The Anaconda Standard, 1923-02-01, p.6

6 THE ANACONDA STANDARD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1923. # PLAN HOCKEY TOURNEY FOR BUTTE-ANACONDA ## *Basket Ball Race for City Title Opens Tonight at Y. M. C. A. With Eight Teams in First Round of Tussles* ## Column 1 # GOPHERS TO MEET FLYING FIVE IN OPENING CONTEST ## Schedule for Six Weeks' Chase Finds Each Team Playing on Thursday. Gophers and Flying Five hoopers in the first of four basket ball tilts for the evening open the initial round of play for Butte's cage title at the Y. M. C. A. tonight at 8 o'clock. Four teams from the Sunday School league and the same number from the "Y" men's organization will be matched in their respective leagues, the winners and runners-up at the end of six weeks' pastiming being scheduled to start another race to decide the title and the ownership of a silver trophy. The other games tonight in order are as follows: St. John's against Baptists. Panthers against Lion Tamers. People's Congregational against Mountain View M. E. Stars of Butte independent circles are included in the lineups of the two leagues. Many of the players took part in the Men's Basket Ball league recently finished at the "Y," with the Rowdies winning in a playoff with the Flying Five. The captains of the teams are as follows: Flying Five, Ralph Bush; Panthers, Paul Cutter; People's Congregational, Russel Morrison; Gophers, George Lilly; Lion Tamers, Arthur Pascoe; St. John's Episcopal, Richard Boyer; Mountain View Methodist, Oscar Helland. A. J. "Lefty" Ryan will referee the contests and play will be held each Thursday. The schedule, which is as follows, has been arranged to allow each team to play twice with all of the others: ### Feb. 8. Panthers against Gophers; St. John's against People's; Flying Five against Lion Tamers; Mountain View against Baptists. ### Feb. 15. Flying Five against Panthers; Baptists against People's; Gophers against Lion Tamers; St. John's against Mountain View. ### Feb. 23. Gophers against Flying Five; St. John's against Baptists: Panthers against Lion Tamers; People's against Mountain View. ### March 1. Panthers against Gophers; St. John's against People's; Flying Five against Lion Tamers; Mountain View against Baptists. ### March 8. Flying Five against Panthers; Baptists against People's; Gophers against Lion Tamers; St. John's against Mountain View. # MARQUETTE BOWLING ### Commercial League. **CHEQUEMAGON.** Houston ...... 170 193 125 488 T. Jovick ...... 178 123 141 442 M. Jovick ...... 148 178 163 486 Nordstrom ...... 161 167 213 541 Peck ...... 202 157 200 559 Totals ...... 859 815 842 2,516 **MONTANA POWER.** Noall ...... 137 115 194 446 Osborn ...... 157 140 156 453 Zibell ...... 132 137 163 432 Middleton ...... 147 114 165 426 Christy ...... 161 153 129 443 Totals ...... 734 659 807 2,200 # VISIT NO BEARING ON DRAFT ARGUMENT By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31.—Thomas J. Hickey, president of the American association, who stopped off here en route East, denied last night that his visit had any bearing upon the major-minor league draft controversy. Mr. Hickey asserted that he was not inclined to regard the draft situation with apprehension, but if the majors should insist on returning to the draft, the American Association would stand with the Coast league in opposition to the plan. ### COACH CANDIDATES. MADISON, Wis., Jan. 31.—Harry Hughes, coach at the Colorado Agricultural college, and "Hod" Ofstie, former coach at Mississippi A. and M., arrived here today for a conference with Tom E. Jones, director of athletics at the University of Wisconsin. Both are being considered as candidates for the football coaching position here to replace John R. Richards, resigned. # CONROY FAMILY BIDDING FOR FAME NOW HELD BY ROMNEYS [headline spans columns 1 and 2] SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 31.