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Prominence of Athletics at
Marshall Result of Efforts of
Boyd Chambers , Says Pepper
NO OTHER MAN IN THE STAiE
WOULD HAVE ACHIEVED
Ik SO MUCH.
Work of Football Team During Past
Season Has Made It Easier to Ar
range Attractive 1917 Schedule.
The prominence of athletics at Mar
shall college is a result of the individ
Hal efforts of Director Boyd B. Chaiu
b^rs, declared Wade Pepper, assistant
football coach at the Huntington nom
inal and former local newspaper re
porter. who is again in the city. Pepper
Fays that keeping the southern school
on* its present high plane without any
definite financial aid is a stupendous
1 task and that no other man in the
. Brat? would have achieved the results
which have crowned the efforts of
Hovd Chambers in the past lew years.
"The eleven this year was consid- j
t red by many Huntington people to be
the best In the history of the school,
declared Mr. Pepper in speaking of
the football team of the past season.
"Seven games were won, including
victories over Muskingum Otterbelu,
Ohio Northern and Morris Harvey. l)c-\
feats were suffered at the hands of
Marietta and Daris-Elkins while- Tran
Fvlvania, the best team in Kentucky,
was played to a 19-19 tie."
"While speed, weight and experience
nere more or less foreign to the squad
ih at reported In early September, there
never was a greater bunch of fighters
Assembled on any college gridiron and
i; was just physically possible to win
seven games. One other
would have been but the realization
of an improbable dream."
Pepper says the work of the team
(luring the prist season has made it a
much easier proposition to arrange a
schedule for 1017 and that il\? Tug
Ureen management has already re
ceived attractive offers from 1 ransyi
.vania, Kentucky. State. Otteroem. Den
. ? nison and Marietta. He declare ivhat
I the arrangement of an invutnj: ioot
' ball card with these importaiu schools
to choose from will be made a oom
partively simple proposition.
. SENIORS OF LfflSLY !
DEFEAT SOPHOMORES
As the time for the close of the inter
class sarr.es at the Linsly Institute
draw 3 near Interest in the fames Is fast
reaching its height. Yesterday the Sen
iors played the Sophomores, the game
resulting in a victory for the Seniors by
a 15 to 7 score. Coach Holden said last
night that nothing much could be judged
of the relative playing ability of each
man. although he had a line on the dif
ferent players from each of the classes.
The fltrs semester ends at Linsly Insti
tute Friday and immediately following
the Christmas holidays workout tor the
representatives o t the Orange and Black
v will be commenced.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION
TREND MINOS CHAMPS
NEW YORK. Dec. 11. ? A movement
to abolish the multitude of minor cham- i
pionships which of late years _ h&ve
- crowded the schedule of the United ]
States National Lawn Tennis Assocla- ,
tion Vi** taken definite form in a pro- <
posed amendment to the contsltution
which will be considered at the annual i
meeting of the association here in Feb
ruary. The amendment is recommended |
by th? executive committee of the as
sociation which met hero last week.
The proposed change would provide
' cnly for national, sectional, state and
city championships. Other champion
ship tournaments which are now annual .
fixtures would be eliminated as troph- 1
les In these events were won outright. I
MANY OUT FOR FIRST
BASKETBALL PRACTICE
Coach Calvin of the "Wheeling hlghj
school basketball team received a good-|
]y response to his call for recruits yes-,
terday. More than enough for five good
teams reported for the first practice and I
for more than an hour they were put|
through hard scrimmage and a short!
signal drill. From last year's team;
there are many stars left and from thoi
amount of material on hand tlje vacan- 1
cies will not be hard to fill. Inter-class,
games will be played, commencing W ed
nesday. A schedule Is to be announced
jater. For several days this week inter-;
class games will be played to enable.
These days, keeping prices!
moderate, is some job.
? It's a rare chance, how-]
ever, to show folks what a
great organization can do in!
time of stress.
Not only are we doing the
biggest business in our his
tory ? but our standards are
just as high as ever, thanks
to our close relations with1
the best mills both here and j
abroad.
The cloth is distinctive as well]
a? the cut ?
Winter suits and overcoats.
. Christmas order forms for firms |
and individuals -wanting to give]
orders on us now ready.
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Cloth and Silk Robes,
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HOUSE COATS
A House Coat, ?whether or not a J
man smokes, is the most comfort
able garment he can wear around
the home. We are showing some
axcellent designs in this splendid'
form of Christmas gift.
