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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06
When is a blackboard shot
most feasible?
BY MAURICE KENT
Basketball Coach, Northwestern Uni.
versity

Use the blackboard shot when
greatly hurried. because during such
times It 10 almost impossible to get
and that Is the blackboard, and you
are forced to shoot for 1t. When un-
hurried try for a clean shot. Another
place where 1t Is sensible to use the
blackboard Intentionally is from the
side Of the floor when there Is an
extremely sharp angle to the shot.
The reason for this Is that 1t Is al
most impossible to see the basket
we'll from sharp angles and judge
distances correctly, though 1t Is
quite possible to judge this distance
If you use the blackboard in aiding
your shot.
copyright. 1925, Associated Editors,
Inc.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06
X. ]. Makes Up So Pin
Lead in One String
Taking Two Points

After losing the first two strings
by a margin of S. pins, the Kennebec
Journal staged comeback in the fl
nal string Thursday night at the z.
M. c. A. alleys and took the third
string and total, splitting their match
with the Clerks. Both teams broke
the years record for the best team
single string, the Clerks rolling sos
in the second string and the newspa-
per boys equalling that mark in the
third string.
Cross Of the Journal was high total
with 32S and he tied with Garside
Of the Clerks at ia for single string.
Garside took the high total for the
Clerks with 314.
The summary:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06
Sk0whegan League
Bowling Results

Especial to the Kennebec JournaD
.Skowhegan, Feb. 5-The Orioles
white washed the Senators, winning
all four points and taking first place
in the League Wednesday evening.
The Orioles beat all season records
for the League by taking high indi-
viduel single Of 127, high team sin
gle of SIS and high team total of
1460.
Bolduc led the Orioles with sin
.ld of 127 and total Of 30S while Saw
age was high for the Senators with
q single of 112 and total of 293.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06

| Florence. former Georgetown catch
er. to the Indianapolis Club of .he
| American Association. Frank FriScn,
| captain and second baSeman. con-
| forred with McGraw, but has not
! Yet signed n contract.
! Boston. Feb. THE signed con-
tracts of TJoe Harris and Bill Todt.
! 9th first basemen. were received to-
day at the office of the Boston Red
SoX. Secretary Price announced to-
night. The contract of Curtis Full
p lei ton, pitcher was the first turned
in.
| Jackson, Miss. Feb. 5-Homer Ha-
eel, former football star on Rutgers
| College football team. has signed to
coach the Mississippi University
, eleven for 1925.
! Dayton. Ohio. Feb .1-Tiger Flow
ers. Atlanta negro middleweight to-
night scored a technical knockout
OF a scheduled l. round contest.
Flowers carried every round by a
wide margin.
Boston, Feb. 5-.Ioe Tipltz Phil
! adclphia lightw eight. left the hall to-
| night before his scheduled ten round
: bout with Jack Civic Of Pittsburgh
' state Boxing Commissioner Eugene
: buckley said afterward that club Of
: iiCialS who overlook Tiplitz ut the
South Station. We're informed by the
boxer that the house was too small
! to make the bout profitable on the
! arranged percentage basis. The &C
| ton Of Tiplitz. according to Commits
sioncr Buckley is unprecedented in
the history Of the Massachusetts
ring.
| Hanover. y. II. Eeh. 1.-The Will
| liams College winter sports team. by
scoring two first places in the three
events featuring tie opening day of
the annual Dartmouth winter carni-
val. led the field with q total of is
points tonight. McGill was second
with Il and Dartmouth last with s.
Plat. of Williams. won the cross
country ski race With Brown, Nc
Gill second and Thompson, McGill,
third. In the speed skating contest
Cogan, Dartmouth. was first, Brew
stcr. Williams. second. and Harris,
Dartmouth. third. Har1win. Will
| liams, was awarded first place in the
fancy skating event with Bolton, Nc
Gill. second. and Campbell and
Brown, McGill, third.
New York, Feb. C;v 4. PD-Sid
Barbarian Of Detroit today ANNOUNCE
ed his withdrawal from the light
weight boxing tournament to be con-
Quoted by the New York state ath-
letic commission in seeking a Sue
cessor to the championship recently
vacated by Benny Leonard. Barbar-
ian explained that he has bouts SCH
eduled on the Pacific coast within the
next few weeks and will be unable to
participate.
Saranac Lake, n. Y, Feb. 5-Val-
entine Balls, of Lake Placid, WIN
mig the two mile event and placing
second in the three quarter mile. took
the lead in the contest for inter-
national amateur outdoor speed
championship with IS points here to-
l 10 a. =.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06
SPORT BRIEFS
CBy Associated Press

