE.
DUcKPINs.


National Capital League-Not scheduled.
Commercial League-General Baking Company
VS. William Hahn. Palace alleys.
District League-Belm0nts vs.. Hummers, Da-
mond alleys.
Arcade League-Bankers VS.. Sherwood, Arcade
alleys.
Southern Railway League-Revenue VS.. Mana
gers. Casino alleys.
Departmental League Commissioners VS.. Agri-
culture. Capitol Hill alleys.
Y. NJ. c. A. League-Superiors vs.. senecas. Y.
NJ. c.. A. allevs.
Northeast League = Haggertys VS.. Hanlons.
Northeast alleys.
vs.. Southern. Union Station alleys
Carroll Council League-Ninas VS.. Pintas, Raths-
keller alleys.
Post Office League-Postal Savings vs. Supplies.
City Post Office Executive. and Finance vs..
Rural Mails, Palace alleys.
TENPINS.
Colonial League-Iroquois vs. Puritans, Palace
ALLEYS.
Washington Railway League = Southern VS..
Track and Roadway. Association alleys
Departmental League-War VS.. Post Office.
Palace alleys
Individual Tonrnament-Rodrick, Mcknew and
Van Buskirk, Palace alleys.
Evening star., 1912-11-21
Frick, Ball Player, Drinks Poison.

PORTLAND. Ore. November 21.-
While his wife was downtown buying
tickets to Oklahoma, where he was to go
in search of health, James Frick. utility
infelder of the Oakland base ball team
of the Pacific Coast League, last night
drank poison, causing his DEATH
Evening star., 1912-11-21
Birthday Greetings


ne mas made his home the skeeter cycle
defeating champion
s som
Evening star., 1912-11-21
COMPANY E WINNER.
Ely's Work Features Game Won by
Q7 fn IL

Excellent team work and general all
round superiority enabled the basket ball
team OF Company E. I'd Infantry. to de-
feat the quint OF Company K of the 1st
Infantry. at the National Guard gym
nasium last night. in the National Guard
League, by a score of 81 to Is.
Ely OF the winners put up a splendid
game, making eight goals. B. Mason of
the losers. playing center. also put up
great game. being everywhere in EVIL
dence. The lineup:
Company e. Position. Company K.
Wheeler. r.......... Left forward. .......A. Mason
Bosher. ........... Right forward. ....... .Croyer
ISOulHe 1enter b. Mason
Ely. .......... Right guard McQuaide
Schwegler. Left guard. ............. Ely
Goals from 6oor-Wheeler %. Bosher. Ely (sl,
A. Mason. (2l, Grover and b. Mason (3D.. Free
throws-A. Mason (2 and Il. Mason. Referee
Mr.. Ross. Timer-Lieut. Stull Time Of halves
rs minutes.
Evening star., 1912-11-21

Outfelder Ping Bodie of the White Sox
is playing winter base ball on the coast,
and is again driving out the circuit clouts
that made him desired by the big league
clubs. but which failed to materialize in
the big show last season.
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Will Be Rated at Real worth.

