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New Britain herald., 1923-01-15
Bargains in Notions
COTTON TAPES and BELTING

 10 yard English Tape, 114 to s4-inch, ? pieces 25c.
 , yard Cameo Tape, pieces He. 3 yard pieces of Trimming Edge, all col ors, ? pieces 9c.
 6 yard pieces best Trimming Braid, pieces 15c.
 9 yard pieces of Cameo Lingerie Tape ? pieces for 23c
 yard pieces of Oriental Trimming Braid, l9c piece.
 6 yard pieces of Rckrack Braid, 1Oc piece.
 Warren's Spring Maide Lingerie Tape, ? for 15c.
 6 yard pieces of Bias Tape, pieces for SC. Warren's Girdlene Betting reduced for this sale. The 23c quality to 17c; the 2Sc quality to 2lc and the soc quality to 23c. Ten yard pieces of Cotton Betting, in dit ferent widths, lla, 1$4, 2, 2la and inches, special at 69c.
 Lingerie Tape ia white, blue and piGs, :, Jard pieces, saIe prlcc. pieces f0i 5c. yard pieces of Bias Tape, pieces for 5c.
New Britain herald., 1923-01-15
SPOOL COTTONS, DARNING COTTONS
 AND SILKS

800 dozen genuine Willimantic Cotton, sale price 5oc dozen apools. Limit dozen. Kerr's Luster Twist, spools 25c.
 Nassau Blasting Cotton, ? spoOls 7c., 1,20O yard spools Climax Blasting Cotton, 19c a spool.
 50 yard spools Eagle Sewing Silk, made by Beding Bros, 6 spools for 25c.
 NIerricl's Gilt Edge Darling Cotton, 45 yard spools, 3 spools for 10c.
 Manco Mercerized Darning Cotton, spools for 10c.
 Large balls of pure Silk Darning Cotton, sale price ? for 69c.
 Small lot of White Sewing Silk, 400 yards on spool. Sale price 19c spool. Belding Darning Silk, 6c, for 35c.
New Britain herald., 1923-01-15
Eo.iie Cancor Says vaude- viliia.,s and Cartoonists
 "Borned' It

Eddie Cantor ha. discovered the fountainhead of sang
 I'm part of t, he nodestly an nounees "All the peoples. Of Am ,fica's language originates v-it;i the vardeviilist and ths cartoonist
 Maybe |. docfn'' 4lvays Qet ir.t the .highbrow dictionaries, but I'm not sure there wouldn't be more
New Britain herald., 1923-01-15
NEW MONTHLY AT YALE.
Undergraduate Board Announces The
 Elihu, "Semi-Serious."

New Haven, Jan. 15.--A new Yale undergraduate publication to be known as The Elihu after Elihu Yale, the founder of the college, and off cially descEibed as "semi-serious, !" will be launched on Feb 1, it is an nounced.
 The magazine will be Issued month- y, and, according to the announce ment. will not conflict with The Yale Record, devoted to humor. nor The Literary Magazine. devoted to liter ature. Music. the drama, literature, athletics and humor will be presented while many illustrations and draw ings are promised. The Yale Daily Vows editorially calls it a welcome addition"
 T. F. D. Haines will be chairman of the board of editors.
New Britain herald., 1923-01-15

Gold was used as money in Egypt 2o0o B. c.
New Britain herald., 1923-01-15

fife to our national speech if t did.
 There's ene expression for whic.' I'm going to make 2 personal pie' to inc dictionary chap. That's Tfot Lips. It's tn. title O. my sure-hit comedy song this -eason and every where l go t become. the gem of tte community line of -epartee.
 Though you -nayn't guess it, the expression means iazzy saxaphcne player And when vou say . n1u. sician nas hot lios. i. $ stuivslcnt to ,emarkine tha. he o.o~5 a wicked sav.
 Expressive. eh, s-hat,.. Did Webster ever heat Ii or for tha. matter equal iti"
New Britain herald., 1923-01-15

Average pair of squirrels store away a supply about five times more plenti- ful than they can possibly cat during the winter.
New Britain herald., 1923-01-15
CORSET LACES

