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New-York tribune., 1916-07-18

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

Frank J. MarshalIs exhibition, under
the auspices of the Capital City Chess
Club, last Wednesday evening. was
success in every way and one of the
most interesting events of the season.
The United States champion played
twenty-three games against particu-
larly strong field, winning nineteen, los
ing two and drawing two games. Sid
ney Ballou and j. II. Il. Ray scored
against the master, while b. +. Walker
and +. Knapp obtained draws. The fol-
lowing evening Marshall entertained
the club members with another exhi-
bition, playing against eleven oppo-
nents and winning every game. A mum
Der of interesting games at odds also
were contested.
Following is selection of games
from the Rice memorial tournament:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
CAPABLANCA LEADS
BIG CHESS TOURNEY
Competition in Rice Memorial
Matches a Struggle for
Second Place.
MARSHAlL'S EXHIBITION
PROVES GREAT SUCCESS

With only four more rounds left in
the first stage of the Rice memorial
tournament. the competition has re-
solved itself into struggle for second.
third and fourth places. The feature
of the past weeks play. aside from
Capa blancas usual victories, has been
the brilliant work of chajes, who has
displaced Bernstein in the position of
runner-up. a. W. Fox, Washingtons
representative. is putting up the gam
est kind of fight, after his poor start.
to land among the prize winners and
has won four and a half points in hi,
last six starts. his loss being to Capa-
blanca and his draw with Janowski.
Rosenthal distinguished himself in the
ninth round by drawing with the great
Cuban. The standing of the players TO
date follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

Sporting Editor Star:
A says Jim Thorpe has light hair; 4
says that, being an Indian, he should
have dark. Are you in position to
inform US? +. M. G.
Thorpe is quite dark. even for an
Indian, and his hair is certainly black
Sporting Editor Star:
Was Benny kauff ever a 800 hitter
in organized ball? AL w.
All, yes. With Bridgeport and Hart
ford, in a Glass b league, he batted
years in succession. He never played
in higher company than Class B in or
ganized ball.
Sporting Editor Star:
Inform me as to how pitchers official
averages are figured, whether accord
ing to games won and lost or accord
ing to effectiveness. l refer only to
American and National leagues.
BOGGS.
Pitchers in major leagues are rated
according to acknowledgements
OF earned runs allowed per nine-innfng
game, without regard to games won or
lost. The American League ignores
games won and lost entirely, but the
National carries a supplemental table
showing games won and lost by pitch
erS.
Sporting Editor Star:
With what team was Cy Falkenberg
playing before he Joined the Cleveland
American League team?
JOHN A. B.
Falkenberg originally came to Cleve-
land in 1909 from Washington; Cleve-
land released him to Toledo for 1912
and recalled him the next year, after
which he jumped to the Feds.
Sporting Editor Star:
Advise what elevation the center of
diamond should be- to make what is
called turtle back diamond, or ad-
wise how a turtle back diamond should
be made. WATSON.
pitchers plate shall not be higher than
Is inches above the base lines and the
home plate and any legal diamond
must conform to this regulation. The
rule also provides the ground shall
slope gradually from the pitchers plate
on all sides. This seems to be the
idea of the turtle back diamond, which
makes 1t different from many diamonds
which are fiat. in violation of the rule,
with the pitchers plate sharply ele-
Sporting Editor Star:
What leagues did Jack Sheridan UNI
pire in and in what years? READER.
Sheridan was in the Southern League
in 1885 as an umpire for a time and
also as a player, and In the New York
State in the same year. He took up
umpire work as. a regular thing in
1885 in the California League: was
there until 1890, when he was in the
Brotherhood League: back to California
in 1891 and then to the National a
year, in the Southern a year, a couple
of years in the Western; back to the
National in 1895 and 1897 and then to
the American Cat first the Westerly al
most continuously until his death. In
1918 he saw some service in the Coast
League while recuperating his health.
but he was still under call of the Amer
lean League.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
SHORT TRAINING TRIPS.
Cincinnati and Red Sox Not to Be
Long in South.

