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New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Rudolph SaacI1e, Of Hamilton
Institute, Able Fancy Diver
Opening Indoor Water Carnival OF New York A. C..
Brings to Light Spectacular Water Marvel
Notes of the Tanks aud Of ahc Open Sea
Me LOUGHi-lN

The opening indoor water Carnival
Of the New York A. c. wee'e ago
served to bring 10 light in Rudolph
Saackc, Of Hamilton Institute, one Of
the able5t young fancy divers eYcr dc
Veloped in this district. lie won a
contest from the twclve-foot spriug-
board, aud displayed such remarkablc
form and versatility that competent
Judges who watched the event now pre-
dict for him the highest honors in the
not distant future. The lads diving
may be qualifed without esnggeYatiou
rs spectacular, for one rarely sees AZ;
much energy and vim as he puts into
the work. and this naturally results IN
great eight in taking off and dashin~
action in thc air. Further, he shows
some of the most difficult dives on the
regulation list, including the flying
dutchman with double turn, the one
aNda-half back somcrsaut and the
two -a-half forward somersault,
which arc among Tie most highly re-
garded. His timing is still a trifla
uncertain, and Ihis causes occasional
faults Of execution, but correct Ginning
is chiefly matter Of practice and eY-
be remedied with application, and It
will not be surprising to see the boy
wearing title honors before long.
The epidemic of influenza is still
clinsing to Loa Angeles and the au-
thorities have refused TO lift the bar
on public gatherings, so the Los An
geles A. c. will be Obliged to again put
of the much postponed water carnival
it counted on staging the coming week.
Duke Kahanamoku is back in Homo
lulu and viii start training without
delay, for the Hawaiian A. A. e. has
taken UP the question Of reviving its
annual midwinter gala of aquatic
sports IN February, and he wants 30 be
ready for all comers if the fixture ma
terializes, as seems likely.
The New York NomeN's Swimming
Association. whose aim it IS to teach
every member of the sex TO swim, as
vel! as to encourage water sports, has
enlarged the scope OF its activities and
opened afternoon classes OF instruction
for those who find it difficult to attend
the regular evening sessions. The in
novstion Offers an excellent opportu-
nifty to schoolgirls, particularly if they
are interested in sports, for the coach
ing IS done free of charge by The able I
contestan Of the organization, several ]
of them district and national cham
pions, and a small membership fee
covers all costs.
The handicap plunge for distance
held few days ago in the New York
A. c. pool showed that there may arise
in this style OF contest a problem for
which the a. a. U. rules offer no solu-
ton. Leo Giebel had an allowance Of
20 feet. and actually covered So feet Il
the regulation time limit Of SO seconds.
for a scoring total of 81 feet. Cyril
Carroll, the local champion. receive d
only 6-foot handicap, SO he could OBJ
viously not win on distance. for the
pool measures but IS feet. Ncyerthe-
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Former American
League Magnate
Gets Decoration

Like father, like son, doesn't fit in
the case Of First Lieutenant Robert
Lee Hedges, jY., 23d Infantry, L. s. A.
AS owher Of the st. Louis Browns, un-
ID Philip De Catesby Ball invested q
trife OF his profits from the manu-
i'acturc of artificial ice-making plants
in baseball. Colonel Bob Hedges, 81,
was much in the public prints. nor
ever ehranls from the light of lime.
SO modest IS Lieutenant Hedges,
however, that he did not let even his
pareuts know that he had been given
the CroiX de Guerre for valor by the
French government, had been cited in
orders for bravery in battle, been
twice wounded and promoted from a
second to iirst lieutenant, ali in the
space Of three months.
Wounded first in tho Champagne,
only slightly. the modest young SOL
front after a few weeks. Around
Epernay, in September, he received
five machine gun bullet wounds in one
thigh. That meant base hospital, but
he learned Of the delays entailed in
notifying next OF kin in the States, aud
refrained as long as he dared from
notifying his parents. And when he
finally cabled to aliay their worst fears
he had made sure that he would re-
cover.
Assistant Secretary Pinherton. of
the Y. NJ. G. A.. recently returned TO
his Jacksonville, ILL.,, home after five
weeks on Il cot noXt TO Lieutenant
Hedges, in hospital near Lyons,
called on the former American League
magnate q few days ago and told The
rest OF the story, dragged from the
youthful officer in the course of their
long say in the base hospital
The Y. N. c. A. man, learning from
others Of Lieutenant Hedges's decora
tion. chided him for not wearing it.
When PinNerton was leaving the hos
out his announced intention 20 visit
the lieutenant's parents and tell them
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Motor Federation Will Make
Fight OH Double Tax on Autos

