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| -em mat contests. * displaced OUR WRESTLERS | NOW USETORTURE | "HOLDS OF TURKS Present American Champion Developed His Headlock on Wooden Dummy Until It Squeezed All Opponents Into Submission—Joe Ste- cher Goes to Other Extreme and Employs His Legs. By Robert Edgren. MERICAN wrestling is becoming # mild imitation of tne Turkish art. Down in Turkey it has been a pleasant custom of the various Sultans to entertain themselves by having wrestlers wrestle “to the death,” Nobody can interfere with a Sultan's amusements, In a private courtyard the Sultan and a few chosen favorites sit comfortably and watch selected champions “fo to it,” ‘There are no restrictive rules, Gouging, biting, Butting, tob holds, kicking, headlocks and a Turkish variety of jiu jiteu were indulged in until one of the riv- als was rendered helpless when tho final delicious touch was added. The vietor strangled the vanquished, ‘We don’t let wrestlers xo quite as far as that in America, But since Frank Gotch perfected the toe hold and went around crippling his oppo- nents by twisting and breaking or @isiocating their ankles every grap- pler has tried to invent some new torturing device, ‘The original pur- pose of wrestling—to put an oppo- nent's shoulders to the mat—has be- come a mere incident, Modern wres- THE HOLD THAT MADE STRANGLER CHAMPION - (Coprriaht by Robert Bderen.) ters try to torture an opponent unti he gives up and rolis over to save himself from serious injury. There ought to be a Wrestling Com- mission to make rules that will gov he holds, head- ices intended to lotks and similar de cripple or torture or injure should be] 84¥8 that, Stecher’s scissors is the elaased with the foul blows forbidden| Steatest “finishing hold” ever in- in boxing. vented. It's some spectacle to see The present American cl&mpion, “Btrangler” Ed Lewis, iy master of the headlock—a trick he perfected by years of practice and that has beate: several men whom be might not hay been able to pul down in straight wrestling. The headlock consists of gripping & fan's head in the crook of one arm, the forearm “locking” across the jaw or side of the head and the pressure increased by pulling with the other hand, using the mechanical principle of the nut-cracker PRACTICED ON WOODEN DUMMY. Lewis js six feet tall, weighs 228 pounds and is powerfully built. He has developed a tremendous squeeze with udloak by practicing sey- eral y on a wooden dummy—just ag the Japanese jit jitau men toughen their hands for jiu jitsu blows by continually pounding with the edge of the hand on heavy planks, The deadly effect of the headlock has been shown in several recent bouts, when azko, er and one or two others beaten by vis have gone from the mat to the hospital. Lewis took the championship from Stecher at the T1st Regiment Armory, New York, last Dec. 18, in 1 hour 41 minutes and 66 seconds, He clamped weven headlocks on Stecher and finally finished him. Stecher has been ont of wrestling since that night and may never come back as a cham- pionship possibility, deadly headlock {s said to have rtebrae in his neck, caus- on the spinal nerve and ralysis of one arm and shoulder, n if this disappears, Stecher "t be In shape to resist any more ing preasure the cleverest man feet first him In the gelssors, ably quick with jt, and once obtained, the hold iy seldom broken. Stecher is very fast for a big man, very cautious, and in action his face la about as expressionless as a China- He won the title from Parl Caddock in 1919 after four years as Stecher perfected his hold by practising on bags of wheat loping it until he man's, a contender. on the farm, dev ec skilled of all of a years ago. man down and lie on him, after which | he'd calmly move his huge Null fore! ay ward and: back and roll his helpless i opponent flat as a pancake, T saw him do that to ‘Tom Jenkins and when he rolled out Roeber al! I could see of the Dutchman was an arm or a leg that occasionally stucl Hackensohmidt's favorite tri¢k was to swing his man off his feet, lift him and drive hhm down the