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General Glenn
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ITakes Feature
"* From Favorite
Ina Kay and Deckmate
Only Choices- to Cross
Finish Line in Front
Special Correspondence
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. ' 5.?Harry
Payne Whitney's three-year-old brown
colt Damask, by All Gold, which went
to the post a big favorite in the Sir
Barton Purse, the feature event at
the Fair Graund track this-afternoon,
was beaten by General Glenn, ridden
by Mooney, at the juicy odds of 10
to 1. Simpleton finished third.
The favorite followers were able to
cash in on only three races. Ina Kay fin?
ished first under the wire in the second
?^race at 4 to 5. In the last event of
?the day, Deckmate was one of the other
"?favorites to show home in front.
Ultra Gold, one of the choices, won
'he third. Siesta again caught the <
eyes of the judges as he flashed under j
the wire in the fifth event, while
? Speedster, at the good odds of 5 to 1,
came home the winner in the sixth
race.
The results:
First race (three furlongs)?MeKelvulne,
'08 (Garner). 12 to 1. 5 to 1 and 2 to 1.
won; Repeat, 104 (Coltilettl). 4 to 5. 1 to 3
and out, second; Joe Tag. IOS (Wida), 10
. > to 1. 4 to 1 and 8 to 5, third. Time, 0:37.
Kathleen K.. Charles Boy, Scotty, Oh Doc?
tor and Audrey also ran.
* Second race (six furlongs)?Ina Kay, 106
Toltiletti), 4 to 5, 1 to I and out. won;
Little Maudie, 104 (Wida), 4 to 1. 7 to 5
,V?nd 3 to 6. second: Hadrian. 106 (Wright),
20 to 1. 8 to T. and 4 to 1, third. Time,
1:18 2-5. Watersmeet. Miss Parnell. Nellie
Witwer, Ragazza. Black Wing, Scarpia II,
George Washington, Charles, C? Comiskey
and Bounding Through also ran.
Third race?Ultra Cold, 99 (Pierce), 9
to 5, 3 to 5 and 1 to 4; won; Etruscan,
107 (Jackson). 12 to 1, 6 to 1 and 5 to 2,
second; W. W. Hastings. 110 (Butwell),
S to 1, even and 2 to 6. third. Time,
1:18 1-5. Night Wind, Merchant-, Fill II.
Pullux and Bon Tromp also ran.
Fourth race (one mile)?General Glenn,
87, Mooney), 10 to 1, 3 to 1 and 7 to 5, won:
..JDamask. Ill (Ambrose). 7 to 10, 1 to 3 and
out, second; Simpleton. 104 (Coittletti), 7 to
.--l. 5 to 2 and even, third. Time. 1:39 4-5.
=? Bone Dry, Challenger and Maize also ran.
" Fifth race (purse, $800: claiming; four
year-olds and upward; one mile and one
sixteenth)?Siesta, 109 (Wida), 3 to 1, evon
and 1 to 2, won; Yowell, 11 (Thui-ber), 6 ;
to 1, 2 to 1 and even, second; lwiniv-in. \
106 (Barrett), 4 to 1, 7 to 5 and 7 to 10,
third. Time, 1:47 1-6. Redstart, Rey Ell
Pleasanton, Napthalius, Lazy Lou and
Gourmand also ran. j
Sixth race (purse, $700; four-year-olds
and upward-, one mile and one-sixteenth) !
?Speedster, 109 (Rodriguez), 5'to l, : to I
Vl and even, won; Soldat de Vordun, 104 ?
(Coltilette). 11 to 6. 4 to5? and 2 to 5. i
second; Tanlas, 109 (Heinish), 12 to 1, 6 I
to 1 and 6 to 2, third. Time, 1:48. Brown :
? Favorite, Gold Crest Boy, Philistine, Sybil,
Sentimental. Bethel Hill, Wiiligan, High
Note, Mayor Galvin and Leta ??so ran.
