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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-10-10

Mrs NJ A Hardy and Mrs. A. F.
Bechtol OF Orleans Road, are visit
ing Mr.. O. L. Butts, ON N-est Race
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-10-10

The Joufnal rcG local news.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
TENER IS ENTHUSIASTIC
National League President Predicts
Splendid Season for
Base Ball.

NEW YORK. April s.-John K. Teuer.
president of the National League. is
sued the following statement yester-
day on the outlook for base ball in
1916:
Splendid. That's my opinion of the
base ball outlook for 1916, not merely
for the National League but for every
diamond organization in the country.
Not since l have been connected with
the great national game, either as
player, rooter or executive, have pros
poets been brighter for all concerned.
The mass of people in this country
love the old game. During the last two
years they have not shown it SO much
as in other years, but that was due to
two things. One was the European war,
which, for time, brought about a
business depression. The other was the
base bail war. which placed the affairs
or base bail in a chaotic state
But now all is changed. The country
is enjoying prosperity greater than
ever before in its history The peopIe
have money, and they do not feel that
in spending some of it for base ball
they need sacrifice later to make up for
the outlay.
Peaceful conditions in the base ball
world mean that the game itself will
be from 20 to 40 per cent faster and
better than it was during the last two
years The players realize now that
they must play the game and they will.
They are going TO put their whole
hearts and souls into the task. There
will be no Sinking. The boys will be
out there day after day, battling every
inch of the way. not merely because
they must play at full speed to retain
their jobs. but because their hearts are
back in their tasks again.
Il look for one of the preitiest races
the National League has ever known,
and. from what / hear, the America n
League will stage a fight equally
thrilling. Some of the clubs in our
circuit that were somewhat weak last
year have been strengthened Every
team has chance for the pennant
honors as the rival outfits prepare to
! toe the mark for the opening battle
| Barring rupture in our interna-
tional relations, or some serious trouble
| in Mexico, the 1915 season undoubted-
ly will be the most prosperous and best
in the long and honorable history of the
national game"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
QUAKER ATHLETES HoNoRED.
Seniors Exalt Hardwick, Chickering,
Littleton and Meredith.

PHILADELPHIA, April Sat the
election for honor men of the senior
class at the University Of Pennsyl-
vania. held yesterday. Gordon A. Hard
wick. president of the class, won first
place as the spoon man; w. E. Chick
ering obtained second place as the bowl
man. Arthur Littleton won third honor
as the cane man, and J. f. 'Ted) Mere
dith ran fourth as the spade man.
Hardwick was guard on the uni
versity basket ball team for three
years. His home is in Fort Dodge.
Iowa. He got ninety votes out of
possible 100. Chickering, who is cap
tain of the varsity crew, got sixty
eight votes Little is a member of the
crew and manager Of the wrestling
team. Meredith, the Olympic middle
distance runner. holds the world rec
ords for a half-mile and 800 meters
The bowl. for more than fifty years
one of the most famous Of Pennsyl-
vania's trophies. will not be fought for
again because of the death of William
Lifson. an undergraduate, who met his
death in the contest last January. 1t
is possible that ChickerinS will present
the bowl to young Lifson's father, Al.
bert F.. Lifson of Elizabeth, n j., who
requested it after his sons death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
EVEN SIGNS MOUNTAINEERS.
Mack Not Particular About Hailing
Places of Players So They Make Good

While in New York at the National
League meeting Pat Moran told an eX-
perience which illustrates how deep
into the underbrush Connie Mack goes
in search of his playing talent. Pat
was INDUCING in his favorite winter
pastme of fishing through the ice for
pickerel deep in the mountain wilder
ness of Massachusetts. having gone
into camp in old deserted lumber
mans cabin back in the big woods,
when he happened on another man set
ting his reels around the pickerel holes
in the ice on a lake which Pat and his
companions fshed. Getting into con-
versation with the man Pat disclosed
his identity and then the subject turned
to base ball, the stranger informing
Pat that he had a brother who was
going to be big league ball player.
Where is your brother" asked Pat.
"Gp on the mounting cuttin' tim
ber. was the answer
where does he play ball?" asked
Pat.
Well answered the stranger. hes
gonna play with Connie Mack next
summer; he amt never done much
playin' 'cept around here"
Pat invited him to bring his brother
stranger ushered into the cabin
whale of a giant about six feet five
inches tall and yard across the
shoulders, the fellow being so big that
when he sat in an ordinary chair
his knees stuck up around his ears.
giant. who sat with his ponderous
hands crossed on his knees all even
ing. but his brother divulged the in
formation that his name was Bemis,
and that he is going to Philadelphia ito
pitch for Connie Mack in the spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
PENN RELAY
Final Classification of COLLEGES
and Schools for Big Meet.
LOCAL TEAMS ENTERED
George Washington in Glass 3, Cath
olic University in Glass 4 and
Aggies in Glass 6.