mat head first. He knocked Tom Jenkins out with this fall and rolled Tom over before he came to. But Hack was a very clean wrestler. up, turn him ov: to the dressing room shortly after the end of the bout. George Bothner, welght champion for many years and wrestler in his class, when Steoher begins jumping at his and trying to grab He is remark- ld burst a ri € the mat artist, rs. out, formerly light- dock is probably the most big wrestlers, and the cleanest. He has no crsppling spe- clalty, although at times he uses the old Gotch toe hold. 188 pounds and has the clean lines of a boxer rather than the bulky brawn Caddock lost the | championship to Stecher only after he had been in the amny through the war and ont of competition for a cou. | ple of years. e ouroulal, the gigantie 400 poun: Turk, who was nearly seven fe and built like a steam roller, started | the rough stuff in wrestling circles | National Sparing Club. The Weiverine 4. C. ‘The Turk used to pull his | tty hase Ucense to holds show on Feb. He weighs only et tall Harry Greb, the light heavywoight of Pittsburgh, and Jeff Smith, the Bayonne, N. J., middleweight, have just been matolied to meet in a ten- round bout at a boxing show to be staged by the Fenway A. A in the big Mechanics’ Building in Boston on the night of Feb, 28, Indications are that a big crowd will turn out to wit- ness the scrap, as a decision is to be rendered by the referee at the end of the battle. A mpecisl boxing show will be staged by John Welamantel a the Ridgewood Grove Sporting Club @f Brookiya ou Washington's Birthday sfemcon, the first bout to be put on at Al MoRse meets Harry Condon of Brooklyn, sar bout of fifteen rounds, and in the ot ta rounds Itallan Jov Gans of Bri meets Joe Pledge, ‘Three six-round contesta will also be put As the Boring Commission of | permit tho holding of two boring | week l@ Detroit, tke result 1s that the (en-round 4% between Willie Jackson of this olty and Pete Hartley, the “Durable Dane.’ which was booked for als of the of a | March 4. hae been: cancelled by the offic Slim Brennan, the well known referee of this Now Jersey and Philadelphia, has tus been Appoluted the official referee of all boxing shows to be held im Baltimore. The Roxing Commission of Baltimore at @ meeting held recently selected Brennan for that position ad& all of the lub managers have sconpted him as thelr referee, ‘Juek Hanlon of Philadelphia, who hes been the matchmaker of many big boting clube in that city, is now the official macchmaker of the Pureke A. C, of Baltimore, The club ought to be ‘& great muccem with Hanlon making the matches ‘Be ho knows the game from A to % Hanlon has headlocks, In a recent bout with | y to the hospital | ™Stched K. 0. Georgo Chaney to met Tim Earl Caddock Lewis ended a long} {nen be gent any one mn Droney of Lancaster for fifteen rounds st the club's strumsle by clamping the headlock Bean Wal, by Robert Rgren,) eext show on March & on again, rendering Caddock uncon- —————— — scious, Off the mat, Lewis is a pleasant sort of fellow, Dut at work he's a regular cave man, With tremendous strength. endurance and determina- tlon, he deliberately wears his op- ponents down by occasionally clamp- ing on a headlock until they are feady for the final grip. Often he Telgns distress, only to catch his man off guard and | throvgh the alr to got him with a headlock He jumps Mk © His real me is Rt and he was born at thirty years ago. The name “Strang- ler Lewis" was borrowed from A famous wrestler of twenty-five years ago, the orleifal Strangler Lewis, whose specialty was the strangle hold that has heen barred since his time. Lewis has been ranked In the three wrestiers in America for five years. April 18,1919, he Jost to Stecher in tour hours and twenty-nine minutes of wrestling. Lewis went to the mat thirty-five times {n that contest, and Stecher was down twenty. STECHER'S LITTLE SPECIALTY Joe Stocher has a nive little trick of ha ow ov six feet tall, weighing 208 pounds, w a thick no and powerful legs and only moderately 4 veloped arms and #ehoulders, the smat!l head of an old Greek athlete, wearing his hair In a college boy bang. h @oesn't look the wrestler type as nrach Tew Rorn on « farm at Doage pracka, Joe and his elder brother, sy, began wrestling when they were yaungaters. ‘At an amateur tournament Farmer Furnas, the famous old wrestling cham- Joped Frank Gotch, saw 1 him to make better n who d A nity yy 4 tse of Lis logs, which appearcd to be Stecher began study- his strong point. 