Seventh race (purse, * $800; claiming;
four-year-oida and upward; on? mile rml
one-quarter) ? Deckmate, 112 (Thurber),
8 to 5, 3 to 5 and 1 to i, won: Bajaz'et,
107 (Wida), 7 to 1, 5 to 2 and even, second;
^Bubbling Louder, 109 (Rodrigue?), 7 to 1,
- 5 to 2 and even, third. Contestant. Pit,
Jack Reeves Captain H-Ddye, Antoinette
..net Rookery also ran.
New Orleans Entries
First race (purse; two-year-old maidens,
.. colt? and geldings; three furlongs)?Buddv
Kcan, 118; Chas. A. Byrne, 11s; Freddie,
118; (A) L'al Sweeper, 118; (A) Whippet,
115; Get 'Em, 118; Plus Ultra, 118.
Second race (purse; three-year-old
maidens; six furlongs)?Airdrie, 114; Rich?
ard V, 114; Barra Pet, 114: The Pirate,
114; Dinty Moore, 114; Sandy Mae, 114:
Cormoran, 114; Virginia D'Or, 109; Big
-Idea, 109; Anna Remina. 109; Ba renka,
- 10?; Mountain Girl. 109. Also eligible:
Servitor. 114; Arrowshead, 114; Kim Hast?
ings, 114; Nashotah, 109.
* Third race ($1.000 handicap; three-year
olds and up; six furlongs)?War God. 117;
~ Mahoney. 108; Marie Miller, 105; Rapid
traveler, 103.
Fourth race (Purse; four-year-olds and
up; one mile)?Prospector, 111; Tac?la.
Ill; Chief, 111: Breeze. 107; Sailor, 105; i
Ballet Dancer 2d, 104; Duchess Lace, 104;.
Jim Heffering. 104; Brother MacLean, 102;]
Tom Brooks, 97. !
Fifth race (claiming; three-year-olds '
and up)-?Woodtrap, 108; Omond, 109;
8an? Peur II, 108; Warsaw, 106; Marchesa
II, 103; Gray Eagle, 103; Sweeping Glance,
102; Atta Boy II. 101; St. Gorjhain, ?2
Sixth rac?5 (claiming; three-years-olds
and up; fillies and mares; mile and sev?
enty yards)?B. Roberts, 107; Eulogy, 104;
Swirl, 101; ?Celto. 108; ?D. Vandlver, 106;
?Ablaze, 99; ?Irish Maid, 99; ?I.orena
Miss. 97; ?Medusa. 96; Diamond Girl, 94.
Seventh race (claiming; four-year-olds
and up; one mile and a sixteenth)?
Handful, 110; Jack K., 110; Aldc-baran,
110; James. 110; Parrish, 110; Caballo,
308; Mab, 105; Cracow, 105; Meddling Miss,
105; Alonia, 100; ?Capital City, 111;
"*Cl.arlestonian, 105; ?Dragon Rock, 105;
"?Miss Manage. 103. Also eligible: The
Gallant. 108; Bogart, 110; Pit. 110; ?Sara
feOta. 108.
?Apprentice allowance of five pounds
claimed.
Americans Win Bike Grind
MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 5.?
Norman Ross, the American swimmer,
won the 220-yard championship sprint
in an athletic meet held here yester?
day. Spencer and Osterieter. Ameri?
cans, were winners of the six-day bi?
cycle race, carrying off the prize of
?800 sterling. Fourteen teams com?
peted.
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Kearns Proposes
"75-25" Split of
$400,000 Purse |
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5.?Jack Demp
sey, world's heavyweight champion,
was busy with motion picture work
to-day and referred to his manager,
Jack Kearns, all inquiries about his
prospective match with Georges Car
pentier. Kearns announced late last
night the nght would be forty-five
rounds and would be staged at Tia
Juana, Lower California, under the
j auspices of James W. Coffroth, if
Carpetier would agree.
