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'\SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1924, SPORTS. Ban Johnson’s Intentions Are Defended : Martin New Bantamweight Champion RUMORS OF DISHONESTY IN GAME CAUSED UPROAR Anonymous Letters Telling of Crookedness Led to Interviews That Offended Landis, Is Declaration of One on “Inside.” BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, December 20.—Bar N rumors of dishonesty in base with him, hence the impetuos Landis and resuited in his removal f That the explanation of the is given to the writer, after the meeting n Johnson has worried so much over ball that it has become an obsession us interviews which offended Judge rom the advisory council. American League president’s action s in Chicago had ended, by one who was in a position to discuss the matter, although he did not want to be quoted, for obvious reasons. “Anonymous letters purporting to give information of crookedness have vreyed on Johnson,” said the writer's informant, “and he has attempted in every way a man could to get further information. No communica- tion came Into the Americ; League ofMice to which did not give hi personal attentlon, there wi any- thing !n it that reflected upon the honesty of base 11 he bal scandal has in ) m port cir- & on the ¢ or the integrity inson was brought up in the old base ball sch the days of the carly 80s, when the hon- c8ty of the game was prea and night after a National League ¥ lert fired four pls i cuit for life. | With this trait ir aracter | «nd with the thou | 1ind to kee o t, the suddennes nt of the alieged on the very eve of t cited him to a pite axploded, in my opinion e ouly possible exp'ana ctlons that would o anybody who really own ought to culated that had onesty of the g f the players. Jol hen Rilly F s out of the cir- ball ciean and ho of the announce bribery attempt ie world series of frenzy and That is n for his reasonable sw John- kn Judge Landis Johnsen for the Dolan pre has never hings he = given when broke. than the | led Joh that fmpe that he and serve on Chicago sclare | champlonshir NATIONALS SELL DUNCAN TO MINNEAPOL!S CLUB Pat Duncaun, outflelder, pur- chased by the Natlonals from the Reds in the Fall, did not linger long on the world champions’ roster. President Clark Grifith thisx morning announced Duncan's xnle to the Minneapolis club of the American Associatios The Nationals got mo line on a Min- neapoliv player in the deal. sale leavex the Na- with aix outflelders, Rice, zarden combination in the latter part of the xeason; Leibold, Mat- thews and Carlyle. FRENCH BILLIARDIST BREAKS TWO MARKS PARIS, December 20.—Roger Cont! French billlardist, broke twe world records for 15.2 balkline champion- ship play last evening with a high run of 472, clicking off 500 points in three innings for an average of 166 2-3 The former high run record of 384 was made by Welker Cockran {n 1921 at Chicago. while Sutton's high aver- age of 100, made against Willle Hoppe, stood for nearly 20 years. In the two matches he has played thus far for the European champion- ship, Conti®has scored 1,000 points in nine innings for an unprecedented average of 111, with two unfinished runs. 1925 G. W. U. GRID TEAM TO PLAY TEN CONTESTS games are to be played by George Washington University’s foot n uext vear. i with Urs Tech for ty, Hampden played by ere met by that | car. They are Buf-| Juniata and Catholic | ¢ the teams encoun- just past will not | ¥ St. Joseph, ary College, Dela- ware, Jot cins, Western Mary- | land and Drexel The Hatchetit reason Septemt Ridge end it with C: fversity town-Marl the turke The gan on Friday Northerners £ hingt foreign with Carn the Smok falo, Blue Ridge, University. Six tered in t met Pennsylv e seaso be in 192 ar their, Blue giving day the Brook- e George- here on to ag s are open and adium.. despite attraction o due holiday with Bu will be of Satur- | ting the No- alo loved instead &ay. th The schedule announced this morn- by Coach Wat . Riur Crum follows Ridge | wiata: 10. Hampden Sydnes Lbre or Carnegie Tech Al Pittsb 17, Mount i at College Buf- r Unt- (Thanksgi t' Brookland tadium, EX-RING CHAMPION DIES. VANCOUVER, B. C., De Frankie Neil, once bantamweight \ampion, died yesterday of pneumo- 1 Neil started fighting when he 14 cid reached the < of his carcer when he defeated I for the champlonship « mber 20 PENN TO RACE BRITONS. PHILADELPHIA 20.— of Pennsylvania’s track | «am will race a combined relay team Oxford and Cambridge school ~ champlonship April 11 December University representing | the high track in London on i o T TN WOMAN SWIMMER DIES. PEORIA, 1. December 20.