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WAGNER ENGAGED,
NEW RUMOR HAS 1T

PITTSBURGH. Nov. so-Hans
Wagner is to be married. The girl
il Miss Bessie Smith, of West Pitts
burgh. who said the reporters would
have to see mi. Wagner" about. it.
1t is significant that the story OF
the Engagement should become gen.
orally known just when Wagner Is
away off in the wilds of arkansas
on a hunting trip. Wagner's extreme
modesty probably arranged that the
news should be made public While
he was far away.
Mrs. Smith, mother of Miss Bessie,
said: They've been going together
for four years" Word came to the
office of the Pittsburgh Ball Club
yesterday hat "Chief" Wilson is to
be married this winter.
"Ill bet If either the Wagner or
Wilson stories is true their girls had
to pop the question" remarked an
official of the ball club.
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MADDEN TOUGH CUSTOMER

NEW YORK, Nov. 2O.-Bil McKin-
non, of Boston, was extended to his
limit in order to beat BARLEY Mad
den in the ten-round main bout al
Browns Gymnasium A. A. last night
The Hub scrapper found Madden a
tough antagonist and took NO UNI
necessary chances.
MeKmnen beat Madden TO the
punch most of the time. In the
seventh round. however. McKinnon
was leaden-footed in ducking a blow,
and a stiff right to the jaw nearly up
set him.
Joe Mooney continued his winning
streak by beating Baldie Rector in
the other bout Of ten rounds.
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Hoppe Leading, With Five Vic
tories and Only One Defeat.
Jap Stars Again.
BILLIARD TOURNEY

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-All but one
OF the twenty-eight scheduled games
have been played in the professional
1872 balkline worlds championship
billiard tournament, and the final
match between Hoppe, the champion,
and Morningstar win be decided to-
night.
AT the close OF last nights play
Hoppe was in the lead with five
games won and one lost; Slosson has
won five and lost two. and Morning
star has won four and lost two va
mada, the japanese player. is next
In order with four won and three lost.
II Hoppe beats M~orningstar he viii
win the tournament and still hold the
championship, but should Morning
star win there will be a triple tie for
first place between Hoppe, Slosson
and Morningstar, which will neces-
state extra games being played later
In the week.
Slosson played a fine game of thir-
ty-one innings, defeating Cline SOC
to 306 last night. Slosson's best ef-
fort was in the twenty-third inning,
when he gathered Ill points. He made
a strong finish, scoring Il and 70 re-
spectively in the thirtieth and thirty
first innings. the last two of the
game.
Yamada treated the spectators 10
some pretty billiards in winning his
game from Taylor, who has only
scored one victory out OF eve con-
tests. Yamada beat Taylor 800 to 27s
and had double figures In twelve out
Of the twenty innings the game last
ed. He held the lead from the start
and increased his advantage in each
succeeding inning.
The scores:
slosson, 800; average 1s 4-31; high
runs, III, II, 7g. Cline, BOG; average,
9 a7-31; high runs, 40. "a, IS. Yamada,
500; average. Is; high ms SO. 70. SO.
Taylor, ga: average. IA 7-1s; high
runs, 81, ~, 90.
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STEVENS HIGH U

H. H. Stevens was high gun at
the weekly shoot of the Speedway
Gun Club held over the Speedway
traps yesterday afternoon. He started
with a perfect string of 20. On the
next set he missed but two and lost
but one in the next two, thus hav-
ing a total kill of 96 out of a possible
100 shot at. The Stanley cup shoot
will be held on December II. The
affair viii begin at 10 o'clock in the
morning and continue throughout the
day. Sweepstakes will be held in
the morning. Yesterdays scores:
H. H. Stevens, %. 20. "a. "a; H.
Keller. %, IS, IS. 10, p. 20. 16; George
A. Oil, jr.. 10, IS, IA. %. 20. IA: J..
Wheaton. IL, II, IA, IA, IS, 16; w. Has
singer, 20. 20, %, %, 81, q, q: Carl
Won Lengerke. 20. %, IS. 90, 20. 25.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn.,. Nov. 2o.-
Yale's new university athletic com
mittee has acted to stamp out the
summer baseball evil once for all
and has adopted rules which will
make it impossible for any student
who plays ball on a hotel, resort, So
ciety or other team during the sum
mer months and received any com
pensation whatever, to take part in
athletics at New Haven.
BY resolution of the committee
these new rules r to be read at
each meeting when candidates are
called out for athletic teams, and if
any man has violated any n of the
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"PRU" BILLIARDISTS
TO HOLD TOURNEY