4 developed his famous ing log holds “geissors hold.” In this he simply ge around an opponent's bod his lege , hooks his {ors tomethor and straightens his legs out, crushing pressure that ar nipatines up against the heart, causing weakness and gomotimes collapse ‘The effect of this hold, however, tr only temporary and Stecher’s -oppo- jnents are usually able to walk back New York Tennin Christopher B. dent of the New York ‘Tennia Club, was the guest of honor at a dinner of the or- ganization held at the Republican Club, Weat 20th Street, Inet night. a hundred members of the famous old and Senator Robert 8. Conklin, one of its prominent mony presided, On ner was @ discussion ¢ quiring a chub attended, past few Oval w: pital, 1 Sunningdale, Woodmere organization ment. nitive Boxing agers, tive Cc. B. Winne, if the chief featu large tract oldest member years. Its fle country, "The part that the club had played in the development of the Metrapoll| sociation was brought out in a He reported that Chub A. J. Ostendorf, the ‘Peninsula ntly Join Members of the club presented for President Winne with a gold watch ns tribute of appreciation for his able management of the club during the tr ing perlod of the war. ance the membership and finances of the experienced no fmpatr- e oe = New Boxing Board Takes First Con- certed Action, ‘The firet concerted action of a pu- nature taken by the National was announced yesterday, When this organization up- held the one-year suspension of Jack Dillon and Brisco “Kk. 0." Brown, posed by the Kentucky Boxing Com- Association imigaion. These men, who were convicted of “faking,” are now barred from all States with the exception of New York and Massachusetts, which States are not members of the National Box- ing Association, The local Boxing Commission at its regular weekly meeting granted li- cenacs for three judges, keoper, two referees, seventeen man-| 11 Uuirty-two sconds and slxty- Club Honors Winne, former Pres!- More than ee of th ¢ plans for permanen: courts and a club house in the Bronx, ‘The club, the United States Lawn ‘Tennis Agsociation the metropolitan district, has been compelled to move several times tn the Wd at Columbia taken over for a war hos- is about to secure permanent quarters that will estoblish it as one of the leading lawn tennis organisations of of the nh AR perch Under his guid- ope time- the entertainment, which was muccom. Senator Marty MoCue and Joe Humphries were responsible for getting the talent eogeth Mickey Walker, the hard hitting welterwelght of Eltsabet, N. J., and Jotnny Ward of Pittsburth, have beea matched to mest in the feature bout of twelve rounds at the Collsoum A.C, of Newark, on next Wednesday might, Porky Flynn, the vet eran hoaryweight of Boron, will go against Johnny Baxou in the pumi-final of twelve rounds ‘A matic bas tus boon clinched Between Jack Wolfe, Ube fest ttle boxer of Cleveland, and Terry McHugh of Allentown, Pa They will hare it out In & ten-rownd bout at the Peerlem A C. of Wkes-Barre, Pe, on Monday eroning, Feb. 21 ‘This Mould be sn interesting scrap me beth youngmers are rapid, game batters, Tt wae fust learned to-day Unset all records for the purchasing of tickets for one day for s boxing Sf | show in thie city were broken on Monday, Feb. 1. when Pete Coleman and Maddie Hayward sold $45,000 worth of tcketa for the Jack Britton-Ted Lawis bout, which was held tm the Garden that erening, ‘Tho grow fooeipts figured up $60,281, ‘Timmy Sullivan, the former amateur Liehtwotdht @hampion, who ts boxing tn bis bes form right now, has been matched to mect Jack Palmer of Puled jpoia in a FetURN bout of elght rounds at ymple ‘of Philadephia on Feb 