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Show Battle for Hornsby's Old Job 'rrN ."- -s; i ; . 3 1 ' ' .,. Andy Rest and Andy Cohan. The two Andys Reese and Cohen one an Irishman tind the other a Hebrew, will buttle ll out for the second buse position on the Giants next summer. Reese has the call right now because of his sensational play In the pinches last season, but Cohen wa-- t far from a failure during his first summer of play for McGraw. Cohen had a hard row to line when he faced the fans of New York last spring, for he had been played up In the papers all winter as a coming star, and then he hud to fill the shoes of the mighty Hornsby at aecond base. record for a newcomer to fust coin-puny- . He came to the club as un out-fielder and Inter was shifted to third base. He mode many errors at the hot corner but they never phazed this game and aggressive boy. He was He Is the bull terrier type. Instinctive and Indom-itable in hla pluy. Handy Andy played the Infield and the outfield In 11)27 and last season he was tried at sec-ond base when Cohen's batting slump would not yield to treatment, lie played the bug like a veteran. Now, Andy Reese's hatting average Ana Dehind llornsliy loomed the bril-liant Krlsch. And then, back behind Frlsch and his exploits about aecond base wua the phantom memory of I.arry Doyle. Nothing daunted by the achievements of his predecessors, the young Hebrew boy, playing his first year In the majors, buckled In and tried hla best to live up to all of bis advance notices. He batted well. If not grandly. But as the season passed the midway mark, Cohen's batting full off and his fielding was not so sure. Reese, playing his second season with the Giants, bad a remarkable last season was Just .308, nothing to get excited about and hla fielding was not up to the murk made at that station In days gone by by Frlsch, but his spirit, bis aptitude and bis possibilities have ludeared him to McGraw. The type of which great players are made, he does everything In the game better than ordinary. He can hit field and run. He haa cour-age. In fact, be haa too much unc-tion, and must gain more poise to at-tain his true value to the game. He Is aggressive and ambitious. He takes care of himself and gives everything he has every day to the game. if MX f Tha Wmr mt Clm Puingt DwriUJ in a RtmmrkabU Sn' hy mm Officer of tk, Mmri S f Capt JOHN W. THOMASON, Jr. (Illustrated by tha AutKor from Sketches MiU on tha Battlefield) A (IB by th SJ.II Sydlct. Ins.) f w VU ' m 'VI ' m Vy-fa hill he had to stop oneonly man I ever know that could make this monke-y- meat taste like anything! And he goes and gets bumped off. Hell I That's the way with these kids. This needs an onion." The old Hoche helmet made an ex-cellent thing to cook with. You jabbed a few holea In It with a bayo-net, so's to have a draft and a mess-k-it fitted" over It beautifully. When you could get It, strips of high ex-plosive, picked up around a 155-m-gun position, made the best fuel, giv-ing you a fine, hot, smokeless fire. Smoke was not desirable on the front Tills cliap la frying hard bread In bacoa gDease; he will sprinkle a little bet-aujra- r on It and have a real deli-rac- Filling, too. As he goes about this domestic labor, he Is humming "Carry Me Back to Ole Vlrglnny." But the Ales In the background are at-tracted by the smell not the song. He ate half the mess, with scrupu-lous exactness, and drank his coffee. He put the lid on the mess-ki- t, and covered Jim's coffee, now getting cold. He smoked a cigarette and talked shop with his platoon sergeant. He f CHAPTER VIII Continued More daya and nights, slipping, "Characterless, Into each other. Being less than a company In strength, the First battalion of the Fifth was not called on to attack again. They lay la their holea and endured. And after certain daya the division was relieved. The battalion marched out at night. The drumming thunder of the guns fell behind them and no man turned hla fact to look again on the baleful lights of the front : On tha road they passed a regiment of the relieving division full, atrong companies of National guardsmen. Tbey went up one side of tha road; and In ragged column of twos, un-sightly even In the dim and fitful light; tha marines plodded down the other side. They were utterly wesry, with shuffling fet and hanging heads. The division had Just done something that thos old maatera In the art of war, tha French, and the world after them, Including Ludendorff, were to acknowledge remarkable. They had hurled the Boche from Blanc Mont and freed the aacred city of Rhfclms. They had paid a price hideous even for this war. And they were spent. If there was any idea tn those bang-ing beads It waa food and rest The Marine major general com-manding, Lejeune, It la related, went serenely to Bleep. And