Yale has placed 81 men on Walter
Camps all-American football teams
since that veteran authority has been
ioilow1ng his annual hobby. Harvard
is second with "A and Princeton third
with % and Pennsylvania fourth with
"e. The remainder of his selections
mad been distributed among % other
colleges.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06

For almost $50 years the ianr nasoy
Rev. Frederick Seely Porter, ,rch .,
of the Trinity Baptist emu Gnu xitb.
oklahoma City, has not peer EFT a..
out a minister of the bap., ,otbef.
nomination. ON both ms r;ones
and his fathers side were pp.nsdi
ministers who went into ~ arj
from the United states IN - sanil!
there laid the founda ton Oh ssrs NJ
Of preachers and Bible teacn' char.
Porter reached his presens. aa ht
from New Brunswick. Canau' .ece.
February. Formerly he was ''Bii'
tarv of the British and fore, ard ID
society in Newfoundland any LTD
Years spent in preparing him assmu, i
the ministry he received a cSavuadjsl
sion as captain in the .. ea mont.
overseas forces and spent % rIa vi
as chaplain at the FROM .ftsr
promoted to major sooF
crossed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06

Gus pract1ces. PuDIC OpIlIU11 toUdy u01'1e''fu
that bank supervision be as free from partl-
san interference as the judiciary ITSELF
State banking laws are increasing in num-
Der and diversity. Much thought and study
has been given by the State Bank Division OF
the American Bankers Association to uni
formy efficient supervision. 1t is on record
as urging that the Office of Bank Commits
sioner be freed from entangling politics and
c,;r,rced from all other functions of state
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06

the three quarter mile race after
O'Neil Farrell, of Chicago, and Char
les German. Of st. John, n. B.. the
defending champion, fell and left the
course. Balls tonight was leading
the field with 70 points, Allen had
sixty and Richard Donovan, of Sar-
anac Lake, so. The others were trail
ing. Ideal ice and weather favored
the skaters.
New York, Feb. Sid ferris, New
York lightweight, and Sammy Man
dell of Rockford, Ills, will meet in a
is round match at Madison Square
Garden tomorrow night. Both prin-
cipals have been named by the New
York state athletic commission as
competitors in the lightweight elm
nation tournament and the commits
sion let it be known today that In
the event either is decisively defeat
ed, the vanquished one will likely be
tossed from the competition and one
of the alternates substituted.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06
REFORMS IN STATE SUPERVISION OF
BANKS AS ADVOCATED BY BANKERS
By FRANK W. SIMMONDS
American Bankers Association

THOUGH many states have unexceled systems OF bank
supervson by public authority instances poltl-
cal have resulted in lax methpds and danger
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06
CONY PUCkSTERS
PROVE EASY FOR
HEBRON BOYS, 81

Playing a plucky game against a
superior brand OF hockey. the Cony
High pucksters on Thursday afternoon
at the opening of the Augusta Winter
Carnival kept the Hebron Academy
sextet down to an s to score, al
though handicapped in the early mo-
ments Of the game by the loss OF
MINI Hayden, the Cony left defense,
who received severe injuries when he
fell upon the ice during a scrimmage,
Hayden was unconscious for ssvers
minutes from q blow on the back OF
the head and was. later taken to the
Augusta General Hospital where an
X-ray examination of his injury shows
that there was no fracture of the
skull, although he is suffering from a
light conclusion Of the brain. He Will
probably be forced to remain at the
hospital two or three days
The Hebron team clearly outclassed
Cony although the local boys fought
every minute of the time. The Cony
forwards threatened the Hebron goal
on several occasions but because OF
the excellent work Of the Hebron Dc.
Tense players the goal had little to do,
The Cony defensive men. Oh the other
hand, were clearly bswildered by the
Hbron passing game and 1t was not
until the nnal period that the Cony
team could begin to coordinate.
In the third period Gardner worked
the puck down the ice and slid it by
Dee for the only tally of the session.
jeremiah, Nazro and Rice, the visit
ors' forwards, showed a fast game and
ably demonstrated that the Hebron
aggregation is easily the fastest
schoolboy organization in the State.
One Of the prettiest goals Of the day
came in the second period when Nazro
took the puck toward the Cony goal
and made difficult shot from the side.
So close to the edge Of the net did 1t
60 that q number Of the spectators
thought it would miss the opening,
but 1t slid through for a Hebron
count.
The lineup:
HEBRON go % CONY
Nazro. NV .............. rw, Morton
Jeremiah, c .............. c, Gardner
Rice. lw .............. lw. Bradstreet
Fraser, rd ............ rd, McCauley
Waterson, Id ............ Id, Hayden
Dee, 6 ................. &, Mcdonald
observation-disclosures: Stewart for
jeremiah. jeremiah for Stewart. Ward
for Nazro, Nazro for Ward, Champion
for Rice. Rice for Crampton; Cony:
Savage for Hayden, Lister for Savage,
Reaton for Morton, Lishness for Gard
| ner. Gardner for Bradstreet, Brad
street for Beaton. Goals: jeremiah T.
Nazro 2. Rice 2. Gardner 1. Referee
Duffy. Timer, Poor. Goal judges,
Bechard, Quimby.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06
HEAD. CO.


