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The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-30
ACT NO. 47S.
Approved March 2S. II

NppTOVeU EIaTCn ~, IJII.
An Act to appropriate money to pay
for securing statistical data, expert
service and attorneys fees in preserv-
ing rates fixed by the State Railroad
Commission.
Act appropriates $4,000 for said pur-
nose.
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Sent to Local Libraries.

"The system on which books are
sent out to borrowers is as follows: If
a man engaged in serious research
needs a book which his own local Ii
brary lacks, which it cannot naturally
be expected to have, he may ask his
local library to get it for him from the
library Of congress. This will be done,
and his only expense will be the cost
of the transportation of the volume.
THE loan rests on the theory Of a
special service to scholarship which it
is not within the power or the duty of
the local library to render. It's pur-
pose is to aid research calculated to
advance the boundaries Of knowledge,
by the loan Of unusual books not read
lily accessible elsewhere.
therefore, books that should be in
a local library or that can be borrowed
from library having particular duty
to the community from which the appli-
cation comes "a state library, for ex-
ample), are not lent by the library Of
inexpensive and can easily be pro-
cured, nor textbooks, nor books for the
general reader, nor to be used for
recreation or self-culture. But unusual
books to satisfy unusual needs-these
the library of congress is glad to lend.
"And we find that people all over the
country are eager to take advantage of
this service. We are constantly send
ing out books to borrowers sometimes
as far distant as San Francisco and
Cuba. During the year ended June 80,
1914, we sent out 2,030 volumes. Dur
ing the year ended June so, 1915, we
sent out 2,25S volumes, and during the
year ended June 80, 1916, we sent out
as interlibrary loans 3,4G0 volumes to
1913 different libraries in 4S states and
in Canada.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-30
UNCLE SAM LOANS
BOOKS TO PEOPLE
Makes It Possible for Anyone to
Make Use of Great Congress
sionaI Library.
PURPOSE TO AID RESEARCH
Object Is to Make Unusual Volumes
Which Cannot Be Obtained Else
where Available to Students
Everywhere.

Comparatively few persons know
that they can take advantage of the
great congressional library maintained
by Uncle Sam at Washington without
going to the national capital.
There are thousands of people all
over the country who constantly make
use of the library of congress and yet
have never been within gunshot of the
District of Columbia. The important
and yet little-known branch of the ac-
tivities of the library Of congress which
makes this possible was explained by
Herbert Putnam, the librarian of con-
gress.
1.-The library of the British Museum"
he said, 'is purely reference library.
1t is a magnificent collection, but it is
of use only to those who can go to
London to consult it. The library Of
congress is, Of course, used as ref
erence library by thousands of people
every year. But it is also a lending
library, and therefore it renders to the
American citizen q service which the
British Museum library does not rem
der to the British citizen.
'"This is work In which the library
of congress is following the lead of
some Of the great libraries of Europe,
especially Of those Of Germany.
sOf course, there is much to be said
for the purely reference library. Some
of our material-such as the valuable
documents placed here by their own
ers for safe keeping-is used only for
reference purposes. Sometimes tran
scripts of it are sent out.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-30
ACT no, 4S1.

NpPFUVtU MdFCH 20, IJIT.
An Act making appropriations for
the executive end judicial departments
of the state government for the bien-
NAL period ending March 81, 1919.
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Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 81 ,036. 67G.20
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Total
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Miss Handy Says Relations
with National Officials
Are Pleasant
BY FRED HAWTHORNE

Statements TO the effect that women
lawn tennis players were at odds with
officials of the United States National
Lawn Tennis Association, and that
there was a we'll defined movement on
foot to start separate organization
for the handling of all women's tour
naments. were recently made by some
Of our contemporaries, but without
foundation in fact, it seems.
Miss Edith b. Handy, one of the most
prominent players in the metropolitan
district and one who has always had
the best interests of the game at heart,
asked US yesterday 10 correct the I'M
preston that the women arc not en-
tircly in accord with the Officials Of the
L. s. n. l.. T. A. Miss Handy also de-
clared that she had never even heard a
desire expressed 20 form a separate
body and did not believe there was any
such wish.
II want to lay stress on the fact,
said Miss Handy, referring to the ten
tativc schedule drawn up by herself,
Mrs. William II. Pouch, Miss Florence
BALM. Miss Florence Sheldon and Mrs.
Robert lie Roy last October, chat all
our work was entirely unofficial, and
that any one else who didn't like the
existing schedule could have done just
as we did"
The schedule referred to set the
week OF June Is for the women's ma
tional championship tournament and
grouped the other Journeys around
that date, so that there would be three
or four fixtures on grass courts before
the play for the championship began.
Schedule Submitted
"Ths schedule was then subpitted TO
Mr.. Adee, president of the national as
sociation," said Miss Handy, "who,
throughout all our work, was most
helpful and anxious TO have things ar
ranged in accordance with the wishes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04