Priced, $6.00 to ?12.50.
Weather eor to-day: Rain.
the coach elect the best players to j
represent < > class. 1
Owing t i death of Robert Lee
Ritz, Whee. high school football cap
tain, no gam with scholastic teams of
the state wil. be played until after the]
Christmas holidays.
MAY STOP SPRING
EXHIBITION GAMES;
#
proposition Will Be Up for Action at!
Coming Meotinff of National
Xi**gne Leader*.
A movement will bo made at the com
ing National league meeting, so report
has it, to adopt a rule to prohibit inter
league games between major clubs prior
to the opening of the regular season.
The rule, if adopted, would interfere!
with the announced plans, of several j
clubs for spring exhibition tours.
William F. Baker, presiu it of tho
Phillies, is one of the champions of this
proposed amendment.
"I am convinced through personal ex
perience hi Philadelphia." said President'
Baker, "that; the game would be benefit- j
ed if anti-season games were prohibited
in all major leagues.
"Until last year it had been the cus
tom to play a spring series between the
Phillies and Athletics of from seven to
nine games. The clubs involved consid-j
ered themselves lucky if they were able
to beat the weather to half of the con
tests. These meetings got to be an oM
story with our fans. They did not pay. .
And they ruined both clubs as attrac- :
tions when the regular seasons opened.
The result was that outside clubs in ,
both circuits sutTered in their early vis- j
its to Philadelphia. ;
"I was responsible for terminating]
the Athletics ? Phillies scries. Connie i
Mack -was piqued at the time, lief
charged bad faith on my part: intimate |
e<i that as my club held the champion-^
ship and his " was down in the race. I .
declined a meeting, in which I had noth* j
ing to gain and all to lose. He pointed |
out that when conditions had. been re* j
versed his champions had always ue-j
commodaled the Phltlies.
"Mr. Mack was wrong in his surmise..
I can assure you. But 1 do not think |
he can deny that we both benefited by ?
not playing the series. 1 know my club:
did. In spite of the bad weather, ourj
business last spring was the best in ten!
?years.
"Teh years ago the season's opening i
in the major leagues was the classic
event of. baseball. It was attended with'
all the picturesque display and etnhu-j
slasm of the modern world's champion-,
ship series. That It has fallen to a rel- ;
atively unimportant Incident can be;
charged directly to the fact that nia-j
Jor league cities have been surfeited i
with baseball before the regular sea- j
sons."
In the meantime plans for the spring
tour of the Giants and Tigers are go- 1
lng ahead. Secretary Foster Qf the Gi- 1
ants is booking the games and he says!
there Is great demand for them from
southern cities and towns, thus contra
dicting the report that there ?afas luke
wannness in the south toward the pro
posed exhibitions.
CARPEfflElWILLING
TO COME TO AMERICA
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.? Tex Rickard.
who is endeavoring to bring George
Carpenter, the French pugilist, to this .
country for a boxing contest, with Jess ,
Wlllard. announced tonight that ho had
heard from Carpentier and that the lat
ter intimated a furlough would be grant
ed hhn by the army authorities and he
would be glad to come to America and
box for the benefit of the French Relief
Fund.
Carpentier asked for several minor
changes In the contract submitted for
his signature, including a sum to cover
his training expenses and Richard
agreed to these, it was said.
BASKETBALL TEAM
ORGANIZED AT Y. M.
The Y. M. C. A. Student basketball
team was organized at a meeting held ,
last night in the association building. .
Robert Armbrecht was elected man-;
ager of the five and Russell Bond was |
selected to lead the team on the floor. ,
Practice was held last night In th<* j
gymnasium and the following members
reported for the first practice: Howard
Driehorst. Russell Conley, Frederick
Tibbens, Russell Metzner, Robert Cor
nish, Clyde Eifler, Robert Scbaff, Ray
mond Lewellyn, Richard Bauer, How
ard Serig, Donald Robrecht and Don
ald -Young. >
They are open for games with any
fifteen or sixteen year old team and
would like to arrange a game with the
High school freshmen.
CONTRACTS LXT TO* HAM
GALLIPOLIS. 0.. Deo. 11.? United
States government engineers have let
contracts for the building of new locks
and dam No. Ir-cnted miles below
here in the Ohio river, it was announced
h?-ri? today. The cost of . the improve
ment is estimated at $1,000,000. It will
be of benefli to West Virginia coal op
erators..