Five yard Mercerized Corset Laces in flesh and white ? for 9c.
 Ten yard tubular silk Corset Laces value S150. Sale price soc.
 Eight yard mercerized Corset Laces, , for 15c.
 No. 1710 flat mercerzed Corset Laces, 5 yard length for 15c.
 HAIR PINS and FANCY PINS 10c cabinets of. assorted Hair Pins, 7c ca. 12c cabinets of assorted Hair Pins, 9c ca. Kirby, Beard & Company's Wire Hair Pins, Sc.
 Kirby, Beard & Company's Wire Invisible Hair Pins, 2 for 5c.
 De Long's Silver assorted Hair Pins, 15c box for He.
 De Longs Bronze and Black Invisible Hair Pins, 19c box for 14c.
 Peacock Invisible Hair Pins, boxes for 5c. Alliance Wire Hair Pins, packages for 5c. ,15c cards of Imported Pearl Head Pins I 1c. Melt Pin Books, assorted sizes, Sc. Large size Pin Books, assorted sizes, 10c. 25c Cube Pins, assorted, 19c. 25c Diadem Hair Pins, our price 16c. 25c Paramount Hair Pins, our price, 19c.
Evening star., 1923-02-27
STAR MATMEN GRAPP[E
IN TWO SHRINE BOUTS

A wrestling program arranged to
satisfy the most exacting mat sport
fan is to be presented at Convention
Hall tomorrow night, according to
the committee of Mystic Shriners
conducting the affair for the benefit
of the Almas Temple band and floor
team. The feature number which is
to bring together Waino Ketonen,
generally recognized as middleweight
champion, and Joe Turner. one-time
holder of that title. is to be preceded
by q match between Pinkey Gardner
of Schenectady and Hughie Mcdonald
of Pittsburgh, grapplers closely
pressing the main go contenders Tor
laurels in their class.
Ketonen, who halls from Rutland,
Mass. is no stranger here, having re-
Gently won a grueling match from
John Kilonis, the New York punting
wrestler, and it will not be the
champions first battle with Turner,
the local product. Ketonen has great
respect for Turner's ability.
Gardner has wrestled here frequent
ly and his work always has pleased
Washington devotees Of the sport.
Mcdonald is,little known here, but he
has been upsetting all corners in
Pittsburgh and the middle west and
is rated high among the middle
weights of the country.
Evening star., 1923-02-27

our business manager. Among olhef
old-time base ball people along was
Ted Sullivan.
On the trip across the United states
we were helped out by many stars
such as Mathewson. Chicf MtSers'
Fred Snodgrass. Jeff Tesreau and Art
Frommc Among those to help out
the SoX were Walter Johnson, Ray
Schalk, Doc White. Frank lSbeli:
Lefty Russell. Walter Mattick and
Joe Berger.
The receipts of these thirty-one
games made up the greater part OF
our expense money. The rams hocked
to see us 10y the thousand. We made
A feature of visiting little towns that
had never seen a big league BAH play
or and probably never would again.
IN our surprise these country fans
knew every man by reputation. Al
one plsce a crowd sat up until after
midnight to see our special tram
J come through and to get glimpse oi
the players of whom they had read.
Finally, setting ont from San fran-
cisco. we sailed through fifty different
hodies of water and railroaded
pr through Japan. China. Australia,
Egypt. Italy, France and England.
,Japanese Know tho Game.
OF the non English speaking coun-
tries we found the japanese better
informed on base ball thar any other
people All the big universities thers
nave teams and they have advanced
rapidly in the finer points of base
ball In a few years i expect TO see
Japan as much of base ball country
To go into the details OF this long
tour probably would be tiresome, es-
necialIy to those who were not on
the trip. We had many good laughs
One of these was when we got Bill
KLEIN up one night to be ready IN
case the ship should run into the
equator while the tide was down;
He and others were quite renewed
when we crossed safely.
The climax of the trip-the big
game-was in London when the king
attended and we had an attendance
of $4,000 To make it more spectacu-
lar the game wound up with a nome
run wallop by Faber.
Callahan and l were notified early
in the day that the king would re-
ceive us in his box. The American
ambassador tipped US off that We
were to wear high hats and Jfrock
coats. We were mighty busy that
day getting all set.
Just Whnt the King Said.
Then, to our discontinue, just as
we were about to start for the box.
word was sent down to us that high
hats wouldn't do. The king said that
the ordinary bowler would do-derby,
or Iron hat" as we call it.
There has been much said as to
the conversation between the king.
Callahan and myself AS a matter of
fact very little was said.
II am glad to meet you. Mr.. Mc>
Graw," said the king, just as anybody
else would do.
Il thank you." said. and we shook
hands. He did the same to Callahan.
Your game is very interesting and
| would like to know more about it,
said the king.
1--WE certainly hope that you will
have a chance to see more of it," I
said
We then bowed out and went back
to our respective benches.
Copyright, 1923, U. s. and CANADA. by Christy
Walsh Syndicate.b
Evening star., 1923-02-27
Do,Un the Alleys

