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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
RACING RESULTS.
HAVANA.

HAVANA, February 24.-First race. six fur
longse; three-ycar-olds and up; claiming
Castara, 100 BALD. 10 to l. to /, 2 to l. won;
Hapenny, Ill (Ambrose), 8 to 1, > to :. q TO .,
second; Bonner. 103 tRowan). TO >. even. 1 to
. third. Time. LA Is. Bob Blossom. Water
lee, Dromi. DR.. Cam. Old Charter, Nigadoo'
Lord Wells and Rulger also ran.
Second race, six furlongs; three year-olds and
up; claiming-Miss Genevieve. 10G tWingfeldl.
lins), 4 to 1, to 5. to 5. second; MaxentluS'
III Knight. 10 TO /. to l. to J.; third sirI
Masurka, FeIina. Malik and Dancing Star also
ran .,.,ors .,-ss.xssr-o,ds and
up; claming-oakwood Boy. 81 ,Wingheidj;
to 1, i to ), . to 5. won: Molly o.. los Wake
onl, to !, tol to 8 second Ethan Allan Allan
Time, la 4-5. Passion. Joaquin, Salon. Alta
maha and Afterglow also ran. 1T
ing 0u i've r and onehaIf furIongs -Sarcissus, 100
Ambrose, s to 2. even t., to = won 70" w ssrl
even. third Time. 1.e7 4-5. Odds and Ends,
Fiji fIf;n qnss selling rhn
and yaF ss ! Ssn L ,%s Tan
o ed:' Royal Meteor ia Knight, to !; to J.
even. third. Time. LAB % Mary P b Rnnd a1S
f' Sixth race. selling: three ysarolds and up six
to of g. to TO- Won: Protosoras. 112 lDreyer,: I
to 2, to 5. to 10. second Divan lo1
f.I5I-5. Safe ard Sane, Mad Tour Little Cot
tage, SISTER Riley. Damietta. Nino, Mucha Cho.
Tiger Jim. Sherwood and Peucefui Star also
Seventh race. three-yearolds and upward; Ave
and one half fatlongs-Brookhcld. 104 tKleeger',
4 to s. to TO- / to 3, won: Moncrief. LOG
(Pitz. to .; to :. TO 3 second; is, sars9n II.
/ u7 Az. Barettn Ampere II. Lost Fortune
James oakley and E. F. A!bee also ran
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Hatchetite Girls Victors.

Preliminary to the varsity game the
girls team of George Washington
University defeated the Eastern High
School of Baltimore alumni team in a
game featured by the accurate shooting
of the George Washington forwards.
Theodosia Seibold and Emma Reh, both
of whom Gagged four goals from the
floor
The George Washington team was
behind at the half, 6 to 5. but by
squirt early in the second half. gained
lead of four points and was never
headed. With four minutes left to
play the Baltimoreans tied the score
at 1915, and in the last half minute
Miss Seibold Gagged short toss from
the side lines. which broke the tie and
brought victory to the local team.
Lillian Seibert was the star for the
visitors. The summaries:
c. WI Position. EH.S. Alumni.
Theodosia seibold. Left forward. Estele McElroy
Emma Reh. Right forward. Lillian Seibert
Louise Gardner. Center Irene Willener
Louise Focarty.
E. Davis. Side center Elizabeth Connolly
Margaret Rris.ow. Left guard. Beatrice Gosline
Charlotte Simpson Right guard Agnes Stock
Goals from floor: George Washngton-Rel
~, seibold "a. Eastern High school-seihert
"a, McElroy t2) Goals from foul; George
Washington--Seiboid. ont of ). Eastern High
School-McElroy. out of 4: Sebert. out of L.
Referee-Miss Crowl. Umpre-Mrs. Lewis
Time of hslves-l5 minutes each.
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SHOULD Be GOOD SERIES
Winner of Southern Association Pen
nant to Play All-Star
Team.

