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The Washington times., 1916-05-22
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Cleveland or Washington might be
horning In for some of the excitement,
c,s Il Il is good reasoning to say that b..
Collins and Joe jackson hit their stride
of last season at the bat, Il 10 iust as
good reasoning that the Griffmen will
fall back wnen shanks, Morgan. ana
year and the years before that.
No matter where your sympathies lie.
the dope does not allow for either the
Indians or the Griftmon to win the 1915
p penn Their chance misht c cTme
clubs through the whole season. but the
dope does not allow for that. OF course.
That would be a surprise.
Manager Griffith's chances OF leading
a winning team into the worlds cham
pionship of 1915 depend largely upon the
hitting his pitchers will get through the
hot months to come. II his pitchers are
backed up at the bat. as they have been
wiseacres and dispute for the honor OF
being worlds titleholder.
II Is pointed out that Morton, Covel-
eskie and Coumbe. all youngsters. have
wSn .f }s sS5 th 4 the lssaS
to believe that they can 60 through an
entire season doing that.
Today the Griffmen have won twenty
games and lost eleven. OF that twenty
waiter johnson mas won elkUt. Int
f,naI winner viii have close to 100 vic,
tories and. II Johnson is to win the
pennant practically by himself. as some
think he may, he'll have to win. forty
contests. The difficulty of that Is ap.
paron ni,t to every SsseSsl bail fan hal.
by his pitching alone. All he can
do Ia to prevent the other fellows
winning, and. even then. he must
have fielding. support. The only way
10 xx,t. Il. A. x.u
behind him. Hence, unless the Grin:
man show maintained strength al
the bat. their chances of winning the
pennant are small.
The Improvement in Ray Morgan
is marked. Now that he Is mindine
his P's and o's he is quite the mosi
valuable man in the batting order
while his fielding is generally steady
class. which Is rather above hi,
speed. but he shows few signs a,
yet OF falling away.
Joe Judge. getting away to a mos
discouraging start. is also improving
fith's prediction that Judge would
yet become n Hal Chase begins Il
look more probable. Judges hitting
is still below the required mark, but
1t is getting better. as the days &C
bet he has that he'll finish as high
as $50.
Henri Rondeau seems built for tn,
job of cleaning up. II all we hav,
heard about his ability to hit in tn,
hot weather is true, then Henri viii
soon be hammering out those liner
that go safe and score runs for hi
team. II some of his mates are slid
ing back. hisshitting will be all tn,
more valuable when II comes.
The Griffmen will probably have I,
rely considerably upon the c<Sn,
OF Johnson. Gallia. Harper, and Du
mont. This quartet has made the hes
and most. consistent showing Of tn
signs or weakness, Joe Boehling an,
Doc Ayers may get opportunities Il
show their class, but. the first quar-
tet will probably do most OF the work
1t is unlikely, that Sam Rice or jim
Shaw will pitch many games for tn
Griffmen. The Old Fox likes a smal
working bunch Of four or Ave pitch
ers and It is difficult to see .wher
either Rice or Shaw can break int,
that bunch.
The Washington times., 1916-05-22
Layden Lands Job.

TROY, N. Y, May PAL Layden. an
outfelder tried by the New York
Yankees this spring. and Jasmer. a first
baseman from the Newark Interna-
tionals. have signed contracts with
Troy.
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in Elepen Straight and Are Climbing Close Week
Be a Sportsman
And Join Lansdale

LANSDALE, Pa, May 22.-For
the first time In a number Of
years, Lansdale is not repre-
sented by a baseball team, and
to fill the vacancy a team is
being advertised for. The adj
vertisement reads: Wanted
- Adozen or more sportsman
ball players to give Landsdale
q representative ball club. Pet
ty commercial players need
not apply" A postoffice box
is given for answers.
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Hyattsville Banked.

