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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-06
CHAMPION TEAMS
MEET TOMORROW
Camp GreenIeaf and Camp
Dix to Play Here-Nayy
Yard vs.. Medicos Sunday.

Two service foot ball games that
offer much more than the ordinary at
traction of such contests are to be
played here tomorrow and Sunday.
Tomorrow two elevens rated as the
best among the Army environments
are to meet for the Army champion
ship and Sunday the Navy Yard and
Army Medical School, both local
elevens, will play. The contests are
scheduled to take place at American
League Park, and begin at ESQ
o'clock.
Camp Greenleaf of Georgia is to
meet Camp Dix of New Jersey in to-
morrow's contest. Camp Greenleaf de-
feated all the combinations it faced
in Dixieland and the Camp Dix ag-
gregation proved too strong for the
other Army cantonments in the mid
two teams for the championship and
iof general superiority led to the
scheduling of tomorrow's contest.
Both elevens are made up almost en-
tirely of former college stars. Some
of the best players turned out on col
legiate gridirons in recent years
probably will. be seen exerting them
selves for the supremacy Of the Army.
The contest should be much better
than the ordinary service struggle.
both from a viewpoint of individual
and team play.
Camp Greenleaf has on its eleven
such stars as Sutherland. who is cap
tain and coach of the gridders and
comes to them an all-American Pitts
burgh guard of last year. Also Seidel
of Pitt and Teller of Dartmouth, both
Pittsburgh men of all-American fame.
and Left End Stewart, Colgate's 1916
all-American end.
On the Camp Dix team are such men
as Van Dyne, an all-American right
tackle of Aimes. Tinsley all-American
left end of Pennsylvania University,
Left Halfback Fish of Dartmouth.
who has had unfailing success in drop
son, and V. Austin, one of Yale'S ia
nous quarterbacks.
The game is carded to start at 2:3O,
and a representative showing of the
legislative, military and social circles
is expected, including Gen. March and
Gen. Munson, former commandant of
Camp Greenleaf, along with their re-
spective parties.
Army Medical School believes 1t can
defeat the Navy Yard. OF course. a
lot Of foot ball teams have believed
the same thing this fall. but the
Medicos offer a lot of arguments to
show that they have at least an even
chance for victory. In the game In
which thetwo clubs already have met
Navy Yard was victor by one touch
down. Navy Yard has a rangy aggre-
cation of players among whom are
some real stars. and 1t has team play
down to a much more advanced point
than most Independent combinations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-06
BERLIN AIR RAID CALLED OFF
Attack Had Been Planned for
Nipht Armistice Was Signed.

NEW YORK, December 6.-Berlin
was to have been bombed by a
squadron of eight to twelve super
Handley-Page and De Haviland-lo
airplanes on the night Of November
IL, the date of the signing of the
armistice, according to number OF
American aviators who returned on
the transport Lapland.
Forty f1iers of the new and power
full aircraft had been preparing Tor
weeks at Ford Junction, Sussex, Eng
land, to attack the German capital
Each man had received 800 hours ex-
perience as night fliers at Ellington
Field, in Texas.
The distance from Ford Junction to
the German capital is about 500 miles.
Each Observation-Disclosures machine
carried, beside five machine guns and
a ton of explosive, a crew of five men.
The De Haviland-10s could carry 1,4O0
pounds of explosive and three men.
The bombing Of Cologne, Karlsruhe
and other Rhine cities. it was declar-
ed, would have been mere incidents"
of the war compared with the attack
on Berlin.
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agreement so that 0riff's suggestion
may be followed.
Games Greatest Handicap.

