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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
ROSS OUGHT TO SPECIALIZE
Olympic Club Star ls Making Mistake
In Not Concentrating His e.
forts, Say Swimmers.

Men well posted In swimming af-
fairs. as well as number of expert
swimmers, have expressed the opinion
that Norman Ross, the Olympic club
star and holder of dozen or more
national and world records In various
swimming events, Is making mis-
take in not specializing and concen-
trating his efforts.
Ross Is admitted to be one of the
most versatile mermen that ever took
to the water, and has shown his Prov
ess in both long and short distance
events.
From the 50-yard sprint to the Cruel
ing mile swim across the Golden Gate,
Ross has achieved fame, but the con-
tentiOn Is made that Ross Is naturally
an athlete most likely to achieve dis
tinctlon in the 40 and 440.yard events.
BY specializing in these 1t Is main
tanned that he would eventually set
figures for these swims that it would
take years to beat, with the likeli-
hood that he might establish marks
which would keep him In the records
for long time after his swimming
days, If not for all time.
In attempting to negotiate all kinds
of swims and distances, the conten-
ton is made that while Ross may win
and even break records, these figures
will not be as decisive, and may soon
be bettered by other men who special
ize.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
BOB FITzsIMM0Ns DIED POOR
Estimated He Made s25o,ooo in Ring,
Besides $4,000 He Received From
Moving Pictures.

Improvidence seems to be the rule
among boxers, most of whom will not
lay aside something for rainy day.
When Bob FitZsimmOns died recently
he left nothing In money or property.
Yet he earned n fortune IN the ring.
He settled n house and many thou
sands of dollars on his second wife,
Rose Julian, and her children. He re-
ceived $4,000 from his two battles with
Maher, $4,000 from his Bout with Hall,
about 100000 from his scrap with Cor
bett at Carson City, $4,000 for whip
ping Dan Creedon, $4,000 for two
bouts with Tom Sharkey, $4,000 for
two battles with Jeffries, $4,000 for
the contest with Gus Rubin and many
thousands more for other ring exhbi-
tons.
In all 1t Is estimated that Fitz made
$25OO00 in the ring, besides which he
received about $4,000 from moving
pictures of his fights. He made many
unwise investments and was mark
for adventures and buncO men, be-
sides which his generosity was re-
spOnsible for further scattering the
thousands he had accumulated.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22

OUR LEADING CLUBS
Moulders of Public Opinion and
Assembling Places for Citi-
zens in This City.

Following are the locations Of the
leading self.sustaining clubs Of Chi
caso.
Apollo Club. 2O2 8. Michigan ava
Bohemia Club-3659 Douglas boule-
ward.
Builders, 4l2.41s Chamber Of Con
merce building
Calumet, Michigan ave. and 10th o.
Caxton, Tenth floor. Fine Arts BLDG.
Chicago Athletic Association, II q.
Michigan ave.
Chicago Architectural. Art Insti.
tute.
Chicago Automobile. S2i Plymouth
court.
Chicago Club. Michigan ave. anA
Van Buren, street
Chicago Motor Club, 1850 South
Michigan avenue.
Chicago cycling. 1915. 81 East VA
Buren, street.
Chicago Yacht, foot Of Monroe vt
City Club. 315 Plymouth court
CHI Dwellers, z16 8. Michigan ava
Colonial Club OF Chicago. 4%%S
Grand boulevard.
Columbia Yacht. foot Of Randolph
street.
Elks, Grand Pacific Hotel (tem.
porary), pending completion OF new
club house at ia West Washington
street.
Englewood. 1928 Harvard avenue.
Edgewater Country, 665S winthroD
avenue.
Farngut Yacht Club. foot Of $50 n
Germania Maennerchor. 10s Germs
MIA place.
Hamilton. 20 8. Dearborn IT
Illinois Athlete. IL 8. Michigaa
avenue.
Irish Fellowship Club, La sails He
tel.
lroquois, 81 N. La Sale st
Illinois, 1l3 8. Ashland boulevard.
Jefferson, Dearborn ave. and Maple
street.
Kenwood. Lake ave. and 47th st
Kenwood Country. Drexsl boule
ward and 4sth street.
Midday. First National Bank BLDG,
18th floor.
Oaks. Lake ct. and Waller ave.
Press Club Of Chicago. City Hall
Square Building.
Quadrangle. Lexington avenue aal
S0th street
Rotary. 3S South Dearborn st
Saddle and Cycle. Sheridan Road
and Foster avenue.
South Shore Country. lake shore
and 67th street.
Southern. 20 N. Dearborn street.
Speedway Park Club. 40 8. Dear
born street.
Standard. Michigan ave. and SIth
street.
Swedish Club OF Chicago. 1855 La
Sale avenue.
Twentieth Century. a2IS Michiss,
avenue.
Union League. Jackson boulevard
and Federal street
University. Michigan avenue aaI
Monroe street.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
TAX ON ADMISSION TICKETS
Baseball Magnates Are Wrestling With
More Welghty Propositions,
Mostly Financial.

