THE OMAHA SUNDAY EK: MARCH 10, 1916.
HUNDRED THOUSAND
FIGHT MONEY IS IN
dvance Sale of Seats for Willard
Moran Bout Now Ariounts to
More Than That.
Tad Illustrates Willie Lewis' Dope on the Big Fight
rrvprrtKM. lom, International NVwi Service
CHAMPION USES THE PULLETS L
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NEW YORK. March 18. At Madison
Iquare Garden, where the Wtllard-Moran
out la to taJte place una week from to
imrro night. It irei stated tonight that
.ha advance aala of tick eta for tha con
eet now amount to mora than lioo.ooft.
Tha management announced that tha 8S
tnd 81 mti would be put on aala next
rhu radar and that no mora than two of
heee would be aold to anjr ona applicant.
Wlllard did no road work thla morning,
tut used tha puller and spent a quarter
tour In bending and setting-up exercise
thla afternoon. Then he took on Jack
Sroad. a local heavyweight, but the new
tomer waa handled ao roughly that ha
tult before the expiration of three mln
ttea. Jack Hemple waa unable to take
art In tha boxing today aa hia face waa
ore from hie prevloua bouta with Wll
lard, but Rod el went three fait round
with the champion and Monahan two.
WUIard'a footwork waa fsst, and Willie
Ritchie, who we an Interested spectator,
declared the Kanaan waa In fine shape.
Moran took light exercise In the early
part of tha day after a four-mile run In
tha morning. Ha went to a theater In
the afternoon to aea an Iiiah play In
honor of BL Patrick's day. Tomorrow
will be tha twenty-ninth annlvereary of
Moran'a birth and he aald ha would put
In a full day'a training to celebrate It.
5Ie looked the picture of health and
strength. He will endeavor to take on
a few pounds In weight the coming week
aa he wishes to enter the ring weighing
about 307 pounds.
Mike Gibbons Bests
Smith of Bayonno
ET. PAtU Minn.. March It. Mike Gib
bons. St. Paul middleweight, outpointed
end outfought Jeff Smith of Bayonne, N.
J., In a tame ten-round bout here tonight.
GERMAN EXrWllEASURE
WILL CAUSE DUTCH LOSS
(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)
ROTTERDAM. Netherlands. Keb. .
A stir haa been made In the Dutch metal
Industries by the latest German export
measure, which amounta to tha annul
ment of running contracts of Dutch firms
with tha German Iron foundries and
threaten tha firms In question with the
loss of millions of dollars.
Many of them are already turning to
.'England and Scotland for their raw Iron
supplies, and would doubtless place big
orders In America but for tha abnormal
freights.
Among the measure decided on with
a view to counteracting the very un
favorable exchange rate against Ger-
many, tha government In Berlin Issued
an export prohibition on bar universal"
and atrip Iron, prescribing at the same
tlma that consents for export shall only
be granted where a minimum price fixed
by It Is paid. With a view to attaining
thta minimum price, the aale has been
placed In tha hands of tha Steel Worka
union In Doesseldorf. Tha consequence
la that tha German Iron works are pre
vented from carrying out tha contract
they had entered Into with Putch cut
tomera. A meeting of tha leading Dutch engi
neering and shipbuilding concerns and
connected tradea waa held recently, at
which a resolution waa passed empha
sising that the oarrytng out of the meaa
, lira In question will cause serious dam
age to Dutch Industry, and urging the
Netherlands government to take steps to
get the export prohibition withdrawn.
A committee waa appointed and charged
to make representations to the German
authorities. Some of the manufacturers
present had already placed theniselvea
In communication with Berlin Iron foun
dries with a view to obtaining their sup
plies, and a second committee waa nomi
nated to prepare tha way for securing
other Iron consignments In that country,
It Is recognised that Germany has a
right to obtain higher prices. If It can,
for ita raw Iron exports, so far as all
fresh contracts are concerned, especially
when It ia remembered that, owing to
tha withdrawal of labor for tha army,
only 11.790,19 tons of iron were produced
In 181. aa against 14.Os.34f7 tons In tU
I and 1.0,171 tons In ISIi. Tha unfairness
.lies. It Is argued. In giving the measure
'retrospective fore and applying It to
(contracts already signed.