President Taft shows how millions
of dollars are being saved to the gov
eminent by business methods and rec
omnendS economic measures that Will
save many millions more every year
It is by far the most thoroughgoing
investigation of the governments bust
ness methods that has ever been made
He recommends the abolition of prac-
tically the whole patronage system and
the placing under civil service of all
I,Ostmasters and a whole army of en-
ployees in other departments whose
jobs have heretofore been more or less
political perquisites. It is one of the
most progressive steps taken in gov
ornamental affairs for many years, and
the adoption of the recommendations
by congress would constitute something
scarcely les; than revolution in the po-
litical machinery of the country as well
as in a vast Improvement of the gov
eminent service. But Taft is a poor
politician and will likely get little credit
for this statesmanlike recommendation
He doesn't know how to play the
game and apparently doesn't care
much. But some day. sooner or later,
these real reforms, these bonafde
progressive measures will be rated at
their real worth. And that is the i'm
portant thing.-MariOn Record
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secretary of war under Roosevelt. or
ganized this gigantic work. 1t has
been he as president who has presto ed
over this mighty undertaking. To
him more than to any other man is
the credit of this great success due. It
has been a conquest and a victory more
glorious than that which any bloody
war ever yielded. No matter what ex-
preston the people of this country give
forth from the conflicting issues in this
years political campaign, future years
will yield greater honor to Mr. Taft
for the successful accomplishment of
this great undertaking than for al
most anything that has been done by
the United States of America or any
other power in the world.-Douglas
Tribune.
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seems to be Taft, but with the Demo-
Gratis there is only one name heard
that of Champ Clark
The Roosevelt for president talk
is not among his real friends. There
are no new worlds for him to conquer
in that office. He refused it four years
ago, and there is no reason why he. or
the Republican party should want TO
give any man third term. Too many
terms got Diaz into trouble, as well as
Mexico. Those who are whooping it
up for Roosevelt, are for anybody to
defeat Taft. The crowd got together
and nominated LaFollette at Chicago,
but his name fell with a heavy thud
on public opinion. They organized those
LaF'ollette booster meetings in Ohio,
and they were painfully colG-enthus-
iasm was far below zero, and they've
Governor Stubs has got down off the
progressive perches.-South Kansas
Tribune.
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raft Gainine. Favor DaiIr.

Bale Waggener on Taft: I don't
care if he is a Republican" he said.
Ct begin to suspect that he is right
about that tariff business" And SO it
is with a great deal of the opposition
that has been expressed in regard to
the president. After all that has been
said and done the people are coming
to see that after all he is about right.
1t seems the insurgents and Demo-
Gratis who were so busy down at
Washington this summer digging a
hole to put the president in are now
digging equally hard to keep the hole
they dug from falling in on them
selves And through it all President
Taft is gaining favor every day.-Hor-
ton HeadIight-Commerc
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Taft Makes a TARGET.

President Taft, with his usual de-
eisiveness. has made clear his position
in relation to having his name go be-
fore the national Republican conven-
ton at Chicago next June. The clari-
.ffcation, if it may be called such, is the
fact that nothing except death can keep
him "out of the fight now. To tho
great majority of believers in the party
which elected Mr.. Taft president of the
United States. this message will come
as a source CT qualification It means
that no hopes of his admirers may be
misplaced, and it points a center at
which the misguided shafts Of the Dem
ocratic party may be aimed--Gaylord
Sentinel.
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Who Is to Blame?

This is pretty good. from Ewing Her
bert, of the Hiawatha World: when
you come to think it over who do you
blame with rocking the business boat ?
What men Is it that spoiled the good
times and threw so many out of work
and opened the soup houses once more ?
The men who are behind Roosevelt and
LaFollette are the ones who have done
their best to discredit the good times
of Taft Isn't it so? And now they ask
That Roosevelt be nominated to restore
good times after they have made bad
times by their course of denunciation
and obstruction of a splendid presf-
dent!'-Atchison Globe.
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After You. AIphonse.

1t is generally believed in Washing
ION thar President Tat an AR Roose-
welt are doing the Aiphonse and Gas
ton act over the presidential nomination
That the president has informed Mr..
Roosevelt that if he (T- R.1 wants the
Republican nomination he (Taft) win
step aside and let him have it, Very
likely there is some kind of an under
standing between the two men. The
projection of RooseveIt's name into the
fight has dumped LaFonette into the
discard, and if the colonel is not going
to allow the honor to be forced on
him the presidents denomination is to
follow as a matter of course.-WeIIing
ton Monitor-Press.
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He stands for every good thing which
any other man stands for and he
stands for none of the unwise things
which some of the other men stand
for
He has appointed big men on the
bench of the supreme court He has
enforced the sherman antitrust law.
lie sought to make no glory out of it.
He has not issued any proclamations in
regard to what he has done
We believe President Taft will be re-
nominated. If he can not be re-elect-
cd, no other Republican can be elected.
If he can not provoke enthusiasm, no
other Republican can.
This country wants peace and a
righteous enforcement of law. We are
more likely to have these conditions
under the second administration of
Taft than under the first administra-
ton of any former president.
President Taft is a big man, men,
tally. He makes errors, but he is sin
cere and clean. President Roosevelt
trusted him with large responsibilities
Since he has been president he has
entire country. He was elected on a
protection platform and supposed the
country wanted protection. When he
found by the congressional elections
that the country wanted a partial de-
struction of the tariff, he proposed
free trade with Canada. This we re-
gard as his cardinal mistake. But he
was justified in a measure in putting
the matter to the test. The PROPOSE
ton provoked great controversy and
much i'll feeling. Then Canada saved
the day for the states Out of the
entire proposition the newspapers Sc
cured free trade in wood pulp and
paper If the Payne-Aldrich bill had
provided for free wood pulp and paper
there would have been no controversy.
That is, there would have been no
controversy in regard to that There
might have been some other contro-
VerSy.
The selection of a president of the
United States is a national, not a
local proposition.
We want it understood everywhere
and for all the time, that we stand
for the denomination and reelection of
William Howard Taft.-Des Moines
Capital.
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liver his followers to President Taft
Barber County Index.
Taft,s PoIicies are o. x.

