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New-York tribune., 1916-07-03

and varied, though the pay is nothing
Ike what Darcy would receive in the
United States. The argument did not
appeal to Darcy lie preferred the
ring TO the trenches. The Australian
government refused to permit him TO
leave for the United States. But, ac-
cording 70 McKetrick, Darcy managed
70 slip out Of the country and will be
here shortly.
II he does arrive Darcy eventually
will fight Jack Dillon. When ne does
that little thing the Australian may
come 70 the conclusion that the hght-
ing in the trenches is not so arduous
and dangerous after all.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
Start Flushing Match Play.

The qualifying rounds having been
completed at intervals during the early
part OF the season, match play in the
governors cup competition on the links
ed yesterday. K. Mathews, jr., beat r.
II. Boyd, l up; A. S. Chatfeld beat l..
Wright, I up (2l holes); r. Nickerson
beat G. r. Leslie, and 1; G. d. Lane
won from P. b. Smith by default.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
Cluster of Dark Clouds
Appears on PugiliStic
Horizon.
SAMUEL LANGFORD
ANXIOUS FOR SCRAP
! ,o,sI Boxing Faces Season of
staqnation-Les Darcy Ex-
pected Soon.
Bv W. O. NGEEHAN.

are lots Of dark clouds on the
.,rfi.,ic horizon. The darkest Of these
NJ Than Langford. known as the
p..,on Tar Baby and sometimes by the
,-,honicus and highly suggestive title
- -. Boston Bone Breaker. A few
der DARK clouds are Joe Jeannette,
e. Meyey and Harry Wills, Of New
orleans
-. order from Albany which caused
-. Boxing Commission 70 erase the
Liar lins is responsible for the dark
49, toreboding aspect Of these clouds.
rs quartet IS now legally qualified 70
change jabs. hooks and swings with
=. most exclusive Of the lily white
iavyveights.
., % date none Of the lily white
,.,ri.s has strained his throat shout
., challenges 70 the liberated cOlOred
-. Although the legal barriers
t,vs been removed. there is no rush in
y. direction q Than Langford The
p,..os Tar Baby is still just about as
,.,.sore as he was when the Boxing
r.-rission enforced its Jim Crow
Ysit. .,a.-,~ ,r
a. from tho ring STANDPOINT; more
w. his contempt for any OF the rules
,s.-sirirr ha, caused his once muscu.
Ia form % assume the proportions OF
barrel He has waXed so lat tnat ne
t,. MOI been able 20 see his feet Tor
,,vsrsl years. Bu; az the same time
s,- rslefsce ruCists who have any
.s,,r more chan their lives 20 lose care
:. .sse g chance with Than. They are
,,,srsers;..vs about fighting persons
XSsmucrs hue. especially. when they
t,vs a right hook O. the cahore weld
re e-asgre % the color line will
.,rss considerable embarrassment 70
-, rsleface heavvwe Ents. lhey Will
~ longer be about 90 say 20 the IN
sis.srt Samuel. we are Just dying 10
ga cracs 90 you, Than, ou- the law
!orbi6s IL. and we have the most ear
r.s, respec. for the law. ,,
The orlv thing left for the palefaees
,ov is 20 turn Democrats and 70
,lirstlv modify on Administration slo-
rsS INTO Owe are TOO proud 20 tght
Fan Jsngiord."
s,sgnst.on has started IN tie boxing
rsne' That is because there are no
matches IN sight 90 excite the students
Of the Queens5erry art during TINS
humid weather. With the Moran
4 DTI-n sght over. :. seems as though
everybody had fought everybody and
that any matches that might be made
would be nonotoncus repetltions. There
tr. no tides In jeopardy, and there are
none which could be put ia jeopardy.
The only prospect Of creating a ripple
O. excitement would be the arrival OF
les Darcy. the "new Fitzsimmons," who
has whipped everything IN Australia.
4 Cheva..er Daniel McKetrick says that
he is on the way % New York. and Of
:ers as proof receIpts for money for
vsrded 20 bring him on.
Darcy was ready 90 come here some
tine ago. but tre Australian govern
ment held that a.i Australian fighters
should DO their fcrt1g somewhere IN
France, where the fchting is plentiful
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
Tennis Winners at BaYside.

