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m0nd Tn the World, winch Weighs oIo.@ Carats. The Combined Weight of the
 Thiers Pearls Is 4S3.4 Carats.
 been in the care of a "pearl mother" Most of the time it has been Mile Greuze; but when it was impossible for her to have them other Parisian beauties took her place. In almost every instance the pearls prospered with these foster" mothers, although with some of them they pouted and sulked.
 The Thiers pearls were saved. lesson had been taught, too. They could not nc left alone. The French Government then began to form plans by which they might dispose of them. Conferences were held with heirs of the Thiers estate. Eventually law was passed which permitted the sale of the pearls. It was decided that the money they brought should be divided into three parts, one for the Louvre, one for the Thiers heirs and one for charity.
 What were they worth? No one could tell Their total weight is 1,547 grains, or 1884 carats, by which diamonds are weighed. The biggest diamond in the world. the Cullinan, weighs 516.4 carats; the Koh-inoor, 1905 carats, and the Hope diamond, 44.4 carats. Like these diamonds, the pearls could not be valued by carats.
 So it was decided to sell them to the highest bidder. When word to this effect went out the great jewellers of the world were not enthusiastic. They knew the pearls had been sick. But on the 18th of last May they were gathered together in the Louvre for the auction. One glance at them showed how we'll Mile. Greuze had nursed them back to health. They %ei3 as gloriously beautiful as ever and brought the highest price ever paid for pearls.
 The New York jewellers bought them as an investment Whoever gets them eventually will probably pay $750O00 for them There are about 300 prospective customers in this country. Not a queen or a princess in Europe could buy them. They are too poor.
 Had the love-sick pearls not been nursed back to health by the beautiful Mile. Greuze, they surely would have died.
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mantle ones say that these antagonistic women exude iron and iodine, which af- fects the gems.
 On certain other women, who love the pearlsI they thrive and prosper amaz- ingly. Invariably these are beautiful women.
 Paris ten years ago, and today for that matter, was Mile. Lillian Greuze, of the Opera Comique. She has valuable pearls
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 Mile. Greuze was finally selected for the odd and responsible position.
 It was then that the pearls frequently were missed from the Louvre.
 Every day at three o'clock Mile. Greuze would appear at the Galerie d'Apollon and the pearls would be placed about her beautiful neck Accompanied by four gendarmes, she would ride down the Rue de Rivoli to the Place de la Concorde into the Champs Elysee. She would invariably stop at one of the famous cafes and then continue on to the Bois, returning to her apartment at the Hotel Meurice at six o'clock. Then, before dressing for dinner, Mile. Greuze would spend an hour caressing and fondling the pearls, holding them against her velvety cheek, whisper ing silly nothings to them, loving them as a mother would her child. In the evening she would wear them to the opera or to whatever function she was attending. Each night, no matter what the hour, the pearls would be returned to their case In the Louvre.
 But they needed sunshine, too. So, on many occasions she would wear them to Deauville and to Biarritz and Nice. All day long she would sit on the sands in the sunshine, the pearls against her cheek or around her throat, a screen shielding her from the gaze of the curious, and num- ber of gendarmes guarding her.
 Slowly but surely the pink pearls began to respond to the treatment. They became impregnated with the personality of the beautiful woman who was mothering them, They took on new life, new lights-or rather the old ones were restored.
 Practically ever since, the gems have
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that they were as gorgeous as N ever.
 Another. decade passed, and an- 2 other. Then there was no doubt V that som ething was radically wrong with the pink pearls They were slowly pining away. They had been accustomed to tender caresses, to loving affection. In, stead of that, they were receiving only the vulgar stares of the curious multitudes. They were dying
 Something had to be done quick
 They must have pearl mother,'"
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of her own and adores them and they adore her. Her velvety skin and even temperament make her an ideal pearl moth- er." Another was Cortola Va lencia, Spanish dancer, who has lived in Paris for many years.
 Both of these beauties were considered as the pearl moth CT" to the Thiers necklace, as was also Miss Lillian Russell, greatest of American beauties, and who made pearls smile and glitter as probably no other woman in this country could.
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assss sritaLa RIshts Rsssr1ed.
Evening star., 1924-01-06
BY HANS WAGNER.

