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The Washington times., 1915-01-14
TEAMS
TO BATTLE M|DD|ES
Blue and Gray Athletes Will
Meet Sailors Both in Track
and at Tennis.

Georsetowns track and tennis teams
will he seen in action against the Mid
dies this season. according to the sched :
ules announced today at ANNAPOLIS. The
Hilltoppers track athletes will compete
against the Middies on May %. The
West End tennis experts will play the
cadets on April 10.
Following are the Navy schedules
April II. Johns Hopkins; May 1. Uni.
versity Of Virginia; 15, Columbia: 22.
Georgetown. All Of the meets will take
place at Annapolis.
Tennis matches also announced today
viii be: April 10. Georgetown: II,
Princeton; May, /. Lehigh: 8. IJniver-
sity OF Virginia; 10. Pennsylvania 22
University Of Michigan; 81. Johns Hon.
The Washington times., 1915-01-14

Will always calculate, calmly and care
fully. before hurting. always shooting
at a mark. the same as in bowling.
The qualities. steadiness. and control
on the alleys and steadness and con-
troll on the diamond run hand in i1and
Look at Bill Elwert. for instancc--ny
ideal of graceful bowler. When You
watch him roll you see him pick up his
ball, shuttle around a bit and until he
finds the spot where he wants to stand.
carefully gauge his distance and then
release his bail. 1t is the same way on
the diamond. You rarely gee Eiwert
make a bad peg. Having bowled at a
The Washington times., 1915-01-14
Boston to See Quakers.

BOSTON. Jan. II. When Irving
French. chairman of he Dartmouth
athletic council. signed the papers to
obtain the use Of Fenway Park on No
vember 6, Hub football lovers were as
sured OF chance to see Pennsylyania
Tor the hrst time since laA when the
With Harvard at Princeton ON that
date. all New England will be at the
Dartmouth-Penn contest
The Washington times., 1915-01-14
Plat Adams Troubiv
To Be Ended Sunday

NEW YORK. Jan. ne registra-'
ton committee Of Il. Metropolitan
Association of the A. A. L. will decide
on Saturday whether Platt Adams, one
of Americas most prominent amateur
athletes and the Olympic champion
jumper is professional. Adams is
charged with selling trophies won in
amateur contests.
The Washington times., 1915-01-14
Stout Will Referee.
MT. PLEASANT.

CHICAGO. Jan. H.-Harry Stout, in
all probability, will be the third man in
the ring when Jimmie Clabby. OF Ham.
mond. and Mike Gibbons clash at Mil
waukee next week. it was announced
here today. 'Clabby today tipped the
scales at S2. He will rest two days
before the battle. Five thousand dol,
lars worth of ticfe cts have been sold in
ChieSgo alone for the mill.
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Penn Will Play Pitt.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14.-Pittsburgh h
and Pennsylvania will meet on tho grid
iron at Franklin Field. October q. ac-
cording to an announcement here today.
Though the contract calls for but one
game. 1t is thought aht this will be the
beginning of football relations between
Pennsylvania two biggest universities.
The Washington times., 1915-01-14
PHELPS BROTHERS COMPANY
ZELLERS L. COMPANY
Sporting Gossip.

Although Connie Mack is reported to
have said he could have sold Collins
for 100000. but he was in a hurry to
unload the star for personal reasons
and so accepted the first offer made
although. as we said before, ETC.. etc.,
We don't believe it.
The Washington times., 1915-01-14

Those grand old warriors. Oscar Bat
tling Nelson and William Battling Jen
nings Bryan, have fallen into, eaci
others arms on the common ground o.
grape juice.
The Washington times., 1915-01-14

The Germans expect to hold the
Olympic games in Berlin i'm 1916, and The
German Olympic committee is Informed
that already lot of French. English
and Russian athletes have started for
The scene.
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miscellaneous trimmed the LEADING
Breech Mechanism team for three in q
row IN the Navy Yard League. and the
the narrow margin of one game a. q
result. Heindel had high game. 13S,
and Charley Miller had high set, SO.
Glenn McCambridge crept into the
OF 129 and high set of S32 in the Mt.
Pleasant League. Parks won the first
two and lost the final to the Cliftons.
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Will Play w. and J,