Thirty-siI members Of the Bayside
Tennis Club entered in a three-day
handicap tournament which began yes
terday on the clubs courts at Bayside.
Several players who have been promi-
nent in interclub events were among
the entrants. Merle Johnston, former
holder OF the Queens-Nassau champion
ship title; Val Fogh, Ralph NJ: Roberts.
Howard B. Boden and Jack Wiley, OF
Yale, were among the winners.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
Brinkerhof Wins at Golf

Paterson, y. j., July Fin the final
for the President Cup donated By ex-
Governor John W. Grggs. Of the Ar
cola Country Club, George 4
BrinkerhofP defeated Robert n. Gun
ningham, of Paterson. 8 up and 2
TO go.
In the ball sweepstakes the winners
we're: Theodore Banker, e6-25-71;
Robert II. Cunningham, S2-l0-72j
George A. Brinckerhof. ss-13-7o.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
The Proposed Amendments.

The proposed amendments, to be
voted on at the annual meeting Of the
association, follow:
Section Am amateur tennis player
Is one who plays tennis solely for the
pleasure and physical benefits he de-
rives therefrom.
Section "a person shall cease to be
an amateur by committing any Of the
following acts:
/. By entering q competition open
only TO professionals, or playing for
a money prize or gate receipts.
2. BY playing, instructing, pursuing
or assisting in the pursuit of tennis
or other athletic exercise as a means
of livelihood or for gain or any emolu-
ment.
8. BY obtaining or retaining mem
bership in any tennis or athletic club
of any kind because Of any mutual
understanding, express or implied,
whereby such membership would be of
any pecunary benefit 10 the member
or the club.
4. By permitting or sanctioning the
use of his name 70 advertise or pro-
mote the sale Of tennis goods, or by
permitting his name 20 be advertised
or published for pay as the author OF
books or articles on tennis Of which he
is not actually the author.
5. By selling, pledging or otherwise
converting into money any prize won
in a tennis tournament or converting
any prize so won into any article or
articles, commonly known as necessi-
ties, such as food, ordinary clothing
etc, or accepting as prize any such
article.
s. By playing in team or exhibit
tion match where gate receipts are
charged, unless permissi to hold
such match shall have been previously
obtained from the executive committee,
or from a subcommittee appointed by
the executive committee.
7. By accepting money, travelling
expenses, board or lodging, or other
monetary equivalent, except hospitality
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
Brooklyn Catholic
Baseball Results

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New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
Committee Desires Widest
Publicity for Proposed
Amendments.
STRICT DEFINITION
OF AN AMATEUR
Status Of Several Stars Will Be
Affected by New
Rules.

An echo Of the amateur status dis
cussion of such we'll known tennis
players as Maurice Z. Mclaughlin,
Thomas c. Bundy, Frederick b. Alex
ander and others engaged in the sport
ing goods business, which caused dis
cussions pro and con among tennis
players, fans and officials IN the win
ter months, appears in statement ad-
dressed "to the tennis players and
tennis officials Of the United States"
released to-day By George I. Adee'
president of the United States National
Lawn Tennis Association.
Mr.. Adee, writing for the executive
committee Of the association, makes
long plea for cooperation among
tennis players in the enforcement OF
the spirit and letter Of the proposed
amateur rule to come up for adoption
as an association bylaw az the next
annual meeting, February, 1917. Cit
ing the proposed rules, which. If adopt
ed, will make ineligible for national
association tournaments "any person
engaged in the handling, buying or
selling of tennis goods after April l,
1918" while so engaged, Mr.. Adee
writes to officials and players:
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
Erasure of Color Line
Worries White HeapieS
Fight Log.
TONIGHT.

TONIGHT.
Olympic A. c.-Tsmmy rouphy ". willie
Jackson.
Hsrlsn clVb at Rsckswsy-N secss ". Dave
Kurt.
FRIDAY.
harle@ s. Cleo Jehnsss W. Allie NsSk-
SATURDAY.
AN-Tne 4. c.-hN-ty Cross u. RAY PArkA
New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
Wide Publicity Desired.

