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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
STATUS OF THE
AMATEUR FIXED
Athletic Research Committee
Makes Three Amend
mentS to Rules.

AN amateur athlete is one who
participates in competitive physician
sports only for the pleasure and the
physical. mental, moral and social
benefits derived directly therefrom. %
Such is the definition of an amateur
as adopted by the committee of the
Athletic Research society. of which
John Brown, Jr.. of New York. is
chairman. This committee, which
was appointed in 1911, framed its re-
port yesterday at a meeting at the
Hotel La Sale after three years of
research"
In differentiating between an anna
teur and professional. the committee
adopted three amendments to show
how an athlete becomes a professional.
They are as follows:
Teaching or coaching professional
athletes for pay
Competing under salary or for a fee.
Competing for cash prize or for a
stake bet
The ncncompeting athlete who new
er was declared an out and-out profes-
sional is defined as follows by the
"a noncompeting anna
teur athlete is one who has maintained
bis standing as an amateur in all 9th
respects except that he has been
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
AURORA GIRL is REFUGEE
Mrs. Fritz Ioeffler Writes of Fiiqht
From Moscow to Heidelbura.

Aurora, Ill, Dec. ga story of a
forced fight from Moscow TO Sweden
and then TO Heidelburg. Germany, a
few days before the birth Of her baby
girl is told in letter received by DR..
Catherine Slater from Mrs. Fritz Loef-
fer. formerly Miss Gussie Settler OF
Aurora.
Mr.. Loeffler was a wealthy paper
manufacturer in Moscow. At the be
ginning OF the war he was taken pris-
oner as a German citizen and she be
lieves was sent TO Siberia
Mrs. Loenler wrote Of her fight 10
Sewden and OF her attempt to sail To
the United States. but she could not
pay passage. 4 German consul. how
ever. sent her TO her husbands reIa- |
tives in Heidelburg. {
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
Kid Williams.

Baltimore. Md, Dec. 29-Consid-
ering his great work in the ring and
since winning the bantamweight
championship. Kid Williams has made
remarkably few friends. II is hard to
account for this. According TO all
precedent, the Baltimore viking
should have the fistic world at his
feet. for he is the only champion who
is doing any real fighting worth men
tioning.
In the ring Williams takes all sorts
OF chances. He has more fighting alb
nity TO the square inch than any 9th
er boxer OF today of any degree or
class. When he jumps through the
ropes lie seems TO forget that he has
title 20 lose. Instead of playing safe
his one object IS to land a crusher
with the very least delay possible.
And the number Of times he succeeds
Is really remarkable when IT is con
sidered that he is a member OF the
liEhtest class.
As a rule the percentage OF knock
outs varies according TO the size OF
the men engaged. The heavyweights
Of course. lead on account Of their
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
Eormer Net champIon Dies.

Elizabeth, y. J.. Dec. 29-Leonard
z. Ware. New York broker and form
er tennis champion, died of pneumon-
ia yesterday after an illness OF less
than a week. While an undergradu-
ate at Harvard in 1895. Ware won the
national doubles championship with
G. =. Sheldon Jr.. the intercollegiate
doubles championship with NJ. d.
Whitman. and the intercollegiate
singles championship. He had been
one OF the intercollegiate doubles
champions for two years before that
date and one OF the national doubles
champions in 1897. He was born I'm
Roxbury. Mass. IN 1876. widow and
three children survive him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
PITTFEDS KEEP PERRITT
BY RAISING HIS SALARY

st. Louis, Mo, Dec. 29.-"Polly" Per
rift will remain with the Pittsburgh
Federal league club, but he will get a
good boost in salary for doing so. A
statement by close friend of Permits
explains the mystery of Saturdays
kidnapping" trip to Chicago.
"Perritt received a fattering offer
from the Cardinals Saturday" said
his friend yesterday HE took the
offer to Cakes, and Cakes agreed to
meet it. Cakes told Perritt he would
have to go to Chicago with him and
there he would have the assurance OF
the head of the league that he would
get the money"
Miller Higgins has given up the
fight for Perritt Il will not make an
other attempt to secure Perritt, he
said Il need him, but I'm not going
to meet the ante if the Feds raise 1t.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
NEWS OF THE SPORTING WORLD

engaged for pay as an instructor in
amateur athletics"
Coaches in colleges, high schools,
and clubs and instructors in Y. NJ C..
AS, Fairgrounds, and other institu-
tions come under this head. 1t was
agreed these men may be reinstated
to full amateur standing when they
give up their remunerative positions
IL the committee of control deems this
action best for the individual and for
amateur sport. Other breaches of
technical amateurism may be dealt
with leniently, but any athlete who
coaches professionals or completes for
salary, Fee cash prize, or stake will be
barred forever from amateur ranks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
MARCUS CATION
PROVES SURPRISE
Young Rock Island Billiardist
Able to Cope With the
Best of Them.

