The St. Charles Herald from Hahnville, Louisiana • 5

-Plan Out Their 1927 Season ROSENBERG WILL TRY FOR FEATHER Quits Bantamweight Title Because of Weight Charley (Phil) Rosenberg wbo automatically vacated the bantamweight boxing throne because of Inability to make the weight for his fight with Bushey Graham plans to Join the the chase for the featherweight championship have fully decided to abandon the bantamweight title and flgbt In the future as a Rosenberg declared after be had scaled 122)6 4)4 pounds over the bantamweight limit for the match with Graham The featherweight title has been vacant for the same reason that forced Rosenberg out of bantam ranks Louis (Kid) Kaplan of Meriden Conn' voluntarily relinquished the 126-pound crown last July after holding It a year and a half Candidates for It since then have narrowed down to Red Chapman of Boston Benny Bass of Philadelphia and Uoneyboy Finnegan of Boston Rosenberg now may Join these three in an elimination tournament sanctioned by the New York state athletic commission which previously set Kaplan up as champion by a similar contest Rosenberg won the bantamweight championship nearly two years ago In March 1925 from Eddie (Cannonball) Martin in a 15-round decision match In July 1925 he successfully defended it by knocking out Eddie Shea of Chicago Rosenberg began encountering trouble making 118 pounds over a year ago He refused to 'accept challenge for a title match at that time and was suspended by the New York boxing solons Ills reinstatement was effected only on signing an agreement to vacate the title if he failed to make the weight Photograph shows Bob Quinn (left) owner of the Boston Bed Sox and 1111 Corrigan the new Ited Sox mentor snapped at the office as they got together to plan out their 1027 season Man O' Get Will Interest 1927 Turfites Race fans will watch with Interest the 1027 running of the sons and daughters of Man War The season Just closed shows two of his children hare reached unparalleled success Ills three-year-old son Crusader was the star of his division with a total winnings that reached $166033 and the two-year-old Scapa Flow who took down the rich Futurity This classic rich In money value and prestige carries will It the Juvenile championship Altogether Scapa purse winnings were $81403 which enhanced Man value as a sire and made his family a record of over $358000 the last year Scapa Flow was put away after the Futurity and did not start in the Flmllco Freakness This enabled a filly Fair Star to top him as the leading two-year-old winner of the entire season with $38000 But Fair Star Is not In Scapa class Man War had other star performers In Mars and Edith Cavell Edith Caveil shamefully defeated Crusader In the Flmllco cup but she carried only 33 pounds to Crusader's 126 1 Plays With Suzanne Fhoto shows Howard Kinsey star tennis player as he sailed for abroad wheri he will play tennis with Miss Suzanne Lenglen French star under the management of Mr Baldwin Baldwin Giant Recruit Offered $4200 Is Holding Out Even major league recruits are not immune from greed have Just had an unsigned contract returned to me by a recruit pitcher aald John Me-Oraw '-I--- "He wants more money He was drawing $200 a month from a minor league club when I got him a year ago I raised that salary considerably farmed him out for the season recalled him and a week or two ago sent him a contract calling for $700 a month or $4200 for the season thinks that enough although he has yet to win a game for the New York club I figure with the young men any more When I was breaking Into the major leagues $4200 looked like all the money In the world to me and I know experienced players today who getting any more than that" Bradley Selects Horses for the Kentucky Derby The of Bradley prominent during recent years In the running of the Kentucky Derby are to be reckoned with again on May 14 The Kentucky Jockey club has received from the Idle Hour farm the Bradley racing establishment the nomination for the 1927 Kentucky Derby of Bewlthus Buddy Bauer Bel-genlaud and Bit In past years It has been the habit of Bradley to have two or more strings to bis' Derby bow and it is believed here that two or more of his horses will start this year In 1921 Behave Yourself and Black Servant ran one-two and last year Babbling Over and Baggenbaggage took down first and second honors for ths Bradley colors Organized winter sports are promoted In 1 more than 200 American towns and cities Jack Nounan former University of California pitcher has been signed by the Detroit Tigers Bill nolden has been appointed manager of the Pensacola team of the Southeastern league JL- Louis (Bed) Temple a pitcher of Polk Pa has been signed by the Boston Bed Sox for a trial Sylvlo Mantha of the hockey team Is the only Italian playing the Canadian national gome Up to the very minute of going to press no mother had swum across Lake Superior going the long way The theory has been lately advanced by students of public opinion that you sell out both ball games and seats If the penalty la a year's contract at $75000 how many more of the boys will start writing Queer letters to Dutch Leonard? Lea Nunamaker former American league catcher has signed to manage the Corsicana team of the new Lone Star league Bennie Brownlow minor leaguer has been retained as manager of the Longview team of the new Lone Star league of Texas A