''The greatest handicap base ball
has. in my opinion" Mitchell ex-
planned. ''is the system which permits
Of the purchase Of q player from the
minors by big league club. This al
ways results in tthe stars going to
the teams in the biggest cities. These
clubs. having the biggest population
to cater to, can afford to outbid their
less fortunate rivals, and thus It is
that three or four clubs have prac-
tically monopolized pennants and the
accompanying profits since the ma
tional agreement was drawn
las Griff suggests. players should
be obtained only by draft, for this
would mean that all clubs would
have equal opportunity to obtain the
men. and the result would be that
teams that never boosted of a pen
nant simply because they couldn't
buy one by outbidding other clubs for
stars would be strengthened and draw
better crowds. In this way the
league as whole would be bene-
fited.
Another point that Griff makes
also appeals to me, and that is that
the draft price ought to be increased
so that the clubs that want to draft
will not be dragging youngsters up
until they are fairly sure the kids
will develop into good men,"
Mitchell also said he thought 1t
would be good idea to permit the
big league teams to draft only from
the three class AA circuits, so that.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-06
BIG MERCHANT MARINE
ESSENTIAL FOR DEFENSE

Vast as are the economic advan-
tages OF an adequate merchant ma
ssas. the possession thereof by the
United States Is primarily a question
Of the national defense, William H.
spayton, director Of the Navy League,
told the members of the Twentieth
Century Club. meeting yesterday morn
ing at All Souls Unitarian Church, 18th
and l. streets northwest.
Mr.. spayton used plain language in
noting the startling hindrances i'm
posed by the lack of merchant ma
rine on a proper part by this country
in the recent war. The Navy. he de-
clared, was confronted by three great
tasks-transrorting troops, guarding
the transport vessels and supplying
the troops once they were overseas.
In all three it failed almost utterly.
yet the blame. he stated. should be
laid neither on the Navy itself nor on
the present or past administrations,
but on the American people them
selves.
I've boastfully state that We sent
more than 100000 troops abroad"
he said. in part. We did no such
thing. We sent them to the Atlantic
seaboard and then we sent an eX-
tremely small fraction of them across
In August last. for instance, 300, 900
American soldiers went overseas. OF
those Great Britain alone carried
100000. and France. italy. Portugal
sands more. We ourselves carried but
q meaCer Dercentage
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Patriotism at Home.

81 cannot close this report without
making of record the appreciation OF
the War Department of the work OF
the many trained and patriotic Of
ficers of the Army whom the destiny
of war did not call to France. These
officers, forced to remain behind in
the United States by the imperative
keen the machine moving. have kept
up their work with such intelligence,
zeal and devotion to duty as to show
a high order of patriotism. The Of
ficers and men who have not been
able on account of the armistice to
be transported to France deserve
also. with their comrades in France,
the thanks Of the American people,.
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TO PLAN VISIT TO POPE.
Mgr. Cerretti to Await Presidents
Arrival in London,

PARIS, December Sit is stated in
Vatican circles that Mgr. Cerretti the
papal undersecretary of state. will
await the arrival of President Wilson
in London to arrange with him for his
visit to the Pope, according to the
Rome correspondent of the Echo de
Paris.
AS far as can be seen. no obstacle
is offered to the interview between
President Wilson and Pope Benedict,
to which great political Importance is
attached.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-06

the surrender Of the German fleet we
had five big warships in foreign
waters, two on their way and no few
er than forty-three on this side. be-
cause. II sent, we had not the ships
to carry their supplies, coal, food and
other necessities.
"You may remember disceuragihg
difficulties in trying to send over
Christmas presents and other gifts to
men in the trenches. They were made
discouragine purposely; we had not
the ships to spare for such work. yet
couldn't admit to our foes that such
was the case. Hence the framing of
complicated and often foolish-appear-
ing postal and military regulations.
In other words. we camou1aged our
unfortunate situation with red tape
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-06
BAN JOHNSON ISSUES CALL.
American League II to Meet in
Chicago Next Thursday.

CHICAGO, December 6.-Plans for
the resumption of base bali in the
American League next season will be
decided upon at the annua, meeting
of the club owners here Thursday.
December IL. The meeting was called
by President Ban johnson yesterday.
The questions to be settled at the
meeting include the length Of the
schdule, the date for opening the sea-
son and the number of players which
each club will be allowed to carry.
President johnson said he believed
that the American League would make
no change in the player limit, or the
length Of the schedule, which would
probably call for 1874 games.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-06
IRIS NOT ANXIOUS TO PILOT.
Speaker Says He Has Enough Trou'
BILE Without Managing Indians.

