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Evening star., 1924-12-30
COLLEGE men enter
ALOYSIUS CLUB RACE

In addition to numerous entries al
ready announced for the Aloysius
Club seven-mile modified Marathon,
latest reports state that several col
legiate runners of note will take part
in the grind over the Capital streets
on New Year day.
Henry D. Mirick. a member Of the
Princeton team, will contest for hon
ors; Edwin D. Mckee will represent
the Naval Academy and Samuel H.
Martin will carry the colors Of Dart
mouth.
Clark Griffith, president Of the
Washington ball club, will be official
starter and efforts are being made to
have Bucky Harris or Joe Judge
award the prizes.
Post entries will be accepted.
Evening star., 1924-12-30
ALOYSIUS oUINT PICKS
FITZGERALD AS LEADER

Leo Fitzgerald, basket ball veteran,
will captain the Aloysius five this
season. He has played with the i
streeters for the past five seasons.
Emmett Nader. former Mount st.
Joseph star. has cast his lot with
Aloysius-
Coach George Cclliflower has called
a practice THURSDAY at 3 o'clock.
Evening star., 1924-12-30
Critics Called "Ode High Prices Keep Players in Minors
ANN ARBOR MEN MAY HELP
JOHNSON BUY COAST CLUB

RENO. New, December 3O.-Wal-
ter J0hnson, WaahingtOn AMeri-
cain League base ball pitcher, who,
according to reports from the East
today, had been offered financial
aid by two Ann Arbor, Mich. men
to help In purchasing the Oakland
club Of the Pacific Coast League,
admitted today TINT he UNDER
stands such negotiations were
under way, but said he was not
In n position to discuss the
matter.
Evening star., 1924-12-30

In his time Brouthers batted some
of the longest hits on various
diamonds that ever were made. He
smashed one over the center field
fence at Baltimore. That was the
Baltimore greatest hit for years. He
hit some on Eastern Park in Brook
lyn, a playground long out of memo
ry, that carried over the heads of
the outfielders and winged on toward
Canarsie, fishing resort down to-
ward Jamaica Bay.
He cracked the ball time and again
or the Polo Grounds for long range
drives, and in Cleveland and Detroit
Brouthers had only to walk to the
plate to make all the outfielders of his
time back away for the fence. If Dan
had the pitching to face in his time
that has been the standard of recent
years he might have home run
record equal to that of Ruth and he
might have been able to bat the ball
farther than Ruth has. But the
pitchers of Brouthers' time were real
throwers of the ball and not the
apologetic young men who have been
slipping easy ones around the cor
ners these days in order that they
may save their arms for more dough.
BroutneTS Wds d III ol poSeii'oh ~
fielding occupation and less success
full on the field than at bat. but 1t
mattered little to the managers who
engaged him, because his great hit
ting would easily make up for an
occasional error In the field. He was
a member of the famous Big Four
that went to Detroit and won a
championship for that city, setting
an Michigan alive with base bah en-
thusiasm and doing = poMsr Of Sood
Evening star., 1924-12-30

.. Get acquainted with the game
wardens and help them. They are
not doing your work. They can only
help you to do your own.
This is good code to follow, for
unpleasant relations with each other
and with the farmers can spoil the
finest day afield for any sportsman.
Mutual and sympathetic relations are
a part Of the pleasures of all outdoor
sport, and they should not be placed
in jeopardy.
Evening star., 1924-12-30
RING RIVALS PREPARING
FOR THURSDAYS SCRAP

