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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29
JASPER'S JUMPING
BASKETBALL STARS
EXPECTED TO RETURN
Hummer Reported Ready,
While Wohlfarth Wants to OBJ
tain a Manager for His
Homestead Bakery
DE NERI TO PLAY CAMDEN

From a very reliable source the intor-
nation has been received that both Rill
Hummer and Dutch" Wohlfarth may
soon he playing with the Jasper i've I'm
the Eastern Basketball League Kun
mer, who jumped the team i'm the middle
of the 19li-l5 season, is ready, nay. even
anxious. to return, while Wohlfarth. ac-
cording to the report wants to play bas-
ltetball and will do so II he can obtain
some one to run his bakery at Home
stead, Pa.
The return Of even one Of these players.
let alone both. would be a Eodsend to
kensngton basketball fans. who have
stuck to the team despite losing strcal,
of eight straight games. hummer jumped
last winter because the Jasper manage
ment would not meet his terms, which,
to tell the truth. were impossible Now
he is ready to return for almost any sum
the Jasper management may offer within
reason. WOhlfarth's salary while playing
with the Jewels was reported TO be the
largest paid at that time to any player
In the Eastern League. but "DutCh" was
worth 1t, and should he come back to the
fold, Nonpareil Hall would be taxed to
its capacity at every game, and fans
Before Hummer can return to Jasper
the Eastern League magnates must re-
move his name from the mythical black
list. This they are sure to do. since q
winning team at Nonpareil Hail will help
the other teams in the league as mach as
1t will Jasper. When Hummer left last
winter he played with and MANAGED tho
Jeanette team, in the West Penn League.
Shortly after his arrival there the club
lost its hall by flro and had to iuish the
schedule away from home. The West
Penn League just drifted through the
season, and did not reorganiZe this year.
Hence Hummer Is out of a job Wphl-
farth's case Is different. lie is under 70
serve to the Jasper management bur Is
he did not play in any other organization
after quitting the Jewels, he is therefore
at liberty to return whenever he feels
so nclind.
Cavanaugh is now jumping centre. hut
this year has slumped badly and the only
reason he stin is being used regularly
is because there Is no one to take his
place. If Friedman could be developed
into pivot man, the team, with Sedran
and Hummer, forwards, and Wohlfarth
and Fox at guards, would be world
beater. Sedran and Hummer are both
very light, and hence the smallness Of
the Jasper cage would be n handicap
But both are good shots, and with Kum-
mer averaging 20 out of % fouls the
Jewels would win at home, since many Of
the recent games have been lost by a
few points and the difference has usually
been i'm foul throwing. Away from home.
in the large cages at Cooper and Musical
Fund Halls and at Camden, Trenton and
Reading, the Jasper five as made up
above would do more than hold its own.
De Ner will tackle the Camden five at
81, ~
Mickle street. tonight. This is the first
of two games these clubs are scheduled
TO play this week The second meeting
will be at Musical Fund Hall Saturday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29
FACULTY CONTROL Is
URGED BY DELEGATES
ATTN. c. A. A. MEETING
All Students Should Have
Chance to Participate in
Athletics, Is General
Opinion
DIR. GARFIELD SPEAKS

NEW YORK, Dec. Faculty control
OF athletics and the many evils that be-
set the college student we're discussed
yesterday mt tho 10th annual convention
uf the National Collegiate Athletic Assoc
Clatiou at the Hotel Astor. More than
100 delegates representing 15s universities
and schools took part IN the effort to
solve the knotty problems which the as
ISOLATION has endeavored to overcome
during the 10 years Of its existence
Many Of the sports recognized by col
lcges in this country werc subjected TO a
severe Eruclliug and methods for eradi-
eating the many evils of athletic life were
suggested, although the pa~t played by
the association in national collegiate
sports came In for It's fair share or COM
mendation. particularly for its efforts in
advocating purity IN athletics. In addi-
tiou to tho discussion ON athletics. re-
ports were read on football and other
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29
TED LEWIS OUTBOXES
WILLIE RITCHlE
Britton Gives Former Lightweight
Champion Severe Lacing at Welter
Limit

