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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-04
WAR HURTS STRIKE
Magnates Will Welcome Walk
out of Fraternity.
FEWER PLAYERS TO PAY

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO. February 3.-Let the strike
of the base ball players fraternity go
on.
This is the way the magnates of the
National and American leagues feel
now that the break between the United
States and Germany has been announc-
ed. The club owners contend they will
welcome the walkout Of the athletes.
because with war in progress they
could not stand the expense that would
be on their hands if all the players
signed. To them hostilities mean a
way to get it would be to reduce the
roster of players to not more than
sixteen or seventeen men.
Within the last few days few players
rave been signed by clubs in the major
leagues Why? The magnates were
ipped off, it is understood. to take
heir time in annexing any more play
ers owing to the prospects of the clash
with Germany. II the men are signed
they will have to be paid. no matter
be- If they do not affiX their sigma
lures to contracts the clubs are free
from the burden of carrying the play
ers.
Time to Get in the Fold.
If players who have contracts calling
fo: big salaries have not signed it ap-
pears as if they would be taking a
sep in the right direction by signing
Immediately before the major leagues
oted to keep their rosters down to six
teen o. seventeen men. In the event
war takes place the men with the high
salaries probably will be left out in the
cold in order that expenses can be di-
minished. The CLUBS in 1898 reduced
their pay rolls as much as possible and
there is no doubt they will do it again.
The game was not hurt much during
the Spanish American war, according
players who were active in the game
at the time. The attendance was not
as large as it was before or after, but
the same. The opinion now is that
should the United States and Germany
fight. base ball would continue to be
played every afternoon and be watched
by fans who seek amusement despite
The hostilities.
Even il the country is at war said
Charley Williams of the Cubs who has
been in base ball for thirty-two- years.
the people who remain at home are
bound to be amused They proved this
in 1898. Over in Europe sports and
heaters have not been eliminated.
They seem 20 he doirg a good business.
Base ball would do the same over here,
and l feel sure the leagues would play
out their schedules
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-04
War Threat Stops Navy Game.

ANNAPOLIS. Md, February Be
cause of the stringent order issued to-
day barring all persons from admit
lance to the government reservation
here on account of the war crisis. the
basket ball game between teams of the
Naval Academy and West vi ginia Uni
versity scheduled for this afternoon
was called off. A good game was in the
prospective. as the visiting quint had
been playing well. while the Midoies
are chuck full of confidence and energy.
but Uncle Sans mandate was Issued.
and there was nothing to do but obey
1t. and as consequence ..Indreds OF
midshipmen and others were disap-
pointed at being deprived OF the sport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-04

After losing to the Royals. the
Roanoke team went up against the
Casino five and lost three more games.
However, the visitors showed the eff
fects of the strain they had gone
through ard were unable to do them
selves justice. judging by their scores
of the afternoon. The lowest gamsf
they rolled against the Royals would
have won any one of the three with
the Casinos. However. Roanoke stay
ed close enough in it's scores to pre-
vent the local five getting a lead suffi-
cient to overcome that gained by the
Nirginians or their home floor some
time ago. The games by Roanoke
were 1s7. ass and 4S7. and by the Casinos.
51t. 500 ard 51i.
Besides the matches on local alleys
in which the Roanoke team figured n
Oui,t representing the post office OF
Baltimore came over here and met the
local mail handlers. The Washing
tonians proved too strong for the WIS.,
"c~s and won a six-game match by
2.s2s to 2.77s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-04
CASH SPENT IS NO CRITERION
OF CLUBS EFFORTS TO BUILD
National Commission Report Shows riff h
Paid Out Little for Players, But Facts
Prove He Has Better System
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

Although official records of national show
the Washington the Of the list regard
money expended by major league clubs 1916 for pur
chased plavers that the Boston Americans
which did spend anything for drafted
accepted illustrating that the local
agement parsimonious lacked in enterprise
In Washington club paid SS5 in cash pur
chased and obligated itself
This would
glance unfavoraby with the records
other clubs notably which led $3OO spent
purchased players and contracted for outlay OF 5000 more
PLAYERS taken make good and are kept.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-04

