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The reaeon why thin At a halr-ralsinx Ib some Babe Ruth : With a tfmendo !1 ? B 1 * Five Will Meet al Quintet - tort Ugh ichool of CltrSts wlhjmeet ,the Icemen on the dnMltllb' evening at 7:46 mt i*f#*jiectod to provo one i most Interesting basketball i of the season. Early In the t Victory high school took easure of the locals on the y&or.'but'tho icomon have i much Improvement sinew lme and the game tonight I be close all the way. A Inary game, starting at 7 ffiWtween'the Fairmont Boy i tod the Falrvlew Cubs, e an added attraction. icrrow evening Jasper Cole SflfinbiRhlgh school quln IU play tte Bast Side high five on'the Patetiners' floor. (Ill-he ficihe of the big games season, and the next to final t on the East Side floor for ?4son, Mannlngton high belngf-booked to close -the fPM Friday evening of this week ilnnbpt,State Normal school Ijlllfclose the season with a with Broaddus college, the 5fllng^booked for the Normal It Is hoped that the largest of the season will turn out Is game. Friday evening is .observed as "alumni and it is. requested that farm'er. studont at the Nor hool come out for tho con ?g,TWIN BILL ioys and girls teams of >n and Mannlngton broke a twin bill at Mannlngton nlng, the Mannlngton boys gfover. Shinnston 41-24 is Shinnston girls defeated rton 16-9 by playing sensa all illrjthe final period of lo. Lineups and summar m? ' -'?BOYS' QAME [ton 41 8hlnnston 24 is Crawford Pyles ^.'-.Forwards Coleman yV:.1 Center Herbert ry;.,.. Storage ||j?? Guards goals: Jones 7, Frlchard Ses 2, Ryan 1, Pylea 3, ^Crawford 2, Hursey 1., ?dais: -.'Prlchard 8 out of i,;6 out of 14. Eu'tlons: Haggerty for X Prlco tor Jones, Hursey. iantfAbtirtiitlno for Stor Shtnnston 15 ...... Morris ..... Bolmar WyTEAM leaves. FY, Pa., March 8.? Ity college basketball te. of Coach Thome, i*y for Indianapolis, ioy axe to represent nmrlVMla and West (?Tflnrt national bos imont Thursday, Frf Experts Are the Bunk, Says Golfing Professor <V5?k:-ah Wl-SUC *H >EU-0 VCKH 1MWC ?GWr-l W0OOK5AHS ?ffi5 AMD , ON.fWEI -*?1 -r.' Jrr_" ? .vw.cmt? ; VKRt QStWCfX out^aotr, -flwt AMH I QOS I v EUCH. "WW WCu)-VF sou ?OOtfT ?*r-tKB'| ?eAUu ??> ?in?i K voouT ao ?so T*ra J VT KU1 AttfetffiOto PftVD TO QOUT "S3COK1 -TH&. ?gg.'auu-r TMuuaa * A)JO M0VuTrt,tVS!C!FCA3CS4 rtOA ft AUUVIGoraeO COT WtOTeyMtn CAL\_S CLAIMS EXPERTS ARE ALLiONG Prof. Helleberg "Has Own Ideas About Golfing By BILLY EVANS' . Here's a professor who doesn't believe in books?golf books at least. I hovo reference to Victor E. Hellebore of the University oH Kansas, known throughout the west as the "golfing profesjor." The professor swings a mean stroke on the course of the Law ronce Country club at Lawrence, Kans. While not read; to take on Chick Evans, Jim Barnes or Walter Hagen. ho is far from being in the "dub" class aa a golfer. Prof. Helleberg insists that the golf exports who have been labor ing for years with pen and type writer to make clear to the would be golfers aB to how tho . game should be played are all worng. Professor llelloberg teaches psychology at the University of Kansas. He doclaros all golf au thors are ignorant of the psycho log}- of the game, to judge from their writings. "Practice Is the only sure way to learn to play golf properly," says Brof. Helleberg. "A golfer learns his Btrokes by trial and error. He 1b guided by thu pleasurable feoling that acompan lrs ? successful effort. "One Is utterly unaware of the detallB of co-ordination and if any attention is paid to some partlcu lar detail of the stroke as outlined In the golf books the usual result Is failure until that detail is auto matically assimilated by innumer able trials." In explaining the difficulty in following the Instructions ao they appear in the many books that have been written on golf tho professor quotes from one of them as fol lows: "Now as to. the simultaneous, yet rhythmic, movement which completes the shot. "At the moment of impact (right at tho Instant; not' the smallest fraction of a second earlier or later) the player should straighten tho elbows, stiffen the wrist, and let tho body go forward a few inches with the club. "The quick aotion of the elbow and waist will push the face or tho club under the' ball as both go for ward and the body moving slightly in tho same direction will assist Is tho project. ? ? ? "This description ma^ make the shot appear like a piece of jugglery, but It is a faithful explanation of the shot as 1 plan It myself, and aa I have seen others plan it." The impossibility of doing what the author has directed In this bit of writing Is explained bjf Prof Helleberg by a mathematical cal culation. ' "A moving picture of a golf play er has been taken," he says. "show, ing the club head and the hall as nearly as possible at the moment of contact. "The speed Is so great that the piftture Is nearly blurred, but It Is evident that the club could not have been In contact with the ball moro than while traveling the width of the head?not more than one-ten thousandth or .oneftve thousandth of a second, according to Prof. Talt's calculation. "This shows the utter impossi bility of doing what the author quoted requests the beginner to do." Tho professor does not deny that some valuable suggestions might he made In books, but he does deny that any golfer can know his shots through introspection. Only through pictures taken by.a speedy camera such as used for motion pictures can the actual analysis of a stroke be ihade .he believes: PURDUE WIN8 FINAL-GAME ' CHICAGO, March 8.?Purdue University won its final game in the Big Ten conference, baskiiti hall race from the University of Illinois team last night and emerg ed from, the scramble lor basket? gall honors with the conference "hamplonship In Its possession. On the trail of the lonesome | southpaw. I A lot of major league managers | are singing that city In the south land . i No major league club considers its pitching staff qulto completes unless it boasts a crack southpaw. 3t is a rather unusual fact that a number of big league ball teams lacked Buch an Individual last year. As a mater of fact the two lead ing clubs in the American last year. New Y.prk and Qectvland. were minus a consistent left hander. ? j The presence of a crack south paw on a ball club means much. It enables the manS>c to offer a diversified assortment of pitch ing. A orack left hander Is a threat that can he used to atlvan- J tags in many directions. Often In every circuit Hiero are a couple of clubs very weak against southpaws. A crack left j handor haB no- trouble taming such a. club into submission, in a couple of game's In every eerios. Then again a southpaw is often invaluable In a pinch, when a toam Is taking liberties with some right hander. Such a change often abruptly stops a rally that is be ing staged at the expense of u right hander. In- the National League the two I Preparation for Annual Tournament Progressing BUCKHANON, W. Va., March 8.?All over West Virginia Inter est Is rapidly centering about the | state high schoohbasketball cham pionship tournament to be held | hore March 10, 17 and 18 under j the auspices of West Virginia Wcsleyan college. Sixty seven high school teams have been en tered in tho annual tourney, boing the largest number of teams over entered in the nine years history of the event. It Is unquestionably the biggest athletic 'event held annually In West Virginia. Every section of thp state will bo represented. This yoar It will require 66 games In three days to decide tho state championship. The rosults of the annual meet ing of state high Mhool teams Is having a decided Influence on the floor galne In West Virginia. The game Is being adopted each year by more schoolB and each yoar shows a decided Improvement In the playing of the winter past timo. In 1914 the first tournament was held. But two teams were entered at that time, Elklns High and Wheeling High. Elklns High captured the first honors. In nine years the tournamont has grown from ono championship eam,e. with two leading teams entered to 66 games with 64 teams enter ed. Penn Wrestling Team Meets Snakes Friday ?MORGANTOWN, March 8.? West Virginia will have her last opportunity of the year to galn re cognition in eastern collegiate wrestling circles this Friday night when the Mountaineer wrestlers meet the strong UnlveMfc ot Pennsylvania mat outfit here. It is known generally that West Vir ginia has. tiled application for ad mittance .to the'.astern .intercol legiate' wrestling .' association) which is composed of such-teams as Penn" State, Lehigh, Syracuse, Dartmouth, Tale, Penn and other Important outfits, and. if tho Mountaineers'are to,make any im pression at- 'all "this - winter they must show something against Penn here Friday. The quavers &re the only mcm bersrof the league to .be met this season by the "Varsity, and .this fact makes it. all the more import ant<fo?;Coaeh Dayton's outfit to maker.'argood r showing against the Philadelphia grapplers. 