Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1922, Page 18

Ask Simply to Be Let BY JOHN N “by your leave.” gin. How much time it nfight take get nowhere. President Heydler of the National League is an optimist and sees no war_in sight no matter what may happen in this_ present inability to bring about uniform opinion between the major and the minor leagues. It is a very sound attitude. The minors have not made any threats. They simply ask to be let alone to handle the piayer question in their own way. Tn the first year of the plan for re- organized baseball tae class AA leagues profess to have learned that they can operate better under the new method than they did under the old. The Pacific Coast League admit- tedly is thousands of dollars better off than it would have been if there had been a draft law, because with the draft law their best players wogld have hiad Lo be disposed of pefore the draft period arrived or be subjected to loss by_conscription by the major leagu 0 one can wonder, t fore, that the Pacific Coast League is not crazy to 5o back to old conditions at once. In the International League the Bal- timore club has been held intact. It would not have been if there had been a draft because there are five major league clubs that would have .Put in a draft for one-of the Balt more plavers and Dunn would have lost either Bentley or Ogden for the draft price. Jointiy, they represent at teast £50,000 worth of bail players as ball players have been going, and one of them would have brought only $5.000 if the draft had been in effect. The American Association _has twenty players, who would have been draft de les. Only eight of them could have been selected, but one of the eight would have been Shinners of Indianapolis, for whom the New York Nationals are said to have tossed $25.000 on the table in one way or another. Whether they did or they “did not, they undoubtedly paid hand- somely ‘and Indianapolis is much bet- ter off than it would have been under the draft law and Indianapolis is smart enough to know it. Were the draft in effect it would make but little difference to the lead- ing clubs in the major leagues. Un- der the new method the tail-end clubs would have first choice and if there were any really desirable players to be had, who were needed by the wabbly leaders, the iatter would have to get into the market with attractive offers and take them away before the drafting season began. And if you want to know it, there are some leading major clubs which realize that very fact, and which are not so “gosh almighty” particular whether there is a draft or isn't (Copyright, 1 WGRAW NOW WORRIES OVER “LEAD-OFF" MAN NEW YORK, January 30.—John Mec- Graw, leader of the world-champion Giants, has gathered a great squad of the 1922 campaign,”but he is beset with a worry that never bothered him before he parted with George " said McGraw, before he left for Cuba several days ago—“Yes, tell me who T'll use for a lead-off man. T've got plenty of hard hitters, Groh, Frisch and Young, but I want to use ‘em in_the clean-up. Groh has had lead-off experience. but when he swings at a ball he seldom misses. I need him at bat when men are on the bases.” > said he thought Frisch, free hitter, was best suited for the third or fourth niche and that Young always was good somewhere around the clean-up position, leaving Ban- croft as a_possibie lead-off man, for Meusel and Kelley are not being con- sidered and the Giant leader doesn’t want to take a chance on any of the new men. So it's a toss-up between Groh and Bancroft. —_— AGCUSED NOTRE DAME GRIDMEN HAVE ALIBIS Ry the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 30—Indications are that Gus Desch and John Mohardt, Notre Dame foot ball stars, who were said_to have played with Carlinville, 11, in the professional game last fall against Taylorville, Ill., which result- ed in disqualification of nine Univer- sity of Illinois athletes, will be cleared of any connection with the foot ball =candal. Developments tend to show that Desch and Mohardt were innocent vic- tims of a case of false identity which was the second instance of double- crossing in the bitter rivalry between the two towns over the game. Carlin- ville people bet approximately $50,000 on the game, it is sald, after hiring ten college players for their eleven, only to find that Taylorville had 1sarned of the plan and procured nine Illinois athletes for its team, which ‘won, 16 to 0. 5 “~Both Desch, member of the Ameri- can Olympic team, and Mohardt. an all-American halfback sefection, have issued formal denials that they played in the game and have presented evi- dence to the Notre Dame authorities at South Bend, Ind., that they were in school the day of the contest. When the Carlinville people, who thought they had hired the two players, learn- ed of this they frankly declared that undoubtedly they had been imposed on by personsusing the names Desch and Mohardt and that besides being beaten at their own game of “safe bettimg’”” they had been the dupes of the “ringers” they hired to make the betting safe. Says He Paid Players. By the Associated Press. CARLINVILLE, Ill, January 30.— Rivers Anderson, business manager of the local foot ball team, declares that he personally “hired and paid Notre Dame University men to play for Car- linville against Taylorville last fal ‘while Lionel Moise, coach of the team, says that “to his knowledge there was not a Notre Dame mgn in the Carlinville line-up.” Both “assertions a made in formal statements to the Assoclated Press. = Anderson cleared John Mohardt, all- American halfback, of the charges of playing in the game and said that several Notre Dame stars he had ex- pected to have in the line-up did not appear for the gam . Braves Get Canuck Pitcher. SPRING HILL. N. S., January 30.— Charles Paul, left-handed pitcher of the D%min'on,"No. 1, team of the Cape Breton ague, will join .the Boston National League team on its ssuthera tour, 4 s SPORTS. MINORS NOT THREATENING | REPRISALS IN DRAFT ROW Question in Their Own Way—Some Major Own- ers Not Anxiops to Revive Selection Law. EW YORK, January 30—No war is probable in base ball, it became established today, until some base ball club takes away a player from another club without observing all the technicalities or un- til a rival invades the territorial rights of a club without first saying Even then there might be a long wait before hostil is as uncertain as the stock market. It might make a “go,” and it might There would be little trouble to get players to lend a walling ear. Whether they could actually be lured is another question. players who are dissatisfied with their lots, but there always have been. ding. Tough Sled New-War in Base Ball Regarded as Improbable : Dempsey-Wills Fight Now Seems Assured STAR 1,000 ENTRIES EXPECTED FOR BOWLING CONGRESS TOLEDO, January 30—That the one-thousand mark will be reach- ed in entries in the American Bowling Congress tournament this year ix the opinion expressed by A. L. Langtry of Milwnukee, sec- =By Ripley. retary of the congress, who has Alone to Handle Player arrived here to close up the entry B. FOSTER. | e ties actually be- to establish thoroughly a new league There are FRAZEE IS ALL EXCITED | ABOUT GRIFF’S $50,000 | NEW YORK, Jai large sum of money in transit between Washington and , presi- is A Dilhoefer Seriously IIL | ST. LOUIS. January 30.—William | Dilhoefer, catcher of the St. Louis Na- tional League club, is in serious con- dition at St. John's Hospital here, ac- cording to announcements today by Dr. Robert Hyland, club physician, as the result of an attack of typhoid tever. ! Dilhoefer recently was married In | Mobile., Ala.. and had returned here | to reside when he was taken ill | Cardinals Release Jones. | ST. LOUIS, January 30.—Howard Jones, Moline outfielder, has been re- | leased by the St. Louis Cardinals to | Syracus JOHNNY BUFF MAY FIGHT JIMMY WILDE IN LONDON 4 BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, January 30.—Johnny Buff started across the pond with the statement that he did not intend to indulge in any important battles abroad, but the writer received word from London today that if the double-barreled champion doesn’t get into the ring with Jimmy | Wilde he will pass up a chance to make an attractive sum of money. The British are great admirers of their world flyweight champion, and since ! Buff holds the American title a battle between the two would be worth more than almost any fight that could be arranged over there. So unless Buff is afraid to risk a battle with Wilde the chances all are that he will go into action after a period of sight-seeing. i Wilde's last battle was with Pete K gin to pester the St. Paul dream Herman, who overweighed him by | Maker to fight a lot of good men, 1 | such as Tenney, Weinert, Greb, ulton, many pounds. Herman put the Briton | Bronnan and Dempsey. Right now away after a great fight. Compared the most ‘attractive bout that could to Wilde, Buff has been much more | be put on would be Gibbons and Tun- active and should have all the ad-| rey, with Dempsey standing in the vantage that comes of practice under | background. real conditions. Americans probably will be willing to bet that the rugged | little American can beat the Briton | in event of a meeting being arranged. Unless all signs fail. Tommy Gib. bons will be the center of attractlol by promoters in the near future—per- haps this week. The idea is growing | | that Carpentier has no intention of coming to this country. In fact, most fight fans are pretty certain about it. A8 soon as the promoters feel the same way they will perk up and be 'EAST AND WEST CLASH IN AMATEUR CUE EVENT NEW TYORK, January 30—East and west will clash in the opening Poor Dick Griffen! The game, clever _and hard-hitting little fighter rom Fort Worth, Tex.. has an eve injury that is apt to cause his re- tirement from the ring. New York boxing authorities have refused to rmit him to box beccause of the condition of his eye, and thus Dick has lost two fights, one against Jimmy Guida and the other against Sammy Noble. Griffen had the makings of a champion. (Copyright, 1922.) RETIREMENT AS RUNNER ANNOUNCED BY PADDOCK PASADENA, Callf, January 30.— Charles W. Paddock, known as “the matches of the national class A, 18.2 balk line amateur billiard champion- ship tournament which begins at the Crescent A. C. today. The drawing of the seven competitors brought Percy N. Collins of the Illinols Athletic Club, Chicago, titls winner ¢t 1920, against Edgar T. Appleby of :’he New York Athletic Club, for the first game of the afternoon. The second of the matches brings T. Henpy Clarkson of the Amateur Billlard® Club of New York against Francis S. Appleby of the New York Athletic Club. The latter is holder of the eastern class A title. Charles Heddon of Dowaglac, Mich., the playing-through holder of the championship, will meet Edward W. Gardner, five times holder of the class A honors, in the night game. All of the matches of the tournament will be of three hundred points dur- tion. aEmiI A. Renner, the Ohio state champion, will not appear in “the scheudle until Tuesday, when he will play in the first of the matinee matches. Throughout the first week of the American classic three games will be declded each day. HOPPE, BILLIARD STAR, PLAYS HERE THIS WEEK ‘Willie Hoppe, deposed 18.2 balkline billiard king, who soon will meet Jake Schaefer in an effort to regain the crown. will give Washington cue fans i this week an opportunity to see that he has an excellent chance to head the billlard _lists once more. ‘With Charles Peterson, fancy shot expert of St. Louis, Hoppe ‘will appear in a 300- point exhibition at the Sherman Acad- emy, beginning Wednesday and con- tinuing through Thursday. Blocks will be played afternoon and evening of each day. Hoppe still totes an abugdance of titles with him. He holds the cham- pionships at the 18.1, 14.1 and 14.2 balkline games. According to his manager, R. B. Benjamin, he is in ex- cellent stroke at present and can be counted upon to give Schaefer a great battle when the challenge match is played. . Peterson, who has been playing against Hoppe on the present exhibi- tion tour, has been giving the ex- chsmpion good practice, Benjamin de- clares. In many matches he has forced Hoppe all the way. After each block of the exhibition hera Peter- son will entertain with his repertoire of trick and fancy shots. + Ary Bos Has Influenza. NEW YORK, January 30.—Ary Bos of Holland, amateur 18.2 balkline bil- liard champion of Europe, is confined to his Brooklyn apartment with an attack of influenza. Bos is entered in the international championshi tournament to be held at Philadel- . bhia mext month, =~ j 4 fastest human,” holder of ten rec- ords, including the world record of 9 3-5 seconds for the 100-yard dash; has angounced that he has completed his course at the University of South California and does not plan to ap- pear on the track again. “I will not say that I will never'run again, because conditions may de- velop that would make it necessary to run another race. Since my col- lege work is over, 1 would have to be unattached or under some club.' Paddock also specifically declared he would not run for the University of Southern California this spring. Authorities there have said they ex- pected him to run. |CONNOLLY RUNS SECOND IN BROOKLYN MEET RACE Jimmy Connolly, Georgetown Uni- versity’s track, captain and intercol- legiate mile champion, finished second in the 1,000-yard invitation race held Saturday night at the Brooklyn Col- lege indoor meet in Brooklyn. ‘The event was.won by Harold Cut- bill of Boston in 2 minutes 17 4-5 sec- onds. Jack Sellers, New York Ath- etic Club, was third SWIMMERS AND MATMEN AT ARMY TO BE ACTIVE Seven swimming meets and a like number of engagements for its wrestling team have been scheduled for Army teams. The lists: ), Swimming—January M, Lehigh: 21, Brown 28, Princeton; February 4. Massachuseits Tech ”iv(.fgiumbll; 18, Springtield; March 11, Pena- ‘Wrestling—January 14, 21, Prince- ton; Febrasry 4. Peansyivg : ~ 22, 'Penn Btate; March 4, m,‘fl.""' Harvard Nine to-Be Busy. Harvard's base ball schedule includes thirty games, among them April 19 and 21, Georgia Tech at Atlanta, :;ppll- the Crimson is on a training ip. reh Murray to Coach Brown Nine. William A. Murray, former major league player and captain of the Erowg Unlver!illy nine for two years, as been appointed D e to coach the Radiators and Fenders ANY KIND MADE OR Cores installed I any oAb ED: TARDY PENN OARSMEN LOSE SEAT IN SHELL Coach Joe Wright of the Uni- versity of meek and Wheeler, shunted off the varsity for tardi- mess and may not get back for some time. The cure is sald to be ‘working in excellent fashion. INAVAL ACADEMY HEAD AGREES WITH LOWELL ANNAPOLIS. Md,, January 30.—Ad- miral H. B. Wilson, superintendent of of the Naval Academy, is in accord with President Lowell of Harvard in the danger of overdoing college ath- letics, particularly foot ball. He holds that athletics has a big place in the development of the college man, but that it should be kept within wise limi £ “We have the same matter on ships of the Nav; Admiral Wilson said. “A great deal of attention is given to athletics, and soon those engaged in it try to upset the routine of the service by claiming all sorts of spe- clal privileges. The only way to deal with it in the service and at college is to give it its place and keep it there_ strictly. President Lowell ts exactly right in has been overdone. COACH NELSON METCALF SIGNS WITH MINNESOTA aying that foot bgll | list. Mr. Langtry said he had 750 en- tries at prexent, without evunting Toledo. Chicago nirendy has en- tered 140 teams ind twenty more are expected, Langtry declared. The entriexs close at midnight, Feb- ruary 1. The tournament, which ix the fourth to be held in Tolego in less than tem years, opens Feb- Tuary 27. | SCHOOL FIVES T0 PrAY 12 MATCHES THIS WEEK Twelve games, among them that between Central and Tech in the an- nual high school championship series, are scheduled this week for -District scholastic basket ball teams. A con- test between Kyattsville High and St. John’s on the latter's floor was to | open the program this afternoon, and matches are to be played daily except Thursday. Two engagements are listed in the high school titular tourney tomorrow. Tech and Central, meeting for the second time this winter, will clash on the floor at the Coliseum. Kastern and Business are to play at the €en- tral High School girls' gymnasium. Both games are to start at 3:15 o'clock. St. John's has planncd an_active w Besides today's game it is to play Alexandria High School, at Alex- andria, tomorrow; the Georgetown Preps, Wednesday, and Leonard Hall, at Leonardtown, Md.. SXturday. West- ern High is expected to meet the Army and Navy Preps tomorrow and engage the Catholic University fresh- men at Brookland Wednesday. Business, Eastern and Gonzaga are to swing into action late in the week. The Stenoggaphers will entertain Mount St. Joleph's of Baltimore Fri- y and on the same day Eastern and merson Institute will battle in the! Carroll Institute gymnasium. The | Georgetown Preps are to invade Gonzaga court Saturday. Central and Tech have important week-end engagements. The former is to journey to Charlottesville, Va., for its game with the University of . ':_llllllll i IFACILITIES DECIDE SITES OF ARMY-NAVY CONTES INCE athletic officials of the Naval and Military academiies had united S in the choice of New York city as the scene of their annual contest for the five past years, it was generally thought that there had been a general agreement to continue the service classic there. The selec- tion of Franklin Field, the grounds of the University 6 Pennsylvania in | : Philadelphia for the next bill, recently announced, was the cause of con- | - . W.AND GEORGETONN Franklin Field was the choice of | the naval officials, acting under an agreement with those of the Army by which each institution makes the cholce in alternate years, though the This is covered by an agreement, end- ing with the next game, by which the place and_date of the games and other incidents are fixed. ‘Why Philadelphia Was Chosen. The selection was made, it stated by the naval officials here, pri marily hecause the trip from An napolis is less expensive than that to New York and because Franklin Field will_not only seat 10,000 more than the Polo Grouhds, but will be specially designed to accommodate a great_collpge foot ball game. New Yorl¥ however, is not to be abandoned as the location for future games, in_ spite of the fact that Philadelphia is much nearer the cen- | ter point between Annapolis and ! West Point. New York is the loca- tion desired by all the Army people and by a considerable proportion of those in the Navy. In fact. the Navy has on two occasions used its right of selection by naming New York. There is every reason to believe that there will be a renewal of the agreement between the Naval and Military academies for foot ball -ames over a term of years on prac- tically the terms which have existed. This would give the Army the se- George Washington basketers will trip to Ryan Gymnasium tomorrow night for their second engagement of the season with the Georgetown Uni- versity quint. While the Hatchetites, | on form, are not rated as sturdy as | the Hilltoppers, they are certain to give their opponents a terrific argu- ment. In their previous tilt at the Coliseum the -Hatchet team was downed by Georgetown, 27 to 14, but | the match was more fiercely contested | than the score indicates. | Georgetown apparently has struck the stride that made it 8o formidable last season. Against Lebanon Valley, | an exceptionall team. the Hilltoppers played brilliantly Satur- day night, and the same line-up hurl- ed against George Washington can be expected to provide a thrilling per- formance. Coach Colliflower likely i with Florence and Fla- . forwards: O'Connell, center, and Zazzall and Byrne, guards. Examinations have kept the Hatch- etites out of:competition for ten days, but they have not neglected their daily drills. "All of the men are in excel- lent condition, so Coach Morse will is Virginia freshmen. Tech will be host | to the Episcopal High School quint at the Central Y. of " SPORTS.- EITHER BRADY OR RICKARD' MAY STAGE TITLE BATTLE Possible That Two Prom oters Will Join Forces to " Put On Show—Negro Is Regarded as Jack’s Only Logical Opponent. BY SPARROW McGANN. N in the world, Wills intluded, prov: the prime subject in fandom ZW YORK, January 30.—Jack Dempsey versus Harry Wills. This is today following Jack Kearns’ state- ment that he was ready to match his champion against any fighter ided the promoter would meet his terms and the sensational $200,000 offer for the fight made by William A. Brady. Today you 'may picture Rickard and Brady as seated opposite each other in a poker game. Wills. Rickard also holds a pair, Jack Dempsey and Bill Brennan. Brady holds a pair, Jack Dempsey and Harry 1i it comes to a showdown on the hands as they stand, who do you think will take the pot? “Y” DECLINES TO JOIN OLYMPIC ASSOCIATION NEW YORK, January 36.—The Y. M. C. A. today announced it had declined an invitation to join the Ameriean Olympie Associatios In a letter to Frederick W. Rubien, secretary of the American Olympic committee, Dr. John Brown of the Y. M. C. A. declared that the con- stitution and by-laws of the Olymple Anxociation did not insure the democratic form of adminis- tration bglieved essential to the best interests of amateur athletics “In the United States. ARROW TOSSERS SEEK SCALPS OF KANAWHAS Washington Arrows are disputing the claim of the Kanawhas to the District junior basket ball champion- hip and are ready to meet the self- styled champions™ in a three-game eries on any court. Playing as the M. C. A. Arrows last season, the Washington Arrows took a series from the Epiphany Tigers, as Kanawhas were then known. Arrows beliete they can repeat, so n, their 'manager, whose ad- apartment 215, Central Y. M. Right the first t chedule of the February Palace; 2, AL Washington Arrow Capital Silents, at nal R. R. Y. M. C. tion; 3, Arlingtons, at 8, Aloysius, at Palace; National Guard, at Hyattavi Grace, at Palace; 16, Dominican Lyceums, at Dominican Hali: 17, Walter Reed, at Walter Reed; 18, Navy Yard Marines, at Naval Reserve Armory: 21, Emanons, at Petworth: 25, Washing- ton Barracks, at Washington Bar- racks; 28, Capital Silents, at Gon- za March 1, Rosedale, at Palace; 7, ysius, at Gonzaga. 8 Alo: Washington Preps with the Kanawhas, Yard Marines, E wan‘l games s, Roamers, Navy stern Preps, Epiph- selection is not to be south vnf Phila- I i :z?-r;(s.Pec,’;‘ele’;';g)neo‘h:}:a!leflnr;::mig delphia or north of New York clty.. | Manager Laurence Hagiman, Lin- coln 7215-W. Alexandria_Light- Infantry easily disposed of the Navy team of Quan- tico in a 112-to-16 engagement. The militiamen scored almost at will. Sesiple made fourteen field goals for the winners. SCHOOLBOY SWIMMERS TO HAVE NATIONAL MEET A national interscholastic champion- ship swimming meet will be held in the Brokaw pool at Princeton, on March 18. It will be held under the auspices of the Intercollegiate Swim- ming_Association. Only those men who have won places in sectional in- terscholastic meets will be allowed to_enter. Preliminary meets will be held at Yale, Pennsylvania, Northwestern, Pittsburgh and Southern California. Local Terrier in Show. PINEHURST, N. C., January 30.— Miss Gretchen Wazhl of Washington, " |believe that the publi is eager to hear from thej ime. The moncy will go to Brady. | This seems so clear that' no one | 1ooking on at the game has any idea | that Rickard will stand pat. He will |draw. Or maybe he won't play the !hand at all. He may draw Brady aside and say: “Look here, let's play your hand to- gether.” | Or, again, he may pull Brady's black face card out of his hand while Brady isn't looking. Whatever hap- pens, it is not a bad prediction to say e next big heavywelght cham- ip battle will find Dempsey nd Wills in the ring together. Tex Rickard always has wanted to | {mote a Dempsey-Wills bout. He has {always suid that these two heavy- { Weights appear to be the only men in the country who could put on a bat- tle wortn paying big money to se Rickard ¥ But Rickard has been afr: the bout because of the color. belief has been that the public doesn’t or the fight because of the involved that a negro vould hold the world heavyweight {title. Jack Johuson's career as champion, Tex believes. has made the bare idea of another champion of the same race generally repugnant, e though he has known that Ha Wills is a far different type of a man tha; ck Johnson William A. Brady. on the other !han as in the fight game when {Joe Walcott, George Dixon and Joe {Gans were in their prime, and their {popularity in their causes him to would patron- ize a fight between Dempsey and a negro of their type. And so, having never forgiven himself for dropping out of the Dempsey-Carpentier syndi- cate, he wants to stage the next great heavyweight battle on_ his own hook. 1t is doubtful if Rickard would sit back and let him do this. In fact. Rickard today intimated that he would i wait until after the Wills-Kid Norfolk battle, and then have something to say. meaning, of course, that if Wills stows away the India rubber man in decigive fashion he will make-an offer for the fight. Since he has a lease on the _big arena on Boyle’s Thirty Acres in Jersey City it would seem that he is in a better position to bid higher than Brady or any other promoter. Brady Is Shrewd Fellow. 1, Brady is no slouch when he fully ‘enlisted in a campaign. Thes don’t make them any shrewder, any gamer, either. Years ago in Rey noids’ Hotel in Boston, after between Brady's man, Steve nell, and’ Jake Kilrain, then man, in which O'Donneil had miserable showing. John L. encountered O'Donnell in the lobby and bawled him out most unmerciful O'Donnell, who at the time was ne vears old, stood for it until Brady, then a mere slip of a man, pushed him aside and gave Sul- livan all that the ex-champion had given O'Donnell. with more to_ boot Sullivan could have flattened Brady with one blow. but Brady bluffed him out of the hotel. Brady entered the pugilistic game from the theatrical profession. He took up Jim Co-bett and was his manager when defeated Sulliva Later he made a champion out of Ji Jeffrles, and then retired, returning to the play-producing field in which ever since he has been consistently successful. He has never promoted @ big championship bout, but he has a the qualities that make a successf: promoter. (Copyright. 1922.) CLUB BOWLERS IN MATCH. Racquet Club bowlers will meet tie Recreation team at the Recreation drives tonight in the second block of their six-game match. Bowling will D. C., has entered Ybur Rowdy to start at 8 o'clock. The first block of lection for 1923, and it is a foregone <conclusion that it will name New York. There i8 much doubt as to the ‘Navy's choice the following year, but OBERLIN, Ohio, January 30.—T. Nelson Metcalf, Oberlin University’s foot ball and track coach, has re- signed to become professor of physi- cal education of the University of Minnesota, according_to the director of athletics, Charles W. Savage. Met- calf also may become Minnesota’ track coach, it was said. Metcalf placed his foot ball team at the top of the Ohio confetence twice in the last three seasons. While coach of the Columbia University when that institution re-entered the foot ball world several years ago, his team went through the first season without defeat. He is a graduate of Oberlin, where, as foot ball player and track man, he Wwon numerous letters. Metcalf, in verifying Savage's state- ment, said he would join the Minnesota faculty in September. PENN IN A DOZEN MEETS, it might also be New York. Midshipmen Like New York. .. New York is highly popular with the midshipmen, who, since the game has been played there, have been per- mitted to spend the night of the game in the city and to prolong the visi to the evening of the next day. They are not sure that the privilege will be accorded them if the game is in Philadelphia, and, at any rate, jare inclined to favor. the trin to Mew York, even if it is somewhat “more expensive. Bhe present outlook is that_the game will alternate between New York and Philadelphia as long as the dations for the spectators. Should New York outdo them in this regard, it is quite likely that the metropolis will be the choice of both Jbranches of the service and the favored place latter city has the larger accommo- | hava his best combination in the fray. That means that Gude and Bracklaw will be at forwards, Altrup at center anana.ily and Hughes in the back cou FRIENDS OF MARYLAND RACING ARE ALARMED ANNAPOLIS, Md., January 30.—In spite of confident forecasts, friends of the Maryland race tracks are alarmed at the strength in the legis- lature of the enemies of public gam- bling. Tt was claimed that the_ solid delegations in the house from Balti more city and the four counties which contain tracks were against such legislation, but it is now known that the anti-betting bill will get at least_elght votes from this bloc. Un- der the circumstances the bill is like- ly to pass the lower branch and friends of the tracks are turning to the senate, where the vote on the question is admittedly close. ONE IN LONDON APRIL 8 Twelve meets are included in_the tentative track schedule of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. The first outdoor contest will be the invitation meet at London April 8. Action is pending on an invitation from the University of Paris to enter a team in a meet at the French capital the following week. —_— Keller-Upton Win Bike Race. MIAML ' Fla., January 30.—Willie Keller of Newark and Willie Upton of Revere, Mass, won the modified six-day bike race, which finished here sterday. with a total of 322 points. Store Closes Daily 6 P. Wonder What Mertz Will Say Today? Entire Siock at Big Reductions IN OUR JANUARY CLEARANCE Suit oR OVERCOAT At the Sign of the Moon Established 1883 To Order as Low as ‘We have marked prices with- out regard to cost and we offer choice of our wonderful stock of fine fabrics. This is your oppor- tunity to save a lot of money on your clothes. Taflor made means yu set the garment mnde as you wanmt it and not have to accept momething as it is. 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