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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
Columbia Is Well Fixed
for Basketball Material

kles last year, but a course OF treatment
during the summer has made II possible
for him 10 undergo "A stiff period of prac-
tice without return or the old trouble.
Fisher expects him TO be star Of the
team. Benson will probably hold down
his place at forward. while Lee. who has
been playing centre I'm the practice
games. will probably remain there right
through the year. lie is fast and active
enough TO be on the forward line, but
there is a dearth Of good centre material,
30 Fisher will probably have him play
there in all Columbia's games.
For the other places on the team there
are number of capable substitutes from
last year. including Burkhard, Lahey.
Reynolds and Valentine. Reynolds Is not
quite strong enough 10 withstand the
rigor OF a hard game. and may not earn
a permanent place In the lineup. al
though he will be- first substitute for the
forwards.
Burkhard and Lahey were guards last
year and both have improved over their
play OF a year ago OF the new material
that Fisher is working with, Lawrence
Beatty. "A brother OF the champion shot
putter, is fighting hard for a place on
guard. while Van Buren, and Il. Lacey
look like promising material for the for
ward line.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
SECOND ELEVEN-BOWLIN
YALE SQUASH TEAM WINS
Defeats Heights Casino Players
in Annual Contest.

Yale's squash tennis players defeated
the Heights Casino. OF Brooklyn. in the
annual team contest held on the Brooklyn
courts BY a score Of three matches 10
two. The competitions were begun
Thanksgiving Day and the final tally on
points was $50 aces for the Yale team to
100 for the Heights Casino
Johnson. the first string Of the Yale
contingent led off against Truesdale lie
was fast on his wall shots and reeled off
the two games at l5-2. 15-3, before the
Heights Casino player got warmed up.
The second match was the only one of
the series which went the limit OF three
games Chamberlain, OF the Heights Ca
sino, gradually wearing down Dodge. the
second string OF the Yale team, and
finally winning at AL iJ-ll. 15-5.
Chamberlains footwork and his die-away
shots into the corners always proved taf-
fling 10 Dodge.
In the other contests Smith, Of Yale,
defeated Lltchfeld at $50. 15-s Platt
OF the Heights Casino. defeated Stevens
at 1915, l5-l2. and Walker, OF Yale,
defeated Kennedy at l5-lS. l5--l3.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
Leslie, Fleet of Foot,
Wins 'CrOSS-COuntry Run
KINGSLEY ELEVEN
HAS FINE RECORD
Captain Sperry Leads Team
Through Five Successive
Victories for Season.

The football eleven OF kinssley School.
Of Essex Fells. y. j.. which claims the
championship of Northern New jersey.
established an enviable record during th'
season just closed. The team faced I'VE
opposing elevens and emerged win as
many victories Kingsley scored q total
of 81 points to its opponents -.
The Essex Fells boys confronted heavier
rivals in several of their confess but
the speed and terrific line plunses by
their backs more than Offset this advan-
tage. Kingsley was well versed in the en-
ccution of the forward pass, and daring
use OF the play brought about many
touchdowns.
Louis Sperry of New York. who Nas
reelected captain; the heavy Bingham. at
fullback. and Tremaine. at qnarterback
proved the greatest ground gamers.
Sperry and Bingham dashed away for
many sensational long runs. while the la;-
ter showed some splendid spiral puntinS
that averaged close to fifty yards. Bene-
dict and Schultz proved a fast pair Of
well drilled in catching forward passes.
The Kingsley eleven scored its greatest
victory when IL defeated the Carlton
Academy team, the conquerors OF Morris
town School and Rutgers Preparatory
School, by score Of % TO T. The heavy
Montclair High School was its final rival
and Kingsley was returned a winner, by
the successful execution of forward
pass, by a score of to o.
Four players will he lost by graduation.
Benedict will matriculate at Cornell. Ar
mold and Frost at Princeton ard Polomo
al Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute. The
others. who will remain. are Sperry.
Bingham, Tremaine, Schultz, Toole".
Proudht. Failing, Marsh, Narona and
Sherman. The average weight OF the
Kingsley eleven was only al pounds.
The results OF the contests during the
season were as follows: Kingsley, 81;
Randolph Military Academy, O. Kingsley,
%: Montclair Academy. :. Kingsley, II:
Newman, 6. Kingsley, %; Carlton Acad-
envy. IL. Kingsley, s; Montclair High
School, 0.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
M'CAATOLEAVE LAFAYETTE
Football Coach To Be Succeed
ed by w. G.. Crowell.