No export of bar Iron la now permitted
I from Germany below a price of 110 gold
per V kilograms, which meana an ln
crease of mora than 89 per cent on tha
'running contracts. This loaa la Irre
coverable ao far aa the manufacturers
are concerned, for It la out of tha ques
tion to transfer the burden to the shoul
ders of their customers In tha case of
contracta already entered Into.
o "High Cost of
Living" in Italy
kCorrespondenee of the Associated Press.)
ROME. Fsb. . Italy ia said to be the
(cheapest of tha countries at war In
which to live cheaper even than neutral
Switsarland. Hotel ratea are still reas
onable, and house and apartment rente
tare even lower than they were before the
war. Food prices have not Inoraased aa
much as In France, Germany and En
gland. Thla last-mentioned condition ia
idiie mainly to the lawa prohibiting the
exportation ef ail foodstuffs, which ia a
fmeasura prevents speculation and corners
lin the market It la pointed Out that
(Italy la still largely an agricultural co mi
tt ry and produces au It eats, except
Iwheat-
Contrary to the general belief, water,
tot wlaa. la the national drink of Italy.
rrhe average Italian drinka an unbe
Ulevabla quantity of water. The water
ieonauroptlon in Rome Is said to be the
ftargeat of any city In the world.
The only food product, the Increase In
ItKe price of which has troubled the
(Italian stomach, is macaroni. Ita price
tea gone from I to M cents a pound.
Kga have remained stationary In price.
The only seemingly Insurmountable dif
ficulty of the poor Ilea In tha coat of
jeoel for heating and cooking. That fuel
aa increased from M cents per 100 pounds
o 71 cents. This dtmculty, too, tha
rer people meet by the co-operative
ltfhens, where several families cook
heir meals over the same fire, often at
ha same time, and where tuia is not
kiossible the entire quantity of food for
tveral families is cooked in lump, by
me one of the women, turn and turn
bout.
Bates with Orlales.
i John fates, who played In the Richmond
outfield laat year alter hi release by the
K-..tIj f Baltimore, will be mitn tlie
iseltunoi Ji Idles this year.
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Allrt VmHJTT HOPC
fChi KLUEO
STRENGTH OF GERMAN ARMY
Fonr and One-Half Million Effective
Men in the Eanki. with Light
Hundred Thousand Available.
MANY MORE CAN BE SECURED
(Correspondence ef tha Associated Press.)
PARIS, rb. L The Germans have still
available to fill the voids in their ranks
approximately 100,000 men, according to a
French authority. Ha reaches this result
by taking .(70,000 aa tha total normal re
cruitment In Germany. This la based on
the liberal proportion of li per cent of
the total population. January 1 this year
those 1,170,000 recruit were proportioned,
he asserts, as follows:
Effective men In the army 4.600,000
r-ermaneni losses during sixteen
months campaign (200.000 per
month) J.JOO.000
Men dispensed from service and
needed by Industries at home... 700,000
Germans abroad unable to loin
tha army or on special missions MO.OOO
Total 8,(00, 000
The remaining 770,000 are divided as
follows:
Wounded cured IflO.OOO
Men lelng drilled r.oon
Contingent of 1917 400,000
Grand total , 170,000
Supposing the wastage of SOO.000 men
per month to be exact and to continue
during the winter months, he assert that
Germany' present resource In msn
would laat until April 1.
Available, Mais Called.
Admitting that these base and the re-
tultlng calculation are only approximate
and open to discussion, this authority
points out in confirmation the fact that
as far back as November 1 Germany had
called up every available man excepting
the young men of 1 year of age of
the contingent of 1M7, and had Incorpor
ated the contingent of 1814.
Moreover, the estimate of 4,500.000 men
a the effective force under arma pre
supposes that all the unite have their
full number and that all the baaea have
heir full complement which thla author
ity asserts, on the baala of detailed relia
ble Information, la not th case. Tha
over-estimation of this Item, h consid
ers, offsets any over-estimation of th
others.
The deduction he makes from these cal
culations la that Germany will be obliged
to resort to abnormal measures to meet
an abnormal situation, resulting from
progressiva exhaustion of It resources
In men and th continual extension of
battle front a and augmentation of occu
pied territory. Ha expect Germany to
strain Its resources to th utmost limit
and resort to three different measure
that will, all told, give it 900,000 more men
and enable It to sustain Its present ef
fort until August 1, 1911
Maay Are Eaaaspt.
These three extraordinary measure
are:
First, th calling up of men heretofore
declared by medical examiner unfit for
military services.
