New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1916, Page 23

NEW. RRITAIN DAILY HERALD. FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1916. Willow Grass Rugs These Rugs make the ideal Summer Floor Covering. They are smooth in finish, substantially made, combining un- usual attractiveness and exceptional durability. Willow Grass Rugs are cool and sanitary—easy to keep clean. We especially recommend Willow Grass Rugs for Ve- randas, Living Rooms, Dining Rooms and Bedrooms. The average Summer Rug is purchased with the thought that it will last a short period, but the Willow Grass Rug is a serviceable fabric and the price is forgotten long before the Rug wears out. PRICES: 9x12, $9.00; 8x10, $7.50; 6x9, $5.00. COMPLETE HomE FURNISHERS A0-56 FORD BTREET HARTFORD AGENTS FOR GLENWOOD RANGES OVERLOOKING CAPITOL Dhilhl GROUNDS UALITY Passing of Great Player - In Slugging Sam Crawford Detroit, May 26.—Sam Crawford is hiough. The great Tiger batter will 30t be seen in the role of a regular in this season, but will be used 1s a pinch hitter. Manager Hugh Jen- iings recently stated that he is not teeping Samuel on the bench on wccount of his weak batting, but on (ccount of Crawford slowing up on he bases and in the outfield. The senching of Crawford marks the pass- COMMUNITY SONGS serts Grover Cleveland Forum Five community center songs es- pecially designed for schoolhouse community forums, have been brought together for the use of the Grover Clevéland Forum of Washing- ton, D. C., of which Mi Margaret Wilson is honorary president, and copies may be obtained from the Commissioner of Education, Depart- ment of the Interior, Washington, D. C. Two of the songs are entirely new, having just made their bow to the public at the Grover Cleveland forum. One is called “It's a Short Way to the Schoolhouse,” and is sung to the air of Tipperary; the other, en- titled ‘“Neighborhood,” is sung to the air of Die Wacht Am Rhein. The othe: are The ' Fellowship of TJolks”—a song of Neighborhood sung to the air of “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes” or'“Auld Lang Syne”’; “Heart and Hand and “This Good Common Ground.” These songs all emphasize the sig- nificance of the schoolhouse as t he | common meeting place. In the words jof one of them: “We'll stri that | fine old chord again—A | Neighborhood.” All five songs were written by E. J. Ward, specialist in Community Or- ganization of the Bureau of Educa- tion. They are so unusually well adapted to the communal singing that has become so popular a feature of the neighborhood meetings in °the schoolhouse. It was with regard to this communal singing that Dr. Sam- uel McChord Crothers, at a general neighborhood gathering in a school- house community center, said “You have found a substitute for war. The military felows say it takes a war to make people really feel together—to know a common interest, to own a common country. “And how do they prove it? “They tell us that from ’'61 to ‘65 we were a singing nation; and that's true. Those were the days we learn- ed ‘Tenting Tonight,’ ‘Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory,’ ‘Maryland, My Mary- land,” ‘Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,” “When Johnnie Comes Marching Home."* We learned them then and we sang them then. Since then we've just been ‘warming over’ the words. T was a boy in those days. I heard it, and I never expected to hear that note again. “But T have heard it again. I have heard it here tonight. You ng in that spirit. “What does it mean? “It means that down underneath vou have been gripped by that same throbbing common reality—not limi- ted by any fear or hate this time. You know a gommon interest. Yon own a common country. You've proved it for you've sung in that spiri ing of one of the greatest heavy hit- ting outfielders the game ever pro- duced. No other player ever hit the ball as hard as Sam. Last season his legs went back on him and he began to slow up. Three years ago Jennings wanted to make a first base- man out of Crawford, but Sam turned the offer down. Photo shows Craw- ford taking a healthy swing at the ball. "Two-wheeled Motor | Inves ment with new Powerplus Motor . Hadfield-Swenson Go. 21 Myrtle St. Tel. 1706 STARS OF COLLEGE WORLD ARE READY New Records Looked for in Inter- collegiates Today and Tomorrow Boston, May 26.