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The Washington times., 1914-11-16

college. There are those who say he Is
slated for Penn next year
Kennedy and Dick Jones' left guard
and left tackle for the Navy, and former
members of the Army and Navy Prep
team, gave an excellent account OF
themselves against Colby Saturday, as
did McEwan. Timberlake, and Ed Jones
at the Army against Maine. All OF
the boys formerly played here and are
likely to oppose each other when the
Army meets the Navy. on Franklin
Field next week.
Ray Wise, who has acted captain for
Business in football. is calling basket
ball candidates together on Wednesday
after the Tech-Business game. Wise
VIII have several veterans from last
season to start to work with for an
other title.
Tonorrow Business and Tech are
taking the field for the last but one OF
the high school series. A win for Tech
will mean the undisputed championship
of the high schools for 1914 On form
displayed Tech will have all the better
of the argument. and unless the team
has slumped should win decisively.
A win for Business will tie the title
series. as both teams viii have won
three games and lost one. Tech n
primed for the contest all Of the resu-
lars being in fine shape for the battle
Tech has not played since Western was
met ten days ago. Business in the
meantime since its loss to Central has
defeated Eastern.
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Former GridirOn Stars
May Play Thanksgiving

Arrangements are being made at
MINNEAPOLIS to stage a football game
Thanksgiving Day between former
stars of Minnesota and Michigan, The
proceeds to go toward the Belgian
rclief fund
Among those expected to battle for
the Gophers are Johnny .MeGoVern.
ex- All-American Quarterback: Bill
McAlmon, ex-All- Western halfback {;
Earl Pickering, "x- x-All-Western full
back; Leonard Frank. eX-All-WesteTn
tackle; Bobby Marshall. eX-All-West-
ern end: Rube Rosenwald. eX-All-
Western half; Louis Stevens. ex-All-
Western half, Biggy Robinson. George
Bromley, Puss Hunter, ana Orrin Sat
:ord.
Phil Bartelme and Coach Yost. of
Michigan, will he asked to help get
he former Wolverine stars together.
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SERIOUS INJURIES
ABSENT AMONG Ellis
Coach Hinkey Plans BeWiIdering
Attack Against Harvard to
Offset Line Plunges.

NEW HAVEN. Conn. Nov lG-YaIe's
varsity eleven came through the big
game at Princeton without serious in
iuries. the few bruises and strains WELD
ing quickly TO Trainer Johnny Mack $
minist ra tiODs. But the best thing of all
is Yale was not forced to uncover any
of its special formations learned for the
Harvard game next Saturday.
Harvard is expected to use a batterinG
ram offense rather than the open style
of attack: and Coach Hinkey's varsity
players will work against this tomorrow
and Wednesday, The freshman eleven
victorious over Princeton and Harvard
freshmen teams. will be sent against
the regulars for this practice. Opposed
20 Harvards line-rammine attack. Yale
will uncover a bcwildeling series Of
lateral passes. triple and double passes
forward passes. and onside kicks. only
few of which have been shown this
season against any team.
Carroll knowles bruised his foot and
may not practice much this week. Nal
Scovil, who played brilliantly at Prince
ton. slightly Wrenched his knee. Fred
StjIlmans ankle is turned, and Alec
Wilson twisted his ankle slightly. All
these players. however. are expected to
be in shape for the Harvard game.
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of Cathedral. easily carries off the
palm. The youngster has scored some
thing like 100 of the total number of
points registered by his eleven.
The idea of Techs meeting team I'm
post-season contest is not much 10
have Tech beaten as to provide a card
of sufficient interest to raise a sum for
commendable purpose. AS a title
holder. although the final game Is dis
puted by Business on Tuesday, Tech
has performed creditably. Cathedral.
gaining prominence, and the George
town Props have yet TO be engaged by
Techs players for undisputed claim to
the District schoolboy title. The Props
are eager to meet Tech, and If it is un-
desirable to have a number of former
high school stars or present players
from other teams meet Tech, the Props
might accommodate. At any rate the
contest would be drawing card.
Bullet steed. of Tech, has failed to
receive his full measure of praise for
the work of the Manual Trainers this
season. Long gains by Ochsenreiter.
Parker, Snyder, and Taylor have rath-
er kept Steeu out of the iImelight
Those who have watched his work
closely say it is not so much his ex-
cellent Judgment in running his plays
but in the efficient manner in which he
paves the way for the runner in cleanly
picking off either tackle. end. or
secondary defense man on the opposi-
ton.
Frank Greer. Easterns mainstay in
the line last season, at present playing
center for the Roman Catholic High
School, of Philadelphia, is starring at
that institution. Greer is reported as
having been such a fierce tackler that
the ball is frequently lost by the oppo-
sition, The youngster should make an
excellent lineman wheh he gets into
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Seven Technical Regulars Cross Goal Line,
Making gTouchdoWnsinSchoo Championship

