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Evening star., 1917-10-01
SOX SCHEDULE ENDS TODAY.
Play Yanks, Then Go to Cleveland
and Home for Exhibitions,

NEW YORK. October 1.-The Chi
cago White SoX, champions of the
American League, close their schedule
here today at the Polo Grounds against
the New York Yankees 1t was planned
to play this game as part of a double
header on Saturday, but wet grounds
on Friday resulted in arrangements
being changed. Saturday the White
Sox and Yankees broke even in two
games.
>The Chicago players will leave here
tonight on their way home, and Will
play practice game with the Cleye-
land club in Cleveland Tuesday and an
other in Chicago Wednesday.
Evening star., 1917-10-01

ule of games will be arranged for each
team and a percentage kept of the
games won and lost.
Glass numerals should be awarded
the men making the team that win the
college championship in their class
Coaches or leaders for each team should
be appointed to follow out definite
daily progressive schedule of work.
Each man who plays should have a
thorough medical examination and
should not be allowed to participate In
games until this is done. Officiating
should be done by students in college.
Central High will never be at loss for
foot ball coaches. three former tutors
of high school elevens being in its
faculty. Hecox, who turned out some
of the greatest elevenS Tech ever had.
is now member of the staff of the
Blue and White institution. kimble,
former Eastern coach, and John Thorn
as. who used to coach Central, also are
teaching at Central. 1t is question: BILE
if there is another high school in the
United States with the possibilities in
the way of coaching talent that Cen
trail has. Besides these men il has a
regularly employed staff of athletic in
structors.
Gallaudet College is to open its foot
ball practice today. The Kendall Green
squad Is said to possess a lot of fine new
material and is banking on having a good
year. Right now the management seeEls
to be up against it in the matter Of a
schedule, but Manager Ozier has hopes
of filling in with some colleges in Mary
land or Virginia The first contest is
booked a week from next Saturday with
Western Maryland at Kendall Green. 1t
Is believed that the new material will be
better than has reported for any eleven
at Gallaudet in years.
, What probably will aid in the success
Of the team more than anything else is
the fact that a permanent coaching sys-
tenn is to be adopted. Moore, who star
red at quarterback for several years at
Gallaudet, is to return to direct the
destinies of athletics at the Kendall
Green. institution. He was one of
the best quarters in this section, and
his generalship was excellent. He
was the most important factor in the
accomplishments of two of the strongest
combinations the college has had Moore
is a splendid fellow and should do more
- help athletics at Gallaudet than any
other man the institution could possibly
get Exceptional success has been enjoyed
by him in coaching prep school foot ball in
the south The acquisition of Moore just
about solves the most difficult problem
with which the college has had to con-
tend.
Evening star., 1917-10-01

Rowland is a type o. manager dia-
metrically opposed to the McGraw
school Having far less experience in
tho big show, he avails himself freely
of advice from Eddie Collins. who is
rated as one of the headiest players in
base ball. and Kid Gleason. the coach,
game as any man ever connected with
It. Rowland. Collins and Gleason COM
prise the SoN BOARD of strategy" and
in the world series they will collabo-
rate in directing the energies of the
American League entrants. but will
find worthy opposition in the Giants
ways and means committee, consisting
of John McGraw.
There is nothing of the driver" about
Rowland. Harsh language and the en-
ployment of cutting sarcasm in criti-
cising his athletes or in calling their
attention to mistakes form no part of
his system. In fact. he often has been
accused of being too easy with his men.
but with a policy of tact he has piloted
to a penant a team of men credited
with having their full share of tenn
permanent"
An example of Rowland's methods
came to light last week when the team
was in Boston. Joe Jackson, whose
vagaries have earned for him the repu-
tation of being hard to manage" was
slated to play in an exhibition game
there while the Sox were billed to per-
form in this city. Jackson renigged on
tmaking the trip to and from Wash
ington, and Rowland very wisely ex-
cused him from taking part in the
Boston. Eddie Collins, for reasons of
his own. did not want to play In the
Evening star., 1917-10-01
exactly as desired to cause the social

ed HlCker eject.
The shine ball in base ball has be-
come a sort of a mental hazard to the
hatsmen, and the widespread publicity
ii has received has preyed on the play
ers minds until some of them firmly
believe that the ball does cut up all
sorts of curlicues when Cicotte throws
it. AS far as legislating 1t out of the
worlds series goes, there is nothing to
legislate. according to the Chicago
players.
The umpires cannot prevent the White
SoN star from throwing the knuckle
ball, although they can see that only
new white balls are used, so not to
give Cicotte a chance to make a white
spot on dirty ball. The rules object
to discoloring ball, but there is moth
ing against cleaning one, as Ban John
son found when asked to investigate
Cicotte's delivery.
Evening star., 1917-10-01

