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The Washington times., 1919-01-15

The baseball season starts on
April 1S with Central meeting Busi-
ness. Eastern and Western follow
next with Business coming back again
to play Technical in the third contest
of the title games.
The schedule for the season fol-
lows:
April Is, Central VS.. Business: %,
Eastern VS.. Western; %. Business VS..
Technical: 90. Central VS.. Western;
May 2, Eastern VS.. Technical; 6,
Business VS.. Western; 9, Eastern VS..
Central: IS, Western VS.. Technical;
16. Business VS.. Eastern, and Central
VS.. Technical.
Grounds Not Sure.
Just where the schoolboys will hold
their series is not clear as yet. 1t is
planed. to have the games, played in
Central stadium IL arrangements can
be made whereby a screen can be
placed in right field. The matter will
be taken up in the next month to de-
termine just what can be done with
the project.
The selection of umpires for the
tiles games will come up later in the
spring. Games in past years have
been played at American League
Park, Catholic University. George
town, the White Lot Ellipse and at
Gallaudet.
Grid Schcdule Out.
The football schedule for 1919 finds
Eastern and Tech opening with Busi-
ness and Western following. Central
appears last against Tech in the third
game of the series.
The grid dates follow: October Il,
Eastern VS.. Technical: 21, Western
VS.. Business; "a Technical VS.. Cen
trail; %, Eastern VS.. Western; 81,
Business VS.. Central; November 4,
Technical VS.. Western: I, Eastern VS..
Business; II, Western VS.. Central:
IA, Technical VS.. Business and is,
Eastern VS.. Central.
The games will be played at the
Central stadium as in the past. There
was no championship football sched-
ule last season on account OF the
Spanish flu epidemic.
Track Dates Listed.
In following the start made LIST
season the high school athletic direc-
tors have put the freshman, inter-
scholastic and title meet back on the
program. There was considerable dis
satisfaction expressed last season in
the change and Central withdrew
from competition.
In addition to the three meets
planned the schools will hold the
track meet as was the case three
years ago. The open meet will prob
ably be run on the same basis as
were the meets in years past with
three entrants from each school rum
ming and no limitations placed upon
the number of events to be entered.
In addition to these meets Central
has selected the date of May 81 to
hold it's big scholastic open meet.
This event is expected to attract he
attention of the schools in Maryland
and Virginia. and will open up year
ly competition for track teams of
all the high schools and prep schools
which care to enter.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
WILL BEGIN APRIL 18

Baseball football and track schedules ready
Washington high schools following meeting
held recently will be baseball
the of football
which will anything held city
boys.
Track fully worked expected
that Central will have big the
to this the schools will
old freshman
laid and title affair
lhano in neache
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
Ten YEARS AGO.
In SPORTS

Johnny Killing, the famous Cub
catcher, opened pool parIors in
Kansas City.
Abe Attell and Freddy Weeks
signed for a twenty-round go at
Goldheld, New. They will meet
at 122 pounds.
Ray Ewry. champion standing
nigh jumper, was pronounced
TO be suffering from tuberculosis
Ewry was the unbeaten cham
pion for, five years.
James J. Jeffries will come out
OF retirement and work before
the public January 17.-It is
believed that Jeffries will grad
ually condition himself to meet
Jack johnson.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15