—Har- 1o Salome (Minnle) Walters, na- | tionally known woman swimmer, | mber of the Illinois Athletic Asso- | ciation and winner of many medals, died at u hospital here last night. e SO Soccer, now listed among the most nniversally played games in the world, had its first real Introduction in the United States 40 years ago. Inside Golf | By Chester Horton. It is one of the laws of dynamics that the forward swing with the golf club will be an exact duplicate of the back | swing if the player does uot do any- | thing outside the | THE TURNING perfectly matural POINT OF THE | swing of the club | CLUBHEAD y, | to make the tor- | ward swing differ, Tt is seen, there- fore, that the &reat step to good ®olt ix a correct| back swing. It is | eommon practice | for a mood back swing to be ruin-| ed just at the point of ftx at- tainment, which is the turning point where the club starts forward. The club must re- verse its direction at this point, and one of the peculiarities of golf is that the slower you have made your back awing the more time you must take | for this turning of the clubhead. In other words, t turning must be in rhythm with the ce of the swing ax a whole. Remember that point. If you make a quick back swing, turn ckly. Jf slow in the back swing, turn slowly. - Because you do mot ob- ~erve this rule is the reason, ofte that s0 many of the shats with whi fntend to be particularly caref: wrong. (Osgyright, 1024.) a tilt at Pittsburgh. | day | instance. fatchetites’ only definitely scheduled us at Collegeville, Pa., but they are -Sidn: NOTRE DAME GRIDDERS ON WAY TO CALIFORNIA SOUTH BEND, Ind., December 20— The Notre Dame foot ball team will embark today for the Pacific Ccast in an attempt to add Stanford., cham- plon of the Pacific Coast, to its list of victims The squad topped off preparation for the Tournament Roses game at Pasadena New Year with a dummy scrimmage in the gymnasium will be encountered here. If the Plaid is | its at-home | of | WINNER i | WA AVENUE | Sitting—Mildred King, captain. Others, left to right are Clara Alderton, Mildred Vogel, winin Monk, Virginia Miller, Hazel Morgan, Poneill Story, Katherine Jones an F PLAYGROUND BASKET BALL CHAMPIONSHIP lizabeth Waltin, Virginla Hitcheock. Vir- "lGAlLAUDET QUINTET DISTRICT GUARD TOSSERS TACKLES CITY CLUB Gallaudet's basket ball team will be sent into action against the City 1d at least eight of them are to be played | Club quint tonight in the City Club court. Play is to start at 8 o'clock | Tt will be the second game of the | Winter for each tean Since thefr loss to the Y.M H.A J(n Baltimore, the Kendall |have bLeen given some tri ing by Coach Ted Hughes. | passing game was faulty against the | Baltimoreans, but they are expected | to show much improvement in that department of play tonight. | Gallaudet probably will start the | contest with Bradley and Byouk at forwards, Riddle at center | Wallace and Miller at guards strenuous Royce Athletic Club claims the game it lost to the Epiphany Juniors was only a practice affair. TY COBB Remaker of Base Ball Ty ’s View CHAPTER XLIX. BY H. G. SALSINGER. HE opinions of Ty Cobb arc subject to change. Consider his opinion on pitching, for In an interview given in 1921 Cobb made this statement: “Many good pitchers have been curved out of the league. One of the worst mistakes a pitcher can make is to They spoil the pitching arm. I think 5 |a good fast ball with a hop is far more cffective than a curve, and there are some pitchers who could do much better if they would rely on their fast one instead of prema iurely ending their careers becausc they prefer the curves.” Now consider his opinion on the same subject as uttered in an Inter- view glven In the year 1924: “The trouble with pitchers s that they don't use enough curve balls. They're afraid to curve the ball. They think it epoils their arms and cuts down their careers. That Is where they are all wrong. Nothing is so good for a pitching arm as throwing curve balls. If you doubt it look at the pltchers that had long careers, that lasted over long periods. You And that practically all the good curve ball pitchers were men that pitched curve balls a lot. The more curves they pitched the longer they lasted. The curve ball strengthens the arm. When you find a pitcher complaining about sore arm ft is 10 to 1 that he is a fast ball pitcher who doesn’t use a curve much. If he used a curve a lot he would not have a sore arm.” Those That Are Fixed. However, some of his opinions will not