WASHINGTON, Pa. Jan. 1h-I.afay-
ette will play Washington and Jcffer-
son here on October 3. This is the, foot
ball date last season filled by Harvard,
The Washington times., 1915-01-14

People who live in glass houses
shouldn't get into baseball wars.
The Washington times., 1915-01-14

Harry Wolvertan has succeeded De
Howard as manager Of the Seals Her
Berry evidently goes on the Oakland
dope and throws out Wolverton's per
formances at New, York and i'm Sacra
mento. Here's hoping he is as gooc
OH one side of the bay as on the other
The Washington times., 1915-01-14

Southeast bowler. Carroll. had 4 fair
night only-and this 10 not sarcasm,
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WINTER RESORTS

Seaboard Air Line Railway
Be-. ~ Carolina sss slssass asss'sA
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The first robin has not shown up ye
but we had kick from 'lndigna n
Cub Fan" the other day.
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oakland has signed Harry Sampson.
Hc is full-blooded Indian, IS cross
eyed. and has terrific speed. III he only
we're left-handed. wry- -necked and pis-
eon-toed he'd be a second MarQuard.
The Washington times., 1915-01-14

In the other Gas Company set. West
Station pocketed two out Of three from
Engineers. Burns string Of 123 being
the individual feature OF the match.
Engineers one victory came in the
second when they won a roll-off after
the score had been tied at 4s4. The
highest team game recorded was 5A.
vest Stations total in the opening
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Team Standing.
Individual Averages.

tSx Games or More).
MIRA COVERING CNMp
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BURNS Demar grabbed off all of the
Individual honors in tho NcsIjne- Nor
on set in the Southeast League. de-
mar hish game Of III and high set
II G5I, places him ou a pedestal in Tho
,ircuit in which hc rolls. as il is ono OF
he best records made this season by A
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taper picked up three straight for its
win column when the Government Con-
nepartment was encountered in
ne Andrews Duckpin League Walsh
nad high game, lol and high set. 2S3.
The Washington times., 1915-01-14

Some more OF the grand old dope"
was upset in the Washington Gas Light
Company circuit when the tail-end In
stallation Department made clean
sweep at the expense Of the CONNER
cial Department. The latter is the
runner-up as the teams now stand
Anchor Man Taylor had high game of
1l5, and high set Of SO3
The Washington times., 1915-01-14

National Theater,
Friday, Jan is,
4:3O.
Prices: $3.50, 81,
$3.50 and S1.BOxes,
$50.
d n sale q I
DrOOp's. 18th and
G..
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A New Play in Three Acts. by Ed.
ward knoblauch. Author OF "KisInet,"
'Milestones." and My Lady's Dress.s
Produced under the personal supervt-
sion Of Mr.. Belasco
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Woodward & Lothrop experienced
little difficulty in taking the measure
of the General. Baking Company crew,
In the Commercial League. in all three
games. Duckett. with 119. was the in
dividual star, while Hutchinson fol-
lowed with e string Of l16 in his second
round,
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got away with the last two rounds,
put were forced to the wall by the Ma
nonal Laundry crew in the opener Nc
Apoy continued i'm his rapid stride when
ne put over high game Of l2S
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Despite the fact that Norris came
through with high game of 12O, the
Continental Trust Company, of the
Bankers League. dropped all three
10 the MetropOlitans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28
RUSSIA'S WAITING WARRIORS

