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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-21
SlSLER'S CAREER EXCEPTION
TO MANY BASEBALL RULES
College Product Neither Smokes, Chcws
or Drinks and "Cuxscso
Most Mildly.

NEW YORK. May 2o-George
Harold S!sler is an exception to the
trademark that you have to SOUR,
tobacco juice between the lips. show
nicotinc-staincd fingers and u tin ear
10 mix with tho elite in me baseball
world. George Harold Sister is a col
legian from the ground up, and they
call hin TY cobD's closest rival.
S!s!e" neither smokes. chcws nor
drinks, and when he loses his temper
no viii shrek out with: ''Shucks.
Judas. Priest That's the limi; OF his
cuss vocabulary. Yet in his debut in
the American League he defeated the
Cleveland Indians as a pitcher. to
!; he defeated Walter Johnson. l TO
outheld: he has played third Ease. and
today is regarded as one OF the moss
| finished first bascmen in the game.
breaking in the American League
in 1915. SiSler averaged .2S5 as q bat
ter. He came back in 1916 and in l5l
games averaged .39J. In his second
full year as son OF swat he hit to
mighty Tyrus Cobb. In the abbrevi-
ated campaign OF 1918 his average was
.3il. running third just below Tyrus
! and George Burns. of the Athletics.
And in his third year as "A major
Lacquer he ptlfered the base stealing
honors from Cobb. snatching 40 SACKS,
! while Ty tucked 80 in his column.
All of this by n collcgian. an athlete
who played high school bali at Akron,
Ohio, and college ball at Ann ArDor
with the Michigan Wolverines. untn
reporting to the st. Louis Browns IN
1915 he had never played in a pro-
fess!onal stadium.
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SWTY-EIGHT ELIGIBLES
IN WElGHT-FOR-AGE STAKE
race over Mile and Half Distance
at belmont Park In
Fall.

NEW YORK. May 20.-&For the first
running OF the Jockey Club stakes. 10
oe decided at Belmont Park mex, fan.
thorc have been slXty-cight norina.
Nons received. This race is one that
was put on by the Wcstcheste- RACING
Association and the Jockey Club as
an example 10 induce other racing as
sociations TO offer a greater number OF
races AZ weight or for age
ms race is over the mile and n
ma! distance. and In the list OF nolli-
nS'.Vhs Vii be found almost every one
Coming. as IL does. in the fall DAYS
OF racing. j, VIII afford real test
81 me championship OF the wear
iiann!caps and conditions races cannot
jEnstIH decide championship. 1, is
me morse that IS capable OF taking up
his scale weight and winning over
such trying distance as the lille ana
q nalf. The weight forage races
chmtnate the excessive burdens that
me best horses OF the year would have
TO bear under any other conditions,
ana vita all starters at the scale
weight II should result in an !nfaiII-
BILE test of merit.
late IN the season the thres-year-
olds are thoroughly seasoned. and IN.
Sood ones well able 10 race with the
best OF the older division For this
initial running there promises TO he
number OF Iopnotch three-year-
ready 10 try conclusions with the Older
divisions. and altogether the Jockey
Cluo stake promises 10 be fttinEly
inaugurated
There were thirty-nine different
owners who made nominations, with
coe as the largest individual nom!na-
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FOND OF SPEED KING
Four Players Have Cleared Hases
Against walter JohnxOn-Hub
NOrthcn First.

NEW YORK. May 2o-The list OF
players who have swept the bases clear
against Walter Johnson with long Cor
shorD hits Is growing. oscar Witt
Red Sox third baseman. added the
fourth name TO this roster when he
tripled against the Fireball King in
Washington on April 90.
The first athlete who cleaned up
against Sir Walter was Hub Northern
OF the Browns; He did SO with a sin
hit was worth three bases, but the
clouter and the coaches were conserva-
tive and the National lelders almos,
nlpped Hubbard f., who now is with
San Antonio. on his way back to frst.
Roth. OF the Athletics. when he was
playing for Cleveland, on May II. 1917,
doubled on Johnson and scored three
men. and last year, on August T. Bob
Veach Of the Tigers. tripled against
the star OF the Griffmcn and drove in a
trio OF TALES.
Oscars last cleanup wallow was his
fourth In the majors; The three other
noble blows he struck that brought in
three runs were a triple against Bill
Bailey. OF the Browns. on April o2.
1872; single against Russell Convict
Johnson, Of the Athletics. on July 27,
1917 and n double against Slim Love,
Of the Yankees. on May II last year.
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Berkeley Cal; Pacific Coast champion

