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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26

quiet In the tame blood Of dog No one win ever kow
Somehow they boed. But when dog appeared, with
dragging harness. fifteen miles away The Indians wasted
time in wondering On fleet and anxious feet they mushed
long trail back There IN the brush they found
For miles after the dogs had boed he had poddsd alone
his pack Of Christmas presents in his arms Them growing
oveeay he had stopped to rest SO passed kind Father
RUPERT friend Of little children on the trail to Nome.
Not easy to become hero did you say with socks or oil
cans potatoes in ones hands and great ventung by
which to blaze ones fameG Not easy' No-not easy
But believe be done. For when they bore him
sleeping to the Great White Throne with those small cards
and fruits within his faithful hands, and gently woke him.
do you not think that he beheld the smile Of God'
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26

stepping up the Great White Throne with your hands full
Of potato peelngs-askng for medal! Just irnAginel
Wonder what that One the Great White Throne
would say wonder what He said the other day when they
carried in weary SOUL asleep and laid him down the
foot of the throne with apples and oranges his hAnds
Only four miles 60. Surely he could keep awake
that long. only It wasn't white. Everything white.
every staring until his eyelids stung
and sweed and sagged like broken winks before his eyes,
If only it wasn't white. only it wasn't 90 STILL Only
the creAk Of the harnesthe grunt and pant and muffed
whine Of the pulling dogsthe soft pad Of hairy feet on
snowsoft Sounds sleepy sounds Four miles more to COL
Gould he keep awaken He MUST keep awake. Otherwise
BIZ
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26

WHERE are many echoes in the world and but few
il voices. -.
All may have If they dare choose, glorious life or
grave.
He who puts up with insult invites injury.
A good library is statesman's workshop
Oh, if the selfish knew how much they lost.
What would they not endeavor not endure,
To initiate, az far ~ In them lay
Him who his wisdom and his mower emnlnva
In making others happv --Safnnei Rogers
We do not become righteous by doinr what IA righteous
but having become righteous we do what "a rirhteous
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26

how would the little lonely children IN The
orphanage have apples and oranges and
bright cards on Christmas Dayi
Bad enough to be q little orphan lacking
home or family for loving during the long
Alaska Winter, without missing this treas
hred bit Of cheer. He'd HAVE to get there.
Apples and oranges mean SO much sometimes
only four miles to 60. Long miles, with
the air like q jagged blade at 30 below freez-
ing, Jagged blade that bit its way to ones
lungs--a leaden weight that clung to his
burning lids. But little hearts waited--hs
HAD to gol
Perhaps the dogs went wild with the
cruelty Of that day. Perhaps reindeer
frightened them, or the scent Of wolves broke
that thin leash which holds the beast strain
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26

TT would be easy enough to be heroic il
the Big Chance came, wouldnt it But
4 how are we going to work up heroism
over pealing potatoes and scrubbing floors,
selling socks and oiling engines, pounding
keys and shifting freight Now those chaps
who went to the Argonne-why, they just
naturally CAUGHT heroism as II it had been
measles. Or those old boys In the pioneer
days when there were Indians and buffal6es
and cyclones and wild times generally-they
jumped into the hero class without half
trying.
But common folks; such as you and L.
what chance have we to make immortal
names, grubbing along at our humdrum jobsi
No-seems as if we were out Of luck, with
our socks and oil cans and potatoes. Imagine
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
Chaliapin and Spadoni
Mr.. Box $4,000.