Chicago, Dec. 29.-At the time Ora
Morningstar was compelled to resign
from the Champion Billiard Players
league on account of the illness of his
wife, the billiard fans all over the
country commenced to discuss the
possibilities of the 20-year-old Rock
Island youth, Marcus Cation, who at
that time was utility man for the
league. The Rock Island youngster
was teamed with Koji Yamada the
first week and to the surprise of all
defeated the Jap four out of six con-
tests that were bitterly fought as the
scores of those games showed.
He is upholding his fathers reputa-
ton by winning games when he has
been hopelessly beaten, by making
hair-raising finishes and
defeating his opponents by small mar
gins.
He began playing at the age of 10
in Rock Island where his father own
ed a billiard parlor and under the
careful tuition of his father he devel-
oped into one of the most promising
players of championship calibre.
Cation was born in Paris, France,
at which time his father was playing
in one of the large academies with
Frank Ives and Jake Schaefer. Five
years later his father returned to
America and located in Rock Island,
and opened a large billiard academy
where his son, Marcus, learned the
game.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

The greatest comeback in the his
tory of baseball has told how he &C
complished the seemingly impossible.
Fred P (Cy) Falkenburg, who was
sent from the Cleveland Maps to the
Toledo club of the American associa-
ton in 1911 as a baseball has-been,
gives his recipe for recovering pitch
ing ability for the benefit of others in
the national pastime who seem to
have reached the end of their useful
ness in the big leagues.
Cy's recipe must be a good one, for
it is the one he followed in coming
back from the minors to fast company
and making a record as the second
best hurler in the game this year.
The plan is simple one.
Two winters of stuffing curled hair
into automobile cushions, plenty of
bowling during the cold months and
careful attention to my physical con-
dition were the means of my coming
back said the elongated twirler in a
recent interview. Sounds simple
doesn't it? And it is
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

superior Drawn and the great weight
behind their wallops. In the other
classes the proportion of knock-outs
becomes smaller as the weight de
creases. Yet Williams, the bantam
can point TO as many decisive victor
les as any first-class man of the heav-
Ter divisions
II Williams were merely a crude
slugger. his reckless way of gisking
his title would be less worthy of
note. But he is a clever boxer when
he cares to play the game that way.
He proved thas when he out-bOxed
Johnny Coulon in that ten-round bout
at Madison Square garden. Terry Nc
Govern. Battling Nelson. Ad Wolgast
and others of that type. who are con
stantly referred 10 as ideal champions,
were hard fighters. but they knew no
other way of milling Had they been
adopts at the hit-and-get away style
they might not have been so willing
to make a fight of all their bouts
Williams. having two courses to
choose from, deserves all the more
credit
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
NERVOUS
DRINKING MEN
Find immediate Relief In the Neal
Treatment.

The Neal Treatment is compounded
from purely vegetable drugs. IL is
taken internally-no painful. danger
Gus hyDOdermic injections ever being
given-and acts in a natural way TO
neutralize and eliminate the alcoholic
poison from the system.
II IS the most successful Drink Habit
Treatment ever prescribed for the re-
lief Of the Inebriate because IL strikes
al the root Of the Drinkers trOubIs
and removes the cause OF the craving
for liquor. II will entirely free you
from the necessity or craving for drink
In only Three Days Time and il posi-
lively leaves no bad after effects.
Pull confidential information sent IN
pain, sealed envelope upon request.
CAL, write or phone the Neal Institute
al Fsrnun street. Davenport, Iowa.
Phone 2ss9.-(Adv.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
BALL PLANT At
BOSTON BIGGEST
New Home of the Braves VII
Seat More Than 49,.
600 People.
MOST COSTLY YET BUILT
Playing Grounds Will Be IS F..tp.
low the Level of the Street.
No Sun Field.

