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The Washington times., 1918-02-27
HANS LOBERT BEGINS
COACHING ARMY TEAM

WEST POINT, y. Y, Feb. a7.-Hans
Lobert. formerly OF the Giants, took
up his duties here today as baseball
coach Of the Army team. In answer
to a call for candidates issued by
Captain Oliphant, nearly 200 men
turned out for practice.
The Washington times., 1918-02-27
TILPs PLAYS GUY.

Richard Tips, District pocketbilIinrd
itlehulder. Will play carl Guy for the
-itle In a block Of SI5,lD points TO be
played nightly. Tilps refused to meet
George Wheatlev. II is said. maintain
ing that wheatlcy was not a resident
Of the .Dlstricl.
The Washington times., 1918-02-27
SPORTS
CUT
SHORT

the Nebraska farmer boy wrestler, ar
rived here today to finish training for
his match with wIadek ZbysZko at
Madison Square Garden Friday. night.
The winner will be matched with Earl
Caddock By local promoters II the sol
dier champion can get furlough.
ST. LOUIS. Feb. 2T.-Jimmy Burke.
last year coach for the Detroit Tigers,
has been signed TO act in the same ca
pacity with the Browns this season.
BALTIMORE. Feb. 27.-Steve Fless-
uer vs. Joe Tuber and Eddie Morgan
VS.. Danny Frush. in two twelve-round
bouts. offer tonights big attraction OF
the Pickwick Club at Albaugh's Thea
ter. A large number of Washington
fight fans will be at the ringside.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 2T.-The Indians
have purchased from the Newark In
ternationals Roy Wilkinson, a right
hand twirler. and Gus Getz, veteran
third baseman. formerly with Boston
and Brooklyn.
Harry Harper, tia Gritfmen'S big
southpaw, is coming to Washington
today on his honeymoon. He was
married yesterday at Hackensack, N.
J., to Miss Bessie Breuster. daughter
Of former Sheriff and Mrs. George II.
Breuster.
CHICAGO. Feb. 2T.-The National
Clay Court Tennis championship con-
tests will be staged July 10. IL was
officially stated today. The woman
championships will be staged at the
Philadelphia Cricket Club June 10, the
national doubles championship at
LongwOod. August IL, and the ma
tional championship singles at the Ma
tional Tennis Club, New York, Au-
gust &c.
The Washington times., 1918-02-27


This very condition argues much
for a defeat Of Jess Willard, II the
champion accepts the challenges of
either Fulton or Dempsey. willard
has loafed at his ease practically
ever since winning the title at Ha-
vana- Once he got into shape for
ten-round no-decisiOn bout with
Moran. That's all he has done since
winning from Jack johnson. 1t
seems quite safe for a prophet TO say
here and now that Willard will be
defeated by his opponent the first
time he enters a ring for at least
twenty rounds. TO a decision, no mat
ter whether il il Fulton or Demsey
who gets the chance to tackle him.
Fulton I3eServes Chance.
Fred Fulton deserves his chance to
meet Jess willard He deserves
this without even considering the
status of Dempsey. 7Ood as the latter
seems to be. But willard may be
counted upon 10 duck and dodge be-
hind Dempsey'H claims to ring honors,
hoping thus to staye OF the newt
able q bit longer.
Fulton has wiped out every other
heavyweight contender, with the sin
gle exception Of Dempsey. He has
defeated decisiyely men who made
good with Willard-CarI Morris. for
Instance. He stopped Sam Langford,
q task no other heavyweight has ever
done, though Harry wills came close
to succeeding at Los Angeles a couple
OF years ago.
The willard Moran bout in New
York was a walk around for a couple
of old women, not a real fight. 1t
sickened that old warrior, John !.
Sullivan, sitting at the ringside.
Topping his man half foot and out
reaching him and outweighing him,
Willard showed no life in his move
ments. and, though winning on points,
he proved a sad disappointment.
Another jim COFbett.
As to Jack Dempsey, he IS being &C
claimed another Jim Corbett" He
weighs 1ss pounds. stands slightly
more than six feet In height, and is a
clever boxer with a heavy punch
from any angle. This was character
istic of Corbett at his best Dempsey
IS a straight hitter, a good asset for
any ng performer.
As TO whether or not Dempsey
Eould be given a chance at Fulton.
the winner to meet Willard. there is
room for discussion. Fulton can not
be blamed for the rise Of Dempsey
within six months. He has been
bounding Willard for more than a
year. He has made good and de-
serves his bout with Willard, ire
Epecti1e OF Dempsey's claims.
But Il Is Fultons tough luck to
have. Dempsey come forward just al /
tlis time. Had Bill Brennan knocked .
out the Coast wonder, Fulton would
have stood alone as a contender for
the worlds title Now Willard will T.
probably back and MI and make the /.
Niinnesotsn face Dempsey first. Yep, +,
fulton sure is a tough-lucll guy. no I
mistake about that.
The Washington times., 1918-02-27

