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She was peeling onions at the time.
Whether the onions were to blame or
not. tears ran down her cheeks
through her smiles She hugged me.
praised me for being a big man. and
told me how much help and comfort
I was to her. My eyes got wet, too,
and it wasn't caused by the onions,
either. We had ice cream that Sun
day at dinner.
As an assistant weighmaster I had
TO keep d check on the coal leaving
the colliery. 1t was the easiest job
l had had. ! felt big holding down
such a place and making nearly $40
n week before ! was Is years old.
Nick Stanley was as pleased as if 1
had been his brother. He told me l
would be a mine boss yet if l thought
more of work and less about playing
base ball.
That money you say these players
get must be a mistake-it cannot be"
he declared. What they do is not
work-they loaf too much. When
they are old they know how to do
nothing"
1 continued at night school in the
Winter. playing basket ball Saturday
nights to keep in good condition.
Merle had told me to exercise all l
could to build up my body. 1 weighed
less than 100 pounds A professional
base ball berth seemed a long way
off. Still, / held to my dreams.
Had l been older and known as
much as my brother about the OBJ
stacles to overcome in reaching a
salaried place in the sport, / wouldn't t
have been so cocksure. I must have
made d nuisance of myself with my
talk about some day making good in
the major leagues. But finally l made
even Nick Stanley believe what / so
sincerely believed myself. And that
was going some. I did my work with
out getting any kicks from my bosses.
but when l finished work l dreamed
base ball, and l knew the batting and
fielding averages of all the stars of
the day.
Mother knew my ambition had not
waned. My father had been a pitcher
for Hughey Jennings in their old
semi professional days in the coal
mine district She saw how far Jen-
nings had gone. She encouraged me
to keep on when she realized what
the game meant to me.
IF you wish a thing S much as
you do to play base ball, sonny" she
often said, you ought to succeed if
you work hard and take good care of
yourself"
Later, when disappointment fol-
lowed disappointment and failure
SldTtu me IN tHe lace, Sne never
weakened in her stand. Whatever
she may have felt inwardly, she never
showed by word or action. What sue
cess | have had l can lay funda-
mentally to her answering faith,
cheerful encouragement, sound train
ing and shrewd advice.
[ received encouragement of a sort
as a player, too. When I went to
work in the No. mine 1 had had the
training most small-town boys get in
base ball. l had played on scrub
teams and finally earned a place as
shortstop on the ST. Peters Lutheran
Church nine. 1t was in the Sunday
School League. We played twilight
base ball, staging the games after
working hours.
1 was far from the best player in
the league, but I wasn't the worst
That season Merle was with the
Charleston club in the South Atlantic
League. Hughey Jennings had placed
him there. Between working at the
pickers, playing base ball in the early
evenings and running home in the
half-hour lunch period to get a
Charleston newspaper and keep track Of
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In 1904 there was no world series
because both McGraw, manager and
Brush owner of the Giants, declined
to play the Boston Americans. The
PLAYERS of the team also voted that
they would prefer not to play the
Boston Americans. In 1905 the Giants
won from the Athletics. In 1911 they
lost to the Athletics in the world
series and lost to Boston in 1912. In
1913 they lost to the Athletics again,
and in 1917 lost to Chicago. In 1921
and 1922 they defeated the New York
Americans, and in 1928 lost to them.
In 1924 their rivals were Washing
ton and they lost to them. AS world
series manager McGraw has had but
ordinary success.
In extolling. the praises of McGraw
as manager of a team that has made
such a fine record in the National
League the fact almost invariably is
overlooked that he made one of the
most brilliant campaigns in his career
when he was manager for Baltimore
in earlier years. There came a time
when the Baltimore club. chagrin ed
at the poor patronage that was ac-
corded at home, and fearing the city
had lost its interest in base ball, de-
cfded to transfer most of its players
to Brooklyn.
It also was decided that Hanlon,
manager of the Baltimore team at
that time, should go with the players
to Brooklyn and assume the manage
ment of the Brooklyns. McGraw
elected to remain in Baltimore for
reasons known to himself, and when
he cast his lot with the Baltimores
he was made manager. The players
who were left to him, naturally
enough, did not represent the best
that Baltimore had, and he was COM
PEELED to do what he could to pick
up others who would be Of assistance
TO him. The team that was left be-
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hind when Hanlon departed from the
City of Orioles and went to Brooklyn
was not considered to be much OF
prospect by the critics of those days,
and they were somewhat inclined to
jeer 1t and belittle it's chances before
the season began.
