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Desperate Defense of Adrianople
Saved the Capital.
UPSET PLANS OF THE ALLIES
Frederick Palmer Telle of the Furloue
Fighting by the Ottoman Armlet
That Balked Oemetrleff
and Ivanoff.
By'FRGDERICK PALMER,
Staff Correspondent of the Chicago
Record-Herald In the Balkan War.
Mustapha PaBha. Tho minarets of
Sultan Sollm!
Needle-like, I have Been thorn rlso
over the Indistinct mass of Adriano
ple from the distant hills, then 'as
oubstantTal columns from tho nearby
bills, and again so close from the
shcllproof of an advanced Infantry
position that I could make out tho
tilings on tho doino of tho groat
mosquo Itself.
Tho simple graco of tho minarets
dominated town, and landscape and
siege. Weary drivers of tho wenry
oxen of the transport and still wear
ier artillerymen, bringing up addl
tional guns through seas of mud, saw
them for tho first tlino as a token of
defiance, of work unfinished, of bat
tles' yet to bo fought, and of lives yet
to be lost.
Infantrymen in tho advanced
trenches "saw them as tho goal
against a foo which had fallon back
without any adequate rar guard fc
tlon, but which had begun to fight
desperately under their shadows.
That Turkish garrison, as It with
drew Into tho shelter of Its forts.
Beemed to find something of tho spirit,
of old Sultan Sollm the Magnificent,
for whom, tho moaquo was named,
but with this difference: Sultan
Sellra was not given to falling back
on forts and minarets. Ho stormed
forts; ho went ahead to plant new
mlnareta la tho soil of Chrlstondom.
Routes Old Turks' Spirit '
From tho first in this war tho Turk
todk the defensiye; from the first he
acepted it an his part and. portion of
the campaign.
Jn Bulgaria where msny Turks stllj
Hve under "Christian rulo, wo had
seen (ho Terrible Turk, tho groat
fighting "man of tho past, whoso soul
was supposed to bo above lowly toil,
as a hewer of wood and a carrier of
water1. He did odd Jobs In the nb-
seneccttho Bulgarian at ths front.
The Hori of the past had been trained
to dog harness.
All the early victories of the Bul
garian army completed au impression
of a one-time lordly race demoralized
and enervated, who retained only tho
fatalism of "Kismet,'' in its lexocon.
. Tha -warrior's cry, "For Allah I" was
U
HED BULBARS
y-- lour forever. Bui at Adrianoplo "For
',, . Allah 1 For tho Minarets! For tlm
Padishal" rose ..again to the dignity
which nbandoned'bravery always com
mands.' Tho sheer, impetuous fearlessness
!- orthe Bulgarian, well drilled and
w.., joui.iuuii:ui nuo mo limi
great revelation of tho campaign, and
thft-flfrnnr1 trna hnw In ftin tin..- ,
hopelessness, his desperation arous-
ea mo oiu qualities of tho Turk,
Every situation, every development
in the war reverted to Adrianoplo, It
was tho nut to crack in tho first plan
of strategy of tho campaign. It hov
ered over the flrat army before
Tchatalja as a nightmare. It stood
Jnthe way of tho prompt supplies of
bread and bullets or tho first army:
it delayed the signing of 'the armis
tice for ten days; it has been the
main subject of contention before
tho London poaco conference; It was
-responsible for tho troatment of tho
military attaches, who saw nothing of
tho war, and of the correspondents
who saw little.
- -War Hlnflea on AdrlanopTe.
Even our phlegmatic little English'
speaking censor assistant at Mastv
pha would loso his temper at tho
very suggestion, of any poaco, terms
with Adrianoplo stjll in Turkish pos
session,, ''We shall have a revolution if wo
don.'t got Adrianople," I have heard
many officers say.
"Wo shall not go home without
i-p-w- AUrtanopte." tho wounded Boldlors
j returning from tho front kept repeat-
:r .las.