Second. In the calling up of all men
between the agea of t and 54 years.
Third. In the reduction, aa far a com
patible with the essential needs of the
country, of th number of men exempted
from military servl in order to keep
war Industries running.
me uarmans nave, according to thla
authority, exempted on account of phy
sical unfltneaa between K.OOO and 60,000
men a year, or no more than 10 per cent
of the full effective fore of each con'
tlngent which ha considers must repre
sent a category of mea very deficient
physically, and that a rigorous revision
of these exempted men could not give
mora than m. total annm
Of men between th ages of 46 and 54.
ha finds a probable total of lO,000, in
cluding fit and unfit, and estimates that
only a little over SO per cent be withdrawn
from th aconomlo life of the country.
giving a total of 400.000 men whose qual
ity aa soldier would be moat problematic.
Of th TOO. 000 men exempted from ser
vice In order to continue the work of
such Industries as are Indispensable to
th army, ha admits ths possibility of de
taching no more than 100.000 men without
seriously compromising Industries essen
tial to tha conduct of tha war. With the
00.000 men to be found by recourse to
theee measure this authority fixes a
limit of four additional months' effort,
becoming, however, every dsy feebler
and more desperate because of the dimin
ished soldierly qualities of these men, ab
normally recruited
Daasraei ts Rlchaao.d.
Harry Damrau. third baseman, whom
Connie Mack released recently to KuleiMh
of the North Carolina league, will vrry
Jlkely get a trial with Richmond.
Ntchelaoa Released.
The Detroit club laxt week released
Outfielder Nicholson to the Chattanouga
Southern league club.
CMS. 0 ftP.tr
HEAD OF GREAT WIRE SYSTEM
Emil Frey, Former Soldier in War
of Rebellion, Directs European
Cable and Wireless.
HEAD QUARTERS WITH SWISS
(Correspondence of the Associated Fress.)
BERNE, Swltxcrland, Feb. 10. Emll
Fray, former president of Swltserland. Is
one of tha notable men of tha country,
who, since retiring prom tha presidency,
haa become, head of the International
union by which the telegraph, cable and
wireless systems of the world are regu
lated at this central point. But while
Mr. FYey has risen to the highest office
In his own country, ha feels that he Is
about half American, for ha waa In the
American civil war from start to finish
aa a member of an Illinois regiment, was
i-Byiurca mi ueiiysourg ana neia as a
prisoner for fifteen months at Richmond,
met and knew auch war figures aa Grant.
Sheridan, Lee and Ingetrect, and later
on returned to Washington aa Swiss mln
lster, where he renewed the acquain
tance with Sheridan and others made in
war day. When a friend remarked on
the correctness of his English, he said:
"I took my lessons under rather novel
conditions in L4bby prison at Richmond.
My prison companion could speak noth
ing but English, so that after being with
him for fifteen months I had acquired a
good knowledge of English."
Mr. Ftey waa held as a hostage against
outiiem prisoner." Captain Gordon.
held In the north under sentence of death,
ana as a result ha waa under scntenoe
of death until Gordon waa released. When
Gordon died later some of the southern
papers had the picture of Gordon and
Krey aa the two whose lives had been
paired ajralnst each other. But few knew
this northern soldier. Frey. was the presi
dent of Swltxcrland.
cop of tha t alon.
The International Cable and Telegraph
union, which Mr. Frey directs. Is ona of
those world-organltatlons administered
here in Berne. It Is rather strange that
Swltserland, far from the sea and with
out any cable connections, should be
chosen to direct the vast ramification of
the world's cables, to which haa now been
added the world wireless systems, and
all the telegraph of Europe and the orient
But It la largely for tha reason that
Swltserland haa no direct Interest ia these
bug systems, and stands at ona side as
a neutral observer, that It la chosen to
carry on this Intricate ervtc.
Mr. Prey'a office occupy a large build
ing, with an extensive personnel at work
on cable and telegraph Urlfta, th ad
justment of dispute between countries
over rates and procedure, tha preparation
of cable, telegraph and wireless maps
and printed volumea embracing every
point tha world over that can be reached
by any of the modern methoda of quick
transmission.
