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the contest in favor of Boston.
convinced that their roofing decided
games one way or another. and these
men were otherwise intelligent. Every
man also seems to be a self-appointed
base ball scout. Each year every ma.
jor league club receives hundreds of
letters telling about excellent pros.
poets. Only few of the letters
amount to anything, but none can
really be ignored. although investigat-
ing these tips costs ajor league clubs
fortunes. Walter Johnson, Stanley
Harris. Urban Shocker, George Uhle
and other stars were first tipped off
to clubs in letters written by enthusi-
asts. When owners think of players
that the fans have really uncovered
they feel they cannot afford to ignore
any information.
Players have been made by crowds
Let the crowd take a liking to a GER
tain player and give him constant en-
couragement, and he is we'll on the
road to success. But the same crowd
can kill off a player by riding him
constantly. If the fans take a dis
like to a certain man. he is under an
enormous handicap. II is almost i'm
possible for player to make good
when the home fans are against him.
On the road it is different. There the
players expect to be criticized and
razzed. They look forward to 1t and
never mind 1t; indeed, it helps them
The more the fans howl at them the
better they figure they are playing
If they were not doing effective work
the fans would ignore them. So the
razzing of visiting team is more
often than not stimulant. 1t is one
reason why certain teams do much
better on the road than at home. If
fans only knew how much they help
ed a visiting team by trying to hinder
it by razzing. ] am sure that the
business of pestering the visiting play
ers would soon end.
(Copyright. 1936.l
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Kid Pitchers Peases Harris Pirates Haze Some Promising Rockies
PARADE AT GRID GAME
TO DEPICT US. HISTORY

CHICAGO, March 9 R.-The
history of the United States will
be enacted i'm a parade preceding
the Army-Navy foot ball game
here next Fall.
The spirit Of '16 will lead the
parade, followed by 100 "COlOnials,"
Howard p. Savage, general chair
man of the committee, said today.
Next I'm line of march will come 50
Union and SO Confederate soldiers.
Every war will be represented, and
following the men of 1918 will
come the Boy Scouts, the X. d.
I. G. and similar organizations.
The West Point Cadets and the
Annapolis midshipmen will bring
up the rear.
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MARK IS SMASHED
BY GIRL SWIM MER

BY the Associated Press.
PH1LA ADELPHIA, March 9--Ethel
l-ackle, Illinois A. C.. exceeded by two
rifths of second the world record
for the 50-yard free-style swimming
in a n exhibition match here.
The exhibition marked the formal
opening of the Penn A. c. pool.
Miss Lackie's time was q seconds
fiat. The world record of 81 2-5 sec
onds was set by Miss Lackie at re
cent meet in Florida.
Walter Laufer. Cincinnati Y. NJ.
G. A, at the same meet swan 22O
yards, free style. in Ia 3-5 seconds
less than the Middle Atlantic record
or z minutes 81 seconds, set by Ernie
Uhl at the Hygeia pool. in Atlantic
CITY, February IA. 1924. His time was
2 minutes II 2-5 seconds
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RENA LEVY LEADING
BOWLER IN LEAGUE