Kearns said Coffroth, well known
among Pacific Coast sportsmen and
president of a racing association at
Tia Juana, had offered a $400,000
pur/; for the match, and that it was
the best offer received.
Kearns spoke of a division of the
purse on a basis of $300,000 to the
winner and $100,000 to the loser, as
thoroughly satisfactory to him, and
stated Coffroth had an agent, Charles
Harvey, in Europe attempting to in?
duce Carpentier to sign a contract to
meet Dempsey at Tia Juana.
Kearns said he thought such a
match would draw gate receipts of
$750,000.
Dempsey has been in light training
for several weeks. He announced
some time ago that he would keep in
such condition all the time and that
? two weeks of real training would fit
! him for a fight.
- ?
! Long Island Golfers
| Lead in Bogey Handicap
PINEHURST, N. C, Jan. 6.?P. S.
I Danforth, of Long Island, did the best
j work to-day in a handicap against
i bogey of the Tin Whistles. He played
? the last nine holes of No. 3 course in
! 39. The principal scores:
CLASS A?-F. 8. Danforth, North Fork,
82-5 plus 4; W. T. Barr, New Tork, 90-10
plus 1 ; .1. R. Bowker. Woodland, 90-13,
even; Donald Parson, Youngstown, 84 minus
X: O'. W. Mead. Glen Ridge, 87-9 minus 1 ;
(?. F. Watson Jr., Baltusrol. 86-6 minus 2;
C. F. Lancaster, Braeburn. 94-9 minus 2;
W. B. Truead-eU, Garden City, 94-6 minus
3; C. L. Becker, Ekwanok, 92-6 minus 3;
G. II Satzell, Aronlmink, 94-10 minus 3.
CLASS B?B. V. Covent, Lockport, 93
?16 plus 2; H. G. Waring, Plnehurst, 96-14
: plus 1 ; G. T. Dunlap, Canocbrook, 94-12
minus 3; P. B. O'Brien, Detroit, 94-12
! iiiiriu.s 3.
Wherever you see a motor car
with the si&n of the triple triangle
on the radiator, you may know
that it is entrusted with the repu?
tation of the
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(Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Ine.)
The New Version
/ shot a golf ball into the air;
It fell to earth?/ know not where.
But what is still a rougher bloiv,
O, neither did my caddie know,
I played a mashie to the pin;
? thought I saw the ball drop in;
It did, all right?for when it lit
It dropped into the deepest pit.
Not Precisely
"1919," says a contemporary, "knew nothing in sport but upsets at
every turn."
Not precisely^
There was no upset linked to Cobb's batting leadership for the
twelfth time.
Ed Roush contributed no upset by leading the National League again.
It was old stuff.
The logical man to lead National League pitchers in the way of gen?
eral effectiveness was G. C. Alexander. He did so.
The logical entry to lead American League pitchers was Walter John?
son. This is exactly what Johnson did.
The best tennis player in America was William M. Johnston. He was
the candidate who landed on top.
Thej two leading golf candidates in the Open Championship were
Hagen amd Brady. They tied for first place, Hagen winning the play-off.
The man picked to win the Professional Golfers' Championship was
Jim Barnes. Jim did.
Cornell repeated in the spring championship games. There was no
upset here.
And who, last April, was expected to lead both leagues in home runs?
He did.
A few sudden shocks and twists can lend a lopsided aspect to the
entire field. But in the main form came very close to contributing its
usual output.
Excess Profits
Jack Dempsey drew down $27,500 for removing Jess Willard from
the scenery.
If he should get $250,000 for the Carpentier affair, would the
$222,500 be classed as excess profits or be merely taxed as an income?
In either case the amount of kale that Dempsey and Kearns will
pass along to your Uncle Samuel will be more than 10 or 15 marks.
