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his third or fourth move and finds ib,.
by mid game his own pieces are seat.
tered and shorn of strength. Thor.
are "iron' men and Short route" mo,
In baseball, just as there are COOL
openers and bad end game PLAYERS
in checkers.
The checker player who tries to 20,
q king at once and play a one ma,
game may he likened to the pitcher
who tries to win "A game all by him.
self, without reliance on his team.
mates. On the other hand, the pitcher
who doesn't care how often the bah &
hit, so long as II doesn't get away
from his fielders. is using precisely
the same strategy as the checker
player who makes his pieces suppor,
each other and plays "a twelve man
game.
Again, a pitcher who enters a game
with his support weakened in one or
two spots, perhaps by the presence W
"A substitute or the slump Of n star
may take a lesson from the tactics of
the checker player, who with a weak
double corner" tempts his
to mass his attack at some other poin,
The pitcher, under these circum.
stances. will be likely to throw a ban
which his batter. whose peculiarities
he always studies. will he unlikely 10
hit to the weak spot in his suppor
Baseball fans all know that the very
qualities mentioned here are the ones
that have made Mathewson the grca,
pitcher that he is: they have given
the distinctive quality of "brainincss"
to his work. Why not require all
pitchers to take a course in checker
playing?
In the particular match mentioned
at the outset Mr.. Lannin's man lost.
But Mr.. Lannin has usually picked a
winner in checkers. lie was a fire.
quent hacker of the late Charles f.
Barker. the Stonewall Jackson ~
checkers and N Of the creates,
match players in the world. He has
backed Henderson also in several sue
cessful matches.
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n dedlt and bid a spade, which at that
time meant no bid. Judged by correct
standards, there is not a single sure
trick In his hand, yet at several tables
he bid one royal. When 4 said no
trump. Y and Il both passed. The dealer
who had PASSED In the first place now
bid two spades royals them and A
bid two no trumps.
Al the table at which Il passed the
first bid, Y inferred that he had no tops
in spades. His bidding them on the
second round, against a no-trumper. Is
simply asking his partner to lead him a
spade, on the chance that IL MAY save
the game, If A goes on with the no
trumper, Suits asked for II this man.
ner are often cleared at once II the
partner has any honor, and there Is
"A reentry with the suit.
At eveiw table at which z had bid the
spade originally. and at two at which
he had not. Y led the spade, and the
result was that A made two spades, six
diamonds and four hearts before he let
go the lead again.
At one table at which Y read the
postponed bid correctly the spade was
not led up to the declared stopper in
that suit, Y starting with a small club
instead. The result was that fve club
tricks saved the game before A gol
going.
The excuse made by one OF those who
held VS. hand was that II Y had ever
one sure trick in spades, that would
put him In TO lead the club. But how
Is Il to know that IL is quite safe "a
lead away from a doubly guarded king;
There are many cases In which these
postponed bids are made by the second
hand. II must not he forgotten tina
when the dealer passes, the second hand
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When an expert sits down to a game
of checkers he has one ultimate object
in view-to remove his opponents
pieces from the board before all of his
own are gone. lie knows that to ac-
complish this he must have his mind
all along on the end of the game as
we'll as on the beginning or middle.
To be sure he holds himself ready to
take instant advantage of any weak
ness shown by his adversary, but he
looks ahead to see IL this advantage
will he only "A temporary n that may
get him into difficulties alter on. He
does not play for the moment, but for
the game as n whole. He learns
caution and the need Of conserving his
resources.
Moreover he does o blaze away at
his opponents king row from the very
start, resorting to any means to get
n man crowned and then trying to
win the whole game with that king. In
other words he does not play, IA one
piece game. He develops his men to-
gether, keeping them in positions in
which they support each other, and
relying on the strength of the whole.
rather than on the daring Of one or
w pieces. He plays a twelve piece
game.
He learns still other lessons Of
strategy. II he develops a weakness
on one side OF the board he learns to
resort to various tricks to lure his
opponent to attack the other side.
Thus he gains time to strengthen his
weakness or TO devotion a similar weak
ness in his opponent.
The application Of all this to Pitch
ing is obvious. A pitcher must start
out To win, not one inning or four, but
a whole game. lie must have his mind
on the ultimate object. lie must learn
caution and the necessity OF conserv-
ing his strength. If he starts out to
fan every batter and blows up" in
the seventh he Is giving way to the
same temptation to which the checker
player succumbs when he tries to be-
gin winning his opponents pieces at
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, lot was sold. The 80 lots are now
in the best part of Paterson, Twenty.
third street in that city passing through
II. Brown said that the properly is
worth to-day several hundred thousand
dollars without buildings. This was
Browns beginning as an operator.
Real estate proved so much mora
profitable that he rave up his store and