exhibition and so was permitted to ac.
company the team here. although he
would have had to make the trip to the
Hub if Rowland had said the word.
Ray Schalk. whose bride is accompany
ing him on the current eastern trip.
was told not to show up at the park
in Boston but to devote his time to
showing Mrs. Schalk around the city.
and in the second game here. Hap
Felsch. who was "out of sorts" was
told to go to the hotel and take a
nap. Rowland having noticed that the
outfielder felt rocky" These methods
are characteristic of Rowland. Whether
his policy is wise one can be Judged
by a glance at the standing of the
teams.
Reports that there will be a change
in the field management of the New
York Yankees before the 1918 cam
paign gets under way persist Rumors
current several times this season had
Bill Donovan slated for the gate at the
end of the campaign. and now the name
of Miller Huggins the aggressive and
successful manager of the St Louis
National League, is being mentioned
in connection with the job.
1t is given out unofficially that Hug
gins has been signed by the American
League to a term contract, and that he
will be placed in charge of one of the
clubs in Ban Johnson's circuit next sea-
son. New York is one Of the clubs men
toned as a possible berth for Higgins
and st. Louis the other. Higgins is
popular in the Missouri metropolis, and
it has been intimated that in view of
the recent trouble in the camp of the
Browns. which resulted in President
Balls accusation that some of the play
ers were laying down" on Manager
Fielder Jones. it may be that a new
pilot will be placed there, although Ball
has stated emphatically that Jones will
be continued as helmSman
Evening star., 1917-10-01
FIRST GAME.
Des Moines Club Is Chamnion

HUTCHINSON. Kan, October 1.-Des
Moines took the second game of a dom
BILE header here yesterday. to O. from
Hutchinson and thereby won the CHAM
pionshlp OF the Western League, four
games to two. Des Moines tonned tL.
other clubs in the first part OF the a.
yided season period oi-
Evening star., 1917-10-01

Games between military organizations
are sure to become of great interest
abefore the end of the year. Elevens
are being organized in all the canton
ments in which the National Army is
training. and in the majority of these
a great many teams will play. A large
percentage of officers in these bodies
are former college gridiron performers.
and not few have been successful
coaches. That these military camps
will produce capable elevens is a fore
gone conclusion, especially If last Sat
urday's scores are to be taken into
consideration. Penn State barely got
away with the long end of the score in
. game with the Ambulance Corps at
Allentown: Syracuse was held to a
to tie by the 4th Infantry; Lehigh
Nn1y won from the 7th Infantry by Z
to o: Springfield Y. NJ C. a. was fought
TO a scoreiess tie by the Maine Heavy
Artillery; Alma College was defeated
by a middle western cantonment and
Marquette University conquered the
Great Lakes Naval Training Station by
IL to Z. These scores indicate that
there will be some real foot ball teams
this season other than those that rep
resent the colleges.
Many thought that war would put an
end to foot ball. but through the es-
tablfshment of the many camps and
other bases for military organizations
Dhe game is pretty sure to flourish as it
never has. Annual contests between
Princeton, Harvard and Yale will be
missed, but even these institutions are
to be represented by freshman teams.
Princeton plans to have interc1ass foot
ball besides. and Harvard intends to
develop varsity for informal con-
tests.
Princetons interclass foot ball will
be under the direction of Coach Rush.
regular varsity instructor. His plans for
the institution of this kind of gridiron
development are given in his own
words:
"Since Princeton will not have any
regular Intercollegiate foot ball and no
regular schedule, except that of the
freshman class, an excellent Oppor-
tunity is afforded to play intramural
foot ball. which should result in more
men taking part in the great autumn
sport than ever before. When varsity
foot ball is played it necessarily limits
those coming out for the sport to men
who think they have a chance for the
drst or second teams.
The plan for this fall will be to or
Ganize class teams which will be sub
divided according to weight. The heavy
weight team should average 100 pounds
or over: the minimum weight Of line
men should be 156 pounds, while the
minimum weight of backs should be $50.
The average of the middleweight team
would be $50 pounds and that of the
lightweight team 145. A regular sched-
Evening star., 1917-10-01
Extra Editions Will Describe
and Score Board Depict Eays
of World Series Ball Games

