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The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-11
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The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-11
!. ATHLETIC AGREEMENT

Here Is article OF the agreement
between the A. A. u, claiming to be
the governing body OF amateur sports
and the United States of America
Football association. claiming to be
the governing body OF amateur soc.
Ger In this country:
The Amateur Athletic union agrees
to recognize the rights OF an amateu,
association (soccer) football player
to play with or against a profes-
sionai {soccer) football team withou,
losing his amateur standing thereby
Sort of seems in direct contradic-
tion to all amateur laws of the A. A
T., IL not hypocrisy.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-11
Football a Good
Box Office Game

BLOOMINGTON, Ind,
ID Dec. 1l.-Indiana uni
versity football team made
nearly $4,000 during the last
season. according to the re-
port of the treasurer of the
Athletic association, which
was made public today. The
report shows the actual re-
ceipts were $l3,o26, which is
more than has been made in
previous years.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-11
TAKES McFARLAND's WALLoPs

discovered that Mcfarland wonderful boxer and
he
holding the
nj all, was able 10 and
him without being
will forget Wednesday afternoon the day before
Thanksgiving Pckey had finished his work for
Murphy the following and there nothing do The
out with announcing that Ad Wolga i'll
would Freddie
in o Angeles following day
looked and
tall thinking Then declared myself.
going Angeles getting
They
for anyhow"
Il you're foolish, Willie Packey. They will
laugh They fighter Welsh,
and besides you
and right here
But made mind after the Btisher The
did McCarey
answer got none; notr ready to quit
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-11
STILL AFTER RUBE

Rube Marquard, pitcher for the New
York Giants, and Blossom SeeIey, his
wife. with whom he is playing in a
vaudeville sketch at local music
hall. were sued for $1,000 in the mu-
nicipal court recently by Joseph CO.
hen.
Cohen is Mrs. Marquards former
husband, according to his attorney,
Fred Lowenthal. who declared that
the present suit arises from a suit
for alienation of his wifes affections
brought by Cohen against Marquzrd.
Cohen recovered a judgment Of
$4,000" said Lowenthal 'Marquard
paid him $4,000 in cash and gave his
note for the remainder, which Bios
som Seeley indorsed. He has failed
to pay the note"
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-11

FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF
ROOMS READ THE CALL WANT
ADS UNDER ROOMS TO LET
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-11

Such a game would go a long way
toward definitely settling the suprem-
acy of the east and the west. Har-
ward is the eastern champion and
Chicago the western. 1t would also
give Walter Camp an opportunity to
make a few more comparisons.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-11

In the contracts which Hap Hogan
of the Venice club is drawing up for
his baseball Llayers to sign he has
a provisional clause in them, stating
that their joh depends upon whether
they make good or not.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-11

Arthur Devlin is having his trou-
bles in getting rid of Mite. 1t is not
that he can not find a club that would
take the catcher. but Devlin realizes
that Honus is one of the best minor
league catchers In the game and he
wants something in exchange for him.
He does not seem to be satisfied with
what the eastern baseball managers
want to give up for Mite.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-11

The question has been asked. What
does football fit young man for
Can any of our readers give us g
hunch? The nearest we know 1T fits
him for is the hospital.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Renewed Allegiance

Before D'Argenline left the castle, rs
he presently did, he addressed the
Bruce, sternly but courteously, and,
profferng him his glove, begged that
he would wear 1t in his helmet in the
war which, he now saw. was about to
break over Scotland.
Bruce received the glove with equal
courtesy and declared that he would
wear IL In battle against England where
D'Argentine could see 1t and take IT II
he could.
Lorn as he was leaving the castle, cried
out loudly for his sister Edith to he
brought to him; he would leave her no
longer in Artonish.
But nowhere could the maiden be found.
LCrn was satifed that Edith had fed
of her own accord, but his rage against
the Lord of the Isles and the Bruce was
not thereby lessened.
That night as the Bruce with his
brother and the page We're striving to
catch few hours sleep after the tumult
and worry of the cay, there came to the
Bruce's chamber Lord Ronald and some
of the island chieftains who, upon bended
knee proffered King Robert their homag ge
as Scotland's Lord and proposed to
awaken the islands, to summons all those
who, upon the mainland, were known to
be favorable to his cause and to lift again
the fallen banner of the Lion of Scot
land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
= Bound By a Vow

