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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-01
PILLS REGS AND
VANS TO PLAY
FULL CONTEST
Moran Gave Players Two
Monotonous Workouts
Yesterday
DEvoRE HAS SORE FEET
BIZ a std1 Correspondent

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. April l.
Director Moran will put his road COM
pany through two more rehearsals at
Coffee Pot Park this afternoon, as he did
yesterday. The slated performance be-
tween the regulars and reserves was can.
celed on account of a spanking breeze,
which eddied in and around the
amphitheatre.
The Irish impresario will recompense
the public for the unfulhllcd date by pre-
senting a nlne-reel feature this after
noon.
From the wings, yesterdays perform
ance was rather monotonous, as 1t lacked
variety, the principals being restricted
to colorless repetition of one number,
but from the managers viewpoint the
day was profitably employed.
While the slapstick was welded to the
detriment of the higher form of baseball
entertainment, the subtle art of pitching
was not totally obscured by the limelight,
as one of the foremost actors in the coun-
try and eight lesser luminaries basked in
it's rays
Rhoades, Fortune, Mayer. Demaree and
RiXey performed in the morning, while
McQuillan, Baumgartner and Adams sup
ported the peerless Alexander at the mat
inee.
Minor specialties, such as base running,
fungo hitting and bunting games, COM
pleted the ensemble.
Josh Devore, the principal comedian
spent the day In dabbling his feet in the
bayou, being unable to don his dancing
pumps as a result of lacking some all
too-solid skin on the tips of his toes,
as a result of wearing tight shoes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-01
RICE DECLARES PHILLIES ARE
NOT TOFBE IGNORED THIS YEAR
By GRANTLAND RICE

" ERY few are taking the Phillies seri
V ously this spring. but still fewer took
them seriously year ago. When they
won IL of their first IA games or Some
thing of that sort. merry laughter went up
around the circuit as the cry arose
| Watch them blow" But there was very
| little merry laughter at the Phillies eH-
pense around October first Very little.
Where the Phillies may finish this COM
| ing campaign is not known to us, person
ally or impersonally But any one who
refuses to consider ball club that carries
Alexander Cravath, Luderus, Bancroft,
Whitted and Burns or Killifer. may soon
be calling for new hand in the prophetic
deal.
An "If' or Two
Extremely few on the outside are pick
ing the Phils to repeat but suppose IN
| addition to Alexander, Chalmers, Mayer,
Rixey and McQuillan, Mr.. Charles Albert
Bender, the stoical Chippewa. should hap
pen to round to nicely for about 10 or IS
victories? Charles Albert is only 33, his
| arm is in good condition. and his ambition
is rearoused No one in the game knows
better how to pitch.
And there is George Chalmers. Chal-
mers at the finish looked to be almost
| as good as Alexander. In the world
| series he worked like a star. Yet, through
a late start, he won but games for
Moran's squad He is said TO be right
and ready this spring.
We are not picking the Phillies to re-
peat-but neither are We scoffing at their
chances.
Slr-To help settle an argument. who
was the hardest hitter-Corbett, Fitz-
simmons, Jeffries. Johnson, Willard or
Moran? Kindly rate them according to
their hitting power alone? j. S.
We should say Fitz was the hardest
puncher OF the lot--he had more leverage
and could certainly hit a harder blow
from short range. Jefrrles would fol-
low Fitz as the lustiest walloper. Neither
Corbett nor Johnson was a hard puncher
and there is no great snap back of viii
| lard's blows. Moran has to get set to
put through his punch, which is robust
enough when carried along by a full
| swing.
But the ideal puncher was Fitzsim-
mons. who could tear away part Of a
rivals roof with a jab that Travelled less
than is inches.
Bakers Speed
Sir; In 1911 Frank Baker stole ss
bases In 1919 he stole 40 in 1913 he stole
SS; but In 1914 he stole but 1s. Doesn't
I this show pretty well that he was slowing
Not necessarily When we saw Baker
work out at Macon. Ca, his legs looked
| TO be as elastic as ever. He looked TO be
just about as fast. In 1911 Ty Cobb stole
| SO bases. In 1914 he stole but 50. Slow
| ing up7 Not exactly. For In 1915 he
stole ss, is above his best previous year.
! In 1919 Cobb scored 70 runs. In 1914
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-01

IN 1919 Cobb scored 10 runs. In 1914
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-01
CHAMPION
Southern Baseball Scores
of Spring Training Games