be changed. He sald, some years back: “Base ball is an open game. If any one had ever found a recipe for win- ning ball games there would be no more base ball, as all you would have to do would be to buy the recipe and use it. The success of the game will continue as long as its uncertainty lasts.” On another occasion he sald: “Criticisms hurt a ball player more than any fan reallzes. Success in bas ball 1s two-thirds abllity and one-third confidence and concentra- tion. Criticism destroys confidence and concentration and therefore re- duces the playing value of a man at least 33 1-3 per cent. “That also explains why so many ball clubs do a great deal better on the road than at home. The player expects criticism abroad and never pays any attentlon to it. The cri cism hurled at him while he is at home is the criticism that destroys his value.” .. use too many curves.| His Opinions Change— s Two Interviews— His Pet Subject. Speaking of psychology and its re- lation to base ball, he said: “Psychology pl a big part in base ball. If you have a pitcher in the box who is going along fairly | well, but none too good, and have a | man" warming up in the ‘bull p | the fact that the pitcher in the bo: sees the man warming up in the | ‘bull pen’ s llkely to cause him to | weaken. A man who is pitching has |all he can do to keep his mind on the batter. He has to concentrate on {him, and how can the man in the | box concentrate on the batter when every time he winds up he sees out of the corner of his eye a teammate warming up In the bull pen and get- | ting ready to relieve him. He gets to thinking that the manager belleves | he fsn't good enough to stay in the box, and he'll get to believing that he {sn’t, and then suddenly he won't be. | “Now, on the other hand. if your pitcher happens to be going a bit wabbly In a close game and he sees a pitcher come out of the visiting team's dugout and start for the op- posite ‘bull pen’ to warm up fAr re- {lfef duty, you can immediately see u | change in ‘your pitcher. Io gets the notion that the other team has come | to the conclusion that he Is unbeat- iable and is getting reads to send in a rellef for the man oyposing him in the box. He takes courage imme- | diately and pitches fhis head off. in different directions.” Cobb on Hustling. Cobb often talks on his pet base | ball_subject, psychology. It applies lto every angle of the game. Here |15 one: “Hustling Is Infectious. Tf you ! take a lazy player and put him next to a hustler, one who plays ‘heads- up’ base ball and is on his toes all the time, you will soon note a change in the lazy player. He begins show- ing energy. The hustler causes the change fn him. Get several men on your team that hustle and you will find the rest hustling. The more one hustles the more the others will hus- tle.” That is not always true, though, @ fact that Cobb has discovered and admitted. The hustler can cause to hustle only those who have it in them to hustle. Some men do not happen to have the ability to hustle and they would not change their tac- tics, regardless of who played along- side of them.. Cobb has found that out, for a few that have played along- side of him never hustled and there 18 no denying that Cobb could not find a_better hustler anywhere in base ball than Cobb himself. . (Copyright, 1924.) | < Ohapter Lo~The Dy- Greeners | Their | and | “That is plain pAvchology working | | PLAY ROAMERS TONIGHT | WITH practic. campaigns in the | Iy z; of this season’s basket ball contenders in the midst of the title scramble, one of the most interesting court istory of the Winter sport here is expected The latest to make its bow is the Cc D. C. N. G, that will tackle the sturd npany F five of the 121st Engineers Roamer Athletic Club tonight in the L street armory in a game starting at 8 o'clock The Soldlers have practiced di gently for this vear's basket ball race and hope to give all of the leading teams hereabout a battle. Senfor | teams desiring games with the Com- pany 1 five may telephone Corpl Luitich at North 4625 between and 7 o'clock 0ld Dominion B tain the Railroad Y. M. C. A. five to- night in the Armory at Alexandria The Columbia and McFarland quints will be opponents in a preliminary it Rallsing in the last few minutes of play, Government Printing Office nosed out the Pullman quint, 18 to 15. | Homan and Dove of the winners and Nock of the Pullman team were the outstanding players, 5 | Eagles, | t Club will enter- Molenof, Collins. Werle, Sparks played exceptionally | the winners. Manager Sparks of the | Seminoles, who may be