—The pick of the country’s college athletes are quar- tered here ready for the beginning of the annual championship games of the Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. in the Har- vard Stadium this afternoon. Trials in the field events and preliminary heats of the track contests will be | held then to cut down the immense fields to reasonable size for the finals Saturday. ! Cornell is regarded on all hands as certain to continue its domination of the field. Some few Yale partisans are enthusiastic enough to think their team has a chance for the point tro- phy, but they are exceedingly few. The majority of those who have kept in touch with the various dual meet re- sults expect Cornell to lead the run- ner up by at least fifteen points and perhaps thirty. The Ithacans have strength in every event on tha pro- gramme, are expected to score in at least ten of them and to win perhaps as many as six. Next to Cornell and Yale there seems to be almost even fight among Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and Stanford, with Michigan, Dart- mouth, Princeton and Maine forming another well matched division. Each of these has from three to six men who have good chances to land points. Optimists see possibilities of new world’s records in five events—quarter and half mile runs, low hurdles, broad jump and pole vault. It is almost a foregone conclusion that half a dozen intercollegiate marks will be bettered, with the winners in all the other events just behind the present best on record. Smith of Michigan, the present 100 and 220 yard champion, will face two men who have done better time than he has shown this year. best is 10 seconds for the hundred, as against 9 4-5 by Teschner of Har- vard and Rice of Maine. These two loom formidably also in the furlong, with Moore of Princeton, Murray of Stanford and Treadway of Yale also pressing Smith closely. Ted Meredith of Pennsylvania, who set a new world’'s record for the half mile two weeks ago, will attempt to repeat his double victory of last vear in the quarter and half. If in his best condition he may smash the rec- ord for either. He will get sterner opposition this year than before. Lynn of Stanford, Willcox of Har- BETTER THAN WAR “Music Still_HEh Charms” As-| Carey, Pirates Outfielder, Pittsburg, May 26.—Tt is said on good authority that “Scoops” Carey, the Pirates’ sterling outfielder, may wear the uniform of another club shortly. The recent report states that Manager Jimmy Callahan will swap his brilliant outer gardener to St. Louis for several of the St. Louis Cardinal players. It is also said that one other Pittsburgh plaver will go in the trade to Miller Huggins. Al- Brilliant May Figure Trade Shortly though Carey is one of the most val- uable outfielders in the National league and his absence would weaken | the Pirates' outfield to a great extent, it is said Manager Callahan would make the sacrifice in order to strengthen his team. It is a well known fact that he is dissatisfied with the showing of his team this season. Who the St. Louis players are to fig- ure in the trade is not known here. dith to his world’s record in the dual meet with Penn, is entered for both the half and mile. Schnell of Stan- ford, Bingham of Harvard, Holbrook of Dartmouth and Ufer of Michigan are good for 1:55 in the half. Any one of them may spring a surbprise. In the mile Windnagle will en- counter another man trying a double trick in the person of Johnny Over- ton, the Yale flier.. Overton also is out for the two miles. Wilson of Stanford, with a record of 4:19, looks dangerous in the mile. ' Colwell of | Princeton, Bell of Maine and Camp- bell of Harvard are others who have beaten 4:30. In the two miles Over- | ton will find his chief opposition in Potter and Hoffmire of Cornsll, with a nip and tuck battle in sight. Fred Murray, captain of the Stan- ford team, is the star of all the Cal- ifornians entered. dle race seems a gift to him, but Watt of Cornell, Farwell of Yale, Trenholm of Dartmouth and Kauffman of Penn will pursue him hotly in the 220 yard event. { Alma Richards, national all arouna | champion, promises to be the star of the field events. In the high jump he will renew his duel with Wesley Oler of Yale, Allen of Maine, Spears of Dartmouth and Caughey of Stan- ford are his principal rivals in