AT JACKSONVILLE
PS;tSg PS;ssSSg.,sbi. SSSSSSSS& Z 2
Rudolph Barnes and Hughesi Bush,
Myers, Sheehan and Meyer.
AT MEMPHIS
Ssw SiSc,nhstl RSrk. ddSGSSSSS G : I
:, ,Mosridge and Alexander Schneider.
Shulz and Clark.
AT HOUSTON. Tex
New York. 0929d8do9-4 !
Perritt, Anderson and Rariden; Criss,
Napier and Jenkins
AT WASHINGTON
ESssssIi9ston. Srsssigss n; ,SSS!gS2$G / 8
Harper Gala and Henry; Pfeffer Mar
guard. McCarty' and Meyers.
AT NEW ORLEANS
chiesso chi0nu " SSS6VYY % 2 /
Klepfer, Jones and O'Neil; Pierce.
Hendrix and Archer.
AT LITTLE ROCK
New York, QQ1 1Q42 Il
Little Rock. ! o Q o o 81
Schauer, Kocher and Kenny: Moran, Glib
son. Hardgrove and Rumbler.
AT BEAUMONT, Tex
Detroit ....s...'''. '.''s''s''''s'' 10
necosYSl eogeiesklc. Dauss ana stanage; iRost,
Wright and Bobo.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-01
FINAL AT CHATTANOOGA
Thomas Athletic Youngsters Finish
First Series Today

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April 1.-The
first series of games to be played by Ira
Thomas squad of White Elephants on the
way north, will be brought to a close this
afternoon with the third contest with the
Chattanooga team. Part of the receipts
will go to the local Y. NJ. c. A.
Harry Weaver, of Philadelphia, prob
ably will be Thomas first choice for
twirling duty this afternoon. Knoxville
will be the next stop of the Yanigans.
games being booked there for next Mon
day and Tuesday with the University of
Tennessee.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-01
Bakers Speed

Sir; In 1911 Frank Baker stole Ss
bases In 1919 he stole 40 in 1913 he stole
80; but in 1914 he stole but 1s. Doesn't
this show pretty well that he was slowing
up before he left the Mackmen?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-01

he counted 69 But in 1915 he scored 144
runs. Yet a year ago the rumor was
pushed around that Ty was slowing up.
If this be slowing UP we'd like to lose
leg.
Who says there is nothing in propn-
guilty? Even T. RS secretary has de-
veloped a punch.
The Joe Stecher-Frank Gotch jubilee
hasn't been launched yet. but there is a
distant rumble which indicates that II is
on the way. 1t will arrive shortly, un-
less the fact that Stecher recently tossed
Doc Roller twice in 10 minutes persuades
Gotch to stick to the farm.
The Original Record
Some day zoe t0iH tUrIte an original yarn;
We t0iH start q HeD lead that tgiH hold
yoI IN thrdH;
For toe'H open a baseball story like this
"Pldy BaW"
Jess Willard is now horseman in the
circus, but two years from date, IL his
weight continues piling up, he will pottbe
able to ride anything but the stage zach
or a strong elephant, - -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-01
ideal CONDITIONS PREVAIL
FOR ULTRA-BRIGHT PHILLY
CAMPAIGN THIS SEASON
Fans Will Not Have to "Pull" the Wait-Until-
Next Year "Stuff" of the Last
Three Decades