The budding ability of McGraW
made itself manifest that year. He
took Baltimore along at a fast gait
and finished fourth, and there was
part of the season when he had the
Brooklyn team and other teams of
the National League which aspfred
highly completely at sea as to where
he might finish with his so-called
cast-offs.
1t has been a wonderfully eventful
base ball life for McGraw. He has
had many successes, but all of his
successes were not much better in
the way of accomplishment than that
season with Baltimore, when, un-
known and laboring with all the Sc
we're penalties that are imposed upon
a young manager who is trying to
make his way into major league base
ball, he took the underrated Balti-
mores to fourth place in the race.
He deserves as much for that one
good year as for any year in which he
ever won a pennant. He has no i'm
mediate intention of retiring, and will
be at it again in 1925, trying for an
other pennant His methods of
achieving success are SO modern and
the results which he has won for him
self so recent that comment is un-
necessary as to the demonstration of
his Intelligent effort.
No other manager in base ball ever
has done what he has. That seems to
be the most fitting praise to bestow
upon his career.
Copyright. 1881
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what Merle was doing. L got enough
exercise to kill off almost any one
but growing boy.
If the paper was delayed in the
mails I went back to work a sadly
disappointed lad. Merle was my
brother, a real, honest-to- goodness
professional base ball player and my
hero. Naturally, 1 idolized him. The
other boys looked up to me. Some
times l thought they kowtowed to
my base ball judgment because of my
ability. 1 know better now-it was
Merle.
Merle was not the only one from
the mine section in professional base
ball There were Jennings, the Cove
Ieskies, the O'Neills and Chick"
Shorten, to mention a few. The fact
that they had advanced increased my
ambition. What the others had done
I was convinced 1 could do. Little did
I know of the fight they had had to
forge to the front in the most COM
petitive of our sports.
But at that L guess it wouldn't
have made much difference to mel
was too cocksure. My dreams con-
tinued undisturbed as / read daily of
MerIe's doings and waited anxiously
for him to return at the end of the
season.
Copyright, 1929
Toruorrow-Early Infield Lessons.
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warded by reaching the green in two
and holing my second putt for birdie
four, two over par for the second nine
holes and one over par for the after
noon.
The fifteenth is a dog-leg, and if
you take the short cut to the left
you must have a 220-yard carry to
get over traps located there. Tenn
porarily / departed from my con-
servative policy and tried the short
cut. but / had bitten off more than l
could chew and / found the traps.
I was in a bad lie. under a bank, and
had TO play to one side to get out,
actually losing ground. And 1 took
another five hole.
Two Pars Needed.
My hard luck was not quite over
On the sixteenth l hooked my drive
to rough. This was the lake hole.
had to shoot next over the lake, which
spread in toward the right side of the
green. Playing safe, l left myself a
bad trap to play over after crossing
the pond, but 1 crossed it safely and
was down in five.
Up to this point the inward trip had
been a tough one and 1 was beginning
to wonder if some breaks wouldn't
come my way. l needed par 3 and a
par for rs. which, everything con-
SluCI GU, "ouIu De SOOu enough.
l got my three on the seventeenth,
after overrunning the green, by chip
ping out rough so as to leave myself
nine-foot uphill putt and then
holing out. And then, on the eigh-
teenth. AIS yards. / was slightly short
in two, Clipped my third four feet
from the cup and sank the putt for a
birdie four.
l had duplicated my morning score
of "A, giving me a 148 for the day
and putting me in second place.
Bobby Jones and Bill Mehlhorn were
tied for first with 147. My position
couldn't have been better.
In the locker room, where I ran
into Jock Hutchison, Emmet French,
Bobby Cruickshank, Joe Kirkwood
and others, interest in my chances
was picking UP. Pat Doyle came in
enthusiastic
Didn't 1 tell you, lad?" he yelled
You're going to win this champion
ship"
Everybody was asking the opinion
OF my playing partner, Willie Hunter
He declared / had a great chance
But it was hard for me to realize it.
Tomorrow--"The Greatest Day of
My Life"
(CoDyrirht 1926
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terx how the first few holes are
played. They take these holes to
"warm up" This is one of the sub
tie influences In golf that keeps many
poor players forever in the poor
ranks. The reverse of this fs the
fact. The irst few holes are the all
important holes. by all means. make
every effort to play them well. Your
play on these holes has "a very definite
effect on all the rest Of your game.
Always start right, whether with a
stroke or a round of 1S holes.
Copyright, 1929
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Harris Attributes Success He Has tained Encouragement From III
CHAMPION IN BOUT
THAT REFEREE STOPS

