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T0FEEL HIGH
PRICES, SAYS JOHNSON

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. March A.
A prediction that the minor
leagues would feel the tendency af
high prices prevailing in the ma
50fs, resulting net only fPOm the
money asked far players, hut from
that requested by the players
Themselves, was made here By Ban
J0hnssn, Dresident Of the Ameff-
can League.
JOhnnOn In en- route to Eagis
Pass, Tex, and plans to give .
dinnef at Pfedras NegRas, Mexico,
for the Mexican Officers who es-
cOrted his hunting party in that
country last year.
Evening star., 1922-03-05
MATHIESEN OF NORWAY
TO SKATE IN AMERICA

CHICAGO, March Oscar Mathie-
sen, renowned Norwegian profession
al skater, whom a $4,000 guarantee
did not lure to the United States this
year, but who asked $4,000. will be
seen In American skating races next
season, Julian T. Fitzgerald, presi-
dent of the International Skating
Union, has announced. A racing cir
cult is projected for next season. with
a series of championship races to
be participated in by the Norwegian
and four countrymen.
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speedboat Classic Unlikely.

DETROIT. Mich, March 4-Only a
remote possibility remains that there
will be Harmsworth trophy speed
boat race this year. The single
chance is that a challenge had been
placed in the mail before midnight
February %. None has been re-
ceived by the Motorboat Club of
America.
Evening star., 1922-03-05

Stdlt dOlI Association tndt IneSe
local rules-that is, adopted by such
Under this arrangement, clubs OF
which the members 1refer the rules
promulgated a year by the West
ern Association W.. make ground
rules in accordance. while other clubs
will Hdhere strictly to the royal and
anci>-.t laws of the game and still
others will adopt one or more Of the
innovations.
The main rules involved are those
making the penalty for a ball out of
bounds or a lost ball the loss of dis
tance only instead of adding q PEN
atty stroke as is done In Great Brit
ain. Even the U. S. G. A. established
. local rule at the last national anna
tour championship to limit the PEN
atty for ball out Of bounds to the
loss of distance.
Must Study Local Rules.
The crux of the matter is that golf
ers will never know just what the
rules are on any one course until
they have studied the local rules Of
that club. In tournaments it Is as
sumed that the committee in charge
will announce the rules, but the play
ers will always be more or less at sea
unless they carry a written memo
randum OF the rules prevailing at
that particular meet.
There is as yet no agreement on the
stymie, four general rules prevailing
in addition to- the common violation
Evening star., 1922-03-05