BIRMINGHAM. Ala. February "a
Following the adoption of the 1917
playing schedule. the directors of the
Southern Association. who have been
in session here since yesterday. TODAY
decided to conduct a post season series
to be held between the the pennant
winner and an all-star team to be
chosen by sport writer's in the South
ern Association circuit. The proposed
schedule. prepared by Mike Finn, scout
for the Detroit Americans, was adopted
with number of alterations. The sea
son opens April IL.
According to the plan outlined by a
director today, the all-star team will
be selected, as follows:
The manager will be the helmsman of
the club which finishes second in the
pennant race. Two players will be Sc
lected from each club.
The series will be of seven games, the
first to be staged in the city which
wins the pennant.
Gate receipts, it is said, will be ap-
portioned similar to the world series
divisions.
IT think the plan will prove highly
successful" President Baugh said to-
day. TT will give US a little world
series Of our own here in the SOUTH"
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INTERESTING GOLF NOTES
FROM THE LOCAL CLUBS

Allan Lard won a match from Samuel
Dalzell, club champion, over the Chevy
Chase course one day last week. Lard
was up and to play, but Daizeil
SQUARED the match at the seventeenth
hole. The players went over the last
nine first and as a result the ninth hole
was their eighteenth. Lard hit long
ball off the tee and Clipped up dead,
winning the last hole and the match.
William Comedian, the new green
keeper at Chevy Chase. arrived at the
club the first part of last week. His
contract called for starting work Feb
ruary 5. but owing to serious illness In
his family he had been unable to get
to washington then. He will take
complete charge Of any reconstruction
work on the Chevy Chase course. being
under the supervision of the golf COM
mittee, of which J. Donald Cassels is
chairman.
Jack Burgess of the Chevy Chase
Club and Fred Mcleod of Columbia,
professionals at the two clubs on Con-
necticut avenue. will leave for Pine
hurst the evening of March IS. arriv-
ing there the morning OF the next day.
The amateur-pro four ball. best ball
match. will be held March 20 and the
north and south open championship
will be played March 80 and 81. jim
Barnes Of Philadelphia. champion of
line Professional Golfers Association,
is present north and south open cham
pon.
Snt h
Country Club are to be sodded this
spring before the professional tourna-
ment, April 3. 1t is probable the pros
will play a course 200 yards longer
than the one which the members play
ordinarily Columbia is a course where
neither the long hitter nor the fine
putter is liable to score low unless
he is playing his full iron shots and his
mashie well. The majority of the holes
are drive and iron holes, or will be for
the men who will play here in April,
and the pro who is slightly off color
with his irons will find 1t difhcult TO
negotiate the Columbia course in low
figures. Dr. Walter s. Harlan will ar
before the tournament to take charge
of arrane ements for the event.
It takes more than little rain to
kenze and Fred l.. Davis away from
the golf course. These two played Fri
day, Notwithstanding the drizzle
which fell.
Jack Burgess has a new clubmaker
in his shop at the Chevy Chase Club.
He is Richard Beattie, formerly Of the
Bannockbur Golf Club. and one Of the
best players of that organization. Beat
tie is the present champion of the
city Of Aberdeen. Scotland. having won
the title when he was there in 1914
Harris N Brown Of the Columbia
Country Club paid his first visit to the
Bannockburn Golf Club last week,
playing a round of the course with
James Strayer as partner against
John r. Harris and Bruce L. Taylor.
The latter pair won the match on the
last green.
F. Ragland, one of the prominent
players of the Bannockburn Golf Club.
has moved to Richmond and Joined the
Country Club of Virginia.
Work is steadily progressing on the
clearing of the new holes at Bannock-
burn. About 400 cords of wood have
been removed and sold. The contract
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ANSWERS TO QUERIES.

Sporting Editor Star
VIII you kindly publish in your next
Sunday edition of The Star how many
games Walter Johnson of American
League won and lost in 1916.
H &c
Won %, lost 20, according to unof-
fetal figures. The league records are
based on the average earned runs per
game made off of a pitcher, and do
not include figures on games won and
lost.
Snorting Editor The Star:
Game of whist. 1 beat the fallen trick.
NV partner played first. which was my
play. B asked me for heart and not
having any played diamond. 1t would
have been just as bad II B had asked for
q shade. as had six diamonds and one
trump-clubs. I claim he cannot call
on me but once to play. b claims he
can Who is right! w. II. D.
Answer-Can call only once. You
were right in playing any way you saw
fit, having no hearts.
Sporting Editor Star:
Please decide a bet, Has the. English
channel been crossed by a swimmer?
II SO, by whom and when? VIC.
By Capt. Webb. August 24-25, 1875.
Dover to Calais. 81 hours As minutes.
T. w. Burgess, september SIS. 1911.
South Foreland, England. to LIE
Chatelet, France. 70 hours IS minutes.
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for stump pulling will be let shortly

