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Show Only Outfielder Complete His Team. Seeks Substantially the same team that won the American league pennant last season again will take the field for the Washington Americans this year. Aside from the possible retirement of Infl elder Everett Scott and Allen Russell, relief pitcher, and the possibility of the trading of outfielders Lelbold and Veach, no changes have been forecast. two-yeManager Stanley Harris, two pennants with league manager and a world series victory to his incredit, Intends to keep his Infield 1925 staff, his catching tact along with but he would like to have a capable outfielder to work between Goslln and Rice. . The infield combination of Judge, and Bluege, Peckinpaugh Harris, which for two successive seasons, has excelled all others in double plays, will start the season. Buddy Myer, youthful Infielder obtained from New Orleans, is slated to be Pecks understudy. are that Johnson, Indications Coveleskle, and Ruether, who together won 56 games last season, will form the backbone of the pitching staff again. Marbarry, relief hurler, who participated In 55 contests last season, although he made no starts, again is destined for the rescue assignment Harris wants one more experienced pitcher. He has looked with covetous eyes upon Hoyt of the Yankees, Ehmke of the Red Sox and Bush of the Browns. Alex Ferguson is ex-ar ImHere are pictured four of the who of world sport, mortals of the are to be the first to be honored in the nave of the cathedral of St on John the Divine. At the top in the is Walter Camp; left the center Christy Mathewson, and on the right Is Robert Wrenn, a star at Harvard and former tennis Is champion. Below on the right athletic Princeton Hobey Baker, star. . Helen Wills in Europe Sport Nates Chicago City Chess league recently season. twenty-fift- started its h Notre Dame football eleven met its last defeat at home playing Wabash October 21, 1905. ft - it it Dorn February 2.2, 7J2 The defender f his country, The founderf The Western conference baseball season will start April 10, Northwestern visiting Purdue. The womens national 1 track and The friend f man." field championships of the A. A. U. will be held in Philadelphia on July 10 next on iron by the famous early American painter, Gilbert Stuart, the first nthal . art c 'Lown texist" is now in the possession of Albert of its t.nTever S of the Tilyard family ot of Philadelphia. The picture never before has beep out of the possession Gibbs Stuart discoveries of some years, is of the type known as the Vaughn or portrait, which is one of the richest face. ' type, showing th right side of the L Harvard athletics showed a net profit from football this fall of $292,-00Net profit means that the team was deducted. 0. . Los Angeles of the Pacific Coast league has sold Outfielder Clarence Twombley to the Reading club of the International league. Helen Miss shows Wills, Photograph tie youthful singles tennis champion Edward Lasker, several times holder f the United States, as she appeared the western chess championship, of to Europe, i New York en route will make New York city his home fn rhere she will engage in many tennis the future. He has joined the ManhatWimbledon to the latches, leading up tan Chess club. ennis championship in the spring, the is expected to meet Suzanne Len-le- n The United States Naval academy at Nice. will hold the boxing championships of the collegiate association at AnnapoGreat Success of Harry lis March 26 and 27 and the swimming 2 and 3. Cooper as Golf Teacher events April The golfing career of young Harry Carl Freeze, young Cooper, who captured a $3,500 prize in has been turned over- to the pitcher, the recent tournament at Los Angeles, Rock club of the Southern Little has been one of triumphs since he won the Chicago White Sox. his first real prize at the age of league by Freeze comes from Baylor university. fourteen. took up the Cooper, now twenty-one- , ancient game when he was three years Hard Luck of Harper old, his father, Sid J. Cooper maintains, and has been chasing golf balls ever since, achieving some notable triumphs in his more mature years. When fourteen Cooper won a cup offered by the Golfers Magazine. After that his career was chosen and he threw his optimistic youth into the ranks of more seasoned mashie manipulators with surprising results at times. He took first honors at the .state tournament at Galveston in 1923, and again at San Antonio in 1924. He emerged third in the Southwide competition at Hot Springs the same year, and was runner-u- p in the Texas state tourney last year. Among the other amazing accomplishments of the youngster, who neither chews, drinks nor smokes, is the scoring of a 60 on the Tennison Country club course, Dallas, last year, the lowest mark ever registered on the course, by either local golfers or national celebrities. right-hande- Seeking New. Names for Shots in Tennis Game Lob, smash" and drive, as applied to tennis, are three words the translation of which into French has stumped the French sporting writers in a campaign to eliminate the English vocabulary from their articles on sport events. The best they have been able to find is chandelle for lob, coup, de longuer for drive and coup ecrase . for smash. Jean Samazeullh, former champion of France at tennis, takes exception to the accuracy and practicability of the translation, and in an article in a sports weekly asks the players to ignore the scribes, and