Other officers elected were: First
vice president, Morven Thompson.
Chevy Chase Club; second vice presi-
dent, Lee L. Harlan, Columbia Coun-
Washington Golf and Country Club,
and treasurer, Yates Penniman, Bal
timore Country Club.
Indian Spring Club Admitted.
The Indian Spring Club of Silver
Spring, Nd, was elected to member
ship in the association and the resig-
nation of the Green Spring Valley
q. II. Chasman Of the Columbia
Country Club was chosen as a rep
reSentative to the meetings OF the
United States Golf Association. He
will act for the Middle Atlantic As
soeiation in all matters that come
before the national body.
Delegates present last night We're:
Chevy Chase Club. Morven Thomp-
son, Admiral H. d. Norton; Columbia
Country Club. Lee L. Harlan. Donald
nockburn Golf Club, DR.. T. J. w.
Brown: Washington Golf and Coun-
try Club, j. T. McClenahan and G. E.
Truett: Wilmington Country Club. c.
NJ. Steward: Country Club of Vir-
ginia, F. J: D. Mackay; Princess Anne
Country Club, James 9. Barron, and
Baltimore Country Club, Yates Pen
niman.
The Washington Golf and Country
Club will hold it's tournament the
to be followed by the Chevy Chase
Club event two weeks later. The
Columbia Country Club event will be
held June !. 2 and 8.
Work ON the new course of the In
dian Spring Golf Club is being rushed
as fast as 153 men and so teams can
go. Instead of allowing only part of
the course to be used this spring.
with the remainder fenced Off until
fall, Donald Ross. the architect in
charge, has announced that he would
have the entire eighteen holes open
and ready for play not later than June
]. All the eighteen greens and fair
ways are now completed. Traps will
be sanded, mounds covered. the fair
ways will be put in shape and the
green's planted with German bent
grass.
The club has decided to Immediately
start work on an additional eighteen
holes. which will be laid out by Ross
opposite the clubhouse. The course
now in process of completion will be
a moderately rolling one, while the
new one will have certain features of
ruggedness.
Plans for the clubhouse have been
approved and work on it will start
on March 20. the building to be COM
pleted by June 20. This will supply
both courses, although lockers and
showers for both man and woman
players will also be built for the sec
ond links.
Plans call for a building with
frontage Of 156 feet, extending back
rs feet 1t will be entirely surrounded
by porcheS, will contain about forty
rooms where members can spend the
week end and will be patterned after
the one at the st. Augustine. Fla,
Country Club.
Lieut.. Gel. @. o. Sheriff.. officer in
charge OF public buildings and
grounds, has been approached by .
number of golfers who patronize the
East Potomac Park course with pro-
posal to set q fiat fee for the year.
Col. Sheriff. has been urged to abolish
the present fee of rs cents q round
and to levy a fiat sum Of perhaps IS q
year for residents Of the District. It
also has been suggested that lockers
ho nv "a
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new BOWLING LEADERS
IN A. B. C. TOURNAMENT

TOLEDO, Ohio, March 4.-Bowlers
from Beaver Falls, Pa, and Chi
cagO went into first place in two
sections Of the American Bowling
COnEresS tournament here today.
5. Reich of Beaver Falls topped
In the Individual event, with eco,
and H. FicI<e and Rudnick of Chi
cagO, paired in the doubles event,
lead in that sectiOn, with 1881.
Evening star., 1922-03-05
W0MEN'S TENNIS LEAGUE
TO MEET NEXT SATURDAY

The opening gun for the local
fired next Saturday night, when
the WOmen's League of the Dis
trict will meet at the Young WOm-
ems Christiaa Association, ~ 0l4
f street, at o'clock. OMcers will
be elected and plans made for the
seasOn. All members Of the league
are urged to be present. The call
was ISSUED by Mrs. Beatrice j..
Smith, secretary-treaxure
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C0.EDS AT OKLAHOMA U.
TO SEEK SPORT LETTERS

NORMAN, Okla, March 4.-Femi-
nine athletes OF the University Of
Oklahoma, who in the past have
participated in activities for the
mere love Of the game, are to en-
ter the field in the future I'm COM
petition for letters. Miss Ina
James, director OF physical edu-
cation for women. has announced
a program of intramural sports
for the c0-eds, winners Of which
will be awarded honorary sweaters
embellished with the coveted "O.''
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of all rules by most players in other
than championship play. The royal
and ancient club of St Andrews still
adheres to the old stymie rule.
The United States Golf Association
allows the player who is stymied to
concede his opponents putt, thereby
removing the stymie.
The Western Golf Association has
abolished the stymie entirely.
The Trans Mississippi Golf Associa-
ton rule Is that stymie prevails
when a player stymies himself
Negotiations still are proceeding
between the U. S. G. A. and the ". G..
AZ to arrive at some agreement on
the stymfe, and it is thought by lead
ers of both associations that further
conferences will bring about a uni
form rule on this subject 1t is even
predicted that eventually they wil1
come into concordance with the royal
and ancient club, as all the leaden,
are in favor OF uniform rules for tie
game throughout the world.
Evening star., 1922-03-05
EASTMAN SCHOOL GIRLS
SUCCESSFUL ON COURT

Basketers of the Misses Eastman's
sshool have just closed a successful
season with victories over Holton
Arms. Gunston. Madeira, Colonial and
Friends Schools. The Eastman girls
team play was Of high order.
The Eastman squad included
Eugenia Davis, Eleanor Snyder, Alice
Elliott, Susan Church. Patience Lati-
| mer, Suzanne Bradley and Louise
Totten.
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COLLEGE BASKET BALL.

