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wherever possible, since they can de-
vote more time to their selections
than a judge for several breeds.
A problem confronting the commit
tee is to furnish as a drawing card
a feature to replace the awarding of
a special prize for the best dog. of
any breed in the show. 1t has been
the custom throughout the country
for great many years to wind up
every show by grouping the winners
from each breed in a ring together
and to select from these the bese
Naturally the Judge of this class
would select dog of the breed which
he most admired. This caused so
much dissatisfaction among exhibit
ors that the American Kennel Club
passed a rule against it. Several sug-
geStions have been offered, and, while
none of them has yet been decided
upon, it is safe to say that line of
innovations will be uncorked which
will far eclipse the old feature.
chased a yearling son of Ch. Mosholu
Blink, who Is one of the greatest pro-
ducing Boston terrier sires of today.
1t is understood that the price paid
for this dog runs well into three
figures, and he may be expected to
DISTINGUISH nlnlSeII III tHe SHo" ring
this winter.
Herxland Kennels report litter of
five, male and four female shepherd
(police) dog puppies out of Jeanne
V. Herzland, sired by DR.. c. label
Robinson's Reximillian v. Mira.
Jeanne is a daughter of Bakers
Pilote out of Rita de Langres. an i'm
ported bitch, while Reximillian IS
sired b. dog of Oak Ridge breed
ing out Of a Palisade bitch. The
puppies are all dark gray in color.
Frank A. Kerr reports the breeding
of his wire-haired terrier stud, Sabine
Bass Drum, to Norris Dotty. He also
reports that an Airedale puppy, sired
by Spec Dee BoZo out of Patricia
Persaultum, which he retained from
the litter. is developing in such 4 way
as to warrant the prediction that 1t
will offer ring competition to the
best.
Frank p. Leech has sent his hull
terrier brood bitch to Pittsburgh to
be bred to Gwent Graphite, the dog
which went to first open and win
ners both at Germantown and At
lantic City. and which has proven a
sensation wherever shown. Leech
has entered the following dogs in
the Harrisburg show: Newcoin Mel
ody, Newcoin Prfvateer and Newcoin
VeXation.
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+ land banks is held by fish taken
/ in 1888 which weighed. after clean
/ ing. 1876 pounds.
Their appetite. according to DR..
! Grenfeil. is astonishing. He says that
| he has taken thirty fish from the
stomach of large fish. A book in
! three volumes was extracted from one
caught on .he English coast and pre-
I sented to an officer of Cam bridge Uni
Nersity; two full-grown ducks were
/ also found in the stomach of a cod,
and Capt. H:ll, once. losing his keys
| overheard i'll the North sea, recovered
t them inside Goldfish, and a New
/ England fisherman some years ago
forwarded wedding ring found in
=! a cod to the family of woman lost
in steamship wreck.
:. A paragraph recently was publish
to the effect that single scale from
a salmon will tell you it's age, and
! whether his pickings have been slim
ior the opposite. When viewed
! through microscope. the scale will
reveal tiny lines, which have de-
veioped at the rate of sixteen a year.
i Lines crowded closely prove that the
salmon has been living high. Lines
widely spread indicate a scant diet.
! InIs is true, pot only of salmon.
but OF all members of that family,
j including both Atlantic and Pacific
salmon, the various trouts and the
+; chars. 1t is thought to be true of
other genera. also, and future dis
! coveries may prove 1t true of all
! rishes. Herring. for instance, and
the squeteague. or weakfish, COM
+, monty called sea trout" in this viz
cinity, are good examples. The So
/. called trout" of this region is, of
course not trout, nor is it even re-
| motely related to the trout family.
! Minute as the scale. of a brook
trout is, for example, not very
| powerful microscope is needed to
show the lines, which, solid. indicate
periods of gastronomic affiuence and.
/! broken, indicate an ichthyological
| bread line"
In the case of the Atlantic salmon,
| a single genus common both to
America and Europe, the variance in
these layerst in the scale is claimed
| to tell just How many times the fish
/: has spawned. After reaching GER
tain general size these fish leave the
ocean and ascend fresh-water rivers
| fer reproductive purposes. Inas-
! Nuch as, they eat little or nothing
! tsring this trip of several months
and, while in the ocean, gorge them
, selves and grow rapidly, the solid
/ spaces in a scale are more marked
and the broken lines ara more
broken. The five different varieties
of Pacific salmon spawn but once
,.,..ii,: th2ir life -. u. l5 i.i1...
uf.. 81 Ga. -
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ut Is mo-: generally known thnt
billiards WIN first invented by
Eawnbroker. About the middle of
the sixteenth century. there wns
enc William Kew. n London pawn
h.cker. who during wet weather.
was I'm the habit OF taking down
the three bnliS which were the in
sigma of his vocation, md with the
yard measure pushing them into
the stalls. A black letter manu-
script found on the dusty shelves
of the Royal Library. says: Master
William Kew did make one board,
whereby game IL played with
three balls. and all the young men
were greatly rfcreRtcd. chiefly the
young clerEymCn from st. PawleS.
hence one of We strokes was named
canon. hnvinE by one of said
cierEymen been invented. The game
Is now known by the name of Bill
Ynrd. because William or Bill Kew
did first play II with his yard
measure. The stick il now called
n Kew or kue.' 1t Is caSy to COM
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| WILLIAMS AGAIN TOPS
FIELD At TRAPSHOOT