BOSTON, December 6.-Tris Speak
er. the Cleveland American League
outfelder, now on tho inactive list
of the naval aviation school. has told
friends here that he has heard moth
ing regarding the report from New
York that he would be offered the
position Of manager Of the Cleveland
club, and that he does not want the
job.
"r have all the trouble care for. ="
he said. ''in covering center fed and
in trying to bat in the 800 division.
While / look forward with antict-
patton to the base ball season. l
would not care to manage the Cieve-
land club"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-06
M|TCHELLFAVORS
GR|FF|TH'S PLANS
Suggested Base Ball Re.
forms Eventually Must Be
Adopted, He Declares.
Special Di.patc to The star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO. December 6.-Dr. Clark
Grifnth of the Washington club has
correctly diagnosed base balls ills
and prescribed a sure remedy in the
estimation of Fred Mitchell. cham
pton manager Of the National League
and prospective president of the
Cubs. Mitchell today said that Crit
fith's item commandments" recently
made public. eventually will have to
be adopted If the national pastime is
to thrive, and Fred further declared
that IL it were in his power he would
urge steps be taken at the National
League meeting in New York De-
cember 10 to amend the national
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say. three men could be dfaftsd from
a team instead Of one, as at present

say, three men could be drafted from
a team instead OF one, as at present
Mitchell Answers Objection.
Mitchell answered ono objection g
the plan Of obtaining players solely
&y draft in these words:
mo. sESh a plan viii not retare
the coming stars by holding them 10
the bushes too long. The youngstera
would be kept back only . year at
the most and that delay wouldnt
hurt them in the least. For instance
II q Ty Cobb il discovered in class d
circuit (and such players certainly
can be identified in short sorder) he
will be drafted by a class IA outfit
and the next year. II he continues ID
tycobb. he win be picked up By .
aAt any rate" Mitchell concluded,
base bail must be conducted along
different lines than at present. ana
believe Grifiith's idea is the best pos
sible plan suggested so far. I GER
tainly will be in favor Of having
something done about following out
Griff's plan at the National League
meeting in New York II 1t II in my
power to do So"
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Col. Stimson to Resign.

CAMP MEADE, Nd, December g.
After the soldiers Of tho s1st Field
Artillery are mustered out. Col Henry
L. Stimson, its commander, who was
Secretary of War under President
Taft, will resign and return to his
law Offices in New York.
Col. Stimson had the distinction of
commanding the battery which fired
the first shell from the National Army
into the lines of the boche.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-06
ENTIRE TURKISH FLEET
IN HANDS OF ALLIES

LONDON, December 5.-The entire
Turkish fleet is now in the hands of
the allies, the admiralty announced to-
day. The warships after surrender
ing were interned in the Golden
Horn, at Constantinople.
The former German cruiser Goeben
was among the surrendered vessels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-06
Ball Player Causes Strike.

MOBILE. Ala. December 6.-Becauss
Of the failure Of tho Alabama Dry Dock
and Shipbuilding Company to dis
charge Milton Stock. former third
baseman of tho Philadelphia Ma
tionals. after his refusal to Join the
local Boilermakers' Union. 1900 boil
ermakers quit work at the plant yes
terday. The company IL working on
government contracts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-06
Future Action by War Labor Board

No action Will hereafter be taken
by the War Labor Board in any con-
troversy with employer and employed
unless both parties agree to submit
their cases to that tribunal. All other
cases will be referred to the bureau
of mediation and Cancellation. the
War Labor Board has announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-06
As to Guarding Transports.

LAS to guarding these transports
en- route. of the $50 large war YES
sells thus serving exactly SOIL were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-06
BOWLING BATTLES.
DUKE OF GRAFTON DIES.
Head of the Fitz-Roy Family ant
Veteran of Crimean War.

LONDON, December 5.-The Duke
of Grafton. head Of the Fitz-Roy fam
fly and a retired general in the Brit
ish army. is dead. He was ninety-sev-
en- years old.
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Developed During War.


