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DISTRICT LEAGUE.
Records to Date.

..HiEh team set-Convcntion Hall. 1915.
~, afsS :, ind Ics .ss-Ro'enbeTs. Conven-
IS i1 81 !. ip Al s.me-Frie9d Terminal
High i1dviaSai avcrase-Friend. Terminal
J. q e; ;as number of spares-Mesaw. King
r.SR ss;s. a,c. p ess of ''ike-Friend'
Bowling in the District League
will be resumed the coming week
after luil. In the schedule caused
by the holiday season. The battle
for top honors will continue with
renewed vigor. Practically all of
The personnel of the leading teams
have been, active on the drives dur
irYr special matches or tournaments
\ Of. various kinds, affording splendid
practice and insuring a. continuation
Of excellent scores.
The team. standings show stan
ford Paper CO.. King Pins and Con-
yention Hall SO closely grouped that
a, single game separates those three
searns. The Papermakers are in the
van by virtue of total ptnfah and are
fled with King Pins In games won
and lost. Convention Hall is one
kxIhe In the rear Of those two teams.
Temple continues to remain within
striking distance Of the top. Terminal
Zee Co. leads the league In total
pins and cannot bio counted out of
the running. being only 6 games back
of the leaders, with more than half
the schedule to go. :.
The District League Is staging the
closest race that loop has enjoyed in
YEARS as evidenced by the fact that
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ferred playing base ball or caddying.
The great ma jority of them were for
base ball as a game. but for caddy-
ing as a job. A small proportion of
them go into golf in a professional
way, but not as many of them as
unsubStantiated assertions first made
it appear.
Many of these boys still play base
ball in odd hours when they have OPP
portunity but they do not organize
clubs and leagues and go to nearby
towns to play their games as the
boys did in the old-fashioned times.
That is the reason why there seems
to be a falling off in boy base ball as
compared with some. years ago when
it was the ambition of every boy club
not only to have it's organization,
it's uniforms and its distinct per-
sonality, but to play all around the
region for a mythical championship.
Youngsters Still Play.
Any question about the response.
bility of golf for the decline in ju-
venile base ball would seem to be
answered by the fact that the boys
of tenderer years are as inspired as
ever to play base ball. The little
lads cannot be kept away from 1t.
They get their bats, masks and pro-
tectors and play the game in every
conceivable spot.
1t is only the boys who are big
enough to serve as caddies who are
giving up the national game. This
has been ascertained by very care
full observation on the part of COM
metC1al interests which are vitality
concerned in the matter.
Also it has ben shown that there
is little falling off in base ball in
the agricultural regions. The coun-
try boy. away from all contact with
other sports. plays the game at
every opportunity.
! Base ball has decreased only in
large cities where there is scarcely
4 square foot on which to play a BALL
game and in the vicinity of sporting
centers where the boys find oppor-
tunitieS to work in other sports.
Copyright. 1921
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ONLY SIX TOOK PART
In ALL A. l. CLASHES

