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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-01
LEAVES
FOR TAMPAFOR
SPRING LAb0RS
Griffmen's Trainer Takes
Early Hop to Florida Before
Athletes Report.
washinston's baseball world WI

Washin ston's baseball world will
begin to stretch itself next week and
prepare for the coming campaign.
On Wednesday, February s. Mike
Martin, veteran trainer of the Griff-
men, will leave for Tampa, Fla He
will go to make tho diamond at
Plant Field smooth enough for the
big lealguers who will follow him.
The, Florida State Fair is now
in progress at Tampa" explains
Martin. THE carnival feature IL
staged right on the diamond, and
there Is always a lot of sawdust to
be removed and post holes to be
filled. 1t doesn't take long to tell it.,
but 1t does take a long time to wipe
away the signs of the circus and
make the field possible for baseball"
Martin will be accompanied to
Tampa by Fred Harveycutter, a
Washington business man, who
usually acts as guide, mentor. ticket.
taker, secretary, treasurer, adviser,
overseer, majordome, jokesmith,
party of ball players and newspaper
men. Fred promises to send n re-
markable gift from the Everglades
to the Washington Lodge of Elks
this year. 1t may be a deed to a
farm. but Fred declines to give away
his secret.
President Griffith, with the young.
er pitchers, will appear on Plant
Field Monday morning, February 2S,
thus getting the jump on the remain.
der of the squad. A week later the
other twirlers will show up and on
March n the whole Washington
squad will be seen in uniform.
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Columbia Changes
Golf Tourney
To Spring

George H, hasmer, chat
man of the green committee OF
the Columbia Country Club, an
nounces that the annual invi
tation golf tournament regu,
larly scheduled in the fall will
be held this spring on the date
of June 1. The tournament
will continue June 2 and 8.
Owing to increased activity in
the fall among local clubs and
the difficulty in handling q
large field at that time of the
year warrants the change, &C
cording to the chairman. The
usual form announcement and
invitation will be issued and ex-
tended in due time.
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SERGEANT HENSHAW WINS
POCKET BILLIARD TITLE

BY defeating Clyve Richmond last
night, Sergeant Ralph Henshaw, OF
the Marine Corps. wins the pocket
billiard championship Of Washing
ton and the diamond studded medal
given by the management Of the
Grand Central. where the title
tournament was staged.
Henshaw triumphed after having
striven for three years for the title.
In the tournament just closed he
won all his games, defeating such
fine players as George Wheatley,
from whom he took the title; VIII
liam Parsons and Clyve Richmond.
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Tigers To Take S.
BezdeRs Schslnsly
Prstese

The Detroit Tirsrs N 49,
South with them 90 q 81
widely celebrates v4risty - o.
learned, a senior a. Maszsrh1nsrrs
Institute Of TechnolnEy- 49,
j. kroog Won oonSiorr1his r<ps-
tation as n pitcher g bssenn's
English High team And tn 81
college before h sffr.rt-6 -
attention Of major le4g1- 1888
His training and 1bliry g
stagger through a. pond<ru1s
courses that are repgtsd - -
forth at the institutsun 81 -
Charles did not prove suff,ru--r
to dim the greenness q u
worlds favorite form u papsr
Hugo Bezdek. Who woa ta1T
as a football coach wifh his 30
State team last fall. = bl4nee }
young KrOog for The .1t4n
Kroog was spending \ 49, .
the Pennsylvania eolleEs 49,
Bezdek is coach n the IN
Bezdek was taking hi- ninx q
managing the Pirafes- kru-g
credits the coach with startins
him on the way 20 wherr--r d
may be going By tearhinws o.
how to drain the last drop 60 a
his natural ability. HarO i so-<
thing Of a baseball coach ~ u~E
as football, IL seems.
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EXPERT FIRSTSACKERS LAST
ONLY SHORT TIME IN MAJOR

jinx, long lived persistent
basemen Of major
baeful head a
athletes who guard the gateway
Since the Boston Americans and
first modern Words Series
participating the for the q sn-r-
unfortunate. With few exceptions this
decline into the drear atmosphere Of the minor
other
In that historic struggle between
Candy guarded first
for the
Bransfeld Phaaepk skrs -
was out The big for IN rest Of hs
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STAR BOWLERS PERFORM
IN BIG TOURNEY TONIGHT
BY r. ID. THOMAS.

