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now than then. Keeping a club up to
standard is more difficult than the
original building. Constructive
thought Is the. big thing now. This
has brought about a competition that
makes the secondary strength abso-
lutely essential.
Trailing Clubs Now Building.
The need of it Is shown daily even
among the clubs now fighting for a
place in the first division. Next year
l expect to see clubs like the Car
dinals, the Braves and the Reds
strongly fortified at the start of the
season. They all are building with the
idea of a championship in the future.
A remarkable feature of the race in
the American League has been the
work of the Athletics. For a young
team they have shown much class,
Very few base ball people expected
them to last as long as they did
against the steady grind of the Ma
tionals, but they got up there, and with
good pitching and solid hitting stuck
to their guns. Connie Mack is en-
titled to congratulations.
But for their Unexpectedly bad
start the Detroit Tigers would have
been dangerous factor. They finally
got going, but it was too late. Still, it
is a pretty good indication as to who
will be dangerous next season.
No Set-ups in Old League.
The National League race has been
particularly interesting this year in
that there is not a club in it that can
be pointed to as hopeless. At no time
during the year have there been any
set-ups or soft pickings. Teams like
the Braves and the Phillies, for ex-
ample, have caused the leaders Just as
much trouble as those up at the top.
Not single club in the league has
been satisfied to consider itself tall
ender and give up the fight.
The fact that these clubs have not
allowed themselves to be foot ball
to be kicked around by the contenders
has had its effect upon the fans. The
attendance has kept up right along.
Even if g club hasn't a chance for q.
pennant the average fan wants to see
good fight, and that is what they're
been getting.
Glance at the standing Of the clubs
and you will see that there is less than
200 points. between the leader and the
tailender. That is really remarkable.
But for the unfortunate showing of
the Red Sox in the American League
that race would also have been tight
all the way down the line
Balanced Strength Missing.
4&l0SA VI ILLS Il dllTlDuIe the nEnt
for first-divfsion berths, which carry
money prize, as said last week. but
there is a bigger incentive than that.
All the clubs are building for a real
shot at the big championship prize in
the next year or two. The trouble
with most the clubs in the second
division has been a lack of balanced
strength. The Phillies, for instance.
though in seventh place, were leading
the league in hitting a few davs ago.
The Cardinals are in the unusual
position of having two regulars
Hornsby and MISUNDERSTANDING it
out for the batting championship of
the league. Brooklyn has the leading
pitcher. The Reds have a remarkable
the right combination in which this
group Of pitchers.
The problem right now is to find
extraordinary strength can be brought
into play. Behind it ALL. though, each
club must build up a great reserve
strength. That is the deciding force.
Copyright, 1921
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D. C. BIcYcL.IST FOURTH
IN MILE TITLE CONTEST

ST. LOUIS. September S R.-
Charles Winter of New York, national
champion, won the one.miie senior,
event in the national championship
bicycle race here today in Forest
Park
Edward Meikner was second. John
Boulicauft, st. Louis, third, and r. j.
O'Conner, Washington, d. c., fourth.
The time was A minutes. Is sec.
onGs
William Unkert of Newark, NJ J.,g
won the quarter-mile race for juniors.
Walter Bresnan of New York was sec
ond: Geary May of Los Angles, third,
and Nj. Wilkins of Baltimore, fourth.
The winners time was aQa secpudGs
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EXPECTS TO BOOST LEAD
BEFORE MONTH IS ENDED
Contends Advantage Over AS Is Due Largely to
Greater Experience of Criffmen-To Guard
Against Evils of Overconfidence
BY STANLEY BUcKY) HARRIS,


HE American
that will end with the Washington
pile We have tidy lead the Athletics
ought
champions be
are capable until the beyond mathematical
We allow to b
that might the
Der posted
The Athletics their
keep Washington going right in
that remains.
thought all along that eissuew
iee TINS month 1t certainly looks five have done I'll
I'm
tenbe didn't look for the Philadelphia proper
the West Macks
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WORLD RECORD BROKEN
TN MOTOR CYCLE TRIAL