Viuo uohNhy DNobNN-
"The committee desires 10 give them
(the proposed amendments) the widest
publicity possible, and most earnestly
requests you TO bring them before the
members of your club for discussion
and criticism and give the committee
the benefit Of your suggestions. The
committee has every confidence that
you will approach this serious matter,
not from .he standpoint of any pos
sible local or transient interest, but
from the broad and generous stand
point of the best permanent interests
of lawn tennis throughout the country.
"As this year the association is do
ing all In its power 70 encourage boys
TO play the game and TO develop tennis
In public parks, it is particularly ap-
proprate time TO make a determined
stand, not only to preserve the fine
ideals and traditions which have al
ways obtained in tennis, but to place
them once and for all upon an unshak-
able foundation.
THE proposed changes In the anna
teur rule are based on hve funda-
mental principles:
/. No player shall deliberately capi-
talize his reputation.
=. 40 prayer SNAIL receive CTd'clIlnB
expenses for playing in a tournament,
team match or exhibition, except from
a club or association which ne repre-
sents.
8. All team or exhibition matches
where gate receipts are charged shall
be under the strict supervision Of the
executive committee.
4. Players engaged In the tennis
goods business. though not made pro-
fessionals, shall, while so engaged, be
ineligible 10 compete in events sane
toned by the L. S. n. L. T. A.
3. There shall be tribunal to In
terpret the amateur rule and apply 1t
to each individual case.
Concluding, Mr.. Adee writes: "The
ideal of lawn tennis in this country
has been from the beginning sport for
sports sake The danger that this
ideal may change to sport for the sake
Of livelihood and thus bring our as
sociation into rdicule and censure, is
the danger that now confronts US. But
this danger we may quash very easily
II only we will meet each problem as it
arises with the question, not Is there
anything in the rule TO prevent this p
but Does this conform 10 the spirit Of
tho par1e 9f0
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
AN OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION OF A
FUNGUS IS VERY OFFICIAL
INDEED.

A lady living near Pelham, n. Y, developed
a fondness for mushrooms and decided that,
rather than pay the prevailing high market
price, she would raise her own. So she wrote
to the Department of Agriculture, and in due
course the department sent her generous
supply Of mushroom spawn. This she planted
in her cellar, in accordance with the directions,
and soon had TIE satisfaction of gathering a
plentiful crop of homegrown mushrooms.
Before going on with the main story let me
digress long enough to print an elementary
description of the mushrooms she raised l
quote it from a recently published handbook
Of Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms" issued
to provide an accessible and ineligible means
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
WEST ORANGERETURNED PLEAS
ANTVILLE'S INJURED Chill
DREN WITHOUT THANKS.

Case No. 2 was also brought to light by
recent scare, the infantile paralysis epidemic
You will remember that New Jersey municipal
authorities placed an embargo upon the inter-
state shipment of children under sixteen. On
July 80 an automobile bus, on its way from
Pleasantville to West Orange, ran wild down
mountainside and struck a fence. Of the
nine passengers, one received fractured
skull and is dying; one broke a collarbOne
and suffered internal injuries; the remaining
seven escaped with their lives, but. were
severely bruised. Whereupon-I quote from
the New York Herald
Three of the seven small children, and.
as West Orange has a quarantine against chill
dren during the infantile paralysis epidemic,
they were hurried into another automobile and
sent back over the mountains TO PleasantviHe'
Here we meet the official mind in one of its
less harmless phases. The only fortunate part
Of the whole affair is that Pleasantville had
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06

has no concert license. So the city forthwith
provided one-chargng the society $3.50 there
for
However, don't be too hard on our city
authorities. They probably but did their duty
And besides, didn't they adorn our City Hall,
one of the most beautiful examples of Colonial
architecture in the country with nice Ameri-
can flag, done in electric lights? And didn't it
make the Hall look almost as attractive as
movie house at night? They probably figured
that they had done enough for Art, for one
year.
But to get back to the Garden concerts.
There you will find audiences such as seldom
gather in this city. Seeing one, you are see
ing all Of New York You will see the people
who sit in the parterre at the Metropolitan,
and the people who stand in the family circle;
people who live in hotels, people who live in
apartments; people who own their own homes,
and at least one man who has owned his own
opera houses. And up in the ten cent seats
you will see peope'wh have not been to
concert since they landed at Ellis Island.
These civic concerts are source of pleasure
to you and me; they are more than that to
the people in the ten cent seats For those
people were not born here, many of them.
They are trying to be Americans, and they
find it hard For they have come from all
over Europe, and they have brought with
them their mother tongues, and the memories
and the loves and hates of their mother coun-
tries. But they all want to hear music, and
so they come TO the Garden.
Saxon, Celt, Teuton. Latin, Slav-they are
all there, applauding alike the French
Chsbrier, the German Wagner and the Rus
sian Tschaikowsky; linked together. if onlv
for little while, by the one language that ia
universal. There are no hyphenstes at the
Garden.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
THERE AMT NO SUCH ANIMAL"
SAYS SCIENCE OF THE MAN
EATING SHARK.