CINCINNATI, January 29.-The short
est training trips of any major league
clubs this season will be those taken by
the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Red
Sox. The Cincinnati players plan to
start their seasons work about March Z,
and they will get back to Cincinnati in
time to start series with the New York
Highlanders April l. The Reds will have
nearly Two weeks to polish up their own
park before the opening of the National
League championship season April IL.
The Boston Red Sox will not gather at
Hot Springs. Ark, until about the middle
of March, or some time later than all of
the other squads have been at work. The
Red Sox are due to play the Brooklyn
team at Brooklyn early in April, 10 that
their stay at the health resort will be
limited to less than three weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

years ago, and he. with Barclay as his
partner, also won the two-man tenpin
championship title about five years
ago. He also was member of the Y.
NJ. c. A. team which won the cham
pionship of it's league for five success
sive seasons.
Miss Florence Eldridge, a new men,
Der of the Bannockburn club. has just
returned from an extensive visit to her
former home in central Iowa.
Another freak golf shot was made OIL
the Washington Golf and Country Club
course a few weeks ago, when John
with such force that it became wedged
in the tree and had to be pried out.
Col. r. M. Schof1eld, a member of the
Golf Club, now is on a trip through
Georgia and Florida. He took his clubs
with him. and expects to play a great
deal of golf while there.
Sam Dalzell and Allan Lard had an
interesting match last week, in which
the latter was beaten. The match was
close all the way, Dalzell finally win
ming by up.
now been covered down SO as to get il
in good condition for spring.
There probably will be one more
open tournament on this years local
list than there was last, as the Ban
nockburn Golf Club expects formally
to open its Cabin John bridge course
with an open event this year-possibly
in the spring. The club had every in
tention of announcing an even. Ior
1915. but as it's course was new one
it was harder to get in condition than
was anticipated, and for this reason
the tourney was given up. The course
is coming along in exceptionally good
shape now, and indications are that 1t
will be in splendid condition when the
season opens in the spring.
The greens at Chevy Chase now are
being treated with a view to getting
them in the best possible condition
for the coming season. The regular
ones still are being used, however. al
though it probably will be necessary
for the players to be transferred to
temporary ones before long in order
20 give the regular ones rest. as
constant use is exceptionally hard on
<hem,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
PULLING OLD TRICKS.
Jack Dunn Finds a Star From Sand
Lots in Baltimore.

BALTIMORE. January 20. -Jack
Dunn. since he took hold of the Balti-
more end of the International League.
again is pulling his old tricks of taking
stars of the sand lots. He announces
the signing of Billy Oliver, Baltimore
youth. who by great pitching last sea-
son won the city championship for his
team. Oliver IL a strapping big right
handler, twenty-three years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

only to the luck OF
the game. In other
cases a winning
team often creates
the break by doing
the un e X p e>cted.
which very often
puts the opposi-
ton in the air and
becomes the turn :
ing point in the ball
game.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
BOARD -sCoTCH GAMBIT.

The following problem. specially COM
posed for and dedicated to the readers
of The Star chess column, is the work
of a young American composer who
has recently achieved such national ard
international fame that he may rightly
be reckoned this country's foremost
composer of two-move problems. Mr..
Janet has promised that more of his
work shall see the first light of publi-
cation through this column, and for
ourselves and our readers we assure
him that his contributions will be most
heartily appreciated.
FRANK JANET. January Is. 1916.
OCTAG0N 81.
BLACK.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
BY BILLY EVANS.

Getting the break means everything
in base ball. When team is winning
the breaks invariably come it's way. In
a good many cases the break relates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
BY Ripley.

Here some others:
Tommy Burns knocked out Bill Squires
Joe Walcott knocked Dan Creedon
George Gardner knocked Harry Forbes.
Buddy Ryan knocked out Honey Melody.
Billy Papke knocked out Hugo Kelly.
Kid Carter knocked Joe Choynsk
Stanley Ketchel knocked out Mike (Twin) Sullivan.
Fitzsimmons knocked out Peter Maher =
George Carpenter knocked out Bombardier Wells
X o. Brown knocked out Tommy Murphy.
Eddie McGoorty knocked out Dave Smith.
Jack Mccormick knocked out Kid Mccoy
Kid Lewis knocked Jimmy Duffy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
Can Learn From Women.

