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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
ATHLETIC STARS CLASH:
Several Title Holders in Indoor
Meet Tonight Of A. A. q,
at New York.

NEW YORK. March 1S.-Several Of th0
athletes who will compete in the annual
national indoor championships Of the
Amateur Athletic Union here tonight are
title holders who are expected to equal
if not better. some of their marks. :
Clinton Larsen, formerly OF the BrigS
ham Young University of Utah. who came
all the way from the Waco. Tex. aviatiosS
camp. has shown to very good ADVANTAGE
in practice since his arrival Joie Ray
of Chicago. the nati0Ral one-nile chami
pion; Eddie Fall, the conference cham
pion. representing the Great Lakes naval
training station a. Chicago, and Mike
Devaney of the Boston navy yard, win
meet in the 1.000-yard race. I
10 Loomis Of Chicago. champion spr1ut
er and high jumper. and his brotherse
Francis, the hurdler. are entered fol-
their favorite contests.
The University of Pennsylvania WIN b
well represented, as coach Robert1on'
team includes Andy Kelly, the S00-yar6
record holder, and Sherman Landers. ma
tional pole vault champion OF 1916. Tom
Halpin and Harold Weeks OF Boston. Cor.
don Nightingale Of New Hampshire State
College. Dean Letter. a St Louis school.
boy, and many other notable performers
are among the entrants. :
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GATLIFF WINS FINALS.

ORMOND BEACH. Fla. March 16-G
b. Gatliff, Louisville, won the Ormond
golf tournament here yesterday when he
defeated DR.. George Taylor. New York,
9 up and l to go. NJ. j. Owens, Column
bus. Ohio. carried off second flight hon.
ors when he defeated w. H. Cautera,
Toronto, and l.
In the women's tournament the results
follow:
First fiight-Miss F. D. Smith, Scranton,
Pa. won from Miss Briggs, Providence.
r. l.. up: Mrs. C. W. Scudder, st.
Louis. defeated Hiss Howard Hinchley.
Washington, and 5.
Second fiight-Miss Jeane Lindsey.
Rochester. N. Y. won from Mrs. Snyder.
Dayton. Ohio. l up: Miss Toney, Detroit,
won from MISS Hoffman. Providence,
and 2.
Third fight-Mrs. Chaplin, Inslewood,
N. j.. defeated Mrs. Longnecker, New
York. and l, and Mrs Charles Pretty
man. Philadelphia, won from Mrs.
Scholtz. Gainesville. Ohio. 6 and 6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
THE OTHER ANGLE
Saving Daylight
BY KIRK MILLER.

Washington has one of the most
homeopathic hospitals in the worlds itin.
erary.
The dome of the Capitol protects more
homeopathic NJ. DIS from air raids thar
| an aquarium conceals scales, and thai
/ is a few.
Congress compounds prescriptions fol
| the rest of the works to swallow, an6
| it just got through taking the swallow
away which helped the pills go down
easy.
In Congress you don't spell ZEN
pills: you call 'em bills but why
quarrel over a slight matter of spell.
ing, as spelling is mostly a habit, any.
way?
Congress rolls some queer pills fol
US Americans to inhale.
The daylight saving pill gives some Of
us sixty more minutes of sunlight each
day and the rest of us sixty less minutes
! of sleep each night.
You said it!
Back in the biblical days a chap en-.
titled Joshua commanded the sun to
stutter, but Congress will probably
have the sun lettering about another
hour out of each twenty four before
these type are cold.
If one of the congressional internes
had proposed slapping an extra hour
on the nights there wouldn't be such a
boisterous murmur from the opponents
of the pill.
What we really need is pill to re-
duce the height of low heels and limit
the width of doughnuts to the diameter
of the hole.
Why don't some perpendicular cost OF
existing fiend introduce a formula to
weigh cheese by it's age instead of by
the number of calories it DISCUSSES. and
spaghetti should be sold by the lineal
measure and not by avoirdupois.
You can't tell any more about what
the legislative surgeons will carve in
the way Of cure for some existing
evil than you can tell where Col. House
will turn up next.
A pill to prohibit shooting wild cream
puffs out of season is just as likely to
come before the congressional clinic as
a tablet to limit quart of bunions to
each pint of footwear
Pills to prevent joyriding on steam
rollers after curfew and to compel pe-
destrians to get out of the way of fliv-
vers will be introduced after the day.
light cheating epidemic is healed.
That Queer QUESTIONABLE.
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed skate who used to carve his initials
on his lead pencil?
Do you ever get up when the alarm
How would you like to buy puttees
for a centipede?
Did you ever drink water in habit
forming quantities? What alienist
cured you?
How much have you given to the
Emergency Hospital fund?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
ROD AND REEL.

