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The Washington herald., 1922-01-15

Hands have q great deal to do
with success In sports. The bill
Hard players hands have to be ex-
tremely supple, yet arm. Willie
\ Hoppe sacrificed his interest In
many sports to save his hands and
ktep them in condition for billiard
play. He likes baseball. boxing and
ether sports. but for years has been
forced to content himself with
looking on.
Schaefer's hands are as delicate
as Hopes. and since he began
playing billiards as a small boy he
has taken care Of them. II Schaef-
fer could do whatever he wanted to,
aside from playing billiards, he
would choose handball as his favor
tie sport. But he doesn't dare to.
Hitting q hard. or even a soft ball.
would ruin his hands and keep him
out Of q sortune- He can't even
play tennis or golf. except very
rarely, because he would develop
muscles that would work against
his delicscy Of touch
But for nearly all athletes a pair
of big strong hands Is q winning
asset
Brick Muller is famous as a foot
ball tackle and for his ability to
make forward passes of more than
sixty yards. handling the football
very much as II II was a baseball.
throwing low and straight. Muller
Is six feet tall. strongly built. and
has such huge hands that he can
fairly wrap his fingers around a
football. That Is part of the secret
of his speed and accuracy in de-
livery.
Jim Duncan. worlds record hold
er for the discus throw. who earned
lieutenants commission at the
front during the war and IL now in
France. has the biggest hands I
ever saw on an amateur athlete.
His little finger Is as thick and
strong as an ordinary mans thumb.
His palm IL broad and thick, and
are long. The discus never slips
from his grip, although he gets the
record distance with a tremendous
the missile with tug OF the nm
gers.
Julian Elliott, who weighed las
hounds ana put the 1s-pound shot
over forty-five Feet spent years de-
yeloping his hands, acouiring
punched muscles of thumb and nm
gers that gave him a great nip"
az the shot left his finger tips
A Terrible Knockout.
Tom Carroll. greatest Of all pro-
fessional weight throwers, has
hand that measures just six inches
across the knuckles. As an ordinary
big mans hand measures only 3h
inches II can be easily seen that
Carroll has a powerful engine to
give the final impetus to any weight
he throws.
John L. Sullivan had thick hands.
wide across the knuckles. and with
very heavy wrists. Jeffries had
wrists but his hands were not large
In proportion to the rest OF his
Bob Fitzslmmons had very big
hands and very small feet. He wore
a No. g shoe, There was peculiar
thing about NFitzsimmons' hands.
that / have never seen in any other
lighters mauleys. When his INST
was closed the knuckles formed a
straight line. Usually the knuckle
Of the second finger stands out
farthest, an dthe third kncke nearly
as far.
When I first noticed this thought
Fitssimmons' knuckles had been
battered back by much hitting, al
though this was before Fitz began
breaking his hands. but he told me
they always were level
:. Hk though this hac something 70
The Washington herald., 1922-01-15
Lee A. C. Wants Games.

The Lee A. c. is open: for games
with any 12o-pound teams In the Dis
trict. Address Manager Whiting. 1877
Church street northwest Phone
North s2s-Wsafter Q D. m.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-15

Substitutions-Arrew r. Hayden
for Nash: Pease for Viseberg; Far
rell for SeltEer; Settler for Cave,
Alexandria: DuDeck for DeGroot.
Field goals-Nash. viseberg. Kis-..
lick, 2; Pesse, Settler. Alexander. a.
Seiple. s: DeGroot, 3: P. Hayden. 90
williams. 2. Foul goals-Kislick. 1
out OF ?: Alexander. out OF 3.
Referee-Entwistle.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-15

