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~ OF CLUBS.
NON. Lost
PIRATES STOP WINNING
STREAK OF THE CHAMPS
Landed on Ci%ncinnati's Twirlcr in
the First for Two Runs,
Capturing Game.
Ky Associated rrrssl

'.&INNlNNATl. April lS.-~Pittshurch
broke the winning streak OF the
champions today by winning. . to /.
Roth Adams and Rcu,hcr pitched
great ball.
The visitors won in the first ipnjn,.
on 4 hit by BiEbce. a base on balls.
A s~icraicc and a tumble by kopf,
which gave them two runs.
The Reds scored their only run in
The fifth ON hits BY duncan. Winro
and leeuthcr.
The score.
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no EtOIr
I'iltShurcl

,,.S u m III "a y: Two-has. hits duncan.
Wntt,"d. cator. stolen Lns.s-Euusii.
.:"h'". Sacrifice hits-Snuth worth cut
SHAY Double ~nlays-iinush 10 N"uth"r
- :" !hSo :" Gr"h. -. Winro. I-r on
ba'rs Pii:shurEh. I: cincInuIri. =. iIs..S
on balls Rru,hrr, : Struck "ut-I;cuti,"..
.. AIi;n>. J. tinr.rcs-Moran AND Rig
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PASKERT'S WILD THROW
GIVES ST. LOUIS VICTORY
Sluggcrx From S%lccpNiilc Hit Sehf
Hnrd, and N~;raw's beauties
n;tc tho Dust.
ny Associated H''"s'

ST. LOUIS. April 1S.-St. Louis lie
feat,d ChiH.eo. :. 20 &. IN the opening
game OF The series Acre This after
moor. Alexander Weakened ia ~"
sixth. allowing two Singles y {,
double. which. Win Il WILD thTo" py
pasksrt. gave -. Louis tw" runs.
pcak hold Chicago safe Al! the way.
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CLEVELAND WINS FROM
DETROIT BY II TO A
Indians Bat Ayers Ont Of the BOX
and Speaker Makes II Double
and Home Run. :

CLEVELAND. April lS.-Dc-roit
mad. It's FIRST appearance Of the sea
son here today and was beaten il
70 1.
Cicveland hatt"i Ayers on, of the
np% IN IN. third inning. Love. who
followed him, wnH wild. C~av.lcskIe
Np Il lead.
Manager Speaker distinguished him
s"li with ~ double AHA : home run
plate.
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EoStnu .....o 90 IUn!o -!
Brooklyn ........... o:o63 -"
*"is. VIVA; C?). Myers. h3n",chy. ward
~. Elliott
Sumra-y: Two.bas- iA.-c,son. HON"
un-Sc!s. S~4cr.icH ts-My.r : Np-
netSny rf~r"r 1T on s.s-i:paIon.
d"lIh, ], hIe4u!llan. /: rt"u,r. !. il!t'
"h s!nd",pA,, in G.. ,e9u;,iqa :
S;rgct "ut--Eu!"lph, J: rfencr. =. Los
iEE pitcher: -.iuiC!rh. .art:cs-D' DGv
and Harrison. Time. 1881.
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start ,;nmr T"morrow n, ::

Ih".Ihy's @alr. between The colts
ihl Euh"io an he called at .
20 'i"'h. 1T was last might.
tim" q" catch th.. train for E,liiinn-m
l"ia%S gam" viii start at the
REGULAR hour. I o'clock.
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First Weeks Record of the
National and American League Race

W." oHh hpri iS--The "rcL'a record In ench IcaEu" Of n
runs scored 10y Including games n saturday, April IL. T..
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Cleveland.

Ts,"is = ll.4li. r";als..32i@27i4
fLit"i Grr l.p." in .irhI..
runs Nchgn -. iIriin.ar. S;mnare.
- ~ , haIintu %. Sp"ak-r t2j.
coV".r9, ir.
Detroit u-r,,n.o u.
tIrsrlant a a 40 -
t'L.u'iru St.n".c. Shorten. chairman
,,n:'i.: "'t'?hsIus :r.nE-r lioirte
~ Nl''hh't. Si"!'n as=a-JuE.s'rr :.
HN,Elnr' hits Love. Gran-,. :. WnoJ
',"u'..' 7l".' Gardner. Wambs:aras AMI
''H' '''' .'p"iN'r .:G p',Srili. I,ni; 80
80 i.,'i.".i. s. cleveland :. Base ON
h.i' on 1--we. .. C'vctl"SaE. ! Hii.--
" Nt"'S Z" IN ~ 'nulrrH; Love. i il
%ih.iUrS. III; ~ pit,h"r--ay Ayr;a.
t'i'A'|( struck "!;-LY :vcr4. l.
Lave, 'DN","gIls. . Wild rIrrr.r ,
i'"N NluH,r< ritrh"r- Cuv.l.ilS..
Ism iHirh'f-Ay5r C:nr.r.S-E Evans
ana iH!i'hfanG. Time. !:ir.
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nnitimnrc win. From Athletics.

