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The Washington herald., 1919-02-17

docks and railroad facilities are
forced to sell out. not only because
they are bankrupts. but because they
no longer can attempt 10 operate
their concessions IN ccntcrs Of hostile
population
Checked Big ShipbuiIdinE.
Marine engineers contend The war
checked the building Of huge steam
ships. In their efforts TO standardize
ship construction. shiDbuildcrs Of the
allies constructed smaller vessels
drawing little more than thirty feet
Of water.
French marine engineers ConsIdc~cd
that II their harbors could boast nifty
feet Of water. they were assured Of
retaining their prosperity for years TO
come. But the return OF peace re
veals no inClination by ship builders
10 continue building small vessels.
Larger vessels than ever before
contemplated are now being planned
by the marine architects.
The movement for the expenditure
of money in harbor improvements is
found IN every European country.
Moreover. the Continental ports are
vleing with each other for the trade
that once was HamburE's and Bre-
mems.
The Mediterranean ports promise 10
enter on a period Of great prosperity.
Marseilles Is exceptionally situated,
but il is understood that money is
sought for the Improvement OF Vile
franche adjacent 10 Nice. where a
deep water port could bc readily de-
veIOpcd. The French government
plans TO expend S40"oy."0 on the port
Of Havre. American engineers have
done much for -. Nazairc and Nam
ties The French believe the great
double track road built by the Ameri-
cans from Nantes will b. the high
vav for huge exports to Switzerland
and Central Europe imports that
once went by way Of Hamburg and
Premen.
Gateway TO Sea.
one Of the most interesting stu
ations is that presented by DanziE.
the port which is destined TO be- Po-
lands gateway 10 the sea About the
time America was discovered DanziE
was a DOrt. but has lost its trade to
the German ports. II is tho entrance
to Poland and Russia. and its only
great rival. aDpa rcntly. is Copenhagen
Other ports which il is thought
American capital will consider are
Bizerta in Tunis. the gateway to the
rich French colonies in Central AZ
riCa: DJibonti in the Indian Ocean;
Tamatave. MajunCa and Autsiraine
in Madagascar, and Tourane in An
nam.
Genoa, Italy. will spend 100000 on
warehouses: Messina is 70 have a
new SOO-foot dock. and Shanghai has
plans for spending S.5.obo.nr1 for docks
and ship-building slips on the WhanG-
poo Cadiz seeks to rival Barcelona
as the great port O southern Spain
and is erecting a dry dock capable
OF bcrthinC a SoONn-tuu ship.
Denmark plans TO spend S5."oo."oo on
the port Of Rodly and $l5hoOoo will be
expended at RUnCsted. Many ports
like ViGo. Spain. seek not only to i'm
prove the harhOr. but TO be Joined
TO the interior by modern railway
systems.
On every side demands are coming
! for the use OF American capital As
as the great port of southern Spain
worlds visible supply Of wealth, il
! is believed American investors will
/ be called upon to consider investments
| in every o,uartcr Of the globe.
The Washington herald., 1919-02-17
TO CONGRESS-:

VIII you give a living salary 70
Washington's public school teach
ers. in whose hands lies the educs-
uon OF our youth
The Washington herald., 1919-02-17

CONTINUED ON PAGE Tw
Evening star., 1919-10-25

An athlete has been developed in
Christiania, Norway, who, the Morse
men claim, is a greater all-around
athlete than the Indian Jim Thorpe,
whose remarkable performances in
the Olympic games at Stockholm in
1912 earned for him the title of worlds $
greatest all-around athlete.
Helge Loveland is the name of the
young Norwegian who has created a
sensation in the Scandinavian coun-
tries by his recent performances in
championship competition in the
north. .--
: When Thorpe set up his wonderful
records in the pentathlon and decath-
lon competitions it was felt that It
would be many long day before an
athlete would be found who could
equal, to say nothing of lettering. his
records in these events. However.
Loveland has bettered Thorpe's rec
ord in the pentathlon and gives prom
Use of equaling or betteying his rec
year passes
Figuring on the Olympic method of
scoring, Loveland rolled up 4,193
points in the pentathlon championship
of Norway last month, or 145 points
more than Thorpe made in the Olympic
pentathlon. In the decathlon the Nor
wegian all-around star scored 1853
points against S,412 by the former
left fielder of the New York Giants.
Thorpe's performances in three out
of the five events in the pentathlon
are better than those made by Love-
land. but in the two events in which
jLoveland beats the Indian his per-
formances so far outclass Thorpe's
that the difference in points between
them for the three events is Offset.
Evening star., 1919-10-25
NORWAY'S ATHLETIC WONDER
OUTSTIINES THORPE, IS CLAIM