Jack Dempsey Interferes With
Fulton's Dreams of the Title
The Washington times., 1918-02-27

Athlete Advisers To Change
Baseball Series Dates Today
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

there had been destroyed in the neighbor
hood of 20,OOo,0O0 Slavs, men and women,
in Central Europe and in Russia. (See ia
Scribe" for August 10, 1879
At first glance this figure seems too large,
but it is only too conservative when one
realizes that the Russian armies lost around
100000 in dead, while in the interior of
Russia famine and disease have already car
ried off millions of men, women and chill
dren, without counting those who will die
this winter, which will certainly be terrible
everywhere.
In view of this situation, supposing Ger
many is fed by America, this will be to
condemn to death as many of the people
of the Allies saved in Germany. The
consequence would be that after the end
of hostilities America would, without in
tending it, continue the work of destruc-
tion of Slavsm for the profit of Germanism
that Germany pursued during the war.
These facts prove the intuitive justice
of American opinion, which, when the cues
ton was put, declared that the Allies of
Central Europe and the Russians must be
saved before the Germans
And If the Germans, because they lacked
in humanity, must now submit to famine
this will only reestabish in small meas
ure the ethnographical equilibrium that the
Germans sought to modify in their favor in
Central Europe by their implacable conduct
of the war
Finally, these various arguments and de-
ductions arrive at two conclusions:
First.-All generosity" can be accorded
to the Germans only at the expense of the
Allies and by increasing their suffering.
Second.-To feed the Germans is practi-
cally to condemn to death the Slavs and
Latins of Central Europe, faithful allies
of the Entente.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Drisoners Cheered
u the Lusitania News

10 this they made no response. There
was no response to be made. But, as I be-
lleve in God, sir, our backs were no sooner
turned than they broke forth in cheers. I
turned cold in my tracks Then thew BEGAN
to sing Die Wacht am Rhein,' sDeutsch1and
uber Allies, and-well, they kept the cele-
Dration up all night. There could not have
been wilder celebration in Berlin.
well, sir, We were awake at last. The
next morning we went to the authorities
ana said Take these creatures off our
hands. We thought they were men. we
thought that because they had been our
shlpmates and our members they were our
brothers and men, but we were mistaken.
Do as you will with them, but take them
away So we were rid Of their care and
company.
All this time we were of the opinion
that by treating these German sailors as
men and brothers we would be assuring
our own poor fellows decent treatment
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Roy Scouts
~ the Only Guards

We refused to allow the authorities to
put any guards about the place, and the
nearest approach to guards were some little
Boy Scouts, there more as their messengers
than anything else.
"This went on Cor months. During that
time Havelock Wilson, the leader of the
British sailors, and myself, his associate.
did all we could for these fellows. In con-
sequence, Wilson and l were denounced bv
patriotic newspapers and patriotic people as
pro-German. Laughable now, isn't it? I
was on Lord Kitchener's recruiting COM
mittee, and wherever went to speak I was
challenged as pro-German.
"'Here,' some one in the crowd would
call, you are protecting a lot of bloody
Germans and now you come here and ask
US to enlist and fight Germans. What kind
of Britisher are you, you bloody pro-
German!'
II would reply that these men were our
brothers and not responsible for the war,
and as such entitled to the protection not
only of the ! zen of the merchant marine
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