CHICAGO, January 2 R. Box
scores Of the American League during
the 1925 season contained the name
OF 264 players. Only six Of this mum
Der had the distinction Of playing ir
every game during the year.
According to statistics compiJef
here, 1S8 players participated in !
or more games. while rs were credited
with participation in less than IS
games.
The six players who went through
without missing a game were Joe
Sewell Of the Cleveland Indians; Sam
Rice, Washington; AL Simmons, Phil.
adelphia Athletics; BIB Falk, Chicago
White Sox; Bob Meusel, New York
Yankees, and Marty McManus, st.
Louis Browns.
The Boston and Detroit clubs were
the only ones. that failed to have a
player participate In ain Of their
games.
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ISL anu IOCk DdSS.
plant life upon which the fish feed.
The catching of immature fish is also
Fastening the disappearance, he said.
Commissioner. O'Malley addressed
the same gathering and outlined the
work of the bureau. Five billion egga
are planted each year as part of the
work of the bureau" O'Malley said
''Three-fourths of these are for the
benefit of commercial fisheries"
Providing an adequate supply of fish
to the housewife, at prices consider
ably lower than those of the present,
was the purpose of measures to pro.
hibit the catching of immature fish,
discussed at the meeting. The waste
full practice of catching fish before
they have reached their full size and
have had d chance to spawn was de.
cried. and a bill to be submitted to
the New York State Legislature was
authorized which would check this
abuse.
The annual consumption of Ash in
the United States is placed at 3,000,-
000,00 pounds. Each individual eats
3l.6 pounds of fish annually, or 1.39
| ounces daily. The national investment
in the fishing industry~is $500, 0O0, 900,
and the industry employs 100000 per
sons.
The above figures show big in
vestment, vitality interesting one-half
million people and indirectly concern
ing millions of persons throughout
the whole country who at one time
or another have fish on their tables
during the year. Any industry as big
as this is surely deserving of some
protection, especially when the need
cd assistance is striking a serious
blow at its solar plexuS.
The erection in Washington of the
finest and most commodious stadium
in America as a memorial to the late
Theodore Roosevelt, as proposed edi-
torially and in this column in The
Star last week, has met with hearty
approval of many and Is gaining
| impetus. a---
Representative Clarence MacGreg-
or, Republican, of New York, said he
thought stadium in memory OF the
late President was far more fitting
and appropriate than the proposed
! memorial in the Tidal Basin. Mac
| Gregor said that Theodore Roosevelt
represented the energy Of the foot
ball field. the base ball diamond, the
give and take, the hitting of the
line the energy Of youth that need
ed means of expression as well as
encouragement. :,
IF I were to be charged with the
opportunity to select my idea of per-
petuating the memory Of this ener-
getic President I would have erected
| in the City Of Washington the most
| magnificent and commodious stadium
| In America, where the development
of the. physical powers would be en-
couraged, where ambition to succeed
| would be developed.
"Such a stadium would have a tend
ency to perpetuate the IDEAS and
ideals of Roosevelt In a much more
intense way than any dead archi-
tectural triumph"
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EVENTS AT FORT MYER
TO HELP ARMY RELIEF