PHILADELPHIA, April THE final
ciasslncation of the colleges and
schools entered in the various RELAYS
except the championships events were
announced today by the manaeement
or the University of Pennsylvania re-
lay carnival. which Will be held April
IS and 20. Although the championship
entries will not be finally decided I'M
ii the end of the week, a representa-
tive list of starters already is as
sured.
In the one-mile race the entries are
Harvard. Chicago, Princeton, Dart
mouth. Kansas, Wisconsin and Penn
sylvania. In the two-mile are Michi-
gan. Kansas. Princeton. Yale and Penn
sylvania. while Cornell will meet the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
team that defeated it at the indoor
collegiates in the four-mile champion
ship event.
other colleges represented in the
special events include Illinois. Mis-
souri,. Notre Dame, Kansas, Indiana.
Occidental. Brigham Young. Iowa
State and Georgetown University
The class B championship relay en-
tries are Columbia University, Syracuse
University. Massachusetts Institute of
ban Agricultural College. Holy Cross
and Pennsylvania State College.
Other relay teams will compete as
follows:
Glass 1-Swarthmore, Fordham, Johns
Hopkins, University of Pittsburgh, Coe
College and Buffalo University.
Class dubuque College, Carnegie
Institute of Technology, New York Uni
versity. Haverford, Wesleyan, Hamilton
and Newberry
Glass ,3-Colgate. Lehigh. Lafayette,
Bucknell, Worcester Polytechnic Instt-
tute, Rutgers, Dickinson and George
washington University.
Glass N4-Washington and Jefferson.
Franklin and Marshall, Gettysburg,
st. Johns, Annapolis. Cath
olic University and Brooklyn College.
Glass college of Jersey City, New
York Law School. Brooklyn Polytechnic
Institute. College City of New York.
Drexel Institute, Temple College, New
York College of Dental and Oral Sur
gerry, Indiana Normal School and Vir-
ginia Military Institute.
Glass 6-Mansfeld Normal School.
Delaware College, Maryland ARricuI.
tural, Ursinus. Villa Nova, Lebanon
Valley. Juniata. Rhode Island State.
Trenton School of Industrial Art.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
FORMER NAP A SUICIDE.
Ed Hohnhorst, Once With Cleveland,
Shoots Himself.

LOUISVILLE. Ky, April SD
Hohnhorst, well known in the minor
leagues and once on trial with the
Cleveland Americans. killed himself at
his home in Covington, KY. March %.
Hohnhorst was policeman in Coving-
ton and year ago shot a negro who
had resisted arrest. Fellow policemen
say the tragedy preyed on Hohnhorst's
mind He was thirty-five years old
and began his professional career in
err he played in the Southern and Texas
Leagues and the American Association
and then went to Cleveland. He was
with the st. Louis Federals for a time
in 1918. after which he quit the game
and was appointed to a position on the
covington police force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
GOOD GOLFER WILL. DEPEND
UPON FEEL OF HIS CLUBS
That Is His Only Way of Telling Whether or
Not He Has Picked Up Driver or
Iron That Suits Him.
Ripley.