Such were tho Instructions whloh
ur. uanerr, the Ellhu Boot of tho Bal
kans, took with him to London. Ad
rianople was graven on the minds of
his countrymen. By diplomacy he
.roust set a fortress which wa& not
jneL.ta.ken by force of arms
Glance at a map and you will boo
that the whole buccoss, of the allies
depended on bottling up tho Turk on
the peninsula, bo that all the other
Turkish forces from Scutari to Adri
anople, from Kumanova to Hassona,
should be cut off from communica
tion. Tho Greeks, Serbs, and Mon
tenegrins wero the backs. The Bui
tartans undertook to buck the line.
Bulgaria did not have to consider
a reserve army. European public
opinion and the jealousies of the pow
ers acted as efficient substitutes, for
d the Bulgarian military statesmanship
' understood that' If Bulgaria wero beat
en tho powers would never permit
Turkey to take an Inch of Bulgarian
oil. It was a case of "Heads I win,
tails 1 Jon't loso."
Turks Awake to Crisis.
The Turks know this, too, It was
an old situation to them. Successful
Simplify Life.
"I do believe in simplicity. It is as
tonishing as well as sad, how many
trivial affairs even the wisest man
V thinks he must attend to In a day;
i ' how singular an affair he thinks ho
unust omit: When the mathematician
' j would solve aT'd)fflcult problem he
, flritfreeslhe equation of all Incum-
! ' hrances and reduces it to Us elm-
b jplett terms. So simplify the prob-
" ,lm of life, distinguish Unnecessary
j 'and the ..real. From Thpreau "Let-
war mcaht no aggrandizement only
that no more territory would bo taken
from them This is enough, after
some generations, to breed tho dofen
sivo instinct In any soldier.
Tho Turk must havo his back
against tho wall in order to fight well.
Ilia attitude Is that of tho mad bull
against tho toreador; and p very mad
bull, we know, sometimes gets a horn
Into tho toreador's anatomy and toss
es him over tho palings. This hap
pened in a way at Adrianoplo.
"Victory is to tho heaviest bat
tallons," Bonaparto said this, but aft
er Caesar Bald it after somo general
of Egypt, Babylon or NInevoh.
Tho allies know that their success
doponde on speed In a fall campaign
speed and tho shock of masses pour
ing ovor tho frontlor. Theirs was a
hUndrod-yard-dash chanco.
Tho 8erb8 at Kumanova, tholr crit
ical battlo, had odds of at least four to
ono.
Tho Greeks novor had loss favor
ablo odds, usually much higher.
As for tho Montenegrins, who had
a small show, what they did in ono
way or another did not matter. They
had work to kcop them fully occu
pied, as It developed Id tho siege of
Scutari.
Tho only ono of tho allies who dis
dained modern organization, their fail
ure to mako any headway again em
phasizes tho wldo dlfforonco between
a body of men with rifles and an ac
tual army.
Bulgars Bear War's Brunt.
So tho Bulgarians took tho great
and tolling work of tho war on their
ehouldors. Yfiu havo only to know
tho Bulgarians to understand that this
was inevitable.
Thero is ntubborn and aggrcsslvo
character enough In Bulgaria to spare
for all southwestern Europe.
Bulgaria mado a hundred-yard dash
with ox cart transportation, and mado
it around an obstacle Adrianoplo.
Tho main railroad line and tho groat
Constantinople highway ran by Adri
anoplo. It was on tho direct lino of
communication from tho center of tlm
Bulgarian baso to tho center of its
objective.
In tho center of Thrace, if was the
only real fortress on the way to Con
stantinople. Klrk-Kllllssoli, or Losen
grade, as tha Bulgarians call It, do
splto their willingness to allow an im
pression of its forroldalllity to be
Spread abroad, waa not In any senso
well fortified.