Jack Turner and Joe Bashara are
whipping themselves in shape for the
12-round feature bout of the boxing
show to be held Thursday night at
Fort Myer.
;. Some lively milling should be
forthcoming in the semi-fnal, which
involves Midget Carbon and Eddie
Leonard.
Evening star., 1924-12-30

for base ball, which needed a stimu-
lus after the pennants had gone year
after year either to Chicago or to one
of the larger Eastern cities.
When Detroit went to smash Brouth-
ers went East and played with cham
pionship teams on that side of the
divide. and always played with a batting
average that made the averages of other
batters appear amateurish. Finally that
time came when he would not longer
shoulder the big stick of ash that he had
carried back and forth hundreds of
miles to hit the ball over the fence.
In 1887, when Detroit won the cham
pionship, he batted for .419, and If the
quality of pitching, the time and other
things be taken into consideration that
is one of the greatest batting achieve
ments in the history of the national
game In 1895 he batted $50, and after
that he ceased to play base ball. In Is
years of bali playing he never batted
less than .306 in the major leagues. His
legs failed him and he dropped out of
the game, but not until his name Big
Dan" was household word.
He tried his hand at various things.
but not with the greatest success and
one day when the pride of Wappingers
Falls, for that is the little New York
hamlet in which he was born, happened
around at the Polo Grounds he was
given the job of night watchman. and
there he. has BEEN to this time, coming
in when the ball players are about
through, occasionally looking at game
and frequently shaking his head with a
puzzled expression on his face If you
are close enough to him you will hear
him mutter: They didn't play that way
when / was out there
Next-Sam Thompson. =
Evening star., 1924-12-30
DENT TO PLAY SHERMAN.

Morris Dent will face Johnny Sf.er-
man in one of the pocket billiard
tournament matches tonight at the
Grand Central parlors. George Kelck-
ncr & dfcated Heary Roorke. 10O. to IS.
.SSt night.
Evening star., 1924-12-30
NUMBER OF MAJOR TYPE
ARE in LOWER CIRCUITS
Boley of Baltimore and Rhyme of San Francisco
Would Be Valuable Additions to Several Clubs
That Need ShOrfstops
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.
Copyright, 19o4.)

EW YORK, December 30-There players
leagues who would help league
but who will chance probability
league going let them prices simply
the majors ant
Bo the Baltimore shortstop player this Rhyme
third Waner kid
of Seattle
players and money sufficient quantity to i'm.
Evening star., 1924-12-30
WILLIAMS GETS DECISION
IN BOUT WITH SCHWARTZ

BALTIMORE, December 30-Kid
Williams, former bantamweight
of the world, was awarded
the decision over Joey Schwartz of
Washington after IL rounds Of fight
ing last night.
1t was Williams first battle fol-
lowing a long period Of inactivity.
Evening star., 1924-12-30
GIRL TossERs TO PRACTICE.

Princess A. c. sextet expects to
practice tonight in the Wilson Nor
NAL gymnasium in preparation for
the coming season of court contests.
Manager Anabelie Totten, at the tele-
phone company, will receive chal-
lenges.
Evening star., 1924-12-30
ONE-TIME NATIONAL DEAD,

BELLAIRE, Ohio, December 30
William White, 81, former major
league ball player, died in a hospital
yesterday after a three-day illness.
He played ball with Comiskey when
the latter was captain Of the st. Louis
Browns. He once was a member of
th0 Washington Americans.
Evening star., 1924-12-30
CRIDIRON COACHES SPURN
PROPOSED RULE CHANGE
Express Confidence i'm Publics Estimate of Value
of Foot Ball--N. C. A. A. Discusses Code Today.
Mentors of Game Elect Officers.
BY the Associated Press.


EW YORK December 3OCrit of forward pass ball
"ohdey majority opinion the Nations and
Unahed first battles the aerial faces the meeting
the National Collegiate Athletic Association today with confidence
satisfactory failed
satisfying itself with adoption of suggested changes
officials
objection with this of foot ball
Harold kid
kept his promise refrain from decision the coaches
He filed the
reported for Gore would only three points for
Evening star., 1924-12-30
BETTER PETWORTH FIVE
OVERWHELMS DAMASCUS

kIWORI1 ATHLETIC CLUBS FIVE handicapped
the season by its inability gymnasium
hopes to place the local basket ball
registered the formidable Damascus
worth has improved considerably
Evening star., 1924-12-30
WILL HONOR ATHLETES.

