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The New York herald., 1921-04-24
Greater in His Life
Than in Poetry Is His Influence

1t is not necessary here to discuss Dante
as literature" He is one Of the very few
great writer's who transcend what they have
written and whose final significance Is in
having been supremely themselves. With
Dante ii is the man behind the book with
whom we are chiefly concerned. Carlyle
was right when he wrote of him as "the
poet as hero"-the man who being first OF
all great as man, makes use of poetry as
one of the means by which he awakens his
fellow human beings 10 sense of the
divine significance Of being men and women
and TO their responsibility as such. HIS
solemn song" had first and last this pur-
pose. To this end Beatrice and Florence
alike were symbols, and his own life also
as he wandered TO and fro, with the
Divine Comedy" shaping itself. throughout
all his vicissitudes for nineteen years, in
his heart and brain. Mr. John Cowper
Powys has expressed this significance Of
Dante in these mastery words
''In one respect Dante is. beyond doubt
the greatest poet Of the world. | mean in
his power Of heghtening the glory and the
terribleness Of the human race. Across
the threefold kingdom Of his Terra Rima
passes in tragic array the whole process
sion Of human hstory-and each figure
there. each solitary person. whether Of the
blessed or the purged or the condemned,
wears like u garment Of fire the dreadful
dignity Of having been man, The mov.
ing sword point that flashes, first upon one
and then upon another. amid our dim
transactions. Is nothing hut the angry arm
OF human imagination. moulding life TO
grander issues; creating. II not discovering.
suhlimer laws. In conveying that thrilling
sense Of the momentousness Of human
destiny which beyond anything else certain
historic names evoke. none can surpass
him"
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
Honors Bestowed on
Poet in His Lifetime

The universities of Bologna and Padua
welcomed him. and II seems certain that he
visited Paris, studying ut the university
and lodging in the Rue du Fouarre, thence
journeying into the Low Countries; but that
he visited Oxford Is. ii is to be feared, but
romantic fable. III is known for certain.
however, that the last three years Of his
life were spent under the protection OF
Guido da Polenta. Lord Of Ravenna. Ilav-
ing undertaken an embassy To Venice In
the service Of that Prince. he caught II
fever, returning through the unhealthfuI
lagoons. and died In Rayenna on September
a. 1921. lie was buried there under !
monument built by his friend Guido Ne
vello. having dictated hiS own eptaph In
Latin, of which Lowell gives this Uansla
tiuu
The rights Of Monarchy. the Heavens, the
stream Of Fire. the Pit.
In vision seen. ] sang as far as 10 the
Fates seemed At;
But since my soul. an alien here. hath
flown to nober wars,
And happier now hath gone TO seek its
Maker mid the stars
Here am / Dante shut exed from the
ancestral shore,
whom Florence, the Of all least-lovine
mother bore.
AS Lowell we'll says, Scarce was Dante
MT rest III his grave when Italy felt in
rtinctivelv that this was her great man"
I'm vnin dtd Cardinal powuptto In l31o caIISp
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
Florence Graves the Poet Dead;
Ravenna Holds His Ashes

Some other great poets may be held rep
resentative of their country, Homer of
Greece, Shakespeare of England, Burns of
Scotland. but none of these has been part
and parcel Of the national life in the same
way as Dante He might almost yet be
regarded as political issue; and one Won
ders if the demand so often through those
six centuries made i'll vain by Florence of
Ravenna for the return of his sacred ashes
will be made once more this coming Sep
tember. In this respect his fate. indeed,
is curiously parallel to the legendary story
of Homer, embodied in the old rhyme:
Seven Grecian cities strove for Homer
dead
Through which the living Homer begged
his bread
For the man in the street he is. doubt
less first of all, as in his later years of
exile he was to the citizens of Verona. 1.-The
man who has been in hell" SO the women
of Verona pointed him out to their children
as he passed austerely by: the author of
the "Inferno," the terrific describer of hell.
The meodramatic genius of Dore has
helped to fix that stamp upon him. The
"Purgatorio" and Paradise" are compara-
of his suffering, finally wrought that peace
with God in which was revealed TO him
the mystic harmony Of the universe, is
largely forgotten in the tragic, unbreak-
able exile:
But now was turning my desire and will.
Even as wheel that equally is moved,
The Love that moves the and other
stars
But there are of course, three Dantes :
Dante the great lover, Dante the great
patriot, Dante the great poet. The man
who had been to hell, he who loved Flor
ence so well as to be called, beyond all
Others THE Florentine." was also the
lover of Beatrice. he who from his ninth
year to his last breath, kept before the eyes
of his soul the face of one beloved girl.
Dante and Beatrice! We say the names
together as we say Romeo and Juliet
To be so great lover, so great a patriot
so great poet-has been given TO none but
Dante So Is he unique among the historic
figures of the world The facts of Dante'S
life have been so often told that 1t may
hardly seem necessary TO tell them again.
But general familiarity with the lives OF
great men is somewhat of a polite assump-
ton. and even for those who know, or once
have known. II is we'll that such memorial
occasions as this of Dante's death six hun
dred years ago should be used not merely
for refreshing our memories, but for re-
freshing our spirits by the recital and con
temptation of the great story of great
man.
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
Born Goo Years Ago,
Dante Is Still an Issue

