davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
ARMY-NAVY ATHLETES
TOHUSTLE ON TRACK

year before representing the institution,
and that their work must be up to snuff
to allow them to participate in sports.
Every week reports are sent in, and II
the athlete falls below passing he is
taken of the team until he makes good.
John Clancy's Army and Navy bas-
Eetball team is by no means out OF
the race, according to the coach. "Busi-
ness may have fine team. but We are
b. no means counted out OF the run
nIng," says Clancy. II have a young
ster named Een coming along who is
lighting hard for Il place, ana as soon
as we are in q bit better shape we
will make things hustle" The team is
playing Cathedral first and second
teams tomorrow, and will hook mp with
Woodberry Forest on Saturday.
Eastern and Cathedral are meeting
on Friday in the scholastic champion
ship basketball battle. The Light Blue
and white is one game in. Cathedral
dropped contest TO Arny-Navy by
? points. Followers of the games look
Tor 1 win for Cathedral.
FaTnsworth. Of Eastern, is being
picked to represent the school in cen
ter against CathedrHl's tail youth. Wal
ter Holmes, in the coming battle Botn
youngsters are tall and slight OF build
and good jumpers.
Joe Wise set 4 record for the school
boys in the game against Western. The
Business center made seven baskets
against Western. His height enabled
him to score baskets after free tosses
had been missed. The youngster is well
over six feet and weighed in At 1872
pounds after the contest
1t develops that Walter Holmes. Ca
thcdraHs lanky center. never played
basketball before this season. The lac
comes from the West and has been
coached by up George Green.
Tech is holding weekly track meets
in developing the team for the games
this year. 1t is not unlikely that Bradley
Gish will send his athletes to Richmond
ana Johns. Hopkins for the indoor
meets.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
CAROLINA A. AND NJ.
GIVES v. VA. DATE
Place on Schedule During Fair
Week Accepted by Morgan
town Eleven.

MORGANTOWN. W. Va, Jan. 20
West Virginia University will meet the
Carolina A. and NJ. University at Ra-
leigh. y. G. next fall during fair week
in October. the athletic officials having
formally accepted the offer from the
Carolina A and NJ. authorities.
Carolina A and NJ. offers $1,000 or 81
per cent of the gross receipts ard the
offer coming as a surprise is the largest
yet offered the team. West Virginia
came into prominence last fall by de-
feating Georgetown University, which
had been beaten by Carolina a. and NJ.
The date accepted is the one occupied
70. the past two seasons by Georgetown
on the A and NJ schedule and the team
is highly pleased at the offer. West
Virginia Is to play Wesleyan, Washing
ton and Lee. at Charleston, Washing
ton and Jefferson, Marietta and North
Carolina y. and NJ.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
RACES WAX CLOSE
IN MANY LEAGUES

and Washington Abattoirs would both
like to bask at the head OF the league.
for a short space, at least.
Two teams are at controversy In the
Marine Corps League as to which is
really most deserving to flourish the
pennant. Canacaos and Olongaps are
both boasting of percentage OF $50. the
result Of winning sixteen and losing
fourteen games. Olongapos are sehed-
Uled TO roll on Tuesday night and every
nerve will be brought into play in order
TO take all three games from the Su-
Digs. This will give the former the
lead for forty-eisht hours, at least. and
In the meantime the Olangapos win be
pulling for the Cavities to win from the
Canaeaos on Thursday evening.
A similar predicament exists in the
Westminster as that in the Northeast
Leagues. The leaders to date, Blues
nave three games advantage on the
trailing quint, the Whites, and should
Inc former fall down in any Of its sets
whlle the Whites won all three game
IN IN any one match, a locked conditions
IN standings would be created.
Two open dates exist this week in the
National Capital League. Tonight and
tomorrow night have been left vacant,
on the schedule. and no games win be
rolled. A business meeting Of the board
OF directors may be called on either OF
lne TWO evenings.
The crack Sherwood quint, Of the Ar
cade League, are topping that circuit BY
four and one-half games, having won
thirty games and dropped twelve. The
Bankers are next in line, with twenty
seven games marked in the winning side
and eighteen in the losing column. Ma
tionals are next in line, with the Bol-
meads and Arcadians pushing them for
third honors-
Mann, the anchor man for the Bank
ers quint. Is topping the individual
averages with figures OF 1871. having a
slx-pin lead over Stanford, OF the Sher-
wood quint.
The General superintendent office
qunt is topping the bowlers IN the
| Pepco League, having a twO-game lead
over the StOreroom five The Super-
! intendent's Office crew have won
eighteen games and lost three,
while the trailing Storsroom quint
have sixteen games marked up in the
won column and five In the losing.
Captain Whites Bookkeepers' team
are running in third position, having
landed fifteen games and dropped six
1 by the crack Underground five, which
! has won thirteen contests and Iost
eleven.
Logan, of the General Superfnten-
dents Office quint. is on the top OF
| the heap in the individual averages
| list, having a mark OF eight fiat for
| twenty-one games. Crockett, Of the
same team, has the same individual
mark, but the top position is given to
! Logan because he has a five-pin lead
in total pins.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
Brown Schedule Out.

