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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-23
Squibs
of All Kinds

New York Canoe club, organized in
1871, is the oldest in the United States
Tilden, Johnston and Richards are
the three foremost singles lawn tennis
players in the world.
A campaign to raise 100000 for
memorial stadium at the University of
Minnesota has been decided upon.
Golfers in Chicago are planning to
build an ''all-star' course, with holes
that will be a composite of the best in
the country.
In Spain, tennis is played mainly on
clay courts. Grass courts are hard to
cultivate there. The Royal Associa-
ton of Spain has "a clubs enrolled.
Ed Thorpe of La Sale institute will
be the referee of the annual Army
Navy football game to be played on
Franklin field, Philadelphia, November
%.
A younger brother of Earle Neale
of the Reds, and Washington and
Jefferson football coach, will be a
candidate for the Yale football team
this fall
Jesse Pennington, famous captain of
the West Bromwich Albion soccer
team of the English league, holder of
Fl international cups, has decided to
retire from the game.
Notwithstanding the popularity of
sports in Philadelphia, the Quaker city
is by far the largest city in this coun-
try without a modern athletic club. A
company has been formed to supply
the need.
The New Rochelle handicap, at
mile and q sixteenth for three-year-
olds, with $4,000 added, is the out
standing feature of the eight stakes
announced for the autumn meeting at
Yonkers in October.
Coed Time, a full brother to Hour
less, by Negofol-Hourglass, and Inn
ported to this country by the owners
of the Lexington stable when year.
ling, will be trained for The jumps by
J. Carroll Good Time is three-year-
old and has never started
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-23
chicago EAGLE LIVE SPORTS
TOUGH PART OF JOB

On an October afternoon some
seasons back, an end of certain
football team was finding it a
task to stop the one opposing
back.
Between the halves the head
coach said, Get hold of him, hit
i'm low, and stop i'm dead"
II can hit him low and stop
him dead" returned the player.
but getting hold of him is the
tough part of the job"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-23
CLINGS TO BASEBALL TERMS
Veteran Manager Shocks Devotees of
the Game of Golf by the Language
He Employs.

Clark Griffith. head of the Washing
ton baseball team. plays a really good
game of golf he has been an enthusi-
astic follower of the game for the past
year. Griffith, however, cannot forget
baseball when on the links, and his
baseball training will crop up upon
every occasion. For instance, instead
Of speaking of the green's he usually
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-23
TEACHES COACHES FISTIC ART
Spike Webb Is Putting Pep Into
Branch of craftsmanship at Uni
versity OF Illinois.

merly of the United States Naval
academy. where he coached boxing.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-23
REALLY NOTHING T0IT

Knotty Lee of the Toronto In
ternationalS is no lover of foot
ball. and it is one of the games
which he refuses To watch, eSpe-
cially since the McGill univer-
sity team played in Toronto a
few years back. Knotty was in
the corridor of the King Edward
hotel, talking to Frank Shaugh-
messy, when the McGilI team re-
turned from the scene of battle,
Three of the players were car
ried in on stretcherS. four others
had to be assisted by their team
mates,s and the majority of the
other players were slimping
badly.
Looks as though you had a
hard game" said Lee To Shag, as
he looked over the array of
wounded.
Hard nothing, replied
Shaughnessy they quit cold"
4
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-23

He has been with the American inter
allied boxing team at Paris, France,
1919, and the American Olympic box
ing team at Antwerp, Belgium, 1920.
He is now teaching the fistic art to
coaches at the University of Illinois
cOach's school.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-23
THOUGHT HE WAS OUT

One day the Cardinals were
playing at Philadelphia and Pat
Flaherty, the southpaw, was on
the slab for the Quakers. Pat
had a deceptive motion to first
base and often fooled not only
the runners, but the batterS.
st. Louis got a man to first
and Steve Evans came up to
bat. Pat kept pegging over to
first and to the plate, winding up
by having two strikes and three
balls on Steve.
Pat suddenly, with a brilliant
move, threw To first. Evans
thought he was hurting at him
and took a. vicious swat-rat
Pats motion.
Thoroughly disguised with
himself, Steve threw his bat
down and started back to the
Card bench.
Here, there, where are you
going p demanded the umpire,
Il struck at that; I'm out,
amt r. said Steve
The Cardinal manager made
Evans return to the plate and
complete his turn.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-23
COLLEGE CALLS PITCHER
Services of Charlie Robertson of the
White Sox Are Needed at
Sherman. Tex.