1t is not my purpose here entirely to
indorse the feminine attitude as exem-
plified in the instances mentioned above,
but II the average masculine golfer
could come a trife closer to that atti-
better time. but. in my humble opinion,
play better game. The strain on him
would not be so heavy. There would
be greater absence of that rightly of
swing which comes from overhaul
nerves
To take his play just a bit less seri-
ously would bring a needed relaxation
of muscle, and II Is the absence of any
such relaxation which accounts, In the
main, for the high scoring in SO many
medal-play rounds. Golfers, easily
capable of doing an 81 or an SO in
friendly rounds. return cards of 30 or
81 in tournaments, curse their luck and
wonder why 1t is that they fell down SO
badly. The answer is, obviously, that
they were getting their SIS and S2s
going rounds, in rounds, that is, when
they were playing in much the same
spirit as that shown by Miss Dodd and
Miss Ravenscroft at Wilmington and
Englewood.
But regardless of the matter of
scores, think of the fun the men are
missing, After all, isn't it better to be
able to laugh, or at least to smile over
a missed bit Of luck. than to mutter
morose and meaningless profanities be-
cause of an approach that stopped
twenty feet beyond the pin didn't have
the ordinary decency to hit 1t and stop
dead to the hole?
Copyright, 1915. by Doubleday, Page Coz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
GbBOMs kNoekiNsoUT AAEARN
Tt4E ..-.- Az SECONDS

o. prize
Probably he quick knockouts
e han two title
with single punch. Mccoy George Chip
Dial dropped Flaherty
very
of all knockouts accomplished by
Nelson put sleep producer William
Rossner IN seconds April s. 1902 at Harvey Ill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

| large a percentage of its spare time in
| traps and bunkers?
Woman and Golf.
To another subject. The female Of
the species may or may not be dead
lier than the male. We have no inten-
ton of debating this unhappy question
with Mr.. Kipling. But in the matter
| of tournament golf play the fema le
| temperament is not only far less DEAD
| ~ than the male, but far less unbend-
ing. rigid-and boring. 1t may not De
quite so effective in regard to general
results. but in the way of elasticity.
| buoyancy and fun there can be no
| comparison.
! Some time ago Miss Muriel Dodd and
| Miss Gladys Ravencroft, two eminent
English golfers. had just finished q
| oue-day tournament at Englewood, n.
! j.. in which, possibly, seventy-nVe
W omen had taken part. l had foiloWeo
that afternoon the leading entries, WIG
included, in addition to Miss Dodd ana
| Miss Ravenscroft, Miss Marion Hoilins
\ of New York. On the way BACK TO tne
| clubhouse ! was vaguely CONSCIOUS y,
| a wide difference between the genera
atmosphere of that tournament ana OF
| tournaments conducted by the sterner
sex. There was, ! knew, quite a olHer-
ence but l was not sure what the ar
ference was until two ladies, just IN
front of me, solved the problem LOT
me. .
Now this said one of them. is
what I call real sport. Tournaments
handled by men always have le1t me
with an awful headache. They MADE
me feel as if I didn't dare to breathe
| They were so idiotically solemn about
it themselves that 1 felt ! was at
funeral. But today everything was so
different. When Miss Dodd missed
shot, she laughed, and the same with
Miss Ravenscroft and Miss Holilns.
And we all laughed with them. The
players had good time and so ana the
SPECTATORS 1t was sport-not war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
GOLF BECOMING TOO EASY"
MANY CHANGES MAY BE MADE
Object of Game From Now On Will Be
Toward an Even Greater Science OF
Stroke and Head Work

large a percentage of its spare time in
traps and bunkers?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

