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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
HIGH QUINTET
HOPES TO Give
|0WANS UPSET
Journey Across the River TOmor-
row Determined to Fight
to the Last.
BY ART WILLIAMS.

Tomorrow night the Rock Island
basketball crew will cross the Mis-
sissippi river with hopes of spring
ing a surprise as did Washington
when he crossed the Delaware.
Dope is heavy against the Island
ers, who are at the tail-end of the
tri-city rope. The Davenporters
have already handed out one de-
feat to them, as did Moline and are
confident of repeating. The game
will be played in the J. B. Young
gymnasium.
The Red and Blue fighters will
enter into the contest Friday night
an undefeated team. Dope has
been proven worthless, one of the
best examples being when the Mo
line football aggregation, after GO
ing through the entire grid season
and meeting the best teams in the
community without defeat, crossed
the river to their doom. The local
basket squad has the same chance
to trifle with the conditions that
govern fate.
The Crimson and Gold men are
much lighter than the fighters they
are to meet tomorrow night but re-
ly on speed. They are trained to
the utmost in all phases of the
game this week and every lad will
enter the contest with the thought
in mind to beat Davenport.
Around three men-Captain Shet-
ter, Edwards and Alvine-are the
hopes of the Kimmelmen. Each one
of these lads stands out Shelter,
for fast floor work and completion
OF plays; Edwards, for his long
and accurate basket shooting, and
Alvine for his strong defense. The
other two men in the lineup, KHAN
ishu and Woodward, are but begin
ners in the sport and are doing re-
well.
Saturday night the Islanders
have another hard contest when
they meet Cambridge. The game
will be played in the Rock Island
W gym and will begin at Sis
o'clock. The lads from Cambridge
will put up hard scrap and will
attempt to come closer to a win
ming score than they did last Sat
urday night in their home town
when the Islanders were victorious
by % to Is score.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09

One American League scout in
speaking of their chances to make
good says: johnson has a great
fast ball with a wonderful hop to
it He has a fine chance to deliver.
"Pillette has good stuff, but a
stiff knee American League HIT
tiers will keep him busy laying
down bunts. 1 saw him pitch sew
eraI games, and he looked worse on
hunts than Yorke of the Chicago
Cubs, Harris of the Athletes or
Sothoron of Cleveland.
Praise From Duffy Lewis.
Then there is Duffy Lewis, who
led the Pacific Coast League il:
batting. The former American
League star in speaking of Pilette
and Johnson says:
Detroit has acquired two fine
prospects. Both have the stuff
Each has a fine fast ball so neces-
sary to success in the big show.
Pillette suffered an injury to his
knee in mid-season that hampered
him a lot, but at the close of the
season he seemed to have entirely
recovered.
These recruits will be much
watched in their major league
debuts largely because of the pub
licity given the fancy price they
brought in the baseball market.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
LONDON CANON
URGES PRAYER
FOR HIS TEAM
Invites God to Let 1t
Win the Finals
for Cup:
BY WALTER CAMP.

Copyright, 1922, by The Argus.)
Word has just been received by
cable from London that Canon
Gowing, in addressing a gathering
of 1900 persons gathered in ST.
Mary's church in London, expressed
the hope that the southend football
team would be successful in the cup
final. He asked the audience to
bow their heads in silent prayer for
the prosperity and happiness of
the southend football club" In
view of the recent disclosures in
American collegiate athletics it has
been suggested that the good canon
might be invited over here to pray
for the general football Situation.
DR.. Fauver of Wesleyan, newly
elected president of the society of
physical directors, in American col
leges, has just advanced the state
ment that no college president or
athletic director in the United
States knows whether intercolleg-
late athletics should be scrapped in
whole or in part He proposes that
athletics be made by the Rockefel-
Ter or Carnegie foundations.
In the meantime the Disqualified
ton of athletes who have violated
the rules continues. Among those
debarred from further representing
alma mater are Captain Swanson
and Guard Pucelik of the Univer-
sity of Nebraska football team. The
university eligibility committee
found them ineligible because they
participated in a professional foot
ball game at Sioux City, Iowa The
Nebraska team will not be affected
next season by their disbarment- as
each player will graduate this
June. The players contend they
did not receive a cent and as they
were through with college football
their action did not conflict with
the rules of the Missouri Valley
conference or any other intercol-
legiate ruling.
The Illinois university team like
wise will be unaffected next fall by
disbarment of players as a result of
recent Investigations, as most of
those banned would not have play
ed again in any event.
A new light has been thrown on
the sport of basketball and its re-
lation to the physical condition of
men playing it. Investigation in In
diana by medical examiners dis
closed the fact that high school
students who begin their basketball
season in the early fall and con-
tinue until March usually are suf-
ferers from enlarged hearts. The
medical examiners contend that
basketball is more strenuous than
football, track athletics or tennis
So seriously have they taken the
matter that a request has been
made to the Indiana State High
School Athletic association to inves-
tigate and if necessary curtail the
length of the session and regulate
the number of games played.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
NO SUNDAY GOLF
BY BRITISHERS
However, They Still Have the 18th
Hole Which Americans
Have Not