IN selecting Walter Johnson,
Christy Mathewson. Grover
Cleveland Alexander. Cy Young
and Rube Waddell as the five
greatest pitchers of all time
have the following reasons:
Walter Johnson deserves extra
credit for the fact that he has
lasted longer than any other
pitcher that recall, excepting
Cy Young They thought John
sons terrific speed would wear
him down. But it didn't. John
son was smart enough to see that
also. and as soon as he felt the
strain he shifted to other forms
of pitching and saved that won-
deriul arm. 1t still is good.
johnson had terrific speed and quick
breaking curve when he broke into tn.
eague. That alone pulled him through
lntil he began to study the art Of hi.
son soon got on to all the tricks o.
and developed a marvelou.
control which enabled him to mix then
lp.
Johnson has the longest pitching arm
n baseball. ! think 1t is even Longer
han was that OF ,Rube WaddeI. He has
such tremendous reach that the bat
Evening star., 1924-01-06
ACCOUNT ROLL WELL
IN VETERANS LEAGUE
Standing Of Teams

The Veterans Bureau League sea
son has now rounded the half-yay
mark. The accounting division has
been in the lead right from the gong
and are going to try to complete the
season as q never headed champion"
but expects to have n lot of opposi-
tion from the next three teams IL
line. all OF which are close enough to
advance if the leaders should falter.
Several all-time records were
broken during the first half of the
season, Accounting Division winning
seventeen straight games. Insurance
Division getting a team game Of 5sp
and a set OF 1886, and Craft OF In
surance a set of $50.
Henderson OF Accounts has been The
big noise in keeping his team out in
front by spilling the pins for an aver
age Of 104-27 in thirty-three games
He is closely followed by Nolan OF
Chief Clerks with 103-l6 for twenty
five games, Rosenblatt of Disbursine
with 1881 for thirty-nine games
Watt Of Accounts. 103-14 for thirty
six games and Howder, Insurance
with 1894 for twenty-nine games.
Other leaders are Mccarthy, Insur-
ance. high game 143; Rosenblatt
Disbursing. high spares, 79; Bishop
Dtsbursing, high strikes. 10, and
Bishop and Goodwin, both OF Dis
bursting. with high fiat game of e5
Evening star., 1924-01-06
CHAPTER n.
My Five Greatest Pitchers.
Honus' AlI-America Team.

