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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
West Holds Monopoly
on PROFESS in Rowing

While far from promising, the stu
alton is By no means desperate There
were some good men developed on the
Eastern slope, and with the Duluth Boat
Club setting a shining example in
smashing the monopoly which Canada
held on crew honors, perhaps the reign
of Bob Dibble, the Canadian sculling
champion, may be brought to a close.
G.. Waldo Smith, OF the New York
Athletic Club; Hoover, the speed mar
vel OF Duluth; Jack Kelly, the stall.
war. sculler OF the Vesper Club, Of
Philadelphia, are the men to whom
America looks 20 dethrone the flying
Canadian.
Smith is the association sculling
champion, Hoover holds the title in the
quarter mile dash and Kelly has been
frst over the line in the double sculls
and is the champion OF the Schuylklll
River. All are fast and all are stronger
much stronger-than Dibble, who de-
ponds upon expert Workmanship TO
win. The American boys are fast be-
coming proficient in this all-important
department Of the game, and another
summer may see one OF the three win
the highest laurels.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
BY FRANK O'NEILL.

The lean years of baseball are over.
The war which shook the entire struc-
ture Of the sport from turret TO founda-
lion stone has been settled, and pros
neritv seems destined 10 follow the
Aag Of peace. The game will be played
on the diamond instead Of In the court
rooms; the players rather than the
LAWYERS will do the batting. and the
fans. aweary Of the pickering and legal
procedure of the last two or three
wears will find the change delightfully."-
refreshing.
Under the terms Of the Treaty OF
Cincinnati, by which the belligerents
laid down their arms, those players
who are affiliated with the Federal
League will receive a clean bill OF
health, and will be eligible to play with
clubs and leagues operating under the
national agreement.
This will result in an influx of the
star talent from the Feds, and at TINS
time il is impossible TO make any sde-
ouate forecast of what the season VII.
bring forth. II is safe 70 venture
however, that the new blood and new
faces will add that impetus which Is
so sadly needed.
There are those managers who stout
IL declare they will not employ men
from the once so-cslled OUTLAWS" but
these warlike utterances are more OF
the heated brain than Of the heart
There are few teams in the National
League which are strong enough to
warrant their owners refusal 20 add a
real star to the roster. The American
League. already top heavy. will not de-
cline a chance 70 add strength where
strength is needed. And IN passing, II
nay be said that strength IS needed
in Washington. New York, St Louis
Philadelphia and Cleveland.
Stars of the brillisnce Of Benny
KauT, who has won the title Of "Ty
Cobb of the Federal League" Fred
Falkenberg, Rousch, Tobinl George
Anderson, Flsck, Lee Magee, Dave Dav-
enport and others Of similar ability
need have no cause for worry. berth
with a major league team seems as
sured to them.
Tom Seston. who stepped into the
Federals and cut a wide swath, will
undoubtedly be q visitor at the Polo
Grounds next summer, but what his
afiliation will be and what the afflia-
tons of the others will be time alone
will discover. II Is more than likely,
however, that many Of the best Of the
Federals will find employment in the
National League.
The downfall Of the Giants. which
was az much the sensation Of the Ma
tionsl League as the rise of the Phil
lies. has been the cause OF much talk
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
Little Break in Yacht
Race Meets During 1916
By CAPTAIN JAMES c. SUMMERS.

Yachtsmen agree that the outlook for
their splendid sport was never so en-
couraging as It is at the present mo-
ment, and the universal prediction is
that the season Of 1915 will be "a
corker" from start 70 finish.
The tendency Of late years has been
to lengthen the racing season, and it
would not be surprising If the spray
begins TO fly in Long Island Sound and
down the Lower Bay from the bows of
clipper racing craft early in May of the
coming year and continuing until later
in September than usual.
The reason tor this growing activity
and enthusiasm In what is often re-
ferred to as the "cleanest sport in the
world" may easily be found in the fact
that all the existing yacht and motor
boat clubs are growing in membership
and new clubs are constantly being
formed.
The first thing a new member wants
is a yacht from which 20 fly his flag
and because Of the present prosperous
conditions he either builds or buys one
and gets right into the racing OF cruis-
ing game. An instance OF the rapid
growth OF the small clubs along the
Hudson River. the Colonial Yacht Club
elected sixty new members last season
and added forty new craft TO the fleet.
while the enterprising New York Motor
Boat Club has a membership OF 200 and
a feet of eighty-two yachts fly its flag
The same is true OF the larger clubs
/ The New York Yacht Club elects be-
tween so and 100 new members every
year. The Larchmont, Atlantic. Sea
wanhaka Corinthian, Indian Harbor,
Stamford and New Rochelle Yacht
clubs also enroll many new members
in season.
II the plans Of few well-known
yachtsmcn are carried 20 q successful
conclusion, and there is every reason
20 believe that they will. a feature Of
the season on Long Island Sound will
be circuit racing by which race will
be held of acme club in the afternoon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
By l.. DE B. HANDLEY.

