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New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
Title Holder Is Extended:
Yale Captain Wins T,uice
Bernstein Loses in Straight Sets After Plucky srug-
gle; Hopkins in Round Before Semi Final; Lang
Beats Butterworth, Son of Old Yale Football Star
By Fred Hawthorne

The school of yesterday
afternoon the 7th Regiment Armory
sixth Street when the fifth championship
and the third annual boys national championship
board field
junior event. with Vincent Richards through tehode
holder Of the national championship outstanding
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23
Frazee Prepared to Sell Ruth
To Yankees, Report in Boston
Cardinals Refuse
$4,000 and -Four
Men for Hornsby

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 22.-Seventy- thou
sand dollars and four players have
been offered to the st. Louis Ma
tional League Baseball Club for
Rogers Hornsby. according to Presi-
dent Branch Hickey of the club in
signed statement here to-day. He
added that the offer was refused and
that Hornsby was not for sale.
Hickey would not divulge the name
of the club that made the offer.
At the New York Giants Offices
yesterday Joe O'Brien declared that,
go far as he knew, John McGraw was
not in the market for Hornsby.
President Charles A. Stoneham reaf-
firmed the declaration.
During the recent annual meeting
Of the National League in this city
Manager McGraw admitted that he
had been in the field for Hornsby
last summer, and that he offered four
good players and cash for the star
Of the Cards. The admission came
as the result of rumor that the
Little Napoleon had offered SlO0, 900
for Hornsby.
McGraw declared at that time that
he was no longer in the market for
this particular player.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

A Wall Street friend re-
minds us that a lot of men
with bonus checks will
shortly be looking for in
vestmentS.
Well, if there's any safe
investment, it's our cloth
ing. and we might add that.
unlike Wall Street, you can
always get your money
back, if you want it.
Rogers Peet Company
Broadway Broadway
at 18TH st. Four at 34th St.
Convenient
Broadway Corners Fifth Ave.
at Warren at 4lst ST
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

How about a Christmas
order on us for a new Win
ter suit?
Gift forms procurable at
all four stores.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

6 s.; S;aSREQgRTk[ Z, J? g;|;I;[;!; +!
(Copyrght, Neu York Tribune Iuc)
The Sportsman's Christmas Dream
He so'r before hin hrouqh the opening mist
4 cold of hard, ploy,
Where each had learned the rough laaco o the came
1h"t all mast pay for prize that
By endless struggle and by rugged toH
Where Tronbt trdi"er 'corth price
Where Enry nee and icteripg
We're like 'o0 tumbles dovn the field
To be rolled mp heavy score;
Where all could take by Fate
And fight it ont until the
Content to let this fnal
"He tie Game the best he had yire"
Year Ago To-day
Nearly vision from wear 200
A mist settling
Little German by the rumble of armv
trucks along odfashioned cobblestone streets
Mostly rain and fog
record height ~ 'S " "
And the endless along of nine dvsions when
Another Christmas
This will be another Christmas. NJ ps askng for
No chow ynes forming the rain.
Turkeys flying high longer
( compulsory diet ~
And there are few generals around to fix cold ammy upon
:he offender who thinking Christmas home forgot to salute
NO reVelIes-no hlkes-no sentry duty. No nothin'
Engands Christmas Wish
If English for vear
ahead have idea t would be along
A heavyweight boxer at
diving headong for the the Of punch
The ring records made by leading English
boxing
is deeply annoying not to be able to than
hghtng when Of their havyweighs ring first
class opponent.
Enough of thing frequently become annoying.
One Reason
why it, asks reader, that these big Poles 90 in for WRESTLING
and nothing huch N
One reason may be that attempting break been
OF the leading Polish endeavors
AND one OF the why Germany very in
sport is that she intended by controlling world take over all
New-York tribune., 1919-12-23