Chicago, Feb. 9-Sunday golf, and
not the slight difference in rules of
play, is the phase of the, game as
played in America that impresses
British and Scotch players who play
in this country, it was learned to-
day from a representative of sew
eral of the professionals from Great
Britain who have toured America
In Scotland and England, there
is no golf on the Sabbath, except
surreptitiously.
In America most of the golf is
played on Sunday. Some bugs
have even tried to play at night,
coating the ball with phosphor-
escent paint. Why do not players
in Scotland, the birthplace of the
game, and in England, populate the
golf links on Sunday? To this ques-
ton the British representative
made a reply that explained why
the golf-mad Briton was willing to
force play on the first day of the
week.
In the British Isles, the summer
days are several hours longer than
in the United States. because of
40 hASAC1 ldLlluuS. he sun rises
around O'Clock in the morning and
does not set until at night, some
times later. This kindness of the
sun permits golfers to play a full
IS holes. in the morning before
work, or in the evening after the
days toll is over. The ordinary
man therefore can play golf six
days week, even if he is employ
ed ten hours a day.
In addition, he usually gets Sat
urday afternoon off, allowing an
extra round or two. Thus, the Brit
ish golfer gets far more golf per
week without playing on Sunday
than does the American by playing
so steadily on the Sabbath that he
even neglects divine services.
In ending the dissertation the
Briton said:
I'm one way Americans are now
more straight-laced than the Brit
ish. for they have abandoned the
18th hole while the Scotch still
flows on the European links"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
ROCKY KANSAS
NOT LACKING
FOR HACKERS
Followers of New York HOp Die n.
Plenty of Coin in Support
of His Chances.
BY FAIR PIAy

tCopyrlght, 1872, by The Argus9
New York, Feb. 9.-Heavy BETH.
was reported today on the outco5.s
of the LeOnard-Kansas battle =
looks as though wagers on =Fri5.~
nights bout at Madison SousS.
Garden will total higher than ungs
any pugilistic occasion since ia
Dempsey-Carpentier setto M.
present betting situation is ~
largely to the enthusiasm Of Nsx
York Italians for their fellow la.
ian. They love to bet anyway ~,
now their racial pride is eDiIsfa5
Sentiment is playing a part in tbe,r
present chance-taking activities b5s
they have not let it blind them s.
least they think they haven't. They
figure that Rocco, which is ROCKY
Kansas real name, has got a grand
chance to cop. And they base thor
convictions on the belief that fba
champion will be weak ct tx
pounds whereas Kansas, naturalIy
rugged and tough, is at his beA
slightly below the lightweight Limit
Rocky's hackers also recall that
the Buffalo boy stuck along WITH
Leonard to the limit at Harrisos
n. J., last summer, albeit the cham.
pion clearly outpointed his rival
However that may be, the Leonard
partisans are now offering odds a
8 to 5 with plenty of takers. 30
many, in fact, that the price Isl
likely to come down by tomorrow
Any fair minded critic, of course
has got to hand the big chancs b
Leonard. But Benny has been hay
ing trouble in making the weight
Now then, when a boy has to sweat
every day as Leonard has been
sweating and losing pounds that e7-
IDENTIFY are natural to him, it is By 10
means out Of the question that Be
might find his strength sapping BE-
fore the end of the 15-round fight
Unless the dope is all wrong
Leonard will spring in for quiCk
knockout and not dub along while
losing weight round by round. ri
he cannot stow Kansas away early
then there is no telling what viii
happen in this bout
Benny Leonard, it appears, IS.
swinging the fight in which he sp-
pears Friday night The talk is tia;
he guaranteed Richard $4,000 naI
and Kansas SIT, 500. AS the garda
is now practically sold out, and
the receipts will probably amour.
to 100000 it looks as though Benny
was a champion business guy ass
well as a champion fighter.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
BADGER SCHOOL
CONDUCTS QUIZ
OF SEVERAL MEN