approaching the bounds extavasance that the Ph are on the eve
rhs are number of contributing
1915 champions philadelphia has always been National League city ] Even
Phnies This condition has been much more
Then
Phle specifically This that the snace
the Federal League has brought about more settled @ feeling eel % aOhg
the and they can devote
whose actsss were far removed from the ball fields
Year. Slogan
the National
s % w TN tSS Next % Ts B tS SGn cutting % % on is thing the
the Phrl leading the race many persons
s @ ss @ s sua might snS the strain and for that the
This year the players
The team to win They realize that Moran and his champions are not % mere ere
and weathe fans will flock the ball field " encourage the rhes
St Weather Man Hangs Up New Record
old friend Bliss On the
d than 1u 4sn oapsshe weather man at St Peters
This disciple Al Just worlds record for su
then have the champions
Today the
long
Phrs their journey north stopping off at Richmond
before arriving home to open the National League campaign
Athletics Sane Salaries
have said Of the two Gnso teams s sss @ Of n top @ a
able their flag winning trick of 1915 ,u.,.
and properly because indications are that @ they will finish 5 W. with
unless he develops winning team within the next few
The rhss seem sound financially
brilliant pennant
while the men are not underpad cannot be said that President @ w.
Mack Has Shifted His Batting Order
He does
is ball distance
t walsh clever buner will hit second with strun olarg Ac1nni
following Although the
bken-down ball team it requires only
batting discover that there m great deal
e pitchers through well as Mack
with shb Park last There will at
them that he would
Is3 Hte tardiness to morning practice
Retire With Lightweight Crown Intact
world
hooks and ,s one Benny Leonard IN New York last night G is
dipeasure of hearing the rping of little
the several Eve alt times and start r1 health
many years before he got crack at the Srownn fact when he
tith
@ @ b % s, % @ no @ spoth w%1 % noeRS % ou as
the throne They are Leonard and Charley White with
Jourds Deserves the Honor He He WIN WIN Get ,o,,
Pennsylvania certain that he will be reappOned
s be the of college coaches
his natural ability lead and his personality
d ana this happened he
pus
s ] 1s s T p mss sass in au @ % @ % @ d ess an sas s an @
ability another
BASKETBALL
sf1 made .na. the University has repeatedly
at
school athletes OF this city Captain Mechol
of
sans JnOFd Northeast and Williamson Phillips Brooks
Of the
strange have
ogsr NshoH VIII annually Kicks
Allies
EVENING LEDGER MOVIES THIS
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-01

Spring Garden A. C. Tues; 7s.li Fss.' :.
Big Joe Butler, 195 lbs.
Punitive Jack 0'Brien, 154 lbs.
-Four other bouts. 26e. aud soc. Boxers
send names. AIEr. Ksarns, 11th 4 SD. Garden.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-01
ST. JOE L. AND d. WINS
Fast Passing Marks 1914 Victory
Over st. Ludwig Five

ISOLATION defeated the strong st. Ludwig five.
1914. on the formers floor. This closed a
one game was lost out of the 10 played The
rapid passing Of the st. Joe was the feature
of the game. John Kempf led the scoring
for the visitors, with four goals from the
field.
Lne-up
St Josephs. st. Ludwig's.
Hitler ......... forward. ........... Geiger
Ignas forward. .....,...... Grubb
Nowack centre. ............. Kobe
Kampf ........... guard. ......... Hendrig
Ecketl . Dlcder
Observation-Disclosures.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17
DR.. Woods Hutchinson Describ
the New Military Training
Necessary to Make Us Fit to
Cope with Science and
Machinery in War and at
the Same Time Give Us the
Greatest Health
and Efficiency in Peace

properly the dreadfully onesided, book
ish and indoor scheme of our present
educatiors The aim to produce not mere
ly a citizen, but soldier, will do much
toward giving their due weight and I'M
portance and place in the scheme OF
things, not merely in schools, but In
business and in society," to bodily yigor
and physical fitness.
Much of the opposition to and suspi-
cion of military training in the schools
arises from misunderstanding OF what
modern military training really consists
of. And this Misunderstanding, 1t is only
fair to say, is not confined solely to
teachers and anxious parents and pro-
fessional pacficists, but is shared in al
most equal measure by a certain moss
grown type Of army officers, both Federal
and militia. Modern war has little prac-
teal use for the old-fashioned style Of
parade drill and elaborate military evo-
lutions, marching and counter-marching,
right wheeling and left wheeling, with
the lines kept as straight as a ramrod
and every trouser stripe swinging for
ward at precisely the same instant and
angle as every other.
These parade ground stunts and armory
floor tricks are about as much use in
actual twentieth century fighting as the
cotillion or an Indian ghost dance, and
any regiment which would attempt to pull
one Of them on the field of battle would
be literally shot to pieces before it knew
what had happened. They were sent to
the scrap heap-excepting in military
academies-twenty years ago by the high
velocity magazine rife, with its tWo-mile
range, and the seven-mile howitzer with
its exploding shell blew up the last rem
nant of their practical utility and turned
man back five million years into bur-
rowing animal again.
Indeed, so little has this kind of So
called military training to do with real
war that neither Germany nor France
gives any of it in their schools at all, that
is to say, under the age of eighteen years
The chief thing which the Great Cen
eral Staff demands of the eighteen-year-
old conscript or recruit is not that he
shall be familiar with the manual of arms
or be able to perform fancy drills and
marching evolutions, but that he shall be
healthy, vigorous and tough, sound in
wind and limb, able to march ten miles
over country roads at ten minutes no
tice without breaking down or wearing
blisters all over his feet.
And, above all, be able to take care OF
himself, shelter, feed and protect his
health in the open in all weathers. This
can only be got by tramps, hikes, scout
ing trips, camping trips, school days and
holidays, Saturdays and weekends, the
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17
DR.. Woods Hutchinson.
The Worlds Foremost Physician-Author.
rTTT ELLINGTON said that the Battle
M Of Waterloo was won on the

