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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-30

JOnn Granam could not sleep CnaC
night. He wandered about the house
istlessly. He crept close to the door;
of Roses room. He could hear her
low sobbings. Then, as he sat in the
darkness in the front room of ther
house, there was patter of two lit
tie bare feet. A bar of moonlight
fell upon a. piece of carpet in thee
kitchen that was Ladies' bed. And,r
kneeling upon it, as though it weres
some sacred prayer rug, was Rose!
She was too i'll to arise in the morn-q
ing. There were tokens of fever. Mr.
Graham attended to his round of duUF
ties about house and yard. He kept
putting off going down town. Them
as he caught the echo of a muffledz
cry from Rose, his lips grew cruellyf
stern and decided. X
'Laddie must come back" he mutt
tered. Hunger, homelessness, rags
we can bear them all better thafs
our poor darling's suffering"
He clutched the little roll of bank
bills in his pocket with forecful de-
termination. He knew where the
Doanes' home was located and he,
started in it's direction. Half the dis
lance accomplished, he was met by
Mr.. Doane and his chauffeur in the
automobile. He hailed him to stop.T
Then he noticed Laddie in the MAJ
chine.
I've come to give you back that;
money" said Mr.. Graham at once.
my little one is heart-broken over,
him." -
why, 1 was just bringing the dog
back to you," replied Mr.. Doane. Il
declare; we're in terrible mess, both,
of us. left my child fairly hyster;
ical over my taking the dog away
No, no, my friend" continued Mr..
Doane, pushing back the profered
$50. "It was fair sale and I return
A., l.. - I'D
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guarantees as to the frank and fair
consideration of all the elements en-
tering into the equation.
The foot ball committee Of five, which
will plan the policy for the team of
1915, consists of:
Graduates-E. Cozens, 1910, and W.
Sinkler, 1906.
Undergraduate member George
Wharton Pepper, jr., the son of the
man who some years ago was so very
a BILE and influential in PENIS affairs.
THE captain and manager. of the team
will ex oficio make up the other two.
These are E. D. Harris, captain, and
Fred W. Adams, manager.
The athletic association will have
as its president H. L. Geyelin and Rob-
ert Torrey for it's vice president. Rob-
ert E. Lamberton was reelected Sec
retary.
The following other committees have
been appointed:
Base BALI. H. Hammet, E. Hare,
Langdon Rooms. Capt. Dick" Wallace
and Manager Huston.
Rowing. W. Townsend, J. A.
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LEAD POPULAR CAUSE.
Varsity Athletes Take a Stand for
General Temnersnce

DETROIT, Mich, January 9.-var-
sity athletes at the University OF
Michigan have. as a body, taken a
stand for temperance and clean living
among students. This action has
aroused widespread interest, not be-
cause college athletes are supposed TO
be unfriendly. or even Indifferent. to
the best ideals of student life and con-
duct, but because these campus leaders
have elected to make a formal public
declaration Of their convictions
Prominent athletes. for the most part
have been disposed, regardless of their
personal beliefs and practices, to leave
the solution Of moral issues in college
life to those persons and organizations
whose particular business it is to at
tend to them. They have developed
and conserved their own physical pow
ers for the purpose of winning athletic
contests. Clean living for the games
sake" has been their motto. Michigan
athletes, however, have undertaken 10
popularize a movement to eradicate
those evils which bring discredit upon
the individual student and upon the
university. This movement has been
making real progress during the last
few years,
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Brown, H. Eisenbray. c. Henry Scott
Capt J. Vaughn Merrick, Sd, and Man
ager Fred Davis.
Track-H. Kennedy Hill, E. r. Bush
nell, J. z. Meredith. Capt. Donald LIP
pincott and Manager J. n. Cheston.
Allied sports-L. Lee, Horace Lippin-
colt, T. B. Thayer, c. Webster and
Howard K. Marcy.
The University of Pittsburgh starts
out with force of athletic coaches
which gives promise of the continu-
ance of its steady advance in the
athletic world. Glenn Warner, the for
mer Cornell player and Indian coach
will have the foot ball interests in
charge, while NJ. NJ. Edmunson, Pitts
burgh graduate, will handle base ball
DR.. G. NJ. Flint of Pennsylvania has
charge of basket ball interests; Prof
Andrew Kerr, track athletics: J. T.
Taylor, swimming; Prof. Postgate
fencing, and Harry Seymour, tennis
Altogether it looks like rosy year
for Pittsburgh athletics.
Copyright by Otis f. Woodl
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out of Irish names, and to save my
life 1 couldn't think of one to suit.
tried and tried, and all T could think
of was Christ on the cross-Christ
Cross-Christy Cross. There was a
Christian name surely-Christy Cross. ;.
$50 that was the name I gave,
laughed Leach, "and the fellows kept
on calling me Cross afterward, and
soon / entered the ring with it, and it
has stuck to me ever since.
1T was Jim Buckley who tackled the
Leach on me. 1t was at the Sharkey
Club, and Jim was doing the announc-
ing as usual. He asked me my name
and 1 said Iacke Cross Lacke is a
nickname that they have always called
me around home as long as 1 can re-
member. Well, Buckley Just couldn't
say Iacke,' so he said Leach-Leach
Cross"
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BY ERNEST J. LANIGAN. =