Sixteen bowe commonly known the crack variety will pair off
tonight Shermans the elimination roo of Harry krauss
modelled after the competition used in golf
and tennis is noted passing that Krauss become rather
has time rpened golf and has gathered thereby
ideas of competition local
bowling.
bowers out Of of entrants have qualified last mid
night ending the qualification which lasted about month
These sixteen had the best totals for ten high Freddie Moore
the after several layof finished second
behind Moore after having led during Of the
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Quinn pitched 16 games, winning
IA, the other two being extrainning
affairs, with scores ending 0 to in
Is innings. and l to l in ten In
nings. Altogether this achievement
of Quinn's was really wonderful.
but he didn't begin operations in
that circuit until July is, and con
sequently couldn't be credited with
going through a season without Q
defeat or even placing his record
on q par with that Of Benders.
The hurler who holds the best
record in games won for an entire
season Ia a certain Edward Cush-
man. Here In the history OF his
remarkable achievement:
The team representing Milwaukee
in the Northwestern League in 1884
had a hurler on its pitching staff
who made a record in games won
in a single season which stands to-
day as the hest ever framed up by
any professional pitcher in organ
lied ball. The great records in
games won in a season established
by Radbourne, Chesbro. Chief
Bender, Joe Wood and Bill Donovan
in the major leagues and the one
made by Bender at Richmond fade
before the string OF victories peeled
off by Edward Cushman, the
famous left-hander and mainstay
Of the Milwaukee club during the
aforementioned season. Cushman
came within one game of having
perfect record.
Outside Of Cushman's run Of VIC
tories his pitching in other respects
was marvellous. In all Cushman
pitched 20 games, all full games,
winning the first IA. His fifteenth
battle was lost by q score Of to
In ten innings.
This proved to be his only losing
game, for he finished by Keeling off
10 victories, percentage. OF 1854
in games won, which tops all rec
ords ever made in baseball by a
hurler who worked a full season.
Cushman lasted ten seasons In or
ganized ball, pitching for Milwaukee:
the Metropolitans, Athletics and
Rochester when these clubs were in
major league baseball.
Cushman was considered one OF
the big aces among the left.handers
Of the early days. Here is the rec
ord Of that wonderful seasons work:
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Purchase Norfolk
Club in Virginia
League

NORFOLK, Va, Feb. 1.-The
Norfolk baseball club of the Vir-
GINA League is today the prop
erty of a trio Of new owners,
R. A. Jones, R. A. Marshall and
J. E. Barry, who purchased the
club outright from the Norfolk
Baseball Corporation.
The Norfolk club, known as the
Tars, will be managed this year
by VIM w. Clark, of this city.
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ED CUSHMAN HOLDS RECORD
FOR PITCHING PERCENTAGE

Chief Bender famous Indian hurer while pitch
the Virginia League in 1919 has been
by only one pitcher history baseball in
lost That Big Chief pitched hyour
games, two,a of 1874 in games
hurlers winning all the pitched
late of the New York Americans
did 1908 while pitching for the Richmond club
Virginia the club that Bender framed up MS
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Promises Trouble II
Race if Tigers
Get Fielding

DETROIT, Feb I've will
worry any team in the american
League If l can get some fairly
good fielding at second and
short, Ty Cobb, manager of the
Detroit Tigers wired the Inter
national News Service today
from his home in Augusta, Ga,
in reply to a telegram asking
about Bengel prospects for 1922.
"The Tigers should finish fifth,
and have a good chance for
fourth or third position"
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The Virginia Orioles will encounter
~ ~'..'~ ''N'o''' club quintet IN
the formers gymnasium this after.
,.IdOns have on.
viable secords, which point TO tho
fact that a good game should result
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-01
FORMER TIGER CATCHER
GOES TO MOLINE, ALA.

PORTLAND. Ore. Feb. 1.-Delmar
Baker, first string catcher OF the
Portland team, has been sold to the
Moline. Ala, team Of the Southern
Association, II was announced today.
Baker came to Portland from the
Detroit Americans.
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He'll Slide Back

II George Mcfarland ~ gsl--E
right handed pitcher to D. trts-f a--
nv the Giants. falls % r-u-.ss
Manager McGraw by MAJ O.. an
go hack 20 Springfield ~ tn E1s-
ern Association.
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O'ReiIIy Receivers.

While still weak from his recent
illness and operation, John d.
O'Reilly, Georgetown University bag
ketball and track coach, Is on the
road to recovery. O'Reilly was oper-
ated on shortly after Thanksgiving
Day and was In critical condition
for some time.
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Play Preliminaries.