The Prudential A. A. members, of
the Prudential Insurance Company,
will hold a merry-go-round billiard
tournament at FEEDERS parlors in
Broad street tonight The competitors
will play regulation. t~hree-cushion
and pocket billiards, bottle pool. etc,
eight tables being used. Those who
make the best scores throughout will
be declared the winners. Prudential
barriers are working out daily for the
or-oss-country run, which will take
place over the Branch Brook Park
course on Saturday. November 80.
Twelve entries have already been re-
ceived, and 1t is expected that at
least twice that many will be heard
from in a few days.
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East Orange Baseball Dates

East Orange High Schools base
ball team will open at home next
season, meeting Morris High School,
of New York, at Ashland Field, East
Orange, on April .. Besides the six
Interscholastic League contests sew
eral exhibitions will be played. Cen
trail High, of this city, will be met
at East Orange on May IA. The
omission of the usual game with Or
ange High School has come as a
surprise. 1t is likely that n Of the
two open dates will be filled with the
Newark Academy nine.
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The depth of local sentiment in
svor of Harry Smith for manager
the 1918 Newark international
eapua clnb was so,,aaa +oday
~ -. N -
o"i"e pe'ilioh 10 De puDlisheu ia
evening star. Best Of all this
tition came voluntarily, and if the
BIS were called upon to vote it is
s e-xaggeration to say that Smith
build be the most popular nominee
18th scarcely a dissenting vote.
The Star, always first In baseball
batters, started to boost Captain
nith for the managerial position
Isl spring, when it became evident
lat there would be a change in lead
ship next season. The fan who
liked their signatures to the petit
||on are to be congratulated for their
6yalty and Messrs. Ebbets, solomon
@hd McKeever will undoubtedly be
Zieased with the enthusiasm the sub
<ct bas evoked. Had the Star asked
81 such a petition through its col
INNS hundreds of fans would readily
md in their names and doubtless
#any more Smith will
low heir fealty within the next few
AVS. 1t seems certain that Smith
lin be appointed and with such low
Iity to back him he cannot helm but
hin a pennant with such a team as
he Tigers have for next
The names signed 10 the petition
Re:
m Kamnef ,aes We sb;noton s+rset.
& ri Werner Se MI gnoiia street.. IT
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YANKEES SERIES WITH
THE REDS DECLARED OFF

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-Frank Far
reil. president of the New York
American League Club, announced
last night that he had cancelled athe
dates arranged for his in Gin
cinnati with the National League
club of that city on March %, 30 and
81 next.
When the H%ighlanders played in
Cincinnati last spring they secured
an option on these dates. but owing
to the fact that a Western trip In
the early spring has been deemed
inadvisable for the local club. Presi-
dent Hermann, of Cincinnati. has
been notified of Farrelrs decision in
the matter.
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Of what it means to have a faithful
pitcher of Bells type on a baseball
team. There were some fans even
among the loyalists, who, not under
standing the strain under which Bell
had toiled, counted him a has-been
because his arm went stale late in the
year. To a baseball player TO be UNI
justly criticised thus is n of the
hardest knocks he has to face in the
course of his career.
There are some scribes in the big
leagues, too. who fail to make a study
Of a ball-player's temperament and
his ability as they should, and the re-
suit is often unjust happening, which
may make or break a young ball
player-it all depends on his DISPOSE
ton.
Baseball q Character Builder.
Baseball is the best character mould
| and builder in this country today, and
has done more to place the United
States on a high pedestal among ma
tions as a world power than all Of
| the military academies could do in a
cycle of centuries.
1t instills into the hearts of the ris-
ing generation the seeds of loyalty,
and in sewing the seeds of loyalty
fans into a flame the patriotic ardoT
~unexcelled by any other nation.
It's every phase and foundation Is
based on the rigid principles of hon.
esty, which has proven TO be the
source of it's popularity. It has made
thousands of American boys clean in
mind and body by its harmless but
helpful and healthful fascinating
thrills. 1t brings to the surface the
best qualities Of the youth or man
who plays the game-the ability TO
rise to face an emergency-or to ward
off defeat. AS a means of developing
mental skill and quick thought, fore
sight and nerve. it stands unequaled
among any other nations pastime or
| so-called sports. Therefore, every
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TO BRING
OVER SHAMROCK ".