At Durham, N. C.-Trinfty, 81
Durham Y. N. C.. A., 20.
At Citadel. 20; South Carolina, ~.
At New York-PrincetOn, 30, Co.
lumbia. p.
At Philadelphia-Penn, 20; Cornell
rs (extrn period playedD.
Dartmouth, 50, Yale, II.
At Minneapolis - Wfsc0nsin, -
Minnesota, 20.
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A. Golf Team Title Euent Virginia Qnt Leader in S. A. Section
PENN IS SENT OVERTIME
TO BEAT CORNELL QUINT

PHILADELPHIA, March 4-Unl-
versity Of Psnasylvania tonight
defeated the COrDsll team, 70 to
-. I'm an intercollegiate basket ball
game. An extra peFiOd was re-
Qutre0 to decide the match.
Evening star., 1922-03-05
INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENT
AWARDED TO WILMINGTON
Competition Here to Be Staged Between October ]
and Is and Play in Delaware City Is Listed for
June Is, 10 and II.
BY WALTER R. McCALLUM.

individual championship of the Middle Atlantic Golf Association
for 1922 awarded Wilmington Country Club the annual
meeting OF the association held last night the New Willard
Hotel The will be held June Is and H. announced
President NJ Wilmington Club
who president of association
Washington
to
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ONLY LOSS OF CAMPAIGN ::
is DEFEAT BY C.. U. HERE
Wins All Twelve Games at Home and Six of Seven on.
Foreign Floors-BrooklandersA Are Hurt by
Bowing to Virginia Poly.
BY w. II. HOTEL.

OUTH ATLANTIC collegiate ball l9222
paign lie between Catholic University Virginia the latter
having the much better although beaten here
Brooknde This the Virginia teams lone defeat all its
and the others played Catholic
University, other hand only game
OF edonco of the
Evening star., 1922-03-05
ROANOKE BOWLERS CLASH
WITH ROYALS TOMORROW

7NN1NG ntercity bowling championship and Wash
wv ngton the advantage in the with Roanoke will
be the Royals afternoon when they clash with
the Palace qunt the Sherman drives concluding
block of the fifth yearly dukpn match between Each
matches and this Roanoke
bowled the Royals
will Into tomo at
Evening star., 1922-03-05

Georgetown, which won all its
eleven home contests and lost all
three it played on strange ground,
faced only one team in this section.
defeating George Washington twice.
Its schedule put the Hilltop quint in
the running for the sectional honors,
despite a really formidable combina-
ton. George Washington and Gal
laudet did not make impressive
records. not meeting such strong
teams as the others.
How the Teams Fared.
Here is the standing of the four
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Lifts Havana Fight Ban.

HAVANA, March 4.-Prizef1ehtinp
as q public spectacle in Havana was
again made legal today. Mayor Diaz
de Villegas, who banned it several
months ago, annulled his decree and
accepted a revised version of the
Marquis Of Queensberry rules
Evening star., 1922-03-05

Catholic University has a black
mark in the defeat by Virginia Poly
on the Brookland floor, the local team
losing out, 20 to %, mainly through
careless work after apparently hay-
ing the game "sewed up" Virginia
defeated Poly, 25 to %, on a neutral
court at Roanoke. Both c. U. and
Virginia scored over Virginia Military
Institute. Gallaudet and George Wash
ington. the only other sectional teams
engaged.
Another angle in favor of Virginia
is its impressive showing away from
home. excelling any team in the south
in this respect. Virginia's victories
include one over North Carolina, win
ner of the southern collegiate tourney,
and one from Washington and Lee,
which also beat the Tarheels.
Records of the four District college
teams and Virginia follow:
Evening star., 1922-03-05
ELEVENS
SEEN AS AN INCENTIVE

