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Unlverslty of Alabama, has ac? cepted tlie same posltlon. at AVasuing ton and l_ee, t.ie term of hls ofttoe tx-Kku next Sepicmoer. ur. i'ollaru i? i.tmnentiy quallftcu ior tho work before hlm, and Wash? ington and I_ee '? to be congratulateu ou chooslng so able a man lo Iill mis important position. lt ls the unani mous oplmun of those who have lol lowed atiiletic- at Washington and l_ee for the paot four y.aru that the nrratlc work of hor teams ls due to the lack of competent eupervlsion. Dr. Pullard is fully qualifled, both as a mcdlC-l director, tnstructor and coach. lie graduated at Dartmouth In 1805, and. received hls M. D. from Vermoni ln 1301. He has also. taken poat-grad uate work in medicine at Harvard, and was for two seasons a student ln the Hemenway gymnaaiura at Harvard. For tho past elght years Dr. Pollard ha8 been successfully ln charge of athletics at tbe Unlverslty School of Chicago, 1-rohlgh Unjyerslty, Unlverslty of Rocbester and Alabama. His success as a football and base? ball coach at Alabama, since he went thero In 1906, has been marked. Those , .amlllar wlth hls worK state that hls ablllty ls what has placed Alabama teams hlgh up among the front rank of 8. I. 1. A. teams. Dr. Pollard, ln addltion to belng di? rector of athletics and head coach of ull teams, wlll bo a member of the academlc faculty at the unlverslty. navlng the positlon of adjunct profes? sor of geoiogy. The unlverslty athleMo nuthorlties expect to securo competent assistant coachos for baseball and football, and expect to sc-cure tho servlccs of tho alumnl in thls connectlon. lf possible. Manager Thach ha* almost completed hls football schedule, and states that the 1910 team wlll have several hard games beforo lt. IN CHARGE AT EASTERN C. E. SPARROW, Conch. , JAMES J. MeGIRWEY, Manager. Applicants for tbe baaeball nlne at Eastern College, Hi-tuu, Vn, were a nseng the ?r_t player* to take the dla? mond thla aprlng. 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'; I#/\___ nnraanH I*n__*-/-_1 \/*? ? -_.,-___<?___-__*__-____*.. .._-! ___._'____?_ w-i _ . - ' _-*. ' r Send for handsome illustrated port News, Roanoke and Bristol, Va? Jacksonvllle and Pensacola, Fla, If your dealer can't supply, you, write us and we will see that your order ia\filled booklet, lithographed in ftve colors, containing price list of Whiskies, Brandies, Wines, Gins, etc. STRAUS, GUNST&eO.^tffir g "For mors than thirty ysars the hous* of quality." ) Rlchmond. Vsu Return this coupon and get our beautiful booklet, free. WEEDING-OUT PROCESS L_ BEGINS ON V. P. i. TEAM Candidates Are Working Hard to Make Nine. Putting Diamond. ih chape?x irst Game Will J3e Played iviarch 25. [Special to The Times-Dispatch. j Biacksburg, Va., March 12.?-The "weedlng out" of the baseball squad was begun early last week, and ''the flght for the vacant posltlons wlll be faster than ever from now on. Sev? eral freshmen are showing up in great style, and members of last sea? son's nlne are redoubling their efforts in order to retaln thelr posltlons. The lnfleld on tho new dlatnond la stlll rough, and fast work ls almost impossible, but Oraduate Manager Worthlngton has a forco of men at work and In a few days lt wlll be in better shape. The main bleachers are now belng overhauled, and wlre net tlng coverlng the front for flfty feet has been added, which' wlll be a great Improvement. The practice haa been of such a nature as wlll enablo Coach Bocock and hls asslstants to get a line on the best men and note tbe llttlo defeots that are bound to ap? pear, Captain "Pret" Hicks wlll bo a flx ture in left fleld. Ho is a fast fielder and hanay with tho stlck, and this, coupieo wlth nis knowiedge of thc gauiu, mak.s hlm a strong-.man ln tht outneld. i-'uqua ls leading ali the con testants for his old posltlon at right Ueid, and as he hoauod the batting ji_t last year, and ls a fast, heauy base runner, he wlll undoubtediy "clnch' hls posltlon. Centre tleld is stlll open and the flght for that posltlon Is ex tremely close butween Anderson and Splndle, of last year's "subs," and four