Thrifty baseball fans are saving
their pennies this winter to pay the
war tax on admission tickets next sea-
son. The tax will be 10 per cent or
~ cents on 75-cent seats, the average
price in major league parks. Mean
while magnates are wrestling with
the important question of finances.
Suggestions for shorter season, an
earlier worlds series, shorter and
less expensive Southern trip, shifting
Of franchises to the most profitable
fields and Encouragement of schedules
so as to reduce carfare, are among the
plans being considered. 1t Is probable
that not all of these changes will be
made, but 1t also Is probable that some
Of them certainly will be put into eff
feet. The draft is another worry to
magnates. The big leagues will fall
back on the minors to I'LL up their de-
pleted ranks, thus forcing the smaller
leagues to bear the brunt of the draft
In their own and the major leagues.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
Boxer Hero Crippled
in the European War

Jack Munroe, who leaped to
fistic fame in n single night by
dropping Jim Jeffrics In an eX-
hibition bout in 1902, Is back
In Canada recruiting for the Ca
madam army, after being per-
manently crippled in the Euro
penn war.
Munroe is the first Of the box
ers who gained fame In America
to come through the war rs
hero. Munroe performed many
brave deeds while ut the battle
front, according to other soldiers
who fought with him. and IL
ever there was n suspicion that
he was not thoroughly game, 1t
has been removed. His right
arm is paralyzed as the result
Of being shattered with a Ger
man shell. and while he will not
go back to the battlefield he IL
still doing something for the
Canadian government.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
BASEBALL IS MOST
DANGEROUS PASTIME
List Of Fatalities in Various
Sports for Ten Years.
Records Show Diamond Game More
Hazardous Than Either Football or
eoxing-AthIetics Fit Men for
War Duties.

Records which were recently made
public through the columns of medi-
cal Journal, comprising a list Of fatali-
ties In various branches of sports for
the past ten years, show that baseball
Is n more dangerous sport than foot
ball or boxing.
The calamity howlers who have had
football and boxing on the pan for a
number of years may not have so much
to say when they discover this fact, for
fact 1t Is. The fatality lists were COM
piled by DIR. Robert Il. Coughlin. a
prominent New York medical man. and
were gathered carefully and compiled
from year to year. They embrace base
ball. football boxing. rowing. automo-
bile racing. tennis. golf. bowling. avia-
ton. walking, running. horse racing
and every branch of sport in which
there Is u lively interest.
Best Safeguard.
Tn discussing the features of his
compilations. Doctor Coughlin made
the point that the best safeguard
against injuries In any branch of sports
Is perfect physical condition, and urged
that those who go In for sports of any
kind should make themselves physical
~ fit before indulging literally in their
favorite pastime.
let us have games. athletics. base
ball. pugilism, golf, tennis. cricket. run
ming. rowing, swimming, sprinting. bas-
ket ball, cycling, wrestling, skating,
dancing, jumping, bowling, football
and all.around performances by all
means. But let us make our young
men physically fit TO survive athletic
competition without suffering injury to
their constitutions" wrote Doctor
COughlin. I'm this way we may hope
to make them ideal soldiers of the flu.
ture."
Interesting Figures.
The figures compiled. however, are
by far the most interesting to the nv.
erage reader. They show that in ten
years 2S4 players were killed on the
baseball diamonds of the country, and
this number tops the total number of
fatalities In any other sport branch
TOOtDul COiueS SeCoHu WIFI 10 ueutHS
while automobile racing, long cOnsid.
cred little better than suicide. Is third
with ia. Boxing, one of the most con.
demned Of the sO-cnlled dangerous
sports, Is fourth. with 1O5 fatalities.
The cycling game has resulted In
the death Of n riders within ten years
time, while horse racing comes sixth
on the list, with total of "a, and
wrestling seventh with Is. One would
hardly expect to see the mild old game
Of golf In this list, but according tc
Doctor Coughlin, no less than II golf
ers have met death on the links. This
Is within one of the total football fa
talities for 1916. when u players los,
their lives, so 1t is possible to figure
that football is just about ten times
as dangerous as golf.
Other sports included I'm the list, to
gether with the deaths for ten years
are as follows: Bowling, o; gymnas
ties, 3; hammer throwing, 1: bike
coasting, l; handbnll, l; polo, .
weight lifting, 2; lawn tennis. l
vaulting and dancing, I.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22