Charlie Robertson. the ''nO-hit"
pitcher with the White SoX, is the
head coach of athletics at Austin uni
versity, Sherman, Tex, and the posi-
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-23

Talking about Willie Kamm and
100000 prices for ball players, Los
Angeles critic solemnly declares that
]. Carlisle Smith is the best fielding
quickest thinking, ETC., third baseman
in the whole Coast league.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-23

Rockford refused to accept Harry
Brant's resignation as manager and
the fans rose up. and promised 10 give
the team better support if he would
stay, so he decided to withdraw his
resignation.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-23

designates them as the lawns" the
same being baseball nomenclature.
Whenever he misses a stroke he al
ways says that he ''fumbled" likewise
when his putt goes wrong he says that
he ''muffed," and when he tops ball
he generally says, that one was a
splitter" When he makes an unusual
ly long drive on the tee involuntarily
he pipes out, "Well, there goes home
rum" What's bred in the bone, etc
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Point Plea
wher he wasbo

the custom OF eating nuts, during
meal, which he, Gen. Wilson, intro
duced into New York society. since
Gen. Grant was not in a social posi-
ton to establish so momentous dish.
Hence. all the fussing and gossip
and newspaper prattle from 1869 to
1877 about the lack of dignity Of the
President of the United States. AS a
good husband. a loyal son and n
watchful father. Gen. Grant felt it his
duty to make tie home folks happy.
Why should not his father. Jesse
Grant. be postmaster of Covington,
and his brother-in-law Dent be a kind
of private secretary, and various rela-
tives be on the Government payroll? :?
Great Britain gives titles, estates and
princely incomes to victorious gen.
erals, while Grant drew only his mod
est s25, 900 year Ii was that feeling
OF village life in Washington which
led the President to accept presents
of all kinds. from a good cigar to a
pair OF matched trotters. 1t seems
never to have entered his mind that
the givers of gifts were sometimes
identical with the aslSers of favors.
He led a sane. wholesome life, his
chief excess being the successive
cigars which he smoked without much
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field
holding the his feet