The Cap tai Slcn's and ,he Me-
curry A. c. teams viii Hlav n ure,
Urinary 70 tho AlnysiuS RiaSt IA
mond came tomorrow Vht n -.
AlovSiuS gym
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No Games Listed.

There will be no basketball games
listed for high school tossers herr on
Friday afternoon. The schedule gro.
vides day OF rest from series sn.
gagementa.
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n J6WS Damon
kunyOn:
Big Men Are Not Always Best

TARRY WILLS Tom Gibbons Harry Greb and Georges
III Carpenter comparatively small
Thus seeking bouts
the heavyweight champion who is in between
these extremes.
He sized of a but not big Wills
small as Gibbons and
weight is below 100 pounds
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Central Cos a~av

Central IIirh $500 -. rrs-
lo,tesvilie. VI - FrstaT 49,
with ths Nirufra 49, go
plays wrosii~rrr 49, 81 49,
~ OTa-r~. Na
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Aloysius Wins.

Aloysius club basketers had things
their own way in their game with
the Tank Corps five Of Camp
Meade at Gonzaga gym last night.
winning IS to 10.
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CAPITAL Silents Beaten.

The Roamer A. c. five came from
behind to nose out the Capital ST.
Tents. 40 to IS. in Gonzaga gym
last right. F'aher starred for the
winner with four baskets and four
successful free losses.
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The Quincy a q rnrEfsa
High schools baskeftYsr ssH--
Liberty Hall tonlrhf Ffar rH
& O'cl0gk
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Rolling tonight will start at s
o'clock. Pairings will be drawn q
few minutes before that time, and
there will be eight individual
matches of five games each. The
defeated eight will be paired for
consolation event. Pairings will be
drawn by the conventional names
in the hat" system.
The victorious bowlers of tonight
will engage in the second round to-
morrow night, when four more will
be elicinated; the third round, in
which there will be four contestants,
or two matches, will be rolled Fri
day night, and the final champion
ship round will take place Saturday
night.
Krauss' tournament has met
with wide approval, and similar
ones, II is believed, will be held
from time to time. Krauss thinks
the system eventually will prevail
here i'm tournament bowling.
For finishing first in the qualify.
ing round, Freddie Moore receives
for second place, gets ten, and
Cecil Fielding, who totaled 1922
for third place, receives five.
In the event that any of the
first sixteen fail to show up to-
night their places will be taken
by those who barely failed to
qualify. There are four OF these,
including Pratt. with a total of
1882; Goddard, with 1929: Kluge,
with 1925 and H. WEIGH, with
1925.
Majority Of games won will de-
eide the winner in each match.
Following are the qualifying six
teen with their totals for ten high
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Knights Win First.

The fast knights OF Columbus has.
ketball team easily defeated the
Navy Yard Marines last night. so
to 10.
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Yosemite Wins.

Arlington A. c. tossers were no
match for the fast Yosemite A. C.
basketers last night. The Yosemite
lads won nv n score of 40 to 3.
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St. Johns Meet Props.

In the only scholastic basketball
game scheduled for today, the St.
Johns College five will stack up
against the Georgetown Props this
afternoon ~ 2:l5 o'clock In Ryan
gym.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-01