BALTIMORE. Apru Isl, an n,.
n!h!t!cI game today the Orioles won
ron The Athletics by a score OF :;
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RAILROAD

Arrivals and Departures Of Passenger Train.
daily, unless otherwise shown published
only as Information and not guaranteed.
daily except sunday. sunday oEiy.
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Stois ny innings y
phii"iriphia ..-rGiiCc"C-
SeW YORK q y - q @,
Runs -F-!s.a". I.ncrg.r. Williams on
J. Nlisr. IlJ!"tt".
Sul"r.n-y ~Lrw".n"r: hits r]tancro',
-Frschc. trHhce-. .usrl. pouhiu
p!ays- @iil"r: !. M!lI,r I'M rauIct;".
lrCt rr hhF"= sew iorf Z. Z. rhilaiu!phIE.
5uF-s su DaLls-pH Mcaiows 4 bi's
-"r S.Et. - 70 . innings Huh,tl!. J
n 2: NluiefF none in l.. S;rUoI out
,iohf. +luuteli. l Mshdows I.n,
ing litrhr: -S.h: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
aLi Hart Tim" l:Tt.
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CONSOLIDATED CITY TICKET OFFICES
ESQ T.. Main Street Phone Randolph 114
Norfolk Sc Western Ry.

For Norfolk 5:55 A. NJ, $3.50 a.. NJ,
sos +. ~, $3.50 =. ~. For the West
5:55 a. NJ. $40 a.. NJ, 1870 =. NJ. $40
T.. NJ. 9:25 y. NJ. Arrive from Nor
folk, HAS a. NJ. 1925 =. H., 1856 F.
Nj: from the West. 500 a. NJ. eco
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S@2 East Main Street. Phone Madi
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st. Louis At Chicago.
Detroit mt Cleveland.
tOnly two schrlulcdD,
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NATIONAL LEAGUE

RESULTS YESTERDAY.
HostOn. 3: brooklyn. 8.
Sew York /; PHILADELPHIA. ..
Chicago. d: st. Louis. =.
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f;ook1yu.


- -s'gV = .. . :. J
"BIt'"l for C'NcIll IN sev-nih.
TBHit.d for Hu,iuiuh in seventh.
:Enttc'! for McCu.i!aH ~ nin;!.
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.T"'als . T?7I3 To'ui- ..a.i!:7I4
.%i;N''-! t"r N'nf IN SIKH.
-iint,-G frr iiuct"!! ~ eighth.
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THE BOOK SHELF