Manager-John J. McGraw of
New York
Captain-Fred c. Clarke of
Pittsburgh.
First base-George Sisler of
st. Louis Browns.
Second base-NapoIeon Lajoie
of Philadelphia and CIeve-
land.
Sh0rtstop-Bobby Wallace of
the old St Louis Browns.
Third base-Jimmy Collins of
Boston.
Extra iufielder-Eddie Collins
of Philadelphia and Chicago.
Left fieId-Fred Clarke of
Pittsburgh.
Center fieId-Tris Speaker of
Cleveland.
Right fieId-Ty Cobb of De-
troit.
Extra outfieIder-Babe Ruth
of New York.
Catchers-Johnny King of
the Cubs, Roger Bresnahan
of the Giants. Ray Schalk of
the White Sox.
Pitchers-WaIter Johnson of
Washington, Christy Math-
ewson of the Giants, Grover
Cleveland Alexander of the
Cubs, Cy Young and Rube
WaddeIL.
Pinch hitters-Sarn,y Strang
and Ham Hyatt.
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ters used to say they were afraid of
swinging hard for fear Of hitting him
on the fingers when he was turning
loose his fast one. That. of course, was
Just baseball joshing; you know what
l mean.
Johnson always was in shape and is
just as crazy to win now as when he
started. He knows the game thoroughly
and Is a good hitter and a fair fielder.
Often he goes In as pinch hitter.
Johnson is Of such even disposition and
so eager to give his best To the club
that he is easy to handle.
Christy Mathewson,. in many ways.
was the smartest pitcher that ever
walked on diamond. He had al pc
culiar trick of being able to read the
other fellows mind, 1t seemed like.
That is why he is such great checker
and bridge player. I've seen him play
same time and win all the games. To
do that, you know. "A fellow has got to
have great memory. Do you think
you could remember every move on
eight different checker boards at the
same time and then call out your move
on each boardy I'll tell the world this
Dutchman couldn't.
Five Hits and Then No More.
Mathewson pitched baseball just like
he played checkers. He knew every
weakness Of every batter IN the league.
II he was a new man he found II out
in about fifteen minutes. Poor Eddie
Grant used TO tell about getting five
hits off Matty the first time he ever
faced him and then didn't get another
for the rest of the season. A lot Of
the boys had that experience.
Mathewson had a great fast ball with
jump on II. He had medium speed
not the tremendous smoke of Johnson
and Waddell. Then he had q good slow
bail, his famous fade away, a drop ball.
ordinary curve and the spitbaIl l never
saw him use the spitball often, but
he had IL when he wanted to turn II
loose. That boy never overlooked any
thing. His greatest asset, though, was
his perfect control. He delivered every
pitch with exactly the same movement
To outguess him was impossible.
Matthewson always saved HIM
Evening star., 1924-01-06
ABOUT 500 BOWLERS
ENTER D. C. TOURNEY

Nearly Ave hundred bowlers already
have entered the District champion
ship duckpin tourney. The list does
not close unit. January 26. and il is
expected that more than a thousand
will compete in the event. Blanks
are available at all OF the alleys
A gold watch, valued at 800, will
be the first prize. and at least six
silver cups, three of which have been
donated by the local newspapers, and
numerous other prizes will be award
ed.
President Stocking of the Washing
ton Duckpin Association, who is re-
sponsible for the tournament, wishes
II understood that the entrance fee
of 81 pays for the Ave games to be
rolled by each bowler
The alleys on which the rolling is
to be done will be selected by the
vote OF the bowlers, they naming
their choice in filing their entry.
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self by letting his felders do most
of the work. He let them know
what he would pitch and they could
set themselves accordingly. He
watched the bases very closely and
was wonder when il came to gues-
sing what the other side intended to
do.
Matty would go along in an easy
way until his opponents got men on
bases and then he would tighten up
so quickly that you'd think diff
ferent pitcher had come in. He
pitching or not Matty was a good
fielder and a fair hitter. He was
great on the coaching lines. though
he never made much fuss about Il.
He was a big help to McGraw in
tcoaching young pitchers, both in and
tout OF the game.
Grover Cleveland Alexander showed
me more different kind of pitches
to keep a chart OF the different kinds
Iof balls the pitchers would use.
Alexander led them all. He had
Alexander is big strong fellow
and willing worker. He Is popular
personally and as pitcher. lie has
the greatest assortment or curves In
fast ball, medium ball. slow ball
Idrop ball and curve, all of which
he can throw half side-arm or over
handed. What's more, he has slow
ball and raised curve which ne
uses underhanded.
He Watches Every Base.
Alexander has perfect control and
knows how to mix them up. There
lis no chance to outguesS him. He
can make his fast ball sail in or
lout to the batter. The only other
lpttcher / ever heard of who could
sail his fast ball either way is VIII
bur Cooper of the Pirates. That trick
got my goat for fair the first Few
times ! saw it,
Alex watches the bases very closely,
and is one of the best in calling the
turn on the other side. He Is a won
der at breaking up the squeeze play
so good that mighty few teams
have tried II on him for the past rev
Evening star., 1924-01-06
DAVE BANCROFT SANCUINE
OF SUCCESS AS MANAGER
Only Playing Pilot in National League and Youngest
of Its Team Leaders Will Have Aid of Five
Former Giants.