and during the fighting had marched 20 miles under fire, and charged with the bayonet. He could give an iuteln- gible account. l talked to German prisoners. The best educated could not tell what had happened. The III ouill< soldier Ivan. Is superior to his foe Michel, in one respect He Is moro original and poetical. Ivan never talks with tho banality and conven- tionality of the daily newspaper, If he Is not imaginative. he does not hor- row other mems images. If he is in pglnative he talks like poet.
 Some of Czar Nicholas soldiers are be- ing sophisticated by education. That Is true of the active army men who began service within the last three years Eighty-five per cent of them can read and write moro or less badly. This is much higher than tho education rats among peasants who have not been sol diers. When a new conscript is found to be illiterate his first six months go entirely on schooling. Under the three years service system 1t is easy to spare tho time. Only half the active soldiers can write good letter At every camp around Warsaw l find professional let ter writers at work.
 first saw the professional letter writer working at the Powazki artillery camp. Every day at 10 o'clock the post Is dis tributed. The letter writer reads letters aloud to such soldiers as cannot them selves read. and he writes replies. The Powa2ki letter writer told me cynically that the moujilt soldier wants always n bad" letter. By bad is meant sontl- mental. The soldier does not dictate what he wants said to the letter writer. He commissions the letter writer to sup must have ornamental phrases. Soldiers who write we'll but are bad hands at making ornamental phrases, get the pro- fessonal letter writer to dictate to them. l was present while some letters were written. All began with the word '.pok- loni!'' which means ''salutnton." The descriptions of battles were short; after them came the ornamental phrases. None of the letters written in my presence con- tained any fact about the writer's life, and most did not discuss family affairs. The Powazld professional letter writer charges 10 kopecks-which is cents for long letter, and kopecks for a short one. He also writes verse, and for that charges double prices.
 At Powazld were soldiers on relief fur tough who had been in heavy fighting near Rava. Two of them had wounds. The professional letter writer told me that he had written many letters for them, and they had not mentioned their wounds. One of them wrote: "I am Q better soldier than any German, for have fired 600 rounds of ball cartridge, and must have killed 50 Germans; and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28
The Corncob Pipe

From the Indianapolis News.
 There is virtue in a corncob pipe. Many women will deny this Some, who have endured its herculean odor for the sake of the quieting effect it seemed to exert over husband who is given to occa- sional manifestations of ill temper, will declare that while it may have virtues at times, 1t is never more virtuous than when reposing in an alright fruit jar on the cellar stairs Nevertheless, the corn cob pipe is not thing to be snecred at. It is democratic institution. One evi- dence of the fact that this country is not go democratic as foreigners believe Is that according to the code of an Aneri- can gentleman the corncob pipe must not be smoked while wearing q silk hat. On the other hand. it may be for this reason that Americans so seldom affect the silk hat But some men find difficulty in adapting themselves to the Missouri meerschaum." They contend that the first puff from new corncob pipe is like a breath from the neither regions. This aversion arises from the circum- stance that, like 8 sponge, a new cob pipe should be dipped in water befora it is used After the first pipeful of to- bacco has been smoked 1t will be found that liberal coat of ashes has attached itself to the walls of the pipe, rendering IL thereafter fnucn ieS5 iliAely lo pufu the tongue than if it were initiated without the formality of baptism. There Is one place, however, where the cob ripe is distinctly dangerous, and that is in tho mouth of a beginner in tho mellow arb of smoking. Mothers who dread the day when their sons shall fee obliged to assert their entrance to mans estate by acquiring a taste of tobacco. will do well to buy a concob pipe and leave 1t carelessly about the house. In time it will be missed. So will the boys appes tite But the appetite will come back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28

ground which Is only half plowed, the wheat being dropped upon the clods. Some of the farmers drag bushes over the fields and others use harrows. On the small farms the blowing Is done with bull locks. which drag the blows through the furrows by yoke attached to the horns. But few fertilizers are employed, and the only idea of the Italian seems to be to get the wheat into the ground. After that he sits down and waits for the crop.
 The weather is such that blowing can be done here at any time of the year, and as a rule the land is first broken in Feb ruary, March or April. To get the best results there should be q second blowing. and this should be deep. and the soil should be well narrowed before the wheat is sown.
 The average seed sown Is about a bushel of grain to the acre. The seeding time begins about May 10 for the central part Of the country, and Is later and later as one goes south. In Patagonia the SC ed is often put in during June or July, and sometimes as late as August.
 The crop grows rapidly. and along about
 
