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New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
Ball
Wins Approval
OF DR.. Sargent

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, JAN 26-Volley
ball, hand ball, battle ball and many
other playground games should be given
prominent place on the athletic cur
rlculum of Harvard, declares DR.. Dud-
ley A. Sargent, director of the Heming-
way Gymnasium, of that university
The doctor is greatly opposed to inter
collegiate athletics as they are con-
ductcd to-day, and lays the blame for
the origin of many of these evils to
oxford and Cambridge, whom Harvard
and Yale have aped in adopting their
sporting activities.
These playground games can fur
nIsh large numbers an opportunity to
realize the pleasure of keen compet-
hon IN some sort Of all-around physical
activity" writes Dr. Sargent in this
weeks issue of the Harvard alumni
bulletin." "They have great possibili-
Ties Tor the mass Of students, for they
are games that all can play.
"These sports have also an economic
advantage in requiring the least num-
her of square feet per player of any
Of the popular games. Their extreme
simplicity is their great advantage
over other games. Anyone can play
these games as gently or as strenuous
iy as he pleases, and still get all the
pleasure of teamplay and a genuine
contest. AS contrasted with the highly
organized or specialized games the chief
value of these playground games Is
that they are strictly informal.
My contention is that most of the
present evils associated with COLLEGE
athletics, and many of their shortcom-
lngs, have grown out of the presen,
system, originally copied from Oxford
and Cambridge and fostered largely
with some notifications by Harvard
and Yale in this country.
"lf the chief object OF the practice
OF athletics is to turn out Winning
teams, and if, as many think. athletes
are born and not made, a process Of
selection and elimination must be con.
tinually carried on which will leave
only chosen few to participat in the
final contests.
Those selected for the teams as
general rule do not need the train;no
tor their own development and re noi
infreQuently drawn into the athletic
maelstrom against their best interest
if not against their inclinations; while
those who are eliminated need the
training the most and would make
much better citizens if they had more
OF it,"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
Chicago Thinks ''Swede"
Allen a Ring Comd

CHICAGO. Jan. o6. When Tom A.,
drews. of Milwaukee. comes to Ch'esss
on his next trip Willie Murphy W.. W.
get on his trail The local newsO.v',
tight promoter is desirous OF matcnsss
his latest protege. "Swede" Allen WV w
anybody whom Andrews might sussss
for bout in the Cream City. a..
Allen, Murphy asserts, is one o, ~
best 1l8-pounders in the game and ~ ~
proven himself a mittster with w.
ure. To date he has been in but sess 's
battles, winning them all, four OF W.
by the X. o. route. Among his vics.ss, as,
were such boxers as Kid Hogan, Vow,
Sharkey Willie Lewis and Jack hss"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
The Office Boy's s sCorner
-By Louis Lee Arms.


To take "Kaiser Bi1p' by the hair,
And also Vom Hindenburg, that dreadful hun
and force them to repent for ,vhat then
hare done.
Next on the list is Herbert Feldman
the young poet from the Accounting
Department, who believes in the eff
cacy of the capital letter when it comes
to putting over the punch.
Herbert entities his verse "a Toast"
1t is that.
Here's to the boys
In the Ndry Blue
For the good old u. S.
Their hearts beat truc.
Here's to the boys
In olire clad,
They're first orcr the top:
Yes eue,y lad.
Here's to the boys
IN Khaki hue
They're one and all
For the RED. WHITE and Blue.
Herbert, incidentally, has happened
upon the ow-down on how the Kaiser
came to get his job. Any one can see
that Wilhelm is virtually a nuke. As
Herbert writes:
he acas born IN DMpickle,
On the Riror Sdurkrout:
Cause his old man had the gout.
lie attended all good schools
Namely Herring ind Onions
Bat he had to quit
Cause his OF man had bunions.
one day for pleasure
lie Went for ride
And came back the kaiser
Cause his 0l' man had died.
After reading the above all doubt as
to what ails the Kaiser is cleared awsv
frankie Fedelc is so busy writino
lyrics for Victor Herbert, Irving Ber.
I'm and the rest of the boys that he
doesn't have time to submit as MANY
verses as he did. This weeks pr;st
contains The Call of Battle" ana 1Tbe
Defenders OF Liberty" The urge Of
patriotism is the only thing that ieens
frankie from abandoning newsnane,
verse tor lyrics altogether, he tells u.s.
me Defenders OF Libertv
Lng!dnd France and America.
dher nG'nes are WtdelY Isnctc,
Ihrou9hout the ,corid
Der land and sea
As the Three
Defenders OF Liberty.
lhat will be about all for the present
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
Michigan Athletics
Undergo Big Slump