NEW YORK, January 8.-After Ed
die (CannonbalD Martin, recently
crowned bantamweight champion of
the world, and Augie Pisana, Coney
Island bantamweight, had fought al
most three slow rounds of scheduled
six-round bout at the Ridgewood
A. c., Brooklyn, last night. the referee
waved the men to their corners and
declared "no-contest."
Martin weighed 11S pounds, and
Pisana, 122.
In the semi final Vincent (Pepper)
Martin scored technical knockout
over Billy Miller in the sixth round
They are junior lightweights.
Evening star., 1925-01-08
Al W4TROUS TELLS:
When Melhorn's Mashie Niblick Went Rampage

shots must be credited to
Bill Mehhorn 1924 Western champion and prominent
tender in all the important tournaments
Skokie Chicago 1922
paired with Whitney Bowden against Leo
round
with although the match BRIDES and
individual bets allowed
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WALTER NOW HAS EYE
ON THE VERNON CLUB

LOS ANGELES, Calf, January s.
Walter Johnson, pitching ace of the
Washington Nationals, is here from
Reno, New, on a visit which base ball
fans interpret as being for the pur-
pose of trying to buy half interest
in the Vernon club of the Pacific
Coast League.
Johnson said he would be here sew
eral days. and might have an an
nouncement later.
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That's not close" replied Bowden,
you can get inside him"
And what do you think followed?
Mehlhorn merely put his ball in the
hole for a 2.
Before his remarkable run began
Bill and his partner were 2 down
Afterward they were 2 up. Three
brides and an eagle had turned the
In the first nine holes best-ball
trick
for the foursome they made 81.
Some shooting,
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tnEBo AAEtCS ~ tnN
w e a X err lin O.
Starting In to Inn
prove mt golf ms n
whole is n good
deal the same
thing ms under
taking to make
one good shot. 1t
is largely I'm the
beginning of the
task. The golf
swing that is
started right, as j
have often point
ed out, In likely to
finish right. Near
ly all golfers tee
of for N round
with the feeling
&L.& -nthG--
Evening star., 1925-01-08
SHADES McTTCUE
In CLASH OF CHAMPIONS
Welter King Scores i'm Decisive Fashion and Would
Now Also Wear Light-Heavyweigh Crown Were
Decision Permitted in New Jersey.
BY the Associa ted Press.

EWARK n J., January 8Mkey Walker champion
of the world would be holding
Mike McTiguc world light heavyweight champion,
as
Walker defeated the king of the H5pounde opinion
ing laws of Jersey forbid decision As
division
Evening star., 1925-01-08
BY FAIRPLAY.

NEW YORK, January 8.-Micke ey
Walker and Michael McTigue, the
two rampant Irishmen who came to-
gether last night in the Newark Ar
mory, were none the worse today for
their 12-round encounter.
If they had been any the worse that
fact would have dnoe neither of them
any credit. 1t would have indicated
that both possess constitutions which
shrinking Spring violet would scorn
to own and physical toughness that
would not stand comparison with that
of a jackrabbit in fairly good health.
How the Irish fans fought to pay
their money to get into the building
TO see the two Mikes try to kill each
other. They were dripping with
fighting spirit. The coming struggle
between the Irish champions had
whetted that fighting spirit to an
edge where they even wanted to fight
themselves. And some of them did.
They fought to pay their money to get
in, mind you. After the fight they
would have fought to get it back
again, if there had not been so many
police about.
The writer had this fight doped out
long ago. McTigue, having more than
10 pounds in weight on Walker and
in addition a superb defensive boxer
never had any chance of being hurt
by the welter champion-who, by the
way, is not such a hitter as most peo-
pie seem to think he is.
Again, a defensive boxer of Nc
Tigue's type seldom has the abilit,
to hand out real punishment, else, of
fighter.
Evening star., 1925-01-08
RIDING AT FORT MYER.

Starting tomorrow afternoon, riding
exhibitions will be held every Friday
at the Fort Myer Riding Hall. Free
tickets will be mailed to applicants by
the adjutant of the post.
Evening star., 1925-01-08
Chapter IV.-Sunday School League Days.
BY STANLEY (BUCKY) HARRIS.

didn't lead the speedy promotion
thought ought have
couldn't myself getting anywhere delivering mail,
answering calls al running errands
You mother warned "A boy
10
made assistant a
IS hour the nmehour day That boosted weekly
her and laid the in her
Evening star., 1925-01-08
TECH GETS GRID GAME.

Tech High School appears on the
1925 gridiron schedule of Baltimore
City College, the games to be played at
Homewood Field, October 2.
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LINK VS.. TURNER.

Young Shad Link, Baltimore wres-
tier, meets Joe Turner tonight at the
Mutual Theater.
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NV4LID TO GOLF CHAMP
Cyril Walkers Own Story of His Rise
Chapter 5-"You're Going to Wm!"