Loveland's best events are the JaVe-
lin and discus In the former his best
throw was 1s0 feet 10 inches. and IN
the latter 127 feet inches. Thorpe
records in these events in the OlympIc
pentathIon were 1E3 feet 1920
8 4-1U inches for the discus. Love
land cleared 21 feet rs inches in tine
running broad jump, against 20 rect
2 7-10 inches for Thorpe. There is not
a great deal of difference between
them in the other two events In the
% s-10 seconds. while Loveland' was
timed in 23 1-10 seconds. In the
1.50O-meter run Thorpe ran the dis
tance in 4.44 $40, against 4.52 As
for Loveland.
The present Olympic pentathlon
champion is a Norwegian. F. r. Bic
finished second to Thorpe at Stock.
holm, and when Thorpe was declared
ineligible the first prize and cham
pionship in the pentathlon went to
Bic of Norway.
1t now looks as though Norway
feared by the Americans in the pentha-
lon at the Olympic games at Antwerp
next summer. While America has
not received any information to that
effect, it is quite likely that this new
all-around star is protege OF John
Hellum, who came to this country a
few years ago to study athletics, and
while here captured the national PEN
tathlon championship and finished
second to Avery Brundage in the ma
tional all-around championship as a
representative of the Pastime A. G. of
this city He was an exceptionally
fine all-around performer and return
ed to Norway last spring to prepare
the Norwegian athletes for the Olym-
pic games at Antwerp next August
Evening star., 1919-10-25
BY II. c. BYRD.

Rex Athletic Club plays the McDon-
ough foot ball team of Baltimore to-
morrow The Baltimoreans are said
to have a strong Independent combi-
nation, but the Washingtonians are ex-
pecting to administer the same kind of
dose to them that they handed the Vim
come Atheletic Club of Philadelphia
last week.
And. in passing. it might be we'll to
say that the Rex club has team cap
able of holding its own with the best
OF such organizations.
The eleven lines up with many former
college players and with some of the
stars of local sandlots. The backfield,
composed of Cranston, Bleier. Harris
and Giebel, is exceptionally good.
Cranston is hard driving back. Both
Harris and Bleier are fast and capable
in the open field and Giebel is a splen-
did defense player. The line is heavy
and has had considerable experience.
There is sure to be one big inde-
pendent foot ball game here this year,
with Navy Yard and Rex Athletic Club
opposing each other. Already there is
a great deal of comment on the capabili-
ties. of the two elevens, and supporters
of each declare that their team is the
better.
The game yesterday in the Cen
trail stadium was postponed because
of poor weather conditions. The post
ponement must have come through
Evening star., 1919-10-25

HIGH RUN FOR COCHRAN
Scores 265 Straight Caroms in De-
feating Slosson in Title Bill
lizard Tourney. Tee.

NEW YORK. October ,5-W elk er
Cochran, with an unfinished run of
265 caroms. completed his quota of
400 points in the morning game of
the national championship 1872 balk-
line tourney yesterday, defeating
George Slosson. whose total was III.
This is the highest single inning
score of the tournament, the next
best, 1865. having been made by the
young Detroit expert himself in his
match against Yamada Thursday
BY a score of 400 to 356, Koji va
mada defeated George B. Sutton in
twenty innings. Yamada's average
was 20, and his best runs were l15
los and A. Sutton had an average or
IS 1919 with runs of 81, SO and a
Willie Hoppe defeated George Sizes
son in the afternoon game by a score
of 400 to 13S. Hopes average wa
A 40 and his three high runs were
los. 81 and rs.
In last nights game Cochran de-
feated young Jake Schaefer. 400 tc
257. In doing so he left the cham
nionship title safe for Willie Hoppe
Had Schaefer won the game he would
have had a chance to tie in the nnai
match tonight.
incidentally. Cochran MAGE ano.ner
high run last night. his l6S oea'ills ~
NV three points the high mark ne set
for the tournament Thursday.
Evening star., 1919-10-25
TO RACE AT BOWIE.
Prince Georges Park to Be Opened
Under an Act Passed in 1892.

