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SMALL FIELDS AT
BEL M ONT PARK
BRING OUT SOME
RACING ODDITIES

New York, Sept. 30.-Dame Fortune
played strange pranks during the re-
cent meeting at Belmont Park in the
matter of winners coming from certain
post positions. In seventy races run
more than so per cent Of the winners
started from either number one or
number two position at the post. This
was extraordinary and due in many
instances to the small fields. Stats
tics show that there were nineteen
winners came from number one posi-
ton, seventeen from number two, sew
en- from number three, nine from num-
Der four, eight from number five, five
from six, two from seven, two from
eight, none from nine and one from
ten. These figures show that q per
cent of the winners started from num-
Der one position and "a per cent from
number two.
Looking over the problem of favor
ties winning and losing, twenty-five
favorites out of seventy Non races
on which odds were laid, while thirty
six favorites won races, and there were
but sixteen winners at to l or bet
ter. IN all there were thirty-four IA
vorites beaten out of seventy races,
or fully SO per cent.
This shows a pretty equal division,
as but 36 per cent of favorites won at
Belmont Park last fall. This increase
was no doubt due to the small fields
which predominated.
One out the seventy races recorded
there We're thirty-two winners where
odds of even money up to 3 to l pre-
vailed, or nearly so per cent. These
figures are of interest to system fol-
lowers, as they show the most produc-
tive results come from the class of
horses that range in price from even
money to 5 to /.
Comparing the fall meeting of this
year with that of 1918, there were
twice as many winners at odds-on
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Harvard Crushes Bates $50
in Opening Game of Season

Cambridge, Mass, Sept. 27.-Har-
wards reconstructed football eleven
drove eight times across the Bates
goal line today in the first varsity
game in the stadium since the war,
and with five goals from touchdowns
rolled up a score of SO to 0. The Wis
itors were only once within goal shoot
ing distance of the Crimson posts.
In the first period Casey, the star
backfelder of the 1916 eleven, was
Embossed for open field running and
made two dashes, one of forty and the
other sixty yards, for scores.
In the second and fourth periods
the Crimson eleven made two marches
of forty yards each down the field
for scores and four other touchdowns
resulted from catching forward passes
hurled by Bates, and errors of the
visitors under their own goal posts.
Lineup:
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Benny Leonard
Gives Quick Action
Never Stalls in Ring and Does Not Draw Color Line; No
Real Basis of Comparison With Cans.

ing only as long as Leonard has been
fighting now he had nothing like Leon
ards Knockout record. But he was
fighting men like George NcFadden,
Spider Kelly, Jack DAILY, Kid McPhit-
land, Young Critic, George Black
burn, Bobby Dobbs, Willie Fitzgerald,
Frank Erne and scores of others, who
were great because they were brought
up on long fights, from twenty to
forty-five rounds instead of the six
and ten round no decision bouts of
today.
Joe Cans record outclasses that of
the present champion. Cans lost to
Sam Langford in 1903 in fifteen
rounds. Langford was little heavier
than Cans at that time, but terror.
Again, while lightweight champion,
Cans fought Welter Champion Joe
Walcott, famous all over the world
then as the Barbados Demon" and
the "Giant Killer" Walcott had
knocked out Joe Choynski and had
beaten Kid Carter, Jimmie Handler,
Jack Boner, George Gardiner and
stacks of other heavy weights. That's
the kind of a scrapper he was. Benny
Leonard has not met his kind yet. |
witnessed the fight with Walcott. 1t
was held in San Francisco during the
month of October, 1904. They fought
twenty rounds at 141 pounds ringside,
which Cans made as strong as a lion.
But it weakened Walcott to make the
ringside weight. He had to weigh in
stripped and return to his dressing
room and consumed one hour to dress
the whole length of this time Cans
sitting in his corner in the ring wait
ing for Walcott to reappear 1t was
only after continuous hooting of the
vast throng present. that Walcott
made his appearance. 1t was one of
the most bitterly contested fights |
ever had the pleasure of seeing, and
it was in this fight Cans earned the
title of old master. The referee
called it a draw. The decision caused
near riot because it was a heavy
betting affair and the Cans followers
figured he had been robbed. The con-
sensus of opinion was that Cans was
entitled to the decision and the welter-
weight title, which is supposed to be
141 ringside, a weight Walcott could
not make and be at his best. Leonard
won his fight with splendid speed,
courage and hitting power But it
takes more than ten-round sprint
to show what is really a fighter.
Until Leonard goes through a couple
of twenty-round bouts with the best
of his rivals there will be no way to
compare him with the old-time cham
pion of champions in the lightweight
division, Joe Cans, the old master.
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Prouiso, 20; Thornton, s