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. ga
representative gathering of Pacific
coast yacht and motorboat clubs
was told by Sir Thomas Upton yes
terday that he would offer a trophy
to be contested for at the Panama
Pacific exposition yachting regatta.
Il will be here In 1915 and will
bring the Shamrock ~. and will race
her here" said Sir Thomas. Whether
I get to the international events of
1915 or not I am going to make this
port.
"The Panama canal will bring Eng
land and Europe 5000 miles nearer
by water than they are now, and it
will bring all u yachtsmen out
here sooner or later"
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BIG TRIANGULAR
COLLEGE RACE SOON

PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 2O.-Ar-
engagements are being eomr.tted here
for a series of three-cornered varsity
e~ight-oared races between Harvard,
Princeton and the University of
Pennsylvania. According to the plan
the first race win be held in Cam
bridge next May. After hat the
race will be held IN Philadelphia and
Princeton every third year.
The Pennsylvania football authori-
ties are negotiating for games with
Yale and Harvard next year, al
though it is doubtful whether a sat
~isfactory schedule "a be arranged.
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Financial affairs of the West Hud-
son Soccer Football Club were re-
ported to be in a hourishing condition
at a meeting held in Browns Hall,
Harrison. last night, during which the
following officers were elected; 1eph
Knowles. president; David Douglass,
viee-president; John A. Mekeon, sec
rotary; John Castles. treasurer.
The board of directors will be mate
up of Robert Marshall, John Brown
James Mulligan. Patrick Malady'
John Singleton and Edward osBrlen-
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DUNDEE FINISHES coNLEY

LOS ANGELES. Nov. 2o.-Johnny
Dundee, the New York featherweight,
completely outclassed frankie Con-
ley, OF Kenosha, Wis, last night at
the Vernon arena. After using the
Wisconsin lad as a human punching
bag for eighteen rounds, Dundee shot
in a terrific left to the jaw at the
beginning of the nineteenth that put
Conley virtually out. Referee Eyton
stopped the bout and gave Dundee
the decision.
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LIE DOUX TO MAKE
AMERICAN DEBUT

Charley LIE Doux, the French BAN
tamweight champion, Will give Amer
lean boxing fans their first chance 70
see him perform when he will don the
mitts with Battling Reedy, of New
York, in the main ten-round bout I
the Fairmont Club, New York, to-
night. LIE Doux, according to reports.
is the BEST 1~15-pounder that has APP
peared here in some time. A victory
over Reedy tonight is expected, and
he will then secure matches with Kid
williams and champion of the world,
Johnny Coulon.
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DALEY TO BE MARRIED

BOSTON. Nov. 20.-Announcement
is made here of the approaching
marriage of Charles Daley. noted as
q football player at Harvard and
West Point. to Miss Beatrice Jordan,
Of this city.
Daley was captain of the Crimson
eleven in 1900, and on the day Of the
game with Yale was notified of his
appointment to West Point. Miss
Jordan is a sister Of Harry Jordan,
a well-known Dartmouth sprinter-
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BRADLEY BEATEN

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2O.-Tom-
my Langdon defeated Pat Bradley,
the italian lightweight, in the wind
up at the Spring Garden Athletic
Club last night. 1t was a hard fight
all the way through, and Langdon
won on his cleverness and straight
punching.
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to Play Victors
in Philadelphia Thanksgiving

The West Hudson soccer football
eleven will meet the Victor F. G., of
Philadelphia, in an exhibition game
in Quakertown on Thanksgiving Day
afternoon. The True Blues, of Pater-
son., are also negotiating for a "Tur-
key Day" game in Philadelphia, and
their opponents will in all probability
be the Hibernians. The Jersey A c.
is also being considered by the Hibs,
but it is almost certain that the Blues
will be the choice.
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WHEELMEN TO HOLD
RACE AT OLYMPIC