—The Conroy family of Ogden and the Romney family of Salt Lake City, are having a merry battle for the family athletic supremacy of Utah, but the Romneys appear to have a safe hold on the honors because there are more Romneys than Conroys. Three Conroy boys have gained fame as football players and one is a college wrestler while the five Romney brothers specialize in gridiron work. Vincent Conroy, captain of the 1922 Navy eleven, is the most famous member of the Ogden family. Next comes Ted Conroy, who won intercollegiate wrestling honors at Cornell, and following him is Pete Conroy who captained the 1922 Utah Agricultural college football squad. Bringing up at the tail end is young Louis Conroy who has been elected captain of the 1923 Ogden high school gridiron team. ## Column 2 # LINEUP CHANGES COMING IN TILTS ON BUTTE FLOOR ## Central Teams Loses Two Forwards While Butte Has Brand New Set. Switched lineups in both Butte high and Central quints for week-end games at home against Anaconda and Great Falls tomorrow and Saturday are threatened with improvement of second string men under Coach Dahlberg and the bugbear of studies with some Maroon athletes. Butte high, playing the fast-coming Anacondans at the former's gym tomorrow, may have a brand new scoring combination replace the regulars, Coach Dahlberg stated last night. From the other school Coach Steve Sullivan announced that O'Rourke, the tall, slim forward, and Prendergast, his shorter running mate in several past games, would be ineligible for play in Dillon tomorrow and at home Saturday against the Blue and White from Great Falls. To meet the emergency Sullivan has switched McKenzie from center to forward to take a regular berth and Keyes, the husky guard, to McKenzie's job. Sullivan and Hayes are the other regular forwards while Murray, who has been at guard all year will have either Moffatt or "Olie" Reardon working opposite him. As a result of some great shooting and floor work contributed by Olson at center and Ed Jovick and Worden, working as forwards in one team combination, Coach Dahlberg said last night that these men may replace Thierkoff, regular man in the middle of the floor, and Vance, Jovick and Aho, heretofore forward choices. Last night the Purple sets of players tussled with the Miners in practice at the high school gym with the scholastics giving their collegiate rivals a hard run. The Miners are getting into shape for games Friday and Saturday in Helena with Mount St. Charles and Wesleyan. The team that played both the Bobcats and Bruins to close counts has been coming along at a good clip and supporters are looking for victories over the Helena collegiate outfits. Saturday night while Central is tackling Great Falls, a strong northern team on a Butte floor, the Purple and White team will be in Missoula in combat with the last year's champion squad that trimmed both local scholastic squads several weeks ago. # MIDDIES CLAIM FIRST PLACE IN SIX SPORTS By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 31.—During the year just past naval avademy teams have taken the leading positions among the representatives of the colleges along these lines. In most cases supremacy has been generally conceded to the midshipmen, while in others those who have undertaken to pick the leaders have apparently overlooked the local record. First place is claimed by the midshipmen in rowing, lacrosse, wrestling, gymnastics, fencing and water polo. In boxing it was undefeated, but the military academy team also went through the season without a break in its string of triumphs, and the leadership must rest equally upon the service representatives. # JOIE RAY SHATTERS OWN WORLD RECORD By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—Joie Ray of the Illinois Athletic club, Chicago, broke his own world's record for the mile and a half indoors at the Millrose Athletic club games at Madison Square Garden tonight by finishing in 6 minutes 41 1-5 seconds. This gave Ray his second Rodman Wanamaker cup, the event trophy, and marked the sixth time in seven years that he had won this race. His previous record of 6 minutes 42 3-5 seconds was made last year. Jimmie Connelly, Georgetown university, broke the world's record for the two-thirds of a mile run indoors tonight, when he won the second section of this special event in 2:43 3-5. The third world's record to be broken during the meet was shattered by Leroy T. Brown of Dartmouth and Richmond W. Landon of the New York A. C., who cleared the bar in the running high jump at 6 feet 5¼ inches. ### GEORGES MATCHED. By the Associated Press. PARIS, Jan. 31.