reached at 641 I street mnortheast, Is seeking games with the Kanawhas, Anacostia Stanton Seniors and the | Washington Preps. Watt well for and Friends’ Playground team of Alex- andria was to oppose the Warwlck Midgets today on the former's fourt. SCHOLASTIC BASKETERS | IN TWO CLASHES TODAY Central High's basket ball team {at Yorik, where it will oppe {the York Institute for Deaf tonight Wwhat promises to ba a severe test the local combination. One other in | for | | | | | Stmpson Athletic Club upset cal-|game Is carded. that between Gon-| ulations when it defeated Petworth|zaga and Tech in the T street gym-| Athletic Club, 27 to 10. Fitzgerald of the victors accounted for six court | goals. Stantom Junlors fell befors the Boys' Club Celtics In a 28-t0-20 match Harper played well for the Celtics. Freer Preps added another vict | to their list by downing the Wood- | ward team, 22 to 12 Rip Moyer, | Shapiro and Herzog of the winners gave good accounts of themselves. Corby's five was offered little op- position when it lowered the colors of Palace Athletic Club in a 381-to- 16 game. Ingley and Sauber of the Corby team cut the cords for 12 bas- kets between them. Enstern Athletle Association will face the Northerns tonight in the n Fastern High gymnasium. Sacred Heart Junlors of Baltimore had an easy time winning over St. Martin's, 31 to 10. Roche of the Oriole City quint court gouls. Mealy and Crowley were best for the losers. Lincoln Park Preps opened thei season with a bang last night by pointing the way to the Warwicks, 19 to 18. The score was deadlocked, 7 to 7, at half time. Irixh Midgets were forced to play an extra_five-minute period to nose out the Petworth Midgets, 25 to 23. Proctor of the winners and Heim- ricks of Petworth performed cred- itably. Seminole Juniors scored a 28-to-15 | victory over the Weyman Sentor five {champlons of Baltimore. Joseph. T we shoot at here. ary. Mexico. What is “armada’” hunting? Well, in all your dreams of downright slaughter, you never saw or heard of anything to equal it. There are many shallow lakes in the Mexican valleys, where the ducks—the same ones, re- member, that breed in this country and Canada and which we protect so rigorously—come during the migra- tions. 5 In these lakes the ducks are hunted |on_the armada plan. It is very simple. A breastwork is erected along the feeding grounds of the ducks. In this breastwork are embedded hundreds of shotguns. These guns are old-fash- joned, and are connected together by a traln of powder. Sometimes there are several hundred guns .in -one armada. When the ducks get well crowded on the feeding ground along the breastwork, the so-called hunter registered mine | | nasium, starting at 2:15 o'clock | ¥resh from their 21-to-14 triumph over the Sacred Heart team of Balti- | | more, Gonzaga was expected to offer |the Techites a real battle. Enright |and Quinn wera the big guns in the |1 Streeters’ attack vesterday. They | each pocketed three fleld goals. | ~ { DISTRICT BILLIARD TITLE | IS CAPTURED BY HARDEN | capt. Harden 18 the champion 18.2 | balkline billlard player of the Dis- [trict as a result of his 200-to-$4 v tory over B. Rowland Clark last night jat the Lewis & Krauss parlors. | Had Clark won he would have | figured in a three-cornered tie with | Harden and Frank Turton. Harden {turned in a high run of 52 last night, | the highest mark made in the 1924 tournament. Basket Ball Yesterday At Urbana—Illinols, 36; Washing- | ton U. of St. Louts, 19. At Chlcago—Notre Dame, western, 13, At Madison—Bautler, ain, 16. At Lafayette—Franklin, due, 32. At Brooklyn—Brooklyn Poly, Franklin and Marshall, 21. At New York—Union, 31; Univer- sity Club, 14. At New Brumswick—Rutgers, 55; Malne, 79. At Willlamston—Wflliams, 271 St. Stephens, 11. 3 North- ‘Wiscon 22; 36; Por- 22; THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President, Izaak Walton League of America. HE other day I read about duck shooting in Mexico—and while vou're reading this, remember that they arc the same ducks that It seems that the Mexican government has decreed that the hunting of ducks with “armadas” will be permitted from November to Febru- This was done over the protest of a number of real sportsmen in lights the train of powder and, like a bunch of giant firecrackers, the guns discharge. The bag from one such broadside has mounted to as high as 2,000 ducks, I understand. What is your emotion when you read this? You would like to take the next train for Mexico and choke the Mexican game and fish commis- sion, perhaps. Of course, this won't do, but it might be a fine scheme for the American Biological Survey to make a formal call on the Mexicans for the purpose of thrashing out the matter. It's no fun for American sportsmen to try so hard to conserve the ducks, only to see them get slaughtered when they reach Mexico. The treaty with Canada in regard to migratory fowl was a great one. It was a step forward. It seems to me another ftreaty, this time with our southern meighbor, 1s necessary. | | | riere. | George Washington | giv | o1ds, Sewell, | spectalized | which my scout friend and I belong. |in fraternity sat-ups. !him. Brown and the boy quickly be- DENIZS MONEY IDEA IN ATTACK ON BAN NEW YORK, December 20.