gave all his attention to buying and
selling farms. He cut them up into
lots and sold them off to home build.
ers. Brown soon became the leading
real estate man of Paterson. About
1905 he decided that Paterson was too
small for him and he came TO New
York. a field on which ne had his eye
for many years. New York was then IN
the midst of one of the creates, real
estate boofns in the history of the city
Deals involving $4,000 and SIS, 900,
though sensational out Paterson way.
were commonplace in New York, Mr.
Brown soon discovered. But he knew
real estate and in his quiet way bought
here. then there. all small properties,
which he turned over at comfortable
profits. He formed q partnership with
Mr.. Weiss under the name Of the
Brown-Weiss Realities. and then Launched
into h market in n fashion which
called forth considerable comment.
who are they" and where are
they getting the money!" were Qucs-
tions heard through the market. Brown
Il Weiss continued to buy and soil
They bought everything but properties
OF the highest class. That is to say.
they left Fifth emu and the financial
zone real estate alone. About eigh,e,r
months ago the partnership was Dis
solved and Brown went his way and
Weiss his. Since then Mr.. Brown has
been even more active than before, when
his firm averaged about sixty deals 81
year. Mr.. Browns trading has been
confined chiefly to West Side and Bronx
apartment houses.
Mr.. Brown has bought fifteen elevator
apartment houses of an average value
Of $500, 900 each since the first Of the
year. Among these are Rugby Hal
and Elton Hall on Clarem"nt avenue
opposite Barnard College camprs N.
twelve story apartment at $40 aud a'g
West Eighty-sixth street, valued ~
100000: the corner of Morutugsudo
Drive and 122d street and the corner
of Convent avenue and listh street.
He now holds forty properties ~ var
GUS kinds valued at 81. % 900.
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Landsdowne. For one Of the pieces
which he took In part payment for the
apartment house he has refused an offer
of $4,000 more thar the property fig
ured at in the trade.
Frederick Brown. who last week
bough; "A Broadway loft building val
ued at 100000. and several apartment
houses in various parts OF The Bronx.
Is n of the most active men in the
real estate market to-day. For the last
Brown has averaged three deals a
week. Some OF these deals involved
three and four different properties. for
it must be understood that Brown
is a noted barterer Of equities. His
trading last week affected property val
Ties at $780, 600. He IL credited with
doing more than $4,000. 900 worth Of
buy ing in the last year. a record which
stands for something.
Mr.. Brown has been operating in
New York real estate for about ten
years. He came here from Paterson.
y. j.. after operating there for about
fiftern years. Brown is a real estate
man hy Inheritance, his father having
been one of the leading real estaters
in Carlsbad. the famous Austrian town.
Young Mr.. Brown located in the New
Jersey city when it vas as rural as II
cOulu possibly ne. lie conducted n gen.
eral store. selling medicine. groceries,
wearing apparel n household goods
TO his n~eighbors. who for the most
part were farmers. Though he was a
general trader and making money he
had "A hankering to cut loose md go
the real estate business. one which
ne had heard much about when a
shaver of IA boy.
one of his neighbors had a farm Of
about twenty-five acres within the city
limits. The farmer knew that the land
could be put to better use than agri-
culture, and like a dissatisfied man made
known his troubles or thoughts to all
he knew. He told Mr.. Brown that he
would like TO sell his farm. thinking
hat perhaps Brown during the course
OF his business might meet some one
who would like to have his property.
Brown turned the matter over In his
mind for a day or two and then decided
that he would buy 1t himself. Though
the farmer had talked Of selling his
acres he hesitated when Brown told him
he would TAX the farm. The deal was
however. and Brown got the
for $4,000. lie subdivided IL
into go building lots and a week after
he had placed them on the market every
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| enough TO help A in CARRYING out a hear
] declaration, n will never go game in
| clubs. IL Y is the strong hand It will
not be left at clubs. A Ia therefore I'm
no hurry, and passes.
Y bid a spade. Rand n passjng This
considerable danger that Y will go game
In spades with the assistance OF Us
clubs, 80 A must trot out his defence.
bidding two hearts. Y went right on
to two spades without waiting for n.
II Is not deceived even for a moment
by As bid. lie knows that the deelara-
ton Is simply defensive and that A
never had a good heart bid or he would
have made IL on the first round. For
this reason Il refuses to assist IL, even
with his shoppers I'm both the black
suits and two diamond tricks. A plays
the hand at two spades.
Mdny players would start BIS hand
with a heart, hoping for the run. But
with strong trumps II will invariably
pay the leade to start with his long
suit VI he has one. III Il tries for the
UNI in hearts. Y will make his com
tract.
Instead OF the heart. X led the king
or diamonds to have a look, and fol-
owed with a small club. upon which
dummy put the King. A trump lead
brought the JACK from Y and the King
from Il. Now one OF his equals In clubs
put dummy In again.
dummy dropped the trumps and led
tne neart. taxing the fnesse ana lead
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HOSE who happened to drop in

