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The Washington times., 1917-02-04
Washington Clubs Line Association Fight Amateurs
CANDIDATES CALLED
Hilltop Battery Men to Be Started
, on Tomorrow Afternoon.

Georgetown is getting them out
earlier this season. Notice has been
posted on the Hilltop for the first
call for battery candidates for the
baseball team and the fingers and
backstops desiring tryouts will be
assembled tomorrow afternoon under
Coach John O'Reilly.
The Hilltoppers are on the lookout
for good pitchers and catchers this
coming season. None OF the last
years backstops will be available for
the team this year, according to re-
ports, while the pitching staff Is
about depleted by graduation.
There are plenty OF infielders and
outfielders, according to reports.
Capt. Bill Cusack, a Washington boy.
will lead the Blue and Gray on the
diamond this season. Many games
are listed with all the crack college
teams in the country.
The Washington times., 1917-02-04
GALLAUDET WINS
Kendall Greeners Take Measure Of
G. w. U. Five SO to 80.

GaIIaudet adds George Washing
ton to its list of victims today, having
tr0nced the Hatchetftes in the Ken
dali Green gymnasium by 3S to 33.
GalIaudet won out in the last five
minutes of play, when Lynch and
Boucher Gagged the ball in rapid sue
cession.
The teams seesawed throughout the
forty mintues of battling, and the
score was tied three times. GaI'eudet
and George Washington vera guilty
of many fouls. The smallness of the
court and the intent of the players
upon blocking opponents made good
basketball almost impossible.
Several times during the contest
the teams displayed fair passing abil-
ity, but the contest was mostly a
helter-skelter affair, with the Gallau-
det team doing the best of the skel-
tering. Several players were barred
for rough play and other transgres-
sIons.
The Washington times., 1917-02-04
GAMES FOR PIRATES
Cleveland Only Big League Team
Played During Training.

PITTSBURGH. Feb. 4.-President
Dreyfuss. of the Pittsburgh Pirates,
today announced his exhibition dates
for the coming training season. The
only big league club to be met is the
Cleveland Indians of the American
League at New Orleans on April I, 4,
and 8. The New Orleans team will
be played April 2 and 3.
On April 6 and : the buccaneers
will play at Birmingham, where Bur
leigh Grimes, the clever young pitch
er, formerly performed. They will
be at Nashville on April and .,
and at Evansville. Ind. on April 10.
The Pirates will open the National
League season on April IL at Gin
cinnati.
The Washington times., 1917-02-04
WANTS REGATTA
Baltimore oarsmen to Come Here
for Saturday Session.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Feb. 4-Joseph
r. Manuel, secretary OF the Southern
Rowing Association. has sent out the
call for the members to convene at
the Hotel Raleigh. Washington. S p.
m. Saturday, when the date, place,
and number of events to be rowed in
the next regatta will be determined
While each club is entitled to three
delegates, the Ariel Rowing Club and
the Arundel Boat Club will send a
larger delegation.
Considerable sentiment has devel-
oped during the past week in favor
of the local oarsmen inviting the as
ISOLATION to hold its second annual
regatta In this city. Should the or
ganization accept, the regatta date
will not be decided bntiI later, for It
will be held at Fort McHenry.
The Washington times., 1917-02-04
DARTMOUTH WITHDRAWS
Resignation in New England !. A
A. Is Accepted.

BOSTON. Feb. 4-The annual cham.
pionship meeting of the New Eng
land Intercollegiate Athletic Associa'
lion will be held at Cambridge on
the track Of Massachusetts, Institute
Of Technology May IS and 10, the
association voted last night.
The resignation OF Dartmouth Col,
lege from the association was eccept-
ed, and the application OF Boston
College for membership was refused.
The Washington times., 1917-02-04
LOCAL TEAMS LOSE
CONTESTS BY ORDER
Army and Navy Props and Gal.
Iaudet Deprived of Floor
Battles.