Members of the Hot Stove League.
an auxiliary OF the Washington Gun
Club. were conspicuous by their alb
Sence yesterday at the weekly shoot
at Bennng. but the regulars of the
club were at hand and bagged the
turkeys. Lieut.. Commander +. p.
Williams. who has led the way to
high scores for the past three weeks.
again topped the Othsr trapshots, with
a score OF ST breaks in 100 targets
thrown. and won Il turkey.
W. \. B!uudon led the class 4 shots
with 16. DIR. a. V. Parsons was first
in class b. with 10, and Robert
Flanagan was best in class c. with 20.
Each Of these three was presented
with d Thanksg sgivins bird. Other
scores:
Stine. -: McCarron. &c: Emmons.
70: Rupert, 63: Wynkoop, 81 and rs:
Reev.s. 81 and so, and Cusack, "a
and 80.
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\ dozen different writer's have
given as many diversified accounts
of the origin of the game of bill
IiatdS. but no one has as yet given
authentic proof aS to who was the
& ePnrtict lar genius who really gave
the cime TO the world. Question
ari.s~ why the name of billiards:
Answer Is. nobody knows.
Therefore the following story, TO
NIL inteHtS and purposes. !. just
as authentic as an! of the cOunt-
less ta;eS that have preceded it in
days gone by. II ix nn old English
yarn, Guaintiy told. and carrying
with it ut least 81 far-fetcked SEM
b'.nce of probability. 1t SvnS print
cd in u London Journal of some
sixty years ago. and was repro
duccd here when the game was In
It's Infancy In this country. 1t is
given here as "a historic ns well
as literary curiosity. in which 1t
IL believed all iOyai knights Oi the
cue will he intereSted:
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CROSS-COUNTRy TITLE
IS ANNEXED BY R|TOLA