Easton, Penn. Nov. E.-It became
known here to-day that George McCaa,
for several years coach OF the Lafayette
football team. is not candidate for re-
election and that his place probably will
be taken by w. Ct. Crowel. OF Philadel-
phia. The latter was graduated from
swarthmore I'm 1902. and during his coll
lege days was considered a great quar-
terback. He has acted as an official in
many important games.
McCaa, IL is understood, has received
an offer to take charge of football
squad in another college. His contract
with Lafayette expires next December.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
COLUMBIA FAILS
TO HOLD CENTRAL
SOCCER PLAYERS
Falls Before Y. M. c. A. Eleven in
Hard Fought Field Club
League Contest.
MUDDY FIELD A HANDICAP
tumble by Krefeld Gives Brook
lyn Players First Opportunity
to Net the Ball.

By defeating the Columbia University
eleven at the Public Schools Athletic
League Field, I'm Brooklyn yesterday az
ternoon. the Central Y NJ. {. A team
retained it's lead in the Field Club Soccer
League, with the Crescent a. c. the only
team 10 defeat il so far. one point De-
hind in the race. A score OF goals 10
was rolled up against Columbia. the play
in the first half yielding the Centrals
lead OF to 0.
Owing to the muddy condition OF the
field Columbia was handicapped and I'M
able TO show accustomed speed More
over. il failed TO present the regular line
up. Play was fairly even until near the
end Of the first half when Waters took
advantage OF a tumble by krefeld and
scored the first goal
Especially brilliant goal keeping by hre-
field. of Columbia. marked the second
period OF play.
The lineup follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
GOEPEL AND FOSTER
VICTORS AT SQUASH
Will Face Each Other in Final
Round for Heights Casino
Championship.

Rudolph Goepel and A. c. Foster ad-
vanced as far as the final round Of the
respective divisions yesterday in the han
dicap squash tennis tournament I'm prog
ress on the courts Of the Heights Ca
sinO The victory Of Goepel, with the
mark of minus aces, was i'm the Glass
A section. in the semi-final round Of which
he defeated +. Williams, at plus 4 aces,
in straight games by the score Of l5-ll
BIB. The playing Of Charles NJ. Bull,
jr., in this section was also interesting
although the famous lawn tennis player
of the Crescent Athletic Club only gained
his bracket in the semi-final round
Bull, with the heavy handicap of minus
aces, pulled through a lively three game
match against r. f.. r. Riggs, at plus |
ace, winning at 4-l5, l5-9, 17-l4. For
the final round Bull meets A j. Corder,
the former Yale player. who is at scratch
Fosters victory was in the Glass b
division. In his semi-fnal contest Fow-
Ter, at minus aces. defeated II. Corlies.
at plus aces, in straight games by the
score OF lbs. 1j-l2. In getting into the
semi-fnal round Foster and Corlies had
each engaged in a sizzling three-game
competition. Foster by steadiness man
aged TO defeat r. Catlin, minus 3 aces.
by the score of SIS, 1913, 1913, and
Corlies scored against W H. Thurston.
plus aces, at l6-l7, l5--lO, lbs
The summary follows:
Glass 4 handicap Second roundJ-E A.
Freshman (plus acesI defeated S X Ken
nedy (plus aces, 9-i5, I5-11 lJ-lI;
Charles NJ. Bull 81. minus s aces defeated
II. J. williams minus aces. Id 15--6,
ID.
Third roand-E Williams ,plus 4 aces, de
yeated +. W. Bellamy (plus q aces, l5-T
IT-l4: Rudolph Goepel Ominus 4 aces, de
fcatcd Il. 4. Freshman (plus aces i5-il
1S--ll' Charles n. Bull, ir minus aces)
defeated II. T. Riggs (plls sce). 4-I5.
Is. IA
Semi-dnal round-Rudolph Goepel minus 4
accsl defeated e. Williams (plus I aces,
1j-i1. IL 10
Glass y handicap Second roundI-F. w.
Hie ,plus , sces} defeated r. j. Mallory
Cplus 2 aces. bv default; T.. Bechtel plus >
ncesI defeated H. Otis fscratch) by default:
A g. Foster minus 3 aces defeated =. l..
Dodge minus 4 acesl, 1913, 15-10.
Third round-T. Besrdsiey (nlnus = aces)
defeated J.. NJ BlodEct (minus aces. 1S-l5,
l5-.C: 4. &. Foster minus . aces defeated
r. Catlin minus 8 aces. s-25. 10 IL. Is IS:
~. Corliss plus . aces defeated j. Good oplds
Is acesi. fG--17. f5-i0 '5--S.
Sent final round-A. c. Foster Cminus .
scesi defeated II. Corlie, plus > aces. i5-s,
l5-l@.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
EUROPE GETS CHESS MATCH
DR.. Lasker to Meet RublnsteiD
Next Summer.