38. fre Olmamnt S affanine "hard fant. At tho -suine @ub recenuy. I will be the semi-final bout at that show. Frankte Jerome of Harlem and Dave Aster of the woat side will onme together in the main go of twelve rounds at the Commonteaith Sporting Club Harlem to-night. Jerome bag won many fights fo the last few mooie, Terty Miller and Young Rowe will also battie for twelve rounds ‘The usual pevliminary conteds will also be maged. Jeck Bettton te anxious wo win his second leg on tho champlooabip Delt he fecently rwolved from ‘Dex Tickard for successfully defending his weer weight title. He is Mleely to be matohed with Paul Dogle, the crack enat side welterwolght, who Das & larae folowing, for & bout in the Garden Maren Doyle bas beld Louls Boga to three draws and beaten Jack Jerry and Tommy Kolby, He has et lot 6 Gxlcicn in wo em | i Retain who has been winning consistently up Canada way. After this battle Brady will resume training tor to take place st Ais bouth with Bert Spencer, Poughkeepsie March 2 ‘Thirty-five rounds of baring will festere the card At the Pioncar Aperting Club in tonight. Willie Spencer and Sammy Nable, promising asfrante te the tkrone oocupted by Joe Tn the ami-final of twolre Linch, will meet. rounds Bobiyy Dayle of tho eat Tomaula of Elisabeth will swap Williams, a lad who has gored two appearances at the efub, Spencer, a brother of Willie Bpenoer, 1 round bout, Birthday afternoon. coming to hits. point him, Benny 's now th the ‘Moore,"* weight, who has won decisions and Wild! ox Eddie SRevlin of Boson. Canin the night of Feb, 98, It round affair, Ralyh Brady of Syracuse tp. In onder not to hare bie ame to Willie (Harmon, Yaeut, Parl Baird of California, 40 well fines le camo witty chataplon Johnny Kiltane, he will eign up for a battle wit ko muro that Bal hatian Oaaino om Jobmon hae aged ap Cheetey Praddie Jacks, the He twvolme round. natn tare bouts between fea to ert & creck w Kiltane’s uber bore vader hia “*whog." Agewting (hid of Haren cs Feb, wil take on Ai, Jat Wall Tver, Macws,, on Feb, 20. Joe Jacobs says that tho Mate ter for pot golng through | arranged for bim at Lewell ia the Bay tate body will recom | ork mate Board suspend him until he fWifiile hie Jacobs else same he hae taken |eontract as Lowell under hia management Murray amalour beuiem champion Head Loa, ~ AMD "STRANGLER, Larva Crome (T on. In the main event of fifteen rounds Tsou” said Jim Marsh, manager of Benny Comer, the promising east side “where Roy Moore deciares that he is going 10 stop my fighter when they clash at tho Pioneer Sporting Club in Bast sith Street Washingtor ‘He kas got another gues I don’t say that Benny will mop ‘aim, but what I do say fs that ho will eaily out- career and 1 think that be will wurcly walp Marty Summers, the clover eset side welter- edhe te ee» ae tr | clation heudquarters, No. 1241 Broad England several promoters there want Summers te ender the’ management of Harry Allerts, who te ay Aandling the affairs of the crack teathorweteht, Baammy Rieger, Alberts has matched Summers wit Morris Lax, the Californian, a the Manhattan ‘As the Woodhaven Sporting Ciub of Brooklyn | to-nigt Eddte Anderson of Wyoming meote Char- | ley “Kid Mobler in @ return bout, Joo Delayo attics Happy Hayes, and Jack Shelton hooks at Troy, N. ¥., next OMonday nigit in the wind with that of Wille Herman of Vatarson, manager of Hernan haa changed Sam Watladh, ly willing to give Kilbane 6 ple of fighting will quale | him to ire Kilbane the fight of hin carver For the eropming boring show of the Alan. vattan Sporting Ch of Harlem in the Mab Pe, 38, mae Paddy Flynn, the rugged waiteorvisht of Boson, who hme fot many of the bart we the busines, 8 wow fighting umier t ment of Amly Niederrwite of Beoukima, who hae got the docision over Jobnoy fuenmem, the A, Bi. ¥, champion, io & ten round bout at Boston, Gityy Burs has jimt bovked bout fightow, Kddie Wbtclor ard Joo Leona: will taxe on Jack Gayhe at tte Commouwoa! Shubert, the veteran Lehiler of | MEN Now Bedéord, tor tea rounds at @ show to be held won of Massachusetts has muapended Ben with