Berkeley Cal: Pacific Coast champion
ship.
:3--Wnm!ngton Country Club. Will
m!nGton, Del: Delaware State cham
p!onship: men. Orange Lawn Tennis
Club. Orange, \. J., Middle States
championships. I.ewicton Country Club.
Lewiston. Idaho: Idaho State cham
pionshlp, Augusta Country club Au-
Eusta. Ga. South Atlantic states
championship. Rockhlll h'cnnis club.
Piains championship.
2,-Nassau Country Club, Glen Cove,
l.. l.: Invitation tournament
2S-Cnivcrsity Heights Tennis Club.
New York city: North Side champion
ship. Berkeley Tennis Club. Berkeley,
Cal: Alameda County Chamnions h D.
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JOHN MARSHALL PLAYS
INQUIRIES TEAM TODAY
Context VIII BE Staged nj boulevard
Field Mt 4:30 mud VIII He
Second In Series.
MEG ulrc's.
The line-ups:
John .NiarslInIi,

The line-ups:
John Marshall. McGulre,.
Ia!isch. r. Moscley. SIS.
ii'chs. 20. Boyd. 10.
-! ,o'' So Graves. C..
- sho'ooHc, CT. Powers, p.
900. {. Hillsman. 2b.
Marin. II. Meanlev All
a'tc!*oh, p. Dc Bardleb, IT.
rflch. 80. Rucker. CT
Bryson, ID. Mayneld' RI
The mines OF John Marshall High
and Mciulre's University School Will
clash today at Boulevard Field at 4:3O
clock for the second time this season
IN threc-game series.
In the frst contest between the two
clubs McGuirc's won by the score OF
20 : after a hard battle Following
TINS. Bened!ctine defeated McGuire's
ana John Marshall trounced Bened!c
the 10 the tune OF l6 TO l. This would
lead TO the conclusion that John Mar
snail has strengthened it's team since
the hrst Mcclure game and will he
IN better condition 10 overcome their
opponents today.
" NcGuirc's wins today Il will mean
The taking OF tho series. on the Other
hand, II John MARSHALL wins there
MN ne third game 20 play off the
ne. THIS game is scheduled for MAY 81
Numbers Of Dupils from both schools
wiil be on hand this afternoon 10
checr on their teams.
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Massa chuset,s State championship

l6-Terrace Club OF F!atbush: Brook
iyn; Brooklyn championship Sans
Souci country CLUB. Grecnville. S. c..
dclphia Cricket Club, Philadelphia:
womcn's championship OF the United
states: girls championship OF the
United States; mixed doubles cham
pionship OF the United States. Ralti-
more Country Club. Baltimore; Mary
land State championship
21-kings County Tennis Club
Brooklyn: Long Island championships
Cleveland Associated Tennis Clubs.
Cleveland: Cleveland championship:
men. Richmond County Country club
Dongan Hills. s. j.; invitation doubles
tournament. Berkeley Tennis Club.
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4 professional rranpler,

OF professional grapplers Hs never
attended college. but HIS generai
Knowledge OF all branches OF spnH
made him valuable man as a coach,
w lille connected with the college fke
played various professional basNetbaii
teams in the Southern League II was
while handling the wrestling team that
ne perfected the head lock. ono ot !hs
most dangerous holds in the mat gahiAA
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ksnsas City Field Club. Kansas City.
Mo: Missouri state championship
5V-St. Louis Amateur Athletic AS
ISOLATION. ST. Louis; Central states
championships. women. Enulesida Ten
MS club. Reach Haven. y. j: lnde-
pendcnce Day tournament SpolSane
Tennis Club. Spokane NASH; Inland
Empire championship. Country club
of Springfield: Springfield Mass: Con
ncctiCut Valley ChampioDShiD
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SEE OUR WINDOWS TRY ON SOME OF THE MODELS
1000 PAIRS PANTS
Made of Good Woolens

me mil ends and the
department we into
SUITS Every Il value at the mir,
thoughtful man TO mi ssceing them
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Totals ..a5 $40 Total. rs l 3 6
Score by innings: r
Na;. State and City,. Ii

suiSy, 80. J %
e etii, rn stolen bases1 -, CD. Az
Ace hit. kl!se Double piay-KniEhtiy
70 T. Henley to Clay!or. Hit By pitched
ha!l-k!!se. Van Pet. Left on base.-Nat.
state and Ci'y. s. Federal. s. Bases on
pa i!s--on Nonder,ehr of Henley. 3; of
thompson. :: H!ts-on N0nder!ehr, S IN S
d innInss' on Hegiey. :: in !. innings. Struck
out-o! Nonder!-hr, by Henley, J; by
Thompson, s. Time OF game So Urn.
plTe. Ba anton. Scorer. Sutton
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Lewis AIi-Around A,hI.,r

Although 1t is hot generally known.
Robert Frederick. known 10 the wrest-
ling world as "Stransicr' Lewis is an
all-around athlete Lewis coached
the football basketball and wr"s, :
ling teams Of the University of Ken
lucky before stepping into the ranks
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Hefure You S,ycen.