The report of the national commas
sion does not tell the whole story,
however. The worth of a manager is
not judged upon the amount of money
he spends for players, but rather upon
what he accomplishes in the way OF
obtaining material at a minimum
cost to the club. Pennant winners
cannot be obtained through the mere
expenditure of large gobs of cash, as
the recent records of the New York.
Cleveland and Chicago teams in the
American League aptly illustrate. De-
spite prodigal liberality, Comiskey has
been unable to unfurl a banner on the
South Side grounds In Chicago since
1906. In 1915 the Yankees shelled out
about $1,000 for a flock of bushers
and near-stars. and Gilhoo'ey is al
they have to show for it. owner Dunn
last year plunged to the extent or ABOUT
1000 and Cleveland finished in sixth
place.
The reason the Washington club spent
no money for drafted players last sea-
son was that it was unlucky In the
drawings. Drafts were put in Tor sew
eral players. but when the names were
picked out of the hat other clubs were
found to have the call.
Had Youngsters Out on Option.
Manager Griffith works on the theory
that it is not what you spend, but the
way you spend 1t that counts. Last
season he had out on option squad
of young players whom he recalled
and who cost him nothing. BY the
exercise of foresight Griffith, prior to
that, had made an arrangement with
the Minneapolis club of the American
Association to obtain the pick Of that
team. and when it came time to eXer-
else his option he took Menoskey. This
youngster is regarded by Griffith as
being the choice of the minor leagues
as an outfielding prospect. He admits
Menoskey is green: that he isn't ready
yet for the big show, but contends he
is the pick of the bushes and asserts
the Boston Braves would have been
glad to give up $4,000 or $4,000 for
him.
Recently he put through deal for
Crane that stood him about 5000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-04
MAXWELL WINS TROPHY.
Defeats Reall in St. Valentines Golf
Tourney at Pinehurst.

PINEHURST. N. c.. February 3-Nor-
NAL II. Maxwell of the Arominink Club.
Philadelphia. won the presidents tro-
ply in the st. Valentine tournament
golf finals here today. defeating E. C..
Beall, Uniontown Country Club, and 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-04
Real Figures Total $25, 900.

Considering the value of Menoskey
and the players and cash given in ex-
change for Crane, and, adding this to
he $14,25O the club is credited with
having spent or obligated itself to
spend for players, it will be seen that
the real extent of the efforts of the
local club to increase it's strength by
the acquisition of new talent figures
up to total of about $4,000.
There is no reason to believe that the
Washington club will not dig as deep
down into its treasury as any other
club in the circuit to buy a real ball
player, should one be availa BILE, but
Clark Griffith has too good a business
head to drain the exchequer to obtain
players whose success is at best an
exceedingly doubtful proposition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-04

figuring BARRIERS market value at
$500. Williams at $500 and Bent
ley's at about $500. Griffith might
have gotten Crane for considerably less
by waiting until next fall. by obtaining
an option on him now, but he wanted
his team to have the benefit of Cranes
services this season, and so contracted
for his immediate delivery. In doing
this he also took chance of ultimately
losing Barber. most promising player,
but he figured the Nationals are better
fortified with fly chasers than in the
infield
The Washington herald., 1917-02-19
THE DAILY ADVENTURES OF
PUSS IN BOOTS, Jr.
BY DAVID CORY.
Puss Tells of the Shoe House.

russ lells OF the Shoe House.
"Once upon a time" began Puss Jun
ior, seating himself by the side OF Mrs.
Peter-Pumpkin-E Eater and little Tom
Thumb, Il came to a very funny sort OF
house. 1t was almost as queer as the
one which Peter is trying to build out Of
yonder pumpkin, the only difference be-
ing that this house was made out of an
old shoe and crowded full of children,
while yours, Mrs. Peter, will hold only
you and you alone"
well, II Peter doesn't make it large
enough for two replied little Mrs. Pc
ter, he'll find that will fy away from
the pumpkin cage. I'm not a canary to
be kept all by myself"
THE shoe house I was telling you
about" continued Puss Junior. was
owned by the Old Woman Who Lived IN
she didn't know what to do. The shoe
actually pinched 1t was so crowded, and
by the time the Old Woman got the last
child to bed it was time to take up the
first one for breakfast
At this point, little Tom Thumb inter-
ruptedS Then there must have been one
child always in bed, some Just going to
bed and some just getting up"
II don't remember, exactly" said Puss
Junior rehectively; you see, II was some
years ago, and I've had so many adven-
lures since then that my recollection is
! perhaps a little hazy. At any rate, do
remember playing tag and hide-and-go-
seek with the children, and there were
SO many of them that was finally forced
to climb up a tree to avoid being squeezed
nearly to death. After a while, they
promised to let me alone. SO I came down.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-19
IN five MINUTES
NO SICK STOMACH,
INDIGESTI0N,G
"Pape's Diapepsin" Is the Quickes,
and Surest Stomach
Relief.

