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FEW CHAMPIONSHIP BOUTS SEEN IN NEAR FUTURE IN NEW YORK c/ACK BRITTON When the Walker boxing bill was passed New Yorkers sat back and dreamed of a championship bout every week. Tex Rickard did his best to make the dreams come true. Rickard and other promoters have a double difficulty in arranging cham pionship bouts. In some divisions there are no suitable opponents for the champions and in the other classes where talent is more plentiful, the title holders refuse to fight to a decision. Leonard Changes Mind. Benny Leonard, the lightweight king, recently stated emphatically that he will not box in New York because of the general incompetence of the judges appointed by the boxing com mission to weigh the merits of the boxers. Since then he has changed his mind. Leonard is not the only one to crit icize the poor work of the officials. Boxers of all divisions and the fans have observed that some glaring in justices have been done by the judg- ALDRICH STARS AT BASEBALL Captain of Yale Football Squad Is One of Greatest CoHege Diamond Players. Captain Aldrich of the Yale football ream is one of the greatest college ball players in the East. It is said that he is one of the few college ball play ers who could jump into the big show Captain Aldrich. and make good from the start, a la George Sisler. It Is understood that Aldrich already has received six offers from major league clubs. However, the chance of his turning professional WINNERS ON GRAND CIRCUIT Jeanette Rankin and Greyworthy Were Tied for Winning Honors With 11 Triumphs. The horses campaigned on the Grand Circuit this season won $581,- 982 in purses in a total of 315 races. The four-year-old Jeanette Rankin, 2:03 1 4, and the Boston flyer, Grey worthy, 2:0214, tied for leading win ner. each having 11 triumphs to its credit. MORE MATERIAL IS NEEDED It Is Opinion of Owners, Public and Press That Baseball in Majors Is Retrograding. Baseball in the majors has been retrograding for the last five years. That is the opinion of the owners, public and press. The magnates are naturally, all fussed up about It. The game isn’t so snappy. The pitching has been off eolor. In gen eral, the standard of ball has been considerably belojv former years. The magnates are of the opinion that play* ers are not being developed rapidly enough. They seek more leeway in thia feature of the game. It is said there has been a quiet agitation going on since the close of the season for a decided raise in the player limit. They want it placed at 50 men. The present limit is 40 men. with the right to hold only eight under op tion. This is not believed to be high enough in order to keep up the stand ard of the game. <JoHNNY JCiLBANS Ing. There has been no charge ol “crooked work.” The boxers complain merely that the judges are doing ba<F work because they don’t know better. Jack Dempsey is willing to put his t|tle at stake, but there is no one in the field to give the heavyweight champion a battle. Jack Britton is willing to fight in New York, but there are no welterweights threatening him unless it might be Benny Leonard, who is rapidly reaching his poundage. In cidentally, the Britton-Leonard bout seems a sure thing before the winter is over. Kilbane Wants Big Money. Johnny Kilbane is willing to risk his title in the Garden, but he wants so much money for the risk that even Rickard can’t meet his terms. The bantamweights are about the only ones willing to get in and listen to the decisions but they are having a lot of fun passing the title around among each other. They figure, per haps, that if they go in the ring often enough their opponent will get a bad decision and they will get a good one. Coltiletti Will Ride for Greentree Stable Jockey Frank Coltiletti, who was under contract to the H. P. Whitney stable during the sea son of 1921, has been signed to ride the flat racers of the Green tree stable next season. Coltiletti is a lightweight rider with an ex cellent record. He rode Broom spun in the Preakness stakes at Pimlico and Bunting in the Fu turity at Belmont park during the past season, winning both events and placing himself at the head of the 1921 stake-win ning jockeys. INTERESTING SPORT NOTES Soccer football is rapidly becoming the national sport of Switzerland. ♦ ♦ * Princeton’s new ice hockey rink will be ready for the 40 candidates Jan uary 15. ♦ * * Eddie Mulligan of the Chicago White Sox was a star soccer player in St. Louis before joining the big show. ♦ * * Anthony Pilcas, a Chicago semi-pro, has been signed for a tryout with the Vernon Coast league club next season. • ♦ • Don’t you sometimes wonder how much they really do pay for the baseball stars involved in all those SIOO,OOU deals? • * * The Washington club, so it is said, having failed to land Jimmy Caveney now seeks Jimmy Cooney from Mil waukee. • * * Talking about strikeout records, re member that a good deal of the time Cy Young pitched there was no foul strike rule. • • ♦ Virginia league moguls came to bat early and fixed April 29 as the open ing date of the 1922 season and Sep tember 6 as the getaway. ♦ ♦ * Dick Breen, manager of the Okla homa City club of the Western league for the past two seasons, has been ap pointed manager of the Des Moines club. • • • Looks as if the only interest shown in a return match between Jess Wil lard and Jack Dempsey is found in the person of Tex Rickard. J. M. Hartley, sub end on the Harv ard football team, is one of the prom ising candidates on the Crimson bas ket ball team as a forward. Princeton’s new