twenty-three scored bv his team in the
title series. and is seconded by Gene
Ochsenreiter. Techs halfback, whose
two touchdowns and two goals give him
fourteen-point individual score.
OF the team totals for the series the
scores follow: Tech. g.; opponents o.
Business, %: opponents, I. Eastern. 9;
opponents. %. Central. Z; opponents. 6.
Western, 0: opponents, O.. Tech has
won three and lost none, Business has
one, lost one and tied one; Eastern has
won one, lost two, and Western has
won none. lost three and tied one.
The scores in the series follow in or
der:
Technical. 13: Eastern. O.
Business. 13: Western. o.
Tech. s; Central. 0.
Eastern, 8; Western, o.
Central. I: Business, o.
Tech, O.: Western, o..
Business 10; Eastern. 0.
Central, 0: Western, 0.
Techs development of players this
season has been remarkable, no less
than twenty-one Maroon and Gray play
ers have faken part in the high school
different representatives. Central and
Business sixteen each, while Eastern
has had fifteen different players in the
games.
Cathedral has jumped into the lead
among the schoolboy teams in point
scoring, coming from third place last
week. The record of the several teams
In the District follows:
Cathedral 157: Opponents. so.
Business. 100; Opponents, q.
Technical, IS: Opponents, "a.
Army and Navy, 80: Opponents. 80.
Western, Al; Opponents, 6s.
G. Z. Props, Al: Opponents, IL.
Central, "A; Opponents, 20.
On individual record .'UntZ' Brewer,
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HARVARD IMPRESSED
BY YALE'S 0FFENSE
Coach Haughton Will Lecture
Squad Today on Ways and
Means of Stopping 1t.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Nov. ia lee
ture on Yales style of attack will open
today's practice for the Harvard varsity
squad. most Of the regulars having wit
messed the Els victory at Princeton
Saturday. The variety Of attack shown
by the Blue team and the perfection OF
Its lateral and forward passing were
very impressive to the Crimson coaches.
and they believe that only the hardest
driving of the Harvard varsity will get
them into shape to stop whatever Yale
may offer in the bowl next Saturday.
The Crimson is in fine shape for the
Yale game at New Haven. only two first
string men. Francke and Parson. being
used against Brown. Neither OF these
men played more than ten minutes.
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lPT0 DATE SPORTS Varsity May Sport NbersW and
PLANK MAY HOP

PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 16.-Ed-
die Plank. the veteran south
paw of the Athletics, upon
whom Connie Mack has asked
waivers, is said to be conter1-
plating hurdling to the Chicago
Federals.
1t is reported that the manage
ment of the Chifeds has offer
ed Plank double the salary ne
received from the local Ameri-
cans, plus an amount equiva-
lent to worlds series "rake-
off,"
The Washington times., 1914-11-16
May Approve Sale of
Cubs to Boss Weeghman

CHICAGO. Nov. 16.-Dircctors Of the
Chicago Federal League will meet
Thursday. presumably to put their ap-
provai OH the proposed purchase OF The
Chicago Cubs. Charles w. Murrhy, eX-
president of the Cubs is in conference
with Owner G. p. Taft. in Cincinnati.
today. 1t is reported that Murphy. who
retains big interest in the Cubs. will
protest against the scheme to transfer
the Cubs to the Federal League Park
on the north side.
The Washington times., 1914-11-16

as well as ever. OF course, / shall get
into no scrimmaging.
For a while in Saturdays game with
Brown it was thought Brickley would
run out on the field for try at goal.
Harvard was in a position to score, and
Brickley was seen to pull off his
sweater
The Crimson undergraduates broke
into a wild cheer but at the last mo-
ment the captain changed his mind. A
substitute made the goal try. and
missed
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Engineers Will Hold
Dance for the Eleven