1914, or with the astonishing verve and
fnesse which, time and again, he has dis
played when standing up against his op-
ponents in Parliament during the two years
of his dictatorship. 1t. Is not given to the
head of coalition to 60 out and raise the
whirlwind. He must play for safety; and
to play for safety is, of course, the very
hardest thing for a fighting leader like Mr..
George to do.
Nevertheless the election was his battle.
1t could only be fought around him. !Iow
ever various and confused the cross-cur-
rents, the question to be decided was
whether or not the majority of the British
wanted Lloyd George to be in command
,of the empire during the peace conference
and at the head of the government which
will take the first steps toward the re-
building of England. His test did not come
during the campaign: 1t will come, assum-
ing his success at the polls, so soon as
he sets to work upon the very tckish job
of finding the common measure between
his own bold schemes of domestic policy
and the ideas prejudices of the dom-
mating conservatives and imperialsts with
whom, presumably, he will still be asso-
ciated at the opening of the new Parlia-
ment-Bonar Law and Austen Chamberlain,
Lord Curzon, Lord Miner and the brothers
Geddes.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
T lloyd George
~ as Canpaigner

AS head Of a coalition, or national,
government, Mr.. George, of course, does
not have anything like full opportunity
for the display of his wonderful gifts
as campaigner. 1t seems unlikely that
there can ever come to him again an oppor-
tunity such as befell at two earlier stages
of his career, in the fight against Cham
berlain over the Boer war and the fight
against the landlords over is famous first
budget His part in the present election
was the part of strategist He did not
need to take the field against Mr.. Asquith.
though he could not try to hide his hos
tility to Arthur Henderson. 1t was not
conceivable that he would come out against
Lord Northclitfe, for Lord Northcliffe is
not political leader Hence England
could not hear any resounding speeches
from Mr.. George. He could not speak as
he spoke in the political battles before
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Justice to the Hun, Not Sentimentality!

director of Krupps, is thoroughly acquant-
ed with the Germans, since he is one and
has employed them by thousands. DR..
Muehlon, since he took refuge in Switzer-
land, has many times declared that the
German people will never really change un-
til they have been forced to expiate their
crimes. There are, moreover, many rea-
sons, easily understood, why generosity will
NOT have the same effect on the German
people it would have on other peoples.
The German of all times, and more par
ticularly the German who has been Prus-
sanized by the Hohenzollerns, respects
force only, and his cult is that the German
will only admit himself defeated when
force compels him to.
This is why the concession of an armis-
tice to the Germans before their complete
defeat on the field Of battle gives the op-
portunity to many Boches to argue that
they have not been miltarily defeated. 1t
is because of their belief in force only that
any concession made voluntarily to the
Germans would be at once interpreted by
them a confession of weakness.
Far from being softened or disarmed by
that concession the Germans would try at
the earliest possible moment to take ad-
vantage of those who had made the con-
cession. This is fact that has been proved
many times during the war by the extraor-
dinary difference in character between the
German prisoners and those of other ma
tionalities.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
trace, and we know full well how thorough
~ those orders were carried out.
Mead Sailor Had
- lhirty-six Wounds

sometimes we got a trace of the story.
fefhaps you have heard of the SOPHIE and
the Homewood. These were cargo boats
which lett Cardiff on the same tide. Thew
had elghty-slx in their crews, all of them
our members, or members of the officers
ana engineers guilds. Right here, while T
am on 1t let me say that the men on the
prldge and on the lower deck, the men in
the engine rooms and the black SQUADS. are
as one IN this thing. When l speak of
seamen's boycott, I include them all To
get back, after five weeks, one of the Home
woods boats was sighted 1t was battered
by shell fire and riddled by machine gun
In the bottom of it was the hodv of ono
poor fellow. There were thirty-six bullets
in him.
1T may be true that dead men tell no
tales This one did. There were many such
cases this.
Again on one occasion when one of our
boats was held up by torpedo a fellow on
the sub called out asking if Fred Kelly was
aboard. He was and said so.
What do you want of me?' he asked.
Nothing, said the fellow, only I was
shlpmate with you on that boat for three
years. I'm So-and-So. I'm now the pilot of
this boat
'Ihelr knowledge of our harbors and our
ships was being used against US.
About this time we decided on the bow
cott. Two years was the term we fixed. and
we gave solemn warning that for every ad
dltlonal outrage we would add n month
Seven years is the total now-the price we
demand shall be paid for the 1900 Of our
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
A rthur
"A Henderson