but none to enforce against the will
of the people. Laws are to govern all
alike. those who oppose as well as
those who favor them" Or again his
remark when told that Sumner did not
believe in the Bible, well. he didn't
write it." The country approved his
direction in the prosecution of the
whisky ring: Let no guilty man es-
cape il it can be avoided" He had a
genuine admiration for Fish. who was
a cultivated man, and apparently be-
gan his Administration with personal
awe Of Sumner and his intellectual
surroundings.
Cultivated New England had with
some difficulty adjusted itself to Abra-
ham Lincolns uncouthness and fond
ness of associating with all kinds OF
people. but came to look with sus-
picion and then with animosity at tie
Dents and the Babcocks and all that
crowd. 1t was the belief of many
otherwise amiable and intelligent per-
sons that Grant was nothing but a
plain soldier with no knowledge or
statecraft and no sense OF the needs
OF the nation. This lack of confidence
turned into positive Hostility when In
1869 q breach occurred with Sumner
partly because as chairman OF the
Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions he looked upon himself as an un-
crowned Secretary OF State; partly
because Grant believed that he had
in personal interview secured Sum-
ner's support for his West Indias policy
Inasmuch as Sumner chose that pc
riod for bitter speech against Eng
land, demanding the surrender Of Cam
ada as the price of peace. there seemed
no room for both the President and
the chairman Of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs witEin the Federal
Government. Sumner was therefore
deposed from his Craftsmanship and
turned the torrent of his celebrated
and unrestrained invective against
the head of the nation.
Behind tie personal collision was a
rivalry of policies. Seward, as Secre-
tary OF State for President Johnson
had begun to negotiate with Latir
American Powers treaties that would
prepare the way for an isthmus cana
controlled by the United States. He
reached still further in an attempt tc
secure a footing in Santo Domingo fol-
a naval station. He had almost un
Willingly been the means of annexinf
Alaska, and began to tave a vision o.
power in the Pacific.
1t does not appear that Grant knew
or cared much about Stewards plans
1t is reported that Grant once revealed
to a friend that he was convinced tha
the great field of contest and OF Amer
lean interest was to be in the Pacific
and that he was determined to .brins
about an American canal which shoul,
be short road to the new field o
greatness. and also to protect the ap
proaches to the canal by securing ;
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cause the defeat of the Republicans
IN the election of 1872. Grant received
the electoral vote of every former
secedin8 Slate except Georgia, Tennes-
see and Texas. On the other hand,
Grant took no active part in the pro-
ceedings In the contested election of
1876. In general orders to the army
during the count he said. mo man
worthy of the office OF President should
be willing to hold it III counted In or
placed there by fraud. Either party
can afford to be disappointed in the
results. The country cannot afford
to have the results tainted by illegal
or false returns"
Grant Was Acquitted of
Packing Supreme Court
The whole reconstr lction policy was
based upon the idea OF a special and
inferior status for the South; and it
was impossible for any executive Of
ficial to- avoid taking sides with the
North. Another group of very slgnifi-
cant questions was faced by President
Grant ina manful way. He has often
been held irresponsible for the Supreme
Court decision of 1871 5 Judges to Al
that tha legal tenders We're constitu-
tionai. which reversed decision made
the year before that they We're uncon-
stiturionai~(4 to 81. Two Judges whom
he appointed, Strong and Bradley,
shifted the decision. Grants friends
then and thereafter denied that these
men had been selected in order to re-
verse that decision; and the testimony
that has come in since that time en-
tirely acquits Grant OF packing the
Supreme Court.
Great pressure was put on tie
President by Congress to yield to the
demands for "soft money or as the
cartocnist called it. "the rag baby"
Grant knew little of finance and his
secretaries of the Treasury-Boutwell
and Richardson-were not stalwart
statesmen. 1t was his inflexible back
bone which caused him to refuse to
issue paper money to check the COM
mercial panic of 1878. He was backed
up sby JOHN Sherman and other finan-
ciers. According to his own account
OF the imitation bill passed by Congress
in almost q, a,whirlwind-"I never was
so pressed in my life to do anything
as to sign that bill" He recorded
later that he wrote favorable
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0ne Hundredth Anniversary Of Grant S
Birth Recalls Many Events in Ca
reer of Man Better Remembered as
Soldier Than asPresident Of United
States Was Unsuccessful in Busi-
ness and Early Training Showed No
Preparation for Public Life.
BY ALBERT BUSHNELL HART,
Professor of History at Harvard Universit

spare lat fights That Abraham Lncolns
S. the demanded that
fighting tribute pf
OF determined
public belongs
world justified the military
Petersburg
armies digging
themse a 10 Land miles in length
To has the double honor of
in the civil
the civil
of the United States would be
military Constitution did
White William Harrison
civil into the Pres
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Grant an Apostle of What
Is Called 'Americanization'

For fifty years Southern writer's
have been asserting, and some other
writer's have been weak enough TO
subscribe to that assertion that the
reconstruction Of the South was de-
liberately intended by Northern states
men to complete the ruin of the civil
war. For the progress OF the recon-
struction laws and for the terms under
which the seeding States were ad-
mitted Grant had no responsibility.
When the crash OF battle came lie
took sides against President Johnson;
but the machinery was in full opera
ton when he became President. and
within about year all the States but
one were restored to tie Union. SO
far as the negro question was con-
cerned, Grant married into slave
holding family and had once directed
the labor OF a few hired slaves Yet
he wrote to his father in 1862, In
words singularly like those of Abra-
ham Lincoln, within a few days of the
same date. Grant said: II am sure
tLat have but one desire in this war,
and that Is to put down the rebellion.
/ have no hobby of my own i'm regard
10 the negro, either to effect his free
dom or 10 continue his bondage. If
Congress passes any law and the
President approves am with him to
execute It,"
Like Lincoln also ne was acquainted
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Let Us Have Peace" Placed
Grant in White House

