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Raci ng Track Fi Basket Ball Boxing PAGES 1 TO 12. Sl'XDAY MOItXIXG, DKCE3II5EU 24, 1922. SECTION THREE PANTHERS PRACTICE AT NORTH PLATTE 3te TOjere a ganta ClauS? spebi 20 GHDITES Quite a Crowd at That Thirty years ago a little New York City girl, named Virginia O'Hanlon, wrote this letter to the New York Sun: bill rw i iiti dm mmi bothebei Dear Editor: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says: "If you see' it in the Sun, ifs so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Clausf" VIRGINIA O'HANLON, 115 West 95th St.

The Sun replied in the form of an editorial from the pen of the brilliant Frank P. Chureh, one of the editors of "The Sun." It is perhaps one of the greatest things in American literature. We reprint it here so that all children may know that "Santa Claus lives and he lives km a 0 "What State Are We in Now?" Is Paramount Question Among Blue and Gold Gridders As "Pacific Limited" Speeds Westward; Due in Ogden, Utah, Today. KARL E. DAVIS BEMOANS FATE AS BARREN ACRES ARE PASSED By REGIS M.

WELSH, Siwrtlng Editor of The Pittsburgh Post. CHEYENNE, Dec. 23. "What state are we in now?" is the paramount question among the Pitt who are on their way to the Pacific coast, as they are adding one commonwealth after another to their birdseye geography lesson as the second day of their trip is drawing to a close. For, since leaving Chicago, most of them have come into heretofore unvisited territory and show as much eagerness to know where and how as a child from a street car window.

But with the famous town of Cheyenne added to their list, they turned in tonight and in the morning will arrive at Ogden, TTtflh rm tH toot Ian rxt th Inurnev "Virginia, your little friends are rong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or are little.

In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and which will land them In San Francisco ALLEGHENY IS WALLOPED BY Just before the Pitt-Panther outfit, headed West, pulled out of the station in Chicago Friday morning a camera men nosed in and "snapshot" the whole gang. At the same time some escaping steam from a nearby train also horned in and sort of "steamed up" some of the crowd. The train is the famous Chicago, Milwaukee St.

Paul trans-continental flyer, the 'pacific Limited." The phmotographer hadn't time to get the names of his subjects before the train steamed away, and since there are several unfamiliar faces in the group we'll just let you pick 'em out yourself. HEIfJZ, 44-30 joy. Alas, how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Qaus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, Christmas morning-. The wide expanses of vacant land Along both sides of the railroad on the way have caused a pang of regiet to Karl E.

Davis, graduate manager, who upon being informed by F. railroad agent accompanying the tejn, that the distant ranch, flat aa a billiard table, only consists of a million or more acres on which nothing out a few short-horned cattle seem to bo at ease, arose to remark: "What a. wonderful ground to huild a stadium on. If we only had that in Pittsburgh, thei we could sell a lot more tickets." But while Karl had business on his mind, the players think of nothing but how to enjoy themselves, and this Heing handed House's basket ball team a trimming to Allegheny Col- POST-WESTINGHOUSE RADIO TO BROADCAST GRID GAMES PLAYED ON PACIFIC COAST 1 fa- i Ik morning while In the nvdst of one of their impromptu concerts "Pop" Warner entered with the pleasing news that the next stop was North Platte, the site of the original Buffalo Bill ranch, and that the boys would go through a nalf-Jiour signal drill. Upon arrival they detrained and on a big vacant lot near the station two teams went through, a brisk 20-minute signal drill.

Tommy Holleran barking for one team and Nick Smiler and Win-terburn handling the other. It was by far the best workout of the trip, but the rarifled air of this district no poetry, no romance, to 1 make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment except in sense and sight. The, eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Qaus You might as well not' believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did ndt see Santa Qaus coming down, what would that prove? "You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise in-" side, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart.

Only faith, fancy, poetry, lege's quintet. 44 to 30, last night on the Sarah Helm House gym floor. Baker. Staiger and Colker were the mainsprings in the Pickle quint's comeback. Baker netted five field goals and Stiger made four, while the caging of IS out of 20 chances from the foul was Colker's contribution to the victory.