WRIGLEY BUYS STOCK.
CHICAGO. Dec. 11.? Wm. Wrigley,
Jr.. added to Itis holding of Chicago
National league ball club stock by the
purchase of thr holdings of another
stockholder, it was announced today, j
Th?* name of tht3 former owner of the |
stock was not divulged.
INDIANA 100 YEAJtS OLD.
i N'DI .VNAI'Ol .IS. I rid.. !>? ??. 11. ? The |
slate" of Indiana is I"1' y>-ar.? old today.
The anniversary of Indiana's admission]
to the union of states was observed In
many of the schools with "admission
day" programs.
CONTINUED ; 1
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TTTREE BIO T.EAOUE MEETINGS TO1
BE TE LB IN NEW YOEK )
CITY THIS WEEK.
B&riiey Dreyfuss Is Still Beterpiiuod to :
Oust G-arry Herrmann From
National Commlnlon.
XBW YORK,' Dec. 11. ? Hoseball nuiK- ?
nates representing the National and 1 11- t
ternational leagues and the American ?
association atutemMi ^ in this city today:
for a series of coiucrences which are
expected to continue for the better part
of the week. The International league,
began its annual meeting shortly attar'
noon with a conference with commit- 1
tees appointed to represent the Aincri- !
can association relative to a series r*f .
inter-lcaguc games nt the end of thei
regular pennant season.
The National league is not to con- 1
vene in annual meeting until tomorrow !
afternoon, but a majority of the club,
owners were on hand early this evening,
prepared for what is expected to be a t
conferencc of more than usual impor- J
tunce. . !
Many subjects of considerable base- ?
ball Interest -were discussed in an in- !
formal way by the Wg league magnates;
and It appeared to be the general Im
pression that before the annual meeting j
adjourned there <would be legislation
passed of far-reaching effect upon the
professional end of the national sport.
One of the chief .subjects of discus
sion and consultatf&n will be proposed i
changes in the rules governing the I
world's series. ?*
Several of the magnatees expressed i
the opinion that there would be radical |
changes adopted by the National league i
and submitted to the American league
for ratification. Garry " Herrmann,
chairman ^of the National commission
and president of the Cincinnati club,
stated that he was heartily in favor of
playing the 1917 series under an en
tirely different system from the one
governing those of the last few years, i
Herrmann said that he advocated a [
series ba?ed upon the winning of live !
out of nine games; lower prices of ad
mission and the distribution of a por
tion of the players" share of the re
ceipts amonit the irtembers of the sec
ond. third and fourth teams In the or-!
der of their finish at the close of the
pennant races.
Blvtd* 8?ri?e X?c*lpta.
If the winning and losing playerjf
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t'ool was taxed 25 per ccnt or some sim- |
ilar proportion and tit Im sum divided '
among the players of the second, third .
and fourth clubs In each league, the
players would L>e doing what the two I
leagues have compelled the winning club .
owners to do fur several years. Other '
magnates stated that they favored the '
idea ill a general way. although they |
were not ready to say that the proposed
changes would be adopted in Just tho ,
manner outlined by Herrmann.
The National League heads also ex
pressed considerable surprise at the i
action of the International League In re- |
fusing to abide by the decision of the i
National Commission which ordered tlie I
Newark International club to pay $9,000 I
to the Brooklyn National League club
for the latter's franchise rights In New- j
ark. The National Commission was not I
unanimous in this finding. President j
Tener and Garry Herrmann voting for I
the award' and President B. B. Johnson, i
of the American League, being opposed I
to the payment of any money to the |
Brooklyn club. None of the National j
League magnates would express an opln- !
ion regarding the outcome of tho mat
ter, hut it could be seen that they wore
puzzled by the defiance of tho minor j
league heads.
Barney la Determined.
Barney Dreyfuss, president of tho ?
Pittsburgh club, announced that he was
still determined to bring about tho re- >
moval of Garry Herrmann from tho Na- ,
tlonal Commission if the some was pos- i
sible. He claimed to have the backing :
of one or moro fellow magnates but re- !
fused to give their names, stating that
the matter would bo fought out at the
meeting to-morrow.