the match bo CONCLUSION. (Continued. ) $ o bag esl i ne Duway Bruised Foot Won’t Stop Runner Guillemot To-Night Ailment Due to Spike Shoes, So He’ll Compete in “Sneak- ers” Against Ray. Just what kind of @ showing Josef Guillemot, the Mttle French runner, will make to-night in the 2,000 metre run at the Guaranty Club games, to ‘be held in Madivon Square Garden, will depend solely on the extent of the injury to his right foot. In Joie Ray, Waker Higgins of Co- lumbia and John Romig, the inter- collegiate cross-country champion, the diminutive poilu distancer is meet ing the atiffest opposition to be found in America. He will have to be in the same superb condition that enabled him to win the 6,000 metre run at the last Olympic games or else take the dust of these aforementioned stars. Notwithstand! the reports that have been circulating of late that Guillemot severely injured his foot while working out at South Field, Co- lumbia University, the athletic offi- cials of the Guaranty Club emphati- cally tesa it, He has sustained a slight bruise, similar to a stone bruise, the result of the sole of his foot com- ness that might result from the inside cap of the regular spiked shoe. Joie Ray is out to vindicate himself for the poor showing he made at Antwerp. He wil use this race as @ medium of regaining some of the prestige lost both at the B{illrase games and the recont Olympiad. Ray was not in the same shape during the Millrose meet that has made him the greatest middle-dis- tance runner fn America during the last five years, Since that meet Ray has Been work- ing lke @ trojan on the boards get- {ing into shape, and it is rumored around that to-night the real “Peer- lesa” Joie Ray of a few years ago will be measuring strides with the classy little Frenchman. It Is worth more than passing notice to mention that both Higgins and Romig will be in there not merely to “pull” Ray and Guillemot along, but to win, a8 they, too, are in the best possible condition. The race to-night will be a little short of Guillemot’s best distance, while it will be Ray’s specialty, It will be close to Higgins’ best distance, the new national two mile champton, and also Romig’s, Consequently, both these youngsters have a fine chance of winning. ‘This will be the only race Gullle- mot will compete in while in thie Herman, a lad Kast 14th treet | two of the moat wide and Jimmy punches. Johnny knockouts In kis | ing in contact with the inside cap of|country. He je on a short furlough will bex Buddy/ the epike of his right shoe. It has|and will sail for France next week. elt- | merely necessitated his missing prac-| He is to be demobilized from the tice on Thurday. French army in March and will likely In the race to-night the Frenchman | return next summer to compete in the will not wear the regulation indoor | national outdoor championships, spiked shoe, but he will compete ina| In addition to the 3,000 metre race pair of regulation rubber soled shoes. a programme of short and middle dis- This, he says, will eliminate the sore- tance events will also be contested, Dantamwetght, bem form of his ‘The annual Sectional tournament of the United Bowling Clubs of New York will come to a close at the asso- average with 217, and the railbirds say thet be has an cxoellent chance of falabing oa (op, Owing to. the inability to ket © Kod bowler to one for ‘teh, Fimale aplnelie: has oeided nek 49 Slonshipa whieh ase to Open May Sl om Countooe way, to-morrow evening with clashes | Alleys ia he areawr aty yt between Spartan and §wiss and) ae Homestead and Tammany In Section) Homeran Baker Has « Talk with 7 ; Original deyohear Aleta A, Wildoat and Gotham and Oriai BAUTIMORE, Md, Feb. 19, =, Nut and Jupiter in Section B and) prank Baker, the former home run Mucker and Bleecker and Concordia! ing of baseball, and Joe Kelley, scout and Civil Service teams in Section C./of the New York Yankees, held The following Sunday the Spartan,| conference at the Hotel Rennert yester- Original Nut and Concordia, high d he would decide on re- average teams in their respective ‘ver Stove Lato will