do with his great hitting power. az
the blows were landed with all four
knuckles.
Later. when he fought Jeffries
the second time. Fitz broke the first
two knuckles OF his right and drove
them back out of line. He broke
them again on Gardner. He drove
the first two knuckles of his left
hand back by hitting Jeffries. in the
same fight. but not 50 far. His
hands never were much good for
lighting sfterward.
Young Corbett had hands like
John l. Sullivan's. and he could
hit. The only great fighter can
remember who had really small
hands was Jimmy Britt. James was
handicapped by his small hands.
which were little larger than a
girls. He was a plunging, aggres-
sive fighter. and threw everything
into his small hands was not effec-
tive when hitting at the head, and
had to depend on body lighting.
Dempsey has large. think hands.
which he developed by working In
mines. numbering and road building
when a boy.
Hart. of Princeton. had one of the
largest and the strongest pair of
hands. II he ever reached a runner
there was no wriggling out Of his
grip. because he could hold any man
II he only got bit Of the Jersey
between his thumb and finger
Shaking hands with Eddie is like
putting your fingers into a vice.
A Yale player once told me that
after a Yale-Princeton game every
nan Hart had laid his hands on
was decorated with black and blue
marks.
There is a story about Peter the
Great of Russia who was said e.
be able to bend a gold coin double
between his fingers. II Peter could
do that Eddie can
Hands Like q Net.
Hans Wagner, famous Pirate ball
player for many years, had a huge
pair of hands. He was one of the
greatest shortstops that ever lived
when he spread his big hand IT,
front of a speeding ball II was all
OF. He never missed. It was like
knocking the ball into a net.
Having a pair of big hands Is a
great help TO q golfer. Abe Mitchell,
the English player, has huge hands,
and he takes full grip on the club
with both of them. Mitchell is
credited with being the longest
driver In England. and perhaps the
longest in the world. He takes a
fairly short swing and q short fol-
low through. finishing his drive like
IAN iron shot, His powerful wrists
and hands give him much OF the
distance.
W. T. Tilden, world tennis cham
pion. wears an sh glove. Tilden
IL over six feet tall, but his hands
are large in proportion. He uses z
heavy racquet with a handle meas
uring i've and a half inches around
the grip. The average grip is about
four and hve-eighths inches.
Norman Brookes, of Australia.
uses a racquet Weighing only thir-
teen ounces, with four-and-a-half
inch grip.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-15
Griffith Appoints Veteran
i Star as Nationals Leader
FEB Deserves the Job" Says Old Fox Peck
y Probable Choice for Field Captain Ten
!; Players Go South in Six Weeks.
By RAY HELdEsEN.

Jesse Clyde Milan has been ON
eiaHy named to step into the shoes
OF deorge Mcbride as manager CT
the Nationals for the com ~ sea-
son according 20 an announcement
made by President Clark c. Grif-
fith early last night. Nilan's APP
pointment was made to all the
be4h left vacant w 1sn the illness
OF sceorge Mcbride so-sed him to
resign in the middle OF last Decem-
berl The appointment = OF zMjlar;
tho ILLS the only managerial va
Grtffs mp TO yesterday were the
onE team in the tw7 big circuits
which were shy a pilot
Grin notified the Tennessee Flyer
Of his appointment pilot by te,e-
gram late yesterday afternoon.
'Zsb- replied by wire thanking
Griffith and asking "whea shall 60
to york;"
Thus Grin. himself, verifies HE
recent statement to the effect that
Roger Peckinpangh was not being
sought as Manager for the WASH
inston club. Peck. however. Grin
intfrnated last night. may be made
capfain Of the Nationals and Is con.
sidered capable managerial mate
rial for the future.
Snce the resignat M OF George
McBride. which Grim received dur
ing the recent uu6or leagues meet
ing in Buffalo AMI which Grin
agsfn stated last night was purely
voluntary on Mac part. the Ma
tionals have been without q mana
gea
president Griffith stated at the
tine Of McBride's resignation that
he ha d no one In mind at that
time for the position. He said then
that he would await Developments
brtt that a new manager would be
nnn1ad aarlu q, TaDp
The Washington herald., 1922-01-15
Alexandrians Win.

ALEXANDRIA, Va Jan. H.
Showing a reversal OF form in the
final half. the Light Infantry Eve,
tonight showed under the Arrows ,
OF Washington. on the srmorys.
court, 80 TO IL. The visiting team
made a good showing in the open;
ing frame and held the locals TO-
a I6-to-I2 score. summary:
The Washington herald., 1922-01-15
Peck CongratuIafes
Nationals NeID Boss

The foIiewing teieErams were
received by The Herald from
Milan and Peckinpaugh last
nightt
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-13
BRITISH ISSUE SHARP
WARNING To TURKEY

LAUSANNE, Dec. ia refusal by
Turkey at today's session OF the Near
East conference TO accede 10 the de-
mands for a national home for the
Armenians or to international regula-
ton OF the rights of the minority in
Turkey brought sharp warning TO
the Angora delegation from Lord
Curzon. OF the British delegation.
The British foreign secretary told
the Turkish delegation that its per-
sistent imposition of barriers TO the
satisfactory settlement of he minority
problem was having a bad effect on
the conference and on the entire
world
The contention of lsmet Pasha was
that the minority in Turkey had suf-
fercd chiefly because of the devasta-
ton caused by the Greeks. who with
in a measurably short time. he said
have destroyed in Anatolia q large
cities. 1,400 villages and $4,000 Turk
ish habitations.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-13
LABOR OFFERS AID To
IMPEACH DAyGHFr

