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BASE BALL ON THE INSIDE
BY BILLY EVANS.

anywhere at Philly, Mack insisted he
would make good with "a yenHeance
just as soon he found out where
he belonged When many Philly crit
les had given up hope for Jack Barry
AS major league prospect Mack
called him diamond in the rough II
/ there ever was one, and prophesied
great future. w hen he said Mclnness
was TO be Harry Davis successor,
wise men OF base ball said "impossi-
BILE . that the short McInness might
make good n second third or short.
but never At first. When Boston tried
to make a third basemau of the bril-
liant hrst bsseman Mcinnrss had de-
veloped into. Mack when asked for an
opinion. replied: John Is one OF the
best first basemen in the business
Mack was the originator of the be-
fore the game conference Of the
players. J have Eddie Collins word
for IL he neye attended a meeting OF
the philadelphia club that he didn't
learn something to his advantage.
Now all the major league clubs have
adopted the practice which some Of
the old school leaders ridiculed when
II was first launched Mack is a de-
veloper of players. He makes stars
of unknowns-in some instances al
most over night. George Moriarty,
now an American League umpire was
one of the wisest players in the game.
Below is Moriarty's tribute to Connie
as a manager. hi prose poem. II
just about sums up Mack as a leader
of men:
"A willy man is Connie Mack--a
crafty NJ. G. r. He gathers bushers
by the pack and makes each one =
star. A clever scout is Connie too,
the small leagues he can roam and
sign up likely youngsters who can
bring the bacon h,me. II some one
down IN kokomo has pitched a no hit
game. you must not be surprised to
know that Connie knows his name
When Connie first took Baker in and
Baker made his bow. he WASH. worth
his weight in tin: but look at Baker
now. Young Eddie Plank was on a
farm: his job was pitching hay. ,tiIl
Connie saw his pitching arm and
signed him up one day. Chief Ben.
der in wild west show, shot arrows
round tree. till Connie came and
said Heighho your arm looks good
to me. If games were played in
China's CLINE il would be nothing
new for Mack to show contract
signed by itcher Shing Ling Foo r.
darkest Russia played the game and
there was one Cossack who show ed
; that he could hit at all. he'd sign
with Connie Mack. If some kid
threw piece of coal and knocked OF
Comics ear. he'd say. My boy, that's
greatscontrol; come pitch for me next
year. When Connie sold his starring
men h" took an awful flop but some
day he'll come back again and land
'way!up on top"
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VARDON SAYSFOUR
CLUBS ARE ENOUGH
Famous Pro Golfer Gives
Hints for Beginners.
Brassie Very Useful.

Harry Vardon says that for any,
body who is beginning the game or
resuming it after a long period. the
best way Is to cultivate first the ac-
ouaintance Of four clubs-brassie,
midiron, mashfe and putter. The
brassie can be used for driving. It
Is not usually employed for that pur-
pose. but Vardon contends that hav-
ing suspicion OF loft" on it's face
and sitter shaft than the driver. 1t
is the easier club with which to hit
the bail from the tee
The sitter shaft makes it more
amenable to control, and even the
small degree of loft" that it possess
es helps in the business of getting the
ball away. 1t may not secure quite
so long a shot as the driver. but Var
don's argument is that you cannot do
better at the outset than stimulate
all the confidence that circumstances
Will allow.
That obtained the driver-beinS OF
the same length and lie as the brassfe e
does its good work naturally. The
champion himself has recourse on oc-
casion TO his brassie for driving. It
is as likely as anything to act as the
tee shots. The cause may be nothing
more than that the player is swing
ing trifie faster than usual and that
the whippiness of the driver shaft is
accentuating this increase in pace and
putting the swing out Of time
The staid shaft of the brassie-buiIt
to stand the strain OF cutting through
the grass--wtll operate frequently as
brake on this exuberance.
AS the golfers game developS he
| likes to add to his collection OF IRON
| clubs of graduated lofts" but 1t is
doubtful whether the average first
class player uses more than eight of
| all kinds. wooden and iron. in a round.
James Braid had thirteen in his bag
when he won his last open champion
| ship. but several of these were
| spares" which he did not utilize.
| In fact. he acquired one at the scene
of action. so as to make up the total
| to thirteen. which he felt would be
| his lucky number. Nardon had eleven
! clubs when he secured the 1914 cham
| pionship, and three of those he used
only once or twice in tho course of
the competition. The theory that
| there is safety IN numbers Is long
! since exploded.
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MISS FOWNES DEFEATS
MRS. HURD BY ONE UP