The Engineers at Washington Bar
racks are to hold a dance Thursday.
November 49, in aid Of the crack foot
ball eleven, representing the organiza-
ton. Tickets emitting two to enter
are now being sold by Manager Hardy
J. Story, and these tickets will be good
for three dances, two others to be an
nounced at later date. Refreshments
will be served and the United States
Engineer Band will provide music.
The Washington times., 1914-11-16

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 16-Cap.
tain Brickley, of the Harvard football
team. said today he would play in the
Yale game next Saturday should Har.
ward get into position where a field
goal would win for the Crimson.
The great drop-kicker. who was oper.
ated on for appendicitis FIVE weeks ago
said:
II expect to play in the Yale game if
the coaches think that a try at field
goal is necessary. / am kicking now
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Bad Advertising.

w. aud J. is getting no great amount
OF desired advertising from a certain
star lineman who was put out for
s,ugginG. tried to beat up an official.
and then threatened to wallop foot
hall writer who accused him of rough
play. Some one around W. and J.
should know enough to crowd an entry
Of this sort out Of the spotlight. even
il it is necessary to hold him in the
game.
The Washington times., 1914-11-16
Racing AT Havre de Grace

Six Races Daily-.includinC a Stake
Rare and a Steenlechase
Special Trains: B. & o. r. r. leave
1900 noon: Penna. r. r. leave 1910
p. m.
Admission. Grandstand and Pad
dock. $50. Ladies'. s1.o0.
First Race, also y. -
The Washington times., 1914-11-16

TocrbsIl season will soon be over, md
some OF these college amateurs can then
receive their mail under their right
names.
CCa yOu imagine 10000 birds t,Dh';mg
10 ear from 81 10 So at the gate. 0Ed
crCU player on the field q" "mot""r'
Can yoU Imagine ~ Neither eau we'
The Washington times., 1914-11-16
pure amateurs is because Simon
was simple.

ColIeg" chess tournaments VIII soon
he or and the arrangements are ,seri-
ously thinking of enlarging the seating
capacity of the bleschers, so a. to ac-
comrnodate two spectators
The Washington times., 1914-11-16

Now that St. Albans has defeat
ed Dunham Latin, the only teams
between them and the Eastern
championship are Yale, Harvard,
and a few others.
The Washington times., 1914-11-16
|MINCE PIE
IA LITTLE OF EVERYTHING
By BUGS" BAER.
By BUGS" B.

After Saturdays grueling game
with Dartmouth, Penns coaches
fear they will be unable to get the
spectators in shape for the game
with Cornell on Thanksgiving.
The Washington times., 1914-11-16

Army and Navy both won their
games last Saturday. but they wont
on the 2Sth.
There were IS. 90 spectators In Palmer sta-
dium during the first three periods. but
eleven Of EN- got in the game in the last
quarter.
Playing football games for the Belgian
sufferers only adds a lot of other suf-
ferers to the Belgian sufferers.
Same baseball mdgndtes 1oO'lid J"jId
StOd:ro,S seating 10000 people too. il
thry thought there Were mat 'T""V
tee5Ir-mjpded people !" the 'Hded
SfOtTS
The Washington times., 1914-11-16
RABID RUDOLPH SAYS

Winter League
is progressing fine,
all of the teams
are in first place,
but they expect to
do better before the
week is out"
The Washington times., 1914-11-16

To instill ehthusias asm ' into the Hill
tcppers a monster massmeeting is card
ed for the law school Wednesday night.
Songs will be rehearsed, cheers prac-
tioed and addresses made by coaches and
players. The law school rooters will also
parade TO Georgetown Field behind their
great blue and gray banner
The Washington times., 1914-11-16

Demand for tickets is increasing
every day. and Manager Edmund J.
O'Boyle advises all desiring to see this
big battle OF the campaign to send in
their applications as early as possible
The public sale will open at Spslding s
Wednesday or Thursday.
Five hundred alumni and undergrad
yates Of w and j. win see the game,
forming a cheering section on the east
side Of the field. Just as Virginia used
10 do. the w. and J. squad will march
from the Union Station to the field.
trsversing all the principal streets Of
The city.
The Washington times., 1914-11-16

For the benefit Of AN inquirer
Georgetown's record for the season is
The Washington times., 1914-11-16

On individual record "Untz" Brewer,
The Washington times., 1914-11-16
Cathedral Leads All Youngsters
in Running Up Points Against
All Opponents.

college. There are those who say he is
slated for Penn next year
The Washington times., 1914-11-16

-Four elevens have scored more than
3gD points this season so far Here they
are:
Virginia. $50: opponents. 30
Dartmouth. 3l9. opponents. -
Washington and Lee, 2OG. opponents.
T2
Washington and Jefferson "VI: oppon-
ents, 30.
Six teams are between the 200 and
40 msrk-Turs. North Carolina. Cor
neil. Lebanon Valley, Michigan. and
Syracuse.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-14
oJ1NAGA.