Proviso heavies invaded Harvey and
carried off 20 to victory against
Thornton in game marked by rag
ged play. The home team got the
jump when James recovered Proviso
tumble and ran thirty yards for a
touchdown in the first quarter and led
at half time, Go.
Chairo, a light but fleet youngster,
scooped tumble by Thornton and
dashed sixty yards for a score in the
third period, and in the final quarter
the visitors held clear edge. ZiebelI
got around end for thirty-five yards
for one score and Wiedbusch went
over after an advance of forty-five
yards on straight football.
T he 1918 Suburban champion
Proviso lights met disaster at Loyola
field, where they were beaten by Lake
View, 10 to 0, in a fast game.
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RACING
Man O War Two
Year Old Champion

year is done, and he has been sent into
well earned retirement to await the
disclosure Of his three-year-old form,
probably in next years Kentucky
Derby. What that form is to be is
really one of the most interesting
racing problems Of the time. If this
superb two-year-old escapes the mis-
chances of one sort and another which
marred the three-year-old careers Of
Dominant, Campfire, Sun Briar and
Eternal and makes normal growth and
improvement between now and next
spring, we should have an undisputed
champion three-year-old in 1920 in this
splendid son Of Fair Play.
Man O. War is winner of the great
est amount of money as two-year-old
since Collins year. His defeat by Up
set in the Sanford Memorial Stakes
was fluke, and nothing but bad luck
in that race prevented him from leav-
ing racing with record unsullied by
defeat. 1t is for the good of racing
that horse of the highest order
should make its appearance from time
to time, and so far as present appear
ances go Man O. War is probably des-
tined to achieve a reputation akin to
that which the glorious deeds of Hin
doc, Luke Blackburn, Hanover, Syson-
by and Colin earned for them in their
days of triumph. His record this year
is worth more than looking over care
lessly, and here it is:
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1t is illustrative Of the uncertain
ties of racing that none Of the cham
pion -year-olds since 1914 proved
to be champion three-year-old of
its following year. Infirm legs beset
Dominant. Campfire's failure was sig
nal Sun Briar's early career was dis
heartening, but when summers heat
arrived he improved steadily and at
Saratoga was about all an owner could
have asked for. But he was not raced
on and Johren was the best three
year-old of last year. EternaPs fail
ure in the early racing of this year
was about as complete as that Of Sun
Briar in the early racing of 1913.
Now he is in retirement with bad
leg encased in a plaster cast, and the
championship rests in dispute between
Sir Barton and Purchase. A special
race between these two at even weights
would be highly interesting.
The foregoing is a condition that
does not always obtain. Old Rosebud
was the best two-year-old Of 1918, and
until he fell lame was the best three
year-old Of the year following. Re-
greet was invincible as two-year-old
and maintained her superiority when a
three-year-old. This year Man O. War
is away off by himself as our best
two-year-old.
All men of experience and good
judgment agree that he is a racer of
the highest class. His work for the
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BOXING
Ring History, September 21-27