Fort Myers branch of the Army
Relief Society holds it's annual eX-
hibition drill and tea dance Saturday
at .: so o'clock in the post riding hall.
The program includes the following
events: Drill by the 3rd Cavalry
mounted band. musical drill by Troop
E, 3rd Cavalry: rough riding by Troop
F. 3rd Cavalry; monkey drill by
Troop Ct. 3rd Cavalry; officers school
ride, exhibition jumping, and an ar
tillery drill by Battery c, 18th Field
Artillery.
Reserved seats are 50, and general
admission 81.
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actually in charge OF them, and says
He purposed to extend 1t to other
cities this year, and to provide even
greater incentive to the youthful
players.
johnson Lauds Plan.
ut was one of the best plans for
boy base ball that | ever heard or, :
SAYS President Johnson. Il PIE
base ball when l was u boy. and
know that the attention given ~ d
big Lacquer to me and the club to
which | belonged was one of the hap
piest things in my life. We can give
pleasure to the youngsters and also
add wide interest in Our sport If we
will only devote more time TO them.
and it is my intention to see that TINS
is done wherever it can be done by
the American League:
President Heydler OF the National
League, who is aS warm In his praise
of boy base ball as the president of
the American League, will do all that
he can to revive any interest that may
have been lost. One plan he has In
mind is that the National League
shall provide trophies for the best boy
teams in certain municipalities.
Some base ball students are in
clined to minimize the recent state
ment of Mai Griffith of the Western
I ODlSISlGe Will lCSdiu " liiC w
crease of ball playing by boys. but it
seems pretty we'll established that
there has been marked falling off
of interest.
Boys Seek Odd Jobs.
The responsibility seems to be
traceable largely to golf. but not SO
much 10 golf as a game for boys as
TO golf as a means of earnin,, pocket
money by caddying. The nuys receive
quite large sums for their efforts,
Many of them are on the links ai
day. and when they finish work, they
are too tired TO play ball. Sumo of
them make the round of a golf course
twice in one day, and that is quite
a big tramp, especially on the longer
courses which stretch over hills as
we'll as plains.
Inquiry has been made among
these boys as TO whether they pre-
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3 Carroll proposes to- bring into the
fray the high average man of each
team OF the leagues that use the al
leys OF his chain and will offer rich
prizes for the affair. He will an
nounce soon the date on which the
averages are to be computed to ascer-
tain qualified contestants. Very like
~ the last Saturday Of this month will
be the day.
League secretaries will be asked to
submit lists of men eligible to com.
pete In, tho tournament. and competi.
tion will start as soon thereafter as a
schedule can be arranged. There will
be no entrance fee.
Carroll hopes to make the tourna-
n1ent first round schedule conform to
the schedules of the various leagues
having entrants In the tourney. He
would have the high average men OF
the teams do their tournament rolling
on some night after they had COM
pieted their circuit matches.
Should such a plan be followed.
each contestant certainly would have
rooters aplenty, for 1t Is safe to pre-
dict that the members of his team
would mako every effort to remain
after their league match to give their
star a good send.on.
The proposed tournament Is expect
ed to spur bowlers Of leagues that use
the Recreation chain to greater eff
forts from now en-. With four weeks
In which to bolster up averages re-
nlalning, there are few men on teams
IN the several leagues so well en-
-trenched at. the top that they fear no
competition. The present leaders win
have to step on tho gas II they would
not be overhauied by some less exalted
pin smashers.
=, With the field anticipated the
tournament probably will extend
Through the greater part Of February.
But that Will not bother the duck
Primers. They can't get too much Of
the game nowadays.
Al Works remarkable bowling in
the Convention Hall elimination tour
nament has the duckpin crowd all hst
up over this means Of testing a
bowler's ability. The duckpinner.
like the follower of other sports, likes
q champion and he is beginning to re.
gard thu elimination method as the
.best.to determine the outstanding per.
former in his particular game. Tn
doubleday the time is near at hand
whom a city-wide elimination tourna-
ment, will be held, with bowlers, re-
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GREENLEAF TO EXHIBIT
SKILL WITH CUE HERE

Ralph Greenleaf. undefeated world
pocket billiard champion for six CON
secutive years, will appear in exhi-
billion matches here Thursday and Fri
day at the Lewis and Krauss billiard
parlors. Two matches will be- held
daily. starting in the afternoon at 8
O'Clock and at night at 8. He viii be
opposed by leading local exponents of
the game.
In addition to the regular match
between GreenIeaf and his Washing
viii give an exhibition Of, fancy. shots
and dimcult strokes atseach performs
auceS I < -. Z,
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GEN. WOOD ENCOURAGES
SPORTS IN PHILIPPINES

MANILA, January 2 @-Goy.
Gen. Leonard Wood, always an en-
thusiast in sports, has isxued a state.
ment to encourage athletics in ali i'm.
portant governmental and private or.
CARNATIONS in order that "a broader
field from which to select Philippine
representatives in International con.
tests may be available.
Among the organizations named as
potential sources Of strong athletes
are the United States Army and
Navy. the Philippine constabulary
the Manila city police and govern
ment bureau employees. y.
z The governor general urges early
preparations for the training Of Phil
1ppire representatives in the next Far
Eastern Olympic games. which are to
he held in Peking in 1927. "a
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Columbus SET PACE
IN PINSPHLlNG LOOP