 is ready for harvest. About four-ffths of all the wheat of Argentina is cut and threshed In December, although in the south the harvesting season may com tinue until tho end of January.
 I have made some inquiry as to the cost and profit of wheat raising. Here gre some figures from the department of agriculture estimated on farm of coo acres, of which 500 acres were sown to wheat, the remainder being in pastures and buildings. The yield was 1J bushels per acre, and the amount of capital invested in farm buildings and tools was just about 5000. The rent of the farm was sl0o per year, and the seed cost $i15. It cost S510 to break the land and plant the wheat and s20 to reap and bind it. The stacking cost s3a0, and the thrashing in the neghborhood of s1O0O. An additional $s00 was spent in getting the wheat to the station and altogether, in- cludng the interest on the capital in- vested, taxes and insurance, the cost of production was $iS75. The crop amount ed to 1850 bushels, so that the average cost of production was about 66 cents a bushel. That crop sold for go cents a bushel, and even at thta low price it gave profit of more than 5000 With tho present prices. caused by the war, the profit would be three times that amount.
 And still do not advise the ordinary American farmer to come to Argentina. He might make some money but without large capital he could do as well or better at home. Moreover. he could not be happy without he brought his friends with him. For the small farm CT the country life of this land is dead ly dreary. In most places there are no trees. The little mud hut of the colo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28

ships can be loaded at once. The clcva- tors are steadily increasing in number and size. Many have been built at Buenos Aires. Those of the Central Argentine railway there have a capacity Of 100000 tons and they can discharge 2o,0o0 tons per day. There are great elevators at Bahia Blanca, which is on the coast about 10 hours south of Buenos Aires; and the government is now forcing the railroads to build warehouses for grain throughout tho country, so that the Argentine will soon have a system of elevators like those of Canada and the United States
 As it is now, nearly all Of the grain comes to the market in bags of l55 pounds each. It is there carried In open ears covered with canvas and Is stacked in bags at the stations. There are no ar- rangements on the farms for storing tho wheat, and the most of the grain is carted from the thresher to the railroad In enor- nous carts, which haul two or three tons al d load. These carts have wheels eight feet in diameter and tires four inches wiue, and il requires l6 horses, or Dulloeks, 10 haul one of them. Tho chief market ing season is from January to May. when the roads are often rivers of mud. Some Of the wheat is hauled as far as GO miles to the railway, and the freight rate is about 10 cents per bushel II costs or s cents to haul q bushel 20 miles, and in one place, where the distance fig 33 miles. the steamsters take two days, camping out at night on the trip. In some cases carts dragged by teams of 1l or more bullocks are used. Such carts Will carry fve or six tons. and the load is so high that the last bags arc carried up on lad dcrs
 Rosario is the Chicago of the Argen- tine republic. It Is the second largest city of the country and one of the rich est of all south America. 1t has more than 100000 people and is rapidly grow ing. The town Is right In the midst of the wheat lands. It is in tho heart of the Parana basin and there are tens
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scape, and 1t has not sign of comfort about it? Ones only neighbors are 1tal- fans and Russians, who have lately ar rived, and who care for nothing but the crop they are raising. Most of them have no gardens, and there are no flowers Or vines about their homes. They run accounts at the nearest grocery and make annual settlements when they sell their wheat. The men drink to excess and their families are kept in the cheapest and meanest of ways.
 With the small wheat farmer 1t Is the size of the family that gauges the profit. When planting and harvesting are going on the whole family works. The women go out into the fields and blow and reap, and boys of and girls of or 10 do their share of the labor. The work goes on from sunrise to sun set, and of a moonlight night you may see them out under the stars binding and reaping. You may see the same at planting time. Between seasons is one long vacation when the people loaf and when nothing is done. They live then upon credit or the profits of the last crop. If drought comes or crop fails they increase their debt and an invasion of the locusts may bring ruin and famine.
 What the American would miss most is the lack of social life and also the loss of standing such as he has in the United States. There is sharp dis tlnction here between the poor and the rich. and the small farmer or the labor ing man is not on an equality with tho rich estanciaro. When the farmland talks to his employer he takes off his hat and he looks up to him as his master. The tenant houses are poor and if a man has q mud hut of two rooms he does we'll. Transient labor is com. paratively scarce. The bulk of the land is owned In large blocks and the owners desire to have their estates as far from the village as possible so that there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28

