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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-11
RIxEY IN THE SERVICE
Phillies' Pitcher Given Commission
in Gas-Defense Section

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1o.--Eppa Rixey.
left-handed pitcher Of the Phillies. who
lives at Charlottesville, Va. has been
commissioned a first lieutenant In the
sanitary corps Of the National Army.
He probably. win be assigned 70 the gas
defense section
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-11
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF MACK \
NOW COMPLETE, AND WRECkAGE
IS STREWN ALL OVER COUNTRY
Sale of Stuffy McInnis Is Finishing Touch to
Mr. McGillicuddy's Masterpiece and Now
the Fans Are Prepared for Anything
Nv ROBERT w. MAXWELL

IT'S A shame to drag In high pro"
i stuff on an occasion like this. but the
events of the last month REMIND u9 V.
that clever little skit entitled the ran
of the House of Usher" by Edgar Al,an
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-11

heated
a
while
than winning
will continue fight until the
tended
possibilities
In
will
will
e sprng o
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CRITICS PREDICT
SALE OF THE AS
Passing Of Stars Means
That Mack Will Dispose
of Club, They Say
YANKEES WERE IGNORED

Connie Mack's latest deal has not
been received with favor by the baseDali
scribes. They arc out with their nam
mers and the knocking will he good Tor
some time to come, just why tonnle
has favored Boston BY selling that CLUB
the majority of his stars Is mystery
especially when Il Is considered that the
New York Yankees are in bad shape and
need bostering The Gotham scribes
have not had their. say as yet, but pan
iel in the New York sun hands out the
following:
Predicts Sale Of Club
"Connc Mack has done the expected
and traded or sold Stuffy Mclnnis to the
Red Sox. Mack has now cleared the
Athletics of all the world champion
crew and presently may look around for
customers for Ping BOdic, 1tube Schauer
and old Billy Penn. of the motley crew
which Mack had left when the l9lf
season closed he has sold the four real
players Schang. McInniS, Bush ana
Strunk-and fourteen others have gone
into service The residue cannot be dig
nited even by the term motley. for that
implies a patchwork with some color
to il.
MACK no doubt was forced TO get rid
of his four remaining stars by the threat
no cogni2ancc Of the owners. Whatever
! little patronage the Athletics had last
summer Is bound to dwindle to propor-
tions even smaller than the meager sup
port of 1916. After what Mack has done
| to Philadelphia he can expect no sup
| port. only II change of ownership,
which is bound to come with the return
of peace, can rchabilitato Philadelphia
| in the American League
Everything Is Gone
In philadelphia only two writer's
stated their views on the transaction.
Gone is the Athletic team; gone is the
| carburetor of the PhilicS and nothing
is left for the Philadelphia fan but
dreams" means Jimmy Isaminger. q.
Owner Frazee," writes Jimmy Gantz
| asserts that he will not change tn,
name of his Red Sox to the Mackm.n
Whether the selling and trading activi
ties of the Athletics will ends with til,
passing Of Mclnnis remains to be seen
True. there remains very little in the
form Of baseball flesh which possibly
could he traded or sold, but there is nC
absolute assurance that the club vii
not change hands"
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10 Jacksonville--where the weather IA
warm and he can rehearse for the roast-
ing which will be handed him on his
return.
May Swap Ball Park
or perhaps he is trying TO swap
Shibc Park for an orange grove or
something, because an orange grove will
be more profitable than the ball yard
fer some seasons to come.
There was much mystery connected
with the sale of McInnis. More than a :
week ago Jimmy lsamlnger came out
with n yarn that the first-sacker had
been sold to the Red Sox. This was
strcnlously denied by Connie, who
stated that Stuffy still was the prop
ertv of the Athletics, and no effort had
been made to dispose of him.
Connie said, however. that he was
forced to cut his salary, but had writ
ten him that he would share the profits ,
of the club with him IL he signed Nc
Innis was to have received 10 per cent
cut of the surplus. Mack stated that
Stuffy had not replied to his letter, and
until the reply was received he did not
know how he stood in the matter.
Rumors Slip in
But the rumors persisted i'm slipping
7
! Yesterday when 1t was said on high
authority" that the deal was consum-
| mated at the meeting in Chicago last
/ December and FraZee's bankroll had
| been severely nicked in the transaction.
BY this time Connie was on the high
seas or on n train, where he could not
be reached.
1t is said that McInnis was traded for
a flock of players to be selected soon
after Mack's return from the South.
This sounds good, but it's a cinch that
| Boston will not stand for any raid on
its expensive cast.
The chances are that Connie will be
allowed to make his selections from
gang of bench warmers, men who prob
ably will not be needed by the Red Sox.
Then the golden salve will be applied and
Connie will recover with a smile on his
face.
Anyway, Who Cares?
Now comes the great question. What
kind of n team has Connie for the 1918
season. Who has he besides Bodie.
Jamison, Joe Dugan, Meyer and Meyers? ?
True, he shared Thomas, Gregg and
Kopp in an early deal. but these men
have not yet signed their contracts, and
they probably will be reluctant to play
for a reduced salary. You know. the
Red Sox pay well for the services OF
their players.
Who will be in the lineup? Waht will
happen to the team? Where Will the
AS finish In the race? And last, but
!. not least, who cares where they finish ?
We started this story by dragging In
Edgar Allan Poe. and now to finish II
we will refer to Jules Verne. Mr.. Verne
, once wrote a yarn entitled 10000
, Leagues Under the Sea" Mr.. Mack will
, go Mr.. Verne one better before the 1918
season is over. He will be the author
of a thrilling adventure entitled 100000
Leagues Under the League"
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Frances Chief Course