ANN ARBOR. Mich, Jan. 26.-stand-
ing of the teams in the Western Con
ference basketball championship race is
not available, but it is safe to saw there
is no team lower than Michigan. First
Indiana beat the Wolverines: later
Michigan took beating in Chicaro
while Ohio State walloped them a.
Columbus, Ohio, 81 to 8. "'
Getting back into the select Western
circle has been found not exactly the
played one football game with Con -
ference team this year Northwostoor ~,
beat her. She has played three Con
ference teams at basketball and 81,
three beat her. ""o All
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
Scouts Likely To
Be Without Work

CHICAGO, Jan. 26.-Many scouts for
the National and American League
clubs are likely to be without employ
ment next season unless majority of
the minor leagues decide to continue
IN the game, it was said by club owners
here to-day.
1t was pointed out that up to this
time none Of the club owners in ths
two major leagues had renewed a con
tract with scout. although a few
have contracts which hold over.
1t was estimated that if scouts are
dispensed with the saving to the two
leagues would be in the neighborhood ID
of 100000.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
CHAMPAIGN

NHAMPAIGN. oh smcct cha,npai0n
10 much Of you gives me q pain
You are so mild and tosty
Aud people you make crazy
Ihcre's something about you that makes me
You look so cool and refreshing
Your odor is awfuly catching
You tdntilizing bog
You come in bottles wrapped up in cloth
You are a desdrt after broth
Your jaU of jon
You make are cheeks red
And otter much OF pou homward ,Ue must be
Ho,c do you do it
That's question that puzzles me
What's in you cant see
Gm learned to Eecp duuu
Doctors sag PV be sorry some day
SO rul take there advice
So long Champaign.
The spelling and punctuation. it NAV
be added, are Irving's. If that isn't
throwing the old hooks into "Cham
paign" we'd like to know. Irving elimi
mates much of the difficult process Of
punctuation by using none at all; still.
a man who has been running around
with "Champaign" isn't in the mood to
trlf1e with such unimportant things !,
commas, semi-colons and periods.
Philip Llberman has taken another
pot shot at the Kaiser. He has failed
to entltle his verse, and we would not
presume to do it for him. Here goes:
T ISTEN. my children. and uou shall bsor
IL ~ he man who soon ,ciu be lima in,
his bier. '9'S ~
II to know his name it is your uiu
-4uom me to Introduce you to "Oid K,;s..
Bill" ~ va hdlser
'Ttcds the latter part of ninptee, et.
That the German Sea Monster H.i5
Sank the Lusitania. OF the Cunord 1;,
hntng women, also children Of nins
That's ,rhy ue arc send,no orr hon. ..o...
There" " ooSo over
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27

The greatest support of events of
this kind, which are renewed from year
to year, comes from horses with rec
ords of 2:09 or slower, but it is notable
that there are upward of two dozen
faster than that, and fully half Of
them may be counted upon for first
payments.
The division of horses with marks of
from 2:O9 to 2:10 is very strong one,
and among those that are counted upon
for the stakes are Bertha Mcclure,
Doris Watts, General Yorke, Hollywood
King, Mary Mcgowan, Indira, Zeta
Lucille, Brownie Watts Indiga, koroni.
Opera Express, Worthy Peter, Legal
W., Marion Toddington, Measles and
Sure Mike.
rake records in 1917, and among these
Lucille Spier. that took breeders rec
ord of 2:03 !. at Lexington in the fall
OF 1916. A year ago Lucille Sper and
Busy's Lassie stood out as the top
notchers of the 2:oS class, general
opinion being that either of them
would race in better than 2:05, which
would anchor anything else in sight.
busy's Lassle made good In the early
season, winning the $4,000 events at
Detroit and kalamazoo, but after that
her colors We're lowered BY Early
Dreams, the champion money winning
trotter Of the year.
Lucille Spier proved aisap3oint
ment. but whether the mare was at
fault, or her trainer. Murphy. remains
to be seen, for she did not take kindly
to the change in rigging inaugurated d
by the Poughkeepse man. Reports
from her are that she has rounded to,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
Trap Shooting Growing
More Popular in u. S. A,

Trap shooting continues to GROW in
popularity. The latest COMPILATION 9
show that more than $500 tran shoot
ing clubs are in existence. With tbat
number being added to steadily. 90
The State of Penns ylvania leads 81,
the other states of the country. With .
total of 565 clubs; New York is aac'
ond' with 283; Illinois, third, with 400
and Iowa. fourth. with 254. '''
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
Hickey Signs Twombly