You remember the boy who told his father there were
million cats in the back yard and finally insisted that there
were at least our old cat and another cat That's like
story Of Chaapin che great Russian opera singer and Spa
dom, able artist and musician Of the Italian sChUOl
Dozens Of newspapers II America and Italy publishsd
story Of fierce encounter between Chaapn and Spadon
Finally this was built up into battle between Russian and
Italian musical SpadOs home town even suggested that
for he said to have struck Chanapn defense Of italian
music
This Is what happened.
House.
spadom was in charge Of the stage All were In ordinary
street costume ChAapin Boris seiRss Shouisly an
other character in the opera by che throat and throws him
70 the floor Chaapn was illustrating the way in which he
thought his part Of the opera should be played and he
powerful actor Who makes things real on the stage There
upon individual believing that he seeing very
fine fight between Italian and Russian artists rushed out
and told the papers about it.
Thus mountains grow from mole hills and fierce battles
between Russian and italian artists from undress
rehearsal
This newspaper il glad print the letter that Mr. Spa
doni wrote to Mr. ChaHpn in the original and beautiful
language in which it II written, which you will doubtless
read quite easily
Chicago Civic Opera Company ssrel mai a etermi conro
Auditorium Theaer di lei hnmortale artsta, in
Carissmo Sgnor Chaapino, consderazione bassa
Con profundo SOrpresa no lhannc scrito / giornaH
semitic che gorna scrit America rportAto qualche
to maliziosa bugia verso malizioso scrttore
in repugnata .posizions Afetissno devOtissimo
contro de lei Essendo ie Ital- Giae0mO Epadoni.
iano, ttti miei p. B. Akgiungo piacere
patriot sIao educate d Sc lei desdsfa auorizz rem
pettarC larte ed 10 che mi dere publica Queo mia AFTER
sento un gentluCmo non PEN magone.
The above that in any reader doesn't happen
20 know It, Mra spadOni ID shocked think that anybody
would him Of raising his hand against "ortuIs
0rtista" and that Il that
Evening star., 1924-01-13

from second base to the plate with
out going to third. In the days when
we had but one umpire runner often
could get away with that because
the umpire would be watching the
batter or the ball.
One. day Jake cut the bases and
was caught at it. Notwithstanding
that he had been caught red-handed.
he actually raised big holler of
protest over the decision.
Many, funny things happen on the
ball field that do not seem so funny
when written on paper. I think
man must see them to appreciate how
ridiculous they are. For instance,
Lee King got into an argument with
Chief Myers, the catcher. one day
who had on his mask, his chest pro-
tector and his shin guards. Now,
there Is what l call a man taking the
worst of it. chief Meyers got to
back. Even the umpire got to laugh
ing and let King go on and play
without punishment
At Forbes field one afternoon
Pitcher Fred Toney was put out Of
over to the bench and picked UP
pick and shovel, left there by the
ground keeper Very seriously. he
walked straight across the diamond
with the tools on his shoulder.
We were playing a game at Boston
with Bill KLEIN umpiring. and as the
score was going against us we all
started riding KLEIN by yelping at
him from the bench.
time just to see how 1t feels?" one
Of our recruits yelled at KLEIN.
And They All Had to snore.
That was the straw that broke the
camsls back. KLEIN. taking off his
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now leading Property by a margin
in total pins, both teams having won
and lost the same number of games.
1t remained for Property to drop
the So-kemA. the former team TAX
ing all three games. And the de-
gliding game was taken when Can't.
Estes of the Property team pulled
double-header in the tenth. his
team winning by a margin Of two
pins!
The Economics "jinx" was again
working, Plant Bureau rolling its
first $500 set and taking all three
games. Plant Bureaus set of l.54e
Is high for the season by one bin,
Sofls-Chemistry having knock ed down
1,545 opening night. Plants second
game totaled $50. giving the team
third place in high team games
Farm Management rolled three
good games in taking all three from
Forest Service, its set total being
1,506. Forestry uncovered 1ne
bowler in Friede, but his teammates
could not offer him much assistance
Brown of Plant Bureau had high
set for the week with $40. The re-.
turn to form of this bowler means
lot to his team. De Glantz of Prop
er1y Ross nad ancS,f aSs for n. high game: 49,
gave one of the best exhibitions Of
bowling seen during the league sea
son. With few spare breaks, he vet
cleaned UP the wood so thoroughly
that he had a set of 322.
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Frisch Is deserving of all he gets.
He is a very fine player and a very
square young man to his organiza-
tion- He gives all he has and makes
no trouble.
s The Reds are likely to have an
argument with Rousch, who has
formed a habit of debating over
terms. Hornsby has another year to
70 with st. Louis and will not hag-
gle over a price that has been made.
The Chicago Cubs have their play
ers pretty we'll in hand and the White
sox haven't. That Is one reason why
the Sox have notified theN world at
large that any player who has not
signed a contract will not go south.
Detroit Is not likely to have any
trouble. Most of the players are
anxious to get into line again and
have another whack at the champion
ship.
Cleveland will reward some of it's
players who did well n 1923 and will
start the new season full UP with
vim and fire.
! The st. Louis Browns will be In q
Jam with some Of their players. but
all the Browns probably will be In
Z line for Mobile.
Both Philadelphia clubs will start
-south with their men anxious to do
what they can to help Philadelphia
move up. Aumors of trade have been
many SO far as the Phillies are con-
cernad, but 1t looks as il they will
start the schedule pretty much as
Copyright, 1sa4.)
Evening star., 1924-01-13
B00KKEEPERS LEAD
SHIP BOARD CIRCUIT