James Sharp, captain and star of the McKeesport High floor team 'ast year, played well for the Meadville crew at forward, while Brownsell came through with 14 out of 16 tries from the foul mark. Heinz House Reserves defeated the Wilson Scholastics of Wil-merding, 52 to 42, in the preliminary fray. The score: HEINZ ROUSE 44. ALLEGHENY 30. Baker Sharp Staiger Miller Hoarse Wis Colker Brownsell Marquard Bra an Fild boals Baker 5, Staiger 4, Houie i.

Colker 2. Sharp 2, Miller 3. Wise 1. Brown-sell 1. Braun 1.

Foul goals Colker 18 out of 20, Brownsell 1 out of IS. Substitutions BaJic for Baker. Deceny for Braun, Ross or Sharp. Referee Cai Bolster. When the East meets the West in the postseason football classics on the Pacific Coast during the Holiday vacation, the Pittsburgh Post-YYestinghouse radio station KDKA will be represented.

Harry P. Stansbnry, athletic directors of the University of West Virginia, will report plav by play for the Pittsburgh Post-Westlnghouse Radio Service, the Gonzaga University-West Virginia game, which is to be played tomorrow afternoon (Christmas Day at San Diego, California. Regis M. Welsh, Sporting Editor of the Pittsburgh Post, who accompanied the Pitt gridders to the Pacific Coast in the Interest of the readers of the Pittsburgh Post, will also represent KDKA at the Pitt-Leland Stanford game and will report play by play to the Post Studio of the pioneer radio station. Following this game, he will then proceed to Pasadena and report play by play the Penn State-University of Southern California game.

New Year's Day. It will be remembered that last year when W. J. played on the Pacific Coast the game was broadcast play by play from the Pittsburgh Post radio station. -Many, letters of appreciation were received, expressing in glowing terms how successful the radio reports were achieved.

Perhaps one of the most interesting letters was received from Pop Warner, who just previous to this had Installed a radio set in his home at Summer ille, Y. He spoke highly of the method in which the reports came to him over the wireless and said the description was so complete that one could Imagine he was at the game. sort of took the boys' breath away for IB- love, romance can push aside tnat curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. "No Santa Qaus! Thank God, he lives and he lives forever.

A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood." Princeton in Position of Buffer State, Stands Half in Sympathy, Half in Fear Of Any Move to Increase Activity a while. They soon acclimated themselves and closed the workout with a run around this large city block twice and then to the train. Incidentally, the glimpse of the Cody ranch was somewhat obscured by a long, halted freight train directly in front of the historic but one of the boy3 said "I think that is where Annie Oakley got her start." Which made Davis remark, "Well she certainly has a lot of relatives in the east." Tommy Davies, who Is lending a helping hand in the absence of Floyd Rose, probably committed the worst social error of his career here, for, obtaining several post cards In the mad rush at the news.stand. addressed one to the "only girl in the world." "Red" Seidelson, who was the mail boy, said Tommy's card was a picture of the Platte jail and bore the terse remark "We're stopping here. Having a great time, wish you were here." The change in time has been working havoc with the squad's appetites-Testerday we changed to central time and "gypped" the boys of an hour, setting the momentous hour of "the feed bag" back one hour.

Today we went into mountain time and now dinner la two ho-urg later than if we were In Pittsburgh. And as the gang gets up at after going to bed at 10, they're eating everything but the railroad insignia oft the plates But they're all standing the trip well. I Grass QiEsaaGiiflB mm Coach Roper, rean MoiCienahan and Professor christian Causs, the directors of the spirit of the school, dork PENN AVETSi 0S 914-920 By HUGH FULLERTON. Thin In the aeeond of a ertea article by llna-h Kullerton oa the fcame of football as It exists today In the lilg eollesres of the country. Tbeae article are creatine a aeaaattoa la the college world, because they contain the "truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." The third article will appear ia aa early issue.

Don't miss it. CHICAGO. Dec. 23 Princeton, in athletics, stands In the position of the buffer state, half in sympathy wth the larger development of football, on the playing field as well as in the financial sense, the other half fearful that any DUKES PREPARE FOR KALAMAZOO FLOOR BATTLE The faculty leaders, including President Hibben, insist firmly upon restricting football, limiting the training period, cutting the number of games gradually, for the sound reason that footba'l has interfered with the first purpose of the Inst tution. which is education.