WASHINGTON. ID. g. .~
Samuel Gompers. Pres.der
American Federation OF Isa..
ly told the House JudiD.ar, 49,.
tee today that the eNecGth., ..
tee of the Federation lad t,., IS
ed 10 appropriate fuua
Representative Keller Esr,.-
Minnesota, in proSecuun. 49,.
ment proceedings asain. A..
General Daugherty
MIR, Gonpers' Statement s..
in the course OF cross fy.
ty Paul Rowland. az Cleveland
sonal counsel for Nj Daas.s-..
ompha;icaily denied that la ,.s
suggested the impeachmett r--
ings, declaring that he had r5r f.
of the Keller resolution n ya Il
util he read about it i'm lse ,
papers.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-13
DON'T FORGET TO MAKE
GIFT TO CHASE HOME

The citizens of Annapolis and Anne
Arundel county are urged to remem'
/ er that tomorrow. December ii. IS
donation day at the Chase Home
Owing to an insufficient endowment,
this home. which is one of Maryland 5
oldest Institutions and an object OF
merited pride on the part of Annapo-
lis residents. is forced to observe an
annual donation day. Whether made
in the spirit of a Christmas Offering
or merely as a token of good will
TO the Home. any article received al
the veneral lie institution tomorrow
will be welcomed with warm graft.
tude.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-13
M'EWAN SUCCEEDS
CHARLEY DAILY AS
ARMY GRID. MENTOR

Announcement was made To-Day tnas
Col. Charles ID. Daily had at his own
request been relieved Of the duties Of
head coach of the Army football squad.
Capt. John ]. McEwan has been ap-
pointed head coach for next season.
Colonel Daily having concluded a
long and successful career as player.
assistant coach and head coach of the
West Point eleven. voluntarily relin-
quishes the job as chief mentor of
army football after one of the most
interesting and successful gridiron sea-
sons the Academy ever enjoyed.
DAILY has been head coach here since
1913, with the exception of period
of interruption of two years durins
the World War. During that time his
teams defeated the navy eleven five
games of the eight
Major Daily will remain on duty here
in the department of tactics. Captain
McEwan. the new head coach, has been
line-coach at West Point for the last
four years. He played four years on
the army team at center and was
selected ON many OF the mythical
elevens of that period He graduated
from West Point in the class Of 1917.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-13
JAPAN'S PRINCE REGENT is
SERIOUSLY ILL OF MEASLES

TOXIC. Dec. 13.-An official bulletin
issued by the Imperial household late
tonight, on the condition Of the Prince
Regent. who is seriously i'll of measles,
declared that the royal patients tenn
perature stood approximately 1o4
Fahrenheit and that his pulse had in
creased from los to no.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-13
BOARD GRANTS PARDON
FOR COLORED PRISONER

The State Advisory Board of Parole
has taken favorable action upon the
application for a pardon in the case Of
William III. Smith. colored. of this
county. serving an eight-year term in
the Maryland Penitentiary Smith was
convicted December 8. 1918, of murder
in the second degree.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-13

= II =. I, Z
NEW YORK, Dec l3 U-c.. :
the Michigan Central R.llra.a !.
declared an extra cash G.y.s....
per cent. in addition to ue 49,
semi-annual dividend of & ra-
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-13

Try an ad in THE EVENING CAPI.
TAI. 1t pays!
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-13
No Return of tuberculosis
After Three Years

Il doctored with medical doctors for
six years aud all said l was tubercular.
Three Years ago. when ! finally decided to
try chiropractic l weak | had To
he helped iGto the chiropractor'S office. |
began TO Improve sitter the first adjust
meat and after some months was entirely
wei. When I started with cbiropractic
the medieval doctors said would not live
six months. la three years ! have had no
return Of the ailnlent. -laeel Martin
Miller Chirepractic Research bureau
Statement M. 1.S1u.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-06-01
Yellowstone Expedition of 1919 a Miserable Failure;
Wasted Hundred Lives and Great Sum of Money