You don't know what upset your
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did the damage-do you? Well don't
bother. II your stomach is in a re-
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what you just ate has fermented and
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belch gases and acids and eructste
undigested food; breath foul. tongue
coated-just take a little Pape'e Dia-
pepsin to neutralize scidity and in
five minutes you wonder what became
of the indigestion and distress.
Millions of men and women today
know that it is needless to have dys-
pepsia. A little Diapepsin occasion
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they eat their favorite foods with
out fear.
II your stomach doesn't take care
of your liberal limit without rebellion;
it your food is a damage instead OF
a help. remember the quickest, surest
most harmless antacid is Pape's Dis-
pepsin which costs only fifty cents for
a large case at drug stores. It's truly
wonderful-it stops food souring and
sets things straight. so gently and
easily that IL is really astonishing
Your stomach will digest your meals
lif you keep acids neutralissd.-Adv.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-19

The Old Woman then brought out some
very nice broth and we all had a feast"
Suddenly Peter called out: Come over
and see what I've done" So Mrs Pc
ter and Puss and Tom went over to the
pumpkin. 1t certainly looked a. though
Peter knew something about building a
house. He had followed out the inside
Of the pumpkin into four very nice rooms
and had carved out a small stairway
leading up to the second floor. It was In
fact, just like any small house, only that
II was made out OF pumpkin Instead of
boards. Perhaps IL was all the prettier
for this very reason The natural color
of the pumpkin made q pretty tint for
the walls and ceiling, and, as for the
floors, they could be covered with any
colored carpet II there seemed to be too
much of the same pumpkin color.
"All 1 need now is a chimney" said
Peter. and then Mrs. Peter can choose
the furniture and other things for the
house"
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The Washington herald., 1917-02-19
G0NZAGA MEN TO DINE

Plans for the annual dinner of the
Gonzaga College Alumni Association at
the New Ebbitt tonight will be
completed at a meeting Of the alumni to
be held today. The slogan for the event
is 800 or Bust"
II is thought that the annual smoker
held last December awakened a new
interest in Gonzaga among members of
the alumni, and for this reason the COM
mittee in charge of the dinner fully e1-
poets the 800 mark TO be reached tomor-
row night.
The alumni will be entertained by a
musical program of songs and selections.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-19
Folk We Touch in Passing
BY JULIA CHANDLER.
Unto the Least"
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| NSSpsfVnts IsH.J
| lie was bent and crippled, knotted and
gray. You and l, like most other folk,
would have passed The Little Old Man
over as one of the failures Of the world,
going down to decay with little of ac-
| complishment visible.
| Internationally he went his yav and
the hundreds whose lives his influence
| touched knew nothing whatever about
him, for The Little Old Man tended
| the flowers In The Rich Mans Garden.
Year by year he had worked among
his plants until the Divine Love which
the blossoms reflected had expanded his
consciousness to cover many opportunities
for simple manifestation.
One day he hobbled down the xard.n
path, humming as he hobbled, for The
Ltue OLD Man believed himself to be
quite alone.
Suddenly he stopped in interested con-
temptation STOPPING presently to right
hapless beetle that lay upon its hack
In the garden path.
"Dod rot YER he exclaimed laughinsIv
when his small service had been rem
dered, and he Strengthened out the kinks
In his lame old back
Arrested in his nervous pacing back
and forth by the simple kindness of his
gardener, The Rich Man stepped forth
Why bend your rheumatic bach in
such inconsequential servtce?" he de-
manded to know.
God bless you, sir" said The Little
Old Man, "the big fellers can take care
or themselves. It's the onery little bee-
tles-ugly as sin in the eyes O. most
tnat needs to be set right side up and
given chance
It's a waste of time and energv -
argued The Rich Man.
The Master said unto the least /"
The Little Old Man made answer
And said he, "I reckon there amt
nothin' less than that there little old
brown beetle"
The Rich Man passed from his garden
Into his Office
For years his foot had shot out
figuratively, to crdsh the little fellows
in his business path-the ugly brown
beetles too inconsequential to think
about
Today there seemed more of them
than usual in The Rich Mans way but
each time his impulse came to crush
them somehow his mind visioned The
Little Old Man STOPPING painfully in the
garden path to give a fighting chanc.
to a struggling beetle. He could not
rid himself of the picture nor of his
gardeners smile when he had offered
the explanation of his service.
Crazy old fool" muttered the en-
ploYer of thousands.
But still the picture clungr with such
persistence that the crushing foot went
around instead of over, many a little
fellow that day and the next, until after
a little, it came about that The Rich
Man even stopped with a smile to turn
the human beetles over on their feet to
give them a fighting chance for success
and happiness along the way.
And no man knew the cause Of The
Rich Mans beautiful metamorphosis
save the God of US all who takes ac-
count of services to beetles even as He
takes account, of the lilies of the field
and the sparrows that fall by the way.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-19
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The Washington herald., 1917-02-19