The Techs have lost a star In
George Parrish, the giant center
Parrish, who stood over six feet
four inches, has been replaced by
Birmingham, track star.
The forwards are Walker and
Carroll. At guards the Blacksburg
men have Rhodes, their captain,
and Sutton. Rhodes has been
scoring consistently at running
guard and it will be a pretty bat
tie between him and Lynch, the
running guard who captains the
Brooklanders.
Coach Fred Rice will probably
have Eberts, who has recovered
from a bad ankle. Fosce, Yaeger,
Corwin, and Lynch in tonights
lineup.
virginia Polytechnic, il will be
remembered, startled the basket
ball world last winter by riding
through a northern trip without
o loss in seven games.
The Blacksburg lads are rated as
strong as they were last season and
NAV be expected to put up a stirring
figft Tor honors tonight Noted TOT
long shooting. the visitors Will be
able 10 hook them over the G. u. de-
Tense St he proper range Is gotten.
Threo years ago Opie, of Princeton
University. appeared here agalnse
G. e. aTG was the first player tome
seen on basketball court wearing
guard for eyeglasses.
Sincs hat time several visiting
teams ~ We sent in players with eye
aias,ses 8 nd amply protected with the
I device " lich Is worn and looks some
hing lie an abbreviated catcher 8
ms sk,
Tome School played Cook, VINO
wore eyeglasses and a guard, and
now Fosce, of c. u, has adopted the
device. Western High has subsu-
tute wearing the guard. Basketball
3 Thought to be out of the realm Tor
those wearing glasses, has been pos
sible recently with the general adop-
ton of the mask.
Georgetown Is tackling new.
conner on Friday night when II
meets the Dickinson College quin-
let on the Hilltop. The Pennsyi
yanians appeared here before In
: baseball and football, but, so lar
A can be learned, have never pro-
duced their basketball wares DE-
fore.
The Hilltoppers have several un.
USUALLY attractive engagements listed
for later in the season. west VIZ
ginia. Bucknell, Marietta and Ken
lucky are on the books, and ought 10
furnish some first-class opposltlon'
Georgetown found Lebanon val
lev basketers almost as tough
proposition as the football players
last fall. In the Wolf boys, wait
and Will, the G. U. lads found TWO
sterling players who could ring them
in from anywhere.
Metoxin, a full-blooded Indian
was another star who persisted In
.sholing out in one" from all angles
Of the floor. 1t was not until rive
minutes before tn md OF the game
that trc Hlit yppers pulled out
LEBANON Valley was greatly out
weighed and put up a first-class
brand OF floor play as well as
basket shooting ability. In Lebanon
Valley and Vfllanova the fans have
been treated 10 the two best teams
thSt have visited local floors this
season.
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ST. 10 to Come Here.

Mt. st. Joseph's hask"ter~ & u'l.
timore will visit bushes. Hish
School here on Friday,
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VIRGINIATECH, UllBEATEN
TRIES FOR SEVENTH WIN
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
BY BRYAN MORSE.

Of big Virginia College basketball
tonight play Catholic the spacious Brookand
credited, edge for here tonight
another Friday night at the Coliseum against George Washington
a
on Saturday the blizzard the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-01
Will PIay FRIDAY,

George Washington University girl
basketers meet the Gallaudet College
players on Friday night.
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Dan Mccain, OF the New fofh
Giants, worlds champions OF 1898.
was pursued by Ill luck after a lapse
of a few years, and later took his
own life. Jiggs Donahue. OF the Chit
cago White Sox Of 1906, soon declined
after winning great laurels In the
series with the Chicago Cubs ana
ended his life In an asylum in 1918.
In the days when the pennaBt-
winning Detroit Tigers were the
idols Of the American League,
Hughie Jennings had two first
basemen go bad.
Claude Rossman was the first one
to suffer. and this resulted In his
being traded to the st. Louis Browns
and a quick exit from the big show.
Tom Jones, who replaced him and
took part in the series with Pitts
burgh in the fall of 1909, also drifted
out within a short span of time.
Following the Pirates triumph,
Bill Abstein broke so completely in
his fielding that Fred Clarke had TO
send him away, and for years the
initial bag was the big gap In the
Pittsburgh defense. In fact, IL was
not until the corsairs secured Charlie
Grimm, a few seasons ago. that the
bag was properly guarded.
Coming down the years, Jake Stahl
felt the strength of the spell and
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SiIents to Play.

Capital Silcnts play the Rnamer
a. c. at Gonzaga gym, at o'clock
tonight.
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dous disadvantage. Ring historians
agree that one of the greatest
heavyweight champions that ever
lived was the Englishman, Tom
Sayers, and he weighed only lao
pounds.
CAYERS was thought to be so
- good that they matched him
~ against the American, John G.
Heenan, "the Benecia Boy" who
weighed 1870 pounds and was much
taller than Sayers.
After a bitter battle, the thing
was called a draw and the men were
proclaimed joint champions of the
world. Sayers must have been a
great fighter to hold a man as big
as Heenan even.
The long history of the division
shows that the weight of the cham
pion has varied ell the way from
140 pounds up to Willard's $50,
unless we include Freeman, the
American, who claimed the cham
pionship of the world and who
weighed 1888 pounds.
Broughton, one Of the first cham
pions, stood five feet eleven and
weighed 1876 pounds. Ben Caunt, at
295, was accounted tremendously
big man.
T, The weights Of some of the
other champions follow:
Bendigo, 1854; Jem Belcher,
1853; Hen Pearce, 1876; Cannon,
176; Deaf Burke, 172; Harry
Broome, ITS; Jem Mace, 1853;
Joe Goss, $50; James ]. Corbett.
ITS; Robert Fitssimmons, 1856;
Tommy Burns, 1875.
Of the ancients lacking was
ia 200-pounder. In more
" modern days John L. Sulli-
van was accounted Q big man,
yet the much lighter Charley
Mitchell, who was middleweight,
gave him a terrific battle.
Jim Jeffries was one of the
burliest men that ever held the
title. He bulked 220 pounds,
scattered over six feet one inch
and a half of height. Johnson,
who beat him, was an inch short
err, and at his best weighed around
100 pounds.
The shades Of some Of the old
timers are probably chuckling de-
risively as they sit in the VAL
halla Of Fistiana and read about
special divisions being created for
175-pounders because they are
considered too small for the
heavyweights.
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Seeks Opponents.