The suggestion of the Harvard
Crimson that all-American and Sec
ttonal mythical teams be abolished as
. means of correcting college sport
evils is of little value, in the opinion
of Fielding H. Yost, director of ath-
letics at the University of Michigan.
The mythical foot ball teams, Coacn
Yost believes. afford a desirable in
centiye for good work in athletics
Yost favors restriction of intersec-
tional contests to games played dur
ing the school year and to trips that
would not take players away from
their classes for an extended period.
Such contests. he holds, should be
booked only on a home-and home
basis.
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TRINITY QUINT SCORES.

Trinity A. c. basketers went out to
Garrett Park, Nd. yesterday after
noon and gave the Georgetown Junior
Props a 35-to-16 beating. Summary:
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GOLF RULES AGREEMENT
MAKES MATTERS WORSE

CAGO, March 4-Paradoxieal SEEM agree
the game
diverse than according chamen of
of Chicago golf clubs In agreeing with special
United
might be used
them
Evening star., 1922-03-05

ATLANTA, March Ersk inc
Mayer. former major league pitcher,
who has been playing semi-profes-
stoned ball. has been signed by the
Atlanta Southern Association club.
Evening star., 1922-03-05

Goals from nOor-Hilliary t5), Mullin, Jen
kins (5). Haney a.. Sullivan, English, DAILY
Reiss (2). Goals from fouls-Hilliary. il
10; Sullivan, in 3.
Evening star., 1922-03-05

MaYdelle Athletic Club vanquished
the Park View Midgets, II to 10.
Both teams guarded well.
Evening star., 1922-03-05

Terminal n. r. Y. N. c. A. nosed out
the Navy Yard Marines, 81 to 25. in q
game at Union station. The Y team
gained hearty lead in the first half,
but had to battle desperately in the
second.
Evening star., 1922-03-05

! Young Stribling of Macon, Ga, light
weight. Is making quite name for
himself in southern circles
Evening star., 1922-03-05

Tiger Mfdgets overwhelmed the
Roamer Midgets in 22-to-11 engage.
ment The winners played a strong
floor game.
Evening star., 1922-03-05

Jinx Athletic Club downed the
Orioles. 81 to 21. The Jinx Quint
never was headed.
Evening star., 1922-03-05

Emerald Athletic Club took a dou-
ble-header. beating St. Stephens, 4S
to 4, and the Rovers, 81 to 81.
Evening star., 1922-03-05

Knights Of Columbus basket will
entertain the Emanons in X. of c.
Hall this afternoon at o'clock. Next
Sunday the Aloysians will be the
guests Of the Caseys.
Evening star., 1922-03-05

Two games will he played at the
Palace court this afternoon. At
O'Clock Stanton Juniors will take the
floor against the Warwicks. A match
between the Camp Humphreys ALL
Stars and Palace Athletic Club will
follow.
Evening star., 1922-03-05
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Here Is the standing of the foul
District Quints and Virginia:
Evening star., 1922-03-05

Circle Athletic Club teams won
two games. The regulars beat the
Yosemites. Is to s. and the juniors
took the measure Of the Eagles. 22
to 10.
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RUSSIA is CAUSE.
Big SEBuII" ON Wheat Market
Explains Extended Rise.

No Wheat From Russia for
Three Years, He Declares.
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EXPECT 800 VETERANS THERE.
Encampment OF State G. A. r. To Be
Held May II at Winfield.

