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No. THE Original Iron Man.

No. THE Original Iron Man"
TT was 10 o'clock in the morning.
He stod in his room at the hotel
rubbing his arm savagely and
grooming. He had been doing it
for nearly an hour, but the arm re-
sponded so slowly that it began to ap-
pear it might never respond.
cts got to come around" he said
to himself. So he dashed the power
full liniment that he was using in a
stream over the skin. It burned and
burned more intensely as he Continued
rubbing it into the wind-burned hide
that covered the muscles of the wing"
that had to bring the Providence team
through to a pennant.
BY noon the arm began to glow some
and by the time the game was to begin
"Old Hoss" Radbourne was ready to
pitch. He won so games in 1884 and
he Is the only pitcher In base ball his
tory who has gone over the borderland
Of the fifties into the veldt of the
sixties.
Babe Ruth's record is great. Cy
Youngs record is great, many records
are great, but here is the record of
Radbourne, which stands out above all
OF the big things that pitchers have
done and which compares favorably
with anything that anybody has done
in base ball. Pitchers of these days
cannot win 80 games in a season. Rad
bourne won twice that many in 1884,
and the pennant with them.
1t is true that toward the end of
the season his arm was so sore that
he could not lift it to his mouth to
feed himself in the morning. Yet ne
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EBBETTS AND CHASTAIN
WILL BATTLE TONIGHT

CHICAGO. February 7 OP.-Harry
Ebbetts, New York middleweight puncher,
and Clyde Chastain of Dallas, Tex, will
meet tonight in the 10-round feature
of Promoter Jack Dempsey's sixth box
ing program-an affair Dempsey will
operate by remote control.
The semi-final will be not more than
10 rounds between Joey Medtll, Chicago
lightweight, and Spug Myers, Pocatello,
Idaho, whose two previous meetings re-
suited in close decisions for the former.
Comedy relief is expected in a A.
round special between George Trafton,
lone conqueror Of Charles Arthur (the
Great Shires, and Battling Criss, Rock
wood, Mich, heavyweight, a Shires'
victim.
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Smallpox as Dempsey
Sidetr0ck Comes True

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, February z
P).-The superstitious will say 3 it
was retribution.
Jack Dempsey was here Tuesday
to referee a boxing card. Local
managers Of the program announced
he would visit ST. Joseph orphanges.
The board for the Home for Little
Wanderers disliked to receive q box
er, but did not wish to be rude, so
announced Monday the home was
under quarantine because of small
pox. Dempsey started away.
Now one Of the children be-
came i'll. A physician diagnosed the
disease as smallpox. The home now
is quarantined.
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WOMAN'S GOLF TOURNEY
FINAL ALL-CALIFORNlA

LOS ANGELES, February Z P.-The
last hope of an invader winning the
Midwinter Southern California wom-
ems golf tournament was in the dis
card today as Mrs. Gregg Lifur and
Mrs. Leona Pressler, both of Los An
geles, went to the tee Tor the final
round.
The tournament became an all-Cali-
fornia affair when Mrs. PreSSler, who
is favored to defeat Mrs. Lifur, elm.
mated Mrs. c. j. Woerner Of Los An
geles, Z and 6, and Mrs Lifur defeated
Miss Beatrice Gottlieb, formerly Of New
York 2 and /,
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HUNTER ACHIEVES
TENNIS SEM|-F|NAL
Opposes RockafeIIoW Today
in National Indoor Net
Title Tourney.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n TEW YORK, February TT
M Frank Hunter is to be stopped
in his bid for the national in
door tennis championship the
stopping will have to be done by either
Perrine Rockafellow, former Colgate
athlete; Gilbert Hail. erstwhile Canadian
indoor champion, or Julius Seligson, ex-
intercollegiate champion.
Hunter, second only to Bill Tilden
in the national ranking, was scheduled
to meet Rockafellow while Hall clashed
with Seligson
Four teams were paired in the semi
finals in doubles today. as follows:
Walter Swaybill and Stanley Harte
New York, VS.. Rockafellow and Merritt
Cutler, New York
Hall and Kenneth Appel, South
Orange, N. j.. VS.. Coggeshali and Rich
ard Murphy, Utica, N. Y.
The Washington-N York team Of
Bob Considine and Ernest Kuhn was
eliminated in the quarter finals by the
Rockafellow-Cutler combination, 7-9,
6-3, IS
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SharkeScoH Victor Not Viewed King Carerd Still Quest