ROCHESTER,, n. Y, Dec. 13.-That
there will. be an effort to double the
tax on automobiles, was indicated by
John J. MeInerney, counsel for the New
York State Motor Federation, before
the annual convention in Rochester
this afternoon. and that it is the duty
of the federation to repeat its fight
against such double tax was a state
ment received with hearty applause.
The convention opened at 2 o'clock
st the Powers Hotel, with a splendid
representation.
4. G. Batchelder. o. the American
Automobile Association, and George c.
Diehl, of the Metropolitan Consulate,
arrived from Chicago; also Highway
Commissioner Dufey,
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

the throne. In 1891 Arion knocked It
down to 2:1ON, and it was nineteen
years before a stallion of the age beat
his mark. the honor then shifting TO
Justice Brooke, 2:091s, when he won
the junior division Of the Kentucky
futurity for George Gordon Moore, ci'
New York.
Meanwhile Native Belle, which after
ward became the property of Mr..
Moore, lowered the record to 2:07a$, IN
1909. She was driven by Murphy, who
has held the honor for decade, KNOCK
inc the mark down to 2:0Al3 with Pctor
Nolo in 1918 and to o:O4A with The
Real Lady in 1916
This years contributions TO the list
are Norman Dillon, 2;o71la, bred by A.
b. Coke, of Philadelphia and driven by
Joe Serrill Brusilof, 2:0SM bred by
David NJ. Look, Of New York, and
driven By l.. L. Geers, and Princess
Etawah, 2:09 4 also bred By Mr.. Loo&
aud driven by Ben White.
One of tho good two-y -olds that
Just escaped 2:10 IS Pcriscope, owned
by John l.. Dodge, Of MiddIctovn, \. Y,
who also had out the speedy three
year-o!d Hollywood Bob, which won in
2:o4&s early in July Mr.. Dodge is
wintering at GroyyetoT'n, Ga. where his
u <'itCi, 'ANDHlt \iiHuH, iteS SHlEPSu
number Of the houhes. Hollywood Son,
a two-year-cld brother TO Hollywood
Bob, is one that viii be watched,
Harry c. Stinson, who is regarded as
the most expert Of the drivers that
have come over from Canada, Is win
tering al North Randall Cope StinsoN,
father OF Marry, was Canadu's foremost
in other days and rated as one OF the
best drivers anywhere, the boy having
seemingly absorbed it, for back in 1900
Harry won the Massachusetts with
Sadie Mac, 2.06A, which really gave
Peter The Great his start as Il sire
Sadie Mac was about tho best trotter
OF her year, and had the fatcs been
kirder-shc dropped dead on the track
st Hartfor(-shc probably would have
garncred al Of tho late harvest. Stin-
son also developed and won futuritics
with Don Chenault, 2:05%, and Ken
tueky Todd. 2:0834, showing himself
to be topnotcher with a colt "
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Ban johnson and
August Hermann
Sued t'or - 500

CINCINNATI, Dec. lt-B. r. John
son and August Hermann, as members
of the National Baseball Commission.
were sued mere to-day for 5000 by
3. P. MoultoH. president Of The Prov
dence, r. l., Baseball Club. Of the
Eastern League. Moulton claims that
this amount Was paid out Of the
worlds series money Of tho Boston
American League Club 10 Frank j.
Navin and William H. Yawkey, who
own the Providence Baseball Pari. and
lease It 10 the Providence Baseball
Club, as the final payment for Player
Walter Mayer. Moulton claims the
Providence Club sold Mayer to Boston,
and that when the Providence Club
needed money lie took over this note
and thai the moneT should have been
paid to him and not to the owners CT
the ball park
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
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De! Rev Best Trotter
Walter Cox Piioted to Victor,

One day last month. when discussing
PAGERS, Walter Cox was aal.ea fo~ The
name Of the best one he ever drove.
Turning toward a picture o. Ear, Jr.,
tilat was hanging OF the wall, he said /:
'lt looks rather rough 10 go oacls on
that ola gray felloH, out if the tru th
gaust be known It was Del Rey.
sickness put crinp in his career
before the public had AT opportunity
20 learn just how eood he was. In 1912,
before ne was taken sick, one day. after
defeating Frank Bogaan, Jr., worhe d
him an extra mile in 2:03. the last half
being in IS seconds, and he was not at
all out at that"
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
indianapolis Speedway
Race TO BE Held Ma, 3O