Hard room in Kansas City, And 1t all
oame about because he refused to be
idle.
IL found that liked billiards when
I was young man and devoted my
spare time to that game. l did not
do 1t merely as recreation, but with
the idea that l would learn the game
and the business and devote my time
to 1t in the off season and when I
quit baseball, ! always was able to
pick up the right sort of friends, con-
genial fellows who liked the game Of
billiards, and we spent pleasant and
helpful evenings ut the green table.
Billiards is a scientific pastime, re-
quiring n good eye and steady nerve.
That Is ideal recreation for ball
player
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
S. 00,0 900 Paid for
Boxing in Six Years

At the office of the boxing
commission In New York city 1t
Is estimated that ut least S5,OOO,-
600 has been paid for boxing by
the fans of this state In the six
years the Frawley law governed
the sport. This means that the
state has received approximate
~ S209,5SO.21 In taxes. Up to
November 30 Of last year the to-
tai receipts amounted to S4,5O2,-
2S0.51, and the state tax for the
five years was S2G2,251.25. The
total receipts for 1915 We're
S1OG6. 46S.25. Billy Mnthewson,
secretary for the commission,
estimates that the receipts for
this year will bring the total for
six years up to $5,OOO,OOO.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
FRISCO WINS THIRD REMNANT
Golden Gate City Annexes Champion.
ship Bunting Asain-complete
List Of Winners.

BY winning the Pacific Coast league
pennant this season, San Francisco
annexed its third championship since
that league was organized In 1908. The
complete list of coast champions is as
follows: 1908, Los Angeles; 1904, Ia
coma; 1905, Los Angeles; 1905, Port
land; 1907, Los Angeles; 1908, Los An
geles; 1909, San Francisco; 1910, Port
land; 1911, Portland; 1912, Oakland
1913, Portland; 1914, Portland; 1915,
San Francisco; 1916, Los Angeles ;
1917, San Francisco.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
MIKE MURPHY, JR., IN ARMY
Son Of Famous Track Coach and
Trainer at Pennsylvania 10 In
Ambulance Corps.

Mike Murphy, Jr., son of the late ia.
nous track coach and trainer ut Penn.
sylvania, is In an ambulance corps Of
the National army. He recently played
quarterback on aI ambulance team
against a marine team and his kicking
and generolship decided The game. The
contest WINS staged on Franklin field
at Pennsyl vania.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
WALT JOHNSON CHECKS Them
Washington Pitcher and George Dauss
Of Tigers Were Best Hurlers In
American League.

George Dauss Of the Tigers and Wal
ter Johnson were the best Of the three
hit pitchers In the American league.
Each performed the feat four times,
Dauss' victims being the Browns, Ma
tiOnals, Yankees and Red SOx. John
son did the trick against the Mack.
men, White SoX, Indians and Yankees.
Johnson also pitched two two-hit
games and once allowed one hit.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
i'm SCOTT IS CAPTAIN
IN UNCLE SANS ARMY

In the list of commissioned officers
announced Mt the officers training
camp ut the Preside, San Francisco
was the name Of james Scott Of Chi
cagO. Captain Scott was formerly
Pitcher Scott of the White Sox staff
He quit the team In midseasOn, was
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
Richie HAS HARD WALLOP
Freddie Welsh Says Californian Hit
Him Harder Than Paekey Me.
Earland-Willie Was Novice.