"The fact that number Of our lead
ing young golfers writes critic, are
pbenoms in their teens, is no proof
that they will ever be champions, once
they have come upon the meaning OF
nerves. The showing Of Bobby Jones'
Norman Maxwell, Perry Adalr, Fred
Wright and others is no indication OF
what they may do later, once they have
begun experimenting and have discoy-
cred the many difficulties of the game ~
This statement would sound reasonable
enough if one refrained from any close
attention to the championship history
of American golf. The critic IN ques-
ton names the case Of Chick Evans.
Evans" he writes, twas playing great
Golf at the age Of sixteen. As far back
as 1909, then only seventeen years old,
he qualified in the amateur champion
ship at Wheaton with l5l, tying for low
medal. and was only beaten ] up by
Chandler Egsn in the semi-final round
But Evans had 20 wait seven more
wears before winning his first major
championship"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Women Tennis Players Deny
Plan to Organize New Body

Of the women players, as they were
made known 20 him.
"In accordance with our suggestion
the executive committee, at its meeting
in December, voted 10 empower tne
president 70 appoint a committee OIL
women to have charge OF arranging
the schedule Of women's events IN the
future. and In the meantime our I'M
official recommendation have been &C
cepted for this wear. The loth OF june
has already been definitely assigned as
the date for the national event.
Speaking Of the case OF MISS Ciare
Cassel who was debarred from COM
netting as an amateur last summer OH
the ground that she had received pay
ment for giving instruction IN ska'lhg'
Wiss Handy said that while all the
women players deplored her exclusion
from, tournament play there was noth-
ing else for the national ASSOCIATION 10
do under the circumstances. The RUE
AGAINST such conduct was in the by,
Laws and il was only after she nad
been warned several times that MISS
Cassel was barred. ~
The proposed amendments TO the
amateur rule that were defeated AZ tne
annual meeting of the L. >. y. l.: l. a.
had no bearing whatever, according 10
Miss Handy, on cases such as Miss Cas-
seps. and she failed TO see the connec-
ton between their passage or defeat
and the debarred players case.
Tourney at Philadelphia
Tho courts of the Philadelphia
Cricket Club, in the suburbs of the
CITY of Brotherly Love, viii again De
used in the playing Of the women's ma
tional tournament. With an unusual
" fine quality of turf and ample club
house accommodation for the players
the club is probably better .quallhed TO
hold this fixture, as it has done for the
last score of years, than any other
organization.
While the women feel that an au-
tumn date might perhaps be more
suited to their needs in settling their
championship play, there are several
things that make it impossible. Later
in the summer most of the players are
away for the season. and also the warm
weather of July and August would act
as a bar. The following month the
courts are in such constant use by the
members that a big tournament could
not be put on.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Yachtsmen May
Be Guardians
Of Two Coasts

That the yachtsmen Of the United
States, both on the Atlantic and the
Pacific coasts, are destined TO play an
important part in the defence of this
country is fast becoming apparent.
Speaking edtorially of the situation,
this months issue Of "The Rudder, "
out yesterday, says, in part:
Before this edition Of The Rudder'
reaches its readers the United States
may be at war.
"The resources of the country will
then be taxed to bring that war TO a
successful termination. Iachtsmen,
as they did in the Spanish War.
nineteen years ago. will again be
of material use in the defence OF the
country, not only because they own a
feet Of vessels which can be used for
coast defence or for patrol and scout
duty, but because their training as
vachtsmen will enable them to handle
their boats themselves, and because Of
their knowledge Of the waters where
they do most Of their yachting they
will be of inestimable value FOX scout
and patrol duty.
u he Navy Department is planning
to build d feet Of power boats for
coast defence work, and for use as
submarine chasers. One type will be
selected. and then all the builders will
be set to work to turn them out. The
trouble will be 10 find men capable
of handling these boats. and that is
where the yachtsmen will be Of great
use.
"The yachtsman's sport is often re-
Carded as play, and in time of peace
it is. but in his play he is storing up
a wealth of knowledge for such a time
as this, and all yachting being pat
termed after the navy regulation, the
yachtsman is anxious to do all in his
power to help his country in time of
need"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Syracuse Navy
Prepared for
Outdoor Work