General Books team is leading the
Shipping Board Duckpin League with
two-thirdS of the season gone It
has a f1ve-game' lead on Voyage Ac-
counts. which, with three other quints,
still is close enough to displace the
pace settlers
Notable among the features Of the
second series were the high game Of
$50 rolled by Buhrman of the Con
tract. who displaced Boston OF the
set goes to Contract, which rolled
1909. High team game of 5S1 is
held by Contract Boston of Supply
and Files has rolled high individual
set of 381. Craft OF General Books is
leading in spares with So. closely fol-
lowed by Hanecke and Boston with
79 and IS, respectively. Boston -
leading in strikes with 90, followe,
by Williams and Crimmins with II
each. Boston leads in average With
Evening star., 1924-01-13
WISCONSIN AIMING
TO REVIVE ROWING
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

University of Wisconsin. under the
tutelage of Harry Vail, Is working
hard to bring about a revival OF
Badger prestige on the water. Ger
tainly If there ever was an institu-
tion where the aquatic idea should
flourish 1t is water-bound Wisconsin.
Lake Mendoza plays Il very impor-
tant part in the extra curricular life
of the university from the time the
ice clears until foot ball claims en-
thusiasm.
Canoes. sailing yachts, row boats
and shells crowd the lake in spring
and early fall terms, and not the
least interesting phase Of Wiscon-
sins water life Is splendidIy or
ganized and equipped life-saving
which indicates the section of the
big lake in which students are in
distress. and the swiftest speed
launch in the northwest, always
ready to dash forth on it's errand of
mercy.
The fact that last December mark
ed the twentieth anniversary of the
inception of Lake Carnegie was duly
noted at Princeton, when the stu
dents returned from their holiday
recess The artificial water course
was constructed in 1903, but it was
not until 1911 after some years OF
experimentation in aquatics that
Princeton began to figure in the
intercollegiate rowing world.
The building of Lake Carnegie did
more for college rowing than any-
thing that has ever happened in the
sport The development of crews for
rowing over comparatively short dis
tances by an institution of Nassau's
athletic prominence gave almost at
once q new Significance to the sys-
tenn OF so-called preliminary regat-
tas. rowed In term time and unon
college waters. converting late spriI
and the month of May into a sea son
or regattas hardly less colorfuI than
ene rate June races on the Thames
at New London and the Hudson q
Poughkeepsie.
Copyright, 19241
Evening star., 1924-01-13

ence Beaumont was playing center
field, He backed up so far that he
was knee deep in water in attempt
ing to catch a fly. He made the catch
for the last out, but In doing so
out OF sight beneath the water.
In q game between Louisville and
Cleveland Dummy Hoy was the victim
Of the funniest accident ] think I
ever saw. He had backed up as far
as he could go when he tripped and
fell, the ball coming down and hit
ting him sauarely on the head as he
lay on the ground.
Looks like we'll have to give our
outfielders masks from now on, or
they'll get their brains knocked out"
Fred Clarke remarked when the
laugh had died down.
Jake Beckley. q very tricky player
in the old days. got caught at one of
his own tricks one day in way
that gave US all a big laugh. Jake
had a way of hiding the ball under
his arm at first base. so as to catch
the runner when he wandered of.
A Play That Didn't Come on.
The batter this day had got two
base hit and was on second. Beckley
took the ball from the outfield and
promptly hid 1t under his arm. He
gave the pitcher the sign to go ahead
and pretend to pitch.
made a break to go from second to
third sooner than Jake had expected.
There was a great lot of yelling and
laughter from Jake's teammates,
but something happened and he
couldn't get the ball out from under
his arm until the runner was perched
on third base. Jake then disgustedly
rolled the ball to the pitcher.
Beckley. by the way, was one 9t
the first base runners to use the old
trick OF cutting across the diamond
Evening star., 1924-01-13
Attractive Base Ball Schedule Fans Discuss Foes for Leonard
CHAPTER "a.
The Most Spectacular Catch on
Record.
BY HANS WAGNER.