Dante (Durante, by contraction Dante)
degi Alighieri. was born at Florence in
May. 1868 The exact day Is not known.
hut 1t was probably "about the middle music
of the May" He came Of an ancient fam
ily that for some generations had belonged
TO the burgher class. His father was a
lawyer Of some account The family name
of his mother, the second wife Of his father
is not recorded She is known simply as
Donna Bella, and bore her husband one son.
Dante, and n daughter The family was
in respectable position, and Dante re-
ceived an excellent education. embracing all
the learning Of his time. under the tutor
ship Of the famous scholar Brunette La
tint. 10 whom he refers with great affection.
and particularly rs one who had Caught
him how man eternizes himself" In ad-
dition TO his academic studies lie Is sup
posed 70 have had knowledge of draw
ing--Giotto was friend of his youth--and
Browning In his famous poem zone Word
More" has retold how, on the anniversary
Of the death of Beatrice, lie prepared to
paint an angel"
Dante's own account in "The New Life"
;''vita Nuova") runs thus: "On that day
which fulfilled the year since my lady had
been made OF the citizens Of eternal life
remembering me Of her rs | sat alone, be.
took myself to draw the resemblance of an
angel upon certain tablets And while
did thus, CHANGING 10 turn my head, per
ceived that some were standing beside me
to whom I should have given courteous well
come. and that they were observing what
did also I learned afterwards that They
had been there nile before | perceived
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
His Life and Pilgrimage
Is the Pilgrimage of Mans Soul

Men and women and their lives were no
less real when the medieval Duns Scotus
pondered on how many angels could dance
on the point of a needle than now, and no
little of our boasted intellectual advance
amounts to little more than a change in
termnoogy. We give different names 70
the same things, and while Dante believed
in literal physical hell, he realized hell
too as condition of the soul. As Lowell
says. Its mouth yawns not only under
Florence but before the feet of every man
everywhere who goeth about to do evil"
His pilgrimage. literal and local as were
It's terms, was still the pilgrimage Of mans
soul in all times and under all conditions.
and his account of 1t, properly understood
thus remains eternally modern" In one
sense, indeed Dante's Divine Comedy" is
most "up to date" With all its rugged
masculnity it is the most feminist of
poems. for 1t is, as Lowell says, "in a very
intimate sense. an apotheoSis of woman
Beatrice Is nj once its inspiration and Its
al prevailing spiritual essence. 1t is the
love of her that through all the turmoil Of
Dante's mortal experience dwells in his
heart - purifying flame and as a guiding
light till ut last on the slopes of Paradise
she stands awaiting him TO lead him up in
10 the very presence Of God.
"As soon as on my vision smote the power
Sublime. that had already pierced me
through
Ere from my boyhood / had yet come
FORTH
TO the left hand | turned with that reli-
ance
with which the little child runs 70 his
M
when he has fear or when he is af-
flicted"
SO. in those last exied years at Ravenna
was fulfilled that dream which Dante had
50 touchingly shadowed forth nj the end Of
his "vta Nuova."
after writing this sonnet" he says. "it
was given unto me to behold very won
derful vision wherein | saw things which
determined me that would say nothing
further Of this most blessed one until such
time a. 7 could discourse more worthily
concerning her. And 70 this end labor
all ] can: as she well knoweth. Wherefore
" il be His pleasure through whom l. the
life OF all things that my life continue with
me few years. II l. my hope that ! shall
vet write concerning her what hath not
before been written If any woman After
the which Hay IL seem good unto Him who
Is the Master of Grace that my spirit
should 20 hence to behold the glory of its
lady to wit. of that blessed Beatrice who
now gazeth continually on His countcnance
qW est per omnid Sdcculd bcncdictHs twho
Is blessed through all ageS) LdRs Dco."
Never was love story 20 complete as
this Of Dantes. and those 10 whom Dante
of the Inferno" Dante the fierce patriot
and prophet i too grim companion will
find the lovciest Of al the love books of
the world n'thut youthful testament ~ the
"Nita Nuova.'
the song
Which FIRST OF All he made vhvn young.
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
Dante's Fame Belongs
To No One City or Nation