Mardfeldt Athletic Club will honor
its athletes at banquet Monday
might 1T The Masonic Hall, Mills ..oad
ard Rhode Island avenue northeast.
Evening star., 1924-12-30
Basket Ball Yesterday

At pittsburEh-PrincetO 81, Car
neEfe Tech, 20.
At Meadyfl1e, FA.-A1leEheny, %;
Adrian, IS.
Evening star., 1924-12-30
THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS
BY WILL Ell. DIG.
President, Isaak Walton League of America.

SPORTSMENS Michigan convention recen,v
outlined code of ethics which worth printing hope all
oudoorsmen will read it. The three parts
treating of the play other
Evening star., 1924-12-30
Fifty Years of Base Ball
One of a Series of articles by John B. Foster Com
memorating the FittietF Anniversary of the
National League to Be Celebrated
Next Season.
xxvII-Greatest PIayers-Dan Brouthers.

NY evening the Polo Grounds New York City, night
~ bell is with
shoulders broad those will
ask "Who's here?"
League eligible
of any is
Evening star., 1924-12-30
AL0YSIUS BOARD TO MEET.

Members of the Aloysius athletic
committee are to meet in the club
house tonight at Gas o'clock
Evening star., 1924-12-30
BY. II. G. SALSINGER.

TY COBB is the most important
figure in the most important
game in the most important
Smyrna times., 1924-05-21
SMYRNIANS JOIN DELAWARE
SONS ON ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE
THREE HUNDRED NATIVE DEL
AWAREANS MEET AT NEWARK
Dinner At Old College Furnished OPP
pOrtunity For Speechmaking From
Prominent SOns-Fine Program

L
Harry B. Grieves, Henry D. Boyer,
OF this town, together with contin-
gents from Clayton, Kenton, Ches-
void and surrounding country Joined
the 300 or more former Delawareans
in the annual pilgrimage of the Sons
of Delaware of Philadelphia, to New
ark Saturday afternoon, where they
were cordially welcomed by DR.. Wal
ter Hullihen, president; A. G. Will
kinson, business administrator;
Dean Charles A. McCue and several
other members of the University staff
comprising reception committee.
Dean Winifred ]. Robinson and mem
bers of the staff of the Women's Col
lege assisted in making the visit of
the Philadelphia former natives of
Delaware a pleasant one. There were
a number of former Smyrnians resid-
ing in Philadelphia down for the day.
At the Women's College the visitors
witnessed the annual May day exer-
cises of the students of that college,
which included dances and a pageant.
The Delaware Sons then visited Fraz-
er Field, where they saw Delaware
defeat st. Johns College at baseball,
and then witnessed Delaware's defeat
in track and field sports by Swarth-
more. Dinner was served in Old Col
lege. More than 300 were seated at
the banquet table. Music was furn-
ished by the University orchestra.
Samuel A. Townsend, president of the
Sons of Delaware, presided and for
mer Governor Charles R. Miller, a
trustee Of the University and chair
man of the finance committee of the
board, was toastmaster. DR.. Hullihen
in brief address, expressed gratitude
for the interest the Sons of Delaware
are taking in tine institution, and es-
pecially for the annual scholarship
for boys. William Jackson, of Dover,
present holder of the Sons of Della
ware scholarship, was among those
present. Rev. Warren Giles, pastor
of the First Reformed Church of
Orange, N. j., urged the upholding of
the Constitution as the greatest docu-
ment in the world. The speaking was
interpersed with community singing.
Prof. o. w. Mosher rendered a vio-
lin solo. The visitors left on a late
train for Philadelphia.
Smyrna times., 1924-05-21
GIFT OF $4,000 TO DELAWARE
University Bequeathed Sum of Money
BY Miss Emily Hammer, Wilmington