Case Number l was q result of the late
shark scare along the Jersey coast. During
the first few days of excitement, after two
people had been killed by the sharks and
several others injured, one Of the newspapers
sent a reporter to interview an aquarium
official upon the subject Of man-eating sharks.
That gentleman promptly disposed of the
question.
"Man-eating sharks" he said. "There is
no sych thing as a man-eating shark 1t IS
not recognized by science. If these sharks
attacked human beings it is because they
mistook them for fish,"
Now, to you or any other layman, that
statement sounds little silly. But it isn't.
1t is merely the result of mans having dug
so deeply into his subject that he can't see
Eout Of it. 1t is evidence of the official mind at
Ikork.
q The gentleman's mental attitude may be
difficult to forgive, but it is quite easy to
understand Science did not recognize man.
eating sharks. If she met any, she cut
them dead Therefore, there being no such
thing as a man-eating shark, if any shark so
far forgot himself and his duty to science as
actually to eat a man, why, the only charitable
thing TO do was TO look the other way and
assume that the shark had made terrible
mistake Imagine that sharks feelings when
he discovered what he had done!
However, such blunders will not occur again.
A Society for the Preservation of the Better
Nature Of Sharks is probably even now in the
process of organization. It's object will be to
see that every sea bather wears neat tag al
fixed to his right ankle announcing that he is
not fish. In this way many shark will be
saved from taking step that he would regret
for the rest of his life.
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Pileus thick, heshy hemisphere when very
young, then hat-shaped, and at length expanded
cespitose, 3--5 en- broad; surface moist, slightly
viscid when very young hygrophanous, bay be-
coming fulvous or isabeine according to age
and moisture conditions, glabrous, smooth on the
umbo rugose and folded on the broad rim when
in the hatlike stage; margin entire to lobed, not
projecting, smooth entirely free from fbrils or
remnants of veil, incurred when young,
marked with water-soaked, dark fulvous zone
about 8 mm broad context white or slightly
vellowish very thick at centre and very thin
toward the margin, the odor and taste resembling
that of the common mushroom; lamellae square
ly adnate without sinus decurrcnt tooth, plane,
somewhat semicircular in shape, at least when
young, inserted, fullginous, gray or whitish on
the edges, not distinctly marbled, purpish fulig-
nous when viewed from below, of medium dis
lance about nm. broad; spores broadly clip
sold or ovod somewhat pointed or narrowed at
both ends, black, smooth opaque, 1l-l3x7-s.5
M; cystidia not found; stpe thick, feshy, some
times equal but usually much enlarged upward,
whitish rosyisabelline, not polished, longitud-
inally striate at the apex, whtish pruinose above,
whitish -tomentose below, conspcuously hollow,
60 en-. long, SO NM thick.
AS one or two of the technical terms may be
unfamiliar to the more illiterate reader, l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
TN JEROME X. JERoME'S "Threc Men on

TN JEROME X. JEROME'S "Three Men on
Wheels" there is pathetic chapter de-
scribing Georges ,rrest for calling
German policeman "dummer Esel" George,
it seems, had wished to enter park that faced
the street upon which he was walking. Instead
Of going up a block and around the corner
to the official entrance. he stepped across
strip Of lawn on to the park path. He was
Immediately confronted by policeman who
pointed out the heinous ilegality of his act
George politely apologized and offered to
step back across the grass TO the sidewalk
No. that wouldn't DO. 1t would merely be
double trespass.
What then, asked George, should be do?
After long cogitation the policeman finally
suggested that he walk block to the official
exit. so out come back on the sidewalk TO
his starting place, turn, walk back to the
offcio' entrance and thus legally enter the
park
ut was then" says George, "that l called
him hummer Ese'"
What fun l used to have, when company
came, reading that chapter aloud; how we
would laugh over tat least l woodland
say, "Isn't that just typical Of the German
official mind!" How different it seemed from
our CHEEKY American common sense.
I'm not so sure, now. 1t may be only
imagination, but it does seem as if official
mindedness were creeping upon US. The news
papers of late have furnished all too con-
elusive evidence that one worthy American
after another is falling victim to this in
sidous malady.
1t is not easy TO define Observation-Disclosures.
1t is not quite Observation-Disclosures, and 1t is
hardly chucle-headednes Red tape pro-
duces the official mind, but is not caused by
it The malady might be loosely described
as a tendency TO treat a regulation as though
il were a divinity, and to treat a person as
though he were problem in elementary alge-
bra. Perhaps might better cite some recent
examples. or cases These will serve both
to indicate the growing prevalence Of official
mindedness and furnish the reader with
means Of supplying his own definition of the
term.
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IEw YORK is having a unique expert