IT HOSE who happened TO drop into
L the Cotton Building, Toledo,
Ohio. one February day in 1910
came Upon a strange scene. on oppo-
site sides of a table in the corner of
a crowded room two men sat facing
each other with bowed heads, lost In
study. The spectators were as silent
as they. In a smaller room adjoining
sat another group, the members OF
which now gazed anxiously through
the door or paced nervously up and
down.
The two men at the table were play
ing a checker match for the cham
pionship of America. Each move was
recorded on n wall board. The eyes
Of n of the spectators in the ante
room, n portly, middle aged gentleman,
seemed to seek this board oftener than
others eyes; he seemed to give II
deeper study than the rest. The name
Of this man was j. j. Lannin. He
was not then the owner. president and
treasurer OF the Boston Red Sox. His
career as baseball magnate had not
begun. He was known only as a hotel
owner and n rich man.
He had personally backed one of the
players in that checker match and had
come all the way from Boston TO see
him win. lie had promoted other
checker matches too and was known
as a checker fan. He had been the
financial mainstay of the historic team
match between Great Britain and this
country in 1905, l.. :. Head. manager
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people who would come To his theatre 4
he could give them real estate.
Impossible" he murmured, and turn.
ing about 10 his desk dived into real busi.
ness. But the idea OF giving away lots
would not leave him no matter how harl
he tried to get rid OF the distraction. A
few weeks later he learned that the
suburbs of n Francisco could he had
for f.25 an acre. so he bought up a
big patch of uburb and advertised that
every seat holder al his theatre would
be given a lot In the suburbs. Hours
before the show began every seat in the
house was sold. He kept on giving away
lots with theatre tickets for several
weeks.
Every lot holder had to get a deed
from Bloom. which cost 81 each. so that
Bloom sold acres which cost him sl.25
ach for s32. besides making big money
out OF his show.
With the none made from his
theatrical and real estate combination
he started for New York. but halted in
Chicago and built the Midway dance In
the fair and made a lot more money.
From Chicago he came to New York.
His first venture here was a lease OF the
building at l4Sj Broadway. adjoining
Hammerstein's and now a Childs restau-
tiA blocAh soil i've NtN hiit 'Vukh Nv
another. sold that and bought others.
Each lease brought him II profit.
Being a Westerner he preferred leas-
ing TO buying, 1t being a practice OF his
section and because less non was
needed to lease than TO buy, an opinion
he still holds.
II was not until about six years ago
that Bloom first began To loom big in
New York's real estate armament lie
was known well enough as a dispenser
of harmony and talking machines. Felix
Isman had bought several months pre-
viously the broadway Theatre Building.
He was talking about his big buy 10
Bloom and several others when Bloom
told Isman that he was not getting put
OF the Broadway property all he should
get.
III YOU can do better 20 ahead and
YOU will be taken care Of vas lsman's
answer. Bloom did do better.
Bloom has built the Eltinge and the
Gambler theatres on West Forty-second
street. The site of the latter was an
old public school which Bloom got the
city to swap for part of the old 81. Pat
rick's Cathedral property ON East
Eleventh street. 1t was the first time
the city has been known to trade its
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This releases the man on I and pre-
vents the draw.
II in reply to o6--Sl at -" white
plays 1j-lO. we get 7-li, s-2j and
3I-26, black wins,
II al &C." white plays IS, we get
10. 15-1S, 26-23. and again black
wins. The star move IL 22-26.
Those who answered this problem
correctly. showing why white could not
draw the game. were:
Robert II. HiNon, NJ j. Mann, G.. y
H., Hoboken, John DAILY, Samuel Gonot-
sky. Nareik. A. Rand. A. j. H., l.. :.
Hart. Jr.. u. A. W, g.. NJ Bum. A.
Campbell, James q. Pinkerton. T. J.
Graf, James Hyland and J.. n. Noremac.
This small number OF successful solvers
is due to the general opinion that II was
"a drawn game. the 22-26 mover being
overlooked. as it was in No. 3i2. Late
solutions to No. 343 came from A. Rand.
T.. j. Graft. A. Hitler. :. Broder. A. J. b.
Thomas Foy N II. Pitt.
Here Is a rather clever little ending.
sent to THE SrS from Australia. and
credited To one OF the well known COM
posers.
PROBLEM NO. GAG. CHECKERS
BY G. Steiner.
Black.
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PROBLEMS FOR "SUN"
READERS TO SOLVE
Search for Extra Trick in
. Bridge Hand Affords Les
son in Forcing Discards.
CLEVER CHECKER BINDINGS

