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The New York herald., 1921-12-25
PSHOOTING-RACING-- BASKETBALL
If Suspended Joie Ray
Will Become a Boxer

OHICAGO, Dec. 24.-Joie Ray.
fleet runner of the Illinois
Athletic Club and member of
the 1920 American Olympic team. de-
clared to-day that he will not desert
athletics even If suspended by the
A. A. u. following the filing OF
charges of excessive expense ac-
counts.
Should Ray be suspended he stated
that he would take up professional
boxing and believed that he could
soon become one of the stars of the
ring. He said he had done much
amateur boxing and if forced to turn
professional would put himself under
the guidance of a real manager and
seek to become sparrlng partner for
Jack Dempsey or one of the other
champions.
Battling Nelson, former light
weight champion. said to-day that he
was interested in the proposed en-
trance Of the professional boxing
game by Ray and wants to be his
manager, teacher and trainer.
The New York herald., 1921-12-25
DR.. J. c. Both Wins First
Turkey at Mineola Traps

Members of the Nassau Trapshooting
Club held a holiday turkey shoot over
their traps at Mineola yesterday Tho
high scratch prize was won by W.
Simonson with card of 40 out Il a
possible 80 targets. Three gunners tied
for the three handicap prizes. All hpi
full scores Of so targets. On the shoot
off the first turkey was won by DR.. J.
G. Both Then came A. j. Kiengle
The last handicap prize was taken 5y
G. Schroeder.
The New York herald., 1921-12-25
Georges Carpenter Wishes
Yankees Merry Christmas

MAIpENHEAD, England, Dec. "a
Georges Carpenter and his manager.
Francois Descamps. who are here in
preparation for Carpenters boxing
match with ,he Australian heavyweight,
George Cook, in London on January Il,
to-day sent the following Christmas
greeting through The Associated Press ::
I'VE send to the American sportsmen
our best wishes for Christmas and for
the New Year.
(Signed) GEORGES CARPENTER.
FRANCOIS DEsCAMPs"
The New York herald., 1921-12-25
Sixty-one Straight for
PaSSaic SchOOLbOy Fine
Sensational Record Set by Youngsters Unbeaten Since
1919-Rival Teams Swamped, Winners Aver
aging 80 Points Per Game.

string of players and while the specta-
tors shout and cheer the visitors are
dumfounded and invariably ask, Where
do they all come from?
The display OF strength in numbers
has n telling effect, but when Blood s
Mercury footers begin to tap and swish
the ball left. right. back, forward and
into the basket at the rate of more than
two points per minute there Is little
left for opponents but to fight on as
gamely as they can in an effort to pre-
vent score of 100 or more.
The Kearny game was the first real
test for the ''twenty-tet," as Passaic's
team is coming to be known. After the
so-called first five" last years stars,
had rolled up score Of 46-4 in the
first Is minutes, Blood called for mo
8" which piled up % more in s min
utes. mo. 80 came the order and
another quintet trotted out. Three
minutes later it was mo. -" and
everybody just looked and wondered
What next?" as the fourth stringers
piled up IL points in minutes. rhe
fifteen players composing the second,
third and fourth strings outpointed
their opponents 3S-1 in the Is minutes
OF play. And the fans wondered which
combination is really the best
ITS teamwork that does it, said
Blood. who is director of physical train
ing in the Passaic puunc schools and
who is not paid for coaching the high
, school boys in basketball Every one
of those twenty boys is fast on his
feet, has an active brain and pair of
good arms. If they work in harmony
they cannot be beaten except by an
aggregation that has better team play
and more accurate shooters. Passaic
should win the State championship this
year and when what we call the first
team graduates next June there Will
! he a dozen or more excellent players
to take their places. 1t is a work of
building up all the time for the future.
OF course there are always one or two
! players who stand out prominently
| take Captain Roosma of last years
team for instance--but il is teamwork
| that lasts and wins"
Former Star Is mt West Point.
! Captain Roosma is now starring with
the West Point varsity team. lie has
scored half OF the Army's points so far
! this season. Present indications are
that Passaic will develop four or five
Rcosmas this season. Most promising
so far is Bob Thompson, Of last years
| State champs. He has scored 81
points in the four games this season.
playing only one half of each contest
in last Saturdays double header. In
other words, he has averaged 30.1 points
in three full games. Roosmas record
last year was an average of % points
! per game for the season.
Since 1915 Passaic has won 1913 of
131 games played The records follow /:
The New York herald., 1921-12-25
Bezdek to Speak Here.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Dec. 24.--fTugo
Bezdeh, head football coach. and Gradu-
ate Manager Neil Fleming will represent
Pennsylvania State College at the Ma
tional Collegiate Athletic Association
meeting In New York next week. Bez-
dek has accepted an invitation to speak
on football at the banquet, one OF the
features or the meeting.
The New York herald., 1921-12-25