whenever James tights in England,
the club officials. put mosquito
netting around the ring instead of
ropes.
Survey of food prices shows that it takes
eight times more money to get indigestion
now than it did in 1912.
We advise Bat Levinsky not to
climb into any more rings without his
sheriff's badge.
In the race for next years pen
nant the new owners of the Giants
are already four champagne corks
ahead.
Waterbury. Connecticut, is through
making munitions aud is back at its
old game Of manufacturing alarm
clocks. II 1t amt ono udr, its az.
other.
RELIEF COMMITTEE Is GOING
TO SPILL 800, 100000 BUYING EGGS
WHY NOT SPEND A FEW MILLION
MORE AND MAKE 1T AN EVEN
DOZEN?
Clark Griffith is after one short
stop, two pitchers, and three spec
tatorS.
Generally most meetings stop occasion
ally for refreshments. But baseball con-
vention is one where the refreshments stop
once in while for the meeting.
Lot OF trouble at the International
I.Pl nrA i
another an anachronism. By the time
the mag looked it up in the book, the
first bird had taken 1t on the loop.
General PCrshin1 is going to bust
out soith big allied athletic meet in
Paris. An kinds Of athletes UW Ydt-
Uheet around the rink. The Berlin to
PdrtS marathon is of, as the Kaiser
got Splintcrs in his feet from ,oearin1
~ooden shoes in Holland. The cootie
Mtfe rtH be the large epent An en-
tro"fs start from scratch.
GOLFING is GREAT STUFF AT
P1NEHURST THIS WINTER. WE'D
LIKE TO SPEND THE WINTER AT
PINE1iURST. BUT WE'D HATE TO
HAVE TO PLAY GOLF TO DO 1T.
The punishment exceeds the crime.
There will be big chance in playing
rules next season in the League OF Nations
One foul line will be painted on the Rhine
The other foul line will be on the Bos-
phorus.
Expert claims the Kaiser is nuttier
than an ostrich full of tin cups Says
he is growing a million dollars worth
of whiskers and wants to pose for
Narrow Collar ads
If eight more legislatures ratify the
amendment, the works will go drier
than covered bridge. Fortunately,
the baseball meeting will be over by
then.
Benny LeOnard's fight with Eddie
Kelly wasn't much more than a meal
with a Observation-Disclosures des-
Sert.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
JOHNS HOPKINS TO MEET
PRINCETON'S '1e ELEVEN

BALTIMORE, Jan. 15.-Though the
actual date is withheld, Physical Di-
rector Abercrombie, of Johns Hopkins,
announced today that the Blue and
Black would meet Princeton's 1919
football eleven at Princeton early in
October.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
NAVY BASKETBALL QUINT
PLAYING AT ST. MARY'S

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 15.-Today the
Navy basketball quint is playing Mt.
st. Mary's from Emmitsburg, Md. The
Mountaineers, coached by the veteran
Mike Thompson, are light, but un-
usual y fast, and a hot contest is OK
pected.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
FENCING TOURNAMENT.

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-The annual
national fencing tournament will be
held again this year. according to an
today.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
RESERVES TO BATTLE.

Business High School reserves and
those of Western High will play in
the Western gymnasium today. In
addition the Eastern Sophomores will
play the Western Sophomores. West
ern's midgets will play.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
OPERATIONS IN GAME.

Naval Operations, with Degnan,
Bruecker, Harris, Dover. Mann,
Ingley, and Hager playing. will meet
the Aloysius Club basketers in the
Aloysius Club Gymnasium tonight.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
PLANS MANY BOUTS.

MILWAUKEE,. Jan. 15.-TOm An
drews, manager of the Cream City
\. c.. is planning a series of boxing
shows that will bring the stars of tn"
profession here. Ritchie Mitchell.
Lew Tendler. Johnny Dundee. and
Benny Laonard will be offered bouts
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
COLONEL WINN READY.

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-ColoneI
Winn. manager of the Churchill Downs
and Juarez race tracks. announced
that he looks for a resumption of
racing at Juarez early in March.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
cLAPP LOSES MATCH.

PLNEHURST, N. C.. Jan 15.-John
H. Clapp, Of Chevy Chase, was de-
fested by / up by Don Parker, ot
Merton, in the first round OF the Ad-
vertisers' tourney here.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
EXPECT DEADLOCK In DIAMOND WAR:
GRIFFITH WILL ARGUE HIS SCHEME

NEW YORK, JAM 15The craftsmanship of the National
ball Commission the leading at the meetings of the National
and American Leagues here today.
The two big leagues ray
schedules clean
Of the joint meeting which 5 slated
The Washington times., 1919-01-15

Virginia Freshmen have a game
scheduled with Central High for
January 30. Coach c. A Metzler. of
Central. says he doesn't know any
thing about il.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15

St Adams will play Western High
in the st. Adams gym today. The
Western Freshmen will play the St
Adams Reserves in the second game.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15

Georgetown's next opponent is the
Randolph Macon College team OF Ash
land, Va. The Virginians presented a
strong lineup last season and are
meeting several strong college quiints
this year. The game will be played
Saturday.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
SPORTS
CUT
SHORT