for stump pulling will be let shortly.
The New Olympia Fields Country
Club of Chicago probably is the most
comprehensive golf proposition ever
submitted to prospective members.
Plans for the new institution include
five golf courses, one of which is to be
exclusively for woman players. The
tract of ground recently acquired by
the club covers $50 acres of rolling
country adjacent to the Flossmoor
Country Club. one of the best of the
Chicago courses and several times the
venue of the western championships.
1t Is proposed that the membership be
limited to 1000. Tom Bendelow of Chi
cago and Donald Ross of Pinehurst are
building the golf courses, one Of which
is. according to present plans, to be
one of the severest tests of golf in the
country land a championship course in
every sense of the word. The great dis
advantage Of the majority of clubs
around Chicago is the time expended in
getting to the golf courses. 1t is
claimed by the promoters of the new
project that the Olympia Fields Coun-
try Club will have twenty four-hour
train service. with only fifty running
minutes I me from downtown to the
clubhouse door.
Many players of the Washington Golf
and Country Club. attracted by the
clear day, played over the course Wash
ington's birthday. S. l.. Mosby, Charles
Duganne, E. b. Calvert and A. D. Bern
hard played in foursome which turn
ed in some low scores for this time of
year. Mosby and Duganne were Is. CAL
vert was 10 and Bernhard was 49,
Jerry Travers' defeat at Houston
Tex. Friday, by Louis Jacoby. probably
is attributable to the former open
champions rheumatic shoulder. 1t is
not likely that Jacoby could take the
measure of Travers under ordinary cir
cumstances. even though the southern
err Is fine player.
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LIFETIME BATTING AVERAGES
OF MAJOR LEAGUE PLAYERS
Composite Figures for Entire Length of
Service in Big Show, Compiled From
the Official Records.


up
Eddie Collins the of leading the and he alone
Morgan fifteenth Jack
o he
Of
n
him.
Grand
Amer land record
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HOLIDAY CHESS
At LOCAL CLUBS
Fox and Tracey Furnish Inter-
esting Match at One Or
ganization.
PLAY RUNS THREE HOURS

Washington's birthday. always a gala
occasion with chess players in this coun-
try, was fittingly celebrated at both the
Washington Chess and Whist Club and
the Capital City Chess Club. Members Of
and visitors to the first named organiza-
ton were given rare treat in the form
of an impromptu match between Messrs.
Fox and Tracey. The play lasted from 3
until after pm. and was witnessed by
an unusually large audience. The scores
of the games will be found below. At the
Capital City Chess Club two rapid-transit
Journeys furnished lively entertainment
to the members and guests. w. B. Mum
dele winning the morning event. while
"old Cap Evans" known in the business
world as E. B. Adams, busted 'em off"
in the second half of the double-header.
Today at the Washington Chess and
Whist Club A. W. Fox and the Baltimore
master. 1. S. Turnover, will continue their
match, finishing the adjourned game from
Sunday before last, and. In the event OF
Mr.. Fox winning. this contest, which
seems certain, playing the third game 1t
will be recalled that the first game WAS
won by Mr.. Turnover. in Baltimore, and
that the second game, played here, was
adjourned, after the most remarkable and
brilliant play by both masters. in po-
sition favorable to the local expert.
Almost 100 players competed in the
various Journeys Of the New York State
Chess Association. held on February 70
at the Hotel Ansonia, in New York. The
master tourney will not be finished until
some time today.
Rudolph SEE. the talented young Chinese
master, formerly a member Of the Wash
ington Chess and Whist Club, and now
living in Philadelphia, is making a great
fight for the championship of that city in
the tournament now going on at the
Franklin Chess Club. Mr.. SEE is at pres
ent tied for the lead with B. Winkleman,
former captain of the Y. OF P. chess team
and also champion at Harvard. Their in
dividual encounter was won by SEE. The
score of this game follows:
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RATIFIES INTERLEAGUE SERIES
American Association Plays 48
Games With International Clubs.

KANSAS CITY. Mo. February PA
three-trip schedule of H. games was
adopted after A spirited contest by own
ers and managers of the base ball clubs
of the American Association at the an
nual schedule meeting here today. The
season will begin April II and close Au-
gust 5. The proposal for a forty eight
game series with clubs of the Interna-
tional League, half of the games to be
played on the diamonds of that league
and the remainder to be played in the
parks of the American Association after
the end of the regular season. was rati-
fed. 1t already had been favorably acted
upon by the International League. The
opening games were announced as fol-
lows
Columbus at Louisville. Toledo at In
dianapolis. Minneapolis at Kansas City,
st. Paul at Milwaukee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