What seemed to him impossible in
1854 came to pass in 1868. During
the interim Grant had his first civil
experience as Secretary of War The
old soldiers and the Republican voters
at large turned toward him as a can
didate. and the country accepted his
slogan: vLet US Fave peace" He
was chosen President in 1868 by
s,000. 900 popular votes against 2.700,-
900, and 2i4 electoral votes against
so. and again in 1872 by a popular
vote of 3.600.o00 against 2.S00.000 and
an electoral vote Of 2s6 against SO.
To understand the varied experience
of his Presidency we must remember
that in his eight years in office the
country passed through one of the
most disagreeable and harassing pc
RODS of its history. TIE South was
financially ruined by the war. The
Confederate and seeding state gov
I ernments were bankrupt. That Sec
ffon was drained OF it's specie and its
stocks OF goods, and felt impoverished
by the loss of the exchange value of
it's slaves. though the negroks and
land were still there. During TIE war
the North was spreading over the
rich prairie lands OF the West. was
opening up oil, gold. coal and factories,
and was making large exports to for
eign countries. II was rich. prosper
Gus and advancing, notwithstanding
a+net war debt OF 2,700 000. 600
Notwithstanding It's prosperity the
country was to pass through n period
OF social and political uproar. such as
distresses us now, after the world war.
Great numbers Of soldiers were thrown
back into the communities from which
they had enlisted. disabled or out OF
gear or unemployed. There was a
long continued crime wave through
out the country, The South was sub
ject TO other peoples decisions on
three great questions: What TO do
with the negro: what 10 do with the
former Confederates, and what to do
with tie seeding States. Though all
were settled after a fashion by the
reconstruction OF Congress in the
teeth OF President Johnson's violent
opposition, they did not stay settled
And It was good fifteen years after
The end OF the war before the relations
N the defeated and victorious sections
became anywhere near normal. Mean
while in Congress the majority rode
rough shod over the minority, and the
shackling OF President Johnson BY
congress led TO tho idea that all Presl-
dents were inferior to the decisions OF
Congress. In tie latter stage or this
troubled period lay the Presidential
life OF Ulysses S. Grant.
Every President lis, after all. ten
ant In Uncle Sans eligible mansion in
Washington. He brings with him a.
family, friends. hangerson and habits.
A PrTident is like an Emperor, in
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that his immense powers have to be
carried into effect by the people about
him. 1t grieved many good people,
and disturbed the Grants not a whit,
that to the end of his double term
Grant looked on the White House as
another Mount Pleasant residence. He
was simply unaware OF such thing
as Presidential etiquette. He gave
no state dinners in the manner of
foreign courts. though one of his
friends, Gen. James Grant Wilson. a
war veteran and a great diner out in
New York. maintained that Gen.
Grant later brought home from India
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II CANNOT. SPARE THAT MAN, :