ST. LOUIS. Jan. 26. Branch RieE'
president of the st. Louis Nationsi
to-day announced that he had secer,. "a.
Pitcher Twombley Of Lehigh Unlw
slty. Twombley is . right-haudsk (
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
Iwenty-six Have New Rec
ords Between 2:O714
and 2:0834
By rank S. Cooke

Favorite among the classes for which
owners and trainers look for talent
from one seasons end to the beginning
of training operations for the next is
the 2:08 trot. This division owes its
greatest prominence to its adoption for
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Stake, the headliner of Detroit Grand
Circuit activities from 1889 through the
past season. Kalamazoo also featured
the 2:08 class in its $4,000 event and
down the big line it is the standard Of
the trotting classics.
AS entries for the instalment purses,
SO generally called stakes, start clos
ing about the first of April, it is in
teresting to look over the supply of
eligibles, and at this time to note that
the outlook is on a par with the best
years.
Good Horses in List
In fact, there are more good horses
in the eligible list than are regarded
as stake probabilities than in the aver
age year. There are no fewer than
twenty-six with new or reduced records
between 2:074 and 2:0sA, and they
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
Fordtans Service FLAG Uned and Five of Her War Athletes


dB ~ Hd
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27

Name. description age and sire. Record
Gentry C.. Gu. g.. Z. Gentry Aucrton a07M
John Mack. b. g.. George A. Fuller. 80. 3:07!4
Miclailowa, b m. g. Peter the Great. 2:07A
Wilkes Brewer. ch. M. I. Nutwood Wilkes 07i4
Minnie Arthur. blk. M. s. Mainsheet 07l4
llollyrood Kate. TO. 1n.. y. Joe Dodge. 2.01l4
Leonard br. h., q. j. Molcolm Forbes. 2:07l2
Charley Rex. Dr. s.. = lecr.atlon 2:013a
Torbes .................: ...,...."..... - 2:o7s.
Guy Boy. b. g.. s. Guy Dillon. ......,...... 2:0S
Belle Bngen, b. m. H. Sahib. ........... 2:0SH
Pegasus. blk. H.. II. Zombro. ............ 2.0SA
Cora Davis, br. m. 10. Prodigal. ........ 2:0Sl4
Car Peter. b. h. i. Peter tho Great ..... 2.OSl4
Don dc Lopez. blk g.. D. Kinney de Lopez 2;0Si<
Frisco Worthy. b. g.. .. San Francisco. . 0Sl4
Lotto Watts. b. m. s. Gen Watts 2:0SA
Miss Isabelle McCrcgor. g. Jay McGregor.. 0si4
Stephen. b. g., Z. Belsire. ........... 2:0SA
Cum Lau.c. ch. IN. 4. Morgan Avwortiy... ~ J.,
Harvest Time br. m. 4. The Harvester. 2.0sH
David Look b. T.. $. Wask. ............ 2:oSia
!.eonrr Mckinney. b. m. &. Mckinney... . .0Sia
Bonnic Del. b. g.. 3. Del Coronado. 2:0Si2
lohn e.. b. g. III. Sunrise Chimes ....... .. .0s%.
Kelly Do Forest, br. H. 4, The DE Forest .OS;.,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-27

That will be about all for
The sun., 1918-12-22

a pattern. The Triumph Of John Kdrs,
lust published, is an example
Many readers will find thrills and ex-
element sufficient to satisfy them that
III, story is all book should be; others
will hold that it is merely a mechanically
twined yarn. Certainly ii shows sigf., of
hasty construction and of shocking neg
lect after the original manuscript WAS
written. A thorough reading of proofs
would have prevented many errors and
might have revealed to the author his ten
dency to ride an unusual word TO death.
In respect of the last Mr.. Csllum states
on page 112 that "The broad river IN lis
bowels was reduced to something hike a
trickling stremnlet," while on page III
he says ut 1.-THE camp lay in the bowel,
of a hollow" Again, on page l26, HE
was swallowed up by the dark bowels Of
the woods" and on the following page,
Here, in the bowels of the great pit, he
was no longer blinded s..
John Kars was one Of those supermcn
one meets TOO often in novels Of the North
and far West He was %. wealthy from
an early gold rush and investments in the
city of Leapng Horse and he lived in the
north because he loved it, There was
no one who could hit the trail or stick to
it like John Kars.
Allen Mowbray and Murray McTayi>h
kept the trading post at Fort Mowbray
GA Snake River. One summer Allen did
not return from his trading trip He was
murdered by the treacherous Bell Rivcr
Indians, far 10 the North Hitherto
Nowbray had been received by them in
friendly manner In fact there was a
The sun., 1918-12-22