skating rink has been named in honor of ’•Hobey” Baker, one of Princeton’s greatest athletes, who was killed in France. The profession of baseball umpire has been elevated to its highest pos sible plane of responsibility by Judge Landis. • • • Followeru of Illinois football de clare that Coach Zuppe alwa/l springs at least one surprise durinf the season. Ohio State believes it. CHARLES W. PADDOCK SAYS FORM IS BUNK Great Sprinter Runs Because o f Love of Sport Advises Athletes to Pick the Fellow in Race Most Feared and Then De feat Him—Concentration is Big Keynote. “Pick the fellow in the race yon fear the most and then do your best to beat him to the old finish line.” That’s the advice of Charles W. Paddock, one of the greatest sprinters in the world, who recently established a new record for the 220-yard dash by stepping the distance in 20 4-5 seconds. “When a man is running a short dash, his mind is so concentrated that everything in his past, present or fu ture comes to his mind," declared Pad dock today. “It is the same as with a man who is drowning—they both think of everything. The more con centrated a man's mind is, the better race be will run. “It is a peculiar matter that the physical things are not felt in a hard race. A runner may be spiked or he might strain a tendon and he’d never know it until after the race. I scarcely feel the ground the last 20 yards, in fact I do not touch it the last 16 feet, for I try to make a leap for the tape. I learned this when I was a freshman in high school and one fellow who was running fourth place came in second with a bound. He taught me how to leap. At first I made ten feet, then I increased it to twelve, fourteen now I make sixteen feet. “Form is all bunk, I think. I never was trained to run. Ido it just in my Charles W. Paddock. own way through the sheer love of running, just as an animal does. “Athletes learn to concentrate better than any other individual, in fact it is exceedingly time with athletes that ‘concentration is the keynote to suc cess.’ People claim the better the athlete the poorer student, but I don’t agree with them. If any athlete was as interested in his studies as he was in his particular event, he would be a better student than the average, be cause he has learned to concentrate better than the ordinary person.” Paddock attributes his great speed to his ability to get in and “dig” from the start to the finish. Charles W. Murchison, of the New York Athletic club, one of Paddock’s rivals, recently declared that if the Californian would leave his marks quicker he would run the century in 9 1-5 seconds. VARDON AND BRAID COMING Harry Vardon and James Braid, according to reports from England, will head the British golf invasion next year. Vardon plans to arrive in time for the national open champion ship at Skokie, Chicago, in July. To Replace Ruth. Bobby Roth is being depended on to help out next spring until the return of Babe Ruth. Roth, who was out of the game the greater part of last year because of an injured knee, is hopeful that an operation recently per formed will bring the leg around as good as ever. . Southpaws Are Scarce. Almost every major league club is anxious to make some kind of a deal that will land a good southpaw. Never has there been quite the dearth of high class left-handers as exists in both the American ana National league at the present time. Oberlin Elects Richards: Reese Richards ”23 of North Adams, Massachusetts, has been elected cap tain of the Oberlin college eleven for next season. Will Net Come to U. S. Albert G. Hill. British amateur nne tnlle record bolder, will be unable to come to this country to race thi* winter. THE ELY MINER, ELY, MINN. ¥MTIONAL< CAPITAL AITAIDS Westward the Star WASHINGTON. —The passing of Boies Penrose marks the end of an era characterized by the domination of the senate by eastern senators who were themselves great political bosses and directs attention to the rise of the West to command ing influence in congress. Penrose was the last of the eastern bosses who dominated the Republican party for a generation and shaped legislation in the senate. The group included such men as Aldrich of Rhode Island, Quay of Pennsylvania, Hale of Maine and Platt of New York. With Penrose gone there is not a Marines Are Still CONTINUED maintenance of Ameri can armed forces in Haiti, ap pointment of an American high commissioner and approval of a sug gested new loan are among important recommendations of the special senate committee investigating conditions in Haiti. The formal report will not be made at once, but a summary was given out by Senator McCormick after conferences with Secretaries Denby and Hughes. The report says, in part: “The members of the committee are unanimous in the belief that the con tinued presence of the small American force in Haiti is as necessary to the peace and development of the country as are the services to the Haitian gov ernment of the American officials ap pointed under the treaty of 1915. There can be no abrogation of the treaty, and. at this time, no diminution of the total force of marines. “It is important that steps should be taken forthwith to co-ordinate the labors of the representatives of the United States in the government of Haiti and of the so-called American treaty officials. Choice of Bonus Plans for Veterans (mi/ FIVE optional features are em bodied in the veteran's adjusted compensation bill which congress is to take up. The measure gives the ex-service man his pick of cash pay ment, or paid up twenty-year en dowment insurance, or vocational training, or land settlement assistance, or aid in acquiring a home or a farm. One popular but erroneous impres sion seems to be that the measure is a flat cash soldiers’ bonus. And to re move this and acquaint the country at large with all phases of the proposed legislation the American Legion is launching an educational campaign. The Legion, by the way- at the request Big Fund to Aid Uncle Sam’s Shipping DIRECT remuneration of Amer ican ship operators out of a- fund amounting to probably $34,000.