"Thla union la unique in one respect."
said Mr. Frey. "aa It ia tha first reallaa
tion. of tha Idea of a world-administra
tion. Before it waa created In ISA the
different natlona had passed similar lawa
and uniformity waa secured by treaties
and conventlona under thee laws. But
tha International union actually realised
a world-admlnlatratlon which la now ca
rled on for natlona all over the globe
with the same regularity a any ad
ministration of a state or private organ
isation
Tha war haa nad a paralysing effect on
cable and telegraph transmission greater
In Ita restriction and Interruptiona than
anything In the history of electrical trana
aiuu. j hup eiircis cnieriy ine Dellig
' vlv""lr'' transmission oeiweon
them being at a standstill, while th
transmission between neutrals and be!
liferents, and between two neutral. 1
very much restricted and subject to new
and round-about routes.
The latest list of Interruptiona compiled
by the International union covers sixteen
closely printed folio pages a first list of
twelve pagea and a supplement of tour
pagea. Thirty complete Interruptiona of
all communication between countries are
recorded, while the rest of tha list Is
made up of the numberless restrictions
on cipher telegrams, sdmisslble lan
guage, etc., each country having put out
a masa of regulations as a measure of
military emergency. Fur example, the
first psge of the list shows the following
complete interruptions:
All communication between Hungary
and Russia, between Austria and Russia,
between Belgium and Germany, between
Berlin. Petrograd and Teheran, between
Franc and Luxemburg, between Austria
and Franca, between Austria and Mon
tenegro, between Hungary and Sarbla,
between Bosnia-Heraogovtnla and Serbia,
between Turkey and Ruasla, between
Constantinople and Odessa, between Con
By
w?
ILLIE LEWIS, who is
Irishman from Pittsburgh, figures that the coming battl
aa good as In already,
it to us.
"In the first place," piped Lewis, late of the Gas House district
and Paris, "this fellow Moran hag had more experience than Wll-
lard. He has never quit in a fight, and I
Moran' Record
Rds
...W. t
Fred Broad....
Blav Fits ....
Joe Kelly
Black Kits ....
Joe Kelly
Jack J oh neon .
John Willie ..
Ed. "with
Joe Ulerra ....
Frank Appell
Kid Cotton ..
...W.
...N.D.
...K.O.
...N.D.
...Exb.
...D.
...W. .
...W.
...K.O.
...W.-F. 1
Ken lsbury
...K.O. 1
...K.O. 4
,.D. 10
...K.O. S
...W. S
Jack Heynol
ds
Dummy Maxon
Jack Biberg ....
Al Palxer ,
Jim tiavaae ...
L. 10
Fred Drummond..K.O.
Tom Cowler K.O.
Charley Wllaon ..K.O.
Fred Storbeck..
Stoker Hmlth ,
Fred Storbeck ,
Al Kublac
Tom Kennedy .
Tony Koss .....
Harry Wuest- ,
Iave Willis ...
Jack Oeyer ...
Sailor tchaefer
J tin Cameron .
Gunboat Smith
A I. McOluskey
Saline White ..
..W.-F. 7
..K.O. 1
..K.O. 12
..D. 10
..O. 10
..I,. 10
,..W. 10
K.O. 8
..L. 4
..K.O. S
..W. 4
..I.. 1
..K.O. 6
..N.D.
Luther McCarty. .N.D. 10
Jim Logan K.O. 4
Al. Falser K.O. 7
Jack Johnson SO
Bombardier Wells. K.O. 10
Gordon Hlms K.O.
Jim Coffey K.O. 8
Jim Coffey K.O.
"Wlllard can be hit, you know.
boat Smith, much shorter and weighing
about 175 pounds, beat him in 'Frisco,
didn't he? Tom McMahon, eight Inches
shorter than Wlllard and weighing 180
pounds, beat him, too.
"It those fellows can trim him, why
can't you figure Moran in on the dough?
"When you're going to lay some Iron
men on a horse, you look over his past
performances, don't you?
"When you go to borrow money from
gome concern they look you up, don't they?
"I don't figure slse eTerythlng. Why,
the other day Frank stood on a chalr to
show some boya the dope and I swung on
bis chin Just as easily as though he were
standing on the floor. He won't have to
reach to hit this fellow. Wlllard doesn't
always stand up straight. When he leads
he has to bend over. Won't that bring
hlr.i down to Frank's slse?
"The punch? Say, If Moran can't hit harder than the champ I'll
roll a peanut trom here to Coney Island, and that goea. Walt until
they both land on the 26th. Let Wlllard hit first, I don't care. Just
watch when Frank lands.