Hilltoppers of the Washington
Ladies' League won two Of three
games from Mount Pleasant last
night, with the scores 44G. 47o and
465. Florence Lowd had the best
set of 3O4 and Lorraine Gulli hi
game of 109.
Columbians captured the odd game
from the Western Union girls, with
the scores 430. 440 and 442. Marjorie
Bradt had the top game Of los.
Car Department of the Railroad
Y. NJ. c. A. League swept the boards
being Ss5. 4os. 4o7. Doy4ng had high
set of 325 and best game of PA.
Manhattans hold the high team set
record in the District League, in de
feating the King Pins in three games.
They rolled 1854. Rathskeller, with
LII. had been given credit
Evening star., 1923-02-27
around the World With
the White So1-Just
What the King of Eng
land Said When He
GreetedMcCralU-BaSe
Ball and the Crime
Ware.

A LWAYS it has been my am
~ bition to see the profession
\ of base ball elevated / have
seen it rise higher and higher, but
the peak has not yet been reached
by any means.
Following out this ambition al
ways have made it a point to have
the players on my club absorb as
much information and general pol
lish as possible by observation. 1t
was this that prompted me to make
the trip around the world with the
White Sox.
love my profession and am proud
of 1t. Base ball. to my way of think
ing, means much more to America
than a mere game for making money.
1t has a big influence. incidentally.
have just learned from statisticlan
in Washington that crime showed a
decided decrease during the world
series between the Giants and the
Yanks-showed a falling off all over
the country.
| didn't quite see the connection
everybody in the outcome of the
series had diverted the minds of
Young and old from thoughts of
crime Anyway. it fell off during that
week remarkably.
Went Sightseeing Abroad.
When ! ives a young fellow playing
on the Orioles Jennings. Kelley, my
self and others made a. trip to the
other side just to see things We did
not go to play ball-just observe.
was SO impressed with what | saw
that ever since / have had desire to
take a. ball club around the world and
show people of the other countries
lust what our great national sport
means.
After the world series in 1912. when
I was appearing on the stage for the
first. last and only time, 1 met Garry
Hermann, John Bruce and Charles
Comiskey in Smiley" Corbetts place
in Chicago I had just finished a per-
formance at the Palace !Theater.
After q few moments of converse
tion Comiskey called me over to a
table were we could talk alone.
..Say, john" he said, what do you
think of taking our teams on a trip
around the world?"
This took me back for a moment
hut only for a moment.
when would you want to start! L
Fright after the close of the 1913
season"
That's all there was to it. Mr.. Co
Evening star., 1923-02-27

To avoid confusion. the 1sOth me-
ridlan has been chosen as an interna-
tional date line where a day is arbi-
trarily dropped or added. according as
the voyager is proceeding west or
east. The 180th meridian is. Of course,
just half way around the world from
Greenwich. Furthermore, it happens
to lie almost wholly in the ocean,
where this progress of dropping days
and picking them up again does not
cause the confusion that it would
cause on land.
Perhaps some of you are asking
what happens to our lost day and
whether we shall ever f1nd 1t again.
Apparently it is gone forever from
our calendar. and yet, Of course, 1t is
not really lost. We have lost Thurs
day, December 81, but we shall not
lose the twenty-four hours that folks
in other parts of the world will call
Thursday, December 21. Each day
that we race westward with the sun
is longer than the ordinary day, and
the sum of these additions, in the
course of a complete circuit Of the
globe. is exactly twenty-four hours.
Evening star., 1923-02-27