He related stories Of unusually larYe.5
catches of king macherel and other
large fish, and told of how the visiting
anglers surrendered the fish to their
boatmen. Boatmen, he said. charged SIS
day for two anglers. and the dsh be-
longed to the boatmen. Some of the
more generous boatmen, he said, would 4,
condeScend to make the anglers pre0-st.
ents of fish enough for their dinners. -
John T. Little. Familiarity known as
men at Hancock, Md, has written Sam
Cotton, a Washington sportsman. a
congratulatory message on the saving
OF his boat from the ice. ~
Il read about it in The STAR he
wrote. advising his Washington friend -
that that is how he keeps posted on
what is going on here. =.
Pap" ventured the opinion that good
sport catching bass soon will be enjoy,
ed in the vicinity of Hancock. and add
ed that the bass already are making :
their way up the smaller streams. -
ing channel catfish this season. Such2s
fish have been scarce the past few -.
years. according to Hugh R Kane, de-U
priving fishing parties of dishes OF
showder, a dish that appeals to most
anglers.
Mississippi catfish are all right, said :
the sportsman. but they are not to be :
compared with those of the channel /.
variety Reports from points below the
river tell of large catches of them
having been made the past week or. .
two. considerable more than have beenss
caught early in the season for q,
number of years.
n. L. Pulliam, one of the most en-
thusastic anglers in this city, has ~
started the season for catching large =,
mouth bass in the tidal basin. One day v
the past week he did a little spooning
in the basin and landed six fish. and. u
since he has picked several moro nsh :
from that body of water. ~
Pulliam usually is one of the first =
sportsmen on the river, after the ice %
clears away. and usually about the last6
to give up the sport in the fall or early
winter. Last season he caught hsh
enough to fill several barrels. many OF
them large rockfish he landed on tho"
severn river near annapolis 81
Fishermen are catching large quan-s-.,
titles of white perch. pike and carp in 9
of few herring this week suggested
to anglers the possibility of the early
opening of the rod and line fishing sea- q
son.
are doing their bit in the matter Of
conservation of fish," remarked EN-
NETT Bresnahan. They are returning
all the small fish to the river" -
Bresnahan and Bonnie Henderson
this week killed number OF muskrsts..
locating them by means OF q dsshltght ~
at night -
Charles E. Heard and George 3an -
tried their luck near F1etcher's one aft.s5g
ernoon this week and caught AfteonoS
Mississippi catfish. Their largest nah ~
weighed i've pounds. Heard sa1d TIVE -
white perch were caught near WAaro =.
he flshed.
81
Bernard Harding and Madk 4par-
rough caught seven Mississippi oa&Aoh ~
in the deep water near Walker. $500;
afternoon 5 e
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SHORTER TENNIS SCHEDULE.
Assignment of Dates Indicates Few.
er Journeys of Minor Importance.

NEW YORK. March 1s.-The annual
assignment of dates for sanctioned
tennis tournaments will be considered
at the schedule meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the National Tennis
Association. to be held in this city next
Saturday. At that time the applica-
lions for dates for the 1918 tourna-
ments will be presented. and various
other questions affecting the policy of
the national association for the current
season will be considered.
Applications received thus far indi-
cate that the 1918 schedule will be
shorter than the one adopted last
spring. when 225 dates were sanctioned,
exclusive of those for junior and boys
tournaments. The bulk of the i'm
portant fixtures probably will appear
on this years schedule, but it's make
up cannot be definitely determined
until the executive committee has
acted.
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NEW MILWAUKEE, MANAGER,
Jack Egan Supplants Ned Egan u
A A. Climb Pilot.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, March 16.-Joa,as
]. Egan, manager of the Providence. R.:
l., team of the International League, has
been signed as manager Of the NIL .
waukee club of the American Asso-s
citation. Owner A. F. Timme announced
today. Egan will succeed Ned Egan.
who is incapacitated as the result OF
fall on the ice recently at ST. Paul
Egan will report March %. He Is
known in base ball circles generally as
an umpire, having served three sea-
sons in the American Association. and
later in the major leagues. After act
ing as business manager of the Provi-s
dence club he became the playing
manager Last year the Providence club
finished second in the International
League race. -
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Griffmen Hike South Tonight.