PINEHURST, N. c., March 25.-At
the end Of one Of the most exciting
and hard-fought matches that have
been played here in a long time Miss
Sarah Fownes Of the Oakmont Club
defeated Mrs. Dorothy Campbell
Hurd, the north and south cham
pion. by l up yesterday in the first
match round of the north and south
tournament for women
There were no surprises in the lowA
er brackets. Miss Elaine v. Rosen-
thai, the western champion. defeated
Mrs. j. R. Price of the Oakmont Club.
Both went out in IS in their match
and Miss Rosenthal led by up at the
turn, despite a birdie 3 to the credit
of Mrs. Price on the fourth and an
other on the ninth.
Mrs. Ronald II. Barlow of PhiIa-
delphia. who will meet Miss Rosen-
thai today, went out in 43 against
Mrs. Myra Helmer Pritchard, a for
mer western champion, and won, 4 up
and 8.
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PLAYERS FITNESS
PLEASES GRIFFITH
Says Squad Physically Best
He Ever Saw Report for
Preliminary Work.
DY DENMAN THOMPSON.

AUGUSTA, Ga, March 25-Never in
the three decades he has been con-
nected with base ball has Clark Grif-
fifth seen squad of players report for
preliminary work in as good physical
condition as the bunch with him this
spring. The manager made this state
ment this morning after looking the
boys over in three practice sessions.
He was gratified to find the battery
men who had preceded him by a week
so well advanced in their work, but
was even more pleased at the splen-
did appearance of his veterans. par
ticularIy Foster and Milan. AL the
pilots suggestion the midget third
sacker knocked off work a month ago.
Juggling heavy sacks of cement all
winter had him worn down fine. but
the lay-off packed on about fifteen
pounds. Now the reducing process
the work here entails will not leave
him thin and drawn.
Foster right now is in better shape
than he has been any spring for the
last four years. Griffith observed. Il
never saw him look better Milan runs
him n close second for condition. In
fact. ShankS. Judge, Johnson. Leonard.
Mcbride and Rice all are in great
shape. 7 believe Rice never was in
as good trim as he is now He has
taken On some weight to put behind
those line drives of his. and it is all
muscle and has not interfered with
his speed 7 think this is about as
fine a looking bunch of men from a
standpoint of physical condition as
ever have seen in a training camp"
Griffith was immensely grati1ed
over the showing of Ike Davis the
twenty three-ye3 T-old shortstop OBJ
tained from Frank IsbeIl of the
Wichita club. knocking the ball out
himself, the manager put Davis
through his PAGES. both morning and
afternoon yesterday and again this
forenoon and the way the youngster
handled the bad bounds on the lumpy
diamond and got the ball away from
him caused the pilot to grin with sat
lsfaction. Davis went both sides and
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c. i. NINE T00PEN
SEASON TOMORROW
Will Play Rock Hill College al
Hilltop = High School
Schedule Revised.
BY Ripley.

College base ball is scheduled to get
under way tomorrow, when George
town opens it's season against Rock
Hill College. The contest is to be
played on the Hilltop and begins at
o'clock.
Coach John O'Reflly has been play
ing games between his first and sec
ond teams for the last two weeks and
will put strong combination against
the Rock Hill players. O'Reilly plans
to use Kelly at first. Caffrey at sec
ond. Capt Fees at short and Flavin
at third. The outfield probably will
| be made up of Sullivan, Buckley and
Walsh. Kenyon is down to do the
catching and Dudack and Zazalli the
pitching. The one Washington boy
in the lineup is Cafrey. at second.
Georgetown has better material
| than it has been able to present In
the last two Or three years, and prob
ably Will be represented by a strong
combination. The Blue and Gray stu
dents are optimistic about their teams
chances and expect a winning season.
At meeting yesterday of the fac
ulty athletic advisers of the high
oSuoOIS Inc .UdSc Ddil ScAeQule FOR
this spring was revised. Instead of
opening the season April IS. as was
originally planned. the opening has
been showed back to April 20. The
new schedule follows:
April 20. Central VS.. Western.
May 2. Eastern VS.. Tech; 6. Business
VS.. Western; 9. Eastern VS.. Central;
Is. Western vs. Tech: 16. Business vs.
Eastern; 20. Central VS.. Tech; 23,
Central VS.. Business; 27, Eastern VS.
Western
June 8, Business VS.. Tech.
Western Highs base ball team is
scheduled to go out to Maryland
State tomorrow for a practice ball
game.
Harvard and Navy are to meet Sat-
urday in fencing matches. The Mid
shipmen follow that competition by
going to New York to take part in
the Intercollegiate Fencing Associa-
tion April and s.
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NATIONAL CAPITALS
| HOLDLEAGUE LEAD
Top Grand CentraIs in Ma
tionaI Capital Duckpin Cir
cult by Small Margin.