NEW YORK, November 25.-Willie
Ritola of the Finnish American \. G.
of New York won the national senior
A. A. L. cross country championship
today over the six and one-half mile
Van Cortlandt Park course. defeating
r. Earl Johnson of Pittsburgh, the
present titleholder, by 800 yards. The
Finnish American a. c. won the team
championship
Ritola covered the course in the
fast time of 34.37 As. Johnson of the
Edgar Thomson Steel \. A. was sec
ond: ilmat Prinn. Finnish American
A. c.. third: Marvin Rick. New York
A. C., former Princeton harrier.
fourth: and James Hennigan, Dor
chester Club, fifth.
The Finnish-American team won
with AZ points. The Dorchester Club
of Boston was second. with 4g. and
the Meadowbrook Club of Philadel-
phia third, with 50.
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prehcnd how bill Yard has been
moderated into billiards, and the
TRANSPORTATION of Kew or 'kue' is
equally apparent"
uf the budding >clerKymen and ALL
around sports Of the far-nwny time
were "recreatcd." by the primitive
board of Dill Kew. what would
they have thought OF the slate and
marble beds and speedy elastic
cushions of the present days
Or whnt would they have given
for n sent at the international
tournament to be held at the Hotel
Pennsylvania. New York. which
starts tomorrow. The Rreatest mas
tera Of the cue that the game hns
known will perform there.
Schnefer. world champion; Hoppe,
former champion of the world;
Cont. champion Of France; HOre-
mans. champ piOn of Europe, Hagen-
lncher, the German champion, Ya-
NADIA. champion OF Japan, and
young Cochran champion with
put . title.
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Hans Wagner probably is next in
line to Hornsby. The great Pitts
burgher batted for 800 or better in
seventeen years of his base ball
career. but he never attained a mark
of 400 or over. Hornsby now has
batted for six years at better than u
800 gait and in one year he topped
400
Next to Wagner as a right-hand
hitter is Lajoie, who played in both
the National and American leagues
The big second baseman hit 300 or
better in each Of sixteen seasons. In
1901 he batted over 400, reaching a
mark of .40j
Neither of these players. however.
succeeded in doing what Hornsby
achieved in 1922. when he earned the
home-run record. Leading the Ma
tionai League batters is enough OF an
honor in itself for nearly any player.
but the variety of his accomplish
ments made Hornsby the most valu-
able player in the National League.
Cards Spurncd Big Offer.
1t has been stated that the st. Louis
club declined an offer far over S100.
900 for him. 1t is hinted that the
offer was much nearer 100000. 1t
was made by the New York club OF
the National League some three years
ago. The bid was a continuation of
players and cash
On the strength of what Hornshy
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Of the circuit, reversed his marks in
recent game. making five strike
and two spares, including two double
headers.
"Tip'' O'Neni. one Of the best
bowlers in the District two seasons
Friday night. but failed to show any
thing like his old-time form. He
took Ernie Clancy's place.
Arthrr Urban, high man in the Ma :
sCnic League. added another good
set to his record 31.. bringing his aver
age UP to ia for twenty-seven games.
La fayette, with twentyfour victories
and only three defeats. has lead
of six games over Harmony, the
Everett Scott, shOrtSfOp of the
Yankees. may go through 1000 games
without missing one but from all re-
ports of the bOwlers. he has nothing
On Mickey Whaleit, the popular foul
!inesman at the Royal. who has not
missed foul in twenty years
GO,dfcllUNS and SkersManS, tail
enders in the District League. with
four wins and twenty blows each,
meet on Tuesday to decide thu I'M
disputed possession of last place.
Tommy Seorg. the diminutive anchor
man of the GoodfellowS. claims his
team will take the set while Capt.
Allison SAYS that Tommy is all wrong.
At II meeting of the Athletic Club
Bowling League last week the
Knick erbocker A. c. team was
dropped. and new quint is under
consideration. Athletic clubs with
bowling teams desiring to join the
league should address A. w Aliea,
633 Orleans street northeast. The
Waverly and Anacostia teams ar.
tied for first place with fourteen
wins and four defeats. Aloysius. AZ.
gone and Rosedale are tied for third
place, each having won thirteen
games and lost five. Mesaw of the
Dominican Lyceum has the high set
and high game honors. 371 and $50.
Joe LoOmey of Waverly has the high
average leadership with Ill. Wood
of Linworth leads in strikes with
ten. and Mischon with fifty spares.
The Argone's hold the high team
The regular monthly meeting of
the Knights of Pythias Bowling
Leagu will be held at the temple
December at pm. All members
are urged to attend, as matters of
vital Importance will be presented
for consideration.
District League has good sched-
ule of matches ahead this week
Royals and Terminal Ice clash to-
morrow night: Manhat+sns and Ma
tionals meet Tuesday night. and also
the Shermans and Goodfellows:
Wednesday. the Rathskeller enter
tains the Colonials; Thanksgiving day
is,' of course. open. but on Friday the
Regulars and kingpins come together.
National Capital League opens it's
second series tomorro night, the
District Motor Company meeting the
Postofffce; Tuesday the Rathskeller
bunch clash with the Potomac Bank.
Washington Gas Company will be
all lit up when they crash with the
Nationals Wednesday. and on Fri
day night Columbia and Corby Bak-
cry boys get together.
For the tenth week of the Masonic
League a good program has been ar
ranged as follows: Monday, Columbia
VS.. Armenius. Acacia VS.. st. Johns,
G. c. Whiting VS.. King Solomon:
Tuesday. Joppa VS.. Pentalpha Mount
Pleasant VS.. Harmony: Wednesday,
Lebanon We. Dawson. Nationals VS..
Hope. New Jerusalem VS.. King David.
NothiaS do.na Thanksgiving n.s.lr.
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Major league club owners who :