neutrality-suspicious. Billy Smith lost
on foul to Joe Walcott, ten rounds,
Hartford, Conn, Sept. "a.
1900 - Dan Creedon knocked out
Billy Peyton, seven rounds, Baltimore,
Ma, Sept. 81.
1901-Benny Yanger defeated Geo.
Dixon, fifteen rounds, st. Louis, Mo-,
Sept. rs.
19O1-Frank Erne knocked out
RUDE Ferns, nine rounds, Fort Erie,
N. Y, Sept. %.
1901-Jim Jeffries knocked out Joe
Kennedy, two rounds, Los Angeles,
Cal, Sept. "a.
1902-Joe CAM knocked out Jack
Bennett, two rounds, Philadelphia, Pa,
Sept. %.
1903-Joe Kalcott knicked out Tom
Corey, five rounds, Boston, Mass,
Sept. %.
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ls94-Stanton Abbott drew with
Jack Everhardt, twenty-five rounds,
New Orleans, La, Sept. %.
1894 - Billy Plimmer drew with
Johnny Murphy, twenty-five rounds,
New Orleans, La, Sept. "a.
1s94-Bob Fitzsimmons knocked out
Dan Creedon, two rounds, New Or
leans, La, Sept. rs.
i898-Jack O'Brien knocked out Joe
Cain, FOURTEEN rounds, Brooklyn, n,
Y, Sept %.
1899 - Mysterious Billy Smith"
knocked out Bob Douglas, four rounds,
Denver, Colo, Sept "a.
1S99-Spike Sullivan knocked out
Billy Ernest, two rounds, Brooklyn,
n. Y, Sept. 80.
1899-Peter Maher knocked out Joe
Kennedy, two rounds, New York City,
Sept. 26.
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this year as last, and nearly one-third
more winning choices. These facts
were made up of horses in which one
OF two would stand out distinctly from
the remainder, while the winning out
siders last year were decidedly more
numerous than they were this year,
showing the contestants were more
evenly balanced in 1918. Scarcity of
starters had much to do with these
results.
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Benny Leonard may be Joe Cans,
but he hasn't had anything like Cans
list of rivals to wade through. So we
don't know what his limit is. He may
be better. It's sure that Leonard has
done everything asked of him. And
it is not his fault if the competition
is not what it used to be in his class.
He is the only real champion of the
world. He does not draw the color
line, something that cannot be said of
any of the other divisions of the fight
game. He does not STALL He does not
content with winning on points by a
small margin, although he is clever
enough to do it. One thing about
Leonard, which is a quality seen in
all first-class champions, is his knack
of winning wherever he meets on the
second time. He knew all about how
to beat Welsh the third time they met.
He boxed ten rounds with Kilbane in
1915. After becoming champion he
met Kilbane again. This time he knew
all about Kilbane's fighting style and
beat him to his favorite punches and
knocked him out in three rounds.
Leonard can win in a hurry when
he feels like hurrying. He fought Leo
johnson, very clever colored light
weight, who was regarded as extreme
" dangerous. When the two stripped
in the ring and stepped out to face
each other Johnson seemed to have
every advantage in the world. He
was a perfect picture of smooth
moving, 1.-THE, hard-hitting fighter,
Benny went into him like whirlwind
and knocked him cold in the first
round. He took a hard lacing when
he met Willie Richie in a four-round
bout in Frisco. We never have heard
of or seen Leonard in any real dis
tress, except in his four-round bout
with Richie. When Benny's left eye
was closed tight and he could not see
in time to block, that time he fought
back gamely, in the last round recov-
ering and holding Richie even IN the
last two minutes of hard fighting. But
when they met the second time he
stopped him in eight rounds. But
Benny has not been hit by anyone like
Dial Hawkins. Nobody knows what
would happen in that case. In Cans
time the world was full of hard hit
ters. Dial Hawkins had a left-hand
punch delivered slowly at full arm S
length with a sudden twist of the
wrist that was like blow with a
hammer. He landed that on Cans in
the first round of each of their two
famous fights, and each time knocked
Cans fiat and nearly out. Yet Cans
each time came up, stalled, recovered
and fought furiously and knocked out
Hawkins. When Cans had been fight
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and saw that the policeman kept quiet,
too.
'Now, if there is anything you want
explained, just ask me-" said he at the
race meeting. 81 suppose some things
are meaningless to you?"
Everything I've seen and heard so
far is meaningless" said the girl.
"Some of the things are positively
silly"
"For ins.,.nce?"
"Why do they call the seats the
stands?"
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Richest Race
Scheduled for October
18th at Lafonia, Ky

Louisville, KY, Sept. 27.-The $780,
900 Latonia championship stakes, said
to be Americas richest race, will be
decided at the Latonia race course
Saturday, Oct. II, according to an
nouncement by the Kentucky Jockey
club. Announcement of the date has
been withheld until details of the
worlds series baseball games were
made known in order to avoid conflict
with the Cincinnati dates. The race is
for 3year-olds at one and three
fourths miles.
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La Grange in TlUo Games

La Grange won and lost on the
home field. The heavyweights wrest-
ed victory from East Aurora in a
bitter game, 13 to z.
Olson, La Grange, scored in the
first quarter by a spectacular fifty
yard dash on delayed buck. La
Grange was penalized half the length
of the field after brush in mid-field
by some Of the players, and this put
Aurora within a foot of the goal in
the second quarter. Modicher bucked
for the necessary foot. La Grange
also scored in the second quarter.
Making their first touchdown with
in minutes, Sem lightweights beat
La Grange 20 to 6. Lineups:
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Oak Park, 81; Harrison, O

Oak Park scored almost at will
against Harrison tech, winning shut
outs in both ends of the interleague
double header on the suburban field.
The major game resulted 81 to 0, and
the lightweights AZ to 0.
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Football Scores