they lost their temper, the better his
success.
II wonder his arm didn't break OF"
said his friends at the end of 1884. 1t
didn't. He was still pitching in 1889
and even then the batters were puzzled
as to why they couldn't hit Radbourne.
One reason why they failed was because
he had control He was like John
Clarkson in that respect. Whenever
Clarkson missed getting the ball within
half-inch of where he thought it
should be he observed to himself that
he was surely failing.
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generally in bad frame Of mind.
A Successful Man.
4 GING athletes (and they age with
"A exceeding rapidity) usually become
resentful and bitter when the plaudits
that they used to hear turn to jeers
and they hear from the Threats that
used to scream "Attaboy," or whatever
they screamed, that cruel cry OF Take
him out" And athletes are not the only
heroes who have to hear that sooner or
later
Or they become ludicrously pathetic,
like some Of the old priZefighters who
want to edge their way into the ring to
be introduced when nobody wants to
see them any more. Sometimes they sue
coed in reaching the center Of the ring
and clasp their hands together and
wave at the gallery, Citing something
out of faint echo of the cheers that
used to greet them. Sometimes 1t would
seem merciful to chloroform old prize
fighters who get that way for their own
sakes.
Mathewson did not wait to hear the
call of "Take' him OUT" When his
speed was spent he continued pitching
on his intelligence and control, and
when that failed him he stepped out of
the box. not, of course, without regret,
DuI Will IilS 1cSLA4S ILldC nc 1ldo given
and gained all that could be done in that
line. His career as an athlete was COM
plete and well rounded. He lost the
essentials for pitching, but he never lost
the dignity that he had worn as q
popular idol.
His career as a manager and club
president was cut short by illness and
1ntimely death. He had intelligence and
understanding that would have won
him success at anything; but he elected
to be a professional base ball player
and he was truly great one. He rests
now within hearing of the fresh young
voices from the campus Of Bucknell,
where his career began. I should cite
him as an example of the successful
man.
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GERMAN AND BRITISH
NET MATCH IN APRIL


BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, February Z (P-The Ger
man Lawn Tennis Association an
ounces that the first-round contest be-
tween Great Britain and Germany in
the European zone of Davis Cup COM
petition will be played April 24-25-26
at a place to be decided upon later.
The following German players have
been instructed to prepare for the
matches; Or. P. Buss, DR.. w. DeSsart,
F. FrenZ, DR.. H KleinSchroth, j..
Kuhlmann, Dr.. H. Landmann and DR..
Daniel Prem.
DR.. Prem. the national champion,
is ranked as No. / in Germany. DR..
Landmann is at No. 4 behind Otto
Froitzheim and the late Hans Modem
hauer, recently killed in an automobile
accident. DR.. Dessert is ranked No. 5
and Buss, FrenZ, Kleinschroth and
Kuhlmann in group just behind him.
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judge, always Will lnSlSt tnaI ne "hs
the greatest of the pitchers-if not the
greatest of the athletes who ever played
the national game. He had two quail
ties that are not too common in profess
sional base ball-character and intelli-
gence. Perhaps more than any base
ball player he raised the standards OF
the professional base ball players.
He came to the Giants at the time
McGraw became their manager, straight
from Bucknell College, where he was
the fullback of the foot ball team and
the pitcher of the base ball team, a
campus hero, with all of the excuses for
having an inflated ego. But there was
nothing of this about Mathewson. He
had a sense of values from the start,
and athletic success never spoiled him.
Perhaps that was why he was so well
equipped for facing the inevitable de-
cline whensit came.
The greatest tribute to the stand
ing of Mathewson as man and a
base ball player came. as an after
math of the celebrated Merkle case.
It will be recalled that in very
crucial game, which involved the
chances of the Giants for world
series money-for which, as the boys
say, the players care quite as much
as they do for their right eyes-the
first baSeman of the Giants forgot to
touch second. It was the celebrated
"boner" Of the national pastime.
ranking with Anderson's stealing Of
second with the bases full.
There were conflicting stories Of what
happened during the confusion that
ensued. Both sides claimed everything,
as is the custom of the national pastime.
In base ball nobody's word is worth a
pened Sin the process of a game that
means anything-for that is the spirit
of the national pastime.
Newspapers, base ball writer's and
players were wildly partisan. 1t really
looked as though nobody was competent
to testify as to just what happened
Because that particular game meant 8
pennant and the participation in the
world series the national commission
had to decide the knotty point.
They took aff1davits from everybody
from the umpires, the base ball writer's
the scorer, the spectators and even the
constabulary. The intricate affair was
settled in surprisingly short time, con-
sidering the fact that it involved such
weighty affair. The ruling was against
the Giants, who subsequently lost that
decision, the play-oh game and the
chance at the world-series money.
A member Of the national commits
sion afterward revealed that it was
Mathewson's affidavit that decided it
He had seen what had happened and
testified to the truth, though it cost him
and his teammates their prize money.
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CUYLER GETS TW0-YEAR
CONTRACT WITH CUBS

CHICAGO, February Z '(P).-Hazen
"Kiki' Cuyler, feet right fielder of the
National League champion Chicago
Cubs, has had his new contract revised
to read two years" instead of lone
year.
Cuyler, in Chicago with his Pontiac,
Mich, semi-professional basket ball
team, had agreed to terms offered by
President William L. Veeck, but wanted
a two-year term-and got it yesterday.
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Fights Last Night

BY the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. Primo Camera,
Italy, knocked out Cowboy Billie Owens
Guthrie, Okla. CD; Buck Weaver, Medi-
cine Ledge, Kans., stopped Jack Shaw,
South Orange, N. J. "a.
HARTFORD, Conn.-Bushy Graham,
Utica, N. Y, knocked out AL Rackow,
Eazelton, Pa. CD.
BERLIN.-Harry Stein, Germany, de-
feated Frankie Gensro. New York, foul
Cd.
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SONNENBERG Is VICTOR
OVER ERERERG ON MAT

MINNEAPOLIS, February R.-
Gus Sonnenberg, world heavyweight
wrestling champion, won two straight
falls from John Freberg Of Minneapolis
last night
Sonnenberg pinned Freberg's Shout
derS to the mat with flying tackles, the
first one in minutes 40 seconds, and
the SECOND in 80 minutes 20 seconds.
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An Unheeded Warning.

IF they had listened to MathewSon the
i the Black Sox scandal might have
been averted. After he passed from
active base ball playing it was quite
natural that Mathewson should become
q manager. He had all Of the qualifi-
cations for handling base ball players.
He preferred charges against player.
who since has been read out of base ball
for quite good reasons. While this
player was in the game 1t was known
that he was negotiating with gamblers
for the throwing of base ball games.
But after Mathewson filed the charges
and the player was suspended Mathew
son became a captain in the Reserve
and went on overseas duty.
After the armistice there was a re-
vivaI Of interest in base ball and the
usual rush to get the best possible teams
together. The man that Mathewson had
Of all time at this position. He was
needed to fill a place in one Of the teams
and a movement was started to have
him reinstated. Mathewson had not yet
returned from France and could not file
his protest.
The man was put back in the game
after hearing Now persons who know
the working of base ball players minds
or who claim to know them, insist that
this withdrawing OF VIGOROUSLY
crooked base ball player had much to
do with the action of the Black Sox.
1t made weak base ball players in all
clubs disconnected. They reasoned
What is the use of being on the level
when this fellow who has done every
thing wrong and who is notorious not
only is whitewashed and restored at a
top salary, but is hailed as a returning
hero by the fans?"
1t can be seen that this line Of bad
reasoning would work on the minds of
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REISELT TAKES LEAD.

NEW YORK, February (P.-Win-
ming both blocks yesterday, Otto Reiselt
of Philadelphia went into the lead in his
three-cushion billiard match with We'll
ker Cochran of Hollywood. ReiSelt now
leads, 400 to 364.
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BY HAZEN S. CUYLER,
As told 10 John F. Mccain.

TINE Autumn of 1921. when was
a minor league player in the
Michigan League, was the most
eventful of my life, for it was
then that I received the news that /
had been sold to a major league team
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HOUSTON SELLS MOORE.

HOUSTON, Tex, February Z (P.-
Roy Moore, big first sacker, has been
sold outright to Greenville. 8. c.. of the
South Atlantic Association, the Hous-
ton Club announced today.
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TAKE CUE MATCHES.

]. F. Fairbanks defeated L. B. Lam
bert, rs to ITO. and j. Rupert beat
progress at Elmer's establishment.
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DOWN THE LINE
WITH w. o. MCCLELLAN.
A Complete Life.

sports incon
quick exat sports ldofs ano
high pedestals Just as quick to tut them
delight OF children
smash the national pasm Is base Da
idol hit skdS
There exception sports idol who took
worth
tally passing with the He lived radiant
national made 1uu lie OF ana ne
passing dmming of the meght phosopncay ana
with dignity. That was Christy Mathewson 49,
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L|FEBOATS LAND 6
AND CREW OF SHIP
Six-Hour Struggle With
Rough Sea Follows Ground
ing Off Newfoundland.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. JOHNS. Newfoundland, August
11.-Sixty-f1ve passengers and the crew
of the steamer Caribou were recovering
today from the ordeal of slx-hour
pull in lifeboats in a heavy sea INTO
which they were forced at dawn yes
terday, when the ship struck piece
of land off the southwest tip OF New
foundland.
All, including nineteen women and
several children, were landed safely at
Port Aux Basques, their destination,
when the ship put out from North sgd
ney. Nova Scotia.
Efforts were being made today to
salvage 200 sacks of mail and other
valuable freight from the Caribou,
which is believed to be a total loss. 1t
was crushed almost from stem to stern
by the crash.
Passengers were almost all In their
hunks when the ship struck. Wild with
fear and excitement, they rushed on
deck. Capt Robertson and his officers
and crew went among them, reassur1ng
them. Then they launched the life
boats, hampered by a heavy sea that
was running after two-day gale.
The passengers taken of safely, the
boats made their way through thick
foe to Port Aux Basques, where they
were landed six hours later.
The Caribou, built at st. Johns in
1925, is believed to have mistaken the
mouth of Grand Bay for the entrance
to Port Aux Basques. It is owned by
the Newfoundland government.
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NATIONAL POLITICS
BECOMING LIVELY
Dry Law Pronouncements by
FesS and Dr.. Butler
Arouse Interest.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Three developments this week make
national politics of more than passing
interest.
Senator Tess Of Ohio, Republican ma
tional chairman, eliminates prohibition
as an issue, though himself dry, by
arguing that certain groups of both
parties are wet or dry, depending on
the sentiment of their regions. Nicholas
Murray Butler, pronounced wet, pre-
diets that both the Republican and
Democratic conventions of New York
State will adopt plank advocating re-
peal of the eighteenth amendment. And
tomorrow Nebraska, Alabama and Ar
kansas will have their primaries for
nominations to the United States
Senate.
In Alabama Senator Helm, who in
1928 deserted AL Smith, will run indie
pendently having been ruled out of the
Democratic primaries, while in Ne
braska Senator Norris, having deserted
Herbert Hoover in 1923, will face hostile
Republicans who will try to rule him
out of their party.
Neither Will Decide Issue.
Neither vote will decide the issue. for
even If Mr.. Norris wins the Republican
nomination in the primary he then
faces former Senator Hitchcock, Demo-
crat, who probably will acquire some of
the anti-Norris Republican votes in the
Autumn election. Also, Senator Heflin
is trying to bring about coalition of
Hoover Democrats and Hoover Repub-
licans in Alabama in the hope of de-
feating the regular Democratic nomi-
nee. The votes cast in both instances
tomorrow, however, will be examined
carefully for an indication or trend.
The announcement by Chairman Tess
that prohibition is to be side-tracked as
an issue by the Republicans means that
the national leaders have found it i'm
practicable to try to guide local State
conventions on the subject, and will be
content to see enforcement plankS in
serted wherever possible in support OF
the Hoover program.
With a large Republican sentiment on
the wet side in New Jersey, where
Dwight Morrow is the Republican nom
inee for the Senate, and in New York,
where the wet Republicans, taking their
cue from New Jersey, are going to try
to commit the party to a repeal plank,
the administration would prefer to keep
out of the controversy as much as pos
Sible.
Tariff Seen as Welcome Issue.
Mr.. Fess states that he believes the
people will welcome the tariff as an
issue, as it will give those who are
minded a chance to ex-
press themselves, and he thinks an
overwhelming number would therefore
support the Smoot-Hawley law. The
opposition to the tariff, on the other
hand, according to Democratic leaders,
is not going to be made against pro-
tectionism, but against excuses In
various items and the damage done to
foreign trade by what are deemed by
the Democrats to have been unneceS-
Sarily high rates.
Mr.. Fess did not mention the unem-
ployment issue, but the Democrats will
keep on talking about it, linking it with
the effects of the tariff Economic con-
ditions will be perhaps the principal
issue, aside from the personalities in
volved in the more or less local contests
that make up a congressional cam
paign.
Copyright, 1900
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JACKSON AND O'BRINE
NEAR WORLD RECORD
Fifty Hours Separate Flyers From
554-Hour Flight of Hunter
Brothers.

BY the Associated Press.
ST LOUIS, Mo, August 11.-Less
than so hours separated Dale Jackson
and Forest O'Brine from a new world
endurance refueling flight record as
they began their fourth week aloft here
today
At TIL am. &C. S. To- Jackson and
O'Brine had been in the air 504 hours
and their motor was running smoothly.
If they are still up Wednesday they
will pass the record of 554 hours set
by the Hunter brothers of Sparta, ILL.,,
at Chicago last month.
Field attaches today said they could
detect nothing wrong with the motor
as the plane scared leisurely above
Lambert-St. Louis Field. Jackson,
yesterday, however, reported that the
oil pressure was trifle low, but this
apparently was corrected when the re-
fuelers, William Brewster and Percy
Shorty" Chaffee. took a heavier grade
lubricant up to the endurance plane.
Interest in the flight is growing as
the Greater st. Louis comes nearer
the Hunter brothers record. More
than $4,000 persons visited the field
yesterday afternoon to watch the
flight.
After sweltering for several days, the
flyers yesterday complained of the cold
weather, and Jackson told the ground
crew he was getting sleepy. A rain,
too, added to the tribulationS of the
pair yesterday, but by descending to
low attitudes the ship rode out the
storm.
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CAMPAIGN TO CLEAN UP STAGE
STARTED BY CATHOLIC CHURCH
New York Held Dishonored by
Productions of Summer
Season.
"Lysistrata" and "Vanities'
Scored by Implication in
Br0adSide.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, August 1.-THE Cath
Ole Church has begun a drive, through
public opinion, to clean up the New
York stage. which it denulnces as an
outrage Of public decency."
The campaign, under the auspices of
Cardinal Hayes, is directed by Mgr.
Michael j. Lavelle, rector Of st. Pat
rick's Cathedral, who, in letter to his
parishioners, declares that the New
York stage this Summer has sunk SO
low that it has become the "dishonor
of Americas finest, noblest and most
hosp!table of cities"
The letter was copied in the Summer
bulletin of the Catholic Theater Move
ment, of which Cardinal Hayes is hon.
orary president
Though neither is named in the bull
letin, productions which have been
found to be particularly Objectionable
are Earl CAROLS "Vanities," which has
brought the producer and several prin-
cipals into court on charges of public
indecency, and 'Lysistrata," ancient
classic of Aristophanes
An editorial in the bulletin refers to
'Lysistrata" as a classic of unabashed
pagan mockery as audaciouS an assault
upon public decency as has ever been
perpetrated upon our stage"
Concerning "Vanities," the editorial
quotes a critic describing it as nude
and leering and close to the mood of
the gutter"
Mgr. Lavelle, in his letter, expresses
the hope that public opinion will drive
indecency from the stage.
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WALKER is CALLED
In EWALD CASE
New York Mayor Says He Will
Be Glad to Answer
Questions.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, August 1l.-Mayor
Walker was subpoenaed today to ap-
pear on Wednesday before grand jury
which is looking into charges that
George F. Ewald, resigned city magis-
trate, paid for his appointment to the
bench in 1928.
The subpoena was issued by District
Attorney Grain, who also wrote to the
mayor and to George w. Olvany, former
Tammany Hall chief, asking them to
call on him tomorrow for questioning in
the Ewald case.
The mayor said Saturday that al
though he could not be compelled to
appear in the investigation he would
be glad to answer questions.
Mrs Bertha Ewald, wife OF the for
mer magistrate; Thomas Tommaney,
sheriff's chief clerk, and Martin J..
Healy, deputy city commissioner OF
plants and structures, have been ques-
toned by the district attorney about
$4,000 alleged to have been paid to
Healy by Mrs. Ewald at about the time
of her husbands appointment to the
magistracy by Mayor Walker.
They told Mr.. Grain that Mrs. Ewald
had loaned the money, interest free, to
Healy, through Tommaney, so that
Healy might buy a house.
Ewald quit the bench under fire after
his recent indictment for mail fraud in
the sale of Cotter Butte Mine stock.