N IEW YORK is having a unique expert
ence this summer. 1t is being offered
leries of semi-weekly concerts-real
concerts, not the usual summer" variety
given by full symphony orchestra under the
baton Of an experienced conductor, at prices
ranging from ten to fifty cents. That is what
New York may hear at the civic concerts in
Madison Square Garden.
Do not confuse "civic" with municipal"
Our city administration is not giving these
concerts, although it was the indirect cause of
them.
We all know that it costs lot to run
city. Things ike the Queens Borough Park
run dreadfully into money. SO when the ques-
ton arose of providing music for the parks
this summer the Board Of Estimate decided
that it was time to retrench. Music is pretty
impalpable thing. After park concert is over
YOU can't point TO the music that has just
been heard, as you can to the concrete band
stand in Queens Borough Park price, $4,000;
use: To give four concerts this year, and say,
"That is where the money went" Accordingly
the appropriation for park music was cut to
$4,000 We have good many parks, and
bands are expensive, so it began to look as
though New York would have to depend upon
the cabarets for the bulk Of its summer music.
However, as is so often the case, private
enterprise stepped forward to make up for
municipal indulgence, and the Civic Orchestral
Society came into being a number Of public
spirited New Workers organized and SUBJ
scribed sufficient money to rent the Garden
and employ an orchestra of eighty-six men
to give concerts every Tuesday and Friday
night all summer.
Madison Square Garden has prizehght
licenses, and six-day bicycle race licenses, and
licenses to hold cat and poultry shows but it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
PRELUDE TO BUYING A SUIT.

~ STOMER enters store and addresses
one Of two clerks in alpaca coats who
are conversing, with folded arms, in
front Of store
palm Beach suits, please"
palm Beach suits? Yessir." calling To
clerk in rear of store)
"Mr. Duggan! Palm Beach suit. for this
gentleman
Customer walks to rear Of store toward Mr.
Duggan:
"Id like to look at some Palm Beach suits
please"
palm Beach suits! Yes, sir; right this way
calling to clerk in extreme western corner OF
store) "Oh, Mr.. Welsh! Palm Beach suits
Right over there, please; that gentleman will
take care of you"
Customer walks over to Mr.. Welsh's retrea!
and catches him behind tree of neckties.
"Id like to see your Palm Beach suits,
please"
Palm Beach suits? Oh, yes! Right over
here" LEADS customer 10 extreme eastern
wing and signals TO clerk who is taking account
of stock up in the balcony.) "Mr. Peters! Oh
Mr.. Peters, Just a moment. please"
Mr.. Peters descends and approaches.
Mr. Peters, will you please show this gen
tleman some Palm Beach suts,"
Customer trails Mr.. Peters back to the front
Of store, where the two clerks in alpaca coats
are still conversng in low tones, leaning
against pile Of Palm Beach suits.
"Mr. Schlsssinger. will you let this gentle.
man see some Palm Beach suits!"
Mr.. Schlsssinger Is about TO comply when he
is suddenly attacked vieiously from behind.
beaten into insensibility and buried by An ava
hnche Of suits. Exit customer. adjusting euh.
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no quarantine against severely bruised chill
dren. Otherwise, | suppose, those unfortunate
infants would still be playing the minor role
in a game of battledore and shuttecock be-
tween the two towns.
But these and al other examples falter and
pale before the polychromatic effulgence Of
Case No. 3, The Affair of the Poisonous Mush-
rooms.
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"USTOMER enters store and addresses
one Of two clerks in alpaca coats who
are conversing, with folded arms, IN