Following the match the members
Of the Augusta Rife club held their
regular shoot. High scores are re-
corded for Fl. McCausland and c. S.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06
Totals .40S 421 $50 1875
LEAGUE STANDING

COLLEGE HOCKEY
At Williamson, AIass.-Williams Il,
Amherst ].
At Boston: Boston University s;
New Hampshire State 1.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06

Saranac Lake, n. Y, Feb. 5-val-
entine Balls, of Lake Placid, VIM
mig the two mile event and placing
second in the three quarter mile. took
the lead in the contest for inter-
national amateur outdoor speed
championship with IS points here to-
day. Francis Allen. of Chicago won
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06
The National League has signed

The National League has signed n
sohSb1rd umpire in Peter NcLaugh-
I'm. the Boston arbitrato who held
the lhulcator for President IIeydIcr in
n few games during the fag end of tho
l92f season. Mclaughlin formerly
worked In the Eastern League and
handled. some twilight games around
Boston before breaking into big COM
pany. Prior to this he worked in a
lew New England college games. lie
is a versatile chap and has n good line
OF comedy. He can sing and has done
quartet work in vaudeville. He'll peal
out his strikes in high tenor during
the season.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06

government that of Office be made more secure
and lasting with sufficient compensation and discretionary
power to attract of outstanding executive ability and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06

Aileen Riggin. youngest Olympic
champion in the history of the inter
national classic, will be a competitor
in four events of the international
swimming championships at st. Au-
gustine, Fla. next week. Miss Riggin
has entered the 100-yard backstrokc,
the pentathlon, and both relays. Ger
trude Edcrle, another Olympic star, is
entered in six contests.
Miller Higgins, manager of the Yam
KEGS. still hesitatcs in the Northand,
awaiting a verdict from George Stall
ings of Rochester regarding the ac-
QUESTION of Fred Mcrkle, former Giant
brst baSeman. scheduled to become a
Yankee coach. II Merklc returns to
the city where he once upon a time
failed to find second base at a crucial
moment. Higgins will relegate himself
TO the bench where he is protected
from the suns rays.
Chicago will have first opportunity
to decide who gained by the greatest
baseball trade of the winter when the
Cubs meet the Pirates in the Windy
City park in the opening game of the
season. Many baseball men argue
that the acquisition of NIaranville,
Grimm and Cooper by the ChicaEoans
was master stroke. assuring many
Years or expert service.
Evening star., 1925-07-02