Word comes from DR.. Emanuel La' u.
the worlds chess champion, tha'
match with Rubinstein, the 'u's
champion, will take place In Europe a.
summer. II cannot be played any earn
ON account Of the participation of Ruoln'
stein In the international masters 'ou' I'll
ment beginning at st. Petersburg on ap
/. According TO DR.. Lasker, ioui',s
games of the match have so far pee" ~.
spoken, these having been bid Tor oy
clubs In Berlin, Frankfort. Moscow h"''
ami Warsaw.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
Winding up their championship schedule

Winding up their championship schedule
without single reverse by defeating
Commercial High School at Commercial
Field. Brooklyn, by the score OF goals
10 0. yesterday. the champion team OF
Manual Training High School captured
the Maxwell trophy for the sixth time In
the eight years that the emblem has been
in competition.
once. in 1906, it was won by Morris and
In 1910. after tie with Manual, by Boys
High. In the series just brought to
close, the champions started with score
less tie against Curtis and then won eight
games straight, rolling up total OF
eighteen goals against two for their OPP
ponents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30

Only four games had TO be decided in the
Southern League to-day. owing to the
other teams playing their ties IN the
fourth round qualifying competition Of the
English Cup.
Swindon Town had 10 80 to Portsmouth
and did well to play his improved team
TO a draw, and remain at the head OF the
table.
The Queens Park Rangers and West
Ham" United visited Exeter and North
ampton, respectively, and both managed
to pick up valuable point.
Brighton and Hove are now third oy
their splendid play this season, and on
their own ground beat the Bristol Royers
by TO I.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
The lineup follows:

Goals-Garfein, Zimmerman. Referee-Dr. G.
II. Manning, L. $. A. r. A. Linesmen-Weil
and Jackson. Time-Halves of thirty minutes.
BY the one-sided score OF to 0, the
Morris High defeated n short-handed
team from Erasmus Hall of Brooklyn in
tie r. S. A. l.. soccer game at Macomb's
Dam Park yesterday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
individual starters.
TEAM COMPETITION.
COOMBS is C0NVALESCENT
Pitcher of Athletics to Leave
Hospital To- day.

Jack Coombs. of the Philadelphia Ath-
letics. who has been confined 10 a bed in
a Philadelphia hospital for the last twelve
weeks, will leave ii to-day, according to
information given out by the hospital
authorities Coombs will spend a week
i'm Philadelphia as the guest Of IRA
Thomas, the catcher OF the Athletics, and
will then go to his farm at Kennbunk-
port. Me, where ne will take a complete
rest until spring.
lie will not attempt 10 take his place
on the mound again. however, until June
when he hopes TO be fully recovered and
there will be no possibility of his old in
jury returning.
Frank Ruddy, catcher who has been
playing with semi-pro teams around this
city for the last two years. has been
added to the roster of the Yankees.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30

De Witt Clinton had TO yield TO Town
send Harris Hall by a score OF TO o
I'm a game at Van Cortlandt Park yester
day.
H. Spiro. left back for the winners. was
the star OF the game. which was refereed
by DR.. G.. Randolph Manning, president
OF the United States of America Football
Association.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30

owing 10 the soggy condition OF the
ground at Bay Ridge, yesterday the
match between the Crescent A. {. and
the INTERCHANGEABLE team of Philadelphia
was called of, as was also the game oe-
tween Staten Island and Yale AT Ne"
Haven.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
The lineup follows:

Goals-Bryant. Clark (2). Lahey. Substitutes
Roche for Bryant. Hopewell for Hurley.
Referee-G. Caldicott. Observation-Disclosures and
Smith. Time-Haves OF thirty minutes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30

