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rWJgiP' " " "-flW 3'"PyvJ'W7flsPsi W- ?ir'"' "Sy Eddie Collins of the Macks soaked a home run. Bob Groom held Boston to one Hit for five innings while his mates were clubbing Leonard. Then Boston tied the score with three runs, but Griff's men batted their way to the lead. Morgan, Milan and Gandil of Wash ington led both teams at bat. John Henry, the young star of the -Nationals, caught his first game of the sea son. Ray Chapman, the Cleveland shortstop, smashed two hits, handled nine fielding chances and stole three bases against St. Louis. Blanding pitched good ball for the Naps, while Stone and Mitchell were "clouted. Chapman stole third and home in one inning. o o "WRESTLING POLICEMAN" PUT TWO COPS IN THE HOSPITAL Major Funkhouser vstarted a school of instruction for cops. In the last three days it has been turned into what one might call '"breaking in cops for the hospitaL" s Major Funkhouser wanted a man to teach his class of cops how to wrestle. John J. Rooney, a police man, and formerly a professional wrestler, was sent out to Funkhouser to teach' the class of cops how to wrestle. For a time Rooney was easy with the cops. Then het picked out An drew Harra from Kensington avenue station for a real tussle. Harra and Rooney started in for Harra's first lesson. Then ,Harra was escorted from the school of instruction to the Cook County ambulance, which rush ed him to County Hospital where physicians pronounced him seriously injured. Funkhouser didn't know this. Neither did Eugene A. Barry of Hyde Park station. He was the second-victim of Rooney's wrestling. He was taken to hospital in serious condition. Wm. Marmeke of Warren, avenue Station Was nest to clinch with Roo ney. He is home doctoring slight in juries. At last Funkhouser heard about the slaughter house that was being made of his school of instruction. Rooney is teaching no more. o o SALVATION ARMY SENDS HALF OF COLLECTIONS OUT OF U. S. The Curran legislative commission did not get very far in its probe of the Salvation Army yesterday after noon. Commander Thomas Estill, in charge of the Army in the western states, was summoned before the commission, chiefly because the com mission was curious about what was done with the Army Christmas col lections. x Estill could not tell them much about it, but he did make the rather startling admission that $29,163 of the money collected by the Salvation. Army in America last year had been sent our of America. The proportionate amount of this can be gauged by Estill's sworn statement that the Army's collections in the western states for the same year only amounted to $28,967. On that basis, the Army apparently sends about 50 per cent of the money it collects out of America. Estill said his salary was $35 a week, and that he salary of Sneeton, financial secretary for the western states, was only $27.50. Mary Bartelme, judge of the girls' division of the Juvenile Court, was summoned to appear before the com mission today. The commission wants to find out what happens to girls farmed out under the direction of the Juvenile Court. The Rev. Mr. Schlecte, "superin tendent of the Chicago Kmderfreund and the Peoria Kinderheim, said that the using of the funds of the former for the latter by him, had been due to ignorance of -the law.