Madison Wis, Feb AN in
vestigation into published reports
that four Wisconsin athletes had
violated the Western conference
rules concerning playing in pro-
fessional baseball and basketball
games was started yesterday by the
athletic council, but nothing to sub
stantiate the reports developed, &C
cording to T. E Jones, athletic di-
rector
Find Williams O. K.
The session was taken up large
~ with questioning Rollie Will
liams, half back and football cap
tain elect, who also plays guard in
basketball and is a baseball out
fielder. Rumors that Williams had
accepted money for playing IN
Edgerton, Wis, were said by j.. =.
A. Pyre, faculty representative on
the council, to have been proven
baseless.
Alva Elliott, football half back
and baseball outfelder; "Kibo''
Brumm, football tackle, and Ralph
Gill, substitute quarter back, will be
called before the council, Mr.. Jones
announced.
I'VE have not received a particle
of real evidence against any of
these men," said Mr.. Jones, "but,
because their names have been
mentioned in certain rumors, we
will question them and go into the
matter carefully. We have not
even heard rumors that these men
ever played professional football
simply that they were in summer
ball games, and We want to make
sure that no conference rules were
violated
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
PHELAN TO QUIT
COACHING JOB AT
MISSOURI SCHOOL

Columbia, Mo-, Feb 9. - James
Phelan, head football coach at the
University of Missouri, has intimat-
ed to athletic officials that he is
planning to take another position
next fall and candidates are being
considered to fill the expected va
cancy, it became known here today.
Several men are said to be dis
cussion for the place, among them
A B. Wimberly. a former guard and
center on the Washington & Jeffer-
son team. Mr. Wimberly, who is
now coach at. Illinois Wesleyan.
was here yesterday. it was learned
and had a long conference with z.
G. Clevenger, director of athletics.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
.1a5a llIgT
RS
It's All In the Blend

Anyone can become a cigar man
ufacturer, but it's an art to be 2
blender. Charles Spietz mas been q
recognized bIender Of fine cigars
for go years. Smokers like the
blend of his Robert Emmett and It's
liberal size. That is why the three
Spietz factories are always behind
on orders.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
SCHAEFER WINS
FROM CONT IN
BILLIARD MATCH

Los Angeles, Feb. 9.-Jack
Schaefer, 49, balk-line billiard
champion, defeated Roger Cont,
French champion, in a 1000 point
exhibition match here Tuesday
night, finishing the final block of
400 points in six innings with an
average of slightly over Sc per
inning. Contis total for three
block play was 312. Schaefer's
finishing run of 239 in yesterday
afternoons block of the play is
said to have been the longest ever
made in Los Angeles.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09

go south. Nick Altrock says he will
be a member of his second cham
pionship team in 1922. His last
was out in Chicago. His next will
be in Washington.
IF anyone thinks that New York
has given up the fight to strengthen
4 mistake has been made. The col
onels can't sec it that way. They
are two Of the most persistent men
that ever have had anything to do
with baseball.
All the owners called on Presi-
dent Harding. The sole chance left
for the National league is to call a
meeting in Washington. The Amer
leans have beaten them to it.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
ALL.NATIONS AND
ROVERS TO PLAY

The Affiliations and the Rock Is
land Rovers will meet tonight at
the Rock Island high school gym
nasium. The game is slated to
start at 7:S0 o'clock.
Saturday night the Rovers will
meet the Moline Federals in Leg
ion hall at 1880 o'clock
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
SUSPEND SHIP WORK.

Washington, Feb. All con
struction work on IA capital ship
of the navy now building was sus
pended at the direction Of Presidel'
Harding.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
ICE PRESTIGE
OF BIG THREE
IS DECLINING
Yale and Princeton
BoIO to Outside
Colleges.
By LAWRENCE PERRY.