Sport writers are never hurried into old age, but it doesn't make them
feel any younger to begin writing about the sons of Bob Fitzsimmons,
James Braid, Mike Murphy, J. H. Taylor and other noted names who once
featured their fragmentary notes.
Football Changes
The Football Rules Committee is extremely conservative, just as it
should be.
. The game is too good as it is to be tinkered with to any extent. But
while perfection can never be attained in this floundering human exist?
ence, it can at least be attempted.
?And football would come nearer to perfection as a game if two
changes were made?
First?To abolish all clipping from behind, which is not sport in any
sense of the word.
Second?To abolish the goal after touchdown, a useless appendix, as
well as an anti-climax in which nine men on the eleven have no part.
In the way of scoring values two fields should be worth a touch?
down. The goal after touchdown has no worthy part in the game.
Coach Bob Fisher of Harvard completed his first season with vic?
tories over Yale, Oregon, Brown and Boston College among others, and a
draw with Princeton. The Haughtonian successor did a good job, an un?
usual job for a coaching d?butante, as football instruction is not mastered
in a year. Fisher may not be one of the wizards yet, but he is on his way.
______ ?
We thought at first when the nineteenth hole was officially abolished
and rendered practically extinct that the desire to describe every shot
played at the end of a match would Bubside. Nothing to it. The deep
yearning to explain every detail of a round seems to be as prevalent
as ever. About the only remedy we can think of is a double shot of wood
alcohol.
Quite a number of club owners, in discussing 1920 terms with their
?tor ball players, are not proclaiming as lustily as they did some months
back that 1919 was the most prosperous year they had ever known.
Luring the wary athlete into the cage this season is going to be no soft
and yielding task.
Londos Dethrones
Demetral in Title
Wrestling Match
Jim Londos, the Greek, defeated his |
countryman, William D?metral, in a j
spirited wrestling match in the 71st |
Regiment Armory last night in 1 hour |
49 minutes. Londos gained the fall
with a combination double arm and
scissors hold. Some 6,000 spectators
witnessed the tussle, which was one of
the fiercest held in this city in years.
The defeat cost Demetral the Greek
heavyweight championship.
Londos, a young, splendidly built fel?
low, took the offensive at the start and
rushed his older and more experienced
opponent around the mat. Demetral, a
very cagey grappler, soon put a stop to I
these tactics and himself became the
aggressor. For the next fifty minutes
Demetral had Londos wholly on the
defensive.
On several occasions the title-holder
managed to slip a body scissors and
armlock hold on the youngster, but just
as he was about to pin him down to
the mat, Londos managed to break
away by his exceptional strength.
Shortly after the first hour, Londos,
still quite fresh,. speeded up and set
such a swift pace that he soon had
Demetral doing his best to ward off de?
feat. The champion finally succumbed
to this new burst of aggressiveness.
In the first match of the evening
Sulu Hevonpaa defeated Ivan Linow
in a fast and rough struggle. Hevon?
paa threw his opponent with a com
bination half-nelson and toe hold In j
49 minutes, 50 seconds.
j In the other match Wladek Zbyszko, ,
| the Polish Hercules, easily overcame
George Sauboue, of Belgium, "Zibby"
settled the Belgian in 7 minutes, 18
I seconds, with a flying mare and double
v/rist lock.
McLean Off for Sweden
! To Race His Old Rival
Bobby McLean, the Chicagoan, who
is regarded as the ice-skating cham?
pion of the world, is on hjs way to
Sweden to meet his foreign rival, Oscar
Mathieson, in a series of races for
the title. Mathieson was the world's
amateur champion two years ago, but
turned professional and visited this
country, only to meet defeat in five
races out of six against McLean in
Chicago. McLean and Mathieson meet
this time in Stockholm for a big side
bet.
Strange thing about winter sports
is that practically all records of skat?
ing and skiing are held by Americans
?and America is not an icebound
country like Holland, Denmark and
the Scandinavian countries, where ski?
ing is the most popular sport of the
year. Henry Hall holds the ski jump
mark at 203 feet, made at Steamboat
Springs, Col., March 2, 1917. Lars
Haugen holds the standing jump rec?
ord of 170 feet, made at Virginia,
Minn., in 1916.