Arthur Crhans National Capitals
are topping the National Capital
Duckpin League, having a three game
margin in the won column on the
Grand Certra,a. runners-ur. Ingle-
sides are third. practically out of the
running for premier honors.
Elicit and Schott are leading the
National Capital players in the aver
ages. the former holding a mark of
1OS.11 and the latter 1OS. Johnny
Vaeth of Grand Centrals is high man
of the league. his average for forty
three games being 112.27. Seven of
the eight members of the Grand Cen
trail squad hold marks better than
1907
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Lieut.. Cadore Tells This One.

Lieut.. Leon CadOre, Brooklyn
base ball club pitcher, who was
with the negro fighters of New
York.s old 18th Regiment In
France, told this story when 6e
arrived home:
The troopers had n rough trip
home, and most of them suffer
cd from seasickness. One who
did not and lOnged for ham three
times a day rushed In from deck
one afternoon and called out:
"Hey, you Nose! Come out
here! We'se passin' a ship"
To which Nose, who was not
feeling just right, replied:
"Ship: Huh! Done you call
me until we'se passfn' a tree:"
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DETROITERS ON ALLEYS.
Doing Most Of the Bowling in A
B. G. Tourney Today.

TOLEDO. Ohio, March 25-wfth the
exception of one Cleveland pair,
which Is on the schedule Of the first
squad today, the American Bowling
Congress tournament here will be
given over to Detroit doubles and sin
giles rollers.
All are members of the thirty-two
Michigan fives that occupied last
nights entire schedule. The first
squad will go on at 9 am, the second
at 10:45 and the third at 1910 PM
With full schedule the competition
in the minor divisions of the tourna-
ment will last until nearly O'Clock
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Pal Moore Given Popular Decision.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. March 25.-Pete
Herman of New Orleans, bantam
weight champion. and Wilson pal"
Moore of Memphis fought eight fast
rounds in y decision" bout here
last night. with. the consensus of opin-
ion among sporting writer's who wit
messed the bout favoring Moore
Neither man scored a knock down,
and at no time was either in apparent
danger of a knockout. Both weighed
in under the 120-pound limit.
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Wolfe Outboxes Sharkey.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. March 2S.--
Jack Wolfe of Cleveland was given
the newspaper decision over Jack
Sharkey of New York in a ten-round
boxing exhibition here last night The
men weighed 120 pounds
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Cline Knocks Out Duffy.