Winfield, Kan. April 20.-The an
nual encampment of the Kansas de-
partTnent of the Grand Army of the
Republic will be held here May II, IS
and 19. It is expected that 500 vet
Grams of the Civil war will attend the
annual meeting.
The Women's Relief Corps will
hold its annual meeting at the same
time as the G. A. r. Plans for both
conventions are under way, super
vised by state officers of the orga MIA
tions in cooperation with the Win
field posts.
Railroads have granted reduced
rates of one and one-ninth fare for
members of the G. A. r. and their
wives and one and one-half fare for
members of the Women's Relief Corps
and their families.
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DAILY wEATHER REPORT.

Furnished by the weather bureau office
Topeka, Kan, for the twenty-four hours
ending at a. m Thursday.
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JURY PROBE SOON
Investigation of Large Deals of
Everett Peacock Friday.
Grand Jury to Ask How He Got
So Much From Banks.

Chicago. April Naturalization
Of the method by which Everett r.
Peacock was able to withdraw $780,
900 from the MISUNDERSTANDING state
bank and also arrange to borrow funds
estimated at nearly one million dol
lars from other banks in this city will
be started tomorrow by a grand jury,
according to plans of assistant states
attorney, Edgar A. Jonas.
State investigators were occupied
turnout the day yesterday in question
ing persons connected with the bank
and presentation of the matter to the
grand jury was delayed.
Persons connected with Peacock's
financial enterprises were also Ques-
toned. Miss Clara Rain, confidential
secretary to Mr.. Peacock, according
to the investigators. told how Peacock
and his associates obtained money by
''kiting checks and by borrowing on
securities which had no definite
market value.'
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BOTH MUST RULE
Lady AstOr Tells Women Each
Sex Needed to Make Laws.
Lord AstOr "Caused My Down.
fall From Home to House."

New York. April 2O.-Lady Astor.
who will attend the dinner of the Eng
fish Speaking union tonight. will not
go to Baltimore Immediately after
ward as originally planned. She will
spend the time until Saturday with
her sister. Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson
Both her sister and her husband de-
cided that the first woman member OF
the house Of commons should have
little rest before attending the inter-
national conference of the League of
Women Voters in the Maryland city
the last of the week.
Town Hall was packed last night
by men and women who cheered Lady
Aston as she urged her feminine hear
ers to be up and doing in the world.
Her husband was blamed for start
ing her ION this downward career
from home to the house" because
Lord Aston, a philanthropist, who had
worked in Plymouth for eleven years
to aid the people, finally decided
changes in the law were necessary to
change conditions.
A governmen by both sexes was the
ideal all should strive for, said Lady
Astor, who declared that only thru
such a government could children, the
home and society get better world
in which to live.
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NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Wall St, New York. April 2O.-STOCKS-
The demand for stocks assumed wider d.
mansions during the morning. Sales in the
first hour were estimated at slightly over
300, shares. The 31a per cent rate for
call money and the keen investment in
quiry for new undertakings gave impetus
to the movement, which promised to exceed
all records for the year. Additions to the
early advance at gains of one to two points
embraced high grade rails such MS Union
Pacific, Canadian Pacific and Reading. also
industrials and specialties of the invest
ment class, notably the prominent domes-
tic and foreign oils. Baldwin Locomotive
American Car, Sears Roebuck. Colorado
Fuel and Utah Copper. Profit taking made
only slight impression on prices, reactions
at noon holding mostly within fractional
limits.
The feature of the buoyant opening of to-
days stock market was the crossing of
par by L. s. steel to 1001k, a record quo
tation for considerably over year. Sales
of $500 shares of Sinclair at a fractional
gain indicated another active session in
the oils. Gains of a point or better were
made in the first half by wide variety of
issues. These included Atchison, Ameri-
can Locomotive, Stakeholder. U. S. Rubber,
American Ice. CrucibIe and Gulf States
Steels and Corn Products. Reading Vas
under renewed pressure but most coalers
scored fractional advances. Information
al exchanges showed increased firmness on
the more hopeful feeling arising from
latest developments at the Genoa confer
ence.
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SEES LACK OF WHEAT HERE
But Enormous Exports Will
Keep Prices Up, Is His Belief.
No More Dollar Wheat for
Three Years and Then Some.