This is getaway day for the regulars of
the Nationals. ten members of the team
being scheduled to leave for the training
camp at Augusta to join the battery can
didates now getting in condition for the
championship race. The squad that will
be modified by Manager Griffith at Union
station to board the train at Z o'clock this
evening will consist Of five players-WaI-
ter johnson, Eddie Foster, George Nc
Bride. Ray Morgan and Howard Shanks.
AS many will hike south from their present
place of abode, this latter quintet, consist
ing of Sam Rice. sojourning at Hot
Springs Ark; Bert Shotton and Johnny
Lavan from st. Louis. Clyde Milan from
Linden. Tenn, and June Cass from some
where in the wilds Of the middle west.
Sandquist. the Chicago semi-pro out
fielder, probably will play with the Des
Moines team this year. but if not placed
in the Western League will cavort in pas
lures other than local. for he will not be
taken to Augusta, Griff regarding his team
as well fixed for outfielders without giving
the youngster tryout Dropping Sand
quist reduces the number of active players
on the Nationals roster to twenty-five
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MACK LOSES GEORGE BURNS.
First Baseman to Go to France With
HospitaI Unit.

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, March 10
George Burns, the new first baseman
secured from Detroit by the Philadel-
phia American League base ball club,
probably will not play for Connie Mack
this season. Instead, he will go to
France as a member of a hospital unit,
unless his application for enlistment is
rejected. 1t is necessary for Burns,
who is in the draft. to obtain transfer
by his draft board. This formality,
the chairman stated, will be granted i'm
mediately if it is found that Burns
will not be called soon.
The loss of Burns will be severely
felt by his team, as it leaves Mack
without a, first baseman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16

| Mack Sparrough has started the
! spring fishing season with his usual
good luck. He was not the first local
angler on the river, nor has he landed
| the largest fish thus far caught, but
| he made the largest single catch that
! was made last week, landing eighteen
Mississippi catfish that weighed 1a7
pounds.
at was great SPORT said the sue
cessful angler. 1.-The fish bit freely and
were strong enough to make them
selves felt Some of them put up great
fights, while others came in without
much of a struggle"
William Wynkoop was his compan-
| ion the day the big catch was made.
The sportsmen baited with shad en-
trails, the best bait for the fish of the
Mississippi variety. and occupants OF
nearby boats enjoyed witnessing their
successful efforts.
Fletcher's, where plenty of ice still was
|! in evidence, and fished only short
distance from where ice was banked
high on shore.
"The fish are there" commented
lSparrough. land all that is necessary
to get them is a willingness to brave
the weather and have a supply of the
proper bait That bait is shad entrails."
RESPONDING to a request for informa-
ton as to the prospects for an early
opening of the bass season, John w.
Hurley received word from George w :
Leopold, a boatman at Knoxville. Md,
that warmer weather and clear water
ought to bring splendid sport.
'"The river was frozen almost solid
for seven weeks" the boatman wrote,
| land many fish and cells in the canal
froze to death; but there ought to be
splendid bass fishing in the river.
where the ice did not affect the fish,"
There was plenty work on the rail-
road. Leopold informed the veteran
angler, and he had no reason to COM
plain.
I'VE got along better than usual" he
added, "our four hogs furnishing US
1854 pounds of meat
Leopold thinks people In the vicinity
of Knoxville will be better off if the
government takes control of the canal.
certain there will be an early season
for both white and yellow perch on
Aqua creek. Having recovered from
an attack of grip, he spent the week
creek, where the muddy water was
anything but attractive and where it
appeared as if it never would get
clear.
creek" he remarked later in the week.
telling of a basket of large white and
yellow perch he had received from
there.
THE fish were caught in a net, of
course, but it showed they were there,
and I can see no reason why they
should not take bait as soon as the
water clears"
It is the sportsman's intention to give
the perch a trial as soon as the water
clears and he can get bait
Martin Schneider, enthusiastic angler,
has returned from a trip to Miami and
Palm Beach, Fla, where he displayed
an amount of interest in the big catches
of fish made by tourists from the north
TT was calculated to make one feel
good to leave the ice-covered streets of
Washington" he said, land so soon
reach place where such fine sport was
enjoyed"
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Bill to Amend War Risk Law

Amendment Of the war risk insurance
lavoto prohibit attorneys from receiy-
ing fees for services in presenting
claims for insurance except as author
lied by the courts or the director of
the insurance bureau and that no fees
shah exceed 10 per cent Of the amount
awarded. is proposed in a bill intro
duced yesterday by Representative
Thetus y. Sims OF Tennessee, chairman
81 the House commerce committee.
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MANY SOLDIER LEAGUES.