Now, tho first thing was to surround
Adrianoplo; that is, to strlko at It
from all sldoB, as tho key to tho po
sition. A branch of tho main Sofia
Constantinople railroad lino runs to
Yambolt. With this as its baso, Demo
trioff's, or tho First, army swung
around Klrk-KUtsseh, which was tak
en In the first splendid ardor of the
campaign. With Its fall anyone can
seo from a staff map that any battle
line of defense with Adrianople as a
part of it was impossible for a forco
of the numbers of tho Turkish nJaln
army.
Twp or three hundred thousand
men who were homogeneous might
have held on, but not half that num
ber when badly organized. There
fore, Nazim Pasha had to fall back
lo a new line and leave Adrianople
to caro for Itself.
Reveals Bulgar Courage.
Tho next stop was the declslvo bat
tlo on the lino from Lulu Burgas to
Bunnarhlsuar.
Thore, again, superiority of num
bers, as well as organization, count
ed; that superiority, which makes a
Imvy turning movomont possible
whllo tho enemy's front Is engaged.
In Bhort, tho Bulgarians had tho
Turks going. They gavo the Turks
no rest, and they had a sufficient nil
merlcnl proponderanco, in addition to
tho dependable courage of their in
fantry to guarantee success.
So thero was nothing wonderful
about tho strategy of tho campaign,
nothing now, nothing startling. Tho
old principle of tho swift turning
movement had boon applied to tho sit
uation In hand.
By tho flank tho Japanese kept put
ting tho Itusslnns back from tho Yalu
to Mukdon. By tho flank Grant put
Leo back to Richmond.
There was just ono, and only ono,
startling feature In this war Bulgari
an courngo. That enabled Dometrlcff
to gain t KlrU-KMIbsch 'and Lulo
Burgas In n hurry what with most
armies would havo required much
more tlmo.
Demotrloft had willing flesh for a
necessary flac'rlflco. Ho throw his lu
fantry ngalnst frontal positions in a
cloud, Into shrapnel and automatic
gun fire, without waiting to silence
tho enemy's batteries.
Expected to -Take Adrianople.
And after Lulo Burgas tho next stop
would havo Beemed tho storming of
Adrianoplo. When peace negotiations
should begin, It was a vital point in
their favor in tho negotiations to have
Adrianople in tholr possession.
Tho Bulgarian treatment of tho cor
te&pondOnts Ms ono of tho many in
dications that tho Bulgarian staff did
nt ono tlmo expect to take Adrianoplo
by Btorm.
It was arguod by serious corre
spondents who did not. feel that they
ought to waste their time or tho
money of their papers lu Idleness,
that tho Bulgarian government ought
not to havo rocetved any correspond
ents at all. But this was not logic to
the government. Tho press repre
sented publte opinion, It could sorye
a purpose, and all tho collogo profoss
ora In the land who spoko any for
eign language found their work In the
common cause, no Icbs than grandfa
ther found his in driving an ox cart
and tho women In making broad.
Tho plan was well thought out, and
the regulations, which would All a
column, left nothing that occurred to
ofllcero or college professors out of
consideration. No mention was to be
Let Him Cultivate Patience.
The mobmers of a church In the
soutbweBt havo given their paBtor an
automobllo. It Is hoped that no
member of his congregation may bo
present tho first tlmo tho crank han
dle hits him on the elbow.
That Terrlblo Habit of Work.
Pat "Say, Dlnny, phwat wud yez
do If yez had all the money yoz want
ed?" Dlnny "Oi'd bo aftor goln' to
me wur-rk In an aufrymabllo Instead
of a trolley car," Boston Transcript
mado of tho wounded, nor even of the
weather, If it woro bad, for bad woath
or might toll tho enemy that the roads
weie bad,
Whllo many an Imaginary account,
because It bad tho similitude of nar
rative which characterizes all con
vincing fiction, wbb hailed as real
war correspondence, the Bulgarian
staff, when It camo to actual roports
of actions (exclusive of massacres),
w'as scrupulously exact and exasperat
ingly late and brief.