Chicago, April 20.-Russia. accord
ing to James A Patten, the wheat
king" is today the big outstanding
economic factor governing the trend
OF the-~world's wheat prices. This
great grain producing nation is
knocked out of the world market for
al least three years, he asserts.
That's one reason Jim is a bull"
the big bull perhaps-in the SEN
sationally advancing Chicago market.
Another reason is the coming
scarcity of wheat in the United States.
which. Patten says, will make itself
felt in May or June, resulting in
higher prices.
The battle-scared 69-year-old IRE
tired" board Of trade operator denies,
incidentally. that he is at present en-
gagged in bitter pit war with ]. Ogden
Armour Reports persistently have it
that there is a tremendous holding in
the wheat market-that sooner or
later shorts in May wheat will find
themselves in a tight place. Patten
is said to be long" Armour short"
"Oh- I'm just speculating a little"
said Patten. deprecatingly. when asked
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KANSAS CITY LIVESTOCK MARKET.

KANSAS City. April 2O-CATILE-Re
eeipts 200 Beef steers, strong to 15c
higher; top. $3.50: best Colorados, $40
she stock. steady to. strong; better grades
cows, $500 600; common and mediums.
S4.50u 525: other classes, steady: Gamers
and cutters, s275642J. bulls, $4OOd4.5O
choice vealers around $500.
HOGS-Receipts 1000. Market fairly ac-
tive; packers and shippers bought desr-
ables 175 and 26O Founders at S10.00H1015:
heavies and mixed loads. 50 7567 80. looks
steady to sc higher; few odd sales to trad
ers Mt S1-20G10 %. looks fully 10c up: bulk
of sales. $9.GOd1O15: top. $1o25: practical
top. S10.15: throw out sows. $S.J0GlS.75 I:
stock pigs, steady to Toe higher; best.
S1O35.
SHEEP-Receipts 5000. Sheep. strong
to 15c higher; shorn Texas wethers s. GOA
S.65: lambs. strong to &c higher; seven
loads $1525.
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KANSAS ROAD REPORT.

By u s. department of Agriculture
hours ending at a. m, April 20, 1922
Stations Hfrh Low Prae Roads
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about these reports. Il just dip in &C.
casionally. Why, I retired ten years
ago"
He smiIed-a poker smile, it seemed.
A messenger boy rushed past row
Of stock tickers and handed MN
few more kilograms Then the black
board man chalked up:
May wheat 81 Al"
You don't hear any more talk Of
dollar wheat" remarked the pictur-
esque Patten. eying the s1.41.
"Russia-Russ.a is responsible" he
explained. "RusSia is out of the
worlds wheat trade. She won't be
able to get elk into Il for three or
four years. Wen feed Russia for the
next fifteen months Before the war.
Russia was a big world factor. she
used to export daily 100000 bushels
OF wheat and 5000. 900 bushels of rye
into Germany and Austria Hungary
That's our business now
''See those figures on the board -
10000 bushels for export from our
markets today That shows Europe
America for supplies. It will continue
so until Russia gets back on her feet.
II don't expect to see cheap wheat
for quite a time. I figure. too. that
been marketing their wheat heavily.
They had to. They needed the mon
ey. They had borrowed money and
the country banks were pressing
theTn- Iney haven't the wheat now.
That's another important factorf'
ANY more?"
Patten removed a stout cigar
'Yes-one. a psychological factor"
he said. The whole world has been
in the dumps some time back. Now
it's different. The world is beginning
to smile. The national state of mind
has a whole lot to do with prices.
Pessimistic people. low prices; opti-
mistic people. high prices. Get it?"
The famous retired trader
paused.
NOW I'm optimistic he said. tear
ing open another telegram.