SLENDER young almost boyish in stood around
~ the buonhohng whispering mob the ivory
Congress Chicago big ball
couldn't He
surroundings
The noticeable
Bancroft the Boston Braves his
in
ordinary the
of buying OF clothes
1 like he said the
he have said clothing salesman 81
like that suit the window
The fellow manager looked him wish wide-open
clothing How
astonished WhaT
{.
Evening star., 1924-01-06
lNTERBUREAU AGGIES
HAVING A CLOSE RACE
STANDING OF TEAMS,

Through a misunderstanding the
Soils-Chemistry VS.. Forest Service
games were not rolled.
De Glants Of the Property and
Purchase team made valiant try
for the select group in high game
and set records. He got a game of
1872 and set of 342. While he lost
out by a few pins, his bowling help
ed his team take two out of three
from the Plant Bureau outfit thus
going into tie for second place
The strong but linked Economics
bunch continues to crawl up on the
leaders, being now two games be-
hind second place. This team has
spilled more pins than any other
team outside of Soils Chemistry.
Locknsne's Secretary's outfit spoiled
Farm Management's plan to sneak
into first place by taking two out of
three.
Tucker of the Property and Pur-
chase team. is leading Gowan of the
So-Kems by a narrow margin In the
race for individual honors. He Is
rolling a few pins better than 1o5.
Evening star., 1924-01-06
D. C. ITALIANS CLUB
TO FOSTER SPORTS

Sons of, Italy residing here are
planning to break into the sport
realm this year. The Young italians
Club, a new Washington organiza-
tion, has appointed an athletic COM
mittee that intends to organize teams
and promote various competitive
pastimes, athletic and otherwise. 1t
also intends to affiliate with the Anna
teur Athletic Union and conduct its
activities upon a strictly amateur
basis. f
Bowling. billiard and checker
squads already have been formed and
wrestling, boxing and fencing teams
are In process of organization, Base
ball and swimming teams will be
ready In the summer, while basket
ball and soccer will be started next
fall.
4 officers of the club are: President,
GfnoN Simi: vice president. Giovanni
de Santes: recording secretary. SAL
vatore Lombardo: financial secretary,
Allesandro Marinacci; marshal. An
tonic Cestone, and assistant marshal
Giuseppe Bruno. Marco Yafente is
chairman and Gino de Giulian assist
ant chairman of the athletic commit
tee.
The club meets the first and third
Thursdays of each month in Immac-
ulate Conception Hall at Sth and N
streets. II is to hold . benefit dance
Thuruday nighEin Pythtan TemplA
Evening star., 1924-01-06
DISTRICT LEAGUE.
Standing of Teams.

League matches were resumed last
week after fortnight's layon for the
holidays. The Mt. Pleasant quint
showed no i'll effects from the rest, as il
walloped the strong Rathskeller three
games Wednesday night.
The Petworth team visited the Colo
nial alleys Thursday night and cap
tured the odd game, after the home
quint had grabbed the first game by
big margin. Baxter's III game fea-
tured the match.
Friday night the swift sailing Man
hattans beat the King Pins three
straight. rolling one game of COS and
set of 1,7i2. The triple defeat sent the
King Pins from fourth place to next to
last.
On account of the Rathskeller alleys
closing down the Rathskeller. Regulars
and Goodfellows will continue their
Krause Is managing the Petworth al
leys and making a big success Of the
undertaking.
Evening star., 1924-01-06
MASONIC LEAGUE.