BALTIMORE, October 25. There
will be no temporary interruption of
the continuity of racing at Prince
Georges Park, Bowie, under the aus
pices of the Southern Maryland Agri-
cultural Association, as was feared
last spring when the court of last
record in the Old Line state declared
unconstitutional the act under which
racing had been conducted in Prince
Georges county since 1914. General
Manager James F. O'Hara OF the
Bowie track set a staff of lawyers at
work on the old Maryland statutes
relating to racing as soon as the ad-
verse decision of the court was hand
ed down, and ii was discovered that
under an act of 1892 racing may be
conducted at Prince Georges Park
under precisely the same conditions
as obtained under the invalid act.
So Mr.. O'Hara aho Clerk OF the
Course Joseph McLennan. who is act
ing as one of the placing judges at
Laurel Park, have gone ahead with
preparations for the usual fall meet
ing And Supt. Richard Pending is
busy fixing up his stables for the ac-
! commodation of the most consider
able colony of thoroughbreds that
ever have assembled at the Southern
/ Maryland track.
Evening star., 1919-10-25
First to Break 800.

Willie was the first one to break 800
in our big opens. and he did it winning
the Western at Cleveland in 1902 with a
score of 299, and he won the national
three times in succession-1903-0 -04- -05-
at Baltusrol, Glen View and Myopia. In
1906 he was defeated by Larry Auchter-
Ionic at Garden City.
In the western open Willie won the
honor at Euclid in 1902; at Kent. Grand
Rapids. in 1904; Normandie. St Louis.
1908. and at Shokie, Chicago, 1909. 1t
was at Skokie that he averaged AS for
the seventy-two holes. an unheard-of
thing up to that time 1t is wonderful
record. and ! doubt if it will ever be
equaled.
He died in the east. a Comparatively
young man; shortly after his father,
professional at some eastern club. died.
and soon after his brother Tom was
killed in an automobile accident near
his club, at Montclair. n. j., and thus
the ST. Andrews family came to this
country. throve on golf and passed to
other links To the day of his death
Willie Anderson was a great golfer and
the story of his famous shots are still
Neing told.
Evening star., 1919-10-25
SETTLE PITCHER HOYT'S
CASE IN BOSTON'S FAVOR

CINCINNATI. Ohio. October 25.-The
National Base Ball Commission to-
day decided in favor of the Boston
American League club in a claim filed
by the New Orleans club for $4,000
for Player Waite c. Hoyt. The Bos-
ton club had already agreed to pay
$2,5O0 for the player. A mix-up in
kilograms was the cause Of the con-
troversy.
The commission denied the claim
of William Leonard against the Chi
cago Americans for 5000 for getting
a player named Stewart to report to
the White Sox
Eugene Packard put in a claim
against the Philadelphia Nationals
for $2S5 for salary. but this was dis
allowed. as he left the team and play
ed independent ball with the Masillon
club.
Evening star., 1919-10-25
BAL LTIMORE ELEVEN
TO OPPOSE REX A. c.
McDonough Team Plays Clubmen Here
.Tomorrow-V.P. l. Here for Game
With Maryland State. ....

Central, as Tech was very anxious to
play despite the rain and wet held.
Only one foot bail game is to be
played here today. Maryland state
and Virginia Polytechnic Institute pc
ing listed to settle their differences
at Union League Park. The V. r. L.
good shape. The contest will begin at
3 o'clock.
One of the hardest games OF the
season should result from the meet
ing. States is in pretty good snap91
despite minor injuries TO sever a.
players and V. P. l. is ready 10 put
up great fight.
Probably one of the most spectacu-
lar and tense games ever played IN
the south resulted from the meeting
Thursday of North Carolina CnlEsr :
sity and North Carolina state me
Chapel Hill men beat the Raleigh
com mbination by 13 to II. the latter
losing through it's inability 10 KICK
goals from touchdowns- Surrey OF tne
State eleven furnished the thrill OF
the day when he ran eighty yaros
for a touchdown after receiving
kick off.
John Dugan has gone to the middle
west to arrange several 1901 pan
games with the semi ml-proiesslonal
teams of that section for the Navy
Yard.
Two Washington colleges play games
today on foreign fields. Georgetown
is at the University of Detroit and
Catholic University at Muhlenberg
College
Evening star., 1919-10-25