Goals-Waters, McHolland go, hIhpaetiSn'
IaguardIa Referee-F. Davies. Llnestnch
Dunning and Peterson. T1me-Halves OF thHS
five minutes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-16
. Loading SIs~1s INTO the
wel91 NaT for Transportation
the streets ofNSMMSk0n

also put up in little booklets for pocket
use.
Neither the stamped envelopes nor the
postcards are kept in the vault. They
are ordered by the carload and could not
be stored i'm this way There are about
5000. coo envelopes and 100000 post cards
I'm carload. No attempt is made to
count these except when they are sold
In small quantities. The force is not large
enough to spare men to count them. The
work would. i'm a minor way, of course
resemble that of the counting OF the cash
i'm the federal vaults when a new Treas
urer of the United States takes office.
When New York requires postage
stamps the order ranges from 100000 to
81. 10000. the latter amount being req
uisitioned just before Christmas. The or
de-s are about two weeks apart. The
millions upon millions of stamps COM
prising such an order all come at one
time. usually within day Of the sending
Of the requstion, and by registered mail.
They are carried through the streets with
no other guard than that employed in pro-
tccting any other registered mail. or
course. no one along the route knows in
advance when stamps valued at from
socO. 900 to 100000 are TO drawn through
the streets.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-16

kkTUNHEY destroy skyscrapcr.
Steel beams concrete
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Jack1nS Auud2eS Of
pocIa,3e JZazwDC st No.
far cAz1n7eNf

it up may be examined and returned
without being broken. The wire prevents
The removal of any sheets without dis
covery before the package is returned to
Washington. 1t is said that within The
memory of the present cashier no pack
age of stamps has ever been received in
which the count was not correct.
on the shelves in the vault are just
ordinary stamps. and postage due stamps
and parcel post and special delivery
stamps and stamps issued in commcmora-
ton of the Panama Exposition. The ordl-
nary stamps are put up in several ways
There are coils for use i'm certain machines
which have been invented to stamp enVel-
ones These coils. or rolls, contain 5Oj
and 900 each. The stamps are put up III
strips. end TO end. or side to side, and
are perforated or unperforated. to suit
the purch lsers' wish. Large unperforated
sheets containing 400 each may be bought
also. These are used in the vending ma
chimes and by a manufacturer of "A ma
chine which stamps and seals envelopes.
The latter buys them in the large sheets.
cuts them into strips and pastes the strips
,oeether. end to end. These rolls. con-
,a,ping several thousand, are sold To the
,sers OF the machines scattered through
out the country. Stamps, OF course. are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-16
ICE MACHINES tEl P TUTOR CTYS LADS IN STEEL WORKING

! and delicate machinery Of this monster.
/ One Of the students wears head piece.
such as is used by telephone switchboard
| operators, and before any outward crack
appears TO Indicate that the beam Is
brea king the wearer of the head receiver
hears click and knows that the elastic
limit has been passed and che beam Is
bres king.
/ As The beam was being broken the pho
tographer made a fashlight picture, and
! Informed one of the inquisitive students
that the heavy charge of fiashlight pow
der disappeared i'm smoke. And said In
ouisitive student asked one OF his In
strlctors about Ibis. Being referred to
the professor IN chemistry, Professor
Enders explained:
"The powder Ices not disappear in
smoke 1t is not smoke at all. IL only
looks Ike it. II is white powder, and
finally gravtates. When the fashlight
powder lin this case magnesium Is ig-
nited. il becomes magnesium oxide, and is
heavier"
The photographer subsidized.
/ Here i'm the basement, besides the test
ing machines. We're concrete mixers, such
as are used by builders and road makers.
moulds in which everything in the way
Of cement is made by students, from an
inch-square brick to the largest size steel
reinforced beam
Just before visiting the only laboratory
of its kind in the word-the Motor Vehi-
( Giles Laboratory-a huge block of concrete,
weighing 100 pounds, is placed in one of
\ Ia boil
under a pressure Of 10000 pounds.
I Here in the new building is housed the
largest collection of steam, gasolene and
various oil engines of every type, incluG-
/ ing the latest model turbines for expert
mental work, in the city. And the group
of dynamos and motors is equally inn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-16
She Ma1,7 zs,kz,sg Azate-yaAs AHSsa<0s-z
In the Testing Materials Laboratory in the Hewitt Memo
rial Annex to Cooper Union the Metals and Concrete
Used in Making Skyscrapers, Bridges ETC., Are
Not Only Rended and Crushed by Powerful
Mechansms, but Are Also Subjected in
This Process to Microscopic Scrutiny.