NEW YORK, Dec, 29.-Ted Lewis, OF
England, gave Willie Ritchie, the former
lightweight champion, the liveliest laciuE
of his career in 1O-round bout at Madi-
son square Garden last night, Aside from
one flash Of his old-time form in the last
round, RitChie was outgeneraled and out
boxed all the way. At the end the former
champions face was cut and puffed from
the shower of jabs and swings with which
the Englshman bewildered the Califor-
nan.
The bout was at the welterweight limit.
Ritchie weighing 1893, and Lewis 139't.
This weight saw Lewis at his best. His
boxing was the prettiest and the niftiest
that has been seen in the Garden in many
a day. The BritOn's feet were as fast
as his hands, and he danced away from
Ritchie's straight-arm attack so fast that
the former champion missed time and
again.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29
Dr. II. L. Williams Pays
High Tribute to Camp

DR.. Harry l.. Williams. head
coach of the Minnesota football
eleven, paid high tribute to
Walter Camp, of Yale. in his foot
ball report to the National Collegi-
ate Athletic Association in New
York. He said:
Mr.. Camps devotion to foot
ball and his services to all lovers
OF the game can scarcely be over
estimated. Always gentleman
and a sportsman of the highest
type, his influence has invariably
been exerted on the side of clean
football and manly sport, while his
technical knowledge, deep insight
and wise judgment have been felt
as a constant guiding force to the
committee through the trying years
in which the game of football has
been so radically changed. His
name is indelibly craven on the
rules of football as they stand to-
day. His retirement from active
participation in the deliberations
of the Rules Committee is felt by
all to be great loss"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29
REVOIRE DEFEATS BROAD
IN WINDUP AT DOUGLAS
Stroodle Scores Four-Round Win in
Bout With Legs

Veteran Kid Broad was trotted out for
Eddie Revoire last night at the Douglas
Athletic Club, and after being buffeted
around the ring by the latter through
six rounds Of hard boxing, he left the
ring apparently not damaged In the least.
The bout proved to be a pleasurable dis
appointment.
OF course no one expected Broad to win
for he was so fat that he decidedly re-
sembIed a "billikin baby" In this respect
Broad did not disappuint the spectators.
lie lost. hut while being defeated he
thrilled the spectators with his exhibition
of gameness and ability to take punish
mcut.
Tommy CranstOn won from Joe Phillips
in the semi-windup. In the other bouts
Hook Bones won from jim Williams, Al
Fox defeated Young Homer, while Kid
Stroodle stopped Frisco Legs in four
rounds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29
WHITE FLYER SHOOT
TODAY AT WHITEMARSH
Sam Ochletree, Local Gunner,
to Compete in Fort Side
Inns Midweek Tourney

White Flyer gunners viii journey TO the
Fort Side Inn Gun Club. whitemsrsh, to-
day for their midweek shooting where an
attractive card OF events will be ready
FOR them. Just what tho main event Will
be remains problematlcal. 1t is likely that
match Of 10 birds will furnish the wind
UP match.
The club being just a mile below Fort
Washington, will have a tendency to
draw many upstate shooters to It's
grounds while it will also attract many
Phladclphians.
1t Will be a good test for the marksmen
who await New Years day Journeys TO
take a real flyer. Samuel Ochletree, a
prominent local shot, will be one OF the
men who will fire away at the live birds
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29
EDDIE MAHAN WILL TRY
FOR HONORS on TRACK
Harvard Star Has Earned Letters in
Baseball and Football

BOSTON, Dec. 29-Eddle Mahan, Of
Harvard is going TO try to make his let
ter i'm track next spring, He las won
letters I'm football and baseball and now
he is ambitious 10 add the third.
1t will not be anything new for Aahan
TO compete in track events, for when
he was at Andover he did excellent work
as a sprinter and it is recalled how he
ran a 1OO-yard race and played baseball
against Exeter the same day.
Mahan was once caught in ten seconds
when he was at Andoyer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29
North Branch "Y" Wins

Tho uuIor team Of trO &orth Branch Y VI.
C. A. defeated tho Bethany church i've this
morning by the score of 20 60 Is. Tho game
was played iu the Nortu Branch cage
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29
Penn Chessmen Win