—Georges Carpentier will meet Joe Beckett, English heavy-weight boxing champion, May 14 in London, Francois Descamps, Carpentier's manager announced [article "CONROY FAMILY BIDDING FOR FAME NOW HELD BY ROMNEYS" continues from column 1] Four of the Romney boys are holding down positions as coaches after brilliant careers as football players and the fifth is just starting out on the gridiron. G. Ottinger Romney is football mentor of Montana State college; R. Lowell Romney teaches football at the Utah Agricultural college; Wilford Romney is football coach at the Logan (Utah) high school and Milton Romney, who starred with the University of Chicago football squad of 1921, is gridiron coach at the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical college. Floyd, the youngest Romney, is a freshman at Montana State college, and he plans to play football next fall. Last season he starred with the University of Utah. The Romney family's claim of having furnished more football coaches than any other family in the United States has gone undisputed for some time. ## Column 3 # ANACONDA QUINTET WINS IN THRILLER ## Deer Lodge Falls Before Fast Coming Smelter City Five. Silver and Blue basket tossers came from behind in a game featured by long shots and defeated the Deer Lodge quintet by a score of 20 to 16 last night on the Anaconda floor. With the score 5 to 5 at the end of the first half, the visitors opened up in the next period and added seven points, before Larsen, a Smelter city guard, let loose with four heaves from the center of the floor that snapped his team mates into action. Larsen was clearly the outstanding star of the contest, scoring 10 points from the floor and two from the foul line. On defense he was worth recognition alone, forcing his man to try from a distance. Hayden and Evans of the visitors were sore spots to the Anaconda aggregation, playing a pretty passing game and counting 12 of the visitors' 16 counters. The largest crowd that has witnessed the indoor sport this season filled the gymnasium and evidenced the mining district tourney to be held in Anaconda, Feb. 22, 23, 24, will have no financial worries. ### First Half. Anaconda took the tip-off, but a confusion of passes resulted on account of the similarity of the jerseys worn by the teams. Anaconda called for time out and changed jerseys. Following the change Deer Lodge took the tip and Evans rung one from the center. Larsen failed to convert two free throws. McGillis tossed one through the netting. Gorman replied for the locals with a neat one, making the locals' first count. A personal foul called on Hayden netted the locals one when Larsen converted. Emmons connected for a ringer. Botzenhardt fouled and Hayden converted. The half ended with the score five all. ### Second Half. Evans started the scoring with a long one and Hayden followed with another. Larsen dribbled the ball to the center of the floor and tossed it through the netting. Hayden committed his third personal and Larsen scored. Johnson relieved Bolkovatz. Hayden scored after taking the ball on the tip-off. A personal on Gorman was lost by Hayden. Healy relieved Gorman, and as soon as play was resumed Larsen shot a long one. Evans of the visitors replied with one from the floor. Larsen again tossed the sphere through the hoop, and immediately after made a short one. Healy sent the ball spinning from the middle of the floor into the hoop for two more counters. Evans connected with the hoop for two more counters. Johnson tossed one into the basket and on the tip-off Larsen placed one in the netting. The half ended when Hayden converted a foul called on Larsen. ### Lineup. Anaconda (20) Deer Lodge (16) Emmons (2) ...... Hayden (6) Left forward. Gorman (2) ...... McGillis (2) Right forward. Bolkovatz ...... Evans (8) Center. Botzenhardt ...... Johnson Left forward. Larsen (12) ...... Roehr Right forward. Personal fouls—On Anaconda, 5; on Deer Lodge, 5. Free throws—Anaconda, 2 out of 7; Deer Lodge, 2 out fo 5. Substitutes—Anaconda, Johnson (2) for Bolkovatz, Healy (2) for Gorman. Referee—McCrea. Scorer—Stevens. Timer—Newman. # BASEBALL POOLS ARE MENACE TO PASTIME STATES JUDGE LANDIS NEW HAVEN, Jan. 31.