Buck" Freeman's record of twenty
five home runs, established while Johf'
B. was a member of the Washington
National League Club in 1899, would
go by the boards next season if Presi-
dent William F. Baker of the Phillies
could see to it that "Gavvy" Cravath,
one time Senator, was played regular
ly by Manager Pat Moran and If the
schedule makers would allow the
Quakers to play all their champion
ship games at the Broad and Hunting
ton street grounds. Clifford Carlton.
for the second year in succession, led
the senior league in four-baggers dur
ing 1914, making the same number of
circuit smashes last year as he did the
preceding season - nineteen. During
the last campaign, however, the Cali
fornian, on whom Magazinist Charles
E. VanLoan pinned the nickname of
wooden Shoes" when both were out
in Los Angeles. failed to hit for the
full distance at any park except that
in the Quaker city. In 1913 six of
Cravaths four furlong drives were
poled on foreign fields, three being
made in ST. Louis, one in Cincinnati,
one in Boston and one in New York.
CFdVdtn Obtained ulIeeH VI HiS
homers last season off right-handed
pitchers. four off fingers of the port
persuasion. The only set of slabmen
he failed to hit against for the cir
cult were those employed by Schuyler
P. Britton and managed by Miller J.
Higgins. "Gavvy" mauled 9oston's
boxmen for four, Cincinnati's for four.
Brooklyn's for four, Chicago for four,
New York's for two and Pittsburgh's
for one. James Sanford Lavender of
the Cubs was hurler whose delivery
Cravath fancied. The man from Mon
tezuma was nicked for three four
baggers by the hard-hitting Quaker.
two of these coming in the same game.
Richard w. Marquard was located for
pair of homers in one contest. Dick
Rudolph of Boston helped swell Cra-
vath's home run output by two swats
and SO did Don Carlos Patrick Ragan
of the Superbas. Other pitchers who
were touched for homers by Cravath
were Bill James and Gene Cocreham
of the Braves, Earl Yingling, Phil
Douglass, Leon Ames and King Lear
of the Reds; Ed Reulbach and Charley
Schmutz of the Superbas. George
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lege graduate-the only one in the
ring, too and don't forget that al
ways wanted to be a fighter" said
Leach.
But he didn't get any encourage
ment in this wish. The larger boys in
the settlement, house gymnasium would
gladly and cheerfully murder him every
night, but that is all.
"And I didn't get a nickel for all
those lickings,'' moaned Cross
Sooner or later, though, he was sure
he would be fighter.
In the mean time he tried his feet
at running. and finding that they ran
along pretty good he joined the A.
A. w. and was runner Instead.
| .eThat is how 1 happened to have
the name of Cross says Leach. "Oh.
l was some athlete, 1 was. I never
could win a medal, and if there was
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anything in the world that I would
have liked to have, it was a medal"
he laughed. "Once 1 thought I saw
chance to clean up. The American
Lithographers' Association planned
an athletic meeting at Celtic Park, and
the first place looked easy except-ex-
cept-except for the "micks.'' 1 knew
that all would be Irish over there, and
/ a tough gang of harps they are, too.
Me and my gang of pals were He
brews, and n fine chance we would
have of getting away with any prizes,
even if we did win them. Those Irish
ers would take 'em away from us
sure. So we decided to call ourselves
by Irish names and fool 'em. SO Levy
took the name of Kelly. Einstein took
the name of Muldoon, Rosenberg took
O'Brien for a pseudonym, and so on.
when my turn came we had run
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PIGEON CLUB ELECTION.
W. J. Toy and Full Ticket Selected
BY Washington Homing Fanaiers