Scatter damp coffee grounds bsfor,
you sweep. especially in places where
dust accumulatcs most. They will MOI
hurt the finest rug unless too wet; the,
leave pleasant odor. and their uss
Improves the appearance OF varnisheS
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30

even violence have been used in this
union proselytizing.
zone of the significant things
about the labor group was the out
standing character of the brother
hood leaders. would not suggest
that they were ADLER than the Ameri-
can Federation leaders, but there
are two kinds of minds: the purely
intellectual mind and the character
mind if may use the term. And the
brotherhood leaders had the latter in
a marked degree and had polse not
possessed by the organization leaders
Of the American Federation Of
Labor. And attribute this poise and
frankness to the fact that for twenty
years or more the railroad employers
have recognized the brothcrhoods in
exactly the way the American Fed
GRAFTON units are now attempting to
get recognition from their employ
ers. The brotherhoods have had col
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30

Even more difficult to estimate ana
commute is the economic burden re-
sulting from the peculiar maladies
contracted by thousands and nun
dreds of thousands Of men IN the
armies during the course Of the war
Trench fever, gassing, tuberculosis
and other diseases have made COM
plete human wrecks Of vast num-
ber of men, many of whom are not
necessarily included in Casualty"
lists. 1t probably will be years, pos
sibly generations. before the full
cost of the war in suffering and
race deterioration can be measured
properly.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30
A Capitalist Who Champions Labor

thing. And this fear is based. at
least in part, upon the fact that the
craft method. which is the makeup
Of the American Federation organ
izations. has become Increasingly
awkward because Of its overlapping
tendencies and because of jealousles
and strife occurring between the
craft organizations themselves IN "A
given business instead Of between
the employer and some one organlza-
ton.
What we need" continued Mr..
Chabourne. "are honest shop coun-
ellis. less suspicion and les; cause for
suspicion in unionized or partially
unonized shops between the unions
and employers; less of the union
standing by an employee who is dis
charged when at fault just becausehe
is a member Of the union and not be-
cause he is right, and no discharges
of laborers because they join or con-
template joining unions--a continu-
Gus touch in every industry between
representatives of employer and en-
ployee.
"America's great need to-day he
continued, sis for a higher type of
man in public life. American poll
( tics should not be carried or by men
who are struggling to get on their
feet financially. 1t is too hard a
game for a second eleven TO play.
The men who have competence
should get into public life. In this
England is immeasurably ahead Of
America. Her men in politics have
at least been thinking about such
things for centuries. Here we are
TOO busy to think"
Mr.. Chadbourne calls the spirit
behind the labor unrest Of to-day
universal. 1t is the same urge that
drives the generals Of finance IN the
stock market-the desire for more.
Good Lord" he exclaimed. what
am | down here in Wall Street for?
Heaven knows, Il have enough. But
| want more"
In other words, the only difference
between a man in the street and a
capitalist is that while one wants a
Ford, the other wants a yacht. As
for solution of the labor problem.
although he admits there is room for
Improvement, Mr.. Chadbourne de-
clares emphatirally that to the hest
of his belief there amt no SIGH
animue."
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30

"HOMAS l.. CHADBOURNE, |
lawyer. capitalist and labor
champion, predicts that the
likelihood of the findings
of any industrial conference being
accepted by employers and en-
ployecs is remote, because these two
classes in American life are at the
present time, on essentials, as far
apart as the poles.
"No matter how we'll planned
program may be promulgated 1t Is
unlikely that labor and capital will
both be reconciled to it. This, how
ever. does not mean that the new
conference called by President Will
son is not advisable; on the con-
trary. every genuine effort to edu-
cate both groups is highly desirable,
and this education can only be ac-
complished by continuous hammer
ing"
Mr.. Chadbournc was chairman of
the general committee which was
the big pivotal point at last month S
unsuccessful parley, when, he de-
clares, he learned the lesson OF a
lifetime.
81 went to the first conference
filled with the idea that 80 per
cent of the obduracy was on the en-
ployers' side of the situation. ]
came back with quite different
viewpoint. found that the
employers, as represented by a ma
jority of their group in the confer
ence. are inelastic and without the
same vision in respect to labor
that they have had to have to sue
ceed in respect to everything else
in commercial life. This inelasticity
and faulty vision are the result of
mighty hard education they have
had TO endure from the organiza-
tions making up the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor. 1t is really
fifty-ffty proposition. These or
ganizations have had to fight tooth
and nail for existence; have had to
use every combat method conceivable
to keep their ranks intact and to
augment them from year to year.
when the fact that man has
Joined union is the real though
not alleged cause for a discharge
from employment, other methods
than mere persuasion are sometimes
expedient to get him to join the
union, and threats, coercion and
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30