—Baseball pools are the greatest menace facing the national game, declared Kenesaw M. Landis, baseball commissioner, in an address recently at a testimonial dinner to William E. (Wild Bill) Donovan, manager of the New Haven Eastern league club, and the players who won the Eastern league pennant last season. Commissioner Landis' declaration of war on the baseball pools brought the more than 300 men at the dinner to their feet with cheers. "The principal troubles of baseball come from the outside," said Commissioner Landis. "With the help of the fans of the country, I hope to drive the baseball pool operators from the game in the five years I have left to serve as baseball commissioner." After referring to his "long acquaintance with crooks," the commissioner declared the operators of baseball pools to be the "slimiest" he knew of. "Baseball has got to fight to free itself from crooks," he said. "The pool operators profit without direct corruption of the game and are the greatest danger confronting baseball. You fans must help and my office is there to do what you want done. "The baseball pool operators steal two-thirds of the money they receive. They take millions of dollars each year, mostly from office boys and other persons who can least afford it. As an institution in America, baseball must fight those who take money from the fans. It only remains for the supporters of the game to get in the frame of mind to oppose those who would debauch baseball. Our investigations have disclosed that some baseball pools distribute as prizes only 10 per cent of the money they receive." ### CONTI WINNER. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—Roger Conti, French 18.2 balk-line billiard champion, defeated Edouard Horemans, Belgian champion, 300 to 28[5?], in an exhibition match. ## Column 4 # SIGN OF NORMAL SEEN IN LEAGUE SAYS JAMES LONG ## Game, However, Still Has Long Distance to Go Before Regaining Mark. Unusual activity of the big league clubs in disposing of old players and filling up with young timber may mean that for the first time since the world war baseball is swinging back to normal. It still has a considerable distance to go before it will be its old self again, but at least it is making progress in the right direction, and the uncommon number of veterans being let out at present indicates that greater strides will be made this winter than in any previous off-season, writes James J. Long in the Pittsburg Sun, commenting on recent shifts in the ranks of players that have been made by major clubs. Continuing on the subject Mr. Long observes: War's effects upon major league baseball were a great deal more damaging than surface signs indicated. All that one glance showed was that a number of big leaguers went into the service of their country, that their teams were correspondingly weakened during their absence, and that the season of 1918 was cut short at the beginning of September at the orders of the government under the work-or-fight edict, the signing of the armistice in November permitting the game to be resumed in 1919 at the usual April date. From this it would appear that the big leagues escaped very lightly and that there was nothing to hinder a normal resumption. However, you must look beyond the major circuits themselves to see where the real damage was done. It was in the minors that the hardest blows fell, and when the minors are harmed the whole structure of organized baseball suffers. ### Stopped Production of Players. It was that way in this case. The war made it so hard for minor leagues to be operated that many of them did not make the attempt at all. Others blew up after trying to make a start, and a few that kept going did so only under dificulties and with patched-up clubs that produced an inferior article of ball. The result of it was that the production and development of new ball players was practically halted. With many of the minor leagues not operating at all, others only making a pretense