whaicy. pitching for Riverdale. held
the Hyattsville team TO three hits. gain
ing n b-to-0 verdict over the latter.
Both teams Yielded well.
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The Weak Spot.
Tho collese nine had Just been bested
Cash and glory from 'em wrested.
The campus green was clogged with
gobs of woe;
The buck was passed up to the coaches.
Heroes once. they now were reaches.
The undersrads had dropped their
tough-earned dough.
Even though the dope had tumbled.
The coaches were not one whit humbled.
In their giims there cleaned eniight-
ment's beam.
Easily they flashed the. reason
For the first time In the season
They had played student on the
team!
That invitation TO Sir Tommy Upton re-
questing him to enter yacht In the 1Ms Kiei
regatta seems to have been lost in the mail.
LEADING THE GIANTS IS ABOUT
AS NUTRITIOUS AS LEADING "A
SWIFT LIFE. BOTH OF EN- OVER
TAKE YOU.
Epen tho q mother didat raise hsv
boz to be soldier there 70 no redsos
s1hy she should lotoer him to be q euchys
player.
SCENARIO.
The United States Supreme Court
had Just handed down a decision.
The loser objected.
"I1l take this higher" he raved,
an take this to the. U. s. G. A."
The critics who claimed the pennant would
| be won In the West are right. The Giants
are winning II there now.
| "
Washington writers are claiming the
Nationals will benevolently assimilate
the pennant.
Manager Joe Tinker, Of Chicago, has
bsnched Player Joseph Tinker, Of the
Cubs. Manager Tinker decided that
Player Tinker could cover more teri
tory on the bench.
We hear that Mike Gibbons would rather
| nsh than fight. but that's no reason why Mike
should try to prove this every time he comes
/ to New York.
Answers To Queries.
| Zip-CoIumbus discovered America
IN 1892. therefore, 1899 tDal be the
| nm centennial of Waskin0ton's
| failure to toin a penndnt.
Gyp-We think a Massachusetts
amateur Is decided BY osight. Any
L ,ubt sAn
/ than SO pounds IN toeight Is an ana
teur.
| Copyright 1916. by the Press Publishing Co }
The Washington times., 1916-05-22
GIANTS ARE CRAZY
WITH VICTORY AND
ARE RUNNING WILD
BY LOUIS A. BOUCHER.

The Giants are running wild in the
National League. and may not stop
until they have hit first place.
Today, after hanging up winning
streak Of eleven consecutive victories.
the Giants are in fourth place, and only
three games behind the Dodgers, lead
ing the race. Two weeks ago the
Giants had won two games and were
hopelessly last.
Last week the Giants won six games
and lost none. They pounded sixty hits
for thirty runs. They had forty-eight
runners left on the sacks. Their op-
ponents scor1Dd fourteen runs. The
Giants made but six fielding errors dur
ing the week.
OF their first fifteen games. the
Giants won only two. both pitched by
JEFF Tesreau. Since hitting the road,
however. several other pitchers have
developed. until now McGraw can
count on Pol Perritt, Fred Anderson,
Christy Mathewson. and Rube Benton
to do a days work when they enter the
box.
Two weeks ago the Giants were eight
runs behind the next team above them.
Today they are within striking distance
OF first place. They have but three
more games in the West. though. and
that may prevent their eaualing the
record OF the Providence Club in 1884,
which hung up twenty straight before
losing.
In the American League. the Indi-
ans did the best work of the week,
winning three out OF four games.
Next to them come the Griffs, with
four out of six victories. The Griff-
men were tho only club in the league
to play every day and. as a result,
Its total of siXty-seven hits for forty
three runs liz the best of the week.
The Detroit Tigers failed TO win
even one game all week long, the
pest they could do being to tie with
the Yankees in sixteen Innings.
:, Following are the figures in both
leagues Tor the past week. showing
games played. runs. hits. errors, men
ieft on bases, and runs scored by
opponents In all games played, in
GLIDING last Saturday:
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Tomorrow Games.
Yesterdays Results.
Washington. 4; Cleveland, 8.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Standing 80 Clubs.

Today's Games.
Boston at St. Louis.
Philadelphia TT Chicago
Brooklyn at Pittsburgh.
New York at Cincinnati.
TomOrrow's Games.
Boston at st. Louis.
New York at Cincinnati.
Philadelphia at Chicago.
Brooklyn at Pittsburgh.
-
Yesterdays Results.
New York, II; Cincinnati, I.
Philadelphia. 4; Chicago, 2
Borton, g; 81. Louis, o.
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That sixteen stanza Detroit
Yanks game went into almost a.
many extra cantos as q Berlin
Warrington note.
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League Standings.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Standing of Clubs.