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 1t..-Aa-
nouncenient was made here to- day thar
the sixth 500-milc race will De s.arca
on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway or
May so, 1919. The parse viii be $50.
600, divided ten ways, the first award
being $4,000. It. A Myers. busiuess
manager Of the speedway, is authorit.
1or The announcements.
The race will be the first on .Ac IN
dianapois speedway since 1916. Fol
loving the events that year the trscs
as closed for the duration Of the var.
The last 500-nile event here was ~
1915
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Rove Visits Whitney
Horses al Lexington

CINCINNATI. Dec. 14.-James Rowe.
cl.ief trainer Of the Harry Payne Whit
ney stable, stopped here yesterday en-
route from Lexington to New York. 10
pay his Western &il, Nose Goldblatt, a
Visit.
Rove attended the sale at Lexington
Friday, and also inspected the horses
CHARTERED a. the Whitney farm near
lexington. He hopes 20 visit Latonia
next spring, as it is quite likely that
the Whitney stable will be represented
by high class string in Kentucky next
wear
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Paris ''L'Auto" Expects Big
Cycling Boom Next Year

The Paris 'tL'Auto" announces that
great winter bicycling season j. in
preparation in France. Should mill
tary matters pan out as expected. mex,
February will see the famous Bol dor
race. twenty -four-h event created
IN 1894 and interrupted since 1914.
In March plans have been made 20
Trn The six-day race TIE parasraph
vas written three days before the sign
ing of the armistice, and there seem
no room for doabt now that circrm
stances will Kermit both events beirc
brought off .
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Dean Academy May Name
Field After Eddie Grant

FRANKLIN. Mass, Dee. Il. Dean
Academy may name lis athletic field
after Captain Eddie Grant, killed
while leading his men in action in
France. Grant Field" would have
double significance
IN tie first place, Eddie was born
within q hon, skip and d jump OF Deems
athletic field. Second. Eddie attended
Dean before going to Harvard ana into
the big leagues
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Sale of Trof Horse Nets
McCarr Profit of 81. .fD0

WASHINGTON, Penn. Dec. 14-Ned
NcCarr. local trainer in charge Of the
string OF trotters and PAGERS owned
by J. D. Gallery. of Pittsburgh, cleaned
up $1,000 Yesterday when he sold The
Goasack go, 2:0914. for $4,000 to ".
j. Sprowl, of Sandusky.
McCarr bought the chestnut trostinr
son Of Dillon Axworthy, 2:1Olk at The
A: b. Coke sale November 8. for : O0U
The Cossaci is to be placed with Harr,.
Gray for training for the trottiro
stakes in the Grand Circuit next vea1.
lie defeated a large field. timed scDar
ately IN race with aged horses. In
2:O62 and 2:01la
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Billiard Date Named

CHICAGO, Dee. IL Augie Klccl,-
hcfer, Of Chicago. will play his seventh
straight match for the threc-cushiop
b;llGrd championship title, which he
holds, when he meets Pierre Maupone,
Of Milwaukee. The contest will take
place here on January 6, I ard 9, II was
announced so-day
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
English Bike Riders Hope
For Return Of Dunlop Race

LONDON. Ont, Dec. Il. London
cyclists are enthusiastic over the pros
poets OF having the annual Dunlop ROAD
r&ce staged hege next yoay. and ars
entertaining nigh hopes OF again Sc
curing The Dominion Day speed events
at Quea,s Perk
It is understood here tha. Ford
kumpt. the Waterloo cycling official,
has been angling for next years events
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
''' Frisco, Champion Trotter,
Dead From Hemorrhave

stsIIior Jii Frisco, ,2:ol%. worlds champion
t,e,,an t,t.on and harness turf's most noted
Ed r. Gled at the training stable Of
this Ieers, at Billings Park track
wav "eek OF hemorrhage. the same
worth woib as the other champion. Lee AK
nut Hail rIsso &C. was product of the Wal
dsnsanSSisco, dam Clara Cantrell. a Grand
sirss sisnSer nt of the famous brood mare
ca Nutwood. At Madison Somars
yearp; Ign sale in 1912 he was sold as y
phis ~. 10 Frank G. Jones, Of Mem
70 Oh, H. ior 1925, who presented the colt
G. A AZ laughter, Lulu Jones, now Mrs.
the I,t" ,Dtayldson, Of New York, who, with
crime i,etta G, Crabtree and Miss Kath-
only ss., ~, WINS, OF Gait, Ontario, is the
sg9tter 'A'sh owner Of champion race
The Connecticut labor press., 1918-02-16
STATE CARPENTERS PLEDGE
 LOYALTY TO. THE NATION