—Col.| Jacob Ruppert, president of the New York American club, on his return here from the recent joint meeting| of the major leagues’ owners at Chi- | cago, sald the American League club owners resented any implication that their action in backing Baseball Com- missioner Landis, as against Presi- dent Ban Johnson, was taken in the interest of box office receipts for the coming year. 1 He found a wave of feeling in New /York, Col. Ruppert said, that the American League had emanated from | a fear that their pocketbooks would | suffer. “I resent the implication that the American League ¢lub owners de- serted Johnson and went over to the enemy because they felt that their box office receipts would suffer,” Col.! Ruppert said. { “The Amerlcan League was loyal to | Johnson. We wanted him to stay in | his place. He didn't. He attempted | to battle with the man we all had| agreed was to be our supreme arbiter | and he failed in the fight. We told him in New York that he had gone| too far in his attacks on the base ball commissioner, and we told him| again in Chicago.” | INSIGNIA AWARDED; CAPTAINS ELECTED | | Athletes of two mem local varsity group vesterday awarded insignia in recogniti their prowess as gridmen At the University of M M's” and class numerals were tributed among varsity and freshman team men during the Rossbourg Club dance In_Ritchie gymnasium, while University fqot ball players wers honored at a ban- quet at the Hotel La Fayette Maryland vareity foot ball men | n letters were: Ed Pugh, Sup- Burger, Bonnet, Hough, Lanigan 111, Lewls, Heine, Beatty, Bromley, Luckey, Besley, Osborn. Manager Zalesak also received a letter. Class numerals were given the fc lowing freshman foot ball team mem bers: Charles Pugh, Woodward, Chappelear, Lehnert, Adams, The Doerr, Whelchel, Stephens. Bean, Robertson, Ad Carter, Zulick, Stubbs, Winterberger, Schaefer, Bru- baker, Leatherman, Miller, Linkhous, Bafford, Greenlaw - Cross-country runners at Maryland get “M's” were: Buckman, Bow Compher, Hill, Petruska, Staley. Numerals were awarded Newnam. George Washington foot ball play- ers to get letters were: Hottel, Gold- man, Resh, Zollar, Malone, V. Wag- ner, D. Wagner, Kris, Loenler, ents, Haynes, Fletcher, Miller, Long, Banville, Levvy, G. McLain, J. McLain, Kenny, Laux, Brown. These men and Coach Watson Crum also were pre- sented with gold miniature foot balls Both Maryland and George Wash- e rton also elected captains for next ar's elevens. A toss of a coln won Maryland leadership for John Hough of Washington, who had been tied in the balloting by William Sup- plee, 2lso of this city. The Hatchet ites re-elected Guy Hottel EEREEEONS RIFLE CLUB WILL HOLD CHICKEN-TURKEY SHOOT National Capital Rifle Club mem- bers will hold an open turkey and chicken shoot tonight in the National Guard Armory, starting at 7 o'clock. | Arms and ammunition will be fur- nished to those who care to compete. There will be a charge of 25 cents for the chicken matches and 50 cents for the turkey events. TFROZEN FIELD STOPS GAME. P'ORTLAND, Oreg., December 20 The foot ball game arranged for to- day between the Walte High School team of Toledo, Ohio, and the ILi coln High School of Portland h been canceled because of the frozen | condition of Multnomah Field. The | Waite team will return home. CONFESSIONS | tino, is one of a fam | he | ladder to the | the Clem- | | absolutely honest fighter. | victim of | baseball’ SCORES OVER GOLDSTEIN ON POINTS IN TITLE GO | Aggressive Tactics Decide Issue, as Loser Take: De- fense After First Three Rounds—Victor Is One of Family of 14 Children. N chgmpion a Iyn were filled once again. EW YORK, December 20—The world awoke today to nd the shoes of “Terrible Terry’ find a new McGovern of Brool Eddie (Cannonball) Martin, intensely nervous, yet plunging into bat tle with an attack that knew no Martin earned his honors. quarter, greatest bantamweight