But as the torch flared upon the
storm-tossed refugees he called to the
men at arms to bar the way and asked
them whence they came and who they
were.
Warriors" replied the younger and
more inpetuous of the brothers DO
you deny refuge in your niggardly hold
to those who ask simply hospitality p
But the elder knight said that they
would gladly give their name and rank
at the proper time.
AT present they were upon a pilgrim
age and bound by a vow not to name
them. He craved shelter from the lord
of the castle for himself, his brother,
his page and his sister. Also the sail
ors of the strained bark ought to have
rest and refreshment.
In short, he spoke as If he were the
lord of the castle and not a castaway
and did 1t all in such high and cour-
teous manner that the seneschal, who
had been called by the warder at once
bad the party enter and conducted
them, as distinguished guests, to the
great banquet room where the wedding
party were about to sit down to the
wedding feast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Restored With the Ring

Brother" continued Isabel, SAY to
Ronald that until he lay at my feet the
ring by which he. swore his faith to
Edith, and swear that the ring has been
freely rendered back to him by the Maid
of Lorn, he must move me in suit no
more.
Nor do l promise that even then !
will accept his hand and change the pur-
pose which I have made to spend the
rest OF my life as professed num-"
AS Robert left the convent he shook
his head sadly and said. Lost to tho
world"
The next morning, as Isabel knelt In
PRAYER In the chapel of the convent, she
saw lying before her a ring attached %
which was note tied with sllken string
and addressed, "This for Lady Isabel"
She opened the scroll and found writ
ten there. 1T was with this ring that
Ronald of the Isles plighted his faith to
me and with this ring l now restore to
him his plighted faith to be given to her
who alone can command his heart, I
yield his plighted hand and beg that you
will sometimes give a passing sigh to
her who was once Edith of Lorn''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Seeking Sanctuary

All day, with sail and oar, the bark
labored to pass up the coast. But the
wind arose in violence, sending the
swirling tides down between the island
and the shore IN such force that she
was unable to make headway to the
port she sought-and such havens of
refuge as she might have sought would
have been dangerous ones for her pas
sengers
All day they toiled, and then, at night
with the sail split and the mast strained
We're forced to seek shelter.
They heard the sounds of reyelry
which came from Artonish. off which
castle they were when, at length, they
had to give over their attempt to pro-
ceed further.
The bark was brought In to the lee
of the castle and the passengers landed
upon the slippery ledge of the water
stairs, the elder knight half bearing In
his arms his sister, exhausted by the
perils and hardships of the stormy day.
The Abbot of Iona and train of his
monks had been expected to arrive at
the castle long before this to bind the
bridal knot Of Edith and Ronald.
The warder thought that, at length,
the abbot. who had been detained in his
voyage by the storm, had come; so
opened up the water gate and babe the
strangers welcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
King Robert SUSPECTS

Before Bruce began the war which end
ed in the liberation of Scotland upon the
glorious field of BannoclSburn, he, at the
Brides and told his sister OF the suit OF
the Lord of the Isles.
The heart OF Isabel Bruce was Of a
royalty to match that of her great broth
er. She acknowledged that once she had
loved Ronald-or thought that she had
loved him.
But her love was but summer flower
which had withered in the winter which
came on after the Lord of the Isles, like
so many others, asserted his King.
Though now returned to his allegiance,
Ronald was plighted to the Maid of Lorn,
and ought to respect his vow, sworn
upon crucifix and sword.
AS the Princess thus spoke with her
brother the dumb page stood by unre-
garded. Suddenly the boy sprang for
ward and, seizing the hand Of Isabel,
kissed it fervently.
Isabel drew back with astonishment and
some anger. but the King said: NAY,
he did but wish to express his gratitude
for the plans we have for keeping him
here in the convent until the wars are
over"
But King Robert at the same tins
looked long and searchingly at the page
and suspicion came into his mind which
soon ripened into certainty He smiled
but kept his counsel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Ready for the Wedding