tiey relate fur-ther that a staff coloiel who, like Martha, was careful snd troubled about many things, came to rouse him with a tale of disaster: "General, general, I have word from the front that a regiment of marines Is en-tirely surrounded by tha Germans I" "Yes, colonel? Well, sir," said the general, sadly and sleepily, "I am sorry for those Germans 1" and re-turned to hla slumbers. . The Guard companies gibed at tha heavy beet sugar that looked like sand. His face was pale and some-what troubled, and his week's' beard was straggling and unwholesome. He was not an man and be was battalion scout officer. A gtn-tlem-e for the rude business of war, he would continue to function until he broke and one aensed that ha would suffer while about It. . , . "I don't like monkty-mea- t Before this smell" be waved his spoon petu-lantly "got Into my nose I never could eat It But now you can't smell but ont thing, and, after all, you've got to eat" "What th' Hell, John?" sniff-s- niff I "Has that dead Hoche on tha other aide of you begun to announce hlsself? Thewl" Tha d rose from the letter be was writing by the stub of a candle and sniffed busily sniff snnnn "Damna-tion I Captain, It'a our supper I" With sverted face be presented the grayish cbunka of beef that reposed ofi the mess-ti- "Urggg throw it out!" He disappeared up the crumbled steps to the entrance of the hole. A few minutes later he slid down sgaln, followed tn a shower of dust and clods by a battalion runner. "All the beef was bad, El Capltan I What the young men are saying about the battalion supply would make your hair curl I And here's our attack orders." Troops lay In the wood now ; a bat tallon of the Sixth and two companies of the Fifth regiment outfit, half of which was still In line on tht flank of tha Bols de Belleau. These com-panies had come out at dawn, attend-ed by ahell-flre- ; they had plunged Into tha wood and slept where they huited, unawnktnrd except the wounded by the methodical shelling to which the Boche treated the place every day. Now, In the evening, they were awase ana nungry. i ney squat-tfe-each man In his hole, and did what they could about it A savage-lookin- g lot, In battered helmets and dirty uniforms. But you saw them cleaning their rifles. Tha scout officer, with his hand out to lift away the coffee which was. In his Judgment, boiled, heard: "Mr. Braxton? Yeh, he's up that away, with the lootfcant" "Hey, yuh battalion runner, you what'a up? Hey?" "Scout officer? Over yon-der, him wlf the green blouse " and a soiled battalion runner, Identified by his red brassard and his air of ona laden with vital Information, clumped up and saluted sketchlly. "Sir, the major wants to see the battalion scout officer at battalion headquarters. The major said : Ittght away, air." The scout officer swore, Inexpertly, for he was not a profane fellow, but Old Boche Helmet Mads an Excel-lent Cooking Pot gave some very hard words and his last candle-en- d to a pale private who admitted blistered heels, and then stood over the man while he tallowed his noisome socks. He Interviewed his chaut-cha- gunners, and sent them off to beg new clips from the battalion quartermaster sergeant. It grew Into the long French twilight; Boche planes were about, and all the anti-aircraft stuff In the neighborhood was furiously in action. uruimen oanaiion as they passed. Sluglng and Joking they went High words of courage were on their Hps and nervous laughter. Save for a weary random curse here and there, tha battalion did not answer, "Hell, tbem birds don't know no bet-ter. . , ." "Yeh, wa went up slng- - In" too, once good Lord, how long go I . . . They won't sing when they come out . . . or any time fter . . . In thia war." . . . "Damn you, can't you march on your own aide tha road? How much room you need?" .. ' e e It waa nice, back In billets, rest-ing between battles, to eft on a bench in tha sun and watch the world go by. Odette, the strapping and genteel daughter of the baker of Croutte-aur-Main-her herds the duck Anatole into tha courtyard of her mother's bakery. (M. Boulanger was last heard from on the Chemln des Dames ; Mme. Boulanger keeps the establishment going.) Thtf duck Ana-- , tole has been ordered for dinner by two lieutenants of the First battalion, tha consideration being 87 francs 80 centime Two privates of the Forty, ninth company are choiring softly "Mademoiselle from Armentleres" as aha passes.' It is Just as well that neither Odette nor Anatole comprend i'anglals. Toward dark the Boche began to slum 77s and 150s Into the wood northwest of Lucy. It became a place of horror, with stark cries in the night between the rending crashes of the shells. About an hour before mid-night the word was passed and the two companies got out and went up serosa the pestilential wheat-field- s and Into the