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New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
japan Cheers Ex-Jackie
Who Helped "Open" Her
Last Survivor of Perry's Men, Who
Weakened Flowery Kingdom i'm 1853,
Revisits Scenes at Age of Eighty-two,
and Is Acclaimed With Royal Honors

had bamboo poles for the mast And
that was about true. From bamboo
pole mastcd wooden junks to the 30,-
60O-ton per-dreadnought, which can
hold its own against the best that the
American and the European navics
could show, is quite step. And here
was man who had seen the Nippon
Of wooden junks and the Nippon Of
the battlcship Fuso. "And I was a
lad Of seventeen when came here for
the first time," he said. ri was seven
teen years and two months old" One
of the Japanese reporters told him
that that was nothing. "rhcre is an
old man still living who saw you come
into the bayou and all the rest of
Commodore Perry's ships and men
and he is five years older than you
are"
When Captain Hardy left the United
States he was free man. The min
ute he landed at Yokohama he was not.
lie was taken in charge completely.
There was a string Of automobiles
waiting for (in.-and motor cars are
scarce in Japan. When he got to
Toxic there was no brass band waiting
to welcome him to the old town Of the
Shotgun, but there were very many
people there ready to receive him, each
and every one OF whom made n hun
dred times more noise in Japan $
who's Who" than any brass band I,
Fourth Of July has ever known. Wis
cOInt KnDokO prilxr frou,ciOOr =, Il
an eX-MiAistcr OF State, ana Baron
kanda were among the number. And he
was forthwith commanded to attend the
chrysantilemum party in the garden of
the court. But the imperial chrysan-
themum garden party was not the stage
for the most dramatic scene Of the old
captains visit. That came when the
Hardy party went to bit of beach on
the Yeddo Bay called Kurihama
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Mothering Sammy
By Frank w. Getty

read can do 50 undisturbcd; a pool
room, with four tables constantly in
use: two pianolas and n phonograph,
, an American soda fountain. and, rare
thing for Eaglard, shower baths; in
other words, all the comforts of home
as the American soldier understands
the word. ready for him any time he
cares to take advantage of them.
And he certainly does take advantage
OF it. l talked with dozen or more
American soldiers who had dropped
into the Eagle Hut on their day in
town.
Writing for The Tribune, are you p
said one great, husky boy from The
Bronx. "Well, you tell the folks back
home not to question whether or not
to give to the Y. M. C. A., but just
how much"
II didn't know anything about the
" back home," said another, "but the
first thing I'll do when l return Is to
take membership"
"The ~ has been a life saver" vol
unteered third.
And so it goes. The thing the Amer
leans who come over hero miss the
most are the things the Y. M. c. A.
aims to supply.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
London, Dec. .1S.


~ AMMY had been drinking. In fact,
as he walked somewhat laborl-
Gus course up through Piccadilly
Circus 1t was apparent that this par
ticular American soldier had. in army
vernacular, an ledge on"
There were two good reasons WHY
Sammy shouldn't have been IN chat
condition. In the first place. it's
strictly against the United States army
regulations. In the second, he was
just regular American boy with 81
good home back in the States, and
he wasn't the sort of boy who goes
off and gets drunk by himself Just
for tho fun of it.
But London is a big city and lone
some one. and he'd lost his comrades
somewhere in the crowd, and he wasn't
quite sure of his way back to the hotel
so he just wandered on. AS he passed
under street lamp a girl, a little slip
OF thing, with painted face and rouged
lips. accosted him. Now, Sammy had a
head on his shoulders and he had a
girl back home. but he was lonesome
and he wavered. and Just them some
thing happened.
An automobile rolled slowly past,
its occupants noticed him. and brought
the car to stop with a grinding of
brakes. The next instant q cheerful
voice that sounded like home spoke
in his ear:
Hello, there. Sammy! It's kind Of
late. How about ride down to the
'Y' and cup Of hot coffee before you
turn in ?"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Makes the Boys
eel at Home