The alumni majo lty, and the large majority of the undergraduates, want more football and more victories. Princeton's policy, shaped after the season, is that Princeton no longer will engage in intersectional games; that football is the sport for. by and of the undergraduate, that intersection con-testa, hailed as "championship" games, are unhealthy and disturbing to students, and that hereafter the Tiger teams will play only in the "cruising that is Princeton will not play further away from Palmer Stadium than the undergraduates may follow in a body, and that it will curb any tendency toward professionalism or commercialism. Princeton denies any feeling of superiority over the West in fact, you will find that all the Big Three will deny snch sentiment, which does not change the fact that such feeling of superiority dowment and building runds, and that' it won the Middle West admiration and was worth fortunes to Princeton in advertis.ng counts nothing against the principle adopted by the school They would rather stop football altogether than to sacrifice the ideal that football is of. by, and for the students, that the interest of alumni or the public is of small importance compared with maintaining the idea of non-commercialism, and of purely undergraduate sport.

Princeton is more, fortunately situated in a football tense than either Harvard or Yale, and the problems that vex these schools are not acute in Tiger town. Much of this is due toi the fact that the team has been a winning one and it Is noticeable that when the tam is winning it is easier to get the conflicting elements to agree than it is when the team is defeated. Yet in Princeton there is a considar-abyle minority which believes that football should be abolished entirely or restricted to intra-mural games with perhaps a game with Yaie or Harvard, or perhaps both as a sort of a spree. The same element believes that professional coaching should be reduced, if not abolished entirely. 4 MOUNT AD NEEC3S IN CALIFORNIA F0E3 XMAS DAY CONTEST Coach Spears Drives Men Through Spirited Drill on University of Southern Calif ronia Grounds Is Pessimistic About Game TomorrowFears Layoff Will Have' Bad.

Effect. "1 the coming week, and an entirely different combination can be looked for when Kalamazoo is met on the Bluff. Kollowing Kalamazoo the Dukes will then take to the road for big games in Philadelphia, Annapolis and Ernmits-burg. returning here for a day's rest, then Hp to Beaver Falls and Grove City for Tristate battles. In Philadelphia the Dukes, will meet the Villa Nova quint, then hop over to Annapolis for a 'tussle with the strong Navy team, up at Bmmitsburg, with Mount St.

Marys. Prospects for a championship contender on the hill this year are unusually bright, and with the Tristate banner in mind the players are determined to make the others travel the limit in order to nose them out. A veteran outfit fro-n last year is the combination that Coach Martin is trying to bring around, ajid once he gets. them going the remaining teams in this section had belter look to their laurels. The work of the football team this year was so chuck full of tflght that several big games have been offereJ the officials of the university.

The Spiing-Heid, College eleven wants the Dukes to make the long trip to New lEngland for a battle next November, but this is out of the question for the hill lads, as they have already accepted terms for a game in Hamilton, N. with the Hamilton College gridiron team and another such long trip would be taxing the players too much. Geneva wii' probably be played, as will Waynesburg and Buffalo College. not one case of illness or indisposition being reported to the team physician. Dr.

Wagner. The general health of the team has been so good that Dr. Wagner Is leaving the main party tomorrow at Ogden. Utah, to visit a brother in Portland, rejoining the squad at Frisco Monday morning. Word received today presages a wonderful Christmas day for the tourists.

Mayor Rolph of the Golden Gate City wired that they would be met at the train by a reception committee and escorted to the Olympic Club for Christmas dinner and taken joy riding through the city and contiguous points of interest. The party has now passed through four states, and will swell the list to eight before reaching their destination. Iowa's Big Three, Jones, Devine, Locke, Form Summer Staff With a victory over the crack quintet in the opening game of the season Friday night tucked under their balls, the Duquesne University five will start tomorrow afternoon in the Bluff cage to prepare for -be Invasion of the Kalamazoo College Jutfit here on December 30. The westerners are ranked highly in the west, and the faot that they finished in the runner-up position at the annual A. A.

J. championship meet in Indianapolis ast spring means that the hiil team will be up against one of the toughest foes they will be cal.ed upon to face i his year. Nevertheless, Head Coach Martin was v-ery well pleased with the work of the team in the opening game agairust the Oaklanders last Kriday. when they ame from behind and, by a brilliant spurt, nosed out the quint, 41 to The work of Cherridini, Kendrick md Harrison featured, while Caffery. "ingolini and Houston also demonstrated 'hat with a few more battles under their they will give the Red and one of the best combinations in college ranks.

move to extend football activity, to develop stronger teams, to increase interest, will result, first, in the further stirring up of opposition in the faculty to the sport, and in being placed in the blck booic and discarded by Harvard and Yale. In the wake of the most thrilling and Inspiring, and the most successful financial season in the history of the university, every power at Princeton realizes the necessity of curbing football activity, but not for the same reasons. The coaches, athletic leaders arid those in sympathy with, them accede to the demand for football restriction because they fear further restriction if they Princeton is not ighoring the financial does exist 'n each. Coach Roper, Director of Athletics Kaycroft and Dr. Hibben all regret breaking relations with the University asrect ot football.