Members OF the Bay View Wheel
men will hold a twenty-ive-mile
handicap bike race at the Olympic
Park half-mile dirt track Sunday
morning. Several of Newark's crack
amateur riders have already entered
A big field is expected to start.
Edward Girtanner has been selected
as the referee. while Eddie Rauch, Joe
Hill, Henry Walters, F. Freitag and
Charles Feinthai will act as judges.
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MordeoaI Brown an Umpire

CHICAGO, Nov. 20. Mordeoai
Brown. former star pitcher for the
Chicago National League team, may
be an umpire in the American Ma
tional League next season.
President B. b. Johnson has two
vacancies in the stan of umpires 10
MI. due to the retirement Of Sheridan
and EgHn. and it Is said that Brown
Is being considered for . Of these
posifions
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CAMPBELL AND DERBY ARE
VOTED OUT or OFFICE

PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 0.-Failure
of President Alex Campbell and Vice
President Tom Derby to attend Las
nights semi-monthiy meeting. as vel
as several other recent meetings q
the Football Association Of Psnnsy1-
vania, caused q motion to be ADOPT
ed declaring the Offices vacant and
calling a special meeting for Tues
day, December 8. when new officials
will be elected. Several soccer mat
ters of interest which should hars
been acted upon last night were ce1-
ried over until the next meeting.
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TO GIVE
MORGAN A CHANCE

CLEVELAND, o., Nov. 2O.-An
agreement between the managers OF
Johnny Kilbane, of Cleveland. feath-
erweight champion, and Eddie Nor
gan, English boxer, was reached late
yesterday whereby the two will NEE
soon in a twenty-round bout for the
championship. Terms and a date
have not yet been agreed upon, but
it is said the match will take place
on the Pacific coast, within a couple
of months.
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Yale FOrbidS Athletes to
Play "Snmner B1SebaH''

provisions he is to be debarred forth
with.
The university committee also has
made it the duty of the captains to
keep themselves informed as to the
methods employed by summsr hotels,
resorts, institutions and societies
which put baseball teams on the field
during the summe months. The
captains at the close of the college
year also are to notify the players
on their teams that participation by
them In athletics OF the kind indi-
Gated. where the methods as to pro-
fessional engagement of players are
under suspicion, will make the can
didates or players liable TO debar-
ment
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YALE SUBSTITUTE
HAS CONCLUSION

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,. Nov. 20
John Wesley Castles, jr., a substitute
back on the Yale team, is at the col
lege infrmary today suffering from
conclusion of the brain as the result
of injuries received in a football
gcrimmage yesterday. He will not
be able to play in Saturdays game
against Harvard. Castles was at the
bottom of a heap in a scrimmage,
and when the men got up off the pile
he was unconscious.
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George Bothner to Meet
Young Gotch at Miners

George Bothner, of this city, will
ton. in the main wrestling bout at
Miners Empire Theatre. in Washing
ton street, tonight. Gotch Is a pupil of
Frank Gotch, worlds champion, and
has shown wonderful form against
the best in the vicinity Of New York.
He should be a worthy opponent for
the local man, who is also regarded
as one of the country's best mat men.
The second bout will bring together
Hans Leibler and Fritz Mohl.
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MILLER R suToR

DULUTH. Mimi, Nov. 2o.-Walter
Miller. of St. Paul. defeated Otto
Sutor. Of Cleveland. welterweight
wrestling champion, in two straight
fallskhere last night. One hour six
minutes and thirty seconds was re-
CURED for the first fall. while the sec
ond was made in t~wenty-three min
utes.
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DUFFY ON POINTS

CLEVELAND. o., Nov. 2o.-Jimmy
Jufy, of Buffalo, received the deci-
sion on points yer Harry Thomas,
the English lightweight, at the close
of<their twelve-round fight here last
night. The bout was very fast and
the decision was close. but entirely
agreeable to the crowd
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DEMAND FOR TICKETS