The Army and Navy Preparatory
School and Gallaudet College will lose
games this week owing to the order
sent from this city to the Naval
Academy barring all visitors from the
grounds.
The Props were invited to compete
in basketball with the Navy Plebes
on "Wednesday, and Gallaudet was ex
tended an invitation to meet the
Plebes next Saturday. The calling of
of the basketball game with West
Virginia University yesterday and the
dual meet with the Pittsburgh Ath.
letic Club found many disappointed
followers.
Other Teams Affected.
The Academy grounds presented q
war time appearance yesterday, with
armed guards marching around the
sea wall and all officers uniformed in
leaving the grounds. Orders prohibit.
ing all, those not in uniform or regu.
larly employed at the Academy barred
the athletic teams visiting yesterday.
The ramifications of the orders ex-
tend to future contests on the ath.
letic program at the Academy, and
include all events in swimming, fenc;
ing, wrestling. and basketball. 1t is
not unlikely that the entire program
of sports for the spring, which in.
cludes tennis, track, baseball, Ia
crosse, and rowing, will have to be
called of. -
Information withheld.
Information as to the future activi-
ties of Navy teams was withheld yes
erday. 1t is not unlikely that the
winter sports program will be can
celed, although no definite informa-
tion has been sent out as yet. The
basketball schedule is about over, but
the swimming and wrestling teams
have just begun their campaigns.
The success of the Army and Navy
Prep teams of this city attracted the
attention OF the Navy athletic au-
thorities, and a game was arranged
for Wednesday. The Props have an
enviable record here, and were ex-
pected to furnish the PIebe team
players with plenty of competition.
Gallaudet was to be offered the Satur-
uay date.
Glass Games Likely.
There was a rumor at the Academy
yesterday that the first class might
be graduated Immediately. This would
cripple the baseball team and crew.
II the orders are in vogue for some
time the middies will probably be able
to play class games only.
No intimation was given of the pos
sible effect upon the football schedule
for next fall 1t was said that an ef-
fort would be made to gain special
permission for visiting teams in the
event that the Academy was placed
on war footing during the spring.
The Washington times., 1917-02-04
Leech and CoIston Garry Five
Votes to U. S. N. L. 7. A.
Meeting.
SESSION TO BE HISTORIC
Four Local Clubs Expected to
Designate Columbia
c. c. Man.

Washington will have ive votes OF
the 255 to be cast Friday afternoon
and night IN New York at what is ex-
pected to be the most momentous
meeting in the thirty-six years his
tory of the National Lawn Tennis AS
sociation at the Waldorf-Astoria-
On that occasion the delegates will
furnishsan answer to the question Of
the day in tennis and other sports
What is an amateur?
Leech VIII Go UD.
A. 7. Leech, jF.. of the Columbia
Country Club, of this city, will prob
ably carry four of FIVE votes from
this city. Representation in the U. S.
MI. T. A. is held here by Columbia,
Chevy Chase, Dumbarton, the Bache-
. Ior's Club and the Departmental
League.
The Columbia Country Club and the
Departmental League have already
designated Leech as their spokesman
and voter in the coming meeting.
Dumbarton and the Bachelors Club
may also give Leech their proxies, al
though no definite action has been
taken by either club.
Frederick C. Cvlston, of Baltimore,
representing this district in tennis ar
fairs, is reported to have the vote or
the Chevy Chase Club as we'll as his
own organization, the Baltimore
Country Club.
AmateuriHm Discussion.
Chief among the numerous PROPOSE
tions to be presented at the meeting
is the amendment to the constitution
whereby all players engaged in the
tennis goods business would be maoe
ineligible for amateur competition. AS
this reform would bar Maurice E. Nc
I,ouEhIin, william N. Johnston, John
Strachan and Roland Roberts, in ad-
dition to many lesser lights, opposi-
tjon TO the changes has been devel-
oned along q personal line rather
than one of strict logic.
To Curb Tendency.
Only a few tennis players combat
the advisabiIity of curbing the fast
growing tendency of making finan-
cial capital of tennis fame. The
world war will not last much longer,
and when the time for resumption OF
international competition comes
America does not want to find itself
with a Davis Cup team composed OF
men who make a business OF selling
tennis goods, men who are employed
in that line not because of their abil-
ity as statesmen but because Of their
fame as players.
Seekers after strict amateurism
have no quarrel with the salesman
who attains tennis fame, but they
want to bar the tennis man who at
tains salesmanship in the parapher-
MALTA of his athletic specially.
Need TwO-Thirds Vote.
A canvass of the clubs indicate
that the new amateur rule will be
passed, but it will not be enacted
without a torrid fight. Those who
are organizing the opposition have
one powerful weapon.
They realize that as the new rule
IL in the form of an amendment to
rhe constitution it will require a two
thirds vote to put it into effect. AS
there are something like '2Jj votes it
will require about 10 votes to pass
the rule and only approximately So
to defeat the measure.
The Washington times., 1917-02-04
ROYAL TEAM SHOWS
CHAMPIONS CALDER
Establish Duckpin Records Un-
der Trying Conditions, De-
feating Roanoke.