PROVIDENCE, K. 1. Jan. 26.-FOr the
i"st time in many years Penn will not
be On the Brown schedule. Four new
teams will be seen on the football dates
winch follow: September u, Norwich
1t 9rt violence: October ). Rhode Island
State at Providence: October 10, Am
herst at Providence: October l.. Wcs-
iCyan at Providence: October u. Cornell
at Polo ground, New York city: October
81. Vermont at Providence: November !,
Yale at New tIavcn: November "A. Har-
ward at Cambridge; November ., Car
lislc Il Providence
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
Old John Bull Expects to Cut
Down the Tall Fellows
Length Somewhat.
By GRANTLAND RICE

Making the eagle scream, waving the
Stars and Stripes. and giving three
iusty cheers for the old Red, White, and
Blue is all well enough. But in so fal
Is the spiral dome is concerned the L.
s. OF a. has a fairly husky year cut
out, with plenty Of work ahead before
another cleanup is established such as
that of 1913.
As a matter of opinion, Great Britain
mas the stuff ahead this season to fur
nish at least an even fight. And ii
would be no terrible snock is England
or one of her colonies even obtained the
adse.
between England and Australia or
australasia, as the case might be, the
american tennis team IS up against
rugged opposition either way. Aus
lrana is preparing to enter her great
est output OF talent in Wilding, Brookes
and Dunlop or Doust. Wllding and
Brookes are two of the hardest match
layers in tho world to handle. What
Jhey may lack in youth and smash
they more than make up in experience
aud craft. This will be most formid-
able team.
England is also lining up a stout
cooking array headed by the wonderful
l'arkes, who is ranked Dy many as the
sTcatest tennis player in the world he
hCat both Mclaughlin and Williams
iast summer, and earlier in the year
upset the redoutable Winding twice. A
contender who in one sea can head Cfi
Wilding. Mclaughlin ana Williams in
tournament play has 10 be reCkOned
with. One of the main advantages to
America is that England and Australia
must meet first, and so one strong con-
tender will be eliminated
Mclaughlin and Williams will surely
be two members of the team, witt
others in doubt The L. S. will presen
an even stronger front than last july
for Mclaughlin and Williams will no
be sent at sl6ch a killing clip TO reacl
the final round.
England was awarded the early edgt
in polo last spring, and the shock sh,
received is still fairly rife. The dop'
10 again in her favor, for while ther,
IS doubt about the strength Of tn
American team, due to the unceTtainL!
OF the Big FouT's return, there is n
doubt now that England will enter al
even stronger lineup than she showe'
last June. The best pick in England
is now heading for spain to get in tn
best possible shape and to have tn
outlay primed for the work ahead.
There is a strong hint abroad tha
america will again enter the sam
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
Gets No Fortune.

RENO. Nev. Jan. 26.-There will be
no fortune for ''Tubby'' Spencer, former
Boston and st. Louis American League
catcher, whose father is reported as
having left him large sum. Spen-
GERS brother says there is no truth in
the foEtune talk and that ''Tubby' is
working in a lumber camp in Cali
foTnia.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
Thirty Candidates Working Out
Daily Under Direction of
Coach Gray.
By BRYAN MORSE.