Syracuse, March 3.-James 4. Ten
Eyck, coach of the Syracuse University
Navy, is anxiously awaiting the arrival
OF warmer weather, that he may take
his Orange oarsmen to 0nondaga Lake.
1t is probable that ice will start break
ing within the next few days unless
there is a decided change in the weather
conditions. Coach Ten Eyck hopes 10
be out of doors with his men within a
few weeks.
With the aid of the machine in tho
rowing tank. Coach Ten Eyck has put
his large squad of oarsmen through an
exceptionally thorough preliminary
drill. This work has progressed adj
mlFahly, hut II Is thought that the
progress on the water will be more
rapid.
All the members of tho victorious
1916 crew have not reported, but il Is
expected that the full quota OF oars
men will be at work soon. Frank
Williams, who pulled No. in the big
boat year ago. has been unable to
report. Pete Wallis. No. 8. is also
among the missing. Because Coach
Ten Eyck is by no means certain that
these men will be available every eff
fort is being made to cultivate other
men for these important positions. II
is thought that complete reorgariza-
ton may be necessary.
Art Osman, who rowed No. a year
AGO and who stroked the varsity the
previous year. has been tried on the
other side of the boat. Coach Ten
Eyck is making many other changes OF
similar nature, 30 that he may give
the Orange the strongest possible com.
blnatlon for tho big regatta on the
Hudson
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
The Case of Others

II is true that Chick had a hard
time breaking through, the champion
ship barriers. lie knocked often at the
door, but Fate refused 20 open II.
Chicks case. however, is not the only
one to be offered in behalf Of young
golfers.
That same year Bob Gardner, who
was only nineteen, won his first title.
Gardner also qualified with ISL. And
in his last three matches for the big
title he defeated Walter J. Travis,
Mason Phelps and Chandler Egan in
succession. Gardner, like Evans, was
also a first class player at the age Of
sixteen. although not as well known as
some others that far back in hi' golf
Ing life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Travcrs's Start

Jerry Travcrs's start was more like
that OF Bobby Jones than any golfer
we have. Jones started playing golf
a. the age Of seven--Trsvers at the
age Of nine. Jones defeated tho club
champion az the aye OF thirteen, Tray
ers at the age Of fifteen.
Trayers was playing under 80 con
siStently before he WIS sixteen. His
first great golfing achievement came in
1904. when he was seventeen years old.
That year, in Nassau invitation tour
nament, he came 70 the Scml-ilnal
round with two men between him and
success. One was Findlay Douglas, an
ez-nstional champion. The other was
Walter j. Travis, who had just won the
amateur championship Of Great Britain.
1rsyers beat Douglas In the forenoon
and finished out the days work by de-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Wyatt, Navy Wrestler,
Finally Meets Waterloo

Annapolis, March 3.-The wrestlers
representing Penn State won from the
midshipmen here this afternoon by p
TO 10, the most overwhelming defeat
the Navy lads have had in this sport
in many a year. The visitors three
clean falls included the defeat OF
Wyatt, the Navy captain, by Oster.
meyer in the special weight class. II
was the first time the clever Navy attn
lete had been thrown in his three sea
sons Of wrestling.
The summary follows:
il9 pound class -Smo'cy. Penn SAFE won deci-
sion over Grant. Navy. IN limit 81 minutes.
laa- pound class-Ostermeyer. Penn state, threw
Wyatt Navy with a chencery and body hold ~
minutes i5 seconds
l3e- pound clsss-Nfills. Penn STATE threw An.
deFs0n Navy. with a chsncery AID arm iocA IN
minutes - seconds .
is9 pound csss-Rodzers. Nav. won decision
over Long Penn state. IN limit n 3 MINUTES.
i5S pound clsss-Redmsn, Navy. won decslon
over Schultz. Penn STATE 10 limit ot minutes
l75-pound class-Ward Nav, and Higgins. rem
state drew after a regular time o. Q minutes AMI
extra bout Of G minutes. ~
Unlimited weight class-CzaneIck. Penn sisle
threw Scsre. Navy With hair nelson ara arm
lock In minutes u seconds
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Pocket Billiard Title
Play at New York A. G..

