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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-17
Tioers Defeat Cornell

Ithaca, \. Y, Dec. l6.-Prinee1t,on ,;. ~
feated Cornell in an intereones
basketball game here to-nign' 0'
score of ~ 70 le.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-17
Tho Skrs Are the Sensation of the Ice Season New York

ROR MEYER, pro
fesslonsl champion
81 the world, exc
cutting one OF the
forty one intricate
figures in the Cont
mental School o I
Skating.
Evening star., 1916-01-14
GILMORE TO SELL PLAYERS.
Gwinner Turns Over Contracts Of
All His Pittsburgh Feds.

PITTSBURGH, January 14.-Edward
W. Gwinner who during the last few
days has repeated scores of times that
he was through with base ball." an
nounced yesterday that the contracts
of all Rebel players have been turned
over to James A. Gilmore, president of
the former Federal League, to dispose
Of This was done while Gwinner was
in New York last week. Gilmore has
authority to sell and arrange deals for
any of the players. but all deals will
have to be ratified by Gwinner before
they are closed.
This action on the part of Gwinner
means that clubs in organized base
ball, both major and minor league,
that are seeking any of the Pittfed
players will have to deal with Gilmore,
so the New York American League
club, which put in bid for Ed Ko-
netchy. Elmer knetzer and Frank AL
len now can open negotiations with
Gilmore for the men. This will relieve
Gwinner of a big job, and it is likely
that Gilmore will be able to get more
for the players than Gwinner would.
The other clubs that have contracts
on their hands also may give them to
Gilmore for disposal at the final meet
| ing of the league, to be held in New
York within the next two weeks.
Evening star., 1916-01-14
Work Should Be Easy.

Since the Federal League has passed
away, the American and National
leagues will have no trouble in arrans-
ing playing dates. Although no OF
fetal action has been taken yet, 1t is
almost sure that the White SoX VIII
open the season on their home grounds
and the Cubs undoubtedly will open in
Cincinnati. Last season the SoN opened
on the road and the Cubs started al
home, SO the order will be reversed.
There was the usual talk this winter
of starting the season at later date,
but such talk is evidently groundless.
After years of experience, the base pan
mas agnates have concluded that the best
time to start playing ball is the second
week of April, and, though they some
times are compelled to start in eX-
tremely cold weather. it often happens
that they have better weather just al
that time than they find even month
later.
Evening star., 1916-01-14
DE ORC HAS BIG LEAD.
Score in Championship Three-Cush-
ion Match Is Now 1c0 to 81.

BOSTON, January 14--Alfred De ORC.
the three-cushion billiard champion,
won the second block of fifty points
last night in his 150-point match with
Lloyd Jevne of Denver for the diamond
emblem. De Oro's score was made in
siXty-four innings, eighteen more than
it took him on the first evenings play.
Jevne scored thirty-siX points in the
second block, as against twenty-five in
the first. The total is now 100 to 81 in
De Oros favor.
De Orc played his usual steady game
He was in the lead all the way, and in
the first twenty innings ran twenty
points, to only five for Jevne. The lat
ter was brilliant at times, but got the
worst of the breaks, just as he did in
the first nights play. De Oros best
Evening star., 1916-01-14
WILL OPEN APRIL Z
Ban Johnson Says 1916 Sea-
son Is to Start on That Date.
WORK EASY WITH NO FEDS
Dreyfuss and American League
President Will Draft List
of Games.

CHICAGO. January 14.-According to
President Johnson of the American
League, April IL is the day the 1916
base ball season will ol.en. Within the
next few days Johnson expects to meet
Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the Pitts
burgh club of the National League,
and the two will frame a schedule of
games for both major leagues. 1t has
been customary for many years to have
Dreyfuss of the National and Johnson
of the American draw up schedules and
then present them to the two leagues
for adoption at their February meet
ings
Evening star., 1916-01-14