La Boulie, pres de Versailles. as its
stationery says, is reached by automo-
bile, in a beautiful ride in sight of the
Seine. through the Bois. out of the gates
of Paris then along the old-fashioned
streets of Versailles, out into the country
to the hilly, woodencircled course. 1t
was in one of the old-fashioned streets
that ] once dropped an unruly putter
with the prayer that it might serve n
new master better than the old one. |
went out to La Boule once On a Satur-
day afternoon and found the Paris busi-
ness men going oSt to the club much as
men do in the States and Canada. The
road from Versailles runs out swingingly
into the country and there was no cause
for establishment if turning into 1t one
came upon little company of soldiers
They were everywhere, those red-trous-
cred warriors, polite and wholly with
out the military insolence of which
travellers in Germany complained. There
is. of course. universal service in France,
and these young boys, Sc unobtrusiNe In
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A Complete Wreck

The House of Mack was wrecked
worse than a Belgian village, and there
was nothing left for the IMAGINATION
The remnants were strewn all over the
country and the disaster was beyond
compare.
Once upon time the Mack House
was looked upon with envy by the chtirc
world Of sport. 1t was one OF the most
strongly constructed affairs ever seen'
and the only way to show 1t i'll IT'S true
light was to place it on n diamond once
n day during the spring, summer ana
part of the fall, so the admiring popu-
lace could see il in action
Those were the days when the IN
vaders were squelched before they
started, and the Macks were inonarchs
of all they surveyed Fame. honor ana
glory came to Philadelphia and the
ioLesmiths who drew down real money
for knocking the town were put out OF
business
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everything except the color OF their
trousers, were out training.
The seventeenth green and the eight
zenith tee can be seen before the club
house at La Boulie. The clubhouse is
attractive and comfortable, but not at
all pretentious. The lockers, contrary to
our IDEAS are upstairs, The stairs lead
ing down are marble, and remember
how quickly my feet slipped out from
under me as their Cleated bottoms
touched the slippery surface and | mar
rowly escaped very serious accident.
French Caddies Cadets"
! was always very much amused with
the French caddy masters orders to the
little French caddics. or Cadets" as
they were callef. For time it seemed
strange to have "avaut :" shouted after
you instead Of the familiar fore
The French gallery is interesting, too,
its words Of approval producing "a pecu-
liar murmur to our unaccustomed ears.
All one hot Saturday afternoon about
a thousand of them followed John An
dehson and me in the iinals--the French
championship Of 1911 1t was good
contest if | say II myself. one down and
one TO play VIC started the extra holes
all square, and the whispered applause
of the Frcnchmen came strangely to
our ears. At the thirty-eighth hole the
French title went as far west as Chicago.
Links in a Forest
The course at La BOuie swings over
rolling ground and is solidly banked Oh
one side by a truly dense forest. High
above the aeroplanes buzzed. and occa-
sionally ii balloon hung in the deep blue.
IL struck me some of the holes were too
close together and there was some paral-
lelisn. The bunkering had been done
in "A rather old-fashoned way and made
playing a bit disconcerting. Some of the
holes. notably the sixteenth, We're splen-
ddly laid out and real pleasure to
play on.
| attended two championship matches
in France. but the playing there was
not of the order that II is jn England
Canada and the States. The Frenchmen
are inclined to take their golf lightly
Golf, however, will probably enjoy as
great Il growth in France when peace
comes again as it has enjoyed on this
| side OF the water.
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wind sprung up.
Mr.. Poe handled the story Ike ''ue .'
artist. and we are sorry he Is not WIN
us today to assist in writing master
piece on the "FalD Of the House OF Mack.
There is plenty of material Tor STORY
that would live through the ages,
The Fall of the House of Mack mas
the Usher episode backed off the boards
Cornelius McGillcuddy, the author out
lined his plot way back in 1914 and
liked IL so well that he worked on !,
until the end Of last year. He mad iots
of time to prepare "A suitable endihs'
and when flnis was written no one
doubted the idea he meant to convey
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Joe Oeschger Holds One Batting Record