An American soldier lay wounded in
an English hospital. The first day no
was we'll enough to receive visitors an
American woman came to see him and
sat by his bed, talking to him in the
language Of "home" he understood so
we'll and missed so much. She found
out he was from Chicago, and the next
day brought another visitor who was
from the boys home town, and who
found they had several mutual friends.
When they were leaving Sammy asked:
"IIow did you know was here? How
did you happen to come to see me?"
"Thank the Y. NJ. c. A. for that" said
vidual case Of every American wound
ed or on leave from France, and see
that he gets a chance to talk to folks
from home. When you get better Pm
coming around and take you out to my
home. The Y. NJ. G. A. keeps all the
American women in London who havo
volunteered to help in close touch with
any cases Of wounded Americans here"
These are a few OF the things the
American Y. NJ. c. A. is doing for the
boys who are going out to fight. And
there are many more.
Perhaps the greatest function Of the
"Y' is the way in which it bridges the
huge 3,5O0-mile gap between Sammy in
Europe and "homc." The American SOL
dier can't get home when his days
work Of soldering is done. lie has
been torn from all that home means to
him by the exigencies Of war. SO the
y. M. c. A., through the medium Of
hundreds Of homelikc huts throughout
France and England and with the aid
of thousands Of young college men
fresh from the States, tries, as far as is
possible, to bring "home" to him.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
The "Y' Had
Reclaimed Another

Sammy looked around. His COM
panion, recognizing the stamp of the
newcomer, had faded away into the
shadows. Secretly relieved, he climbed
into the car. The long arm Of the
American Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, Familiarity known as the sY,''
had reclaimed another American. This
feature of the work, "patrolling," as it
IS called, consisting Of picking up any
stray soldiers who may have lost their
way, is only small factor in the work
the Red Triangle is accomplishing.
On cold, dark morning in August,
with heavy rain falling in sheets and
penetrating as only an English rain
can, a detachment of New York en-
gineers arrived at one Of the American
training camps. The men were wet
through, chilled to the bone and abso-
lutely miserable.
Instead of .the cold comfort of a
dreary camp site, they found a great
Young Mems Christian Association hut,
bustling with activity to make them
comfortable. Great urns of hot coffee
and heaps of buns were ready for them
at the refreshment counter. Oil stoves
were distributed and the New Workers.
succeeded in getting dry and warm.
Writing to the secretary Of the Young
Mems Christian Association aftelward,
an officer expressed the opinion that
only the presence of the Red Triangle
hut prevented the decentralization and
illness through exposure of many Of
the American troops.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Pershing Believes
In Athletic Training

Recreation, an all-important factor
in the Sammies' lives when their days
work is over, is furnished by the games
that the college men who are leading
the Red Triangle work in France or
ganize. Down in the southern part of
England, wherc a newly arrived de-
tachment OF troops is training, Wallie
Trnmbull. the old Harvard football cap
tain, got up game Of football, which
he umpired. Thousands Of dollars
worth of baseballs and gloves and bats
nave been ordered for the camps in
France. All sorts Of indoor, as we'll as
outdoor, games arc provided.
General Pershing is great believer
IN the value of athletic training in war
fare: And tho general has spoken in
the highest terms of the work the 'SY''
is doing among his men. A "big
league" with American and Canadian
teams from the different units, has its
season we'll under way, with the Y. NJ.
{. A. supplying all the necessary para
phernalia.
The "Y" has established clubs, cafes,
hostels and information bureaus every
where. It's hard to find a spot in
France or England to-day where there
are American troops and no signs point
ing the way to the Red Triangle depot.
Gates for light refreshment and count
crs for the sale of tobacco and candy
follow the troops right I'D 10 the
trenches. In the latter the boys can
buy the old familiar "smokes" that
they decidedly prefer to the French to-
bacco.
When Sammy gets his first leave he's
naturally, unless he has friends over
here somewhere, decidedly bewildered
lie doesn't know where to go nor what
to see. In this way the English Tommy
has it all over his American cousin. In
most instances he can get home, but
there's naturally no chance for Sammy
to do this. SO the ever present "Y" has
It's representative to meet the leave
train. Men VINO haven't any particular
destination can ride up to tho Eagle
Hut, stow their kit, wash up, get good
dinner and prepare for ten days of
thorough enjoyment, because the "Y"
attends to everything.
There arc sightseeing trips ar
ranged by the local chartered corpora
tons for the sole benefit Of the SOL
dlers. They can visit all the points of
interest in this strange land. They can
play games or go to the theatre, or if
they ere so inclined thew can listen to
lectures and study French, all under
the guidance and many times at the
expense OF the Y. NJ. G. A. Americans
living IN London who have volunteered
to entertain the boys from home are
hollilcd When they arrive, and arrange
ments made for them to visit American
homes. Everything is being done un-
sFhrlngly and completely for their com ~
Tort and enjoyment
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

Above is Captain Hardy, the last
survivor of the men who were
with Commodore Perry when the
American Navy opened the gate
of the Flowcry Kingdom, In 1883,
surrounded by Japanese school
children, as he goes to point out
the spot on the beach where the
first Americans landed. Below,
Captain Hardy, before the Perry
Monument, is addressing crowd
of japanese
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Success Achieved
Despite Difficulties