CHICAGO. Jan. 15.-Fred Mitchell,
president and manager Of the Chicago
Cubs. plans to sign a coach to sue
coed Otto Knsbe. who has asked to be
released to join kid" Gleason, the
White Sox's new manager.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Jan. 15.-Yals
expects to stage a triangular rowing
race on the Housatonic. above Derby
Princeton has already accepted an In.
vitation, and cornelrs answer is ex-
pected any day. The course is two
miles.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15

LONDON, Jan. 15.-Jimmy Wilde is
sure to be big favorite in his bout
with Charlie Ledoux, the French
champion, which will be staged here
next month. Wilde is now resting I'm
the country and will not de much
training for the contest.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
Two THREE.
==WITH=|
"BUCS" BAER.

An idea of Jimmy Wilde's size
can be CLEANED from the fact that,
whenever James fights in England,
the club officials. put mosquito
netting around the ring instead of
ropes.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15

Survey of food prices shows that it takes
eight times more money to get indigestion
now than 1t did in 1912
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

nominal relations with the Paris
Conference and have rejected for
themselves the application Of the
essential principles of the league Of
nations, while the Greeks, the Poles
and even the recently defeated Ger
mans have calmly challenged the de-
cisions of that Paris Conference
which is the precursor of the league
Of nations itself. We have seen, at
the same time, an ever-growing pro-
test in France.
But all of this is incidental to
the main fact The strength of the
league of nations in Europe lay ex-
clusively in the belief that it pos
sessed the unqualified approval of
the whole American people, and that
if there we're not established through
the medium Of the Paris Conference
league of nations which would re-
ceive the approval Of President Will
son, then the aid and cooperation
of America would be withdrawn.
Had Europe suspected that there
was real division in America over
the principle, the league Of nations
idea would have been totally aban-
doned by the time the President had
returned from his February visit to
| America
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

European affairs, encourage the Ger
mans to make a new bid for world
power.
Not less clearly we shall have to de-.
eide to what extent we mean to con-
tribute in men and in money-both
may be necessary-to guarantee the
permanency Of such states as Poland
Czecho-S -Slovakia, Jugo- Slavia, since
without the assurance of our suppor.
all three may disappear at no dis
tant time. BY attaching reserva.
tions to the Treaty Of Versailles. O,
even by repudiating the treaty and
making q separate treaty with Ger
many, we will at best only dode,
these issues for a brief moment
since the questions themselves WIN
IN
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

the greatest battle in our history
and made a financial sacrifce unpar-
alleled in our history. To believe
that we can escape an even greater
sacrifice in any later conhagration is
to indulge in absurd optimism.
We can, as certain politicians ad-
vocate, seek to restore an isolation
which itself broke down, with ter
rible consequences, less than three
years ago; bat failing this effort to
reanimate a spirit which had to be
abandoned in hot haste, after untold
humiliation, we shall have to adopt
some policy toward the rest of the
world and, if only in self-defence,
participate in some measure in world
affairs.
AS have said, have no intention
Of participating in the contempo-
rary political debate, but it seems to
me that President Wilson was right
beyond all cavil in his recognition of
the changed relation of his country
toward the world. One may agree
or disagree with the adjustment he
sought to establish toward new
condition, but it is less than ordi-
nary justice not to recognize
that he was correct in perceiving
that a new condition existed and q
new adjustment was necessary.
His own trip to Europe was, in a
very real sense, a physical demon
stration of the new relation of the
United States to the rest of the
world; his association with Great
Britain and France was an equally
plain acceptance of the fact, which
seems to me inescapable, that for the
future our own fortunes are mex
tricably bound up with those of the
two great liberal powers Of Europe.
The course of France and Great
Britain throughout the peace confer
ence was a clear demonstration of
e frank recognition of the new order
in the world.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
WW Disregard Advice

1t is aknost certain now, in view
of the opposition to the league Of
nations displayed by the Senate, and
as consequence Of the concomitant
sentiment in favor of withdrawal
from all active participation in Eu-
ropes quarrels, that Europe will
more and more seek to adjust its
concerns without American advice.
We may expect to see the British
and the French consent to Italian
possession in Fiume; we may believe
that France, with American veto
withdrawn, will remain indefinitely
in the Sarre Basin; we think. that
the voice Of Paris addressed to Rus
mania will grow gentler, now that
conditions have changed.
But if the scheme-the vision of
a world organized through the
league Of nations-has been terribly
shattered, at least as to realiza.
ton, and postponed for many years
it is no less certain that the United
States must adopt some alternative
policy. AS a consequence Of the
assassination of an Austrian arch
duke in a.Bosnian city we sent more
than 2,0O0. 900 men to Europe, feueha
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Opposition, Has Gained