Today's Games.
Chicago at Washington.
Detroit at Boston.
Cleveland at Philadelphia.
ct. Louis at New York.
Tomorrow Games.
Chicago at Washington.
Detroit at Boston.
Cleveland at Philadelphia.
st. Louis at New York.
The Washington times., 1916-05-22
MINCEPIE
LITTLE OF EVERYTHING"
BY BUGS" BAER.
pAHY QuOo.pN'

Cah,t see hop Bobby Vedoh figures
the Detroit management should pay for
having Ms teeth tsIIed. 10 could bork.
rupt ball team " they had TO pay
for tinimp all tho cavities IN their pioy-
ers heads. .
The Washington times., 1916-05-22
NINTH-INNING RALLY
WINS FOR PHILLIES
Cravath Poles His First Home Run
Of the Campaign.

CHICAGO. May IA maintaining
rally gave the champions a victory
over the Cubs yesterday. four runs
being counted before the side was re-
tired. Lavender weakened In the Last
frame and was driven from the mound.
the Phils taking the game, 4 to 1,
Cfavath. the home-run champion of
the league. opened the ninth with n
four-baRger. his first OF the year, over
the right field wall. whitted's triple
brought Mcconnell into the pastime and
a series of hunts fooled the tall twirier
and brought up the total to four tallles.
Score by innings: tr~
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Losing an oral bet 70 OH right " yo'
cdn pdy n that t0uy.
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And Rollie Zeider would work for nothing
II the club promised to pay his chiropodist
bill.
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SUPPOSE KID GLEASON WANTED
CHICAGO 20 BUY ILL HIS HAlR-
CUTS? WHY. HE'D BE BAWLED.
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Answers To Queries.

Zip-CoIumbus discovered America
IN 1892. therefore, 1892 1al be the
Utth centennial of Wasktnoton's
failure to toin a penndnt.
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The loser objected.

"I1l take this higher" he raved,
an take this TO the. U. s. G. A."
The Washington times., 1916-05-22

The critics who claimed the pennant would
be won In the West are right. The Giants
are winning II thsrs now.
The Washington times., 1916-05-22

Washington writers are claiming ths
Nationals will benevolently assimilate
the pennant.
The Washington times., 1916-05-22

Manager Joe Tinker, Of Chicago, has
bsnched Player Joseph Tinker, Of the
Cubs. Manager T.nker decided that
Player Tinker could cover more teri
tory on the bench.
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SCENARIO.
The United States Supreme Court
had lust handed down q decision.
The Washington times., 1916-05-22

We hear that Mike Gibbons would rather
nsh than fight. but that's no reason why Mike
should try to prove this every time he comes
TO New York.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1916-03-17
THE FIRST LORD ROTHSCHILD
Character Sketch By Joseph Jacobs Editor American Hebrew


firm would naturally have offered to him
all the business projects of the British
Empire that showed any signs of profit,
and had the best expert advice in the
world to guide him in the choice. But
Lord Rothschild is credited with indie
pendent initiative in the more recent
policy of the firm in launching out into
the mining and industrial fields and in
vesting in the Rio Tinto copper mines
and the Baku oil wells at time when
copper and petroleum did not hold their
prominent position in the world of fl
nance. He showed, too, both judgment
and generosity in coming to the help of
the Earrings when threatened with ruin
in 1890, Notwithstanding the century
long conflict between that house and his
own, referred to by Byron in Don JUAN"
who speaks of "Jew Rothschild and his
fellow Christian Barring as ruling the
affairs of the world.
In philanthropy Lord Rothschild has
to be credited with the idea of the Four
Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company
as a method of dealing with the housing
problem which, besides offering COM
modious dwellings in apartment houses
for workmen, guaranteed four per cent
to persons investing in the project and
thus removed from it any suspicion of
charity such as stood in the way of the
Peabody fund. He also advocated for
many years what is known as his East
End scheme, by which huge Synagogue
and social center was to have been erect
ed in Whitechapel; but this was thwart-
ed by the opposition of Sir Samuel Mon
tague, afterwards Lord Swaythling. In
connection with this scheme Lord Roth
schild was strongly of the opinion that
the Chief Rabbi should have his resi-
dence in the East End, in the midst of
the Jewish poor; but here again his as
pirations were checked by the natural re-
luctance of DR.. Hermann Adler to spend
all his time in uncongenial surroundings.
The only relic that remained of the
scheme was the huge service on New
Year and Yom Kippur, held in a hall hold
ing five thousand worshippers. These
we're always attended by Lord Roth
schild, who made his practice to read the
Haftarah on Yom Kippur.
For, with all his autocratic and mas
terful ways, there was genuine love of
his people in Nathan Rothschild and Of
ten quite democratic way of showing it,
without the slightest trace of condescen-
sion or snobbery; this was shown in a
hundred ways. Till he was quite old he
would attend at the High Holidays in
the Great Synagogue, in his capacity of
First Warden, sitting side by side with
the late Abraham Resented, his co-war-
den for many years, and distributing the
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1916-03-17