boxer by his victor: York at Madison Square Garden last 1 I ight forth the world’s Abe Goldstein of New Newspaper men agreed that stood as over McGovern accomplished the feat in 1899, before-Martin was born, and the present king of the midgets the styles, consisting mainl. ingly familiar, Martin, whose real name is Mar- vy of 14 chil He was born 21 years ago in Brook- Iyn of Itallan parents. He started his hoXIng career as an a ateur, and the | only two reverses hie has ever known | were suffered in the first bouts he tered. Since becoming a professional has participated in two draw matches, but never has suffered feat in 84 contests. He won 22 knockouts Goldsteln 1ost his belt by taking the defensive after the first three round and acqulescing to the ghting methods that Martin employed the start the former champion foug he did when he was climbing the crown. A clever and he stood away an jabs to his opponent’s fac heavy blows to the body wouid not stop shaking off the jabs and sm blows, until he forced Goldsteir nching. With his method es Martin drove to th uppercut to the head adversary no match for 1 this game. Round after round him forcing the fighting. giving dou- ble for what he received. Goldstein, on the other hand hugging after the first round and was utfoned by the referee. At times n was compelled foot bal releasing hims e thousand persons Madison Square Garden f en- fast boxe But Mart He kept plung into tablisbe; ach and stom- His pack r the | siightly de- ! by | was | neyer saw of relentle th bo T ti e oid aggre r in action. F aid to be stril ma: BY FAIR PLAY. YORK, D s Canno: 15-round ght with aweight crown co Tost 1 er contenders e stor d s Brooklyn Fifty Years of Base Ball One of a Series of Articles by John B. Foster Com- memorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the ational League, to Be Celebrated Next Season. XVIHIL GREATEST PLAYERS—ADRAIN CONS HERE is no ball player, I well he Even which has attached to the mig! that attaches to this wonderiul prod est ball play ever produced. Anson was not the shrewd organ- izer that some ball plavers proved tc be. Ho was not the keen business man of some of his cotemporaries, but he was a leader and a rugged, conscientious, highly honorable and know what trickery meant so gulleless himself that he hers. He had aversion to what he called and never could be indu to play It, although now and then i was perpetrated under his very by some of his own players usually as retaliation or fool as was a id ‘Baltimore but | “old man.” “Baltimore base ball” Anson onece defined as base ball with a reaper and mower and an ambulance. However. “Baltimore base ball” fastened itself FOOT BALL SCouT of (The authorship of this authentic series is withheld for obvlous reasons.) CHAPTER XI—THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY. HERE cmployed who would make a g I great confidence man actually making them out being caught at it; how to play sires and preferences. He is not unsc This scout knows that, above all, a high school lad Is interested in| joining a good fraternity when .he| goes to college. Incldentally, the boy | may have some loose ideas about | learning something, but the big ldna: is to crash the gate of one of the MS, Greek letter outfits. The scout has on fraternity-alumni politics. Whenever a drive for a| promising player requires special usc | of the fraternity bait, Brown—I will} call him this for convenience—is call- ed in Calls in Expert. Just the other day I saw Brown in action. For two vears I have been shadowing a promising boy in a northern New Jersey high school who is now in his senfor vear. This Fall I moved in on him. I had learned that he had his eye on Gamma Eta, to So 1 called in Brown as a consultant Brown fs about 30 years old. He is a fastidious dresser, assured, com- panjonable and possessing a trick of making even a new acquaintance fecl a share of warm Intimacy with this genfal young man of the world. My prospect is a rather dull boy, with a thoroughly materialistic and com- monplace mind—and a magnificent body. He has an uneasy itch to be in the swim and will rise to any bait of snobbery or cheap and easy di tinction. He Is the beat high school foot ball prospect of the year and pretty nearly every scout on the At- lantic seaboard has been working on came good friends, while I kept in the background. Walks Into Trap. Brown had brought the boy to lunch at the New York alumni club- house of the Gamma Eta Fraternity. As previously arranged, I dropped in accidentally had contrived the meeting of the two without