Indiana, 81; Wabash, Z.
Coe, 36; Iowa Wesleyan, 0.
Case, 40; Baldwin Wallace, 0.
Kansas Aggies, 16; Baker, O.
Haskell, 7; Kansas Commerce, {
Harvard, So; Bates, 0.
Amherst, 8; Bowdoin, O.
Brown, 81; Rhode Island, o.
Williams, 20; Rensselaer,, 0.
Pennsylvania, 16; Bucknell, o.
Army, ID; Middlebury, 0.
Dartmouth, 40; Springfield, o.
Vermont, al; Clarkson, 2.
Lehigh, AZ; Villa Nova, 0.
W. Virginia, 81; Marietta, o.
Rutgers, "a; Ursinus, 0.
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NeW Trier, II; Alumni, 2

New Trier proved the first team
OF the local prep district able to win
from its own alumni, coming out win
ner in the annual clash at Kenilworth,
ID to Z.
Observation-Disclosures, 1, Rich
ards, 1; New Trier; Moore, 1; alumni.
Goals from touchdowns-Bu
2. Referee Schultz.
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Austin Teams Break Euen

Austin lightweights defeated Crane,
while the heavies lost a game, but
gained in glory by their showing
against the school alumni at Gunther
park. The alumni, with a majority of
players from the A. e. F., were vic
tors by Ia to O. The school teams
offense was promising, but the defense
gradually weakened under the on
slaught of ex-service men. In the
lightweight tilt, Austin beat Crane,
IL to 0, in game in which straight
plays prevailed.
After season of defeat in 1918
Evanston High hit winning stride
in the first game of the season, beat
ing Sem, 13 to 0, at Northwestern
field. Sem held for downs twice
within the five yard zone in the first
period, but straight football landed a
touchdown in the second. Falcon 60
ing over.
In the third quarter, Billows re-
turned Senn's kickoff sixty yards.
then a pass to Montgomery and fake
end run by johnson Melted another
score. callahan was the only Sem
player able to gain, and he starred.
Lineup:
Evanston, IS.
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FOOTBALL
Chicago Preparatory
Football Resu s
Deerfield, SIS: LindblOm, Z.

Deerfield opened the season by TAX
ing practice game from the newest
of Chicago high schools, Lindblom, at
Highland Park. Score was 55 to 7,
Deerfeld leading by 35 to 0 when the
first half closed. Lineup:
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Sem, 0.

Touchdowns - Falcon, Johnson.
Goal from ouchdown-Noyes. Ref
eree-Ray, Illinois.
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Lindblom, IS.

Touchdowns = Jackson, 3; earn,
PARCELS, Rita, Stuart, McIlwain,
Thorne. Goals from touchdowns-
PARCELS 5; Rita, McIlwain, Franzen.
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La Grange, 6.

Touchdowns-Sullivan, 8; Windsor.
Goals from touchdowns-Sullivan, 2.
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Washington c., the Hon Warren Douglas state
The third days will be addressed by Dr. Robt
Alderman Louis B. Anderson.
superintendent Chicago has been
invited attend the session Thursday October 9Th at 13O Some
have accepted and will address the convention Come out and hear them
Every citizen Chicago cordially invited to attend the session
what will be the biggest and most representative assembly of cored
American history In labor work
Race The International the 1G4 Local organa
extending Paul the Gulf
The biggest invitation ball Chicago will be held
Thursday evening" October All local
members headquarters and invitations Each member
eight friends friend of Chcagos coored railway
men? expect all and at the
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La Grange, 10.

Touchdowns-Olson, Carsons, Modi-
cher. Goals from touchdowns-Hey,
Simons.
LIGHTWEIGHTS.
Sem, 20.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14
Former Democratic Whip As
sails Presidents Carpers.
Declares Attacks Invite OppO-
sitiOn From Whole World.
OUR HARDEST BATTLE COMING
Nation Needs Patriotism and
Not Partyism, He Declares.
Says U. S. Will Leave Peace
Table Without a Friend.