Bola da Belleau. That same afternoon an unasslgned colonel bad come up to brigade bead- - wltn infinite feeling, "flood God, I hope it ain't If you can keep my cof-fee hot, Tommy be right back as soon aa I can. Save my alum. Don't let, anything happen to my slum" Tha words trailed In the air aa ba went swiftly off, buckling his pistol-bel- t. The battalion commander was that kind of an officer. The lieutenant growled in sym-pathy : "Somebody'a alwaya takln' the joy out of life. Jim, he's hungry aa CHAPTER IX Monkey-Mea- t In a mangled place called tha Wood Iforthwest of o two lieu-tenants of the Marina brigade squat-ted by a hole the aize of a coffin and regarded with attention certain cook-ing operations. The older, and per-haps tha dirtier of tha two, waa In-tent upon a mbss-klt- , which was balanced on two atonea and two German bayonets over a can of solidified alcohol. In the mess-ki- t was simmering a grayish and unat- - I am, an' that'a aa hungry aa a bitch wolf. That'a the trouble with this war stuff; man misses too many meala. No tellln' what tha old man wants. Glad I ain't a scout officer. This war'a hard on Jim he takea It too serious. I'll wait though." Ab-sently ha drank tha tomato juice left In the can. Ha tried his coffee, and burned bla mouth. "WIsb I had the man here that invented thia aluminum canteen cup! Time the damn cup's cool enough so you won't burn the hide off yo' Up, the coffee's stone cold." Then, later: "Not boiled enough Jim, he's used to beln' waited on never make rustler, he won't . . "Well, he's long In comln'. Old man sent him forward to make a map or something, most prob'ly." He tasted tha alum. "That Tompkins I Why the quarters, wantea to go to Paris, he did, and the brigade commander said that the only way to get there was to bring in a prisoner. One prisoner; seven days' leave. Be glad to get a 'prisoner. Intelligence had word of a new division or so moved in over there last night; Ideotlcatlon not ytt 'positive. This colonel took steps. He was a man of parts snd very desirous of the fleshpots of the Place de 1'Opera. There was an elegant Frnch captain attached to brigade for no very evi-dent reason Just attached spoke English snd knew vintages. Said to be an expert on raids. The colonel put It up to him In such and such a way ; would hb go? Yes, but certainly. Just a small raid. My Colonel? Oh, a very small raid. Now, as to artil-lery support a map was broken out j j (TO BK CONTINUED.) Mils. From Armintferes. tractive matter with doubtful yellow-ish lumps, into which the lieutenant fed, discriminatingly," bits of hard brtad and frayed tomatoes from a can. "Do what you w 111 with it," he ob-served, "monkey-mea- t is monkey-mea- t It's a great ptty that damn Tompkins had to get. himself bumped off last night when we came out He had a way with monkey-mea- t, the kid did hell I I never have any luck with orderlies 1" The other waited on two canteen cupe stilted precariously over a er flame. The water In them began to boll, and he supplied coffee tha coarse-groun- pale coffee of the Frogs with a spoon that shook a lit-tle. He considered : "S'pose I'd better boll the sugar in with it," he decided. "There Isn't so much of It, you know. We'll taste it more." And he added 0e contents ef a little muslin sack Sailor Gave Rlckard 1 I Nickname of "Tex" Tei Rlckard's nickname by 5) g which the world knew bin waa S acquired lo 1895 when he wai & x on steamship going from Seat-- tie to Alaska during tha Klon-- g dike gold rush. A aallor on the g 8 gtilp called Rlckard "Tex" and S the name waa taken op by mem- - S bera of a theatrical troupe on j the hoaL a Denver Boy ...... ia Winner I Evrjr motne' real lze how Important It ... la to teach children f ' ' 2 ?l good hablta of con- -' t f duct but man' 01 T, -- ly them fall to reatlzo Vp? tn8 Importance of teacnIll8 their chll- - I? J&&rtrn good bowel hab-its until the poisons from decaying waste held too long In the system have begun to affect the child's health. , . .. Watch your child and at the first lgn of constipation, give him a little California Klg Syrup. Children lova Its rich, fruity taste and It quickly drives away those distressing ail-ments, such ar headaches, bad breath, coated tongue, biliousness, feverish-nes- s, fretfulness, etc. It gives them a hearty appetite, regulates their stom-ach and bowels and gives tone and strength to these organs so they con-tinue to act normally, of their own accord. For over fifty years, lead- - A Ing physicians have prescribed It for half-sic- bilious, constipated chll-dre- n. More than 4 million bottles used a year shows how mothers de-pend on It Mrs. a O. Wilcox, 385014 Wolff St., Denver, Colorado, says : My son, Jackie, is a prize winner for health, now, but we had a lot of trouble with him before we found his trouble was constipation and