Bridge problem No. 3Ii, which was
sent to THE SrN by a correspondent in
Worcester, Mass. was a rather tricky
proposition. and a number OF solvers
wrote to say that they did not think It
could be done. being apparently encour-
aged i'm that belief by the fact that 1t
was not positively stated tina there
were nine tricks In 1t for Y and u.
But IL there are a certain number OF
tricks In plain sight In any position of
the cards 1t is not a problem unless II
is the intention of the composer to get
one more. II that extra trick Is not
there. the problem is unsound. Here il
the distribution in No. 344:
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A QUESTION or SUPPLY.

Here is a little puzzle that has the
merit OF avoiding fractions, both In the
question and in the answer:
In looking over the pasturage at the
disposal of the Government in Germany
II was found that on a certain farm four
acres OF grass would support seven oxen
for a month. or thirty days. Upon an
adjoining farm II was found that fifteen
oxen ate up the grass on eight acres in
nine days.
If the grass were alike IN both farms.
II would seem that the second or larger
should support fourteen oxen for a
month, and why one more animal should
eat up the difference in twenty-one day
the officials could not understand, 50
they took away one of the oxen and
two of the acres, leaving thirteen ami
mails on seven acres of grass,
Assuming that the grass went on
growing at the same rate all the time,
how long did it take them to eat up the
seven acres?
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BINDINGS.