CircIing the wooden track at u
speed of III Lilo miles an hour, Joe
Petrali broke the world motor cycle
record late yesterday at the WISH
ington-BaItiinore Speedway while
making his qualifying run for the
national championships to be held
tomorrow.
His mark betters by moro than
three miles an hour the old record
Of 113 set July 4 ct Altoona
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Asked IL he knew where they could
be located in any numbers, he said.
We'll, the best place know of is off
the bar at the mouth Of Charles Creek.
There is sand bar running out into
the river there, and. the channel is
marked with a. sort of bush or TAN
tree with a bushy growth at the top.
Find the buoy that have mentioned
and go out in the stream about 100
yards from it and you will get some
rockfish. Good luck to you all"
Got Real Results.
Early the next morning the writer
followed the old mans instructions
and rowed to the mouth of Charles
Creek, located about a mile from the
hotel at the point, found the tree and
anchored about a hundred yards off it.
He took peeler crab from his bucket
and placed two nice bits of white bait
on his hooks and made cast In
about two or three minutes he was re-
warded with a strike and landed a
nice size pan rock, about a pound and
half.<
These strikes continued until he had
landed eight rockfish, none that you
could brag about, but just right fer the
frying pan. EIated by his first ef-
forts, the next morning found him at
the same place with the flood tide. As
on the day before, he had only to wait
q couple of minutes before he had
landed his first rockfish. He con-
tinued to bait and cast, landing sew
eral pan rock, but no large ones, which
caused him to wonder why one of the
bigger ones did not strike, or If there
were any big ones in that vicinity.
Having fished last Fall in Chesa-
peake Bay for the rockfish and know
ing the activities of the sea gulls when
rockfish are feeding, he began to look
around to see If any Of the gulls were
present. He observed a~flock of 10 or
IL flying around, and said to- his fish
ing companion, Watch those gulls. If
some of them break water in a very
little WHILE"
Big Fish There.
Before 10 minutes had passed the
sea gulls, numbering by this time 40
or so, had commenced to dart into the
water and set up an awful howl for
their breakfast. 1t was not long be.
fore the writer was convinced that
while he did not get strike from a
big rockfish they were there, because
he saw five or six of them. weighing,
at rough gness, perhaps or z
= =
Not only are the rockfish biting at
the point, but some good catches of
trout have been landed around the
black buoy marking the channel of
the Wicomico, between the point and
Eastwood. In addition. Norfolk spots
are being caught in large numbers,
white perch and some taylors.
Chesapeake Beach will cater almost
exclusively to- fishermen from now
until real cold weather sets in. Spe-
.cial train schedules have been ar
ranged for the convenience of anglers,
heated coaches will be furnished for
those spending the night at the re-
sort, and three big fishing excursions
have been planned
On Sunday, September 90, the
French Sporting Goods Co. will
hold It's fishing outing under the d.
xr4tQA - Il Il Nxneaf. .---is-.-
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YACHT RETAINS TITLE.

4 PORT WASHINGTON. N. Y. SEN
tember OP).-Ace, representative OF
the Western Long Island Sound fleet
and owned by Adrian Iselin. 2d. sl,c.
cessfully defended her international
star class yacht trophy by finishing
third in the fifth and final race today.
Rhody of the Narragansett Bay feet
was nrst and Sonny of the Gravesend
Bay fleet second.
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CITES CONSTRUCTIVE WORK.
OF MANAGER STAN HARRIS
Pilot of Giants Asserts Club Can Successfully AS
pire to Championship Unless Adequately
Fortified Against Accidents and Illness
BY JOHN J. McGRAw.