Although Packey Mcfarland claims
the distinction Of being the only man
70 knock Freddie Welsh Off his feet,
the latter gives Willie Richie the
credit of reaching him with more stag
gering blows than any other boxer.
Welsh ran into right uppcrcut while
fighting Mcfarland at Los Angeles,
taking him clean off his feet, but he
was up In an instant and fighting
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
Killing HELPED BY BILLIARDS
Pastime is Scientific, Requiring Good
Eye and Steady Nerve-ldeai
for Recreation.

Johnny King. when he was major
league baseball catcher, believed that
itlleness did not pay. Consequently
the former Cub today is earning more
money than he did when he was a
member Of the worlds championship
Chicago club. He Is billiard expert
and In addition owns a handsome bill.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
Automobile sign Immune.

The automobile sign ut the Polo
grounds successfully withstood all at
tacks by National and American league
players during the season just ended.
No player was fortunate enough to hit
the sign, but some came very close to
winning the car.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22

ran In the Thirty-eighth ward on three
tickets and pOlled S,19S votes. 1t was
a runaway for Davis. He got more
votes than any other candidate for
whom the citizens of that ward voted,
The Thirty.eighth is great baseball
district. In spite of that 1t ,nce turned
down Ira Thomas of the Athletics for
the council.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
HARRY DAVIS ELECTED TO
PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL

Harry Davis, captain Of the Ath.
letics and the player who was respon.
sible In large measure for Mack's
team winning three world champion
ships. has been elected to the COM
mon council of Philadelphia. Davis
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22


and Miller probably
the New Yankees
The Cap the Robin leader
this oibe linked frequently
held by Bill
He those selected by the spectators
temporarily paptang
sickly
the choice of Colonel Rupert.
With
without the dalOn prOprietorshp
n
himself
a like the that preceded him.
Brooklyn. because there he is better known.
he will remain in Brooklyn and the Robins
a job ut best.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
Rowlno for Columbia In 1918.

Coach Jim Rice intends getting up
varsity eight-oared shell crew ut Co
lumbia university next year. Prac-
tlce will begin about February 10.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
Well! welll WALL

Ted Lewis has been boxing on the
coast and has shown his patriotism by
paying three cents postage on two let
tors which he did not have to write.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22

accepted ut the California camp and
his title as National army captain is
the result. ScOtt's commission can be
attributed to the fact that he had sew
erl months Of drilling last season un-
der Sergeant Smiley, now lieutenant
In the regular army.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
Eleven Leagues Finish.

OF the II baseball leagues that
started the 1917 season only II played
out their seasons schedules.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-22
Cooper After Raise

Wilbur Cooper, the Pirates star left
handler, thinks he Is worth an increase
In salary.
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1917-04-12
FRUIT LAXATIVE
FOR SICK CHILD
"caiifornia Syrup of Figs can't.
harm tender stomach.
liver and bowels.

Every. mother realizes, after giving
her children California, Syrup of
Figs" that this is their ideal laxative,
because they love it's pleasant taste
and 1t thoroughly cleanses the tender
i.ftle stomach, liver and bowels with,
cut gripping.
When cross, irritable. feverish, or
breath is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother! If coated, give a
seaspoonful of this harmless fruit
laxative" and in few hours all this
foul, constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the bow
els, and you have a well, playful child
again. When its little system is fun
of cold, throat sore, has stomach-aehe.
diarrhoea, Indigestion. colic-rememr
Der, q good inside cleaning" should
always be the first treatment given
Millions of mothers keep California
Syrup of Figs" handy; they know a
teaspoonful today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for SO
cenA bottle of California Syrup OF
Figs" which has directions for babies,
chSldren of all ages and grovn-ups
printed on the bottle. Adv.
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1917-04-12
prominent Chinese Woman.

Princess der Ling, u brilliant Chi
nese noblewoman and lady In watt
Ing to thelhte dowager empress, is at
present on visit to the United States
devoted chiefly TO the study of Ameri'
can social and educational customs.
The princess has been pioneer in the
advancement of woman In the ancient
and tradition-bOund country Of her
birth, and Is an author. She has.wrft-
ten, In, book entitled 1.-Two Years In
the Forbidden, City" valuable impress
sions of Chinese imperial life, SO diff
ficult of access for common mortalsin
the old days. OF the empire. She was
educated nParis while her father was
Chinese minister to France, and ffas
all the culture OF the western woman,
In addition to- the dalntiness and Pic
turesqueness OF the eastern.
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1917-04-12
Continuing Ancient Custom.