NEW YORK, Dec. 2a-PennavIvania made
a clean. sweep against Cornell In the final day s
uIav OF the triangular college chess tourna-
meut at the Rice Progressive chess club yes
terdav. The final score was Pennsylvania ti5
yanla tho first leg, on tho new Rice trophy
Two Years ago the PcnnsNlVauians won pprma
mont possession OF the nri2e offered by the same
donor. and new cup was put IN for COM
petition. Last years games resulted In a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29

Tickets Tor the Mcclure -Vluoomo football
E1me, to Rc PLAYED Sew Years, 2nom9ou on
Walnut srsots were PLACED on sale today at
the a. q. Sraldng sporting goods store. 1910
Chestnut street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29
Dinner for Caddies

More than $50 caddies willshe entertained AZ
dinner 6E, the Aronimink County club az
at l y. m. and women members OF the club
follow the dinner.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29
Gallant Gets Decision

DENVER col Dec. 2D.-Gilhert Gallant
tho Roetou hattIrr. was given tho rofrrDe's 10.
cisIon over stanley DoakIu, ~ Denver. pt tho
end OF ~ rounds o' hard battling last nirht.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29
SCRAPS ABOUT sCRAPPERs

Like most Philadelphia lighters who
have left for other pastures, Tommy
Buck is making a decided hit with
Kansas city fans. Following his easy
victory over Benny McGovern, Buck has
been matched with Benny Chavez, Mex
lean rcatherweiGht from Denver, i'm the
Missouri city January 3. The bout Is
scheduled for 10 rounds. Kansas city
promoters are endeavOring to bring
johnny Kilbanc West for II match with
the Philadelphian aud 1t is probable the
pair will meet shortly after the first of
the year
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29

Miss Preston, coach of the Temple
university girls basketball team, Il
planning ahead for the game with tn,
o. Joseph's College girls, scheduled TO
early in January. Temple won from thu
holman school with ease.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-29

Immediately upon their return to school
me Central High School track candidates
VIII be notified to continue indoor train
ing for the coming meets. Many of the
runners made it point to keep in con-
oiuon over the holiday season. They
sii have an edge on the new candidates
Tor the team.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-09
BASEBALL SPORTS OF ALL SORTS BOXING


weight, seems to have reached the
zenith of his career and is standing
still. His recent work in the ring
has consisted of series of in-and-out
performances that have, in some
cases, reflected great credit on him
and on others placed him in the light
of a merely average performer.
In a ten-round fight with Jimmy
Duffy of Lockport in Buffalo, N. Y,
last night White was unable to earn
the verdict of the majority of fight
critics present He started like Wild
cat, sending Duffy down for the count
of nine. The fastener evened mat
tiers in the second, however, by floor
ing White, and from then to the finish
continued to roll up safe lead on
points. -.....-.-
He jabbed White continually with
left and fought him off, White missed
badly at long range, though his work
in the clinches was good. Duffy
failed to make weight and went into
the ring five pounds heavier than the
Chicagoan. This is the second time
Duffy has ignored the weight condi-
tons in fight with White.
Matty McCue was so much better
than Ollie Kirk that the referee
stopped the fight in the eighth round
at Racine. McCue made a slashing
fight that battered Kirk.
Leo Houck took a ten-round deci-
sion from Chicago Knockout Brown
in Atlanta. Brown fought gamely,
but was not clever enough for Houck.
Willie Richie and Johnny Griffith
fight six rounds tonight in Pittsburgh.
Two more clubs are needed to COM
p1ete an eight-club Mercantile Base
ball league, playing Saturdays. Phone
or address ]. M. Lowery, 160 N. 9Th
av., Franklin 1881.
Baseball Scores
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-09

