The Alaska citizen., 1914-11-09
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These two athletes stars last year were the roperty of the Boston National league club. Camp bell didn't play in 1913. having quit the national pastime in huff the season previous. but he still be longed to the Braves and at the beginning of this season he was i'm portuned by George Stallings, the Braves manager. to join the club.
 Rariden, though, caught the ma jority of Boston's games and was ranked as one of the Classiest re- ceivers in the National league. Dur ing last winter Federal league agents whispered offers into the ears of both Campbell and Rariden. The athletes listened and began to fall as the Fed agent named sums much in excess of the salaries they were receiving at Boston.
 Now Boston last season was a down and outer with no show of getting into the worlds series money And the prospects for 1914 were not much brighter at the time the new leagues agents were after Rari- den and Campbell And so it was not strange that Rariden and Camp bell should jump to the outlaw cir cult with a chance to make more money.
 But, now, with the Boston Braves the victors, it's a different thing much different Rariden and Camp bell groan every time they think of their mistake.
 Bidding Auction Whist.
 The average player of auction whist is not a successful bidder be- cause he has no system of declaring, says E. J. Tobin in the Chicago Herald.
 While it is not absolutely neces- yet the best results are only ob- tained by those who use one.
 If player will use common sense in making declaration his partner, by using equal intelligence, can de- termine the strength of the hand and can make his own declaration so that the best results may be ob- tained from the combined hands.
 The writer has advocated a sys- tenn that is based on the mathemati- cal possibilities of the twenty-siX cards of self and partner that must be successful in a number of hands where the strength averages up even ly.
 Take given number of hands, say 100. and you will find they will average to contain three tricks and 2 fraction. This means that if the hand you hold contains the average number of tricks or three and one quarter. the three others will contain nine and three-quarters.. Your part ner's hand should contain one-third of this or three and one-third tricks, consequently the combined hands Of self and partner contain six and one half tricks.
 Now, with only six and one-half tricks in both hands declaration of one would not be successful, so that. unless the hand contains more than three and onethird tricks, a bid of one spade should be the only declaration If, however the hand contains four tricks, your declaration should be to take one odd trick for this reason:
 If your hand contains four tricks, and your partners contains one-th1rd of the nine tricks in the other three hands, the combined strength of the two hands is seven tricks. If your hand contains five and one-half tricks, partners contains one third of seven and one-half, or two and one-half The combined strength being eight tricks and the opening declaration should be to take two odds.
 keene's Greatest Horses.
 Of all the great horses that he owned MT. keenes affection was divided between Domino and Syson- by. He always ranked Domino high CT than he was ranked by other ex- cellent judges of horse flesh. Dom- ino was wonderful sprinter, a wonderful miller, but he could not carry his speed over distance of ground. MT. keene never would ad- init this Sysonby was the highest type of race horse America ever has known His physical conforma-
 
 capacity, powerful limbs, remarkable driving power and the courage of bulldog MT Keene would gladly have given half a million dollars if he could have wiped out the one blot on the fame of Sysonby-the dead heat with that skate called Race King.
 MT. Keene gave closer attention to the affairs of his race horses than to his operations in Wall street. He wanted each and every one of his horses to display the very best that was in him during his career on the turf Jimmie Rowe, who trained for Keene, had to report twice a day as to the amount and kind of food each horse ate MT Keene decided as to the engagements of each and every horse, and some very fine and ticklish questions would arise at times as to whether it would be exact justice to a horse to start him in this race or that. In all his long career on the turf MT. Kaene had only two seasons in which he made a profit. Any year he did not run $100,000 behind in the manage ment of his stud farm and his racing stable he considered he was doing we'll His two great winning years were in the two-year-old form of Domino and in the three-year-old form of Sysonby. These statements were made by MT. Keene to the writer