University Bequeathed Sum of Money
By Miss Emily Hammer, Wilmington
In her last will and testament,
which has been filed with Register of
Wills Isaac Brown for probate, Emily
A. Hammer, deceased, bequeathes to
the Wilmington Brandywine Gene
terry Company $500 for the perpetual
care of her grave, and all of the re-
mainedr of her estate to the trustees
of Delaware College (now the Uni
versity of Delaware) to be held in
trust forever, and to be known as
"phe Emily Hammer Fund" Miss
Hammer was a nurse and worker in
Wilmington for many years. 1t was
stated last week, by Charles B. Evans,
of Newark, who is handling the estate
and who received letters testamentary
therein, Saturday, the endowment to
the University would total about
$4,000. The income from the money
is to be used to aid and assist such
deserving young women from the City
of Wilmington as the trustees shall
designate, to complete her, or their
education at the College for Women.
Smyrna times., 1924-05-21
WHEAT AT CLAYTON
W. d. Hudson and Charles A. Downs
Try Method of Nitrogen Bearing
Fertilizer AS a Top Dressing

The top-dressing of wheat in the
spring with either nitrate of soda or
sulphate of ammonia is a practice not
followed by very many farmers in
this section of the country. Perhaps
one of the principal reasons for the
farmers generally not using either of
these commercial fertilizers is the
high cost of the materials as COM
pared with the price received for the
crop at harvest time. Considering this
wide variation in the cost of produc-
tion of wheat it may be determined
in the near future that the use of
such fertilizers will result in a profit
able increase in the yield. In order
to demonstrate this possibility, there
fore, few wheat fields in Kent Coun-
ty have been selected by County
Agent Russell E. Wilson for the pur-
pose of trying a nitrogen-bearing fer
tilizer as a top dressing. Last year
five plots were treated with sulphate
of ammonia at the rate of 100 pounds
per acre, and the resultant increase
in yield on these fertilized plots was
approximately ten bushels per acre.
However, this may not be the case
every year, so similar tests are being
made again this year in three differ
ent wheat fields in the county. These
plots are located on the farms of w.
D. Hudson near Clayton, Charles A.
Downs southwest of Clayton, and
Howard Hudson near Frederick. On
each farm the plots have been divided
into two blocks, one block receiving
the sulphate of ammonia at the rate
of 100 pounds per acre and the other
block being treated with this material
at the rate of $50 pounds to the acre.
At harvest time a given area of wheat
will be cut from each block and the
grain threshed separately in order
that the various yields may be COM
puted on the acre basis.
Smyrna times., 1924-05-21
MASONIC FIELD DAY ON MAY 80
Baseball, Battalion Drill and Other
Events for Big Annual Event at Home

Baseball, Battalion Drill and Other
Events for Big Annual Event at Home
Thesecond annual Masonic Field
Day will be held at the Masonic Home
on Lancaster Pike, Memorial Day,
May 80. The first field day met with
such success that it has been decided
to continue the custom. 1t is planned
to have a complete day of recreation,
commencing at 10, daylight saving
time. The first event will be a base
ball game between the DeMolay team
and a team led by George L. Winter,
former big league baseball star. Other
events will follow, with prizes for the
winners. There will be events for
men, women and children. The drill
battalion of st. Johns Commandery
No. 1, K. T., will attend the affair in
a body. Music will be furnished by
the Masonic band, under direction of
Charles NJ. Banks. Howard r. Cruise,
a lawyer, recently elected Junior
Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of
New Jersey, will be the principal
speaker. It is expected hundreds of
members Of the Masonic fraternity
from all over the state will attend.
Last year there were more than s.
600 persons present.
Smyrna times., 1924-05-21
ST. PETERS CHURCH NOTES
Rev. Thomas Getz Hill, Rector, An
nOunces Meetings and Services