lective bargaining and have met
their employers without suspicion,
and have driven the hardest bargain
they could with them, but after the
trade was driven they have lived up
to their bargains. The same cannot
always bc said Of the organizations
Of the American Federation. But
you cannot stop there; you must
search for the reason. And the
reason is that they have never been
dignificd by the employer with the
full recognition and confidence which
the brotherhoods enjoy.
"Thc employer presents strange
spectacle to one far enough from the
picture to see it clearly. He admits
that the shop council is the greatest
menace to the organizations making
up the American Federation Of La
Dor. and he knows that the organlza-
tions fear the spread of the shop
councils more than any other one
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30
Loss OF Merchant Shipping

Shipping losses during the war
have been carefully reported and
official statements have from time to
time been given out. The British
Admiralty Office has published ac-
curate statistics on the losses OF
British and Allied and neutral ton
mage, but that of the Central Powers
is less exact, as official announce
ments are either lacking or else
confuse seized and interned with
sunk tonnage. AS seized and IN,
termed vessels do not represent &
loss, but merely a transfer Of pos
session, these should not be counted
IN estimating the property losses re-
sulting from the war.
The direct costs were estimated az
SlS6,O00 900 900. The indirect costs
are now seen to have amounted to al
most as much more.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30
Loss of Human Life

The loss of human life and the
race deterioration resulting from
war are the most appalling and per-
manent costs of the war, for they af-
feet not merely the present but are
traceable through future genera
tions. Reliable information as to
the death toll is difficult to secure
during the progress Of the war for
military reasons, but after the
smoke Of battle has cleared away
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30

and the necessity for secrecy ceases
fairly accurate data are to be had.
Owing to the large number VINO
even yet are listed as 'prisoners OF
missing" a certain element OF con-
lecture will probably always oe
present. even in the most carefully
complied official statistics. The best
information at hand gives a total
death roll for all belligerent coun-
tries of approximately lO,Ooo,ooo.
From purely economic stand
point the presence of large num-
ber of diseased and MANNED entails
a greater burden than the loss OF
life itself. 1t is too early as yet to
procure information sufficiently ac-
curate and detailed to permit Of
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30

LOSS OF LIFE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY " 1RS
Duration
Unrs (Days) DPGd
>,o; JzoOI8I5 5000 2.IOOOOO
CP .~"P io;f.S6 73O 785OOO
Prussinn. Danish. 1901 ............ 10 ,,'oUU
Prussinn. AUSTRIAN. 1906 ~ fDUOU
1,o.;c,u (;rT J36J.'65 1859 100000
,"e'"% n p; ~;a ic-O.zJ PIE $4,000
EneIish.Boer. I80D-I0O2 .......... VP3 I,8OO
,, , J0Of.O, Jf8 10000
DII fJoI1.J? 238 10000
y,y Lose ,f ,;,.oeutL ccuturv fff0.3OO
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30

was $l9I I,VUU, ,OUV,UOV. lhe i"oS'
recent estimate, by Edgar Cram
mond, the we'll known English stat
istician, placed the final direct costs
of the war at s21O,175,000,000 to
which sum he added another $780,
600, 100000 as the indirect costs,
including the destruction OF prop
erty, loss Of ships at sea, etc. 1t
is impossible to say to what extent
these various estimates are COM
parable or just what is included In
the total. 1t would appear from
their magnitude that they represent
gross expenditures without any al
lowance for duplication as result
of advances by one belligerent to
another.
1t should be noted that all the fig
ures thus far given cover only the
direct money outlays of the countries
involved and do not take into ac-
count the indirect cost, such as the
destruction of property. the deprecl-
alton of capital, loss of production,
interruption to trade. and similar
items. 1t has been estimated that
these would amount to as much as
the direct cost. If this estimate,
which was made early in the war
and is undoubtedly too high, be ac-
cepted, it would bring the total cost
to all the belligerents to about S3IO,-
600 100000. And in this staggering
total there are not included the eX-
penditures or losses of neutral ma
tions. which have been very real and
in some cases very serious, nor the
loss of human life, nor of subse-
ouent burdens such as pensions and
allowances.
On the other hand, certain dcduc-
tions should be made which will re-
duce somewhat the real costs. In
the first place, not all of the war ex-
penditure is pure loss. Some eN-
penditures arc simply transferred
from the family budget to that Of
the state. Soldiers are fed, clothed
and housed at the expense Of the
government, and the bill is paid out
of taxes or loans. Other expenses
are positively productive, such as the
building of railways or merchant
vessels. And in the second place. 1t
/ is quite obvious that a partial eX-
planation Of the costs Of the war lies
in the depreciation of the money
unit. Measured in dollars, the ex-
penditures were mounting steadily
and rapidly. Measured in terms of
service and commodities, the increase
was much less rapid. 1t has been
estimated by the editor of "The Stat
ist" that the net cost of the war to
the belligerents is about one-half o:
it's total costs. If this generalization
be accepted as correct, and one-hal1
of the direct costs be subtracted
there is left as the real economic
cost of the war $244,O00,000,000.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30
Indirect Costs of the World
Struggle Were as Much
as the Direct

