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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-12

could raise it, he was looking down
the barrel of Holiness weapon
Enough of this" said my friend.
coldly. Drop that pistol! Watson.
pick it up! Hold it to his head.
Thank you. You, Carruthers, give me
that revolver. We will have no more
violence. Come, hand it Overt"
"Who are you, them"
my name is Sherlock Holmes"
Good Lord"
you have heard of me, see.
will represent the official police until
their arrival. Here, you." he shouted
| to a frightened groom. who had ap-
peared at the edge of the glade. Come
here. Take this note. as hard as you
can ride, to Farnham" He scrubbed
a few words upon a leaf from his note
book. Give it to the superintendent
at the police station. Until he comes
sonal custody"
| The strong, masterful personality OF
Holmes dominated the tragic scene
and all were equally puppets in his
| hands Williamson and Carruthers
/ found themselves carrying the wound
ed Woodley in the house, and | gave
4 LILY arm 10 Tue lIlSulCASu ELL AO a.
/ jured man was laid on his bed and
at Holiness request l examined him
| carried my report to where he sat IN
the old tapestry-hung dining-room with
his two prisoners before him.
"He will live" said |.
What" cried Carruthers, springins
out of his chair Il will go upstairs
and finish him first. Do you tell me
that girl, that angel, is to be tied tt
| Roaring Jack Woodley for lfe?"
"You need not concern yourself
| about that" said Holmes. There are
two very good reasons why she should
under no circumstances, be his wife
In the first place we are very safe ii
questioning Mr.. Williamson's right II
solemniZe a marriage"
Il have been ordained" cried the
old rascal
"And also unfrocked."
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ten years unless ! am mistaken. As
to you, Carruthers, you would have
done better to keep your pistol in
your pocket"
Il begin to think so Mr.. Holmes,
but when thought of all the precau-
ton ! had taken to shield this girl
for / loved her, Mr. Holmes. and it is
the only time that ever / knew what
love vast fairly drove me mad to
think that she was in the power of
the greatest brute and bully in South
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Once a clergyman. always a cler-
gyman.
Il think not How about the Ii.
cense?"
I'VE had license for the marriage.
| have 1T here in my pocket"
Then you got it by trick. But
in any case. forced marriage is nc
marriage, but it is a very serious fel
ony, as you will discover before you
have finished. You will have time tc
think that point out during the nexI
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to see that she came to no harm. I
kept my distance from her, and wore
a beard, so she would not recognize
me, for she is good and high-spirited
girl, and she wouldn& have staid ir
my employment long If she had
thought that was following her about
the country roads.
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Africa man whose name is a holy
terror from Kimberley to Johannes.
burg. Why, Mr.. Holmes. you will hard.
~ believe 1t, but ever since that girl
has been in my employment / never
once let her go past the house where
] knew the rascals were lurking, with
out following her on my bicycle, Just
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The Adventure Of the Solitary Cyclist
BY SIR ARTHUR

BY SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
with The Mcclure Syndicate.
Evening star., 1921-01-19
SAYS CUBS ARE STRONG
Bill Killefer, Veteran Catcher
Think ksEeam Will Be in Fight
for n. L. Pennant.

CHICAGO, January 1s.-Bin Kills-
fer, veteran catcher Of the Chicago
Cubs. expresed his enthusiasm today
over the teams prospects for the next
season. after signing his 1891 con-
ut doesn't look like we are going
to mako . trade that will help u.s."
Killefer said, but even If we don't
I think the Cubs viii be In the thick
Of the fight for the next pennant. Bad
luck can't stick to one team all the
time, and we have had our share Of 1t.
We would not have had to win q lot
more games last year to have caused
trouble for those fellows ON top, but
when we lost Hollocher and lot of
others on the injured list 1t took
away just enough atrsngth to allow
some close contests to get away"
Kil1efer was among those injured
near the end of the last season, q
broke finger preventing his playing
In the dna1 games. The finger is well
now, Killefer says, and he expects to
do 9 large part Of the catching for
his team this year.
Manager Evers has announced he
viii leave Chicago for Pasadena with
the regular Cub squad on March 3.
The party probably will number in ell
forty men, he says.
Evening star., 1921-01-19
Plays That Puzzle
by BILLY EvANx-