began giving him California Fig Syrup. It fixed him up quick, gave him a' good appetite, made hint sleep fine and he"s been gaining In weight right along since , the first few days, taking It" To avoid Inferior imitations of California Fig Syrup, always look for the word "California' on the carton. For Wounds and Sores Try HANFORD'S Balsam of Myrrh Ail imltn an nlWU tonMmmmj br lb bnt httl M ai m'4. I "PI 1 WienRod Sours Lots of folks who think they have "indigestion" have only an acid condi-tion which could be corrected tn five or ten minutes. An effective anti-aci- d llke Phillips Milk of Magnesia soon restores digestion to normal. Phillips does away wltb all that sourness and gas right after meals It prevents the distress so apt to occur two hours after eating. Wbat a pleas-ant preparation to take I And how good it Is for the system! Unlike a burning dose of soda which ts but temporary relief at nest Phillips Milk of Magnesia neutralizes many times its volume in acid-- Next time a hearty meal, or too rich diet has brought on the least dis-comfort try PHILLIPS Milk of Magnesia HAD TO WORK J00 HARD Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Gave Her Strength Mt Carmel, Pa. "After my second baby waa born I had to work too hard '" , and be on my feet to" soon because jTv. my Jiusband was j OV' 111. Arter Tils death I - k1 I was In such a f ,' ' weakened and run- - " I down condition 3 that nothing l v seemed to help ma. " Jt I ojti starting the ? fourth bottle of fk y Lydia R. Pinkham's 7 x tr- -. - 1. 1 2--2 LU pound and feel a great dsal better. I am much stronger end dou't get so tired out when I wash or work hard. I do housekeeping and dressmaking and I highly recommend the Veiretobla Compound as a ton'c. I am willing to answer any letters I re-ceive asking about it." Mes. Gebtbttub Burrs, 4U s. Market, Mt Carmel. Ta. 4 I W. N. U., 8!t take City, No. fP i. i FARRELL LOOKING TO BRITISH OPEN Champion Guards Against Being Over-Golfe- d. .Tohnny Farrell, open golf champion of l lie United States, Is taking advtca from the world's greatest caddy, old man experience. Johnny has found that too much ts a plenty and will play little serious golf until the time comes to sharpen up his game for the Important Inva-sion of England next spring. "Since I won the title at Olympia fields lust June, I have found that over-golfin- Is much worse than the opposite handicap, under-golfing,- " sni J the champion. "I am trying to find the happy medium so I will be right for the Ryder cup matches In England and the British open to follow. "All the golf I played during the summer and autumn has not hurt me physically. I weigh 15S pounds, which my trainer, Artie McGovern, says Is my best weight. "I played 75 matches with Gene Sarazen, added 80 exhibitions with Walter Hagen and took part In six tournaments. On the whole' I did fair- - let Z!rtf ff rTniiiii.-'T.V- , '.y- -fl Champion Johnny Farrell. ly well for 1 was second In two tourna-ments and won first money at Port-land, Ore., where an amateur. Dr. 0. F. Willing, won the title. "1 plan to play In the Florida tourna-ments for they will serve as a tuning up process for the overseas play and, of course, I will play every day at St Augustine, but that does not count. There Is no strain when you play golf for fun. The tug comes when every shot may make or break you." Johnny played the Pebble Beach course at Del Monte while he was In California. He was asked about the layout where the national amateur will be played next Steptember. r me, wnii uiie traiTi'iiuii, lie ur- - dared. "I don't think the ninth bole will do. In fact I am pretty sure they will change that before the amateurs reach the course. "The ninth fairway alopes away to the ocean and It Is not a fair hole. In ' a match I played there, Walter Hagen and Olenna Collett both hit beautiful tee shots, straight down the middle and we nil thought they were In per feet position. Both balls rolled out of bounds Into the ocean. "I can find no fault with the other holes. It Is a real championship test. Town Watchmaker Knew How to Tell Time of Day When the .Illinois Athletic club basket ball team of Chicago held the national title It toured the country under the management of Julius .Kla-wan- Julius liked California so well he returned to the coast soon after-wards, and remained there. "One night while on our way to Oakland we played a tough game at American Fork, Utah," aays Klawans. "It was tough because the floor was luld on springs. Our boys felt as If they were competing on the waves of the ocean and had a terrible time keeping their feet "Naturally they couldn't put up their usual game of basket ball. Time was being kept by an old gentleman, who had a woman's wrist watch. I checked up on hltn with my stop watch. "We were only a few points ahead at the end, and mighty lucky at that because under the conditions. It waa anybody's game. "Two minutes before the end the old gentleman ran out and called time. "'But there are two minutes left," I objected. "He had his mad up at once. 