of running, and the youth of the nation giving its attention to the army or navy, the output of new material stopped. Even when the war ended, conditions in the minors were not such as to attract young men to professional ball as a means of liv[e?]lihood, the world's series scandal of 1919 added its harmful effects to the damage already done by the war, and in consequence fewer new boys went in for the diamond sport than in previous years. To make it possible for the majors to continue at their normal gait, and to keep the quality of big league baseball up to the accepted standards, it is essential that the wear-and-tear and the falling off of some big league players each year be offset by the infusion of some new blood from the minors. ### Means Baseball Below Standard. That's why the grade of ball played in the big leagues in recent years hasn't been up to standard; that's why the public has seen poorer baseball and weaker teams than at any previous time within memory. The minors were not sending up the usual crop of new players to offset the annual decay in the majors, and with no new timber of the right quality to replace the old-timers who were ready to drop out, the big league clubs were forced to hang on to the veterans. The result has been several years of major league ball that was decidedly below par. Now, when the big league clubs are beginning to drop the old fellows to whom they have been clinging, it means that they are at last finding it possible to replace them with recruits, that the development of young players in the minors is again progressing at the old rate, and that baseball in general is returning to normal. # LANDIS SAYS PLAN FOR LICENSE WRONG BOSTON, Jan. 31.—Judge K. M. Landis, baseball commissioner, on his way on a visit to Burlington, Vt., tonight said he thought the proposal now before the Massachusetts to license professional and semi-professional ball players was impracticable, so far as it affected major league players. Aside from the question of the expediency of a licensing system, he thought that for any one to take action would lead to confusion. # TROOP 28 WINNER IN SCOUT TUSSLE Troop 28 won from Troop 6, 13 to 5, in an easy contest and Troop 18 was winner by forfeit from Troop 4 in Boy Scout basket ball at the Butte high gym last night. The victories place both teams in the finals of play that start next week. The scores and lineups follow: Troop 28 ...... Troop 6 J. Mehilich ...... Murray (1) Forward Spear (5) ...... Dougherty (4) Forward Lynch (2) ...... Silver, Passmore Center Meglen (6) ...... Bohan Guard Blaskovitch ...... Lackner Guard From December until March perfumeries of Grasse, France, convert patchoull, an East Indian herb, sandalwood, rosewood and other non-floral materials into perfumes, and after March are busy with fresh flowers. ## Column 5 [box spanning columns 5 and 6] # DRESSED FOR ACTION IS THIS HOCKEY GOAL TENDER OF EAST [photograph] Goal tending on a hockey team isn't the softest job in the world of sport. It entails absorbing a lot of hard knocks. Getting "knocked for a goal" is all in a day's work with a goal keeper. The young man in the picture, Massey. of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology team, has quite some protective armor on. # Y. M. C. A. BOWLING ### Class 1. **OLSEN TAILORS.** Turner ...... 157 138 116 411 Nelson ...... 208 164 153 525 Hester ...... 122 128 135 385 McDonald ...... 116 191 127 434 Olsen ...... 155 165 168 488 Totals ...... 758 786 709 2,243 **SHINER FURNITURE.** Taynacer ...... 148 165 150 463 Bolitho ...... 115 141 115 371 Paul ...... 146 154 145 445 McLeod ...... 152 103 163 418 Hauswirth ...... 185 134 154 413 Totals ...... 746 697 727 2,110 **C. O. D. LAUNDRY.** Schander ...... 132 158 156 446 G. Sweet ...... 213 135 163 511 C. Sweet ...... 150 143 174 467 Nissler ...... 137 142 141 420 Sayre ...... 164 156 177 497 Totals ...... 796 734 811 2,341 **BUTTE RAPID TRANSFER.** Harr ...... 164 178 152 494 McLeod ...... 163 114 120 397 Einar ...... 154 164 150 468 Nels ...... 161 119 166 446 Wilcox ...... 194 136 154 484 Totals ...... 836 711 742 2,289 **BUTTE WATER COMPANY.** Bersanti ...... 