Major league club owners who ar
out cunning for new managers a. It,
not alon. in their quest. Several o.
their little brothers in the minors are
in the same frame of mind.
Reading, Pa-. for instance, wants
George Gibson for manager. Since
Gibson quit the Pittsburgh team he
has been living at his home in Lon
don. Ont. Wht ther he would go back
to the International League. which is
the ;ganizataion in which he ac-
quired his first fame as Il base bail
player. is the problem which Reading
will have to solve for him. That Gib
son has been mentioned indicates
that Be nder, the former Athletic
pitcher, will not go on with the Read
ing club.
Not SO long ago there was some
discussion as TO whether Reading
would stay in the International
League. but. since there has been no
further disposition Ia so ahead wita
the plans for base ball team in
Montreal. Reading apparently is Sc
cure in her position in the lnteria-
ticnal.
When the Eastern Canada League
heard that Montreal was being con-
the former organ 'Zatiou stilf"Hed its
backbone and said thar no other C!"-
cult should encr"ach up"s- - Ierr.-
tory. Montreal! expects tEat The la 81
ern Canada League viii one # these
days be :: real base ball circuit
Copyright. Igs5D
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DONOHUE TO TAKE REST.
Cincinnati Pitcher Will Give Up
His College Work.

FORT WORTH. Tex. November 25
Pete Donohue. Cincinnati pitcher.
winter. will quit his studies inmedi-
ately after the Christmas holidays
and go to Mineral Wells for Il long
rest. it was said here today.
Moran has recommended this, it is
said. so as to increase the twirler's
weight and strength.
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DISTRICT DUCKPIN LEAGUE
PROVIDING A GREAT RACE
BY II. II. FRY.

I again Fnnigan' Duckpin League
half
periods Regulars led by Hank Bailey, took
three Pop Cocnans Colonals
Rathkele Terminal Ice and King Pins. with fifteen
dee each
and the
the Regulars winning the by four SIS 5l The
Regulars opped
he Co9n'as went on ramPag in the last topping
carried their team the front with rush. Manager Coleman did
would placed the
Colonials a o rfrstp
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BOXING BOUTS BARRED
AT PARK OF DODGERS