~ NE morning in the early spring OIL
1907 the rugged halls of Artonisn
~ castle, situated upon the verge OF
the sea upon the eastern coast Oh SCOT
land. rang with the lays of minstreis ana
the music of pipers and harpers as with
+beir melodies they hailed the waking OF
Edith. sister of the proud Earl of Lorn'
IT was the morning Of the day fixed
for the marriage of Edith with Lord Ron
aid of the Isles, the great chieftain whose
ancestors had. for so many years, main
tanned in the Scottish Islands and upon
mart of the neighboring mainland an al
most Independent sovereignty.
The. Castle of Artonish was the chief
seat of the Lords of the Isles. Thither
the proud Lorn had brought his sister to
await the coming Of the bridegroom
chafng at this condescension. but eager
10 ally with the English cause, by this
marriage, the powerful lord of 200 Is
lands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
At the Banquet Table

When the Lord Lorn and Ronald had
taken their seats at the head of the
table the ancient seneschal conducted
the stranger guests to seats next to
them.
Some of the island chieftains stared
at first in astonishment, but, accus-
toned as they were to Judge men and
women by their bearing, acquiesced,
though somewhat sullenly. in the ar
rangement.
Ronald, as lord of the castle, gave the
strangers welcome. gazing upon them
curlously, while Lorn scowled darkly and
whispered into Ronalds ear.
There was present there an English
iord, ID D'Argentine, as brave a man as ever
couehed spear. and a knight, to whom
once, when he dwelt at the English court,
Isabel, the sister of Robert the Bruce,
had awarded the prize at the tourney of
Woodstock. Argentine looked upon the
castaways intently.
The feast was high and the minstrels
were ordered to sound their lays Lorn,
scowling upon the strangers, ordered the
minstrels to strike up 'erhe Brooch OF
Lorn."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
\ CL A S SIC
IN A P A G. E

Scott's metrical romance Of THE Lora
of the Isles" though not equal In quanly
of poetic excellence with "The Lay OF the
Last Minstrel" 1.-THE Lady OF the Lake
or 'Marmion." ranks next to them
among his poetical works. Ills descrip-
tion of the Battle of BannocKburn Is m m
ferior to the description of the Battie
of F1odden Field in "Marmion'' but Is
still a great piece of writing.
of the Isles" Scott arises to mis- sreatess
flights of poesy. Many of them are as
stirring as the blast Of bhgle.
Most of the story is historical, Sir Wal
ter having but sparingly used poet
license" in describing the descent OF Bruce
upon his native shores after his deieat
and exile. c,. ~,
The poem was published after Sir wal.
ter had achieved a new and greater Due
an anonymous, fame as the author OF
"yaverly," and much of 1t was Wrltteh
while surrounded by his family and guests
at Abbotsford, neither conversation @ nol
music seeming to interfere With his no"
NE compositiorf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Orders for the Page

Isabel at once dispatched a messenger
to Broderick Bay, where the flotilla If
the Bruce lay. begging him to visit her
at the convent before he started upon the
expedition which he was about to begin
against the English garrison which now
held his ancestral halls of Turnberry on
the coast of Ayrshire. and bring with him
the mute page.
King Robert replied to the messenger
that he had that very morning sent the
boy to the convent with orders to remain
there. He had been there early, but had
departed soon again, said the messenger.
Here Edward Bruce spoke up and said
that he had found the boy sitting alone
that morning crying. and had sent him
with written message to Cuthbert who.
with small band, was watching Turn
berry.
The orders he had sent were for Cuth-
bert, should the garrison be weak or
Careless. to light a great beacon upon a
neighboring headland, and then the fleet
OF the Bruce would cross quickly to the
attack and try and surprise the castle
before daybreak.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Lord of the Isles

The gay fleet of the Lord of the Isles
reached Artonish and the festivities began
which were to end that evening in tha
marriage of Edith of Lorn with Ronald
of the Isles.
Within Artonish all was stately cere-
mony but Edith, when she and her des-
tined husband met could scarcely repress
the bitter tear when she noted how cold
ly how reluctantly, he came TO his mar
riage.
In fact, though Ronald had thrown In
his lot with the English, yet, Ia his heart,
he still adhered to the cause of tho ex-
fled Bruce and he felt that he was be-
ing forced into a marriage which would
bind him forever to the cause of Eng
land.
Did he love Edith? Yes he told him
self-if he had been left free to choose
there was no maid in all Scotland and
the Isles whom he loved better.
But to be forced as it were into po-
litical marriase-this aroused m him re-
pugnance to the alliance which he could
not control and which he could not help
but show.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
The Hand of a Princess