143 127 116 386 Ham ...... 111 122 118 351 Landon ...... 214 136 165 515 Plummer ...... 149 161 165 475 Reikerich ...... 178 115 167 460 Totals ...... 795 661 731 2,187 **GEOLOGISTS.** Steele ...... 159 163 134 456 Gidel ...... 155 110 131 396 Ajar ...... 117 136 141 394 Lyden ...... 122 133 121 376 O'Kelly ...... 122 186 156 464 Totals ...... 675 728 683 2,086 ### Women's. **QUAKERS.** Quigley ...... 118 153 100 371 Cundy ...... 127 123 112 362 Rosselett ...... 117 96 107 320 Geagan ...... 117 152 102 371 Hinkley ...... 175 147 121 443 Totals ...... 654 671 542 1,8[6?]7 **BOYS.** L. Wilhite ...... 128 141 156 425 Blewett ...... 115 135 116 366 Koeningsberg ...... 149 98 71 318 D. Elderkin ...... 125 141 115 354 Gleason ...... 152 156 222 530 Totals ...... 669 644 681 2,038 # AWARDS ARE ANNOUNCED IN ORTON BROS. CONTEST The Orton Bros. educational test closed last evening after an interesting campaign, entries having been received from all over the state. Many hundreds of answers were received and many of them of very artistic nature. Three judges representing the three Butte newspapers, the Standard, Miner and Post, worked until after midnight and gave their decision of the four grand awards, according to the rules laid down, as follows: First award, $450 Kimball piano, James O'Donnell, 665 Travonio street, Butte, 1,225 words. Second award, $185 Kimball phonograph, William Cregg, 14 Barrenstein apartments, Butte, 1,203 words. Third award, $90 Kimball phonograph, Mrs. Mae Halford, 1940 Grand avenue, Butte, 1,128 words. Fourth award, $50 phonograph, Mrs. Philip O'Donnell, 665 Travonia street, Butte, 1,078 words. **Standard Want Ads for Results** ## Column 6 # OLD TIMERS WIN MATCH IN ANACONDA A LEAGUE One match game was played in the Class A bowling league and resulted in the Old Timers taking one from the Hudson Supers. In the Class B the Essex aggregation defeated the City Drugs. Teschers' team, entered in the Junior league, won from the Lion Tamers. Wenger was high individual in the Class A, Donovan took these honors in the Class B, and E. Scores follow: ### Class A League. **OLD TIMERS.** Coleman ...... 196 157 146 496 Peckover ...... 145 169 181 495 Jackson ...... 149 169 212 530 Nell ...... 160 170 154 484 Hasley ...... 186 168 206 560 Totals ...... 836 833 896 2,565 **HUDSONS.** Wenger ...... 189 197 184 570 Sparrow ...... 151 107 129 387 Williams ...... 162 200 189 551 Martin ...... 142 146 131 419 Lattimer ...... 153 222 180 555 Totals ...... 797 877 813 2,482 ### Class B League. **ESSEX.** Donovan ...... 174 209 139 522 W. Rooney ...... 96 144 136 376 Burris ...... 132 157 103 392 T. Rooney ...... 146 141 157 444 Young ...... 132 165 158 455 Totals ...... 680 816 693 2,189 **CITY DRUGS.** Tuchscherer ...... 115 105 140 360 Thomas ...... 171 151 171 493 Dummy ...... 125 125 125 375 Hanson ...... 149 150 144 443 Fulmore ...... 158 136 180 474 Totals ...... 718 667 760 2,145 ### Junior League. **TESCHERS.** Emmons ...... 188 186 156 530 Tidd ...... 137 173 183 493 Dooley ...... 143 149 134 426 Grachan ...... 170 143 124 437 E. Swanson ...... 188 192 210 590 Totals ...... 826 843 807 2,476 **LION TAMERS.** O'Keefe ...... 151 115 157 423 Mulvihill ...... 149 150 222 521 Thomas ...... 147 127 201 475 Gallagher ...... 163 168 160 491 B. Swanson ...... 189 181 189 559 Totals ...... 799 741 929 2,469 # FAST DEFENSE ADMITTEDLY BEST FACTOR IN BASEBALL [headline spans columns 6 and 7] Although ball players, as a rule, care little about their fielding averages, but are vastly interested in the manufacture of base hits, it must be admitted that the fast-fielding team has an advantage over its slower rivals, especially if its pitching is reliable. It was good pitching, backed by clean fielding, which won the pennant for the Chicago White Sox, back in 1906, and it was the remarkably effective work of George Rohe on defense at third base that did more than anything else to bring victory to the Sox in the world's series that fall. This team was a light-hitting aggregation, but made up for its weak batting by a superlative defense, both in the box and on the green. When the Cubs were winning their long series of flags under the