Copyright, 1922, by The Argus.)
The prestige of Harvard, Yale
and Princeton is threatened on the
ice this season no less sturdily than
their football supremacy has been
assailed in past years on the grid
iron. By far the most interesting
phase of the winter season in in
tercollegiate sport is the strong
forward impulse shown by hockey
teams representing institutions that
in past years did not go in for the
thrilling ice game at all or who
developed teams considerably below
the level of those at Cambridge,
New Haven and Princeton.
The success of the Big Three was
attributed to the fact that they drew
annually the pick of the players
from schools which had made much
of the game for years. The pres
that rule. Yet we find Princeton
going down to defeat before Column
bia and Yale bowling to the Massa-
chusetts Aggies and to Boston col
lege. Harvard as yet has not been
beaten by an American college and
the strength of her game thus far
indicates a possibility that she may
finish the season with a clean slate.
If SO she will be the sole member
of the great hockey playing trio
that will not be obliged to share
honors- Dartmouth, by the way,
triumphed deciSively over the
strong Massachusetts Aggies re-
Gently and will bear watching since
it seems likely she will have the
best outfit developed since the days
of Baggs Wanamaker.
Harvard, slightly envious, al
though she hides it becomingly, of
the intellectual and aesthetic epoch
setting in at Yale, wonders how
long the Eli undergraduates will
accept the bulldog as the symbol
of his Institution. Even the Yale
News suggests a future necessity
of equipping the historic canine
with horn trimmed spectacles.
However that may be, the fact
remains that just at present polite
al clubs and economic societies hold
full sway at New Haven.
All of which is nothing to worry
about at all so long as record gath
erings are found at hockey and
basketball games and teeth are
CRASHED when HarYard's victory at
football last season is recalled.
Finally let it be remembered that
the EliZabethan club at Yale made
as strong if not a stronger COM
parative showing when it came to
going to war than the athletes of
Eli.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09
BREVAS SIZE

Packed in alright
tin drums of 30 and
in pocket size tins OF
10 that keeps them
fresh for any length
of time. Never dry
cut or mould.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09

st. Louis. Mo.-Williams. who
led the National league pitchers
last year. pitched the entire season
with an injured arm, it became
known.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09

Chicago-Construction OF the ath-
letic stadium at the University .of
Illinois will be begun within
short time. 1t was announced last
night
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-09

The whale is the largest and
strongest OF varm-blooded crea-
lures ]
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-04-07
CLOVERLAND

Idell DeI'ew spent the weekend at
her home
Irma Redmam was a Tony caller
Saturday.
j j. TheeSfield sawed wood Monday
and Tuesday
Mrs. Will Larson was Ladysmith
caller Saturday.
Mabel Moore. Of kadysmith. spent
few days at the c. X. DePew home.
MesdameS Redmann and TheeSfield
visited Cloverland school Thursday af-
ternO0n.
Maggie and Luela Potter entertained
few young folks a their home Mon
day evening.
Edo Hanson and family returned
home Saturday. after spending the
winter 1T Appleton.
The women are surely taking the
opportunity to vote as nearly all were
ut the polls Tuesday.
Mrs. Frank Weidmam attended a
meeting held at the home Of Mrs. Frank
Ryall Thursday afternoon.
Archie and Clarence Depew attend
ed the dance at Conrath Saturday
night but owing to a noisy bunch from
LadySmith. came home early.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-04-07
LOCAL & PERSONAL