Special Dispatch 10 THE NEW YoRK HERALD.
PAssAIc. n. J.. Dec. 24--The sensa-
tional basketball team Of Passaic High
School. which won the New Jersey State
championship for 1919-2o and 1920-21
and which has not been defeated since
March 10. 1919, is breaking all kinds OF
records in it's march toward the 1921
% State pennant.
Starting the season December 15 with
70 to victory over Dumont High
School, Passaic set heretofore unheard
of record of winning a double header in
seventy minutes on December II, when
Dover High was swamped Ill to 10 and
kearny High, 81 to 5. Then, on Decem-
Der 81, Passaic beat Newark Junior Col
lege 80 to 4. Thus, within period OF
one week Passaic won four games, scor-
ing a total of 347 points, an average OF
81 per game, against q total of 21 for
their opponents or a game. In the
two games on December Il Passaic tall
lied 1875 points in 20 minutes OF play, or
an average of more than 30 minute.
The victory to-day made IL sixty-one
straight So Passaic has won eighty
two of the last eighty-three games
played, all under the leadership of Coach
Ernest A Blood. whose son, Paul. is
guided the team in 1915-16 when 1t won
all it's twenty games. Thus. under
Bloods tutelage, Passaic High has wor
102 out of 1O3 games played in 1915-l6
1859. 1890, 1920-21 and so far during
the 1922 season.
Four Teams Available.
Blood who played basketball in its
earliest days and who still can toss the
ball into the basket from the foul line
twenty-five straight without miss. is
a firm believer in preparedness and has
team composed of twenty-one players
who form four distinct teams, one as
good as the other, and the whole aggre-
cation forming the p. II. S. quintet"
In the second game of the double
header last Saturday, when Kearny was
beaten 81 to in thirty minutes OF play
Blood's quintet set a new worlds rec
ord when twenty Passaic players got
into the fray and sixteen of them sue
ceeded In scoring points. Their. is nc
game on record in which one basket
ball team used twenty men in a battle
of half an hour and sixteen of them
broke into the scoring columns. The
summary of the melee looked like that
of an oldtime major baseball league
slugfest. there being a total of twenty
eight players for the official scorers To
look after
Because he has so many players, all
of whom he wishes to develop to the
highest point OF proficiency. Blood de-
cided to arrange doubleheaders to give
them all q chance. But he Is finding
trouble in holding scheduled teams to
single games. Coaches and players from
other schools in the northern part of the
State who saw the games on tie 18th
and 21st were treated to rare sight
when Blood's proteges and their oppo-
nents trotted on the floor
Blood and n pet black bear. Yep
Blood" which came from the wilds near
| Potsdam. n. Y, enter the gym and
! Yep" tosses the ball at the basket. They
are followed by n seemingly erdless
The New York herald., 1921-12-25
Coast League Averages.