routs fielding
known
league
he in inning
in Philadelphia
took other
twer his
tineup swas
the
National
question that he grabbed peculiar
of
The led all
the pre-.
a in that with
on Cincinnati to
n a July how.
hitting
eoualed a a
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Up to Huogins to Put Color Into Yankees

YORK scrbes that what Yankee
anything color" this coming Of Miller
proclaimed Sid Mercer speaking situation
-
this
individual and the last he hilltop
sorne Of hghting spirit to the
1o14 He further observes
ncw up abolish the dab
those followed League
through sheer force Of his personality Higgins
- ~sn crafty general
his working
remembered that he has only three
@<f ~ neltoo. ana BY the .
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Yere Are the Words;
Supply Your OIcn Music

Connie is In Jacksonville---or we
should state that he SAID he was going
to Jacksonville--wher the weather Is
warm and he can rehearse for the roast-
ing which will be handed him on his
return,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-11

George Gibson, for years with the Pirates
now on John McGraw's payroll has returned
his signed contract for the present season,
Gibson caught a few games last year, when
Mccarthy and Rariden were out Of the game.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-11

Every school has its favorite stars Of
.yesteryears. the names that are mentioned
when fSnnans eses aeou nrtSs sts stn,ees infs
with pride TO the record of Howard Berry
and Tip Tophsm; Central Hish. 70 Harry
while Central Manual graduates win never
fgssi Eddie % Ho,tss; We ,r wosld % llss to hear
yhd should rece!ye the aiI-t!me honors in
focthail. hasebell. nasketball. track an1
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-11

CeIumbia ana Cernell basketball Aves meet
IN the opening game Of the lptercol-
tesns play II ~ colephie Sym.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-11

The silver foils medal play handicap at
Pinehurst yesterday was won by Mrs. q. NJ.
OF Halifax; Mrs. J. ID. Armstrong
Buffalo. took the second prize; Mrs @. A.
of Bethlehem. tied for third honors.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
August Knopf, Head
Of Leather Firm, Dies
Was Known the World Over
to Men in the
Trade

August Ernest Knopf, an expert in
leather and a pioneer in "The Swamp"
died yesterday in his home, at 80 River
side Drive. lie was seventy four years
Old. His name was known to leather
men the world over. as was that of his
ilrm, Felix Fournier e. Knopf, of New
York and Paris, but not many knew of
the youthful adventures Of the second
member of the firm
At the age Of sixteen Mr.. Knopf ran
away from his home in Hilberhausen.
germany, to escape military service
lie went to Paris, where he became an
apprentice in the leather trade.
he and eleven other young men, one
of whom, Emil Foubert, then an art
student later made name for himself
as painter, swore eternal friendship.
Then came the Franco -Prussian war
and the German advance on Paris. Mr..
knopf went to London. The circle of
trends remained unbroken, however.
Ihe Germans laid siege to Paris. but
the remaining eleven of the old coteric
within it's walls took leaf from The
book of the military stratcgists who
were experimenting extensively with
hailoons and sent up miniature balloons
or their own to which were attached
letters to the absent Knopf.
ne aerlaI messengers performed
their function with miraculous sue
cess. 1t was learned later that few
of the letters failed to pass the German
lines, and practically all of those ths,
ran the gantlet were picked up bv
persons who forwarded them to Mr.
Knopf in London
M: knopf came to the United States
in 1871. He was the last of the twclvc
trends. Funeral services will be held
tomorrow afternoon
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
Art