II needs no gift OF second sight 20
predict a record year for swimming in
1916. Most Of the men and women
who helped to shatter standards dur
ing the last twelvemonth promise to
continue improving for some time 20
come, and there are a number of youths
and maids. practically at the outset OF
competitive career, already showing
the earmarks Of international stars.
Duke Kahsnamoku and George Cum
ha, of the Hawaiian Hui Nalu; Ludy
LANCER, OF the Los Angeles Athletic
Club; Harry Hebner, Perry McGilli-
vray, Arthur Raithel and Michael Me
Dermott, Of the Illinois Athletic Club;
Bud Goodwin and Joseph Wheatloy. of
the New York Athletic Club; Herman
Laubis. OF the Missouri Athlete Club,
and Charles 10th. of the Boston Il"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
Willard Rouses
Moran's Sarcasm
By FRANK MORAN.
Contender for the heavyweight
championship of the world.


Contender for the heavyweight
championship of the world.
The heavyweight situation at the
close of 1915 Is a most peculiar one.
We find the heavyweight champion
matched to meet In a championship
contest Fred Fulton, whoever he
may be.
Willard, by virtue of his victory
over Johnson, and because of his
great size and reach, has impressed
some writers with the idea that il
would be almost criminal to take on
some of the bidders for his title.
In other words, for Willard, Jones
and Curley to risk their respective
titles in a real battle. Respective
titles is printed just as Moran
wrote it,
My recent victory over Jim Cof-
fey is regarded by some as huke,
and in an attempt to prove again
that IL was ability and not luck, |
hope something quito as startling
may happen on January 7, when We
meet again.
In heavy circles the most talked
of are Coffey, Carpentier, Cowler.
Weinert, Levinsky. Dillon, Savage
and myself. The sporting public
pays more to see Coffey and myself
fight than they do for any other
heavyweight match; therefore con-
clude that the most interesting
match would be between the two
who are considered by the public
qualified to meet the champion.
My twenty-round fight with John
son and Wizards victory over
Johnson In a bout just a few rounds
longer make me wish that we had
lived in the days of Tom Crib,
Deaf Burke, Heenan, Bendigo and
Sayers, when there was little dis
putting as to who won. Then there was
Just one good, long, healthy contest
to set aside for all time doubt as
To the best man.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
Travers Foresees
Colts Best Year
BY JEROME d. TRAVERS,
Open champion and four times ama-
teur champion.

BN JfhphE ~. u INV b'N>''
Open champion and four times ama-
teur champion.
! said a year ago that golf skill
in this country had increased to
such an extent that no man could
be rated with even q fair chance TO
win a championship. That was
proved nj Detroit, where within two
DAYS the open champion. the ANA
teur champion and the Western
champion were all dropped out.
There are now too many good
PLAYERS for any two or three men
to rule the field, for 1916 will bring
out the best golf that America has
ever known. The Improvement was
great through 1915. but | believe II
will be even greater this year on
account Of the large number of COM
petitions held last season.
These competitions all added 10
the experience Of the youngsters,
and experience is one of the most
important features of successful
tournament golf. The youngsters
have learned 10 play their shots cor
rectly under fire, and this is the
test.
Ii would not surprise me to see
a new champion added this summer;
| mean one who has never won the
amateur title before-a Marston or
A Carter. | believe, however, that
Ouimet will be back playing much
better golf. and if he hits his stride
again he must be given serious con-
sideration for the 1916 champion
shin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
Watermen and MermaidS
Face a Busy Season