The twenty-sixth annual meeting of
the Washington Racing Pigeon Club
was held last night at the assembly
hall OF the Carnegie Library, and the
following officers elected: President, W.
]. Toy; first vice president, r. B. Lloyd;
second vice president. E. c. Koch; sec
retary-treasurer, w. F. Dismer; race
committee. c. A Dusterhoff, chairman
E. C. Koch. F. P. Leach, H NJ. Gordon,
William Koch, R. B. Lloyd and W. F.
Dismer.
The following program was adopted
for 1915: Cumberland, Md, April "a;
connellsville. Pa. May 1: Cameron, W.
Va. May 8; Urichsville, Ohio, May IS;
Mount Vernon, Ohio, May %: Tiffin.
Ohio. May 2s; Deshler, Ohio, June s:
Napanee. Ind, June II; Chicago, Ill,
June Is; Helena. Mont, July A.
Handsome prizes will be offered sue
cessful owners, and in addition the
members will compete for $l,40O offered
by the American Racing Pigeon Union
The next meeting will be held Janu-
f, ary %, at which many new applicants
will be elected. Fanciers desirous NJ
becoming affiliated with the Washine-
ton Racing Pigeon Club are welcome at
all meetings.
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Boy Scouts Aid Runners.

The Boy Scouts Of Troop No. AZ, under
the direction Of Scoutmaster Taylor.
were Of much value to the runners in
the south Atlantic cross-country cham
pionship event held here yesterday
over the course in Potomac Park. The
boys tagged the entire course, and had
it not been due to a mistake made by
some one else there would not have
been any mix-up in the direction the
runners were to take. Much credit is
due the youngsters for their work.
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date manner. All of each morning he
spends at his chair. In the afternoon
he trains for his battles, and his spare
time is spent in lauding his boxing
brethren. OF all fighters, Cross is -un-
is most unusual to listen to boxer
giving his opponent the best Of it.
Cross does that. and so it is little Won
der that he is the best liked by them.
Leach is now busy training for Joe
Shugrue, the little New Jersey boy
who holds newspaper decisions over
Welsh and White. Cross has met Joe
on two former occasions, and both
were grand fights. In the latter one
Cross nearly succeeded in hanging a
*. Q. by after Joe's name. 1t is the
only knockdown that Shugrue has suf-
fered.
Although 7 am a dentist and a col
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ing point scored against 1t, defeating
Harvard 10 to o. Princeton 10 to 0 and
Penn 4S to 0. He himself played half
back, and while in the beginning Of
his foot ball career he was not fast
enough to avoid being caught from be-
hind. he gave evidence of such ability
as lodging runner that after his first
year great pains were spent upon de-
veloping his speed in order that he
might not be overtaken. The combina-
ton proved successful. and he became
one of the hardest runners to stop that
ever trod the gridiron. He was captain
of his base ball nine also. After grad
uation he went out to the ST. Paul and
Duluth Railroad Company and thence
to the Southern Railway Company. He
became treasurer of Yale University,
and later was appointed by President
Taft treasurer of the United States.
No man was ever better loved by Yale
men throughout the country, and his
death is a loss that all will feel.
Dad" Moulton, the old Stanford
coach and trainer. is responsible for the
laying down and conditioning of the
cinder track in San Francisco for the
Panama Pacific international eXposi-
tion games. Before the death of Jim
Sullivan plans had gone far toward the
development of the athletic features of
this exposition, and one OF them was
the preparation of a track which
should be phenomenal in the history of
the country. The path conforms to the
new rule of easurement-twelve inch
es from the curb instead Of eighteen
and it already has been tried out by
the best men on the coast and pro-
|
tion. 1t is well that every attraction
of the kind can be offered, for in the
death of Sullivan and the war in Eu-
rope two heavy blows have been in
f1icted upon the cause of international
athletics from which only the best of
efforts can be expected to revive them
When a particular branch of athletics
Is successful. or where there are stars
in any special line of sport, it has been
proved time and again that instead of