construction is of the greatest impor-
lance You cannot hammer that fact in
any too strongly"
Now, it sets one thinking of cases
when successful links architect
makes statement of this kind and it
ala not take long to find several. Only
tnree years ago in New Hampshire
CITY new course of nine holes was
laid out. The members of the COM
mittee in charge felt that all they need
ed was to spend 5000 or 5000 and get a
splendid golf links designer to lay out
the course, tell where the tees and the
greens should be. what trees should
come out. and then they. with the help
or padrone and his workers. would do
the rest. Perhaps no one thought of
asking advice in the matter or figured
mat brains We're needed to follow out
the rules laid down so plainly.
The result as seen the first wear was
all that was expected: now however,
when they wish to build an eighteen
hole course they find that several hun
dred powders and rocks which should
nave been carted off and dumped near
swamp had been rolled down a hill
and the work of removing them would
take at least twenty men three or four
days. Sand for the bunkers could have
been got from two sides of the course,
and an Intelligent man would have seen
what the future might bring forth, but
the foreman had it taken from the spot
which later on had to be filled up The
sum totai OIL money loss because there
was not employed a man with brains
and foresight in the absence of the
links architect will be nearly $1,000.
The duties of a foreman or head
greenkeeper, in SO far as they relate to
the particular job under way. should
be made the subject OF a written re-
port to be given by the expert to the
chairman Of the greens committee, if
there is one. or to the man who is
financing the new golf venture. Nat
urally these duties will vary with each
new job; they should state where all
dirt should be dumped, where the
tracks OF the wagon shall pass. for
many times a fairway and even a
green or tee is spoiled for months be-
cause of the carelessness of the men in
the dump carts. and where all excayated
stones. rocks and torn-down trees shall
be put. Especially is this true if there
Will be a demand in the future for a
longer course. An ounce of prevention
this way is worth several pounds of
cure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
NATIONALS OF OLD
Broke Into American League
Winning Abroad and at Home.
jim MANNING THE LEADER
tOld Fans Will Never Forget That
Lineup Back in
1901.
BY ERNEST J. LANIGAN.

Washington's Nationals were success
full in the first game they played in
the American League, and in the first
game they played on their home green.
1t was in Philadelphia. April 26. 1901,
the Nationals engaged i'll mortal combat
for the first time with a team in the
expanded American League. this city's
representatives and Connie Mack's
Athletics having been held up for two
days by the Storm King. in their ef-
fort to lift the championship lid.
The contest was played at old Column
bia Park before $4,000 people-all that
the park could accomuoda te-and Wash
ington won easily. to !. The Mack
men could not locate Bill Carrick when
hits meant runs, while the Nationals
could and did jar c. Cooper Fraser
when TALES were in sight. Chic
now a sleuth and member of Barney
Dreyfuss' board of strategy, received
atrocious support, the infielders. who
were Charley Carr, Napoleon Lajoe,
Lave Cross and Davy Fultz, blowing
themselves to six errors. The only
mistake behind "Doushnut Bill Car
rick was a wild throw by his back
stop, Bill Clarke, and it cost shut
out. Wild Bill Everett. Washing
tons first baseman. was fired from the
controversy in the second inning by
Umpire Haskell for disputing a deci-
sion OF the men who took part in the
Washington-A Athletic game of fifteen
years ago. Napoleon Lajoie is the only
one still in active service in the fast
set Dave Fultz is prominent as head
Of the Players Fraternity. and Chic
Fraser as told sleuthS for the Pirates,
and occasionally helps in planning their
play, or at least he did when Fred
Clarke was the Corsairs commander
This is the box score of the first game
played by Washington in the Ameri-
can League.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
BOXING GAME IN NEW YORK
NOW IS IN GOOD CONDITION
Under Supervision of Proper Authorities
Business and Professional Men Are
Satisfied With Present Conditions.