Street Club. are some OF the veterans
Of 1915 who may be counted upon 70
better their performances.
They will be forced 20. II they are 20
successfully defend their championssh.p
holdings. Herbert Vollmer. Of the Nes
York Athletic Club; Norman Ross; OF
the Olympic Club. San Francisco; Le'
Landy. OF the Brookline High Sehoo"
Boston; Russell Dean, Of Yale; Cistml'
ent Browne. Of the Hamilton CLUB; IN
cage; Henry Miron. OF Boston ana SCI.
eral other boys of eighteen and nlne
teen are climbing the ladder faTe
in leaps. 1t will inquest onsbly taS'
new figures 20 defeat some Of them.
Voilmer opened the present i. ,a,s
season with a l0O-yard swim IN q p. ' IN
seconf the fastest time ever mSde -
a 75-f.ot pool, although he is essen,
tally a middle distance swimmer 80,
recently covered the century IN % Sc.
onds and the furlong in m'HH''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02

the finish being of another club, where
the racing yachtsmen will be the
guests in the evening of that club al an
entertainment. The yachts start their
next days race from the last visited
club, continuing that plan for a
week.
II is more than probable that the
Cup defence sloops, the Resolute and
the Vanitie, will meet again next
summer in a series Of Faces Many
yachtsmen are Of the opinion that
Alex Smith Cochran's Vsniti, should
have some changes na c that may i'm
prove her speed and that the Reso-
lutte should sail against her in last
summers trim, so as TO determine
whether she is still a better boat I'M
der all conditions.
An attractive feature of mex. season
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
Who Stond eh in Sports Eyes to the Future or roA
Boxing, koWlng ana Otn

Of tho motor boat programme in the
West and on the Great Lakes. The Thou
sand Islands Yacht Club has offered q
trophy for competition among speed
boats, and II is ssid that III. Lake
George Yacht Club will follow suit, 90
that boats going 70 the westward may,
according 20 the present plans. have con-
tests every two weeks FOR two months.
The race for the one-mile cham pionship
is 20 be held at Detroit on September 8.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02

waters on September 2, I and ., the
Miss Detroit, Of Detroit. having capt
ured the trophy on the Manhasset Bay
course last August. The Lake George
Yacht Club has already challenged Tor
the cup. Many believe that the mile
a-minute" boats will not be scarce In
1915 now that James 7 CHS D!sturDT'
w has accomplished the feat OF travel
ling that fast.
Circuit racing Is also 20 be feature
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02

irr on we'll and the Younger school has
now picked up q useful fund Of expe-
rience. Many Of the leading courses
have been improved, and this. too, has
helped in the general development Of
the game.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02

From present indications our
next yachting season should DO bet
ter than ever. The racing of the
'fifties,' the new class of 'fortles'
and the 'thirties should furnish
plenty of sport and add to the gem
eral interest of the season.. Z.
Morgan, Vice Commodore Of the New
York Yacht Club, and owner Of the
steam yacht Corsair and the fifty"
Grayling.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
Yachtsmen Look
for Great Sport

Il never saw so much enthusiasm
In the winter time among yachts
men on the subject of future racing.
There is every reason to believe that
next season will be a splendid one
for yachting'-George F. Baker, jr.,
Commodore of the New York Yacht
Club and owner Of the steam yacht
Nikin~ and the fifty" Ventura
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-26
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

good Imagination can hear a bur-
glar at any time of night.
So many things look easy until one
attempts to do them himself
A man who has rheumatism is like
ly to regard it as the only reliable
barometer.
AS a rule the biggest liar is a man
who has run an automobile the long
est.
Prejudice. like the well known
onion, has difficulty securing an effec-
tive disguise.
While some people seem to think
one must go to a foreign land to see
decent sunset.
Grouchy reporter on dull day: "a
lot of men who say they don't know q
great deal don't"
Some men are gifted with strong
constitutions. and can survive a lot
of patent medicine.
You probably make as many bum
guesses as the weather man, but they
aren't so widely advertised.
Unless you let it interfere with your
work, daydreaming is among the
cheap and satisfactory amusements.
Even If eight murders should occur
in one day some one would be sure to
say that there is not much going on
Alb Adkins admits there isn't a great
deal going on, and still he has never
had time to attend a dog show.
The man who says he welcomes ad-
verse criticism probably could back a
four flush to the limit and never bal
an eye.
A True Sport won't quit winner til
the game breaks up, but a True Spor1
rarely becomes noted as a financier.
The average boy is good hearted, an6
grows up to love his mother, despite
the fact that she washes his necl
and ears in a rough way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-26