these stars preventing other men from
trying they have, instead, a stimulating
effect. History has so often shown in
track athletics that if college has a
remarkable pole vaulter others are de-
veloped so that that college is likely to
lead in pole vaulting for a number of
seasons after the original star has
graduated. Foot ball at Cambridge
this year proved another example of
this same phenomena, for $50 more
men came out for the sport than the
previous year. Some of the smaller
colleges can realize something of the
wealth of material at Cambridge when
they know that the Harvard foot ball
PLAYERS totaled 1854. The same is true
of rowing at New Haven, where the
number OF candidates for the crew this
year increased SO that it Is almost i'm
possible to take care Of them.
A very interesting contest is prom
fsed this next spring in the visit to
California of the track team of the
University of Illinois, which, under
western championship. This visit is to
be made early to the Pacific coast,
where it will meet the track team of
the University of California at Berke-
ley.
Penn's athletic policy, including foot
ball, will be outlined and governed by
a body of gentlemen whose names arc
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months. is back in Washington for the
winter. He is keeping in condition by
bowling, and may be found daily spill
ing the little pins" at one of the local
alleys.
will be asked to appoint their delegates
for the annual meeting of the District
of Columbia Golf Association, which
will be held the first Monday in March,
as Secretary Alpheus Winter is plan
ming to send out notice to this effect
within the next week or two.
winter rules" now are being played
at the Washington Country Club, and
temporary greens are being used. Win
ter rules" vary at the different clubs,
but those at the Washington Country
Club are the same Chevy Chase has
adopted: l. e., tee up for every shot on
the fair green. These rules, which are
made for the better protection of the
course, are now being followed by
John S. Morris defeated Maj. Butler
for position in the finals of the con-
ISOLATION event of the harvest home"
tournament at Bannockburn last week
in the only match played, winning by
l up. The match was a "nip-and-tuck"
affair from start to finish, and was won
on the seventeenth, Morris taking this
and then holding the major to a half
on the home hole.
The Columbia Country Club golfers
who are planning a golf excursion to
Augusta. Ca. have decided to leave
Washington either January 21 or %,
and to remain about ten days. The
party probably will be made up up Of
the following, none of whom were able
to get away from business for a vaca-
ton during the summer: S. Percy
Thompson, Otto J. De ioll, R. w. Cox,
Eugene c. Gott. J. Thilman Hendrick,
George P. James. John c. Walker, John
L. Weaver, William E. Shannon, Dom
aid Woodward. Daniel K. Jackson, Ar
thur B. Shelton, John w. Brawner and
probably z. B. Eynon and L. E. Sin
clair.
Bannockburn now is planning to
open its new course with tournament
this spring. The usual annual event is
held in the fall, but it was not played
last year because neither of the
courses were then in very good con-
dition The club expects to use it's
present course until April, but in the
meantime things are coming along in
great shape at the new plant and many
are playing out there, too.
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BY ROBERT L. RIPLEY.
q Won knn1z Dr Innis Wallach >

Do you know DR.. Louis Wallach?
Most of us do. The doctor and Leach
Cross are too well known as one and
the same for the fact to be a surprise
to you. In the Office he is DR.. Wallach
in the ring he Is Leach Cross. In the
morning he is dentist; in the after
noon he is a pugilist. And, what Is
more, he is as good at dentistry as he
is at the fight game.
One is apt to imagine that the "Dr.
is a very shallow title. But be II
known that DR.. Wallach has most
modern and up-to-date dental office IN
the Bronx (New York; and carries on
his dentistry in modern and up-1o-
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MARSHA[LP[AYS
IN SPLENDID FORM
Chess Champion Gives Bril-
liant Exhibition of Simul-
taneous Play. +!
LOSES ONLY ONE GAME
OUT OF TWENTY-SEVEN
J. E. R. Ray Is Lone Victor of All
Opponents That Faced the
Titleholder.