The football season bnnca close to The money By H. A. STAXSBI'IIY, Athletic Director. West Virginia Unlver sity. Special to The rittlmreh Post.

supports practically all other sports and i the physical departments. Princeton is better equipped in gymnasium, swim ming pool, playgrounds and skatin rink than either Yale or Harvard, needs less money for equipment, and is able to devote football earnings to extendin the program of physical education to BAR STOW, Dec. 23. The wonder of California unfolded to the West Virginia University football squad today, but this did not prevent a full hour of work at Bovard Field, University of Southern California. Arriving here at 3 o'clock, the men were rushed to the field in taxis and, after four solid days cooped up on a Pullman sleeper, the men showed most remarkable pep.

For nearly -a half hour every student. Bill Roper, football coach, says that if football la stopped the entire program of physical education will stop. The of Chicago. They admit that the game, perhaps the most sensational Of the entire football season, was of great aid to Princeton, that it resulted in the most cordial and pleasant relations between the two un versities, that it succeeded tremendously from a financial standpoint, that it made Princeton's team tnd proved the biggest rallying force of Princeton grads in the history of the university. They admit all that and say "never again." The reason is that the fixed policy of the university is that football is for undergraduates; a game to stir and spur the spirit of the college; and that it is wrong to select a class of undergraduates and set them apart from their fellows as entertainers, or money-earners.

Princeton's leaders have adopted this policy firmly. The fact that the Chicago game brought together the largest assemblage of old grads ever held, that it was of great help in boosting en IOWA CITT. Dec. 23. The great football triumvirate of the University faculty would not permit the athletii" department to ask for funds from any NEAR CHAMPION source, as they want it for dormitories Of Iowa Howard H.

Jones, Aubrey Devine and Gordon" (Locke are now nt an "all star cast" of and other buildings. Perhaps of all the Big Three Prince The lack of teamwork was one of the noticeable features in the playing of the Dukes, and this will be remedied before the team takes the road for the biM trip of the season, in January. The; pluyers can all shoot, are accurate and can ring the basket from almost any angle on the floor, yet they did not pass as they should and this resulted and it may be that Bethany w.ll be given a date, vacated by Grove City. The dropping of Duquesne by the Crimson was to make way for the Pitt team, who have given them a date on their card here in Pittsburgh. This is to be regretted by the Dukes, aa they had counted on meeting the Crimson again.

a.er the great battle they put up this season, when the up-state team had a time winning out, by one there was practice at kicking and passing, with Martin, Barnum, McMillen and Ekberg getting off many long boots, and Simon, Xardacci, Martin and Ekberg doing the passing to the end. The workout was entirely secret. ton is the most enthusisastic over root-bat' and the minority opposing it is smallest. They have teamwork In the coaches who will comprise the Iowa lffl rmrhln: school instructional 1 Coach Spears destring to take nc faculty as well as on the football field chances on some attache of Gonzag watching his formations. Gonzaga used in the score Dcing so close.

rraaice, practice and more practice at passing will be drummed into the Dukes during and something of the spirit of "the team that would not be beaten" is in the faculty. President Hibben, Director taycroft. staff, acco-ding to announcement by university officials. Courses will be offered in football, basket ball, track and field athletics, -rnmmtnr running, baseball and the same Held for practice on Thur CITY AMATEUR HOCKEY LEAGUE athletic conditioning. The courses have been adapted to suit fv'l "'y ort re PS the requirements of high school coaches of the Middle Wert.

Chapman-S co field Lead at Pinehurst iWertbrook'Pegl day en route to San Diego. The signal drill also consumed th better part of a half hour. The four days' layoff which the men have suffered showed its effects in plays that were gummed up, but con1-. centration on- correcting these defect had a beneficial effect, and before tin drill ended the entire squad went through the plays with precision and dispatch. Early tonight the team left for San Diego and will be quartered at the Del Coronado Hotel.