the rolls. Well show 'em. Yo' know
the sidin' where they gotta wait TO
the Sky Rocket. I'll hire us an auto
mobile. Well cut cross country an
get there ahead o. both o. them trains.
Come on oveh t my house. Well get
us coupla my duck huntin shot
guns. All we need 'em TO is bluff"
| SO, as the Sabine, after she cleared
| the yards, started up the valley by
the winding river route. the two vet
Grams, shotguns, hired automobile and
all, We're speeding on their way over
! the level parish roads, headed west
for the siding where the old locomo-
| tive must stop to let the Sky Rocket
| pass. Headed west! 1t was the appro-
pirate direction, for the stuff that
Seethed in Dad Adams soul was very
wild and very Western.
! 1t had been Hard boiled Hank, him
self, none other, to whom the Sabine s
last trip was due.
Wall Street t1nanciers. Interstate
Commerce Commission, labor unions
and State railroad commissions tempo
rarily forgotten, he had been tramp
ing the broad acres of Iberville Plan
tation that Autumn, guest of his
planter friend, Alan Blake, in quest
OF quail. And before his eyes had
risen a ghost. 1t was g. wreck of a
ghost al that, as it stood on the plan
tatlon'S rusty private track. The
ghost Of locomotive.
Its smokestack canted craZily. The
boiler was patched and rusty. The
cab was a triumph of unDainted Jack
leg woodwork at the hands of the
plantation's darky assistant carpen-
ter. 1t was rooted with ragged strips
of rust-red sheet iron, sagging out
Jaggedly over the edge like the frayed
caves of a swamp shack. Indifferent
ly the 46 by "a inch fireboX burned
cord wood or bagassee-the crushed
hber Of the sugar cane that is left
after the heavy rollers of the sugar
house have extracted the precious
juice. Anything to get up steam
went In that firebox. from damaged
hay up, or down.
Where the devil didyou get that,
Alan?" asked the guest.
you ought to know" grinned his
host. Bought it of your own rail-
road when somebody junked it. She's
been hauling cane cars here for
years. Worn out. Got to junk her
myself, I guess
A great light was king into
the brain of Henry Burlingame, as
he looked at that wheeled junk pile.
Junk hellw he exclaimed. IF l
can find out the bonehead who sold
that locomotive without letting me
know I'll make a janitor out of him,
That's the old Sabine, or I'm a liar"
you're no liar" smiled Blake.
THAT name, the Sabine, was painted
on her when I bought her.
Henry Burlingame had not reached
Evening star., 1925-07-02

look at her and remember the days
when they were giving railroads land.
so it would run through their dam
towns, instead of tryin' to make q
railroad man walk a tight rope over a
hornets nest while they prod the hor-
nets"
Alan Blake grinned quizzically at
his guest.
Hank" he chuckled. "all that stuff
about teaching 'em an object lesson
may be true. But I know you, you
sentimental old son-of-a-gun. You're
buying that junk because it's as much
alive to you as my old saddle horse Is
to me. And that rack Of bones Is eat
ing his fool head off for the rest of his
natural life down in the pasture there,
for just the same reason the old Sa-
bine's going to rest in glory up at the
Brashear station park"
'Humph!' said the Honorable Hen
ry Burlingame. You're as big fool
as you always were, Alan. I'll bet
you $40 1 get more quail than you.
next three coveys we flush?"
Evening star., 1925-07-02

out who was the moron sold her with
out telling mel"
Hank. that's all interesting his
tory" said his host. But relieve my
mind. What are you going to do with
her. now you've got her? Nickel-plate
her and use her as a watch charm?"
The massive fist of Hapd- boiled
Hank smOte his palm. AS he had
talked an idea had been born-an idea
whereby he might justify seeming
folly.
TN tell you what I'm going to do
with her!" he roared. Say. our Bra
shear way there's a bunch of Creoles
who've fotgotten how dam happy
they were when they first got rail-
road. I'm going to have the gang
down at the shops rebuild this. baby
from the ground up. Wen dress her
up and let her run under her own
steam from New Orleans up to Bra
shear. where we've given 'em a new
station with a big park around it.
Then We'll put her on q spur track in
the park, as a monument. Let 'em
Evening star., 1925-07-02
One of a series of best
short stories publish
ed during the past
year.

his present eminence by hesitation in
his mental processes.
How muchll you take for her as
she stands?" he asked.
You personally. or your railroad
doing this hlIying?"
Didn't I tell you last night that s
the way you birds do business?"
thrust the hard-boiled one. One price
to a white man. another price to a
darky. and the biggest price of all to
railroad. I won't lie to you.
though. BY the great brass brake
beam, I'm buying this for the Delta
Valley and the line is on the verge
of passing around the hat. What's
your price?'
oh, you can have it for s4oo.'
said Blake carelessly. ITS worth
about six hundred as junk"
Henry Burlingame fished in his
pocket and found a coin.
Heads 1 pay you six hundred
Tails l pay you three" he proposed.
You're on,''
The coin spun. The ancient Sabine
became again the property of the rail
road in which she had spent decades
OF service. And the price Of the trans
fer was $500. Even q tipped coin
had the habit of behaving for Hard.
boiled Hank.
The locomotives ex-owner grinned
Now you got her, what're you 60
ing to do with herr"
why. say" quoth the chairman of
the Delta-Valley board. Il used to
hop off the ties with the rest Of the
section gang when that old girl waltz
ed past. She was a locomotive! The
Niles folks turned her out in 1855.
They don't make 'em that way any
more. Yorkshire iron boiler plates
and copper tubes, Lord. the work
she's done! She used to haul con-
struction material from the Berwick
forces at the front. / was a kid back
in '78. when she was going strong.
remember when we loaded her and
eight old fiat cars on the ferry at Nor.
gan City and landed her on Bayou
Teche opposite the old Grandwood
plantation. She used to roll from
there out past the old Rocohoc Pit to
get the earth to build that embank.
ment through Bakers Swamp. Old
Dad Adams was her engineer and Un-
Gle Mickey her fireman. Never could
separate that pair. Never could get
EN- on any other engine but the Sa-
bine. When we built that bridge
across Berwick Bay she was the first
locomotive across it. She pulled the
first passenger train when we com.
pleted the line into Brashear. She
pulled the first train when we pushed
across the Sabine River into Texas.
back in '80something. And once when
bunch of us were down with yellow
fever in construction camp on
Bayou Teche, she carried US on fiat
cars to the hospital. Wait till find
Evening star., 1925-07-02
Continued from Yesterdays Starr