especially to execute the shots well on the courts, let the writers call them what they wish. d lies. 1 pected to qualify for a regular pitching assignment, while Lefty Thomas, Harry Kelly and Win Ballou, Southern association recruits are likely prospects. Tex Jeanes, erstwhile Southern association gardener, is the most likely candidate for the third outfield assignment, but Veach and Leibold, if they remain on the roster, will receive consideration. It Is probable that Joe Harris will be retained as relief man for Judge at first base. Shirley and McGee, recruits, will receive tryouts at the post Myer and Stuffy Stewart, another Southern association product, complete- the list, of infielder reserves. The catching staff with Ruel getting first call and Severeld and Tate his assistant, remain the same. - Illinois Does Not Want Granges Famous Jersey The story that the blue jersey with Red Granges famous 77 on the back, was to be preserved at the University of Illinois trophy room, was declared untrue by Matt Bullock, football trainer. He disclosed that the famous sweater had been given to Grange along with the rest of his football outfit, just after the Wheaton Icemans last college game. Illinois traditions, Bullocks says, have always opposed the display of apparel worn by noted athletes, and no serious consideration ever was given to the suggestion that the famous 77 sweater be preserved by the university. Instead, according to custom, it was given to Grange, and no other 77 will be used on an Illinois football team. . Umpires Ride in Taxicabs Umpires in the Pacific Coast league will ride in taxicabs from the trains to hotels and from the hotels to the trains next year, according to Harry A. Williams, president of the Coast ' league. The umpires have to carry so much baggage that I have decided to allow them taxicab expenses next season, says Williams. You know that an umpire hasnt many friends."- Profits Are Large Started in 1903 world series was the ond of the annual struggles for baseball supremacy between the pennant winners of the National and American leagues. The first of these series was played back in 1903, when the Boston Red Sox defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates by five games to With the exception of 1904 three. the series has been played annually. The 1925 twenty-sec- when fields were lost Cp QUAL or fields were won, 8 ill With breath of popular (j .1 George Harper, outfielder for the Philadelphia National league team, has had hard luck in getting established in the big leagues. .Three times he has been up and some unfortunate accident has sent him back each time. For a football player Red Grange He now hopes to stick with the Phil- has little to kick about. . In the old days minor league clubs figured they were doing mighty well if they broke even on the season. Yet tlie old Fall River club of the New England league actually declared a 100 per eeni dividend for the 1903 season, a positive enongh declaration that baseball paid fairly well even in those days when 25 cents was the bleacher law nnd 50 cents guaranteed scat in the wooden pavilion. Manager Stanley Harris. The new stadium of the University of Missouri, when completed, will seat 90,000. Carpentier is coming back for a few more of those dear American dollars. Isnt his pottery factory doing well? It is against the law to bet on horse races. As a rule the gamblers lose, and the offense carries with it Its o 1 penalty. .18 Among new freak golf clubs is in the form of a comb for use in ptl 1 ing out of water. Another driver a bored tube in the head of a club filled with quicksilver to give added weight and whip to playing. Arnaud Massy, famous French golfer, has been playing the game over thirty years. He won the British open in 1907 and has also copped the French crown. . Massy is fifty-tw- o years old and still going strong. plause or blame, Nor fanned or damped, the same, Too inward to be reached by flaws of idle fame. Soldier and statesman, rarest unison; d example of great duties done, Simply as breathing a worlds honors High-poise- worn As lifes indifferent gifts to all men bom; Dumb for himself, unless it were to God, But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent, Tramping the snow to coral where they ' trod, content; Held by his awe in hollow-eye- d Modest, yet firm as natures self; un- blamed, Save by the men his nobler temper shamed; Never seduced through show of present good By other than unsetttng lights to steer in heaven, nor than his steadfast mood, More steadfast, far from rashness as from fear; Rigid, but with himself first, grasping still helm In swerveless poise the wave-beof will; Not honored then or now because he wooed d. The popular voice, but that he still New-trimm- at with-stoo- there is higher-soulebut one Who was all this and ours and all men s Broad-minde- d, d, Washington. Lowell. IRkshingto: Remarkable Foresight Sea fra IEi )a lea Washingtons services fully entitled him to be called first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, but these distinctions, due to his part In the Revolution and as President of the newly formed republic, have overshadowed a phase of his life that deserves careful consideration. Few persons are aware of He service he rendered in developing the internal commerce, of the country, and of his foresight in the problem of securing union among the states, Henry Leffmann writes, in the Philadelphia Record. At the end of the Revolution, the