InaL League Chanpion
HLADELPA September 5Th outstanding taught this
base ball and base bali owners
much
strength is the most important factor the game
competition has result so inn
afford the
being accident of this grows
convincing day.
Without powerful secondary strength the Giants,
telling they
in
the of
been able lineup for
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,-1'he Washington club has shown
again how well it can deliver in the
pinches. We were trailing the Ath-
le4ics when the two clubs started their
final Western trip of the year The
As slumped at the outset, and we
gained ground. Then we, too, had a
bad slump when we dropped three in
arrow to the Browns Some of the
calamity howlers Immediately set up
the cry that the club was demoralized
and had cracked wide open.
Developments since. have shown
how ill-founded were these fears. We
went into Chicago and won three
games from the White Sox, thereby
drawing away from the Athletics.
Then we took on the Mackmen and
Geat them two in row here. We
hook up with them again this week
afd l think we will clinch another
championship then.
AS Faltered i'm the Pinches.
1--WE have the number of the Phila-
delphia club, as the interclub contests
for the season show We aren't going
to lose this Indian sign on them in the
remaining games we have to play.
The AS have made a great fight, but
they fell down at the crucial stage in
the race. They We're not able to de-
nNtI III the pinch as well as lne
champions.
stsThere have been few cases in base
ball where pennant contender has
cracked as wide open as did the Mack
men on their Western trip. 1t has
been said that the players We're over
anxious. That may be the answer.
a young team can't stand up under
the strain as well as veterans. In any
event, The As stubbed their toes when
- ~, oh
out of the picture.
The Pirates, who have increased
their lead in the National League race
until it is almost a foregone conclu-
sion that they will be the club to face
Washington in the world series,
cracked in 1921 almost as bad as the
Athletics did recently. That year they
left home in front and dropped five
straight games, to the Giants at the
Polo Grounds, thus losing a pennant.
Statistics show that the clubs lead
ing the procession on July and
September 1 are practically pehnant
certainties. We were in front on
July and held the same place in the
spotlight the first of this month. No
club in the American League ever
has won a pennant which was not in
first place by the night of Septem-
Der /
Stage Set for Griffs and Bucs.
The percentage hasn't. been quite
as high in the National League. The
Pirates were leading one year on Sep
tember 1 and the Giants held the
place of honor three different years on
that date only to be nosed out in the
stretch run. So the stage certainly
seems to be set for the fans of Wash
ington and Pittsburgh to act as hosts
for the 1925 world series crowds.
!. We expect to clinch the pennant in
the Coming Philadelphia series. Then
we will have a chance to scout the
Pirates and get a line on how they
shape up. We met them in an eX-
hibftion game this season and got an
idea of their style of play, but they
will bear some more study.
The Washington players are just as
confident of beating the Pirates as
they have been all season that they
would win another American League
pennant. Add ability, real class.
great courage and experience to such
confidence and you have combina-
tion that promises to bring another
world championship to the National
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LONG SHOT is WINNER
OF RACE WORTH S9.27O

CINCINNATI, September s R.-
Miss Thatcher, paying s2730 to win.
won the Hotel Sinton Stakes, for
2-year-olds. worth $9,270 to the winner,
at Coney Island today. Wildwood was
second and Corncracker third.
The time for the furlongs was
Ill 1-5. Twelve started.
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TAKES MARATHON SWIM.

HANNIBALs Mo-, September 5 Up.
James Martans, 46, former traffic po-
licanan from 81. Louis. won the az
mile marathon swim of the Mississippi
River between Quincy. Ill, and Hanni-
bal today. His unofficial time was S
hours and 40 minutes.
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ROD AND STREAM
BY PERRY MILLER

OW did Rock Point Nd, question asked of the
natives OF the locality during the last years brought
satisfactory There be
around the and its beaches however
nhabhant who has SO years at the Point said
This place its from the
striped BASS caught be full of roch and
they could be caught old place. but where
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CARDINALS BUY TWD.

FORT SMITH, Ark, September 5.
lF1.-Panlson and Clough, pitchers Of
the Fort smith-van Buren, club OF the
Western Association. have been sold
10 the St Louis Nationals
Evening star., 1925-09-06