Rev. Thomas Getz Hill Rector, An
nOunces Meetings and Services
There will be Evensong and Choir
Rehearsal in the church on this We'd
nesday eevning, at half-past seven
o'clock. Sunday, May 25th, will be
the Fifth Sunday after Easter and
Rogation Sunday. The services will
be Holy Communion at 7.30 a. M;
Church School at 10 a. M; Morning
Prayer and sermon at II a. M; and
Evensong with sermon at 7.30 p. m.
At the services on Sunday opportun-
ity will be given for special offerings
for the Japanese Reconstruction Fund.
In connection with the latter, the
Church will be open all Thursday Ito
morrow for the use of the congrega-
ton in Special Intercessions. Perhaps
no need so great and urgent has ever
come to the church, and the future of
Christian life of Japan rests largely
upon how quickly and generously we
respond to their need. Let US make
this a matter of prayer and real sac
rifce. The Current Events meeting
announced for tomorrow night has
been put forward to Tuesday evening
of next week.
Smyrna times., 1924-05-21
SMYRNA TOWN COUNCIL TALKS
STREETS WITH F. ". LOVETT
PROJECT TO RESURFACE COM
MERGE AND S. MAIN STREET
Also Build Portion of Frazier Street
Other Streets to Be Patched Up
Council COnfers With Mr.. Buck

Council COnfers With Mr.. Buck
Smyrna Town Council held a special
meeting Wednesday evening to talk
over with F. w. Lovett, of Newark,
the well-known road contractor, the
project of repairs to streets. Mr..
Lovett, it will be remembered built
our present Commerce Street of tar
via X penetration and macadamed Mt.
Vernon, South, Delaware and Union
Streets and lower Main Street over
the causeway. Commerce Street be-
ing more substantially built than the
others has stood up unusually well
and all it needs is few repairs made
here and there and top dressing its
entire length. The other streets
which are less permanently built has
shown more wear, especially Mt. Yer
non Street and the South end of Main
Street, from the brick paving to the
Boulevard. Mr.. Lovett went over the
proposition carefully with members
of Council, suggesting all ways pos
sible to keep down the cost. AS it is,
the repairs and top dressings will run
into the neighborhood of $4,000. Com
merce Street will be top dressed from
one end to the other. Council took up
the matter of Commerce Street and
lower Main Street with Chief Engi-
neer Buck of the State Highway De-
partment, on Thursday, with the view
of getting state aid for continuing the
concrete from the Smyrna-Clayton
road right thru Commerce Street to
and joining up with the Boulevard,
but Mr.. Buck felt Commerce Street
was in too good a condition to sacri-
flee at this time when the State High
way Department was limited in its
funds out of this years appropria-
tion to take on any more work than
was actually needed. Council then
tried to get Mr.. Buck to widen the
turns into the Boulevard to and from
Commerce Street by removing the
abutments, but got little or no en-
couragement. He did promise to take
under consideration with the Highway
Commission the approach at Main
Street on the South, where Council
proposes to repair and resurface with
tarvia from Chestnut Street on down
over the causeway. Nothing has de-
veloped for the present in the matter
of opening a new street from North
Main Street diagonally to the Boule-
ward. This is still in the hands of the
special citizens committee. AS Mr..
Lovett has a full road equipment and
it especially prepared to do street
work, it is probable that Smyrna
Town Council will let him start re-
pairs and resurfacing as soon as pos
sible. There is a strong public senti-
ment to build a macadam street on
Frazier Street on account of the new
High School Building and this prob
ably will be done too while Mr.. Lovett
is here with his equipment.
Smyrna times., 1924-05-21
CELERY-CAULIFLowER TESTS
Being Made With Various Seeds in
Several Parts of Kent County