common danger that had been so patent In holding the several states in united action was removed, and the a history indicates contemporary rather dangerous disposition on the part of some of the portions of the country to go it alone a procedure that would have led to an easy The most by Great Britain. powerful Influence In the course of nations Is the economic one. The several states composing the original thirteen" did not have entirely concordant interests and, naturally, obeying their imoulses, showed an un willingness to surrender local advanj Perhaps for good. the general tages as striking an instance of the operation of this law will be found in the attitude of the people of the area now included in the state of Vermont. The treaty of peace with Great Britain, which acknowledged the Independence of the United States, enumerated each state as sovereign and granted also the territory west of New Hampshire. Many of the residents of this area, however, regarded their best interests to be with Canada,. because the outlet to the sea was through the waters- that led to the St. Lawrence' river. Railroads were unthought of at that time. Among the leaders of the party that declared against entering the United States was Ethan Allen, the famous patriot, and his two brothers. Active resistance to Inclusion of the state was threatened, but it came to naught and the Green Mountain" state was state. duly admitted as the fourteenth Problem Faced Young Nation. During the Revolution many efforts were made to bring about a closer union of the several states. Finally, a couple of years before the close of the war, the Articles of Confederation were adopted. They did not satisfy many of the leaders, including such as Washington, Hamilton, Wilson and Madison, but were the best that could be obtained at that time. Meanwhile, the pioneer spirit so characteristic of the Colonials was urging movements towards and beyond the mountain range, and the problem of the seMississippi valley was becoming rious. French colonization had been active from the north, especially in the region of the Great lakes, but by the Treaty of Paris, in 1763, which closed the Seven Years war, France had lost all its Canadian possessions. Spain was in possession of territory in the Gulf region. The Mississippi river is the only outlet to the sea for the vast valley that It drains, and it was obvious that any considerable settlements by American pioneers in this valley would find necessity either of using the river or of sending their produce over the mountain range to the Atlantic ports. These matters, of course, did not attract much attention between 1775 and 1783, for In those years the dominant note was war; but with the coming of peace domestic questions came to the front and grave difficulties arose. It seems, indeed, from the contemporary literature, that many Americans regarded their particular state as in alliance rather than as in union with the others. Saw Routes in Advance. When Washington began to urge his slack-wate- r system on plans for the the Potomac, the people of the James river section became Jealous. They were unwilling that state aid should be given to a project in an entirely different section. It became necessary for the friends of the Potomac project to support one for the Improvement of the James river, and the James River orImprovement company was duly ganized coincident with that of the Each company Potomac company. was based on a definite amount of shares. By an act of the Virginia legislature a block of shares was voted to him. The Washington stock went to the endowment of an institution that had been established before the Revolution and after it had been renamed Liberty hall. This became Washington college, and is now Washington and Lee uniersity. During the Interval between 1783 and 1739, when he was not In public life, Washington made a journey through the Mohawk valley, and in a letter expressed the view that that route would constitute the best Hue for connecting the region of the Great lakes with tidewater. He did not Uve to see the construction of the Erie canal and the subsequent rise of the port of New York to commercial domination. IN HIS EARLY DAYS . kAjftzh n woodcut of George A Washington, taken at the time he was a land surveyor, and his thoughts were furthest from the command of the American army, and the first Presidency of the United States. little-know- Set Duty Before Pride George Washington was elected as president of the convention that drew up the Constitution because he was the idol of the people. He had the confidence of the new nation and his dignity and strength of character commanded the general respect as did that of no other man of the time. Washington was painfully conscious that his scholarship was inferior to that of many of his associates and he realized that he was but an Indifferent politician. In his hand the sword was mightier than the pen. But he was a soldier. Convinced that It was his duty to take part in this work, he accepted. Washington s Hair a Gift A lock of George Washingtons hair, Inclosed in a crystal medallion, was conditionally bequeathed to the Mount Vernon Ladies association In the will of Boudinot Keith, lawyer, reformer and founder of the City dub of New York. The heirloom will go to the association if it gives to Mr. Keiths daughter a portrait of Washington willed to th association by Mr. Keiths aunt Elias Boudt Mr Keiths great-unclrtaJt not. served on Washington e, |