Although the foot ball schedule in
the east today calls for fewer big
games THAI did that of last week, the
days play should develop at least two
highly interesting contests in the Col
sate-Princeton game at Princeton and
the Dartmouth-Corne tilt on the
Polo Grounds. Both of these games
will have a vital bearing on the east
ern title.
Princeton. having dropped Dart
mouth to schedule a less difficult en-
counter, finds itself entering the sub
stituted game rated as an almost Ger
tain loser. Indeed, the ways of foot
ball fate are strange.
Bill Roper must pit a team of mex
perienced Tigers against a machine
which is made up of pre-war veterans
and which has swept already through
two hard games without having been
forced to extend itself. 1t is the i'm
preston of all critics that Colgate has
much in reserve, and that the Bankart
machine will never show it's full hand
until it strikes an eleven that can
force a close battle. At present it
looks as though Dartmouth and SYRIA
cuse are the only teams that can
threaten the Maroon seriously.
Evening star., 1919-10-25
GOLF VETERANS BEATEN
Lard, Clapp and Lewis Eliminated
in Play for Presi-
dents Cup.

Four survivors of the third round Of
match play in the annual handicap
golf even for the presidents cup met
this morning in the semi final round
at the Chevy Chase Club. The final
will be played this afternoon. Harry
A ellis took the measure of Allan
Lard by and 4 in the third round
yesterday; c. T. Osburn defeated J. J.
Hamilton, l up; A. Y. P. Garnett won
from John H. Clapp by hole, and T.
A. Clayton defeated Reeve Lewis by
and /.
Fills met Osburn in the semi final
round this morning and Garnett was
opposed to Clayton. The course is soft
and heavy and scores as a rule are
not good.
Match play in the annual competi-
tion for the liberty cup will begin
next Wednesday afternoon. This Will
also be closed handicap event
Evening star., 1919-10-25

the hands Ouimet's grip is practically
the same.
Some very good players have a
strictly local game, but Anderson's s
championships were won in all parts
of the country.
Almost all professionals seem to have
rowing disposition. but his was par
ticularly a strong wanderlust in fact,
and it took him to different positions
almost every year. l understand that
he stayed at Onwentsia, in Chicago.
longer than at any other place. I re-
member him there, and as far back as
1905 he had cracked 70 on that course.
It is not so great an achievement now,
with our improved clubs and balls, to
break 70 as it was then. but it is still a
feat worth venturing.
Evening star., 1919-10-25
DETROIT HAS 3 STARS
OUT OF TODAY'S GAME

DETROIT, Mich, October 81
Georgetown came to Detroit today
TO demonstrate it's famous running
attack to the University of Detroit.
1t was the southerners first appear
ance here. The local eleven went
into the contest minus the services
of three of its gridiron stars through
injuries.
Evening star., 1919-10-25
Good Move by Union Boat Club.

Through cooperative agreement,
entered into by the Columbia Univer-
-sty and the Union Boat Club of New
York city, all Columbia students will
be permitted the Use of the Harlem
] oathouse while they are candidates
for the Blue and White crews, and
upon graduation will be taken into
the club without the formality of
election.
Evening star., 1919-10-25
Maroon Is Favored.

The Maroon team enters the game
against Princeton Z to 10 favorite,
and many have gone so far as to pre-
dict that Princeton will not show as
well against Bankart's team as Cor
nell did. In defeating Brown and Cor
nell Colgate has shown a capable for
ward pass attack as well as a strong
The Princeton defense, unable to
prevent the lpuny Rochester team
from making long gains through the
Tiger line. can hold little hope of
stopping Colgate. And the Princeton
one to believe that the Tigers can
score on the Hamilton eleven. For a
guess. it looks like Colgate, about
At New Haven DR.. Sharpe will pre-
sent a hastily altered Yale team
against Tufts in the bowl. Kempton
will be tried out at quarterback in
place of La Roche, and Acosta will
played in the Boston College game.
| to tackle.
1t was Acosta's two poor passes
| from center that caused the Ellis to
last Saturday, but he was in no way
| blamed, since he made no claim to
| be "a center and begged not to be
placed there. He is a tackle Of the
Improvement at his old position. Gal
vim will be at center.
| Stars Out of Game.
| Braden, Murphy and Tim Callahan
will not be able to play for time,
probably not until the Princeton
| game. The Blue has been showing
! well in practice during the week. and
| Tufts ought to furnish just about
enough opposition today to afford DR.
| Sharpe a good chance to try out his
new team and new formations. Yale
| is fortunate in having Tufts and
Maryland on the card. This will af-
| ford a good breathing spell before
| the final tilts with Brown, Princeton
| and Harvard.
The game between Harvard and
Virginia in Cambridge will draw the
attention of but few outside of the
/ undergraduates of the two contesting
universities. since the Virginia eleven
is having the most disappointing sea-
| son in its history. The Harvard team
will not have to uncover anything to
roll up a big score against the Old
Dominion team, so it is possible that
| even scouts of other colleges may
pass the battle up.
The scrappy little Lafayette team
will invade Franklin Field to battle
Evening star., 1919-10-25
GAMES TODAY HAVE A VITAL,
BEARING ON FOOT BALL TITLE
Colgate Is Favorite Over Princeton in
Premier Contest, While Dartmouth
IsExpected to Defeat Cornell.