mystery concerning the reason he went
there. That there was treachery involved
in his death was apparent to John Kars.
He determined to explore it.
At the fort lived Mrs. Mowbray, her
son Alec and daughter Jessie, with Me-
lavish as their protector. kars made
the northern tri p and found that the saw
age Bell River Indians had discovered gold
in the bed Of the river and had erected a
crude but efficient plant for extracting it.
This then was the secret they guarded so
closely Kars and his party barely es-
capped with their lives from the Indian
stronghold, but the valiant John deter
mined 10 return the following summer
with 4 strong outfit TO raid the dggings.
He did and many were the exciting
things that occurred before, during and
after the assault. There was a murder
and a sensational trial at Leapng Horse;
and then came the exposure of the double
dyed. arch villain who caused Allen Now
bray's death and sought the ruin of
others Of the family.
ANY one who reads the first chapter can
tell that Jessie Mowbray was ready to
throw herself at John Kars. Mowbray
and Kars leave the north together for
ever, John rejoicing, at the bride he has
won"
The Triumph Of John kdrs is really
triumph in bidding and makeup. 1t is
cloth backed and between unusually heavy
covers. The Ietterpress i attractive and
it is illusi rated in color.
THE TRIUMPH OF JOHN KARS. By
RIDGwEL CULrvM. George w. Jacobs &
Co. $40.
The sun., 1918-12-22
Triumph of John Kars"

g OMEB0DY or other about town who
~ sells Office partitions has clever
advertising line, made by the mile, sold
by the foot" This, we cannot help but
feel, applies very nicely TO the works Of
Ridgwell Cullum, who seems able to pro-
duce an inexhaustible number Of North
ern and Western stories, all generally of
The sun., 1918-12-22
Casuals
BY Charles Divine.


By Charles Divine.
They Struggled dOtrH the higk1rGy
Where the -whitethOra bHShes 9roE,
And some Were whistliHg, some tcere laughing,
Some Jumping slOUr;
And all of them had heard the guns
And felt the ShrapneI fly.
"Hey, Jdck!' shouted dorn the road,
"IFhGt OUTFITS going by'"
Lay off that stuff! You got us wrong; amt an outfit
vet;
We're sort of strong soldiers that the bulletins forget
But just the we've their ground, by keelo and
by mile,
And filled the gaps in thinning lines and shattered rank
and file.
We dandy regiment, regiment owns us,
We're military waits they send to any kind of FUSS
To-day we're hiking orphans who tomorrow may be
thrown
Among the best battalion of the umpty sevenths
and ward
We've passed before examiners the disability board
We're AS or BIS or Cs DIS such got out fates.
The Ds-the lucky, helpless boys-wiIl beat to the
States!
Artillery, machine gun crew marines dOugh60ys and al,
Oh Thy do march faster, and others barely crdWl!
Wkp of fit again for coolies, mad and he'll,
And Of hare got limp uhere certain bullets fea
Artillery, machine gun creW, marines, doaghbOys and
tanks,
Who Inger picking berries the bihy wdyside banks
The Red Cross bags you're sringing that your only
pack'
The less yoare got tote around the less you rorry
Jack.
Pierrette the dark, the laughing maid Pierrette with
blue-back eyes,
Why You up early when the dawn is In the skesi
Pulling switches setting signals, in the hut beside the
track,
To help papa the chef de gare send all the soldiers back
Baptiste, the Spanish vender, with a shawl around his
neck
What brings you, basket laden, here and what do you
expect!
The troops going out they say there's every kind and
rank,
And IL monsieur will give them grapes, for
half a frame"
Artillery machine gun crer marines, doughbOg and GH
That do you 90 riding and there dinner calf
They're side door PUllmans, probably, hommes forty,
cheredHr eight
I'd rather be the horses, they eat withOm plate.
No blankets kis-sone fingers and knife,
The sun., 1918-12-22
When Private Mugrums Parlay Voos