to acknowledge that Baltimore would
have a hard time supporting minor
league club, let alone a major league
proposition.
The fact that Jess Willard wants to
have his meeting with Frank Moran post
poned until May is not the only hitch that
is apt to prevent the fight from taking
place in New York There is strong OBJ
lection by the boxing commission, which
will insist that if the battle is held in
any new club that club must have a
years lease on the building it occupies
before a license will be granted for the
bout.
Willard has little to fear from Moran.
who would need a stepladder to get any
where near the champion. OF course,
Moran has everything to gain and nothing
to lose. but none of the fight experts be-
lieve he stands a chance with Willard.
Dave FultZ has stirred up hornets
nest by intimating that the magnates
of organized base ball intend to take
advantage of technicalities in order to
release themselves from the obliga-
tions of the contracts of Federal
Lea guers who Will not be sought by
National and American League clubs.
F'ultZ also intimateS that the situa-
tion is so complicated that some of the
players who do hold ''ironclad' con
tracts and who are desired by teams Of
/ Ddll may ne lOFceu TO take n
cut in salary if they do not observe the
proper formalities before making terms
with their new owners.
| The consent of the Federal League is
necessary before any player of the in
dependent circuit can sign with any
club of organized ball. If a player signs
without the written consent of the Fed
eral League owner he is automatically )
breaking his original contract by sign
+, ing another before he has been officially
lVxal alA 'tIl hat h..
ers of National and American League
clubs Will be quick to take advantage
| Of this technicality.
| That the magnates resent the inter
Evening star., 1916-01-14
Dertinent Comment
Jf@1g;'59&} Jf@3@sssE'8}; 79f;
By ]. ED GR1LLo.

Wber Robinson manager Of the Brooklyn Dodgers and a
resident OF Baltimore strngng his home with his talk OF
having the Nationals play half OF their in Baltimore Wbert
sprung this scheme ago. drew Griffith and,
according this mornings Baltimore SUM- Wibert has promised
talk Ban Johnson whom he hunting
petition Brunswick Ga and him the Washington
schedule that the Grifmen will play hall OF their games the
Monumental City
Wbert picked the right talk Baltimore to- Ban John
had experience with League
which drew exactly for the home He and
Comkey opposed placing league club there when this
proposition made during the peace conference in New
York
Evening star., 1916-01-14
TO GIVE CHESS EXHIBITION.
Whitaker Meets All Corners al
Washington Club Tonight.

There will be Il simultaneous chess
exhibition at the rooms of the Wash
ington Chess and Whist Club, Riggs
building. at S O'Clock this evening.
when Norman 7. Whitaker will meet
all comers. Whitaker is one of the two
Washington masters invited to play in
the international Rice memorial tour
nament in New York next week. He
has an excellent record as a simultan-
eous player.
Evening star., 1916-01-14

run was six, while his opponent had
one of five. The summary:
De Oro--o 2 o 3 0 o 3 1 o o 9 3 0 1 O
q o % o = . o q . q o o o . 0 0 y Q 1
o o o o @ o 0 o o o l . . 90 /. To-
tal-50. Grand total-1o0
Jevne-o o o o . o o o o o o 0 o o o
l o o o o o / > > o o o o l . o 3 / o
o q o 90 | 0 = o o 0 = 0 0 l. To-
tal-36. Grand total-6l.
Evening star., 1916-01-14
Nine Cardinals Turned Loose.

ST. LOUIS, January 14.-Manager
Miller Huggins Of the Cardinals has
discarded nine members of his team.
All of them likely will go to the minors
The players dropped were Catchers
Glen and Roche. Pitchers Perdue. Lam
line and Robinson. Infielders Nash and
Branaigan and Outfielders Hyatt and
Seusel.
Evening star., 1916-01-14
Rockville Academy Wins,

The Southern quint of the Terminal
Railroad y. NJ. c. A. League was de-
feated by th@ Rockville Academy auint
in a game of basket ball at Rockville
yesterday afternoon. The score was 2S
to %.
Evening star., 1916-01-14

pay the teams railroad fare between the
two cities. Robinson may hand out that
bunk about having Washington play in
his town. but he has been one of those
Evening star., 1916-01-14

ference of Fultz is proved conclusively
by statement given out by Barney
Dreyfuss of the Pittsburgh club. He
accuses Fultz of meddlng. Dreyfuss
also says Fultz has insulted the mag
mates by implying that they would take
advantage of technicalities to break
contracts after organized ball has gone
into court to force the players to live
up to these contracts.
Other magnateS express similar views,
and all declare that it will be time
enough for the Players Fraternity and
President FultZ to take up cudgels when
the contracts in force have not been
honorec by organized ball
Joe Villa of the New York Evening
Sun tells of the disappointment of the
Baltimore fans and former Federal
League club owners in the following
paragraph.
The Feds went into the Maryland
metropolis two years ago with a
flourish of trumpets. But it was the
same old story. The fans. at first en-
thusiastic, grew weary, and the ball
park became a lonely place. In the
peace settlement the leader of the
Federal League. Bloomer. decided to
throw the Baltimore club to the wolves
and the present cries of distress are
the result of very inhuman treatment
Baltimore never belonged in the ma jor
league class, and nobody knows it bet :
ter than the men who lost thousands
Of dollars backing the other clubs in
the late circuit.
Evening star., 1916-01-14

There is no more chance 10 divide the
Nationals schedule between Washington
and Baltimore than TO transfer the fran
chixe 10 that city. The chances are such
an arrangement would not net enough 10
Evening star., 1916-01-14
TIGERS TO PLAY AGGIES.
Princeton Ball Team to Be Seen
Here April 20.