Boston, Dec. 29.-The new ground.
Of the Boston National league base.
ball CLUB In Allston will be the iargas,
in the country in size and seating =.
pacity and will cost more than an
baseball plant yet constructed. prs.;
dent James E. Gaffney said after
discussion of the plans by the board q,
directors yesterday.
Forty thousand, two hundred and
eighty-two seats will be provided bo
said. OF these 1881 will be in a ono.
story grand stand so constructed thar
a second deck may be added later.
1905 will be built in bleachers back
of first and third bases, admission m
which will be so cents, and 1896 seats
will be provided to the right of center.
field for the 25-cent patrons.
Centerfeld limits will be 400 feet
from the home plate and 460 feet from
the grand stand.
There will be virtually no "sun
field" The grounds will be laid ont
to face the northeast, so that the glare
of the sun will not be strong in any
Of the outfield positions.
Below Street Level,
The playing field is to be sunk Is
feet below street level, after the fash.
ion of the Yale Bowl"
President Gaffney announced that
the Walpole street grounds, the home
of the National league club for nearly
half a century, have been sold to a
trust company. The work of disman-
Ting the property already has begun.
No action was taken on selecting
the players to be given to the PhiIadel-
phia Nationals in exchange for Sher-
wood Magee. President Gaffney said
he would discuss this with Manager
at the latter's plantation in
Georgia next Sunday
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
Shaded area shows precipitation
WEATHER CONDITIONS,

The western area of low pressure
has moved with increasing intensity
to western Illinois and snow or rain is
falling from the Mississippi and lower
Missouri valleys TO the Atlantic coast
This disturbance is being followed by
an area of low pressure and cold
wave, the crest of which is over North
Dakota Temperatures below zero pre-
vail from Saskatchewan and Manitoba
southwark to northeastern South Da-
kota. with the lowest at a m at Win
nipeg. where the reading was is de-
;rees below zero. An area of relative
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
WATERLOO KNOWS
ROCK ISLAND CASE
Not Unmindful of It's Gratitude
to This City and for Gaining
Tearney's Enmity.

This city is with Rock Island in its
fight against Al Tearney, first, last
and all the time" declared well
known baseball fan of Waterloo re-
Gently. to a representative of The Ar
gus who happened to be in the Iowa
town for a day. I'VE know his calibre
and We want TO see you VIA out for we
know the persecution Rock Island has
suffered al Tearney's hands because it
fearlessly stood by Waterloo.
The fact was recalled that Rock Is
land gained the displeasure and enmity
of President Tearney by its friendly
attitude toward Waterloo, when an at
tempt was being made TO GUST the
Iowa city from the Three-Eye league.
In order to punish that city for what
he regarded its characterization, Tear
ney lost no opportunity to vent his
spleen upon Rock Island and has con-
tinued his despicable tactics up to
the present time, although the fran
chise in the league was surrendered
three years ago.
we cannot forget your loyalty at
the time Waterloo was in need of a
friend" he continued, ''and we would
be glad to reciprocate by using our
good offices in landing Rock Island
berth in the Central association, which |
| believe could be easily obtained. !
Rock Island is too good a town to be- |
without organized baseball and | be- |
lieve the fans of your city would be |
better satisfied with the great national !
game as it is played in the Central |
han with a team in a league, repug-
lant with Tearneyism."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
JOHNSON WILL DECLINE
DRAFT FROM WEEGHMAN

Cofeyville. Kas.. Dec. 29.-Walter
Johnson has not received the $4,000
which dispatches last Saturday said
President Weeghman OF the Chicago
Federals was returning TO him. The
money was returned 10 the Chicago
club by Johnson TO pay back a bonus
advanced for signing a contract with
the Federals. Johnson said that even
If the money came he would not &C
cept il until after he had the advice of
Manager Griffith OF the Washington
club.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
CLUB TEAM WINS
POSTPONED CAME
G. g. S. Five Drop Two When
Tailenders Establish New
Five Men Record.
COMMERCIAL LEAGUE STANDING

The Rock Island club team gained
a lap in the battle for third place in
the Commercial Bowling league last
evening when it grabbed two games
from the Clemann & Salzmann five
at the club alleys. The winners also
established a new team record for
three games by rolling 1904. The
former record of 1857 was held by
the Rock Island Pillow company team.
McKahin led the attack with nice
count of SIS. getting 1913, 161 and 221.
Art Harms Joined club team, getting
222 in his final game. Hampton was
second with SAL.
The games rolled last night were
postponed from last Wednesday. The
scores:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
JACKS GRAVE NOT PICKED
curley Says Site for Johnson-WiIlard
Bout Is Unsolicited.