By Charles Divine.
can count my francs an santeems-
If I've got basket near
An speak wicked "bon jour-"
But the verbs are awful queer,
An lose lot of pronouns
When try to talk to you,
For your eyes are so bewitehin'
l forget 10 parlay WOO
In your pretty little garden,
With the bench beside the wall,
An the sunshine on the asters,
An the purple phlOx so tall,
/ should like to whisper secrets,
But my language goes askew-
With the second person plural
For the more familiar "too."
In your pretty little garden
could always say ''juh tame,S
But it amt SO very subtle,
An it amt not quite the same
AS you've got some dandy earrings
Or "Your eyes are nice an brown
But my adjectives get manly
Right before lady noun.
Those ininitives perplex me;
can say you're tray jolee,"
But beyond that simple statement
All my lenses don't agree. o
can make the BocIre COMPETENCY
When meet EN- in a trench,
But the softer things escape me
When / try TO zap in French.
In your pretty little garden,
Darn the idiOms that dance
On your tongue 50 sweet and rapid,
All, they hold me in a france!
Though | stutter an stammer,
In your garden, on the bench,
Yet my heart is writin' poems
When I talk TO you in French.
From the Stars and Stripes.
The sun., 1918-12-22
Psychoneuroses*
By Charles Divine.

FSyCnOneurOSeS
By Charles Divine.
The train sped through tranquil countryside !
Where sheep, that day, had grased across tie grass
With easy progress through the G~tsss" sun.
Eight sprarling lay in the small c0npo'tme"s
And do-ed past ftful lurck and tcaksng pain.
The night is grinding through my head,
Flat wheel jolt and jar,
Banging at my temples hot,
Singing needles, cracking car;
Jims dizzy face, blot
And the quiet fields so far!
know the doctors call us "nuts'-
oh, yes, heard them say
We're off for special treatment well,
I'll tell 'em bout the day
Artillery falling short,
And pushed in the way.
Eight sprawIiag men lay in the small compartment
Who jumped at erery sudden roar and sUhiste
Flung past them by the brutal, ledping night
The -goJed lamp uas dim and green and CHASTITY
And greasy shadows crossed each tVisted face.
There's Harry, nerves all gone, all gone
Was that a station beli-
His hands are shaking all the time
hope they make we'll
He hides his fists inside his coat
But the trembling pockets tel.
And Jam is worse than him, poor lad,
He cant talk any more,
The shells have left him speeches.
And-Good God, don't slam that door,
The sheep we passed this afternoon,
They never heard OF
Dick shouts TO start attack,
He says he's Colonel Dash
Don't let him grab that can of beef
He'll break-a sudden crashi
The pounding bldcknesS rushes in
ADORE the broken sash,
The night rides grinding through my head,
Flat wheel, jolt and jar,
Banging at my temples hot
And the quiet fields far!
."The term shell shock will not be accepted as q
diagnosis OF disability death" -AanaaI of Sick and
Founded Reports A. f. F.
The sun., 1918-12-22
A Soldier Poet in France
Verses of Lieut. Charles Divine Author of CITY Ways Company Streets

Corn Fies for breakfast, Corn Willie suppers, too,
And the ol tomato cam arhen coffee stops due
Baptte selling nuts. Perrette is pushing through the
crowd,
Pierrete, the dark, the laughing maid; and bells
ringing loud.
The soldiers throng the doorway she into the hut
Pierrete kicks off wooden shoe to let them crack nut
We're nerer kEorn home in France,
Nor seen our barracks bag,
We've ncrer had a Colonel
We could sing about or Drag,
We're nerer had addresses
That fegIou's girl could fNd
We've nerer had home
Ercept the IRE left behiHdi
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THE
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
SOAKING RAINS IN
 KANSAS CORN BELT
This Causes a Drop of l 7-Sc to 2 5-Sc, Followed by
 Oats and Provisions

Chicago, August 23-Corn prices broke sharply today on soaking rains in Kan sas and showers in Missouri and Michi- gan, closing at net loss of 17sc to 25sc. Heavy rains were reported also in other parts of the southwest. An immediate increase in the movement to market was B prospect which served further to un- dermine confidence of the bulls. A pri- vate firm issued a bullish crop report ordinarily of influence, but it was large ly disresarded The return of MT. Hoo- yer from Europe was noted with in terest as he was expected to modify or eliminate the 50-50 rule of buying sub stitutes with wheat products. October corn closed 1%c under yesterday at sl.Sss.
 The oats market was inclined to bull ishness at the outset on it's own account, but the bearish example in the neighbor- ing corn pit was too much and at the close prices were 13sc 10 11ac net lower. Cash and elevator interests were sellers of the deferred contracts presumably hedging. The sample market was off 1ac to 1c.
 Provisions were dull and lower in sym pathy with corn and a lower market at the stockyards The department of agri- culture estimated that the hog supply is 31s per cent larger than year ago. Closing prices were 10d121sc lower for lard; 2211aGI25c for ribs and 45c down for pork.