PRINCETON. \. J.. January 1.-THE
schedule of the Princeton base ball
team of this season was announced
yesterday by Manager b. Bullock. Sd.
1t contains twenty nine games-two
less than last year. Seven teams have
been dropped and four-Seton Hall,
Holy Cross, Maryland Agricultural and
Union-added. Ten games are to be
played away from home, three of these
being on the southern trip, taken dur
ing the Easter recess.
The triangular series between Har-
ward. Yale and Princeton has been dis
continued after years trial, and this
season the third game viii be played
only on condition that each team wins
one of the other two contests. The date
of the annual Straw Hat day" game
with Pennsylvania has been set back
to Memorial day-May 30-when it vii
be played in Philadelphia. Negotiations
are pending for Il game with the New
York Americans, but the date has not
yet been decided upon. The schedule
follows:
March 25-Gettysburg at Princeton.
March 29-Seton Hall at Princeton.
April 1-Villanova at Princeton.
April Holy Cross at Princeton
April 6-Fordham at Princeton.
April S-Ursinus at Princeton.
April 11-WilliamS at Princeton
April 12-Rutgers at Princeton.
April Thrown at Providence.
April 20-Maryland Agricultural Col
lege at College Park. Nd.
April 21-Virginia at Charlottesville
April 22-Georgetown at Washington
April 26-Union at Princeton.
April 29-Cornell at Princeton.
May 1-Lawrenceville at Lawrence.
vile.
May 3-Virginia at Princeton.
May 6-Corneil at Ithaca.
MAY 1O--WilliamS at Princeton.
May 13-Pennsylvania at Princeton.
May 17-Dartmouth at Princeton.
May 20-Harvard at Princeton.
May 24-Brown at Princeton.
May 27-Yale at New Haven.
May 30-Pennsylvania at Philadel-
phia.
June 3-Harvard at Cambridge
June Amherst at Princeton.
June 10-Yale at Princeton.
June 14-Yale at New York Gin case
of tie).
June 16-Harvard at New York Gr
case of tie).
Evening star., 1916-01-14
Styles for All

Models describe separately here. Suf
fee that good model you have in mind will be found
in the assortment i'll either Suit Overcoat and many
models that YOU have before, in both draped,
hgurehugging English and smooth fitting conservative
styles.
Evening star., 1916-01-14

to acknowledge that Baltimore would
have a hard time supporting minor
league club, let alone a major league
proposition
Evening star., 1916-01-14
G.. u. Jr. Preps Are Victors.

The Georgetown Junior Prep basket
| ball team defeated the Western High
School Freshmen yesterday afternoon
in the Ryan gymnasium by a score of
is to Z. Donohue and Wales played
best for the Props and McIver featured
for Western. -
Evening star., 1916-01-14
Note

T h c $ e hundreds of
Suits. Balmacaans and
Overcoats with fur
nishings at finally re-
duced prices = will be
ready for inspection
tomorrow morning at
8 O'Clock, on street
floor. Note that this
exclusive Mems Shop
entrance is on q street,
two doors east OF llth.
Evening star., 1916-01-14

National and Jeffery
Cars.
Combs Motor Company,
Tel. vi. ss6I. VT. Ave. and II NV.
Service station, 1923 l. st. NV.
Catoctin clarion., 1916-03-16
Odd Mail Service,

A novel mail service Is to be put In
to operation on the Magdalena river,
in the Republic of Colombia, seasleda
having been planned to ply between
BOgota and the coast. BY the water
route the distance between the two
points is more than 500 miles. It Is
expected that it will be covered at an
average speed Of nearly forty miles
an hour. Tests were recently made
on the Hudson river, near New York,
with an oddly designed craft which
has been built especially for this serv.
ice. 1t is a broad-beamed glider.
equipped with high-power motor, and
driven by two aerial propellers mount
ed at the stern. 1t is capable Of carry
ing number Of passengers, and when
loaded draws only five inches OF wa
ter. While travelling at its maximum
speed, however, the sled requires only
one inch of water, for it skins along
barely cutting the surface. Its slight
draft is made necessary by the shal.
lowness Of the river on which 1t Is tc
operate.
Catoctin clarion., 1916-03-16
Scottish Ghost Story.