?
Hoppe Double Victor
William P. Hoppe, champion balkline
billiardist, defeated Charles C. Peter
? son in the afternoon and evening
matches at 18.2 at the Rational Acad
I emy, in Brooklyn, yesterday. Hoppe
won the first issue, 300 to 105, and the
second by 300 to 72. In the evening
game the champion made n high run of
125.
Havana Entries
First rao? (purse, $600: twn-yenr-oldn;
two furlongs)?Dorothy, 109; Fiction, 109;
Little Pointer, 1011; Chnrmont. 109; JMurl
cusa, 109; tOeneral Agram?me, 112; Whiz,
112. $A. H. Diaz entry.
I Becond race (purse, $600; claiming; four
year-Olds; nix furlonge)?Tho Snob, 106;
Prince Direct, 107; Blister Clark, 107; Ar?
thur Mlildl'-ton, 108; Shoddy, 110; Pierrot,
113; Brlzz, 113,
Till id race/(purse, $600; claiming; three
year-ol'ls- nve and one-half furlongs) ?
Punctual, 104; ?Rlomed, 10?; He's ;i Hoar,
10?; Bardora. 107; Babylonian, 10!); Incin?
erator, 110; Stovo', 112,
-Fourth race (Uruguay Handicap; purse,
'$800; throo-year-olds and upwiui; flvo and
I onc-hult furlongH) ?-Hoonlr, 1 OH ; Top o' th'
? Morning, 10?; Hamilton A., 10H; Diversion
i ios; Diff?rant Ky?H, ion; Cromwell, 124.
Kinn raco (purse, $?oo; claiming; thr.'<i
y< ur-ol<l? and upward; one mil? nu i one
nlxtoenth)- ??Guide Pout, 101; *Homaii, 10?;
Win-Tux, MM, ?Mud Hill, 10?; ? Wi.odthruNh
10?; I.arlat, 100; (litaway. 111; negrom?
111.
Nlxth I'ao? (pulee, $700; el? lining, four
yi'ui'-olile mu? upward; oint mil? and llfty
yard*) ? ?Orare, 98! Pliuitiiredo, ?7; *('\r.
OUlttt?, 01); /oie, 108; Hlif Slliuk?, 104;
?Baby Cal, 104.
?Appruntlct' iillowancti of live patin?t
claimed.
Casino Tennis
Tonrney Sure
To Be Lively
Bevy of Stars Promise
Plenty of Keen Competi?
tion on Brooklyn Courts
By Fred Hawthorne
Although yesterday was scheduled as
the opening day of the annual club
championship lawn tennis tournament
in men's and women's singles and
doubles at the Heights Casino, in Mon?
tague Street, Brooklyn, no matches
were played. Harry McNeal, the Ca?
sino professional, explained that be?
ing a club tourney the members were
only required to play one round a
week," consequently thej arrange the
matches to suit their convenience,
with no regular schedule followed, al?
though each succeeding round must be
completed by Saturday of each week.
The quality of the entry in all di?
visions is unusually high for a club
tournament. In the Class A men's
singles we find such men as Seiichiro
Kashio, of Japan; Hugh Tallant, Leon?
ard Beekman, Charles M. Bull jr., Dean
Mathey, Harold Taylor, Hugh Kelleher,
H. S. Parker, Edmund W. Peaslee, W.
A. Campbell, G. A. L. Dionne and
Frederick B. Alexander, former inter?
nationalist. Kashio, Bull, Mathey and
Taylor are in the upper half, while
Parker, Campbell and Alexander are
in the lower brackets.
Mrs. Mallory Entered
In the women's singles the two en?
trants who overtop all the rest are
Mrs. Franklin I. Mallory, the former
Miss Molla Bjurstedt, and Miss Eleanor
Goss, national doubles champion.
