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mmmmmmmmmm and Baumgaftner for last year's team, has joined the-Maroon squad. And now comes the usual pitiful at tempt to muster a good squad at Northwestern U. With far more ma terial than the South-Side university, the Evanston school has" turned out such poor teams that wins in "big time" fights during the last three years can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Last year they started well but fiz zled quickly. v The dispute between tennis and football over the beginning of one and the ending of another season held good this year. In Cincinnati Miss Carrie B. Neely of Chicago, pair ing with Miss Molla Bjurstedt of Nor way, captured the women's final doubles championship of the tri-state tournament today. The "Two Days" events at Glen View on Friday and Saturday are the big doings in golf. Trophies galore and players to fit will feature the play. . Prep soccer is coming back strong er than ever this year with ten teams entered for honors. The city wilt be i divided into Northern and Southern sections for convenience and then a championship battle will be fought for final supremacy. The South Shore Country club, Glen View club and University club have set field day meets and fairs for this week and a grand mixup xt ten nis, golf, track and baseball will re sult Dan O'Leary's hiking lady friends are still at it When Mrs. George A. Moore finished third in the last con test that O'Leary arranged for the ladies she felt fresh enough to chal lenge the field again to a 5-mile hike on a side bet of $25 or $100 a head. Mrs. Helen Knight, who copped the prize in O'Leary's walk, took her up on the $25 basis and is inviting others to enter.. The cost is $25 and the prizes large. Henry Schmehl, 619 S. 5th av., is holding stakes. The baseball manager who -wants I to make a success of it these 'days will forget that John McGraw and Frank Chance 'won pennants T)y driv ing their players. Such is the philosophy of Lee Fohl, temporary manager of the Cleveland Indians, who most likely will start the 1916 campaign as their regular man ager. Fohl got in when Joe Birmingham was kicked out Fohl has won a lot of pennants, but hasn't .had much big league experi ence when given control of the In dians. He always was a shark and at bringing out young players, espe cially pitchers, so Somers had no hes itancy about promoting him from coach to manager. "The best way to run a ball club is to study your players' faces, figure out the best way to handle each man and then weld the wholebunch into a machine without 'riding' any of them," Fohl says. "Ballplayers of today are more sen sitive than those of ten years ago. You can't get anywhere by driving them. Hammer team work into them, let each one work out his own prob lems most of the time and correct their mistakes without handing around bawlouts." Like Clarence Rowland of the White Sox, Fohl is a "busher." But where Rowland has been handed the biggest stars Comiskey could buy for him, Fohl has had to work with a very limited backing. Still, he has im proved his team. THAT SMILE The expression, "sardonic smile," is as old as Homer. It means literally to "grin like a dog," and bears refer ence to the hideous contortion of the facial muscles produced by eating the sardonian, a plant of Sicily, which was said to screw up the face of the eater, giving It a horrible appearance. o o A literary failure is a man whose brain is not ripe enough .for publication. mjijmMjmMm