Base ball extras covering the
world series games, play by play.
with box score and descriptive
comment by Denmnn Thompson.
sporting editor. will be issued by
The Star immediately after each
weekday game. starting with the
first game In Chicago next Satur-
day.
During the progress of the
games every play On the field Will
be reproduced almost sfmultane-
ouSly on the electric scOrebOard
on the 11th street side of The
Star building. The public il in
vfted to witness the contests de-
picted in this graphic manner.
The scOrebOnrd will not he
operated. nor will extras be is
sued. on sundays.
Evening star., 1917-10-01
FIRST RACE, 2 p. NJ.
SEVEN RACES DAILY.
HOOSIERS DEFEAT TORONTO.
Capture Interleague Series, Winning
Four Out of Five Games.

INDIANAPOLIS, October 1-Indian-
apolis. champions Of the American Asso-
ciation. by its 5-to-4 victory yesterday
over Toronto, international League
champions. won the post-season inter-
league series. The victory gave Indian
apolis four Of the five games played here
and in Toronto.
Capt. Herman Bronkie of the Indian.
apolis team, who absent from the
series with an injured leg. won today's
game by single in the eighth inning,
which scored two runs. Bronkie batted
as a pinch hitter for Falkenberg
indianapolis victory was the first game
of a scheduled double header, but it end
ed the series. which was to continue un-
til one team had won four games. The
second part of the double bill was played
as an exhibition game. II ended in the
sixth inning, with the score tied 4 to 4.
Score:
FIRST GAME
II. II Y.
Toronto go. o 0 I o o. 10 /
Indianapolis o o = S5 8 l
Batteries-Gould and Kelly; Falkenberg Daw-
son and Gossett, Schang.
Evening star., 1917-10-01
Clean Balls the Answer.

AS matter of fact. If the umpires
insisted on using clean. white balls
all the time, there would be no chance
for Cicotte to rub one part of the ball.
so as to make the mythical flicker
which rhany players maintain makes
the ball jump like a grasshopper when
it floats up to them. There is nothing
in the rules which prevents pitcher
from rubbing a clean place on a dirt
covered ball: in fact, the practice is
not SO objectionable as the moist ball.
which will probably be legislated out
Of the game before another season.
The Chicago players have had little
TO saw about the so-called shine BALI
since it received such a reputation, but
it is from the players of the White Sox
that the above explanation comes. AS a
matter of fact, Cicotte doesn't rub a
clean spot on the ball to create AN op-
ticaI illusion; he cleans a place on the
ball for his knuckles to rest against.
Cicotte's knuckle ball never breaks
the same way twice. and it is its vara-
ton of flight which makes it diff
cult to hit. 1t isn't possible for any
pitcher to throw the ball every time so
that the clean spot faces the batsman
Evening star., 1917-10-01
GENERAL SHIP TO BE A FEATURE
OF THE WORLD SERIES GAMES
Activities of Giants Controlled Exclusive
y by McGraw, While Board of
Strategy Directs Sox Play.
BY pENMAN THOMPSON.

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Evening star., 1917-10-01
'Batted for Du Mont in ninth.

Washington. ....... 0 o 0 0 II
Cleveland. 00 0 o 0 o 1 Z:
Two-base hits-Smith, O'Neil Bagby and
Gallia. Stolen bases-afilan, shanks. Chapman
and Smith. Sacrifice hits-Chapman and Du
Mont. Double play-Morzan to Shanks te
Leonard. Left on Observation-Disclosures, 10;
Cleveland, s. First base on balls-On Du Mont
A. of Bagby, l. Struck out-By Du Mont. s:
by Basby. 1. Passed ball-Gharrity. Umpire.-
Messrs.: Evans and 0'Loughlin. Time of game
/ hour and 80 minutes
Evening star., 1917-10-01

Mrs Miranda Bennett Stocksdale. Wild
ow of Mordecai c. Stocl1sdale, prominent
land owner of Baltimore and Carroll
counties, died at her home in Balti-
more from iutirmities of old age. She
would have celebrated her ninetieth
birthday anniversary next month.
Evening star., 1917-10-01
WANT GIANTS IN CHICAGO.
Cub Management Proposes Exhibi.
ton Game Thursday in That CITY.