The young Grenader guardsman,
Sir George Boswall, who is
reported missing, believed killed" is
a wealthy Berwickshire landowner
and scion Of an ancient Scottish
family. A weird ghost story is asso.
ciated with Allanbank, the residence
inherited by him from his ancestors,
the extinct Stuart baronets. Allan.
bank remained empty for number
Of years because it was haunted by
an apparition known as "Pearlin
Jean,' so called because she was a
novice in a continental convent when
the first baronet, Sir Robert Stuart,
fell in love with her Sir Robert de.
serted her, and the girl flung herself
under the wheels Of his carriage, and
was killed. When the faithless lover
returned to Allanbank he was hor.
rilied by visions Of the girl. Seven
ministers were called in to lay
"Pearlin Jean," but her spirit would
not rest.
Catoctin clarion., 1916-03-16
Teachino Cons poIiteness

Commissioner Wood has a plan to
remove the sulphur from the atmos-
phere, says the New York Times. He
has just organized squad of uni
formed professors of ethical culture,
with traffic policemen. The commits
sioner has discovered that the cops in
their controversies with chauffeurs Of
ten go bit beyond the bounds of par
lor conversation. Instead of the po-
liceman saying =" to the chauf-
feur, and the chauffeur replying in
like manner, it is planned to have the
policemen say softly: Pardon me, if
you will please turn that automobile
of yours around and go west through
that other street, it will relieve me
Of considerable worry" And the
chauffeur is expected to reply: "All
right, dear sir You are absolutely
correct. | shall do as you suggest
To make 1t easier for them, the pro-
fessors are conducting some of their
classes in garages and stables.
Catoctin clarion., 1916-03-16
LITTLE BUT A MEMORY
FAMOUS BATTLESHIP OREGON
HAS HAD ITS DAY.
Seventeen Years Ago She Was Prob.
ably the Most Famous Vessel
Afioat-Now Is ReIegated to
a Minor Position.

Seventeen years ago the name Of
the Oregon was on the lips Of every
American. 1t had rounded the Horn
on a record breaking voyage Of $4,000
miles and then won additional renown
in the battle Of Santiago bay. The
Oregon was the pride of Uncle Sam
the queen Of the seas. For years, how
ever, 1t has been out of date Officially
1t has been rated as second-class YES
sci; by the more flippant as junk.
Now the navy department has got rid
OF 1t by presenting it to the state OF
California for use by its naval militia
So runs the world away--tor battle
ships as well as Tor men, observes the
Sioux City Journal.
Who that recalls the war with Spain
will ever forget the Oregon? Foresee
ing break with Spain, Washington
ordered it to sail from Mare Island
navy yard at San Francisco to Key
West. The long distance run proved
to be a most spectacular undertaking
War was declared while the Oregon
was on its way, and fears for its safe
ty were entertained until it hove In
sight reports having been set ailoat
that Spain had sent out a feet to i'll
tercept it. The long trip was remark
able for the fact that the battleship
stopped nowhere except for coal and
was not delayed an hour by any break
down in its machinery. Capt. Charles
Edgar Clark was in command, and his
name became almost as famous as
that Of the Oregon. He Is one of the
few Of those who took leading roles
In the Spanish-Amercan war who are
still alive.
Nor did the Oregon rest on its
laurels after it had steamed into Key
West late in May, 1898. 1t had been
brought from the Pacific to the Allan
tic for business, and that business was
to fight. 1t proceeded at once to San
tiago and in the battle Of July With
Admiral CerveraG q fleet was in the
thick of the trouble from the first to
last. To the Oregon belongs credit
for forcing the surrender of the Viz
Cdtd anu llc iuI lStODdl AOlOli anu
possibly for saving the Brooklyn, the
flagship of Commodore Schley.
Yet today this one time bulldog OF
the navy is not considered OF enough
account in the national armament to
be kept in the service! SO many
changes have come about in the max
ing of batteships the once wonderful
Oregon is now a fit subject for the
scrap heap. 1t was a great vessel in
its day, and around it cluster hal
lowed memories, but more than that
cannot be said for it.
Let anyone who has a notion that
the United States navy has not been
growing in the last twenty years com
pare list of the vessels which then
made up our defense at sea with list
of the vessels of 1916. Where then
the Iowa, the Indiana and others stood
proudly at the head Of the procession
now they humbly fall in far behind the
Arizona, the Pennsylvania and others
Of later make and more generous pro
portions Yet the Arizona's day and
the Pennsylvania day also will come,
as has come that of the Oregon, and
as came that of the Monitor and that
of Old Ironsides.
Catoctin clarion., 1916-03-16
IN PRIMITIVE RUSSIA
REGION WHICH CIVILIZATION HAS
NOT REACHED.
Inhabited by Nomadic Race, Who Live
as Their Forefathers Lived Through
out the Centuries - Have
Many Peculiar Customs.