The Rosedale Reserves, p. r.
O'Brien. manager, TIA Sixth street
northeast, seek games with 1886.
pound teams.
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ne Is u BOOu-slbcu Ciluhh VI a IL
small as Gibbons, Greb or Carpentl
a quarter tall, and his best fighting
Wills is six feet three inches and
weighs 215 pounds. Gibbons is five
feet nine and one-half inches and
scales around ITO pounds. Greb is
five feet eight and can do 16O
pounds. Carpenter weighs in the
neighborhood Of 172 pounds, but
looks smaller than any Of the others
because Of his frail build.
An old saying of the prize ring is
that a good bic man can always
beat a good little man, but the
history of the heavyweight division
shows that some of its greatest
fighters have been small fellows.
w beat Jeffries and the search
w for the "white hope" began,
the searchers went in for beef. They
seemed to take it for granted that
it required an extra big man to
whip Johnson, overlooking the fact
that the man who gave Johnson one
Of his toughest fights and who was
greatly feared by Jack, was COM
paratively small.
This man was Sam Langford,
and he fought Jack long before
he had acquired the now familiar
Langford corpulency. Sam is
only five feet six and a half
inches tall, and was far under
the 200 pounds that he later at
tanned when he boxed Jack.
Perhaps the fact that johnson
subsequently found little men
particularly easy was responsible
for the demand for heft in the
white Hope" He leisurely
knocked the title out of Tommy
Burns, who was five feet seven
inches tall and weighed 1856
pounds; he showed the middle
weight Ketchel and the sawed-off
Flynn around at will.
Jess Willard, six feet six and
weighing $50 pounds, was the
ultimate "White Hope" and one
of the biggest men that ever held
the title. Every one seemed to
think that it would take a giant
to beat him, but along came
Dempsey, giving away six inches
in height and fully sixty pounds,
and cut the Kansas behemoth
down with ease.
A1OW the popular size Of heavy
~ weight is the Dempsey size,
~ and the theory is advanced
that it will take a man as big, or
bigger, to beat him Those who
shed the most tears over Carpen-
tier said that one reason for his de-
feat was the fact that he was too
small.
They forget that Dempsey was
much smaller than Willard; they
forget, too, that long before the
time Of Dempsey and Carpenter
smaller men had held the big title.
The history of the division shows
that ability more than size has al
ways counted. 1t was ability
against size in the Dempsey-Wil-
lard incident. Joe Wolcott dis
counted size with his ability when
he was around knocking heavy
weights loose from their ideas.
Jack Kearns, manager Of the
heavyweight champion, has just
come East with a fighter from the
West coast, Jimmy Duffy; who is
normally a 13s-pounder, but SO
cocksure is Kearns of Duffy's abil-
jty that he wants to match him
against middleweights.
Sympathy for the smaller man ir
a fight Is misplaced, because in the
big division, II little fellow has
real ability, he is not at a tremen,
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after one glorious sez-on usrh a,
Boston Red Sox in 1873. IN 49, -
American League wOn tn wurN
bunting. he quit the Ear,s Or O.
Ranking business
Harry Davis. % the 49,
stood IL off for three UorId 49,
1905. 1910 and lSli-bgt 80 tsf1-a.l
In the race OF 1917. ard ~ SrzffT
Mclnnis play IN his stead
IL brought shifts Tor F'r-d M-rkfa
but lucky ones. and the rnan 80
pulled the gaInes mosI $500
boner benefited from hts tranac--
After competing with tn Czn-s
in the series Of isli-ig and IsI1 -
went to Brooklyn IN 1919 a.
played against Boston- IN IsIs -
was shifted 10 Chicaco a. "a =
losers end In snocher --rt-~ 80
the Red Sox- Merki- rlar-d r -.
big classics and always 49, % ~
losing end