8 " So 'tar' West Virginia hat ha? avery suocesfful season, (fof a two-yoawteani,, winning four and lorthg.three-meets. Ohio Univer sity was Vlr-i - loaders last year, Now York and Pittsburgh are mufi more for tunately situated. h? Olants have Nehf and the Pirates Cooper.-They are two ot the best southpaws in the same. . It. looks as if Trls Speaker of Cleveland would be forced to place his dependence in Walter Malls as far as southpaw pitching Is con cerned . Walter Malls has tho stuff. No southpaw- In tlio game has more on, the ball. However, last year Mi>Ds wm unablo to wfti with consistency. Several things tonded to work against Mails ast season. In 1920 he finished the season liy wlnulng seven straight for Ceveland In the world's series v/lth JBrooMy his work was flawloss. No pitcher event went hotter in the big event Undoubtedly Malta at the start of last season felt that ho bed! PI very large reputation to live up to. In the spring a sore arm re tarded hlta. In his early games he lacked control and was unable to win. Unquestionably'that af fected his confidence. There is no doubt .in my mind. that all these things tended to work against his success. Malta certainly should be a far bettor pitcher in 192!. With every manager n south* paw Is the thing. Managers of clubs fortunate enough la have a good one are hoping to land an other from the recruits. Those minus a southpaw have hopes of developing one. glnla and Washington and Lee university squads each suffered a single dofeat The teamB to defeat the Mountaineers were the Navy, Indiana university and Iowa State college. In Justice to the local squad tt must be said that In only one of these meets, that with the Navy, were they outclassed. Iowa and Indiana barely nosed "out n victory over Captain Hough's war riors. In both the Iowa and Navy meets the locals woro woakened by the Illness of regulars, wiho If they had been available would, have probably made It iPostflble for tho 'Varsity to make .n much better showing. Tho mountaineers nro tar from being in the best of' shape for Fri day's match as several members ot the squads were badly battered at Annapolis last Saturday. ? Former Star Pitcher Now Umpire in American ? By BILLY EVANS. "How did you ever happen to he an umpire?'-' ? ? ? ? That la a question that is often asked after a tough ball game. At such times it. is hard for a sane Individual to figure out why anyone should want to be an um plro. Umpiring isn't such a bad job after all. yet I seriously. doubt if , anyone Is in love with the job, a9 I they say. ? Like all other positions the pay check carries the Teal' thrill. It causes you to get case hardoned to many of the indignities which come your way. I don't believe any youngster, ever had as his. big ambition the desire to become a major league umpire. fJome critics say umpires 'are born, .not made. However, there is always a rea son for everything, and back of the career of evory major league um ipiro is an unusual Btory.. ! I always smile when I hear Bill | Dinneon tell why he started umpir > ing. According to Bill he was lit* [erally driven to it. I will lot him tell'it: ? ? '.'A "bush league ball club con vinced me that I ought to tako up; umpiring. . "It was when I was with the St! Louis Browns. I started poorly in! 'the spring. My old arm didn't seem' I to have the strength to put any I "zip" on the ball. I "Jimmy McAleer, one of the ! greatest fellows that over managed a ball club,'was in charge of the Browns. I told him one Jay that I thought I was through. "Jimmy, probably feeling that my services to the American league deserved a little consideration, sug gested that I give the arm a good rest before I "again" tried it*, oilt." "I waited for five, weeks. The Browns had a game scheduled with a Yninor league team at Springttetct, 111. I, told McAleer I would work that game. "I worked it, finished it, and I'll never forget it. I seemed to have pretty good speed, but I simply couldn't got 'em by tho batters. It was a slaughter. "We lost the game by a lop-eided1 soore, something like 19 to 6. I re member the home team made 27 hits off my deliyery. . "I had an iron-clad contract with J the St. Louis club for the rest of; the year . That game, however, con. I vlnced me that I was through.. I told Jimmy McAleer so after the game. At first he refused1 to hear to it?