All pralso by tho press kept tho ball
of tho prestige of victory rolling. It
helped to convince tho powers and
tho Turk thai the Bulgarian army
was irroslstlble. Tho stage climax
of tho wholo campaign would bo tho
fall of Adrianoplo. Therefore wore
tho correspondents moved to Musta
pha Pasha Just as Lulo BurgaB was
being won; and Constantinople, being
then supposedly defended only by a
demoralized army, which could not
mako a stand, every report from Mus
tapha Pasha which showed that
Adrianoplo was on tho point of capit
ulation added to tho stage effect of
Bulgarian triumph,
Turks Defy the Bulgars.
As the first Bulgarian army drow
near tho Tchatalja linos, tho mlso en
scono was comploto; but Nazim
Pasha, making use of tho elapsed tlmo
to fortify tho Tchatalja lines, rather
than submit to tho humiliating terms
offered, bado tho Bulgarian hosts
"como on."
Success had turned the heads even
of tho Bulgarian staff. They had be
gun to think that tho old fighting qual
ity was out of tho Turk, and so willing
was tho Bulgarian Infantry to under
go slaughter that It was only a caso
of recording another chargo of flesh
against shrapnel and automatic gun
Are, and tho day was won.
Alas, nn old prlnclplo of war, deal
ing with an Impossibility of tho same
order as squaring tho clrclo In math
ematics, was now to bring generalship
back from tho clouds to solid earth.
You can take strong positions In
front only with time by sapping and
mining and all the weary operations
of a siege, as tho Indomitable Grant
learned by tho failure of his flrsh rush
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'5" W"' f.'tVDBHBsBPrSSi
General Dometrleff.
at Vlcksburg and tho Indomitable
Nogl learned by tho failure of the first
rush attack at Port Arthur.
In a week, any army that has
spades and a few of tho resources of
material which should be part of tho
storohouBo nt its baso should mako
such a position as that of the series
of rising hills back of Tchatalja fully
tenable against any but siege attack,
unless thero was room for a flank at
tack. Turks Turn the Tables.
And the breadth of tho posltlnil
opoTi to Infantry npproach In any at
tempt at storming was only 10 miles,
while from either sea side of tho nar
row strip of peninsula tho TurkiBh
navy could bring Into play more pow
erful guiiB than nny Demotrleff had at
his disposal.
At tho samo tlmo there Is to be
kept In view the generally accepted
tenet that you must not send In
Many against any -..oil outi'tthuW po
sition until Its battel Ior are silenced
or It Is known that they can bo kept
'under control during tho Infantry at
tack by a well concontratod flro of
your own batteries,
Demotrleit UBod his guns for a day
In trying to dovelop tho strongth and
location of tho enemy's batteries. But
tho Turks would not bo drawn. At last
tho tables wero turned.
Meanwhile Atlrluiiople also was toll
Ing. You may discuss as much as you
pleaso whether the original plan of
tho Bulgarian stair wua to im.3k this
fortress or to take It by storm, the
fact remains that tho only result wns
to maBk It, and tho losson waB that
nny garrison In tho rear or an advan
cing army, though It Is hold securely
In investment, remains a mighty force
In being for the enemy's purpose.
Naturo meant Adrianople to be a
fortress. Past It on tho Bouth flows
tho Marltza river, taking Its origin In
tho Balkans and plowing Its way
across tho alluvial lowlands of Thrace
to tho sea. A strong bridge crosses It
on the line of the Constantinople high
way at Mustapha Pasha, some twenty
Hvo miles from Adrianople.
This bridge, which Is not far from
the Bulgarian frontier, the Turks left
intact, a characteristic piece of care
lessness in the earlier part of the war
In keeping with all other signs of Tur
kish demoralization and wrongheaded
ness, which might easily lead tho Bul
garians to think that Adrianoplo would
not resist a brilliant onslaught.
Mustapha Pasha becaiuo the head
quarters of the second Bulgarian army,
Making Bomb-Thrower Out of Host.