Rena Levy Is leading the Washing
ton Ladies' Duckpin League averages
compiled by James Baker, official
scorer, show. She has an average of
105-14. Lorraine GULL. in second place,
has an average of 1851.
Columbia retains the league leader
ship.
Hilltoppers finally have crawled
back in second place after a hard
struggle with the Beeques. CONNER
cials and Washingtons. The figures:
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high set of 348, while Capt. Papas hs
Young Mems Shop sprang a big
surprise in the Commercial League
when it won all three games from the
Times. Herald, leaders of the organlza'
ton.
Lead.off man McElwee did more
than his share to bolster up his team.
smashing the NAPLES for a set OF 800
and game of 12S.
Four contests were rolled in the
Masonic League. Mount Herman
grabbed two out of three from Poto'
mac, Congress turned the same trick
on the East Gate bOwlers. Takoma
dropped one game to King Solomon
and George c. Whiting won two from
Hope. Miller of Mount Herman nad
the best game of the evening OF iSe,
while +. Money, anchor man OF the
Whiting crew, had top set of 5o4.
In the General Accounting Office
League, the Investigators went on
rampage and won all three games from
Military. Covert of the losers did tne
best work, landing the high set Win
$40 and top game of 12O.
A sharp battle took place between
the Disbursing quint and lnsuraMce
of the Veterans Buerau League, tile
former capturing all three games, tne
first after a tie at 535. Nolan anchor
man of the victors, turned in SET OF
1858. Bishop of the same quint iahoeo
the high game of LAS.
Athletic League Stars will carry
lead of So pins into their seconu auu
final round with the Northeast stars
next Saturday night on the Conven'
ton Hall alleys. The Athletes won
four of the five games in their nrst @
tussle, rolling games of 617 ana 60,.
Cowden of the winners had the nigh
set of 631. Joe Toomey was pest 1or
the losers with 604.
A suecial match to Aecide the cham
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GUESTS BEGIN PLAY
TONIGHT FOR TITLE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
, PHILADELPHIA. March 9.-Jake
Schaefer, world champion at 1872
balkline billiards. and Eric Hagen.
lacher. champion of Germany, begin
tonight a match of 1900 points for
the world title. Five hundred points
will be played nightly.
The challenger. Schaefer says. is
one of the games finest players and
one of the four greatest in the world.
"If l were asked to select the best
players" he said, II would pick only
Willie Hoppe ahead of the German"
Schaefer has been training by
going to bed nightly at 10 o'clock and
dieting. Hagen)acher's preparation
has included pleasure trip to At
lantic CITY,
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THE KIDS STEP OUT

Totals. "a - 16 Totals."1 "a II
'Batted for Smith in sixth inning.
Washington ......0 O o O o 3 o x-3
Runs-Archdeacon McNeely Tate Errors
--McNeely. Tate. Lyle. Two-base hits--
Ortega Villarin. Mira Double plays
Lopez to villarin to Mira. Bouza to Mira
First base on balls-off Alvarez; p off
nings: nrss OF K.IIey. IN innings; of Garcia Ia
in 2 innings: off Smith. in innings;
off Lyle; in ,nnjngs; Hit BY pitched ball
outSBy Alvarez. 8 by Kelley, :: by smith
.: by lyle. 3: by Garcia. 2. Wild pitch
Alvarez. Umpires-Messrs. MCGOWAN and
l., Schacht.
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GETS GOLF TOURNEY.

CHICAGO. March up. - The
womens Western golf championship
has been formally awarded to Olympia
Fields Country Club. Chicago. and the
date set for August 1928, although
that overlaps the Western Gpen
tournament at indianapolis August
1928. 1t was not decided how many
Of the four courses at Olympia would
he Dlayed
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McKECHNIE SURE HE HAS
ROSLTERED HURLINC STAFF
Brewer, Brown, Songer, Koupal, Cook and Kssinger
Among Youngsters Who May Strengthen Curry
ing Corps of the World Champions.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

IN ROUTE FROM CALIFORNIA TO SOUTHERN TRAINING
CAMPS 9Sme apprehension has been expressed here and
the pitching staff of the Pittsburgh Pirates who
in will be
hold National League and the world series
should there be another for Pittsburgh . .
But Manager Bill Mckechne satisfied that his pitching stan
banking his kids through
Rhyneand they
ball Pirates
young pitchers them merry along the
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ing two runs to score. That decided
Now both Long and / were doing
the best we could that day. It hurt
as far more than any one else in the
world. It hurt me most of all be.
cause my final error lost the game.
All the criticism did not help. 1t did
not erase my five errors nor Longs
four. I certainly would not have made
ave errors If / could have helped it,
and Long would not have made four
I had bad day and so did Herman.
We all have bad days.
Players Feel Badly.
It Is always we'll to remember that
the man who is having a tough day
feels worse about it than you do. 1t
means a great deal more in his life
than in yours. He is punished enough
by the realization of his bad work, but
the public is impetuous. quick to praise
and also quick to criticize. While the
public damns the work of the player,
It forgets about the damnation the
following day, but the player does not
forget. The cutting remarks linger
with him.
There is nothing more harmful to a
pitcher than the raucous Take him
out" II cuts deeply. Sometimes l
think that it has lost almost as many
games as bad pitching. A pitcher is
likely to be hit hard in any inning
without losing any of his stuff. No one
can explain that. Three, four, five and
sven six batters in succession may hit
him safely. He would be all right in
the next inning, but there is no next
ining for him. The Take him out
cries upset him far more than the
hits Of his opponents. and he wits.
I once saw Red Faber, grand
pitcher, hit safely by the first six
batsmen that faced him in the first
game of a double-header. With five
runs in, one runner on the bases and
none out, Faber was relieved. He
was back at the start Of the second
game, and he was there at the finish.
He allowed two hits and won a shut
out victory.
This all happened in the same after
noon. The same team that made six
consecutive hits at the start of one
game made only two hits and could
not score against the same pitcher a
few hours later.
Several wears ago the Giants were
playing in Pittsburgh and Cooper
started for the Pirates. In the first
inning the Giants got base on balls
and made FIVE hits. The last hit was
a three-bagger and five runs scored.
The stands were in an uproar with
stake him out" but for some reason
Cooper was not taken out. He fin
ished the game. and New York could
not score after the first inning, but
Pittsburgh could. The Pirates made
seven runs and beat New York by ::
7.to-5 score.
All Fans Are Scouts.
Nearly everybody that follows base
ball closely thinks he is an expert
and q Heen judge of playing talent.
have known men who were firmly
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KELLEY, SMITH AND LYLE
BLANK THE CUBAN STARS
cowboy Jones Comes Through With Hit That Leads
to Big Inning--Bucky Voices Qualification Over
Signing of Southpaw Dutch Ruether.