leadership of Frank Chance, they always figured that one or two runs, scored early in the game, would give them a winning lead. They not only had splendid pitching nearly every day, but they had a fast outfield and one of the greatest defensive infields ever put together. ## Column 7 # EXPECT TEN FAST TEAMS AT AVOCA FOR ICE NUMBERS ## Contests for Prizes Will Bring Best Players of State Into Action. A hockey tourney, the first in the history of the two cities, will be staged for Butte and Anaconda teams at Lake Avoca a week from Sunday, it was announced yesterday by A. E. H. Clarke, veteran booster of the game and manager of the Boucher's team. Play for senior and junior clubs will be on the card that will also have added ice features for the fans. Boucher's and Murphy-Softley's of Butte and the Washoe Athletic club and Old Timers' team of Anaconda will be the entries in the senior division that will battle for cash prizes, while the Lake Avoca Juniors, Hollanders and several other youthful aggregations of Butte will tussle with Anaconda sextets of youngsters who have taken up the puck game in the junior class. While the sport has had a big following in Butte since 1908, when the game was first taken up with regular play, a tournament has never been held. Since then players from Canadian leagues have taken up their homes in Butte and Anaconda and local athletes have developed as stars of the game. The contests next Sunday will bring in action the best hockey players in the state. The Boucher club and Washoe athletic team include experienced players who have been competing in the Montana league play since December. The Old Timers, recently organized in Anaconda, have Ol[i?]ver La Londe and Bill McKay, veterans of the sport in Montana cities, in their lineup and are expected to be one of the favorites in the tourney play. The Murphy-Softley team has a personnel of younger stars who started the game three years ago at Lake Avoca and have developed into a senior class organization. The Hollanders, recently organized from skaters at Ho[i?]land rink, and Lake Avoca Juniors are two of the likeliest-looking crews in the junior class. Because Anaconda skaters will be participating in a big municipal ice carnival next Sunday, the game between Boucher's and the Washoe Athletic club, scheduled at Lake Avoca that day, has been postponed, the Murphy-Softley club being substituted for the Anacondans, it was announced yesterday. # ENGLAND REFUSES TO LET SIKI LAND LONDON, Jan. 31.—The home office has refused permission for Battling Siki, Senegalese pugilist, to land in England. Several promoters have been trying to arrange bouts for Siki in this country. # MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE CEREMONIES ARE SIMPLE VLADIVOSTOK.—Marriage and divorce have been reduced to simplicity itself. The only conditions necessary to enter the married state is that the man be over 18 years and the woman over 16. A statement to the effect that the parties are willing to be considered man and wife and a note to that effect in the town register is sufficient. The woman may keep her maiden name and the children may bear the name of the wife or the husband. Boys take their father's name and girls their mother's name. If the parties are tired of the married state then both parties go before the registrar and make a statement that they do not wish to live together. The divorce is then complete. If one of the parties does not wish for a divorce then the case will be tried before the people's court, and the usual grounds for a divorce must be proved. The world's largest stadium, being built in England, will be 800 feet long and 300 feet wide with a seating capacity of 125,000, which can be increased to 175,000 for events occupying only the central part of the oval. John Greenleaf Whittier, who first worked on a farm and at shoemaking, had his first volume of poems published in 1849. [column continues: "FAST DEFENSE ADMITTEDLY BEST FACTOR IN BASEBALL," from column 6] The expression, "Tinker to Evers to Chance," is used even today as symbolic of speedy work on the diamond. For a season or two, Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers were such bitter personal enemies that they never spoke to each other, on or off the field. Yet they were such wonderful ball players that this lack of comradeship never for an instant interfered with their play around the second station. Evers was talking about this only the other day. "Joe and I had a lot of squabbles," he said, "and finally we got to the point where we did not talk to each other at all, even on the field. But in spite of this fact, we used to pull off a lot of double plays, seldom missing one that it was possible to make. I believe this was due to the fact that both Joe and I had a certain instinct about going after a ball hit between us. It seemed as if we both recognized the instant the ball was hit which one of us should get it and which one should cover the bag. We never called to each other, but the play always, or nearly always went through." ## Peripheral items - **Page banner, all columns:** "PLAN HOCKEY TOURNEY FOR BUTTE-ANACONDA" with italic deck on the Y. M. C. A. basket ball league opening (transcribed above the columns). - **Column 1, "Gophers to Meet Flying Five in Opening Contest":** Y. M. C. A. basket ball league opener, team captains, schedule Feb. 8 to March 8 (transcribed in full). - **Column 1, "Marquette Bowling":** Commercial League scores, Chequemagon and Montana Power (transcribed in full). - **Column 1, "Visit No Bearing on Draft Argument":** Associated Press, San Francisco, Jan. 31 (transcribed in full). - **Column 1, "Coach Candidates":** Madison, Wis., Jan. 31, Wisconsin football coaching candidates (transcribed in full). - **Columns 1-2, "Conroy Family Bidding for Fame Now Held by Romneys":** Salt Lake City, Jan. 31 (transcribed in full). - **Column 2, "Lineup Changes Coming in Tilts on Butte Floor":** Butte high school and Central basket ball (transcribed in full). - **Column 2, "Middies Claim First Place in Six Sports":** Associated Press, Annapolis, Jan. 31 (transcribed in full). - **Column 2, "Joie Ray Shatters Own World Record":** Associated Press, New York, Jan. 31 (transcribed in full). - **Column 2, "Georges Matched":** Associated Press, Paris, Jan. 31, Carpentier and Beckett (transcribed in full). - **Column 3, "Anaconda Quintet Wins in Thriller":** Anaconda against Deer Lodge basket ball, 20 to 16, with lineup (transcribed in full). - **Column 3, "Baseball Pools Are Menace to Pastime States Judge Landis":** New Haven, Jan. 31 (transcribed in full). - **Column 3, "Conti Winner":** Associated Press, Chicago, Jan. 31, billiards (transcribed in full). - **Column 4, "Sign of Normal Seen in League Says James Long":** baseball column quoting James J. Long of the Pittsburg Sun (transcribed in full). - **Column 4, "Landis Says Plan for License Wrong":** Boston, Jan. 31 (transcribed in full). - **Column 4, "Troop 28 Winner in Scout Tussle":** Boy Scout basket ball at the Butte high gym, with lineups (transcribed in full). - **Column 4, filler paragraph:** perfumeries of Grasse, France (transcribed in full). - **Columns 5-6, "Dressed for Action Is This Hockey Goal Tender of East":** boxed photograph and caption, Massachusetts Institute of Technology goal tender (transcribed; photograph itself not described beyond the caption). - **Column 5, "Y. M. C. A. Bowling":** Class 1, Women's and Boys scores (transcribed in full). - **Column 5, "Awards Are Announced in Orton Bros. Contest":** four prize awards, Kimball piano and phonographs, with winners' names and addresses (transcribed in full). - **Column 5, "Standard Want Ads for Results":** house line at the foot of the column. - **Column 6, "Old Timers Win Match in Anaconda A League":** Anaconda bowling, Class A, Class B and Junior League scores (transcribed in full). - **Columns 6-7, "Fast Defense Admittedly Best Factor in Baseball":** baseball feature on fielding, Tinker, Evers and Chance (transcribed in full). - **Column 7, "England Refuses to Let Siki Land":** London, Jan. 31 (transcribed in full). - **Column 7, "Marriage and Divorce Ceremonies Are Simple":** Vladivostok (transcribed in full). - **Column 7, two filler paragraphs:** the world's largest stadium; John Greenleaf Whittier (transcribed in full).