An English wit of reputation, who
has been visiting Now York for the
last two weeks, remarked at tho con
clusion of a little dinner glvon him:
"It's been oxcollent I nover heard
older Btorles nor drank nower wlno
In my life."
Tenacious Woman.
Sho has her hands full koeplng her
tempor, keeping hor bouso, keeping
her cook, keoplng hor youth, keeping
her husband and other things.
F " ' 3
under ' General Ivanoff. who Hvas
havo tho thankless task df tho opera
tions around Adrianoplo. Whllo easy
glory whs lo be the fortune of Oeme
trleff, who commanded the first army
until tho lirst army had to take po
sitions In front without any opportu
nity for flanking, which was tho na
turo of Ivanoff's task from the start.
Ivanoff Wakes Up.
It was Papastepo and Kartaltepe
which wakened Ivanoff from hla dream
of a final brilliant stroke In keeping
with the earlier ones of the war, Just
as Tchatalla brought Demetrleff down
from tho clouds of overconfldenco.
Papastepo Is one of many hills In tho
narrowing rib of tho 203 Meter HJU
of tho siege. With guns In position
thero, Adrianoplo would bo under
bombardment. Tho Bulgarians took
It by sending In tho usual cloud of In
fantry and losing about a thousand
men. But tho Turks took It back
again". Four times, I am told, It
changed hands In tho course of those
night actions which wo observed only
by tho brilliant flashes In tho sky
abovo the hills.
Far up tho valley In tho mist was
Knrtaltepo, that other Important hill
which commanded the river bottom, of
tho Arda. We took Kar.taltepo In No
vember and a month afterward, In ono
of their splondld sorties, tho Turks,
bo far as I could "learn, had taken it
back; but it was as untenable for
them as Papastepo was for tho Bul
garians. Possibly because It was again
ours and very evidently ours perma
nently, the Bulgarian censors had
found It worth whllo to confound
skepticism and persistent unfriendly
rumors by allowing the correspon
dents to enter tho promised land of
their dreams, where for weeks, be
tween tho batteries on the hills and
tho Infantry In tho muddy river bot
tom of tho Arda, hell had raged In tho
winter rains.
Wo did not know then, as we wero
to know a fow days later, that beyond
Kartaltepe in the direction of Dele
gatch was another force Isolated from
tho Adrianoplo garrison and tho main
Turkish army, that of Tavcr Pasha
with 10.000 men, caught In the literal
flood of that 100-yard dash of tho
ready. Informed, prepared aggressor
against tho unready enemy taken un
aware and hastening re-enforcoments
to tho scattered garrisons and trying
to adjust itself for the blow to fall
with the crash of a pile driver releas
ed from its clutchr
Discloses War Secret.
But TaYer Pasha's 10,000 were still
a forco in being, with guns and full
equipment a forco in' a box: a fores
in desperation.
Do you seo tho Adrianople garrison
(which was In touch by wireless with
the Turkish main army) striking out
to connect up with Taver Pasha? Do
you soo Taver Pasha trying out lines
of least resistance in a savage effort
to reach Adrianoplo or tho main Tur.
klsh army?
Something to stir the blood, this, in
the way of a war drama, while not a
single foreign correspondent or at
tache knew oven of the existence of
Taver Pasha's command until Its sur
render. The news of this was conveyed with
tho official assurance that now no oth
er Turkish forco except that of Adri
anople remained In Thrace, when we
had been under the Impression for
over a month that It was the only
one! Tho censors did not smile as
they posted thp bulletin, but some of
tho correspondents smiled at them
selves. i
No, after tho flrst rainbow hope of a
successful general attack was over.
Ivanoff was fully occupied In holding
Adrianople safely lnslege. That bat.
tery of old Krupps. which fired over
tho advanced Servian Infantry posi
tion, whllo a battery of Creusots In
turn fired over It, added their Items of
evidence to the same end.