Conrad B. Doyle Of the Columbia
Country Club, premier tennis player OF
the District of Columbia, leaves next
Tuesday, in company with Theodore
Roosevelt Pell of New York. for the
Pacific coast. where this pair will play
on the eastern tennis team which
meets an all-star aggregation repre-
senting the west, March and 10. on
specially constructed court at the Uni
yersity of Southern California. Los An
geles. George Myers Church of Tenafiy.
N. J., and Harold Throckmorton OF
Eliza beth, N j.. winner of the Chevy
Chase invitation tournament of last
year, are the other members of the
ca stern team. with Bernon S. Prentice
of New York as substitute.
Many honors have come to Washing
ton sportsmen in all lines of athletic
endeavor, but it is doubtful il any has
rested on a more worthy man than
Conrad Doyle. He is without doubt
the peer of any racketer in the south,
and there are few in the north or west
good enough to take his measure. His
five-set match with Karl H. Behr in
last years national championship viii
long be remembered by New York ten
mis- fans. Doyle won the first two sets
from the former internationalist at
81, 81, and was leading in the third
at So. when his energy gave way just
enough for Behr to take the net from
him. Doyle's game is one of superla-
tive speed, consisting largely of fore
ing the play at the net and chopping off
his opponents returns to the short an
giles of the court, and with this speed
lessened and Behr coming stronger
every minute, Connie was beaten.
losing the third set at rs and drop
ping the next two.
1t has been said that had 1t not been
for the interposition of a flock of pho
tographers when Doyle led at 81 in the
third set, the interruption lasting TWEEN
ty minutes. that Doyle, having Behr on
the jump. might have put over the final
game. which would have brought him
victory.
Doyle's playing at Southampton and
Forest Hills opened the eyes of the
partisan New York followers of the
game to the fact that the south could
produce something in the way Of first
class player. When Doyle took the
court against the temperamental Behr
few of the crowd which thronged the
stands had ever heard of the racket
wielder from Washington. After the
match Connie was urged to play future
matches on the exhibition court.
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PELL DEFEATS MORTIMER.
Tuxedo Star Wins National Amateur
Racuuets Title.

NEW YORK, February 24.-Clarence
c. Pell of Tuxedo won the national
amateur racquets singles championship
here today by outplaying last years
title winner. Stanley q. Mortimer, also
member of the Tuxedo club. Pell
won in th"ee straight games Isl,
l5-1, 15-5.
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and one-half furlongs-Ada Anne, Jos liar
ringtoni. to l. ; to - even, won; King Chill
ton. 10 lManlersl. 20 to /, Z to 1, to l,
second: Lieut.. SAWYER. 10 wv Taylorl. * TO
~ 10 TO l. to /, third. Time. lis e-5. Auntie
Curt. Delaney, the Teller and +. {. Cole also
Sixth race. selling; four ycar-olds and up; one
mile-Inquieta, 100 Baker,. 10 TO /. 3 TO l.
to s. won: Harv God, Jog tHarringtonl. . 10 l.
even. ! 10 .. second: Jawbone. i17 Pickensl.
TO .. l to ;. ont third. Time, 80 S-i Dick
Renson, Mark e., Tia Jan and Steliarina also
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Colgate's CUNT Swamps Army.

WEST POINT, n. Y. February ga
Colgate defeated the Army at basket
ball. 46 to Is, this afternoon. The
Cadets wound up the most disastrous
season in years. OF eleven games played
they won three. West Anderson, foot
ball star. carried off the honors for Col
gate.
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Vandal Quint Trims Armstrong.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ATLANTIC CITY, n j., February "a.
The Vandal quintet easily defeated
the Armstrong Technical High School
of Washington, d. c.. today, AZ to %.
The Armstrong players were Cupid.
Markell, Smith, Bacon and West.
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Doyle May Face Strachan.

The ranking of the players on the east
ern team has not yet been announced,
but it is probable that Doyle will play
at No 3. and, according to the unofficial
ranking of the far western team. will
oppose John Strachan, Pacific northwest
champion If Willis f. Davis plays on
the western team, which is believed at
this time to be unlikely, Connie would
relish nothing more than another chance
at his whirlwind service, for he feels
that his defeat by Davis in the final of
the clay court championship at Cleve-
land last year cannot be repeated. Ac-
cording to a letter he received from
Julian S. Myrick. president Of the West
Side Tennis Club. and a leader in east
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Roasting Mars Work.