1VAYERSAW, March 15.-(Specia Cor !" respondence.)--All round War (rySTS=f saw Just outside the suburbs. W@z1y is n ring of soldiers waiting and
 eager to fight. They are in camp and their camps stretch across the Vlstula and encircle Praga There arc tents. temporary barracks, stables, workshops heaps of stores Beyond thls is the double ring of forts You cannot see the end of Russias human and material war resources There are soldiers of every class of active army and reserve. soldiers of ev- cry arm and of every race; Great Rus slams, Little Russians, Poles, .sber- fans. cossncss. Baits. and 10 sorts of Asiatics. They talk 20 tongues Tho Great Russians excepted, they mostly known enough Russian only to obey crders Some known less.
 With Captain Osip Pasiolsin, an old warrior whose bitter complaint is that he is too rheumatic to serve, l made tour round the city, and visited the camps and talked to soldiers. saw that if good spirits and faith could alone win battles, Russian is sure to win All that has been written of Rus sian "war-tiredness" is untrue. War tiredness" comes of failure: and the Polish army does not feel that 1t has failed. I put to a dozen soldiers in different places the same question. What of the German advance on War saw?' Several answered that Russia occupies in Austrian Galica twice as much territory as Germany occupies in Poland. They argued that Hndcn- burg will have 10 abandon Poland, but that there Is no chance of Russia being expelled from Galicia. Tho sol diers arc content to wait. Their fav- orite expression Is, ''Pobhivosh. uvi- dish" which means Walt and seel" If you try to argue. you get shalso of the head The shake means. q con kider 1t beneath my dignity to justify my faith; If you don't care to believe me. don't"
 Another observation in Warsaw camps Is that the second reserve man from the villages Is far behind tho active army and first reserve men in brains and education. Reservists who have been several years back in their out-of-the-way villages are pure peas ants. They remember their drill fairly well. and mako good soldiers when they rcioip the active army. But their mental outlook Is circumscribea. The active soldiers are far ahead. If they cannot describe a battle that Is net because they are stupid. but be- cause they have seen nothing War to them Is crouching in position that is in trench. seeing nothing or tho enemy. and getting no notion of what happens. At Wola. found one soldier who had been in a mobile battle
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German prisoners regard "makhor- ka" as the worst sign of Russian bar tarism. When they are brought into camp. kindhearted Ivan Ivanovitch fills his pipe with "makhorka" and offers it to the captive. The captive smiles. thanks. puts the pipe in his mouth, makes wry face, and spts. He then curses in German, and marches off under the impression that the Russians have played him a heart less practical joke.
 At Kamionek, I visited camp of Cossaclss. They were in bad humor They had come all the way from Orenburg on the edge of Asia. and ex- pected to be sent to the front at once. They had learned that they might not go at all. The Cossacks had a quarrel with aviation. They were told that they would not be needed because air. men were doing all their work recon naissance. The Cossacks grumed Mes pravedlivo," "Unfair." and expressed deep contempt for people who flew un- fairly through the afr instead of gal loping honestly along the ground. One declared to me that airmen were dan serous, you must not trust them; they flew right over the German camps and might be corrupted by the enemy. l asked how By signals" ccssack officers told me of a Cossack who showed his contempt for aviation by roasting that he could fly without les- sons. some days later he got chance. A German airman was shot at and brought down. His areoplane was left unattended. The boosting Cossack ran towards it. climbed into the car. and ha Q a ar- cplane whizzed along the ground and rose. The Cossack lost his head, and shouted for help. No help came. He tugged again at the levers and by good luck got the aeroplane down. Dash went the aeroplane into q tree and smashed. The Cossack escaped with a broken nose. The infantry sol diers have passion for aeroplanng, and argue hotly with the Cossacls Infantrymen reservists who belong to some mechanical trade beg to be taught flying. A few arc trained They make first rate airmen. \ Moscow chauffeur soldier who had only had three lessons rose from near kamionek On the morning of my visit. and flew 70 miles over the German positiois and back.
 At Kamionek were four men who had been praised and given money presents by Grand Duke Nicholas Ivan Kart cheff is one. At risk of his iife he stayed behind to blow up land mine; and thus foiled German infantry attack. IIe says that Grand Duke Nicholas Is tho most popular general at the front. That ia because he is n soldiers general. Nloh- olns Is tho biggest democrat in Russia. When he Inspected Hiberians at Miusk he shook hands with nonuomniaaioned officers. With commissioned officers ha seldom shakes hands, Tho soldiers tell tales of how he boxes the ears of offi- oers who blunder ar Idle. To the ranl< and file Nicholas 10 'uatka." Little