Arrangements have been complet-
ed for the ever-tncreasing demand for
seats at the annual football game be-
tween B~arringer High and East Or
ange. There will be accommodations
for 5000 when the game begins at
noon on Thanksgiving Day.
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West HudSOnS Reflect
Officers; Club Prosperous

with the exception Of MeKeon all Of
these officers served before Castles
resigned in favor OF McKeon. who
held the position OF secretary before
Castles had the honor.
The West Hudsons viii play the
strong Wilberforce team in an Amer
lean cup tie game at Paterson On
Sunday. Members of the team and
the fsns who intend to accompany the
Hudsons will leave the Kearny ave-
nue. station OF the Erie railroad It
u o'clock noon on Sunday.
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FoRDHAM DECLARES SIX
PLAYERS INELIGIBLE

NEW YORK. Nov. 2o.-six Of the
best men on the Fordham eleven HAYS
been declared ineligible for the re-
naming games by the faculty. They
have ruled that to participate in
sports at the Bronx college a studepf
must have a passing mark in all his
subjects every month.
The players are Hays, McNa1iy.
Hinchliffe, Dooling, Mulvey and Nc
earthly.
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INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE
MEET FOR 1913 LIKELY

LONDON. Nov. 2O.-The prospects
of an international university ath-
letic meeting in America during
the coming SUMMED have become
brighter. The athletes of oxford and
Cambridge universities T largely in
favor Of such a contest.
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BODY HOME

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Nov. 20
The body. of Sergeant Thomas P. Con-
neff was shipped to his relatives In
Worcester. Mass. The remains ar
rived from Manila on the United
States transport Thomas.
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Mercury Foot Hockeyites
Are Not to Reorganize

The report that the New York A. c.
hockey players would organize and
play out the schedule in the Amateur
Hockey League is d~iscredited by Cap
tain White, Of the Mercury Footers.
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ELS SEEK
ODDS FOR
SATURDAY
Want as Much as 10 to 6 for
Wagers Against Harvard's
Chances

Betting on tie Harvard Yale game
has started IN the financial district
Of New York. with the wearers Of
the Crimson decided favorites as far
as odds are concerned, u with more
persons anxious to back Yale pros
vided they can get what they con-
slider proper odds.
Nominal quotations place Harvard
at 10 to ~, with the adherents Of
the Cambridge institution demanding
at least this much and the followers
Of the Blue asking 10 to 8. However,
there is generally some middle ground
and there have been = good many
bets placed.
NEW HAVEN. Nov. D-DOueias
Bomeislsr, the great Yale end, in cts
zen's clothes, walked up and down the
side lines with the coaches at Yale
Field yesterday afternoon and
watched the varsity men taking part
n q hot scr1mmags with the scrub
team. His presence IN stree clothes
and the fact that he took no part IN
the practise. though there are only
two more days Of practise before the
Harvard game, gave rise to the rsport
that his physical condition is not sucb
that he can play against Harvard
Saturday.
This story. however. the coaches
deny. though their statement about
his playing this coming Saturday IL
pretty strongly qualified Bomeislar
6fdp,& 4n4,s~o h4- .ho.f1ox - - -
according TO the reports Of the other
men on the squad, but he twisted hts
knee badly. throwing It out. and was
otherwise bruised. If he did not burt
his shoulder the probabilities are that
he viii be able TO play. for he is con-
tinuaiiy throwing out his knee.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 20-Two
hours Of good stiff work kept the
Harvard varsity well on the move YES
terday afternoon. The days session
had concluded, and It could hardly he
said that the coaches were satisfied
messed. The play was fearfu1ly
ragged and some Of the tackiing ex-
tremely weird. There was consider.
able fumbting n the backs seef1ea
slow in starting their attacks. Pre-
ceding the outdoor work q lengthy
blackboard talk had been given and
the varsity thoroughly grounded ii
the fundamentals of the offensiye
formations that are to be employed At
Eli Field Saturday.
PHILADELPHIA Nov. 2a-Penn
sylvania regular varsity footbait
warriors buckied on harness yester
day for the frst time since their
game with the Indians and INDUCED
in a lively scrimmage with Al MilIsr'H
freshmen Harrington Was he only
regular who played the part OF Z
spectator. He wrenched his knee q
Saturdays game and win probabsf
be rested until Saturday at least.