Pennsylvania and a good battle ought
to result. 1t is not expected that
Lafayette will push the Red and Blue
team to the limit to which Princeton
was forced two weeks ago. but the
Easton combination has displayed
enough power this season to cause
one to believe that the game will not
be one of those 60-to-0 affairs that
have been so common on Franklin
Field this fall.
Evening star., 1919-10-25
Cross-Country Makes Athletes.

Coach Edward Farrell of the Harvard
scross-country squad says: AN ath-
lete who has trained over a cross
country course for a season is in
rendition to enter any branch of ath-
letics or any event in the track pro-
:. ram, and, if the natural ability is
present in any degree. make sue
tessful showing"
Evening star., 1919-10-25
CI.IJB OWNERS STILL SUPPORT
WORLD SERIES OF NINE GAMES
Despite Protests Many Will Vote to Con
tinue Base Ball Classic Same
as This Year.

decreased crowd, also that the dwin-
died attendance was due to local
condition which might not come again
in another series in years.
Another argument which the mag
mates are advancing to one another is
that a nine-game series is necessary
for the club owners to make anything
out of 1t under the new system of di-
viding world series purses. For the
first time this year the contending
clubs were obliged to turn over half
Of their receipts to their league treas.
uries. Even with the eight games
played the contending clubs made
only about $4,000. about the same as
the government war tax on the series.
The league got more out Of the
series this year than ever before and
the money paid into the league treas
uries will go as league dues. instead
of the individual clubs being assessed
for the upkeep of their leagues.
Will Come Up at League Meeting.
John Heydler. president Of the Ma
tional League. was asked whether the
nine-game world series had been made
permanent. mo, that matter will come
up this winter" he replied.
He admitted. however. that several
men IN base ball FAVOR the longer
series. Heydler would not say whether
he approved the long or short series,
but did say that the eight-game series
was not as much of a failure as had
been pointed out.
Some of my friends told me they
thought there was more interest in
the eighth game, when every one was
anxious to see whether the Sox could
pull it out. than at any time in the
series," said Heydler.
The writer is heartily opposed to the
nine-game series. and favors a reten-
ton of the old limit of seven-game
series. That has proved satisfactory
for years. Herrmann's main plea for a
longer series was that a seven-game
series would not enable him to take
care of all his fans. That developed
into the joke of the last series.
But the friends of the short series
will have to keep on plugging, or the
club owners will make the nine-game
series permanent feature. Methods
already have been discussed for pre-
venting anything like the slump in the
Cincinnati attendance by selling four
tickets in each series next year. and
refunding the money in the event the
series is not played.
Evening star., 1919-10-25
rIany Soccer Teams in Title Play

\ total of 100 soccer foot ball
eievens have entered the annual tour
hey for the national cup. Matches
will be played each month. the losers
dropping out. The finals will taxi
place in April. 1920.
Evening star., 1919-10-25
Rumanian Racketer a Winner.

NJ. n. AIishu. the young Rumanian
tennis player. sprung a surprise in
the English tennis world by winning
the fianl of the mems singles at Hur-
1ingham against S. n. Doust.
Evening star., 1919-10-25
Schoolboys Prepare for Races.

New York city and also Philadel-
phia high school boys participate in
dual cross-country racing in prepara-
ton for the annual scholastic cham
pionships in Philadelphia Thanksgiv-
ing day.