scraps at some Of the clubs in the mid
die west and then fight in A sensa-
! tIonal manner at clubs around the big
city. At the Broadway Club in Brook
lyn the Hoosier bear-cat fought Bat
Ting Levinsky. Dan Morgans cham
plon, ana it whirlwind affair
after the fifth round. Dillon won the
contest by fairly good margin. but
he knew he was in battle at all
times. | never really took Levinsky
seriously before. but will state plainly
now that outside of Dillon he is the
greatest light heavyweight in the
country. The Battler not only proved
his ability to stand the Eaf, but he
fought at his best under fire, and it
was only Jacks le-driving smashes
that enabled him to get the best of
Levinsky- If Dillon ever put up such
fight around the middle west as he
did in Brooklyn he would be a ten
tunes greater drawing card. The trou-
bic is that some of the stars try to
take on altogether too many contests
and as result they are not in shape
haif the time to stand grueling
battle.
Willie Richie. the ex-champion light
weight. lost a big asset when he
dropped his title to Freddy Welsh.
w me had been ma king from $500 to
$1,000 in vaudeville a week, and pick
'z up from $500 to $500 for limited
round contests against second-class
DoAers However, since his crown is
gone. Willie finds it difficult matter
to get the big money. both for boxing
bouts and in vaudeville. and that may
account to a certain extent why he has
been so idle of late. Instead of $4,000
oners now Willie is fortunate to grab
on half that amount, which proves that
any old kind of a crown is valuable
asset these days.
At the Pioneer Athletic Club in New
York the night of the Christie-Ashe
contest ! was surprised to run across
Young Critic. the original Australian
featherweiSht and in d sober condition.
He was well dressed. which was quite
a contrast to the last time I saw him
in the big city, and seemed to be happy
in the thought that he was able to car
ry himself along as a man once more
The sporting men of New York that is
some of them. have agreed to paw the
former wonderful boxer certain
amount every week on condition that
he does not touch drop of liquor of
any kind. For one year Critic has kept
his promise. and has not tasted drop
of red eye, and as result he is
looking better and says he will con-
tinue along the straight and narrow
path. When asked whether he would
ever return to his native land, the
once great boxer shook his head and
said: NO, Hi will end my days ere"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
DOES NOT LIKE CUBS.
Harry Mcintyre Says Tinker's
Crew Will Be Easy.

CHICAGO. April S-Harry Mcintyre,
formerly with the Brooklyns and the
Cubs. says: Il can pick one club that
will not be hard to beat out, and that
is the Cubs. In my opinion Tinker has
only two f1rst-class championship ball
players on his team, and they are Safer
and Zimmerman. He is very weak
around second base, and none too
strong in the outfieId. 1t looks to me
as if he is trying to prove that the
Federals were a major league, which
cant be done. and he will run in the
second division in making the effort"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
Triple COST BIG MONEY.
Pitcher Bought by Yankees for
$4,000 Fails to Make Good.

NEW YORK, April SIT seems that
Manager Bill Donovan of the Yankees
has found a real club magnate in Capt
Til Huston. They disputed over the
fate of Pitcher Dan Triple, for whom
the New York Club had paid $1,000 or
so. Donovan decided Triple would not
do and ordered him to the Baltimore
Internationals. all other major league
managers agreeing that he didn't look
good, but Huston, remembering the
price paid for the pitcher. insisted he
should be given more trial Donovan
,Sill win out in the end, for Triple does
DOT appear to be of major league cali
Ser and the scout who reported on him
- the guy who should be blamed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
FRANK BAKER MODEST.
Makes No Predictions, But Hopes to
Come Back.

NEW YORK, April 81. Franklin
Home Run Baker is very much unlike
Bonnie kauff. While Mr.. kauf ex-
plodes his oratory upon the public and
that he will hit 1878 % for
the coming season. that he will knock
the ball down the pitchers throat and
make Ty Cobb look like a facsimile of
a hitching post when it comes to rum
ming bases. J. Franklin modestly adj
mits that he has been out Of base ball
for year. does not know exactly how
this will affect his batting eye. but
he will have a good season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
CONvICTS PLAY WELL.
Coast League Team Battles With San
Quentin Boys.

SAN FRANCISCO. April S.---A team
made up mostly of Coast League play
ers recently played a game against the
San Quentin prison team and though
the convicts were beaten, Is to 10, they
put up "A remarkably good game of
ball. Nearly 1900 man and woman
prisoners witnessed the game and dur
ing the excitement one convict so far
forgot his pledge as to escape. Some
of the prison players did work that
would insure them berths in high class
leagues If they were free agents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
TO CUT CATCHING STAFF,
Manager McGraw Says He Will
Garry Only Three This Year

NEW YORK, April S-John McGraw
it is said, will cut his catching staff
down to three men. Rariden and Doom
are sure of jobs. Kocher and Wendell
Will fight it out, with the odds in ia :
vor of the former. Kenny and Sand
berg will be released. Anything Nc
Graw does should mean an improve
ment over his catching of the past few
years. He has not had a good catcher
since Meyers began to go back. Will
son and Hartley never fitted into the
McGraw style of play, for they did not
think fast enough.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
First Washington Game.