Womder What Briggs Thinks About

Copyright. 1919. New York Tribune lnc)
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aged little better than twenty two
and two -fifths seconds for the four
furlongs. This indicates that they will
be real factors in the sprint medley re
lay race on Friday. johnson ran for
Michigan, which will also be welcome
news, for he no doubt will run one of
the furlongs on Saturday in the sprint
medley championship.
Hass Surprises
= Coach Huff, of Grinnell, who de-
veloped the great western sprinter
Hoyt, the holder of the worlds record
of twenty one and two ffths seconds
around turn for the 220 yards, came
through with dark horse on Saturday
in Hass. who won the 100-yar dash
in ten and one fifth seconds. He viii
be sent East.
Coach Stagg, of Chicago. surprised
by not running his mile team, but he
got his share of the honors by winning
a close second in the two mile and
taking first place in the four mile re
lay. Lewis. Long. Moore and Nc
Gosh are fine quartet, and they will
be hard to beat next Saturday.
Fortunately the East will be better
represented in this event than for sew
eral seasons. as Harvard, Cornell and
Lafayette have especially fast teams.
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MANY SURPRISES IN /.
COLLEGE BALL GAMES
Penn, Harvard, Cornell, lehigh
and Navy All Suffer
Defeats
ONLY d HITS OFF TITzEL

There we're n number of surprises In
college games played last Saturday, sew
cral Of the big institutions losing by de-
cisive figures to smaller college teams.
Baseball is ono game where the smaller
colleges usually are on equal footing
with those of larger enrolment.
Holy Cross, after many tries, finally
succeeded in beating Penn at Worces-
ter. A.; Harvard was handed a I'll
lacing by the Springfield Y. NJ. c. A;
Lafayette squeezed q verdict over Cor
nell. g.: the Navy was beaten. SO,
by Maryland; Lehigh bowed to Ford
ham: Tufts smothored the Army. 12-1,
and Penn State lost to Maryland State.
Yale was one of the few big colleges to
run true to form, winning from Johns
Hopkins. 9-5.
Johnny Titzel allowed Holy Cross
only four hits, but those were enough
to win when the Quakers began to
kick the ball around and Jawn went
wild. The big Quaker portsider got
himself into some tight places with
three wild pitches and two bases on
balls The four errors behind him did
not help any.
Prior to the game Mike Sweeney was
elected to captain the Red and Blue
nine during the coming season. Mike
deserves all the honor the post carries
with it. He has done much for Penn
in athletics.
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something different to worry him and
get the advantage. This is great sport
and more interesting to me than to see
men go out and run their heads off
just to kill the other entries.
A mile such as Overton and Ray ran
in New York in 1917 or an event sim
liar to the battle between kiviat and
Jones in the 1912 Olympics has more
thrills and inside stuff in it than any
other sport know.
In the Overton Ray duel the spec
tators were disgusted and yelled for the
men to 90 out and run. Each man was
waiting for the other to spring some
thing and show what he intended to do.
They waited until the last three laps
before either took the initiative, and
then it was too late for the former
Yale athlete.
The Ray Sprint
Ray started sprint which Overton
couldn't hold. but that is no disgrace
to the memory of the great collegian,
for there is no one | can think of who
can hold Joie when he starts sprint
near the stretch. The race was a real
test of headwork for the first seven
laps; the rest was test of mere phys
ical ability.
At the Olympics of 1912 Jones and
Kiviat had race within a race. They
paid no attention to any other man,
and l doubt if any spectator from this
country did. either. Each one figured
that the winner was between them.
They watched each other and that al
lowed Jackson. the Englishman, to get
in for the victory. @
b did not see Jackson finish, but
watched the other two fight it out when
they were hopelessly beaten. They had
the race all planned out beforehand and
could not see the others in the event.
Either would have won with the other
out, but in the same race they could
not help but watch each other.
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UNIVERSITY BARGE
CLUB OARSMEN OUT
Star Sweeps Back FROM Service
and Enter Big Regatta on
SchuyIkilI May 81
PHILA. BARGE CLUB STRONG