Chicago Rccord-I1erald: In the af-
fair Of Mexico we are old that the de-
feat OF the federal army at Oiinaea
marks tho most important rebel VIC
tory OF the present revolution and
that it leaves the rebels in possession
practically of all the north of Mexico.
The victory appears to have been
complete enough and Huerta cannot
gain much in glory OF strength by
alternating in the City Of Mexico
while Pancho the Great is knocking
out detachnlents OF his troops here
and there. But VIC still remain much
in doubt as TO the division of power.
This Oiinaga is on the American
border and many miles within the
zone that was claimed for the con-
s~titutionalists three months ago. APP
parently they are conquerins their
own territory as far from the City
Of troops engaged they surpass the
federals, hut all the armies are small,
a few thousand men only. and one
gets the impression of rowing bands
Of Riders who are suhsisting on the
country. This. however. does not ~
alt the government. In a nation of
5000, 900 people the government
that cannot put all effective force
in the field to deal with such con-
temptible opponents is a most prom
Using candidate for contemptuous
criticism.
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arc going to. have some very useful
tailcrs' standpoint, because 1t is to the
retailers advantage to have a lower
level OF costs. 1t is again the depart
ure from the old days of f~orehanded-
ness and thrift which causes the re-
tail grocer extra expense which he
necessarily puts back upon the cor
sumner The retailer would make more
profit if less were demanded Of him
in the way of deliveries, but when
one housewife telephones to have a
cake of yeast delivered, and another
demands the instant delivery of a
sack of -four which she should have
ordered several days in advance, the
average costs not only OF yeast and
flour but of other groceries must he
higher. In q hundred ways the house,
wife n householder can help to re-
ducc the average cost at the groccrs.
and when VIC can get the American
people to realize the value to them
OF the study and practice Of thrift,
there will nc a reduction in the cost
of living . This is a time when living
costs are important, aud every II of
influence should help to encourage
individual thrift, particularly the rep
rcsentatiNes OF the people i'm munich
pal. state II national affairs
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vague dreams. America was his
home-his land. He couldn't imag-
inc leaving it. 1t was preposterous Of
Elsa to expect him to sell his growing
business and go back to that stagnant
land to open a small shop there, to
raise their children, il any came.
there to stagnate and there to die. II
couldn't do it," he declared, fatty. as
he had declared once before when
they had discussed the matter.
No. Elsa agreed. II know how
feel there as ! feel here. But 1 worry
so about them"
She sighed and slowly resumed her
work on the sock. Norden's eyes
went back To the newspaper. For
three months now the evenings had
been spent as sorrowfully. Elsa could
not forget her old parents going back
lcnesomely to the old home. Norden
could not overlook Elsa's sombrc
face. She never laughed any more,
or if she did it was SO obviously forced
that he felt irritated. He could not
help thinking that she was not fair.
vas Just enough To realize that she
could not help her grief and he piticd
her.
They had tried to combat the Old
folks resolution. For two or three
years they had combated it and had
argued them into staying, but finally
inconsistencies had worstcd all argu-
ment.
II want to, 90 back" said Elsa's old
father, deliantly. oh, / amt saying
nothing against America. It's a good
enough place. A little too noisy, but
it's treated me fair enough. Least
ways" with a chucklc. I've saved
up plenty of onc I got sense
enough to know I couldn't have done
SO we'll in the old country. But
want TO go back. Before die / want
to see the house my father and moth
er died in. l want to see their graves
down by the old stone church. I've
got 10 CO." He looked at his wife, at
Elsa. at Norder. and his faded old
blue eyes We're misty.
we hate To leave sou. Elsa" his
old wife said softly. It'll be most
like burying You. But YOU can come
over in a Year or so for a visit. And
| 7. too. want to see the old churchyard
and the house T used to live in." Her
old eyes looked wistfully out the win,
! dow AS though she could sec tho
youth spent in that old house.
And SO they went. Elsa kept back
most Of her tears till the steamer
I. sailed slowly out of the harbor. And