> I turned In my suit and never have-Ditched a ball gamo since. "President Johnson of the Amer ican league had told mo he would give me a chanco at umpiring. I wired him that ovenlng I was ready to t^ke/it" I havo been taking chanceo eVer sinco. "The only pleasant memory of' that game at Springfield was the! fact that it saved two slipping vet ' ertins llko inysolf from hearing the rattle of the tin can. j "These two players had received their noticp .of release. Each of them made five hits off me, includ ing several homo runs. That caused tho managed to change his mind and enabled them to stick out the! season. "All of which provos thero Is r. silver, lining to tho darkest of clouds. Believe mo that was a dare day in my career." Indoor Baseball League Kesults Owens Bottlo dcfeatrtl tho Hel mlck Foundry team 26-25 last) night In tho Indoor baseball league at the Y. M. C. A. Thel Domestic Coke team failed to show up and Mining Machinery too ka game by forfeit. Tollow lng is tho standing of the clubB: W. L. Pet. Mid-west 1 0 1,000 Owens .....1 0 1,000 M. P.. & n. >. 1 0 1,000 P.. M. M _....l ? 1 BOO Mon. Glass' ....0 1 000 Dom. Coke 0 1 0.00 Hclmlck ....:.........0 1 U00 Games Thursday Mid-West vs M. P. & R. Monongah Glass vs. Hclmlck. FLItS TO LABRADOR. ST. JOHNS, N. P., March 8.? Major Sldnoy Cotton last night an nounced completion of tho first air plane night-to the Labrador coast . A few days ago the officer took malls from Botwood as far as St. Anthony. Instead of coming' back Immediately ho crossed the straits of Bello isle, reaching 'BatUe Har bor, Labrador, in a lillssord. Here tofore Labrador Bottlers havo haa to depend for communication with the outside world on malls carried by way of Quebec, Taste i<? a matter of tobacco'quality We state It as our honest belief that the tobaccos used in Chesterfield are of finer quality, (apd hence of better taste) thanWany othef ? cigarette at the pricc. tizgitt is foyers T.ift ?- Ctf 8 i # feSwhS Saw?? Only Two Holdouts Now " in Camp oj New York Giants NEW YORK. March 8.?Hearts of the tans were cheered today, with good newa from both tho. Giants and Yankeo camp today an nouncing that Jesse Barnes, Me Grows aco In last year's, world's series.' and f Aaron Ward, peppy second baseman of tho Americans, had come to terms and slgneu their 1928'contrjcta. This leave- the' holdont crop III both camps at the ebb. Kelly and ' Douglas remain the only unsign ed Giant players, and Kelly tele graphed McOraw at San Antonio | yesterdajr tbat he would bo In camp next Monday. Concorn wbb written large on the beaming feature,, of Wllbert Robinson, boss of tho Brooklyn team, for It rained all day and an epidemic of colds has struck tho camp. Zack Wheat. BHI McCar ron and Zack Taylor were on tho hospital list. Taylor has signed his contract and now Chuck Ward is tho only iflayor in the comi. who has not yet^slgned-, . Pitcher Uobort Welngarther has been released" unconditionally. Raee hol-ses 'are often 'insured for amounts as high as 1100.000, England's area* Is loss than half that of Colorado. Light Color Suitings ; T IGHT grays, *-* light browns and shades of real tan. , "Also I some handsome ' green mixtures. Light colors are going to be worn i by- well dressed * men this Spring' more than eiver , before. Suits $20 j and more. Dan Block Tailor "100 Allies (o ft Tailor An Good" . 106 Main Street ? If. a tatter l? hit by a tin pitched t>?U, which bo plainly^ to avo|d, hoe h"?- the- rWht.'ibf f bay! Of doea Die fict'W?!?.! aiowly pitched' ball iiaVa.jLjfir enco In the'.'rallqtio^ Ihajnnrol ? ? : Tho batsman Is entitled..tojf baao. The aped of thaVMQLd not enter .Intojtha (jueaUoov At time It did. Yeam .agO"',Uit i waa changed however. , ;No*r. tliat la neoeaaary* la-for thwbi to try to avoid'bolng hit In 01 to. give him the tight to djtt. Kilt inM.ts raWorti^pi. bo traced bhek. toM'ft2gaalMW Spring Oper made-to-mec New'5t}''le^:f| standing distinction; merit! New woolen unrivaled excellence appearance arid 'qui N ew prices: that con! to present ideas ;b|iJ omy! ' ' ARCHIED. KAHN3KES . TV iklvblivj. tkU vuy AAUWVtUWWUV at;any other business or, soi tion, it's the well dressed : gets attention. CetgtV