apparent effect during his life. and
which caused his undoing at the last.
This personal element. this desire to
make people feel comfortable. both by
receiving and giving. was natural in a
man who had lived most of his days
in a very modest way. And nobody
in his senses ever seriously charged
u. s. Grant with profiting the value
OF an old fashioned copper penny by
any public act as soldier or admins
traitor.
Had Few Political Associates
When He Became President
Never having been a politician
Grant had almost no seasoned po-
liticai associates when he went into
office. His strongest friend and an
able character was Ehhu b. Wash
burn, who for short time was Secre-
tary oi State. His military associate
Rawitns. was good selection for Sec
retary Of War. Borie, designated as
Secretary of the Navy. seemed to have
no qualifications except Grants per-
sonal friendship. The President set a
precedent of great Importance in Sc
lecting as Secretary of the Treasury
A. L. Stewart, VINO was at that time
the most successful business man liv-
ing in the United States, but he was
thrown out on a technicality.
For permanent Secretary of State
Grant was happy in selecting Hamil-
ton Fish, a man OF eariie- nolitical ex-
perieace. who proved one Of the most
sagacious and far-seeing men, who has
ever occupied the State Department
lockwood Hoar of Massachusetts, as
Attorney General. and Ger. Cox OF
Ohio as Secretary of the Interior were
good representatives Of what would
now De called the silk stocking ele-
ment." Unfortunately the Cabinet ran
down. Belknap, who succeeded as Sec
ietary of War, was charged with
graft, and the President allowed him
to resign before the Senate could i'm
peach him. Hoar and Cox were COM
PEELED to resign, and the Cabinet which
was grouped about him at the end OF
his second term was made up. with
the sole exception of Fish. of men OF
the third rank, now almost forgotten.
One trouble was illustrated by re-
mark made by Grant on the removal
Of a certain Territorial Judge.
The Governor of the Territory
writes me that he cannot get along
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message butt read 1t over and
said to myself. What is the good
of all this? You do not believe It.
You know it is not true Throwing :
it aside / resolved to do what / be-
lieved to be right on the
ninth day l resolved infiexibly to veto
the bill and let tie storm come" The ,
storm came. but he stood against all :
the winds that blew. The result was
the resumption act Of 1875, providing
that four years later the paper money
should be redeemed on presentation in
gold. Few Presidents have ever set
themselves more steadfastly against
the pressure OF tLeir own party
friends. One Of his intimates says. of :
him: Grant was the only man ever
knew upon whose promise you could
safely go to sleep. He never failed
to keep his word even in the smallest
things. If once he pledged himself
you could dismiss it from your mind
and travel around the world. 1t would
be DONE
Despite Bitterness. Grants
Second Term Bette 1.han FIRST
A>o1WitiiStdHuiIS tf-e iDltlcTneSS OIL
the campaign Of 1872 and the fire q
criticisms from the South and the sS-
trene Northern Democrats. Grant,
second Administration was better than {
the first. He adjusted himself to the i
business of government He learned
to work better with otier men. He
would have accepted third term if .
1t had come to him naturally, but he
was satisfied to retire. Thencefor-
ward he was a great citizen Of the
United States, and was received in
foreign countries with the honor due
to Eis private character and to his
public service as the head of the
American Republic. In 1883 he began
to write his memoirs as a means of
extinguishing some private obli4ations
which weighed upon him. He was
overtaken by that frightfuI enemy OF
mankind-cancer. Wien he. could no.
longer speak he wrote to his friend.
the Confederate, Gen. Buckner: IT
witnessed since my illness just what .
| have wished to see since the war,
harmony and good will between the
sections" A few days later he had
passed from the Church Militant to
the Church Triumphant.
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dency Gen. u. s. Grant and Gems
Rutherford B. Hayes and Gen. James
A. Garfield and Major William Nc
kinney and Col. Theodore Roosevelt.
Out of all the grove of tall military
statesmen after Washington the most
distinguished soldier was Grant; and
his election was the most distinct re-
ward for military service.
No man could less expect to become
President of the United States than
young L. S. Grant. He tried with in
different success several walks of life.
He was intended to follow the parental
tanning business. and was sent to
West Point by what his father called
"The veriest accident in the world.
There he was twenty-first in gradu-
ating class of thirty-nine. The anlbi-
ton of his early manhood was to be a
college professor of mathematics.
After eleven years service in the
army. including lively experience in
the Mexican War, Capt. Grant in 1854
sent his resignation to Secretary OF
War Jefferson Davis. Thereafter he
was farmer, real estate agent, leather
man, but never holder of any public
Office by election or by appointment.
Not even VIXEN he offered his services
IN 1851 on the ground that I'VE have
4 Government, laws and flag. and they
must all be sustained had he any
idea OF a brilliant civil career.
The new Col. Grant at once began
10 set his mark on the history of his
country He always served In the
field. and always near the front--a
front which accommodatingiy ex-
tended Itself before him. He never
liked Washington with it's clan OF
military men on detached service.
He was not popular with Halleck and
other old school commanders. He
seems to have had little personal re-
lation with Secretary Stanton. Presi-
dent Lincoln. however. realized his
greatness, defended him against
doubters and enemies, and in 1864 put
him in command OF all the national
armies. Just about that time Grant
wrote to a friend: You say that I
have it in my power to be the next
President This is the last thing in
the world ] desire. / would regard
such consummation as highly un-
fortunate for myself IL not for the
country"
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~ ME- upon q time IL young Nnaii
had a good job, salary and
a light heart. Then one day
lie had draft number, too. And in
quick succession he had trip to
France. a triumphant return and a
case of tuberculosis. 1t was part OF
the irony of things that the one of
these new possessions he was most
anxious to get rid of was the only one
he couldn't get rid of. You guessed
1.-THE t. b. Because that wasn't di-
rectly traceable to his French ex-
cursion and because of other compli-
Gated reasons, the Government didn't
help him much with the problem. So
there 1t was, and is now. His only
compensation is that he has lots OF
company, many thousands, in fact.