Problem No. 344, By II. ID. Lyman.
was intended as "a sort OF sequel to No.
$40, and the similarity OF the two
caught u large number mapping. prob
ably because they thought that the line
OF play that Cane 80 near solving 342
would be just bout right for No. 34i.
The distribution OF the pieces Is
Black man on Z kings on IL n II.
White Kings on II and IL. The aues-
ton Is, a white play and draw?
Those who answered in the affirmative
got the draw i'm this way.
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s451s3
96Oj4O
The larger cube measured
3l66i3


II these two are cubed and the lesser
deducted from the greater. the difference
will be found to be exactly s.
No one got these figures. John Beat
tie gets > feet cube for the smaller block
and . feet 1Oj parts of 256 feet for the
larger. the vulgar fraction being
4.59-64 inches.
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White.

White to play and win.
The distribution OF the piece. 10:
Black men on y. II n % kings on 6
and 90. White men on 5. is. % and
81 king on 30.
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This repeat move liz depended on to
draw the game. and for years the prob
lem vas regarded as sound, until one
OF those camy Scots. who taxi checkers
as seriously as golf. sent this variation
to the Glasgow Herald. starting ut a."
by playing 26-3l instead of 26-23.
Then this follows
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THOSE COPPER CUREs.

This interesting little puzzle, which
was sent to THE SUS by Ernest Berg
holt. was to determine the size of two
exact cubes OF copper, one of which
contained six cubic feet more than the
other, the dimensions TO be given in feet
and vulgar fractions. no decimals being
allowed.
The answer Is that the smaller cube
measured:
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MAKING ALIENS
BETTER CITIZENS

Continued from First Page
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-24
PANORAMIC | |
View of Yellowstone National
Park is Issued by Secre-
tarysLane.

WASHINGTON, Jan pa pano-
ranlic view OF Yellowstone National
Park, showing the characteristic fea-
lures Of the Landscape, has just been
issued by direction OF Secretary Lane
This panorama shows 10 a striking
manner the great central plateau and
the mountain ranges that surround It
Nine colors were used in the print
ing, the meadows and valleys being in
Night green, the streams and lakes In
hight blue, the cliffs and ridges IN
combination Of colors, and the roads
in hight brown.
The lettering Is printed in light
brown, which Is easily read ON close
inspection, but which merges into the
basic colors when the sheet Is held
at ONE distance. This view. which
may be purchased from the superin-
tendent OF documents, government
printing office, Washington, D. C.. for
20 cents, measures is 10 by 81 inches
and Is on the scale of 8 miles to the
inch. 1t Is based on accurate surveys
sind gives an excellent idea OF the con-
hguration Of the surface as IT would
appear to a person moving over 1t in
an aeroplane.
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HOWE PICTURES SHOW
". 5. NAVY in ACTION

some damage after firing "salvos. .
The force OF the concussion is SO
great that great steel doors are
sometimes rent from their hinges
which have been pulled apart like a
mass Of molasses candy.
The romance Of industry as ex-
pressed in the making of a National
cash register constitutes another
feature of the program. Howe SEE
lected this particular plant, not alone
because 1t is typical of American
skill, enterprise and organization
but becauseit is recognized the world
over as the model manufacturing
.plant-a monumental realization Of
an idea and an ideal. The variety
of the scenes may be imagined when
1T is remembered that 90 trades and
professions are engaged here in man
ufacturing machines from 5000
different kinds of raw material COM
ing from all quarters Of the globe.
The registers are shipped to rs diff
ferent countries and protect 33 diff
fefent ccinages Of money.
"A The Philippines Of today and yes
terday-the past and present GUS
toms. costumes, dances, habits, etc.,
of strange people forms another
noteworthy subject of vital and alb
sorbing interest, besides many other
features sof rare charm and beauty,
not to mention entirely new animat-
cd cartoons which always form such
a welcome and pleasant diversion.