What constitutes q force play7 The
following rather simple play, which
is constantly coming up, causes many
disputesi Runners are on second and
third The runner On second leads too
Ear on. and 10 caught mapping by q
snap throw from the catcher. The
runner on third dashes for the plate.
The ball Is thrown to the catcher.
heading off the runner bound for the
plate. The result ID both runners are
finally on third base. Two men are
out at the time.
The catcher rushing down to third
base. touches the runner originally
on that base with the ball. He then
tossss the ball into the diamond. The
two runners then dash for the plate,
and cross ii In safety. since no one
was covering. the catcher being on
his way to the bench, believing the
side has been retired. This play came
up in al American league game SOW
eraa years age. What about it2
Doth Rams Counted.
Beth runs counted. The catcher, un-
der the impression that the runner
on third was forced. when the runner
came up from second. touched him
with the ball for what he believed
was the third out. He should have
touched the runner who came up
from second and was also standing
on the bag. A base always belongs
to the original occupant unless forced
to vacate It. This was no force play.
as the runner who had come up from
second had the right to return to that
base II he could No force play can
result In base ball. except that 1t be-
gins by the batter becoming q base
runner.
Evening star., 1921-01-19
With D. c. Basketers

Passenger and Auditor quints Will
play tonight at 8 o'clock. in the r. R.
Y. M. c. A. League, in the Terminal
gym.
Potomac and Keane councils, leader
and runner up in the x. Of c. League.
gym. Play will start at O'Clock.
Columbia A. G. tossers have won
nineteen OF twenty-five games played
this season. e; w. Corby is coach
vary Methodist Ave Saturday night.
FftzgeFalA and spaldinE Councils
won games in the X. Of c. League
last night. In game in Alexandra
Fitzgerald defeated Washington
Council. "a to 20. overcoming. an
while Spalding took the measure Of
Quincy A. G. routed Manhattan Club,
20 to Z. in Carroll gym last night.
Smith shot six floor goals for the
winners
Eighty-.even points were rung up
by the Senate five yesterday in de-
feating the Boy Scouts. who got So.
RaIlying In the Last few minutes Of
play. Peck Chapel quint defeated In
gram last night in the formers gym,
SO to "a.
Epiphany Comets had things all
their own way in the game with vir-
gtnia A. c., winning. 63 to 10. DAN
iels basketed the ball twelve times
from scrimmage.
Emanon Cub defeated Destroyer
A. c.; 81 to 8. the winners playing ex-
ceptionally we'll as q team and
Buchanon putting up clever tndi-
Y. N. c. A. Arrows will play the
Young Mems Association Quint of
Baltimore in "Y" Saturday night at
$40. Epiphany Comets and the Silent
FIVE will meet in a preliminary start
ing at 7:46
Evening star., 1921-01-19
MACK FLkyS TAMPER|NG
Offers Of Big Salaries to Stars of
Rival Teams Held Greatest
Menace Game Faces.

PHILADELPHIA. January 1s.-Tam-
penng with the Imagination of base
ball players by offers of big salaries
10 the greatest menace the game faces.
in the opinion of Connie Mack, man.
ager and part owner of the Philadel-
phia Americans
First aivislen teams" Mack said
today. think that whenever a star
Is developed ali they have to do Is
advertise that they will pay thou
sands of dollars for him and then dou-
Bile the salary he is getting from hi
present club. Te my T!nd that Is the
now: Some OF these fret division
clubs don't seem to realize 1t, and
think II will take some kind Of a
ruling by Judge Lands to get 1t
through thsIt ads
Base ball H. in better condition than
Il over WAS, In my opinien, but this
ta:npering with the Imagination OF
players OF other clubs is a big evil"
Evening star., 1921-01-19

Cochran Of England. William A. Brady
and Tex RicAard-colfsctivei agreed
to deposit the sum Of S1oo:0go as
guarantee Of good faith. THIS sum
wes to be deposited with the Contra
Union Trust Company mere es .,annger. On o, err
Of the respective boxers agreed TO
deposit $4,000 each.
Only One Deposit Madss
Only one deposit-that Of Mr.. Coch-
ran for $33,33333-had been made
here, it was stated. Francois Des
Champs. manager for Carpenter. ts
said to have posted check for Soo.-
has been forwarded to this country.
No time extensions. Ii L. said. nav.
been granted the other promoters and
Dempsey.
Underthe terms Of the agreement.
Dempsey was to receive 100000 ana
Carpenter 100000 win. lose or
draw" in each instance. The contract
provided for the match to be held
either in March, 1921, or between May
20, 1921, and July 4, 1921. at a place
to be designated by the promoters
The contest was to be mot more than
fifteen rounds and not less than ton
rounds"
The articles for the bout also pro-
vide that if the contest was to o.
held in March the promoters "ouAo
notify the boxers and their managers
by registered mail not later than
January l. If the bout was to be helo
between May and July the boxers
were to be notified before March !. In
either event the boxers were bound
~ he or the battle-ground in trsin:ns
forty days prior to the date OF the
matcht
While the failure to adhere to the
deposit stipula tons oe the contract
are the alleged compelling forces IN
debating an abandonment OF the bout,
the Times story said other elements.
notably the recent action of the Ma
tionai Boxing Association in adopt
ing a maximum price of SIS per seat
for a championship contest, are be-
lieved to have entered into the situa-
Evening star., 1921-01-19