Besides Marie, Miss Bennett deals
With Zelie, the maid, and with Nine.
Noquet, tho laundress. The latter
works in what under the German occu-
patton was used as morgue. There
on stove one foot square she per
forms prodigics. The very climate
wars against her. Marie is her bitter
enemy; but the unit votes for Nine
Noquet, who turns out our stock OF
clothes week by week undiminished In
number, clean, but never dry.
We live we'll at Grecourt; our store
room is full and our wood is cut. We
would rather eat at our own table than
at that even of the baronne, to whose
kindness we arc indebted for eur shell
ter here. But between the lines one
can read that this success is achieved
in spite OF very real difficulties, and
without Miss Bennett and Miss Lewis,
with their patience and their energy,
We could not have lived here at ALL
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06

mais, except the cows, were bought r.
restock the farms, and boweyer q,
formal the means We took. at least ~.
end was accomplished.
Naturally, housekeeping and farro;rr
dovetail into each other, as when br.a.
fast waits on "Mlle. Louise's" cream 7.
Is not often late, however; moro fre.
quently it does not appear because she
's OF on an early foraging tour in tn.
villages around US for hay or wood ~
vegetables. She has hundreds of kiln.
Of pumpkins, carrots, turnips and No.
tatoes ordered, and number Of hen.
gray-haired farmers on call who hsv.
offered to come and show her how 70
bed them in our cave.
Her partner in keeping up our e,.
tablishment Is Miss Bennett, who doe.
anything from running tho wheelb,r.
row to running the jitncy. Her satel.
Tito is Marie, wife Of Nine. Ia Bar
onne's gardener and cook In former
times to Madame herself. But how
have the mighty fallen. So, at least.
runs Marie's tale. Her mistress's cha.
teau, full Of priceless pictures; her gar.
dens, the pride Of the region, in 50
much that visitors came constantly 10
see them-they are ruined now. The
| baronne, old, impoverished, lives now
in Spain and will never, never return
AS for herself. her own lodge was
blown up by the unspeaksble Boches;
her husband is soldier. She has only
! fiftcen-year-old Maurice left to her, and
Look you, kept him with me, she
explains. They took away only ths M
workers. Me, i would not work for
them, and Maurice-they thought he
could not, he WIS so foolish. "a. La,.
Marie is temperamental. Perhap.
cooking for sixteen America;nes and
four soldiers, not to mention our con-
slant stream Of visitors, all on one
stove in screened OF corner OF
ruin, might account for it. But evan
now, when her house is repaired and
the soldiers gone, she continues to dis
charge herself from our service at
least twice a week. We regard it az
habit But the other morning when We
were at breakfast she burst in in her
best clothes, made a set speech in
which she promised that she would
never, never cook us another meal and
that Maurice would never, never heat
US another drop Of water. We took
this announcement somewhat more Sc
riously than her other outbursts. Marie
has the only cook stove in Grecourt:
what II she really did go? We there
forc petitioned friendly officer for
two soldiers and mounted our own
stove to, leewsrd, as it were, in the
children's G lubroom. Nevertheless, We
are still in Marie's power, for while we
might get another cook stove, what
about the cook? We did engage one
last week-the only one We could hear
of-and she was arrested the next day
as srv
Evening journal., 1918-04-17

preliminary will be put on between two
last men Of lighter weight Johnny
sperl. tho veteran all-aruond athlete
Will referee
Evening journal., 1918-04-17
HERACL AND STECHER
TWIST UP TUNIGHT

Joe slecher with his powerful and
deadly scissors hold. will be in VIII
mington tonight. The claimant of the
worlds championship wrestling title
will make his FIRST appearance here
when ne viii meet Big John Heracl'
pride Of the Wilmington followers, in
a bout at the Lyric Theatre.
Stecher has met and defeated the
best in the WORLD and very few have
been able TO survive after he had ap-
piled his deadly scissors hold
John gained national noloriety when
after losing one fan, he withstood the
rsvages Of Stecher's terrible leg grip
I'm a bout held in a small town out
side of Boston about year ago. John
had little or no reputation before this
time and sprang into national promi-
nence overnight in the sport world
Heracl. who is trained 20 the limit
and is as strong as ever. has the same
brilliant opportunity IN his bout with
Slecher tonight. Heracl has had a
busv time since he was last seen in
action here and has participated with
more than usual success with IN,
leading men in the game. in the biggest
cities in the east aud south. He Won
aine OF his eleven bouts.
Ia addition 10 the big bout fas
Evening journal., 1918-04-17
PENNSGROVE CLUB
PLANS BIG SHOOT