Nothing in English politics Of the
period has been more interesting or reveal
ing than the changed position of Arthur
Henderson. He is a shrewd and capable
politician, but in no sense a great leader.
His speaking isS not remarkable. He has
none of the qualities which, for example,
give varied distinction to such men among
his own colleagues in the Labor party as
Ramsay Macdonald, Philip Snowden, Rob-
ert Smille of the Scottish miners, and J. H.
Thomas, of the railwaymep. Henderson is
strong and sound and thoroughly balanced.
In his controversy with Lloyd George last
year he gained Immensely through his
straint and good temper and his reluctance
in pressing an advantage in the Prime
Minister'S predicament. He is a member
and lay preacher of the Wesleyan Meth
odist Church, and, like many other men of
mark in the English labor world, gained his
first training in the mechanism of public
life through the experience provided by
the Non Conformist churches. He comes of
Northern English stock was a workman and
is a trade unionist and-unlike some of his
coadjutors-by birth and upbringing mem
ber of the artisan class. We do not think
an original leader Of his party. He belongs
to the good useful, capable average and to
the men of unblemished personal record.
His work during the last few years has re-
vealed him as the possessor Of unexpected
political talents, and by general consent he
deserves his place as leader of the majority
Labor party-the party which remained
throughout in steady support of the ma
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

members we know the Germans murdered
In this number are not included many
many more that we long since posted as
dead and paid death benefits for to their
families
I'VE have got to do justice to the dead.
But we also have to DO justice by the living
and to those yet to live. We must and
Will protect these against traps we fell into.
we know now that the German sailor,
coming to English ports and sailing in Eng
llsh ships, often came as q subsidized man
and caused our wages to rule at three
pounds the month. They were willing to
work for that. We had to. We did not
know then, as we know now, that when they
came they were on a reserve list many OF
them, and in receipt of another three
pounds OF German money. Never again VIII
they work that trick on us. Never again
will they force our wages down.
Never again will we carry them as
stewards. We have the proofs now that IN
the old days when we innocently thought
the German as honest as ourselves tna'
never diplomat sailed on ships where they
were employed as stewards that his luggage
was not rified and his papers examined
Inc same thing happened to your meF
chants and ours. your commercial travellers
and those we sent abroad 1t won't be 50
IN the days to come
The sea is hard life, yet those who
follow it love it. 1t is clean life and .
free life. 1t is life for men and not t0T
dogs, and SO far as lays in the British sea-
mems power, it will not be polluted O'
Germans.
~The boycott is not Of our choosinSl
Would to God we never had to considerj
much less apply it. But it was forced on u
when, against our wills, we were forced y
realize that, come what may, so what mssl
a Hun is only Hun
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

wounded German, far from recognizing the
feeling of pity Of which he is the object
from the Frenchman, has seized the oppor-
tunity to shoot him. 1 do not believe there
is single instance in which Frenchman
has acted so toward German giving him
help. There is here a tremendous differ
ence of character between two people who
are, nevertheless, neighbors geographically
The incident 1 have described has oc-
Cured so many times that it proves the
ferocious character of the Germans and the
danger of being generous to them 1t fol-
lows that when one understands the Ger
man psychology cannot reasonably
argue that to be generous to the Germans
is one of the ways to prevent a renewal of
the war. Those, unfortunately too few,
who really know the Germans we'll, are
persuaded that the only way to obtain this
result is to make it impossible for them to
renew the war by taking from them the
means to begin again their aggressions.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Mo Great
i y Conservative