freshmen. Blllups, the star half back of last year's eleven, and centro flelder of the '08 nlne, is a.vay from college, on account of slckness, and should he bo unable to return hls loss will be severely felt, aa he Avas the most promislng candldate for the centre garden. Hurt wlll undoubtediy cover short again this year. as hls repuution of last year causcd the number of ap? pllcants for thls posltlon to be small. He is a flash ln the field, has a good arm, and ls a fast man on the bases, and should develop into one of the best short stops In the State. Second base, made vacant by the ab? sence of Lee, wlll be well fllled, as Holzman, a new man, is settlng a great pace, but Stuart, of last year's "scrub" team who wlll be out after examlna tions. will make a strong bld, a3 he has shown excellent form and ls a heaA'y hitter. Kenner and Hughes are the plck of the appllcants for third base, and both are showing up excep tlonally well. It wlll be a dlfflcult task lo choose the better of the Jwo. Hnghes has not had the opportunlty to show his batting eye, Avhlle Kenner was ono of the surest hlt ter_ of laat year's team. Hobbie, from all indioa tions avIII be seen on the inltlal bag this season, as hls work is far above that of any of the other.contestants, and his abillty to hlt tho ball when hlts count wlll make hlm a valuable man. Stoneburnor. Steele arid Legge are a trlo of catchers hard to beat. As yet no one seeras to have It on the other. Their work behlnd the bat last year was very good. ,and__ lt ls a dlfflcult .matter to get the "dope" 'on any one of them. Hodgson and Jones, last season s slab artlsts, are again. on the I_e__. anct thelr work "thls year should be far abovo their * last year's excellent record. Both these men have already regained thelr old-ttme form. and the burdon of the pltehlng wlll probably fall to them. T. Itonfrew, a freshman out for pltehlng honqjs, is showing up very well, and hls speed and curA-es. coupled wlth hls abillty to hlt the ball, should land. him a place on the team. The heavy schedule which V. P. I. has thls year will necessitate threo oj Washington arid Lee Gytnnasts A?blcy, BnntlnB, McCrlll, Von, Melaenbcrc. AVilllams, Wood, Mlller, Prltuhet. (niHaager), tloy?, Chli'heater, Tucktr (cnptulu), Moor, AVood, . j H. RabMaa, Larrlck, llreldeubaeh. i rSnedal to Th- Tlme8-T-ls'r>n?ch.1 Lexlngton. Va.. Maroh IS.?The annual extilbltlon of the Washlngton and Lee symnaslum team was held last Tues iday night ln the college .-fvmnaslum before a large aqdience, and an exoel I jent program was successfully carrled out. ' -.....-."?? The work of tho team . haa been greatly dua to the. efforta of Captain Tucker and R. U Lloyd, who h?ve Ivery credltably fllled the place left by the loss of the lnstructor. "Tod" Robblna won the chamnlon ship hoxlng prlre by defeatlng Bree denbook ln a flve-rotind bout on points: Both men showed flne form. but Rob . tolp'a .quickneas eeemed to placo his CHAMPIONS AT BASKETBALL STAUNTON M___IT,_I_Y ACADEJfV ?_UII.T. Tl.dall <n_a..cer), Corrothe--, Humphrey., Hlte, Krefc* (coach), MeKtwIek, Grryaae, Kyle <c_i_rt?fa), Klaw, flte* ven .on. In ItsWstory^ arid^ clalmTufe ?_^nD^oIInX,in*?f5r.lff52em5f basketb?? team has comploted the most successful season atralnst _ollc_?s unlverslTlo- inrt nrmfnrni^ i'ii lh. prSJ._.Iatorv schools in Virginia. Thls clalm ls based on Its reoorfl Post aslnele came drfca^ ThoWong Virginia Polytechnlc Institute team, which has not to 10 Staunton defeated tho^ AvSshfnTton a^i bLi S(.oro ?f a t0 16' and Washington and Leo was vlctorloua by _? four steady pltehers, and much tlm. wlll be glven from now on in Instruc Ing the pltehers as to the correct me? thods. Coach ? Bocock hopes to have the men ln good conditlon for the opening game on March 23, wlth Rut gers, at Blacksburg, and from then on the games come almost dally untll the Northern trlp, and ends wlth two games in Lexlngton wlth washlng? ton and Lee, S TO DROP SPOITS World-Renowned Athlete Intends to Retire From Game. for All Time. WOULD GO TO GREECE Has Represented America in Three Olympiads, and Star red in Each. Martln Sherldan, of