The course Of opposition in the
United States, the extent of that
opposition and it's success in delay-
ing action, and thus weakening the
effect of ultimate action, have been
destructive of the European regard
for the league of nations itself. A
new adjustment is taking place, a
new basis Of international relations.
or rather reversion to the old basis.
is discoverable in many directions.
At no distant time we are likely to
see new alliances in Europe, new
associations Of nations; an effort to
restore the balance Of power. de-
stroyed by Germany in the last war.
is inevitable.
In the face Of all these circum-
stances 1t seems to me inevitable
that the United States will have
soon, very soon, to adopt real for
eign policy based upon the facts in
the world situation. We shall, to put
It BADLY, have to decide whether we
shall stand with France and Great
Britain in maintaining the condi-
tions created in Western Europe by
the Peace Of Versailles or whether
we shall, by washing our hands of
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
American Credit Needed

I do not think it is an exaggera.
ton to say that the degree Of
stability which exists to-day IN
Europe is, in a considerable meas
urc, founded upon American credit
and upon the belief that American
aid and participation in European
affairs is assured. II we abstain
from promising the French aid IN
case Of new German aggression
the French will stay at the Rhine
as they should. If they stay ct
the Rhine corresponding adjust
ments will follow all over Europe
and these adjustments bring nov
wars sooner or later, wars which W
can hardly avoid participating in.
The conviction in Great Britain
! that we are done with Europe and
determined not to associate ourselves
with the British as we'll as ths
French in world affairs will inevi.
tably drive the British into q nsw
system Of alliances, established by
new series of secret treaties. By
contrast the mere certainty that
American aid will be Forthcoming ID
case Of new German assault VIII
restrain Germany from aggression
and obviate for the French and Brit
ish alike the necessity of seeking q
new world settlement, which must oe|
new world unsettlement, since VI
will bring with it new armament
and new military burdens. 4
In the larger sense the Units
States has never had a real foreis'
policy, nor did it until 1918 ever 81"
effective evidence to Europe OF ~
real greatness as a world powes'
Given that all-sufficing demonsts*
tion, it now needs only a wise i0r
eign policy to make our recogn'~
strength adequate to protect "
against ali dangers Of war and eos
tribute powerfully to the prevetss.
Of wars which might involve Us. D~
without policy the old danger W.
remain.
tcopyrishs. 1919. sy III. xcc,srs ~
paosf eyadieatss
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
u. S. PO1uer admitted

The Importance Of the United
States In the world which had been
created by the war was nowhere so
intelligently appreciated as In
Britain, and the Paris Conference
was recognized as providing the op-
portunity to clear the way for fu-
ture intimate association between
the United States and Great Britain
in all world affairs. Thus, had we
gone to Paris advocating, for ex-
ample, permanent alliance be-
tween Britain, France and the
United States, or any other form
Of world association compatible with
British safety and legitimate SELF
interest, 1t would have had unhesi-
tating support. The British were
merely bound, in their own view, to
stand with America and to support
American desires at Paris. In this
conception there was more than
selfishness and not a little honest
gratitude for American aid, together
with an extension Of what had been
British policy for several decades
namely, to foster American friend
ship and seek American association
in world affairs.
But it is a mistake to believe that
for a league of nations, for the
idea or the principle, there was
general or considerable support in
Great Britain. The British govern
ruent officially supported and the
British nation, so far as It actually
advocated league of nations,
acted upon the settled conviction
that the league Of nations repre-
sented the desire and the demand
Of the American people. Had Mr..
Wilson at any stage Of the proceed
ings abandoned the idea it would
have been discarded by the British
without delay. In a word, it repre-
sented for them the demand Of a
nation which they Saesired to please
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
get hin, irto q hospital!