The Philadelphia and University
Barge Clubs of the Schuylkill Navy,
which always have played a prominent
part Ia furnishing crews to compete in
the annual regattas of the American
Rowing Association, again are planning
to send number of scull and sweep
crews to the starting line in the meet
scheduled for May 81 on the Schuyl-
kill.
All the men Of the famous senior
four" cared shell crew of the University
Club, who were among the first of the
Z Schuylkill Navy bladesmen to answer
the call to the colors, have been mus
tered out of service and are ready to
! begin training. The crew rowed for
many years together and in 1914 won
the national four cared shell champion
ship when the national championships
were rowed on the Schuylkill.
Rowed in 1915
This. crew seated, r. Il. Nalle. bow !;
Fl. Wilcox, 2; Russell Thayer, Jr., 3 !;
Edward w. Hoffman, Jr., stroke--rowed
for the last time as crew in the Ameri-
can Henley regatta in 1916 Shortly
afterward Male, the bowman, was
4 called to do border duty when the
I trouble between, the United States and
Mexico started and the crew was dis
banded. Captain Thayer was the last
man to be mustered out of service and
just returned to civilian life last week.
Hoffman, the stroke of. the crew, is
also a crack sculler and has been train
ing in a single scull for some time. 1t
is expected that he will try conclu-
sions in the first single sculls event in
the American regatta. Lindley John
son, another Of the clubs crack scull
and sweep 9arsmen, is also another
likely contender for single sculling
honors. AS,
], Elliott Newlin, commodore of the
Schuylkill Navy, who carries the colors
I of the Philadelphia Barge Club in the
meets on the Schuylkill, will take the
\ field In the single -sculling events of the
Henley. The Philadelphia Club, how
= ever, will be without the services Of its
senior quadruple sculls crew. which was
sweeping all before it when the war
broke out. -, ...
Three In Service
OF that crew Theobold Clark, e. d.
4 Madeira and Walton Clark, Jr., are
still in ntservice. Newlin was the fourth
man of the crew,
Commodore Newlin is sending notices
to all the bladesmen of the Philadel-
phia Club to report for active training.
There is lot of good junior material
In the club, and Commodore Newlin
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Jersey City Ttoirlers
Keep Babe Ruth Hitless

Jersey City, April 21.--Lcfty Rus
sell, tho former Brooklyn twirler.
and Miller, the Holy Cross col
legian. now on the Jersey City
pitching staff, put a stop to the sen
sational distance hitting streak of
Babe Ruth, of Boston, here yestcr
day afternoon.
Ruth not only failed TO connect for
another circuit clout. but failed also
TO oven get slight scmbanCe of a
safe hit. Russell failed to give hit,
while Miller permitted but four safe.
ties. The Rcd Sox won by the score
of ! o.
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athletes Swift of Thought
Take Honors Ouer Those
.S,uitter of Foot, Says
Ted Meredith
Competition Which Calls
for Head Work in Pref.
ence to Physical Energy
Furnishes Most Thrills
BY TED MEREDITH

worlds Greatest Middle Distance Runner
pAC1NG and running are two words
~ that are synonymous to the aver
age follower of track athletics, but in
my experience there is a wide differ
ence in their respective meaning.
A man may be wonderful runner,
but unless he's good racer, he'll never
get anywhere. A man can become a
good racer much easier than he can
become a good runner. 1t is all ques
tion of experience. but it is surprising
how few really acquire the art of rae =
ing. Most depend on their legs to
carry them through. The race doesn' t
always go to the swift.
College men are especially poor
racers because they depend entirely on
their coaches who can tell them what
to do. but cant do it for them. Some
of the coaches use the old football
trick and do their tutoring from the
sidelines. This is especially true in the
distance events.
Learn Before Race.
1t is a good method for the men who
have to be told how and when to spend
their energy. If I had men. however.
would try to teach them before the
race and so not distract them during
the event.
4 The best school is the old one OF
experience. I learned more running in
the indoor races in New York than IN
any of my outdoor events. This ex =
perience has stood me in good stead
on many occasions when | was not
quite up to condition, and had to save
during part of the race.
There arc number of men who do
great time under the watch in training
and then go to pieces in a race. This
type is not worth much to any trainer
for all athletes are expected to do a
little better in competition than in
practice.
Beating a Better Man
Often have seen a racer beat bet
ter runner. The racer is the man who
uses his head. The runner uses his
legs only. The racer knows he is meet
ing speedier runner and figures out
the race beforehand. He knows what
the other fellow, will do and plans
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VICTORY MARATHON TODAY
Many Entries for ST. Edwards S
Street Run

\ victory marathon handicap run will
be- held under the auspices of the ST.
Edwards Catholic Club, Eighth and
York streets, this afternoon, over n
route of five miles and three laps.
The following prizes have been do =
mated by the North Philadelphia Busi-
ness Men : Association: Diamond ring,
three watches, ten gold medals, FIVE
silver and five bronze ones. Entries
have been received from Nictrix, Mead @
owbrook, Shanahan. Northwest Boys
Club, ST. Carthage and unattached run
nnrE.
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BEST RUNNERS OFTEN
BEATEN BY RACERS
The Greatest Miller of
Al Time-WhO Is He?