NEW YORK. November 25.-Roxing
will no longer be permitted at Eb-
belts Field, home of the Brooklyn
National League base ball club, 1t
was announced today by the manage
ment.
Litigation in which the club had
become involved because of unsatis-
factory promotion, Of several bouts
was given as q reason for the action.
The decision of the Brooklyn own
ers followed denial by club officials
and Yankees also contemplated pro-
hibiting the ring game at the Polo
Grounds and the new Yankee stadium.
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Thanksgiving will he ice cream
day" at the Recreation and Grand
Central, as usual The management
has provided sixty gallop@ of the cold
stuff and d gallon will BE given away
every hour on each floor to the bowler
making the highest score from u
noon until midnigh,. No bowler may
win over one gallon.
Max Ro>enburE Of the Young
Friends Club of the Hebrew League
bowled himself into the limeiight
when he toppled 367 pins. helping his
team WIN two out of three games
and setting a record for the or
ganiZation. He had games of los.
11S. ia T.. Wolf of the same league
also shot some good scores when he
turned in a 334 set for the u NJ II. A.
His games were 10. .103. 12l. His
team won all three games
Oh. rest Of the Solicitors. in the In
tarIia Revenue Leagus. snot his frs
set ldcr 300 for, many weeks when
his team lost two out Of three to the
Special AuG.tS
Wood of Washington Loan s.
Trust and Scharf of the Second Ma
tional had a lively race for top-score
honors in the Bankers League for
the evening. Both men shot l4l for
high game. but Wood secured three
pins better on the total, with 329
BY winning two out of three. the
W. l.. Il T. boys tied the American
security for first place. each with
eighteen wins and six losses.
Records Hcvy all around last Thurs
day evening at the Recreation in
the Bureau League when The A;neri-
can Legion shot ,SJ in their second
game and Nenland got nice 154.
The Legion team won two out of
three from the Liberty Loan.
HilitOppcrS went TO the from; in the
" ashington Ladies' League when
while the Mount Pleasant girls lost
TWO out of three to the Columbians.
The Columbians have been going
strong recently. They have deter
mined bunch of bowlers who are al
ways lighting and are sure TO he con-
tenders in the battle for first place.
Sales, Tax and Western Union are
two teams that have shown marked
Improvement in their games or late
and are sure to better their position
before the season is over.
Pauline Thomas had the best game
for the past week. getting count OF
lI6 to win the movie tickets. .rher
winners OF tick cts were May OErien.
ia: Lorraine ull. 11O: Annie An
derson 105: Loretta Sommerkamp,
lU3, ana Liiud la ai ec' IVA
The Lnnmnn Engraving COmapny
team that took the Gibson Brothers
auints place in the Typothetae
League got off to good start by
taking three straight from the Co.
Iumbian printers. Lanman has a well
balanced team and should be up fight
ing for the lead before long.
n. p. Andrews Paper Company team
Las finally struck its stride, winning
five out of six games during the past
week They smothered the National
Publishing Company under three
straight.
In the Nautical League the Sunset
Canoe Club is out in front with
twenty-five wins and only five de-
feats. Sycamore Canoe Club is in
second place with sixteen victories
and eleven defeats. J. King of Wash
l. gton Canoe Club. has the best rec
ord for high game and high set. OFT
OF Rock Haven has the best average,
107.
weldnaan Of the Mnnhattans of the
Aistrict League, leading spare bowler
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RANK AMONG LEADING
TESTS OF GOLF In EAST
Burning Tree, Congressional and Indian Spring
Clubs Will Have by Next Spring Courses Laid
Out Along Mos! Modern Lines

BY W. K. HcCALLUM.

RE golf which without will take rank along
with the links of the Columbia and Chevy Chase
the leading of golf ready completed
DC completed Washington within the months The
referred those Burning
clubs All and
degree eo
been utilized III their
One partuarhat OF the
Ni!achs hoilyha
architecture this and from the
making
nOStiu tiup in the
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Despite the chilly days of the past
week several anglers have been sue
cessfrl in catching a number CT bass in
the tidal basin. using artificial bait.
Gunston cove has been furnishing
good sport fer the big mouth bass,
and reports state that many large
catches have been made. anglers us
ing flies and pork rind as bait.
One of the leading rivermen said
yesterday he had received numerous
requests for live bait, indicati ting that
the followers of the rod and reel are
not dsterred by cold wea>he''
very Interesting article was re-
Gently published in the Toronto Globe
concerning the Goldfish. in which DIR.
w. T. GreIfell i'll his hook on La bra
dor says that they will eat anything.
keys. rings and even books having
been found in the stomachs OF Goldfish.
The largest single cod of which DR..
G:e rfell haJ any record weighed 1O2
pounds. Th'- record on Tha Newfound-
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MARYLAND MEN BEST
IN A. A. u. TITLE RUN