THE most spectacular catch ever
seen in base ball, in my opinion,
was made by Jack Murray, outfeld-
er OF the Giants. at game in Pitts
burgh. This probably is the only
play ever made that was aided by
flash of lightning.
AS some of you may know, heavy
rain clouds and the smoke from the
various industrial plants and fac
tories occasionally make it dark in
Pittsburgh long before the hour of
sunset On those days the ball
games are very gloomy affairs. l
have known of game being called
on account of darkness long before
4 O'Clock.
On this particular day the Giants
fought game. Finally the Giants got
a lead just as 1t grew so dark that
II was almost impossible to see the
outfielders A dark, black cloud came
up. and behind 1t we knew a storm
was coming. We tried to hurry the
game along, as we had men on bases
ana a chance to win.
While the batter was waiting on
the pitcher. lightning flashes showed
through the cloud. followed by heavy
thunder, and the crowd In the bleach
ers started for shelter.
The storm burst just as the batter
swung on the ball. He hit it squarely
on the nose. Everybody could hear
the crack, but in the growing dark
ness we could not see the ball. In
fact, We could barely make out the
form of the outfielder Just at that
moment, though, there was great
fash of lightning. II lighted up the
field as a flash at night would do. In
the flash we saw Jack Murray going
for the ball He also saw the ball by
the fash, and with leap reached II.
From where we sat II was plain to
see that he had speared the ball. but
in d fraction of a second the whole
ground was almost dark. Just the
same, Murray came dashing In with
the ball, and the umpire called the
batter out.
That catch. made by the aid of a
flash of lightning, had put our side
out and won the game. There was
no question about the catch being
fair.
In all my experience that was the
most spectacular finish to a ball game
that / ever hope to see.
OutfleId Lost In Mist.
There have been several odd cases
like that, but none SO exciting as
Murray's catch. In Chicago only
year ago mist blew In over the field
from the lake, and was so thick that
the outfielders could not be seen.
The Giants and Cubs were playing.
McGraw has told me that that was
the only game he ever took part In
when he couldn't see his outfielders
sometimes for two innings. The
game having started under those con-
ditions, the umpires refused to stop.
Pep Young tells me that he was In
right leld when he heard 3 ball
whistling by his ear. A few mo-
ments later one came to him on the
first bounce, and he tried to make 1t
appear that he had caught II on the
fly. Luckily for the Cubs, one of the
umpires ran through the fog after
the ball. and claims he saw Young
trap 1t. Young never denied Il.
In one game out at Exposition
Park, the old Pittsburgh grounds,
which backed up on the trifeT. Clar-
Evening star., 1924-01-13

mask. walked right over to our bench
to see just who it was that had been
doing so much kidding at his decisions,
who were making wise cracks.
We all Immediately pulled our caps
down over our eyes, rested our chins
on our chests and started snoring.
pretending that we were asleep.
"'Sleep, are your" he snapped at us
in that biting voice of his. "All right,
stay asleep then. The first man on
that bench who wakes up will get
put out Of the game. That goes, too"
We knew KLEIN well enough to
know that he would do just what he
said. Our club had just got a one
run lead, and, for fear of having
some of our best players put off, we
asleep for the next two innings. Not
soul of US dared look up except
when called to bat.
That's one time an umpire put 1t
over on US.
When I was a young player I was
pires, simply because I couldn't think
OF anything to say, as a rule. Fred
Clarke reminded me the other day of
a run-in I had with Tim Hurst
There had been q close play at third
base, where ] was playing that day.
Everybody ran in to make kick, and
] decided to take a hand also. I ran
up TO Hurst and was about to open
my mouth when
What are you doing here7" he de-
manded. Are you the captain Of
NO. sir" I said. sor. of taken back.
Hurst was good-natured enough to
let me OF with that
Tomorrew-Al's Fair in Love and
Evening star., 1924-01-13
WALTER REED VETERANS
TO SEE BILLIARD STARS

Joseph Concannon. the New York
state crack, and v. r. Ferrell. clever
cueist. hailing from Indianapolis, will
stage a pocket billiard entertainment
Tuesday evening ct Sis o'clock in
the big Red Cross auditorium, at
walter Reed Hospital, for the benefit
of the service men there. After the
match the two experts will give an
exhibition of trick and fancy shots
for the edification of the veterans.
This entertainment has been ar
ranged by George Cox, local billiard
enthusiast and referee, in conjunc-
tfon with Harry Stafford of the
American Red Cross branch at Walter
Reed.
Evening star., 1924-01-13
FULTON TAKES BLOWS
TO IMPROVE FIGHTING