bem twelve: all In a few da: en in the city up | 4 bout will t with Jimmy Fae Used. PE oniio | Sections, will compete for the oham- poe ae ce, Roms. 85 & 5 be for tem Founda In the six-row r No, ck and Pete Cook meets plonship banner offered by the r Grove Street. With him is his Garcia boxes Paulle Mack 4: Uniteds. daughter, Ottille, who recently AL Tiernan. U r jWaw reparted Very ill’ at Bake Sasa en mts tek 1, |bome In Trappe. With the little daugh- le Marmion, sho waa sige ahienlsm ont) mae Xi Oreguate Onaptr of the Pai Game Driver return to health it Neved ave made arrangements bold & meotimg Baker will 4 ‘Tnum's Bowling and Academy Apeil 14, / uniform if th to don ankee financial inducements ame nixed Ui | qe pillinrd tables, tree pocket billerd tables (470 right Wa lciuceeeuioe dame hore ‘ed tor |. After the conference with Kelley to- ine Cighiter’® | the chapter, von Hee day he would only way a “1 can't tell what I'll do right now. Jon Hani, dnown 9 ihe patrons of de Hrond.| Joo Kelley and T have talked the mat- war Aredg, slleye as ihe, Big’ Bear,” who hea | tor over. L wan . r who {8 flebtiog | Vietorien to bin credit over such well kown mies | IR OTR RDOGA oan atliio’ inoeing eenigragnupr vee oa Midbeh | 4a, Sora time ahd’ etch te ee f manager, Me Vill resresent | definite decia'un very noon.” 099 it | inthe Massie ier | Baker expressed the opinion that he Parl, Watlach | dividual tournament. |would not be tradad to Washington arly in the winter there was talk that | the home run hitter would return to the ume If he could play in Washington, 43 this would evsble him to reuurn t his home often. But Washington is toc far from ‘Trappe, Md., to make A match game to decide ship of te Bron ts to be rolled at te Uni Bronx, -to-morraw at Wale uf Hedford. dinmle Benatore'a prodigy ‘Wie bent ox init of eleven! ymenee nakor Jitnny ible for ker to return after a da: Vicwher wo meet Fz And the negotiations. betwr | wand Clark Mith have neve waldo alls fpom leva Esk Geet | Se proached the ae Feyitation for get big averages eo Sirs | b _ \vate nin Win Ms ° leme . ew ae w Mate With to wee Leo Lacks and A) Oxford, swretg han oh RR cntten Ot Filed HAVEN, Feb. 18th Yale manage ~ rifle team defented Oxford University ily Amann bee pai off the opening of the | 1aat ht In the fire ntarcollegiate Bey AN ten ease touraement from ve, | et night in the fret intercollegiate Fisem recently So eb, Fh am scronm, of Monday beng’ Wann: | shoot ever Meld eeye sen teas naon'e Birthday eve. Tee teow sbeduled 19) rointy ; verre ale Tit te the opening weries are Crotopa, Howards | POINt# to 1.361 t rd gunners bnd Honiemend: | the at Now Colieg t | potiite acored by Seta nrhern Cotton | them was made known in & cablegrain Dis rw alien my | rocelved here before the Yale team who, STAD tournament started. shooting 24, end Leoward aed with the big slicndance on the oveni The fe mn Wer Games will be rik Until te contest la at an end. Krautechnelders, Nabob and Past Side fives are mheduled to roll in jie Lepplg Bouse tournament (o-morrow evening. d shooting at the range ipiac Rifle Chul teams of 75 tes ng 200. Yale ion rifles and Boxing Com Vals | pmpires of Now Jereay snd the Madiwons of Now ork are to fs inaich eriew at Pete {4 HOUSE divided against itself must fall, Our] visited many delegations, and every- Government cannot long endure part slave and part free.” I was among the dozen frinnds to whom be read that speech in the State House Library, One mid of thone firet sentences: “It t# a fool ut- terance”" Another: “It js ahead of ‘ts time.” Another declared that it would drive away the Democrats who had fately joined the party. Herndon and I were the only ones who ap- proved it. Lincoln had come to another fork in the road. For a moment I won- dered which way he would go. Immediately he tose and said with an emphasia that allenced opposition: “Brionds, this thing has been held back long enough. The time has come when these sentiments should be ut- tered, and if it is decreed that I shall go @own because of this speech, then let me go down Linked to the