In establishing probably the larg-
est fve-game set and the greatest
total for three consecutive games
ever registered at the present A. c.
B. A game of duckpins, the Royal
duckpin team, of the District League,
showed the combination of team
spirit, ability and ambition that makes
for championship prowess in any line
OF sport.
When the Royals encountered the
Palace team. OF Roanoke, Va, at the
Royal yesterday afternoon In the
opening block Of a ten-game inter-
city series, they totaled 1872 for the
first three games and 2,o74 for the
entire set. gaining an advantage over
their opponents OF 205 pins.
In Trying situation.
While the ability of the Royals to
roll above the ordinary under all
conditions is well known, they were
in . position yesterday that could not
be surpassed as q trying one on the
alleys. A large purse was at stake
and they were opposing a team that
was known to be worthy of their
metal.
"Shoot for every pin" was their
slogan on entering the contest and.
instead of falling below form, as is
usually the case in such instances
when bowling teams have much at
stake, they more than outdid them
selves.
Expect Hard Time.
When the Royals visit Roanoke on
February II for the concluding sec
tion Of the match they will 60 with
no intentions of resting on their
laurels and taking things easy with
the heavy margin gained here The
Roanoke team rolled as well on for
eign alleys as the Royals generally
perform on their home runways, and
1t is assumed here that the Virgin
ians will make a determined effort
for victory even under the severe
your alleys are much faster than
those we roll on in Roanoke" said
one of the visitors yesterday. "Ws
were in top form, but were unable
to make the most of 1t because OF
the newness OF the alleys"
show Stamina.
Much credit is due the Roanoke
bowlsrs for their exceptional showing.
After riding all day. on the train.
which was many hours late, they
rolled nve games against the Royals.
and then, after dinner. competed in
three games with the Casinos, at the
Casino alleys. which ended q match
begun in Roanoke. The Palace team
lost to the Casinos with all games be-
low 500.
Earl Lewis and Skinny Carroll were
the star performers for the Royals,
Lewis having q set Of go and Carroll
$40. Incidentally, Carroll broke his
annual slump" a. he terms II. The
scores:
The Washington times., 1917-02-04
Fraternity Not Needed.

Fortunately, there are still scores
of players in the big leagues who
take their work seriously and devote
the major part of their time to 1t,
and it is these players who go to
make up championship teams.
MANY OF them are stars, but
all OF them are not. Yet they get
along nicely, draw salaries OF sat
isfactory size and do not need the
aid OF the fraternity to help them
along.
There is many an athletic now vail
ing about the rights Of the players
and the abuses of power on the part
of the magnates who might well take
a leaf out OF the book OF the player
of the type l refer to-"
The Washington times., 1917-02-04
BASKETERS ACTIVE
IN MANY BATTLES
Schools and Colleges Schedule
Games After Mid-Year
Exams.