A registered target tournament at
pennsTove, n. d., on next Saturday
under tho auspices Of the dupont Gun
Club viii be the scene on some merry
shooting. Gunners from ON parts or
Jersey. Philadelphia aud Wilmington
Will iry their skin for the many prizes
which are offered 60 high guns both of
a cash and merchandise value.
The event IS the second annual tour
nov Of tho New Jersey organization.
Saturday, meet Is expected TO outshine
the initial one by far Fred Tomlin, OF
pennsgrove, who annexed high-gun
average in the recent Lakewood two
days tourney, win be one Of the many
crack shots firing away in the shooting
sport.
one hundred and twenty-five dollars
IN trophies and prizes Will be the spoils
for the successful nimrods.
The registered shoot is at $50 clay
targets, divided into eight events. M
and No. . are at fifteen clays each
while the others VIII be shot at ia
events OF twenty discs. Only amateurs
will be allowed 20 contest for the prizes
Professional shots can shoot only foi
targets.
LLOYD r. Lewis, one Of the most popu
lar OF trapshootors, Will have ful
charge of the DUPONT Clubs second an
nusl shoot,
Evening journal., 1918-04-17
JESS AN ERASER;
FULTON A SPIKE
~ l.. r. BLANCHARD
nlled Press sian Correspondonl

United Press sian Correspondent
CH0CAGO. April i1-Jess Willard is
a thick. rubber eraser, inclined 60 Doe
soft and stnl possessed of strength and
vitality.
Fred Fulton is a huge steel spike
slender but harder than a landlord S
heart.
mat was the impression the two
heavywelght pugilisis gave when They
met for Tho FIRST time In two years
met 20 arrange FOR their nght on
July q
Fulton. fresh from Ions string of
workouts with puellsts Of high and
low degree was lean Willard with
two years OF easy living. looked soft
MS neck rolled over the edges ot a high
collar and a tightly butioned coat failed
t to hide the fact that the champion has
o. psunch as we'll as punch. a littl'
walk MP a flight OF stairs lefi Jess
breathing hard Every indication was
that Willard will have to pound Ono
road for many a mile before doVelopin.
The wind 90 carry him safely through
long battle
SuW Willard IS in perfect health. h
has acquired the soft flesh OF The maj
n comfortable circumstances hut mo-
the pudginess of the dlssipaior.
The champion bulked large even ID
The presence OF Fulton, who is FAR from
being a pigmy Up and down. aroun
and through Willard is much the larger
Evening journal., 1918-04-17
UNCLE SAM'S CALL Kills ALEXANDER'S
CHANCE TO BEAT MATTYS SLAB RECORD

Tho heaviest blow that has been
struck baseball fell when Grover Cleve-
land Alexander was drafted for tho
army.
NeHande- is undoubtedly the great
est pitcher in the game today His
pitching would have put tho tubs I'm
first or second ploce in the National
League race. Without Alexander The
Cubs viii DO we'll 10 finish I'm tho 0rst
division.
But Alexander's cail means something
more than this both Co baseball as a
sport and 90 Alexander as "a pitcher.
10 means that Alex cannot hope Go set
"a new pitching record. record of haN-
ing won 30 or more games season Tor
four seasons.
The record Of three 3)-game seasons
is now held Jointly by Alexander and
Maihewson. They are exactly tied with
a record of 9i games won TOO three
/ consecutive yeors.
/ I'm 1908 Alatty won 80 games the fol-
/ LOWING year De won 80 and in 1900 Do
Won "a games IN 1918 Alexander Won
81 games. I'm 1916. 3 and last year. 3D.
Alexander had not hoped to escape
entering the army. Hes not thsi type
His call 90 The army leaves but one re.
.gret I'm Alexander mind aud That Is
that ne viii not have o. chance 90 beat
Mathewsons record and stand ont 81.
the pitcher OF on timo who could Wlr
his 30 games IN more than three sea-
sons Here's The way Alex feels obou
80.
I'm human and money means a'
much 10 me as 20 does go nyono. Bu
even though I'm making more money
= than most fellows OF nay aee, ] haven
a regret at entering the army But
do regret not being able Go having q
try 40 Malty's record. believe
would be as good this year AS Na
, last. believe that 7 could win m.
30 games this year and set a recor
which would stand for years
"Tm not Dragging. but there nay
only been two OF us who could Wi
j 30 games a year FOR three seasons an
, I'm rather proud I'm one of them, onI
j I would Ike 90 so 10 one better.
There's practically mo- chance fo
me doing Il after this year. A pitche
g who is out OF the gaino for year sci
dom comes back With the same slu
% as he had before, and even n l snoul
only be out OF The game for a year,
u couldn't h0po 10 Doe as elective as lu
records show have been during u
last three seasons.
% "Rut that's neither here nor ther
Uncle sam needs fighters worse ina
he needs pitchers and I'm glad to d
% my bit
Evening journal., 1918-04-17
YESTERDAYS RESULTS
National League