er, Harry Harmon. You are both so
busy with clubs and lectures you for
get you have homes-both of you.
came in here to borrow a lemon for
my solitary supper. 1 ought to be ac-
customed to them, but I'm not This
poor man here was panic-stricken for
fear he couldn't cook the meal he'd
been ordered to get So 1 offered to
help and 1 did. ] burned myself twice
frying your old fritters, and l cut my
thumb slicing your old cucumbers and
I've got a raging headache. What's
more, you've no more business being
out with my husband than 1 have try
ing to kill myself for yours. So there!"
She rushed for the door sobbing.
Harry caught her in his arms, say
ing remorsefully: wait 2 minute,
Tootsi See herel 1 have been a sell
fish old cad, but l promise to reform
this minute. You're little peach,
that's what you are. There-that's
better, dry your eyes, dearie-"
Mrs. Peck surveyed her husband
with contrition. John Peck, take off
that apron and don't you ever put On
another as long as you live or go into
that kitchen either. I'll resign from
all my clubs tomorrow. I've been a
big goose, that's what I've beeni Now
go get your coat and come in to din
ner. Mrs. Harmon, have you any ap-
petite for your own cooking ?"-(Copy-
right, 1916, by Mcclure Newspaper
SVQdicate.O
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-26
AMERICAN FLAX STRAW.

Approximately 400, 900 tons of flax
straw are burned or permitted to go
to waste each year on American
farms At the same time the country
is annually importing large quantities
of flax waste from foreign countries
for paper and board manufacture.
The inconsistency of this situation has
led specialists of the federal depart
ment of agriculture to investigate the
feasibility of using homegrown straw
in the paper and fiber-board industry.
The results of this investigation have
just been published in department
bulletin No. 1922. At the present time
about 100000 acres are devoted to
the raising of flax, chiefly in North
Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota and
Montana. The flax is grown primar-
lily for the seed from which linseed oil
is manufactured. The annual crop
amounts to about 100000 bushels
of seed and is valued at approximate
ly S33.0Oo,000. The crop also yields
approximately 100000 tons of straw
but of this only about 100000 tons
are put to any profitable use. The
utilization of the remaining 100000
tons, Gays the bulletin, would be of
immense economic Importance, since
/ its paper-producing possibilities are
equal to the annual production of
writing paper in the United States. Its
sale, it is estimated, would represent
an added revenue to the farmers of
about $5,O0O,0OO annually. This ad-
ditional profit would be a very power
full factor IN maintaining the flax crop
in our agricultural system and would
probably result in the establishment
of paper-manufacturing industries in
sections where there are none at pres
ent. 1t would also aid in making our
paper industry more independent of
foreign raw paper-making materials
and would produce keener realiza-
ton of the latent value of some of our
enormous crop wastes. The investiga-
tions of the government specialists
have already been carried to a point
where it has been demonstrated that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-26
THE ADVERTISING AGE.

This is the advertising age. says
Leslie's. Everybody who hopes to do
business successfully must give his en-
terprises due publicity IN the columns
of the press. The number of periodi-
Gals has so greatly increased that it
would seem they must have outrun
the needs of the advertisers. But the
latter have so multiplied that news
papers and magazines are receiving
abundant patronage. In fact, business
men are growing more and more
keenly alive to the benefits which ac-
crue from liberal and persistent an
Inducements to the public of what
they can do for the latter. 1t was
all in keeping with the spirit of the
time that at the recent session in
Chicago of the American Iron & Steel
institute, Mr.. George H. Jones of Chi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-26