Some pitchers rise quickly to fame;
others take long while to Come
hSri,ns for the bsiSon. Gi... Club club of the the
F. L. A. G. League. where he came
through the season with fourteen vic
tories and twelve defeats. All his de-
feats were close. One Eamo went seven
yielding six hits. giving i've bases on
balls. and losing. 3 to g..
They say that Hodge got his real
start in 1917 under Lee Tannehill. who
was managing the Jacksonville team at
the time. Lee showed the boy lot OF
, he played in Nashville and Waco. This
year he will make his bow with the
White Sox. filling the places Of the two
missing pitchers. Eddie Cicotte' and
Claude Williams. At least. Kid Glea son
hopes that he will fill their places.
Busy Winter Tor schalk.
Some ball players sit about cigar
s'Ores all winter: soma go shooting and
some work. Ray Schal,, the vigorous
little White Sox catcher. works hard
week in and week oGl, when not playing
ball. at the insurance business. The
other day he signed up Nelson Norris.
/ the packer. for an accident and health
policy that made all the insurance
agents in Chicago look longingly toward
| the wintry waters Of Lake Michigan.
| wondering whe ther or not to jump in.
While never overlooking the big fell
lows. Ray does land Office business
| with the fan Of lesser means. who H.
proud to have Ray bump into his HON
looking for prospects.
Everything Was Upstage.
| My. weren't things top hole and all
that sort Of stuff at the Hotel CO..
| modore in New York tho other night
| where the Internatinnal Sporting Gu
| staged it's interna Iicuai boxing bou.s
] Ladies in event gowns in th
balcony. men ~ dinner tables weer
| ing suits with banjo fronts. watch
British and American policemen and
| soldiers and sailors struggling for
supremacy in tho squared circle.
! say! Yes. everything was upstage
all right; but-that didn't prevent Te'
Kid Lewis. second Of one OF II
| British fighters. from coaching hi
man, just as they do in any fight clu
when the referee lets them g.
,, away with it. He didI't get ava
with it at the Commodore. t.
referee of the evening. Kid McPar
land. all dolled up in dinner COS
gave him the deuce.
Don't you know you are e,
tonight for the first time?" said
Kid.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1921-01-19
SEEKING MANY NATIONS
FOR DAVIS CUP TENNIS

NEW YORK. January 1s.-An effort
to have . greater number Of ma
ttons Competing Tor the Davis cup
tennis trophy than In any previous
year Will be made by the United
States Tennis Association. The
American Davis cup committee has
authorized the sending Of letters to
South American and European ma
tions with organized tennis associa-
tions. who have not heretofore COM
peted. inviting them to forward chal-
lenges. 81,
The committee will recommend that
the challenge round precede the ma
tiona1 singles championships.
Evening star., 1921-01-19
YANKEE FIVE TR!UMPHS
Victory Over Camp Humphreys
Puts It at Top in Local Basket
Ball Circles.

The Yankees took the top rung
among basket bail teams f1ereabouts
Ay defeating the Camp Humphreys
fuint In the Congress Heights audi
torium last night. 2s to 10. It was
the second win Of the Yankees over
the soldiers this season. the drst be-
ing scored in the Humphreys gym.
Camp Humphreys defeated Catholic
University and lost by three points to
George Washington. which In turn
was beaten by the Brooklanders.
The Yankees outplayed the Hum
phreys team at all angles last night.
Sauber, the winners center. holding
the famous Vidal to two baskets from
the door and ringing up five himself.
The Yankees led. IS to 3. at the inter-
mission.
The Yankees play the Dreadnaughts q
Of Alexandria in the Congress Heights
gym tonight.
Evening star., 1921-01-19

