Gossip About Events of National
Importance and the Persons
Who Are In the Head
Liner Classes. '
NEW YORK, Dec. 15. — The first
of a number of important meetings
by sport governing bodies in this city
has been held here with the confer
ence of the executive committee of
the United States National Lawn Ten
nis Association. Many questions hav
ing a decided bearing upon the future
of the court game in this country were
considered at this meeting, which is
preliminary to the annual gathering
of the association to be held in Feb
ruary.
Of principal interest to the general
player of tennis was the report of the
V ranking committee, which settles for
another season the tournament expert
who shall be considered as having
earned the title to No. 1 as well as
those to be ranked below the occu
pant of the premier position. The ex
ecutive committee also will put Into
form its final recommendations rela
tive to the amateur rule.
Other matters scheduled to come up
for discussion include proposed
changes in the regulations of the
doubles championship play; redistrict
ing of certain section of territory as
now divided by the association; the
question of restricting entries to the
national tournament; a new rule re
garding foot faulting; international
tennis and the effect of the war upon
Davis cup play, as well as a number
of minor matters.
The baseball scouts of the big
league clubs, who have completed
their reports for the year, are almost
unanimous in declaring that the gen
eral run of material In the bush
leagues last season was below the cali
bre of previous years, and that few
players were uncovered who showed
promise of making good in the major
leagues without a long drawn-out pol
ishing process by working up through
the various minor leagues.
Ulrich Salchow, former holder of
the world's amateur figure skating
championship, has arrived in this
country from Sweden, and will start
soon on a tour of the United States,
giving exhibitions at the principal ar
tificial and natural ice rinks of the
larger cities. Salchow has had a re
markable career in his chosen line of
competition. Between 1901 and 1911
he won the world's amateur champion
ship at figure skating ten times —
not competing in 1906, nor has he
competed in a championship since
1911.
Entering his first championship con
test in 1897 at the age of eighteen,
he attained the pinnacle of success
four years later, and since that time
has won every competition he entered.
A disciple of the school of skating
by Jackson Haynes, Salchow expects
to give to America some pictures of
figure skating as it is known in Eu
rope. When at home he trains on the
t i
1 ice rink at the famous Olympic Sta
dium in Stockholm.
From Austria and Hungary comes
word that nejtt year the bar against
foreign jockeys, that has prevailed
during the past season, is to be lifted.
Only Austrian, Hungarian and Ger
man jockeys were given licenses to
ride this year, but the lack of good
jockeys, and at times jockeys of any
kind, has been so great that the rac
ing promoters feel it will be neces
sary to admit neutral riders hereafter.
In the past American jockeys have
been the principal outsiders. In gen
eral they have been so far superior to
the native riders that the tendency
was to jump wages in order to attract
them. Native riders naturally insisted
on getting moye money also, or on bar
ring the Americans. The latter was
adopted as the easier way out of the
dilemma.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—In a Christ
mas message to one hundred churches
and Sunday schools throughout the
country, the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ in America points j
out that “the Christmas sun this year
shines only upon our half of the
world,” and the council "persuasively
suggests” that Americans make this
i Christmas a sacrament of self-denial.
It recommends that every Sunday
school should have a Christmas ser
vice in behalf of children across the
sea, with a generous gift giving for
the children of Europe. It urges that
“at the family altar of every Chris
tian home, gifts be made equal in
value to those given in the family
circle, for some home in the Near East
or the Far East — a home for a
home.”
Each church, in appropriating ex
penditures for its own Sunday school
Christmas, is urged to set apart also
an equal gift for a school of children
across the sea, and for every Christ
mas dinner it is suggested that a gift
of equal value be made for the starv
ing children of Europe and Asia.
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CANNERY TO INCREASE OUTPUT.
The Alaskan Salmon Company, op
erating two canneries in the Bristol
bay section, is planning to increase
its capacity to 200,000 cases per sea
son.
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ALASKA CADET TAKES BRIDE.
Lieut. Vaughn D. Taylor, of Fair
banks, and who was appointed to West
Point from that place, was married
recently in Seattle to Miss Gladys
Elizabeth Landes, daughter of Colonel
Henry Landes, a retired Seattle
banker.
ANOTHER NEW CANNERY PLANT.
The Baranoff Packing Company, or
ganized by Dr. A. W. Wilson and
others, has selected a cannery site
at Red Bluff bay, and work on a can
nery at that place will Btart at once.
One line of machinery will be oper
ated next season, but the buildings
will be constructed with a view to en
larging the plant.
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DEMOCRATS BUSY.
Max Endleman, a Juneau Democrat,
is reported to have stolen a march on
the other aspirants for the marshal
ship of the First division and has hur
ried east to solicit the nomination.
Among other aspirants for the office
are Si Tanner and Jack Bayliss. Mar
shal Bishop also exhibits a desire to
hold on for another term.
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