In 1896 Florence built him monument
and begged Ravenna again for his ashese
AMI again in 1920. In 1919 Michelangelo
offered to build monument for them, but
Ravenna still refused to surrender them,
and in Ravenna they remain till this day.
True lovers Of Dante will hope that there
they may ever rest in peace. The city that
was not worthy of him in his lifetime has
no rights in his ashes, and though the
refusal of Ravenna to give them up be- now
only an ronc symbol it is one Of that
symbolic import which Dante himself, who
was 50 great a symbolist in his work, would
surely approve. The love Of Florence came
too late and was from the first suspect,
merely following on the posthumous fame
Of that strong soul whom in life ii had
only helped to strengthen by the bitter
ness Of its hate. Long before his death,
despite his love for Florence, which. rs he
said he could like other eXiles only revisit
in dreams" Dante had ceased to be merely
a Florentine, ceased to be either Guelph or
Ghbeline. withdrawn from all political
parties become. as strong men always must
do in the end. his own party of one.
So twill be well for thee
A party to have made thee by thyself.
He belonged 20 no one Italian city, but to
Italy, whose final unity owes more to his
strong dreaming than to all its soldier
revolutionists, great as they have been. rs
it possible to say" asks Butler, that the
dream did not work its own realization, or
10 deny that the high ideal of the poet after
inspiring a few minds as lofty as his own,
has become embodied in the constitution Of
bond Of union than common worship of
the exile's indignant and impassioned
verse;"
As Lowell has said. "We comprehend the
Commedia' better when we know thai
Dante could be an active, clear headed poll
tician and mystic at the same time
The New York herald., 1921-04-24

r AMES RUSSELL LOWELL in his fine
essay on Dante-none finer has been
~ written-recallng the many other
great figures which have made Florence
illustrious says: ITO IN American there is
something supremely Impressive in this
cumulative influence of past full Of inspira
tion and rebuke, something saddening in
this repeated proof that moral supremacy is
the only one that leaves monuments and
not ruins behind it," 1t is this "moral
supremacy" his moral and spiritual great
ness, that has made Dante a unique figure
among the poets of The world When Italy
celebrates. on September IA, the six hun
Gredth anniversary of Dantes death it will
not be merely the memory of the poet of
1.-The Divine Comedy" she will be celebrat-
ing. but the memory of her first great
patriot, the patriot at the white fire of
whose lonely spirit the undying flame of
Italian freedom has ever since renewed
itself.
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
VAL DANTE AS A GREAT MODERN FORCE

Richard English critical writer who has
the bulk
writing has been accomplished
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Kramer to Oppose
Foreign Cyclists
Tonight for Title

For the first time in seven years a
real international indoor bicycle sprint
meet will take place in Madison Square
Garden tonight. Most Of the leading
riders of America, Europe and Aus
tralia will compete. The meet will pre-
cede the six-day race which starts to-
morrow night with sixteen teams.
This evening Frank Kramer will
battle for the indoor title in mile
race against Orlando Piani, Walter
Rutt and Abe kaufman. 1t will be
Rutt's first appearance before an Amer
lean public since 1914. The event will
be run with three starters in each
heat, first money going to the rider
takin gtwo heats.
Next in Importance on the card will
be mixed team race, with Brocco and
Egg competing against Mcnamara and
Willie Spencer They will meet at a
nile and two miles, sprinting tor
points every three aps, as we'll as meet
ing in an Australian pursuit race IN
between. All the professionals will
start in ten-mile open race and again
in one-mile handicap. Amateurs
will meet in hree-quarters mile
handicap and two-mile open race for
points.
Ten sprints in the afternoon and
on the six day race program, with the
usual ten sprints taking place at 9
p. m. Brocco and Coburn, the famous
Jap stealers, will again be paired Tor
this race. Rutt and Lorenz arrived on
the Cedric last night.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Rube Benton Admits
Bribe Offer, but Says
He Refused to Accept
From a Staff Correspondent