These two noted players are on op?
posite sides of the draw, which means
that they are practically certain to
clash in the final round for the cham?
pionship, and the battle between them
should be a classic struggle of the
courts.
According to McNeal, Miss Goss is
playing better tennis at this time than
ever before. In fact, her whole game
has improved to a startling degree,
and the Casino Club professional be?
lieves the tall New York girl is going
to make a most determined bid for the
highest honors in the country during
the coming season.
Mrs. Mallory, too, has been in al?
most daily practice on the Casino
; courts, evidently with her mind set
upon the single purpose of regaining
1 her place as queen of the lawn tennis
world, and therefore a meeting between
them is sure to result in tennis ,of the
most brilliant kind.
Miss Goss, in the upper section of
the draw, has the more difficult path
to tread before she reaches the final
bracket, for Miss Adele Bull, Mrs. de
Forest Candee, Mrs. Rawson L. Wood,
Mrs. Spencer Fullerton Weaver and
Mrs. Robert Le Rov are in her section.
Mrs. Mallory's most dangerous oppo?
nents in the lower half appear to be
Mrs. Mabel D. Straffin, Mrs. E. Cor
i nell Duble and Mrs. Theodore C. Cas
sebeer.
Thirty-six men are drawn in the
Class B singles, among them Charles
M. Bull sr. and Dx*. Forbes Hawkes,
the latter two being well above the
three-score mark in years, but just
as keen for the game as their younger
clubmates. Both swing an exceedingly
mean racquet.
Abraham Bassford jr., chairman of
the ranking committee of the U. S.
N. L. T. A., whose work I have had
occasion, in common with other crit?
ics, to criticize in these columns, good
naturedly accused me, when I met him
the other day, of having "garbled" his
printed defense or explanation of the
committee's ranking of the "first ten"
players.
In a degree, I plead guilty to Mr.
Bassford's indictment. Lack of space
prevented me from running the chair?
man's report in full, although I sought
to summarize the sections left out.
Evidently this did not meet the ap
| proval of that conscientious gentle?
man, and therefore, aiming to be just
as conscientious, I hereby reproduce
the omitted paragraphs.
Mr. Bassford was explaining how all
tournament matches between rated
players have an important influence
on their records and then goes on:
"A case in point is the published
comment on the ranking o? Al Green,
of Chicago, described in the East as
an 'unknown,' ahead of Vincent
Richards, national indoor champion.
The latter's indoor wins have no bear?
ing, so the committee had to consider
the fact that Green defeated, Walter
T. Hayes, No. 8 on the list, in five sets,
while Hayes beat Richards in the clay
court championship, the second most
important event in the country, 6?1,
6?4.
Thinks Ranking Just
"There was surprise that Tilden and
Richards, last year's doubles cham?
pions, should be placed seventh. In five
important matches only one, that
against Brookes and Patterson, would
entitle them to a better position than
seventh. The other four were at rates
poorer than seventh, and if it had not
been for their good showing in the
national, which has a weight of four
smaller tournaments, they could not
have been ranked as high as seventh.
"It should be borne in mind that
they were beaten by Gravem and Kin
sey, by Pearson and Thayer, and man?
aged to win over James Weber and Lu?
cien Williams only by the score of
t??4, 5?7, 7?5. In this case, as in
others, failure to grasp the funda?
mental fact that performance is what
counts, has led to misunderstanding of
the position? determined by the rank?
ing committee."
I am the hapless critic who referred
to Mr. Green as an "unknown" in the
East, and I stand on that statement.
How many Easterners aro conversant,
with the Chicago man's tournament
record. The mere fact that he once
defeated Hayes (who has no right in
the "first ten"), while Richards has
victories over some of tho leading men
in the country to his credit, does not
justify the committee in placing Green
above Richards, in my not humble
opinion. As for Tilden and Richards
they made a far better showing against
Brookes and Patterson in the national
doubles tournament than any other
other teams entered, and the beat
pairs in tho whole country competed
at Longwood. '
Rcquiescat in pace!