At all events, 1t Is known that he Is
not the only star who hsa- recsived bids
to play pro foot ball next fan Every
sign. indeed. points to d tremendous
drive by professional foot ball pro-
moters to establish the sport on ma
tional basis next fall Capital, It Is
understood, is In sight and players Of
quality will not be lacking.
Has Approval Of Public.
There Is no doubt that the game at
the Polo Grounds between the Can. on
and Buffalo teams last fall won approval
enough the attitude Of college authori-
ties Is hardly likely to be the same
as that Of the public. II only because
they feel that the fnstitu long are
not being run for the production Of
mercenary athletes. Pennsylvania
how the land lies in that direction
Calif0rnia's Play.
The action Of the University Of Cali
fornia authorities in challenging Yale,
Princeton and Harvard in the east Oc-
tober % next did not make a good i'm
preston among eastern college men, for
the reason of the belief that the Bears
must have known that at this late date
such game was impossible. No doubt
any one OF the big three would be more
than pleased to entertain the Blue and
Gold in 1922.
By the way, the Infantry School
eleven at Camp Benning. Columbus.
Ga, is looking for strong northern
team to visit the south for a game
next Thanksgiving day. The solder
team is strong one. and any college
eleven looking for a journey at the
seasons end would be well enter
tanned both socially and athletically.
Expenses. of course
Basket Ball In West,
AS Dartmouth has proved the sur
prising factor in the basket ball race
of the Intercollegiate Basket Ball
League thus far, SO, in the west. In
diana to date has been the dark horse,
leading with clean slate and run
ming rings around opponents. Wis
consin and Michigan are tho occu-
r" ""ts Of tho cellar. the Badgers hav-
Evening star., 1921-01-19

Dempsey! share also was in the
form of q bond. Eickard said Car
peukisr's share wps in the form of n
cheeie which was given In France and
iatSr sto the United States. =
Under the terms Of the contract
thespsomotars agreed to deposit s1oQ.-
600. Hhile the managers Of the light
ersa5reed to deposit $4,000 eacs not
later than November 20 last
"1fte contract has been lived UP to
by every one," said Richard. There
, haBbeen no change in plans and the
whqls suggestion ~ a dream. There
Is DO 'one who could call OF thu bout
80 long as the contract Is carried out
by che principals"
.Faischood. says Kearns.
sSN FRANCISCO. January ls.-For--
Georges Carpenter for $4,000 have
been posted to insure their meeting
for I. the heavyweight boxing cham
piolship Of the world, according to
Jack sKearns. manager OF Champion
YORK last night that the hght had
beeR Cancelled because the principals
hadsfAiled to post their forfeit money
K4aSns positively denied the New
York reports that the fight had been
called of in an interview given Harry
Smiths sporting editor of the San
Fra4@sco Chronicle. and published
today
"a Is an absolute falsehood." Kearns
Is quoted as saying. Il am positive
essdfposits have been made and in
theASnds Of Robert Edgren, who was
named as the man with full power to
act. NY money was posted three days
aft& the Carpenter coin wasAput In
thee bank. and I have my receipt In
mysNew York ofaces. I know also
thai She Frenchman left his coin in
thiS country"
Dempsey is residing at Kearns' home
in Sakland. across San Francisco bay,
where he Is training during his visit to
the west. Attendants OF the cham
pion refused to waken him last night
to discuss the report. The attend
ants denied knowledge OF the report.
Kearns passed the night In San
Francisco with a party of friends.
Story Creates Fur0re.
NEW YORK, January 19-An-
nodaesment printed in the New York
Times that the heavyweight cham
pioS ship boxing bout between Jack
De e4usev the titleholder. and Georges
CaHb&ntier of France, for which the
enormous purse Of $4,000 had beer
off@ai. had been definitely called off
crested a furore in boxing circles in
thiS 9ty Failure of the principals to
denOSt forfeit moneys, as was PRO
videds for in contracts 81 gned by the
promoters the boxers and their man
agsE was given as the reason for
the scSnceI'at ton IN the newspa p"r story.
Uader the terms Of the contest for
the Bout, the pro4notefsC-harfe B.
Evening star., 1921-01-19

ing lost three gaines and won none.
while Michigan has lost two and won
ons. The rlgers of the game that the
play resulted In the removal from the
contest OF two OF the Badger stars
for rough work. Wisconsin, by the
way. should have care OF she will
begin to. create the impression that
After Caesar had been bnnished from
the game in Chicago the Wiscons. n
rooters carried on in such fashion
that the referee was Compelled to stop
forth and admonish them about their
conduct.
Sport Growing Rapidly.
The sport Of basket ball is growing
throughout the country by leaps and
bounds. Already no winter sport
matches 1t in the number Of men who
play the game and the enthusiasm it in
vokes. In New York there will be
crowds of 10000 and more at any game
involving proficient fives. But the game
will be more solidly established when
nifty of their calling and when their
authority is backed by managers OF
clubs and promoters Of contests.
How Scouts Go Wrong.
In his address before the National Col
legiate Athletic Association in Chicago,
Jimmie Knox of the Harvard coach
ing staff and chief scout for the Grim
son told how he had observed Prince
ton play Colgate 1919) and how he
returned to Cambridge with the pro-
found conviction that the Tigers
would take over the shift which Col
gate employed in making her forward
pass touchdown against Princeton
So Harvard was coached to check
mate the sort of shift which Knox be-
lieved she would use. The trouble
with all this is that Colgate made her
touchdown against Princeton on a
Straight forward pass without a shift
that 1t was West Virginia which EN-
ployed the SHIFT and that 1t was the
West Virginia shift which the Tigers
adopted for use against Harvard with
somo degree of success.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1921-01-19
MASONIC LEAGUE.
MEET
IS UNDER DISCUSSION