oincial batting and pitching records
OF the Pacific Coast League. issued .ha
otner day. are of interest TO us mar
ticuiarly in so far as they refer to me-,
VINO nave been sold to major league
teams. Duffy Lewis, the old Yankee id
tne league with .403 and hit IA homs
runs, put Lewis stole only three bases
"a loo games Lewis, by the way, could
nave come back to the Yankees for dut,.
until May 20-and perhaps fter tbo,
nate TOO. But, as he told US last week.
4 must make my minor league star.
some time. and It's a good idea To get
'hat start while you are pretty good"
Jimmy O'Connell, sold 10 the Giants
Ior $4,000. hit for .337 and was tied for
lItn place In home run hitting with Ham
hyatt at seventeen circuit clor;s. Ken
worthy or Seattle. who was ,Ip with the
federal League and then the National
was The leading home run sinasher. with
twenty-five. and hit for .344. Cunning
nam OF Seattle. who came to the Giants.
It .Sai IN eighty-nine games Pinelli
oakland, sold to the Reds oatted for
.53s, and Cavenuy Of san Francisco ala,
sold to Cincinnati. hit for 1925.
betty ODoul. the pitcher who has
been recalled by the Yankees from San
francisco. had fine batting average
.sJS. Old Jack Knight hit for .352
chad See. the Red who finished tho sea-
son with Seattle and recently was trans
ferred to San Francisco. complied an
average OF .355 for forty-three comes.
yet he failed TO come back The Car
dinals tried to stop his release to the
Seals. but finally yielded.
Arnold Statz, the former Giant. who
comes from Los Angeles 60 the Cubs In
return for nine men, hit for $40 and
stole ffty-two bases McCanigan NJ
Sacramento. who was up once In the
National. beat STATE for the stealing
leadership, with ffty-five basea.
The New York herald., 1921-12-25

High Scratch-T. ii. Lewis.
High Handicap-J. NJ. Quinn.
Travers Island-A. Baxter. Jr.
Haslin-A. Baxter, Jr.
Monthly-All gunners with 4S targets
The New York herald., 1921-12-25
National League President
Sees None of JOhnsOl's
Breakers Ahead.
FLETCHER NOT TO RETURN
Would Not Go to Brooklyn or
Any Other Club in
Baseball.
BY DANIEL.

Baseball officials here were astonished
yesterday by the jet black pessmism
which pervaded the forecast for the 1922
the American League, in Chicago on Fri
day. Some of the statements accredited
to johnson were rather perpleXing. They
could not understand. for example, what
the league president meant when he
said, I'VE have been travelling on ficti-
tious prosperity for the last two or three
years" Nor could they see how the re-
opening Of mills and factories and a gen.
efal return to work at full blast next
summer would have a bad effect on
baseball attendance figures.
What do you think OF the Johnson
interview" we asked John A. Heydler
president of the National League do
you believe with him that major league
baseball is due for a big slump and
that recent prosperity has been flcti-
tious?"
II am afraid that l must decline to
comment in any way on what Mr.. John
son said in Chicago" Mr. Heydler replied
He has his views and. of course l have
mine. However, it was only yesterday
that representative of the Associated
Press came to me for my views on the
coming year, and what told him I will
repeat to you, without any attempt to
comment on the Johnson interview
Il believe that baseball has enjoyed
a natural growth, and that we may
Look for season in 1922 on a par with
the fine campaign of 1921. The recent
deals and purchase in our league will
develop new interest, and I look for an
even closer race than we had this year.
The Giants look fine again. and so do the
Pirates. Cardinals and other teams. We
are developing lot of young players
and maintaining a high standard.
"Of course, We all appreciate that pay
ing tremendous prices for minor league
players and for men already in the
league has certain angles which may not
be for the best interests of baseball"
Mr.. Heydler continued. However, the
fact remains that there are certain con-
siderations, even in that proposition.
which make for greater interest.
Some may find the outlook dark In
the chill. snowy days of December. but I
believe that this pessimism will be dis
sipated by the fine sunshine Of April"
The New York herald., 1921-12-25

Seasons with Mr.. Blood as coach.
The New York herald., 1921-12-25
Still Another Game for
Passaic Basketball Team