The Army and Navy Preparatory
School is calculating to make the other
high and prep schools hustle i'll track
this winter and spring following Il boom
meeting of the school at which it was
decided to get action on the track men.
As a result of the meeting some thirty
track candidates are working out daily
under the direction of Eugene Gray, the
former Yale distance man. 1t has been
planned to lay out an outdoor track, and
the Blue and White team gives promise
Of cutting Il wide swath among the
schoolbOy runners.
Bob Marsh is heading a promising
bunch of SpTintcrs. The Oklahoma young
ster has been ClOCked in 1872 for the
hundred. and gives promise "f coming
to the front. Ed Dove and 'Chet" HOat-
son will add considerable 10 the CHARGES
of landing prizes in the dashcS.
III the weights Big" Jones. who for
merly went To- Central High School, and
was a member OF the championship foot
bali team Two yeaTg ago, is doing well
over forty feet in the shot, while WTenne
Timberlalie and kit Carson are count =
ed upon to boost the shot and hammer
in the outdoor events.
A relay team will be picked from
Bob Marsh. Mickey" Clebornc. John
Hunter. Ed Dove, "Chct" Hoatsn:I. aud
John McCallum. all OF whoa are doing
well after a weeks work In the hiS
jump Jim Hunt and John Zerbe ar" COM
iHg up over five feet.
1t develops that eligibility rules at
Inc A1,,l -
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
UNCLE SAM FACES
STRENUOUS YEAR

wonderful four who nave cleaned up
for three seasonS. But there Is some
doubt as 10 whether more than two OF
these can return. and this will cost
something in team PLAY if not in other @
ways. There has been only one Big
-Four. and no matter how good the
, , ,,;s,srk InSy Es. ii will be some time
before they can reach the standard set
by Whitnrv's roll call. with the two
Waterburys and Mil5uTn on guard. So
in the advance dope the edge is GER
tainly not I'm Americas favor.
There is always a lot OF experience
! to be obtained in defeat, and England
by now should be well enough expert
enced in this way-and well prepared
for the work she has ahead.
This brings on another field where
America has battle to fight for an
even break. In the amateur section
of play there is only bare chance
that even two such golfers as Travers
and Ouimet can go abroad and COM
pete against the heavy handicap OF so
much home talent on guard. If or 10
of the best American amateurs should
go over there would be much better
show. but the odds against two are are
overwhelming. Even Nardon and RaX
couldn't hold up against such a handi-
cap.
In the professional wing England is
almost sure to win her own open
championship. and there is practical
certainty that she will again make a
bid for the American title. She Will
win at home. but it's better than an
even bet that she will again be re
pulsed on this side of the water. It's
a tough assignment for any two or
three people in golf to compete against
$50. where several may get going at
top speed over the test route. So in
golf, il should be close to an even
break. as il was last summer, al
though in justice to England II must !,t
be admitted as she had the edge in the
seasons play. Only two American
pros. qualified in the British open. and
neither finished among the first four.
whereas over here Nardon and Ray
tied for first place and were beaten
in the play
The yachting argument is beyond
US We haven't even Il brief guess
to launch as to whether the Eagle or
the Lion will arrive in front here.
But on polo, tennis, and golf the
fight should be a young wonder, fur
nishing the most interesting season
! the international smear has ever
drawn Each season now this Ameri-
can-England competition has picked
up interest until it has grown to be
, one of the big features OF each sport
! i've campaign. Despite the joshing
and spoofing we have slipped the
| British Isles they have made a good
close fight Of II in these three games.
| In Olympic work and in the prize
! ring there is another angle. Here
: England is a dozen laps behind. A
country that can boast of no better
! heavyweight than Bombadier Wells
doesn't slip very far into the competi-
tive argument Gunboat Smith may
! be no wonder, but he can stop Prof
! Wells with a broken hand.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT

Noxt game. Jan -%-W"St station -. Com
m, r, ial. BStributiOE IS. Installation
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
WHO'S WHO ON ALLEYS
John STANTON.

thoroushae rather well
probably reaches
evidence
Wav Athletic Club which INDUCES in most
hives
n
is
ing and nextt 20 that
The Washington times., 1914-01-26

1t develops that eligibility rules at
the Army and Navy rrcp school are
more strict than those in the l;Igh
schools Principal Swavclry insists Ihat
the boys must be III ScnUui TO- a half
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
SOUTHWESTERN.
FOREIGNERS LEAGUE,

STANDING.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26

Mclaughlin and Williams will surely
be two members of the team, with
others in doubt The L. s. will present
an even stronger front than last july,
for Mclaughlin and Williams will not
be sent at sEch a killing clip to reach
the final round.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
NAVY YARD.
DISTRICT.
STANDRC

STANDINGS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-19
KING GEORGE SIGNS
THE HOME RULE BILL
Announcement Greeted by
Cheers in Both Houses of
Parliament.
REDMOND CONGRATULATED
Will Crooks. Labor Leader,
Leads Demonstration in
House Of Commons.
REDMOND CONGRATULATED