truth.” Hil» consdience had prevailed. The apesch was ‘delivered. Douglas, the Democratic candidate, came on from Washington to answer it. That led to Lincoln's challenge to a joint de- bate. I was with him through that long campaign. Douglas was the more Anished orator, Linboln spoke ae he apt rails, His conscience was his beetle, It. drove his arguments deep into the souls of his hearers, The great thing about him waa his con- sclende. Unless his theme were big enough to give it play in noble words he could be as commonplace as any one, He was built for a tool of God in tremendous moral isues. He was awkward and diMdent in beginning a Speech. Often bin hands were locked behind him. He goesticulated more with his head than bia hands. He stood equare-toed always, He never walked about on the platform, He scored his points with the long, bony’ index finger of hie right hand, Som: times be would hang # hand on the lapel of his coat a if to rest it, Por- epiration dropped from his face. His voice, igh pitehed at first, mellowed into @ pleasant sound, One sentence in Lincoln's speech at Ottawa thrust ‘The Little Giant” of Ilinols out of his why forever, It was thia pregnant query: “Can the people of a United States territory in any lawful way and against the wish of any citizen of the United States exclude slavery from its limita prior to the formation of a tate constitutio: We knew that Dougins would an- swer yes and that, doing so, he would alienate the Gouth and destroy his chance to be ‘President two years later, That is exactly what eame to pass, “The Giant's” answer waa the famous “Freeport Heresy.” Ho wea elected to the Senate but’ wae no longer possible as a candidate for the Presidency. I come now to the last step in the career of my friend and beloved mas- ter. It was the Republican conven- tion of 1860 in Chicago, I was a dele- gate. The New Yorkers came in white beaver hata enthusiastic for Seward, their favorite son, He was the man we dreaded most, Many in the great crowd were wearing his colors, The delegations were in earnest pension the night before the balloting began, The hotel corridors were thronged with excited men. My father had become a man of wealth And great influence in [ilinois, 1 was with him when he went into the meet+ Ing of the Michigan delogates and telked to them. He tokt how he came ‘Went in a wagon and saw the apirit of America in the water floods of Niag- ara and went on to the cabin vil- lage of New Salom and sww again the spirit of America in the life of the boy, Abe Lincoln, then flowing toward its manhood, When he sat down the Honorable Dennis Flanagan arose nd told of meeting the Traylor party at the Falls when he was driving an ox-team, in a tall beaver hat; how he had remembered their good advice Jerked vension “Gentlemen,” he said, “I am willing to tuke the word of ® man whose hallowed by my dearest recollections, And believing what he has raid of Abraham Lincoln [ am for him on the second ballot.” and cookles name {8 | fruitful bil! © your second ballot vote for Abraham Lincela of Ilinols.” He bowed and left the room and where expressed his coftvictions In thie @ormols. Backed by his tremen- ry dous personslity and influence the =~ simple words were impressive. I doubt pot they turned scores of men . from Seward to the great son of DMnots. . Then—the campaign with ite crowds, ita enthusiasm, its Vesuvian mutterings, There was a curiour touch of humor and history in ie banners, Here are three of them: “Menard County for the Tall Sucker.” “We are for old Abe the Giant- Killer, —_ “Link on to Lincoln.” y ‘Then—those last days in Spring- field. ’ , He came to the office the afternoon before he left and threw himself on the lounge and talked of bygone days with Hernd@om, ‘ “Billy, how long have we been te- gether?” he asked. “aixtebn yeata.” “Never a cross word” “Never.” ; 2 “Keep the old sign hanging. A it~ tle thing like the election of @ Presi dent should make no change in the firm of Lifoolm and Herndon. If live I'm coming back some time and then we'll go right on with the prac- tloe of the law as if nothing