Virginian school announces the opening of a class In steam fitting In addition to what the football boys call the pipe courses If Mr Landis is correctly understood the game la going to be clean from now on If he has to fill In under every grandstand In the country Some of the elder baseball players might make a lot of money by following the lead of the operatic stars and making farewell tours each season It occurs to one after watching a pro hockey game so long that it Is Just as well for catchers the baserun-ner wear skates A Los Angeles golfer shot his opponent and then killed himself In an argument over the score Pretty soon golf will be nearly as rough as college football v- National 1 league fans say Eppa Blxey of the Cincinnati Beds Is a better southpaw than Herb Pennock considered the premier portslder In the American league 1 Bob Prysock who piloted Bay (Sty to the pennant In the Michigan league last season has been engaged as manager of the Wheeling team of the Middle Atlantic league Bob Tarleton business manager of tbe Shreveport club last year and for a number of years Identified with the Texas leagne has been engaged as a scout by the Pittsburgh Pirates Frankie Frisch says be Intends to make the St Louis fans forget al abent Rogers Hornsby this summer Frisch Is a colorful player and a when in the mood to give his best efforts A total of $316074080 was wagered in the parimntnels at the four principal Maryland tracks In 1926 Each track paid the state racing commission $6000 for each day of racing and 15 per cent of Its net revenue Fights are now held in London nearly every night and sometimes In the afternoon Every village In England has Its fight clab with the hope that a challenger may be developed from among the farmer boys It Is feared Grover Alexander will not be as valuable to the St Louis Cardinals under O'Farrell as he was under Hornsby who seemed to understand thoroughly bow to get the best results from the rather temperamental Alex Way for Coaches to Keep Football Stars Those' football coaches who are about to lose promlhent prospects for next varsity elevens should consult the stars as a- means of saving them The voice of a prophetess in Washington Pa saved Washington and Jefferson its most promising freshman of the past season transfer to said this prophetess and her words kept Earl Wilson fullback of tbe 1926 freshman outfit for and next season Wilson who lives at Sharon Pa had decided to transfer his allegiance from and to Miami university In Ohio The almost-sophomore happened to stop in a seance at a local theater to see If the billed at said theater to be able to read the could read tbe stars for him are thinking of going to another she told him do It You will be making a big Somehow It Impressed Wilson and he decided to stay Perhaps because he may be possessed of gambling spirit and eager to learn whether the prophetess knew her stars or not Left-Handed Hurlers in American League Sparkle According to the 1926 National league batting averages the first 50 batsmen represent 20 left-handed batters and four who bat from either side of the plate Among the first 50 batsmen In the American league there are 23 left-handed batsmen and three batters National league left-handed pitchers had as much edge as the American league pitchers and a bit more Portslde pitchers are supposed to be more effective against left-handed batsmen than against right-handed The only conclusion one can draw Is that the left-handed pitchers In the American league are a bit better than the portslders in the National league They certainly have to face as many tough batters If not more New Mark Sabin- Carr Yale vauiter bolder of all American Indoor records soared to new heights by establishing a new mark for Indoor vaulting in 18 feet 9)4 Inches topping the record of Charlie Hoff of Norway by one Inch By ELMO SCOTT WATSON SOME pleasant morning this summer be loading up the old family automobile and when you and mother and your offspring start off for some distant part of the United States going to find that It will be much easier to get to where going than ever before -That is to say going to be easier to get there so far as taking- a direct route and not having to Inquire constantly I on the right are concerned And you can thank your Uncle Samuel for that For the federal bureau of public roads has announced that the United 'States system of highways will soon be complete and that 80000 miles of uniformly marked highways crisscrossing the country In a gigantic checkerboard pattern and linking every section Into a simple comprehensive plan will await the motorist who sets out on a cross-country tour This task lias been completed after two years of Intensive work by state and federal roads officials who have synchronized and harmonized all the various highway systems 'into oue great national system with uniform and easily remembered markings Hereafter the tourist will not have to remember road numes color bands or any other confusing designations The main transcontinental lines (east and west) are numbered evenly from 10 to 90 In multiples of 10 with one exception (that is No 60 Chicago to Los Angeles) Interspersed between these transcontinental trunk lines are other routes carrying such numbers as 2 4 6 and 8 all of which carry out the idea that roads hearing even numbers are east and west roads North and south roads hear odd numbers