Ted Meredith has written a series
of articles for the EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER, dealing with his personal
experiences, those of other athletes,
and comment on current track and
field events. His first article of the
series appears on this page today. In
his next story he names the man
he. considers the greatest miller of
all time, man he believes should
hold the worlds record at about
4:10. Orton, Bushnell. Taylor,
Jones, Kiviat, Berna, Taber, Ray,
Overton and Windnagle all have
their hackers. Read Meredith's opin-
ion in the EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER
on Wednesday. Meredith's articles
will appear three times week.
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SHIFT YALE CREW
Captain Mead May Lose Place in
Varsity Eiqht

New Haven, Conn.,. April 21.-Yale's
rowing defeat by the University Of
Pennsylvania Saturday will be followed
by general shifting of the oarsmen Of
the first boat and possibly by the re-
tirement of Captain Winter Mead. who
rode No. Z. Dr. Mather Abbott, the
head coach. was in conference last eve
ming for several hours with Assistant
Coach Alton Hyatt.
After the session he said he felt that
inexperience in racing caused the green
Yale crew to become demoralized during
the last half mile of yesterdays race
and make an inferior showing. He be-
lieved that the crew has greater pos
sibilities than it revealed against Penn
and that hard practice will develop the
eight. He refused to state what changes
will be made in the rowing order.
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INAUGURAL HANDICAP JULY a.
Many Fasteners Enter Feature Of
latonia Openinu

' New York, April 21.-Harry Payne
Whitney, S. c. Hildreth, Commander
j. X. l.. Ross, f. r.. Mclean, Willis
Sharpe Kilmer and host of other east
erners have made entries to the Inau
gural Handicap. which will be run
June 4. the opening day of the Latonia
meeting. All of these sportsmen have
entered literally in this event and they
possess horses of great class.
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Willard and Dempsey
to Discuss Referees

Chicago. April 21.-Jack Dempsey
and Jess Willard. rivals in the July
4 heavyweight championship battle,
will come face to face here today
and discuss the referee.
Despite the fact that persons close
to the moving picture interests have
declared that the referee will be
either Douglas Fairbanks or James
]. Corbett to complete their scheme
of a movie fight picture, Dempsey
declared he will accept no other than
capable judge and one who is
known to the public in that capacity.
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ATHLETICS LOSE
Drop Weird Game to Baltimore
by Score of 13 to 10

Baltimore. Md. April 81. - As the
final result would indicate, the en-
counter between the Athletics and the
Orioles, of the international League,
yesterday afternoon was long drawn
out affair and at times took on the as
pect of an amateur encounter. Both
clubs played loosely, with the Birds as
the main offenders, no less than six mis-
cues being credited to the Baltimoreans
and virtually all of these figured in the
AS runs. The Orioles took advantage of
every miscue that the Athletics hap
pened to make, and by clouting the
horsehide at opportune times the Orioles
defeated the Athletics 13 to 10.
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MlDDlES TO REST
Next Race With Syracuse Eight on
May 3

Annapolis. Md. April 21.-Members
of the naval contingent here are de-
lighted over the outcome of the race
against harvard and Princeton Satur-
day. as well as that against Penn a
week ago. and have no doubt that the
academy has the strongest college eight
of the year
There will be no let down in the prcpa
iations for the last local race against
Syracuse. on May 3. and the Henley
event, Glendon will now give some
more attention to his second and 80
pound crews. both of which will enter
the Henley affair. Syracuse will bring
only it's varsity so far as is known here.
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ETERNAL SHOWS SPEED
Does Mile and Quarter in 2: t8 3-5
In Tryout

Louisville. Ky.. April 21.-Tor the
first time since their arrival at the local
track Eternal and Sailor, two of the
j.. W. McClelland Derby candidates,
were worked over the full Derby route
of mile and quarter at Churchill
Downs.
his back. Sailor made crcditablc
showing by breezinG the mile in
l 4" % and galloppig out the quarter
in 2:l4 Jockey Andy Schuttinger was
selected to pilot Eternal. He went at
an even pace. covering the first three
quarters in 1 :33. the mile in | 30 -
and the one mile and n quarter in
2:lS 3-5.
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ROWING FOR BOYS
Fitzpatrick to Coach Crews at
Junior Plattsbura