Special Dispatch 10 THE NEw York HERALD.
PAssA1c, n. j., Dec. 2f.-Passaic High
Schools basketball team made it 61
straight victories without defeat to-
day. crushing Passaic High Schools
alumni five, composed of college stars.
including Pennsylvania, Princeton and
Stevens players. so to %.
The collegians were in good form, but
found the pace too hot, the teamwork Of
Coach Blood's State school champions
bewldering them.
Bob Thompson starred for the school
boys with three field goals and II out Of
II fouls for total of 20 points. Nego-
tiatlons are under way for a game with
Poughkeepsie High, which has won
thirty-six games In row. The lineup
The New York herald., 1921-12-25
Fletcher Not for Dodgers.

The report circulated yesterday tbat
the Brooklyn club was negotiating with
Artie Fletcher. former Giant. with tho
desire TO place him at shortstop. vas
news to William F. Baker. president Of
the Philadelphia club. which carries
Fletcher on its reserve list 1t will be
recollected that Fletcher went to the
Phiilies in 1920 in the deal for Dare
Bancroft and retired last spring.
From what we know about Fletcbnr's
attitude toward baseball we would make
IT emphatic that he will not be witt the
oodsers next season. II the former
Giant had wanted to come back he coul ]
nave had the management of a club II,
either league. Mr.. Baker begged
Fletcher to take Gavvy Cravath's place
as leader of the Phillies, but Fletcher
very wisely declned--with thanks.
Fletcher is we'll fixed--one of the lead
ing citizens of Collinsville. ILL.,. near
St Louis. He has big real estate and
banking interests and does not need any
money. When we saw him in st. Louis
last summer he laughed at the idea OF
going back into spangles. 'T had INV
day on the ball field and I am tired -;
the old game / like to sit here aud
watch the boys go through their naces.
and like to think of the way in which
would play a certain ball and meet
certain situations. but as for going pacl,
INTO uniform and playing out IN
mat not sun-nothing doing" laughed
rIetcher. Il would not accept the best
oiIer IN the world in baseball. l am
AFRAID my wife would not let me"-aod
ne mad another fine laugh. II Fletcher
had wanted to go back to baseball we
nave an idea that John McGraw would
nave called him back last summer whom
,he Giants were fighting hard for tho
lcad and did not have an experience 4
spare infieder.
IL Is OF interest to note that the sho~t
neld in Brooklyn gave Fletcher the
greatest trouble and that the fans of
Brooklyn were most active in kissing
and oooing him at every opportunitv.
The New York herald., 1921-12-25

permanently available for the big tennis
matches. The operating expenses of the
national association, to which it's share
Of these proceeds is devoted, are reported
In detail at the annual meeting in Feb
ruary. These cover its activities in pro-
noting the sport, including the mainte-
nance Of its office and the expense of
international competition. The dues paid
by the associations members cover only
about one-fourth of these annual ex-
penses."
The following table shows receipts,
attendance and profit figures at a
glance:
The New York herald., 1921-12-25

Jarmolowitz. Bitter. Taylor, Alumni-Mach,
er. Swenson. Campbell Field goals--JSolbe
4; thompson, =; keasler, q Knothe. 81
sey, 2: Blood. I: Rosman, D. Hamas 1 /;
Lent, ] Jaffe, !. Fouls--Thompson. II out
/. Time of halves--20 minutes. Half time
score-Passaic, 20; Alumni, II. Referee
Hoy Schulting, Dartmouth
The New York herald., 1921-12-25
The Chief Expense Item.