wv ELLINGTON said that The Battle
MAJ OF Waterloo was won on the
w cricket fields Of Elton and Har-
row. The next war-if it ever comes,
which Heaven forbid-will be won on the
Fairgrounds and in the laboratories.
Fairgrounds, to make Young America,
like Captain Mcneil, of the Black Tyrone,
"a man wit two hands an two feet, an
ahl his tcet in his head laboratories.
to teach him to mix the new war medi-
cine. which smells to high Heaven, but
works like devil unclaimed
For in modern war the battle is not
between men and men, but between en-
gines and engines-steam engines, gas
engines dynamos, engines of fight, en-.
gines Of destruction. Man is simply the
mahout of these murderous steel mon
sters. The hand that holds the lever
rules the world
Providence, as Napoleon prophesied, is
Ter on The side of the heaviest artillery.
TIE Twentieth Century god of war is
literally the deus ex machina in sense
never intended by the ancients. not Mars,
gut Vulcan
Rifles look we'll on dress parade. and
bayonets are useful thing to have on
hand in case Of emergency; but the real
deadly weapons of this war have been
howitaars, machine guns and hand
g~enades. Even craftsmanship has be-
come OF cutie secondary importance, for
less than fifth of the deaths in France
have been caused by rifle bullets, and
over four-fifths by shrapnel and shells
and bombs thrown by hand.
BY a quaint irony of fate, the mag
nihcent ''Kitchener's Army" which its
builder, alas! scarcely lived to see fully
in action has discovered that with the
tremendous and increasing part played
by srenades and hand bombs, a good
stone thrower, or a handy man with a
baseball, may make even a better and
more effective soldier than a crack rifle
shot
One OF the arguments most commonly
urged against military training and other
forms Of preparedness for war is that
they involve an enormous waste and
dead loss. first of all of money for equip
ment, and, second of the time and energy
of boys and young men, which will cause
taxes to be raised, productiveness to be
lowered, and all sorts of economic ca
lamities.
Now, nobody loves or wants war, and
all OF us fervently hope and pray that it
will never cross our borders, but single
weeks thoughtful and unbiased observa-
ton of what has been going on for more
than two years past on the other side OF
the Atlantic, not merely all over Europe.
but in parts of Asia, Africa and Oceanica
as well, is sufficient to convince any in
telligent man that 1t is one of the stand
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

not introduced at all until the high
school, to which chilly and rareied alti-
tude only about 10 per cent of our
children ever attain, onsequently, those
who need modern science most, the
workers, get little or nothing of it in the
schools.
Yet the things that the soldier has to
do, the things that the engineer has to
do, the things that the munition worker,
the hospital nurse and the army cook
have to do are the very things that
children of both sexes are most keenly
and intensely interested in. The very
things that they get no practical infor-
nation on in the present curriculum.
Childhood irrepressible questions,
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

might be possible for the future citizen
to slip through life as a clerk or teacher
or bookkeeper or lawyer, utterly and
blissfully ignorant of modern science and
living all his life long in the fourteenth
century, in war he must know what. GEN.
fury he is "at" or be wiped out.
The soldier who can't run and, at
need, repair an engine of some sort, from
motor truck to machine gun and from
aeroplane to ambulance. is almost as
much out of it as a cowboy who can't
ride The active service uniform is no
longer beautiful blue or scarlet cloth
with gilt trimmings but plain. unromantic
khaki, and it will soon be overalls with
grease spots on them.
Much as we may deplore the prostitu-
ton of all that knowledge and intelli-
gence and executive ability to mere
slaughter, rapine and conquest, 1t must
be admitted that there is no incompatible
ity whatever between the most thorough
and elaborate preparation for war and
success and progress in the arts of peace.
On the contrary, II would not be too much
to say that the fullest and most intelli-
gent preparation for war is one of the
best trainings for efficiency in peace. 1t
may well be that from the nettle danger,
America may.pfuck the flower OF safety,
and that in the name and in the fear of
war we may succeed in inducing the
community to train and organize itself
and the rising generation for service in
stead of mere success. for mutual help
fulness instead of competition, and for
loyalty and devotion to the common
good.
The democracy OF the dog tent" Of
the munitions factory, of the hospital
ward, may be the forerunner Of a new
and happier state, when only those things
that make for true manhood, true wom-
anhood, will count. and all other distino.
tions be wiped out.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