Tomorrow on excursion ia planned into old Mexico that will take the squad away from the football fans. In spit of the spirited workout today. Coach Spears feels that his team will not Play a good game on Monday. The Gonzag team has been too much belittled and the Mountaineers too much pnaiaed lot any holies of a high-class performance on the part of his team, to aay nothing of four long days without practice, sextet handed the One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Artillery puck chasers a defeat, 1 to 0, on the Duquesne Garden ice last night. Saunders tallied the one goal scored and his play, with that of Cooper, shone for the winners.

The work of Martin and Babcock was the best for the artillery lads. 'Work in the vicinity of the goal and at the net on defense by both sextets stood out. The score: FTXKELHORS 1. ARTILLERY 0. Saunders Brown Cooper L.

Burke L. MoSorley R. Martin Idley R. Dunn Showalt L. Bahcock Madden Showalter Spares Finkelhors.

Probft, Bernaman, J. McSorley; 107th Artillery, Thomas, Bom. Goal Sa under. Referee Mossaue Cap'n. Til Huston, may his girth Increase, may now take a squint at what he did for baseball from the detached viewpoint of the outsider looking on.

WOULDN'T IT BE TOUGH IF THE WOODPILE HAD TO LAY THERE AND ROT? WAYXESIURG, Dec. 23. When the entire student body of Wayiiesburg College paraded yesterday through town carrying odd.s and ends of lumber to the campus, a curious and Interested townspeople couldn't figure out whether the collegians were thus making a despuring effort to tide the institution over the cold snap until the new heating plant Is installed or merely adopting a new-method of celebrating Christinas vacation. Appearance of Acting President Paul Jl. Stewart at the head of the procession, carrying heavy beam, disproved both theories.

The wood was piled in a huge heap on the campus whereupon an explanatory speech or two, interpolated with cheers, developed the why and wherefore of the demonstration. The material thus gathered will form the nucleus, augmented from time to time, of the biggest bonfire in ihe history of the col lege, and the funeral pyre of and football hopes when Waynes-burg celebrates its first grid victory over the Presidents. Thus was received the official announcement of the schedulirp of Washington and Jefferson College for a football battle on November 10, 1923. PINEHURST. X.

C. Dec. 23. John D. Chapman of Greenwich and E.

L. Sco-fleld of Stamford, led a field of 42 in a handicap contest against the par figures of the championship course at Pinehurst today, and finished 3 up on par. Dona'd Parson of Younsrstown and Howard Fhil'ips of Pinehu-st tied for the second prizes with two other teams, and tied each other for the low gross honors, with Individual rounds of 75. Rev. T.

A. Cheatham of Pittsburgh. Lawrence Barr of Stanton Heights and George A. Magoon of Oakmont. the only contestant from the were members of the teams that finished on the wrong side of the dividing line.

Huston created circus baseball with individual stars, costing more than platinum box-cars and triple returns at the gnte. He was the first club-owner with the courage and strength to stick his fist under Ran Johnson's nose and push, thus bringing about Judge Ijandis. He abolished the mere pretense of competition by buying two pennants for two teams which couldn't have finished third without his check-book in the lineup. Thus he encompassed the new restrictions which make for competitive playing. And after plunging with his money in a way that made the pikers tremble, Huston climbed out wit'i more than a million and a profit of it's hard to say.

Two hundred per cent or three hundred at least. whii has taken off the edge of th team Of course, too. the team U' two wekfl of practice following Thanra giving before it was known that Hon-day's game would be played, and thli as had its effect. Player Shot in Hand. After the Yanks had lost the 1921 series to the Giants, Huston rushed downtown to the.

Giants' headquarters at the Waldorf to congratulate Mc-Graw, Stoneham and McQuaid. He congratulated for more than an hour. PARKERSBURG, W. Dec. 23.

Ralph Grimm. Springfield. Western Awwwiation inflelder, wa? sho: through the right hHtid at A fine romance. "The Prlnee't Kiss," Rarta 'Ruck. In The nf N'ew Vit.

his hfne at New Haven, W. this morn A fine romance. "The Prince's Kiss." by Berta Ruck. In The Magazine of New Fiction in Next Sunday's Pittsburgh Post. Advertisement.

"Kid." he said, as he ambled away to his own GHO in the Martinique, "kid, didden I out-gentleman 'em?" He wu tion In Next Sunday's Pittsburgh Poet. Advertisement, ing. The shooting was addental. brought to a local hoapUal. AOSEUO HKBRKBA..