IoSroS, sept. 1s.-king George to-
day signed the Irish home rule and
the Welsh discstablishment suspensory
bills thus putting them on the statute
book. The announcement was greeted
with cheers IN the House Of Lords and
IN the House OF Commons. The Nation
a.ists and Liberals in the House of
Commons Chcercd repeatedly.
VIII Crooks. the Labor leader. ied
the demonstration In the House of
Commons by asking II It was in order
to sing God Save The King" and by
starting the anthem without waiting
for permission. Tire members and tho
gallery took up the singing. Then. as
the members were leaving the Chamber,
Mr Crooks cried. God save Ireland
and John T.. Redmond. the Irish Ma
tlona,Ist leader, shouted God save Eng
land."
Groups of Liberals and Nationalist
gathered about MIR. Redmond in the lob
hies and congratulated him warmly.
Later in TIA" day he left for Ireland
To assist IN the recruiting campaign.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-19
BRITISH TAKE GERMANS
OFF SHIP ALMOST SAFE
Twcnty-cight Caught rs Dutch
Liner NearS Three Mile
I.imit-One Escapes.

TIE Royal Dutch West India stearr-
ship CommewiJne, in yesterday. took
aboard as passengers twenty-EiEc mem
bers Of the former crews OF Hamburg
american i!rera informed in ports Of
Colombia, ard il Is prohnble that the
British consu,a,os at the various ports
knew about il and that the British cruiser
squadron guarding the entrance of this
harbor was Instructed to look out for the
Dutch merchantmen. Capt. Dirk Haas
400; OF the Corumewijne decided that he
was going 20 get his passengers here II
he could and he kept his binoculars handy
for cruisers.
lie was congratulating himself on his
luck Yesterday morning, being within sight
of the Hook. when fog shut out all
horizons and he had TO toot his whistles
according to sea regulations applying 20
neutral craft.
II may be that the commander of the
british cruiser Lancaster heard the hoarse
blasts of the CONNIE Wine. Anyhow. when
the fog lifted about 10 80 o'clock yester-
day morning the first floating vision that
greeted Capt, Haasnoot was the Lancaster
with her guns frowning on the Connie
wine.
boat from the cruiser put or ana
officers boarded the Commewijne and
! took off twenty eight Germans The one
who escaped. Albert LANCER. went below
aud burrowed In coal bunker on the
pretence OF going after his shoes
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-19
WAR NOT THEIRS, SAY
WOUNDED GERMANS
800 Brought TO Bordeaux. De-
clare Army Doesn't Fight
With Good Hearts.
ss,-.d ca1t pespatch TO rur sr>.

RoRDEiCX.. Sept. II. midnight ode
llyed). More than 500 wounded Ger
mans arrived In Bordeaux tonight.
They were conveyed in motor ambu-
lances to the Vaintiaillcs barracks.
The men were pitiful samples of the
German military system. Haggard and
exhausted. their eyes were expression
less but for dumb terror. They looked
more like hunted animals than human
beings. one German prisoner said with
tears In his eyes:
War Is a terrible thing. We did
no: want it, not one of US. DO you
think ! came here with a good heart
left my wife and children and was
obliged to march wherever | was
ordered. | cannot say whether | crossed
Belgium. but ! was wounded in the
plains of Chalons. We never did less
than forty-five to fifty Mlometers day.
one forced march lasted twenty-five
hours.
II speak the truth when | say this
war Is not popular with the bulk OF my
compatriots."
Several other wounded here raised
their voices and said: mo, no. not
popular: lie tells the truth"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-19
ANTIVARI B0MBARDED
BY AUSTRIAN FLEET
Other Villages SEcllcd-lIarbor
Mined for Coming WarshipS
Of Allies.
specio' cas,r Desp1,-,cs 70 rnr scx.

ROME. Sept. lS-At dawn yesterday
an Austrian cruiser and six torpedo
boats bomhlrdcd the wireless station AZ
Antivari, Montcncgro's only seaport.
This station had been repa ircd by an
Anglo-French fleet since the previous
destruction ny the Austr.ans.
The Commandment lasted for an hour
Cape Nolovit2a and the villages of Susani.
Castellastua and Budua were shellcd,
but were not damaged.
The Austrlans have mined the harbor
of Antivari. where Anglo-French war
ships and a supply ship are due.
The Governments Of Servia and Mon
tenegro which have combined against
Austria. have been informed that the
aspirations OF the former country for
II port on the Adriatic, which have
heretofore been discouraged by the
Difference OF England and France to
Italy. will now he strenuously advocated
by Russia.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-19
FRENCH CROPS RUINED,
STARVATION FOR MANY
Products Rot i'm Fields for Want
of IIaryestCrS-NO One to
Plant for Next Year.