? '
Stelle Wins With Foils
E. T. Stelle, Columbia '21, won first
place and tho Hammond prize given by
Graham Hammond, president of the
New York Athletic Club, in the tour?
nament held by the Amateur Fencers
League of America at the New York A.
C. last night. Louis F. Bishop and*
Joseph Goulden tied for second..Arthur
Townsend also competed. Sicile won
all threo of his matches in handy
fashion.
Phillies Buy Pirate
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6,--Tho Phila?
delphia National League club an?
nounced to-night Ithutj it had pur?
chased outright Pitcher Ray Sanders
from the Pittsburgh club.
Eddie Fall, Star
Middle Distancer,
Quits Track Game
EDDIE FALL, the great middle
distance runner of the Chicago
A. A., who forced Joie Ray to run
two of the fastest races of his ca?
reer to win the national champion?
ship titles in the half mile and mile
races at Philadelphia last Septem?
ber, has run his last foot race.
This information was Drought
East yesterday by an athlete who
called upon Martin A. Delaney,
coach and trainer of the Chicago
A. A. track team, last Week for the
purpose of obtaining the entry of
Fall for the special 1,000-yard race
which will feature the Guaranty
Trust Company Club games at the
22d Regiment Armory early next
mlnth.
v/herever athletes gathered yes?
terday Fall's retirement from com?
petition was discussed, and all ex?
pressed regret at his decision, be?
cause he was looked upon as a sure
point winner for America in the
Olympic games at Antwerp next
summer. Several athletic experts
went so far as to say that Fall
would win the 1,500-meter cham?
pionship if he could be prevailed
upon to train and try for the Amer
ir?n Olympic team.
Fall's retirement will leave a gap
which will be hard to fill. He re?
cently joined the benedicts, and
upon his marriage decided to give
up competitive athletics.
Sons Willed Millions
Of Famous Horseman
KITCHENER, Ont., Jan. 5.?All of his
valuable horses and the many trophies
they captured, as well as the bulk of
his $4,039,710 estate, are bequeathed
the three sons of Joseph E. Seagram,
widely known horseman and distiller,
under the terms of his will, probated
here to-day.
Bequests of $500 to $25,000 are given
to old and faithful employes of Mr.
Seagram, who died August 18 last.
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Warm Winter suits and
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Woolly underwear, socks,
mufflers, caps, toques, dress
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Everything warm for cold
weather wear?everything
from flannel pajamas to fur
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Skates in wide variety?
and, as a suggestion, Win?
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extra warmth.
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Izzy Kaplan Will Lecture
Helps Buy Babe Ruth and Plans to Do a Maeterlinck
By W.O. McGeehan
"Here is a ticket for my lecture," said Izzy Kaplan, offering a bit
of pasteboard to the sporting editor. "Sure I am going to give it a
lecture up at Chack Doyle's pooling parlors. What's the matter with the
way I am talking it English. Nobody teached me the language. I
teached myself.
"And anyhow I could talk it better English than Morris Missinglink,
the Belgine feller, which he may be a smart poet in the Belgine language
like I am a smart scholar in Russian, but I'll bet I got more to say than
Morris Missinglink. I ain't knocking the Belgines, and I wouldn't knock
Morris either, because I know Grentland Rice and a lot of other poets,
and it's a hard life at best. But if Morris Missinglink can did a lecture 1
should also did it because I got a lot of high-toned friends who would
come even if they didn't get it free passes.
"I ain't? decided what should be in the lecture yet, because I got it
a lot to say and I can talk about anything at all in a nice way. Anyhow.
I am waiting till I get a good price for the moving picture rights of the
lecture. It ain't never been done before, moving pictures from a lecture,
so it ought to be worth a lot of jake because it is a new ideer. New
ideers is hard to get.