with reasonable accuracy the cost OF
M world war One of the important contributions to this subject
Il the prect and Of the Great World War; by Ernest
Rogar professor the University Of Illinois ne es
the cost From his study issued by the Car
;. rrdoument for Peace the following is quoted:
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30
By Kat arine Wright

."HOMAS l.. CHADBOCRNE,
lawyer. capitalist and labor
champion, predicts that the
likelihood of the findings
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30
of the Great War Was $685., $40, l|9,oo

Prisoners
or Missing
1912
64,9O7
453,5OO
100000
I,359,OOO
10000
100000
10000
45,OC1
2OC
3
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30

A number of independen, esti-
mates have been made Of the total
cost of the war, of which two or
three may be cited. A gross total
Of $194, ZOO, 100000" for the seven
major belligerents was the esti-
mate of a widely circulated pamph-
let published by one Of the New
York City banks. AT . conference
Of governors and mayors at the
White House early in March, 1919,
Secretary Of War Baker presented
ar estimate Of the total money costs
Of the war for all the nations en-
gaged in it, apart from all costs of
damage to property and devastation.
According to this estimate, the cost
New-York tribune., 1919-11-30
The Loss of Life in the
Four Years Is Put at
100000

tho nath Of the invader, the sugar
r,fneries. brewcries, machine shops,
foundries. and other industrial
pIants were stripped Of their ma
chinery and supplies. Over 1900
ooO acres of valuable forests were
laid waste.
The total destruction in France
was placed at sl3,o0O,OOO,oOo by
VI. Dubois, of the Committee on
Budget. in the Chamber Of Deputies
in December, 1918. On the other
hand. Franz Sigel, president Of the
Friends Of German Democracy, esti-
mated it at s6,219,OsS,O00. Per
haps the average Of these two oppos-
irg estimates, in round numbers
about $4,000, 100000, will give as
close an approximation to the
truth as is likely to be secured a.
the present time.
While Russia is an agricultural
country and did not suffer the same
losses as those to which Belgium
and France were subjected, the
property damage was serious and
NAV be estimated at $3.50, 100000.
The destruction in Poland, where
rich mine shafts were destroyed,
crops burned, bridges ruined, rail-
roads cut, foodstuffs taken, ma
chinery broken or confiscated, with
Kovno. Courland, Wilma and Grodno
looted if not destroyed. has been
placed at S1,5OO.OOO.OO0.
In Serbia the destruction was sys-
tematic and thorough. Public build
ings. Libraries. schools, churches,
dwellings. railroads, all went down
before the approaching vandals.
The property damage in Serbia, Al
bania and Montenegro has been estl-
mated at s2.OOO,OOO,OOO.
Property destruction in East Prus-
sia. Austria and the Ukraine may
be placed at 81 OOO,CO0,O00.
Italy was invaded in the north
her most vulnerable spot. In North
ern Italy lies her best agriculture
land, which in 1913 produced half Of
all her products, and which supports
"A per cent Of her total population
and st per cent Of all her industrial
workers. The 1917 invasion covered
the territory up to the Piavc and
Brenta rivers. This damage has
been estimated at $2.7lO,OO0,000.
The invasion and seizure in Ru-
mania Of the vast wheat stores and
oil fields. the property destruction
and ether devastation caused losses
estimated at $1,000, 100000
The property damage throughout
the British Empire may be placed at
about Sl,750000,00O.
The property destruction in Ger
many as result mostly Of air raids
can scarcely have been less than in
Great Britain, and may be set down
at 81, $50, 100000.
SUMMARY OF PROPERTY LOSS
Belgium ....... $7,OOO,OOO,O0