The CHIEF ENpense Ttem.
"In view OF the cordial support the
public gives these tennis events" said
Mr.. Jennings yesterday. II think 1t is
entitled to know how much money is
received and spent. The main item OF
EXPENSE is the erection of stands. for
there are none Of sufficient size that are
The New York herald., 1921-12-06
HEARS JERITZA AGAIN
IN KORNGOLD'S DREAM OPERA
Die Tote Stadt Has It's Third Performance of the Sea-
son at the Metropolitan.

series with Charles Courboin. formerly
of Antwerp Cathedral. It was the ffth
Of the programmes given to the public
through the public spirit of John Wana-
maker.
Mr.. Dupre, far famed as brilliant
improysor on his Instruments, is wont
10 thus show his skill in his final
number. Yesterday Mr.. D'Indy sent
him a theme with letter to DR.. Alex
ander Russell, which read: Here. dear
sir. is the theme for improvisation which
you have requested of me. Unfortun-
ately ] viii be unable to be present at
its recreation by Marcel Dupre because
l am leaving New York to-day. 10 my
regret. VIII you kindly give Dupre the
little note enclosed. and yourself choose
the concert at which my theme VIII be
used. Cordially yours. Vincent Dlndy.
Before the final number, the works
played by Mr.. Dupre were Bach's q
minor fugue. hts choral prelude on
Awake. the Watchmen CALL and the
fugue in f fiat. Mr.. Dupre's four verses
on ave Maris Stella" preludes which
he wrote for playing at Notre Dame
between the verses OF certain hymns !;
"CantabIle" by Cesar Franck, and the
allegro vlvace and finale from Vierne's
first symphony. The audience filled the
auditorium to overf1owing.
The New York herald., 1921-12-06
MISS PARKHURsT IN SONGS.
Young American Soprano shows
Progress In Her Art.

Miss Adele Parkhurst, a young Amer
lean soprano. who gave recitals here
the last two seasons, was heard again
yesterday afternoon in Town Hall. II
was manifest when she first appeared
she was the possessor OF n valuable
voice of good range, excellent quality
and sufficient variety OF color to fit her
for the recital field. II also was clear
that her command of tone had not been
firmly established and that she fire.
quently had difficulty IN sustaining
phrases. and sometimes wandered from
the pitch.
But she demonstrated that she had
made substantial progress. Her tones
have gained much in firmness and
vibrancy, while her ability to sing sus-
tained phrases has greatly increased
and her fidelity 70 the pitch had Inn
phoved 80 much that inaccuracies were
very few. She showed also progress
In nexibilty OF tone and In the de-
livery of fiorid passages, though In the
latter she can make stsll further inn
Miss Parkhsrsts most valuable asset.
however, IS her understanding. She
however. is her understanding. Sh
sang old italian airs with every evid-
ence OF knowledge Of their content and
with charming methods Of expression,
which were most delightfully."- exhibited
IN her singing OF cradle song by
Guarnicri
The New York herald., 1921-12-06
Ralph L. Meeker,
Old Herald Man,
Dies of Pneumonia
Came From West. En- tered
Journalism and Reported
RusSO-TurkiSh War.

Special Despoioh 70 TIrE NEW yosK HE1AIp.
GREELEY, Col, Dec. 5.-RHlph J..
Meeker. one u the picturesque figures
in American newspaper work OF a quar-
ter OF a century ago and a former Lon
don correspondent for THE NEW YoRx
HERALD, died here tonight from pneu-
monia. He was 70 years old
Mr.. Meeker was son OF Nathan c..
Meeker OF the New York Tribune, who
was killed In 1879 by the Ute Indians
during a raid on the White River
Agency in Western Colorado. Nathan G.
Meeker was the founder Of Union Colony
in this State. He had the ala OF Horace
Greeley IN this task and his son served
as secretary of the colony. This colony
later wss renamed and is now Greeley.
having taken it's name from the editor
who backed the elder Meeker
Ralph Meeker lived through the stir
ring days OF frontier life and then went
East Soon after his arrival in New
York he Joined the staff Of the Tribune.
tie later became real estate editor and
had Daniel Frohman as his assistant
In 1877 Mr.. Mceker. then a reporter
for TILE NEW York HERALD, was sent
To report tho Russo-Turkish war His
services continued In Europe when he
went 70 the London office. Returning
to the United States he was sent to
Washington as correspondent.
Mr.. Meeker leaves his wife, Mrs.
Louise Meeker Of White Plains. N. Y.
and sister, Miss Rose c. Meeker of this
city. The burial win be In the Meeker
nlot here
The New York herald., 1921-12-06
WEDDING NOTES.