highly eaed the showing
bv handing the
beating Yesterday Harry Kelley Hal Smith and Jim Lyle
granted HIS which
'he this considered all the gratifying
that the Hasnens chances
depend through and
hopeu the day naturally does make him
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CHESS STARS SCORE.

SEMMERING. Austria. March
(P).-Nine games in the second round
Of the International chess tourna ment
were contested yesterday. among the
winners being Janowski, France;
NiemZowitsch. Denmark, and DIR.
Tartakower of Austria
Evening star., 1926-03-09

AMES. Iowa, March 9 P).-Rob-
ert Simpson. track coach at the Uni
versity Of Missouri. has been ap-
pointed head track and cross country
coach for Iowa State College. He
will come here about September 90
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PECK FIVE DOES WELL.

Peck Memorial basket ballers. win
ners of third place honors in the Sun
day School League, have closed their
sea son with a record of II wins
against IA losses.
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the BOWlerS

4 Convention Hall last night, Mount
of 564, $50 and $40. The former got
Seltzer of Mount Pleasant had the
the high game Of l42.
pionship of the Holy Rosary Parish
will be rolled tonight at Convention
Hall. The contesting teams will he
the Holy Rosary Band and Dramatic
Club.
In the U. s. S. b. League the
Reconciliation quint swamped the
Secretary's team. Kendrick of the
victors had set of 391 and a game
of 1872.
King Pin boys, of the National
Capital League. tucked away two out
of three games, the knights of Colum-
bus being the victims. Mission of
the Knights turned in the best set
of 356, while Harville of the King
Pins led his bunch with 344. Reds
Megaw's 12S was the best game.
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Songer MAY Stick This Time.

The Pirates always have Son9er
and koupal off and on. The former
is a southpaw and somehow it looks
as if he will stick with the team this
year Then there is John Oldham.
"Old John who is pegginG away as
indust triously as A two-year-old. John
had hard time with Ty Cobb. He
never did seem tn he able To pitch to
suit Ty except in one year. Then
he was sent West and did not know
but that his days were numbered az
big Lacquer. Fred Clark dug him
out of Des Moines. and put him on
the Pittsburgh team as precaution-
airy measure.
Oldham hasn't vet got over the
sensation of pitching Washington
down to grass as he did in the last
inning of the final game of the big
thrill He says when he gets
through with this team this year he
will have a lefthand record worth
while if ever he gets a chance tn
pitch against the others The old
chap still bends that curve ball as
wide as he did against Washington.
A big healthy kid has reported from
Monroe, La. Cook. by name. Most
likely he will go out for another minor
league season. and some club should
be able to make a lot from him. Cul-
lotion is with the team and perhaps
will start off this year with rush.
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Kissinger Good Prospect.