"Wlllard hit lots of fighters around here without dropping them.
New Yorkers saw Wlllard knock out only one man, while Frank haa
shown them the K- O. wallop on three different occasions with good
men faring birr.
"Don't be surprised If five or six men carry that farmer champion
out on the night of the 25th."
stantinople and Tenedoa. between Italy
and Austria, between Bulgaria and Ser
bia, between Roumanla and Serbia, etc.
This la only ona page, each subaeque
pag giving its msss of Interruptions.'
complete or partial. Austria has put out
a great number of restrictions, and so
haa Turkey and Hungary. But Germany
Is the one country making no reetrlctlona.
apparently seeking to Increase rather than
restrict Us communication.
War Interruption of wireless is separ
ately complied and makes four printed
page. Singularly tha rtrictton of the
United Btatea form tha larger part of
this. Its restriction being one-fourth of
the whole, and greater than any of the
belligerents.
Growth ( Cable.
But while war haa thua paralysed the
cable and telegraph facilities, none of
the fighting countriea haa withdrawn from
the International union; every ona of
them paid the laat regular assessment,
and the union la continuing lis work of
carrying on thla world intercommunica
tion aa far aa possible under the limita
tion Imposed by censorahip and lawa
ccompletely (topping communication.
Ilwaaaael Gcta Wrhu
John Hummel, the former Brooklyn
nl.ver has. by hi own statement, signed
with the Buffalo club of the Interna
tional league.
THIev Carat Fired.
Tha Kan Framinco club haa given an
unconditional release to Bllcher Tiller
Ca'el.
Jm lawar t & L
Tad.
training Frank Moran. the blond
and WIUus had the dope to prove
understand that Mr. Wlllard deliberately
walked out on Joe. Cox out west.
"Moran has won half of his battles
with knockouts, while Wlllard haa won
only a few.
"Moran has knocked out some of the
best "heavies in the world. In his list of
K. O. victims you'll find Tom Cowler, Jim
Coffey, Al Palzer and Bombardier Wells.
"Jim Coffey has licked men who have
beaten Wlllard, and that counts, doesn't
It? Wlllard couldn't beat either Morris
or Pelky, yet Coffey knocked Pelky out
and gave Morris an awful trimming. Frank
dropped Coffey twice and didn't even have
a black eye.
"Moran also beat Luther McCarty here
and that gent was our white hope, If
you remember.
, "He gave Johnson the hardest twenty
round fight you ever saw, and Johnson
trained seven months for It. If the fight
had been five rounds longer Frank would
have won because Johnson had to be lifted
from his corner In the twentieth round to
go on.
"Johnson was fat when he fought in
Havana, and, at that, made a monkey of
Wlllard for twenty rounds. I'm not sure
that the thing was on the up and up yet.
Gun
Willard's Record
Rds.
IxMilg Fink ,.-V. 10
Kd. Burke K.O. S
Louis Fink K.O. S
Al. Mandeno K.O. 4
Joe Cavanaugh....K.O. 11
Kill Shiller K.O. 4
Frank Lyon W. 10
Mike Conilsky ...,W. 10
John Young ..
Frank Bowers
John Young .
Arthur Pelkev
K.O.
K.O. S
..K.O. t
N.D. 10
Luther McCarty. ..N.D. 10
Bailor White K.O. 1
(Soldier Kearna ..K.O. S
Frank Bauer
Jack Leon ....
Gunboat rtmlth
Charles Miller
Al. Williams ..
Bull Young ...
George Rodel
Jack Reed ....
Carl Morris . .
George Davis
George Rodel
Jack Johnson
K.O. I
..K.O. 4
..L. 20
..D. 4
..W. 8
..K.O. 11
..N.D. 10
..W. t
..W. 10
..K.O. t
..K.O.
..K.O. 26
Cancel Date for
Enthroning President
(Correspondence of The Associated Fress.)
PEKING. Feb. S5. By special command
of President Yuan Shi Kal, plans for
told! g tl enthronement ceremonu w re
cancelled and no date is yet set for the
president's accession. The reason as
signed for the postponement Is the dis
turbance in the province of Yunnan, but
the earnestness with which the entente
powers advised delay Is believed to have
been a factor In the deellon.
While the postponement saves Yuan
fhl Kal from Immediate international
complications. It does not improve his
domestta problems. In fact it will doubt
less be capitalised heavily by the revo
lutionists aa an Indication of r.ls weak
ness in that ha yielded to pressure from
Japan and th other foreign powers.