Get ready for basketball action
this week. The return battle be-
tween Georgetown and George Wash
ington and the second engagement
between Central and Technical are
booked for the courts during the next
few days.
Colleges and schools, with the mid
year examinations practically over,
will confine their attention to floor
games with a will during the week
Friends start on.
Friends Select starts off with a
game tomorrow in preparation for
the annual battle with the Baltimore
Friends to be held here Saturday.
The local Quakers appear to have the
best combination they have had in
years. ST. Adams will be met to-
morrow.
Business and Eastern are due for
a game Tuesday at the Y. NJ. c.. A.
The Stenographers are by no means
out of the running for the high
| school title being tied up with Cen
trail for the honor of holding second
place. Central entertains the Balti-
more Polys on Tuesday in the Cen
tral gym.
Technical meets the Georgetown
Freshmen tomorrow afternoon in
Ryan Gymnasium. 1t is not unlikely
that John o'Reilly will put the Hill
toppers through their PAGES at the
same time in preparation for the
G. W. U. game slated for Wednesday
night.
Visitors to Come.
Catholic University will resume its
schedule on Wednesday playing west
Virginia Wesleyan, a huskygcombinat.
tion which proved so Troublesome
last year. George Washington will
visit Ryan Gymnasium for its return
game with the Hilltoppers the same
day.
NO games are booked for Thursday.
but on Friday the CentraETechnica
battle will be staged at the Y. NC. A.
The permanent leadership OF the
league will depend on this meeting.
Iech Is out ahead and Central is but
game behind the manual trainers.
Eastern and Western furnish the sec
ond game of the scheduled double
bill.
Preps Playing Too.
me army and Navy Props recent
ly winners over st. Albans by rolling
up 102 points, will meet the Gonzaea
High School team. The Props were
invited to play the Navy PIebes We'd
nesday, but the game was called of.
Georgetown Freshmen will enter
tain the Alexandria High School flve
in Ryan gymnasium on Friday. Sat
urday Catholic University is sched-
uled to meet the Randolph-Macon
team. The visitors are members OF
the Virginia Collegiate League and
have made a creditabIe showing thus
far.
The Friends Select School team
meets the Baltimore Friends here on
Saturday in a game expected to draw
considerable attention. Coach Jun
kins has primed his lads for the Bal
timore invasion.
Other engagements On.
There are several other engage
ments due for the week Tuesday
Central holds its senior junior class
competition in swimming. On Friday
the Central swimmers are carded to
oppose the Baltimore City College
tanknen in the Central pool while the
Boys' Y. NJ. c. A. has a wrestling en-
gsEement.
business is slated to meet the Y.
VI. &. \. youngsters in basketball &C
cnrding to the "Y" schedule The Y.
~ &. A. boys have had a highly sue
"essful season on the floor and can be
Cd 70 rrfN Ilta
The Washington times., 1917-02-04
MAXWELL WINS.

PINBHURST. n. G. Feb. 4.-Nor-
man II. Maxwell Of Philadelphia won
decisive victory over +. G. Beall
Uniontown, in the finals of the St
Valentines tournament here yester-
day. Maxwell won by 5 to I.
The Washington times., 1917-02-04
CLUB WILL MEET,

A meeting OF the Princeton Tennis
Club has been called for tomorrow
night at $40 Rock Creek Church road.
Plans for the season will be discussed
and officers elected for the year.
The Washington times., 1917-02-04
FRATERNITY'S AID
IS NOT NECESSARY
So Says Star Player of Expert
ence, Who Explains His
Own Argument.

"If the players would devote more
the affairs of the fraternity they
wouldn't have to do much worrying
about their contracts. A fellow that
plays the game hard all the time he
is on the field and gives some thought
to it when he is on the field is q valu-
able man to his club. and will get all
the money he Is worth"
This, strange as It may seem, is not
the utterance OF a despotic magnate,
but of a player who ranks with the
best in his profession. As he has
been in the major league for rine
years he knows whereof he speaks,
writes Frank Graham, in the New
York Evening Sun.
Something for NethIns.
Whether the grumbling players be-
licve, it or not the whole thing hinges
on the fact that a person never gets
anything worth while 70. nothing" he
continued.
IF / were walking down the street
ana a man whom had never seen be-
fore offered. to give me an automobile
what would I de? Well. the first thing
I'd do would be to loon and see IL il had
four wheels on II. and the next thing
Id do would be to raise the hood and
sec IL it had an enEi.lo in Il. On the
same principle player should not ex-
r-Ct a fat salary unless his work en-
titles him to it.
Il have been on three major league
teams since l broke into baseball, and
the magnates for whom a wo ked have
nll been satisfied with my playing.
When signed ths contract under which
I am now playing ! namsl my own
figures, and got them. and there II no
reason why / shouldn't get even more
when this contract expires. Why nave
been 80 well treated
Always Does His Best.
Because I have always done my
best, on and of the field. On the
feld 1 always play the best ball OF
which I am capable, and have made
study OF practically every batter
In the league, SO that 1 know where
to play for him when he steps to the
plate. ! know what kind OF q ball
ut N0AA hAN as a lhlt. anu "ncIt lo
will hit il, and I study the box scores
every day to keep in touch with what
the players on the rival clubs are
doing
'I do this because I fnd have to
in order to get t." -'nst out ~'Y
work and to do justice to my en-
ployer, who Is paying me a very good
salary.
The trouble with a great many
players today is that they think less
about baseball itself and more about
the enJoyments to be derived while
haunting about the coupr-~ f. Hrst-
class style. As soon as the game Is
over and they leave the park the
players OF this type dismiss baseball
from their minds and seldom speak
of it again until game time the next
day.
'Tf a player who really has his
heart in his work brings up a certain
play or player and wishes to discuss
the matter with his teammates he is
called a bag puncher' by these fel-
lows.
Fraternity Not Needed.
The Washington times., 1917-02-04