THAT plan," he says. will take adj
vantage of our experience in this
war. which has brought about many
changes in organization Of all arms
of the service, and has developed new
arms not known when the war start
ed. The air service, the Tank Corps,
the development Of heavy mobile ar
tillery, the proper organization Of
divisions, corps and armies, all Will
be set forth in the scheme which
will be submitted to you. with the
recommendation that it be transmit
ted for the consideration Of Congress.
The conduct of the American
troops in France. their progressive
development in military experience
and ability, the fine staff work and
the modesty and gallantry of the in
dividual soldier is a matter of pride
to all Americans. Gen. Pershing and
his command have earned the thanks
of the American people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-06
army REORGANIZATION
UNDERTAKEN BY STAFF
Lessons Learned and Branches of
Service Produced by War to
Have influence.

According. to Gen. March. chief of
staff, in his annual report to the
Secretary Of War. the general staff
is preparing q plan for the reorgani-
zation Of the Army
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-06

Augustus Charles Lennox Fitz-Roy,
seventh Duke Of ITERATION, was born In
1921 and entered the British army in
1897, becoming colonel of the Cold
stream Guards and retiring with the
rank Of general in 1881. He served
in the Crimean campaign. His heir
is the Earl Of Euston.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-24
NAUTICAL SCHOOL IS
 TO BE ESTABLISHED
CBy Associated Press)

OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 24.-Estab- lishment of the Washington state nautical school, authorized by the last legislature, has been formally an nounced by Governor Ernest Lister and Frank Warehouse, Captain J. s. Gibson and J. D. Trenholms, promin- ent Seattle shipping men, have been appointed to the board of managers, The board has $5O,OOO at It's disposal for the establishment and maintenance for two years of the school, the feder- al government to furnish like amount and a training vessel. The object is to prepare young men for the service in the new American Merchant Ma rine. The directors serve without pay
The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-24
RESTRICTED CONSUMPTION
 OF PETROLEUM

The BraunSC1"elSeI NOlhSi Ouliu Sept. 28) publishes a statement by a petroleum expert on the necessity for restricting the petroleum consump tion of the civil population in Ger many on the following war-economie grounds:
 "The government has controlled the rationing of petroleum admirably from the start, has prevented hoarding and profiteering, and has, while avoiding direct compulsion, organized the pro- duction of oil fuel and lubricating oil for war purposes most stringently Conditions have meanwhile altered. Even now that the Galician oil wells have been liberated and good progress has been made in reviving the extraC, tion of Roumanian crude oil, the crude oil production is not satisfactory Tn the working of crude oil, which can fairly easily be made into a number of products, the chief of which are benzine, heavy benzine, turpentine substitute, lighting oil, motor oil, oil fuel, and lubricating oil, account must be taken of the increasing demand for benzine, motor oil, oil fuel, and Tubri- eating oil for war purposes. Couse- quently very little lighting oil can be obtained. It suffices to point to the U-boats and to the increasing number of flying machines, whose motors are driven by benzine, also to the aug menting use of motors and technical oils in war industries.
 'In addition, future consignments from Austria are to be smaller. The import of petroleum to Germany is to be brought down to 34O wagons a month that of oil fuel to 1000 wagons No alterations on the present figures have been made in the new contract as regards lubricating oil and paraf- fin consignments.
 For these reasons the consumption of petroleum in Germany will have to be considerably restricted this winter and spring. Trade petroleum-i. e., those quantities of petroleum placed at the disposal of the trade-must be materially limited. The so-called compensation petroleum (Ausgleich- petrOleuf), on the other hand, can be obtained in the same quantities as last year from the state central au thorities for the specially urgent re- quirements of farmers and homework. CTS, as we'll as for unforeseen pur- poses.
 These explanations, although they can not in any way abate the hard ships which must arise through lack of lighting oil, especially in poor fam ,,, =, ' flies. will, at any rate, serve to show that the petroleum shortage Is not due to the good or bad will of the author ities, but is a war necessity which car not at present be altered by anyone.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-24
A DESCENDANT OF KINGS

LONDON, Jan. 24.-Captain French MacDermot, whose ancient Irish title was "the MacDermot Roe, lord of May lurg, has just died at Monte Carlo. He was the head of the Protestant branch of the MacDermot clan, and was 69
 years old. He was direct descendant of the ancient princes of Leinster..
The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-24

It is an absolute sin to waste food Food has become sacred.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-24

Read the Times and keep posted
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-18
CHICAGO CUBS ALL
READY FOR SEASON
Roster Completed and Team
To Be Same as Last Year.