Fl Paso. Texas. Dec 29-Jack Cur
ley. promoter Of the Jack Johnson
Jess Willard heavyweight boxing
contest yesterday said the date and
place for the bout had not yet been
selected. He denied a report that the
fight had been set for Juarez. Mexico.
March Il. although he said the Mex
lean border town might be selected.
He thought the date probably would
be March or 6.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

outclassed Buck Timothy of Daven-
port. the Iowa lad being forced 20 quit
at the end of the second round. being
unable 20 rise from his chair. The
bell. saved the Iowa lad IN the second
round. Evers was able 10 get in a
blow whenever he pleased. while Tim
othy was unable 10 pat over one clean
punch.
Is Jack Leon.
The identity Of Jack Stone. who
came here as an unknown and evident
~ under q nom de plume. has been set
He'd. He IS none other than Jack Leon.
the Russian grappler, who IS well
known in the mat game over America
and Europe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
Stockholders Meeting

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Rock Island National
Bank of Rock Island, ILL.,, will be held
at their banking house on Tuesday,
Jan IL, 1915. at $3.50 o'clock p. m, for
the election of directors and the trans
action of such other business as may
properly come before them.
H. E. CASTEEL,
President.
H B. SIMMON,
Cashier.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
.01 inch or more.

ly low pressure which is over British
Columbia has caused precipitation on
the north Pacific coast and in the
northern Rocky mountain sections
The eastward movement of the Illinois
low and the North Dakota high will be
attended by generally fair weather in
this vicinity tonight aid Wednesday,
with a cold wave tonight
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
OLD MISSION BEER
EQUAL to the Best Imported.

EUUdI 70 TIC DCSI TIIIPOT SoOs
Have you tasted Old Mission beer?
Equal to the best imported and rec
commended by physicians.
CAdvD ROCK ISLAND BREWING co.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

(Adv.)
The Washington times., 1914-09-28
Realty Transfers

l'4O Lewis street northeast-Susie Brawner
to W. Walter Edwards. lot So, square 4OI6
cRosedale X Isherwood), so.
Congress Heights ENtensiph-William 4.
Redmond trustee. TO Alexander kanuioN iCh.
lots G. and rs. square 599i S67J
Foxall Heights-FoSal Heights Company
TO Maria ". Duvall. lot 10 and north half
of lot =. square 1854. $40.
4S4 Kentucky avenue southeast-Myra l..
Spencer to Mary $. Ainslie, lot g., square
1862, SO
'7O7. e7Oo. g713 and 27l5 Dumbarton avenue
northwest-Marv A. Mcpherson. trustee. to
Michael F. O'Connor. part lots ~. So 81,
and 132. square 1899. SO
4S1 TO 44J Ridge street northwest-Kate
Stone to Linda L. Tschieffely. one-third
interest LOT &c, square SIS. SO
Peters Mil Seat-Elisha NJ. Vale to Thomas
R. and Ruby r. Vale. trustees, lots So and
4. square 1851, IS.
los Fifth street northeast-Robert L. Ewing
TO Richland Forage Company lot 2s
square SIS. SO; Richland Forage Company
to Robert L. Ewing. lot 2s. square SIS. $40
l226 Eighth street northwest-Etta Norman
to Francis A. Norman. part lot 81, square
400 SO
The Washington times., 1914-09-28
Prizes to Children Boost
Cotton Week Movement

Miss Callie Hoke Smith. daughter Of
Senator Hoke Smith. Of Georgia, one
of the leaders in the nationwide sale
of cotton goods week. today offered
through the National Cotton Fashions
Show. a first prize of $50 in gold. sec
ond prize of so in gold. and third prize
Of s. in gold to the three American
school children under sixteen who write
the best three hundred word essays on
The Cotton Plant and It's Uses"
All American school children are
eligible to compete. the only conditions
being that the essays be written and
mailed during the week OF the nation
wide cotton sale. October 5-12 The chill
dren competing must write the name Of
their school on the essays and send
their essays in in their own handwrtt-
ing.
The awards will be made by a COM
mittee of distinguished judges. All es-
says should be mailed to the Cotton
Essay Competition, 1926 n street north
west. Washington. d. c. Children OF
both public and private schools are
eligible from every State in the Union.
1t is hoped by the means Of this COM
petition that the varied uses of cotton
the great American staple, will be bet
ter known
The Washington times., 1914-09-28
'BLACKLSTS' SECOND
= GROUP OF BANKS
Treasury Department Reports
on Institution Accused of
Hoarding Reserves.