NJ. L. Rollins, who has long studied
the Pueblo Indians in Arizona and
New Mexico. is now exhibiting an in
teresting group OF paintings at the
Drouse Gallery, Seventyfourth Street
end broadway. They represent Indian
life in many phases. A large canvas
entitled "Gricf" shows despairing
Indian by the bedside Of dead friend
Mn. Rollins's canvascs are we'll han
died and good in color
The Brooklyn Society OF Artists is
now exhibiting over $50 paintings at
the Pouch Gallery, Clinton Avenue,
brooklyn. II is the intontion OF the
society TO hold annual exhibitions and
eventually to establish permanent gall
lcries, thus making Brooklyn an art
centre worthy of her standing as a
great metropolis.
"Thc Chiefs Two Sons" by f. T..
Blumenschein, is decorative in design
and powerfully painted. A charming
color scheme is Oscar Fehrar's "Thc
Golden Hair" Max Hermann has two
striking canvases-"Cattlc" and "The
Mill.' The miniatures by Alexandrina
Robertson Harris also are worthy of
rotc. The exhibition is open to the
public until January 2S
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
Opera

Cleofontc Canpanini has added Mar-
guelita Sylvia to the list of stars for
the Chicago Opera Associations season
at the Lexington Theatre. Miss Sylvia
is to appear in the title role of Mas
senet's "Cleopatre," which is to be in
troduced with Ricardo Stracciari as
Marc Antony.
Miss Sylvia appeared in "Cloopatrc"
in Europe, but is new to America in
this medium. She was born and edu-
Gated in Brussels, and her operatic
career began with her debut as Car
nlen at The Paris Opera Comique, but
IN this country she was first known in
light opera. Her first appearances here
IN serious roles were In the second sea
son OF the Manhattan Opera Company.
Later she appeared a. Covent Garden,
London, at the Metropolitan in New
\ ork, and with the Chicago Opera sew
cral years age.
Since he. last appearance with the
Chicago company Miss Sylvia has been
heard in many of the important opera
houses in France, England and Bel
eium, and she returned to the United
States several weeks ago, joining her
iNtHHethN, NslPt04Ii 1btiu u Il smith, | t.
:. a., at Washington, II. c., formerly
an attache Of the American Embassy
at Paris.
General Manager Giulio Gatti-Cnsaz-
"a, OF the Metropolitan Opera House,
yesterday announced that. in accor-
dance with the order OF the Federal
Lnel Administrator the metropolitan
Opera House will be closed next Mon
day evening. Mascagni's new opera.
"Lodoletta," which was announced fo.
that occasion, will be sung on Tuesday
evening instead, with the same cast. in
Guiding Mines. Farrar, Robson, Egencr
and Arden. and Messrs. Caruso, Amato
Dldur. De Segurola and Bloch. Mr..
Moranzoni Will conduct. The Monday
night performance viii for the next
ten weeks be given III all probability
Ties his order
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
1lHave Died at Wadsworth
Base Hospital Establishes Rec
ords for Operations

CAMP WADSWORTH, S. c.. Jan. 1s.
From the date of the opening of
inc base hospital here, October s, 1917,
TO December 81. 1915 there has been a
total of 2,470 admissions. according to
an official bulletin issued from head
quarters Of the 9th Division to-day.
The total number Of deaths during the
period was eleven, which includes seven
soldiers who died from disease. two
soldiers who died from accident and
two civilians who died from disease
Inere have been 22222 operations, none
Of which resulted i'm death. The total
mortality is o.44 per cent.
1T is believed that this record is
unequalled by any hospital. military
or civil, IN the country says .he bull
letn.
Robert Barry. seventy three years
old, one Of the Y. NJ! c. A. secretaries
at the camp, died at the base hospital
to-day from pneumonia The body will
be shipped to his former home in New
York for interment
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
By P. w. Wilson