Interest is still kept up in Great
Britain in other things besides the
war. The other day, for instance,
Mr. f. A. Holiday, traveller, gave
an address before the Society of Arts
in London ON the Uralak, a province
in Asian mid-Russia, northeast OF the
Caspian sea.
Valuable oil fields exist here, and
also deposits of sulphur and other
minerals useful in peace and war.
MIR. Holiday said that the land was
very fiat, and there was almost an
absence of trees, which caused the
fuel problem to be somewhat acute.
The advent of western civilization fur
nished the inhabitants with certain
amount of firewood in the shape OF tel
egraph poles and stakes used to mark
out claims.
The Cossacks, had, however, taught
them to respect the former, though
not in some cases the latter. The
original Inhabitants were the kirghiz,
an essentially nomadic race, who
lived in dome-shaped tents made OF a
light wooden frame covered With
camel skins.
The tents had no furniture, but
sometimes beautiful oriental rugs or
carpets were placed on the floor, a
space being left on which a fire was
made.
When the Kirghiz used the tele-
graph poles as tirewood, they did not
take the whole pole away, but each
man Clipped off piece until at last
The whole pole gave way.
A prince was a man with 100 or
200 sheep, and a prince in winter
generally lived in a house built OF
bricks made out of the sand and
baked in the sun.
The houses were sunk in the
ground for warmth in the winter.
They had window frames and doors,
but the firewood question was SO acute
that when the people went on trek
in the summer they took the window
frames and doors out and packed them
on the backs of cames for fear the
people who did not trek would steal
them.
The Ural river was a great source
OF wealth to the Cossacks, for 1t was
we'll stocked with fish. At one time
a barge crossed the river, but the
Cossacks would not allow it to cross
l,,,l hn, hnt A fC
wanted to sleep as well as anybody
else.
The outbreak Of war put great
check on the developments OF the
Uraisk and of other oil fields. A
great deal of prospecting and pre-
liminary work was necessarily stopped,
and companies which were already
well established met with fresh diff
cuties.
In some places gas holes" around
which there was often deposit of
sulphur, were met with. Some OF
these spots were venerated by the
kirghiz, who prayed round them and
then erected little sticks, to which
they tied little pieces of cloth, as was
the manner of simple peoples.
On one occasion his driver stopped
and prayed by one of these gas
holes" and threw a few kopeks on
the ground, which, he said, were for
the religious authorities when they
came along Asked if there was not
danger of someone stealing them, the
driver replied that if he prayed for
relief from sickness and trouble, and
then someone stole the money, the
thief would get the trouble and sick
ness, so there was no danger.
Catoctin clarion., 1916-03-16
JUST WANTED TO THAW OUT
Captain of American Vessel Acted as
Host to Half Dozen Undersea
Germans in Distress.

So cold did the crew Of a German
submarine become while sailing be.
meath ice foes in the Baltic sea that
they rose to the surface, halted the
American steamer Moreni, bound from
Copenhagen to Philadelphia, and asked
permission to spend the afternoon
aboard in order to thaw out. Captain
Wheeler, master Of the Moreni, told
of the incident just before his vessel
left Philadelphia.
About the middle Of December,
when the steamer was battling against
furious gales in the Baltic, the chief
officer noticed that they were being
signaled by a submarine. The U-boat
came alongside and eight men came
aboard the Moreni. Captain Wheeler
supposed they wanted to examine the
ships papers, but they told him all
they desired was few hours release
from their frigid quarters on the un-
dersea vessel.
Although heavily clad in fur gar.
ments, the Germans were blue from
the cold. They said their craft had
been under the ice nearly two days,
unable to rise because of the drifting
foes, and that it had become almost
impossible to live in the submarine.
The plates that formed the sides of
the boat, they said, were only half an
inch thick and the heating apparatus
was inadequate.
The steward OF the Moreni glad.
dened the visitors with coffee and 9th.
er hot drinks. They remained aboard
until nearly dark Then, after being
assured by Captain Wheeler that none
but Americans were on the Moreni,
they went back into the submarine
and soon disappeared under the ice.