In order to make the playing schedule
on the American- Association and Inter
national circuits more attractive next j
esason It was more than probable that ?
the club in these two organizations will 1
play a schedule of only 112 games next ;
year, to be followed by an lnter-league i
series of 48 games. Each of the sixteen j
clubs will put up 5500 and the league .
which wins a majority of these games ,
will divide the *8,000 amongst all the j
league's players, irrespective of the
number of games won or lost by tho |
clubs on the winning league.
There will be three games played in
each of the 16 cities and whether the |
series will begin in the east or west will
be decided on the toss of a coin. Both
sides are In favor of such a series and ?
It Is understood that all arrangements
will bo perfected to-morrow before the I
International League meeting ends.
President J. It. Price, of the Newark,
N, J., club, announced to-day that he had
appointed Tom Needhanj as manager for
his team. Needham, who Is a merchant
at Stoubenvllle. Ohio, was formorly a
catcher on the Chicago and New York
National League teams.
PLAYERS ARE SILENT
IN REGARD TO STRIKE
Boston Sport "Writer Says It Is High
Time That Z>eagae Magnates Sit
TJp and Take Notice.
For a month now tho magnates and
league officials have been scouting and
scoffing at the Idea of a players' strlko.
The time has come, however, whon the
chronic wall gets its full run of public
ity. And that baseball fvtrike, laughed
at up above, is llkoly to prove a real
source of trouble before tho new season
swings along with spring, writes Nick
Flately In tho Boston Journal.
The players have been peculiarly mum
on the matter, a dangerous thing in It
self. And conditions aro moro or less
perfect for an uprising.
It's an established lact that mighty
few athletes are signed up for next esa
son.
It's another fart that practically nil
club owners are going to try to cut sal
aries.
There is a sort of movement on among
the players to fight the chopping of war
time salaries. Whether this movement
comes to a head or not remains to be
seen, but with little Impetus and en
couragement It may shake up the na
tional pastime just as much as <li>l the
defun.-t Federal League.
Kfght here in Boston there are i wo big
league clubs. Ami s?> far as we can dis
cover, Just t h ree of the four score or
niore youths who are expected to answer
the call of the spring are signed up, to
wit. Ruth and Shore of the Ited Sox,
Gowdy the Braves.
All tfco real aro waiting and of course,
prepared to at least argue against a slim
mer bi-monthly check. If they wait and
argue long enough, and other players In
the other cities where conditions arc
practically Identical follow suit, the
magnates will ho ur> against it, sure
pop. It might bo a good idea for them
to stop laughing and do a little real
business.
I. 0. 0. F. VISIT TONIGHT
Excelsior Lodge No. 40 I. 0. O. F.,
this evening will entertain the other
Odd Fellows lodges of Wheeling, Alc
]\Iechen and Moundsville in the second
of the 1916-17 series of visitation meet
ings at the Odd Fellows hall at
Twelfth and Chapline strwets. Special
inusic has been arranged for the occa
sion and there will be a number of ad
dresses by representatives of each or
tho lodges taking part in the visita
tion.
VAN HALTREN, FORMER !
GIANT, IS PROSPERING:
! Vetoran Outfielder Take? Up &e*l Es
tate and is Now- Living
Like a nag-. ,
George- Van Haltren. former "famous
centerftelcer of the New York Giants, la
! now In tho landlord game. His real cs
j tato operations give rise to a belief that
I he' is well ofT. Van says that he works
I only when the notion strikes him.
Berorc he became a national baseball
? star he learned the lather's and plaster
, or's trade. He takes a turn as it now and
then, but his real estate investments ap
pear to huve provided against old age. <
Van Haltren is straight as an arrow i
at 50 years of age. He seems young in ,
comparison with many men ten years
junior. On the ball liel'd Van Haltren1
pave the impression of a giant in pro- /
portion. He is less than 6 feet by an
inch.
No baseball fan of a few yearn back
need be advised regarding Van Haltren's
reputation as a mighty wlelder of the ;
stick and a scorching outfielder. Any ?
man who can remain ten years witlf"""
New Tork and retire only because of a
broken leg is a fair to middling b*Il
player. .
Born in 1866. Van Haltren opened his
big league career with the famous Chi
cago White Stockings, in 1887. He play
ed with the Anson Club for three years.
Brooklyn, Baltimore and Pittsburgh had
him successively* until the season of
1894 saw him with the Giants. Here he
remained until 1904. Running to second
base one afternoon Van broke his leg.
Van Haltren ended his playing career
In the Coast League and later becam<
a Coast League umpire and a scout for ?
the Pittsburgh club.
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