The annual tournament Of the Ma
tional Association Of Amateur Billiard
Plsyers for the pocket billiard cham
pionship Of the United States will be
contested in the parlors Of the New
York Athletic Club, commencing Mon
day afternoon, al 2 o'clock.
There ore eight entries, which will
make a total Of twenty.cight games 10
be played. three each day for the iirtt
ssven days. tVO each day for the fol-
loving three days. and The final game.
barring ties. 70 be piaged on Friday.
March iG, ~ .. m.
J. II. Shoemaker. the present cham
Dlon, Ia again entered, and has opposed
10 him r. 7. KAynolds. The runner.up
In last years tournament; ". 3. o.
borne, Cecil Munoz. J. J. Msloney and
three neweOmeTg-W william A. Tilt,
y. =. Gray and Cuslsyo Gardner
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
Honolulu Summing Records
Questioned by Watermen

week: Columbia-Pennsylvania and
Yale Princeton, on Friday, and Am
herst-City College, on Saturday. Al
the latter will also be decided the 500
yard Metropolitan A. a. U. free style
championships. The Columbia mermen
are confident of defeating Penn both
in swimming and in water polo; Yale
expects 10 win easily from the Tiger
swimmers. but has little hope Of VIC
tory in polo, and Amherst is sangulne
OF taking the c. {. y. Y. contingent
into camp.
Fred Jorn, the Detroit Y. ". c. A..
plunger. who set 4 new record of 10
seconds for a 75-foot pool in winning
the Central A. A. L. championship, is
soon to be given a chance to attack
the worlds distance standard of 82.7
feet for the one-minute time limit, and
his prospects seem excellent.
Two junior metropolitan titles, at
100 yards swimming and in fancy div
ing. will be competed az the New York
A. {. water carnival OF March II.
J. B. Ward, Of the Cincinnati A. C.,
the new breast stroke star, seems in
line for supreme laurels at this style
of natation. His recent defeat of
Michael McDermott, many times cham
pion. in the blinking time Of minutes
~ 2.5 seconds (75-foot pooD, makes
him a strong candidate for both title
and record.
Virtually all the leading mermaids
of Greater New York will take part in
Saturdays aquatic meet in the pool
of the Peoples Palace, Jersey City. at
which will be run of the metropolitan
30 yards championship and the try-outs
for the Women's lntercity Water Car
niyal in Philadelphia.
The Brooklyn Y. NJ. c. A. will make
its debut on March 20 as a promoter
Of water sports by holding set OF
open events in the home natatorlum.
Miss Gertrude Artelt, the 14-year-
old girl swimmer of the Philadelphia
Turngemeinde, who recently came into
prominence by finishing a close second
to Miss Olga Dorfner, when the latter
lowered the 50-yard women's record TO
% seconds, has since done % LIS
seconds in a closed club contest. Miss
Dorfner will have to look to her
laurels.
The victory of the Columbia mermen
over their Yale rivals on Wednesday
was won by a very narrow margin,
despite the score OF 30 TO 20. Had
Yale captured the closely contested
relay race, in fact, the tally would
have been ~ to in -avor OF the
visitors. As the two teams will engage
i'm a return meet at New Haven on
March y, the Ellis still have chance
at the intercollegiate swimming PEN
nant, particularly as home waters will
give them a slight advantage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
State College Baseball
Schedule Is Announced

Kingston, r. l., March Coach
Baldwin announces the baseball sched-
ule for the Rhode Island State College
nine as comprising a total Of fifteen
games. The changes from last years
schedule include the additions of the
mines from Norwich, University of Ner-
mont, Holy Cross, Columbia and Rut-
gers, while the name of Colby does not
appear.
While the season does not open as
early as in previous years, the games
are more closelv scheduled. The sched-
ule is as follows:
April II. Tufts. a, Mcdford -. University o.
Maine. az Kingston. IL. Brown, az Providence
Il. Rutgers. az New Brunswick %. Norwich. az
Kingston.
May 5. Boston College. AZ Newton: 10 S., An.
selms. a. Manchester; II. University Of Vermont
a. Burlington: II. Norwich. al Mortified. 10
Worcester =. J.. At Kingston: "a. New Hampshire
at Kingston 50, Connecticut Agricultural College
- Kingston.
June Holy Cross. az Worcester .: Columbia
al New York. ., Trinity al Hartford.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04