the Irish-Amerl can Athletlc Club, the world's greatest athlet, hero of three Olympiads and many times a world's champlon and record holder, says that ho has made hls last appearance as a competitor and probably never again will don athletlc togs. Martin itold thls to a reporter for the New Vork Press a fortnlght ago. When seen. yesterday, President Patrick J. Conway, of the lirsh American Athletlc Club, sald: ^xYes, lt ls right that Martln says he ls out of the game for good. I can't bring myself to believo lt, however, and think that 60oner or later he wlll be induced to don hls togs agaln. Tou havo seen champions retire before. Most always the call of tho game has won them bnck. That's'what 1 hope wlll hnppen ln Martln's case. Why, the champlon is ln hls prlme and should have many grand years ahead of him. I am hoping that we can Induce the big follow to como back." Martln makes one r-uallfication ln speaklng of hls retirement. Ho says that in case Uncle Sam should sond a team to tho Olympic games in Greece next summer he might try for the ?team. "I have represented America in three Olympiads," says Sheridan, "and if there should be a team sent to Athens next summer I would train for the games. That is tho only thing that will bring me out. I am heartlly tlred of the game and think it ls about opnonent at a great disadvantage, The wrestling oharaplpnshlp went to Wiiliams, who threw Blaokford, after a very close and exelting match, Double tumbllng by Buntlng and Frltd-hett was a feature, whlch received great applauso, ? , Harry St. George Tucker was choson as the best. all-round gymnast, and was awarded tho L. O. Jahnke loving 0 The wlnners of the varlous events were as follows: Mats, C, b. Prltchett: horizontal bar. lt. B, Lloyd; parallel bafs, J. L, Larrlok; rlngs, W. G. Wood; Jioree, M_ A. Moor, ' G. M. Alexandrla.* o* V. JM. X., acted ss judge. and tho modals were award Ington and Lee. tlme that I can loosen up and enjoy mysolf. "I have been in the game for ten years. I wlll not say that lt has hurt mo any. I have had a chance to travel, and in my mind, travellng, when one Is an observer. is better than a college educatlon. I haA'o mado hundreds of friends, and no one can galnsay that that was not a beneflt. "Thc gamo, hoAvever, has cost me a great deal of money and muoh tlme. To be a champlon one has to take a great deal of tlme that mlght be de? voted to business purposes. I repeat that athletics has cost me a great deal of .money. Por Instance, Just before tho last Olymplo games Iri London I had a few hundred dollars in bank. I drow lt all out and spent it on thei other slde. You know I dld a lot bf| travellng at my own expenso. .vhlle | abroad, partlcularly when In Ireland. j I brought home lots of gifts to my frlends besldes. ? "Athletics has kept me broke most of the tlme. I know the game has done a lot for me, and my advice to all youngsters ls to go ln for athletics. A man, however, should know when he has enough. I thlnk I have had enough and thlnk it is about tlme to drop athletics and get down to busi? ness. The game has given me all lt can glve me. Now I have got to get my nose down to the grlndstone. I want more tlme for business. It ls about tlmo that I used all my energles toward maklng adecent living. "Of course I am sorry to drop ath? letics. I love tho gamo; or I never should havo been In It as long as I have. Itl8 partlcularly hard for me to bld my athletlc filends goodby. But I have done a deal of thlnklng on the subjoct, and the only thlng it seems for riio to do ls to drop athletics [now, for once and all. Unless Uncln (Sam wants me to go to the Athens loiymplad tho game has seen the laat' of me." j I Martln Is the present, holder of the' ! world's all round renord and the j Avorld's record for throwlng the dls-.i ' cub?throo styles, from the seven-foot: ! clrclo, froiri a stand and the Greek j style?and throwlng tho dlscus. Olym-j ; plc weight and Olymplc style. He al-! ?so holds tho Amerlcan forty-two pound,' stone record of 27 feet 1-2 Inch. , I Martln's all round athletlc record; i Is 7,385 polnts, and was made ln Cel tlc Park last