course, and that there have even
been defections from his own party.
AS to the right or wrong Of the
course Of the opposition, as to the
views of clear majority of Ameri-
can people, l say nothing, and this
detail is unimportant for the pres
ent discussion. What is tremendous
ly important is that Europe has dis
covered that the United States is
not unanimously for the league of
nations, that one strong political
party, one important faction Of the
American people, opposes it.
And, more than this, the actual
adoption of the treaty, with or with
out essential reservations, will not
now change the fact that Europe no
longer looks upon the question as it
did last winter. 1t no longer be-
lieves that the United States de-
mands the league of nations with a
determined spirit and will turn its
back upon Europe if the league of
nations Is not accepted by all Euro
pean nations. On the contrary, the
character Of the debate in the Sem
ate and of the reservations which
have been framed, together with
the substantial vote received by the
various amendments, discloses the
United States, so far as a minority
Is concerned, at least, as unwilling
to accept for itself certain league
of nations principles as were France
and Italy.
There is then for the European
nations who never did believe in the
league Of nations itself, and par.
ticularly for those nations which
saw in it positive menace tc
their own existence, no remaining
incentive to accept, since it is by NJ
means clear yet that the United
States will accept and unmistakablt
that the United States is far from
making a unanimous demand upor
Europe to accept.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Prestige Is Din,,ned

To put the thing a little differ
emily: Had the United States Sem
ate promptly ratified the Treaty of
Versailles, had there been any i'm
mediate and widespread public ex-
preston Of approval, had the press
and the platform in America de-
monstrated that the course of the
President at Paris was beyond all
debate, subject to no question, the
course which the United States de-
sired, had there been no Republican
majority in the Senate opposing,
no Republican press in the nation
denouncing, no division, even among
Democrats, the result in Europe
would have been sure, the strength
of the league Of nations would have
been established, its prestige and
authority enormously enhanced.
But just the opposite has hap
pened, with consequences which are
OF utmost Importance, because what
ever one may believe individually
about the wisdom or the folly of the
league Of nations conception, how.
ever much one may agree or dis
agree with the ideas and ideals OF
the President, we shall all of US
have to deal with facts, we shall
have to recognize that the course
of the United States Senate, the
direction events have taken in the
United States, have contributed tt
weaken enormously, probably to de.
stroy, the influence of the league OF
nations as a force in world affairs.
Yet the whole settlement framed
by the Paris Conference was inter.
woven with league Of nations ideas;
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Europe, Losing Faith in League Seeks New Alliant
United States Must Work Out a
New Foreign Policy if Dan
ger Is To Be Avoided

lieve that European nations, which
listened to the urgings Of America
reluctantly, only when they were
still convinced that these urgings
were the expression Of the unani-
nous will Of the nation, will continue
to listen now, when they have been,
in a considerable measure at least,
repudiated by one great political
party.
AS n consequence Of what has
happened in Washington in recent
months not few Of the decisions
made at Paris, not a few Of the ar
rangements, are bound now to be
abandoned. Europe beyond much
question will revert to European
methods Of settlement in many in
stances, particularly if the ultimate
outcome of the debate in America
shall be the real or apparent de-
cision ON the part Of the United
States to disassociate itself from
world affairs.
But such a decision can hardly
hold for long or fail to be danger
Gus, since In the end It IS impossible
to conceive Of any general world
disturbance which will fail to in
volve us. I do not believe myself
that it Is conceivable that the United
States would ever permit Germany
to conquer France or Great Britain.
German domination Of Russia, with
the inevitable association Of Ger
many and Japan in the partition of
China as we'll as Asiatic Russia,
would have a peril for us far great
er than for Europe. Merely on the
social and economic side another
great war in the present generation
or the next might easily mean the
destruction of all order and govern
ment on the planet and relapse to
anarchy and chaos.
We are, then, it seems to me. bound
by the consequences Of the World
War to continue our active participa-
ton in European affairs. In his
league of nations the President
sought to create an organization in
which we should be able to play an
honorable part, with as little peril
to ourselves as possible. The scheme
was Professionally accepted by Eu-
rope only because Europe felt that
it was matter Of life and death to
have America share on any terms.
For them the covenant Of the league
of nations was in the nature Of arti-
cles of partnership prescribed by the
potential partner possessing the
largest capital and bringing the
most desirable patronage.