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March A.
Rube Benton. the southpaw Of the
Giants, who was mentioned in the
statement issued by Hein:e thinner
nan in New York yesterday as one Of
the three New York players offered
500 bribes to throw ball game in
1919, said this morning that Heinie's
figure was wrong SO lar as it con-
cerned him (Benton).
According to Rube, Heinie told him
IL would be worth $400 H. the southpaw
would throw the game.
at was the last game Of the series
with the Cubs at Chicago" explained
Benton, ito which Heiuie refers He
told me it would be wor.a S4U0 to me
If | tossed the game away. l laughed
at this and walked away without say
ing word.
Il went in and pitched that game
and won it, and while we were in the
dressing room after the game Hein.e
came to me and said: You are a damn
fool to pass up that $400.' l again
made no reply to him."
When asked if he knew if brlhes
had been offered to any other players
at that time Benton said, "No"
Manager McGraw, when shown y
copy OF the Zimmerman statement,
said:
Il have no time to waste on a state
ment made by confessed crook"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Columbia Beaten
BY Tiger Mermen;
Record for Mahar

The Princeton University swimming
team scored close victory over the
Columbia ''fsh' in the Morningside
Heights pool last night, winning by %
points to 25. The local swimmers had
the meet we'll in hand until the last
event-the relay-which gave points
to the Tigers
Cupid" Maher, of Columbia, created
a new record in winning the plunge for
distance, negotiating rs feet in SO 4-5
seconds
The summaries:
5o-yard swim-Won BY Eberhardt. Co.
lunbia; Shr tver, Princeton second; Muir
ray, Princeton. third. Time. OPS AZ
luinba; Lowndes, Columbia second; Stin-
SON Princeton third. Time, o;59.
40: 22o-yard swim - Won by Mcdonald,
sniff Columbia third. Time. 2:49 As.
Plunge for distance--Won by Mahan.
Columbia. 10 feet Paving, Princeton. -
feet inches second. Aronson, Columbia
record for the Columbia tankJ
bla. lo2 $40 points; prscoll. Princeton.
50 9-lO points, third
Relay race-Won by Princeton Murray.
Sohreiver, stinson and cooper). Time
WATER POLO
Princeton (24) Pos. Columbia us)
TAFT .................G. ....... kindelberge er
Schrauss ......,..L G.......... Simmons
Hardin. n...........,R Rogers
~ n hlleartner. Il. F........... Cooper.
Botting ............ C......... Beiswinge
=, Touch soals-princeton. 8; Columbia, /.
Foul goals Columbia. :: Thrown goals
minutes. Substitutions-Me for 81
mons. Referee-Alex Menert, West Point.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Set Ne1U Trial Date
For Indicted PLAYERS

CHICAGO, MARCH "A new date for
the trial of eight former members of
the Chicago White Sox involved in the
1919 worlds series scandal, originally
scheduled to begin March IA. will be
set next Monday as a result of move
made to-day by the prosecution for d
delay.
Counsel for the prosecution asked
that the cases be stricken from the call
on the ground that additional time was
required to prepare for the trial. The
motion was opposed by attorneys for
the defendants, who declared post
ponement would prevent the indicted
players from returning to the gar e
this season.
1t finally was agreed that new date
should be set Monday. Judge Dever
indicated that the trial would be ad-
vanced but a few days
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
ROGERS PEEr COMPANY
Hooper Is Traded
To the White Sox:
McInnis to Quit

BOSTON, March 4.-Transfer o.
Harry Hooper, captain and star out
fielder Of the Boston Red Sox, to the
Chicago Americans WAS announced to-
day by Manager Hugh Duffy Of the
local team. In exchange Boston will
receive from the White Sox John Col
lins, outfelder ana substitute first
baseman, and Harry +. Nero Liebold,
outfclder. The transaction Is under
stood to have included no cash con-
sideratiors.
With the passing of Hooper, Boston
loses the last Of the famous outield
that figured In world championships
beginning with 1912. Speaker went to
Cleveland to become its manager and
leader of another world champion
team. Duffy Lewis went to the New
York Yankees and Hooper's transfer
marks further scattering OF the men.
His fielding exploits, especially in the
series with the Giants in 1912, will be
long remembered.
Hooper is understood to have been
a hold-out from the Boston club on q
question of salary this year He is
still at his California ranch and has
indicated to friends that he will play
only another year or two and then
only if considerable increase in SAL
ary is given.
John "Stufy" McInnis, who has re-
fused to sign with the Red Sox at the
salary offered, announced to-day that
he would not play until his terms were
met. From his home in Manchester
the first baseman said he would not
be in the party that leaves for the
spring training camp at Hot Springs
tomorrow.
McInnis had notified President
Frazee, he said, that he felt he had
not been dealt with fairly when In
creases were given to other players
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Stars in n. Y. A. C.. Meet;
Cutbill Unable to Run