Whales had his Federal athletes out
on the north side this morning for
final practice on the home lot before
the opening of the season tomorrow
with game against st. Louis. The
weather was perfect for the players,
who have been accustomed to some
thing colder, and the diamond is in
perfect shape. The result was
snappy practice, during which many
fans took occasion to look over the
north side representatives.
From the work they did Tinker's
team looks like much better aggre-
CATION than the one which finished
second in the Federal league race
last season. He has strengthened the
team powerfully in its second line of
defense, in which particular he was
woefully weak during the 1914 cam
paign.
In the outfieId there has been a
notable increase in efficiency, both
on attack and defense In Leslie
Mann, former Brave, Tinker boasts
one of the best fielding gardeners in
the business, a dandy baserunner and
a fellow capable of doing bit of bat
ting now and then. Hanford, an
other acquisition, put up a notewor-
thy record in the Federal league last
season with Buffalo, and Kavanaugh,
the third addition, has not been big
league regular before solely because
of injuries whenever he came up for
trial.
WickIand, ZwiIIing and FIack are
known quantities All bat left-hand-
ed and are tremendous attacking fac
tors when facing right-handed pitch
ing. Last season Tinker lost the pen
pant because these three fellows
were not so good against southpaws
and opposing managers shot the Off
side fingers against his team with
Evening star., 1915-02-21
CHANGE IN NAVAL PROGRAM.
Orders Issued to Cover Delay in
Visiting Pacific Coast.

The commander-in-chief OF the At
lantic feet has been instructed to send
to the Navy Department a revised
itinerary and program Of feet opera
tions. in view OF tho postponement
until July of the visit OF tho command
to the west coast by way of the Pan
anna canal.
The fleet will remain in southern
waters. in all probability. until q short
time before 1t is necessary to proceed
to San Francisco. when the vessels
will return north to the various navy
yards for docking and cleaning. II fs
not expected that IL will be neceHeary
to make extensive repairs or alsera-
tions. excepting, of course. in case OF
those vessels which are due for their
regular overhauling. These vessels.
four in number. will. on that account,
remain at the navy yards.
The Z. S. S. Delaware. which is the
last OF the battleships to be detained
on patrol duty in Mexican waters.
probably will be withdrawn within a
few weeks and rejoin the feet at
Guantanamo. her place in the Mexican
patrol being filled by a smaller vessel.
Evening star., 1915-02-21

These theories are, however, at pres
ent as good as any others.
Germany has come in for censure in
this 'war-zone" plan from the fact
that it is difficult for a submarine to
spare neutral or harmless ships. The
Germans retort, however. that for a
hail. hold up and board suspected
vessel would render it entirely useless.
A passing aeronaut or some one on board
the halted vessel could drop on it a
bomb which would completely destroy 1t.
Size of Little Craft.
The Monitor and Merrimac showed
far less discrepancy in size than do
typical modern dreadnaught, with a
length of something over 900 feet, and
its submarine enemy, which can so
easily send 1t to the bottom with all
its crew, for the latter seldom run
more than 160 feet. The average under
water craft is, perhaps. about $50 feet
long, shaped something like sperm
whale or, perhaps, the torpedo which
1t discharges. A cross-section taken
through the center is practically cir
cular and the diameter of this circle
is not much more than twelve feet.
1t will be easily seen. therefore. that
it is by no means a commodious home
for it's crew, which numbers about
twenty men and one, two or three
officers-usually two.
The draught of a submarine when
Evening star., 1915-02-21

resting on the surface of the water is
about ten feet. which leaves only two
or three feet out of water at the very
highest. Its displacement is, perhaps.
235 tons on the water and 800 when
sunk. Twelve knots an hour on the
surface and S.6 knots submerged is
very good speed for a submarine to
make. which fact renders the Journeys
remarkable. On the surface oil is the
fuel in all modern boats: under the
surface the ship is propelled by cleo
tricity from a storage battery which
will take it $50 or 200 miles at low
speed. The working of it's oil en-
gines when on the surface recharges
this storage battery. The tender usual
, ly in charge of fleet also contains
recharging apparatus, but in the Amer
lean navy the use of this is frowned on.
Can Stay Down Many Hours.
From $50 to 200 feet is the depth to
| which a submarine can go. and when
assigned the depth at which it shall
work, in order to avoid possible COLI
sions without it's engine running and
with no aIr-purifying apparatus the
| average boat can stay down fifteen or
twenty hours.
Torpedoes, the destructive agents ex-
clusively used by submarines. are dis
charged from tubes in the bow. Some
| boats have but one: most, however.
have two, four or even more. An ap-
plication of the force of compressed
air gives them their initial impetus,
and the force that keeps them going
after they are started is furnished also
by compressed air contained within the
| body of the torpedo itself. Each boat
carries from two to eight torpedoes.
and the tender of the feet a larger
supply.
Submarines are sunk by filing GER
| tain interior compartments with water
/ They are enabled to rise by blowing
| this water out again by air pressure
Two Methods of Guiding.
| Submarines have two methods of
guiding themselves, one being by the
Evening star., 1915-02-21