MONTREAL. March 24.-Irish Patsy
Cline Of Brooklyn. N. z, knocked
out Jimmy Duffy OF Lockport, n. Y,
in the second round Of a ten-round
match here last night. Cline scored
seven knock downs.
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once ASKED Eddie Collins ~ho he
believed was the hest manager in the
game. Il haven't played under a great
many managers" replied Eddie, but
if there are any wiser managers than
Connie Mack | would like to meet
them before | get out of base bail.
A few weeks later bumped into
Jack Barry. who then was manag ling
the Boston Red SoX TO pennant and
a worlds series. put The same aues-
ton to Barry. Il never realized what
Connie Mack knew about base bali
until tried the managing game" re-
piled Jack. Il would like to handle
every situation that confronts me
just like Mack does. but that is not
possible since there is only one Mack.
What / know about base ball was
picked up at Shibn Park in rhIlly un-
der Comics direction"
Larry Gardner was star when a
deal brought him to Mack from the
Boston team. Gardner always has
been regarded as one of the best third
basemen in the history Of the game.
He had eight or nine years experience
on great teams before going to Phila-
delphia. One afternoon in discussing
the club that Mack was getting to-
gether. Gardner remarked: We have
4 pretty good team and Will make
them all hustle to asat us. | figured
knew great deal about base BAH
when | joined the club. but | have
learned a lot of things in the lasC two
or three months. that | am very sorry
didn't get wiseYto earlier in my ca =
reer."
l really wasn't surprised at the re-
plies made by those three great players
Collins. Barry and Gardner In four
teen years in the mo jorS | have seen
the workings of Mack and have a
great regard for his ability as a
leader. l have often thought that any
| one who aspired to be major ieag ue
manager, or who was appointed u big
league leader. could profit in no way
more than by spending a couple of
weeks in association with Mack, get
! ting his ideas and advice.
! have yet to hear player who wore
a Philadelphia uniform speak unkind-
ly of Mack. In this connection | might
cite a conversation | had with Frank
! Baker at the close of the 1918 season.
| Fandom will remember Mack and
| Baker had dispute over salary
came into the field. What the facts
| in the case were l do not know. /
| was under the impression there was
| ill feeling between Baker and Mack.
We were riding from New York to
Washington to finish the season. Our
conversation touched on all topics of
base ball. In some way it drifted TO
Mack. / was interested to know just
| how Baker would express himself. l
| fancied he might say unkind things,
since the trouble that year caused
! Baker to play with the Upland team
in the Delaware County League and
later resulted in his sale to New
York. Imagine my surprise when
Baker in speaking of Mack said:
Connie is a great fellow to work
for. ! was sorry to leave him. I
spent the happiest years of my base
ball career in Philadelphia I re-
garded the speech of Baker as fine a
tribute to Mack as the eulogy of Col
Inns, Barry and aGrdner.
When Collins didn't seem to fit In
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Root Wins Over Brown.

PHILADELPHIA. March 25.-Artie
Root of Cleveland had the better of
frankie Brown of New York. in a slow
and uninterestine six-round bout here
last night.
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Seattle Hockey Team Wins Again.

SEATTLE. Wash. March 25.-Seat-
ties champion hockey team last night
defeated the Montreal Les Canadians,
z to 2, in the third game Of the world
championship series. Seattle has won
two of the scheduled five games.
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Help bring the boys home from
France. War savings stamps will
do II.
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Shubert and CLANCY in Fast Draw

BALTIMORE, Md, March 25.-Al
Shubert Of New Bedford and Young
CLANCY of Baltimore, holder of the in
terallied featherweight championship
fought a fast twelve-round draw here
last night.
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Western Highs base ball team is
scheduled to go out to Maryland
State tomorrow for a practice ball
game.
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take things easy for the remainder OF
this week, but starting next Monday
the young pitchers will be given the
word to open up with their curves and
speed and games between teams com.
posed of regulars and colts will be
inaugurated.
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Harvard and Navy are to meet Sat
urday in fencing matches. The Mid
shipmen follow that competition by
going to New York to take part in
the Intercollegiate Fencing Associa-
ton April 4 and s.
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discussion of their relative ability
as golfers between Manager Griffith
and Clyde Milan is to be settled Sun
day morning when they will attempt
to negotiate the Hampton terrace
course which adjoins the hotel Each
claims never to have played game.
A large gallery is expected to be on
hand to see the fun. A substantial
side bet is the stake
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twenty billions or more Of the most
liquid sort of bank collateral It will
be freely used This is why gre"t
many shrcwd observers believc that
after the natural reaction from wa.
conditions and war fervor, and bus
ness gets under way again on nor
NAL basis. bank credits Will tend .
expand rather than contract tt 5
tends strongly in the direction g.
higher and not lower general price,.
Hence it may be, as one OF our lead
ing tinanciers has suggested, that "
may have moved 20 to more or ias
permanently higher Level Of vaiue4.
The education II this level viii b.
slow, as is evident from tive number
Of voices, some OF them nigh in ;.u-
thority and standing, ciainorng FOR a
return TO "..ormal" prices. as though
there had ever been in the history OF
The commercial world such thing a
normal prices or q "normaW price
level. Some DAY the business and
financial world viii learn tho simple
Eact that prices are merely a baromo
ter indicating the relation between tne
prevailing supply CT money and credit
their rate OF turnover or "velocity.'
and tAc prevailing amount Of business
70 be done.
The final AID perhaps decisive fac
tor in the outlook for 1919 is the cnor-
nous quantity u more o. less idle
capital THAI awaits investment as soon
az confidence is restored and business
men begin 10 see their way little
more clearly. Some Of our great cor
porations have liquid resources, in
cash and securities, equal to half or a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-02