One of the chief charga the revo
lutionist have brought against tha presi
dent is that he has not Imparted dHnl-
fted standing to China in the eyes of the
world powers, and they have blamed him
with truckling to Japan on various oc
casions.
tollta Will Be Ceavrh.
Ray W. Collins, for several , year
Ditcher of the lioatou Aniencana. will
coach the ba ball team of Bellows Free
scadeiny at Fairfax. VI.. this sesson.
HARYARD LOSES GRID STARS
Crimson Foot Ball Eleven is Seri
ously Crippled by Expelling of
Oilmore, Boles, Enwright.
YALE GETS LEE GORE BACK.
BOSTON, March 18. Captain Joseph A.
Gllman of the Harvard 1916 foot ball team
and William 7. Bole and Thomaa H.
Knwrtght, backfleld player, have severed
their connection with Harvard university
on account of academic deficiencies. The
three foot ball men were "fired" from
college following the action of the ad
ministrative board.
Harvard foot ball sustained the most
sever blow of It history with tha re
moval of the three player. The dismis
sal of a foot ball captain 1 without par
allel, and it waa said that this sudden
blow 1 only a beginning; of the house
cleaning program of tha faculty.
Gllman and Boles cannot return to Har
vard. Both had suffered prevtou dismis
sals, and the Harvard regulation state
that a man who la dismissed from th
university for a second time on account
of unsatisfactory study mark cannot re
turn. . Enwright will have an opportunity
to re-enter Harvard in th fall after ha
haa taken a course at the Harvard sum
mer camp at Squash Lake, N. H. With
atlafactory mark at tha engineering
camp he will be eligible to play foot ball
when he return to Cambridge.
I
Will Weaken Tata.
Th Harvard 1916 foot ball team, which
Gllman was to have captained, will have
a shattered lineup as a result of the fac
ulty's sweeping action In the case of the
delinquent athlete. Gllman was a peer
less guard one of the best ever devel
oped during the Hauehton coaching re
gime at Cambridge. Ha waa virtually
the unanimous choice of tha foot ball
critics for the Ail-American team laat
fall, and his sensational work was re
sponsible for hi election to the captaincy
In the face of opposition. With Gllman
out of th Una Harvard's defense will
be weakened perceptibly.
The backfleld will suffer by Bole' de
parture. Laat fall. In bla first period of
eligibility as a sophomore, ha waa first
string half back, starting tha Yale gam
and playing the greater part of th gam.
Bolea wa also th leading pitcher on tha
Harvard varsity baa ball aquad, and
with Eddie Mahan, waa counted oa to
do the bulk of tha pitching in th big
contests for the season.
Gal la Itrssgtr,
Harvard' blow comes at a period of
athletto supremacy en th gridiron which
critics believed was waning. Th suc
cession of stara. with Brlckley, Mahan.
Hardwick, Trumbull, Pennock. Logan,
Bradlee In the firmament, had passed
from the college rolls and Harvard wa
facing a season when only player of
ordinary promise would hav to uphold
the prestige of the Crimson. Th sudden
dismissal of Captain Oilman, Bolea and
Enwright mean that th varsity eleven
of next fall will hav to meet It oppo
nent with a lineup far weaker than had
been estimated after Mahan' last game
In November.
Coincidental with the scattering ef Har
vard prospects rises tha hop of Yale.
After a succession of disappointments
quite as msrked a Harvard successes,
Yale is on the eve of emerging from the
grip of Its jinx. Next fall LaOore, Tale'
all-round hero, will b eligible to play
foot ball, and the balance of material
between Harvard and Yale today favor
the El is for the first time In several
years.
RUSSIA PLACES BIG LOAN
WITH 'JAPANESE BANKERS
(Correspondence of th Associated Press.)
TOKIO. Feb. 0. Russia has placed a
war loan of 60,000.000 yen, or about US,
000.000, with Japanes bankers. The opera
tion la really for tha purpose of paying
in part for tha great quantities of war
munitions which the Japanese govern
ment and private arsenals are furnishing
the Russian government
The loan takes tha form of Russian
trasury bills In denoml natlona of l.OOt
and 10.000 yen and the rate of interest Is
S per cent. The bonds are redeemable
In one year. Th bond will be iaaued at
tha rate of K. Though the subscription
list will be opened to th public, th syn
dicate of Japanes banker Interested In
tha loaa doea not seem to expect general,
support from th public, believing that
the subscribers will be confined to th
banking and lusuranc circles. In conse
quence an understanding haa been
reached between the syndicate and the
Bank of Japan that the latter will accept
the bills aa re mortage.