Independence Day. Hls Avorld's record for the seven-foot elr- J cle dlscus -throAV ls 130 feet. 10 l-2s. Inches; for tho Greek style dlscus throw, 116 feet 7 1-2 lnohes, and for tho Olymplc weight llscus throw 142 feet 10 1-'| inches. j Sherldan never has been extendied' ln an all around athletlc competition; | or he would have hung up even a' greater total than hls present world'a record. Experts say that wlth' good competition Martln surely would havo exqeeded the S.00D point mark on last Independence Day. Martln was the .world's 'hlghest point winner ln the Athens Olymplad, a'nd was beaten out only a quarter.; of a point for tho point honors ln tho | last Olymplad . ln London. Peerless Mel Sheppard shaded Martln a quarter; of a point, Mel Plcklng up an extra ' point by. competlng on the Yankee team that captured the relay raco. Despite [.' that, Martln would have won' the point ; honors but for a mistake hv an officlal ln tho standlng broad. Jump contest. , j Martln was born on May 28, 1881.1 ln Bohola, County Moyo, Ireland. H" camo to Amerlca In 1900, and'ln 1901 was lnduced by hls'brother, Dick Sherl? dan, then.a cham,p.lon h.imself, to go ln-, to tho game. Martiri's flrst appearanes * was ln tho games of the Union Sottlo-1 McCOY'S CIGAR SENSATION THE TALK OF THE TOWN A Mild Smoke No Arlif icial Flavoring. IW. S. McCOY, Broad and 8th Stt Vmammmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ment A. C? ln 1901. He won the di*. cus throw wlth tho help of hla h-Uidl cap. In hls next appearance at tha games of the Nnickerbocker A. C a week later, Martln, wlth the ald ot a ten-foot haidicap, agaln won, scallng the discus '116 feet 2 lnchos.. john Planagan, the scratch man that day, scaled the 118 feet 9 1-2 Inches, smaah ing the world's record of 118 feet ? inches, mado by Charlle Hennemaa of the Mllwaukee A. O. / On Martln's next appearance ln the games held at Wlllard Park, New Jer? soy, he hurled the mlsslle. 120 feet 18 Inches, smashlng Flanagan's record] to smlthereens. Th*at was Martin's last performance in 1901. It ls lntereatlng to note that Sherldan captured flrst honors ln his flrst appearance and smashed a world's record ln hls thlrd time out. MMIKKlf .....?T.M Noted World Champion Has Candidates at Uni versityof NorthCar olinain Train ing. [Speclal to The Tlmes-Disp-Uch-1 Chapel Hlll, N. C, March 12.7?Coach Cartmell came ^juletly to. Chapel Hlll two weeks ago. A world champlon, he . had ho lntervlews for newspapers.. A" record-smasher, he had no trophles to parade. a track coach, ho had work to do. He. arrived Saturday night, called hls men out Monday, and has had them hard at work over slnce. Hls theory of success ls work. Hls remedy for aTl shortcoralngs ls work, hard work, and plenty of it. The runner < of the furlong says he has no wind. Cartmell re'plles, "Acqulre It." The runner of the mile complains that he. has no endurance. Cartmell saya "Then get lt." He will get it, and wlth hlm fbrty other young, Inexpe rlonced, undeveloped candidaies for the traok team.' , It ls not hard to underetand how this man of wlll and work fought hls way to tho top. A winner of American ; amateur honors, he went wlth the American team to the Olympic games in London. Some days before the meet ho was rendered unfit to run by sores and boils. He was advised not ta run, but he ran and was lloked. He retlred from the publlo eye?to work and to win, And he worked and he won! He won the world's amateur fur? long championship; defeated Walker, the holder of the world's tltle to the 100-yard dash. and wrested from the mlghty Postle the world's professional furiong . championship ln the record-. breaking tlme of 31 1-3 seconds. The man that ls seen every mornlngr nnd every ..afternoon on the track at work is not Cartmell, the champlon. but Cartmell, the coach. The same qualltles that made hlm a champlon runner wlll make hlm a successful' coacb, successful ln brlnglng out the possibilitles of Carollna's undeveloped * nnd untrafhed track material. '?'ork may work wonders wlth thls unworked material.. CartmeU's worklng rule of three is: To run, run agaln, and then run some thore.