me Potomac Anglers Association
VIII give an excursion October 4. with
II. L. Medic in charge.
On Sunday, October IL, the third
OF the Fail excursions viii be given
under the direction of the National
Military and Sport Shop.
These outings have steadily grown
In popularity, and each usually draws
more than 300 fishing enthusiasts.
ootn men and women. On all the
excursions prizes will be awarded for
the best catches. At the beach Capt.
Noah Hazard will have fleet of fish.
ing boats in readiness to take the
anglers to choice places in the bay.
On week days through September
10, the date when the amusement sea-
son at the beach formally. ends, trains
Will leave the District line at and
11:30 am. and 2:30 and $40 nm re-.
turning at 6:35 am. and 1. go and
pm. Saturdays trains will leave
the District line at 9:15 and 1870
am. and 2:30, S:25, and pm. Sun
days trains will leave the District
line at $3.50 and 11:30 am. and 2, 800.
a:45 and p.m.. returning at am,
ana L. 3, 6, and II pm
Labor day trains will leave the Dis.
trfct line at 9:15, 10 and 1870 am.
dHu 2.oO, 3.SU, 0:40, $50 and s D.fn
returning at 6:35 am. and 1890. 8.
515, s, 8, 8 and 10 pm.
Surveys of all inland waters of
Maryland to determine the most suit.
able streams for the breeding of game
nsh was recommended by E. Lee lie
Compile, State game commissioner. in
a report to Conservation Commissioner
Swempson Earle.
Commissioners LIE Compile recently
returned from Denver. Colo, where
he attended the convention of the In.
ternational Association of Game. Fish
and Conservation Commissioners. at
which he was elected president of the
association. LIE Compile said:
The State has wasted a large
amount of money in past years plac.
ing fish in waters which had never
been surveyed and which in many
cases turned out to be unsuitable for
breeding purposes"
Present plans call for the stocking
of the best streams with black bass
and trout.
Judge Crump of Richmond, Va, fish,
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w. A. Fenton and three other an
glers spent. a profitable day at Herrin
Bay during the past week. They
caught as rock, Is spot. 10 perch, 10
hardheads and 6 tayIors. Capt w. II.
Manifold steered the party to the fish
ing grounds
Evening star., 1925-09-06

Judge Crump of Richmond, Va, fish,
Ing in the Shenandoah at Riverton,
Va, landed on September / eight
small-mouth bass, weighing 16 pounds.
Evening star., 1925-01-04

name had a far more aristocratic
origin than had Uncle Sam" for
it came from the lips of George
Washington. In desperate need of
ammunition, he called a council of
officers, but no one having any sug-
gestions to offer, the great leader
said, I'VE must consult Brother Jona-
than" who was the colonial Governor
of Connecticut. This phrase spread
among the Army, became established
as the John Bull of the United
States, and stuck to us in England
popularity here.
War with Mexico, published in 1S46,
now in the collection of the New
York Historical Society, is a strik
ing example of this recognition of
two names. 1t is entitled Uncle
Sans Taylorif1cs," and shows the
young Yankee with a large pair of
shears, one blade marked Gen. Tay
lor," the other "Volunteers," cutting
a Mexican in two. Behind Uncle Sam,
the envious figure of John Bull is
saying, not Uncle Sam" but Brother
Jonathan's bait is very tempting"
etc. We also note that Uncle Sam
has on the high hat, long tailed coat,
and boots which constituted the fash
iona BILE attire of that day, and there
is no trace of Stars and Stripes.
Up to the Mexican War, Uncle Sam
received scant attention from foreign
Journals. But in 1876 and on he ap-
pears frequently, though generally in
the most uncomplimentary circum-
Evening star., 1925-01-04

money, in the foreign cartoonists
versions. Their idea of the dollar be-
ing Uncle Sans most reverenced
deity. prevailed practically without
a break until we entered the World
War. 1t has cropped up again in
recent years, and may be attributed
altogether to jealousy. Merely be-
cause Uncle Sam wishes to collect
the debts honestly owned to him,
and because he chooses to handle his
own affairs without needing the sug-
gestions and desires of outsiders,
European and Oriental caricaturists
lose all recollection of his feeding
the wovid a. his own expense and
sending clothes, raw materials, and
medical aid to every suffering nation
from Siberia to Asia Minor.
x X x
WITH the beginning of the war be-
w tween the States, a most gen
erous contributor to Uncle Sans
development steps in-Abraham Lin
coin. 1t is also at this period that
the Stars and Stripes appear in his
attire. But in order to get a com
plate and logical cartoon history of
the war, as seen with Uncle Sam
playing the leading role, we must
again turn to Punch. For the only
great American caricaturist living
then. Thomas Mast, was with the Union
forces, making u powerful series of
pictures for Harper's Weekly, which
Evening star., 1925-01-04
HOW TO OBSERVE THE
ECLIPSE.