the boy knowing I had anything to do with it. The boy was expanding and luxuri- ating, sofourning for an hour in the castle of his dreams. We were din- ing in the stately old dining room, | done after one of the Oxford col- leges. At the door was a liveried | attendant. While I believe the boy's tastes are essentially vulgar, he was sagacious enough to see that here was what he would have called class. Brown was making him feel abso- lutely at ease. Tn his casy and com- { Tau. is another scout on the staff of the college by which I am now reat diplomat, a great detective or a He knows how to make promises without how to plant the germs of interest or desire with- upon and use a prospect’s tastes, de- rupulous. He believes his stuff panionable way he admitted the lad to this gental fellowship of assured elegant men of the world. He did it without condescension was all man-to-man stuff. It Dangling the Bait. On the walls were stiff oll por- tralts of great financiers and states- men who are members of Gamma Brown Indicated them casu- ally. The rigid exclusiveness of the fraternity was subtly conveved. But Brown took pains to drop just a faint, tantalizing hint that this goal might not be beyond the boy's reach True, it was just a vague, almost cryptio hint, but it was enough. It was easy to ses that the boy had de- cided on one thing. He was going to stick pretty close to his new friend After the boy left Brown sent the following code telegram to our grad- uate manager: “Jones falls strong for Gamma Tau | hop. Please have local chapter shoot me all possible Gamma alumni con- nections here. Warn them to work through me and not make any direct approach as Jones big appleknocker and doubtful fraternity material.” A few days later I saw the bo Avolds Real Reason. “I've decided to slgn up at your college,” he safd,. “I've been looking over the catalogue and they have a lot of courses that T want to take,” etc,, etc. He discussed it at length, giving me every reason except the real one—his feverish desire to crash into a silk stocking fraternity. 1 will have to nurse him all vear, but I think Brown has done the job. When the boy arrives at our college next year Gamma Tau will look him over and no doubt put | him on ice. He is such a good athlete that T am sure he will break into some fraternity, but I hardly think he will make Gamma Tau. I have told the foregoing in de- tail, as it shows the method and indi- cates the importance of fraternity manipulation in getting players. Brown, of course, did not definitely promise the boy that he would be pledged to Gamma Tau. The frater- nities themselves have placed limita- tions on high school pledging and Brown was careful to do nothing more than adroitly display his bait. Tomorrow: Spotting Achilley’ Heel. this | Babe 1 i | Lnemsel | base | | past or pres “Cap” Anson, and who is known w er TANTINE ANSON. ho was know 1 r, in some respects, that the allow A pla out nd touched ed An er was There ha batters, t 21 i ba he Gansie i be re [ A as ba in to he po! acy ht thi was not a fast runner. on low | detested having t his ankles—and 1 ’\\(lh much smaller v | employ | touch th th offered large sun ot He fal ba fic! he A1 kn light of the National League to | « in | u year time ting av might hig! ad n would not wi In 1887 as a L mpa N s o on ored balls was sc a Anson began t rd, 111 ert play ball 2 . on the same team ti G. Spalding famous Ro ma and | went to Chicago when Spa { there. |a fac He played third base at little known to those who hx soclated him always with first ba Had Anson been a faster runn tting averages 1y we creased in proportion to his run better. It would have gained . ints each season had his speed be celerated. This would have gl m a record even more surpas an that which he holds. He was not a great fiel He wa best cat t thrown aro played first b, t than is 1 who er and sl her ase. his feet thrown not the balls at d him by o players the primary cann pr detalls « e game He stuck to rough thick the Natlo and thin, eve 8 of mone Leag wl other organizatlos refused Kinds. After he 1 se ball career he a fal of importance in Chicagc lost what little h»~ had ¥ bravely to the end ected and honored by new him not only her clubs and eadfas assistance a d cit L fought and died r those as sh but oblig: as of strictest moral national game. (Copyright. 1921 B. “‘Buck” — Philadelphta Skating Club, the firs the United States, was founde: st 75 vears ago. man the Next—Willlam Ewing A STEP ON THE PLUNGER LUBRICATES 23 MOVING PARTS Warrington Motor Car Co. 1727 CONN. AVE.