Rogers Hornsby, star second base
man of the National League, and
champion home-run batter of the
majors occupied the limelight yester-
day when the Cardinal squad worked
two hours under ideal weather con-
ditions.
Mickey Dolan, former PHILADELPHIA
shortstop. has been engaged as a
coach to aid the Cardinals in develop
! Ing Short-fielder.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, February 27-
Most OF the pitchers and catchers of
the Cleveland Indians left last night
. Tor the spring training camp at Lake
. land. Fla.
steve o'Neil. veteran catcher, whose
/ departure was delayed by the illness
OF one of his children at Minooka. Pa,
and Walter McNichols. business man
ager. with party of newspaper men,
comprised the party which left here.
The other batterymen. with the ex-
ceptlon of those who have been at
Hot Springs for about two weeks.
/ Will go direct from their homes The
veterans who have been at Hot
Springs leave for Lakeland tonight.
The fielders will depart on March
CHICAGO. February 27.-A large
crowd of enthusiastic base ball fans
oade farewell to the advance guard
or the Chicago Americans, who de-
Evening star., 1923-02-27

The meager squad os players is to
DC enhanced on the way and enough
others are expected to be at hand
when the Florida camp is reached IL
increase it to dozen. \ seconG
group is due to report at Tampa next
Monday and the entire lot probably
Will answer to roll call by March l..
AS fast they arrive all VIII be
put to work under the watchful eyes
ot Bush, Alt"oGk and Gibson.
lsicc and Charity. who make their
IsltoInes here, were eager to board the
rattler for the south and something
smore than base bali accounted for
driver and Pat tries to. or so Sam
says. They'll be stepping off to the
links ~ soon as the daily diamond
ssdrills are ended. Maybe une of them
will become proficient enough to trim
EGrif, who likes to strut his stun
sovci the farwass.
Manager Bush, who got in ycster
sday from Indianapolis, aud Coach
AGibsun. another ntw arrival, wore
. takt the field, Both seem to have
senjoyed Il prospe rous winter and
ttraininE is hard work, even IL one
lis not performing the more arduouS
sfeatS OH the field. Russell from Bal
stim"rc and Brillheart from over III
sNirS mia. We're real clipper. too, and
slUokGd the part.
) They will need all the pep they can
sfind. Tor there are six weeks of siren
suous work ahead before the Ameri-
lean League bell rings on April 13.
sThe bunch WIS not worrying this
smorninS. though. That's being lett
suntil later.
Evening star., 1923-02-27

miSkey and I began making arrange
ments shortly afterward. Between
us we financed the entire proposition
And ". never had one scrap of paper
between us in the way of an agree
ment. What's more, we made "A COM
nete tour Of the world. starting for
the orient from San Francisco and re-
turning to New York from London.
Neither of us lost or made cent
The receipts at the games just about
paid the expenses.
To describe that trip would make
whole book in itself When We
finally arrived in New York on the
ill l-fated I.uSitania | felt. though, that
my one big ambition in life had been
realized. We had shown all the other
nations base ball. They had witness
ed the games in such numbers as to
pay our expenses.
ing the cost of travel we played thir-
ty-one exhibition games on the way
to the ocsat. in the United States. On
that part of the tour l discovered
the people of America In some
places that did not even boast Of a
ball park we drew as many as 1000
people.
Hard to Line Up Players.
Getting together two teams for this
long jaunt was difficult job. Some
could not get away from their bust
could not afford to take their families
or to leave them By perseverance we
finally succeeded and made the start.
The White SoX team was made up
of Jimmy Callahan. manager; Tommy
Daly. first base; "Germany" Schaefer,
second base; Buck Weaver. shortstop:
Dick Egan, third base; Steve Evans.
left field; Iris Speaker. center field:
Sam Crawford. right field; Jack Bliss
and Andy Slight, catchers; Joe Benz,
Jim Scott and Lefty Loverenz, pitch
ers.
The Giants were: Fred Merkle, first
base; Larry Doyle, second base; Mike
Doolin, shortstop; John Lobert, third
base; Lee Magee, left field; Mike
Donlin. center field; Jim Thorpe, right
field; Urban Faber, George Wiltse
and Bunny Hearne, pitchers; Ivy
Wingo, catcher.
Umpires. Bill KLEIN and Jack Sheri-
dan.
The late Harry Sparrow acted as
Evening star., 1923-02-27