had hap- pened.” Then—that Monday morning Springfield when at eight o'clock the eleventh of February the bore him toward the great task of life. Hannah Armstrong, who had foxed hie trousers in New Salem, and the venetable Doctor Allen arid the Brimsteads, and Aleok Ferguson, bent with age, and Harry Needles and Binv and their four handsome children, * aod my father and mother, and Bet- sey, my matden sister, and Eli Fredenberg were there in the crowd to bid him good-bye. A quartet eang, Mr, Lincoln asked ‘his friends and neighbors to pray for his success, He was moved by the ulght of them and could not have nald much If he had tried, The bell raag. The train started. He waved his _ hand and wae gone. Not many of us who stood trying to see through our tears were again to look upon hi The years of preparation were ended and those of sacrifice had betua, Fbas OW, we are at the foot of the jast hill, For a long time I had seen tt looming in thd. (Hatance. ‘Those days it filled my heart with @ great fear, Now, ° how beautiful, how lonely it seems! Oh, but what a vineyard on that very speak tow when I think of it. Harry Needion and F were on our way to Wéehiagton that fateful night of April 14, 186, We reached there at an earlygpour in the morning. We mado otr through the crowded streets to thaittle house opposite Ford's Theatre. An, officer who knew me oleared a way for us to the door, Reporters, statesmen, citivens and their families were massed in the sirget waiting with tear-stained faces for the Md. Some of them were sobbing as we padsed We were admitted without delay. A minister and the dootor sat by the bedside, The jatter held an open watch in his hand, I could hear it tioking the last moments in an age of history. What a silence as the great soul of my friend was “brenk- Ing camp to go home." Friends of the gamily and members of the Cab- inet were in the room. Througt the open door of a room beyond I saw Mrs, Lincoln and the obtidren and others. We looked at our friend lying on the bed. His kindly face was pale and haggard. He breathed faintly and at jong Intervals, His end wag near. “Poor Abel" Harry whispered as he looked down at him. “He has had to die on the cross.” To most of those others Lincoln was the great statesman. To Harry he was still the beloved Abe who had shared his fare and bis hardships ip many 4 long, weary way. ‘The doctor put his ar againat the breast of the dying man. There wa» & moment In which we could hear the voices In the atrect. ‘The doctor rose and said: “He is gone,” Secretary Stanton, who more than The green irish, lad, whom IL re- member dimly, tad become « ge political chieftain and his words had much effect. There was a stir among the delegates. 1 turned and saw the tall form of Horace Gre y entering the door, His big, full face looked rather serious. He wore gold-bowed we Me wae the silken, apreolas save for throat beard what came out from under his white, collar, His head was bald on top with soft, sivered locks over each ear, He was a picturesque and appealing ntl “evening 8h over awl s Tol Ure games, total pine to lteam was made by C. 1°, Willlama with Md that the New) squnt. for ® $200 purse, ag points. Capt. T. P. Heffelfinger, ©. | ke and D. 8 Hopkins had 197 & wamiend, Comm cate v9 tom | Lf ator fers" frm “ham Hobera | had 1. Q” fennatt bad 494 tod Pail Bpinella, Ldnday y oow leading lo we and HT. Lowades hud 10k oF Scuwarts, Shave igure He stopped forward and said slowly G. Bawyer| in a high-pitched draw! “Geallemen, thie i@ my apeooh; On They called on him to speak.| Roger Wentworth, the fugitive, wh: once bad spoken lightly of him, came to the bedside and tenderly cio | the eyes of his master, saying: “Now he belong» to the ages.” We went out of the door, The sound of mourning was in the streets, A dozen bella were toHing, On the cor- ner of Tenth Street a quartet of is th wonderts! prayer: “Swing low, Sweet chariot, for to carry me home.” One of them, whose rich, deep bass thrilled_me and all who heard it, was comin’ nad come to our house in the noas of the night long before, (THE BND) ‘44