LITTLE ROCK. Ark, March 16.-Or-
ganization of seventeen regimental
base ball leagues. composed of 122
teams. was the result of meeting of
division headquarters at Camp Pike
All regimental championships will be
decided before May 1, when a new
league will be formed of regimental
teams which will contest for the di-
vision championship. A team also will
be selected from the entire division to
play a series with the Little Rock club
OF the Southern Association before the
beginning of the professional league
season.
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Willard TAKES ON
FULTON FOR TITLE
All Details for Big IndeEend-
ence Day Scrap to Be Ar
ranged by April /.
BOXING HISTORY
MAY NOW REPEAT

Here's n chance for boxing his
tory to repeat itself. On July a,
1910, Jack johnson defeated
James J. Jeffries and won the
heavyweight championship Of the
world at Reno, New.
On July 4. 1918, Jess Willard
will defend the same title which
he won from Jack johnson
against Fred Fulton. The cham
pionship may again change hands.
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Fielder Jones Is No Prophet.

Fielder Jones refuses to make anyoi
predictions about his teams finish for
the coming season. owing to uncer-.,
tainty due to the war. Jones simply,
says that his team should win more
games than the Browns in 1917. butt
will not predict a higher position fer''
his team.
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Secretary Lane May Be First Witness

Secretary Lane of the Interior Depart
inert is expected to be the first witness
at the hearing on the water power bill
which starts Monday. other officials
of the Interior. War and Agriculture
departments. and representatives of the
water power development interest have
asked to be heard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
PLANS T00RGANZE
TRAPSHO0T|NG CLUB
BY n. c. BYRD.

No branch OF sport can rise
above the caliber of the men who
take part In 1t. 40 matter how
stringent may be the code of
rules which governs 1T, no mat
ter how severely every fnfrac-
ton of that code may be pun
ished. a lofty ideal of true sports
mnnship cannot be legislated in
to the hearts of it's participants.
The truest effort to elevate COM
petitive athletics, and to eradi-
cate many of the evils pertaining
thereto, Is to have faith in the
other fellow
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Pirates Buy Infelder McKechnie.

PITTSBURGH, March 16.-Purchase
of William McKechnie, infielder. from
the Cincinnati National League club
under a provisional agreement, is an
noupced by Barney Dreyfuss. president
of the Pittsburgh Nationals. McKech-
ME will take the place on the Pitts
burgh team of Tony Boeckel, third
baseman, who. according to reports to
Pirate officials. has accepted employ
ment in a Pacific coast shipyard.
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That Queer QUESTIONABLE.
Rudolph Not in Demand

Dick Rudolph. the Braves pitcher. re-
Gently attempted to trade himself with
the consent of Stallings, but he found
that none of the other National League
clubs wanted his services. Now he
must accept a big cut or retire.
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Griffith Outboxes Waugh.

FORT WORTH, Tex. March 16.-
Johnnie Griffith of Akron, Ohio, last
night defeated Bobby Waugh, Fort
Worth, in ten rounds. The men are
lightweights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16
Mack Wants a Second Stacker.

Connie Mack is looking around for -
second baseman and several pitchers!
When the major league clubs begin, ton
unload their young players Connie will"
get out his graphing hooks. .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16

IngIesides last night dropped out of
first place again in the National Capital
League, three defeats at the hands of
Palace being the setback. Roy Whit
ford's club had to drop all three before
it could be ousted from the top posi-
ton. and the aggregation Jack Williams
took up to Sherman's proved strong
enough to be the undoing of almost
any duckpin combination. Watson,
Armiger, HALEY, Williams and Baum
form an exceedingly formidable aunt,
one that seems to stand pretty nearly
as good chance as any other for the
championship of the circuit.
To tell the truth about the match,
though, while the Palace five outshot
Roy Whitford's men. undoubtedly the
former had the better of the breaks.
NO matter what kind of hits the Ingle-
side players got. they could not seem
quite to get the breaks necaSsary 70
produce good scores
Marines took three games from, the
Auditors IN the Departmental League,
getting the long ends of the scores nv
big margins. Lawrenson. rolling third
Tor the Soldlers, starred with scores of
1o7, 11s and 139, his total being 364.
Maintenance Scores Again.
Maintenance continued it's winning
streak in the c. and p. Te,enbone
League. winning three straight from
the American Telephone and TeIegraph.
Maintenance added such a big bit to
its already good margin that it now is
1 Iar enough IN front almost to insure it
the championship. Stenographers came
through with rather easy victory over
Commercial. winning the first two games
by big counts and losing the third.
N Mrs: Fraber got the top scores for
Wire Chiefs forfeited to Construction,
Scores
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-16