The exhibitions of simultaneous chess
given by Frank ]. Marshall. United States
champion before tho Washington Chess
and Whist Club last Wednesday after
noon and evening were pleasure that
will long be remembered by those prss-
ent. The master was at his best and his
brilliant attacks swept the local amateur.
off their feet. only one player scoring Out
OF the twenty seven who opposed hIlR.
This is record against the w. c. and
w. c, Las.er. Capabianca and even tho
late Harry fillsbury, the greatest exhihi-
tor the world has ever known, never haN-
ing come within range of this mark j.
+, r. Ray was the only player TO win from
Marshall and therefore all the more credit
is due for his victory. T.. u. Adams.
after fighting his way through a long and
exceedingly complicated middle gamo 10
a winning position. fell victim to one
of Marshall's celebrated "swiudels' when
the battle had almost been decided In LIS
favor. This was the only game the mas
ter should have lost in the evening ses-
sion. Perhaps the largest audience that
ever witnessed II chess event in this city
was present at the evening exhibition.
and MIR. Marshall expressed himself rs
being delighted with the reception ten
dered him.
! His official business finished, MIR. Mar
shall remained in the city over THURSDAY.
spending the day III skittie games. con
suitation games, etc. The score Of one
of the hardest fought of these encounters
follows, Messrs. Adams. Martin, Wimsatt
and Wheatly composing the allied forces.
Unfortunately Mr. Ray failed to lle..;,
n score of his brilliant victory over Nj
Marshall, so that our readers may nc:
have the pleasure of seeing just now It
was done
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LEE M'CLUNG WAS
BIG MAN AT YALE
Former U. S. Treasurer, Who
Recently Died, Captained
Great Foot Ball Team.
SPORTS GET STIMULUS
BY DEVELOPING CHAMPS
Success of Harvard's Elevens Caused
364 Candidates to Report
Last Fall.
BY WALTER CAMP.
LEE McCLUNG, for

LEE McCLUNG, for
mer treasurer of
the United States.
recently died in
London. a t t e r a
t h r e e month ILL
ness Of typhoid
( Q v er. McClung
was one OF the
m o s t n o t e d o f
Ya1e's athletes. He
was captain of the
foot ball team of
1891, which went
through the sea-
son without hav-
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should be an easy out, with the fielder
waiting with the ball, yet time after
time the runner eludes the touch
through the fal1away slide. though the
ball often beats him yard or more to
the base. Such plays invariably get
the umpire in trouble. for the runner
is positive he wasn't touched, while the
fielder is equally certain he put the ball
all over him.
The umpire is unquestionably the
greatest alibi in base ball When he
steps on the field he has eighteen ac-
tive players. a swarm Of substitutes
from both sides, two wise managers
and hostile crowd arrayed against
him. When mistakes are made the
easiest way is to try to place the blame
on the umpire. In the future please
don't blame the umpire every time you
see a player kick. for he isn't always
wrong. as some people would have you
believe.
Copyright. 1916. by ". G. Evans>
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Kicking a cripple" or taking candy
from a baby" is perhaps no higher
achievement than punning on such u
name as korkus, but it is impossi'
not to speak of his work in the recent
intercollegiate matches as ''corking'
Of Columbia's star team he was the
first magnitude entry, as the following
games will show:
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Impirei isoneo of
inquire will
pitch isn't drawing
70 meet
at
Of
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UMPIRE OFFERS BEST ALIBI
WHEN SOME ONE BLUNDERS
Mistakes Usually Are Charged to the Ar
bitter When It Appears He Has Erred
on Close and Costly Play.
BY BILLY EVANS.

Base largely a game Of a1fbis The player can
always offer when things do not break his
The umpire stands of all abis for the
ball player The umpire is not infalibe he
makes mistakes nearly fan and player
wouId have you Often the umpire renders
that the result OF the
vet for rendering decision often mobbed
and number Of other indignites
the hands insist he robbed their
out Of game.
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N. T. Whitaker contributes the fol-
lowing beautiful problem, which he
says, is now going the rounds in New
York and "stumping'' the best of the
metropolitan solvers: