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SPORTS. DAY, JANUARY 21, 1924 SPORTS. ey;Is Calm in Serious Plightl LT llll"“"“llllllfl. Ill“l}'TlT{ "Jll; JACK, ADRIFT IN S APLANE. and Chanpe_ FAILS TO REALIZE DANGER The Story of the and Great Britain, Oubs, Jepan and South America by North American Newspsper Allisace. All rights reserved. Chnmplon Makes Ligl’ll of the Narrowest Es(‘apv World’s Greatest Fight Promoter I From D Vi ad i CHAPTER I11.—Why Promoting Fights Is Real Sport. | ?‘“h oot H:’d il | Gulf Stream Off the Coast of Florida. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MON Plans Progressing for Third Major League : Demps WASHINGTON MENTIONED FOR FRANCHISE IN CIRCUIT Jetroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Pitlsburgh Would Form Nucleus of New Wheef—Plenty of Players Available, Promoters Say TS % | i { [ BY TEX RICKARD. HOUGH the promotion of big boxing matches has brought me con- siderable fortune, it always has seemed to me more like a plaything than a business. To me the game is real sport. I get just as much hrill out of pulling off a successiul fight as the golfer does in making his hest score. When I tell you that the amount of money invested, earned or lost has never given me much concern 1 am likely to be accused of exaggera- | T t 1 BY JYAN B. FOSTER. EW YORK. January 3la_There’s more than rumor behind the re- V ports that are gafgp the rounds about a third major league in base < ball. The grgsd has been surveyed, capital has been fopnd, the istakes of other Hromoters have been noted; the circuit is to an extent apped out. i some of the players must have heard what is going on, BY ROBERT T. SMALL. IAMI BEACH. Fla, January 21—“It was an wasn't worried for a moment. In fact, I didn't know we were M in any particular danger till we stepped ashore.” This is Jack Dempsey's own version of th death he has ever had since he became champion of the narrowest escape w some (f them have shown little desire to sign a contract for more ran ong year “Mhe proposed new circuit will s€sent big leagues. and may agues. lour we ecided they merican | clubs, onal League cities The s t s frer but it cluss AA is dou tatne fis castern mer milcage betwee eust That wa hy Kansas Cf th National xoug Kunsas City, conld T “luly the 1o because ‘ dot asons n neg e ity a £ the not vague What o east Jetle e tou «aought 1 addition, ork omplicat nee of & rod locatis for ancther ball park. -or is Brooklyn likely to be included. Washington In Mentioned. Balttimore would pro want- It still eraves base Rochester and Buifalo would acceptable, and Toronto and ashington might be nsidered. It %0 18 possible that un eastern cir- uit might be made up with Pitts- added e m by of the cast- m group, wh would permit e ansion in’ the west, and then Kansas ity would have a better chunce, or indianapolis might be swung in if a uew ground were leased and high- accomodations bulit. promoters of the new league & bit flustered about any lack ball tale nt, The major leagues preseut have 540 players actually under contract, d are seeking to Ad five ¥ club, which would 1t takes only play a full scheduls 1jor leagues. That *ivity., In there are some 00 more ball players who are domi- ted or another by the major leaguss, Some of these m: et tn and some m. ver get in, Out of this 400 leagues would feel free 1o help ftself Would Mean Court Test. racts are to be undertaken who have signed con- the reserve rule nd the player's act probably would test in court, «til]l be released meluded in a new circuit would do question, Lut th to believe that ton or Philadelphia d by All threc s = things oblem in in i T would stand. New 1 all the big time ch base more fn Loth of t1 196 pla pale of ac- leaves No cor with players, tracts, but 1 4 not be n in h in fo since the player by ten days’ nc gh he can not give his « notice that he is ®oing to sever relations with ft ight, 1821 EIGHT CLUBS PROBABLE FOR THE KITTY LEAGUE PADUCAH, Ky, January 21.—Ten- Eanization of the Kitt v the 1924 Lase ball seaso resulted from a mee g in Fulton of representatives of five clubs in the league last year. Whether the league would Six or eight club circuit depends on the action of Jacksun, Tenn.. it was said. Definite action by ed within a week. In event Jack- enteres the league the eight- circuit would include, besides fhat place, Fulton, Mayfield, Paducah, < Dyersburg, Part. and Milan, nd Cairo, Ti1 : represented 'ulton, Paduc and Dycrshurg STRIBLING AROUSES NEW YORK RING FANS BY FAIR PLAY. NEW YORK, January 21.—Seldom it is that New York fans look for- ward to a semi-final bout as promis- ing anything other than the settle- ment of a question as to superfority as between two mixers of no great prominence. Thus the semi-final bout the seems to have been arranged be- tween young Stribling and Paul Ber- bach, the promising New Yorker. will come as an agreeable novelty tc the patro stribling's age participating ir ally respected, Jackson is ex- at t h, Mayfi meeting 1d, Cairo zarden s prevents him from long bouts in this dip also into the territory of the Class AA n cities in which capitalists have investigated and malie « club pay are Detroit and Cleveland, which have and Pittsburgh 144 players every day | { | | i ! i i | bring opposition into cities of both and Cincinnati, which are 'BRAVES-CARDS DEAL . NOW IN THE MAKING NEW between St. Louis completed within two weeks by officials, who concluded a week end confere h st night The deal I is said not to involve Rogers Horns- ‘lv.\. the Cardinal: star. Hornsby | announced in St. Louis last night that he would carry out the orders of his | club, although his differences with the MANAZEMENt GTe A4S LCULE AS ever. The Braves may part with one of thetr tehers, particular | Smith, in'exchunge for u pite | sibly Big Jeff Pfefter. At least, both names were mentfoned in the week 1 cussion, Braves have negotiating with Pittsburgh to obtuin the serv- iices of Rabbit Maranville, shortstop, ! formerly with Boston. Crimp for Steve League. LOUIS, January 21—The leugue has lost one of fts fuvorite subjects. sale or trade of Rogers Hornsby, leading Batter of th National League, by the St Louis Ciub. Rogers himself halted the trade | tallc last night with the statement that he would be with the Cardinals this year and that he would strive to the utmost %o play the game to the best of his ability. 2 owe that to the fans, my fel- players and my contract.” he ex- pluined. adding that it was the con- tract and not any settlement of his | differences with club officlals that led | to his deciston. He says the breach hetwecn Presi- | dent Breadon and Manager Rickey of the Cardinals and himsclf is just as v s when he Was suspend September after reports of between him and Rickey. Hornsby safd that he would train { with the club at Bradentown, Fla., al- though two months ago he said he would play with the club, but could not report for spring training. e GIANTS MAY SHIFT THEIR OUTFIELDERS NEW YORK, January ~—The New York Giants' outfield may be changed in 1924 so that Young will play cen- | ter and Southworth right field. | Mcusel, of course, will continue il?fl. where he is fixture as long as e remains with the team. He is the vest sunfielder with the club. YORK, Junuary 21—A deul the Boston Braves and the rdinals Is expected to Le Tub i 4 en | ST, stove ot | | | | i 1 { 16w i The only doubt as to Young and Southworth, so far as position is concerned, is the liability of Young to overrun one of the other fielders if ne plays center. No voungster—for he still is a voungster and always will be in ambition and moo@s—u 1 go after a fly with less regard for consequences.” That has brought him into collision with more than one player when he was in right field and | it he played center, he might be col-{ liding to the right and to the lert. | outhworth rever has played cen- | and is more adept in right, a zh he Is fast énough to play cen- ter and probably is better than any enterfielder the Giants have had since Burns went to Cincinnati. There has been comment that the Glants will go into the 1924 fight weaker than they were in 1923. Not in the outfleld. If Southworth shows anything like the speed he did with field more stable than it was at any time last year. With Young in center the Giants ing outfielders in League. With an outfield at least no weaker than last vear, and with practically the same infield, the Glants are like- ly to be much the same team that hey were last year, save for pitch- .ng, where improvement is needed | and is being sought. the | news. { them | ear1 {had tion. 1 assure you. though, that such is the fact. Money itseli never meant anything more to me than one of the factors to be moved in a game—like a pawn in chess. have been ‘broke occasionally, but in or much distress I have secn frequent reference gameness in making cnormous offe have expressed wonder at the chances I took “How writes, will do you know." the men yuu b honest? How do e us belug on the square That reference 1o merve always ves me a laugh. To offer big money r u fight {5 not u matter of game- Ifall to see where any nerve i% required in paying out money tha You feel pretty sure of gett back with a profit besides. s 1 the money itself meanus nothing me It is stmply & thing to be used in playing gKame. If I haven't any money then I can't play, that's all. As {0 depending on the homesty of people I always have done that. Keal peopl: are nearly ways honest. 1f 1 judge a man to be a r 1 don't deal with him. With fighters, for in- stance. 1 have never had the slight- eSt argument over money or wgres- ments. A few of the little two-by- four manugers have shown rat tend- encles, but it didn't take long to find ut Met ¥irst Crook at Forty. The big city man may be surprised when 1 cay that knew very mueh about pe dishonest unttl I was nearly vears ol There were no dis in the Klondik were not any among th th wh I worked and associuted on the pla Petty thieves I in atmosphere. Th Real gameness, to my way of think- one deal man with figure suy, to 1 |ing, has nothing to do with money. It is u personal qualicy. The gamest mun | ever knew, instance, was Cooper Wright, a sheriff In Texas. 1 was & young follow about the town of Henrletta then, just fel- fng my oats. I had been oh two or three the long cattle drives and had seen enough to know & real man when I saw him A man of the name of Henry Stegall r had committeed some crime, 1 forget | Just what at the moment. and was in the town calaboosc. The and other citizens were much Incensed at Ktegall One day the cowbors all ro town and began “lickering up the many pine-hoarded saloons time nearly two hundred of th together and marched on the cala- boose to take Stegall out and hang him. They couldn’'t wait on the law, The jailer was helpless. The mob simply " walked up to the Jjail kicked m got fopen the door and vanked Stegall out. i They dragged him to a telegriph pole nearby and strung him up. With two other young fellows I atched this from the roof of a shed. Just as Stegall's body dangled and the cowboys shot their zuns off in the alr. Cooper Wright, the sheriff, came on the run. He was all alone, uo support. That didn't stop him, though. The sheriff pulled his and stood on the step of boose. “Stop that!" he called out to the erowd, leveling his gun over their heads. “I'll ghoot the first man who moves!" Sherif’s Bullet Cut Rope. There was something in the ring o hooter jof that single mun's voice that made every one stop and llsten. There wasn't even a growl. Wright then took deliberate aim ¢ {would sty cattlemen ; 1 have had plenty of money at times and cither event I never had much thrill s to what writers call my nerve or rs of mouey to land a fight. They Jand in three shots cut the rope with The form of Stegall fell to one of sheriff, The whole rough crowd stood as if spelibound. By this time {t was seen that § was not -t dead. He half ros !staggered to his feet like a drunken man, the noose stiil hanging around his neck Cuooper Wrikht, «<till keeping his gun {in front of him, coolly walked through {that mob, grabbed Stegall by the arm ¢ and led him back fnto the j lie locked him up und then ordered the crowd to clear out. And, I'm telling ou, they did i In all my life that was the gamest act T have ever seen performed by & {lone anan. Above all it showed what | force of character means. N, hen 1 hear people talk about | it requiring gameness to bid $100,- 000 on « prize fight I have to smile. T always think of C¢ er Wright. | In those duys to be game was not junusual. That was expected of every- i it was the liver-hearted fel- {1ow who was the exception. In that {biz crowd of cowboyw there were Imany Jthers just as game as Cooper Wright But they knew he was in the right and they knew that he his life on dotng what ght think. Ther were in d he n em feel it he licked them ere some out- t gaie you move:” ordered | | |was the ri the wrong & That's where Oddly enough there laws, mdmitted law breakers whom the men would not bother. because their erimes did not concern the im- community. I remember quite James gang hen. We had no newspapers but we came to Henrfetta. I was a =mall boy then. We Lad no newspapers but we Secretly we admired them. | James Hoys Pay a Visit. Mrs. Allen Palmer, a sister of fand Frank James, lved directly Jacross the road from our house. One [nght we got word that the James gang was coming to visit the sister. I wlill never forget how we turned fout all the lights, closed the green blinds and peered through the crucks at the band of outlaws. They all were there. 1 saw them drive up. Jesse James in the lead and Frank following. There were eight or ten of them. They hitched their horses outside, then went in and had supper. Everybody in town knew the James boys were there but nobody bothered {them. They had done our town no harm and the citizens felt the visit was none of thelr business. Most every famly did just what we did— put out the lights and looked through jthe lattice work the blinds. 1 know, though, tha d the Lest and closest view 1 saw Jesse James kiss his sister, "laugh and romp auround. He didn't |seem at all like an outlaw ought to to me. one though, w | thing [ watched closely, the famous outlaw’s belt and hoisters. The belt was therc as 1 had expected. That belt by the way —well, that is a story in itself. Tomorrow—A Bigger Belt Than John Sullivas | ROD AND STREAM y Perry Miller hav T every year. ‘We all have heard and read a great deal about poliution of streams—con- tamination of the waters of our inland streams, where only a few years ago fish of all kinds were abundant, and where in a short Space of time the angler was able to fill his basket and return home. But today these same streams have been so poliuted that it is HE fish of the sea and our inland streams and the birds of the air been the innocent victims of each and every step in the ad- vancement of civilization, paying the pricc by the thousands This may sound strange, but it can be verified by the bureau Boston he will make the Giant out- | of fisheries and any sporting magazine devoted to the interests of game. So many things enter into the lives of our fish and birds that it is a wonder so many of them live to reach maturit; would have one of the longest rang- | the many hazards and obstacles that the finny and feathered tribes have National [ to meet and overcome, but every lover of nature and every lover of the rod and reel know more or less about them. It is hard to enumerate associations repreented. which were pledged to work for the passage of the several measures. The — most important measure |brought up “was that of an angler’ | license for hook and line fishermen. The revenue from such a license, if the law is enacted, would go for the propagation and distribution of game Jesse James, the famous Texas bandit, leader of a notorious outlaw gang, of whom Rickard writes: “I was a small boy th the Jesse James gang.” Secretly, we boys admired NAVY WILL NOT PROTEST FLOW OF STARS TO ARMY NNAPOLIS, January Naval Academy that vantage through condi Militar; ons which make it possible to attract col- there a general v has a tremendous s fe Acade: lege foot.ball stars, there is no threat of a rupture of athletic relations. In fact, the number of meet annually is incr At the same t been offered appointmer left their former col Academy after com cussion here. It thers foundat repeatcd the newspapers that d stars had been off- but not understood pens that Possession of Academy w s to letic teams strengthened. Due 1o Get Three Stars. tar, Wilson of Pennsylvauia Welch of Colgate and Bern- of the Universit of Florida be the crop of college foot layers who have definitely de. clded to enter West Point. Reports that Pfann of Cbrnell and Milstead | of Yale would become cudets have| been denied, though there i< doubt that they had bee in the matter. There ar numbe sports in ing steadily. ¢ o tat sme So State, stein seem ball | | pla now at next wil) be st Point und cight glate foot ball The Military Academy has no eli- gibility rules. A student entering there is eligible for membership on @ varsity team in his first vear and may play four or five, if it takes him that long to complets the course, no matter liow long he has plaved at another college. The Naval Academy now has the one-: residence rule and has asked West Point, as its chief opponent, to adopt the same rule. West Point has declined to do so. Handicapped By Age Limit. The fact that the Military Academy can, under the law, accept students Who are two vears older than those admitted at the Naval Academy gives the Army school a great advantuge, which becomes greater since the lat- ter has the one-vpar residence rule and the Army hool has not. It is a intercolle- which the teams | the i the service schools ne, the numerous reports of college athletes who have s to the Militar. before graduating or “entered the Military g their course Academy and who have either aurnish a subject for much dis- SANDLOTTERS MEET TO PLAN A LEAGUE Eig of sandlot base ball teams are to consider the organization of a league at a meeting tonight at the Knicker- bocker's club house, 3235 N street. Buck Greer of the Petworth Ath- letie Club and V. L. Wooldridge of the Knickerbocks are heading the movement. These two pilots, together L team represntatives from the Mohawks. Garfields, Dominican Lyce- ums, Silver Spri Arlin “and Shamroeks, at- tend. a 45-gun: to present plans. . JOHN CARROLL FIVE WINS. DETROIT, Mich. Jau 21 John Carroll basketers defeated De- troit University here Saturday night, 49 to 14. The score fnadvertently was sent out just the reverse. will be series, ording WALTER HAGEN TELLS Real Story of How ambition to repeat at Troon A Strange as it may seem, failure | with my loss. FTER winning the British open championship in 1922, A (alfen' seaplane, adrift in the treacherous gulf stream. held Demp sey and his “social secretary,” Teddy Hayes, prisoners for more than tu hours on n'h)wur': aiternoon last week. They were drifting helple in the northerly current of the stream and making farther and farthor from shore when a fishing boat noticed their plight. It quickly went t the rescie, and, taking the disabled plane in tow, brou | precious pugilistic cargo safely into Mian The Incident was kept a elose secrel. ) and the hut having leaked out at lust, Demp- a0 sey ix trying to make as Hght of it osible. Hay in_nddition cing Dempsey's 1 {ing as trainer | champion, dec Dempsey perience but Hayes had consent felt for a time America and the eight figh Jack Dempsey century was to Hayes 1 arbor. | pilat said tair sort of be making for the was pretty cer 1ing boat w barbor hefore coulds ne fis ol aneron of res (hat he iy cert not worried bz the broken-dowy machiz frightened sick to the fiyht. & that he b worlg, of er, unfl th real ba provg at if suck e would go Gown him, but he eould not el but think what Jack Kearns, the outfit, would s he wae dead Hayes Still In Scared. s still is a scared, It ieted his nerves in the lewst 10 stories about what has to uthers who have got the Gulf stre Only @ short time ago, Col. Jumes H. Nun- ¥ of Atlunta hing in th m_from z 1o the end ¢ the least bit The pilot, fr a very skilful Lit the p His engine | he was guite high put the craft int. ing to start Was no us: his the wut him after accounte work He Hay not caught in Hauling up & speed champic ground P angel yet,” to the future.’ | HOPPE AND SCHAEFER START PLAY TONIGHT pled fish- vourd. | the gruesome t that seeming to plight of the fishermen, were & about their boat. Even the | appearance of bigger " Nunnally eraft, with falled frig] and not until lets were fired disper | Dempsey insists there w jabout hig seaplane when was jeued, but there might Tave 1 eral lives have been lost in F ters during the last two seasons a result of & d sport nu longer as was Th P half « cense big sharks several into them CHICAGC 1.—W H illie champion arks . renos rdist, and Young the it T r waters al are alive with sharks, other big fish. swimmer would { chance of escape fair swimmer, bu water champiokh. First Flight Due to Firpo. Other than that header o the ropes in the Firpo affair, Dempsey had never hud an air flieht until the one ! in which he met with {1l luck, and the chances are he will never take an- other. Certainly he will not so long as Teddy Haye in charge of hir and lias the veto power. and Strong “have litu Jack Dy i by 1 shown so w has many sup- the cham- excel- porters iip. alth, auest of ugh Tiuppe is ir /| Hopp al { th and 1 ness water and then take off aguin was thinking to myself that the was a very Kind sort of fellow, want- all the stunts of fly 3 rything. So I was tickled a kid when we came down. T water was all blue about us. Have vou cver been in the gulf stream? It looks like the old family washing tub after mother has put the blueing in it. I noticed that Teddy got to figeting about and pretty soon the lot suys something has gone wrong ith the old bus and he don't think a | ALEX IS A MARKSMAN. | cHICAC 21.—Grover Cleve {land Alexander, veteran star twirler of |the Chicago Cubs, ability & marksman topping the shooters at th winning two ecvents und third {n another. Satur e traps he | | was a4 guod sort and did the best ould under the cir stauces. icked Up by Fishing Boat, were tossing about pretty lively most of the time, but fortunate- ly for us it was early in the day | |1 - - (s Established 1893 Semi-Annual CLEARANCE SALE T Lost British Open 22 3 i it was my | in 1923. Unfortunately T was unable | to do so, falling short of a tie with Arthur Havers by one stroke. to get into a bunker had a lot to do fish in the waters of Maryland. The state, but there is no objection on fact that the Naval Academy rarely | Of course. there were other factors, and i do not regard a shot into the part of the state's boxing au- to his appearing in the preliminaries. Hence the z-Berlenhach bo promised TO START APRIL 15 for the of near future. which, in point interest will probably outshine final that may carded. southerner has gone twelve agaiust Dave Rosenberg and ton rounds gainst Mike MecTigue. hence therc appears no veal reason. except fear of estabitshing a preced- ent, for barring the Georgian from going the teen-round route. On the other hand, six rounds against such a punishing walloper as Ber- lanbach seems to be—he turned n his twenticth straight knock- out last Friday night at the garden—may be plenty long enough to suit Stribling. Why mot admit that Harry Greb is a great battler, that his antics that appear 8o crazy are a part of a well defined scheme of attack and defense. When a fighter can make 158 pounds and beat the best middleweight con- tender in sight and then come up to 170 and make trouble for any of the light-heavies, that fighter has g0t something more than haphazard windmill stuff. . Tt's all risht for crities to sit in thelr safe ringside seats and criticize Greb, but in the writer's opinfon he's & real fighting fool WORLD MAT.CHAMPION IN BOUT HERE TONIGHT Ed “Strangler” Lewis, champion heavyweight wrestler of the world, will take the mat against Josef Or- gurkewioz, the Polish grappler, to- Wight in the feature tussle ut the Col- fseum, Joe Turner and Joe' Shinkus are to meet In a preliminary match. Joe Freeman, who is promoting the show, expects to offer another bout 28 a ‘curtain-raiser. ABtion will stert at $:15 o'clock. SET PACE AT BOWLING. IWINNIPEG, Manitoba, January «Minneapolis bowlers led in doubles and singles at the con- elusion of the first day of the ninth @rnual tournament of the Winnipeg Assoclation. Stasch was high man in the singles, with 650, and Mueller J and Wolfe led the doubles. with | L The Thistles of Winnipeg led n the team play, with 2,702 | 21, the | —_—— NEW YORK, January 21.—Opening games in the 1924 National League race on April 15 will find Boston at Philadelphia, Brooklyn at New York, Pittsburgh at Cinolnnati and Chi- cago at St. Louls, according to an- nouncement by John A. Heydler, president of the senior circuit. The schedule, which has been com- pleted, except for a few minor de-| taile, ‘will close on September 29, Heydler sald. This 13 ten days earlier than the 1923 olosing and on: of the earliest on record for the full 154-game schedule. It was decided on to afford more favorable world series weather, avold conflict with college foot ball games and because of the proximity of the presidential election. Clubs which play away from home on the opening day will start their home stands April 24. In New York, with the Giants playing in Brooklyn, this will avold conflict with the American League opening, which takes place at Yankee Stadium on April 23, e STRIBLING TO MEET BURKE. MACON, Ga. January 21—W. L. (Young) Stribling has been matched to meet Mike Burke before the Na- tional Sportsmen's Club in Newark, N. J, February 18 in a ten-round, no-decision bout. $15,000 OFFER TO DUNDEE. BALTIMORE, Md., January 21— An offer of $15,000 has been made to Jimmy Johnston, manager of Johnny Dundee, featherweight champion, for ta fifteen-round title match here with {Louls (Kid) Kaplan of Meriden, Ccnn., by Promoter Bennie Franklin of the Olympla Athletjc Club. VILLA TO BATTLE MORAN. PITTSBURGH, Pa.. January 21.-— ancho Villa, flyweight boxing cham. pion, and Mike Moran of Plttsburgh meet here tonight in a ten-round de- cision bout. With Moran weighing over the flyweight limit the cham- pionship is not involved i i {NATIONAL LEAGUERS | irpessivi ror i s ot i to sur: | in his automobile and sometimes travel |a long way to indulge in his favorite pastime. Some of the trials that enter into the life of birds and fish can be summed up In & very few words. First of all, the big factory located on the various inland streams of the country is continually pouring polluted water into the homes of the fish, water discolored and poisoned from tanneries and hides and from: hundreds of other industrial plants, This was bad enough, but to this has been added the -oil, not oniy from factories but from motor and oil- burning Doats. The -oil pollution has affected not only the inland streams but Chesapeake bay and the Atlantic ocean as well. The latest form of punishment to be inflicted upon birds comes from the airplanes. It is claimed by gane war- dens that wild ducks are dying by thousands because of the smoke screen: discharged from airplanes. Some of the ducks found dead were sent to the United States Blological Survey here and thelr reports stated that they had been killed by phosphorus, probably discharged from airplanes engaged In making smoke screens. One of the first reports of the Kkilling off of wild ducks came from the vicinity of Spe- sutia and Black Islands, where thou- sands of Susquehanna ducks have been gassed. The reglon around Aberdeen, Md., has been swept ulmost bare of fish, and now it appears that the wild ducks are in grave danger, it is claimed, Marylanders Make Plans. State Game Warden E. Lee LeCompte of Maryland has received further reports of the slaughter of wild ducks on the waters about the head of the Chesapeake. The last report states that hundreds of ducks, chiefly can vas backs and red heads, have been found dead in the Bush and Gun- power rivers. These rivers border on the Aberdeen proving grounds and it has been declared by the United States Biological Survey that the ducks were killed by phosphorus set- tling'on the wild celery on which the ducks feed. Prompted by the desire of better- ment of fish and game conditions in Maryland, more than half a hundred Eportsmen, representing about a dozen different fish and game organ zatlons, were the guests of the Fred- erick Chapter of the Izaac Walton llA‘nlue of America at a recent meet- ng. Tentative drafts of bills drawn up by State Game Warden LeCompte formed the basis for discussion and redulted in & SIroNg uLicel: those anglers’ license fees were fixed at §1 for a local county license; 32 for a state-wide license and $10 for a non- resident license. It waa proposed also to issue a combination hunting and fishing license for $1.50 for local county llcense; $5.50, state-wide, and $10.50 for non-residents. One-fourth of the funds from the combination license would be de- voted to the propagation of fish Children under eighteen years of age, owners of property abutting on streams, wives of licensees and tenants of owners of land abutting on atreams will be exempt, under the recommendations, from the necessity of getting licenses to fish, If the legislation’ is enacted. Among other steps looked upon favorably by those present were: A" resolution petitioning Gov. Ritchle to include in his budget an appropriation of $50,000 for a fish hatchery or hatcherifes In western Maryland. The establishment of a closed sea- son on fresh-water trout from July 1 to April 1, and on all other fresh- water game fish from December 1 to_July 1. To fix the legal size for the taking of fresh-water trout at seven inches or above, and for big and small mouth bass at nine inches or above. To prokibit the sale or shipment of smzll or blg mouth black bass. The reduction cf the bag-per-day limit on squirrels to the number of ten: rabbite, eight, and partridges, ten. To prohibit the sale of all game protected by law, including rabbits, with the exception of other fur-bear- |n§' animals. ‘o permit open season for deer in Garrett, Allegany and Washington counties. only, from December 1 to December 10, with the provision that only one buck may be killed by a bunter during a season and the buck's horns must be not less than six inches in length. | | i $9 STARTED NOTED TEAM. ‘The famous Athletic base ball club of Philadelphia, one of the great base ball organizations of this country, was started on $9 in 1881 by three men. Among the noted players carried on 1its line-up duting the first years were {Bobby Mathews, Harry Stovey, Gus Weyhing, Eddle Seward, Wilbert Rob- inson, Ted Larkin, Louis Bierbauer, Denny ~ Lyous. Curt Welch "Blu\ndlc" Purcell. b [fer the inducement of and J\w'll take place receives a atudent who has attended a | college, while the Military Academy repeatedly receives those who have spent some graduated from colleges becoming star athletes there. The Military Academy greatest scouting system for athletes vears in often or has the in existence, and the repeated. trans- ler of college athletes to that insti- tution seems to indicate that it is sue- cessful. It has a zraduate atlached to almost cvery college and large high school in the country, and, if statements aré true that athletes are offered appointments, it is able to of- an education and maintenance for uothing, iwith the assurance of an attractive profes- sion {nsuring, at least, a living and consliderable position. Under those circumstances, it s felt that the Military Academy, if it wishes to stand for the higher ethies in sport, should be the first institu- tlon to adopt rules by which entrance chlefly for athletic reasons would be discouraged. Rules to this effect have been found necessary and, as is well known, have been “adopted by the leading colleges and universities. No Chance of Break. Still, the general feeling in the is that this matter should not be allowed to bring about a contro- versy. Certainly, there is no idea of insisting _upon’ eligibility rule and thus making a rupture possible. Not only is there every indicatjon that the service schools will continue to meet annually in the sports which are now on their schedules, but that the list will be lengthened. There are three more foot ball games to be plaved under the present agreement. There is no agreement covering meetings in other sports for any set period, but the teams are now meeting annually in base ball, track, basket ball, lacrosse and ten- nis, and there is no likelihood of an interruptio Indeed, the Naval Academy authorities have made known their willingness to meet the Mijlitary Academy in any branch which is now in vogue at both in- stitutions. . DUNDEE ACCEPTS TERMS. PANAMA, January 21.—Promoter Roberts has announced that Johnny Dundee’s conditions for a fight with Jose Lombardo had been accepted ind a match was assured. Tho matoh n Panama City. Feb- runry 83, - o a trap as tending to low scoring, would rave been preferable to the but. in this instance, a bunkered lie one I actually had ‘and might have saved me two strokes, one of which, as it turned out, would have given me a tie for the title, while the othe After a none too promising start in the early stages of the tournament I had got into good form. =starting the final eighteen holes, I came (o the eighth hole in even par, putting for a birdie on every green and making one on the second, although using three putts on the fifth for a five The eigith at Troon is a 130-yard hole, calling for a mashie from' the tee.” The narrow green fs trapped all around, and that afternoon. with the wind hard across, there was plenty of opportunity for mishap. 1 took no chances. but played for the short side of the green. How- ever, the wind caught the ball and dropped it to the left, on a sandy ridge, not more than a foot wide, be- tween two bunkers. The wind was blowing so had it drifted sand from one bunker to the other, partlally burying the ball. If the ball had only gone in the bunker next to the green I would have been much better off, as I could have picked {t out with my niblick and possibly lafd it near enough to the cup to have gotten a par three. As it was, I was left with a large trap to get over and a very narrow green to stick on. ¢ called for the so-called oiaslon, * 1 landed my ball “explosion” shot. b on the green, only to see it roil just off and into the trap on the other side. Here 1 had a most difficult play. The bunker was so deep 1 could not see the green, with my ball lylnr 80 badly I could not use my niblick. I took the only chance I had, used my putter and hit the ball very hard, It got out, but rolled to the left of the hole and five feet away. I missed my putt for a four. This hole was my undoing that particular stage one could afford to lose two strokes. My Unrenlised Ambition. as been_my good fortune to wf:, P the British American open championships, in addition to all the other coveted honors in_this country _ BASKET BALL Tuesdsy ngm. ted Tgpuary ia Light Infantry Versos Alexandris P x ) . At not r would have won it. (for which a profes: 3 | compete. But there is one feat which I have not yet accomplished. It is the object of much ambition on my part. _refer to making a hole Time and time again, it hs to me that my tee shot was to end its journey in the cup. to date it hus not done ‘so heginning to despair. The mnearest 1 ever came complishment was at the Detroit {Golf Club several vears ago. 1 think T can say that hard Juck beat me. Playing the 200-vard ninth hole, my tee shot dropped on the green and rolled straight to the cup. But the wind, which was blowing toward me as I drove, had pressed the flag pole tight against the side of the cup. Tt kept the ball out—and it wouldn't tumble fn when we carefully moved the pole. 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