"periscope," which sticks up above the
surface of the water, and the other by
the compass and depth gauges when
the boat is SO deep that the periscope
is submerged. The periscope is used,
whenever it is possible, in approaching
and sometimes even when attacking a
big ship, for the officer in charge may
want to see his results.
On the other hand, when the subma-
rine comes so near that it is felt that
the periscope may be noticed. 1t often
what can be seen through the glass
windows of the coming tower. In
windy weather the periscope, which is
but four or five inches in diameter and
which sticks up but few feet, some
times betrays itself by ripple or
spray on a millpond sea it can be
spotted at from $500 to 1000 yards
One can be observed more easily from
an aeroplane directly before or above
than from the deck of a ship.
Periscope Improved.
The periscope originally consisted of
a mirror arrangement. by which the
guiding officer could get limited view
of things above the surface. Now it
has been greatly improved, and is,
generally speaking, two telescopes
placed end to end, with prisms at top
and bottom which turn the rays OF
light through 90 degrees. Its field OF
vision is much larger than that of the
old type.
submarine retains its stability and
does not turn turtle through two things
its shape and the relative distribu-
tion of weight as compared to the
water displaced.
Many times the question is heard as
to what the symbols "U-29" and 'B-3." ;"
etc, mean when applied to these craft
In the American navy the letter indi-
Gates the class, or the year in which
the appropriation for the ship and her
sister ships was made. The numbers
/, ., 3, etc. are the various units of the
class. And these symbols in the Ger
Evening star., 1915-02-21
SUBMARINES MUST
BEAR BIG BURDEN
Depended on to Make Ger
many's War Zone Decree
an Actuality.
UNDERWATER CRAFT
ARE LITTLE TERRORS
Can Sail Deep and Remain Sub
merged From Fifteen to
Twenty Hours.

The burden of making an actuality
out of the "war zone" surrounding the
British Isles. which Germany declares
went into effect at midnight of Febru-
ary II. rests not on powerful battle
ships and cruisers. nor even on tor
pedo boats and commerce destroyers,
but on the smallest ships in the Ger
man or any other navy-the subma-
rines.
Before the outbreak of the present
great war submarines were an expert
ment Now they have become grim
reality, and by far the greatest amount
of damage done both to the warships
and the merchant vessels of the bel
Ngerent nations has been accomplished
by these small but terrible craft
Reach English Shores.
How can the Germans do ito is a
question often asked lately by those
who have some familiarity with the
workings of average submarine craft,
and the comparatively short period of
time they can remain submerged LOT
warlike operations. And, really, there
isn't any answer. But the Teutons not
only feel that they can do it, but nave
already demonstrated their ability by
sending submarines to the very shores
of England. and there. far from their
base. destroying ships.
1t is impossible to get certain infor-
nation as to submarine craft from the
Navy Department of the United States,
and Germany carries secretlveness as
to her naval and military affairs to an
extreme. The latest of her under
water craft were. it is understood.
built under strict and heavy guard and
not a soul has seen them, or really
knows anything about them except
those whose duty it is. 1t seems Ger
tain. however, in view of Germany s
past performances and her promises
for the future. that her newer craft
possess some advantages that are not
shared in by the other fleets
Secret Base One Theory.
One theory propounded is that some
where on the = coast of the British
Isles Germany has a secret base at
which her submarines can replenish
their supplies and start afresh with
out having to make the long trip back
across the North sea. Another is that
her fleet has floating bases at points
whose location is known-something
in the nature of huge submerged
anchored drums which can be brought
to the surface and from which fresh
supplies of oil fuel, compressed air
and provisions may be drawn. The
drst idea takes one back to the old
smuggler days; the second sounds like
looking for needle in haystack.