These Krupps were taken by tho
Busslans at Plevnn In the war of 1S77
78 and glvon to the Bttlo army of tho
new nation of Bulgaria. Bulgnrlan re
cruits had dragged them through tho
muddy roads and over the postures
and beautifully cmplaced them, and
were working them against tho enemy
with boyish pride ut tho world was
thinking only or the modern Creusots
and their brilliant showing.
The Bulgarians almost proved that
you can make bricks without straw.
Thoy won the war 6y tho bravery of
their self-confldonco! as well as -by
their courage
Adrianople, whtclf was about to
starve If It did not fall, hnd, I am con
vinced, two months' supplies when tha
armistice was slgnrh. With thn 19
and 20-ycnr-old conscripts already on
tho way to the front, with a casualty
list that Is easily onefltth of the whole
army, there was no sign of weakening.
The square chin of the stoical Bul
garian was as firmly set as ovor. I
wonder what would happen In Europe
if it included In Us borders a nation of
100,000.000 Bulgarians!
Ancient Science.
It Is generally supposed that those
who combated the .'opinion that the
earth was a sphere when Columbus
proposed his great voyage were only
giviug expressions to opinions that
had always been entertained. But tho
fact Is that long before the Christian
era the Greek and Egyptian 'philoso
phers entertained tho Idea that the
earth was round and knew vastly
more about eclipses, the motions of
the moon and other ptronomlcal mat
ters than many do even today. The
idea of Columbus had been anticipated
by the ancient philosophers by more
than sixteen centuries'.
Seemingly Good Evidence,
"Ib your Bon happily married?" "Yes,
I'm afraid ho Is. I've done my best
to convince him that sho Isn't worthy
of him, but he won't believe me."
Small Boy Again.
"Bobby, do you see that bright star
overhead, at tho top of tho big cross?"
"Yes." "Well, that's Doneb. It Is
nearly threo quadrillions of miles
away." "Huhl Thon how do you know
Its name Is Denob?"'
Speak Guardedly,
Spoak not at alLln any wise, till you
havo somewhat to speak; care noi for
the reward of your speaking, but sim
ply and with undivided mind for the
truth of your speaking. Carlyle.
GREATEST OF P0RTSIDERS IN NATIONAL
3JTk
ri iv. '
Nap Rucker
Thero Is no gauging a southpaw;
When they are good they are very
good. and when bad ery bad. The sea
Son of 1912 has furnished several illus
trations and notable on the "bad" ride
or the argument are tho cases of Har
py Krause, Al Mattern and Nap
Rucker. These three wero rated as
among the greatest portslders In the
gamo. Two of them havo been sent to
the minors, while for Bucker, before
the coming of Kube Marquard held to
be the best, of his persuasion in the
JEFF TESREAU GETS RECORD
Nevr York Twlrler Has High Percent-
r-;e Mark In National League
New Method of Rating.
Jeff Tesreau of the New York Giants
ball club is the leading liurler of tho
National leaguo by the modern method
of figuring percentages, although Hen
drlx of the Pirates had the highest per
centage of victories in which ho
pitched. Tesreau was third in games
won and lost by tho Giants. Mathow
son of the Gotham team Is second to
Tesreau under the new system, al
though he finished eighth according to
the old.
For the baslB of his new method of
,ratlng twlrlers Mr. Heydler chose tho
actual number of runs made by the op
posing team, for which each pitcher
'was responsible. Ho adopted a modi
fication of the old "earned run," which
was abolished officially many years
'ago. In computing tho number of
.earned runs, each pitcher was charged
with runs which resulted from safe
?lEiSPf
Jeff Tesreau.
hits, sacrifice hits, bases on balls, hit
batsmen, wild pitches and balks. Huns
scored as direct results of fielding er
rors, stolen bases nnd passed balls
were exempted from the record and no
runs were charged against pitchers, no
matter how they were made, after
chances had been offered, pnd not ac
cepted, to retire the side.
Have Had Many Managers.