'Young man, I've been watchmaker tn this town for twenty-fiv- e years and I know how to tell the time of day,' be said Which ended the argument." Ijporfingfouibsl . The n series was started In 1873. G5 years ago. Golf has been officially recognized as an "athletic sport" In France. . A London (Eng.) soccer club may visit Argentine next summer for a series of games. Al Lang will manage Hymle Miller, national amateur flyweight champion, In the professional ranks. More than 7,300 thoroughbreds were In training this year on tracks throughout the United States. Arllc Mucks, the old shot putter, Is now a football official. He stnnds 6 feet 6 Inches and weighs 200 pounds. e Johnny Ertle, who won the ban-tamweight boxing champlonbhip when he weighed 113 pounds, now tips the beam at 160. The battery men of the Brooklyn Robins will report at Clearwater, Fla., Murch third, and the rest of the squad a week loter. e 'Tossing the caber" Is still one of the most thrilling events In sporting meets in Scotland. The ancient game le hplri nnniintlv. A new division of the A. A. U. would provide for championships In the East the Middle West, the West and the Far West. Turkey la preparing to go In vigor-ously for athletics, beginning with gymnastic training, after the Swedish and German models With the retirement of Jack Hownrd and Johnny Callahan, veteran Amer-ican Jockeys, Bill Kelsny. thirty-seven- . Is the oldest pilot now riding. In point of service. The I'.mves got a butch of good nicknames, and well known ones, for use this yeur. Hnnkus-I'iinkii- s Gowdy. ".lawn" Kvers the Ctab, und Itubblt Mnranv-Ill- are back, " Hosing Is flotirlslilug In Shnnglml.-whic- h Is one of the most cosmopolitan cities In the world. In a recent t show, nine different nationalities were represeuied among the boxers. Since the Dixie slakes, a I'imllco racing feature, was revived In l!)24. the winners have been Chacolct Sarazen twice, and Mars. A greut nice is pre-dicted for the opening day al Plmllco George Rothner, who held the light-weight wrestling championship of the world for 20 years, met all sizes of matnien np to nearly S00 pounds al though he never weighed mure than 135 pounds. Veteran professional golfers of New York are planning an organization In which those who have served si courses Id this country and abroad for twenty years or more will bo eligible for membership. " The light harness racing champion of 11)28 Is the Cnnadlun-bre- pacer Winnipeg, whose mile In 1 :57 over the Fort Miami course at Toledo stamped him as the greatest pacing gelding of all time. The SL Louis Curdlnnls announce the release on option of Heine Sand, veteran shortstop, to Rochester, N. Y- - of the International leucue. The mother of Dr. J Colin Gregory, British tenuis player who came here for the national singles, was the first female tennis champion of Yorkshire. Rob Zuppke says girls will play football when they want to have broken noses, dislocated shoulders, and so forth. That might be s thought for the beauty parlors to promote. Canada's Memorial The sinning tower of Ottuwa Is the Victory tower In the parliament build-ings, which represents Canada's me-morial to her .13.000 sons who died In the World war. A carillon compris-ing A3 belli has been placed In a me-morial chamber from where recitals are given. The largest bell weighs 22.400 pounds and Is 100 Inches In diameter. The weight of the smallest bell ts 10 pounds and the diameter Is 8 Inches. Minister as Boxer rTV it. ltev. tloruce Hiiruiuu cun put over some heavyweight sermons us well as jub and counter In heavyweight box lng circles. Doctor Hunmin ts a freshman at Syracuse university and last year was a member of the football team. This year he's out for the box lng team and promises proficiency Doctor llarmaii hnlls from Milton. Ps., where he began to learn boxing around the mills. He Is of the Merh odlst denomination. Chicago Is to Get New Race Track for Runners Another race track for the Chicago metropolitan district Is announced. It will be erected on the North side, on the newly opened Waukegnn road and will cover approximately 200 acres. Packers of the project are A. C. Thompson, president of a large Chi cago mortgage bond company. Chicago nmniiftlf turfrl-- a anrl aimrtflmon The new plant will give the Chi-cago metropolitan six race tracks. In addition to the new one they are: Lincoln Fields, Hawthorne, Arlington Park, Washington Park and the Au rorn track. Work on the new plant, which will care for 23,000, Is to start at once Thompson said. ManV Food Supply for; Seventy Years of Life If he had elected to have all his vege-tables served