The best way to observe the
beauty of the coming, solar
eclipse is explained by Prof.
B. G. Way, secretary of the AS
Economical Division of the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences, as follows:
Detect the beginning of the
eclipse by watching the sun
through a piece of smoked
glass.
When the moon starts to
cross the suns face, bandage
your eyes with a large black
or colored piece of cloth.
After the eyes have been in
the dark for more than an hour
and it is known the eclipse ap-
proaches totality, unbandage
the eyes and again look through
the smoked glass. In this way
you will see the full beauty of
the sight of a lifetime.
Evening star., 1925-01-04

any messages are looked for from
that solar parent of ours who has a
temperature of 10000 degrees Fahren-
heit but it is possible some change
may be noted in the magnetic and
electric conditions of the earth. Static
may be affected by the eclipse in some
marked way.
John Jones, listening in at his re-
ceiyer in Mackinaw, Mich, or Tom
Smith, in New York, may hear a rum
BILE or hush that will herald a great
new discovery. On the other hand
he may not.
Amateurs can make their own pho
tographs of eclipses, as well as of
those more elusive details of the sun
Evening star., 1925-01-04

we study a group of portraits of the
old gentleman, by American cartoon
lists, we derive the impression of haV-
ing participated in family confer
enCe, when each relative was osten-
tatiously airing his opinions.
Uncle Sans a funny old bimbo,"
say some, and draw him as a national
jester.
"Grasping tightwad, and hard as
nails" reply others. and depict him
as grinding down his poor children
to enrich his favorites.
''Likeable, but such hopeless
mossback, he'll never learn anything
up-to-d date" is still another opinion
advanced in the "hay-seed" versions
of Uncle Sam.
But 1 am acquainted with no loftier
conception of him than that of
Clifford X. Bergman, the cartoonist
of the Washington Evening Star, who
has Illustrated this article. He has
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Sun Eclipse to Be Sight Of Lifetime;
Scientists Urge y. S. Holiday Jan. "a

utes for the observation and photog-
raphy of total eclipses of the sun in
North America and Europe, and all
the rest of the world, as Asia, At
rica and the oceans, far away from
observatories and equipment. have
added but 1 hour and so minutes to
the time.
A total eclipse of the sun has not
been visible in New York city or
Boston for more than a century.
Twenty-Five Presidents of the United
States have come and gone since the
last such event in these cities, End
periods of 500 years have been known
Evening star., 1925-01-04

and of the moon. Photography is
such a recent aid to the study of
eclipses that astonishingly little pho
tographic material has been obtained.
1t was in 1927 that the first camera
image was made, after an exposure
of seven hours, and not until IL
years later, when daguerreotypes were
still at the height of fashion, did the
use of paper and negatives make
photography practicable and give
chance to the amateur.
x X
THE first actual photograph of a
total eclipse was made on July
26, 1851, at Koenigsberg, and was a
daguerreotype. Since that time there
Evening star., 1925-01-04
Typewriter Music.

TN ORDER to get the proper effect
of the various sounds when shrap-
mel breaks and scatters, a French
soldier, who has composed a new
symphony entitled "At the Front"
has called for the use of 20 type
writer's in the orchestra alongside
the musical instruments
Evening star., 1925-01-04
Kerosene Miracle.

A THREE E-GALLON can filled with
kerosene passed through a fire
at Wharton, Tex, unharmed, when a
home was destroyed. In clearing
away the debris following the de-
structive fire the filled can was
found in a pile of smoldering ashes
Evening star., 1925-01-04
BY ANNETTE RICHARDS FALLOWS.
Special Research Physicist. Columbia
University.

~ n the morning of Saturday,
January "a, there will be
total eclipse of the sun, visi-
BILE in the eastern United
States and Canada along a
patch extending southeast from CEN
trail Minnesota through Long Island.
1t will be visible as a partial eclipse
through a wide area of the Western
world. So important is this event
the only one of its kind which will
ever be seen by millions of Ameri-
cans-that the American Astronomi-
cal Association urges a stop of all
ordinary activities during the eclipse.
which in many regions will be the
first seen in the twentieth century.
The scientific world is assembling
its forces for observation along stra-
tegic points along the path of dark
ness, but in addition this eclipse will
come under the observation of an
army of radio fans. Cloudy weather
can spoil the chances for the men
with telescopes, but If a radio set
adorns your living room you may OBJ
serve the eclipse with your ears. Ra-~
clio is going to play a leading role in
this celestial performance. Not that