Princeton, April 21.-John Fitz
patrick, coach of the Princeton crews.
will act as rowing coach at Junior
Plattsburg during the eight weeks en-
campment in July and August.
Rowing is an innovation at the big
Lake Champlain camp for boys, but
the long sheltered bays furnish very
satisfactory conditions for elementary
instruction and short distance brushes.
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RECORD FOR BOHLAND
Travels Five Miles In Twenty-four
Minutes and Forty.eight Seconds

New York, April 21.-Max Bohland,
the Paulist Athletic Club runner.
crowned his season of successes with a
brilliant record breaking victory for
time honors in the annual FIVE mile
Easter Sunday handicap road race of
the Brooklyn A. A. yesterday.
The 1918 American cross country
champion lowered the course record
from 25 minutes 1S second to "a min
utes As seconds. Bohland, however,
was unable to finish better than thir-
teenth.
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RECORD FOR MISS BOYLE
New Yorker. However, Only Fin
ishes Third

New York. April 21.-Although she
established an American record of 4
minutes % seconds in the first 800 yards
of the Amateur Athletic Unions ma
tional women's indoor 500 yard cham
pionsbip at the Brighton Beach winter
pool here Saturday, Miss Charlotte
Boyle. of the New York Women's
Swimming Association. finished third.
The title was won by Miss Ethelda
Blebtrey, of the same association, who
passed Miss Boyle fifty yards from the
finish. Miss Elizabeth Ryan. of the
Meadowbrook A. c., Philadelphia, was
second. by inches. The time was
minutes 40 seconds.
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Petuskey Outshoots Major

Shena ndoah. Pa. April 2O-Jack Petus-
key defeated Harry Major in a live-bird
shoot by killing Ave out of eight to Ma jor 3
four out of nine for purse Of $500 and
the gate on the outskirts Of this city this
afternoon before a large ga thering of ad-
lnirers. Major was the faVorite and his ad-
mrers lost heavily
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Murchison May Remain In East

New York, April II 21.-Loren Murchson, OF
the st Louis A, A. National A A. T.
sprinttns champion, will probably soon Join
the Knights Of st. Anthony. 1t IS under
stood the St Louis runner is contemplating
atiliatng with the Brooklyn organiza ton
and Will take up his residence here.
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NEW SCOUT FOR PILLS
Larry sutton Signs Contract With
Local Club

Jack Coombs, the Phillies' manager,
has signed Larry Sutton, a we'll known
baseball scout, to travel the tall timber
for the local National League club this
season..
Sutton was scout for the Brooklyn
and also the Cincinnati Club for many
years, and discovered Jake Daubert,
Zack Wheat and others. Sutton rec
commended Leo Callahan to the Phillies.
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Yankees Beat Newark

Newark, April 21.-Pat Donovans ha Silly
constructed Newark team gave Miller Hug
gins's Yankees a real battle for five in
nings at Harrison Field yesterday. but Ed
Rommei bumped into bad round after re-
lieying Pat Shea; and az hope was lost the
count.
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Evers Plans LEAGUE

Troy. Y. v. April 21-Johnny Eyers an
nounced Saturday evening that a meeting
would be held here next Thursday for the
purpose Of organizing a semiprofessional
ha sebal' league with teams representing
Troy. Albany, Schenectady, Syracuse, Utica
a nd Auburn.
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Hickey Borrowing Pitchers

asked McGraw for a pitcher as his staff
was badly shaken up by an automobile. ac-
York manager has offered to send Sid Ross.
d left-hander, to the Cardinals, and he may
20 there.
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Lane Breaks Record

Alameda. Calf, April 21.-Clarence Lane;
formerly Of Honolulu. broke the national
ffty-yard college swimming record here Sat
urday, when he made the distance in "a
seconds in the intercollegiate freshmen swim
ming meet.
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Duck Pin Play POSTPONED

On account OF so many bowlers being away
yer Easter the duck pin marathon sched-
ed for tonight on the Casino Alleys has
zen postponed until next Monday.
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Haddock. OF Kansas. Is said to be soot
with the javelin and discus this season. !
have his work cut out on Friday to bea
him in the pentathlon.
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Giants Hammer Walter johnson

Washington, April 2l.-The Giants con-
cluded the exhibition part OF their spring
training tour here yesterday with 5-to-3
victory over Clarke Grihith's Senators.
Walter Johnson was hit freely.
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Butler, of Dubuque, the big colored sprint
er was second at Des Moines on Saturday.
". will compete in the pentathlon on Fri
day and run in the 100 yards on Saturday
at Penns carnival.