G. f. Poole now owns Chevrolet
car.
MIS-. Anna Vilett is enjoying a visit
from il sister.
| Arthur McGill Waupaca. is visiting
his brother. l.. f. McGilL
Mrs. T. r. SIattery will be IN charge
of the library Sunday afternoon.
April 8.
Mrs. Clarence Hanson. Of Weyer-
haeuser, visited friends in this city
Wednesday,.
j. j. Hruska is spending this week
ut Watervilie Mimi. where his father
is very low
The r. F. Q. NJ Club will give Il can
dy sale at Ditmanson 4 Nelson's store
Saturday. April $.
Miss Ethel Dawson spent Sunday at
| The home Of her sister. Mrs. Victor
Lofquist. at Almena.
The r. +. O. NJ Club will hold their
| next regular meeting at the l.. G.
! Streater home Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Harry Allen. Mrs. Frank Put
nam and Mrs. Robert March were
guests of Mrs. Porter Crowell at Bruce
at Il card party Tuesday afternoon and
evening.
| Mrs. Taylor, of Rice Lake spent two
days last week visiting her old school
mate. Mrs. Dan Hammer, in this city
| G. a. Gable. Of New Sharon. Iowa
has been visiting his brother. Il. L. Ga
bic. and his sister. Mrs Dan Hammer
and their families for the past week
Mrs. H. Odendorf arrived home
Thursday morning after a short visit
| with her son. Arthur. at Eau Claie
| and daughter. Mrs Carl Hanneman
| at Wausau.
| ROadmaster A. T. Collins was called
to Harmon Wednesday, where the wa.
| ter was running over the main line
! track Several carloads of cinders
were dumped in and the passenger
trains were delayed very little
| r. j. Cannon. who has been attend
ing the Z. S. training school at Nauvoo
ILL.,. stopped off here Thursday while
| enroute TO Ingram He will leave fol
| Menomonie in a short while to entel
the Dunn Co. agricultural school.
Mesdames Frank Marley w. f.
Smith and c. 4. Sands gave the first
Of series of three parties to lady
friends Thursday afternoon, the 9th
ers 10 occur Saturday and Monday
Five hundred" was played Thursday
following Il splendid luncheon in four
courses. at 80.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-04-07
WEYERHAEUSER
April Fools Part,

The Knights and Pythian Sisters
gave an April Fool Hard Times party
nj the X. T. hall Saturday evening.
There were about thirty-fiye present
| and the evening was most enjoyably
! spent in playing games and cards.
| Several jokes were fixed several
lpeople fooled
| Nearly everyone present was dressed
| in some comical. ancient or otherwise
| funny costume Mrs. Mable Wilmot
! dressed as a Hollander carried off the
| honorS and Won as Il prize Il large
Ounce cap which she Wore throughout
| the remainder of the evening
| At eleven o'clock Il very fine lunch
| was Served-with the exception of the
/ little individual cakes for. although
they looked very appetizing they were
| filled with cotton and the frosting con-
tanned red pepper. Everyone appre-
ciated the joke for. it being an April
Fool party. they We're expecting some
thing like that and would have been
disappointed if there hadn't been just
IL little something wrong with the
/ lunch.
epter kassea visited in Ladysmith
Wednesday.
Miss Mae Maffett spent Sunday with
her parents
Mrs. George Wood was Barron
caller Saturday.
Edward Frenchick was Il Ladysmith
caller Wednesday.
! Miss Mayme Christensen spent the
| weekend at her home here.
/ Mrs Clarence Hanson spent We'd
nesday in Ladysmith visiting friends.
| Mrs. Helen Hawyer and Marvel Maj
/ felt were Bruce shoppers on Saturday.
| Miss Dorothy Kent is much improved
after her very severe illness with pnen-
monia.
Miss Elaine Blanchette of Lady
smith. spent Sunday at the II. Chris
! tenson home.
] \. G. McGrath has discontinued
! serving meals at Hotel Maple now so
/ 500 Line train No. 81 stops for din
ner at Bruce.
The minister from the NJ. +, church
Of Rice Lake gave a very interesting
| talk at the NJ f. church here Sunday
night He spoke in behalf of the new
/ hospital that has been built at Rice
Lake recently.
/ The movie" here Saturday night
was well patroniZed and by Il very
! faithful crowd for. although the pic
ture didn't start until about nine thil-
! ty most of the crowd remained
whether they felt as though their time
was well spent or not we cannot say
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! competition With his fellow members

~ competition with his fellow members
for the high producing COW and herd
keeps alive his hoyiSh spirit Of wanting
to win. The free advertisement of the
association records bring good returns
and advertise Il community TO cattle
buyers and new progressive farmers
more than any other organization of the
farmers.
The dairy farmers of RuslS county
that will be making tile most money five
years from now are the fellows who get
into COW testing associations. learn the
feeding for production game. keep
breeding up their herds, and have to sell
a surplus Of good grade or pure bred
stuff with good COW testing association
records.
If one is III doubt about the good 4
COW testing association can do for the
members and the community. he need
Only to ask the members of the Bruce
Cow Testing Association. These men
are ready to keep up the association Tor
a second year and With a little pushing
and by extending the territory north
and south. this association can he re-or-
ganiZed into two associations. One will
regret it if he passes up the opportunity
TO join the Central RuSk County Cow
Testing Association.