Potomac took three from New Jeru-
salem by large scores, dropping lat
er to fourth position In tie with three
other teams.
Wolstenholme had highest set of
year for league, 394, against Har-
rnony. Games, 147, 121. 1876; seventeen
marks. one strike and sixteen spares.
He Is now closely pressing Simmons,
average.
UNIQUE effort of Smith, New Jeru-
salem, with games of 10, 12s and 127
for set of 365. yet his team failed to
win a game from Potomac.
Il Federal. with dummy score, won
three from Pentalpha, all games of
former above 500.
Fred PhipDs, cAptsir Of Jorpa,
Evening star., 1924-01-06
SCHOOLBOY FROM DIXIE
SURPRISES NEW WORKERS
All He Needs Is Short, Hard Punch to Be Topliner
and 1t Is Believed He Will Develop That.
Should Not Be Rushed.
BY SPARROW McGANN.

EW YORK 5Wiliam Lawrence Stribing
cided hit boxing his fight with Dave
berg the boxer in the world but he is
world of the
picked him beat the Dixie schooboy they had
Stribling full credit for his showing
Strbng he only could hit but
the sharps believe he
thereby spelling the looks of the fight he
putting
should be remembered that Rosenberg
playing that Of and that Sbng met him half and
all
which the looking and they surprised them
was
Evening star., 1924-01-06
TEAM STANDING,

The Columbias are turning out to
be be the surprise lam Of , the he; circuit u !;
eighteen games and going into q tie
for second place with the strong
Mount Pleasant team. Next week the
Columbias battle the Seneoas and a
battle royal is In the offing. For the
past week the Senecas took two out
of three from the Mount PleaBants,
and retained their lead Of the league
Columbias took three from the
Chesterf7elds. thereby advancing while
the Chssterfields dropped in the race
Cliftons defeated the Ffrestones two
out of three.
AS the season advances the race is
getting warmer, seven teams have g
fighting chance for the lead and al
are showing team average Well
over 500.
Evening star., 1924-01-06
PENN HAS COMING STAR
IN HEAVYWEIGHT BOXER

Coach George Decker OF the UniVer-
sity Of Pennsylvania believes that the
grade Of boxers found in college ranks
is better than ever before. This Is
especially so in the case Of the QUAKER
which has long advocated
the manly art OF self defense as a good
branch of athletics.
Decker is particularly fond Of Q
heavyweight boxer who will represent
Penn in the college meets this year.
His name is Williams, and he stands
6 feet inches and scales well over
200 pounds. Williams explained to
Decker that his father would not let
would like TO try boxing. There 10 re-
joicing at Penn, for the newcomer is
regarded as the best heavyweight that
ever donned the mitts in the Quaker
gymnasium.
Evening star., 1924-01-06
PUBLIC DEBT GIRLS LEAGUE.

Accounts team has been having the
pennant race all to Itself thus far,
but the girls from the Administ tr ative
and Register, Claims and Audit de-
partments have been gaining steadily
Miss Preble of the Registers holds
the high game and set honors for
the season with 113 and 2S6. The
high team game of 4e1 and set Of
1894 were rolled by Accounts.
The work of Miss Kohler of Ac-
counts during the past week attract
ed attention. She smashed the
naples for 100 and a set Of 2SS.
Evening star., 1924-01-06
Standing of Teams,

After a lull during the holidays the
bowlers have started the new year
with renewed energy and deter
minatiop to Improve not only their
Individual averages, but to better the
standing of their respective teams.
This applies particularly to several
of the teams that are trailing.
Post Office Department is one -qulnt
that has sIumped badly and has finally
landed in last place after losing
streak that has lasted for several
weeks However. Catherine Furey,
who has taken the captaincy of the
team, says she is not going to let her
uufnt remain in the cellar.
Sales Tax is another team that has
had it's troubles. but If Capt. Della
Smith once gets the regulars back In
the lineup for a few sets the quint
should regain its stride.
Evening star., 1924-01-06
OLD FITZ ONLY FIGHTER
TO HOLD THREE TITLES