Pass Resolution at Convention Held Tn New Haven This Week and Consider War Time Con ditions Affecting Their Craft. - Officers Re-EIected.A Great Banquet.
The Connecticut labor press., 1918-02-16

Special to Connecticut Labor Press1 x Washington, Feb. 15.-Measures for the elimination of causes provoking unrest in industry are recommended i'll detail in the report of the Presi- dents Mediation Commission, just made public.
 The labor unrest discovered in the west is considered by the government to be most menacing to the success full prosecution of the war.
 The report adds, however, that "the overwhelming mass of the labor1ng population is in no sense dis1oyal."
 Labor unrest is due, the report de- clares, to first, the absence of a heal thy relationship between capital and labor and, secondly, to "unsound in dustrial structures"
 Wilson Heads Commission.
 William B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor, is chairman of the commits sion. The other members are: Ernest P. Marsh, John H. Walker, president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor; Werner z. Reed; Jackson L.. and counsel, and Max Lowentha1, as- sistant secretary. The commission went west primarily to look into the copper strikes in the Arizona district and the I. w. w. movement in the northwestern lumber region. Other disputes covered were in the Califor- mia oil fields, the theatened strikes of the Pacific coast telephone operators, of the packing-house workers in the middle west and the street railway trouble in Minneapolis and St. Paul
 To correct the conditions found to exist, the committee recommends the following:
 1. The elimination to the utmost practical extent of all profteering during the period of the war is pre- requisite to the best morale in in dustry.
 2. Modern, large scale industry has effectually destroyed the personal re- lation between employer and em- ployee-the knowledge and coopera- ton that comes from personal con- tact. It is, therefore, no longer pos sible to conduct industry with em- ployees as individuals. Some form of collective relationship between man. agement and men is indispensable The recognition of this principle by the government should form an ac- cepted part of the labor policy of the nation.
 3. Law, in business as elsewhere,
 
 enforcement. Instead of waiting for adjustment after grievances come to the surface, there is needed the es- tab1ishment of continuous adminis- trative machinery for the disposition of industrial issues and the avoidance of an atmosphere of contention and the waste of disturbances.
 4. The eight day is araaatab- lished policy of the country Sexperi- ence has proved justification of the principle also in war times. Provision must, of course, be made for longer hours in case of emergencies. Labor will readily. meet this requirement if it's misuse is guarded against by ap- propriate overtime payments.
 5. Unified direction of the labor administration of the United States for the period of the war should be established. At present there is an unrelated number of separate com. mittees, boards, agencies and depart ments having fragmentary and con- fiicting jurisdiction over the labor problems raised by the war. A single headed administration is needed, with full power to determine and establish
The Connecticut labor press., 1918-02-16
BRIDGEPORT TO < BE SCENE OF BIG
 LABOR SQUABBLE
Demand Of Machinists Taken Up By Employers To War
 Boards ~>..
OUTCOME DOUBTFUL
Wages Offered to Outside Men Stir Those Already Employed
 To Protest. a. z...- -zss.

Bridgeport, Feb. 15.-Just where the ordinary worker, meaning the skilled worker in this city, gets of, just
 bout now is. the sole thing puzz1ing Organized Labor men. The recent demand of the Machinists' Union, which demand was based on offers made by the employers for new men, has started another controversy here, which, from the manufacturers view point, Is going to be serious. From the workers end there is nothing to it but a get-together with the em- ! 5loyers and have everything settled at once.
 A week or so ago the machinists put up scale of 85 cents per hour as minimum rate, with $1 an hour the rate to be established on the first day of May. The 85 cent minimum was to start at the Remington factory on February IS, today. It didn't start, won't start, and probably never will sart unless the Machinists' unions here stand by their demands.
 The demand was made solely be- cause of Information based on adver- tisements published in Boston and other papers, rates higher than paid in Bridgeport were offered out-of- town men. Men who have worked nSIG TOT tuG two or three years COuIO not see and can't see yet, why they should not get as much as is offered others. Therefore, they got busy.
 Following the move by the workers, some of the different war committees were called in and took up the case. Meetings have been held, but both sides are now ''up-in-the-air" as to the outcome and the whole thing will have to be left to arbitration, pro- ably.
 The manufacturers in this city are now preparing to fight the demands. support They have also enlisted the State Council of Defense, put the sit uation up to the Fuel Administrator, and, in fact, did everything possible to protect theitr end. The outcome is, therefore, in doubt.
The Connecticut labor press., 1918-02-16
URGE COLLECTIVE ACTION.