CORP. HOLMES TELLS OF HIS
EXPERIENCES AMONG EX-
FLOODING MINEs-Another in
stallment of this vivid pen-pic-
ture of life at the front.
s. - g q
"rRAN CAUCASIA IS AN
ECONOMIC ASSET OF THE
GERMAN EMPIREr-a timely
article by CHARLES NJ. PEP
PER.
s. - s. d
ECONOMICS DIRECTORS AD-
VoCATE SIMPLICITY IN THE
FOOD-sAyING PRNGRAM-Th
story of a remarkable conference
held in Washington with repre-
, sentatives fro; , every state in the
Union. Alaska ana Porto Rico.
= = 81 -
= GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN
FOR WAR GARDENS-Depar
ment of Agriculture and national
war garden commission begin
drive for greater food production
this year.
y r. II u
"WHEN PARIS Is BOMBED At
NIGHT BY THE KAISER'S BIG
GoTHAS"-By STERLING Hell
LIG.
THE RAMBLER, IN MARIA
TIVE OF F. STREET. WRITES
OF RESIDENTS IN 1890.
"WOMEN OF PARIS ARE BET
TER DRESSED TODAY THAN
5 BEFORE THE WAR BEGAN.-
J BY ANNE RIT'rENHOUSE.
5 - - Il s.
UNCLE SAM TO TRAIN AN
} ARMY OF EXPERTS In THE
WAR TRADEs"-by FRANK G.
CARPENTER.
Tomorrow in the Special Fea-
5 lures Section of The
5 SUNDAY
5 STAR
n
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Penn Quint Noses Out Syracuse.

SYRACUSE. N. Y. March 16.-Penn-
sylvania defeated Syracuse at basket
ball, II to 16, here last night
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To Start Games at $ O'Clock.

No announcement has as yet been
Forthcoming as to what the working
hours of the clerks will be in the event
that the new eight-hour law goes into
effect but IL II does, as expected. 1t is
assumed the government and District
workers will be required to start their
labors an hour earlier each day, going
to work at s instead of o'clock in
the morning. If this proves to be the
case they will leave their desks as
now at 4:30\o'clock and the Nationals
games will be started at 5 o'clock. AS
this hour, with the clocks all set for
ward, will. in reality. be only o'clock
as far as the sun is concerned there
would remain ample time to complete
even an extra-inning ball game before
darkness would halt activities.
The time for starting the big league
contests here has not been definitely
set and will not be until the daylight
savings and eight-hour bills are dis
posed of and the changes in the work.
ing hours of the clerks announced, but
| it is Griffith's intention to have the
games start half an hour after the de-
partments let out and this will be done
unless the new hours Of the govern
ment employees are such as to require
them to work later in the day than
they do now.
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SPORTS To BENEFIT
BY MORE SUNSHINE
Additional Daylight Boon to
All Athletics, Particularly
Local Base Ball.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

An additional hour of available sunshine
every day, this summer now assured. as
result Of the action Of the House yes
terday in voting overwhelmingly for re-
setting the nations clocks will prove a
great boon to devotees OF tennis. golf and,
in fact, all forms Of sports and athletics.
as well as aiding agricultural and indus
trial activities of the country better to
furnish the snews for stamping out kaiser
ism. but in no quarter will the added sixty
minutes be more appreciated than by base
ball fans 1t will enable many who other
wise would be compelled to forego the
pastime because of the demands Of Office to
yield to the lure of the diamond.
In the opinion of Clark Griffith the meas
ure, which shortly will become the law of
the land. will prove a great thing for base
ball in general, but particularly in Wash
ington, where the club largely is dependent
upon government workers for its patron
age. The manager today announced that
this season, with the daylight savings
law in effect, games at the Georgia ave
nue. stadium will be started half an
hour after the time set for the government
departments to close, thus giving all the
members of Uncle Sans civil army plenty
of time after the end of their workday to
get out to the park for the opening Of hos
tilities