Reports of the mid-winter Hawaiian
water carnival, a week ago, at which
sensational swimming performances
were credited to Perry McGillivray, of
the Illinois Athletic Club, and Ludy
LANCER, of the Los Angeles Athletic
Club, were received rather skeptically
in local aquatic circles. Langer's new
worlds record Of minutes II 3-5 sec
onds for the 44O yards would probably
have been accepted without question,
although he never before touched D
minutes 80 seconds in open water, but
McGillivray's 220-yard swim in MIN
utes 2O4-5 seconds and Miss Dorothy
Burns's time of 3 minutes seconds
for the same distance are so much
faster than their best previous marks
that close followers of water sports
are not inclined to believe them with
out conclusive proof.
McGllivray, it will be recalled, was
defeated at the furlong in January by
Teddy Cam. Of the New York A. C.,
the latter doing minutes % 10 sec
onds, and McGillivray, minutes "
seconds And this was in 6O-ioot
pool, offering an advantage of eight to
ten seconds over an open water course.
Miss Burns had never before approached
in competition the women's national
outdoor standard Of minutes 10 %
seconds. and her practice trials this
season have lowered around the latter
figures. The Honolulu times, there
fore, represent sudden cuts Of nearly
twenty seconds for McGillivray and
some twelve seconds for Miss Burns.
Possible, Of course, but not sufficiently
probable 10 be taken on faith.
Three college swimming meets Of in
terest TO local fans will be held this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04

These figures and dates show the
upscts 20 be faced in judging early
form, but hey also show that Kid Pie
nous around sixtoel of high order
generally manage to get there, sooner
or later.
The date of their arrival is another
matter. We have Bob Gardner win
ming his first championship start. We
have Fran2ig Ouimet fsiling to qualify
in his first two championship starts
and then winning the open and the
amateur championship in successive
years.
We have jerry Trayers good enough
70 defeat Walter J. Travis in 1904, but
forced TO play in five amateur title
hunts before he finally comes through.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04
BY GRANTLAND RICE

feating Walter J. Travis ! up, p holes,
in the afternoon.
II was three years later, at Cleve-
LAID. in 1907, before Travers won his
first amateur championship, but he
turned the trick before he had attained
his majority.
Travers was sixteen when he entered
his frst amateur championship, IN 1908.
lie had little success in his first three
starts, fading away in his first match
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-04

that he will develop into one of the
real stars of the national game.
Hoyt started his pitching career in
1915, at the age Of fifteen years. lie
reported for the Erasmus Hall base
ball team and was selected as second
string pitcher. 1t was not long, how
ever, before he was working in all the
important games, and before the end
of the term a contract was offered
him by the New Haven team IN the
Colonial League. Offers also were re"
ceived from the Brooklyn Tip Tops
and from the st. Louis Browns.
Discovered by DOOM
In August of 1915 the attention of
McGraw was called to Hoyt by Charley
Doom, and he signed an optional con-
tract. Pitching amateur, semi-protes-
sional and protest. onal baseball. ne
won 80 games and lost four. In four
games he did not allow a hit. The
following year he worked in the Penn
State League, and won five out OF SIX
games. The game he lost went nine
teen innings.
When the Penn State League dis
banded he returned to this city and
signed a formal agreement with the
Giants. He was then loaned TO the
Hartford team of the Eastern League.
This season Hoyt will play with Nike
Donlin's Memphis team of the South
ern Association, under an agreement
with McGraw.
Two No-Hit Games
During the season of 1916 he worked
in thirty games, of which he won y
and lost s, pitching two no-hit games.
While at Hartford Hoyt signed some
sort of agreement which caused
the Hartford club TO claim him. but
the National Commission refused TO
allow the claim. and Waite will trek on
to Marlin to try and win place on
the team.
Although only lad, Hoyt is big
fellow, and when he attains his fuli
growth should develop into real
giant. Following are his statistics
furnished by his father;
Waite Charles Hoyt, born Septem-
Der 10. 1893, at Brooklyn, n. Y. Height,
) feet lOl5 inches; weight, l76 pounds;
reach. rs inches; throws right handed;
attended Public Schools 80 and 92'
Brooklyn. and Erasmus Hall High
School, Brooklyn.