, through a portal with wirc-enforcci
glass panel. lettered after the fashion Of
"A lawyers office door and bearing the
legend. Testing Materials Laboratory"
! y strange inciosure il was-two stories
/ i'm height. with pulleys and shafting ana
: betting forming network overhead and
/ monsters Of machines more delicate than
! watches in their mocha niSm. yet showing
their massive strength IN every line. on the
floor. Students e. shirt sleeves or sweat
crs and some with coats were experiment d.
ing at the machines under the direction
of professors CARRIED in long linen busters
like an artists oyeralls
And this was the main laboratory Of
the new science whose leaders from all
over the world held an international con-
Sress here last September and debated as
TO whether there exists difference be
tween hardness and ultimate strength and
similar topics.
Here the microscope. which opened
new field in medicine is used to show the
microscopic crystals i'm iron and steel that
differ in size and quality and vary ac-
cordng to the surrounding temperature
ana the mccndnlCdl treatment Oh tHe fil'tdl
in manufacture. Here the student with
the aid Of the same instrument. can de-
toct the flaws in stones that have lain
buried millions of years and discover de
fects not visible to the naked eve and that
began to form when the stones were ex-
posed To the air Of newer world. Here,
too. with the microscope the student can
study the elasticity of steel. iron and
other metals and materials used in the
making Of the modern skyscrapcr and
other feats-the last word in structural
engineering.
In one of-these giant machines n length
of steel shafting two inches in diameter
is being slowly torn apart Professor Guy
t. Current is in control of the machine
and Professor Fred +. Foss. with eye
glued to the eXtensOmetCy. microscopic
contrivance that measures the elasticity
Of the steel, is calling out the results of
his observations to group OF students.
So delicate is this eXtcnsometer that it is
capable of detecting variation in the
stretching of metal of one-fiftieth thou
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-16

And perhaps. having this in mind. Pro-
fessor Foss went on TO further enlighten
his layman interrogator:
''Torsion is leverage. You know that
man who can exert a given strength with
the Use OF a ten-inch lever can double
the strength by using lever twice as
| long, and so on"
And so there it is, plain as hair on
your head-if you're not bald. In whicn
event please coin a more suitable ana
less trite comparison.
Next we Journey 10 the regions below,
where the greatest Titan of all is rumo-
ling, slowly adding hundreds OF pounds
of weight with each rumble 10 steel
reinforced concrete beam, ten feet long
and six by nine inches thick. A group OF
students Is studying the power or de-
struction as 1t is being exerted by the
machine. which rises eight feet above the
floor. stretching almost across the entire
width of the laboratory and reaching
nineteen feet below the floor making a
total height of twenty-seven feet.
The telephone is part OF the intricate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-16
BUREAU OF ENGRAVING.

The Third Assistant Postmaster General
refers the reauisition to Joseph f. Ralph.
director of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing. and the machinery is put I'm mo-
ton The orders are made on large
blank showing the different kinds and
number of stamps wanted and their value.
These orders are turned over to the
STAMP division OF the bureau, and score
OF young women begin to make up the
packages. which are finally sealed by six
men, working side by side.
All the employees filing the stamp orders
are in a large cage and close check is
maintained on their work. The stamps
are taken from a huge vault. which US
ualy contains several billion stamps OF
ali denominations. and arranged for wrap
ping by a force of women. A package Is
made up and partially bound by one OF
the force, who puts her signature on the
wrapper, and ii is then sealed by one OF
the six men, who puts a registry number
on il.
by a system of having each employe
practically check against the other II Is
almost impossible to have any thefts." de-
clared Frank +. Ferguson, assistant d.
rector of the bureau, recently. 1T would
be necessary for nearly the whole division
to be In "A conspiracy in order to make
ossible the theft of a single stamp. Each
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pressiye, there being forty Of them.
After the chief attractions OF the new
Hewitt Building were seen, the Women's
Art School in the old building across
the street was visited. Two classes were
in progress. one in modelling and the
other in portrait painting. In the latter,
score OF young women were at their
easels, painting a young German with
blond hair and Kaiser Wilhelm mus
taches.
All the courses at Cooper Union are free.
In its fifty years OF existence l42,l5s stu
dents have been enrolled. The evening
courses include a fve-year course in gen.
eral science. fve-year course in chem
istry, a four-year course In electrical en-
gineering and courses of shorter length
in mechanical, architectural and freehand
drawing, decorative design and clay
modelling. The Day Technical School,
which has been maintained since 1900 EN-
braces instruction in mathematics, science
and technology and affords training in
civil, mechanical and electrical engineer
Ing. Then. too. there are day courses In
stenography and telegraphy.