Kansas City, June 1.-THE spec
tacle of the United States divided in
its support of its pvesiden. while he
is fighting for his country on foreign
soil invites every enemy in every part
of the world to oppose our policies and
insist on its own-all to the humilia-
ton of the United States" declared ex-
Senator James Hamilton Lewis of H.
linois. in a Flag day address here to-
day.
The president of the United
States" he continued, while repre-
senting our people abroad as a nation
is not serving as party politician; he
serves as spokesman in Europe for all
Americans. What our nation needs,
then. is more national patriotism and
less political partyism." Mr.. Lewis
cited history in support of his conten-
ton that the peril of every people
comes not during conflict. but after
war has ceased, and he continued:
This nation will come from the
peace table without a friend. Those
nations that are not of the so-called
allies will go away preaching revenge
against The United States as the author
OF all their losses; such nations will
hold the United States responsible for
what it does not get, however much
it may obtain.
Germany will charge US with re-
spousibility for burdening its nation
with debt. Some Russians will charge
us with failing her and others will
complain that we prevented develop
ment of liberty there. Japan, controll-
ing the Orient. will retaliate whenever
possible against our policy of exclud-
ing her people and will sit with ORR
entail patience quietly awaiting the
hour when she may join with brood
ing Russia and revengeful Germany
in opposition to the United States OF
.t1...t
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THIS Is FLAG DAY

Continued from Page One.)
be gazed upon with awe and reverence
as it floats today from the flag staffs
and the windows in Topeka.
City Is Decorated.
Despite the weather conditions, the
city was well decorated today. There
were really many more flags displayed
in the residence districts than uptown,
altho most of the stores began to
blossom out" later in the day.
Special services were to be held
this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Me-
mortal Hall by the Military Sister
hood The Boy Scouts were to put
on the flag ceremony and the scout
band was to play. Capt. W. P. Mac
Lean was selected as the principal
to commemorate the second anniver-
sary of the founding of the sisterhood.
Invitations were extended to the pub
lie and to patriotic organizations to
attend.
Celebration Tonight.
The biggest celebration of the day
will be held in Memorial Hall tonight
at o'clock by the G. A. R., Women 8
Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans and
other auxiliary organizations. Gov.
Henry ]. Allen, Mayor Herbert ].
Corwine, Col. W. w. Smith, Walter
L: Payne, Mrs: Dora Candy, president
of the W. R. c., and other prominent
men and women will make addresses.
The Topeka chapter of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution will
observe the day with a picnic supper
tonight at the home of Mrs. Theodore
Saxon in Potwin Place.
Sunday night the Elks will have a
program in their hall, beginning at
$50 o'clock. The flag salutation and
salute to the flag will be read and
there will be several musical num-
bers and a reading by Miss Kathryn
Albaugh.
Tonight's Program.
Following is the program to be held
at Memorial Hall tonight:
America .---.-...B By the audience
Pianist, Mrs. II. A. Black
Pledge to the Flag. Mrs. Lucy A. MilIiken
Recitation, "Old Glory.
.............. Miss Jean Louise st. John
Address, Herber ]. Corwine, Mayor of To-
Solo, Americans Come. ..............
Mrs. Robert Parks Bennett
Address. Walter L. Payne. State Treasurer
THE Star Spangled Banner. The audience
Recitation, THE Flag ....-...........
Miss Dorothy Stadell
Address, Mrs. Dora Candy, Department
Solo. ...........-........P erryman Dodge
Reading. .......... Mrs Ruth Boyer Lane
Recitation, 1.-The Flag of Betsy Ross
-..-................M Miss Emily Erickson
Accompanies, Miss Mande Mary Klein.
partment Commander of Kansas G. A. r.
Song, God be With You Til We Meet
Again. ....-....-..-..-..-Th audience
Accompanies. Mrs. H. A Black
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some representative in every community to
hear grievances.
1. That discharged or denoted employees
be returned to their former positions
5. That employees laid off when forces
are diminished be given preference when
any addition to the force is made:
board, composed of an equal number of
representatives from the companies and
from the employees to sit at Washington
Orders Coast Phone Strike.
Atlantic City, N. J., June 14-Julia
O'Connor, head of the telephone oper-
ator's department International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
declared today she had sent orders to
the Pacific coast for a strike of tele-
phone operators there, effective We'd
nesday.
Miss O'Connor, who is a delegate to
the labor convention here. said this
strike was called in sympathy with the
electrical workers who are scheduled
to strike Monday. She asserted a ma
tion-wide telephone operators strike
would be called next. if no settlement
is reached
Towns without Wire Service.
| Des Moines, June 14-Railroad
telegraphers thruout Iowa today obey
| ed the order issued m st. Louis not
to handle commercial messages. Attic
their action left hundreds of towns
/ without telegraph service, Western
Union and Postal officials said it has
| curtailed their business only slightly.
Reports to the Associated Press indi-
cate that the tieup in Iowa among the
\ smaller towns is complete. Many
| towns reported their offices were
. closed