;Airi ed their outstanding capital.
Some q them could retire their whole
CAPITA. stock This money is for the
most part drawing only 4 to 5 per cent.
it viii not long so remain. II the war
has meant anything, industrally and
economically, it is that the whole in
dastrial world IS keyed UP to a swifter
stride This is most noteably true Of
England and France, in lesser degree
Of the United States for here perhaps
there was less Slack TO take up. Eng
land is not going back to its old ruts.
and in .hc world trade. England will
now set the PACE. 1t is almost incon-
ceiYable that the United States can
ROMAN "out Of it,
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Measuring the Height of Cloud

a scientist attached u oY.e Of The
bureaus at Washington has been en-
gagged in measuring the height og
clouds ~ photography. Simultaneous
pictures Of cloud werc made by two
cameras placed eoc feet apart and CON
nected by telegraph wires. From the
amount o. displacement Of the cloud
caused by viewing IL alternately from
eaen end II the e10-foot base line itg
height could be calculated. Some Of
the "fnackerel sky" clouds photo
gr2phcd we're Ceyen and onartes
niles hiah. The soffiezt Clouds whose
elevation syas thus measured belonged
70 the type liio@a as clrrus, or eur
cloud" the Aeght Of which vas a In
tie more than seventeen miles. EN-
poria Gazette.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-02

ways back 10 the preWar spirit
including old national jealouses,
vague apprehensions, much pcssimism
and gloom. But it seems to the writer
that if ever in the later history OF this
country great opportunities have
opened up to us, to be had almost for
the taking, it is now. Let us consider
u few:
The Spectre of Bolshevism
The larger part of continental
Europe is to-day menaced by a far
more deadly foe than even imperial
ism, miltarism and national egotism
run mad. That is the spirit of the
Bolshevik. We know what it has al
ready done to Russia. We see is
creeping over what was but yesterday
the most powerful industrial nation
in Europe. 1t seems now as f it would
be a miracle if Germany escapes. 1t
may yet appear-such is the singular
whirligig which this new madness has
wrought-that from purely selfish mo-
tives the Allies, and the United
States may intervene to save Ger
many from what may be called its
economic underworld-its untermensch
Whichever way the thing swings, it
seems extremely doubtful now if Ger
many can recover her industrial SUI
prcmacy for some time to come. That
makes a golden opportunity in Russia
for the United States and its Allies
! In Russia is the largest single field Of
undeveloped possibilities in the world.
The great basic factor of human
wealth is still, as it always has been,
the human factor. Now. as always,
human labor alone can create great
wealth. Even in the United States and
in England and France all the wealth
represented BY machinery and rail
roads and ships and every form OF
what might be called automatic wealth
producing machinery is slender item
compared with the active productive
power of human hands
In Russia and Siberia are 10000
GOO, with untold resources. No
richer wheat fields or oil fields or coal
fields or iron mines are there any
where in the world All it needs are
railways and highways, good roads,
warehouses, great granaries, strong
banks, all the machinery of modern
commerce and industry, brought I'D to
the level Of 1919, or. say, 1920, to
make it another United States.
The wealth producing power Of Rus
STA could easily be doubled if not
trebled, in generation. American cap
itai American initiative, engineering
skill and organizing genius could play
here highly important and almost
predominant role To change a popu
lar song little. we have the goods, and
here's the place and the time and the
people. Before the war, what might be
termed the upper stratum of Russian
commerce and enterprise was half Ger,
man, and increasingly so. This has
been in good part rooted out
Petrograd is described as almost q
desert Half or more of it's population
IL gone the rest near starvation. It
would seem an GRAND of mercy, and
very easy Grand if the Allies should
establish themselves in Petrograd and
set up there sane government, gradu-
ally TO spread over the rest Of Russia
Is thc power of this strange, mad com
munlsm wares. BY that time VIC should
be ready to rehabiltatc her railways,
Undertake the construction Of empire
vide modern highways and sell hey pee
pie million or two cf automobiles by
way OF beginning.