While the Columbias are well out
Garage bowlers are waging a. close
fight for second-place honors in the
Mount Pleasant Duckpin League.
The Senators have scored II vic
tories in SO starts, while the Garage
men are only one game behind Co
lumbia pinspillers have chalked I'D
"a wins.
Shipley of the Senators is leading
in the race for high average with a
mark of 111.21, but is being pushed
by Simmons of the leaders. who has
rolled for an average of 1871.
Standing of the teams and indiyid-
ual records of bowlers who have taken
part in y or more games follow:
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BOWLING TEAM LEADERS
: TO MEET IN TOURNAMENT

bowling the ardent dckpnne
Washington do these days They simply have
the drives than the matches afford
pnpers Right the elimination
week-and
Harry Carroll general manager
j.. -r.
While CAROLS will be closed affair that
the
promises bring of the stellar bowers the
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T0PPERS ARE AT TOP
TN BOWLING CIRCUIT

Toppers are living up to their
name in the Washington Terminal
Y. M. G. A. bowling league race and
are holding first place with a total
of % victories in q starts at the end
of the second series.
Cross and Bryan have the fight
for high average all to them
selves. The former has a mark of
1854, while the latter has averaged
105 fiat. Four others in the circuit
are rolling over 100. They are Neider,
with 103.13; Weeks, with 1923:
Trotter, with 100.L7; and Wehousen,
with 100.11.
Standing of the teams and indi-
vidual records follow:
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Which, in turn, fits in with the
writer exclusive announcement that
Dempsey's reason for bringing Gus
wilson, Carpenters great trainer, TO
THIS country some months ago was to
put the champion in lighting trim
Opponent Unknown.
Just who Dempsey will box against
in his Florida exhibition is not known
to the writer but Britton says it will
De one OF his Sparring partners.
Gene Iunney Will he on hand and
no doubt the two will discuss a chaIx-
pionship battle. This will merely y
the resumption of talks along this linz
which they held i'll New York lase
year.
Dempsey told Tunney at the time
that he favored him as a. contender.
provided the eX-Marine slowed Glib
bons away. This Gene did and now
1t is up to the champion to say some
thing definite
Whether Jack agrees to fight Tur-
ney, Dempsey will not he able to duck
Harry Wills and get away with it. He
mas lost most of his popularity through
ms TWO years of inactivity and some
thing more than the signing of arti-
cles TO meet man nearly 20 pounds
lshter than he is will be necessary to
re-establish him.
Friends of Dempsey say that 1926
is the year Dempsey has picked i'm
which to clean up every cent that his,
title is worth to him. Most of his
ready cash is tied up in his real estate
ventures and the income of the trust
fund-that anchor to the windward-
which he established when he was
flush, has been coming in handy OF
late
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JACK EAGER TO RESUME
BOXING FOR FAT PURSES
Champion Plans to Work in Exhibition Bouts With
Sparring Mates This Winter-Must Get Rid
of Wills Before Meeting Tunney.
BY SPARROW McGANN.

N EW YORK. January 2From Coast
word that Jack Dempsey the
active condition himself for battles
this in defense of his title.
At first Dempsey will work exhibition
nersthe best that he under actual
he will take who while figure
make
Jack Brtton who
adds
that Jack will show exhibition
mont '0
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N. c: P, ROLLERS LEAD
TYPOTHETAE LEAGUE

Bowlers Of the Typothetae Duckpin
League are finding ut difficult to stop
the National Capital Press five in it's
drive for the circuit championship.
The leaders have taken 30 games In
80 starts, to give themselves big
advantage over the second place Judd
& Detweiler five and the Wheeler
Jones quint, which is holding third
position.
High average is held by Earl Nc
Philomy of the tail-end Stanford Pa
per Co. team. His mark is ia and
except for the Ill average made by
Mischou of National Capital, is the
only one to exceed the 10 mark.
Standing of Teams
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PIRATES FARM HUGHES.

PITTSBURGH, January. Or
Pittsburgh has released, under option,
Third Basennan Richard Hughes at
the waterbury club of the Eastern
League. Hughes was purchased from
the Williamsport New York; ennsyl.
wanna League. &
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HOOPER MAY MANAGE.