England is emphatically the home Of
"characters,' that is, individuals having
peculiarities which distinguish them at
once from their fellow men of the same
social standing and education. The late
Lord Rothschild was emphatically
character in this sense. His very ap-
pearance indicated this. Though only OF
middle height, and dressed very simply
and without care, he was easily to be
singled out in any assembly by his mas
terful bearing, and especially by the bold
gaze of his aquiline eyes. 1t was the
same even in personal relations; he did
not look, he glared at you; you felt at
once you were in the presence of mas
ter of men.
This was only the natural consequence
of his exceptional position in the world
of finance; even when he was only Sir
Natty'' he was the most prominent dis
penser of power on change; and when
he became the first and, for the time, the
only Jewish Peer his prestige was natur-
ally increased 1t was amusing at the
meetings of the United Synagogue, of
which he was president to see the whole
committee "worshipping the only lord"
as used to be irreverently but wittily
said He would adroitly use this attitude
to bear down opposition or carry through
any measure which the administration
of the Synagogue had at heart. Any op-
position would arouse the visible ire OF
the noble lord, which he took no pains
to conceal.
MI: c;1x fnv,o
the most prominent surface character
istics At his office in New Court ne
would deliberately use it, it was said, to
test mems characters, to get business
through quickly, and to overbear opposi-
ton. The Rothschilds have always been
distinguished by their interest in art and
in England since the time of Baron
Mayer who won the Derby in 1871, for
their racing stable. At New Court there
was division of labor in this regard
among the three brothers, "Mr. Alfred"
seeing to the art treasures submitted to
the firm and mr. Lionep representing
the sporting proclivities of the house.
This left Lord Rothschild greater free
dom to attend to the purely business con-
Germs of the firm, to which he devoted
himself with remarkable assiduity, COM
ing UP every week day from his country
house at Tring even during the summer,
when most business men in London re-
Taxed their efforts.
OF his business abilities it would be
difficult to Judge. The head of such
This is one of the recent contributions Of
the late scholar and journalist, Joseph
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1916-03-17

Mitzvoth to the old habitues in the good
Old-fashiOned manner. He would take in
finite pains with any project for the
good of his people though characteristic
ally enough, he would only directly con-
Germ himself with those undertakings in
which he could have the sole say. He
practically supported the Jews Free
School which was, for many years, the
largest school in the world, with between
three and four thousand children, out of
his own pocket; and his private bene-
factions, of which no record reached the
world, were innumerable. To be con-
nected in any way with the New Court
establishment was to be established for
life; but that was tradition of the firm
which Lord Rothschild most worthily
kept up.
The claims of family were indeed
strong with him, as with all the Roths-
childs. He was very sensitive with re-
gard to any publicity about his family
history and especially about the many
myths that have shown up as to origin
of the family fortunes, some of which,
like the Waterloo story, he rightly re-
garded as aspersions. 1t is even report
ed that he took steps to prevent the ap-
pearance of the good-humored Give
Frankfurters" on the London stage
Outside the community Lord Roths-
child held an Influential position in Eng
lish society, owing to his power and
wealth, as we'll as to the social charm of
Lady Rothschild, to whom, as rule, he
81
ing as we'll as instructive, to watch the
reception given by Lord Rothschild to
his guests at one of the great gatherings
would greet with a bow, others with a
smile, few with both bow and smile,
at his town house in Piccadilly; some he
and rare were the favorites who were
granted the privilege of shake of the
hand, so rare indeed that the tradition
arose that he never shook hands with
anybody. This was possibly a relic of
his Cambridge days, where it is GUS
tom among undergraduates, who are
seeing one another all day long, not to
shake hands. He was certainly proud
of his Cambridge connection, and when
an attempt was made to raise a fund to
extend the University activities the meet
ing was held at Piccadilly, and Lord
Rothschild acted as the treasurer.
Though sitting in the House of Com
mons as the Liberal M. P. of Aylesbury,
the country town nearest to his estate,
and owing his peerage to Mr.. Gladstone,
Lord Rothschild became Unionist in
1886, when the Home Rule question came
to the fore, and in his later days was
identified with the Conservatives and
with his order. When the struggle &C.
Cured between the two Houses Lord
Rothschild was so prominent in opposi-
ton to the bill restricting the rights of
the Peers that Mr.. Lloyd George made
a public declaration against his promi-
nent influence. But Lord Rothschild was
an intense British patriot, as was shown
in hundreds of ways. This indeed was
racteristic of the man, intensely Eng
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This is one of the recent contributions OF
the late scholar and journalist, Joseph
Jacobs.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-25