what, and why
and how. whose
answers are only
to be found in
full in the book
OF science. We
have so called
science courses
in the schools.
but they begin at
exactly the OPP
posite end from
the child's inter-
est. They are
making him hate
science almost
as much as he
does now good
literature. I h 9
war point of view
would reserve all
this and rowe the
great pedagogic
problem of inter-
est.
Training for
war would change
all this also, be-
cause though in
time of peace it
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

ard risks of calamity, like fire and food
and pestilence and other acts of God"
which must be reckoned with and in
sured against. Considered as All insur-
ance premium, even our present proposed
large army and navy appropriations can
hardly be regarded as excessive, in view
Of the fact that the two leading bellig-
erents, on each side, in the present con-
test, England and Germany, are now
spending each $4,000, 0O0 day
When we face the serious and greatest
problem OF military training fairly and
intelligently and see what, can BE saved
from the wreck so to speak we find that
it is perfectly feasible to give such a
training to the rising generation as will
not only prepare them for war, but also
raise them to their highest possible pitch
of health and efficiency in peace In
fact, we may be able in the name of war
to attack and get rid of a score of ancient
abuses and stupidities and injustices in
both school and society.
Modern war calls for science. and
science is precisely what our present
system of education doesn't give yet
Military training in the schools may prove
the great emancipation that we have been
waiting for to free our system of educa-
ton from the clerical shackles and clas-
steal absurdities OF the past and place it
upon hygienic rational and scientific
basis. Instead of deploring it we should
meet it half way and sec if what we have
not been able to Obtain for the health
and bodily welfare OF the child in the
frivolous name of play we cannot easily
obtain in the name of war.
Modern military ideals can be made to
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

whole year round, on skates or snow.
shoes or skis in the Winter season. And
that would be pretty nearly the millen-
mum, from health point of view-call it
military training or any other name you
like, so long as we get it.
So much for the physical side Of mill,
tary training. What about the mental?
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

&C d. The The
warfare make soldier
with which
dern
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

10 CHGLulSlly IL IL IndCnlHGly vi CNCiJ
imaginable sort of description, motors.
submarines, aeroplanes, telephones,
photographs, mines, dams, cement work,
road building, house building, and
craft of modern civilization. Not only
80, but one-haf of modern war is fought
In factories and another fourth on rail-
roads and in supply departments Every
soldier on the firing line requires accord
ing to Lloyd George, to support him there
and keep him supplied three men and
four women, on the railroads, in the
munition works. in the equipment fac
tories, in the hospitals and on the farm.
Education for modern war would solve
every problem of vocational training.
ConScription no longer covers merely
every possible Soldier" but every
worker, both male and female young and
old, in the entire nation, and assigns to
each one his or her place in the team.
Next after a good physique and
vigorous health. the thing which the
military training officers prize most
highly In the new recruit is a thorough
knowledge of modern science, particu-
larly of chemistry, physics and mechan-
les. Now chemistry and physics are
taught in our public schools, but in a
most ladylike and harmless fashion. The
curriculum makers were compelled by
popular demand to put their names on
the list of studies and upon the school
programmes much against their will, be-
cause they didn't know anything about
them and hated to have to read up. AS
a natural consequence, they have
denatured and devitalized and stupidiled
them until they are about as melancholy
and uninteresting and utterly devoid of
any relation to actual life as Latin or
English literature
What is worse, both SUBJ
jects are made so dull and
difficult and technical that
they are considered beyond
} the comprehension of the
s3gsxM. grades, and are usually
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

g nrennAnoraa, Ns~s sFnves-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

What subjects shall the
youthful citizen soldier be
taught; what trades and &C.
equations shall he be trained
for? There is only one an
swer "All there are!" Every
science, every art every craft
has its place of usefulness
in modern war.
Modern war is not just pull
ling the trigger or lunging
with the bayonet. 1t is cleo
tricitY: Ii is aeronautics. 1t
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-17

work a real trans
valuation Of edu-
cational values.
First and most
important of all,
military training
W IL b alan c q
and round out