- Bob FitzsfmmonS is the only boxer
in the history of the ring who has
held three championships.
At the age of twenty-nfne he won
the middleweight crown from Jack
Dempsey in 1891: later he claimed
and defended the light heavyweight
laurels, and in 1897 ne Knocked out
Jim Corbett for the heavyweiGhttit title.
Evening star., 1924-01-06
TERMINAL Y CIRCUIT
STAGING GREAT RACE

A battle is being waged for the first
the Terminal Y League. Squirrels,
Nuts and General Freight once are
having il out with Southern close up.
H. Streiter Of the Southern Quint
has the top game. $50: Lehew of the
Telegraphers the high Set. $50, and
Folger of Southern the best average,
1886.
An incentive for the bowlers to
stick to their work. is the fact that
the Terminal League is a member of
the Inter-City League circuit which
includes Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore, and the FIVE high
average men represent each city
every two weeks in matches.
Evening star., 1924-01-06
MAIN OFFICE LEADS
P. 0. DUCKPIN LEAGUE

Although the Main Office has a good
lead in the Post Office League, the Of
ficials of the organization look for
close race on account of the handicap
system.
Chandler of the r NJ s. has the
best average, 106-35, and has bowled
in all the games. Chandler also has
the best set, 3S3. Werntz Of the same
team has high individual game, 15S.
The averages follow:
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NEWS AND GOSSIP ABOUT PINSPILLERS

demon statistician" of league. Keeps
accurate track of pinfall of each
team, and cannot understand low
position OF his team with such high
team average.
High position Of St. Johns is at
tributed to set OF private bowling
balls carefully nursed by Major Robb.
How did they ever obtain them? Ger
tainly not gained as prizes for indi-
vidual efforts. Probably donated by
Harry Armiger foreseeing closing of
Rathskeller alleys.
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He watches Every Base.

|, the averages with io4-7 for twenty
four games, a margin OF three pins
over Davis, who held the lead for
several weeks. Davis also relidufsh-
ed his position as the leagues pest
bowler, his teammate, Inge, taking
the lead with q total Of so. Schu-
mann added to his strike total, and is
far in front with 19.
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AMERICAN LEGION.

Quentin ROOSEVELT Post is sitting g
pretty just now and it will take some
tall hustling to pull this bunch out
of first place. Cissel Saxon, Hiram
F. Cash and the Tank Corps still have
a chance of getting to the front and
bowlers on each of these teams are
confident they can turn the trick be-
fore spring.
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MUM SOME MAN.

w. H. big" Mum. 27l-pound giant
from Sioux City. Iowa, rs the newest
candidate to the ranks of heayy-
weight boxers. He is twsntv-six
years old, is six feet six inches tail
and has reach OF eighty inches.
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Individual Averages.

First, Swenson. 1o4-7; second, Davis,
1e4-4; third. Charest 1os-l1: fourth.
Inge, 1889; fifth, Speer, 103-9.
Prohibition in winning all three
games from Special Audit rolled 1,57s
for the high set of the past week. and
advanced a notch in the league stand
ing. Berenter contributed game of
120 and set of 342.
Although low in the standing.
Solicitors during the second series
have won more games than any team
In the league. with the exception OF
Annex No. I.
swenson OF Cooperation Audit, With
d set OF $40. rolled into drst riace IN
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cARRY's ICE CREAM LEAGUE.

Wolfes continues to lead the league
in individual averages with 1901.
He also has the most strikes, IA, and
is tied with Lloyd in spares, so.
Hall and Lloyd are tied for the high
game honors. 1877, and Draper has the
best set, 342.
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NAUTICAL LEAGUE.
Standing of Teams.

Daley is leading the league in the
individual averages With 1oa. Meany.
A. King and V. OFT are tied for sec
ond with los. Rhodes and Wetzel have
los.
The tail-end Drifters are looking
for material to strengthen their team.
The Washington Canoe Club also is
searching it's ranks for bowfers.
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