The Buermeyer 900" will be one
of the features of the New York A. C.
games in the 22d Regiment Armory to-
night. Tom Campbell, of Yale; Ber-
ME Wefers jr., New York A. c.; Bill
Stevenson, Princeton, and Jake Dris-
coll, of Boston College, are among
those entered in the event.
Allan Swede, Princeton; Walter
Higgins, Columbia; Jim Connolly.
Georgetown. and other stars will
start in the Baxter mile, while the
two-mile intercollegiate relay has at
tracted teams from Yale, Syracuse
and Cornell. Dick Landon, the
Olympic champion, will be on scratch
in the high jump.
BOSTON, March, 4-Harold C. Cut
bill, the Boston A. A. runner, who won
the Baxter mile at the New York A.
c. indoor games last year, will be un-
able to compete in that event to-mor-
row night. An injured ankle forced
him to cancel his entry to-day.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Veteran Catcher Decides
To ReiOin ". Y. u. Nine

Baseball stock at New York Univer-
sity took rise yesterday when it was
announced that Hal Draffen, last
years star catcher. will be with the
team this season. 1t had been stated
that he would not play because of
heavy academic schedule, but he
has arranged to join the team.
The team was out of doors for the
first time yesterday. Until now the
candidates have been practicing in the
I'd Field Artillery Armory.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Yale Winner in Tank;
Jones Sets New Record

NEW HAVEN, Conn, March A.
Davey Jones, Of Brown University, to-
night defeated Leeming Jelliffe, of
Yale, in the 1OO-yard swim, as the head
line feature of the Yale-Brown meet.
The winner covered the distance in
55 3-5 seconds, breaking the intercol-
legiate record of 56 2-5 seconds. Yale
easily won the meet, az to II, the 100
yard swim being the only event in
which the visitors finished first.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Crescents Defeat Pratt Five

The Crescent a. c. basketball team
won its thirty-hrst straight victory
last night when it defeated the Pratt
Institute five on the institutes floor, 80
to IS. The score stood ii to at the
end Of the first half and was tied by
Pratt five rNinutes after this peflod be-
gan. Griffin and Parmele were the
{ rpScent stars
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
BROOKLYN Five Goes Wes,

:, The Brooklyn College Club will he
the only representative of thu East o ;,,
the annual A. A. U. championships bas.
ketball tournament, which will be heid
next week in Kansas City. The tenn
composed of alumni Of BROOKLYN Col''
iege and Brooklyn Prep, will leave for
the West this morning New York Uni.
vcrsity, last years champions, and the
Crescent A. c. will not compete
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Rudolph STAYS With Braves

BOSTON, March 4.-Starting for The
South today Manager Fred Mitchell of
the Braves learned that he would have
with him again Richard Rudolph. one
OF the three pitchers who brought
worlds championship to the Braves in
1914. Rudolphs arm failed him last
year. and he was given permission to
play anywhere, but he decided to re-
turn here on q bonus basis.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Mrs. Hobart Reaches Finals

BELLEAIR HEIGHTS, ria, March 4
Mis-. Clarence Hobart, wife of the
former tennis Champion, reached the
finals in the women's tennis champion
ship at Belleair to-day. She defeated
NJ SIS Barksdale, of Wilmington, Del, in
the semi-tinals, S-6, IS, and will play
NJ SIS +. Holden, of Chicago, for the
title tomorrow morning. Miss Holden
defeated Miss Georgie Bailey, of Bryn
MaWr. Go 6--U
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Britton Bout Cancelled

PITTSBURGH, March 4.-The box
Ing bout set for March II between Jack
Britton, worlds welterweight cham
pion, and Jack Perry, of this city, at
Madison Square Garden, New York City,
has been called off, it was announced
here to-day by j. Conrad, manager Of
Perry. Conrad said he received a tele-
gram to this effect from New York YES
terday, Perry, he said, will meet Ted
(Kid) Lewis in Detroit on March Ia.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Amherst Swimmers Win

TROY, n. y, March 4.-Amherst de-
feated Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute
in a closely contested swimming meet
here tonight by 33 to 20, winning four
out Of the SIX events. DOMAIN starred
for Amherst, winning the so and 100
ward Gashes
New-York tribune., 1921-03-05
Colgate Noses Ont Hamilton

CLINTON, n. z. MorcN -Nannil-
ton lost the final basketball game Of
the season here Tonight to Oo4ga1e.
The score was q to 10.