- 000 for the fiscal year 1922’23, and establishment of a $100,000,000 mer chant marine loan fund, are among the features of the comprehensive plan for the aid of the American merchant marine submitted to the shipping board by the committees of experts recently appointed to work out a program for presentation to congress by President Harding. The program, as submitted by the I Establishment of a $100,000,000 mer experts, embodies both direct aid and chant marine loan fund under the ad indirect aid for the American mer- I ministration of the shipping board, chant marine. The aim. as stated in Granting of a deduction from fed the recommendations of the experts, is | eral income taxes on the basis of a to put American shipping on an even i small percentage of the freight paid competitive basis with British ship- ; by exporters and Importers on Amer- Ping- I ican flag vessels and also a greater The remuneration would apply to all allowance for depreciation on ships American steamships plying in and for income tax purposes. out of United States ports regardless Creation by the government of a of their service. > marine insurance corporation to insure Indirect aid for the American mer- its own ships and to offer hull insur chant marine as proposed, includes ance at cost to privately owned Amer the following: ‘lean vessels. Federal Personnel Board Is Planned of President Harding. The plan is ex- plained as follows: “The board shall be composed of ' on « representative from each depart- ✓ -“*1 ment and independent establishment - "W; The president of the civil service com- S' - - mission the United States shall be .. -- . ex-officio chairman of the board, or WrtS federal said commission may designate a chair- Ina ,o “The duties of the board shall be t o formulate policies and plans de signed to place the personnel adminis- ANNOUNCEMENT Is made of the (ration of the federal government coming establishment of a abreast of the best practices in private federal personnel board that will enterprise with due regard to the pecu classlfy and co-ordinate the activities Parities of the public service.” of government employees in W ash- ■ j n the prosecution of its activities it ington. The statement, as out- shall consider, among other things, the •ined by Charles G. Dawes, director following: of the budget. is similar in “The perfection of methods wherebv scope to personnel branches already the eivil service commission will be idopted by many large businesses and advised regarding the success or fail t is designed to work with the civil ore o f persons selected through it* -ervice commission in listing the quail- examinations, and whereby provision cations and eligibility for promotion will be made for the reassignment or f federal employees. the separation from the service of pw- The plan has the hearty indorsement sons who are unsatisfactory.” of Senate Control — man left in the senate who holds his state politically in the hollow of his hand. The only one of the eastern leaders left is Senator Lodge of Massa chusetts and he is not boss of his state and never has been. He is the Re publican leader of the senate. The outstanding leaders of the sen ate today are such men of the West-as Cummins and Kenyon of lowa, Mc- Cumber of North Dakota, who succeeds Penrose as chairman of the finance committee; Lenroot of Wisconsin, Smoot of Utah, Watson of Indiana, Borah of Idaho, Johnson of California, and Warren of Wyoming. The seniority rule still holds in con gress and the West has risen to power because it has been re-electing its senators aad representatives more generally than has the East in recent years. Rising to the top of the list through the operation of this rule, western senators now dominate such major committees of the senate as agriculture, appropriations, commerce, education and labor, finance, inter state commerce, judiciary and post offices. Needed in Haiti PROBAOtt WILL 6TW A “There should be appointed a spe cial representative of the President, a high commissioner in whom should be vested the usual diplomatic powers of an envoy extraordinary, and to whom, furthermore, all the American offi cials appointed under the treaty, as well as the commandant of the ma rine brigade, should look for direction and guidance. , “They believe there ought to be no further delay in the matter of the new loan, in order that the debt held in Europe may be discharged on ad vantageous terms, and the just claims of Haitian citizens against their own government may be promptly paid. of congress drew up the tentative bill which was introduced as expressing the composite views of the service men. At the outset emphasis is laid on the fact that the purpose of the bill is not to hand a “gratuity” or a “money gift” to the fighting forces. Its intent is to adjust to some extent the eco nomic disadvantage which fell upon the soldiers and sailors. All the stress is laid on the discharging of an “eco nomic debt,” not a “sentimental debt.” The soldier or sailor was out of the “velvet” when wages were running high; he got back to