the art of criticism and nothing else he might at the end of 50 years be- come a master in his profession, can didate for the deference of the intel lectual public.
 This may or may not be an exag- geration. Certainly, in all civilized countries, there is respectable body of critics x-~e opinions carry weight and who, for the most part, are com paratively young men or women. .
 Personally, I think it rather an impertinence for any reviewer tc ''criticise" the work of an author al- ready established in the public esteem Take Miss Sinclair, for inst..-fce. the subject of this article, which, with a good deal of reluctance, I have con scented to write at the instance of the editor She has had a long and thorny road and has won her high position on her merits only. The critics took little notice of her at first she never had a boom; but she had God-given tall ent, she stuck to her guns, and there came time when no critic could afford to oveslook her, for she had won to a position in the front rank of living novelists Now the critics are so afraid of being out of the fashion that they fairly shriek her praises If she has the sense of humor that most authors have she must be considerably amused. However. if they suddenly determined to boycott or abuse her it would not make the slightest difference. She has her public. and she will continue to hold it as long as she continues to interest it.
 She is not likely to lose it by her new book, Mary Olivier" although she may not win any readers in that immense audience devoted to sentimental fiction with which this country is cursed. The devotees ~ Harold Bell Wright and the Porters never have read and never will read Miss Sinclair. Perish the thought.
 Mary Olivier is not a novel or TO- nance .but a biography. and in coverine the life of woman from the age of until AZ Miss Sinclair has adopted the happiest possible method The suave and flowing style would consume fa' too much space. The book consists of 8 long series of vignettes, brief and sharply cut. The style is telegraphic short sentences often without s,ibiect or predicate. Some critics of Englist object bitterly to this departure iron i the good old ruls but for my part
 cannot see that anything but results matter. and Miss Sinclair certainly
 gets results. Her carefully consideree considered brief sentences are wineed
 and fly into -Four brain like so man, i sharp little arrows. There must h. 1 30 or 40 characters in the book. ari 1 each is as distinct and as memorshl, i as if as much time had been ~iver
 to their delineation as to the cool an,
 deliberate calculation involved in thoS
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stronger perhaps a hundred times year Gin other years. I mean), when rendered by friends. The situation is always funny, though treated serious 1 ly by him.
 As the Fish in .grhe Rainbow Girl" my friend Mir Billy B. Van holds his audience at least 15 or 20 minutes in { fit of laughter. To do this the spirit l of humor must move him eternally, off stage and on.
 1 And always he is as intimate as the historic Kings Jester.' He gets under the skin.
 1 Early in his career Mir. Billy B. Van discovered that familiarity" does not 1 breed contempt"
 [ Ridicule is for the recluse. The mob will stone glass house So he learned to take the crowd into his confidence. He believes in coming out into the open.
 Fundamentally human he came to know quickly two traits of the human race-sorrow and happiness. Diversi- fled experiences gave him taste of each.
 He came to know that disappoint- ment. grief. sorrow lie just under laughter. Then knowing just about where laughter turks he has been able to catch it these many years.
 First, he took up the task of making Tom laugh. Then he tried to make Dick laugh. He found it not difficult.
 His troubles came when he tried to make Tom and Dick laugh at the same time; then he became very sober minded MT. Billy B. Van when he took Harry into his confidence and tried to make Tom. Dick and Harry laugh simultaneously.
 Funmaking became his forte when he took the mob into his confidence. Try making a thousand people laugh at the same time. Anybody who can do that can command 5000 week, Yet laughter is as natural to the hu- man being as is oxygen.
 Even an infant had rather laugh than cry. It is simple matter te
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1TTOd ka DALRYMPLE.