Now listen, Hank" began the
old-timer, as he thought he saw a
CLEAN Of relenting in the big boss
eye. But the argument he contem-
plated starting was never made. For
the chairman of the board, not want
ing to hurt the feelings of SO old and
SO faithful an employe, had bethought
himself of what he deemed a happy
compromise. Happy! He had picked
over the apple cart!
Tell you what, Dad" he broke into
the beginning of the old mans plea.
"If you want to you and Uncle
Mickey can ride in the CAP with Buck
McMasters and JaZzbo."
Ride as passengers in the cab where
the pair had ruled so long! Hands off
the throttle and the shovel on the
Sabine's last trip!
Hank" said Dad Adams, mourn
fully. Il didn't know you'd had glass
eye put in your face"
Glass eye?" questioned the chair
man of the board. puzzled.
'Yeh." said Dad Adams. when l
started talkin' to yo' l thought / done
saw a little sympathy in one O. yo'
eyes. The right one. l see it's a glass
eye now. Say"-he bristled belliger-
ently-''yo' think Mickey an me ain't
men enough t take the OF Sabine up
I Brashear? Huh! We're men enough
{ take her away from them two Girl
Scouts 20 got in her cab now. if we
get our dander up"
"Oh, come, Dad" began the
chairman of the board, starting half
laughing. half-veXed eXpostulation he
had no chance to finish. For the old
engineer had wheeled on his heel.
Come on. Mickey" he called to his
old fireman. Les get outa this dam
kindergarten an find some grown-up
men"
Side by side the two of them stalked
from the yards.
In the Sabine's cab young Buck Nc
Masters caught his signal to get under
way. Jazzbo swung his shovel. With
her old bell brightly polished. clang-
ing to the world it's warning that here
came locomotive. the Sabine hooted
detnantly on her tiny whistle. To the
hiss of jetting steam she rolled in
glory. The click of the movie cameras
was drowned in the ragged cheer Of
farewell from the shop and round
house gang that had rebuilt her and
sent her forth on her last trip. But
Dad Adams and Uncle Mickey Rior-
dan We're not there to see. Outside
the clinker and shell-strewn lot, they
We're on their way to execute the
plan that had Just sprung. full -pano-
piled, into Dads seething old brain.
TT hell with his pensionI" Dad had
exploded. my boys got a chicken
farm where we both en- live longs
we wants, Mickey, If he cuts US off n
Evening star., 1925-07-02

But he felt uncomfortable as he
pocketed the $40 an hour later. He
knew why he had changed the sub
Ject 30 abruptly. by making nnat bet.
He knew that Alan Blake had put
his finger on the exact reason he had
bought the old Sabine out of her clos
ing years of bondage. But how the
devil could man they called Hard
boiled Hank" admit thing like that?
The answer was simple. He couldn't.
The only thing he could do was try
not to look sheepish, and charge 1t up
to advertising or something.
A poet in his heart Of hearts was
Evening star., 1925-07-02

Henry Burlingame, as most real build
ers are. But he would have died be.
| fore admitting it, as Dad Adams would
have denied his creaking joints to the
very death.
Evening star., 1925-07-02
Ordered to Baltimore

Lieut. Col. James Fl. StansfeId.
judge advocate, on duty at the War
Department, has been ordered to Bal.
timore for duty at headquarters, Sd
Corps Area