MT. Ponsonby asked If she had re- fused these things the country ought to be told.
 Etiquette Should Not Stand in the Way
 We ought not to allow diplomatic etiquette to stand in the way of taking the lead definitely, openly and boldly to bring tI1e nations back to sanity and peace" MT. Ponsonby concluded.
 James Ramsay Macdonald, labor member for Leicester, supported MT. Ponsonby. He declared that peace was a political and not a military problem and that it was the duty of the gov- ernment to state the terms on which it was prepared to conclude a peace.
 Sir Edward Grey in the course of his speech characterized Chancellor Won Bethmann- -Hollwegs s recent statement that Great Britain was prepared to go to war over Bosnia as "a first class lie" It was impossible, the foreign minister continued, to reason with the German people while they were fed with lies and knew nothing of the truth. The real reason for the pro- longation of the war was that the German government was continually telling the people that they were win ming the war and that the allies were beaten.
 Sir Edward here made the declara- ton that the time for peace had not yet arrived and that the entente allies were under obligations not to act sep arately on peace terms. He added that if any of the allies had a. right to speak with regard to peace at the present moment it was France, on whom the concentrated fury of the German attack had been thrown. Re- buking MT. Ponsonby for making no allusion to Verdun, Sir Edward said:
 Through the long battle of VerdIln France is not saving only herself but her allies as we'll If anyone has a l right to speak about peace it is l France, and President Poincare has | spoken I believe it is the duty, of | diplomacy to maintain the solidarity of the allies and give the utmost sup port to the naval and military meas ures which are being taken by the | allies in common to bring the war to a stage it has not yet reached, and in enduring peace will be with the allies. MT. Ponsonby has hardly seemed to realize that we were at war.
 'I care not how often say it, this | war could have been avoided by ac- | conference not accepted? Because
 Sir Edward then referred to the
 previous Balkan conference as proof ] of Great Britain's good faith in sudl1 conferences and added:
 fI only wish the German and Aus l trian governments had published the l reports of their ambassadors as to the part Great Britain played at that conference.'
Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-25
OBITUARY.
Mrs. JuIlett R. southwieI.

WIFE FNs SOuTnWiCks
 Mrs Ju1iette R. Southwick, T2, wife of F. W. Southwick, died at her home in Putnam, near Pomfret, Sunday She had been in poor health for some time.
 Mrs. Southwick had lived in Put nam for the past 49 years. At one time her husband conducted a livery stable on South Main street. A mum Der of years ago they moved to a farm in the outskirts of the town, Be- sides hee Husband, one brother sur wives.
 Funeral services were held at the home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o. clock, Rev. F. D. Sargent of the Con- gregational church officiating. Burial was in the Grove street cemetery, in
 Golf Club Committees.
 Secretary John Byrne of the Put nam Country club, gave on Wednes- day the following list of committees: Golf, Ernest O.. Morse Eric H. John son. Cahi1 J. Meehan; handfcap, Rev, is o. Williams; Tennis Harry c. Meinkin, Alvin S. Martin, Rev. c. J. Hartman; house, William J. Rafferty, F. F. CIlnneen, William D. Wilson. f- nance, Silas M. Wheelocax, E. l.. KeI- ley, Albert L. Mansfield; entertain ment, Mrs. Albert l.. Mansfield, Mrs Howard B. Deacon Mrs. F. D. Cum en MT Wiley. Mrs. Samuel H. Walsh Mrs Geneyive Letters, Mrs John sJ Russell, Mrs D. S Fletcher, Mrs Will liam F Rafferty, Mrs. Thomas J. Cor coran, Mrs. Harold w. Files, Miss IT, len Wheeloclx, Miss EtheI Kent Wllfta On Memorial day there will be a goli tournament at the club.