The Naps and the Highlanders must
be running a race to see which club
can havo more managers to run their
teams. In the last flvo years tho Naps
have had Lajolo, McGulro, Stovall and
Davis, while Griffith. Elberfeld, Chase,
Btalllngs and Wolverton led the Yan
kees. Has Pennant Bee.
Manner Bill Smith of the Atlanta
team bt tho soutnorn league says no
has visions of a pennant for ths At
lanta fans. "Wo havo a good outfield,
our Infield Is fair and the pitching
staff will be strengthened before the
I season opens,", chirped Billy,
i ftg5M
T-'ttdiaxlEHI
valsoirT L'j ?sm x. fry: ??&&. r? . vcCk'-I is. -.z-& o.
mm. r
ti.
r
W3
of Brooklyn.
National league, he has been a failure
tho past season. It may be the reac
tion that must come from trying to
hold up one'B end on a losing team.
Rucker has been with Brooklyn since
his entry Into the majors. He has.
most of this time been the team's
main dependence In tho box an or
deal enough td break any man's nerve.
Rucker may regain his old form, but
southpaws are uncertain and tho fate
of Al Mattern and Harry Krause looms
up as a specter before him.
Ben lingo has been elected captain
of the Army team for 1913.
The clubs in tho Pacific Coast
leaguo earned $30,000 last season.
They are terming Claudo Hendrlx,
the Pirates' young twirler, tho "gift
horse."
Uubo Benton of tho Reds participa
ted in CO games tho record of tho
1912 season.
Deo Walsh, the new shortstop of
tho St. Louis Browns, Is being touted
as a great find.
Pitcher Ford likes to draw cartoons,
and ho believes that he will take up
that business bohib day.
.The Cubs had forty men on their
roster during the 1912 season. Eigh
teen of them were twhlers.
The Louisville Colonels won tho
most extra-Inning games In tho Amer
ican association last season.
Rube xtlaiquaid Meems "to have
missed tho distinction between famo
and notoriety bh di awing power.
Grover Land, tho popular backstop
of the Toledo club, may be given an
other trial w'jth tho Cleveland Naps,
Harry Howell, once a big league
pitcher, now an umpire In Texas, has
had the nerve to ask for more salary.
Tom Downey, the ox-Cub. la likely
to quit baseball next year. He owns
a moving-picture show in Bridgeport
Abe Attell has given a convincing
reason for retirement from the fight
game as a boxer he can't lift one
arm.
Manager Stallings will leave for tho
training camp about two weeks ahead
of the big squad with Bis battery can
didates. The Detroit Tigers have bought
Pitcher Herman Nichols of the Wyan
dotte (Mich.) club of tha Border
league.
Willie Keeler will hold his Job as
batting Instructor on the Brooklyn
team not that he accomplished much
last year.
Christy Mathewson Is a many-sided
player ball player, checker player,
basketball star. He's all sided except
port-sided.
Bob Hedges repeats tho St. Louis
Browns aro not for sale- This all be
cause the Browns pulled up to sev
enth place.
Manager Griffith says baseball fans
aro fickle. They will pralso a play
for tho home team and hoot same by
tho visitors.
)laseball critics claim if his young
pitchers come through Georgo Stovall
will havo a troublesome team down
In St. Looey.
Tho west owes Walter Camp a debt
of gratitude for his condescension In
putting ono player from lis, section of
tho woods on his pet all star American
"champeens."
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CHANGES IN FOOTBALL RULES
Irving Bush of Wisconsin Offers Scms
Extremely Reasonable Sugges
tions For Betterment.
Irving Bush, captain of Wisconsin
'01, has offorcd somo suggestions with
rcferenco to changes In the rulca of
football which ought to bo adopted. He
sanctions tho forwnrd pass rulo, but
believes It should now bo modified, so
that when used it must go boyond tho
lines of scrimmage. Now a foxy quar
terback, knowing that his men aro all
covered, can simply touch tho ball to
tho ground and time crura nn Incom
plete 'forward pass.