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. January 1s.-An
international track and field meeting BE-
tween joint teams representing Yale and
Harvard and the English universities Of
Oxford and Cambridge Is under discus
sion by the advisory committees on
track athletics Of the American colleges
named.
Col A N. Strode-Jackson when In
this country with the Oxford d-Cambridge
relay team last year discussed the sug-
gestion Of a meeting with q Harvard
Yale combination. He recalled the fact
that the American colleges had last sent
a Joint team to England and felt that
It was tho Engiishmen's turn to take the
trip.
The first meeting would be held In this
country and thereafter the competitions
would be held every two years alter
nately in England and the United
Statea
Evening star., 1921-01-19
Georges $50,090 Forfeit
Held by Bank in Paris

PARIS. January 1O.@0corEes
Ca, pcntier'a forfeit ns q Euar-
nntee for the contract he sign
Cd with Jack Dempsey Tor q
bout to decide the heavywe Eht
chnn piOnship Of the world. -
being held by the Morgan
Harjea bank of tslis city. II
waS Deposited with this insti-
tuition ON November ~ isst. and
In equivalent of $4,000.
Evening star., 1921-01-19

II anything which the commissions
deems necessary to probe to the bot
tom she uld come up. such as a
gambling rumor or anything con-
nected with a player or with the con-
duct Of the game. then Judge LanGis
1t is not believed that he will need
more than the sum allotted to him at
any one time but II he does, he has
but to raise his hand and further
sinews Of war will be provided. In
fact. John Heydler, the National
League president. has gone on record
that the commissioner can hire a
to do so. The entire proceeding has
done more to convince base ball en-
thusiasts that the magnates are seri-
Gus in their efforts to clean base ball
and keep 1t clean than anything that
has happened.
Player Trades Fall Through.
But where were all the trades and
sales of players that were to take
place in Chicago? Before the base
ball men assembled the air was filled
with ,'umors Of the big things that
were going to happen. Every one Of
the seven new managers of major
league clubs was reported to be. on
his mettle, filled with determination
to show the owner and the fan alike
that they used wicked intellect
when 1t came to telling some one
else that he didn't need a cleanup
hitter or a star pitcher as much as
he thought he did. But there was
little enough doing when things came
down to cases. In fact. mild little
Miller Huggins Of the Yankees is the
only manager who has pulled off
anything that made the base ball pub
Ho sit IN
Evening star., 1921-01-19
Stanage Goes to Coast,

Los ANGELES. January 19.-John
c. Bassler. catcher. Los Angeles club
OF the Pacific Coast Base Ball League
has been traded to the Detroit Ameri-
cans for Catcher Oscar Stanage OF
that club; Third Baseman Lindemore
Of the Oklahoma City club Of the
Western League. and a right ID
pitcher and second baseman to be
named by March l. 1t was announced
today by Wade Killefer. manager OF
the Los Angeles team.
Evening star., 1921-01-19
Gleason Has Twenty Hurlers.

CHICAGO. January 19.-Manager
kid" Gleason Of the Chicago Ameri-
cans will take twenty pitchers into
training for the 1921 staff. it was an
nounced today. Howard Fenner, a
ighthander. purchased from the
Kalamazoo. Mich. club. is the if
teenth pitcher to sign for the coming
season. Fenner. college product.
scored one-hit victories III his last
three games last season.
Evening star., 1921-01-19
ALL CONTRACT TERMS
: MET, PROMOTER SAYS
Plans for Dempsey-Carpentier Match Are Being
""'~ Continued With Prospect Now That
.-c..t
- a.. 1t Will Be Staged Julyz.

EW YORK January 9Tx Richard of the promoters OF the
III boxing championship bout between Jack Dempsey
Georges Carpetier of France, denied this
ng called announced by the New York
Times a.. ..
All the principals posted the deposits under the
Plans bout being continued by the promoters
ae-asserted and it is expected to stage July
his Of William Brady
Charles
the English promoter check before leaving the United
Richard said he believed this replaced
bond