A "7'ic l.oNdon Ooily Ne'cs'
wAsNINGTON, Jan. IS England
,.s had her difficulties with coal. in
.,,ir way as serious SIS yours in this
,,su,ry. But confess that we have
-sver had to order general suspen-
.on Of iuel-using industries. To be-
~ With. winter with us takes the
;,rm or rs.n. slice. and fog rather than
f,ast, and in auy case the frost would
No. he sufficiently prolonged or severe
sscacn to held Up our waterways.
Moreover, your country is large in
ara compare! with ours. and YOUR
zilroads, though far greater in mile
ars thar We can boast, have to cover
immense distances. We have sent away
.undreds Of locomotives. hundreds Of
niles Of track. thousands of men for
he service Of our armies and our
saies You have made very similar
ss,riceS, but the e.fec. has been more
,sriols.
As | understand the mattcr-and I
7-ile only as visitor 10 your country
--o7c Of Your difficulties is tho in
v.,s0le concentration o, ,ca.nc Of all
issas on certain points on Your East
~ seabo@rG: New York, for instance.
50. Boston, or even Halifax. That con
tea.rstion involves You IN y problem OF
immense complcNity, especially when
tho links IN Your transportation are
b:osen BY The freezing CT waterways.
al u:
Ne have been moro fortunate Ne
cause we arc a small country, "a tight
little island" And coal fields are we'll
distributed throughout our industrial
centres. We have coal in Lancashire.
n Yorkshire. IN Scotland, in Berkshirc,
in South Wales and near Bristol.
Wha. we have done is to parcel out
he country into consuming areas. each
Of which is allocatcd TO some coal field.
Thus we have reduced haulago Of the
.silroads 20 q minimum by compelling
reoplc 10 use the coal produced nearest
70 them.
The new ALLEGATION of coal areas
caused some confusion at first. Fer
instance, the entire range OF coal con-
.Tacts had 10 he cancelled or subjected
% possible cancellation. Customers hal
70 DC ScheCNlSu- the rooms IN new
houses declared and SO on. Coal ra
lions were thus arranged, without a very
great delay. and we were all urged t.
lay IN winters supply by Septembcr
As most Of Us We're without cellar ac
commodations for SO large storage,
: We erected ccal huts, which We filled to
the brim, and some of us lax in wooG.
Prices, OF course, We're much higher
than before the war. Coal that cost s.
would now. | suppose, cost 50, and this
made us careful.
DO not le. any one imagine that all
'dis vas managed without severe sucri-
ices in certain directions London was
heavily hit for awhile. In the poorer
cssrters, south of the river. this was
esNcally the case. Families there had
ben accustomed 20 live from hand to
aouth-on hundredweight cf coal at
time. Delivery OF such small Guam
aiifs is very expensive and prices rose
% 56 cents q hundredwoight, or Sl1.2O
the tenement door
The mines are now entirely con
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
Hylan Favors Experts
He Once Denounced

Corporation Counsel Burr's request
for an additional appropriation of s45.-
900 for Gees for experts" in the Law
Department. was thc feature Yesterday
of record meeting for brevity of
the Board of Estimate. The board was
IN session only forty minutes.
Despite Mayor IIyIan's campaign de-
nunciations OF experts" employed by
the previous administration. ne di-
rected particular attention to item
90, Mr.. Burr's request, and told the
Controller. to whom it was referred.
that he hoped he would give it special
attention
The communication of the Corpora
tion Counsel stated that the Board of
Alde4nen reduced the original appro-
priatSn of $4,000 for expert service
to $4,000, and declared that il would
be impossible to protect the city's in
terest for less than $4,000, as in
many of .he most important cases the
city's entire defence consisted of ex-
pert testimony He said it was abso-
lutely necessary to meet the expert
testimony of the other side by the use
of experts of equal ability