Ronald had been legally betrothed to
Edith of Lorn, and in those days a be.
trothal was almost as binding as a mar
riage.
Ronald declared that he had been forced
into the betrothal with Edith that he
was sure she did not love him, but had
only obeyed the commands of her I'M
perlous brother. She deserved a better
fate than such forced marriage as Lorn
had arranged for.
Lorn had recalled the plighted troth in
the presence of the cheftains in Arto
nish hall. And Edith. he had been told,
was really in love with the English knight,
Clifford.
Bruce said in reply that his sister must
remain until more peaceful times in the
little convent of st. Bride that after the
wars were over he would consider Rom
AIDS request.
AS for the dumb page. whom they had
found with the agents of Lorn upon the
barren island. Bruce declared that he was
too delicate a boy to go into a war, and
that he should accompany Isabel to ST.
Bride.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Her Tardy Lover

TOO long have l strtven," said Edith,
sto call the cold observance of the Lord
of the Isles love- Think of the excuses
which have delayed the spousal day of
the daughter of Lorn and the Lord Of
the Isles! Here is the marriage day
and Ronald is not here"
Old Morag took her foster child up to
a turret, which looked far out across the
stormy SEAS and strove to soothe her.
Look" said the old woman, already
you can see from under the Ice Aros the
fleet unmooring of the Lord of the Isles
1t was, indeed, brave fleet which they
saw, dimly at first from the distance, and
then with more distinctness, which, un-
der the banner of Lord Ronald, was
setting out for Artonish.
Edith watched 1t anXiously, but with
only a half relief that her tardy lover
was coming to claim her hand. She still
felt that she was the victim, not only
of a political expediency, but of unre
Quilted love.
AS old Morag and Edith watched the
gay fleet of Lord Ronald making down
the tide, with banners streaming and
pipers playing, they also noted a small
bark, which, from an opposite direction,
was painfully struggling against wind and
tide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

the Bruce soon found himself at the
head Of a considerable force.
The news of the death OF King Edward
and the consequent relaxing Of the union
and discipline which his strong will had
maintained among his subjects and allies
added to the confidence which the Scot
tish King and his followers felt.
Still, until matters upon the mainland
were more certainly known to be in IA
vor of the Bruce. it was but small force
that the exiled monarch could oppos
to the large military resources of the
English and those Scottish mobiles and
chieftains who still adhered to the Eng
lish cause
While the royal forces were assembling,
Lord Ronald spoke with the Bruce of
their future prospects-and asked of him
in marriage the hand of the Lady Isabel.
While not disinclined to such a match,
both because of his regard for the Lord
of the Isles and because of the help which
such an alliance would be to his cause.
the Bruce hesitates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Treachery Punished

They watched by turns--Lord Ronald
and the Bruce-all that night and at
the break of day turned over the
watch to Allan, the page.
Poor Allan for a moment dozed upon
his watch and that moment the dirk
of one of the strangers found his
heart.
Bruce, whose suspicious made him
sleep lightly. aroused himself upon
sudden and seizing the nearest weapon
upon which his hand could lay, slew
with one blow of blazing firebrand
one of the leaders of the men who
lured them to the hut.
Ronald awoke; the fight was fierce
and swift and at Its end only one man
of the deerkillers was alive. He was
one of the serfs and was-dying.
Bruce charged him to confess what
purpose had brought him and his fei-
lows to Aran and to tell who was the
dumb boy The poor caitiff tried to tell
but died before he could complete his
tale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
crot1aud's Cause Lost