In foot ball no offense OF the right
sort can be developed unless 1t be train
ed against a strong defense. In base
ball no club can be developed at bat I'M
kess II face high-class pitching. And in
golf no frst-class player can be devel-
oped unless he is given a chance to play
over a course calling for control and
q variety of shots. The golfer who
plays over an untrapped course. where
bad shots are rarely ever penalized has
a tendency to become careless-and to
lose control. For control can only be
developed where there is a penalty wait
ing for miSplay.
Too many American courses are not
properly bunkered for tee shot They
fail to develop control with the wood
as first-class course should do And
IL is this account that American
golfers. invading England. find SO much
p trouble. They are unaccustomed to the
high winds and the more extensive
trapping. and lack the steady control to
meet the occasion. And yet there is a
limit: the tired business man. The aver
age golfer is willing to take a chance
TO accept a penalty for poorly played
shot, he will tell you. 1t may be best
for the game-for an improved game
TO adorn the course with yearly added
difficulties-but Is IT best for the ma
TONS nerves. morals and happiness?
A nations wealth. as judged by Adam
Smith, Is measured by its happiness
Can a nation be happy with so large q
percentage Of its population spending SO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

Sporting Editor Star:
Inform me as to how pitchers official
averages are figured. whether accord
ing to games won and lost or accord
ing to effectiveness. 1 refer only to
American and National leagues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

Sporting Editor Star:
A says Jim Thorpe has light hair; B
says that. being an Indian, he should
have dark. Are you in a position to
inform US? +. M. G.
Thorpe is quite dark. even for an
Indian. and his hair is certainly black.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

Miss Florence Eldridge, a new men,
Der of the Bannockburn club, has just
returned from an extensive visit to her
former home in central Iowa.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-05-07
Our Composite Car

This year we took a new tack. We
brought out this Mid-Year model-our
second for 1916.
We held its completion until after the
New York Show. There we saw all the
new ideas and touches. And we learned
what people liked best.
Then we combined In this new model
73 things that folks wanted. OF these. rs
are unique to the Mitchell-either ex-
elusive or very rare.
So you will find this New Mitchell, in
scores of ways, the most interesting car
on the market.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-05-07
FLYING PROBLEMS
ARE NOW SOLVED
Large Rubber Company
Takes Up Question Of
Aerial Preparedness.

The European war las demonstrat-
ed the increasing value and usefulness
of rigid and non-rigid balloon. both
for military purposes and as means
of rapid transportation. Our own
government has observed closely the
achievements in this newly developed
branch of aerial navigation. and in
vestigations have been started with an
end to equip or naval and military
forces with proper airships.
From the stait. it was found to
he no easy matter to build "A military
balloon. The warning nations Of
Europe alone Possessed sufficient
technical information and experience
to proceed with any great degree Of
assurance and success. Although plo-
neers in the effort to conquer the air.
the United States soon dropped far
behind in the work of perfecting the
movement they began and now is far
outdistanced by more ar-sighted COM
pctitors.
TT has devolved upon our own
manufacturers by means of expert
ments and such external resources as
lay at their command. to rodiscover
those laws and rules that govern aer-
ial navigation. When we consider the
decades that have been consumed in
bringing ballooning to its present in
complete state OF development. the
difficulty OF putting 1t on a practical
basis in the short space Of a few
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-05-07

ness. The third Premier Is to be pilot
cd by Harry Stillman.
Howard MarmOn, chief engineer,
and one Of the big guns Of the Mar
mon factory. has been given the hon
orary position of referee at the IN
dianapolis speedway race May 30.
Frank r.. Smith, Yicc-prcsidcnt or
the Premier company, Will be the
paccmakcr at indianapolis this year
This is the ticklish job carr c. Fisher
has always had. lIut Fisher believes IN
passing the houors around. Smith VIII
lead the starters around the two ana
a half mile track once, then duck Tor
cover, as when they come down the
home stretch the race viii be on.
Considerable excitement was caused
at the Indianapolis motor speedway
office when the news was received 10y
cable from London that second
sunbeam car viii arrive in lndlhnap-
oils IN time for the May 30 race.
one ear Is already here ana viii bC
driven hv Josef christiaons. The
driver OF the second British car Is not
announced. These are the cars that
contain aviation motors and scnsa
tiunal speed is expected from them.
John Aitkcn and Eddie Ricken-
bachcr, who will drive a Pcugcot ana
"A Maxwell at Indianapolis May 80,
are now IN New York getting ready
for the speedway race there May ! }.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-05-07
GASOLINE PRICES
MAY GO HIGHER
Harry F. Sinclair Says 1t
May Go to 4Oc in a
Short Time.