The Nationals first game in this city
was played April 20. 1901. and the score
was almost the same as marked the
getaway in Philadelphia. Baltimore,
managed by John McGraw, was beaten,
to 2. Carrick pitching against Iron
Man Joe McGinnity.
The first meeting of the Nationals
with the Red Sox took place here May
4, 1901, Boston easily winning by a
score Of 10 to 2. The Bay Staters
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09

Impressed by the attendance at their
interleague exhibition games played in
Texas. Hugh Jennings and John Nc
Graw have agreed to series of seven
games to be played next spring At
the game between Tigers and Giants at
Dallas March IS, nearly 1000 fans paid
at the gate. The newspaper reports
said 1000, but that was only an inno-
cent exaggeration. THE agreement for
games in 1917 means that the Tigers
will again train at Waxahachie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
Would Not Risk Title,

do you suppose I would jeopardize
kilbane's title?" Dunn quickly ejacu-
lated when the question was forced
on him. why. he is worth 81 100000 to
me. You don't believe it? Well, we
made $4,000 last year. and isn't that
the interest of 81, 200. 600 at per cent
am figuring low. at that, when you
consider the war rates. So why should
kilbane take a chance with such
tough fellow as CLANCY when we can
go along and pick up easy money,
81 900 at a crackc Johnny is a great
money winner, and l am going to pilot
him right along the same lines"
Now the public knows why Johnny
Kilhane broke his contract to box
George CLANCY in Baltimore. on March
II, for the worlds featherweight title.
In accordance with all the unwritten
laws of the ring, and in keeping with
the ethics of sport. Kilbane is an eX-
champion, for he forfeited his title to
CLANCY on March II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
K[bANE BIG ASSET
Featherweight Champion VAL
ued at 100000.
MADE $4,000 LAST YEAR
Why the Titlehclder Broke His Con-
tract With George
CLANCY.

PHILADELPHIA, April Sit has
been mystery to the public why
Johnny kilbane, who is now rated as
the eX-champion featherweight of
America. so completely sidestepped
match with George CLANCY of Balti-
more, for the worlds title, says the Public
Ledger. 1t is no longer a mystery Truth
has leaked out. Manager Jimmy Dunn,
who made a hurried visit to this city last
Monday, made the confession A man of
Dunn's importance cannot drift into a
city without his presence being known.
nor his business cannot be concealed,
for that matter. Dunn is no excep-
ton to the rule. He simply stopped
over in Philadelphia to say How do
you?" to a few friends and feel the
pulse of the promoters for a kilbane-
CLANCY bout. Nothing doing in the
six-round line. he quickly discovered.
Such a contest would be suicidal to the
promoters, he learned. So fifteen
round contest was next in order. An
eager to stage the contest: at least a
number of responsible sportsmen are
willing to go as high at $4,000 for
such q bout. My. That looked good to
Dunn. But when a few-just a few
minor details We're discussed Dunn
stubbed his toe. 1t could not be a
bout for the title without a decision,
kindly to decisions. kilbane won the
title from Attell on a decision which
many questioned at the time, but he
got away with 1T.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
At Philadelphia, April 20, 1901.

First base crrors-W nshington 3 Two-basc
hit-IaJoie Stolen bases-La Joic. Quinn. Left
on Washington. TO- Philadelphia. q.
Doubic plays-Carrick. Quinn and Everett: Dun
gan and Grady. Bases on balls-On Fraser. 4:
on Carrick -. Struck oui-By Fraser ): by
Carrick 3. Umpir"-Mr. Haskell. Time OF
game-1 hour and 81 minutes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09

Peter F. Kelley. former Boston news
pointed business manager of the Pitts
burgh club by President Barney Drey-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09

WHITE.
White to play and mate in four moves.
1Q-kB2ch KxKt
2Q-Qkt2ch R-Q5ch
3 kt-k4 kxkt
4Q-k2 mate
Solution of last weeks problem:
/. Q-B6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09

II seems strange that boxing star
like Jack Dillon will put up mediocre
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09

1t was only last week that one of the
foremost architects of golf links in
America said to me: why don't you
although least thought of conditions
which we have to face in the making
of a golf course?"
whats thatr asked.
simply this-that the selection of
foreman when q golf course is under