finally, though causing a little quake~ul
 dread at first. The same figure propped
 upon stone in graveyard at the dead
 of night wouldn't amuse anybody"
 That which is ugly will incite fearI
 But that which. will excite laughter must
 be ugly it seems A Romeo cannot get al
 laugh. A funny man must be made up-|
 ugly, baggy trousers, elongated noseI ! over-sized shoes. He must overcome d doubt. Get the people out in front ou1 of themselves, and get a laugh. It is d serious thing, this funny business"
 My friend, MT. Billy B. Van, who pre1 ] sides over the feast of fun in "The RSin bow Girl" is an odd personality Hon] any point of view. His face is as tightly | drawn as a drumhead, but his chin, nosd and forehead would never touch evenly straight string suspended from over1 head. The nose is c1erically thin and his chin has the upturn of a street ca1 fender. His forehead buIks enough at thd ] top to show that if his heart was evef 1 deeply touched it would have to come bJ 1 that route. In other words, he things 1 for himself, and whatever work he uni ] dertakes must be started from the bot | tom and follow a definite line for the 1 desired purpose.
 | When the summer closing time of the | theatres comes around instead of idline and pleasuring, ''rhe thrifty Bill B. hur- rles to a festing hamlet in the New | Hampshire hills, called after it's founder ! Vans Harbor. He is the largest land 1 owner, holding more than 1000 acres, ant I is also Justice Of the Peace. the onl, one, upon whom devolves all the leading duties of the place.
 | His Grand View Dairy Farm is on, l of the show places at Sunapee, N. H. and is owned and directed by MT. Billy 1 E. Van himself, who lndles laughter like pine wood afire. Thus he contrast: and balances the pleasure and work O living. When asked one time why ht did not confine himself exclusively ts the restful employment of his New Eng land dairy, he said My father befor' me, and his father, all Hollanders. wen dairymen, and as a boy I heard ant learned little else about the trades of life It got into my blood and when, by fucl as a performer on the stage, acquire< enough money to think og investmen for. old age the charm of the hills ant the sweetness of country life, as re
 called it, carried me back to tho dairy Sunapee looked like a place that woui appreciate new settler with a natnra
 love of soil, and I quickly made a dea tthat has kept me there ever since.~
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ii: !: $::. s' ;. T,: :. s
 mingham, said I to myself, says l:
 Now I'm glad of that, because can write story about the bright particular star of the clever show before he gets here-something to sort of greet him you know; tho glad hand as it were and all that; because you see my friend MT. Billy E. Van and l are cid chums; I've written numberless stories with him when he has been here; Tvs also seen him in New York, where he is such prime favorite, and let me tell you something, the time before the last when I was there and The Rainbow Girl was playing to packed and jammed houses at ths New Amsterdam, my friend Mr Billy B. Van sent me tickets to the show. I sat right down front and he talked to me from the stage and called me out in the meeting. Dolly Dai- rynple, says he, and there was evidently a large sprinlding of Birmingham people in the audience. because there was 8 lot of applause, and all that, and was that stuck up and ticllled to death--oh, well my frienG Mir. Billy B. Van is a peach a real peach, and I'm just so glad you are going to have the chance of seeing him with his big show at the Jefferson, because really. he is worth seeing; so is the show, and everybody in it, because, you know the original cast'-and all that, Gces make difference and-and-'
 That's always the way l behave when I begin to write about my friend MT. Billy 5. Van. I never know when or where to stop, and hardly ever do, but as I was going to say:
 He was baptized William Webster, with she surname of sVandergrift. Neither the year of the sprinkling nor the place has been recorded. The performance was without incident, no doubt being fraught with the usual protestations, however, by the subject most interested,
 This was William Webster himself.
 That William Webster would have let
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B. Van. Tt is thin ice, between fright
 and amusement. One may tremble or
 laugh at the ugly"
 My friend, MT. Billy B. Van, speaks
 particularly of low comedy character
 izations; and. literally, and of the
 physical rather than the personal as-
 pect.
 In his present role of an "itinerant four costumes; a fantastic garb of a low comedian, the conventional dress of bishop, a buffers evening clothes which hang about him in many folds, having been purloined from the but ler's pantry apparently, and the bright clothes of an English riding outfit. Each dress is unusual-and might ex- cite fear with propitious environment Environment is prime factor in this case. As MT. Billy B. Van says: "All of the wildly formed, fantastic, extravagant earmarks which get a laugh under the footlghts High lights, environment, at mosphere, fantasy, grotesqueness; gaiety, 1lnaiiy laugntert environment ana the susceptible mood of the spectator withal. ' And thus always with the poor come dian" says MT. Billy B. Van, "he struts on after Romeo has done his turn. and | the audience relaxes, expecting him to pick them up and make them laugh. And ! remember they would run from you in
 the dark For you dare not come on as Romeo.'
 ''Try making an audience laugh, espe- ! cially if it is of the feminine gender after Romeo has done his stunt. All the world loves a lover; if it is a woman's world. He wears the feathers Let then meet you suddenly upon their cellal | steps Might you not scare them out 1 of their wits? And this is what tho poor funny man has to overcome. The admiration excited for Romeo, and tho 1 little shiver caused by his own insight liness It is serious thing, this funn, business
 T might go a step further to get my point Dress up skeleton and let hin bob about the stage. He will get laugl
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SoME BEAUTIES ITO n /" THE RATNB@v~ GTRH M
 ,a cZFFEE72,SON