It was day when the English power
seemed at last to have been firmly estab-
lished In Scotland.
Robert Bruce had been driven with a
handful of followers to take refuge In
the lonely island of Rachrin. OFF the Irish
coast. Even the hardy islandmen had
been compelled. sullenly, 1t is true, 10
submit to the rule of English Edward.
AS a nation Scotland appeared to be
extinct. This marriage between the Lord
of the Isles and the sister of Lord Lorn
was. 1t seemed. all that was wanting
70 consolidate the English power.
Among her tire-maidens Edith of Loru
sat moody and disconsolate upon this,
her wedding morning. From childhood
she had been taught to regard LORD Ron
aid as her future husband, and as chill
dren In those peaceful days of Scotland
the two had played together
Then they grew older; then came the
wars and then the severance OF Lorn and
Ronald In the political quarrel. Edith
heart yearned for her childhood lover.
She had never ceased to love him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Suspicious Hunters

What was their surprise when, after
having moored the small boat and
started inland upon the desolate and un-
inhabited island, they saw five men,
hunters apparently, slaughtering a stag,
beneath the crag.
ThG hunters saw the new arrivals at
the same time as they themselves were
discovered and came forward to meet
them.
The night was now falling, but enough
of light remained to show that the hunt
ers were men of evil look, downcast WIS.,
ags and altogether of an appearance not
inspiring confidence.
Two of the men were well dressed, ap-
rarently vassals Of the better sort. The
other three We're men who Jagged behind
and seemed serfs of the lower order; their
feet and heads and arms were bare and
they We're but scantily clothed In sheep
skins. One serf bore a rusty ak, an
other a rusty sword, one was armed with
a club.
By the dress of the two leading men
Ronald suspected that they were men Of
the followers of Lord Lorn, and wondered
much to find them there.
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Wedding Bells Again

Bruce at once sent the disguised Edita
10 mis- sister at st. Brides, where Isa-
Del told her that her secret was known
and provided her suitable attire
Also she told her that she would newer
marry Ronald of the Isles-tnat baI ba-
longed alone to Edith herself and that
in reality. he loved her.
But one morning Edith was missing
from the convent, and gone also was her
pages suit.
After the great battle of Bannockburn
one of Bruce's knights came to him with
wide-open eyes of wonder and told him
Of miracle which had just taken place
That mute page whom the knight had
seen before when he was with Edward
had appeared upon the verge of battle
and. after the fight. he saw Lord Ron
aid returned from the field, he had run
TO him and cried out his name
And what did Lord Ronald?" asked
Bruce with SMILE
why, they were little apart. and
Lord Ronald kneeled to him and said
somethpg which we could not hear. He
seemed to greet the page between fear
and JOY as IL he were a superior natural
being"
Did he so?" said the Bruce. well.
go and bid the neighborng church be
prepared for marriage at once-the
marriage of Ronald of the Isles with
Edith of Lorn.'
Next weeks one-page classic will be
THE pathfinder by James Fennimore
Cooper
Copyright, 1912, by Irving King.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Reward for the Dumb Page

1t subsequently transpired that these
were men of the Lord of Lorn whom
he had sent to follow Bruce to his lone
retreat and kill him. That, soon arter'
Bruce and Ronald learned.
But it was long time before they
learned the mystery of the dumb page
Scarcely had the exciting scenes re-
corded taken place in the hut or Aran
when there came to the wanderers the
sound of a bugle horn. 1t blew the
signal of Edward Bruce, who, present.
ly, came rushing to greet ms protner
and Lord Ronald.
On its way to Ireland his bark hao
been Intercepted by a bark from one OF
the islands, whose occupants hao toio
him that the clans were already IN
arms, the islanders stirring, and that
Bruce was wanted Immediately to LEAD
an invasion of the mainland,
King Robert told his brother OF the
events of the night and Edward de-
clared that he would take the dumn
page into his service as reward FOR the
manner In which he, in dumb shew, nad
warned the royal Bruce of the danger
impending from his hosts of the deer
killers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Dissenting Cllieftains

In the pause which ensued after the
first tumult and the drawing of tile
swords, D'Argentine arose to claim in
the name of King Edward the persons of
Robert and. Edward Bruce, traitors and
outlaws,
Isabel had thrown aside her veil and
the impending fray, appealing to him as
to q knight whom she had known in more
peaceful days. But her eyes, as she made
the appeal, had sought the Lord of the
Isles.
The brave old Torquil, Lord of Skye,
loudly dissselR?tsd IN reply II tho deman4 !