University of Narylan cross
country team won the annual CROSS
country championship run of the
south Atlantic AssOriatiOn of the
Amateur Athletic Union yesterday
over the course Mt Catholic Inf-
versity with low total of Is
points. The next team to Mary
land, Baltimore Cross Country
Club. finished with - points.
George Washington Jniversity
was third.
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FIRST GAME OF RUGBY

The first rugby foot ball game
played was between Princeton and
Rutgers in 1869. according to Philip
NJ. Brett. Each team had twenty
three men on a side. Rutgers won.
AZ to TO- at Rutgers, and in a return
game at Princeton the same year
Princeton turned the tables. IS to o.
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CARDINALS STAR IS ONLY
ATHLETE WORTH $25O,OOO
St. Louis Infielder Ranks Above Any Other RIGHT
hand Batter in National League History, With
Possible Exception of Pop A,,so,,
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

HERE of ball worth s5oVo
but there only player base ball might
worth of million dollars a club That
ton Rogers Hornby the St Louis
of
made and broken revealed by the the
Hornby only League hitting he cap
National
Moreover performance
The passiLle xccnticu- III PnrA A1sa,
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PLANNING INNOVATIONS
FOR KENNEL CLUB SHOW
BY GEORGE II. KERNODLE.

CALLED meeting of the bench show Washing
~ Kennel Club held during the Schmds
7l2 18th evident from the discus
each of the
working hard make this years show the
successful in the history Of the club.
A. read
o
henchin uaudf0
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Selection of judges. always the
most important item in any show.
was rendered an easy task, since the
personnelfof the committee represent
most Of the popular breeds and are
familiar with the best Judges in their
lines. It was decided that speciality
Judges would be. asked to otficiate
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oRIoLE PLAYER DIES.

BRISTOL, r. l.. November 25.-Joe
Barry, catcher on the Baltimore team
Of the International League the past
season. died at the Rhode Island Hos
p:tal today. He had undergone an
c,eration recently for api%c- die: It's.
- .,:'-s 5-,.r.- ~; ,';,-c,,c Id ana
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ROD AND STREAM
BY Perry Miller.

IARGE-MOUTH bass weighing AZ pounds
~ the Pcataway creek last Sunday
kept alive the United States fish
Monday morning
TO
no knocking
the
decided his alive placed
erred O a bathtub
Monday morning o Sporting Goods
and weighed in for the prize offered for the largest catch of the
class Hare to
Where placed in the large tank of the
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Brooklyn possibly lost a lot of hard
coin Of the realm, when it let kilduit
go to play second base for San Fran
cisco. kilduf was d member of tn"
Brooklyn championship club of 1890.
He was fortunate IN being sent to
san Francisco by Squire Ebbetts' out
fit in time to help win the champion
ship for the city back of the sea.
rocks. He fielded magniticently. and
could be used to advantage by al
least four eastern teams. Chance )
are. however, that san Francisco
would not let him GO without askln h..
at least $4,000 for his services. Tn. :
would be adding ne.~ sum To tA-
large chunks OF coin the San Fran
cisco club has piled up by seilsn.-
players since the coast clubs refus -.
To be considered in connection villa
the draft.
Evening star., 1922-11-26

California base ball men declare
there is no likelihood OF any base
ball war arising if they decline tu
amend their attitude on the draft
question. They point to the fact that
the Los Angeles club of the Coast
League also is owned by the Owner
Of the Chicago Nationals. They as
sert that they have perfect right t.
apply for recognition as third
major league organization il the
wish to DO so. and they are emphatic
i'll their contention that their r.Gh:
to hold players in their own u-gani
zation is fully as justified as the right
of major league clubs TO keep men
under their control both in the maJ".
and minor leagues.