domestic flax tow can be used in the
manufacture of fiber counter boards
which are now used largely in shoe
factories. The demand for flax tow
for this purpose, if fully developed.
would open d market for about 2O0,-
600 tons of straw annually. This. of
course, is a very small quantity COM
pared with the total supply available.
1t is proposed, therefore, to extend the
investigation into the manufacture of
wrapping and writing papers. Should
domestic flax straw for writing paper
be able 10 compete successfully with
foreign material, a market for be-
tween 100000 and 100000 tons of
straw per annum would be opened and
an additional revenue obtained for the
flax region of about $1,60O.000 per
year. AT the present time over $1,000
600 worth of rags is being imported
each year into the country, chiefly for
use in the manufacture of writing
paper. Similar possibilities are offer
ed by the wrapping-paper and paper
bag industries. Under present condi-
tons, however the department con-
siders it advisable to warn the farm
ers that careful investigation does not
reveal a real demand for domestic flax
straw as great as the promoters of
certain schemes have represented it
to be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-26
BUILD CITY FIRST
Bank Promoters Get Word
From Charter Board.
State Officers Reject the Wet
Weather Banks.
PAPER TOWNS ARE HARD HIT
New Order Tends to Safe Bank
ing, Is Claim.
Three Clowns" Suffer Under
the New State Rule.


That was the ultimatum today from
the state charter board to Kansas
farmers and business men who have
sought the establishment of new banks
in communities not as yet incorpor-
ated as towns. The new order means
that a number of paper towns on
are to be denied banks. Other sec
tions of the state which have sought
bank charters for rural districts. will
also feel the effect of the new ruling.
AS a result of the state boards or
der, three or four proposed banks
must wait until towns are esta blished
Under the plan laid before the charter
board, banks would have been estab-
lished at every cross road along the
line of the new railroad from Salina
to Osborne. Now the board has
clamped down the lid and will demand
a showing from bank incorporators.
When the state charter board met
today it was confronted with applica-
tions for new banks in the towns of
Ash Grove and Yorktown. These cities
minds of town boomers The towns
are but two miles apart. Each town
wanted a bank. Each wanted the
first charter. Result: Both towns
lost. A similar fate overlook the city
of Gorton which wanted a bank before
II C6lcDIASil6O q OidChSt1llIl SHOP. q
general store, a postoffice or a barber
shop. Several other imaginary towns
along the route of the Salina & North
ern railroad also planned to ask for
banks. But the new order will doubt
less cause some trouble in making a
showing.
IF a Kansan wants a bank, he must
first find town that is of sufficient
size to warrant a banking project"
said j. L. Botkln, secretary of state
1.-The idea of establishing banks at
every cross road is not in strong favor
with members of the board So the
board has adopted the policy of re-
quiring a bank incorporation to first
get a town. The idea of building a
town around a bank is not regarded as
good banking policy"
The board today rejected the appli-
cations for bank charters at Ash
Grove. Yorktown and Gorton. Char
ters for two new banks were APP
proved. The Peoples State bank OF
| Salina, with a capital of s5O,OGO, was
given a charter. Permit to do bust
ness was also granted the Galatis
State bank, with a capital of $500
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-26
Jayhawker Jots

You never can tell, warns the
Shawnee Chief. Some people will cut
you dead and others will simply bore
you to death.
1t occurs to Click Fockele of the
Leroy Reporter that if love is the in
toXication of youth, a wife's cold feet
are certainly the Kelley.
Quite often, points out the Ravens
Vile Review, a man who begins by
telling girl that he can't live without
her ends by telling the court that he
can't live with her.
Not exactly new, but not so bad, as
Tom Thompson says in his Howard
Courant: What is the difference be-
tween a woman who raises six sons
and the woman who raises vegetables?
Answer-No difference, as the chick
ems get them in either case.
Theodore Arensberg is quoted by the
Atchison Globe as declaring that the
belief that hair from a horses tail
turns into snakes if kept in water is
foolish. Arensberg makes fish lines
out of hair from horse tails, and hasn't
seen any snakes yet, while fishing.
Observations by Obey Weaver in his
Sedgwick Paragraph: When jealousy
claims woman, love and hate shake
hands. go. The man who thinks him
self bright doesn't try to keep it dark
Blaming others is the way some
people have of praising themselves.
The Cimarron Jacksonian takes the
floor to observe that a great deal of
the criticism directed at western Kan
sas for running down coyotes with
motor cars came from Kansas City,
where motorists are allowed to get
drunk and run down pedestrians, on
which there is no bounty.