the western wilds transformed al
most overnight into vast agricul-
tural areas interspersed with thriv-
ing cities. They expected to see
within a decade what it took almost
a century to accomplish. One man
with a distinguished record of pub
lie service, speaking of the Vel
lowstone expedition, said:
"See those vessels, with the
agency of steam, advancing against
the powerful currents Of the Mis-
sissippi and the Missouri Their
course is marked by volumes Of
smoke and fire, which the civilized
man observes with admiration and
the savage with establishment. Bot
%anists, mineralogists, chemists, art
isans, cultivators, scholars, sol
diers; the love of peace, the capa-
city for war philosophical appara-
tus and military supplies; tele-
scopes and cannon; garden seeds
and gun powder; the arts of civil
life and the force to defend them
all are e aboard. The banner
of freedom which waves over the
whole proclaims the character and
protective power of the United
States"
But the much-vaunted Yellow
stone expedition proved to be a
fiasco of the most disappointing
kind. An enormous sun of money
was absolutely wasted on it. The
main expedition never reached a
point higher up the river than
Council Bluffs, in Iowa. One hun
bred soldiers died of scurvy, and
hundreds more suffered severely
from the disease. Criminal incom-
petence on the part of the military
authorities brought the project to
a disgraceful and tragic end.
The curious steam craft mention
ed above, built to resemble a water
monster with a view to frightening
the Indians, was named the West
ern Engineer, and is said to have
been the first stern-wheel steam
boat ever built. 1t was seventy
five feet long, thirteen feet beam
and drew nineteen inches of water.
In a sense it was typical of the
childishness and folly with which
the whole enterprise was managed.
1t was we'll known at the time
that keel boat transportation up
the Missouri was the practical
method of transport for a big party
Of men. 1t was known that with
.hese boats the march to the mouth
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-06-01

trate with safety the recesses OF
the Rocky Mountains in search OF
rich furs; a commerce yielding a
million per annum will descend the
Missouri river. The name of the
Yellowstone river will hereafter be
familiar to the American ear"
But in the mind of the public the
ultimate possibilities of the move
ment did not stop here. One writer
asserted that the expedition would
open a safe and easy communica-
ton to China, which would give
such a spur to commercial enter
prise that ten years shall not have
elapsed before we shall have the
rich products of that country trans
ported from Canton to the Column
bia, up that river to the mountains
and down the Missouri and Mis-
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-06-01
grass.

Even as elemental as its name is
the setting of that mysterious nat"
ural wonder in Crook County, Wyo.
A shaft of cleaning granite rises
abruptly from the plain where the
Belle Fourche loiters along under the
winding green line of willows and
cottonwoods. No surrounding geolo-
gical evidence gives hint of just what
sort of majestic u%pheaval it was that
thrust it from the earth. Indeed, as
far as the scientific evidences would
prove to the contrary, it would seem
that a joking Jove in a mood of ca
PRECIOUS grandeur had cast a noble
spear-tip into the earth and left it
sticking there, an idle prank of a
bored boy.
Or maybe its very name, bestowed
upon it by the breed of expressive
men who won its domain, tells what
it really is.
Unlike many of the natural won
ders of the west, catalogued and
shopworn by the ~stereotyped throngs
of tourists, Devils Tower remains
comparatively remote from the main
travelled motor highways. Along
with the khaki-clad motorists and
bloomered women who detour from
the Black and Yellow trail and look
and exclaim and go away, there are
the pilgrimages of real westerners
who appreciate it as a native, kin
dred element of their environment.
herder pitches his lambing camp
there in spring, and the roundup out
fit makes camp there for the night.
1t is a high place in western setting,
bringing into work-a-day life there
an element of beauty, of sublimity,
vague terror and mystery.
Here is Frank E. Burdick, an old
timer from down in Weston county
has driven his small, i~nvincible
mules, Domino and Pedro, fifty miles
today. Frank is one who rode the
range in the early days. A retired
rancher, he has a small motor car
to which his fellow townsmen refer
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-06-01

sissippi, all the way %(mountains
and alp by the potent power of
steam" The predictions of this
optimist were, in reality, fulfilled
something over half a century later
but not until the wildernesses of
the west had claimed the lives of
unnumbered thousands of pioneers
and many bloody Indian wars had
been fought.
Expedition a Complete Fiasco
The new use of steam upon the
navigable waters of the country
had so inspired in the minds of
Americans visions of western con-
quest that even the most conserva-
tive business men of the nation
were carried away with the wild
est ideas of what was to be imme-
diately accomplished. They saw
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-06-01