"Maybe I should lecture on how I got Baby Ruthstein, which he
used to be with the Red Sox, to join the Yankee team of baseballers. 1
done all of the talking in that business because Jakie Riippertstein and
Tillingstein Huston, which they own the Yankees, is good friends of
mine. Also, me and Harry Shapiro, which he is business meneger of
the Yankees, is just like that.
Hard to Stop Thinking
"It was brains that, done it. Brains does lots of things. Sometimes I
think that with enough brains you could did anything except maybe win a
box fighting match or hit it a run home in the baseballing games. And
I am always having my brains do a lot of work, so that they wouldn't get
stale. You could believe me or not, but I am always thinking. Even when
I don't think about nothing at all I keep on thinking. I seen u piece in
the paper once, which said that it was a good ideer to think, and that
got me started. And when you got started thinking you could hardly
etop it.
"I got thinking about this Baby Ruthstein business, and I went to
Jakie Ruppertstein. 'Jakie,' I said to him, 'it would be a good ideer to
get it this feller Ruthstein to play baseball with the Yankees.'
"Right away Jakie said, 'Izzy, that's a fine ideer.' And look at
how it worked out. All that Jakie had to do after I gave him the ideer
was to dig down in his inside pocket and pay a hundred and fifty thou?
sand. Without the ideer he couldn't have done a thing at all.
"I ain't sent Jakie a bill yet, on account I ain't in no hurry for the
money, and I know that Jakie is good for it. Some fellers told me that
i shouldn't charge it nothing at all, that I should did this on account of
patriotism. But the war is over and I don't want that my brains should
be too patriotic.
"Sure I got to be paid for thinking. I don't want that people should
say, 'Izzy Kaplan was a good feller when he had it.' I want that they
?should say, 'Izzy Kaplan is a good feller and he's still got it.' That's a
good advice for the young men, and I thought it up with my own brain*
And I'll bet that Moms Missinglink couldn't give it better advice.
Big Scarcity of Brains
"Maybe I wouldn't talk about the Ruthstein thing at all, because
I don't want my name mixed up with too many big business deals, on
account I know a lot of big business men and they might think I W8S
butting in too much. Maybe I had better just lecture on brains and
how I got them. Lots of people is interested in brains, especially op ,
account the big scarcity..,, If I should take my brains down to Wash- J
:ngton, where brains is such a big novelty, I could write it my own ticket, ?
like they say at the racing track. 2
"Just to show you what brains is, I have got a new formaline to
make some whisky, which has not got it wooden alcohol or any other
kind of comicals in it. No, I wouldn't told it to you now. I got to try
it out myself first. The way I should try it is to ask Moe Koenigsteis #
lie should have a drink, and that shjkkerer would say yes and drink it
Then I would watch him, and if he didn't die I would know that they
wasn't no wooden alcohol in it. I shouldn't take a chance and ruin my
own health first.
"Well, so long. I'm going uptown and have a talk with Morn*
Missinglink and see in could help him out, on account I know how h?
feels and what he is up against it, because when I first came here fro"1
Kovno I didn't know much myself. And now look at the brains I P*1*
I got a soft heart and I could give him a lot of good advice on how h*
should act when he meet? a lot of high-toned people, and I ain't goinf
to charge him a cent either, and maybe I would even take him in ** *
partner in the leofure business so he could get a start."
Argentina Enters Olympic
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 6.-Argentina
will send athletes to the Olympic
games to be held in Antwerp in 1020
as a result of a decision reached at i>
1 meeting of nutional athletic organiza
tlons.
O'Gatty Defeats Corona Kid
TROY, N. Y., Jan. 5.-Packy O'Gstty
easily defeated the Corona Kid in ?
six-round bout at the Star A. C !???
to-night. O'Gatty scored knockdo*?*
>in the second and third rounds.