CHICAGO, october 1.-Omcials of the
Chicago National League ball club
have asked ]. ]. McGraw. manager of
the New York Nationals. to double up
the games in the Philadelphia schedule
in order to permit an exhibition game
here next Thursday between the Cubs
and Giants, when the New York club
arrives for the opening of the world
championship Saturday.
The New York club Will end its sea-
son in Philadelphia Thursday, accord
ing to the present schedule.
Evening star., 1917-10-01

Six new operas viii be presented dur
ing the New York season of the Chi
cago Opera Association in January In
addition to the six new operas, two
American operas and more than score
of the standard French and italian
works will be presented
Evening star., 1917-10-01

II paws to read the want columns of
The Star. Hundreds of situations are
allied through them.
Evening star., 1917-10-01
MORE FOOT BALL THAN USUAL.
WILL BE PLAYED THIS SEASON
Organization of Elevens in Various Can
tonments and Other Military Camps
>Presages Great Activities on Gridiron.
BY n. C. BYRD.


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Evening star., 1917-10-01
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Cleveland, .; Washington, 1.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Boston Q: Chicago. 4.
Cincinnati. 9, New York, 3.
Cincinnati. 4; New York o.
Philadelphia, IL; St. Louis. ..
Philadelphia, 10; st. Louis. G
Evening star., 1917-10-01
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

TODAY. TOMORROW.
Roston at Pittsburgh. Boston III Brooklyn.
New York at Phila.
Evening star., 1917-10-01
SHINE EbALLAMYTH,
|SWH|TE SOX CLAIM
Imagination of Superstitious
Batsmen Brings Cicotte Un-
deserving Credit.

The famous shine ball" with which
has been fooling the best batsmen of
the hard hitting American League this
season, and which now looms up as a
bugaboo to the Giants in the coming
world series, turns out to be nothing
more or less than variation of Ci-
colts knuckle ball, which he has been
using for the last ten years. The close
scrutiny of the umpires of the Ameri-
can League and of President Ban
no foreign substance on the ball, as has
been charged by many batsmen. When
ever Cicotte struck out this, that or the
other batsmen the embarrassed hitters
walked back to the bench with the
complaint that they had been victims
of the shine BALL
The shine ball' is a myth, and the
trajectory it pursues on the flight to
the batsman Is the self-Same ira jectory
that it has always taken, and is much
the same as that of the moist ball The
ball spins up to the bntsmen very fast,
and suddenly the spinning ceases. and
the ball takes tantalizing little hop
which is never the same twice.
Cicotte does this by throwing the ball
off the knuckles OF his first two fingers
instead of off the ends of his fingers,
as all other pitchers do. The only
other pitcher who was ever able to
throw this knuckle ball with any de-
gree of success was Eddie Summers. the
old Detroit pitcher. and as Cicotte
started his base ball career on the sand
lots of Detroit. it is very likely that he
learned the trick from Summers
Optical Illusion.
The ball got its name from the fact
that before he throws the ball Cicotte
rubs a part OF the ball on his uniform
to make it clean and dry. If the ball is
dirty this makes a small white spot on
the ball. against which Cicotte rests his
knuckles when he throws it. Early in
the season. when Cicotte pitched the
ball in such way that the white spot
was a little whittier than usual. because
the other parts of the ball happened
to be dirtier, the white spot evolved
into a sort of an optical illusion. the
white spot causing a flicker as the ball
spun toward the batter.
When the news of this flicker of the
ball spread among the ball players. of
course their superstitions began to
work. Ball players, like sailors. are
the most superstitious folks in the
world end their imaginations accepted
the shine hall.
Throughout the American League the
PLAYERS confidently believed that Ci
cote was using wax or vaseline to
effect new variation of the moist
ball. No one thought of Cicotte being
an old stager at the art of battling
batsmen with his old knuckle ball
He has been at the pitching game 50
long that he knows the failngs and
virtues Of every batter in the league.
When he was accused Of using a for
eign substance on the ball, he just de-
MED 1t and allowed the players imag-
ina tinns tn go the limit.
Evening star., 1917-10-01

Copyright. 1917 by H. C. Fisher Trade mark
Reg. L. s. Pat. Or.)
Evening star., 1917-10-01
SCHEDULES.