A very peculiar proposition in con-
nection with present political events is
the desire of many Republicans for
Roosevelt to run for president but
they would like to run him on plat
form of Taft policies. They believe
that the tariff board is the way to
really solve the tariff question and
that Taft has it working about right.
They believe in the peace policies of
Taft. They believe that Taft is max
ing good progress in the solution of
the trust problems and doing well with
the currency problems. And yet, some
of the men who want these policies
continued want Roosevelt and say that
they will not vote for Taft. Queer
world, isn't it?=Manhattan Mercury.
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Taft,s PracticaI Economy.

Mr.. Taft's message to congress on
Economy and Efficiency in the Gov
eminent Service is a sound argument
for the Introduction of practical bust
ness methods in the transaction of the
business of the government.
What the government does with
nearly one billion dollars each year
the president declares, SIS of as much
concern to the average citizen as is the
manner of obtaining this amount of
money for public USE
Mr.. Taft further urges a wide ex-
tension of the civil service as a move
for efficiency and conomy.-Leaven-
worth Times.
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Goodby. Tom.

Good old standpat Tom Cordrv of
the Parsons Daily Sun, whose head is
always so level and who has always so
ably spoken the gospel of straight Re
publicanism. has slipped We Taft
folks have lost him. Goodby. Tom;
we may have to join you later on.
but we are not anticipating the storm
by jumping out while the sea. is com
paratively calm. You should have
stayed by The Ship. That there is dis
satisfaction in the Republican party
there is no use to deny. and the sensi-
bic thing to do is to get together of
course.-HoWard Courant
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A Foregone CONCLUSION.

We got two awful jolts recently in
Kansas, buc these will only serve to
arouse the party to the danger and
cause 1t to Put forth greater effort to
win-and it will win.
The nomination of Mr.. Taft is a
foregone conclusion. The Indications
point more clearly that way everv dav.,'
Fort Scott Republican.
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who's the entity Partva

William Allen White, calling atten-
ton to the fact that the Republican
party of the nation was united at the
beginning of President Taft's term
while now it is disrupted and dis
cordant, sees in that a sufficient reason
for demanding the retirement of Taft
and the call of some other man to
the leadership of the party. Applying
the same test to conditions in the state
of Kansas, why does not Mr.. White
demand the retirement of Governor
Stubs and Senator Bristow and the
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editor of the Emporia Gazette? I'm
der the leadership of this triumvirate
the Republican party has certainly be-
come as badly demoralized in the state
as it has in the nation under the lead
ership of Taft, and if new leadership
is needed in the latter it certainly is in
former. Is Mr.. White ready to step
down as he asks Mr.. Taft to do, for
the good of the party, and yank his
compatriots in the crime of party de-
moralization down along with him p
lola Register, January 16.
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RooseveIt-Taft Policies.

Newton Journal: When the proper
time comes, which will be several
weeks before the national convention.
Roosevelt will endorse President Taft
Roosevelt made Taft president, left his
policies strewn all over the White
House to be carried out by Taft, and
Taft has done his best to make good.
Pratt Union.