There's a big chap from the New
York k-Pennsylvania League named kis
singer who's pitcher in the making
if he will carry his part. There's an
other. CrOwder. from birmingham.
who looks as if he can carry on all
season. He is one of the likeliest pros
poets the Pirates have.
Note one other Young player with
this Pittsburgh outfit. shortstor
named Cronin from Oakland. Cronin
hasn't had his chance yet. but he
seems to be another of these Califor-
mans who can go it like streak. IF
he doesn't make a major league club
look happy some day it will be only
because everything in the world has
broken against him. In appearance.
he's a ringer for Rogers Hornsby.
from his face to his leisurely roll as
he walks.
If with this bunch of possible COM
ers the Pirates cannot get into line
and do business beginning April IS. 1t
will have to be a different lot of Buc-
cancers from those of 1925.
(Copyright. 1921
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WITH MAJOR LEACUERS
In THEIR SPRING CAMPS
Ry the Associated Press.

the Asat Press
EW YORK. March American League working the
have ordered the
exhibition according Clarence Row land who
L.: L. l. l l i
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ROUNDING THIRD
---~-~By Hugh A. Jennings-~~-~
CHAPTER LXXVII.

HERE denying that the ball player loves applause
him and spurs him is games
player thrives
Nothing harms player much 1t his play
Ing value than anything
In base ball find that They
the they
recall
made hard for Baltimore.
Boson Zach played short each
afternoon Between Long and myself the
errors and he made four finally topped off afternoons disgrace
the ball
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Situation Awed Aldridge.

Vic won't admit he was nervous
when he stood out there in that first
inning and saw four runs cross the
plate, but the players say he was
shaking because of his experience
after he got through. Aldridge is one.
of the hest money pitchers in base
ball. and 1t may he that the bigness
of the thing did get on his nerves In
the last memorable game. He is
we'll educated chap. however, and Is
likely to work out of II.
Brewer is one of the kids the Fl
rates have taken into camp. He
comes from Florida and down there
was not a bad pitcher. He looks as
if he can come on. Joe Brown from
Oklahoma City is another. He turned
up for Pittsburgh last Spring looking
well, but for some reason or another
could not get going and finally was
sent back Westi He is back again.
with control and confidence, and he
is big enough 10 make a second edi
ton of Cy Young.
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Funny thing about Aldridge. He
reported on the dot and with the kids,
something he never before was known
to do, and he's been working like
horse for 10 days. He can't pitch
enough nor run around enough, yet
McKechnie has been unable to coax
him to pitch a ball from the pitchers
box. Maybe he is box shy after the
experience he had in the first inning
of the last world series game, when
he couldn't locate anything, what with
developing nerves and handling a wet
ball
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All Fans Are Scouts.

All Fans Are Scouts.
Nearly everybody that follows base
ball closely thinks he is an expert
and q Heen Judge of playing talent.
I have known men who were firmly
Evening star., 1926-12-05

some Inspiration from the past. and
the more we know Of history and the
more complete our museum collections
are Of the art Of past ages the richer
will our costumery be with just this
sort of inspiration. But 1t is always
a work of adaptation and superimpo-
sition-if 1t is to meet with any sort
of success.
The creating dressmakers here and
abroad might be grouped very clearly
in two schools which we might call
the traditionalists and the modern.
lists. We should have to put Lucien
Lelong at the front of the latter class.
II am interested in only one period
and that is the present one" This is
said to be Lelong's motto and though
his establishment in Paris is duartered
IN remarkable old building of the
Empire period still replete with his
toric associations, he boasts that his
gowns are displayed under modern
lights of 10000 ca ndle power.
To the question, Whence come our
present fashions?" the only answer is
From the present" And examples
might he given Of conservative old
dressmakers, who, leaning too much
to the traditions Of the past, have seen
their customers turn away toward
younger, more modern-thouEh less
neutrality-suspicious., well estab-
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About Our Pets.
A Tame Wild Canary.