AMERICAN LEAGUE.
TODAY TOMORROW
Chica 90 at New York. Washington at Boston
Phila. New York.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-04

atmosphere of cordiality and good
will which was everywhere in eVi-
dence, and we sincerely hope that
this spirit will continue as one of the
permanent characteristics of this
store.
"The year 1917 now before US is
teeming with great and pleasant pos
sibilities. To the full utilization and
enjoyment Of these we now direct
your best thought and energy
(Signed) Marshall Field & Co.
December %, 1916"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-04
MARSHALL FIELD CHRISTMAS
"PRESENT" TO WORKERS IS
JOKE OF STATE STREET


mitts of the Field heirs than ever be-
fore. From time to time during the
latter part of the year M. F. & Co.
posted notices praising their en-
ployes and urging them on to great
er effort.
So much pleasant urging on the
part of the bosses started a rumor
that the biggest State street store
planned to follow the example of one
of the smaller State street stores,
The Fair, and give the employees a
Christmas present in the shape of a
bonus.
Dept managers smiled and en-
couraged the workers on to even
more desperate efforts in the pre-
Christmas rush. They were told,
with a pleasant wink, that the men
in the upper offices appreciated their
loyalty and their hard work and
would remember them. The infer
ence was bonus But let's cut it
short. Here's the Christmas pres
ent" each Marshall Field employc
received for Xmas:
The splendid manner in which
this organization met the extra de-
mands of the holiday season de-
serves our utmost commentator.
Although the volume of business was
by far the largest we have ever done,
we know it was handled in more
thoroughly competent manner than
ever before. There was more enter
prise manifested in providing the
merchandise, more foresight in plan
ming the arrangements, more skill
and prOmptness in serving custom
ers, more efficiency in handling and
delivering the goods, and fewer mis-
takes to be Tectifed.
Eve congratulate the buyers on
the excellent assortments main
tanned in spite of the many Difficult
ties in obtaining merchandise.
The Store of the Christmas
Spirit fully justified it's title by the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-04
ODDNEWS

New York.-Prosperity has over
flowed even to the third and fourth
bus boys who help the lobster palace
walters. One of them bought a $27
pair of skates at the Waldolf-Astoria
rink today.
Rochester, N. Y.-Because the
paint he ate at her house when boy
twenty years ago stunted his growth
to three feet, Ivan Buckley will col
Iect damages from the estate Of Mrs.
Anna E. Andrews.
Newark, N. fittings were so I'M
pleasant for Rev. Charles Reynolds
after he preached his ''how old art
thou" sermon to the women Of his
congregation that he is taking a va
cation in New York.
New, York.-FiVe years ago PATROL
man Edward ]. O'Rourke helped Miss
Esther Clair across the street, Today
he is the Sole heir to her property
valued at 100000.
MassiIIon, o.-Ninety Rotarians
cooked their own meals electrically
at a. banquet and paid $25 plate for
it. Individual electric cooking de-
vices were installed for $4,000.
cincinnati.-JUdge Kelley ordered
G. A. Fleischman, who earns 81 a day
as caretaker, to pay alimony to his
former wife, MelVa L. Wolff, who
earns S. a day as employment in
vestigator of a Detroit auto factory.
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Washington. = Senate confirmed !
MI - 49, CoL,r,vooy, &c. - -
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Washington. = Senate confirmed
Theodore ]. Schweer to be post
master at Beardstown. Ill
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-12-20

Al H. WILSON TO
RE CHRISTMAS ATTRACTION

Al a WILSON. the singing dialect
comedian who occupies an enViaole
position among the we'll known ar
lists of the stage win present Theo-
dore Burt SaNres new military Irish
song play THE Irish 18th at the
Academy Chrtstlnas and Wednesday
with a Christmas matinee.
1t never did require much Of an
effort to enjoy Al n Wilson for he
is a comedian OF the type who does
not have to resort 10 bunoouerv to
create laughter and In this new style
OF cndeavor he represents ne worth
and dignity OF the Irish race and
makes of the witty and fun loving
eoA o., Erin "A pers4n-to be proud Of.
Z o2feFS' MN a. ATeat fttfd FOR ms
laugh provoking methods which are
ways high class and free from any
offense In the role Of Dick Dale"
whose adventures are many In the
play Mr. Wilson reveals new char
acter and that he deserves the honors
he receives Is evidenced 10y the man
ner of portrayal His songs too
breathe the atmosphere OF the EmeF-
Ia Isle tsd he sings them with a
new charm that cannot fail to add
TO his already lyrical reputation II
Want You Then MachUee,' ireland
is Your Home Sweet Home" my
Mothers Neddins Ring" a Lily
From Heaven" and "The Irish VIII
Re There Seat sale today