the main routes being numbered from 1 to 101 iu multiples of 10 They also have supplementary routes running north and south bearing odd numbers such as the 43 and 75 shown in the accompanying list Connecting and cross-over roads whch give easy access to leading cities on the main routes are numbered Id such a way as to indicate their relation to the trunk lines This Is done by prefixing a third digit to the trunk line number For Instance Route 11 Is a trunk line from Rouses Point Y- to New Orleans which runs through the Shenandoah valley In Virginia Route 1 is a trunk- line Center of Continent Devils lake famous scenic region In North Dakota has now attained a new distinction it marks the center of the North American continent The map information office of the United Slates board of surveys and maps has Just finished a new determination of tbe geographic center of North America' as accurate as can be obtained from the most recent maps This estl-mate places the spot at 48 degrees 10 fornia wishes to motor home from the national capltaL lie takes Route 240 the cross-over to Route 40 from Washington C- which Joins Route 40 at Frederick Md and from Frederick he follows Route 40 all the way home: Following the new routes Is an easy matter because of the simplicity of the markers used As shown by tbe sketch which accompanies this article the route marker Is a white United States shield 13)4 Inches by 15 Inches carrying the name of the state and the route number In black In addition to these route markers the federal system has an approved series of danger caution direction and miscellaneous Information-giving signs These use but three colors black white and yellow and are In five distinct shapes Caution signs are of two types designating varying forms of danger If it Is a sharp curve or a narrow or other dangers Inherent In the construction of the road Itself this Is Indicated by a diamondshaped sign 24 by 24 Inches Apl proaches to cross roads or to school sites are shown on a square plaque 24 Inches by 24 Inches On each plaque Is told the danger to be looked for The stop sign Is octagonal with the word In the center The railroad crossing sign is the familiar circular plate 24 Inches In diameter with the letters the center -One bar on the sign means a single track and two bars mean more than a single track' The yellow color Is used on the railroad crossing sign One value of the new system and its signs Is that It will eventually do away with a large number of highways and highway associations throughout the country which have been organized for the profit of tit sponsors The multiplicity of these with all their various signs and markers and the confusing Information about them will be superseded by the one uniform federal system Following the signs of this system will be an easy matter and the tourist will no longer be troubled by his Inability to reconcile the names of towns with the information which he receives before he starts on his trip or which he picks up as he goes along The new route marker has already been erected as the staiftard route marker in 22 states and 20 others will have them in place by the time the 1927 touring season ends sand years distant when Iceland be a winter resort and France will 1 deserted except during a few montl of summer Cain in Ability remedy has worked wond In my wrote a grateful won to the patent medicine conce I began taking it six wei ago I could not spank the baby am able to lick tbe stuffing out my husband May heaven bless The New Routes The main erona-conatry rente of the Vnlted State Syatrm a adopted for nnlform marking hr the American Aaorintlon of State Highway Official arei EAST AND WEST Detroit to Seattle SttBiwtoo to eeat eatranre at Tellowatoae National park -Atlantic City to Aa-torla Ore 40 Atlantic City to Sen Fran-cloco Aanapnlia Hf to Sacramento Calif Chicago to Loa Angelea -Ur nn fort to Holbrook Aria Savannah Ga- to San Diego Cailf JackaonvHle Fla to Vaa Horn Texna NORTH AND SOFTII -Fort Kent He to Miami Fla Ttouaea Poiat to New Orlrana tlawrliiad Ohio to Jarkaon- vlllr Fla Mackinac Stralta Mick- to Mobile Ala Eagle River lllch to Na-- plea Fla 45 Chicago to Mobile Ala leke Superior at Harley Is to New Orleana 1 Gvond Portage Mick to New Orleana International Falla to Bn ton Honge La St Vincent Mina- to Gal- Teuton Texaa Pembina I)- to Laredo Texas ll-Grrat Falla Mont- to Daggett Calif Blaine Waah- to El Centro Calif Port Angelea Wnafe- through Aatorla Ore- along the Paclflce eoaat to the Mextean Una at Tla Jaaaa from Fort Kent Maine to Miami Fla Route 311 Is a crossover from Roanoke Va on Route 11 to Aberdeen on Route Another example: Route 40 Is one of the principal transcontinental highways running from Atlantic City J- to San Francisco Call! It follows closely the fortieth parallel of latitude and is already being referred to as the national since so many Important cities are located on It Suppose a congressman from Cali minutes north latitude and 100 degrees 10 minutes west longitude This Is a few miles to the west of Devils lake but the lake Is the nearest prominent feature on the map and so becomes a national center monument 'Climatic Change Coming Scientists have beg taking the temperature of ocean water along the Atlantic coast and have come to tbe conclusion that every year sees the ocean growing colder and colder In their opinion the day will not be a ou-.