PARIS, Sept ls.-Rural France is to-
day sacked and pil!aged country. This
years crop has-hroadly speaking
been lost. Next years crop cannot lie
planted. The men who could save the
one and plant the other are wearing
blue coats and tramping toward the front,
Frances agricultural ruin for the mo-
ment IL complete
II have forty acres In cut grain lying
there rott!ng," said crippled man near
DreuN. My son has gone to the war.
There are no men left IL IN" country.
The Government has taken my horses
and cattle. This winter We viii starve."
The writer just returned from "A 500
mile tour by automobile and rail through
Normandy. one or the flirest district IS
OF pleasant France, Everywhere 1t was
the same story. The years crop had
been n bumper one, but 1t will prove
almost total loss,
Not one-twenteth ot 1t had been put In
stack when the mobilization order stopped
the harvest. IN every mile OF the 500
ploughs arc st ,nding in the furrow oi
empty carts In the field. Pathetic lttl'
black clumps we're scattered through
green fields They marked the rott'nl
grain
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-19
ADELINA PATTI HELD
AS PRISONER OF WAR
Detained With Her Husband for
- Several Weeks by Police
ut Carlsbad.
Soecioi cable Despatch 10 The SUI.

PARIS, Sept. lS--Adelina Patti, tho
famous opera singer. has arrived in
Paris from Carlsbad. where at the be-
ginning of August a threatening crowd
surrounded the hotel at which she was
stopping and shouted down with the
English and French." as Il was known
that her sympathies were with the al
lies.
The hotel was closed and the police
searched the baggage of Nine, Patti and
her husband. They told the singer that
they must consider themselves prison
ers of war and they were detained for
several weeks at the hotel. Every day
a mob appeared before the hotel and
shouted and hooted at them from the
outside. Finally the Government al
lowed Nine. Patti and her husband
Baron Cederstrom. to leave, but Insisted
that their male servants must remain
as hostages. The servants begged Mime
Patti and Baron Cederstrom to leave
Soldiers conducted them to the station
to protect them against stone throwing
by mobs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-19
DUCHESS AND NURSES GO HOME.
NtlItccnt Of sutherland Worked
Under Fire mt siege OF Namur.

THE HAorE, Sept. IL Mil!ictnt
Duchess of Sutherland and her Red
Cross workers left for England by way
of Flushing this morning. The party
had an adventurous experience during
the bombardmont Of Namur, working in
a hospital established in "A convent and
nursing $50 belgian. - French and \
German wounded, After the Germans
captured Namur the Belgian and French
patirnts were removed as prisoners of
war. although their condition was suck
that they should not have been moved.
according to members of the party. The
Germans took over the care or their
own wounded.
Several shells exploded IN the con-
vent ward and the house in which the
nurses were quartercd was burned
down.
The party Went from Namur 10 Brus-
sells. where they were placed under the
control of the German military uuthori'
tlcs Thanks to the Intervention OF
Brand Whltlock the American Minister,
they were permitted to leave for the
Netherlands.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-19
MRS. MACKAY SENDS
APPEAL TO AMERICA
Urges Protest to Germany
Against Uncivilizcd War
fare of Her Army.
KNOWS OF ATROCITIES
Tells Of Surgeons Being Shot
and Wounded in Hospital
Blown Up.
Special Cable b,.patc1 10 THr Sux.


LoSpoS, Sept. lS.--Mrs. John Mackay
says that the "Call to Arms'' on tho
red lettered sign which is seen all over
England should be heard all over
America.
mot. God forbid Cor army recruits"
Mrs Muckay says. but recruits from
the ranks 81 thinting men and women
to take up the call to arms metaphori-
cally and protest clearly against Ger
mauys unciviliaed warfare
The newspaper reports IN some cases
may be cxag gcrated," Mrs. Macliay pro-
ceeds. but we come from the very
front and have knowledge OF the hideous
facts Surgeons have been shot and
manned while attending the wounded At
a field hospital and ;hirty-ivc patients
blown up. Prisoners are treated in a
way which cannot be described in print
and 100 young. very young girls at
tackled.
such are only few Of the facts
brought 20 my knowledge. Notwith-
standing III the anne deniais Germany
is trying 70 force upon American ears
We az know here how sh" la. violated
every promise and contract, aud We OF
III" land Of the free and tho brave. what
do We say
Mrs. Mackay concluded by appe.ling
to Americans at home TO Join with those
here in a protestatIou and plea 70 Ger
many to alter her mod, Of warfare