at once, they would have come to hlra on a train of cars, the pod containing all his peas being over three miles long. He has had 8,000 pounds of sugar, 1,500 pounds of salt, 8 pounds of pepper and 100 cans of ,mustard. Three pints of liquid a day would have amounted to 70,600 pints or 42 tons. Washington Star. If a man of seventy years were starving It would probably be of little comfort to him to reflect thut he had consumed In the course of his life 53 tons qf solid food and 42 tons of liquid, or about 1,280 times his own weight In both solids and liquids, but it would be quite true. Being a man of average appetite and purse, be would have eaten 15 tons of bread, which would have madd a single loaf containing 1,200 cubic feet and appearing about aa large as the average suburban borne, and on this bread he would have spread one ton of butter. If his bacon had been cut in single slices the strip would have been four miles long, and bis chops, placed end to end, would have extended two miles. Twenty ordinary-size- d bullocks have supplied him with beef, Borne 18 tons of which he has eaten, along with fi tons of fish and 10,000 eggs and 350 pounds of cheese. Sad Fact ! "It's tough," growled the Gloomy j Brother. "Now, what?" smiled the Cheerful j Brother. s "Thut while a coal pile goes down with the mercury It won't come up j with it" retorted the 0. R Many a man has ruined his eyes by using glasses other than specta-cles. Captain Schaaf Shines in His Various Studie? To attain the highest average In hi .'lass and to be a member of twi major sports teams Is the distinction eurned by Joseph G. Schanf. captain of this year's basket ball team at the University of Pennsylvania. The recent election of Schaaf to the Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary scholastic fraternity of the Wharton school, brought to light the fact that j he Is one of the best students In the ' university. His average Is said to be higher than that attained by anj student In recent years. Bar All "Punch Drunk" Boxers, Says Paul Prehn Disbarment from professional rlnj;s of "punch-drunk- " fighters and younn boxers who are not making any prog ress, will he urged of all state boxing commissions by Puul Prehn, president of the National Boxing association. Prehn Is planning to visit every state commission, urging enactment l such a rule, lie also will advise pro meters In states considering leguliz lng of professional boxing. Explaining "Sea Serpent" It can be said that many of the stories of the sea serpent can be ex-plained as being due to mistaken In-terpretations of lurge fishes, dolphins, and whales; but there are two or three statements, such as that reported by the warship Daedalus of China, and another re-ported from Lord Crawford's yacht, which seem to resemble prehistoric types. There Is nothing impossible in the snggestion that there should be an-imals living of which we have no knowledge, but there Is a great between the possible and tho probable. There are, for Instance, giant squids, which have enormous feelers, and which. If raised above the water, would present somewhat of the appearance attributed to the sea ser-pentLondon Mall. Probable Prejudice The death of "Abe" Hummel in Lon-don reminded a New York lawyer of a story.' "Hummel," he said, "told a story about a man who was baled Into court on tne cnurge or Keeping a vicious dog. The man denied the charge, and when the first witness was called against him he sprang to his feet In a fury. "'That guy can't testify!' he yelled. Don't let that guy testify, Judge. He's prejudiced. ' " 'How do ' you know he's preju-diced? sold, the Judge.. "'He's prejudiced, sure,' said the man. Tne dog bit him.' " Good Conditioner Basket ball Is a good conditioner, according to Dwiijht Stuessv. miarter. back and end of the Illlnl. Every day the short, curly-haire- and red fn ceil football player may be seen tossing baskets In the new gymnasium all by himself. Stuessy la not out for the team nor Is it likely that he Is trying to keep In condition for some other sport, because he graduates before the football season gets under way again. Exercise of this kind keeps him U Ue best of condition. Figure It Out ' Women are never half us vain as they are vain enough to think men think they are. Baltimore Sun. Frank Snyder Manager ("Pancho") Snyder, who resigned inst October as manager of the Hous-ton baseball club of the Texas league because of salary differences with j President Prod Ankenmun of the league, signed for a second year ns I manager of the Houston club. Details of how the differences were patched up were nut made public. The Hous-- j ton club won the Texas league and i Pixie series championships last fall. There does not seem to be any truth hi the ruitvir Uvtt be Is leaving. In bringing np a child, think of Its old age. Jouberl |