Della and Ruth Baxter of Spring
field, Utah, say that a wild canary
makes a lovely pet. One day while
playing in the yard around their
home they heard a noise and after
an investigation found it to be baby
canary which had fallen out Of it's
nest. They tried to find the nest. but
were unsuccessful. Their mother
gave them a small shoe box and some
cotton, out of which they made a
home for the little bird. she box
was set at the foot of the tree and
each day the old mother bird came
to feed the little baby canary. OF
course. Della and Ruth expected their
pet to ny away some time, but it
stayed with them all Summer. They
can pick up the bird and hold him
and he will not try to fly away from
them. All their playmates marvel at
their being able to have wild canary
for pet.
A Tricky Trio.
Hilaire Smith of San Diego. Calf,
has three pets-a fox terrier dog. a
Persian cat named "Toppy," and a
parrot called Rex" He says that his
pets get along wonderfully we'll to-
gether. The cat and dog play hide.
And.seek together and the parrot sits
In his cage and screams at them,
which adds to the fun. Rex. the par.
rot. will speak only to people he likes,
and often shouts things which are
not nice at the people who visit Hi.
laire. Trixie, the dog, can shake
hands. speak" for his dinner and
sit up. .Hilaire is to be complimented
on his successful management of his
three pets.
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that long period before the Renais-
sance. Still there is something
"Moyen age" about some OF the long.
close-fitting sleeves. and on one or two
notable occasions recently fashionable
brides have been accompanied to the
altar by bridesmaids who have looked
as IL they had stepped out of some
rare old Gothic altar piece.
But the costumery of the Reneis-
sance, with it's wealth of metal cloth.
brocade. velvet and its riot of color.
makes stronger appeal to the modern
woman than the somewhat austere
habiliments of the Middle Ages.
We have yet to see whether the re-
cent efforts on the part of Premier
Mussolini to nationalize Italian fash
ions will result in bringing about a
general interest in Italian costumery.
1t is to Italy of the twelfth and thir.
teenth centuries that the italian de-
signers seem to have gone for their
inspiration. These clothes were for
the most part fairly straight of line
and of the clinging type that would
appeal far more to modern taste than
the bouffant. over-elaborate clothes of
later period. But the sleeves were
long and so were the skirts. Musso-
lini considers them apparently much
more modest than the clothes of to-
day-and il may be. of course, that
we are on the threshold of a more
modest era Of fashions.
(Copyrigbt 1891
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own supposedly classic evening gowns,
might make Praxitees or Plato start,
and stare, but they are surely more,
Greek than those efforts of the mid
Victorians. The notable difference be-.
tween these little Greek evening
frocks that women wear today-or ra-
ther tonight-and their originals. lies
in the fact that the most civilized
women of 1928 AID. wear their skirtsl
much shorter than did the most civil,
lied women of 400 B.C. Moreover. the
line where the girdle circles the body
is some inches lower. Lengthen thes
skirt and shorten the waist and the,
difference is not great. The uncor-,
seted or apparently uncorseted-
women of today may lay fairer claim
to classical silhouette than their,
grandmothers. who affected waspish,
contours.
The force of the Egyptian influence,
that was talked about some years agol
has, Of course, been spent. Still there's
is something suggestive Of Egyptian
costumery in the forward draping of
the skirts on many of the seasons aft,
ernoon and evening frocks. Head
dresses that are called Egyptian arel
also worn over many a bobbed head
after candle light.
There is, of course. precious little
in common between our own mode of
life and trend of thought and those
| which prevailed in the middle ages
Evening star., 1926-12-05
The Word "Ranch."

We all like to read stories of West
ern life, and cowboys, and big cattle
ranches: but how many of us can
tell just how the word "ranching"
originated?
The word In taken from a term
rancho" (Spa nish- American in deri-
vation), which originally meant a
place where herdsmen eat and sleep.
Later 1t WAS gradually extended to
mean a grazing farm.
In Texas, Colorado and other Wes-
tern States there are large cattle
ranches; though the growth Of popula-
ton and the building of cities has en-
croached considerably on large indi-
vidual land holdings.
Incidentally, it was from the cow
boys that Theodore Roosevelt re-
cruited his Rough Riders-men who
made history by their exploits during
the Spanish.American war.
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lished designers who like Jean Patou,
realized that modern woman demand
ed a real break with traditions of the
past
Thoroughly modern though present
fashions are and must be, we still
see here and there suggestions of
past ages and far countries. This is
one Of the things that make them so
attractive. 1t is in the mingling of
all these Inspirations from other lands
and other days that We get much that
is worth while. The dressmaking es-
tablishments of real influence are in
deed melting pots to which are brought
seasonings and herbs from hundreds
Of sources. But the broth itself is of
modern brew.
There has been a concerted effort
within the past decade to revive in
terest in Spanish costumery. This is
natural enough. since Spanish furni-
ture and hanging have come to play
such an important role with the in
terror decorators. 1t is a little sur