There is no denying that constant
roasting has a bad effect For a crowd
to continually harass player or umpire
often seriously handicaps his work.
Certainly it never tends to improve it.
For players to be constantly kicking
about the decisions of the umpire is not
going to improve the work of that Of
fetal. No two persons connected with
base ball. however, are affected in the
same way by criticism, which is a more
agreeable term than roasting The
most entirely by the disposition or
temperament of the player being con-
sured.
There are any number of players who
can let criticism slip off as does water
off a duck. They are momentarily af-
fected. but they soon get back on their
feet and fight all the harder under the
abuse they are being subjected to.
lhese players are the ones who are re-
ferred to as having iron nerve. Another
class of players are those who try not
to take the rawlings of fandom serious
ly. They figure that the men in the
stand and bleachers paid their money
TO enjoy the game as they saw fit. and
If roasting player or umpire is their
pet diversion. the best thing to do is
to try to smile. Others desire to fight
back under a Srilling, while many
throw up the sponge lose confidence
and, unable to do either themselves or
their teammates justice, seek a change
of pasture.
] do not believe that there is one per
son in thousand connected with base
ball who would give a snap of his finger
what is said to him on the ball field or
written about him in the papers. l will
say that praise is greeted far more
kindly than criticism.
Copyright. 1917, by ". G. Evans.)
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Princeton Beats Columbia Quint.

NEW YORK, February 24-The
Princeton University basket ball team
defeated the Columbia five "a to 20 in
an intercollegiate league game here to-
night.
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Penn Tossers Beat Cornell.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. February "a
The University of Pennsylvania quintet
romped away from the Cornell five here
tonight by the score Of 20 to Is.
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Yale Hockey Team Beats Wanderers.

NEW HAVEN. Conn, February pa
Yale defeated the Philadelphia Wander
ers in ice hockey here tonight, 3 to g.
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Harvard Blanks Tigers at Hockey.

BOSTON, February 24.-Harvard won
the deciding contest in a three game
hockey series by defeating Princeton
2 to 0 tonight.
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Carrot Is Well Covered.

Carrot. Tennessee's star forward, did
not get much opportunity for his long,
accurate shots. the passing game of
the Tennesseans being broken up by
the rowing G. w. U. guards. Garrett
was instrumental in the defeat Of Vir-
ginia by Tennessee last week.
George Washington retained its orig
inal lineup throughout the game. while
Tennessee made two substitutions in
the last few minutes of the final half.
The summaries:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

ia) This sacrifice is hardly deep enough, con-
sidering Mr. Stacy's opponent
Oh This simple reply removes White from all
day
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Goals from foor-George Washington. Hall
t5, Almon t3l, Harmon ca; University of
Tennessee. Jacobs t2l, l.. Reeder. J. Reeder
Garrett Goals from foul-George Washington.
Harmon IS of 16); University of Tennessee.
L. Reeder IS of 14l. J. Reeder Il of ~. Time
Jolli1ower.
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SICILIAN.

tai Identical with the position at this point
in the Fox Turnover game published last week;
but Fox tries different reply.
tb) promising move. but as in the Fox
Turnover game, not quite sound. The play from
this point Is very fine on both Sides
The following little game will be of
especial interest to players who have
not reached the expert stage. and Incl
dentally it demonstrates the attacking
possibilities which often Turk in posi-
lions apparently hopeless. 1t was played
by A. w. Fox against an amateur here,
Fox playing black and giving the ham
dicap of his queen against his oppo-
L., iorl,f
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FAME OF STAR is FLEETING,
AS BASE BALL RECORDS SHOW
Sometimes Roasting of Fans Will Cause the
. Clever Player to Slip, While All APP
preciate Praise When Offered.

the umpiring? Are they all similarly af-
fected by the unkind attitude of fam
dom?
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F. Ragland, one of the prominent
PLAYERS Of the Bannockburn Golf Club.
has moved to Richmond and Joined the
Country Club OF Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

Work is steadily progressing on the
clearing of the new holes at Bannock-
burn. About 400 cords of wood have
been removed and sold The contract
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(a) White seeks to wear down his opponents
forces by exchanging pieces, which generally is
q very good practice for the player receiving q
to follow, but in this instance an ex-
ception should have been made TO this rule. The
exchange facilitates Blacks development AMI
brings support for the threatened KS pawn.
BOB would have been much better.
10 Castles(QR) pot
II Kt-O2 RIB
10 P-KKt4(bl
(b) White goes boldly ahead to demolish his
opponent. but does not give due weight to his
own danger. A simple move like k-kt would
have made it impossible for Black to get at him.
but Black, with queen and undeveloped pieces.
doubtless appeared to be simply waiting to be
eaten up.
10 ... P-kKt4
ID B-k3tc)
d. lei B-Kt3 would lose the by PRS.
10 B-kt4
IA Obs B-Q6
P-B3 RxPch
18PxR B-R8 mate