Treasury DEPARTMENT officials today
completed a second black list OF
banks accused Cf boarding reserves
and charging excessive interest rates.
The list will be referred to Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo and Comptrol-
Ter Williams. but whether it will be
made public has not been decided.
Secretary McAdoo. in continuing his
crusade against offending banks. has
made public a circular letter issued by
the president CT 4 State bank in the
South to chain of other State banks
Under his control. The name Of the
banker was withheld but 1t was stated
at the Treasury that the bank in lues-
tion is not in the District, Maryland, or
Vii ginia.
In the letter. banks in this chain
were ordered to shut down absolutely
on any more loans, collect notes falling
due. and not to renew any present
notes"
Nothing could be more reprehensible
than the conduct of this bank" Secre-
targ McAdoo said: A similar policy
pursued by all the banks in the United
States would produce untold suffering
and disaster"
One telegram made public today was
from W. f. Hanson. State bank exami-
ner OF the State of Washington, who
said
"lcu are absolutely correct in your
position, and may depend on this de-
partment for all assistance we can rem
der. Please advise us how best to Dro-
ceed to do the most good"
The Washington times., 1914-09-28
AWARDING PRIZES
IN LAWN CONTEST
Rhode Island Avenue Citizens to
Have Open Meeting Wed.
nesday Night.

The Rhode Island Avenue Suburban
Citizens Association will make its
sixth annual awrd in the lawn and
garden contest. on Wednesday night.
at Sherwood Presbyterian Church.
Twenty-second and jackson streets
northeast. The meeting will be open
to the public.
The judges. Colonel Chester A. Hard
Ing, engineer commissioner, and Fur
man L. milford. landscape architect,
Of the Department Of Agriculture, have
turned over to the association their re-
port.
Announcement Of the winners will be
made at the meeting next Wednesday
evening, and certificates of award be-
slowed on those who have won first,
second, and third places in the various
classes. These classes consist of COM
petition for the complete grounds :;
another one for lawns; another for veg
etable and flower gardens, and a special
class for business places.
There will be some entertainment
features. including selections by a male
quartet. consisting of c. Risdon Allen,
G; r: Engel. Paul d. Cooke, and w.
Hanft
The committee in charge consists of
j. l. Rnopp, j. L. Kause, d. d. Lore
J. b. La Grange, c. S. lockwood. c. F.
Fcrrell, c. r. Allen, and Bristow Adams
The Washington times., 1914-09-28
"Past Masters Night"
At Pentalpha Lodge

The annual past masters night" OF
Pentalpha Lodge. No. %. F. A A. NJ.
will be observed at Masonic Temple to-
night, when a degree team composed
of past masters of that lodge will con-
fer the Master Mason's degree on sew
eral candidates. Among those par
ticipating will be Past Masters w. w
Jermaine. c. P. Boss. William J. Nay
lor. Horace s. Naylor. D. Fulton Har-
ris. Paul Schureman. Harry NJ Luckett
Isaac b. Field, John NJ Anderson
George A. Tauberschmidt. William A.
Kimmel. Samuel A. HoIlingshead, Will
fred NJ. Barton. Arthur A Birney
Jerome B. Burke. William J. Wallace,
and others.
Worshipful Master John c. Gordon
announces that this communication of
Pentalpha Lodge is called specially at
o'clock in order that the degree
work will be concluded, in time to per-
nit the members to .partake of dinner In
the banquet hall.
The Washington times., 1914-09-28
Claflin Gives Property
To Settle With Creditors

NEW YORK. Sept. 2s.-John Clahin.
head of the H. B. Claiin Company, is
eliminated from any participation in the
reorganization Of that company. and
has turned over to the creditors all his
personal assets. including not only his
bank stock and holdings in dry goods
corporations, but his home at Norris
town. y. j., and his summer home in
the Adirondacks.
The creditors will receive Is per cent
in cash and So per cent In three year
collateral notes.
The Washington times., 1914-09-28
Surprised to Find Fire
Loss Is Fully Insured

Officials of the American Ice Com
rany. in going over their insurance pa
pers today. Were surprised to find that
the damagesdone by fire early yester-
day which destroyed the STABLES of the
plant at Fifteenth and f streets north
east and burned sixteen horses to death.
vas fully covered by insurance. Up
until this morning the ice company of
GcIals did not suppose there was any
Insurance on the tuilding or horses.
Fire Marshal Nicholson said today
that he placed the loss at SO ga The
marshal believes the blaze was caused
by some one smoking in the summer
stalls adjoining the main stable. 1t
Vas in these stalls that the fire origin
ated, Nicholson said.