There is no use enumerating the
why Brooklyn, which has
figured in NationaaI League cham
pionships. never has been numbered
among the world series big bugs-to
do SO makes Uncle Robby feel SO
bad.
Charles II. Ebbets, sr., who is one
of the patriarchs Of base ball, not
but through his length of service,
but through his length of srevice.
allows. he won't sell his half Of the
Brooklyn club this year. The season
is not far enough along for that sort
OF thing. About July 4, If Brooklyn
is below the league equator in
standing, melancholia may seize on
Ebbets but il the team is above the
equator he will be tickled to death.
Anyhow, no Is as ready to play win
ming ,pennant" as any of the old
timers who cannot be persuaded base
ball is not a sport. Business men in
base ball don't give a hoot for the
sport end.
There still In n powerful lot of dis
cussion today about the recent Bos-
ton deal There was bound to be.
The poor old National League, which
has been thumped and mauled on and
off for the last twenty i've years. is
being made the subject of various
sarcastic observations. They sit
about as comfortably on the Ma
tional League stomach as sugar and
oysters.
Rumor also had it today that
Evening star., 1923-02-27
BY ROBERT L. RIPLEY.

I AT SEA, December 22.-Yesterday
: was Wednesday; today is Friday.
We crossed the 1S0th meridian and
: lost Thursday from our lives.
. There are SO many things I should
: like to have done on Thursday.
The day simply disappeared. Went
Z to bed Wednesday and awake to find
. This Friday morning. Fortunately
: this phenomenon does not take place
Two days from now. or we all would
> be cheated out of Christmas.
{ The explanation Of all this is SIM
sple. AS we journey westward with
the course of the sun our watches
shave to be turned back, or else they
a@ill be found farther and farther
sahead of local time. If we were to
snake a complete circuit of the globe,
I ztourneying westward, without chang
Sfng our watches, we would find that
Eve were a whole day ahead Of every
. body else. Contrariwise, had we been
sjourneying eastward, we should find
yourselves a whole day behind every
tbody else
Evening star., 1923-02-27
WILDE is COMING OVER
TO DEFEND RING TITLE

NEW YORK. February 27.-Jimmy
Wilde. of England. world fiyweight
boxing champion. has signed to de-
fend his title in a bout at the Polo
Grounds, June 16.
Wilde has agreed to fight any one
selected by Promoter Tom O'Rourkt
the latter said. but he probably will
be matched with the winner Of the
bout next Thursday night at Madi-
son Square Garden between Pancho
villa. American fiyweight titleholder.
and frankie Genaro of New York.
Evening star., 1923-02-27
BROWNS SIGN WILLIAMS;
TERMS ARE KEPT SECRET

ST. LOUIS. February 2..-Ken-
meth Williams, 49,. American
LcnEue champion hOme-run slug
ger. has signed up again with the
local Americans. Bob Quinn, busi-
ness manager Of the Browns, has
announced. Terms Of the contract
were not made public.
1t has been known that the slug
ging Outfielder has requested a
fhree-year contract, but II could
not be learned II the document
signed yesterday was for this
duration.
Evening star., 1923-02-27