the shotput. In the broad jump he will | meet Oler again, but neither seems to have a show of beating Worthing- ton of Dartmouth, who has exceeded 24 feet and is likely to smash the world’s record. Four pole vaulters who have cleared 12 feet 6 incheg will meet in the per- sons of Foss of Cornell, Buck of Yale, Haydock of Harvard and Newsterter of Penn, McCormick of Cornell, - a record of 150 feet, seems to have the hammer throw at his mercy if he | can repeat that hurl. HAYSCENTED FERN IS MENACE 10 GRAZING Department of Agriculture Gives Methods of Eliminating Pests | | 26—The | fern and | Washington, D. C., May presence of the hayscented the brake fern in pastures in the Eastern United States is a rious | detriment to the grazing of live stock, | which is a prominent feature in farm- ing in this section. The Department of Agriculture, in Farmers’ Bulletin No. 687, recommends the following means of reducing these pasture- wasting pests: Cut the fern with a scythe in the middle of June just as the spores are beginning to nature and repeat the cutting about the middle of August before the second crop of spores have a chance to spread. As soon as the cut ferns are dry, burn them over to lessen the vitality of the root- vard and Riley of Dartmouth all have broken 50 seconds in the 440. Wind- stocks. ¢ tting and burning the | the average acre infested The 120 yard hur- | $ | to sporing, | Gunboat Smith. | and wa land can be seeded with pasture grass and clover. A better stand will be obtained if lime or lime and fertilizer are applied in addition to the seed. A second method is to spray the fern growth with salt and water dis- tributed with a hand bucket or a knapsack sprayer. When the field Is so located that water for spraying is not easily accessible the cutting is probably easier. With ferns of an crage degree of thickness, a man a knapsack spayer ought to cover about 5 acres a day. The salt is used at the rate of 1 pound to about 1 I-2 quarts of water, and 150 pounds of salt ought to be enough to spray with ferns, which seldom cover more than one- | third of the ground. If 5 acres are | covered per day with labor at $1.50 | the total cost of spraying is about per acre for each application, ive of the cost of hauling. Two sprayings a vear, just previous about the middle of June and the middle of August are necessary. Burn over as soon as they have dried up. As the use of the salt spray is something of a de- triment to the growth of young clover, efforts to encourage clover to worl into the patches and help choke them down should be deferred until after the August spraying. After the ferns have been reduced i to a minimum, the specific treatments may be discontinued at least until they again become troublesome. It is probably not practicable to entirely eradicate’ ferns. The immediate re- duction of the number of ferns, hows ever, will give the grass and clover opportunity to work in, and this in itself will tend to hold the ferns in check. Cultivation, on the other hand, where tried seems not to be effective, as the ferns work in again sooner or later even where the patch is used for potato growing for a year. The actual experiments were made with the hay-scented fern, but the results are believed to be fully as effective in the treatment of the brake in the Eastern States. MITH’S FRIENDS! Ind., May 26.—On ap- h J. Ruck- MUST B Indianapolis, plication of Prosecutor Alv er, Judge Moll yvesterday issued a tem- porary restraining order against the | prize fight to be held here next Mon- | day night between Jack Dillon and | The order was made | returnable Monday morning | The fight was scheduled to be held | at the old Federal league ball park, to be the main attraction for | the visitors who will be here for the 300-mile automobile race to be held the following day. YALE ATHLETIC REVENUES. New Haven, May 26.—Revenues of the Yale University Athletic associa- tion for the year ending August 31, last, totaled $190,203.95, according to the annual report made public yester- day. The balance of the ‘reserve fund is $90,257.74. The greatest came from football, $106,7 baseball next, with $40 expense of the crew w 000 and the receipts but expenses of the track team also ex- ceeded the revenues. YOUMBUY a high-grade cigarette for 5 Cents—ZIRA. The MILDEST Cigarette. g | bring resulf