! then she began to fret. She IA lone
some: she wanted to sec them. And
it was quite in vain that Norden re,
minded her that if they could leave
her she ought to be able to let them
They're not your parents" she re
minded him once. hotly. You don,
know what it is"
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He was silent. His parents had died
before he was seven. lie had made
his own living ever since. He won.
dered sadly II he were lacking in
sympathy for that. reason. And then
he felt that Elsa was selfish. His
heart hardened.
After a while Elsa ceased to talk
about them. But her face grew
winter n more sombre. Norden left
me mouse one evening with a NUT.
terea excuse that he had an appoint
menu with a man. She didn't object.
W. evenings later he wen without
an excuse, n then his conscience
smote him. Since life was so unpleas.
ant 1t couldn't be much worse in an
other place. He stayed home even.
ings II secretly began to look about
Tor q customer for Ills grocery. store.
~ was not two weeks before he
found one. The store was flourish.
inE. and he got an excellent offer. 1t
put hard lines in his face to 20 over
the shelves and through the drawers:
put he steeled himself 10 endure the
m tried to work up an
start in the old country. And invol-
UNFAIRLY he pictured a sluggish, shah
by shop where only a peasant or two
a day came in to -dawdie and bargain.
1t was purely imagination. for he
could not remember. even indistinctly,
the shops of the villages across the
water. But he could not drive the
sickening vision away. He remem-
bered all his excited planning when
he had been able to buy this store.
1T had been during the first months
Of his engagement to Elsa. And
Eisa's father had helped him. But
with a determined will Norden quit
remembering and put all his mind up
on the inventory, for after all Elsa's
happiness was the most important
thing III the world to him. II he had.
MT married her she would have gone
back with the old folks and been con-
tent. and maybe he would like it yer
there. E.
He did not tell Elsa. There was. of
course, the chance that the sale would
fall through, and he did not want her
to get excited, and then suffer more
weeks Of disappointment while he
looked for another customer. But he
rushed the inventory. even going back
to the store. after supper one even
ing. Elsa's face had gloomed over
when he announced that he was go
ing out, +blrt she, said nothing. He de-
cided to tell her when he anne back.
Then when he came at ~ o'clock
she Was asleep and he did not waken
her. In the morning would be soon
enough. She would be delighted-the
sparkle would come back to her eyes.
the laugh to her lips. And he lay
awake all that night, wondering how
il would seem to wake up every MORN
ing in a staid old European village,
where street cars and hustle, big
neadlined newspapers and all the rush
and tllrob Of Chicago were unknown.
1t would be Hc groaned; then
started in panic. Had Elsa heard?
AT daybreak he got up. The small
fiat was lonely in the gray dawn. He
pictured it when they had gone. 1t
would be dismantled; other people
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% THE II ii
OLD HOME n NEW,
toopyrsshs. lS1s. y ~ W~se,.

From time to time during the eve
ming Nordcn looked %furtively owe the
newspaper at Elsa, who was mending
and darning on the other side Of the
centre table. Her face was calm, but
back of the calnness lay repressed
longing. Every now and then her
mouth went. down and seemed to
tremble, until she pressed it quickly
into hrmness again. The newspaper
columns danced until he could not see
them. Anger held him. II was not
fair Of her to be SO unhappy. Was 1t
his fault that her old parents. after
thirty years of America. had decided
that they wanted to spend their last
years in the tiny village across the
ocean where they had spent their
youth? And, II they had been able
to so and leave her, their only child,
surely she could bear to let them go.
But | can't" Elsa said. suddenly,
laying down the black sock that she
was heelins. She had looked up in
time to catch the rcproach of one fur
tive look. Just think! If they get
sick Id get there in time. And
mother was ailing when she left. She
looked SO old when she boarded the
steamer. ! can see her in my dreams,
her white hair a little mussed when
she fell against YOU crossing the
gangplank. And" Elsa stopped
from inability to keep on. Her voice
was too tremulous.
Norden sullenly stared at the paper.
He, too, was from the old country.
But he had come over when he was
three, and it was the vaguest of