parted last night for spring training
at Sequin, Tex.
The players, who included Raw
Schalk. catcher, Pitcher Lampke and
Johnny Mosttl. outfielder, were in
charge of Manager William Gleason
and Lou Barber, travelling secretary
of the club.
Ed Walsh, new White Sox coach.
was also a member of the party.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark, February 27.
COL: T. L. Huston. part owner of
the New York Yankees, has arrived
In Hot Springs to look over his golf.
ing and mountain climbing base ball
athletes who are rapidly getting rid
or surplus weight in daily exercise.
Late arrivals in the Yankee camp
are Joe Bush and J. r. Shawkey.
NEW YORK, February 27.-Takinr
up the hegira to the southland al
ready started from all sections of the
north by major league base ball plav-
ers, a trio of Brooklyn pitchers. the
first members of that club to start.
viii embark on the steamer Lenape
today for Jacksonville, Fla There Will
be general assembly Of the team
there March s.
The sun shone yesterday on Marlin.
Tex. for the first time since the
Giants went there to train, and the
world champions held their first real
workout.
Evening star., 1923-02-27
PLEAS OF THREE PLAYERS
ARE GRANTED BY LANDIS

CHICAGO. February 27.-Applica-
tions of three base ball players for
reinstatement to the active list of
organized ball have been granted by
ommiSSioner LandiS.
They are Robert G.. Harmon. who
was on the voluntary retired list of
the Pittsburgh Nationals; Gale Staley.
voluntarily retired by the Cincinnati
Nationals, and w. w. Kinney, who
was on the ineligible list of the Phil
adelphia Americans, 1920.
Evening star., 1923-02-27
MARINES TOPLAy GR|FFS
AND D. c. COLLEGE MINES

QUANTICO. Va. February Elm
the broadCasting of the schedule and
other base ball plans of the Marines
of Quantico a message of evil for the
Sd Army Corps area. honored rival
Of the devildogs, has been picked out
Of the ether.
More than Il score of dates with
collegiate outfits of the eastern sec
ton have been set before the tena-
cious Gyrenes and they will be sand
wiched with test with the Wash
ington Americans on the Quantico
reservation June 13. Georgetown,
Catholic University and GaiIaudet
are on the list.
Excluding the series with the Sd
been set. the schedule follows:
March 23-Georgetoun.
March 24-Georgtown.
March 27-Syracuse
March 30-Stevens.
April 2-Catholic University.
April 3-Holy Cross.
April 5-Fordham
April 0-Randolph Macon.
April l4-Washington ColleSe
April ls and 19-William and Mar.
April 2S-Gallaudet at Washington
May 2-Western Maryland.
May 3-Vrginia Military Institute.
May 12-Gallaudet.
May 17-Mount St. Marys
May 19-Cathclic University.
May 23-Georgetown at Washington
May 4-Washngton College al Chestertown,
juno 13-Washington Americans at Quantico
June ls-Mount st. Mary's at Emmitsburg.
Evening star., 1923-02-27
K. O. BOXERS BOUT TOPS
NEXT FORT MYER CARD

Private AL Ward of the Sd Cavalry
at Fort Myer and Private Merritt Of
Camp Meade are to be opponents In
the eight-round feature OF the six
bout boxing program to be offered
next Tuesday night in the riding hall.
at Fort Myer. Ward has won his last
four scraps by knockouts.
Machinist Mate Mozier of the, Ana
costa naval air station and Pri-
Nate Ptomey are to meet in six
round go and Private Piscatello will
box Private Carney oyer the four
round route. Three more four-round
matches are being arranged
Evening star., 1923-02-27
NO GOLF FOR RED SOX,
PILOT CHANCE DEGREES

BOSTON, February :7.-GOlf for
ball players n looked upon with
tisfavOr by Manager Frank Chance
of the Red Sox. He declared today
that the game would be- barred to
the SON at their Hot Springs trnin-
ing camp as we'll as during the
SeasOn. "Golf takes too much out
Of the players, and there will be
enough work laid out for them on
the diamond to keep them busy,
he said.
Evening star., 1923-02-27
FORMER HEAD OF BRAVES
HAS OPTICS ON BROOKLYN
Only Chance for Him With Dodgers, However, Is to
Get Ebbets' Half, as McKeever Brothers Are
Not Inclined to Sell.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

EW YORK February 2George W. Grant longer recognized
of Nationals reliably reported to be anxious
break ball again Today he turned his ongngy
that the Brooklyn club could be
around with the idea OF organizing
corporation which might acquire that aggregation
onehalf the Brooklyn
another
dt,ke Ieaston dseries for Brook