OST the had had Pat Doyle
IEt and after how clubs working Pat
- spread the the other
"The fellow that
playing he said Thursday morning
prepared under
hoped of making
All l
Evening star., 1925-01-08
BIG BROTHER MERLE,
STAMEY,S EARLY HERO
Bucky A duances a Bit in Chosen Pro-
fession by Winning Shortstop Berth
on Team in Sunday School League.

s
league mud
of
of
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InSideGOlf
BY Chester Horton.

The game of golf is a good deal
like two foot ball lines, you being one
tkne, the game the other. One of
Evening star., 1925-01-08
Fifty Years of Base Ball
One of Series of articles by John b. Foster Com.
memorating the Fiftieth Anniversary OF the
National League, to Be Celebrated
Merit Season.

TINE most in National League is John j.
both spoken of and written of IN the present
of the New York National League
team vyhic he conducted championships
1905 In l9ll-lll3
In 1921 he
and
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So the fight worked out the way
any sensible person might have doped
it had he used his bean. The 1900
or $4,000 fans who fell for the come
Evening star., 1925-01-08

Next-Adrian O. Anson.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
GRANTS MRS. TUCKERMAN
RETRIAL IN $4,000 SUIT
Assessed $3.50 Damages in Rum
mage Sale Arrest Case. Society
Leader Appealed

Justice stafford in the District. Su-
preme Court today awarded Mrs.
Walter Tuckerman. we'll known So
ciety leader a new trial on the suit
for $4,000 damages brought against
her by Mrs. Myrtle McMaster for
alleged false arrest at a charity rum
mage sale on + street in December.
1928. 4 jury recently returned a
verdict of $3.50 DANA Ees against Mrs.
Tuckerman, and, through Roger j.
Whiteford. she asked that this YER
dict be set aside and that she be
given a new trial.
Mrs. Tuckerman was chairman Of
a committee in charge of the rum
mage sale and Mrs. McMaster was a
patron. A dispute arose over a dress
which had been marked to sell for
$3.50 and which some assistant had
permitted Mrs. McMaster to take on
payment of $3.50 Mrs. Tuckerman
stopped Mrs. McMaster as the latter
was about to leave the place and said
she could not take the garment at
that price.
Mrs. McMaster claimed The police
were summoned and her way to the
door barred in the interval. Mrs.
Tuckerman denied that there was any
restraint of the patron. Mrs. McMas-
ter asserted she had spent $3.50 for
medicsl attention as, the result Of her
nervous condition following the epi-
,sode. Attorney p. b. Moreheuses rep
resented Mrs. MoMaster.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
SEARCHL|GHTSSTAB
SK|ESABOVE OAHU
Defenders of Hawaii on Alert
for Planes as Fleet
Nears Islands,,
By the Associated Press

bN me AsSNfldIeN Press.
HONOLULU. April 24.-Through-
out last night searchlights stabbed the
tropical sky over the island of Oahu
searching for planes of the Blue fleet
which is attacking the island in the
war game in the Pacific. A tense
feeling of suspense was evident every
where among the defending Black
forces as the impending invasion of
the island drew nearer.
Expect Early Attack.
Persistent rumors that the Blue at
tacking forces have established an
aircraft base on the island of Kauai
with which comnunica ton has been
cut off. are evidently taken seriously
by the defending Black forces. which
kept the heavens Illuminated through
out the night by searchhghts in an
effort to prevent night bombing in
possible air raid.
Radios Plight TO L. 6.
For the first time in history ma ior
general commanding a beleaguered
garrison last night radiocast his pre-
carious position to all America. when
Maj. Gen. h. NJ. Lewis, commanding
the Hawaiian department, spoke from
station kGU. : Gen. Lewis told of his
position and explained details of the
war game. but gave no details which
might be of value to attacking Blues
who might he listening in.
Evening star., 1925-04-24

neV. Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Wight, Miss Betty Greenwood. Miss
Jeanette Hume Miss Elizabeth Green
lees. Miss Abby Holdridge and L.
Blackwell Smith.
Miss Mary Minge wilkins and Mrs.
Charles G.. McRoberts, had charge of
the incidental music. Soloists were
Miss Netta Craig. soprano: Mrs. Jo-
sephine Robey, contralto. and Jesse
Neitch. tenor.
Others Who Shared Honors.
Scenery Tor the pageant was pre-
pared by Miss Lucia Hollerith. aided
by Miss Nan Hollerith, Miss Virginia
Hollerith, Mrs. John Ihldersa John
Flake Gordon. Costumes. were ar
ranged by Mrs. John Blake Gordon,
Mrs. Carl Shoemaker, Miss Radford
and Mrs. Lloyd Shippen.
Others in charge were Mrs. Rawl-
ings Hume and Mrs. S. Percy Thomp-
son, properties: Miss Alice Ball. mar
shall of cast; Comdr. Hewitt, lights,
Mrs. Ernest Greenwood dances. and
Mrs Richard Babcock and Miss Char
lotte,, Duvall. tickets.
The pageant was present under
the auspices of the Paris House
Guild u Christ Chursh.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
U. D. c. REFUSES AID.
Officers Score Memorial Body on
Coin Selling.
By the Associated Pres:


ATLANTA. : Ga. April g4.-Two
other officials of the United Daugh
ters of the ConfederacS last night
added their voices to that of Mrs.
Walter J. Grace. president of the
State division of the organization, in
statements concerning the Stone
Mountain Confederate Memorial con-
troversy.
Mrs. Walter ID. Lamar a past pres
ident of the State organization and
chairman of the general program
committee. in a telegram declining
the proffered chairmanship of a coin
distribution committee for the me-
mortal, declared full and enthusi-
aStic cooperation from all Georgia
Daughters of the Confederacy can be
counted on when. their chosen leader,
Mrs. Walter Grace, receives the con-
sideration due her answering cham =
pionship of the Stone Mountain Me-
mortal"
Mrs. John A. Perdue. president of
the Atlanta Chapter of the organiza :
ton, in a statement said:
The position of the Atlanta Chap
ter u. d. c.. was clearly defined by
Mrs. Walter Grace, president of the
Georgia division, U. d. c., to the eff
feet that the L. D. G. cannot be con-
sidered as any longer connected with
the Stone Mountain Association by
ties of sympathy and approval, since
the aSSOcia tion has become
local group more interested in
selling coin than in preserving the
heartfelt interest of the entire coun-
fry
Evening star., 1925-04-24
B. r. YOHE is RETIRED.
Had Been Clerk in Federal Serv-
ice Since 1886.

/ Benja min F.. Yohe. clerk in the
Treasury Department, who had been
in the Government service since 1886,
retired today Many good wishes
were expressed for his comfort and
happiness by the chief of the Divi-
sion of Printing, Frederick F. Weston,
and others. -
Mr.. Yohe entered the Government
service in the Patent Office After
serving Is years. there. he was trans :
ferred to the Treasury, under the ad :
nainistfation of Secretary Gage, and
became the private secretary of Mil
ton E. Allies, who, at, that time was
Assistant Secretary The latter part
of theh service of Mr.. Yohe in the
Treasury was as assistant in issuing
"a publication giving the decisions of
the Treasury Department under Gus
toms. internal revenue and other
laws.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
SUN WORSHIP TOWERS
MAY BE MODEL FOR U. S.
Possible Source of New Ideas for
skyscrapers, British Savant
Believes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Excavations
of ancient towers for sun worship In
Mesoptamania may furnish architects
with new ideas for skyscrapers.. ac-
cording to Prof. Beresford Pite of
the Royal College of Architecture.
London. who is representing his or
Ganization at the annual convention
Of the American Institute of Archi
tects now in session here.
Prof Pite explained that glaze ap-
plied-to the exterior of the sun wor-
shippers towers. gave them brilliant
hues.
THE interest America is taking in
these excavations may presage this, )"
he said Already the steam emanat-
ing in picturesque clouds from the
top of these buildings suggests the
altars which smoked to Heayen from
their SUBMITS"
Prof Pite, however, said he feared
the Skyscraper was IAN economic
mistake" creating congested streets
and unhealthful conditions. He said
that London will never have such
tall buildings because its foundation
is not sufficiently solid and because
OF legal barriers ---.-z---.--
Evening star., 1925-04-24
TAK0MA TULIP EXHIBIT
TO OPEN DOORS TONIGHT
Five Glasses of Blooms Scheduled
in Show to Continue Through
Tomorrow.

A large number of blooms have
been entered in the annual tulip show
of the Takoma Horticultural Club
which will open at o'clock tonight at
the Takoma Library and remain open
,all day tomorrow.
Five classes are scheduled. There
is class for tulip varieties, for small
vases of tulips alone and tulips with
other flowers, for baskets of tulips
alone and tulips with other flowers,
for collections of blooms and for the
best single bloom in the show.
DIR. A. j. Pieters will be judge. The
committee is composed of Mrs. Daniel
Miller, chairman: A. H. Deike, l.. W.
Kephart. Mr.. and Mrs. William Leav-
lit, H. e. Allanson and Mrs II. c.
Heffner