CHICAGO, Dec. 1S.-The roster for
the coming season of the Chicago Ma
tional league team has been so far COM
pleted hat 1t was said today at the
clubs headquarters Manager Mitchell
probably would enter the pennant race
with the same players he had at the
close of last season, with the addition
Of Pitcher Alexander.
Thirteen Of the Cubs players are in
the United States service at present,
but 1t Is expected nearly all OF them
will be discharged before the opening Of
the baseball season.
Unless Mitchell makes some trade, it
was said, the lineup at the start ia
likely to be as follows: Alexander,
pitcher; Killlfer, catcher; Merkle, first
base; Kilduff, second base; Hollocher,
shortstop; Pick, third base; Flack, right
field; Paskert, center field; Mann. left
field.
In addition there likely will be
Vaughan, Douglas, Tyler and several
more pitchers on the bench, besides
Infielders Deal, Zeider. Workman and
McCabe.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-18
DIXIE
CLUBS TO BE
HARD HIT
New Orleans Club Will Find It
Difficult to Forego Having a
Major League Team.

When next season arrives and the
newly arranged plan of each Southern
league club carrying but seven class a
men, several of the Southern teams
will find it difficult to get used to
having only half Of their men of the
caliber as lave formerly played in this
neck of the baseball woods,
The team which will be hardest hit
will be the New Orleans Pelicans, which
always boast of the fastest-club in the
minors. The Pels have long had a work
ing agreement with the Cleveland In
dians, n there have been times that
the Pelicans have looked fully as for
midable as the Indians themselves.
The New Orleans team has always
been a hard customer for the other
clubs to deal with, owing to the fact
NAhat they were always Crammed to the
guards with major and near-major
league players. Johnny Dobbs, New
Orleans manager, has never had any
trouble getting men. which accounts
in the main for his success as leader of
the long LEGGED birds.
The Pels have never kept within the
Haw as regards the salary limit, for
with such high class men as were en-
rolled on the Pelican roster it would
have been an impossibility. There were
Away a number Of men who were right
out Of the majors and who never en-
countered any trouble in getting berths
in the fastest baseball company there
is.
Other clubs in the Southern, namely,
the Atlanta Crackers, will also find
the going tough in having only seven
class A players. The plan is going to
prove a boon to some of the teams
which have been in the habit of floun-
dering in the mire from year to year,
for they will at last have a chance to
meet the other teams with the same
array of talent and without being forced
to go up against a major league ball
Cluh
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-18

5augh Mas against him as an official,
not from any personal point Of view at
all. VIZ have felt for some few seasons
that Mr.. Baugh was far from all that
was TO be desired as a president for the
pixie major. We have said so many
times, and when John D. Martin slqnl-
lied his willingness to accept the posi-.
ton, we espoused his cause, for the
reason that we felt that John Martin
would be a more capable president than
Bob Bauah.
John Martin Is not a more honest or
we'll meaning president than Bob
6auah, for 5auah's integrity has never
been questioned. Both Martin and
Saugh are hlgh-class, intelligent, honest
considerably better qualified as a leader
Of men than 5aueh.
Mr.. 6augh leaves the league with the
best wishes Of everybody throughout the
confines Of the organization. He did
his work to the best Of his ability. His
slate is clean. He was fair to a fault.
6au9h's only sin was the sin Of In.
capabIlity.
Eddie Collins, the king of second
basemen, now in the marines, says he'll
be back on deck next spring as usual,
regardless Of the fact that he had pre-
viously announced his intention OF re-
firing,
Eddie has been nominated to succeed
Pants Rowland as manager Of the
White SoX.
Johnny EVers, who had a chin In Eu.
ropean affairs, is back at home. His
chin is breaking all wapelne records
now, even travelling faster than when
some hapless umpire gaVe him a bum
decision.