National League
phillles o.. Boston ..
Cincinnati 2. Pittsburgh o.
New York o, Brooklyn 4.
So. Louis q. Chicago ?.
American League.
Boston 4. Athletics o.
Washington q. New York o.
81. LouSs 6. Chicago 4.
Clel eland-Detroit. rain.
Evening journal., 1918-04-17
PUSEY'S AND DUPONT
N WILMINGTON
League Will Make Its Tenth
Start on Saturday With
Eight Teams
GAMES on TWO
ENCLOSED FIELDS

The Au-Wnmiugton League will start
ils tenth season next Saturday win
eight teams, pusey & Jones and Expert
mental station Of the dupont Company
having been admitted TO the organiza-
ton at a special meeting Of the league
last night. At the same time the Har-
Ian team. which resigned from the
league Yesterday morning, reconsidereu
its action. The league this year, there
fore. will consist OF NandeVer, Harlan
pusev & Jones, Wildel, P r.. r., PARK
side. Eleventh Ward formerly Brown
town. and dupont Experimental. lhe
new schedule aud rules Of the league
viii appear in these columns tomorrow.
The league. now a fixture I'm Whining
ton. has travelled a rocky ROAD IN
reaching It's opening day, because or the
fact that so many teams wanted berlhs
I'm the organization. This was entirely
contrary TO the expectations or the
feams that held over from last year IT
being the opinion OF experienced base
hau men that there would be fewer
ball PLAYERS I'm the city this year than
ever before. TO the contrary, Judging
from the number Of teams that want
20 play league ball, there seems 20 be
as many players as ever before.
Having the opposite opinion, the old
An-Wnmington League managers be-
leved an eight-team league would be
y weak organization and for that ree-
son fought TO the last inning against
eight teams. The inslstance or Har-
lsns, however, in behalf Of Pusey and
Jones. for membership in the league
caused a last-mlnute change IN Ito
minds Of the All-Wilmington League
managers. Harlan saw the great JIM
terest a Harlan-pusey series would
create aud was OF the opinion that TINS
interest would extend throughout th'
league. 10 was pointed ont tha
pennsy particularly, would benent b,
The admission OF pusey's 90 thl
league and finally all the six manager
came 80 the same conclusion. Ih
league. therefore, is stronger thai
ever. Moreover. two OF each Satur
days games via be played on enclose'
fields. 10 was said last night that Ex
perimental would use the Front an
Union streets field after next Saturday
Wildeis Arrangement 10 use tho flel
being contingent on refusal Of %
grounds by tho dupont team. Wilde
therefore. viii become a travclin
team after Saturday, the managemer
having agreed TO such an arangemer
before informing the league that th
seam had a tentative lease on the Fror
and Union field. For the present th
Harlan team will travel South Sid
Park viii be used by the BethleheI
steel and the Shlpbuildors' Leagu
teams of that plant. To may be, how
ever, that the All-Wilmington Leagu
games may be played preliminary
tho other league games.
Now that everything is rosy In u
pioneer Wilmington baseball leael
agsin. The fans will see plenty OF b1
on the coming Saturday. the Chur.
League being ready to SO into ifs sc
ond series OF eamcs on That day.
Play ball Everybody out.
Evening journal., 1918-04-17
Amerlcan Lennnr
SCHEDULE FOR TODAY.
National League.

Boston ai Philadelphia
Chicago at So Louis
Brooklyn ai New York
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati
Evening journal., 1918-04-17

champion wrestler OF Japan DE would
rather be the best baseball player in
Nippon. which is some statement, COM
Ing from a japanese wrestler, and goes
90 show how str0ns the great Amer
ican game is going there.
They have "a baseball league of cei-
loce teams n Japan. including Wasedo
University. Toxic University. kelwo
University and kyoto University. The
two nrst mentioned have toured the
United states and have given some good
American clubs "a race FOR their moueN
Evening journal., 1918-04-17

dim and then wss lost 10 sight;
Ten thousand hats were thrown IN air
ten thousand threw a tit
But no one ever found the ball that
Mighty Casey hit.
Oh. somewhere IN this favored land,
dark clouds many hide the sun
And somewhere bands no longer play
and children have no fun;
And somwhere over hliehied lives
there hangs a heavy pail,
nut Mudvllle hearts are happy now
for Casey hit the ball