"As bright as may have been III
past, it is only a h%arbinger of what
may be expected in the future"
Such is the representation of Leon
Shaw, general manager of the Gazette
Printing company of Billings, with
respect to the city which he now
claims as his home.
"The executors of the Frat estate
have approved the plans for a three
story office structure adjoining the
Hart-Albin building on Second av-
enue, which will cost in the neigh
borhood of half a million dollars;
the Northern hotel is erecting an ad-
dition to that hostelry which will
provide 40 more rooms; Guy Staple
ton plans the addition of two more
floors on his office building; Hart
Albin are figuring on two more stor-
les on their modern store and office
building at Broadway and Second
avenue, while only last week, Sister
Mary Berksmans of the Sisters of
Charity OF LeavenwOrth, announced
that her council had instructed ia
CODY & Son of Helena to proceed
with the completion of the new ST.
Vincent hospital, on which the Sis
tiers have expended $464,0 600 already.
The cost of completing the structure
will amount to $4,000, to say moth
ing of it's furnishing, which will give
Billings the largest hospital in the
state. The Deaconess hospital is
also to be completed this year, unless
present plans miscarry. New homes
are being erected by the GORE.
With the bringing of natural gas
to the city, which spells new indus
tries, and the glowing crop and live
stock prospects, residents of Billings
are more than imbued with the idea
that the future of their city is doubly
assured. Splendid prices are being
realized for the various wool clips
and the most encouraging outlook for
a good grass crop, which incidentally
is regarded as one of the most profit
able and dependable extant, auses
the appearance of the smile that will
not falter. All in all, the outlook is
regarded as most favorable, especial
ly when new oil and gas developments
are considered"
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-06-01
DEVILS TOWER LANDMARK ON
OLD DEADw0OD CATTLE TRAIL

as the 81. w. W." for certain reasons.
but when Frank goes on a real out
ing for the purpose of pleasure, OF
quiet contemplation and peace OF
mind, he chooses Domino and Pedro
as his means of transportation. These
illegitimate offspring of tough lit
tie broncho mares a jog along hour
after hour, while the cactus and sage
brush-bejeweled miles, l~eisurely, but
surely and pleasantly, unwind them
selves under small, logged hoofs, and
shambling spiraled with baling wire.
Good For so Miles
Frank hobbies the little mules out
by a water hole at the side of the
trail at night, and by morning they
are sufficiently fed up on buffalo
| grass and "nigger WOOL to go an
other fifty or sixty miles. And they
can do the same thing the next day
and the next and the next, as long
as the grass grows and the axle
| grease holds out.
at wasn't so many years ago that
a certain governor of the state ira
veled that way almost altogether,
and wouldn't think of including gaso-
Lille Ill Ills tIdfCllnE cAptjocO, Nv
veteran plainsman confided. "He
would stop at any ranch house at
night and he'd be welcome. He al
ways carried a demi-john down
against the dashboard, and he had
friends everywhere.
II used to ride the range with
Senator John D. Kendrick back in
cow-punching days, too. Our boss
was a big-hearted sort of a man, but
he knew how to set the pace in the
hard life. He'd always wash his face
in the creek of a morning and would
think it a disgrace to be so refined
as to use a towel. Sometimes he'd
take an axe along to chop a hole in
the ice, but that is as far as he'd ever
go in the way of daintiness in his
toilet.
Singing Cowpuncher
1--WE had one fellow in our outfit
from Texas who was the best singer
l ever heard. He had that southern
and that way of pronouncing
words, that gave his songs a kind
of sadness and beauty-and when it
comes to sad songs, | guess your
care-free cowboy has got
tu6m all D6dL. lue Joy . bd-
ment," and BURY Me Not on the
Lone Prair-ee'' and a lot of others
are samples.
This lad was always talking about
Austin, his home town, and saying
that this and that happened in Aus
tin. 1t was Austin, Austin, all the
time. We got to calling him Austin,
and we plumb forgot his right name.
Zone night when Austin had the
night herd, the cattle stampeded at
something. When cattle stampede,
crazy wild, and nothing can
them. You just have to ride
full tilt ahead of them and keep
hem together the best you can till
hey get winded a little and calm
Town. His horse fell, and we found
his body trampled into the ground.
"All we could do was to dig a hole
Tor him and leave him there, and
Austin was the name we scratched
n the sandstone that marked his
grave. It's over there, about twenty
over toward Kara mountain"