Wise magnates will post war bull
letins beside the scores next sum-
mer.
The Washington times., 1917-02-04

II the fraternity joins the White
Rats, Nick Altrock and Carl Sawyer
will be among friends.
The Washington times., 1917-02-04

Pittsburgh writer discusses the
poetry of motion in batsmen." Now
who'll discuss the poetry OF motion
in strikers?"
The Washington times., 1917-02-04

II Jack Enright can't resign from
the fraternity, he'll be in a terrible
fxe, won't he.
The Washington times., 1917-02-04

1t is said that cotton gloves aid
golfers playing in the rain down in
Dixie. Wouldn't rubber boots be bet
ter:
The Washington times., 1917-02-04

Mike Martin, mayor OF Cherrydale,
Va, has to learn but one more verse
OF his song for the smoker at Clar-
endon tomorrow.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-20
STORE
is TO BE REMODELED

Epidemic of remodeling has struck
Fort street and there is hardly store
now between King and Hotee which
has not in view some kind Of change
or has already finished the work.
Wickman remodeled its store the
end Of last year, Ehlers Is now in the
throes OF reconstruction. the Hollister
Drug Company building Is to have an.
other floor added and now Whitney &
Marsh announces that it is having
plans drawn for additions to its
store.
According to the plans outlined by
Maurice Brasch, manager of Whitney
& Marsh, the second floor Is to be ex-
tended back to the rear wall Of Henry
May & Company's annex, which will
enlarge that floor 35 feet to the rear
and % feet wide. The entire interior
Is to be remodeled, new show cases in.
stalled and an artistic front built.
Ripley & Davis are the architects.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-20

A further statement on the reduc-
ton in estimates on the profits Of the
Cuban sugar crop has been made by
the Republic of Cuba news bureau OF
New York. As already published in
the Star Bulletin, the bureau an
nounced that the 1917 crop would net
the producers only about 50 instead
of 50 per sack. An explanation Of
the mistake is made as follows:
When the statement, of the. esti-
mate OF the profits to the Cuban PRO.
Queer was first made it was confused
somewhat with the amount Of money
returned to the island and with what
II contributed to the economic and In
dustrial life Of Cuba, but it was not
intended to indicate the amount that
would accrue to the owners Of the
sugar estates through the net opers-
tions of the sugar centrals alone. n
clearing up this Misrepresentation ii is
important to state that at the PRES
emit cost of sugar and the market rate,
the average profit will approximate So
a bag or a cent . pound. Some of
the island estates organized with a
view to special efficiency, will ex-
coed this profit while others with de-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-20
EXPLANATION MADEOF BIGCFTN
ESTIMATE OF CUBA SUGAR PROFITS

cidedly lowel rofits will leave the
average as & ed.
"The fact the highest importance.
therefore, that the rumors of ex:
cessive pSsfits, which have become
generally .redited, are not in fact
correct, IA that in faithful estimate
Of the az aal average profits, not only
typicaH efficient sugar producers
should De considered, but the industry
in Cupa as a whole.
nile raw sugar to-day commands
an Exceptionally high price in the
wo ID market, the factors that have
eT cred into its production in Cuba
tiis year are such as to discount all
sarlier estimates Of abnormal profits.
The facts, being as here stated, are
cited at this time IN order that the
public, which in the end pays for the
sugar produced, may realize the cor.
rect status of the matter and that
Cuba, in leVying it's war tax on sugar,
may be understood as exerting the
maximum effort to raise war revenues
at a time when the sugar producers
there, through variety Of causes, are
bound to realize only the minimum
of the various estimated profits"