it go at 'Bilr' and eschewed the formali ties, may not be gainsaid.
 But having nothing to say on the sub ject, he emerged with William Webster prefixed to the patronymic-Vande
 Taken all in all, the christening was a serious affair. and seriously accepted by William Webster; though had he the would have commented upon the situa tion lightly humorously Even as thinga went it may be assumed there was a merry little twinkle in his eye.
 For it was really 1udicrous; such big name for such little chap. He is still slight of stature, and must have
 been wee thing at the beginning. But realizing at very early age that the name was mere excess baggage, he set the stage for another christening, and let it go at Billy B. Van. And this time he had a laugh.
 He hints that he has facilitated transportation by tacking the Van to himself. But this is putting the wagon before the horse. He was known as William among his tintimates for three or four years. Then, at times between the ages of five and ten. as Master William Webster. He has no recollection of ever being ad-
 dressed in full-William Webster Van- dergrift. This must have happened at least
 once-at the christening. His ancestors had nothing in com
 mon with the stage.
 They know much about cheese, and | the best way to make 1.-the best. 1 Whether they were the first to put l the hole in the Swiss product is not | known.
 It is a cinch his ancestors were pio-
 reers insthe business.
 They were ambitious that their son
 should tackle something else. If such
 were not the case why the Webster?
 Now, it may be set down with reason
 that the name Webster had never been
 hyphenated to the parental name of ] Vandergrift in all the years it had
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minor characters but you know her nevertheless. Whether you like her or not again depends upon your personal bias. Certainly you are forced to sym- pathize with her, whether she is writh- ing in the sharp bangs of adolescence, or in the claws of spiteful fate;l and you close the bow with a feeling of satisfaction that the climactarfc is evidently deferred. and that, as sine is 1 still young, like many other intelli- gent and active women of today at the age of 47, she may yet meet a man who will really compel her to fall 1 in love with him. Indubitably she was not in love with the last man, despite 1 her surrender. No woman under heaven could be.
 have often wondered why certain English women draw such wholly de- testable men. Is it owing to a. stern determination to be realistic, or mere- l ly .'different~' Surely not the former, for nowhere on earth are there as as in England. I lived in England for a number of years and met so many handsome and fascinating men that was bewildered and ended by not fall ! ing in love with any of them. One becomes surfeited. English novelists who have given us gallery of this l class of men have not exaggerated in | the least.
 Therefore it must be the desire to be different" Certainly in Miss Sim | clair's case the choice is wise and striking. She has given us a new gallery of portraits which We may not 1 like but always remember. Her bound crs, in which she has specialized, for instance. are inimitable. You never I, for moment question the truth of Iher portraits. While you sense re- morselessness you do not accuse her Of personal prejudice against the sex | in general. She has merely chosen a different line, and if she has put it over." as We say. then so much the ! more hcnor to her talents.
 1 True. Mary Oliver did not take to suffrage. or even to authorship, until | late in life. but she had an incurable optimism and buoyant philosophy founded on the somewhat vague pam ! th<ism of her early girlhood, and ce- mented by her conversion to the di- datic Germans. She lived for the most part in the intellectual ether and l finally achieved high measure of ! Iself-hypnotism, during which she ban | ished importunate desires and re- l grets.
 1 I fancy this last phase of her de- velopment will appeal 10 many women,
 Some achieve these same results by l the self-hypnotism of prayer. Others l by placing themselves through intense concentration in relation with what | Spencer calls the Great Body of Force,
 | and dragging some measure of it into 1 their own distracted souls Miss Sin
 ! clair's method--I shall not g.ye 'i taway--is more picturesque. and while
 1 heyond the reach of the average wo-
 | man--S(ary Oliver was poet--'s h'~h,
 fh 10 be recommended to the imagiii-
 iative.
 But whether We care for Mary per.
 sonaily or for the vast army Of sharp
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make an infant laugh. Dangle a pin
 same pin in his side would make him
 weep.
 With laughter ever ready it would
 be some job to make a roomful of
 infants laugln-at the same time. Try
 it on the adult, whose laughter lies just under grief; which the infant
 knows not of
 So the clowns job is not an easy
 one, after all
 Being long before the public as a an interesting analysis of himself, of his co-worker and of his trade. He talks of funmaking as he might of cheesemaking. But whatever his sub- ject he thinks before he expresses him. self.
 If you were to make . scarecrow would you mold him after the man. ner of a beau-ideal with the aspect of a Romeo?' asks MT. Billy B. Van.
 ''Or would his makeup have to con
  sans teeth, sans hands, sans feet. sans all of the virtues of a beauteous gen tleman?"
 He would be made grotesque, I be- lieve. A hideous, inanimate character | to frighten the birds-and amuse the
 might even frighten the ordinary per son"
 Tt is sure-fire the dummy wouldn'' be made after the mien of a Romeo. "But thus a funny man must bt | nodded.
 1 'He must have the unattractive fea lures, he grotesqueness of the scare crow. All the wildly formed, fantastic extravgant earmarks which get laugl under the spotlight But traits and ac cessories which might even frightcl his fellowman in the dark. And so i is always with the poor comedian. H. may not be Romeo. He must be ab surdly formed; a thing to shudder 2 were the candle out
 "Something to frighten the birds an, tamuse the passer-by," says MT. Bill.