Mr. Bush calls attention to another
matter that It Is a wonder has not
been seriously considered before this.
Ho advocates tho abolishment of tha
try for goal after touchdown. Thero
Is nothing, particularly Interesting
about this play. Nino times out of ton
It Is a lucky shot and really means, If
It means anything nt all, that tho team
making It had a llttlo better kicker or
llttlo better opportunity or a llttlo
more luck.
Tooc-ibly tho most Interesting thing
that 'r. Bush ndvocate3 is lengthen
ing cl I 'o time of game, saya the Sill
wauker ' -ntlnel. Ho calls attention to
the fiu ,at up In 190C the game was
plr' r; in two 35-minute halves, with
r ( i minute rest. Ho advocates two
20 .ninute quarters and two periods of
15 mluutti each. In view of tho re
cent showing that tho actual strain on
tho players Is not anywhere near as
great as people havo heretofore sup
posed, this recommendation ought to
havo careful consideration.
Taking them all together, he has ad
vanced for consideration somo ex
tremely reasonable propositions.
THORPE WILL QUIT FOOTBALL
Indian Says His Intentions Are to
Sever All Relations With Sport
Won Many Events.
Jim Thorpe, Indian athlete, who
played as a member of the Carlisle
football team, which has been a terror
to all elevens In the United States, has
come out with an assertion that ho
will quit sports. He says he will sever
his athletic relations with his school
and that the game with Brown Thanks
giving day positively was his last.
When the CarllBlo eleven arrived In
Worcester to finish its training for tha
Brown gamo Thnnksglvlng a big
crowd surrounded tho players nnd be
gan to call for Thorpo. Tho modest
Indian tried to keep in tho back
ground, but he was spied and three
cheers were given for him. some triad
to shake his halid.
This demonstration so unnerved
Thorpo that ho lost no time in declar
ing that he would quit the Carlisle
school and would not take part In any
moro sporting events. If Thorpe
stlck3 to his declaration the athletio
world will lose one of the greatest all
around athletes ever produced.
Thorpe was tho most successful ath
lete that competed In tho Olympian
games at Stockholm July 4, as he won
both the Decathlon and Pentathlon
events. Shortly after his return to
America ho won the all-around cham
pionship at Celtic park, scoring moro
points In the different events than
Martin Sheridan did when he was
champion.
JIM FLYNN WILL TAKE REST
Defeated Heavyweight WIII Como
East Before Attempting to Recov
er Lost Laurels In Ring.
Jim riynn, recently defeated in hla
hoavywolght fight at Los AngoleB by
Luther McCarty, Is in New York,
Jim Flynn
whero he Intends to take a good long
rest before attempting to tight his
way back Into the championship class.
DUMMY BALL FOOLED WAGNER
Jake Beckley Made Famous Pittsburg
Shortstop Look Like Sucker
Caught Stealing Second.
"Jako Beckley was one of tho few
players who over mado me look like
a sucker," said young Honus Wagner
of tho Pirates, a new candidate for
the matrimonial league, the other
day.
"It happened in Louisville years
ago, and Tim Hurst was umpiring.
I was on first base and saw Jake
hide tho ball under his arm. I told'
him several times I was wise to
such bush loague stuff, but Jako pro
tended he did not hear. Finally when
Hurst was not looking, I grabbed tho
ball from under Jake's arm and throw
It Into right field. Then I started for
second base, only to have tho pitcher
throw another ball to tho second
baseman, and I was run down be
tween tho bases, I felt so cheap I
could have dropped clean through to
China. Beckley had been holding a
dummy ball."
Tiger Players for Sale.
Barring Cobb, Crawford, Stanage
and Dubuc. President Nnvln qf Detroit
sayB any of his players are on tho
market to be sold for cash or to figure
in a trade,
Weeks U Presldint.
Frank R. Weeks of Green Pay V In ,
was recently elected jv"''' k . tj'a
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