CHICAGO, January R.-A pos
s;ibility that Harry b. Hooper, Chicago
White Sox outfielder, may not return
to the club, but instead may manage
a Western League club. probably
omaha, is given consideration in base
ball circles here.
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gardless Of league or controlling body
affffiation, shooting for the big prize
champion duckpinner of the District
Of Columbia. Such tournament
Should not be an entirely open affair.
1t would be too unwieldy ANDY too
many entrants. even with Dame For.
tune beaming upon them. would have
no real chance in the tournament.
Certainly some way may be found to
formulate qualification rules that
would quickly narrow the field of title
aspirants and let the stellar talent go
to It. Duckpinners ought to start
consideration of this matter now If
they would have their tourney
Stanford Paper Co. team Is receiv-
ing congratulations for it's success i'm
the holiday handicap tournament at
the Coliseum. More than 40 quints
competed and the Stanfords walked
away with first prize when, credited
with three-game score of 1888. Cen
ter Market team was second with
LITE, and Amity third with 1 1862, both
counts including handicaps. The
handicaps were In sealed envelopes
hung on a Christmas tree at the
drives. and after the six days of bowl.
ing were concluded the fateful figures
were distributed by a little miss at.
tired as Santa CLAUS. The Stanfords
drew only 65. but 1t was quite enough
to overcome the lis of the Center
Markets and the $50 of the Amitys.
The Columbians of the Washington
Ladies' League trfumphed in the wom-
ems group. their $50 handicap rails
ing their total to 1884 The Daisys
Of the Agriculture League made $50
with their 1855 handicap, to finish sec
ond.
A new bowler who can knock the
pins for a loop was uncovered in Fifty
FITZGERALD whan the office force and
drivers Of the Terminal Ice Co. met
in their annual match The white
collar boys had several widely known
stars among them, but the high class
talent could not cope with the terrific
pin smashing done by Fifty. This
young fellow, who proved to be the
ace of the drivers. toppled a set bet
tering $50. enabling his team to walk
away with the match and lots of
change that the Office hands had
rashly wagered. Fitzgerald is new to
the duckpin game, but If his perform.
ances for the drivers means ANYTHING
he will be much heard of in the near
future.
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BASE BALL IS BEST SPORT
FOR YOUTH, MOGULS AVER
Presidents Johnson and Heydler Hope to Increase
Youngsters Interest in National Pastime.
Caddying Is Diamond Menace.
BY GEORGE CHADWICK.

Both base ball leagues begin the
year unquahd favor of amateur sport and especially
tagging the Nation play
baseba
denied Organized base ball does not fear that
will be depleted of the OF boys the
their plans stimulating the sando
the best world
by President
Johnson League. Mr. Johnson maugurated
Of hoy in
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Standing of Teams.
Record Performances

Record Performances
HEn team game-Columbias $50
Hlgh team set-Senators, l ,702
High Individual average-Shiplcy Sena.
tors. 111-2l. "1"
High individual game-Shipley. Senators
,o High individual set-Shjpley, Senators
!. High individual spares-Simmons. Column
,yIHigh Individual strikes-Ervin. Modern
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High team set $50. Coilesiates.
High team gamc-680. Ross All Stars
High individual set-Oscar HIser, Collie
giates. $50.
High individual game-w. Kessler. Com
High individual sverase-Henry Hiser
American Legion, liz.
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ROD AND, STREAM
BY PERRY MILLER.

TlTf advent OF the the thoughts OF the
wv the fishing a
1926 will o be of rod
thing we'll
stocked with fish Commissioner Henry OMaley
Leach United Fisheries
collecting the
to he 'FRONT.' nc1de larae
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Record Performances.

High individual average-McPhilomy. ! "a
High individual game-Marston and No
ack. $40.
High individual set-Chsllacombe, 379.
High team game-Judd Detweiler- 57s-
High team sct-Judd Detweiler. ,G29.
Most strikes-Ennis, 81.
Most spares-McPhilomy. 10.