The marriage OF Miss Edith Marie
Vogel. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
G.. Vogel, TO Mr. James Stanhope Coster
will take place this afternoon in the
Church of the Blessed Sacrament. A re-
ception will follow at the Plaza
Miss Virginia williams. daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Williams. will
be married to Mr.. Burton Webb to-day
at 15i Central Park West, the home OF
her parents.
The marriage OF Miss Emily Kent,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs George ri.
Kent OF 1875 West Fifty y-eighth street. to
Mr.. Washington Platt, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter O. Plat OF Baltimore. to-
day In the Church OF the Transfgura-
tion.
In St. James's Church. Madison ave-
nue. and Seventy-flrst street. next Thurs
day, Miss Lucy Otis Bruggerhof. daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Everett
Brugger1hof. will be married to Mr.. Nor
ris Edward Pierson OF Stamford. Conn.
The brides only attendant will be her
sister. Miss Frances r. Bruggerhof. and
DIR. Richard ~ Picrsou will be his broth
er's best man. The ushers will be
Messrs Samuel N. Pierson. Charles
Stewart Smith. w. Randolph Montgorn-
cry and William NJ. Milliken.
The New York herald., 1921-12-06
LONDON QUARTET PLAYS
NOVELTY BY M'EWEN
Scotch Composers Music
Heard in Concert.

The London String Quartet gave the
eecond concert of its second season here
IN Aeolian Hall last evening. The pro-
gramme consisted OF Mozart's G. major
quartet. McEwen's in + flat. and RaveTs
in r The second OF these was novelty.
II was heard for the first time In this
country. The composer Is Scotchman
and his purpose was to write chamber
music piece in one movement and in one
mood. He calls his work "thernody"
and his most important thematic idea
Is '',rhe Flowers Of the Forest" ira
ditional Scotch tune played usually by
the pipers at Scotch funeral
Mr. McEwen divides his work into
three sections lento, allegro motto ana
lento. but the form is purely single
cycllcal movement. The feeling or the
whole composition Is admirably fndi-
Gated by the sombre opening in chords
Of uncertain tonality. which are followed
by a beautiful viola solo, beautifully
played last evening By Waldo Warner
The middle section, the allegro. provides
the necessary contrast to the first and
last movements by its agltated and wild
utterance. fully in accord with the spirit
of Scotch funereal waiings
The work as q whole made good
impression. Its thematic texture Ia
slight, but Il Is excellently written FOR
the four instruments. The harmoniza-
ton is rich without any leanings toward
the eccentricities OF the modern ex-
tremists. The work was admirably
played. SO were the others on the pro-
gramme IT becomes duty once more
to say that Mozart, who declared that
he learned from Haydn how TO write
quartets. continues TO demonstrate that
he can say far more In this form In the
space OF fifteen minutes than many
moderns can In double the time.
The New York herald., 1921-12-06
MRS. DE ACOSTA DIES
AT HOME OF MRS. LYDIG
WidoW of Ricardo De Acostd
Dead at Daughters House.

Mrs. Micaela Hernandez de Alba de
Acosta. widow of Ricardo de Acosta.
died yesterday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Rita Lydig, at Bedford
Hills, n. y. after long Illness. With
her at her death in addition TO Mrs.
Lydig were Mrs. Abram Poole. another
daughter. and her son. Ricardo de
Acosta. Her other daughters. Mrs. Oren
Root and Mrs. A. Robson Sargent. are
in France. and Mrs William Gilman
Sewall is in Africa.
Last summer Mrs. De Acosta went to
France hoping TO regain her health and
she was Joined there by Mrs. Root. who
had been in Southampton. But she was
not benefited by the change and re-
turned home.
Mrs. De Acosta belonged to an old
Spanish family. She was the daughter
of the late Rafael Hernandez and bis
wife. who was Rita dc Alba. She had
been resident Of New York for many
years and was much beloved. Some Of
her old family servants were present at
the time of her death.