Through the courtesy of one of the
reliable seed firms in this section of
the country several different strains,
or varieties of celery and caulifower
seeds were sent free Of charge to the
Kent County Agents Office for dem
onstrational purposes this. spring.
These various strains of seed were
distributed to five different farmers
in the county who are interested in
truck growing, with view of de-
termining the manner in which these
special strains will produce under our
climatic and soil conditions. The
The farmers who received these seeds
are as follows: George H. Willms,
west of Dover; Charles A. Downs,
southwest of Clayton; John w. Killen,
near FELTON,; Arthur Rounds, near
Wyoming, and Caleb Boggs and Son,
near Cheswold. Each grower receiv-
ed five different strains of celery seed,
the Golden -Blanching (TalD,
Golden Self-Blanching Dwarf, Gold
en- Plume, Giant Pascal, and Newark
Market; and three different strains of
caulifower seed, the Catskill Snow
ball, Early SNOWFALL, and Early
Dwarf Erfurt. These various strains
will be grown in comparison with
other strains and varieties of celery
and caulihower on these truck farms
for the specific purpose of studying
the producing qualities and the degree
of adaptation of these introduced
strains, to our local conditions.
Smyrna times., 1924-05-21
OPENING UP FERTILE SECTION
Concrete Highway and Canal Will De-
velOp Cypress Swamp District


Bids will be opened by the Della
ware State Highway Department on
June A for the construction of three
and one-quarter miles of concrete
highway, from Mission to Gumboro.
When this stretch is completed there
will be a concrete road from Laurel
to Gumboro, a distance of approx
mately twelve miles, and will be the
means of opening up a section of
Sussex County which for many years
has been almost isolated because of
the bad roads. Gumboro District is
one of the largest corn-producing sec
tons in lower Delaware, but for fifty
years the farmers have been handi-
capped in marketing their crops to
the shipping points of Selbyville,
Dagsboro, Frankford, Millsboro and
Laurel because the dirt roads have
been almost impossible. The section
embraces the great sypress swamp,
referred to as the Everglades of Del
aware, and contains thousands of
acres of land which cannot be titled
because of the boggy condition of the
land. Within the past few months,
however, a canal about four and a
half miles long has been dug through
a portion of the land of the district
and many of the farms are being
drained and made arabic. Within a
few years, with proper drainage con-
ditions, Gumboro District is expected
to be one of the most fertile sections
on the Delaware Peninsula.
Smyrna times., 1924-05-21
WHOLE NO. 1854
BLACKBIRD-GINN'S ROAD WORK
Seven Members of MiddIetOwn Cham
Der of Commerce Urge RecOnstruc-
ton of Road Ginn's Corner South

ber of Commerce Urge RecOnstruc-
ton of Road Ginn's Corner South
A delegation of Middletown resi-
dents met with disappointment yes
terday when they appeared before the
Levy Court with a petition signed by
forty-one residents of the town urg-
ing the reconstruction of the road
connecting Blackbird and Ginn's Cor
ners, south of Middletown. The dele
cation consisting of seven members
of the Middletown Chamber of Com
merce, headed by w. L. Letherbury,
presented the petition, and Mr.. Leth-
erbury and J. D. Reynolds were
spokesmen. They said the road is al
most impossible; that the truck haul
age over the road is heavy, and if re-
constructed much traffic would be di-
verted into the town. Mr.. Stewart
informed the delegation that at the
present time the county has authoriz-
ed bond issue of $500,000, but if all
demands for road improvements were
allowed, this sum would fall far short
of paying for the work projected. Mr..
Stewart said that last year the New
Castle County Levy Court expended
$950,OO0 on bridges and road work in
Rural New Castle county and that 78
per cent of this money was paid out
of Wilmington taxes. Although the
petition was referred to the Court as
a committee of the whole Mr.. Stewart
said he felt the delegation should
know that at the present time moth
ing could be done towards recon-
structing the road. Those in the
delegation were: w. K. Belts, E. S.
Jones, E. NJ. Shallcross, w. N. Dono-
van, ]. D. Reynolds, DR.. w. S. P.
Comb, w. L. Letherbury.