Washington, Feb. 16.-It is no longer possible to conduct industry by dealing with employees as individ- uals. Some form of collective 'rela- tionship between management and men is indispensable. The recogni- tion of this principle by the govern ment should form an accepted part of the labor policy of the nation.
 The above is included in the recom- mendations of the presidents media ton commission in report to Presi- dent Wilson. Other recommendations is the eight-hour day and the elirnina- tioin to the utmost practical extent of all prohteering during the period of the war as a prerequisite to the best morale in industry.
 The commission makes this refer ence to the I. w. w.:
 This uncompromising attitude Opposition to trade unions) on the part of the employers has reaped for them an organization of destrictuve rather than constructive radicalism." 1"
The Connecticut labor press., 1918-02-16
BARBERS KNIT
 FOR SOLDIERS
Proposal by Past President to Drop Shears for Needle Swamps New
 Britain Meeting.

New Britain, Feb. 15-Between the snips of the shears and the scrape of the razor, every good union barber in this city will instead of stropping or honing the razor of the leader of the senate or some other devote his time to knitting sweaters and the like for soldiers. To make it uniform the local union of the Barbers, at a meeting Wednesday night, took up a proposi- ton proposed by Henry Briere and adopted it. Result. All the barbers will be knitting next week and close slaves will have to wait until the artist picks up the stitch he was in terrupted in.
 MT. Briere, who proposed the stunt, is past president of the local union and made the suggestion as patriotic move. He didn't even hope for the support he got. Everybody present believed he could wield pair of knitting needles as we'll as razor or shears and the first MT. Briere and the rest of them knew the motion had been adopted and now the bar bers are to be knitters also.
The Connecticut labor press., 1918-02-16
EFFORT TO MAKE
 WAGES MEET COST OF LIVING
Large Industrial Concerns Begin ming To Recognize Obliga-
 tions To Workers
SCHEMES IN EFFECT
Bonus Plan, on a Fluctuating Scale, Adopted by Some-Detroit Estab- Eshment Furnishes Groceries
 at Cost.

In these days of industrial abnormal ity and unrest employers are perhaps most deeply concerned with the prob lem of how to keep workers in theiE employ. Most appropriate fs the doc trine expressed by a writer In the Sur yey. whe pertinently says: sn tho wage earner is to be kept on the job, means must be taken to make the job worth while" He finds that wages are vastly important in this reckoning. For example, wages of United States Steel corporation workers have been repeatedly increased the Last two years 50 per cent, indeed, in 21 months. Bat, checking against that the tncreas- cd cost of food at wholesale, one finds an advance of 123 per cent.
 So certain industrial and commercial concerns have sought means of advanc- ing wages automatically to correspond with increases in the cost of living. One of these is cited which adopted q bonus plan whereby each employees rated at less than S2.oo0 year receives in addition to his regular pay . Thigh cost of living envelope" the contents of which nuctuate with changes in prices. Thus in January, 1917. these envelopes contained an additional 1o per cent based on regular wages and in December last the bonus was S2.76 per cant. Others have established sim liar methods. <.,-, : ..
 |. 4 large eCncern in Detroit found in 1e16 thaf te was having difnculty in keeping 1ts man. Following 8a inves- t1gadou. wages were elevated to meet the company'H estimate of the mini mum eost of living for . family sf standard aize. Thareupon prices in the stores thereabouts were elevated to absorb all this increase. That Eitu- atien was met by the conpany's start ing a grocery store of it's own and sell ing to employees at cost. In this fash ion it Is possible to make check at all times on the cost of living. The minimum living wage was found last summer to be a, 200 Der annum-
 In Syracuse plant, which has hks- wise taken means for detsrlining what 1t cost workers and their families to live and has adjusted wages to meet this cost. revision of wages Is made every three mo1ths.
 Means of giving added purchasing INewec to the workers dollar arc like Wase mentioned. Among them ts the somewhat prevalent plan in the middle West of establishing grocery storss In yndustz4al plants where employees may obtain food at cost.
 The Survey writer deems 1t an aa- eouraging sign when corporations real izs SO clearly their obligation ''ts pay a living wage that they are unwilling any longer to leave the dsterminatton of the amount to the blind law o& sap" nly and demand" The effect of the Eneweuant thus begun will out1ive the war, he thinks.