girl is In her teens, as II all things were
possible. We want to do so much. and
attain SO much. and IL IL natural for our
friends, and those who love us, to believe
In our talents, and make all the sacrifices
they can But let us be very, very sure
that we are really Melbas and other
types of genius before we accept these
sacrifices
/ can remember one night in the dress
ing-room when I was q very little girl.
Lottie and I sat on mothers big theater
trunk. listening while she talked TO one
of the women in the company, who was
giving her good advice.
MY dear" she said, don't waste your
life and youth on those children Put
them all into some good school, and en-
Joy yourself. Life Is far too short for
us to give up the best years of our lives
training these youngsters for careers
they may not be fitted for at all"
Wouldn't 1T have been funny IL mother
had taken her advice. and tucked US
all into schools7 Jack would probably
be at the necktie, counter now at some
clothing emporium in Cedar Rapids, and
Lottie and I-what would we have been
doing, wonder. Is the trend of our
lives dependent on chance or free-vin
choice7
The Washington herald., 1917-02-19

nao ietter the other day from q girl
IN chicago. 1t was overhowing with rap
ture, because her father and several other
adortng relatives had promised her a pro-
duction Of play that she had written.
She said the play had been produced
early in the winter at the eirls' school
she attended, and had been a '.howling
success She had enjoyed an of the
.nriiis OF authorship her picture had
neen In the papers with some very nice
little wrfte-ups. and one critic had sug-
gested that there was the idea in her gay
little one-act farce for a capital three
act musical comedy
Those TWO lines of careless, haphazard,
eood-natured commendation had been
suneient to fire the whole family with q
mania FOR self-sacriflce SO that Edith
might attain her goal
one did not pretend to ask any advice
from me. Her letter was Just an an
nouncement of the perfectly wonderful
realization of her dream. She had al
ways wanted to De a playwright, in fact.
modestly enough, she wrote that she
would IKE to write her own plays and
produce them and act them. / couldn't
help put think what a pity 1t was she
couldn't be the audience, too. She was
about eighteen and SO fearfully sure of
ner competency to handle the whole
thing.
Doesn't 1t seem that even where we
nave exceptional ability, one of the great
est dangers Of youth is the over conf
dence OF loving friends? How many,
many Ediths there are, scattered
throughout the country. in all lines OF
artistic endeavor. They make a momen-
tary success. perhaps, purely by chance,
and TIL ambitious friends Immediately
start up the engine of their aeroplane
| before they have learned to fly and con-
troll 1t. Then, all too soon. they land on
mother Earth again, and either have to
| start all over, or else are too DISCOURAGED
and bruised in pride and spirit ever to
try again.
I remember once talking to a we'll
known grand opera singer, who dined
| at our home. She herself went to Paris
as young girl with the promise of two
years study prepaid by some smaIl-town
benefactress. At the end of the two
yeas, no more funds were Forthcoming,
he. musical education was still unfin-
ishel, and I know that she LITERAL y
starved before she was able to obtain
help from other sources abroad.
1T Is a crying shame" she said, "the
number of young girls sent abroad by
friends and relatives, singing societies
| and little Inadequate scholarships They
are expected one and all to become
Melbas and Farrars on incomes Of about
$40 week. The heart-breakins disiIIu-
sion that comes to these girls when they
| have to face the truth of their own artis-
tic mediocrity is one of the tragedies OF
student life No girl should ever attempt
an artistic career unless she is assured
OF an income of at least 400 francs a
month, and all OF her clothing and tuition
are paid for besides, and even then she
should have her talent-whatever It may
| be, painting, singing, writing, acting
! given the acid test by expert authority
| in her own country before she ever gives
| up two or three years OF her life abroad
trying to attain success"
Isn't that true? 1t does seem when a