The woman who appears Easter
morning in her favorite pew with a
perfect dream" of a hat and a gown
fresh from the confines of its basting
threads is simply repeating the atti-
tude of devotion assumed by her sister
of the church in the early centuries OF
Christianity. Gregory Of Nyssa, in the
last days of the fourth century, wrote
wildly of the gay and joyous crowds
that in his far bisho2ric honored the
festival of the resurrection with bright
and fresh attire, as their Oriental
minds dictated The manner of the
celebration has had more permanence
than Gregory's writing. There is to
day wider circulation of milliners
bills than of those pious books
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1917-04-12
PAYS FOR 1850
ACRES OF LAND
From the Crop Of Wheat on So
Acres in Western Canada.

This story OF paying for your land
out Of one years crop Is fully anthem
dcated by great many farmers in
Western Canada.
And now, all that the farmer makes
is velvet and you find him going more
extensively into stock raising, for all
authorities agree that In a short time
there will be a demand for live stock,
such as even will tax the vast re-
sources of Western Canada. They
will go into stock raising because OF
the adaptabillty of the country to pro-
vide food and fodder without feeding
grain If necessary. They will go into
stock and improve their places. They
will install steam and heating plants
In fact, many are now doing 1t. They
will have automobiles, In fact In many
districts there is not a farmer but has
one. They win beautify their homes
and erect fine barns until the. whole
country will be as attractive as many
of the counties in the best states in
the Union. But we started out to tell
you Of the farmer who paid for 100
acres of land from the crop Of wheat
off of SO acres. The Holden district
on the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific
does not appear to the ordinary OBJ
server to be any better than many
other districts along that line, and
probably isn't. 1t was In this district
that John Larcome, q settler, pur-
chased in 1915 100 acres Of raw prai-
RE land. He broke and seeded So
acres. His crop turned out well, and
he sold the greater portion Of 1t for
5000. His land cost him $16.50 per
acre, or $3.50. So that the crop from
the SO acres paid for the land and left
a balance of over $500, which with
part of the crop left over would just
pay for the cost of operation. This
is not really an unusual case, hundreds
Of other farmers In Alberta and Sas-
katchewan having been able to do the
same.
Sales of land n.e being reported
from many districts in Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan and Alberta at good prices.
And values are yet low, but with the
flow Of any value that will take place
after the war. no doubt they will be
considerably increased. The home
steads In the Park sections which are
to q be had actually free are having
the Alteration of good class Of set
tiers, who want to go into mixed farm
Northumberland
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1917-04-12
ON FIRST EASTER DAY
Beautiful Scrlptural Reading of the
Savior's Rise From the Tomb and
Greeting to Mary
Mapdalene.
John 2O:I-16.

John 20:1-16
THE first day Of the week cometh
Mary Magdalene early, when it
was yet dark, unto the sepul-
cher, and seeth the stone taken away
from the sepulcher.
Then she runneth, and cometh to ST.
mon Peter and to the other disciple,
whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them,
They have taken away the Lord out Of
the sepulcher, and we know not where
they have laid him.
Peter therefore went forth, and that
other disciple, and came unto the sep
ulcher.
SO they ran both together: and the
other disciple did outrun Peter, and
came first to the sepulcher.
And he stopping down. and looking
in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet
went he not in.
Then cometh Simon Peter following
him, and went into the sepulcher, and
seeth the linen clothes lie.
And the napkin that was about ms
hNut' hOI ~ "htAf thS iihSh Nto'hNh
but wrapped in a place by itself.
Then came in that other disciple
which came first to the sepulcher, and
he saw, and believed.
For as yet they knew not the Scrip
| ture, that he must rise again from the
| dead.
Then the disciples went away again
unto their own home.
| But Mary stood within at the sepul-
cher weeping: and as she wept, she
ulcher.
And seeth two angels sitting, the one
| at the head the other at the. feet,
where the body of Jesus had lain.
And they say unto her, Woman, why
weepest thou? She saith unto them, Be
cause they have taken away my Lord,
and know not where they have laid
him.
And when she had thus said, she
turned herself back, and saw Jesus
standing. and knew not that it was
Jesus.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why
weepest thou? whom seekest thoui
She, supposing him to be the gardener
saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne
him hence, tell me where thou hast laid
him. and will take him away.
Jesus saith unto her. Mary. She
turned herself, and saith unto him
Rabboni, which is to say, Master.