"Gasoline prices will continue to ad-
vance; it wouldn't be surprising IL
first grade gasoline is quoted at 40
cents gallon within a short time,"
Harry T.. Sinclair. millionaire oil man,
is quoted as saying.
Mr.. Sinclair declares that there is
really scarcity of oil at this time,
and that unless new fields are opened
within a year or so there may be an
oil famine. He estimates that the
average decrease in the gasoline out
put from all the fields in the United
States is close to three billion gallons
yearly.
1t is the decrease-in- production
side of the situation which Mr.. Sin
clair emphasizes. But the increase in
consumption phase is equally inn
portant, and cannot properly be dis
missed by mere statistics to the ef-
feet that there are considerably more
than two million motor cars in use in
this country, and that they are con-
suming gasoline at the rate Of more
than one billion gallons year.
What percentage of the fuel Is being
practically wasted in running heavy
cars in which the all-important ele-
ments of simplicity and economical
operation are subordinate to other
features?
If. through the present congress
sional investigation, the gasoline
problem were worked out along the
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-05-07
GOODYEAR TIRE co.
WINS PATENT SUIT
L. S. District Court De-
cidcs Against F'irestone
Company.

All American tiredom is Interested
in f.. A. Seiberling's victory this week
over the Fircstonc Tire n Rubber Co
in the United States district court. in
"A suit charging infringement Of the
Soldering Goodyear tire making ma
chine patents
The interest of tire manufacturers
in the outcome Of this suit brought
10y +. A. Sciberliug, president OF the
Goodyear company against the FIRE
stone company was unusually height
cncd because of the fact that while u
large majority of tire manufacturers.
both large and small. have been for
some years building their tires upon
machines licensed from MIR. Seibcr-
ling. small handful of other manu-
facturers, among which was the Fire
stone company. have refused TO con-
ccdc the validity of the patents on the
Goodyear machines.
The Goodyear company contended
that the Soldering Stevens machine
of l902-3 was a pioneer invention and
that IL paved the way for the present
day cmi-automatic tire making ma
chine: that Sciberlng Stevens ma
chine was the first ever produced to
make automobile tires; that the
Goodyear company developed the
first practical machine for making
automobile tires mechanically that Is
now in use,
This Goodyear position is now con-
firmed in no uncertain terms by this
late decision of Judge killits OF the
United states district court
Prior to 1902 auto tire castings were
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-05-07
oca Business Conditions Were Never Better Auto Dealers

line of data on the fuel economy OF
one tyne of automobile compared with
another, the result would be interest
ing and doubtless of inestimablc value
to the public.
Such an investigation would estab.
lsh to what extent cars In the heavy
class are a factor in creating the pres
ent abnormal conditions In respect 10
gasoline. with thousands OF cars or
this kind in service, making only SIX
to eight miles to the gallon, compared
to l6 to 20 miles per gallon by cars or
lighter weight, the unnecessary drain
on the gasoline supply is obvious.
Under the law of supply and de-
mand a corresponding rise In the price
of gasoline must be expected in order
TO pay for the waste. And the owner
of the economical. light car must
bear his share of the burden for which
he is not responsible. :,
If the gasoline consumption OF all
automobiles were leveled TO the nght
car standard, the resultant conserVa-
ton in the supply of gasoline would
undoubtedly be sufficient to put the
price quotations within reasonable
limits and keep them there.
1t would seem that the congress
sional Investigators have an oppor-
tunity for doing the country great
service by laying stress upon the un-
deriving facts in the consumption
problem. If this would lead to agita-
ton toward refinement and simplifi-
cation in the design of motor cars to
reduce the expense of operation for
all time. a valuable reform in the
economic life of the country would
result.