UWULAjtO WOM
MMCMVOUC
(coowmO
Me icwociceo
MISS HYDE RANKS FAVORITE
Expected to Retain Women's Metro
politan Golf Championship in
Tourney at Baltuirol.
PLATS EXCEPTIONAL LONG GAME,
NEW YORK, March 18. Because cf her
exceptional long game, MIS Lillian B.
Hyde, In the opinion Of a number of her
friends, appear to have a fin chaac to
retain possession of her title as champion
of tha Women' Metropolitan Golf asso
ciation when that body holds Ita annual
tournament at Baltusrol next June. Much
the same line of reasoning was heard a
number of years ago when the South
Shore girl competed at Baltimore In th
women' national meeting. There waa
no question aa to tha brilliant part cf
her long game, yet Indifferent putting
more than discounted whatever advantage
she gained with wood, and aha failed to
win the coveted crown.
Meeting less clasa in th Metropolitan
Championships, Mis Hyde haa had no
difficulty In winning several of these,
and ao far aa th next on 1 concerned.
It certainly doe look a If she should
have a distinct advantag at a majority
of the hole. To at least eleven of the
eighteen holes the Long Island player
ought to be able to get home In a stroke
lea than th average opponent. By
average la meant good players, th kind
that qualify in an event of this kind.
They get fair length, though, of course,
yard short of th title holder.
Assuming that Miss Hyda make no
mistakes with her wooden clubs, and
that her approaches land her within putt
ing distance. It may be aeen at a glance
that unless her short gam breaks down
or her opponent does something excep
tional, a majority of the holes are aa
good aa won by tha time the green la
reached. At Baltusrol thla player should
have a pronounced advantaaa at tha first.
second, fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth vy
hole going out. and on the homewardtfr
Journey at the eleventh, fourteenth, fit
teenOi. sixteenth and seventeenth. That's
the way it aecma, but you never can tell.
Eeasons Given
For Large Number
Suicides in Japan
(Correspondence ef ths Associated Press.)
TOKIO. Fab. Si. Unoonauaunatad
lov. debt and the failure ef mea ef
education to earn a sufficient living; are
given by a writer la th Chuo Koron
Review, aa the three chief cause of
ulcide m Japan, th Increase of which
in recant year ha caused medical ex
pert considerable anxiety. Th writer
expressed the opinion that the number
of suicides 1 larger than appear in th
press and is struck by th fact that th
number of cases of self-destruction seams
to have Increased with the development
of western civilisation. He says:
"Late spring and early summer m
to furnlah th greater number of vic
tims, so that heat ha evidently an ir
ritating effeot on the mind, producing
the melancholy that leads to ulcide. In
pit of the fact that the habit la re
garded aa evil, many look to It aa the
only relief from mlaery. Though aulclds
Is condemned by both Christianity and
IMohamroendanlsm, many Japanese re
gard it aa sometimes a meana toward
a higher end. The evil la due to a more
Insistent spirit of pessimism following
th wav of materialism In evidence
after the wars with Ruasla and Chins.
Lack of imagination and deep thinking
which fall to find olac In material
force and know no other source of re
lief naturally leavea tha victim In fatal
despair." The writer is pessimistic a
to the future for he find that for -not
many years haa Japanes society bn
in auch a stat ef stagnancy and gloom.
.Statistics snow that the greater num
ber of suicide are among th young
and that the favored methoda of Mak
ing death are by throwing themselves
In front of railroad trains and by cast
ing themselves over water falls. Bo many
people Jumpped to death over tha Kekon
waterfall precipice at Chusenji, la late
year that the authorities built a high
wall to datar would-b aulcldee. Tha
waterfall ia en of the moat beautiful In
Japan. It carries off the overflow from
the lake whioh itself is noted aa ths
summer home of the foreign diplomat (
accredited to Toklo. .
Slgraa Seami-
Eua-ene McCann of New London has
algned a young Hpringfleld seml-pio.
player named "Chick" Crago.
CMelll la gold.
Jimmy O'Neill haa been aold by tha
Roaton Americans to the Buffalo tiub of
the International league.
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