A singular feature of the war period
has been that England has had no outstand-
ing conservative leader. The Boer war
twenty years ago found the Tories depend
ent upon the radical Joseph Chamberlain,
as the great war found them dependent
upon the radical Lloyd George. Yet has It
not generally been asserted that war brings
out the powerful reactionary? Before 1914
Mr. Balfour, past seventy, had retired
from the leadership of his party. Bonar
Law, whose political character has come
we'll out of the test of war time, has
standing as leader Of the multitude. 1t
is no disparagement of him to say that
he possesses none of the gifts of Glad
stone, Chamberlain, Lloyd George. The
one politician of the old Conservative fam
lilies who has done conspicuously we'll in
the four years is Lord Robert Cecil, and
he has just left the government because
he will not accept as a legislative fact,
the separation from the state Of the Church
of England in Wales. A Cecil would as
readily vote for church disestablishment
as would a Curzon or q Lansdowne for
coniscation of the land. Lord Curzon is
an eminent representative of the old con-
servatism, as Lord Miner is of the new.
But neither could conceivably fill position
of leadership in the England now arising;
in the Lloyd George government, and both,
being trained administrators of the Oxford
bureaucratic school, have done a great deal
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

but of every man in England who believed
in fair play.
"That was the way things lasted until
the day the Lusitania was sunk. We had
planned a big concert for that night for
the entertainment of the Germans, and
Wilson and I were down to see that every
thing was in order, and plenty of refresh
ments on hand, when the news came A
concert then was out of the question, and
calling the Germans together, we announced
Its postponement.
We've just got word Mr.. Wilson said.
that the Lusitania has been sunk and five
hundred of our brothers, murdered have
gone down with her. We can have no CON-
cert now'
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
THE Old
Il Man

The American public in general is in
clined uhduly to- minimize the influence
of Mr.. AsQuith. Until the fall of the first
coalition government his position was
strong, and in Scotland and the north of
England he still commands a great fol-
lowing His faculty of weighty public
speech will always stand him in good stead
He is powerful in attack. But he is ap-
preaching his SEVENTEEN year, and his
mind has ceased to move. In the House of
Commons he remains great figure. No
alternative leader of the Liberal party has
so far appeared. A large number of peo-
pie would heartily approve of his going to
the Peace Conference. 1t is by no means
impossible that he may be Prime Minister
again. And yet it cannot be denied that
in the epoch now opening a statesman of
Mr. Asquiths character and mental habit
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
. enerosity to Germans
~ Would Penalize Victims

Moreover, will the spirit of justice per-
nit the Allies to be practically generous to
the Germans? The response to this ques-
tion is easy, if one remembers the ind1s-
putable fact that the Germans have stolen
so much and done such immense material
damage to the Allies, the Belgians and the
French especially, that everything the
Germans own should be taken, in strict JUS
tice, as the gauge of reparation to their vic
tins. One can be certain that even this
would not be enough, for the damage
wrought by the Germans is so great that
one cannot be sure in advance that it can
ever be repaired
1t results from the foregoing that all
generosity-that is to say, all property
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

We were particularly anxious about the
men they took off our trawlers in Hamburg.
not after the war was declared in Aup,1st
but IN July. We believed that word would
get back to Germany of the treatment ac-
corded German sailors, and we foolish1v
thought this would mean something 70 our
men.
Ut did not. We soon learned that our
men were being treated worse than anv
white man would treat dog all this time
the Germans in our midst were living like
iords. Not only were they thrown into dun
geons, but they were fogged--many of them
men We'll past their prime-paraded through
the streets for the women to spit on and
hooHgans assault They were fed on
worse than refuse one throws to the hogs
the full story of their treatment can
never be told in a newspaper
"All this we learned when, after we had
got rid of these pests, some of the older of
our men were returned
But even then we were not bitter. We
had no thought of boycotts, no idea but
that in the happy days to come when the
war would be over we would not again
sail with Germans in our crews. This was
because we did not even then realize the
depth of depravity possible in human minds.
We began to plumb it when reports Of
u-boat outrages began to come in. All the
world knows how the crew of the Belgian
Prince were lined up on the deck Of
u-boat and left to drown when she suh.
merged. 1t does not know all the horrible
stories of men shelled in open boats, of
men and women and children, too, for that
matter, cast adrift without food, or oars or
water. 1t does not know of the thousands
OF our men leaving port who were never
heard Of
we ourselves do not know Or all. We
know of the orders sink and 1leave no