find himself out of touch with the economic fabric; often his job gone or conditions changed at the office or in the shop or his business or practice shot to pieces. Estimates are that the bill would apply to some 4,565,700 men who served in the army and navy. Its benefits are limited to those below she rank of cap tain in the army or marine corps and lieutenant in the navy. Men who were given commissions while doing clerical work in the departments also are ex cluded. ST rtJKO 5® A fajt - AID U.S. M BLUE OR YELLOW? By AGNES G. BROGAN Copyright, 1*22, Western Newspaper Union. “And we will have a blue rug in tlie guest room,” said Janey, “because mother loves blue, and she will be coming to visit us a tot.” The young man opposite moved un comfortably in his chair. “Now, Janey,” he remarked, “You have decided upon everything in our prospective home, without giving me a look In. I kept quiet, while you ar ranged the living room in fancy, and fitted out your dining room; nor did I say a word when you left no place for my hobbies or studies. But my mother will come to visit us too, and she happens to have a preference for yellow. “It’s been almost an obsession with her—a cheery sunshiny room. I’ve heard her dream over it often, and coax, dad in her diffident way for a new rug or a set of curtains, and he, reading and smoking over his paper, put all her dreams to flight with a casual refusal. ‘Old rug good, enough ?’ he’d say, or ‘What do we want with new fixtures when Jim is leaving for a home of his own’; and mother would smilingly submit. “Pour mother, putting always my wishes before her own. So I made a little plan, it was the very might that you said yes. Janey, and I was swing ing along under the stars, and glory ing over our home, and I said to my self, mother will have her yellow cheer-room there, and she can come to it as often as she wants. So, little lady—” big Jim moved closer and placed his hand over Janey’s. “you’ll give in on this, won’t you, and come out to choose a yellow rug?” The girl withdrew her hand. “My mother,” she returned evenly, “has always loved blue. And she al ways had to buy furnishings which happened to be cheapest at the time, or more serviceable, so her own particular room is conglomeration. She managed, and scrimped, the way mothers do, to make my room rose colored. And Pm bringing my rose covered mahogany to our own house, Jimmy. After you left me that night, I did some planning of my own. It was a blue room that I planned, for mother to revel in, when she could steal away for a time from father and his exactions, and—l will go with you,’’ ended Janey firmly, “to choose a blue rug tomorrow.” Jim turned from his fiancee without kissing her. “Good-night,” he said ab ruptly, and was gone. Rebellious! y, Janey went to her mother. “Sometimes,” she said, anger flush ing her cheeks, “I feel as if I do not want to marry Jim. He's so terribly dominating; if I allow him to rule me now, mother, I shan’t have the life of a mouse,” The woman bending patiently over her mending smiled. “How does Jim try to rule you, dear?” she enquired. “About our house,” Janey excitedly replied. “I want a blue guest room; you know you also like blue, mother — and Jim is obstinately determined on yellow.” Mrs. Wilfred turned a seam, “Yellow is bright and pleasing,” she noncomit tingly returned. Jim found his mother reading. “How is our little Janey tonight?” she asked brightly. “Janey,” her somber faced son replied, “has ex hibited this evening a new phase of character. And I don’t like it. She has showed me that I am to have no word in the planning of my own home. Mrs. Gray looked distressed. “Girls usually like to plan their houses.” she defended, “perhaps there is just one certain thing that Janey has set her heart on.” When Jim, stubborn in his suffering determination not to surrender to what he considered Janey’s whim, absented himself from her presence for weeks, Janey, too. suffered In silence. The little house in Arcady was neither sought out, nor tenanted; while blue room or yellow room, were not to be thought of bearably—at all. Janey’s mother and Jim's mother con sulted together, dismayed. “My dear.” said Janey’s mother to her one day. “I want you to go down to Hedstrom’s and select a blue rug. Father sees his way now for us to re furnish my upper front room.” And “Jim." begged Mrs. Gray dif fidently, “would you mind stopping at Hedstrom’s this noon during your lunch hour? There is a yellow’ rug there that I have arranged to buy. The salesman will show it to you. I'd like your judgment before having the rug sent to the house.” The salesman at Hedstrom’s was becoming impatient with his apathetic customer. Janey, listless, pale, viewed indifferently one blue rug after another; she was wondering how Jim could so persistently avoid her—and if he had known this queer longing ache, which constantly possessed her. A gruff voice nearby caused the sales man to turn with a start. “Something in yellow,” demanded Jim. His eager eyes met Janey’s “In —in blue I mean,” he amended breath lessly. I’m interested only in bine rugs, understand: I have no wish to ever see —a yellow rug again.” The salesman stared: His listless cus tomer was suddenly close at this queer young man’s elbow. “And as for me.” she laughed back softly, “you can roll up all your blue rugs. Mother may chose her own. Why. all the fixings I*ve been making during the past weeks are yellow,” she told Jim, hap pily—“the sunniest, cheeriest kind'of vellow.” Begging the Question. 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