ST PAUL, Mimi, January 12.-New
training methods. which, involve let
ting his sparring partners take unre-
stricted wallops. is responsible for
the improved showing Of Fred Full
ton. heavyweight of Rochester, Mimi,
according to Jack Reddy, the plaster
ers new manager.
Reddy claims today that Fulton is
under orders to let his boxing mates
In the gymnasium swing with unre-
stricted vigor on his jaw without try
ing to do all the landing himself The
efficacy of this method was demon
strated last night, according to
Reddy, when Fulton knocked out
Tiny" Jim Harfan of Omaha, in the
second round. after himself being
knocked down at the end of the first
round.
Fulton's next fight is scheduled for
March 81 with Bob Roper at Miami,
Fla, and Reddy says he had several
offers from eastern promoters.
Evening star., 1924-01-13
INTERNAL REVENUE LEAGUE.

The past week was marked by sew
eral upsets. Sales Estate started 1t
with a two-game win from Prohibi-
tion, Capital Stock captured the odd
from Annex /, and Solicitors, with
a set of 1,5TS, made q clean sweep in
their match with Accounts and Col-
1,51a, but with Charest setting the
pace with q set of 3S5, the Lawyers
we're not to be denied. and won each
game by q comfortable margin. Cap
ital Stock ID the Arst team 10 win Z
match from Annex Ne, this sAAeoa.
week ana agafn Ieads the lea9ue With
~ ARnGA - AAs&a - Ae9fE4ANbu
Evening star., 1924-01-13
STURDY FOES ARE LISTED
FOR BROOKLANDERS' NINE
Yale, Harvard, Penn, Vermont, Army and Maryland
Among Teams to be Faced in l7-Game Season.
College Basketers Busy This Week.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

- ATHOLIC UNIVERSITY has made its ball
I this year The Brookand management scheduled
O for the Red ini-
uons that well represented college diamonds last
considerable
as eleven of the for kion Field Brookand
They which
been arranged Three planned each
the other The
through May
Evidently cement every effort
book Army
the northern
bid for the Atlantic title will be made with
MARYLAND Johns Hopkins Trinity Military Institute WASH
Evening star., 1924-01-13
1ANKERS' LEAGUE.
Standing Of Teams,

The features Of the past weeks roll
ing was the set OF 401 contributed by
Doying of Washington Loan, No 1.
His set helped his team win three
more games. making eighteen straight
victories
Hibbs won four out of SIX during
the week, National Bank OF Wash
inxton won all three from National
Metropolitan, Hibbs and Bank Of
Washington to gain tie for second
place.
Schweinhaut of Washington Loan.
No. 1, gets the high set prize for the
week with s42. Doying won game
honors with 1873.
Evening star., 1924-01-13
YANK OLYMPIC SKATERS
LAND AFTER ROUGH TRIP

CHERBOURG, France, January 10.
The steamship President Monroe
reached here late tonight with the
american Olympic skating team
aboard. The ship battled with tre-
mendous seas during the latter mart
of her voyage
William Taylor. manager of the
team. and Charles Jewtrew landed and
VIII proceed tomorrow to Chamonix,
where the winter sport events of the
Olympic games will be held. The
members of the team will start prac-
tice Immediately
Evening star., 1924-01-13
OPERATION BOWLERS
TOP RAILWAY LEAGUE

Operation quint is setting the pace
in the Southern Railway Duckpin
League. having a four-game margin
on Construction. the only other team
to be close to the leader. The half
way mark has been reached in the
schedule.
Freight. which has been trailing
all season, has spurted recently. is
tied for next to the last place and
several teams that is above it.
There is a great race for high in
dividuaI average. Charlie Bern
hardt still leads with 1875, but is
being pushed by Mulroe with 1913,
and Harris with 1914. Bernhardt
also has the high game Of 146 and
high set of 368.
Evening star., 1924-01-13
MT. PLEASANT LEAGUE.

The race tightened during the
past week, as the Columbias took
two out of three from the Senecas
The Mount Peasants won three from
the Cliftons, thus going into second
place. The Hilltops also stayed within
striking distance by taking all three
from the Firestones- The Triumph
Cafe won six games. rolling on
postponed set with the Savoys. the
other victims being the lowiy Castles.
Chesterfelds took the odd game
from the Savoys in the regular
scheduled tilt.
The games this week will further
bear UPON the standing Of the lead
ers Columbias meet the Hi1ltopS
and the Senecas take in the fast go
ing Triumph Cafe. This team has
only shot one game under 500 dur
ing the season, but has lost two $40
games by small pin margins.